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The broad ax., 1925-08-15
RACE MAN UNABLE TO TELL
GRAND JURY WHO STONED
HOUSE
preston News Seryicel

New York City, Aug. 13.-The
Richmond County grand jury met
Thursday at St George and examined
% more witnesses in its investigation
Of vandalism against the home Of Rob
ert Browne, letter carer, g. Fairview
avenue, Castleton Hill, L. T., who
charges concerted effort has been
made by white neighbors to drive him
out Of his home and the neighborhood.
None Of the witnesses was able to
throw any light on who stoned
Brownies home July II, smashing
windows, destroying flower beds and
breaking down fences and damaging
the premises generally.
The grand jury adjourned until Sat
urday at which time it planned to
bring in report of its findings and
recommendations. It was the opinion
Of those who frequent the court that
john Doe indictments will be returned.
Browne and his wife, who is a teacher
in Public School No II, Dongan Hill,
.reasserted their intention to stick Il
out" as a matter of principle" al
though they have been offered a SUBJ
stantial profit on the home they
bought little more than a year ago.
It is said that whites do not want Ne
groes to invade that section and II Is
claimed that unless the Brownies are
driven out Of the section It viii be in
vaded by many Negro families in the
near future and the property values
will consequently decrease.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
CHINESE STUDENTS PROTEST
BRITISH OUTRAGES UPON
THEIR PEOPLE

The Chinese Students Club Of Col
orado College, Colorado Springs, has
sent TO James Weldon Johnson, sec
rotary Of the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored People,
statement placing the blame for re-
cent disorders in China upon British
police and asserting that unarmed Chi
nese students were massacred.
The statement quotes from evidence
showing that most of the Chinese shot
were shot in the back; that no Brit
ish police were wounded; that at least
20 Chinese were killed and 800 wound
ed and that the massacre occurred
during parade conducted by the stu
dents in protest against the arrest Of
fellow students by the British police
for making speeches and distributing
handbills.
The statement includes a motion
unanimously passed by the faculty Of
Using Hua College, Picking, including
British and American professors,
which is as follows:
Recently in Shanghai a number Of
Chinese students were shot and killed
or wounded by the British police. We
wish to voice our extreme Indignation
at this occurrence For those who
died and for the wounded We feel the
deepest sorrow and we join in ex-
pressing our profound sympathy to the
people throughout the nation, who
protest against these atrocities"
Moreover, in Picking IIs foreign
women united in issuing manifesto,
the names including Mrs. Henry
Houghton, wife Of the president Of
Picking Union Medical College; Mrs.
w. J. Calhoun, wife Of the former
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
COLLECTOR NICHOLS APP
POINTS COLORED STE
NoGRAPHER
columbian Press Bureaul

Boston, Mass.-On recommends
ton Of William c. Matthews, Malcolm
E. Nichols today appointed Miss Irma
Pack stenographer in the Depart
ment Of Internal Revenue. Miss
Packs appointment was sanctioned by
Senator William NJ. Butler.
Miss Pack is graduate of the class
Of 1923 Of the Girls High School She
is very efficient stenographer, and
has been assisting Mrs. Newman at
the Settlement House Of ST. Marks
Church. She lives at 504 Shawmut
avenue.
Mr. Nichols has also appointed Miss
Doris cambridge of Cambridge, a niece
Of Mr.. Charles H. Shepard, as a clerk.
Like Miss Pack, Miss cambridge i
a recent graduate of the Girls High
School.
Mr.. Charles r Newman has been
promoted to a position of Deputy
Collector Of Internal Revenue. while
two other colored appointees have
been assigned to the Warehouse De
partment- All Of these appointees have
had the Endorsement of Senator WI.
liam M. Butler.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
FORT DEARBORN MONSTER
PICNIC AND OUTING SATUR-
DAY AND SUNDAY, AUG. Is
AND 10
Beautiful Golden Gate Park, Robbins,
Illinois; Mr.. Harvey A. Watkins,
Chairman Of the Affair

