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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
MUNDELEIN RECEIVED ITAL-
IAN DECORATION

Cardinal Mundelein was decorated
Thursday with the star and cross Of
the Royal Italian Order of the Crown
of Italy. The distinction was con-
ferred by DR.. Leopold Zunini, Italian
consul general in Chicago, in the name
of the Mussolini government. A spe-
cial messenger from Premier Musso-
lini arrived with the decoration
Wednesday, The Italian government
sent word that it desires 20 bestow
tie honor on the Chicago cardinal in
recognition Of his services to humanity.
Cardinal Mundelein is said to be the
first American upon whom the star
and cross or the Italian order has
ever been bestowed
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
SHUTTLE ALONG LIZA COM
PANY BROADCASTS OVER
VINO
preston News Service)

Memphis, Tenn, Oct 8-Perform-
ers appearing with the Shuttle Along
Liza Company here last week at the
Beale Avenue Palace Theatre, fur
nished midnight frolic from the
VINO station last Tuesday night.
Blues were their speciality, but there
were also some numbers a BIT differ
ent. Most Of the musical numbers
were furnished BY the Williamson
Midnight Ramble Orchestra, which
plays regularly at the theatre, and it
was the soft melodious sort without
the usual loudness of the modern jazz.
According to the officials of the sta
ton considerable favorable comment
was received from listeners-in from
various sections OF the country.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
FOOTBALL NEWS FROM KNOX
VILE COLLEGE

The Knoxville College football
squad, boasting .thirty-six members
are fast being whipped into shape for
the opening guns with Atlanta Uni
versity on the tenth of October. Hav-
ing fourteen letter men back and a
wealth of new material to work with
the coach is very optimistic about the
approaching season. Cromwell, an all
southern guard for two years, is again
in the field Husky Bryant, the cap
tain and center is playing his last sea
son and will bid fair to make it his
best Fowlkes in the back field is get
ting his stride in kicking, plunging ant
passing The schedule is the hardest
one for several seasons.
&C. L. Moore, Coach
Schedule
Atlanta University at Atlanta, o.
tober TO-
Clark University at Knoxville, Oc-
tober IL.
Open date October "a.
Fisk University at Nashville, o.
tober 81.
Roger Williams at Nashville
November 7.
Livingston College at Knoxville
November IA.
Kentucky Normal at Frankfort, No
vember 21
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
NEW YORK ARCHITECT WINS
THE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
PRIZE

Washington, ID. C.,-John Russell
Pope, New York architect, has been
awarded the $4,000 prize for the best
design submitted to the Roosevelt
Memorial Association for a national
memorial in Washington to Theodore
Roosevelt Announcement Of the
award was made Wednesday by James
R. Garfield, president Of the associa-
ton. The character Of the winning
design will not be made known until
it is presented to Congress in accord
ance with the law under which the
association was created.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10

''The more I visit the congested
parts of cities like Cleveland, Chicago,
Philadelphia, and New York. the more
I am convinced that the best place for
the average Negro, if he is a farmer.
and if he IS in any degree successful
as such, is in the farming districts Of
the South. 1t is a we'll known fact
that wherever Negro people gather in
large racial groups, prejudice is in
tensihed and the solution Of the color
problem is indeed more difficult and IS
longer deferred" writes Prof. w. s.
Scarborough, formerly Of the South
land and president of Wilberforce
University, in Current History Mag
azine" This sounds not unlike Ger
many's warning to the good ship
Lusitania, and its subsequent demoli-
ton BY the barbarian nation.
First, speaking of the average Ne
gro, if he is a farmer" is like saying,
"the average man if he is a baseball
player should stay in the baseball dis
tricts-" There are thousands and
thousands of Negro farmers, but, &C
cording to the u S. Census Bureau,
which probably has fair means of
studying population and occupations,
the average Negro, like the average
white man, is not a farmer. Those
Of his ranks, who pursue that laudable
employment, should decide what their
modus operandi should be upon a
specialized basis. But the Negro as a
Negro and without any designation
other than his citizenship, ought to
move to and fro, just as he ses fit.
There is no reason why he should
turn farmer just to escape the con
gested regions Of New York or Chi
cago. Even the average Jew is net a
pawnbroker, and it would not be COM
mon sense to have him change his
trade and retreat to the streets OF
Jerusalem.
The fact is that if other Americans
can thrive in Cleveland, Chicago, OF
New York, congested or otherwise
just so should the American Negro
expect to thrive in those points, and
the citizens of the Nation and its state
and federal government should rush
to his aid in bringing about a pleasant
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
THE FIRST MEETING OF THE
KNOWLEDGE SEEKERS CLUB
Continued from Page u

