Kansas City Sun

ALLEN MAKES GOOD Jack Johnson Getting Wealthy in Spain The Unfounded Charges Published in Kansas City Papers Eminate From Dr. Wm. J. Thompkins, who Designates Himself as the Leader of Negro Democracy in Missouri, and Vice President of the Negro Democratic League The Good Citizenship of Missouri Solidly Behind President Allen. The Leading Negroes of the State are Satisfied that the Splendid Board of Regents, Named by the Best Governor Missouri has ever had, Will Not Permit this Highest Institution of Learning For Negro Youth to be Dragged Through the Mire of Ward Politics. President Allen a Clean Man NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THE CHARGES TRUMPED UP BY DIS- APPOINTED OFFICE SEEKERS AND ENVIOUS POLITICIANS CAN BE SUBSTANTIATED BY THE INSTITUTION'S RECORDS Lincoln Institute a Great School The Honorable Board of Regents Should Pay Heed to Their Own Best Judgment, Backed Up by the Splendid Record of Achievement on the Part of President Allen andHis Faculty, and Unanimously Endorsed by Fully 99% of the Negro People of Missouri and the West. The Sun Goes to 36 States and Canada. Are Your Relatives and Friends Getting It? VOLUME IX. NUMBER 43. Jack J. POLITICS TH LINCOLN IN The Unfounded Charges For City Papers Eminate From Thompkins, who Desi- as the Leader of Ne- racy in Missouri, President of t gro Democr League The Good Citizenship idly Behind Presi The Leading Negroes of the Sta- Splendid Board of Regents, Nara- nor Missouri has ever had, W Highest Institution of Lea- Youth to be Dragged Mire of Ward P President Allen a NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THE CHARGE APPOINTED OFFICE SEEKERS AND CAN BE SUBSTANTIATED BY THE I Lincoln Institute a The Honorable Board of Regents Should Judgment, Backed Up by the Splendid the Part of President Allen and His Endorsed by Fully 99% of the Ne- land the West Perhaps no rumor ever circulated among the Negroes of this state spread with such rapidity or created such a profound impression as did the rumor that President Benjamin Franklin Allen, well and favorably known by Negroes throughout America, had been summarily dismissed from the presidency of Lincoln Institute, based upon the following article appearing in the Kansas City Star of Saturday, June 16, which frankly states the source from whence it emanated. Negroes of Missouri made a statewide fight eight years ago to oust B.F. Allen from the presidency of Lincoln Institute, a Negro school at Jefferson City. It failed, but the fight never was given up entirely. The progressive Negroes who have protested continually since that time saw victory yesterday when the institute's board of directors set June 29 as the date on which Allen's successor will be elected. Allen's dismissal comes after sixteen years as president and four years as vice president of the school. According to a copy of report which was brought to Kansas City last night by Dr. William J. Thompkins, Allen was held by state officials to be incompetent. What organization or individual delegated to Dr. Thompkins the apparently, to him pleasing duty, of having President Allen "fired," the Sun is unable to ascertain, but it does know by long experience in politics and otherwise that Doc pulled one of the biggest "bone heads" in his career when he sent the following letter to a distinguished citizen in The Kansas City Sun this state who submitted the same to the Board of Regents of the Institution. "My Honored Sir:—As vice-president of the National Negro Democratic League, and sponsor for Democracy as far as the Negro is concerned in this state, I took up the matter relative to republican politics in Lincoln Institute, our state school at Jefferson City, with Judge Cowgill, of the Democratic Central Committee, and he asked me to write you a letter requesting you to take up this matter immediately with the governor and the democratic members of the board. During the last campaign, I found it difficult to get a stopping place in some of the towns because of my politics. I found that in a large number of the smaller towns the principals of the Colored schools were appointed through the recommendation of the president, B. F. Allen, of our state school. I found that while these men had no ill feeling against me, yet there was a hidden influence which prevented their giving me their moral support and contact, while in their city on my mission for the party, and when they did, they invariably made an apology when found with me. The position of president of our state school carries with it a deal of power that has long since been recognized by the republican leaders of the state, and they have used it with telling effect. No one knows this better than the Negro who has been courageous enough to wage a battle for democracy among Negroes in this state. I WAGED THE CAMPAIGN IN THE STATE FOR DEMOCRACY AT MY OWN EXPENSE, AND AFTER INVESTIGATING, I MADE ONE REQUEST OF JUDGE COWGILL, OUR STATE CHAIRMAN, THAT HE SEE THAT B. F. ALLEN IS REMOVED FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF LIN- KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, JUNE 23. 1917. Historic Lincoln Institute, which has graduated hundreds of representative Negroes and which has made a wonderful record for Racial Advancement under Pres. Benjamin Allen. COLIN INSTITUTE. AND IF I AM TO CONTINUE MY EFFORTS TO STIMULATE DEMOCRACY IN THIS STATE AMONG MY PEOPLE, CERTAINLY IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE IF I DO NOT HAVE THE SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATION OF THE MEN WHO REPRESENT THE PARTY. It was Mr. Allen's private secretary, Mr. R. A. West, who was at Excelsior Springs at the Republican State Convention, in the interest of John Swinger. Dr. Curtis, A. W. Lloyd, Homer Phillips, of St. Louis; W. C. Hueston, C. H. Calloway, J. Silias Harris, Nelson C. Crews, of Kansas City; Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, of St. Joseph; C. G. Williams, of Booneville, and others who were in attendance, will tell you that Mr. West did everything he could to align those men in the Swinger bandwagon. If they were democrats, and if they were representing the democratic principles, what was he doing there? The republican leaders in this state are spending every force and making every amenable sacrifice to perpetuate the republican party in Missouri. The president of Lincoln Institute, by virtue of his position, is perhaps their strongest asset, and they have sense enough to know it, and today such representative men as Dr. rossland, of St. Joe; Gordon, of St. Louis, and Harris, of Kansas City, are exerting every influence throughout the state to have him retained at Lincoln Institute. In order that Mr. Allen might build his machine, he has conferred such degrees as LL. D., A. M., and A. B., upon men in this state who have never spent a day in college, notwithstanding we are taught that such degrees are pro-merited. This has made our school a laughing stock of the other schools in this country, and we older members of Lincoln Institute are ashamed to admit that we are graduates of the school because of this most Historic Lincoln Institute, which has derful record f embarrassing type of prostitution. The Board of Regents meets June 13th, and the members are as follows: J. B. Maughs, Fulton, Rep.; Jim L Hammett, Huntsville, Dem.; F. S. Sasse, Brunswick, Rep.; W. F. Chamberlain, Hannibal, Rep.; Guy F. Chinn, assistant to State Bear Inspector, Jefferson City, Dem.; Speed Mosby, State Bear Inspector, Jefferson City, Dem.; and Uel W. Lampkin, Supt, Pub. Schools, member ex-officio. And what is to be done must be done quickly, and I hope that you will help me make good my promise to the people of this state, whom I hope I have not misled. If you need any further information, I shall be glad to send it at once. If you want to aid my people, the black folk, with a great service; if you want to break the solidarity of the Negro voting the republican ticket; if you want to make proud the name of Democracy in this state, you can do so by urging the governor and the democratic members of the Board to rid Lincoln Institute of B. F. Allen, who is inimical to the principles for which our party stands. With considerations of my great respect, believe me, WM. J. THOMPKINS, M. D." Eight years ago the administration of the state was in the hands of the Republican party and if an effort was made then to remove President Allen on account of his political faith then it is reasonable to believe that he must have been a Democrat, but in this letter just sent out by Dr. Thompkins, he would make it appear that Mr. Allen is the most vicious and implacable enemy Democracy has in this state. The truth of the matter is, and every fair-minded unbiased Negro in the state knows it to be true, that President Allen knows nothing about politics and never participates one way or the other in political gatherings. He has felt, and justly so, that it was his duty to devote his whole time and attention to educating the Negro youth of this state to that plane where they would be a positive asset, and not a liability to the imperial commonwealth of Missouri, and how well he has succeeded thousands of Negroes and many splendid whites stand ready to testify. Isn't it a bit strange that after twenty years of loyal and devoted service to this institution that the hue and ery of politics should be raised to gratify the exaggerated ego of an unwise member of the race who had a rather mortifying experience with breaking down the statutes and political standards in Oklahoma a couple of year ago and to whose assistance the Negroes of the state including the Sun rallied to vindicate his honor and the rights of his people? The Sun has no quarrel with Dr. William J. Tempkins nor would it attempt to deny him the right and privilege of opposing anybody and everybody in public graduated hundreds of representative or Racial Advancement under Pres. Be life that he sees fit. It recognizes that he is one of our brilliant and capable physicians; that he has rendered valuable service to his race in the management of the Old City Hospital in this city; but it would take the liberty to gently remind him that he shouldn't go too strong on his Democracy from the fact that the Democratic faction with which he is allied in this city (the Shannon faction) is not in very good repute either with the City Democracy or the State Organization as represented by such distinguished Democrats as His Excellency Governor Gardner. Judge Cowgill, Hon. William T. Kemper, Senator James Reed, Senator Mitchel Casey, or Hon. Thomas Pendergast; and it's rather doubtful whether he exerts the influence even among the Negro Democrats of the state as do such splendid Negro Democrats for whom the Sun makes no apologies such as George B. Vashon, Conolen Bolliver Watkins, Alee Slater, Dr. Howard M. Smith, Hon. L. W. Spencer, and Dr. Lon B. Tillman, none of whom have seen fit to use their political influence to destroy the only Educa- --- tional Institution in the state for the higher education of the Negro. It has been alleged that "Mr. Allen is incompetent and has not gotten results" and the silly charge has been made that Negroes graduating from that institution "could not pass the examination to teach in the public schools of Kansas City." To refute that we need but name the following who have or are now teaching in schools of this city: Ella Davis, Mary I. Fouche, Parson Brown, A. M. Wilson, Walter H. Harrison, Walter G. Wood, Calpernia Edwards, Minerva J. Madlock, Frances B. Dollie, Dollie Yancy Hightower, Amanda Barbour, Sarah Graham Robinson, S. H. Nutall, Mary F. Woods, Laura Doughlass James, Essie J. Vernon Landor, Estella Winfrey Woods, Whitfield Ross, Homer Wilburn, Josephine Yates, June Tillman, Etheline Wilson, and among the distinguished men whom the Post without investigation sees fit to term boot-blocks, cooks, and waiters who have graduated from this splendid institution or have had the degree master of arts conferred under the presidency of Benjamin F. Allen are: Enos L. Seruggs, former president of Western College, Macon, Mo.; William T. Vernon, expresident of Western Unievrsvity, Quindaro, Kans., former registrar of the United States treasury and now pastor of the largest congregations in Memphis, Tenn.; Jas. H. Kenner, principal of the schools at Marshall, Mo.; William H. Jones, principal of Bartlett High school of St. Joseph, Mo.; Negroes and which has made a wonjamin Allen. C. C. Hubbard, principal of the Colored schools at Sedalia; John H. Simms, principal at St. Joseph, Mo.; Leslie B. Quinn, principal Colored schools at Moberly, Mo.; Romeo A. West, secretary of Lincoln institute; Oscar Spencer, principal of Colored schools at Algerson, Okla.; Charles H. Brown, principal of the Dumas school, St. Louis, Mo.; David E. Gordon, principal of the great L'Overture school, St. Louis, Mo.; Richard T. Coles, principal of Garrison school, Kansas City, Mo.; Walter H. Harrison, principal of Attuces school, Kansas City, Mo.; H. V. Wallace, principal of the public school at Carthage, Mo.; J. W. Mozee, principal of the public school at Lynchburg, Va.; Rev. Clay Vaughn, Moberly, Mo.; Rev. and Mrs. John Goins, Jefferson City, Mo.; John L. F. Talton, principal of Wheatley school, Kansas City, and Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, ex-minister to Liberia and one of the race's greatest physicians, St. Joseph, Mo. Lincoln institute was founded fifty-one years ago and had its origin in a fund of $6,379.00 con- (See Page 5, Col. 4.) Benjamin Franklyn Allen, President of Lincoln Institute for 16 years, and an educator of national reputation. JOHNSON A TOREADOR NOW. Barcelona, Spain.—"I should worry" is the motif of Jack Johnson's life here as he enters on his second year in Spain, with the "pickings" every bit as good as they were when he first arrived. For nothing worries Jack now, since he is retired from the fat. Fat, the bugaboo of all pugilists, holds no fear for the bulky Negro, and war is to him only a subject of conversation. Money, the source of chief anxiety to most prizefighters in their after years, is the least of Johnson's worries, as he has plenty and is adding daily to his pile. Johnson's interests in Barcelona are diverse. In the first place he is a toreador, working steadily three times a week and on holidays, and rapidly earning a place of endearment in the hearts of the tender Spaniards who delight in seeing wormout horses disemboweled by madened bulls. Doesn't Intend to Return. Johnson and his white wife live in a handsome house in the best and most exclusive part of Barcelona, and recently when he was having his home renovated and redecorated they lived for a month at the best hotel in Barcelona. They are often there for dinner and Johnson is a familiar figure in the supper room, where tango is the sport daybreak. He never attempts to dance, however, and he limits his liquid refreshments to a few glasses of champagne. "Back to America?" echoed Johnson, in answer to an inquiry, "Never for mine! I've done all the fighting I want to do, and fighting in the army doesn't appeal to me at all. Barcelona is good enough for me." THE MINOR PROPHET SPEAKS. Time of Revelation Began 8:30 A. M., June 11, 1917. Recently Johnson has added another string to his bow by becoming an editor. He has purchased an interest in a periodical published weekly in Spanish and devoted to Socialism and sports—strange bedfellows, but forced into contiguity by the merging of two publications. Long screeds in Spanish are printed in every issue over Johnson's flushing signature, but he betrays intense modesty in discussing these articles, due, according to some doubters, to the fact that he does not know what they contain. Johnson is a prime favorite with the Barcelona people, who never weary of watching him in the bull ring, and devotees of bull fighting assert he has attained considerable skill as a tooreader. Also he continues a prime drawing card as a boxer and shadow boxer. Although he has not appeared in the squarred ring for a couple of years, and declares to his friends he never will appear therein again, he continues to give "training exhibitions" a couple of times a week, when, for a few pesos, the wide-eyed credulous Spaniards can watch him "working himself into condition" for the match they implicitly believe he is training for. The former champion skips the rope and punches the bag, causing great astonishment at the finale when he pulls his old trick of striking a glancing blow and tearing the pigskin loose from the rope and sending it bouncing among the crowd, just as he did at Reno before the Jeffries contest. Then he wrestles a while and finally he boxes a couple of two-minute rounds. His opponent is either one of the Negroes who are in his retinue here or some husky Spanford who believes he is a boxer and wants a chance to prove it. Johnson has dissipated the hopes of a good many of thi selass, and his continued ability to put these gentry away with a punch auses the people to think he is still championship timber. Do You Know That Advertising is the Life of Trade and the Only Real Business Getter PRICE, 5c. Spain f Lincoln Institute for 16 years, and anonal reputation. Doesn't intend to Return. Johnson and his white wife live in a handsome house in the best and most exclusive part of Barcelona, and recently when he was having his home renovated and redecorated they lived for a month at the best hotel in Barcelona. They are often there for dinner and Johnson is a familiar figure in the supper room, where tango is the sport until daybreak. He never attempts to dance, however, and he limits his liquid refreshments to a few glasses of champagne. "Back to America?" echoed Johnson, in answer to an inquiry. "Never for mine! I've done all the fighting I want to do, and fighting in the army doesn't appeal to me at all. Barcelona is good enough for me." THE MINOR PROPHET SPEAKS. Time of Revelation Began 8:30 A. M. June 11, 1917. Thus saith the Lord of Host concerning Isaiah's vision, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem the days Uzzith, Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah, king of Judah. Thus saith the God of Heavens "Give ear old earth these names are spiritually unto your Country and Government." The vision which troubled Isaiah's head on June 5, 1917, and time of the hour was twelve minutes after twelve; I am Alpha the first and the last. Talking unto him and telling him to write what I reveal unto him, then I wrote what my father revealed unto me. I saw an ark angel by the name of Gabriel who was clothed with majesty with sword in one hand and hell—death and destruction was on New York City. Near the harbor vengeance was sworn on New York City and one-fifth of that city would be destroyed. Your God and Father saith the mystery of the interpretation belongs to Him. The sun, moon and stars obeyed. