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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
CHICAGO coI.oRED BUSINESS MEN

What does the influx of thousands of
Colored men TO Chicago and vicinity
mean to the Chicago business man! Is
he prepared or is he preparing to con
serve the moral forces of his brother
to combine and concentrate his finan-
cial resources so as to command the so
cial, political and commercial eonsidera-
ton this new industrial giant deserves.
We fear the cOlored business man does
not properly consider the signs of the
time. He must put TO proper use the
thousands of dollars being earned daily
by the Colored worker in and around
Chicago or let the future repeat the
story of the past-Colored communities
made the dumping ground for the filth
and pollution of the city and millions
of dollars in property values at the
mercy of unfriendly interests, while the
same interests control millions of dol
lars of ColOred peoples money and
trade.
The Negro Business League is a splen-
did agency through which to work Why
not begin'
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
HON. EMMETT J. SCOTT PASSES
THROUGH CHICAGO ON WAY
FROM DIES MoINEs-aREAT AP-
PonJTMENT.

Chicago, October Is, 1917.
To The Broad Ak have just learned
from an officer from the Reserve Train
ing Camp at Des Moines that a large
number Of commissions of officers named
by the War Department reached the
men who have been all summer fitting
themselves for their country Is service.
This in itself was a gratifying piece of
information, but in addition to that
many Of these commissions were de-
hvered by and bore the signature of
Hon. Emmett ]. Scott, whose title was
that Of Fourth Assistant Secretary of
War. Of course / did not know that
there was in existence such an assistant,
but it is gratifying that there must be
such q place, and that President Wood
row Wilson has selected a man 90 emf
nentiy fitted for its delicate and impor-
tant duties as the modest man who for
more than fifteen years was the right
hand Of Booker Washington, and whose
splendid pOise has been remarked by
Thousands OF course no man named
by Mr.. Wilson could have pleased all
the CclorCd people Of America, but tax
ing all Of them up one side and down
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20

Mrs. Irene Mccoy Gaines ranks
among the most popular Of the younger
and progressive Colored women in this
city. Notwithstanding this fact, she
has always been very modest, unas-
Stunning and retiring. for the writer has
keenly and interestingly watched her
career from a young girl up to the pres
ent time.
In the course of time her mother,
Mrs. Mamie Clark, who deserves great
credit for doing so, sent her to Fisk
University, Nashville, Tenn, from
which institution she graduated in
1910, with high honors. After doing
so, she continued to drink in more
knowledge fully realizing the fact that
knowledge is power the world over.
In time she became a proficient
stenographer and four or FIVE years ago
she passed the Cook county civil serv-
ice examination with more than one
hundred marks to her credit.
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Shortly after that she was selected
as one of the stenographers in the
Juvenile Court, which position she still
holds, and she will be the next Colored
probation officer to be appointed
She is P. NJ. n. G. of the Strangers
Rest Household SIPS. She has honor
ably served as vice president of the
University Society and she has won
several very valuable prizes in the es
say or the literary contests, in this city.
Several years ago, she was united
in marriage to Attorney Harris B
Gaines, son of W. T. Gaines, the con
tractor; but she did not sit down and
fold her hands after that event, but
she continued to work and to-day Mr.
and Mrs. Gaines own a nice two-fat
building at 1927 Wentworth ayenus,
and they are shining examples of what
two young people whose hearts beat as
one, can accomplish when they make
up their minds to succeed in this life
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
DR. BUCKINGHAM TURNS
CHURCH OVER TO NEGROES.
Action Part Of 5000. 900 n z. Build
ing Plan in Chicago.

