Kansas City Advocate

BIG TENT MEETING BEGINS AT 11th and NEBRASKA SUNDAY NIGHT, 8 P.M. TWELVE MONTHS, $1.50. EVENT MEETING ERS AND SONS USALEM HOLD- G GRAND SESSION Sons and have been Tuesday at Braska ave. ham as its annual sermon was delivered Thursday day evening at First A. M. E. church, by H. R. Pinkney. DAUGHTERS AND SONS OF JERUSALEM HOLDING GRAND SESSION The Order of Ancient Sons and and was turned over to the local authorities here. Election of officers took place this afternoon and a public installation Friday evening at the hall. Their niece, with H. R. Graham as its annual sermon was delivered Thurs-Grand King, presiding. While the day evening at First A. M. E. attendance is not as large as other church, by H. R. Pinkney. Delegates from Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and other places are present to assist in doing the business in annual session. At a session Wednesday a nice sum was raised for the Red Cross "THE MEMPHIS BLUES" IN FRANCE Irvin S. Cobb in Saturday Evening Post: Two days we stayed on there (with an American Negro regiment near the front), and they wore two days of a superior variety of continuous black face vaudeville. There was the evening when for our benefit the men organized an impromptu concert featuring a quartet that would succeed on any man's burlesque circuit, and a troupe of buck and wing dancers whose equals it would be hard to find on the Big Time. There was the next evening when the band of forty pieces serenaded us. I think surely this must be the best regimental band in our army. Certainly it is the best one I have heard in Europe during the war. On parade, when it played the "Memphis Blues," the men did not march; the music poured in at their ears and ran down to their heels, and instead of marching they literally danced their way along. As for the dwellers of the French towns in which this regiment has from time to time been quartered, they, I am told, fairly go mad when some alluring, compelling, ragtime tune is played with that richness of syncopated melody in it which only the black man can achieve; and as the regiment has moved on, more than once it has been hard to keep the unattached inhabitants of the village that the band was quitting from moving on with it. If I live to be a hundred and one I shall never forget the second night, which was a night of splendid flawless full moon. We stood with the regimental staff on the terrace lawn of the chief house in a half- BISHOP N. C. C of Memphis, Tenn He will preach at S Church, Eighth and O morning at 11 o'clock. OP N. C. CLEAVES, D. D. Phis, Tenn., Here Sunday preach at St. Peters Chapel C. M. E. North and Oakland Streets, Sunday 11 o'clock. He will preach at St. Peters Chapel C. M. E. Church, Eighth and Oakland Streets, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. BANQUET The Bishop's Banqu ning, September 3rd. A splendid program occasion. Pastors, members a be present. shop's Banquet will be Tuesday eve- ber 3rd. did program will be rendered on this members and friends are invited to MINER HIGH SCHOOL OPENS Afternoons only of— Wednesday, Sept. 4.....Eighth Grade Graduates Thursday, Sept. 5.....Sophomores Friday, Sept. 6.....Seniors and Juniors Patriotism demands that boys and girls prepare themselves for responsible positions made vacant by war. Every boy and every girl should give himself or herself every advantage of an early start. Be on hand Sept. 9, and every day thereafter. Saturday afternoon at 2 p. m. a street parade will take place with a number of companies of men and women, with Grand officers riding in cars, led by a band of music, thus closing up another year's work of this faithful body: Col. T. Benton Robinson will be in command of the parade. deserted town five miles back from the trenches, and down below us in the main street the band played plantation airs and hundreds of Negro soldiers joined in and sang the words. Behind the masses of upturned dark faces was a ring of white ones where the remaining natives of the place clustered, with their heads wagging in time to the tunes. And when the band got to "Way Down Upon the Suwanee River," I wanted to cry, and when the drum major, who likewise had a splendid barytone voice, sang, as an interpolated number, "Joan of Arc," first in English and then in excellent French, the villagers openly cried; and an elderly peasant, heavily bewhiskered, with the tears of a joyous and thankful enthusiasm running down his bearded cheeks, was with difficulty restrained from throwing his arms about the soloist and kissing him. "BUSY BEES" GRAND LODGE The Grand Council I. O. B. & S. of C., "Busy Bees," will open next Wednesday, Sept. 4th, at Fraternity Hall, 312-314 Nebraska avenue, in a two days' session of their Grand Lodge. There is expected a large attendance at these sessions. The Supreme Master, Dr. W. H. Mixon, of Selma, Ala., will be present and on Thursday night, Sept. 5th, with the Grand body and delegates, come to First A. M. E. church, where the grand master will deliver a lecture. Dr Mixon is a brilliant scholar and a platform speaker of great rete. Dr Mixon, M. D., of this city, is a brother and is the Grand Master of this jurisdiction. CITY KANSAS CITY, KAN., FRIDAY G BEGINS AT 11th and NEBRASKA KANSAS CITY, KAN., FRIDAY, AUG. 30, 1918 6 REV. W. H. MIXON, D. D. Supreme Master of the "Busy Bees," of Selma, Ala., who will deliver the Annual Address to the Grand body Thursday night, Sept. 5th at the First A. M. E. church. The public is invited. Supreme Master of the "Busy Bees," of Selma, the Annual Address to the Grand body Thursday First A. M. E. church. The public is invited. es," of Selma, Ala., who will deliver body Thursday night, Sept. 5th at the is invited. BISHOP CLEAVES TO VISIT C. M. E. CHURCH HERE Dr. Bolden, Resident Pastor, Doing Good Work. The pastor, Rev. Bolden, and his members of St. Peters C. M. E. church, corner of Oakland and Eighth street, will be honored Sunday with the presence of their bishop, the Rt. Rev. N. C. Cleaves, D.D., who will preach Sunday at the 11 o'clock service. On Tuesday night of next week, this church will give a banquet in honor of their great churchman, at which time they invite the general public to be present. Bishop Cleaves is one of the church's great preachers and his management of this district has been a source of pleasure and success. Dr. Bolden, pastor of this church, has done splendid in his short stay here and is planning to do greater things for the future. His members have rallied to him in every effort