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DEDICATE FUTURE HOME

Sunday afternoon, Feb. 9th, was a
big day with United Brothers Of
Friendship and Sisters Of Mysterious
Tens of the city of Chicago and sur
rounding suburbs. Promptly at $50
the meeting was called to order bv
Mrs. Minnie NJ Robinson, princess Of
St. Julian Temple, No. 1903; dedicatorv
exercises were led by L. B. Browne.
member of the state endowment board.
assisted by w. D. Crawley, assistant
state grand secretary. Very seldom
in the history of events gather upon
one occasion as many prominent char
acters as graced the rostrum at this
meeting. Among the leading speakers
OF the afternoon were Hon. J. B.
Devereaux, State Grand Master of lii
nois and jurisdiction, who has worked
like Trojan in order to secure a per-
manent home for the organization.
Among others to speak were Hons.
Louis B. Anderson and r. r. Jackson,
aldermen Of the Second and Third
wards; Harvey A. Watkins, one Of
Chicago's leading citizens; Oscar De
Priest, leading hnancier; Hon. Pat
Sheridan; Mesdames Kate L. Cosby.
past state grand princess Of Illinois;
Emma L. Brooks of Aurora and Re-
becca Wilson, secretary Of the burial
fund; NJ 7. Bailey, president of The
Bailey Realty Co. and an active fra
ternal worker; Hon. William Hale
Thompson, Americas greatest citizen,
patriot 100 per cent American. 1t was
regrettable on the part Of all members
Of the organization that illness de-
tanned the state grand princess, Mrs.
Georgia F. Harding, at her home.
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NEW ORLEANS ATTORNEY
cONFERS WITH JUDGE COBB
ON SEGREGATION

Logs Charbonnet, attorney retained
by the New Orleans Branch of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People to fight the
Louisiana and New Orleans residential
segregation ordinances, has visited
Washington and conferred with Judge
James A. Cobb on the case which goes
before the U. S. Supreme Court on
appeal, March 7.
Judge Cobb informs the National
Office of the N. A. A. c. P. that the
case is the first on the Supreme
Courts calendar that day.
Argument in this case will be based
upon the Supreme Courts decision in
the Louisville Case Of 1917, declaring
all segregation laws and ordinances
unconstitutional This is the first case
on this issue to come before the SUI
preme Court in 1927. Three cases
were won on the Louisville Case pre-
-cedent during 1926 before lower
courts in indianapolis, Norfolk and
Dallas.
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DENVER NJ. A. A. c. p. WINS
CASE AGAINST SEGREGATED
SCHOOL PARTIES
Withdraws from Bombing Case When
Owner Decides to Sell

The Denver Branch or the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People reports winning a VIC
tory in the Supreme Court of Denver
against ruling by the local school
board requiring separate social func-
tons for white and colored students.
Suit was brought in behalf of three
colored students, who claimed that the
school boards order violated the State
Constitution which says NOR shall anv
distinction or classification Of pupils
be made on account of race or color"
The Denver district court sustained
the school board but on appeal to the
Supreme Court the students were up-
held on the ground that the school
boards order was clearly hostile and
contrary" to the provisions of the
State Constitution. The students were
represented by attorneys George D.
Richmond and George G. Ross.
George w. Gross, president Of the
Denver branch further reports that the
branch voted to withdraw from the
case of E. E. Darlington, whose home
was bombed three times. on the
ground that Mr.. Darlington had begun
negotiations to sell his house.
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SMALL BUDGET FOR NEGROES
IN WASHINGTON DRAWS
N. A. A. c. P. PROTEST

The Washington, D. c., Branch of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, through
its president, Neval H. Thomas. has
written strong letter to Martin B.
Madden, chairman of the committee
on Ways and Means Of the House of
Representatives, protesting against the
small appropriations for colored peo-
pie in the National Capital provided
in the District Appropriations bill.
This measure, according to Mr..
Thomas letter, gives the colored peo-
pie no relief whatever in the matter of
allotment of funds for new buildings
and grounds for the coming year. It
gives rs but $425,O0O out of a total
budget Of $2,750,0OO, or about Is per
cent, when we have 30 per cent of the
school enrolment and attendance.
Your committee even eliminated the
recommendation of the Bureau Of the
Budget for 100000 for an addition to
Crummel School and for a site for our
tuberculosis School SO badly needed"
In his letter Mr.. Thomas again
urges elimination Of the entire appro-
priation for bathing beaches in Wash
ington because Of the exclusion Of col
ored people from Potomac Park bath
ing facilities
Mr.. Thomas urges that colored cit
liens in every part Of the country
write to Representative Martin B.
Madden, House Office building, Wash
ington, D. c., urging both increase of
appropriations for colored people and
their institutions in Washington, and
denial Of all monies for public bath
ing until the bar against colored bath
ers is removed.
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scANrY DRESS IS CONDEMNED
The Rev. Waldron Sees Modern
Fashion as a Menace to
Womanhood

