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JULIUS F. TAYLOR
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DR. M. A. MAJORS
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July 29, 1922
No. 45
Entered as Second-Class Matter. Aug
vi. 1902. at the Post Office at Chicago,
ilk Under Act of March 8. 1879.
AN OUTLINE OF OPTIMISM ON
THE WORLD'S AFFAIRS
By Dr. M. A. Majors
Sometimes we have a notion to give
the readers of The Broad Ax a kalei
doscope view of the shifting scenes
of the universe, and then we feel that
we ought to let that responsibility
rest upon stronger shoulders. When
the great war came to an end it left
in its wake a weaker people but a
wiser people. Intelligence had to as
sert itself. Education was the balm
to neal the war wounds and stimulate
the humaij heart to build up where
devastation had lain its gaunt pros
trate form Widows tears had to be
dried, sadness had sickened the soul
of humanity. Where the ugliest mis
. chief had wrought in wholesale ruin,
-truth, love, and mercy must soothe
to exquisite paliation the broken and
dejected heart. Sober sense must
needs be the good Samaritan to those
that sorrowed. Civilization the proud
boast of mankind was mustered in to
straighten out the things that had
been bent and twisted by the maraud
ing hand of the desperado in arms.
The present day preachments of peace
became the legislative topics of states
men and a steadfast gaze became the
focus upon a better, higher nobler re
gime called world democracy.
Now after the lapse of four years
the world is still busy at the work of
rehabilitation in a multiplicity of
forms. Hospitals for maimed sol
diers, vocational schools for those
wounded and broken in bod and
spirit, readjustment and repair became
the economic and industrial upheaval
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HON. CHARLES C. ROE
Ex-Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County; At the Present
Time Assistant Attorney for the Board of Education of Chi
cago Who Is a Strong Supporter of Major Robert R. Jack
son for Aldermen from the New Third Ward. Mr. Roe Is
Being Urged to Become the Thompson Republican Candi
date for Committeeman of That Ward.
of the world. Is humanity great
enough to undertake so great a task
when this same dogmatic spirit of this
same humanity a few years ago
wrought so diabolically to tear down
the great arches and architectures the
acme of the ages highest reaches in
the art and mechanical devices of
Christendom?
In treating so ponderous a subject
many things out of the understanding
of the mutitude must necessarily enter
into the consideration. Religion must
take a stronger hold upon humanity.
Christianity must embrace a broader,
larger and a more distinctive spirit
than ever before, and the Golden Rule
spun on a golden spool must become
the chiefest ideality of nations as well
as individuals. Dogmatism must give
way for dogmas of greater potency
along the line of surplanting the ego
and reading in its stead the Christly
spirit which must have greater mani
festation than heretofore and an un
biased brotherhool teeming with all
of the kingly graces of our noblest
humanity.
The earth yield is abundant. There
need be no hunger rags, or poverty.
More significant than ever is to be a
great recession of color prejudice all
over the world. Civilization is the
opposite to barbarism and fortunately
the school and the college and a thou
sand other mighty forces are standing
back of the intellectual upreach among
all of the nations.
The race to which we belong has
moved up a few pegs in its upward
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HON. EDWARD D. GREEN
The Ho&ert Secretary of the Pythian Temple Commission, Who Has
Haadted HBodreds of Huhbusos of Dollars Befoagisg to tke
w Katt&tse? PrmiasWithoMttheLossof One Pav. HWu
m Hoaored MesamAet o the Legxisiare of This State ia 1905, sad
yP" aSh,KeW tie AtkoraftdtfeeFatker of tke AnH-Mob mI
T Lyach Lnr of JBmoh Who Made It Poftle for the Swirert
sf e Coiered f coyfe Who Met Tb Destii at the Htmds of
the MebfisaThM City 1919, to Be Partly Corapeasated for
the Great Lotses Which They Stutaioedla This "City t That
ax
striving towards better things. It has
contributed mightily out of its small
storehouse toward the betterment of
the world. In religion, wealth, indus
try, labor, kindliness and meekness,
fun. and foolishness we have done
more than any in proportion to our
wants and needs. In the final analy
sis tradition which has so long yoked
us to helplessness and made us the
easv orey to plunder and the easy
mark for others to impose upon is
out of date. The Present day up-to-date
Negro will not tolerate one whit
of foolishness either in religion, busi
ness or banking and he insists, that
the other races must bring the adjust
ment to suit the age in which democ
racy makes every citizen no matter
of what race the crownless king of
the world.
