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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
LOVE THAT SUBDUES
EARTH"
Robert G. Ingersoll's BEAUTIFUL Tribute
to Women Has Been Surpassed by
Few Writers.

1t takes a hundred men to make
an encampment, but one women can
make a home. L not, only admire wo.
men as the most beautiful object ever
created, but I reverence her as the
redeeming glory of humanity, the
sanctuary of all the virtues, the pied
&c of all perfect qualities of heart
and head. 1t is not just nor right to
lay the sins of men at the feet of
women.
1t is because women are so much
better than men that their faults are
considered greater. A man IS desire is
the foundation of his love, but n
woman 5 desire is born of her love.
The one thing in this world that is
constant, the one peak rises above
all clouds, the one window in which
the light forever burns, the one star
that darkness cannot quench, is wo-
mans love.
1t rises to the greatest heights, it
sinks to the lowest depths. 1t fOrgives
the most cruel injuries. 1t is perennial
of life and grows in every climate.
Neither coldness nor neglect, harsh
ness nor ctuelty, can extiEguish it.
A woman IS love is the perfume of the
heart. This is the real love that sub
dues the earth, the love that has
wrought all miracles Of art that gives
us music all the way from the cradle
song to the grand closing symphony
that bears the soul away on wings of
fire. A love that is greater than
power, sweeter than life and stronger
than death. - Robert @. Ingerson.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
QUINN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH
NOTES

The regular services Sunday A.
NJ. Prayer meeting. 1915 A. N.
and s p. NJ. Preaching.
The pastor DIR. Z. NJ. Stewart will
preach sunday on the subject THE
WORLDS PEACE IN THE LIGHT
OF PROPHECY.
A special invitation is given to BIZ
BILE students to attend the Mid week
services, as well as the Sunday ser
vices.
Quinn Chapel will make a Thanks
giving offering for the debts of the
church Sunday Nov. Gath. DR.. Stewart
will preach at the morning services.
At the evening services there will be
given under the auspices of Miss
Pauline Lee a Big Musical program
Sacred songs and Solos and Negro
Spirituals.
The first Sunday night in Deem
Der the Pastor will deliver the first
Of a series of Illustrated sermons on
the subject WHAT DOES THE BIZ
BILE SAY"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED.

S. II. Dudley, the greatest of all
colored promoters, and Prof. Eph
Williams, the greatest of all colored
showmen, and of 'Silas Green" fame,
have joined hands and are putting out
a big musical show in the theaters,
calling it, as. H. Dudley's Darktown
Frolics."
The book and lyrics are by $. H.
Dudley, and the music by Richard
Green.
S. II. Dudley will rehearse and stage
the show himself. The company VIII
number about IS people, including a
band and Prof. Williams famous
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
PHYLLIS wHEATLEY CLUB
NOTES

The Phyllis Wheatley Woman's
Club donated ten dollars at its last
meeting to the House Committee to
be applied on a new parlor rug for
the Home.
The next meeting will be held on
Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 2:3O P. NJ.
Prof. Whaley, Boston, Mass, organ
izer of the National Equal Rights
League will be the speaker. Visitors
are always welcome.
Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Pres.
Juanita Hawkins, Cor. Sec'y.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16

