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Sumner High School Number KANSAS VOL. III. TWELVE MONTHS, $1.50. GOVERNMENT POLICIES INVOLVING SCHOOLS IN TIME OF WAR AYS HISTORICAL SOCIETY KANS VOL. III. TWELVE Sumr GOVERNMENT INVOLVING IN T A very live question at the present time is: "What changes should we make in our schools to meet the new demands of the war?" When the war broke out England began using schools for war purposes. The school budgets were reduced; children were used in war work; only one-fifth of them were left in school. Child wages increased five times. But child crime was almost doubled. England at once saw the mistake she was making in letting up in her educational program, and in the year 1917-1918 she introduced the following reforms: 1. National system of education. 2. School age raised to 18 years. 3. Teachers' salaries raised 30%, to prevent them from being attracted to other more lucrative forms of employment. 4. More scientific and technical training. 5. Greater attention to training of girls. 6. Higher education possible to poor. France went through somewhat the same experience at the beginnig of the war. But in a short time she found it necessary to recall the teachers from the trenches. Believing that the public should have some idea of what the leading educators advocate in this connection in this country for the schools, we are quoting freely from a circular published by the Bureau of Education: Washington, D. C. "The entire spirit of the administration in Washington is, and has been from the beginning, that the war should in no way be used as an excuse for giving the children of the country any less education, in quantity or quality, than they otherwise would have had, but, on the contrary, that the schools should do everything possible to increase their efficiency, to the end that the children now in the schools may at the conclusion of their course, be even better qualified than ever before to take up the duties and responsibilities of life. Both the present demands of the war emergency and the prospective demands of the necessary readjustments inevitable to follow emphasize the need of providing in full measure for the education of all the people." The President has repeatedly called the attention of the nation to the urgent necessity of this special form of conservation. He has repeatedly urged young people graduating from the high schools to avail themselves of the opportunities offered by the colleges and technical schools "to the end that the country may not lack an adequate supply of trained men and women," and he assures young people who are not called to active military service that "by pursuing their courses (in school) with earnestness and diligence they also are preparing themselves for valuable service to the nation." (July 20, 1917, letter to the department of superintendence, N. E. A.) Early in February, Secretary Lane of the Interior department called a conference which included the various departments of the United States government. At this conference, the following recommendations werdecided upon: 1. Agriculture: Aside from casual work, chores and the like, which might be done outside of school hours, the labor of boys under 16 years of age is not a vital factor on the farm. City boys, without farm experience, are not generally useful under 16 years of age. * * * In any case, intelligence, good health, and good physical development are essential for useful service on the farm. One of the urgent needs on the farm today is for capable women to help with the housework. Without such help many farms could not take on additional farm laborers, even if they were available because of the added labor involved in providing meals and lodging. 2. Army and Navy: The army and navy do not want and cannot use, boys under 17 years of age, nor boys nor men of any age who are not strong and well-developed physically. So far as the army and navy are concerned, there is nothing more important that the schools can do than to keep going at full capacity, and at the same time MR. MERVIN HARRIS. J. A sterling young man, whose qualities of character and honesty has so impressed the editor of The Advocate that he has been made editing manager of this paper and will start on his new duties the first of June and it is believed with such stamina of manhood and dependableness. wil ldad much to the success of The Advocate. He has been its circulating manager for a year or more and has proven his worth to a degree he now merits. Mr. Harris graduates today in a class of fifty-eight from Sumner High school, whose deportment and integrity stands untarnished. His weekly. High school letrets for the past year have been read with interest. The style and manner of expressing things reads with quick understanding. We bespeak a bright future for this young man. KANSAS CITY, KANSFRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918 THOMAS KENNEDY, PUBLISHER. NO.45 to emphasize in every possible way their work in physical education. High school boys will render the best service of which they are capable by remaining in school until completion of the high school course, laying the very best possible foundation for such subsequent training. If they are wanted, they will be called 3. The Need in Civil Service. There is a strong demand for clerks, stenographers and typewriters, but the places can not be filled by boys and girls under 18-years of age. No advantage would accrue to the civil service in any way by shutting down the schools or by curtailing school facilities. Many civil service positions have been filled by drawing workers from commercial and industrial houses, and also by drawing teachers from the schools. All of the positions thus made vacant must be filled from some source. Therefore, schools could undoubtedly render a much-needed service by organizing classes to train stenographers, typewriters, clerks, and secretaries. Real Patriotism. "Boys and girls should be urged, as a patriotic duty, to remain in school to the completion of the high-school course, and in increasing numbers to enter upon college and university courses, especially in technical and scientific lines. and normal school courses, to meet the great need for trained men and women. Travel Notes Friend Editor: Like of humanity, you are both fortunate and unfortunate, and I am like you. You see "Uncle Tom," you are permitted to remain at home in your "little old cabin by the pond," while I must be a "rolling stone," and you know the old saying about a "rolling stone," for the truth of which I can vouch. To use another figure, like Salathial in the "Wandering Jew," I am compelled to constantly "move on." But, in another sense, I am the fortunate one. You see, just as "nature hates a vacuum," so she abhors partiality, therefore she has instituted the "law of compensation in order to "even up" things. So while I am unfortunate in having to be away from my "roof tree," and sometimes with almost no "roof tree," I have the privilege of seeing much and hearing much. And here and now, I shall tell you of some of those things. Leaving Kansas City Thursday night, May 16th, I arrived in St. Louis Friday morning, and for once, the Wabash was on time. But, to offset this, there was a wreck just before we got to the union station. I mean another train was wrecked and our train could not get in. On the same train was Dr. W. H. Peck of St. Louis, returning from the Western University commencement. This friend of other days would have me go to his home, take breakfast with him and allow him to show me just a little of the city. After (Continued on Page Four) FOLLOWING IS THE FACULTY OF SUMNER HIGH J. A. HODGE, PRINCIPAL. BROOKLYN Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts Degrees, Indiana University. 1905-1909, Vice-Principal Scribner High School, New Albany, Ind. 1909 1910, Teaching Fellow, Physics Dept., Indiana University. 1910-1916, Teacher of Physical Sciences, Sumner High School. March 6, 1916, Elected Principal Sumner High School. J. J. Lewis, Vice-Principal, Graduate of Southern University, New Orleans. G. B. Buster, Wilberforce University. J. P. King, A. B., Kansas University. Beulah E. Burke, A. B., Howard. T. H. Reynolds, A. B., Indiana. Scottie Davis, A. B., Minnesota. G. H. Mowbray, A. B., Howard. Ethel Caution-Davis, A. B., Wellesley College. Emma Pendleton, Drake Business College. Mary Clifford, A. B., Howard. Kate T. Davis, Cheyney Training School. G. A. Curry, A. B., Morehouse College, A. M., University of Chicago. H. S. Williams, A. B., Oberlin, A. M., University of Chicago. Mrs. Alice Brown, former teacher, Matron. WHAT IT MEANS TO SUMNER Sumner High school enjoys a unique advantage in being a member of the North Central Association of High Schools and Colleges. This membership gives to her graduates certain advantages over graduates of other institutions not yet accepted by this association. Among them are the following: such a school for four years. A diploma from such a school places the graduate in a specially favored group. The University of Chicago has given two scholarships to two of Sumner's graduates. This year Principal Hodge has been asked to submit the name of a third student who has finished NEW PLAYER PIANO FOR SALE. We offer for immediate sale a bran new Player Piano, quality fully guaranteed, located near Kansas City. Liberal terms to a responsible party. Particulars will be furnished to anyone addressing E. B. Guild Music Co., 1119 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 1. Summer graduates can enter any standard college or university without examination. 2. The greatest advantages come, however, from the fact that in order to remain in this association the standards of the school must be kept very high. For example, the attainment of teachers of academic subjects shall be equivalent to graduation from a college belonging to the North Central Association requiring the completion of a four-year course of study or 120 semester credit hours in addition to a standard four-year course in high school. (Not retroactive. The minimum professional training of teachers of any academic subject shall be at least eleven semester hours in education. This is to include special study of the subject matter and pedagogy of the subject to be taught. The board of inspectors will reject all schools having more than six recitation periods per day for any teacher. "The efficiency of instruction, the acquired habits of thought and study, the general intellectual and moral tone of a school are paramount factors, and therefore only schools which rank well in these particulars, as evidenced by rigid; thoroughgoing, sympathetic inspection shall be considered eligible for the list."—Latest Bulletin of the Association. It can readily be seen what it means to a student who attends such a school for four years. A diploma from such a school places the graduate in a specially favored group. The University of Chicago has given two scholarships to two of Sumner's graduates. This year Principal Hodge has been asked to submit the name of a third student who has finished with high honors. High schools belonging to this association are examined yearly by the state high school inspector or by an agent of the association. Sumner has held this distinction since 1913. M. B. H. Who has spent the better part of his life work in the schools of Kansas City, Kansas. Because of his experience, he is able to get a broad vision of the needs of youth for their life journey. Because of his long contact with school problems he is not prone to change his course, carefully mapped out, at the puff of every wind. It is a position for one well seasoned in every way. None but teachers can appreciate what it means to have one at the head on whom all can rely at all times to advocate and carry out those things that prove best, and ignore that which only proves to be popular and attractive. He is admired for his deep insight into all phases of education, his broad-mindedness and his dislike for that which is showy and faddish. NEW PLAYER PIANO FOR SALE. We offer for immediate sale a bran new Player Piano, quality fully guaranteed, located near Kansas City. Liberal terms to a responsible party. Particulars will be furnished to anyone addressing E. B. Guild Music Co., 1119 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Holmes visited Bonner Springs last Sunday afternoon and were entertained at dinner by Mrs. J. Anderson. Groups of Class of 1918 of Sumner High School K. C. K. A Left to right: Ella Neely and Beryl Cannifax, tie for fourth place; Hortense Flowers second place; DeKoven French, sixth place; Henrietta Smiley first place; Vera Jackson third place; Louise Thompson and Mattie Roan, tie for fifth place. 