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Race Not Dismayed by Vicious Acts of Congress Howard P. Drew, Champion Sprinter, Wins Five Races in One Day LATEST NEWS If You See It In The Defender It's So VOL. X., NO. 8. Race N Howard P. WHITE GIRLS NOT FITTED FOR WORK ON DINING CARS Off ials Laugh at Experiment—Company Using Girls Only One Whose Dining Car System Does Not Pay. COMPANIES WOULD LOSE. Girls Would Require Sleeping Cars on Long Runs—All Sorts of New Legislation Would Be Needed for Their Protection. Special to The Chicago Defender. New York, Jan. 15.—Railroad passenger offenders almost laughed this ask, who were asked if railways generally will follow the expertit of the Tolado & Ohio Central in employing waitresses in dining cars. "That is one field of labor that women can't enter," they said. They indicated pretty foretold that the job of serving meals while being worked over the ground at sixty miles or less an hour belongs to the time-omitted Afro-American waiters. No Good on Long Runs. "There are all sorts of objections, id one Passenger then... Waltresses not be used on long runs be the rods would have to make sleeping arrangements for them and this would involve useless expense. Men waiters can take care of themselves. But the biggest objection is that if the roads employed waitresses will be all sorts of new legislation for them. An ox-ding car inspector voiced the sentiments of the hundreds of waiters employed by the various rods when he said: Trying to Regain Prestige. Trying to Regain Prestige. "Without a doubt the traveling public is the most cosmopolitan gathering ever embodied together. The rich man is a brother to the poor man in the world, who uses their different destinations. Let them thought is the dining service which they are to receive. Why, then, should they confuse their minds as to who will render the best service, the white girl or the Afro-American waiter? Haven't they been perfectly satisfied with the service during the number of years it has been in operation. The public is satisfied. Why, then, should they be a change in the dining system? "Passing the final arguments on statistics lately found in the best records, we fully realize that the company seeking to place girl waitresses in the dining rooms is the one company whose dining system is not a paying one. The officials also realize that the young woman, no matter how winsome, absolutely cannot complain. Why, then, do they seek to place her in the position? Simply as a novelty device to regain their lost prestige is the sentiment voiced by every one." Men Waiters Average 98 Per Cent. "Another official said: 'Not as a matter of praise, but simply from a business standpoint I must say that the roads have exclusive Afro-American dining car service are the most beautiful in the world, judging from effleness alone, these waiters average 98 per cent perfect in their service on all lines, while the best of our competitors have averaged to date 87 per cent." CITY COUNCIL ASKS FOR MORE POLICEMEN Chicago Defender Suggests That Civil Service Commission Certify for Appointment — Present List of Eligibles. Monday night the city council asked for 1,250 additional policemen, and The Chicago Defender points out a quick way to supply a portion of that number by referring them to the Civil Service Commission. It will be remembered that back in 1913 about 93 men successfully passed the examination. During 1914 something to 142 more men passed that list, saying 351 still on the list. Free Hundred Fifty-One on Waiting List. these 351 still on the list, eight Afro-americans, and for that rea- there has been some talk of owing cat list out, for in the lance of 60 official, "there are too block men on the force now." so 651 lie should be appointed Up Commission. the meetime examinations are every day but very few, if any, of the rare pass muster. The od兵 5 ft. 8 ins, but a ft. 10 was declared to be ill by meetings physician, but two doctors said that he was per- sident in the Civil Service Commis- sor here. KING ALCOHOL Closing of Saloons January 1 Forerunner of Prosperity—Valley Bank Reopens—Other Items of Local Interest. By A. R. Smith. Phoenix, Ariz. Jan. 15. — January 1 King Alcohol met his death in the state of Arizona. Every salon in the state has ceased to do business, and as an immediate result the Valley Bank of Phoenix has reopened with ample capital to pay off all depositors in full. There are signs of prosperity on every hand. Building activity has taken on new life, and everybody seems to have the prosperous spirit. The Phoenix sign is "Going up, Phoenix prosperous." * Maricopa Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M., gave its annual entertainment and turkey dinner on the 23th, which was a success. Joins Order of Eastern Star. Ms. Lizzie Polk, formerly of Lawrence, Drilluna and little Miss Daughters, Cholora, Drilluna and little Miss Daughters, also the son, Floyd, were down from Arizona, during the holidays. Miss Cholora Polk was initiated into the Order of the Eastern Star while 1957, this being the main object of the family's visit to the city. Miss Drilluna Polk, although young, is an accomplished musician. She gave exhibitions, her skill on several occasions, and all who heard her were astounded at the great gift with which she executed the dream of young lady has a great future, before her and we wish her success. * Master Chester Fish was host at a party on the 31st, given in honor of Miss Drilluna Polk and her little sister. Miss Drilluna delighted the participants with a few choice selections on the piano. Miss Emily and her friends were hostesses at a party on the 24th, given in honor of the Polk sisters. Forum Elects Officers. **Forum Elects Officers.** The Phoenix Forum celebrated Emancipation Day by a grand program at the Second Baptist Church. The speakers were as follows: Mr. C. C Credilel spoke on the cause of the emancipation; Rev. N. E. White spoke on Lincoln's part in the liberation of slaves; Rev. F. D. Sample on "The New Emancipation"; Professor P. Landry on "The History of American Slaves"; Mrs. L. L. Stewart gave a recital appropriate to the occasion. On the whole the exercises were a grand success. The chief officer was Sunday, January 3, was the election officers for the next quarter. The following are the officers elected: President, A. C. Council; vice president, C. C Credilel; secretary, Mrs. S. L. Gross; assistant secretary, Mrs. Thelma Green; treasurer, I. Smith; journalist, Rev. William Solly. * **Mr. and Mrs. Paris Tabron of Prescott, Ariz. were the guests of Mr. C. C. Gross and well the past deck. The Tabrona is to California for the winter. While here they were entertained at lunchon by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stears. Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Howard also entertained them at an elaborate dinner. JACK JOHNSON AGREES TO LONG TITLE BATTLE World's Champion to Go 45 Rounds With Willard in Mexico, Saturday, March 6—Receives $30,000, Win, Lose or Draw. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) New York, Jan. 15—John Johnson and Jesse Willard will meet in a 45- round bout for the heavyweight champion, the World's St. Jorge, Mexico, on Saturday, March 16, next Final arrangements to this effect were made here Friday, Jan. 8th, after other blids were received from Havana, Cuba and Tijuana, Mexico. Johnson has been guaranteed $30,000 win, losse or draw, while Willard has been assured a minimum of $15,000 and may receive a much larger sum by sharing interests in the affair with Jack Curley, the chief promoter, and his associates. Other offers to stake the bet from Billy Glover of this city represent a certificate that was desirous of taking the bout, to Havana, Cuba, and Jim Coffroth, the California promoter, who wished to have it held near Tijuana, Mexico. Curley and the other men interested believed, however, that the assurances of financial backing and concessions made by the Mexican officiant, the men of El Paso, Tex., for the Juarez proposition promised better results. RENT YOUR ROOMS. Why have you a vanat room in your house when a small classified "ad" in The Chicago Defender brings the right kind of roomers? Try one. Chicago Defender WORLD'S GREATEST WEEKLY WOMEN FAVOR L.B.ANDERSON IN ALDERMANIC RACE Mrs. William H. Montgomery Endorses Candidate's Manly Stand, and Says Majority of Her Sex Will Vote for Him. Read Statement of Elimination Plan in Chicago Defender and Writes Open Letter on Subject. Editor The Chicago Defender—As one of the newly emancipated citizens of the Second ward, I desire through the columns of your valuable paper to express myself on the plan of elimination submitted, and published in the last issue of your paper, by Hex Louis B. Anderson, one of the appointed candidates for alderman. I confess that prior to reading the plan, I was in doubt as to which of the candidates I should vote. The one thing above and beyond all, and one of most concern, was to be sure that there would be one of our race MRS. WM. H. MONTGOMERY One of the Many Young Matrons Who Are Fighting to Make Their Own Leaders. nominated for this important office. Since all but Mr. Anderson seem to have adopted the "dog in the manger" policy. I am forced to conclude that the alone has demonstrated the true race spirit. I have talked with a number of my women friends who are as intensely interested in this fight as I am, and they, too, have reading your paper and the plan of elimination submitted by Mr. Anderson, agree with me that a man who is thus willing to sacrifice his personal ambitions for the sake of his race should be a person the highest opportunity to live for his race. Praises Defender. Your valued effort through the powerful influence of the Chicago Defender to bring the voters of the Second ward to a sense of understanding that their efforts in this fight must be centered upon one candidate will long be cherished as one of the many manly stands that you have taken through the course of your life to place and power along with the other nationalities which make up the population of our great city. Anderson the Right Man. I hope all of your readers, before the coming primaries, will conclude as I have, that Louis B. Anderson is the man upon whom they can safely depend. WHITE SOCIETY GIRL AS NUN WILL HELP AFRO-AMERICANS (Special to the Chicago Defender). New York, New Jan. 15. —The gaiety of social life is about to be cast aside by Miss Lucy Dahlgren, 21 years old and a favorite of society in Philadelphia and in New York for the hard work and discipline of her mentorship, an order whose members devote their lives to work among Afro-Americans and Indians. Miss Dahlgren made her debut in New York in 1912. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eric B. Dahlgren, who were divorced nearly two years ago. At St. Lloyd's Church in New York, she will enter the convent at Cornwells, Pa., January 28. CHICAGO, JANUARY 16, 1915 COLUMBUS DRIVING PARK OFFICIALS HAND K. OF P.S. HARD BLOW Committee on Arrangements Hires Place to Entertain Grand Lodge and Encampment, but is Denied Liquor Privileges—Rental is $1,500. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Columbus, O. Jan. 15.—The local committee on arrangements for the entertainment of the supreme grand lodge and encampment P. P.'s last weekend of the month, the opening of the Columbus Drive Park for the place, in which to hold the encampment next August. The committee had been led to believe, when the supreme grand lodge voted to come here, that the park would be donated free, with all privileges, and if a charge was made for it the charge would be only nominal. However, it has been forced to agree to pay a rental of $1,200 for the park for six days and without the liquor privileges, the latter being retained by the present lesser. In addition, the provision was included upon that local committee is not to solicit contributions from either the street railway or the big brewery of funds to help defray entertainment expenses. Recelvership Mixea Matters The brewery company, which had tentatively agreed to contribute the $1,500 guarantee required by Colonel Jackson, has since gone into the hands of the receiver. This company practically controls the driving park. The reserving of the liquor privileges by the present white lessor means that the hundreds of dollars anticipated being spent for liquor during the week's encampment will go into white people's hands. It is regarded as unfair that the owners of the driving park should squeeze the K. P.'s for $1,200 rental for one week and then deny them the liquor privileges, which would have been very great in dollars and, on a toy that they against soliciting contributions from the railway company and the brewery company, both of which had previously intimated they would contribute. Hard Blow for Order. The K. P's by this action have been handed a hard blow. Now on top of all this the report is that none of the hotels will be expected to accommodate Afro-American visitors and K. P's. This will make another problem for committee handling accommodations required for the hotel an anticipated 25,000 or 40,000 Afro-American K. P's and visitors next August. It appears as if the state grand lodge will have to step in and finance the meeting because of the throwdown the local committee got over with. The hotel will be the white chamber of commerce official who promised so much last summer. RACES CAN NOT INTERMARRY RACES CAN NOT INTERMARRY Southern Lawmakers Pass Bill in Lower House by Vote of 228 to 60—Act Is Insult to Race. SCREEN FOR OWN DIRT Illinois Congressmen Vote Against Bill Which Provides Penalties of Fines and Imprisonment. (Special to the Chicago Defender) Washington, D. C., Jan. 15—Monday, Jan. 11th, when the lower house of Congress passed a bill preventing the intermargaret of the races in the District of Columbia, they not only again insisted the race but they provided the southern members with a screen to hide their own immorality. Four Illinois members, however, went on record against it. Severe Penalties. After voting against a bill to prevent such intermarriages, each of these members declared that he did not favor miscegenation, but that the measure was advanced only to insult Afro-American citizens. The congressmen who voted against it were Mann, Madden, Thomson and Copley. The bill was passed by a vote of 228 to 60. It provides penalties for violation, both by principals and officials performing the marriage ceremony. Any person having one-eighth African blood is held to be a negro within the meaning of the term as used in the bill. W. M. TROTTER OFF FOR WASHINGTON Mr. William Monroe Trettier, editor of the Boston Guardian, who has spent ten days or more in and around Chicago addressing the public on his recent interview with President Wilson, will be light on Washington, enroute to his home. GOV. COLE BLEASE RETIRES JANUARY 19; FREES 3,165 CONVICTS Race-Hating Eccentric of South Croatia, Keeps Up Pardon Record- Signs Last Batch in Red Ink-Public Career Ends with Retirement. (Special, to the Chicago Defender). Columbia, S. C., Jan. 15—All hall Cole Breaks留 from the govern- orship Tuesday, January 19. On his re- turn, race-hating degenerate passes into jail as far as public life is concerned. What so Carolinians showed him what they thought of him when he ran for United States senator. Establishes a Record Establishes a Record. The tortoriously eccentric gentleman, however, will enjoy the distinction of being the owner of all times, having pardoned or paroled 3,155 convicts since he has been in office. Saturday he granted full pardons to about 1,500 persons convicted in South Carolina of various crimes and paroled since Jan. 1, 1911. In 1911, 1,191 persons were included in a blanket pardon none of whom is now in the penitentiary, or in prison camps, the governor also granted clemency to thirty-four convicts in state prison or engaged on public works. Eighteen were paroled, and six were given commutations of sentence. Seven had been convicted of murder and ten of manslaughter. Signs Pardons in Red Ink Signs Pardons in Red Ink. Governor Blaise signed the blanket pardon for the 1980s accepted as correct the estimate of his taches that his action would increase to 3,165 the total number of pardons, paroles and commutations of sentence which he has granted since he became governor four years ago. According to information obtainable here, that places Governor Blaise's record for that of any other state executive. He will retire from office January 19. EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE OPPOSES MARRIAGE ACT EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE OPPOSES MARRIAGE ACT Local Organization Protests Against Bill Passed by the House Forbidding Intermarriage in District of Columbia. At a call meeting of the Chicago branch of the National Independent Equal Rights league, held Tuesday night, Jan. 12th, at 3005 State street, the bill making marriage between Bride and Afro-American citizens a felony in the District of Columbia which was passed by the National House of Representatives on Monday, was declared to be an insult to and official stigma upon the Afro-American people of the country, depriving Afro- American women of the protection all other women have, a disastrous blow without any necessity whatever. The race of the entire country was urged to protest and petition the Senate to adopt a resolution wrong. The organization of protest on record with a regulation of protest on record with a resolution of protest stating: House bill penalizing mixed marriages voices race hatred and places stigma upon colored citizens. National legislation discriminating against no race or nationality but the negro constitutes taint of blood by federal law, making the negro a social and moral outcast, places premium upon illicit miscegenation and destroys safeguard of negro womanhood. Please defeat it. National Independent Rights League, Chicago Branch. George W. Ellis, president; Ida B. Wells Barnett, vice president; Bernard W. Fitts, treasurer; James Allimoni, secretary; Frank Hamilton, chairman executive committee; Edward H. Wright, Beauregard F. Moseley, Louis B. Anderson, Oscar De Priest, Adelbert H. Roberts, Rev. H. J. Callis, chaplain. Telegrams were sent to Senators Sherman and Lewis, with the above signatures, protesting against the bill as putting colored persons on a par with the degenerate, diseased and idiotic; also telegrams of thanks for opposing bill to Madden, Mann, Thompson, Copley. Appeals were made to oppose bill for separate cars for District of Columbia when it comes up. It was voted to send a representative to Washington to represent the Chicago branch of the league. DENIED MAN THEATER SEAT IS FINED $4 Lansing, Mich. Jan. 15—(Special)—Last week Claude E. Cady, manager of a local theater, was found guilty of discrimination against Afo-Ameri- it being claimed that he refused John Allen's assignment to his "movie" house after the latter had purchased a ticket. The theater owner claimed that there were no vacant seats in the building. He was fined $15 and $30 costs. 30,000 SEE DREW LAND FIVE RACES AT PASADENA World's Champion Sprinter Is Whole Show at Recent Tourn- ment of Roses Track and Field Meet—Wins with Ease. GETS TWO SILVER CUPS. Easy Victor in 100 and 220-Yard Dashes—Was Not Pressed in Century and Furlong—Day's Work Some Record. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 15—Howard Drew was the whole show at the Tournament of Roses track and field and Pasadena before a crowd of close to 50,000 persons. The world champion sprinter won his heats at the 100 and 220-yard dashes with ease, loafing all the way. Drew also grabbed the two silver cups offered for his favorite events, and incidentally ran the last 1.50 of the open relay for the U. B. C., making up a handcuff of five yards and coming into the home run by winners as many yards. in the day's tournament. Trojan marvel ran five races and won them all, which is some record. Drew did not make fast time in the century and furlong, for the simple reason that he was not pressed. The sprinter would run and then turn around to see where his opponents were. In the 100-yard dash the time was 10½ seconds, while in the furlong race he made a mark of 23 seconds Cammack Second. Cammack of Whittier College finished second to Drew in the century, with Webster, the Occidental freshman, third. Gillette of the Los Angeles Athletic Club breezed in second in a game with Johnson, a "fresh" from U.S.A. Pasahal, who hails from Whittier State School, won the high school 100-yard dash in the extremely slow time of 10% seconds. The star spinner from Whittier led all the way and won by five yards. Date of Pasadena high, a newcomer in southern interscholastic athletics, was second, with Wark of Long Beach a poor third. Repat of Long Beach a poor fourth. With the result that he was far left in the rear, Bob Merriam, the former Pomona College high jumper, did a comeback when he won the high jump at the height of 5 feet 11 inches, which is some leap. The former Hun showed his old-time form and was going good. He was the only one who hails from Long Beach was second, with Webster of Santa Paula third. Kelly Wins, as Usual. The high hurdles, the next event on the program, was a great race from start to finish. King Kelly won the silver cup, but only after the hardest kind of a race with Ben Ward, a former teammate. Ward led up to the (Continued on page 7.) GENERAL A. S. BURT DEAD. Fighting Commander of the 24th Infantry Dies of Heart Disease at Washington, D. C., Tuesday—Was Guest of Col. F. A. Denison at Laying of Cornerstone of 8th Regiment Armory. Brigadier General Andrew S. Burt, U. S. A., retired veteran of the Civil, Spanish-American, Philippine, and a number of Indian wars, died Tuesday at Washington, D. C., of heart disease. He was 75 years old, and a native of Cincinnati. During the Spanish-American war he commanded the 24th Infantry, and always said Afro-American soldiers were the bravest and most daring fighters of the nation. At the laying of the corner stone of the new 8th Regiment armory, 38th and State streets, he was the guest of Col. F. A. Denison and delivered the best speech of the occasion. He was known to every prominent man in the city, from reporter to millionaire. General Burt was loved by Afro-American soldiers because he believed in fair play for all, regardless of race. B. T. WASHINGTON III (Special to the Chicago Defender). Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Jan. 15. Booker T. Washington III was born here last Sunday. The mother is doing fine. He weighed eight pounds. Washington are receiving congratulations from all parts of the country. This is the first grandchild of the nosed educator, and Professor Washington is as proud of the newborn as the parents. --- HOME EDITION ICE 5 CENTS IN CHICAGO, AND SUBURBS FORBIGN 15 CENTS ongress in One Day PRICE 5 CENTS IN CHICAGO AND SUBURBS PORRION JACINTH DR. J. E. SPINGARN ON SUCCESSFUL SPEAKING TOUR Noted White Speaker in the West in Interest of Race—Exhibit of Books and Pamphlets in Public Libraries. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Springfield, O. Jan. 15—Wednesday night, January 13, Dr. J. E. Spingar, chairman of the board of directors of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People, delivered an address in this city on the Negro and His Place in American Democracy" at the North Street A. M. E. Church, Rev. J. S. Jackson, pastor. The next morning at 0'clock Dr. Spingar addressed the students of Wittenberg College. On the night of the 14th he was in Dayton, where he spoke at the Y. M. C. A. hall. At noon on the 15th he addressed the surface University. The chairman of the faculty ranging the meeting in Springfield, O. was Rev. J. S. Jackson. The committee included the following: Revs. R. T. Frye, R. J. Fleming, H. Everett, E. Burton, T. A. Green, F. A. Boswell, E. W. S. Hammond, George W. Jackson, J. E. Courtney and Mr. Charles E. Frey. In Dayton Mr. J. C. Farrow was chairman of the committee, which included the following: C. D. Higgins, Bradford H. H. Dr. J. A. Rose, Dr. L. H. Cooper and B. E. Thompson. Co-operating with this committee was the Greater Dayton Association. Dr. Spingarn addressed a series of massmeetings in Pittsburgh on January 10 and 11, where his speeches aroused widespread interest. He spoke in the First Unitarian Church, The Bethel A. M. E. Church, the St. James A. M. E. Church, and also made addresses to the Hungry Club, the chief forum of the city, to the Ministerial Council of the society department of Pittsburgh University. Everywhere he was received with enthusiasm. After leaving Dayton Dr. Springgain will speak in Cincinnati and Toledo, Springfield, Ill.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Des Moines, Ia.; Omaha, Neb.; Minneapolis and St. Paul, ending his trip in Buffalo, N. I. In all of these cities a series of massmessages have been arranged in churches, before chambers of commerce, boards of trade and other representative organizations. In public libraries interesting exhibits are held, and about the race. These collections include the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Stanley Braithwaite, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Phyllis Wheatley, as well as books by foreign members of the race, including Dunnas peris and Fus, Skipin and certain Spanish-American writers. In addition there are works by white American abolitionists and slavery writers, and a selection of books on the history of the race problem. These public displays are proving a real service to American democracy by bringing forthly to the attention of white people the literary achievements of the race. GOV. O'NEAL VISITS TUSKEGEE SCHOOL HAS LAUDABLE IDEA GOV. O'NEAL VISITS TUSKEGEE SCHOOL HAS LAUDABLE IDEA (Special to Chicago Defender) Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 15—Emmett O'Neal, governor of Alabama, paid Tuskegee Institute a visit this week and inspected the school. He was accompanied by a special party. He spoke to the students, who waved his hand to the governor, tendered the governor an ovation, eclipses, perhaps, the ovations given Presidents McKinley, Taft, Roosevelt, and Carnegie. "I witnessed one of the most inspiring scenes of my life today when I saw that long array of young men and women marching in review. The question occurred to me: In what are the opportunities to be the best of the Union; I saw the uniform. I asked myself the question, are they soldiers? And the answer was, yes, they are soldiers fighting the greatest enemy of the human race—ignorance, and its twin, vice and superstition. "I said it was the duty of this commonwealth, a proposition which I have always announced, that educational opportunities should be the birthright of all students, this state, regardless of race or color. Dr. Washington said: here, side by side, are two races. We must live together in concord and in harmony and in peace. No state can afford to allow any, class of its population to remain steeped in ignorance. The Afro-American man cultivates a large area of agricultural and tillable lands of its own, our proper position as a state in agricultural development, the scientific knowledge and skill which we furnish from our schools and institutions must be furnished to every man that tills the soil in this state. If we are to reach the highest agricultural development ASK BREWERY TO STOP RIDICULEOF RACE ON POSTERS National Training School for Women and Girls at Washington Takes Initiative in Protest to Anheuser-Busch Company for Caricatures of Afro-American. PICTURES EVERYWHERE. Great Business Concern Departs from Its Custom of Featuring Eminent Caucasians and Has Resorted to Portraying Worst Type of Oppressed Race. The poor attempt at art in posters displayed all over Chicago by the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company wherein it insults every self-reporting citizen by ridiculing the race, went without protest, as do many other indignities. Not so other communities. Miss Burroughs Objects. The obnoxious posters appeared in Washington, D. C., and the fearless and aggressive race champion, Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, president of the National Training School for Young Women and Girls at Lincoln Heights, promptly voiced her disapproval of them. A. P. Whereas, Anheuser-Busch have placed lifesize pictures on billboards throughout the state of our national capital to advertise the race, and consequently must have placed such pictures throughout our country; and Whereas, Three burlesque pictureboards of a business as extensive as is Negro American in form, feature dress and environment; and Whereas, great business concern is departed from its aim of selecting the most prominent Caucasian Americans to advertise their products; and Whereas, such pictures are impressively white Americans that in spite of it being highly cultured, they are still in an physique, savage in feature, antiquated in dress and degenerate in home life, and unstintly hip despite the Negro American, his deep before him self for no other reason than that the american people scorn and bellittle men having been born black instead of white. Be I. Resolved, (1) That we, the representatives of 100,000 Americans of all races, meet in meeting assembled at Zion Barracks on June 21, 1914, earnestly protest against this Negro life by such caricatures displaying a place and in any way overlaid, and (2) that we urge Anheuser-Busch to waitward immediately from view everywhere that do nothing more than hold the Negro up to ridicule and contempt. The above was signed "Respectfully, The Protest Committee. Rev. E. B) Ricks, chairman; Rev. M. F. Sydes, D. D.; Rev. Arthur, Randall, D. J.; Rev. J. M. Waldron, D. D.; Miss Nainra H. Burrowbs, A. M. secretary." HON. OSCAR DE PRIEST IN WASHINGTON (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Washington, D. C., Jan. 15—A distinguished Chicago visitor this week is the Hon. Oscar De Priest, Republican leader of the Second ward. Mr. De Priest arrived early in the week for a meeting of talking over the political situation with his confederate, Hon. Martin B. Madden, representative from the First congressional district, which includes the Second ward. Mr. De Priest is one of the most striking figures in political affairs in the "Windy City." He is a former of the Cook county board of commissioners and is the regular Republican candidate for nomination for alderman at the February primaries. TUSKEGEE HEAD GOES TO NATIONAL CAPITAL Hon. Booker T. Washington Leaves for Washington Tuesday Night to Use Influence Against So Much Adverse Legislation Relative to Race Hon. Booker T. W. Washington, pal of Tuskegee Institute, arrife Chicago Monday-morning to co with Julius Rosenwald and other it fuential men regarding his work a the noted Institute. Mr. Washington was greatly concerned about the constant efforts of both branches of con legislate against the race He expresses himself as pleased with the defeat of the immigrant movement of the immigration bill; and demands of Tuesday night to use his influence in what he terms the "most crucial period in the race's history." A.W.SMITH VIEWS 2ND WARD FIGHT FOR ALDERMAN Forest Avenue, Voter Thinks Present Contest Will Mark New Era in Political History of Ward. CHOICE IS UP TO VOTERS. Ability and Sincerity of Candidates Should Be First Consideration of Intelligent Citizens—The Situation in Detail. Editor Defender: In the approaching aldermanic contest in the Second ward, the Negroes, ward, the Negroes, both men and women are forced to an intelligent consideration of the ability and sincerity of the candidates. The candidacy of Mr. Oscar Do Priest, is familiar with all the tricks of the game, and looked upon as one of the leaders of the so-called blackbeat, should mark a new era in the political history of men are forced to an intelligent consideration of the ability and sincerity of the candidates. The candidate of New Orleans Do Priest, who is familiar with all the tricks of the game, and looked upon as one of the political leaders of the so-called black-belt, should mark a new era in the political history of the intelligent, self-respecting Negroes Choice for Al-Or, the Second derman. show that the "in- intelligent men and women who believe, and are interested in the advancement of their race, are determined to