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SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Vol. XXXII. [Name] 11 HON. WILLIAM E. DEVER Mayor of Chicago, who as Alderman from the and for a long time one of the most honor the Superior Court of Cook County has al-garded as one of the warm friends of the this city, and many times on the bench he stu-in favor of the many colored lawyers who a-court, and believe it or not, many colored po-as they did four years ago, will vote in f-election as Mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, A BULLETIN No. 102—LEARN THE TRAFFIC LAWS AND OBEY THEM By Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins the opposite direct the street at the no-middle of the block vitation for an acci Always play safe may not. Help the Mago, who as Alderman from the long time one of the most honor or Court of Cook County has all one of the warm friends of the and many times on the bench he st the many colored lawyers who a believe it or not, many colored ped four years ago, will vote in f Mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, A Mayor of Chicago, who as Alderman from the old 17th Ward and for a long time one of the most honorable Judges of the Superior Court of Cook County has always been regarded as one of the warm friends of the colored race in this city, and many times on the bench he stretched a point in favor of the many colored lawyers who appeared in his court, and believe it or not, many colored people, the same as they did four years ago, will vote in favor of his reelection as Mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, April 5. From March 20th to 26th, 228 persons were injured and 11 were killed through automobile accidents. The total fatalities for the year on account of motor vehicle accidents up to March 26th, 166 killed and 2,793 injured. This is an alarming increase over the figures for the corresponding period last year when 143 were killed and 2,532 were injured. The biggest contributing factor to this wholesale murder of human beings is the reckless speeder. No business justifies driving a vehicle at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper. Don't speed. Better to lose a few seconds than to lose one's life, or to take another's life. Remember, there is nothing as precious as human life. On stormy and rainy days motorists and pedestrians alike must be particularly careful. This criminal slaughter MUST stop. Motorists must drive slowly when children are seen in the street. Pedestrians should always stop and look both ways before crossing the street. Traffic signals must be obeyed by the pedestrian. If there are no signals use common sense. Never figure that the driver of a vehicle is going to stop to let you pass. Be sure of it, or wait until he passes. Never pass behind a vehicle without a clear view of traffic approaching from PETER H. DR. GEORGE CLEVELAND HALL One of the most eminent M. D.'s in this city, who is a great credit to the colored race everywhere, one of the Trustees of the Chicago Public Library. He was appointed to that honored position by Mayor William E. Dever. 5 CENTS PER COPY ```markdown ``` German from the old 17th Ward in the most honorable Judges of York County has always been refriends of the colored race in the bench he stretched a point and lawyers who appeared in his many colored people, the same, will vote in favor of his reo on Tuesday, April 5. the opposite direction. Always cross the street at the nearest corner. The middle of the block is always an invitation for an accident. Always play safe. The other fellow may not. Help the police department to cut down the appalling number of deaths and injuries by motor vehicles. CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE TO EDIT MUSIC DEPARTMENT FOR PRESTON NEWS SERVICE (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa., April 1.—It is with extreme pleasure that the management of this news service announces that it has secured Mr. Clarence Cameron White, premier violin soloist, former president of the National Association of Negro Musicians, and at present Director of the Department of Music at West Virginia Institute, to edit a Music Department for the papers using this service. Mr. White is one of the foremost composers' of the race. Many of his violin compositions are featured on the internationally known world's best years violinist's programs. We refer to Fritz Kriesler. Mr. White spent several years abroad studying violin and has appeared in practically every city in this country in violin recital playing his own compositions as well as rendering the most difficult compositions of the old world composers. The Charteston, W. Va., Symphony Orchestra featured several of Mr. White's compositions in their programs during the past three years. 100 THE BROAD AX The Loud Mouthed Politicians, Both White and Colored, Democrats and Republicans, Seem to Be Fully Determined to Keep the Race Issue or Question Well to the Front in the Closing Hours of the Mayoralty Contest. It Would Be Playing Short or Poor Judgement and Shallow Wisdom on the Part of Any One to Urge or Encourage One Hundred and Fifty to Two Hundred Thousand Colored People from the Various Sections of the Southern States to Fall Down in Chicago at One Full Sweep. It Would Be a Tremendous Task to Absorb That Number of People of Any Race Into the Body Politic in Such a Short Length of Time Without Preventing a Large Percent of Them from Turning Out to Be Undesirable Citizens. The Industrial Conditions Owing to the Past and Present Stagnation in Business Is Not So Very Rosy at this Time and the Housing Conditions Would Be Totally Insufficient to Provide Immediate Homes for Such a Vast Multitude. At all of the elections held in this city, important or unimportant, the leaders of both sides of the political game always strive some way or other, to stir the white and the colored people up over the race question. The so-called colored leaders are past masters in that same art and really they outdo the white political leaders in that respect. schemes flying through the air workwrought up to a high pitch of excite- ing on the nerves of the people who are ment and many of them already being heavily armed, we are indeed fearful for the safety of the lives of the people between now and the night of the elec tion. In order to further stir up the bitter race feeling in this city, it has been turned to their southern homes, and many of them not being accustomed to the ways of large cities naturally fell into the hands of the law and their short comings made it hard on the good and the bad colored people alike. It is really a serious thing for the white Republican speakers to attempt to make the white and colored people believe that the colored people will rush into this city by wholesale. It always happens that just as soon as the elections get under good headway, some one will start up the hew and cry "that the whites are going to run all the colored people out of town or that the colored people are planning on driving all the whites into Lake Michigan." The white daily newspapers start their race prejudice mud batteries to working overtime and they frighten the people into feeling or believing that there might be some truth in the wild statements appearing in the newspapers pertaining to the unfriendly relations existing between the white and colored people in this city. Some of the cold and selfish white politicians contend "that it would be just the thing if a race riot would break out in this city just before the election for that would be the means of lining up all the whites on one side of the political fence and all the colored voters on the other side of the same fence, and in that case a white person could be elected mayor of Chicago without the aid of the colored voters. PEACE PREVAILS IN COFFEY. VILLE (Preston News Service) (Preston News Service) Topeka, Kans., March 31.