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Tf THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922 li BnwiflWfflHaaaMaaaMJBWlBffF jjft'ffittii art, -i . B EACH AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF CHICAGO HAVE ENDEAVORED TO ACCOMPLISH MUCH GOOD FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL THE PECflPLE RESIDING IN TMSCITY. SHORT REVIEW OF THEIR WORK DURING THE YEAR OF 1922. HON. MILES J. DEVINE Ex-Cky Attorney of Chicago, One of the Mot Eminent Trial Law yew m Thk Cky Who Stands m the Highest Estimation of All the People m This City and Coanty. He Has No Sapcrior As An Eloquent Orator. He Woald Make a Dandy Candidate for Mayor of Chicago This Corakig Spring. LEAGUE PROTESTS REPUBLI- CAN DESERTION OF DYER BILL AND RACE Asks Senate Leader to Head Move ment to Revise Senate Roles to make blocking Senate actions less easy also to present the telegram with his caucus report It was signed by President M. A. N. Shaw and Sec retary Wm. Monroe Trotter. Boston, Mass. The National Equal Rights League has concluded a seri ous week following the doubly-dead killing of the Dyer Bill by Republican surrender, by announcing a mass meet ing for Monday night to hear the re port of the League's representative at the U. S. Senate last week, Attorney Cyril T. Butler of Boston, on the Dyer Bui defeat and what to do now. The League worked till the last mo ment, then telegraphed to President Harding to recommend the measure in his new message, and sent a pro test to Senator Lodge and a demand that he lead in a move to revise the Senate rules so as to make blocking of consideration of legislation less easy. The White House answered as fol lows: Dear Mr. Trotter: I have before me your message of December first to the President As you know, the President has made every effort possible in behalf of this measure. Its present status is not a promising one, but it is still hoped that something may be accomplished along this line in the near future. Sincerely yours, Geo. B. Christian, Jr., Secretary to the President Mr. Wm. Monroe Trotter, National Equal Rights League, Boston, Mass. The telegram of protest read: The telegram said League was as tonished at Republican causus voting to promise the Southerners to kill the Dyer bill for the entire Congress to qmt their filibuster and protested the monumental surrender by a Senate ma jority to opposition minority, constitut ing quids, utter abandonment of Col ored Americans in flagrant violation of party and personal pledges. Wants Rules Changed BLACK JEW AGAIN ADMITTED TO BAR Rufus L. Perry, lawyer, of Brook lyn, N. Y., who is a Democrat a member of the Jewish faith, a Latin scholar, an orator and a musician, has been reinstated to the practice of the law by the Aonellate Division in Brooklyn. In October, 1917, Perry was dis barred, it being charged that he forged the name of his father, now dead, to a deed covering title to prop erty on St Marks avenue, Brooklyn. ouuscqucnuy, me aisoarment was lifted and instead, he was suspended from the practice of law for five years from October 5, 1917. Perry declared in an affidavit that the five years have expired and that he has lived an upright and moral life since 1917. Justices Dike, Fawcett and May of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn and County Judge Martin urged that he be permitted to practice again. WORK MOVES ON FINE The work of A. U. K. & D. of A. in Illinois is moving on fine and Mrs. Eliza Jackson, state grand queen, is much plased with the work she has been able to do in her Jurisdiction, looking forward to doing larger things before the coming of the grand coun cil session at St Louis, Mo., in 1923. BACK AT SCHOOL Dr. John M. Gandy, president The V. N. & I. I Petersburg, Va, has returned to his post of duties after a trip through the west en route to and from Grand Rapids, Midi, where he addressed a mass meeting nnnVr tvT "u" f' " mai0n"- the ausPiccs f the K County Sun ty leader to push amending of rules day School Association. aaaHHHHaBar -vSHH aBBBBaaalBBBBBBr C4&f$ftfeJb!IH BBBBBBBBBbV IbBBBBBBH ; "SobbbVIhsShSBibH bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV. hIbbbbbbbbbH'7! BHHSBshHH bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbH TBawaWaWaWaWss? JaBWaVawaBaBWaUBaBEBvBwaVawaVal aaaaBaaaaaaaaaaKaaWawKia gBatW 'dpmP .jWjBHBHHBBWmjjB LBbe 'rZp .wSRbbbbBbBbSbbbH bbbbbbbbbVbbbSbbw '9mr& 'B!BB6BttB3Hl bbbbbbbbYbbbbHbF $&m ,iflRRflR9LKKH bbbh HON. JOHN McGILLEN si h Z4.