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THE BBOAD AX, 'CHICAGO, JTO.Y.1, 1916.
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Handled by the Present
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JUDGE J. B. VAUGHN THE ABLE AND POPULAR CHAD3MAN
INDUSTRIAL BOARD OF TTiT.TNOIS.
VACATION HINTS.
The vacation season is here and from
aow until September thousands of Chi
cago people "will be resting and rusti
cating at numerous resorts in the near
by states on their summer outings.
Many of these resorts are beautiful
and attractive places with plenty of
fine, fresh, wholesome food and sani
tary surroundings.
This cannot be said, however, of all
summer resorts; although the number
of properly conducted places of this
Mud is constantly increasing. It is
an encouraging sign that summer resort
keepers are learning that it pays to
keep their places clean and safe, as
well as outwardly attractive. There
are still, however, some resorts that,
while they have beautiful scenery,
good fishing and good food, yet they
also have plenty of flies, polluted water
and bad sanitary conditions. And be
cause this is true, here are some things
that those who are intending to spend
their summer away from Chicago should
look into, in connection with selecting
places where they are to spend their
summer vacation. Here they are:
"Water Supply 'Water taken from
shallow wells, located near a barn or
outhouse, is certain to be polluted and,
therefore, unsafe to use. Also waste
water from the well is allowed to drain
back into it, tends to make it unsafe.
Toilet Arrangements Open, un
screened privy vaults, together with
swarms of flies, render eating in ttio
vicinity a hazardous undertaking.
These conditions, especially apply to
many picnic grounds around and near
Chicago, where picnic parties spend
their day's outings and eat their lun
ches in the open air. Plies inhabit
privy vaults and are fond of picnic
lunches.
Sewage and Drainage If the sum
mer resort you visit has sewers and
drains its sewage, untreated, into a
Btagnant pool or lake and is taking its
water supply from the same lake or
uses shallow wells near the same, it is
a pretty good place to stay away from.
Also when you go in bathing, be care
ful" to notice that no drains or sewers
empty their contontsin the near vicin
ity. Garbage Disposal At some resorts,
especially the smaller ones, garbage
and refuse of every kind are hauled
only a short distance away from the
cottages and dumped in the open to
breed flies and pollute the air. The
properly conducted summer resort,
either buries its garbago or burns it.
Finally, if the general sanitary con
ditions are bad, hunt a placo where
they are good. As a matter of course
all doors and windows should bo
equipped with screens. It is better
to bo safe than sorry.
To cut tho high cost of living and
escapo high blood pressure, cut out
IB. W. V. CONLEY THE GENIAL AND EFFICIENT SECRETARY OF THE
INDUSTRIAL BOARD OF ILLINOIS.
OF THE
highballs and an excessive meat diet.
Dig in your garden and walk several
miles a day.
A diet too hearty is as harmful as
starvation, though slower in its evil
effects.
Eat heartily and freely of a meat
diet only when you are to engage in
vigorous exercise of the body. The
mind does not act well on a full stom
ach. -In hot weather you want to be pos
sessed of a cool head. Don't overload
your stomach and don't get mad. Keep
cool and be temperate.
100,000 NEGROES BEADY TO FIGHT.
The following Associated Press dis
patch was published throughout the
country last week:
Tuskegee, Alabama. When informed
by an Associated Press representative
today of tho killing of 12 Negro
soldiers, Emmett J. Scott, Secretary of
the Tuskegee Institute, called attention
to the fact that eighteen years ago when
war was declared with Spai that the
late Booker T. "Washington, Principal
of Tuskegee Institute, called upon the
Negro people of the United States, and
particularly upon Tuskegee graduates
and former students, to volunteer for
servico in defense of their country.
Hundreds of Negroes followed this ad
vice. Secretary Scott states that there
are a dozen or more Tuskegee gradu
ates and former students in Mexico
now as members of tho various Colored
regiments. "Negroes," ho states,
"will rally to the defense of their
country now as they have always done.
As the first American soldier to lose his
life in Mexico, March 24 of this year,
was a Negro, so the first man killed in
the Revolutionary "War was a Negro.
