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KANSAS Midnight Discovers Many New and Wonderful People and Has Unearthed Another Good Man for a Bishopric in the African Methodist Episcopal Church NOTED PHYSICIAN O FORMS MOST DIFF AND SAVES LIFE Midnight Discovers Man People and Has Une Man for a Bishop Methodist Ep Huntsville, Ala. — Did you know William H. Councill? He was one of America's greatest educators, and he has made good his place in American history by his works, and not through any trickery. He was an apostle of industrial education, and at the same time he advocated the college training for men and women—in fact he wanted ali for his people that any other man or race could desire, and in the midst of this he served his people and served them well. From a standpoint of oratory, he was in the front rank, and when he went before the people, he always went to them with a message and a message of love. He lives today in the hearts of thousands of students who are making good in the world, and they thank God for giving to the world William Hooper Councill. But why this reference? I am now in the part of the world where he made good, and where his work was done. Just five miles fro mthis place is Normal, an institution which has gone down just a little, but it is coming back, because good institutions never die. Men not fitting for headship may get hold of them, and get slack for a while, but when the time comes, another will be selected and new life put into it. But let me not take up time to talk about Normal just now, but turn to another part of my getting over this country, for when I took my pen in hand to write to you last week I was in Louisville, Ky., and I have been made to open my eyes and question can it be so? Then I thank God that I lived in this age to see the wonderful achievements of this race of mine, and to see one of our men find a man cut to pieces, put him together, take out a part of his insides and he continue to live. Now you are no doubt asking what I am talking about. Well, when I left Louisville, I made my way to Nashville, and spent one night at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Julian C. Caldwell, and had some chat with them. I was made perfectly welcome and at home. Mrs. Caldwell, I am proud to report to you. is improving, and I thank God for this. She will be restored to health, and yet be the happy wife of Bishop J. C. Caldwell, for I believe it is going to take place at the next general conference. Sunday morning, I had to go to the L. & N. stable, have my trunk toted over to Dr. J. H. Hale's home, the surgeon-in-chief of the Millie Hale Hospital, and you will agree with me before I get through with you that he has his place among the greatest. From the hospital or from his home, I went to the First Baptist church, East Nashville, Dr. W. S. Ellington, pastor, where I had been invited to preach the morning sermon. Soon Dr. J. H. Hale came in and he was there to tote me over to dinner with him and have me spend the rest of the time in his home. We had one more chicken dinner, and believe me, honey, I got on the outside of some chicken, but not as much as I usually get on my inside. I have cut down on the eating business since them bugs have been trying to OF OUR RACE PERFECTULT OPERATION OF MUTILATED MAN my New and Wonderful hearted Another Good story in the Africaniscopal Church make the fattening stuff for the worms. About the first day of August or the last of July, the date is unknown to me, but there was brought into the Millie Hale Hospital about 11:30 o'clock at night a young man, J. H. Bette, in a very serious condition. He was toted in by the police of Nashville on stretchers, and they informed the surgeon that it was a hopeless case, and that he would soon be dead. Dr. Hale soon had on that white suit, and the man was placed on the table. He believes in the theory that while there is life there is hope, and he went to work, having faith in himself, and faith in God, for he is a Christian man. Here is a statement of his condition: "An incised wound was made beginning at the lower part of the sternum, cutting two ribs in two. The transverse colon was severed, the contents of the stomach being poured into the pertinal cavity. A partial gastrocemy was done immediately with a lateral anaetiomosis. There were also deep wounds of the neck, a lacerated wound in the lungs, side and head. All were repaired, the entire operation being complete in forty minutes. The patient was put to bed and in five days afterward had subsided and is now rapidly recovering." Now, what have you to say about this wonderful piece of work? Are you ashamed of being a member of this race? I am sure that you are not. I have been trying to study this race of yours, and I think I will have to go to my grave without knowing it. Let us continue to pray, hope and work, and go right on to the top of the ladder. It seems that I am going to be a full-fledged Pythian, for I have been to a few grand lodges this year, and as you read this letter I will be around and about the Supreme Lodge, and will have a few things to tell you from that point. This writing I am down here in Alabama, attending the Grand Lodge of this state, R. A. Blount, grand chancellor, and they have some strong men in it, but I am here to see one of the most remarkable women of the age., Mrs. Carrie A. Tuggle, founder, president and promoter of Tuggle Institute, and the institution in Birmingham that is taking care of a class of our boys and girls that other schools do not care to have, but believe me, Mrs. Tuggle is taking good care of them. She has brought out of this mass of neglected humanity some strong men and women and God will give her a high place in heaven at the close of her life. She has lived well today, and will let tomorrow do its worst. She is a factor in the Supreme lodge. I have never seen a woman draw around her so many women and get them to do so much for themselves. She is a genius, and I am proud to tell you so. I am sure that I am not going to be able to tell you all about the meeting, for it would take a whole paper, but I believe you will be pleased to know that the Pythians have decided to pay off a mortgage debt on the school, amounting to $10,000 and help to support it in the future. CITY Kansas City, Kansas, Friday, Kansas City, Kansas, Friay, August 19, 1921 The Training for Service Class of Bethel A. M. E. church has completed its Bible course. The enrollment was twenty-three and the number passing the examination and receiving diplomas are five. They are the following: Mr. James Galloway, who is steward in the church and a teacher in the Sunday school; Mr. Edward Graham, the superintendent of Bethel A. M. E. Sunday school; Mr. Galloway and Mr. Graham are both located in Pttsburg. Mr. Dale Bougess is here from Kansas City, Kans., attending the State Manual Training Normal school. He has been with us since last September and is one of our Sunday school teachers. He is a deserving young man and is making good as a church worker. Miss Jennette Parker is of Ft. Smith, Ark. She is a teacher in the Ft. Smith schools and is here attending summer school. She is an excellent church worker. We are always glad to welcome her. Song: Second Baptist Choir, Kansas City, Mo. Remarks: Mrs. S. D. Kemp, president Kaw Valley Women's District Convention. Reading: Gayden Ethel Low. Song: Second Baptist Choir, Missouri. Original Poem: Mrs. M. C. Matthews. Solo: Mrs Elnora Taylor. Paper: Mrs. G. N. Jackson, Lawrence, Kans. Reading: Sunbeam Band. Song: Second Baptist Choir, Missouri, Sermon, Rev.Moses Williams. Solo: Mrs. D. A. Holmes. Mrs. Battles, president, Mistress of Coremoy. Miss Li from Okla State, Mar last September ing the course at McKee ha worker in church. M punctual wish her m always we The inst Mrs. E. N the pastor church S the TheoLen University She has b work since Miss Lizzie McKee, a teacher from Oklahoma entered the State Manual