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Evening journal., 1922-09-30

Mrs. Daniel Saville enter
at a tea on Thursday afternl
honor Of Mrs. Lydia Stevei
Balton. England. The affair
in the nature Of a farewell
and was enjoyed by II guests
stevens is sister of Mr.. s
She has suent several mont
this country. She sailed today
New York on the steamship
terdam. for England. Decor
Tor the tea consisted of az
flowers.
Evening journal., 1922-09-30

In honor Of the approaching
riage of Miss Emma L. Ridinf
Walter L. Haley, a variety s.
was given last evening at the
Of Mrs. w. Newton Cam, 271l
Buren street. The affair was
prise to the bride-to-be. A al
ful repast was served.
Those present wers: Mrs.
d. Rulings. the Misses Emma
Grace Ridings. Mrs. Frank e.
Miss Mildred NJ. Haley. Mrs.
A. Haley, Miss sue c. Horn
John w. Anderson, Jr.. Mrs. u
Anderson. 3rd.. Miss Mary I.
son. Mrs. William H. Haley. u
w. Barnes. Miss Mabel Haley
Frank II. Buck. Mrs. j. Allison
Miss Pauline Buck. Mrs. w. w
Barlow, the Misses Edna II
Elizabeth NJ Bullock .--lr
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speeches. ! heard them all, and / jus,
shouted when some of them wer
speaking. l heard some one in speak
ing of me say: Il think the fool is
crazy and should be locked up"
Go back sixty years ago; look at
our condition then, and see where we
are today, and think you would just
shout your fool brains out as l was
about to do. But, honey, let me tell
you We have some smart men in this
country, some OF them as smart as
Woodrow Wilson.
There were many men here from
Texas. The Rev. DR.. E. J. Howard,
of Texas, shook my lily black hand,
and then came along Rev. G. B.
Young, and Rev. s. d. Butler, and
Rev. H. a. Carr, all have been stung
by that buzzing bishop bee, and they
have bad cases, and / will tell you the
results if / am here. have only men
toned few of the men, for there are
others who were not present, but they
are buzzing just the same. Rev. S. J.
Johnson, who is now mentioned for
successor to DR.. B. F. Watson, whose
health is not so good, but who will re-
tire after the next general conference
so as to live all the longer. Just so
much work can man do, and if he
tries to go over that, nature will de-
mand its toll, and you must settle up
whether you want to or not.
found some of them bishops as an
CRY as a wet hen, and they had made
up their minds that it was time to do
something. Ira T. Bryant had been
writing and had said something that
would have been unsaid for all con-
cerned in this saying they felt that
Secretary Bryant had reflected on all
the bishops of the race, and l was ST.
Srised when l heard Bishop Snn,h
read a document which was an apol-
ogy for what the secretary-treasurer
had said. He made this to the other
bishops
Now then you want to know what
happened Well them bishops just
called Secretary-Treasurer Bryant be-
fore them and / am told that after
putting to him a direct question con-
corning the article, demanded him to
resign, and Mr.. Bryant, without say
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two school teachers, wise in the pre-
cision that two ana two make and
always will make four, had lost some
thing of that native wisdom of dealing
with men that belonged to the un-
lettered husband of Motions land
landy.
1t is as a leader of group of col
ored people and as an honored ad-
visor of many of the philanthropists
of the white race that DR.. Motion oc-
cupies an important place. And the
last chapter of his book, Forward
Movement in the South, shows us
The Way OUT that he believes IS
most possible and sane. Here he de-
scribes the work of the The Confer
ence for Education in the South, The
General Education Board, The South
ern Sociological Congress, The Uni
versity Race Commission and the
most recent Interracial Committees.
By bringing together the best people
of both races DIR. Motion feels the race
problem will become less acute. He
has no royal panacea to peace and
prosperity but the encouragement of
cooperation among the elect is his
present advice to Negroes in the
South.
/ There is a phenomenon known to
sociologistS as the illusion of the
Near" that is, that when a thing is
very close to US it looms much larger
than it is. / think the facts of history,
and of the history that we are making,
show that the philanthropies that
come from this getting together OF
kindly minded people affect the whole
mass of the Negroes very little, that
private education, no matter how ad-
missible, will never take the place OF
compulsory public education, and that
the dwelling too much on gifts makes
the receiving of rights all the more
precarious. But Hampton's training
on the race question, and Mr.. Motion
is Hampton's son, lacks in accuracy
what it makes up in optimism, and
the pleasant optimism of Finding
