Kansas City Sun

WISDOM OR COWARDICE? NOW FOR THE NEW NEGRO HOSPITAL TWOVIEWPOINTS Negro Lientenant in Mississippi Compelled to Take Off His Uniform by Southern "Crackers" Creates Much Discussion Throughout the Country. WAS IT WISDOM OR WAS IT COWARDICE? What can I do for the Colored Soldiers? Why send them the Sun Its better than a letter from home Bell Phone East 999 VOLUME X. NUMBER 13. NOW TWO VIEW Negro Lientenant in Missi Take Off His Uniform b ers" Creates Much Dis the Country. WAS IT WISDOM OR WA Most people have read of the outrage which took place in Vicksburg, Miss., recently. A Negro Second Lieutenant was compelled to doff his uniform by some white ruffians and leave town in disguise. The officer's version leaves room for much discussion as to the policy he pursued in the case. Those who think of a soldier as an embodiment of a reasonable amount of courage are inclined to think there was a broad lack of this very quality and a certain amount of cowardice displayed. While others others cling to the argument that the officer acted with good common sense, doing the best he could under the circumstances. Not wishing to assume too much, we are giving below under the caption of "A" and "B": two possible VIEW-POINTS and presenting them to the readers of this paper with no other injunction than the mere hint taken from one of Shakespeare's plays, namely, "As You Like it." Mr. A's Argument. "Negroes have died valiantly on every battle field of America, largely in the other fellow's quarrel. When, in the name of heaven, will he be brave in fighting the hateful acts directed against himself engendered by this ever-present race prejudice? If the uniform of this country does not insure quick punishment for scoundrelly acts, if not freedom from insult on account of color, we ask what will? Already across the waters the Nation starts to bleed. The sessions that must swell the casualty list have now been instituted, the European conflict reaches home here in the bosom of the bereaved, the brave begin to fall, the funeral song is being sung, war to us is now a stern reality and yet there are those on this side, who can find time and effort to mis treat, humiliate, scoff, degrade and drag the honor of the country's unit form in the dust—just because the weaker is black! Mr. "B" would ask: "How would you have acted under the circumstances?" Here is my answer: "I would have acted as I have always acted under undeserved, unprovoked insult—fight! Or resent it in some intelligent, honorable, effective way. I've always practiced this as the humbleest of men, even as a Negro! Then God pity the individuals who sought to injure and insult the very office of the government which I represented. If they sought to kill me, most certainly I would try to kill them, yes, kill! Kill! Kill! I would use all the strategy I learned through army tactics of the offensive and defensive. The army teaches you how to fight. It imposes upon you the responsibility of a unit of its mighty force. Clothed in its uniform you are to respect it and protect it. It is just as sacred as the flag that furils its triple colors to the heavens. He who insults this uniform insults the government. He who wears the uniform is duty bound to protect it, and if the uniform goes-down, he should go down with it, and his many efforts should be directed against those who form the attack. This is a man—this is a soldier!" But God! Here's a man who gave up his uniform under mere pressure of insult and attack, not from a foreign enemy, but from roughnecks and ruffians, who care nothing for their country or anything else. With just a speck of gameness, with all the moral force on your side, with your oath of office, with insult and threatened attack coming from every side, wasn't it a glorious time to be a soldier? Try as I do, I cannot see heroism here to be banqueted. Persecution there was; heroic action there was not. After all, the SHOULDER STRAPS of a real man is the highest insignia which we may attain. Then be a man The Kansas City Sun at all times, under all circumstances. There are many fates worse than death in a brave cause—even though the world's against you. To which Mr. "B" replies: "There are many excusatory claims to be made in the Officer's behalf which point out that he acted wisely and even bravely under the existing conditions. A Colored man may not always act upon the rigid principle of undiluted manhood. It is not necessarily cowardice which leads Negroes to apparently break the accustomed procedure set down for the disposition of soldier or citizen; it is rather the unique position he holds in this country in the matter of sentiment for and against which amounts to forced toleration of the Negro on the part of the white people in general and intolerance of the white South toward the Negro in particular. The Negro must recognize these conditions even at the expense of instinctive citizenship. But this is no justification of the crime committed against the Colored officer. We excuse the Officer's inaction on the ground that numbers and conditions were grettaly against him. He hadn't a ghost of a show to win. He could not have successfully resented the insults or defended himself against the mob. Therefore the logical thing to do was to capitulate on his chances of escaping with his life by sacrificing for the time his "sworn office" and seeking safety in disguised retreat. Then besides he may or may not have been armed. It's all right to talk about what we would do in the face of a mob where you know everybody hates you and itches for your life, but the actual experience might discover different opinions in most of us. Then there is the law of "self preservation," which is said to engage the attention of every unit of mankind. Correspondent's Note No one will deny that the Negro is the victim of studied persecution. But why can't he turn this into a sort of fighting martyrdom in these truculent instances where he is victimized? There has never been but one way to freedom among men, and that is to FIGHT and FIGHT ON. As we go to France to shed our blood upon the altar of so-called world democracy let us also learn how to act with bravery in fighting at home for our guaranteed liberty! This mob spirit must be broken—mbic indulgence is the most cruel of "ics." Some day it will be extremely dangerous for one to participate in the habit—then it will cease. The Negro himself can largely bring this about. DEMAND FULL RIGHTS. Leslie's Magazine, a popular weekly periodical of the day, has the following to say of the race: "Negro! There is no class of people, and no ethical question that will not feel the effects of the war. The Negroes of this country who go to France to fight or who replace workingmen wo go as soldiers, will demand, and justly so, full American rights. The United States cannot stand before the world as the champion of freedom and democracy and continue to burn men alive or lynch them without fair trial. MEMORIAL SERVICES. Memorial services for Brothers E. W. Perkins, Thomas Williams and Brethren of the local lodges will be held Sunday. November 25, at 2:30 p. m. at the Masonic Hall, 18th and Woodland. All Master Masons and the public are invited. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1917. The Famous World's Champions, Emmanuel Commandery No. 25, Kansas City, Mo., who will give an exhibition drill Thanksgiving Day at Academy Hall for the Knight's Templar Conclave. A DISTINGUISHED NEGRO VISITS THE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, ex-minister resident and consul general to the Republic of Liberia, was among the distinguished visitors present at the meeting of the State Teachers' Association, held in this city November 15th, 16th and 17th. Doctor Crossland is one of the most distinguished physician and seurgeon of the race, end enjoys a very lucrative practice, having an income of more than $5,000 per year. Doctor Crossland is a man of considerable means and enjoys the respect and confidence of the people of St. Joseph, Mo. The doctor owns two motor cars, a roadster and a fine seven-passenger touring car, which he brought with him to this city. Madame rumor has it that the doctor is very much interested in one of Missouri's fairest daughters and most acclaimed ladies—principal of a flourishing school in the interior of Missouri and a prominent member of the State Teachers' Association. The lady in question is related to Mrs. Estella Winfy-Woods, who resides at 2219 Woodland avenue, where she was located during her stay in this city. In order that she might see the beautiful parks and boulevards of Kansas City, Dr. Crossland put his car and chauffeur at her disposal, which she and her many friends enjoyed to the highest. It would not be surprising if the tinkling of bells (wedding) would be heard in early June. The Famous World's Champions, Em A company of three hundred singers met at the Lincoln High School last Wednesday night and effected the following organization: Major N. Clark, chairman. Mrs. S. W. Bacote, vice chairman. Mrs. Nellie Hendricks, secretary. Mr. White, librarian. Mrs. D. A. Holmes, assistant librarian. By unanimous vote Major N. Clark Smith was elected director of the chorus, and Prof. R. G. Jackson, assistant director of the choruses. They voted to have the next rehearsal Sunday Afternoon, November 25th, from 3 to 4 in the Auditorium of the Lincoln High School, at which time an earnest request is made for additional choirs and musical'organizations and for every orchestra player in the city. WIFE COMMITS SUICIDE. Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 22.—Mrs. Laura Jones, wife of Alexander Jones, a Colored select man, committed suicide here last Friday when her husband left for the training camp at Camp Dodge, Iowa. She went to the train to see him off, and returning home committed suicide by drowning. The Sun is in receipt of the following letter from Mrs. Randolph Wisdom, Social Secretary at Camp Dodge: Dear Mr. Crews: There are 4,500 of our men here, most of whom are from Alabama, as you will see. More than 50 per cent cannot write or read a line. Pray for me and this staff of men that through His goodness were sent here. Your respectfully, R. M. WISDOM. The Sun for 25c from. now until January 1, 1918. By Roscoe C. Jamison. Black thy face—rough thy head, Solled thy garb of faded red, Looks like mother you have none— He has that hat that gone? In the street the live-long day. I have watched you run and play, None to call you, none to care, Wash thy face, or comb thy hair, All untamed, unmannered, wild, You I pity, little child! Yet, who knows? Some power may Take ahold of you some day, Whisper something to the ear. That will sound thy soul to hear; Flx a vision for tine eyes, Somewhere in the morning skies; Choose a pathway for thy feet, That will upon Achievement's shine, You'll shine a star. Oh, yes, there's hor COMPOSES NEW WAR SONG. Major N. Clark Smith Author of "The Regular Army Man." "The Regular Army Man" is the title of a new war song composed by Major N. Clark Smith, military instructor at the Lincoln (Negro) High school. The words of the song are those of an anonymous poem of the same title printed in The Star Sunday, October 28, which have been fitted by Major Smith to music of his own composition. He expects to incorporate the same music in a march he is composing for the Ninety-second (Negro) Division of the national army. SCHOOL TEACHER DISMISSED, St. Paul, Nov. 15.—Miss Grace Lealtad, a teacher in the Sixth grade of the Hill School, St. Paul, has been dismissed by the superintendent because of a petition circulated and anuel Commandery No. 25, Kansas C Hall for the Knight s signed by parents who objected to hav- ing a Colored woman teach their chil- dren. McCampbell & Houston, at 2300 Vine street; are filling a keg with tobacco, cigars and cigarettes to be sent to our boys at Funston. Go out and put some tobacco and your name in the keg. It will be sent forward Tuesday, November 27. Hurry! Mrs. Taylor Holmes, 2409 Vine street, who underwent a very serious operation at the Bell Memorial Hospital, is again at home and recuperating nicely. Hon. H. M. Beardsley This will be an open meeting to which ladies are invited. SMOKES FOR OUR BOYS. Next Sunday Hon. H. M. Beardsley will be the speaker at the afternoon meeting. This is the first time Mr. Beardsley has talked to both men and women at the "Y," and we are very anxious that a goodly number be in attendance. As president of the Metropolitan Board of the Association he is sure to have an interesting message Sunday, November 25th, at 3:30 p. m. The weekly meetings at the packing house are becoming very interesting. This is one of the real treats that we are enjoying through our extension work. These meetings are very inspiring. A match game of volley ball will be played Thanksgiving evening by the "Vine Street Sluggers" and the "Sunflowers." Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bartell, 342 Garfield avenue, Kansas City, Kan., were given a surprise linen shower last Wednesday evening at their residence by the St. Stephen's Baptist Church Choir. Many useful presents were received for which Mr. and Mrs. Bartell are very grateful. MRSSED. Bruce Leal-grade of has been sent be- and Mrs. Grace Thomas Martin of Jersey City, N. J., who will be remembered as the fashion plate of Kansas City previous to her marriage comes to the city Monday to visit her relatives. She will be the house guest of her sister, Kansas City, Mo., who will give an exhibition Knight's Templar Conclave. ity, Mo., who will give an exhibition Templar Conclave. Mrs. Thos Grear, 2126 Woodland avenue. And Kansas City is sure to receive her with open arms. Mrs. Kincaide and Mrs. Dollie Dimples of Omaha, Neb., are visiting Miss Susie Lewis at 1903 Flora avenue. WHAT CAN I DO FOR THE COLORED SOLDIERS? Why, send them THE KANSAS CITY SUN! It contains all the news of the race and is more satisfying than a letter from home. CALL US UP Bell Phone East 999. HOULD M. Be ernoon, N he Y. M. C an open me 3:30 P.M. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. A firm that by courteous treatment, intelligent management and strict attention to business that is achieving a most gratifying success in this community is the Adkins Bros. Undertaking establishment, located at 19th and Vine streets. Both possess genial personality, both look the part of up-to-date undertakers and both do their work thoroughly and well, thereby giving complete satisfaction to their ever-increasing circle of patrons. It will be but a short time before this firm will be compelled to seek larger quarters if their patronage continues to grow. BENEFIT DANCE KEWPIE KLUB GIRLS WEDNESDAY NIGHT, DEC. 8 AT LYRIC HALL GOOD MUSIC ADMISSION 25 CENTS Buy 10c chance on the 24-lb sack of flour. drill Thanksgiving Day at Academy NOTES OF THE TEACHERS' MEET. The enrollment was one hundred sixty-five. The program was made up of subjects selected from the archives of Noah's Ark. President C. C. Hubbard may have the elements of greatness, but he did not stage them during the week here. It requires no high mathematics to figure out why thoughtful teachers have not joined in larger numbers. The new president says he is going to bring the work out of the kinks, but the former one said the same thing. "The Responsibility of Leadership" was one of the Noah's Ark thesis which was not put on for some reason. The election was apparently railroaded through a day in advance in order to squelch the aspirations of those outside the ring. Prof. C. G. Williams has been promised the election to the presidency next year. So that is settled, and we may proceed with other matters. Prin. Joe Herriford got into the fight long enough to grill the president for his unpatriotic remarks concerning a proposition to donate funds to the Y. M. C. A. work among Negro soldiers. BY ONE WHO WAS PRESENT. THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE COLORED WOMEN'S RED CROSS WORK IS NOW OPEN AT 18TH AND WOOD- LAND. ALL WOMEN WILL- ING TO ASSIST IN THIS' WORK ARE URGED AND IN- VITED TO COME. OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 9:00 A. M. TO 5:00 P. M., EXCEPT SATUR- DAYS. HaveYouGotRooms,Houses or Flats Furnished or unfurnished For Rent? Advertise Them in the Sun 15,000 BLACKS SING FOR RODEHEAVER One Thousand Negroes Hit the Sawdust Trail at the Atlanta Revival. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 20.—Homer Rodeheaver, choir leader for Billy Sunday, learned something about singing here when 15,000 Negroes, who packed the tabernacle to suffocation, "bore down on the harmony" of the revival hymns. Despite the downpour of rain a fringe of white people stood outside the tabernacle to hear the singing. A thousand Negroes "hit the sawdust trail." PORTERS LEAVE FOR CANADA. St. Paul, Nov. 21.