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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-01-27
Member Of the City Council from the old 31st Ward who will
on Tuesday, February ~, be reelected to it from
the 18th Ward

his races liberty and history was his
breaking away from the larger fight
under the leadership Of friends out
side his race, and leading a fight for
and by the race itself, on Its own
hook" This principle cost him the
most in sacrifice and struggle, and is
what his career most stands. for after
the day he moved to Rochester and
established "The North Star" To
truly honor him an observance needs
be held under organized Afro-Ameri-
can auspices.
This historic, this Douglass princi-
pie, "Who would be free themselves
must strike the blow" which alone
will give US "a place in the sun" Of
full citizenship, or Of history, is the
foundation stone Of the Equal Rights
League. Hence we invite formation
Of branches for this and other race
chronicles. For race unity's sake, the
League urges an Equal Rights Com
mittee" everywhere, if not an actual
branch league, all to be affiliated with
the League in friendly spirit.
It suggests all Lincoln Observanres
Be Sunday, February II, to separate
the events.
Let Douglass Day Of 1928 mark
movement for more unison, fraternity
and handclasp among ourselves as
units Of this oppressed group.
NJ. A. N. Shaw, President.
VIM. Monroe Trotter, Secretary.
"a Cornhil1, Boston.
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groups strength for the struggle has
come most from the affairs of their
noble dead in memory's shrines. For
tunately we had in Frederick Douglass
heroic parsonage battling from days
of color chattel slavery far into those
of greatest color freedom and equal
rights. His career represents the
whole gamut of our needs in liberty,
rights and public privilege. Summoned
recollection and recital of his deeds
will afford inspiration, while the
length, consistency and racial indie
pendence Of his career invoke conse-
Grafton for the race fight.
So the National Equal Rights
League calls upon Afro-Americans in
every place to again hold public an
nual exercises on Wednesday, Feb. IA,
1923, in observance Of the Tooth ami
versary of the birth of Frederick Doug
lass, chattel slave, self-freed man, anti
slavery orator, editor, publisher and
advocate on his own account, recruiter
of race soldier to kill slavery, adviser
to presidents, federal oficeholder, u.
s. Minister, premier advocate of lib
erty and rights without regard to race
or color.
In honesty Of respect for Douglass
the League asks for a chain Of OBJ
servances by Afro-American bodies or
committees, for be it known that
Douglass distinctive contribution to
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loudly greeted by each and every one
present and some minutes passed
away before he was able to start in to
speak
Mr.. Clover freely let it be known
that those who were the happiest and
the proudest moments in his life and
as in the future as in the past that he
would labor early and late and that
with the assistance of its officials and
more than seven thousand stockhold-
ers that the Public Life Insurance
Company would continue for many
years to come to travel on the royal
road to success and prosperity.
He read many letters and kilograms
of congratulations from many of his
prominent warm friends from all parts
of this country, heartily congratulat-
ing him over the unbounded and the
wonderful success which has followed
in the pathway Of the Public Life
Insurance Company.
Mr.. Louis Marowetz, president of
the Public Life Insurance Company;
Mr.. J. E Welch, first vice-president,
Mr.. "A. L. Linder, second vice-presi-
dent; Mr.. Kuhne, third vice-president;
Mr.. Brundage, the successful contrac-
tor who constructed the new building
for the Public Life Insurance Com
pany, which costs more than two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars; DR.. D.
@. Boges, DR.. Vim, F. Schaare, chair
man of the -medicaleboard Of the Pub
lie Life Insurance Company; Mr.. NJ.
j. St. George, chief counsel; Mr. A.
L. Williams, associate counsel and one
Of its directors who always stands
close to Mr.. Clover and never fails
him; DR.. James r. White, who fought
for his country on the battlehelds Of
France with the old Eighth Regiment
Of Illinois, and Alderman Charles O.
Hendricks were among the leading
speakers.
1t is we'll worth anyone's time to
pay visit to the new home Office Of
the Public Life Insurance Company,
for it is one Of the finest buildings Of
its kind in the United States.
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Wednesday evening the Public Life
Insurance Company, l400 w. Wash
ington boulevard, threw open to the
public the doors Of its new building.
The meeting and speaking was held
in the marble hall, which held almost
two thousand stockholders. All Of the
head officials of the Public Life Insur-
ance Company were on hand to greet
its many friends and stockholders. The
large hall was very beautifully deco
rated for the wonderful and history
making occasion, with many rare and
beautiful flowers.
Mr.. Alfred Clover, general manager,
presided over the meeting and he
never felt so happy in his life before
as he did at that very time before
starting up the great meeting or gath
ering. An orchestra played the Star
Spangled Banner and everybody stood
up and joined in singing that good
old song which is 50 dearly loved by
all true Americans.
Little Miss La Vergne Hassmanni
with the greatest simplicity, sang a
lovely solo and then Mr.. Clover was
introduced as the chairman Of the
meeting by Hon. George B. Gillespie,
one Of the leading and most promi-
nent attorneys of Springfield, Ill, who
paid a high tribute to Mr.. Clover as
an honest, upright and straight for
ward insurance man and he declared
that Mr.. Clover deserves great credit
for building the Public Life Insurance
Company up from nothing in the past
three of four years until today il
stands forth as one Of the best and
greatest life insurance companies in
the United States.
As Mr.. Clover arose TO speak and
preside over the wonderful gathering
Of its many stockholders, for be it re-
membered that many of its stock
holders are colored men and women
and they were present and freely min
gled with the stockholders Of the op-
posite race and not the slightest at
tempt on the part Of any one wa:
made to draw the "color line; was
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Raymond O'Neil, who has directed
plays in America and Europe, and has
done some brilliant things in vivid
staging, is the director Of the COM
pany.
Tickets for the performances and
further information may be obtained
from Mrs. Jessie Jones, 102 E. Thirty
fifth street Douglas 071o.
The following prominent society
folks will be present at the opening Of
the Avenue Theater, Indiana avenue
and 31st street, Monday evening, Jan.
%, to witness Oscar Wilde's "Sa-
lome":
Mrs. Emmons Blaine, Cyrus H. Nc
Cormick, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Neil
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank 0. Lowden,
Mr.. and Mrs. Kellogg Fairbanks, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur T. Adds, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles s. Peterson, and Morton D.
Hull.
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SUN SHINING BRIGHTER IN
OLD KENTUCKY HOME
Notable Race Progress in 1o22-Better
Schools at Center Of Program
INTERRACIAL COMMISSION
ACTIVE
Best People of State Cooperate, In
cluding Governor and Other
Officials

