Kansas City Advocate

Hear Bishop W. T. Vernon, 11 A. M. Sunday, Feb. 1st, at First A. M. E. Church KANSAS Vol. XI COL. J. O. PROUD OF BAPTIST NEW PUB- LISHING HOUSE Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 29.—I have always been proud of the fact that I was a Baptist and now I am a good old shouting Baptist, and in my old days, as I am nearing the grave I thank God that our sons and daughters are improvements on us, and they are doing things that we never dreamed of doing in this world, and I feel that the cause is safe in their hands. Do you know Dr. A. M. Townsend? He is one of the most remarkable men in this country, and mark you I said men without any reservation. He has stood the acid test and is doing things. He is our business genius, and his name will live in the hearts of men after many of us will have been forgotten and perhaps rotten. He has the Baptists of America behind him, and he has been leading them on to success, having directly by his side Dr. L. K. Williams, of Chicago, pastor of the Olivet Baptist church, and president of the National Baptist convention of America. People have thought me to be crazy or some other something since I have been in Nashville, and visited the new home of the Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist convention. Go back and see where I was when I wrote you that other letter. Mingling among the leaders of the National Baptist convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, meeting the Executive Board. Dr. L. K. Williams presided, and when he left the chair, the Rev. Dr. R. M. Caver, of Little Rock, vicepresident at large took the gavel. It was just one more big meeting and I was glad indeed to be there. All the secretaries were present and told about the condition and needs of their Boards, and the whole Board joined in making plans for the future, and if carried out, the next session of the National Baptist convention, to be held next September in Baltimore, Md., will be the greatest meeting in the history of that organization. I had the pleasure of coming in touch with Dr. A. M. Townsend, and he invited me to visit Nashville, that I might get to see the place for myself and praise God if I thought I should do a thing like that. The invitation was accepted, and I left Indianapolis and made it to Louisville, spending a day and night with Editor Wllam H. Steward, of the American Baptist and his family. I tell you when a fellow can be entertained by the dignitaries he just feels his head swelling, and my head may yet pop open. I was just there. Visited the Simmons University and walked and talked with them great educators. Met many, and then off for Nashville. Dr. Townsend told me to send him a telespatch when I was going to reach town, but I did not. I did not think he would come down to meet me and I would be throwing away money. Reaching town about 8 o'clock I stepped to the hello box, told the girl to put me in touch with Dr. A. M. Townsend, and they had me to call a certain particular number, and he answered calling me hello. I told him that was not my name, for my name was Col. J. O. Midnight, and he said that he would come immediately after me. It was not but a few minutes before he was in that L. & N. stable to tote me in his automobile car carriage to his home. Reaching the house Mrs. Townsend was full of smiles and told me to step right in. If she had been receiving a real brother. Now let me tell you that Mrs. Townsend is one of the best trained musicians in this whole country—a woman of rare ability. She edited the Baptist Standard Hymnal with Responsive Readings, a book with 672 pages, and one of the best hymnals used in anybody's church today. It was published by the Sunday School Publishing Board. Well, I soon had my little feet under the table and sending breakfast into my breakfast eternity. After the eating business I went to the new home for the Sunday-School Publishing Board, and honey I will never be able to tell you about it. People thought I was crazy the way I was rejoicing, and if I go on that way now, what will it be when the THOMAS KENNEDY EDITOR AND PUBLISHER building is finished next spring and them Baptists take hold of it in full fledge. They are occupying it now in an unfinished state, but they are working hard on it every day—yes, every hour. It is going to be something—the best and finest of its kind in America, and it is all ours from the ground up. They are going to do business down in the ground as well as way up in the air. In the basement, under the ground will be vaults in which will be kept cuts, records and the like, there will be a stock room for printing paper and supplies. Step up then to the first floor and on the west side, corner will be the home of the People's Bank & Trust company. On the East side will be the Publishing Board's bookstore, sales room, merchandise mailing room. On this same floor between the two places will be a long hall dividing them, taking the length of the building, and this will be the Baptist hall of fame, containing a tablet and group picture of the memorial three hundred, also a tablet with the names of the pioneer ministers of the National Baptist convention. This is all I can tell you about this floor now, but I would step up to the second floor of this same building and find the literature mailing room, and the balance of the space will be rented to lawyers, doctors, and other business and professional men needing office space. Come up to the third floor and find executive, administrative, stenographic, clerical, bookkeeping and filing departments. Then up on the fourth floor we will find editorial departments, library and they are going to have some editors, the historian, will also be there. Then there will be the fifth floor where you will find a recreation garden and cafeteria. That is going some. Now they will have shower baths for the employees and all other modern conveniences. We are doing things now and I thank God that I belong to this wonderful race. I have not told you about the mechanical departments, and this will be another part of the building. I will not tell you about the 5 large presses, the great big new No. 10 Optimus Babcock press of the latest design with automatic cross feeder and extended delivery, and one Miehle two-color press with automatic cross feeder. I will not have time to go to the second floor of this department and tell of its modern equipments, and to the third floor and talk about the six latest new linotype machines, but another time. Pardon me this time I have just been shouting all over Nashville, and I am happy unto my soul. I never dreamed that I would live to see such a day, and then they have schools here that are turning out men and women who will take their places in this world among thinkers. I am glad of it. I had the pleasure of dropping into some of these temples of knowledge. You know that some of the best schools in the world are right here in Nashville. I had the pleasure of going out to the state normal, and they have a fine faculty there headed by that wonderful educator, Prof. W. J. Hale. He is a wonder, and they have there about 600 students. Now let these young men and women step out in the world and you will see conditions change. They are going to stand erect with their heads up, thinking. We get a man like Dr. A. M. Townsend from these schools. We are producing men now and not pigmies. In Nashville is to be found one of the oldest colleges in this country for our people—in fact it is one