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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01
BOOK CHAT
BY Mary White Ovington
Chairman, Board of Directors Of the
National Association for the Advanc.
ment of CoIored People

intimidation, is sent to the nat;or.i
legislature" AS one reads ora !.
forcibly reminded of the worst cona
tions among the Southern Negroes
According to our author, all III.
has come about since the PhiIinn;,.
got control of the government I'll.
Americans, before Burton was Covsr
nor, were administering justice and
building up prosperous pcasantrv
Since General Wood has taken IA
governorship things are better, H.,
they are still very bad. We are again
and again shown that Philippine H.
dependence means, not the imnrova
ment OF conditions, but the tyrannical
rule, Of the cacique who "has one ~
cupation-politics; one industrv
usury; one hobby-gambling Under
Harrison, money was squandered and
every department Of the goyernmen,
that had been built up by the Amer
leans, refrigerated Health, education
scientific research, all were sacrificed
And it has been Governor Woods
difficult task to bring back something
of efficiency again.
The last chapters tell of the Sulps
and Moros, haters Of the Christian
Philippines. They seem to be sturdy
lot, without the vanity " the lack
Of humor of their prosecutors. They
turn to this country for justice
This is the picture drawn in this
book. That it is biased Is evident
but it is also evident that it has much
irrefutable material in It. It makes
one realize again that where TYRANNY
has long been established the vote
will not bring freedom. No granting
of independence will make the peon
man. What will? This Il what
one enlightened Philippine Governor
thinks: That America should leave
because she keeps the people at peace.
"As long as she remains here, The
tao (peasant), who is slowly but
steadily gaining in courage and III
character because of the protection
and encouragement that America has
given him, will not be allowed to
rise in mobs and settle this thing
with his bolo."
So something is to Be settled and
according to this authority independ
ence should mean revolution.
To faithful readers of Book Chat,
! would like to state that when in
my last review 1 wrote OF South
Carolina under Reconstruction fiji
adequate schools" became adequate
schools, the lin" must have melted
off in the summer heat.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01

who relies upon might rather than log
ic, is semi-critical as'it listens to the
pulpit-not critical Of religion or Of
God but Of the oft-given types Of ex-
PLANTATION given by ministers who will
not study-and in that vein drain num-
bers from church iife which otherwise
might there be useful and exemplary.
The church is our bulwark, the
nucleus Of our every effort Yet, no
one has ever prophesied that the way
Of the church should be roseate and
undisturbed 1t follows that, amid the
maze Of present-day life, when com
mercialism, fanaticism, and a dozen
other delights Of the semi-religious
man are ever present to divert his
mind from the church institution and
its purposes, the ministry must train
more keenly to buffet the challenge
which the world is making to the
Church Ignorance, the child Of in
adequate training, in the pulpit has
no more justihable place in civiliza-
ton than the Ox-Cart has as means
Of human transportation.
The blushing beauties, whose like
nesses we observe weekly in the press,
az entrants in fifty-seven or more con
tests for prize-winning looks, which
seem to be popular throughout the
country, bring US an occasional wave
Of sadness Notwithstanding the trib-
ute, silent or otherwise, which we are
always glad to give to any receptive
dame or lass whom Nature has fav-
ored with an outward appearance un-
usually easy to look upon. And lest
we be misunderstood We wish to say
forthwith that we never did adhere to
the policy Of Aesop's Fable of the fox
and the sour grapes. Yet, it seems
| to us that a good bit Of useful energy
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01

ioice that their activities have spread
and become part Of the public life
of our city, in which the ''Vorwaerts"
took the lead and to which the heroic
Altgeld gave his official sanction and
support
While Governor, Altgeld also had
the Lincoln Park Board appoint Ed
ward Osgood Brown Of the then firm
of Peckham, Brown & Packard as its
attorney and then began that long
but successful legal fight for the ju-
dicial adjudication Of the question Of
riparian rights which ever since en-
ables the Lincoln Park Board to ere
ate new lands along the north shore
and make it a part Of Lincoln Park.
GEO. A. SCHILLING.
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MR.. DAVID B. HAWLEY, MR..
II ENRY r. WILSON AND
HOWARD CoRNWELL MOVE
HIGHER UP IN THE POSTAL
SERVICE IN CHICAGO

