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The broad ax., 1925-11-14
SunLit Minds

Studies by physicians and scientists
In England reported at the congress
of the Royal Institute of Public
Health, held at Brighton, England, in
dictate that sunlight, "either natural or
artificial when properly administered,
may have a definitely beneficial effect
on mental activity" 1t was found that
children handicapped in school work
by illness, when cured with the aid OF
sunlight caught up with and even out
distanced their classmates.
The broad ax., 1925-11-14

A young Scotsman took his lass to
a high-class motion picture theater In
London. 1t was in the afternoon, and
presently an attendant came to them
with tea and cake on q tray. How
much?" the young man inquired eau
tiously. There is no charge" an
swered the attendant. In silent won
der the youth and his lass slipped their
tea and munched their cake. Two
hours later, after they had witnessed
a performance, the girl whispered.
eve must be going. It's past six
o'clock" Not me, lass" he replied.
"You can 60 II you like, but I'm stay
ing to supper"
The broad ax., 1925-11-14
WOMAN IS SERIOUSLY IN
JURED BY MACHINE

Mrs. Eva Tinsley, AZ years old, 312C
S. Wabash avenue, was seriously in
jured when she was struck BY ar
automobile at 9th street and Chappe
avenue, recently. Her skull was frac.
tured and she was severely cut anC
bruised Mrs. Ethel Schoenfeld, 672s
Oglesby avenue, who was with her
husband, A. G. Schoenfeld, was driv-
ing he automobile.
The broad ax., 1925-11-14
Medicine Cheap and Good

Here's a French physician who adj
vises us to walk on the front Of the
feet. in order to stimulate the action
OF our lungs.
Walk on the front part Of the foot"
says this Professor Amer, "at the rate
Of 40 steps a minute, with the head
up and the calves stiffened, a quarter
Of an hour, morning and evening"
This medicine, comments an observer,
can be taken by anyone, costs nothing
and is very beneficial.
The broad ax., 1925-11-14
Earliest Egyptians

Further discoveries of a new pre-
historic people, who came long before
the later prehistoric Egyptians, have
been made. This people, according 70
Sir Flinders Petrie, the director OF the
British School of Archaeology in Egypt,
may be the earliest inhabitants Of the
country with a regular civilization.
They may be identified with the race
which occupied the deserts of Egypt
and Palestine in less arid period.
The broad ax., 1925-11-14
HON. CHARLES S. DENEBN,
UNITED STATES SENATOR
FROM ILLINOIS, WILL AID
DRESS THE Immunity
EETING AT THE HOPE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Sunday evening, November 22nd,
8 P. NJ will be Community Night at
the Hope Presbyterian Church, DIST
street and South LOOMS boulevard.
Those in charge Of the program state
this will be the largest community
event of the season. United States
Senator Charles S. Deneer will be the
principal speaker for the occasion.
The citizens in the community are
cordially invited to be present.
The broad ax., 1925-11-14
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
BY The CAMERAMAN

ployed by the Pullman Comnsny p
concluded the genial special assistant
to the U. S. Attorney General
All this 'sho's' who stuff is not So
important" observed Colonel Bill
Cowan as he asked Charlie Pickett
Tor match. Nov here's a man that's
been with Senator Mckinley year in
and year out, and who's out over =
gang OF things for the race: and
whether his names in Who's who or
not | know he's done a darned s;gb+
more good than a lot of gaIoots
whose names will be engraved in gold
In Roscoe Bruce's pet" snapped the
Colonel, biting right through a choice
'Invincible.'
But, reasoned the diplomatic
Claude Barnett, director Of the Asso-
ciated Negro Press, that's not the
question, which, as Philip Randolph or
Chandler Owen would say, is an eco
nomIc one, based largely upon the law
OF demand, and the pulling power Of
vanity. I know the colored riveter
who broke the worlds record and /
met Tom Lee, the Mississippi River
hero here, when he was presented to the
president, but they'll not be in Who's
Who Ill bet a dime. If reputation
and public opinion were based upon
gallantry and public service, the eco
nomlc laws governing craftsmanship
would have to be revised. But it
stands to reason that a de luxe book.
salable at ten bucks per copy-a sum
which would have made Marquis &
Company a millionaire corporation
long ago-must be filed only with
golden de luxe biographies, regard
less Of Who is or Who was"
just then a Western Union boy
broke into the room. Telegram for
Mr.. Barnett, sir"
HIM" said Claude, as he looked for
waste basket. ct may be neces-
sary to raise the price of Who's
Who to $3.50 per volume, because Of
the few number Of eligibles under tie
strict code of requirements of the pub
fishers"
Thought so" chuckled Colonel
Cowan. Finding out who IS and who
amt in colored America, is like try
ing to tell the difference between fifty
seven speckled trout, all the same size
and the same weight"
The broad ax., 1925-11-14
The Shoul