—According to word received here Friday, peace reigned in Coffeyville as national guardsmen patrolled the streets after civil and closing order, which has been in effect since the rioting of Friday week ago, remained in force. It is reported that county and city authorities are pushing an investigation into the riot, in which four persons were injured, and into alleged attack on two white girls by three Negroes Thursday night, March 17, which is said to have precipitated the trouble. The report states that 18 warrants schemes flying through the air workwrought up to a high pitch of excite ing on the nerves of the people who are ment and many of them already being heavily armed, we are indeed fearful for the safety of the lives of the people between now and the night of the election. In order to further stir up the bitter race feeling in this city, it has been stated many times in public for the purpose of influencing the colored voters "that in the near future one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand colored people would be dumped in one pile in Chicago right from the rural districts of the southern states. Such reports have struck terror in the hearts of many of the citizens of Chicago, for to say the least, it would be a great set back to the vast majority of the colored people who have been residing in this city for many years and are law abiding through and through to the back bone. It is a well known fact that if one or two hundred thousand colored people would suddenly appear in this city the housing conditions are so limited that thousands of them would find themselves without homes or places to sleep, for it will be recalled that prior to and just after the war for a worldwide democracy that vast armies of colored people invaded this city, and many of them after being forced to live in unsanitary quarters—five to ten persons residing in one or two cold rooms—enduring many hardships which never confronted them in the southland. Many of them sadly re- have been served charging both whites and blacks with participation in the riot. County Attorney Mitchell says that several more warrants will be issued. Troop B of the national guard was withdrawn Friday at midnight. MISSISSIPPI WHITES ATTACK NEGROES Cruger, Miss., April 1.—Lawrence Williams was shot and wounded, probably fatally, Sunday morning following an altercation participated in, it is said by several white men and three Negroes. Sweet Riley (colored) was arrested and lodged in Lexington jail, pending the outcome of Williams turned to their southern homes, and many of them not being accustomed to the ways of large cities naturally fell into the hands of the law and their short comings made it hard on the good and the bad colored people alike. It is really a serious thing for the white Republican speakers to attempt to make the white and colored people believe that the colored people will rush into this city by wholesale. The colored leaders of the race in this city should sanely advise the colored people that it will or would be much better for them to come to this city in smaller numbers, with no brass bands to herald their coming and that would enable them to secure something to do much more easily. The colored people and their white leaders should not herald it to the world that there are almost three hundred thousand colored people in this city and with the one hundred and fifty-two thousand who are getting ready to come there will soon be five hundred thousand colored people residing in Chicago. This is one of the wildest wild cat statements that has ever been dished up; at no time in this city has there been such a large number of colored people; at no time has there been over one hundred and seventy-five thousand colored people in this city and a thousand years from now the whites no doubt will still out number colored people in Chicago. In the mean time whites and the colored must work hard to make Chicago in every way the best, the greatest and the most beautiful city on earth. wounds. Riley told police that he shot in self-defense. LAY PLANS FOR ANNUAL WAR ON DIRT, JUNK, RATS Declaring war on overfilled ash cans, rats, junk, and dirty alleys representatives of the public schools have met with a committee of the Association of Commerce in the Great Northern hotel to plan their annual clean-up campaign from April 18 to May 2. A committee of high school students reported that 3,242,482 units of work were done last year by the students including 93,010 rats killed, 122,812 vegetable gardens planted, $51,606 worth of junk and old papers sold, and 170,471 ash cans emptied. X M. B. HON. GEORGE E. BRENNAN The high chief of the Democratic party in this on the eve of the greatest of all the contests Chicago is firmly convinced that Hon. William be re-elected Mayor of Chicago. FT. DEARBORN LODGE MEETS for the great record in fraternalism. ref of the Democratic party in this o e of the greatest of all the contests is firmly convinced that Hon. William acted Mayor of Chicago. The high chief of the Democratic party in this city and state on the eve of the greatest of all the contests for Mayor of Chicago is firmly convinced that Hon. William E. Dever will be re-elected Mayor of Chicago. Ft. Dearborn Lodge, No. 44, I. B. P. O. E. W., of which J. C. Martin is exalted ruler; Robt. L. Potts, secretary, will meet in its regular monthly meeting April 5th, at which time many important business matters will be discussed and it is expected that the entire membership will be present. Thos. H. Jackson, J. B. Deveaux, Dr. Wm. H. Davis and other members of the marching club, who are working like trojans to make the grand Easter ball on April 16 a success, will appear before the lodge and invite the entire membership to attend this ball. J. Finley Wilson, Atty. W. C. Hueston, commissioner of education and member of the trustee board who were in the city the past week, praised the officers and members of Ft. Dearborn [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit] [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit and tie]. HON. ADOLPH SABATH One of the most popular mem of Illinois. Within the pape pple have moved into his C and owing to his friendsh politics, they always vote in gress. Congressman Saba William E. Dever will be Tuesday, April 5. most popular members of Congress for us. Within the past few years many moved into his Congressional distric ting to his friendship for them, reg they always vote in favor of his re-e- Congressman Sabath feels dead su E. Dever will be re-elected Mayor in April 5. One of the most popular members of Congress from the State of Illinois. Within the past few years many colored people have moved into his Congressional district, the Fifth, and owing to his friendship for them, regardless of his politics, they always vote in favor of his re-election to Congress. Congressman Sabath feels dead sure that Hon. William E. Dever will be re-elected Mayor of Chicago on Tuesday. April 5. