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Milford chronicle., 1927-06-17
ARROWS FROM A QUIVER
BY J. Marvin Nichols
Dallas, Texas

Don't be overly hurried. Ideas
develop just like trees grow.
Dreams evolve themselves into
prisons or palaces for us.
For you there is no beauty deeper
than your dreams.
History is crammed with careers
that turned on the smallest incl
dents
Happiness consists in the elimina-
ton OF our needless wants.
If you don't see your way out Of
the woods, blaze you out way.
1t takes a brave man to face the
odds that cause others to forsake.
If you want to be really happy cut
out your needless wants.
%-EEzzM9
Every individual achievement, eV-
cry stranded wreck, makes us re-
member that none but ourself shall
meet us on the highway OF life.
Purity is more than perfume-a
definition referred to the fop and
the fapper of this age.
Progress means something engrav-
ed on the brain. And when a man
knows no progress, there is nothing
on the brain.
Ii the darkest hour is just before
the dawn, we know some men who
have been a long time ready for the
break of day..
You will yourself be the happier
if you offer remedies instead of ac-
cusations.
While everything we strive for is
not good, yet everything good costs
& desperate struggle. =.
Literally saturate yourself with
what you aim to do in life and there
is nothing that can stand in your
way.
Look after the fellow under your
own hat. That will keep you about
as busy as one need to be.
NMAzsM9
Sometimes we wonder if the
frontier of civilization now runs
down our magnificent boulevards'
on whose frontage lie the stately
mansions of the rich, closely cur
tanned.
Only when you do not care to
please others can you afford to say
what you please. And a man who
takes a course like that will at last
reach a friendless zone.
There are songs unsung by harp
or lutte. The rythmic years OF
loving ministry will work out a re-
frain that shall be caught up by the
choirs that linger along the shore
less seas.
Somebody declared great truth
when they said that one should plan
as though they were going to i've
forever and then work as II they
were going to die tomorrow.
The basic motive for most all
crime is to be found in some mental
or physical infirmity-some unsatis-
fed desire. Desire, the smoldering
fires which. like volcanoes, burst
forth. And we call it crime.
N44zzm3
He'll is where hope is not Hell
is hopelessness-that the best de-
finition we know. If you contribute
to make life hopeless in any human
breast you create its hell. And II
there be a depth in some future IN
ferno unexplored by Dante's Widest
dreams you'll find it.
Milford chronicle., 1927-06-17

The keeping of flock of poultry
by the home gardener is usually ad-
visible, according to the United
States Department of Agriculture,
provided he has the room and can
keep the chickens out of the garden
during the growing season.
Milford chronicle., 1927-06-17

Give dollar to buy clothing with and what will she get
wearing apparel dollar been carefully
worked by the Phoenix Research Bureau and based generally
living budgets the
dollar clothing. provides
frock
the
condition that eighteen
American girl the stocking fashion
undoubtedly responsible the
including
handkerch
the smallest item of
get consuming remaining cents.
Milford chronicle., 1927-06-17

We often wonder whether solemn
men take life as seriously as they
would lead us to believe they do.
Milford chronicle., 1927-06-17

One way to make people happy is
to leave them alone, and let them go
about being happy in their own way.
Milford chronicle., 1927-06-17
HOW WOMAN SPLITS UP Her CLOTHING DOLLAR"

DRESSES up CENTS HOSE WRAPS 49, SHOE
IL; UNDERWEAR, s; ACCESSORIES, 8; HATS, q;
MIIADYS BUDGET SHOWS
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
Illusion Often Lost
by Personal Contact

The best authors should be read, not
known. Even if poet has written an
epic, one hours association with him
may destroy the most idolatrous read
er's Illusion of him.
Your favorite humorist may turn
out to be an ordinary person, dull LIN
the use Of the spoken word. Or what
you believe to be the greatest living
novelist may prove to be little peev-
ish man whose false teeth do not at,
made intolerant by nervous indigestion
or egotism.
In any case, says Cora Harris In
the Saturday Evening Post, some
writer whom you have admired for his
high notes In the purpling shadows OF
great poem Is almost sure to give
vent TO some meanly critical views Of
men quite contrary to the noble SEN
timents he bugied In that martial epic,
because he was In a divine mood
when he wrote 1t, and the thing mere
ly interprets his mood, not his normal
mind. which may be q mean little
mind.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
HON. OWENS SPEAKS