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts the revelation of mystery of the vision is Revelation, 18th Chapter, 19th verse; Psalms 77, verse 19. Jeremiah, 5th Chapter, 15th verse. God talks now that I sent my son in yonder world to testify of the things which shortly cometh to pass who bear the name of Isaiah Minor, prophet, who bear record of me and I of him. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Look, behold the record that he bore to me. Isaiah, first chapter, first verse. Jeremiah, first chapter, fifth verse. Ezekiel, first chapter, second verse. Time revelation stopped 10:30 a.m. Isaiah Minor, prophet. DR. SMITH'S WISE SUGGESTIONS. Dr. Theo. Smith says: "Investments in cheap automobiles, flashy clothes and phoney diamonds will never make a substantia lrace. And so long as the so-called "leady Negroes practice such deception will always remain economic and a universal joke." From Our Foreign Correspondents A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction Officers—1917. W. W. Fields, Cameron, Mo., Grand Master. Wm. Green, Plattsburg, Mo., Dep. Grand Master. C. C. Clark, St. Louis, Mo., Senior Grand Warden. Ernest Boone, Louisiana, Mo., Junior Grand Warden. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Mo., Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Kansas City, Grand Secretary. Nelson C. Crews, Kansas City, Relief Secretary. P. L. Pratt, Cameron, Mo., G. L., 1st District. E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., G. L., 2nd District. Lodge Directory G Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F, and A. M, meets the 1st and 3rd Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. Emmett Spruell, W. M; C. H. Countee, Sec'y. G MASONRY and A. M., Liberty, Mo., meets the 2nd and 4th Saturday nights in each month. William Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar, Sec'y. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays in every month. Visiting Master Masons are two: W. H. Brown, W. M.; Libert Wilson, Secretary, M.120 Highland. G St. Stephens Chapter No. 37, Royal Arch Masons, Liberty, Moats, Moeh, each with W. H. Robinson, H. P. Wm. Caps, Recorder. ```markdown ``` St. Matthew Commandery No. 17, Liberty, Mo., meets the third Saturday night. William Capps, E. C.; W. H. Robinson, Rec. Sec'y. HPC IN MARCED U. OF. King of the West Lodge No. 218 meets first and third Wednesday in each month at 10th and Campbell. C. F Wilson, W M.; H. Conway 589 Tracy Ave., Secy. D. OF T. Primrose Tabernacle meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in 11th Street, in the Art Institute Vine street. All Daughters and Sir Knights in good standing are welcome. Baskin Dotson, H. C. R., 1815 E. 17th. Estella Pitts, C. R., 1815 E. 17th. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION W. G. Mosely, President. T. G. McCampbell, Vice President. Wm. Washington, Treasurer. E. S. Baker, Secretary. Board of Directors: T. G. McCampbell, S. H. P. Edwards, E. G. Lacy, J. E. Rhodes, T. W. H. Williams, E. S. Baker, Wm. Washington, R. V. Adkins, Geo. Johnson, W. G. Mosely, S. Myers, Richard Harris Edw. Thompson, R. Fulbright. Meets fourth Tuesday in each month. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost Avenue. John's A. M. B. Church, 143 Belleview. Seventh Day Adventist, 23d and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Toast. Moving Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland. Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis, Mo. M. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and Askew. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4039 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. CLARK CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH, 1664 Madison Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland. Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and 4th Quindaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro. Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rose- dale, Kan. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland. A. M. E. Church, 4th and Oakland. Salter Mission A. M. E. Church, South Park, Kan. Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby. Wesley Chapel M. E., 106 Shawnee. Bethel M. E. Church, Rosedale, Kan. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virgina. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Bible school at 9:30 a. m.; preaching and Communion at 11 a. m.; Y. P. S. C. E. at 7 p. m.; preaching at 8:15 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday at 30 p. m.; Christian Woman's Board tons Thursday at 2 p. m. LIAM ALPHIN, Pastor. MME. A. MOORE. TEACHER OF PIANO and VOICE For Engagements, Phone Studio, 1905 East 19th Street. Bell East 5407. Printing-- When you want it Where you want it As you want it at Franklin's. 1309 E. 18th St. Bell Grand 2988. SOMETHING NEW Automobile trip to Highland Cemetery every day; back by way of Cliff Drive in the KING COLE 8 For this information call WM. H. HUBBELL Bell Phone East 2013. Home Phone, East 4349. Three wise women are happy today because they have found their real preference in toilet preparations, — Quinoleum Products, the most satisfying to Mildly Pleasant. First is the Woman Beautiful who uses Quinoleum Quality Products because she knows with them she will retain her beauty. Second, the Woman Good Looking, who uses them because she knows with them she is beautiful. Third, the Woman Who Does Not Care, really; but uses them because she knows other folk "care" how she looks. They each know "Quinoleum is Queen," no matter which product, it's the purest in its line. QUINOLEUM QUALITY PRODUCTS. Face Bleach and Frecle Remover .25c Face Cream for Blackheads (antiseptic). .25c Face Powder, Quinoleum Rose .25c and. Hair Shampoo, liquid. .25c Hair Grower. .25c Hair Tonic, liquid. .25c Camphor Ice. .25c (Sample of face powder with all $1 orders. State color wanted). (Can be by mail upon receipt of money order.) (Pronounced 'Quh-o-leum') 28th and 30th Street, Kan Bell Phone, West, 1757 The Handy Colored Store 2409 Vine St. Ladies' and Gent's Furnishing Goods and Notions VISIT OUR DRY GOODS AND HARDWARE DEPT. BARGAINS SPECIAL BARGAINS IN OUR NOTION DEPARTMENT AND HAIR GOODS. Help Make Our Store, Your Store, Our Customers Your Friends Special Values in Furnishings for Men, Women and Children. GIVE US A CALL. $2.50 In Goods Free. WE GIVE SURETY COUPONS. Taylor Holmes & Co. Mrs. Annie Holmes, Mngr. 2400 VINE ST., Kansas City, Mo. Bell Phone East 4221J THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917. The Sixteenth club entertained Monday night at the residence of Mrs. Charles Fortune with Mr. Charles Holmes as honor guest. Cards and dancing were enjoyed throughout the evening, after which dainty refreshments were served. Everyone wished Mr. Holmes much success in his future undertakings. Mr. Holmes is another one of our boys to enlist and left Tuesday night for Des Moines, Ia., training camp for officers. Before leaving he was presented with a fountain pen at the Bethel Baptist church by his friends. Mr. Foreman acted as chairman of the meeting. He was then esorted to the train by his friends. Harry Palmer was in town last week, from Anaconda. Rev. E. B. Reed spent a few days in Helena on business. Word has just been received in our city announcing the wedding of Mr. J. W. Banks (cook on Ben Thayer's private car) and Miss Margerite Lock Wise, Saturday evening, June 9th, at the home of her sister, in Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Banks will be at home after June 15th, at 4743 Evans avenue, Chicago, Ill. Word has been received in the city announcing the graduation of Miss Mabel E. Bickford at Howard university from the Normal training course. We wonder why some of our men insist on standing on Symon corner on a windy day? All leadin gbooks, papers and magazines of the race can be had of our agent. Help us grow!—Jesse H. Smith. Phone 1663. ROSEDALE, KANSAS. (Bu Mrs. Rose Jones.) The corner stone laying of the Pleasant Valley Baptist church will be held Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the U. B. F. lodge of Kansas City, Kans. Rev. George McNeal, Grand Master, of Kansas, and Dr. J. H. Williams, Grand Master, of Missouri, will conduct the services. Music will be furnished by the ladies' band and choir....The White Rose Art Club met with Mrs. Frank Moore Thursday afternoon and after the regular routine of business the hostess served a dainty lunch....The Pleasant Valley Mission Circle met with Mrs. Jennie Greenwood Monday afternoon....The home of Mr. and Mrs. George Schooler, 118 Lafayette was entered by burglarst last Thursday and jewelry and clothing of consider able value was taken. ST. JOSEPH. MO Mrs. A. L. Hines entertained the Grand Matron, Mrs. Virgine Waldron, Mrs. R. G. Armstrong and Rev. L. J. Herring at 5:00 o'clock dinner Monday evening after which the party enjoyed a motor ride over the city.... Mr. and Mrs. Motley have returned from Springfield, Mo....Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hayes of Kansas City, Mo., are spending a few days with their mother, Mrs. Robert Broadus....The marriage of Mr. Leroy Beecham and Miss Typton was solemnized last week.... Mrs. Joe Jackson, who has been quite ill, is able to be out again....The marriage of Mr. Alonzo Allen and Miss Hazel Crouch was solemnized last Wednesday, June 20, in Wichita, Kans. Mr. Robert Hunley acted as best man. Misses Dorothy Watkins, Nettie Allen, Mrs. Essex Allen were in attendance and left Saturday.... Miss Lizzie Washington was severely hurt by a runaway horse one day last week.... The Old Folks Concert at the A. M. E. Church was a grand success....Mr. Chester Harper has the rheumatism in his left arm very badly this week....The Knights and Daughters held their annual sermon at the A. M. E. Church last Sunday and was a largely attended. Rev. N. C. Buren officiated....Mr. Timothy of Omaha is visiting his sister and brother-in-law, Prof. and Mrs. Coleman....Mr. Enyard of Kansas City, Mo., made a pleasant call on City, Mo., McKisick....The wedding of Mr. Alonzo Allen took place at Wichita, Kans., Wednesday evening, June 20 at 8:00 o'clock. Those in attendance from St. Joseph, Mo., were his mother and sister, Miss Dorothy Watkins. Mr. Robert Hundley was the best man....The Trolley Party that was given by the Francis Street Baptist Church Monday evening, June 18, was a great success....Prof. R. J. Jackson of Western University will render a pipe or organ recital June 22 at the Francis Street Baptist Church....Mr. Thos Young is ill....Mrs. Ella Huston was called to Atchison, Kans., to attend the funeral of her aunt which took place Sunday, the 17th....Mrs. Smith Crews has been ill but is greatly improved at this time....Mr. and Mrs. Silas Wallace will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Barnes Sunday at Kansas City, Mo. PLEASANT HILL, MO. Services were well attended at both Churches Sunday. .....U. B. F. & S. M. T. held Memorial Services at the Baptist Church. Rev. O. T. Redd preached the annual sermon. .....Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Wood have returned after spending several weeks at the Springs for the benefit of their health. .....Mrs. Andrew Wood seems much improved since last week. After spending several days with her mother, Miss Mary Wilkerson has returned to her home in Kansas City. .....Miss Lillian Hemsley, who attended Lincoln Institute, is home for the summer. .....Mrs. Cordella Spencer and Miss Jewel Thompson of Greenwood spent Sunday with friends here.....Mr. Willie Lee of Harrisonville was here over Sunday....Mrs. Grace Johnson will leave in a few days to make her home in Girard, Kas.....Mrs. Rosa Glipson spent several days last week in Kansas City in the home of Miss Ethlyn Crawford with whom she spent a very pleasant evening at the home of Mrs. Chas. Washington, where a delightful lunch-eon was served.....Mrs. Chauncey Taylor of Kansas City, Kans., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. Taylor.....Mr. R. H. Monday spent a few days in Kansas City visiting his daughter. HELENA, MONT. WEIR. KANSAS. A jolly bunch from Pittsburg, Kans., made a surprising call on Helen Hobbs last Thursday night...Mrs. Pauline Harris of Cherokee is visiting Mrs. Nannie Harris this week...Mr. Geo. Jackson and Geo. Fleming motored to Columbus Tuesday...Rev. F. H. Prentice is on the sick list...Hrs. W. F. King is expecting to join her sister in Kansas City for Columbus, Ohio, and they will go from there to Columbia, Mo., to visit her brother. Mr. John Henry Stevenson of Crowberg made his call upon one of our young lady teachers Sunday as usual. Miss Ada Williams visited Miss Angie Livingston of Cherokee Saturday...Mr. Geo. Jackson of Weir received his new automobile Saturday and yesterday they motored to Pittsburg...Mr. Geo. Osten of Pittsburg motored to Cherokee, meeting Miss Dosty and they met Miss Ethel Ferguson, Miss Callie Mae Cain of Pittsburg and Miss Helen Hobbs of this city and motored back to Pittsburg, Cherokee and Weir. They also called on Mrs. A. R. Phillips...The International Order of Twelve Sons and Daughters of the Tabernacle held their Annual Sermon Sunday. Rev. Johnson of the A. M. E. Church preached the sermon and all that preached enjoyed themselves very much. A charitable donation was requested for Mr. F. Christian who has been ill for such a long time. Among the out of town visitors were Mrs. M. Bueford and Mrs. N. Steel of Pittsburg...The A. M. E. Sunday School gave an entertainment last Saturday to send the delegates to the convention which convenes at Fort Scott, Kansas. Rev. Johnson and wife, Master O. B. Patten, John Young are delegates. Mr. A. R. Phillips is ill...The Big Contest between the brothers and sisters of St. John Baptist church will come off next Sunday. The sisters are expected to raise the largest amount of money. ARGENTINE. KANSAS Mrs. Caroline Mosely, the very aged mother of Mrs. Norman, fell this week and injured herself for life...Roy Wightman is dangerously ill aat his home in Spring Garden...Mr. Lacount is confined to his bed on account of a serious illness...Miss Grace Shields left for her home in Topeka, Kansas, last Friday afternoon ...Mr. Samuel Bigman who has been ill, is able to resume his work...The members of the Metropolitan Baptist church of Argentine Terrace Addition listened 40 an able sermon delivered by James Dabney, a young minister in the cause of Christ, on last Sunday morning, June 17...Mr. Wm. Dabney and daughter, Anna, and Mrs. Pearl Dabney were visitors from the city. There were also visitors from Kansas City, Kansas...The Argentine Band has had roller skating at the Casino Rink for several months, the success of which has enabled them to purchase uniforms...Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cannon who spent the winter with their daughter, Mrs. Eva Anderson, returned to their home in Kansas City, Kansas, last week...The Grand Court H. of J. met in Leavenworth last week and report a fine session. Mrs. Stella Owens completed the term of as Matron made vacant by the death of Mrs. Robinson and was elected to the office. The Court will meet in Atchison, Kans., in 1918...Rev. J. S. Bowles preached to a very large congregation at the Greenwood Baptist Church, 22nd and Terrace, Sunday night. He preached from the text "The Great Teacher." Mat. 5:1-2. His sermon was full of inspiration. So thoroughly did he expound the spiritual doctrine that there were many expressions of affirmation...Revs. C. C. Calloway, J. L. Moseley and J. S. Bowles assisted Rev. C. M. Cummings in the dedication of a Church in a new addition recently opened in Kansas City on last Sunday afternoon. The Church is doing splendid work under the charge of Rev. Cummings. CHILLICOTHE, MO. By Beni, V. Longdon Mr. Monroe Saunders was one of our visitors last Sunday....Dr. H. A. Longdon of Moberly, Mo., spent Sunday with Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Longdon...Children's Day was appropriately observed by sermon and concert exercises at the A. M. E. Church....Rev. I. L. Talley preached at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church last Sunday. We are glad to have Rev. Tally with us because his presence seems to enlarge the circle of those whom it does his soul good to serve....Prof. and Mrs. W. B. Longdon of Brunswick, Mo., are taking a portion of their summer vacation in this city....Prof. and Mrs. Clem Brown are visiting at St. Joseph, Mo....The annual services of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor and Maids and Pages were held at the A.M. E. Church last Sunday afternoon with Mr. Ralph Anderson and Mrs. Pauline Anderson presiding. The opening prayer and responsive readings were led by Mr. James Anderson with Mrs. Almyra Jones of Kansas City as Organist. The music by the Choir and solo singing by Miss Odessa Hillman and Miss Ulamay Murray were a rare treat. Mr. Herbert Beach and Miss Sadie Saunders read forceful essays on "Boosting." They spoke of Revs. W. B. Ousley, Chas. Crews, Samuel Norris, Mr. Willis Beach, Mr. Hannibal Nance, Mr. Harry Clayton, Mr. Wallace Rowland and the little company of men who organized the Knights and Daughters in this city. If they could reappear in the flesh what gratitude and joy would come from their lips at the success of the Knights and Daughters and we might say unpromising Maids and Pages which they and such later men as the zealous Prof. Joe E. Herford, Mr. James and William Anderson, Mr. Herbert Beach and Mr. Jas. Burton entered upon as they launched these societies and directed their course over dubious seas. The annual exercise were closed by a sober, solemn but brief sermon by Rev. J. H. Ward. And as we looked into the faces of Mr. William Moore and Mrs. Marguerite Hicks who seemed to enjoy every part of the service our mind instinctively went back to all the implications and suggestions connected with their presence. If the present members shall be as loyal to the order and as faithful as they were during the years of their usefulness, this great fraternity will be as surprising