With the aid Of Hon. Martin B
Madden and others Hon. Arthur Q.
Lueder has appointed Mr.. David B
Hawley, President Of the AppomattoS
Club, and Howard T. Cornwell, to
new positions in the postal service
Mr.. Wilson was assigned as foreman
to Quincy station in the parcel post
section; Mr.. Hawley to the inspection
Of stations under the superintendent
Of delivery, and Mr.. Cornwell to the
division Of supplies department 81 the
Monroe street postofice annex at 72f
w. Monroe street.
Their appointments to their new
positions have been well received By
their fellow citizens.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01
|. Away With War
?, Religious Education
3. Pretty Polly
4. Colorgrams

F. Britten, cool historical logician
that he is, writes very disconsolately
in The Sunday Pictorial Of London,
England, depicting in future years Gan
unparalleled war to the death between
the white and colored races Of the
world. Mr.. Britten writes in an excited
wen, saying; THE shadow Of a war
cloud in the East is falling darl1ly
upon the hitherto sunny world suprem-
acy Of the white race, whose prestige
will disappear when the savage, bar
barrie millions from Africa and Asia
can defy the white man"
Even more disconsolately, Mr.. Brit
ten continues: He (the white mani
has committed the GROWING folly Of
leading the colored races into battle
against white men, and the colored
races hate the white with hate
whereof we have no conception"
Friend Britten has wandered far
from the pet theory Of his race kins-
men. whose scientific satellites picture
the darker races Of the world, save
the Japanese, as an indolent, half
civilized, but happy-go-luclzy people,
void Of initiative and complacent even
amid hardship imposed BY alleged SUI
perior groups. He also wanders far
from the psychological proofs, as
adduced by his group, Of alleged in
ferior mental equipoise among the dark
human spots Of the old globe. Lastly,
Britten implicitly cast aspersions upon
the civilization which his people have
carried to the dark wales Of Asia and
Africa. Methinks, perchance, that
FEAR may have guided his pen to
portray retaliation, BY the worlds
darker races, for grave acts of injustice
which it is roundly admitted the self
constituted "supremists" have heaped
upon weaker races, usually dark, Of
the world
Yet, we think-and we are glad 50
to think-that the calamities penned
BY friend Britten will never come to
pass. That civilization and that Chris
tianization which the darker races
have imbibed from the white mans
teachings have not yet, thank God,
become sufficiently saturated with that
master Of the white world. aCOM-
MERCIAL SUPREMACY AND
ITS MONEY MARKET" to form
an eclipse Of the true types Of ideal
istic life. While the white world IS
delving into finance, the dark world
is plodding along hopefully, delvine
into religion, art, music, education
and the refining products Of honest
to-God civilization. The prospects u
war are not, in general, disturbing the
mind Of the dark world. Rather, Oh
the whole, away with war" seems to
Be the hope Of the dark world, con
tent. which almost mutely wonders
why, in the name Of Jehovah, the
white world forgets its financial mar
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01
NEW LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN
p. ALTGELD