emancipate themselves from the hypocritical boss-riden demagogues who have abandoned self-respect and race pride in order that their selfish aims be obliterated. Such men are worthy of either confidence, or respect, and in my opinion can no longer control or influence the intelligent electorate of the Second ward who have made up their minds to refuse to stand by and permit their honor and rights denied them and will demand by their votes that these false would-be leaders be removed. The progress of the race are forced into immediate and permanent seclusion. Oscar De Priest and all the rest of the Negro-baiting crowd who have been carried into office and political jobs on the back of the Negroes of the black-belt, misrepresenting and oppressing them as they go along, are forced to be entrusted with unfit to be entrusted with our interests as a race in the common council of this city. Endorses Alderman Norris. I have in my possession a circular letter, addressed "To the Colored Republican Voters of the Second Ward." It reads in part as follows: "The Republican voters of the Second ward are asked to vote for one of two candidates at the coming Republican primaries. One element of our colored voters seems to want to vote self alone without race lines support a candidate, their own, and addition a mand that all colored voters cast their votes for their candidate based on the narrow plane of color. The question, to any sober mind, is this: Can colored men and women afford at this time, or any other color line that they themselves so desire abhor? Now, fellow citizens, before Mr. Cowan announced his candidacy and when no other Republican entrant was in the field, the organization endorsed Alderman Hugh Norris for nomination and re-election. As a part of the regular Second ward organization there are a great number of colored men who owe it to themselves 1 candidate. We see the organization forsake the ship when our help is so sorely needed. Cowan's success at this alternatic primary based on purely racial lines, would wreck the party and prove doubly disastrous to the race and work irreparable injury to the unborn generations of colored people, and all for the sake of gratitude. A few disgruntled politicians who flaunt the anarchy-flag of the race prejudice from their own ramparts." This letter was signed by the Hon. Oscar De Priest and a number of other colored politicians and would-be politicians thus urging the Negroes to nominate a white man for alderman of the Second ward, and vote against a man of color who would have reest the rest, "Mr Cowan was defeated," the general election of April 7, 1914. Mr. De Priest again advised and urged the Negroes to vote against the man of his own color. I for one did not yield obedience to the advice given by the Hon. Mr. De Priest, because if adhered to, would deprive the Negroes of citizenship, immunities and rights of citizenship, limit his freedom consistent with a racial or political organization. The right of free action, the right of free thought, and equality before the law, regardless of any organization, is dearer to every true American, white or black, rich or poor, than any other under our system of government. It is our duty as American citizens after years of hardship to demand those rights; not as timid to demand smuggers, but openly, fairly, fearlessly, and unitedly, as becomes a free and independent people. The Voters' Duty. I therefore question Mr. De Priest's sincerity. I criticize his motives and believe there are thousands of true, liberty-loving Negroes in the Second ward and the city of Chicago who will challenge him to prove that he did not act as a rank enemy to the race, when he advised and urged the colored people to vote against Negro canvassers, the ward in which he resides. The sameaders are eliminated from publicfo, and relegated to the background,be better it will be for all concerned,have traveled fast politically in ast ten or fifteen years, and ifI Priest thinks that his attitudewards the Negro race last spring, in high his mental limitations, boundhim to the biased wishes of the Secorionists, the mission are forgotten or approved, he is unable tohalutation. In this day even coloredvoter knows the importance ofelecting an alderman of their race andthey very properly want to know what each aspirant stands for. They want to know, not what a candidate says,but what he really is. As the principal opponent to Mr. De Priest we have THE WAY TO DO THIS THING IS FOR YOU AND LOUIE TO GIT OUT AND LEAVE IT TO ME! YOU AND LOUIE GET OUT AND LEAVE IT TO ME, THAT'S BETTER! I SAY LET THE PEOPLE SAY WHO SHALL GET OUT EVEN THOUGH IT IS HE I WILL BE SATISFIED! IM GOING TO STICK TILL DICK SHRIVELS COME BACK! WHEN I QUIT DICK SHRIVELS WILL BE BACK! THAT'S ALL! GENTLEMEN. WE WANT A COLORED ADJ NOW ARE WE TO GET ONE THE JUST LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY! ALDERMATIC NOMINATION ILL GET THAT NOMINATION AS SURE AS YOU LIVE! YOU HAVE NO CHANCE! YOU WONT GET A VOTE! ILL GET THE NOMINATION AND YOU CAN BET ON IT! UNLESS WE DECIDE ON ONE MAN NEITHER ONE OF US WILL GET IT, LET'S HAVE A PREPRIMARY MEN! AS USUAL! ANDERSON? MATIC NOMINATION Feb.23B IT'S GONE! IT'S GONE! X22*?? ???!!!* ANOTHER CASE OF 'I TOLD YOU SO' WILL WE EVER GET TOGETHER ON ANYTHING! WE HAD IT RIGHT AT US GENTLEMEN BUT IT'S GONE NOW! Feb.24B a man of character, a man of ability, a man who served sixteen years as attorney for Cook county, a man who has lived in the Second ward for twenty-four years, and experienced in city affairs; a man who stands high in the various fraternal connections with which race he is identified; a man who is capable, honest, efficient, sincere and true to the interests of his people. That man is the Hon. Louis B. Anderson, two force beliefs in the duty of every Negro in the Second ward to support Louis B. Anderson for alderman, regardless of party affiliations, and thereby elect a man who stands upon a record of proven intelligence, ability and sincerity; one who will be a credit both to himself and the race he represents is a matter of fact, "one is competent, the other is not." CHARLES W. SMITH, 2413 Forest Ave. Chicago, Jan. 4, 1915. ALPHA PHI ALPHA ADMIT COLLEGES WHEN QUALIFIED President Callis Says Question of Southern Schools Was Not Considered at Seventh Annual Meeting — Binga Dismond States Fraternity Stands for Action and Results and Still Lives—Members Have Noble Record at Yals.-Cornell, Chicago and wiberforce Universities. Mr. Henry A. Callis, president of the Alpha Phi Alpha, states that the INTERESTING ITEMS FROM BRISTOL, TENN. Bristol, Tenn., Jan. 15—Mr. R. H. Brown, a former member of the Umbrian Glee Club of Chicago, Ill., was last week on business. Misses Ruth and Lovinia Boyd of Abington, Va., were the guests of Miss Clara Morrison last week. Mr. John Shelly, after spending the holidays here and at Wythill, Va., has returned to Chattanooga, Tenn. Those returned to school after spending the holidays with parents are Misses Watson from Coleman and Georgia Watson to Regentville and Violet Tiggs to Morristown, Tenn., and Mr. James Sherman to Knoxville, Tenn. Mrs. Maggie Sherman, Mrs. Lucile Fowler, Mr. Charles Hardin, Mr. Carl Howard and Mrs. Annie Austin are all on the sick list this week. APPOMATTOX CLUB HAS JOLLY TIME AT INSTALLATION Large Number of Members Enjoy Pleasant Evening When President S. A. T. Watkins and Other Officers Are Induct Into Office—Toastmaster Wright Forestall Orators. Saturday night was installation night at the Appomattox club and large number of members made the occasion a festive one, having a job at time at what is usually a routine affair. Mr. Ivy to Support Him. Mr. Ivy to Support Him. Jan. 2, 1915. Hon. Louis B. Anderson. Caro Chicago Defender. City. My dear Sir: I noted with great interest the suggestions presented by you to a committee published in the last issue of the Chicago Defender in which you plainly outlined a plan that would ultimately unite the combined Negro voters of the Second ward upon one candidate for elderman. I especially noted with regret that your organization was the respectively candidates of the organizations and for that reason they were bound and tied. I had previously pledged myself to one of your opponents with the understanding that he was free from any particular organization. I feel now in view of his attitude that I am justified in breaking the bug to ask these gentlemen what man they should style themselves as superior to the will of the people as expressed by their votes? Race Wants Alderman. Alterman. I believe that the Negroes of Chicago are more deep-seated in sending a man of their race to the city council today than ever before and I believe that they are looking with the deepest concern upon those who are hold bound and obligated to an organization solely as a distributing agent of political patronage. The young colored men and women of the primaries any political present at the primaries any political presence has heaped so much unjust prejudice upon the splendid young men and women of their race. In conclusion, I believe it the duty of every colored voter to force the plan you submitted to eliminate all candidates, down to one. Your brave challenge to your opponents certainly will carry his weight throughout the entire Second Amendment has already found its effect upon many of my vicinity and I here and now pledge you my earnest support. Very respectfully. CHAS. W, IVY, JR. 3609 Novev Ave. His "Bill." He had spent half the winter in Washington endeavoring to get a private bill through congress, and returned to the bosom of his family a saddler and wiser man. Shortly after his arrival he was met by a friend, who greeted him warmly with: "Gld to see you back again. How about your bill?" "Bill—bill!" said the disappointed solicitor, confusedly, with a dim recollection of an encounter with the hotelkeeper. "I left it unpaid." Remarkable Memory So remarkable is the power of memory in some men that it seems an uncanny mental acquisition. Probably the most remarkable example of the kind was the ability of the celebrated chess player Paul Morphy to play a dozen games of chess at the one time blindfolded—that is, playing the games simultaneously without looking at the chess board, the moves being called to him by number and he calling back his reply. Knew His Business. "George," she asked, as they rounded the bend, "is your watch correct?" "Yes," replied George, with a merry laugh, "keeping better time since I put your picture inside the case," "Oh, you flatterer! How could that be?" "Well, you see, when I placed your picture inside the case I added another jewel!" DEFENDER'S ALDERMANIC STRAW BALLOT Pre-Primary Choice for Alderman of the 2nd Ward. Vote for one and mail to the Chicago Defender Office. President Callis Says Question of Southern Schools Was Not Considered at Seventh Annual Meeting — Binga Dismond States Fraternity Stands for Action and Results and Still Lives—Members Have Noble Record at Vals. Cornell, Chicago and wiiberforce Universities. Mr. Henry A. Callis, president of the Alpha Phi Alpha, states that the question of admission of Southern schools come up in the seventh annual meeting June. December 29-31, and that it was mis-information received at the Defender office, as the meeting was held behind closed doors. On this point Mr. Callis says: "The question of admission of such southern schools as Atlanta, Fisk and others was not an issue at the recent sessions of the convention of Alpha Phi Alpha in Chicago, nor has it been an issue at any previous convention. names of Howard, Virginia Union, and Harperforce Universities, all of which are members of Alpha Phi Alpha, are a sufficient argument. Is any greater force added when it is related that the majority of the members of the first conventions were from Southern schools; that the fraternity has refused charters to such schools as the University of Pennsylvania? Alpha Phi Alpha a charter from students at Atlanta, a charter as it would from students at Harvard. The fraternity places its emphasis upon the quality of purpose and endeavor, of ideals and achievements—not upon schools or color." In another communication Mr. Blinga Dismond of the University of Chicago, and a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha, says: "It stands for all that is noblest in Negro young manhood. The fraternity stands for action. Action which accomplishes results, results in the class room, results in clinics, results in the reading of law, and results in athletics, as the records of men at Cornell, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Ohio State, Puberforce, Howard and Chicago show." The Defender is glad to learn through the personal communications Alpha Phi Alpha stands for fair play, brotherhood of man, without regard to section, and would welcome chapters from Southern schools properly qualified. Sometimes Vary Conversation. It is a mistake for men to imagine women are always talking about their dresses. Sometimes they are talking about their hats. DEFENDER'S ALDERM Pre-Primary Choice for A Vote for one and mail to the □ Louis B. □ Oscar D. □ Charles For the Qualified Vote NAME ... ADDRESS .. The intense interest in the three-sided aldermanic fight in the second ward was demonstrated this week by the prompt response to 'The Chicago Defender's appeal for a choice of candidates' through the "straw ballot" "The first 'mail Monday morning brought a large number of votes and INTERESTING ITEMS FROM BRISTOL, TENN. Bristol, Tenn., Jan. 15—Mr. R. H. Brown, a former member of the Umbrian Glee Club of Chicago, Ill., were last week on business. * **Misses Ruth and Lovinia Boyd of Abington, Va., were the guests of Miss Clara Morrison last week. * **Mr. John Shelly, after spending the holidays here and at Wytheville, Va., has returned to Chattanooga, Tenn. * **Those returned to school after spending the holidays with parents are Misses Irene Coleman and Georgia Watson to Rogerville, Tenn.; Misses Walker and Violet Tiggs to Mr. Robert Hammond; to James Sherman to Knoxville, Tenn. * Mrs. Maggie Sherman, Mrs. Lucile Fowler, Mrs. Hardin, Mr. Carl Howard and Mrs. Annie Austin are all on the sick list this week. * **Dr. Jordan Hankal of Greenville, Tenn, and Miss Frances Bowers of Marion, Va., were visitors in the city last week. * **Mr. R. E. Clay is the principal speaker at an Emancipation celebration at Johnson City, Tenn. * Mr. and Mrs. Tenn, who spent Christmas in lascala,瓦拉克. * Mr. A. D. Henderson, manager of the Bristol Enterprise Trading Company, was awarded $5 in gold for the neatest and best arranged business. * **Mrs. Margaret Nelson, aged 46, died at her home on East State street Monday, January 4. Her death was due to a hemorrhage of the brain. The funeral services were held in the Lee Street Baptist Church by the pastor, Dr. C. H. Johnson. She was a member of said church and belonged to four secret organizations. She is survived by a husband, five daughters and a son, Howard, who cannot attend the funeral. He last heard from in Chicago, Ill. * The little adopted daughter of Mrs. Maggie Clemons was painfully injured by a fall from the back porch of their home on Mary street. * **A president of Bristol boys have climbed on the water wagon this year. We hope they won't fall off.** Her First Dinner Party Her First Dinner Party. I was giving my first dinner in our new home, and, being somewhat excited, I asked a couple who were Quakers in faith to bless on our food. They refused and in turn suggested that I ask the blessing. Never having made a prayer or speech in company, I became greatly confused and said: "Oh, no, let's just pass it up."-Chicago Tribune. As Society Sees It "I thought you were going to move into a more expensive apartment?" "The landlord saved us the trouble," replied Mrs. Fligelt. "He raised the rent of the one we have been occupying."—Washington Star. Dally Thought In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity—Longtallow. ANIC STRAW BALLOT Sherman of the 2nd Ward. The Chicago Defender Office. Anderson The Priest Griffin Members of the 2nd Ward ONLY they have continued to come by mail and hand ever since. The number printed below is the count up to press on Thursday night. The vote is as follows: Charles A. Griffin . . . 95 Oscar De Priest . . . 232 Louis B. Anderson . . . 604 APPOMATTOX CLUB HAS JOLLY TIME AT INSTALLATION APPOMATTOX CLUB HAS JOLLY TIME AT INSTALLATION Large Number of Members Foily Pleasant Evening When President S. A. T. Watkins and Other Officers Are Inducted Into Office—Toastmaster Wright Forestalls Orators. Saturday night was installation night at the Appomattox club and a large number of members made the occasion a festive one, having a jolly time at what is usually a routine affair devoid of merry making. True to tradition, however, some members came with long typewritten speeches and fully primed for the oratorical efforts of their lives, but Toastmaster Peter Calmfield for formalized Chaucey Deppe's work is announced that the only address would be that of the newly elected president, Attorney S. A. T. Watkins. F. L. Hamilton's Easy Getaway. F. L. Hamilton's Easy Getaway. This ruling brought keen disappointment to Delbert Lawrence Lee, the new vice president, who had touched up his graduation essay while Frank L. Hamilton, the retiring president, was delighted with his easy getaway. A. L. McBride, Prof. William Emanuel, James M. Woodard, and Louis B. Anderson were equally as sad, but they had the satisfaction of being the best dressed men present, with the possible exception of W. R. Cowan, who sported an English opera coat. President Watkins' Address. President Watkins' address was a splendid presentation of the ideas of a progressive man with the best interests of the club at heart. He outlined plans that will place the club on a par with the Hamilton and other downtown organizations. He pleaded for the hearty co-operation of the members and promised with their help to make the name Appomattox stand for all that racial betterment, civic interest and good fellowship implies. He emphasized the importance of the club and insists that ladies give tone to the social functions, and he did not see why they should not be present more than they have. Club Should Have Ticker. Apropos of the above, some of the members expressed the hope that the new regime would install a ticker so that on election night or during the baseball season or when a prize fight is on, the members could have a "watch night" and receive the returns in comfort in their own palatial club house. In fact, said one ex-officer, the personnel of the club demands the best in club service, such as a first-class meal, and best meals to the members, and after the theater supps to their wives and friends. These things come high, "it's true, but surely our only club should be perfect in its equipment. Expert Taxidermy. In the art of modern taxidermy the old system of simply "stuffing" the skins of animals has been done away with and a standard method of accurate lifesize modeling established. Over a carefully made plaster cast of this model the skin is stretched, glued and sewed so that it is difficult to see how it was accomplished; for the moment it is easy to believe that the animal itself has been preserved intact in some marvelous manner. Repartee at the Card Clu For Pearl Ornaments For Pearl Ornaments. Pearl ornaments may be elegantly polished by first rubbing with olive oil to remove the dirty appearance, then applying any red nail polish. This latter gives a burnished appearance, and with a little fast rubbing the peak takes on a brilliant glow. WENDELL PHILLIPS SHOULD ABOLISH SOCIAL AFFAIRS Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Head of School System, Urged to See That the Monster Prejudice Does Not Enter the Sacred Precincts of the Public Schools. SOCIETY SOCIALS A MENACE. Chicago Defender Opposed to Any Being Discriminated Against in a Public Institution—Evil Should Be Discontinued—Public Funds for Benefit of Masses Not Classes. The public schools of Chicago, known the world over for being void of prejudice, injustice and discrimination of any sort—a record that has been a glorious heritage of this city and the grand old state of Illinois—was given a shock several days ago when the dean of Wendell Phillips High attempted to "Jim Crow" its Afro-American students. It is hard to believe that Mrs. Elia Flagg Young, superviseing her librarian and, known for her librarianity and madness in educational matters, will contend in such a selfish and wicked propaganda. The race does not believe that Mrs. Young, the vital head of the schools, will let a prejudiced heart of one woman cause racial antipathy to exist in a school named after Wendell Phillips, whose character stood for all that was honorable, fair, just and right. Miss Smith, who espoused the discriminating act, is only a public servant and has no right to inflict her prejudices and narrowness in a public school. Young will let this woman humiliate, retard and discourage the young Afro-Americans who number the brightest, obedient, aspiring and most deserving students of that school? Public schools are no place to try to form society circles. All should receive the same treatment alike. School is the place where the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man should be taught; love and fair play, not hatred and evil. As taxpayers, this group of people have a right to protest against the right of any public servant to inject biased and unwholesome personalities in school and unwillingly defend an oppressed kind of person to any race that makes it the scapegoat, that has a race feel the pangy of prejudice or segregation. If socials bring on such contest, let there be no dances. There should be no pleasure in a public school that will disgrace or humiliate any race, be it Afro-American, Jew, Irish or German. One of our strongest objections is that it is not right to allow one lady teacher to appropriate the public's funds for other than public purposes. The classes and not the classes. Young not to let Miss Smith continue the evil that will tend to disrupt the most important institution fostered by the city government. It would be a disastrous blot upon the fair name of Chicago for it to be further encouraged or prolonged. Substitute for Lemons Some years ago my uncle, a physician in a small town, received a call to the country and asked me to accompany him, writes a correspondent. The patient was the wife of a very miserly man who lived in the backwoods. My uncle advised the husband to give his wife good, wholesome food and to purchase some lemons for her. The husband said: "Won't pickles do just as well? I have pickles as sour as any lemon." The Turkish Idea. A wealthy Turk once complained about the British rule in Egypt. "Isn't it just it?" he was asked. "That is exactly the trouble," he replied. "I have no more influence with the government than the water carrier. Of what benefit would you get and accumulate riches if they bring me no more favors from the government than the water carrier can get who has no money?" Humor of Great Writers The humor of Dickons always has something sermonese about it. The satire and humor of Thackeray are like a lash to human error. The humor of Mollere is the weapon of one of the greatest nonsectarian preachers that ever lived—a preacher denouncing avarice and the other primary vices that spoil society, rot the soul and make men unhappy. Lake in Hawaiian Crater. Waiapule, or Green lake, on the island of Hawaii, is a body of fresh water in the pit of an old crater near the island. This lake covers an area of abovementioned and feel by springs below the surface. A pumping plant takes water from this lake for domestic use and for irrigation purposes. Unwelcome Tribute "Why didn't you vote for my re-election?" "We wanted you home for a little while," replied Farmer Cortossel. "We regard you as one of the finest speakers in the country, an there's no sense nor justice in lettin' an unappreciative congress monopolize your eloquence forever." Color Effect on Dew Dew is a great respecter of colors. Take pieces of glass or board and paint them yellow, red and black. Expose them at night, and it will be found that the yellow will be covered with moisture, the green will be damp, but that the red and black will be perfectly dry. Weaving Called Old Art Weaving Called Old Art. Weaving is believed to be an older art than spinning. Rude looms are pictured on the toms of Thebes, and it is believed that the ten curtains of fine linen, blue and white with charmelum of "cunning work" made for the tabernacle, were tapestries, the work of the loom. All secretaries of fraternal orders are requested to send the name, address and telephone of the secretary of your loom or order. Do so at once. Will be published free each week. Hotel Pullman 3639, 3641, 3623 S. State St. Finest and largest colored hotel in America. First-class accommodations for married and single people. Everything new and up-to-date. Rooms by Day, 50c, 75c and $1.00 By Week, $2.25 and up. J. A. JONES, Prop. PHONE AUTO. 74-570 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL J. A. GRINNELL'S HOME BAKING AND DELICATESSEN DAIRY LUNCH Our Pies and Cakes are the Best in the City 3508 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO At a time when the Scotts had considerably less love for their southern neighbors than in these days a father, taking leave of his son, said: “Sandy, ma hairn, yere about tae gang up tae London. Tak’ a t^h’ siller ye can free the English, tak’ everything 3 can free him. But him, a brawfith people 3 so be careft’ wi them. Never fecht a bald mon, far ye cann catch him by th^h’ hatr.” What He Wanted. "Cannases?" said the artist, flattered by the presence of the millionaire in his studio. "Yes, sir, I shall be happy to show you my best canvases. Something allegorical? Or do you prefer a landscape?" "What I want," said Mr. Newick, the eminent contractor, with decision, "is something about a yard and a half long and a yard wide, to cover some cracks in the freecool." Troublesome Dish. The jackal, which requires ten hours' bolling, is a food requiring much preparation, but it does not hold the record in this respect. That is held by the elephant. Elephant's foot, a real delicacy, will not attain its full succulence without a good 36 hours' baking. ANUAR SALES All $35 Suits for $30 All $30 Suits for $25 Large Selection and Grays, Bro and Pencil Str ADAMS t 2939 St Phone D The Guarantee The Selection of Novel Grays, Browns and Pencil Stripes. 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LAMBERT, Prop. 3155 Indiana Ave. CHICAGO TELPHONE DOUGLAS 7926 EDWARD FELIX ICE CREAM PARLOR PHONE DOUGLAS 2928 Milk, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigars Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying Cane We give Fish and Wobe Stamps with Groceries, Ice Cream and Sodas. A First Class Laundry Agency in Connecticut. EDWARD FELIX :: :: :: 52 W. 32h ST. Mrs. Edw. Felix's Hairdressing Parlo Stands open for all kinds of Hairdressing, Scalp treat- ment, Hair Goods to order. Special care taken of the hands and nails. A complete line of toilet articles. Tel. Douglas 2928 General Mail Order Business 52 W. 30th S to all parts of the country BUY THE CHICAGO DEFENDER AT ALL "L" STAT Canny Advice. ET SINGS TO AID TUSKEGEE; WINS MUCH PRAISE Five Vocalists From College Choir Travel Over Country to Raise Funds for School's Support and to Advertise It—Sing Folk Songs. APPEAR IN LOS ANGELES. Coast City People Pleased With Renditions of Selected Company—Introduced to Public by Proplorator of Los Angeles Tribune—A Word About Institute. (By' Eloise Bibb Thompson, Contrib uting Editor.) Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 15—California music lovers, interested in folk songs, have a rare treat in store for them. The group, Quintet, have contributed several numbers during the vaudeville acts on Christmas 'night at the newborn's feast supplied by Mr. Edwin T. Earl, of New York. The group, Express and the Los Angeles Trib, According to the morning's pat, tubing the feast of the day before,aint singing of the quintet, thousands hungry boys forget to eat. The Tuskegee quintet, composed of five selected students from the Tuskegee Institute choir, together with John D. Stevenson, secretary of the Tuskegee Institute, and Charles Winter Wood, director of the Tuskegee publicity campaign, are making an annual tour of the country, advertising their work to the public for its support. These students are pursuing their studies under the tutorship of Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Wood while traveling over the country. On the way, they will be instructed which they have received for the last two years or more will be continued in the following trades: brickmaking, harnessing, broom and mattress making, carpentry and shoe - 100% 1.800 Students at Tuskegee There are 1,800 boys and girls from thirty-three states and foreign countries enrolled in Tuskegee institute, who besides cultivating 1,000 acres of land, are taught the following work: farming, drying, horticulture, floriculture, bricklaying, plastering, carpentry, woodworking, painting, printing, tailoring, hairmaking, plumbing, carriage trimming, steam fitting, construction, technical and mechanical drawing, tinsmithing, steam engineering, cabinet making, scroll and machine work, laundry work, dressmaking, millinery, basket weaving, mattress making, cooking and domestic science. It is the hope of the board of trustees of this institution whose policy is to end each year free of debt, that this Tuskegee quintet travel over the country to visit thethropists to the extent of providing for some of their pressing needs. Students pay their own board in labor and cash and provide for their own clothes and books, but are wholly unpaid. The $5 tuition which is expected annually from each pupil. Therefore, one of Tuskegee's most urgent needs is money for operating expenses in the building and developing a permanent, scholarship. School Graduates 9.000. Besides being the leading institution in the gulf states making the idea of industrial education popular and useful, the university graduates and undergraduates who are doing good work as farmers, housewives, mechanics, business men and teachers, fourteen of whom haveEssential skills, the work of the parent institution in various parts of the country. Tuskegee Institute has increased thirty years from a little, rented almshyce in, which it was begun in 1870, to a valued at $1,600,000. The annual current expense of running the school is about $270,000. To meet this amount almshyce is already sure of receiving about $120,000 in remeasures and other sources. This leaves about $150,000 to be secured each year mainly from the contributions of the gulf state at large. Therefore, it is necessary to have a good record in the raising of money to meet the current expenses of this great institution. Of the program given recently in the gulf states, four of these traveling Tuskegans, the Riverside Enterprise has said as follows: Church Is Filled Despite Rain. "Notwithstanding the rain the First Congregational church was filled, main auditorium, gallery and Sunday school room, Sunday, December 20, by the program given by Chuck McCarthy, teacher and director of campaign publicity of Tuskegee Institute, and five of the students of the school. The quintet sang the plaintive melodies with rare sympathy the voices blended between the choir and the band given were Balm of Gilead, Good Lord, I've Doed What You Told Me to Do, Jesus Is Coming By And by and sing Low Sweet Charlot. "Mr. Wood gave two delightful reads from the works of Paul Laurence Miller, who worked up in the Morning. He then, short review of the work of this lution, acknowledged the great the race owed to the white race reporting its educational work, he added, "white men and women of all. Of the 9,000 graduates of the only three ever went to the race came out of it he continued. It was not only ever, ever, ever added, 'there never was a faced greater obstacle.'" teaching Career as Newbury, and a dramatic reader of his career as a news chief, he was eventually, he received public schools of Chi- nese subsequently graduated of Wisconsin and company with the will give-concerts congregational the Friday locating the rth of the founder, the late Mme. a lavender, at the University of Southern California and at the Y. M. C. A. the Belgian ruler (the king) sing the anthem at all of the principal colleges of the country, Yale university, Brown university, Universities of Michigan, of Pennsylvania, and the University institute makes a specialty of collecting folk songs, commonly called plantation melodies, through the efforts of its gifted directress of music, of Jennie C. Lee, of the University of Tennessee, of voices at Tuskegee. Mrs. Lee visits the different country districts of Alabama with members of her choir for songs sung in their original state by the old people in their cabins, in their churches and camp meetings as well. Singing Is Lauded. "It is safe to say that the people of California have never before had the opportunity of hearing the plantation melodies sung as the Tuskegee Indians led a journey, just as they were sung in the days of slavery when they furnished an outlet for the aching hearts of an enslaved people. The plantation was a connection in scale composition and in spontaneity, it is said, with original African music, the imagery and sentiments expressed by these songs are the results of the plantation life in which the slaves lived in America. "These productions are valued very highly today by the majority of people, for they help to foster race pride and to preserve the culture which it was hewn." Although some of these folk songs represent the lighter side of slaves' life, the majority of these melodies are religious, intoxicated, and in some cases his very soul. They give, firstly, the definition of life as a full of sorrow and trouble; secondly, his estimation of what life was, and how it would work, which enabled him, so slave, to have joy of life, to endure the trials of this life and finally to gain a home in heaven which is regarded by him as a place of eternal The Tuskegee conference, to be held at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama about the latter part of this month, promises to be one of great interest, but to the principals of industrial schools and to presidents of higher institutions as well. The conference will open with an agricultural parade, displaying the work accomplished by the department of agriculture at Tuskegee Institute, and the farm demonstration work of the national government. A series of contrasts will indicate the agriculture of the past with the present. The conference program has been arranged with special reference to assist the agencies at the farm to improve both farming and the financial condition of the South. The subject decided upon for discussion at the morning session is "How I Am Meeting the Present" of the conference. The agencies are significant of the practicability of those who plan the conference. They read as follows: Subjects to Be Discuss; $^c$ I. By Raising My Own Ft; $^c$ I—in my yard, in my garden, in my orchard, in my field, in my pasture. 