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SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Vol. XXXI. 5 C [Name] [Name] HON. PATRICK O'DONNELLE The well-known fighting lawyer who has tried a important law suits in many parts of this country voted the most of his time the past week in the most distinguished high churchmen of the olic Church in the world. There is no better that church on earth than Hon. Patrick J. O'D friendship for the editor of this newspaper more than twenty-six years. wn fighting lawyer who has tried a law suits in many parts of this country most of his time the past week is distinguished high churchmen of the church in the world. There is no better on earth than Hon. Patrick J. O'To for the editor of this newspaper twenty-six years. The well-known fighting lawyer who has tried and won many important law suits in many parts of this country, who devoted the most of his time the past week in entertaining the most distinguished high churchmen of the Roman Catholic Church in the world. There is no better member of that church on earth than Hon. Patrick J. O'Donnell, whose friendship for the editor of this newspaper has stood for more than twenty-six years. PAGEANT TO BE STAGED BY WOMEN'S CLUBS which to decorate the floats. This example of cooperation indicates the en- Virginia Federation Plans Big Program for Roanoke Meeting Hampton, Va.—A pageant in which ten nations in native costume will be represented is to be a part of the program at Roanoke, June 29 to July 2, when the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, of which Mrs. Jane Porter Barrett is president, meets for its nineteenth annual convention. This organization has been cooperating with state and community agencies for almost two decades in its work of social development, and has to its credit such worthwhile accomplishments as the establishing of the Virginia Industrial School at Peake. Great interest centers around the meeting this year because of the active part being taken by the junior members of the Federation on July 1st. They are to present the pageant, "Good Will, the Magician." Floats for the parade are being planned by the heads of each of the ten departments under which the Federation carries on its work. Junior members in different parts of the state and the school children of Roanoke have been making paper flowers since early spring with [Name] [Image of a man in a suit and bow tie]. COL. ABRAM DALE GASH Author and poet and one of the many lawyers in Chicago for many years friend of the editor of this newspaper oet and one of the many eminent of Chicago for many years. He has the editor of this newspaperm. Author and poet and one of the many eminent and successful lawyers in Chicago for many years. He has been a close friend of the editor of this newspaper. 5 CENTS PER COPY [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. or who has tried and won many parts of this country, who de- the past week in entertaining the past week in entertaining the Roman Cath-There is no better member of on. Patrick J. O'Donnell, whose this newspaper has stood for which to decorate the floats. This example, of cooperation indicates the enthusiasm for the work already developed in the Virginia club women of the future, and is putting into action what the Federation has always stood for. The exhibit will be exceptionally fine this year. The state Board of Health is lending posters to illustrate the work of each department, and the Home Economics department will at noon each day hold a demonstration appropriate to the hour. The "Open Forum" to be held on Thursday night, with the topic, "Health," for discussion, will be lead by doctors and nurses, and anyone will be permitted to ask questions. Religious Training and Recreation, under the leadership of authorities in these two fields, will also be discussed at this time. On Friday night the convention will hear Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D. C., the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, who is now the honorary president. Mrs. Terrell is a graduate of Oberlin College, has traveled widely and is a speaker of charm and eloquence. The meetings, with the exception of the sessions of the executive board, are open to the public. Mrs. J. H. Cross, 4436 Vincennes avenue, has removed to 4735 Indiana avenue, where she will be pleased to meet her many friends. THE NEW YORK TIMES he many eminent and successful my years. He has been a close newspaperm. THE BROAD AX THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 26, 1926 Hon. Moorfield Storey, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in Speaking to them; Declared; That there Must be No Republicans or Democrats, Only Friends and Opponents; that the Colored People Must Unite for their Rights in America. Chicago.—Declaring that for colored people in America "there are no Republicans and no Democrats, only friends and opponents," Moorfield Storey, of Boston, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in a message read at the opening mass meeting last night of the Association's seventeenth annual conference, urged colored people to unite in behalf of their citizenship rights. Mr. Storey, who was secretary during reconstruction days, to Senator Charles Sumner, and has been president of the American Bar Association, could not come to Chicago because of the strain of such a journey in his advanced years, sending the message read last night. "We represent more than twelve million persons of Negro blood," Mr. Storey's message continued, "entitled under our Constitution and laws to every right that belongs to any American citizen, sure eventually to receive those rights, and determined to fight for them until they are secured. "The need of the hour is union. We must act together, work together, and vote together. We ask no charity, no privilege, only the rights of every American citizen, the right to live unmolested in any house where we have a legal right to live, the right to be protected in our persons and our property against mob violence, the right to a fair trial if accused of crime or involved in any civil controversy, the same rights that any other citizen has in public parks, public schools, and all public institutions supported by taxes of which our taxes are a part. We ask equal rights in public convey- MR. JULIUS F. TAYLOR HAS RETURNED HOME AFTER SPENDING TWO WEEKS AT THE COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL At 12 o'clock, June 23, Mr. Julius F. Taylor returned to his humble little home after spending two weeks at the County Hospital, where he underwent a dangerous but successful operation for a cataract on the left eye. Dr. Harry S. Gradle, Marshall Field Building, 58 E. Washington street, who is one of the most expert eye specialists in Chicago, performed the operation. Dr. Sherman Shepero, Dr. Ralph Davis and Dr. Kikish, assisting him. WOMAN SWINDLED OUT OF $200 BY OLD POCKET BOOK GAME Newark, N. J., June 25.—The old pocket book game still works. Mrs. Adeline Sawyer lost $200 last Thursday night when she handed that amount to two strangers at Broad and Bridge streets, who had "just found a pocketbook." They'd divide the contents of it with her, they said, if she'd hand over her money to show her "good faith." She did. The men left. The pocket-book was empty. Col. James H. Johnson, 3650 Prairie avenue, is still seriously ill and his doctors do not entertain much hope of his ultimate recovery. His constant and devoted wife, Mrs. Eliza Johnson, seldom leaves his bedside and she continues to strive to add to his wants and comforts. ances, public hotels, public places of amusement and above all we want the right to vote, for otherwise we are taxed and drafted without representation, the cause of the Revolution which established the United States. "How shall we use our votes? The answer is' vote together for men who will work for our rights and for no others.' There are for us no Republicans and no Democrats. There are only friends and opponents. We are tired of promises, pleasant words, appeals to our gratitude for the acts of dead men fifty years ago. We want what those men did upheld now, we want the Constitutional Amendments which they passed enforced, we want the rights which they gave us recognized, and no man who will yield any jot of those rights will receive our support. Let us make this clear and even the fraction of our votes which we can cast will be found a mighty weapon. "Our next weapon is the courts of the country. Our experience has abundantly satisfied us that the courts are our surest allies, and we have won many substantial victories. Our rule must be that wherever any right is infringed our organization must be ready to take the case into court and there seek appropriate redress. "Finally there is the never-failing appeal to public opinion, and now especially at this anniversary time when men's minds will be recalled to the great principles of American freedom. When