THE DEVIL'S FOOTPRINTS IN
BLOOD
By Dr. M. A. Majors
(Concluded from. page 1)
COL. MARCUS GARVEY AND
THE K. K. K.
will not help us to fight it or its pro
gram. The Negro's numerical disad
vantage in this country is too great."
This statement, alleged to have
been uttered by Marcus Garvey at a
monster meetintr held at Liberty Hall
1 following a two-Hour conference with
(Acting Imperial Wizard Clarke in At
lanta, Ga., on June to, nas arouse
a ve'ritable torrn of protest in every
section of the country.
' Garvcy's mention of the Klan, at
the meeting, aroused hisses from
every section of the big building
where the 'meeting was held, and his
followers listened with amazement as
the head of the U. N. I. A., "Back to
Africa Movement." and the Black-
Star Line, now reported to be insol
vent, stated that he, had learned the
purpose of the order which has en
deavored to take the law in its own
hands, and whose avowed purpose is
"white supremacy," with the over
throw of all Negroes, Jews and Cath
olics. Col. Garvey, who claims to be the
Moses of hundreds of millions of col
ored people, has played himself out
in the North, East and West of the
United States. The West Indies,
Panama. Africa and South America
are throuch with htm. The Negroes
in these places invested their money
in the "Black Star Sea," and instead
of the line running horizontally across
the water, it ran perpendicularly to
the bottom with every cent. In some
respects it is like the story told by
Dr. Parkhurst of New York of a
stock selling company. They told
him that he would be let in on the
ground floor, and he says they did,
for he went straight through to the
cellar!
These West Indians and the Ne-
eroes Avho have fallen for Garvcy's
gush have gone straight through to
the cellar, so Garvey seeks a new field
for exploitation. The only possible
one is the Negroes of the South
ignorant, uneducated, intimiaatea.
But the only access to the South is
the permission of the South's invis
ible government, the Ku Klux Klan.
This permission, however, could
never be secured while Garvey main
tained his smart, anti-white man s
tone. So Garvey went to see the
Kleaglc in Georgia, no doubt asked
Ku Klux Kleagle Clarke to write
down just what the Klan would like
for him (Garvey) to say.
As the next issue of this paper will
contain a more extensive article on
Col. Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan,
wc will reserve further comment on
him and his traitorous betrayal of
the colored people until that time.
BETTER COLORED SCHOOLS IN
SOUTH CAROLINA
Best Elements of Both Races Cooper
ating to that End
I must step three steps to each step
you make,
I have to suffer and work like hell for
your sake .
While you under cover of a white
colored rind
Slink like a coward and leave me to
grind.
Well the grinding may keep on till
the Judgment Day,
And somebody is going to have the
devil to pay.
I take in my anguish, this suffering
you bring.
While up thru my groans yet sfill I
can sing;
It charms you and thrills you but you
leave me to grope,
In the woes of despair and have left
me no hope.
I am black and must struggle because
of my race
Until through your lust you have
whitened my face.
What then will you do proud monster
of lust?
You whitener of blacks! will you ever
l)e just?
We read in your books blood prints
you have made,
And notice the marvelous variety of
shade.
It seems that of women the ones you
loved best
Are not your fair goddesses as your
deeds manifest.
