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HON. DANIEL RYAN
President of the Board of Coimty Commissioners of Cook County,
Also of the Board of Forest Preserve Commissioners of Cook
County Who Is Bound to Be Nominated for His Present Position
at the Primaries Tuesday, April 11.
500 PEOPLE CRUSHED!!!
Last year on account of not buying
advanced sales of tickets for the Amc
teur Minstrels, which, are on sale at
the leading drag stores. We are sorry
it leaked out, but the secret was too
good to keep. We have taken such
good men as Howard Cornwell, Dave
Lawrence, Wm. Carrol, Harry Hors
ier, off the ends. They have been re
placed by REAL talent which will be
a pleasure for you to see in action.
We also have with us this year the
greatest singer of all times in the
person of "Pappatheodacommongeo
thophis" which will be the first time
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TiCj worth tnicr our price.
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Armory.
SPECIAL NOTICE
The Second Ward Branch Woman's
Gty Club met at the Phyllis Wheat
ley Home, 3256 Rhodes avenue, Fri
day, March 24, at 2:30 p. m. shaip.
Speaker Mrs. Featherston
Subject CHILD WELFARE
Slides were used to illustrate the
lecture.
Many women interested in civic
problems and good government were
present
Instruction classes for the primary
election will be held in every ward in
the chy during the week of April 5th
10th. All churches and community
centers that can be secured in the
Second Ward will be used.
Why we should vote in the prim
aries will be thoroughly thrashed out,
and sample ballots will be on hand
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HON. MICHAEL K. ShItUDAN
One of the Best and Most SBccessfal Easiness Men on the Soathwest
Side sad Democratic Candidate for Member of the Board of
Assessor of Cook Coraty Who Wffl Come m Uadsr the Ware
Ahead of Al of Hk Opposeats TWaday, April 11th.
for marking.
Expert leaders will be in charge of
the classes.
Elizabeth L. Davis, Chairman.
Dorothy Love, Secretary.
SENT TO DANCE WITH TAR
AND FEATHERS
Port Arthur, Tex. Charles Blunt,
Negro hotel porter, victim of a tar
ring party Saturday night, said he
expected to leave town immediately.
He caused a furore on tint evening
when, clad only in a coating of tar
nl ieatli$,.Jhie catered : Krnniinent
hotel dwtg., an American L egion
dance tit said he had tecn ordered
to report at Hc dance, oiwr lie had
been tcjby. a rty f w h outside
diHP '.cil ami tvu tarred and
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COMING TO ATTEND DRILL
Hon. William H. Fields of St.
Louis, Mo., national grand master of
A. U. K. & D of A. is coming to the
city at an early date in attendance of
the great military drill and reception
to be given at the Eighth Regiment
Armory'. April 24th by the forty-eight
subordinate councils and juveniles in
the city and jurisdiction. The affair
will be under the auspices of. The
Military Department of Illinois of
which J. Wesley Hall is colonel, Hon.
.Fields, commander in chjgf and M. T.
Bailey, captain of the First Regiment
of Illinois.
APARTMENTS FOR RENT
Two Apartments, 4524 Calumet ave.,
high class 4-room apartments, steam,
electricity, strictly modern. Price
$60. Phone Drexel 7236. Adv.
CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR
TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT
FOR THE BROAD AX, IS STILL
SPENDING CONSIDERABLE TIME
IN FLORIDA. HE WILL STRIKE
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA
BAMA, APRIL 3RD.
Arcadia, Florida. If you could just
drop down into Florida at this time
of the year you would see God in
nature, and get a greater conception
of God, and then here and there you
would get a good- idea of the devil in
his kingdom directing men on earth,
some of them calling themselves, the
superior man, the man made by God
to rule His earth, and if you were not
strong, it would drive you into infi
delity and land you right square in
hades or some other hot clime pre
sided over by his satanic majesty,
"King Devil."
In some part of Florida as well as
in Georgia, me and my people have a
heluva time and it is hard to tell at
times just where in the '11 this thing
will end. For I saw advertized in the
daily paper in fact it was sent out
by the Associated Press that there
was going to be a lynching in Georgia
last week. I said a lynching, but it
announced that the man would be
burned at the stake, and if I have
said something that don't belong to
Sunday School and in the quarterlies
at this time, God will forgive me and
you will do so because of the occa
sion.
Here we are in a civilized country,
a country which boasts of its high
culture and civilization, the country
which boasts of "The Land of the
Free and the Home of the Brave," yet
announcing through the public press
the burning of a human being at the
stake, just as if it was going to be a
grand circus, or some other great
festival. Going to cook human flesh,
barbacuc it. and then let it go to
waste. Every man who took part
should be forced to eat some of it, and
I will bet you a dollar he would not
want to join another burning.