of the most noted institutions in all America, Fisk University. Dr. F. A. McKinzie, one of the finest men it has been mine to know is president, and believe me he has accomplished something since he has been here. It has been his lot to rehabilitate the entire plant, including the installation of a Central heating plant, electric lighting, sanitary and bathing facilities at a cost of $200,000. Then the annual budget of the institution has been increased from $53,000 to $173,000. The maximum salaries of professors increased 45 per cent, and then arrangements have been made by which Fisk teachers are placed on the Carnegie retirement allowance. Now I have given you four things and I will turn to other accomplishments. During President McKinzie's administration, Fisk University was the first school for the collegiate educa- (Continued on page 4.) CITY ADVOCATE Kansas City, Kansas, January 30, 1925 GUESS I BETTER GO BACK AND KEEP ON SHOVELING COAL FOR A WHILE YET (Copyright, W. N. U.) WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY ARMORY BOKEN INTO. GOVERNMENT PROPERTY STOLEN. On December 17, 1924, the university armory was entered by picking a lock and one gun was stolen. Four nights later the lock had been picked, someone broke a panel in the door at the side entrance to the armory, entered and took rifles and other equipment. Through the efforts of the president, Gilbert H. Jones, assisted by Capt. Charles H. Wilson, instructor of military science of the R. O. T. C., all property was recovered. Government inspectors came into the case at this step and have had charge of it ever since. The arrests being made through the U. S. Commissioner at Cincinnati, headquarters for the U. S. District of Southern Ohio. The report erroneously has gone out that the robbery was committed by Wilberforce students. This is in error, as the investigation thus far, with all the property in, has disclosed the fact that the students in no way are connected with the robbery. CARD OF THANKS. We take this means of thanking and showing our appreciation for the services rendered by our kind neighbors and friends, who so kindly come to our reliaf, during the illness and death of our beloved daughter and sister, Theresa Scott. We also want to thank our friends for the kind words of sympathy and the lovely floral offerings. MR. AND MRS. T. M. SCOTT; Parents, and Family. Don't turn our collectors away, when they call, without at least paying part of your subscription. Mr. William Alexander and his son Master Price Alexander of Sedalia, Mo., spent the weed end in the city with Dr. Clyde Alexander, his son, 1512 North Fifth street. Mr. Alexander is an undertaker in his home city. They drove through in their car. The Pleasure Seekers' Art Club, and other clubs are planning a fine program at Northeast Junior high school, at which time Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett will address them. The senior steward's Board held a very enjoyable meeting at the residence of Mrs. Edward Clark, January 22. Dainty refreshments were served. Rev. Cleveland Wilson, 448 Minnesota avenue, returned Monday from Memphis, Tenn., where he spent a week with his relatives and looked after some important business. Rev. Wilson is the pastor of the A. M. E. church at Rosedale. DOUGLAS P.-T. A. MEETING. The Douglass P.-T. A. held a very splendid meeting Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 P. M. Rev. E. M. Spatches was the principal speaker, Miss Lamb the school nurse, gave a short talk on health, Mr. Horatio Warrick the author of several books of poems gave several of his readings, music was furnished by some of the pupils of the school. COLORED WOMEN'S COMMERCIAL CLUB. The Colored Women's Commercial Club had an overflow meeting at Mrs. Bills,' 1013 Nebraska avenue. They decided to respond to the invitation of other clubs to be represented on Mrs. I. B. Wells-Barnett's program at N. E. Junior High, February 12th. BAPTIST WOMEN'S CITY MISSION The Baptist Women had one of its largest City Mission meetings at Rev. Moseley's church. Mrs. Fitchue gave a nice written report of her committee; Mrs. H. Kemp conducted the Bible lesson and Mrs. M. C. Matthews gave her 12th and yearly report as City Missionary. Mrs. L. Forrest, the president, and others, said the missionary's report was wonderful, and are anxious that it be printed this week or next week. The next City Mission meets the third Friday in February at the First Baptist church. How about paying your subscription when our collectors call on you? THANK YOU? About one hundred Republicans from Wyandotte County attended Kansas Day at Topeka, Thursday. A number of colored were among the party, who went and returned in busses. You should not fail to be present Sunday at 11 A. M. to hear Bishop W. T. Vernon, at First A. M. E. church. Rev. Albert Browne, who has been quite sick for a number of weeks, at the home of his mother, 1015 Freeman avenue, was able to be out Sunday and attended First A. M. E. church. Rev. Browne hopes to return to his district in West Virginia in a few weeks. His many warm friends were very glad to see him out again. Rev. J. C. C. Owens, presiding elder of the Parsons district, who has been confined to his home, 1914 North Sixth street for two weeks with illness, is much improved of which his many friends will be happy to know. Dr. Owens is one of the pioneer A. M. E. ministers of the West and is still in active service of his church. Ground Hog Day PUBLIC at First A. M. B ENTERTAINED AT TEA Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Caldwell, 1242 Nebraska avenue, entertained, in honor of Mr. Caldwell's sister, Mrs. C. E. Craig of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Sunday, January 25th, with a four o'clock tea. Those present, were: Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Dwiggins, Mr. and Mrs. Moore, Mrs. J. C. Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo., Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Crenshaw, Mrs. Jessie Green, Mrs. Gray, Miss Ouzley, Mrs. Lee and Mr. Williams. Mrs. Craig is a very active and popular club woman of her city. METROPOLITAN BAPTIST TEMPLE. The Dorcus Missionary Society will celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the church, with a birthday dinner February 2, at one of the most beautiful homes in Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Taylor, 815 Washington boulevard. This promises to be the most elaborate affair the church has given this year. A turkey dinner with all its trimmings will be served. A continuous program will be rendered from three to eight p. m. RELY ON YOURSELF When great Galileo proclaimed that the world In regular orbit was ceaselessly whirled, And got—not a convert—for all of his pains, But only derision and prison and chains, "It moves, for all that!" was his answering tone. For he knew, like the earth, he could go it alone. When Kepler, with intellect piercing afar, Discovered the laws of each planet and star, And doctors, who ought to have lauded his name, Derided his learning and blackened his fame, "I can wait," he replied, "till the truth you shall own," For he felt in his heart he could go it alone. Rev. and Mrs. S. D. Rhone of Atchison, were in the city Thursday of last week and were callers at Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Brooks, 1111 N. 8th street. Rev. Rhone was formerly pastor of Trinity A. M. E. church of this city. Mrs. Bettie Walker of Pine Bluff, Ark., is visiting her daughters, Mrs. Laurie