Training Normal last September, and is completing the primary teachers' course at this institution. Miss McKee has been a faithful worker in Sunday school and church. Not only faithful but punctual in attendance. We wish her much success, and will always welcome her return. The instructor of this class is Mrs. E. N. Wilson, the wife of the pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church She is a graduate of the Theological School of Walden University, Nashville, Tenn. She has been engaged in this work since 1904. She is an able instructor and is hard to excel. Much success awaits Mrs. Wilson wherever she goes. We are much pleased with Rev. T. A. Wilson, the best pastor we have ever had. He is a Godsent man. METROPOLITAN TEMPLE NOTES The pulpit was filled as announced by the deacons and reported to the paper by the writer for this church. At 11 A. M. Dr. Harrison, of Texas, ascended the sanctum sanctorum, of Metropolitan, one of God's Temples, and began his sermon. He preached on "The Fruit of the Spirit," in a wonderful spiritual Christian manner, which deeply impressed the large congregation. Some shouted and many sanctioned with Christian exclamations. He urged Christians to bear good fruit by good conduct, long suffering and by loving our enemies. Deacons McCombs, Johnson, Thomas, Ford, Oliver, Jennings, Taylor and Hulsey were at their posts as usual. Some united with the church and a large offering was given. Two men converted under this great Christian gave over $1. After this service the fame of this preacher went abroad, and at night a still larger crowd came to hear him, and Rev. A. Royston acted as host with the deacons as sponsors. The choir sang "Amazing Grace," and "I Love the Name of Jesus," and Dr. Harrison preached from Is. 9:6, as a text, and "His Name shall be called Wonderful," as his subject. He again amazed the vast audience with his assurance that he is truly called by God to preach to men. Many members of this church said, "They have heard fine preachers, but Dr. Harrison is one of the finest of the great preachers." Deacon S. L. Johnson, who is Moderator of these faithful fearless deacons, announced church meeting to call a minister, Wednesday night. After another large collection a Mr. Yancey, from Alabama, who had joined the church, was given a collection, as he was here without work or money. Dr. Harrison praised the members who had helped their former leader to build such a nice church. Some of the strangers present during the day were: Dr, and Mrs. Blount, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton, Mrs. J. Dyson, St. Paul A.M.E. Church Independence, Mo. Sunday, August 14, 1921, was the fourth and last quarterly meeting for this conference year. Dr. DeLyles, presiding elder, preached morning and evening. I need not say more. Dr. Storsey, one of our leading pastor of the city, preached at 3 P. M. The famous choir of Ward Chapel sang at 3 o'clock service. It is a great choir. Our church is taking on new life. We had great services last Sunday. Many visitors were present all day. Come again; all are welcome. REV. J. A. CHANDLEY, Pastor. WOMEN'S DAY PROGRAM At Metropolitan Baptist Temple Ninth Street and Washington Boulevard Devotional: Mrs. Baker, "Little David;." Mrs. L. A. Wilson, "King Solomon"; Mrs. Hunter, Eighth Street Baptist; Mrs. Messeler, First Baptist. Committee: Mrs. B. S. Jones, J D. Monroe, secretary; Alice T. Marr, chairman. METROPOLITAN ELECTS A NEW PASTOR Many Metropolitan church members and a church full of friends listened to an able sermon by Dr. L K. Williams of Chicago, Wednesday evening. After the sermon the members had a business meeting and elected Dr. Harrison of Denison, Texas, as pastor. Right by the side of Mrs. Tuggle is to be found that refined, cultured business woman, Mrs. Fannie Cosby-Blevins, who is secretary. They have another name for the office, and as soon as I can learn it I will tell you, but it is some kind of recorder or register. She is in love with the school work and is devoting he rlife to it. She is directing the women of Alabama in the channel of doing things. Mrs. Tuggle will be in Topeka, and I am safe in saying she will be there and ready to leave when you read this letter. The people will know her and I hope will hear her for she is a wonderful woman. The people in this section of the country all address her and speak of her as "Old Lady," and she enjoys it. We are in need of common sense people, and that is what we have in this woman. I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Pauline Jackson, the widow of the late Rev. J. S. Jackson, of the A. M. E. Zion church. Mrs. Jackson has invented something for making the hair grow and her home has been converted into a manufacturing plant and beauty parlors. She is making good. Mrs. Willie G. Hill, of Savannah, Ga., was special guest of the Grand Lodge, or at least the Grand Court of Calanthe and she will also be in Topeka. All eyes will now be turned to Chicago for the meeting of the National Baptist convention. They will be there from all parts of the country. Say what you will or may, but they are going to be on hand, and there will be but few left to go down to that hot place. I will bring this letter to a stop, but look out for my next one. J. O. MIDNIGHT. ADVOCATE Pittsburg, Kansas ANY OTHER PEOPLE."—PRES. HARDING "YOUR RACE HAS MAKED GRESS IN 50 YEARS AND ANY OTHER PEOPLE The Negro Women's Convention Will Meet in K 27,1921—Clean Polit- ited President H The Negro Women's National Republican convention, called to meet in Kansas City, Mo., August, 22-27, 1921, is meeting with popular favor throughout the country an it is confidently predicted that this will be one of the most important as well as the largest political gatherings held by Colored people since the Emancipation. Many of the leading women of the race will be in attendance and deliver addresses. While this convention has been called for the purpose of making preparations for the Congressional election next year, it will devote a major portion of its time to the working out of some plan or plans to combat, and if possible check, the tide of opposition against colored people. The women believe that it is necessary for the women of our race to work in politics, not for the dollar and cents, but for the good of the race, and they would rather contribute to the expense of the National Committee instead of drawing on its treasury: Mrs. A. Fairfax; Messrs. Stevens and Wm. Boone, and others 'Twas a glorious day, and next Sunday, August 21, the new pastor is suposed to be announced. The writer prophecies he will be from Texas. Come out and hear some great man of God expound the Gospel. All are welcome. Mrs. Battles, president of the Metropolitan Mission Circle, made a good talk Sunday morning, and invited all to attend Women's Day, Sunday, August 28, at 3 P. M., and hear a fine program of music by Mme. Bacote's singers. A great soloist from Allen Chapel, a paper on Women by a Kansas City, Mo., lady, a poem on women by Mme. M. C. Matthews, and a fine sermon by Dr. Williams. Mr. James A. Williams and wife of Chicago, drove through to the Knights of Pythias Supreme Encampment and stopped a few days here with his brother, Captain Joe Williams of Hosehouse No. 5, and family, 2019 North Sixth street. Mr. Williams is a patrolman in Chicago. Mr. Chas. Reiner of the Appomattox Club, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Williams. The funeral of Mrs. Dolly-Porter-Brown took place from the A.M. E. church, Wednesday at 2 P.M. Dr. Griffin officiated. Deceased was a faithful young Christian and formerly taught school and was well loved by the whole community. The Advocate staff and a host of friends sympathize with her relatives. Dr. P. Davis had his moving picture company to take the picture of Metropolitan Temple as the people were coming out of church; also had Mrs. Moore's house on Tenth street taken and Mrs. Moore setting on the steps. These films will be shown at the Auditorium this week. Mr. Williams, of Omaha, has been in the city a week or more doing some painting on Washington boulevard. Mr. and Mrs. Parker Gardner attended Metropolitan church Sunday night. --- ADE GREATER PRO- OF FREEDOM THAN PLE."