2. By Growing Things to Sell-in pasture, field, orchard and in garden. 3. By Organized Eort-by-associate preparing corn, oats, etc., for market; in getting better markets for crops other than cotton. 4. On the day following at the opening of the school, conference the subject "The Schools and Hard Times Situation" will be discussed. A number of special invitations have been extended to some of the most prominent citizens of the South, both before and after the school experiences in their different opportunities, will enlighten those present on the following topics: 1. How the hard-times situation has affected our community. 2. In the present financial situation, is doing to help our community to get temporary and permanent relief. The opportunity that the present situation offers to teach students to grow and increase school extension work. It is proposed to invite a successful farmer who will tell the conference what he is planning to do with respect to cotton raising during the coming year, representative of the agricultural community, and also he asked to address the conference on "The Financial Situation from the Point of Credit." Invitations will be extended to G. L. Cower of Montgomery Bankers' Association, and R. M. Hobble, a wholesale grocery merchant of Montgomery, Ala., through whose intelligent direction many Alabama farmers are planning to turn to wheat and other cereals for raising. It is planned in connection with the general subject of credits, advances, etc., to ask a banker—J. O. Ross, president of the Alabama State Bankers' Association himself a plan to speak on the subject of "Credits and Advances." A series of charts contrasting cotton and other crops in the south will be put on exhibition during both the conference and the workers' conference. Mysterious Tlp #Slakness# Mysterious Tin 'Tin' *Sickness*. It is an alliment which affecc tin and then causes a malnourin in some mysterious way, as yet not understood by science, and slowly but surely converts it into allotropic form as tin powder. It is specifically a disease of cold weather, exercising its greatest virulence at about 64 degrees Fahrenheit, but proving extremely destructive at lower temperatures. Reforming Lizardville "I understand that your nearest neighbor, Lizarville, adopted probabilistic reasoning," Sam, "us leading citizens of Crimson Gulch saw that to. There aren't enough resources in town to win this locality. Crimson Gulch has a natural center of commerce, me an Plute Petit an a few others went over to Lizarville."—Washington Star. BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL Mme. J. Wallace, the well known hair specialist and beauty culturist, will open soon a school taking up a three months' course of instruction. Hair dressing, manicuring, facial massage, chiropody and millinery will be taught. Applications taken at once. Write or call for terms. 82.3. Mm. 35th News of the Churches FULTON STREET M. E. CHURCH. Services well attended Sunday. Increase of seven at the Sunday school. One addition to the church Sunday morning. Pastor preached at morning service and chose for his subject "The Brevity of Life." Special program by the Epworth League at 6:30 p.m., conducted by Miss Coral L. Braxton and Dr. P. W. Cameron was a charming success. The temperature reached the boiling point in subscriptions for the Epworth Herald. The Fulton Street Choir rendered exceptional music all day under the direction of Prof. Hugh Buchanan. Friday night class continues to grow, and every leader is requested to make personal efforts in securing full attendance at these services. Ladies' Aid No. 1, under the presidency of Miss Bessie Brown, is doing splendid work preparatory to the annual conference. It is hoped that all ladies will join some one of the aids. The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Church of Jesus Christ, Mother of Jesus, 2014, 819 Walnut street. Mrs. Olive L. Lewis, president of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, Brady, vice president of the W. S. W. C. Brady, vice president of the W. S. W. C. addresses. Miss Jyffie Fleiss, Miss Charity Henderson and Mrs. Jacobs joined the women in calling all the ladies of the church is urging that the total member-ship one hands to make the total member-ship one HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The services were of unusual interest. The students received the necessary knowledge upon his heaviness the necessity of Divine love and do not for desire to go to another place for joy. He invited the inviting of the Spirit. The Sabbath school shows much activity and growth in the students. He presides, W. D. Jefferson, who gave a speech on the occasion, held its annual meeting on Tuesday evening. The students will make the address, which will deal with the importance of the Spirit in siding誓言 in Miss Roberts place during her absence from school. Her service was 10:45 a. m. during service—10:45 a. m. during service—1:46 o'clock. Prays meet—S o'clock Wednesday evening. WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. The services on last Sunday were very busy, with many people attending the church during the day. At the evening service the pastor talked upon the need for a new pastor and emphasized the need and opportunity to serve the Cullis favors the candidate Mr. Griffin. In the afternoon the pastor service at St. Paul's C. M. E. Church. It was a busy service and the ministered the sermon at Tranau A. M. E. Zion Mission. Both services were well attended. Next Sunday is Mortgage Rally Day, Dr. Callis will preach at 11 a. m. on the subject, "My Neighbor." His theme at 7:45 p. m. will be "Saved from the Power of Temptation." Dinner will be served all day by the Mortgage Club. The Sunday school is continuing to increase in attendance and interest under the superintendency of Mr. Rivers. The school meets at 1:30 p. m. The Christian Endcave is inviting all earnest workers to its meetings at 6:30 p. m. each Sunday. Mr. Middleton, the president is accomplishing a great work. Mr. Rivers will be the leader for next Sunday. The Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society was delightfully entertained at the home of Mrs. I. C. Mckinney on last Tuesday evening. On next Tuesday evening the society will meet at the church and join the A. M. E. Zion Book Club in ST. LUKE M. E. CHURCH. Services were well attended on last Sunday. The pastor preached at the morning service in his usual way, but at the evening service Rev. G. W. Lockett, who is just entering the M. E. Conference, preached a soul-stirring sermon. One person was added to the membership, and another came forward to be prayed for. The congregation apparently was pleased and helped by Rev. Mr. Lockett. We hope to hear him again soon. Sunday school meets immediately after the morning service. You are cordially invited to be present next Sunday. The Mississippians and Allies of St. Luke are still fighting. The last battle of the rally is to be staged Sunday, January 17th. Which one of these winners are you fighting with? We hope to see you on the firing line. On last Thursday evening the Mississippians stormed the Allies trencher with an excellent program, under the leadership of their brave and courageous captain, Mrs. Wm. Taylor. Be sure and keep up with St. Luke's notes so that you will know when the Epworth League's program will be re- ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH Our services will well attended has been our mission. We will give themselfs. Various clubs have for the purpose of raising $500 before the end of April. We believe we will succeed. ST. JOHN A. M. E. CHURCH. "Christian Endeavor" is the topic that is being generally discussed in St. John at the present time. The members of this church are in hearty accord with their pastor, who believes that a church whose young people are not trained for service will have but a short life. Therefore, seeing the great need for such training, and the wide field for this splendid work, the whole church, both young and old, has joined together in one great band to labor for Christ and the church. Last Sunday evening the music committee, of which Mr. George Williams is chairman, added to its number several more willing singers, who served as a choir for the meeting, sandwiching in good, lively songs between the talks on the topic, which was "Our Denominational Boards and Our Relation to Them." The following persons took active members pledge: Mrs. Essie Moore, Miss Carle Butler, Mrs. Carr and Miss Carrle Upehurch. ST. MARK M. E. CHURCH. Under the leadership of Rev. Jno. W. Robinson, pastor and builder of the new St. Mark M. E. Church at 15th street and Wabash avenue, a great future for the church is assured. Dr. Robinson has shown a master hand as a leader, and each Sunday at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. despite the indecisiveness of the weather, large and appreciative audiences hear his splendid sermons. On last Sunday morning he selected his text from the Acts, 3rd chapter, 5th verse: "Silver and gold have none, but such as I have give 1 thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." Two persons united with the church at the close of his sermon; also two united at the close of the evening service. On last Sunday at 4:30 p. m. the Lyceum of St. Mark held an essay prize contest, to the delight of a splendid audience. Miss Lucile Robinson won the prize offered for the best essay on "Did Mr. Trotter Insult President Wilson?" Mr. Eugene Burdette won the gentlemen's prize for "Vieht the Lyceum." QUINN CHAPEL. The pastor preached to a large congregation his text from Colossians, 3rd chap. and he lectured it above. Theme: "Seeking Higher Purpose." The pastor practiced an instructive and instructive, and the pastor occupied the pulpit in the church: "Was; in Sind of Indifference." After the newly elected boards of stewardship and the newly elected boards of treasury, the pastor to the church. The organization of the purpose of raising money for the "Lord's Purpose" of raising money for the "Lord's Purpose" of raising money and everything is in working order. Mr. Ticali Townsend, of $42 Federal morning at $ 6 o'clock. He was the husband of $ 6 o'clock. He was the husband of $ 6 o'clock. One of the stewardesses of $ 6 o'clock. Quinn Chapel Sunday at $ 1 o'clock. lit at her residence on Indiana avenue. The church is in a very proper condition, everybody cordially invited to attend. Everybody cordially invited to attend. Wednesday nights and Friday nights. ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH We had glorious services all last week for our guests at the Little Elite salsons. Services Sunday at 10:45 a.m. 3 p. m. and 7:45 p. m. Sister Oileff will be in town for the Little Elite Cafe, the 10-year-old event. We have many members on the sack list. Mrs. Frances Clark, the faithful sister of our guest, Lena Holland is also quite sick. Mrs. Lena Holland is also quite improving. Quarterly meetings. 3 our trips. Quarterly meeting, Feb. 31. Our trustee rally, Feb. 7. THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. To-morrow is quarterly meeting day at the services have been arranged for each service is expected at each service. Freddie of children of the sermon the sermon the sermon the men, women and children. After the men, women and children and men and women who have united with In Loving Memory of Our Dear Husband and Father In Loving Memory of Our Dear Husband and Father P. H. William H.Weller WHO DIED TWO YEARS AGO JANUARY 13, 1913 MAY HIS BLESSED SOUL REST IN PEACE Wife and Children Deaths of the Week (From records of the Department of Health.) Alen, Alice, 54 years, 546 W. Division at, Jan. 8. Birdford, Fred, 36 years, 311 State at. Blunt, Maggie, 33 years, Louisiana, Jan. 0. Blunt, Lewis, 61 years, 613 Ada站, Jan. 0. Jan. 11. Martin, Martin, 48 years, 256 Federal Turner, Bottle, 38 years, 5217 Lake ave. Jan. 8. Watts, Margaret, 71 years, 4413 Federal st. Jan. 11. SPECIAL NOTICE. Newly, furfled, warm, modern men or women; hot and cold water; car near line. Mme. Alice H. Thomas, 3855 Prairie Ave. Phone Douglas 3855 GUESS WHO DEPARTMENT The doll is who attempted to bait a cat with the truth about her. You should know he's not bothered about you, L. D. The doll L. D. I. does not hold 'em dawn L. C. is the only dude who can see her. The doll E. L. I. is who has lost 'em lioness. Even L. B. has lost all his love for her. The dude is who had better get a job, R. F. you can't hold out much longer, because mother will get tired soon. The dude is who is trying to go with you, R. F. you sing your way into her heart, R. B. The dolls J. L. N. J. and H. W. are in your room. W. C. W. C. and R. E. Too bad boys. The tanzuling dolls are who joined the P. D. C. A. S. and R. S. are they? The dude is who looked very hard at a certain house last Sunday night. Was there someone else in your place? The dude is who cannot decide which one you don't find but first if any of them wants you, A. M. Brownie and Borrow are. C. L. and F. L. The dude is who is so stuck in love he goes with a society doll. M. N. E. is the Woman胺 dude. The three dudes are who like together with the d娃娃. J. E. F. L. and A. Insects as Food The stag beetle, a wood-boring insect, is used in some parts of the world, especially in the mountains of North America. The mountain spider species of butterfly, called a bug, has "bugging" is a standard article of food there. They are caught clinging to the trees in the Buggy mountain, and great fires are made laterally, cook them of it, and are raked into a pulp or flour for cake baking. To Clear Clear Bottles An easy way to clean glass bottles is to cut lemons in small pieces, drop into the bottle, half fill the bottle with water and shake well. Daily Thought Civilization is the eternal sacrifice of one generation to the next—Bukur war. the church within the last six months and received full fellowship and communion with the church. Dr. T. A. Smythe, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, will preach the communion sermon at 3 p. m. Dr. Smythe will be assisted in the after service by Rev. T. L. Scott, who is now conducting at the great revival at Bethel, and by Dr. T. Reeves, J. C. Anderson, K. E. Wilson, James Higgins, J. A. Winters, W. H. Griffin, Homer Wilson and others. Bethel Church will be out in full force to hear her distinguished and eloquent pastor. Grant Chapel will be present to bear up Dr. Scott, Quinn, Wayman, St. Mary, St. John, Hyde Park, Trinity Mission, St. Paul C. M. E. and the new A. M. E. Zion Mission are all coming in large numbers. Persons desiring seats are urgently requested to come early. A song service will be given at 2:30, led by Rev. Rhodes of Grant Chapel. The evening worship will be a "Woman's Service." Miss Anna Mae Tennis, the evangelist, will have charge and preach the sermon. Four persons united with the church are invited to attend a larger number of accommodations tomorrow.冠状病毒 currently at the Institutional Church in New York, polls uners and the energy industry. Do You Own Real Estate? You will need a home, why not start today, stop paying high rents, make sure your property, own property, we can arrange terms to suit your income. Try us and SE? We have SEE! Aave, a double 2 story stone and brick building for $7000, $500 Cash first payment, and terms to suit purchaser. You or can purchase half of this property for $245, $245 or 48x125, the income on this property is $80 per month, 5 and 6 rooms. We also take entire charge of income properties, renting and collecting. 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Miss Johnson's talent and broad spirit has won many friends for her at the Center. Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 2:30 p. m., the Center Women's Club meets. Mrs. S. F. Lynn will review Prof. William J. Thomas' book, "Sex and Society." Their next benefit is a drama for Jan. 26 at 3 p. m. Admission 10 cents. At the health exhibit in the City Club last Friday a generous demonstration of interest was made by the colored people in large attendance and appreciation of the efforts of Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams' time and energy in making it a success. K. D. TILLMAN CLUB. The K. J. Thillman Club met at the residence of its president, Mrs. Fanny Turner, 6012 Aberdeen street, Tuesday, Jan. 5. There was a good attendance and all present expressed a determination to make this a member of the group of charity. Mrs. Katherine D. Tillman, the organizer of the club, sent a pair of pillow cases from Hannibal, Mo., for the pillow case shower which the club will have this month. The club was presented to Fanny Turner, president; Susie W. Turner, secretary, 6036 Racine avenue. THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY. The University Society held an interesting meeting last Sunday afternoon at the residence of Mr. Harry Galmes, 615 Wentworth Avenue. The following officers were elected: John W. Peltier, Secretary, Fanny Turner, president; Susie W. Turner, secretary, 6036 Racine avenue. THE UNIVERSITY HOOP AND NEEDLE CLUB. The Biliken Hoop and Needle Club met at the home of Mrs. Chester Tanner, 3300 Rhodes Avenue, Dec. 31. The Christmas spirit of festivity possessed the more important and important means of meeting the members, but the attendance was large and the meeting one of the most enjoyable of the season. The committee reported the acceptance of the meeting. The committee reported the attendance of the family. Whentley Home and the club was highly pleased with the same. It is said that the club is soon to dis- unglish itself socially in a party of some sort and the president is urging that the exhibitions be present to perfect the plans. The Sigma Beta Club met on last Friday at the home meeting of the Wiggins, 165 West 331 Street. There were many of the girls present, and owing to the fact that the holidays were over and the new year begun all were ready for business and a very lively meeting was held. VOLUNTEER WORKERS' CHARITY The Volunteer Workers' Charity Club met at the residence of Mrs. Clara Johnson, Wednesday, Jan. 6, and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Martha Walton; first vice president, Mrs. Mattle Wright; second vice president, Emma Marchbanks; recording secretary, Mrs. H. Glover; first ein secretary, Mrs. Miller; treasurer, Mrs. J. Baker; chairman of the press committee, Mrs. M. Webster; chairman of the executive board, Mrs. Della Lewis. Next meeting will be at Mrs. Della Lewis, 5400 South Park Avenue. THE CLOTEE SCOTT SETTLEMENT. Young Men's Glee Club meeting every Sunday evening from 7:30 to 9:30. Robert Breckenridge, president; A. Chester Scott, secretary. Neighborhood Club meeting every first and third Monday evening in each month. Mrs. Wilton Sudds, president; Mrs. Molly Land, secretary. Sewing class Tuesday evening from 8:30 to 10:00. Each person may bring whatever sewing工具. Children's Club meeting every Saturday. CRITERION CLUB The annual election of officers of the school board, 2068 Washanne avenue. their club rooms, 2068 Washanne avenue. The following officers were elected: president; Mr. Geo. Katherine Willman. secretary; Mr. Anne Lowy Coatman Willman. The following officers were president; Mr. S. Ewell, griller; Mr. Christiaus A. Müller. The following officers were president; Mr. Andrew Dillard numbers. The next meeting will occur the new administration will present; its NEGRO FELLOWSHIP CLUB. Miss Ramie R. Smith, dean of girls for responsible for drawing the color line in the new administration. Fellowship League, Sunday, Jan. 17, 4 p.m. She will be accompanied by a assistant principal of the high school, present and take part in the discussion. Sunday the Reading Room was crowded to be the continuation of the Aberdeen School. COLONIAL CLUB. The Colonial Club gave their second annual meeting of the Ivan Stewart. The first meeting of the Colonial Club was the Boster. The following are the new members: Harper Johnson, vice president; Harger Johnson, vice president; corresponding secretary; and meeting correspondent secretary at the home of Mr. Hawkins, 381st court. Miss Maud J. Roberts, Chicago's sweetest sono singer, invites the clubs of the city to a dinner at the home of Mr. Hawkins, day Feb. 4, at A bismuth Lincoln Center, 30th and 31st floors of 30TH CENTURY ART CLUB. The ladies of the Twentieth Century Club, a dinner at the home of Mrs. Albert Mervis, were Meres; T. Caldwell, F. D. Thomas, were Meres; A. Merrivis, A. Smith, Bubby. ILLINOIS-OHIO CLUB The Illinois-Ohio Benevolent Club, formerly known as the Buckeye Club, held its regular meeting at the residence of Mr. R. J. Simpson, 20 East 47th Street, Saturday evening, Jan. 9. The meeting was indeed an interesting one. Much business of vital importance was transacted, after which Miss Dorothy Simpson highly entertained the club with several beautiful selections. Delicacies suitable for the occasion were served by the hostess. The next meeting will be held the second Sunday in February at the home of Mr. E. T. Clark Buster at 2:30 o'clock at 5426 Dearborn street, C. Buster, president; E. Thompkins, secretary. EUTERBEAN CLUB The Euterpean Club met last Friday evening at their headquarters at 3346 Southport Avenue. As the Euterpean Club was one year old Friday, Jan. 8, 1915, the young men decided to hold a private celebration by entertaining the young ladies and a few visitors. An address was delivered by Mr. Guy R. Robinson, subject, "History of the Club," and what the members should do to make their own lives prosperous as well as that of the club, followed by an address by Mr. S. A. Jackson, subject, "The Loyalty and Sagacity of a Woman," Mr. Benj. P. Huston gave a dramatic recitation, followed by a short speech by Mr. Ross Allen, after which the guests proceeded to dance and play games. Refreshments were served and everybody enjoyed themselves. PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE. The Progressive Negro League will convene, in its regular meeting Sunday afternoon, Jan. 17 at 3811 Wabash avenue, where the new year proper will begin. The members as well as friends of the league CHICAGO ILL. have begun to look forward to the coming of the second anniversary of the league and the election of officers which will take place in February. Those who have been in charge of the work, including the official staff during the past year, have made a splendid record and the league has nothing to regret with the selection made in February, 1914. Whether it will be wise and conservative of those who will take charge in the selection to replace the same part of the league, the众, and the county of Cook have heard and learned of the excellent examples as well as the good work which has been set and wrought by the officers and members of the league. ROSE OF SHARON TEMPLE. Rose of Sharon Temple of the Knights and Daughters of the Temple of America, the same part of the league, the same part of the College of Ethiopians of America and the County of Cook have heard and learned of the excellent examples as well as the good work which has been set and wrought by the officers and members of the league. ROSE OF LIVIOLA, EASTER ST. TEMPLE, 2, and Pridle of Illinois Temple No. 41, S. M. T., Pridle of Bethany No. 1, and Leonora Council, A., U. K., and D. of A., have established a record and the league has nothing to regret with the selection made in February, 1914. Whether it will be wise and conservative of those who will take charge in the selection to replace the same part of the league, the众, and the county of Cook have heard and learned of the excellent examples as well as the good work which has been set and wrought by the officers and members of the league. The Lady Veterans of the Grand and Military Theological Seminary the men veterans on the third Sunday in Johannah's life. The exercises were Johannah's. The exercises were hiked Johannah's. The exercises were hiked Johannah's. The exercises were hiked CHEVALIER CLUB. The Chevalier Club assembled Wednesday, Jan. 6, at the residence of Mr. Geo. Kild, 327 East 37th street, and held their first meeting of the year. In spite of the poor attendance business was transacted with great interest, during which Mr. Norman Allison was voted in the club. After business was accomplished the club was served a delightful luncheon. VOLUNTEER WORKERS' CLUB, The Volunteer Workers' Charity Club held its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Delta Lewis, 5400 South Park Avenue, Mrs. Teresa Macon, president of the State Federation, installed the following officers for the year 1915: Mrs. Martha Walton, president; Mattie Wright, first vice president; Emma Marebank, second vice president; Hattie Gloster, recording secretary; Josephine Baker, corresponding secretary; Beatrice Miller, financial secretary; Lucie Webster, treasurer; Mary Webster, chairman, press committee; Delta Lewis, chairman executive board; Clara Porter, chairman, committee. After business was transacted the hostess served a delicious luncheon. The club meets with Mrs. Desdamonda Sublett, 5340 Indiana Avenue, Jan. 29, Mrs. M. 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References exchanged. 320 E. 35TH ST., PHONE DOUGLAS 692 Furnished rooms, suitable for marred or silent and parties in private family; heat and other modern conveniences; near two car lines. 3515 RHODES AVE, 2ND FLAT, PHONE Douglas 8039-Nicely furnished rooms; steam heat; all modern conveniences; first-class accommodations for first-class people. HOTEL PRAIRIE - 2 LIGHT HOUSE-keeping rooms, gas range, $5.50 week. Sleeping rooms, double or single, $2.00 - $3.00, steam heat, bath, gas. SEVERAL FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED rooms cheap. Tollet, bath, hot and cold water, electric lights, steam heat. On corner Wabash Ave. and 4th St. Entrance E. 2s. Ring bell A. ½ block to car line. Mrs. Archie. 2-9-16-23 3414 RHODES AVE. APT. I—TWO OR three unfurnished front rooms; also front rooms, furnished; steam heat, gas, bath, laundry; kitchen privileges; from $2.50 up. Phone Douglas 1652. 3260 VERNON AVE. — NICELY FURNISHED, light, warm room in private family; $2.50 per week. Phone Douglas 1669. 512 E. 41ST ST.—NEATLY FURNISHED rooms with modern conveniences; all large, light and airy; near Cottage Grove surface and L express lines; each one half block from home. Phone Oakland 5356. 5155 WABASH AVE. 1ST FLAT-TEL. Drexel 9281—Furnished rooms, steam heat, hot and cold water, electric light. 30 E. 44TH ST., 2ND FLAT—Furnished rooms to rent, steam heat and all modern conveniences. 3729 FOREST AVE., TEL. DOUGLAS 4183—Large second story room, furnished or unfurnished; furnace heat; all modern conveniences. 16-23 3121 WABASH AVE. — NICELY PUR- ished rooms; nil modern conveniences. 3124 CALMETT AVE. — ONE LANE front room, neatly furnished, running room, neatly furnished, room, neatly flood, steam heat; run reasonable, block to car line. 3125 WABASH AVE. 1ST AND 2D PLAT. furnished rooms; steam heat, conven- tion to car line and L. 3126 CALMETT AVE. PHONE DOU- GHT; neatly furnished, furnace heat. 3127 VERONA AVE. PHONE DOUGHT 4165—Nearly furnished rooms, light and modern improvements; neat. Telephone Douglas 1846 FOR F ODD FELLOWS H Assembly Hall, P Lodge Hall, Pe Apply to th 3335-3337 South Lincoln State Bank UNDER STATE 3105-07 South CHICAGO Douglas CAPITAL, $200,000.00 COUNTRY MONEY BANK 24 HOURS POUR nos locs NOCCLES COATS This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors; will start your saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. Open one with us. BUY THE CHICAGO DEFEN 3233 POINT AVE. PHONE 212-345-7890 or gentleman, reasonable rate for large room for married couple or centrall conventions; will board them If You Want the Best Room in Best Families in the Best Location 3253 Calgary Avenue, Phone Dax 3253 Calgary Avenue, Phone Dax TO RENT-TWO-TO-SIGHT ROOM FOR SALE Splendid two story building brick and 6 rooms. kitchens. 3200 to $500 down. 2157 FOREST AVE. 3D APT.-NEW furnished or unfurnished, light, bright rooms; comfortably built containing two large rooms; near two car lines; very home NICE FURNISHED FOREST ROOM good home for man and wife; 3264 p. ave. Address J. W. K. care. of care. 3803 WABASH AVE. PHONE POINT 4065-Nicely furnished rooms, heated, all conventions; near car line OUT CUT THE OUTPUT, FILLED OUT FOR YOUR CHOICE FOR ALREADY OR ENTER IT TO THE DEPARTMENT OFFICE FLATS FOR RENT. FIVE-ROOM FLAT, 3984 VERNON AVENUE. sight room. Apply 3976 Veronon AVENUE. lake near 40th and Grand blvd. 312 2, 3, 4 & 6 AND 8 ROOM FLATS-BY THE Phone Douglas 5028. 6949 ABIDENDEN ST. — TWO-STORY complex. Everything apply at the lane ave. or cut Wentworth 3882. TWO-ROOM FLATS, 3984 VERNON AVENUE. sight room. Apply 3976 Veronon AVENUE. lake near 40th and Grand blvd. 312 FOR SALE. FOR SALE. NEW NO. 4 UNDERWOOD TYR. writer. For particulars write Mr. R. H. Rlson, 1329 Indiana st, Waukegan, IN. FIRST-CLASS BOOTBLACK PARl. on account of illness. Apply F. E. ner, 3209 Wabash ave, 2nd flat. LOST AND FOUND. LOST-L'SNIES' GOLD WATCH IN MASONIC HALL, or on State street car between 39th and 69th; N. V. B. on case. Call Wentworth 6618. Large stock of uncalled for suits for sale. Very cheap. 202 E.37th Street 9-10-23 HOME COOKING, 3408 FOREST AVE, phone Douglas 1779-If you are jocking for real home cooking give us a trial. You will find it just like home. Breakfast, 6:20-1:30 a. m.; dinner, 11 a. m. to 8 p. m. Nearly furnished rooms also. R. H. Henry. Jan. 20, 1915 LODGE DIRECTORY. Complete list of secretaries, residence and telephone numbers. Lady Elliott Circle Circ. No. 139, C. O. F., Brown, 1200 W. 12th St. in Glenwood secretary. Oakland Oakland 4128. Alma Temple, No. 78. S. M. T.