he has put forth. SUMNER HIGH TO ENROLL STUDENTS STARING SEPT. 4 The Sumner High school will commence next Wednesday, Sept. 4th, to enroll students for this scholastic year, and will continue through Friday. Principal Hodge and his corps of teachers will be present each day to receive those who intend to enter this school of merit. GRAND COUNCIL I. O. B. "Busy Be MEETS HERE SEPTEMBER 4th L I. O. B. & S. OF C. Bees" S HERE R 4th and 5th B. & S. of C "Busy Bees," will september 4th, for a two days' 22-314 Nebraska Avenue. e Master, will be present. SUPREME MASTER s," of Selma, Alabama, will lec- th, Thursday night, Sept. 5th. early and get seats. GRAND COUNCIL I. O. B. & S. OF C. "Busy Bees" MEETS HERE SEPTEMBER 4th and 5th The Grand Council I. O. B. & S. of C "Busy Bees," will convene Wednesday, A. M., September 4th, for a two days' session, at Fraternity Hall, 312-314 Nebraska Avenue. Dr. W. H. Mixon, Supreme Master, will be present. DR. W. H. MIXON, SUPREME MASTER I. O. B. & S. of C., "Busy Bees," of Selma, Alabama, will lecture at First A. M. E. church, Thursday night, Sept. 5th. Everybody Welcome. Come early and get seats. JEWISH NEGRO COUNT IS NOW AN AMERICAN UPTON PRIVATE FROM ABYS. SINIA AMAES QUESTIONERS WITH HIS KNOWLEGDE. Camp Upton, Aug. 26.—American citizenship was granted today to Count avid Ben Isaac de Kellerritta, a Jewish Negro private who speaks twenty-seven languages and claims blood relationship with the late King Menelik of Abyssinia. He was born in that country, in the section known as Italian Somaliland and was naturalized a subject of Italy. The papers were issued in the soldier court over which Justice Joseph Morschauser presides. Private Kellerritta's only regret, and that was slight, at being naturalized, was that he relinquishes the nobility which has been in Abyssinia. His marvelous knowledge of languages was proved by the court interpreter, who gave his long test questions in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, the Scandanavian languages, Italian, Greek, Arabian, Hebrew, Turkish and various dialects. His responses were perfect. His proficiency in Hebrew is particularly complete, as at one time he studied for rabbinical orders. Because of linguistic gifts he may be given a transfer to the intelligence service from the medical detachment of an engineer regiment with which he came to camp. The Jewish Negro's home is 410 Fourth street, Milwaukee. Mrs. S. E. Ellsworth and granddaughter, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is visiting Mrs. A. J. Holden and family, 202 Stewart avenue. ADVOCATE THOS. KENNEDY, PUB. HT, 8 P.M. PUBLICANS ADOPTED IN THE WAR LOYAL REPUBLICANS PLATFORM ADOPTED TO WIN THE WAR Ambassador Gerard's disclosures and other evidences of Prussian intrigue subsequently given to the public, show the true facts of our relations with Germany as far back as the sinking of the Lusitania. War Profiteering is Treason. War profiteering is treason, and we condemn the failure to adopt adequate measures to prevent it. Price fixing should only be resorted to as a war necessity. When the price of wheat was fixed the price of wheat substitutes and all necessary food products should also have been fixed. In the interest of equal government, we protest against the practice of flagrant sectionalism on the part of the controlling interests in the Democratic organization in congress. The evidences of sectionalism are overwhelming. We reaffirm our support of national and equal suffrage, and national prohibition. We earnestly condemn the delay in putting into effect, war, time prohibition. We pledge a Republican legislature to the ratification of the constitutional amendment for national prohibition. Protect, Colored Citizens. The Republican party has always been a consistent friend of labor, and we pledge our continued effort to promote in, every possible way the rightful interests of, the wage earner, and support legislation to protect the colored citizen. We reaffirm our allegiance to the Republican policies. The settlement of industrial and economic issues at the close of the war must be made under a legislative program built for economy and, efficiency. We commend the splendid record of the Rpublican administration in this state under the leadership of Governor Capper. To President Wilson, as Commander-in-chief; and to all administrative agencies, Republicans in congress and out of it are pledged to continue support of the essential war measures. WILLIAMS GOES TO ARMY Y. M. C. A. George K. Williams, who has been recorder at Western University for a number of years, has signed up for Y. M. C. A. work in the army and will leave Sunday night for Kentucky, where he has been assigned for duty. George is well fitted for the work and his services will be of much worth to our soldier boys. Mr. Alex Gatewood, a senior of last year's class of Sumner High, and who has been with Dr. Adams, the evangelist, in Baltimore, Md., this summer, has returned home. PICNIC HAVE BEFORE THE WAR Kansas City and Wyandotte County meet at GOOD PARK SEPTEMBER 2; 1918 R. D A Y GENERAL GOOD TIME P. BAND ALL DAY AND OPENING charged and plenty of Refreshments provided. For Young and Old At a meeting of the committees of the Republican and Democratic parties at Topeka Tuesday, strong war measures platforms were adopted. The Republicans demand a vigorous prosecution of the war. Urge a league that will insure permanent peace. Want disarmament that war will not occur again to curse mankind. Following is the text of the Republican platform: There is but one dominating purpose in this country—to win the war as speedily as possible. In carrying out that purpose the Republican party pledges its undivided support. There must be no truce with Prussianism. The Prussian military power must be crushed to importance and the pagan philosophy of the junkers banished from the councils of government. After victory and peace, the Christian forces of the world must be organized to save the world from the burden of militarism. To the brave sons of America and her dauntless Allies, crusaders in this holy cause, we pledge support to "the last full measure of devotion." And for the returning soldiers we pledge every help and the largest grant of opportunity possible by legis lative enactment or otherwise. Not a Party War. This is no one party war. It is an American war and we denounce all attempts to make the support of Democratic candidates a test of loyalty. There is no place for desk-soldier favoritisms, for shielding of graft or incompetence. The Republican party has proven its virile Americanism. It has stood aggressively with the government in the conduct of the war. The Democratic slogan of 1916—"kept us out of war"—is now known to every intelligent person to have been political camouflage. Vital information was withheld from the public to make the slogan effective. AN ESTIMABLE YOUNG WOMAN IS LAID TO REST The remains of Mrs. Bertha Alexander, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Dandridge, 252 North Mill street, arrived Wednesday at 1:30 p. m., from Victoria, B. C., accompanied by her mother and husband, Mr. Alexander. The funeral took place, this morning from St. Monica's church, Kansas City, Mo. It was largely attended by her many warm friends from the two cities. Miss Gertie Lankford will leave this Friday for Langston University. ```markdown ``` THOMAS KENNEDY, Editor and Prop. G. A. GREGG, Associate Editor. MERVIN HARRIS, Circulation Manager. MRS. M. C. MATTHEWS. Society Editor. 