the words of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, and the great band whose spokesmen were Sumner, Phillips, Garrison and their DEATH CLAIMS MRS. LOU ELLA YOUNG Mrs. Lou Ella Young, District Grand Most Noble Governess of Eden District, Grand Household of Ruth No. 18, a great fraternal worker in many other fraternities, passed away at her home, 4114 Calumet avenue, Saturday morning, June 19, after several weeks of illness. Mrs. Lou Ella Robinson-Young was born in Metropolis, Ill., Nov. 30, 1870 and at the age of twelve years, she professed a hope in Christ under Rev. N. J. McCracken, then pastor of the A.M.E. Church in Metropolis. Mrs. Young received her education in the public schools of Metropolis and was graduated from The State Normal School of Carbondale, Ill. Thirty-two years ago, Mrs. Young came to Chicago and connected herself with Bethel A.M.E. Church where for many years she was a faithful member and only in later years moved her membership to The Metropolitan Community Center Church of which Rev. W. D. Cook is pastor, and where she was a faithful member until her death. Four years after coming to Chicago, she was united in marriage to Ambrose H. Robinson, which was a happy union until her death. Mrs. Young was always fraternally active and traveled for seven years as lecturer for The Rosebud, Grand United Order of True Reformers, Juvenile Department, and thus was widely known in fraternal circles. Among the other fraternal organizations and clubs to which she be- associates, are quoted on every side, it is time to ask our fellow citizens what those words mean, and if they are proud to repeat them, whether it is only as a familiar jingle or as words of vital meaning by which they wish to live. The great commandment, the golden rule which is the very essence of Christianity, does not bid us love our white neighbors as ourselves. Christ does not ask that little white children come unto Him 'for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' "We flatter ourselves that we are the most enlightened people on earth and are free with our criticism of European nations. Yet we are the only people on earth where human beings are burned alive at the stake, where men, women and children look on with approval and where the murderer go unwhipped of justice and walk the streets, while the smell of burning flesh still pollutes the air, with heads erect exulting in their barbarism. Go through this country and open your eyes. If you are civilized and Christians, you cannot help being horrified at the treatment which is visited on our Negro fellows, and at the indifference with which it is regarded. "The good people of this country must get together and uproot these abuses or the day will come when the whole country will suffer the bitter consequences. Abuses like those which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is formed to combat cannot long be tolerated without bringing the punishment which may 'have leaden feet but surely has iron hands.' My friends, let us close up our ranks and press on." longed were seven branches of Households of Ruth and was serving at the time of her death as District Grand Noble Governess of Eden District Grand Household of Ruth No. 18, G. U. O. O. F., Illinois and Wisconsin; member of Electa Chapter No. 1, O. E. S., Napoleon Court No. 42, H. of J. Union Guild No. 2, H. of T. C., Sisters of Ptheany No. 1, Elizabeth Elliot Circle No. 1 A. O. F., Millie Heiser Circle No. 292, C. O. F. Warden Temple No. 16, Daughters of Elks, Cornell Charity Club, Sinai Temple D. of T. Funeral services were held from Community Center House, 3118 Giles avenue, on Thursday morning, June 24, at which time Rev. Cook delivered the funeral oration and short addresses were made by Revs. Jno. R. Harvey and H. W. Knight. Final ceremonies were held by the various lodges and Mesdames Hattie Todd, worthy matron of Electa Chapter No. 1, and Ella J. Harris of Rockford, Ill., who succeeds Mrs. Young, acted as mistress of ceremonies. Kersey, McGowan and Morsell were in charge and burial was made at Mt. Glenwood. Surviving Mrs. Young are her husband, three brothers, several nieces and nephews and a host of friends to mourn her passing. Frank W. Henry, the popular undertaker and funeral director, 3210 Cottage Grove avenue, is one of the big wheel horses in the Fort Dearborn Lodge, No. 44, Order of Elks, and its 1926 Marching Club. See ad. in another column of this newspaper. Y THE PRESIDENT President of the Binga State Bank of Chi and most successful business men, w in the estimation of Cardinal Munde officials of the Roman Catholic Chu United States. the Binga State Bank of Chicago, successful business men, who stagnation of Cardinal Mundelein and the Roman Catholic Church tates. President of the Binga State Bank of Chicago, one of its best and most successful business men, who stands very high in the estimation of Cardinal Mundelein and other high officials of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the United States. DOINGS AT THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONFERENCE ON TUBERCULOSIS JUST HELD AT THE EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL Dr. Ethan Allen Gray, director of the Chicago Fresh Air Hospital, was elected president of the Mississippi Valley Conference on Tuberculosis for the ensuing year. Dr. Gray is one of Chicago's most eminent authorities on tuberculosis. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute—Christmas seal organization—and was one of the founders of this Institute. His work as a tuberculosis specialist dates back to the beginning of the campaign against this disease. Executive Secretary of the Wisconsin Tuberculosis Association, was awarded to the Calumet City Public Welfare Association, affiliated with the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, for the best exhibit at the Conference. Miss Faith Bailey and Miss Ruth Hansen are the nurses in charge. The prize winning exhibit represents child health by means of a house and garden. The house is made entirely of foodstuffs; the walls stuccoed with oatmeal, the roof of crackers, the door of toast, bringing in the ideas of cheerfulness, fresh air, sunshine, and exercise. Several other exhibits, some of which introduce the Christmas seal, received honorable mention. Among these were the displays of the Chicago Miss Alice Marshell, Executive Secretary of the Nebraska Tuberculosis Association was elected vice-president and Mr. A. W. Jones, Secretary of the St. Louis Tuberculosis Society, as secretary-treasurer. The conference next year will be held in St. Louis. The Dearholt Trophy, a silver cup, presented at the Mississippi Valley Conference by Dr. Hoyt E. Dearholt, 1930 [Name] [Name] REV. JOHN W. ROBINSON The honest and eloquent pastor of the New Green Methodist Episcopal Church, 550 St. Nicholas 138th Street, New York City, N. Y. Rev. R. family are still held in the highest esteem by their friends in Chicago. and eloquent pastor of the New Green Episcopal Church, 550 St. Nichei St, New York City, N. Y. Rev. Re still held in the highest esteem blds in Chicago. The honest and eloquent pastor of the New Greater St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church, 550 St. Nicholas Avenue at 138th Street, New York City, N. Y. Rev. Robinson and his family are still held in the highest esteem by thousands of their friends in Chicago. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX No. 41 State Bank of Chicago, one of its best business men, who stands very high in Cardinal Mundelein and other high in Catholic Church throughout the SISSIPPI E ON HELD BEACH Actor of real, was Mississippiosis for 's most illness. He Com-osis In-ation — this In-erculosis beginning disease. Sec-erculosis president Executive Secretary of the Wisconsin Tuberculosis Association, was awarded to the Calumet City Public Welfare Association, affiliated with the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, for the best exhibit at the Conference. Miss Faith Bailey and Miss Ruth Hansen are the nurses in charge. The prize winning exhibit represents child health by means of a house and garden. The house is made entirely of foodstuffs; the walls stuccoed with oatmeal, the roof of crackers, the door of toast, bringing in the ideas of cheerfulness, fresh air, sunshine, and exercise. Several other exhibits, some of which introduce the Christmas seal, received honorable mention. Among these were the displays of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, The Illinois Tuberculosis Association at Spring-field, and the Mother Goose Preventorium of St. Joseph, Missouri. COMES TO FUNERAL Mrs. Lucy Edmonson of Indiaapolis, Ind. arrived in the city this week to attend the funeral of Mrs. Lou Ella Young. ... pastor of the New Greater St. Mark's Church, 550 St. Nicholas Avenue at Park City, N. Y. Rev. Robinson and his in the highest esteem by thousands of ago. No.41 THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democratis, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxes, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. It is neither Democratic nor Republican. It is strictly or absolutely independent in politics. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... $1.00 * Advertising rates made known on application. JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Vol. XXXI No. 41 Chicago, June 26, 1926 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago Ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. UNION LEAGUE CLUB IS ADDRESSED BY URBAN LEAGUE HEAD The Committee on Race Relations of the Union League Club had as its dinner guest, last Thursday noon, A. L. Foster, executive secretary of the Chicago Urban League, who addressed the members thereof on "The Migration—Its Causes and Effects." Foster discussed the migration from every angle, giving statistics to show that ten northern cities had absorbed practically all of the Negroes who had come north during the past ten years. He declared that poor wages, unfair treatment, poor school facilities and lack of opportunity for colored children to secure the proper education were among the contributing causes for the migration from southern soil. Asked if he believed that Negroes would fair better in the South should they return in large numbers, Foster claimed that conditions were practically no better now than they had been and that his advice to Negroes was for them to remain in this section of the country where they could at least expect protection from the mobs and fair treatment from the courts. He discussed the work of the Urban League in Chicago and in other large cities and told members of the committee how these groups of white and colored citizens were doing all within their power to help solve race problems by improving the economic status of the Negro and by educating white people to a fuller appreciation of the Negro's worth. A plan of cooperation between the race relations committee of the Union League Club and the Urban League is being worked out. Harry Eugene Kelly, a member of the board of the Urban League, is president of the Union League Club. By Colored America to Abolish Federal Executive Segregation on Sequential Centennial of Declaration of Independence To the President, Calvin Coolidge, Chief Executive, White House, Washington, D. C. In this year 1926, sequential centennial year of signing of Declaration of U. S. A., which asserted human equality, at and among the meritorious for our military; and for our veterans; and for our military and all American of African extraction or descent, do hereby earnestly and of right assert the present segregation of colored federal employees in executive departments—treasury, justice, post office, army and navy, and all other departments, and to the race prejudice actual or presumed of all other elements, and therefore a denial of equality to citizenship to the outraged out from all others for such subjec For we hold it to be self-evident that consistency and national honor require that race distinction in deference to race be maintained at federal capital as the federal government arranges nation-wide observances of the sesqui-centennial of a republic's first document, which enunciated equality and fraternity. This is the more incumbent when this one race so proscribed furnished the first martyr, and soldiers in the war were selected, with soldiers in every other war thereafter, and never a traitor. Thus lead the nation generally to end color prescription at 100 years. National Equity Rights League, for United Colored American Committee, 9 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. Name ... Address ... Name .. C. H. H. HON. WILLIAM R. FETZER High class Mason who has no trouble in countriefriends in this city by the thousands, and ofthem feel dead sure that he will be reeMunicipal Court bench of Chicago, Tuesday MANY HIGHLY INTERESTSI CIAL AND POLITICAL ITEBEFORE OUR VIEW THWEEK. High class Mason who has no trouble in counting his warm friends in this city by the thousands, and one and all of them feel dead sure that he will be re-elected to the Municipal Court bench of Chicago, Tuesday, November 2. MANY HIGHLY INTERESTING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ITEMS PASS BEFORE OUR VIEW THE PAST WEEK. (By the Preston News Service) Trampling Parents' Ideals This action on the part of children is generally the result of inexperience and the cynical spirit toward old ideals in comparison with new ones. They give to their parents credit for their sincerity; they even concede that their ideals were worthy and profitable in other years; but they contend that this new age demands standards more flexible and less severe. Since these ideals constitute the "safety zones" of human life and conduct trampling them, as they do, children not only crush the hearts of their parents, but at the same time they depart from the course of safety; and thus they expose themselves to the destroying influences of this wicked age. Coming back to the question of effect on parents, if the element of safety were not involved, love for parents who have suffered and sacrificed for them would cause children to think most seriously on this matter and refrain from trampling the ideals and the hearts of their parents. Light means influence, so when Jesus admonished, "Let your light so shine," He meant let your influence radiate and thus affect and influence for good other lives around about you. Constrain is from the Latin "con," and "stringo," meaning to bind strongly, to draw tightly, and in the case of Christians, especially, to compel action by force of righteous influence. And there is little doubt that the most compelling influence is that of an event-tempered, well-balanced, God-fearing life! The declaration, "No man liveth unto himself and no man dieth unto himself," simply means that no man can live in the world or die and pass out of the world without exerting some influence, and some kind of influence on his fellowmen. Every life will to a greater or lesser extent affect and influence other lives with which it will come in contact; so, one should strive to live so that his life will be influential for good. Especially should every every Christian live so that his life may influence others to espouse and practice the principles by which his own life is actuated. A man who had lived many years unrepentant, was converted at the midnight hour, through the persuasion of a minister who had been his guest for the past three weeks. Holding the hand of the man to whose efforts he attributed his conversion, he said to him, "The life you have lived in my house during the past three weeks did more to recommend Christianity and to bring me to Christ than all the preaching I have heard in the church across the street in twenty years." This was constraining, compelling Christian influence! **Church Knockers** There is a timely motto which runs, "Sell your hammer and buy a horn," the philosophy of which is, cease knocking and go to boosting; and this is timely advice to give to many church --- t trouble in counting his warm thousands, and one and all of he will be re-elected to the Chicago, Tuesday, November 2. INTERESTING SOTICAL ITEMS PASS VIEW THE PAST members who seem inclined to use their little hammer just all the time. Some are persistent knockers because they cannot have their way about everything; some knock the preacher because he will not allow them to dictate the policy of his administration and the character of his sermons. Others knock because they are envious and jealous of the recognition accorded other members; and some knock just because they are grouchy and downright devilish! Knockers in the church do more harm than all the opposers on the outside; they injure the minister more than the devil does; they hinder the progress of the church more than anything else; and in all this they seem to be forgetful or careless of the consequences to the cause or to them-selves. Reading the text, "On this rock I build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it," these knockers will see how futile must be their attempts at destruction of the church. Given attention to the passage which reads, "It were better that that man should have a mill-stone about his neck and be cast into the midst of the sea than to offend one of these my little ones." These obstructors will have an idea of the penalty they are incurring when they seek to hinder the church. Yes, to all of these knockers is commended the adage, The Fight of Faith Every fight in the interest of a worthy cause is indeed a "fight of faith," for without faith little can ever be accomplished no matter how righteous or how laudable the cause. A fight means a conflict between opposing forces; a fierce struggle against adverse circumstances, environmental conditions, elemental weaknesses and evil inclinations; and in all of these, faith is of paramount importance. Faith in the