WEALTHY TEXAN HONORED
BY TEXANS
Last Wednesday Mr..W. D. Cain
was tendered a stag at the residence
of Dr. and .Mrs. M. A. Majors. The
foremost men now living in Chicago
did the honors, comprising Drs.
Bluitt, Davis, Adams, Thomas, Har
deman, Dudley, "Terrell, Trice, Ma
jors, Mr. George Easter and CoL R.
S. Abbott, Lawyers CoL Denison,
Mosley, Westbrooks, Lucas, Jones,
Jackson and James W. Woodlee.
Mr. Cain is here to set his son up
in business. He is one of the present
strong men, in the Lone Star Stale,
associated ia, a fraternal and busi
ness sense with the Hon. W. M. Mc
Donald of Fort Worth, Tex.
Mrs. Evelyn Casey, 614 E. 46th sL;
Miss Esther Culbertson, her neice,
and Mrs. J. P. Bryant, axe enjoying
the summer breezes at Idlewfld. Mich.
Mrs. Casey Is greatly improving ner
summer borne at that point this sea
son.
TENNESSEE'S SUCCESSFUL
INTER-RACIAL PROGRAM
Schools Built, Health Conditions Im
proved, Mob Prevention, Better
Relations Generally
Nashville, Tcnn., (Special to The
Broad Ax) The annual meeting of
the Inter-Racial League, a section of
the Tennessee Committee of Inter
Racial Cooperation, which was held
here on July 12-13, revealed the fact
that most encouraging progress in
race relations has been made in this
State during the past year.
The efforts of the Committee have
been directed along many lines, chief
of which has been that of securing
better educational facilities for Ne
groes. The results reported include
$35,000 high schools at Dyersburg and
South Pittsburg, $25,000 schools at
Brownsville and McMinnvillc, a $9,000
school at Dickson, arid a number of
smaller schools. A fine library was
secured for . Howard High School,
Chattanooga, and an $85,000 recrea
tion park for the colored people of
Memphis.
The State Board of Health co
operated heartily in the Health Week
program. In Hamilton county every
school house was visited in this cam
paign, 85 addresses were made and
over 15,000 people were reached.
At Murfreesboro the Circuit Judge
has asked the local Inter-Racial Com
mittee to cooperate with his court in
dealing with delinquent colored youth.
Local committees are working with
county agricultural and home demon
stration agents to promote better
farming, marketing and home condi
tions. Last, but by no means of least
importance, a mob was foiled and a
lynching prevented in a Tennessee
town last year by the prompt action
of the local committee.
The annual meeting was held at the
Tennessee Negro Normal during the
summer session and was attended by
hundreds of teachers from all parts of
the State. It was addressed Ty a
number of leading educators of both
races, including Hon. P. P. Claxton,
former U. S. Commissioner of Educa
tion, the State Superintendent, and
the President of the State Board of
Education. Prof. W. J. Hale, Presi
dent of the Normal, was re-elected
chairman of the League and Robert
E day, of Bristol, was re-elected
secretary.
Columbia, S. C (Special to 'The
Broad Ax) The white peole of many
South Carolina communities are co
operating heartily with the colored
people in the effort to secure better
educational facilities for the children
of the latter. At Johnson, S. C, a
movement is now on foot to provide
a $6,000 six-room Roscnwald School.
The Negroes have been raising funds
for the purchase of a four-acre site,
the Rosenwald Fund will supply $1,600
toward the building, and the balance
will be provided from State and county
funds and by private subscription.
A similar enterprise has just been
completed at Batcsburg, where a
$4,500 school was erected by these
cooperating agencies, and the contract
has been let for a $6,000 school at
Leesville, for which provision has
been made in the same way.
These are among the most recent
illustrations of the friendly and help
ful relations for which the best people
of both races are striving and which
inter-racial, committees ,are doing
much to foster tnroughout the South.