Next Saturday and Sunday, August
18th and 10th, committee from the
Fort Dearborn Lodge No. A, |. B.
p. o. f. W., has arranged for the
greatest picnic and carnival to be given
this season at the Golden Gate Park.
comprised Of forty acres, inland lake,
with recreations such as fishing,
swimming and boating, band concert
by the Fort Dearborn Elk's Lodge
band. Special committee in charge of
the barbecuing has promised to have
all kinds Of barbecue. including bar
becued milk fed chickens. There will
be dancing in the evening in the large
open air pavilion Special music BY
the Fort Dearborn orchestra con-
Quoted BY Prof. Robert L. Jordan.
AT five o'clock in the evening there
will be public speaking and citizens
mass meeting. The following distin-
guished gentlemen have been engaged
to address the audience assembled Sat
urday and Sunday evenings: United
States Senators VILLAIN B. Mckinley
and Chas. S. Deneen Of Illinois; Mr..
William fl. Weber, member Of the
Board Of Review; Senator A. H. Rob
erts, Judge William HI Harrison, Hon.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
coLoRFUL NEWS MOVIES"
By the Cameraman
1. Bootlegging Labor
2. A Daniel Come to Judgment
8. Louisville At the Best
preston News Service)

From Naples, Italy, comes the word
that the jealous police have invited
another gang Of clandestine emigra-
ton agents who have been engaged il
the arduous task Of sending would
be- United States immigrants over
here, aided BY cleverly-forged pass
ports to Marseilles and Havre, from
whence the new Z. S. subjects" have
been embarking for the good old u.
S. A., to compete in the production
Of Made-in-America goods, wares and
merchandise. When it is considered
that the bootlegging Of labor across
the Mexican border has become an
industry which is rivalled only BY the
transportation of acknowledgement
stuff, and that a number Of Floridiar
and other industrial kings have been
seeking to keep good per cent Of
American labor, both black and white,
idle, it can be seen that the full dinner
pail Of the American Negro workman
IS continuously the pendulum which
swings back and forth between neces-
sity and the INSCRIPTIONS practices Of
certain soulless American employers
who, in sentiment, resemble these few
American tourists who 60 abroad and
try to smuggle back into America, in
their stockings or coat Innings, things
which they should be happy to pur-
chase in the United States.
The American workman, both white
and black, is the best paid, most priv
ileged, happiest workman in the
world; and if the labor bootlegging
game, condoned as it must be, BY
certain interruptions employers, con-
tinues to thrive, the prestige, honor,
and integrity Of the American work
man will still doubtless survive. But
even 50, pray tell US what is the eth
ical status Of the American employer
who continues to hire bootleg labor,
while he fires American-born citizens
who have as much right as the en-
ployer to the benefits and privileges
accruing from American labor and
production? What Of the Floridian,
who. while their Negro labor chafes
and suffers, seek to supplant them
with Porto Ricans and Bahamians?
Have the former much claim to 100
per cent Americanism? AS the good
book says: "a good name Is better
than riches" and we sadly beg to add
that if the good name Of American
employers is to be preserved, the rank
and file Of the employer group must
blacklist the black sheep among them,
who, to save wage payroils, are willing
to defy the immigration laws beyond
all conscience These ghouls and rap
lists Of American industry, of whom
fortunately there are few, must be
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
ARREST MEMPHIS DAMSEL
FOLLOWING WILD AUTO
DRIVE
preston News Service)

Memphis, Tenn, Aug. 14-Miss
Mary Young, aged IA years, was held
by the juvenile authorities following
a wild drive Thursday morning in
which she is said to have struck two
men, injuring both of them slightly
and ending the drive BY smashing into
a telephone pole on White street.
The men were only slightly injured.
She was arrested BY deputy sheriffs
at the home of Lester Williamson, p
Brammel street, who is said to Be
the owner Of the car.
The girl was attempting to make a
turn and lost control Of the car, it
jumping the curb and knocking the
two men down. The drive ended
when the car struck telephone pole,
witnesses told the officers.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
WOMEN RECEIVE LEGACIES
AFTER s-YEAR SEARCH
preston News Service)