soldiers were convicted upon eircum-
stantial evidence given by soldiers
forced to testify as they did on &C
count of fear or promises made them
for their own safety.
Under rules of the court martial
all evidence and findings must be sub
mitted to the president of the United
Estates, and this was not done in the
case of these soldiers, but their SEN
fences were approved by the COM
mander of the southern department.
This being true, these men are being
illegally held in the federal prison
and should be given their liberty.
The Kansas Defense Society, of
which Nick Chiles is president, has
employed three colored attorneys to
bring habeas corpus proceedings in
the United States district court, and
if necessary will carry the case to
the highest court in the land. Attor-
ney T. W. Bell, one of the leading
lawyers of Kansas, located at Leav-
enworth; E. T. Barbour of FL Reno,
Okla, and Elisha Scott, a young at
, torney of Topeka, have been en-
ployed, and the case, No. 1888 was
filed at Topeka, Kansas in the United
States District Court, Friday, Oct. 4,
, 1918. We are now asking the public
and friends of the race to contribute
as much as they can afford to assist US
to properly prosecute the case. We
have consulted several lawyers of
prominence, and they all agree that
this case can be won, and the Kansas
Defense Society, believing this to be
true, has employed these attorneys.
AS editor of the Topeka Plaindealer,
newspaper published in the interest
of the race, we feel that it is our duty
to take up all matters of this kind.
Our people have been bartered, bar
gained, and sold by members of the
race, and cruelty, numerically, and
maliciously assailed by the white race
long enough. When we think of the
East st. Louis riot, the hanging of
these nineteen soldiers and the brutal
lynching of a colored woman by a
Georgia mob a few weeks ago, it is
enough to make the beasts of the for
est frown, to say nothing of the effect
it would have upon a human being.
AS aforesaid, the Kansas Defense
Society is soliciting funds to be used
in this case, and any one desiring to
help will write NICK CHILES, Pres
ident of the Kansas Defense Society,
Editor and Owner of The Topeka
Plaindealer, Topeka, Kansas.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16

group of ponies and dogs. The story
of the play has been written around
the band and ponies and it promises
to be the most novel entertainment
ever offered by our people.
Messrs. Dudley and Williams have
selected Max C. Elliott as the agent,
and r. C. Puggsley win be back with
the show to see that things go well.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
THE THREE SUCCESSFUL
COLORED CANDIDATES
Special to The Broad AK. From
Charleston, West Virginia.
Rv 7 q Gi1pner
By ]. C. Gilmer.

By j. c. Gilmer.
Charleston, W. Va, Nov.-Result-
ing from Tuesdays election three
Colored men will have seats in the
lower house when West Virginia.
legislature convenes next January,
rivaling the record of any State since
the days of Reconstruction.
The successful candidates, nomi-
mated in primaries and elected on the
Republican ticket, are: J. V. Cole
man, of Fayette County, formerly
postmaster at Kimberly, now engaged
in the production of coal; H. J. Cape
haEt of Mcdowell County, an at
torney at law; and T. G. Nutter,
former Grand Exalted Ruler of the
Elks, at present Grand Chancellor of
the Knights of Pythias. Mr.. Nutter
is also an attorney.
Both Fayette and Mcdowell coun-
ties have had Colored legislators be-
fore, the former three and the later
one, but at no time has there been
more than one Colored representative
in the legislature.
The nomination and election of
these men is considered remarkable
for the fact that in none of the coun-
ties which they represent is there
majority of Colored voters, the per
cent in Mcdowell being "a, Fayette
% and Kanawha 10.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
MANAGEMENT OF THE PHYLLIS
WHEATLEY HOME.

The management of the Phyllis
Wheatley Home extend a Cordial in
vitation to the Pulpit, the Press and
all friends to attend the Installation
exercises of the newly elected officers
at the Home, 1886 Rhodes Avenue,
Monday, Nov. Is, at P. NJ. The
Annual reports will be read of the
splendid work accomplished by the
officers and members in spite of the
many drives pulling at the purse
strings of the generous public during
these stirring War-times-
Many girls have been housed safe
guarded and befriended. The second
Mortgage of one thousand dollars
has been lifted-the current expenses
up to date have been paid. Now these
energetic women hope by the aid of
their friends to wipe out the remain
ing debt of four thousand dollars
within the year. An excellent pro-
gram and refreshments have been
prepared by the Welfare Committee
Mira. Carolyn knight, Chairman.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
HAS "MANLESS RANCH" IN MON
TANA.

Widow, Unable to Find Supply of
Masculine Labor for 60o-aere
Tract, Gives Jobs to Women.
Mrs. Maggie V. Smith Hathaway,
of Helena, Mont, has proved that it
IS possible to run a 600-acre ranch
without the aid of mems labor. She
knows, because she has successfully
eOducted her "manless ranch" for
SIX years, raising grain, cattle and
sheep.
Mrs. Hathaway began life as a
school teacher. In a few years she
became county superintendent Later
she married Mr.. Hathaway, assist
ant State Superintendent of schools,
who owned a 320-acre ranch adjoin-
ing her own. After the death of her
husband Mrs. Hathaway farmed the
two ranches. It was difficult to get
masculine help, so she introduced
modern machinery that could be OPP
Grated by women, and announced to
The Countryside that hereafter her
place was to be called the "Manless
Ranch"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
HABEAS CORPUS FOR RELEASE OF
SOLDIERS In THE HOUSTON RIOT
BULLETIN NO. I, ISSUED BY
THE KANSAS DEFENSE SOCIETY