In the face of this blot on civiliza
tion there are men and women who
would fight against a law which yould
prevent this kind of disgrace. Pass
the Dyer bill and let it become a law,
and I will bet you my head to a
ginger cake that there will not be any
more of that kind of stuff in this land.
Now is the time for the real manhood
in our country to assert itself. Let
the manhood of the United States
assert itself, and you will then see
where we are at This would bring
about a change, because I feel that
as sure as the Senate passes this bill,
President Warren G. Hardingwill put
his signature to it, and it will become
a law. Of course it will have to go
before Judge William Howard Taft
and his associates, and there is man
hood enough there to rule on right
and justice. I believe that he is going
to speak out right in this matter, and
some day he may return to the presi
dency. I pray God to take charge of
the affairs, and I do not fear. Let
Him into the hearts of the Senators
and the Supreme Court and all will be
well, and I can feel that I am a little
more protected in my country- I
have mailed ten letters to my Sena
tors, and I will write ten more.
I have been moving some since I
wrote to you the other day, and I am
still going, but then this is a going
world. I must not tell you that I
have been near the crossing over place
down here in Florida, and thought at
one time I would have to send for Dr.
George C Hall to come down here
and cither bring me back to say a
word over that lifeless body, but I
just stuck to the medicine which he
has given me before, and I have im
proved some more, and may remain
here a few days longer, or I may
cross over any time. When I see and
read about those crossing over, it
makes me think that my time may be
next.
That brilliant young man, Daniel A.
Murphy, of the Afro-American, Balti
more, right in the prime of life, just at
the time he was enjoyiug life with his
wife and children, the death angel
came and found him way down here
in Florida, and returned his soul to
the God who gave it, while his life
less body was conveyed to Baltimore
and consigned to mother earth. Side
by side, father and son came to Flori
da, but in the baggage car, encased
in a casket,, was the body of Dan,
while his father in the rear car, heart
broken, wept until he reached Balti
more, where the rest of the family
joined him in the weeping.
But why weep? The will of God
hath been done. He came here for a
brief period. He lived well his todays,
and when tomorrow came he but
wrapped his drapery about him and
went home to be with his mother and
sister, and all others who had gone
before him. One by one the other
members of .the family will join him.
Let ns all look for love, for joy, for
everlasting coming together through
H?m who wore the rown of thorns
on earth, and who is now in heaven
awaiting all of our coming who will
accept Him.
Were it not for coming is touch
with those who have prepared them
selves and are devoting their fives
pointing: the waj I myself might stop
and fall by the wayside, but when I
get discouraged, I have but to step
into the school room, notice the de
voted teachers, and then look into the
faces of the boys and girls full of
hope, looking up to the manhood and
womanhood of their own for inspira
tion, I take a new hold on life, and
ask God to help me to help others,
and if I can help others, that I can
find help for myself and peace for
my own soul.
I have been in company with men
and women who are doing things this
week. Now there is Mrs. Mary C.
Calhoun out at Eatonville. Fla., the
principal of Robert Hungerford In
dustrial School. The work started by
her husband while in the prime of
life, and full of aspiration and desire
to dp something. But he had to go
home to rest, and his widow took up
the work and has kept it going up to
this time. She is an earnest hard
worker, and she should be encour
aged, and should be assisted in 'the
great work.
Then a visit to the Providence In
dustrial School at DcLand, Florida,
and sec the wonderful work being
done by that bunch of brains full of
Christ, Miss Wilhelmina Johnson, I
just had to sing "Old Hundred," and
found tears dripping down my rosy
cheeks. She was born next to the
firery furnace. Georgia, but it was a
good town, the town which has given
to us Silas X. Floyd, and Prof. N. W.
Collier, Miss Sarah A: Blocker, and
other great educators, Augusta. Alone
Miss Johnson went into Deland, Fla.,
opened a school renting the bottom
floor of the Odd Fellows Hall for $3
a month, and secured 10 pupils at 1
dollar each, and you will see that she
had only $7 for her support, but she
had Jesus with her. She soon found
friends unsolicited coming to her, and
now they have multiplied and multi
plied until she has moved out of that
rented building, purchased 10 acres,
and friends have put up a real school
building, and one of the finest audi
toriums in the city, and a kitchen.
She is now assisted by two others and
her mother, and I don't know as I
have seen such a busy young woman
since I have been in. lie world. She
teaches literary branches, instructs
the boys in manual training, and then
assists in the domestic science and
arts, and that is going some.
This young woman is giving her
life to the cause. She will never have
any wealth, but is giving all for
others. Such a life. I was delighted
to see her, to know her, to visit her
work, to spend a day and night in the
school, and be entertained by them
and will accept the invitation to re
turn some day. We don't know what
we have, for here I want to acquaint
you with another remarkable woman.