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX No. 25 democratic party in this city and stateatest of all the contests for Mayor ofinced that Hon. William E. Dever willof Chicago. MEETS for the great record they are making in fraternalism. M. T. Bailey, president of the Bailey Realty Co., 3638 S. State street, is getting many applications for free gardens in beautiful suburbs of Morgan Park. These free garden spaces are being offered for two reasons, for the purpose of helping to reduce the high cost of vegetation and to give the children training in agriculture as well as exercise and work during the vacation. IN NEW ORLEANS R. W. Wells, president of The Wells Book Concern, 3710 Indiana avenue is spending some time in New Orleans, La. [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit and tie]. for members of Congress from the State the past few years many colored people to his Congressional district, the Fifth friendship for them, regardless of his vote in favor of his re-election to Con- mun Sabath feels dead sure that Hon- will be re-elected Mayor of Chicago or ee ee j : . ee | ye": Le G> oa sf ae a ——— Sis Cm HON. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON “Big Bill the Builder,” Republican candidate for Mayor of Chi. cago, and his thousands of friends and supporters feel that he will win the head prize on Tuesday, April 5. Lae (ie @. [ oS se oo - 4, | o We ee — oo . oF) x Lee ame \ Ad COL. LEONARD KIP RHINELANDER One of the high social leaders of New York City who is unable to break or lay away from his colored wife, Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander. ‘CHICAGO'S HEALTH Weekly Buleltin, Chicago Department of Health Herman N. Bundesen, M.D., Commissioner “Every year 11,000,000 persons are Killed or injured in the United States! Every minute 21 persons are hurt! Every five minutes one person is ac- cidentally killed! “As a result, every year 5,000,000 women are left to shift for themselves and their children, many of whom arc left in absolute poverty because hus- bands have failed to provide for their future by means of ifisurance or sav- ings! Records of the Chicago Depart- of Health show that ill health of iusband is followed by needy hood and that fatherless chil en and a high child mortality go end im hand,” says Dr: Herman N. Duacesen in his latest ‘bulletin entitled ¥ Should Die Tonight.” ‘hak of the effects on the health of the children for whom no. provision has been made! Poorly fed, under- nourished, inadequately clothed, living in dark, airless rooms and deprived of happiness, clean amusement and edu- cation, this army of unprotected chil- dren loses its normal childhood and chances for successful adult life,” con- tinues the Commissioner. “Insurance is the one great saving investment that insures health and education, home and happiness to your children. Responsibility does not end with merely having children. You owe them the great duty of fitting them for life and and health. Let your duty continue through insurance, so that if you should die tonight your loving care goes on,” states Dr. Bundesen. HIGH COURT REFUSES TO ANNUL MARRIAGE OF KIP RHINELANDER Albany, N. Y.—Leonard Kip Rhine- Jander’s marriage to Alice Jones Rhinelander again was held valid here ‘March 29, when the Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of lower courts denying an annulment. The decision was given without an accompanying opinion. Shortly after the decision was an- nounced, counsel for Mrs. Rhineland- er announced she probably would be- gin a suit, It was said she would charge cruelty and abandonment. Isaac N. Mills, counsel for Rhine- lander, when informed that the court had refused to annul his client’s mar- riage, said that no appeal would be taken. Rhinelander, member of a wealthy and socially prominent New York family, married Miss Alice Jones, of colored: parentage, at New Rochelle, on Oct: 14, 1924. Today's decision ends the last chap- ‘ter of efforts of Rhinelander to free ‘himself from Alice Jones, whom he ‘insists he married in ignorance of the fact that she was partly colored. | It is too bad. that Col. Leonard Kip Rhinelander kept his eyes closed tight and his ignorant mouth wide open while he was engaged in courting or sparking Miss Alice Jones, who was the beautiful red apple of his eye. It was brought out at the trial that Col. Rhinelander slept at the home of his intended blushing bride, routing Mr. and Mrs. Jones from their bed in order to make room for him and his lady. At that time he had a splendid chance to note that some of the mem- bers of the family of Miss Jones were rather dark in their faces, but he was deeply in love with her and love is A Far Reaching and Burning Article Which Is Full of Solid Reading Matter. The Contest for Mayor of Chicago Is Re- viewed in a Fair and Reason- able Manner. Honorable William E. Dever, Mayor of. the City of Chicago, declares that he never in any way intimated through any statement whereby it could have been construed that he was not a friend of the colored -people of Chi- cago during his entire administration ‘as mayor of our city. On the other hand, the records will show that un- der his administration, that there have been nine more colored men and women employed throughout the de- Partments of the city government than were ever employed during either term of Honorable William Hale Thompson. Do you know that Mayor Dever has put every opportunity in the hands of Louis B. Anderson of the 2nd Ward and Robert R. Jack- son of the 3rd Ward, even to the detri- ment of many of our good, law-abiding citizens? It is too bad that the colored people of Chicago allow themselves to become enraged by the false propaganda that is being spread among our people, ex- citing them to a position that they are losing their reasoning during this campaign. Our people are told that the Democratic party does not want our votes. This statement is not true. The Democrats not only want our votes, but they have made every endeavor possible to gain the friend- ship of the well-thinking, law-abiding, decent and respectable citizens of our race. There is no race of people under the sun who would attempt to put all of their eggs in one basket. For sixty odd years our people have voted for the Republican party. We say that a yellow dog is better than the best Democrat, but if we would stop to think and reason for ourselves, we would soon come to the conclusion that it is much better for the black People of America to divide their votes with all parties than to ally themselves to any one party. __ In the City of New York in the Borough of Harlem where hundreds of thousands of our people live, you wil find that we have divided our votes. color blind. But it has cost him many thousands of dollars to remove the love scales from his eyes.