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SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Vol. XXXI. 5 C [Name] [Name] The people's candidate for United States Sen who is in favor of light wines and beer. The of thousands of voters scattered through believe in personal liberty and who will in the United States Senate Tuesday, Nov Candidate for United States Senate for of light wines and beer. The of voters scattered throughout personal liberty and who will act States Senate Tuesday, November The people's candidate for United States Senator from Illinois, who is in favor of light wines and beer. There are hundreds of thousands of voters scattered throughout this State who believe in personal liberty and who will assist him to land in the United States Senate Tuesday, November 2. DR. GREENWAY DECLINES PRESIDENCY OF LINCOLN UNIVERSITY New York City, July 23. — Correspondence made public Friday by New York members of the Alumni Association disclosed that Dr. Walber B. Greenway, Pastor of Bethany Temple Congregational Church, Philadelphia, had declined the presidency of Lincoln University. Friends of Dr. Greenway state that he had made known his intention of refusing the presidency before students and alumni protested against his selection, declaring him to be a Klan sympathizer. In his letter of declination to the Rev. John B. Laird of Philadelphia, chairman of the board of trustees of the institution, Dr. Greenway said in part: "After taking into consideration my present work and especially conditions 3014 BED M. B. FEU HON. DENNIS J. EGAN Former Bailiff of the Municipal Court of Chi completely regained his health after a long position, to the great delight of his many all signs do not fail he will be able to re-e game this coming fall. of the Municipal Court of Chicag regained his health after a lo the great delight of his man not fail he will be able to re-e- coming fall. Former Bailiff of the Municipal Court of Chicago; has almost completely regained his health after a long spell of indisposition, to the great delight of his many friends, and if all signs do not fail he will be able to re-enter the political game this coming fall. Former Bailiff of the Municipal Court of Chicago; has almost completely regained his health after a long spell of indisposition, to the great delight of his many friends, and if all signs do not fail he will be able to re-enter the political game this coming fall. Vol. XXXI. 5 CENTS PER COPY M. B. ed States Senator from Illinois, and beer. There are hundreds ered throughout this State who and who will assist him to land Tuesday, November 2. in my family I cannot bring myself to the place where I can accept the offer tendered me. It would mean in a way breaking up my home. My two sons, nineteen and twenty, are just entering the business world and I feel it would not be fair to leave them in Philadelphia at this time in their life. Mrs. Greenway and I both feel our first duty is to them until they become definitely anchored and somewhat older. This is, perhaps, the strongest reason why we feel we ought not to accept the work at Lincoln University. RETURNS TO COLP Mrs. Vita Copeling has returned to her home in Colp, Ill., after spending several weeks in the city with relatives at 4114 Calumet avenue. Benjamin Mitchem. 3629 Prairie avenue, is improving at Provident hospital where he has been for two weeks on account of illness. H. Al Court of Chicago; has almost health after a long spell of indis- hat of his many friends, and if be able to re-enter the political THE BROAD AX IMPROVING THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 24, 1926 The Staff Doctors of the Eye Ward, of the Cook County Hospital, Contend that Julius F. Taylor Was One of the Best and Politest Patients that Had Been in that Ward for Some Time. Not long after the departure of Warden Zimmer from our bedside on that same Tuesday evening, June 8, one of the staff doctors drew a chair along by the side of our bed and he asked this question: "Is this Julius Taylor?" and we responded yes, sir, and the doctor strongly intimated "that he wished to ask us a few important questions pertaining to our past and present career and habits; first he wanted to know about how old we were and when we informed him as to that fact he declared "that we were exceedingly well preserved for a person of our age," the next questions propounded to us by him was "are you ever attacked by long spells of coughing, sneezing, etc., etc," and we replied no to those questions, then he asked are you addicted to drinking whisky, commonly known as moonshine. Do you dissipate to excess in other directions and so on to all of those and many more we said no indeed, "that we believed in the plain and simple life" and he thought that was fine, then the doctor paused for a few moments as though he were engaged in recording something in a book. Up to that time we labored under the impression that there were no more questions for the doctor to ask us and we could not see him. We felt sure that he had gone. Finally he said: "Mr. Taylor you have a pretty clean record to your credit and most any man could feel proud of it" and to tell the truth we felt quite proud of it yourself, but the next question flung BATES DRAWS $25,000 SALARY FROM ELKS FOR SUNDOWN SERVICE - PAYS WHITE PRINTER $3,900 IN ONE YEAR Deposits All Funds in White Banks (Preston News Service) Cleveland, O., July 22.—The forthcoming meeting of the Grand Lodge of Elks to be held here the fourth Tuesday in August promises to be one of the most interesting in the history of the organization. For the first time in 18 years the chief interest in the outcome of the election centers around the grand secretaryship. Whether Finley Wilson succeeds himself as grand exalted ruler has become a question secondary to the fight which has been so capably made by Harry H. Pace, president of Northeastern Life Insurance Company, to oust George E. Bates from the position of grand secretary which Bates has held for the past 15 years without opposition. It had been generally regarded that Bates would be a hard man to defeat and many prospective candidates who wanted to enter the lists with him were persuaded by their friends to withdraw from the race. Relying on this method of frightening every other candidate away Bates has built up a machine which has its clutches firmly upon the financial structure of the order. In Pace's campaign he has dug into the finances of the order and has brought to light many transactions by which the membership had been deceived by both the Grand Secretary Bates and the Grand Treasurer Carter, who it is alleged has been merely a sort of rubber stamp for Bates, whose personality has dominated Carter's every action. Dr. O. C. Clayborne, now of Gary, Indiana, but formerly of Huntsville, Ala., and who was a grand auditor for several years has also brought to light the fact that a shortage in the accounts of the grand secretary amounting to at us follows. "Mr. Taylor have you at any time in the past been innoculated by social or venereal diseases." Before he had fully uttered those words we shouted out "No, sir; never in this world." In an instant the doctor warmly pressed our hand and said: "Mr. Taylor I am glad that you have spoken the truth in that respect, the very fact that you have lived a sober and sane life will enable you to put up a strong and winning fight against the dangerous cataract, for the after effect is more severe and critical than the operation." Before the doctor silently disappeared for the evening he unbosomed himself thus: "Mr. Taylor you must lay straight out on your back until Saturday evening after you have traveled half of the distance or until Thursday evening you will be allowed one pillow and if you live to reach the end of the road Saturday evening you will be entitled to receive the second pillow for you will have justly and bravely earned it, in the meantime you must lay on your back all the time and not attempt to shift your body to either side of your bed and you must continue to look straight up to the starry heavens." On Saturday evening we received our second pillow after passing through red hot ice and brimstone and no person in the world ever waged a stronger or determined fight against the cataract than ourselves. Not long after those incidents and scenes had been enacted Dr. Ralph $400 was never satisfactorily explained nor made good by the Grand Secretary Bates. Bates Shrewd Politician One of the oldest political tricks which has been employed by Bates has been to draw attention away from himself and his long tenure of office by setting up a contest for the grand exalted ruler's position year after year. He has been continually at war with the present Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson throughout his several administrations, largely because Wilson insisted on exercising the authority of his own office, which Bates usurped from some of Wilson's less positive predecessors. Notwithstanding Bates' constant and repeated denunciation of Wilson he has sought to claim credit for the growth of the order to which growth he has made little or no contribution. Although the Grand Lodge pays him $3,000 a year salary, two clerks, office rent and expenses running into big figures, Bates gives the order only his time after his office hours at the Pennsylvania station. Some lay members who are good at figures are beginning to realize that the order has been run largely for the financial profit of Bates, who has drawn in salary over $25,000 from the treasury of the organization for work done after sundown. In addition to this he drew in one year $2,188 for "back expenses." The question is now being asked why "to what purpose is the payment of taxes?" It now becomes apparent that Bates is the chief beneficiary in the Elks order. The bulk of the order's money has been for many years in white banks at unfavorable interest rates in one Southern city, while colored banks are given the smaller accounts and required to give bonds to secure the deposits. The order's printing, issued out by Bates, was given entirely during the past year to a white printer, while colored printers, members