I am sure you have not met Mrs.
Kittle K. C Taylor, of Orlando. She
is the Orange County Public Nurse.
She is well educated, and one of the
best nurses in the country, saying
nothing about race or color. She is
the trained woman of the race of this
country. I had the pleasure of meeting
her last summer in New York when
she was taking on some finishing
touches. She going into the homes
into the schools of the county, and is
devoting her life in helping human
ity. She owns with her husband a
fine drug store in Orlando. I will
not be able to tell you all I want to
tell you about her at this time, but
there will come another time when I
can both talk and write.
I am getting ready for Tuskegee,
April 5, to see them unveil the monu
ment for Booker T. Washington, and
I hope you are going to be there. It
will be a great big meeting there.
What time will you get there. I ex
pect to reach town April 3, and re
main until it is all over. God bless
you. I think I will have to bring this
letter to a close. I am going to der
vote some time in telling you about
Joseph S. McLain, and Mrs. Carrie A.
Toggle.
CHARLES E. STUMP.
ABOUT MANY DUTIES
Mrs. Loo Ella Young, 3556 Giles
avenue, well known for her activities
in many fraternal organizations, is
able to be out again and about her
many duties after an illness of more
than a month which has confined her
to the house. When seen, Mrs. Young
was loud in her praise for the atten
tion given by her physicians, Drs.
Homer Cooper and George C Hall,
Mrs. Parthenia Brown, the many of
ficers and members who visited her
home.
ON EASTERN TOUR
Charles Satchel! Morris, Jn, the
boy orator, left the city the latter part
of the -week on a tour east where he
will speak in many principal cities,
returning- in ten days to resume work
at the University of Chicago where
he is a senior stodeat
BOOK CHAT By MARY
WHITE 0VINGT0N
By Stephen Graham. Published by
The Macmillan Co, New York.
Price $2.00. Postage 10 Cents
Extra
Few Americans realize how inter
esting the Negro question in the Unit
ed States is to the English. They
want to learn about it, they come
over here and write about it. No one
of them has written so keen a book
as Fannie Kemble's "Two Years on
a Georgian Plantation," published
nearly a hundred years ago. Fannie
Kemble, the actress, married a slave
holder and came from free England to
enslaved Georgia. She could not
stand it and from the frank way in
which she wrote I imagine the white
South could not stand her. Stephen
Graham lias no such intimate knowl
edge as Fannie Kemble possessed,
but he did his best while in America
to see conditions as they really exist,
and his many years of travel among
other peoples he has written a num
ber of books on Russia make him a
wise and well-balanced observer.
Some of the readers of Book Chat
doubtless met him when he was col
lecting material for ""The Soul of
John Brown," a striking-looking man
with- reddish hair worn a trifle long
and a gentle though strong face. Re
ligious in the best sense of the word,
he believes that "only Christianity
can save color." But there is some
thing of the militant Christian about
him when he tells us that "there is
such a thing as the wrath of God,
and it is not incompatible with Divine
Fatherhood and all merciful Provi- i
tdence." John Brown is his hero and
he ends his book by saying: "John
Brown himself if he should re-appear
would not be sweetened by what he
saw happening in the world. His
soul goes marching on, but it is still
the soul of vengeance and wrath."
To prepare for the writing of this
book Stephen Graham spent some
time in New York we at the N. A.
A. C P. were fortunate in being able
to give him material and then start
ed in his travels. He went into seven
southern states.' He saw the indus
tries at Newport News, talked with
black rivitters and chippers, and, to
quote his own words, "went up the
James River to Jamestown and on to
Richmond, the fine capital of the old
Dominion. I travelled to Lynchburg
and its tobacco industries, went from
thence to 'sober Knoxville, investi
gating the race riot there and the at
titude of Tennessee. From Knox
ville I went to Chattanooga and Birm
ingham, in each of which great steel
centers I met the leading Negroes and
investigated conditions. I was at At
lanta and walked across Georgia to
the sea, following Sherman. A three
hundred mile walk through the cotton
fields and forests of Georgia. From
Savannah I went to Brunswick and
Jacksonville, thence to Pensacola and
on from Florida to New Orleans and
the Gulf plantations. I journeyed up
the Mississippi on a river steamer,
stayed at the Negro city of Mound
Bayou, was at Vicksburg and Green
ville and Memphis and then repaired
once more to the contrasting North."
The most picturesque part of the
trip, was the tramp through Georgia.
No one else used the road for walk
ing, and Mr. Graham was accounted
passing strange. But his ready spirit
of good fellowship won confidence and
he found out much concerning Sher
man's march from the oldest inhabi
tants and much regarding the Georgia
of today from his own observations.