The Sunday Evening Forum, under
the auspices of Fl. Dearborn 1927
Marching Club, of which ]. B. De-
veaux is president, was rendered at
the club parlors, 1920 South Parkway,
last Sunday. The musical program was
rendered by the choir of Cosmopolitan
Church Club, of which Rev. ]. r. Har-
vey is pastor, also by the choir Of Al
len Chapel of which Rev. M c. Wright
is pastor. This program was fine. The
principal address was made by Chand-
Ter Owens, known as great orator,
reasoner and advocate of the Race.
The speaker took for his subject Hap
piness and Government" In the abb
sence of the chairman, M. B. Rogers,
Robert Jordan acted as chairman.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
REV. DIR. STRATON QUITS THE
SUPREME KINGDOM
preston News Service)

New York, Jan. 28.-Following
what is said to have been series Of
misunderstanding the Rev. Dr. John
Roach Straton, the leading fundamen-
talist in the country, is said to have
handed in his resignation to the Of
ficials of the Supreme Kingdom and at
the same time announced that he
would give his time and attention to
the building of his new sky-scraper
church.
Negroes of the country learn of DR..
Straton's resignation from the Supreme
Kingdom with delight, feeling that the
race has been relieved of most force
full factor, who innocently, would be
fostering. an institution that nurtures
and foments race hatred and suppress
sion.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
DEAN WILLIAM PICKENS TO
ATTEND WORLD CONGRESS
preston News Servlce)

London, Eng, Jan. N.-Dean VIII
liam Pickens, of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People, IS in this country to attend the
world congress against Imperialism to
be held in Brussels, Belgium, begin
ming February 10.
This congress is said to be the first
gathering in the world on an inter-
national scale of delegates from op-
pressed peoples of all races. With the
selection Of Dean Pickens, an Ameri-
car. Negro, to the presiding commit
tee, which includes representatives of
every major oppressed race in the
world
Dean Pickens has created an excep-
tionally fine impression here in Lon
don and indications point toward his
becoming an outstanding figure in the
deliberations of the World Congress.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
Travelin' On

Another interstate commerce case,
involving alleged discrimination
against Negro traveller by the Pull
man Company has been lost, and the
complainant, Attorney Harden, has
been handed the customary judicial
opinion that the evidence did not sup
port his complaint. In addition, the
defendant, as usual, stated that Pull
man space, when available, was never
withheld from colored teamsters. The
idea of such an allegation seems, ac-
cording to the defendants testimony,
to be simply ridiculous.
The writer of this column happens
to know, through years Of travel, that
the assertion that Pullman space, when
available, is frequently denied to col
ored passengers. He has been re-
peatedly denied space over the Louis
vile and Nashville railway out of Gin
cinnati, over the Seaboard out of
Raleigh, over the Southern out Of
Chattanooga, Tenn, and in various
other points in the south.
The last time he attempted to pur-
chase Pullman space out Of Cincinnati,
Ohio, the Pullman official said: I'VE
wouldn't sell space last week to Mar
Gus Carney; why should we sell it to
your"
The Interstate Commerce Law is as
plain as the Volstead Act. 1t provides
penalties whenever discrimination
exists as to passengers or property in
interstate commerce. Every year,
some of the country's carriers are
reprimanded for discriminating prac-
tees, as between shippers of poultry,
eggs, hogs, coal, etc.,d-n
carriers are exonerated because the
evidence does not sustain the allega-
tons of some Negro traveller, who was
treated less officially than were tho
poultry and eggs.
The time will doubtless come, how
ever, when the Interstate Commerce
Law will be sustained. In the mean
time, interstate travellers would do well
to collate their evidence, so as to pull
together when the day of opportunity
comes to present case which cannot,
must not fail.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
EDUCATORS WANT REMOVAL
OF APPROPRIATION STRING
preston News Service)

