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, 1922-08-24
ROTARIANS HEARD TWO
INTERESTING SPEAKERS

Last Fridays regular luncheon was
well attended and the assembled Ro-
tarians had an opportunity of hear
ing two interesting speakers in ad-
dftion to the regular feast of rea-
son and flow of soul. Gus Flesichli
was entrusted by the president with
the Eavel. which he welded as chair
man of the entertainment COM
m'ttea.
H. M. Lamb, who is a visitor in the
city, his home. being Milwaukee,
which was nee famous for some
thing or other, now forgotten. spoke
OF the workings of the company with
which he is connected. the American
Appraisal company, n OF the larg-
est of its kind in the world and hay
ing branches in many OF the larger
business centers of the United States
and Canada. As its name indicates
this company makes a speciality OF
appraisfng OF a large scale and in his
talk to the Rotarians Mr.. Lamb told
OF visiting the Kelly-springfield tire
plant at Cumberland for the purpose
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A new accident preventive for auto
mobiles. which protects car, driver, pc
destrian, and the other fellows car as
we'll. is now being manufactured at
ter two years Of experiments with the
original patents. 1t is IN automatic
brake and ignition control, and Its pur-
pose Is the minimizing of traffic acct
dents; the prevention of accidents
while cars are parked, and the reduc-
ton of injury to cars Or to pedestrians
when accidents occur at high speeds.
The vast majority of automotive acct
dents, however, occur at speeds below
Is miles IN hour. Little short Of a
miracle can avert disastrous results in
accidents when the automobiles are
travelling at high speeds. SO that the
developers Of this device have devoted
their attention to the production of an
attachment which will prevent. and,
where impossible to prevent, min
imize. the results Of collisions and
other accidents at lower rates Of
speed, notably in traffic in cities, in
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Robert M. Hood, Minister

Rev. Robert M. Hood, Minister.
On mex Sunday, August 9th, we
will resume the evening services
which we had discontinued during
the summer. For a few weeks the
evening worship will be at 8 o'clock.
After that we will go back to the
regular hour OF 1880. The Sunday
School, which meets at 10 a. M, has
held together pretty we'll during the
summer, and we expect it to make
some splendid advances during this
fall and winter. Morning preaching
services at II o'clock.
All those who are not attending else.
where are invited to come and wor.
ship God with us.
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The Illustration Shows the Fiexbiity OF Contact and 8ow-shaped Cushion
ing Protection Afforded Driver and Object Hit,

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Driver and Object Hit.
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which the majority Of automotIve az
cidents occur.
Same Place as Bumper.
The new device Is carried in the
same place as Il bumper. but Is not q
bumper. 1t is a simple mechanism
consisting Of flexible contact bars or
cables fastened by gOosenecks to the
front and to the rear of the car. being
equally applicable to passenger cars
or to mOtortrucks. These contact bars,
yielding to q pressure of only 10
pounds, make contacts with electrical.
ly-wired contact points. In turn con
nected with a brake and ignition con
troll contained in a small cylinder
which rides freely with the brake rod
so as not to interfere with the foot or
hand braking of the car under ordi'
nary conditions. The slight pressure
on the contact bars makes connection
in a fraction Of a second, setting the
brakes, cutting off the ignition and
thereby adding compression to the
braking force and blowing the horn.
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of making an appraisal.
DIR. C. I. Bunten made an in
.structive and extremely interesting
talk on the care and preservation of
the teeth. showing the close con-
nection between the teeth and the
general health and also some Of the
many human ills that are directly
traceable to decayed and defective
teeth.
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PHYLLIS wHEATLEY HOME

