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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10
Be Dignified
at Trial, Is
Papers Plea
lRv Enlind Nnwal


What does Tennessee think OF the
John T. Scopes trial? Are the news
papers. the leaders of public opinion.
behind tho anti-evolution law? on
the eve of the trial OF tho young
Dayton high school teacher, the
United News has requested tho lead
ing newspapers Of the Southern state
to give their editorial views on tho
question which has created unprece.
denied interest turnout the country.
Some OF the newspapers favor the
now law; others regret II, and still
others feel that legal battle In not
tho proper method for deciding such
n vital question. Tho views of the
largest dallles, as te,egraphed TO the
United News, follow.
MEMPHIS NENNS.SCINIITAR -
The trial at Dayton is important only
In one respect Does the Tennessee
anti-cvolutlon law violate the state
and federal constitution? This aucs.
ton ought TO be fought out in de.
cent md dignlfled way. The question
of whether science or religion are
correct In their stories of creation Ia
not gdrmanc TO the real issue of the
lawsuit, nor is this question capable
of adjudication by court or jury,
Bryan or barrow.
KNOXVILLE SENTINEL - The
true merit OF tho evolution case. as
we see 1t. is that evolution and re.
ligion- the revealed word OF God and
tho discovered foetss or indicated
theoric5 OF science, do not conflict
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10
Hold Funeral of
Martin Rechel

Funeral services FOR Martin Bcch.
81. II. viii be held Saturday morn.
ing al . o'clock in st. Bcnediets
church lie died Thursday Mt the
home Of his son. Louis L. Bechcl
and will be buried in Calvary GENE.
terry
He IL survived BY three sons
Louis l., Philip and John Il, Bechci.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10
BY CHARLES VI. MCCAIN
f,g,,H N.,.. Staff Torrasnandont

LONDON. July 9.-Engiand is fol.
lowing tho fireworks preliminary 10
the Scopes evolution trial in Ten
nessco with an attitude OF nervous
amusement. as II the newspaper ed.
itors and readers were not sure
whether Mr.. Bryan's battle OF the
century is another American joke
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10

Iudcndorff announced that
candidates for office and their
near relatives should refrain
from voting, and tho returns In.
dictate that he and his relatives
must have voted for him.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10
Think Monkey Trial Is
BalIy American Joke
Britishers, Interested, Don't Know How to
Take Evolution Battle

or definite evidence of the inclpient
national insanity OF which English
men always have half suspected the
United States.
American press agents have cru.
ely hoaSed England during recent
years, and the latest prank used the
sacrosanct army as its butt. Eng.
land does not want to have its leg
pulled further In any such manner
There is, in fact. some apprehension
that Darwin's origin OF species has
been filmed and Is now en- route TO
England.
The English reaction TO the Ten.
nessee convulsion is about what 1t
would be IL II were announced that
the members OF the Unitea States
senate had accepted vacation en-.
gagements as circus clowns.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10
Wife Lies in Bed;
He Sets 1t Ablaze

NEW YORK. July no When
Mrs, Maf5 NJ Burke failed 10 arise
and prepare breakfast, her husband
set fire 90 her bed. sho charges In
her suit for separation. Tho hua.
band is Edward Burke. basketball
player, who Tor many years cap.
tanned tho celebrated ccltlcs.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10
GENERAL AIR
is W0NDERNiENT

There Is a general air OF wonder-
ment that It is possible to stage
even a scmi-serious trial regarding
evolution, which is universally ac-
cepted here, even in the churches,
Attic tho wonder is great, there
is scant editorial comment. The
Daily News merely remarks that
Mr.. Bryan has scarcely closed his
mouth, except in sleep, for 90 years.
Scientists alone are taking the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10

Look IN todoy's Want AID columns
for good houses to ront.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10
A historical shnrner hns dur

mp thc information that, 400
years ago, children of England
were tnught to smoke tobacco
In sEhool, Don't need ,be
schools for II, nowadays.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10

THIS that ends at $50 tomorrow night has emphasized the fact
that furniture Of the Better Kind be purchased here at worth
while savings Tomorrow he last day of the sa you make
unrestricted choice from entire stock of furniture lover 5000
different peceS) the kind you will proudly through the
TO come-at prices well below regular
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10

