Kansas City Sun

HELP YOUR HOSPITAL 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 16. 60 A SPLENDID START The New Wheatly-Provident Hospital An Assured Fact if We all Work Together Let Every Colored Man and Woman Do Their Bit The campaign for a bigger, better more useful Wheatley-Provident Hospital was launched Saturday, December 8, under enthusiastic conditions. In spite of the zero weather the teams which had been selected held their meetings, secured their supplies of pledge blanks, receipts, etc., and started out to meet the people in the hospital cause. The campaign is scheduled to run to December 29, by which time all the captains and workers as well as the campaign committee are satisfied the objective will be reached. Subscriptions during the first week of the effort have come from all sources and have varied in amounts from twenty-five cents to one thousand dollars, two of the latter being reported up to press time this week. These two subscriptions have had much to do with heartening the team captains and workers for the difficulties encountered during the extreme cold and encouraging the executive MRS. IDA M. BECKS, who has been doing a wonderful work for the Master and who writes that in their recent city-wide campaign in Iowa 200 souls have been brought to Christ. Mrs. Becks is a splendid woman, eloquent, forceful and pleasing in her address and is destined to be one of the foremost women of the race in this country. All Kansas City is proud of her. committee with the certainty of success. The two one thousand dollar subscriptions were pledged, one by C. W. Armour, the other by William Volker. Other subscriptions of this same kind are expected before the close of the campaign. Several other white citizens of humanitarian sentiments have subscribed to the campaign, including the mayor, city treasurer, city counsellor and other city officials. A full list of all those who contributed will be published in these columns next week and in the issue following the close of the campaign. The workers are responding nicely to the call for more energetic effort which is constantly being sounded from headquarters. Some of the team captains have had difficulty in getting their team in full swing, but improvement is being made each day as the campaign progresses. The captains of the several teams are: S. H. P. Edwards, Dr. William J. Thompkins, Dr. E. A. Walker, L. A. Knox, Frank A. Harris, Dr. G. W. Brown, Charles H. Adkins, C. H. Calloway, J. J. Allen, A. C. Gates, Charles H. Harris, O. A. Franklin, Herman Kinsler, Richard Fullbright, Howard M. Smith, George V. Golden, Joseph Butler, R. D. Jackson and the flying squadron. A list of team members will be withheld till next week in order that each captain may have ample time to complete his team. Subscriptions reported up to Thursday of this week. Total $6,710. Don't Forget Negro Tag Day, December 22. The Phyllis Wheatley Art Club, through Mrs. Walter Howard and Mrs. A. E. Estes gave a $50.00 Liberty Bond to the Hospital Thursday. Others should imitate this example. The Kansas City Sun Roland Hayes's Fine Voice in Benefit Concert in Bill Hall. Unfavorable weather and rival attractions didn't deter the large audience of seven thousand people which greeted Roland W. Hayes at Convention Hall last night. The young Negro tenor has a voice of remarkable purity and his enunciation might serve as a model to those vocalists who appear to imagine that blurring words is a sign of artistry. He has an unsuitful gift of interpretation, catching surely and easily the mood of composer and poet. He sang Aylward's "Beloved It Is Morn" with taste, and gave a fine rendition of the swift and passionate Don Juan's Serenade of Tschaikovsky. The delicate sentiment of Campbell-Tipton's "A Spirit Flower" was well brought out, and as a recall number Hayes gave an old English folk song, "No, John, No." A group of camp meeting melodies arranged by Harry T. Burleigh, a Negro composer, were finely sung, the third number, "Swing Low; Sweet Chariot," giving the vocalist a chance to display his lower register. For the "Celeste Aida," "The Furtive Tear" from Donzettelli's "L'Elisir d'Amore" was substituted, and for "Out on the Deep Green Sea," by Mr. Hayes, Del Reigo's "Thank God for a Garden." Another Negro composition was rendered in S. Coleridge Taylor's "Elinore." The Negro community chorus, under the direction of Maj. N. Clark Smith, assisted by Prof. R. G. Jackson, sang well the anthem, "Listen to the Lambs." The religious emotion of another folk anthem, "Steal Away to Jesus," was well received. "Sarasate's violin solo, "Ziiseunerweisen," was played by Prof. Charles T. Watts. The recial was a benefit for the Negro contingent at Camp Funston, fifty commissioned officers and about 350 enlisted men attending. Nelson C. Crews in a patriotic talk paid a tribute to the work of Prof. J. R. E. Lee in organizing the chorus and made an earnest appeal for funds to build a Negro community house at the camp.—Saturday's Star. NOTICE. ALL TAG DAY WORKERS ARE REQUESTED TO MEET AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE, 18TH AND WOODLAND AVENUE MONDAY EVENING at 8 P.M. HON. O. J. HILL, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERATED CHARITIES, WILL ADDRESS US. PROF. A. E. MALONE, The astute, cultured and genial manager of the famous Poro Preparations, who is completing a new $200,000 home for his preparations in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Malone give $100 to Hospital Campaign. One of the pleasing surprises of the Wheatley-Provident Hospital campaign was the contribution of a new $100 bill by Prof. and Mrs. E. A. Malone of St. Louis, Mo., who were in the city this week visiting the convention of Poro Agents in demonstration of the wonderful hair preparation they have made world famous. Would there were more members of the race like Mr. and Mrs. Malone who also gave $5,000.00 cash to the Negro Y. M. C. A. of St. Louis last summer. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1917. At the Closed Gate of Justice To be a Negro in a day like this Demands forgiveness. Bruised with blow on blow Betrayed,like Him whose woe-dimmed eyes gave bliss, Still must one succor those who brought one low, To be a Negro in a day like this. To be a Negro in a day like this Demands rare patience-patience that can wait In utter darkness. 'Tis the path to miss, And knock, unheeded, at the iron gate, To be a Negro in a day like this. To be a Negro in a day like this Demands strange loyalty. We serve a flag Which is to us white freedom's emphasis. Ah! one must love when truth and justice lag To be a Negro in a day like this. To be a Negro in a day like this Alas! Lord God, what evil have we done? Still shines the gate, all gold and amethyst, But I pass by, the glorious goal unwon, "Merely a Negro"—in a day like this! Poro College Officials of St. Louis in Annual Visit to K. C. Hold Meeting at "Y" PHOTO BY THE FAD KCMo CR. SANTÉC Meeting of the Greater Kansas City Poro Club and Election of Officers Was Held At the Paseo Y. M. C. A., 1824 Paseo at Noon Wednesday. Over 60 Agents of Gteater Kansas City Were Present OFFICERS FOR SIX MONTHS Mrs. Hattie Bradshaw, Pres. Mrs. Lade Smith, Vice-Pres. Mrs. Searcy Beasley, Sec'y. Mrs. Nannie Reed, Asst. Sec'y. —James D. Corrothers. Miss Bertha Woodson, Traes. strator, is to remain here for a few Meetings first and fourth Mondays days only to demonstrate to the Poro at 2:30 p. m. at Paseo Y. M. C. A., 1824 Agents at 1611 East 18th street. Paseo. All Agents are requested to register Mrs. Birdie Hawkins, Poro Demon- early. A Just Judge At the risk of incurring the displeasure of our good friend, Judge Miles Bulger, Presiding Judge of the County Court, the Sun cannot refrain from publishing this splendid letter: Mr. Nelson C. Crews, 1803 East 18th St. I noticed in the morning press the announcement of your intention to begin a campaign for the purpose of building a Negro hospital. You will please find enclosed my check in the sum of $25.00 (twenty-five dollars) which I am sending to you to start off your enterprise. I am sorry, that being a poor man myself, I am not in a position to make my contribution much larger. For some time past I have had in mind the erection, upon the Jackson County Home grounds, a suitable building for the proper housing of the aged and infirm Negroes, as I realize that the building now in use for the purpose is inadequate in many particulars; but have thus far been unable to do so owing to the financial stringency existing just at this time and previously. However, I strongly favor the project and you may be assured that if funds can be had for the purpose a creditable building will be erected. Also let me add this thought, that should you be in need of an aggressive campaigner for your hospital do not overlook Dr. Smith of the Jackson County Negro Home on your committee. With best wishes, I am MILES BULGER. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 17, 1917. Allen Chapel Senior Endeavor desires to submit the following resolution: Whereas, Our Heavenly Father has seen fit to take from our society one of its oldest and most influential, most inspiring and most useful members, our beloved brother, Rev. J. Frank McDonald. Be it therefore resolved, That the Senior Christian Endeavor Society has sustained a great loss. Be it further resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family, Western Christian Recorder, and also a copy to the Kansas City Sun for publication. Respectfully submitted. Prof. A. M. Wilson, J. A. Sullivan, S. H. Wallace, Prof. John L. F. Talton, Sister Martha Johnson, Sister A. E. Smith, Bro. Fred G. Gilmore, Bro. S. H. Burnett, Committee MRS. A. E. MALONE Who has made Poro famous the world over. 70 Employees in St. Louis Plant. 12,000 Agents in U. S. and Islands. 150 Agents in Greater K. C. 400 Agents in Birmingham, Ala. 300 Agents in Atlanta, Ga. 400 Agents in Chicago, Ill. 250 Agents in Indianapolis, Ind. $250,000.00 Poro Office, Laborator and Factory Buildings to be completed August 1, 1918. PRICE, 5c. WINSTON HOLMES TO RUN FOR ALDERMAN IN THE LOWER HOUSE ON AN INDEPENDENT TICKET. THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF COLORED WORKERS WILL BACK MR. HOLES. IF ALL OF THE COLORED VOTERS WILL VOTE FOR THEI RACE-MAN IN 10TH WARD AS THE WHITES DO FOR THEIRS WE CAN WIN IN A WALK. Why shouldn't the Colored people of Kansas City, Mo., be represented in our Common Council? In this city, like all other American cities, special provisions are made for the race. We have separate churches, schools, playgrounds, public baths, and we have, all to oursedves, one special street car line, which connects the two thickly populated colored districts. So long as we are treated by the National Government, the State and City as a distinct race, just so long shall we be denied the unhampered privileges of a citizen. We do not question the right of the dominant white race to choose a special place for us; there may be biological law or some power that forces races together, but we do question their right to choose special places for us without our consent or without representation in the Common Council. Is there anything treasonable or unfair in this statement? Every fair white man and every member of the race should approve of this move. Af- MR. WINSTON HOLMES. ter careful and thoughtful deliberation over our precarious condition, knowing that only through politics, a civilized method of securing human rights, can we attain a high degree of moral, ethical and industrial achievement, we, the National Council of Colored Workers, do introduce to the colored voters of the Tenth Ward, Winston Holmes, as a candidate to the City Council in the Spring election. There will be three tickets in the field, all white men; every white man will be loyal to his party, and especially to his race; why can't we be just as loyal to our race? If we are, Mr. Holmes stands a good chance of being elected. Winston Holmes is not a politician, neither is any of the campaign committee, but we do know that Mr. Holmes' character as a man stands unimpeachable. He is a true race man, a high class workman, employed by one of the largest music houses in the city as foreman. He knows the many needs of his race and will strive at all times for their good. Mr. Holmes is a Christian gentleman, being a married man, he and his sloyal wife living an ideal and happy life on Michigan avenue. This is a good chance for every ture race man to show his colors. If you cannot vote for our candidate, you can contribute a small sum towards the campaign. If Winston Holmes wins, the entire race