—About 48 sleeping car porters left Mondaynight for employment on the Canadian Pacific Railway. They will be employed in the military transportation service from Halifax to Vancouver and will receive $65 per month with board and lodging. GET THE HABIT ELITE SHINING PARLOR 2407½ Vine Street Agent for Colored Wecklies— We Clean and Dye Shoes of All Kinds. Work Guaranteed. HENDERSON & NEAL, Props. KANSAS CITY, KAS. KANSAS CITY, KAS. By Mrs. Zenobia Nelson. Mrs. Shirley Brown of 932 Greeley avenue is ill. Mrs. Sarah Mead of 6th and Haskell avenue is ill. Miss Ora Williams of Spikron, Ok., will be the new secretary of Y. W. C. A. She will arrive here Monday. Mrs. Norene Davis visited Independence, Iola and Cherryvale, Kansas, last week in the interest of the Courts of Calanthe. Mrs. Julia Rhodes of 945 Washington boulevard celebrated her 24th wedding anniversary Friday, November 18th. Miss Helen Armstrong of St. Louis attended the Teachers' Association and was the guest while here of her sister, Mrs. Belle Thompson, 1321 N. 8th street. The Eighth Street Baptist Tabernacle is still improving in all of its departments. The Young People's Social Club rendered a program last Sunday evening for the B. Y. P. U. The rally was a great success. The N. A. A. C. P. held its monthly meeting last Friday night with a large attendance. Prof. G. A. Gregg, the president expects to make the organization a success this year. The services were grand and glorious at the Eighth Street Tabernacle Sunday. Rev. J. R. Richardson of the Mt. Pleasant Church preached a soul-stirring sermon in the afternoon. Mrs. Daisy McLain Bulkley, field secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, was the honored guest of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Younger, 631 Winona avenue, at dinner, with a few invited friends, Saturday evening, November 17. Last Sunday the services at the Metropolitan Temple were well attended and the offering was very liberal. Every member was glad to welcome the pastor, Dr. D. A. Holmes, after his serious illness. There were four additions. Last Tuesday afternoon the ladies manifested a very great interest at the Red Cross Auxiliary. A large attendance was present. Madame Booker was present and presented in a straightforward manner the advantage of opportunities before them. All women are invited to attend the Red Cross meeting every Tuesday. From Our Foreign Correspondents . A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction Officera—1917. W. W. Fields, Cameron, Mo., Grand Master. C. C. Clark, St. Louis, Mo., Dep. Grand Master. Ernest Boone, Louisiana, Mo., Senior Grand Warden. I. H. Bradbury, St. Louis, 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, Re lief Secretary. E. G. Lacey, Kansas City, G. L. 1st District. E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., G. L. 2nd District. OFFICERS OF GRAND CHAPTER R. A. M. Missouri and Jurisdiction, 1917-18. T. G. McCampbell, G. H. P., Quindaro, Kans. A. L. Thomas, D. G. H. P., Jefferson City, Mo. J. P. Moffett, G. King, Sedalia, Mo. S. A. May, G. Scribe, St. Louis, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. OFFICERS OF GRAND COMMAND EPY K T W. G. Mosely, R. E. G. C., Kansas City, Mo. J. W. Beard, V. E. G. C., St. Louis, Mo. G W. Lewis, E. G. G., St. Louis, Mo. C. Brassfield, E. G., Captain General, Kansas City, Mo. W. A. Ashley, E. G. P., St. Louis, Mo. J. H. Kenner, E. G., Treasurer, Marshall, Mo. J. T. Cannon, E. G., Recorder, St. Louis, Mo. George A. Johnson, E. G. S. W. Kansas City, Mo. Benjamin F. Graves, E. G. J. W., St. Joseph, Mo. Lodge Directory G NEW YORK 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 and A. M., Liberty, Mo., meets the 2nd and 4th Saturday nights in each month. William Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar, Sec'y. St. Stephen Chapter No. 37, Royal Arch Minster Liberty, Mo. Meets first Tuesday in each month. W. H. Robinson, H. P. Wm. Capps, Recorder. O St. Matthew Commandery No. 17, Liberty, M. , meets the third Saturday night William Capps, E. C.; W. H. Robinson, Rec. Sec'y. HRC IN ORGANIZATION HRC U. B. F. Kling of the West Lock No. 218 meets first at third Wednesdays in the fourth month Campbell, C. F. Wilson, W M.; H. Conway, 588 Tracy A. Secy, Seyc. ```markdown ``` MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION T. G. McCampbell. President. E. B. Thompson, Vice President. W. H. Washington, Treasurer. S. H. P. Edwards, Secretary. Board of Directors: N. W. Jordan. S. Myers, W. H. Brown. E. S. Baker, W. R. Patterson.R. V. Adkins, B. R. Francis. Richard Harris Geo Johnson, R. Fulbright. Meets second and fourth Tuesday in each month. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethal A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte. Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Biblezier A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost Avenue. St. John's #. M. E. Church, 1743 Bellevue. Seventh Dar Adventist, 23d and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Ward Chapel # M. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland Ave. St. James A. M. F. Zlon Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Second Christian Church, 24th and Woodland. St. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4039 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. BIBLEZIER M. E. CHURCH. 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 State. Quindaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro. Riverland Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale Kan. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland. Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby. Wesley Chapel M. E., 106 Shawnee. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rosdale-Kan. BIG TASK ASSUMED BY NEGRO WORKERS Fifty Per Cent of Alabama Arrivals to Be Taught Reading and Writing. Camp Dodge, Ia., Nov. 12.—One of the biggest tasks to be undertaken by any of the camp organizations is that undertaken by the staff of Negro Y. M. C. A. workers assigned to duty at building 90, which is located among the Colored soldiers at the south end of camp. Fully 50 per cent of the men are unable to read or write, and educational work will be the big thing to be undertaken among men of this class. L. W. Tucker, general secretary in charge, was stationed at Fort Des Moines while the officers were in training and is an experienced Y. M. C. A. worker. His building staff includes James Anderson, religious work secretary; Earl Beck, recreation secretary; G. H. Fortner, educational secretary, and Roy K. Hardy, assistant. Classes in the reading and writing of the English language have already been opened, and 218 men were in attendance at one barrack alone last week. The first thing taught the men is the reading and writing of their own name, in order that they may sign the payroll. The Negro soldiers are enthusiastic patrons of the Y. M. C. A., and the building is jammed day and night. It may be necessary to open another unit among the Negro troops. Secretary Tucker believes, if the entire 7,000 men who are due to report here are received. CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI. A very large congregation of frineds, including Prof. Joe E. Herriford, Miss Scottie Herriford, Prof. and Mrs. Joe E. Herriford, Jr.; Mr. Neal Herriford, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Estella Woods and Mrs. Emma Green of Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Gudgell and daughter and Mrs. Frazier of Ludlow, Mo. and Mr. Kay Kiles of Brookfield, Mo. gathered at Bethel A. M. E. Church last Sunday at 10 a.m. to pay the last tribute of affection to a kind and loyal soul which passed out at Kansas City. Mo., November 15. The services conducted by the pastor were of an extremely simple and exalted character. The sermon by Rev. J. H. Ward, which included many particulars of Miss Jessie Herriford's activities throughout her life, was most appropriate. It was a singly comprehensive analysis of her unusual character. And it is true that the going out of a soul like Miss Herriford is a distinct loss, not only to her family and friends and the Church in which she was so long and favorably known, but to the race at large, of which she was an influential teacher. As the dirge was played at the conclusion of the services and the many and beautiful floral tributes of love were removed from every side of the bier, we recalled with tenderness the many occasions upon which in Bethel Church the deceased had come to worship. Slowly the procession passed through the town she loved in her childhood and young womanhood and memories of which she so fondly cherished through life. And there beside her mother, where folwers bloom, the remains were committed to their last resting place. The Handy Colored Store 2409 Vine St. Ladies' and Gent's Furnishing Goods and Notions VISIT OUR DRY GOODS AND HARDWARE DEPT. BARGAINS FURNISHING GOODS & SUPPLIES THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1917. BUTTE NEWS. The weather is excellent throughout Montana for this time of the year.... The Sunshine Mission met Wednesday in the Literary room of the Bethel Baptist Church. The ladies are very busy preparing articles for the bazaar to be held the first week in December.... The Community Bible Class held its regular meeting Tuesday night at the Baptist Church and a large number is present....The A. M. E. Church are working faithfully to make a success of their rally....The choir of the A. M. E. Church are progressing rapidly under the instructions of Mrs. Dell Turner....Two more of the race boys to be called to the colors left for Camp Lewis, Mr. Lattimore and William Ashley. A large number of friends met in the Baptist church and presented Mr. Ashley with a silver wrist watch....Johnson-Dean Revue played to a crowded house here throughout their engagement....Fred Rogers was the drawing card on the bill at the People's....Mrs. Ike Hayes, Jr., is still confined indoors....J. W. Wilson is able to be out on crutches....Ed Sears (Checkers) of Aanaconda is here in the hospital for an operation....Old Man Walker is also quite sick in the St. James hospital....Eat at the Panama Cafe, South Wyoming street, A. J. Henson & George Bullett, proprietors....On and after December 1st papers will be sold at Everybody's News Stand, 215 South Montana street....Col. Roscoe Simmons, the noted race champion, will speak in Butte in the near future under the auspices of the Hercules K. of P. Club. PLEASANT HILL, MISSOURI. By S. C. Gipson. Prof. J. F. Moten has been reported ill and is unable to teach this week.... Mr. Tracy Wright was the guest of his brother, Lewis Wright, Sunday.... Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brownning will leave the latter part of the week for Nevada, Mo., where they will reside, Mr. Brownning having been employed there.... Mrs. Tracy Wright of Kansas City visited her mother, Mrs. Charles Gudgell, Sunday.... Mrs. Katherine Burton is visiting her mother, Mrs. Dan Charles.... The Young Ladies Social Club met with Miss L. Hemesley Friday.... Mrs. Mollie Cook has returned from an extended visit in Butler, Mo.... Sunday will be Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. Church All look forward to the coming of Presiding Elder Gilbert with much interest.... The Heroines gave a very successful social at their hall Friday evening.... Miss Allie Gant left Wednes evening for Kansas City for an in definite stay. ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI Miss Ava Gasaway is visiting in Kansas City this week.....Miss C. Williams returned from Weston, Mo....Mr. Eddie Moore died November 10. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moore. Rev. Blackburn officiated at the funeral.....Mrs. Bessie Wilkinson has been quite ill for the past week.....Prof. R. G. Jackson of Kansas City was in our city Thursday of last week.....Mr. Sherman Thal of Oregon, Mo., attended the funeral of Eddie Moore.....Miss Mamie Lincomb is indisposed this week.....Revival services are going on at New Hope Baptist Church. Rev. Tally is a splendid speaker.....Mrs. Walker will give a concert Thanksgiving evening at the St. Luke M. E. Church.....Mr. William Pleasant did November 18 at his home on Pendleton street. He leaves a wife, three stepsons, one stpdaughter and many friends to mourn his loss. The funeral was held from the undertaker's parlors on Tlewth street HELENA, MONTANA. By J. H. Hillard. Senator Willett of Mineral, County has contracted leprosy and is in exile. His only friends are his wife and physician. Two years ago he introduced the Asiatic Bill in the legislature, the object of which was to keep all dark races from working where any white person was employed....Mr. and Mrs. George Christian were the guests of Mrs. Miles York last week....Mr. Major Green was married here recently to Miss Clyde Wells of Atlanta, Ga....Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards of Green River, Wyoming, arrived in the city on the 12th. Mr. Edwards took the Master Mason degree while here....Mrs. L. Sidney was in the city the 14th....Miss Dorsey entertained the Busy Bee Club the 16th....Mrs. A. J. Smith and Mrs. E. G. Cole are on the sick list....Mrs. A. Green entertained the Bright Star Club the 23d....Mrs. Charles Oliver and Mrs. Boxley are convalescent....Mrs. George F. Martin arrived the 16th from Maryville, Mo., where she was called on account of the death of her sister....Mrs. William Blanks gave a tea social the 18th for the benefit of the Ebenerzer Building Fund....The Pleasant Hours Social Club organized at the residence of Mrs. William Mason and elected of ficers. Mrs. J. E. W. Clark entertained the Club the 14th....Mrs. Lee A. Hankings has moved to 1506 North Benton avenue....There will be services at the St. James A. M. E. church Thanksgiving morning; also Thanksgiving offering will be taken for the benefit of the needy. MARYVILLE, MO. Mrs. Onee Gunn gave an informal party for the young set Friday even- ing... Prof. Ernest O. Boone, Jr., returned Saturday evening from Kansas City, Mo., where he attended the State Teachers' Association... The Eastern Star gave a social at the Masonic Hall Saturday evening... Mrs. Hattie Williams entertained at dinner in honor of Mrs. G. F. Martin Monday, November 12... Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Montgomery and Mr. E. F. Montgomery motorized down from Clarinda, Ia., Sunday in Mr. L. A.'s car... Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Palmer had as dinner guest, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Montgomery and Mr. E. F. Montgomery... Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mitchell had as dinner guest, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Montgomery, Prof. and Mrs. E. O. Boone, Jr. and son... Mr. L. A. Montgomery and wife, Prof. and Mrs. E. O. Boone and son and Mrs. W. A. Mitchell and daughter motored to Hopkins Sunday afternoon... Mr. Clarence Stewart and Mr. Joseph Henry of St. Louis are in the city. They brought a special train here with delegates to the State Sunday School Convention... Mr. B. F. Smart is home for a few days' visit from Camp Funston... Mrs. Lewis of Palmyra was in the city on business last week connected with the McBrady toilet articles... Grand Master W. W. Fields was a visitor in our city Tuesday and Wednesday... Mrs. Josie Christman of St. Joseph is here visiting her mother and friends. A fine daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boyd Thursday morning. Both mother and daughter are doing nicely. ...Herbert Palmer fell and broke his arm last Saturday morning. It is mending nicely...Mr. J. H. Malcome has been on the sick list but is convalescent at this writing...Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Palmer wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Dorothy Mae, to Mr. Euell Montgomery of Clarinda, Ia., the marriage to take place during the holidays. Miss Dorothy is one of the leaders in Maryville's younger set. She is a charming girl with all of the requirements to make an ideal wife. She has grown, budded and blossomed here and we regret very much to lose her from our midst, Mr. Montgomery comes from one of the best families in Iowa and we all join in in wishing for them much success and happiness. LINCOLN, NEB. Herman Hale has returned to the city to stay with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hale.... Mrs. Whitfield, Missionary for Girls' Trade School at Washington, D. C., was in the city Tuesday and held a meeting at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church at night, when she gave one of her characteristic lectures which was along the line of the uplift of the young Negro. A fair crowd was in attendance; the words were well taken. Mrs. Whitfield appealed for aid of donation of brick for an addition to the National Trade School at Washington for Orphan Girls. A collection of fifteen dollars was raised. Mrs. Whitfield left for the East Tuesday at 12:00 p. m.... Master Risen is reported quite ill.... Lebanon Lodge No. 126, A. F. & A. M. will hold Memorial Services in their hall next Sunday at 3:00 p. m. in honor of deceased members of the jurisdiction. They are Edw. J. Perkins. Thos. Williams and L. B. Thomas. . . Dr. Ernest Graves is reported ill.... The several churches will have services and dinners on Thanksgiving Day.... The Women's Davis Club is doing good work toward purchasing an Orphan and Old Folks Home. LITERARY NOTES FROM BONI & LIVERIGHT. Seven new titles are being added this week to Boni and Livernight's now famous series of reprints, the Modern Library: "Anatol and Other Plays," by Arthur Schnitzler, with an introduction by Ashley Dukes; "Dame Care," by Hermann Sudermann; "A Dreamer's Tales," by Lord Dunsany, with an introduction by Padraic Colum; "Hedda Gabler," Pillars of Society" and "The Master Builder" (in one volume), by Ibsen, with an introduction by Jenkoen, who wrote "Who Was Thursday," G. K. Chester "Evolution in Modern Thought," by Haeckel, Thompson, Weismann and others; and "The Mikado and Other Plays," with an introduction by Clarence Day, Jr. That Boni and Liveright's "Modern Library" is not to be limited to modern works, but that it is to only become popular, but that it is to only become popular of new authors as well, is evidenced by the fact that James Stephens and his popular-priced series of reprints, "Mary Mary" first appeared six years ago in the "Irish Review", and immediately its appeal was brought to the attention brought a fresh and distinctive element into the new Irish literature. The present edition of "Mary, Mary" contains a critically appreciative introduction by Padraig Perhaps no novel in the history of literature has had so great an influence as "Madame Bovary." It ushered in an entirely new cycle of letters, and established a new genre of literature, the great modern writers owe their power, "Madame Bovary" is therefore a book with which everyone should be acquainted. Up to the present time there has been no one standard edition of this a epoch-makings of literature, and the duplications have been made, and it has appeared in many bindings and at widely varying prices; but there is not available a permanent edition which is adequate in every particular and which can be used for any purpose. Madame Bovary liveright have added "Madame Bovary" to their now famous series of modern reprints—the "Modern Library." This edition is made from the complete and authoritative translation of Eleanor Mary Livingstone and a frontispiece portrait of Flaubert. Chekhov is regarded by many as an artist who ranks second only to Tolstot in the literature of Russia. In his own words, he is "the greatest master of the greatest modern masters of the short story; and in America, though almost entirely unknown two or three years ago, his fame has spread rapidly. Readers of his works have made it a help "Modern Library" a volume containing fourteen of Chekhov's best stories, carefully selected so as to give a comprehensive view of his rich and varied talent. The volume is even more interesting than "Stories" and contains an introduction, translated from the Russian, by T. Seltzer. in a class to itself insures against old age, disability, accident, sickness, death, burial. $150,000.00 for Protection of Policy Holders. $400,000.00 Paid as Benefits. $30,000,000.00 of Insurance Written. This unsolicited letter was handed to us by Mr. Upton at the close of our examination, and after his board had examin- ed every certificate in force by the American Woodmen. 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They will be given in the nurses' Study Room of the Old City Hospital, and will begin promptly at 8 o'clock p. m. Nov. 29: Mr. H. R. Ennis, president Board of Public Welfare. Subject, "Following up the Paroled Prisoner." Dec. 6: Mrs. T. G. McCampbell, president Federated Colored Women's Clubs. Subject, "Tag-Day." Dec. 13: Mr. F. F. McClure, superintendent Recreation Department Board of Public Welfare. Subject, "A City Plan for Recreation." Dec. 20: Miss Stella Coles. Subject, "The Campfire Girls." Jan. 10, 1918: Mrs. J. E. Dibble, investigator, Provident Association. Subject, "Social Service in the Hospital." Jan. 17: Mr. J. A. Borron, chief sanitary inspector, Board of Health. Subject, "Sanitation as Related to Social Work." Jan. 24-31: Miss A. J. Sorta, Women's Reformatory. Subject, "Training and Care of Delinquent Girls." Feb. 7: Mrs. T. W. H. Williams. Subject, "The School for Servant Girls." Feb. 14: Mrs. Mary Green, investigator, Provident Association. Feb. 21-28: Mr. J. O. Stutsman, superintendent Municipal Farm. Subject, "Causes of Crime." March 7: Dr. E. L. Mathias, chief probation officer. Subject, "The Juvenile Court." March 14: Dr. Alberta Green, Women's Raoformative. Subject, "Girls." March 21: Prof. J. R. E. Lee, principal, Lincoln High School. Subject, "The School and Social Service." March 28: Mrs. E. L. Bringham, Helping Hand Association. April 4: Miss Anna Jones, Lincoln High School. Subject, "The Working Girls' Home." April 11: Mrs. Margaret Barnett, investigator for Board of Health. April 18: Mr. James A. Lee, truant officer. Subject, "The Truant Child." April 25: Miss Beatrice Sydnor. R. N. and Miss Grace White, teacher. Subject, "The Fresh Air School." May 2: Miss Eva M. Marquls. Subject, "How to Develop the Social Life of the Community." May 9: Mr. O. J. Hill, president Federated Negro Charities. May 16: Mrs. Frances J. Jackson, County Home for Negroes. Subject, "The County Home." 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Kansas City, U. S. A. Bell Phone E. 4394R Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. Counterfeit! By James Knelland Shawvan (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) I thought of early boyhood's days and skating on one foot, as the sole of one shoe struck a flat piece of banana peel, and I went sliding irresistibly toward a wooden crate cover set over a manhole in the sidewalk. Bang! My feet met it, sending it spinning halfway around on the unfastened pivot and down I shot through the half-moon aperture. Thump! I landed ten feet down amid utter darkness across an upturned tub, knocking out its bottom, and bringing hoops and staves about me in flying sections. The shock was brief, my bruises trivial. Then I congratulated myself. If the under-sidewalk space into which I had been precipitated connected with the main cellar of the structure abutting upon it I would hall my misadventure as a stroke of genuine good luck. That grim old time-shattered three-story building had been a center of considerable interest to me during the past week. I had haunted its vicinity persistently. It was to little purpose, however. Its rear was a blank brick wall. Its sides were guarded by heavy iron shutters. The front had but one entrance, a double doorway, and beyond it was a store space shallow and narrow, more of a hall entrance than a room, barred closely nights, and in the daytime, seated behind a bench hammering away at various pieces of metal, was a low-browed, keen-eyed man, evidently the guardian of the place. I was on a still hunt for a missing friend, and had been for over a month. That was how I came to be interested in what had veritably become to me a house of mystery. Acton Meserve had been a fellow worker and close friend for something like two years. We were both of us expert engravers and earned good wages in the service of a leading banknote engraving concern. It was just after he had married and was gone on his honeymoon that trouble began. You must know that the working economy of a confidential and important business such as we were engaged in calls for strict integrity on the part of those employed. It was about a week after my friend Meserve had left on his memorable vacation when a discovery was made that some government paper, some denomination dies and a kit of fine engraving tools were missing from the vault. When a search was made in the office there was found in Meserve's desk some of the paper. The company awaited the return of Meserve to charge him with irregularities, possibly theft. But neither he nor his wife returned to the city at the end of two weeks, nor four, nor six. In fact, although a detective was employed to seek to gain a trace of their whereabouts, Acton Meserve and his wife had disappeared as effectually as though the earth had swallowed them up. One day I was summoned to the private office of the president of the company. I knew that my close companionship with Meserve had aroused suspicion in the mind of the detective as to a possible knowledge on my part as to what had become of Meserve. The disappearance of the well-guarded property of the company pointed to a probable scheme to do some outside plate work. This surmise was emphasized by the strange absence of Meserve. "We shall require your services no longer, Mr. Illsley," spoke my superior, definitely and with sternness. "I am sorry," I said simply. "I will not ask you the reason of this unwarrantable discharge, for I can guess. You are wrong in attributing what you imagine to as good a man as Acton Meserve. I shall make it my business to prove it to you soon." "I hope so," coldly remarked the official, "and I further hope you will take care of yourself." There was significance, almost insult, in this last remark, and I did not present it in words. I had made up my mind that I would find Acton Meserve if it took all I had saved up and a year of my life to accomplish it. There was something wrong, not only at the engraving plant, but as regarded Meserve. There was a dense mystery surrounding the abstraction of the property of the company and the inexplicable vanishment of Meserve and his wife. I started to solve the enigma, firm in my faith in my tried and true comrade. I found his relatives and friends anxious and grieved over his absence. None of them had seen or heard from him since the day they had seen him started on his wedding journey. I went over his presumable honeymoon trip, to lose all trace of him utterly. I returned to the city, more in the dark than ever, gloomily disappointed, almost hopeless. One day I struck a clew, or fancied I had. It was when, for the first time in many months, I saw walking ahead of me on the street a man named Bartley Webb. This person had been a printer at the engraving plant who had left work about a week before Meserve had started on his vacation. We had never liked him and had noticed that he kept bad comjany—just now worse than ever, for the two men with him were as villainous-looking fellows as I had ever seen. I followed them, a new suspicion in my mind as they were admitted to the very building I have described. I took up watch and ward over the sombre pile of masonry for several days. Twice I saw Webb visit the place. Always his admission was followed by the closing and locking of the outside door. Always the door was kept carefully reclosed until he had departed, after a brief stay. I know not why, but somehow I associated Webb with the pilferings at the engraving plant and the disappearance of Meserve. I had an irrepreachable desire to explore the old rookery, and now fate and circumstance had, I hoped, granted my wish for admission to the apparently impregnable structure. I got to my feet and proceeded to explore my surroundings. I came to an opening like a doorway, traversed a corridor which penetrated the cellar of the building and faced a pair of stairs. These I ascended, reached a vacant room, crossed it, opened a door, ascended a second flight of stairs and charly felt my way along a narrow passage way. I accidentally blundered against a swinging door. I landed in a lighted room, tried to draw back as I discovered that it held an inmate, and was rooted to the spot as I recognized in a woman standing staring at me agape—the wife of Acton Meserve! All the bloom I had last seen was departed from that sweet face, the eyes were sunken and haunted with the horror of confinement and fear. "Mr. Illsley!" she gasped, and reced. "You—you!" I breathed in coherently. "What this mean? Where is Meserve?" "He is in there," she whispered, all a tremble, and she pointed to an opposite door. "No—no! You risk your life!" But I had run at the door and opened it and rushed towards a man at a bench bending over a leather plate pad, a graver in his hand—Acton Meserve. And then I understood the warning just uttered. Two men, and one of them was Webb, sprang at me. I received a heavy blow on the head and knew no more. I awoke, jolted about in a cab and held up by the best friends I had in the world—Acton Meserve and his wife. They were babbling with the maddest of joyfulness, like two children released from a terrible captivity. Then the vehicle halted in front of the engraving plant. I was still dazed as I sat back in the chair in the office of the president. As in a dream I caught the echo of the tones of Meserve, telling all the story of his mysterious disappearance. It was Webb who had abstracted the missing property of the plant. It was Webb and accomplices who had kidnapped husband and wife, who had threatened to kill the latter if Meserve did not engrave a plate they forced him to make. It was just as I appeared that the plate was finished, all except one corner, and this Meserve refused to complete unless immediate liberty was promised. The scoundrels then abandoned the place with the plate, Meserve agreeing to wait an hour later. "I believe your story, Mr. Meserve," said the staid and dignified president, "but do you not consider it very reprehensible to engage in such work under any circumstances?" "Not as I worked it out," dissented Meserve. "Sir, when the law runs down these miscreants, as it must, you will find the plate worthless." "You mean—?" "That the last rapid work I did was to engrave in hair-line tracery, while they were not looking, one word, a warning to all the world." "And the word was—?" "Counterfeit!" "There's a Time to Fight." Miss Miriam, who will be seven years old soon, knows that little girls should not fight but she is not a "pacifist" for all that. A few days ago she was taken to task by her mother for engaging in a pugilistic encounter with another little girl. "Well, mother," she said, "I don't know whethe" she hit me first, but I know that if I hit her she deserved it, for that child's mother never has brought her up properly." On another occasion she complained that a small boy of her acquaintance had kicked her, but admitted on being pressed that she had not done much first, "only pinched and slapped his face a little." She was told to tell the boy's father, so the boy might be punished, but to be sure and tell what she had done, too. The father is still waiting for the report. —Indianapolis News. Education Not a Prerequisite. Charles Darwin was a misfit child, a misfit youth, and a misfit in young manhood. He failed miserably in mathematics, the classics, and in theology. He was an indifferent student of medicine, yet when at last he was guided into the paths of his natural capacities he soon became the foremost naturalist of his age and probably of any age before or since. Emerson was an educational misfit, and so were Freebel and General Grant, and the list of distinguished men in all walks of life who were misfits in childhood might easily be extended almost indefinitely. They prove conclusively that much of what is commonly called education is not a prerequisite for success in life. An Unfailing Sign. "My dear, this child is going to have plenty of spirit in his voice." "How can you tell that now?" "Because already it shows a tendency to high bawls." THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1917. COLON THE PICTURESQUE THE STREET Front Street. Colon. EVERYONE has heard of Colon, the Atlantic terminal of the Panama canal, and of Cristobal, the American colony located in the Canal Zone; but how many of you know that they are twin towns located on the Island of Manzanillo and named for Columbus? In the Spanish language Christopher is "Cristobal" and Columbus would be "Colon"—so Cristobal Colon really is "Christopher Columbus." Approaching Colon harbor you notice two long lines projecting out into Limon bay; these are the east and west breakwaters, built of massive cement blocks and plies driven down many feet into the water. They protect the harbor from the heavy storms and "northers" that sweep along the coast, writes Alice Sims Macqueen in the Los Angeles Times. Passing between the breakwaters the New Washington hotel on Colon beach, owned and built by the United States government, first attracts your attention, then your boat comes to a stop and a government health officer comes aboard to inspect the passengers before they land. After this examination you slowly pull up to an enormous concrete pier, one of five and you are in Cristobal, Canal Zone, where Uncle Sam's workers on the Atlantic side of the canal chiefly reside. There are around 