- Jefca McGSaB and Commtmv. Sarat BmJ. J 106 S. LaSale Street Mr. McGBaa Ex. to rfit Whale Any ef Friaa. Celebrating the twenty-seventh an niversary of this newspaper and with the Christmas spirit now prevailing, the writer extends a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the mem bers of the Chicago City Council. It is only fitting on this momentous oc casion that the people of Chicago be made familiar with the good deeds which have been performed by their representatives in the city council dur ing the past year. We have much to be thankful for and we are going to try and point out here and there some of the good that has been done by the esteemed members of the council body. Too often the hard and conscien tious work of a council member is ignored. Seldom is the alderman given credit for the constructive things carried out by him. Rather he is almost constantly the object of bit ter attack and criticism. However, the writer being on the Job in and about the city hall, is in a position to point out to the people of Chicago that their aldermen are not only alert in the interests of their constituents, but that during the past year many important and constructive measures have been introduced and fought for by them. While some aldermen have been waging a constant and persistent fight in behalf of the poor and common cit izen, others have been untiring in their efforts to provide small parks, bathing beaches and playgrounds. Little chil dren have their friends constantly on the alert in their behalf among the aldermen; the liberal minded as well as the conservatives have their repre sentation; city employes have their champions while the humble consumer and renter have members in the coun cil body, ready to fight their battles. The church is not without its friends while the rights of the unbeliever are not trampled upon. Religion and creed are never dragged into the debates and it is sell dom that politics are permitted to be injected in council proceedings. The colored people have friends not only among the representatives of their own race but they have able and willing champions among the white members of the council. Thus it is with a personal realiza tion of the good work and deeds of the individual members of the council body that we proceed to point out some of the things which the different aldermen have stood and fought for during the past eleven months. The excellent streets in the down town district and the clean pavements and sidewalks are due especially to the efforts of the first ward representa tives, Aid. Kenna and Coughlin. These two aldermen are at the present time leading a fight for three big loading stations in the loop to expedite street car transportation during the rush hours. Also they are advocating the building of foot bridges at street in tersections to relieve pedestrian con gestion. The untiring efforts of Aid. Louis B. Anderson of the second ward and Aid. Robert R. Jackson in behalf of the colored people of Chicago, are too well known to require any comment Aid. Anderson, who has been a credit to the colored people by his leader ship for Mayor Thompson on the council floor, has also brought esteem to his race by his intelligence and knowledge of parliamentary practices. Aid. Jackson has always stood by his colleagues in the many council fights and the present investigations into the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, is due to the efforts of Aid. Jackson. Aid. Johntry of the fourth ward is fighting a winning battle for pure water at the municipal bathing beaches. He was also conspicuous in the campaign against profiteering land lords. Aid. Johntry has repeatedly gone to the front for colored constitu ents in his ward. This same ward has been further honored by being represented by Aid. U. S. Schwartz, who took the initia tive and performed a great public duty in bringing about the settlement of the big street car strike last sum mer. Aid. Schwartz also led in ex posing the expert fee grabbers, who took millions of dollars out of the pockets of the tax payer. If it were not for the activities of Aid. Charles S. Eaton of the fth ward, as chairman of the city waste commis sion, the health of the entire com munity would be endangered because of lack of garbage disposal places. Aid. Eaton is now working on a num ber of important propositions in con nection with this vexing problem. One of the best friends the Ettle child of the poor district has in the cosBcfl is Aid. Gay Gserasey, who Is constantly offering soawthinr that will benefit