Way Out" will win the approval of
nearly all its white readers and many
of its colored.
There are some American Negroes
who have counted for more black than
they ever would have, had they been
white. This is emphatically true of
Booker Washington, whose ideals
were essentially the ideals of the ag-
gressive, Rooseveltian type of white
man, and who had therefore great
chance for fame in representing these
qualities in the Negro race. One ques-
tons whether this is true with DR..
Motion. One feels, in reading his life,
as though the high spirit of adventure,
the robustness of spirit inherited from
his chieftain forebear had been re-
pressed. AS though the white race,
with its cruel and Grass conceit, had
taken something from him that would
have been his had he been born in
America with a white skin, or had
been left to develop his ability in his
native land.
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The writing of photographs by
principals of colored schools has be-
come a habit. 1t was started by
Booker T. Washington in up From
and so brilliant a biography
as that With its world wide appeal
made it difficult iSr Edwards, Holz-
claw and others to follow after him.
DR.. Motions biography suffers in the
same way, especially as he trod in
Washington's footsteps. Moreover,
his life lacks incident. The most dra-
matte part OF his autobiography is be-
fore the hero is born. The tale of his
forebear, his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
father, a chief caught and carried
away in a slave ship, the wonderful
physical power of other of his grand
parents, his paternal grandmother liv-
ing to be lOS, the dramatic STORY of
his fathers fight with an overseer,
these make a vivid beginning to the
autobiography. Those of US who re-
member Major Motion in his uniform
at Hampton wonder why he lacked
so in personal vanity as not to have
his photograph as a frontiSpiece, so
much does he look like the descendant
OF chieftain. But the book is with
out illustration and Robert Russo en-
tiers upon the stage with little incident
A boyhood at the great house"
school teaching, short dabble in poll
tics, then Hampton and Tuskegee.
A pleasant story, we'll told with that
most blessed gift reserved for man
humor
There is one delightful anecdote
that | cannot refrain from repeating.
Before graduating from Hampton,
Motion turned his hand to school
teaching and was appointed principal
of a Virginia school with $50 pupils.
Associated with him was an older man
named Hendricks, who believed in
corporal punishment for all offenses.
He and Motion had many heated ar
guments, Motion demanding that mat
tiers of discipline be left to him, and
Hendricks declaring that he would
take the matter to the school board
Fearing this move, Motion talked the
whole thing over with his landlady's
husband, a man who could neither
read nor write but who had much ma
tive common sense. Instead of max
ing an issue of the matter he had q
grand party, got all the people pleas
antly happy on persimmon wine (or
was there something more in it?), haC
Motion make a fine political speech
saw that Hendricks made less favor.
able one, talked of the colored people
settling their own disputes, and ended
by having Hendricks apologize to
Motion the next day and cease his cor.
poral punishment. One feels that the
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ing a word, walked out of the room.
l have been informed that he now
has on his fighting gloves, and is go
ing to contend to the last for what he
conceives to be his rights.
1t was a great big meeting and big
things were accomplished if you will
just take the time to find out / will
go on to other important events.
When wrote to you that other let
ter was in Memphis, but ! got away
from there and made it down to Birm-
ingham, where found a representa-
tive of Tuggie Institute awaiting my
arrival, and a car toted me down to
see Prof Glover, and then we were
of to the school Mrs. Tuggle met
me with that broad smile. and de-
clared that she was glad to see me. /
felt good, for Mrs. Tuggle is one of
the greatest women m this country,
and leader among women. She has
dedicated her life to the unfortunate
boys and girls-those that no one
wants to bother with them She takes
them and moulds them over again.
She is a wonderful character, and ]
was delighted to be IN Der home and
see the good things she Is doing here
IN town
After sending into my eternity some
6ne chicken, vel cooked, went over
and met the student body-a fne set
of young people. ! wish you could
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-02-18
CHARLES E. STUMP, THE OLD-TME
REGULAR TRAVELLING CORE
SPONDENT FOR THE BROAD AK,
HAS BEEN ENJOYING HMSEL F
WITH HIS FRIENDS AT MONTGOM-
cry, ALABAMA, AND OTHER
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.