wins. "Wins" is the first part of his name. Help us to make it a reality and put Kansas City on the map for the race. The National Council of Colored Workers will meet Sunday, 3 p. m., at 1315 East 18th street, at Mr. Hopkins' real estate office. J. L. SHAW, W. M. CARTER, W. M. BONNER, WINSTON HOLMES, RUCKER SMITH, Campaign Com. W. M. BONNER, Campaign Mgr. ¥ ° Headquarters: Masonic Temple, 18th and Woodland Avenue The colored people of this city, assisted and advised by many prominent white people, will launch a campaign, beginningDecember 8 and continuing twenty days, to raise $25,000.00 to purchase and equip a permanent home for the Wheatley-Provident Hospital for colored people. There Is No Hospital in This Great City That Admits Negro Physicians and Negro Patients Except THE OLD CITY HOSPITAL Don’t you think we deserve better treatment than that? BLACK MEN, LET US DO OUR DUTY. Remembering: “God helps those who HELP themselves.” Many generous white people will help us. . Note: We have closed a deal for the Catholic school property at 1826 Forest avenue. It is a large, commodious stone building containing 20 large rooms IN THE HEART OF THE NEGRO DISTRICT, splendidly located and admirably suited for a Negro hospital. It will require $25,000 to pay for and equip this property. Can’t we get it? Bell Phone East 999. Home Phone Special. Mrs. T. G. McCampbell, President of Federated Clubs, will have charge of our annual Tag Day, Dec. 22. The Wheatley-Provident Hospital NELSON GC. GREWS, Chairman Executive Committee «<r umrssouaysreany, he PRED W. DABNEY, Secretary Executive Committos iste in poser nit in a EVA Me hOx, ‘Seman 1 a ER POT Tr A ia ERC (LY RR NS eR RE Se Ee ACI TN VR, IE I RR Dee ATE rR OE NE TT Sy ae em ter amma ee THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917. WE OPERATE UNDER GOVERNMENT INSPECTION Newer Bros. Meat Co, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Manufacturer Especially of Pure Home Made Sausage and Lard No. 1326-1328 Main Street Telephones: Home, 1328 M.; Bell 85 Gr. Kansas City, Mo. | Ls ok Be ee ee Pease First Quarterly Meeting of Allen Chapel, Sunday, December 16. Dr W. T. Osborne of Ebenezer will preach the Communion sermon. Stereopticon views of the “Last Supper” at evening service, COME! 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 ; ( } N. W. Corner 19th and Vine Streets. (Transfer Point) | PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 641, ‘ , ‘ 500 0008080808000008080008000808000808080808080@0@0@0F SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. “Come unto me all ye who are heavy laden and I wil give you rest” was the subject of Dr. Bacote's beautiful ser. mon last Sunday morning to a large and interested congregation. At the evening services the pastor again preached a fine sermon on “God Is a Sun.” The Mission Circle held a very interesting session at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Briggs at 2932 Summit street last Friday at 2 p. m........The Friend- ship Club held an interesting meeting at the home of Mrs. Josephine Smith at 915 Woodland avenue last Thursday afternoon....... The old fashioned spell- ing bee which was held in this church last Friday evening for the benefit of the pipe organ was a grand success. All strangers in the city are es: pecially invited to share our church home, Come and bring a friend with you. OUR ADVERTISEMENTS. No level headed person can doubt for one minute the fact that we regard the buying activity of our subscribers as highly as any newspaper anywhere to be found. And re- garding it as we do, we are always careful to see that what- ever is advertised in our columns will be found by the buy- ing public exactly as represented. This carefulness assures both the advertisers and our subseribers, and the house that advertises in the Sun should know that what it advertises will be read from this view- point. Likewise, every reader may purchase of our adver- tisers in perfect safety, knowing that absolute satisfaction is to be had. This is a combination that cannot be beaten anywhere by any other paper. Safety First, and you find it at the firm that advertises with us! VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Services were poorly attended Sun- day........Mr, Baldock is somewhat bet- ter at this writing.......Miss Maybell Perry has been sick, but she is much better at this writing, for which we are very glad......The B. Y. P. U. is Indeed sorry they could not attend’the Second Baptist B. Y. P. U. last Sun- day on account of the cold weather, but will be glad to "have them visit at any time. A program, as was ex. pected, was well rendered. We sin- cerely hope they will accept our ex- cuse and look for us in the near fu- ture.......Mr. Edward Ewing and Miss Fethel Ewing are visiting their father, Rev. T. H. Ewing. We wish them a pleasant stay in our city. ALLEN CHAPEL, Bishop I. N. Ross, D. D., of Wash. {ngton, D. Cy occupied thé pulpit of Allen Chapel Sunday morning ani preached a very inspiring — sermon There were two additions and despite the very inclement weather a fair au- dience greeted him. In the evening the minister continued the sermon in pictures, giving the Baptism, Tepta- tion, First Miracle and First Sermon, Don't miss the evening service this Sunday—stereopticon views, fllustrat- ing the Last Supper, The Retrayal, Dental, and the Crucifixion, Our first Quarterly meeting for the Conference year will be held Sunday, December 16........Dr, MeDonald’s funeral was) held Tuesday at 10 a, m. Bishops} Perks and Ross with many visiting, clergymen were present. The services were very sad and impressive, ‘The floral offerings were profuse. All Al- len joins in extending their sympathy, to the widow in her bereaveemnt, _| ieee oe % fe ee sage aces a Tee ci. ae RRS oe Be Oh ae LER, gt cate oe ae i oe : oo 4 ; Si Saget ~ Sti ane es OP VE trey Se OR OP ge. ay ae Aes eae re ARS ee BISHOP ji. N. ROSS, Presiding Bishop of the Liberian Con. ferences of the A. M. E. Church, Pres- ident of the Western Christian Re- corder Board, whose eulogy over Dr. J. Frank McDonald was a classic. AN APPEAL TO RED CROSS WORKERS. The following letter was received by Mrs, L, A, MeCampbell, president ot the Colored Red Cross Workers through Mrs. Heminway, from the (S66th Infantry, stationed at Camp Dodge, 1a.: “The Red Cross has helped us tre- mendously by giving this regiment 4, 000 knitted sweaters, and I thought you would like to have this memoran. dum, There are 4,000 men here now, almost all of the from Alabama, where of course the winters are mild. Three ‘thousand more come from Alabama about the 15th of this month. The cold is extreem here, 14 below, and it is difficult for the to keep warm whe non fatigue duty, ete. ‘The heads and the feet are where they feel it first, Ears are frequently frozen. 1% any kind of a knitted helmet, covering the head and ears, in fact every part of head except the eyes, could be se- cured through the Red Cross it would be a tremendous boon to these men. They are patient and uncomplaining but they really suffer. ‘There is such a thing as an aviator's knitted helmet, which covers the head, everything ex: cept the eyes, nose and mouth, but it costs retail three dollars. If knitted helmets cannot be secured, a broad, knitted short scarf to wrap around the head and ears and nose would be a great help. Tuskegee, Ala—The bakery at the Tuskegee Institute has been success: fully experimenting with, sweet pota- toes as a partial substitute in making bread. This bread is composed of ap- proximately two parts white flour and one part boiled, mashed sweet pota- toes. The result of the use of this combination has been the saving of about 200 pounds of flour each day and there is no very apparent differ. ence between this bread and the bread which is made wholly of wheat flour. The potato bread will be used exclu- sively at the Institute as a part of Tus- kegee’s program of war economy. A booklet describing somewhat in detail this experiment with sweet potatoes has been prepared at the Institute. Did you know that the excellent fur- niture sold by the Avery Furniture Co., 1308-10 Grand Ave., is only equal ed by the liberal credit system by which they sell it, Have you contributed to the Hospi ‘tal Campaign Fund? eee Watkin Bros. 7 3 nl Funeral Directors ery | and | % hs | Licensed Embalmers .“Sey, For superior service ae Ei, and most reasonable THERON B, WATKINS. prices we excel. Phones: Home, M. 7989; Bell, Gr. 987 1729 Lydia Avenue MORINO 812 Grand Avenue Opposite Post Office Saves You 35 Per Cent on Diamonds Special Sale on Unredeemed Diamonds and Watches Come and inspect our goods before you make a purchase. einer INRA ASO I ta ma a TAILOR 102 EAST TENTH STREET We make uniforms for the United States Army. Style and workmanship cannot be excelled. We will appreciate your call. PHONE, MAIN 7859 ‘ 5, i % Hy wo Pe Rei) ry During the HOLIDAYS call on For your—— BARBECUED MEATS, O’POSSUM, GROUND HOG, COON, BEEF, PORK, and MUTTON. Wholesale and retail. The best in the city. HENRY PERRY, THE BARBECUE KING, 1514 E. 19th St. All communications should be addressed to The Kansas City Sun, 1803 Eighth Street. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August —, 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson G. Crews.....Editor and Owner Willa M. Glenn.....General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....75 Three Months.....50 ADVERTISING RATES, $2.00 PER INCH PER MONTH. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. EDITORIALS. Do your bit for the Hospital and you will be happy. It may happen that before this relentless war is over wounded Negro soldiers may have to be cared for at the Wheatly-Provident Hospital. Will you do your bit toward preparing in advance for this probability? Whenever a big movement like the Camp Funston Relief or the Hospital efforts is on there are always those who find their greatest pleasure in knocking. They make all sorts of silly charges and constitute themselves a bulwark of protection against everybody but themselves. If the men who go into the trenches are willing to sacrifice their lives for the country, surely we who stay at home should be willing to sacrifice many of our comforts and pleasures in order to show our loyal appreciation for their great devotion to our interests. The Star remarks that the punishment of the soldiers of the 25th Infantry, while drastic, will serve as a great object lesson to those who would dishonor the uniform. Now for some plan, drastic or otherwise, to compel the red-necked Texas greasers to respect the soldiers' uniform. THE COLOR LINE AT JENKINS? For several days the complaint has been current that the big Jenkins Music Store has drawn the color line in its player piano department. One lady who is paying for a six hundred dollar player declared that she had been told by the store people that the practice of playing "rolls" for Colored people has been discontinued. A representative of the Sun, hearing these reports and desirous of ascertaining their truth or falsity, called at the store and conferred with the head of the player department. It was learned during a very straightforward interview that the question of playing "rolls" for Colored people has become a very embarrassing matter at the store on account of the crowded condition of the present quarters and also on account of the prejudice of some white purchasers. The ever-ready "incident" of two colored men who became obnoxious in one of the record rooms by overstaying their time and not being tidily clad was also mentioned. Those two men, John Doe and John Roe, are always handy when wanted. It will be remembered that they broke up the attendance of Colored people at Electric Park, caused the alley entrance at the Orpheum and brought about "jimerowism" in many other public places. At any rate, the Jenkins people say that Colored people have not been explicitly barred from their former accommodations at the store. A little room has been set apart for the hearing of all "rolls" for the player. If this room is not in use when a black customer appears he will be allowed to hear or play the "rolls" just as he used to do. Over at Convention Hall last Friday night the Colored people of Kansas City proved again that they can get together on vital things and work to a given aim under noble impulses and in a harmonious strain. We congratulate Professor Lee and his able co-workers in the brilliant success of their several great undertakings. More than this, we congratulate the responsiveness of the general public whose heart is right and quick to help if the appeal made to is sincere. The Y. M. C. A. movement, the various church affairs, the Negro Liberty Loan, and now the Community provisional plan for Camp Finston and our immediate hospital move for a building, new equipment and facilities that will assure more practical and humane treatment for the Colored patient are all objects of our special care. These responsibilities rest upon the shoulders of every Colored Kansas Citian, nor are they transient, but like the poor, we have them with us always, more or less. And it should be our duty to see them materially supported as all public utilities should be by the public. As for music and art we are now showing signs of appreciation, both from the productive and the liberal standpoint of patronage. The splendid chorus work which supplemented the great recital of Roland W. Hayes fully demonstrates this fact. Major N. Clark Smith and Prof. R. G. Jackson formed an alliance in assuring the event a local artistic success. It will be remembered that chorus singing involves difficulty and thoroughness that easily matches the exacting demands of the artistry of the soloist. For there is the grandeur, the weirdness, the rising and falling waves, and many other distinctively trying features peculiar to chorus singing. he could easily see the effects of choir training in such groups as Jackson's singers and others. "Listen to the Lambs," as well as his piano accompaniment to Hayes as prely Jacksonian, while the surprisingly happy innovations and variations of the major's "Steal Away to Jesus," actually thrilled. Professor Watts, after rendering a soulful violin selection with all the triumph of art, threatened to dissipate the fine impression by an elongated encore. But let us have more of this Community chorus.