Kansas City Advocate

KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE TWELVE MONTHS $1.50 LET KAN A KANSAS EDITOR WITH ---CLASSES SELF AS WAS THE DEM. CHOI A KANSAS EDITOR WITH HONEST CONVICTIONS ---CLASSES SELF AS A SECOND RATER--- WAS THE DEM. CHOICE FOR GOVERNOR A CLOSE OBSERVER OF SELF—BUT FOREIGN WHEN IT COMES TO PRINCIPLE—A ONE ACT PLAY ON A TWO NIGHT STAND. We seldom find a man these days and especially one who has been honored in a great state like Kansas, with the nomination from his party for governor, also an editor of one of the Kansas dallies, and while coothed in his right mind, on or about March 22nd, 1917, in or about one Salina, Kansas, picks up his quil with all seriousness of thought and honest convictions, writes without fear of contradiction one editorial and the same published on said date, in the Salina Daily Union of which he is editor and of which a dozen and a half extras showed up on the indicator of this special issue, telling those in his own trembling language (who had always been aware of the fact) and a few others who had only been in the city for a few days, that he, Mr. Lansdon, editor of the Salina Daily Union, was a SECOND RATER! No one believes that Mr. Lansdon said this about himself and in his own paper, because of the fact he was defeated as the Democratic nominee for governor last fall by something little less than 200,000 or would we believe he could speak in such tones about himself without knowing from whence he speaketh. For the benefit of our subscribers we reproduce Mr. Lansdon's English in this issue and before you get through reading a half dozen lines you will be soundly convinced that he can be classed as his English indicate, a lower-five SECOND RATER. It's bad enough to attack a man when he wants to do right and has not got the moral courage to do so, but to attack a man like Governor Capper, who has from his humble boyhood days up to the chief executive of the Sunflower state, ever stood for humanity, fair play and good citizenship. Who is it, it and a second rater, could speak with such ungentlemanly, un-American and un-Christian sentiment? We are not defending Governor Capper for this particular act, for which Mr. Lansdom attacks our governor, in defeating the Sparks bill, introduced in the last legislature, asking that all second-class cities in the state have separate schools for colored, through the Eighth grade, but defend and honor him, because he has shown to all classes of citizens, regardless of color, creed or denomination, that strength of moral courage and Christian manhood. Mr. Capper has played no race, clique, or even party favorites, but has been the governor of all the people and the people well know it and are proud of the manly stands he has taken during his administration. It is regretted very much we have in a state like Kansas with her pages shining with unsoiled and untarnished record, a man who has been looked upon as a fit subject for the highest office in the gift of the state, with a heart seemingly, whose intent would be if in power to cause friction and discord among peaceful and happy LINCOLN H PHYSICAL ENTERTAINMENT CONVENTION FRIDAY EVENING GIRLS— GYMNASTICS—Wands LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL NSAS HAVE W H HONEST CONVICTIONS A SECOND RATER--- ICE FOR GOVERNOR citizens. If this was Georgia, Alabama or the Carolinas we would not feel abashed, but right here in John M. GOVERNOR ARTHUR CAPPER. A Man Who Has Been Governor for All the People, All the Time. Brown's state, "Watchman, What of the Night?" The colored people are not only proud of Governor Capper in the stand he took against the Sparks bill, but there are multiplied thousands of white citizens who are equally as proud of him for his many and Christian act and there will never be a time when the pages of his administration will not stand out with universal praise from the present citizenry on down through the ages of time. Not like Mr. Lansdon's one act play on a two night stand. The following is in part, the Union editorial: Capper and the Negroes. Whatever other votes Governor Capper may lose through the misadventures and blunders of his administration, he is quite determined to hold firmly to the support of the colored brother. The people of Galena and other second class cities are very anxious to have separate schools for white and colored children during the first eight years of the school course. Representative Sparks of Cherokee county introduced a bill in the House giving such cities the necessary authority to carry the segregation of races in grade schools into effect. Separate schools for colored children below the high school grades are advantageous to both races. In separate schools the Negro pupils get instruction from members of their own race, they get more individual attention, they are not subject to the annoyances, insults and other bad treatment that they invariably receive in the mixed schools, and they develop a pride in their own people impossible where they are educated among white HIGH SCHOOL TRAINING EXTRAORDINARY BON HALL G, MAY 11, 1917. 200, Dumbbells 200. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, APRIL 27, 1917. children and their presence is tolerated rather than welcomed. Separate schools for colored children provide honorable, useful and well paid employment for a considerable number of well educated Negro men and women of every community in which they are maintained. There is really no sound argument against segregating the races in the grade schools. Every educational and social condition favors the wisdom of this plan. The Negro politicians and the Republican officials who hold office by reason of Negro votes do not believe in separate schools. Every colored agitator in Kansas who wants something from Capper and the Republican party opposed the Sparks bill. Governor Capper, appealed to by the black politicians who have always supported him, decreed that the bill should not pass. Orders were issued from the governor's office that the separate school bill must be killed. The administration forces saw that this was done. Nor is the governor satisfied with blocking the movement for separate schools for the white and colored races in second class cities. He is planning to bind the support of the Negroes to himself by rendering other services to them * * * in order that the Negro vote may be kept solidly in line for Governor Capper. Every good citizen of Kansas wants to see the Negroes of this state enjoy all the educational advantages and political opportunities to which they are entitled. No one not entirely blinded by party considerations is able to see any consistency or any sense in a Republican, or rather a Capper, policy (the two are no longer the same) that denies separate schools for colored pupils in the grades where they are needed and at the same time provide separate higher institutions of learning that the Negroes most certainly do not need. BIBLE CLASS. The St. Matthew's Neighborhood Bible class had a large and spiritual meeting at Mrs. T. Morris'. They discussed two chapters. This class has been going