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MRS. MAUDE E. SMITH
President of the Cornell Char
ity Club which celebrated
its twenty-fifth anniversary
last Sunday.

The exercises began promptly at 3
o'clock p. m, as scheduled by the in
vitations and continued with slight in
PERMISSION until 7:30 p. m. The re-
ception rooms and dining room were
lastly decorated with the club colors,
red and white interspersed with silver
to attest the rs years of existence. The
guests were ushered in at the door,
directed to the floor above to remove
wraps, asked to return and register,
then in turn were introduced to the
different presidents, who formed a re-
ceiving line. Among the presidents
present in line we noted the following:
Mesdames Adelaide Brown, I. G. Ma
con, Alice Lilies, Maud Towles, Ella
G. Berry, N. Violet Cunningham, E.
Archer Thomas, Lucy McGill, Gene
We've Coleman, Minnie NJ. Porter,
Maude E. Smith After the guests were
presented to the receiving line they
were invited into the dining room in
groups and served with red and white
ice cream and individual cakes, coffee,
candy and nuts, then they returned to
the parlors and listened to the pro-
gram, which was conducted by Mrs.
Carrie Horton, who acted as mistress
of ceremonies.
An address was made by Mrs. AIDE
laide Brown, who was the first treas
urer of the club. Mrs. Brown related
in part the early doings of the club,
the organization, its progress through
many years, paying tribute to many
of the deceased members who were
presidents and earnest workers for
sweet charity's sake Mrs. 7. @. Ma
con related the reason she was not a
charter member of the club was that
the weekly meetings were held on
Thursday, and she belonged to another
organization which met on the same
day. However, the Cornell Club
changed their day of meeting to Fri
day afternoon after the club had been
in existence eight months, then she
became one of the workers and has
remained SO until the present time.
Mrs. N. Violet Cunningham men,
toned the outstanding features of her
administration as being the setting
aside Of the fund for Home for the
dependent boy and girl and the idea
of having a Christmas tree for poor
children While the club had always
at Christmas time given cheer in many
forms, Christmas baskets, donations
of money, etc. it had not established
the custom Of having Christmas tree
each year. This custom once estab-
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@cHIcAGo'S HEALTH"
Weekly Bulletin, Chicago Department
of Health-Typhoid Fever-by
Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.,
Commissioner