—Starks. The following well known Colored men made the following ratings on the basis of 100 per cent in the examination for deputy assessors; 70 per cent entitles an appointment: S. B. Porter—77 per cent. J. D. Bowser—81 per cent. Minor H. Bass—84 per cent. John W. Chouteau—79 per cent. W. H. Houston—72 per cent. NOTICE. I wish to announce the change of my Studio and would be pleased to meet all of my students of the past, present and future. Respectfully, MME. A. MOORE, Teacher of piano and voice. 1619 Cottage Ave. Classified Wants and Rooms to Rnt For Rent—Five rooms, electric lights and bath. 2418 Montgall Ave. Bell phone, East 4282. Call after 5:00 p. m. FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms or four-room cottage. 2002 Bales Ave. or call Bell Phone, East 4067-M. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms, 1514 East 17th street. Ball Bell phone Grand 3532W. FOR RENT—2 downstairs furnished rooms with use of kitchen. 1009 Euclid avenue. FOR RENT—24th and Paseo, 2 furnished rooms for gentlemen or man and wife. Bath, telephone, electric lights, $2.50 and $3.50 per week; also four rooms, 2424½ Flora, $12 a month. Bell phone Grand 1766W. FOR RENT—Small unfurnished room, 1st floor; reasonable rent. Mrs. Baker, 1013 Euclid. FOR SALE—Good home on easy terms. Home phone, East 1415. Mr. Moore. WANTED—Children to care for by the day or week. 1514 East Tenth street. Bell 'Phone East 1147L. FOR RENT—5 rooms, electric lights and bath. 2418 Montgall Ave. Bell phone, East 4282. Call after 5 o'clock p. m. Four furnished rooms, 24th and Paseo; heat, electric lights, telephone, use of piano, kitchen for light house-keeping in suite or single; $2.50 to $4.00 weekly. Bell phone, Grand 1766W. MONEY TO LOAN ON FURNITURE. To rooming house keepers and to honest working men and women who have an approved reputation of paying their obligations when due. Don't let your bills worry you; get a loan from us and pay them. You can pay us back in small weekly installments. Our business is strictly confidential. Call Bell Grand 4204. Ask for Manager. THE WILLIS REALTY & INVEST MENT CO., 2610 Highland Avenue. Bell Phone East 3440. HOMES FOR SALE For $1,000 up on Easy Terms. Estates Administered— Properties Taken Care Of Taxes paid for you, which you may repay by weekly or monthly installments. D. A. WILLIS, President. HELP WANTED. Colored laborers with small families for Sunny Side, Utah, to pull and load coke. Wages $2.40 per oven. Good workers can earn $7.20 per day by loading three ovens. Four room cottages with electric lights and running water can be rented for $8.00 monthly or $2.00 a room. Groceries and other provisions are just as cheap as they are in Kansas City. Twenty families have already gone and report everything satisfactory. There are men on these works that have earned $200.00 a month. No labor trouble of any kind. Transportation furnished free. For further particulars, see Rivers, Manager Afro-American Co., 1510 E. 18th street. Bell phone, East 782; Home, East 802. Will ship on or about December 15. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917 KANSAS CITY, KAS. By Mrs. Zenobia Nelson. In spite of the inclement weather the Forum was well attended and a very good program was rendered. Miss Trussie Smothers royally entertained the teachers of the Stowe school last Saturday, December 8. Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Plough are the proud parents of a baby girl, born December 2. Miss Jessie Brown of Fort Scott, Kas., who has been visiting Mrs. Ed Smith of 907 Washington boulevard, has returned home. She was a guest with Mrs. Smith at the Cameron Charlton-Curry reception. Mrs. Camille Briggs of Atchison, Kas., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Alexander, 531 Nebraska avenue, and attended the Roland Hayes concert. Rosetta Winfry, 16 years of age, departed this life December 8 at her home, 10th and Walker. She was a faithful member of the Metropolitan Temple, a devout worker in the Sunday school and was greatly admired by her associates. The funeral services were conducted from the Metropolitan Temple Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. the Rev. D. A. Holmes officiating. She leaves to mourn her loss sisters, brothers, mothers and a host of relatives and friends. The executive committee of the Interstate Literary Association of Kansas and the West met Saturday, December 8, at the home of the chairman of the executive committee, Mrs. Willa Dwiggins, to prepare the program for the 27th anniversary to be held in the First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Nebraska. Prof. Nathaniel Sawyers of Topeka, Prof. James L. Bowler of Wichita and Mrs. W. W. Cald [Name] S. W. M. BISHOP BLANTON PARKS Presiding Bishop of the Fifth Epis- Episcopal Church, who delivered a v mains of the late Dr. J. Frank McDo- Recorder. Home Phone Main 5680 Bell Phone Grand 644 JANITOR S Incorp "EVERYTHING A Brushes, Disinfectants, Broom 1314 Walnut St. A Sensible Give Him A PAN Crosset of the Fifth Episcopal District of the th, who delivered a wonderful funeral o the Dr. J. Frank McDonald, editor of the 5680 644 JANITOR SUPPLY CO. Incorporated EVERYTHING A JANITOR U Disinfectants, Brooms, Mops, Sweeping Sensible Suggest He Him for X A PAIR OF ossett Sh Presiding Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who delivered a wonderful funeral oration over the remains of the late Dr. J. Frank McDonald, editor of the Western Christian Recorder. Give Him for Xmas A PAIR OF Crossett Shoes We Carry Holeproof Hosiery for Men and Women Excellent Xmas Gifts. W. D Wallace Manager Crosset Shoe Store Crosset Shoe Store W. D Wallace Manager Crosset Shoe Store 1005 MAIN STREET well of Atchison were the out-of-town members of the executive committee who braved the storm and attended the meeting Saturday. PRAISE FOR COLORED SOLDIERS A great deal is being written and said with respect to the patriotism and valor of the colored soldier. The late General Benjamin F. Butler, while a member of the National Congress, in advocating the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, eloquently portrayed the patriotic devotion of the colored troops, which fought in his brigade. It was a most beautiful and pathetic tribute, and every patriotic colored man should paste it in his scrap book. On that occasion, among other things, General Butler said: "It became my painful duty to follow in the track of that charging column, and there, in a space not wider than the clerk's desk, and three hundred yards long, lay the dead bodies of five hundred and forty-three of my colored comrades, fallen in the defense of their country, who had offered up their lives to uphold its flag and its honor as a willing sacrifice, and as I rode along among them, guiding my horse this way and that way, lest I should profane with his hoofs what seemed to me the sacred faces upturned in the shining sun, as in mute appeal against the wrongs of the country for which they had given their lives, whose flag had only been to them a flag of stripes, on which no star of glory had ever shone for them, feeling I had wronged them in the past, and believing what was the future of my country to them, among my dead comrades that I swore to myself a solemn oath. May my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I ever fail to defend the rights of those men who have given their blood for me and my country that day, and for their race forever, and, God helping me, I will keep that oath." L. H. H. opal District of the African Methodist wonderful funeral oration over the reauld, editor of the Western Christian SUPPLY CO. ORATED JANITOR USES" s, Mops, Sweeping Compounds. Kansas City, Mo. Suggestion for Xmas R OF t Shoes Shoe Store 1005 MAIN STREET (Contributed.) WALT H. BUTLER President Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City BAKERIES. MRS. SUSIE OWENS, 2331 Vine street Bell phone, East 5017. HOME BAKERY. Mrs. A. Compton Prop. 1717 E. 18th street. BARBER SHOPS LABORING MEN'S BARBER SHOP, W. F. O'Bonnon, Prop., 558 Grand avenue. BEAUTY PARLORS AND MAIR DRESSERS. MISS ELSIE ROGERS, Poro Hair Dresser, 1244 Armstrong Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. MRS. CORA D. WILLIAMS, Poro Hair Dresser, 1319 Euclid Ave. Bell phone, East 1215J. MRS. SUSIE P. GIPSON, 1725 Michigan avenue, Poro hair dresser. Bell Phone, East 8058J. CAFES. MRS. H. W. DOTSON, 1705 East 12th, Bell Phone, E. 2214. FLORISTS. CROSTHAWIT FLORAL CO., 1501 E 19th. Bell phone, East 272. LAWYERS. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M. 58, Bell phone Main 448. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone, M58, Bell phone Main 448. Legal advice. Practices in all courts. E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney at Law, 511 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. JEWELERS. J. A. WILSON, 1616 W. Ninth street, Kansas City, Mo. Bell phone, Main 6248R. PHOTOGRAPHERS J. E. MILLER STUDIO, 1622 East Eighteenth street. Bell phone, E. 91. REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. COLORED PEOPLES INVESTMENT CO., Solomon Smith, Pres., 2122 Vine St. Bell Phone, East 1011. Home Phone, East 4011. A B C EMPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT CO., 500 Minnesota avenue. (Upstairs) Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 1743; Home phone, West 221. C. W. Neloms, Mgr. H. L. KINSLER, 918 East Twenty-first street. Bell phone, Grand 4204. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 E. Eighteenth street. Pell phone, East 1328. SHOE REPAIRING. ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP, J. C. Banks, Prop., 1514 $ \frac{1}{2} $ East Eligh teenth street. Bell phone 4939 8 ADKINS BROS., Nineteenth and Vine streets. Both Phones, East 4349. East 4349. H. B. MOORE, 1104 Independence avenue. Bell phone Main 3398 W. Home phone Main 3341. WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia avenue. Bell phone Grand 987, Home Main 7989. Res., Bell East 3281. All the musical talent of greater Kansas City, white and Colored, will hear Roland W. Hayes next Friday night. VIOLIN LESSONS GIVEN By Prof. Frank Martin, Graduate of Kansas University Under Prof. Wort S. Morse. Studio at 1831 Paseo Lessons from 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. DRESSMAKING and PLAIN SEWING French hand made roses and buds for all occasions. MRS. A. W. 