The Board of Directors met Tues
day, March 9TH. Reports were made
by the various officers. DR.. Fannie
Emanuel was unanimously elected
treasurer to fill the vacancy car sed
by the resignation of Mrs. Geraldine
Withers, who has gone to Toledo,
Ohio, to reside with relatives. A par
Gal report of the Charity Benefit was
received with thanks to the Com
mittee.
The Board of Managers at their
meeting Tuesday. March IA. approved
of the homes offered by Mrs. Mamie
Rich, 3454 Rhodes avenue, and Mrs.
Alice Caldwell. 3l55 Rhodes avenue,
and Mrs. Matte Johnson Young, $685.
Forest avenue, who will take care of
girls on the waiting list who cannot
be accommodated at the Home owing
to its overcrowded condition.
Mrs. Garvinia Dickerson, chairman
OF the House Committee, reported a
very successful Monthly Whist, Feb.
2l, and the purchase of 10 new bed
room dressers and 46 small bedroom
rugs at a cost OF $288OO.
Miss Beatrice Mitcl - CHI. Social
Educational Committee announced a
very attractive program for the
monthly meeting Sunday. March 10Th
at the home from - S P. NJ, th-
public is cordially invite 0 attend
these monthly meetings.
The management ex,ssaS :Incer=
thanks to Miss Jennie Z. Lawrence
her splendid committee, and all who
contributed to the success of the re-
cent Charity Benefit.
Little Lettia Goode held the lucky
number-l07-which won the beauti-
full brown doll, exquisitely dressed by
Mrs. Bailey. $40 East 37th street.
Miss Minnie Collins and Mrs. Ella
Johnson highly entertained the Phyl-
lis Wheatley Club Wednesday, March
18th. The large number of members
and visitors present enjoyed the in
structive talk of Mr.. Clarence Daw-
son, representing the Negro Histori-
cal Calendar, which should be in every
home in the country.
Current events by Miss H. G.
Whyte, were replete with up-to-date
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He has created many pieces of statu-
airy which have won the warm praise
of those who are competent to judge
his art.
Charles Keck has spared no time
and no strength to get the results for
which he has been striving. He has
won distinctive success through his
native talent and through his untir-
ing and unending work.
Booker Washington Bore a Races
Burden
To see Mr.. Keck's figure of Booker
T. Washington is to carry away the
picture of a man who stood up
straight and firm under the heavy
burden of millions of Negroes, who
carried in the deep lines of his fore
head the signs of victorious struggle,
and who cared less for clothes than
for service to his fellow-men.
Those who knew Doctor Washing
ton in the flesh and saw him often in
action, driving home, with the effect
of heavy artillery FIRE or with the
gentleness of subtle humor, the les
sons of good farming, good health,
and good citizenship-and, above all,
self-restraint in the face of injustice
or racial misunderstanding-will re-
joice that Charles Keck has made this
Booker T. Washington monument at
Tuskegee which is a veritable master
piece of the sculptor's art.
While Doctor Washington worked
immediately for the Negroes of the
United States and less directly for
100000 Negroes throughout the
world, he did yeoman and invaluable
educational service for other races in
teaching men, women and children the
simple lessons of thrift, good health,
better farming, and, above all, racial
goodwill and cooperation.
Mr. Keck's Work Wins on Merit
The work for which Mr. Keck is
already well known in art circles is
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CHARLES KICK DESIGNS
MONUMENT TO BOOKER
WASHINGTON
VIM. Anthony Aey

