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CHICAGO, ILI, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1922
No. 44
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THE DOWNFALL OF ATTORNEY
JOHN R. AUTER, WHO MADE HIS
SUCCESSFUL "GETAWAY" WITH
12,500 BELONGING TO THE GRAND
LODGE, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS OF ILL.
HE HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO THE
PENITENTIARY AT JOLIET, ILLI
NOIS, FROM ONE TO FOURTEEN
YEARS. AT THE PRESENT TIME
HE IS RESTING UP IN THE COOK
COUNTY JAIL UNTIL HIS CASE IS
PASSED UPON BY THE APPEL
LATE COURT, BEING UNABLE TO
FURNISH A FIFTEEN THOUSAND
DOLLAR BOND FOR HIS LIBERTY.
IT IS CLAIMED BY SOME OF HIS
FRIENDS THAT HE USED MORE
THAN FOUR THOUSAND DOL
LARS OF THE MONEY TO BUY A
NEW AUTO FOR A BEAUTIFUL
MARRIED LADY WHO RESIDES ON
VINCENNES AVENUE, SOUTH OF
46TH STREET.
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The Knights of Pythias through
out this state have been greatly torn
up of late over the fact that Col. John
R Auter. who has in the past been
one of the shining light of that order,
successfully made his "get away" with
twelre thousand and five hundred dol
lars belonging to the grand lodge. It
'fans that Col. Auter was secretary
of the beneficiary board of the grand
lodge and bad for many years held
that and other responsible positions
in his order and like his warm per
sonal friend, CoL Albert B. George,
he always managed to fall into some
position where he could handle and
control many thousands of dollars
hich belonged to the grand lodge,
hich rolled into his hands from
rrerj direction and the temptation to
other use or get away with a lot of
as money was too much for him to
Withstand.
Strange to say that the head smart
or sharp officers of the grand lodge
of Knights of Pythias of Illinois
otter demanded or required CoL
Auter to furnish a bond for more
n one thousand dollars for the
kuhful and honest performance of
as official duties and that little one
thousand bond had ran out long before
he attempted to cause twelve thousand
nd five hundred dollars belonging
l his grand lodge to fade away for
ever It seems that at the meeting of the
Snnd lodge at Evanston, Illinois, last
October that Cot Auter reported that
' he had on hand three thousand and
five hundred dollars belonging to one
the many branches of the grand
jdge. Just as soon as he had fin
ished reading his annual report Hon.
Edward D. Green, who has bandied
kindreds of thousands of dollars be
gging to the Knights of Pythias
"hout the loss of one penny,
ttved that CoL Auter be instructed
t0 tarn the three thousand and five
"ondred dollars over to the treas-
at once as that was too much
aney to remain in the bands of any
tecretarr. th fnl Atr had no use
L so much money which did not be-
? to him and that he had no moral
riSht to hold onlo it so long. It P
. so it is said, that CoL S. A. T.
Nations, CoL Albert B. George and
Jfal of the other close associates of
Auter urged the members of the
grand lodge to give Brother or CoL
Auter a little more time to turn the
money over to the treasurer which
they did and the best cool headed
judgment of Hon. Edward D. Green
was trampled under the big feet of
his brother members who to say the
least were very short-sighted and
woefully displayed their ignorance
when it came down to transac
tion of grand lodge business right
up to the handle and the final result
was that Col. Auter was given more
time to turn over his money to the
treasurer and from time to time he
continued to promise to transfer all
the money in his possession to the
treasurer but fotuome cause or other
CoL Auter never' flashed up the
money and iinally on Jan. 1, 1922,
after repeated demands had been
made on him for the money, he was
arrested and instead of being short
three thousand and five hundred dol
lars he was shy twelve thousand and
five hundred dollars, and from the
meeting of the grand lodge in Octo
ber to January 1, 1922, he had suc
cessfully skinned it out of nine thou
sand dollars more, making twelve
thousand and five hundred dollars,
which he raked in in easy money.
BIHHl dHHHHBH.9KkJ3BHHEHS--aHHilBHBK
MADAM ANTOINETTE SMYTHE GARNES
Graduate of the Chicago Musical College, Who Won the Alexander
H. Revell Diamond Medal in 1919, for Artistic Operatic
Singing and Composition.
It may not be true but some of the
many friends of Mr. Auter contend
that in order to be a real good fellow
that he loaned his so-called friends
large sums of money which they
never returned to him; that he bought
either a Paige or,a National auto for
one of his beautiful .married lady
friends who resides on Vincennes
Avenue, south of 46th Street; that he
more than four thousand dollars
for the car; that he also presented
hMHtiful lady with four tnou-
a ioUar in real money; tnat ne
assisted m furnishing her lovely flat
m. the most expensive manner and
further made it possible for her to
pay one hundred dollars per montfl
rent It is said that At lady is so
loving, beautiful and chinning that
any real live man would readily fall
for her.