Montgomery, Ala.-"If you want to
see the devil run, just get you a gospel
gun i used to hear the old saints
say that when ! was a boy, and these
words have followed me I'D to this
date, but l am about to understand
the meaning OF them, and have been
made to sing and shout, and l am so
happy l hardly know what to do.
l have been hearing about the vari-
Gus churches, and the number has
been increasing right along, until now
1t IS hard to tell just what you are
meeting. The Lord has been very
busy making denominations OF late
years, and now some of them are about
to get together and become one great
Christian body, fight sin and the devil.
and am told that they may route him
out of hades. hope they will keep
him confined there just a little longer.
| have been here attending a great
meeting, and 1t seems that it is one
OF them get together meetings. The
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
the African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church, and the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church have been counting
and IT looks to me like there is going
to be triangle marriage, or in other
words, they are about to get together
l am in touch with God and / an
praying to Him to let this thing hap,
pen just once, and you will agree with
me that 1t would be a wonderful agen
cy for good, and the other peopi,
would just sit up and take notice.
am told this is going to happen, anC
that real soon.
1t was a wonderful sight to see al
these big men together and it Ger.
tainly made me feel like wanted to
ask my Baptist religion to step aside
and let me get some Methodist re,
ligion and get to be one more Bishop
l saw in the rank of the A. NJ. F
church Bishops, Benjamin Franklin
Lee, Charles Spencer Smith, Levi J
Coppin, J. s. Flipper, William D
Cahppelle, John Hurst, William H
Heard, J. Albert johnson, w. w
Beckett, l. n. Ross, Joshua A. Jones
William Decker Johnson, A. ]. Carey
w. A. Fountain, w. Sampson Brooks
and w. T. Vernon. just got in the
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habit of naming the bishops and put
down two who were way over in At
RIGA, brooks and Vernon, but they were
thought of just the same and l sent
ND a prayer for them myself Now Of
the A. n. E. Zion Church there were
present: Bishops ]. s. Caldwell G. L.
Blackwell, L. w. Kyles, w. L. Lee,
George c. Clement, J. w. Wood, P.
A. Wallace. Then of the c. NJ. E.
were Bishops R S. Williams, E. Cot
treII. c. H. Philips, R A Carter and
NC. CIeaves. That is strong force,
and if you note, / have said nothing
about other great representatives who
were present and who had their say,
and who were In the ring.
Now If you will coupe with all the
bishops the hundreds of men who are
anxious to be bishops and declare the
Lord has called them to be, but they
seem to be Just a little ahead of the
Lord but they are ready to serve, aad
viii serve If they can just get the Lord
IN tel the voters that he has called
them to be bishops. general officers
and the ike. But ] am not going to
NEEDLE with Gods business and you
will excuse me please
There were brains enough down
here this week to float the city Of
New York, and / am here to ten you
that them men made some real
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-02-18
SPECIAL NOTICE
For Increase Of Board of Directors Of
Binga State Bank

In conformity with Section II of
the Banking Laws of the State of
Illinois, a special meeting of the
stockholders Of the Binga State Bank
viii be held Saturday, March 4, 1922,
at 10 o'clock a m, at the bank to
vote on the proposition to increase
the number of the board Of directors.
Respectfully-Jesse Binga, R S.
Abbott, u. C. Daley, w. A. Robin
son, John R Marshall. Oscar De-
Priest H R. Smith, C. n Clark,
direetors-AdH.
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Come to Think Of Il.

A man was describing to a woman
the cOmpensatiOns Of nature-how in
the blind the feeling of touch was
acute; how those who were deaf In
one ear often heard clearly with the
other. and how a person blinded in one
eye often sees extra well with the
sound eye. YES" said she, its re-
markable. And, come to think OF IT,
have always noticed that If a person
has one short leg the other is always
longer"
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just drop down and look at them, and
see what this unselhsh woman is do
ing for her people, and you will agree
at once with me that she is one of the
greatest women of the age. Modest
intelligent, and just a leader OF
women, and she is also a leader in
thought.
/ think will have to bring this
letter to stop. Ny next one will be
from Florida. Look out for If, for If
is coming. am going to spend just
a little time with Bishop John Hurst
and others. John H. Murphy is down
here
CHARLES E. STUMP.
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fFWound Up"