—PRES. HARDING National Republican Con- Kanssa City, August 22- itics Their Aim—Vis- Harding Recently The Negro Women's National Republican League is an incorporated organization of which Mrs. Monen L. Gray is chairman, with headquarters at 1721U. street, N.W. A committee from this League called on the President recently. Mrs. Gray presented her memorial to the President and in reply, among other things, he said: 'Your statement covers so much ground; I would like to take it up, step by step, but time will not permit. However, I will challenge one statement, made by you concerning the dark clouds hovering over the colored race. Why, your race has made greater progress within the 50 years of freedom than any other people in a like time. I know the needs of your race and will admit that they have not been fairly treated in some sections of this country. "Congress is working out plans whereby the colored race will be benefited. No race has reached perfection in one generation." N. A. A. C. P. NOTICE The secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. has received the following certificates of membership returned her from headquarters due to incorrect addresses. If you have failed to receive yours notify Secretary, 852 Oakland Avenue, Fairfax'3961. We are desirous for these persons to receive theirs: Mr. Henry Phrame, 25 Monson St. Mrs. A. S. Martin, 860 Rowland. Miss Anna Westley, 221 N. Second St. Mr. Riley Williams, 174 S. Nineteenth St. Mr. J. W. Taylor, 806 Tenney Ave. Mr. John Hallie, RF.D. No. 3, Mr. C. Ewing, 1130 Armstrong. Mr. Cy. Henderson, 312 Nebraska. Mrs. L. Hendricks, 219 East Farmer. Mr. P. W. Rhodes, 2630 Parkview. Mrs. Susie Smith, 355 Nebraska. Mr. Wm. Jackson, Sixth and Barnett. Mrs. Miller, 28 Tremont St. Mrs. Howard Gray, North Third street. Mrs. L. Tibue, 2518 North Fifth St. Mrs. Tressa Penman, 324 Parallel. Mr. Roy Kellogg, R.F.D. 3. Mrs. Eliza Lyles, Mrs. Pauline Woodfork, Mrs. Cora Dameron and the Grand Princes, Mrs. Sarah Parks, attended the National Grand Lodge of U. B. F. and S. M. T,s at Cincinnati. Mrs. J. H. Clayborne of 850 Washington boulevard, is visiting her uncle, J. H. Clayborne, ir. Topeka this week and attending the Knights of Pythias encampment. Mrs. L. K. Williams, who was visiting Mrs., Lumpkins, on Nebraska avenue, left with her son for Chicago Wednesday. Dr. Williams left Thursday. We received the sad intelligence of the death of Mrs. Dolly, Porter Brown in South Park. Centered as second-class matter August 29, 1914, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The Advocate is a weekly journal devoted to Race Progress and Human Diplift. Have your news in our office not faster than Tuesday of each week to insurance publication. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. PEONAGE ALL OVER SOUTH That a condition of peonage worse than the old chattel slavery exists to this day in the South is not very well known in the North and is surprisingly ignored in the South itself. It resembles conditions said to exist in the large steel milsl of Pennsylvania and the lumbering districts of the Far West. This, too, in spite of Lincoln's proclamation and the later federal statutes making it a felony to hold persons in incoluntary servitude' for debts, real or alleged. It would not be true to say that there are no communities and many individual planters and smaller farmers who are exceptions to this indictment of the cotton raising South, but the following paragraphs lescribe conditions at their worst—and it is a very The term "landlord," as here used, includes both large and small land owners, for it is often the case that a small farmer holds a negro family in debt year after year or finally "sells" the family's account, which, of course, means the family, too, just the same as the big plantation owner who deals in many families. The writer is a native of Louisiana, reare in an outlying agricultural section where the negro population is three to every one of the whites. Having grown up with the peonage system, I naturally became familiar with it as few men could who might go there from the North or even from Southern cities to study the conditions. Practically all the negroes and "poor white trash" either work for wages or work on "shares"—that is, the owner furnishes the negro and his family land, animals and tools with which to work and the tenant gives the landlord half his crop for the use of the land, work animals and tools. As soon as the young negro marries he begins working for some land owner under these conditions. He never has enough cash ahead to buy anything in the way of food and clothing that he and his family need; therefore he must go to the landlord for these things. The landlord either has a plantation store or has arrangements made with the nearby village or small town store to credit the negro and charge the account to the landlord. In the majority of cases the negro is uneducated and unabel to keep an accurate account of what he buys. He simply trusts the landlord. Even if he has an education and keeps an account; he is not permitted to compare his books with those kept by the landlord. The account, as kept by the latter, is the one the settlement is based upon at the end of the year when the crop is sold. If the renter has bought five bacon middlings for 40 cents a pound he frequently is charged up with fifteen or so, and at a much higher price than the regula store price He may have bought a barrel of flour, but he may have to pay for two or three at extortionate prices. He may have plowed a rocky field barefooted to save having to buy more than one pair of shoes, but he may find at the end of the year his memory has THE WEEKLY ANNOUNCER OF FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH J. F. GRIFFIN, Pastor. Residence, 1111 North Eighth St. Residence Phone, Fairfax 2004 Alex. Jones, Assistant Pastor. ORDER OF SERIVCES. 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. 7:30 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 St. Paul A. M. E. church, Kansas City, Kans. 2325 Ruby avenue. J. A. Broadnax, Pastor. Services every Sunday. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 11. Class, 12:15. Preaching 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday nights. You are welcome to all services. played a trick and he has really, according to the store account, enjoyed the luxury of two or three pairs of healthy priced shoes. His wife may have gone through the year with two cheap calico dresses and find in December that she has, in fact, dressed quite sumptuously during the year—according to the infallible store record. At the end of the year the tenant may decide that he could do bette in some other locality and want to move. He and the landlord make a settlement. The tenant's part of the crop is worth so much. The good bookkeeping landlord's account is always considerably more, never less. If some other landlord likes the tenant's style of work well lenough to pay the excess account, he can have the tenant, starting the latter in with a good sized beginning of debt at the first of the year. Frequently the buying landlord bargains secretly with the selling landlord, securing a sort of split in the excess amount charged against the tenant. It often happens that the buyer thinks the price, or, speaking more diplomatically, the "account" of the tenant is out of reason and a dispute between the landlords is the result. On one occasion a selling landlord had, in the opinion of the buyer, asked too much. The buyer declared he would move the negro and pay nothing unless the seller would name a reasonable sum. The two, with respective supporters, relatives and close sympathizers on