It does seem to us that CbL Wil
liam IL Cowan, Col S. A. T- Wat
kinsv CoL Albert B. George, QILA.
Newby. CoL Claude A. Baraett, CoL
George H. Walker and all of the
other colonels, friends and close asso-i
Friday evening, July 14, Madam
Antoinette Symthe Games, one of the
most noted soprano operatic singers
in this country, a highly honored
graduate of the Chicago Musical Col
lege gave a classy recital at Steinway
Hall, Van Burcn Street, near Michi
gan Avenue.
Being the artist pupil of Prof.
Edorado Sacerdotc, he was the ac
companist at the piano. The hall was
well filled with the warm friends and
great admirers of Madam Garnes, and
many of the most noted lovers ot
music in this city helped to make up
the highly fashionable audience, com
posed of both white and colored. "
When she made her first appear
ance she was heartily greeted and
Mrh t?me thereafter to the end of
the program, which was as follows:
Canzonetta, Haydn; O Del Mio'
Amato Ben. Donandy; Prayer, Wolf;
Serenade, Strauss; The Songr of the
Bride, Rimsky-Korsakoff, (unaccom
panied); Slumber Song, Gretchonin-
off; God Took From Me Mine All,
Rachmaninoff; Papillon. L'Oasis, Car
naval. Fourdrain; The Time for Mak
ing Song, Rogers; Nocturne, Saar;
To a Young Gentleman. Carpenter;
Straus, Kramer; At the Well, Hage-
man. Edorado Sacerdotc at the piano.
It will be noted that the group of
songs by those who are familiar with
vocal music arc the most difficult and
exacting to render than any other
group of songs in existence at the
present time in our humble opinion.
Madam Garnes displayed her greatest
artistic ability in the "Song of the
Bride" (unaccompanied), the "Seren
ade" and "God Took From Me Mine
AH." In those three songs she easily
ran the entire musical scale on up to
high C and at the conclusion of each
number she was long and loudly ap
plauded and it was perfectly evident
that she possesses a clear and sweet
soprano voice with extraordinary
capable of reaching upward to the
highest musical notes and possessing
a pleasing stage apperance, greatly
adds to her wonderful success as one
of the leading singers in this country.
In 1919 Madam Garnes graduated
from the Chicago Musical College
with the highest honors, winning the
Alexander H. Revell diamond medal
for artistic singing and composition.
In 1920 the degree of Master of
Music was conferred upon her by the
same musical college. For some years
past Madam Garnes has been a mem
ber of the Chicago Opera Company
singing in all the French, German and
Italian operas which have been staged
at the Auditorium for the edification
of the music lovers of Chicago.
Within the past few years Madam
Garnes has made several trips to New
York Gty to sing for the Black Swan
records and hundreds of thousands
of people in all parts ot this counts?
are perfectly familiar with her rare.
BOOK CHAT, BY MARY WHITE OVER
TON, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS OF THE NA
TIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED
PEOPLE.
'WHERE ANIMALS TALK"
By R. H. Nassau. Published by The
Four Seas Co., Boston, Mass.
Price $2. Postage 10 Cents
staying qualities, and that it is fully sweet, soprano voice.
dates of CoL Auter who are supposed
to be wealthy gentlemen would have
stood by CoL Auter at the very time
that he needed friends in the worst
way, and made it possible for him to
repay the twelve thousand and five
hundred dollars back to the grand
lodge of Knights of Pythias without
compelling him to serve one day. in
jail.
Some of the many friends of Mr.
Auter maintain, although it may not
be true, that CoL George and
Mr. Auter were such warm friends
of many years standing, that Mr.
Auter was thinking about remember
ing the bright little son of CoL
George in his last wfll and testimeat.
LEAVES URBAN LEAGUE $5,000
Mrs. Ella Sachs Plotz Remembers
Welfare Movement in Her Will
The National Urban Leacue for
Social Service among Negroes is in
receipt of a check for $5,000 being a
bequest to this organization by Mrs.
Ella Sachs Plotz, a member of tht
League's Executive Board, who re
cently died in France. Mrs. Plotz
shortly before her death wrote to
Eugene Kinckle Jones, Executive
Secretary of the League as follows:
"My interest in the colored race was
early aroused by my mother's father,
Mr. Marcus Goldman who was al
ways a great admirer of Booker T.
Washington and often told me, as a
child, of incidents in bis life. Later
Mr. Rosenwald invited me to go to
Tuskegee and on that trip I met Mrs.
William H. Baldwin. Ever since then
I have worked heart and soul for the
colored people to help create a bet
ter understanding between the white
and black races and I feel that the
very best friendships I have were
started through contacts made in this
work." The League's budget for 1922
is $57,000. Close to $40,000 of this
sum is in sight.