Tho Negro people take pride in the
fact that it was the charge of Negro
troops at San Juan Hill in the Spanish
American "War that turned tide there,
and that Negroes have fought gravely
in every war in which this country has
engaged. Tho Negro was with Jackson
at New Orleans, with Perry on Lake
Erie, and 180,000 Negro soldiers served
in the Civil "War.
"Tho Negroes of this country," he
states, "will be no less patriotic at
this time than in former periods of
stress and storm. The Negro possesses
a patriotism that rises above injustices
and wrongs. Ho is American through
and through. The President will find
no hyphenates among us. The Negro
has never faltered in defense of his
country; he will not falter now. If
President "Wilson desires to employ
sturdy Negroes to defend the flag, he
can be assured that a hundred thousand
and more are at his disposal."
ED
BY EARL MONTE.
The "Workmen's Compensation Act
has been a Godsend to tho laboring
man of the State of Illinois. This is
true in other sovereign states, and in
other countries where such an act has
been adopted. It is no less true in tho
great State of Illinois.
It is impossible to conceive that the
sons of this great state, who fostered
the framing of this wonderful piece of
legislation, could have had any other
idea in mind than the obtaining of the
very results which have accrued from
the wise and potent enforcing of this
most popular law by such competent
and widely experienced tnen of affairs,
as, at tho present time, are intrusted
with that honor.
The law provides that not more than
two men of the same political party
shall serve on the Board at the same
time. This means that the Industrial
Board shall be and is composed of
Democrats and Republicans. But, in
the administering of this law, that so
vitally affects the poor laboring man,
mere politics have been thrown to the
winds, so to speak, factional alliances
have been swept aside, party lines ob
literated and all the energies of all
the members composing this organiza
tion, and their immediate assistants
have been concentrated with absolutely
the one object in mind the administer
ing of the Hlinois "Workmen's Law so
that there will exist a better under
standing between employer and em
ployee; a more amicable relation; a
better laboring condition; more protec
tion for the man by the sweat of whoso
brow great wealth is amassed; and his
family which is dependent upon him; a
greater stimulus for the laborer that
ho may take an increased interest in
his employer's business from the fact
that he knows his employer is protect
ing him, and will continue to protect
him, in his illness and in health, there
by promoting an increased production.
POOR MAN HAS CHANCE.
No man is so high nor any man so
low; no man is so rich nor any man
so poor that he cannot hope to secure
justice and the benefits to be derived
from the provisions of the Hlinois
"Workmen's Compensation Law through
the instrumentalities of this quasi-judicial
organization. Many a man has
secured these self -same results, in this
manner, without the least assistance or
advice from any attorney at law or
other legal adviser, or personal rep
resentative; many a poor person, the
heir of a deceased workman, has se
cured these same results in this man-
ner.
This result is brought about, in many
instances, through the co-operation of
tho Board with other organizations,
such as the Legal Aid Society and the
Bureau of Personal Service, which re
fer cases that como to their attention
to the Industrial Board' which prompt
ly investigates with the idea of bring
ing about an amicable adjustment of
tho claim without the necessary incon
venience of a trial. Also by direct co
operation with tho employer by means
of investigators personal representa
tives of tho Board.
Is there a man who would daro as
sert that such was the case at Com
mon Law? Then, how is this brought
about? "Why, and how is it possible
for people without means as well as
those who aro wealthy to immediately
secure their rights under this law?
The answer is obvious. It is because
the Industrial Board stands as a colos
sal bulwark between the indiscreet who
would take advantage of tho techni
calities to do a wrongful act and those
to whom it would be done. That is tho
reason.
Thoy say to tho employer and to the
employee alike "If you are working
under and subject to tho provisions
of tho "Workmen's Law, you aro e
pected to obey that law, and to con
form to tho requirements thereof. That
being done, each shall have and receivo
all tho consideration made possible by
the provisions of that act."
COMPOSITION OF THE BOAED.
Tho law provides, further that one
member of tho Board shall bo repre
sentative of the laboring element; one
the employing class, and one shall be
of neither. All threo classes are well
represented on the Board at this time.