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AUTO SERVICE 1917 CITY NEWS --- Have you ever tried the Spotless Kitchen, 23 West 13th street, the best place in town to eat? Miss Gertrude Carter, 1306 Woodland avenue, is confined to her bed with typhoid fever. Mr. C. A. Barnett, advertising representative of the Chicago Defender, was a pleasant caller at The Sun office during the week. Mrs. Fanny Traylor and granddaughter, Miss Odessa Banks, of Pueblo, Colo., are spending the winter with Mrs. Vera Engram. Mrs. Blanche Beatty of Chicago, Ill., is visiting her sister-in-laws at 1330 East 16th street. Mr. Beatty will join her during the holidays. The Sun is in receipt of the announcement of the engagement of Cary B. Lewis, one of the best known newspaper men in the country, to Miss Bertha Lee Moseley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beauregard F. Moseley, of Chicago, Ill. The wedding will take place December 25th. Mrs. Bell Fulcher of 1230 Highland avenue had the pleasure of spending Thanksgiving and over Sunday with Rev. and Mrs. T. A. McPike of War rensburg, Mo. She reports a delightful time. Rev. and Mrs. McPike are doing nicely at their first charge. Mr. and Mrs. William Engram announce the birth of a daughter, December 8. Mother and baby are doing nicely. The baby has been named Frances Elizabeth. ENTERTAINMENT POSTPOND. The entertainment to have been given by Mt. Oread lodge was postponed until next Thursday night, December 20. All tickets will be good on that date. Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Graves were the recipients of the following gifts which were too late to be placed in the last week's edition; Cut glass mayonnaise set, Mrs. Jordan and daughter, Gaynell Johnson; beautiful gown with butterfly designs of shadow lace and crepe de chine cap to match, Mrs. B. P. Blackwell, Sapulpa, Okla.; creonne knitting bag, Mrs. Rena Jones; beautiful chafing dish, Mr. E. P. Graves, father of the groom. Robert Waldron entertained twenty guests with a 1 o'clock luncheon Saturday, December 1, in honor of her sister, Miss Mabel Mae Emery, whose engagement and approaching marriage to Mr. George L. Bell of Weston, Mo., was announced. Prizes were awarded to Mesdames William Emery, H. S. Parker, of Blue Springs, Mo.; Haywood Murphy and Miss Catherine Washington. Wrs. Waldron was assisted by Mesdames Richard Fisher, Gus Lawson and P. H. Freeman and Mrs. D. G. Emery. THE ROLAND HAYES ENTERTAINMENT. A condensed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Roland Hayes entertainment at Convention Hall is as follows: Total receipts. . . . $1,421.30 Total expenditures..... 501.13 Amount clear of expenses for improvement at Camp Fun- ton. . . . $920.17 An itemized report of receipts and expenditures will appear in next week's issue. Camp Funston, Kansas. To the Editor of The Sun: We are very desirous of letting the people of Kansas City know what a glorious time we spent while in that city. We all enjoyed the Convention Hall entertainment, and also the dance given at Academy Hall. It certainly made us feel good to hear Mr. Nelson C. Crews speak so well for us. It made us feel, as though we could go to France or any place and fight for old U. S. A. Boys from Camp Funston: Sergt. Johnnie Thomas, Sergt. Tapley Burger, Sergt. Luther Jackman, Corp. Arthur Griggs, and Other Boys Here. HARDIN-FRYE WEDDDING. Officer Oscar Hardin, one of the best known and most poular Colored police officers in Kansas City, was married to Miss Elizabeth Frye of the Woodlea Hotel Wednesday, December 12, at 4 p. m. by the Rev. Wm. Alphin, pastor of the Second Christian church. Only the intimate friends of the handsome couple were aware of the ceremonies and the invitations were limited to a small number of their acquaintances. They will reside at 1715 East 19th street, where they will be at home to their friends after December 18. The Sun extends its congratulations and wishes them much happiness. The Federation of Colored Charities submits the following report of Thanksgiving donations: Cash to Orphan's Home—Lincoln High School $23.26, Lincoln Ward $7, Attucks $3.60, Douglass $13.02, Bruce $2, Wendell Phillips $5.20, Garrison $4, Wheatley $10.20, Central High $6.04, Polytechnic Institute $8, John Turner Lodge $2, Cosmopolitan Lodge $2.50, R. T. Coles Lodge $2. Groceries to Orphan's Home—Lincoln High, Day and Night, Attucks and Wendell Phillips each a wagon load; other schools contributing, Garfield, Ladd, Graceland, Ashland, Linwood, Horace Mann, Jackson, Irving, Wheatley. Cash to Hospital—Lincoln High $10, Phillips $2.55. The Kansas City Provident Association desires to thank the principals, teachers and pupils for their generous Thanksgiving donation to our families: Prof. Herriford, Lincoln School $5. Prof. Coles, Garrison School, $2 and groceries. Prof. Cox, Wendell Phillips School, groceries. Prof. Harrison, Attucks School, $3.32. Also to Dr. E. A. Walker, Dr. M. C. Kane, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hubbell, Dr. E. B. Ramsey and Mr. H. B. Moore, who so generously gave the use of their cars for collecting and distributing the baskets. Mrs. J. E. Dibble and Mrs. M. R. Green Visitors of the Kansas City Provident Association, and Mrs. C. E. 1 THE LEGEND OF THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY TRANSVERSAL MR. CHAS. D. FRAZIER of Grand Canyon, Ariz., who is here to spend the holidays to the pleasure of his friends who are legion in this city. He will be royally entertained during his stay. of Grand Canyon, Ariz., who is here of his friends who are legion in this c during his stay. LINCOLN HIGH SCHO Monthly School and Co Meet LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL EXTENSION Monthly School and Community Improvement Meeting. MAJ. GEN. C. C. BALLOU FORMERLY IN CHARGE OF THE TRAINING CAMP FOR NEGRO OFFICERS AT FORT DES MONIES, IOWA. In Command of 92d Division U. S. A. at Funston Will Speak at Lincoln High School Auditorium NINETEENTH and TRACY AVENUE Sunday, Dec. 16 3 O'CLOCK P. M. THE ENTIRE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO COME. The Lincoln High School Cadets in full uniform will be in receiving line for Major General Ballou. SPECIAL MUSIC by LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL Orchestra. Patterson, Volunteer Worker Patterson, Volunteer Worker. Anyone desiring to send Christmas cheer to a family, please call Grand 1333 Bell phone, or Main 997 Home phone. JOHN L. MINOR DEAD. John L. Minor, one of the best known men and Masons in Kansas City, died after a lingering illness December 8 and will be buried Sunday at 1:30 from the Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte Sts., Rev. Dr. S. W. Bacote, pastor. Mr. Minor was a member of Graham Lodge No. 85, A. F. and A. M., and was a past grand officer in both the grand chapter and commandery of this state, and for a number of years was drill master of Emmanuel Commandery's famous drill corps. The midnight services of the Scottish Rite degree, Mr. Minor being one of the few thirty-third degree Masons in this section, will be held at the Masonic Temple Saturday night under the auspices of Kansas City Consistory No. 7. Mr. Minor was born in Columbia, Mo., in 1866 and was 51 years old at the time of his death. He leaves to mourn his loss one son, two brothers, one sister, three grandchildren and a host of friends. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery in Kansas City, Kas. Nat Wills, widely known comedian, whose characterization of "The Tramp" is familiar to theatergoers throughout the country, was asphyxiated in a garage at the rear of his home at Union Hill, N. Y., while getting his car ready for a drive. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917 A Flower Gift Carnation CAN BE MADE WITH A MODERATE SUM A gift that is highly appreciated and can cause no embarrassment "They perish but their remembrance lingers forever.—Alpha." WE STRIVE TO PLEASE ALPHA FLORAL CO. DR. WILLIAM THOMPKINS AP- POINTED. The following telegram was receiv- ed by Dr. Thompkins: Upon suggestion of Fernando P Neal, Chairman of Kansas City General to organize Campaign to handle and issue War Savings Certificates, and DR. WILLIAM J. THOMPKINS. upon the endorsement of Frank A. Vanderlip of New York, the Secretary of the Treasury has appointed you a member of the Executive Committee (Colored). At this critical moment of our country's history you have this opportunity to render patriotic service of great value, and I urge you to make whatever sacrifice is necessary to cooperate in this highly important work. Please promptly indicate your acceptance by telephone to Fernando P. Neal, Committee Headquarters, Federal Building, Kansas City. FRED W. FLEMING, Federal Director. M. B. RUCKER SMITH. An intelligent leader of his people in this city. Free to W 191 We are the largest manufacturers of collar men's hair, and in order to ensure our goods we are sending free our lattes we look at how the men's hair styles for colored women, in the latex hair dressing. Every colored woman should have one. We ask how much money refunded. All hair will positively stand combing and washing the same as your own. We manufacture a STRAIGHTENING COMB of solid brass, with extra heavy back, absolutely the best and most serviceable made, fully guaranteed. With each comb we sell the low price of $8.00 for a lamp cup free. Send your order for this straightening comb today A FULL LINE of Hair Brushes, Nets and Toilet Articles is illustrated and can be bought for less than offered elsewhere. CARD OF THANKS. We, the bereaved family of Mrs. A. J. Lee, who departed this life the morning of December 7, wish to extend our sincere thanks to our many friends, also Mary Magdalene Court and Jennie Moore Chapter, of which she was a faithful member; Carnation Court No. 95 and Lone Star Chapter, of which Mrs. Jones was a member, for the many kindnesses rendered during the recent illness of our beloved one and the beautiful floral offerings following her late demise. Mrs. Josie Lee Jones, Edward Lee, Alexander Lee, Joseph Lee, Fred Lee, and Other Relatives. We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to our friends and relatives for the kindness shown us during the illness and death of our dear daughter, mother, wife and sister, Mrs. Sarah Lewis. We also thank them for the beautiful floral offerings. John Lewis, Joseph Monroe, Donald Lewis, Mrs. Wm. Doss, Mrs. Lizzie Henderson, Mrs. Anna Taylor, Mrs. Eva Johnson. Mrs. A. J. Lee, mother of Mrs. Josie Lee Jones, answered the summons of death Friday morning, December 7, at 5:45 o'clock at the latter's home, 328 Garfield avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. She was 71 years of age and a widow of the late Rev. A. J. Lee, and M. E. minister, who was well known in Missouri and vicinity and for many years a member of the Central Lincoln Conference, and later of the Lincoln Conference. He died about seven years ago at Chetopa. Kas. Mrs. Lee had suffered with kidney troubles and a constitutional breakdown for several months. She was a devoted Christian wmoan and had so lived for fifty-four years. Her children and her church were her only treasures on eath. She was loved by old and young and her Christian like character and simplicity of being, always seemed to appeal to those with whom she came in contact. She was the mother of thirteen children, five of whom survive her. The oldest, Mrs. Josie Jones, the only daughter, and four sons, Edward, Alexander, Joseph and Fred Lee, were all around her bedside during her recent illness. Besides these, she leaves to mourn her loss three grandchildren, three neices, four daughters-in-law and many other relatives. The funeral were held at St. James M. E. Church, Kansas City, Kas., Sunday, December 9, and beautifully conducted by the pastor, Rev. McMorris, who was assisted by Rev. Thompson, also of Kansas City, Kas., and Rev. Williams of Rosedale, Kas., who knew Rev. Lee in the days when he pastored around in the Missouri towns of Harrisonville, Fayette, Glasgow and others. Rev. Bacote of the Second Baptist Church of Kansas City, Mo., of whose church Mrs. Jones is a member, also assisted in the services. An affective solo entitled "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was rendered by Mrs. Caton. After a well delivered sermon many beautiful resolutions on the part of the church, neighbors and of Jennie Moore Chapter, of which Mrs. Lee was a member. The services were turned over to Mary Magdalene Court, of which she was a member. Mrs. Sallie J. White received the sad message of the death of her nephew, Sergeant Julius S. Proctor, at Comp Logan, Houston, Texas. He was with the Eighth Illinois Regiment; he was also a clerk in his company. He was past 23, a brilliant young man, a graduate of the Chicago High School and later matriculated at the Howard University, Washington, D. C. In addition to his many fine qualities which he possessed was a sweet tenor voice and was an accomplished pianist. He was a namesake of Julius J. Seals, well known and energetic insurance man dvoted to his promotion and success. His mother, Mrs. Bertie Proctor Roberts, was formerly Miss Bertie Seals, daughter of George W. Seals (deceased), Clarksville, Tenn. His stepfather, Mr. Henry Roberts, was such in name only, for in every other respect he has proven a real, true, devoted father. His brother, George, also an officer at Camp Logan, was with him when he died. Mrs. White sent a spray of lilies and roses with evergreen covering two-thirds of the casket, which was skillfully prepared and shipped by the Crostowht Floral Co. Interment at Chicago. The passing of this most excellent young man again reminds us of the part the Negro is taking and the sacrifices he is making in the great world war. Rabbits are being brought into Enid by the wagon load from Western Oklahoma as a means of combating the packers and the high cost of living. The meat is finding ready sale. Cottontails are selling two for a quarter and jacks bring fifteen cents straight. "Even the hairs of a man's head are numbered." "They must have hung the 'Twenty-three sign' on mine," quoth the baldhead. The stamp of approval was given to the healthfulness of Camp Funston as a camp site and to the efficiency of the sanitary administration of the camp by Maj. Gen. William C. Gorgas and other members of the surgeon general's army medical corps. Bring your gift list to the big Christmas Store mery, Bird, Thayer Co. Kansas City Our Store Is Headquarters for Santa' Claus With Many Useful Electrical Christmas Gifts Ludoir, Library and Sewing Lamps, Electrical Calculators, Irons, Toasters, Grills, Boules, Sets, Electric Sewing Machines, Lighting Fixtures, Flashlights Other Electrial Appliances at Reasonable Edward Light Co. 1307 Grand Avenue am's Big Shoe Store $6.50 Beauty 1,060 Pairs of plete Line NEARLY ALL SIZES. 