"In 1926 Chicago had but 149 cases
of and "a deaths from typhoid fever.
This makes a death rate for the dis
ease of O.7o per 100000 persons; a
record never before equaled in the his
tory Of the city 1t is the lowest rate
of any city over 100000 population in
the United States for 1926.
Chicago, 07o; Milwaukee, 1.35;
Cleveland, LAO; Boston, LIZ; New
York, 1876; Philadelphia, 1.8o; Detroit,
2.27; St. Louis, 2.2o; San Francisco,
247; Washington, rs; Pittsburgh,
267; Buffalo, 4.o6; Baltimore, So.
at beats the Chicago 1922 rate Of
IL typhoid fever deaths per 100000
persons by % per cent" says DR..
Bundesen in his latest bulletin.
Chicago is proud Of its typhoid
fever record because this former
scourge is reaching the vanishing
point and is a triumph of modern pub
lie health. Moreover this is the Sec
ond consecutive year that Chicago
leads the cities Of the United States
in the low number of typhoid cases
and in a still greater reduction in the
death rate" says the Commissioner.
"The control of typhoid fever in
Chicago is due to the following activ-
tiles:
l. More careful and more exact
chlorination Of our drinking water
supply. For this, great credit is
due to the effective cooperation Of
Col. A. A. Sprague, commissioner Of
public works, and Mr.. A. E. German,
engineer in charge of chlorination.
2. More effective and efficient pas
teurization of the milk supply.
5. More careful work in the dis
covery and supervision of typhoid
fever carriers, that is, persons who are
well but carry the typhoid germs
about with Them" concludes the Com
missioner.
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Boston, Mass.-As one of first steps
in the Post-Sesquicentennial Race
Crusade for Rights with which the
Colored Americans are urged to sig
nalize the beginning Of the nations
4th half-century, the National Equal
Rights League announces a race patri-
otto literary prize contest in honor Of
Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipator,
and Frederick Douglass, the fugitive
slave abolitionist, whose birthdays,
III and IA the race everywhere are
asked to observe separately or jointly.
There are to be three contests, to
consist of race petitions to Congress,
also to the President, in the spirit and
memory Of Lincoln and of Douglass
for redress of the races just and vital
grievances, and one for the best equal
ity quotations from Lincoln and Doug
lass contestants to select two quota
tons from Lincoln and two from
Douglass.
Papers in Before Feb. II
All members of the race are invited
to contest. Manuscripts must be in
the hands Of the Recording Secretary
of the League, Jas. L. Neil, Esq. goo
T ST., Northwest, Washington, D. c.,
on or before Feb. II, 1927, for exam
nation by board of judges from sew
eral national race bodies, the board
to meet at Washington on Feb. IL in
connection with a National Lincoln
Douglass 8 days observance and race
conference, Feb. IL to IA.
The race are asked to arrange to
send delegates from every place to
this race assembly from Lincoln-Doug-
lass subcommittee of existing race
bodies or from Lincoln-D Douglass or
Equal Rights Leagues or Citizens
Committees formed for the purpose
which also arrange local observances
and remain permanent.
On Feb. IA. delegations from The
race conference will present petitions
to both branches of Congress and tc
President Coolidge in memory Of Lin
coin and Douglass, based on the prize
winning petitions Prizes win be
awarded at the night meeting.
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BULLETIN No. o3-P r OTE c 7
YOURSELF AGAINST AUTO
THIEVES
BY Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins

Approximately $4,000 automobiles,
worth $125,0O0,0OO are stolen annually
throughout the country. A great ma
jority of these thefts could have been
prevented had the motorist been care
full
Guard your car every minute of the
day and night by observing the follow
ing suggestions:
Always lock your car in several
ways. The ignition switch is not suf-
fcient. Remove distributor or some
other part of the car so that the thief
must replace it before he can drive
it away.
When you park your car where
thieves can work on it unobserved yon
are counting theft. Place distinguish
ing marks on the car so that if the
thief changes the engine and car num-
bers, you may still identity it.
Investigate very carefully before you
buy a secondhand car. Make sure
the person you buy it from is reliable.
1t may be stolen property and will be
taken from you. In all such purchases
have the machine checked by the Po-
lice Automobile Detail, Franklin 0loo.
If your car is stolen telephone your
nearest police station, Police 1913, i'm
mediateIy giving all the information
you possibly can.
If yonr car is recovered take an in
terest in the prosecution. Do not stop
the case in the event Of restitution.
Aid and assist us to protect your
property. Remember an unprotected
car encourages : thief.
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LINCOLN-DOUGLASS NATION
AL OBSERVANCE
PRIZE LITERARY CONTEST

Announced for National Lincoln
Douglass Observances and Race
Conference at Washington, Feb. 12-
1+Congress and President to Be
Petitioned
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THIS WEEK
Ernest Rice Mckinney
Snoopery

