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HON. LOUIS E. GOSSELIN The Efficient and Painstaking Deputy Comptroller and Auditor of the City of Chicago, Who Has Faithfully Served the City in Various Responsible Positions for the Past Thirty Years. Recently He Signed the Last Judgments Against the City, Growing Out of the Race Riots of 1919, the Judg ments Amounting to $50,000. Hon. Louis E. Gosselin, the honest and popular Deputy Comptroller and Auditor of the city of Chicago, is a thoroughbred Chicagoan through and through, and for a little over thirty years, he has been one of its honest and faithful public servants. For eleven years, he was connected with the department of public works, and for live years, he faithfully served as the Chief Clerk in the City Comptrol ler’s office; and for fifteen years, he has been Deputy Comptroller and Auditor of the great city of Chicago. His® long business record shines forth, without one blemish or black spot on it, and each year he signs his name to hundreds of millions of dol lars worth of bonds and judgments, so far without the loss of one penny to the citizens of Chicago. At all times he deports himself like a highly polished gentleman. LIST FURNISHED BY ALDER MAN R. R. JACKSON Civil Service Commission City of Chicago May 9, 1923. The Civil Service Commission of the Gty of Chicago will hold the follow ing examinations, Class U, (Labor Service), beginning on the dates given below and continuing from day to day until completed. Laborer, (Streets), Branch V, Class U, All Wards, Prevailing rate May 14, 1923. Laborer (Street Repairs), Branch Y, Class U, All Wards, Prevailing rate, May 14, 1923. Laborer (Dumps), Branch V, Class U, All Wards, Prevailing rate, May 14, 1923. Laborer (Bureau of Engineering), Branch V, Class U, All Wards, Pre vailing rate, May 14, 1923. Garbage Handler, Branch \, Class U, Prevailing rate, May 28, 1923. Laborer (Parks), Branch V, Class U, Prevailing rate. May 30, 1923. Tree Laborer, Branch V, Class U, Prevailing rate, May 31, 1923. Farm Hand, Branch V, Class U, prevailing rate, June 2, 1923. Laborer (Munic. Tuber. San-), Branch V, Class U, Prevailing late, June 4, 1923. Scrubwoman (Munic. Tuber. San.), Branch V, Gass U, Prevailing rate, June 4, 1923. Construction Laborer, Class I, II and III, Branch V, Class U, Prevail ing rate, June 6, 1923. Scope of above examinations: Ap plicants will be called upon to undergo such physical tests as the Commission may prescribe. Those desiring to take the above original entrance examinations must file applications with the Civil Service Commission, 1006 City Hall, not later than 5 o’clock P. M. of the day pre ceding the examination. By order of the Commission: J. V. BORLING, . , Acting Secretary. DEATH OF JULIUS N. AVENDORPH The past Monday afternoon Jolius N. Avendorph who was one of the most highly respected and/one of the best known colored men in this great city passed away at St. Lake’s hospital after a long spell of sickness, funeral services wed* held over his remains Thursday afternoon at St. Thomas Church, of which he was a member of many years’ standing. The church was filled to over-flowing by those who knew him best in this life; his remains were laid to rest in Oak woods cemetery. For many years Mr. Aven dorph held a responsible position in the offices of the Pullman Palace Car Company and he* was held in the highest esteem by its head officials. Mr. Avendorph is survived by his very esteemable wife, Mrs. Avendorph; two sons, Julius N. Avendorph Jr. and Frederick Avendorph, ages 19 and 14 years old and by many relatives and hosts of warm friends to mourn his death. For some years the Aven dorph’s have lived at 5344 S. Wabash ave. ETHIOPIANS NO LONGER NE GROES, SAYS HARVARD PROFESSOR Professor George Reisner, who has been conducting researches in the Soudan, now states that the Ethiop ians are not and were not African Negroes, and describes them as “dark colored races in which brown pre vails,” adding, however, that many in dividuals show a mixture of black blood. , His researches have established that the culture of the Ethiopians stood as an outpost of Egyptian civilization in Middle Africa and that in the art of the Ethiopians, a Greek influence ob tained