—Editor. BINGA STATE BANK Conditions of Binga State Bank as of ‘the close of business, March 23, 1927 Resources—Loans and Discounts, $853,107.21; Bonds, Securities, etc. $232,195.56; U. S. Govt. Bonds, $75, 000.00; Bank Bldg. Furn. and Fixtures, $165,400.58; Accrued Interest Receiv- able, $6,683.03; Cash and Due from Banks, $350,481.41; Total, $1,682,857.79. Liabilities—Capital, $200,000.00; Sur- plus, $45,000.00; Undivided Profits $1,923.05; Unearned Discount, $2,- 2Ass Reserved for Interest, $583.66: Cashiers Checks, $14,378.74; Certified Checks, $2,410.26; Dividends Unpaid, $1,211.50; Deposits, §1,415,1260s; Total, $1,682;867.79. Officers—Jesse Binga, president; J. R. Marshall, vice-president; C. N. Langston, cashier. Directors: Jesse Binga, R.A. Wil- fiams, J. R. Marshall, Wm. A. Robin- son, A. W. Williams, Oscar De Priest, © H. Clark, A. H. Roberts, U. G. Dailey, Thos. R. Webb, C. N. Langs- ton, A clearing house bank. By virtue of dividing our votes, the Democratic party nas favored us with members of the School Board, Coun- cilmen in the City Council, members of the State Legislature, supported by Democrats and Republicans alike. Never in the history of Chicago has any Republican ever given us a mem- ber of the School Board, We have false promises by the Republican party, but no one has been big enough to carry out the promises, yet the Democrats saw the wisdom of giving us such recognition in the State of New York and that from the very fact that our people split their votes for the Democratic party and they kept their word. \ A the present campaign some ol our false leaders are arousing race hatred themselves, yet they are charg- ing it to the Democratic party. It is said that a circular is being sent out on the north side by the Thompson crowd as follows: “The white people should pay no attention to the Demo- cratic proganda about the ‘Niggers.’” That Thompson is using the Negroes only to insure his election. That Thompson stands for America first, and his circular is signed “K. K. K.” Yet they come on the south side with a different story. They take our babies in their arms and caress them and go back on the north side and criticise us. The Democratic party has not done anything like this. On the other hand, they have sent out hundreds of our women and men into the respective precincts giving them an opportunity to make an honest day's labor for an honest day's pay. Let us not be fooled. Let us not be misled by ignorant pas- sion, because it is not destined that William Hale Thompson will be the next mayor. The people of Chicago are awakened to the false ballabooing that is now going on. Hon. William E. Dever is predicted to be elected the next mayor of the City of Chicago and when he is elected mayor no man will have to run out of Chicago, or to leave, as we all well know that he has been mayor of Chicago for four years and instead of any of our people having to leave by virtue of his stew- ardship, tens of thousands have come ANNUAL FOUNDERS DAY EX- ERCISES AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE The Trustees and Principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In- stitute, Tuskegee, Alabama, will on April 5, Tuesday, hold its annual Founders Day exercises at 2 p. m. The Founder's Day address will be delivered hy Dr. Edwin Mims of Van- derbilt University, Nashville, Tennes- see, The writer has received an invita- tion to attend the Founder's Day ex- ercises. ATTY. FITZGERALD DROPS OUT OF COUNCILMANIC RACE (Preston News Service) Baltimore, Md., March 29.—Accord- ing to Harry Laib, secretary of the Board of Election Supervisors, Wil- liam L, Fitegerald, a prominent at- torney here, withdrew his name Thurs- day as a candidate for the Republican nomination for City Councilman from the fourth district, in the coming city election and primary. into our city from the fat southland, for freedom and liberty. Hon. George E. Brennan in a state- ment to a reporter of The Broad Ax said that “The colored people were seriously mistaken when they say that he is unfriendly to them.” That he is the western representative of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, a southern company, and the only company in this city that will bond Negroes. And that this com- pany now carries the indemnity for both of our Negro banks, the Douglass National and the Binga State = That at one time the Republican Managing Committee came to him for the purpose of having him turn down the name of Edward H. Morris as candidate for judge of the Circuit Court on a coalition tickét. When the plan was put to him, he stated to them that he would stand for Mr. Morris because he knew Mr. Morris to be an able lawyer, but when the Republicans got his vision of the matter, they told him that they expected him to refuse and since he had accepted their pro- position the Republicans would have to turn it down, atid Mr. Morris was not put on the Republican ticket. During the Thompson administra- tion they had five lawyers in the Cor- poration Counsel's office; under the Dever administration they had three colored women and three colored men investigators, one assistant librarian and four lawyers. It is hoped that our people, before they go to the polls next Tuesday, will take the matter of their votes seriously and use it not by passion, but they will use their best judgment, and not vote for Thompson because he is a Republican—not for Dever because he is a Democrat—not for Robertson because he is an In- dependent Republican, but stand for a principle and vote for the best man— a man who will not promise you the world and give you nothing. Vote for the man, not for the party. The latest betting now favors Dever, and we should not all be with any loser. It makes no difference what the politi- cians whose only hope is for self tell you, don't put all of our eggs in one basket. 