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug 14.-After
a nationwide search extending over
a period Of eight years, Mrs. Lizzie
Harrison Potter and Mrs. Mamie
Harrison Cox were said to receive a
legacy held in trust for them since
1904.
The Fletcher Savings and Trust
Company, named guardian for them
in 1904, following the death Of their
father, Collier Harrison, Civil War
veteran, was prepared to pay $1,190.5S
to the women as a residue Of pension
moneys paid to the guardian BY the
government.
It is said that the hunt was made
necessary BY lost identities. Follow
ing the death Of Mr.. Harrison in 1917
the mother, Mrs. Bulah Harrison went
to GreenviIe, n c., and there married
Joseph Harris. Mamie Harrison, The
younger daughter, went with her
mother to North Carolina and the
elder daughter, Lizzie Harrison, hat
married and removed from Indiana
1t developed after long search that
she had married William Potter in
Philadelphia
Mamie Harrison married Ernest
Cox in North Carolina in August
1920. The trust company was unable
to locate either Of the daughters unit
recently, when it was discovered they
were again living in indianapolis. The
Marion Probate Court ordered a fna
distribution of the money Thursday
Mrs. Lizzie Harrison Potter received
$243-o0 and Mrs Mamie Harrison Coz
was paid $946.68.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
FRATERNAL ORDER OPENS
ITS FORTY-SIxTH SESSION
preston News servicel

Houston, Tex, Aug. l4.-Delegates
TO the forty-sixth annual grand lodge
Of the Grand United Order Of Odd
Fellows and twenty-eighth grand SEES
sion VI the Household Of Ruth, fra
ternity Of Texas, were welcomed to
Houston Monday night by Mayor
Pro TEN H. A. Halverton, whose
speech was warmly cheered by the
thousand or more delegates that
packed the auditorium Of the Odd
Fellows Temple, Louisiana street and
Prairie avenue.
T. WI Pratt, teacher in Dallas High
| Booker T. Washington school, re-
sponded To the official welcome with
lengthy address. Before going to
Dallas. Pratt was a member Of the
faculty at Prairie View State College.
The welcome on behalf Of local
Households was delivered by Mrs. G.
g. Houston, who is district grand
worthy recorder. Mrs Julia Caldwell
Frazier Of Dallas is the titular head Of
the Household
The response to the welcome was
delivered BY Mrs r. T. Mckinney Of
Sherman. Richard @. Lockett, teach
er in Houston Colored High School,
extended welcome for local lodges, to
which J. j. Burnett, principal Of Gle
burne high school, responded.
The gavels were presented to the
district grand master and district
most noble governor by Stanley Up
church and Sylvia Fonsworth, re-
spectively, Rev. A. Hubbard, pastor
Of Mount Corinth Baptist Church
pronounced the invocation. Musical
numbers were rendered by local Odd
Fellows band, the choir Of Wesley
chapel, African Methodist Episcopal
Church, the Coleridge- Taylor Choral
Club, Constance Houston and Geral-
dine Foster.
The first business session was held
at the temple Tuesday morning and
at the Coleridge- Taylor Choral Club,
Of which c. F. Richardson is presi-
dent, and Mrs. p. D. Smith is direc-
tress, staged a song festival in the
auditorium Of the temple Tuesday
night. The musical organization is
said to possess some of the foremost
singers and musicians Of their race,
and recently sang over the Post Dis
patch (KPRC) radio station.
Memorial services were held at
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church,
Travis and Bell, Wednesday evening.
Rev S. W. Johnson, pastor Of Boyn-
ton chapel preached the sermon and
the choir OF Trinity furnished the mu-
steal numbers, assisted BY other local
talent.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
MOTORING TO VIRGINIA

James NJ. Brooks, past exalted ruler
and president of Fl. Dearborn 1925
Marching Club, is leaving the city IN
an automobile trip to Richmond and
Norfolk, Va, his old home town. At
Richmond, Mr.. Brooks will report on
headquarters for the Fl. Dearborn
delegates and marching club in adj
vance Of their coming. He is accom-
panied on this trip BY his family.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
One of the biggest Elks in Chicago, who will ably
chairman of the outing today and Golden
Gate Park.

Alexander Fyfe, Major A. E. Patter-
son and George E. Bates, grand secre-
tary Of the T. B. p. D. E. WI. Of New
ark, New Jersey and many other
distinguished gentlemen will partici-
pate during the two days program.
A monster crowd is expected, as
people are coming from all over Tile
northern part of Illinois, and the COM
mittee in charge, whose reputation as
business and professional men, guar
antee to the public order and decorum
and pleasant outing.
You can reach the park BY motoring
on Western avenue to l35th street,
west on 135th street to the park. You
can take the street car to 63rd street
and Halsted, transfer to an interurban
at 63rd and Halsted streets to Broad
way street, Blue Island, from where
transportation has been arranged to
meet all cars to transfer you To THE
park by automobile service.
H. A. Watkins, chairman; James {.
Martin, Robert Il Potts, Atty. II. IA.
Newly, Or George Thornton, Gerald
L. Jamison, Major A. z. Patterson,
Senator a. H. Roberts, Dr. M. FL.
Davis, Judge William H. Harrison,
Atty. "A. E. Tansil, M. 7. Bailey,
Thomas Jackson, John Jackson, ]. M.
Taylor, Harry Brown, James N.
Brooks, Frank Henry, Atty. III. M.
Porter, Chas. B. Travis, DR.. /. II. Hol-
loway, DR. Roscoe c. Giles, Hon. Ed
ward Fl. Wright, Aid Louis B. Ander-
son, Aid. Robt R. Jackson and Col.
John r. Marshall.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15