I had been scolding one evening.
The next afternoon my neighbor
dropped in to inquire about my sister
Jennie, who had been sick. l said
I guessed the only thing that allied her
was that she was run down. Little
Bob, four years old, who had been
listening, piped up: well, mother,
why don't Aunt Jennie get wound up
like dad said you were last nightr'
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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TO HOLD SPECIAL MEETING

The General Committee of A. L. X.
& D. OF A. of which Rev. T. L. Scott
is chairman, will hold a special meet
ing Feb 18th at Grants Memorial
A.M.E. Chapel, 400 Evans Ave, to
transact important matters pertaining
to the coming annual session.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-02-18
VISITING RELATIVES

Mrs. Eva Marshall, 4031 Prairie
avenue, is spending some time with
relatives and friends at Cincinnati,
Ohio, and will be away several weeks
taking a much needed rest. Mrs. Mar
shall is vice presiding sister of The
Sisters of Bethany.
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SHOWING IMPROVEMENT

Misses Alpha and Laura Baxter, 40
E. 18th place, who have been quite
IL, are somewhat improved. Laura
Is able to be up and out, but Alpha is
still confined to her bed improving
slowly.
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METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CENTER OF THE PEOPLES
CHURCH
3l1s-7o-22 Giles Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
REV. w. D. COOK, D. D., Minister
and Director
Telephone Drexel 05o6
Telephone Drezsl os96

The members and friends of the
Metropolitan Community Center and
The Peoples Church have had great
cause for rejoicing. for early in De-
cember they moved into their Com
munity House at 3llS-2O-22 Giles
avenue.
The Community House contains
thirty-two rooms, we'll adapted for
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-02-18
Wanted
Advertising Solicitor

A live or wide awake newspaper
man or solicitor can earn some easy
money by calling on or addressing
the undersigned.
Julius F. Taylor, 6206 S. Elizabeth
street. Phone Wentworth 2597.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-02-18
MRS. HARDING ILL

Mrs. Georgia E. Harding, state
grand secretary of S. NJ. T. of the
state of Illinois, is confined to her bed
on account of severe illness and is
only slightly improved at this writing.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-02-18
CHIPS

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hudlun
Of 4503 s. Wabash avenue have both
been confined to their home for the
past two weeks with illness, but at
this time they are both improving and
will soon be able to be out again.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-02-18

Miss Essie Arnold, $500 Calumet
avenue, pleasantly celebrated her
birthday last Saturday and some of
her many friends remembered her
with some lovely presents on that
occasion.
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A Literary DIGEST.

Last night / got several magazines
and a dish of nuts and ate them" said
an EmpOria college girl; and the Ga
zette dubs this sort of thing a literary
digest.-Capper's Weekly.
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caus. Of Real Harm.

Josh Billings once said: cit amt 30
much ignorance that does harm as
their knowing so darned much that
amt true"
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all the activities planned by the Cen
ter. The large triple entrance is i'm
posing; the north and south entrances
lead to fats of eight rooms each. The
Offices of the Center and the living
quarters of the caretaker are located
in the north fat The central en-
trance leads to the Community
House proper. The assembly room,
with a capacity of eight hundred and
fifty, and a large, fully equipped
kitchen are on the second floor. The
third floor has a lodge hall contain
ing a pipe organ, the ladies' parlor, the
music studio, the board of directors
room, the directors private Office, and
several small committee rooms. On
the fourth floor is another small as
sembly hall and eight more commit
tee and club rooms.
The Sunday morning religious serv-
ices, at 1880, and the Sunday eve
ming program, at 7:3O, will continue
to be held at the Wendell Phillips
High School. The Wednesday eve
ming class service and class meeting
and all community activities will be
held at the Community Center.
The building was purchased at a
cost of S55,OOO. The first payment
of $4,000 has been made. The Com
munity House is now at the service OF
the people of Chicago.
The choir of two hundred voices,
under the direction of Prof. J. Wes-
ley Jones, is one of the finest in the
city. The last Sunday in each month
this choir, augmented by soloists OF
national reputation, gives a musical
program. The Sunday Evening Club
presents every Sunday evening pro-
grams of the highest type, speakers of
ali races, present subjects of local,
racial and national interest. The or
chestra is a pleasing feature of the
services.
The charitable work done by the
Center during the first year of its ex-
istence is worthy of mention:
Baskets of food to families. 800. TT
Buckets of soup to families. 800. 425
Packages of fruit to sick. ....... COZ
Flowers given to sick. zoo
Clothes for children. 64S
Children's shoes .......... 800
Women's clothing ......... 4S0
Mems clothing. ............ loo
Numerous small amounts to needy
poor.
The Community House is for the
service of the people of Chicago.
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FINDING A WAY OUT"