on nearly a year and has not missed having a meeting. The leader has not missed at all and Mrs. L. Hall, the chaplain, has only missed once. The next meeting is Wednesday, May 2nd, at Mrs. Gardner's, 713 Everett avenue. Lesson, I Cor. 12th and 13th chapters. People of all churches are invited. Mr. Tom Bass of Mexico, Mo., and known throughout the country-as one of the most skilled horse trainers of today, was in the city a few days this week. While here he made arrangements for his son to enter Williams Institute of Embalming. WANTED. WANTED—1,000 Negro Men and Boys to learn to be Expert Automobile Mechanics and Chauffeurs. Positions waiting. Special course in driving for ladies and gentlemen. For full information as to terms, etc., Address Afro-American Automobile Training School, 1420-22-24-26 Woodland Ave., Kansas City, Mo. The Largest Automobile Training School for Negroes in the World. POLICE PUT BAN ON INITATION SALOONS CHIEF GORDON SAYS SOFT DRINK EMPORIUMS CAN'T RUN Near Beers Made By Missouri Brewers Are Subject to Rigid Chemical Test and All Sales Will Be Stopped If Alcohol Is Found in Them. No soda fountain will be permitted to look like a bar, even from the outside, and exist in this city. The ruling, issued this morning by Chief of Police W. W. Gordon, removes all doubt as to what steps are to be taken in the event manufacturers of "near beers" make an attempt to carry out their project of selling the drinks over imitation bars, or remodeling buildings where soft drinks are sold after the fashion of real saloons. Whether "Tent-Brew," an alleged non-alcoholic substitute for beer, may be sold in this state at all is a matter of conjecture. If the slightest trace of alcohol is discovered in the beverage it is to be effectively tabooed. A thorough test of "Tent-Brew," "Revo" and kindred drinks is under in the laboratory of Waldeen Williams, city chemist, and the results of the analysis will be turned over to Chief Gordon tomorrow morning. Rumors that make-believe bars, at which the beer substitutes will be sold are to be established on Minnesota and Kansas avenues met with denial from Amos Riddle of the city license department that a license had been issued for the "bars." A sharp lookout is being maintained for any attempt to obtain such licenses under cover of applications for confectionery shop licenses. So far, no such attempt has been detected. Chief Gordon's order forbids further keg trade in near-beers, and its enforcement will prevent the bringing of the beverage into the city in kegs. Until definite results are obtained from analysis of the drinks, there will be no objection, the chief said today, to its sale in bottles at regulation soda fountains. Negro Is Killed By Train. An unidentified negro was killed by a Kansas City Southern railroad engine on the tracks near the Central avenue bridge Wednesday morning. Coroner J. W. Hayward took charge of the body. COMING TO YOU! "Favorite of All Americans" ANITA PATTI BROWN From a recent tour of British West Indies, British Guiana and United States of Brazil, South America (15,000 miles.) AT FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH. Tuesday, May 8th. SEE HER—And you see a maker of, Race History. HEAR HER—And you hear the Race's Greatest. SUPPORT HER—And you help to inspire the present and future generation. WORLD'S GREATEST COLO-RATURA. "The glory of Music endures in the depths of a human soul."—VanDyke. ADMISSION 25 CENTS. ADMISSION 25 CENTS. Tickets on sale at Home Drug Co., 1512 North 5th St., K. C. K., and at Lincoln High School, K. C., Mo. TIME PLAY MESS OF SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS "AND THE ENEMY" NOTICE: The Auditorium at Ninth and Min- nesota, Kansas City, Kansas, High School, has been secured for this play, because our space at Sumner is far too small. Y MAY 9, 8:15 P. M house .....15c A beautiful Silver Loving Cup will be awarded to the school making the highest number of points. PROGRAM WILL BEGIN AT 1:30 P. M. GOOD ROADS CAMPAIGN STARTED J. Frank Smith Has Opened Headquarters in Topeka to Boost for 5,000 Miles of Improved J. Frank Smith, president and general manager of the Kansas Good Roads association, has opened headquarters in Toeka, rooms 44-46 Columbian building, and active work is started in a five-year campaign for 365-day roads in Kansas. Mr. Smith will be kept busy a large part of the time filling speaking dates at good roads meetings over the state while the office work, which is really a publicity bureau for the movement, will be carried on by a capable and efficient force. The Kansas Good Roads association already has one thousand members, but wants and needs ten thousand by the end of the first of the year. The membership is $1 per year, or $5 for the five years, and the association must have the financial as well as the moral support of every good roads booster in Kansas. Upon receipt of remittance you are sent a membership card, a good roads button and the Farmers Mail and Breeze regularly. This publication has been made the official organ and will devote a lot space right along showing what is being accomplished in the way of building good roads. The Kansas Good Roads association is cooperating with the State Highway Commission and is taking the initiative in seeing that Kansas gets her part of the federal aid and a good start in this great work. It is hoped and believed that one thousand miles of hard surfaced roads will be built each year, or a total of 5,000 miles in the five years. Several counties have already planned big road meetings within the next few weeks which all goes to show the active interests being taken in the first thirty days of the campaign. CITIZENS' FORUM Sunday, April 22, 1917. The Citizens' Forum, the only one in Greater K. C., reconvened on this date at the Metropolitan. President Buster had Mr. Wm. Miller to give the invocation Miss S. Brown, the secretary, gave a glowing account of the trip to Lawrence in her journal. Current events were led by Miss Scott. Other features were instrumental solos, Misses M. Jones and Ethel Gordon; reading, Mr. O. Oates: reading, Miss Grace Harris, very good; violin solo, Master White, enceded; address, "Keep Step," Mr. C. A. Franklin, K. C., Mo.; and bass solo, Mr. Boatman, K. C., Mo., enceded. The superb feature of the program was the address by Mr. C. A. Franklin. He is one of the most profound thinkers of our race. He said in part that, "Property rights is what this day and time is giving weight to. Good business and good morals are the same thing. Law of right and laws of success are the same thing. "Right opposed to wrong is the natural law. "God is the majority and doesn't need the one." "We should catch step and stand for the right as the natural law is going to prevail anyhow and we can get with it and we will reap what we sow. Our race should not be disloyal to this country and cut off our noses to spite our faces, even though some have mistreated us, at the same time some have stood for us and we have helped make this country and it is as much ours as anyone else's. "Things of matter are little things, things of spirit are large." "The