American minister to Picking, and
other we'll known women.
The Chinese students also ask for
the abolition of extra territorial rights
by foreign powers, alleging that racial
prejudice in the European courts Of
justice maintained on Chinese soil re-
suits in grave discrimination and I'LL
justice to the Chinese.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
THIS WEEK
By Ernest Rice Mckinney
Skeptics, Agnostics, Atheists. In6dels
and Free Thinkers
preston News Service)

Preston news SeTNlCGJ
These are the "cuss" words Of the
Fundamentalists. They are the pro-
family of the brethren who believe
that the Bible was originally written
in English or French, or Zulu or Rus
sian or in whatever language the user
of these words-happens to speak
The words are the flaming sword
thrust at certain persons, by profess
sional protectors Of our morals, our
souls and our jobs. Along with rad
ical, Bolshevik and Anarchist, these
are few Of the favorite words Of
Twin Six Patriots, Preachers, Sc
curity Leaguers, Coal Barons, Rotar-
ians, white southerners with Negro
mothers, Negroes with white fathers,
people who can't read, those who can
but who are too lazy and all those
who get a volcanic eruption sensation
in the head when they try to think.
The above are also favorite express
sions Of the Safe and Sane. True and
Tried who believe that Elijah made
an ax-head swim from the bottom to
the top Of the river, who believe in the
potency Of Adam and Eve root, in
the rod of a politician, or that there
is a great lake of FIRE waiting the
wicked just few miles under the
earth's surface.
These are also the beloved express
sions Of certain school-trained inn
beetles and morons who seem to feel
that they must use them occasionally
in order to hold their jobs, the good
will Of the powers that Be or the rev
erence of the rabble.
And, Of course, they are the Open
Sesame into the good graces Of all the
Klan minded, Shouters, Rollers, Sat
urday Evening Post enthusiasts, mill
town mayors. Dry Bone Snorters and
all the vast army of status quo,
laissez faire drones who are strong
for that branch Of science known as
States.
These people don't know or refuse
to believe that the progress Of the
world has been brought about by the
Skeptics, Agnostics, Atheists, Rad
icais and Free Thinkers. Whoever
heard Of Conservative or a Funda-
mentalist precipitating progress at
anytime or anywhere? How could
they when their look is always back
ward? The advance Of civilization
necessitates push and pull for
ward. The Fundamentals simply
sits by the brake and holds It down
tight He doesn't know why he does
it. All that he knows is that Change
and Light are poison to him
It was the heterodox who DESTROYED
slavery in America and England.
The Orthodox Fundamentalists
wanted slavery to continue. Had it
not been for the Non-Conformists.
the earth would still be fiat and the
center Of the universe. There would
still be Hell below and Heaven
somewhere in the clouds. Kings and
autocraeies would stilI Be in style.
The staying Of the female child, the
worshipping Of the wind and the sun,
the suppression Of women, the slaugh-
tering Of captiyes would still be the
rule.
It was not the Fundamentalists who
followed Jesus to Nazareth, but it
was they who cruci6ed him. II was
these same Fundamentalists who per
secuted Calico and Copernicus. 1t
was the Fundamentalists, the Con
servatives. who mobbed Garrison and
murdered Lovejoy. II was the Con-
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
BACK FROM ROCKFORD

Mesdames Mary "A. Parker, Prud-
ence Penn and Lou Ella Young have
returned from Rockford, Ill, where
she visited the Households of Ruth in
that city. While there they were the
guests Of Mrs. Ella J. Harris.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
DR.. R. A. WILLIAMS AGAIN
HEADS ROYAL CIRCLE OF
FRIENDS
[ Preston News Strvice)