Tate and husband, 1935 North Fourth street and Miss Ida B. Derreseaux, 940 Washington blvd. How about paying your subscription when our collectors call on you? THANK YOU? ny A thin ing Number 24 E. Church WHERE WISE MEN AGREE Editorial in Collier's Weekly, January 10, 1925. Just after the World War a group of Southerners decided that white folks and black folks, since they had to live in the same United States, ought to understand each other's point of view a little better. So they got up interracial committees—one in each Southern state; one, as far as possible, in each community. Through these committees the most public-spirited members of each race learned what those of the other race were thinking and worrying about. Often this led to the removal of little irritations which might have grown into big ones. More than once interracial committees prevented mob violence, saved the innocent and made possible the legal punishment of the guilty. The idea spread to the North, and Brooklyn, Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis and Minneapolis, among other cities, now take up race questions in this way. The lynching statistics tell the rest of the story. In 1922 there were 57 lynchings; in 1923, 28; during the first ten month of 1924, 13. In 1926, it is hoped, there won't be any. Compare these figures with the 255 for 1892 and 100 for 1908. Our little corner of the world is certainly getting more sensible and more humane. Of course race questions aren't permanently settled by talk. Perhaps they never will be settled until we all have the same color of skin, eyes and hair, and all like the same brand of cigars, which will be the first Tuesday after the first Monday after Judgment Day. But they won't be fatal if, as the interracial committees are trying to do, we can take the hate out of them and put a little understanding in. CHARMINGLY ENTERTAINED. Miss Goldie Richardson very charmingly entertained these members of the L'Amour Girls' Club Monday, January 26: Misses Beatrice Anderson, Cora Morris, Aileen Brown, Vanilla Johnson and Wylma Dwiggins. The evening was spent in playing games. The next regular meeting will be February 9 with Miss Ollevia Scales. CITY BRIEFS AND IN SOCIETY. Mrs. Butler, 407 Everett ave., left Friday to visit Bastrop, Huston and Galveston, Texas, and also to visit her brother who is sick. We regret very much that Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rice's large colonial home, 835 Nebraska avenue, was greatly damaged by fire Monday night. ON MAKING MONEY. The mint is the only place where money can be made without advertising. A FALSE NOTION. A few Kansas City citizens seem to think that team work consists in doing a lot of kicking. ENVY. We believe that the most shortsighted citizens of our community are those who think they profit by knocking their successful neighbor. ITS USE. A hammer is to drive nails and not knock your neighbor. What do you use your's for? Don't turn our collectors away, when they call, without at least paying part of your subscription. How about paying your subscription when our collectors call on you? THANK YOU? The Pleasure Seekers' Art Club met at 928 Oakland avenue, Wednesday, and were delightfully entertained by Mrs. Franklin, Mrs. Calhoun Noland's daughter. Dr. and Mrs. S. M. Banks have gone to Hot Springs, Arkansas, for an indefinite stay for the benefit of the doctor's health. ADVOCATE THOMAS KENNEDY, Editor and Proprietor. THOS. KNAPPER Associate Editor Wiss IDA B. DERRESEAUX + Manager ee ee MRS. M. C. MATTHEWS, Society Editor. MRS. FL. PRINCE Circulating Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY —at— Office 608 North Sixth Street Phone Drexel 1814 Residence Phone Fairfax 2904 =. Residence: Shon Pes Se SUBSCRIPTION. One Year ______$1.50 ix Months» .90 Tite e Months... .60 Fentered as second-class matter Aseust 29, 1914, at the postofic, at Kansas City, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. _ ‘The Advocate is a weekly journal devoted to Race Progress and Human Uplift. ‘Have your news in our office not {ater than Tuesday of each week to Insurance publication. ———— ENBER > NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION, NOT WISE PLAN FOR OPPOSITES TO MATE Writer Takes Issue With Long-Accepted Maxim. Considering the hands of both hus: band and wife together is most inter- esting and most enlightening. I'd say to engaged couples, “Go and have your characters analyzed together.” It's good advice and they'd probably adore doing It. But would they pyofit thereby? Not Af they were really ‘in love, as I told a gentleman who brought me his fiancee to louk over. However, let me state right here that that ancient suw about the attraction of opposites may De right as to attraction, but It's all wrong as to suitability. The hap- piest, most enduring marriages are founded upon likeness. The more alike the better, unless, perhaps, it’s a matter of violent temper, when, of course, the companion should have balance und self-control, Also supersensitiveness and jealousy should never be doubled. Two ot these together will make themselves and the angels weep. By all means, let artist marry artist or art lover; and musicians are better mated to the musical, the business woman to the business man, And. above all, look for a similarity in a sense of humor. Dissimllarity of that all-important sense has rained more homes than vamps, drink and religious differences put ° together. Mow to tell it? Uin—that's hard, for It isn't to be found in the lines, Truly adaptable people, who are those with @ sense of humor, have the flexible hand, warm in color and warm in its heut quality. The palm Is Invariably Spotted, the flanges of the fingers well Froportioned, apt to be a trifle wide at the tips, which are sensitive. Peo- ple with large bumps of ambition, which bump is right under the first finger, very seldom own that cherished gift, Why. heaven only knows, That other old saw about “Man's love is of a nian's life a thing apart; “tls woman's whole, existence” Is all bosh. With many women it is a thing apart, and with innumerable men it is their whole existence, ‘The love-dependent man Is really more common than the love-dependent woman, and his number Is Increasing; or rather, the love-dependent woman {s decreasing. as she finds that work Is an anodyne—Ethel Watts Mumford In the Saturday Evening Post. New Vitamines Scientists at the University of Call fornia are working on two recently discovered vitamines which may prove of grext Importance in lengthening life and in preventing animal sterility. One Is a vitamine discovered in tea. It has been named “bios” and is sup- posed to have 300 times the life-giving qualities of other similar vitamines previously found In yeast, “Bios” was discovered, it Is reported, as a result of observations that tea drinking peo- ples, including Chinese, Japanese, Irish and English, are longer lived than some other natfonallttes, ‘The second substance discovered, a flake extracted from wheat, is said to have increased animal fertility to a marked degree, However, the sub- stance {s present in such small quantl- tles that only a few flakes were se- cured from a ton of grain.—Phile- delphia Inguirer, Truthful Gladvz When Gladys Martin, acknowledged to be one of Los Angeles’ prettiest nurses, was a probationer in one of the Massachusetts hospitals, she made a mistake that put her in wrong with at least one doctor. “Good gracious,” cried the physician as he glanced at a“death certificate ‘Miss Martin had made out for him, “you have filled In my name as the cause of the death!" “Well” demanded Gladys tclly— Ios Angeles Times, 4 \ t THE WEEKLY ANNOUNCER } OF FIRSE A. M. E. CHURCH =a tan eel t=ce x Located Cor Eighth and Nebrasks.