in its future development as it has been in the years that are past. LINCOLN, NEB. By W. W. Mosely. The B. Y. P. U. of Mt. Zion Baptist Church will give a special program next Sunday at 7:00 p. m. after which they close for the summer.... Annual sermon of Lebanon Lodge No. 126 at the A. M. E. Church next Sunday at 3:00 p. m. Rev. J. S. Payne will preach....Aaron Shackleford left last Saturday for his home in Atchlson, Kans., after sojourneying for some days in the city....Mrs. L. J. Gordon and Mrs. Minnie Scott of Beatrice, Neb., attended the State Federation of Women's Clubs here this week....W. R. Colley has accepted a job at the Little Block....The annual sermon of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor was held in Newman M. E. Church last Sunday afternoon. Rev. A. W. Talbott preached. The fraternity had a fair attendance....Andrew Nettles is reported ill....Mrs. Anna Coleman died at her home North 17th street Sunday at 2:45 a. m. of heart failure. Mrs. Coleman had been acting as an evangelist. The funeral was attended at the A. M. E. Church Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Mr. J. S. Payne preached. She leaves a husband to mourn her loss. Interment in Wuyka....Rev. B. Hillman was confined with illness this week....The State Federation of Women's Clubs held their session this week at the A. M. E. Church and a large number of delegates attended. KANSAS CITY MUSIC SCHOOL TEACHING PIANO, ORGAN, VOICE, HARMONY, COMPOSITION and HISTORY of MUSIC All persons wishing to do work in any of the above branches are asked to enroll now. SIX WEEKS COURSE—BEGINS MONDAY, JUNE 11 All persons desiring catalogs or wishing further information may address R. G. Jackson, Box 170 or phone: TEACHERS— R. G. JACKSON, Bell phone, West 1032. MISS BUELAH DOUGLASS, Bell phone, West 2297 W. MISS ARLENE JACKSON, Bell phone, West 1102 W. As It Grows Older It Grows Better A Hair Grower That Won For Itself Over 4,000 New Patront Last Year For Details Write Poro College Co., 3100 Pine St., Dept. G. St. Louis, Mo. Please mention name of this paper when writing. THE Modern Builders Co. A.E. ESTES, President General Contracting Repairing a Specialty ONLY ONE The history of Kansas City records but one real, legitimate, competent, established Negro jeweler, and he is J. A. Wilson at 1616 W. 9th St. Half block west of Wyoming St. Mr. Wilson sells Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Staple Jewelry :: and :: Guarantees to the public satisfactory and proper treatment. BELL PHONE MAIN 2868W Bell Phone E. 4394Y Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. In Builder TESTS, President Contract ing a Special LY ON City records but one real, Negro jeweler, and he is J. Wilson Half block west of Wyon Mr. Wilson sells Jones, Clocks and Staple Jew :: and :: Public satisfactory and proper PHONE MAIN 2868W LOUIS via Missouri Park First Out—First B Lv. Kansas City..... Arrive St. Louis..... Fast Mid-Day Serv Lv. Kansas City..... Arrive St. Louis..... Direct connections for B Southeast. Convention Night Se Lv. Kansas City..... Arrive St. Louis..... City Ticket Office, 707 W Builders Co. US, President Contracting a Specialty Y ONE records but one real, legitimate, jeweler, and he is Wilson block west of Wyoming St. Wilson sells bricks and Staple Jewelry and :: factory and proper treatment. MAIN 2868W OUIS via Missouri Pacific First Out—First In Kansas City.....9:00 a.m. St. Louis.....5:30 p.m. Fast Mid-Day Service Kansas City.....11:10 a.m. St. Louis.....7:30 p.m. Best connections for East and Southeast. Convention Night Service Kansas City.....10:10 p.m. St. Louis.....7:25 a.m. Ticket Office, 707 Walnut St. or at Union Station Phones: Bell, Main 6740. Home, Main 6327 R. T. G. MATTHEWS, Aesist. General Passenger Agt. MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN If Your Business Is Not Worth Advertising, Palm Beach, Mohair, Serges Tropical Worsteds, Flannels $8.50 $10.00 $12.50 $15.00 Daniel Clothing Co. Boley Building Second Floor 12TH and WALNUT Subscribe Now for The Sun NELSON C. CREWS, Editor New Straw Hats $1.50 to $2.50 Panamas, $3.50 to $5.50 Daniel Cloth Boley Building Subscribe Now KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT If Y If you want the business of 40,000 Negroes who spend approximately $200,000 per month We reach the buying public of both cities and surrounding communities, and we solicit for them only the most reliable firms. The buying public patronizing our advertisers are certain to be treated courteously, find goods as advertised and receive quality and service Call Our Advertising Representative for Rates Bell Phone East 999 1803 E.18th Street Silk Shirts, $3.00 to $5.00 Silk Hosiery, 50c. D.V.D Underwear, $1.00 Soft Shirts, $1.00 to $3.50 thing Co. Second Floor 12TH and WALNUT for The Sun FLOUR Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917 AMONG THE CHURCHES ST. JAMES BAPTIST CHURCH. Services were well attended all day last Sunday. St. James is flourishing like a bay tree. The members under the leadership of three captains had a rally Sunday for the purpose of raising money to paint and beautify the Church. Every member did his full duty; as a result quite a neat sum was realized. Owing to the absence of the Ministers who had promised to fill the pulpit at the afternoon and evening services the pastor addressed the congregations with much eloquence and spiritual enthusiasm and everyone felt that it was good to be there. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. All services were well attended Sunday....Mrs. Ella Lawson went to the hospital preparatory to undergoing an operation. We hope she will soon recover. Miss Ross Bennett is also very ill....Mr. L. J. Weddington and Miss Clara Molette called at the office of Dr. T. H. Ewing and were happily united in wedlock. We wish them much joy....Rev. Buchanan preached a noble sermon Sunday evening for the B. Y. P. U. We hope the Rev. will visit us again. The Choir rendered some very sweet music for the occasion. Mrs. Addie Jones sang a beautiful solo that was enjoyed by all. The Vine Street Baptist Church choir gave a reception Saturday evening, June 16, at the residence of Mrs. P. L. Blackwell, 2300 Highland avenue, in honor of the birthday of Mr. A. T. Moore., their instructor. The program for the occasion consisted of two selections by the choir, a reading from Dunbar, soprano, tenor and instrumental solos. Mr. Ned Carter presented Mr. Moore a handsome black leather traveling bag in behalf of the Choir as a token of appreciation for his uniring labor. Mrs. F. D. Michel presented the following presents in behalf of the choir: To Mrs. A. T. Moore, pianist, a jabot and a bouquet of Killarney roses; to Mrs. A. E. Johnson, President of the Choir, a set of ice tea glasses and silver teaspoons; to Mrs. J. B. Wright, Secretary of the Choir, a beautiful shirtwaist; Master Junior Tibbs presented Miss Lillian Moore, Jr., a doll. Refreshments served by the committee. The able and versatile pastor, Dr. G. B. Shaw, of the Metropolitan Zion A. M. E. Church, St. Louis, Mo., in an eloquent, soul-stirring sermon, literally shook the spiritual foundation of Allen Chapel last Sunday morning. When he had finished his discourse not a soul present but had aroused out of its apathy and fourteen men and women answered his call to the fold. No less eloquent and inspiring was the Communion sermon delivered by Dr. J. F. Griffen of the First A. M. E. Church, K. C. K. The Christian Church and all the Methodist Church in the vicinity were well represented. After the evening sermon which was delivered by Dr. A. A. Gilbert, presiding elder, the pastor and the members, including Prof. Jackson, followed by his loyal Choir, visited the St. James A. M. E. Zion Church at the closing of its 28th Annual Conference. There amid the sweet strains of its songsters Allen lifted a splendid collection and presented it to the Conference. Thus fittingly closed a day filled with worship and long to be remembered as having demonstrated the universality of Methodism. Mrs. Mary Brown Edmonson, a Presbyterian Missionary, will speak Sunday, the 24th (Woman's Day) at both morning and evening services. All are cordially invited to attend. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. The Pilgrim Baptist Church had a glorious time at both services Sunday. We were blessed with one soul. The pastor, Rev. C. C. Callaway, preached two wonderful sermons. This Sunday night after the services there will be baptizing. We gladly invite all that will come. If there is any Christian in the city with membership out of town we invite you and SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. All services were well attended Sunday. At 9:30 the Sunday School held an interesting session. At 11:00 o'clock Dr. Bacote preached a grand sermon on "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the House of the Lord" from the 122 Psalm.... The new $2,500 pipe organ was used for the first time in our Church services last Sunday. Brother James Anderson sang touchingly "He's the One." At the evening services Rev. H. P. Jones of Texas preached on "The Love of Jesus"....The New Era District Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Convention held a very interesting and profitable session in this Church Tuesday, June 19, to Friday, June 22. The Mission Circle met at the home of Miss Ellen Watson, 1424 Independence Avenue, last Friday at 2:00 p. m. All strangers and visitors to Kansas City are invited to visit our Church. Y.M.C.A. Notes Get that summer membership now. $2.00 for all privileges. Rev. S. W. Bacote will speak at the afternoon meeting Sunday at 3:30. This will be the last meeting for the summer. All men are invited. A large crew of private car men from New York City are at the "Y" this week. Mr. F. E. DeFrantz, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Association, with his bride, visited us this week. Mr. H. L. Kinsler, 918 East 21st St., desires to announce the change in his telephone number to Grand 4204W. MOON BROS. Rugs and carpets cleaned, scoured and sized. Floors waxed. Wall paper cleaned. Vacuum cleaner to rent. WILLA M. GLENN, Manager Most verbal appeals fall down because people are indifferent to them. Inattention becomes a habit, in one ear and out the other. The very existence of the phrase proves the point. Visual impressions get there and stick. Live and Dressed Poultry, fresh from the country, can give you the impression through the eye that stick. If you see for yourself, you are sure to be- come a customer. TURKEYS, GEE CALL BELL PHONE GRAPE 1335 East E GO TO MOON'S CAFE Phones: Home Linwood 2819 Bell East 2486W Nuway House and Rugs and carpets clear YUISH-H-PGC ME BEST ESE, DUCKS, HENS AND 3765 for SPECIAL PRICES Eighteenth Street 1223 BALTIMORE AVE. Frank B. Saunders Mgr., 2810 Norton Ave. and Carpet Cleaners cleaned, scoured and sized. Floors d. Vacuum cleaner to rent. THEKANSASCITYSUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY All communications should be addressed to The Kansas City Sun, 1803 Eighth 18th Street. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August —, 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews.....Editor and Owner Willa M. Glenn.....General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... .78 Three Months ..... .50 ADVERTISING RATES, $2.00 PER INCH PER MONTH. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. U. S. NEWSPAPER LAWS. Below is the law in regard to newspapers: First—Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to continue their subscription. Second—If the subscriber orders discontinuance of periodical the publisher may continue to send the same until arrears are paid. Third—if a subscriber neglects or refuses to take the periodicals from the postoffice to which they have been directed he is held responsible till he has settled his bill and ordered the paper discontinued. Fourth—If the subscriber moves to other places without informing the publisher and the paper is sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. EDITORIALS. Don't get excited! Keep cool! Don't be a slacker! All signs indicate that there are better days coming for the American Negro. Colored men are ready for whatever comes and they won't flinch when the orders come whether it be for a fight or a fricle. The boarding mistress trust is said to be working out an increase in the schedule of teachers housing for next year. It is now in order for the school ma's to organize a society for the promotion of matrimony. If some one will tell us how some of our most prominent citizens have so much time to devote to tennis and billiards, all the while dressing well, looking fat and riding in autos, while we work all the time, go ragged and hungry, and can't even ride the street cars, we shall be very much obliged. The Onward Commandery No. 2 Negro Knights Templar of St. Louis has bought four Liberty Bonds to help the United States. This is the leading organization of the kind in the State of Missouri. Milton F. Fields is the Embient Commander, W. H. Goff, Recorder. They caught a colored slacker in Kansas City this week. His name is Gray and he talked too much about having dodged registration. That's a great fault with a lot of people, especially colored people. Now they will make Gray go to war and he will probably be the first man to fall before the onslaught of the Germans unless he keeps his mouth shut. The Sun is in receipt of a very interesting letter from Mr. John R. Fairley, who is attending the training camp for officers at Des Moines which is as follows: "The Camp is now abut completed with probably from 1,200 to 1,500 students here from every state in the Union. Men from every walk of life. No one would imagine it possible to get together such an aggregation of intelligent Negroes. I am fully persuaded that you would make no mistake in visiting this Camp that you may better understand the scope of work being done by the students. Mr. R. B. DeFrantz, our former Y. M. C. A. Secretary in Kansas City is now a General Secretary and in charge of the camp Y. M. C. A. assisted by the physical instruction of the Washington, D. C., Y. M. C. A. Many of the Negroes famous in the Spanish-American war and the daily papers speak very kindly of our conduct and contain long articles with reference to the final outcome, the personnel and so forth. Quite a few are here from Kansas City and St. Louis. JOHN R. FAIRLEY." ```markdown ``` ★★★★★ For Sale by Owner—Frame duplex; 8 rooms; 35 ft. front; water, gas and sewer; Colored neighborhood; $1,600.00. $100 down and $15.00 a month, with interest. 2115 Bellefontaine, Kansas City, Mo. Betty & Sam's Little Corner) A —That lots of women marry homely men so they won't be worried over some other woman trying to steal him. —That the fight on President Allen is absolutely without merit or foundation, nor can it succeed. —That if a Greek restaurant can serve a meal for twenty cents why can't Negro restaurants do the same? Echo answers why. —That good looking girls matrimonially inclined are flocking to Des Moines, Ia., by the hundreds. Guess why. —That if the school board does not shortly publish the list of teachers for next year there are two or three people will die of heart failure. Tain't me! —That at a recent meeting of a certain prominent club all the girls solemnly pledged themselves to discard skirts and begin wearing the ne wbloomers. Won't that be fine? —That a certain well known brother who carries a sack of coal home every evening says he's going to be fixed for winter if it takes all summer to get ready. Well, he's wise. —That since the new law relative to checks has gone into effect it is predicted that one or two well known Negroes who have a penchant for writing checks on banks where they have no deposit will soon be found in federal penitentiary. —That an 18th street loafer saw this motto pasted upon the billboards, "Get what you can and can what you get," and immediately rushed home and told his wife to give him some money to "can some beer," as the billboard said that was the thing for him to do. Ain't that the limit? —That men do change after marriage is proven by a little incident that came under the observation of Betty and Sam the other day. Last spring when a certain young man was courting a fair damsel she accidently tripped and fell, the young man hastily grabbed her up in his arms and with alarm depicted on his countenance asked, "Did my sweet little darling dear hurt herself?" About a week ago they saw the same couple who had been married for several months then and as they were coming down the step of their home she tripped and fell clear to the bottom. The same young man who was so gallant before they were married yelled out, "Look out there woman, you'll break your fool neck if you ain't careful." Some change in manner, isn't it? Rooms to Rent For Rent.—Nicely furnished room to couple. Strictly modern. Man must be working. Bell phone, Grand 2349. 1419 Lydia. For Rent—Three large rooms neatly decorated, furnished or unfurnished, water. 2435 Woodland. For Sale—Three chair barber shop. Good condition. Cheap. N. Pearman, 614 Charlotte. FOR RENT—3 rooms modern. Hot and cold water, $13.50. Call Kansas City Sun office. Bell phone East 999. For Rent--8 room house, strictly modern. 2531 Michigan Ave. See owner at 2 West Missouri Ave., Room 14. Jackson. For Rent.—Two front rooms, one upstairs and one downstairs with or without cooking privileges. Mrs. H. W. Bean, 1009 Euclid Ave. FOR RENT—First floor west and second floor east Alpha Apartments, 22d and Paseo; 4 rooms and bath, modern, newly decorated, water furnished, $20.00—Burtch Investment Co., Home phone, Linwood 70, or see janitor at apartments. CHEAP JOHN'S PLACE New and second hand goods bought, sold and exchanged. Bell Phone, East 3851. 2224 Vine St. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917. Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City BAKERIES. MRS. SUSIE OWENS, 2331 Vine street. Bell phone, East 5017. BARBER SHOPS. LABORING MEN'S BARBER SHOP, W. F. O'Bonnon, Prop., 558 Grand avenue. BEAUTY PARLORS AND HAIR DRESSERS. MRS. CORA D. WILLIAMS, Poro Hair Dresser, 1714 E. 13th Street. Bell phone, East 3610J. MRS. SUSIE P. GIPSON, 1725 Michigan avenue, Poro hair dresser. Bell Phone, East 3058J. MRS. MINNIE DOYLE, Poro Hair Dresser, 2732 Highland avenue. Bell phone, East 1346W. MRS. ETHEL E. WILSON, 1008 Woodland. XX Century Hair Dresser. Bell phone, E. 5469W. MRS. DELILAM M. S. DOTTREY, 1102 Highland avenue. Poro Hair Dressers. Bell Phone East 4151-J. MRS. F. A. COOK, Poro Hair Dresser. 