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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14
WAR STAMPS FOR CHRISTMAS

''Do your Christmas shopping early. -
This is the Government message to
all citizens this year. EARLY" does
not mean the first or second week of
December as il used to, but means Sep
TENDER and October now.
This request of the Government is
made because it does not wish the over
burdensd railroad eluttered up with
thousands Of carloads Of. Christmas
presents during December. It want,
them free 70 haul coal and food and
American troops.
The War Savings Committee for
Illinois suggests that War Savings
Stamps are the very best Christmas
gifts in war times They do not CON-
pete with the Government for labor and
material necessary for the war. In fact
they furnish the Government the money
to pay for the necessary labor and ma
terials.
They take up no room to speak Of in
the nails. They DO not an freight or
express cara Instead of being useles.
and worn out within q few weeks they
constantly Increase in yalss. o.,
TIE givsr xin feel he is doing HI.
patriotic duty IN choosing War Stamps
for his Christmas presents and Che 70.
eipisnt, young or old, win fssl pa
tristie glow IN receiving item.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

quests and invites the COlOred people of
every community where this paper cir
eulates to send delegates to its 18th
annual meeting in Chicago, September
l7-ls, 1918, to consider and plan the
speedy organizing Of the race all over
the country for protection of rights with
the special end in view of securing race
men and women delegated by a national
race body As representatives for the race
to negotiate. for the abolition of caste,
segregation, disfranehisement and lynch
ing with the nations warning against
Germany in the final settlement of world
conditions
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14
CHICAGO READY FOR coLoREr
WORLD DEMOCRACY CONVENTION


Chicago, nl-Extensive preparations,
evidencing lively and earnest interest
on the part Of members Of the Colored
race in this city are being made here to
welcome delegates to the national race
convention to be opened on Tuesday Of
next week. The meeting viii last three
days, Sept. II to 10 inclusive, and con-
stitute the l1th Annual Meeting of the
National Equal Rights League, the or
ganization which protested the Browns
vile soldier discharge and the segrega-
ton of COlOrsd clerks at Washington.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
HAS SAVED THB LIVES OF TEN
OF THE CoLoRRD SOLDIERS
WHO ENGAGED IN THE RACE
RIOTS AT HOUSTON, TEX.

The first part Of this week President
Woodrow Wilson, after carefully re
viewing the evidence and cases of the
Colored soldiers who took part in the
race riots at Camp Logan, Houston,
Tex, August %, 1917, finally decided to
save the lives of ten of them and give
them life Imprisonment and six others
still have the sentence of death hanging
over their heads, which was reafirmed
by the President, simply because the
condemned men had wiIlfuIly, deliber-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14
TIE NATIONAL EQuAL RIGHTS
LEAGUE.

The public is cordially invited to at
tend the sessions of the National Equal
Rights League, to be held at olivet
Church, 9th and Dearborn streets,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept. IL, is and 10, 1918; admission
free. Also to the banquet, compliment
tary 10 the visiting delegates, Thursday,
Sept. 10, 1918, at p. m, at Hull House,
corner Polk and Halsted streets. Tick
cts t1.5o each. Please mail order not
later than Sept. 10 to Mira T. B. W.
Barnett, chairman, soO5 8. State street.
Calumet ees7.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14
NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR RACE
REPRESENTATION IN SETTLE
MENT OF THE WAR.

The National Equal Rights League,
Rev. Byron Gunner, Hillburn, N. Y
President, VIM. Monroe Trotter, Boston,
Mass, Secretary; Thomas Walker, Esk.,
sos Fifth avenue, Washington, Treas
urer; Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, 3005
State street, Chicago, chairman of Com
mittee of Arrangements, earnestly re-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

Every person attending is requisite
to secure q credential from some ColOrS
civic organization or lodge, or ehur.A
and the league especially urges that cit
liens from Equal Rights DenOeraey
Leagues or citizens committees whe
shall hold meetings and send citizen
delegates. Every Colored citizen has
full authority to act on this invitation
Let US meet in Chicago to organize for
world democracy. -Colored America On
to Chicago. Show your strength.
National Equal Rights League.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

"To the President, Woodrow Wilson
White House, Warrington, d. C.:
National Equal Rights League ap
preeiates your Communication Of sentences
Of majority having death sentences fol
Houston riot and your reason rs recog
milton of splendid loyalty Of their race
and inspiration to continued service to
country and its liberties at very front
Of battle.
"In same recognition and for same in
spiration League asks discontinuanee Of
offensive, undemocratie branding in seq
regation detachable corner of army reg
istration card for new draft"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