Washington, D. c. (SpeciaD.-Fru-
gal French designs in dress and Golf
fure were denounced by the Rev. ].
Milton Waldron at the Shiloh Baptist
Church, Wednesday night in funda-
mentalist sermon on neuroses of the
nation, especially bobbed hair and
short skirts. Seeking to convey to his
audience the fundamental irrationality
of the abbreviated skirt, he apprehend-
ed the modern world as a jazz spec
tacle of moral obliquity rather than a
puritanic symphony.
Enlarging Of legs Of trousers by
men and greater looseness in fit Of
vest and coat were cited as silent
but impressive objection to fashions Of
womankind. In response to his invita-
ton to attend the sermon in interest Of
modesty in female apparel, he was
greeted by an audience Of 1000 evenly
divided between men and women. Very
few bobbed heads were noticeable in
the audience.
Alarmed that Partisan fashions de-
cree for Easter wear skirts 2 inches
above the knee, he denounced them
with quotation from the late Charles
Spurgeon. London gets her fashions
from Paris and Paris gets hers from
hell" Short skirts and bobbed hair, he
said. take US back in ancient fashion
to those who have lost their character.
Women" he stated, should let their
light shine before men. not their legs"
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per cent. We wonder what changed
the character Of the legislation be-
tween the two administrations, or is it
fact that SOMETHING changed
the man?
And Mr.. Anderson, the voters Of the
End Ward want to know how many
Of the thousand homeless and help
less creatures of your own race did
you help or even give job that would
give them bread and raiment while
you were acting Mayor Of the city Of
Chicago with all the power?
Mr. Anderson further states that he
procured an allotment from the gross
sum appropriated for street and alley
cleaning more money than any other
ward in the city.
Query: The voters of the End Ward
wish to know what became Of the
money that was allotted for the clean
ing of the streets and alleys. Isn't it
fact that the streets and alleys in
the End Ward are the most filthy Of
any streets and alleys in the entire
city Of Chicago?
We note that Mr. Anderson boasts
of furnishing the people Of the ward
with playground at 38th and Prairie
avenue and dedicated the same as "An-
derson's Park" The people of the End
Ward should take it upon themselves
to visit this corner and they will find
one Of the most disgraceful mud holes
anywhere in the city of Chicago.
Query: Why is it, Mr. Anderson,
that this park is not finished and
equipped the same as other play
grounds for children Of other wards
throughout the city?
And finally, we find that we have
truly tried and faithfully trusted the
horse for 10 years (present alderman
and found him wanting, and too small
to measure up to the demands for a
true representative of the people of
the End Ward, it would perhaps be and
is blessing in disguise to have the
opportunity to swap horses" even if
it be while crossing the stream and try
another faithful servant in view Of the
fact that we as people have produced
so many men of experience, efficiency,
competency and ability, who will rep
resent the interests Of the people Of
the End Ward and NOT THE IN
TERESTS OF THE BIG BUSI-
NESSES throughout the city of Chi
cago. And when the job-holding can
vassers come to ask you to vote for
Mr.. Anderson, ask them what is his
platform.-Adv.
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TTORNEY AUGUSTUS L. WILLIAMS,
CANDIDATE FOR ALDERMAN OF
THE SECOND WARD, PROPOUNDS
SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
TO ALDERMAN LOUIS b. AMBER
SON IN RELATION TO PERMIT
TING IT'S STREETS AND ALLEYS
TO REMAIN IN AN UNSAlNITARY
CONDITION.