TOMORROW - Letter from Leslie
Prescott 10 the Little Mnrouisc.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-07-10

seized and tho sot, drink -tand at
e3oi First ave was wrecked boy axes.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
THE BIGGEST NEWSPAPER IN
THE WORLD JUMPS ON
SOME OF ITS LADY READERS

The following is reproduced from
the biggest newspaper in the world
and true to its past, record, it always
delights to cat-hop some Of its lady
readers.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
A Correction

Last weeks Defender contained an
article stating that Elvira Williams,
l8, and Matte Mosby, 18, who were
taken on raid on an alleged vice
nest at 544 Liberty ST., gave their ad-
dresses as 2o35 Prairie Ave. when TAX
en- to the police station.
Mrs. Isadore Winters, who has lived
at the Prairie Ave. address for more
than nine years, states that no such
persons live or have ever lived there.
The Defender wishes to make note Of
the correction.
Mrs. Winters is very well known in
club and church circles, being a mem
Der Of the Olivet Baptist church, afiI-
lated with several church clubs and a
senior in the Wendell Phillips high
school
It seems that every week that Col
Abbott wishes to make a note of some
unpleasant things which have been
said BY him Or bis one thousand IN
reliable writer's Editor.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
MANY ISTING SHE D
FRIENDS WERE THE HOUSE
GUESTS OF MRS. PATTERSON
THE PAST WEEK

The following were some Of the
honored guests of Mrs. Hiliard Pat
terson, 4421 Indiana avenue, the past
week. She was pleasantly surprised
by receiving an unexpected visit from
Mr. Martin Powell, member Of the
House Of Representatives, Washing
ton, D. c., accompanying him was
Miss .Estelle Kennedy, formerly Of St.
Louis, No
Miss Helen Fields, an instructor in
the public schools Of St. Louis, Mo,
is also one Of the house guests Of Mrs.
Patterson and she will visit in this
city some time
Mrs. Jeanette Gahan, committee
woman in the 23rd ward, St. Louis, is
also spending her vacation in Chicago
visiting relatives and with her warm
friend, Mrs. Patterson.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
GIRL RECANTS STORY OF AT
TACK BY big BURLY"
NEGRO FIEND
Petting Party Turns Out Disastrously
for Fair Maiden; Attempt to
Shield White Escort Fails
preston News service)

Rockville, Nd, Aug. 21.-In fren-
zied effort to shield her companion
from the fury Of her parents a 10
year-old white girl whose bruised face,
arms and body as we'll as torn gaS-
ments bore undeniable testimony that
she had been the victim Of a vicious
attack, told the age-long story, which
always causes the public spirited
whites to form hastily group Of law
abiding citizens who promptly secure
justice in the lynching Of a Negro,
that she had been attacked by Negro
man.
But it somehow appears that the
whites Of Rockville were not over en-
thusiastic to hold a public expression
Of an American pasttime without be-
Ing 4 little more certain Of the facts
in the case and consequently the
young lady was subjected to some
questioning which soon caused her to
recant the story about being attacked
by burly Negro.
She then named a white youth, Rob
ert S. Parkhurst, aged p years, the
SON Of a prominent family, and whose
mother, Mrs. Virginia Peters Park
hurst recently announced her eandi-
dacy for the Democratic senatorial
nomination. Young Parkhurst was
charged with criminal assault He is
held in Jail, the charge being nom
bailable. The girl finally admitted to
the Montgomery county officials that
She and Parkhurst had been on inti-
mate terms, but that she had broken
with him after learning that he was
paving attention to another girl
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
Member of the Board Cook County, who
the big West Side leaders Of the Republican party who
may harmony candidate fighting
for Mayor of Chicago in 1927
SAYS HUSBAND is COLORED
AFTER MARITAL SHIP
CAPSIZES
preston News Service)