Louisville, Ky-(Special to The
Broad Ax)-Notable progress in the
betterment of conditions for colored
people and in the improvement of race
relations was made in Kentucky last
year, according to reports presented
at the recent annual meeting in this
city of the State Commission on In
terracial Cooperation This Commits
sion is headed by the Governor, and
its membership Of eighty, half Of them
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-01-27

Attorney A. L. Williams continues
to kick up some dust in his race for
the nomination for alderman Of the
Second Ward, and he and his many
friends feel that he viii be winner
at the primaries Tuesday, February n.
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colored, is made up Of representative
leaders in all lines, including the State
Superintendent Of Education, who is
one of its most sympathetic members.
1t will be seen, therefore, that it is a
most influential body, capable of
bringing things to pass. The work is
directed by DR.. James Bond, colored
leader Of ability and fine spirit, who
has had the sympathy and cooperation
of the best people of the State.
The efforts of the Commission dur
ing the past year were largely directed
toward better school facilities for
Negroes. Remarkable results were
attained, including the following:
"A $l25,0O0 high school addition, a
new school, and the improvement of
Others, in Louisville; 100000 high
school in Lexington; enlargement Of
high school at Richmond; new build
ings at Mayheld, Jackson, La Grange
and other points; participation in pro-
ceeds Of school bond issues in Bowling
Green, Owensboro and Middlesboro;
and additional teachers and increased
salaries in certain places.
The Director was asked by the State
Superintendent of Education to out
line program for the betterment Of
the Negro school system Of the State,
and suggested the appointment Of a
colored supervisor, the raising Of the
State Normal to college grade, and the
establishment Of new State Normal.
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THE COLORED PEOPLE IN THE
UNITED STATES REPUDIATE
BACK TO AFRICA" MOVEMENT,
SAYS PROFESSOR WILLIAM E. B.
DU BOIS.