2 From the Man on the Corner/ THE RED CAPS’ LITERARY CLUB Sunday afternoon af 4:30 p. m, April 3, the members of the Red Caps’ Literary Club will hold forth at their rooms, 3639 S. Michigan boulevard. Miss Eva D. Shonts, will be the fead- ing speaker. Miss Rosie Lee Robinson will be in charge of the musical program. Sandy W. Trice, president. pa Se CALLED SOUTH Mrs. Ike Rhymes, 11156 $. Ashland avenue, and her sister, Miss Baker, were called to the bedside of thei; mother at Jacksot, Miss, a few days ago and arrived just in time to see her before she passed away after a long illness. Scere BACK FROM PHILADELPHIA Mrs. M. B. Newland, manager of The Enterprise Institute, 514 Aldine Square, has just returned from Phil- adelphia, Pa. where she went on March 19 to bury her sister, Mrs, Julia Elmore, well known in that city. Fu. neral services and interment took place on March 22nd in Philadelphia. — » BS as gt » af ¥ oy ~ 4 ; iS Neg a4 : a ~ Ro 5 a ee oe oe _ i | A ; ee es ey ee ge ae? i Ps ¢ aay . er ae x % | i LAWYER A. L. WILLIAMS He is one of the many true and loyal supporters ment to re-elect Hon. William E. Dever May: and Mr. Williams looks upon him, with the gr of his troops of friends, as a live winner Tue He is one of the many true and loyal supporters of the mm ment to re-elect Hon. William E. Dever Mayor of Chicap and Mr. Williams looks upon him, with the great auisin of his troops of friends, as a live winner Tuesday Apri THEOSOPHICAL NEWS IN WAUKEGAN The Pioneer Lodge of the Theo-| Atty. Walter M. Farmer, 14 ¥ sophical Society will have its regular] Washington street, spent conite meeting Friday night at 8 o'clock at| me in Waukegan, Ilt, the pat wa looking after business mater, the home of Mrs. Irene Gaines, 3262] CO o™e SST USES Satis Vernon avenue. Visitors are always ; welcome. Barbara Baldwin, 4840] | Evans avenue. | ea CONDEMNED SLAYER HANGS é HIMSELF IN JAIL CELL q » 7 (Preston News Service) es Danville, Ill, March 30—Nathaniel \ Harris, sentenced to be hanged here April 22, for a double murder hanged | § " himself in the county jail Tuesday | 4 morning. He tore a strip from his|\§ os blanket and used it as a noose. | TO MAKE ANNUAL VISIT Mrs. Eliza Jackson, state grand queen of Illinois of A. U. K. & D. of A., is preparing to make her annual visit to the councils in her jurisdic- tion. AT BEDSIDE OF MOTHER Mrs. Susie Jones, 3407 Calumet ave- nue, is at Lake, Miss, at the bedside of her mother, who is quite ill. Mrs. Jones writes, however, her mother is somewhat improved. SSS | ee eo ll ee oo be a Re Ee wa ‘aah Ae ia ae es a e oes oo MRS. ALICE JONES RHINELANDER E The lovel; ae atin colored wife of Col. Leonard Kip Rhine! of New hhas amoared it all over bia fe the bigbest cou Yack Bene a wa. | FY? 2 | ig. HON. AL F. GORMAN Ex-State Senator from tt Fourth Senatorial Distt d Illinois, who should ber elected City Clerk of Oi cago. He richly deserves be re-elected on his past ® ord, for more than 27 yan he ‘has been a warm constant supporter of thi newspaper and one of i best friends of its edit Vote for him on Tuesish April 5. TC =— 8 a 3 ce ee ag 71 HON. JOHN DILL ROBERTSON Independent Republican candidate for Mayor of Chicago, who continues to hold largely attended meetings in all parts of the city each night and his vast army of friends and supporters confidently feel that on Tuesday, April 5, he will run far ahead of all of his competitors and be elected Mayor of Chicago. "Miss New Jersey, make the acquaintance of Mr. Jim Crow. Mr. Crow has just come up from the south, where he is well known as a first-rate go-getter of trouble. Mr. Crow delivers the goods, any day, any way; a hanging, a burning at the stake, a tar-and-feathering if you have a weak heart and don't want too much excitement at once. Mr. Crow will do for you what he has already so abundantly shown himself able to do for Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and other sections of our great commonwealth. You are on the right track with Mr. Crow; keep Negro children out of the white, Nordic, all-American high school; make them go to school in a church, unheated except by a stove, and with one teacher for all the grades. What matter that Negro taxpayers want to send their children to the same building—not just the same sort of building? Mr. Crow, Mr. James Crow of Washington and points south, is just the man to settle everything right. Delegates of Negro Parents will protest to you, Miss New Jersey, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will send telegrams asking that Governor Moore remove Edgar M. Fink from his post of Supervising Principal of Education because he introduced a policy of segregation for Negro high school children in Toms River. But don't you care; you just stick to Mr. Jim Crow. He's the man to keep things humming in New Jersey." Although school segregation, such as has just been introduced in southern New Jersey, has not yet been tested in the higher courts, the Supreme Court of the United States in a unanimous decision has just reaffirmed the unconstitutionality of another type of "Jim Crow" law. We have already commented upon its outlawing of the Texas statute which barred Negroes from voting in the Democratic primaries; now a New Orleans ordinance and two laws of Louisiana imposing restrictions on the owning or leasing of property by Negroes have been put under the same ban as the old Louisville attempts at segregation. Slowly but surely the arm of the law is reaching around the Negro to assure him his ordinary civil rights. In time discriminatory school segregation may state for Mayor of Chicago, who attended meetings in all parts of vast army of friends and supt on Tuesday, April 5, he will is competitors and be elected also fall under the ban. The Constitution of the United States calls the Negro a citizen; the Supreme Court is busy making him one, in fact as well as name.—The Nation. The Negro in Industry.—The total Negro population in continental United States in 1920 was 10,463,131, an increase over the 9,827,763 of 1910. Of this number 4,824,154 aged 10 years and over were engaged in gainful occupations in 1920, a decrease from 5,192,535 in 1910. The percentage of Negro population gainfully occupied is considerably larger than that of the white population. A Georgia Judge on Mobs Charging the Treutlen County (Ga.) Grand Jury with special reference to the outrageous attacks on residents by mobs, Judge Graham of the Oconee circuit said "Mobs cannot be trusted, for they move without rule or law or reason." There is wisdom in these words. The judge is an observer and a thinker. Good men, incited by a condition which the peace officers and the courts have failed to correct, may be tempted to move against and wipe out that condition. But, again quoting Judge Graham, "when citizens take the law in their hands, no matter what their motive, they become a mob"—a hideous thing because it is blind to reason and bent on crime. The mob spirit is infectious. Under the spell of it men have committed horrible brutalities. And always the mob's crime makes for more lawlessness. No lynching ever put down crime. Every lynching sows the seeds of crime and invariably and inevitably these seeds flower and all of us must pay for the flowering. Pullman Porters receive from the Pullman Company about $44 a month (plus $34 required for lodging, meals away from home, etc.), and from the public in tips an average of $58.15 per month. It isn't much, even so, for the porter; but the tips save the Pullman Company $7,000,000 a year. Accordingly, the company has just increased its dividend rate from 8 to 10 per cent. As Hehry T. Hunt says, "The railroad presidents are a dull lot. They should long ago have introduced the tipping system to pay ticket agents, conductors and brakemen." What a saving—to the companies—it would be—The Nation. HOLD SUCCESSFUL INTER SCHOLASTIC MEET (Preston News Service) Bastrop, Tex., March 31.