Hampton, Va. - Charles Keck
Seulptor"-these words appear incon-
spicuously on the base of the great
bronze figure of the Booker T. Wash
ington Monument, which will be I'M
welded on April 5 at Tuskegee Insti-
tute. They suggest, however, the
story of an ambitious American boy,
who, after leaving the public schools
of New York City, went to the Art
Students League and studied at night
for seven or eight years.
For three years Charles Keck
worked with Philip Martiny, a we'll
known sculptor of New York, who
did fine work for the Worlds Fair in
Chicago.
For FIVE years he worked with Au-
gustns St. Gaudens, while this famous
sculptor was making his Peter Cooper
for New York, his Robert Gould
Shaw for Boston, his General Logan
for Chicago, his President Garfield
for Philadelphia, and his General
Sherman for New York.
In 1900 Charles Keck competed for
a scholarship in sculpture, offered by
the American Academy in Rome. In
1904 he was graduated from the Aca-
denny, after a most successful student
record for excellence in work. He
remained a year longer in Rome and
returned to the United States in 1905
to begin his independent professional
career as a sculptor.
Since 1905 Charles Keck has been
a busy, happy man. He has given
himself entirely to his art, but has
not become the least eccentric. He
has worked by day and by night, re-
CARELESS of the pleas of his friends.
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found in widely scattered centers:
A twelve-foot figure of Mohamme-
danism-the Koran resting on the
sword, the spiritual resting on the
earthly, the religion of the sword
which he designed for the Brooklyn
New York; Institute of Arts and
Sciences.
A twelve-foot seated figure of
Youthful America, which is the Sol
der Memorial in Pittsburgh.
A monument of George Washington
for Buenos Aires, South America
Sculpture work for the New York
State Education Building at Albany,
N. Y, including two base-reliefs, each
one having twenty-eight heads of chill
dren at study, and large memorial
bas-relief of Andrew Sloan Draper,
former New York State Commits
sioner of Education.
An in memorian tablet for the ~. S
S. Maine"
An honor roll for the employees of
the Brooklyn New York; Post Of
fee, who joined the military forces of
the United States in the World War
The Lewis and Clarke Monument
and the Stonewall Jackson Monu-
ment, both erected in Charlottesville,
Va, and both widely acclaimed as
masterpieces of sculpture.
A memorial tablet to the u. s. Tel
egraph Corps of Allegheny, Pa.
A sixty-fve foot monument, which
the American Chamber of Commerce
of Brazil will present next Septem-
Der to the government of Brazil at its
centennial celebration. The base,
which is in bronze, is the figure of
friendship twenty-foot figure of
liberty which is holding the standards
of the United States and Brazil. At
the base are bas-reliefs IMPLYING the
independence of the United States and
Bonifaccio's famous cry of Give me
independence or death"
Tuskegee Is Educational Mecca
There are thousands upon thou
sands of Americans, as we'll as for
eigners, too, who in time will give
thanks that so true an artist as
Charles Keck created the Booker T.
Washington Monument at Tuskegee
Institute, which has become one of
the great educational meccas of the
world.
Mr.. Keck has succeeded admirably
in giving the world statue of Booker
I. Washington which is as simple,
forceful, and enduring as the great
founder and beloved principal of Tus-
kegee was simple, forceful and en-
during.
The Booker T. Washington Monu-
ment, which will be unveiled in the
presence of host of men and women
who represent all that is best and
most enduring in our American life,
will tell, to the end of time, a new
old story to those men and women
who are wise enough to realize the
fundamental value of honest work,
enduring patience and unfailing good
will. DR.. Wallace Buttrick, president
Of the General Education Board, will
deliver the Founders Day address.
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THE coLoRED GIRL
By Dr.. M. A. Majors

