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THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO. ILL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1921
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HON. DANIEL RYAN
President Board of Commissioners of Cook County and also of the
Board of Forest Preserve Commissioners of Cook County. Mr.
Ryan, with great pleasure, has forwarded a nice little check for
the Fort Dearborn Hospital.
Hon. Daniel Ryan, President of the
Board of Commissioners of Cook
County, who resides with his family
at 6647 Stewart avenue, succeeded the
late Peter Rcinberg at his death the
fir-i part of 1921, and Mr. Ryan has
honorably served as county commis
sioner for the past eight years and he
has amply proven himself to be one
ot the best public officials in Cook
county.
He has always been classed as a
-j'dj iricnd to the colored race and
'ir.;.3oes many in his contract
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n.i committee before becoming
-idrat of the board which is the
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-Mr. McCahey has been connected
with this firm for the past sixteen
jcars. He is a director of the Chi
cago Coal Merchants Association, and
was an active member of the various
Federal and State Fuel Committees
during the recent World War. He is
conidered one of the best retail coal
nun in Chicago.
The John J. Dunn Coal Company,
is handles the best and the
MR. JAMES B.
President of the John J. Dm Coal
Pny on the soadr side, located
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established ia 1877 by the late
most important position of that com
mittee and he has made a splendid
record. He is thoroughly capable of
grasping matters of importance to the
public's benefit
There is no question about his re
nomination and re-election in 1922,
for he is always on the job. In the
winter time he is ever ready to aid
the poor and the unfortunate of what
ever race with coal, provisions and so
on, his steadfast friends in this city
and county will rall tu his support
at the primaries in April and assist
to put him over the plate. Mr. Ryan
friends throughout this city and Cook
county.
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B. McCAHEY
cleanest coal in Chicago for twenty
one years the writer has secured coal
from the above mentioned company
and all of those years our business
dealings have been very pleasant.
For years the founder of the com
pany, the late John J. Dunn, was one
of our good friends. At the present
time the John J. Dunn Coal Com
pany are furnishing coal to the Fort
Dearborn Hospital.
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Company, the largest coal cora-j
at 5100 Federal Street, it
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YULETIDE IN THE COUNTRY
ChrifUna. Day In the Old Farm Homo
Recalls Fond and Pleasant - .
Recollections.
HRISTMAS In the country.
Christmas day In the old
farm home. What pleasant
memories It recalls to some
it in " and what sood tlme3
u win mean for many of us this year.
There is really no place like the farm
home for Christmas good times and
Jollity and good cheer. Here, If any
where, prosperity and plenty abound,
and In family gatherings and In neigh
borhood reunions, with an abundance
of the fruits of our labor with which
to spread our bountiful boards, old
friendships may be renewed, new ones
made, and even the stranger within
our gales may he added to the list.
At Christmas time we may put Into
practice the real principles of neigh
boring. Living cloe together does not
alwajs make neighbors. Speaking ac
quaintances are not always neighbors.
To be real nelphbors we must have
the spirit of nelghborllness In our
hearts which prompts us to get to
gether once In awhile, to gather
around a well-laden table and feast,
and visit, and laugh and Joke and have
a rousing good time. To love our
neighbor as we do ourself. we have to
know him pretty well, and there Is
nothing like these neighborly reunions
as a means of getting acquainted.
It may be that some of us will have
to do a little mental and spiritual
houseclennlng before Christmas day
tjauns. We shall have to rid ourselves
nf all the old rubbish of grudges, dis
likes. Jealousies and ill feelings which
we will find pigeon-holed away when
we begin to overhaul the accumula
tion o the years. You will have to
throw all this Into the discard before
you can get Into the real Christmas
spirit, because the two will not mix.
If you have wronged your neighbor in
any way, Christmas Is a good time to
make reparation. And If you feel that
you have been wronged, why. Just for
get It, and the Christmas spirit and
the Christmas "get-together" will do
the rest- Christmas should be a time
of peace and good will to all mankind,
and not to a few favored friends. It
tfiould be a time of reviving old as
sociations, of renewing old friend
ships, and of making new friends, and
the peace and good will, the nelgh
borllness and good fellowship thus re
vived should not be allowed to die out
as the yule flres cease to burn, but
should flow out in a plenteous stream
to enrich our lives through nil the
days of the coming year.