2,000 Americans living in Cristobal and a number of families residing in Colon, which city has a population of approximately 20,000. Before you land, however, the massive steel girders of the new Cristobal coaling plant attract your attention. This is where ships are supplied with coal before continuing their journey through the canal or northward. On the dock the customs officer inspects your baggage. This ordeal being over you try to decide which of the dilapidated looking coaches with their underfed, weary horses will be most apt to carry you safely to "the hotel. There being no choice you take the first. Jingle, jangle! loudly peals a bell. No, it is not the fire department, but your driver warning the crowd that he is coming, while your poor old steed does his best at a run. Along Roosevelt Avenue. Out past the new Terminal building of the Panama Railroad company you drive into a street lined with wonderful coconut palm trees. This is "Palm" or "Roosevelt" avenue, and before the big docks and office buildings were erected in Cristobal it was the choice residence section of the town, commanding an uninterrupted view out over the changeable waters of the Caribbean sea, north toward homeland. The big deserted-looking building at your left is the offices of the Hamburg-American Steamship line, little used since the European war; next is the United Fruit company's building, while last of all is the American fire station, with its big white horses peering out of their stalls as you pass. All this looks quite homelike, save the palms, but wait until you cross the railroad track into Colon, where you see the big commissary that furnishes Americans with everything from shoes to Christmas turkey and then it is just Colon, smelly, quaint, native Colon, with her hundred different races and numberless types, her sweltering streets and alluring Hindoo and Chinese shops. You turn a corner and a line of stately royal palms gives you a dignified greeting. This is Slifer park, where the native Panamanians and others gather several times a week to listen to the band and gossip. For no Spanish city is complete without a "Parque Central" and a band, no matter how poor nor how small both the city and the band may be. At the end of the park is the Washington hotel. It is of Spanish architecture, with wide verandas looking out to sea. There is a garden on all sides, where palms, lovely red hibiscus and roses grow in abundance. A sea wall runs along the front of the hotel grounds and a lovelier walk cannot be found. This wall brings you to the outdoor swimming pool connected with the hotel. It is fed with ocean water and here for five cents you are privileged to take a "dip" any time between 6 a. m. and 10 p. m. The water is always warm, and it is just as pleasant on Christmas day as Fourth of July. At one side of the pool is Battery Morgan and at the other two concrete bath houses. On Colon Beach. Just outside of the hotel grounds is picturesque Christ church, erected in 1865 by contributions from the Panama railroad and missionary societies. For a short time the Colombians used it as a barracks and arsenal, but it has since been used as a place of worship, the members being mainly West Indian negroes—British subjects, laborers on the canal work. A few seats are reserved for white Episcopalians and visitors. A walk along the ocean on Colon beach is the next point of interest. Here you see big gray houses, facing seaward and flanked by rows of tall coconut trees. In these houses employees of the Panama canal reside. In most cases there are four families to a house, which is built somewhat on the style of an apartment house. At the end of the street stands the recently completed government hospital where Americans are cared for at a minimum charge if they are government employees. Pass this building and you come face to face with a sign telling you to "keep out" of the quarantine reservation. Down back of the hospital the three tall radio or wireless stations loom skyward. Now let us take a coach and drive up Bolivar street. This street runs parallel with Front street, with a romantically named alley (Bottle alley) running between. In the early days Front street was filled with saloons (there are many even now) and all the bottles were dumped out back of the buildings. Front street was then the first and last street in Colon, because the land had not yet been filled in for building and it was just a swamp The strange looking people are Jamaicans, Martiniquos, Barbandians and almost every other kind of of folks, including Panamanians. Most of the children do not wear clothing until they are five or six years old. It all depends on the mother's ambition. Where the Officials Hold Forth. The large building to your left is the "administration" building of the Panamanian government, where the governor of Colon, the caliche and other officials hold forth. In the basement you will find the post office, but do not make the mistake of addressing a letter to any of the American families living in Colon to this office, as they all receive their mail in Cristobal. A mammoth fire swept much of this section of the city a little more than a year ago, and the new concrete shops along the way mark this place. The ramshackle frame buildings are tenement houses, and the occupants pay from $7 to $12 per month for a single room. The overhanging balconies look as though they would tumble on the heads of the passer-by, but they have been clinging there for some time and we will hope for the best. Back of Bolivar street is Broadway, the widest street in the city, as its name would indicate. Here you find more tenement houses and on the side streets catch glimpses of the cottages of the better class of Panamanians and a few Americans who are in private business in Colon and therefore not entitled to government quarters. On Broadway also are two theaters, usually used for moving pictures, but provided with stages large enough to accommodate a small company of players. Further up toward the end of the street is the government corral, where horses and mules used in the work at Cristobal are kept. At the end of Broadway you come to Mt. Hope road, which leads out past the "substation," which furnishes electric current for government work and homes, to the cemetery at Mt. Hope. Now I had not the slightest intention of bringing you out to the cemetery and leaving you there, but it is a pretty spot, so full of flowers and wonderful tropical trees and plants, that one forgets it is a burrowing ground. On Colon Beach. SOME KINDS OF STIMULANTS Alcohol and Wine Favored by Europeans, Poppy by Chinese, Bhang by the Indians. When the European is weary he calls for alcohol to revive him; when he is joyful he takes wine, that he may have more joy. In like manner the Chinese woos his "white lady," the poppy flower, the Indian chews bhang, the West African seeks surcease in kola, observes a correspondent in National Geographical Magazine. Khat is more to the Yemen Arab than any of these to its devotees. It is no narcotic, wooling sleep, but a stimulant, like alcohol. Unlike alcohol, it conceals no demon, but a fairy. The khat eater will tell you that when he follows this fairy it takes him into regions overlooking paradise. He calls the plant the "flower of paradise." How and when khat came into the Yemen is not certain. Botanists say that it was brought over from Harrar, in Abysssinia, many centuries ago. There is a tradition among the wise men of the East that the sheik Ibrahim alou Zarbayn introduced it into Hodeidah from Ethiopia about 1430. But ask any Yemen Arab and he will tell you "it has been always. Allah gave it to us in the beginning, to make us forget labor and pain." Contrary to the general opinion held by those who pretend to know anything about it at all, khat is never used as a beverage in the Yemen, but the fresh leaves are invariably chewed. The youngest leaves are the best. They have a sweetish, slightly astringent taste, not unpleasant to the European palate, but certainly not alluring. When brewed, they lose most of their strength and the flavor of the decoction is much like that of those grapevine "digarettes" which most of us enjoyed (?) in boyhood days. The old leaves are tough and ought to tan a leather tongue. Just what is the exact toxic effect of khat on the human system has never yet been ascertained. It is certainly a stimulant with a lively and nearly immediate effect upon the brain and nerve cells; the gloomiest man becomes cheerful under its influence, the most enervated active. Withal, I have been unable to learn of a single case of immediate or harmful reaction such as invariably follows the use of other stimulants. Australia Prepares for Soldiers. Australia has, from the first, grappled with the question of providing for her soldiers after the war with commendable energy and forethought. For some months the Australian patriation fund has been devoting itself to the consideration and development of various plans whilst many practical steps have been taken by individuals and communities toward the formation of definite settlement schemes, says a correspondent. The state government of New South Wales has set aside special areas for cultivation by returned soldiers. These efforts were supplemented by the generosity of one landowner who gave a tract of land amounting to thousands of acres for that purpose. Australia's first need is population and the commonwealth will have an opportunity, after the war, not only to supply her own need but also to do a great service to the labor market by affording that "room for adjustment", which it will need. The federal government has already promised $10,000,000 for the work and has pledged itself to raise an additional $150,000,000 in the future. Didn't Like It. A colonel of a well-known Highland regiment, on returning from the army, had built a snug little villa which he had named "The Retreat." His gardener, who was an old soldier from the same regiment, on being shown over the place for the first time by the colonel, was asked by the latter what he thought of the place. "Fine! But I dinaa like that," said the old soldier, pointing to the name on the entrance. "Why?" replied the colonel. "What's the matter with it?" "Weel, sir," replied the veteran, drawing himself up, "ye ken ye never heard that played on oor bugles." Was Busy Enough. "Here's a real joke," writes a correspondent of the Army and Navy Journal. "A conscript soldier of the National army at a western camp—one of the million that sprang to arms overnight—was sitting on a lumber pile in the cantonment whitttling out a 'rifle.' The whole company was similarly employed, by order. One of his old home neighbors from another company came up, looked him over, and asked, 'Bill, how do you like your new job?' 'Don't say a word, Bud; I'm mighty glad I'm not in the artillery!'" Puts Trademark on Apples Here y'are—your monogram on an apple. It's the latest wrinkle. S. O. Butler, fruit grower of Helmer, Ind., has a method of putting initials, pictures of horses, cows and most anything on apples. After the fruit has become full grown, a stencil is placed on its surface and the leaves pulled away to allow the sunlight to color the skin. Interior Adornment "What has become of my cherry cream?" cried Mrs. Subbub. "Your cherry cream?" repeated the cook. "Yes, my complexion cream." "I thought that was some fancy paste you got for the party last night, so I spread it on the sandwiches!" WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS WASHINGTON.—Food is the one thing that you can't get at the food administration building. In fact, it is even hard to borrow a match there. Herbert C. Hoover's food administration is one of America's most powerful all of this he has established a corps of correspondents of experience on every food commodity. There are some 75 men connected with the food administration who are food experts. Each one of these is virtually a letter writer, carrying on a great campaign through the mails. Through the answers to these letters Hoover feels the food pulse of the nation. Publicity is another big factor in the food administration machine. Every channel of publicity from the daily newspaper to the religious journal is employed. A staff of 125 writers have been enlisted to pour out article after article for every sort of publication. These are sent where they will do the most good and there isn't any wasted material, either, for material is issued only where it is used. The publicity department employs 200 persons. Motion pictures are also a part in the machine. Half a dozen expert motion-picture producers are giving their services in mapping out a screen campaign to save food. Efficiency is the watchword. "Verbal orders don't go," is the sign hung on every desk and affairs move with a precision and accuracy. Turkey Buzzard the "Real Thing" in the Air Turkey Buzzard the "Real Thing" in the Air AIRSHIPS are a wonder, all right, but—consider the buzzard that came to town! One cannot swear to it, of course, but, as it was just after the Caproni flight, and old Mr. Turkey B, made the same circles and swoops in the before, buzzards of Western desert romances and of the Southern barnyard. "Takes me back to the time when I was a kid, and another boy and my——" "We call them carrion crows where I come from. You don't want to be anywhere near one, but when it comes to flying he beats any other bird that cuts the air——" "They are known as vultures in South America. When I was in Panama——" And the one feminine microbe in the crowd, but not of it, sat at another window and, by the magic of the swirling, swooping, splendid thing up in the patch of blue, visioned once more: A lithely picturesque brown boy, his out-stretched arms and body swaying to a black woman's hand-beating rhythm of the "tukkey" buzzard dance—the silver moon light—the shadowy green hills of Maryland so forever far away—— Which just helps to show that everything in this world commands an interest of some sort, whether it be a Caproni, the latest born of science, or just an old black-winged, red-wattled turkey buzzard that was flying around creation before the birth of the ark. None Escapes the Enterprising Book Salesman None Escapes the Enterprising Book Salesman THE governor of a great state who renounced his office and came to Washington as a senator and smilingly stated that for once he had come where he couldn't be disturbed by book salesmen and peddlers of various each office quite demurely and exhibit a list of books. The list was penned in long hand and as the prospective buyer took the list the salesman said, "Have you read these books?" If the p. b. said "Yes" or "Sure" or "Uh-huh, part of 'em," that was enough. "All right, you're likely to be interested in a little proposition I have. If you had said you were not familiar with this list I would have stepped out and gone on my way. But this makes me think you're a student, and I'm going to lay this before you," he said. And so the canvass went merrily on while the salesman displayed his stock, after drawing on most of his pockets. He kept up a running fire of conversation, he was droll with real humor in his occasional sallies—in short he was a salesman worth while and he obtained the orders. In just one office he disclosed his identity—he is really an author of some repute, and he is playing the role in order to get material for another "best seller." Constant Changes in Government Departments Constant Changes in Government Departments TWO hundred thousand applicants for federal appointments have been examined by the civil service commission in the course of a year and 65,000 of these have been certified, a majority of them for service in Washing- Not only are the new clerks coming in by the myriads, old clerks and other government employees are disappearing from their haunts and newcomers are taking their places. A careful estimate has it that 12,000 have joined the military forces, taken more lucrative employment in private life, or left the government service for other reasons. It cannot be said that this vast amount of new material adjusts itself with precision and promptness to the nation's demands, but yet the business of the government is being carried on with fairly satisfactory results. Elsewhere, Washington industry is demoralized. The departments are populated by people whom nobody knows; old timers, who were the stand-bys of the newspaper correspondents, disappear without warning and "spurios," and men of strange men occupy their desks. war machines. It has been said that food will win the war and the world acknowledges that America holds the balance of the food. The machinery of the food administration is one huge typewriter. It seems that the food campaign is being waged by rattling typewriters and multiple machines. Hoover has made his work a personal work, he sends hundreds of letters each and every day to