610 North Sixth Street Office Phone.....Bell West 2407 Residence Phone.....Bell West 2968 The Advocate is a weekly journal devoted to Race Progress and Human Uplift. SUBSCRIPTION. One Year.....$1.50 Six Months......80 Three Months......50 "Entered as second-class matter August 29, 1914, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879." Have your news in our office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication. Office 834 Nebraska avenue. Notice to Subscribers All yearly subscribers, who are indebted to The Advocate, will please not delay in sending at once their indebtedness to this office, as the Government is asking us to show our books to the postoffice authorities. You must pay at once or we will be compelled to drop your name or lose our franchise. CLASS PLATFORM. While the Republican platform meant all right in specifying the Negro, it, is entirely out of place in the platform of a great political party. It is time that class or race designations should cease. We are all American citizens and there is no more reason for specifying the Negro race than that of the Indian or any other nationality, as the Irish or German or Italian citizen. This mild criticism is more a suggestion than criticism, in fact. The object is to correct an error which frequently creeps into many such productions. We are loyal American citizens, striving to do our part as such and in every way, to build up and sustain our country $ n $ defend our flag and contribute our part towards making the great republic a more the beloved home of all peoples of whatsoever race, tribe or nationality. We want no prefixes, suffixes or anything else to designate us. Just good old American citizenship is all we want and it is good enough for anybody. Frequent mention has been made in these columns relative to the daring and faithfulness of the Negro soldier Incidents without number, almost, have been given indicating that our troops, like good Americans, as they are, keep up the reputation of the American soldier for fighting. Some time ago a daring Negro trooper cut his way out after he had been completely surrounded, and killed a goodly number of the Kaiser's followers, made his way taking a number of Huns with him as a trophy. Now Sergeant Sherman D. Scruggs, Jr., of our own city, who has been called for decorations and no telling what all his delighted commanders are doing to him to show their appreciation of his bravery, exhibited by him under a dreadfully ho fire. He discharged his fully hot fire. He discharged his bearing well worthy the cause which he represented with such distinguished bravery. His superior officers from the generals down are full of commendatory words respecting the heroism displayed by this son of Kansas City, Kansas. His friends, "back home," are aware of the distinguished honor conferred upon him and share his distinction with great pleasure. In the classic language of the "Sage of Oyster Bay," we join in exclaiming "Bully" for Scruggs. Do it again. We are with you, by gum. RETALIATION UNAMERICAN. Some two weeks ago a colored man at Dewey, Oklahoma, killed a sheriff of that county in some sort of a difficulty. Following the unfortunate event, the homes of a score or more colored people were destroyed and the occu THE WEEKLY ANNOUNCER OF FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH J. F. GRIFFIN, Pastor. Residence, 1111 North Eighth St. Phone Bell West 2904. ORDER OF SERVICES. 9:30 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., preaching. 5:00 P. M., Junior Allen League. 6:00 P. M., Senior Allen League. 7:45 P. M., preaching. WEEKLY SERVICES. Official Board, 2nd and 4th Monday, 7:30 P. M. Choir rehearsal, Tuesday 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, prayer meeting, 7:30 P. M. Friday class meeting 8 P. M. CHURCH NEWS The church was filled Sunday morning to hear Mrs. Harris, the Ohio evangelist, who closed up her two weeks' campaign Sunday night to an appreciative audience. Mrs. Harris preached to the soldiers at Quindaro in the afternoon, when eight professed Christ. The financial departments of the church Sunday received upwards of $150.00, the dollar money not being counted in. The Quarterly Conference will be held Monday night, Sept. 9th, which will close up this year's work. All departments of the church are requested to have their quarterly reports ready. pants driven away from the town. We condemn the Germans for their cruelty and that condemnation is amply justified, for they are savages. But right here in our own beloved America we have an illustration of brutality in keeping with that of the hated Huns. Innocent men and women, with their little children, are driven out of their homes, many of which had been builted at great sacrifice and their houses burned, all because one man had been accused of committing a crime. We do not, for one moment, condone the crime of murder, as charged, but the murderer should be tried according to law, and if found guilty should be punished to the limit. But to reap vengeance on a lot of entirely innocent people, cruelly destroying their homes and driving them from the community where they had lived, some of them since the territory was opened to settlemnt. There they had gone in that early day and shared the hardships of pioneer life with their white neighbors and had worked to build up the new country, building themselves homes to shelter their wives and little ones and live the life of peaceable, law-abiding citizens, some of them giving their sons to cross the seas and battle for the