To this end a strong slate committee
has been set up in each Southern
State and local committees have been
organized in 800 . ounties.
PERSONAL NOTES
Mrs. Fay Allen and Miss Aldine
Dickson were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Sandy W. Trice on Monday at
6438 Eberhart avenue. Mrs. Allen
and Miss Dickson left on Tuesday for
Los Angeles, Cal.'
Mrs. Sandy W. Trice of 6438 Eber
hart avenue returned last Saturday
night from idlcwild, Mich. She re
ports having had a good time and
that she is well pleased with her new
cottage. Mrs. Trice returned to make
the trip to Washington, D. C, with
Mr. Trice on the Shriner special.
Mrs. Fay Allen of Los Angeles,
CaL, returned from visiting England,
France, Italy and Switzerland. She
reports that all the countries were
wonderful, but to her, Italy seemed
the most interesting. Rome also
proved quite wonderful, she having
been fortunate enough to visit the
Pope and St. Peter's Cathedral, the
largest (Catholic) church in the
world. She also visited the Vatican
and rooms of the Pope, as well as the
prison of St Peter and St Paul, and
the Colosseum where Nero fed the
Christians to the lions. The Cata
combs, where the Christians were
burned added to the interest of her
visit. It was there that the Christians
worshiped, although forbidden to re
main in Rome, and even at this late
date one can see the Altars and writ
ing in Italian, Greek and other lan
guages still visible on the stones.
Naples was ideal, and Mt. Vesuvius
lived up to all expectations, except
that one cannot see the lava boiling
like Small Vesuvius, where one walks
on the crater and looks down into
the boiling lava. France has its beau
tiful Riviera running along the Medi
terranean. Paris, of course, is a won
derful city, but seemingly terribly
crowded. Switzerland, while a small
country, is probably the cleanest coun
try of ail those visited by Mrs. Allen,
and the Alps were wonderful. She
reports that there are many interesting
sights in London, one of which was
St Paul's Cathedral, the second larg
est church, in the world.
K. K. K. TOLD TO DISCARD
MASKS, ROBES, IN PUBLIC
Atlanta, Ga. The Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan have been ordered to
discard their masks, robes and other
regalia except where in their Iodee-
rooms, it has been announced here at
headquarters of the organization. The
order as first made public in a letter
to Gov. Hardwick of Georgia from
E. Y. Clark, imperial wizard pro. tern.,
mentioned only Georgia klansmen,
but later it was stated the order was
general.
KKt K. Must Unmask, Says Georgia
Governor
Atlanta, Ga. Governor Thomas
tiardwick of Georgia declared
Monday m a letter that if the Knight
of the Ku Klux Klan do not discard
tne mask from their paraphenalia,
will ask the general nc.mM- .-
laws making the wearing of masks
legal.
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Mrs. Addie Fowler of Atlanta, Ga,
after spending four or five months in
visiting with her daughters in this city,
Mrs. Geneva Smith, 4714 Champlain
avenue, Mrs. Alice Dunn, Mrs. Jen
Ions of Morgan Park, Mrs. J. M.
Meacham, and Mrs. HowelL left for
her home Sunday evening, by the
way of Washington, D. C, where she
will spend two weeks with relatives.
Dr. Fannie EmanueL 6352 Rhodes
avenue, and her uangbterr Miss Jau-
mta Emanuel, nave returned home
from their two weeks vacation trip
to Idlewiia. Mich-
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ATTORNEY VIOLETTE N. ANDERSON
Highly Honored Member of the Chicago Bar, She Being &
Only Colored Woman Practicing- at the Bar of Illinois
Bertha Jones of 713 E. 43rd Street
was found not guilty of murder in
Judge Kcrstcn's court last Wednesday.
She was charged with the murder of
Kay Garrett, a roomer, whom she
said was attempting to cut her throat
with a razor when she shot him in
self defence. She was defended by
Attorney Violette N. Anderson, the
only colored woman practicing at the
Bar of Illinois.