1226 Vine street. Bell phone, E. 2820. CAFES. MRS. H. W. DOTSON, 1705 East 12th. Bell Phone, E. 2214. DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th street. Bell phone, E. 618. W. W. PAYNE, 19th and Vine streets Bell Phone, East 559. Home Phone East 4132. FLORISTS. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1501 E Ninth. Bell phone, East 272. LAWYERS. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M. 58, Bell phone Main 448. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone, M58, Bell phone Main 448. Legal advice. Practices in all courts. E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney at Law, 511 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. JEWELERS. J. A. WILSON, 1616 W. Ninth street, Kansas City, Mo. Bell phone, Main 6248R. J. E. MILLER STUDIO, 1622 East Eighteenth street. Bell phone, E. 91. REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. SQUARE DEAL REALTY & INVESTMENT CO., Samuel R. Hopkins, President; M. E. Olden, Secretary and Treasurer; C. R. Groves, General Manager. 1315 E. 18 Street.—Bell Phone, Grand 317. COLORED PEOPLES INVESTMENT CO., Solomon Smith, Pres., 2122 Vine St. Bell Phone, East 1011. Home Phone, East 4011. A B C EMPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT CO., 500 Minnesota avenue. (Upstairs) Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 1743; Home phone, West 1036. C. W. Neloms, Mgr. H. L. KINSLER, 918 East Twenty-first street. Bell phone, Grand 4204W. SHOE STORE. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 E. Eighteenth street. Bell phone, East 1328. SHOE REPAIRING. ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP, J. C. Banks, Prop., 1514 $ \frac{1}{2} $ East Eighteenth street. Bell phone East 4939. TAILORS. RALPH WORTHAM, Cleaners and Dvers, 19th and Paseo. UNDERTAKERS. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, Nineteenth and Vine streets. Both Phones, East 4349. I. G. OLIVER, 415 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Bell Phone, West 4183. H. B. MOORE, 1031 Independence avenue. Bell phone Main 3398W. Home phone Main 3341. WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia avenue. Bell phone Grand 987, Home Main 7989. Res., Bell East 3281. Williams Investment Co. WE HAVE FOR SALE—A four room cottage at Howard and Garfield for $1,150.00. Terms, $50.00 down and $10.00 per month and interest. Both Phones East 1415. Also at 2325 Euclid a splendid 6 room frame, modern and in good condition. White people moving out of neighborhood will sell for $1,600. Terms to suit. Modern brick near 15th street car line. See Williams Realty Co. for a bargain. For rent, a modern flat, 2008 East 14th street. From now to October 1, $25.00 per month; from October 1 to January 1, $32.50 per month. WILLIAMS INVESTMENT CO. 1704 East Twelfth Street. 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Both temple grower and grower sell for twenty-five and fifty cents per box. Also a pressing oil at twenty-five cents per box. Madame M. B. Jackson's Hair Grower can be used with or without straightening the hair. A complete course taught by mail or personal instruction. Work guaranteed. Years of experience. Hair matched by sample. We sell all kinds of hair goods. A six weeks' treatment of Madame M. B. Jackson's Wonderful Preparations will be -malled to any one for one dollar and a half. Mail orders promptly filled. Send two-cent stamp for return mail and literature. Agents wanted. Liberal discount. # MRS. ORA WILLIAMS. Assistant Mme. M. B. Jackson Mme. M. B. Jackson Send all money orders to Madame M. B. Jackson. For further information call BELL PHONE, E. 3237W or write MME. M. B. JACKSON, 1913 East Tenth St., KANSAS CITY, MO. HOURS: 8 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. BOTH TIME AND MONEY SAVED AT MME. M. B. JACKSON, 1913 East Tenth St., KANSAS CITY, MO. HOURS: 8 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. 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What we manufacture: Criterion GROWER Criterion TEMPLE GROWER Criterion PRESSING OIL Criterion CURE Criterion SHAMPOO Criterion HAIR TONIC Criterion BEAUTY CREAM Criterion SKIN BLEACH Criterion GROWER Criterion TEMPLE GROWER Criterion PRESSING OIL Criterion CURE Criterion SHAMPOO Criterion HAIR TONIC Criterion BEAUTY CREAM Criterion SKIN BLEACH Write today for agents' price list, literatures and information. Enclose stamps for same. Criterion Hair and Toilet Preparation Company 2533 Woodland Ave. Bell Phone E. 1358 W. KANSAS' CITY, MO CITY NEWS --- Join the crowd and get Clover Leaf Insurance. Mr. A. W. Harris, the printer, paid a flying visit to St. Louis this week on business. Mr. Edward S. Baker, Jr., left June 11th for the officers' training camp at Des Moines, Ia. Miss Nora Reynolds, who has been employed at the Delmonico Cafe, has been slightly indisposed for several days. Mr. John Simpson, who has been seriously ill at the residence of his brother, Colonel Robert Simpson, is improving nicely. Omaha Lodge No. 146, A. F. & A. M., of the Missouri Jurisdiction, purchased $200 worth of the Liberty Bonds. Hurrah for No. 146. Mrs. W. W. Lampkins of Columbus, Mo., is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Smith, and is also the guest of Mrs. Neal Range, 1327 Michigan avenue. Dr. Theodore Smith, the widely known and successful druggist, invested in Liberty Bonds. Dr. Smith always sets a good example for his race to follow. Dr. E. B. Ramsey, one of Kansas City prominent physicians, recently purchased a double apartment brick, consisting of 24 rooms, located at 1912-14 East 14th street. Mr. John L. Minor, who had the misfortune to have an arm and leg broken in a street car accident several days ago, is still in a serious condition at the City Hospital. Mr. H. L. Kinsley, Rental and Real Estate Agent of 918 E. 21st street, left Thursday, June 20, for the West. He will visit while away, Denver, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and other western cities. Mrs. John Bowman of 1606 Agnes avenue has just returned from Springfield, Mo., where she disposed of real estate for $3,000 in cash, left to her by her deceased daughter, Ethel X. Gatewood. Mr. William Holman of Washington, D. C., stopped over for a few hours in the city the guest of his sister, Mrs. Etta Kenyon, and his brother, Mr. Bud Holman. He is en route to the Training Camp at Des Moines, Ia. Harry J. Brown of Chicago, Ill., was in the city a few days last week on business and while here had some improvements made on his property on 23d street. While in the city he was the guest of his mother, Mrs. Annie E. Floyd. Mr. E. Drake, an expert Hatter, recently of St. Louis, is now with H. Laden, the Tailor, 1610 E. 18th Street. Mr. Drake is an accomplished Hatter, having had a wide experience in many eastern cities. Come in and get acquainted with him. Mr. Eugene Nickens, 808 Charlotte street, died at his residence last Tuesday afternoon, June 19, at 4:00 o'clock. He was a member of Green Pasture Lodge No. 128, A. F. & A. M. and of Allen Chapel. He leaves a wife, three brothers and one sister to mourn his loss. Funeral arrangements had not been made on going to press. H. J. JOHNSON 1312 Vine Street Painting and Paper Hanging by the job. Call Bell Phone, East 4915W. Prof. and Mrs. J. H. Kenner, Mr. Gilbert Jacques and Mrs. S. P. Jackson motored here from Marshall, Mo. last Tuesday in the latter's elegant Studebaker car. Mr. Jr. Rucker was the driver. Mrs. Jackson is the wife of one of Missouri's most prosperous farmers and stockmen. While here the party was the recipient of much social attention. Hon. Chas. A. Stewart, noted Associated Press correspondent, stopped in Kansas City, Kans., over Monday night en route to St. Louis from Muskogee where he "covered" a case. In an interview Mr. Stewart said that neither the North nor the South should feel alarmed over the Negro exodus. Miss Alberta Wilkinson, one of the delegates of one of our local clubs to the State Federation, which met in Pueblo this week, while stepping on the train had her rib broken at the Union Station Tuesday morning. Her accident prevented her from attending the session. She was taken to the residence of Mrs. J. C. Cooper, 2227 Tremont Place—Denver Star. A large party of Kansas City people are planning to visit the Officers' Training Camp at Des Moines during July. DRESSMAKING. * Plain and fancy by finished dressmakers. Reasonable prices. * 2639 Euclid avenue. Bell phone, * Main 3778J. * Mrs. Thos. Boyd, 915 Vine street, entertained at 11:00 o'clock breakfast last Wednesday, Prof. and Mrs. J. H. Kenner, Mrs. Palmer Jackson and Mr. Rucker of Marshall, Mo. They had motored to the city from Marshall and expressed themselves as being highly pleased with their hostess's hospitality. Mrs. Sarah Bickford and daughter, Miss Mabel, of Virginia City, Mont., and another daughter, Mrs. Helena Hines, of Washington, D. C., were in the city several days last week visiting friends and left Tuesday morning for home. Mrs. and Miss Bickford were guests of Mrs. E. R. Vaughan at Sunny Slope. Mrs. Hines was the guest of Mrs. Wm. E. Griffin at 43rd and Steptoe. It is gratifying to know that the Colored people are responding liberally to the Lady Solicitors of our race who are energetically working for the Red Cross Fund and with their limited means it is predicted they will make a most satisfactory showing. Every member of the race should give something if only a dime to assist this most worthy cause that knows neither color nor condition. HELP·THE RED CROSS. Ver A. Adams, a young man well known in the theatrical circles and who has been ill since last winter, died at the General Hospital last Saturday. Although formerly a member of Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. & A. M. he was out at the time of his death and neither did he carry insurance but his many friends rallied and raised funds for a decent burial. ```markdown ``` The Order of Ancient Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem will hold their annual Sermon July 1st at the Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora Avenue. Hon F. A. Turner will speak on the subject, "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." T. B. J. Robinson will be the Master of Ceremonies. --- All the Masonic lodges of the city save one have elected officers for the ensuing year. The Worshipful Masters and Secretaries being as follows: Rone No. 25—E. Spruell, W. M.; C. H. Counteer, Sec'y. Pritchard No. 42—W. W. Young W. M.; J. H. Spigener, Sec'y. Amos Johnson No. 149½—Booth Cannon, W. M. R. T. Coles No. 86—W. G. Moore W. M.; J. W. Holbert, Sec'y. John Turner No. 106—Chas. Carr W. M.; I. F. Scott, Sec'y. Freen Pasture No. 128—Albert John Green Pasture No. 128—Albert John son, W. M.; E. S. Baker, Sec'y. Graham No. 85—F. A. Harris, W M; J. W. Oden, Sec'y. Mt. Olive No. 53—W. H. Brown W. M. Ideal No. 70—Clay Brassfield, W M.; E. Lophlen, Sec'y. Westport No. 46—R. H. Longdon W. M.; A. V. Barton, Sec'y. Mt. Oread No. 76—Dr. E. C. Bunch W. M.; Dr C. M. Kane, Sec'y. W. M.; Dr C. M. Kane, Secy. John Lange Lodge No 113—C. H. Calloway, W. M.; Jasper Cespides, Secy'. HUTCHINSON-CREWS WEDDING. One of the surprises of the week was the marriage of Mr. Jas. H. Crews, the veteran Mail Carrier, and Miss Florida Hutchinson of this city. The wedding was a very simple affair attended only by the immediate families of the happy couple and four or five intimate friends. The ceremony took place at the residence of the groom's brother, Mr. N. C. Crews, 2624 Highland avenue, and the house was beautifully decorated for the occasion. Dr. Wm. H. Thomas of Allen Chapel, pastor of the bride and groom, officiated in the beautiful ring ceremony of the Church while Major N. Clark Smith presided at the piano Although no announcement was made of the wedding save to an intimate few several beautiful and useful presents were received. All the numbers of the family of E. White, the well known grocer, in whose family the bride has been for 25 years, were in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Crews will be at home at their beautiful little residence, 2735 Vine street, after June 30. THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. JUNE 23, 1917 KANSAS CITY. KAS. (By Mrs. Zenobia Nelson.) Miss Evalene Hunt of 2812 N. 6th street is visiting in Denver, Colo. Mrs. Evans entertained Mr. and Mrs. Martin of Chicago at dinner Saturday evening. Mr. W. R. Johnson, 535 Nebraska avenue, has been quite ill this week from ptomaine poisoning. Mrs. Frances Tucker and Miss Gretchen Tucker of 1408 North 8th street spent Sunday at Leavenworth Kans. Mr. Albert Hemsley of Fort Scott, Kans., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Hart, 1043 Grandview boulevard, last Sunday. Mrs. Will Robinson has returned to her home at San Francisco after spending two weeks with Mrs. Sallie Arnold, 1027 Nebraska avenue. Miss Edith Nelson and little sister of Reno, Kans., are visiting their sister and grandmother, Mrs. A. D Humes and Mrs. Redmon, at 2116 N 3d street. Mrs. D. A. Holmes as delegate of the Metoopolitan Sunday school to the convention which met at Law rence, Kans., brought back some very helpful hints and an interesting report. Mrs. Hattie Ewing, 1851 North 8th street, attended grand court at Lea wenworth, Kans., last Thursday. She also visited her brother at Lansing who is one of the guards of the Kansas state penitentiary. Mrs. Maude Jarrett of 923 Freeman avenue, returned from a two weeks visit to Langston, Okla., where she was the guest of Prof. and Mrs. J. M. Marquess. While away Mrs. Jarrett visited other cities in Oklahoma and was the recipient of much social attention. Last Sunday marked one of the Metropolitan's most successful Sabbaths. The pastor seemed at his best and filled with the Holy Spirit. The sermons morning and evening were very impressive. At 2 p. m. the annual sermon of the K. & D. of T. was held. Rev. Sir W. M. Enyard preached a very logical and instructive sermon. A large crowd was in attendance. The services at the Eighth Street Baptist Tabernacle were well attended Sunday. Rev. Dotson preached a powerful sermon morning and evening. The B. Y. P. U. is doing nicely. The President is back again and the Sunday School shows marked improvement. The Sewing Circle turned over to the rally $55.00. Mrs. M. Smyore is President. Thus far $1,245.32 has been reported on the rally. Rev. B. B. Jackson, the pastor, is improving. The Good Will Club turned over $177.11 to the rally. FORAKER MEMORIAL Cincinnati, O., June 13.—More than 2,000 persons attended the mass memorial meeting held here last Sunday in honor of the late Joseph Benson Foraker, formerly United States Senator. A most eloquent plea for the protection of the American Negro from lynching, burning, disfranchisement and segregation was voiced by Attorney Gilchrist Stewart, of New York City, in an address. Mr. Stewart was an assistant to the late Senator Foraker in the investigation of the alleged raid by colored soldiers at Brownsville, Texas. Rev. R. C. Ransom of New York, editor of the African Methodist Review, also made a masterful address. Dr. Ransom told of the loyalty of the Negro from the time of Crispus Attacks on the Boston commons down to Carrizal. He was interrupted by vociferous storms of applause many times during his speech. Messrs. Thos. M. Lee, John M. Thompkins, C. W. Taylor, E. Claybourne, T. Bennett and Edw. Price and Mrs. Bristo Fitts of New York City who accompanied delegates from that city to the National Credit Association, which convened here this week and Mr. M. Swader of this city were pleasant callers at The Sun of fice. While in the city they were the recipients of many auto parties to see the city. HOLY ROLLERS ARRESTED Memphis, Tenn.—Two colored women, giving their names as Martha McCoy and Mary Johnson, were arrested last night on South Wellington street by Officers Broadfoot and Bryant, on a charge of disorderly conduct. The women suffered the hallucination that "Jesus is coming today." They danced about the public station and shouted at the top of their voices. LINCOLN INSTITUTE THREAT ENED. tributed by the Negro troops of the 62d and 65th regiments, United States infantry, whose first thought when discharged from service was to establish in Missouri a school where their children could obtain a useful education. In 1880 the institution was transferred to the state and since then it has been generously provided for by the state legislature. That President Allen is held in high estee mby the leading white citizens of the state as well as by the Colored citizens is evidenced from the following letter appearing in the Daily Capital of Jefferson City of the issue of June 19th from one of the most distinguished educators in the state: Editor Capital News: The announcement was made in one of our local papers last Saturday that the board of regents of Lincoln Institute had not so far been able to elect a faculty and that politicians had succeeded in deferring the re-election of President B. F. Allen. I confess the announcement awakened not only my surprise, but something more—something bordering on indignation. Reading further we learned that a Negro politician at Kansas City has been active in opposing President Allen on the ground that he is a Republican. Any ground of opposition more preposterous than that can not well be conceived, and any more effective way to utterly wreck the good name and the good work of this successful and valuable institution has not yet made appearance. If pretty and pernicious politics are henceforth to dominate in the management of this highly important institution no more serious harm can befall it, and the hopes of its best friends will surely suffer disastrous eclipse. The truth is a school of advanced learning is no place for the incompetent and meddlesome politician—let him confine himself to the congenial sphere of ward politics. I am highly pleased to say that for one and twenty years I have known President Allen more or less intimately. I have during all these years visited the Institute from time to time. My own long experience as a college president and my present position as a trustee in two of the leading colleges of Missouri qualifies me, I think, to speak with judgment on college work and college efficiency. I venture, therefore, to say that all the work done under the eye and hand of President Allen is good work, and well merits the highest approval. I always take pleasure in attending the commencement and similar exercises of Lincoln Institute, and I do not hesitate to say that they compare favorably in this regard with the aver age high school and college of the present day. If these statements are true, and this beneficent institution has for years, under President Allens' administration, been accomplishing such praiseworthy results, is it the wise and just thing now to take from him his insignia of office, strip him of all authority and send him like a disgraced commander to the rear? In the name of justice and fair play, I a long-time citizen of Missouri protest. The old Latin words are always timely: "Flat Justitia rnat coslum." The Sun has no axes to grind nor selfish interests to serve when it solemnly asserts that it believes the best interests of the school, the state and the Negroes of the state of Missouri will be subserved by the retention of Benjamin Franklin Allen in the presidency of this historic institution and that politics may no more be permitted to dwarf and disfigure the usefulness of this much needed institution any more than it would the magnificent institution located at Columbia for the education of the white youth of this great commonwealth. The Sun regrets that this vicious and unwarranted fight upon this institution emanated from Kansas City and assures the Board of Regents and the Governor that not fifty Colored men in Missouri can be found who will endorse the charges (if they be called charges), placed against President Allen by an unwise politician with over-weening ambitions. Let President Allen remain! Chicago, Ill.