country, which we all love and to support the honor of that flag which we all revere. We submit, is that fair? Like all retaliatory measures of the kind, it is decidedly unjust, un-American and pro-German in the extreme for that is the policy of the cruel Huns. Some time ago, a number of colored men were burned at Springfield, Mo., all because some good-for-nothing colored brute had sinned, and these men had to pay for the crime of another. A few years ago, colored people at Springfield, Illinois, Abe Lincoln's home, were killed and driven away from their homes, n! on account of the crime of one sinful man. Just recently a race war in East St. Louis, resulted in the killing of a number of innocent colored men, some of them old and feeble. This publication does not condone crime, by whomsoever committed, and wheresoever it is done, but we contend that the guilt alone should be punished and not punish the innocent, as has been done so frequently, relative to the colored people in this country. So frequently has the crime of lynch law obtained that recently President Wilson issued a strong protest against lynching and urges all good people to uphold law and sustain order and to that end all thoughtful people, good Americans, are working and for which they contend with all their better natures. The colored man is striving to lift his race and is making rapid strides and is gainning as no other race has in all history, so conditioned as he THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE was a half century ago in this country. It is to the interest and for the happiness of both races that the colored citizen should be protected and encouraged and should be given fair treatment before the law of the land. When the colored man commits crime punish him and do it according to law, and all good good citizens, of whatever color, will approve and aid. But it is discouraging to have such crimes as that reported from Dewey committed. Here these innocent people are driven away from their homes and their place of abode destroyed, all because of the sin of another. Those who are so inhumanly treated are now left helpless to battle against the rigors of hard times and winter approaching, without any home to shelter them and their wives and little ones from the cold winds and snow storms of a winter in the middle west. We are contributngl our means and our lives to our country, dedicating our all that democracy may live and that we all may enjoy the blessings of free government and we submit, is it fair that our people should be subjected to such cruel and unAmerican treatment? We know the better element among the white race condemns this cruel act and we are relying on the love of justice and fairness, that after this cruel war is over, such measures will be taken that will lend protection to the colored American, who has shown his patriotism in such noble quality. We have faith in the love of fairness among the large white population of this country that such un-American conduct will be condemned and the guilty parties will be brought to justice and that all criminals, of whatever color, will be called to answer for their crimes, as made and provided by the laws of our country. By the way, what has become of that reported, battle, which Germany wanted to start with the British navy? It would be real refreshing if the Hun navy would get up steam and courage enough, to come out of its hole and make battle with Johnny Bull's sea dogs. But don't hold your breath until the Hun navy gives battle. If it were a few fishing boats that he would meet, the Kaiser would come bravely out, or, if it was only a Red Cross tent, that he might train his guns to destroy, how boldly he would attack. Or, if it was to attack an unarmed ship like the Lusitania, and kill a lot of innocent women and children, the brave Hun admiral would sail out with great boldness. But to meet a war ship, not on your life. The Hun is very brave, when it comes to attacking, where he has a good chance of saving his bacon. He fights, of course, to despration, but this strong hold is where he has the upper hand in manpower or guns. The fellow who started the report that the Hun navy was about to give battle to the British, was talking through his bonnet. Mr. Ford says he does not like the flag and this man wants to go to the United States senate. He boasts of not having voted but a few times in his life, thinknig business, the hoarding of dollars, the more important matter. And this man wants to go into the United States senate and has the audacity to ask both Democrats and Republicans to make him the nominee. What a reward for such citizenship. The Kaiser says that the harder part of his unholy war is before him. Yet his dupes follow his lead with object serfdom. What a government! What a system of education to produce such citizens! Well may we fight to keep us from the contamination of such a government. SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 18. A proposition to amend section 1 of article 5 of the constitution of the state of Kansas relative to the right of suffrage. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Kansas, two-thirds of the members elected to each house concurring therein: Section 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection; That section 1 of article B of the constitution of the state of Kansas be amended to read as follows: Section 1. Every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and upwards—who shall have resided in Kansas six months next preceding any election; and in the township or ward in which he or she offers to vote, at least thirty days next preceding such election shall be deemed a qualified elector. Sec. 2. That this proposition shall be submitted to the electors of the state at the general election in the year 1918 for their approval or rejection. The amendment hereby proposed shall be designated on the ballot by the following title: "The suffrage amendment to the constitution," and shall be voted for or against as provided by law under such title. Sec. 3. That this resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book. Passed the Senate February 28, 1917. Passed the House March 8, 1917. Approved March 12, 1917. I hereby certify that the foregoing a true and correct copy of the original Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 18, now on file in my office. J. T. BOTKIN, (Seal) Secretary of State. (First published August 9, 1918.) METROPOLITAN NOTES Pastor Holmes, being a major of the State Guards, and