each side, gathered at the negro's cabin, the one group intending to move the negro, the other to prevent such action. Each side was heavily equipped with Winchesters, double action pictols and shotguns loaded with buckshot. From a fence corner, where I had safely prepared to dodge stray bullets, I heard them patch it up on a split—the difference basis—which saved some lives. I knew three brothers in my home community in Clairborne Parish, Louisiana, who spent thousands of dollars to save themselves from terms in federal prison about fourteen years ago. Two of them were left in poverty as a result, and the son of the third inherited the plantation of his father and a year ago—I personally saw and know to exact truth of the statement—he was holding negroes in practical bondage on the strength of watered accounts in the same old way. Little less than a year ago a friend of mine was threatened with death at Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, for daring to raise his voice against the shameful system of peonage along the Brazos river in that section. I lived for several years in Teras and knew the standard system of peonage, as practiced genally in the Suth, is prevalent throughut the cotton sections of Texas whereever negroes are permitted residences—thy are not allowed to live in various portions of the state. American women golfers having gone down to defeat in England, the men will come back with better grace. The Kansas City Advocate for August 19, 1921 The Congressional Record records some funny things. Like this (issue of August 5): "The gentleman from Wisconsin is a liar." Presiding Officer—"The gentleman from California is out of order." "I said he was a liar." Presiding Officer—"It is contrary to the rules of this body to refer to a colleague in any manner other than by his last name, followed by his state. No matter how truthful the gentleman from Colifarnia may be, he must not violate the rules of the house." Had this occurred in a union meeting the open shoppers would have pointed it out as a lack of intelligence on the part of the "lower classe." Now that the Wisconsin women are permitted by law to do everything that men are permitted to do, it is time for the Wisconsin men to do better. A folding gangplank for steamships is quickly placed in position for use and taking up little room when idle, is the idea of a New York inventor. How do the motion picture actors and actorines around the studios in Los Angeles keep track of their wives and husbands? With the constant swapping around it would seem there was danger of some actor going home with some actorine who used to be his wife, but is now some other man's. Nearly 90,000 women were employed by the railroads last year in the United States. Of the number, close to 1,500 were doing shop work, while the others were in clerical or semiclerical positions. Among the Indians of the North it is the family of the woman and not the man which is the basis of the genealogical tree. This is proved by the emblems on the totem poles, all of which lead to the female side of the house. "How can you stand your wife spending her time at club and suffrage meetings beats me. If I were you I'd tell her she should be home doing the cooking," "I'll be hanged if you would, if you knew what kind of a cook she is." France is holding a nationwide competition conducted to discover the most beautiful child, boy or girl, in the French Republic Health of mind and body is a deciding factor as well as beauty of face. The government wants women for its police force in Washington and civil service examinations are to be held in a few of the cities. The duties of policewomen are principally in connection with the welfare of women and children. An organization has been formed by Mrs. Albert Sterner of New Rork to be known as the Junior Art Patrons of America. Its purpose is to educate the public in American art through the medium of exhibitions and lectures. Mrs Charlotte Cameron, a native Britisher, is one of the most famous women travelers in the world. Of independent means, she has visited practically every country on the globe, many of them out of the beaten path of tourists. Uncle Josh—Here's a letter from Nephew Harry, that's gone to Africa. He says that within 20 rods of his house there's a family of laughing hyenas. His Wife—Well, I am glad he's got pleasant neighbors, anyway—that's something. SANTAL CAPSULE MIDY Easy to Take-Quick to Believe CATARRH of the BLADDER Safe, Successful Each Capsule bears name MIDY Dexter of counterfeit Last Sunday was the fourth quarterly meeting. Rec. A. C. Terrell, the presiding elder, was present and preached at 11 A. M. Rev. H. L. Bolden preached the sacramental sermon at 3 P. M. The pastor, Rev. Johnson, held forth at Zion. Excavation for the new church is going on at Fourth street and Stewart avenue, which is a beautiful site. Mrs. Walter Daniels of Splitlog avenue, entertained Tuesday from 2 to 4, in honor of Mrs. Eliza Alexander of Topeka. There were 30 ladies present. Dainty refreshments were served, Hear Dr. Harrison, of Denison, Texas, at Metropolitan Sunday, August 14. Mrs. Roberts, on Nebraska avenue, is somewhat indisposed. AUCTION LAND SALE 10560 acres of land in Greeley County, Kansas, smooth, level, tractor land, the best soil and best wheat land in America, to be sold at public auction. 25% down the day of the sale, 25% March 1, balance on or before three or five years, interest 6%. This land will be sold at public auction Sept. 12, 13 and 14 at Tribune, Kansas. You make the price. Write for full description and particulars.—The National Land Sales Company, Burlington, Colorado, or Tribune, Kansas. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Kansas, 29th Judicial District, County of Wyandotte. Charles Volckens, Plaintiff, vs. Ed Barnett and Nila Barnett, Defendants. Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County of Wyandotte, in a certain cause in said Court, numbered KANSAS INDU EDUCATIONAL INVITES YOUNG MEN AND SCHOOL WHERE BOYS ARE CONSIDERED EDUCATIONAL THIS INSTITUTION GIVES THE 1. AGRICULTURE 2. MECHANICS ART 3. HOME ECONOMICS 4. TEACHER TRAINING 5. NURSE TRAINING. 6. BUSINESS COURSE 7. MUSIC. FOR FURTHER IN G. R. Bridgeforth, Pr INVITES YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO ENTER A SCHOOL WHERE BOTH WORK AND PLAY ARE CONSIDERED A PART OF ONE'S EDUCATION G. R. Bridgeforth, Principal, Topeka, Kans. B. I. WORTHY GROCERIES AND MEATS LET US SERVE YOU GOOD EATS. OUR MOTTO IS TO PLEASE WE DELIVER PHONE FAIRFAX 2557 CORNER TROUP AVENUE AND HALLOCK ST! If We Please You, Tell Others; if not Tell Us GROCERIES LET US SERVE YOU GOOD EAT WE DELIVER CORNER TROUP AVENUE If We Please You, Tel MALONE'S SALE MAIL 732 MINNESO MALONE'S SANITARY MEAT MARKET This meat market is perfectly sanitary. We keep only the best meats in the market. Fresh daily. At the lowest market price. Everybody gets a warm welcome in this store. HARRY MALONE, Proprietor 732 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 15873.A, wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendants, and to me the undersigned, Sheriff of said County directed, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the front door of the Court House in the City of Kansas City in said County, on Monday, the 12th day of September, A. D., 1921, at 10 o'clock A. M., of said day, the following described Real Estate situate in the County of Wvandotte and State of Kansas, towit: Commencing at a point 254½ feet North, and 25.7 feet east of the southwest corner of the Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter of Section twenty-nine in Township Ten of Range 25, east, thence North two hundred and seventy-two feet, thence east four hundred ninety-five feet, thence south two hundred seventy-two feet, thence west four hundred ninety-five feet, to point of beginning, containing three acres of land, more or less. W. J. WRIGHT, JR., Sheriff of Wyandotte County, Kansas. (First published August 12, 1921) ADMINICSTRATOR'S NOTICE State of Kansas, Wyandotte County, ss. In the Probate Court in and for said County. Case No. 11210. In the matter of the estate of John W. Jones, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the Estate of John W. Jones, late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 3rd day of August, A. D. 1921. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from 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. MARY A. JONES, Administratrix of the Estate of John W. Jones, Deceased. Kansas City, Kansas, Aug. 3, 1921. In witness whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court, this 3rd day of August A.D. 1921. JOHN T. SIMS. Probate Judge. (First published August 12, 1921) INDUSTRIAL AND MIL INSTITUTE AND WOMEN TO ENTER A WITH WORK AND PLAY IN A PART OF ONE'S ENTION THE FOLLOWING COURSES: General Farming Multry Live Stock and Dairying Automobile Mechanics Blacksmithing Carpentry Printing Tailoring Domestic Science Domestic Arts Laundering G. FORMATION, WRITE Cipal, Topeka, Kans. AND MEATS ITS. OUR MOTTO IS TO PLEASE —PHONE FAIRFAX 2557 VUE AND HALLOCK ST! Others; if not Tell Us NITARY MEAT MARKET DOTA AVENUE it is perfectly sanitary Kansas City, Kansas. F. & A. A. York Masons DIRECTORY of the Most Worshipful King Solomon's Grand Lodge, F. & A. A. York Masons, for the Jurisdiction of Kansas, Nebraska. Iowa and So Dakota: Rev. J. A. Broadnax, W. M. G. 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FRANKLIN WILSON, W.M. 1403 North Tenth Street. CLARENCE HICKMAN, Secretary, 1517 Lydia, Kansas City, Mo. Frank Wilson Lodge No.88 F. and A. A. York Masons meet the First and Third Saturday evenings of each month at 8 p. m., Ninth and Everett avenue. Vsitors ever welcome. S. H. MADISON, W. M. 1336 Barnett Avenue, T. A. MOZEE, Executive, R. F. D. No. 2. PROGRESS LODGE NO. 90 Meeting nights first and third Tuesday night of each month, 8 P.M. Ninth street and Everett avenue. Knights of Tabor Hall. Visitors welcome. C. A. GRANT, W.M., 1051 Oakland Avenue, Phone Fairfax 2991. CHAS. BUTLER, SEC., 342 Greeley Avenue. All Work Guaranteed Kassel Jewelry Co. 548 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City Kansas Call Fair- fax 380 Or 4422 Mr. and Mrs. Sand W. are in the city. I want you to meet them. DR. W. M. BLOUNT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 428½ MINNESOTA AVENUE Residence, 402 Lafayette Avenue KANSAS CITY, KANSAS PHONES Office Fairfax 1258; Res., Drexel 1258 6 to 7:30 P. M. Sundays by appoint- ment only. OFFICE HOURS 9:30 to 11:30 A. M. 2:30 to 4:30 Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City Advocate for August 19, 1921 $7 Per Ton The Land has bought the output winter season Monday SPECIAL PRICE car-run is our price. Kansas City, Mo., yar last long. Better get order at once, if you wa Kansas City, Missouri Yard The 7 Per Ton - C the Lambright ight the output of a mine of Miss season Monday, August the 8th. SPECIAL PRICE OF $7.00 per ton, o is our price. We have 20 cars City, Mo., yards. This price w g. Better get in your winter once, if you want to get in on this Kansas City, Kansas, Yards..... P Missouri Yards..... The Lambright $7 Per Ton - COAL - $7 Per Ton The Lambright Coal & Fuel Company has bought the output of a mine of Missouri Coal—a high-grade lump. We will open onr Fall and winter season Monday, August the 8th. SPECIAL PRICE OF $7.00 per ton, delivered, on forked Missouri Coal, and $6.40 per ton on car-run is our price. We have 20 cars for the Kansas City, Kansas, yards, and 30 cars for the Kansas City, Mo., yards. This price will stand good for these cars until gone. They will not last long. Better get in your winter order at once and save from $2 to $5 on a ton. Place your order at once, if you want to get in on this opening price. Kansas City, Kansas, Yards.....Third Street and New Jersey Avenue Phone Fairfax 1923 Missouri Yards.....3301 East Fifteenth Street The Lambright Coal and Fuel Company SAMUEL DIGGS THE OLD RELIANCE SQUARE DEALING AND T Pays the Highest cash price bottles, bones, copper everything Place of Busniess—10 FAIRFAX 3577 THE OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEALER DEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT TIMES Highest cash price for junk at all-times, bottles, bones, copper, brass, lead, zinc and everything in the junk line. 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Yank Druggist Has Them --- BLE JUNK DEALER HONEST WEIGHT AT ALL TIMES for junk at all times, rags, iron, er, brass, lead, zinc and in the junk line. 6-1008 North Third Street KANSAS CITY, KANSAS WOMEN AND GIRLS LISTEN: Do you know that Her-Tru-Line removes the cause of all hair trouble? It does it by making the scalp health. Then the ugly kinks and curls quickly become soft, straight, glossy, beanutiful. The proof is in every jar. Try it today. It's the BEST. Price 50 cents, post paid. AGENTS WANTED JOHNSON & CO. warning that CITY TO BUY OR SELL PHONE FAIRFAX 0255 ONES—710—DREXEL OFING COMPANY CONTRACTORS KANSAS CITY, KANSAS SOLICITED The Kansas City Advocate for August 19-1921 fflElectrical dehydrating plants for fish are promised as a result of recent experiments in England, which demonstrate that it it possible with theai d of heated air to accomplish in a brief time results that now require many days of air curing, says Popular Mechanics magazine. Deprived of every trace of moisture, the fish meat may be kept for years, and then restored to its original freshness by soaking for three days in water The dried fish also may be ground into a fine flour of high food value. The process has been patented in all countries. The consumption of lumber during the war has been approximated at 6,500,000,000 feet, board measure, by the United States Forestry service. Of this amount of lumber bought directly by the various government departments, the army consumption was nearly 5,500,000,000 feet, the navy consuming more than 120.000.000. During 1918 the Emergency Fleet Corporation consumed for ship construction approximated 800,000,000 feet. Lumber needed for boxes and crates alone required 2,000.000,000 feet. Structures for cantonments, hospitals, warehouses, etc.. used approximately 3,000,000,000 feet. There are about 50 speceis of electrica fish, but the electrical properties of only five or six have been studied in detail. The best know nare various species of torpedo, belonging to the skate family, found in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas; the gymotus, an eel found in the region of the Orincco in South America; the malanturus, the raash or thunderer fish, of the Arabs, a native of the Nile, and Niger. Senegal and other African rivers, and various species of skate found in the seas around Great Britain. In London during the great plague of 1665, smoking not only was encouraged among the children, but it was actually enforced, under severe penalties. During the Spanish-American war cigarette smoking was encouraged among the soldiers serving in Tropical climes. There may be a couple of million more males than females in the United States, but the latter are doing all they can to kill off the former. The Arabs have a proverb that, after whistling, the mouth is not purified for forty days. They regard it as the most unlucky sign that can emanate from human lips. The Breidenthal electric shop is exhibiting a little dingbat that, when connected with an electric light socket, will blow hot or cold, just as you turn the button. With one of these in your home you will always have peace, if not peas When your wife is cold toward you, turn on the hot air; when she warms up too much, turn the button the other way and it will chill her coloricism. Mr Breidenthal has the biggest ad in this paper and it will not take you long to find Eighteen of the presidents of the United States were, at some time during their/lives, soldiers in activ service. It was one of the first spring days and little Elizabeth, aged 4, who had been playing with some neighbor children, rushed into the house and throwing herself across her mother's lap, exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, take off some of my clothes! I'm a whole petticoat too warm!" A bright little boy of 5 had been engaged in a combat with another boy and was reproved by his mother, who told him he ought to have waited until the other boy had commenced it. "Well," replied the youthful hero, "if I'd waited for him to begin it there wouldn't have been no fight." Elizabeth's grandma was reading a newspaper and happened to say something about the funny anecdotes it contained. Later when she had laid the paper aside Elizabeth picked it up and after looking it over she exclaimed: "G'wan'ma, I tan't find 'em." "Can't find what, dear?" asked grandma. "The funny nannygoats," was the reply. As few kinds of grass and clover are native to New Zealand, the government is experimenting with a number of others for introduction there. The workers returning to Mexico because of lack of employment in the United States are now employed by the mine owners in Tabasco and Chiapas states.