-Edna P. Brown, 1200 W. 12th St. in Glenwood secretary. Dour 409. S. M. T.-Edna P. Brown, 1200 W. 12th St. in Glenwood secretary. Rose on. Lodge Lodge. O. I. O. S. D. O. F. and D. O. F. in recording secretary. Aut. 87-92. Western Star Lodge 1445, G. I. O. of O. Brown, P. W.man, S. D. 0033 Looms street. Ingenious Swindle. French candlemakers have been detected saving wax and defrauding customers by leaving three small holes around the wick, lengthwise of the candles. This position of wax at top and bottom cover the chest; melted wax fills the holes as the candle burns. Daily 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. RENT HALL BUILDING LAWYERS PTBY-LAWS CONSTITUTION Bard E. Westbrooks Chosen as temporary Chairman and Jas. Cotter, Temporary Secretary Twenty Practitioners En- sured at First Meeting. Spirit Is Taking Possession of Illinois Lawyers—Aim to Make the Standard Higher—Indications Point to a Successful Permanent Organization. In Jan. 8th, at the Young Men's Christian association, 32nd and Wash., the following members of the soils har bar meet in pursuance a call in a special meeting, and adopted a institution and by-laws and comments for the preliminary arrangements for a permanent organization: Edw. H. Wright; Martin, A. L. Williams, Richard T. Hill, Chas, A. Wilson, Jas, N. Simms, Henry M. Porter, Richard E. Westbrooks, George W. Wills, James G. Colter, Albert B. George, William A. Macatry, Daryl Brumfield, James A. Scott, W. W. Johnson, H. H. Farrel, G. Gray Lucas, L. A. Newby, and Halo G. Parker. J. R. E. Westbrooks, Chairman. Attorney Richard E. Westbrooks was selected as temporary chairman and Attorney Jamea G. C. temporary secretary, at the first meeting, and were continued until the election of permanent officers, which will take place on Jan. 22, at 4 o'clock sharp, at the Y. M. C. A. The two preliminary meetings have been well attended and purpose and aims of the association, and the technique of its organization, have carefully thought out and critically weighted and perfected by the most able and experienced members of the association. The discussions, both in their substance and tenor, indicate that a new spirit is taking possession of this group of Illinois lawyers to raise higher the standard of the legal force among themselves, and to make greater efficiency to the bench and the administration of justice, and in the advancement of the public good. Uplift of Profession It is hoped that the future meeting will carry with them the same spirit of service, and co-operation for legal justice, and the discussion of the ways and means to this lofty end, as those which have characterized the former without license, persons practicing law without license, persons practicing solves out as lawyers, persons guilty of malpractice, lawyers receiving money from clients without rendering any service, discrimination on the part of judges, will be given due consideration along with the rules of court, and the great principles of law come to us through the centuries and come to us through the minds like Coke and Kent and Black stone have distinguished themselves for their convictions. Thursday, Jan. 7th, Mrs. R. S. Bishop, 502 Dearborn street, made a delicious cake and provided other goodies and invited Mr. and Mrs. Finney and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Plenty to partake of them. They were happy in a good time but they did not know until they were a birthday. Just why she did not tell either her husband or daughter the reporter did not learn. W. M. TROTTER SPEAKS IN TWIN CITIES Large Crowds Greet Boston Editor in St. Paul and Minneapolis—Received Large Contribution. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 15.—Editor William Monroe Troter was given two big, round tables in Minneapolis, one at St. Paul and James A. M. e. church on Friday night and on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis in St. Peter's A. M. e. church. At St. Paul there was not standing room. Editor J. Q. Adams of The Apel, who arranged the trip, presided. Mr. Troter contributed liberally for Mr. Troter and a local branch of the National Independent Equal Rights League was formed with Mr. Adams elected as president. "An even larger donation was given in Minneapolis where Mr. Troter was introduced by Editor C. S. Smith of the Twin City Star, who arranged the meeting. A local branch of the league was formed with Brown S. Smith, who edited Troter's addresses gave much satisfaction. He speaks next week in Wichita, Topela, and Kansas City, Kan. THE ROSSER'S NEW Among the delightful New Year's affairs was the dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. William Rosser at their pretty home, 4523 Evan avenue. The rooms were artistically decorated and the menu was made up of the choice of the season's viands. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. William Mundy, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gordon, W. H. Montgomery, Joe Brown, R. Peck, Mrs. Maude Rhodes, Mr. Hurley and Mr. Middleton. Channing's Desire for America. Earnestly do I desire for this country that, instead of copying Europe with an undiscerning civility, it may have a character of its own, corresponding to the freedom and equality of our institutions—W. E. Channing. Teacher Disagreed. "Mamma, when you speak about three things you always ought to say 'you oughtn't you'?" "Yes, dear." "Cause the teacher said it 'h' when I wrote on the ud: 'The grand old red, white are waving over Cuba.'" PRESS AND THE IRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB Two Letters Explain a Matter That The Dally Newspapers Tried to Make a Sensation During the Recent Visit of Boston Editor. The Trotter-Irish Fellowship Club Incident is explained in the following letters: NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE, 2003 State Street. Chicago, Jan. 5, 1915. Mr. William Dillon, President Irish Fellowship Club, Chi- 1930. Dear Sir, The Negro Fellowship League, whose guest Mr. William Monroe Troter is, has directed me to address Mr. Troter's misgiven misrepresentation concerning Mr. Troter's visit to President Woodrow Wilson and remembering the published address he gave to the committee, I felt sure that we would meet a friendly response from the Irish Fellowship Club. Peel, chairman of the program committee, suggested that we could not give him the conference and there was no opportunity to see there. If Mr. Troter would not be offended in case it was decided there was no chance for him to speak, it would be Acting on this suggestion, Mr. Trotter called, sent his card in to yourself who came out and assured him that the prosecution regret that he would not be in the city next Saturday, Mr. Trotter withdrew. Most of the daily papers content thumbnails of the courtroom proceedings. Chicago Tribune on Sunday morning contained a front page article with big headlines in which it was stated that the president had banqued hall and that the club voted not to hear him, giving as the reason that he criticized the president. As this putte said, "I was not bad light, we would like to have you answer the following questions: First, did Mr. Trotter force himself into the hall of your Irish Fellowship Club? Second, did the members vote openly on the question of giving the above mentioned reason? The courtesy of an early reply would be very greatly appreciated. You're truly. IDA B. WELLS BARNETT The Reply. Jan. 6, 1915. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, League, 3003 State Street. Den Maurant: I have your letter of the day to certain happenings at the luncheon of the Irish Fellowship Club last Saturday afternoon, you ask me the following questions: 1. Did Mr. Trotter force himself into the chair? 2. Did the members vote openly to refuse to hear him plead his cause, giving the reason that he had criticised the police. I answer both of these questions in the negative. Having so answered your questions, what may be permitted to state briefly what did in fact happen, so far as the matter came under my observation. While one of the gentlemen on our programme was speaking, the secretary handed me Mr. Trotter's card, saying that the gentleman was waiting outside the house to speak with me. At one moment he closed and found Mr. Trotter outside of and close to the door. He stated that he desired to address the club, and I gathered from what he said that the subject of his address would be the subject in reference to which he had seen the President some few weeks ago, but him had a regular programme from which it would not depart, but that, if he would be in Chicago for a week, I would put the question of his addressing the club on the following Saturday before the entertainment committee. He said he would not think he in Chicago. I then left him standing for a few hours. He made no attempt whatever to force his way. After the speaker then speaking had concluded, thinking that Mr. Trotter was still waiting outside, I mentioned the matter to the members present and asked that he said he was going to hear Trotter. A resolution was then proposed to call for a new plan to be the entertainment committee. I have since learnt from you that Mr. Trotter went away immediately after I left him at the door. Mr. Trotter's conduct in this matter, so far as it came under my observation, was in all respects that of a gentleman. WILLIAM DILLON President Irish Fellowship Club. Comment is unnecessary, but it is instructive to have read the letters. FRED S. BRADFORD. Temporarily deranged by the thought of having to enter a sanitation, Fred Larence Bradford, the famous colored aviator, cut his throat with a razor in his private flat, 3111 State street, last Saturday, January 11 p. m. He had returned from his visit to the city, the age with his health impaired, the suit of the fastidious life which he had dived. Mr. Bradford was born in Springfield, lll, and was 33 years of age. His early reputation as an aeronaut was gained in giving balloon ascensions in the South during the summer season. When aeroplanes came play he first engaged by the MILITARY Company, and afterward Sullivan and Considine signed him as an emergency. The funeral, which was private by request of his wife, took place at Chas. Jackson's Western Casket Company, Wednesday, January 13, at 1 a.m. Temporary interment was at Mount Greenwood cemetery, after which the body be transferred to the private plot, his wife's home, at Allegro, Mich. Mattie Beck Bradford, his wife; Ms. Lea Haygood, a sister, and Elmer Price, a half-brother, who the palliehears were. J. McInnis, his brother, and Albert Thompson and William Coleman, his faithful valet. Floral offerings were in abundance. Mr. Bradford was a K. of P., also an Somewhat Amazing A young clergyman, small of stature, preaching as a candidate in a place, on one, on Sabbath, piercing his text: "It is I. I cannot be afraid." Purpose of the Chain. A countryman in Savannah observed a gang of darkies laboring on the streets, each wearing a ball and chain. He asked one why that ball was there, and he told people from stealing it, said the darky; "heap of thieves about here." Daily Thought. Good, food, honest wine, a grateful conscience and little pleasant chat a man retires are worth all the posses and apothecary's drugs. -Stevenson. Fishermen's Favorites A considerable number of fades are remarkable for their leaping powers, and several of these performers are on that account specially favored by anglers, since, by jumping clear of the water, in some cases many times in succession, they tax the fisherman's skill more severely than flashes less active, and thereby give added zest to their capture. McCREDIE KICKS ON COLOR LINE IN BASE BALL Manager of Portland Champions Forced to Fire Chinese Because Denounced Unfairness of Race Prejudice LIKES AFRO-AMERICANS. Thinks Lloyd and Petway of the American Giants Great Players and Would Welcome All Men Like Them. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Portland, Ore, Jan. 15—McCredie's white Beavers won't play with a black or dark-skinned man, so there'll be no "heathen Chinese" within the civilizing influences of the Pacific Coast League next year. Walter McCredie, manager of the Portland ball champs, exploded a portland ball several weeks ago by announcing the signing of Lang Akena, a balt Hawaiian-ball Chinese outfielder. Hired—Fired. Today he plucked' another out of the ammunition case, took cool aim, and then during the uproar voischafed the info' that he would have learned the info' because of strenuous objection from prospective teammates. "His skin's too dark," explained the Portland mogul. "The Coast Lenguers who played at Honolulu on that recent barnorming' trip came back vowing boycots. I have received a call from the team. I am akana is as dark as Jack Johnson, so I guess I will have to give him a release." In announcing the release of his poi-eating prodigy Manager McCreed took occasion to exude a few remarks toward Afro-American ball players. No Barrier. "I don't think the color of the skin ought to be a barrier in baseball," declared big Mac. "They have Jim Thorpe, an Indian, in the big leagues; there are Cubans on the rosters of the various clubs. Here in the Pacific Coast League we have a Mexican and a Hawaiian, and yet the laws of baseball bar Afro-Americans from organized diamonds. "If I had my say the Afro-American would be welcome inside the fold. I would like to have two such ball players as the Chicago Colored Giants, who here every spring. I think Lloyd is another Hans Wagner around shortstop, and Petway is one of the greatest catchers in the world." PROF. B. L. INGAM ROYAL LY WELCOMED TO ATLANTA. By C. H. Grier. Alanta, Ga., Jan. 15,—Prof. B. L. Ingram, Dist. Grand Master of G. A. U. O. F., spent a few days in Atlanta on business. ** * Miss Retta Hills of 117 Howell street became the bride of Mr. Clarence Alston of high street last week. ** * Mrs. Amanda Richardson of 29 N. Jackson leaves for next week to visit friends. ** * The most catapta "Eather" was rendered by the Butler Street C. M. E. church chub at Liberty Baptist church Monday night. ** * The Old Reliable barber shop at 127 Butler street is being remodeled. * Kinning & Fannin, proprietors, Captain Crockett, manager. ** * Medames Francis Cunster, Ann May Price and Boyd, have just returned to the New York City. * Goode of Jacksonville, Fl., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Alice Hester, during her illness. * "A Wht street ** * Miss Susie Willingham of Athena, Ga., spent the holidays with Mrs. and Mrs. Robert Goosby, 303 Auburn avenue. ** * Miss Bennie Betts of 307 Auburn avenue entertained with Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Goosby, 303 Auburn avenue. ** * Miss Bennie Betts of 307 Auburn avenue entertained with Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford McGee and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goosby he departed for the metropolis of Tennessee Monday night. ** * Milton Page Hamilton, the oldest son of Alexander Hamilton by a former marshal, and the 9th day afternoon from the chapel of T.D. Howard and Son. In interment in Oakland cemetery. ** * * The J. A. M. Club was elaborately entertained on last Saturday from 4 to 6 by Mrs. J. Sanson of 46 Chamberlin street. ** * * The friends of Miss Salle M. Everhart sympathize with her in death to her mother, which occurred on the 9th inst. ** * * The "Famous Five." P. L. Marsh, J. E. Ralford, T. G. McFarland, Jacob Reeves and S. E. McAlpine will entertain Jan. 25th. ** * Mr. W. J. Moore of the Fledging Regalia. Co is touring the states of North and South Carolina. ** * * Some one expects Mr. Arthur Anderson of Wabash avenue in Atlanta at an early greatest week of the race. ** * Mr. King left last week for Phee Bluff, Ark. to pay the insurance policy of a man who was killed. He was insured in one of the largest companies of the race. Revised the Petition Instead of forever praying for things that would be of doubtful benefit-to us, how much better it would be to speak, from day to day, this simple request. Thank you, God, that we can help those who are down."—Toledo Blade. Wouldn't Buy a Vell I knew an old lady who was a tighthead. She was so stingy that when her husband died she didn't want to buy a black veil. So while the minister was preaching she went out of the back door and took the crepe off of the front door and fixed it on her hat. When the undertaker went to get the crepe he couldn't find it—Chicago Tribune. His Promising Outlook His Promising Outlook, "Did you make any money out of that hand you bought?" "Not yet, but it looks good. I found out so much about the company that they took me into the firm." THE CHICAGO DEFENDER PROF. N. CLARK SMITH ELECTED COMMANDANT WESTERN UNIVERSITY (Special to Chicago Defender) Jefferson City, Mt. Jan. 15—Capt. N. Clark Smith has been elected commandant of Western university. Prof. Smith carried a pickinian band to Europe and Australia, later directed M. B. SMITH Prof. N. Clark Smith. the Eighth Regiment band, and then went to Tuskegee Institute, where he built up a famous band. He is a master band director and glee club instructor. At one time Prof. Smith was connected with Lyon & Healy, Chicago, ill. He has uniformed the band and expects to entrain other schools in this particular. Great success is predicted for him here. Thomas B. Akridge writes from St. Petersburg, Fla., that he has been through all parts of the South, stop, and move to Atlanta, Ga.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Palm Beach, Fla., and returned here December 18, but decided to go south on account of the severe weather. He met with the A. Car no. 500, the president's car. MAYFLELD CULLINGS. (Special to the Defender.) Mayfield, Ky., Jan. 15.—The people's forum has been reorganized and Dr. A. G. Taylor was re-elected president, and everything seems to be working nicely. It meets every Monday night. There is a revival going on at the Fairview Baptist church and great interest is being manifested. Rev. Wm. R. Ward, pastor of St. James' A. M. E. church, preached there Sunday afternoon and Rev. Theldorf, pastor of the Presbyterian church, at Mt. Vernon, Ill., filled the pulpit at night. Rev. Theldorf also preached at the Cumberland Presbyterian church at 11 o'clock. Rev. W. E. Houston, pastor of the Presbyterian church, preached in Hickory, Sunday. A revival will begin at the Presbyterian church Sunday. The pastor will preach in the morning and night, and Rev. Wm. R. Ward in the afternoon. There is a great deal of sickness in Mayfield. You can find the Defender at 324 East Water. All social news of importance, notify W. E. Houston, phone 444. THE FRATERNAL WORLD About 150 people were out Monday evening, January 11, to attend the public installation of officers of the L. C. B. A. at Johnson's Hall. After a very interesting program had been rendered the officers were installed by the school board, who gave much credit to the lodge for the wonderful progress made in the last year. A short but interesting address was made by Father Morris of St. Monica's Catholic Church. The officers insulted were: Mrs. Rhoda Barbari, re-ducted president; Mrs. Alain Bouchard, second vice president; Mrs. Delta Lucian, second vice president; Mrs. Nettle Bricken, recording secretary; Miss Louise Sommerville, financial secretary; Mrs. Minnie Cockrin, treasurer; Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Amanda Davis, marshals. Officers of the second department: Mrs. Susie Wheeler, second vice president; Eugene Rhodes, financial secretary; Mrs. Ada Taylor, treasurer. After the meeting was over the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing. Paradoxical Proposition "Do you use the word 'politics' as singular or plural?" asked the person who is always wanting to know some. "That has always puzzled me," replied Sullivan. "there is nothing more singular than there is nothing more singular than there is the pluralities that politics develops." Percussion Caps. Percussion caps (taking the place of the flint lock) came into use about 1820. Snider's system of breech-loading was invented in 1859, although the hind been attempts made at Snider's achievement. The murdle loaderads on until the seventies, when they were practically discarded by all armies. Neighbors. "Are your new neighbors, the Woolseats, interesting people?" "Exceedingly so; he is the kind of man that won't speak to anybody without an introduction, and she is the kind of woman that borrows everything in your house without being introduced at all." Hardly Worth Division It is said that if the land of England and Wales were equally divided among the residents there would be a more than one acre for each person. Uses for Black Leucus Outside of its use for fence posts, black locust finds its principal utilization in insulator pins and brackets for telegraph and telephone lines. ANNOUNCEMENT. Mr. Garfield Wilson has left the city indefinitely, and the business of the orchestra formerly known as Garfield Wilson's Orchestra, is now under the sole direction and management of Wm. H. Browne, Jr. Mr. Browne ap- pared the orchestra's specialty so solicitly your future patronage. All contracts for engagements taken care of at 3310 Rhodes avenue. Phoebe Douglas 5729. 5-12-19 Neighbors. PROF.J.O.THOMAS DEFENDS RACE IN BUFFALO SPEECH John M. Parker Tells Exclusive Club That Race in South Is Lazy And Indolent-Is Answered by Prof. J. O. Thomas in an Eloquent Speech. Field Secretary of Tuskegee Tells Club of the Wonderful Progress of the Race and Cites Facts and Figures—Speech Gains Friends for the Race. (Special to Chicago Defender) Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 15—Mr. John M. Parker of New Orleans, La., former president of the Board of Trade, twice president of the Cotton Exchange, and for two terms president of the Southern Commercial congress, delivered an address here on "The Average flow of the South." When Mr. Parker held the Westminster club and had the American of the South unmercifully Prof. J. O. Thomas, field secretary of Tuskegee, and William H. Talbert of Buffalo took exceptions to Mr. Parker's general allusions, without qualification, to the race as a lazy and shiftless race. By permission, Mr. Thomas arose to say a word. What he heard in the minds of those who heard him as he spoke with the eloquence of a Douglas and force of a Washington Disagrees With Parker. "The Afro-American of the South think a great deal of Mr. Parker because of what he has done for them. He is known throughout the South as the cotton king. I enjoyed his advice all the more because I know someone personally toward my people. He has taught to Tuskegee and spoken to us there, I cannot accept some of the things he said about the Afro-American as a race because, if some of the things that he said are taken literally, as a race are hopeless, I will agree that the African American is more or less lazy or shillless, but this is not true in any large degree of the educated and trained men and women of my race. This would be relatively true of any race that was ignorant. In the very last analysis it is not a question of race, but it is a question of place, place 9,000,000, people of any race in a section of the country where they are to be discriminated against, segregated, Jim-crowed and lynched without trial, you would find it difficult to keep burning the spark of hope and the spark of ambition in the breast of that race, of all these conditions, the race in the South is making substantial progress along all lines of activity. Cites Progress. "The number of homes owned by Afro-Americans in this country has increased from 9,000 in 1863 to 535,000 in 1913. Number of farms increased from 15,000 in 1863 to 937,000 in 1913. Number of businesses conducted increased from 2,000 in 1863 to 40,000 in 1913. Wealth accumulated from $20,000 in 1863 to $700,000,000 in 1913. Number of church property from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 in 1913. Number of commercial buildings from $16,300,000 to $34,000,000,000 in 1913. The Afro-Americans in the state of Virginia, alone, own 1,629,629 acres of land, assessed at $14,156,757. Within the last ten years the live stock, poultry and farming implements owned by the race in the South have increased in value from $55,216,378 to $177,272,755. In the last ten years the race has the land per capita than was true of the race in the South. This land is owned and cultivated by the educated and better class. This alone will show that the Afro-American, when educated and trained along the lines of industry and thrift, is not, as a rule, shiftless, as a great many people try to make him appear. If the South will educate him, it will have someone to till its soil, and someone to get as much out of the soil as any might have. If it might bring the African American was brought and placed in this city by the people of this country, it is right and just that the people of this nation should educate him." Human Longevity. Thomas Parr of Shropshire, England, in all probability bears the palm for longevity. He lived one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months. It is claimed that Parr's case is well authenticated, while in the cases going beyond him certainty gives way to conjecture. To Clean Watch Chains Gold or silver watch chains can be cleaned with a very excellent result, no matter whether they be matt or polished, by laying them for a few seconds in aqua ammonia; they are then rinsed in alcohol, and finally shaken in clean saudust, free from sand—Medical Herald. At Waterford, Ireland, noted for its glass, the whitewashing of the solidly built stone gateposts to match the white cottage in the country parts is an annual event, and takes place in May. Bound to Succeed "What makes you think Daubber will succeed as a painter?" "He has the soul of an artist and the persuasion of a book agent"-Philadelphia Ledger. Phyelclane In Germany Germany averages one practicing physician for each 2,000 inhabitants; the proportion being higher in some cities and lower in the rural districts. Look for Agreeable Things Don't look too hard except for something agreeable; we can find all the disagreeable things we want between them, own hats and boots—Leigh Hum. Took the Hint A weared young lady hastened the departure of a tedious, caller by remarking, as she looked out of the window, that we're going to have a beautiful summer. TOO MUCH DIPHTHERIA IN CHICAGO, SAYS HEALTH OFFICERS Disease is Preventable, and Department Deplores Number of Cases, Although Smaller Than Number at Same Time Last Year—Health Notes. (Press Service, Department of Health). There is too much diphtheria in Chicago, but the condition is better than at the time of the study, still the number of cases is too high. Diphtheria is a preventable disease and should be less in evidence as the community increases in intelligence. People having knowledge of diphtheria is disseminated should be able to avoid it in a large measure. Diphtheria is almost always taken by close contact with a case of diphtheria, or with one whose nose or throat, but otherwise without a case of diphtheria. It is not often contracted from things. Here are some suggestions that should be remembered and followed. Avoid contact with: 1. A person sick with diphtheria. 2. Any person with a sore throat of any kind, no matter how slight the attack. 3. Persons who are in immature contact with a case of diphtheria, for they may be carriers of diphtheria infection, not so much through clothing as from the throat and nose. 4. Carriers or distributors of diphtheria infection who are under quarantine. Remember that more diphtheria is contracted from persons not known to have the disease than from known cases. No one has any more right to convey the germs of disease to another than he has to rob his of his purse or watch. A man's health is his most precious possession. In order that children be kept healthy they should be kept clean. Also they should be taught habits of cleanliness, and this means teaching them to keep themselves clean. It should be impressed upon the mind of children of a child is dangerous and that freedom from disease depends very much on just keeping clean all the time. Children are naturally careless and thoughtless, and of course are ignorant as to matters of personal hygiene. And their education in this all-important subject no more should be negated, and of course any other phase of their development is furthermore it is important that training in the importance of personal cleanliness, neatness and order should be begun in infancy. The longer such training is delayed or neglected the more difficult it will be for the child to acquire the knowledge and habits that have so much to do in making for physical health art. It has been found that decent, sanitary dwellings may be built and rented cheaply, yet bring good returns on the amount invested. There are returns, too, on dwellings of this sort that are greater than mere money, for they include premiums on citizenship, morals and cleanliness. And these are all splendid arguments for bodies too much eating and too little exercise are to a large degree responsible for many people's lills and ailments. "BIG BROTHER" SUBJECT AT MEN'S CLUB SUNDAY Mr. D. G. Smith will deliver an address at Grace Presbyterian Church, 3409 Dearborn street, under the auspices of the Men's Club, Sunday evening, January 17, at 8 o'clock; subject, "A Heart-to-Hear Talk on the Work of the Bie Brother and Sister League." The hear Mr. Smith on this interesting subject. Stuart D. Fowler, president; Dr. S. C. Dickerson, secretary. SAM M'VEY HERE. Sam McVey, the prizegiver, is in the city, stopping at George Holt's place. He was shown the city by J. Jr., an old friend and pal, he came. He Jr. came over the Twentieth Century Limited to arrange for a bout at an early date. Matches Quickly Made. Improvements in the process of manufacturing square matches make it possible to turn out matches from a single 'dipping machine' at the rate of more than six hundred thousand an hour. A green log is made into matches, all packed ready to ship, in less than two hours. Man's Inhumanity. "The men are always prating about man's inhumanity, to man," observed Mrs. Gabb. "What have they to complain about?" "Plenty," growled Mr. Gabb. "Eight out of every ten married men go around trying to get single men into trouble by advising them to get married."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Willing to Let It 'Ache A barefooted darky, while boeing cotton one day, saw his big toe under a clod, and, thinking it was a mole's head, hit it and hurt himself. After working with it for a while he got stuck with it foot on a stump and said: "Well, jee jum jum, I doesn't care, you hurts yesel wrench ye do me." Aeroplane Testing In a French aeroplane factory wings are testing by turning machines upside down and loading them with sand, evenly distributed, until a weight exceeding the pressure the wings must withstand is reached. Eldo's Future "What if Fido would go mad!" exclaimed the woman who wished affection. "Don't worry," answered her husband. "That dog hasn't enough sense to be sure enough mad. The most he'll ever do is to go newish." Where He Draw the Line During the trial of some infamous persons Charles Lambo remarked grave by that he "should like to know them—to ask them to dinner." "You would not sit with them?" asked Tailford, solemnly. "Yes, I would sit with anything but a hen or a tailor." Magnetic Mountains. The mountains of Porto Rico are so magnetic that they attract surveyors' plumb lines and it has been found that some old surveys are incorrect by half a mile or more. The Doctor's Friend. Appendicitis probably has helped the doctors more than any other recent discovery—Aitchison Globe. EASY MONEY Easy money is hard to locate, but it is easy to borrow from us. If you are keeping house and want money for the necessities of the Winter Season, just call on us. Privacy, easy terms and courtesy assured. BAKER & COMPANY 105 W. Monroe St. S. W. Cor. Clark St. Room 501 Telephone Fifth Floor Randolph 3208 Omana, Neb., Jan. 15—(Special)—The most notable and interesting event of the season was the marriage Tuesday evening, January 5, of Mr. Clarence H. Payton and Miss Ruth Winfield at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Winfield, street street, Osborne of St. John's College, St. John's College, Mrs. Alice Stewart played the wedding march. The bride being a favorite in the younger social set, her wedding brought out the elite of Omana. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Taggart, Mr. and Mrs. T.odge, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Davenport, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Davenport, Mrs. Sarah Johnson, McCoy, Mrs. Duval, Mr. and Mrs. Ray, Miss V. Peyton, Miss Irene Newman, Miss Mattie Laure, Messrs. J. C. Parker, Philip Brookes, Leroy Richardson. WILL HAVE TO GET USED TO STREET CARS. Mrs. Georgia Allen, 4544 State street, who left last month to visit lier parents in Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia, writes the following about home: "Tell the folks that Chicago is all right but when it heats up, they will be them beaten a city block. I always travel in that style, and it will take me some time to get used to the street cars again when I return." TWIN CITIES IN REVIEW (P. F. Hale) Sheriff's Call Compulsory. Any English male above sixteen would obey the high sheriff's call to withstand the foe's is legally held guilty of felony. SEE ALL HIS PAT! Dr. H. Reginald Smith, street, who has been to London, En laud, nine months for the study of the eye, ear, nose and throat, wishes to announce that he is at his office and is ready to serve all his old patients and new ones also. His nine months at the Royal Medical University, London, and the installation of new injections and paraphernalia makes him well adapted to give first class service. All communications for this paper must be addressed to The Chicago Defender and not to an individual, or they will not receive prompt attention. A. THOMAS' MAGIC HAIR GROWER Is the only Non-Vaseline. Money Back preparation on the market positively guided the public cause of Dandruff, Falling, Broken Hair, Essentials, and Cover Halo. But if the subject is under 60 years of age, in 20 years past the public has been insisted by ignorance and authority on Scalp and Sixto Diseases. In the foremost from being a college graduate she studied medicine to Boston to order to meet the needs of an intelligent public. No two cases of cancer are made for the public. No two cases of cancer are made for the public. The most common case of the case is the individual. Mme. Thomas chamie and redemption when needed just as your physician does and refunds your money if you are not entirely satisfied. The two cases of cancer are not entirely satisfied. You may be in the right place to your life or before them. The hair question will be solved, no one has to say. Please write to your sabes fairor, removes lines blackheads and combs. The three cases of cancer are: 1. Price 23 cts 2. Stirle-stirringing Cream 3. Stirringing of hair 4. Growing to a stirring. Write for sample of hair grower enclosing 10 cts. In stamps. 5. Stirring of hair. 6. Stirring of the paper. 7. Send money by: O. O. G. or Express payable to Mme. ALICE H. THOMAS, 150 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Phone Douglas 9400. TRY IT! Prescription "100" for Kidney, Bladder and all Urinary Troubles Do You Want to be Beautiful? USE IVORE CRÈME It Removes Tan, Preckles, Blotches and Positively Lightens the Complexion FOR SALE AT LaBastide's Cut Rate Drug Store 3702 South State Street Telephone your order, we deliver to any part of the city BOUGLAS 616 and 617 AUTOMATIC 71-474 CORRESPONDENTS AND AGENTS TAKE NOTICE! Hereafter all matter for publication in the current issue of The Chicago Defender must reach the office not later than Wednesday of each week. Remember we go to press on Thursday, and no matter will be inserted if not received by Wednesday night. This change is made in order to insure the prompt delivery of the paper throughout the world on Saturday. Correspondents must mail matter not later than Tuesday evening. ONE PRICED DENTISTS High Class Sanitary Office High Class World, Quantified 30 Years. Established 1892. Examination Free. GOLD CROWNS..... PORGELAIN CROWNS..... BRIDGEWORK, Per Tooth..... SILVER FILLINGS.......$3 $500 Boston Dental Parlors At the Plaza, Theatre Blvd. 3507 SOUTH STATE STREET Open Evenings and Sundays Phone Douglas 0447 Phone Oakland 2489 Madeline R. McFarland FINE MILLINERY Feathers Cleaned, Dyed and Curled HATS BLOCKED 4746 State St. • CHICAGO Marrette Fountain Hair Specialist (A Poro Graduates) 5202 State St., D I positively guarantee my work the same as done at the College Louis, which means growth and ty of the hair. No matter how or stubborn your hair is. To treatment will surprise and life PHONE DOUBLE EYE, EAR, NOSE and Spencer C. Di H. D. 'SCIENTIFIC REF 3601 So. Ste HOURS 12 hrs. 45 min. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Dorey $3210 Rhodes avenue, gave a whistle party Tuesday night in honor of Miss Venia Smith of Springfield, Ill., who is the guest of her brother, Mr. Roy Smith, and his wife. Mrs. S. B. Jones of Pooria, Ill., is in the city for a short visit, and is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Robinson, $20 East Third-11th street. Mr. J. H. Anderson is in the city of New York on a visit. There will be balloting up to the primaries. Don't fail to save coupon. Then fill up and address it to "Elimination Editor." Burglaris visited the home of H. J. Owens, $324 Dearborn street, January 11, the second time in thirteen months, and this time relived Mrs. Owens of over $300 worth of wearing apparel. Miss Lucile B. Wade, 3974 Lake Park avenue, has gone to Houston, Texas, to visit her mother. Mrs. Emina Thompson, 3974 Lake Park avenue, has gone to Little Rock, Ark, to visit her sister. Women as well as the men may vote the straw ballot. Tell your neighbor to cast a vote for the best man for alderman. Dr. John Butler of Boston, Mass., and his sister, Miss Carrie E. Butler, Xenia, Ohio, were called to Chicago last Friday by the serious illness of another sister, Miss Emma C. Butler, 2916 State street. Mrs. Della Lewis has been elected chairman of the executive committee of the Volunteer Workers' Club. The election came by Mrs. Lewis' meritorious work during the Christmas holidays among the poor. Don't miss voting the straw ballet. For qualified voters of the Second ward only. The Vasen-Balm office has been moved from 19 East Forty-seventh street to 19 East Forty-fourth street. H. I. Pride, agent; Kenwood 1121. Mrs. A. E. Poole, 3345 State street, was hurriedly called Thursday to Indiana, Ind, on account of the sudden death of her nephew, William Kellery. Mrs. Allen, 5017 Wabash avenue, who has been out of the city on a visit, is expected home this week. INFORMATION, WEDDING AND NOUNCEMENTS, $1.50; WEDDING WHITE-UPS, $5.00 AND UP; CARD OF THANKS, $1.50 AND UP; IN MEMORIAM, $1.50; BUSINESS AND NOUNCEMENTS, $1.50 AND UP; EVERYTHING PAID IN ADVANCE. Mr. John Gomer, formerly of the Palmer House under R. S. Bishop, has taken charge of a hotel at Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. M. Simmons, $364 Forest avenue, has returned home from a visit to Louisville and Indianaapolis, and she reports a delightful visit. Mr. George Crump, $246 Wabash avenue, has returned from St. Louis, where she was called on account of illness of her niece. Dr. Hale G. Parker, who married Miss Tate of Templeh, Teun, during the holidays, returned to the city the first of the week. Indicate your choice by casting a vote for alderman with the straw ballot. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Branham returned Tuesday from their holiday visit with friends in Washington, Baltimore, Buffalo and Detroit, and report a delightful time. Mines, Ella Hackley, Elmora Curtis, S. Love, Emma Kersey and Jessie Johnson received with Mrs. Helena Tewell, the late Mrs. Ella Tewell, third avenue, New Year's Day. They were assisted by Misses Gertrude Barbour, Jeanette Triplet, Ernestine Oldham and Maude J. Roberts, members of The Eude. All the ladies were invited to the celebration, elaborate repast to their many callers. Mrs. Dessie Johnson of Minneapolis, Minn., is in the city, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Etta Baldes, $241 Wabash avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hagan of Joel, Ill., are in the city to make Chi JESSE BINGA, BANKER SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS BURGLAR AND FIRE PROOF 4716 State St. store, stove heat. $35.00 4834 State St. store, stove heat, rooms in rear. 20.00 3021 Wentworth Ave., store, stair heat. 20.00 3021 Michigan Ave., store, stair heat. 20.00 2 stores. S. W. corner 31 and Rhodes Ave., each. 20.00 FLATS—STOVE HEAT. 3337 Forest Ave., flats 1, 2, 3, stove heat.....$15.00, $17.00, $18.00 3537 PraIrie Ave., flats 1, 2, 3, stove heat.....$20.00, $23.00, $25.00 47th and State St., flats 1, 2, 3, stove heat.....$14.00, $16.00, $18.00, $23.00 3849 Indiana Ave., flat 3, stove heat, 6 rooms.....27.00 3849 Indiana Ave., flat 3, stove heat, 4 rooms.....16.00 3847 La Salle St., at 3, stove heat, 4 rooms.....16.00 2321 Wentworth Ave., flat 1, R., stove heat, 4 rooms.....10.50 3610 La Salle St., flat 2, stove heat, 5 rooms.....16.00 3537 PraIrie Ave., flat 2, stove heat, 6 rooms.....23.00 6549 Aberdeen St., flats 1 and 2, stove heat, 6 rooms, each.....25.00 3906 Dearborn St., flat 3, 6 rooms, stove heat.....23.00 Vote the straw ballot. cage their permanent home. They will live temporarily with her brother-in-law, Mr. San Dresden, 3335 Wagbach avenue. Last week the Defender made a strong appeal for those in arrears to pay up. Some did and others paid no money. The Defender says you get your paper it is because you are behind the load is too heavy for us to carry. In order to get back on the road, you must stop by the office or send to us when you will pay and we will send a man. NEWS OF THE SICK List of Your Friends Under a Physician's Care at Home or In the Hospitals. Miss Emma C. B. Butler is reported ill at her home, 2918 State street. Mr. J. M. Woodard, 4823 Federal avenue, who fell and dislocated his knee on the way to Chicago from Western Wisconsin, is able to be out, but will be under the doctor's care for three or four more weeks. He was on the floor at night at the Appomattox Club, and said while he had suffered great pain, he felt at least by February 14 he would be his company's Valentine, by reporting for duty. 6044 Ada street, is on the slick list. Mrs. Eunice K. Wright, 5610 Drexel avenue, continues fill. Mrs. A. J. Burrell, at Wildows' Rest, is quite ill. Mrs. Shelton, 3630 Forest avenue, is ill. Sid to note that sister Stevenson became suddenly insane and was carried by her brother back to her native land—Canada. Sierra Cora L. Simpson is on the sick list, but is convalescent. Sierra Ward is also sick. Let us unwrap the pill for all. Public kindly visit our church. Mrs. H. M. Jefferson of S. M. street, who has been ill for some time, is convalescent. Loraine Simpson Palmer, 3262 Forest Hospital, is in Cook County Hospital, Oak Forest, who was quite sick last week, is reported better. Mrs. Mary J. Jefferson of S. Clemente avenue, Willett Ferguson, 2013 Forest Avenue; Mrs. Hale Kelley, 1837 Fulton street; Mrs. Alvis, 2527 Lake street, are on the sick list. Mrs. M. B. Harris, 311 Clarenton avenue, slipped last Saturday on the ice and sustained a fracture of the arm. Mrs. M. B. Harris, 311 Clarenton avenue, is convalescent. Father C. H. Anderson, who is ill at Provident, is reported much improved. Mrs. Eta Baldas, 521-Hawaiian avenue, is greatly improved. She was nursed by Mrs. P. Mayo, who is soon to receive her graduating certificate. OUT IN ENGLEWOOD A birthday celebration on January 12, at 10:30 p.m., when Mr. Harry turned home from his work as clerk in the postoffice. Very much to his surprises he found the house filled with neighbors and came to see his chirldren. Mr. Johnson and family, of 1514 Randall street, left on the 6th for Dawson, Ky., his old home. Mr. Johnson has been in very bad health for some time and his many friends hope he will begin health as so as to be able to receive medical care. The family will be missed by their neighbors and the church circle of friends. Mrs. Gray, a friend of Mrs. Johnson's, came out from the city to assist Mrs. Johnson with the children who was taken very sick and at present is under the doctor's care at the residence of Mr. Hogan, 1512 Randall street, and Mr. Hogan helped Mr. Johnson and family to the depot and that everyone was properly cared for. Mrs. Christian James Burdell, formerly of 1530 111th street, and now living in the city, fell down a flight of stairs and was taken to the County hospital. Mr. M. T. Bailey visited Morgan Park Sunday in the interest of the local press bureau which he has lately TO CLUB EDITORS Kindly insert name and address of officer of the club reported in these columns. Do this in your next correspondence. We want them on file. MORGAN PARK M. G. Johnson opened. Wille he called on L. M. Robinson, and family, of 11230 Throop street, and other friends in the Park. Mrs. Ella Smith, mother of Mrs. Toombs, of 1327 Morgan avenue, is quite sick. A birthday party was given to Master Dallay Ray at his home on 1113th street. Mrs. James Rogers, wife of Rev. James Rogers, is quite ill at her home, 10834 LaSalle street. Mrs. Beverly, who fell and broke her arm, is slowly improving. Mrs. Alice Tinsley, of Stuben street, has gone to spend the winter at home in Mr. and Mrs. Sneed, of 1831 Warren street, left Monday for Kenilworth. Miss Bessie Harper and Mr. Weverly Smith were quietly married at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Richardson, 1321 Morgan avenue. They will make a visit to the school, Mrs. M. L. Baker and infant son Malcolm returned to their home in Los Angeles, Cal., after a five months' visit with parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Fields, of 1541 Morgan avenue. Master Curt Hall visited with his companion, 1323 Morgan avenue, over Sunday. The services at Armett were well attended Sunday morning and quite a large number were at Sunday school in the evening the Christian school. A large number of many persons were present. Miss Freda Jones was elected president, vice-president; Miss H. Robinson, secretary, Miss E. Moua, corresponding secretary. We predict good work from the teachers, and people are very enthusiastic workers. Rev. Buck was at Bethe Eden Baptist Church Sunday and spoke to the congregation. There promises to be an entertainment at Pall Hall on Feb. 25. There will be a handsome crocheted pillow and a set of crocheted proceeds are for charitable purposes. LAKE FOREST. ILL. (Henrietta Holland.) For all news call phone 434. The papers will be delivered to your door. PRAIRIE STATE EVENTS The Latest News from Jacksonville, Decatur, Peoria, Braidwood, Torino and Other Illinois Towns. DECATUR (Thomas A. Glass) Decentur, Jll, Jan. 15,—Priscilla Pleasure club, composed of 12 members, met at the residence of Mrs. J. M. Thompson, South Broadway, Thursday afternoon. Embroidering was featured in the film, "A New Year's Gathering." References were served at 5 o'clock. All departed after a pleasant and most enjoyable afternoon. • • • Mrs. Dora Williams has returned home after an extended visit with her sister, Miss Emma, and her father. References are available at the欢迎 post. Bennett Warfield, one of Decatur's promising young ladies, was married on Jan. 4th to Mr. J. D. Leland in Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr. Leland holds the position as steward in one of the leading clubs there. They are now in the present year. Mr. Leland was born to their future home in Fort Wayne, they will visit relatives and friends in Decatur, Ill. Her friends, though surprised, wish them many happy days. • • • Mrs. Edw. Smith, of South Fawley, was born a而且 a surprise. Her two friends, birthday by 18 of her intimate friends, Parlor games were enjoyed, after which refreshments were served. All departed, wishing her many more happy birthdays, and their radiant faces, The Rev. John L. L. of St. Paul's, had just experienced. • • • Mr. Arnold Johnson of 4728 State street, Chicago, has arrived in Decatur to attend high school. • • • Mrs. Mattie Turner departed for Cairo, IL, to make her future and to look after her prophecy. • • • Mr. Arnold Johnson was there, and her father her a pleasant journey and hope she returns ere long. • • • Mr. Phiney Guy, chief grand mentor of the Sir Knights and Dan of Tabor, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Turner. • • • Mr. Smith, of South Fawley, was there, and he delivered an excellent lecture at the Antioch bishop's and the "The young ladies" and men's classes, Nos. 18 and 11, will give a concert and oyster supper on June 14th. • • • Mr. Smith, of South Fawley, was the guest of Mr. E. E. Church to attend church on Jan. 10th, having fully recovered from her accidental fall on Xmas ere. • • • Mrs. Sears on South Colfax has been moved to the hospital, where she will undergo an The Rev. John L. L. of St. Paul's, was the speedy recovery. • • • Mrs. Polis Slaughter on South Colfax is on the sick list. • • • Mr. Geo. Woodford of Chicago is ill at the home of his brother, J. W. Woodford, on East Wagonside, and is now a Mr. A. L. Nichols, at 169 West, and is now a member of local friends recently. • • • Miss Bthel Caldwell on South Greenwood avenue is confined to her home on account of sickness. * * * Defender for sale at Dave hunt's. OKLAHOMA CITY. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Oklahoma City, Jan. 15.—The Douglass school is continually doing new things. Now the champions of the state, Coach F. W. Brunner, “The Western Peerless,” is now formulating plans to have an interscholastic track meet. The schools all over the state will participate in the same. The day has not yet been named. “Mr. A. E. Dobson is back from a trip in the eastern part of the state and reports a pleasant stay. “Miss Sphagenia Randolph is home from a trip to Wemoka. “The officers that were installed into the B. Y. P. U. were Mr. Lewis Fisher, president; Miss Myrtle Wells, vice-president; Miss Blanche Pittman, secretary. “Mr. Taylor Randolph and Miss Anna Tyson were united in matrimony this week. “The “Douglass Elks” are progressing under the new administration. Mr. R. L. Ephraim, president; Mr. Hallie H. Richardson, secretary; Mr. Chas. D. Harris, corresponding secretary. Mr. Lewis E. Smith, a clerk in the department of justice at Washington, D. C., was here last week, the honored guest of Lawyer T. S. E. Brown. He was Douglas High School on last Thursday and followed the society of the city turned in out full at the residence of Lawyer Brown, 1140 E. 7th street, and there they showed Mr. Smith a most delightful evening. Reed, of Muskeague, Oka, was here last Saturday looking in on the state legislature and putting his hook for a political job around the state house. ExChief Justice R. L. Williams was worn in as Governor of Oklahoma with impressive ceremonies and the team presented at the Overhiver Theater. Again society was called to Mrs. when on last Saturday ave Mrs. T. H. Taylor entertained in honor of Miss Melabur Ft. of Worth, Tex., who came here to visit her brother in Mrs. F. D. Hallowell. A delightful evening spent and the honored guest made for herself a host of friends. WITH THE WOLVERINES Events of a Week in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Benton Harbor and Kalamazoo — The Latest News by Our Special Corres- pondents. Benton Harbor. Benton Harbor, Mich., Jan. 16. — A pleasant Sunday was observed at the A. M. e. church, Jan. 3. An interesting program was enjoyed under the direction of Arthur J. Dean, Jr. *J.* 16. — John A. Benton was the pastor, Rev. W. Crider. It was named the A. M. E. Athletic and Literary Club. The officers are as follows: President, Kenneth Ball; vice-president, Fred Gaskin; secretary, Borthe Boone; president, Mary Redfern entertained at her home Wednesday afternoon the Young Men's piano Club, the M. A. e. cholr and the Arent Circle. — A three course Mrs. Redfern was served. *J.* The Mite Mission was served. *J.* The Mite Mission was entertained last Friday at the home Mrs. E. Gaskin. A luncheon was served consisting of fried chicken and other delicacies of the season. Next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Redfern was called to Michigan City that to attend the bedside of a sick sister. *J.* Presiding Elder R. J. Dean has returned from Canada where he was called by the death of his sister. The Stewardess Board met at the home of Mrs. Redfern on Tuesday afternoon. An interesting meeting was held and plans were made for an opus dinner to be given in the near future. *J.* Rep. Crider proached an inspiring serenade from Aets, 5th chapter, 6th verse, "What will Thou have to do." MACON, GA., JOTTINGS MACON, GA., JOTTINGS By Roger W. Williams. SPECIAL NOTICE. I wish to announce that the Wilson Parlors can be rented for social gath- rings, club meetings and en- tertainments. Beautiful appointments, electronic light and modern con- veniences. Rates reasonable. Nicely rooms for rent. Mrs. Henn- pelt, Wellington 6913. Tel. Douglas 6913. Interesting Gossip from the Famous Manufacturing City of the Hoosier State. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Milwaukee, WI., Jan. 15. -The Frontenc Club held their annual meeting on Thursday, Jan. 7. Those present were Thomas Johnson, H. B. Peregrine, Klinner, Andy Bonds, Myrick, Wickham, William Williams, Clayton Williams, Claude Williams, Frank Rollis, Chesa, Chesa, Graves, Arthur Chinn, James Lee. The officers are T. Johnson, O. Creppe, C. Chesa, secretary; C. Chesa, secretary; J. Lee, corresponding secretary; M. and C. Chesa, trustees CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (Special to the Chicago Defender). Cedar Rapids, Jan. 15, -- Rev. Cata lated for Chicago last week to assist in revival on the North Side. Rev. Ford occupied the pulpit Sunday morning at Bethel A. M. P. church. Ford spoke Sunday evening. *** Rev. W. Northcross occupied the pulpit at Mt. Zion Baptist church, morning and evening. The church is doing fine since the new pastor took charge. ***Re. S. B. Moore, presiding elder, left for Waterloo, In., last Tuesday. ***Re. S. B. Moore, presiding elder, left for Marshalltown, Ohio, after attending the poultry show. *****The ladies of the J. S. Y. club are arranging to give an old fashioned concert and a hard time supper Friday evening, the proceeds to go to pay for church plan. The ladies are delighted to see Mrs. W. H. Larcher, the oldest woman greatly missed, especially by the choir of Bettel A. M. E. church. *****Mrs. Fred H. Gresham's condition remains about the same as last week. The only thought an operation would be for the mother was pleased to see her friends during her illness. *****Mrs. A. J. Gray was surprised to see about 30 of her friends last Friday evening call at her home. She had forgotten it was her birthday. The evening was spent with music and the children, a delightful lunch was served and everyone wished Mrs. Gray many more happy holidays. TO CORRESPONDENTS In writing for The Defender, have matter to the office no later than Wednesday to insure publication. Write plainly and upon decent paper; use typewriter whenever possible. CALL Douglas 727 Auto. 71-629 WE Have No B Sell Every PROMPT. AMBUL Our Modern Cha- the Asst. OFFIC DANIEL M. JACKSON, President ABNER A. HODGES, Secretary The EMANUE UNDERTAKIN 2959-2961 Sou ALL DAY OR NIGHT Douglas 727 No. 71-629 WE Have No Branch Office Sell Every Style of Casket PROMPT AMBULANCE SERVICE Our Modern Chapel Is Free for the Asking. OFFICERS: M. M. JACKSON, President A. HODGES, Secretary GEORGE T. KERSEY, Treasurer AHMED A. RAYNER, Superintendent EMANUEL JACKSON DERTAKING CO., INC., 59-2961 South State St., Chicago ESTABLISHED 1865 CALL Douglas 727 Auto. 71-629 DAY OR NIGHT WE Have No Branch Office Sell Every Style of Casket PROMPT. AMBULANCE SERVICE Our Modern Chapel Is Free for the Asking. OFFICERS: DANIEL M. JACKSON, President ABNER A. HODGES, Secretary GEORGE T. KERSEY, Treasurer AHMED A. RAYNER, Superintendent The EMANUEL JACKSON UNDERTAKING CO., INC., 2959-2961 South State St., Chicago ```markdown ``` Mr. Ernest H. Williamson, 5028-30 State St. Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: Your note addressed with the re- carefully pursued and I would have other. Very pressing business. The body was in fine condition the excellent job done, as buried viewed it complimented the life-lite. We thank you for your kind or assure you we will reciprocate. T of the business in wicked Chicago Praterna M. Williamson, 5028-30 State St. Chicago, Ill.; note enclosed with the remains of Thos. M. Johnson has been perused and I would have answered sooner but was delayed by pressing business. body was in fine condition and we must congratulate you on cont. job done, as buried the body Sunday and wampbody complemented the life-like appearance. thank you for your kind offer to ship un whatever you can and we will reciprocate. Trusting you are getting your share business in wicked Chicago we beg to resin. Preternally Youre. Your note enclosed with the remains of Theo. M. Johnson has been carefully perused and I would have answered sooner but was delayed by other, very pressing business. The body was in fine condition and we must congratulate you on the excellent job done, as buried the body Sunday and warmly pleased it complimented the life-like appearance. We thank you for your kind offer to ship us whatever you can and assure you we will reciprocate. Trusting you are getting your share of the business in wicked Chicago we beg to remain. Praterally Your. W.B. M. Elynn It is well as here and remember the name of some FUNERAL DEPARTMENT where you can be sure to be by the door of very and cool. I want your name and trust with confidence in my name. ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER GENERAL BINARY BOOK AND CHAPEL 500-0000 N. STATE SHIRT Bouglas-883 Automatic 72-746 C. C. Hotel @ Buffet Cole & Catlin, Props. So. State St. Chicago, Ill. Real Estate Bargains Ave., near Garfield Blvd., beautiful brick home; lot 70x160; hot water heat; hardwood bak finish; large garage in rear; with driveway at. Ideal home with beautiful spacious lawn; with ornamental iron fence; must sell to close e. Will make terms. Only $7,500. Ave. near 33rd St. Blvd. Owing to recent death y, one of our clients will sacrifice her strictly home of 8 rooms; hardwood floors; furnace and open plumbing; possession at once. Terms ish, balance monthly. Price $4,000. Ave., near 67th St. A cozy 7-room brick all modern; hardwood floors and finish; electric hot water heat. This beautiful home on full- Price $3,950. Ave., near 31st St. Lot 30x164, with 2-flat brick; 7 and 8 rooms; hot water heat; in fine repair. 5,500. Phone Douglas 883 C. C. Hotel Cole & Cah 3449 So. State St. Real Estate Wabash Ave., near Garfield 9-room home; 70x160; floors; oak finish; large gate to street. Ideal home wi enclosed with ornamental in an estate. Will make term Forest Ave. near 330 St. B in family, one of our cli modern home of 8 rooms heat; and open plumbing; $350 cash, balance monthly Rhodes Ave., near 67th house, all modern; hardwo lights; hot water heat. 7 sized lot. Price $3,950. Vernon Ave., near 31st St. 1 building; 7 and 8 rooms; ho Price $6,500. Phone Douglas-883 Automatic 72-746 C. C. Hotel @ Buffet Cole & Catlin, Props. 3449 So. State St. Chicago, Ill. Real Estate Bargains Wabash Ave., near Garfield Blvd., beautiful brick 9-room home; lot 70x160; hot water heat; hardwood floors; oak finish; large garage in rear; with driveway to street. Ideal home with beautiful spacious lawn; enclosed with ornamental iron fence; must sell to close an estate. Will make terms. Only $7,500. Forest Ave. near 33rd St. Blvd. Owing to recent death in family, one of our clients will sacrifice her strictly modern home of 8 rooms; hardwood floors; furnace heat; and open plumbing; possession at once. Terms $350 cash, balance monthly. Price $4,000. Rhodes Ave., near 67th St. A cozy 7-room brick house, all modern; hardwood floors and finish; electric lights; hot water heat. This beautiful home on full-sized lot. Price $3,950. Vernon Ave., near 31st St. Lot 30x164, with 2-flat brick building; 7 and 8 rooms; hot water heat; in fine repair. Price $6,500. Call for List of Real Estate Bargains Bowers, Leibr Douglas 986 Wearers, Leibrandt & O'Brien 986 6 E. 31st St., N. E. Cor. State Wonderful Poro Hair Grower Mine. 