The League now has organizations
in forty-one cities its most recent
additions being Columbia and Joplin,
Mo., organized by George W, Buck
ner of the St Louis Urban League
and Tampa, Fla. The tampa League
was organized by Jesse O. Thomas,
To those who arc interested in Af
rican Lore this olumc will be of
great value. It is a collection of West
African Folk .Lore tales translated
from the native idiom. The tales arc
from the Mpongwe, Bcnga and Fang
tribes. Many of them seem vaguely
familiar as they tell of the Leopard
and the Rat, the Tortoise and other
animals. But there are stories that
do not recall Br'er Rabbit, Bear or
Fox; stories like an Arabian Night.
A son goes away from his native
town to get a wife. He shows Kind
liness to all he meets, thus gaining
the good will of the animals, and is
presented with a magic gourd not un
like Alladin'slamp. By means of the
gourd he turns a forest into a garden
in an hour, dams a river and furnishes
fish for a month, and fights and con
quers multitudes of his opponents.
His prowess wins him the hand of
the princess only it is not put ex
actly that way and he carries away
his beautiful wife. His foolish
brother, striving to emulate him, fails
to show kindness or wisdom and gets
an ugly, diseased woman as his mate.
The adventure is delightful, an Arab
ian night in a new setting.
But what is most interesting in the
hook is the side light that it casts on
West African custom. To explain
the tales we have short notes such as
this: Polite natives will neither sit
uninvited in the presence of their su
periors nor watch them while eating."
"Sitting in a visitor's lap for a. few
moments is a mode of welcome."
"Among native Africans, in the case
of a man and his wife, even if thcy
fight together, her father or her
father or her brother usually does not
interfere." There will be the descrip
tion of the building of a town such
as this. "And all busy. They that
worked at stakes, went out to cut
saplings; those that made rattan
ropes, went to cut the rattan vines;
they that shaped tbe bamboo for
building, went to cut the bamboo
palms; they that made the thatch
went, to gather the palm-leaves; they
that set up the stakes of the house
frame, went to thrust them into the
ground; they who fastened the walls.
fastened them; they who tied thatch
on the roof, tied it; they who split
the rattan-vines for tying, split them.
The town was full of noise."
We often hear of two drums, the
common drum and the elembi, a drum
made to transmit information by a
system of signal stroke. Thus in
formation traelled through Africa
with extraordinary rapidity.
In his preface, the author tells us
how these tales are told. There are '
only a few skilled narrators, but these
few are like great actors, and just as
a play will run with us for hundreds
of nights, the same people going to
sec it again and again, so the tales
will he retold endlessly, made attrac
tive by the dramatic use of gesture,
tone and startling exclamations.
"The occasions selected for the ren
ditions are nights, after the day's
work- arc done, especially if there be
visitor- to be entertained. The places
chosen are the open street, or in for
est camps where almost all the popu
lation of a village go for a week's
work on their cutting of new planta
tions: or for hunting or for fishing in
ponds At night all gather
around the camp fire and the Tales
arc told, with at intervals, accom
paniment of drum: and parts of the
plot are illustrated by an appropriate
song, or by a short dance, the plat
form being only the cartU. and the
scenery the forest .shadows, and the
moon or stars."
It is this recital and this setting
fiat we miss as we read thee stories
and we realize that we are getting
about as much of what the fistcner in
... "uiwii iuich sees anu ncars, a
we get of an opera by reading the
libretto. When will the time come
when we shall hear these tales on the
stage with their real setting? We had.
a beginning in New York this winter
when Simango danced in the superb
African scene of the drama 'Taboo."
I never visit the Metropolitan mu
seum and look at its collection of Af
rican instruments that I do not long
for the day when they will be taken
out of their cases and we shall hear
them played, the drums will beat, the
elembi will give its signal, the horns
will be blown, the xylaphoncs will be
struck, and we shall have a setting
for the native who, in his own hn
guage. (while as at the opera, we fol-
low with the translation) recounts ta
us a story of African Tnr
Southern Field Secretary
The Department of Research and
Investigations, Charles S. Johnson,
Director, has just completed a survey
of the industrial conditions of the
Negroes of Baltimore and the report
is now ht process of preparation.
Abram L Harris, graduate of Vir
ginia Union University, class 1922 has
been appointed Assistant in this De
partment and will act as Business
Manager of the Urban League Bul
letin a bi-monthly publication
which is rapidly gaming a prominent
position in the discussion of' social
problems and the Negro's relation to
them.
The July number of the Bulletin U
available and contains mterestiag ar
ticles by an employment manager on
his experiences with Negro workers
in northern industries, an interview
with Professor' Alexander A- Olden
weiser of the New School of Social
Research on "Racial Theory and the
Negro;" a review of recent books on.
the Negro and other interesting dis
cussions of social topics.
The Annual Conference of 'the
League is to be held in Pittsburgh
from October 17th to 21st" Problems
of health, industry, recreation, migra
tion and housing will be discussed by
the League secretaries and other ac
tive social workers white and col
ored. A record attendance U expected.
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