justice and righteousness of any given cause is essential to success in its interest, for no one can fight a valiant and a winning fight if he doubt the truth of his contentions or the justice of his cause. To fight without faith in the ultimate triumph of his cause, to fight timidly, doubtfully and cowardly is for one to fight a losing fight. Finally one must have faith in his own powers and capabilities. "I can't," is not only "the language of fools," but it is the language of doubt, fear, of cowardice, of abject surrender to circumstances and of inevitable failure, for if one believes that he "can't," then it is true, he "can't"! Faith sustained the prophets and apostles as they contended for truth and righteousness, and it has been the support of all who have fought and won; and only those who have been actuated by this principle have been able, in the final event to say, "I have fought a good fight." Yes, every fight for truth and righteousness, for justice and equity, for elevation of exalted principles, for dissemination of knowledge and for the general well being and advancement of humanity is "A FIGHT OF FAITH!" THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 26, 1926 THE CLOSING SESSION OF THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS WHICH WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL ITS PAST SESSIONS CAME TO A GLORIOUS END THURSDAY, JUNE 24th, AT THE LADY OF THE LAKE, MUNDELEIN, ILL., IN THE MIDST OF OVER A MILLION PEOPLE. By CHUCK STEWART, JR. The world's religious civilization, having traveled from the four corners of the earth, representing every tongue spoken, came to pay a tribute to the beginning of the XXVIII Eucharistic Congress. They number a million. Flashing back through the pages of history, we find that this million who came representing the faith of the Cross were gathered out of the thought of a woman whose French antecedents prove the marvel of the hour—Mille, Tamisier, the originator of the idea, who appealed to Philibert Vrau, "the holy man of Lille," to inaugurate the Eucharistic idea which has proven the most wonderful success in an endeavor to give spirit to the fundamental principles of the Church in its every character. All of the congresses of the past have represented the ideas of the broadest men of the Church, who were awakened to the highest point of religious strategy from the very announcement that this XXVIII Congress was to be held in the new St. Mary- of- the- Lake, adjacent to Chicago, dedicated out of the thought of Cardinal Mundelein. No city in the world could have given such spontaneous, united support to a welcome that future history of all religious gatherings must pause to think that every denomination joined with the visitors in order that they might enjoy the fullness of their public and religious spirit. The activities led to their aid from non-Catholic organizations out of the mind of such Godly men as John Thompson of the First M. E. Church and Bishop Anderson of the Episcopal church, which was sufficient within itself to stamp indelibly the blessedness that is intended in the faith of mankind. Last Sunday, in three hundred edifices, Cardinals and Bishops appealed to God the Father for a wider and a broader understanding of the intentions of the purification of the lives of men and women by the way of the Church. It is blessed that they came at this time, from the fact that the crimes caused by different conditions need a spiritual awakening. And if this effort fails, then the Church has failed, for their efforts should be symbolical to every faith that worships the Deity. Truth and hope have been the light to which they have spoken, in addition to the light of day by the sun, Old Sol, which has been pleasant, and the magnitude of the Mother of Night, the moon, which has shone with her brightness, and in addition, at old Soldiers Field, Edison, the father of electricity, gave from two hundred thousand lights an extra glow, which in itself is described as a part of the enjoyable life in the great city beyond. Every effort has been made to demonstrate the higher and better reasons of living that would pave the way for eternal blessedness when we shall have been consigned to our tombs to become a part of the city presided over by Christ the Son. The pilgrimages began on Monday. Every available elevated and surface line, bus and private conveyance carried out to Soldiers Field sixty-five thousand children trained by Prof. Otto Singenberger to sing the "Mass of the Angels." This was Children's Day of the Eucharistic Congress. They came to see the pump and splendor of the Church; they came to be a part of the greatest function ever known to mankind; they came to listen officially to a message delivered by the special prelate to them from the Pope, John Cardinal Bonzano. He was overwhelmed to such an extent at the enormity of the outpouring that he shed tears, for two reasons: first, for the blessings of the added missionaries of the future, and second, for those who had not understood and that they might understand, that the united Catholic world had come to Soldiers Field that repersents earth from whence we came and must return and had been baptized in the blood of every nation that peace and civilization shall prevail over the earth in the minds of better understanding—that souls of tomorrow might meet in final Eucharistic feasts in the City Beyond. When these blessings had been given and the last note from the world's greatest organ had been silenced, this army of sixty-five thousand returned to their homes without a single accident; they carried with them the fullness of the spirit of their having been there, and today these young revivalists are picturing to the other brethren the high ideals of their Church. Then there came Mothers' Day. This day was the most holy of the Church—old women past three score and ten who had looked to the Guiding Star of the future at home and in the Church, for soon their days would be counted an end, and on to the blessed city where they would kiss the angelic hand of the mother of so great a cause, Mile. Tamisier—two hundred thousand of them gathered to listen to the words to be spoken which would give to them renewed spirit that would be a guide to the thoughts to be taught to the thousands who had attended in the morning. These words were given by radio to millions of listeners of every other faith of earth's creation. They seemed to have drunk in that which was intended to give to them—a high ideal, a more Christian-like benevolence—for mingled with them throughout the service were the Sisters who made the bread that furnished the sacrament for those who partook of that which was intended as a part of the body of Christ. The expression seen upon every face was like the tint of a new, undescribed rose; each step they took to the conveyance to carry them back home seemed to have breathed into them the new air which gave new faith in the work to be done. In the evening of this day two hundred thousand fathers gathered as never before to listen to the words to be told to them which would mark out the way for better assistance in making their public demeanor such a model of earthly brotherhood as the nations of the earth would better understand the teachings of their Church. They sang in Mass; they listened to prayer at the altar; and then the Cardinal stood in silence while this multitude severally and jointly prayed for a better world. When the closing came, they returned to their homes, more edified than before. Little ones climbed upon their knees, mothers and wives drew their chairs near, that the fathers told to them their story of the lessons they had been taught, and before time to sleep had come, they had linked these three together and waited in silence for Wednesday when Higher Educational Day took the field. This is the most important statue of the Church. And, too, it is looked to to bring new light upon each of the provisions of the doctrine. Young boys and girls, who will be the mothers and fathers of tomorrow, who had traveled over every surface and other available line to listen to the ecclesiastical words of the Cardinal who had been directed to hold the services for that day—the pictures and lessons drawn carried them back to the days of Babylon. They looked and marveled at the architecture of the altar which had been constructed after the manner of that of St. Paul of Rome, and from it lessons of higher education were told. They came from the lips of Archbishop Gauthier of Montreal who was a master of his English and a convincing reasoner upon the point of the necessity of being to give an explanatory reason sufficiently lucid that even a child might understand. The Archbishop pictured to them that out of this higher education they became the living apostles of the Church and that it was their duty to be patient in endeavoring to bring to Christ through their educational avenue those who did not understand, and that therefore