of the order, were not given a chance to even figure jobs. One white firm received for printing in 1924-25 the sum of $3,912.08 which ought to have gone to help build up our own newspapers and job printing offices. In his appeal to the members of Davis, in speaking in behalf of himself and the four other staff doctors of Ward 20, the eye ward, had this to say: "Mr. Taylor the staff doctors are greatly pleased with your deportment since you have been in the Cook County Hospital, you have conducted yourself like a perfect gentleman. Miss Irish, the head nurse of Ward 20, and the other lady assistants, including Miss McCormick, who so faithfully looked after you for two weeks all join in saying that you were a nice patient and always showed the greatest consideration to all those with whom you came in contact." We heartily thanked Dr. Davis for the kind words which he uttered in our behalf. Miss Bennion, who is a lovely lady served as head nurse of that ward for seven or eight years, and on our second week at the hospital she resigned her position and departed for Spokane, Washington, where she will make her future home. Miss Bennion would pass our bedside at least once a day and she would always speak a few words of hope and encouragement and so on. Just before she left the hospital she bade us goodbye and we wished her the greatest success in her new field of labor. Miss Irish who succeeded Miss Bennion as head nurse of that ward has also been connected with the hospital for some years. She is full of business, she is tall, very graceful with charming manners and decidedly good looking and she is the right lady in the right place. the order, Pace pledges himself to correct these conditions, asserting that "Elk money ought to be spent with Elks." His platform is to give all the order's printing as well as its regalia work to colored business houses, to deposit the order's funds under proper safeguards in our strong and well-managed banking institutions, to urge the investment of the large amounts of unnecessary cash balances in first mortgages to help lodges buy their own homes, and to reduce the unnecessary high taxes and useless expenditures of the grand lodge. It will be remembered that Harry Pace was initiated into the order at Atlanta, Ga., having been born in Georgia and having lived many years in Atlanta. He was at one time a member of Jones Valley Lodge No. 14 of Birmingham and was the principal speaker before the lodge on several occasions. Bates has boasted that the only time he ever went South was to the grand lodges held in Virginia. There is scarcely any question as to which of the two men the southern delegates will support, and it is freely predicted that Pace will be overwhelmingly elected. ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN AND FRENCH COMMANDER PAY MARKED TRIBUTE TO NEGRO WORLD WAR VETERANS Washington.—No greater tributes to Negro soldiers in U. S. uniforms, have ever been made than those of Hon. Richard Yates, Republican Congressman at large, from Illinois, who also quoted General Vincendon, French Commander of the Fifty-ninth Division, in urging the erection of a monument in France to colored American Infantry regiments attached to the French army. In the course of his tribute, on July 2nd, in the U. S. House of Representatives, Congressman Yates said: "Mr. Speaker, from Bunker Hill to Malvern Hill, and from Malvern Hill to -San Juan Hill, and from San Juan Hill to Dead Man's Hill and Hill No. 204, and the heights of Grand Pres and Verdun and Belleau Wood, the valor of the Negro soldier of America has been conspicuous. * * * The colored soldier, K THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK Assistant United States District Attorney for the trict of Illinois, who has made a brilliant a record in the past few years. During the successfully tried and won many important the Government, involving several million d d States District Attorney for the hois, who has made a brilliant an the past few years. During tha tried and won many important ment, involving several million do Assistant United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, who has made a brilliant and untarnished record in the past few years. During that time he has successfully tried and won many important law suits for the Government, involving several million dollars. who has had even a short period of experience, has in a thousand incidents and in a hundred crises shown that he is animated by a devotion to his corps and to his colors—and to his commanders, regardless of their occasional disposition to act the martinet—which is worthy of note and commendation. stated: 'I cannot comment too highly the spirit shown among the colored combat troops, who exhibited fine capacity for quick training and eagerness for the most dangerous work.' Congressman Yates quoted from General Orders No. 4785 of General Vincendon, who said: "As Lieutenant "When I had the honor to be the chief executive of the great State of Illinois, our Illinois National Guard comprises 10 regiments, one of which was a colored regiment—the Eighth Illinois—which served with distinction in the Spanish War, which, in my opinion, would have equaled in valor the achievement of the historic black regiment, which saved the day at San Juan Hill, when the Rough Riders were in danger. This regiment became in the World War the Three Hundred and Seventieth Infantry Regiment. * * * Illinois is proud and always will be, of this phalanx. * * * No organization was claimed to have exceeded it, not only in administration and supply service, but in operations and in combat achievement. * * * Our great Republic should and, I believe, ever will recognize the claims of these men upon the gratitude of the Nation. No lesser authority than General Pershing has ```markdown ``` THE MEMORIAL OF JOHN H. HARRIS THE MASTER OF THE WORLD HON. THOMAS A. DOYLE Member of Congress from the of Illinois, who will succeed day, November 2, for he congress from the Fourth Congress who will succeed himself at the number 2, for he has made an idea Member of Congress from the Fourth Congressional District of Illinois, who will succeed himself at the election Tuesday, November 2, for he has made an ideal Congressman. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX No. 45 District Attorney for the Northern Dis- has made a brilliant and untarnished new years. During that time he has and won many important law suits for solving several million dollars. period of incidents that he is corps is commis- casional —which undation. be the State of Guard of which Eighth distinition any opi- olator theck regi- an Juan were in in the fire and * * * will be, of organization stated: 'I cannot commend too highly the spirit shown among the colored combat troops, who exhibited fine capacity for quick training and eagerness for the most dangerous work.' Congressman Yates quoted from General Orders No. 4785 of General Vincendon, who said: "As Lieutenant Colonel Duncan said November 28th, in offering to me your regimental colors, 'as a proof of your love for France, as an expression of your loyalty to the Fifty-ninth Division and our army, you have given us of your best and you have given it out of the fullness of your hearts.' The blood of your comrades who fell on the soil of France, mixed with the blood of our soldiers, renders indissoluble the bonds of affection that unite us. We have beside the pride of having worked together at a magnificent task and the pride of bearing on our foreheads the ray of common grandeur." NICELY FURNISHED ROOM TO RENT TO MARRIED COUPLE Rooms to rent, all conveniences; first class neighborhood; married couple preferred. Phone Kenwood 0906. THE NEW YORK TIMES from the Fourth Congressional District succeed himself at the election Tuesday or he has made an ideal Congressman. No. 45 THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, 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. Vol. XXXI No. 45 Chicago, July 24, 1926 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago, III. Under Act of March 8, 1879. THE ANNUAL COWBOY SHOW WILL BE HELD IN THIS CITY AUGUST 14 TO 22 The annual cowboy and cowgirl world's championships held in Chicago with the large amount of prize money offered to the contestants—$35,000 this year—has had a great effect all over the west in stimulating interest in these sports, according to Tex Austin of Las Vegas, N. M., who has just arrived here after a tour of the cattle country. Austin will again direct the Chicago Rodeo, August 14 to 22, for the Chicago Association of Commerce. "All of the 1925 world's champions will compete in the Chicago Rodeo," said Austin. "Against them will be the best cowgirls and cowboys from all over the West. The big prize money and the chance to win the world's titles, belts and trophies has stirred them up. "Big ranch owners are more interested than ever before. Elimination contests are being held and the winners will be sent to Chicago. The thirty hands in the Alcade Ranch outfit of Ray Piaffle on the Rio Grande near Santa Fe, are having a weekly rodeo to select the three best calf ropers to send to Chicago. The same thing is being done at other places. The Chicago Association of Commerce is spending $250,000 this year to make the second annual rodeo the greatest event of its kind ever held. This amount has been underwritten by the business men of Chicago to put the rodeb on a par with the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the Indianapolis auto race and the Montreal Ice Carnival as a great annual event which will attract thousands of visitors from all parts of the country. Many of the greatest writers on western themes will be present, as will officials and other representatives of many states. BODY TO BE CREMATED AFTER HALF CENTURY Pittsburgh, Pa., July 23.