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Cosell will be very happy to help you. ```markdown ``` EXTRAVAGANT If money were as easy to obtain it is to spend what a delicacy this would be: to live in, but this would not condition this condition does not. Many of us, however, do not realize until it is too late. The time to money is when you are making it invariably there will come that promised rainy day when you will be need of money. Chicagoans have learned the lesson well, as is, of the great number owned by you in all practically of recent origin. Fifteen on twenty years ago the colored people owned a piece of property here and there in the city, but today we number them by the hundreds, and all of this about through the easy system of payment of property by the unwedded, why so many continue to pay high rentals when this money can be applied on a home. It is much better to take time by the forelock and start today and be a home owner. The house of Bartlett & Co. have placed whereby rent money buy you a house. Their ad on the last page of this issue If your druggist cannot with Haya Hair Pemade mail on receipt of 25c Crown Pharmacy, 3037 St A. B. McAFEE Louisville, Ky. Oct., 2018, 1914. THE HISTORY OF THE UNION CHICAGO, IL. Noted Writer Discusses Problem of Racial Betterment—Blames Afro-Americans in No Uncertain Terms for Failure in Business and for Success of White Men. FLAYS YOU, ME, US, ET AL Says Foreigners Scoff at Race—Never Patronize Our Business Enterprises—Race on Other Hand Travels at Breakneck Speed to Enrich Them. By Dr. M. A. Malora. It is all very well to write literary gems on race progress, what we are doing, what we have, and what we are going to do. The writer wishes to advance a thought or two on what we are not doing and what we ought to do. The Negro, although within a very short period—of, say, ten years—has shown a remarkable spirit to conduct businesses of a great variety along Stato street. In spite of it he is being laughed at, snucked at, scaffolded at, and burned in a multiplicity of ways by the Jews, Greeks, Italians and other foreigners. They treat with contempt the better element of the race who do not patronize them, while they laugh in their sleeves a sneering humiliation upon those who for divers reasons now want to loan on lawery, clothing, etc. In the ghetto or out of it the foreigners have deep and well-raid plans as fixed as Glibraltar not to spend a cent with a Negro. Readers, do you know of any Jew, Greek or Italian spending money with Negroes in business or woman trading constantly with Negroes in business? And yet you, I, we, et al. are going at breakneck speed making rich these foreigners, who learn to say "N——" in New York and "damm N——" on their way to Chicago, and before they have learned other words in the English language. "Poor Bob Motts" Look for a moment at the condition of affairs along the stroll. We used to have a real theater, viz: the rekin. Poor Bob Motts. He met the gage and bucked the colossal scheme to put him out of business and died of a broken heart. Then Mr. Moore tried on Thirty-first street, lost his fortune, and died of clot on his brain. Then Dr. Richardson and Daily tried the moving picture show, which was in every respect first class. It failed. The Grand, run by a white man; the three others, including the No. 1 and No. 2 Morningstar. A rushing business; and who is it, pray, supporting them? You I, we et al. are doing our part to encourage them. Do not understand me as offering any condemnation to the business schemes of these men who are white. Not at all. What I am endeavoring to point out is that without Negro support the doors of these theaters and places of cheap amusement, who for many years have programs to meet the favors of a cheap class of people, could never stand open for one single performance. And yet can any very decent, high-class gentleman or lady of Negro blood boost of becoming treatment in any of these places? Girls Look Like Lillian Russell. Of course they hire a colored girl the size of the little black tickets. You haven't seen any black girls in these ticket offices, have you? The idea is to have Negro girls for ticket sellers and ushers, and often a Negro man. Well, this is the game. A colored orchestra plays the music, while thousands of us give the white managers the money to pay them with on the lowest scale of salary, while the ews and irish are salarying. That means one lot of the item of our helium-split selfbase. Look at the theater on State street, near Thirty-ninth. We have heard that this one belongs to a Negro business man. It is being very well patronized. This is evidence sufficient to warrant the success of others if it were not conducted. And yet, look where the theater is—pushed almost out of the range of Negro patronage. Furniture stores, saloons, cheap clothing houses, confectionaries, lunch rooms, Greek fruit stands, shoe stores and dozens of other business concerns run by white people and foreigners, all flourishing, with here and there a great variety of businesses, just hanging on with hope and despair alternating, foreshadowing nothing but ugly destiny—failure. Successa of Race Enterprises The Negro saloon, if it must exist, should have the Negro trade. There are saloons run by white men where a Negro is not wanted. The Negro baker and candlestick maker, the Negro lunch counter, the Negro haberdasher, the Negro dentist, dentist, lawyer, Negro newspaper, printing shop, drug store—in fact every world of the Negro in the business world must poll the silent vote of the race. This is what makes a people respected. There are numerous angles to this disdain, but would put the Negro race in a bad light. Enough is given already here to bring the blush of shame to every Negro's cheek. Not Doing Full Duty. Other races who have at heart the proper protection of their children and the deep and abiding respect for their women, and fancy future pictures of easy life and luxury beyond the possible reach of want, are building up breastworks of defense against which penury will over beat in vain. The patronage should become the abiding theme of the year now in its infancy. We are not doing our full duty. Two or three Negro bakers do not supply the race with bread and ples. The Negro barbers are flourishing mainly because Negroes cannot get service in white barber shops. If they could here wouldn't be quite so many Negro hops as there are. At one time several years ago the Greek and Italian coats threatened to monopolize the hops in to spring up, and race pride began dress itself. The result is many of the corners on the south side have been regained by Negro bootbacks. pace and there along the stroll the Negro is industriously and manly asserting himself in a permanent business way which merits the proud acclaim and constantly growing consideration. The Negro undertakers seldom bury white people, while the white undertakers get almost a lion's share of the Negro funerals; and yet in this particular I believe the Negro undertakers are all doing fairly well. Preachers Should Help. I believe the Negro preachers should take a hand in the efforts of race adjustment in serious advocacy of race patronage. They have the ear of the public, and when the newspapers, like the Chicago Defender and the Illinois Ilet, project the impending conflict between the race of verbal support from the pulpit. Finally, the race should support its own newspapers to a much greater extent than it does. The Chicago Defender is one of the strongest evidences we have in the matter of determined racial strength and vindication. Its strength must not be mistaken and regarded lightly. The race is rapidly coming into its own knowledge. It is now knownedgment. Just a little more awakening in matters of business and the proper understanding as to how it should be conducted will eventuate. It will be important consideration and respect of those who sneer, disregard and discredit us. CLEVELAND LETTER Cleveland, O., Jan. 15.—Sunday school day was celebrated in a most fitting manner at St. John's A. M. E. Church last Sunday. In the morning Rev. Charles Bundy, the pastor, preached a special sermon to the newly elected officers and teachers of the Sunday school, after which the in-staffation services were held. There were over eighty officers and teachers who were in the service of the large church, as regular Sunday school service was exceptionally interesting, as well as the special evening service, when the superintendent, Mr. Peyton W. Le-mon, made his annual address and outlined the great work for the year. St. John's boasts of the best Afro-American Sunday school in the country, and the regular service during the day. After the regular service Sunday or yesterday, Mr. John's was filled by an anxious crowd of Afro-Americans to hear the report of Hon. John P. Green, who was selected by the meeting held a week before to go to Washing-ton with resolutions protesting against the passage of the amendment to the immigration bill providing for the ex-clusion from America of all Negroes or members of the African race from forefathers, and the large church of St. John's, were filled by an anxious crowd of Afro-Americans to hear the report of Hon. John P. Green, who was selected by the meeting held a week before to go to Washing-ton with resolutions protesting against the passage of the amendment to the immigration bill providing for the ex-clusion from America of all Negroes or members of the African race from forefathers, and the large church of St. John's, were filled by an anxious crowd of Afro-Americans to hear the report of Hon. John P. Green, who was also very active in the initiative movement. * * * The Cleveland Association of Colored Men have elected the following officers for the year; R. R. Cheeks, president; Andrew B. Edwards, vice president; Thomas W. Fleming, secretary; J. H. Jackson, assistant secretary; J. W. Jackson, president; Mr. John F. Green, president; and�an-arms. The executive committee of the services. Mr. Henry Taylor, the chairman, was also very active in the initiative movement. * * * The Cleveland Association of Colored Men have elected the following officers for the year; R. R. Cheeks, president; Andrew B. Edwards, vice president; Thomas W. Fleming, secretary; J. H. Jackson, assistant secretary; J. W. Jackson, president; Mr. John F. Green, president; and�an-arms. The executive committee of the latter part of last week. Robert Lit-osemb, 2330 East 34th street, fell dead on the gymnasium floor of East Tech-nical High school while playing base-keeball, and Fred Richardson, 2305 East 53th street, the son of Mrs. Lot-tie Richdrdson-Green, and step-son of Hon. John P. Green, was run down in the fall of the 18th of the 18th-year righ of East 115th street, at East 105th street and Earle avenue, last week Friday night. Both were very promising young men. * * * Mrs. Mat-tie Bradford, who was the guest of Miss D. Williams, was summoned to her home in Chicago last Sunday by the death of her husband, Mr. F. Lawrence Bradford, balloonist. Miss Williams accompanied her. We are in the same position as Mr. George J. Adams, who spoke recently in St. John's church, has been re-elected judge of the Juvenile court by the common pleas, probate and insolvency court judges. * * * Mr. Cyril Dandridge is one of our most promising young men. Not only is he making a mark for himself as the only Afro-American repairer of musical instruments in the history of the United States, but he is also an attending bishop at Technical High school and in leisure hours collects bills for white firms. The community expects great things from this energetic young man in the near future. * * * Last week Wednes-day, Mrs. Waller McAllister of East 33th street entertained at breakfast in honor of Mr. J. Francis Mores, the eminent baritone of New York City. He was the first of six members of the league gave a successful concert Tuesday evening at St. John's church. The participants were Prof. Arnell Hicks, organist of Superior Avenue Baptist church, and instructor at Bailey School of Music; Miss Eva Donberg, soprano of the Fortnightly Club Washington, D. C., Jan. 5.—H. C. Beckett is "making good" as secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Under his palm-taking administration the membership is being steadily enlarged and the revenues show an increase each month over preceding months. A. C. Jackson, who won honors as class orator at Harvard College, is now engaged in Y. M. C. A. work and spent last week in the city attending the international secretaries of the workers of the country. He was a guest at the session of the Mu-So-Lit Club Friday evening. Lewis E. Johnson, former secretary of the local Y. M. C. A., has located at Pooria, I. to enter upon the practice of law, for which he prepared at Howard University in this city while looking after the interests of the association. He is being urged to assist in the work of the Loyal Legion at Quincy, and may be prevailed to take part in connection with his law practice at Peoria. He is one of the ablest directors of uplifting agencies for young men that the race has produced. P. Dallas Washington, one of the capital's most experienced and popular "bonifaces," has taken over the famous Gray's Cafe at 636 D street, northwest, and is running it on the same liberal and high class basis that is needed for it to gain reputation under the direction of J. Gray. The genial "Jim" Gray retires to again take up the work of his life, that of catering to the element that used to hobbin at historic "Chamberlin" and which makes the winter as pleasant as May at Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Washington is planning to have a celebration of the moon, at which the celebrities of the city make and make the welkin ring with good cheer and give new regime a grand "send-off." Washington Girl Wins at Livingstone College. Miss Clarice Jones, who graduated with high honors from the Conservatory of Music in connection with Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y., and attended the quality and attendance all the good quality for it at this classic institution, is in charge of the musical department of Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C., and is making a record that reflects great credit upon both herself and Zion's foremost center of learning. In work in hand and is enthusiastic over the bright possibilities she sees for the young people of the South in the field of music, where their natural aptitude for melody and rhythm gives them a margin of advantage not fully understood by northerners. The Johnson-Pumpherson returned last Sunday to her post as director of domestic science at the Whitted High School, Durham, N. C., after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, Misses Mabel Wormley and Sadie McCormick, the academic deparment of the same school, have also resumed their work. George A. Carter, well known in Masonic and Odd Fellows circles, has purchased a farm in King George's County, Virginia, paying for it $3,000 in cash. The farm is specially adapted to raising tomatoes, and their quality is so well known that the commission houses buy the crop for a handsome figure before the planting season is well under way. Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard University, has nominated William Monroe Trotter, editor of the Boston Guard medal. The Spingarn medal is $100 in gold, will be awarded at the National meeting in New York of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to the person of color who has rendered during the year the most distinguished service. Charles Edward Russell, the eminent sociologist, writer and man of affairs, delivered a remarkable lecture Monday evening in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard University. The speaker took high ground on the race issue, and condemned in the severest terms the attempt of a few shortsighted legislators to exclude persons of African descent from enterment. He held that the thrifty and industrious intelligent Negroes are among the utmost assets of which the American nation boast, and will make themselves felt more and more in the economic and educational equation. LIKE BOMB FROM AEROPLANE Pods Containing Brazil Nuts Drop From Trees in the Forest One Hum- dred For Food High In this country Brazil nuts are almost as well known as walnuts, yet few know the manner of their growth and the steps taken in their collection and marketing. The tree itself is the most majestic in the valley of the Amazon, where it attains a height ranging from fifty to one hundred feet. The hundred trees are found in a group. The trees best, producing districts long ago passed to private individuals, hence the natives are not free to pick and sell the nuts at will. The Brazil nut tree does not begin to bear fruit until it attains the age of 50 years or thereabouts, and continues to produce crops intermittently almost forever; at least, it will be hundreds of years old have produced the nuts which the nuts are contained drop in November and December. These pods are very hard and weigh several pounds, consequently the trees are studiously avoided during the period in which the pods are dropping, since it would be extremely hazardous for the gatherers to expose themselves to the possibility of having the pods fall on them from the top. The pod is at least seven inches in diameter, and is full of nuts. The pod is usually opened with a machete. Catty Trick. When a family moves to a new house it not infrequently happens that the cat disapproves of the change and returns to its old abode at the first opportunity. Now cats are very careful about their feet, and many county folk will tell you that if a cat's feet are thrust into butter on the first night of its arrival in the new quarters, it takes so long to lick clean the sensitive skin. The cat is accustomed to its new surroundings and reconciled to the change before its feet are free from all traces of the butter. Charles A. Marshall, one of the race's brightest and most promising young educators, spent the holidays in the city with his mother. Mr. Marshall is now principal of School No. 400, Cheswold, Det, and some weeks ago was unanimously elected vice-president of the Association of State Delegates "Association of the State of Delaware." Washington has been a veritable Cupid's Garden during the past month or so. More marriages of well-known people have taken place in that time than the city has ever known in a similar period. Some of the more prominent alliances have been: C. H. Baughman, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Dr. J. H. Gray, of Arlington, Va., and Miss E. Pearl Lewis; Jesse H. Foster and Miss Ella R. Jones; Dr. W. H. Green, of Newark, N. J., and Miss Ruth Grimshave, and W. Calyvin Chase, Jr. and Miss Bertha Abigail Smallwood. Other couples will follow in rapid succession. If there are any "hard times" in the matrimonial market the activities in the matrimonial market do not reveal them. The newest commercial concession to the uptown movement is found in the change of R. L. Pendleton's big printing establishment, which for many years was located at 609 F. street, in the heart of the mercantile, district of the city. Mr. Pendleton last week his home and printing outfit to 1216 U street, a few doors from the True Reformers' Hall and opposite Dudley's Theater, in the building formerly occupied by the cafe of Emanual Murray. The new location puts Mr. Pendleton more closely in touch with the driving and with in the reach of many who will be added to his clientele. The thirty old Fellows lodges of Washington ten lored, a banquet last Saturday night at Old Fellows' Hall in honor of the Master Edward H. Morris, of Chicago, and the sub-committee of management of the Order of the Three Links. Sunday night the party was entertained by the Odd Fellows of Baltimore. Monday the Order in Philadelphia was the host and on the 15th night the floor. The S. C. M. held its first regular section of the new administration in Philadelphia this week. Mrs. B. F. W., the beloved wife of the secretary of the Church Extension Board of the A. M. E. Church, is dead, after a long and painful illness. The funeral services were held Wednesday at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Rev. C. H. Steklepoff, officiating, assisted by many of the leading ministers of various denominations. Mrs. Watson was a woman of an helpful disposition and was an enthusiastic cause of Christianity in her home in the church. Her passing is deeply deplored by all who had the good fortune to know her. The public schools of Washington, white and colored, will be represented by an exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. "Howard Night." always a big anna event, will be observed by the Bethlehem missionary institution some time in February, the exact date yet to be announced. The meeting was to have been held several weeks ago, but was postponed on account of the absence from the city of President S. M. Newman, who made a visit to the successful tour of the Middle West in the interest of the school. "Howard Night" this year will show some new features and the leaders say it "will take the rag off the bush" for genuine fun, philosophy, information and "colloquial" news there will be eloquent speeches, new songs and thrilling yells. Miss Marie A. D. Madre, distinguished as a teacher in the public schools of Washington, a graduate of the law department of Howard University, and four times president of Bethel Literary and Historical Association, delivered an emancipation day address recently at York, Pa., and captivated the immense audience that turned out to hear her. The York Daily Gazette, speaking of Miss Emancipation's remarkable deliverance, said: "Not since Iissance of Lincoln's Emancipation has such a deep interest been held in Negro question here as was manifested when this learned Negro lawyer spoke. A modern 'Porta' was at the bar, pleading the cause of a raje." PLEASURE FOR THE LOBSTER Assertion is Made That He Really Enjoys the Experience of Being Bolled Up. Do you think that slowly boiling to death would be a happy way of "crossing the great divide"? Well, probably if you were a lobster you would think so. Experiments at the Jersey marine biological station have shown that the old-time method of dropping a lobster in cold water, then letting him heat up gradually until his lobster soul has departed from his body is really a pleasure to him, even if it is the last fun he'll ever have. Lobsters, you see, are extremely difficult to kill. Piercing the brain—about the size of a hump seed—does not cause the lobster no more than temporary annoyance. It is therefore necessary to kill the crustacean all over. To throw him into boiling water causes him to struggle violently, showing he suffers pain, but when you drop him into the cold water and it gradually rises in temperature Mr. Lobster warms, then drowny, and finally one claw under his head and passes away into the sleep of the just. At 70 degrees Fahrenheit Mr. Lobster is in a comatose condition but has suffered no pain. At 80 he is as dead as a stone wall. Probably Missed It. Speaking of the old wild days in Scotland an aged dame, with her grandchildren about her knee, said concerning a leader of her clan who had been beheaded following some trouble with the crown: "It was nae great thing o' a heal, ta be sure, but it wis a sad loss tae him." Ideal Mind. A weak mind slaks under prosperity as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides when there is no moon—Julus Hare. Externities to Which Inhabitants of Paris Were Driven During the Siege of 1870. In a letter by Henry Labouche, which is quoted by A. L. Thorold in his life of the distinguished journalist, he describes, not without a characteristic touch of humor, the extremes to which the inhabitants of Paris were driven during the siege of 1870. I went to see what was going on in the house of a friend of mine in the Avenue de l'imperatrice, who has left Paris. The servant who was in charge told me they had not been able to bread for the day, and that the last time he had presented his ticket, he had been given about half an inch of cheese. "How do you live, then?" I asked. After looking mysteriously round to see that no one was watching us, he took me down into the cellar and pointed to some meat in a barrel. "It is half a horse," he said, in the tone of a man who is showing someone the corpse of his murdered victim. "A neighboring coachman killed him, and we salted him down and divided them. Then he opened a closet in which she was hiding, her up for Christmas; we mean to serve her up surrounded with mice like sausages." On January 6, Labouchere notes: "Winterday, I had a slice of Pollix for dinner. Castor and his brother Pollix are two elephants that have been killed. The meat was tough, coarse, and I do not recommend English cuisine for them, but they can get beef or mutton. Many of the restaurants are closed for lack of fuel. They use lamps, but even French cooks when they are called upon to cook an elephant with a spirit lamp, find the thing almost beyond their ingenuity. Castor's and Pollix's milk is sold for 45 francs a pound, the milk is fetched about ten francs a pound." Not all the strange foods eaten during the siege were as unalluring. On the subject of donkey, Labouchere says: "Donkey is infinitely better eating than beef or mutton; indeed, I do not know any meat that is better. I do not anyone who doubts the excellence of donkey slay one of these weak-minded animals, cook him, and eat him." Democratizing Agency Electrical engineering was eulogized by Dr. A. H. Raffin in a late address at the Birmingham university, as having been perhaps the greatest of democratizing agencies. It has shown how to make full use of the materials and energies available, and by chanpening production and transportation in general the commodities and tools that were the property of the few. It has replaced manual labor to an ever-increasing extent, thus releasing mental energy for better service. The emancipation has made science and knowledge the labor of the many, and the tremendous progress in science of the century. Through electrical engineering a better understanding and wider and more efficient use of nearly all matters and energy have been brought about. It has given better acquaintance with animal and human organization and their problems, has bridged the gap between influence as obstacles to progress, and has increased the efficiency of the individual and of society. Magnitude of the Movies Some idea of the extent to which the motion picture business has grown in the last few years may be gathered from the announcement that the Pennsylvania state board of censors examined more than six million feet, or about a hundred and fifteen miles, of film submitted for approval during the last few months, and ended of November. Each film averages a thousand feet in length, and runs fifteen minutes, so their exhibition alone would occupy over sixty-two full days of twenty-four hours, or one hundred and eighty-seven working days, each even as the average five-cent fee includes such reels, it can be seen that enough films have already been inspected to give at least fifteen hundred such performances without repetition or duplication. When such facts as these are brought to light it became clear why the so-called "legitimate" theatrical film has struck the worst slump this season ever known in its history. Catholic Free Library There is a Catholic free library in St. Louis which began in this way: At his death in 1909, Prof. George Wright, a convert, bequeathed 6,000 volumes to Archbishop Glennon as a necissae of a Catholic free library. Like many another collector of good books, Mr. Wright had no large endowment of money to add to his bequest, and thus insure the permanence of the new library. But a librarian was found who had enthralled the library with his work, and under her care the library had the number of volumes, and the circulation of the books was last year considerably more than 20,100; which means an average of 67 books a day put into circulation. Three thousand five hundred persons hold membership cards in the Catholic free library. Wood in Aeroplanes Many persons are wondering these days what material is being used in the construction of aeroplanes of the warring nations. Constant flying—service which continues day after day—has caused a belief that metal has implanted wood to a considerable extent. As a matter of fact, the flying machines are made almost entirely of wood. The propellers of the aeroplanes are most in instances made of selected ash, which, in addition to being strong and light, will not split under vibration or shock. Built up layers of spruce with mahogany centers can in use. Spruce is used in the construction of aeroplanes because of its markedly straight grain and freedom from hidden defects. Precaution. "Why did you insist on having your new servant 'arrive on Saturday?' asked the neighbor. "Could you stick till Monday?" replied Arna. Crosslots. "We wanted to be sure of having help for our Sunday dinner." Salt Production Doubles. The salt production of the United States has doubled in 15 years, last year output of about 33,330,000 barrels by 1 per cent more than the year before. LAND FIVE RACES. (Continued from page 1.) last hurdles, but the sprint of Kelly tucked the race away for him. Charley Borgstrom obtained the dizzy height of 12 feet in the pole vault and defeated Krohn of Stanford, who fell down on the job at this mark. Both men were not in the best of shape, but the mark hung up is excellent and a first-place winner in many meets. Giffen took third place. The eight-man high school relay was won by Manual Arts from Long Beach by eleven 100 yards. State Stated third. The Toller runners showed plenty of speed and have the fastest prep relay team in the South. The men are demons in the turlong. Murray Is Winner. Murray of Whittier College surprised the old guards by winning from Harry Kirkpatrick, the former Occidental star, in the low barrier race in the fast time of 25.2. Murray was trained to the minute and came in strong. Kirkpatrick was not in the first place, but he could not keep up with the pace he set the first part of the race. Merriam of the Pasadena Y. M. C. A. won third place. The 50-yard dash for grammar schools of Pasadena was won by Perry of Grant school, Bedall finishing second and Booth, who hails from John Kirkpatrick. The winner made the fast time of 6.1. The last event on the program was a hummer—the open six-man relay. S HOWARD P. DREW, World's Champion Sprinter. The University of Southern California team won the race because Howard Drew ran the last lap and made up five yards. Occidental was second and Manual Arts finished a close third. It was an exciting race and kept the spectators on edge from start to finish. The summary of events is as follows: Open 100-yard dash, first heat—Drew (U. S. C.), first; Johnson (U. S. C.), second. Time, :10.2. Second heat—Brashear (Whittier State), first; Webster (Occidental), second. Time, :10.2. Third heat—Cammack (Whittier College), first; Gillette (U. S. A. C.), second. Time, :10.2. Finals—Drew Drew (U. S. C.), first; Cammack (Whittier), second; Webster (Occidental), third. Time, :10.1. High school 100-yard dash, first heat—Wark (Long Beach), first; Brashear Whittier State, second. Time, :10.2. Second heat—Paschal (Whittier State), first; Date (Pasadena), second. Time, :10.2. Third heat—Repath (Manual), first; Knighton (Whittier State), second. Time, :10.4. Finals—Paschal (Whittier State), first; Date (Pasadena), second; Wark (Long Beach), third. Time, 10:3. High jump—Merrian (P. Y. M. C. A.), first; Thompson (Long Beach), second; Webster (Occidental), third. Height, 5 feet 11 inches. High hurdles-Kelly (U. S. C.), first; High hurdles-Johnson (U. S. C.), second; Murray (W. C.), third; Second, time 22:40-yard dash, open, first heat—Drew (U. S. C.), first; Johnson (U. S. C.), second; Second heat—Faschin (W. S. C.), first; Gillotte (L. A. A. C.), second; Time 22:33. Finails-Drew (U. S. C. ) first; Gillette (U. S. C. ) second; Johnson (U. S. C. ) third. Pole vault—Borgstrom (L. A. A. C.), first; Khrone (Stanford), second; Gifhn first; Khrone (Stanford), second; Gifhn 20-yard hurdles—Hurray (W. C. I. c), Kirkpatrick (L. A. A. C.), second; Merrian (P. Y. M. C. A.), third; Time, 35.2. Merrian—Perry (Garfield), first; Brad (Grant), second; Booth (John Muhr), third. Time, 6.1. 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Our moral codes were invented, not to prepare men for heaven, or for Utopia; they were invented by men who were none too good themselves for people who were not much worse. There are great differences in human beings as to the amount of knowledge and wisdom which they possess, but there is small difference in regard to the amount of goodness or rascality that they manifest.—Mowry Saben, in Forum. Way to Get His Money Refunded Day to get His Money refunded. Sadden "I" enraged young Simp Sadden "I" I've gone and got the marriage license, and now the girl has clipped with a washing machine agent Ar-ri-ri-! "Oh well," applied Grout P. Smith, "the war tax is the same on a marriage license and a shooting license. Go out now and shoot yourself."-Kansas City Star. Popular Russian Beverage. A popular drink among the peasants of Russia is called quass. It is made by pouring water over rye or barley meal. 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RECITAL Miss Maud J. Roberts, Soprano (Pupil of Herman Devries) Assisted by C. Cecil Cohen, Pianist (Oberlin Conservatory) Miss Roberts will render selections in English, French and Italian. French group by Mr. Devries, composer at the piano. ADMISSION 50 CENTS CARY B. LEWIS, Manager The Grand. The Bohn Trio of hand-balancers and acrobats opened the bill on Monday night and were good. Lane, Hane and Lane, who style themselves as playful entertainers, working with a piano, have several good numbers and, were follower of De Carlsin & Co. in a western playlet entitled "Red Ice," which consisted of a swell interior drop, considerable clever acting and a whole lot of shooting. Grundy & Lazzo, in "The Chauffeur Girl," did fairly well, and one of Lew Carlson's school acts closed a bill which was correct to the standard. The last half last week had Fisher and his girls in society dances and at acts of theirs along up there with Hilton & Hutches, German comedians, were good. Copeland and Payton relied on their comedy diner car offering and their clever acrobatic offering and were followed by Bromnan and Carr in an clever acrobatic turn "Fun the Docks." The Seven Castellules, the four Cross, were away above the ordinary. Among the feature acts booked here over the near future are the two Tomas, Cross, the Creole Bind and Andrew Tomas, and "The 'Possum Hollow University.'" Old Monogram. The headliners here this week were easily Brown & Pinkey who returned from a successful trip through a country without doubt the cleverest sister of the two, who were accorded a hearty reception. Others on the bill were Junk Edwards & Haredee, who are clever and did well with Mitchell & Grant. Marie Boussard was very neat shingle and received her shale hand from an appreciative audience. New Monogram Rollinson & Payne opened here on Monday night and earned the applause of a well filled house. Shafer & Shafter vent well, as also did our old guitarist, who played twelve minutes. It remained for Ethelyn & Luke to virtually "knock 'em over," their act being one of the best seen here in a long time. St. White is violin soloist here. Laurence Jones being the orchestra扎 The Phoenix Among the feature reels shown here during the current week were "The New Magdalene," "Lola the Rat," "Saved from a Life of Crime," "Frameson," "Mary Pickford Scars," "Frasion," "Mary Pickford Scars," "The five drama" "Eagle's Mate," "Garrison's Finish," "a great race horse drama," "Broncho Billy," "Sunday brings Klaus & Erlander's great success," "The Power of the Press," "The Phoenix is a member of the race as manager," "a member of the race as manager," Mr. Al Gaines took charge here several weeks ago and books the house personally. The Lincoln. "The Ghost of Smiling Jim" was shown here during the drama drew well, Among others shown here during the week were J. Warren Kerrigan in "The King and the Man," "The Law of the Range," "The Ruin of Manley," "The Master of the House" and "The Game of Wits" Sunday brings the great story film, "Should a Woman Divorce?" The Washington. Business continues good here and the billing during the week was splendid. Kathy Williams in "Until Death Matters" (1995) and was followed during the week by a "Soldier of Peace," "The Hate that Witers," Maurice Costeille in "By the Sea," and "The Sovereign," "The Single Act," "The Curse of Greed," Francis X. Bushman in "Any Woman's Choice," and Bronco Billy. Sunday's books include "The Greatest of the Greatest in a great four-reel, drama called 'A Celebrated Case,' and the three-reel Labin. "He Made His Mark." The time during the winter months. The States Business here during the current week has been good, the great features booked have caused a capacity business on more than one occasion, including attractions behind "Zidane, No. 2"; "Exploits of Elsine, No. 2," with Pearl White, "Runaway June," "The Last Chapter," "The Exposure," and "A Fool There Was." Sunday brings Chara Kimbili Young in the celebrated movie "The Exposure." This is an attraction produced by the same company that released "The Sins of the Parents," and other sensational productions. Miss Helen Greene is the pleasant and accommodating ticket seller at the States. Brown and Johnson on the Road With Show. Tom Brown and Billy Johnson are on the road with their big show of sixteen people with a musical director and drummer. The company has been out of the city for a week hit is exchanged here and that the company is making a big hit at every performance. C. Geell Cohen Coming. C. Cecil Cohen, a Chicago boy who graduated from Fisk University, and won a scholarship at Oberlin College, will in the Feb. 4 to assist Miss Maud Browne. Gem Stock Co. Piaya at Frankfort, Ky (Special to Chicago Defender) Frankfort, Ky. Jan. 15.