hundreds of persons of influence in the food world. To accomplish all of this he has established a corps of food commodity. There are some 75 traction who are food experts. Each one carrying on a great campaign through these letters Hoover feels the food pulse. Publicity is another big factor in the channel of publicity from the daily new ployed. A staff of 125 writers have his article for every sort of publication. The most good and there isn't any wasted only where it is used. The publicity de Motion pictures are also a part in motion-picture producers are giving the campaign to save food. Efficiency is the watchword. "Verb on every desk and affairs move with a Turkey Buzzard the "R AIRSHIPS are a wonder, all right, but town! One cannot swear to it, of Caproni flight, and old Mr. Turkey B. m A Vulture Attacks A Plane before, buzzards of Western desert roar "Takes me back to the time when my——" "We call them carrion crows when anywhere near one, but when it comes cuts the air——" "They are known as vultures in Panama——" And the one feminine microbe in window and, by the magic of the swirl patch of blue, visioned once more: A stretched arms and body swaying to an the "tukkey" buzzard dance—the silver of Maryland so forever far away—— Which just helps to show that everest of some sort, whether it be a just an old black-winged, red-wattled creation before the birth of the ark. None Escapes the Ente THE governor of a great state whoington as a senator and smilingwhere he couldn't be disturbed by kinds, found to his amazement that they can break in and solicit him even in the senate office building. They do not troop in in unbroken strings, however, but they manage to get in now and then and tackle the senators or their secretaries. Only the other day a high-class salesman, with all equipment concealed about his person, shot past the door and for half a day's labor in the big building turned in orders for half a hundred sets of books, it is said. His plan was to step into each office quite demurely and exhibit in long hand and as the prospective "Have you read these books?" If the p. b. said "Yes" or "Sure enough. "All right, you're likely to be intere you had said you were not familiar w and gone on my way. But this makes n to lay this before you," he said. And so the canvass went merrily stock, after drawing on most of his conversation, he was droll with real he he was a salesman worth while and he he disclosed his identity—he is really a ing the role in order to get material for Constant Changes in TWO hundred thousand applicants examined by the civil service co 65,000 of these have been certified, a n 200,000 APPLY FOR FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS 65,000 CERTIFIED Not only are the new clerks coming government employees are disappearing taking their places. A careful estimate military forces, taken more lucrative government service for other reasons, of new material adjusts itself with p demands, but yet the business of the fairly satisfactory results. Elsewhere The departments are populated by p who were the stand-bys of the news warning and "spurios," and men of s No, sir, it isn't the old Washington A bear and a cat are fighting over a river. correspondents of experience on every women connected with the food administration of these is virtually a letter writer, in the malis. Through the answers to the of the nation. The food administration machine. Every newspaper to the religious journal is embeen enlisted to pour out article after These are sent where they will do the material, either, for material is issued department employs 200 persons. In the machine. Half a dozen expert their services in mapping out a screen. Global orders don't go," is the sign hung precision and accuracy. Real Thing" in the Air out—consider the buzzard that came to course, but, as it was just after the made the same circles and swoops in the same sky, it may be—just may be, mind that he felt called on to come up from the piney woods to show Washington the difference between airships and the real thing. Anyhow, a buzzard came to town. And in one high-up window the same human batch—masculine gender—that had watched the Italian flyer made an audience for the bird, with this difference: The man captured intellectual homage, while the buzzard merely served to recall buzzards gone mances and of the Southern barnyard. when I was a kid, and another boy and are I come from. You don't want to be to flying he beats any other bird that in South America. When I was in the crowd, but not of it, sat at another ling, sweoping, splendid thing up in the lithely picturesque brown boy, his out- black woman's hand-beating rhythm of er moon light—the shadowy green hills everything in this world commands an in- Caproni, the latest born of science, or turkey buzzard that was flying around perprising Book Salesman renounced his office and came to Wash- ly stated that for once he had come book salesmen and peddlers of various ? at a list of books. The list was penned by buyer took the list the salesman said, "e" or "Uh-huh, part of 'em," that was interested in a little proposition I have. If with this list I would have stepped out some think you're a student, and I'm going on while the salesman displayed his pockets. He kept up a running fire of humor in his occasional saliies—in short he obtained the orders. In just one office an author of some repute, and he is play- or another "best seller." Government Departments is for federal appointments have been commission in the course of a year and majority of them for service in Washing- ton. The navy department, last January, had 225 telephone instruments connected with nine trunk lines. Now it has 485 instruments and 23 trunk lines. And yet the cry is for more clerks, still more clerks. Temporary buildings are in course of construction, or are to be begun shortly. Congress has appropriated $2,000,000 for one of these, to disfigure the mall—$2,000,000 for a temporary building built of lumber, to care for the clerical overflow from the war department alone. ing in by the myriads, old clerks and other men from their haunts and newcomers areunate has it that 12,000 have joined the employment in private life, or left the job. It cannot be said that this vast amount precision and promptness to the nation's government is being carried on with ease, Washington industry is demoralized, people whom nobody knows; old timers, paper correspondents, disappear without strange men occupy their desks. on at all. PUBLISHED WEEKLY ‘Ail communteations should be addressed to The Kansas City Sun, 1803 Bast 18th Bireet. Bell Phone East 999, Entered as second-class matter, August =>. 1908, at the postofiice at Kankas City, ‘Mo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews.......Editor and Owner Willa’ M, Glenn..:....1.General_ Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ne Feng, vesevsseessesosseeessesees ALES MORHS scccssccscscesccccuecsssse oS Threo Months ...cccccscccccsceeceeee 08 ADVERTISING RATES, $2.00 PER INCH PER MONTH. MEMBER ] NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 arineats ti stiareoerte in re EDITORIALS. Someone proposes a “beerless day” each week. But why not a beerless life? . Japan is against Germany and is ready to furnish two millions of train- ‘ed men for the field, but the Jap- nese are a colored race, and that twould never do for Europe. 4 The mills of justice are still grind- ing away in the trial of the Houston rioters; also one by one the accused ‘Negroes are establishing their inno- sence and being discharged. * At times the Kaiser's warriors loom ‘up in a grand rush and look for all the world like pennant winners, but like the Kansas City Blues, they are dead sure to be the last under when the final summing up is made. ‘The Sun is pleased that among the medical examiners appointed to the public schools by the health director was Dr. E. J. McCampbell, physicion; Dr. T. C. Chapman, dentist; and Miss Bertha C. Hanna, nurse; each of whom will receive $75.00 per month, Can you imagine in your most san- guine moments a more romantic and beautiful conception for the locale of a musical comedy than the picturesque Hawaiian Islands, the land of Hula- hula and the Ukelele, with the beauti- ful Pacific ocean for the background? Mr. William Wamsher, the producer, realized the possibilities and grasped the opportunity thus offered. He se- cured the services of the famous play- right, Charles S. Adelman, and wis that equally famous composer of mu- sic, Mr. Ben M. Jerome, and collab- orated in.producing one of the most novel and entertaining musical come dies of the present season, “Honolulu Lou.” The music is of the sweet, weird Hawaiian strain, so popular at the present time, and is a real novel ty. The comedy is spontaneous, and Mr. Adelman and Mr. Jerome must have been in one of their happiest moods, for the comedy is blended with the music in such a manner that will be sure to please the most fastidious. Mr, Wamsher has secured a cast of principals that are the best obtainable, and with a chorus of pretty girls, all go to make “Honolulu Lou” the real musical comedy hit of the season, which will be seen at the Garden ‘Theater, commencing matinee Sunday, November 25, and for the entire week. WANTED. Unencumbered lady stenographer and bookkeeper for general office work. Must be thoroughly educated. State qualifications in replying. Steady position and opportunity to rise. Ad- dress: WESTERN BOOK SUPPLY CO., Sioux City, Iowa, SEE THE LUCK MAN. If you are in, down and out and have lost the grip you had on luck, write or call and see me at once. DR. W. L. LYONS, R. 1, Box 1, Rentiesville, Okla VIOLIN LESSONS GIVEN By Prof. Frank Martin, Graduate of Kansas University Under Prof. Wort 8, Morse. Studio at 1831 Paseo Lessons from 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. Vaughan’s Values WAR TIME BARGAINS. Half acre, worth $800, now...$ 700.00 5-room, water and gas, worth $3,000, now eeeeeee «++ 2,250.00 Also have properties to trade. EXCEPTIONAL BARGAINS WEST 1757, BELL PHONE. 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kas. ————————— MME A. MOORE Teacher of * Piano and Voice 1905 E. 19th Street Bell Phone E, 5407 Betty® Siam’s Little Cornes) RS ‘g 1 A BA i Es ASI AS VE sl Et v ale y& Af “ THEY SAY —That a true friend is a jewel that shines in the dark. —That the stepping stones to suc cess are often a rock road. —That the Square Deal Oil and Gas Co. is on the right track. —That howvere haughty we may be there's a skeleton in the closet some where. —That a fair definition of “camou flage” is a bald headed man wearing @ skull cap. —Thé Colored race pays a greater price for its patriotism than any other race living. —That as a man grows older he ha: more sympathy for the chap who can’ deliver the goods. —That turkey am gwine ter bi mighty “skeerce” this Thanksgiving believe me. —That Brother George Teeter didn't know he could speak unknowt tongues until two footpads attempte to hold him up last week, then hi yelled for help in three or four lan guages. 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Stone 2608] ape rn areata Sightseeing Trips, $2 per Hour 7-Passenger Car yates urs Home Phone East 2633 Electric lighted,Steam heated car fame hone Bast 2655 _Electric lighted Steam he Bell Phone Home Phone E, 2013 B, 4349 W. H. HUBBELL KING COLE The Aeroplane, Since the ordinary car does the ordinary things, to take a ride in King Céle 8, one comes out of the past into the present, Our cdr is steam heated in ‘winter, air cooled in summer, BELL EAST 4939 WM. JOHNSTON, MGR. Baggage and Express AUTO SERVICE Shining Parlor and Cigar Stand We Call For and Deliver Shoes We Guarantee All Shoes We Dye . 1516 E. 18th Street, Kansas City, Mo, CITY NEWS The Sun for 25c from now until January 1. 1918. Have you ever tried the Spotless Kitchen, 23 West 13th street, the best place in town to eat? Mrs. Versia Rice attended the funeral of Mr. Billy Crutchfield of Omaha, Neb. Mr. Crutchfield was a close friend of this family. Mrs. Rice returned home this week. Miss Luella D. Mills, a teacher at Bellair, Mo., and Mrs. M. G. Brown, who is teaching at Windsor, Mo., attended the Teachers' Association last week and called at the Sun office. Lucky Harris will start a military school at 14th and Michigan avenue next week. All interested are requested to meet there Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gaines of Riverside, Ill., leave this week for Santa Barbara, Cal., where they expect to spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Lee of Baxter Springs, Kansas, will spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Lee's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Herndon, 2445 Highland avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Kingsberry announce the marriage of their daughter, Cozetta, to Dr. Ernest E. Graves of Lincoln, Neb., on Wednesday, June 20, 1917, at Liberty, Mo. Mr. Horace Bishop, the well known chef, now located at Camp Funston, paid a flying visit to relatives and friends last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. B. F. Smart of Maryville, Mo., an instructor in the cooking department at Camp Funston, paid a flying visit home this week and returned to the camp last Thursday night. IN MEMORY How firm a foundation Is laid for your faith in E'en down to old age, a Thy Sovereign, eternal, And when hoary hairs s Like lambs they shall s I love to tell t 'Twill be my t To tell the old, Of Jesus and H LAFAYETT Born September Died November Still held in blessed and sacred his ennobling influence and most IN MEMORIAM. Still held in blessed and sacred memory by all-who came within his ennobling influence and most tenderly by wife and children, LIVE AND DRESSED POULTRY. W. M. & J. Johnston (Successors to Moons), 1335 E. 18th street, Bell Phone, Grand 3765. Always the best Growing better. Wholesale and retail Fresh from the country. Phone us your order. We deliver anywhere. * Miss Goldie Price has opened * * a Studio of Music at her home, * * 1736 Brooklyn Avenue. Special * * attention given to beginners. * * Lesson, 25 cents. At the memorial services to be held at the Masonic Temple Sunday, November 25, at 3 p. m., the following program will be rendered: Order by Chairman—Prof. R. T. Coles, P. G. M. Reading of G. M. Proclamation—G. W. K. Love, G. S. Invocation—Rev, J. W. Hurse, D. D. Singing by Lodges, led by Rev. G. A. Williams, P. M. History of Brother Perkins and Brother Williams—Read by T. G. Mc-Campbell. Solo—Mrs. J. F. Shannon. History of Deceased Members of K. C. Lodges—Read by W. W. Young. Remarks—W. G. Mosely, G. C. Solo—Mrs. B. F. Givens. Lodge of Sorrow—E. G. Lacey, G. L. and K. C. Lodges. Eulogistic Oration—N. C. Crews, P. G. M. Music—Mrs. J. D. Brown. Penediction—Rev. G. A. Williams. National Relief A SICKNESS AND ACC OFFICE 1634 E. 18th Street. DORSEY Anyone holding policies with the le us by phone or m National Relief Assurance Company Miss Effie Pennisston has moved her mother and sister to this city, as both are in poor health. Lieut. Surgeon F. F. Burnett, en route from Fort Des Moines, Ia., to Washington, D. C., was the guest of Mrs. Alberta Adams. Mr. Fred Spence was called to Savannah, Mo., this week on account of the death of his cousin, Johnnie Warren. Mr. T. O. Wright of Oklahoma City, Okla., visited in the city this week and paid a pleasant visit to the Sun. Mr. Wright sold a large crop of cotton this fall, realizing about $2,800 from the sale. Mr. Wright formerly sang in the Second Baptist Church choir of this city. Mrs. Ida M. Fields, formerly of Kansas City, now of Rossford, Ohio, who was called to this city on account of the death of her sister, Adella Hoover, returned back to Ohio Monday evening. Miss Ava Gasaway and Mrs Beulah Banks of St. Joseph, Mo., attended the funeral of the Mr. George W. Carter and will also visit frineds and other relatives while here. THANKSGIVING DINNER. Say, don't you know that Mrs. Richardson's Tea Room at 1851 Paseo is going to serve the largest and most appetizing dinner for fifty cents on Thanksgiving Day of any place in the city? Go early. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Patterson, 1624 Cottage avenue, spent Saturday and Sunday at Boonville, Mo., attending the wedding of Miss Annabelle Humphrey to Mr. Q. L. Bruce of Kansas City MORIAM. in, ye saints of the Lord in his excellent word. * * * * * * all thy people shall prove , unchangeable love; shall their temples adorn, still in my bosom be born. * * * * * * the story, the theme in glory , old story His love. * * * * * * TE WOODS November 15, 1825 November 23, 1907. memory by all who came within ist tenderly by wife and children, They were house guests of Mrs. Sarah Humphrey and spent a delightful time. We desire to thank our many friends for the kindness shown during our bereavement of our husband and father, George Wesley Carter; also the beautiful floral offerings. To the many kind friends who in the hour of distress caused by the sickness and death of our sister, Jessie Herriford, gave us relief through sincere sympathy and expression in beautiful floral offerings, we return our heartfelt gratitude. OF BOSTON. Ticket prices are as follows: Boxes, seating 10 persons, $5.00. Arena Floor (reserved), 35 cents. Arena Balcony (not reserved), 25 cents. Upper Balcony (not reserved), 15 cents. The Sun for 25c from now until January 1, 1918. Assurance Company ACCIDENT INSURANCE HOME PHONE 5119 East E. BROWN National, the above company, notify mail and we will call. NANCY WOODS, MARY ATCHINSON, BENJ. F. WOODS, ELIZABETH WILSON, EMILY DREW, E. B. BRAXTON, JESSIE N. NOVEL. SUSIE A. CARTER. Wife. GERTRUDE T, CARTER. Daughter. CARD OF THANKS. JOE E. HERRIFORD, SCOTTIE A. HERRIFORD, CONVENTION HALL ROLAND W. HAYES THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1917. THE JONES STORE CO Triple Surety Coupons Saturday until 11 a. m. and after 6 p. m. Charge Purchases Payable in January SHIRT SALE A Sale of 26,000 Shirts, None Worth Less Than $1.00, at ROLAND W. HAYES OF BOSTON THE RACE'S GREATEST TEN- OR, WILL BE IN CONVENTION HALL ON FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7TH. The entire citizenship of our city is bringing Mr. Hayes to Kansas City for a benefit entertainment for the eight thousand Negro soldiers who are in training at Camp Funston. At a meeting this week a general committee was selected, representing every interest in the city, to direct and manage the campaign for the presence of ten thousand people in Convention Hall on December 7th. Prices for admission will be popular, ranging thus: Box Seats, 50c. Arena Floor, 25c Arena Balcony, 25c. Upper Balcony, 15c. Sale of Tickets. The committee on the sale of tickets, composed of Edward S. Lewis, chairman; William H. Dawley, vice-chairman; H. O. Cook, L. C. Smith and Mr. S. R. Hopkins, makes this announcement for the sale of tickets: Box seats will be on sale at Lincoln High School. Arena floor tickets (reserved) will be on sale at the following places: Paseo Y. M. C. A., 1824 Paseo. Houston and McCampbell's Drug Store, No. 2, Howard and Vine streets. White-Wood Drug Store, 19th and Vine. Theo. Smith's Drug Store, 18th and Tracy. Palace Drug Store, 12th and Woodland. Cooper & Campbell's Drug Store., Independence and Harrison. Kansas City, Kansas. Home Drug Co., 1512 North 5th street. Mr. Mis School Mrs Mis Mis Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Ma Pro General admission tickets will be in the hands of the members of the committee and all the ministers. The prices are placed so that our people from every walk in life will have two opportunities, the one, to make a small contribution to our soldiers, the other, to hear our race's greatest singer. The following names constitute a partial list of the General Committee. These names, together with other citizens interested in our soldiers, are asked to meet 8 o'clock at the Y. M. C. A. GENERAL COMMITTEE. J. R. E. Lee, Chairman of General Committee. THE JO Triple Surety Coupons Charge P SHIR A Sale of 26,000 Less 68c On Sale in Men's Store, Walnut Street, First Floor. THE NEW YORK TIMES For the Baptist Ministers' Alliance Rev. D. A. Holmes, Pres. Rev. M. Williams, Sec. For the Methodist Ministers' Alliance— Rev. F. D. Wells, Pres. Rev. S. L. Brooks, Sec. For the Federated and Other Women's Clubs— Mrs. L. A. McCampbell, Pres. Mrs. Lossie Penn, Sec. For the Ivanhoe Club— Mr. Joseph E. Herriford, Pres. Mr. J. J. Allen, Sec. For the Cosmopolitan Club— Mr. Eugene Munday, Pres. For the Lt Premier Club— Mr. Carpenter, Pres. For the Musicians' Union— Mr. Tilford Davis, Pres. For the U. B. F. Club— Dr. Williams. For the Odd Fellows' Club— Mr. T. B. Watkins. Mr. E. S. Lewis. For the Chauffeurs' Club— Charles Garrett, Pres. For the Musical Organizations of Greater Kansas City— Prof. R. G. Jackson Major N. Clark Smith Mrs. S. W. Bacote Prof. T. M. Reynolds Mrs. J. F. Shanon Mrs. Nellie Hendricks Dr. Radword Mrs. D. A. Holmes For the Schools of the City—Principal s of the Schools of Kansas City Mo.— Mr. J. R. E. Lee Mr. W. W. Holder Mr. Wm. E. Griffin Mr. J. H. Coleman Mr. W. H. Tompkins W. H. Harrison and Whitfield Ross. Mr. R. T. Coles Mr. Joe E. Herriford Mr. A. M. Wilson Mr. H. L. Cox Mr. John L. F. Talton Miss Virginia Gerren Schools of Kansas City, Kansas— Mrs. Tressie Smothers Miss Laura Holland Miss Ella Robinson Mr. Homer Wilburn Mr. Woodie Jacobs Mr. J. A. Hodge Mr. A. J. Neely Program Committee. Major N. Clark Smith, Chairman. Prof. R. G. Jackson, Vice-Chairman. Mrs. Lloyd Bailer, Mrs. S. W. Bacote, Mrs. D. A. Holmes, Mrs. Daisy McKnight, Mrs. Sallie Love, Mrs. Hendricks Prof. T. H. Reynolds, Mr. A. T. Moore, Dr. Radford, Mrs. Dr. Miller, Labor Organizations— Mr. Shirley Hardy Mr. Charles Harris Business Men of Greater Kansas City— Mr. G. A. Page, Mr. R. Q. Glmore, Presidents. Mr. J. J. Allen, Sec. Western University— Prof. H. T. Kealing, Pres. Mr. French, Vice Pres. For the Medical Association of Kansas City— Dr. M. H. Lambright, Pres. Dr. C. A. M. Kane, Sec. For the Pythians— Lawyer L. A. Knox Mr. Fred Dabney For the Masons of Kansas City— Mr. W. G. Mosley Mr. T. J. McCampbell, Sr. For the Woodmen— Mr. L. D. Hines For the Citizens at Large— Mr. Nelson C. Crews Lawyer Houston Lawyer Calloway Mr. S. L. Hopkins Dr. Theodore Smith Rev. J. W. Hurse Rev. W. H. Thomas Rev. S. W. Bacote Lawyer I. F. Bradley Lawyer Dorsey Green Lawyer Shackleford D. E. Henderson Dr. J. E. Dibble Dr. L. E. Bailer Dr. S. H. Tompkins Rev. Mr. Griffin Rev. Mr. Bowren Rev. T. H. Ewing Rev. R. Davis Rev. William Alphin Dr. W. J. Thompkins Dr T. C. Unthank Dr. J. E. Perry Dr. E. B. Ramsey F. A. Harris A publicity committee is announced as follows: C. A. Franklin, chairman. W. G. Mosley, vice-chairman. All members of both the Ministerial Alliances making up the remainder of this committee. Committee on Hall Arrangements— Mr. J. F. King, chairman. T. B. Steward, vice-chairman. Committee on Ushers for Boxes and Arena Floor— Mrs. Mozella Washington, chairman. Miss Idella Newtonme, vice-chairman. (Other members to be added). Committee on Finance— Dr. M. H. Lambright, chairman. Dr. J. F. Shannon, vice-chairman. (Other members to be added). For the Kansas City Civic League— Dr. J. F. Shannon, Pres. Mr. Joseph Butler, Sec. Mr. John Love, Executive Chairman. For Other Cities— St. Joseph—Drs. Crossland and Carrion and Undertaker Ramsey. nix. Liberty—Prof, J. A. Gay. Lexington—Mr. E. B. Conway. Lawrence—Mrs. Mabel Gleed. Bonner Springs—Miss Willa Johnson. Atchison—Contractor Kerford. Topeka—Mrs. George K. Williams and Hon. John H. Wright. Excelior Springs—Mr. William McKnight. Leavenworth—Messrs. Sam'l Jones, B. K. Bruce and Dr. C. M. Moats. Argentine—Mrs. Ophelia Jackson. Rosedale—Mr. R. H. Brown. Note—General Committee Meeting Saturday, 8:00 p. m., Y. M. C. A. Committee on the Entertainment of Visitors— Mr. F. A. Harris, chairman. This year of all years DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING early at Emery,Bird,Thayer Co. Kansas City Let US Talk Turkey to You Let US Talk Turkey to You Sample Sale $4.50 The CROSSETT Shoe "MAKES LIFE'S WALK EASY" Abram's Big Shoe Store Abrams' Booterie 1025 Main General Steering Committee Dr. S. H. Thompson, chairman. Mr. Nelson C. Crews, vice-chairman. Mr. C. H. Calloway, Mr. W. C. Hueston, This year of all ye DO YOU CHRIST SHOPP early at Emery, Birth Kans Let US Talk The CROSSETT Shoe "MAKES LIFE'S WALK EASY" Values $6.00 to $10.00 Holeproof Hosiery, all shades for Men and Women Cross Abram's Bi ```markdown ``` High Louis Heels L. B. BURNS CHEF'S BOOT Abrams' Boot Mr. Dorsey Green, Mr. I. F. Bradley, Mr. L. A. Knox, Mr. W. H. Bruce. All the pastors of Greater Kansas City and Independence. Turkey to You Sample Sale $4.50 Small Sizes 6 to 7½ Bett Shoe Store 1005 MAIN STREET W. D. WALLACE, Mgr. $6.50 Beauties 1,060 Pairs of Incomplete Lines. NEARLY ALL SIZES. THE SEASON'S VERY BEST STYLES AND COLORS; EITHER HIGH OR LOW HEELS. $8 TO $10 VALUES SOFT, DARK GRAY VAMP; DARK GRAY BUCK TOPS TO MATCH; HIGH COVERED HEELS. $6.50 TAN RUSSIA CALF BOOTS; SAND CLOTH QUARTERS; MEDIUM LEA- THER LOUIS HEEL. BLACK FRENCH KID BOOTS, WITH GRAY BUCK TOPS, HIGH COVERED HEELS. SAME BOOT IN BABY FRENCH HEELS. LADIES' NEW DARK RUSSIA CALF BOOTS; MILITARY HEELS. $6.50 SEE OUR SOUTH WINDOW. COME EARLY YAND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE BARGAINS. terie 1025 Main FROCKS FOR GIRLS No Difficulty So Long as Fabrics Hold Out. Scotch Plaid Worsted, in Blue, Black and Yellow May Be Combined With Black Velveteen. Clothing the small girl is a simple matter these days, so long as Scotch plaid silks and worsteds and plain color fabrics to be used in combination thereweth hold out. The little frock shown in the sketch is made of Scotch plaid worsted, in blue, black and yellow, combined with black velveteen. As will be noted, the skirt is a full kilted affair, and the bodice and sleeves are of velveteen, brightened by plaid collar and cuffs. The frock fastens in the center back with small jet or velvet-covered buttons. The collar is open at the back, of course. This is one frock which is rather 1 Knitted Frock of Scotch Plaid. smarter without the overlay collar of white washable fabric. To make this dress for a little girl of six or eight years, one yard of velvet or velvetten 36 inches wide and one and a half yards of plaid fabric the same width will be required. The dress might be developed in Scotch plaid gingham and plain-color chambray or linen, if desired. One little frock recently noted, designed for a little girl of eight or ten years, was made of black velvet and cut on straight princess lines, side buttoned and trimmed with embroidery done in bright red and green silk. Velvet in black and dark shades is being used extensively in the development of suits, coats and frocks for young girls this season. When black velvet frocks are worn they must be extremely simple. Frequently a bright color touch is given by the use of wool embroidery, and the white collar and cuffs are often used. Sometimes satin is employed, and again neck and sleeves are finished with bands of filet lace. GREEN RIVAL TO DARK BLUE Jade Clothes and Jewelry Also Popular—Black in Demand for Afternoon and Evening Wear. Midnight blue holds its own. Black is in demand by those who want to dress well in the afternoon and evening, but it does not hold a high place for street suits or frocks. Dark green is a serious rival to dark blue, and the French dressmakers who exploited it last year are now reaping a reward because the public is accepting it. A woman must know herself well, however, before touching any tone of green. If she is picturesque, she can wear it. In any one of the shades that are variously known as jade, Egyptian and lettuce. The woman who can wear jade clothes and jewelry has a successful season before her, for many of the best materials are woven in this alluring but difficult tone, and the oriental shops are filled with bits of fine jade made into earrings, hair combs and necklaces. There are fans of peacock feathers with jade sticks and also buckles of this Chinese quartz for slippers. Soft gold tissue gowns are embroidered with jade tissues, in the Byzantine fashion. Red flickers through the color scheme and bursts upon the vision like the flame from the artillery at the front. It is against the accepted psychology that the colors of war should be exploited while war is on. What Thanksgiving Means to the Boys in Our More than 800 years ago John Alden and his little band of Puritan followers in New England passed a terrible year of famine and sickness that nearly wiped out all the inhabitants of the island, and conditions improved. Clearswalls were enlarged. The drouth broke. Good crops were raised. A boundless harvest was stored against the winter. And then the Pilgrims hurried to the shore to God. The heirs welled in gratefulness. They appointed a day for public thanksgiving. Every year since, when the harvest has been gathered, the people of the United States have been invading the island on the last Thursday in November. The following article concerning the observance of the day in the navy this year was prepared by a direct descendant of John Alden. AR from their homes, perhaps for the first time in their young live many thousands of young Americans sailors will forget on Thanksgiving day all of the serious business war. Thoughts will be of hon. It will be a day of meditation for the men of the great fleets who are aiding the allied nations in terminating Prussianism from the earth. It will be Amerigo's Thanksgiving in this great world war. At the training stations, on the ships which patrol the coast lines, in the submarines which move about a hundred feet below the surface of the water, and on the great battleships on the high seas. Thanksgiving day is to be observed as it never before has been by the boys and men who are dedicating their lives to America's cause. It will not be merely a day of sensuous pleasures, of stuffing oneself with foods to please the taste; rather it will be a day of mental inspiration, of a spiritual gratification, of thoughts of home and those who are dear. In a general way the stories of how Thanksgiving is observed in the two branches of the American fighting forces do not differ. Soldiers who are yet in this country will perhaps be given furloughs so that they can be with their families or other relatives on Thanksgiving day. Sailors and marines who are detailed to the training stations may be invited out for the day or they may gather in the big mess halls for a program. But the lads who are far away from their loved ones, those who are on the high seas, will experience a feeling entirely new to them. And it is going to have a tremendously important influence, too. Perhaps you have wondered some time or other why the tight-fitting blouse, the black handkerchief, and his saucy little white cap seem to give the jacket a more youthful appearance than the khaki or olive drab to the soldier. It is not a deception resulting from a marked difference in the uniforms. Rather this apparent boyish appearance of the jackles in comparison with the soldiers is a reality. The jackles are just boys—the brightest youth of America, who, before they have attained their manhood, are offering their lives to make this country secure from Prussianism and to establish peace throughout the world. A spirit of youth permeates the United States navy—an atmosphere which perhaps is not to be found in the army. Most of the boys, who are being trained to man the battleships, and the majority of those who already have met the German fleet in sea battles, are scarcely out of their teens. There is a fascination for the sea, for the experience of moving about on the waters and being constantly in danger of attack from beneath the sea or by hostile ships—a something which holds a peculiar charm for American youth. And so it is that the American navy is composed of a great host of young men—youth who seek adventure, those who are eager to avenge the terrible atrocities wrought by Germany. Months have passed since many of these young jackets, transformed in an incredibly short time from schoolboys to fighting men-o'-wars'-men, left their mothers and their fathers to join other youths in protecting our country from the ravages of a barbarian foe. Their activities have been so strenuous that few have had the time or the inclination to meditate about their homes. But all of these boys have been separated from their own people long enough to give them a sincere longing to visit again hometown and to see mother. A spirit of youth permeates the United States navy—an atmosphere which perhaps is not to be found in the army. Most of the boys, who are being trained to man the battleships, and the majority of those who already have met the German fleet in sea battles, are scarcely out of their teens. There is a fascination for the sea, for the experience of moving about on the waters and being constantly in danger of attack from beneath the sea or by hostile ships—a something which holds a peculiar charm for American youth. And so it is that the American navy is composed of a great host of young men—youth who seek adventure, those who are eager to avenge the terrible atrocities wrought by Germany. Months have passed since many of these young jackets, transformed in an incredibly short time from schoolboys to fighting men o'-wars'men, left their mothers and their fathers to join other youths in protecting our country from the ravages of a barbarian foe. Their activities have been so strenuous that few have had the time or the inclination to meditate about their homes. But all of these boys have been separated from their own people long enough to give them a sincere longing to visit again hometown and to see mother. Men of the army are better able to combat a feeling of homesickness than the