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EUGENE EDWARD VAUGHAN, General Agent, 26th and Parkway, KANSAS CITY, - - - KANSAS Bell Phone, West 1757. "Frozen Music." The saying "frozen music," as applied to architecture, has often credited to Mme. de Stael. In "Corinne" she says that "the sight of such a building (St. Peter's) is the ceaseless changeless melody." The dictionaryies of quotations usually trace it to the German, Schelling, Eckermann, in his "Conversations," represents Goethe as claiming it. Take One Pain Pill, then— Take it Easy. To Head-Off a Headache Nothing is Better than Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills They Give Relief Without Bad After-Effects. "I can say that Dr. Miles' Remedies have been a godsend to me and my family. I used to have much tall headaches I would almost be wild days. I began using Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills and never have those headaches any more. I can speak highly of Dr. Miles' Nervine also for it cured one of my children of a terrible nervous disorder. I can always speak a good word for your Remedies and have recommended them to a good many of my friends who have been well pleased with them." MRS. GEO. H. BRYAN, For Sale by All Druggists. 25 Doses, 25 Cents. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. The New Wheatley Provident Hospital Photography J.E. MILLER CHE THIS IS THE BEAUTIFUL HOME WE ARE TRYING TO PURCHASE FOR THE WHEATLEY-PROVIDENT HOSPITAL AND IT REQUIRES $25,000.00 TO DO IT. WILL YOU DO YOUR BIT TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE? Betty & Sam's Little Corner THEY SAY —That if all the knockers on the new hospital were in hell they wouldn't make a room full. Get me? —That there's no use to complain now about this weather; you had nine months to get ready for it, so stop your whining. THIS IS THE BEAUTIFUL HOUSE —That an frate husband runs a certain big to do Negro "raggedy" the other day and cut several sections out of his flying coat-tail. Why? —That God helps those who help themselves. That's being proven in the Hospital Campaign. —That Christmas presents are going to be a novelty this year. Well, you can't blame them. —That a preacher and whiskey is a d——n poor combination. —That there are some Negroes engaged in throwing stones who are living in the filmsiest kind of glass houses. Better be keerful, brother. —That a certain couple who recently thought life would not be worth the living if they remained single now think if they do not get divorced life will not be worth while. —That there are a number of teachers in Negro schools of Kansas City that are obsolete, out of date and unqualified, and the school board should not hesitate to send them to the tall timber, where they properly belong. The general public ha shardly realized that already so many Negroes had answered the call to the colors. The people hear a lot about race prejudice and much less about race patriotism. They hear of every Negro who goes wrong and commits a crime, but not so much of those who make the same sacrifices as are made by Americans whose skins are white. They are more or less disposed to deny that America belongs to black and white alike and that the burdens which must be borne by a common citizenry are the black man's burdens as well as the white man's. Even when the Negro proceeds upon this patriotic assumption he is opposed rather than encouraged. He must almost force his way into the armies of freedom and humanity, at least so far as being encouraged to do so or praised for doing so is concerned. It is obvious, however, that the --- We Have Canaries, Goldfish, Cages, Globes and All Other Supplies to Keep Birds and Fish OLD BIRD STORE, 406 East 12th St. He is feted and MOVED TO 822 EAST will ta A SUIT or an OVERC PANTS, $ A large stock of import CLEANING, PRESSI Suit cleaned and pressed $1.00 We desire to have all call and see us in our Business phone, Bell Grand 4 Provident Ho SE FOR THE WHEATLEY-PROVIDE YOUR BIT TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE NEW Wheatley Prov ME WE ARE TRYING TO PURCHASE FOR THE 25,000.00 TO DO IT. WILL YOU DO YOUR BIT sum will be devoted to the Negroes in training. If the white people of America are able to assist in any reasonable way those who are willing to carry on the work of the Negro Y. M. C. A, such assistance ought to be forthcoming, for this work is of high importance and value, one which commends itself unreservedly to all who are not blinded by race passion or prejudice. It OIL CO. Has it ever occurred to you that never be- ful development and strenuous effort along in- to new fields developing resources which ha- the other fellow to develop. This new awake- PANY," incorporating under the stringent bl- We are located at 1315 East 18th Street and all business, subsequent to the Corporation obtained by this company prior to incorpora- DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE OIL BUS- opinion of most people that the oil business and conservative oil operator knows the oil it 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 OIL that never before in the history of the effort along industrial lines. For this reasons which have always been his, but in his new awakening has caused the "SQUARE stringent blue sky laws of the State Street and are now ready to give a Corporation and Industrial development to incorporation. THE OIL BUSINESS? If you don't, what oil business is highly speculative which owns the oil territory in its bounds almost territory. The great boom and tremendous and created by the present war for oil, to supply this enormous demand you do not you can not. THE SQUARE is to obtain leases in LIVE AND DEVELOP OIL. DO YOU WISH TO SHARE A PARTNER. GET RICH WITH US Deal Oil and 5 East Eighteenth S d 317 Home OIL OIL OIL 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. CAF;TAL $20,000.00 same problems inhere in the case of Negro troops as in that of white. Indeed, these problems are much more acute, for reasons which are easily understood. The white soldier is given every evidence of appreciation. Everything possible is done for his comfort and welfare. He is feted and lionized; he is sewed for and knitted for; he is the object of a universal esteem, manifested in a thousand different ways. All this is eminently proper and certainly no one would be so churlish as to grudge the white patriot an lota of what he receives. But the black man who is willing to make the same sacrifice is just as patriotic. Colonel Roosevelt has testified freely that the Negro makes an excellent soldier. The black soldier is amenable to the same laws as the white soldier and he ought to be made to feel that his loyalty is appreciated. Instead of this attitude on the part of all the people, he is made an object of aversion even by some of the men with whom he is training for the American contingents. It is highly desirable, without considering any elements of comparison whatever, that he be trained as efficiently as possible; that the proper influences be thrown around him; that the obstacles which he must encounter should be made easier to surmount; that he be encouraged and assisted in the effort to give his best to the country for which he is willing to give his life if need be. This is not the view of any extrem- ists. It is the attitude which every fair-minded and right-thinking American should assume to any man, regardless of race or color, who is willing to make the supreme sacrifice upon the altar of patriotism. The American people have just raised $35,000,000 for Y. M. C. A. work among the men in the armies of the United States. It is taken for granted that a proportionate share of this Bell Phone, Grand 317 E. W. Laden Tailoring Co. MOVED TO 822 EAST EIGHTEENTH ST. will tailor you A SUIT or an OVERCOAT for $18.50 and up PANTS, $5.00 and up a large stock of imported goods to select from. CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIRING maned and pressed Suit presses $1.00 50c We desire to have all of our old customers to call and see us in our new up-to-date location phone, Bell Grand 4281. Res., Bell Wabash President Hospital PHOTO J.E. MILLER R.C. WHEATLEY-PROVIDENT HOSPITAL AND IT TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE? A SUIT or an OVERCOAT for $18.50 and up PANTS, $5.00 and up We desire to have all of our old customers to call and see us in our new up-to-date location Business phone, Bell Grand 4281. Res., Bell Wabash 1346J are in the history of the race has there been such wide industrial lines. For this reason the Negro Race is the always been his, but in which he has always waited has caused the "SQUARE DEAL OIL AND GAS" sky laws of the State of Missouri to come into existence now ready to give all information and to do an industrial development of a number of valuable business? If you don't, we do. Let us explain. It is highly speculative which is not true. The well-inventory in its bounds almost as distinctly as the geography boom and tremendous development in oil district the present war for oil, oil, and more oil. If you will enormous demand you will be able to share in the not. THE SQUARE DEAL OIL AND GAS COMPANY IN LIVE AND DEVELOPING TERRITORY WHICH YOU WISH TO SHARE IN OUR PROFITS? IF SO, GET RICH WITH US. Oil and Gas C Eighteenth Street BOARD OF DIRECTORS Samuel R. Hopkins, Chairman. Wm. Moss, M. E. Oden, C. R. Groves, B. H. Payne, C. H. Purnell, C. H. Fowler. TAL $20,000.00 EIGHTEENTH ST. color you BOAT for $18.50 and up $6.00 and up used goods to select from. ING AND REPAIRING Suit pressed 50c of our old customers to new up-to-date location 281. Res., Bell Wabash 1346J Hospital ENT HOSPITAL AND IT REQUIRES ME? will be impossible to distinguish between the red blood shed by a white patriot and that poured out by a black one, and both white and black soldiers are entitled to everything which a grateful nation can give them. —K. C. Journal. Buy your Furniture during the year of 1918 at Avery's, the old RELIABLE FURNITURE STORE. OIL race has there been such wonder- season the Negro Race is turning which he has always waited for. WE ARE DEAL OIL AND GAS COM- of Missouri to come into existence. I will information and to do any and out of a number of valuable leases we do. Let us explain. It is the th is not true. The well informed post as distinctly as the geographer us development in oil districts is oil, and more oil. If you will put will be able to share in these mil- DEAL OIL AND GAS COMPANY PING TERRITORY WHICH HAS IN OUR PROFITS? 