law of love is NO.35 FIRST INTER-SCHOOL TRACK MEET THURSDAY, MAY 3RD AT HEA "HWOOD PARK . AMONG ALL COLORED SCHOOLS BEAUTIFUL SILVER LOVING CUP TO BE AWARDED. The first inter-school track meet among our colored schools will take place Thursday of next week. May 31, at Heathwood park. It will be under the auspices of the boy scouts. There will be 150 boys and girls contesting for their respective school honors. A large, beautiful silver loving cup will be awarded to the school making the highest number of points. Every school in the city have weeded down to their best athletes and from now until next Thursday these representatives will be taken through the hardest kind of training. It's very gratifying to know we have men and women at the heads of our schools who not only think about developing the brain, but who wisely look after developing the body. No one should miss being present at this athletic contest if nothing more than to encourage our young people in something that cuts down your drug bill. the only law; and we must help build out the idea of brotherhood, as the day is coming when we will not be counted as Negroes, but as men." Prof. T. Davis, Mr. J. N. Gray and Prof. J. P. King discussed the address intelligently, and they and others gave it greatest praise and prolonged applause. The bass singer was one of the finest we ever heard. Prof. Curry gave a good crifflue. Next Sunday the Lawrence Forum with Dr. Harvey and many others will take_charge and render a program. Mrs. S. W. Bacote of Kansas City Mo., has promised to start them off with two selections by her famous choir. Come see and hear the Lawrence and Kansas City, Mo., people. FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH. Prof. Patterson, the assistant pastor, had charge of the services Sunday, as Dr. Ransom was out of the city. Rev. Patterson delivered a most scholarly sermon at the morning service and the extra large congregation showed their appreciation for such a spiritual message. The subject was "The Lily." Rev. Allen, one of the pioneer ministers of the west, preached a splendid sermon at the evening service. Rev. Ransom will fill his pulpit Sunday and he will talk on what he saw and heard on his trip east. No doubt the pastor has an inspiring message for those who are present. He has been in Washington, New York, Philadelphia and other points in the east. The choir have the assurance of a crowded house at their recital Tuesday, May the 8th, at which time the world's greatest singer will appear. Mme. Anita Pattil Brown. They have had to get out an extra lot of tickets, as the first five hundred are all out. The dramatic class of Western University will present a play in Shakespeare at First Baptist church May 1st. The mother of Miss Caution Davis has been quite ill at their rooms in the Y. W. C. A., corner of Ninth and Nebraska. THOMAS KENNEDY, Editor and Prop. G. A. GREGG, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. MRS. M. C. MATTHEWS, Society Editor. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. WE GET NO COME-BACK. The colored people of Kansas City, Kansas, are spending on an average of $27,300 per month in and about the two cities and in a year would spend twelve times that amount or $327,600. How much of this money is being spent with their own people? What per cent of this amount spent does our people have a chance to get back? We are making the money and we are spending the money but something is wrong with our monetary system. We seem to be working too much on the system of the Southern renter. After he has toiled all the year he takes his cotton to market and when he comes to settle up with his landlord he finds himself (or the landlord does) a few bales of cotton short to square up his year's rent. This kind of business doesn't pay and we should endeavor to try and keep part of the money we are making among ourselves, also get back a part we spend. It isn't fair to yourself, family or race to toil, drudge and sweat for 12 months in the year for somebody else. All going out and nothing coming back. We should get together on these matters and work out some problem that would bring about its finish. TO SEGREGATE DeCOURSEY ICE CREAM. The colored people of Kansas City, Kansas and in the adjacent community have organized and pledged themselves to not handle, buy or eat DeCoursey ice cream or his "White Rose Dutter" which he manufacturers. The colored people of this city and county have been consuming thousands of dollars of these two commodities for years, but when Mr. DeCoursey injected into his campaign for mayor the lily white and segregation issue, the colored citizens rose upon their dignity and manhood as Ameri- can citizens and with enough of the fair-minded white citizens, crushed his ambition and debauchable issue in the grave of eternal death. The race has been so intimidated and villified for these many years, that they have commenced to learn to fight back and while they believe in peace and good will toward all mankind the time has come when the spurs should be worn on both boots. No Negro who has one lota of race dignity should handle, buy or eat DeCoursey ice cream or White Rose butter. When you go into any place of business where these goods are sold, don't forget to ask if it's DeCoursey's goods before you make your purchase and if they have only his, trade with some other business merchant and get what you want. If you find churches, lodges, ice cream parlors or fountains using DeCoursey ice cream refuse to buy it. If he had been elected at the last election we would have been segregated, so let us segregate his ice cream. Tell your neighbors, church, lodge society or any one you think might handle DeCoursey ice cream, why you will not eat or patronize any one handling it. There are other ice cream factories in the city that make just as fine ice cream as DeCoursey and some have better, so don't think you cannot get this luxury of some other dealer. Don't buy, eat, taste or smell DeCoursey Ice Cream or White Rose Butter. Made by the SEGREGATING CANDIDATE at the last election for mayor. QUINDARO, KANS. QUINDARO, KANSAS. Mrs. Susan Banks visited with Mrs Amanda Sanders a few hours. Many of Quindaro's people are stirring the ground as never before. The missionary movement held a mass meeting at Allen chapel Thursday evening. "Gardening, War and Our Relation to Them," was under discussion. Vernon school went on a walk up to Nearman station Monday. Had a fine time. The boys of Vernon school played the boys of Quindaro school (white) a game of baseball and beat them 11 to 5. Give our boys a chance along any line and they will take care of themselves. This is the goal of the democracy of tomorrow. Rev. T. F. Jones left Monday for Omaha where he will assist Dr. Osborne in a revival. Rev. Dinsmore will supply here. Mrs. Eva Monroe-Balley is enjoying her new home in Bethel, Kas. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Monroe have married off all their children and are now as it were on the "honeymoon." Mr. and Mrs. E. Holmes, Mrs. Stephen and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. Herndon, Mrs. D. Herndon, Mr. and Mrs. F. Giles, Mrs. A. Fields, Mr. and Mrs. Scales and Mrs. James of North Seventh and Sherman streets, Kansas City, Kansas, spent Sunday afternoon in Quindaro, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Moore lost everything in the burning of their house. She had been saving many things to adorn their new home they had planned to build. In a moment the savings of years are gone. Bro. Moore, however, has landed with both feet upon the soil and with God's help and his own strength will win again. William Banks has been out of school some time with a slight ailment. Those who receive papers belonging to some one else please have the kindness to aid the paper in getting to the proper owner. A paper or a letter sent in the care of some one else is not the property of the one in whose care it is sent, but really is a compliment in the form of confidence in the party's good will in sending it on to its proper owner. 1 Let your boy or girl print your name on the mail box. None of us would like the job putting mail in the proper box and all the boxes without names. And remember that the Smiths, Jones, Monroes, Grigsbys, Banks, etc., etc., are many and various. It is difficult to tell who's who. ALONG THE LINE OF REASON. It is now one year, since we began in our weak way to impress upon the minds of our race, the importance of the economics of a people. I maintain, that "The ways and means of living" underlie and form the basis of all, and all attainment must rise out of them. I have tried to show that our thoughts and feelings of and towards each other, are of more importance than our notions of society and religion, as institutions. For it is only in the proper development of our "Thoughts and feelings towards each other" that we can produce any correct and acceptable notions of society and religion. I have maintained that it is a shoddy grade of religion, that commends, and even wishes your brother in Black to a good comfortable heaven, and to all the happiness, of angels—while it allows you to refuse to accord to him such treatment as will deprive him of the pleasures and comforts of this life—and this too, on your part, for no other reason, than that your Brother is of the same blood as yourself. I have maintained, that the truths I have set out, were but the plainest dictates of common sense, the exemplification of the rule of Cause and Effect. Hence it is indeed, a great pleasure to me to observe, that a similar position is being taken, from all directions; (Negro, with reference to himself—possible excepted.) Now that the Nation has entered THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE We want you to get one of these suits absolutely FREE. So you can show it to your friends. No doubt about it, you will Be The Best Dressed Man In Your Town It will be a big advertisement for us. 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And since a Nation is the same as the units which compose it, why in the name of the God we serve, can't we see that the same remedy is good for us, as members of a hated and despised, and for that reason, much wronged race? Let's learn something from this awful lesson of War ever—and help each other, instead of tearing down. I. F. BRADLEY. Rev. Albert Brown, one of our young evangelists, is holding a very successful revival at Pleasanton, Kansas. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas. Tom Crowder, Plaintiff, vs. Maggie Jenkins and Mollie Jenkins, their heirs, executors, administrators or trustees, of any of the above named defendants, who may be dead. Defendants. The State of Kansas to the above named defendants, their heirs, executors, administrators, devisees or trustees. Greetings: You and each of you will take notice that each of you have been sued by the above named plaintiff, who has filed his petition against you and each of you in the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas, on the 21st day of April, A. D., 1917, and that unless you answer said petition on or before the 9th day of June, 1917, the same will be taken as true and judgment rendered accordingly to quiet the title of said plaintiff to Lot Twenty-one (21), Block One Hundred and Forty-seven (147) Wyandotte City now a part of Kansas City, Kansas, excluding you and each of you from any interest or estate, or any claim thereto, lien thereon, and perpetually enjoining you and each of you and all persons claiming under or through you, from ever setting up any claim to or interest in, or lien upon said premises, and for such other and furthe relief as may be right and proper L. W. JOHNSON, Attorney for Plaintiff. (SEAL) Attest: R. J. McFARLAND, Clerk District Court. By W. F. 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WAHLENMAIER REFRACTING EYE SPECIALIST 746 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City, Kansas Estimates Without Charges Bell Phone West 2077 7 room modern house, 50 ft., close in $2500. $500 cash, $15 a month and interest. 2 room house on 25 ft. lot for $250. AT A BARGAIN—1 MILE WEST. 5 acres, 3 room house, all kinds fruit, $1500. $500 down, balance $10 a month and interest. Close to Quindaro car line. 20 acres, 3 room house, 1-4 mile from Welborn station, strawberries, raspberries, grapes and some fruit trees, $400 an acre. Will divide any amount. 5 room modern house, 30 ft., $1750. $500 cash, balance on easy terms. 4 room modern cottage, 371-2 ft., close in on paved street, $2200. $300 cash, $15 a month and interest. 4 5-room stucco houses close in on paved streets, $1200. $50 cash, $10 a month and interest. 7 4-room frame cottages, city water and gas. Close in, $1100. $50 cash, $10 a month and interest. 4 4-room cottages, close in, $1,000. $50 cash, $10 a month and interest. 4 room house close in, 25 ft., $650. $50 cash and $10.00 a month. 5 room house close in, 371-2 ft, $1600. $100 cash, $10 a month and interest. FOR RENT. Store room, 1718 North 7th St. $12.50 per month. Store room, 12th and Armstrong, $15.00 per month. 4 rooms modern, up-stairs, 1718 North Seventh street, $10 per month. Store room under same apartments, $12.50. Will rent separate or together. Room 131-2 Peoples Bank Building, Cor. 7th and Minnesota Ave. 7th street Entrance, Up-stairs. --- SUMNER HIGH NOTES On last Friday the Sumner Glee clubs sang at Western University, repaying the visit recently made by the Western University Glee clubs. The bail game between Lincoln high and Sumner on Friday was largely attended by the students. We would like to have more of the teachers out next time. The game was very close, Lincoln winning by a score of only 2 to 1. Chester McReynolds pitched a very good game. He is undoubtedly the best pitcher Sumner has produced. It has been reported that he has received a position with one of the best colored teams in Kansas City. Several of the students appeared on the program at the Forum Sunday. Such occasions as these are the only ones in which the students have a chance to render service to the community and they greatly appreciate this opportunity. The rendition of "Lasca" by Miss Grace Harris was exceptionally good. She displayed unusual elocutionary ability. This is the time of the year when some of the seniors are beginning to prepare their graduation wardrobes. Others, however, look rather sad because the day of reckoning has arrived and they have been asked to make an account of their past four years of school work and alas! they have been found wanting. They must therefore suffer the consequences. Practice has begun on the music for commencement night, which is May 25th. 