The case marks an epoch in race
history of the State of Illinois for it
is the first murder case tried by a
colored woman in the Criminal Courts
Illinois.
of Conk fnnnii- 1...1 ... . .
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a- acquitted atter a three daxs' h
tie before judge and jury
Less than two years ai;o alter sj
CPSsfllllv rnoo." ,
- h"j"ik several seir i
examinations. Attorney Anders ,
s'"" me ngnt to hang out her ,-ngie
and hold herself out as a regular P4.
ticim: attorney: and her hosts cJ
warm t'nends are tiit;hl delighted oe
the sums, which ha so ar atterdci
her in the practice oi her -hosen pro
fession.
REV. NEWLAND PASSES AWAY
uv Tawson W. Newland, well
t,,..., nnH a conspicuous character
in the Baptist circles of this city,
passed away on July 18th and was
k.:. frnm The Pilgrim Temple.
33rd St., and Indiana Ave., July 24th
under the auspices of the Ministers
Alliance with Rev. A. S. Thomas of
cv-ncfnn nresidine. After short re
marks by Revs. Bennett, D. H. Harris,
Martin, Gibson, A. D. Thomas and
others, the funeral oration was de
livered by Rev. Watson, pastor oi
the church, who told ot tne acuviwra
( p Newland during his connec
tion with Ebenezer and Olivet Bap
tist Churches. Rev. Newland was
the organizer of Mt. Sinai Baptist
.Church, now The Avenue Baptist
Church. He was the husDana oi
r t W Newland. matron and
assistant financial agent of The
Enterprise Institute, an -'c
Square.
MRS. JOHNSON ENTERTAINS
Mrs. Mack Johnson ot 11342 $
Elizabeth St., Morgan Park, enter
tained at luncheon on last Sunday a;
ternoon at her residence m honor c:
the members and friends of The E;
bird Sunday School Class of Qzn
Chapel of which Mrs. Sarah Cfcn
bers is teacher. Among those rrs
ent were Clementine Nelson, LG:
Smith. Louise Stewart, Dixie itt,
Dorothy Northington. Manon ai
Florence McGhee, Consuella cz.
Marabellc Wimp, Ruby Irene 1':
Bride. Christine Goodwin, Elearai
Williams, Marion Wilson, Imi Ed
wards. M. T. Bailey of Tit Si&r
Realty Co., and Willie and Esttr
McCutheon.
Alderman and Mrs. Robert R. Jack
son will soon move in to their nr
bungalow which they are constructs?
at 36th street and Grand boulevari
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The Branch Ticket Office of the Big
Four Will Be Located in tneneai
Estate Office of H. A Wat
kins, 3510 Indiana Ave.
The "On to Washington" trans
portation committee wishes to an
nounce to the Nobles, Knight Tem
plars, their families and friends.
The Bie Four will have a represen
tative to sell tickets and make reser
vation on our special tram to Wash
ington July 29th, hours one to six
p. m., at Mr. H Nations il
estate office, 3510 Indiana cx.
also at the Union Masonic Club. 39
S, State Street, on Jul 29th. rsa
eight to ten p. m . on August hi
from eight to ten p. m
You may call or ec Mr C &
Munyan, Assistant General Pae
ger Agent, Big Four route, any ti
Address Room 1038 Webster Bx
ing. La Salle and Van Buren Strea
Phone Wabash 3662.
Train lv Central Station, t-"-
and Michigan Aenue. 0 00 oc!.
a. in. Standard lime u?usi s
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SIR KNIGHT SANDY W. TRICE
WhoH
One of 'the Most Prominent Mason m the United States,
Legions of Warm Friends Among AD Classes or n
Otbens and Chairman of the "On to Washington" Traig"
tion Committee, Where the Hh Nobles, Potentate Sg
Templar and Other High Masons, Wffl Have the Tune ot
lives.
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