groups, and, in fine, in the establish
ment Of that universal brotherhood 50
strongly advocated BY the true Chris
ton religion The confguration, or
relative place, of this race-group com
pared with other race-groups can only
be determined by that immutab1e cen
tripeta1 force called Manhood, in its
three-fold aspect: morality (based on
true religion), education and finances.
Contrariwise, hewers of wood and
drawers Of water, we are doomed to be-
Take Greece, contrasted with other
nations, as an example Of what mean.
Tyre and Sidan, Babylon and Eineveh
bought and sold; where are those
cities? Buried beneath the ruins Of the
antiquated past! Over their history
have settled the stiffness Of the desert,
and the gloom Of eternal night. Greece
taught, and she is today the capital Of
human thought The grass, possibly,
crowns on the six steps Of the tribune
where spoke Demosthenes: the Pan
theon has crumbled; the Acropolis,
doubtless, is in ruins; the bovine spe-
cies browse on the Pynx; the Cerami-
Gus is a ravine half choked with the
debris of what was once the marble
palace of Cecrops; the palace of At
ticus is a mass of ruins on which falls
at certain hours the imperfect shadow
OF the Pantheon; still the Greek spirit
lives, still Greece is queen; Greece is
still the goddess Of culture; a count
iHg-house passes away, school re-
mains. Among her great men, Sophie
cies and Pindar sing her glory, Plato
and Aristotle still interpret her prob
lens Of destiny, Pericles and Scion
still give imperishable expressions to
her conceptions Of law and order,
Herodotus and Xenophon still pre-
serve the record Of her victories. II
was when Greece priced men more
than things that she was really great
Ny plea then is for men and women
Of intrinsic value-value that knows
neither age, decay, decline nor DEATH
"And so we-the K. S. Conf
dent that it is the stream from which
are formed mighty rivers; that from
acorns sturdy oaks grow, from the
fructifed germ in the seed the tree
buds forth, from the cocoon emerges
the silkworm, from tiny beginnings
come momentous events. We keep
going forward, not with the vestige-
neous velocity Of the blazing meteor
but with the patient plodding Of the
tiny star emerging from its penumbra
until its aphelion becomes its per
helion; our motto being Excelsior
and cherishing in that deep, holy ant
silent chamber in the sanctuary Of tn,
soul, this conviction Of Nehemiah
The God Of Heaven, He viii befrient
u.s."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
ATTENDING CELEBRATION

Many people from Harvey, Blue Is
land, Chicago Heights, Lake Forest
and Evanston were seen in the city
during the week attending the exer-
cises Of the Goth anniversary Of the
Race being held at The Wendell Phil
lips High School.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
BACK FROM BENTON HARBoR

Miss Willie NJ. Winston, R. n,
36111l Calumet Ave, has returned to
the city from Benton Harbor, where
she spent a pleasant vacation.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
MOVE INTO NEW HOME

Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Bonds, who
have resided at 4746 S. State St, for
some time, have moved into their home
recently erected in Morgan Park.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
MRS. VILLA MAE BABB BE-
COMES ONE OF THE ABB
STRACT WRITERS IN THE
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY
RECORDER

The past week Hon. JOS. F. Haas
the ever smiling Recorder Of Cook
County, selected Mrs. Villa Mae
Babb, 5345 South Dearborn street, as
one Of the proficient abstract writers
in his Office. Mrs. Babb has the dis
tinction Of being the first colored per-
son in this city to occupy a response
bic position Of that kind.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
IPreston News Servicel