—The trial of Oscar De Priest, former Alderman of the Second Ward, was brought to a close when the jury at 1:20 this morning returned a verdict of "not guilty" in favor of Mr. De Priest. The ex-Alderman was charged with having conspired to protect gambling in his district. Attorneys Clarence Darrow and Edward H. Morris appeared for the defense. When the verdict was returned Mr. De Priest smiled, saying "There could have been no other regult." After the testimony of Teehan Jones, chief witness for the state, to the effect that he had given Mr. Do Priest $2,800 for his services in protecting gambling in the "Black Belt," it was conceded by many legal lights that the case would be thrown out. Jones was subjected to a gruelling cross-examination from the defend ant's counsel. Helps Banjo Player. To aid in playing the banjo or guitar a device has been invented to be slipped over the head of the instrument, desired chords being produced when buttons are pressed to mute the strings correctly. He Is That. The man who never did anything is always Johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to telling others how things should be done. Use Rubber Models Rubber models of essential parts of cows have been invented in England to give girls who are learning to be milkmaids practical instruction. Not Even That. Many a man who imagines his executive ability is sufficient to control the affairs of a nation would not even make a successful book agent. And He Never Can. Every time a new barber comes to a town all the bald men drop in to see if he can suggest something that will make hair grow. Why depend on mother, wife, sister or brother for sustenance when unable to provide for yourself? Avoid this and get Clover Leaf Insurance. JOHN H. HARRIS Mr. J. J. Allen, the genial and hustling District Superintendent of the Clover Leaf Insurance Company, who has more than made good in the insurance business. COLORED MEN AND WOMEN WANTED! If you have a common education, lots of ambition and energy; and if you are real anxious to go in business for yourself where your income will not be limited I would like to talk with you. Common labor is absolutely honest but too many of our men and women who are qualified to make more money in business are satisfied doing manual labor. Lots of people are making from $50 to $60 per month selling insurance as a side line. CLOVER LEAF CASUALTY CO., J. J. Allen, Dist. Mgr. 1507 E. 18th St. Bell, East 2766 Quinoleum Is Queen YES, I Use Quinoleum, and like it fine. JUST FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. Ours are the finest made preparations for the hair and face. Quinoleum Hair Grower.....50c Quinoleum Hair Tonic.....50c Quinoleum Hair Shampoo.....25c Face Preparations. Quinoleum Face Bleach.....25c Quinoleum Face Cream.....25c Quinoleum Camphor Ice.....25c A liberal sample of our new preparation, a fragrantly perfumed toilet powder and a velvety face powder in pink and flesh colors (brown) sent free with any order. Call Bell Phone West 1757. 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kas. QUINOLEUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY. MONEY TO LOAN. Short time money to loan to roominghouse keepers——must have reference. Property owners can obtain a loan thru our agency and pay it back by weekly installments. If your house needs papering, painting or repairing, get a loan and put in its necessary repairs. Our business is strictly confidential. Bell phone, Grand 4204W. Peoples' Drug Store Northeast corner of Eighteenth Street and the Paseo For twelve years we have served you. We have never substituted nor given you an inferior article. We carry everything in the Drug line; all the latest and best toilet articles. We deliver anything to any part of the city -- promptly -- call us up. East 4082 Works Shop INDS OF HATS East 1814 Home East 4 Peerless Hat Works and Tailoring Shop CLEAN AND BLOCK ALL KINDS OF HAT Our $30 Suits for $20 7 Pants for $5 Expert Clean Dyei HEN & DRAKE, 1610 EAST EIGHTH Bell Phone East When in Need of Maker's Supplies Go to the Central Manufacturers of Fine Cloth Cash Jobbers in Undertaker's Supplies June M. 1941 18th and Holmes Night Bells THOMAS, President C. J. HENTZEN, Treas Bell East 1814 Home East 4082 Expert Cleaning and Dyeing EASTEIGHTEENTHST. Bell Phone East 2324 Central Street Co. Both Caskets Supplies Night Bell G. 1985M ENTZEN, Treasurer LADEN & DRAKE, 1610 EASTEIGHTEENTHST. Bell Phone E 2324 Undertaker's Supplies Go to the Central Market Co. Home Phone M.1941 18th and Holmes Night Bell G.1985M L. J. THOMAS, President C. J. HENTZEN, Treasurer Five Reasons Why We Should Fit Your Feet 1—Because we know shoes. 2—Because our prices are right. 3—Because our styles are latest. 4—Because our stock is so complete. 5—Because we know foot, and can tell you how to gain complete foot comfort while wearing the kind of shoes you want to wear. There is a Dl Scholl Appliance or Remedy for Every Foot Trouble Trouble ese and are ed and Foot Advice Is Free Here and there's no better place to buy your shoes. Crossett Boot Shop 1005 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. W. D. WALLACE, Mgr. "Watch Your Feet" oof Hosiery---The Original Guaran PHONES and we not only carry these in stock but we understand when and where they are needed. We have studied Dr. Scholl's methods and can give you real Foot Comfort through the use of his famous corrective devices. Corns, bunions, enlarged joints, callouses, cramped toes, tender feet, burning feet, perspiring feet, "theumatic" feet, weakened arches, flat foot, weak ankles and other troubles are given immediate and lasting relief. In Trust for Veronica By Walter Joseph Delaney (Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.) "You are certainly a most extraordinary client," observed Rolfe Darwin, stockbroker, and he stared wonderingly at the hatchet-faced, keen-eyed little old man seated at the side of his desk. "Why?" snapped his visitor with plstol-shot decisiveness—"because I happen to know just what I want?" "Not that—but the class of stock you are ordering." "Well?" "The one hundred thousand shares of mining securities include two companies that are insipid, one in the hands of a receiver and the last one a rank promotional swindle of the worst type." "Proceed," calmly suggested John Sterling, with a grim chuckle. "Of the mining stocks you have named, not one has ever paid a dividend." "I'm not after dividends." "It appears not," rejoined Dawson. "In fact, you are ordering shares of worthless stock, par value nearly a million dollars, present value so low that the securities are used only by cheap stock-jobbers to trade in as a bonus where they make a real sale." "You're telling me nothing I don't know," advised Sterling coolly, but a trifle irritably. "I've given you a list of what I want. How soon can you have the stuff?" "Stuff, indeed!" muttered Dawson under his breath. "We don't usually handle the class of securities you want," he added aloud, "and you take them on your own responsibility. I will know by tomorrow at this hour W. J. H. "I Am Going to Start a Million-Dollar Trust." what we can gather up. I presume an average of a few cents will corner the lot. The entire cost won't reach five hundred dollars." "Very good, and dear at that," said the old man. "There's two hundred dollars on account," and he extracted the amount from a worn wallet and departed. "I declare! This is the most refreshing novelty that ever came into this office," soliloquized Rofle. "What is the old fox, anyhow—a swindler? He don't look it. I'd pay something to fathom his game." In a perfectly satisfied and business-like manner, the next day, Mr. Sterling reappeared, received innumerable shares of stock, settled in full, stowed his new possessions in an inside pocket and nodded crisply to the broker. "Thank'ee," he spoke tersely. "One word," suggested Rolfe, as his erratic client was about to leave—"I would like to ask you one question." "Fire away," directed Sterling calmly. "What are you going to do with that lot of rubbish?" The old man's eyes twinkled. He smiled shrewdly. "I'm going to start a million-dollar trust," he chuckled, "and get even with the world." It was an hour after his departure that Rolfe chanced to notice some papers lying under the chair where the old man had sat. He picked them up. One was a letter beginning, "Dear Father" and winding up with, "Your loving daughter, Veronica." "I am inclosing a new photograph I had taken just after you left. Hurry home. I am lonesome without you." Rolfe stood staring at the counterfeit presentment of the loveliest face he had ever gazed upon. Then unconsciously he murmured the name, "Veronica." It had a sweetly appealing charm. The second paper was some kind of a schedule. It listed the item "One million dollars in securities." "Homestead, eight thousand dollars." "Wild land in Canada, prospective value, one hundred thousand dollars," "Deed of trust in favor of Veronica Sterling. Make Lawyer morse trustee." "The puzzle deepens," meditated Rolfe. "Whatever in the world is the schemer up to, anyhow?" faced the papers in an en- velope and addressed it to "John Sterling, Mapleton," where the old man had told him "he halled from." The documents were of no particular value, but Rolfe decided to mail them to their owner. He placed the envelope in his pocket unsealed. Half a dozen times that day he took from it the photograph. "I won't mail it," he decided late that afternoon. "I just can't get away from wanting to find out what bee this eccentric John Sterling has got in his bonnet," which was subterfuge, pure and simple, for the old man's daughter, Veronica, Rolfe was interested in. "I need a little run out into the country, anyhow," he deluded himself into believing, and the next morning he was on his way to Mapleton. Time and expense did not mean a great deal to Rolfe Darwin, for he was more than well validated in the way of money possessions. Rolfe strolled around the pretty village and made a few casual inquiries as to Mr. John Sterling. He learned that the old man had lived in the town for over thirty years, had lost his wife and fortune, but his great hopes and ambition centered around his daughter. Father and child were highly esteemed, but socially had lost some of their prestige since the former fortune of the old man had dwindled. There was the old homestead, however, a gossip told Rolfe, and some wood land, remote, worthless, and a limited income from a legacy the dead wife had left Veronica, but they had kept up appearances under difficulties. "Proud as Lucifer, the old man is," declared Rolfe's informant. "He thinks his daughter worthy of a prince. As to Miss Sterling, she is the sweetest, kindest creature in the town. Always helping somebody with kind words, and out of her little store of money, too. He hopes to marry her to some millionaire. She has no such proud ideas. They say, though, that the old man has made a ten-strike." "How is that?" pressed Rolfe. "Why, he was gone to the city for two weeks, and came back only yesterday. A lawyer friend of his, Mr. Morse, gave it out that Mr. Sterling has made an investment to a large amount and has nearly one million dollars in securities and land in trust for Veronica. That will fetch the suitors about her." Rolfe walked on, a sudden brilliant light shining upon his mind. He saw it all in a flash—John Sterling was scheming to marry off his daughter in a good way, and the million-dollar trust was the bait with which he was to lure on the prospective husband. "My father is not at home," spoke the original of the photograph, as Rolfe presented himself at the Sterling home, and his heart fluttered as he stood face to face with his fate. He knew it instantly, as those lovely eyes met his own. "I have some papers belonging to Mr. Sterling," he said, and Veronica invited him into the house, "as her father would be home in half an hour." John Sterling looked startled to find the broker from the city in evidence. He mysteriously besought Rolfe to make no public mention of his "investments." Rolfe was invited to tea. By the time he left the Sterling home he and Veronica were rare good friends. "I didn't set the trap for you," observed Sterling, one day a month later—the day that Rolfe asked him for the hand of his daughter. "I'm glad to welcome you as my son-in-law, though, for you wasn't after the million-dollar trust, but Veronica only, the dear, sweet treasure that she is!" "I concur in that sentiment," agreed Rolfe Dawson enthusiastically. Physician Paid Physician. An Indianapolis physician, who attends a number of poor patients without pay, recently was called to the home of an old woman, who had been under his care at different times for many years. She was dying of a general breakdown, and the physician saw at once that all he could do would be to make her last hours as easy as possible. This he proceeded to do, and just before he left he told the son that nothing more could be done, but that if anything happened to let him know. The son followed him outside and asked him if he might borrow $2, saying that he had a very good use for it. The physician gave him two silver dollars, realizing, however, that he was making a gift and not a loan. During the night the patient died. The charitably inclined physician has learned since that the son called in another physician with the $2 he borrowed, and asked him if he thought he could do any more for his mother than Doctor X——.Indianapolis News. Saving the Gas. Bobbie will be chancellor of the exchequer when he grows up, says London Tit-Bits. The other evening dad brought home a beautiful green shade for the drawing-room chandelier and spent two hours fixing it in order to comply with the new lighting restrictions. After the family had recovered from the upheaval which always attends any duty performed by dad, they settled down under the obscured light. Suddenly dad perceived Bobbie sitting well outside the radius of the light poring over a volume of close print. "Now then, Bobble," he snapped, "what are you sitting right outside there for straining your eyes in the dark like that? I haven't got enough expense as it is, I suppose, and you want to run me into more expense for spectacles for you—what?" "Please, dad, I was only sitting outside here in order to save the gas!" THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917 Birthplace of N Empress Josephine ```markdown ``` REMAINS OF KITCHEN AT LA PAGERIE DURING a sojourn on the French West India island of Martinique, where Theodore de Booy was engaged in making an archaeological reconnaissance in the interest of the Museum of the American Indian (Heye foundation) of New York city, he was enabled, thanks to the kindness of Mr. Simon Hayot, a resident of this island, to visit the birthplace of Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, who subsequently became the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress of France. The great events in the life of the unfortunate empress are too well known to students and historians to need recital in this short paper, says Mr. De Booy in the French edition of the Bulletin of the Pan-American Union. The writer thinks it may be of interest to Americanists, however, to have some record of Josephine's birthplace. Due to the various political changes that took place in France after the fall of the first empire and to the republican form of government which was subsequently adopted, no efforts were made to preserve the buildings in which Josephine spent her childhood. At the time of writing a movement has been started by the governor of Martinique, M. Camille Guy, an historian of note, to preserve what ruins still remain of La Pagerie and to erect within the walls of what once was the plantation residence a fitting monument to the empress. Famed for Its Hospitality. The property of La Pagerie, ancestral home of Josephine Tascher, second daughter of Messire I. G. Tascher de La Pagerie, lies some two miles west of the small village of Trois Islets, on the southwest coast of the island of Martinique. No record can be found as to how long this La Pagerie property had been in possession of the Tascher family. That it was famed for hospitality, even in the days when creole hospitality in the West Indies was at its zenith, is a cherished tradition among the inhabitants of Martinique. Sugarcane was extensively cultivated at La Pagerie, and there can be no doubt that, with a large number of slaves, and with the high price that sugar commanded in those days, Monsieur Tascher was a well-to-do planter. There still remains on the plantation the ruin of the old sugar house, where the cane was ground by the windmill process and the juice boiled in the open copper kettles. Local traditions have it that Josephine was born in the old sugar house, instead of in the plantation residence. It