Richmond, Va, Aug. 21.-Mrs.
Maude Monahan, who is said to be
under the care Of physician here
following beating by her husband;
told local police that her husband is
a colored man. She said that she mar
Fied him about 18 months ago. They
lived in Washington, D. c., where, she
says, he was employed in the govern
ment service. Following some do
mestic troubles the woman said she
left him and came to Richmond and
obtained employment in real estate
Office. She says that her husband fol-
lowed her here and she caused his ar
rest recently.
According to the police, while Mrs
Monahan was on her way from work,
in an automobile with a white man,
to the Y. w. G. A. where she roomed
she was attacked by her husband and
beaten over the head, her escort fee
ing for assistance. When the escort
returned with assistance, it is said the
woman's assailant fred two shots and
escaped. The woman was uncon-
scious.
Richmond police are making an in
vestigation Of the woman's assertions
that Wilson is colored, and the mar
riage records of Is months ago, in
Washington, d. O., are being con-
suited. The woman gives her name as
Maude Monahan and she says her
husbands name is James Wilson.
Miscegenation is forbidden by Vir-
ginia law.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
COL Robert S. Abbott in 1922 Failed Support Hon. Peter
Hoffman for Sheriff of Cook County. On the Other Hand
He Boosted the Late James NJ Daley His Democratic Oppo
nent, for Sheriff of This City and County
BOOK CHAT
By MARY WHITE OVINGTON,
Chairman Board Of Directors Of the National Association
for the Advancement Of Coored People

vice, easy morality and supreme lazi-
ness $50
It is chloroform for an already too
sleepy continent. 1t is making a bad
situation vastly worse" And is this
true that Mr.. Price says with much
emphasis?;; 1T is the everlasting les
son Of mankind that he who never
feels like hurrying physically will
never run very far mentally or NOR
ally"
Half of the book deals with Africa
and half with the new world. The
chapters on the progress Of the Negro
in the United States are full of praise.
Of the West Indies the story IS less
friendly. Dutch Guiana is admired
and the Barbados; but Jamaica, or
rather Kingston, is described as a place
Of pirates. Mr.. Price evidently only
knows Port Antonio and Kingston.
The Jainaicans of the hills, away
from the demoralizing influence Of the
whites in the seaport towns, are as
honest and law-abiding a people as
any in the universe. Haiti, as usual,
receives the most censure. This is the
Island where the green serpent IS
worshipped. Along the coast there are
few missionaries but they are like
a drop Of water in a sea Of blood"
This is insulting, as the Protestant is
too often insulting, to the work Of the
Catholic Church whose priests are
busy throughout the Island. The cul-
tured Haitians are utterly ignored. We
would suggest that Mr.. Price read the
article in the August Crisis on Ne
groes as Poets, translated from the
Danish of Carl Kjersmeier, and learn
how well-known and highly praised
are Haitian poets in France and on
the continent
The book ends with word as to
the future. There are two chief fac
tors in the future Of the black race.
One is its amazingly rapid increase in
numbers. The other is the equally
amazing rapidity with which it pro-
crosses wherever it is brought under
progressive influences" The right
progressive influences are Protestant
missions and the Negroes Of America
are urged especially to support them
with money and their personal efforts.
One may say Of the book that it
has Interestingly boiled down current
knowledge and current prejudice.
And the fact that it is on the whole
kindly shows how much prejudice Is
waning.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
SENATOR BUTLER AGREES TO
OPPOSE FEDERAL SEGRE-
CATION
Divulges That Someone Has Reported
That Extent is Slight, But His Mind
Is Open. VIII Introduce Dyer Bill
League Appeals to Race to Act