Attorney A. L. Williams puts Al
derman Louis B. Anderson under the
lash. Mr. Williams says if Mr.. Ander-
son can answer the interrogatories
propounded to him satisfactorily, he
believes the voters of the Second ward
would PROBABLY give him another
chance.
Mr.. Anderson states that He was
entrusted with the floor leadership in
all administration matters, and demon
strated by his mastery and skillful
method of handling the affairs assigned
to him, that no mistake had been made
in the selection"
Query: Isn't it a fact, Mr.. Anderson,
that being floor leader is simply a
tool for your immediate superior? And
as such tool, you simply carry out the
orders of your superior officer, and not
the wishes of your constituents?
The brilliant record as council mem
Der for ten years Of the present Alder
man of the End Ward is best described
by the Municipal Voters League,
which is as follows: Louis B. Ander-
son serving fifth term Poor record.
Generally held responsible for unde-
sirable conditions in his ward. Still
nothing but mere water-carrier in
the City Council. For this latter fact,
we should all be duly thankful"
Query: Now, Mr. Anderson, do you
consider this record that any one
could be proud Of? And will you ex-
plain to your constituents how you
ride two separate and distinct political
horses in opposite directions at the
same time, instead of Boosting of your
ability TO decide technical questions Of
Parliamentary Rules and Law?
We note that the present incumbent
Of the Office of Alderman of the End
Ward boasts Of the fact that he was
acting Mayor of the City of Chicago
while the water meter ordinance was
being railroaded through. We wonder
if Mr.. Anderson remembers when
Mayor VIM. Hale Thompson stated
that he refused half million dollars to
permit this nefarious ordinance to be
thrust upon the people of the city Of
Chicago. Under the Thompson adj
ministration, we find this little shrewd
CD man opposing this ordinance fol-
lowing the dictates Of his then boss,
Mayor VIM. Hale Thompson, yet I'M
der the Dever administration, we find
this same little man Boosting of the
fact that he helped put it over, which
increases the peoples water bill 500
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teal effect all of the ideas regarding
real economy of administration worked
out by the recorder and efficiency ex-
perts with whom he has cooperated
during the decade past. Throughout
the entire ten years Mr.. Hoff has been
chief deputy County Recorder and
Registrar of Titles he has had full
charge of the large force of clerical
workers and highly skilled examiners
of titles, copiers and recording clerks
in the county building department
which The Chicago Daily News dur
ing Mr.. Haas last campaign for re-
election called "the best conducted
public Office in Cook County in 1924. "
Mr.. Hoff is secretary Of the National
Republican Party-the Deneen group
in the present campaign he has rem
dered remarkable service as secretary
to the Litsinger-for-Mayor general
campaign committee. He is married
and has one son, a freshman at the
University Of Illinois. He lives at
2548 Logan boulevard.
He is a member of the Hamilton
club, Pistaqua Heights Country club
and the Pistakee Yacht club.
A vast army Of voters will march on
to victory with him at the polls Tues
day, February p.
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INDIANA WOMEN, BROOKLYN
DOCTORS, SEND CHECKS
TO N. A. A. G. p.

New York, Feb. 4.-The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, 90 Fifth avenue, re-
ports gifts during the current week of
$50 from the Indiana Federation Of
Colored Women's clubs, transmitted
by Mrs. Medera "A. Powell Of Wish
awake, Indiana, and SIS additional
contribution to the Legal Defense
Fund from the Provident Medical and
Dental Association Of Brooklyn, max
ing its total contribution to date 500,
transmitted by DR.. George Wright.
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Republican candidate the
political combination for City Clerk of Chicago Mr. Ho,
who fine business record behind him happily
ed to highly accomplished beautiful daughter
Hon. and Mrs. Joseph F. Haas.

Like Hon. Edward R. Litsinger, the
choice of the Deneen-Brundage group
for the Republican nomination for City
Clerk is native Chicagoan, Mr.. Harry
E. Hoff. He was born here in 1873.
Mr.. Hoff has a public school education
besides a business college course and
the cumulative knowledge of just how
public offices Of an administrative
character should be conducted that
comes from quarter of century in
important branches of public service.
For eighteen years active in pub
lie affairs and in Republican party pol
itics, Mr.. Hoff who is at present Chief
Deputy Recorder of Cook County, has
had exceptional experience in the city
attorneys Office and that of the cleo
ton commissioners to qualify him for
City Clerk. AS the chief assistant to
County Recorder, Hon. Joseph F.
Haas for the past ten years Mr.. Hof
has rendered invaluable services in
raising the standard of efficiency and
economy in the Recorders Office to the
recognized high plane it rests upon
today.
He has in fact been credited chiefly
BY Mr.. Haas, with putting into prac-
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BOY SCOUT NEWS
Leadership Training Course