12 From Left to Right (Bock Row): Carl Holmes, Seawell Taylor, Granville Morgan, Orrin Murray, Alexander Gatewood, John Williams, McKinley Garlington. (Front Row): Mervin Harris, Shelton French, Riley Smith, Wilbur Pinkard, Chester McReynolds, Ralph Baldwin, Albert Maddox, Julius Dayis. PAGE TWO These students will make good Their averages for four years. Left to right: Ella Neely an place; DeKoven French, sixth place Thompson and Mattie Roan, tie for BRIEF, BUT POINTED MES SAGE. (Prin. J. A. Hodge.) Elsewhere in this paper you will find what the United States Commissioner of Education and Government officials think about keeping boys and girls in school until they finish the high school course. If what they say is true of boys and girls in general, it is even more true concerning Negro boys and girls. Never in the history of this country has there been the opportunity to get into the skilled trades as there is now and will continue to be for years after the war. If there had been no war, we would have found our boys and girls pigeonholed into only a few lines of work; and none of these lines would have led into the skilled trades. There was a well developed industrial caste, as far as the Negro was concerned. The doors to well-paid jobs in the industries were so well sealed by the unions that our boys and girls were unconsciously assuming the attitude of discouragement, and were not equipping themselves with the necessary training for skilled work. They could not see any- From Left to Right (Bock L. Murray, Alexander Gatewood, Jo ris, Shelton French, Riley Smith, Maddox, Julius Dayis. thing held out for them in the future unless they were to be teachers, lawyers, preachers and doctors. They had their doubts even about the civil service jobs. The war has revealed a great opportunity for us in lines of work in which all races and all nations have become financially independent—the lines in which the middle classes of all nations earn their bread, homes, and respectability. For it is on the skilled trades, after all, and on the agriculturists, that the professions depend. The all-important question today is, shall we be ready to take our places when the war finishes the opening of the breach? We shall not, if we think we can take our boys out of school be- God give parents, and God Another very remarkable endow teachers with the power campaign was carried out fore they are fitted for their foundation and walls are laid as work. One might as well try to put a roof on a house before the to expect to secure advancements to higher positions without the proper educational foundation. Without the foundation on which to build, your boy or girl will advance only so far. There he or she will meet the stone wall that only proper equipment can pierce. Parents, do you know your own trouble? Few there are who will make sufficient study of their children to discover in them that which is of value. Few parents are willing for their children to go far enough in school for them to discover themselves. One must get beyond the rudiments of an education before the great field of opportunity comes in view. In the high school and in the college courses the child will gradually reveal to himself his own powers, his own special fitness for a certain line of work. How can one know what lies beyond the Alps, if he stop at the foothills? THE FUTURE FATHERS. Row): Carl Holmes, Seawell Ta- John Williams, McKinley Garlingto- h, Wilbur Pinkard, Chester McRey to discover that wealth, that special gift, that veritable gold mine, that lies within every boy and every girl. May we discover these promising inclinations, culture them, develop them, and may they mature into forceful agencies for the uplift of our race and for the welfare of humanity. IT IS OUR CHANCE. LET US PREPARE OR AFTER THE WAR WE BECOME MERE BEASTS OF BURDEN. SO THAT ALL MAY KNOW. In order to graduate and receive the regular diploma, from Sumner High School, the following conditions must be fulfilled: THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE. subjects, and earn credits indicated: English, 3 credits; Algebra, 1 credit; Geometry, 1 credit; Ancient History, 1 credit; Chemistry or Physics, 1 credit; Physiology or Botany, 1 credit; American History, 1 credit; nine credits must be chosen from other subjects offered. Only 6 of the 9 may be chosen from the Manual Arts and Music. SUMNER'S WAR WORK. All during the year 1917- 1918, Sumner has carried on various campaigns in war work. The campaign in which Sumner students perhaps were the most active was the week before Christmas, at which time fifty of our boys gathered in over seven hundred membership in the Red Cross Association. All of these seven hundred were among colored people, but this number does not include hundreds of colored men who gave their dollars and memberships to the white industrial committee that visited the packing houses, freight houses and other industrial plants. Another very remarkable campaign was carried out Taylor, Granville Morgan, Orrin ton. (Front Row): Mervin Har- eynolds, Ralph Baldwin, Albert among the boys of the school in connection with the army Y. M. C. A. funds. As a result of this campaign eighty boys, the number belonging at that time, pledged themselves to give two dollars each into this fund. This two dollars was to be earned by the boys themselves. Although it has been rather difficult for the boys to meet their pledges, yet we are pleased to say that fifteen of them had paid in full on May 14. All except fourteen have paid at least their first installment of forty cents. The leaders among the boys hope to be able, to fulfill the entire pledge of the school by June 1. During the school year the teacher and janitors, including the matron, have bought Liberty bonds to the extent of $2,350. THE MEMORIAL From Left to Right: Grace Howard, Lillian Griffin, Della Scott, Maud Allen, Lillian Scott, Eddis Snell, Mary Manley, Mildred Welton, Ruthie Johnson, Ruth Green. THE FIRST WORLD FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Left to Right (Back Row): Madge Williams, Wilma Carter Leah Crump, Lela Plummer, Lillian Benton, Madge Allen Marjorie Stewart, Carolyn Adams. (Front Row): Louvenis Davis, Octavia Carroll, Mamie Jones, Jimmie Haywood, Miriam Scott, Margaret Jenkins, Mattie Jackson, Dealma Nuttall, Aileen Trotter, Beulah Topp, Hattie Emery, Mildred Morgan, Hazel Maidox, Luer-lean Marroe, Vivian Anthony. Just before Thanksgiving the students of the school donated sixty dollars toward the orphans' home and Douglass hospital. Many of the students are buying, daily and weekly, thrift stamps, a full report of which cannot be given at this time. However, on "thrift stamp tag day" our girls, under the direction of our lady teachers, sold thrift stamps and war saving stamps amounting to $64.48. About the middle of the year Sumner High School was organized into a Junior Red Cross chapter. In order to do this, enough money had to be raised to allow twenty-five cents for each student belonging to the school enrollment. $52.25 was raised by individual students paying their own membership fee of twenty-five cents each. The balance necessary to make $64.25 was taken out. of the school fund, which is usually built up by class plays. As a Red Cross chapter our work i From Left to Right: Grace Eddis Snell, Mary Manley, Mildre to be the making of things' needed by the soldiers on the battle field or in the hospitals. So far, the only work which has been done was carried out by the sewing students. On May 14, they had prepared twenty dollars' worth of raw material into towels, bed socks, wrist bands, etc. Early next fall this work will be better organized and more garments will be made and the Manual Training boys will make the Red Cross boxes 'n which the goods are to be shipped. The latest war work done by the school is the gift of $100.00 toward the equipment of the hostess house at Camp Funston. ATHLETICS AT SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL. Athletics took on new life at Sumner High School this year, and as a result of this increased activity along athletic lines, not only the school spirit, but the students who took part in the various forms of athletics have in M. is n- e, vo is oy been greatly benefitted, physically, socially and morally. Starting the fall term of school the students of Sumner High School organized a real football team; the first that Sumner has had in the last five years. The team was started so late that they only had time to play three games of football; losing two and winning one. The team was a very successful organization, however, when viewed from the standpoint of having given athletics at Sumner the needed push and ginger that it takes to make all forms of athletics at any institution a success. We at Sumner do not take part in athletics simply that we may win the various contests that our athletics enter, but for the development of our boys and girls, physically, for the creation of a better school spirit and for the good of sport itself. Our basket ball team was never defecated. A GROUP OF SENIORS. e Howard, Lillian Griffin, Della S red Welton, Ruthie Johnson, Ruth Baseball. Baseball. If we look at the baseball season of 1918 from the point of view of the number of games won, it has not been one of unqualified success. But if we look at it from the point of view of the number of boys who have aided in their physical development, this year has been a very successful one. Educators agree that one of the first aims of education is health. One of the great lessons of the present war is that the health of the youth must be preserved. The baseball field has offered to a number of boys a very agreeable method of taking health-building exercise under the proper supervision. Incidentally the strong Western University team has been met and held to a ten-inning tie, and several good players have been developed in the lower classes who will form the nucleus of a very strong team for the next season. This year, at the request of GROUP OF SENIOR GIRLS FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918 I K. C. K. Principal Hodge, the Board of Education rented the M. & O. Hall, one block away, for the purpose of physical training, and a class of girls was promptly organized for one period during school hours. The boys used the hall in the afternoons. The plan this year was to get as many girls as possible, without rearranging the entire schedule, to take some form of physical training. The gymnasium work has been very greatly systematically carried out with the girls. The class period is divided into three parts. The first consists of setting up exercises, such as bending, stretching and flinging; knee bending and ankle extension; breathing exercises, ect. The second part of the period is given over to exercises which should strengthen especially the muscles of the abdomen, of the trunk and of the limbs. The third part of the period is given over to either basket ball or folk dancing. The Scott, Maud Allen, Lillian Scott, Sh Green. im of this play period is to develop team spirit, sociability and poise or grace. With better gymnasium equipment which would make possible some physical training for all girls, we should be able to do some intensive and constructive work next year. Mr. Hodge says we are now ready for participation in all forms of athletics. He has decided to have Sumner represented in the annual field and track meet which is conducted by the University of Kansas at Lawrence. for the high schools of the state. Also, he is trying to complete arrangements for a field and track meet at Convention Hall next year, in which the colored high schools and colored colleges of this section will compete for championship. Commercial Department. The commercial Department of Sumner High School has an enrollment of seventy-four pupils, and is equipped with I.S. XIAMSUNG Among our girls the idea is quite common that any knowledge of home economics is unnecessary. We find that attitude is very largely a reflection in the home toward the whole subject of household mangaement. Consequently, we meet the problem of arousing interest and a proper attitude toward the work as well as teaching the fundamentals. We regard the laboratory kitchen as a little community where the one who is not willing to serve with and for others is made to feel he unworthiness. The social instinct or the necessiyt for service and working for others is enipha sized. Girls are permitted to take the course five periods a week, sixty-five minutes per day. The cooking apparatus and materials are furnished by the school board. Our purposes in cooking are accomplished by the use of text books, reference books, clippings with recitation, laboratory experiments, trips to stores and factories, school and home practice. We encourage a girl to bring to school any problems which she may have at home. The work this year was made as practical as possible, giving emphasis to the preparation and service of the ordinary staple foods that appear daily on the table of the pupils. To cultivate an appreciation of the color value in house decoration. We have studied simple furniture as they would be able to buy with respect to style and arrangement. Simple meals with a view to their nutritive value and other inexpensiveness, marketing, food substitutes, invalid cookery, habits of cleanliness and order in all work. The plan, calculate the cost of, prepare and serve meals. Thus, the home work becomes interesting and enjoyable by replacing barrennes and drudgery with new ideals of beauty and intelligent workmanship. For-lack of room all of household management is not taught. We should like to have a department where all courses could be given. We feel that household management, laundry work, home nursing are essential to our course. A complete course will enable our girls to take their part in community and national "housekeeping." KATE T. DAVIS, Teacher. CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL LABORATORY. THE CITY OF NEW YORK A view of the physical science laboratory of Sumner High school. The work in both physics and chemistry is made as practical as possible and at the same time the courses meet the college entrance requirements. H. S. WILLIAMS, Teacher. HORIDAY, MAY 31, 1918 Among our girls the idea is sary. We find that attitude is very household mangaement. Consec attitude toward the work as well. We regard the laboratory to serve with and for others is siyt for service and working for. Girls are permitted to take a cooking apparatus and materials accomplished by the use of text periments, trips to stores and fa to school any problems which she The work this year was ma service of the ordinary staple for an appreciation of the color val would be able to buy with resp nutritive value and other inexperi cleanliness and order in all work the home work becomes interest ideals of beauty and intelligent t. For-lack of room all of house partment where all courses cou home nursing are essential to our in community and national "hous eighteen typewriters and one good duplicating machine. Four years ago we had seven machines and an enrollment of 39. Pupils no longer dislike shorthand, nor are they afraid to enroll in this department. He who works never fails. This year we have a class in bookkeeping and the pupils have learned to handle invoices, checks, notes and many papers used in every day business. They have learned to open a set of books and care for same. What does it profit a pupil to take stenography and typewriting, if the pupil does not intend to be a stenographer? First.—It teaches the pupil to observe closely. Second.—It teaches the pupil to concentrate. Third.—It increases the vocabulary. Fourth.--It develops motor skill. Fifth.