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The student receiving the highest number of points will also receive a cup. Mr. Ralph Baldwin conducted the current events at the assembly. Following this the juniors rendered the following program: Piano solo.....Miss Louise Thompson Paper .....Dekoven Trench Vocal solo (encored)..... .....Alexander Gatewood Recitation .....Henrietta Smiley Piano solo .....Miss Ella Neely Special steps have been taken to beautify the lawn about the school. Mr. Walter Scott has taken the position of seeing that the plans are carried out. On Wednesday everyone was asked to take away one of the dandelions that are making their annual spring drive against the grass. Did you get yours? The many friends of Wm. Collins, of North Sixth street, will be gratified to know of his recovering from his serious illness. Mr. Rhodes on Washington boulevard is sick. All lodges desiring their floral pieces made by the Stoval-Lasley & Son Floral company please send their floral committee direct to us and do not try to do business through the undertakers, as I have lost several orders by them not turning the work to us. STOVAL-LASLEY & SON FLORAL Co., 431 State Ave. Bell, West 368 ATWOOD facturer of--- m and Ices from 1/2 Gallon to any Amount QUALITY GUARANTEED 606 Central Ave. K. C. K. Paint and Glass Kansas City, Kansas ce, Coal, Feed Kindling 415 LAFAYETTE AVE. HUMAN HAIR BOOK HAIR NETS FREE SPECIAL OFFER Electric Straightening - COMB 20c. together with Imported French Hair Not Free, Jewel Comb 50c with two Hair Nets Free. Write for 20c comb or 50c comb also BOOK Fully Illustrated in Hair Goods and Tefel Hair Nets FREE with order for strated Book FREE on request. ELASTIC MAT ELECOME HAIR INVISIBLE 28 $c. William St. New York Happenings You will not forget it, will you? Not to buy or eat DeCoursey ice cream or his White Rose butter. DeCoursey was the segregation candidate for mayor April 3rd. Speak to your neighbors about it. Mrs. R. T. Trotter, 1318 Twenty-seventh street, who has been quite ill for several weeks, is reported to be improving, of which her friends will be pleased to learn. No one should fail to hear the greatest singer of today, Mme. Anita Patti Brown, at First A. M. E. church, Tuesday, May 8th. Mrs. Mattie Akers, 715 Oakland ave. is still confined to her bed. Mrs. Pope, 1510 North Eighth street, is much better. Mrs. J. C. C. Owens of North Sixth street entertained very nicely last Thursday afternoon one of the stewardess boards of First A. M. E. church. A fine menu was served at the close of the session. Mrs. Cora Dameran, 1602 North Ninth street, who has been ill is improving nicely. The friends of Miss Carter were glad to see her out and at church Sunday after such a very long spell of illness. Rev. J. C. C. Owens, presiding elder of the Omaha district, returned home Tuesday morning, reporting a splendid quarterly meeting and conference. Miss Jennie Miller, 837 Freeman, is on the sick list. Mrs. E. E. Ewing, 1851 North Eighth street, has been ill for the past few weeks. Mr. Evans has returned from the Southland, where he has been visiting for some weeks and reports having a very pleasant time. Master Douglass Thompson and his little sister, Isabella, are improving nicely at their home, 1323 North Eighth street. Mr. J. T. Roberts, one of our leading barbers on the avenue, has been confined to his home on Nebraska avenue for more than a week with illness. His friends hope to see him out soon The funeral of Mrs. S. G. Bruce was held from the Metropolitan Temple April 19th, Rev. Holmes officiating. Rev. H. Franklin Bray, one of the great union evangelists of the West, was a pleasant and welcome caller at The Advocate's office Wednesday. Dr. Bray and his company have been taking a ten days' rest in Denver, Colo., but will reopen a series of Union meetings next week at Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Daniels, 931 Splitlog, who has been teaching in Oakland this year, has returned home for the summer. Her friends are pleased to see her looking so well. Master Oliver Brown and little sister Essie, 1026 Walker avenue, are both on the sick list. Mrs. Mabel Kemp is improving nicely from her recent illness. Mr. and Mrs. H. White's little girl is sick at their home on Greeley. The society editor gets complimentary tickets to every play and concert of note, from old and young, and from teachers and people of all ranks. It should be thus as she thies by writing and Christianity to uplift the race. ICE NOW 10 CENTS HIGHER. But High Prices Are Forcing Down Meat Consumption. Ice at retail is to cost 50 cents a hundred pounds this season, as against 40 cents last year. A saving of 5 cents a hundred pounds may be made, however, by purchasing books calling for 500 pounds or 1,000 pounds. The dealers also say another increase may be made later. The increased cost of labor and the rise in the price they have to pay for food for horses is responsible. Merchants says there is a falling off in the amount of meat consumed in the city and many grocers say they are considering doing away with their meat departments. The price is too high and people are cutting down on their consumption of meat. New potatoes are coming in plentifully and old potatoes on hand are dropping in price, the wholesale price being $3 yesterday. Despite the great hue and cry about BEFORE 4TH WEEK 6TH WEEK Successful Scientific Treatment FREE OF CHARGE Do you suffer from loss of hair?—Does your hair get permanently gray?—Is your hair strumpy, sticky, or matted?—Do you suffer from dandruff, itching or bored about or at home?—Is your hair kinky?