—The body of Willie Green, hanged 50 years ago, neared the end of its travels Thursday, after a half-century's fruitless search for a final resting place. Green was executed for the murder of his half brother. Relatives claimed the body, had it embalmed and prepared for burial, but for some reason it was forgotten. Years passed, with one undertaker passing the body on to another, until nearly a score have had possession of it. Thursday, Oscar Miller, its latest custodian, turned the body over to the city morgue for cremation. DEATH OF MRS. MARY WASH- INGTON Monday afternoon, Mrs. Mary Washington, who was well advanced in years, mother of Mrs. Charles Stewart, 4823 Calumet avenue, peacefully closed her eyes in death. A general breakdown and wearing out, were the direct cause of her passing. Funeral services were held Thursday morning at the undertaking parlors of Kersey, McGowan and Morsell, 3515 Indiana Avenue, Rev. J. H. Brannan assistant pastor of Olivet Baptist Church officiating. $1,000,000 SOUGHT TO AID NEGRO YOUTH (Preston News Service) New York City, July 23.—The National Association of Colored Boys and Girls, Inc., whose purpose is to "save the youth and life humanity," has announced the opening of a campaign for $1,000,000 to carry on its works. The drive will be nation-wide. The association has the indorsement of the State Board of Charities. It has headquarters at No. 2376 Seventh avenue, and its officers are: Isaac B. Allen, President; Irene M. Blackstone, vice president; R. S. King, Executive Secretary; George Michael, Treasurer, and E. Byrd Nixon, Recording Secretary. It is planned to establish a home at Lénox avenue and 123rd street, and to extend the work of the organization into every Negro community in the country. The association announces that it is its purpose to stimulate activity in the Negro youth especially, and encourage all boys and girls to make up and carry out a practical, progressive and useful program looking toward development in and getting the best results out of life. "To this end," the report of the association continues, "it is proposed to seize all opportunities possible to discover the mental and physical attributes and gifts, talents and inclinations; improve and develop the mind, the physical body, and preserve the health; and in the mean time, destroy wanton, guile and evil impulses, tendencies and inclinations as far as possible which might serve as a drawback to the advancement of boys and girls generally." Further, the association proposes to prepare children between eight and twenty-one years for the battle of life through vocational training; to have representatives visit prisons, to encourage patriotism; and to send representatives into homes with the end of improving home conditions. In addition to the home it hopes to acquire, the Association also plans to establish an athletic field and farm plot of more than 100 acres outside of New York. The home will include a swimming pool, a library equipped with Negro literature and songs, and an auditorium and other features. A regular course of study will be instituted. Cadet and scouting movements will be encouraged and a mixed band of twenty-five boys and twenty-five girls will be organized. A series of Sunday lectures are planned, to be given by prominent speakers and to be aimed particularly at Negro youth. SENATOR WILLIS MAKES STRONG PLEA FOR JUSTICE IN VIRGIN ISLANDS (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., July 23.—During the rush hours when the last Congress was about to close, allowing many bills to die, Senator Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, who has always proven himself a champion for the right, and a strong advocate for justice made a strong and successful plea in the Senate to have a commission investigate conditions in the Virgin Islands. Senator Willis said in part: "Mr. President, I beg an opportunity to make a brief statement to the Senate. I wish I might have the attention of every member of the Senate touching the concurrent resolution. Here is the situation: "The Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions has worked very hard upon the question as to what ought to be done with reference to the Virgin Islands. It is a shame that these islands have been practically forgotten and neglected by the government of the United States. There are 24,000 people who are living under what is tantamount to an autocratic government. These people came under the American flag with high hopes. They have been neglected. Our committee has done the very best it could to reach a solution of the matter without such an investigation as is here proposed. We have taken testimony and investigated conditions as thoroughly as we could at long range and without personal touch with the situation. My own opinion as a member of the committee was that we had sufficient information to warrant immediate legislation for the establishment of a civil government, but the majority of the committee were of opinion that careful personal investigation on the ground was desirable." Mrs. Irene McCoy Gaines, treasurer, motored with her family to Idle Wild, Michigan, July 15th. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 24, 1926 COMING TO CHICAGO ANNUAL SESSION The 19th annual session of the National Grand Council of Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa will convene in this city August 2nd to 7th, both dates inclusive, and the session will be held at the Wendell Phillips High school, 39th street and Prairie avenue. Camp McCall is located at 44th and Langley avenue, and the military department will go in camp under the command of Major General J. A. Shackleford. Monday morning, August 2nd, the session will be officially opened at 11 a. m. by the national grand master. A public program will be rendered and among the speakers will be Hons. Edward H. Wright, George T. Kersey, Robt. R. Jackson and others, many will be out of town men of prominence. Tuesday evening will be a Mardi-Gras parade followed by a ball at the Unity club, 3140 Indiana avenue. Friday, the 6th, will be a big street parade over the principle streets of the city. At night, the great competitive drill and band contest will be held at the First Regiment armory, 16th and Michigan avenue. At this time, $1,000 in cash prizes will be awarded the winners. This contest is always waxed with much enthusiasm and almost every state is represented in drill or band contest. Never before in the history of the organization has such elaborate preparation been made to entertain the National Grand Council, under the direction of Mrs. Eliza Jackson, state grand queen of Illinois and jurisdiction, assisted by M. T. Bailey, chairman of the publicity department of the National Grand Council; Col. Wm. Williams, colonel of the military department of Illinois, and scores of others who are working like Trojans on the various committees. Hon. Wm. H. Fields, Major General Shackleford, in company with Mrs. Jackson and M. T. Bailey, spent two days during the past week in the city making inspection of everything prior to the coming of the delegation and have nothing but words of praise for the manner in which preparations have been completed. OFF FOR OAKLAND, CAL Mrs. Fannie C. Morgan Perkins, Mrs. Minnie A. Collons, Mrs. Irene B. Moore, Miss Lena LeGrand Perry, Miss Adele Collins, Miss Mildred Ware, delegates from the Phyllis Wheatley Woman's club; Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, national historian; Mrs. Eva Carroll Monroe, founder of the Lincoln Home, Springfield; Mrs. Malvina Cotton, and Mrs. Julia Lindsay Gibson, Peoria, will leave with many other delegates and visitors on the special train, Rock Island R. R., Sunday, July 25, at 11 p. m., to attend the fifteenth biennial of the National Association of Colored Women at Oakland, California. Mrs. Gertrude Moore, 51 West 34th street, left for the West last week to visit friends, and to attend the N. A. C. W. convention at Oakland. THE PHYLLIS WHEATLEY HOME Phyllis Wheatley Home, 5128 So. Michigan boulevard, is filled to capacity with regular residents and summer students. Mrs. Mamie E. Clark, the new superintendent, and her charming bunch of girls are keeping things stirring at a lively rate these days. New and interesting activities are being planned to stimulate added interest in this worth while work, several attractive entertainments are scheduled for the near future. A large group of joyous young people thoroughly enjoyed the delightful garden party in the brilliantly illuminated back yard, given by the house committee, July 15th; Mrs. Bessie Lewis, chairman. The regular monthly party will be given Saturday night. Summer visitors are cordially invited to visit the home, appetizing dinners are served to outside guests at reasonable rates. WILLIAM. E. HODGE LEFT AN ESTATE VALUED AT $4,600. (Preston News Service) Zebulon, N. C., July 22. — William E. Hodge left an estate valued at $46,000, it was learned Tuesday when his will was filed for probate in Wake superior court. He made his wife executor and left the estate to her, his twelve children and three grand-children of a deceased daughter. Hodge is said to be the third Race man of substantial means to die in that section of Wake county recently. HUNDREDS STUDY RACE RE LATIONS AT BLUE RIDGE Blue Ridge, N. C.—This summer, as for several years past, the study of race relations has been a major feature at the many important gatherings held at this popular conference point, and the interracial message has reached thousands of people in positions of influence and leadership. Among the meetings so far held in which the subject has had a prominent place have been the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. Student Conferences, the Missionary Education Conference, and the Y.W.C.A. Community Conference. In all these there have been group discussions or platform addresses featuring race relations, and great interest has been manifested. Dr. Mordecai Johnson, recently elected president of Howard University, presented the subject before the men students in a powerful address that made a profound impression. Two colored students, Wesley Elam of Hampton Institute and R. I. Boone of Shaw University, were present by invitation as fraternal delegates and were entertained by the conference for several days, making a very favorable impression upon the hundreds of white students in attendance from all over the southeast. At the Missionary Education and Y.W.C.A. Conferences R.B. Eleazer, educational director of the Commission on Interracial Co-operation, presented the cause on the platform and before a number of discussion groups, as he did also at the Y. W. C. A. Industrial Conference at Lake Junaluska. It is generally admitted that one of the most hopeful recent trends in the south is the great interest which student groups are manifesting in this subject, as indicated by the fact that sixty curriculum courses in race relations are conducted in principal southern colleges, in addition to a great many volunteer study and discussion groups. Interracial speakers, white and colored, are also being given frequent opportunity to speak on college platforms. The significance of this development is in the fact that the thoughtful, intelligent students of today who are interesting themselves in this question will be the leaders of tomorrow. HALDEMAN-JULIUS MONTHLY COMPLETES STORY OF SWEET TRIAL The July issue of the Haldeman-Julius Monthly contains the second and last installment of the account of the second Sweet trial written by Marcef Haldeman-Julius. It will be remembered that the first installment appeared in the June issue of that magazine. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in making this announcement public, commended the detailed and accurate report of the trial given by Mrs. Julius. The story tells in detail of the cost of the trial, with the events leading up to it and gives graphic pen pictures of Clarence Darrow, Judge Frank J. Murphy, Henry Sweet and others prominently connected with the trial. The Haldeman-Julius Monthly is published at Girard, Kansas. The price per copy of the June and July issues is 15 cents each. WHO'S WHO IN N.A.A.C.P. XXVI MRS. MAGGIE L. WALKER Born in Richmond, Virginia, Maggie Lena Mitchell was graduated from the high schools of Richmond, teaching until her marriage to Armstead Walker, Jr. After taking a business course, Mrs. Walker was made Executive Secretary of The Independent Order of St. Luke, being elected ten years later to the office of Grand Secretary-Treasurer of the organization. Mrs. Walker is a trustee of the Frederick Douglass Home has been Vice-President of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, founder and president of the Council of Colored Women, founder and editor of the St. Luke Herald and founder and president of the St. Luke Bank and Trust Co. Mrs. Walker is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Mrs. Birtie Smith, of New York City, who has been spending several weeks in St. Louis, Mo., with friends, was the guest last week of her old friend, Mrs. H. L. Patterson, 5161 S. Michigan Avenue. Mrs. Smith has arrived home safe and sound. ECHOES FROM THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONFERENCE ON TUBERCULOSIS RECENTLY HELD AT THE EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL Dr. J. J. Mendelsohn, Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Chicago, in his talk on "Tuberculosis Surveys and Community Health," advocated the extension of surveys by tuberculosis agencies. He declared that the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium and its dispensary system is the most effective tuberculosis machine to be found in any large city in the United States. "Its efficiency," he said, is now being further augmented by the development of surveys to discover in homes and working places new and early cases of tuberculosis. Its educational surveys in acquaint ing all citizens with the available facilities for prevention and cure are most important. Miss Marie Lurie, Director of Jewish Tuberculosis Service, Chicago, in her talk on "The Social Aspects of Sanitarium After Care," said that it is important for the public health nurse to know the home conditions of the patient before he leaves the sanitarium. Failure to provide proper after-care is one of the most expensive things in the entire tuberculosis program; waste of money and energy, and also much hardship, are caused by present ineffective methods. Miss Mary Meyers, Executive Secretary, Marion County Tuberculosis Association, Indiana, brought out the point that two of the most important qualifications in the nurse as executive secretary of a tuberculosis association are her initiative and her ability as a salesman; she must promote important new activities and that she must remember she is selling a most difficult product. Mrs. Barbara H. Bartlett, Professor of Public Health Nursing, University of Michigan, in her talk on "Teaching Tuberculosis to Nurses in a Public Health Course," said that the training of both student nurses in the institution and graduate nurses in post-graduate courses should include the teaching of the history of tuberculosis; also that at Ann Arbor great attention is given to the round-table method of teaching the field service in dispensaries and homes that need the post-graduate. Mr. Frank Reich, Superintendent, Tomahawk Lake Camp for Tuberculosis Convalescents, in his talk on "Preparing the Sanitarium Patient for Life's Work," emphasized the fact that the gradual rehabilitation of the patient was important in bringing him back to normal health after caring for him as a tuberculous patient. He said that by following this principle, his sanatorium has counted very few relapsed cases among its members. THE MOSELEY SCHOOL REC REATIONAL CENTER The Moseley School Recreational Center, 24th St. and Michigan Ave., is presenting an attractive and helpful program to a large group of children through the following activities: Athletics, Folk-Dancing, Dramatics, Music, also Manual Training, Handcraft, and Kindergarten departments. Under the careful guidance of Miss Gertrude Shea, and her efficient staff of workers, the Center is preparing for an Indoor Circus to be given at the school, Wednesday, July 28, 1926 at 2:30 P. M., also for the Safety Pageant, to be held at Washington Park, located near South Park Commissioners' Building, Aug. 11, 1926, at 2:30 P. M. (Wednesday) at which time eight hundred children children, representing eight Centers, will participate. The public is cordially invited to be present on both occasions. COL. MARSHALL BACK Col. John R. Marshall, vice-president of the Binga State bank, and a prominent member of Ft. Dearborn Lodge No. 44, Elks, has returned to the city after a few days spent in southern Illinois. IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN Mrs. Alice Baxter-Quinn, teacher in southern Illinois, is spending her vacation in company with her husband, Prof. Quinn, in northern Michigan. Mrs. Quinn spent a few days in the city with her parents at 420 East 48th place. Truly Surprising Elderly Hostess—So you are the daughter of my old friend, Margaret Blank. I was at your christening eighteen years ago—but how you have changed!—Boston Transcript. M. 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 Rubber Important in The well known and up-to-date Treasurer of Cook County whose thousands of tried and true friends in all parts of the city and county, who are willing to work day and night in order to assist to elect him Sheriff of Cook County. Destines of Nations Almost from the hour when Columbus, the first European to see rubber, observed it used as a plaything by the Indians, who bounced it back and forth—hence the original name of India rubber—the substance has been bound up in romance and fiscal adventure, writes Isaac F. Marcosson in the Saturday Evening Post. In every sense it is another black Golconda, because it has affected the economic destiny of nations and individuals. It was not until the discovery of vulcanization in 1830 by Charles Goodyear, a Connecticut hardware merchant, that the commercial era of rubber began. It is worth noting that Goodyear's only reference to tires was a suggestion that they might be used to lessen the noise of barrows used for wheeling luggage at railway stations. Rubber got its name in business because it was originally used to rub out pencil marks. In London half a cubic inch of it once cost the equivalent of 75 cents. This is said to be the highest known price recorded for raw rubber. Motorists who use the ingenious strip maps of today, which are a cross between a map and a picture, probably imagine that the idea is an extremely modern thing, invented in response to an equally modern demand, says the Wall Street Journal. But one user thereof was startled the other day on coming across an exactly identical treatment of important highways in Great Britain, dating back some two or three hundred years. Instead of being in any wise crude or incomplete, the older strip maps were more detailed and explicit than the modern Each milepost was indicated by figures and landmarks along the route were noted in such useful phrases as: "A large stone," "An oak tree," "Narrow gate into a meadow," etc. Nor were any of the inns or branch roads omitted. Yes. It's a Puny One "There are hundreds of practical jokers in this world," declared the Leslie essay bachelor, "and each one has a bagful of tricks to play on his friends. But there is one they all use that apparently gives them the utmost in pleasure. They play it on the bald-headed guest whom they invite out to dinner, by offering him the use of a comb. Being bald myself, I have been forcec to chuckle my way through this joke on countless occasions. But secretly, I think 'it's the zero of them all. And while I don't think there is a chance to eliminate it, I wish it could be done if only to add what little respect might be added to a practical joker's effectiveness."—Detroit News. Just a short time ago they put a new warden into San Quentin and on almost his first day on the job one of the prisoners extended him a slight courtesy which quite delighted the newcomer. The prisoner happened to be 1890, but when the warden said, "What's your number, my man?" the answer was: "I never can get it right. It's either 1890, 1898 or 1890." "My goodness!" exclaimed the warden, "you must have been a telephone operator."—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph A phonograph concern advertises: "Germs from the Grand Operas."