The Official call of the convention in.
vites the. Colored citizens of the nation
to q national conference on plans to in.
elude the cause Of justice for the race in
the final settlement of the world war.
The sessions win be held in the olivet
Baptist Church, 9th and Dearborn
streets, with public meeting each
night. Mrs. Ida B. wells-Barnett, presi.
dent Of the Negro Fellowship League, is
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

Ex-Presidsnt ROOSEVELT gave $4,000 to
the colored Y. W. c. A War Work
Council to be used for hostess houses
for cOlOrsd troops and in work for Col
orsd women and girls around canton
mentA For bringing about the Russo
Japanese peace treaty, the sx-prssidsns
was given a Nobel prize, amounting %
nearly $4,000. An Of this fund was do
mated 70 war charities. The WORK Of
the Hostess House 1t Camp Upton ssps.
sially appealed 20 Col Roosevelt.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14
INTERESTING BOOKS TO Read
FOE TIE wMTER.

A. d. Hayes, 364o South State strse1
phone Douglass 1886, is making 'pe
eialty of the late Paul Lauranee Dur
bars works, which he is selling at i0'
prices. He also is selling small anu
large family Bibles at reasonable prio"
and many other good books too nun''
Gus to mention.
Mr.. Hayes also carries . full stock u
other race literature, including al u
race newspapers Published thrOugh'"
the United states.-Adv.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

Beautiful and attractive little gift
cards with wax paper for containing
the War Savings Stamps attached will
be prominent on counters of all shops
this fall.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

Az the Enthusiastic Meeting Of the Bos-
ton Branch Of the National Equal
Rights League Thursday Might on
Sending Delegates 10 chicago the
Following Telegram Was Sent 10
President wilson-rsxs Of Telegram
70 President
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

stely and with great cruelty murdered
some civilians.
Thirteen being executed the first part
of last December and six TO follow in
the footsteps in the near future and ten
to serve life sentences winds up. the
twenty-nine Colo-sd soldiers who took
part in the Houston not in the summer
Of 1917.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

/ Doctor Jenkin Lloyd Jones, soioier-
paeifst, died at 6 p. m. Thursday in
Tower Hill, his summer home on the
wisconsin River. For a week his
strength, sapped by an operation that
could scarce but have proved fatal to
one 50 far along in years, the venerable
head of Lincoln Center had fingered on
unconscious while his family waited for
the end.
They were at his bedside, this loyal
little group, when Doctor Jones slipped
gently from coma into death-Richard
Lloyd Jones, his son, editor of the Wis
eonsin State Journal; Miss Mary Jones
of Chicago, his daughter and Mrs. Edith
Laekersteen Jones, who had become
after long service with him at Lincoln
Center his second wife.
A Modern Jeremiah.
DR.. Jenkin Lloyd Jones was a modern
Jeremiah.
His snowy beard, his acquiline fea-
lures, his shaggy hair, made him pic
turesque and striking figure, one that
had become familiar to thousands of
Chieagoans.
As a militant paeihst, preacher, social
worker and lecturer he had for more
than q quarter of a century filed a
unique position in Chicago.
DR.. Jones had the courage of his con-
victions. He denounced war as q sur
vival of the brute whose fangs were
bayonets. He rebuked the foibles and
extravagances of society. He thun-
dered against tainted money and the
idle rich. In powerful Jeremiads he as
sailed the "slippered luxury" of
wealth.
He stood for a religion, as he ex-
pressed it, "unrimmed by creeds."
Negroes, Buddhists, free thinkers, athe-
list and orthodox were welcome at All
Souls Church, of which he had been
pastor for thirty-six years.
Abraham Lincoln Center, in the heart
Of the south side, building dedicated
to humanity, will be his monument.
DR.. Jones was conspicuous in his later
years for his advocacy of peace at any
price and for his opposition to war. He
was a member Of the famous Ford
peace party which sailed on the Oscar
II. for Sweden in 1915.
Born in South Wales.
DR.. Jones was born in Cardiganshire,
South Wales, Nov. Il, ls4s, and was
brought to America at the age of one
rear. His family settled in Wisconsin,
where young Jones worked on a farm un-
IL 1862.
Then he enlisted in the 9th Wisconsin
battery and served three years in the
civil War.
In 1870 he was graduated from the
theological seminary at Meadville, Pa,
md for nine years was pastor of All
souls Church at GAINESVILLE, Wis. He
anne to Chicago in 1882 as pastor of
III Souls Church. He was secretary Of
he Worlds Religious Parliament of Re {
igions in 1892. For several years he q
onducted n school of literature and re-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

Mrs. Bertha Alexander and her two
children, of 211s Park avenue, this ety.
has returned home from a two Wstn'
visit at Muskegon, Mich, where they
were the guests of Mrs. Grant Gardner.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

chairman Of large local committee Of
welcome. Rev. Byron Gunner of Hin-
burn, N. Y, is president. Delegates are
expected from many states.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14
Or. ILoYn HOMES NOTED LIFE
ENDS.