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I A Christmas Sermon
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BE honest, to be kind
to . . rn h little and spend
a tit'ie less, to make upon
the whole a family happier for
'ma Vn.Jt.iiitr,- " rnoUute"whk
thnt shall be necessary and not
b embittered, to keep a few
friend- out thoe without capitu
lation above all, ou the same
grim condition, to keep friends
with himself here Is a task for
all thp.t a man has of fortitude
and delicacy. He has an ambi
tious soul who would ask more;
he has a hopeful spirit who
should look on such an enter
prise to be successful. There is
indeed one element in human
destiny that not blindness Itrelf
can controvert; whatever else
we are Intended to do, we are
not Intended to succeed; failure
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Si Is the fate allotted. It Is so In
fj every art and study. It Is so
above all the continent art of
living well. Here Is a pleasant
thought for the year's end or
f( for the end of life. Only self
Si deception will be satisfied, and
f; there need be no despair for the
despalrer. Robert Louis Steven
g son.
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Honey Drop Cakes.
One cupful of sugar, two cupfuls of
honev. one-half cupful of shortening,
four eggs, two cupfuls of milk, two
tepSls of vanilla, one-half tea
spoonful of salt, four cupfuls of flour,
four teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Cream the honey, sugar and shorten
ing together; add well-beaten eggs and
vanilla; sift dry Ingredients and add
liternaUng with the milk. Mix well;
bake In greased muffin tins. These
are good If flavored with chelate,
using four squares of baking choco
late or ten tablespoonfuls of coco for
this large recli. They are good un
Iced. Christmas in tho Shetland.
In the Shetland Islands they cele
brate an old Christmas Eve, Januarj
5, and on that occasion the young men
and children go "a-gulxlng." The chil
dren disguise themselves In strange
dresses, parade the streets and In
vade the houses and shops begging for
offerings. At one o'clock the young
men coarsely clad, drag blaring tar
barrels through the town. Wowing
horns and cheering. At ilxoclock in
.., ,nmtnp thev put off their grimy
clothes and dressed in fantastic cos
tumes go In groups i u .
friends the season's compliments.
their
Toys Made in Sweden.
Toys are manufactured to a consid
erable extent in Sweden and are al
most entirely the finer kinds of paint
ed wooden toys. Their lngwaa
formerly a house Industry, but oflater
years the great bulk of the output
rome from few factories.
Truth Will Prevail.
Whatever Instances can be quoted
of unpunlsletl thefts. W fit a He
somebody credited to tte tam
o? another. Justice Preva" at
st. for It is the privilege of truth
te sake itself believed.
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OLD AND NEW CHRISTMAS CAY
Nobody Has Been Able to Decidt
Whether January 6 or December
25 Is Correct Date.
HRISTMAS day seems wed
ded to December 25. A
summer or a springtime
Chris tmiG, with no holly.
no mistletoe, no frost, no
snow, would not be the real thing at
all, observes London Answers.
The majority of our beautiful Christ
mas carols, too, redolent as they are
of the: winter "Sung Amid the Win
ter's Snow" would be hopelessly In
congruous. Emigrants to Australia
from the mother country have con
fessed that It has taken them many
years before they could get In any
way used to what Is practically a mid
summer Christmas.
Yet December 25 Is merely an ac
commodation date for the birthday of
Christ Christmas day. The year, too.
Is wrong. Most people would take it
for granted that Christ was born In
A. D. 1 literally, of course, the year
of our Lord, No. 1.
But our chronology Is four years
out. This should be 192.' and not 1021.
because Christmas day could not. on
Indisputable historical testimony, have
been later than February B. C. 4!
That settles the year of the Hrsi
Christmas, but all attempts to Ox the
actual day and month of Christmas
have failed.
And, as regards the present date
Christmas, like Easter, took some cen
turies before a settlement was arrived
at. In the first centuries of Chris
tlanlty several Important Eastern
churches observed January C as
Christmas day. The Armenian Chris
tians do so still.
Gradually, however, nnlformlty was
attained, but not before the Fifth cen
tury. In that connection It must be re
membered that for quite a long period
this country was divided on the ques
tion of Christmas. Some people per
sisted In observing "old" Christmas
day.
But all wIU agree that December
25, even If It Is not the actual date of
Christ's birth. Is a happy choice.
Our present-day Christmas, festival
and holiday, breaks the long winter,
and what letter time could there be
for family reunions? The cold and
unpleasantness outside make it all the
more agreeable to keep warm and
snug Inside. It keeps ns together In
every sense.
THE CHRISTMAS TREE CUSTOM
Use of the Young Evergreens Is Re
garded More as a Matter of Senti
ment, Not of Economics.