Representing tho laboring class is a
man than whom no person ever took a
greater interest in his work. He is a.
regular glutton for work and can be
always found at his desk when not
hearing cases on review. He is onn
of the first to arrive-in the morning
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and he is one of the last to leave in
the evening A big, broad-shouldered,
broad-minded, big-hearted man is Mr.
Robert Eadie.
Mr. Eadie, who is a native of San
gamon County, was- first appointed to
the Board in December, 1913. He is a
member and a worthy representative of
tho United Mine-workers of America,
probably tho largest organization of
the kind in the world. Like the other
members of the Board, Mr. Eadie is
easily accessible. Ho never hides from
anybody, anytime. He is always will
ing to see any person who may have
business with his office. If any one
has any doubt as to whether he knows
tho Compensation Law, let him read
one of Mr. Eadie 's opinions.
So, too, is tho employing element just
as well taken care of in the person of
a gentleraan who stands very, very
high in the estimation of all with whom
ho has come in contact. He is one of
the most widely known political charac
ters in Chicago and enjoys the high
esteem of the 'members of all parties
alike. Governor Dunne made no mis
take in tho appointment of Mr. Peter
J. Angsten.
Mr. Angsten is a business man of
largo holdings, having taken up where
his father left off, in the cooperage
business, in which he has made good
until now he ranks as one of Chicago's
most successful business men. Abso
lutely independent of any political
emolument, ho goes about his work as
seriously, earnestly and conscientiously
as though his very existence depended
upon his status as commissioner of the
Industrial Board. It is not claimed for
him that ho is infallible. He is, if
anything, but human. Ho may make
a mistake. But if he does, his friends
have the satisfaction of knowing that
it is positively unintentional. Mr. Ang
sten is known far and wide to be hou
est in his convictions.
And then there is the place on tho
Board filled by ono who represents
neither the laboring northe employ
ing class a man whose knowledge of
tho law no ono questions. A practition
er, a jurist, an arbiter worthy of the
steel of the best of them; who lives in
and thrives upon his work; a credit
to the present administration and to
tho State of Illinois is Judge J. B.
Vaughn.
As chairman of the Industrial Board,
he occupies a very conspicuous place
in the affairs of the people of this great
commonwealth, the vast majority of
whom are compelled to labor with their
hands in the process of eking out an
existence. One can readily see and
understand why. Judge Vaughn has
been delving into tho Corpus Juris
'Civilis since early manhood, and
every attorney who has had occasion
to appear before the judge, respects
him as a lawyer and a jurist, and has
como away impressed with his fairness
as a man. Ho ranked as a very worthy
contemporary of tho Hon. Mr. H. S.
Tanner, his distinguished predecessor.
In a speech before tho Central Supply
Association on February 25th of last
year, tho judge said, "I am always
conscious that I may do somebody an
irreparable wrong." This is within
itself sufficient to establish tho con
scientious character of the man.
SECRETARIATE BIG JOB.
Tho most important position on the
Board, after the commissioners, comes
the secretary, who, in tho course of a
day, probably answers moro questions,
explains moro propositions of law and
questions of procedure than any other
man in any other department in the
servico of tho state. His duties are,
certainly, to say tho least, the most
exacting imaginable. Ho must bo a
man who can feel tho pulso of the peo
ple employee and employer alikef'he
must know tho law; he must make no
mistake.
Mr. "W. V. Conley, the present in
cumbent has filled that offico since the
incipiency of the Board, and discharged
ms unties to the satisfaction of all
concerned. He helped to set tho ma
chinery in motion and has materially
assisted in keeping it going. Ho is fair
and honest, and at all times ready and
willing and anxious to co-operate with
anyone having legitimate business in
hia department. t Mr. Conley has had
long clerical and oxcutive experience,
all of which admirably tend to fit hin
for the important position. He knows
men; ho has that knowledge of human
nature indispensable in this work.
HON. PETER J. ANGSTEN SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MAN AND COMMIS
SIONER OF THE INDUSTRIAL BOARD OF ILLINOIS.