this unfortunate little one. Jast now he is seeking an appropriation from the finance coauaktee to provide free public shower baths in all the congested districts. These baths art a Godsend to the children of the poor during the hot months of the summer. Development of the wonderful Cal umet region is due almost entirely to the efforts of Aid. Woodhull and Fur- man of the Seventh ward, while the great army of workers at the Pullman- shops, the steel mills and other big industries in the new Ninth ward, rely on Aid. Govier and Madderom, to look out for their interests. Aid. Govier helped establish a commissary at the Pullman shops where the workers can make purchases at cost The Eleventh ward is ably repre sented by Aid. John Richert, chairman of the finance committee, and one of the council leaders. His vote has been recorded for every constructive meas ure of merit while Aid. Timothy Ho gan pleased thousands and thousands of workers by his daylight saving or dinance. This measure has done more than anything else to provide proper rest and recreation for the toilers dur ing the summer months. Aid. R. J. Mulcahy of the Twelfth ward, is doing his part just now to showing up the Ku Klux Klan, but he has been heard from before in his fight against grasping landlords and rent hogs, both in Chicago and at Springfield. Free athletic fields in every ward in the city, is one of the aims of Aid. Joseph B. McDonough, of the Thir teenth ward, who is chairman of the committee on small parks, bathing beaches and playgrounds. He is not forgetting the colored sections of the city in providing these athletic fields and has asked Aid. Anderson and Aid. Jackson for suggestions. Aid. William R. O'Toole, of the Fourteenth ward, chairman of the committee on buildings, has made it his business to see that the poor have not been discriminated against in the making of the new zoning ordinance, which is now being completed. He has also taken a leading part in brand ing and condemning unsafe theatres and playhouses. His associate. Aid. William J. Lynch, is heart and soul in the council investigation of the Ku Klux Klan and he does not spare words in condemning that outfit Aid. "Tommy" Byrne of the Fif teenth ward, is well known for his friendship to organized labor and he played a conspicuous part in the set tlement of the street car strike. "Tommy" is never off the job when the rights of the laboring man are in jeopardy. Aid. Scott M. Hogan, sel dom loses a chance to fight for per sonal liberty. He has stood loyally by -Mayor Xhompson in the traction. school board and other rights carried to the floor of the council. Aid. Kovarik, associate of Aid. Byrne, is doing more than his share as a member of the track elevation committee, to force the railroads to end the slaughter of human lives, by elevating their tracks throughout the city. He is also a member of the higrr cost committee and has been a valu able aid to Aid. Kaindl in the latters activities to force down the cost of liv ing. Aid. John H. Lyle of the Seven teenth ward, has always lined up on the side of the common people. It was he who introduced the ordinance creating the high cost bureau. Also it was Aid. Lyle who showed up the grasping coal dealers, the reasons for the high prices and the causes for the coal shortage. Aid. Lyle, as a. mem ber of the athletic commission, has done his share to clean out the graft ers in the boxing and wrestling game. He is an amateur boxer and an ardent supporter of clean sports. If there is a busy man in the dry council who is on the job from morn ing to night that man is Aid. Ben Wilson of the Nineteenth ward. He is ever on the go and he no sooner cleans up one task than he tackles an other. He has no special hobbies but votes right on everr worth while proposition that is presented to the council. Aid. Henry Fick, of the Twentieth' ward, did a great service to the people when he cleaned out the grafters in the Maxwell street market while his associate. Aid. Franz, has done much to bring back popularity to the six day bicycle races in Chicago. Aid. D. A. Horan has done manv things for the people of the Twenty- first ward, but he is now trying to do the members of the fire department a big service by consolidating the places of captain and lieutenant Aid. Joseph Cepak of the Twenty second ward, has always stood by for mer Aid. A. J. Cermak, in the many construct! re measares introdaced in the council by the present chairman of the county board. Aid. Cepak has sponsored and voted for many