The South Park Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church, Thirty-third street
and South Park avenue, of which the
Rev. ]. p. Buckingham has been pastor
for the last FIVE years, and of which
Mayor Thompson and former Chief Of
Police C. C. Healey are or were trustees,
was turned over to the Negro congre-
cation Of 81. Luke Is Methodist Episco-
pal Church last Sunday.
The details Of the plan were decided
ON Friday, but DR.. Brushineham, who
was assigned 10 the Central Park Church
at the Rock river conference which ad-
jsnfaed On Tuesday, said last Friday he
dgiyen permission to the Rev. G. r.
Bryant, The pastor Of the Hcolossd
church, tesafrange fer Aeoprepasation
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Orleans, La, Oct. IA, 1917.
Julius p. Taylor, Editor The Broad
Ax:-AeeOrdiRg 10 . ruling asked for
BY the governor Of Louisiana and made
in reply by Provost Marshal General
Crowder through Adjutaht General Ne
Crory, on the right of married men
with dependents to be exempted from
service in the National Army, being or
ganized under the draft laws, all mar
ried men with dependents, such as de-
pendent wife, parents, grandparents or
children, are TO be released "if the
family at the time Of the registrant' s
summons and prior thereto, were and
had been mainly dependent upon his
labor for support, regardless of whether
his parents ~or relatives, or those of
his wife are financially able to support
those dependent during absence Of reg
istrant while in service"
The ruling affects many of the men
sent to Camp Pike, Arkansas, during
the last month 8 time from this city and
state, especially Negro men, a large ma
jority, it is stated, of whom left behind
them such dependents
In order to avoid all possible mistakes
the Interpretation of General
Crowder's ruling, Exemption Board No.
l of this city Immediately forwarded
the following telegram to General
through Adjutant General Ne
Crory, Thursday, October nth, after
the ruling: men have been
refused exemption by this board and
are now in service, whose family at the
time of the registrant s summons, and
prior thereto, were mainly dependent
upon their labor for support, but the
parents or relations of the registrant,
or of the registrant s wife, were, in the
opinion of this board, able to support
those dependent during registrant s alb
senee while in service, and would not
see them in want. Should those men
have been exemptedf They are IN serv-
ice. What shall this board do in those
eases!'
The board gives out the report that a
large majority of the Colored men sent
from this state are married men, sit
mated in the position mentioned in the
telegram, and it is no doubt true, for it
is a weIl-known fact that almost all
Jolored men have to work foe their own
and the support of wives and relatives,
but it is also a fact that a much smaller
of COlored men pleaded for
exemption though married and had de-
Dendents to support than white men in
the same situation did. 1t was the ap-
peal of white men carried to the highest
that brought down the rul- !
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lANY CoLORED MEN m LOUISIANA, RE-
CARELESS or TIE FACT THAT THEY
ARE MARRIED AND HAVE OTHERS
DEPENDING UPON THEM. HAVE
BRAVELY STEPPED FORWARD TO AS
SIST UNCLE SAM IN THE PRESENT
WORLD WAR FOR DEMOCRACY.

ing. The cry Of "slaeker" agalnss
them did not stop them.
The cane sugar growers Of Louisiana
are out in a protest against the pro-
posed 5.s cents for their raw sugar, the
price fixed by the Federal Food Commits
sion. Their protest, however, seems
very unreasonable considering the
wages paid field hands and the other
items of cost in the production of sugar.
The price of sugar to consumers is al
most twice what II used to be, but that
is not so because the cost Of production
is almost twice as much as it has hereto
fore been. Not one single item in the
cost of growing cane and producing
sugar is double what il used to be, or
anything near double. Plantation labor
has been receiving from 20 to rs cents q
day, sunrise to sunset day, from the
LIST of February TO October 3lst, time
made paid every Is days. In harvesting
season, running from November LIST to
January LIST, laborers receive $1.25 per
day, sunrise to sunset, and so cents per
watch" of 6 hours during the night.
The cost of labor at this rate in the
production of sugar is less than a cent
a pound, with planters getting cents
a pound fob. Labor is the chief cost
in the production of sugar and amounts
to so per cent Of the total cost at
the rate it is paid and sugar at , cents.
The cost of labor being, let us say, j
cent a pound and half of the total cost
Of production the other items in the
cost would amount to just another cent,
leaving the planter with one cent a
pound for money invested. For in.
stance, under efficient cropping a planter
gets not less than 5000 lbs. of sugar |
per acre. If he buys cane from small
growers the price paid per ton of cane,
juice weighing s, is so cents for every |
cent that the market at New Orleans.
is Offering per pound for yellow elari- |
fed sugar, centrifugal dried. Sugar |
selling for , cents brings the small cane
grower 3xs0 or $40 per ton de-
livered at the mill. A ton of such cane
produces about 200 lbs. of sugar. Now
if the small planter raises cane and sells |
il delivered for $40 per ton and |
gets Is tons per acre, or $500 per
acre, it is clear that the cost in grow
ing the cane for delivery includes labor,
taxes, mules, implements and everything
up to the point of manufacture. At ,
cents per pound, 200 lbs. of sugar or a
ton of cane juice weighing s brings
Sc. The small cane grower gets $40 !
Of this So, leaving $500 for the planter
who boils the juice, extracts the sugar
and sells it at the price stated.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
THIRTEEN SOLDIERS FREED.
In Houston Riot Had No Part In It,
Says Inquiry Board.