Snoopery
The older 1 get the more weary 1
become of a certain type of individual
and group of individuals who feel that
they have been put here to right all
the wrongs in the world, to set every
pair of feet in the straight and narrow
path and to train every soul for en-
trance into the Kingdom of the
Blessed. One meets these shoppers
everywhere. One drops into favorite
hash house and soon some anaemic
individual with PARKWAY and hungry
look, approaches and thrusts before
you card bearing the legend, "Pre-
pare to meet thy God"
You decide that a certain regiment
is best suited for your own child and
some all-wise snooper cuts across with
the advice that you are all wrong and
that you will discover the truth after
it is too late. You satisfy the desire
for a bottle Of claret or a few fingers
of spirits of nitre gin, and the prohibi-
ton fanatics go cunning after you. Or
perhaps, one after working sixty or
seventy hours the previous week, feels
that little extra sleep or drive into
the country on Sunday morning will be
more fun than going to church. But
you can't get away with such deviltry
as this. Some clerical snooper will
probably scan the diminished offerings
in the collection plate and consign all
such miscreants to hell instanter. And
SO it goes all through our national life.
The shoppers don't allow us to do
anything that we enjoy and get real
fun from. They seem to get a cruel
delight from making US miserable.
1t seems that about half of America
is busily engaged in forcibly saving
the other half. 1t matters not to these
savers that we don't want to be saved
in their way or for the thing that they
are trying to save US for We are tired
Of these meddlers, these self-appointed
messengers of the Most High. We
don't feel that they know enough to
attend to our affairs and their own.
The worst thing about this army of
pests and holy jig-dancers is the fact
that they are not satisfied to throw
their programs and opinions out in
free competition with other opinions
and programs. They want their pri-
vate opinions made into law. They are
usually persons of low intelligence and
without intellectual stamina. They
are afraid to meet their opponents
face to face in the public forum. They
want to grab each Of US individually
and push their opinions down our
threats, or call in policeman to club
US into submission to their cave-man
ideas. All in all, these shoppers are
the greatest single menace in America.
American Brain Poverty
One often marvels at the actual abb
sence Of real intellectual freedom in
the United States. Why is it that the
mass Of people permit certain czaristic
gentlemen to suppress freedom Of
speech, press and assembly, The an
swer is that the average American is
too much Of an ass, too stupid and too
filed with pork, moonshine, and SUI
perstition, to worry much about any
thing aside from his belly, place to
play and a soft bed to sleep in.
The average man never worries
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NEGROES ARE DOING SOME
WORTHWHILE THINGS
COMMERCIALLY
preston News Service)

According to the Negro Year Book,
published at Tuskegee Institute and
compiled by that eminent statistician,
DR.. Monroe NJ. Work, we find that
there are now "a Negro banks oper-
ated entirely by Negroes and $4,000
Negroes engaged in conducting their
own businesses with a volume Of ST.
500,000,000. There are also 400 Negro
periodicals, 90 secret and fraternal or
CARNATIONS and IA Negro hospitals
and training schools in the United
States.
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SOCIETY FOLKS ARE STILL
MOVING AROUND

Miss Carrie c. Stewart, 5o42 Aber-
deem Street, daughter Of ]. H. Stew
art. through diligent application of
mind, completed her prescribed course
at the Englewood High School last
Wednesday evening and was among
the many who were the proud recip-
tents of high school diploma. 1t was
very much regretted that her father
was unable to attend the class exer-
cises but very urgent business called
him to Frankfort. Kentucky.
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N E w RI E Ms NEGRO
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS HOLD
MEETING
preston News Service)