She is wonderful. Carries a heavie
weight in matters of moral attribute
than any other race of girls. Hold
her head up, believes in herself ant
accepts with excellent grace the deb
she owes to mankind. She knows
that she is the safety valve of tn,
Negro race in spite of the contemp
and skull duggery she is compelled
TO overcome and beat back among
the men of her own blood, besides :
hurricane of infamy and scoundrelism
she has to rise above in all of the
other races who assiduously are ever
engaged in rascality to ruin and de-
stroy her.
How terrible and terrifying it must
be for her to know that mankind is
not to be trusted. That men of her
own race disregard the preachments
of a pure womanhood, mock with
treacherous tongues, virtue and char
acter.
What time has she to build upon
the holy principles of humanity when
the ugly imprecations of demons are
eloquent in frenzied speech to drag
her down? She would be free, and
hold a pure name given her in the
righteous sanction of marriage, in
spite OF the marauding nature of man
kind to drive her from the pedestal
OF a noble life.
Hardship has been lain in her path
way to weaken and kill her angel
spirit. The devil has ornamented
some good-for-nothing rascal with a
nasty smile with which proud woman
hood must contend. The monstrous
intelligence of humanity has been
commissioned to outwit the purest,
simplest, little girl Wealth and the
soft touches of fimsy garment and
the warmth of downy comforts, wines
from the foreign countries, drinks of
little devil-heads of bourbon rye, and
juniper in great abundance to kill the
hopes Of fond parents by the sad de-
struction of some fair idol of the fire.
side.
The girl has so often fought her
battle and won against the craftiest
infamy that ever disgraeed debased
wretch. Single handed she has put
some real devils to fight by her glori-
Gus womanhood.
1t has been deereed that the bounds
Of human social safety can not reach
further than virtue goes; that being
the case. gold is discredited and bar
ter infamous. woman rich in her limo
cenee, sweet with the honey of truth
and the nectar of human nobility,
stands triumphant in the radiance Of
her purity.
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Foster. DR.. Jenkin Lloyd Jones,
Judge Edward Osgood Brown. Mayor
William Hale Thompson, Congress
man Martin B. Madden and other gift
ed souls of the white race that the racial
lines should be given a decent consid-
Grafton, and that better understand
ing might come out of occasional
meetings of the better elements of
our civilization to the end that know
ing each other We would be compelled
by the light of true knowledge to
treat each other with equal and exact
justice, the conduct of respectable
humanity.
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information.
An earnest discussion on pubr.
school conditions in the commur;-
resulted in the appointment of ! CON
mittee to formulate plans for the Or,
ganization of Parent-Teachers' assO,
citation.
Mrs. Ophie B. Wells presided a, II.
piano.
-Four new members were enrolled
The Amanda Smith Home for de-
pendent children held a Board meet
ing at the Phyllis Wheatley HON.
Wednesday, March 18th, specification
and plans for the new building were
exhibited.
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HON. JAMES H. LAWLEY AND HON.
MATT. A. MUELLER WILL BE RE-
NOMINATED AND RE: ELECTED
TRUSTEES OF THE SANITARY DIS
TRICTOF CHICAGO.

I ley, was also elected as one of the
Trustees of the Sanitary District of
Chicago in 1916. Mr.. Mueller is one
of the most popular German-Ameri-
can Republicans in Cook County and
being a high-class business man, the
vast majority of the voters residing
in this city and county made no mis-
take when they elected him one of the
Trustees of the Sanitary District OF
Chicago.
Mr.. Mueller has been an honored
resident of this great city since 1888,
and his first employment was in the
Union Stock Yards. With various
companies he remained in the yards
until 1902, when he was appointed
Real Estate Deputy in the Board Of
Review. He served ably in this ca
pacity until 1909 when he was elected
Alderman from the 10Th Ward. Later
he established the real estate firm of
Matt. A. Mueller & Co., and won
recognition as a business man of en-
ergy and honesty.
He is man of family and a men,
Der of the Modern Woodmen, Ma
tional Union, the Plattdeutchen Guild,
was member of the Knights of La
Dor and a member of other fraternal
and benevolent organizations.
1t can be stated in ali honesty and
truthfulness that Mr.. Mueller, as one
of the Trustees of the Sanitary Dis
trict of Chicago, has made an honor
able record for efficiency in the faith
full discharge of all of his duties as
such, and he can rest assured that he
will be renominated for Sanitary
Trustee as a part of his reward for
services we'll rendered in the past by |
a majority of the voters at the pri-
maries Tuesday, April IL.
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GETTING AN UNDERSTANDING
BY DR.. N. A. Majors

