Kansas City Advocate

TWELVE MONTHS, $1.50. STATE DEPUTY STANLEY GOES TO ALABAMA AS SUPERVISOR Just when the people of Kansas City, Kansas, commence getting to know real well the worth of Mr. John Q. Stanley, the State deputy of the American Woodmen, who has been in this city for a few month, the chief commander, Mr. White, of Denver, Colo., notified him this week he had MR. JOHN Q. STANLEY. been appointed state supervisor-for the state of Alabama, with headquar THE EDITOR VISITS OTTAWA On Monday of this week the editor had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful little city of Ottawa, Kans., and mustering in a new company of the Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias, as commander of the State of Kansas, and accompanied by Assistant Adjutant General Chas. Slaughter, we were met at the depot by that genial gentleman of culture, Mr. Von B. Brady, the chancellor commander, and organizer of the new company which was instituted. We were carried immediately to the hospitable and well cared for home of the editors old friends, Rev. and Mrs. John A. Allen, 211 East Logan street, where we were to stop for the night. Those who know these two Christian people can realize the comfort and hospitality around this home and as to the culinary department, Mrs. Allen ranks among the best and there is no limit to the dishes. Well, we just hated to leave when the hour came around. Rev. Allen is custodian of the federal building and has been for some years. He owns a nice home, with several other nice pieces of property. We met with another pleasant gentleman, a business man, who was quoted by a white gentleman as to be worth between eighty and ninety thousand dollars, owns considerable stock in one of the leading banks, and houses and lands everywhere. He owns nearly a half block on the north end of Main street, where he runs what is known as the North Side garage and a general line in automobile work. There is nothing about any kind or make of car he is not able to do. He does all kinds of blacksmithing and woodwork of which he has followed in this city for thirty years. His work rooms run from 417 to 421 North Main street and it is all his. All departments are kept busy all the time, and as we passed his blacksmith department at a late working hour Monday night, this gentleman was at his anvil, making the fire fly. It was told us when he promises a job you may depend that it will be ready when called for. A reliable man—it means something to a busy world like this—J. H. Wilson is his name and the one man in Ottawa who has made good. Every citizen in this progressive little town is proud of him and look up to him as one of their ideal business men. We did not have the pleasure of seeing his residence, but we are told it measures up to his business ideas. We were also told there were others who had long since quit counting their money by even three figures, but by four and five figures. There are two churches of ours in the city, one A. M. E. and one Baptist church, and the population there being small, neither having what we would call in a city of this size a large membership. We only met the pastor of the A. M. E. church, Rev, A, J, Sanders of St. Paul, 417 South Oak and if the other pastor is equal to this one, the people of Ottawa can boast of more than one Prince. This is Rev. Sanders' first year and with a membership of less than one hundred ters at Birmnigham. While we regret very much to lose a citizen of such high character, we congratulate Mr. Stanley in receiving such high recognition from this great organization. Since his coming to our midst, he has made a host of substantial friends, both for himself and the company he so well represented. His work, in the few months here, has been phenomenal and that accounts for him, out of th ehundreds of deputies, being the choice and one man to whom the chief commander had confidence in, to handle the work in this great Southern state. The people of Alabama will find in Mr. Stanley a man of high ideals and every inch of him a man, and a citizen of great worth. His success in his new field is assured, as he does not know anything but the word failure, and his friends here only can say, "May Health and Hapiness be his stay in his new and high position. The State Supervisor of Kansas, Mr. Banks, is the most disappointed man, as he has lost one of his star men. Mr. Stanley will leave Monday for his new field and other state supervisors will certainly have to be up and doing. he has opened some of the peoples eyes so wide in the short time there that they have not been able to close them yet. He took this church, which is an old one, built from stone, but located in the very best part of the city, and was about to be condemned for park purposes, but not for that, as we have had some experiences right here in Kansas City. While it was in bad shape and things looked hopeless, as the membership had also dropped off, this gospel man took hold with all these discouraging things confronting him, got it out of the hands of the wrong and back on the side of right, and today has nearly completed one of the neatest and prettiest bungalo churches in the state, and those who wanted to condemn it, of the other race, have been some of its most liberal donors. They have one hundred feet frontage on this beautiful and aristocratic street, and a good parsonage and when Dr. Sanders gets through every one in that block on both sides of the street would petition for to have it remain where the old fathers and mothers of some forty years ago and have long since gone to heaven, prayed, shed tears and shouted, that old St. Paul might be one day a beacon light to the people of Ottawa. A thousand-dollar rally is to come off this Sunday and it will go much higher from what we could learn. Rev Sanders has a strong helpmate in his wife and has done much in bringing about success. Rev. E. R. Vaughn, dean of Western University, will be with Rev. Sanders all day Sunday. CHARITABLE WORK BY MRS. NEWMAN Being sick and taking treatment from Dr. S. H. Thompson, who told me if I would keep quiet, he could restore me back to health, I thought of what I could do that would not overtax the body, in a charitable way. So I thought of Douglass hospital, and I set to work in making a quilt for this deserving institution, and in a very short time, for one who was under the care of a physician the quilt was finished. Those who gave some assistance were Sister Manley, on North Ninth street, and Sister Webb, and my husband. It will be presented to Douglass hospital by my pastor, Rev. Griffin. God bless Douglass hospital. ELLA' NEWMAN, 1926 North Sixth street. SUMNER HIGH PROGRAM. The Junior executive committee had the fine program, which they were to have at the Forum in the Sumner High school auditorium on Wednesday. Mr. Merrill Williams wrote on Washington, and Moster Ralph White had a violin solo and Mr. Dale Bougess had a paper on Douglass and Miss, Ollie Henry a paper on Lincoln. All were very good; and greatly applauded. Mrs. Adele Link has returned home from Chicago, where she visited her daughter, Miss M. Link, who is attending the Chicago University. CITY KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1919 UNIFORM COMPANY, K. OF P. MUSTERED IN. Monday evening at Odd Fellows' hall on Main street, Brigadier General Thomas Kennedy of Kansas City, Kansas, and his Assistant Adjutant General Charles Slaughter, of the same city, instituted and mustered in a Uniform Company of Knights of Pythias. There were twenty-one members enrolled and given this degree, which was done beautifully. After the work was completed a public reception was given Kansas' commanding officer and his adjutant, of which a large number were present. Sir Von B. Brady was selected captain; other officers to be elected at the next meeting. The following are the members of the new company: CRANE'S WE ARE SHOWING THE BEST $25 and $35 SPRING SUITS IN GREATER KANSAS CITY Come early and make your selection. We cater especially for the large women. N. A. A. C. P. IN IN MEMORIAL HALL, TOPEKA The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, together with other organizations, met in Memorial Hall last Saturday afternoon and evening. A business session and open discussion of public affairs was held in the afternoon. Mr. John R. Shillady of New York City", secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., was present. In the evening session a large number of people were present. Mr. Guy, temporary chairman, introduced Lieutenant Governor Hoffman, who delivered the first address and presided over the meeting. He introduced the writer who spoke The next speaker was the guest and speaker of the evening, Mr. John R. Shillady of New York City. He spoke at length, showing the needs of the colored people of America. He marshelled facts to show that they were in need of legislating for rather than against. His address resulted in arousing greater zeal in the cause for which the association stands. We are looking forward to the organization of a large number of branches in Kansas. Mr. Shillady spoke at the Forum to a large audience Sunday afternoon in Kansas City, Kansas. He spoke to an appreciative group of the Paseo "Y" leaving on the 11 o'clock train for St. Louis. His trip was a blessing, a stimulous, a heartener to those who had the pleasure of hearing him. The writer telephoned Saturday night at 1 a.m., to Prof. Hodge, who, though indisposed, through the kindness sof his good wife, got the