Preacher Soldier Pacthst "Unrimmed
By crssds" Dies with His Family At
Bedside.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-09-14

RssOmnsted of Municipal Court
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17
FACTORIES BUSY
IN new YORK
Monthly Bulletin Reports a Very
Satisfactory Condition Of
Affairs.
ADVANCE IN WAGES NOTED
Average Weekly Earnings Increased
Over Last Year-Britain May
Have New Political Labor Party
General News of Interest.

The New York state factories had 9
per cent more employees and 50 per
cent greater payrolls in May, 1918,
than in May, 1916, according to the
June number of the Monthly Bulletin
of the New York state industrial CON-
mission.
Reports of manufacturing activity
received for May" it says, "show a
slight decrease in the total number of
employees, compared with the proceed
ing month. Of the IL industrial
groups of the state only three show
an increase, namely, metals, machin-
cry and conveyances, wood manufac-
lures, and a negligible increase in
furs, leather and rubber goods. The
largest gain recorded is in the metal
industries, which includes many or
those industries engaged in work for
the government account.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

UncaIled-For Food Criticism That
Could Only Be Properly Answered
by Flying crockery.

Unison leaned back in his chair at
the dinner table, held cooky between
the thumb and finger Of his right hand.
and eyed it closely
Mrs. Unison looked. but did not
smile. ss.s ~.
Pinching the cake and moving 1t up
and down as if to carefully ascertain
Its weight. Unison continued his In
spection.
BY this time Mrs. Unison was glow
ering.
"Well," she said, II suppose you are
going to poke fun at my cooking
againY
"Far from it," her husband an
swered.
II was testing its resfliency-"
sits what?"
Sand also taking note of its COM
pactness and strength"
isn't that making fun of it?"
my dear, you may have unwlttingly
made great discovery"
'HOw's that?"
This thing may not be much Of
success as a cake, but it might make
a wonderful substitute for a rubber
heel Telegram.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17
NOT SATISFIED WITH RAISE
international Paper Mills Employees
DispIeased over Action of the Ma
tlonaI War Labor Board.

Dissatisfied with the general In
crease of ten cents an hour as direct
ed by the national war labor board.
members of the pulp, sulphite and pa
per mill workers union in Glens Falls,
N. Y, Palmer Falls, Fort Edward and
Hudson Falls decided not to report for
work in the International Paper COM
pany mills. They say they will seek
employment In other plants where they
can earn bigger wages.
John Burke, president of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite
and Paper Mill Workers, said that
the action of the men would not be
sanctioned as strike, although the
decision of the men would affect all
mills of the International Paper COM
pany in the country.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17
KIDNEY TROUBLE OFTEN
CAUSES SERIOUS BACKACHE

When your back aches, and your blad.
der and kidneys seem to be disordered,
60 to your nearest drug store and get q
bottle of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root. IL
is physicians prescription for ailments
Of the kidneys and bladder.
1t has stood the test of years and has
reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This preparation SO very effective, has
been placed on sale everywhere. Get a
bottle, medium or large size, at your near
est druggist.
However, if you wish first to test this
preparation send ten cents to Dr. kilmer
d Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for sample
bottle. When writing be sure and men
ton this paper.-Adv.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

BOOK OF PSalmS,
we read: "The
fool hath said in
his heart, there ~
no God" 1t Is
| n t r e S t ing to
note that this
fool says this
In his hear t
and not in his
head. The rea-
son his heart
prompts such q
statement is be-
cause the heart
is, as the Bible
S a VS., deceitful
above all things,
hopelessly wicked.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

After long immersion a noted savant
comes up for air with the discovery
that "sauerkraut is Of Dutch rather
than German origin" Anyhow it
tastes too good to be "in Dutch" with
this nation.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

The soap business is to be put on
war basis. So far as the small
boy with ears is concerned he will
not care If soap is out of business
entirely!
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

That German talk about indemnities
from the United States and Great
Britain covering the cOuntry's deficit
may not be all bluff. They're such
wonderful people at fOoling them
selves, you know.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

= Savants now deny that we think
with the brain, asserting that we think
with the whole body. This larger dis
tribution of the blame makes it easier
TO bear.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

The Iceland coal fields will supply
180,000,000 tons of high-grade coal
this year-but don't wait for the coal
to arrive from Iceland before you Or
der,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Nor is there anything that makes the
war gardener much sorer than to have
the fellow half mile away get fine
shower when his own garden is in need
of rain.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

AS he surveys the vastness of the
fields of potatoes the potato bug might
as well give up in despair. Yet he
never does.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

A billion bushels of wheat are sched
uled for this year in the crop esti-
mates. Talking in billions has become
q national custom.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17
Well Named.