The Kansas Defense Society is an
organization instituted for the pur-
pose of testing the the constitutional
rights of the race along civil, pOliti-
cal and other lines that may be
necessary to bring about justice and
sentiment in behalf of the race in
this. country. This organization was
formed because of the conviction and
legal lynching of thirteen soldiers
of the oath Infantry at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas, last December, 1917,
for participating in a riot at Houston,
Texas. in August of the same year.
1t will be remembered that these
soldiers were acting in self defense
from the fact that they had been mis-
treated and assaulted by the police of
Houston and it had been reported to
them that a mob of white men had
threatened to swoop down upon their
camp and drive them out. Acting on
this information the soldiers prepared
themselves, and receiving orders
from non-commissioned officers that
the mob was descending upon them,
they began to fire and at the same
time marching upon the town, which
action resulted in the death of sever
al persons.
They were taken to Fort Sam
Houston, disarmed and through the
policy of Texas officers investigation
was started, and some weak minded
soldiers from the South who had
been in the service only a few
months were induced to turn states
evidence on a promise of immunity.
From what we have read of the trial
4
it seems that this was a kangaroo
court and the men were never fairly
tried.
There have been three court mar
tials. Sixty-three soldiers were tried
in the first, which resulted in the
hanging of thirteen without their
cases ever being reviewed by Presi-
dent Wilson. Forty others were
sent to the Federal prison for life,
and the remaining ten were disposed
of in various ways. Three or four
were sent to military prison, and a
few were given Jail sentences. A
second court martial resulted in the
conviction of sixteen, which sentences
President Wilson has just approved
brave colored soldiers to be executed
for participation in the Houston riots.
The evidence shows that this riot
at Houston occurred in the night when
it was very dark and it was impossible
to tell who were taking part. These
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
WHY NOT BE CAREFUL?

The pneumonia season is here; and
without the unusual prevalence of
influenza, both the cases and deaths
from this disease will run in a steady
ascending scale from now until warm
weather comes again.
This has been the record in Chicago
as to pneumonia for many years. And
while the number of pneumonia deaths
and the rate varies, yet the fact re-
mains that approximately four-fifths
of these deaths are recorded for the
months from October to May, the
season of the year when so many
people shut up their homes and at
the same time shut out their supply
of health giving, health conserving,
fresh air.
But with the continued more or less
prevalence of influenza; it is pretty
certain that Chieago's pneumonia
death rate for the remainder of the
cold weather months will increase ia
Their than otherwise.
Just how high it will mount will
depend a great deal upon the efforts
the people Of Chicago will make to
keep it down.
II long has been known that pneu-
monia is a dirty air disease; and also
equally well known that fresh air
and sunshine are its foes.
Pneumonia and influenza invade the
home where fresh air and sunshine
are kept out. In the recent epidemic
of influenza in Boston, the most eff
eetive agency in treating it and in
abatings pneumonia were their pOr-
table. fresh air and sunshine hospi-
tails. In these hospitals it was found
that most of the influenza patients
speedily recovered and without pneu-
mOnia complications.
1t is fortunate then for humanity
in general that fresh air and sunshine
have so high a prophylaetic and Gu
rative value. And still more fortunate
that these agencies may be had with
out cost. Corner drug stores do not
keep on hand bottled air and sunshine.
All you have to do is to admit both
into your homes and thus multiply
many times your chances of not re-
curing the services of either the doc:
tor or the undertaken.
1t should be remembered that pneu-
mOnia is a contagious disease. In some
forms it is less contagious than scarlet
fever or consumption. In other forms
il Is as contagious as either scarlet
fevos OF diphtheria. 1t spreads in no.
spiral wards, or any place where hu-
man beings are eongregated together.
No doubt this is why it has mani !
Tested itself TO an unusual degree |
among the soldiers in certain of the
various environments throughout the
1t can be got from those who are
sick with it, or from those who have
had ii and are still carriers.
Since the first of December Of last
year the Department of Health has
quarantine of Pneumonia
This means that the patient alone is
luarantined, other members of the
family being allowed to come and go.
And while we are on this subject,
here are some suggestions worth re-
and observing:
1. Avoid crowded gatherings where
the air conditions are likely to be
bad
2. Practice regular habits
3. Be moderate in eating and drink
ing.
4. Sleep only i'm wen ventilated
bedroom.
5. Don't neglect a "bad eold". 1t
may develop into a ease Of pneumonia
or consumption.
9. And finally, remember that in
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
PEOPLE ASK WILSON FOR
NATIONAL VICTORY HOLIDAY