—The annual Bastrop County colored interscholastic meet was held here Friday, March 18. Practically every school in this county was represented. It is said that this was the largest and most successful meet ever held. --- THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS. APRIL 2. 1927 COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES By THE CAMERAMAN (Preston News Service) 1. New Jersey Segregationists Lose. 2. "Slide, Kelly, Slide." Spots") of the race. It has been Dean Miller who, time and time again, when others were steaming up their nerves to protect the race against onslaught New Jersey Segregationists Lose "Who spills the foremost foeman's blood, That party conquers in the feud." (Walter Scott.) Some weeks ago this column called attention to the onward trend, upward into northern territory, of the Jim Crow school, which is now dotting such heretofore free commonwealths as Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The truth of our assertions was amply corroborated when, two weeks ago, in the Dover (Toms River) District, of New Jersey, the Board of Education leased a separate building, to which Negro parents were ordered to send their children, who were then and there excluded from the regular building to which all pupils in the district had been heretofore appropriately assigned. Vigorous protests on the Negros' part ensued, followed by the refusal of the majority to obey the Jim Crow order, to which the Dover Board of Education replied by ordering the Negro parents to show cause why they should not be punished for "violating" the "school law." In the first skirmish, Judge Harry E. Newman has found the parents not guilty of violating the so-called "order." The learned judge declared that in his opinion the Dover Board of Education had no authority to lease a building in another township for the use of Negro children. In other words, as yet, the Jim Crow school is not properly in style in the modest New Jersey township. The plucky Negroes, however, are going even a step further; for they have sued out a mandamus against the Board of Education directing it to admit certain Negro pupils whom the Board continues to exclude from the regular order of public schools. The separate school, as everyone knows, is the breeding place of prejudice, wherein the child mind, susceptible to early impressions, begins to form its opinion of life and of men. The separate school is a veritable breeder of the idea of "superiority" and "interiority," which are still "dead weights" to the real moral emancipation of not a few Nordics. Contact is the builder of mutual respect and esteem. It shapes understanding and silently bids men to have patience to see the Good That Within Other Men Lies. Even a cat and a dog, living in the same household, through understanding become friendly and unsuspicious. But men! No! They are still building false animosities, founded upon nothingness. In Toms River, however, the structure is being broken down by common sense and justice. "Slide. Kelly. Slide!" Good Dean Kelley Miller finds himself caught between third base and the home plate, with "Jim" Johnson, of N. A. A. C. P. fame, harassing him with the journalistic baseball—all because the alert Dean was not alert when a sizzling segregation grounder was cut off by rapid field work, causing Kelly to pause in his endeavor to make a home run in the March issue of "Current History." Just now, Kelly is trying to explain his predicament to the fleeting "bleachers" who, like the usual fickle-minded baseball audience, are loudly voicing their displeasure. All of which proves that a man may devote a lifetime's effort to sincere service; and then, with the slip of a verb, one or two prepositions, and a few misplaced commas, draw theire of a forgetful populace, which with one back-handed stroke strives to wipe out the helpful results of a quarter century's ardent work. Critics of Dean Miller's viewpoint upon Segregation, before consigning him to Limbo in the press and elsewhere, should take into consideration the good Dean's past efforts to stimulate a greater freedom for our people. It was Dean Miller who made the first curt replication to Rev. Thomas Dixon in his initial libel ("The Leopard's Are You Moving This Spring? If so, please notify us immediately to move your telephone. To serve you to the best advantage on telephone move orders to be completed between April 15 and May 15 we request ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One Policy - One System - Universal Service Spots") of the race. It has been Dean Miller who, time and time again, when others were steaming up their nerves to protect the race aaginst onslaught and ignominy, marched boldly to the front lines, and fired broadside after broadside in defense of the race and repulsion of its enemies. It was Dean Miller who wrote an open letter of protest to President Wilson, when racial rights ebbed so low in America. But now, that the Dean's pen slipped a line or two and he is manfully explaining what he meant within his heart, the critics are riding him with boots and spurs, and seemingly permanent forgetfulness of the good service he has rendered. Does anyone really believe within the heart that a man who has served his race and its cause as faithfully as Kelly has, could believe in Segregation? We do not. We would apply to Dean Miller the humble philosophy of the lamented Lincoln, and of him say, in substance and effect: "What he is speaks louder than what he says." Chicago's New Mayor Chicago, the "Windy City," approaches the April mayoralty election in tornado style. William Hale Thompson, Chicago's "War Mayor," who is striving to come back, after the intervention of Mayor Dever, Dr. John Dill Robertson, and the present incumbent democratic mayor, are fighting it out until April, the month of showers, provides the "cooling-off" period, within which two of the candidates shall have been permanently consigned to retirement. What strikes this column forcibly is the allegation that "under the eight-year administration of Big 'Bill Thompson, 80,000 Negroes came up from the south and settled in Chicago;" and the inference that this migration anomaly was indirectly stimulated by the peaceful and practicable way in which the municipal government of the Windy City was directed. Nonsense! Man shortage, high wages, and promises of a better deal brought them into East St. Louis, where more than two scores were criminally laid low by shot, shell and fire. Economic, not political influences are what energize or depress, as the case may be, the great bulk of Negroes in the U. S. A., whether the Chicago or on the banks of the Chattahoochee River. In fact the latter is but the complement of the former; and where the former are