and that invention of a script of their own was evidence that the Ethiopians were a people of genius. The Portland Times, in which the account was published, has its own opinion about the matter and appends a comment which speaks for itself: “In the face of Harvard’s recent at titude on the Negro, it would seem to indicate that this contradiction of< existing Biblical and historical records on Egyptian civilization is but a con tinuation of the white man’s propa ganda to deprive the Negro of any connection whatsoever of any form of ancient civilization.” LOTS FOR CULTIVATION HERE - >§ M. T. Bailey, president, The Bailey Realty Co, 3638 S. State St, is offer ing many spots in Morgan Park free to be used as gardens. Mr. Bailey has sold more than sixteen blocks of property in this part of the city which is being built up rapidly. ATTENDING U. OF C. Miss T. P. Whiting, teacher and girls matron at the V. N. & I. I. Petersburg, Va, for some time, is now attending the University of Chicago. While here, she is stopping with the Baxter Sisters, 420 E. 48th Place. VISIT SUBURBS Many people; visited Morgan Park during the week and among those seen were Mesdames Lucille Burnes and Ella M. Glanton; Messrs. Alex Woolridge and Walter Ferris. BACK IN CITY Mrs. I. V. Sheppard, 4436 S. Wa bash Ave., is bank from Detroit, Mich, where she attended the funeral of her nephew, Thomas E. Tlbaert, who was buried in Detroit on April 26th. OUT AGAIN Mrs. Nora McKinzie, 6218 S. Ada St, is much improved following ill ness of several weeks and able to be out again. MOVE TO SUBURBS Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Johnson who have resided at 6 Langley Place for some time, are now residing at 112th Place and Racine Avi, Morgan Park. $£§BEEN for S£ 6R0AD ax1 *©vw%Z.r E"ucHA™e I ££'ZGJ Washington, D. C.—I am in the town where President Warren G. Harding is administering the affairs of the United States, and I am just as happy as a Junebug, because I feel that here where I can get protection on a minute’s notice, and here where I feel I can speak right out in church and no one to tell me to stop. I have just spoke as I thought and thought as I spoke in the National Race Con gress, and it is all over now and I must get right out of town. I have been telling you about this Race Congress for a long time and it is over now. I told you that I was going to be here and have my say about this race business, and honey you may just bet your bottom dollar that I have spoken right^out in church and none hare attempted to tell me to stop. I thought I was going to hear Bishop I. N. Ross strubMiss Lizzie on a sermon, but instead the Rev. Dr. C. H. Stepteau stepped on the gas and his gospel car pulled right out, and he did not have to stop once to crank it. He preached a good sermon, but after h* had heard himself preach he did not return to the Congress to hear any of the other dignitaries speak. We have some men in this world who only like to hear themselves speak. I am here to tell you that he was not the only pebble on the beachnut. for there were some great speakers there, and I just could not keep from shouting. I believe in my soul that I out shouted the Rev. Dr. W. J. Howard, pastor of the Zion Baptist church right here in Washington. W'e were the shouting buddies there in the meeting and attracted much attention I tell you it is a great big thing to associate with big men in this country and that is just exactly what happened to me. I was thrown with some of the big men of the countrv and heard them speak. I know you know Robert E. Clay, of Bristol. Tenn.-Va. He was there, and I am here to tell you that man is doing some real good, and made such a good impression on the National Race Con gress until it decided by unanimous vote to make the next session an in ter-racial session. That was a won derful address and report which Mr. Clay made. He showed how the two races in Tennessee were talking to each other and not about each other. The white man was looking the Negro right in the face speaking out in church and the Negro was looking the white man in the face and speak ing out in church, hence no room for misunderstandings. After all that is the way this thing is to be worked out. We must look at each other as men made in the image of God. We must put God as our Father and Jesus Christ as our Brother, and when we appreciate what that fellow Paul said on Mars moun tain, or some other place, named in the Bible, “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell upon all the face of the earth.” That sounds good to me. Brother Clay is doing some real good and he is a busi ness man, yet he is businessing away from God, but he is a good worker in the Baptist church and connected up with the Sunday school work also. In .......