The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-01-28
THE CLUB AN AGENT OF
FORCE

For some months the writer has
thought seriously of Club life as an
agency of community force of any
race. To write about it has been in
the writer's mind for quite a while,
IN fact.
II would be very difficult to meas
ure in cash value the APPROXIMATION
Club has been worth to the Negro on
the South Side. There are a few men,
bers of that club who can really ap-
preciate its potency in the Negro life
OF Chicago. Indeed a retrolxion and
IN retrospect one who has been to the
Windy City for twenty-five years may
with his vivid Imagination reassociate
himself with the days of Perry Hull,
Gen. Grant, William Lorimer. Gov.
Yates, Gov. Tanner, Carter H. Harri-
son, Jr., Gov. Dunno, Gov. Deneen,
Robert T. Lincoln and a great host of
lesser men of the state and nation.
In all of the years of this great club
on the South Side, the interests of the
social life of the race has never been
underestimate, improperly inter-
preted nor overlooked. Its parlors
have given comfort to such men as
Ex-Governor P. B. s. Pinchback,
Isaiah T. Montgomery, Hon. Chas.
Anderson of New York, Booker T.
Washington, Geo. L. Knox, w. E. B.
Dubois, DR.. Chas. S. Morris of Nor
folk, John Mitchell, Jr., Major John
r Lynch, ]. Madison Vance, Major
Theopolis T. Allan, Robert NJ.
Mitchell, Charles G. CotterelI, Will
lam N. Mcdonald of Texas.
The various clubs Of which we NAV
proudly boast were organized when
our population in Chicago was around ,
thirty thousand Now we have very
close to colored population of two 1
hundred thousand, and it may not
sound shocking or tend to horrify any !,
body should be say that Chicago's r
cal club is in the making and why /.
ihould we not have real big club. .
The white race has FIVE hundred.
We have become convinced that "
here are some good reasons existing s
Thy 50 many worthy big men whose o.
ames are on the books and who paw il
heir dues, seldom if ever give their e.
resenee to any of the club functions.
Dozens of such prominent men see ne
le great need of a club in Chicago, ss
hile standing up for racial ideals and or
tanning their membership with The
ppomattox Club contend that a new eli
ub may be organized, and DEVELOPED co
IT Of higher spirit of race loyalty no
ID . more laudable purpose, main ca
ming : jealous regard in the selec- pie
IN Of its members and without fear tn,
iavors sustaining a high principle N,
hen determining the minutest detail. We
Judsen Lyons, J. c. Napier, DR.. c to
Roman, W. ]. Smallwood. Rev.
sverdy c. Ransom. Dr. H. 7. Keal- N.
3, Emmett ]. Scott, DR.. A. NJ. Cur
) Judge Robt H. Terrell, Paul
lurenee Dunbar, Cyrus Field
iams, Rev. DR.. John. T. Jenifer.
Isaac Fisher, DR.. R. r
otoa. Hon. Ralph Tyler, Prof. ]. R.
Lex, Atty. Cotton, Jack johnson. fai
srt Williams and hundreds Of others irr
orthy but less poignant on the life we
the race, therefore less prominent. he
The foregoing is cutie sufficient to SCI
tablish the importance Of the club SAL
the life Of people. II has taken its
ace N the civic lie. and fills = need sti
ore betting than many other in at
buttons We might name. ov
The club suggests mutual interests lins
idacomnon welfare and seems 10 pro tn,
ose things upon which are stamped IA
llectiEe appreciation. thus Il becomes SD
force representing the forward and
ward trend sf the people. mi
S1pplied with is prerequisites Il Is of
once vel nigh indispensable. while DR..
gradually makes itself invincibIe ia
ms The Appomattox Club Of Chill
30 has made itself an enviabIe rep de,
,tion and 4 fixture. And while Il thi