The Leadership Training Course
met Wednesday night at the Douglas
Division headquarters, at 32Ol Wabash
avenue, at'7:3O sharp.
There was a group of twenty en-
thusiastic poppy men out and all were
very active. The course does not have
any long lectures or talks, but plenty
OF action. The course was carried out
Ike monster troop meeting with the
patrol system used throughout.
Mr.. R. A. Lucas, Joe Jefferson and
Irwin Thornton are the patrol leaders,
but next week there will be 4 new
patrol headed by Thomas Tucker.
Mr.. Foster r. Branch was quite
active acting in Rev. Braddan's place.
The men were greatly eIated over the
program and when time to 60 home
came, they were not ready.
Next week Rev. Braddan will be out
and Mr.. Carl Bryan, executive in
North West District, will give a ten
minute talk on How to Start a Troop
in Way to Keep it Going" Remem-
Der men, the meeting is every We'd
nesday night at 7:30 sharp and we
stop at $50 on the dot. 1t has re-
Gently been decided by the leadership
training committee that there will be
no charges whatever to those taking
the course.
Troop 426
Troop 426, Of St. Mary's Church, at
53rd and Dearborn streets, has a new
scoutmaster after Mr.. Harry I. Jones
resigned. The new scoutmaster is Mr..
Matthew Mason. The troop committee
is practically new and have bought
seven Of the boys new scout uniforms.
The new scoutmaster is taking the
course and we expect great things
from them.
Troop 532 Is Entertained
Troop 532 of St. Thomas Church,
the winners of the Binga Bank Eff
cheney Trophy, was entertained with
dinner by their troop committeeman
at 7:30 Friday, in honor Of their win
ming Binga Bank Efficiency Trophy.
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OFFICERS ELECTED FOR 1927
Red Cap Club

Sandy w. Trice, president; 3. F.
Shepard, 1st vice president; S. II.
Harris, End vice president; c R Wat
son. 3rd vice president; James Wal
den, financial secretary; Ohio Robin
SON. treasurer; Charles Smith, cor. sec
retary. Directors: J. A. Peaks, w.
Edgerton, r. I. Hodge
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TAMpA,s TELEPHONES

From 700 telephones in 1901 to about
10000 telephones in 1926 represents
the growth Of the telephone exchange
in Tampa. Fla, in the past twenty
1--WE years. This is equivalent to a
growth Of 1900 per cent.
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DR.. George c. Hall, one of the in
huential members Of the Chicago Pub
lie Library Board and one of the most
prominent physicians and surgeons in
this country, has started on his annual
vacation trip to several points in Flor
ida and the West Indies Islands.
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Men show their character In moth
ing more clearly than by what they
think aughable.-Goethe.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-11

Dr. T. r. Killilia. member OF tine
civil service commission Of tine city
of New York, accompanied by his
wife, registered last evening at the
Gadsden on a tour of the south
west. In an interview. with a Dis
patch reporter the eminent physician
and economist struck a telling blow
at the state of California when he
said that that state was overcrowded,
overinflated and has nothing but its
climate The physician characterized
the hustle and hustle and fever OF
that land by saying that 1t is the
land of make believe
DR.. Killilia has spent the past sew
eral weeks in southern California and
has delved deeply into the situation
there, he stated He tells that
man can purchase almost anything
in that state for few dollars If he
will assume the mortgages and obli-
cations attached to the property but
that the man cannot resell the pro-
ject with any ease at all.
He told Of the million and a half
that Los Angeles has collected for
advertising in the great eastern news
papers. He said that as a result OF
this advertising California, painted as
a land of wealth and opportunity, is
overrun with laborers who cannot
find work and who are willing, in
many cases, he said, to work for a
third of the union scale because they
must of necessity.
He brought out that his investi-
cations has shown, he said, that the
boasted manufacturers of Los An
geles are merely branch factories OF
great international corporations which
send their raw materials for the local
trade only, to Los Angeles to have
them made up to cut down freight bills
over the Rocky mountains. The physi-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-11

Nevada water commissioner, is here
with number of representatives of
his state.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-11
FRANCE BOASTS
OF OUTWITTINC
u. 5. in LOANS