—By teaching arrangement of letter and articles on the page, the pupil's artistic side is developed. Sixth.By aiming after perfect copies and speed, the pupil learns the lesson of patience. All these things tend toward character building. Second year shorthand students are doing some very cred- CHEMICAL AND PHY itable work. Accuracy has a great deal of stress put on it and speed comes next. The aim in this department for the second year pupils has been the development of practical stenographers. The mere ability to write so many words per minute, regardless of English or spelling does not entitle a pupil to a good grade. Next year we plan a more extensive course. We believe that the war will open hundreds of avenues to pupils who really are competent. We hope to organize a class of post-graduates that may specialize in these branches. We will prepare these pupils for Civil Service examinations. We invite former graduates to investigate this course. As long as the department is not filled with regular high school pupils, we invite any specials who are really interested in Commercial Branches., We had one special this year who secured a position before she was qualified because her services were in demand. Positions are waiting for those who can make good. EMMA Z. PENDLETON, Teacher. Baby Contest at First A. M. E. Church Thursday June 6th. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE Elaborate Commencements Condemned—U. S. Commissioner of Education. Appoximately . 300,000 boys and girls and young men and young women will graduate from high school, normal school and college this spring and early summer, and approximately 1,300,000 from the elementary or grammar schools. If each of the 300,000 should spend unnecessarily $10 (a slight estimate) on graduation exercises, costumes, invitations, dinners, etc., the total would amount to $3,000,000. If half of those graduating from the lower schools should spend unnecessarily an average of only $5, this would amount to something more than $3,000,000, making a total of $6,000,000, which is not an unreasonable estimate. Sumner has made a strong effort to be extremely careful this year in avoiding school affairs in which elaborate costumes, etc., were required. In a time like the present we have felt it our duty not only to prevent waste—waste of materials, waste of time, waste of money—but also to teach economy in all things to the students. Time for education now is valuable. We have tried to make the best use of the pupil's time, so that all would be utilized on the things that are essential and lasting. ORCHESTRA AND GLEE CLUB. The orchestra of Sumner High School, under direction of Mr. Reynolds, deserves much credit for the rapid progress it has made during a period of seven months. The orchestra is composed of the following instruments: Four violins six cornets, one alto, one trombone, one tuba, piano, and drums. In order that the violins may be given prominence, only one first and second cornet are used when the orchestra plays in public. The orchestra has been used for all school entertainments, including the closing exercises of the night school. This year with the assistance of three or four extra players, the orchestra will play for the high school entertainments. Next year's class will be opened to all students who have any knowl- THE SCHOOL In the sewing classes we have striven to have the girls obtain a working knowledge of the principles of clothing themselves and those under their care. They have studied the production and management of the various fibres and fabrics. Many chic smocks and blouses, plaited and plain skirts have been made. Smart, one-piece woolen dresses were made during the winter, while in the spring the one-piece dresses were made out of dainty materials. One problem was to use old materials, dresses practically worn out, and out of these, make attractive and serviceable dresses. Resides this, work, much time has been devoted to war activities. The girls have knitted and sewed. Pillow slips, bed socks, towels, wristlets and other things have been made for the Red Cross. BEULAH E. BURKE, Teacher. edge of their respective instruments. GLEE CLUBS. The glee clubs of Sumner High have always held an important part in the social activities of the school, and also in representing the school on various programs in the community. There are no regular periods during the school hours for rehearsals on account of lack of time on the regular schedule. Thus all the work of the clubs must be done after school. But in spite of the time of day, the boys and girls enter into their work with cheerfulness and zeal. The, glee clubs offer excellent opportunities for the students to gain self-reliance, improvement of tone production and experience of appearing before the public. T. H. REYNOLDS, Teacher. Requirements for the Normal Training Course. (Outlined by Supt. Pearson.) Members of the Senior class, preparing to enter the Teachers' Training School this year, will be required to meet the following conditions: 1. To be residents of Kansas City, Kansas. 2. To be High School graduates. 3. To have vigorous health and no personal or physical defects. 4. To make a scholarship average of not less than 2 for the four years in the high school. 5. To pass and examination held on the last Monday and Tuesday of August, in Reading, Spelling, Writing, Singing and Drawing, and in Arithmetic, Grammar, History, Civics, Geography, Physiology, Elementary Science and Psychology. For the last three, high school credits of "2" or above in Physiology, Elementary Science and Psychology may be substituted. A New Course in Business. This course is designed to meet the need of pupils who want to prepare in the shortest possible time for a remunerative occupation. Pupils taking this course must take each year's work as outlined. A certificate will be given for the course First Year: Business English, Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Common Arithmetic, Penmanship and Spelling. Second Year: Business English, Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Commercial Law and Geography. Baby Contest at First A. M. E. Church Thursday June 6th. THE LABORATORY A corner of the machine shop. This shop is excellently equipped with steel lathes, drills, shaper, steel saw, forges, anvils, etc. No better shop for the beginning of the course in automobile repairing can be found in anything less than a technical high school. The aims of teachingg the manual training subjects are to supply that training towards social efficiency not given by the ordinary subjects of the school program; to accelerate the educative process by giving first hand experience; to teach expression through materials; to cultivate in the student the habit of observing how things are constructed; of expressing idea in concrete form; of making well enough to serve a purpose a project which the student understands; of doing it neatly and in such good form that it is pleasing to his gradually more discriminating eye; to stimulate that real joy and wonder at the possibilities of construction with one's own hands; to make the student more appreciative of industry; to give a certain social experience with workers who deal with material things and to teach the fundamentals of a trade or craft. To realize these aims, mechanical drawing, elementary and advanced cabinet making, wood-turning and machine shop practice are given the boys in the Sumner manual training department. In the cabinet-making classes many groups of boys have constructed useful articles in addition to their regular work. Harold Tucker, Orrin Murray and Wesley Stevenson have made phonograph cabinets. Alvin Riley, Hugh Browne, Marshall Edwards and Clyde Orme have constructed cedar chests. Byron Earley and William True have constructed cedar chests. Byron Earley and William True have designed and made Queen Ann music cabinets. One group of boys made library tables, another umbrella stands and still another shoe blacking stands. The machine shop work has been largely elementary, with the aim of covering all of the more important machine operations. The scope of this branch of the work is to be broadened to include automobile repair work. This promises to be one of the most popular courses of the school next year. BACCALAUREATE SERMON The Baccalauretae sermon of Sumner High school graduates was preached Sunday, by Rev. J. F. Griffin, at First A. M. E. church. It was full of good thought and advice for this large and prosperous class. The Sumner chorus; under the direction of Prof. T. H. Reynolds furnished the music. aw Class day was held Tuesday at the City Park, which was largely attended by members of the school and patrons. A very enjoyable afternoon was spent M. of attic wi wee h. PAGE THREE the shop. This shop is excellently well, shaper, steel saw, forges, anvils, beginning of the course in automobile anything less than a technical high the manual training subjects are to social efficiency not given by the school program; to accelerate the educat hand experience; to teach expressultivate in the student the habit of constructed; of expressing idea in all enough to serve a purpose a proerstands; of doing it neatly and in using to his gradually more discriminat real joy and wonder at the possi-one's own hands; to make the studustry; to give a certain social ex- deal with material things and to trade or craft. mechanical drawing, elementary and good-turning and machine shop prac-ine Sumner manual training depart- passes many groups of boys have condition to their regular work. Harold Vesley Stevenson have made phono-, Hugh Browne, Marshall Edwards lected cedar chests. Byron Earley and red cedar chests. Byron Earley and made Queen Ann music cabinets. Library tables, another umbrella stands and stands. has been largely elementary, with the important machine operations. The work is to be broadened to include automises to be one of the most popular GEO. H. MOWBRAY, Teacher. of sites ev. E. good his the ey- K among the hills and peaks of this beautiful, picturesque landscape near the Kaw. The seniors had not forgotten their botany and picked out and named every plant from a thistle to a century plant. Mrs. H. Green, mother of Attorney D. Green is visiting in Topeka. She will also visit Mrs. Blanche Mimms at Tecumsch. before she returns. Mrs. Mary E. Bishop-Wilson of Omaha, Neb., came here to attend her sister's funeral and will be in the city two or three weeks. MENT. --- PAGE FOUR (Continued from Page One) TRAVEL NOTES. the breakfast we went out and saw a few things. The Poro Building. The Poro building is being erected by Prof. Malone and Mrs. Malone, who was Mine. Pope of Poro fame. The building has been in process of construction one year, and will not be completed for the next six months; it has hundreds of rooms and will have the most modern conveniences; it covers nearly a whole block and will cost four hundred thousand dollars; it will be the biggest building and the biggest business owned and controlled by Negroes in the "whole" round world." While it will be used as store building etc., it is to be mainly used as the Poro College where young Negro women will be taught the Poro system of hair treatment and work, and will be cared for and protected right there in college. St. James A. M. E. Church. St. James A. M. E. Church. St. James church is right across from the Poro corner and in the very heart of the most populous and most popular Negro settlement in this city. It is already crowded out. Dr. Peck is very popular, because of his ability, his work and his touch with every-phase of race life in this community. He has received more than seven hundred into the fellowship of St. James within the three years of his pastorate, and now is preparing to rebuild the church so as to have it meet the growing demands of the community life. Ir. Peck was a candidate for the presidency of Western University, to which his brother, Rev. F. J. Peck, was elected, and the people of his church and of the community are very glad that he was not elected. I heard a very prominent man say: "Doctor, we are sorry you were disappointed in your ambition, but we are glad you were not elected, because we need you right here in St. Louis." After studying the situation, I agree that it was fortunate for St. James and St. Louis that he shall remain there. A part of my one day was spent with Mr. Archie Nelson of 1117 North Whittier St. Mr. Nelson has been employed by one rich firm there for many years, until he is almost like "one of the bosses." There I met his brother-in-law, Dr. J. B. Bell, a fine Negro dentist and a Dr. Wiggins, both of whom are closing up their businesses so as to go to the front. They are to report June first and are enthusiastic over their prospects. Sumner High School, St. Louis. I reserved this for the last, and now I just cannot describe it. Dr. Peck was my guide all through this mammoth plant, and the teachers gave me all information I could digest. The principal, Prof. Frank L. Williams, is one of the most courteous gentlemen I ever saw anywhere. Here are a few of the things I learned concerning him. He was born in "Ole Kentuck;" he has degrees from a number of the leading institutions, including Berea University of Cincinnati; he has the confidence of the school board as no other principal ever had; his salary is more than four thousand a year, the highest salary paid to any Negro principal in the world. With all this, he is unasuming as a little country professor. In the high school, they have forty teachers and eleven hundred students; in the practice school they have fourteen teachers and 600 students. I cannot describe the school except ot say the building extends the whole length of a city block: they teach everything and I have the word of the principal that they have the same It was not really jim crow, but it was the thing which is the father of "Jimmie"—prejudice. When I got on the train at Kansas City I saw no seat but one next to a white (?) man. He put his hat down on the seat to keep me from sitting by him and only did he move it when he saw I was about to drop by 175 pounds right down on his "Stetson." He looked daggers, I tell you, but I had paid the same fare, so I stuck to the seat. However, before we had gotten out of the city, the conductor found on the train a man who had a ticket for another road and, after a long argument which failed to enlighten and convince this man—a white man—he stopped the train and put him off. When he got up the man next to me jumped