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Heebie Jeebies
"A Sign of Intelligence"

Volume 1. January 31, 1925.

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CHAMELEON PICTURES
In the City of Destiny
By C. C. D.

One of the biggest colored men in Chicago, in size and in many respects otherwise, is Frank L. Gillespie and of course since that is true of Chicago it is true of the rest of the country for many of the biggest people and businesses of the race are in Chicago and Chicago today is the biggest Economic center in the world for Negroes. It is the hub of the wheel and what is being done here is just a beginning.

Frank Gillespie is inseparably interwoven into this fabric of progress. In my mind he is the real pathfinder of big Negro business in the North: With the organization and development of Liberty Life Insurance Company, started with nerve and an idea and a sincere desire for service he has thru these, with the cooperation of his associates, built the greatest Negro business North of the Mason and Dixie line. This accomplishment is largely responsible for Chicago's jump from small shops, pool hall, lunch rooms etc., into the field of real business. I say again that to my mind he is the pathfinder.

His big physique seems to have brought with it a bigness of character, vision and ability. He is one of the most likable persons I know. I admire his work, but I like him most of all because he is a big young man's man. he had brought into his field the best young brain he could find, men and women, clothed them with responsibility, makes them wear it and pays them to the best fo [[of]] his ability. This, I believe, is one of his big ideas of service to his race and country and on account of these I consider him a splendid big picture.

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