news abroad, which enabled us to have the meetings mentioned. Memorial Hall. Memorial Hall, a monument to the largeness of heart of the veterans of the Civil war is a dream. Ours was a historical meeting in a historical building. Col. Harrison, who is in charge of the building, is a fine man. His face indicates the spirit of '61, when the spirit of human kindness was at its full. It is a pleasure to meet him. His heart is in the right place. If you desire to revive the joyous spirit of altruism that the Civil war stood for visit these men. Secretary Connelly is another interesting personage. He was instrumental in securing the grounds of Western University for the Methodist church while Brother Ben Watson was in charge at Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. Thomas Sneed has the honor of being custodian, of Memorial Hall. He is honored and respected by those in authority. Mrs. Johnson and her daughter see to the comfort of visitors. Col. Dennison was a resident of the writer's home town, Eureka. A pleasant chat with him recalled thrilling memories of the enchantment that always surrounds one's native home. G. A. GREGG. LIEUT. H. BROWN RETURNS HOME The mother, family and the many friends were glad to see on last Sunday Lieut. Howard Brown, who arrived home from France. Lieut. Brown was in the officers training school at Fort Des Moines and was soon sent overseas, where he made a great record on the battlefields of France as an officer and soldier. We all welcome him home and honor him in the record made in defense of his country. He will lecture at First A.M. E. church Tuesday, March 4th, ADVOCATE Sirs Von B. Brady, William Baldwin, W. O. Bell, Louis D. Smith, William Garrett, N. N. Seals, Joe White. Walter Smith, John A. Allen, Horace Moten, George Pendleton, Elvis Allison, Willie Williams, Clarence Hooker, E. A. Camfer, William Jones, James T. Curry, Perry Lewis, C. A. Woods, Calvin White and Geo. A. Hutchinson, A CALL TO ORGANIZE. To the Colored American Citizens of the State of Kansas, Greeting: Firmly believing that the exigencies of the times demand it; believing that the interests of the 40,000 or more Colored American citizens of the great commonwealth of Kansas can better be advanced or subserved through a state-wide organisation, we the officers of Local Branch No. 1, of the Constitutional Rights Association of Kansas, hereby extend a call to a conference or convention of the Colored Americans of the State of Kansas to convene in the city of Wichita Tuesday and Wednesday, March 25 and 26, for the purpose of completing a state organisation of the Constitutional Rights Association, and for the further purpose of discussing matters of vital importance to us as a Race, a part of the greatest nation on the globe, and for the further purpose of devising plans by which local branches of this organization may be organized in every city and town throughout the State where our people reside. Each and every city is urgently requested to call a mass meeting of its citizens for the selection of delegates to attend this convention. It is further urged that the various churches, lodges and other organisations interest themselves in this movement in their respective cities to the end that a representative delegation from your city may be elected. It is hoped that immediately upon selection of delegates, each city will notify the Secretary of Local Branch No. 1, Wichita, so that proper arrangements may be made for providing ample accommodations for all who may attend. We hope it will be borne in mind that ladies are eligible to membership in this organisation on equality with men, and that a goodly number of them will be present at this convention to make of it one of the largest gatherings of our people ever held in Kansas. F. C. HELM, President. REV, J. R. RANSOM. Chairman Board of Directors CAPTAIN S. W-JONES. Secretary. Rev. R. A. Adams, one of A, M. E. church's greatest evangelists, dropped in to see his family, 634 Franklin avenue, for a day last week and left for Springfield, Ohio, where a campaign starts Sunday Dr. Adams has been in Michigan since last November, where he did a great work. THOS. KENNEDY, PUBLISHER. J. O. MIDNIGHT HOPS NORTH TO BLEAK PITTSBURGH. PA. Pittsburgh, Pa.—The man who stays in one place will never know civilization in its various phases in this country. For in one part of the country you are one thing and in another part you are something else, and in order to feel it you will have to travel. I am sure that before I get around much more you will you are not able to tell and I doubt will decide that I must know something about it, but just how much you are not able t. totell and I doubt very much whether or not I could really tell myself. I am sure that you know I must have passed through some change since I wrote my last letter, and I have seen different men. At times I was ready to lay my religion on the shelf and other times I was just as happy as could be. I have passed through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and I am right now in Pennsylvania, and you can just imagine what this must mean. I have been in all the states except the state of death, and I have been along that way. While in Florida, especially in Jacksonville, I was the guest of Rev. John E. Ford, and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, and his sister, Mrs. Dotie Hunter. I want to congratulate Dr. Ford on his choice, and then pass on, for I have some few things to tell you if you can bear to hear them all this week. I preached at Bethel Constitutional or something like that, Baptist church. They have all kind of work going on there, teaching the people practical religion, the religion of service. They forget me but the preacher dished down in his pocket and shelled me out two one-dollar bills, which toted me a few miles on my way to this place. Things were a little stirred up in Montgomery, Ala., because of some circulars which had been distributed in the homes of white folks and put up in the post office, and no one could tell where they came from or where they were printed. There had been some talking of Klu Klux Klan or something like that, and this paper told all about what the Negro had stood for years, how he had been treated and mistreated, lynched and the like, and he had reached the place where he thought it was time to defend himself or something like that, and told the white people that when they were ready to do the killing act to come right on, and they would find them ready, and I am told it was signed by "Dirty Dozen." I am not fully prepared to discuss this, but they have not found out who distributed such documents. Now then on to Birmingham, and there I got some real cussing stuff, but will not tell you about it now, for I do not want to burden you with such matters. I want you to pray, for now is he praying-time. We must prepare to meet our God, for we know not what may happen in this country of ours. I hope war is over and over for all time to come. Let us pray and work. In Birmingham, I touched Dr. U. G. Mason, and found that he had invented something that would out-salve Vicks salve, and it goes right home at once. Then I touched other representative men there. Mrs. Carrie A. Tuggle is one more busy woman I was delighted to see her and her work. She has a fine set of young people in Tuggle's Institute. I had the pleasure of meeting some of the other people there. Then I made to other parts of the city and at night started for Nashville, and I want to remain there for a little while, for there is where I was made to shout right on the street, to see what wonderful progress we are making. In Nashville, I found men too busy to discuss the race question, too busy to look that way, but they are just working out their destiny in fear of God, and fear not man. There is the State school with a real man as president, Prof. W. J. Hale. He is a man, every inch of him, and he is teaching the young people to be of service to mankind. He is pointing out to them the real road to happiness and greatness, and that means much to us all. He took his time to get prepared for his work, and then he entered the world. He is the first president the school has had, and he has done well. From there I went out to see the boys at Meharry Medical college, and it was to me a source of pleasure to see this class of young men getting NUMBER,30 ready to be real sure doctors. Men who have decided to let the world know what it is to live, and they are going to keep men and women on earth as long as it is possible for medical skill to keep taem. They know all the latest methods, Now to show you what I am talking about I must tell you about the Mille E. Hale hospital, located in Nashville, with J. H. Hale, surrogatin-chief, and Mrs. Hale, the head nurse, or superintendent. It was indeed inspiring to see these people at work. Our young women are there looking after the sick—in fact they are learning to be real nurses, while others of experience are right by their side. This institution was founded by Dr. Hale, and he is a doctor of wide experience and ability. When it comes to cutting you to pieces he is right there. They say he is skilled, and I have heard that he could take you all apart, put you together again and you continue to live. I went through the hospital and found people there from all parts of the country, who had been repaired, and some were waiting to be repaired and put together again. All were doing well. I went through there where there were