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The Red Cross Needs You +++ HE I T WILL take not fewer than 15,000, 000 members of the American Red Cross to take care of the sick and wounded soldiers, look after their families, and relieve the sufferings of the women and children and old men of war-trodden lands. Fifteen million members! That means 10, 000,000 new members, and the Red Cross has set out to get them before the sun sets on Christmas day. They are to be known as Christmas members, these 10,000,000 new ones, and it is in the Christmas spirit that they are to be recruited—the spirit of unselfishness, of caring for the afflicted, of alleviating suffering. While it is getting these new members, the 5,000,000 who now wear the Red Cross emblem are giving all the Christmas cheer they can to the boys in khakl. They need it. Tens of thousands of them, and it may be hundreds of thousands, are now in France with Pershing, facing the terrible Germans across the desolate waste of No Man's Land. Millions more are to go after them, and other and still other millions until the foe which claims the world for Germany is willing to go home and behave as a civilized nation. They will have a cheery Christmas this year. Every man in France will have a little packet from "home," with the love and good wishes of the American people—and that means a lot to the young fellow who perhaps never before spent Christmas away from his home folks. It will put me out into him for the task ahead. The men on this side, waiting in the training camps for their turn to go across, will also have as merry a Christmas as the Red Cross can provide. Christmas trees, with gifts of some kind, bearing a world of cheer and hope from the great heart of the American people, will greet every man in uniform, wherever he may be. This Christmas will be a merry one for the whole of the army and navy. The boys have not been long away from home, they have had almost none of the hardships of war, and they come to the feast with light hearts. War has taken almost no toll from them thus far. Belgium and France, Serbia and Roumania, Great Britain and her colonies, Russia and Italy, have borne the brunt of frightfulness and our boys have been spared. So it will be a merry Christmas for them. Next year it will be different. The pinch of privation will be felt in the land—voluntary, to a great extent, but it will be felt. There will be less to eat and less to wear, and millions to be fed and clothed who no longer produce, and all the nation will save all it can to give to those who are fighting, and to those defenseless ones on the other side who have nothing. And there will be gaps in the ranks, and there will be full hospitals. There is where the Red Cross comes in—wherever there is disaster. The hospital buildings, the equipment, the surgical supplies, the surgeons and nurses and orderlies, the ambulances and the drivers and the stretcher shoulders of the Red Cross. It will carry it, because it has the backing of the American people; and in the meantime it must carry the load of the nations which have already suffered more than three years of frightfulness. Here are some of the things the American Red Cross is right now doing in France; where it has spent $10,000,000. These extracts were taken from a report by the Paris headquarters to Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, which raised a fund of $100,000,000 for its work: "We have just given $1,000,000 for needy sick and wounded French soldiers and their families. "Our hospital distributing service sends supplies to 3,423 French military hospitals, and is laying in a large stock for future needs. "Our surgical dressings service supplies 2,000 French hospitals, and is preparing immense supplies for our own armies. "We are operating at the front line, in co-operation with the French Red Cross, ten canteens, and are preparing for 20 more; and at six canteens for French soldiers at railway stations we are serving about 30,000 men a day. "We have opened a children's refuge and hospital at a point where several hundred children have been gathered to keep them from danger of gas and shell fire. At another point we have established a medical center and a traveling dispensary to accommodate 1,200 children. "We are making arrangements on a large scale to help refugee families through the winter with clothing, beds, shelter, and for this work the entire devastated portion of France has been divided into six districts with a resident Red Cross delegate in each. Warehouses have been established at four points to which are shipped food, clothing, bedding, beds, household utensils and agricultural implements. "We have a large central warehouse in Paris, and distribution warehouses at important points from the Swiss border to the sea. Two hundred tons of supplies are arriving in Paris daily, and 125 tons are shipped to branch warehouses." From other authorities word has come that the Germans are driving back into France, through Switzerland, the ragged, sick, hungry and homeless women and children of the conquered districts of France at the rate of 30,000 a month. Held in captivity for more than three years, they are now driven forth even from the ruins in which "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins."--I Peter 4:8 Agonized Europe cries for your aid. Make Christmas really worth while by answering generously the appeal of the Red Cross Society. Read this stirring article by Charles Lee Bryson they have existed, so that the Germans may no longer be responsible for their starving to death. The Red Cross would not be true to itself or to the people who have founded it and are supporting it, if it did not do everything it could to comfort and help these sorely-tried ones. The relief of human suffering is its sole object, and it has never withheld its hand when there was anguish to be fighting line were not our own American boys, Red Cross would be bound to do all it could them. But they are our own. We do not realize it yet, but we will later on. From city, every village, every farming community, almost every family in the whole land, one or more boys will help fill the lines in France—and for them, for your friends and mine, for your lives and mine, that the Red Cross is working it. It is going to take men and women by the soothed. But in this case there is another object to be attained—call it selfish if you will. In backing up France, and making her people stronger to endure, the Red Cross is saving the lives of American soldiers. This was admirably expressed in the great Chicago Red Cross conference by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council. "You may ask how all this work among the French people is of any help to our boys—how it is saving their lives," said Mr. Davison. "I'll tell you: We ask General Pershing what he wants, and he says, I don't want anything, for our boys, but for God's sake buck up the French. Give them courage. Hearten them. They have been fighting for three years, and if you want to do anything for me and our boys, make the people understand that we are here, and are going to take our places in the line as soon as we can get ready." Then Mr. Davison went on to show the strain under which the French have lived for more than three years, with the German terror holding much of their land and hammering night and day at their lines to break through and take Paris. "And if that French line should break," he said, "you know what that means. There's nobody but those boys of Pershing's to stop the Germans, and, ready or not, they'll have to fill the gap. If we can help the French line to hold, we save our own boys until they are all ready to take their part." Mr. Davison pictured the weary French soldier coming out of the trenches for a ten-day rest. He is tired half to death, covered with dirt and vermin, his clothing worn. Does he go home? He has no home, perhaps. His wife and children were swept away before the German tide. His home is gone. He says, "I can live in hell in the trenches, but I don't see why my family should be in hell too." But now the American Red Cross is in France. It meets the soldier when he comes from the trenches, takes him to a house prepared with your money, and he is made comfortable. He is given a bath, his clothing is cleaned and sterilized, his hair cut, his whiskers trimmed, and he sleeps for an hour—maybe ten hours. Then he is taken to his family, if the Red Cross has been able to find his family. He finds his wife and babes, or his old mother, in a house or a shelter of some kind supplied and furnished by the Red Cross. When the days of his leave are up, that soldier goes back to the trenches a new man. He knows now that America, with her millions and millions of fighting men, and her billions and billions of money, and the tender care of her Red Cross, are behind him. And he goes back into the war with a new determination, and says, "so long as I live, I will fight." And so long as he holds that line, he is taking the place of some American boy who is not yet trained to take the trenches. That line must be made to hold for months yet, for General Pershing has said that if he can help it, his boys shall not go into the hard fighting before February. When they do go in, then will come the real test of the American Red Cross—then will be the days of harvest, of which today is the day of sowing. For when the wounded begin to stream from the evacuation hospitals back to the bases, the warehouses of bandages and pads and gauze and splints and hospital garments and surgical supplies will melt away like mist before the sun. And in that day, if the Red Cross have not a membership of something near the desired 15,000,000, trained to make and ship all these supplies in a great, never-faltering stream, the American soldier will be ashamed of the land for which he is fighting, and many will lose limb or life which could have been saved. These are not the opinions of a novice—they are the convictions of men who are now at the front in France and Belgium, and who see, every day, the horrors of war which it is the work of the Red Cross to mitigate. It is only a few weeks since Maj. Grayson M. P. Murphy, an officer of the regular army of wide experience and great ability, now Red Cross commissioner for France, cabled his convictions on this subject. And what he said was, in substance, that unless the Red Cross immediately sent a vast supply of all manner of hospital supplies, the American army would stand in danger of disaster and disgrace. He used those words—"disaster and disgrace." Few who have not been through a modern military hospital can conceive what an enormous amount of supplies it requires. French surgeons report that it often requires an entire box of 7,000 gauze dressings for a single patient. There has been such a scarcity of dressings in France that they have been driven to use these dressings over and over, trying to boll and clean and sterilize them as well as they can, instead of throwing them away and putting on fresh ones. There has, at times, been such a dearth that wounded soldiers have had their bleeding wounds stanched with old newspapers, with the result that they have always been infected, and gangrene and lockjaw have claimed many a poor fellow who could have been saved. Terrible as it is to think of, they have at times been driven to operate in France without chloroform or ether—none was to be had. These, no doubt, are the things which Major Murphy had in mind when he said that disaster and disgrace awaited America less the supply of surgical necessities is hastened. Even if the lads who are about to go into the THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917. fighting line were not our own American boys, the Red Cross would be bound to do all it could for them. But they are our own. We do not fully realize it yet, but we will later on. From every city, every village, every farming community, from almost every family in the whole land, one or more boys will help fill the lines in France—and it is for them, for your friends and mine, for your relatives and mine, that the Red Cross is working. It is going to take men and women by the million, working all their spare time, and a good deal of time which they do not now think they can spare. And it is going to take hundreds of millions of dollars—all we can spare, and maybe all we have, whether or not we think we can spare it. Belgium is crushed, Serbia is obliterated, Roumania is little more than a memory, Russia is impotent, Italy is bearing a heavy cross, France is immortal in spirit but growing thin. There are left chiefly the British lion and the American eagle, and the English-speaking boys who bear them aloft. If they fall civilization is dead. There is no longer any question that civilization is fighting for its very life. Germany has set out to force the whole world to live under the German imperialistic plan. President Wilson, in his now-famous Buffalo speech, said: "It is amazing to me that any group of people should suppose that any reforms planned in the interest of the people can live in the