CRISIS" EDITOR DECLARES
MARCUS GARVEY AGITATION
A PRODUCT OF LOTHROP
STODDARD TYPE OF PROPA-
GANDA, CHARGES GARVEY
NEGO TIAT ED WITH KU
KLUX KLAN
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This program was accepted, the first
two steps have already been taken,
and the third is confidently expected
next year.
The Director was asked to assist
also in locating the eight colored sum-
mer Normals and was requested to
address them all on the subject Of in
terracial cooperation. He has taken
the same message to the principal
white colleges of the State and has
been heard sympathetica1ly every
where. Some of these great schools
have courses in interracial relations
and plans are under way to put such
courses in others.
Better playground facilities have
been secured in Louisville, May6eid
and Jackson, and plans are under way
tor municipal swimming pool in
Louisville. Legal aid has been ex-
tended in certain cases, privilege of
membership in the Strawberry Asso-
ciation has been secured for the
Negroes Of Warren County, vigorous
Health Week campaign was con-
Quoted, reaching 10000 people, and
one tense situation which threatened
mob violence was cleared up.
In addition to the State Interracial
Commission. there are about seventy
county committees in Kentucky, most
of them functioning effectively. The
method is that of frank conference
and sympathetic cooperation.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08
WelIinnton At Waterloo.

OF The Duke of W|ellingfon's personal
conduct in the battle Of Waterloo (June
Is. $3.50. Sir William Fraser says in
his "Words on Wellington: mo man
in his army was so exposed during the
baftle as the duke himself. He rode
along the top of the ridge that shell
tered his troops in some measure from
tie fire of the French artillery. This
was done not in the slightest degree
for theatrical display, but because, aft
er carefully balancing ia his mind the
advantages and disadvantages, he de-
termined that it was better for him to
DO SO. He felt that everything de-
pended upon him, and that the loss Of
bis life might be the loss of his army.
on tine other hand. ne knew that he
had 70 deal with troops, not with a few
exceptions veterans. but chiefly boys,
for they We're hardly more, many Of
whom had neve been engaged, and
who had had no opportunity Of seeing
him win - battle. He felt that his first
object must be to inspire confidence iD
his solliers.'
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08
JUDGE HAS SENSE OF HUM0R
English Legal Luminary Might Have
Made His Way If He Had
"Broken Into Print"

Judges are supposed to be most
solemn and dignified, but Justice Oar
ling of London is a bright exception
to this rule. Indeed, his friends claim
that he is in a class with the late
Mark Twain and should properly have
been a writer.
Illustrative of Judge Darling's turn
of mind is the case of a certain wit
ness who testified that he went into
a saloon called The Elephant Inn,
to use the telephone.
"a trunk call, 1 suppose" flashed
the judge.
On another occasion, when a chauf-
feur was on the carpet for reckless
driving Judge Darling asked:
DO you think that you can get a
license and then, not knowing how
to drive, careen about the streets as
you like?'
Eyes, sir" replied the chauffeur.
81 only wanted to know explained
the judge, because I sometimes have
to walk on the streets myself.'-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
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uunUjmUmu
CAPTAINS OF
BY ROGER POCOCK
By ROGER POCOCK
gopyrsbt by obbs MerrulC Company