ASoNOA @NNWS 1NANAN~J
New Orleans, La, Jan. 2S.-Plans
for the opening Of the second term Of
the schools, which will begin January
81, were outlined by Prof. Nicholas
Buer, superintendent of the New Or
leans public schools, to the principals
of the schools for Negro children at a
meeting held Tuesday afternoon in the
school board Office. All the Negro
school principals in the city were pres
ent at the meeting. Many suggestions
for improvement Of the school work
were made and various details and
problems in connection with the school
work were discussed.
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she could not relate as many thlD2
as others had done, she hoped Tor
great success during the coming year.
Prominent among those who con
tributed to the program were the !ol-
lowing: Piano solo, Miss Julia Simms;
saxophone solo, Mrs. Hattie Hargrow;
reading, Mrs. Lena Rice; piano solo,
Miss Cheatham; vocal solo, Mr.. Mills;
reading, Miss Viola Hutchins; female
quartette from St. Paul c. M. +.
church; instrumental solo, Mrs. Mary
Gee Brock; instrumental solo, Miss
Helen H. Stewart; reading, Miss
Blanche Woodbridge; piano solo, Miss
Bessie Willis.
The following persons were present.;
Mr.. Russell Thompson, Mrs. Fannie
Thompson, Mrs. jamie Walker, Mrs
Florence Thomas, Mrs. Adelaide
Brown, Addie Anderson, Anna R.
LEVEL, Clara Hardin, Sadie L. Adams,
Mrs. Dora Gates, Mrs. Gertrude Rag
land, Lena Rice, Lula Heath, Julia
Simms, E1oise a. Newland, Elizabeth
Browning, Mamie E. Irvine, Henry
Hudson, Mrs. Gibson, Lou Watson,
Julius F. Taylor, Pearl V. Cornell.
Hattie Hargrow, Ruby Bell, Sadie
Parrish, Viola Walker, Mr.. and Mrs.
R. Stearles, Mrs. M. Adams, Mrs. L.
Haltiwanger, Eva Mae Smith, Chris
tine Wolfcale, Mollie Taylor, Chas
Stewart, Jr., Belle Fountain, Mercedes
Cleaves, Ethel Cleaves, Margaret
Grant, Billye Dent, Dadie J. Eddings,
Maud M. Brock, Mrs. ]. w. Ward,
Mrs. L. NJ. Smith, Lillian Mckay,
Mary Galloway, Florence Kibble, Mrs.
Vim. Sonnerford, Mrs. E. o. Wyatt,
E. DeCourlander, Irene Coins, Jean p.
Carr, Mona A. Graves, Elizabeth
Lucas, Ella Simmons, Matte Love,
Emma Jackson, Lucy Sewer, Kathryn
Johnson, Willard Eaton, c. Gibson,
Mrs. Eva Harlan, Mrs. Blanche
Spottsworod, Mrs. Frances E. Morton,
G. Smith, Harriet Claybrook, Bessie
Willis, Mrs. VIM. Chester, Carrie L.
Johnson, Carrie G. Drury, Victoria
Sharp, Matte L. Paris, Kathryn Stay
ton, Elizabeth Cheatham, Lucille
Suggs, Laura billiard, Angelina Rob
ertson, Willie Haynie, Mrs. Vim. Has
kins, Hannah J. Neal, ]. H. Horton,
Mrs. Tressa Middleton, Kathryn M.
Johnson, Nine. Ezel1a M. Carter,
Louise Mason, Hattie Hall, w. w.
Towles, Thos. M. Smith, Mrs. H. Eu-
genia Burns, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. T.
Brock, Misses Hope T. and Margaret
Dunmore, Gertrude V. Jackson, May
E. Williams, Blanche Woodbridge, Mar
garet Banks, Mrs. Robt. o. Laws,
Lulu Bland, Ella NJ Bland, Viola L.
Hutcherson, Mildred Lindsay, Lewis
P. Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. B.
Fort, Mrs. Cora Gidden, Lena L. B.
Perry, Margaret Bunch, Florence Guy,
Sallie B. Steele, Lillian Barbara, Her
lena Perry, Frances Brewer, T. R.
Rogers, c. E. Carter, Arminta Thomp-
son, Helen Stewart, Carrie Stewart,
Chas. McGill, Edw. S. Brantley, Lula
B. Shreeves Johnson, Mrs. K. L. Cos
BY, H. Perkins, H. L. Hudson, Edna
Smith, Florence E. Laws, Charlie
magne E. Laws, Virginia Laws, Lewis
P. Williams, Zenobia L. Laws, Joan
Snowden Porter, E. S. Russell, H. c.
Calhoun, Ruth Steele, M. r. Riley,
Mamie Reed, w. M. Myrick, Olga
Porter Brame, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Hardy,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Roberts, Ella J.
Harris, J. E. Snowden, Raymond Nc
Gruder, L. V. French, Carrie Shank
lin.
The broad ax., 1927-01-29
BY MRS. ELVIE L. STEWART