Fort Bliss, Texas.-(speeial.) THE
board of inquiry sitting in trial of the
156 members Of the Twenty-fourth In
fantry, alleged to have taken part in
the Houston riots August %, have
found thirteen members not guilty of
any participation in the riots. These
men have been sent back to their regi-
ment, now at Columbus, n. NJ. The
method of trying these men singly and
not dismissing them en- masse, as did
Taft and Roosevelt in the Brownsville
case, makes things look brighter.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20

On last Sunday Prof. Adena Minott,
Mental Scientist, leetured and made
practical demonstrations of her work
before the University Society. Others
participating on program were Miss
StrayhOrn at the piano, Mrs. Annie
Lowry Cole read Dunbar's code to
Ethiopia" and Attorney H. B. Gaines
gave a sketch of the life of this noted
poet.
Next regular meeting, Sunday, oeto-
Der %, $500 Wabash Avenue, P. NJ.
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of the building for the new occupants.
South Park Avenue Church is valued
at $4,000 and is one of the finest
church buildings owned by the MethO-
dists in Chicago.
Negroes Predominate.
DIR. Brushingham, who was a member
of the exemption board in the district in
which the church is located, said of the
2O7 soldiers in the draft from the dis
triet only thirty-three were white.
1.-The property will be leased, not
given to the Negroes said DIR. John
Thompson, superintendent of the Chi
cago Home Missionary and Church Ex-
tension Society, who holds title to the
property.
This is only a part of what we are
planning to do for the colored members
of the church. We intend TO build
social center on South State street cost
ing sl5O,OOO."
The plans for the Negroes was only
one phase of tremendous advance in
church building, which was decided on
at meeting of the Chicago area under
the presidency of Bishop Thomas Niehol.
son at the Union League Club.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
TRIAL OF RIofNa NEGRO
SOLDIERS TO START SOON.

San Antonio, Tex.-(speeial) IAN
order for the eourtmartial Of more than
100 Negroes of the Twenty-fourth in
fantry, charged with participation in
the riots at Houston, Tex, Aug. %, to
be held at Fort Sam Houston, is ex-
Pected early next week, 1t was an
noaneed at southern department head
quarters Thursday.
Sixty Of the Hegro soldiers win be
charged with mutiny and murder, it
was indicated, the others with lesser
offenses.
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and forgiveness, with which he over
comes every obstacle and in every need
stands by his white brothers. side, to
battle and die if need be for principle.
The white man can not afford to weaken
himself by opposing his loyal brother.
The Colored brother will not sulk in his
tent. He will now, as ever before do
his duty, leaving the reward to God.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20

the other he could have made no wiser
selection than he has made.
Emmett Scott is a scholar, thinker
and speaker, who would be known all
over the country except that he has
made no effort TO shine in this field. As
assistant to the War Department head
he will be an invaluable aid, and Mr.
Wilson is to be congratulated for having
broken the ice.
We expect him to wade in now that
he has wet his official feet.
W. Z. MOllisOn.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
WE AMERICANA.

The Eighth Regiment has by this
writing ceased to be the Eighth Hi
nois National Guards, and has become
one of the units composing a great
National army whose duty and privi-
lege it may become to fight for a world
democracy under the flag Of the great
est democracy the world has ever
known. Concern as to how the Eighth
will acquit itself sinks into nothing
ness when the class of the men compos
ing it are considered. Coming as it does
from the ranks of the leading citizens
of Illinois, from the homes of the best
families and bearing as they do the
"God speed" of former friends and
comrades, the last embrace and tender
tokens of sisters and sweethearts, the
guiding prayers of wives and mothers,
they must and will be men and soldiers.
But when thinking of the section of the
country to which they have gone a
question arises as to how they will be
treated by the white citizens of Texas!
1t is true that there is occasion for the
loved ones at home to feel apprehensive
as to the kind of treatment the Eighth
will receive at Camp Logan, Houston,
Texas. Is it fair!
1t will be readily conceded that the
COlored men are no more a part of the |
army that must help win this world
war for democracy by their own choice |
than are the white men by their own |
choice, only in that they choose to be
loyal Americans, therefore, he is not |
in the army as a representative of the |
Colored race, but as one of the fighting |
units of the United States. He is |
representative of, and responsible to,
the whole people of the United States.
Elm the world s great melting pot,
America, race lines become less and less
distinct, as of right they should. In !
fact, a new race is being born and what
man can now determine its complexion.
If it is a race aetuated by principle
rather than by self-worship it shall do
well. Let us stop making the Colored
man separate entity. If American he
is all American, and he fights as an all
American. Let the white people take
thought. BE must find that the Colored |
man has ever been loyal TO his country.
There Is not q single incident in his his
tory in America that would justify the
white man q attitude towards him. Do
not the white people realize that they
make loyalty difBeult, increase -diseord |
and delay harmonious action on all
points of mutual interest by refusing |
the real American place in their con-
science
We take the position that what bene-
fits one, benefits al, AID what injuries
one, Injuries al. If what do 10 injure
you, Injuries me, in sheer self-defense
wisdom suggests that desist.
Let rs stop this Hypocrisy and double
dealing, making the world safe for de-
and America, the greatest Of
all demoeracies, unsafe for the Amer
lean Negro-the real democrat. We
are al one people and have one common
cause, therefore there h no room for
argument or difference between rs. 1t
is our individual and collective duty 10
do all for Uncle Sam and to do this we /
must do al for each other. 10 do less
is treason.
10 the many vi1tues'of tire Americsni
people the Negro has 'sdded humility
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