Washington, d. C. - President Viii
son has received messages from all
parts of the country asking that he
proclaim a national holiday in honor
of the winning of the war. No decision
has been reached.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16
KILL NEGRO AT CAMP GRANT
FOR ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE

CAMP GRANT, ILL, Nov. Especially
Private Waite Davis, eolored, Of
Development Battalion No. 3, was shot
and killed Wednesday morning by
prison guard, Osman OH, of Robey,
Ind, when he attempted to aseape.
Davis was a prisoner at the camp
guard-hOuse and was working on the
coal pile under guard when he tried
to escape.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16

make good the law makers
of state

Chicago there is a permanent ban on
open sneezing and coughing and in
discriminate, careless splitting.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16

Mrs. Carrie Warner, 1922 Calu-
met avenue, is highly delighted over
'ne fact, that the war against Ger
many has come to an end and that
ner son Lieut. Joe Warner, of 37oth
y 3 Infantry win soon return home.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16

Miss Pearl Warner, 5225 S. Dear
born Street, who playes the organ
at the Ebernezer Baptist Church, has
become the Stenographer for Il. l.
Willis, real estate dealer at 1906
Indiana Avenue.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16

Mrs. Mamie Evans Miller, at one
time wife DR.. Edward s. Miller, has
become united in marriage TO her old
friend J. W. Daley.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-11-16

Senatorial District Of ninois
doubt about il. reflect great credit As
.el.tor residing throughout the States Of
Iuinoia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
L. Ct. is TAKEN OVER
Patron Owners Now Making Plans for
Operating the Road.

Kansas City, Kan, May 20-The
Leavenworth e Topeka railway is now
the property of the Leavenworth &,
Topeka Railroad Co., (the newly or
ganized corporation owned by 700 of
its patrons) the latter corporation
having taken possession at midnight
Saturday night. The 1eal was con-
summated in the United States district
court before Judge John c. Pollock.
when James E. Waddill, the president,
handed to E. w. Clausen, of Atchison,
the special master in charge of the
sale, "A cents in cash. This small
payment in cash concluded the nego-
tiations by which the farmers and
merchants and business men in towns
along the line acquired the property
and saved it from the junk heap.
The executive committee of the new
corporation is considering propositions
looking to immediate resumption of
operation of the line. They are now
considering two tentative propositions.
one of them being the leasing of the
line to o. P. Byers, president of the
Anthony & Northern railroad, who will
have associated with him possibly a
number of men now interested in the
road The other proposition is from a
connecting line which may lease the
Leavenworth & Topeka and put it into
immediate OperatiOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
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modern machinery are used would be
five times as productive as in our own
garden plot When you consider that
the really important question in the
crop situation is labor this summer
then this phase of the matter looms
large. There is really no shortage of
acreage on which to raise gardens.
The chief advantage of having back
yard gardens is not that there is a
shortage of available farm land, but
that when we have our backwards
gardens there is no question of trans
portation, the vegetables do not even
have to be carted, and there is the
advantage that we can use spare time
in tending the garden because it, is
convenient to our homes. However,
when we pay for laborerS to tend our
gardens and possibly pay them high
rates in order to induce them to spend
their time on our gardens in prefer
ence to working for the farmers, then
We have been very short-sighted.
So if you really want to have a
patriotic garden manage somehow to
do most of the work yourself. You
are doubtless tied down so you can
not give even a few weeks to the land
army. But without neglecting your
regular activities and without over
straining your strength you can put in
considerable time in the course of the
summer in the cultivation of your own
garden. With the long evening light
you can possibly get an hour or two
every fair day, and on half holidays
and holidays you can spare enough
time so as to obviate the necessity of
employing a laborer to till and hoe
and dig for you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
HAVE REAL RELIGION
Thousands Of Funston Men Attend
Services Regularly, Now.