—The Gem Stock Co. under the management of Burton Brothers, played here this week and is enroute to the Crown Garden and then to the Grand at Chicago. Coreta Day East. (Special to Chicago Defender) New York City, Jan. 15—Miss Cora Day, of Chicago, IL, is making a tremendous hit in vandalism. She has been and is putting on a new dance. She will not go west until spring. Henderson and Wise Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 18—Henderson and Wise will play over the Consididate time, beginning at the Metropolitan theater, Memphis, Tenn., Monday, Jan. 18. With St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dayton and Detroit to follow. Billy Henderson was formerly of the Jolly Henderson and Misa Pamille Wise was formerly leading soiree of the Cole Johnson Heimdon Co. Actors for Anderson. Every man you ask on the Stroll who is he for for alderman of the Scee ord ward he invariably says Louis B Anderson. Already clubs are being formed to work for Mr. Anderson on primary day. On the S. H. Dudley Circuit. On the S. H. Dudley Circus, W. D. C.—S. H. Dudley theater, Low W. Henry, Mgr; Bruxon & Nugent, Manze nordicey, Hugh Turner, James Brown. Howard theater, Andrew J. Thomas, Mgr; Richardson & Towell, Manze nordicey, Hugh Turner, James Brown. Howard theater, Mr. Ross, Mgr; Granstaff & Davis. Richmond, Va.-Hippodrome theater, W. J. Coulter, Mgr; Tim & Hester Moore, Clementa, Va.-Hippodrome theater, C. L. Andrews, Mgr; Susie Martin, Martin & Ramsey, Danville, Va.-Columbia theater, W. A. D. Enley, Mgr; Dorsey Lazoo Founty, Lyburgshire, Va.-Columbia theater, Lyburgshire, Mgr; The Goodletts. Philadelphia, Pa.-New Standard theater, Joan Y. Gibson, Mgr; Gant & Perkins, The Hillmans, Pittsburgh, Pa.-Star the Walker, Nolan Washington, Chelsea, Woods, Washburn & Piper, Detroit, Mich.-Vaudette theater, C. L. Dudley, Mgr; Johnson & Johnson, Murphy & Walker, Nolan Washington, Chelsea, Woods, Washburn & Piper, Detroit, Mich.-Vaudette theater, C. L. Dudley, Mgr; Hub Trio, Marjorie Lorraine, Seymour Mgr, Louisville, Ky.-Ruby theater, Wilhelm & Collier, Mgr; Denslow & Denslow, Memphis, Beer, Mgr; Langster Brown, Jones & Lliston, Lawson & Lawson, Va. Washington Stage By Ar-W-Tee. Washington, D. C., Jan. 15—An air dome on 9th street is one of the landmarks of the city. The Griffin Sisters will go on a brief southern tour when they can arrange their business affairs in such a way that they can leave the city for a while. Many persons who enjoyed the high-class act put on at the Howard recently by Elizabeth Hart Dorssey and Siren Newbury Brown were under the imprint of the race got no credit for their spendid work. Both of the ladies are quite fair and would ordinarily be taken for Caucasians, but they are not. The race was intensely loyal to their people. Prof William H. Dorssey, the noted musical director and composer, the husband of the prima donna, came down from New York especially to conduct the race. The ladies were berens. He has arranged an entirely new orchestration for Cole and Johnson's "Bleeding Moon," which is being featured by Mrs. Dorssey in picturesque settings. He introduced "Tipperary" to audiences here and this up-to-date selection, together with her toe-dancing and other difficult steps, put her in high favor. Mrs. Dorssey's Spanish number was used in the dress their act richly, and in quality it has all the elements that characterize the productions seen in the best music halls of London and Paris, Mrs. Dorssey and Mrs. Brown are now in the audience. The new Meyers United Time, which will carry them into some of the finest white houses in the land. Gertrude Struffin and Minstrel Morris are new members of the Martin and Motley Stock Company. The company has now gone over to the Forker for a "run." When it comes to putting over the funny stuff, you have to hand it to Murphy and Walker. Their "quarrel scene" is not so stateist as stuart as the movie, but it has a bill Shakespeare, as it a lot more up to date and truer to life, as the colored brother sees it. Not a more natural episode is enacted by any of our talking comedians than Mr. Struffin and the Cassius by one Bill Shakespeare, assuming the roles of two very belligerent and very ignorant colored brethren, but who wish to appear so learned that Old Socrates would be compelled to take off his shirt and walk in a class by themselves, and their comedy goes across without apparent effort on their part to be funny. Both are extremely clever and their methods are so individual that there can be rivalry nor comparison between them. They are drawing cards everywhere. Miss Gorttle M. Ryan, the Howard's accomplished treasurer, his a cashier onto the manner born. She knows the business from A to Z, and is a tremendously valuable asset to the Thomas management in making the house a popular center. Always in a setting in seeing to it that everybody gets the seat they want—or the next best thing—Miss Ryan makes a ticket-buyer so glad that he's living that he comes to the office. Another just to be inspired by her personal smile. Miss Ryan is one of the permanent institution at the Howard. After nearly five months of stock, during which time the Martin and Motley Company ran the gamut of good things in music comedy, and demonstration of the art, eduved variety, Dudley's popular U street house returned last week to the regular vaudeville diet. Manager Lew W. Henry agreeably surprised his pal, the band's actresses, besides a group of fine pictures. The bill included Baker and Hillman, a funny pair; Nip and Tuck, the dancing wonders; Tom Melton, the musical star; and the known "stater team." Manager Henry intends to make his home theater a model for the other houses of the Dudley circuit and he has in mind a number of new projects unfold in due season. Keep your eye on him. Miss Desdemona Barnett presides at the box-office in her usual queenly fashion and Frederick Desdemona Barnett, the Dudley staff, officiates with dignity and precision as stage manager. Miss Clara Oliver is that all my performer can ask as a pianist and S. P. Jones is "there" on the drum, alter- Susie Sutton is in Virginia this week. This clever character impersonator and singing comedienne has completely recovered from the effects of her recent illness and is now in full swing. She spent several months. Upon returning to her home for the Xmas holidays, she was booked for a week at the Howard, but suffered a nervous breakdown just after the Monday after her wedding. She cancled her engagement. Miss Sutton has a host of friends and during the holidays her home was the rallying point for them all, and she was the recipient of many beautiful paintings, studied with diamonds and pearls, a diamond ring and a vanity case of a new pattern, rich stocked with the dainties used in connection with "milady's" toilet. Daisy Martin and William Ramaym put in a good week here at the Howard recently. They have an act called "The Chef and the Mold." Ramays's "The Lady" and Miss Martin's "It's Too Late Lady" are taking features of the new skit. The Griffin sisters, Emma and Mabel, are now full-fledged Washingtonians, although they will maintain headquarterings in Chicago for their western booking interests. Their cozy flat at 1400'7 in the street nearest them is furnished in exquisite interiors and is located for their friends in and out of the profession. Their hospitalizable latchstring always hangs on the outside and they are entertainers of the wholesale Kentucky variety. They are to be found in many of the many and many representative people of the capital will be on hand to bid them welcome to their new habitat. The Griffin sisters hold the lease on a well known theater in this city and are actively negotiating for others here to attend. They are women to the core and are engaged in promoting an enterprise in making the theoretical world "sit up and take notice" when its details are made public. In the meantime investors, will do well to hire them at the address given above. MISS MAUD J. ROBERTS IN RECITAL AT LIN- COLN CENTER, FEB. Miss Maud J. Roberts, who will appear in a recital at Lincoln Memorial Center February 4, received her early training in the Children's Chair at the University of North Carolina direction of Prof. Ed F. Morris. Upon going to Nashville to finish her education she became solist of Walden University, and her successes there often appeared in these columns. When Miss Roberts gave up teaching in the South and decided to give her time to the artistic perfection her voice, Anita Patton Bullen Brown, gave up teaching to Mr. Herman Devries. Miss Roberts' success with him is evidenced by the fact that she will sing a group of his compositions with Mr. Devries at the unusual honor to say the least. That our readers may know Mr. Devries it might be well to state that he was first bass-bantyline with the Metropolitan Opera House, New York; he was first ballet-player with the Opera Conquie, Paris; Theatre Royal, Monnaie, Brussels, Mr. Devries was connected for many years with the Chicago Musical College. Mr. C. Cecil Cohen, who will assist him in the rehearsal and be read, and is just 21 years of age. He is a graduate of the Music Department of Fisk University, and is now studying in the Oberlin Conservatory. He makes no engagements for Thursday, February 4. Remember the place—Lincoln Center. LILYDALE Mr. J. Bean, 3441 La Salle street, is sick and has been since New Year's day. His wife had him moved last Sunday to the city where he can have special medical attention. * * * Mr. Martin Newborn, 3532 Perry Avenue, Chicago. * * * He has been dispaired. * * * Miss Werdle and Hazel Trotter entertained a few of the girls of Lilydale last Sunday. Cake and lemon ice were served. The girls spent a delightful evening. * * * Miss Ivery Patterson, 14. W. 51st street, Chicago. * * * Miss James St. James Sunday school. * * * The Lilydale Protective and Improvement Club met Jan. 10 at St. James chapel. They had an interesting meeting and all the members were present. The citizens are glad to know the man are responsible for the improvements of our little town and the improvements that we necessarily need. Aluminum Shoe Solar. One of the newest uses for aluminum is in making the shoes of shoes for use by workmen employed in wet and damp places. The aluminum soled shoes last much longer than an ordinary shoe. The aluminum impervious to dammess. - Da Lode. THE AHJAH IS HERE. Mr. Columbus Bragg presents the Ethiopic Classic Drama, from the Ethiopic Hieroglyphics (Abyssinia sacred writings), the greatest singing artists of the race. An all-star cast will be presented for the first time in America. The sacred songs of Solomon's Temple, from the church Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 8:15 pm. Admission 25 cents. Mr. A. J. Halsey, manager in advance. WITH THE BOYS AT SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. Walter Mater Ezel, wife of Mater Ezel, is able to be up at her residence, 1917 W. Lake street, and enjoys showing her big baby boy to his street. The street street has been transferred from the wall paper mill to Department 36. Mr. Overstreet has been at the wall paper mill for some time, and his friend did not want him to leave. Louis, the son of Mr. Louis, Mo. is in the city visiting her son, Mr. Sam Jackson, at 2820 S. Dearborn street. * . * Mr. George W. Settles of Department 168 will be visiting the street at 8 o'clock p. Louis, Billeton Brourdine of Bouville, Ith., at the residence of the bride's mother, 1711 Walnut street, at 8 o'clock p. m. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith entered the street at 8 o'clock p. m. at their residence, 220 Billeton bridge avenue, Sunday, January 10, from 4 to 8 o'clock p. day. * Mrs. O. D. Williamson is visiting in the South for the next two weeks. He will reside in the street at 8 o'clock p. m. at their residence, the latter part of January. * Mrs. Julia Early of Henderson, Ky., who has been visiting her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Nelson, their residence, 3550 Billeton bridge avenue. * Mrs. Early came to the city seeking to regain her health, and it seems that she has made no mistake. * The Progressive Whist Club. The club was entertained by Mr. Henry their residence, 3757 Dearborn street. The first prizes were awarded to Miss Mary Taylor and Mr. Lapton Ford, Mr. Marier Ford and Mr. Elph, Peters THE BLUE GRASS STATE Home of Beautiful Women, Fast Horses and Fine Sprints Brought into the Limehill. (Special to Chicago Defender) Frankfort, Ky. Jan. 15–Mr. Parker Sage, a prominent citizen, committed suicide at the residence of Mr. Russell McRay by whom he was employed as valet. Mr. Sage was highly respectable. The funeral service was held at the home of Mr. Russell, left a widow and a host of friends to mourn for his remains. ** * The students who were arrested for "breach President kussell of the K. N. & I. L. appealed to the higher courts and the cases were laid over to the April term of court. ** * Mrs. George W. Martin and President kussell of the K. N. & I. L. where she has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Z. L. Davis. ** * The writer will turn the Xray on the progress Shevliyah, Ky. ** * Miss Mary Halpern, a unique entertainment in honor of Mrs. Alice Jones of Louisville. The guests were Mrs. Mary L. Webster, Mrs. Rich-ard Holder, Mr. and Mrs. T. Childs, Mrs. Christine Kirk, Miss Christine Brvant, Mr. Burtho, Mr. Paul Lankfort, Miss Bessie Cox, Mr. Joe Sanders, Miss Salvester Love and Mr. Joe Bean. A five-course menu was served on the menu, which elapsed over the repeat. **Prof. W. H. Mayo**, principal of the Clinton Street high school, editor of Masono Horad, and Mr. Joe Bean, he spent the Yuletide among his friends. **Misses Louise Rold and Little Todd and Mrs. Anne T. O'Neal have returned from Indianapolis, Ind.** **Mr. Joe Sanders** and **Mr. Joe Denten G.** **Mr. Joe Timberlake, the father of Mr. C. L. Timberlake, and Mr. Ben Timberlake, his uncle, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Timberlake. **Dr. C. A. Tutt left for Richmond.** CHORAL STUDY CLUB HAS INITIAL RECITAL FIRST MONDAY IN MARCH The Choral Study Club, will give its initial concert of the season the first Monday night in March at Institutional church. Plans are being made to give one of the best rectals yet given by the club. The club has been especially invited to the debut recital of Miss Maud Roberts, February 4. DR. G. W. MILLER 1307 West 61st St., corner Throop, Englewood. Office Phone Wentworth 7655. Residence Phone Keywood 6705. L. 3. ANDERSON OFFERS GRIFFIN CHANCE DIRECT Candidate Says That It Is Said That Mr. Griffin's Attitude at Meeting of Committee on Elimination Was Not Reported Correctly. MAKES HIM FAIR OFFER Says Chance for Success of Race Candidate Will Increase With Reduction —Will Pay All Expenses of Pre-Primary. Mr. R. S. Abbott, Editor Chicago Defender. Sir: It has been repeatedly stated to me that the Chicago Defender did not correctly report the attitude of the committee appointed by the committee appointed by the committee confer with the announced candidates looking to a plan of elimination. The Defender reported Mr. Griffin and Mr. DRIEST as refusing to enter into a plan of elimination of Mr. Griffin deny. Mr. De Priest stands by his refusal. Since there is a difference of opinion relative to the position of Mr. Griffin, and in order to avoid any further confusion and now submit to Mr. Griffin the plan of elimination published in the last issue of the Chicago Defender. The chance for the success of a negro candidate in the elimination of candidates. So let Mr. Griffin and myself have a pre-primary at an early date, the one receiving the highest number of votes to be suppressed. Mr. Griffin will also agree to pay the entire expense of such pre-primary, thus relieving Mr. Griffin from any objection in that matter. LOUIS B. ANDERSON, Republican Candidate for Alderman, Second Ward. MOBILE, ALA. By W. G. Sample Spreading the Scriptures It is estimated that the Bible, or some part of it, has been published in 600 distinct forms of human speech. Since its invention, the Bible in Form of Bible society has issued over $25,000,000 copies of the Scriptures, of which more than $8,000,000 have been in English. Apple Protile Tree An apple tree owned by S. W. Alexander of Los Angeles, Cal., is exciting interest through the fact that, in the past, it was the only such time a different variety of apple. EVENTORA DANCING CLASS TO OPEN JAN. Prof. J. G. Clark to Introduce New Dances with Music by Pepless Orchestra. Prof. John G. Clark will open the "Eudora" Dancing Class at the old familiar dance hall, 3958 Street state, better known as the Masonic Hall, Monday evening, Jan. 18. Music will be presented by the Orchestra, Prof. Clarence Miller, director. Mrs. Jessie Brown Clark will render a special solo, accompanied by Mrs. Cordella Yarbrough. Prof. Clark will present his own performance, his sex- teeth, which will win more popularity than his own original latest successes, the "Bon-Bon Glide." The "Syndicate Sottieche," and the "Helena One- Step." From 8 to 1 p.m. Admission. Don’t forget G. Clark manager. Don't forget the Monday evening, Jan. 18. WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE DOING IN CAIRO Bright, Crisp News From Cairo, Ili the City Beautiful—Headquarters of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. (By Stephen Finnie.) Caliro, Ilu. Jan. 15,—Mr. E. H. Motton, 322 30th street, on the sick list * **Mrs. Steve Gadson is able to be up again after several weeks' illness.** * **Rev. O. Campbell has returned Joppa, Ilu. and says that Rev. J. Johnson, who has not been able to meet his deadline, is the 19th of October, is now up again and will deliver an oration in Mound City, Ilu. on Jan. 17. UNION CITY. TENN. By Mrs. Cassie L. Fowlkes. The New Grand Continuous Vaudeville and Moving Pictures Change of Program Monday and Thursday FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA 3110-12 State St. - Chicago, IL Performers Send in Your Open Time THE ATLAS THEATRE East Side of the Street 4711-17 State Street First Run Moving Pictures for the Whole Family. Conveniently Located and a Model for Beauty and Comfort. See the Beautiful Lobby, Everything Modern. CHANGE OF PICTURES DAILY PRICES: ADULTS, 10¢, CHILDREN 5¢ OPEN THE YEAR ROUND DeLuxe Dancing Academy Dreamland Hall, 3520 State Street. Every Wednesday evening, 8:00 to 12:30 p.m. Instructions in any dance by five competent teachers from 8:00 to 9:40 p.m. The Preerless Orchestra Co-operation with the select dancing public has made our school the leading dancing academy of the city. MIKE WILLIAMS ERNEST BACON NOURISH 10 A. M. TO 10 P. M. The Largest, Best and Cheapest PRAOTIOAL MUSIC SCHOOL Al Brass and Stringed Instruments, Violin, Piano, Mandolin and Guitar Visit the Free Monthly Rentals at our School by the Public. Tickets Given at School. Conducted by W. L. JACKSON 2180 STATE ST. CHICAGO, IL CARL L. COTTON PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Letters, circulars, etc. done quickly and neatly at prices that you’ll appreciate 67905, 4 to 10 p.m. 2180 96. STATE ST. Phone AUTO. 71-653 GOOD LETTERS PAY HOME On Sunday Phone Dessert MOMENT By Eva L. Simpson The mid-winter styles vary very little with the exception of a few new materials which are very effective. Among the wool novelties is a dark blue serge striped with a heavy wilt of red velour. Very smart is a line serge figured in velvet velour in self color. This material is light in weight and is indeed one of the best novelties of the season of the de chat, with its soft, silky finish, has also won favorable recognition on the street costume. P For the spring gray is very much in evidence. Street waist line coat with the have the military Millsite will be carried out to a certain degree and it looks very favorable for the old English Norfolk. The full shirt is predominate. There is a jacket about the yokes. And again when have been considered relegated to the background they are discovered once more in the front ranks and always in good company. As the present and as usual are to be found on the smartest skirts of the skirt yoke I am speaking, not of the waist yoke which comes and goes as it please. The widest circular skirt, the most comfortable, is made with a yoke. Some of the new skirts are pictured on the edge. Afternoon and Evening Frocks. Taffeta is again favored, in fact time cannot recall when it wasn't, but white or black light colors. All white or black light colors, some showed many figures, one very effective model shown was a white background with a tiny rose, the skirt being made in three circular tiers each tiered with a puffing pictured, the upper with long net sleeves and yokes. Another model showed a very pretty mid-winter freckle of green's green velvet circular skirt attached to yoke of broadcloth, skirt edged with soft fur, velvet girdle formed the bodice, velvet girdle formed the face was used in upper waist having the new sleeve which is full and gathered in the wrist. Resplendent are the evening gowns fashioned from the glittering spangled nets. In some instances entire frondes are used on fabrics. Then others show a net, chiffon, soft satin, or chiffon velvet. Opalent spangles are the most popular as their softly glowing color harmonize exquisitely with velvet in pastel shade of pink, blue, green. Yellow is also a good shade. Very gorgeous was a gown with the tunic effect having the sleeves corset of shaded green spangles over a skirt of empire green velvet. The sleeves traps which hold the sleeves corset of shaded green spangles in the skirt of velvet covered with the shaded green spangles. Another striking model carried out in white had a tunic and corsage of pearl sparring net. The tunic was joined to the corsage under a deep corset beads fastened under a rose of pearl. The same is used for shoulder straps, the bit of pink giving a very smart effect. Most all evening gowns are now made sleeveless and invariably have the tunic. Those who desire a more modular the tiniest sleeve is permissible. A wonderful black gown was made of charmeuse, bottom having a net around the bottom of the back, around the hip, jacket back and front giving the hardness of the long-waisted ornament extended over the hips forming a pointed voke and a rounded waist. The waist line was a huge scarlet rook which was indeed very good-looking. Millinery. 11 I never remember a season in which millinery models were so charming as they have been this winter and in add to that, the intriguing strandgather either in outline or price. The smart toque, which is something between a forage cap and a scotch cap, remains the first favorite of millinery models. The head dress has been proved to be almost universally becoming and can be worn with good results. Another model is the chin-chin saffron cowl. The sailor is simply trimmed with the cockade of watered ribbon and placed at the center back of crown. Sometimes it is placed high upon the left shoulder with a sort of cockscha armpit. Neckwear and Lines. More thought is given to neckwear sometimes than the whole costume, but judging from all appearances there the most stylish neckline is going to be anywhere and everywhere. The black velvet band, with the flaring hesthetic muslin overlap has been in evidence some time, the slight improvement is that the muslin overlap in evidence back and low in front for the finish. The round neck cut deep over the shoulder is gaining much favor, especially in the afternoon blouses. A model taken from Premet for semi-formal shades with a soft shade of salmon which was handly velled with black. The sleeves were long and tight, the neck line reached almost to the edge of the shoulder. It came very high at the shoulder, but it was soft and the edge was run with black shack fur of a very soft and silky variety. Perhaps the most unfeminine of the feminine neckwear, and yet is very good style, is close standing collar of sturched sleeves with tiny firing绡 flares that are not very tight. The frills may be fainted without detracting from the charm if such is desired. Still another odd arrangement is to have a narrow strip of black fox repose about the neck and leaving not only in front bare but the shoulders in Famous Products of China "Familiar Products of Cyprus. The famous copper, the island copper. For it was made on the island that the Rromans got their supplies of the metal, which they knew as "Cyprus aes," or, for short, "Cyprium," in Latin acepium. Another famous product of Cyprus was the cypress, which has nothing to do with Cyprus, but the "cyprus," from which a valuable oil was made. But it is better worth remembering as "goethic" the brown brown of the wood which Nebuchadnei was built—London Chronicle. Blenders of Creation Sir Henry Thompson introduced cremation into Great Britain shortly after the closing of the American Civil War. Using a neverbearing furnace, he reduced a body weighing 144 pounds to 100 pounds in 10 minutes. Encouraged by Thompson's success, Dr. Le Moyne installed an improved incinerator in a small, one-story brick structure on a hill overlooking the town of Washington. He and his pioneer cremator he died and was cremated in his own institution. CHICAGO—3159 State Street. Telephone Douglas 3339. LONDON—17 Green Street, Sharing Road, London, England, W. C. Address All Letters to The Chicago Defender. Anonymous Communications Will Not Be Noticed. Rates for Display Advertising Furnished on Application. Wedding announcements, $1.50; wedding wipe-ups, $5.00 and up; card of things, $1.50 in material, $1.50; business announcements, $1.50 and up. Everything paid in advance. Change of Address — Please give both the old and new address, and in writing to the paper, always be careful to give both the state and postoffice, as well as name. WHO WROTE IT? Well, mebby it wasn't th' right thing to do But Jim an' I got to discussin' Religion, an' somehow afore we got through Th' air wuz some blue with our cusin'. Jim started by sayin' "what, I didn't know About th' Good book wuz a plenty." Th' fact of th' matter is I use to go To Sunday school till I wuz twenty. Jim argued that "NOW I lay ALE down to sleep" Wuz written by Job fer th' Bible; I showed him a point he admitted wuz deep. Where Shakespeare could sue him fer libel. Si Judkins, th' postmaster, happened along— Fer book learnin' 'Si is a hummer— He figured where both me an' Jim wuz dead wrong. As he writ it himself way last summer. by it wasn't th' right thing to do am an' I got to discussin' religion, an' somehow afore we got thro' Th' air wuz some blue with our cus' Jim started by sayin' "what, I didn't bout th' Good book wuz a plenty." of th' matter is I use to go school till I wuz twenty. that "NOW I lay AME down to sleep" written by Job fer th' Bible; showed him a point he admitted wuz d Where Shakespeare could sue him for Si Judkins, th postmaster, happened er book learnin' Si is a hummer— ured where both me an' Jim wuz dead it himself way last summer. THE SOUTH IN THE SADDLE THE SOUTH IS IN THE SADDLE of an argument. If one doubts the truth of the face at some recent legislation at the Capitol, upgrade the colored people of the county, bill passed the Senate with a provisional grants of African blood. It met its decisive vote. The House, not to be overwhelming vote two bills that strike it to provide separate street cars for the District of Columbia and segregate the fate of these bills will be when they are 11. What we do know, however, is the people of the country like this antithetic to the lowest, it is the one topic accustomed to the vapory mouthing of us. We saw the vitriolic tongue of Tillie Hale which struck him dumb with parental braying ass from univilized Mississippi defeat of his pet measure. We were now prepared, however, for a now raging among the hourbons at the lowest, either. Are they not the sons of institution of slavery? Are they not the men sought to overthrow this government, and sons of rebels that laid down the there is nothing in this attitude we is running true to form. What we can place. Why is not the northern core of the whole nasty program? The press with a few exceptions, is silent; the northern congressman, like Madden, in the House, and Lewis, in the Senado name of Illinois, but for the most part nothing to say. The Negro need not be him in the government of the Discs ago the District was disfranchised in the majority, politically, and street have been coming up from Virginia across for a long period. Washington and Southern in sentiment. The District of the Negro, differs not one bit from S. however, that such things can take place. Well might we of Negro blood despair the law—the law of retributive justice. Not long endure. There is a Divinity of Divinity is all wise, all just. A change brought an enlightened American conscientious crisis such as war. Neither demand our progress. God has decreed will be the attempt of blatherskites and the flat of the Almighty. The Negro the sun." TRULY THE SOUTH IS IN THE SADDLE at the seat of the national government. If one doubts the truth of this statement, he has but to glance at some recent legislation at the Capitol designed to humiliate and degrade the colored people of the country. A few days ago the immigration bill passed the Senate with a provision for the exclusion of immigrants of African blood. It met its Waterloo in the House by a decisive vote. The House, not to be outdone, recently passed by an overwhelming vote two bills that strike nearer home. One is a measure to prevent intermarriage between blacks and whites, and the other is to provide separate street cars for the white and colored people for the District of Columbia and segregation in all public places. What the fate of these bills will be when they reach the Senate is problematical. What we do know, however, is that nothing has stirred the colored people of the country like this anti-Negro crusade. From the highest to the lowest, it is the one topic of conversation. We had grown accustomed to the vapory mouthings of the Tillmans and Vardamans. We saw the vitriolic tongue of Tillman silenced by an avenging fate which struck him dumb with paralysis. We saw the long haired braying ass from uncivilized Mississippi fail ignominiously in the defeat of his pet measure, the repeal of the fourteenth amendment. We were now prepared, however, for the epidemic of "colorphobia" now raging among the hourbons at the capitol. And we're not surprised, either. Are they not the sons of the men who founded the