Continued from page ID
tended, it was not on the ground that
sufficient punishment had been inn
posed, which would have satisfied the
consciences Of the uneasy, but that a
great wrong had been committed. In
a closely-reasoned document OF many
pages, he assailed the conduct Of the
trial, the police, the judge
What was it that made Altgeld the
most reviled and hated figure in
America? Not solely the events just
cited Long before that steady
stream Of vituperation had set in.
That we may understand the abuse
to which Altgeld was subjected for
the advocacy OF somewhat mild re-
forms, we must reflect that there was
not in his time that so-called devel-
oped conscience which we see today
in many Of the well-to-do. 1t was
time of open and shameless corrup-
ton and bribery in Legislative bodies.
Altgeld was a pioneer In his vigor-
Gus protests against these conditions
he met with little popular response,
while he did arouse the virulent
hatreds Of those who prohted BY these
conditions.
Shy and reserved as Altgeld was to
many, there were times when, even
in his public utterances, he tore aside
the mask Of indifference and let the
world see him as he was. When he
retired from the governorship in 1897,
he said, with certain proud humil
ity: Il have tried to further the best
interests Of my country, and while I
erred in many cases they were errors
of Judgment, and l 60 forth with a
peaceful conscience"
And from that stormy life to which
he was so sorely buffeted by the furies
that followed him as in some Greek
tragedy, he went forth" with what is,
after all, the best thing in life and
at the end Of life. "a peaceful con-
science"
The foregoing is a splendid review
Of the stormy and heroic career Of
John P. Altgeld, who had the courage
to do what he thought was right, who
was the most feared and hated as well
as the most trusted and loved Of any
man in the public life Of his time.
II may Be Of interest to the various
turner societies to know that AltgeId
in 1894, while Governor Of Illinois,
ordered the West Park Board to in
stall a children's play grounds In that
part Of Douglas Park south of Ogden
avenue, with all the necessary turn
ing equipments. This order was given
because the ''Vorwaerts Turn erein"
sent a committee, consisting of Nick
Dahrn and Henry Kraft, who called
on the superintendent Of Douglas
Park and requested it. When told
the governor Of this request he at
once ordered the West Park Board to
grant it.
When this part Of Douglas Park
was dedicated, the turner societies Of
Chicago considered it Of sufficient inn
portance to join in the parade and
participate in its ceremonies.
Since then children's Fairgrounds
have been formed in every neighbor-
hood Of our city
Instead Of the Chicago turner's be-
ing respondent because Of their
dwindling membership, let them re-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01

"A copy Of this book on the stormy
life or career OF former Governor John
P. Altgeld was presented to US a few
days ago BY our highly esteemed
friend, Hon. George A. Schilling, con-
tanning the following notation on the
fyleaf:
ITO my friend, julius F. Taylor,
II present this volume containing the
story of the life of the greatest gov
ernor Illinois ever had.
GEORGE A. SCHILLING."
The book consists Of 1888 pages. Il
is printed on splendid paper with large
clear type, beautiful blue cloth bind
ing with gold letters and it deserves
to Be read By all classes Of American
citizens.
The highly interesting book on Alt
geld of Illinois ends with the fol
lowing lines:
Sleep softly eagle forgotten -
under the stone.
Time has its way with you there,
and the clay has its own.
Sleep on, 0 brave-hearted, 0 wise
man, that kindled the flame
To live in mankind is far more than
to live in name"
EDITOR.
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would, we think, be even more re-
freshing to the eye and comforting
to the soul which is earnestly desir-
GUS Of seeing this humble race. soar
to real substantial heights in the
world Of competition, confusion, and
contests, the most of which are far
more important than beauty.
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Col. James Fl. Johnson, $3.50 Prai-
RE avenue, has been confined to his
home the past four or FIVE weeks with
a serious illness, but, under the
watchful care Of DR.. u. Grant DALEY.
he is rapidly regaining his health and
ne will soon be himself again.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01

Forester p. Washington, Execu-
tive Secretary Of the Armstrong AS
ISOLATION, Philadelphia, Is back from
Tia Juana, Denver, and other points
west.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01

The unacceptable difference" be-
tween white folks and Negroes was
not once put in evidence during the
Scope trial at Dayton, Tenn.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01

THE ISLES OF FEAR: THE
TRUTH ABOUT THE PHILIP
PINES"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-08-01

bred Scott is dead, but his soul is
marching on. If you don't believe it,
ask James K Vadaman.
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le, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago
HI. Under Act Of March s. 1879.
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Vol. xxx No. AZ
Chicago, August /, 1925
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
ROVEMENT ASKED IN
: GOVERNMENT PLAN OF
HANDLING OF LIVE STOCK