The shawl first was introduced into
Europe at the time Of Napoleon's re-
turn from Egypt, where he was fasci-
mated by the alluring garments worn
so lavishly by the orientals. 1t Is said
that he bought for the Empress 10
sephine over four hundred OF thesa
shawls at one time, and that one OF
his caprices was that he should never
see the same shawl upon her shoul-
ders twice in succession.
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create a peculiar and unconstitutional
penalty upon people for having
strains Of slavery blood flowing
through their veins, and pigment
which though now of varied types and
tints, once had black as its base.
The Abilene and Southern Railway
Company, Texas rail carrier handling
interstate traffic, with connecting ter
minals at Ballinger, Abilene, and
Hamlin, Texas, has just given the col
ored people of the South a fine ex-
ample in watchfulness and in a keen
knowledge Of when and how to use
the instrumentality Of the law as a
lever for justice. When the Abilene
and Southern railway executives felt
that the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, the only and one child of Con-
gress which is charged with the duty
OF supervising, interpreting and en-
forcing the commerce clause OF the
U. S. Constitution, had failed III per
forming some Of the duties which it
was charged by law with performing
in its relationship toward the Abilene
and Southern line, the carrier forth
with went into court and asked for a
writ Of mandamus, which is an extra
legal writ, seeking to compel officers
or institutions functioning under the
obligation Of the law, to do those
things with which by law they are
charged.
Time and time again the Interstate
Commerce Commission has rendered
decisions directing southern railway
lines handling interstate passengers in
Jim Crow states to supply the same
kind Of equipment to colored passen-
gers as it furnishes to the whites.
Notwithstanding such judicial direc-
tons, however, year after year, dozens
OF Jim Crow lines furnish their col
ored interstate passengers with in
terior equipment and discriminatory
service and supplies of travelling COM
fort. And every time baggage coach
is wrecked on the side lines Of a Jim
Crow road, it dawns upon the thought
full members of the race that the half
front of half-rear baggage end, filled
with huddled Negro passengers, is a
devastated mockery Of the preserva-
ton which Congress tried to make for
our travelling group.
And even more sad than this is the
knowledge that platform oratory de-
crying the inequalities Of railroad
equipment overshadows, by 100 to
nothing, those who might follow the
tactics Of the Abilene and Southern
Railway, which, when offended, in
voked the forceful writ of mandamus
against the institution charged with
duties imposed by law, to compel it to
do, in its safeguarding Of passengers
and property, those things which it
was obliged to do. It's a poor rule
that doesn't work both ways.
The broad ax., 1925-11-14

With an eminent staff OF counsel,
comprised Of such nationally famous
barristers as Moorheld Storey, James
A. Cobb, William H. Lewis. Arthur
B. Spingarn, Louis Mershsll, ct al,
the Curtis VS.. Buckley case comes on
this month for decision by United
States Supreme Court Justice William
H. Taft and his associates. The case
turns upon the question of whether
or not property-owners may covenant
among themselves for the exclusion,
because of race or color, of bona fide
prospective purchasers. In other
words, the decision will either permit
or deny the creation Of segregated
district for Negroes in American cit
les. The "joker" in the case, so far as
the District Of Columbia is concerned,
lies in the fact that while real estate
interests of the city, in one breath at
tack the home life of District of Co.
lumbia Negroes, in one particular in
stance endeavoring to bring about
a closing Of the alleys, in which, they
asserted, Negro people resided in over
flowing number to the menace and
jeopardy Of health and sanitation; in
another breath, as Negroes, one after
another, have moved into so-called ex-
elusive neighborhoods, the desperate
whites have by fair means and foul
attempted to stop the black stream
of increasing civilization and ambition.
In the language Of the law, we are
unable to see how such a restraint
upon the alienation Of property as
was contemplated by the agreement
which was invoked to exclude Curtis
can be held as a covenant which runs
with the land. Nor can we under
stand how there could be such a unity
of interest among separate property
owners. white, black, or green, to stop
the freedom and liberty Of the right
to purchase, for appropriate considera-
ton. any domestic in the land. If the
rule against perpetuities ever meant
ANYTHING, now is the time to prove it.
And finally, we would like to ask just
what is the consideration for such an
agreement as is set up by the white
covenantors. Good or moral? Frankly,
we cannot see any good consideration,
patent or latent, in the transaction.
At any rate, we have an abiding faith
in the Curtis counsel, and even more
50. in the body over which Chief JUS
tice Taft presides. We cannot be-
lieve that the tribunal which found 50
Justly in the Strauder and Neal cases
win take any other view than that the
constitutional civil rights of liberty
and freedom are for more than tech
nically-worded scrap Of paper, which,
The broad ax., 1925-11-14