Little Rock, Ark, Aug. l4.-At the
second days session Of the Supreme
Royal Circle Of Friends Of the World
in convention at the Bethel AM.E.
Church here, Dr. R. A. Williams was
reelected supreme president by ac-
clamation.
The reelection Of the supreme pres
ident was followed by banquet, clos
ing the convention. Prior to the cleo
ton Of officers a splendid religious
service was conducted by Rev @. J..
Moody, Of Helena, chaplain Of the
order
The broad ax., 1925-08-15

servatives, the Safe and Sane who in
stituted the Spanish Inquisition, the
Salem Witch Craft, the persecution Of
the Huguenots as we'll as DR.. Eos
dick and Prof Scopes.
Next week l shall begin discus
sion Of the leading so-called Agnos-
tics, Free Thinkers, etc. and set OPP
posite them the leading Fundamental
lists Of that time
The broad ax., 1925-08-15

Louisville is really putting the Ken
lucky brethren way up high on the
way up racial endeavor. Chicago,
New York and Baltimore race men
and race enterprises, before Tapping
their wings too loudly had best give
Louisville the once-over for the Ken
lucky city IS really seething with bust
ness and progress. Everything goes
big in Louisville, from the most mod
est bootbIaclc stand to the mammoth
and tremendous life insurance com
panies. Of course, Louisville has
prosperous race banks, in the Ameri-
can Mutual Savings Association, and
the Standard Bank, but you'd never
mark them as being any different from
Andrew MELONS or Murrays depos-
tories. from the way they look and
the way they are conducted.
The Louisville merchants, business
men and professionals Of the race had
= prosperous, self-satisfed appearance
which served to bespeak success.
Worthless men seemed to be few and
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
HOME COMING TRIP TO RICH
MOND

Many natives Of Virginia. especially
from Richmond, Petersburg, Roanoke,
Danville, Norfolk, Hampton and other
cities, are preparing to visit their home
town with the Elk delegation to Rich
mond, Va, August 2znd. Many Of
these people have not visited their
homes for many years.
The broad ax., 1925-08-15

warned that American-made laws are
kin to American-made goods
There is a good deal Of humbug
about the Nordic Supereminency, and
touching the Anglo-Saxon superiority,
though many cling desperately to such
4 belief" responds the editor Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer to the mournful
monologue Of President Wanamaker
Of the American Cotton Association,
who recently said: ct may be gravely
questioned whether America is any
longer in the fullest sense Of the word,
an Anglo-Saxon nation Eliminate
the pure strains Of blood that still con
tinue to flow in the veins OF the South
and West, and it certainly is not so.
In the South the Anglo-Saxon con
tinues dominant, but even here there
are millions OF men Of color, who have
no adequate conception Of what true
Anglo-Saxonism is" And regret there
is where President Wanamaker spilled
the beans, as the Cincinnati Enquirer
thoughtfully admits.
The millions of colored people in the
South and elsewhere have no quarrel
with those who would preserve the
purity Of Anglo-Saxon blood. And,
quite contrary to the theory Of Pres
ident Wanamaker, they quite thor
oughly understand the whims Of the
blood supremacy in the solid territory
named by the cotton manufacturer.
To them the Anglo-Saxon corpuscles
speak in stirring terms of Jim Crow
ism, sought to be made applicable to
every sphere Of life traversed by
| Americas black people. If this be SUI
premacy, then God forbid its counter
part in any race. Rather be it true,
as the Enquirer mildly implies to
President Wanamaker, that America
Of tomorrow will not be Anglo-Saxon,
but it need be none the less a land OF
free people-of democracy, freedom
and independence.
To which we would gratefully add
"amen7-for even as Lincoln said, a
nation could not endure half slave and
half free, neither can a country which
is striving to merit the standards of
true democracy endure while an ele-
ment Of its content is continuing to
exact itself over another struggling
element, 4 am hoIier than thou" has
no place in America-at least George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Gen
eral Grant and Theodore Roosevelt
did not think 50. And they were An
glo-Saxons, too.
!
The broad ax., 1925-08-15
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Vol. xxx No. 48
Chicago, August IS, 1925
Entered as Second Class Matter, Aug.
Io, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago.
IN. Under Act Of March s, 1879.
THIS WEEK
By Ernest Rice Mckinney
Skeptics, Agnostics, Atheists. Inhdels
and Free Thinkers
The broad ax., 1925-08-15

warned that American-made laws are
kin to American-made goods
Seward daily gateway., 1925-03-31

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