| the shocked reader turn to better writ
ten works.
As to the truthfulness of adven-
tuners. perhaps we are all more or less
truthful when we try to be good. But
there are two kinds of adventures
who need sharply watching. The
worst is F. c. Selous. Once he lee
tured to amuSe the children at a
founding hospital, and when he came
to single cOmbats with a wounded
lion or a mad elephant he was forced
to mention himself as one of the per-
sons present. He blushed. Then he
would race through a hair-lifting story
of the fight, and in an apologize a
ner, give all the praise TO the ele-
plant, or the lion lately deceased.
Surely nobody could suspect him Of
any merit. yet all the children saw
through him for a transparent fraud.
and even we grownups felt the better
for meeting so grand a gentleman.
The other sort of lar, who does not
understate his own merits, is Jim Beck
wourth. He told his story, quite truth
fully at first, to a journalist who took
it down in shorthand. But when the
man gaped with admiration at the
merest tritleS. Jim was on his mettle
testing this persons powers of belief,
which were absolutely boundless. At
ter that, of course. he hit the high
places striking the facts about once in
twentY-four hours. and as one reads
the book, one can catch the thud
whenever he hit the truth.
Let no man dream that adventure is
a thing of the past or that adventures
are growing scarce. The only diff
Guilty of this series was to squeeze the
past in order to make space for living
men worthy as their forerunnerS. The
list is enormous, and I only dared to
estimatesSuch men of our own time as
I have known by correspondence, ac-
quaintance, friendship. enmity or by
serving under their leadership. Here
again, l could only speak safely in
cases where there were records, as
with Lord Strathcona, Colonel S. 3.
Steele. Colonel Cody, Major Forbes,
Captain Grogan. Captain Amundsen,
Captain Hansen. Mr.. John Boyes. Left
out. among Americans, are NJ. H. de
Hora who. in a Gillian campaign, with
only a boats crew, cut ont the battle
ship Huascar, plundered a British
tramp of her bunker coal, and fought
II. NJ. S. Shah on the high seas. An
other American, Doctor Bodkin, was
for some years prime minister of
Makualand. an Arab sulanate. Among
British adventures, necessary to
leave out. Caid Bolton is one Of four
successive British commanders-in-chie
10 the Moorish sultans. Colonel Temp
kins was commandments to Jo-
hore. c. W. Mason was captured with
a shlpload of arms in an attempt TO
make himself emperor Of China.
Charles Rose rode from Mazatlan in
Mexico to Corrientes in Paraguay. A.
". Y. Crawley, a chief Of scouts to
Lord Roberts in South Africa, rode
out of action after being seven times
shot. and he rides now a little askew
In consequence.
To sum up, if one circle of acquaint-
anees includes such a group today,
the adyenmrer IS not quite an extinct
species. and indeed. we not at the
end. but at the beginning Of the great
est of all adventurous pras, that of
the Adventures of the air.
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Where Fun Comes In

Fun is a safety valve that lets the
steam pressure oph from the biler, and
keeps things from bursting. Fun is
the dansing particles. which fiji oph
from the surface oy unbottled cider,
It IL the senseless frolik oy the spring
lam in the clover, it IL the merry twin
kle that kreeps down tew the korner
ov the parsons eye. to stand in the
sunlite and see what's going on. Fun
fz as karliss az a kolt, az happy as a
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08
Greeklike.

Gen. Arbuthnot b. Garrett said at
a Los Angeles luncheon:
1.-THE way the Greeks ran away from
the Turks reminds me of Wash White.
Wash, you know, ran away from the
Heinies' bullets so fast one day that
he caught up with them only a few
minutes after they had passed him by.
another day while Wash vas with
drawing in this manner his colonel
held him up.
"'Washington,' the colonel shouted,
are you running away?
"'No, kunnel, ah sutny amt pant
ed Wash, but abs jest passed a heap
O. niggahs what is"
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MUCH in LITTLE

Camels lived in Florida hundreds OF
thousands of years ago.
Ethylene, recently announced as d
new anesthetic, was used TO produce
anesthesia experimentally in 1864.
There are twenty-four clock ana
watch factories in the Black forest OF
Germany.
Chauncey NJ. Depew is believed TO
have delivered more public addresses
than any other man now living.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08

Chicago has a law firm composed OF
mother, son and daughter.
Havana, Cuba, has a new hotel that
VIII accommodate 1000 guests.
Lake Victoria, in Africa, the second
largest fresh water lake in the world
is almost exactly circular.
Silk furnishes the longest continu.
Gus fiber known. One cocoon has been
known to yield nearly three-fourths
Of q mile.
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His ~Supposition.

"Well, what's the idy?" demanded
Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. what
have you got your face smeared with
that laundering stuff for?"
81 was eating elderberries, and"
replied his son, Runt.
Jaw, eating 'em? l lowed you was
just wearing 'em."-Kansas City Star.
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Awful 70 CONTEMPLATE.

The Outline of Science says that If
in the course of ages the supply Of
heat from the sun becomes less and
less, the earth will become cold. The
sea will become as hard as rock,
frozen from top to bottom. and over
this an ocean of liquid air will roll,
ahn1t forty feet in depth.
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bridegroom, and az silly az a luv-
six sk~ool-girl. Fun IL the holOy day
wisdom ov the sage, the phool's pholly,
and everyboddy's puppet. Next few
the virtew in this world, the fun in it
IL what we can least spare. Trulyl
Oh! Truly Josh Billings.
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church as To-Day.
We are confronted
with u program of
activities that In
it's magnitude and
scope is nearly
W b e Inning.
Service | I h g
creed of every de-
nomination a n d
the iy S q |
trend of every ser
o 1t Is. In
deed, a day for
the busy. bustling
M b q S. The
Marys are over
looked, If not re-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08
An Act of Sacrifice.