nearly ideal, the latter will not be far behind. Vice versa, where economic conditions are ten-to-one against the Negro, his political status will be found upon the same approximate margin. Neither Thompson, Dever nor Robertson can change the Chicago Negro's economic condition between now and the April elections. Any one of the candidates can, however, when elected, direct and supervise the brighter day for Chicago's 200,000 Negro citizens; and one who will most nearly make this new day a brighter one is the candidate for whom every Negro voter should mark a ballot when election day rolls around. And they have SELECTED FOR THEMSELVES, regardless of election day dough, special privileges, jobs, and promises; for many moons will pass ere they can again look a mayoralty ballot right square in the face. Negro Population According to Prof. Hankins of Smith College, the Negro race of America is on the wane, as far as population is concerned; owing to a decreasing birth rate and an increasing death rate. This decline in numbers, it is claimed, is due to residence in the cities, where the Negro deteriorates physically, although he improves mentally in urban surroundings. The Professor makes these assertions as one who claims to know. Doubtless he has given careful study and research to the matter. Mentally, all races adjust themselves to any environment with ease, but it is otherwise physically. The ability of a race to survive the stress and strain of city life is dependent more on the length of time its ancestors have stood this strain, than on the color or nature of the race itself. That is one reason why the death rate among Jewish children is lower in cities, than among other children. Jews have been city dwellers for thousands of years and the race has become immune to close city air, crowded living quarters and all other undesirable city conditions. With the Negro, opposite conditions of ancestry obtain. The great masses of our Negro population have lived for only two or three generations in crowded cities—many only a few decades—and we are not yet immune to the lack of sunshine, fresh air, and outdoor life. It is only natural that we should droop physically and deteriorate—if we really are deteriorating. Prof. Hankins' natural conclusion is,—that it is only a question of a short time now, when the Negro will cease to be an important separate factor in the population of the United States. The learned professor may be right in his conclusion, but he does not go far enough, as there is another influential factor in the decreasing of Negro quota in the population of the United States—AMALGAMATION. *** In this report, the American High Commissioner at Port Au Prince, Haiti, states that the Haitian people have made great advancement in all directions, particularly in economic well-being, since supervision by the United States began in 1915. In sanitation, education and public works, the advancement has been notable. This is indeed very good news to us who are so deeply interested in the welfare of this little, struggling, black republic. The report goes on to state that the courts are inefficient and incompetent. "Trials by jury are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government and can easily be swayed by racial or other prejudice, or by drawing upon its imagination or sympathy." The Commission further says that there can be no lasting progress and development in this republic until the government is able to draft a drastic plan of judicial reform. Who would dare say, the government of the United States has courts [Name] HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT Illinois Commerce Commissioner; Republican C of Second Ward, who is supporting Jno. Dill Mayor, because he believes the success of Thompson will result in putting the colored place of political inferiority. Illinois Commerce Commissioner; Republican Committeeman of Second Ward, who is supporting Jno. Dill Robertson for Mayor, because he believes the success of William Hale Thompson will result in putting the colored people in a place of political inferiority. that are inefficient and incompetent, and that trials by jury are farcical? Yet, when the Negro is involved, especially in the south, trial by jury is more often a farce than otherwise—as the color of the prisoner directly influences the jury and justice is consequently often miscarried. Haiti is not alone in this particular state of affairs. The Commissioner is indeed in error when he claims that unless there is judicial reform, there can be no lasting progress and development in the republic. Does not our own American republic enjoy lasting progress and development, regardless of its need for judicial reform in cases—Negro vs. white man? Strange that some Americans see only the faults in others and are blind to their own. What Dever Has Done He has re-established the finances of Chicago on a basis of solvency and economy. He wiped out a deficit to which his administration fell heir in 1923. He wiped out a deficit to w heir in 1923. He ended the wasteful pr known to be in excess of He has built 51 new schools tional 17, which will open He has added 73,500 sects He has added 72,500 seats for children of school age. He has improved educational methods, and 505,000 Chicago children are the beneficiaries of their blessings. He drove that most terrible evil, commercialized vice, out of Chicago. He has brought to the people of Chicago a sense of security. He has paved 199 miles of streets and 50 miles of alleys, a record unprecedented. He has performed other great public performances. He has performed other great public works, of which Wacker Drive is an outstanding example. He has conducted the city's business sanely, intelligently, without scandal, without reproach. He is working earnestly to settle the traction question on a basis that will assure a square deal for the people who own our streets. He has encouraged and supported welfare work by creating new playgrounds and small parks. He successfully defended Chicago's fair name when it was assailed by irresponsible libellers. He has submitted a simple, concrete plea for an initial subway—the best and most intelligent ever offered. He has secured passage of Pure Milk Ordinance to save lives of babies. He has added 250 beds to Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. He has made Fire Department best fire fighting machine in world. He has reorganized Police Department on basis of service to the people. He has installed 25,000 new electric lights throughout Chicago. He has installed traffic lighting system, thereby reducing congestion. He has widened many streets, thereby increasing their value to the city. He has introduced sound business methods in all city departments. He has increased Public Library facilities by adding new branches and more than 150,000 new books. He has cordially supported every act of the Health Department to safeguard the lives of the people of Chicago. Let us re-elect Mayor Dever, and he will broaden his accomplishments in behalf of the people. (Adv.) ioner; Republican Committeeman supporting Jno. Dill Robertson fox loves the success of William Hale putting the colored people in a city. in error when he claims that unless there is judicial reform, there can be no lasting progress and development in the republic. Does not our own American republic enjoy lasting progress and development, regardless of its need for judicial reform in cases—Negro vs. white man? Strange that some Americans see only the faults in others and are blind to their own. 77 SLPE03 which his administration fell practice of creating budgets of estimated revenues. ols, and is completing an addi en in April. Ernest H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER 5121-23-25 E. H. WILLIAMSON Charles E. 