—Boston Transcript. Old Travel Maps Familiar Line Musical Microbes Odd Buildings Traced to Roman Occupation Efforts have been made for centuries to bare the mystery that hangs over the unique "Rows" at Chester, England, but their efforts have been in vain. These rows consist of street lengths of covered arcade, not on the street level but several feet above it. One walks in front of shops and on the roofs of shops at once, looking down upon the traffic in the street and upon pedestrians. Visitors say that the mystery of the origin of these structures causes them to give a pleasant, creepy feeling to those who walk through them and that buying a collar stud in the rows is almost like buying a bronze or picture on pavement level. Chester is the great Roman military station of Deva. The central point of the Roman station was exactly where the rows now converge. The principal streets of the modern city were the principal streets of Deva and the principal streets of all subsequent towns on that site. The Romans left Deva about 400 A. D. and for two centuries afterward burning Chester was a favorite game with the powers of the time.—London Times. Had Cure for Everything Medicine for almost whatever alls you could be obtained from a voodoo doctor in Atlantic City until recently, when the police interfered. Here are the medicines, set forth in the doctor's pamphlet: Black Cat's Ankle Dust.....$500 Black Cat's Wishbone.....$1,000 King Solomon's Marrow.....$1,000 Easy Life Powder.....$100 Tying Down Goods.....$50 Chasing Away Goods.....$50 Boss Flx Powders.....$15 The tying down goods were guaranteed to hold the affections of a husband or a wife, and the chasing away goods were said to be efficacious in shying off undesirable suitors. The boss fix powders were recommended for employers hard to please. They were designed to make the employer happy and content with the work of an employee. Monarch as YachtSmart The work of Charles II on behalf of the navy has been undervalued, it is claimed; let us then give him full credit for his services to yachting. The Merry Monarch acquired a knowledge of the sport during his exile in Holland, and soon after the Restoration acquired a couple of small yachts, in which he and his brother, the duke of York, competed in the first yacht race on record in British waters between Greenwich and Gravesend in the autumn of 1631. So keen was Charles that he had no fewer than fourteen yachts built for his use, ranging from 25 to 166 tons, and one of them, the Jamles, was constructed at Lambeth from his own designs.—Montreal Family Herald. "Ah, doctor!" greeted Mrs. Pifflegider. "I should like to ask you a question." "As many as you like, my dear madame!" gallantly replied old Doctor Pillsbury. "Well, then, doctor, is profanity equal to medicine for the treatment of rheumatism? My husband seems to think it is"—Kansas City Star. Delicate Instrument The bureau of standards says the statement concerning the thermometer that measures the heat of a candle five miles away is correct. There is in the bureau an instrument to measure the heat of a single star, which is made so delicate that it is responsive to the heat of a candle several hundred miles away. His Relief COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES By THE CAMERAMAN (Preston News Service) 1. General Vincendon's Admonition 2. The Toll of Fireworks 3. National Bar Association. 4. Exit: "The Slave Cause" 5. Negro High Schools General Vincendon's Admonition General Vincendon, Commander of the Fifty-ninth Division of the French Army, which, at the time his General Orders No. 4785 were issued, included the Three Hundred and Seventieth United States Reserve Infantry, a solid Negro battle unit, has given America something to think about, if it will but pause and engage in introspection. Says General Vincedon, in his opinion of the Negro troops who "formed a part of our beautiful division" and gave France of their best out of the fullness of their hearts: "The blood of our comrades who fell on the soil of France, mixed with the blood of our soldiers, renders indissoluble the bonds of affection that unite us. We have beside the pride of having worked together at a magnificent task the pride of bearing on our foreheads the ray of a common grandeur." Someone has said that "Misery loves company," and 'tis a fact that when men look towards the beckoning arms of Death, the misery of war, they become as one. Yet, gentle France has carried on, both before and after the miseries of war, the oneness of men before God, their Creator. France has seen the Godliness and beauty of men, as General Vincendon says, further, of the Negro troops: "We at first admired your fine appearance under arms, the precision of your review, the suppleness of your evolutions that presented to the eye the appearance of silk unrolling its wavy folds." To which we would say, that America would do well, in the precision of its onward progress, both Christian and military, to give a fuller interpretation to Liberty and Union, which are so dear to the hearts of all Americans. The Toll of Fireworks Those of our group who may have thought that the Race has no representation in the consuming fires of Fourth of July festivities, will be surprised to know that not a few Negro fireworks experts are engaged in the manufacture of "shots" and "shells" with which the American people celebrate the Declaration of Independence. Sad is the reflection, however, when it is revealed that Negro fireworks employees are the frequent victims of phosphorus necrosis, a ravaging disease which exacts the health and oftimes the lives of those who manufacture firecrackers, pinwheels, skyrockets and other articles of Fourth of July combustion. In fourteen cases recently studied by United States Government experts the colored workers contributed a fifty per cent proportion of the victims of necrosis, which usually attacks the molar sockets of the teeth. The Negro cases are of great significance when it is reflected that at first, as the reports of a physician shows, one case was presumed to be of syphilitic origin (a diagnosis persecutingly applied to colored people, upon the slightest pathological provocation), and was given syphilitic treatment, but without favorable results. In this case, the infection continued to spread and the patient was ordered to the hospital, but died before admission. The death record gave septicemia (duration seven days) and the occupation of deceased was given as "laboress—made fireworks." The other six Negro cases, females all, give varying diagnosis and symptoms, with developing necrosis from the phosphorus poison which exacted its toll without discrimination. Despite Wasserman tests and the like, neither germs, disease, nor death make any discrimination as to color. It is for human beings to do that. The struggling creators of torpedoes and roman candles were working for bread and butter and rent. They like their intra-racial contemporaries are willing to suffer all the hazards of employment that any other people are willing to risk; and they ought to have all the advantages along with all the disadvantages, which are infrequently thrust upon them. National Bar Association The veteran counselor and advocate, George H. Woodson of Des Moines, after receiving a number of invitations to join the American Bar Association, visualized, last year, a national bar association of professionals of his own group, dedicated to the uplift and standardization of the ethics and practice of Negro attorneys at law. Thus was the National Bar Association formed in 1925; and this year, from his room in Mercy hospital in Des Moines, President Woodson has sounded the call of the 1926 annual meeting of those lawyers who joined hands with him to form a countrywide coalition of the Negro followers of Blackstone and Kent. The National Bar Association sounds an open call to lawyers to become members and thus cooperate in building a national legal fortitude of high demeanor. Although it is an ethical blemish upon the brow of civilization and Christianity that a separate Negro bar association is necessary, yet facts are facts, and Woodson and his associates are to be commended in seeking quasilegal means to advance the national ethics of the law, among both black and white, the latter being at least partially subject to the influence of the Woodson organization. God knows the Negro needs the law. Were American jurisprudence to do all it purports to do, there would be no need of a division among the ranks of its alleged advocates. The Negro legal profession is still an infant. Shunned frequently by its own race litigants, who still worship at the shrine of the contra-race barristers, the Negro legal group is nevertheless gaining in prestige and favor. The National Bar Association will stimulate this growth. The National Bar Association can teach both race and foe that the law should know no color; that the time is overdue when the law and not the instincts of the man should take precedence in American courts, without exception; and that the unity for which America seeks should include all—not some—Americans. Exit: "The Slave Clause" Those who a few weeks ago commemorated the Declaration of Independence might do well to reflect over the deletion of the so-called "Slave Clause," which was stricken out of the Declaration of Independence by Congress when it considered the document penned by the drafting committee, composed by Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Livingston and Sherman, just prior to July 4th, 1776. The committee had written a paragraph of protestation against the King of England, in which it said: "He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce, and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he deprived them." Some significance attaches itself to the veritable "last straw" of which the declarants complained bitterly, and that is the fact that some of the slave people had been "excited to rise in arms," and "attempt to purchase liberty." Withal, the lamented Thomas Jefferson, father of the democratic party, whom southern democrats lovingly revere in this day and time, was insistent that the "slave clause" should be included in the Declaration of Independence; and when it was stricken out by congress, Mr. Jefferson evinced bitter disappointment. Negro