the future power of the Church rested with them. When he had finished, there came Cardinal Dougherty with an address which dealt directly with higher education and its positive necessity. The thousands who were unable to enter Soldiers Field, who had come from far and near especially to listen to the Cardinal, one of the most learned men of the Church, were enabled to hear his voice understandingly through the amplifiers arranged about the Field. The Cardinal's subject was treated in the most masterly manner and yet so simple that the uneducated who wanted to understand went away satisfied after he had finished, so that the time spent in listening had given them new reasoning power to demonstrate the ideas of the power of higher education and to become factors themselves in building up that status in their own homes which would make even the birds of the air M. H. HON. P. J. CARR The well known and up-to-date whose thousands of tried an city and county, who are w order to assist to elect him and the flowers of the garden and all the earth upon which he trod know that it was the intention of God that when these component parts were made, it was His intention that mankind should lend his effort to beautify the hope of birth, the principles of home, the wisdom of His Church and the power to labor, that the strength from his labor could be used in such a way that his energy given thereto might be immortalized when he shall have gone. knight of the canvas would have paused to pick up his brush to describe the work that had been detailed by the new artist. Looking down, if it were possible far beyond the blue skies that overspread the green fields of St. Mary-of-the-Lake, one marveled at the work planned by this apostle of the Church who leads the way to establish in the western world the new and mightier oak from which is to be carved the new cross to be placed upon its dome Thus closed the sessions at Soldiers Field; and on to St. Mary-of-the-Lake marched every character of vehicle, and even by air. They went to the number of over six hundred thousand, to give prayer, song and words of wisdom which were sent out by radio and telegraph so that the world might know that they gathered at St. Mary-of-the-Lake and that the dream of Cardinal Mundelein had met full realization. They spent the day there; Old Sol gave to the day the brightest and fairest day of the summer; and if they falter in their steps in the future, they have not kept faith with the Cause; if they falter, they have not listened to the words given to them from the altar likened to St. Paul's in Soldiers Field. Some of the fathers there drew the picture which would have been a marvel if a new chisel had been given and earth's greatest carver, Michael Angelo, could he have come from his tomb, would have stood silent and wondered had he faltered in the "Chamber of his days." An old master, the greatest 1 M. B. HON. GEORGE E. BRENNAN One of the many successful business men of Chica cratic candidate for United States Senator from One of the many successful business men of Chicago and Democrat candidate for United States Senator from Illinois. ate Treasurer of Cook County and true friends in all parts of theilling to work day and night in Sheriff of Cook County. knight of the canvas would have paused to pick up his brush to describe the work that had been detailed by the new artist. Looking down, if it were possible, far beyond the blue skies that overspread the green fields of St. Mary-of-the-Lake, one marveled at the work planned by this apostle of the Church who leads the way to establish in the western world the new and mightier oak from which 'is to be carved the new cross to be placed upon its dome. One united host in a spiritual way celebrated the day; and when the benediction was pronounced and they traveled back to their homes in adjacent cities, and the Cardinals went back across the waters to their dioceses, and John Cardinal Bonzano, special representative of Pope Pius XI officially gives his report of the service of the people to Cardinal Mundelein in an effort to make the world better, it will give new inspiration to the delegates who are to travel down the waters of Balboa twenty-four months from this time to the metropolis of Australia to again renew a religious effort to inculcate in the minds of their citizens the work and character of the broad idea which has made the history of their Church so marvelous and which came out of the brain of a woman. To all of you who came, Chicago bids you adieu, trusting that you have enjoyed the splendor of our city and the hospitality of our citizens, and wishing you a safe voyage back to the people from whence you came. 1 ness men of Chicago and Demo- States Senator from Illinois. [Name] HON. GEORGE B. HOLMES One of the high class Judges of the Municipal cago who has been highly indorsed by the Association in his race for re-election to his p Tuesday, November 2. One of the high class Judges of the Municipal Court of Chicago who has been highly indorsed by the Chicago Bar Association in his race for re-election to his present position Tuesday, November 2. FLOWERS GIVES YOUNG FITZ GREAT PASTING THROUGH TEN ROUNDS (Preston News Service) VIRGIN ISLANDER'S PLEA Indifference on the part of the United States Senate to the welfare of New York, June 25.—Theodore (Tiger) Flowers, who holds the world's middleweight championship, conceded nearly twenty pounds to Young Bob Fitzsimmons last Friday night at Boyles Thirty Acres in Jersey City and handed him a lacing in a ten-round no decision bout. The Tiger, fighting his second fight since he dethroned Harry Greb last February, escaped from an automobile accident with minor injuries only a few days ago, but his speed and punching power were unimpaired as far as one could determine against the heavier, slower moving Fitzsimmons. Flowers carried off the honors in practically every round of the ten. He belted away at Fitzsimmons with a forceful, telling left hook that turned Fitz's body from his waist up to his neck into a mass of red flesh. He flickered his right into Fitz's face and broke up his attack time and again. And when the son of Ruby Robert attempted to use his weight to force Flowers against the ropes, he got nothing for his pains, for the Tiger fought his way out of any and all danger with that left of his. He kept hammering away at his rival unceasingly and only on a few occasions was Bob able to take the play away from the champion. Fitz put up a good fight and made the battle an interesting one from first to last, but he was outclassed all the way. Fitz opened a cut over the champion's eye midway in the bout, and this bled slightly toward the end. That was the only damage inflicted on Flowers. A crowd of more than 15,000 witnessed the show in the huge pine arena erected by Tex Rickard for the Dempsey-Carpentier fight. CARNIVAL, PICNIC AND TO BE GIVEN BY ELKS A monster three-day car July 3, 4 and 5, will be go Marching Club at beautiful Dancing, Racing, Charlestom ents for everybody. Bring day in the woods. ROUTE: Take interurban streets to 139th street. Auto street, west to Park. A monster three-day carnival picnic and barbecue, July 3, 4 and 5, will be given by Fort Dearborn Elk's Marching Club at beautiful Golden Park, Robbins, Ill. Dancing, Racing, Charleston Contest, Fishing—Amusements for everybody. Bring your family and spend the day in the woods. ROUTE: Take interurban car at 63rd and Halsted streets to 139th street. Autos: Western Avenue to 139th street, west to Park. of the Municipal Court of Chi- indorsed by the Chicago Bar election to his present position, VIRGIN ISLANDER'S PLEA Indifference on the part of the United States Senate to the welfare of the Virgin Islanders means their status under our control will be unchanged for the present. The House has gone a step farther, a bill having been reported giving them a permanent government, but without action in the other branch of Congress nothing can be accomplished. Nearly ten years ago the islands were purchased from Denmark. Since then they have been subject to control of a naval officer, named by the President, possessing all military, civil and judicial powers. Authority has been centralized, but it has been of the wrong kind, for Governors have changed frequently, often two new ones holding sway within a year. When the islands changed hands the people lost their Danish citizenship. They did not become American citizens and hence are men and women without a country unless the Virgin Islands can be considered such. That is a far-fetched view, however, since they are not independent, but a possession of the United States. The islanders have a just grievance. They have been anxious to become good citizens of this country, just as they were of Denmark. They have waited patiently for nearly a decade. Meanwhile they have had to be content with a government anything but satisfactory. While they may have had good naval officers to direct their