Once upon time John D. Gainey,
Perry Howard, Charlie Pickett, and
Claude Barnett were comfortably
seated in Bill Cowan's big front Office
at 1923 Indiana Avenue in Chicago,
which is also known as the Windy
City. Colonel Cowan had made every
body feel at home, and his box Of
Robert Burns "Invincibles" had dwin-
died down to the bottom row. The
topic of conversation had drifted to
the de luxe edition Of ''Whos Who in
Colored America" now being pushed
through the press by the scholarly
Roscoe ConkIing Bruce and the astute
Ferdinand Q. Morton, Of New York
City.
Il tell you" drawled Gainey, as he
reached for the last Robert Burns,
ut looks to me like who was has got
who is backed of the map, 50 far as
gallant lives are concerned among the
brethren of the past and present. Now,
there was Frederick Douglass and
Booker T. Washington. | don't know
who we got now that equals those
BIRDS" continued the dapper assist
ant chief Of the Railway Mail Service.
So
We'll" quote Perry, Il think that
Roscoe Simmons is probably as great
an orator as Douglass, and, under the
same circumstances, that DR.. Motion
would be as great an educator as was
Booker T. Nor do I wish to appear
immodest, but this is the first time in
the history Of railway transportation
that colored counsel has been en-
The broad ax., 1925-11-14
/. Insuring a Race.
2. Modern Fairy Tale.
3. Curtis Segregation Case.
4. The Mandamus.
preston News Service

Our insurance companies, a number
Of which have reached the hundred
per cent plane of initiative and efici-
ency, are probably our greatest groupal
asset Negro insurance COMPANIES
stand for Cd Protection, (2) Employ
ment, (3) Investment, (D Property
Ownership, and 81 Racial Wealth
White insurance companies, so far as
our group is concerned, stand for pro
lection, only, with exclusion as to Ger
tain "choice" policies for whites only.
and only scant avenues Of employment
for our budding youth. How MANY
physicians, lawyers, agents, clerks,
stenographers, etc, of color do the
white insurance companies employ?
Nor should they be censured too BIT
terly for merely having taken our
money and given US merely protection
in exchange therefor; for even that was
more than we had. In fact, we should
be glad that through their protection.
for which we paid our hard-earned
cash, we have been able to care for
our sick and bury our dead
But, the time has come when everv
Negro in America should carry pol
icy in Negro insurance company. tt
is public, racial, and an individual
duty. A decade hence that investment
may mean, aside from protection, po-
sition Tor your boy or my boy. It may
mean loan for your home, which
would have been denied elsewhere.
1t may mean the safest investment
you were ever able to make. Jobs,
homes, and investments mean wealth.
Wealth means certain degree of in
dependence-the kind the white man
exercises as to US, aside from our labor.
Negro insurance companies are stimu-
lating our banks and our building and
loan companies, which now are having
hard time because Of lack Of training
and lack of confidence. We can't turn
back at failures, for failures, in diff
ferent forms, have beset all races at
some time or other.
Failures in Negro insurance, though,
are virtually of the past Here is an
enterprise which is now out of the
woods. Our group has learned the in
surance business and is delivering the
goods. Twenty years from now, our
holders of policies in our own COM
panies will have trebled, and our ex-
perts and other employees will have
similarly advanced. Don't be skeptic.
Don't knock struggling Negro business
in any form. Give it your heart, your
hand, and your dollars. Take out a
policy with one Of YOUR companies.
It will mean greater independence for
your son and your grandson, who will
always have a hard time buying any
thing other than PROTECTION
from any white company in the land.
(Note: Here follows a fairy tale,
with apologies to the very estimable
gentlemen, whose names are used, and
toward whom naught but the kindliest
Of feelings emanate from the humble
Cameraman.)
The broad ax., 1925-11-14