Boston, Mass.-A direct attack on
federal segregation, resulting in the
start Of positive move to eliminate
it, was made recently here at face
to-face interview with the Chairman
Of the National Republican Committee
in an audience granted by Sen. w. M.
Butler, whose campaign for return to
the Y. S. Senate is about to begin, at
his Boston Office, II Franklin street,
to delegation Of the National Equal
Rights League of national and local
officers and Rev H. H. Proctor Of the
Brooklyn branch.
Rev. D. L. Ferguson opened the ap-
peal, Sec'y VIM. Monroe Trotter
elaborated in the prevalence and in
jury Of the practice and urged Mr..
Butler to remove it through his power
as national party chairman and chief
adviser to the President, stating the
League urged the race to support the
party in the belief that with Presi-
dent and Chairman, both from
Massachusetts,, segregation will be re-
moved.
Senator Butler said he was opposed
to segregation and would work against
it. While it was a matter Of principle,
yet he had been told there was little
OF it at Washington, yet his mind was
open as to its extent. He did not
favor legislation against it, as segrega-
ton was an executive and administra-
tive matter He said he would intro
duce the Dyer Bill at the coming
session. He might not be able to
have his way on segregation but would
try and would confer later with repre-
sentatives Of the League.
Requested to Get President to Act
Rev. E. K. Nichols, of Cambridge,
on getting admission that the evil was
executive said that. therefore, the
President could stop it by order and
that the delegation asked him to get
the President to act Senator Butler
replied that it was not customary for
President to interfere with Depart
ment Office regulations. He admitted,
however, that evidenced displeasure at
a condition BY the President usually
caused a change.
Secretary Trotter declared that seq
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
THE HON. N. D. McGILL, BROTHER
N-LAW OR SON-IN-LAW OF COL.
ROBERT S. ABBOTT, is STILL
HOLDING DOWN HIS EASY JOB IN
THE STATES ATTORNEYS OF
FICE OF COOK COUNTY.

gall to state that his brother-in-law,
Hon. N. d. McGill, was placed in the
States Attorneys Office in order to
reward him for his past loyalty to the
leading Republican candidates in this
city and county, which is all hogwash.
Hon Peter NJ Hoffman, the high
sheriff Of Cook County, can truthfully
testify in relation to the raw deal
which was dealt to him by Col. Abbott
prior to and after the primaries in the
spring Of 1922. Before the primaries
Of that year Col. Abbott played up his
Republican opponent good and strong
and Mr.. Hoffman's name was kept
away in the background or it was hid
away down in small space in one of
the corners Of his newspaper and not
one person in a thousand would see it.
Mr.. Hoffman naturally thought that
Col. Abbott posing as true blue
Republican that all Of his troubles
with him would be over after the
primaries, but in that Mr.. Hoffman
and his friends were sadly mistaken
for Col Abbott to all intents
and purposes was looking for more
Democratic money and he fell in be-
hind the late James M. Daley, Demo
cratic candidate for sheriff Of Cook
County in 1922, and Col. Abbott and
his notoriously unreliable newspaper
played Mr.. Daley right up to the cleo
ton that fall against honest Peter M.
Hoffman for Sheriff Of Cook County.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
SERGEANTs JOHN ]. FORD AND
JOHN ]. DoHNEY HAD "A
WONDERFUL TRIP WHILE
HUNTING FOR AUTOMOBILE
THIEVES

The first part Of this week Sergeant
John J. Dohney, Second Assistant
Sergeant-at-Arms Of the City Council,
who has become exceedingly popular
with all Of the City Fathers by simply
attending to his duties and not at
tempting to lord it over them and over
the others who come in contact with
him and Sergeant John J. Ford, who
is in charge Of the auto detail and it
is Bis duty to run down and catch all
the boys who think that they have the
right to run away in any auto which
happens to strike their fancy.
Mrs. Dohney and Mrs. Ford accom-
panied their dutiful husbands on the
stolen auto trip. Sergeant Dohney
sat at the wheel while Sergeant Ford
was engaged in looking for the auto
robbers. After driving several hundred
miles through the tall woods or high
timbers Of Wisconsin and not finding
any auto thieves, they wound up the
pleasant vacation trip BY landing at
Mae1inac Islands. Michigan, from
which point after having spent the
time Of their lives they returned to
Chicago safe and sound.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
COLORED HOTEL OWNERS
MEET
columbian Press Bureau)

Columbian Press Bureau
Washington-Last week the colored
hotel owners met at the New Liberty
Hotel to discuss the progress and de-
velopment Of their national organiza-
ton which represents 247 hotels. The
organization is especially interested in
highly trained management and su-
perior sanitation. The meeting was
addressed by Joseph I. Greenlease,
president, on Hotel Management,
Cooperation and Service" Owners Of
all our leading hotels from the At
lantic to the Pacific were in attend
ance
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
THE NEGRO AROUND THE
WORLD"