His summing up is not flattering.
"Rural Georgia is not very much bet
ter today than it was in slavery days."
In the cities he met leading men
of the colored race, men who must be
interesting to read what he wrote.
He is generous in his estimates of the
black man, kindly but with a sense of
humor. The further South he drops
the more he sees the Negro neglected,
his opportunities lessened. He is
shocked that a library, bearing Carne
gie's name, admits no colored reader.
The lack of public schooling amazes
him. He did not visit Hampton
though he was as near it as Norfolk,
not because he doubted its good work,
but because he wanted to 'found his
impressions on the poorer schools, on
what was usual not what was occa
sional It is this spirit that makes
his book so different from that of
Archer or Maurice Evans; he was not
hoodwinked by the sight of philan
thropy.
While kindly toward the Negro he
is opsparing in his condemnatiqn of
the white southerner, yet he recog
nizes that he exists inevitably, the
sure result of slavery. "You can clas
sify all faces into those who say
please and those who do not, and the
children of the slave owners are most
ly in the second category. Unquali
fied mastership; indifference to dirt
and misery in the servant's class; cal
lous disregard of other's pain, or
pleasure taken in their pain; all these
terrible sins, or sinful conditions are
visited on the third and fourth gen
eration of those who hate, though as
most always he said, God's mercy is
shown to thousands of them that love
him and keep his eternal 'command
ments.' There are four entertaining
pages, humorous yet tragic, of the
fourteen points of the 'soatherners
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HON. JOHN
The Best and the Most Popular Clerk of the Probate Court That
Cook County Has Ever Had Whose Thousands of Loyal Friends
Feel Dead Sure That He Will Be Re-nominated for His Present
Position at the Primaries Tuesday, April 11th.
creed. I give a few:
1. ."We understand the Niggers
and they like us. When they go
North they're crazy till they get back
to us."
4. "The Nigger is all right as long
as he is kept in his place. You must
make him keep his distance. If once
you are familiar with him you are
lost."
5. "The Nigger is an animal. Like
the animal he is full of lust. Like
the animals, also, he does not feel
pain. When he is burned it is not
the same as a white man burning,!!
14. "Justice? Well, you ask any
Nigger which he'd prefer, a Southern
court of justice and a Southern judge
or a Northern one. He would always
prefer the Southern one because in
the South we understand him. And
we're very fond of them and they of
us. We get on very well together."
Southern belief, Graham says, rare
ly steps out of this codified expres
sion of thought. Get into conversa
tion with a Southerner and you will
almost always be able to refer his
talk to 1 or 10 or some other point
of this creed.
"The Soul of John Brown" is a most
satisfying book. We hope for it many
readers both in this country and in
England.
MASS MEETING AT QUINN
The Virginia Circle and Society
(F. F. V.), met in a mass meeting
Sunday afternoon despite the inclem
ent weather at Quinn Chapel, 24th
street and Wabash avenue, and held
an interesting program for the benefit
of the church. Among those who
spoke were Mrs. Carrie West, Rev.
H. E. Stewart, pastor, H. David Mur
ray and M. T. Bailey.
TO MEET
The General Committee of U. B. E.
& S. M. T. will meet on Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock, March 26th at H.
B. F. Hall, 2974 State street, and ar
range for the coming annual sermon
to take place the fourth Sunday in
May.
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Wiser at the Primaries, Tweday, April 11.
F. DEVINE
CLAIMS ADJUSTED
Many claims received from clients
in the east, west, north and south
within the past ten days have been
satisfactorily adjusted by The Milton
Mercantile Agency and The aBiley
Realty Co., 3638 S. State street.
VISITING SOt K
Mrs. Elizabeth Rocbon. me
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cellent aueen of Thebe cKSMC. i"
A. U. K. & D. of A. has gone on a
long visit through the south and will
stop at Nashville and Memphis, Tenn.,
Alexandria and New Orleans, la,
and Birmingham, Alabama.
HOLDS INSTALLATION
The Virginia Society-met in its reg
ular monthly meeting Wednesday
evening, March 15th and installed the
officers for the year among those in
stalled were M. T. Bailey, pres., J. B.
Street, 1st vice-pres., J. J. Miles, 2nd
vice-pres., Mrs. Grace W. Nether
land, sec'y., John A. Yeatman-cor.
sec'y., Mrs. Sallie Stewart, treas., and
William Taylor, chaplain. Much Is
expected of the Society under this ad
ministration. CHILDREN TO ENTERTAIN
The members of Egypt Juvenile
No. 2, A. U. K. & D. of A. will enter
tain their parents and friends on Sat
urday evening, March 25th with a pro
gram and reception at aBiley's Hall,
3638 S". State street.
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