"Colored people here, colored peo-
pie hereafter, 50 why not get used to
them now?" once preached DR..
Charles Macarthur (white) an en-
inent Baptist clergyman Of New York,
to his white congregation. Should
you be unfortunate enough to be con
signed to Hades, you'll probably find
some Of the colored brethren there;
and should your course of exit from
this mortal world be heavenward,
you'll undoubtedly find them there"
All of which reminds us that a large
sector of the Protestant Church is
shutting its eye to the modern trend of
switching the Negro on a side track
in America. Should we officially set
apart streets or sections for the Ne
groes?" asks Christian Work." a
Protestant religious weekly review,
published in New York City. And in
its editorial council we note the name
Of an eminent evangelist whose son
was a play-child Of ours in the New
York schools, in day when the color
Of a mans skin was the least Of con
sideration in Little Old New York.
The official designation Of streets Or
sections for Negroes here Or hereafter,
an everlasting badge Of inferiority, ~.
we contend, no part Of any Christian
work, else how can all Of us, black.
brown, white, red and yellow, prepare
for heaven. A great American phil
osopher once said: what we are at
the end Of this life we shall be when
the next begins" What a plight sur
rounds all these souls, whether white
or black-that is, if the soul has color.
as the white folks teach us,-who leave
this world under an imaginary superb
ority or inferiority based upon skin
tints, and wondering if the golden
streets of the New Jerusalem are Of
6cially set apart for whites and blacks.
as is the trend today in Detroit,
Cleveland, Staten Island and points
south.
It seems to Us that the great white
Christian church is confronted with
the sad job Of reducing many Of its
mountains To molehlls in its great
work Of preparing its constituents for
Heaven. For when darkness en-
shrouds each mournful Protestant
graveyard, and reckoning hands Of
either Hades or Heaven bid welcome
to some applicant, we don't imagine
his transportation ticket viii have a
punch hole as to what kind Of a street
he resided on down here, or up here,
as the case may be. So what's the
use Of worrying about it now? Do
you know, Christian Work? DR.
Charles Macarthur did not.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
CURRENT COMMENT
BY w. P. Bayless
preston News Service. }

preston News Service.)
The best way Tor the Negro to get
along in liberty-loving America, &C
cording to the ethics of the Ku Klux
Khan is to be a 'me-too-boss. Uncle
Tom" you white folks is Gods
chosen" etc. Then you win the ap-
proval Of the members of the Invisible
Empire
But, happily, all Negroes arc not
that way They want good homes.
clothes. education, jobs, businesses.
and all the other things thsir hard
earned cash enables them to buy.
These same Negroes have enough
courage, manhood and bravery To fight
III defense Of their homes and ideals.
This i a sign that The Negro Il ris-
ing.
Examples Of militant, ambitious and
progressive Negroes have recently ap-
peared in Kansas City, New York
City, Washington, Chicago, Detroit
and Cleveland
y1-rrrnr NrrNr-ro
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10

There appears to be lot Of dis
satisfaction about conditions at How
ard University. According to reports
the removal Of President Durkee is
wanted on the one hand, while on the
other Howard owes much Of her prog
ress to the leadership of President
Durkee.
Just what is wanted aside from the
removal of Durkee is not altogether
clear. What methods for the better
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
coLoRFUL NEWS MOVIES
By the Camerman

/. Preparing for Heaven.
2. Tut Tutl Professor Scarborough.
3. One Hundred Baby Fingers.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10

transition. If Geography, History and
Arithmetic books were more plentiful
ly distributed among the Negro schools
of the Southland, its Negro output
would know more OF Cleveland and
Chicago and be better prepared to aid
intelligent people in Kidding the coun-
try of the highly-magnetized color
problem, which Prof Scarborough
seeks to transform to balloon size.
Let Negroes 60 where they will.
and as a Cabinet official said last
spring. let each section Of the country
bear its just burden in preparing the
Negro to meet the calls Of necessity
BY training him and educating him i'll
American ways and institutions. Let
the shoemaker stick to his last. but do
not try to place ball and chain about
the ankles Of the butcher, the baker
and the candlestick maker. Tut. Tut,
Professor Scarborough, such advice
has no place under northern skies.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
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Vol XXI No 4
Chicago, October 10, 1925
Entered as Second Class Matter, Aug.
10, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago,
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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10