PARIS, Nov. 10 CP-France learned
today how clever Premier Poincare
has found loophole in WaShington'S
barrier against loans to countries that
have not settled their war debts. The
money to retire Frances $4,000, 900
8 per cent bonds, borrowed through
the Morgan syndicate in 1920, is COM
ing from Wall street-at only little
more than per cent, but it is coming
indirectly through the Swedish Match
company, acting as intermediary
The Match company, not having
any war debts to pay Washington
naturally was not asked by Wall
street whether it would look favorably
on the loan. BY retiring the per
cent bonds that would have matured
in - years, by converting them into
so year 5 per cents, Premier Poincare
estimates that beginning in 1929 the
French government will save 50000,-
900 francs (about S2o00O00) year.
The conditions under which the
government has arranged for the con-
version of the loan was explained to
the finance committee Of the chamber
OF deputies this evening IN q letter
from M Poincare The full saving
will not show in the budget until
1929, because some Of the money
placed at Frances disposal will be
used in 1923 to retire the per cent
loan floated in 1920.
A member of the finance, commit
tee said this evening that the COM
mittee was convinced Premier Poin-
care has thoroughly respected parlla-
ment's decision against letting out
the match monopoly, and that the
present agreement was purely a fl
nancial one-and q pretty smart one
at that.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-11
EMINENT PHYSICIAN FROM NEW
YORK GIVES LIE TO CALIFORNIA

Gcfan said that one would find that
these factories simply supplied the
district in which they were located
with their products.
The New Yorker criticized the gov
ernments of the coast cities. He said
/ that the men administering them
might be good business men but that
l they showed no aptitude as admins
traitors of cities. He brought out that
in one small city on the coast there
were more than 1000 city ordinances
with penalties attached which ne
characterized as following OF the
national tendency to pass law for
everything.
Dr.. Killilia relates that he is IN
charge of big surgical ward OF Bel
levue hospital in New York City and
that this ward handles surgical tuber-
culosiS patients which are alleged
incurables.' He says that they are
cured in this ward through the ad-
ministration of new antiseptlc
known as idakol. The doctor said
that between the month OF January
1925, and the month of September,
1927, more than 100000 treatments
were given,
! The physician states that he is con-
Sultant at ST. Joseph's in the Bronx
and has been attached to that insti-
tuition for 90 years, having been visit
| ing physician until the past few years,
He is very much interested in the
antiseptic treatment of war wounds
and made study Of such treatments
during the World war when he was
| abroad connected with the British
and Russian military activities as
well as with the later developments
with America.
Commenting on the administrative
machinery of the largest city in the
world, the doctor said that there are
more than 105,OOO city employees in
New York and in addition more than
10000 school teachers. He explained
some of the workings of the civil
service system in the big city anp
showed that such government must
be run on carefully planned ana
regulated system.
! DIR. Killilia and his wife are motor
ing through the country and have no
certain route on their way east put
intend taking their time as the doc
tor is on prolonged vacation, relax
ing from the very numerous activi-
+ ties attached to his work in New
York. They expect to go east from
douglas today or tomorrow
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-11

larger fight trained on the Swing
Johnson bill.
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Immediately following the parade
Grand theater Mayor A. E. Hinton
will preside. The Boy Scout band
will play America. The audience win
sing. Reverend Smith will deliver the
invocation The Glee club will sing
when the Flag Goes BY" Mayo
Hinton will introduce the speaker
of the day, James P. Boyle.
Following the address the band will
play the Star Spangled Banner and
Reverend Congdon will deliver the
benediction.
Seated on the stage at the services
will be the speaker, James p Boyle:
the chairman, Mayor Hinton; Russell
Mills, post commander of the Amer
lean legion; DR.. L. r. Brown, repre-
senting the Spanish War Veterans;
the Grand Army men and Reverend
Smith and Rev. Congdon.
The services at the Grand will COM
plete the formal Arrlistice Day pro-
gram for the public At O'Clock
in the evening at the ParNh house
the American legion and auxiliary
/ together with their invited guests will
attend their annual Arnistice Day
banquet.
Promptly at o'clock those at the
banquet will go to the ball rooms
of the Phelps Dodge where the big
! public dance sponsored by the legion
and auxiliary will take place The
best Of music has been arranged for
this dance and as in years past il
! is expected that everyone will attend
An admission fee is charged and the
money goes toward Tightening the
burdens of the men who fought tc
create the Armistioe Day