Durham, N. c., Jan. 2S.-In an ef-
fort to have the condition attached to
the appropriation to the North Caro-
lima College for Negroes, located in
this city, which makes it necessary
for the trustees to raise 100000 in
order to receive an appropriation Of
100000 from the state, removed
members of the board appeared before
a joint meeting Of the committee on
appropriations Of the General Assem-
bly, Thursday afternoon in Raleigh.
An appropriation of approximately
100000 is being sought to put through
the building program outlined by the
educators for the next two years, but
the Governor allowed the college $780,
900 in his budget, providing the insti-
tuition raises 100000.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
JOURNAL OF PROGRESS ISSUES
NATIONAL EXPOSITION
NUMBER
preston News Service)

New York City, Jan. 28.-The first
issue of the Journal of Progress, the
official magazine of the National Ne
gro Exposition, which will be held in
New York City from June l to Oc-
tober /, 1927, has been released by
the exposition authorities with offices
at 664 Lenox Ave This issue gives
detailed account of the purpose of
the coming affair, dealing mainly with
the problems and industries Of New
York. A national issue is promised
for next month, taking in the accom-
plishments Of the Negro all over the
United States.
The exposition will celebrate the
sixty-ffth anniversary of the eman-
cipation Of the Negro. 1t is claimed
that this will be the first big oppor-
tunity for the race to adequately as
semble their various achievements in
literature, art, and industry under one
large roof. It is planned to make this
affair fully representative of the prog
ress of the race. Plans are on foot to
arouse interest among Negroes in all
parts of the country and insist on
every possible exhibit being placed in
the exposition so that the race can
fully become aware Of what it is actual
ly doing.
1t is believed that the results from
this exposition viii prove of consid-
cradle inspiration to the race. 1t IS
said that the race has never had ample
opportunity to take full account Of
itself. The limited knowledge Negroes
have of what the race is accomplish
ing as a whole in this country does
not serve to stimulate or arouse ann
bition. But It is felt that this one big
exposition in which it is planned to
give full account of the racial achieve
ments abundant good will come IN
the way Of making history and making
the race prouder of itself as a whole.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29

his many old time friends in this city.
On February /, Mr.. Thompson will
become business manager f>the OPP
portunity Magazine, the official organ
of the National Urban League.
The following is from the Los An
geles Evening Express:
Coming to this city in 1911, Mr..
Thompson won a place of high regard
among both his own and the white
people for his efforts in behalf of his
race. Until recently he was a member
Of the Municipal Housing Commission
and had been mentioned as a candidate
for a place on the State Labor Com
mission.
"For more than IS years Mr..
Thompson was employed by the
United States Express Company in
Chicago. Subsequently, he was CO.
worker Of Booker T. Washington at
Tuskegee Institute for four years.
Since coming to Los Angeles he has
been leader in the cultural and polit-
ical life Of the Negro race. He has also
contributed to several magazines.
He was suggested by the late Con-
gresham H. 2. Osborne to be minister
to Liberia, but declined before the
nomination was acted upon, owing to
i'll health in his family.
Opportunity is the organ Of the
National Urban League. He has been
an active member of Los Angeles Ur-
ban League for long time.
He formerly was on the staff of
the Evening Express"
Mr.. Thompson, being wide awake
all the time, was not to occupy his
new post of duty on the Opportunity,
until February l, but he expended
some Of his time in frequenting the
news stands and stores in this city and
urging the agents for Opportunity
Magazine to make an extraordinary
effort to increase its sale, from month
to month.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
DIR. WESLEY INSTALLS
OFFICERS

The officers of Progressive Lodge
No. 48, Knights of Pythias, were in
stalled Saturday evening at $500 State
ST., by A. A. Wesley, grand chancellor,
state of Illinois aud jurisdiction. SheF-
man Jackson, who has served one
term was reelected as chancellor. DIR.
Wesley told about the coming Of the
supreme lodge next August and urged
Progressive Lodge to do in the future
as it has in the past, its full duty 10
cally and nationally. M. T. Bailey
will represent Progressive Lodge in
July as delegate in the State Grand
Lodge at Joliet, Ill.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
Sac LANGFoRD GETS 5000
FROM BENEFIT BOUTS
preston News Service)