Ten baby fingers Of ten kiddies
each, to our way Of counting. make
l00-and this was the sight which
greeted US in a home we recently Wis
tied, just overlooking with 100 per
cent Americansim. 1t was by far the
happiest home we have ever entered
Mother and Dad were in perfect har-
mony. Three girlies, aged II. 10 and
9, played "What'1l I do" with equal
grace and facility. Robust boys ran
errands to and from the store for their
parents. while the receding tiers of
youngsters amused the wee kiddies on
down to the baby In this home, the
legendary "Cotter's Saturday Night
seemed alive today, with peace, hap
piness and cooperation Astounding
This, we thought, as mother spread
the table, is one hundred per cent
American home, we'll balanced with
that which makes home what it should
BE- Cleanliness, high morals, love,
self-sacrihce, respect, unity, amending
smiles and the spirit Of "all for one
one for all Here. we unused, is a
challenge to the kind Of Americanism
we read about. Freedom, equality,
Goodness, advancement, loyalty and
patriotism Here are some boys who
may later grace a battlefield in which
world supremacy is being fought out.
Here are some girls who will some day
add pure Christian womanhood and
motherhood to the annals of Christian
refinement How President Roose-
welt would have honored such family
such Americanism, such monumental
Christianity. How Lincoln would
have smiled to know that the little
brown-fngered kiddies, all ten of them
were free men and women.
And, though we, as we paused be-
fore passing out: Must these God
given children somewhere, somehow
meet the rebuff Of those classes who
hopelessly press onward vainly seeking
to perfect an imaginary world, where
dwell superior American people? VIII
the lust Of the Ku Klux Khan some
time exact toll from these youngster;
for having been born with brown
skins? Surely, ere such shall have be
fallen such pure American home a:
this, and before Daddy and Mother
Morse shall have seen the last liddie:
reach maturity, Christian enlighten
ment will have pervaded those spots
which civilization has struggled tC
enter for 10 these many years, anC
memories will have been refreshed By
the prophecy that "God is no respectel
of persons"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
WHERE NEXT?

A bunch of CALAMITY JAMES.
foolish parents, preachers and so-called
moralists are up in arms over the
tendencies of present-day youth.
"Spare the rod and spoil the child"
has been forgotten by them. The
Aapper child appears to be a real prob
lem In fact it is. Whose fault is
it? These pessimists place the blame
on the poor kids
Possibly they are right But let US
see. These parents let their children
grow up like weeds They bring their
children into the world and let them
60 their way while the parents have
their time. When the child reaches
the age Of temptation he naturally is
beyond the control Of these foolish
parents, who then suddenly attempt to
lay down a lot Of precepts for the
child Too latel When as a matter
Of fact the parent should have been
setting an example (good) for the child
from its earliest years on up through
the formative period Then the par
ent would not have to worry so much
about the wildness of youth and the
effects of the new code"
Parents, lock the door before the
horse is stolen; take the stitch in
time; control your child while he is
small and set before him always the
proper example Then there will be
no need for lamentation later on.
The kids are wiser than most par
ents today. They study you. watch
you and know your whims and de-
sires. But the parents either do not
have time, do not care, or have the
common sense to study their chill
dren's whims, and moods and desires
Take your family rearing job seri-
ously and end this Calamity Jane
stuff.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10

Entered as Second Class Matter, Aug.
l9, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago,
ILL., Under Act Of March 8, 1879.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-28