Sunday, January %, 1927. marked
the twenty-fifth milestone in the his
tory Of the Cornell Charity Club,
which event was celebrated in most
fitting manner at the residence of Mrs.
T. G. Macon, 4733 Champlain Ave
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VISITING IN NEW ORLEANS

Miss Juanita Emanuel, $3.50 Rhodes
Ave, is spending a few days in New
Orleans.
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III NEW ER PAYS = By Gilbert Rogers

LIS last sentence came out with
IA sudden disgust, and SO unex.
pectedly that for a moment Sally
thought she had misunderstood.
But, no; he was casually making
ready.
Long before they were even half
way to their destination, the
heavy darkness had fallen. The
old horse pulled it's way patiently
ahead, and with Joe Griggs in
front Of them, Sally and CariottA
were bounced and shaken with
every revolution of the slow
moving wheels. The scented gloom
hung above and around them.
Impossible to see anything. Now
and then they would hear the
brawling Of a mountain stream
that came nearer, then faded
away. Now and then the sounds
of small animals scampering
across the dry leaves Of the under
growth.
Sally sat silent. There was not
anything to say, there was moth
ing to do but wait, try to be
patient. In another hour they
would be at Brenda Lodge, and
put their hopes and fears to the
test. Carlotta had succeeded with
Shevlin, why shouldn't she now
succeed with Adrian Martin? Sal
ly dared to hope.
They came through the dark end
endless woods to a cleared space.
cts over the hill there and
round bend,'' said Joe Griggs.
And presently: Hello, there's q
light now. That'll be Pete La
due, most likely. He takes care
Of, things up here"
Sally followed the direction of
his finger. She saw a vague
form, man with a lantern. He
was lowering a cross-bar against
the doors of some outbui!ding.
Around the bend now she could
make out the shape of the lodge
itself, long, low building which
must have been erected at this
lonely and inaccessible place at an
immense cost. But she noticed
even then that It was dark,
She was out first, hurrying to.
wards the man with the lantern.
She heard Carlotta behind her.
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him. His departure was probably
secret-Shevlin had seen to that
as he saw to everything. No
hopes even of reaching him by
radio. Yes, 1t was in Shevlin's
hands that Jerry's life Iay-he
held every string.
Sally no longer thought Of APP
pealing to Dan Shevlin. Even in
this crisis, she was not blinded by
the false hope of touching some
chord of mercy or kindness in
that ruthless man. But some
means might be found of fighting
him with his own weapons-Car-
lotta would help her.
That night they were back in
New York, back in Carlotta
Brooke's apartment, too. utterly
wearied to be of any use to them.
selves OF each other.
Lets sleep, let's get some rest.
We've got all Of tomorrow" Car
lotta said.
All Of tomorrow! How swiftly
even this agonizing time had
passed. BY tomorrow night IL the
message were not sent, Jerry
would be doomed!
Sally was up at the first light.
Her brain felt racked with pain.
She could think Of nothing, she
could think of no way save one,
Shevlin's way.
In the morning Carlotta went
out, and returned to say she had
been to Shevlin's but found him
gone. In the afternoon she went
again. Sally waited. Hours later
she heard Carlotta returning. Her
step was not brisk, and she was
not smiling. Instead she looked
pale and haggard.
"It's no use" she said. ''It's
no use. At least we can get the
police-telI everything. I'll tell
everything I know about him. I
can prove he's been a blachmailer,
anyway"
But you," Sally said. "what
about you? Won't It'll mean,
won't it incriminate you, too?"
Cariotta laughed without hui
NOR. What il 1t does? What
does it natter"
mo. we can't do that-it would
not do any good. 1t would hurt
YOU"
TO Be Continued MOnday.)
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could not be denied; they had lost
their best chance.
That night Sally tried to force
sleep in a gloomy country hotel,
but sleep would not come. And
in the morning, tired and fearful,
she had gotten on the junction