urged upon the members of the sem
ate committee that provisions neces-
sary for the establishment of such a
plan should be added to the present
law relating to the forests.
The national forests contain a total
area of 137,000,000 acres. On much.
of this land only small quantities of
commercial timber are growing. There
are large stretches of non-timbered
watershed areas. which were included
in the reservations to permit the con-
troll necessary to prevention Of dam
age to the sources of water needed for
irrigation and for use in towns and
cities. In much of the timbered areas,
grazing is considered essential to the
prevention of fires. The live stock.
consume a great deal Of weeds and
lower growing forage which would
otherwise dr. mp upon the ground ana
constitute serious fire risk,
In ell, 90,0O0O0 acres of the for
ests is grazed under a system of per-
mits issued to the stock owners.
These permits are subject to cancel
lation In part or as a whole upon the
Of forest officials.
The permits are issued for specified
of stock and itsis the duty of
the forest officials to supervise and
direct the grazing and to decrease the
stock grazed if such is considered
During the year 1923, L..
864, 900 cattle and 5,712,00O sheep
were. admitted to Craze for longer or
shortage periods upon the forests.
Nearly $4,000, 600 was collected in
charges for this grazing and the ex-
pense to the government in admins
tration was S641 $1,000. equivalent to
20 cents per head Of cattle admitted.
The fact that the grazing perrni IS
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20

are subject to reduction or cancella-
ton without opportunity for stockmen,
to be heard except by the govern
ment officials themselves is claimed
to be a serious cause of instability in
the business of those who could not
continue to produce live stock if ac-
cess were denied to tie forest areas.
The proposed lease plan would in
sure continued use of this necessary
part Of the years grazing supply so
long as proper methods were prac-
ticed. Transferring the main part Of
the responsibility to the stockmen
themselves would mean less govern
ment relation to private business con-
Germs and also would greatly reduce
the present amounts expended by the
government in directing how the live
stock shall be handled. The conditions
and methods of grazing that supply
the maximum value of live stock feed
also give the greatest opportunity
for the growth of young trees and
continuation of water flow. Under
the present plan when injury to the
forage or trees is threatened, the of
ficials reduce the number of live stock
allowed to be grazed. When improve
ment has taken place, it seldom hap
pens that the same stockmen are per-
mitted to increase their number Of
animals to utilize the increased
amount of feed that must be con-
sImed. In a few cases the numbers
Of live stock grazed have been in
creased following a temporary reduc-
ton for Improvement of the grazing
conditions. In these cases, however,
the additional number usually has
gone to new applicants and the reduc-
tion in the number covered in the per-
mits of the older holders was not re-
stored to them. For this reason there
IS now no safety in voluntary redue-
ton Of the number of animals grazed.
The proposed plan would offer full in
ducement to stockmen to Craze lightly
in order to promote larger and bet
ter growth Of forage to be used by
them in future seasons.
The senator's who attended the
hearings in the western states were
also urged by stoekmen and other
to provide for some inten-
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
GRAND CANYON TRAVEL
STILL BREAKING RECORDS

Travel to the Grand Canyon ma
tional park continues to increase, ac-
cording to ]. r. Eakin, park superin-
tendent. Since the opening of the
recent season on October /, a total of
IL, ,053 persons visited the park COM
pared to 10,926 for the same period
last year. Although the increase has
been small, it has been exceedingly
gratifying to officials of the park,
due to the fact that weather condi-
tions the past October were the most
severe on record.
Advance bookings and other indi-
Gators point to a record travel during
the coming winter The principal
roads and trails on the south rim are
open the entire year, and the same
high standard Of hotel service is avail
able at all times.
Latest reports indicate the Maine
road is in bad shape. However, the
Williams road, although rough, IS dry
and easily passable During the win
ter motorists are advised to use the
latter route.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20

