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E™^ITHE BROAD AX
VoL XXXII. 5 CENTS PER COPY THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO ILLINOIS, JUNE 25, 1927 No. 41
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HON. JOHN DAILEY
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The most eloquent statesman of Illinois; honored citizen of
Peoria, who with all of his eloquence was utterly unable to
stop the on-rushing of so much gas through the State Sen
ate the past week.
EVERYTHING IS BEGINNING
TO HUM AND BUZZ IN CONT
NECTION -WITH THE CHI
CAGO CIVIC AUDITORIUM
COMMITTEE
The general committee, which will
have active charge in constructing the
new Chicago Civic Auditorium, con
sist? of well on to three hundred of
the leading and most prominent citi
zens in Chicago and they have been
chided into seven groups, as follows:
Mr. Julius F. Taylor has been selected
a- a member of the Public Relations
Committee.
“Committee on Financial Plan—
Frank M. Gordon, chairman.
Committee on Legal Procedure—
William C. Boyden, chairman.
Committee on Construction, Design
anil Equipment—\V. Rufus Abbott,
chairman. ~ ^
Committee on Location — James
Simpson, chairman.
Committee on Convention Require
ments and Facilities—John X. Van der
Vries, chairman.
Committee on Transportation Facil
itie.—Major R. F. Kelker, Jr., chair
man
Ci immittee on Public Relations—
Bernard J. Mullaney, chairman.”
THE MOST WORSHIPFUL
“GRAND MASTER, DR. J. C.
ELLIS, LOUDLY SOUNDS THE
PRAISES OF THE BROAD AX
The following letter speaks for
itself:
Office of Most Worshipful Grand
Master
Decatur, Illinois,
June 22, 1927.
Mr. Julius F. Taylor,
Editor of The Broad Ax,
6206 S. Elizabeth St.,
Chicago, 111.
Dear Sir and Brother:
Permit me to express my apprecia
tion and gratitude for your kind re
marks and for the amount of space
given in your valuable paper to the
Cornerstone Laying and Dedication of
our new Masonic and Eastern Star
Home.
Again thanking you for your kind
consideration, I am
Fraternally yours,
Jno. C. Ellis.
P. S. Thank you for the fifty copies,
send me fifty more together with your
bill and also a statement for a year's
subscription to your paper.
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HON. ALEXANDER FYFE
Reappointed one of the Commissioners of Lincoln Park. That
news is very pleasing indeed to the thousands W*^J*
friend, of Mr. Fyfe and his lovable and very cbmm*
wife, Mrs. Fyfe. The colored race nowhere m this coun
try have any better friend, than they, and unless wenre
sadly mistaken, there are higher political honors m store
for Mr. Fyfe.
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Governor Len Small’s Gasoline Two Cent
Tax Bill Will Become a Law Effective
on August 1,1927. It Passed the
State Senate After Governor
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Small Cracked His Long Black
Snake Whip Over the Backs
of the Majority of the
State Senators.
Hon. Adelbert H. Roberts Bitterly Opposed the Bill Voting
Against It Last Week. But Some Way or Other, He Executed
a Double Back Action Summersault and Landed in a Front
Seat in the Small Gas Wagon.
Whenever the Big Politicians Democrats or Republicans Have
Any Dirty Political Work to Be Performed, They Generally
Select Some Boss Colored Politician to Perform It.
It Will Be Recalled That Mayor William E. Dever Selected the
Hon. Louis B. Anderson to Preside Over the City Council
Which Was Composed Largely of Irish-American Democrats
at the Time That the Infamous Water Meter Ordinance Was
Passed by It.
Hon. Samuel A. Ettelson and Hon. Michael L. Igoe Came
Near Engaging in a Fist Fight in the House of Representatives
on Wednesday.
There Are Still Mighty Hot Times Ahead for the Politicians
at Springfield and .Thruout the State of Illinois.
The present long drawn out session
of the state legislature has so far been
the stormiest, the noisiest and the most
disorderly in every way that has ever
existed in the history of Illinois, in
tact it has been a burning disgrace to
the great citizenship of the great state
of Illinois.
In noting their actions or conduct,
sometimes we have been strongly of
the opinion that a crowd of colored
men right from the back w’oods of
Mississippi. Louisiana, Alabama and
from the other backward states in the
south, could not do any worse or de
port themselves more uncouthly than
the vast majority of the present mem
bers of the legislature and to think of
it every mother's son of a gun of
them, except five of them, belong to
the so-called superior race and their
daily conduct is so far below them that
no one would or could believe it unless
they were reminded of that fact every
hour in the day.
Many disgraceful scenes have
occurred in both houses right from the
beginning of the long, useless session,
the lie, and other bad and vile names
are freely passed between its members
as freely as gulping down a glass of
water and a little something stronger
on the side.
Thefe is two preachers in evidence
all the time, one in the house and one
in the senate, but evidently the gods
pay not the slightest attention to their
prayers, for just as the preachers re
tire to the anti-rooms the loud cussing,
swearing and other conduct unbecom
ing to high class gentlemen goes on
just the same.
It is safe to say that never in the his
tory of the state has the money be
longing to the people been blown in in
such a wild cat maner as it has within
the past few months; for it will be re
called that the Hon. Len Small some
way or other in a round about way
connected up with almost five hundred
thousand dollars interest money.
hi speaking of that wonderful inci
dent the Hon. J. Bert Miller, member
of the present legislature, exclaimed
that Governor Small absolutely re
fused to testify in his own behalf in
closing his far-reaching peroration be
fore the lower house which was
packed to the guards, he declared.
And—Illinois Has Len Small
“Caesar had his Brutus.” he cried.
