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MR. JESSE BINGA
President of the Binga^'State Bank of Chicago, who is the
money power behind'the Binga Arcade, which is now being
constructed at 35th and State. When completed it will
stand as a living monument to the name and fame of Presi
dent Binga.
PRESIDENT HOPE TO ATTEND
GENEVA CONFERENCE
Atlanta, Ga. (Special to The Broad
\x).—President John Hope of More
house College sailed last Saturday for
Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the
World Committee meeting of the Y.M.
C.A.. which meets here the last of this
month. President Hope is the only
colored representative to be at this
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meeting.
In his last appearance before the
Summer School student body, which
lias an anrollment of 330, President
Hope stressed the need for teachers of
xemplary personal character and ef
ficiency in correcting maladjustments
: the community in which they labor.
Among other prominent speakers
before the Summer School was Dr. \V.
li. Paine, secretary of Public Instruc
tion for the Republic of Liberia.
Dr. Paine gave a very interesting
dk on the history, industry, people,
ustoms and products of his country.
He also stressed the tact that the Ne
groes of America and the West In
dian Colonies are working together for
the education and development of over
two million natives of Liberia.
Dr. Paine is a native African tribes
man. who was educated in America at
Walden University and Meharry Med
ical College. After completing his ed
ucation. he returned to his country
where he practiced medicine.
Mr. Clark Foreman, a member of
the Inter-Racial Commission, spoke to
the Summer School student body on
methods of bringing the races together.
He outlined several wavs, which, if
followed up, would do much to better
the feeling between the two races.
Prof. P>. T. Harvey, Director of the
Science Department, who has recently
returned from Columbia University,
where he secured his Master’s degree,
spoke of General Science with "refer
ence to its organization and place in
the high school curriculum.
Prof. X. P. Tillman, head of the
English Department, spoke about the
cultural background of the Negro and
the respect which he is gaining in
American life through the works of
Du Bois. Chestnut, Brawley and
Braithwaite.
HON. PETER M. HOFFMAN
One of the big Republican politician* in Cook County, who i*
still in the public eye, and in 1928 he may be induced to
enter the race for Coroner of Cook County.
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Secret or Trial Marriages Seem to
Be Rapidly Increasing in Chicago.
Only a Short Time Ago a Wealthy
Colored Gentleman, in this City,
Jolted His Unknown Son-in-Law
in the Jaw When He Found Him
Hugging and Kissing His Daughter
in the Dark.
One Far-Seeing Lady Was Engaged in Flirting With Two
Secret Husbands at the Same Time and When They All Three
Met in Her House There Was Much Knocking Down and Drag
ging Out. ■
Despite the Fact, That Newspapers Are the Most Dangerous
Things to Fool With in the World Many People Will Pour All
of *Their Family Secrets, Their Scandals, and Their Unsavory
or Unmoral Conduct Into the Ears of the Editors, Feeling
Confident That They Will Never Betray the Trust Which They
Have Reposed in Them. ]
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The Late Col. William Jennings Bryan While Addressing the
Iowa Editorial Association at Clinton, Iowa, Some Years Ago,
Declared “That There Is More Honor Among Newspaper Men
Than Any Other Class of Airerican Citizens. That in His Long
Experience in Coming in Contact With Them He Only Found
Two Who Had Violated the Confidence Imposed in Them.
Not so long ago. while the writer
was visiting one of the branches of the
Municipal Court of Chicago and was
engaged in conversation with the
Judge, just as he was winding up busi
ness for the day, a very beautifully
looking colored lady very proudly
'talked up to the bench, holding her
head high up in the air. The Judge
looked down on her for a few moments
and slowly said; “My good lady, what
seems to be the trouble with you?”
The lady responded. “Judge, I want
to get a divorce from my husband.”
Unmindful of the fact that Municipal
Court judges cannot sit in judgment
on divorce cases and the Judge smil
ingly said. “Lady, on what grounds
do you want a divorce?” and the ele
gant lady replied. “On these grounds
right here.” The Judge spoke up and
said, “Lady, does your husband treat
you well and take care of you in good
shape?” The lady shot back at the
Judge and loudly exclaimed, “He had
better treat me right for I will have
him arrested if he fails to do 90.”
Then the Judge came back at her
once more and said, “Lady, you admit
that your husband treats you well and
turns over his earnings to you every
Saturday and provides a good home
for you all the time, then, why do you
want a divorce from him?” The lady
paused for' just one moment, then she
filled the eyes of the Judge full of salt
and pepper by replying. “Judge, I have
no more taste for my husband, that’s
the reason I want a xlivorce from him."
In this rapid age it seems that the
vast majority of married couples, both
white and colored, have seemingly lost
their taste for- each other, hence the
great rush all the time to the divorce
courts on the slightest provocation and
from the divorce courts there is only
one step to secret and trial marriages,
which seem to be constantly on the
increase in Chicago.
Many bad, far-reaching and very
dangerous mix-ups, murders, deaths
and other black and horrible and re
volting crimes follow in the wake of
trial or secret marriages. Only a few
years, ago a highly cultivated young
colored lady, who was attending one
of the highest educational institutions
in this city, without letting her parents
know one thing about it, ran off and
entered into a secret marriage with
her girlhood lover, and for over one
year they succ^^fully succeeded in
preventing their parents on either side
from knowing one thing about it, until
finally they became bolder and bolder
in their loving and embracing in the
dark corners of their homes. One
evening the father of the young lady,
who was quite wealthy, returned home
rather suddenly and the first thing he
beheld on entering his fine home was
his highly accomplished daughter and
her unknown husband to him hugging
and kissing to beat the band, and
without waiting one minute, he hauled
off, jolted him two or three uppercuts,
in the jaw and ordered him oift of
his home.