men who had been opened, women who had been opened and wrong parts removed and they were just getting well. I am glad that I have lived to see this day. Dr. Hale is not keeping it all to himself, for every Thursday night the doctors of the city meet there and discuss something about the human medicine to use, or the kind of knife to use or something like that. I do know that they are studying in a practical way how to keep my people down on earth. They think this is the proper thing to do and they are doing it. When doctors and preachers agree with each other, and they pull together, then you will see, the devil getting his trunk in order, and getting ready to move for he will be going out of business. The people will get better, and we will no longer look upon ourselves as a downtrodden race, and if we are sick we will get well and look every man in the eye as a man looking at a man. Here and there I am meeting men from overseas. They are coming home. They are taking their places back, and ready to do duty any time called upon for their country. I shall have more to say about Nashville and my trip in the next letter. I have been to Cincinnati, Ohio, and there I have touched Joseph L. Jones, who is at the head of Calanthe of the world. Nothing doing just now concerning him. Look for other ter, saying nothing about where I letters. It is hard to tell where I will be when you even read this let-will be when I write the next one. LIEUT. BROWN TO GIVE LECTURE First Lieutenant Howard Brown, one of our heroes, just from France, will lecture at First A. M. E. church Tuesday night, March 4th, on scenes and experiences on the battle fields of France. He will exhibit many souvenirs brought back from France. You should hear this brilliant young officer. All proceeds go to the church. Admission, 10 cents; children, 5 cents. Baxter Springs, Kansas THE A. M. E. CHURCH IS NOW OUT OF DEBT Rev. C. T. Whitcomb and members with the assistance of friends, recently paid off the last dollar on the church. There was great rejoicing when the trustees announced to the congregation their house of worship were theirs. There is only a membership of thirty-odd and with their tireless pastor, have worked hard, and made many sacrifices to release all indebtedness. Rev. Whitcomb has done a great work at this place, not only for his own church, but for humanity. He is loved by all and as a young man, he has a bright future in the work of his calling. This rally was set forth by the men for February 17th, and some of them brought in as much as $60. It was one of the most sun-sniest days in the history of the church. PAGE TWO THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE THOMAS KENNEDY, Editor and Prop. G. A. GREGG, Associate Editor. MRS. M. G. MATTHEWS. Society Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY 610 North Sixth Street Office Phone.....Bell West 2407 Residence Phone.....Bell West 2969 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. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1919 FEBRUARY 1919 Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 J O. MIDNIGHT. The readers of The Advocate are familiar with the entertaining articles of J. O. Midnight as his contributions are looked for with pleasure whenever the paper comes out. His correspondence is always appreciated. Midnight, only that is not his name is one of the most versatile writers of the race. He is employed by the Associated Press and is traveling all over the country in the line of his chosen profession. One of his favorite humorous adjectives, in speaking of a man of much talk, is that the man is the "most talkiest" man ever. It may be said of Midnight that he is one of the "most travelist" men in the country. This week he is writing up a big meeting. of some sort in Florida, next hobnobbing with the dignataries of some convention or important conference in Michigan or Ohio. He is like the famous "Irishman's flea," when you think you have him he is not there. He is the Bob Burdett of the race. His humor is of the kindly sort and always refreshing, making many philosophical observation, which carry home some truth with telling effect. The race is proud of J. O. Midnight and well it is for he deserves it all. We would like to give our readers his real name, but we "dasn't." Condensed Official Statement of the Condition of THE MINNESOTA AVENUE STATE BANK Kansas City, Kansas At the close of business, February 21st, 1919, Resources Loans, Personal and Coll- ateral $126864.43 Loans, Real Estate 59072.73 Real Estate Owned 3233.81 United States Bonds 46600.00 United States Interim Cert- ificates 45000.00 Other Bonds 2000.00 State Guaranty Fund 1000.00 Furniture and Fixtures 1600.00 Cash and Due from Banks 75081.43 Other Resources 18297.27 $379449.67 Liabilities. Capital Stock ..... $ 10000.00 Surplus ..... 5000.00 Und. Profit (net) ..... 2215.06 Indiv. Deposits ..... 234889.91 Saving Deposits ..... 117020.38 Time Certificates ..... 2992.03 Cashier's Checks ..... 7332.29 $379449.67 The above statement is correct. EVAN H. BROWNE, Cashier. Total Deposits— December 11, 1915..... $ 84083.76 February 21, 1916..... 110597.30 February 21, 1917..... 136147.23 February 21, 1918..... 197188.36 February 21, 1919..... 362284.29 Remember the Place Fifth Street and Minnesota Avenue Where all the Street Cara go. The Bank of Personal Service. Directors Wm. R. Ahrends, C, W, Brewer, Chas, J, Dengel, E,A, Enright, H, J, Grossman, Albert Mebus; H. A. Mendenhall. H. A. Mendenhall, President 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 services last Sunday were of a high spiritual order and one of the largest audiences for the new year. Dr. Griffin delivered a strong and powerful cermon and souls were added to the church. The new choir chorister, Miss Carney, instructor in vocal culture of Western University, made many forget their troubles with heart songs from a choir of thirty-five voices, Miss Carney is thorough when it comes to vocal culture and has had years of experience both in school and choral work. Professor Drewry of Boston, sang a sweet solo at the close of the service. The second quarterly meeting will be held the second Sunday in March. The Sunday school is still growing to the satisfaction of its teaching force. Send your children on time. Young people, it looks well to see in Sunday school and Allen League. Every member of the church is urged by the pastor to be present Sunday, as he has something to announce that every member should hear for themselves. If you are not present you will regret it. Strangers only need to get acquainted but once at First A. M. E. MEMORIAM, For the passing souls we pray, Savior, meet them on their way; Let their trust lay hold on Thee E're they touch Eternity, To the hearts that know Thee, Lord, Thou wilt speak through flood or sword; Just beyond the cannon's roar, Thou art on the farther shore, For the passing souls we pray, Savior, meet them on their way. Thou wilt hear our yearning call, Who has loved and died for all. In memory of Albert LeRoy Price, Mar. 2nd, 1917; Mar. 2nd, 1919. —Mrs. A, L, Price, Wife; Mr. and Mrs. W. M, Price, Parents, NEGRQES SEEK OWN NATION Self-Determination the Aim of Pan-African Congress. Paris, Feb. 22.—When President Wilson announced his principle of self-determination of peoples, did he mean white's races, or did he include Negroes as well? Is there a place in the world for self-governed Negro races or are they expected to remain wards of the white race forever? These are the pivotal questions to be asked at the Pan-African Congress, which is now in progress in Paris. It is the first assembly of the kind in history which has for its object the drafting of an appeal to to the peace conference to give the Negroes of Africa a chance to develop unhindered by other races. Seated at long green tables in the council room today were Negroes in the trim uniform of American army officers, others in frock coats or business suits, polished French Negroes who hold public office, Senegalese, Indian and men from British Africa. Chairman Blaise Diague is a Seek Equality; Point to Japan. Negroes feel that color need not bar them from eventually sitting on terms of equality with other nations in the world's councils, especially as Flenty of exercise, fresh air, regular hours—is all the prescription you need to avoid influenza—unless through neglect or otherwise, a cold gets you. Then take—at once HILL'S CASCARA BROMIDE QUININE Standard cold remedy for 20 years—in tablet form—safe, sure, no opiates—breaks up a cold in 24 hours—relieves grip in 3 days. Money back if it fails. The genuine box has a Red top with Mr. Hill's picture. At All Drug Stores. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) Corner Third street and Stewart avenue. The Rev. M. E. Spatcher priest in charge. Sunday services—Holy communion, 730 a.' m.; Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.; morning prayer and sermon (except first Sunday) 11 a. m.; Holy communion (first Sunday), 11 a. m. strangers are welcome. WORKING GIRLS The Yates branch of the Y. W. C. A, Ninth street and Nebraska avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, offer nicely furnished rooms at reasonable rates to the working girls who have no home in the city. Will be protected by good Christian influence. Transients are welcome. Mrs. E. J. Patterson, President Board of Directors, Call Matron, Phone West 1566. one of the great powers today—Japan—is not white, but yellow, grown powerful and recognized within the last half century. They will make an especial point of the rapid advance of the Negro under favorable conditions. In the United States there are among 12 million Negro people today more owners of homes and farms than there are among the residents of Belgium and Denmark. They will ask for a more liberal treatment of Africa, a greater recognition of their rights as freedmen and the introduction of modern schools throughout Africa, thus giving the people there an opportunity to develop intellectually. The self-determination of the Negroes in the former German colonies in Africa as well as in Belgian and Portuguese Africa will be debated and an appeal may be submitted to the peace conference. One of the states to be discussed is Liberia, which is sinking into a slough of despond on account of neglect by the white nations. Liberia desires the economic barriers removed and the integrity of its territory established. It asks for a loan of 5 million dollars to develop railways and sewerage systems of which it has none. Any of the Negroes believe that if the United States is to become interested in nations outside of its own hemisphere, Liberia has the first call. It was organized with the sentimental support of America, but that country could not support it, because in defense of the Monroe doctrine we were morally bound to keep our hands off Africa, where European nations had a preponderance. Conditions of Negro life in America will not be discussed at the congress. peka during the session of the legislature, visited her parents Sunday. Mr. Matt Carroll, Sr., was in from California Monday. Mrs. E. Lasley, on State, is some what indisposed this week. Mr. Aldridge, 1132 Ann, is still quite sick. Urged By Colonel Roosevelt. "My coming here," said Roscoe Conklin Simmons of Tuskegee, "was partly at the suggestion of Colonel Roosevelt. I had a talk with him on the subject when he was convalescent in the Roosevelt hospital in New York. He said that the Negro men of the United States deserved to be represented at Paris in the peace conference and that it would be to their interest to have me go. I have found a widespread interest here in the future of the Negro race and a sympathetic attitude on the part of many French high officials. Henry Franklin Bouillon, president of the commission for external affairs, gave the Negro people a fine compliment when he told me, "The services of the colored soldiers in France have been remarkabl, for no soldiers anywhere fought harder for the cause than did the Negro men. Official records will show the splendid work done by Negroes in the American expedition." 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Music was rendered by the "Alabama Quartet" and readings by Mrs. F. Collins and others but the most appropriate things there were said to be the prose and poetical sketch by Mrs. M. C. Matthews. Her original poem gave the whole of Washington's life; also the only lady who was dressed in Martha Washington costume. She received a prize on her costume. The ladies were announced as selling $175 worth of 10-cent tickets. Mrs. Johnson received the first prize and Miss Lizzie the second prize. Miss Stewart sang a classical solo and deserved an encore. Mr. George McClellands stenographer and teacher and others have asked for the Metthews poem. Geo. McClelland & Son REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, LOANS AND FIRE INSURANCE POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS For Mayor—Second Term HARRY A. MENDENHALL For Street Commissioner—Re-election JAMES L. BEGGS For Commissioner of Finance—Re-election GERALD B. LITTLE Commissioner of Parks J. B. BROWN For Second Term Commisioner of H LOU CH For Re Fraternity 312-314 Vacant Afternoons in F First and The Second and For Second and Four East First and The Second and For Second and Four First and Third West First and Third R S. DIGGS R. PICKENS, Shoes Repaired W Patent Machinery. All w Reasonable. 1300 North Third Street Commisioner of Lights and W LOU CHAPMAN For Re-election Fraternity Building 312-314 Nebraska At Afternoons in Fraternity Hall First and Third Tuesdays Second and Fourth Tuesday Second and Fourth Monday No East Side First and Third Mondays Second and Fourth Monday Second and Fourth Wednesday First and Third Wednesday After First and Third Friday Afternoon AGS BELL R. PICKENS, SHOEMAN Does Repaired While You Wash Machinery. All work First Ch able. North Third Street Kansas C Commisioner of Lights and Water LOU CHAPMAN For Re-election Fraternity Building Vacant Afternoons in Fraternity Hall, West Side First and Third Tuesdays Second and Fourth Tuesdays Second and Fourth Monday Nights East Side First and Third Mondays Second and Fourth Mondays Second and Fourth Wednesdays First and Third Wednesday Afternoons First and Third Friday Afternoons R. PICKENS, SHOEMAKER Shoes Repaired While You Wait. Latest Patent Machinery. All work First Class. Prices Reasonable. 1300 North Third Street Kansas City, Kansas SAMUEL DIGGS THE OLD RELIABLE Pays the highest cash price for iron, bottles, bones, copper, bra- thing in the junk line. SQUARE DEALING AND HOT TIMES. Place of Business—10 BELL, WEST 3577 MADAM C. Who is known as The French H take care of her many customers. Mrs. C. B. Jones, who has le with Madam Taylor, and no o to be done heretofore. BUSINESS HOURS, 8: BELL PHONE PARLORS, 910 NEBRASKA A We Teach the French S THE OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEALER. pays the highest cash price for junk at all times, for bottles, bones, copper, brass, lead, zinc and even in the junk line. WARE DEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT AT THE WEST. Place of Business—10:06-1008 North Third WEST 3577 KANSAS CITY, B. MADAM C. O. TAYLOR, known as The French Hair Grower, is best of her many customers than ever before. C. B. Jones, who has learned the French, Adam Taylor, and no one is turned away heretofore. BUSINESS HOURS, 8:30 A. M. TO 7:30 BELL PHONE WEST 4425-J. ARS, 910 NEBRASKA AVE., KANSAS CITY, reach the French System. Call 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—1016-1008 North Third St. BELL, WEST 3577 KANSAS CITY, KAS. MADAM C. O. TAYLOR Who is known as The French Hair Grower, is better prepared to take care of her many customers than ever before. Mrs. C. B. Jones, who has learned the French System, is now with Madam Taylor, and no one is turned away, as has had to be done heretofore. BUSINESS HOURS, 8:30 A. M, TO 7:30 P. M. BELL PHONE WEST 4425-J. PARLORS, 910 NEBRASKA AVE., KANSAS CITY, KANSAS We Teach the French System. Call and see us Residence 2602 North Hallock St. Inspector I. O. B. S. of C. Asst. Clerk No. 1 A, W, CHAS. P. WASHINGTON, M.D. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Office Hours: 9 to 12 a.m. 3 to 5 p.m. 7 to 8 p.m. BELL PHONE WEST 255 436 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City, Kas. WAR HISTORY Tells all about the war; it is fair to colored people; everyone buys, a tremendous seller. COLORED MAN NO SLACKER, free, or choice of other 25c pictures; agents making $7 to $23 per day. Send 25c quick for agent's complete outfit AUSTIN JENKINS CO., $29 9th St., Washington, D. C. Bell Phone W. 1963 FINE TAILORING ENGLISH CLEANERS 092 N. 27th St., K.C., K. H. E. English, Prop'r. Alterations a Specialty Two Original Poems "LANDING OF THE SLAVES" Printed beautifully o nheavy white enameled card board, with delicate border, size 11x14. Suitable for framing. Price for one 15 cents, or the two, 25 cents. For sale by MARGARET A. JOHNSON 840 Freeman Ave. K. C. Kas. Lights and Water APMAN selection My Building Nebraska Praternity Hall, West Side Bird Tuesdays Fourth Tuesdays Friday Monday Nights Side Bird Mondays Fourth Mondays Friday Wednesdays Wednesday Afternoons Friday Afternoons BELL WEST 8577 SHOEMAKER Smile You Wait. Latest work First Class. Prices Kansas City, Kansas JUNF DEALER. or junk at all times, rags, ass, lead, zinc and every- TEST WEIGHT AT ALL 106-1008 North Third St. KANSAS CITY, KAS. O. TAYLOR Air Grower, is better prepared to than ever before. Turned the French System, is now one is turned away, as has had 30 A. M, TO 7:30 P. M. WEST 4425-J. VE., KANSAS CITY, KANSAS system. Call and see us Bell Phone West 424 Res. 1407 North Eighth Street LUELLA GREEN Notary Public 516 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City. Kansas SCIENTIFIC OPTICIA All Work Guaranteed Kassel Jewelry Co. 548 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City Kansas ACTIVE PASTORS Rev. E. J. Alston, G.E.,Th., the state's only colored Graduate Evangelist, Revivalist and Outline Specialist. Special attention given to outline text prayer occasions. Progressive Ministers would do well to get in touch with New Ideas, Metaphors, illustrations. hone West 4187. Fifth Street at Oakland Avenue. Kansas City, Kansas THEODORE DRURY Boston's Best Tenor Mt. Zion Bapt. Church 4th and Virginia Rev. Moses Williams, Pasto Mon. Night, Mar. 3 A Musical Program of Excellence-A Big Hit An Evening of Rare Entertainment By one who sways his audience with his mastery of song Tickets 25c. Call West 380, or see Junius J. N. Gray for dates etc. CITIZENS' FORUM The president being absent, the duty devolved on Mrs. W. G. Wood, second vice-president, to preside. It was to have been a memorial program for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass by Sumner High pupils. The quotations were good, but one of the most appropriate was the one given by our little quotation leader, Mayday Gayden; again she quoted from