doing such good work for God among the soldiers at Camp Funston, the government officials were loath to let him return, so he did not get back to the Temple to preach last Sabbath. Nevertheless, Rev. Webb, of Quindaro, preached well to the large congregation assembled morning and night. In the afternoon the funeral of the late Mr. Dinkins was well attended at the same church. Rev. J. R. Richardson, another of our soulstirring preachers, officiated. It is said that Rev. (Major) D. A. Holmes had 400 converts at his meeting in four nights. He is expected home sure this Saturday and all should attend church. If he averaged 100 a night, by this time he will have caused about 800 conversions in all. Even if he had 400, it was somewhat similar to the chapplain who baptized 300 Yanks in one day, in the Marne river, July 30th. OLD-FASHIONED PICNIC MONDAY On next Monday, Labor Day, there will be an old-fashioned picnic at Heathwood Park. Horse racing, athletic sports of every kind will take place. Bands of music will enliven the occasion all day. Plenty to eat and drink. D. W. Whitle, Manager. WESTERN INKLINGS KANSAS CITY, KANSAS DIS TRICT—J. T. SMITH, PRE SIDING ELDER. Mr. Editor: Please permit me to give you a few inklings, to the brethren of the district. Dear Brethren: This comes as the last inspiring appeal to you. There is no doubt that the success that has attended our efforts during this conference year has been the most conclusive evidence that the God who led Israel, by His servant, Moses, and who gave courage to Joshrua in the battle of Jericho, stands ready to give you success, and victory in this mighty conflict. We are in communication with His Reverence, the Bishop, who has just closed the California conference. To say the least, they went over the top, with an increase of $260.00 in Dollar Money. This alone should inspire us to carry the banner to heights yet ungained. The Bishop is urging every man to bring to the conference a good, substantial increase. Let us not fall behind in our Educational Assessment, Missionary and Dollar Money. The present financial condition of the country has made it possible for us to increase all of our general claims. Our district has never failed, so let us not dream of such a thing now. Let us wind up our work and be in Kansas City on time to leave for the seat of the Conference Tuesday morning, September 17th, bringing with you an increase for every item in your booklet. Lodge Notices EUREKA LODGE NO. 2. I. O. B. and S. of C. "Busy Bee." Meeting nights 1st and 3rd Monday, 314 Nebraska Ave. SAMUEL DIGGS, W. H. C. MARY SMITH, W. S. HUDSON LODGE NO. 1. of the I. O. B. and S. of C. "Busy Bees". Meeting nights 1st and 3rd Wednesday at Fraternity Hall, 314 Nebraska Ave. Come out and join us in our great success. Y. H. HADLEY, W. H. C. Mr. L. T. Hussey, state fire marshal of Kansas, reports that in five years Kansas has had 15,544 fires, and that almost twcie as many fires were caused by sparks on the roofs as from any other cause. A good fire-proof roof can be had for less cost than a shingle roof. SAMUEL DIGGS THE OLD RELIABLE Pays the highest cash price for iron, bottles, bones, copper, bra- thing in the junk line. SQUARE DEALING AND HOME TIMES. 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PAGE FOUR Mr. C. W. Landers is taking a vacation from his business to visit in Parsons, Kans., and Oklahoma. Mr. J. Peterson had the pleasure of having his son, Clifford, to come from Oswego, Kans., to accompany his sisters home Sunday. Mrs. D. S. Simmons entertained Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, Mr. Peterson, Clifford, Helen and Ethel Peterson to a lovely dinner, which was beautifully served. Mr. Lonnie Hale returned home from a two weeks stay in the mountains. His wife was quite lonely and was sure glad to see him. Mr. C. H. Hurd is visiting Wichita and hopes to return soon with his little daughter, Elen Hurd. Mrs. Amanda Clark has been quite sick, but is improving. We wish her a speedy recovery, so she can be found in her pew at the church at the different meetings. We miss her very much. Dr. Flynn and family is passing through Chanute and stopping at Mrs. A. Clarke's, 212 North Ashby street. Dr. Flynn is from Fort Scott, Kansas. We wish him success while in our city. Mrs. A. M. Webster, 101 North Ashby street, has opened a nice lunch room, and she would be glad to have you stop in and enjoy a nice lunch or a cold soda. As you are passing stop and help her. Miss Lavon Brigham is expected home this week, after a two months' vacation in Colorado prings. School begins Monday morning and many a glad heart will be when they hear the call. Come, get ready for school. Mr. and Mrs. Goodceal has bought them a pleasant home in the northwest part of the town and their four children will change schools and teachers. We wish for them a pleasant change. There will be a union picnic for the Sunday schools Friday, August 30th, at a beautiful grove, where the children can have a happy day's outing under the leadership of the superintendent of the Baptist Sunday school, Mr. Crith, and the Methodist superintendent. Presiding Elder Smith held his quarterly meeting Sunday and it was a glorious day and we are always glad for that hour that Rev. Smith is to be in our midst, for he is an able speaker and race pride minister. We miss him and his family, as they have moved from our city to Kansas City, Kansas. Rev. S. H. Winton has returned home again from a visit to see his family. Sorry to learn while he was gone he had to call the doctor to his bedside. He was at his post and preached a wonderful sermon. Quite a few of our cups ran over with God's blessing while he talked of God in His glory. The B. Y. P. U. was beautifully attended. The ever-loyal class rendered an excellent program. The paper that Mr. Goodceal read was fine and the subscription was to the soldier boys. The B. Y. P. U. ordered the paper typewritten and sent to Brother Fried McCuller, as he is one of our active young men of every department of the church, and he is numbered with our Chanute boys that are at present in Camp Funston. Little Mildred Field played a beautiful piano solo and Mis sIrene Clem played a beautiful solo by memory. We are so proud of parents who are looking after the further life in educating their children. Mr. Conbrass was called to the bedside of his wife, who is quite ill in Iola, Kans. We are glad to say that Miss Blanche Johnson, who has been sick for some time, is better. We wish her a speedy recovery. Mr. William