affairs, the system in itself, especially with constant changes, has had a bad effect. And no one with a fair mind can disregard their plea for simple justice—Schenectady Gazette. MANY ATTEND MUNDELEIN MEETING Hundreds of members of the Race from the city and all suburban towns were seen in Mundelein to the greatest gathering of Catholics and other people ever witnessed in Lake County. Three Day C AND BARBECUE IVEN BY nival picnic and barbecue, given by Fort Dearborn Elk's Golden Park, Robbins, Ill. Contest, Fishing—Amuse your family and spend the car at 63rd and Halsted nss: Western Avenue to 139th COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES By THE CAMERAMAN Separate School Systems "Large streams from little fountains flow, · Tall oaks from little acorns grow." (Evergl As long as separate schools systems, for white and colored, prevail in America, the endeavor to abort the evergrowing barriers to interracial contentment will be as different of consummation as buffeting the tides of the English channel. Children are borne into the world as of God and not as of man, who is responsible only for their physical content and contour, and not for the soul which within them lies all dormant to the ways of world civilization. At a tender age, where separate school systems prevail, the impressionable child mind receives its first knowledge that physical differences are the imaginary barometer of racial declensions which prescribe "superiority" for one group and "inferiority" for another. As later periods of impression gather the white and the black children into their folds, there is corroborated in the mind of each the false doctrine of segregation, and when majority is reached the theory of a "God-intended" difference is permanent in the annals of both Christian and pagan. Dominating numbers give a distinct advantage to the majority group, which, as the late ex-senator Benjamin Tillman, of South Carolina, would have said, knows that "God intended the white race to reign supreme over the black race." Thus the separate school from the kindergarten onward, is the prying lever which separates the races of America by color—not by brain force, ability, nor principles of Christian endeavor. And yet, how potent is a drop of Negro blood, one-eighth of which more than counteracts seven-eighths of Anglo-Saxon life fluid. If America would match tremendous commercialism with Christianity, with science, with efficiency, and with patriotism, the separate school must eventually be made obsolete. It is the most fertile building ground of vanity the world has ever known. It ravages both religion and morals, and anaesthetizes the chief virtues of both races. The economic advantages it purports to give by furnishing work outlets for ambitious Negro teachers are false, as is evidenced in the sultry educational districts where it abounds, and as counter-evidenced in northern atmospheres, where hundreds of teachers, white and black, teach thousands of children, white and black, without regard to racial classification. The separate school system has no more justifiable place on earth than would a separate Heaven have, hereafter, which we do not see in this life, nor do we foresee it in the life to come. 'Twixt Clippers and Shears It was in the mountains of Tennessee that we met the philosophical barber. He was a half-elderly man, with keen black eyes, hair slightly gray, firm step, quick movements, unerring deftness, and a rapid-fire talk, which would have made Baron Munchausen retire for life. "I tell you, son," said the tonsorialist, as he laid down the clippers, and picked up a pair of shears, which he began to click deftly, preparatory to making inroads upon a three weeks' growth of scalp tentacles: "This here town's the best town in the South; in fact, it's the 'New York' of Tennessee, 'tepin' that colored people mustn't be too prominent in politics. I've lived here for thirty years; come from Mississippi and on here from Chattanooga. The white people here are fine; they'll help you do anything that's all right. It's our folks that's holding us back," snapped the barber, giving the chair a vigorous turn. "The leaders down here are too spineless," he continued; "and whenever they do anything it's mostly for their own benefit." "Well," I countered, "at least you have a good newspaper in this town, which undoubtedly moulds public opinion and informs the community of the activities which concern the people?" "No, no," replied the Tennesseean, in haste. "It's no good; and the editor, he tries to 'hog' up everything for himself." "Well, you have good schools here, haven't you," I inquired, searching faithfully for the silver lining of the barber's cloud. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 26, 1926 "The schools would be all right" he admitted "if we could only get some good teachers down here—some who were well trained and who would take an interest in the children, rather than themselves." "I guess the doctors are doing well, aren't they?" I ventured, continuing my quest for a bit of optimism. "There's one here who's fair," the wielder of the clippers and shears replied; "but the other four—well, I wouldn't have even if I was dying." "Do the lawyers have good practices?" I asked, gloomily, as a veritable last straw of hope for the barber's favorable opinion of Sunny Tennessee. "Not on your life," replied he in quick response. "They're careless, and no one trusts them. You see," he concluded, as he began a "straight-down" with a razor which he stroped vigorously, "when I come to this town, I saw what was the matter with it. I organized the Flip Flop Society, the Bankers' and Banks Aid Society and I prescribed new policies for the Board of Education and the Ketcham and Cheatem Lodge; but these people didn't have sense enough to take my advice, and they knocked me instead of boosting me. So I've quit 'em; and I am satisfied to keep to myself and run this barber shop, which is the very best colored shop in the city," he concluded, with a look of personified self esteem. And at least we had found why this world was all wrong in Tennessee; for we had met not a few similar types of genius in earlier days, and expect to meet not a few more in the future. "Back seat" drivers are by no means confined to automobiles. Tuskegee Veterans' Bureau Library No. 91 Out of the valiant effort of the Government and a loyal staff to rehabilitate those gallant Negro veterans of the World War who have been assigned to the Tuskegee District, No. 91, there has come, among other conspicuous results, the Tuskegee Veterans' Bureau Library, of which Sadie Mariet Peterson is Librarian. Miss Peterson, trained in library science in New York, and formerly an assistant librarian in the Harlem Branch of the New York Public Library System, essayed to undertake the tremendous task of organizing the Tuskegee Library. That she was admirably fitted by temperament and training, for the missionary-like task to which she nobly volunteered, is more than apparent after more than three years of tireless and unselfish effort. During the past year, Miss Peterson circulated 30,917 books among patients and other readers of the hospital library. Given a preliminary budget of $1,800 per annum, Miss Peterson, with rare judgment and after reviewing the volumes herself, has stocked the library with books well adapted to the needs of the veterans. She has subscribed to 20 medical journals, 16 newspapers, and 54 magazines; and has augmented this effort by organizing a Reading Club, which meets regularly under her expert guidance, for interpretation of current literature and periodical study. She has specialized in the listing and digesting of medical volumes, and can give instant references to the hospital staff to various phases of medicine and surgery of which the surgeons and physicians are in urgent need at any time. She has taken apt veterans and instructed them in the fundamentals of library science, thus stimulating them to carry the message of reading on to their fellowmen, after their own rehabilitation. Greatest of all, however, is the new vision of life which Miss Peterson and the Tuskegee Library have given to the veterans. Those attended by discouragement and worry have been taught to absorb world lessons in morale, traditions, and the substantial things of life. They have learned to pick out of the dust of decay the virtues of men and to see in the gloom, the bright side of life. And this mental rehabilitation has been as important as the physical transition, which Uncle Sam and his loyal staff have provided that American patriots might have a new day, a new chance to nourish body, soul and mind. The statue of Jefferson Davis stretched skyward, 365 feet in Fairview, Ky. The simple line "clarus et vir fortissimus" was inscribed at its base, with excerpts of the Mississippi oration of the deceased "famous" and "strong" ex-preident of the Confederate State of America, who, at the close of his career urged