| METROPOLITAN — GB, BROOKS, Pastor. TEMPLE NOTE Parsonage 1111 N. Eighth St. __ Phone, Fairfax 2904 The Publicity Committee had « Order of Services vertised on the bulletin boards th 9:30 A. M,, Sunday School. Pastor Bronson would be present a 41:00 A. 10. Preaching. some of the Deacons had announe 3:00 P. M., Junior Allen League. | it, so a large congregation assembl 6:00 P. M, Senior Alle} League. |at Metropolitan Baptist Church St 7:30 P. M, Preaching. day, January 25, 1925. Dr. Brons WEEKLY SERVICES. preached a very fine sermon on ¢ Official Board, 2nd and 4th Mon-| ‘xt “Sirs, I would see Jesus," a aay, 1380 P. portrayed Christ as the only real m 7 T90 B M ruesday 1230 pa,| eV bore. He also showed sinn ; 230 P.M, : Wa poet meng, gi pg Wat a ey P.M. Friday class meeting 8 P. M-| ioyed the intelligent sermon and sot > ~~ | united with the church, CHURCH NEWS ‘At 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Matthews taug A fine audience greeted the pastor, Rev. C. E. Brookks, at the 11 o'clock service. Dr. Brooks was at his best and delivered one of the best sermons that has been heard in First church for a long time. It was intellectual, spiritual and scholarly. The pastor preached another won- derful sermon at the evening service to a nice audience, which was greatly enjoyed. At the 3 p. m. the Junior choir had Rev. Mrs. Demery of Missouri to speak. A large audience was out to hear her and the choir rendered excel- lent music for the occasion, ‘The Sunday school was well attend- ed and a fine Iesson’studied and dis- cussed by the school. ‘Allen League gave an appreciative program at 6 p. m. to a full house. It was one of the best for many weeks. Bishop W. T. Vernon will preach Sunday at 11 a. m. Come out and hear this giant of the pulpit. . The sewing circle will give a chick- en dinner at the church February 13. They will also hold their annual ba- zaar in the lecture room of the church. Every member of the church should have their budget envelopes, if they have not received them. Ask your leader or the secretary for them when you come to church. Come out Sunday and hear a great intellectual and spiritual sermon. - Original War Memorial The little village of Hefge End, in Hampshire, England, will shortly own in a completed state one of the. most unique war ‘memorlals In England. It is in memory of the men of the county who died in the World war, and Is be- Ing built, in Swiss chalet style, en- (rely by an ex-service man.” He hus devoted the whole of his leisure to the task for many months, and the me- morial contains many symbolic figures und Inscriptions, as well as medallions containing the names of war celebri- ties. In it Is a model of the Europa, and on the celling are about eight hun- ‘red wooden diamonds bearing ‘regl- mental crests, colors, ribbons, buttons, divisional and corps signs, and the crests of all the ships in the British navy. Aim Was Too True One Detroiter dreads for summer to come now, He fs rather doubtful as to the friendship of his next door neigh- bor, who, in the garden-making days, spent many an hour in the twilight gossiping over the hack fence, The other even'ng his wife asked him to carry an empty food can to the back of the lot to the refuse basket, It was dark and cold and Icy, so he hit upon a bright Idea. He tossed the can in the general direction of the basket and waited to hear it hit, Just then the neighbor popped Into view, the can seemed to take on Hife. it swirled in a beautiful curve straight for the neigh- hor. It hit, It was some minutes be- fore the hurler took a chance and slipped into the house—Detroit News. Heroes Remembered On Gallipoll today, said General Sir Ian Hamilton at a service in the War Memorial hall of Hornsey Cottage hor- pital, the only living things are the graveyards. Kritha is a ruin, Every farmhouse Is a ruin. ‘There are no in- habitants now; no villages; no cultf- vation; no shepherds; no flocks; only a few beachcombers eking out & mis. erable existence by the sea, But the cemeteries are a mass of flowers, tend. ed as if each soldier boy living there had been the son of an emperor, At least fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters, widows and children could think happily and proudly of the rest- ing places of their heroes—Montreal Family Herald. Not to Be Thought Of Frank Irving Fletcher, the New York advertising expert, said in a re cent after-dinner speech. “The lying advertisement, whlch has now gone out of fashion, used to take the weak point of an article and make it a strong point, a virtue. “Tt was Uke an Australian lady to whom an English tourist said: “"T suppose now your husband has made his pile, you'll be visiting Eng- land—what?’ “‘England? No, thanks’ sald the lady, curling up her nose. ‘\Why, that’s where all our convicts come from.” THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE METROPOLITAN TEMPLE NOTES The Publicity Committee had ad- vertised on the bulletin boards that Pastor Bronson would be present and some of the Deacons had announced it, so a large congregation assembled at Metropolitan Baptist Church Sun- day, January 25, 1925. Dr. Bronson preached a very fine sermon on the text “Sirs, I would see Jesus,” and portrayed Christ as the only real man ever born. He also showed sinners how by just a look of faith they can see Jesus and be saved. Many en- joyed the intelligent sermon and some united with the church. At 1:30 p. m. Mrs, Matthews taught the Mission Bible Class. The Sunday School was well attended and the B. Y. P. U. was very interesting. At 8 p. m, Dr. Bronson preached another fine sermon from Matt. 10: 16-28; In it he showed how the Bible is being fulfilled about “children ris- ing up against their parents, ete.” It was appropriate for these perilous times and well received. The Mission Circle will celebrate the Church’s 35th birthday by giving a Birthday dinner for all who pay according to their ages. Also all old people are in- vited, Also young people and chil- drer, Monday, February 2 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tay- lor, 815 Washington Boulevard, from 4to8p.m. ‘Come to Metropolitan, whose doors are ever open unto sorrow. Mrs. Bowles, 936 Washington, is reported ill. Mrs. L. Eskridge is sick at her home, TRINITY TO GIVE PROGRAM IN NEW CHURCH: Trinity A. M. E. church that has purchased the Edgerton Baptist church (white) at the corner of Gree- ley and Fifth streets will have in this church Wednesday evening, February 4, an informal opening, rendering a program, The admission is only 15 cents. This congregation, with its big pastor, Rev. Mr. Winston, are working hard to get in their new house of worship by the first of March. This congregation has grown rapidly in the past four or five months and every one is enthusiastic to be in their new spiritual home. The Willing Workers Club and others are sponsoring the program. Grotesque Ice Plants . Formed by Jack Frost On cold, frosty mornings at Rock Lonesome, when films of shining erys tal cover brooks and sphagnum bogs old stumps are frosted with white an¢ black loam along the trails Is thrust up by underlying needles of Ice, frost flowers bloom in lovely fantastic shapes about the root stalks of sere hellanthemum canadense or fros| weed. ‘These are not yellow