—Are you hold bored about or at home? If you suffer from any of the above mentioned hair troubles do not neglect it, but try to relieve the trouble at once. Delays are dangerous. Write at once 'or our illustrated booklet FREE TREATMENT. We want to prove to you, at our own risk that the Calvacura Hair Treatment stops the falling of the hair, dandruff and crama of the scalp, corrects the kinks and creases and promotes the growth of new straight hair. We will send you a box of Calvacur No 1, together with the above mentioned booklet. "The Trumph of Science Over Badness," if you send us your name and address together with 10 cents runner up postage stamps to help pay the distribution penny. Please write your name and address plainly, and en close 10 cents in your letter to UNION LABORATORY, 147, 4th St., Union, N. Y. food speculation and the necessity for government control of foods, the shortage of eggs goes on. Reports from Chicago yesterday were that 30 to 36 million of eggs were held there in storage for speculation. And that is why eggs continue to hold up in price. The new 15 cent loaf of bread weighs 26 ounces and is a better investment for the consumer than the 16 ounce loaves at 10 cents. But the thought of paying 15 cents for a loaf of bread out here in the grain belt staggers the people. THE DOG A PUBLIC NUISANCE. Chief Gordon Issues an Order to Protect Gardens from Canine Rovellers. An order which, so far as this city is concerned, may have the effect of relegating Fido to the background, even as Dobbin has been sent, was issued today by Chief of Police W. W. Gordon. Gardens, the officials argues, are essential to the well-being of humanity, in view of impending scarcity and high prices of food products. Dogs so long as prices remain within the limits of reason, are not. Since stray dogs and well-kept gardens are now compatible with each other, dogs must stay within the bounds of their respective owners' property, or go to the pound. The same mandate will be rigidly enforced with regard to chickens, police were notified. Japs to Hold German Territory. Tokio, April 16 (by mail to New York, April 26).—Ki Inukai, leader of the powerful Kokuminto political party, today declared Japan must insist upon the retention of all the territory captured by Japanese in the war. That, said Mr. Inukai must be the demand of the Japanese delegates when the peace conference comes. The chief gain made by Japan was in China, where a mixed force of Japanese and British troops, co-operating with a strong Japanese fleet, captured the Germany dependency of Kiao Chao, on the Chinese coast. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Lafayette, Hayden. vs. Opal Hayden, To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 26th day of May, 1917, the petition filed against you, will be presented to the court, for trial, and evidence given, upon which a judgment will be rendered, the nature of which will be a decree, divorcing the plaintiff from you, the defendant, and awarding to him as his sole property, Lot Twenty-two in Block Eighty-seven in the former City of Wyandotte, now a part of Kansas City, Kas. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty. for Plff. R. J. McFarland. R. 5. McMahill Clerk of District Court. (First publication April 13, 1917.) Sugar Bowl.. WE DO OUR OWN BAKING $ FRESH LOAVES BREAD 10 CENTS. 1 lb. not 12 oz. 5c 32 oz. Loaf 10c We Make Our Own Candles. SATURDAY SPECIAL. S U G A R B O W L 720 Minn. Ave. W. T. Whitelaw DRUGGIST 3091 North 27th St. Kansas City, Kas. If we haven't what you want We will get it for you THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE. CLEANERS BOULDIN CLEANERS "That Clean" LADIES' AND GENTS TAILORING. Suits Cleaned and Pressed 85c Suits Sponged and Pressed 40c ALL WORK REASONABLE. Quality, Service Satisfaction Prompt Auto Service. Call us up. Bell Phone, West 838. 1606 N. 5th St. K. C., K. appear. The same holds good in all or similar announcements.—Ed. EIGHTH STREET BAPTIST TABER- NACLE. The services Sunday were largely attended and the pastor, Dr. D. B. Jackson, preached a strong spiritual sermon, on "Let Her Alone, She Has Done What She Could." The B. Y. P. U. is doing excellent work under the leadership of the vice president, Miss Lizzie Jones. The entertainment given at the home of Mrs. S. A. Fitzhugh on the Sixth for the B. Y. P. U. was quite a success netting $22.56. That some one is thinking of building another new house on Washington boulevard the finest street in our city, and we hope they will as we love to see people progressive and prosperous. There is nothing new under the sun. What seems new is what some one else has said and done before, and we can take from the Bible or histories our discourses and write them in our own words, or invent something from something already formed by nature thousands of years ago. But the secret is the capability and intelligence of making it seem new and original. This faculty is part of a great mind and everyone doesn't possess that talent. Mrs. Chas. Barnett, 819 Oakland, was called to St. Joseph, Mo., on the account of a death in her sister-in-law's family. Mrs. Bryant of North Third street, has been quite ill for two weeks, but is some better at this time. A FINE COTTAGE FOR SALE. Bargain: 4 room cottage in fine condition, electric lights, water, close in. Only $750 with good terms. Also other bargains.—A. T. Long, Room C, Husted Bldg. Colored people are keeping their word in not eating or handling DeCoursey ice cream since his running on a segregation issue for mayor. Don't forget he makes White Rose butter, which keep shy of. Insure Your Hair Insure Your Hair And watch it grow, by using the great sanitary hair dressing It first takes out dandruff and cures itching, tetter and ringworm. You can then see the hair take on a rich youthful appearance and begin to grow. It stops the hair from falling out, breaking off or splitting at the ends. It makes coarse, stubborn, kinky hair soft and long and easy to manage. Its perfume is charming and never falls to please. It's fine—everybody's using it. Large jars 50s (stamps or money order) or to give you an idea, will send you a TRIAL BOX for 10c. AGENTS WANTED. Box 754. ATLANTA, GA. ```markdown ``` METROPOLITAN TEMPLE. Sunday, April 22nd, 1917. This great temple, as usual, had a large audience at its morning service. The pastor, Elder D. A. Holmes, was physically and spiritually strong and preached from Numbers 17:17-33. "Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan." It was a good practical sermon to those who are true Christians and understand the wisdom in God's word. At the close of the sermon baptism was administered. At 8 p. m. the text was from 2nd Corinthians, 12:7-9, "Paul's Thorn in the flesh." Lesson, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness." Another good exemplification of how we should live. The morning sermon impressed one visitor so much that she narrated its outline to her lodge members the following week. The contribution was quite large for the occasion, and several united with the church. Next Sunday, April 29th, is to be a great day, a special rally; at 11 a. m. baptizing and preaching; 3 p. m. sharp, Bishop S. M. Bacote will preach and his famous choir will sing and his congregation will attend. Members and friends of all churches are invited to be present. At 4 p. m. the Lawrence Forum will give a program for the K. C. Forum. At 8 p. m. preaching and baptizing and an announcement of the special offering. Everybody is invited to all services. Come hear the K. C., Mo., choir and see many friends from Lawrence led by Dr. Harvey. At 8 p. m., Sunday, April 29th, Bishop D. A. Holmes will preach the sermon of the Men's Forward Movement. Ladies are invited to attend also. NEWS MATTER. News matter brought or sent in for publication containing announcements for any entertainment which is to take place after that issue, such announcement is paid matter and the cash must accompany the copy or arrangements made for its publication or it will not LODGE NOTICES LODGE NOTICES COLLIER LODGE NO. 2. I. O. B. and S. of C. "Busy Bee." Meeting nights 1st and 3rd Monday, 6th and State Ave., 8 p. m. At Sons Protection Hall. SAMUEL DIGGS, W. H. C. MARY SMITH, W. S. 