Matthews' poems on Lincoln, George Washington, Booker T. Washington and Douglass, and received great applause. Excellent current events were given by Mrs. Ailene Brown. Mrs. Ella Smith also ready a current event; and Mr. Roy Garvin and others gave events. At this juncture, Prof. A. J. Neely suggested that as we had some distinguished visitors present we hear from them. Mr. Shallady, national secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., was called and made a startling talk on the wrong of lynching and oldd how many societies for our advancement were trying to help remedy the evil. "We must help ourselves by joining these and help our white friends by our money, etc., to do away with this menace." "The fighting of the brain counts." We must have more organization and stick together for the right to trial by jury, and for all of our people in the southern states to be allowed to vote." He received ovations of applause. -Mayor Mendenhall was called on and praised the speakers' instructive talk and talked also in behalf of the race. Judge Hutchings said: "If all the colored labor was removed from the south, the southerners would starve." He urged the colored people to get together. He and Mayor Mendenhall were loudly applauded. A colored soldier from France, was called on and made sensational remarks and also told of our men's bravery; and was applauded loudly. Several other caucasians were in the large audience. Mrs. F. Jackson, Attorney Hueston, Mr. Dabney and others from Kansas City, Mo., were present. After the offertory Rev. T. Knapper closed with the benediction. Next Sunday, March-2, is the big day, the pipe organ recital by Prof. R. G. Jackson. Don't miss it. The funeral of Miss Pickett took place from Metropolitan Temple last Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Bertha Carroll took sick Sunday, but is a little better. Mrs. Celesta, Meeks asked for Mrs Matthews' poem on Washington to put in the Western Messenger. Rev. D. A. Holmes, who took sick last Tuesday, is some better. The Sewing Circle made a report last Sunday of their dinner and baaar, which netted them upwards of $65, Mrs. Pearl Bryant is president of this great church organisation. Y. W. C. A. WORKER IS BIG SISTER Y. W. C. A. WORKER IS BIG SISTER Industrial Woman's Service Club Brings Home to Girls in New Factory Community. BLUE TRIANGLE MEANS CHEER Club Stands for Hot Lunches, Clean Towels, Comfortable Cots, Parties, Games and Recreation to Girl Workers. Katherine Holland Brown. MY name is May Isabel Carnahan. I am eighteen years old, and I work in a big factory in Michigan. More than four hundred other girls work there too. I don't aim to tell you about our jobs. You can read about our work in the labor department reports. But I do aim to tell you about our Big Sister and of the things she has done for us. "To begin with, our factory town isn't a town at all. It's a huge barn of buildings stuck down in the country nineteen miles from nowhere. There is a railroad sliding, a station the size of a dry goods box, seven farmhouses and one general store and postoffice combined—it's pretty near as big as a hot tamale stand. And that's all. No Main street, no banks nor stores, no ice-cream parlors, not one solitary movie show, in all those nineteen miles. Lonesome? It's the rugged edge of desolation, that's what it is. "I was one of the first carload of forty girls that was shipped up from Chicago. The factory was swarming with workmen putting in the machinery, and we girls couldn't begin work for a day or so, so we began hunting places to ent and sleep. That was a trifle that the employment folks hadn't thought of. The workmen were sleeping and eating in the cars that had brought them there, backed on the sliding. Our only chance for beds and food was-with those seven farmhouses, so we marched straight to the farmers' wives and asked for board and room. Farmers' Wives Hospitable. Farmers' Wives Hospitable. "I will say that those women were kind and hospitable. They fixed it up between them to feed us forty girls, and they gave us good food too. But for rooms, that was the question. They could each spare one room. That meant sleep five or six in a room. But right then along came the boss of the factory and told us the machinery was ready and he'd expect us girls to work double shifts, night and day. "He wanted to make use of every minute, you see. But that gave us our chance as to sleeping. 'We fixed it up with the farm folks that we'd work double shifts and sleep double shifts too." "So we planned it. Three girls would use a room from eight at night till six the next morning. Then they'd hustle over to the factory, and the three girls who'd been working all night would take the room and sleep till afternoon. It wasn't any luxurious slumber, believe me. The farm women had so few sheets and pillow cases that most of us went without. And towels were scarce as diamonds on blackberry bushes. As to soap—well, the general store kept yellow bar soap, that kind that is so full of rosin you could use it to call a ship. But we made out till the next three carloads of girls came rolling in. Then we went 'most distracted. Those poor girls had to sleep in tents and in the cars that the workmen had abandoned by this time, and they were lucky if they got a straw tick and a blanket. By this time it had turned raw cold, and maybe you know what late autumn nights in Michigan feel like. To cap the cllmax the farm folks cut down on food, and for a week it was potatoes and beans and mighty few beans at that. Along Came a Miracle. "But, right when we were about ready to quit our jobs and beat it for home, along came a miracle. Two quiet, businesslike women climbed down from the eastbound train one morning. With their came eight workmen, a carload of scantling and tar paper, another carload of cots and blankets and pillows and sheets and towels—brand new blankets and beds—think of the glory of that!—and bushels of dishes and rolls of oilcloth and enough burlap to carpet the country. You won't believe me when I tell you that in ten days their workmen had a scantling-and-tar-paper shack put up and burlap tacked over the walls, and the Y. W. C. A. secretary and her helper had set up board tables and coffee kettles and were serving us the grandest hot lunches every day. And back behind the burlap screens were set those rows of clean cots, with enough cover to keep you warm the coldest night that ever blew, and a towel aplce for every single girl. Do you wonder that we all felt, as one girl put it, 'I'll wager the Fritz-Carleton has nothing on this!' "Who were those women? Why, Y. W. C. A. secretaries, of course," I think you'd know that without being told. All over the country wherever we girls have pitched in to make aeroplane cloth or overalls or munitions or canned, goods you'll find a Y. W. C. A. secretary working harder than anybody else to make the girls comfortable and to keep them happy and well. Sometimes they haven't money enough to get all that we really need. But always they stretch every cent, to make it its level best for us. Do you wonder that we girl workers have learned to call the Y. W. C. A. our Big Sister—the very best Big Sister of all? NEW SHIPPING WAGE SCALES Home Phone 6856 Main. Licensed Officers on Boats Plying From Atlantic and Gulf Ports Get Raise in Salaries. DUNL New wage scales for licensed officers of all steamships plying from Atlantic and Gulf ports were promulgated by the shipping board, effective from January 1 to May 1. They are based upon the size of the vessels, which are divided into five classes, are the same as the present rate paid in the coastwise traffic and do not contemplate the payment of bonuses in any form whatever. Masters will receive from $300 to $375 a month, depending upon the size of the ship; chief engineers from $212.50 to $287.50; first officers and first assistant engineers, $181.25 to $206.25; second officers and second assistant engineers, $162.50 to $187.50; third officers and third assistant engineers, $143.75 to $168.75; fourth officers and fourth assistant engineers, $143.75 to $150, and junior engineers, $125. Men employed in the steel works of Sydney, N. S., have received an increase of 2½ cents an hour in wages. Organized iron molders in Portland, Ore., are against the installation of women in the iron foundries of that city. The labor cost of a certain type of American ship is figured at about $40,000, as compared with $19,000 on a similar British ship and $9,000 on a Japanese ship. Over 40,000 men from every walk of life have been trained as shipbuilders by the training department connected with the Hog island shipbuilding plant at Philadelphia. The Norwegian social department is preparing proposals on the question of participation by workmen in the administration and profits of commercial and industrial undertakings. Canadian railway employees have asked the Dominion labor appeal board to grant them the same rates of pay as are obtained by the employees of the Canadian government railways. The second industry of importance in Costa Rica is that of gold and silver mining on the Pacific slope. The mines vary in size and give direct employment to approximately 12,000 men. Three munition firms in Leicester, Ilkeston and Nottingham and three at Loughborough, England, are taking up the manufacture of hoslery needles, imported from Germany before the war. Because of their honesty and faithfulness, women conductors employed by the New York Railways company will be