-.-.-. this he has the love and respect of the people of his state, and is a personal friend of Prof. W. J. Hale, president of the state school, Nashville, Tenn. He is also an official in the National, Negro Business League, and is t<rbe found there every year. I want to take advantage of this op portunity to congratulate the mem bers of both races on being able to se cure the services of this wonderful young man as secretary of the Inter racial commission. He is the right man in the right place—in the right church and the right pew. In the right neighborhood, right floor and the right door. I saw and heard Dr. Emmett J. Scott, Hon. Phil H. Brown, Commissioner of Conciliation. Department of Lab»r in the United States detailed in the Secretary’s of fice. I wish you could have heard this wonderful address. He paid a high tribute to Secretary of Labor, Hon. James J. Davis, the man who believed in doing big things, and see big things. It was fortunate that we had such a man as Mr. Davis to take the place at the head of labor, and he knows his bus-biz and is doing it well. ( Phil Brown is doing his part and doing it well. He was in company with that other great speaker, who made his speech just ahead of Brown, Dr. Emmett J. Scott, the philosopher, the man with a vision, the man who has done so much for us and is still doing it. Mr. Scott represents the young men of thought, the men with a vision. He made a great big speech. I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Ernest Lyons, who was one time rep resentative of our country in Liberia. He made one more speech. It would *ake me a whole day and then some more to tell about all the big speeches I heard. Well they are all over, and I am nrtw looking at Dr. W. H. Jernagin. He is a great man and a man of thought. I admire him. He is doing things. This is the place where you can cer tainly come in touch with men of worth, and I have met one I had never met before, yet he has a fol lowing of 40,000 people and the num ber is fast swelling, and by this time next year they will number over 200. 000, and that man is Joseph A. Mun nerlyn. Grand Master of the Ancient Independent Order of Moses, and I am delighted to take off my hat to this man because of who he is and what he is doing, and how the people are just following his lead. The grand lodge has its own building, located right here in the City of Washington, on T street, and they have about out grown it, and are going to make $25. 000 worth of improvements, and still the good work must go chl. This order is teaching the lesson of self-help as well as thrift. It is en couraging all of its members to own their homes, to have bank accounts, and to do just a little more than buy coffins on the installment plan. They are teaching them how to plan a living instead of dying, and instead of talking about what they expect to be after while If they live and nothing happens, to be that something every day. They hold as the model the life of Christ, the life of purity, the spot less life. The life that will stand the test of time. I went to 1421 T street N. W. to see the building and was impressed with it Grand Master Munnerlyn, is not sitting down and waiting for the order to take care of him, but he is in dustrious, well educated and has held an important position with the Government for 23 years. He is in the treasury department, and a book keeper. Proud of him and the good he is doing. Then he is teaching our people to be industrious, and at the same time to exercise the Franchise. Like the Masons and Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias, it is soon to be in every state in this Union and will cross the waters. It is bound to spread. I shall have more to say about it later. Death has been at work, and I re gret to say that it has taken away some of our strong men. Just about time we are about to get over mourn ing over the death of one, then comes the word another has gone. I have in mind now, Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore, president of the North Caro lina Mutual Life Insurance Company, located at Durham, but doing business all over the country. Dr.