up, ran to the other seat and dropped in. For quite a while he would look back at me and frown, as if to say, "I got away from you, you leper." Well, I wanted the "window seat" anyway, so I got up into the corner and went to sleep. Indianapolis, Indiana. Sunday and Monday were spent at this place. Here I met some friends. I worshipped at "Big Bethel," with big people and a great. big-hearted Negro preacher, Rev. Chas. Sumner Williams, D. D. It was rally day at Bethel and the success is the talk of the town. The rally was planned by the preacher and officers to raise funds to clean and decorate the church. They planned for $1,600 and they "went over the top," too. I was told by one of the old officers that this church had never raised as much as a thousand dollars at one time, since he can remember. Mark you, this Negro preacher is from Mississippi! In this place are Negroes by the "thousands and multiplied thousands." Some are high class, upper tens, and some are lower than the lower fives. As in other places, many white people have "moved out" and Negroes are occupying sections formally occupied by whites and in which no Negroes lived until recently. The intelligent Negroe have much to do to teach newcomers and others how to deport themselves, and I'tell you there is much to teach them, especially along the line of cleanliness and decorum. A Real Big Negro. I met Dr. E. N. Perkins, a real big Negro. He lives on Maple boulevard, owns a home worth about ten thousand, is the only Negro living on this boulevard, owns a six thousand dollar car and is one of the most prosperous business men in the city. He is a chiropodist, and all this fortune has been made out of the business. Dr. Perkins has his offices in the eOdd Fellows building and is the only Negro to ever have an office there; he gives employment to about ten Negroes; his rent is two thousand dollars a year, and his business amounts to more than forty thousand dollars each year. I have traveled, but never did I see anything which approximates this outfit. Those who know me would wonder that I would seem to measure greatness by this standard, but I tell you, I consider this man a, great man, because his business does not keep him from serving God and serving humanity. He is trustee of Bethel A. M. E. church, he and his wife attend church regularly. He is president of the Y. M. C. A. board and a fanatical social worker; and, to my way of thinking, it is the work for God and humanity which makes him really great and not the money and the success. However, his material success demonstrates THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE what we can do and should be AN EFFICIER a source of encouragement. OFFI I am certain it is of interest to Negroes to know that in this city there is a Negro firm such as the business of Mr. H. L. Sanders. Thirty years ago, Mr. Sanders began making overalls and waiters' garments, and the small business has developed-till now he has in his employ more than forty persons, all Negroes, and has a payroll of more than three hundred dollars a week. Overalls, waiters' supplies, all kinds of uniforms and many other products have been sent out by the thousands and the many people who trade with this firm do not know that the head of it is a real black man. To see thirty Negro girls sitting down running as many electric machines, making all kinds of garments, Negro cutters and trimmers, Negro bookkeepers and shipping clerks and a Negro man and his two sons directing is indeed an inspiring sight. One of the managers told me, on the quiet, that just two days before my visit to the city he secured from the United States government a contract which will furnish work for this factory every day from now until September. Mr. Sanders, like Dr. Perkins, is a church member and an officer and will not allow his business to interfere with his work for God and humanity. Some time I shall write more of this great enterprise. Xenia. Ohio. At Xenia, I was the guest of Dr. P. A. Nichols, of St. John A. M. E. church, where I tried to speak on "The Times and the Negro," and I suspect that the address was so poor as, to make the times harder for the Negro, or to make it harder for, the people to sell tickets for another such lecture. Well, I did my best. Wilberforce. The trip to Wilberforce was just a flying trip of a few hours and gave opportunity to make but a few glimpses to peep in on the school work and school workers and shake hands with a few of the friends. I shall write more of this later. Say, "Uncle Tom" I thought of you, at Wilberforce, for it was there I first saw you, when you were just: beginnig to get old, more than twenty years ago. But women do not like to have you call their husbands old or even intimate it, so I shall refrain. SECOND RED CROSS FUND. Mr. Samuel Diggs, leading team No. 1, secured over 339, with 10 working under him and soliciting from Second to Fourth streets, and those where so many men work. Many were anxious to know what woman would have the most of the women's teams. Mrs. M. C. Matthews, captain of team No. 7, who started to work last and had no help for four days, secured more than $116 with a territory from Ninth to Tenth on Oakland. Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Haynes helped her four or five hours on two days. Others under the General Captain, Rev. D. A. Holmes, who solicited some of the money were: Captain N. Holloway, Al E. Crump, A. Shelby, Rev. D. B. Jackson, Mrs. B. Roberts and Mrs. I. F. Bradley. We could not get their exact amounts, but they helped get a total of $1,581.05 from the colored people; and helped in the grand total of $202,449. This is next to the greatest giving. It is giving to suffering humanity without prize, as it is not returned, like Liberty Bonds, with interest. At last accounts Rev. D. A. Holmes thought Mrs. Matthews had the most of the women's teams. Baby Contest at First A. M. E. Church Thursday June 6th. AN EFFICIENT COUNTY OFFICER. WILLIAM BEGGS. In a city and county, with its great population, who from time to time employ servants to run and look after their business, don't always succeed in getting just what they want, but when the citizens of Wyandotte county employed our present county clerk, William Beggs, something over a year ago, they soon found to their satisfaction they had not employed a gold brick, but an efficient, trustworthy and affable servant. One who takes care of the business every day the office is open. A man whose reception is not humstitched with icicles. It makes a difference, don't it? The business of this most responsible office, is kept with the greatest of accuracy in the minuteness of its large capacity of business and its' a pleasure, from the head of this department, down to the little clerk, in being patient with the smallest patron, who enters its door. Anything one wants to know on look for in this office, at any time, that courtesy is shown, so pleasantly by any of the office force. Then is when you really and truly say, this office is the true servant of the people. Mr Beggs has made a fine official and has met every expectation the public nad in this competent man. There is no doubt in the public mind of Wyandotte's citizens, as to not kepeing such a valuable employee in this office, as its head for a number of years. A fine official, indeed. CAPT. DANIEL (BOB) MAHER. JOHN H. HARRIS Daniel Robert Maher, who is better known as "Bob" and one of the wellknown captains of our fire department, he being over No. 4, on South Seventh street. Bob has been one of the city's most efficient fire fighters for more than a score of years and has been of untold service to the protection of the city's realty owners. Bob is out for nomination on the Republican ticket for Sheriff of Wyandotte County and if nominated and elected the county and its inhabitants can have the same assurance of being protected as to bravery and service, as they have been for the many years of their homes, as a fireman. Bob has lots of friends, who will go their limit to see him nominated and elected. Sumner High school had class day this week at the City Park. The many friends of Mr. J. P. Clark were grieved to hear of his daughter, Ethel's, death, which occurred about three week ago at Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Clark was also sick the last we heard of her. SUMMER SCHOOL OF MUSIC R. G. Jackson will conduct a Summer School of Music at Allen Chapel. Young children and beginners in music will be given special attention. Call over phone for period assignment. MAYOR MENDENHALL HAS M/DE A GREAT EXECUTIVE IN THESE PEERLESS TIMES. Kansas City, Kansas, has been more fortunate that many cities in having in these peerless times of war, strife and high cost of living, in having, as its chief executive, such a cool-headed and far-seeing man as Mayor Harry A. Mendenhall. Since our nation has been at war, which brought about naturally new duties and greater responsibilities to the heads of our cities, many supposed strong and stalwart municipal leaders have weakened seriously with the great strain of this extra amount of responsibility envolved, but Mayor Mendenhall has shown in every emergency all the way through, although there have been some trying ordeals, his capability to cope and manage with every perplexing proposition that has been presented and in no wise did he ever shirk from duty. No doubt, at the beginning of this war crisis many felt a little shaky, as to this city meeting the demands, that were sure to confront it, but with one or two trials of these demands, was enough to satisfy the citizens of Kansas City, Kansas, that they had a mayor, who was fully qualified in every particular to meet and conquer any knotty problem that the nation and city presented. Aside from these extra outside duties, Kansas City, Kansas, never had a mayor with things normal, who kept a great city like this moving with such regular speed of harmony and universal satisfaction. Mr. Mendenhall is of Quaker parentage and in most instances acts accordingly, be sure it's your own spirit that moves you and then perform the duty. Mr. Mendenhall is this type of man and this is the great secret of his leadership. Every demand the government has made upon this city it has been among the first to meet its quota and even more. This is due largely to the satisfaction and confidence resting with its citizens in its leader. A man with honest convictions, a man whose fairness and honesty of heart can't be truthfully reputed by any man. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE State of Kansas, Wyandotte County, ss. No. 9572. In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of G. W. Carson, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the Estate of G. W. Carson, late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 7th day of May. FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918 A POPULAR YOUNG LAWYER. JOHN H. HARRIS In the person of E. A. Shackelford, one of Kansas City's eminent and popular young lawyers, this city and community can feel justly proud. As a lawyer he ranks in a class but few reach in the courts of our country. Laywer Shackelford has the reputation of dealing with his clients with such fairness and honesty, that his counsel is sought for in many states and not long since he was called upon, in a very prominent case in Chicago. He is a graduate of one of the best schools in the country, located at Columbus, Ohio. As a citizen of moral worth and civic enterprises there are but few men of his profession, who holds this merited distinction. As a speaker, he is forceful and his argument to the court, or any audience takes hold of their thinking faculties, with concreteness. Mr. Shackelford is a progressive barrister and has among the finest suite of rooms, at 511 Minnesota avenue, of any lawyer in the city. His great success, has largely come through his reliability and strict business principles required in the profession. Kansas, City, Kansas, could well afford to take care of a few more such young men as Lawyer E. A. Shackelford. A. D., 1918. A. D., 1918. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within two years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. ROSA CARSON, Administratrix of the Estate of G. W. Carson, Deceased. Kansas City, Kansas, May 7th, 1918. In witness whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court, this 7th day of May, A. D. 1918. JOHN T. SIMS, Probate Judge. (First Publication May 10th, 1918.) cap FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918 New York Morning Telegraph, April 30th, 1918 -_ The battles on the French front are a cont ‘determine which side shall be exhausted first. . New York Morning Telegraph, April 30th, 1918: . -, The battles on the French front are a contest of attrition to ‘determine which side shall be exhausted first. On February 6, 2 : 7 es ] COLLITILESPLAN +. +. at ; TOWINWAR | : Bowe meme tt ‘WORTH LISTENING TO- . : - _,«z, Kansas Congressman, Col. Ed. C. . “" * Little, Lieutenant Colonel of the pies “es Famous Twentieth Kansas, of which ve a Fred Funston was colonel, advanced - \ thé first stragetic suggestion made by an American as to how the war might be won. Colonel Little’s plan is to grub-stake the Armenians and Georgians in the. Cav- casus, so that they can raise 200,000 men, drive the Turks out of Armenia, unite with the English coming from Bagdad and Jeru- salem and attack Constantinople. He said February 6 that the Russians, who then held 160 miles into Turkey, would soon be driven out and the Turks and Huns would seize Russian Armenia, Batoum and reach for the Baku oil regions and dominate Asia . All this has happened since then, and the Bolsheviki have cede¢ Russian Armenia to the Turks, by an American as to how the war might be won. Colonel Little’s plan is to grub-stake the Armenians and Georgians in the. Cau- casus, so that they can raise 200,000 men, drive the Turks out of Armenia, unite with the English coming from Bagdad and Jeru- salem and attack Constantinople. He said February 6 that the Russians, who then held 160 miles into Turkey, would soon be driven out and the Turks and Huns would seize Russian Armenia, Batoum and reach for the Baku oil regions and dominate Asia All this has happened since then, and the Bolsheviki have ceded Russian Armenia to the Turks. +> Colonel Little then asserted that the Armenians and. Geor- gians would rise in arms and fight for self-preservation and could put 200,000 men in the field and whip the Turks if giv- en financial aid by the allies. ‘The dispatches announce that the Georgians seized the Rus- sian Black Sea flect, are fight- ing the Turks at Batoum, and that the Armenians have invad- ed Turkey and taken Ezeroum and Van. Any statesman who can tell us sixty days in ad- , vance, as Little did, what will ‘eccur in a military way in Ar- menia and the Caucasus, is worth listening to. ig’ (28S RatsaS VOIONCy WiC oi that we ought to declare war’ against Turkey and rescue the Christian Armenians from to- tal destruction, but that Bulga- ria would make terms the mo- ment Constantinople was stifity besieged and a road to Berlin would open via Belgrade and Vi- enna. Little claims that good strategy demands we arm the Armenians and deal with the Bulgarians, who both hate the Turks with good cause, and thus attack Germany on its weakest side. He said the administra- tion showed good diplomacy in not asking war against the Bul- gars. The dispatches anneunce that the Turks and Bulgars are already quarreling and further verify the Kansan’s February prophecies. We do not claim to be military strategists, but Col- onel Little’s plan is evidently common sense- Such a plan would not interfere at all with our fight on the Western front, from which it would divert the Germans, In his: eloquent and classical oration, Congressman Little, who was diplomatic agent to Egypt under President, Harri- son, made an exceedingly ‘per- suasive, sympathetic and con- vincing appeal for the Armen- jaris who are being exterminated by the Turks. Since Daniel Webster delivered his oration for the Greeks in 1824 in the House, probakly no more elo- quent and moving address on behalf of an oppressed people has been made in Congress than Colonel Litile’s appeal for the ‘Armenians, As is recognized in the House, his experience as a (goldier’and diplomat makes him an authority on this situation in the Orient, and Kansas may -well be.