VERY vear t-otne mathemat
ical calculator figures out
that tlil." lountry would be
miei.il billions richer if, as
a nutlon we abolished the
;nvi-. aU furtany aMchruUmaal
tree Yes, in actum aonars ana reuu.
valuation of our natural resources the
United States proi'iablj would be more
wealthy for the continued growth of
the evergreens. However, we believe
uo letter return ever came from trees
than the true Joy which all mankind
gets from Christmas trees at this the
greatest of all holiday seasons.
Nearly 5.000.000 young evergreen,
gu upon the Christmas-tree market
each year. 1,500.000 In New York and
the New England states alone, and it
Is an easy matter for an enthusiast
who Is quick with the pencil to figure
up the waste in our natural resources
by the annual loss of this embryo tim
ber. The economic consideration Is
not entirely Indefensible, for In the
Northeastern state pirtlcularly a big
proportion of the trees come from pas
ture land or that which would be
cleared In the ordinary course of Im
provement. Later, these trees would
be cut anyway. Of course, wholesale
destruction over watershed areas
should be discouraged as In any for
estry activity, but It must be remem
bered that the Christmas-tree custom
Is one of sentiment, cot of economics.
American Agriculturist.
Caesar Coins Discovered.
Two Roman coins, bearing the effigy
ot Julius Caesar. Inne been found at
the height r !UH1 f-et on n Swlsi
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HON. JOHN
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Hon. John E. Treager, who came
into this world in Chicago in 1857.
has always been prominent in public
affairs in this city and he has always
been considered an able representative
of the German-Americans among
whom he is held in the highest re
gard. His early life was spent on a
farm. Later on he successfully en
gaged in the grocery and meat busi
ness, and he is now vice-president of
the Stockmen's Trust & Savings
Bank.
Mr. Traeger was three times elected
collector of the town of Lake, and in
1900 was elected coroner of Cook
county, being the only Democrat sur
viving the Republican landslide in that
year. In 1905 he was appointed city
collector by Mayor Edward F. Dunne,
and in 1907 was the successful candi
date for city treasurer. In 1911 Mayor
! Harrison placed him in the cabinet
as city comptroller.
As chy treasurer, Mr. Traeger
turned over to the city without hesi
tation every dollar earned as interest
This action called forth. much favor-
WHEN HEARTS ARE TRUMPS
Tragedy if Child Should Have Christ.
mas Cetne and Go Without
an Ecstasy.
F YOU have no child of
your own, you must borrow
or beg one for Christmas
eve ; for It Is the time when
the world lights its happi
ness with a child's Joj. writes Dr.
James I. Vance. In the Illinois State
Journal.
Only a child may have the right of
way on Christmas eve. If you do not
stnnu In with the children, you must
stand aside.
It is the hour when the world makes
n cradle Its shrine; when not only
vUe men from the East, but grown
np from all points of the compass
slip down over the hills of memory
tonnnl childhood's dawn, saying un
der their breath: "We have seen his
star In the East and are come to wor
ship him."
What a wonderful thing Is this
yearning of the old world for the hap
plrie of children thnt climaxes at
Christmas! The better side of human
nature comes to the front. We throw
ofT our cynicism. Meanness Is shamed
into generosity, and for a little while
on Christmas eve the tightwads of
earth have u look In on paradise.
Was there ever a sweeter eager
ness, a holler Joy, a more heavenly
anticipation, than that which all
ilifough the house Is felt on Christ
nuv eve? Every one Is thinking of
mnklnc somebody happy. The de
lirious secretlveness of It Intensifies
the thrill. Care Is forgotten. Erpec
tntlon Is ringing the bells. Peace Is
over nil the world. And the hero is
a child.
Thank God for children I "Of such
Is the kingdom of heaven." It Is a
sin to disappoint a child. Then It
must please Ood when we make the
children happy.
If there Is no child In your home,
maybe there Is one on your doorstep,
waiting for you to be Its saint on
Christmas eve. There are certainly
some there In the street. They are
looking at the toys In the window
with wistful faces, and wondering
what the lover of children will bring
them. It Is your time to play, and
hearts are trumps!
What a tragedy If a single child In
your town should have Christmas
come and go without an ecstasy!
BOAR'S HEAD AT CHRISTMAS
Ancient Custom Which It Now Be
lieved to Be Observed Only at
Oxford University.
RINGING In the boar's head
at Yuletlde Is not cele
brated widely In Great
Britain today, and prob
ably the only place where
It survives with something of Its old-
time Klory is Queen's college. Oxfonl
university.