retained in their positions. They have been earning from $25 to $32 a week. In Lancashire, England, the majority of workers in the textile trade are women, who also form a majority of the trade union membership and receive the same rates of pay for the same work as men. A great number of Dutch workmen who were recently discharged by the Krupp gun works at Essen, Germany, have been re-engaged and have returned to the plant, where they are now busy constructing railway material. New disorders have occurred in the Buhr valley coal fields, in Westphalla, Germany. Armed strikers attacked soldiers guarding two coal mines and both properties were damaged. The strikers were finally compelled to resume work. Approximately 100,000 soldiers, sailors and munition workers will be assisted in learning trades and finding employment during the coming year by the Methodist Episcopal church, according to plans announced by the Methodist centenary committee. Striking miners in the Duesseldorf (Germany) district have fought a pitched battle with the soldiers protecting the mine, according to reports received here. The encounter resulted in several persons being killed and wounded before the troops finally surrounded and arrested the miners. A strike of marine workers which may involve 16,000 men was started when several hundred deckhands, cooks and firemen employed by lighterages and ferry companies, walked out. According to Thomas L Delhunty, chairman of the Marine Workers' Affiliation, the strike was unauthorized, since the demand of the men for an eight-hour day and higher wages is now under consideration by the war labor board. Cleveland firemen decided to enforce the eight-hour day provision approved by voters in November, 1917, but never put into effect because of lack of city finances. As a consequence, two-thirds of the fireman on duty in the various fire stations walked out at midnight, leaving the other third of the force on duty. At eight o'clock next morning the night shift went home and another shift came on duty. Another change followed at 4 p. m. As a result of precautions taken by the military authorities the effort by maximalist agitators to inaugurate a general strike at Montevideo, Uruguay, has been abandoned, according to the newspapers. Demand for an eight-hour working day has been presented to the mill owners by 20,000 textile employees in Manchester, N. H. They ask that the new working schedule be made effective on February 3. The matter is expected to be taken into the legislature, where an effort is likely to be made to 'repeal' the present 54-hour law and substitute a 48-hour law. DUNLAP LAUNDRY COMPANY THE BEST LAUNRY SERVICE POSSIBLE SOFT WATER USED EXCLUSIVELY BY US Fine business corner, Sixth and State avenue; one block of Sixth and Minnesota avenue; best location for church, hotel, auto garage, fraternal, office, or apartment building, with store underneath. Lot 125x123; present income when fully rented, $66.00 month. State avenue will be the next business street of the city and this property will be valuable. See me for terms. Office: 529 State Avenue, Kansas City Kansas Bell West 1050 3091 N. 27th St. Kansas City, Kan. PURE DRUGS TOILET ARTICLES CANDIES CIGARS AND TOBACCOS Prescriptions Our Specialty Bell West 4101 E. S. JONES BAKERY 3093 N. 27th St. Fresh Bread, Cakes and Pies Daily Courteous Treatment Patronage Appreciated SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ADVOCATE. $1.50 PER YEAR. Milo Theatre is where the people go to see high-class pictures. Advertisers always get results from their ads in The Advocate. Miss Kittie Walker, on Nebraska, who has been sick, is, we are glad to know, some better. There is an amusing story told about Sir Frederick Bridge, the famous organist of Westminster abbey, and of how he was once guilty, of making a "row" within the edifice. It was at the time of the coronation of King George V. One of the rehearsals to take place was that of the state trumpeters, who practiced their fanfares within the building. During their temporary absence Sir Frederick Bridge thought he would see what kind of a fanfare he could produce, and, borrowing one of the trumpets, set about making such discordant sounds that the clerk of the works came up and expostulated: "If that row continues," he said, "my workmen threaten to go on strike, and if they do the coronation will have to be postponed." Sir Frederick hurriedly put down the trumpet, and soothed the workmen by playing a selection on the organ. Varying Length of Life in Fishes. The length of life of fishes is variable in the extreme. When we think of the great number of enemies to which any fish is exposed, such as other predatory fishes, parasitic worms and crustacea and other parasites (which are usually harmless to man but destructive to the fish) crabs, sea birds, bacterial diseases, etc., we easily see that to live in the water and escape all these dangers requires many protections which at best can preserve only a very small number of fishes beyond the spawning time. Such protections to fishes are speed of swimming, defensive spines and fins, the ability to distend themselves like the puffer to prevent being swallowed, teeth, electric organs, heavy corselets of scales which easily slip from the skin and a high state of resistance against disease. Thus, if a fish is well protected, out of a large number of its kind a few may live to reach unusually large sizes. There are records of very large fishes of most known varieties. Value of Introspection. To do anything worth while we must be something worth while, and we cannot be if we take it all out in talking. The mind must receive impressions before it can give them, the heart must feel before it can make others feel, the soul must be filled before it can overflow. PAGE THREE BELL PHONE 180 Grand. LAUNDRY PANY AND BROADWAY A SERVICE POSSIBLE EXCLUSIVELY BY US ANDERSON'S SIN REAL ESTATE SALE in and State avenue; one block que; best location for church, office, or apartment building, 25x123; present income when state avenue will be the next of this property will be valua- e, Kansas City Kansas est 1050 Call West 380 Phone for Appointment, Bell West 2265w. CRRCHET WORK. MME. R. A. HARRIS Hair Dresser Scalp Treatment a Specialty Braids, Transformations, Puffs and Wigs Made. Ladies' Tailoring and Dressmaking. Patterns Drafted to Measure. 27th & Douglass Quindaro, Kans. SANTAL CAPSULES MIDY CATARRH of the BLADDER relieved in 24 HOURS Each Cap-sule bears the name MIDY Be aware of counterfeits 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. BERTHA CARROL, W. S. FREE $1.00 G. S. a guaranteed for one bottle to benefit any cause of pellagra, rheumatism, eczema, scrofula or any blood, liver or kidney disease, or your dollar returned and to questions asked; or if you take two bottles between October 22, 1917, and March 1, 1918, and you receive no benefits, upon affidavit of same I will round to you your $2.00 and give you 2.00 free. Why experiment? Take remedy with wonderful merit. A trial is it I ask you to give G. S. Sold by all druggists or sent prepaid. Pricee, $1.00, six for $5.00. Call on your druggist or G. S. before you order from me write for testimonials. L. M. GROSS 721 Spring Street LITTLE JARK. DARTING, TERCING SCIATIC PAINS Give way before the penetrating effects of Sloan's Liniment So do those rheumatic twinges and the loin-aches of lumbago, the nerve inflammation of neuritis, the wry neck, the joint wrench, the ligament sprain, the muscle strain, and the throbbing bruise. The ease of applying, the quickness of relief, the positive results, the cleanliness, and the economy of Sloan's Liniment make it universally Sloan's Liniment Kills Pathology Sensational Auction Sale VALADA HAIR GROWER IS THE BEST If you wish to secure a real natural healthy growth of hair, consult Dr. L. Ella Bills, manufacturer of Valada Hair Grower. Dr. Bills has made a special study of the hair and scalp and is prepared to treat the most stubborn cases that do not yield to ordinary treatment. Valada Hair Grower.....50c Valada Pressing Oil.....50c Valada Shampoo.....50c METROPOLITAN TEMPLE NOTES Pastor Holmes being ill in bed, Rev. Greene, of Kansas City, Mo., preached to a large audience at 11 a.m. It was announced that he would preach at night and a large crowd was present again. Rev. A. Morgan acted as host and was very helpful in announcing all things necessary for the church. At 7:45 p. m., after the voluntary, etc., Rev. A. Royston prayed; then the choir sang the sweet old song in its most familiar tune, "Amazing Grace," which the congregation knew and took up and sang beautifully with the choir and the organ re-echoed the strains; and the Holy Spirit descended to all hearts. Rev. Greene preached well again from Prov. 4:18, "The path of the just is a shining light, that shineth more and more until the perfect day." His theme was "Growing Stronger." He delivers his sermons in an apostolic manner. Said, "That which doesn't grow should be plucked up." Deacon Jennings gave the invocation. The collection was large. Next Sunday, March 2nd, is Communion Day, but a sermon is given in connection with it. We hope our pastor will be present and if God is willing, he will be. All are invited to this church. FUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District ours of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Daniel Hodges, Plaintiff vs. Anna Hodges, Defendant. 