beneath its legal veneer, attempts to
create a peculiar and unconstitutional
penalty upon a people for having
strains Of slavery blood flowing
through their veins, and pigment
which though now of varied types and
tints, once had black as its base.
The broad ax., 1925-11-14

(Note: Here follows a fairy tale,
with apologies to the very estimable
gentlemen, whose names are used, and
toward whom naught but the kindliest
Of feelings emanate from the humble
Cameraman)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-30
AVOIDANCE
0E DEBT

AMES NJ. LYNCH, president
Of the International Typo
LII graphical Union, announced
yesterday union members will be
urged to greater thrift. A living
cost survey made by the union
shows that the personal indebted
ness of the average wage Garner
has grown alarmingly.
1T is possible these days to buy
almost anything with small
down payment" he said. "Our sta.
tistical department found the case
of a man who engaged himself to
meet monthly payments actually
in excess of his salary"
Deferred payments are mighty
useful creatures. BY them, homes,
bonds and independence can be ac-
quired. But there is a very OBJ
vious tendency at present to abuse
them rather than use them-they
are run ragged.
Whether it is the acquisition of
a home or a twenty-seven volume
history of the world many can't
resist the seductive phrase "a dol
lar down and a dollar a week"
And thrift flies out the window.
OF course, it is nice to have luxu-
ries like other folks. They impress
the neighbors. A Acknowledgements
automobile looks like any other
the chattel mortgage doesn't show
on the outside.
But running into debt for luxu-
ries is mortgaging the future. 1t
is spending wealth before it is Gre
ated. One who follows that road
is liable to come to the end with
sore feet and a headache.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-30
| Wonder Why
BY Hal Cochran

A case comes to mind, and 1t leads
us to find just how qeer are the
workings Of fate. It's just an affair
that concerns curly hair, and the
opposite-perfectly straight.
A sister and brother both envy
each other. and locks they are will
ing to trade. For hers are quite
straight, while her brothers poor
pate with the curliest tresses is
sprayed.
He'll brush and he'll comb, and
he'll work on his dome, while at
tempting to take the curl out. But
try as he might, it's boomerang
fight, for a lot of new cur-lets will
sprout
While she, with her lot, keeps the
curling iron hot. At the break of
the dawn she'll begin. And then,
when she quits. she will nearly
throw fits, for the curl simply win
not stay in.
The story is old and has often
been told, so needn't go on with
the rest of 1t. When fate has come
through, with the wrong hair for
you, what's the best. thing to do?
|. Make the best Of 1t!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-30
In New York
BY James w. Dean

NEW YORK, April 30.-Two
night ago I saw President Machado
of Cuba whisked through the
streets with a big detail Of motor
cycle cops clearing traffic for -
Coming to a stop at Times SqudAw
many of the passersby crowded
about to get glimpse of him. Then
they turned one to another and
asked "Who is that gipk2" The
president of neighboring country
could walk up and down Broadway
attracting little attention.
Yesterday I saw Jack Dempsey in
an open car stop on Eighth Ave.
Within half minute there were a
hundred persons around him, hold
ing forth cards and scraps Of paper
for his autograph: Within two
minutes traffic was blocked and
cop ordered Dempsey to, move. The
crowd ran after his car and when it
drew up to the curb in the next
block a score Of men were on the
running board before it stopped. Tho
chauffeur drove up Eighth Ave-,
circled several blocks and returned
to the Pennsylvania station again. A
new crowd quickly formed and the
cop chased the car again. Dempsey
drove to Fifth Ave. and back before
he could shake off the crowd and
enter the station. .es..
These contrasting scenes are re.
lated that you may reflect on the
question: What is fame?
Your correspondent asks your
kind indulgence if the quality of his
daily record seems below it's usual
low level for the present His first
radio set is keeping him wit y
doors much of the time and hd
hearing more than he is seeings
There is more thrill for him in GET
ting a static squeak from. Omaha
than in getting O. peep behind Broad.
way curtains. And just to- thinkl
He does it with an indoor aerial on q
three-tube set which wasn't built for
distance, distance being the one
thing that didn't interest him wheu
he bought the set forty-eight hours
ago!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-30