that unity prevail in America and that sectional differences be wiped out forever. Dixieland, however, has not heeded the dead veteran's advice, else it would not have memorialized the ardent confederate president; nor in northern Georgia and northeastern Alabama would it have been so stingy with signs and directions to travelers. The only conspicuous signs we saw in those vicinities were "white" and "colored." Even street names were missing, and we had to inquire of the police in order to find our location; but the never-failing "white" and "colored" signs were spic, span, and clean, in order that the "sheep" and the "goats," whichever way that equation runs, might not intermingle. En route, we met several "assistant conductors" (alias train porters) running on Jim Crow trains. Just to show the versatility of conductors, one whom we observed tenderly called the porter "Charlie," who carefully sorted the railroad tickets, watched the train blocks, signaled the engineer, and eagerly transmitted train orders, all in the course of a day's work; while another conductor, on whose train the colored porter (evidently an apprentice hand) was striving to work on a three-in-one basis, turned angrily to the humble one and said: "I don't need you following me around." It takes all the parts of anything to make the whole; and as long as nine-tenths of a people are absorbing energy and time holding back the remaining tenth—well, neither one can make much speed in consummating real worth while objectives. These are the reverberating memories of Dixie-land. Scientists Prove Evolution Dr. F. G. Cruikshank (white) of London, England, is pursuing a chemical study of the races to prove evolution. He hopes to hybridize the orang-outang with the yellow man; the gorilla with the black, and the chimpanzee with the white, and then show what these hybrids will reproduce themselves. In short, he believes that different races were formed from these hybridations. A laboratory at Kindia, French West Africa, has been fitted up and granted necessary endowment by the Soviet Government. Appeal For Laughter Pratt Institute orator, Dr. F. W. Griffin, holds that true laughter indicated the mind at play—the happy attitude—and that happy people are the best workers. He adds that happiness is not an adequate primary need of line, being a necessity only as a byproduct. It is a well known fact that Negroes are the world's best jesters. To laugh with them is to breathe, to live. This appeal for laughter was not made to them. It was not necessary. Laughter is a God-given outlet—the overflow. RED CAPS' CLUB NEWS The last literary meeting of the Red Caps' Club will be on Sunday, June20 at 4:30 p. m. The meeting will be unique in that all of the participants will be children of Red Caps or their friends. The program has been well prepared and an enjoyable evening is in store for all. Sandy W. Trice, Press. An interesting meeting was held on Sunday night, June 20, at 7:45, at the Sunday Evening Club, Metropolitan Community Center. Addresses will be made by Hon. John H. Passmore and Mr. Bernard Hodes. Come early and enjoy the meeting. HOME FROM SOUTH Mrs. Lucille G. Robinson, 4312 Vernon avenue, who spent two months with relatives in North Carolina, has returned to the city much pleased with her stay in the south. IMPROVING C. N. Carruthers, well known barber, has been detained at his home, 3513 Indiana avenue, for several days, but is slowly improving. IN CITY Atty. W. S. Henry, Indianapolis, Ind., is in the city attending the annual meeting of the N.A.A.C.P. Idle Women "In any group where women are really idle, the attitude towards life degenerates." So says Lady Rhondda, and there can be few people who will not heartily agree with her.—Exchange. Discovered by Dutch The Spitzerbergen islands in the Arctic ocean, north of Norway and northeast of Greenland, were discovered in 1898 by Dutch sailors who, thinking them to be a part of Greenland, named them "New Land." HARTEN STIRS BOSTON Great Ovation Given Rev. Thos. S. Harten of Brooklyn, N. Y., National Organizer, at Big Mass Meeting—Delivers Strong Address Against Race Outrages and Federal Segregation—Hundreds Sign Sesqui Petition to President—Overwhelms Speaker With Greetings at Close. Boston, Mass., June 12, 1926.—The sensation of the week here has been the great acclaim given Rev. Thos. S. Harten, of Brooklyn, N. Y., National organizer of the National Equal Rights League, by the people of Boston who crowded the People's Baptist Church to its 1,000 capacity Tuesday night. The attendance was the more remarkable because the meeting had been arranged on two-days public notice. The ovation was in part a welcome back home as Rev. Harten formerly pastored in Cambridge and was locally a civic leader. Rev. Klugh, local executive chairman announced the occasion as the monthly meeting of the Boston Branch of the National Equal Rights League, and Rev. Harten as guest. Wm. Monroe Trotter, national secretary, Albert G. Wolff, local secretary who presided, John A. Hagen, Rev. C. C. Somerville, Rev. W. H. Hester, urged a united race demand for redress and cologized the guest. Rev. Klugh introduced him with high praise. The audience rose, gave him the Chautaqua salute and vociferous applause. Rev. Harten responded graciously and then in forceful and eloquent words told of outrages in Brooklyn and New Jersey, condemned in detail the segregation of colored clerks at Washington, as well as the Jim-Crow Beach bill, declared conditions had become most critical, urged race unity and action, finally urging the signing of the sesqui-centennial petition to President Coolidge to abolish the federal segregation now. Hundreds signed. The vast audience were still in their seats though it was nearly midnight. When Rev. Harten finished with an appeal not to compromise round after round of applause followed, the people rushed forward fairly mobbing the guest in eagerness to shake his hand. Some embraced and he was carried about in the arms and on the shoulders of the men. Seldom has a race speaker received such hearty endorsement on his return here. PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN AGAINST ACCIDENTS By Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins This is the time of the year when parents find it difficult to keep their children off the streets and away from the dangers that they encounter. For the week ending June 19, 107 persons were bitten by dogs and about 80 per cent of this number were children. For this same period, 4 children were killed and 84 injured through vehicle accidents. Do not let your children play with dogs, particularly during this month. In case of dog bite, summon a physician immediately, and report the matter to the Police Department. Do not let your children roller skate on the street. Warn them against hitching on vehicles. Warn them against riding bicycles on heavy traffic thoroughfares. Children going swimming should use the public beaches or park pools that are protected by guards. Do not let them go to abandoned pools or deserted parts of the lake front to bathe. Have your children make use of the public playgrounds. They are safe. The streets are not. Warn them against climbing telegraph and light poles. Death lurks in live wires that they may touch. Be ever watchful of their safety while riding on street cars, in automobiles, motor busses and lake boats. Do not allow them to go out in rowboats unless accompanied by grown-ups or responsible persons. Co-operate with us—an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We are trying to protect you. SUGGESTS TENNIS COURTS FOR NEGROES (Preston News Service) Columbus, O., June 25—The suggestion that a community tennis ground should be created at the Sinton playground, Mount and Carr streets, was taken under advisement by the Park Board Thursday. It was made by Will A. Reeves of the Community Service who stated that this location would centralize tennis activities for Negroes. Members of the Board will inspect the ground before making final decisions in the matter. (Copyright.) LARDNER came home to his boarding house that night with weary steps. He was wishing with all his soul that he were approaching his own little house, with its dainty mistress, who would, of course, be also the mistress of his heart. It was a cold, bleak night and a warm fireside, rosy lamps and the sunny-haired girl there, would have made even that weary trip from the office seem like heaven. Lardner sighed as he went up to the unhomelike boarding-house room. The shadeless gas flickered in pale greeting and cast its not too flattering brilliance on the barren surroundings. However, Lardner went down to dinner to sit as he had been sitting for two full years, at the long boarding-house table with its odd assortment of humanity. They were a more or less congenial crowd who chatted impersonally about things in general, but Lardner had never reached a more intimate acquaintance with any of them. There was a