> Moore passed from us, Sunday, April 29. He was founder of the Lincoln Hospital, and Durham (N. C.) colored library, and was one of the.men who were with John Merrick in the establish ment of the North Carolina Mbtual Life Insurance Company, the largest and wealthiest Old Line Company op erated by the race. He was identified with many enterprises which meant the development of our race in this country. For over a quarter of a century Dr. Moore was superintendent of the White Rock Baptist Sunday school, one of the largest Sunday schools in America, and I am saying nothing about race or color or denomination. He was just a worker among young people and a Sunday School expert. He was one of the leading Baptist laymen in American. Surviving him are a widow and two daughters, Mrs. Lydia Moore-Merrick, and Mrs. Mat tie Moore McDougald, and a host of ! riO«/J C *The white folks up yonder in Vir ginia stuck John Mitchell, Jr., by rendering a verdict of guilty and fix ing his punishment at three years in the penitentiary. That is an awful slam at once, and we have no time to rejoice. You see John Mitchell was among the best in the race. He was a great man. and tried to resent an in sult to us in 1920. by allowing his name to be voted for for Governor of Virginia. He made them take notice, and the white man has been trying to get him ever since. Logk out for others who dare to be manly. Now I am getting ready for the Na tional Baptist Sunday School Con gress in Hot Springs, June 19. J^hn L. Webb, has informed me that they are ready for us. He is another prominent layman in the Sunday school work. I will have to bring this letter to a stop. Look out for my other letters. CHARLES E. STUMP. -7 Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church Notes 24th Street and Wabash Ave. Mother’s Day will be observed at this church in sspecial service at 10:45 a. m. Sermon by the Pastor, Dr. H. E. Stewart, a special program un der the auspices of the Woman’s Mite Missionary society at 3:30 p. m., and & program at night at 8 p. m. The night program will be Illustrated in songs and inspiring scenes. Bishop L. J. Coppin will be the spe cial guest of the church Sunday, May 20th., reception Monday night, May 21st.—“C.” HON. DENNIS J. EGAN Chief ttailMF of the Municipal Court of Chicago, One of the Big Chiefs of the Democratic Party on the West SM<* Who la a Strong Supporter of Mayor William E. [Mfsr and His *■’ a a. et . a 1 m. AflHDMnlVftlsDBs » ' ! , HON. SCOTT M. HOGAN Former Alderman of the Old 31st Ward Was the First of This Week Selected as One of the Assistant State's Attorneys of Cook County, Which Is Very Gratifying News to His Numerous Friends. ....-........-.;3L.-... N. A. A. C. P. RED LETTER DAY MAY 28TH On Monday May 28th, all roads will lead to Pilgrim Baptist Church, 33rd Street and Indiana Avenue, which Dr. S. E. J. Watson has kindly placed at the disposal of the N. A. A. C. P. Chicago, with its great colored popu lation of 125,000 is called upon to en roll 5,000 members. Divisional organizations have been formed in sections of the city as fol lows: North Side—Mrs. Ashburn, Major and Chairman, 1038 N. Wells St West Side—Dr. I. H. Holloway, 2532 W. Washington Street. Hyde Park—Mrs. McCrary, 5608 Harper Avenue. Woodlawn—Mrs. Emma Lewis, 6529 St. Lawrence Avenue. Ogden Park—Dr. Frank V. Plum mer, 6250 S. Sangamon Street. South Side — (Central) division, 3201 S. Wabash Avenue. Through these divisional leaders and at these places, memberships may be enrolled. Join the N. A. A. C. P. Now! Congressman Dyer is appearing in Chicago for the purpose of stimulat ing the work of the N. A A. C. P., in creasing its membership and creating strong sentiment in support of the Anti-Yynching Bill he will introduce in the next U. S. Congress. The part the colored and