The incarnation was an act of sacri.
fee, SO patient and so brilliant that 1t
has arrested every mind. 1t was the
sacrifice unto the lowest, and there
fore life in the highest, an outburst
and climax of life.-Ian Maclaren.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08
Divine Presence.

When Thou art present all things
are delightful, but when Thou art alb.
sent everything becomes irksome.
Thou givest quietness of heart, and
great peace, and festal joy.-Thomas
a.. KempLa~
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08
Doing More by
Doing Less
By REV. C. H. BENSON
Teacher of Child Study and Pedagogy.
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.


TExT-Martha was numbered about
much serving. and came to Him. n
aid, Lord, dost thou not care that
my sister hath left me to serve aionef
Bid her therefore that she heip me-
And Jesus answered and said unto her,
Martha Martha. thou art careful and
troubled about many things: But one
thing Is needful: and Mary hath chosen
that good part, which shall not De
taken away from her.-Luke lo.4o-4z'
Never were there such great plans
of worldwide work set before the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-08
The First Theater.

Before 1876 plays were given in Eng
land on platforms erected for tenn
porary use in the courtyards of public
houses. 1t was not until after that
date that theaters were built.
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ADVENTURES

What Is an adyenturer? One who
has adventures? Surely not. A per-
son charged by a wild rhinOceros is
having an adventure, yet however
wild he animal, however wild the per-
son. he is only somebody wishing him
self at home, not IN adyenturer. In
dictionaries the adyenturer is "one
who seeks his fortune in new II
hazardous or perilous enterprises.
But outside the pages of u dictionary,
the man who seeks his fortune, who
really cares for money and his WI
advantage, sits at some desk derldlnS
the fools who take thouSand-to-one
chances in a gamble with Death. DID
the patron saint of adyenturers' Saint
Paul. or did Saint Louis, or Frames
Drake, or Livingstone, or Gordon seek
their own fortune, think you? In real
life the %adventurer Is one who seeks,
not his fortune. bur the new n
hazardous or perilous enterprises.
There are holy saints and scoundrels
among adventures, but all the thou-
sands l have known were fools OF the
romantic temperament. dealing with
life as al artist does with canvas, 10
color it with fierce and vivid feeling
deep shade and radiant light. eNultine
In the passions of the sea, the terrors
Of the wilderness, the splendors OF
sunshine and starlight. the eXaltation
of battle. fire and hurricane.
All nations have bred great adven-
furers. but the living nation remem-
bers them sending the boys on into
the world enriched with memories OF
vaior. q heritage of national honor, an
Inspiration to ennoble their manhood.
That is the only real wealth of men
and of peoples. For such purposes
these stories are written. but so vast
is the theme that the compilation
would outgrow all reasonable size UNI
less We set some limit. \ man in the
regular standing forces Of his native
state is not dubbed adventurer. When,
for example. the immortal heroes
Tromp and De Ruyter fought the
British generals at sea. Blake and
Monk. they were no more adventures
than are the police who guard orr
homes at night. We're Give and War
ren Hastings adventures? They would
turn in their graves if one thought
such a charge. The true type of adj
yenturer is the lone-hand pioneer.
It is not from any bias of mine that
fhe worthless of Switzerland, the Teu-
tonic empires and Russia, T shut out
Of this record but because it seems
that the lone-hand oversee and over
land pioneers come mainly from
nations directly fronting upon the
.. As far as I am prejudiced,
Il is in favor of old Norway, whose
heroes have entranced me with
the sheer glory of their perfect
manhood. For the rest, u own Eng
disappearing folk are easier for US to
understand than any foreigners.
As 10 the manner of record, We must
follow the stream Of history if we
would shoot the rapids of adventure.
New as to the point of view: Ny
literary pretensions are small and
humble. but 1 claim the right Of an adj
yenturer, trained in thirty-three trades
pf the Lost Region. to absolute free
dom of speech concerning frontiers
men. Let history low down before
but as a foremost seaman,