Miss Drake, who was employed by the government as an analytical chemist, a Miss Roydon, clerk in a big dairy office, one or two clerks, both male and female, and then there was Miss Bennet. She had attracted him by her quiet, gentle manner, but he always wished she might show some spark of human warmth. So he entered the dining room and stood among the guests. They were all fluttering about and laughing good humoredly with candles in their hands. The gas, for the first time in two years, had gone on strike and simply wouldn't light up. "Something's happened to the main," apologized the worried landlady, Mrs. Warren. "Can you manage with candle-light?" "Of course we can," they shouted in chorus and went about lighting and placing candles. They were chatting and breathless and highly enjoying a simple chance to dine by candle-light rather than under the blatant glare of gas. His thoughts were interrupted by Miss Bennet who stood close beside him holding forward an unlit candle. "I wonder if you would give me a light?" she asked softly. Lardner pulled out his matches swiftly. He also caught a quick breath. Had Miss Bennet's eyelashes always curled upward in that shadow way and had the eyes beneath them always held that mischievous spark in their quiet depths? He managed to light her candle, but not without another satisfying look into her eyes. Yes, the lure was there, plenty of it. She turned from him then, but not without a lovely thanks from lips that—well, Lardner didn't dare think just at the moment anything further about those lips. They were all sitting down at the big dining table which was suddenly transformed, from an ordinary second-class boarding-house table to one flickering with the fairy-like laughter and romance of bygone ages. More than one couple at the table were casting shy glances. Lardner found himself hating the young clerk sitting beside Miss Bennet and leaning much nearer to her shoulder than there was the slightest necessity for. "I propose," said Miss Bennet, "that we all go up to my room after dinner and have coffee and music. You can sit on the floor or any place you find room. Everyone who plays anything must contribute. I have a guitar and Mr. Johnstone has a mouth organ. We shall have quite a time by candle-light. Those who can't sing or play must tell a story." They must have all gone mad in that boarding house, Lardner included, for they all dashed upstairs, each clutching a flickering candle to attend the first party they, as a unit, had indulged in. Miss Bennet's room occupied the same position in the house as Lardner's, save that it was up one more flight of stairs. As he stood on the threshold he drew a sharp breath. Surely this was not a room in the boarding house. The bed had been turned into a sofa divan, draped with blue velvet and holding an armful of blue and gold and petunia cushions. There were yellow shades on the candles and a white fur rug in front of the gas fire. A bit of statuary adorned the chest of drawers, instead of an untidy tray of toilet articles. It was a home. There was nothing expensive, but everything was artistic. The cool brown of Miss Bennet's business frock had taken on a copper warmth and in her golden hair a hint of red glistened. Lardner wanted again to kick himself—this time more soundly. "Two whole years wasted," he told himself. "I might have known she was THE GIRL." The party was tremendously successful and the candles were flickering low in their sockets before there was a move to disband. Lardner contrived to be the last to leave. He held Miss Bennet's hand warmly in one hand and his candle in the other. The little flame leaped up between them and looking into it and into the eyes above. Lardner said softly, "That little light has been more illuminating than all the gas of two whole years." He lifted her hand gently to his lips and the candle sputtered joyfully—even triumphantly. Only One Scottish Lake Scotland has but one lake—Lake Mentalh. All other inland stretches of water are lochs. a= = nEpTAICED: @- 45 SSeS fal OY Cs > Sc es Creat Ne ij i Hi Samm NN" (UL) Peer eg iam EAVES A | 2 \\\"\1\\") | ed | wae ae fis I ae tS 'g TT ia ao dh poate L e..\ TheWilliamsonFuneral i = )\ @ distinguished by yy the up-to-date designs. Lp ° ‘a e Mi) of its Cunningham suas Limousine Hearse 3. MARY E. 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The occasional lava flows and explosions which Professor Jagger is watching so carefully in ‘Hawai! are insignificant in compari- son with the vast activity which went on not very many centuries ago. Cansediian Shades ‘When desiring to conceal the shade of a window set back from the wall, ‘the glass curtain should be hung in- side the window frame close to the shade. There should be allowed a heading of about three inches above where the rod runs through and this ‘will hide the shade. Ants That Bake Bread Ants have been found in Dalmatia which actually make bread by chew- ing seeds into pulp, forming It in loaves, baking them in the sun and then storing them away for future use. Not Traditional Belief ‘Traditional superstitions have some excuse, but to attribute bad luck to opening an umbrella in the house is going out of one’s way looking for trouble. Umbrellas are not over a century old. Small Dividend Coming If time is money, we all came in for a dividend figured within a small space on the dial. Would Be Money in It It one-half of the world knew how the other half lived, it could pick up a iittle change by reporting the facts. fe 3 Gas Beyond Reach A volcano Is not only a vast steam boller, likely at any moment to blow itself up; it is also a vast gas pro- ducer, no doubt. capable of supplying gas enough for many cities if we could collect and purify the intiam- mable gases which are given off. Powerful Flame ‘The oxy-acetylene flame is capable of producing @ temperature in the neighborhood of 6,000 degrees Fahren- helt, the highest temperature that is Produced outside of the electric arc. ‘The fguré has not been definitely es- tablished. gdeti lations Formed Sea Phe Bollart, an arm of the North a 9f the Ems, was SES WET tant eb sequent dates. It Mes between the province of Hanover, Germany, and that of Groningen, Holland. Vanity and Pride Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs and chuck us over; but Pride is a fine horse that will carry us over the ground and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.—Marryat. Sho.t Summer in North In no part of the Canadian North- west territories is there a tropical cli- mate but explorers have stated that im some subarctic parts there is a short but warm summer during which certain flowers bloom in profusion. Johnny on the Job The old-fashioned girl who used to make mamma keep little brother out of the room while her beau was call- ing now has a daughter who svbdsi- izes Johnny to play substitute to her sweetie while she is dressing. Beginnings of Faith From the presumptions of immor- tality structural in men, reason moves to a higher plane of argument, and marks the actual beginnings of resur- rection in the individual.—Newell Dwight Hillis. » Work for Success ‘Today's negiect- means tomorrow's cegret. The man who feels certain of success and labors to that end is sel- dom mistaken. ‘Silent Mamas tae Lele German parents sometimes change the name of thelr baby if it is serious. ly aL a ae 1 x ] oe i 4 ICS! | Bn ¥4 EY {4 eS ‘THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 26, 1926 Women in Ser ‘tude ‘The position of women in Korea comes closer to servitude than in any ‘other oriental country. They are taught that the greatest feminine vir- tues are silence, humility and timidity. East-Mississippi States Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi, with an area of 59,265 square miles; Florida, second, with 58,066 square miles, and Michigan third, with 57,980, Thing That Hurts ‘Tt is bad enough to make a blun- der, but it really peeves one more to find out he is so unimportant that no- body has noticed his blunder—Salina (Kan.) Journal. Might Spill Some Jimmie (about ready to receive his medicine)—Here, mother! I want grandma to give me that medicine to- night. Her hands shake so—Edin- burgh Scotsman, Market in Churchyard Cabbages were sold in St. Paul's churchyard, London, three bundred years ago, when the cathedral clergy had the hawkers banished on account of the noise they made. England’s Oldest Crosses ‘The ancient crosses at Sandbach, Cheshire, the oldest of the kind in England, have stood in the market place for over a thousand years and have puzzled many antiquarians. Land of Cinncmen ‘The land of cinnamon ./as the name fiven by the Spanish conquerors of Peru to a region east of the Andes in the forests of the plains of the Napo, where they found the aromatic bark. Composer’s Hard Fate ‘The composer Bach was in very straitened circumstances at the time of his death, and was buried in a pauper's grave in Lelpzig. 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