Sunday, October 21st, P. NJ. Dr.
Edwin Beekwith of the Chicago Thee
sOphieal Society will address the
Theosophieal meeting at 1927 Went
worth Avenue. Visitors are cordially
invited to attend this lecture. New
members are desired.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
COTTON PICKERs IN DEMAND;
PLANTERS OFFER HIGH
WAGE.

Shreveport, LA record breaking
price of $50 per hundred pounds,
nearly three times the usual price in
past seasons, is being paid by some
planters in north Louisiana, partie-
ularly in the Monroe section, for cot
ton picking.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY.

Four new members were taken into
the University Society at the last meet
ing. The membership committee is
anxious TO increase the membership to
one hundred. Here's wishing them
success,
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20

Beauregard F. Moseley addressed the
Young Peoples Lyeeum of Glencoe. Ill,
last Sunday and made a deep and pleas
ant impression upon the members and
friends of the Glencoe A. NJ. E church.
He will speak next Sunday at Bethesda,
Morgan Park.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
THE CHICAGO FISK CLUB.

The Chicago Fisk Club sent $500,
proceeds from their annual dance, to
Fisk University, as a contribution to
the endowment fund that is now being
raised for that institution.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20

Edward H. Wright, who greatly de-
lights to brace up against a stiff game
Of stud poker, has for the past week
been confined to his home with illness.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-10-20
THE PEERLESS CLUB.

The young men of the Peerless Club
met last Tuesday night at the home Of
Mr.. Benz. Cornelius.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1917-06-28

cial. provoc5 en- ell amino de Magdale-
ma. una reacci0n Immediate y violen-
ia.
Sc levant0. como movida por un
resorte. Sc fue I Ia escalera con paso
firme. automatico, Y subi6 lentamen-
te los escalones sin volver Ia cabeza-
Dallebois, furioso, Ia vic subir, qui-
zas con Ia vaga Y secreta esperanto
de que iba a ceder al fin Y Sc ARE
g aria TODD
Pero en- cuanto oy0 que entcaba
Ia joven en- SUI cuarto. subio 81 a su
vez. y penetro bruscamente en- Ia ha-
bitacion, cerrando tan violentamente
Ia puerta, qIe retemblaron todoS los
tabiques.
Durante este tempo, Magdalena,
presa de un sentimiento extrano y
nuevo en- ella, removi0 febrilmente los
caiones. cogio = Ia ventura algunas
p:ezas de uso interior, hacienda "a
p!damente un envo,torio.
Luego vaci6 ST. 5olSillo en- ell porta-
.monedas; todos sus ahorrillos.
Habia unos ciento ounce frances
para pasar algunos dias.
En- seguida Sc cubri0 n cabeza cor
IN ligero panuelo, arrebujose un vie
10 mant6n que lie servia para ir a
mercado los dias de liuvia, y cogio e.
paquete.
Despues de echar una mirada al re,
dedor, abrazando, como quien dice
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1917-06-28