kilograms poured in by hundreds today
to tell the widow of the sorrow and
sympathy Of millions in her loss. Mrs.
Bryan, seated in her rolling chair, at
intervals throughout the day listened
to the reading Of these messages by
her constant attendants. Her well
controlled grief seemed assuaged by
them.
1t had first been planned to place
the body in state for public view this
dent that thousands who would wish
to see once more the face Of their
loved leader could not arrive today,
Mrs. Bryan directed that this opportu-
nifty be delayed until tomorrow AFTER
noon.
Four books, gifts Of the dead man.
were being cherished tonight by Judge
Raulston and Mr.. Stewart. who be-
lieved that Mr.. Bryan's last conscious
act was to inscribc his friendly greet
ings upon their fiyleaves. They were
found just after the Commoner's
death was discovered.
AS a guard Of nonor at the viewing
Of the remains tomorrow, the local
post of the American Legion has
chosen a detail of six former soldiers
and sailors who will be en- duty in
uniform and without arms.
Mrs. Bryan earlier today declined
with expressions Of deep appreciation
the offer Of Dayton men TO form mill
itary guard Of honor to attend Mr..
Bryan on his last earthly journey,
and urged that all cstentation and
show be avoided.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-28
Providence Has
Ordered All Things
Well, Presidents Word

Swampscott, Mass, July 81
(AP)-President Coolidge late today
sent the following letter of condol-
ence to the widow of William Jen-
nings Bryan:
MY dear Mrs. Bryan:
The sudden death of Mr.. BRYAN
brought a sense of personal loss to
Mrs. Coolidge and myself. 1t was on
ly the other day that he had been
our guest at the White House. We
wish to extend to you and your fam
lily our most heartfelt sympathy.
Mr.. Bryan has been a prominent
figure in public affairs for a third
OF a century. He has been a leader
In advocacy of many moral reforms
and was representative of the effort
for purity in our political life. He
was endowed with the great gift of
eloquence. The sincerity of his
motives was beyond dispute. He
was three times chosen head of a
great political party and held the
exalted office OF secretary of state.
His career was another example of
what American opportunity affords
to those who have the will indus
triously to apply themselves. 1t
would be difficult to find among his
contemporaries any one with so
large circle of friends and acuuain-
tances who had SO generously be-
slowed upon him their esteem and
confidence.
Il trust that You may be given
great consolation in remembering
all his worth and in the abiding
fa1th that a divine Providence has
oroered all things WELL"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-28
NOtables of Nation
Pay Tributes to
William J. Bryan

vice President Dawes-He never
did unworthy or mean things. He
may have been mistaken at times as
we all are. but he was trying always
to do the right as he saw it.
Senator Ashurst of Arizona-His
superlative oratory. his frame of oak
and his apostolic zeal brought the
income tax. woman suffrage, prohi-
bition and direct election of sena-
tors.
Former Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska-He was the greatest
moral force of his day. He sacri-
need his health and strength by the
most extraordinary exertions.
John w. Davis-The example he
set of devotion to principle no mat
ter at what cost is one of his coun-
trymen may well cherish. Many of
the things he advocated in the fact
OF bitter opposition are now among
the accepted policies of the nation.
Elihu Root-He was a good and
kindly man, fairly sincere at all
times and very sincere on many
points where l most disagreed with
him.
The Rev. DR.. F. c. Potter. New
YORK modernist-He was a mighty
crusader, a sincere preacher of the
old school. The Scopes trial signed
his death warrant.
The Rev. DR.. John Roach Straton.
New York-A great man has fallen
In Israel. He was a patriot of the
sort so sorely needed by America in
this, her critical hour.
Newton D. Baker, former secre-
tary of war-Mr. Bryan has been the
undisputed leader in a great cause
IN politics and religious movements
1or more than generation.
Glenn l.. Shaver. Democratic Ma
tional chairman-The country has
lost a great citizen, the Democratic
party a commanding figure and the
more forces of America a powerful
advocate
William c. Redneld, secretary of
commerce in the Wilson cabinet
His outstanding public service was
in 1913 when he smoothed over the
threatened difficulty between the
United States and Japan.
Senator Copeland, New York-No
man ever had greater power over
an audience.
Senator Edwards, New Jersey-A
great mind has passed.
Former Gcnator Atlee Pomerene of
Ohio-He will be regarded as one of
the greatest political orators of this
generation.
Governor Silzer Of New Jersey
An outstanding American, he was
the arden champion of many a good
cause.
Senator Fletcher of Florida-His
place cannot be filled. His passing
is a misfortune to his party and his
country.
John r. voorhis. grand sachem of
Tammany Hall-The world has lost
the advantage Of his original work.