flowers of the rock rose but masses of ice crystals shot out, woven and spun by Jack Frost's sprites during the night from the cracked root-stalks of the weeds just aboxe the ground, says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Frost weed is the best-known plant from which these Ice masses spring but fs not the only one. Frost flowers are found about the feet of thirty o1 more different plants, herbaceous an- nuals and perennials, and sometimes trees. When the life in the stem creeps down into the roots, leaving the stalk sere but roots In the warm ground still allve, osmotic pressure — continues pumping water up the dead stem where, freezing, It bursts the stem and the escaping sap, congealing in the open air, forms lovely crystals and convolutions called frost flowers. Beautiful Spot Filmed Africa’s mystery mountain, Killman- Jaro, in Tanganyika, has been filmed by a British explorer. Kilimanjaro has two peaks—Kibo rising to 19,710 feet and Mawauzi to 17,570 feet. Its great ice cap—in some places over 200 feet thick—completely covering the , last 5,000 feet of its altitude, is the most striking feature of the film. This mile of ice, under moonlight, acts as a giant reflector, creating one of the most extraordinary and beautiful nat- ural phenomena in the world. To reach the mountain, 3,000 miles had to be traveled on foot, animal transports being Impossible because of the fre- quent belts of tsetse files which were encountered, Dancers Emulate Animals Not everybody who “fox-trots” knows why that partleular dance movement {s so called. It originated in the United States, and is supposed to be descriptive of the fox in search of his prey, and it was from the fan- qed similarity of the darice steps that the fox-trot took its name. The dance 1g really a much-altered descendant of the old polka which also originated in America, and which had already led to quite ‘a number of new steps, chris- tened after animals which they were supposed to imitate—as, for instance, the buniy hug and the turkey trot. HOLIDAY TIME WITH — THE PORTO RICANS Christmas Offers Pleasures New to Northerners. freshly guthered oranges and grape- fruit for breakfast, eaten in a patio surrounded by the delicious fresuness of flowers still wet with dew, a glor- iously blue sky overhead—these were a few of the reasons why we left home and the frozen North at the holiday season to seek the land where poinset- tlas grow wild in the dazzling tropical sunshine, Even though such surround- ings did not seem at all in keeping with our idea of the Christmas season, the experience of merely being there was delightful and long to be remem- bered, says a contributor in the New York Herald-Tribune. Christmas in Porto Rico is a reli- gious holiday and not a gift day. The ‘real celebration, such as we know, comes in January and is called Three Kings’ day. ‘The fifth, sixth and sev- ‘enth days of the month celebrate the ‘visit of the wise men to Christ's birth- ‘place. On the evening of January 5 the children arrange boxes containing grass outside the windows of thelr homes for the horses of the kings. In- side are placed their shoes for the gifts that the wise men bring them, as they did the Christ child. Almost two weeks are given up to merrymaking among both old and young. ‘There Is Uttle work done, especially among the country people, who go from house to house for dancing. The guitar and many odd instru- ments, some of which are of Indian origin, furnish the music. One of the group often sings, improvising words to suit the occasion. In the absence of musfe for dancing, hides are tightly stretched on sticks and are beaten to the accompaniment of a rasping nolse made by scratching with a wire a gourd cut with grooves before drying. Although there .are many days of feasting, the greatest preparations are made for January 6. ‘The plumpest of little pink-eyed pigs is persuaded to leave the company of iils brothers and sisters, pass through the hands of the cook and, when delicately ronsted over a bed of charcoal, occupy the place of honor among the multitude of Christmas dishes. Mealy sweet pota- tees, such as we do not see in our northern markets, are sliced raw, fried and served with it. Yautia, 2 starchy root vegetable, is hailed, Large green bananas are roasted. or baked in wine. brown suzir and spices, Chicken with rice is a favorite dish, and gandules, a cousin to the hean, Is cooked in a highly seasoned sauce. The salud is usually quite simple, a favorite one heing sprouts of a certain variety of palm, dressed with ollve ofl and lime juice and served on a bed of lettuce. Sweetmeats hold just as prominent a place on the bill of fare as they do in the North. Many sweets have a fruit foundation In the form of ‘’ paste or of crystallized frult, the guava and bitter orange being favorite ¢rults for this preparation, ‘The lech- oza is a meloniike fruit intraduced Into Spain by the Moors, and brought by the Spanfards to America. While still green the fruit Is thinly sliced and cooked with brown sugar. Another sweet which is given freely to children ts made of the sweet po- tato. The vegetable Is first cooked and mashed, then cooked again with sugar and coconut milk. ‘The mixture is made quite stiff, and when cool it ts cut into squares, Very small portions of these desserts are served, and they are’ usually accompanied with cheese. Fresh fruits in abundance help to, dec- orate the Christmas table. The orange and grapefruit season Is at its helght, and fresas, a kind of strawberry, may be gathered the year around, ‘The very name Caribbean sea spells romance. Stories of Sir Francis Drake and the pirates and buccaneers who met in battle here came to our minds as we gazed out over the peaceful wa- ters, Not exactly Christmastke, but a peaceful, pleasant holiday neverthe- Tess. Worth Waiting For One depositor of a Rochester (N. Y.) bank, had an unexpected cause for thanksgiving. He called at the bank with a pussbook that had not ‘been presented for interest since 1905. When told there would be a little delay in writing up the passbook he flatly refuséd to walt and only did so after considerable persuasion, He apparently considered what Interest might be due as of little importance. ‘The passbook, when presented, show- ed a balance of about $1,100, and was returned to him with $1,463.89 credited in Interest and a total balance of $2,553.31. Perfectly Natural “My stars!” ejaculated Mrs. Johnson upon her return from a call on a nelghbor, “Mizzus Spradiing told me she’d heerd that some feller shot and killed his brother-in-law at the Christ mas eve dance tuther night over b yond Mount Pizgy.” “Aw, well, when a feller ts a broh erinlaw and then up.and goes te i dance what in torment can he expcet to get—p'tu!—shot?" returned Gup Johnson of Rumpus Ridge—Kansas City Star. Lunatics Have Journal Lunatics publish a magazine at the asylum in Humberstone, Lelchester- shire, England. None of the officials interfere in any way with the editing and issue of the publication, It Is nelther censored ner re-edited and copies ate sold to persons interested tn the patients and the asylum. DIRECTORY OF MASONIC LODGES 0 ni per can succeed with- Ni out advertising, therefore we solicit the patronage of our readers for those who by their advertising help to make this paper possible. 