sive reforestation activities. 1t was
frequently claimed that the amount of
replanting now being done in western
states was altogether too small to pro-
vide supplies of timber necessary in
the future, or to utilize, for the bene-
flt OF the nation, many areas Of land
valuable only for tree growth.
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine has
not yet expressed himself in regard to
the suggestions Of the stockmen In
respect to better conservation and
the sinlplification of the present meth
ods of administering grazing. It
seems quite probable that the senate
committee will include forest grazing
as one of the matters upon which leg
islatlon will be recommended early in
the coming season..
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
BOY SCOUTS
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The regular meeting of Troop 2 of
the high school Boy Scouts was post
poned from a week ago last Monday
until a week ago Thursday, due to the
lights going out at the regular meet
ing. The entire period after roll call
was enjoyed by the boys in the use
Of the gymnasium, playing basketball.
The next meeting was held Mon
day after roll call. Plans for a day
hike were discussed. 1t was finally
agreed to go the Wednesday before
Thanksgiving up to the lookout on
Eden mountain, where a fairly good
view of the surrounding country is
ta be had. ~
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
TUCSON BOY DIES
FROM SHOT WOUND

John Edward Afdridge, aged T, has
died from what appears to have been
an accidental shot fired by someone
not yet found The boy was with his
family at the time, and but a short
distance from his fathers automobile,
when struck by a bullet which passed
through both lungs. John r. Kinni-
son, who was hunting in the vicinity
at the time, has been questioned, but
declares that ha did not shoot in The
direction of the AAldridge automobile.
The jury found that the boy came to
his death from gunshot wound at
the hands of a person unknown.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
bulletin from National Wool Growers
Association

ASSOCIATION
Western stocB1nen claim that con-
servation of national forest resources
can be made more effective by modi-
f;cation of the present plan of CON
trolling the grazing Of live stock on
the forest lands.
The defects in the plan under which
grazing has been administered since
1905 by the forest service of the de-
partnent of agriculture, and sugges-
tons for Improvement were presented
by several hundred stoclincn to the
United States senate committee on
public lands during that committed s
hearings held recently in the eleven
western states, in which most of the
natioEal forest and other government
lards are situated.
The stockmen asked that the sec
retary of agriculture be empowered to
arrange for the necessary grazing in
TIE forests under a system of long
tern leases TO be issued TO owners of
the stock now admitted under the
permit" system, which no longer
serves the conditions, either from the
standpoint of conservation or efficient
live stock production. The lease plan
proposed by the stockmen would make
the owner Of the animals admitted to
be grazed in the forests responsible
for conditions on the area to which
he was given assurance of continued
access and would subject him to fine.
or to cancellation of his lease if he
injured the forest in any way.
Recommendation of this plan was.
unanimously approved bv several hun
dred representative of cattle an
sheep owners at a recent meeting in
Salt Lake City. 1t was subsequently
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
BASIN STATES TO
HAVE SENATE HEARING

United States Senator Lawrence c..
Phipps, who is aemember of the SEN
ate committee on irrigation and re-
clamation, announced this week the
committee viii hold another hearing
on the Colorado river controversy at
Washington, December ID to %.
The hearing will be given over to
the taking of testimony Of represon
tatives of the upper basin states of
the Colorado river-Colorado Utah,
Wyoming and New Mexico.
1t will be, Senator Phipps said,
virtual continuation of the hearings
recently held in California, which
were followed by tour of the lower
basin by the committee q short time
ago.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20

11-20-2t
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20
COUNTY CHRONOLOGY
, Compiled from the Files Of The
Cocoriino Sun, Twenty Years
Ago This Week.
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S. +. Quay goes to Portland, Ore
gon, where he will be with a big lum-
Der concern.
S. S. Preston and wife in from
Tuba City and report a prosperous
year for the Navaios
Masonic grand lodge to meet here
week OF November ID
Mrs J. A. Lampor home from Min
nesota, where she was called by the
death of her mother.
Miss Vera Greenlaw leaves to at
tend Tempe normal school.
Z. S. Gosney, i'll, goes to Pasadena
Miss Emma Nickel married to G.
E. Eggers Of TT. Wingate.
John w. Francis in from his White
Mesa mines. In pulling loaded shot
gun from his wagon it was discharged
and tore a piece from his left arm.
The Coconino sun., 1925-11-20

TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS

There will be state examinations
for teachers held at the office of the
county school superintendent on the
first Monday and Tuesday of next
month, December z and s, beginning
at % o'clock each day.
CHARLOTTE ACKER,
County School Superintendent