meas ures that woald bring revenge into the dry treasury from the coffers of those who can a&srd. Aid. John Toman, of the Twenty third ward, during his many years as a coundl member, has a record he should be proud of but his biggest service to his people was his recent showing up of street paving contrac tors. Aid. Toman is now working on a plan to revolutionize paving in Chi cago by the use of a new material brought down from the mountains of Kentucky and which will save the tax payers more than a million dollars a year. Aid. Joseph Kostner of the same ward has been connected with so many worthy matters during his coun cil career it is difficult to pick out any particular one. Just now he has an ordinance before the coundl prohibit ing railroads, hotels and other semi public places from installing slot de vices in their toilet rooms. Aid. Kost ner also took a leading part in the crusade against theater ticket scalpers. Aid. John Powers of the Twenty- fifth ward is the oldest member of the council, and his career there is an open book. His Christmas baskets annual ly to the poor of the west side will never be forgotten and few of his many charitable deeds ever become known. His associate. Aid. James Bowler, is probably one of the most aggressive members of the council and has just been made chairman of the revenue committee. Another friend of the poor is Aid. James McNichols. of the Twenty sixth ward, who introduced the ord inance permitting portable ice huuses in the congested districts, whereby the dealers were enabled to sell ice at greatly rduced prices. The system proved so successful during the" past summer it is to be enlarged upon and extended throughout the city during the next year. Aid. John Touhy, of the twenty seventh ward, is a real friend of the "kiddies." He is deeply interested in the playground and bathing beaches and never loses an opportunity to ad vocate measures that will increase their efficiency and provide health and play for the children. Aid. Touhy, with his former assodate. Aid. Maurice Kavanagh, now county com missioner, annually stage a big athletic and vaudeville entertainment for the benefit of the poor children. This event takes place just rjefore Christ mas. In Aid. George M. Maypole of the Twenty-eighth ward, the colored peo ple have a true and sympathetic friend in the city council. Kepresenting a district which is heavily populated with colored citizens. Aid. Maypole knows their wants and desires as probably no other white man in Chicago. Just now Aid. Maypole is seeking to rem edy conditions in three public schools attended by colored children of the great west side. He is also seeking to provide small parks and playgrounds for their benefit. It was Aid. Maypole who introduced ordinances against landlords who discriminate against Aid. Samuel Shaffer of the Twenty ninth ward, believes in protecting our homes and our children against the families with children, inroads of vice and other lawlessness. He championed the cause of State's Attorney Crowe in the latter's expose of gambling and vice conditions. If there ever is a settlement of the intolerable traction situation and if there is an actual start made on sub ways, the people of Chicago will have to thank Aid. John Home, also of the Twenty-ninth ward, because it was he who started the traction wheels going in the city council. There are many other big things that Aid. Home has marked up to his credit Complete reorganization of the Chi-' cago fire department its motorization and other improvements, saving the taxpayers more than $1,000,000 a year, is due greatly to the efforts of Aid. John S. Clark of the Thirtieth ward. Aid. Gark has also taken a leading part in the exacting duties of the fi nance committee, which body has complete control of spending the tax payers moneys. Few of the tax payers realize the Christmas present which has been handed to them by Aid. Stanley Walk owiak, of the Thirty-first ward. No- long ago there was a nice lookinr proposition to build a new Munidpal court building and Central fire statior on the site of the old Jones School Harrison- street and Plymouth court On the face of the proposition the tax payers were to receive a magnificent skyscraper building for absolutely nothing. Some tender hearted, con tractors were going to finance the big project out of their own pockets. However, Aid. Walkowiak carried a copy of the ordinance with him, and at every opportunity he studied the measure. Reading between the lines the alderman saw how