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TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter, augu 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago Ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. Notary Public Phone: Office Main 4163; Residence 4751 Champlain Avenue Phone Kenwood 5611 ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Telephone: State 3278 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 813, Ashland Block 155 N. Clark Street CHICAGO, ILL. WILLIE UNL JOHN D. SCOTT, Manager Licensed Undertaker MRS.MARY E. WILLIAMSON Licensed Undertaker J.E. BISH 33d Degree PR.W.D.G.M, Bookkeeper Unexcelled for AUTOMOBILES KEN 5121-23-25 EDUCATIONAL MASS MEETING AT THE PILGRIM BAPIST CHURCH AND BETHESDA BAPIST CHURCH By Charles Stewart, Jr. Information had been imparted from a secret course for some time past that had for its purpose an endeavor to inspire to a degree of educational thoughtfulness. Institutions of various characters throughout the country had called upon their alumni for an assemblage with the paramount issue in view of putting back of the institutions that gave them their place in the educational world. Atlanta, the Athens of the south, has two great institutions known as Morehouse College and Spelman University. These institutions needed the financial support and it was decided by the faculty to avail themselves of the opportunity to visit the students assembled with their friends to tell the existing condition. At Bethesda Baptist Church, 53rd street and Michigan avenue, an afternoon program was prepared in which the Rev. W. M. Bennett, pastor of International Baptist Church; Rev. E. T. Martin, pastor of Bethesda Baptist Church; the Rev. E. L. Randall, president of the ministers' conference, the Junior Choir of Olivet Baptist Church; Rev. J. H. Branham, assistant pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, Rev. I. A. Thomas, of the 2nd Baptist Church of Evanston, master of ceremonies, all participated. Music by the Junior Choir and Octet of Olivet Baptist Church. Violin solo by Dr. J. W. McCaskill. The master of ceremonies introduced Judge William H. Harrison; who in turn presented the president of Morehouse College, Dr. John Hope, who, in his usual masterly manner, imparted to the vast audience the necessity of their united support both morally and financially behind these institutions. He drew the picture of the Negro long ago, when he was struggling to obtain an education and how the white philanthropist of the time gone by was hesitating as to whether he should continue to lend financial assistance to a race who had grown from four million in the 60's to fourteen million strong American citizens, occupying vocations in every walk of life, receiving substantial sal- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APRIL 2, 1927 aries for their labor. And he pictured that yesterday had passed and the millions of intelligent men and women of our group should raise themselves to the fullness of character and stand behind their own who are unable to help themselves. He reasoned out the Jew going back to Jerusalem taking millions of dollars of American money to reconstruct that city, then he asked the agents of institutions of ours why it is that you are not able to inculcate in the minds of the men and women of our group that it is their imperative duty to take from a part of their earnings sufficiently to keep intact on an equal scale with every advancement for the institutions which belong to your race as we do to those of ours. This was the message brought to this great concourse of people by the fourth president of Morehouse College, that distinguished scholar, Dr. John Hope. He not only talked to them from this educational point of necessity, but he picked out the salient points in the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Louisville case and the case in New Orleans. He drew plainly the point that these millions of American citizens were the only component part of the United States, man and womanhood, that had to appeal to the United States Supreme Court for justice and right, therefore he said you can see more plainly the reason for a united front for a broader field of better education, of a deeper research that we may be able to reason with a hostile opinion of judge and jury who are called upon to pass judgment upon the rights of our citizenship. And then he turned over a new page and out of the 14th and 15th amendments, where the constitutional rights to vote had been barred in the state of Texas, and on an appeal to the United States Supreme Court for the first time in a half century, associated Justice Holmes of Massachusetts, with that firmness of Wendell Phillips and others who were in the sleeping cities beyond, smiled in a new scene from the skies as this venerable jurist read an unanimous opinion, although in his 86th year no part of a decision he was ever connected with during his time on the bench has been of a more important character than the one he rendered that the constitutional barrier against the rights of the Negro in the state of Texas to vote in the primary was unconstitutional in its entirety. Again he pointed to the fact that it is expected of us, as a group, to begin to maintain our institutions ourselves. This was the inaugurative step in an endeavor to have it clearly understood that we must rise to the fulness of our personal duties one to the other. He was assured by the responsive call of a collection that they understood his message. The Rev. L. K. Williams, president of the National Baptist Convention, rose and pledged that it would be a part of his mission to the members of the church throughout the country to have them see the necessity of educational preparedness. In the evening of the same day the services were held at the Pilgrim Baptist Temple, 33rd street and Indiana avenue, the Rev. J. C. Austin, pastor. A musical program adequately fitted for the occasion was rendered. B. H. Fletcher stated the purpose of the meeting. Mrs. Mary Cole rendered a vocal solo; Attorney Wm. E. King was master of ceremonies, Dr. J. Sylvander Trice introduced the speaker. His story was of a like character of the address in the afternoon. 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