Ignore sus sentimientos con reSpect'
a mi.
Esto no es halagador nj estimulan'
tie: Magdalena me odia!....
Unicamente por causa mia y ante
ell tenor de verse obligada a unirse
conmigo, fue por 10 que Sc s~ustraJo.
Dor medic de la fuga, a la boda pro-
vectada. Ella la c~orsidera, sin du'
da,. como odiosa. insoportable < in
! admissible. .....
En- fin, 20 Sc que, a no dudar, anna
q otro hombre: 4 csc ingeniero ambi-
~c:oso... ell galante salvador. iur
misero desconocido!
Els I'm valiente y un guapo mt
! chacho-murmur6 la Condesa, con
movida instintivamente por ell recuer-
do simpatico de Andres.
Personalmente, siento las proven
clones bajas y pr~esuntuosas del mae
Sc Dallebois respecto 4 el, a csc vallen
J tie v guapo muchacha, 10 repito.
, ST, un valiente muchacho, como
dice listed, madrina-repuso ironica'
mente Marcelo.-Es un epiteto como
do que Sc puede apicar grataitamen-
tie.
F.. Pero veremos pronto 81 es tan va
liente sobre ell terreno, pecho a Pc
cho. como en- los incendios, donde hay,
despues de TODD, riesgo escaso.
-Eres injusto, Marcelo-dijo vi
yamente la sonora de Presles. molesta
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1917-06-28
CHANTECLER

ge de Ia semilla almacenada en- los
puebloS de Ia frontera a poca distan-
cia de los campos a~lgodoneros de Te-
XaS.
La importation de Ia semilla de
algod6n Y de algodon en- hueSo, de
Mexico 4 los Estados Unidos. fue
prohibida tan pronto como la presen-
cia del Picudo en- Mexico fue descu-
bie.ta durante G! ultimo verano. Y
en- adici0n a este. Ia Importation de
los prodIctos de Ia sem:lla de algo-
don seran salvaguardados por las or
denanzas que pronto a a ser eXpe-
didas. Tales son los hechos en- que
Sc apoya Ia petici6n del Secretario
de Agriculture para que Sc acuerde
eli gasto de que Sc ha hecho menci0n,
Y 81 tai gasto Sc autoriza, Ia cantidad
acordada Sc empleara en- combatir la
entrada de la playa, en- la creacion
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1917-06-28
OFICINA DE MFORMACION DEL
DEPARTMENT. DE AGRlCUL-
TURA DE LOS E. UNlDOS
Sc iuzga necesorio pr~otejer poderosamente la industrla
del eIgod6r contro la pioga del picudo

aarmante en- los Iltimos amos.
e Picudo-dijo el S~ecretario HouS-
ton I los Presidentes de los comites.
esti distribuido en- Mexico, mas de 10
genei almente Sc supuso al prln-
epic. Ahora Sc extiende por TODD e.
distrito de IA Laguna, cubriendo n
area de $4,000 millaS cuadradas. La
semilla para los plantios IA sido en-
viada de este distrito a otros puntos
de Mexico a los Estados
Unidos. llevando a 81 indudablemen-
el germen de Ia playa 4 aqueI!os dis
tritos. e. peligro para los EstadoS
Unidos ha sido sentido recientemen-
te al establecerSe un moline de Sc
m;lla de algod6n en- Piedras Negras
sobre il frontera de Texas ' a cuai
moline grandes cantidades de SEMI
la infestada por "A playa han sldo
enviadas. Las investigacioneS nechas
0 los specialists del Department
10 de Agriculture de los Estados Cnl-
dos. muestran que el insecto, bIen
Gesarroi:ado es capaz de volar a
andes distancias.-El insecto emer-
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1917-06-28

WASHINGTON. y. C.. JUNO -.
ST Ia yasta ' cada dia mis- des1rro
llada Industrial del algod0n en- los
Estados Unidos. ha ser li6rada de
una grayisima amenaza. el Picudo.
uue ha invadido ahora los campos de
Mexico. cerca de Ia frontera de Te-
xas, debe ser esta combatida con toda
energia en- este pals, en- concepto del
Secretario de Agricultural, quien ma
declared, en- cartas 4 los repreSen-
tantes Lever. P~residente del ComlJe
de Agriculture de la Canaan Y al Sc
nador Gore. Presidente del Comite de
Agriculture Y BosQues. del Senado,
que tai csmpana es de vital impor-
tancia. FL S~ecretario Houston pide
Sc autorice 81 gas-o De medic million
de d6larcs para p-otejer q los Esta-
dos UniJos contra II de las piagas
mas destructivas del algodon. Dando
toda Il i~mportancia que reqalere II
destruction de! insecto. eXpreso que
este ha reGuc.do las cosechas de al
godon en- Egipto, donde los campos
Sc han y. 70 irfestados. de IN modo