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Telephone Argentine ‘1001, Kansas City, Kansas. ©. H. Kerford, D. G. M., 215 E. Kearny St., Atchison, Kansas. Clyde L, Briggs, R. W. G. See. 612 T street, Atchison, Kansas. J. W. Wilson, G. Treasurer, 1317 North Tenth street, Kansas City, Kan- sas, W. M. Bean, Grand Organizer. - W.M. Bean, G. 8. W. J. W. Wilson, Je., G. J. W. A. McRoy, G. Tyler. Appointed Grand Officers. Rv D. A. Scott, G. Leture, K. C. K. Chas, Gord rine. Se Dea ©. Brown, G. J. D. Rev. Moses Johnson, Chaplain, Martin TaylOtennemeeninmnCe Se Se Wm, Brutton.ncoennoG J. S. W. M. Cavens, G. P. W. D. V. Smith, Grand Charity Secy. J. We Wis0Mo nen S. Be W. M. Dabney..G. St. B. Wim, Buffingtonuu-G. Marshall W. H. Ford......-.G. Historian PRINCE HALL LODGE NO.11 (Atchison, Kansas) Meeting nights: Second and fourth Thursday’s in each month at True Eleven Hall, Sixth & Santa Fe streets. Vis- itors welcome. Clarence Ker- ford, W. 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Drexel 2287 W. T. WHITELAW DRUGGIST Phone Fairfax 0622 3091 N.27thSt. Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Luella Green’ NOTARY PUBLIG 516 Minnesota Avenue Copying neatly done to order. All work strictly confdential. | Seam, |] VARD YOUR HEALTH <u, | (Se PARSE || croursacts urn | Oe, | ESA EE, CATARRH || op BSCE tisArore ofBLADDER|| *? *ihieteechedse ROBINSON LAUNDRY CO. Prompt, Efficient Service. Office and Residence, 333 Lafayette Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Fairfax 1174.. N. B. Robinson, Mgr YAR WEST LODGE NO. 5 (Lawrence, Kansas) Far West Lodge No. 5, F. & A. A. York Masons, meets the second and fourth Tuesda: evenings of each month at ie sonic Hall, 737 N. H. St, 8 p.m. Visitors are_always welcome. J. S. Stone, W. M., 442 Locust Street; Elgin Woody, Secre- tary, 640 Ark. Street, Lawrence Kans. York Masons St. John Lodge No. 9, F. & A. A. York Masons, meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month at Ninth street and Everett avenue, 8 p.m. Vis'ters always are welcome. D. W. HURLEY, W.M., 419 Freeman Ave. CLARENCE HICKMAN, Secretary, 1827 Woodland Avenue. Phone Melrose 1042W. Frank Wilson Lodge No. && 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 wel- come , 8. H, MADISON, W. M. 1236 Barnett Avenue, BRVIN HAWKINS, Secy. 425 Parallel. Sunset Lodge No. 98 F. A. and A. ‘York Masons Meet the first and third Monday evenings each month at Masons Hall, 2538 Washington stret, Denver Colo. FELIX HARRIS, W. M. S. GRANT, Secretary. Silver Chord Lodge No. 101 F. & A. A. York Masons. Meet the second and fourth Wed-. nesday evenings of eack month, Ma~ son Hall, 2538 Washington stret, Den- ver, Colo. : P. B. SPEAR, W. M. 103% 26th Ave. AUTO REPAIR Friday, January 30, 1925 TRIFLES OF TRUTH The seal of truth is simplicity. Love is blind—but not to beauty. Invention breeds invention. Some good people do their duty but are mighty cross about it. Are there more cats tlian dogs? The cats don't think so. As a rule, one who doesn't peddle gossip doesn't like to hear it. Men who are always right are frequently a wet blanket. The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead. To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. Ill fortune never crushed the man whom good fortune deceived not. A boy doesn't mind being bossed if he can see the sense of it. Let children be happy in their own way; grown folk, too. Sophistication comes when one can open a telegram without excitement. Nothing will so completely blind a man as throwing gold dust in his eyes. The bearing and training of a child is woman's wisdom.—Tennyson. Some men can hear the ring of a silver dollar farther than that of a church bell. No man has to serve an apprenticeship in order to learn how to make mistakes. "Because" is Eve's legacy to her daughters as an excuse for the inexcusable. The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle foot.— Richter. Politicians deal with men as they are, most uplifts with men as they are incapable of being. The Slim Child Thomas S. McLane, the new president of the Children's Welfare federation, has offered a generous prize for a new federation slogan to succeed the present inadequate one: "To save children by saving wasted effort." President McLane was talking about the federation's work at a New York luncheon. "There is much to be done," he said. "The lives of too many children are too pathetic. "A slum child was given his first weeks' vacation in the country. The farmer's wife pointed out to him a flock of birds winging their way across the evening sky. \ "Look at the pretty birds!" she said. "Poor things!" said the slum child. "Poor little things! They ain't got no ages, have they!" In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. County, Kansas. Mickey Smith, Plaintiff, vs. Will Smith. Defendant. To Will Smith you are hereby notified that you have been sued by your wife for a decree of divorce, in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on the grounds of Gross Neglect of Duty, Extreme Cruelty and abandonment; that unless you answer the petition of Plaintiff filed herein on or before the 6th day of March, 1925, said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you granting said plaintiff an absolute divorce of and from you and such other and further relief as equity may permit. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published January 23, 1925) Call Fair- fax 0380 Or 4422 ATTENTION! ATTENTION! A lobby will be in evidence at the State Capitol during the sessions of the Legislature. The Afro-American League will keep them on hand from the beginning to the end; all loyal race lovers should interest themselves and give the effort their loyal support. AFRO-AMERICAN STATE LEAGUE, Topeka, Kansas. W. H. RENNELS, President. --- PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. William Carter, Plaintiff. vs. G. T. Allen, et al. Defendants. To the above named G. T. Allen, defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer the petition filed against you, on or before the 27th day of February, 1925, the petition filed against you will be presented to the court, and evidence introduced thereon, upon which an attachment will be sustained upon Lots Nine and Ten in Simms Place, a subdivision of land in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and a judgment rendered against you for a certain sum of money to be determined at said trial, upon which an orde of sale will be issued, commanding the sale of said lots, to satisfy said judgment and costs, and barring you from claim in said real property. Plaintiff. By I. F. BRADLEY, His Attorney. (First published, January 16, 1925) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Arthell Shelton, Plaintiff, vs. Ruth Shelton, Defendant. To Ruth Shelton, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by your husband for a decree of divorce, in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on the grounds of Gross Neglect of Duty, Extreme Cruelty and Abandonment; that unless you answer the petition of plaintiff filed herein on or before the 6th day of March, 1925, said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you granting said plaintiff an absolute divorce of and from you and such other and further relief as equity may permit. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published January 23, 1925) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Edward Ball, Defendant. 