The custom Is !elleved to antedate
Christianity; in faet. Is said to have
come down to Englishmen from
the Druids, the Detroit News recalls.
Freyn, goddess of ieace and plenty,
was always represented as riding a
boar, and the Druid priests are be
Heved to have made yearly sacrifices
of boars to this divinity In order t
win her good will.
At Queen's the procession of the
boar's head forms In the buttery. A
soloist, who usually Is a former stu
dent of the college, heads the line.
Behind him march two or three broad
shouldered youths who bear the boarV
head, mounted on a sliver salver. In
the old days the head weighed as
much as eighty pounds.
Flags and pennants of the college
flutter about the head, which Is
crowned with glided sprays of rose
mary, bay, laurel and other ever
greens. A lemon or an orange, the
old Norse symbol of plenty. Is placed
between the tusks.
Behind the bearers of the salver
march the surpllced men and boys of
the choir and the organist In a robe
ot an Oxford doctor of music
On a dais at the end of the dining
ball the provost and the principal
guests stand. The provost says grace
in Latin; the call to dinner Is sound
ed with trumpets through the cloisters
and the proeeslon starts through the
cloisters.
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able comment from the press and
from civic societies at that time.
As city comptroller, Mr. Traeger
inaugurated many reforms, especially
the practice of selling bonds of the
city $1,000,000 in bonds were thus
sold at par, making a saving to the
city of about $60,000, giving the siti
zens a desirable investment and de
monstrating what may be done when
smaller denominations can be offered.
Mr. and Mrs. Traeger, with their
three children, reside in a beautiful
home of their own at 921 West Fifty
fourth place and from October 1, 1899,
down to the present The BROAD
AX has been a constant fixture in
their home.
Honest John Traeger, as he is
rightly known, occupies a warm spot
in the hearts of the people in all.
walks of life, and in a straightforward
manner he has always discharged the
duties and the honored trust which
they the people have placed upon his
broad manly shoulders, and without
the least doubt about it he is big
enough and brainy enough to become
'mayor of Chicago in 1923.
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HON. JOHN
The best and most popular clerk
County has ever had who will
1922.
Few business men or real live poli
ticians are better known in this city
or county than Hon. John F. Devine,
the popular and honorable clerk of the
Probate Court. He is still, compara
tively speaking, a young man, being
on the bright side of fifty-four. He
was educated in the pubft schools of
Chicago. In his earlier yearn he was
employed by the North Chicago steel
mills or from 1882 to 1895 and it has
always been natural for htm to dive
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Chief Clerk of the County Clerk's of
fice from 1895 to 1898, where he made
a splendid record which will cling to
him to the end of time.
He was nominated and elected
County Commissioner. 1898 to 1900.
He faithfully served a Chief Deputy
Probate Clerk. 1901 to 1903; he was
appointed Chief Clerk of the Record
er's office from 1904 to 1907. He
served with distinction as Public Ad
ministrator of Cook county, from
1907 to 1914.
He served as Chairman of the Re
publican County Committee from 1912
to 1914, and he was its campaign man-J
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Ex-Collector for the Tows of Lake; ex-Coroner of Cook Coaety;
ex-Cky Collector of Chicago; ex-Cky Treasurer of Chicago;
ex-Cky Comptroller, Chicago; ex-Shera? of Cook Covsty; Vtce
Presldeat of the Stockmen's Trust and Saviags Baak; promi
nently taentkmed for Mayor of Chhago in 1923.
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of the Probate Court that Cook
succeed himself at the election in
ager from 1914 to 1916. In 1917 Hon.
Joseph F. Haas appointed him Chief
Deupty Recorder of Cook county
which important and responsible posi
tion he filled with great credit to
himself, to Mr. Haas and to his party.
In 1918, Mr. Devine after a spirited
contest, was elected Clerk of the Pro
bitp C'irt mil shortly after his elec
tion his h- f :ne-J- ae a ban
quet in his honor at one of the big
hotels in the loop and all the colored
menaI.'yomen in the Recorder's of-
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shows that Mr. Devine and his bosom
friend. Hon. Joseph F. Haas, are both
big hearted, liberal minded public of
ficials. Mr. Devine only has about twenty
employees in his office and five or six
of that number are colored men and
women, showing that he is abso
lutely free from race prejudice.
Mr. Devine, owing to his splendid
record as Clerk of the Probate Court,
will be re-nominated and re-elected to
his present honored position in 1922.
Mr. Devine wishes his hosts of
warm friends a happy time during the
holiday season.
E. TRAEGER
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