The young lady ran out of her home
in order to save her life. In the mean
time her father cut her off in his will
before the mother of the young lady
was able to induce her husband to
relent and forgive their daughter for
her rash or thoughtless act, and as
time passed, her father began to look
at things in a different light. When he
had finally made up his mind to permit
his only daughter to return to her
home, he was suddenly taken ill and
passed on out of this world. His wife
and daughter are still mourning his
death, for his doctor claimed that too
much excitement and worry caused his
death. That was a sad secret marriage
for that young lady.
One lady whom we have known for
some time, who has the most be
witching, brilliant, black, snapping
eyes that we have ever beheld was
flirting with two trial marriage hus
bands at the same time and frequently
the lady w'ould laugh and say “how
easy it was to play two niwi fools,
one against the other, at the same time,
that both men were willing to spend
their money as freely as taking a
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drink of water in order to make her
happy and contented.” Her trial mar
riages worked to perfection until
finally one evening both of them met
at her home at the same time and
then there was an awful time. The
men jumped at each other like unto
two blood-thirsty, maddened, fighting
hull-dogs and they came near break
ing up and destroying everything of
any value in her finely furnished
apartment and the lady was forced
to call bp the police and force both
of her trial husbands out of her home.
Some of the readers of this article
may contend that the picture is over
drawn or colored up too dark, but that
is not true, for there are many scenes
like these' all over this city among
those who believe in secret or trial
marriages.
In this connection it can be truly
said that despite the fact that news
papers are the most dangerous things
in the world to fool with, yet thou
sands of people will dump all of their
family troubles or secrets into the
ears of editors.
Many times we say to them: “Why
do you tell me about your family
secrets, your scandals, your unsavory
conduct?” And they generally reply
by saying; “We have confidence in
you and know • that you will never
breathe them to any other -living
being.” And, come to think of it, the
late Col. William Jennings Bryan,
while addressing the newspaper men at
Clinton ,~Iowa, several years before his
death, among other things, declared
“that there is more honor among
newspapermen than any other class of
American citizens; that in his long
experience in dealing with them he
never came in contact with but two
of them who had violated his confi
dence.” That is one reason why so
many people greatly delight to pour
all of their family secrets and troubles
into the ears of newspapermen.
In conclusion, if editors would pub
lish scandals involving immoral
preachers, as well as other prominent
church members, and the unsavory
doings of other hardened respectable
sinners, those who elaim to be law
fully married, they, the editors, would
wake up the dead, and murder and
suicide would stalk broadcast through
out the land.
HON. ALBERT B. GEORGE
One of the most honorable Judges of the Municipal Court of
Chicago, prominent Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight of
Pythias, who will be in evidence to receive the distinguished
Knights of Pythias when they meet in this city in August.
CAPT. NICHOLAS HUNT RANKS
AMONG THE OLDEST SUB
SCRIBERS TO THIS
NEWSPAPER
September 1, 18‘>9, Capt. Nicholas
Hunt, who is one of the greatest thief
catchers in the world and an unrelent
ing foe to criminals, began his sub
scription to this newspaper and dur
ing all those years he has promptly
paid his subscription to it.
Each Saturday the paper finds its
x
way into his lovely home at 5732 Ken
wood avenue. At that time Capt.
Hunt was Inspector of the Hyde Park
police district and he ran everything
on the'square in connection with his
inspectorship. He would not permit
his officers to beat up colored people
and throw them in jail just for the
fur^ of it. without a just cause and
when it became known that he adhered
to that policy he became the most
popular police official in Chicago.
Thousands of colored people in all
sections of this city have from that
time to the present looked upon him
as one of" their truest friends.
Some fourteen years ago Capt. Hunt
severed his connection with the police
department of Chicago and established
The Shippv-Hunt International De
tective Agency, with headquarters in
the City Hall Square Building, 139
X. C lark street. Being broad and lib
eral minded, ^ Capt. Hunt employes
three or four colored men all the time.
In conclusion, we simply wish to
state that Capt. Hunt is numbered
among our many good*and true friends
in Chicago.
HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT
CONTINUES TO REGAIN
HIS HEALTH
Some three or four weeks ago Hon.
Edwafd H. Wright, member of the
Illinois Commerce Commission, was
suddenly taken ill while in Springfield,
111., and he was conveyed to this city
from there to St. Elizabeth Hospital,
where he has been confined ever since.
After undergoing an operation he
has continued to improve each day and
Dr. Monahan states that within ten
days or two weeks he will be able to
walk abroad. His devoted and dutiful
wife, Mrs. Wright, wends her way each
day from their pleasant home, 3844 Cal
umet avenue, to St. Elizabeth’s Hospi
tal, where she spends considerable time
in assisting to nurse her distinguished
husband to good health.
While in conversation with her this
week she heartily thanked the writer
for keeping the public informed as to
his true condition through the columns
of this newspaper.
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HON. S. A. T. WATKINS
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Supreme Attorney of the Knights of Pythias throughout the
world; chairman of the Board of Directors of the Douglass
National Bank; member of the law firm of Denison, Wat
kins and White, who will serve as master of ceremonies
at the laying of the corner stone of the new Pythiau Temple
on Monday, August 15.
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