seems that the island of Martinique was visited by one of the typical, all-destructive hurricanes which are such a common occurrence in this region; the family, anxious for its safety, took refuge in the more substantially constructed factory, and it was here that Madame Tascher's second child was born on the 24th of June, 1763. Not Much of Residence Left. But little remains of the Tascher residence. Successive hurricanes succeeded but too well in effacing the hand-work of man, and one can now find but the low, three-foot-high walls of the residence proper. These walls are so overgrown with tropical vegetation that it is well-nigh impossible to photograph them. It is the plan of the commission headed by Monsieur Guy, the governor of the island, to remove this vegetation and the debris inside the walls, and to erect therein the monument to Josephine. Strange to say, the best-preserved ruins on the La Pagerie estate consist of the kitchen walls. What higher tribute can the writer pay to the delights of the far-famed Martinique cuisine than to say that he considers it a fitting tribute to the hospitality of Josephine's parents that of all the plantation buildings, this should be the one to be the best preserved? One can even see the old fireplace, where the Tascher cook prepared her delicious creole concoctions. Local tradition has it that it was young Josephine's custom to daily betake herself, accompanied by a faithful old negro "mammy" to a certain pool on the property to indulge in a bath in the refreshing waters of a limpid rivulet. This "mammy," named Euphemia, was an old family slave, and was generally credited as being a prophetess of no mean order. It seems to have been her custom to allow herself to go into a sort of trance, and to then reveal future happenings. Josephine, brought up with all the ideas and superstitions of the creole child, which from its birth assimilates all sorts of African folklore, due to its constant association with negro slaves and servitors, was far from scoffling at her nurse's revelations and constantly lived in the hope that she also might some day be the subject of Euphemia's prophecies. Prophecy of Euphemia. It seems that Euphemia, however, no matter how easily she revealed the future of other people, seems to have possessed a strange reticence about Josephine's fate. And it was not until the beautiful young creole had reached the age of fifteen years that the old "mammy" could be made to speak on this subject. One day, while seated under the shade of a giant mango tree, near the pool where Josephine took her daily bath, guarded by her faithful servant—the visitor to La Pagerie is still shown the gigantic tree and the shaded pool where these events took place—Euphemia's eyes took on the far-away look that always preceded her prophecies, and she spoke: "You will be married to a man of fair complexion, intended to be the husband of another of your family. The young lady whose place you are called to fill will not live long. Your star promises you two marriages. Your first husband will be a man born in Martinique, but he will reside in Europe and wear a sword; he will enjoy some moments of good fortune. A sad legal proceeding will separate you from him, and, after many great troubles which are to befall the kingdom of the Franks, he will perish tragically and leave you a widow with two helpless children. Your second husband will be of an olive complexion, of European birth; without fortune, yet he will become famous; he will fill the world with his glory, and will subject a great many nations to his power. You will then become an eminent woman and possess a supreme dignity; but many people will forget your kindnesses. After having astonished the world, you will die miserably. The country in which what I foretell will happen forms a part of Celtic Gaul; and more than once, in the midst of your prosperity, you will regret the happy and the peaceful life you led in the colony. At the moment you shall quit it (but not forever) a prodigy will appear in the air—this will be the first harbinger of your astonishing destiny." How true this prophecy became is, of course, well known. The man of falx complexion whom Josephine first married was the viscount Alexander de Beauharnais, who was first afflianced to Maria, the eldest daughter of Monsieur de Tascher. Maria, however, died in Martinique before her marriage took place. Shortly afterwards Josephine married De Beauharnais, after a brief engagement, and sailed for France. De Beauharnais was then in the French army of King Louis XVI. For various reasons he instituted legal proceedings against Josephine after a few years of married life. He was gullothed during the French revolution, leaving Josephine a widow with two children. She then met Napoleon Bonaparte, who at the time was but an humble lieutenant of artillery, and subsequently married him. Her rise to eminence at Napoleon's side and the incidents of her unhappy life with the emperor are but two well known. Even the latter part of Euphemia's prophecy came true, for, when the ship which carried Josephine to France left the harbor of Martinique, the masts of the vessel seemed to be tipped with fire, according to traditions which have been handed down. This, of course, was nothing but an atmospheric phenomenon known as St. Elmo's fire, but it must have astonished the youthful mind of the future empress of France to see this sign upon her departure from her native shores. The third Napoleon, son of Hortense de Beauharnais and, in consequence, grandson of Josephine, made some few efforts during his turbulent reign to preserve the memory of the Tascher family. He had a tombstone erected in the church of the small village of Trois Islets to perpetuate the memory of Madame Tascher, his great-grandmother. It All Came True. ARMENIANS AN ANCIENT RACE They Lived in Many Places Before Occupying Regions Which They Have Held for Many Centuries. The history of Armenia dates from very remote times, J. de Morgan writes in the New Armenia. Hailing, no one knows whence, at the same time as the races who have populated Europe, the Armenians formerly inhabited the steppes of Russia and the plains of the lower Danube, and for a long time Thrace, where they lived side by side with the Hellenes, their congeners, Afterward, at about the time of the Trojan war, we see them cross the Hellespont and settle in Phrygia, with the Phrygians of whom they were then but a great tribe. At this epoch the empire of Hittites was extinguished. It is from Phrygia that, contrary to the general law of migrations, the Armenians advanced toward the Orient, along the high valley of the Euphrates, and came to occupy the regions of Van, Urmia, Erzerum and Ararat. The kingdom of Uratu disappeared; the Armenians installed themselves upon its ruins. It was then that appeared the grand figure of Haik, a fabulous personage in the traditions, but assuredly real, whom Moses of Khorne described to us, contending, in his heroic form, against Bel, that is, against the kings of Assyria. The Armenia Major of our days was then occupied by peoples related to the present Caucasians, to the Lazes, Mingrelians and Georgians, whom the kings of Asshur, after the fall of the powerful state of the borders of Lake Van, hoped to subjugate. But Nineveh was soon to fall, and through this revolution the Armenians gained the time to establish their power firmly in the regions they conquered under the leadership of Haik. The first kingdom of the Armenians, Hai, was founded 600 or 700 years before our era, and the spirit of Haik has lived until our own day, welding the Armenian element that was separated from the Phrygian nation. Some centuries after the collapse of Nineveh the Medes were dispossessed of power. The scepter passed to the hands of the Persians, whose onrush forced the ancient rulers of Iran to retire to the mountains. Then these tribes came in contact with the Armenians, who, repulsed from the east, transmitted this pressure to the peoples of Ararat. Paper Making in India. At a time when great difficulties are caused all over the world by the shortage of paper, as a result of the great war, it is interesting to note the possibilities of paper making in India. By some officials it is thought that sufficient paper should be made in India to supply the whole demand of Asia. It is a question of cheap power and water. Cotton stalks can be used and the forests of India contain many trees which are of no use for building and not available for fuel, but which with waterpower close to the forests could be ground up to make pulp and paper. Falling these, or perhaps preferably, grass and fibers could be grown which might serve the purpose better and at less cost. Where waterpower is obtainable not too far from the sea, chlorine, for which there is always a demand, can be cheaply produced from the sea by electrolysis. In this connection it is of interest to note the immense opportunities which India affords for the development of waterpower and for the transmission of that power by means of electricity where the available sites for water schemes are not conveniently near the place where the power is wanted. Harvard Observatory The work of the Harvard college observatory has included the classification by special types of 220,000 stars, more than 2,000,000 measurements of the visual brightness of stars, the discovery of about three-fourths of the variable stars known, and many determinations of star magnitudes by photography. The observatory's star spectra classification and its scale of magnitudes have been adopted as world standards. For a quarter of a century, a continuous photographic record of the stars down to the eleventh magnitude has been kept at a station in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern—that is, at Cambridge, Mass., and Arequipa, Peru—and a quarter of a million plates, weighing 120 tons, bear the complete history of the stars as written by their own light. Sensitive Steel Hands Some wonders of physical reconstruction are being achieved in the treatment of disabled soldiers in France. Particularly successful is the work of Prof. Jules Amar, to whom, as he goes down the street near his hospital in Paris, the women smile and say: "That's the man that gave my husband his arm back." One man, who had lost his arm, while waiting for an interview one day, amused himself by turning on a lathe little brass shells, as souvenirs, as well as any turner could have done. A second man, whose arm was amputated above the elbow, picked up a needle from the table with a small pair of dissecting forceps. Afterwards the men gave an exhibition of turning and filing metal, and wood-drilling with a sensitive bit. "It's always safest and best." "What is?" "To think that your rival knows a little more than he seems to, and that you know a little less than you think you do." NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS Washington's Clear Right to Title, "City Beautiful" Washington's Clear Right to Title, "City Beautiful" WASHINGTON.—Washington is the city beautiful. In this second decade of the twentieth century it realizes the dreams of its founders. L'Enfant's plans have not been adhered to literally, but there has been a general wise, paternalistic care of a proud and generous government. People speak of Washington as "one of the most beautiful cities in the world." There is no exaggeration in such encomium. Indeed, it falls short of full truth or adequate praise. World travelers today unhesitatingly give Washington equal rank with Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Rio, and some of them avow that it eclipses all other capitals. Beauty, however, is not Washington's solitary charm. The life of the fair city is altogether charming. It is cosmopolitan. In its transformation it has acquired a metropolitan air and carries it naturally. By contrast the provincialism of Gotham stands out prominently, even glaringly. Washington does not go the mad pace of the greater city, does not spend its short days in sordid money-making and its longer, if fleeting, nights dining and dashing to the theaters and patronizing maudlin cabarets. Washington takes time to think. Congress Takes Care of Banners of "Besiegers" WHEN the soldiers are relieved from duty in the siege of a town do the seneschals of the watch tower come down to a little postern gate and open a wicket and take in the leaguering ones that they may store their weapons within the walls of their there with their banners day after day, day after day. I doubt if any member of congress or any one of the thousands of men who pass those banners by could repeat properly the words upon the purple and gold cloth, but, of course, everyone knows the women are emulating soldiers standing guard on a battle line; that they are besiegling congress and will not raise the siege until congress capitulates and pays a ransom in the shape of universal suffrage. Well, it was a night or two ago that I saw a skirt switching into a store-room in the house office building, and as I passed the switching skirt I looked further and beheld an old employee of the building and the two suffrage sentinels. The employee had just opened the door with his key and the suffrage sentinels were in the act of leaning their banners against the wall, to be stored there for the night. Which is to laugh! The soldiers stand about the walls all day, besiegling congress; and then when night comes, down fall the beslegers' banners, ard one of those within the walls opens the postern gate and takes into the bosom of the city the very ones who are besiegling it, that their weapons and banners may be safe against the morrow. Capital Is Waxing Enthusiastic Over Garden Plots Capital Is Waxing Enthusiastic Over Garden Plots GARDENING will be the principal sport in Washington this summer. At least that is what H. M. Connolly, expert of the department of agriculture, predicts. He says it will be more popular than golf or fishing. Just what the "The second is soil. Of course, some soils are better than others and make better gardens, but all this talk about soils being too poor to make gardens out of is bosh. A garden can be started on almost any sort of soil. You can have a good garden on the stiffest sort of yellow clay or the most porous sand. There is no such thing as a soil too poor for garden use. "The third essential is the preparation of the soil. If you have a good, rich loam that makes a fine garden you want to keep it in good condition. You can plant rye on it in the fall, and put on a layer of manure, and then spade it under in the spring. It won't do any good to put this layer on in the spring. If you have a stiff clay soil that will not absorb water quickly you should put coal ashes or something similar in the clay to loosen it up. Then, you must spade it when it will crumble—not when it is soaking wet or hard as a rock. If you have a sandy soil you want to get some loam in it so that it will hold moisture. Possible Explanation of Old Mare's Queer Name A RICKETY old colored man had drawn his horse to a curbstone to let the circus go by. The ancient mare stood with a dejected patience that, somehow, implied humiliation at having to force the season in a raikish horse bonnet that had once been blue and red gingham trimmed with used-to-be The person also knows a story when it comes her way, and knows what to do with it, so she remarked that the mare had a rather queer name. "Well'um, we thinks County Cider got a vehy fine name. It come outer a book. I don't know what it call itse'f on the kiver, but there was some mouty cur'us folks inside. The fust an' fo'must one of all of 'em called hisse'f a lord—which is monty scan'lous for a wum of the uth to name hisse'f after the Hebenly Marster, an' I don't care who heals me say so, nuther—an' this lord man he wanted to mahy a young wilddery lady name of County Cider. But, law, mam, she took to her heels an' run away with a po' gen'man, an'—that's how Miss Fan come to chrissen the old mare, because she run away with her one time when the two of 'em was coltish—an' now little Miss Fan an' all the res' of my white family has gone th'oo the pearly gates, an' my fus' wife did, an' my 'other not nigh the same comfort, no, ma'm—an' me an' County Cider, we jus' pokes along together. Much obleeged, lady. I'm powfl thusty for a little dram." And the woman, having paid for her thread of yarn, wondered, as she reeled it on a pad, if the palldid old mare's name could have started out as Countess Ida! CAPITOL wise, paternalistic care of a proud and of Washington as "one of the most best no exaggeration in such encomium. In adequate praise. World travelers today rank with Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires and it eclipses all other capitals. Beauty, however, is not Washington's city is altogether charming. It is cosmetic acquired a metropolitan air and carrier vinculismal of Gotham stands out prom does not go the mad pace of the greater in sordid money-making and its longer, to the theaters and patronizing maudlin think. Congress Takes Care of WHEN the soldiers are relieved from seneschals of the watch tower con open a wicket and take in the league weapons within the walls of their enemy city? Such thoughts as these ran through my head only a few nights past at something that took place in the house of representatives office building, writes Earl Godwin in the Washington Star. You know there are always a pair of suffrage sentinels standing guard at the corner of New Jersey avenue and B street—opposite the front door of the house office building. They stand there with their banners day after day ber of congress or any one of the thou- by could repeat properly the words up course, everyone knows the women are a battle line; that they are besleging until congress capitulates and pays a r frage. Well, it was a night or two ago that room in the house office building, an looked further and beheld an old empl frage sentinels. The employee had just suffrage sentinels were in the act of lo to be stored there for the night. Which is to laugh! The soldiers s congress; and then when night comes, one of those within the walls opens the of the city the very ones who are besleg may be safe against the morrow. Capital Is Waxing Enthusi GARDENING will be the principal s least that is what H. M. Connolly, e predicts. He says it will be more popu HEY JEN! COME OUT AN' LOOK'T TH' GARDEN— "The second is soil. Of course, to make better