presence of Germany strong enough to undermine or overthrow them by intrigue of force. . . . Any man who supposes that the free industry and enterprise of the world can continue if the Pan-German plan is achieved and German power fastened upon the world, is as fatuous as the dreamers of Russia." There never has been any question that the American soldier will fight to death, if need be, when once he begins the job. It is the task of the American Red Cross to so supply and fortify those boys that just as few of them as possible may be sacrificed. That is what the Red Cross has in mind when it comes to your house, or your office, or your kitchen door, or wherever you may be found, and asks you to be one of the 15,000,000 Red Cross members to stand back of those boys in khakhi. This is not to be a money campaign. Money is the least important matter of this moment. What is wanted is members. The Red Cross wants these 15,000,000 men, women and children banded together in chapters, organized into committees, and trained to the minute to do whatever is needed for the boys in France and for their families at home, and for those suffering ones who have lost everything but bare life. If the call is for warm clothing, it wants these 15,000,000 trained to make and turn out the kind of garments needed so that they may go by trainload and shipload at once. If it is for knitted goods—there has already been a call for 6,000,000 knitted articles and it is almost or quite filled by now—these 15,000,000 must be organized to get yarn and knit, or get others to knit, and deliver the goods at once. And if it is for bandages and gauze dressings and other things for the wounded, as assuredly it will be many a time, there must be a trained Red Cross membership to get them made and in the hospitals in time to save life. God help the American army in that day if the people have not been quick to unite with the Red Cross and supply the things the wounded boys must have. And God pity you and me in the days when the boys come back from over there—such of them as come home—and listen to the excuses we will try to make if we fall to keep them supplied with everything they need in their fight for us. There will be another call for money before long. When the country gave $100,000,000 to the Red Cross war council last summer, the great men at the head of it estimated that, by careful spending, they could make it last six months. The next call probably will be for a larger sum, maybe as much as a quarter of a million dollars. If so, the American people must give it. Every cent goes for relief work. In what he termed his "public accounting," Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, said in a recent speech that of every dollar given the Red Cross for relief work, about $1.02 is spent for relief. What he meant is that not one cent goes for overhead expense, which is cared for in another way, but that the whole fund, together with about 2 per cent interest which it accumulated while in bank, goes for relief. All that will come later, when the Red Cross needs more money to carry on its work of mercy. What it needs now is members—10,000,000 added to the 5,000,000 it now has. Every member should be at least of the class called "Magazine Members." It costs $2 a year, and entitles the members to the really wonderful Red Cross Magazine every month, filled with news and colored pictures of what the great order is doing all over the earth. If you are a member, renew; if not, become one when the Red Cross committee comes. It is merely trying to get you to help win your war, and care for the unlucky—who may be some of your own family. HAD LITTLE DESIRE TO ROAM The Americans have contributed largely to the European spirit of patronage. Each year, in hordes, they traveled to Europe, breathless with curiosity and with haste, curious of dress and bearing (to European eyes) and nasal as to speech, with reverence and familiarity amazing contending. "Why do the Americans love so to tear over the world?" I once heard an old French lady ask. It was incomprehensive to her, this manla for leaving home. Her desire of happiness was to stay forever in one place.—Exchange WHAT CAN WE DO? In a recent article it was recommended that women who wish to sew for the Red Cross should choose one or two kinds of garments and confine themselves to making them, rather than try to make many different garments. Often women who are willing to give time to sewing or knitting cannot afford to buy all the materials they need. In this case they can arrange to do the work for other women who are willing to buy materials but haven't done the work. In some places the Red Cross chapters furnish the goods and give out work to volunteers who make up needed garments. Patterns for garments are all issued in two sizes, medium and large. According to Red Cross instructions, two medium-sized garments should be made to every one of large size, for American hospitals and no large sizes for French hospitals. The patterns are issued according to the requirements of the Red Cross by all the standard pattern companies. Inventory. Each box of garments should contain, inside the water-proof wrapping, a typewritten inventory of its contents following the name and address of the shipper. Shipping and Packing. According to a bulletin issued by the woman's bureau of the American Red Cross boxes containing garments and hospital supplies should not exceed 3 by 2 by 2 feet in size. "They should FANCIES : C ```markdown ``` FANCIES:OF:FASHION Coats, coat suits and frocks, with collars and cuffs of fur or fur-fabrics and emplacements like them on the skirt are among the season's noteworthy and handsome offerings. On separate long coats and on coats with coat suits the collars and cuffs are attached to the garments, but on frocks to be worn indoors as well as out, the collar and cuffs may be detachable. Collars are nearly always of the convertible variety on all coats. A handsome coat of taupe wool velours is shown in the picture, finished timony of touch to tell woven broad-tail or seal or mole plush from these furs. They are at their best when used in the manner illustrated, either on coats or suits or frocks. Now that everyone is practicing economy and prolonging the usefulness of garments by remodeling them, these fur-fabrics have proven themselves the best of aids. They help to change the appearance of made-over clothes so completely that there is no recognizing original suit or frock that is enriched by them—and their durability means a I I with fur-fabric in the same color. It is full and straight-hanging, with a handsome half girdle of the material that extends from the side seams to the front. Here its two long ends, bordered with the fur-fabric are looped over. There are three large covered buttons at the front of the coat and one on the collar, all covered with the same furlike material. These marvelously woven and dyed materials have established themselves as a permanent feature of each new season's production of fabrics. When they are made to imitate natural skins the resemblance is so close that it is almost impossible to tell the difference. It takes a "close-up" view and the tes long-time lease on life forments. Entire coats of fur-fabric warm and hardly suited to climates of the South, but muffs, or collars and cuffs able coatings worn with muff them, make an ideal coat fitte. In the North a swe under a coat of this kind r warm as a fur coat and the trimmed with fur-fabric. A equal of an entire coat of the elegance and in rich appeal. Inventory be made of five-eighths inch tongue and grooved boards, strongly joined at the corners, and should be lined with heavy water-proof paper, which must extend over the top of the contents after the box is filled. When possible each box should be filled with only one kind of garments or supplies. Marking of Boxes. Boxes should be marked on top—"American Red Cross Division Supply Depot," with the address to which the box is to be sent. The name and address of shipper, the serial number of the box, and a statement (stenciled on the wood) of the contents of the box should be given. A red cross $4\frac{1}{2}$ inches high and wide, should be painted on each end of the box. Express companies will accept gifts to the Red Cross, for shipment at two-thirds their regular rate, when prepaid and addressed as above. Chapters should ship to their division supply depot in one of the following cities: Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, New York, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Denver, Washington, Cleveland, San Francisco. An invoice or notice of shipment, giving the serial number of the box, or boxes, sent and duplicate copies of their inventories, should be mailed by all shippers to the chapter or division supply depot to which the shipment is being forwarded. OF : FASHION timony of touch to tell woven broad-tail or seal or mole plush from these furs. They are at their best when used in the manner illustrated, either on coats or suits or frocks. Now that everyone is practicing economy and prolonging the usefulness of garments by remodeling them, these fur-fabrics have proven themselves the best of aids. They help to change the appearance of made-over clothes so completely that there is no recognizing original suit or frock that is enriched by them—and their durability means a I long-time lease on life for such garments. Entire coats of fur-fabrics are very warm and hardly suited to the milder climates of the South, but scarfs and muffs, or collars and cuffs on fashionable coatings worn with muff to match them, make an ideal coat for any latitude. In the North a sweater worn under a coat of this kind makes it as warm as a fur coat and the cloth coat trimmed with fur-fabric. At least the equal of an entire coat of the fabric, in elegance and in rich appearance. Julia Bottomley INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) (Copyright 1975 Western New York Univ.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 16 NEHEMIAH ENFORCES THE LAW OF THE SABBATH. LESSON TEXT-Nehemlah 13:15-22. GOLDEN TEXT-Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy—Exod. 20:8. Nehemlah remained in Jerusalem twelve years, from B. C. 444 to B. C. 432. He was then recalled and was in Persia some years, perhaps five or seven, but returned about B. C. 425, the year Artaxerxes died, for we know that he returned by permission of that king. Therefore, the date of this lesson would be sometime in the summer or early autumn of 426 or 427 B. C. 16 or 18 years following last Sunday's lesson. In the section, vv. 10-14, we see that the gifts for the house of God and the Levites, who led in worship, had been neglected. Whenever the house of God and its service of worship is neglected, we may expect that the Sabbath day and the worship of God will also soon fall into contempt. Ezra has dropped out of our history without a him as to his end. I. "Remember" (v. 14) the Neglect of God's House. (vv. 1-14). The neglect of God's house grew up out of the incursion of heathenism into Jewish life. Nehemiah realized that the purity of the race depended upon absolute separation from the mixed multitude. (v. 3). Nehemiah also confronted the difficulty of having a priest. (vv. 4, 5), who had defiled himself and also desecrated the temple, and finally the portion for the support of the priest and the temple worship had been withheld. (v. 10). II. “Remember” (v. 12) the Sabbath Day. (vv. 15-22). Nehemiah's next and most difficult reform was regarding the fourth commandment. He at once set about to learn the facts; then relates what he saw (v. 15). The record also tells how he testified against them in that they were selling merchandise on the Sabbath day. He contended with the nobles that they had done evil on the Sabbath day. (v. 17). He testified against them that the merchants and sellers of ware had lodged about and within Jerusalem. (vv. 20, 21). The root of the trouble with Judah was that they forgot God's word and followed the devices and desires of their own hearts. The Jewish Sabbath in its outward form on the exact day of the week is not binding upon Gentile Christians (Col. 2:16, 17). It was given to Israel as a people. (Deut. 5:1, 2), as a memorial of their deliverance out of the land of Egypt and the house of bondage. (Deut. 5:6). The Christian, by the death of Christ, is made dead to the letter of the law of Moses, (Deut. 7:4), but the principle of the Sabbath is older than even the law of Moses and is as binding upon the Christian believer as are the many other principles which underlie the Mosale law. In its exact