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PRICE 75¢ SHAMPOO AND HAIR STRAIGHTENING COMB NO.022 A SMALL STRONG COMB USED BEST ON REAL SHORT HAIR NICKEL PLATED. PRICE 35¢ ALL OUR GOODS WAPRANED AS DESCRIBED OR MONEY REFUNDED FOR SALE BY YOUR DEaler OR Direct FROM US UPON RECEIPT OF PRICE. IN WRITING DIRECT, SEND MONEY BY POST OF FICE OR EXPRESS MONEY ORDER- OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 46 W.KINZI ST. CHICAGO,ILL. Business Directory L. A. Knox D. E. Henderson —Res. Bell Phone— East 2121 West 1520 LAW OFFICES KNOX & HENDERSON ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Suite 32 Stubbs 1419 E. 18th St. Bldg., Kansas Kansas City, Mo. City, Kansas. Bell Phone, West 939. Bell Phone Grand 1413 No. 645 Minnesota. Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. Bell Phone West 939. 1419 E. 18th St. Kansas City, Mo. Bell Phone Grand. 1413 J. GUY BOOKER Attorney-at-Law. With Knox and Henderson Attorneys-at-Law. Bell Phone West 3866. E. A., SHACKELFORD. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 511 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. REAL ESTATE Real Estate and Rentals. G. W. NELOMS & CO. Real Estate Dealers Have All Kinds of Property for Sale and Rent. PRICES TO SUIT PURCHASER See Us Before Closing Deal We Will Save You Money 600 Minn. Ave. Up-Stairs, K. C., K. Home Phone, W. 1036. Bell Phone, West 1743. A. A. WILSON is Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jeweler. RELIABLE JEWELRY 1618 W. 9th St. K. 1 Mo. Bell Phone M. 6243R. Bell Phone 424 West. DORSEY GREEN, Attorney and Counselor at Law. 816 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Bell, W. 2235 I. F. BRADLEY. Lawyer. 721 Minnesota Avenue, Rooms 5 and 6 Mill and Warehouse, 13th and L Road. Office 2055 North 13th Street. Bell Phone West 1034 W. B. Maxwell & Sons Wholesale and ALFALFA, PRAIRIE ICE, COAL Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ALFALFA, PRAIRIE HAY and GRAIN ICE, COAL AND WOOD --- SAMUEL DIGGS SAMUEL DIGGS THE OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEALER Paye the highest cash prices for hence, copper, brussel, lead, zinc and of SQUARE DEALING AND HOME Places of Business—1963-1968 North V Paye the highest cash prices for junk at all times, rage, lion, bottles, benzene, copper, brass, lead, zinc and everything in the junk line. SGUARE DEALING AND HOMEST WEIGHT AT ALL TIMES. Places of Business—1000-1000 North T third Street, Kansas City, Kansas. BELL, WEST 207. Kansas City, Bell Phone W. 1854 DR. MARION COTTEN, DENTIST. 814 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. H. W. HILL. Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods and Notions. Bell Phone, 385 West 2702 North Sherman St. TRANSFER CO'S Home Phone West 473. Bell Phone West 247. Business Directory TOM CROWDER TRANSFER CO. Docs a General Moving, Packing, Ship- ping and Storage Business. Office 412 Minnesota Ave. COAL DEALERS. W. H. LAMBRIGHT & CO. Dealer in Coal, Ice and Feed. Office 1820 N. 3d St. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell West 1923. OFFICE HOURS: 9:20 to 11:30 a. m.; 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p. m. Bell Phone, A. J. HILL. Groceries, Meats, Dry Goods and Mo- tions. Corner 11th and Freeman Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell West 423. Office Phone Bell West 380 Residence 1321 N. 8th St. Bell Phone, 361 West B. H. THOMPSON, M. D. Office 1512 N. 8th Street Bell Phone, West 3711 Office Hours: 8 to 11 A. M., 2 to 5 P. M. At Night DR. LEE R. PETTY Physician and Surgeon 516 Minnesota Ava. F. D. Howe, Decorator and Painter Ice Cream Parlor and Confectionery. 1722 N. 3rd Std. Bell, W. 8388 ICE, COAL, WOOD AND FEED Office and Yards, 7th & L Road Bell Phone West 1744 Retail Dealers in E HAY and GRAIN AND WOOD Kansas. Junk at all times, rage, lion, bottles, everything in the junk line. BEST WEIGHT AT ALL TIMES. Third Street, Kansas City, Kansas. BELL, WEST 2577. Kansas. Japanese Scientist Conceles Idea of "Teaching" Bivalves to Produce Pearls. The Japanese conduct great oyster farms where the bivalves are "taught" to make pearls. It was Doctor Mikinoto, a well-known scientist, who conceived the idea that oysters r ght be educated and made to work for man. After many years of costly experimentation he discovered the method in use today. The farm has an area of about 50 square miles and the water varies in depth from 5 to 15 fathoms. The farmer selects the spots where the larvae of oysters are most numerous and then he plants small rocks and stones. These are soon covered with oysterspat. They are then removed and placed in special beds, where they lie undisturbed until the third year. It is said that an oyster will not produce a pearl unless it be irritated by some foreign substance. As soon as it feels this it proceeds to cover it with nacre, layer on layer, until after a few years it has made a pearl. When large enough the oysters are taken from their beds and carefully opened; a tiny speck of some foreign substance is introduced into their bodies, and they are replaced in the sea. By the end of from three to five years the oyster has coated the foreign substance with nacre and this has become a pearl. WHERE PICNIC IS A PASSION In Australia People Obtain Maximum of Recreation Without Country . Clubs or Amusement Parks. As in the United States, the "movies" often constitute the chief indoor amusement, but the universal recreation in Australia is the picnic which reaches a high development. Men, women and children, families, clubs, churches, lodges and miscellaneous groups are out on picnics afternoons, Sundays and holidays. Two picnics a week are not unusual; a young lady of my acquaintance had five to her credit. The picnickers walk, ride horses, take wagons, or go by motor, street car, train or boat. They go to the shore, to the woods, to rivers, to picturesque hillsides, or to the zoological and botanical gardens, which in Australian cities are used, not guarded by "keep off the grass" signs. The time is occupied by gossiping, reading, sewing, writing letters, playing simple games, eating lunch or supper, fishing, swimming, studying flowers or insects, or "plain resting." America has much to learn from the southern continent of the use of parks and the attainment of recreation without the expense of country clubs and Coney islands.