High Schools The June, 1926, issue of "The Bulletin," the official organ of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, is devoted to a study of Negro high schools in seventeen southern and border states. This study was made by Prof. N. A. Robinson, Supervisor of High Schools, Raleigh, N. C. Prof. Robinson's study lists 166 Negro high schools, public and private, accredited by the various state departments of education as follows: North Carolina, 43; Virginia, 18; Mississippi, 16; West Virginia, 13; Georgia and Kentucky, 11 each; Oklahoma and Tennessee, 9 each; Missouri, 8; Arkansas and Texas, 7 each; Kansas, 3; Maryland, 7; Louisiana, 3; Florida, 1; and Alabama and South Carolina, none. Nearly 50 per cent of the schools are departments of colleges and normal schools. Lack of funds, discrimination in distribution of school taxes; THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 24, 1926 lack of interest of parents and teachers are given as the chief reasons for such a small number of standard four-year high schools. A promising sign in the report is the awakening of white authorities in southern states to the necessity of providing more and better high schools; higher teaching standards, better salaries for Negro teachers, and more liberal support of the Jeanes, Slater, and Rosenwald funds. Above Nations Goethe, without being a Shakespeare, was cast in that mighty mold which we must call Shakespearean. He fell short of Shakespeare and he was different from Shakespeare, who was, so to speak, a "ninth wave" breaking on our Elizabethan shores with the momentum of great seas behind him, whereas Goethe was virtually a first wave unsupported and unimpelled by tradition and racial inspiration. Shakespeare crowned English literature. Goethe founded German literature. No Chaucer, no Spenser behind him; no long speech of his race; no great companions such as Shakespeare had; no air of poetry and national expression such as Shakespeare breathed—H. G. Wells. Birds Follow Icebergs Each season when the icebergs break away from Greenland and start to the south in the Atlantic they are followed by ever-increasing flocks of sea birds. Officers of the coast guard cutters, on duty near the icebergs to warn shipping, report the bird life with the bergs is much greater this year than in the past. Fulmars, shearwaters, murre, kittiwakes and dovekies are there in large numbers, apparently to get the food supply that is provided when the waves dash against the bergs and disable the little people of the water or the melting of the ice releases food imprisoned in the far north ares ago. Ohio State Journal. Inherited Mentality According to a new theory on the mode of inheritance of mental traits there are at least five pairs of hereditary characters that have to do with the passing on of intelligence. If both parents are persons of high intelligence and possessed of all five pairs of these characters, their children will also average very high. If they are idiots, having none of the pairs of characters, their children also will be idiots. Intermediate conditions representing people of good average Intelligence, but not geniuses, will produce a mixture of offspring types, with occasional exceptional children, and once in a while also offspring of low mentality. Cave Men's Arsenal In the neighborhood of the great naval port of Chatham, England, cavemen, millions of years ago, had an arsenal on the Medway, when that river's course ran close to where Frindsbury is now. Two local men made the discovery about 16 months ago, and since then about 4,000 hammer stones, flint axes and scrapers, and other worked flints, have been taken out of the dump. The tools and weapons, although they belong to the earliest period of the Stone age, are wonderfully efficient. Some of the edges are still almost as keen as razors. Well's Threat Verified In San Jacopo, Italy, is a courtyard belonging to an old and now ruined mansion, and in this yard is a deep and very ancient well, of which it is said that strange noises resembling groans come from it whenever death threatens one of the great family who once owned the property. In 1904 such strange sounds came from the well that the neighbors were frightened. Yet nothing happened. The sounds ceased and were beginning to be forgotten when news came from America that the last survivor of the old house had died in San Francisco. One of Nature's Wonders The elephant breathes and smells by means of his trunk; with it he puts food and drink into his mouth, throws dirt or hay on his back to protect it from flies, pulls down trees, lifts heavy burdens or safely picks up the most delicate, fragile things. It serves the purpose of a hand, having a sensitive touch which enables it to unite knots, open doors, or give himself a shower bath. Dutch Improved Cabbage The cabbage was taken to England from Holland about the year 1510, although it is said that this vegetable was grown in England before that time, but that in that year improved varieties were taken from Holland to England by Sir Arthur Ashley of Dorset. Cabbage was introduced into Scotland by the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell. Stars Cast Shadow There The atmosphere in certain parts of northern Australia is so clear that the stars often cast shadows equal to that of the moon. On the Barky tableland, in northern territory, cattle may be seen on hills 30 miles distant, according to a correspondent of the Sydney Bulletin, "a mirage throwing reflections under them, giving the impression of water lying there." Chance He Missed The late Richard Wagner, in his torse way, once denounced the sound made by the saxophone as "raschen-kreuzungschiangwerkzeuge" and we often wish Mr. Wagner had expressed an opinion of spinach.—Ohio State Journal. Paillettes Adorn Milady's Apparel Pearl Beads Also Return to Feminine Styles for Summer Wear. The mode is showing itself particularly coquettish this season. An irresistible desire to return to femininity has accounted for the use of a thousand delicate, frail and precious accessories. The pearl beads which have been worn on evening frocks during the last few seasons remain great favorites, but share their popularity with the long-neglected pallettes. These palettes appear either in gold or in silver, and sometimes in night-blue. The gold palettes, are rather large, and perhaps a bit too garish; the silver palettes are more discreet and charmingly distinguish. They are mostly used for the straight evening tunics which a few smart women are starting once more to wear. Flowers, too, are enjoying a great vogue this season. They come in many varieties. There are gauze flowers, velvet flowers and taffeta flowers. There are graded flowers and hand-painted flowers, and these harmonize well with the grosgrain hats in beige or blond tones. The flowers that are worn on frocks are put on in the manner of garlands and fall from the belt downward on the skirt. A tuft of flowers is often worn on the shoulder; and it is very chic to put a rose or a carnation in one's furs. Sometimes an entire medicinal collar on an evening wrap is covered with flat flowers that are set one next to the other. As to ribbons, they are often used in the grosgrain variety. There isn't a single smart Parisienne at present who doesn't have her little grosgrain hat in graded shades. These charming hats are easily worked into cockades and mosaic designs. In any shade from beige to tede negre, they are very practical and harmonize as well with the morning tailor-made as with the simpler afternoon frocks. Some Paris designers sponsor velvet ribbon for hats as well as for a trimming on taffeta frocks. Taffeta ribbons are also quite popular and are made into attractive hats. Ostrich feathers promise to become the great mode for trimmings on summery evening wraps. A noted couturier shows an evening wrap which is entirely lined with pink ostrich feathers. Feathers for the evening are a delightful and very feminine trimming, and may be depended on to fight victoriously against any tomosculine tendencies in the present mode. Black and White Silk G This stunning suit is of black kasha with plaits on side and a silk grograin attached vest. The attractive coat is of black and white silk velvet. Voile Undergarments in Soft Pastel Shades Volle undergarments in soft pastel shades will be worn by the majority of women this summer. Although volle has not been especially popular with better-dressed women this year we find undergarments of fine imported volle trimmed with lace or with contrasting pliping which are far cooler than silk and quite as beautiful. Lace and plaiting are the most usual trims, the lace being dyed to match the color of the volle. All light shades are being used, as well as black trimmed in black lace. Even flowered volles are pressed into service for undergarments. Skirts Shorter. Hats Skirts are shorter than ever on the Riviera and hats are plain almost to the point of severity, so that the feet draw the attention of all eyes. Court and one-bar shoes are the great favorites in light-colored kids, blond, parchment, silver and white. A striking shoe is the all-in-gold kid piped with green. The vamp is painted in bright modernistic colors with a conventional design. Plaid Coats for Miss For the young miss, plaid coats with cape attachments are offered. The cape portion may be lined in vivid red or green to correspond with the main tone in the plaid mixture. Most capes extend to the wrist and dip slightly at the rear. The Way to Happiness It's never a happy marriage unless both get better mates than they deserve.