BY Willard Price. Published by The
George Doran Company, IA Madison
Ave-, New York City. Price SIS. BY
Mail SIS.
In this book of seventy-fve pages
every chapter contains the essence Of
FIVE thousand words boiled to FIVE hun
dred." So the cover reads and it is
certainly remarkable that, pursuing
this method, the book is interesting.
The writer points out that the Negro
will soon be an enormous factor in
international life 1t is as far around
Africa as around the world, and in
this vast continent, now that Science
is beginning to halt disease, "it is esti-
mated that due to the remarkable vi
tality and fecundity of the race, the
black population will double every
fifty years" Moreover, Africa is a rich
continent, with twelve crops Of alfalfa
Ia year raised in parts Of East Africa,
with the finest cotton. with large
share Of the worlds rubber, with more
cocoa than from any other continent
and in the South with gold and dia
monds. And this continent, save for
the fringe of whites around the edge,
j. populated by Negroes.
Of the black people in Africa we
are told that their worst sin is idle
ness. "Idleness brings after it an end
less train Of evils. Idleness has sunk
the African native in a degradation Of
mind from which he can be lifted only
by being taught the attractiveness and
value Of hard work" Their treatment
OF women is a second sin. Women are
sold as slaves were, sold. "At a bar
gain sale two inferior wives were sold
tor a good goat" Superstition is a
third fault and this is but slowly be-
ing removed by the missions. ''Of
every hundred people in Africa, three
are Christians, thirty-six are Moham-
medans." There is Of course, no edu-
cation in Western sense, only one Af-
rican tribe having a written language
before the missionaries came.
One does not read far to see that
the book is written with the Protes-
tant missionary basis. No American
women is likely to look kindly on No
hammedanism, but I cannot but think
Mr.. Price is over severe when he saws,
Mohammedanism, as taught among
the blacks, is religion of excused
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22

It has been forever far beyond
reasonable doubt from time to time
IN these columns that Col. Robert S.
Abbott has never been true or loyal
ii his support Of the regular Repub-
Gcan candidates seeking the votes of
the people residing in this city or
county. for in 1918 even after Hon.
Harry Olson had honorably won the
nomination at the primaries for Chief
Justice Of the Municipal Court Of
Chicago, Col. Abbott turned him down
cold and threw his weak influence and
his old time turn coat newspaper to
The late M. F. Sullivan, Democrat
for Chief Justice Of that court
At that same election he side
stepped the late United States Senator
Mccormick and trotted along behind
the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, the
Democratic candidate for United
States Senator from Illinois, and SEEM
ingy after having his hands well
creased with both Democratic and
Republican money, at the same time
Oh the last Saturday before the cleo
ton that year, he finally jumped into
the McCormick's band wagon.
It will Be recalled that Col. Abbott
would not publish one line in favor Of
the denomination of the Hon. Robert
E. Grove for States Attorney Of Cook
County prior to the primaries in 1924
Notwithstanding all Of the foregoing
Col Abbott has the brass nerve or
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
HAITIAN YOUTH SPEEDY
SPRINTER
lCoIumbian &c Bureau)

Washington.-From Paris com G $
the news that France has at last
found within her borders a colored
sprinter who can compete with the
worlds best with an even chance Of
success. 1t is claimed, however, that
the discovery will not assist France
in the 1928 Olympic games at Ans
terdam, because the new speed mer-
chant is a Haitian youth named An
drew Theard, who is student in
Paris. He cannot enter for France
because it is not his native country.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22

BY Willard Price. Published by The
George Doran Company, IA Madison
Ave-, New York City. Price SIS. BY
Mail SIS.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22
DENSITY OF POPULATION
lCoIumbian Press Bureanl

Washington.-The average density
Of population for the United States
J. about 50 to the square mile. The
most densely populated state is little
Rhode Island with 50 inhabitants per
square mile. The second state IN
density is New Jersey, with 42O peo-
pie TO the mile. New York State has
2l7, and Pennsylvania. 1914
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22

Colored campaign workers, and thus
to make sure Of this opportunity to
remove the worst Of all degradations.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-22

Mrs. Harry Love. Mrs Beatrice
Shaw and Mrs. Lillian Rogers, Of St.
Louis, Mo, are the house guests Of
'aeir warm friends, Mrs. Jennie john
s'on and Mrs Lottie Garter, 472s Vim
Cennes avenue.