“proud of her soldier, ‘scholar’ and statesman, wito is able to present so useful a: idea with such sound logic and bril- ‘liant oratory when the Repub- dic is in the hour of its greatest “need. Little is a useful man in y Concreas ‘and deserves well of the Republic. = war STREET COMMISSIONER JAMES L. BEGGS. In a city like this with its miles of streets, boulevards and alleys, with its washy hills and valleys, if one does not observe a little and look about them as they pass around, their concep- ticn as to what it takes to man- age and keep up its thorough- fares would be very meager in- deed. The one who has the management and overseeing this part of any city’s affairs has a job entirely too big for an ordinary person. It takes a man that is cut out for this special kind of work. A man who is able to see more than one day ahead of his work, if he can’t he can soon lose thousands of dollars to the city and its taxpayers. Kansas City, Kansas, certain- ly ought to feel exceedingiy happy in being so fortunate in having a man as street commis- sioner, who has put this city, since he’ has ben in charge, on par, as to its upkeep, wi: as small a budget, as any of its lay in the country. Mr. J. L. Beggs has given the tax payers one of, the most economicat ad- ministrations that has been ac- corded to any man ever held this position. A man like this can save a city several times his salary, besides giving them ‘splendid thoroughfares: and a clean and sanitary plaza to live. Mr. Beggs runs the c‘iy’s af. fairs just like he would if it was his own. You find looking over his laborers, only men who are physically able to render an honest day’s work and men that are especially adapted for the kind of work in which they are employed, And it makes xc difference 2s to who he ‘s or t7 what church he belongs, so long 2s he can give vaiue cevsived in iabor for wages paid, The peoo'e of ths city will always remember’ Mr. Beggs for the great service he did for them last winter, when fo weeks he, with his men, worked nearly night and day in supply- ing hundreds of families with fuel and without the great big- hearted service of this man, no doubt many ‘would have suffer- ed and probably some would have been frozen to death. A friend, indeed; is in the time of need, and that is, Street Com- missioner James L. Beggs. CARD OF THANKS, We désire to thank. the neigh- bors and friends for their kind- ness tous in the illness and death of our deceased relative, Alberta, Bishop, and for the floral offerings—Mr, A. J. Bish- op, the father; Mrs. :A. J. Bishop, the mother; Mrs. M. E. Wilson, the sister; Mr. Wm. Bishop, Mr. Arthur . Bishop, Mr. Austin Bishop, brothers. | rec 5 Baby Contest at- First A.-M. E, Church Thursday June 6th. Bt alana Michael cased Home Phone West-847 Bell Phone Weét 821 ASIOME PRODUCTION Prices That Are Right — - Nathan W. Thatcher UNDERTAKER AUTO AMBULANCE 1514.N, 6th St. Kansas City, Kans. : THE KANSAS C__TTY ADVOCATE CAPPER PiCKED THE BEST MEN IN HIS © * : . PARVY FOR RESPONSIBLE POSITIONS / Since Governor Capper en-|of Sessions was the most popu-} ~ tered office in January, 1915, hie} lar. : he has surrounded himself with ‘Kimball a Strong Man. : some of the strong meh of the/ James A’ Kimball, named by state. In his apointments, he] ‘the governor to fill the highest displayed the rare ability of se-|salaried appointive office in the ; lecting men of prominence and|state—that of state manager—| -[? standing in thé party and wholis a man especially qualified Were especially fitted.and quali-|for the position. Kimball is a fied for the positions’ to which]lifelong Republican, He is also they: were named. _ mown as one of the shrewdest ; It is doubtful if any governor|business men in the state. In : Kansas ever selected a group|the short time he has been in| | of appointees of higher personal] office he has saved to the state i BPE RS PP Ey cian. 2 ASS a Ce ye cpio A Bae 5 " iS _ Best tae a (elias q a Ria “se F Piee v Rael “ry : aes Sate ee) ce Be yg ve mn - ie 4 integrity than those named to assist in adding to the success of the Capper administration. Many of the men entered the service at a Sacrifice to their own personal business interests, isoth the qualifications and pe.- ‘sonal records of the men named as well as their record of party fealty, were considered by the governor before appointments were mate. The personnel of state ayy irtees at this time shows many ‘men of recasruzed worth in their own party and of unquestioned ability to handle the offices they fill. ‘ Sessions Popular Appointee. When Governor Capper was inaugurated he- made Charles S. Sessions retiring secretary of state his private secretary. Probably no man in the state stood higher with. all factions of the party than Sessions and in 1916 he was unanimolsly made chairman of the Republican state committee. When a vacan- cy occurred recently on the pub- lic utilities commission, Sessions was appointed to fill the place. Of many popular appointments appointments that won praise from every person with .the state's interest at heart—it is probable that the appointment _U. G. GATES, REGISTER OF DEEDS. Wyandotte County is fortun- ate in having one of the most competent Register of Decds in the country. This is an im- portant office. So much depends on. the accuracy and faith- fulness . of this public offi- cial. There are valuable proper- ty interests involved, the title of our homes largely depends upon the ‘reliability of the rec- ords in the office of Register of Deeds. An error in transfer may produce a “cloud” on a ti- tle of realty which may cost Ph eee ee ee 1 ee TES | ag? “ ae he: rece a - Sea Sites ; you E 2 - ea... ie Mile > mete, 8 Bee! C4 & isis, Keen ae Rae Sn Se an Raia a: Stee mR iepeote: Soca eee of Sessions was the most popu- lar. ‘Kimball a Strong Man. James A’ Kimball, named by ‘he governor to fill the highest salaried appointive office in the state—that of state manager— is a man especially qualified for the position. Kimball is a lifelong Republican, He is also mown as one of the shrewdest business men in the state, In the short time he has been in office he has saved to the state many thousands of dollars in the purchase of supplies . and equipment and has assisted in ‘he reorganization of state in- stitutions until they aré now on a strictly business basis. In the state bank commis- missioner’s office, Goverro~ Capper named. Senator Walter E. Wilson, of Washington, to succeed W. F. Benson, a Demo- crat. ‘Senator Wilson was re-elected state senator in his home: dis- trict in 1916 and is now serviny his second term. He was for- tnerly president ‘of tle Kansas State Bankers’ Association and is regarded as one, of the most capable bankers in the Fifth district. Incidentally Senator Wilson has a record for “voting her straight.” 7 Strong Men on Boards. In his appointment of mem- bers of the various boards and commissions, Governor Capper selected men exceptionally wel equipped for state service an¢ strong men in the ranks of thei party. Op the © ate board of miedics registration and examination Governor Capper named as sec retary Dr. Henry A. Dykes ot Lebanon, who was not only es pecially qualified for this serv “se, but is a Republican leade: {in Smith county. Other stron; Republicans on the board in |elude: Drs. C. F. Menninger Topeka; C. W. Jones, Olathe George S. Gray, Kansas City snd S, A. Ross, Kansas City. . | All Women—All Republicans. '| The state’ motion picture re |vtew board is composed of Re }publicans. Likewise it is com ‘|posed of women. Mrs. J. M |Miller of Counal Grove, 1 .;chairman of <1e board. She i | the wife of J. M. Miller, forme .jcongressman from the Fourt! -|district. Associated with her i ;|Miss Carrie Simpson of Topeka .jand Mrs. B. L. Short, Kansa ;|City, Kansas, This all-worria |board selected 2 woman, Mis |Hattie M. Tucker of Kansa ||City, as.secretary. And Mis -| Tucker is a Republican, too. much delay and often a great outlay of money to get it straightened out. - But this important work is so accurately done by Register of Deeds U. Grant Gates that all who have business with him feel a security and confidence that the matter in hand will receive the very best expert attention that Mr. Gates has become one of the most popular county of- ficials. His reputation éxtends to all parts of the country and business concerns everywhere, having business concerns every- where, having business in his of- fice know that he-is absolutely worthy and capable in every way, , . Mr.’ Gates merits the, contin- ued confidence of his constitu- ency whose support he so gener ously gets whenever he comes up for preferment. © The readers of this publica- tion, who know Mx. Gates, will readily endorse the position tenn taken ‘relative to a most worthy, public servant. ‘SUMNER - FURNITURE MFG. & » REPAIR CO. ~~ .. Let me make sour old furniture Tew again, : of A.D, WILLIAMS, 4414.N. 9th St. Kahsas City, Kans. res Ae RRREE CORRS Op eS Swe ee oo ae be Be Ses SRS ences ote a ee. ee Cy Be | Gh lam SL RGN tw Ta Breese. Ga Rome za ee eS y Res eS BS Sey > Se ee A a Ee aS eS Eee SES RE 2 ee pS Bee 234 SSSR kA = PE Ro SS ¥ 2 ad e aS SOR: ev Fee eae ge TSS eee | Bakes BE Ree eye SEB ram's Ze od a +a Re SS a eB Reo eal pe EE Re > fev : Seed ag LEP ok SS iS <li aaa Se OS ane Fi a a x Lem Oy ii es # Baht Ebon gt ROS oye | ERT Wig BUSPAR Ue nad a ccen gST PSS os awstats 2 Rae » (DADDY) JOLIN. T. SIMS. One of the most popular of-| probate jud; ficials in Kansas is Judge J. T.|his genial d Sims, Probate Judge of Wyan-|attention dotte County. He has justly won| trusted to hi the title of “The Child’s Friend.”|a most popu! His love of justice and his ster-| easily: appre ling integrity very properly has|kindly ear 1 gained for this worthy pudlic|able advice, servant the universal esteem of| business wit all who have come in contact] dreams of a1 with him, either personally ov|est treatmer officially. The Advo The widow, helpless orphan or] able to voice any who are unfortunate, all| sentiments : have a staunch friend in Judge|thy county « Sims, that knows no trifling|thy the con’ with the interests of the depen-|his fellow dent. zi heartily app The strong personality of our|tration. Mrs. Luster of Coffeyville vis- Bell Phone West 18641... =. ited her niece, Mrs. Ben Brown = . 4 of Kansas City, Mo., also visited GUY BOOKER Mrs. B. Carroll this week. Attorney at Law. We regret that Mr. Goings, on . ° 7 North Ninth street, is still sick|9! Minn. Ave Kansas City, Kans, and weak at his home. —————————— Miss May Johnson is able to be out again. — | Good Things to Eat -G. A. TERRY Ab ths: j ‘ PHOTOGRAPHER |- BUSY BEECAFE | Have him take your next photo. 430 Minnesota Avenue He took these af the Senora: Mrs. Franklin Prop. Kansas City, Kad 1615 N. 9th St. Bell West 3673.J + Herbert E. Patterson : AS ACCOUNTANT AND DEPUTY TREASURER ; | Republican Candidate for | Primaries Tuesday, August 6th; Election Tuesday, November 5, 1918, ie 2 rn ee 1 baa ~€ ry ra ee = ? ere eo ee eee a ae . SaaS Ga Se OEE aoe a ata See = ee a oak eh Ane : es rian ee 4 i ‘4 4 Poe a re ae ce ier § eee: > 2 Rtn oo Seen ees: so ae ee | eee cra gO - Se owes pe ae Phew cae ES <r ” eS Six eae fs je eee Saag aR eee, ee ee ase a H er 7a Con ee ae | ec: cee ay an “ah q ee ee, ae 2s feet SS an 4 mee: Cao: 4 | ae: sl eee ca a | ae. 2 ev. ee TEE. AS te ee A ey EN $i. . :@ipaceneerees ae Pea a oF nga ca eA fe oe een eee ie 7 te Bee cee Rc i Mec ey corey Sire oe Pe ene ed oo, H. E. PATTERSON 2 & = The Man Who Can Do the Work Himself. . “* . + Put Wyandétte County on Cash Basis. eo _ +, County Clerk of Harper County Two Terms, President of, the Kansas County Clérks Association“Thiea-Yearss _ + * Republican, Promitent‘in Kansas Affairs Thi'ty; Years : -Résident’of Karlsas City, Kansas, Twelve Years." - - probate judge, his generosity, his genial disposition, his close attention to the business en- trusted to his care, all make him a most popular official. He is so easily; approached and lends a kindly ear to all who seek his able advice, that no one having business with “his office ever dreams of anything but the fair- ‘est treatment from Judge Sims. | The Advocate is glad to be able to voice the well known sentiments relatiye to this wor- thy county official. He is wor- thy the continued confidence of his fellow citizens who most heartily approve of his adminis- tration. . Bell Phone West 1864... - GUY BOOKER Attorney at Law. 314 Minn, Ave Kansas City, Kans. Good Things to Eat ' At the 7 - BUSY BEE CAFE |. 