in the end the tax payers would have to stand the big burden. Aid. Walkowiak immedi ately called a halt and served notice that if the backers of the scheme per sisted in putting it through he would shake the dry hall from roof to base ment Aid. Walkowiak's associate. Aid. Thomas Devereaux, is the staunch friend of the ex-service man, be hel white or colored. From time to time Aid. Devereaux has introduced orders and resolutions intended to better the conditions of the men who gave then- all to fight for democracy. Aid. Dev ereaux also has been the foe of the crooked promoter of sports and he now has an ordinance before the cotm- (Continued on page 10) RMfj ?' .aaa'aaaw3?s:l$vBk. iBtBvfih-"-' aaaaB3'F - bW acOHKBEiMr"" bbbbbbbbbdw . flBBB ftjWHsr r flBBBBnS?? 'B jSgK a iawawi mat- mmSm V j Wfty T TbYbYbYbYbYbbTIkL -waWaWaP' - BFH3aVaHBHBHBHBHBHBHBHBHBHBHBHBHBHBW J; BkB"aVaVaVaVaaW aEV aaaaaaHHIaaaaHSIR laaaaaaaaaaaaaaVR vJaaaaaaaaaB!- jy..,. f HON. EDWARD J. GLACKIN State Senator from the Seventeenth Senatorial District; Strong and innueniuu memoer or me rouowmg important Committees: Ap. propriations, Charitable, Penal and Reformatory Institutions, Community Welfare, Education, Industrial Affairs, Judiciary, Live Stock and Dairying, Municipalities, Public Efficiency and Civil Service, Reapportionment, Revenue and Finance, Roads, Highways and Bridges. At Th Time He Wishes to Thank Hi Many Friends for Their Loyal Support at His Last Election and Hopes That They Will Spend a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. ANNUAL ESSAY CONTEST BIG SUCCESS One Thousand People Jam Institu tional Church The great thirteenth annual Essay Contest is over, and two more names have been added to the long list of prize winners of this great literary event, which has attracted the people of the city for the past thirteen years. The prizes this year go to Miss Ethel Hurgess, representing the Sunday af ternoon Forum of the Institutional A. M. E. Church, and Mr. Clarence W. Powell, representing the Hi-Art Mu sic and Dramatic Club. Eight of the leading literary clubs were represented. The subject, "Race Prejudice, what it is and how the Ne gro should deal with it" was thor oughly discussed by each contestant and many important points brought out. I The musical part of the program could not be excelled. The follow ing persons rendered musical num bers: Mme. Annette White Broadice, Airs. Bessie Wyatt and Miss S. A. McCarther, vocalists; Mr. George Rciber, Pianist and Mr. Harrison Emanuel, violinist The choir of the Institutional Church, under direction of Miss Magnolia Lewis, rendered sev eral selections. The ushers were furnished by the various literary clubs and were under the direction of Mr. J. H. Hightower who has been chief usher for these contests for the past thirteen years. Mr. C. B. Broussard, representing Grane Lyceum, did not appear, as he did not cet his essav enmnlotri in time. The representative for the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs was taken ill at the last moment, which left them without a representative. Mr. Powell is the husband of Ifrs. Mabel Powell, President of the Union Charity Club. He served as investi gator for two years in the Corporation Counsel's office and recently served aj clerk in the Board of Review. He has unusual ability along dramatic lines. Miss Burgess is a stenographer, sings in the choir of the Institutional Church and is very" modest and unas suming. She is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Burgess, 3718 Grand Blvd. AH in all the 13th Annual Essay Contest will go down in history ay one of the best of the series. Mr. B. W. Fitts and his assistants, Messrs. Stradford and Henry, deserve great praise for their efforts in behalf of the race. ENTERTAINED The committee which will have charge of the public installation of officers from the various HouehoIds of Ruth in the city of Chicago on Jan. 30th, was entertained on last Saturday evening after conclusion of a business meeting at the residence of Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calu met avenue. LEAVES FOR ST. LOUIS Atty. Frederick McKinncy. 3301 Wabash avenue, left the city during the week for St. Louis, Mo., his home town, where he will spend the holi days with relatives and friends. &j&& '-& a MTmlFr - aH HON. HENRY STtfCKART Ex-Cky Treasurer of Chicago; ex-Treawar of Cook Comty; One of the Most PopJar aad Saccearfal Merchants oa tie Soathwest Sick Who WoaZe1 Make a Tip-Top Caadtdate for Mayor of Chi cago Thk CoaMBg 5riag.