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EAST SIDE.....First and Third Wednesday Afternoons · WEST SIDE.....First and Third Monday Afternoon WEST SIDE.....First and Third Tuesday Afternoon WEST SIDE.....First and Third Wednesday Afternoon J. O. MIDNIGHT (Continued from Page 1.) tion of colored people to be promised one million dollars for its endowment, and the first to receive $50,000 from a southern city. It was also the first school for my people to receive recognition from the Harmon Foundation, and to be awarded a Huilliard Foundation Music Scholarship. Just think of it twenty houses and an apartment have been added to the property of the University for the further comfort of its teachers. I am informed that extensive efforts have been made to provide for the proper care of the health of the students. A very broad system of major subject has been worked out for the student. Now let me sum up in a few words some of the other things that have been accomplished under the administration of Dr. McKinzie: The first of our schools to use the quarter system. The only such college to run the entire year. The attendance has been doubled. The standard of education raised at every point. Has been recognized by Columbia and Chicago universities, as well as other prominent colleges, as being standard A-1 college—not a Negro college, but a standard college. Renewed triumph of Fisk Jubilee singers, both at home and abroad. Employment of larger number of colored workers and of Fisk graduates. Because all of these things there is a brighter outlook and I am real proud. Some may say away with him and crucify him but some day the whole race will gather around his grave and praise God for his life. I have a few things to say to you about the Millie Hale Hospital but will talk about them in another letter. I will bring this one to a sudden stop. Senator Magnus Johnson, the Minnesota dirt farmer, said in a Klimball speech: "There are tricks in every trade. The farmer is an honest man—an honest man if ever there was one—yet there are tricks even in farming. "An old farmer once said to me in my youth: "Never auction off a field of grain except in windy weather.' "No? Why not?' said I. "Gosh, you're green, young fellow,' said the farmer. 'Don't you know that when a grain field's waving in the wind it looks ever so much thicker? Because then, of course, you see the same head three or four times over." 1 Return of an Old Friend Bay rum has come back to the barber shop after a long, long absence, and old-timers who prefer it to perfumed witch-hazel are glad. Years ago, somebody, getting the idea that bay rum was indispensable for barbers' use, began jacking up the price. The barbers stood for several rales, then resorted to witch-hazel, and have been using it ever since. Now bay rum, penitent, promising good behavior and begging for another trial, is getting it. It is an old, old story, and bay rum is not by any means the first offender.—Chicago News. Warning to Women If I were you I should hate these emancipators who wish to make you the equals of men. They are degrading you. A fine avocation for you to be the equal of a lawyer or a chemist! Take heed; already they have deprived you of some of your mystery and your charm. But all is not yet lost; men still fight for you, commit suicide for you, ruin themselves for you, although they have ceased to give up their seats in omnibuses to you.—Anatole France. Ships Get Radio News As many as 80 ships now receive news by radio while at sea for use in their daily ship paper. Thus passengers are kept informed on current happenings between landings. Photographer—I will make a speaking illkeness of your wife. Mr. Henpeck—Just' a illkeness, please! WHAT'S THE USE PAGE FOUR Trade Tricks All He Wanted "Most of the men who have been great writers, artists and musicians particularly, have shown signs of the development of their genius rather early in life," say Doctors Walsh and Foote in "Safe-guarding Children's Nerves." "A recent investigation of the subject has shown, for instance, that out of some sixty of the greatest artists of history more than forty of them, that is more than two out of every three, gave definite proof of their genius before they were fifteen. Almost the same thing is true as regards the poets. Goethe was only seven when his talent became manifest, Victor Hugo was even younger and was called un enfant sublime, like Pope he lisped in numbers and the numbers came; while Alfred de Musset was under fourteen when he wrote his first verse. Of some sixty poets, thirty-eight displayed their talent before twenty. Of twenty-eight novellists twenty-one had revealed something at least of the genius that was in them before they were twenty. "It is among musicians particularly that very early manifestations of the bent of their genius have been noted. Out of forty musicians, the details of whose lives have been carefully collated with the idea particularly of bringing out how early their talent was revealed, thirty-eight showed a decided taste and actual talent before they were twenty. Curiously enough the greater the genius of the musician, the earlier his genius manifested itself. Mozart, it will be recalled, was only five when he surprised his music-loving family by his musical powers. All the other great musicians of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries followed this rule. Beethoven, for instance, Mendelssohn, Shubert, Schumann, Auber, Weber and Cherubini had all shown very clearly their talent and taste for music before they were twelve years of age." New Variety of Apple By a rare trick of nature there now exists a new variety of apple which has not been given a name. The new variety was accidentally discovered in New Jersey several years ago, when it was found that one tree bore two kinds of apples. The parent tree bears apples of mixed red and green stripes, while the new apple, developed on a single branch, is a deep dark red and has no stripes. Fruit experts studying the new apple declare it to be a most promising variety as well as a big boon to the fruit growers of America. Horticulturists term it the product of a "sport bud." A large nursery company purchased a single branch bearing the new fruit, paying the owner $5,000 for it. Buds from this branch are now being used to develop the new variety, and it is expected to become widely known as one of the leading apples.—Pathfinder Magazine. Chicago now holds the world's murder record, and Secretary Sawyer of the Anti-Profanity league, dussensing in Ware, Mass., the defense that the Windy City has put up, said: "A windy defense. A defense that wins nobody over. A defense evocative of the chicken thief who said to his lawyer: "Put me on the stand. Let me tell my own story. It'll be believed.' "It'll carry conviction,' the lawyer snorted." Well, Why Don't They? Joe, at Football Game—Just see that right end tear up the field. Dumbell—Why don't they play on a cement gridiron then?—Allston Recorder. A Printing Service GRAPHIC PRINTING, "T" A PERSONAL SERVICE YOU GET MORE THAN YOU THE GRAY FIFTH AT OAKLAND AVENUE ```markdown ``` 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 THE NEW YORK TIMES Windy THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE New Use for Menthol An all-American cold cure, based on home-grown menthol, is a possibility held out by the bureau of plant industry of the United States Department of Agriculture. Inasmuch as menthol is now imported at a cost of more than $1,000,000 annually, government botanists point out that menthol-bearing mint plants can be made-a profitable crop if properly cultivated in regions where the climate is suitable. Experimental plantings in various parts of the United States in the last year have shown that the mint does not produce a high enough percentage of menthol in southern states, but in the cooler and moister northern states its culture can be made to pay. Inspired Writer! The Belgian coast vanished in a soft pastel band, and a hard silvery glitter lay on the water. Travelers clustered in their deck chairs along the lee deck—well-clad people wrapped in raincoats of subdued hues. Several young men wore nets to keep their smoothly brushed hair from blowing in the wind. Knleckerbockers., bright-ribbed woolen stockings, handsome low shoes, and sickly looking women, were the dominant note in the party. An evening of marvelous colors—a grass-green sea, clouds of crimson gold above the clark cliffs of England, the revolving light that marks the entrance of Dover harbor!