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 in said cause; on or before the 5th day of April, 1919, the petition filed will be presented, and evidence given thereon, upon which a judgment will be rendered, the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bonds of matirmony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing the plaintiff from you, and for the costs of this action. I. F. BRADLEY, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk District Court. (First Published Feb. 21, 1919.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Grace Jackson, Plaintiff, vs. Albert Jackson, Defendant. No. 10767. To Albert Jackson: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named 921 Washington Boulevard plaintiff in the District court, Third Division, of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty and desertion, and that you are required to answer the petition of plaintiff filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on or before the 10th day of April, 1919, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendert against you in favor of plaineiff, granting her an absolute divorce from you. household goods and for such other and further relief as may seem just and proper to the Court and for costs. Attorney for Plaintiff. (First Publication Feb. 28, 1919) GENERAL LABOR NEWS Santa Barbara (Cal.) plumbers are earning $7 a day. Fifty cents an hour is being paid for common labor in Pomeroy, O. Railroads in South Dakota are employing women section hands. Over 6,000 men are temporarily idle in Buffalo, N. Y., due to the cancellation of airplane contracts. The London county council has offered 250 trade scholarships for boys between the ages of twelve and sixteen. On account of the inability to import tanning materials overseas, several Dutch tanneries have built small extracting plants at an expense of about $20,000 each. In Bridgeport, Conn., every female employee eighteen years of age or over receives 32 cents an hour, and in all cases where women do the same work as men their pay is the same. The London Society of Compositors has granted the sum of $2,500 to the Labor War Memorial of Freedom and Peace, in support of the scheme promoted by the Trade Union congress. Wages to be paid wireless operators on American vessels operated from Atlantic and Gulf ports were fixed by the shipping board at $110 a month for chief operators and $85 for assistant operators, without bonuses or sliding scales. The Northwestern National of Milwaukee not only will welcome the return of its employees who joined the colors, but also will retain the new employees who have striven to fill their places, according to Joseph Huebl, second vice president. Thousands of machinists from the Hazleton (Pa.) shell plant of the Worthington corporation, who made many of the projectiles which hurried the Boche out of France, will go abroad in February to aid the French to rebuild their ruined cities. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE Special Sale Mar. 3 E Co. QUE OUR Get Out. our home at On Sale and get your house Furnish- s of price. CO. ATTRACTIVE ONLY TO TOURIST Eastern City of Mosul Not a Place In Which Westerners Care to Make a Leng Stay. Mosul, the modern Nineveh, is a picturesque but not altogether attractive city. The houses are built of irregular blocks of stone laid in thick mortar. They are usually covered with a white stucco, made by burning the local gypsum rock. The roofs, of the same material as the walls, are usually flat, with a waist-high parapet, but are not infrequently domed. Doorways are often made of slabs of the easily carved gypsum. The streets are narrow and aimless, forming a maze of tangled lanes. As there is no system of sewerage whatever, they serve as repositories for all the filth of the houses that border on them. They are rarely so wide that more than two men can walk abreast. As a result of the fine dust, the filth and the glare of the sun on the white walls, ophthalmia and lung diseases abound. The flies, which breed in the open refuse heaps in astonishing numbers, swarm over everything. They cause the button, common also in Aleppo and Bagdad, an ailment that resembles a carbuncle and persists for several months and leaves an ugly scar. Opposite Mosul, across the river, are the last vestiges of Nineveh, capital of the second of the world's great empires. In places, great walls of the ancient city, built of tremendous masses of sun-dried brick laid on a high broad wall of cut stone, are still traceable. The city was further protected by a moat into which the waters of a small river could be conducted. It was hewn to a depth of 20 feet and a width of 50 yards, and, like the walls, is in evidence today. Kansas lost 2,559 persons in her population the last year. J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture, has just completed the compilation of the population statistics reported by the county assessors. The total population March 1 was 1,734,341. While this shows a decrease in the last year it is a gain of 309,220 in the last twenty years, a gain of 21 per cent. Wyandotte County still has the largest population, with 110,252, and Stanton is the smallest, with 1,016. Butler County made the largest gain in population, increasing 50.9 per cent and Graham had the largest percentage in losses. Forty-one counties show an increase in population, one remains the same as a year ago and sixty-threes show decreases. The population figures-included the men in the service of the country, but the entire loss is attributed to the calls for men into war industries not listed as actual army or navy service. Hundreds of men left the big railroad shop centers and industrial sections to go to work in the shipyards and munition plants in different parts of the country. The statistics show the largest losses to be in the industrial towns of the state. The priorities board, recently appointed as a subsidiary of the state council of defense, to consider petitions for building, as to whether or not they are essential in war time, has opened headquarters in the state house. Henry.Bennett, the chairman, announces that the board will be in session the first and third Saturdays of each month. One of the first petitions submitted to the Washington board met with rejection. Plevna, Kas, wanted to build a school house. Leaders of Organized Workers, After Consultation, Decide to Abandon the Idea. Organized labor has, abandoned the idea of forming a national political party, it was announced by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. The question was one of the most important decided at the two-day session of the executive council, held at New York. "While local and central bodies and state federations may enter into the political field either independently or otherwise," said Mr. Gompers, "the council decided that it is not within the province of the central bodies to form or become part of a national labor party." The council was of the opinion that the best interests of labor would be served by a more thorough organization of the workers, skilled and unskilled, in the trade union movement. Mr. Gompers also announced the personnel of the delegation which will represent American organized labor at the international labor conference to be held at the same time and place as the peace conference. Mr. Gompers will head the delegation, which will also include James Duncan, president of the Granite Cutters' International association; John Alpine, president of the United Association of Plumbers and Fittings; Frank Duffy, secretary of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and William Green, secretary and treasurer of the United Mine Workers. CRUX OF LABOR PROBLEM Necessity of Employers and Employees Allike to Realize Possibility of of Danger Ahead. (Assistant Director General, U. S. Employment Service.) The great danger in the coming four months is that there won't be enough jobs to go around; that unemployment will come with attendant misery and social unrest at a time when anarchistic tendencies are contagious. The remedy of building public works is not available on a large scale until spring. 'The farms will not call urgently for men until frost thaws out. Building cannot for a season be resumed to any great extent. Chiefly must we look to our manufacturers to carry the burden. But they are hesitant. Taxes are not yet determined. The cost of money is high and credit timid for a white. To meet each of these deterrent features is an immediate national task. Consideration of patriotism—which must not flare out with the end of the war—should urge the manufacturer to get his wheels moving with the utmost speed. The laborer must realize the uncertainties which cause the employer to hesitate. Each must refrain from taking advantage of the other. New Safety Standards Under the auspices of the United States Employers' Compensation commission a survey by the American Museum of Safety and other well-known experts in various parts of the country, has resulted in the appointment of some twenty safety engineers at various government arsenals, navy yards and depots. One of the most significant pieces of work undertaken by the safety engineers has been the creation of a set of federal safety standards, soon to be published by the United States bureau of standards. They consist of a compilation from various sources and will tend, he believes, toward a unification of safety standards, a step now greatly needed in this country. A preliminary publication of them is being made in monthly instalments in the publication of