Brown and his little daughter, Angline, have gone to Winfield, Kans., to visit his son, who is attending school there. Mrs. Zeola Patrick is quite a happy mother, with a 6-lb. boy, who was born to her at 9:30 Thursday evenning. She is rooming with Mrs. T. Brown, 108 South Central. Mr. Claude C. Skinner and B. N. Hunigan, special agents and district trial Insurance company are visitors supervisors of the National Indusin Chanute, in the interest of insurance business among the colored people. Mr. Skinner is a son of the Rev. P. D. Stainer, well known minister of Coffeyville, Kansas, and Mr. Hunigan is son of the late deceased Mrs. Mary Hunigan of Chanute, also a former resident of Coffeyville, Kansas. These gentlemen report that they are highly impressed with the people of Chanute, and the future outlook for a good substantial insurance business to be established here. They expect to pay a visit to each and every home among our race of people and try and stimulate a greater interest along industrial lines. Their trip here, we hope, will be of mutual benefit to the community at large, as has been the case in other towns of their district. INSECT PRODUCTS OF VALUE Many Small Creatures Make Contributions to the Country's Wealth of No Insignificant Amount. We have many insect products of no small value. Most familiar are honey and wax from the bee. There is also a Chinese bug which secretes a kind of grease on various trees. This hardens into wax, and is collected, melted and purified, when it becomes white and glossy in appearance, and when mixed with oil can be made into candles. This cochineal, a scale insect living on cacti in the American tropics, besides having medicinal qualities, yields the two dyes called carmine and lake. While, nowadays most dyes are chemically made, the natural dye of the cochineal is employed in coloring soldiers' uniforms, as it stands the weather better than commercial dyes. The pupae of a Mexican black fly which swarms in great quantities near Lake Texico are used as fertilizer. No enlargement is needed on the work of the precious silkworm—a native of China which is now raised here also. Commercial shellac is obtained by melting lac, the resinous substance produced by an East Indian scale insect and deposited in a crust on twigs to contain the insect and its eggs. The export value of lac from Indian ports in one year has risen as high as 33,000,000 rupees. Lac has also been used to make dyes, but while the lac industry is a growing one, the employment of lac in making dyes has probably had its day. The best lac is obtained from Bengal and the central province of India. It is also used as stiffening for hats, sealing wax, as an ingredient of lithographic ink, in electrical work and in the manufacture of gramophone records. SPRING FESTIVAL IN CHINA Beginning of the Year is a Time of Rejoicing Throughout the Whole Country. In the United States one knows that spring has come when he sees boys playing marbles and flying kites. In China, says the Christian Science Monitor, there are regular spring-playing festivals that all the people have a part in and which are especially interesting for children. Just when the spring festival comes depends on the moon. It is the beginning of the year in China, and in the first moon the magistrates and other important persons in the town go out in a procession "to meet the spring." It is at the lantern festival, the 15th of the first month, that the children have the best time. Brightly colored lanterns are everywhere, at the doors of shops and houses, and carried in processions. Boughs of evergreen are also placed above the doors, and there is an abundance of "moon cakes," little round sweet rice cakes. The boys dress up in all sorts of fantastic clothes, sing, dance and give little plays. They wear masks of animals and of human faces. Companies of them go about through the streets of their villages, and from one village to another. Now and then a group of maskers will be seen on high stilts. There is a very pretty dance where every dancer carries a lighted lantern. This is called the lantern dance. Explaining "Mizpah." Mizpah or Mispeh is the name of several towns in Palestine. The name is derived from a verb of the ancient Hebrew signifying to look or watch out. The word occurs in several places in the Old Testament. The first mention is the most significant. Jacob and his prospective father-in-law, Laban, met on a slope of Mt. Gilead and entered into a covenant. Laban had several times violated his agreement as to the wages he was paying Jacob, and Jacob demanded a fair deal. When they came to an agreement they raised a monument of stones, which Laban declared should be called "Galeed, and Mizpah." "This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day. The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent, one from the other." This passage is used as a benediction by the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor. British Columbia's Coal. Writing of the discovery of coal in British Columbia, Johnson in his "First Things in Canada," states: "One day in December, 1849, an officer of the Hudson's Bay company in Fort Victoria was informed by the foreman of the blacksmith's shop that an old Nanalmo Indian chief had just stated that he knew where there was 'stuff' like that which the white man was 'using' in the blacksmith's fire. The Indian was told that if he would bring some pieces of the 'stuff' he would have his gun repaired free and receive a bottle of rum. The chief reappeared in the following April (1850) with his canoe laden with coal. A prospecting party went out and found the coal where the city of Nanalmo now stands. In 1874 the production of coal from the Nanalmo mines amounted to 1,000 tons; in 1896 it exceeded 1,000,000 tons. "They say that at marriages in the future there will be a strictly American wedding march." "I suppose it will be something on the order of a two-step." Paradoxical. Squabs—What made poor Griggaby so light header? Squabs—Well, there are differences of opinion, but he attributes it to heavy thinking. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE Case on Record Where Insect Used Stone as Hammer to Pound Dirt More Firmly. So far as known, only one small insect—a wasp of the sphex family—among the millions of creatures belonging to a lower order than man, has ever employed the aid of a tool to accomplish a desired result. The mother wasp of this family digs a tunnel in the ground, deposits her egg in it and provides a caterpillar stung to death or to a condition of paralysis for her baby to feed on when hatched. The grub subsists upon the caterpillar until it passes through the pupa stage into the perfect winged insect. Then it digs its way out of the tunnel and begins its life above ground as a wasp. But after the mother wasp has made its tunnel, and deposited the egg, it finishes its task by ramming down pellets of earth, little stones, etc., into the mouth of the tunnel. This is the race habit of these wasps. It is recorded on undoubted authority that one inventive mother, when the mouth of the tunnel was covered to a level with the rest of the ground about it, brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt to the spot, and pickling up a small pebble in her mandibles, used it as a hammer in pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making the spot as firm and as hard as the surrounding surface. Then she departed, brought more dirt, picked up the pebble again and used it as a hammer, as before. NOT WISE TO GO HUNGRY Writer Criticizes the "No-Breakfast" Fad Which Still Retains a Hold on Some People. A few years ago someone started a boom for the breakfastless day as conducive to longevity. I know persons who have dung stubbornly to this absurdity, Meredith Nicholson writes in the Yale Review. The despicable habit contributes to domestic unsociability and is. I am convinced by my own experiments, detrimental to health. The chief business of the world is transacted in the morning hours, and I am reluctant to believe that it is most successfully done on empty stomachs. Fasting as a spiritual discipline is, of course, quite another thing, but fasting by a tired business man under medical compulsion can hardly be lifted to the plane of things spiritual. To delete breakfast from the day's program is a sheer cowardice, a confession of invalidism which is well calculated to reduce the powers of resistance. The man who begins the day with a prescription that sets him apart from his neighbors may venture into the open jaundity, persuading himself that his abstinence proves his superior qualities; but in his heart, to say nothing of his stomach, he knows that he has been guilty of a sneaking evasion. If he were a normal, healthy being he would not be skulking out of the house breakfastless. Early rising, a prompt response to the breakfast bell, a joyous breaking of the night's fast, is a rite not to be despised in civilized homes. Football In China. The Chinese, first as they were in many things, were first in the field with that winter pastime we regard as peculiarly our own—football. They played football from very early times, at first with a ball stuffed with hair, but from the fifth century with an inflated bladder covered with leather. Even in the earliest days the game had its own literature, giving the technical names and positions of the players and enumerating at least seventy different varieties of kicks; but perhaps the most striking matter so recorded was that concerning the reward of the players: "The winners were rewarded with flowers, fruit and wine; and even with silver bowls and brocades; while the captain of the losing team was flogged and suffered other indignities." Checks Little Used in France. Checks Little Used in France. Checks are not much used and are seldom accepted in France. There is but little attempt to identify the payer of a check and anyone who either makes out or accepts an order to pay does so at his peril. The public tax collector will have none of them, and the taxpayer has to stand in line with his bank bills in the back yard or in the garret of the precepteur, or else he must go to jail for nonpayment. He cannot send a check. There is no clearing house in Paris. Banks settle their accounts with one another by sending uniformed messengers, who carry cash through the streets and who stand in line before the cashiers' windows waiting to get their exact change. John N. Anderson in Century Magazine. Aristotle's Prescription. A balsam for every ill, an ease for every ache, is translated by Steele from the "Secretum Secretorum," supposed to have been written by the philosopher Aristotle for his pupil, Alexander the Great. The concoction consists of juices of various fruits boiled down and seasoned with musk, ambergris and aloes, various highly expensive oils salted liberally with powdered pearls, rubles, sapphires, amethysts, emeralds, gold, etc., all being guarded by appropriate magical precautions. Alexander, however, died at an early age from excessive imbibing; not of this delectable mixtures prescribed by his mentor, but of the juice of the gren "Yes, Ise still knockin' along dat line.—Whar is you? If you is on de same line, and Comin', while Ise Gwy-in, den we Meets. In the last two or three issues of The Advocate, we have had something to say along the line of propaganda, for Race Unity, in Every thing, from the piont of Respecting each other, clear around the Circle of our Civil and Economic existence, to the point where we Demand and get Respect from others. To accomplish these two things, we must teach and instill into our people, the Idea and notion-That they MUST Speedily cease, to think that OTHER kinds and Colors of People, can do and accomplish things better and more acceptable than we, Our-selves can. We must teach and instill into our people, the Notion, that "They are "OF THE PEOPLE" the same as all others, and subject to the same NATURAL LAWS, as are al Other people. And I stated the method by which we could accomplish those ends. As being by and Through united efforts in our Churches. And I put the question squarely, "Am I Wrong?` And asked that any one who thought, or thinks such is not THE WAY," to "Speak-out in the Meetin'" and let it be known:—perchance, thereby, a better way would be suggested. No one seems to have found a better one as yet. I therefore, take it, that the way suggested is conceded to be Good. Then besides, THAT WAY, has the approval, of an EMINENT body of Gentlemen,—The Civic League of Kansas City, Kas—who quite a number of months ago, Squarely adopted that plan, and made some Appreciable movement in furtherance of it. And there has been no reason why it should not have been kept on the Forward movement. Then, in the name of a Suffering Race,—Let us Get Busy. "No day's low setting sun passes" that does not shine upon and bring to full view the pressing need of such action. For the instances are "Legion" and they come to every one of us,—which show beyond question;—that in the daily courses and distances, which go to make our lives,—that to many,—"All Men," means All of a CERTAIN kind and COLOR of men. That to many, and by many, many, — Exceptions are Assumer, which are not on the face of,—nor within the INTENDMENT of the Fundamental rules and Laws for our government. Then Why should we not be Busy? —Is there any good Reason? Then Let's become and be Active and Busy. Who will begin? Let's START:—That's the way to begin. You have The Civic League's Indorsement, —something of which, you may justly be Proud.