white people interest ed in the advancement of the race can play is to attend this meeting and en roll his or her membership. Remember the devotion to the cupse of the black man by Garrison. Sommer, Phillips. Lovejov, Foraker. Crumpacker and others of their kind. Among the speakers will be Har old L. Ickes, President of the Branch, Raymond Robins. Dr. S. E. J. Watson and Rev. Lucas; Music by the Fulton Street M. E. Church Choir under di rection of Mr. Cornelius W. Pierce; Mrs. Cohen Jones, soloist. I N. A. A. A. C. P. NOTES West Side will hold a meeting Fri day night at the residence of its chair man. Dr. I. H. Holloway, 2532 W. Washington Street. A special pro gram is being prepared and refresh ments will be served. % North Side Division under direction of Mrs. Georgia* DeBaptist Ashburn. is planning another meeting in that section at which time Mr. Lewis will present a jtereopticon lecture on the N. A. A. C. P.. showing interesting picturea|»nd scenes from the East St. Louis riots. Hyde Park and Woodlavvn Districts are planning their regular divisional meetings preceding the Dyer meet ing at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Mon day May 28th. Among recent memberships coming into the branch were Arnett Lodge and John C. Buckner Lodge, Odd Fellows. VISITING AT KANSAS Mrs. Lovey Molsby, in company with her mother, Mrs. Annie L. Cannady, left on Friday for Kansas Citq, Mo., to spend several weeks visiting with relatives. * -————— NICE OFFICE TO RENT IN THE ROOSEVELT BANK BLDO. Any one seeking a desirable office can find one on the second floor of the Roosevelt Bank Building, Thirty fifth street and Grand Boulevard.' For terms of rental apply to Dr. Fan nie Emanuel, 4358 S. State street Phone Atlantic 2093.—Adv. Paper Making in China. The only modem type paper mill In China failed. Four special papers made by old methods are: Bark pa per. from the paper mulberry; so called rice paper, sliced <vom a pith; coarse paper from rice at. and bam boo paper. His Lucky Day. On a number of occasions nuggets were found in California by men who were not looking for them. A man sitting on a bowlder at Pilot Hill, 131 Dorado county, was Idly chipping it with a small hammer when his eya caught the glint of gold. The bowlder yielded $8,ouo. -& Making Bad Diamonds Good. Until recently yellow diamonds were difficult to sell. Now the stone la placed over a small hole in a block of lead. Radium rays are directed into this hole, and slowly a change takes place. A Sea Desert. In the South Pacific ocean, west of Patagonia, is a sea-desert which con tains so few forms of marine life that, it Is claimed, whales and sharks fre quently die of hunger before they find their way out. Reproof Not to Be Avoided. Aversion from reproof Is not wise, ft is a mark of a little mind. A great nnn can afford to lose; a little, In •-'"nUViint fellow Is afraid of'being muffed out.--Cecil. Fi-st Example of Rickets. Tlx- tames of an ape which h’ad f»eeo •onfi e<l in a Theban temple some 2, >00 B. c. have furnished the first tnown example of rickets. Masterpiece Oddly Written. “S*-ngs to David." the lyrical poem of SO stanzas, was wrlttten hy Christo pher Smart during lucid Intervals of his wild madness. Smart Small Girl. i^tall Girt (as sister’s flance Blips on » mana skin)—Look mamma, he’s worshiping the ground she treads onl —London Answers. Odd Birth Records. In Fiji and Samoa it is common iractiee to tattoo on the hand of a not her the dates of her children’s dribs. Musk-Ox Old American Resident. The remains of musk-ox have been found in Kentucky and the remains of walruses in New Jersey. — Women Professional Chemists. There, are about 20,000 professional chemists in the United States and abou( a thousand of these are women. Friendship. Friendship throws a brighter luster on prosperity, while it lightens adver sity by sharing its griefs and anxi eties.—Them *saui{x SuiuoAa uiajjntf—aSpijq gu] -iB|d djaqa&duios Xa.we s.aqs luqa Joop s.uiuuoA b }« gaoust Ai|unjjo<ldo Sui *ABt| SB q.iuui SB sn saiH>it gujqjojq Duioiofsu jo* osneo ppo Baskets From Sardinia. Baskets, made of leaves of s dwarf pflfcn In Sardinia, are sold In this coun try Thought far the Day. 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