—Mexican Review. The "dhole," the red wild dog of Northern India, is a most dangerous creature. Hunting, in packs, it will attack any living thing, even that jungle king the tiger. There is a chance that the girls will get tired of bobbing hair long before the public, if the public cares at all. Nothing is going to happen as a result of bobbed hair. That is, nothing that will hurt the human family. It's not likely that housewives will have much company for dinner next winter, this having been a poor season for canning cherries. "If I had only been pretty-" wailsthe Chicago woman who was convicted of killing her husband. That's it. She should have thought of that before she chopped him up with a meat ax. To Friends and the Public I desire to inform you that I am now located at 428 Minnesota avenue, Room 3, upstairs. See my ad in this issue. J. C. BRANCHE. MRS. TENA BAUCHMAN CHIROPODIST All foot trouble corrected, such as bunions, ingrowing and club nails, chilblains, callouses, frost-bites, etc. Will call at your home for consultation of service: Let us relieve you of that foot trouble. Office 1009 Freeman avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. ADVOCATE OFFICE WEST END PHARMACY are glad to announce to our friends and the public the opening of our new drug store— Tenth St. and Washington Blvd. Our prescription department is our hobby and specialty. We are fully equipped to fill any and all prescriptions. Complete and Modern Drug Store Stock. FREE DELIVERY ANYWHERE —Bell Fairfax 2850— "Drug Store Service Station" "Come over'n see us". Small Loans WEEKLY PAYMENTS LIBERTY BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD HELP THE PEOPLE STRICKEN IN T Credit Investment Co. Room 208. Wyandotte Building Fifth and Minnesota Avenue Drexel 117 Home HAIR DRESSER Call to see Mrs. McCoy for good Service All Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Use Own Preparations Dressmaking a Specialty MRS. 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Hooker, who is chairman of the relief committee, or G. A. Gregg, executive secretary, 2214 Russell avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. Thos. Kennedy, editor of The Kansas City Advocate, will receive contributions from Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. Frank Harris, secretary Paseo Y. M. C. A., Kansas City, Mo. Let everybody help. Prince Hall Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska Jurisdiction, will hold its annual session at Salina, Kans., August 10, 11 and 12. Entertained by Martha Chapter No. 52, O. E. S. Board and room, $2.00 a day. WM. H. TOWERS Attorney-at-Law Notary Public Bell Phone Fairfax 3866 511 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, Eas Fred W. Fitchue P. L. Jacobs East Side Flower Shop Cut Flowers Designs Decorators ROSES -- CARNATIONS CHRYSANTHEMUMS 1517 East 12th Street Bell Clifton 1059 Kansas City, Mo. PHONE FAIRFAX 1258 CAR AT YOUR SERVICE J. C. BRANCHE REAL ESTATE LOANS AND RENTALS It is a privilege to get it for you promptly 428 Minnesota Ave. K. C. K. w Fix It! GAS FITTING REPAIRING so PER HANGING and ER WORK YOUR TROUBLES ENCE, 326 PARALLEL AVE. COOKING STOVE Page Three. NOTICE Page Four. We are still to close to the war to estimate its effects accurately. It is easy enough to list the effects but hard to say which are permanent and which are the results of reaction. There is, for instance, a marked loss of idealism, a general feeling of disillusionment. Time alone can tell whether this is more than the swing of the pendulum. Once again. I can only give general impressions carefully sifted. People who sentimentalize about war, impress me as failing to see just what war is. War is the business of killing. The question is not whether it is good for men to have physical training such as the army gives, nor whether it is good for men to face hardship and learn thru it the joy of comradeship, nor whether it is good for me to lead the simple life. All these are accidentals of war. The real question is whether men are better or worse for having been compelled to kill their felows. Let us start with the fact that the essence of war is killing. The army was organized for that one end. It developed our bodies, not because it cared much about our health, but so that we might be strong enough to kill Germans. It took care of the wounded not primarily to save them pain, but to patch them up and send them back to kill more Germans. It provided religion, not because it cared about our souls, not because religion can be a very powerful incentive to killing Germans. And so on throughout the long list of its various activities. They are all for the same object—to kill Germans. In the business of killing Germans, incidentally we ourselves were exposed to death, in fact, almost certain to meet it. That fact was impressed upon our minds by seeing our comrades blown to bits. I was struck by the number of men I met who were certain that they would be killed. Death was very near and very real. Only we had to kill as many Germans as possible before it was our turn to "go west." The Superficial Effects Let us deal with the more superficial effects first. The physical training was good but unfortunately not a permanent good. Once back to civil life, most of us let the new muscle degenerate into fat and our last state is worse than the first. I do not think the general physical standard and general health of pre-war conscript Germany was anything to boast of. The desirability of physical training is not a good argument for universal training since the army does not care a rap for physical development, except for its own sake. It was a good thing to endure hardships and to get back to physical life, though here again even when we were in the army we accepted gladly all comforts we could get and we have acquired no permanent taste for bully feed or army stew. Most of us are glad to sleep again in a real bed. Still we have learned how much we can do without and we face the world with a cheerful confidence born of the knowledge that we can hardly be worse off in the future. There are certain army virtues like punctuality, neatness and cleanliness that are also among the things that do not abide. They were imposed upon us externally and we sloughed them off with the uniform. Perhaps we were not caught sufficiently young and not held long enough. But on the other hand, those who praise war because it instills these virtues, fail to reckon with the phenomenon of reaction. I have recently talked with an old soldier who joined the only army as a boy and for seven years trained in the habit of scrupulous neatness. He was apologizing for not being shaved. His explanation was that he had so much of that kind of thing in the army, that now he was free to do as he liked, he had a most decided