Camp Funston, Kan, May 90
There is nothing compulsory about re-
ligious activity in a military camp.
But it is readily observed that it has a
different appeal here in camp than
elsewhere, for the men. This is not
surprising. For instance, there is a
man in khaki sits at the piano, an
other leads the singing, another leads
in prayer, another makes a short talk
he is real man and there is a
punch in his kind of religion that
makes it practical-it is only natural
that his appeal should go home.
A recent Y. M. C. A. report states
that thousands and thousands of
men" in the central department
camps who never before attended
church, have become regular attend
ants at the every Sunday evening
services
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
State Is OFF on Campaign To
Raise Red Cross Funds.
Confidence That $1,5s4,OOO
Quota Will Be Oversubscribed.
ITO CHAPTERS OVER STATE
In First Drive More Than
Million Was Raised.
s. e. Cobb of Topeka Is Direc-
tor of the Entire District.

Given impetus by the pulpit en-
dorsements in practically every church
in Kansas yesterday, Kansas is off with
bound today on her 81, 5S4, 900 Red
Cross drive. To raise that amount
Kansas has been assigned by the Reo
Cross divisional headquarters at ST;
Louis. and that she will raise it-and
more-is freely predicted by the or
ga MIXERS in charge of the state cam
paign. Some are even so optimistic as
to predict that Kansas VII! make as
gallant a showing as she ola IN Inc
recent liberty loan campaign IN Wnicn
communities, including the capital
CITY. more than doubled their quotas.
In the los counties in the state
there are 10 Red Cross chapters,
few of the counties having more than
one chapter These are subdivlded
into city, ward township and even
school district organizations. so that
with one accord, the drive is launched
today probably under the most sys-
tematic plan ever perfected in the
state for any one cause. The county
and subsidiary organizations, each
with chairman in charge, have been
holding meetings for the last few
weeks, perfecting the work until to-
day the Red Cross drive is enabled to
start off with machine like precision.
In the great drive, which, of course,
is national in scope, the southwest di-
vision, comprising the states OF MIS-
souri,, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas
and Texas, is expected to raise $10.-
100000. In the six working days of
the weeks campaign, Kansas must
raise a daily average of more than a
quarter of a million dollars to reach
her minimum quota of s1,5S4.0OO.
Raise Three Millions in First Drive.
This is the second Red Cross drive.
In the first drive last June Kansas
raised more than s3.00O.00O.- These
funds have been poured into the great
national American Red Cross service
funds. with its direct routes to the
far away battle fields of France
These two campaigns are aside from
the membership campaign of last
Christmas and the activities of the va
rious local chapters of the Red Cross
turnout the state, the latter of which
have raised probably 81 900, 900 in this
state by various enterprises, especially
remunerative of which have been
their auction sales. The membership
campaign in Shawnee county alone
Melted $4,000 members at 81 each.
The state campaign beginning today
is under the supervision of S. E. Cobb,
Topeka, director for the state of Kan
sas in the southwest division of the
Red Cross.
Considerable enthusiasm is being in
st1lled into the campaign by the prom
Use OF Red Cross flags for counties and
subdivisions thereof that exceed their
quotas. the idea being similar to the
liberty loan campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
TO HAVE new DEAN
Mrs. Van Zile at X. S. A. C. VIII Be
Relieved of Double Duties

Manhattan, May 20.-Mrs. Mary p.
Van lille. dean of the division of home
economics, will serve as dean of
women only, as soon as plans adopted
by the authorities at the Kansas State
Agricultural college are carried out
Dean Van lille has for many years
performed double function in the
college-that of dean of the division
of home economics and also that of
dean of women, both of which posi-
tons require strenuous work. AS dean
of women she has charge of the social
as well as the personal activities of
the girls. AS dean of the division of
home economies she had charge of
the college work in this particular
branch. Another woman will be ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy in the divi-
sion of home economies