The difficulties that have for so
long and so often arisen between the
races OF mankind are gradually being
.emoved. Nations have seen because
of the threats of war, which have so
long hung over governments like a
cloud of death and despair, the great
need of reaching an understanding.
Learning from each other the paths
of peace that the preadventure might
make possible a perpetual peace and
remove from the situation the posi-
bilities of war.
What has4eretofoFe applied to ma
tons and governments also may ap-
ply to races living in the same COM
munity and in the same neighbor-
hood. AmicabIe relations should exist
among all the races, because all of the
elements that compose nations and
races should, if they do not, enjoy
equal blessings of community life,
since they are all compelled to pay
taxes, and assume obligations and re-
sponsibilities of citizens in the self
same degree. Now since all races
represent the good and the bad, the
high and the low, the educated and
the uneducated the thrifty and the
improvident, the rich and the poor,
does IT not seem that some kind of
understanding should be reached by
the whites and the blacks? OF course
when IT comes to the matter of hous-
ing and favorable neighborhoods,
where children may have the better
environment, the Negro thinks of
what his money can pay for, and he
wants the best he can get for it. 1t is
not a matter of a difference of races,
but II is a matter of conserving the best
interests of the industrious citizen
who has been guaranteed equal rights
before the law. Every man should be
given credit for having an upreaching
spirit, even if he should desire to
jounney beyond the distance of the
farthest star.
In the matter upon which we have
just written the Negro differs from
the emigrant races of Southern Eur
ope. He wants the best to be gotten
for the money, and he is willing to
pay the price.
The color situation has been aggra-
waited a bit by the people of the I'M
derworld whose social status is of
such a nature that it is fearfully mis-
leading. People representing the low
types of humanity are decidedly out
of consideration and should be unwel-
come in any community or neighbor-
hood.
Because a family happens to be
little brown, mulato, or black, should
not be a reason for restraint as to
becoming favorably located, provided
they are up on the common graces,
and portray respeetability. cleanliness
and thrift
We as a people feel worse the hor-
rors of white prostitutes in the Sec
ond Ward, and the hell holes allowed
to run not, and flourish under the
nose of our sons and daughters, than
the he'll bent spirit of devilish hatred
fostered by the white family who
would run because respectable col
ored family was moving in next door.
Why shouldn't we look out for better
homes, better environment and a
purer and cleaner atmosphere for our
children to breathe?
II. was the hope of Mrs. Celia
Parker WooIey, Miss Mary Nc
DOweIl, Miss Jane Adams, Mr..
Julius RosenWald, DR.. Geo. Bernard
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BULLOCK GUARDED AGAINST
KIDNAPERS

Toronto. = Rev. William B. Guy
pastor of the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church here, has arranged tor
Matthew Bullock, Negro whom Can
ada refused to turn over to author
ties of Norlina, N. C., for prosecution.
1t was reported threats had been
made to kidnap Bullock and take him
back South. Bullock's father is con-
stantly with his son.
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TULSA MOB CUTS OFF
NEGRO'S EAR

Tulsa, Okla. John Smitherman
Negro, former deputy sheriff and pol
iceman, was seized early on Friday
by band of white men, forced into
an automobile and spirited to the
country, was found at claremore and
brought to Tulsa, authorities an
nounced- One of Smithermsn's ears
had been cut of and the Negro Sc
verely beaten He was lodged in the
county jail for safe keeping
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Hon. James H. Lawley, Republican
candidate for denomination for Trus-
tee of the Sanitary District of Chi
cago, has for the past six years hon
estly and faithfully served all the peo-
pie residing in this city and county
in that capacity.
Mr.. Lawley is a native of this great
city, being born in it in 1876. He re-
ceived his education in its public
schools and later on graduated from
the Illinois College of Law with high
honors.
For ten years he was one of the
highly honored members of the city
council from the Fourteenth Ward,
ably serving on its finance committee
and other important committees of
that body with the unqualified en-
dorsement of all the leading civic
bodies in this city.
For many years he has been promi-
nent IN benevolent and fraternal
work. He is an honored member of
the Phi Alpha Delta League frater-
nifty, Garden City Lodge A. F. & A.
NJ, York Chapter, l48, R. A. NJ, Co
lumbia Commandery No. 63, Medinah
Temple A. A. c. N. NJ. S, Knights
of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose,
National Union, and Fraternal Order
of Eagles.
In 1916 Mr.. Lawley was chosen one
of the Trustees of the Sanitary Dis
trict of Chicago and in every way he
has amply proven himself to be wor-
thy to be renominated on Tuesday,
April II, for his present responsible !
position.
Hon. Matt. A. Mueller, warm asso-
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Hon. Matt. A. Mueller, warm asso-
ciate and running mate of Mr.. Law
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PARK THRIYFs

Morgan Park, the beautiful suburb
of the city, is rapidly thriving and Is
fast becoming the most beautiful park
in the city. Many beautiful homes
are being erected by members Of the
Race.
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Battered as Seeond-Class Matter, Aug.
., 1902, At the Post Office At Chicago,
LII Under Act of March 8. 1879.
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