—Let's Move. UNCLE IKE. IN the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Jessie Martin, Plaintiff, vs. Albert Martin, Defendant. To the above named defendant You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above named court. and unless you appear and answer the petition filed, on or before the 20th day of Sept., 1918, it will be presented at a trial, and evidence will be introduced, upon which a judgment will be rendered, the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bonds of matirmony existing between the plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing the plaintiff from you, the defendant, and for the costs of this action. Lawyers for the Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk of District Court. (First published August 9, 1912.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Ruth Dukes, Plaintiff James Dukes. Defendant. To the Defendant, James Dukes, Greeting: Notice is hereby given that you have been sued for a divorce in the above nand court by the plaintiff, Ruth Dukes, on the grounds of extreme cruelty and akandonment, and that you must answer the petition filed by plaintiff in said action on or before the 27th day of September, A. D. 1918, or said petition will be taken as true BOULDIN CLEANERS "That Clean" Matthews Coal Co. 7th and Virginia Ave. Bell West 588 ALL GRADES OF HARD AND SOFT COAL Cord Wood, Kindling Wood and Corn Cobs CORRECT WEIGHT and PRICES RIGHT Play Safe and Order Your Coal Now Matthews Coal Co. 7th and Virginia Ave. Bell West 588 ```markdown ``` Matthews 7th and Virginia Ave. ALL GRADES OF HAR Cord Wood, Kindling CORRECT WEIGHT and Play Safe and Ord Matthews 7th and Virginia Ave. and a judgment will be rendered, the nature of which will be a decree divorcing plaintiff of and from you, and for such further relief as to the court may seem just and proper. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk of District Court. (First Published August 16, 1918.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. James Stuckey, Plaintiff, To the above named defendant: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer the petition filed, on or before the 26th day of Sept., 1918, the petition filed will be presented to the court, and evidence will be introduced, upon which a judgment will be rendered, the nature of which will be a decree divorcing the plaintiff from you, the defendant, and for the costs of this action. BRADLEY & BRADLEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk of District Court. (First Published August 16, 1918.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Robert Taylor, Plaintiff, vs. Roxie Taylor, Defendant. To the Defendant, Roxie Taylor, Greeting: Notice is hereby given that you have been sued for a divorce in the above named court by the plaintiff, Robert Taylor, on the ground of abandonment, and that you must answer the petition of the plaintiff on or before the 27th day of September, A. D., 1918, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment will be rendered, the nature of which will be a decree, divorcing the plaintiff of and from you and for such further orders as to the court may seem proper. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk of District Court. (First Published August 16, 1918.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, 3rd Div. Jordan Fonsworth, Plaintiff, vs. No. 9780. Annie Fonsworth, Defendant. 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Bell West 588 RD AND SOFT COAL Wood and Corn Cobs d PRICES RIGHT der Your Coal Now Coal Co. Bell West 588 PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Charles Glover, Plaintiff. Goldie Glover. Defendant. To the Defendant, Goldie Glover: Greeting: Notice is hereby given that you have been sued for a divorce in the above namd court by the plaintiff, Charles Glover, on the ground of abandonment for one year next preceding the filing of the above entitled action, and that you must answer the petition filed by plaintiff in said action on or before the 27th day of September, A. D., 1918, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment will be rendered, the nature of which will be a decree, divorcing the plaintiff of and from you and for such further orders as to the court may seem proper. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk of District Court. (First Published August 16, 1918.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. James Stuckey, Plaintiff. vs. Alice Stuckey, Defendant. To the above named defendant: You are hrey notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer the petition filed, on or before Oct. 3rd, 1918, the petition will be presented, and evidence given, upon which a judgment will be rendered, the nature of which will be a decree divorcing plaintiff from you, and for the costs of this action. You are also notified that the deposition of the plaintiff, and other witnesses will be taken at Camp Funston, on Sept. 14th, 1918, at H. D. Q. R. S. 805 Inft. BRADLEY & BRADLEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clery District Court. (First publication August 23, 1918.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Lawrence Jones Plaintiff Lawrence Jones, Plaintiff. vs. No. 9778A. Katherine Jones, Defendant. State of Kansas, Wyandotte County, ss: The State of Kansas, greeting: To the above named defendant, Katherine Jones, you will take notice that the above named plaintiff did, on the 9th day of August, 1918, file his petition in the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas, against you for divorce upon the grounds of extreme cruelty. Unless you answer, demur or otherwise object on or before the 4th day of October, 1918, the allegation, statement, averment and contents of said petition will be taken as true and upon further proof, the plaintiff will be granted a divorce as prayed for. L. W. JOHNSON, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk, by W. F. Mathis, Deputy. (First publication August 23, 1918.)