—Wichita Falls Record-News. (Copyright.) **V** OU go'n't to the party with the 1 Critchers?" asked Mrs. Mallow. Her daughter, Ann, nodded, saying dully: "If I go at all. Don't see any other way." "To think of you bein' beholden to such upstarts! Lordy!" Mrs. Mallow sighed—then shrugged, got up and took from a wax box on the table something gay, colorful, frilly beyond expression, and much creased. As she spread it, many of the creases broke into long rents. She groomed at the sight. "This was pretty—and I was pretty—when I wore it," she said. "Hoped I could fix it over somehow for you," she went on. "But don't seem I can—" "But I can," Ann cried shaking out the frilled frock, so full it swirled about her in a cup of color. "T'll show you what I'm going to do—be a heap easier than telling." Ann had an inspiration, born of despair. The party at Sunset, the show place of Bush creek, was her one chance of dancing to her heart's desire. When she stepped upon the ballroom floor in clouds of creamy gauze, underlaid with vivid pink satin, she knew herself, apparently, sublimely well dressed. The satin had been hard to handle—yet, thanks to dabs of paste, bits of artistic darning, it showed fair and firm against its backing of old net curtains. Her mother's wedding slippers, as creamy as her draperies, fitted exactly and were so far from the mode they seemed of new fashion. Ordinarily she was hardly even pretty, but in the glow and sparkle of triumph she outbloomed the fairest rose. Young Wilton, the heir to Sunset, claimed all the dances a host decently could before he let her pass. Then his cousin, Cecil Verdray, comrade of the grand tour just ended, tall, dark, merry-eyed, but with a satiric twist to his lips, laid claim to the lion's share of what was left. Inevitably, since men are given to covet what other men desire, every dance was cut in, more than once. Ann, taken to supper by Verdray, with Wilton hovering not far off, was supremely happy, sitting at ease in shaded light, with soft outer airs refreshing her. She was not tired—indeed, she felt that she could go on dancing forever. It was intoxicating to have Verdray leaning down to say very low: "I wonder if ever I shall feel as happy as you look right now." "I hope so! It's nice to be happy. You may have part of my happiness—indeed, it belongs to you—" "How do you make that out?" he interrupted artfully. Ann laughed softly, asking hardly above breath: "Wouldn't it thrill you to know—every other man was envying you?" "Hadn't thought of it—but it does. You see—I'm having so much keener thrills." Verdray began. The music cut him short. "That's too good to be wasted," he said. As they came into full light, Tommy Cricker, a crude lad of nineteen, cried loudly: "My Lord, Ann! Some feller's been treatin' you rough. Danced so hard you're all witch stirrups' crost the back and under the arms." Verdray's face was murderous—a glance at Ann showed him the piteous truth. What with dampness and crushing the gauze of her frock was all in wispy strings, above shreds of treacherous satin, violently misplaced. Beth Cricker, whose eyes had been among the very greenest rushed forward to say to Tommy, still in roars of laughter: "Hush your noise," and then to Ann: "You'd better go to the dressing room—maybe the maid can fix you half way. If she can't, you stay here until mother wants to go home. I'm engaged three deep for every dance." Then with a malicious smile to Verdray: "You lost your chance by waiting until after supper." For answer, he swept Ann away, saying no word, until she was safe in the dressing room. There he made her turn slowly about, looking the while critically at the wreck of her frock. Wrapping her in somebody's evening cloak, he said masterfully: "You stay right here and rest until I come back." She could do nothing else. It was hard to sit alone, with hands clenching, knowing how the story of her misadventure was being rolled a sweet morsel under the tongues of girls and women, who were so much more fortunate they might well have pitted her. But she did not cry. Now and then a dry sob swelled and choked her, but she made no sound. It seemed that she sat through years, but at last the time ended. The room was empty. Mrs. Wilton came in, propelled by Verdray through the door. Her hands overran with something soft, rich colored, richly fringed. Patting Ann's shoulder kindly she said: "Stand up, my child. I know how tricky antiques can be. But this will cover more sins than charity." As she spoke she draped the fringed length of rich embroidery about*Ann, in such fashion as to hide everything. When it was fast, she bade Ann: "Powder your nose and run along—Cecil, my pet nephew, won't be comfortable until he sees you. I have something, though, to tell him—just this: A girl who can stand such luck as this, gallantly as you have done, will be welcome in the family." And Verdray, who stood outside the door, called out "Amen." Needless Advice New Prison Doctor (absent mindedly)—And whatever you do, don't attempt to go out in this bad weather. INTERNATIONAL This attractive sleeveless dress, worn by a prominent motion-picture actress, combines athletic appearance with fashion. The inlay of black in the skirt plaits is a new note. The outfit is of white linen with black bands. The high neck is set off with a mannish straight tie. Batik Has Been Given More important Place Batik that crude yet attractive coloring which first made its style appearance in scarfs has been given a more important place in the fashions this season. There is a touch of these blended colorings splashed on the back of the blouse of the crepe silk frock. The design has a studied carelessness of detail which makes it charming. Beginning at the collar line, the batik colorings fall with a design over the sleeves and at the back of the blouse, forming a yoke. The sleeves are long and snugly cuffed at the wrists, adding the touch of tailored beauty so essential to most two-piece costumes. Batik takes another form. This time it is used in its more vivid shades and is simulated rather than painted or dyed. Angular blocks of felt, in gay colors, are cut and fitted together in a sort of batik design. These are appliqued to the crown of a large straw hat. Bound with soft velvet, the brim affords a becoming frame for the features. Suit With Long Jacket Much has been sald of the vogue of the cape ensemble and of the mannish tailleur, with its short trim jacket and equally short trim skirt. Both types are seen in considerable numbers at every gathering of smart women. There is, however, another type which as yet is a bit more exclusive and has not been taken up by the general feminine public. The suit, composed of a coat reaching almost to the hem of the straight, short skirt, has among its advocates women noted for their keen appreciation of fashion values, and one sees it against a most satisfactory background when it appears on the deck of a transatlantic liner. As a rule suits of this type are made of novelty tapestry designs, and their soft-toned hues are set off by a shawl collar of fur in a harmonizing tone. Printed Handkerchiefs Worn instead of flowers The last word in boutonnieries is the magnolia and beautiful ones are being shown in various pastel colorings. Perhaps you would prefer to wear your hanky instead of a posy. Get one of these little printed geometrie handkerchiefs, the it in a bow and wear it as you would an artificial flower on your sleeve. It is the very latest idea in fashion fads. Perhaps you have seen these handkerchiefs worn on the slipper in place of a buckle? Quite fetching isn't it? Scarfs of Polka Dot Bandana scars and sashes made of polka dot materials are worn with some of the severely plain sports frocks. For instance, a blue flannel frock has a blue bandana scarf dotted with huge white polka dots, which is worn carelessly about the V-shaped neckline, knotting low in front. A sash of the same dotted material extends about the hips. Another important frock of navy blue flannel has a polka-dot scarf attached at one shoulder, which extends down the side of the frock in jabot effect, ending in a circular flare at the hemline. Hats That Harmonize Hats no longer are mere accessories to a costume. They are a real part of the costume itself. Therefore the leading dressmakers and designers are working in collaboration with the leading milliners or are establishing hat ateliers of their own. Thus a customer will have little difficulty in finding a hat which will match or harmonize with any costume she may select. That's Enough isn't it? When a cheer leader breaks training, what can he do except shut up? Baltimore Evening Sun. 3 Gossip Made Easy By H. IRVING KING (Copyright.) "WHY he is old enough to be her father!" cried Lucinda Wiggins. "That he is," replied Amanda Cross; "perfectly outrageous I call it." The gossips were discussing the love affairs of Roberta Ireton, the widow Ireton's exceedingly pretty daughter. Roberta had been seen much of late in the company of Carter Chilson, a wealthy bachelor of the town, and that had started something. Chilson was forty-five if he was a day, and Roberta was scarcely twenty. Several unmarried women of his own age, or thereabouts, in town would gladly have married Chilson—if he had only asked them. "I reckon," went on Miss Amanda Cross, "that Widow Ireton don't care whom Roberta marries as long as there's some money coming into the family. They say she's had a hard time getting along since Ireton died. He left her scarcely anything." "It's her own fault,"援赖 Luchinda Wiggins, "she ought to have married Jacob Spurgeon—he wanted her bad enough when she was Kate Milledge." "Do you suppose old Jacob would marry her now?" suggested Linda. "He might," replied Amanda, "if she got Roberta off her hands. Old Jacob is mighty near, and he won't take up with any woman that has a daughter like Roberta—Roberta's awful extravagant. She goes to Boston to get her hats! But they do say that since Carter Chilson has been going with the daughter, Jacob has been round several times to see the widow." "It will be something of a blow to that young Maldon who was so taken with Roberta last summer when he was boarding here, won't it?" said Lucinda. "Bah," was the reply. "I don't believe there was anything in that. Still, there might be. Somebody ought to write and tell him how Roberta is carrying on, anyway." It was a fact that Carter Chilson had been seen much of late in the company of Roberta Ireton. Sometimes Mrs. Ireton would be along, apparently acting as chaperon; but often they were alone. When the affair became complicated by the rumor that Jacob Spurgeon was going to marry the widow Ireton, Lucinda Wiggins, unable to restrain herself longer, put the question to the old miser plumply: "Jacob, are you goin' to marry Mrs. Ireton or not?" And Jacob replied: "Maybe I am and maybe I not. One thing's sure, I'm not goin' to marry you, Lucindy." Amanda, seizing an opportunity, remarked to Mrs. Ireton. "I hear your daughter is going to marry Carter Chilson." "Well?" asked the widow coldly. "Oh, nothing," said Amanda, "only — There goes Mr. Spurgeon. They say he's got lots of money." "I don't know about that," replied the widow. "I only know that Mr. Spurgeon is an exceedingly kind man." And she broke away. That settled it. The minds of all the gossips reverted at once to Tom Maldon, Roberta's constant attendant of the preceding summer, who was away at the Boston Institute of Technology, and he received three separate letters—unsigned—telling him that Roberta was going to marry Chilson and her mother Jacob Spurgeon. Tom Malden should have known better than to pay any attention to anonymous letters; but he was a young man and he was very much in love with Roberta. A man suffering from youth, complicated by love, can scarcely be expected to act quite rationally. He and Roberta were engaged, she wrote him regularly, and she had seen him not long before when she had been in Boston to buy that hat which had caused the gossips to fasten the stigma of extravagance upon her. Nevertheless, when he got those three letters, all in the same mail, Tom fretted and worried, could not keep his mind on his studies all that day; and the next morning took an early train for Roberta's town. Entering the sitting-room in the Ireton home he found assembled three Roberta and Chilson, Mrs. Ireton and Jacob Spurgeon. They had evidently been engaged in earnest conference. Tom stood for a second or two silently glaring at all four of them. The anonymous letters had but stated the truth, then! The idea of Mrs. Ireton—whom he much admired—being married to that old skindin, Spurgeon, was distasteful to him, though a minor matter. But that Roberta had thrown him over for Chilson—that was agony! "Oh, Tom," cried Roberta, starting up. "I am so glad. You have arrived just in the nick of time. Mother and Mr. Chilson were married this morning—a runaway match—over at Brockton. The flighty young things! And what do you think! Mr. Spurgeon has insisted upon giving mother the mortgage he had on the house as a dowry. isn't he the dear old thing? And she went over and kissed old Jacob on the forehead. Such was the reaction of Tom's feelings that he laughed hysterically. "And when are we going to be married, Roberta?" he asked. "Why, any time you say dear," replied Roberta—and she gave him a kiss which was no more sincere, but altogether different, somehow, from the kiss she had given old Jacob. Wedding Bell Peals Wedding Bell Peals Generally speaking. Opportunity knocks; it is only to a woman it comes with a ring. Ernest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER ERnest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 15121-23-25 E. H. WILLIAMSON Charles E. Dawson Olive Long Known to Man Olive Long Known to Man Olives are named in the earliest account of Egypt and Greece. The tree spread throughout Asia Minor, and its fruit was one of the most valued crops. The oil pressed from the fruit was in general use throughout all those countries. The olive was first planted in Italy about the year 562 B. C. Cape Colony, South Africa, has grown olives since 1730. Wasps Natural Thieves Wasps are natural thieves, and they pillage the sweet things from all manner of places, even the bees not being immune. But the wasp is a manufacturer also, chewing up bits of wood and mixing it with a glutinous saliva to make a paper-like substance out of which to build its nest. The queen wasp is a good laborer in her early days but eventually she devotes herself entirely to laying eggs. Women Hold Purse Strings Women spend 85 cents out of every retail dollar. They influence the purchase of 62 per cent of all hardware 4 per cent of the drugs, 90 per cent of the automobiles, 98 per cent of the household supplies, 97 per cent of the groceries, 77 per cent of the sporting goods, and even the purchase of 61 per cent of men's haberdashery influenced by women. Decoration "That there new sweater of yours makes you look like a tattooed man!" remarked Farmer Corntossel in deep contempt. "That's the idea!" replied his boy Josh. "But the sweater has the advantage of being put on without hurting you." Crest of the Ouail The crest of the California quail consists of several feathers with recurved edges, says Nature Magazine. These fit successively into each other so that the crest when closed may appear to be one feather. The female is also crested, but the crest feathers are shorter than those of the male. Worth-While Suggestion Our fair young friend Chlorinda, who narrowly escaped being bumped into the land that is brighter than day, says the automobile would be more popular than it is if reckless drivers never killed anybody but themselves.—New Orleans States. State's First Duty The foundation of every state is the education of its youth - Diogenes. The Williamson Funeral is distinguished by the up-to-date designs of its Cunningham Limousine Hearse and Cars Test of Environment A scientific professor, seeking to satisfy himself as to how much monkeys are affected by their environment, placed a monkey in a children's hospital, not allowing it to associate with other monkeys until it was four years old. This monkey, isolated from its kind, cannot laugh or cry. Even when freshly cut onions are held under his nose he will not cry. Neither can he scream, as wild monkeys do. Nevertheless, he has all the movements and gestures of the ordinary monkey, and also the same disposition to cut capers, such as ringing bells, tearing things to pieces and generally making a nuisance of himself. This monkey sucks his thumb, just as many children do, and scientists say wild monkeys never have been known to do this. Little Thrift Sermon Misfortune finds it hard to spank the man with money in the bank, and thus it's well to cultivate and carry out the saving trait. A habit is a clinch to make and very difficult to shake; so pick one that is sure to pay—and start to save—begin today. He has of sense a good amount who banks upon a bank account, for dollars wisely lald away increase in value every day. To bank your cash is very wise, for then it grows and multiplies; your balance ever is at best, when boosted up by interest. The man who never saves a cent is always broke, or badly bent; and then he's up against it right whenever trouble looms in sight.—By the Columnist of the Titon (Ga.) Gazette. Strength of Animals It is impossible to name the strongest animal, since some of the smallest insects have more strength in proportion to their weight than the very largest animals. An ant, for instance, may carry a load fifteen or twenty times its own weight, while an elephant could scarcely drag its weight. Old Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus, whose Jewish name was Josephus Ben Mathias, was born in 37 A. D. "The History of the Jewish War," "Jewish Antiquities," an "Apology of the Jews Against Apion" and an autobiography seem to have occupied him from about the year 70 until the time of his death. Humility Comes First Be very sure that no man will learn anything at all unless he learn at first humility.-Owen Meredith THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 24, 1926 Trace "Teetotaler" to Top Used in Gambling Top Used in Gambling Perhaps you have seen the little "put-or-take" tops for purposes of petty gambling. They are not new, for they used to be called "teetotumu." A teetotumu had four sides, and each side had a letter to signify the disposition of the gambling stakes should this side fall upward—"A" for aufer, meaning to take away; "D" for depone, meaning to put down; "N" for nihil, meaning nothing; and the most important of the four symbols, "T" for totum, meaning all (that is, take all). The top thus took its name, "teetotum," from the most coveted side upon it. It is an easy transition from "teetotum" to "teetotaler," for the latter word may have been influenced by the form of "teetotum." "Teetotaler" has "total" for its basic element, and was expanded to "teetotal" by a "playful elaboration"—that is, by repeating the initial letter for emphasis. The original phrase, in an anti-alcoholic sense, was "total abstainer," and this was given the nickname of "teetotaler" by one Preston, an agitator for the temperance workingmen in 1833, when he spoke of "tee-tree-total" abstinence from intoxicating beverages. Of course the expression was probably colloquial before he so used it, but he may be said to have established its significance permanently.—The Mentor Magazine. Technical Conversation "I want some consecrated lye" "You mean concentrated lye." "It does nutmeg any difference. That's what I camphor. What does it sulphur?" "Fifteen cents! I never chnamon with so much wit." "Well, I should myrrh-myrrh. Yet I ammonials novice at it."-Progressive Grocer. Thrushes Long Singers Among birds the thrush has perhaps the greatest singing endurance. A thrush has been known to sing 16 hours a day. A blackbird, however, has been found to have the best rhythm and sense of time, and his name is said to be the best also. Kansas Discovery It has been discovered that an Atchison woman talks constantly because she was vaccinated with a phonograph needle.-Atchison Globe. All the Difference Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.—J. Pettit-Senn. Early American Settlers Early American Settlers England shipped many political prisoners to the United States in the Colonial times. Some of these were sent over here for life, others for a few years. The majority of these spent their sentences in Virginia and Georgia. Bless the Child! Elsie—Mamma, if the kittens really must be drowned, shall I ask the Baptist minister to do it?—Boston Transcript. A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 813, Ashland Block 155 N. Clark Street CHICAGO, ILL. Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. CHICAGO Telephone Central 1239 P.J. J. CAR P.J.CARR M. H. H. 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