430 Minnesota Avenue Mrs, Franklin Prop. Kansas City, Kad _ Patterson : ) DEPUTY TREASURER 7 Yandidate for Election Tuesday, November 5, 18. 1 PAGE Fre™ —) PAGE SIX CARS AND CAMELS IN DESERT Both Methods of Conveyance Employed in Land Where Railways Are an Impossibility. I have motored in the Egyptian desert from eight or ten different places and I heard the same thing everywhere: "Cars and camels for this job." The car for the dash and rush to get there before anyone can hear you are moving; the camel, the old ship of the desert, for the calm and sure, time immemorial method, writes a correspondent of the London Telegraph. Both go where the railway is not and never will be; both play their different parts with almost unerring certainty. So perfect and, reliable has the car supply service become that the vehicles move to a time table, and at one spot I have seen two convoys which started 90 miles apart meet to exchange loads at the exact moment fixed by the conductor. The cars run over thousands of miles of the roughest desert. Water is as essential as petrol, and in a waterless area extreme care has to be taken against running short. It occasionally happens that cars get stuck, and they are freed by shovelling away the sand and laying down short lengths of planks beneath the wheels. Planks and stout ropes for towing form part of each car's equipment. The light cars are mostly American make. They, too, have done well, but the wear and tear is infinitely greater than in British cars, and as one machine wears out the best parts are transferred to motors beginning to show signs of failure. BIG MAN'S ACT OF KINDNESS Little Incident Recorded of James J. Hill Shows Great Constructive Genius at His Best. James J. Hill was a large and familiar figure in American business life, and there have been printed plenty of eulogies of his great constructive genius. But no more genuine eulogy has ever been pronounced than is contained in a little story from St. Paul. It was a simple incident—one of the sort that generally and naturally passes unrecorded, says the Chicago Herald in recalling it. Mr. Hill was coming out of an office building with another railroad official when he noticed a horse standing shivering and unblanketed near by. He walked over and arranged the blanket and then resumed his conversation. It is a very good thing to be a great railroad builder and a financial figure whose word carries weight not only all over the country, but throughout the world. But it is better to be able to retain in the midst of such important occupation the human kindness which makes a whole world kin. "The Star-Spangled' Banner." The best authority on the proper wording of "The Star-Spangled Banner," is the author of the song, Francis S. Key. In the course of innumerable printings of the song, differences in the text have occurred due to carelessness, bad memory or deliberate efforts to "improve" it. Of course no one has any definite authority to make changes. Several copies of the song in the author's own handwriting exist. Even these differ, but the differences are very slight, and do not affect the sense. One of these is the copy made by Key immediately after composing the poem, which he had first, after a preliminary sketch, written out on the back of an envelope. While this text is not absolutely the original it is virtually that and may be regarded as the standard. Facsimiles of this and later copies in Key's handwriting are printed together with facsimiles of early printed versions without and with music, in a book issued by the library of congress in 1914—"The Star-Spangled Banner," by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, who discusses all the evidence about the origin of the song. Prehistoric Map's Intelligence. Prehistoric man's intelligence. Some years ago the remains of a prehistoric man were found in central Europe in a geological stratum that showed that he existed at least 500,000 years ago, and probably more. His physical formation, especially the shape and size of the skull, left no doubt, according to scientists, that he had been a well-developed human being with a creditable degree of intelligence. He did not show the brain possibilities of modern man, it is true, but probably he did not need them, since it must have required less intellectual power to dodge the giant dinosaurs and other small-headed members of the Sauropoda family of that day, alarming though they might look, than to escape death from the predatory and terrifying automobile of today. General Store Traded for New Jersey. In the year 1674 a colony of Quakers, sent out from England by William Penn, bought from the Indians a large slice of what is now New Jersey. The price as recorded in the new "Life of Penn," by John W. Graham was as follows: "Thirty match coats, 20 guns, 30 kettles, 1 great kettle, 20 pairs of hose, 20 fathoms of duffels, 20 petticoats, 30 narrow hose, 20 bars of lead, 15 small barrels of powder, 70 knives, 30 Indian axes, 70 combs, 30 pairs of tobacco knots, 60 pairs of scissors, 60 tinshaw looking glasses, 120 awlblades, 120 fish hooks, 2 grasps of red paint, 120 needles, 60 tobacco boxes, 120 pipes, 200 bells, 100 jews-harpe and 6 ankens of wood." Chances Once Taken by Clowns, Harlequins and Pantaloons—Clockwork Precision Was Necessity. In speaking of his connection with the Fox American pantomimes, the late F. W. Hofele, once manager of the Old Bowery theater, told me that the making of these many mechanical tricks consumed much time, "T. W. W." writes In the New York Sun. Many skilled workmen were employed, as these devices to work perfectly and not get stuck when in use. The duties of the stage manager were arduous indeed. From the time the stage manager tinkled his little bell for the rise of the curtain to his signal to ring down the act drop he was as busy a man as could be found anywhere in any capacity on earth. Everything had to be done when the order was given to do it or everything would be instantly thrown out of trim; with the result of a confusion gone mad. Serious accidents are likely to happen to performers if the greatest care is not exercised. Take the work of Harlequin, that merry fellow with the magic sword, who is always dancing and gliding about with his lovely Columbine. What a hazardous part he plays. He is perpetually taking a leap in the dark, trusting to sheer luck as to whether he will do that leap safely or not. I saw Paul Martietti come up through the star trap in the usual way on one occasion, but instead of leaving the trap in its place he took it up with him. The points of the star were sticking in his neck and the square framework was resting on his shoulders. When he landed on the floor he staggered a few steps, then righted himself and ran off the stage. As he continued his part he could not have been injured greatly. I think he was lucky not to have broken his collar-bone. STORY OF A FAMOUS STATUE Bronze Piece, Work of Leopardi, Cause of Quarrel Resulting in Itu Being Badly Disfigured. Another statue that has been conveyed by sea and landed safely in Rome is the great equestrian one of the famous General Colleoni, which stood on its lofty pedestal in the Campo of SS. Glovanni e Paolo, Ruskin says of it: "I do not believe there is a more glorious work of sculpture existing in the world." This statue is of, course, of bronze, and was modeled by the Florentine sculptor and painter Andrea Verrocchio in 1481, assisted by his more famous pupil, Leonardo da Vinci, Rev. Alexander. Robertson writes in the Christian Herald. After Verrocchio's death, it was cast in bronze by Leonardi. There is a story told to the effect that when Leopardl had finished his work, he quarreled with the republic over it. As he could not come to a settlement, he knocked off the horse's head and escaped to Florence. The republic ordered him to return, but he refused, saying: "I have knocked off the horse's head, it is true, but I can put it on again; but if I come to Venice and you take off my head, you could not put it on again." The republic forgave him, assured him of his life and reward, and he returned and finished his work. Not Easy to "Get Off the Earth." Not Easy to "Get Off the Earth." So great is the power of gravitation that man is practically a prisoner upon the earth's surface, even the aviator who temporarily escapes to a height of 20,000 feet or more. Yet a human being might leave it forever, if he made his departure at sufficient speed to overcome the weight of the ball upon which we live, 7,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The muzzle velocity of a shell from the most powerful cannon is about 3,000 feet per second, but this projectile will fall to the ground after traversing a few miles, so its speed would have to be greatly exceeded by the individual desiring to penetrate into space. If a projectile could be fired at a rate of 26,000 feet per second, writes Charles Nevers Holmes in Popular Science Monthly, it would probably never fall to the surface. When science makes possible an initial velocity of 37,000 feet a second, about seven miles, then a projectile would burst through the attraction of our planet and rush on into trackless space. Set Your Alm High. The harder the tasks you voluntarily accomplish the greater is the reserve you are storing for the future. To doubt is to paralyze progress. To face the problems obstructing your pathway with a courageous smile and determined face will help you and others to remove them. When you are used to making big demands you won't be afraid of big jobs. They are a compliment to your ability. Become a recognized victor in one thing and the world will supply the future with opportunities for the exercise of the power you enjoy. It comes from the proper self-estimate. Physical Courage. Physical courage is a common attribute of the male sex, in men and animals. It is displayed to the highest degree in the mother defending her young, when "the female of her species is more deadly than the male." Physical cowardice is uncommon. Physical courage depends much on the size of the heart, therefore is not within the control of a person. Moral courage is superior to physical courage—although a man may have both. Often, if needs more courage for a young man to say "No!" than for him to charge a trench. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE Miss Marie Johnson visited Lawrence recently, also attended a fine reception in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Wm. Bishop of also came to attend his funeral. PUBLICATION NOTICE. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF WY- ANDOTTE COUNTY, STATE OF KANSAS. Henry Cypert, Plaintiff vs. Mamie Cypert, Defendant. No. 9312-A. State of Kansas, to the above named Defendant, Mamie Cypert, Greeting: You are hereby notified that the plaintiff did on the 2nd day of May, 1918, file in the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas, her petition for divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty, and unless you answer, demur or otherwise object on or before the 15th day of June, A. D., 1918, the allegations in said petition above will be taken as true; and upon further proof the plaintiff will be granted a divorce as prayed for and such other and further relief in equity as she may be entitled to and as to the Court may seem just and proper. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk, by C. L. Peterson, Deputy. (First Publication, J.: 2nd, 19.3) (First Publication 1973rd, 1933) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF WY- ANDOTTE COUNTY, KANSAS. Artie Shannon, plaintiff, ws. Willie Shannon, defendant. PUBLICATION NOTICE To the above named defendant: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above-named defendant, in the above named court and unless you appear and answer on or before the 22d day of June, 1918, the petition filed against you will be presented, and evidence introduced, and a trial had, and a judgment rendered, the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between you and the plaintiff, and divorcing the plaintiff from you, and awarding to her the custody and care of her minor child, Willa Shannon, and for the costs of this action. BRADLEY & BRADLEY, For the Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk District Court. (First Publicationn May 10, 1918.) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF WY-ANDOTTE COUNTY, KANSAS. Second Division. Emma Jenkins, Plaintiff, vs. Ike Jenkins et. al., Defendants. No. 9299-A. To Ike Jenkins: PUBLICATION NOTICE. You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for divorce, and that you are required to answer the petition of plaintiff, filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, Wyandotte County, Kansas, on or before the 15th day of July, 1918, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you in favor of plaintiff, granting her an absolute divorce of and from you, and for the care and custody of their minor children, Webster, Fannie May and Evelyn, and for such other and further relief as the nature of the case may require. Attorney for Plaintiff (First Publication, May 10th, 1918.) WORK THIS PUZZLE—IT'S WORTH $10.00. This puzzle will run all the month of May on account of corrections. Read it. Anyone arranging these letters and figures in their correct order as to what they mean, will be awarded a pair of $10.00 shoes. Only one copy of its solution can be sent in, by any one person. This puzzle will run all of May and all contestants MUST have their solution in THE ADVOCATE office, 834 Nebraska Avenue, Kansas City, Kaps., by 6 p. m., June the 1st, 1918. Sign your full name and address. THIS IS NOT THE ADVOCATES PUZZLE, but it's bona fide and in our first issue in June The Advocate will print the correct wording and meaning of this puzzle. T-R-S-E-L-3-E-L-W-P-8-T-N-F-S- .5-O-1-E-R-5-N-2-T-H-R- 1-O-T-O-H-E In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. PUBLICATION NOTICE. Henry Onell, Plaintiff vs. Dolly Onell, Defendant No. 9369. To the above named Defendant, Dolly Onell: You are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff has filed suit against you for divorce, on the grounds of abandonment. 