OTHER DEPARTMENTS WELL
HEADED. Assisting Mr. Conley is Mr. Joseph
P. Clancy a young man of exceptional
ability; a high school graduate; a civil
service employee, and holds his position
solely on his merits.
Mr. Thomas A. Murphy, a young law-
ver. is Chief Examiner and heads the
arbitration department with several ar
bitrators and investigators under him.
Mr. P. B. Carey, tho Security Super
visor, passes upon the sufficiency of all
insurance of employers on their em
MISS PAULINE J. LEE IN RECITAL.
On Monday night a large crowd .gath
ered at Quinn Chapel to hear Miss
Pauline J. Lee, contralto who gave her
first recital at the completion of the
free Vocal Scholarship presented to her
by Mme. E. Azalia Hackley. Miss Lee
proved a fine pupil and a splendid fu
ture is predicted for her.
She was assisted by tho High School
Boys Quartette and George Bezille, a
young baritone who also has a voice
of great promise.
All of the participants acquitted
themselves in a manner to reflect great
credit upon themselves and their
teacher whose instruction to them was
a labor of love.
The recital was given to assist Miss
Leo in future study. This young wo
man managed this her initial effort like
a veteran, and shows good business
ability besides musicianship.
Her friends wish her great success.
NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE.
Sunday will bo Paul Dunbar day
every one is cordially invited to be
present. Quotations from Dunbars
work will be given by the audience.
Last Sunday should have been Dunbar
day but the Marshall Field discussion
took up all tho time.
A large gathering last Sunday heard
the discussion of tho treatment stirred
every member of tho League and
passed the following resolutions.
Whereas, it has been unquestionably
established by careful investigation
and proof that Marshall Field & Co.,
in the matter of public accommodation
shows deliberate discrimination against
Colored persons by denying them the
right to purchase goods and material
exposed to public sale,
Therefore:
Resolved that tho Negro Fellowship
League take up for consideration and
action this last manifestation of race
hatred and endeavor to find some rem
edy against outrageous treatment of
Colored patrons of tho store. A com
mittee of three was appointed to carry
out tho resolutions. It was placed in
HON. SOBERT
MAN AND
NOIS.
EADIE UP-TO-DATE
COMMISSIONER OF
ployees or their ability to pay compen
sation. "With this competent force, the ad
ministration of the "Workmen's Com
pensation Law of the State of Hlinois
is now being "rounded out" into its
third year of successful operation.
Only a sufficient appropriation by the
General Assembly and a closer co-operation
by employer and employee with
the Industrial Board remains to place
the Hlinois Act in the category of one
of the best, if not the best adminis
tered in the United States.
tho hands of Alderman DePriest who
promised to bring it before tho city
council last Monday night. P. L. Bar
nett, Eugene Marshall and Rev.
Threlkeld were made committee to take
necessary action.
ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB.
Alpha Suffrage Club had its regular
Wednesday evening meeting at the
Reading Room 3005 State St., June
2Sth. Tho President, Mrs. Barnett, in
tho chair, members were urged to vote
on disbanding for the summer or hold
ing meetings only twice a month. A
series of lawn parties have been ar
ranged for the summer. Each member
promised to double her effort to help
swell the treasury.
MRS. IDA B. WELLS BARNETT,
President.
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for self-improvement and teaches the
way to success. The publishers, Austin
& Jenkins Co., Washington, D. C, are
now placing agents. Anybody can selL
SECURE THE AGENCY AT ONCE by
getting a fine prospectus FREE for
10 cents in postage. AGENTS make
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Mrs. Laura B. Lapsley, formerly of
this city, ha3 just returned here from
Portland, Oregon after a five years
stay to witness the commencement
exercises at the "University of
Michigan. Her son, Lorenzo B.
Lapsley, A. B. is a graduato of tho
medical class of 1916, and having
passed the examination for internship
at Freedman's hospital, goes to Wash
ington to serve in that, position in Sep
tember. AND ENTERPRISING BUSINESS
THE INDUSTRIAL BOARD OF Dj
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