institution of slavery? Are they not the men and the sons of the men who sought to overthrow this government? Are they not the same rebels and sons of rebels that laid down their arms at Appomattox? There is nothing new in this attitude of the southern demogogue. He is running true to form. What we cannot understand is northern complacence. Why is not the northern conscience aroused to the injustice of the whole mastic program? The press above Mason and Dixon line, with a few exceptions, is silent; the pulpit is always silent. A few northern congressmen, like Madden, Mann, Sabbath and Gallagher, in the House, and Lewis, in the Senate, have sought to uphold the good name of Illinois, but for the most part our friends up this way have nothing to say. The Negro need not be surprised at legislation hostile to him in the government of the District of Columbia. Many years ago the District was disfranchised because the Negroes were in the majority, politically, and street cars with "Jim Crow" signs have been coming up from Virginia across the Potomac into Washington for a long period. Washington and its environs are strongly pro-southern in sentiment. The District of Columbia, in its attitude toward the Negro, differs not one bit from South Carolina. It is deplorable, however, that such things can take place at the capitol of the nation. Well might we of Negro blood despair if it were not for one exorable law—the law of retributive justice. This condition of things cannot long endure. There is a Divinity that shapes our ids and that Divinity is all wise, all just. A change must and will use, either through an enlightened American conscience or through great national crisis such as war. Neither demagogues or "Jim w" laws can retard our progress. God has decreed that we should and futile will be the attempt of blatherskites and southern bull-dozens to change the fat of the Almighty. The Negro will eventually "find a place in the sun." STICKING ON THE FARM. IS THE EUROPEAN WAR has after much, if not more in proportion, than an arm from a financial standpoint, depending, as for support. During the business of almost lost, being forced to endure the need with the changed conditions. Grow needed is not a very lucrative employee to improve conditions, and that is for much cotton and raise more meat that are always marketable. The situation PERHAPS THE EUROPEAN WAR has affected the Afro-Americans as much, if not more in proportion, than any other race in this country, from a financial standpoint, depending, as he does, on the sale of his cotton for support. During the business depression he is confused and almost lost, being forced to endure the hardships while getting acquainted with the changed conditions. Growing cotton that is no longer needed is not a very lucrative employment, and there is but one remedy to improve conditions, and that is for the farmers to stop raising so much cotton and raise more meat and bread stuffs, commodities that are always marketable. The situation in the South at present is worse than it has been for years, and only the strong hearted can withstand the shock. With no market for their commodity across the water and an overstock in this country, bringing the price far below the actual cost of producing it, bankruptcy seems to stare them in the face. And yet the only wise thing to do is to stick to the farm. In the past too many have deserted the farms for the cities, where the work is not sufficient to maintain them. In farming as in other lines of endeavor, one must be versatile, follow the demand whether it be for cotton, oats, corn, wheat or what not, and we must learn to do these things if we would be successful. We must realize that conditions, financial and otherwise, are different than they were even a year ago, and we must adjust ourselves to them, put up a bold front and bring success out of an apparent failure. THERE HAS BEEN MUCH TALK ABOUT LITERACY and litteracy since the proposed immigration bill made its appearance in Washington, and orators from either and you have painted word pictures for and against the coming of the foreigner of a certain class to our shores. Somehow when the term immigrant is used there crops up in the mind a person below the average in intelligence. While this might fit the vast majority of them, there are exceptions, and fortunately we happen to be the exception. Of the two million immigrants that came to the United States in the year 1914 only eight thousand, or thereabouts, were Negroes, and these of the highest order of intelligence, hailing from such places as the West Indies, Haytil, San Domingo and Cuba. The immigration bill with the exception of the rider—which fortunately was killed—to exclude all Negroes from the United States would not harm us in the least, for the representatives of our race who apply for admission are intelligent enough to pass any examination conducted on fair and equal lines. The illiterate whites above ten years of age in this country were 5 per cent of the whole, against 6.2 per cent ten years earlier. While illiterate Negroes more than ten years old decreased in the same time to 30.4 from 47.1. It is only when our below the Mason and Dixon line friends try to enact a special bit of legislation for our own personal use that we take exception and raise as much fog as our limited means will permit. They seem to have forgotten that without the services of the West India Negro the digging of the Pannan Canal could hardly have been completed. It is like killing the hen that laid the golden egg. The president is opposed to the immigration bill and intimates he will veto it when presented for his signature. No doubt he feels to pass a bill of that nature at this particular time would tend to stir up the powers affected, and as they already have a chip on their shoulder, they might challenge us to throw our hat in the world's free-for-all fight. As good citizens we do not want war, but as the immigration bill stands now, signed or unsigned, it affects us little one way or the other. NOW THAT THE SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN have changed the District of Columbia into a red light district, they can now take their WENCHES there to live; and there being no law to make them marry the colored girl, they should wrong. You may expect the raping of colored women and girls at all times (as is done in the South daily) without the Negro uses his shotgun on the first cracker that brings his wrench into the district or rape the first colored girl. Men of 70, you might as well prepare to die, for the southerner expects to capture the entire U. S. A. and make you a shave for every white man and you support yourself. "Men who are marked"—open your eyes. FROM PRESENT INDICATIONS it appears that the Republican and Progressive parties will get together on a common ground long before the presidential election rolls around, and it is a mighty good thing for all concerned, which, by the way, includes US. Those in our ranks who voted the Democratic ticket are far from being proud of the fact, and well they might, judging from the things that have been "handed" then since their party has been in power. Of course it wouldn't be ladylike to taunt them by saying "we told you so." But experience, though dear, is a good teacher, and perhaps they will know better the next time. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE PALMER HOUSE will be placed in a mighty awkward position if they begin to try to find out the nationality of a man by his color. You know, MR. PALMER HOUSE, there are Negroes as white as you are. We are inclined to think the newspaper report of the ejection of the black Indian from that hotel is really a mistake, for of all the hotels in Chicago the Palmer House has always stood for the entertaining of all men regardless of color. THE WACO, TEXAS, NEWS says: "Negroes and Mexicans who are qualified citizens are entitled to the same rights under the operations of the law and the favors of the government as white men and right thinking people will see to it that those rights are guaranteed." Such a statement; coming as it does from way down yonder, has an encouraging ring and shows the spirit of justice and fair play will spring up occasionally in the most unexpected places. THE CHIEF REASON why the President was opposed to the literacy test is that it would set up a barrier against the practice among foreign born citizens of sending for their aged parents after establishing themselves in this country. AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED, Judge James P. Gregor of Louisville, Ky., has rendered a decision upholding the constitutionality of the segregation ordinance. The southern motto is: Uphold everything anti-Negro. UNCLE SAM can eye the Board of Trade and keep them straight, but turns his back on the lynching of citizens. Which is more important—men and women or GAMBLING on the Board of Trade. FOR BEING ON THE JOB bright and early, hats off to Illinois. January—Defender Legal Helps: My husband mortgage all of our household goods for $50 about six months ago. Now the loan company threatens to take them under the mortgage. I did not sign the mortgage, and objected to my husband doing so. Can they take all of our goods and leave us alone? Answer. The law of Illinois provides that such mortgage must be signed by both husband and wife. You should consult an attorney, who will explain to you all of your rights after hearing all of the facts. Secret Societies. January—Defender Legal Holps: I belong to a secret society and wish to change my beneficiary from my husband to a very dear friend. Is there any law prohibiting such change? Answer: Your society no doubt has some rules concerning the change of beneficiary, and the same would govern the method of such change. Mr. W. J.: After signing your jury waiver the court had the jurisdiction to try your case and render judgment. AS. OTHERS SEE US. A New York Editor's Opinion. The Amsterdam News, Inc. New York, N. Y., January 9, 1915. My Dear Mr. Abbott: I am the recipient of your Christmas card, for which I thank you, and extend the Chicago Defender and its able editor my best wishes for prosperous years. The marked distinction of the Defender evinces the constructive idea of its editor, which is quite the exemplification of modern journalism, and should he recognized not only in Illustration throughout the country for its cleanliness but that it continues along the lines now pursues—fighting as it does for justice, for the rights of the people and for the uplift of humanity—it will be difficult to predict its future influence I am grateful to you for the courtesies extended, and return the compliments of the Amsterdam News. "The Best," Says Dr. G. W. Jones. Mommouth, Ill., January 11, 1915. Dear Editor: Allow me space in your valuable paper for a few lines. Having been a subscriber to your paper two or three years, with every issue I see that your paper is getting better. I have eight Negro journals that come to my office each week, and I consider the Defender the best one of that number. The Defender is doing a great work to cement us together as a race, and if there ever was time to do it, we should together it is now. The Defender should be taken by every Negro family in Chicago and in every county in the state. The Negro race should not only become subscribers to the Defender and pay for it, but it should be given the job printing to do from the Negro business men in Chicago. The cartoon in last week's Defender was worth the price of the paper for a year. The heading was "Why the boat, the Uncle Sam?" I expect to cut that cartoon out and put it in my second reference. The Defender is doing more to cement the Negro race together than half the Negro preachers. There are so many of the Negro race who will say, if you ask them to take their own race journals, that they cannot afford it, and yet they take the white man's paper, which will say very little about our viruses but gives us a large space to tell about our vices. Wishing the Defender continued success, I remain. Stone is largely limestone, sandstone or granite. Limestone is the deposit of seashell life, sandstone is merely hardened sand, while granite is the result of heat fusing the other kinds of rock. PROGRESS IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO By KELLEY MILLER Professor College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, Washington, D.C. The war-drum beats no longer. The battle-flag has been furled. The merry war between the perforbid advocates of industrial and higher education of the Negro has ended. The irreconcilables have become reconciled and would fail forget the folly of their former frenzy. during the last ten years, I will cite the case of the College of Arts and Sciences of Howard University. Since assuming headship of this department seven years ago, I have had exceptional opportunity to note the advancement of the higher education and it bearing upon the general progress. Some dozen or so years ago, the writer appeared before a Boston audience and presented two briefs, pointing out the relative sphere and function of the two types of education in the general scheme of racial uplift. I stated that there was no just ground for conflict or controversy between the advocates and promoters of industrial and higher education, but that they were both complementary factors of a common product; that Hampton and Jackson, the advocates, should live on terms of good cooperation and cheerful co-operation, as co-workers in the same vineyard of service; and that the relative importance of the two types of education was merely a matter of ratio and proportion, and should never be made an issue of fundamental controversy. It is interesting now to recall the phils of righteous wwr that were poured upon my defenseless head because of this judicious attitude. How I, a professor in the leading institution of the higher justice, could advocate the excuse or justification of being, was more than the be-puzzled unintentional over-the-zealous believers could comprehend. Of course, such terms as "cowards," "straddlers," "trimmer" and "traitor" were freely applied. and the traitor and epithet is a very burdened with a plethora of passion and paucity of logic. It is so much easier to call names than to answer argument, that the impassioned controversials are prone to assume omniscience without taking the pain to acquire intelligence. They indulged in all sorts of assertions and assertions of misdirection of the higher education and the deform of colored race. We were told, with all of the assurance of infallible dogma, that the triumph of Hampton meant the downfall of Howard, and that if Tuskegee succeeded Fisk must fail. --- On the other hand, the industrial advocates were reporting to ridicule and irony, the easiest avenues of approach to the interest and attention of the unthinking and the unsympathetic. The devotees of the higher education were called impractical doctorate who, with fatuous philosophy, were leading their race away from the field of actual opportunity into the fairy domain of impotent culture. I have recently had occasion to review my own contributions to the 19erature subject through the channels of such influential script, Forum and the Educational Review. I am satisfied almost to the point of surprise at the sautary and soundness of judgment which I strove to maintain 'mist the heat of that irrational controversy. The all right-minded students of the subject stand in 1914 where I stood in 1904. Both types of education are now fully recognized and appreciated in their proper place and proportion. A far-reaching understanding will always triumph over evangelistic passion. The General Education of over $700,000 to New schools, assigning one-fourth of this amount to institutions of the higher learning. The barren issue of a discredited controversy is recalled only to emphasize the solidity of the basis upon which all right-hearted and right-minded Americans stand. Let now the wasted energy and misguided enthusiasm die with the decide in which it was born, while all press forward to the mark and the high calling whereunto we are called. For the past twenty-four years I have been professor in the College of Arts and Sciences in Howard University, Washington D.C. During the last seven years I have been dean and executive head of that department. For a high a quarter of *n* century I have devoted my chief energies to the uplift of my race through the instrumentality of the higher education. My collateral contributions, by way of books, public documents, magazine articles, pamphlets, lectures, circulars and leaflets have had the same end in view. I have assumed it to be my mission to point out to colored youth, and at the same time to interpret to the white race, the meaning, mission and practice of the higher education in its application to the present situation of the Negro race. I believe, therefore, on this subject with fulness of conviction and out of an abundant experience. As illustrative of the almost amazing growth of the higher education WHAT THE FARMER SHOULD DO By E. E. Dawson Opelika, Ala. Jan. 15—In visiting the rural district we find that agriculture is the leading feature. Farmers meet from house to house and discuss different methods of improving their farms. They receive lecture after lecture from all visitors, and in asking why this subject is chosen, some may say that a better subject could not be found for the farmer. Isn't agriculture the farmer's business? Doesn't it mean field or land culture? Do we not think of it also as stock culture, fruit culture, vegetable culture, and the general culture of the things produced on the farm? If this is true, could we lecture to the farmer on a subject than agriculture? Yes, agriculture, but when we think of farm products. But when we lecture to the farmer is human and his soul must be cultivated as well as his fields. So let us begin teaching them the necessity of "human culture." Many of the farmers are neglecting themselves. They seem to sell their bodies to the farm and year after year they toil and improve their land and domestic animals, while their minds and habits are going backward, and those that are more fortunate along these lines are partly to be blamed. Instead of lecturing to them so much on agriculture, let us teach them that their mind, manners, speech and habits must be cultivated as well as during the last ten years, I will cite the case of the College of Arts and Sciences of Howard University. Since assuming headship of this department seven years ago, I have had exceptional opportunity to note the advancement upon higher education and its bearing upon the general progress of the race. In 1907, there were 75 pupils enrolled in this college; in 1914, there were 313, the enrollment more than quadrupling itself in seven years. Not only this, but the applicants came better prepared, the faculty and faculties have been increased and strengthened, the student body is imbued with firmer student pride and enthusiasm to uphold and exemplify college standards. The freshman class of 1914 numbers 144, the entrants coming from fifty high schools, academies and colleges. A large proportion of these come from the high schools and academies in the North and West, where there is no scholastic separation of the races, and are now some forty graduates of this large university. Their professional studies in theology, law and engineering, in the different professional schools of Howard University. In addition to these a goodly number are prosecuting their professional studies in larger universities of the country, including such institutions as Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, University of Chicago, North Western University, Rutgers, Drew Theological Seminary, Rutgers Theological Seminary, General Theological Seminary and McCormick Theological Seminary. --- The last graduating class contained forty-nine members. This constitutes the largest number of Negro men and women to receive the baccalaureate degree in purely academic subjects in one year from a single institution within recorded time, if not within all time. The distribution of these graduates among the several pursuits and callings of life furnishes a sufficient answer to the sneering query: "What can the educated Negro do?" Of these 49 graduates, 14 entered at once upon the work of teaching in colleges and high schools; 13 are pursuing the study of medicine, 4 are preparing for the 'ministry in Northern theological seminaries, 3 are preparing for the profession of law, 2 for engineering, 2 have entered upon business careers as bookkeepers, 6 are pursuing graduate studies in different universities, while the other six are at work to earn sufficient money to enter upon their chosen professions next year. I keep in my office a list of all of the graduates of this department and their professions. Almost without exception they are in the race in the high places of intellectual, moral, social, spiritual and practical leadership. The advancement of the college reacts immediately upon the standards of the professional departments and pushes up the standard and enriches the life of the whole university. The rapid growth of the higher education at Howard University is but typical of what has taken place in every well-ordered college for colored youth. The rapid growth in general intelligence of the people and the increasing standards of professional schools demand a corresponding adaption of colleges. At the present time applicants for admission to any well-ordered medical school must present part or all of a preliminary collegiate training. We can easily predict the time when like requirements will be exacted of applicants for degrees in law or theology. In the very near future every colored youth, as every white youth, who aspires to serve his people on the phone or professional service, must pass through the Samarita of a college education. Several suggestions grow out of this discussion: 1. Every colored youth who possesses the ability and ambition to serve his race on the high level of intellectual, moral and social leadership and who is able to secure the means, should prepare himself for this high calling, just as the wisdom of the ages has demonstrated that it is necessary to teach youth to prepare themselves for like functioning in the instrumentality of a college education. Let each individual get the best knowledge and give the best service. 2. Colored colleges calculated to do competent work of that grade should make a self-justifying appeal to the philanthropy and statesmanship of the nation. 3. Colored men of means should see the necessity of contributing liberally to the support of the institutions wherein their support and daughters are to be prepared for their highest usefulness in the world. their potatoes, cabbage, cows, sheep and horses. Teach them that it is more necessary to grow a better class of boys and girls, to develop themselves into better types of men and women in the world. Cultivate the habit of reading, that their minds might be enlarged, and develop them mentally into stronger and more useful men and women for the betterment of the world. It is good for the farmers to discuss ways of improving his farm. We cannot blame him for getting the machines that will lighten his labor and give him better results, but he should not take more pride in them than in himself, and each farmer should see to it that his wife and children are improved more and faster than his farm, domestic animals and business. And while he makes his business fruitful, he should also develop his family wise and noble. While each his land he should enrich the minds and hearts of his household, for he should realize that the best of his products are in his house, and upon their improvement he should bestow the most expense and care. Protect the Swallows. The swallows of Europe are about the only birds which are holding their own in numbers. The people love them and protect them as their ancestors protected them back into and probably through the days of savagery, but not much doubt that the swallow shared the home of the cave dweller. RENT MONEY You never see again. The same money paid as easy installments on the right kind of A HOME OF YOUR OWN is in reality put back into your own pocket. The following special will be open from 2 to 4 P. M. for inspection. See them today. They must be sold at once. 2713 South Park Blvd. 2-story brick 2-flat, stone trim, 7-8 rooms; asphalt street, cement walk. A dandy investment. Close to downtown and the lake front. This is a bargain. 4245 Wabash Ave. Attractive brick and stone 3-dat; fine renters; dandy location. Close to South Side elevated and surface lines. Barn in rear. 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The kidneys are very important glandular organs. They have an excreting and a secreting function. They excrete urea, uric acid and other waste products. They act largely in the capacity of scavengers for the body. When the kidneys are treated well they go on excreting and cleansing the body of certain refuse for 40, 50, 60 and sometimes 100 years or more. They are ever ceiling our attention or riveting us with their power. They are not treated right they will rebel and partially or inefficiently perform their function. The kidneys are often falsely accused of being diseased, or of giving trouble. Nearly every pain that a man has in the back, extending from the back to the spine, or the spinal column, is attributed to some aliment of the kidneys, whereas the fact of the matter is that the kidneys are not to blame. These various backaches and other pains that are often attributed to kidney trouble are not the result of the beginning of tuberculosis of the spine, the gripe and other infectious troubles. Diseases of the Kidneys. The kidneys are subject to certain diseases and malformations. They may become greatly enlarger, abnormally movable. This abnormal mobility is often found in women with thin and lax abdominal walls. Then, too, women who have undergone frequent pregnancies and have had to work hard during their pregnancy, and work soon after childbirth, have things, have been troubled with the condition of misplaced or falling kidney. This more often occurs with the right kidney than with the left. Then, too, the kidneys become tender and painful. Especially is this true if the kidneys contain a stone. If one kidney becomes diseased, incapacitated or has a stone, one can get along fairly well with the other kidney. Nature always compensates for the lost kidney. FROM OUR EXCHANGES White Undertaker Pays Funeral Wager. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 5—Just before the fight at Reno between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries, Walter Campbell, a Negro barber in this town, made a bet with the white proprietor of the largest undertaking establishment there that if Jeffries won the undertaker, he would have lases as long as they both lived, but if he won, the barber was to be given at his death the most expensive funeral the undertaker could provide. Campbell died recently and on December 29 the undertaker consciously carried out his obligation. Campbell's body was enclosed in the most elaborate casket in the city, and the finest hearse and carriages in the team of the funeral cortege to the cemetery. The loser was in personal charge of all the arrangements—New York Ace. The Meanest White Man. The meenest white man is willing for the colored man to go to heaven but he is not willing for him to go to the legislature. The colored man may live on high in a mansion not made with hands but he is not to be allowed to a corner lot in a fashionable part of the city. The Negro haters believe that heaven is a place which mankind can not locate—The Dallas Express. Colored Masons. The case of a colored man being helped by the Hamilton County Mason Relief Committee after he had made a proper display of distress signals and left no doubt in the minds of the committeemen that he was a regularly made member of the fraternity developed last week. The entire applicant was Robert Doughy, of Salem, N.J., where he is a member of the Mason's winning Lodge of Masons. Doughy's troubles are indirectly due to the European situation. He has been in this situation several months and was enroute, home, reaching Pittsburgh, when he realized that the disturbance abroad would lessen his chances of earning a living. Doughy was in need of help and he NO CASES ARE DIAGNOSED AND NO PRESCRIPTIONS GIVEN IN THESE WEEKLY ARTICLES Urinalysis. In all suspected cases the urine should be carefully collected for a period of twenty-four hours in a clean vessel for examination. In cases of infants, where there is suspected kidney disease, the urine may be collected by means of a wide-mouth bottle strapped over the genital organs. Congestion of the Kidneys. The kidneys are very often congested secondarily or when there is a diseased condition of the heart, the lungs, the liver, and, too, they may become congested from the effects of long continued pressure, such as fibroid tumors, enlarged uterus during pregnancy, dropsy of the abdominal organs (ascites). The urine should always be examined in all cases of dropsy of the individual components of weakness, shortness of breath, wind" dizziness, or inability to lie down in bed. As a rule there will be found some trouble with the kidneys or heart. In cases of congestion of the kidneys a good laxative, followed by saline cathartic, warm baths, remaining in the house, in bed, and avoiding sudden changes of temperature. The child should be mild, non-irritating; eschew all alcoholics and irritating diet. If you are not feeling better after a few days of rest, taking hot baths, opening your bowels and dieting yourself, having avoided sudden exposures to change in temperature, and not having alcoholics or irritating diet, and not having a standard, we would advise that you call in a physician and undergo a careful examination. Have both a chemical and microscopical examination made of your urine, because inflammation and degeneration of the kidney structure often come about in children, and the comparable damage is often done to the kidneys. The victim is aware of the disastrous effects of this proton disease. It will be our intention to write a series of articles on certain affections of the kidneys, liver and heart during the winter season, because the above named diseases are largely nutritional and other factors about by bad hygiene and other factors such as syphilis, alcoholism, gastrointestinal indication, etc. had papers showing that the Relief Committee at Pittsburgh had sent him to Cincinnati on his way to San Francisco, where he claims to be sure of having permanent employment. The committee helped Doughty on to his destination. There are no officially recognized colored Masons in the United States, but abroad the color line is not so strictly drawn, honco Doughty's standing in the fraternity — Cincinnati Enquirer. Scored for the Cat Billy has a kitten and his little neighbor has a poole, and both little boys often quarrel over the relative merits of their pets. One morning the owner of the little poole dog was getting the host of the argument, for his pet had a bath each day, he declared, before she was much cleaner than the kitten. The owner also saved the day for Billy. "Huh," he indignantly burst forth. "My kitten cry cleans hiself four or five times a day."-Exchange. War Casualty. "What do you mean by calling me up at this time of night? Henry, I will be waiting for you when you get home!" "That it, m'dear." Henry's voice was missing dreadfully. "I just wanted tell ye i'm intered at Casey's saloon till war's over. Good-night." Buffalo Express. Artist's Generosity While a draftsman in the coast survey from November, 1854, to February 1855, Whistler, the artist, boarded at the northeast corner of E and Twelfth streets, Washington. He is remembered as being usually late for break in the morning, always making sketches on the walls, and demonstrating landlord he replied: "you now know mind! 'I'll not charge you anything for the decorations.'" Unking Comment Recently while going through a cemetery in a California town the visitor came upon this on a tombstone: "I would not live alive." Beneath the inscription some irreverent person had penned, "Sour Grape."