Old Lady-Can you tell me what Is
inside the sandbags, young man?
Special Constable-Sand, ma'am-
hence the name.--London Punch.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

There are two kinds of people who
are of no help to America: Those
who want to run the war and those
who want to run away from it.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Probably most men of forty-five
would rejoice at being drafted for the
war, as it would take them away from
whatever it is they are doing.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Speaking of speeding up, turning out
destroyer that used to take Two
years to build, in a little over two
weeks, is certainly going some.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

''Thls is a time when kings must
stick together" says Emperor Charles,
and he may or may not have had fly
paper In mind when he said 1t.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

A war 9Viator cannot be surrounded
by any safety first system, but he is
entitled 10 every protection that sci
ence and diligence can provide.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Last summer the seashOre resorts
were on the lookout for sharks. This
year they are watching for subma-
rines.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

The only trouble with the new daily
communique from General Pershing is
that the French accent doesn't fit the
typo machines.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

There can be no patriotic objection
against turning the cabbage grown
IN ones own garden into sauerkraut.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Every generation has to learn for
itself that q canoe is no place for
spooning. At least, the survivors do.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Also, the thrift garden is speed
ing up production-an inspiration to
every individual.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Among the uniforms which w re-
specially salute is the begrimed suit
Of the worker.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

The feelings of the chickens seem
also to have no consideration what
ever in the tar and feather parties.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

The boy who reaches his twenty
first birthday after this will be not
only man, but a fighting man.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

If war stringencies continue our peo-
pie may be reduced to the necessity of
eating calories and proteins.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

There ought to b medal, too, for
the patient housewife who tolls from
sun to sun over work that is never
done.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Remember, S4.17 salted down now
in Thrift stamps means IS gold piece
on January l, 1928.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Nobody wonders at the wonderful
endurance under trial of the Ameri-
can woman who has seen one wear
ing summer furs.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

This kind of weather it is hard for
the ultimate consumer to feel that he
ever will want any coal.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17
AS Paul Jones said. we have just
begun TO tight.

Stormproof millinery would relieve
the world ef many grief.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

It's cottage cheese now, but years
ago it used to be called Dutch cheese"
However, It's the same old cheese.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

The price of bananas has scared.
Ii seems the consumer is also and
again to be skinned.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Oil and water won't mix, but they
don't look much worse together than
q top coat with a straw hat.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Girl students in New Brunswick are
gathering sphagnum moss for use In
surgical dressings.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Aviation. appropriately enough, has
at last been made separate wing
of the war department.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

Buy Thrift stamps and War Savings
stamps every week of your life.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

And lot of folk are learning the
value of repaired garments and shoes.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17
Three Bible
Fools
BY REV. W. W. KETCHUM
Director Of Practical Work Course.
Moody Bible Institute. Chicago

|. The Atheistic Fool.
The one who says, "There is no
God" Twice in the Bible, in the
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-17

w. H. Nelson, warden, has submit,
ted to the Tennessee board of control
report covering the operations of
the mines for the period of six months
ending June 80, 1918. The report goes
extensively into detail, touching ev.
cry phase of the operation.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-10
MORE DEFECTIVE
 RA|NCOATS FOUND
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

NEW YORK, Aug. 9-More than 28,- 900 army raincoats. similar in poor material and workmanship to a large number of supposedly waterproof gar ments delivered to American soldiers overseas, have been found defective by inspectors who tonight reported pro- gross of an examination of government stores at Brooklyn warehouses.
 Federal officials announced fifty five thousand raincoats withheld from shipment when General Pershing for warded from France complaints of leaky storm garments issued to thous- ands of his troops. already have been reinspected. Of these more than 51 per cent were rejected. Approximately 19,- 900 coats in possession of the war de- partment at this port remain to be ex- amined.
 Details of the reinspections. which involve thus far seventeen manufac- turers were made public by authority of the quartermaster's corps and As sistant United States Attorney Huston Thompson. The inquiry has resulted in the indictment of more than score of individuals and corporations.