the American Museum of Safety. The result of the government's safety plans is shown by the fact that under the present conditions the accident rate is 4.1 for 1,000 workers, an average comparable with the results in industry generally. Women Labor Unionists The rapid spread of labor unionism among women workers in Great Britain has been one of the most remarkable factors in industry during the war period. Addressing the conference of the National Federation of Women Workers which has been holding its biennial business meetings at Manchester, Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, its president and a niece of the late Lady Dieke, who was a leading pioneer of the industrial organization of the women workers, made the interesting announcement that, as against 350,000 organized women in industry before the war, there are today over 700,000 women trade unionists. Miss Tuckwell claimed that this organization of women workers of the country was the best antidote to sex antagonism, inasmuch as trained and organized women could not be exploited and used against men. LABOR SHORTAGE CHIEF DEMOBILIZATION REASON. Shortage of skilled labor in many lines of work is given as a reason for urging demobilization of the army by trades and professions in the employment service bulletin of the department of labor. The bulletin calls, attention to the fact that while labor in general is in demand in certain sections of the country there is a dearth of jobs in many places. JUVENILE LABOR PROBLEM ACUTE Measure In That Country Practically Destroys Illiteracy at the Root—Development of Public Schools Is of Much Importance. By JULIA LATHROP. No aristocracy can be recognized in formulating a measure to protect children from premature and excessive labor. The only just measure is one which affords this immunity to every child. The separate, varying statutes of 48 states create favored classes of children. Therefore, in view of the decision of the Supreme court it remains only to find a method of national limitation not repugnant to the Constitution. Through the action of the president and departmental agencies the standards of the federal law are observed where children are employed on government reservations, and they are written into all government contracts. It is generally agreed that a good child-labor law should establish an educational minimum, a physical minimum, and an age minimum which a child must reach before he is graduated from the training period of his life into the wage-earning period. The United States child-labor law fixed no educational or physical standards. The age and hour standards laid down were not so high as the standards required by certain states, were identical with those of a large number, and higher than the standards in some states. Child-labor laws do not protect children in agriculture, and while no one would be disposed to dispute the wholesomeness of suitable farm life for children because of the varied occupations and interests it permits, on the other hand the rural areas where child labor was greatest, according to the last census, were also those showing the greatest illiteracy. The discovery of a number of young soldiers born in this country who are illiterate is humiliating and must lead to active measures to protect the boys and girls now growing up from work which interferes with proper schooling The law by which England has just determined a method of cutting the knot of rural child labor is of timely interest. The measure provides that all children shall attend school without exemptions or exceptions until the age of fourteen years. Illiteracy will be destroyed at the root by the operation of such a statute. While child labor is a poverty problem in part, it is also a school problem. The immediate and universal development of the public schools is of national rather than local importance. Workmen's Compensation. John Mitchell, chairman of the New York industrial commission, recommended changes in existing statutes on workmen's compensation to provide conditions under which crippled men may work. He says: "The employer should be held liable only for the injury incurred within his plant. But the extraordinary compensation due to the combined effect of past and present injuries should be paid to the cripple. How? By a special fund, if need be, such as that established in New York by assessing employers $100 for every case of death due to industrial accident where there are no dependents. If a workman who has lost an arm ten years ago loses his other arm, his employer is required to compensate him merely as if he would lose one arm. The special fund takes care of the difference and compensates the now totally disabled worker for the rest of his life." Women's War Employment. The woman in industry service of the United States department of labor is collecting and distributing information on such topics as the extent of employment of women during the war, the wide variety of their employment, the methods by which they have been successfully introduced into new occupations and the safeguards with which it has been necessary to surround them in the interests of their health and efficiency. Plans are being made to establish pictorial record of the work women are doing, and the woman in industry service is asking for the co-operation of the employers of the country in assembling these pictures. Labor Contracts Not Voided. Labor contracts agreed upon for the duration of the war are not void because of the signing of the armistice, the national war labor board decided at the hearing of the marine workers' case. W. H. Taft, presiding with B. M. Manley as joint chairman of the board, said that the Supreme court has ruled that peace comes, and war ends only when congress ratifies a peace treaty. The board ordered that the boat owners, who refused a demand for an eight-hour day, are still bound by the terms of the arbitration agreement. The Trustee Helpers' dinner last Thursday was a fine and successful affair, and a neat sum was realied, Mrs. Claybourne is its president and she does not know how to spell failure. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Minnie Banks, Plaintiff, vs. James C. Banks, defendant. To James Banks: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the District Court, Third Division, of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for divorce on the grounds of gross neglect of duty and abandonment, and that you are required to answer the petition of plaintiff filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on or before the 4th day of April, 1919, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you in favor of plaintiff granting her an absolute divorce from you and for possession of the property situated and located at 1213 Nebraska avenue, Kansas City, Wyandotte Count, Kansas, and for such other and further relief as the nature of the case may require. DORSEY GREEN, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First publication Feb. 21, 1919.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas, Third Division. James Jenkins, Plaintiff, vs. Sarah Jenkins, Defendant. No. 10257. To Sarah Jenkins: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the District Court, Third Division, Wyandotte County, Kansas, for divorce on the grounds of gross neglect of duty, adultery, habitual drunkenness and abandonment, and that you are required to answer the petition of plaintiff filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on or before the 26th day of March, 1919, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you in favor of plaintiff granting him an absolute divorce of and from you and for such other and further relief as may seem just and proper to the Court and for costs. Attorney for Plaintiff. (First publication Feb. 14, 1919.) Mrs. Clara Porter-Brown left Sunday for Minneapolis, where she will visit her sister and family, Mrs. B. S. Smith. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Floyd W. Ballard, Plaintiff, vs. Mary A. Ballard, Defendant. No. 10,597-A. To the above named Defendant; Mary A. Ballard, Greeting: Said defendant, Mary A. Ballard, will take notice that she has been sued for a divorce, in the above entitled court, by said plaintiff, Floyd W. Ballard, on the ground of unlawful abandonment of plaintiff continuously for one year next preceding the filing of the petition in the above entitled action, and that she must answer the petition filed by plaintiff in said action on or before the 28th day of March, A. D., 1919, or said petition and the allegations thereof will be taken as true, and a judgment or decree for plaintiff, adjudging and decreeing a divorce to him from you, upon the above mentioned ground as alleged in said petition, will be rendered in said action accordingly. FLOYD W. BALLARD, Plaintiff. D. E. Henderson, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland. Clerk of the District Court, by C. W. Fincke, Deputy. (First published Feb. 14, 1919.) EXECUTORS NOTICE State of Kansas, Wyandotte County, ss: In the Probate Court of said County. No. 9919. In the matter of the Estate of Henry J. Henderson, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Henry J. Henderson, late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 4th day of February, 1919. Now, all persons having claims against 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. WILLIAM H. ANDERSON, Executor of the last will and testament of Henry J. Henderson, deceased. Dated February 4th, 1919.