-Alfons Paquet in the Frankfurter Zeltung. High-Calibered Gun The editor of a Kansas paper states that he borrowed a Winchester rifle recently, and started up the street to deliver the weapon to its owner. The delinquent subscribers got it into their heads that he was on the warpath and everyone he met insisted on paying what he owed him. One man wiped out a debt of 10 years' standing. On his return to his office he found a load of hay, 15 bushels of corn, 10 bushels of apples, 22 bushels of potatoes, a cord of wood and a barrel of turnips that had been brought in. All the country editors are now trying to borrow Winchesters.—Publishers' Review. New.Type of Bicycle An air-bicycle has been invented in Italy, consisting of a gasbag sufficient to carry a man's weight, and a bicycle, different from the ordinary type by reason of no wheels. Instead, there is a small air-screw in the rear, which is caused to revolve by motion of the pedals. The handlebars control the elevators and rudder. New Monument to Payne A new monument to John Howard Payne, author of the song, "Home, Sweet Home," has been erected on the Dixie Highway, at Spring Place, Murray county, Georgia, by the Old Guard of Atlanta. Making It Safe "I hear tell that you've invited them Dodramm fellers, that run a still down in Booger Holler, to your dance 'mor night," said an acquaintance. "Hain't you kinder afreared to have 'em come?" They might fetch some of their infernal licker along." "Aw, that's all right," replied Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. "I've invited—p'tu!—Doctor Stash, too."—Kansas City Star. One Consolation Jud Tunkins says you've got to give the saxophone credit for one thing. It hasn't any chance of hearing the feller that used to whistle "Listen to the Mocking Bird" with variations.—Washington Star. T. T. G. O. T. G. A. O. T. U. Prince Hall Origin in and for the State of Kansas and its Jurisdiction of N. A. Grand Master Phone Argentine 1001 2325 Ruby Avenue To all Worshipful Masters, their secretaries, most A. G. M., all M. A. M. S., their court secretaries and Grand Lodge officers, appointed or elected: You are all hereby notified to meet in joint session at the Knight's Tabor Hall, 7:30 P.M., February 14, 1925. Please take notice, and let peace harmony and prosperity abide. Watch your step. Refreshments will be served in the 2nd key. By order of the M. W. G. M. of the above named G. L., this the 22nd day of January, 1925. Dr. N. S. Jenkins, M. S. G. I. S. G. Attest. Sir. Clyde L. Briggs, G. S. Buckskin Cheaters Buckskin, from which gloves are made, comes for the most part from Mexico and Brazil. The skins are usually smaller than those of sheep and seldom perfect because of the wounds or thorn scratches. The latter do not weaken the gloves, however, and, in fact, a visible scratch is pretty good proof that a glove is genuine buck and not sheep dressed to imitate buckskin, says the Springfield Republican. The leather is dressed in oil and the color is obtained with colored clay dust. Because of this method of coloring every buckskin glove will dust off or crack the first three or four times it is worn. Buck leather is close fibered, soft after wearing and warm. Interest Cut in Half The United States court for China, Shanghai, recently held that the legal rate of interest applicable on judgments rendered by the United States court for China was 6 per cent per annum. In the past a rate of 12 per cent has been allowed, in conformity with an old consulate regulation permitting this rate of interest on judgments. The court held, however, that the District of Columbia code provided a legal rate of 6 per cent interest on judgments, that this was the law for the United States court for China, and that in the future only this rate would be permissible. Fable Once upon a time there was a man who told a girl she was the first woman in his life. She was.—Life. Women in Power "But why all this fuss about women governors?' asks the St. Joseph News-Press. "Every home has one." T. T. M Prince Hall Origin its Jurisdiction Phone Argent To all Worsh A. G. M., all M. Grand Lodge off You are all h at the Knight's T 1925. Please take prosperity abide. will be served in t By order of th this the 22nd day o Dr. N. S. Jenkins Attest, Sir. Cly By L. F. Van Zeim © Western Newspaper Unions WELL, IF THE LADIES IN SHORT SKIRTS ARE NO REASON WHY A SHOULD BE WEARIN' A HEAVY OVERCOAT The following is only a few of our weekly bargains at our special prices. 7-room modern house on Thompson street; one block of Northeast high school. $3,000. $500 down; several others on this same street. 5-room modern cottage on Washington boulevard; $3,000; several others on this same street. 5-room modern house, 50 ft, on State avenue; garage; one block of Intercity viaduct; $4,200; $2,000 down; several others on this same street. 4-room cottage; one full acre of ground; fruit trees, berries, vines of all kinds; chicken fence and houses; garage; one block of paved street; nice and level. 3 storerooms, 8-room modern house in rear; all brick and fully rented on North 5th street; two blocks of Park Street Junction corner lot; transfer point; two blocks of Northeast Junior High School; this is going to prove a fine investment for somebody. 4-apartment solid brick building at the corner of 6th street and Nebraska avenue; 5 rooms to each apartment; modern except heat; rents for over $100 month; will sell or rent; terms. Don't stop at this list—call us up for other bargains. Come in O. T. G. A. O. T. U. FROM THE End East of the Most g Solomon's Grand F. & A. A. York FROM THE Grand East of the Most Worshipful King Solomon's Grand Lodge of F. & A. A. York Masons NATIONAL COMPACT and for the State of Nation of N. A. Grand Ma Kansas City, Kansas, January 22, A. L. 5925, A. D. 1925 J. A. Broadnax, G. M. Mrs. Dovie Cummings, M. A. G. M. Mrs. C. L. Briggs, C. G. S. Rev. M. Johnson, G. Chap. C. L. Kerford, D. G. M. Rev. B. R. Ross, G. Joshua You will find our prices satisfactory Friday, January 30, 1925 ATE Old Homestead Will Sell Them Head Realty Co. Drexel 3859 of our weekly bargains at our street; one block of Northeast en; several others on this same ington boulevard; $3,000; several ate avenue; garage; one block of 0 down; several others on this EMS 0 a month; one block of Inter- roomers. avenue; just right for building; ground; fruit trees, berries, vines houses; garage; one block of be in rear; all brick and fully blocks of Park Street Junction blocks of Northeast Junior High fine investment for somebody. the corner of 6th street and each apartment; modern except will sell or rent; terms. us up for other bargains. WANTED! Your Job Printing Business If We Can't Please You Don't Come Again T. U.