jackles can because the soldiers have come, as a general rule, from the offices, from the cares of business, from colleges, and from situations which have, in their very nature, separated the men, more or less, from their family interests. Should this statement sound exaggerated and false let me amend it somewhat. The soldiers probably are more accustomed to absence from home than are the sailor boys, most of whom came directly from the influence of their mothers and who are all by themselves for the first time in their careers, confronting some of the bigger problems of life. And so it is that this Thanksgiving the many thousands of American boys who are fighting in the first line of defense are going to experience a great mental awakening—a spiritual change, which might not have come to them under normal conditions until they were much older in years and experience. It will be perhaps their first Thanksgiving day on which they have actually taken the time to meditate over the blessings for which they should give thanks. The boys probably have not previously had occasion to appreciate the home influence. They will rejoice in the knowledge that the United States now has a navy which measures up to the best in the world. They will be glad because they And so it is that this Thanksgiving the many thousands of American boys who are fighting in the first line of defense are going to experience a great mental awakening—a spiritual change, which might not have come to them under normal conditions until they were much older in years and experience. It will be perhaps their first Thanksgiving day on which they have actually taken the time to meditate over the blessings for which they should give thanks. The boys probably have not previously had occasion to appreciate the home influence. They will rejoice in the knowledge that the United States now has a navy which measures up to the best in the world. They will be glad because they FRENCH CORSET IS STRAIGHT Corsetlet Effect Is Dominating Feature of Majority of Frocks—High Collars, Skimpy Skirts Popular. Paris has accentuated the endeavor to make the human figure look like a lead penell. The French corsets of this season are built as straight as a medieval cullur, says a fashion writer in the New York Times. The corsetlet effect, in truth, is the dominating feature of the majority of frocks. The First Empire waistline is brought in by many of the designers in order to accentuate the lack of a waist. Even the jackets for street suits drop in straight lines from the shoulders to the hips, unless they carry out the surplice effect. The extraordinary wide girdles of this season accentuate the Egyptian figure. It is difficult to know exactly what France has decided upon in the way of a proper neckline. On street suits the collars rise so high that they are called the "cache-nez," or nose coverings. There is the new trench muffler, an apache cravat, and a postillon collar of the eighteenth century for the street; and for the house there are gowns that are buttoned to the chin, with the material "going over the top." Others have the loose handkerchief drapery, the fifteenth century Italian collar, and the conventional high, rolling collar that shows a bit of neck below the chin. A very few of the new skirts sweep the instep. The rest are frankly short. Street suits have skirts that appear to be simply two breadths of material cut off at the hem to allow the fullest display of the highest boot made. There is a strong feeling abroad for the elongated skirt in evening gowns and women are insisting that they almost touch the toes in front. They are so narrow that they are easily wrinkled up over the ankles as the wearer moves. SEWING ROOM AIDS Keep a small pincushion hanging on the machine with pins and needles in it. For an extra large hole in stockings fit a piece of netting to the hole and darn through the meshes. In making children's dresses make the sleeve straight and put a casing on the underside about one inch from the hem. These may be run with ribbons and removed when washed, making the sleeve easy to iron. When the eyes are tired and smart take a basin of water, dip the face in and when the eyes are completely under water open and shut them. Do this once or twice and find how refreshed they feel. COAT SERVES EVERY PURPOSE Copyright Underwood & Baldwin Pretty yet withal distinctly utilitarian is this motor coat that is intended to serve every purpose. It is of black and dark crimson velvet, rubber lined and ornamented with large bone buttons with gold centers. TAILORED SUIT COAT LONGER Extends to Point Slightly Above the Knee, or Below It, According to Fashion's Decree. Besides the strictly tailored suits, there is a fair proportion of the more dressy ones, though some of the latter are intended mainly for window displays and for openings, says the Dry Goods Economist. The coats of the tailored suits are mostly long, extending to a point slightly above the knee or somewhere below it. Some have the portion above the waist made on fitted lines with the lower portion showing a slight fullness, but still preserving the straightline silhouette. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1917. Of course there will be a "real feed," with turkey and everything, wherever it's possible on land or sea. And at the naval training stations there will be special doings to help the lonely lads forget to be homesick By RHYS G. THACKWELL AR from their homes, perhaps for the first time in their young lives, many thousands of young American sailors will forget on Thanksgiving day all of the serious business of war. Thoughts will be of home. It will be a day of meditation for the men of the great fleets which are aiding the allied nations in exterminating Prussianism from the earth. It will be America's first Navy [Image of a group of boys seated in a row, facing forward, with their backs to the camera. They appear to be in a classroom setting, with a teacher standing in the background. The boys are wearing uniforms, likely school uniforms, and are focused on the teacher. The classroom has a wooden desk and a chair, and there are other students sitting in the background. The image is black and white, with a decorative border at the bottom. WHAT WAR DID TO ROME know that this country is alding the allied nations in exterminating so-called "kultur" and in establishing peace on earth for centuries at least. The boys will give thanks because they have been privileged to give their services, their money for Liberty bonds and their lives, if necessary, to bring to a close this worst struggle of all the ages. At the naval stations elaborate programs have been prepared. Mrs. William A. Moffett, wife of the commandant of Great Lakes naval training station, early conceived the idea of giving a big Thanksgiving dinner to the 20,000 boys now training there. Actuated by her splendid mother spirit, Mrs. Moffett confided her wish to some of her friends. "Can't we do something to bring home a little closer to the boys for just one day?" Mrs. Moffett asked. "Many of the young boys actually need to pass Thanksgiving in a real home—they have been separated from their own people so long that their hearts are calling out for a glimpse into a home where there is a mother, father, some noisy children and home-cooked food." Mrs. Moffett's iden quickly became popular. A committee was formed to secure the boys who were to accept the scores of invitations from Chicagoans and other hospitable people along the north shore of Lake Michigan who showed a desire to entertain the jackies on Thanksgiving day. Chaplain Charles W. Mcore lent his aid in selecting the boys for the invitations. More than 1,000 young men were granted liberty to visit the homes where they are guests of honor for a real Thanks- Rome in the days of Augustus was a city of more than 1,000,000 persons, and it did not have a single hospital. The city was built mainly of brick, with narrow, tortuous streets. But it had some broad and well-paved thoroughfares, the fashionable avenue being the famous Applan way, which was the metropolitan terminus, so to speak, of one of the great military roads that radiated from Rome as a center to all parts of the empire. The houses of the rich, and even those of the fairly well-to-do, were supplied with running water. No modern system of aqueducts surpassed that of ancient Rome, and the water was distributed to dwellings by underground pipes that furnished the fluid through lead pipe connections to tanks elevated on pillars at regular intervals along the street. From these tanks lead pipes carried the water to the houses on either side, which were provided with faucets and basins like our houses of today. This in itself is a very interesting fact, because even two centuries ago there was no such adequate system of water supply for cities anywhere in the civilized world. In respect of this important item of civilization, the destruction of Rome by war put the world back about 1,800 years. When Julius Caesar first visited Alexandria in Egypt, the occasion on which he was captured by the Greek charms of Cleopatra, he found there so complete an underground water-supply system that the city seemed "hollow underneath." The aqueducts of ancient Rome, substantial remains of which still exist, supplied numerous street fountains, at which the people drank, and, much more important, the enormous bath buildings, erected and maintained at fabulous expense by various emperors. There were no street lamps. Soldiers employed as policemen carried torches through the streets. It was a method corresponding nearly to that in use in European cities a couple of centuries ago. Stoves were unknown and dwellings were heated with braziers of charcoal. Olive oil lamps and candles of tallow and wax furnished domestic illumination. House furniture—sofas, chairs, beadsteads and what not—much resembled in pattern what we have today, and for the rich was no less luxurious. Grain was ground by watermills and windmills. Boats on the Tiber carried mill wheels that were driven by the current of the river. Chickens were hatched by incubators on a great scale for market. Ice obtained from mountain heights was stored in summer time for winter use. A big book might be written about the "modern giving dinner. Most of the boys are to be taken to church services before the dinner. Automobile rides and other forms of entertainment constitute the afternoon program. Probably every boy will feel an impulse to write a message to mother. What is being done at Great Lakes, where the largest naval training station of the world is located, is typical of the programs at the other training stations. On every battleship guarding our coast lines, in every submarine craft which bears American sailors, or every other ship manned by the blue-jackets at least a portion of Thanksgiving day will be devoted to meditation. Religious services will be held on many of the ships. Turkey dinners with several courses, topped off with ice cream or other delicacies, are to be served to all of the navy men. And as they eat the boys will appreciate as never before the significance of Thanksgiving and the turkey dinner. They will better understand the hardships which the Pilgrims endured in order that they might establish a people who should be at liberty to worship as they saw fit. And as they think of the fortitude of the men who fought hunger, and cold, and disease, and death in order that somewhere there should be a country where people could be assured of liberty, the jackles sincerely offer up their gratitude to the power which has made it possible for them to aid in preserving this nation from the loss of that priceless liberty. convenences" enjoyed by the ancient Romans. They were wiped out, together with nearly everything that was worth while in the way of civilization, by barbarous tribes, whose notion of warfare was "frightfulness" carried to the ultimate extent. These tribes were largely the ancestors of the present-day Germans. What they are today they were then. And what they did to Rome and to the civilization of which Rome was the dominant center put back the progress of the world just about eighteen centuries. An Odd Fish--The Sea Horse If mermalds were no bigger than some fairies, they might have horses to ride. The sea horses are creatures familiar enough, though most people have never seen one allie. Summer visitors at the seashore find them for sale—very dead, and dried—at shops that specialize in marine curles. The sea horse (naturalists say) is one of the most ancient of fishes. It is one of nature's oddest imitations—a "camouflage," so to speak. It has a horsellike head, and its body is so shaped as to resemble the neck of that quadruped. But really, when one comes to examine it, the thing it counterfeits is the "knight" piece of the chessboard. The sea horse has a tubelike snout, at the end of which are the mouth and jaws. Its head is topped by a sort of coronet. Clad in a complete suit of armor plates, it cannot flex its body like other fishes, and its finless tall is of no use for locomotion. It feeds on small shrimps and other crustaceans. Occasionally, uncolling its tail from the supporting plant, it swims slowly, not like other fishes, but always in a vertical position, its back fin vibrating rapidly. Like other fishes, the sea horse possesses an air-bladder, which is always distended by a quantity of gas so exactly adjusted for equilibrium that, if a single bubble no larger than the head of a small pin be extracted, the creature falls to the bottom and must crawl about until the wound is healed and a fresh supply of gas has been secreted. But the most remarkable point about the sea horse is that the male is provided with an external stomach-pouch, in which, at the mating season, the female deposits her eggs. The lining membrane of the pouch secretes a nutritious fluid on which the young, when hatched, are fed. When they are big enough to take care of themselves, the father sea horse rubs his stomach against a winkle shell or some other convenient object, and by this means forces them out into the water. TREE PLANTING NEEDS CARE Appearance of Grounds as Important as House Plans, Interior Decorations or Furniture. While house plans, interior decorations and furniture play a prominent part in the life of the new home builder, care of the grounds about the house should likewise be given consideration, particularly as regards the planting of trees to trim up the general appearance of the house. In tree planting great care, foresight and judgment are required, says landscape artist. The selection of young trees, their proper setting apart and their care after planting make beautiful grounds possible. In shade tree planting as in the construction of a building, the plan for the completed work should be determined in advance, for the tree planter must picture to himself how his work will look a great number of years later and with him it rests whether the result is to be one of satisfaction or regret. In making selections one must bear in mind that the tree must possess certain characteristics to be desirable. In the first place it must be hardy, capable of withstanding unfavorable conditions of city life such as poor soil, drought, smoke, gas, heat and dust, easily transplanted and propagated. It must have a straight stem, a rounded well filled head, well developed roots and be symmetrical in growth. They must to a great degree be immune from insect pests, retain their foliage in good condition through the summer until late fall and be clean in their habits of growth. The ideal shade tree must also be of medium growth and long lived. The desirability of developing good-sized shade trees as soon as possible after planting is admitted, and it is unfortunate that the trees growing most rapidly are the most undesirable. NEVER TOO SOON TO BEGIN Start Is All That Is Necessary in Planning House That One Some Day Is Going to Build. There are two kinds of people who are interested in the question of building houses: Those who have built one house and live in it, and those who are living in some one's else house. A pretty comprehensive statement, but really, who isn't interested in the matter of building a home? Jones has a house of his own, and he is concerned with the thing he possesses, says an exchange. Smith, who owns no house, is concerned with something he lacks. Jones is homesick only when he is away from home. Smith can never be homesick in any place other than his home. Jones is an owner, a master, a lord lord of lands and all that is therein. Smith is a tenant, a payer of rent, a slave of tribute. Jones dwells on the right side of the door. Smith is eternally wishing that he did. It is never too soon to begin planning that house which some day you are going to want to build. It is never too soon, but sometimes too late, to save the money for a start toward it. The start is all that is necessary. The Knocker's Prayer. In the case of Bloodworth vs Times Publishing Company, 193 Southwestern Reporter, 527, Justice Wood of the Arkansas supreme court said, in substance, that where defendants in one part of its paper referred to plaintiff as a "knocker," and it was alleged that he was the person specifically meant, it furnished the necessary colloquium to show that the following prayer published in the same paper applied to the plaintiff: "The Knocker's Prayer: Lord, please don't let this town grow. I've been here for many years, and during that time I have fought every public improvement. I've knocked on everything and everybody. No firm or individual has established a business here without my doing all I could to put them out of business. I've lied about them, and would have stolen from them, if I had the courage, I am against building a new church, even though I gave nothing. I am against the electric light franchise being granted to George Booser, George Washington, or Jim Tom. It pains me, oh Lord, to see that in spite of my knocking the town is growing. Then, too, more people might come here, which would cause me to lose some of my pull. I ask, therefore, to keep this town at a standstill, that I may be one of the chiefs. Amen!"