gardens, but all this tall gardens out of is bosh. A garden can You can have a good garden on the sporous sand. There is no such thing as "The third essential is the prepare rich loam that makes a fine garden y You can plant rye on it in the fall, and spade it under in the spring. It won't the spring. If you have a stiff clay y you should put coal ashes or somethi Then, you must spade it when it will or hard as a rock. If you have a sand it so that it will hold moisture. Possible Explanation of A RICKETY old colored man had dirt circus go by. The ancient mare somehow, implied humiliation at hain bonnet that had once been blue and red gingham trimmed with used-to-be white fringe. A circus-watching person who happened to stand next, and who knows a gentleman when she sees one, asked the old man if he reckoned his horse knew she had on a midsummer bonnet on a spring day. "Yes'm. Suttinly she knows she got her bonnet on! County Cider ain't nobody's fool. Yes'm. County Cider knows she gotter bonnet on, an', furthermo', she knows why—hulz huh!" The person also knows a story wi to do with it, so she remarked that the "Well'um, we thinks County Cider a book. I don't know what it call it mouty cur'us folks inside. The fust hisse'f a lord—which is mouty scan'lou after the Hebenly Marster, an' I don't this lord man he wanted to mahy a Cider. But, law, mam, she took to her an'—that's how Miss Fan come to cl away with her one time when the two Fan an' all the res' of my white fam mus fus' wife dider, an' my 'other not me an' County Cider, me 'jus pokes I'm powf' thusty for a little dram." And the woman, having paid for reeled on a pad, if the palld old a Countess Ide. hewing to the line in the years of city building and no radical departure from the artistic designs of the great engineer to whom George Washington intrusted the laying out of the nation's seat and its scope of development. It is today the capital they intended it should be—perhaps surpassing in grandeur the most rosette vision of that primitive day. It is the distinctive American city—the city of cities, destined to become increasingly beautiful under the continued prodigal, yet and generous government. People speak great cities in the world." There is Indeed, it falls short of full truth or by unhesitatingly give Washington equal and Rio, and some of them avow that n's solitary charm. The life of the fair mopolitan. In its transformation it has does it naturally. By contrast the pro- minently, even glaringly. Washington tier city, does not spend its short days, if fleeting, nights dining and dashing in cabarets. Washington takes time to Banners of "Besiegers" from duty in the siege of a town do the home down to a little postern gate and guering ones that they may store their TAKE GOOD CARE OF IT TIL MORNING day, day after day. I doubt if any mem- mands of men who pass those banners upon the purple and gold cloth, but, of are emulating soldiers standing guard on congress and will not raise the sledge ransom in the shape of universal suf- that I saw a skirt switching into a store- and as I passed the switching skirt I employee of the building and the two suf- st opened the door with his key and the cleaning their banners against the wall, stand about the walls all day, besieging it, down fall the besiegers' banners, ard the postern gate and takes into the bosom enging it, that their weapons and banners Giastic Over Garden Plots A sport in Washington this summer. At expert of the department of agriculture, ular than golf or fishing. Just what the essentials of a successful garden are Connolly explains: "The first essential is a gardener who is enthusiastic, willing and likes the work. I met a man the other day who had a plot 16 feet square and he said if he could only find someone to spade it up for him he would tend to it afterward. It isn't likely that man would be a successful gardener because if he was too indifferent to spade it up he would likely be too indifferent to care for it afterward. some soils are better than others and talk about soils being too poor to make it be started on almost any sort of soil. stiffest sort of yellow clay or the most as a soil too poor for garden use. ration of the soil. If you have a good, you want to keep it in good condition, and put on a layer of manure, and then don't do any good to put this layer on in soil that will not absorb water quickly similar in the clay to loosen it up. crumble—not when it is soaking wet andy soil you want to get some loam in Old Mare's Queer Name Drawn his horse to a curbstone to let the are stood with a dejected patience thating to force the season in a rakish horse A man is pulling a horse. when it comes her way, and knows what she mare had a rather queer name. Her got a veyh fine name. It come outer itse'f on the kiver, but there was some at an' fo'must one of all of 'em calledous for a wum of the uth to name hisse't care who heals me say, nuther—an a young wudery lady name of County or heels an' run away with a po' gen'man chrissen the old mare, because she run o of 'em was coltish—an' now little Miss only has gone th'oo the pearly gates, an nigh the same comfort, no, ma'am—an along together. Much obleeged, lady or her thread of yarn, wondered, as she mare's name could have started out a Are You Lazy?--- Then Take Anti-Lazy Serum and Become Energetic Are You Anti Bed THE MOTHER OF THIS CHILD HAD GIVEN BIRTH PREVIOUSLY TO TOTHER CHILDREN, ONE OF WHICH BIRTHED AT BIRTH, AND THE OTHER OF WHICH LIVED ONLY A FEW WEEKS. IN EACH CASE THE MOTHER'S CONDITION WAS SERIOUS. THE LAST BABY WAS BORN WITHOUT MUCH PAIN TO THE MOTHER, AND HER CONDITION BEFORE THE BIRTH was FREE FROM ALL OF THE SICKNESS USUALLY ATTENDING SUCH A CONDITION. Chicago physician achieves some amazing results by treating patient with patient's own blood which has been made into a vaccine P HYSICIANS and surgeons from the four corners of the globe have experimented with cats, dogs and monkeys to find a serum for appendicitis, infantile paralysis, diptheria and what not. But the latest serum is the "Lazy Serum," which has been demonstrated to have splendid and efficient action on both body and mind. This is the discovery of Dr. L. D. Rogers, formerly surgeon at Cook County hospital, Chicago, 20 years senior professor of surgery in the National Emergency hospital, and first president of the American Cancer Research society. Technically this new treatment is known as autohemic therapy, which means treating your blood with your own blood. The process first became generally known last year, when Doctor Rogers read a paper before the Chicago Society of Medical Research. He reported to the society the results of his six years of observations treating patients with a serum made with their own blood as a base. The doctor treated all classes of patients whose troubles were apparently due to faulty blood and his results in general were declared to be remarkable. In the ten months that have elapsed since the autohemic treatment was made public the serum has become recognized as a discovery as important as the achievement of Dr. Alexis Carrell, who was the first to transplant human organs. Autohemic therapy is especially remarkable because of its simplicity. Briefly, Doctor Rogers' treatment consists in taking five drops of blood, or some multiple of five, from a vein and putting it into 19 times as much sterilized, distilled water. After incubating it at fever heat for 24 hours, further dilutions are made according to the needs of the patient, which can be determined only by a physician skilled in its use. When ready for injecting, the serum is colorless, odorless and tasteless. Doctor Rogers is also authority for the statement that he has not been able to find any physiological chemist sufficiently skilled to determine its contents. Twenty to thirty drops of the serum or solution thus prepared are injected into a vein or under the skin. It may also be given by mouth, but not with as certain results. There seems to be no limit to the number of diseases and complaints for which this new treatment is beneficial. It is easier to enumerate those conditions for which it is not applicable. Troubles mechanical, organic, or of acute bacteriological origin, and those clearly recognized as incurable, are not expected to be benefited by it, although a few of these appear to yield. The solution has been termed the "Antflazy Serum" because it primarily has the energizing qualities that do away with nervous fatigue, while greatly increasing physical and mental endurance. To illustrate: The fourth day after treatment a woman walked ten miles and was not as tired as she had been previously after walking only half a mile. Another case in point was that of a man generally conceded to the laziest person in his community. He drank about 20 "whiskies" a day, but the administration of the serum he began regular hard manual labor. This was about real work he had done for six years. Difficult pains left him, he needed a cane, his appetite returned, insomnia was re- ed by sound, refreshing sleep, his weight in- iised five pounds and his general appearance anged from that of a "bum" to that of a clean, holesome, bright and honest workman. Previus- too, he had suffered from loss of memory, but er taking the serum he could recall the names many old acquaintances whom he could not member before taking the treatment. Most remarkable results have been obtained when the serum was administered to expectant mothers, and it is in this field that Doctor Rogers expects the greatest good to be accomplished through the autohemic treatment. It is his belief that if the treatment comes into general use the birth of physical and mental defectives will be reduced 90 per cent, and infant mortality from congenital weakness, the greatest cause of death among children, will be wiped out. Although Doctor Rogers and his associates have treated a large number of expectant mothers with the new serum there has yet to be reported a case in which relief was not obtained from those troublesome complaints so common during this period. Furthermore, in a series of cases of mothers who had previously borne children, the average duration of suffering with the birth of the serum baby was three hours, while with the former children without serum the average was 11 hours. Still more wonderful and more important is the fact that children whose mothers had treatment a few months before their birth are stronger, and healthier, mentally and physically, than other children of the same family who did not have the benefit of this autohemic therapy. There has not been reported a death among the "serum" babies, although some are now five years old. It was while spending the winter of 1909-10 in Paris and London that Doctor Rogers became in- AMERICAN ADVENTURER IS GREAT DISCOVERER A ADMINISTERING SETRUM terested in the study of cancer. He gave a great deal of his time watching some of England's famous physicians hard at work in the Imperial Cancer Research laboratory, the Middlesex Hospital Cancer laboratory, and the laboratory presided over by Sir A. E. Wright, who originated the idea of vaccination against typhoid. He visited the Pasteur institute in Paris, and there saw monkeys inoculated with the products of infantile paralysis. Naturally he became greatly enthused over the possibilities of serum treatment, and he came home with the determination to make an attempt to discover a serum to cure cancer, diabetes, goiter and pernicious anemia, the most difficult chronic disease to fight. He has been successful in treating some remarkable cases of goiter without resorting to an operation. Many cures of diabetes have been reported, and encouraging results have been obtained in pernicious anemia. Doctor Rogers' treatment of the blood seems to bring out remarkable energizing qualities. Just as the latent energy residing in water may be converted by application of heat into an expansive vapor, steam, having a force capable of driving great engines and draw long, heavy freight trains, and just as the latest energy residing in gasoline may be transformed by infinitesimal sparks into an expansive gas having a force capable of propelling automobiles, airplanes and submarines at a wonderful speed, so the latent energy in the blood seems by the injection of a few drops of the new serum directly into the veins, to be converted into "antibodies" which manifest their power and activity in a thousand ways, and in an amount out of all proportion to the tiny spark of substance that inaugurated their activity or set them on fire. An interesting fact about this serum is that it cannot be made by the wholesale and sold as a patent medicine, because the patient's own blood must be used in making it. It is created on the basic principle that "like cures like," and the serum must be prepared individually for every patient. In acute bacterial diseases it is now considered good practice the world over to secure when possible some of the germs causing the disease, and then inject them, after being killed by heat and suspended in a solution, into the patient whose sickness they caused. Doctor Rogers affirms that when he uses a basis for his serum the blood of a patient suffering from a chronic complaint he undoubtedly collects some of these imperfect cells which are causing the disease. One of the great American adventurers died recently. He was Col. Charles Chaille-Long, and his death received the same scant notice that had been awarded so many of his achievements during his lifetime. Soldier, author, diplomatist and explorer, he lived his seventy-five years as thoroughly as any man of his time. He knew four continents and he solved a riddle that had puzzled mankind for many years—the source of the Nile river. As a youth, Chaille-Long fought with distinction in the Civil war, says the Kansas City Times. He entered as a private and came out a lieutenant colonel. Then he figured in a chapter of our history that is little known to the present generation—our military mission to Egypt. Khedive Ismail wanted to reorganize his army and he wanted the work done by men who would be free from the petty interests and intrigues of the various European countries, all of which were interested in northern Africa. The khedive obtained the co-operation of General Sherman, and in 1869 ten American officers—half of them Federals and half former Confederate commanders—were sent to Egypt. Chaille-Long was one of the party, and be became the widest known for his work in Africa. Some of the others of the party were Generals Loring, Libby and Stone, and Majors Morgan and Kennon. Found Lake Ibrahim. Chaille-Long came under the influence of the famous "Chinese" Gordon, then campaigning in the Sudan. He and Gordon designed the fortifications of Tel-el-Keblr for the defense of Calro, and Gordon induced the American to explore the upper Nile. In two shallops constructed of tough bark Chaille-Long and two companions continued along the river until they found Lake Ibrahim, now known at Lake Choga. They found the bosom of the lake radiant with the great lotus, whose leaves are strong enough to support the body of a child. The party discovered that the river issuing from the Victoria Nyanza is the Nile, thus settling a question that long had troubled geographers. On this trip Chaille-Long and his two companions, both Egyptian officers, were attacked by a force of several hundred natives. The explorers carried sheet-iron travelling cases, and barricaded THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917. The merits of this new treatment have been verified by many progressive physicians in various parts of the United States, some of whom have acquired a practical knowledge of the system by attending medical conventions in Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul and New York, where Doctor Rogers demonstrated and explained his method. Others have become competent in using the method by visiting Doctor Rogers and taking a personal course of instruction under him. Some idea as to how this method is being received by the profession may be inferred from the fact that within two minutes after completing his demonstration before the annual convention of the American Association of Progressive Medicine at Kansas City, Doctor Rogers was unanimously elected president of that society. Perhaps the most remarkable instance of a cure yet obtained by means of autohemic therapy was the case of a trained nurse, whose trouble was diagnosed as Hodgkin's disease, generally considered incurable. During the three and a half years preceding her visit to Doctor Rice, a physician whom Doctor Rogers had instructed in autohemic therapy, the patient had had five operations, one for appendicitis, one in which the stomach was resected, and three for removal of glands. She had lost 25 pounds from her normal weight and could neither eat nor sleep sufficiently to keep up. After the first autohemic treatment on October 1, 1916, her condition began to improve so rapidly as to astonish even Doctor Rogers himself. A second treatment was given a week later, and at the end of the third week she seemed so perfectly well that treatment was discontinued. After an interval, however, of six weeks, there were some indications of the return of the enlargement of the glands. Four other treatments a week apart were given, and since that time there has been no trouble of any sort. The patient regained all her weight, and is today the pictures of health. In speaking of autohemic therapy, a prominent New York physician said: "We all have known the therapeutic value of blood after developing certain antitoxins. All our artificial serums are products of blood serum. Modern medical science would be unthinkable without this weapon to fight the manifold diseases to which human flesh is heir. "With all this knowledge, does it not seem strange that only now in the year 1916 the curative value of our own blood for our own blood for our own ills has just been discovered, or, speaking more accurately, been brought to our attention? Many of us are no doubt like a certain great scientist who, when this new discovery, autohemic therapy, was brought to his attention, said: 'This is absolutely scientific. For a long time I have known the facts upon which it is based, but I never thought of their practical application.' "Doctor Rogers' discovery is not only a revelation, but a revolution, in the method of treating a large percentage of the lilis of humanity. The