Every Hoosier could easily find one
to break, If he felt in the mood.
And, though the new statutes
have now been in operation al
most forty-eight hours, there is no
greater security to life and prop
erty than heretofore, nor appar-
ent improvement in public and pri-
vate morals.
Possibly the latter will take
place as soon as the "bone-dry"
law begins TO growl and show its
teeth.
That law expunges alcohol and
all beverages OF which it is a
constituent from the Hoosier die
tionary. That is, theoretically.
Whether it will produce actual
aridity in the State as well as the
statute book, viii depend on law
enforcement agencies and public
conscience.
Public conscience Is the deter
mining factor in the success or
failure of laws. 1t Is not the
publication of the laws that mat
tiers. 1t is the individual citizens
attitude toward the laws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-30
That Bill Against France

but gratitude for her aid in that
war.
If any debt should be collected to
the last cent, it is war debt. If
nations can contract debts for war
purposes, and the2 beg out of them,
what incentive is there financially
to keep the peace? France is able
TO pay. She should pay. There is
not single reason why she should
have any better settlement than
Britain was given. This is the con-
clusion Of Senator Borah, and it
should solve the doubts of every
American.
Keeping a daughter in clothes
isn't always a financial problem.
Lame excuses can't go far.
The boss doesn't have as good q
time as the office boy.
One beautiful thing about popular
songs is they don't last.
Distance lends enchantment to the
old swimming hole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-30
Hawaii a Menace

IT HE capture. of the Hawaiian Islands by
l the Blue, or attacking feet, in the joint
Army and Navy maneuvers now in full swing
in the Pacific, came as no surprise to those ia
miliar with the situation.
For years both the Secretaries of War and
Navy have been drumming into the ears of
Congress that our mid-ocean naval base was
too weak to withstand an attack by any con-
siderable naval force, and have just as con-
sistently, though vainly, begged for the funds
and authority to strengthen it.
The Islard of Oahu, or Pearl Harbor, in
the Hawaians, like Panama, is intended ex-
clusively for the use of the Navy. But both are
defended by the Army Manifestly if our bat
tie fleets are forced to hang around these bases
to keep them from falling into the hands of
the enemy, they will not be of much use else
where. An enemy could play havoc with the
United States proper if the Navy were pinned
down by the necessity to defend the Hawaiians
or Panama Canal
Thus the problem of the Pacific maneuvers
this year was to see if the present Army, Navy
and air forces regularly stationed in Hawaii
could stave off an attack, say by fleet almost
the size of the third largest.
You already know the answer They could
not. The islands were captured That means
that instead Of being bulwark Of defense ca
pable of holding an enemy at bay some 1000
miles off our west coast, they could be captured
and used as a base of operations against us,
cutting us off from the Philippines and making
it possible to sweep the Pacific clean of our
shipping.
Hawaii lacks sufficient number of big
guns. 1t lacks airplanes. 1t lacks heavy, mo-
bile artillery. It is insuffciently manned and
there is neither enough reserve ammunition nor
fuel oil for naval purposes.
If our Navy is up to the minute, and
Panama and the Hawaiians are secure, we can
well afford to maintain only small standing
army within the United States proper. Both
material and personnel could be built up before
an enemy could very well get to US But in the
event of war the very first blows would likely
be struck against Oahu and Panama, so there
would be no time to send reinforcements or
rush up guns and munitions. They would
have to do the best they could with what they
had.
1t ought to be clear as daylight therefore.
to everybody that whatever our policy may be
at home, both the Hawaiians and Panama
Canal should be on war basis, ever and al
ways. For upon whether they hold out or are
captured depends the whole trend of any war
we are ever likely to get into.
Folks Hawaii and Panama are the two most
vital outposts of defense standing between you
and danger. They are there to keep you and
yours, your home and your job, safe They are
vital part of our national insurance. You
ought to see to it, when Congress meets again,
that 1t understands the menace which the Pa
cifc maneuvers have just laid bare