—The Docket. Fishing on Sunday. Sunday fishing, which has long been looked upon as sacrilegious in the Isle of Man, threatens to lose some of its terrors for the "unco guild," notes an exchange. Until recently the North of England and Scotland fishermen engaged in the Manx herring trade have kept Sunday so rigorously that they have remained in port from Saturday morning to Monday afternoon. Fishermen from the South, resenting the loss of two night's fishing, have tried to break through the tradition and a Fleetwood boat put out to sea one Sunday evening recently, returning the next day with a good catch. The buyers at first looked askance at the herring as "Sunday-caught," but finally they were sold at a fair price. COMMENCING SUNDAY MATINEE, NOVEMBER 25TH William Wamsher's Latest New York Musical Comedy success. Book by Chas. S. Adelman. Music by Ben M. Jerome. NEXT—"Marriage Question." New Vine Theatre 2411 Vine THE MOTION PICTURE EVENT OF A LIFE-TIME Greatest Picture Ever Screened A Half Million Dollar Super Production Sublime 6 Reels, Featuring ATTILIO FORD, A NEGRO Salambo is unlike any other posing, Beautiful, Overwhelming didly told. Showing the remembrance STAR. 2,500 people in this pivotal dime. Direct from a record run theatre, St. Louis, Mo. SHOWN UNDER THE PERIOD OF CHARLES B. In addition to the above work of the Bi-Ennial Encampment P., and Parade, recently held in Band and also many notables on THREE—DAYS WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, ADMISSION TO SHOW STARTS ONE-HALF HOUR THE DRUG STOCK Service and Quality and WHITE-WOOD Bring Your Prescription of Absolute Accuracy OUR STOCK IS COMING N. W. Corner 19th and Vine PHONES—HOME EA Salambo is unlike any other picture, Magnificent, fascinating, Beautiful, Overwhelming. A wonderful story, sprightly told. Showing the remarkable ability of A NEGATIVE CAR, 2,500 people in this picture. A dollar picture for one. Direct from a record run at the Booker Washington theatre, St. Louis, Mo. NOWN UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION OF CHARLES H. TURPIN In addition to the above will be shown Moving Pictures at the Bi-Ennial Encampment of the Supreme Lodge, Kirk and Parade, recently held in St. Louis, showing the Kirk and also many notables of this city. THREE—DAYS ONLY—THREE EDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY — NOV. 28, 29, ADMISSION TO ALL, 10 CENTS. HOW STARTS ONE-HALF HOUR SOONER THAN USUAI THE DRUG STORE BEAUTIFUL Service and Quality are Paramount at the WHITE-WOOD DRUG STORE Bring Your Prescriptions to us and be assured of Absolute Accuracy and Fair Treatment. OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE IN ALL LINES. W. Corner 19th and Vine Streets. (Transfer B) PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 641. Salambo is unlike any other picture, Magnificent, Imposing, Beautiful, Overwhelming. A wonderful story, splendidly told. Showing the remarkable ability of A NEGRO STAR. 2,500 people in this picture. A dollar picture for a dime. Direct from a record run at the Booker Washington theatre, St. Louis, Mo. SHOWN UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION OF CHARLES H. TURPIN In addition to the above will be shown Moving Pictures of the Bi-Ennial Encampment of the Supreme Lodge, K. of P., and Parade, recently held in St. Louis, showing the K. C. Band and also many notables of this city. WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY — NOV. 28, 29, 30 ADMISSION TO ALL, 10 CENTS. SHOW STARTS ONE-HALF HOUR SOONER THAN USUAL Bring Your Prescriptions to us and be assured of Absolute Accuracy and Fair Treatment. OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE IN ALL LINES N. W. Corner 19th and Vine Streets. (Transfer Point) PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 641. OUR ADVERTISEMENTS. 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Safety First, and you find it at the firm that advertises with us! Subscribe for The Sun Subscribe for The Sun Pianos and Victrolas Easiest Place to Buy is THE JONES STORE CO 3rd Floor 12th & Main Sts. Coal and Feed Don't wait—Order your Coal now. Full Weight—Quick Delivery. PAYNE COAL CO. 1902 Vine St. Phones, Home East 4132—Bell East 559 Service AND Satisfaction are what you get when you patronize C. A. FRANKLIN THE PRINTER 1309 East 18th St Bell Phone Grand 2988 KNIGHTS TEMPLAR BAND KANSAS CITY THE FAMOUS KNIGHTS TEMPLAR BAND RECENTLY ORGANIZED AND NOW ONE OF THE BEST MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS CITY. THEY WILL LEAD THE ANNUAL PARADE THANKSGIVING DAY. SIX FULL UNIFORMED COMMANDERIES WILL BE IN LINE. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1917. AMONG THE CHURCHES teresting discussion on "Faith" was enjoyed. Six person joined the society. The society will meet at the same place Wednesday, November 28 subject for the evening, "Hope." At 8:45 the Literary Society opens with interesting program. Mrs. M. A. McCurdy will be principal speaker of the evening; subject, "The Demands of the Hour as It Concerns Women." Mrs McCurdy is a brilliant woman and an interesting talker. She is state organizer of the Indiana W. C. T. U. work among our women and brings to us an interesting message. Special solos and quartettes by local talent; also Mme. Lillian Tolley will appear in one of her favorite selections. Colonel Mortimer O. Bigelow, who is training the Colored Infantry Regiment, Eighty-ninth Division, Camp Funston, addressed the congregation Sunday morning. He sought to impress upon the minds of the listeners AND HALF GREATEST OF THE RACE TION HALL, FRI BENEFIT OF A RECRE O SOLDIERS AT CAM SSION 15, 25, 35, AND 50 OIL that never before in the history of the effort along industrial lines. For this pieces which have always been his, but his new awakening has caused the "SQ the stringent blue sky laws of the State n Street and are now ready to give a Corporation and Industrial development to incorporation. THE OIL BUSINESS? If you don't, the oil business is highly speculative which owns the oil territory in its bounds alm ritory. The great boom and tremend ed created by the present war for oil, to supply this enormous demand you do not you can not. THE SQUARE no obtain leases in LIVE AND DEVELO RE OIL. DO YOU WISH TO SHARE A PARTNER. GET RICH WITH U Deal Oil and 5 East Eighteenth S d 317 Hom ROLAND THE GREAT OF IN CONVENTION FOR THE BENEFIT FOR NEGRO SOLD ADMISSION 15 OIL Has it ever occurred to you that never be ful development and strenuous effort along in to new fields developing resources which h the other fellow to develop. This new awak PANY," incorporating under the stringent b We are located at 1315 East 18th Street and all business, subsequent to the Corporation obtained by this company prior to incorporat DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE OIL BUS opinion of most people that the oil business and conservative oil operator knows the oil knows the bounds of a given territory. The true because of the great demand created by yourself in the position to help to supply the lions of enormous profits. If you do not you c has obtained and will continue to obtain leas OIL AND WILL DEVELOP MORE OIL. DO OUR STOCK NOW. BECOME A PARTNER Square Deal 1315 East ROLAND HAYES THE GREATEST TENOR OF THE RACE IN CONVENTION HALL, FRIDAY, DEC. 7 FOR THE BENEFIT OF A RECREATION FUND FOR NEGRO SOLDIERS AT CAMP FUNSTON ADMISSION 15, 25, 35, AND. 50 CENTS Has it ever occurred to you that never before in the history of the race has there been such wonderful development and strenuous effort along industrial lines. For this reason the Negro Race is turning to new fields developing resources which have always been his, but in which he has always waited for the other fellow to develop. This new awakening has caused the "SQUARE DEAL OIL AND GAS COMPANY," incorporating under the stringent blue sky laws of the State of Missouri to come into existence. We are located at 1315 East 18th Street and are now ready to give all information and to do any and all business, subsequent to the Corporation and Industrial development of a number of valuable leases obtained by this company prior to incorporation. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE OIL BUSINESS? If you don't, we do. Let us explain. It is the opinion of most people that the oil business is highly speculative which is not true. The well informed and conservative oil operator knows the oil territory in its bounds almost as distinctly as the geographer knows the bounds of a given territory. The great boom and tremendous development in oil districts is true because of the great demand created by the present war for oil, oil, and more oil. If you will put yourself in the position to help to supply this enormous demand you will be able to share in these millions of enormous profits. If you do not you can not. THE SQUARE DEAL OIL AND GAS COMPANY has obtained and will continue to obtain leases in LIVE AND DEVELOPING TERRITORY WHICH HAS OIL AND WILL DEVELOP MORE OIL. DO YOU WISH TO SHARE IN OUR PROFITS? IF SO BUY OUR STOCK NOW. BECOME A PARTNER. GET RICH WITH US. Square Deal Oil and Gas Co. 1315 East Eighteenth Street OFFICERS C. H. Fowler, President. G. H. Purnell, 1st Vice President. Wm. Moss, 2d Vice President. M. E. Oden, Secretary and Treasurer C. R. Groves, General Manager. CAPITAL $20,000.00 EBENEZER CHURCH. Ebenezer continues to grow numerically and financially. Twenty additions during the four Sundays of Rev. Osborne's administration, and the collection has almost reached the one hundred dollar mark for the day. Rev. Osborne preaches the plain, straight gospel truths earnestly and fearlessly; the people like it and are flocking to hear him. The Sunday school at 1:15 and the Christian Endeavor at 7 p.m., are increasing in numbers and interest. Special Thanksgiving sermon by the pastor, with special music by the choir at 10:30 Thanksgiving morning at the church. Members and friends are asked to give one dollar to help meet an urgent demand upon the church. At night will be a concert. All are invited....Mrs. Luila Bass entertained the Art Club at her home, 1513 Lydia avenue. Thursday afternoon....Miss Minerva Akins entertained the Who-soever Week Club at her home, 1011 Oak, Thursday evening....The Missionary Society met at the church Wednesday evening. An in Bell Phone, Grand 317 HAYES FIRST TENOR RACE ., FRIDAY, DEC. 7 REGREATION FUND AT CAMP FUNSTON AND. 50 CENTS OIL OIL history of the race has there been such wonder- s. For this reason the Negro Race is turning been his, but in which he has always waited for used the "SQUARE DEAL OIL AND GAS COM- of the State of Missouri to come into existence. ready to give all information and to do any and final development of a number of valuable leases If you don't, we do. Let us explain. It is the reculative which is not true. The well informed bounds almost as distinctly as the geographer and tremendous development in oil districts is war for oil, oil, and more oil. If you will put demand you will be able to share in these mil- LE SQUARE DEAL OIL AND GAS COMPANY AND DEVELOPING TERRITORY WHICH HAS TO SHARE IN OUR PROFITS? IF SO BUY CH WITH US. and Gas Co. eenth Street Home Phone, Main 3963 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Samuel R. Hopkins, Chairman. Wm. Moss, M. E. Oden, C. R. Groves, B. H. Payne, C. H. Purnell, C. H. Fowler. 000.00 ALLEN CHAPEL. By Delia H. Mosee. the duty they owe to their soldiers Dr. Thomas, the pastor, visited Camp Funston a week ago. In the evening service Dr. Thomas delivered an inspiring sermon from the 53d chapter of the Prophecy of Isaiah, 7th verse There were six additions.....Mrs. Minnie Doyle and her co-workers are planning to serve a palatable dinner on Thanksgiving Day.....All who pledged themselves for any amount toward the liquidating of the mortgage indebtedness are expected to pay in Rally Sunday....The Christian Endeavor meetings grow more interesting each Sunday. You are invited to attend at 6 p. m....The Alexander W. C. T. U. will meet at the Y. M. C. A. the first and third Tuesday of each month at 3 p. m....We were glad to note the many visitors in our midst last Sunday....Never a service held in Allen Chapel without a silent prayer being sent up for the man at the front and for those he has left behind. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. All services were well attended Sun- day. There were four additions to the Church.....Mrs. Maggle Reynolds is very sick at Wheatley-Provident Hospital. We hope she will recover soon....The B. Y. P. U. will serve meals all day Thanksgiving and at night....Mrs. P. L. Blackwell will give a concert known as the "Peep Show." All are invited to attend. Admission 10 cents....Mrs. Joe Bethel Cregg left Sunday night at 8 p. m. for Chicago, where she joined Daniel P. Jones at 9 a. m. Monday and was barried immediately. We wish them success....The B. Y. P. U. will dender a fine program Sunday at 5 p. m. Attorney Calloway is expected to address them. Mrs. B. M. Weaver will sing a golo. ST. STEPHEN'S BAPTIST CHURCH The pastor preached two splendid sermons last Sunday....The funeral of Inez Taylor was held last Wednesday under the auspices of J. W. Hurse Temple. Rev. J. W. Hurse officiated....Morning Star Baptist Church conducted a praise service last Sunday. Dr. Daniel, pastor....Mr. Charles Smallwood is on the sick list....The Ministerial Alliance met with the St. Stephen's Baptist Church Monday evening. A large attendance was present. A. Moore, president....Sister Maria Jackson departed this life Tuesday morning....Madam Tooley visited the Sewing Circle; also Mrs. Stella Harvey. 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. PHC Bell East 1814 Why pay more to get a LIVE AND LET LIVE AUTO T. T. Bell Phone Grand 1266 Stand, 2109 Campbell Street Haul Everything. LYRIC HALL FOR RENT For All Entertainments — See — C. H. HARRIS, Mgr. 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 3429 W. RATES REASONABLE. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Al services were well attended last Sunday...At 9:30 the Sunday school held a very interesting session.... The pastor preached two beautiful sermons on "The Conservation of Food." During the day there were six additions....The Mission Circle held a very interesting session at the home of Mrs. Ewing at 616 Steptoe avenue, Friday afternoon....The Friendship Club met at the home of Mrs. Allen, 2313 Highland avenue....The choir held a fine session of its round table at the home of Mr. Frederick Fitshough, on the Kansas Side, Friday evening....Come to Church. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Te teachers and Bible school conference at the parsonage Monday evening was well attended....The Young Women's Missionary Circle held a very profitable meeting with Mrs. May White, 1017 West 27th street....The Ald Society met at the church and finished the quilt for the contest....The Bible school was well attended and work good....The attendance at all the church services was fine....Sunday will be educational day. Each member is urged to give one dollar. Prof. M. H. Thompkins of the Douglass school will speak at the morning services and Prof. W. H. Harrison of the Attucks school will speak in the evening services. The pastor will speak at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Drug Store HONES Home East 4082 more than 50 cents a trunk hauled? AUTO BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS TIVETT KANSAS CITY, MO. FAMILY BUSES IN LEFTYHAM Along the river more than half the way to SAINT LOUIS ON THE Missouri Pacific —a delightful ride, day or night Lv. Kansas City Ar. 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