objection to doing all the things he had been made to do. Effect of Comradeship The most precious of all was the army comradeship, the general-fusion of classes. But I am afraid that this, too, is rapidly passing away. Post-war Eng- land shows little evidence of its being at permanent influence in national life. Perhaps I am unduly pessimistic about this, but it is remarkable how quickly the heroes of the trenches have again became "the lower classes." The number of strikes and labor disputes does not encourage the belief that the war has brought about greater solidarity. It was a good thing to come into vivid contact with a reality greater than ourselves. We shall perhaps, never quite lose the effect of this and can never be quite as individualistic. We know now that we are not the biggest thing in God's universe. Perhaps we could have learned this in other ways at less cost. At the same time I do not think there is any sign of religious revival even when religion is interpreted as being distinct from the churches. So far as organized religion is concerned it has lost its hold on us. The army church parade has done that. And besides we don't feel like it. The church services are not exciting enough. It takes something to interest us these days. More serious than this, is that we do not recognize the cause for which we fought as being God, and, now that we are no longer in the army, we are not so sure about the cause anyhow. The blind fate that flung us into the mess and mashed us all together—that surely was not the will of God. The bottom has fallen out of the Universe. The whole business was so futile and so mad. And it may happen again. We have not been driven to God. We are no longer sure that there is one. We believe in fate, however, and have learned to be resigned to it—not loving it, but joking about it. You may say it was a good thing to be brought face to face with reality. I'm not sure about that either. With the primitive and the inevitable, perhaps, but, after all, is the primitive and the inevitable the more real? Was the aboriginal mess in which we lived more real than the civilization we had built for ourselves? Is the wattle hut more real than the Gothic cathedral? Is the savage more real than the primitive man? If that kind of reality is good it would be better for us to emigrate to the Balkans where they have it in plenty. Excitement of War. Of certain effects I have no doubt that they are bad but am hopeful that they will not be lasting. Army life in war-time is an alteration of relatively long period of horrible boredom and short periods of super-excitement. We are "fed up to the back teeth" with inactivity and then lived a lifetime of excitement in the space of a few short hours. As a result we find it hard to resettle in civil life. We have lost habits of industry. We have degenerated in mind and soul. Nothing excites us, our nerves refuse to be excited any more. We are as bored as a man who has seen the Temple of Karnak is when a friend shows him the town postoffice. I met very few men in the army who kept up their interest in things. We didn't want to talk, we didn't want to read, we hated writing letters, we could not trouble to form real friendships. Nearly every theatre in London during the war and the year following staged musical comedy. There has been a great increase in periodicals of the "Tid Bits" type. Our whole cry is for something light and frothy. We are drained emotionally. It is not so much that we are hardened as that we have exhausted our capacity to feel. What does another little sorrow matter in the world that has seen so much of it? We are more responsive to mass impulses, to shout with the crowd and rush with the crowd. We no longer think deeply nor do we care for the subtle distinctions that are the very being of Truth. We had no use for independent thought in the army and we have lost the power to judge for ourselves. We have become accustomed to the fact, that the lie is a recognized weapon of warfare only we call it "propaganda." The general result is that we are left with a horrible numbness of mind and soul. Let us hope it is only reaction. To return to the deeper question. War is the business of killing. In order to make the average man fit for his job the army has to remould him. It is a very narrow and well-defined purpose. The mould is so narrow that we have to be forced into it and a good deal has to be trimmed off us to make us fit. snatch out of the moment There is not much use in being good if you are going to be killed next week. You might a well have a bit of a fling while you have a chance. It is folk to bother about anything but the pleasure of the senses. In the face of death all values are reduced to that. You are reduced to the primitive. But again I would urge the primitive is not the re and not the good. The proge There is a narrowing viewpoint. Humanitarism becomes contracted into partisan patriotism. All virtues are defined with reference to the ability to kill Germans. Anything that interferes with that is vice, anything that furthers it is virtue. This nationalization of virtue is, in my opinion, one of the worst effects of war and a great moral loss. There is a deliberate brutalizing. This means narrowing the modern man down to the primitive savage instincts and stripping him of all refined aesthetic and delicate sentiments, that might interfere with the killing business—including pity and imaginative sympathy. This begins early in the training process. You are brought face to face with straw-stuffed sack. A sharp and ugly bayonet is put in your hand. You are carefully impressed with the fact that the sack represents a German. The white spot in the center is his liver. It is your business to drive the sharp and ugly bayonet into his liver. To make it more realistic, you have to rush at him with a whip and unit fearful grunts as you drive it hope, twist it around and draw it out again. Naturally you don't like it. You think that the German has a sensitive liver like your own and that perhaps he feels it. You think that perhaps he might be a quite decent, rather serious-minded sort of chap like those you knew in your student days. Perhaps he has a wife and children depending on him. Perhaps you are sending him to meet his God with his soul unprepared. But bless your life, you soon get over all that sort of squeamishness. Your soul is fed on red, raw meat. The sergeant helps a good deal too. In a little while you forget all about the nerves of his liver and his wife and children and his immortal soul. The mere sack becomes a real German to you. You lunge and twist with a will, rather priding yourself on the neat way in which you hit the spot. Indeed you become so accustomed to it that when you meet the enemy, the rea lGerman is just a straw-stuffed sack—merely that and nothing more. You have got over your squeamishness. Yes, but it is just that "squeamishness," that recognition that the other fellow is also a man, which is religion, brotherhood, morality and civilization. One of Many Rifles And it is not only the German's life that is cheapened. Your own counts for little enough. Nine of you march down from headquarters to the training camp—a bank director, a sheep farmer from Australia, a cattleman from Argentine, a student, a lawyer, an author and a musician. You are all distinct individuals In about a week you are all alike. You have lost your former interests and associations and all that meant life to you.' Your very name becomes a number. Your appetite remains, your ability to feel fatigue and your sex impulses. You are de-personalized, reduced to your primitive elements to the lowest-common denominator. You go eventually to the front where nasty people shoot at you. It is quite on the cards that you will "stop one." You know that so far as the army is concerned you exist only as one of the so many millions of effective rifles That's all you are. You know that all you have hoped for and striven to be is of less value than one inch of ground that might be possibly gained. Everybody else's life is worth just as much as your own. You are in it, whether you like it or not you can't get out. Your officer would have no compunction about shooting you if you tried. This, I think, is the real effect of war on the individual—it cheapens life. And the result—well, what's the use of anything except what pleasure you can snatch out of the moment. There is not much use in being good if you are going to be killed next week. You might as well have a bit of a fling while you have a chance. It is folly to bother about anything but the pleasure of the senses. In the face of death all values are reduced to that. You are reduced to the primitive. But again I would urge—the primitive is not the real and not the good. The progress of civilization is founded on the rising value of the individual life. War is the direct opposite of civilization and the direct opposite of morality. 