train and begun the trip Of weary
miles back to the city.
Carlotta was silent now. She
would look out of the window, bit
ing her lip nervously, thinking
hard, but there was no sign that
she had any confidence in her
ability to master Dan Shevlin,
Sally's own thoughts were far
away. and they hurt her fiercely.
She. thought of boy who was
pushing his way through q fever
country, in a land Of dark rivers,
OF tropical growth, and poisoned
repitlian life. She thought of
him, gay, confident, proud. And
4S hours from now an expedition
would start from the coast town,
swoop and circle till they caught
up his trail, and then pursue
him stealthily through the jungle,
until-but Sally could not com.
plete the dreadful picture.
Something must be done, some.
thing still could be done. She
thought Of Adrian Martin, and
gave up hopes forever Of reaching
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the wind which whistled across
the park.
Estabrook took a cigarette out
OF an inlaid lemon-wood box fitted
into one wall, and lighted it at the
silver electrical device which for
once. miraculously, worked.
Watching the diffused smoke fill
the luxurious cubicIe in which he
drove, Estabrook found uneasineSs
stealing over him. He recalled
Abelard's words. warnings voiced
by the one person who knew him
most intimately. Aberlard had
asked whether he loved Becky
enough to forget the barriers be-
tween them. Unwillingly Esra-
brook put the same query TO him.
self.
Panic seized him. He would
have turned back, but the desire
to see Becky, the crying need TO
not only see her, but hold her,
and feel once again the humaniz-
ing throb of her heart against his
own-drove him on. He was
changed inded. Yesterday he had
been a man of wood. an autoGua-
ton, a machine-today he was
flesh and blood. quivering, alive.
A thrill of pleasure shot through
him. Love had come, rare and
exquisite, to quicken the common
clay of an ordinary mortal And
Becky? She too was rare and
exquisite, a woman in a million,
valiant, beautiful. unique-but was
she unique?
Estabrook recalled her poses,
her language. her attitude. The
memory of her grammar stabbed
him like a dagger. His Becky
was a girl of a certain class. a
class that was not his vital, per.
haps, but crude, but common.
Again suspicion drove
down upon him, forcing him to
inquire how many men of his
temperament had been led to ship
wreck by just such sirens.
And then there followed an image
of Becky's face. shining out OF
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I'VE want to see Mr.. Martin
right away" Sally exclaimed.
The man-she saw he was quite
an old man-put his hand to his
ear. 'How?" he asked.
She repeated her words.
I'm a mite hard of hearing"
said the old man. "Jest q mite"
Carlotta screamed the question
into his ear.
''oh!' He looked at her stupidity,
then nodded. Most likely. Yes.
Most likely"
At That moment they were
Joined by the red-haired driver.
Lady, that amt the way" he
declared. He caught the old mans
arm, AMI roared like a bull into
his ear: Where's Martini
A CLEAN of understanding came
into the old mans eyes. He be-
came voluble. why, he left yis.
terday. He got the morning train
at Brownsville. Amt coming back
till next year. He's gone to New
York to get on a big ship and go
abroad"
CHAPTER 4S
Afterwards, when Sally looked
back and tried to remember what
had happened, it was like remem.
bering the blurred succession of a
dream.
She recalled the, sharp exclama.
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Desert Moves

OUNCE the dawn of civilization,
~ the sands of the Sahara desert
have shifted hundreds of miles to
the eastward, burying many for
gotten cities and centers of popu.
lation, says Popular Mechanics
Magazine. Some of the ruins on
the western side are being found.
Not long ago, the body of an
ancient queen was discovered be.
meath the sand On her arms
were 13 bracelets, nine Of gold and
nine of silver. Around her neck
were five strands of jewels and a
diadem of gold starred with gems
was on her head. Emeralds, rubies
and finely carved furniture were
taken from the tomb, which is be-
lieved to have been built at least
1000 years before the Christian
era