New York, Jan. 27.-Sam Langford,
once rated among the greatest heavy
weights, black or white, Of all time, is
some $1,000 better off financially as
the result of the benefit bout given
Wednesday night at the Walker A. G.
and the individual contributions from
prominent persons in the boxing game
and admiring friends of the former
ring star. Langford is blind, or rather
almost blind now and his admirers and
friends feel that fraternal considera-
ton should be given the old time ia
vorite in his declining years.
Langford, who came down from his
native home in Nova Scotia, and start
ed boxing in and around Boston as a
boy over rs years ago, He is only Al
years of age now, he is practically
blind and unable to support himself
without financial assistance.
Boxing fans who had seen him in
his prime, when Jack Johnson, then
the world champion, refused to meet
him, and youngsters to whom Lang
ford's name is only by-word of 6sti-
ana, did their bit at the benefit
Langford's fighting record is clean,
although he had to frequently agree
not to knockout opponents before the
contest. His left hook is said to have
been one Of the deadliest in fight his
tory. Among those whom he con-
quered are Sam McVey, Joe Jean
nette, Joe Cans, Harry Wills, George
Godfrey, Bill Tate, Tiger Smith, Gun
boat Smith, All Kubiak, Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien, Iron Hague, Perky
Flynn, and many others. He also
boxed draw with Stanley Ketchel.
Although Jack Johnson was six
inches taller and weighed 80 pounds
more than Langford when champion,
he successfully lodged meeting Lang
ford in the ring. 1t is said that Lang
ford had foored Johnson with left
to the jaw in a fight long before John
son became champion and Johnson
wanted no part of the rugged, good
natured, mauling Boston heavyweight.
While Langford fought almost every
night when he was in his prime, the
purses were small and he was an easy
spender, never giving a thought Of
preparing for rainy day.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
CALL ON PRESIDENT
COOLIDGE TO STOP
LYNcHINGS
(Preston News Servicel

(Preston News Service)
Washington, D. c., Jan. 27.-If the
Federal Government has the authority
to declare martial law in Herrin, Ill
because of riotous uprising in that
community, why cannot similar action
be taken in the various communities
where lynchings occur and mob vio-
lence exists, is the unique question
President Coolidge has promised to
submit to the United States Attorney
General, according to DR.. 81 R. VIII
Hams and Mrs. Ruth w. Whalev. of
New York, who called on President
Coolidge last Tuesday and had a TWEEN
ty minute talk with him about the hor-
rible disgrace that the numerous
lynchings bring upon the fair name
Of the United States.
The President is reported to have
deplored the fact that justice has not
been allowed to take its regular and
orderly course, and spoke especially
of the Lowman case in South Carolina
as well as the one in Texas. He in
timated that those two recent out
bursts of savagery were the most con-
spicuous lynching blots on this coun-
try's history. He said if we can't
protect our Negro citizens, then we
can't protect any citizens, according
to the report of the visitors.
The difficulty Of securing passage Of
an anti-lynching law was cited by the
President, who recalled that, while he
was Vice-President, senators opposing
the Dyer bill filibustered four days.
Mrs. Whaley, who is a lawyer,
raised the point of invoking the same
power and authority the Government
used at Herrin, ILL.,, in quelling the de-
vastating uprising and mob rule. Pres
ident Coolidge is reported to have adj
mitted the suggestion was a new one,
never before considered in connection
with lynchings by him.
The resolution presented to the
President was adopted at a mass meet
ing held in New York City, December
19, last, and called on the President
ITO enforce the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments to the
Constitution with the same vigor as
the Eighteenth Amendment, and that
protection be given Negro citizens as
the exigencies Of the circumstances de-
mand, making it impossible for Ne
gro's life to be taken with impunity
to satisfy the whims Of blood-thirsty
group of fiends."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
ONE CHILD SCALDED, OTHER
HURT IN FALL
preston News Service)