“Jesus Christ had his Judas Iscariot,
the United States had its Benedict
Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illi
nois has Len Small. And if the Judas
of Illinois had the courage of the
Judas of Jesus, he would return the
thirty pieces of silver, get a rope, and
hang himself, and remove the wither
ing blight which will remain upon this
state as long as he is governor of Illi
nois.”
Approaching the gas business and
two cents extra on all gasoline sold in
this state after August 1, 1927, Senator
Roberts last Friday cat hopped Gov
ernor Small and his gas bill and in a
burst of eloquence while addressing
the house bitterly declared that the
people in his district were up in arms
against it, but on Tuesday when set
tled down for another stormy ses
sion Senator Roberts, Senator Marks,
and three or four other state senators
from Cook county without explaining
their votes all swung over into the
Small gas wagon.
THE AMATEUR MINSTREL
CLUB CLEARED $1,450.00 AT
ITS LAST SHOW AND DANCE
EASTER MONDAY EVENING,
WHICH WAS TURNED OVER
TO THE HEAD OFFICIALS
OF THE OLD FOLKS* HOME
Last Saturday evening the members
of the Amateur Minstrel Club held
their final meeting for this year at
the Stenhouse Inn, 543 E. 46th place,
at vthich time a large number of
the friends and well wishers of
the club were present and after en
joying a luncheon consisting of hot
dogs and so on, and a bottle of ginger
ale on the side, and after listening to
some of the top line singers, sing some
of their favorite songs, which they
eased off on the audience at the Eighth
Regiment Armory Easter Monday
evening, the following officers were
elected for the coming year:
Howard Thompson, president; R. O.
’Edwards, vice president; Lewis V.
Berry, secretary'; Charles Settles, first
assistant secretary; Ernest Smith,
second assistant secretary; David A.
McGowan, treasurer; George Harris,
stage manager; J. Edgar Mitchem,
musical director.
After all expenses were paid in con
nection with the Easter Monday per
formance and dance at the Eighth
Regiment Armory, $ 1,450.00 was
turned over to the officials of the Old
Folks’ Home.
The members of the Amateur Min
strel Club richly deserve to be highly
commended for their unceasing labors,
for the comfort and happiness of the
inmates of the Old Folks’ Home.
RETURNS FROM VACATION
* James A. Parker, for the past eight
years secretary of The Pyramid Build
ing and Loan Association, has just
returned from a two weeks’ vacation
spent in the woods of Wisconsin and
Michigan.
DRIVER FREED IN DEATH OF
WHITE WOMAN
(Preston News Service)
Newark, N. J., June 24.—A verdict
of not guilty was returned by a jury
Thursday afternoon in the trial of Al
fred Garrett on an indictment charging
manslaughter.
Mrs. Elizabeth McArdle, aged 72,
was struck and fatally injured by a
truck driven by Garrett February 25,
last. Garrett is said to have been look
ing behind him w hen his slow moving
truck struck the aged woman, accord
ing to state witnesses.
Garrett testified that he glanced
back before stopping his truck to look
for a parking place at the store where
he is employed. As he looked back, he
said, Mrs. McArdle must have stepped
from the curb in the path of the truck.
The defense counsel urged that Mrs.
McArdle had no right to cross
the street at that point as there was
no cross walk there.
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HON. EDWARD J. HUGHES
Honored member of the State Senate from the 21st Senatorial
District of Illinois, who fought hard against Governor
Small and his gas bill, but he was forced to retire from the
field of action with millions of feet of gas all around him.
Senator Hughes has an honored record behind him in the
State Senate of Illinois.
COL. NOAH D. THOMPSON. OF
NEW YORK CITY, PUTS HIS
O. K. ON THE BROAD AX
In a recent note from our old friend
Col. Noah D. Thompson, business
manager of “Opportunity." Mr.
Thompson writes as follows:
June 21. 1927.
Mr. Julius F. Taylor,
Editor and Publisher. The Broad Ax,
6206 S. Elizabeth St.,
Chicago, 111.
My Dear Mr. Taylor:
I write to let you know that I
highly appreciate the kindly reference
to myself and work in a recent issue of
The Broad Ax. It was very kind of
you to make such a reference unsolic
ited.
Mrs. Thompson joins me with kind
est regards to both you and Mrs. Tay
lor.
Very truly yours,
Xoah D. Thompson,
Business Manager.
P. S.—This week'* issue giving the
history of the Masonic lodge is great
stuff!
ATTORNEY WILLIS V. JEFFER
SON CONTINUES TO STAND
BY THE BROAD AX
Mr. and Mrs. Willis V. Jefferson,
3424 Calumet avenue, who own their
own home, are among the most sub
stantial Afro-American citizens in
Chicago. They are firm believers in
the plain and simple life and are warm
admirers and strong supporters of this
newspaper.
For some years Mr. Jefferson was
connected with the law department of
the Sanitary District of Chicago. Late
ly Mr. Jefferson was selected Assistant
Corporation Counsel of Chicago and
assigned to the Legal Department of
the Local Board of Improvements and
Mr. Jefferson will more than make
good in his new and responsible posi
tion.
REPORT KIP RHINELANDER ,
SEEKS DIVORCE IN RENO
Reno, Nev.—Reno's divorce colony is
attempting to verify the report that
Leonard Kip Rhinelander has estab
lished residence here for the purpose
of seeking a divorce from Alice Jones
Rhinelander.
HON. AOELBERT H. ROBERTS
Member of the State Senate from the Third Senatorial District
of Illinois, who voted last Friday and loudly orated against
the Small gas hill, and then on Tuesday, without explaining
his vote, turned a double back action somersault after the
Hon. Len Small had cracked his long Mack snake whip
over his hare hack, and it is dearly evident that the white
political bosses can always force the colored officeholders
and seekers of office to dance to their music.
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