—National Geographic Magazine. A Humble Worker. He does not look like a very important part of a big automobile organization, this stooped, grizzled man, but the president of a great motorcar company, according to Popular Science Monthly, says that Magnet Bill saves his salary a dozen times over every day he works. Rain or shine, summer or winter, Magnet Bill may be seen walking slowly about the automobile plant, his eyes fixed on the ground. He gets his nickname from the fact that his tools consist solely of a tin bucket and a big steel magnet, strapped to the end of a shovel handle. It is his duty to save automobile tires by removing from the roadway every nail and piece of metal that might cause a tire puncture. Thousands of cars are run over this roadway to the testing place, and without the precautions taken by Magnet Bill the cost for cut and punctured tires would amount to many thousands of dollars yearly. Discovering Columbus. During a recent campaign a Tammany leader on the East side, a selfmade man and one not entirely completed yet in some parts, was addressing a mass meeting of Italian-born voters on behalf of his party's ticket. "Gintlemen and fellow citizens," he began, "I deem it an honor to be permitted to address you upon the issues of the day. I have always had a deep admiration for your native land. I vinerate the memory of that great, that noble, Eyetalian who was the original discoverer of this here land of ours. "Why, gintlemen, at me mother's knee I was taught to sing that inspirin' song, 'Columbus, the Jim of the Ocean!'" Whereupon there was loud applause. —Saturday Evening Post. City of Many Names. No capital city has changed its name so often as Constantinople, which was originally known as Lygos. In B. C. 658 this name was discarded for that of Byzantium, which remained in use until the capture of the city by Septimus Severus, who rechristened it Roma Nova. On making it his capital, Constantine the Great endowed it with his own name, and it is still Constantinople among western nations. This name, however, is ignored by the Turks, who since they obtained possession of Constantinople have preferred to call it Stamboul. Success "My first rich patient was the making of me," confessed the doctor. "Did you make a marvelous cure?" "Oh, no. But I got enough money to move into a fashionable neighborhood, and then I called myself a specialist." Story of Long Vigil Kept by Scarlet- Coated Songster for Missing Mate Is Full of Pathos. In the annals of bird lore nothing can be found surpassing in pathos the story which comes from Tarlton, O. For many weeks, close to the home of the writer, early and late there could be heard the loud, clear call of a bird to his mate. With his scarlet coat in strong contrast with his surroundings, and his no less decided military bearing, he would perch on the topmost twig of a tall apple tree, and from his colign of vantage scan the little world around him with his eagle eye, hoping to glimpse the familiar form of his lost companion. His alert ear and eye catching no sight or sound of the absent loved one, he would pour out his soul in unavailing pleadings for her return. The little singer in his untiring song proclaimed the fact that he was waiting with a hopeful heart. One morning, while in quest of the early worm, he chanced to light upon a bush that stood by a window opposite the window of another house only a few feet away, and, seeing his image reflected so vividly and so close to him, he flew joyously at the apparition, believing it to be his long-lost mate. His enthusiasm knew no bounds. Quick and hard were the blows struck with his horny beak and claws in his impotent wrath until nightfull, when he sank to rest. The next morning at early dawn he renewed his clarion call, and came back to renew the battle of the previous day with his delusive image. This little tragedy in the heart of the bird has been carried on for five months. His flaming coat is just as bright and his kingly bearing none the less striking, but a great change has come over the spirit of the bird. He gave no sign of the battle royal that has raged in his breast for weary days and weeks, but his song has fallen into silence.—Cincinnati Enquirer. ACTION RESULT OF HABIT Man Is an Instinctive Animal and Usually He Acts First and Thinks Afterward. At least nine-tenths of all human action is the result, purely and simply, of habit. Man is an instinctive animal in spite of the reasoning faculties that have been given to him and normally he acts first and thinks afterward. The child is conceived and born so that he may do things and that in doing them he may develop a personal will and an individual character. He could not even begin to form a character were it not for that universal process of habit formation. Education itself is a habit. It could never have been developed without the mechanical operations of habit. This mechanical procedure economizes the two great essentials of education. The first is time and the second is energy. Ideal behavior, then, involves perfect balance and sanity of action. It demands moderation in all things, with every function exercising with every other function.—Mother's Magazine. Preventing Milk From Bolling Over. Among the various devices which are intended to prevent milk from bolling over we noticed one which solves the problem in a very simple way, says the Scientific American. It consists of a straight tube of say two or three inches in diameter at the top and expanding somewhat toward the bottom, where it is provided with a flaring and cup-shaped end of rather large diameter, the whole being somewhat of trumpet shape. Out of the lower part are cut, say, four suitable openings, and we set the device upright in the vessel with the small end just out of the liquid. Should the milk tend to boil violently this action commences at the bottom, and the liquid is forced up the tube, then falls upon the surface again, so that the bolling action will continue in this way and the milk has no tendency to leave the vessel. Why Fish Will Fall Upward. The deep-sea fish are subject to a pressure internally, by gases, and externally of over two tons to the square inch, and under this pressure they are quite solid. When these fish are brought to the surface in nets their bodies become puffy, their bones loose and their eyes start out of their heads; very often they burst. This is because the pressure is released. When these fish of the deep sea chase their prey or rise for some reason high above the ocean bed, the gases of their swimming bladders expand and they become light. The fish whose muscles are not strong enough to take it down deeper into the ocean expands more and more until it rises upward to the surface and is killed, so that it really "falls upward." Eagle Symbol of Power. From ancient times the eagle, as the king of birds, has been looked upon as the symbol of power. The American eagle is the native bald eagle and was first adopted on the seal of the United States on June 20, 1782, against the bitter opposition of Franklin. This patriot looked up to it as a Caesarian emblem and wanted to know what was the matter with the wild turkey, as being more distinctly American. Nevertheless the eagle was accepted, not only on the seal, but on the first coin issued by the United States in 1795, and on a majority of the coins since. Dunbar Theatre 2---Big Shows Daily---2 First Class Pictures----Good Music SPECIAL MATINEE EVERY SUNDAY-2:30 P. M. Night Shows 7:45 and 9:15 1614 N. 10th Street DUNBAR THEATRE CO. E. F. SMITH, Manager ADMISSION - - - - 10 CENTS HYGIENE & KALOLOGY CO. Dept. A. H. 122 W. 15th St., N. Y. City 625 SUIT NO EXTRA CHARGES Made to measure ill latest style. Not $7.75, not even $1. not even one pound. must be purchased conditionally. 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