'It is impossible that we can have, gone through this experience and be quite the same after it. My general verdict on war is that it leaves us infinitely poorer morally. So far from its being a spiritual uplift it is exactly the reverse. It is evil—almost unmitigated evil. In certain circumstances it may not be the worst imaginable evil. It may even be necessary evil. But for heaven's sake, don't let us cal it good!—T. H. Proctor. Dr. Prince of St. Joseph, visited Metropolitan Wednesday night. A "financial drive" was given at the Orphans' Home Monday night. Mrs. Nettie Washington attended the U.B.F. Grand Lodge at Cincinnati. Tenth street, entertained at dinner several popular friends from St. Charles, Mo. Rev. J. F. Griffin, pastor of First A. M. E. church, has purchased a fine new 7-pasenger Oldsmobile car. A large number from here attended the Knights of Pythias Supreme Lodge session and encampment at Topeka this week. A FRATERNAL DRIVE IN KANSAS CITY, KANS. IS ON WANTED—500 new members for the Busy Bees, or I. O. B. & L. of C. We pay—not promise to pay—$3.00 per week sick dues; $70.00 funeral and endowment as follows: First year, $100.00; second year, $200.00, and after the third year, $300.00. It will cost you 45 cents per month dues and burial with a tax of five (5) cents per quarter on burial and endowment, $1.25 per quarter. For further information call Fairfax 3577. For the next 60 days, it will cost you the sum of $1.00. Hudson Lodge No. 1, Eureka Lodge No. 2, Wyandotte Lodge No. 3, St. Elmo Lodge No. 5. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, Division No. —. I. B. Hunt, Plaintiff, vs. Lizzie L. Hurt, Defendant No. 16375-A. To Lizzie Hunt, Greeting: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by your husband, I B. Hunt, for a decree of divorce in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on the grounds of gross neglect of duty, extreme cruelty, and adultery, and that unless you answer the petition of said plaintiff filed herein on or before the 10th day of September, 1921, said petition will be taken as true and a decree of divorce will be granted the plaintiff divorcing said plaintiff from you, and giving him such other and further relief as to the court may seem equitable and just. WM. H. TOWERS, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published July 29, 1921) state of Kansas, Wyandotte County, ss. In the Probate Court of said County. In the matter of the estate of James Young, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted on the last will and testament of James Young, late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Judge of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 28th day of July, 1921. 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. GERTRUDE E. ANDERSON. Execuor of the last will and testament of James Young, deceased Dated July 28, 1921. DUNLAP LAUNDRY COMPANY THE BEST LAUNRY SERVICE POSSIBLE SOFT WATER USED EXCLUSIVELY BY US Home Phone 6856 Main Bell Phone 0180 Grand Fraternity Building 312-314 Nebraska Vacant Afternoons in Fraternity Hall, West Side West Side ..... Fi rst Tuesday Afternoons East Side.....2nd and 4th Monday Afternoons East Side...1st and 3rd Wednesday Afternoons A PERSONAL SERVICE—HUMAN CONSIDERATION YOU GET MORE THAN YOU PAY FOR—ASK ANYBODY THE GRAY PRINTING CO. FIFTH AT OAKLAND AVENUE BELL FAIRFAX 4187 WESTERN UNIVERSITY THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUION OF THE MID-WEST The location is ideal, near Kansas City. The buildings are modern brick structures, steam-heated and electric-lighted. The following courses are offered: DRAWING, CHINA PAINTING POULTRY RAISING ON AN EXTENSIVE SCALE (incubation) with more than 4,000 blooded fowls in the runs and hatchery All departments are excellently equipped. NO STUDENTS RECEIVED, BELOW FIRST YEAR HIGH SCHOOL GRADE. School opens September 5th 1921. For catalogue or further information, write— F. JESSE PECK, President KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. R.F.D. No. 3 PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Nobia Smith, Plaintiff, vs. William Smith, Defendant. No. 16356-A-3. To the above named Defendant, William Smith Greeting: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above-named plaintiff in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for divorce; that the grounds alleged in said petition for divorce on file in the above-entitled action are: gross neglect of duty, extreme cruelty and abandonment; that you are required to answer the petition of the plaintic, filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas on or before the 9th day of September, 1921, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you in favor of the plaintiff, granting her an absolute divorce from you, the restoration of her maiden name, and for such other and further relief as the nature of the case may require. BOOKER & JONES, Attorneys for Plaintiff. (First published July 29, 1921) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, 2nd Div. Anna Wilson, Plaintiff, vs. Verlon Wilson, Defendant. No. 14609-A. To Verlon Wilson: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for divorce, and taat you are required to answer the petition of plaintiff, filed in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on or before the 15th day of eSeptember, 1921, 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 such other and further relief as the nature of DUNLAP COM FIFTEENTH AVE THE BEST LAUNRY SOFT WATER USED Home Phone 6856 Main S. DIGGS Fraternity 312-314 Vacant Afternoons in F West Side ..... F Kansas City, Kansas. the case may require. DORSEY GREEN, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published August 5, 1921) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County. Nelson Mitchell /Plaintiff, vs. Elberta Mitchell, Defendant. To Elberta Mitchell, the above named defendant You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above named court and cause for a divorce and unless you answer the allegations in the petition on or before the 15th day of September, 1921, the same will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you for your fault and for such other and further relief as equity may permit. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published August 5, 1921) NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Frinzelka Downs, Plaintiff, vs. Walter K. Downs, Defendant. The State of Kansas to Walter K. Downs: Take notice that you have been sued in the above named court for absolute divorce from the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant and must answer petition filed therein by said plaintiff on or before the 15th day of September, 1921, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff for divorce will be rendered accordingly. S. W. JOHNSON, L. W. JOHNSON, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk District Court, by C. W. Fincke, Deputy. (First published August 5, 1921)