An autobiography by Robert Russo
Motion, published by Doubleday, Page
and Company. Price, $3.50; postage
ten cents extra.
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BOOK CHAT--BY MARY WHITE
OVNGTON- CHAIRMAN OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
THE ADVANCEMENT OF COL
ORED PEOPLE. AUTHOR OF
"HALF A MAN." "HAZEL," THE
SEIADOW,"ETC.
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Numerous small amounts to needy
poor.
The Community House is for the
service of the people of Chicago.
Evening journal., 1922-07-26
TWO TIE GAMES
in JUNIOR LEAGUE

Two tie games resulted in the Jun
Tor City League mld-week twilight
game last night. DUPONT and Def
ance going ten innings TO a IL dead
lock. while neither the South Side
Eden Snappers nor Eastlake was
able to score in their battle at Twen-
ty-ninth and Market streets. In the
other league tilt Brownson had New
port beaten up until they showed
over six runs and won out. s to 4.
The Eastlake-Snappers tussle was
brilliant pitchers duel between
Burton for the Ninth warders. and
Fahey for the Little Brooklynites.
Burton famed - and allowed but
four hits while Fahey allowed but
one hit and struck out seven.
Burkins and Mcdonald were the
opposing huriers in the dupont
Defiance setto. and both showed ex-
cellent form in the ten innings. De-
hance scored in the first and then
the building boys knotted the num-
bers in the fourth. finishing the
scoring for The game.
The playing of Bratton was fea-
ture of the Brownson-Newport con-
test.
Evening journal., 1922-07-26

Because OF various circumstances
they have never met and. as a result
of charges and couDter-charges
passed back and forth by both
fighters and their managers. the
present mill promises TO be as Vic
ious as dhe fight between Willie
Richie and Ad Wolgast.
Leonard's worst fault is his aver
sion TO the grind OF training. often
necessitating fighting himself into
form after the beginning OF a bout.
Battle of Century"
But Benny's two recent battles
with Jack Britton and Rocky Kan
sas has brought him TO the top OF
his form. shown by his massacre OF
the tough Italian and he should put
up battle worthy Of his title
Tenders record OF the last two
years has been impressive.
He has fought all comers and. one
by on has eliminated all the young
hopefuls from Benny's front door
step.
Granting that both can make the
weight-which Is 1876 pounds at
three o'clock-without losing
strength or speed. il should be what
the Dempsey-Carpentier fight was
for-'the battie- OF the century"
Evening journal., 1922-07-26
Watching Scoreboard

Yesterdays hereafter being
whipped four straight by the Yanks
Urban Shocker shut them out and
81. Louis won s 10 0. Ken williams
hit his tweniy-second homer.
Mixing six hits with two errors In
the fifth inning, the Giants scorsd,,,
seven runs and beat the st. Louts
Cards . to s.
Shanks drove in four runs with
three hits and scored one himself
but the Tigers best the Senators
TO 8.
Homers by Harper, Dab DRubert
and Wingo helped the Reds win a
wild and woody ten inning game
from the Phils. Is to II.
Ted Blankenship let the Red Sox
with five scattered hits and the
White sox won, to 1. t'~ea
Guy Morton tried to pitch double
winner for the Indians He beat the
Athletics 4 to 0 in the first game but .
was knocked out OF the box In the
second and Cleveland lost IL TO 4. a0
Four runs piled up on rally ian
the seventh inning enabled the.
Pirates 10 beat the Robins 5 70 3.
Scoring all their runs in the fourth
Inning, the Cubs trimmed abe
Braves TO 3.