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The players draw a small circle in the dust and lay therein a number of little brown beans, which are really not beans at all, but the seeds of some native plant. Exposed to the rays of the sun and the solemn gaze of the players, after a time the beans begin to move. They turn, they stir, they actually hop about. The lure of chance consists in betting on which bean will first jump out of the circle, and apparently the game is fair. There would seem to be no way of "framing" the mysterious beans. The Mexican neither knows nor cares why the beans jump, though their behavior is most unusual for members of the vegetable kingdom. Asked for an explanation, he will shrug and remark that it is the nature of "brincones" to jump. Why question the wisdom of providence, which has seen fit to provide her children with a cheap and satisfactory apparatus for games of chance? Science, however, steps in with the explanation that the innocent brown bean in question is the home of a certain larvae, whose spasmodic movements early in life are responsible for the antics of its vegetable home. SING TO SETTLE QUARRELS Eskimos Have Manner of Adjusting Grievances That Is Said to Work Satisfactorily to Them. The Eskimos, who live in the icebound, barren northland, have a way of settling quarrels which seems very strange and amusing to those who live in a land of policemen and courts of justice. There, when quarrels arise, the man who has a grievance writes a song in which he tells the wrongs that have been done him. When this has been composed to his satisfaction he invites his enemy to come and hear him sing it. This the enemy must do, and he brings with him all his relatives and many of his friends, while the singer also has gathered his friends and relatives for the occasion, which is considered something of a general entertainment by the people of the village in which the men live. Then, while other men of the village pound madly on huge drums, the song of wrongs is begun. When it is finished, if the audience expresses approval, the singer is considered to have won and to have a just cause of complaint. But if dissatisfaction is expressed, that is considered sufficient punishment. After the song every one dances and the party breaks up in great good humor. Encourage Spirit of Adventure. Encourage Spirit of Adventure. The spirit of adventure, so nearly universal in youth, commonly is thwarted at every turn. Yet this is one of its finest gifts; when it has gone, life's greatest promise is past. An educational system should nurture and direct this spirit, bringing it to expression in a daring to aim at high standards, in adventures into new fields of action, thought, and knowledge; in a desire for the hard, strenuous things which temper and stabilize character. The sporting instinct of youth demands these difficult tasks, and life is stale when they cannot be found.—Arthur E. Morgan, in the Atlantic Cause of Car Sickness. Car sickness, so common among children, is caused in the same way as seasickness, or the dizziness produced by spinning around rapidly or swinging. The fluid in the semi-circular canals of the ears is set in motion by the movement of the body and tends to keep on moving even after the body has come to a standstill. Once accustomed to the new motion, the traveler acquires his "sea lega" and if he is at sea some time in rough weather he will need re-education for the stationary on leaving the ship, for he will feel as if the land were swaying under his feet. R. S. V. P. Mr. Flatbush—Have you responded to Mrs. Bensonhurst's invitation to her party? "No, I didn't write; I used the telephone." "Used the telephone? Why, that's no way to respond to an invitation to a party." "Why not? Ours is a party wire, isn't it?"—Yonkers Statesman. He Had a Plan. A little five-year-old chap recently moved into a new neighborhood. A day or so later he observed some little girls playing in a yard a few doors away, and asked his mother if he could go and play with them. His mother refused his request, remarking that the little girls didn't know him. WELL he replied, "couldn't I get emotion to amu" HAIR WORTH MORE THAN GOLD Lock From Head of the Immortal George 'Washington Brought Sum of Five Hundred' Dollars. It is a wise barber who knows his famous customers, notes a writer. A single hair from the head of Shakespeare would be priceless today. Yet he must frequently, methinks, have had his hair cut. Most poets wear their hair long, but there comes a time, even to a poet, when he must have it trimmed at least. That is the barber's chance. A silver shell-shaped reliquard containing a lock of hair of Milton, together with a lock of hair of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, sold in London at an auction recently for $400. A lock of Thackeray's hair, cut from his head after his death by his daughter, Anne, Lady Ritchie, fetched $100 at auction. Milton did not get quite that much for "Paradise Lost." The sale of a lock of Napoleon's hair for 18 shillings denotes a serious slump in hair shares. Perhaps there was doubt whether it ever grew on Napoleon's cranium at all, for in 1000 a similar relic, much the same color and texture, realized $100, and a year earlier two locks were sold for $125 and $25 respectively. But probably the record was broken in America, where most records are doomed to be broken sooner or later, for at an auction sale in New York a lock of hair from the head of the immortal George Washington fetched the sum of $500. ARTICHOKE IS EASY TO GROW Favorite Vegetable, Declared to Be Valuable Article of Food for Both Man and Beast. The Jerusalem artichoke deserves to be much better known in this country, which is its native land, for it is one of the favorite vegetables in all parts of Europe, it is easy to grow, and a most valuable article of food for man and beast. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell of the University of Colorado extols its merits in the Scientific Monthly and tells some most interesting facts about it. Its name is a curiosity to etymology. The word "artichoke" is derived from the Moorish "alkharshof," which was applied to the true, or globe artichoke, of which we eat the flower-head with its thickened bracts and the delicate "bottom." This plant, which is of the thistle family, is a native of the old world. The Jerusalem artichoke, Hellanthus tuberosus, is a tuber which grows on the roots of a sunflower. It was well-known and much used by the natives of America before the coming of Columbus. It was introduced into France early in the seventeenth century and was grown in the Farnes gardens in Rome, whence it was distributed throughout Europe under the name of Girasole Articlocco, or sunflower artichoke. "The name artichoke," writes Professor Cockerell, "appears to have been given to the Hellanthus solely on account of the more or less similar flavor, while 'Jerusalem' is an English corruption of the Italian 'Girasole, or sunflower.' First American Legislature. The first colonial assembly to enjoy the right of initiating legislation was the Maryland assembly, which convened in 1635 and was composed of representatives of the whole people—a purely democratic legislature. In the beginning every adult male citizen was permitted to sit in the assembly, but with the increase in population it was found necessary to limit the number, although there was still no legal restriction on the number of delegates the people might send. Under the charter Lord Baltimore had the power of enacting all necessary laws for the colony, "with the advice, consent and approbation of the freemen of the province." The assembly demanded the right of initiating legislation, however, and this was granted by Lord Baltimore in 1638, and the following year the assembly met and enacted the first statutes of Maryland. In their law-making the pioneer Marylanders were entirely independent of the British parliament and enjoyed a greater degree of autonomy than any other English colony. Trap for Llars. In front of the old basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, at Rome, there is an enormous block of marble, resembling a huge face with a widely gaping mouth. It is called the "Vocca della Verita" or "Mouth of Truth." In the days of ancient Rome the legend ran that if anyone who had told a lie placed his or her hand within that yawning cavity, the jaw would descend and cut it off. The stone has given its name to a street close by, but it is no longer made use of by the Itallans as a proof of their integrity, which, in the event of its retaining its former power, shows prudence on their part. The Vocca della Verita is a large round stone of white marble, about five yards in circumference. It is pierced with two holes representing eyes, an opening for a mouth, a slightly raised nose, and two locks of hair are carved on each side of the forehead. The stone is of great antiquity, and, according to some, it was laid on the altar of Jove, and those suspected of perjury were led to it and obliged to confess by much the same, threats as are used to children now. Oh. Dear. "Did Reggie bag any game?" "Oh, dear me—no—Reggie have his regular hunting/toys and so bagged nothing but his eru." THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE HITS We have some statements from patients curred of Fitz. Elliopy, Failing Sickness by medications in free sample of Dr. Boot's remedy. We PAY EXPRESSAGE on FREE TRIAL BOTTLE for GUT and RETURN THIS AD in your letter. Enquiries of testimonials on file. Give age and fall particiater. Dr. F. HARVEY ROOF CO. Dept. St. N. New York AGENTS ON ONE SLACKER patriotic pi showing the ready for the picture that patriotic bi Negro. MF sold. Bamp can make money. Ev buy. Peo N. A. A. We are in the midst of Storey Membership Cam Thank the solicitors you and securing your such a wothy, constucti ganization. JOIN NOW! TIME—A Our branch is growing al Neeley and Captains good work. G. A. GREGG : : : 1700 FAMILIES IN KANSAS USE FANCY CREAMERY BUTTER, SEN BELDALE BUTTERINE, FRESH- FINE COFFEES, FRE PURITY FO A. A. C. H. are in the midst of the Moorer y Membership Campaign. ank the solicitors for speaking and securing your membership a wothy, constuctive, uplifting ation. NOW! TIME—April 17 to May branch is growing rapidly. Ge ley and Captains are pushing work. GREGG : : : : PRESIDENT FAMILIES IN KANSAS CITY, KANS USE CREAMERY BUTTER, SELECTED COUNT BUTTERINE, FRESH-MADE PEANUT FINE COFFEES, FRESH ROASTED RITY FOOD N.A.A.C.P. We are in the midst of the Moorefield Storey Membership Campaign. Thank the solicitors for speaking to you and securing your membership in such a wothy, constuctive, uplifting organization. JOIN NOW! TIME—April 17 to May 30 Our branch is growing rapidly. General Neeley and Captains are pushing this good work. G. A. GREGG : PRESIDENT 1700 FAMILIES IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS USE FANCY CREAMERY BUTTER, SELECTED COUNTRY EGGS, BELDALE BUTTERINE, FRESH-MADE PEANUT BUTTER FINE COFFEES, FRESH ROASTED PURITY FOOD CO. Successors to MOULTON COFFEE STORE 730 MINNESOTA AVENUE NOW IS THE TIME TO and the Telephone puts you immediately in Eugene Edward Va Real Estate Eighth year in the business. Property for in both cities. OW IS THE TIME TO BUY Telephone puts you immediately in touch. Gene Edward Vaughan Real Estate year in the business. Property for sale NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY and the Telephone puts you immediately in touch with me. Eugene Edward Vaughn Real Estate Eighth year in the business. Property for sale or exchanged in both cities. BELL PHONE WEST 1757. AGENTS WANTED FOR "COLORED MAN N A beautiful picture, framed, 16 of very often in this war...; neverth WE WANT AGENTS in every elsewhere to sell these pictures. For write— THE HYNES Suite 4, 5, 6 and 7, 644 KANSAS CITY BOULDIN C "That C COLORED MAN NO SLACKER fautiful picture, framed, 16x22. The Negro men in this war...; nevertheless he is a big VANT AGENTS in every town and city to sell these pictures. For further inform THE HYNES AGENCY Suite 4, 5, 6 and 7, 644 Minnesota Aven KANSAS CITY, KANSAS OULDIN CLEANE "That Clean" "COLORED MAN NO SLACKER" A beautiful picture, framed, 16x22. The Negro is not heard of very often in this war...; nevertheless he is a big factor. WE WANT AGENTS in every town and city in Kansas or elsewhere to sell these pictures. For further information call or write— THE HYNES AGENCY Suite 4, 5, 6 and 7, 644 Minnesota Avenue KANSAS CITY, KANSAS BOULDIN CLEANERS ```markdown ``` MIRRORS RE WORK CALLED FOR HODGSON MIRROR 1017 North Fifth Home Phone West 1619 MIRRORS RESILVERE WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERE HODGSON MIRROR COMPANY 1017 North Fifth Street. Home Phone West 1619 Bell We MIRRORS RESILVERED WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. HODGSON MIRROR COMPANY 1017 North Fifth Street. Home Phone West 1619 Bell West 1131s SAMUEL DIGGS THE OLD RELIABLE J Pays the highest cash price for iron, bottles, bones, copper, brass thing in the junk line. SQUARE DEALING AND HON TIMES. Place of Business----100 BELL WEST 8577 THE OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEALER. pays the highest cash price for junk at all times, r bottles, bones, copper, brass, lead, zinc and ev in the junk line. ARE DEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT AT ES. Place of Business----1006-1008, North Third WEST 8577 KANSAS CITY, B THE OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEALER Pays the highest cash price for junk at all times, rags, iron, bottles, bones, copper, brass, lead, zinc and everything in the junk line. SQUARE DEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT AT ALL TIMES. Place of Business—1006-1008, North Third STRELL, WEST 8577 KANSAS CITY, KAS. 2 ```markdown ``` C.P. of the Moorefield campaign. for speaking to membership in live, uplifting or- April 17 to May 30 rapidly. Gener- are pushing this : PRESIDENT S CITY, KANSAS SELECTED COUNTRY EGGS, MADE PEANUT BUTTER SH ROASTED OOD CO. ME TO BUY mediately in touch with me. Bird Vaughn state property for sale or exchange T 1757. NO SLACKER" x22. The Negro is not heard unless he is a big factor. town and city in Kansas o or further information call o AGENCY Minnesota Avenue KANSAS LEANERS lean" LADIES' AND GENTS TAILORING. Suits Cleaned and Pressed Suits Sponged and Pressed ALL WORK REASONABLE. Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing. WE USE THE KOFF-MAN METHOD. Quality, Service Satisfaction Prompt Auto Service. Call us up. Bell Phone, West 832. 1903 N. 5th St. K. C. K. SILVERED AND DELIVERED. R COMPANY h Street. Bell West 1131 UNK DEALER. unk at all times, rags, lead, zinc and every- ST WEIGHT AT ALL. 1908, North Third St. KANSAS CITY, KAS. S. Crowder Phil Smith Wyandotte Transfer Company Phone West 3576 Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted F. C. Wahlenmaier 746 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City :: Kansas EARLY GARDEN is the most appetizing and delicious in the world. Your palms and lettuce will be crisp and tender; your early peas and snap beans tooth some and succulent, and everything you grow "perfectly delightful" If you use Archias Seeds because they are from the sturdiest, healthiest and most mature plants, and absolutely dependable. The kinds of flower seeds and field seeds of the same variety quality. Write for our tree, illustrated catalogue—Today. ARCHIAS SEED STORE (Corp.) Dept. . . . . . . Sedalia, Mo. FORREST B. Consult me any time. Law REAL ESTATES 529 State Ave. Bell West Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, Contracts and Legal Papers Drawn. Investments Ma Abstracts of title furnished from amine. "It's cheaper to buy the Consult me any time. I am he FORREST B. ANDERSON Lawyer REAL ESTATE BROKER 529 State Ave. Bell West 1050. Kansas City, Kas. Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, Contracts and Legal Papers Drawn. Old Debts Collected. Houses to rent and sell Titles examined Investments Made. Abstracts of title furnished free; ten day allowed to exam- amine. "It's cheaper to buy than it is to rent." Consult me any time. I am he People's Lawyer. The Old Reliable Badger Lumber YARD: 18th AND KANSAS Lumber Lime Sash Cement Doors Plaster Mouldings Sand Mill work Brick Quick Service with 4 Auto Trucks to A Repair Orders. Both Phones West 678 LODGE HALLS AND STORE Fraternity 312-314 Badger Lumber Company YARD: 18th AND KANSAS AVENUE, KANSAS CITY, KANS. Lumber Lime Hardware Sash Cement Paints Doors Plaster Roofing Paper Mouldings Sand Wall and Mill work Brick Plaster Boards Quick Service with 4 Auto Trucks to ALL parts of the city. Phone us your Repair Orders. Both Phones West 678 L. J. GILLES, Agent OPEN NIGHTS—WEST HALL Second and fourth.Monday nights— Afternoon. First and third Tuesday—Second and fourth Tuesday. EAST HALL First and third Monday—Evening or afternoon. Second and fourth Monday after- SAMUEL 1012 N. Third St. Home Phone €856 Main. DUNLAP LA 15th and The Best Laundry Soft Water Used E CUBANOLA The great The Best Laundry Service Possible Soft Water Used Exclusively by us. CUBANOLA Will Bring A Wealth Of HAIR TO YOUR HEAD If we haven't what you want we will get it for you. 3091 North 27th St. Kansas City :: Kansas Sugar Bowl We Do Our Own Baking BREAD. CAKES. PIES WEDDING CAKES We Make Our Own CANDIES Sugar Bowl 720. Minnesota Avenue All Work Guaranteed Kassel Jewelry Co. 548 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City Kansas ANDERSON me. I am the People's lawyer TE BROKER West 1050. Kansas City, Kas. Old Debts Collected. Houses to rent and sell Titles examined Made. free; ten day allowed to ex- than it is to rent." he People's Lawyer. BER Company S AVENUE, KANSAS CITY, KANS. Hardware Paints Roofing Paper Wall and Plaster Boards to ALL parts of the city. Phone us your L. J. GILLES, Agent ORE ROOMS FOR RENT. Y Building Nebraska noon—First and third Tuesday after- noon. Second and fourth Wednesday afternoon. and These halls are up-to-date in modern improvements and the RENT is reasonable. Close to all lodges. THIS HALL CAN BE RENTED EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT FOR LODGE PURPOSES. AUNDRY CO. d Broadway. y Service Possible Exclusively by us. Will Bring A Wealth Of HAIR TO YOUR HEAD One box will convert Bell West 3577 Bell Phone 180 Grand PAGE EIGHT THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE THOMAS KENNEDY, Editor and Prop. G. A. GREGG, Associate Editor. MERVIN HARRIS, Circulation Manager. MRS. M. C. MATTHEWS. Society Editor. Published every Friday at 834 Nebraska Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. The Advocate is a weekly journal devoted to Race Progress and Human Uplife. SUBSCRIPTION. Per Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... .80 Three Months ..... .45 Single Vopy ..... .05 "Entered as second-class matter August 29, 1914, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879." Don't forget The Advocate collectors when they call. It's only 15c per month and no one should put the collector off. N. A. A. C. P. Next Monday, May 3, 8 p. m. All members and workers are urged to be present and report the number of members secured. Place: Y. W. C. A., Ninth and Nebraska. SUMNER HIGH NOTES. By Mervin Harris. For nearly two years the Sumner Notes have been appearing in The Kansas City Advocate. Whether you read them only you know, as only one student has ever handed in any news at all or has asked about the notes when they failed to appear. All first class high schools, as you doubtless know, have a monthly paper of their own which is published by the students of the school. This school was not able to do this, so we secured the permission of Mr. Kennedy, the editor of The Advocate, to run a High School Notes column in his paper. So it was that the Sumner High Notes began to appear in March, 1916, but because of the lack of interest on the part of the students these notes have failed in accomplishing the desired purpose. But, however, the public has been posted as to some few of the events that have occurred at Sumner. We would advise you students who remain and those who go to other schools to take more interest in the various school activities and other undertakings of the school. The Seniors who are leaving Sumner could receive no greater parting address by which to remember their last days in O'd Sumner than that which was delivered by the Rev. Fred W. Bailey, of the Washington Boulevard Methodist Church, at our last assembly. This address was the most impressive of any that we have listened to this year. Since we wish to get the gist of his address in as few words as possible we can chose none better than the passage that he quoted from Shakespeare: "Cromwell, I charge thee fling away ambition By that sin fell the angels; how can man then. The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? to win by it? Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues, be just and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at he thy country's, Thy God's and truths at them if Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fail'st O! Cromwell! Thou fall'st a blessed martyr." If the Seniors, who are now at that stage in their life when they must meet the problems of life and judge for themselves the right course to take, take this advice of Cardinal Wulsey to Cromwell as advice to themselves and live by it there is no J. H. CLAYBORNE Bell West 2682 Tenth and Wahington Blvd. reason why they should not make a success of life. In addition to the above quotation we would like to give you a few more to carry with you from Old Sumner; some to recall when you are enjoying life's riches and others, when life seems its darkest: "Man is but a wanderer from his birth. his birth, Adrift on the river of time." ——Mathew Arnold. "Remember now and always. "Remember now and always that life is no Idle Dream, but A solemn reality based upon Eternity, and encompassed by Eternity; Find your task,stand to it for the night cometh when no man can work." —Carlyle. "He who would climb the heights of life Must leave even the pleasantest valleys behind." "If you wish the world to know you are in it, you are in it, Make an intelligent noise, not an idiotic noise." "Failure is but the History of Success." As these notes conclude the Sumner High Notes for this year, and are the last that the present writer shall write for Old Sumner, we wish to thank the editor, Mr. Kennedy, for his kind consent to publish these notes. Although it has been of some inconvenience to him to grant us this privilege we hope that he has not regretted it in the least. SAMUEL CLARKE, COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Samuél Clarke, who has done so many good things for the taxpayers of Wyandotte county, will receive the nomination for county commissioner at the hands of the Republican party again. He represents the Second Commissioner district (the First, Second and Third wards as far west as Eighteenth street). This is a strong Republican district the party nomination being equivalent to an election. When Mr. Clarke was a member of the City Council he was instrumental in giving the city the ownership of the waterworksand later the electric light plant. His efforts on behalf of the people being appreciated, he was elected to the Board of County Commissioners. In that capacity Mr. Clarke has been satisfactory to the people he represents. In managing the building of bridges and viaducts the county has done well. See the high line bridge over the Kansas river at Kansas avenue. The Board of County Commissioners built its portion of the bridge and now the present mayor of Kansas City, Mo., shows some activity in beginning to build the Missouri end of the structure. In this instance the efficiency of the Board of County Commissioners is plainly indicated. The Central Avenue bridge, or the portion of it that belongs to the county, has been finihed for months. Mr. Clarke is one of the County THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE Commissioners active in building these two great structures. Many signal accomplishments in behalf of the people might be enumerated to the credit of Mr. Clarke, but that would make this article unnecessarily long. The East Kansas Avenue high line and the Central Avenue high line are creditable performances and must be regarded as monuments of Mr. Clarke's official record, indeed, it should be aid that the building of the high lines are wonderful accomplishments when compared with the progress that other officials have made on the same jobs. Call West 380 EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. State of Kansas, Wyandotte County, ss. In the Probate Court of Said County. In the matter of the estate of Ter- resie Gerren, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Terresie Gerren, late of said county, deceased, by the honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 25th day of May, 1918. Now, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. CHARLES N. GERREN, Executor of the last will and testament of Terresie Gerren, deceased. Dated May 25, 1918. (First Publication May 31, 1918.) Mrs. Arthur, Prop. Fifth and State WHERE TO EAT WHEN IN KANSAS CITY KANSAS Eat at Mrs. Arthur's Cafe. We serve the best meals in town for the old price. Bell Phone West 323 MISS C. A. PEARSON REAL ESTATE AND EMPLOYMENT AGENCY 444 MINNESOTA AVE. Kansas City, Kansas DR. S. M. BANKS DISEASES OF WOMEN A SPECIALTY Office Hours 9 to 11 a. m. 2 to 4, 7 to 9 p. m. Office 514 Minnesota Avenue KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Bell West 424. Res. 1407 N. 8th DORSEY GREEN Attorney and Counsellor at Law NOTARY PUBLIC 516 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, Kansas Bell Phone West 3711 DR. LEE R. PETTY Physician and Surgeon Office Hours: 2 to 5 and 6 to 8 516 Minn. Ave. Kansas City, Ks. E. W. ANDERSON CALL ME I will haul your Baggage and Express. Also will bring your kindling if you wish it. Prompt Delivery Bell 3249W "Have you seen our flowers?" We carry a full line of plants and cut flowers at reasonable prices. A COOPER GROCERIES Them, See Me IS A SPECIALTY 849 Freeman Ave. SEE The Street Railway Situation Over $500,000 Advance in The Cost of Fuel. "The Price of Service Must Meet It's Cost" During the last twelve months the cost of our coal has advanced A DOLLAR ATON. We use 400,000 tons of coal annually, adding $400,000 to the cost of our coal bill for 1918. Fuel oil has advanced in proportion and this year we must pay $100,00 more for fuel oil than we did in 1917. These two items cover only a part of the story of advanced costs this company must meet during 1918. The Missouri franchise provides that the company shall have only 6 per cent on the money actually invested in the property. THE $500,000 ADDITIONAL WE MUST PAY FOR FUEL ALONE WILL PREVENT OUR PAYING THIS 6 PER CENT ON THE INVESTMENT UNLESS WE CAN GET A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN REVENUE. None can deny that the investor is entitled to the 6 per cent return on the money he has honestly put into this street railway. This money should be paid the same as taxes. The nickel will no longer do it. Are we unfair in asking an increase? Kansas City Railways Co. THE TREADLE White Shoes of irrisistable charm are swarming into our store by every express and quickly floating out on the feet of many delighted purchasers. Prices $3.50 to $6.50. Also Pumps and Oxford in the latest styles. "We'll save you money." 'The Booterie' 652 Minnesota Ave. Near 7th St. I.F.Bradley, Jr. Bell West 2335 I. F. BRADLEY LAWYER BRADLEY & BRADLEY Attorneys-at-Law Residence, Bell Phone, West 644 453 Minnesota Ave. K.C., K. F. E. THOMPSON STAPLE GROCERIES AND Meats Great Selling Event riday May 31 or Downstairs Store-Bas eaturing Specially Bough Merchandise at one price A Great Selling Event Friday May 31st In Our Downstairs Store-Basement Featuring Specially Bought Merchandise at one price It is our Big Dollar Day that will your Dollar buy your Downstairs Store Fri ery, Bird, Thayer Comp It is our Big Dollar Day What will your Dollar buy in Our Downstairs Store Friday Emery, Bird, Thayer Company Kansas City, Missouri e Place to Go Bell Phone West 445- SLAUGHTER'S PLACE Ice Cream Soda, Confectioneries, Cigars, Tobacco, School Supplies and Notions. HAIR PREPARATIONS and STRAIGHTENING COMBS Ninth and Everett Avenue Kansas City, Kansas The Place to Go FRIDAY, MAY 31, 191 Selling Event May 31st ers Store-Basement especially Bought e at one price $1.00 g Dollar Day r Dollar buy in rs Store Friday hayer Company Bell Phone West 445-W ER'S PLACE AND SUMMER RESORT