^—nlTHE BROAD AXt^d yTIT YYYTT ' """ ' . ^ """”" --■ ''V - . 5 LENTS PER COPY THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 23, 1927 No 45 . . .. . I 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 i 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. /• 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. ] .■■■ ■ ■ .. 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 « 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. .—.-. HON. S. A. T. WATKINS , / - t 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. %