applicability of this treatment seems to be co-extensive with the function of the blood, and is capable, therefore, of acting upon disease in any part of the body in which the blood circulates, no matter in what form the complaint manifests itself, nor what name we give to it." in these they stood off the attacking force for hours, killing more than 80 natives. Chaille-Long led several expeditions into Africa, conquering the Nium-Niam country and adding it to Egypt, and exploring a long stretch of the East coast of Africa that hitherto had been unknown to civilization. Called Back to Egypt. His health falling under the incessant hardships to which he had been subjected, Chaille-Long came back to this country in 1877 and studied law. He became an authority on international law, afterward teaching for a time in Paris. But at the time of the Sudanese uprising in 1881 he was besought by the American government to go back to Egypt and take charge of the consulate at Alexandria, from which all the other Americans had fled. He saved hundreds of lives during those troubles times, the consulate being made a refuge for all nationalities. In 1887 Cleveland appointed Chaille-Long consul general and secretary of the legation in Corea. The man's restless energy again manifested itself in exploration and he made an overland trip to Seoul, discovering on the way the source of the Han river. Egypt called him again in 1890 and he spent eight years there, writing and exploring. The honors that had been tardy in their coming began to be showered upon him then. Great Britain finally recognized his share in the uncovering of the secrets of the Nile and gave him equal rank with Speke and Baker. The American Geographical society gave him a gold medal, and he was made secretary for the Universal Postal congress at Washington and later secretary to the United States commission at the Paris exposition, 1900. Chaille-Long wrote a number of books dealing with the lands he had explored. They are standard works upon the little-known regions of the world, but they brought him little revenue. Though half a dozen nations honored him with medals and titles, he died a comparatively poor man. His only reward of any consequence was the tribute paid him by "Chinese" Gordon, another of the great adventurers: "This man deserves to rank with the world's chief discoverers." INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR JUNE 24 THE PURPOSE OF JOHN'S GOSPEL (REVIEW—READ JOHN 21:15-25.) REVIEW—Read John 21:15-25. GOLDEN TEXT—These are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. -John 20:31. There are a variety of methods to be followed in reviewing the work of the past six months and to give variety. Teachers of classes, or superintendents of schools, may select one or combine several, as their judgment dictates. Of course, the easiest way is to procure a good speaker who is familiar with the Gospel of John and the lessons of the past quarter, and let him bring out in the review its most outstanding and salient features. One method would be to have one-minute talks either by members of the class or persons selected from the school. Each of twelve scholars could be assigned one minute, each to have one of the lessons of the past quarter. Another good way would be to take the outstanding and significant verses from the lessons of the quarter, not the golden text, but verses which seem to emphasize the outstanding features of the six months' work. "Behold the Lamb of God," (Ch. 1:36): "We must be born again," (3:7); "Come see a man which told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ?" (4:20): "Verily, verily I say unto you, he that hearnes my word and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life," (5:24). "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work." Another method of review would be, particularly in the adult classes, to have each lesson with its present-day emphasis. For instance, the past quarter: Lesson 1—The Christian in his dealing with blindness. Lesson 2—Modern wonders of healing and medical missions. Lesson 3—The shepherding of church members. Lesson 4—Do we know how to give? Lesson 5—Is Christ supreme in our national life? Lesson 6—Ambition and its cure. Lesson 7—The world's good springing from Christ. Lesson 8—Temperance reform. Lesson 9—The Holy Spirit in everyday life. Lesson 10—How Christ is betrayed and denied today. Lesson 11—The uplifting power of the cross. Lesson 12—Why men believe in immortality. A good method of review would be to have someone take up each of the golden texts, announcing it in advance that pupils may be prepared for this method. The teacher would write the texts of the quarter, each on a separate piece of cardboard, and lay them face down on a table; pupils would then draw the golden texts, one at a time, and tell what the lesson is to which this text belongs, giving as full an account of the lesson as possible, the teacher helping out with questions where necessary. It will be of great value to the pupils if they can get in this review a clear outline of the main events of Christ's last weeks upon earth, covered particularly by the past quarter. There are forty standing events of the past quarters: (1) The healing of the man born blind; (2) Jesus the good Shepherd; (3) Jesus sending forth the seventy; (4) Jesus in Beren; (5) The raising of Lazarus; (6) The ten lepers healed; (7) Bartimaeus at Jericho; (8) Jesus visits Zaccheus; (9) Jesus anointed by Mary; (10) The fig tree; (11) Triumphal entry; (12) Cleaning the temple; (13) Weeping over Jerusalem; (14) The widow's mite; (15) The Greeks seek Jesus; (16) Preparation for the passover; (17) Washing the disciples' feet; (18) The Lord's supper; (19) The farewell discourse; (20) The farewell prayer; (21) The agony in Gethsemane; (22) Judas betrays Jesus; (23) The arrest of Jesus; (24) Peter denies Jesus; (25) Jesus before Ananias; (26) Jesus before Caiphas; (27) Jesus before the Sanhedrin; (28) The mocking of Jesus; (29) Jesus before Pilate; (30) Jesus before Herod; (31) Pilate condemns Jesus; (32) The sorrowful wait; (33) The crucifixion; (34) The seven last words; (35) Jesus dies; (36) Burial; (37) Resurrection; (38) Appears to Mary; (39) Appearance during the forty days; (40) The ascent. As brought out heretofore, John sets forth the purpose of this Gospel; namely, that "Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing on him we might have everlasting life, eternal life in his name." (See golden text). A Suggestion. In setting forth this review, let us not as teachers and officers, overlook the opportunity we have of calling from our scholars an expression of the faith that has been born within them. (See Rom. 10:9, 10). Jesus the light of the world has power to set men free from sin and "whom the son shall make free is free indeed." If we properly set him before our scholars, they will be made free from the slavery of sin and enter into the freedom of believers. True faith is built upon facts; those who accept and believe these facts will have everlasting life Fads And Fancies Of Fashion A BRILLIANT AND SERVICEABLE COSTUME BLOUSE. Just as we come to the conclusion that there is not a possibility of anything new in blouses, something happens in that line that has not happened before. A charming and brilliant design makes its unexpected entry, differently cut, differently constructed or showing a new management of color which sets it apart from all that have gone before. As long as the unlooked-for comes to pass in this fascinating way we will keep right on buying blouses, come what in the way of one-piece frocks. A star among the new arrivals in blousedom is shown in the picture. This blouse is a beautiful and brilliant green in georgette crepe, with all seams and edges bound with satin to match. small, satin-covered button, close intervals, on the hem, fasteners doing the real work is a moderately large collar with satin, and the plain sh finished in the same way at. Bits of Paisley embroidery, used, are set on the sleeve neck, and at the front of the look as rich as jewels against green background that see colors, the best suited to the tourist this is perfection tume blouse, because of which does not soil easily cause of its brilliance and will look well with a white tan skirt and cause the b forget a black one. With a black hat it is equal to a The sleeves are cut in one with the yoke in a way that is clever and becoming, forming unusual lines that are emphasized by the satin binding. The fastening at the front is managed in the most inconspicuous way with WHAT CAN WE DO? Mrs. Edward B. McLean, on the Right Served by the Woman's Motor Cor tion of the Washington Red Cross WHAT CAN WE DO? Mrs. Edward B. McLean, on the Right, Washing Tin Cups Used at a Lunch Served by the Woman's Motor Corps and the Woman's Refreshment Session of the Washington Red Cross Chapter. How to Get Red Cross Members. When a Red Cross chapter has been formally organized, as directed in a former article, then—and never in any case before—should a public meeting be called and a membership campaign begun. In cases where a public meeting is called first, there is usually a great amount of enthusiasm aroused, hundreds and thousands of persons desire to become members and begin work at once—and there is no way to accommodate them. Sometimes the best men are not chosen leaders, and in any case the proper organization is hampered. Then, because the people cannot be enrolled and put at active work at once, their enthusiasm wanes, and by the time the chapter is formally organized and ready to proceed, interest has abated. But when a chapter has been properly organized, and officered by men and women in whom the community has implicit confidence, and a membership campaign definitely mapped out in advance, public meetings, press notices and all the forms of advertising which a live committee may devise, will be found of great advantage. In the same way, the officers and members of the executive committee should learn everything possible about the Red Cross, its purposes, its methods and the way in which its work is carried on, and be ready to answer small, satin-covered buttons, set at close intervals, on the hem and snap fasteners doing the real work. There is a moderately large collar, bound with satin, and the plain sleeves are finished in the same way at the wrist. Bits of Paisley embroidery, sparingly used, are set on the sleeves, at the neck, and at the front of the belt, and look as rich as jewels against the vivid green background that seems, of all colors, the best suited to them. For the tourist this is perfection in a costume blouse, because of its color, which does not soil easily, and because of its brilliance and style. It will look well with a white or gray or tan skirt and cause the beholder to forget a black one. With a handsome black hat it is equal to almost any demand in the way of dress, where something of formality is required. Experience proves these thin, fragile-looking blouses to be as durable as heavier ones and easier than any other to carry along on a journey. nt, Washing Tin Cups Used at a Lunch corps and the Woman's Refreshment Sec- s Chapter. all questions before any public campaign is undertaken. In the pamphlet on organization and activities (which may be procured from the magazine and information bureau, American Red Cross, Washington, D. C.) we learn that "any resident of the United States, of good character, is eligible for enrollment as a member of the Red Cross." A newly formed chapter therefore may attempt to enroll nearly all the people in its locality as members. In recent campaigns for membership six classes of members are specified as follows: Annual member, dues..... $1.00 *Subscribing member, dues annually..... 2.00 *Contributing member, dues annually 5.00 *Sustaining member, dues annually..... 10.00 *Life member one payment..... 25.00 *Patron member, one payment..... 100.00 All classes starred above include annual subscription to the American Red Cross Magazine. In the May issue of the Red Cross Magazine there is an article on "How to Run a Membership Campaign." A letter to Mr. H. J. Hill, director of membership extension, at the nation's headquarters, American Red Cross, Washington, D. C., will bring all the necessary information. This is a work in which women can serve America in this time of trial. 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A MOTHER'S GIFT. By Roscoe C. Jamison. A Mother, who had set her heart On giving greatly to her race, Lay dying: "E'er I shall depart. Call my three sons, and have them trace. Each his Life-purpose. I would know What deeds of mine shall yet remain, To blossom into fruit, and fill My people souls with virtue still." They came and stood beside her bed. As she had theirs in years now fled One whispered: "I shall teach the youth youth All man has found and understood." Another: "I shall preach the Truth Of Man's blest hope through Christ in God." And then the younger kissed her cheek. Speaking in voice of Melody: "Mother, my heart shall be the lyre On which Hope's fingers shall inspire Those who are bound Freedom to seek seek, My songs shall urge them mightily.' Content the Mother blessed each child Looked up at Death, and sweetly smiled! TRAIN NEGROES TO BE OFFICERS Fifty-Three From Kansas City Admit ted to Des Moines Camp The officers' training camp for Negroes at Fort Des Moines, Ia., has been under way for more than a week Fifty-three Kansas City Negroes passed the admission examinations, forty three under Captain Cole and eleven under Lieutenant R. C. Baird. W. U. SCORES. Standing room was at a premium at St. John's Friday evening to witness the recital by Omaha students from Western University, under the direction of Prof. R. G. Jackson, with Miss B. Douglass at the piano. The students proved themselves well trained and masters of the situation. The large appreciative audience was delighted with the showing made by the Omaha girls and boys; $95.50 was realized b y the W. W. Club—Omaha Monitor. Vaughan's Values Perhaps many readers of The Sun would like to know who are taking advantage of these values I offer weekly. The biggest men in town, they are the ones. Not necessary the man who makes the most money, nor the man largest in size, but every man, rich or poor, who feels that love of wife and family is greater than love of money is a big man. When he reaches the point of buying a home for his family, where the wife can reign supreme, he becomes, indeed, a very big man. I am selling property right along in the two Kansas Citys. Costs nothing to talk it over. Telephone me, Bell W 1757. 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kas. Dr. J. W. Anderson of Dallas, Tex., has given $10,000 to Meharry Medical College. This is the largest sum ever given to any of the schools operated by the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by one of its graduates. $17,000 IN LIBERTY BONDS. At a mass meeting of Negroes in Richmond, Va., with John Mitchell, Jr., as chairman, $17,000 was subscribed for Liberty Bonds. 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Two, three or four people.....$2.00 Five or six people.....$2.50 It will save you money to get a party together. We will have four cars July 4th at end of 15th street car line for Highland Call us for pleasure trips, day or night. Edw. W. LEWIS or Geo. W. LITTLE, Bell. E. 887. Bell. E. 2952. For All Entertainments 1731 Lydia Ave. Hours: to 9 a. m., 12 to 1 p. m. Hall phones, Home Main 2783, Bell Grand 3352. Residence, 2624 Euclid Ave. Res. Phone, Bell East 3429W. RATES REASONABLE. fin, rub the hair the wrong way, and all the cur that is in him comes to the surface. Even his princely salary can't cover up the "meat hound" tendency -Pittsburgh Courier. DES MOINES TRAINING CAMP. DES MOINES TRAINING CAMP. The first and only military training school for the preparation of colored men for commissioned officers in the United States army was formally opened at Ft. Des Moines under the direction of Col. Chas. C. Ballou (white), assisted by Major Albert W. Ford and Captains Jos. Phillipps (colored). Among students are one battalion of non-commissioned officers from each of the four colored regiments, viz., the 24th and 25th infantry and the 9th and 10th cavalry. The remaining students of the camp comprise a thousand of the best prepared Negro college and professional men from practically every college and university in the country and representing every profession, including doctors, lawyers, teachers, college professors, civil engineers and even ministers of the gospel and undertakers. Benjamin Thomas, who bears the spiritual title of Isaiah the Minor Prophet, will deliver a spiritual message at Rev. Dr. Hurse's next Sunday noon to which all are invited. Go hear this prophet. He will interest you. A. B. MATRIX BROTHERS CAFE Gentlemen! You should trade at the Crossett Shoe Store, the most popular shoe store in town. Every foot receives as much attention as every other foot, which means that service is extended in a most business-like manner. No sales are made if you are not satisfied. And Mr. Wallace, the manager, and his assistant, Mr. Fox, make shoe buying a pleasure here. 1005 Main Street. CALL THEO. SMITH Home Phone Main 5467 Bell Phone Grand 4591 Drugs, Prescriptions, Hair Growers, Face Bleaches Service--Quality--Price MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED News and Periodicals 1301 E. 18th Street, Kansas City, Mo. DOW CLOTHING CO. DOW CLOTHING CO. Palm Beach Suits, $3.45 to $7.50 Panama Hats, $3.00 to $5.00 Price Murder on Men's Suits— $15.00 to $17.50 Suits now $10 They consist of Blue Serge and Fancy Mixtures. We are Agents for the Royal Tailors Made-to-Measure line. Will give you a perfect fit in any style you want. Price $18.50 to $37.50 Try this store and save money DOW CLOTHING CO. Inc. 1402 GRAND AVE. PANTS MADE TO ORDER, $ 4.00 AND UP SUITS MADE TO ORDER, $15.00 AND UP We carry a complete line of Imported Suitings and Pants Goods. A large stock to select from. We guarantee a perfect fit. E. W. LADEN & CO. 1431 E. 19th Street BELL PHONE GRAND 4281 Good Bread is the most nutritious food money can buy. You'll enjoy it above everything else if it is made of I-H FLOUR This flour is famous for its purity, food value, deliciousness and economy. A less expensive flour is Spread-Eagle War Flour, which is very nutritious but not quite as white and aristocratic as I-H flour. ISMERT-HINCKE MILLING CO. Kansas City, Mo.