Newark, N. J., Jan. 1.-Two small
children were seriously injured last
Thursday night. A small boy, when
he saw the funny smoke" pouring
from tea kettle spout pulled the ket-
tie and spilled the scalding water on
himself and another small lad, when
he opened the window in his home and
fell to the concrete pavement below.
William Mimms, aged 4 years, was
seated by the kitchen stove while his
mother prepared supper. When her
back was turned, she told police, the
child pulled the kettle over. He was
taken to the city hospital, where it is
said he suffered major scalds. His
recovery is doubtful.
Two-year-old Rudolph Avallo was
the child to fall from the window. He
suffered a fractured skull, and hip and
internal injuries. 1t is thought he will
recover.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
BURY MOTHER IN MICHIGAN

Mrs. Charlotte A. Thompson, 3752
Rhodes Ave-, passed away on last
Thursday after an illness Of more than
SIX weeks. Mrs. Thompson was born
IN New York, but resided in Lansing,
Mich, for number of years, coming
70 Chicago fourteen years ago. Mrs.
thompson is the mother of Mesdames
GLADYS Thompson and Cora Thomp-
son and Leona Dixon Mckinney; the
sister Of Mrs. Sarah Davis Of Ann Ar
Dor Mich. Short funeral services
were conducted at the home by the
y 4. R, Of which the deceased was a
member, on Sunday afternoon, after
winch the body was shipped to Lans-
ing for burial.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
WHITE SALESMAN ENIES
Staying NEGRO PORTER
preston News Service)

Memphis, Tenn, Jan. 28.-Robert
Gilmore, travelling salesman, entered a
plea Of innocence in connection with
the charge of murder in the first de-
gree Monday morning, when he was
arraigned in first criminal court.
Gilmore, (white) is accused of the
staying of John Henderson, Negro
railroad porter, on the night Of Janu-
airy |. Gilmore is said to have struck
Henderson on the head with a table
leg. Henderson died January in a
local hospital from fracture Of the
skull. Gilmore was arrested in Russell
vile, Ark, and returned here and
placed in jail charged with murder.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
GILES SHEFFY AND JAMES
DAVIS VICTIMS OF FATAL
MINE BLAST
preston News Service)

WEIGH, w. Va, Jan. 27.-Among
the four bodies of miners trapped in
the Caples mine Of he Pocahontas
Coal Company, Wednesday, by an ex-
plosion, were Giles Shelley and James
Davis. These men were machine cut
tiers. Mine officials expressed the
opinion that the blast might have oc-
CURED when the workers struck a gas
pocket with their implements.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
BROOKS KILLED
BY SENATOR McLEAN'S
AUTO
preston News Service)

Washington, d. c., Jan. 28.-Struck
by the automobile of Senator George
P. Mclean, of Connecticut, Alexan-
der Brooks was killed almost instantly
here Friday night.
Senator Mclean was not in the ma
chine at the time, the machine was be-
ing driven by his chauffeur, who was
arrested and held pending an investi-
cation.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
By THE CAMERAMLAN

varying population of every state in
the south, where such laws abound, is
positive proof that miscegenation laws
are new way Of sealing up forever
the poisoned social desires of the avar-
icious.
Of course, the bill will fail; but it
is well that the spotlight be thrown
upon it, that conscientious people may
be put on guard against the social
thieves who are now infesting this I'M
explored section Of Gods country.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-29
THE RED CAPS LITERARY
CLUB


The Red Caps Club viii hold forth
a. their regular meeting Sunday after
noon at 4:30 p. m, February s. At
SoS' Michigan avenue. Mr.. T. s.
SaOy of S. w. Straus & Co., will be
ne principal speaker. His subject will
Oe The Easiest Way to Do the Hard
est Thing in the World" Miss Rosie
Lee Robinson, our musical director
aSs arranged a wonderful musical
program, and a rare treat is in store
'Or all who attend. Everyone is well
come.
Sandy w. Triee. Pres.