form, the seventh day, the observance of the Sabbath belongs to the old order and not to the Christian order. Christ, who rose from the dead (Rom. 7:4), rose on the first day of the week, and we, as joined to Christ, are not under obligations to the Mosale law, but to Christ. Therefore, the Lord's day, the resurrection day, the first day of the week, (Rev. 1:10; John 21:20; 1:19-26; Acts 27), is the day of privilege, not of obligation and is more sacred to us than the Sabbath day of these Jews. The Jews in Nehemiah's time showed their contempt of the Lord's day by making it a day of profit, hence this exhortation which we see set forth in this section. This should be a warning and an exhortation to us in these days of a secularized Sabbath. III. "Remember" (v. 29) the Holy Priesthood. (vv. 23-31). In this section we see that the priesthood had even defiled themselves with women, and again this Nehemiah entered upon a cleansing process. (vv. 30-31). The use of this word "remember" in verses 14, 22 and 29 gives strong emphasis to the three cardinal sins against which Nehemiah was battling. IV. Summary: As in Nehemiah's time, so now, Sabbath desecration is the surest road to national ruin, and a large proportion of our present calamity can be traced to growing irreverence for the Lord's day. Jesus swept away the cobwebs of Sabbath irreverence, but did not tear down the house. He kept the principle, but removed the barnacles with which the Pharisees and Jews had encumbered it. Jesus taught that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath, (Mark 2:27, 28), and he set himself as an example in this regard, for he is Lord of that day as well as the other days of the week. The Sabbath is a day of rest and if observed, workmen without exception will produce more than is possible if it is not observed. The chief value of the Sabbath, however, is in connection with the worship of God. 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As a “special” we offer two lots of Adler's tan color Dress Gloves in plain and faney back styles, worth $2.00, at, a PME Rc Kcr Pole reese Kean USS (Holiday boxes included) THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917. the Kansas Ci C | struck upon th amouflage No. 2%: e } against him, be man has dkew | The Herald Tere eee izing a leadin, a i | directing subtl A Red Hot Reply to the Criticism of Prof. J. Silas cy te Harris Last Week on the Negro Educational macy tine Congress and Its Tadpole Critics See nnee What Next, Gentlemen? By Chas. Starks. Come to think of it, the thing was very natural, However, we are bound to congratulate ourselves on our marksmanship becausee w have proof | of its accuracy, Now let us see. The marksman hits the bull's eye and THE BELL RINGS. One _ occasionally kicks a hound and the mongrel yelps, sometimes skulks along, snarling and | showing its talons and offering vocferi ating barks from the distance. | Our President paid his respects to) us in last week's issue of the Sun.| We shall devote our energies in strengthening our “position” which we | gained by our first “attack.” Here let us assure you that we have a com-, manding view of the enemy's works | and if we do not crush him in the | coming conflict, then put us down as| a bad soldier, | The first move the enemy: “The, Negro Educational Congress is regard-| ed by thoughtful men and women as) being the most potential factor in| American life for the betterment of the race.” How broad! We admit that] THOUGHTFUL men and women have REGARDED this CONGRESS but have found it an elusive and magical sort fof a see and now you don't see propo- sition, because in REGARDING it they | have never been able to discover any laudible acts of this so-called organi- zation, Still our President says the Congress is the “MOST potential fac- tor” for the betterment of our race. Here's Camouflage smeared on with abandon and gaudiness. This is too much! Now an organization is truly measured by the actual work it does in its chosen field, It is judged by “the intelligent membership it compre- ‘hends, both as to officers and laymen; | the good motives it demonstrates and | the distinctive service it renders the | people. All these may be said to be convineing evidences of organized ef- | fort. There is such an organization in "The National Association for the Ad- _-vancement of Colored People. It has — capital—brains—industry, three indispensable assets for the suc- cessfitl prosecution of responsible en- terprises of every sort. The same thing may be said of The National Business League and a score of others which stand for something besides {ll- conceived press dape. "The people can see and sense the work of these worthy organizations. They are really National in their practical scope: they are not only “educative” but support the Negro in his move for civic jus- tice and economic efficiency. But the Negro in his move for civic justice and economic efficiency. But the Negro Educational Congress, of which no one has discovered any tangible smart- ness, claims that “it is the most po- tential factor for the betterment of the American Negro.” This statement \is a travesty on human thought. The next to be considered is “the princi- ples for which it stands.” Our Presi- dent says this almost piously. To de- | termine the real principles of any or- | ganization is to first learn if the same j|has any moral poise or balance, Pay no attention to its BY-LAWS, PRESS DOPE. Its literary propaganda for all of this can be camouflage. But rather note the character of its official heads and the laymen it embodies. Note if they are of that proven mold which reflects purity of motive, or if they have shady reputations and are known to be of a grasping, selfish, evil tem- perament, The principles (real jof any organization is embodied in (he hearts and souls of those who form its directing and acting power. This being true, we can easily get « line ‘on “Our Congress,” “the principles for which it stands.” But let us correct a premise, Inasmuch as “other” offi- lcials are not known to us, we wish to give our President full honor for whatever merit or demerit might be | due the “august body.” He is the man, | the plenipotentiary. So in examining | the “officials” in order to determine ‘the principles for which it stands" [we ask the reader to keep in mind |this ONE MAN CONCERN, If there are associates we pity rather than censure. I've met the President twice. He personally revealed to me that al- though he was associated with the liquor interests” he desired my co- operation in putting @ nearby saloon out of business, because, as he admit- ted, he had a personal grudge against the proprietor, I evaded his offer of co-operation with a ttle camouflage of my own by referring him to a friend, and there the matter ended. ‘Though I understand this gent’s con- nection with the “liquor interests” is of long standing. I quote the above ineident to give you some idea of the dualistic President who plays these jmen and women” and his personal spleen against the saloonist. I ask if these are some of the motives that ‘actuate the “congress,” and if these ‘are some of the samples of the prin ciples for which it stands? The whole world! is waking to the fact that the liquor traffic is one of its greatest ‘menaces, ani nothing is so black as its BLACK paid emissaries who jump at a few paltry dollars, even though they plunge their race to hell. _ Great God! Here's a man who holds a gavel of a supposedly EDUCATION. ‘AL CONGRESS in one hand and a ‘CAN OF BEER for his race in the other, The contrast is startling! But perhaps this is some new fangled way to educate and protect “our noble men and women.” But camouflage may cover a “multi- tude of sins,” and it may be this same ‘stuff that accounts for the letters re: ceived from every Governor of the United States, who, after all, are not immune from being deceived by per- sistent cunning, A liquor man is not half so unspeakable as a double. ‘crosser. Our President further says: “This Congress has done more to soft: en the intense feeling against the Ne- ‘groes of this country than all other agencies combined.” Ou whee! Such bright colors of camouflage! Way back in the Grecian days a painter be coming disheartened with his unsue- cessful efforts at securing a certain ‘effect threw his brush disgustedly at ‘the canvas and to his surprise pro. duced the very effect that he desired. Surely our camouflager was mad ahen oh a | oe i Pee es . 4 iS - = % | as ee i of oa: Me a bes! br eon Pe if bee ie 4 E a E av cue ay S oof ‘ vy . a | : i | F ‘ 4 EARNER ET es DR. T. C. UNTHANK Who as Superintendent of the Old City Hospital has kept within his ap- propriation, has kept down strife and confusion and has given excellent treatment to the poor and sick of the race. Dr, Unthank is also doing splen. did work in the Wheatley-Provident ieaeatan. he made the above credited statement, but the result is not so happy as the painter's incident. The statement shows desperation. Say anything, claim anything, all being without foundation one will be believed about as quick as the other. However, the comic is now added to the serious. Another claim: This Congress “has been foremost in demanding and se- curing redress for crimes committed against the race.” Great Crispus! Will you hear him? Why it was only last year in speaking of lynchings and burnings and other crimes against the race that our President advised us that if our noble men and women wished to have lynching — stopped “they themselves should remove the cause,” Here is an indictment of the whole race instead of “REDRESS. But our friend was up to his old tricks ‘and politics and seeking the GOOD GRACES of the Democrats. Our noble men and women were not the objects of his solicitude then. He was willing to sell their nobility of citizenship, their rights of protection, and their CRIES for “REDRESS” by telling them that they themselves were to blame for the lynchings and burnings and “the crimes” committed against the race, ‘This leads us to observe that the ‘real incarceration of a “white folk’s Nigger” was demonstrated when such a disparaging statement of the race was made In a WHITE PAPER for the eager consumption of hostile readers. | ‘The enemy concludes in an eloquent defense of those who HAVE NOT been accused. He says: THESE human ‘tadpoles, vilified Booker 'T, Washing. ‘ton, traduced Fred Douglass, slander- ed Langston md crucified Vernon.” Fine! Great rhetoric! Four com- mag and a period are properly used here; the grammar is 0. k. ‘The two first names he uses have in them a Teyerent appeal to all lovers of the great, but just for fun let us see if the DEFENDER practices his preach- ing, whether it is sincerity or camou- flage, OUR President ‘two or three years ago edited a newspaper called the Kansas City Herald, which soon struck upon the shoals of inefficiency. However, we are not holding this against him, because many a real good man has likewise failed, ‘The Herald was noted for antagon- izing a leading Baptist minister for directing subtle inferences at the in: tegrity of the Kansas Sun; yellow Journalizing the citizens of this com: munity; upholding the “tenets” of a notorious clubman and detracting by a disparaging comparison from one of the very men that he claims someone else has “vilified.” The Herald reviewed a booklet by '@ local writer of “political economy” (we are not sure this is the correct name.) After praising the, writer for not using the word “Negro” through- out the whole treatise he said the au- ‘thor was great and much aboye such “lesser lights as Booker T, Washing- ‘ton and DuBols,” Here is a man superior to Washing ton and DuBois and his “essay” is not known outside of the free distribu- tion circle! Its chief feature being that it ignored the name of a people which no system of economy can log- ically overlook, Is not this vilifying? Is not this “ignorance” as well as bad taste? Was it not slander of the great? It seems Booker T. Washing- ton and DuBois need defending from demeriting remarks by this self-im- posed Defender. This is our final statement. We realize it would be better or worse, shorter or longer, or we could have refrained from it all. But in view of the fact that our public work hitherto has been acqulesced by at least silence on the part of the pub- lic, this attack comes as a shock not to my feeling but to my vanity! How- ever, we shall continue to work for more public conscience, more sensible manhood and womanhood, demonstra- tion, It may be that we are com- pelled to use Lloyd George's “brutal frankness" and keep knocking both destructively and constructively. (EE gael A Dead Shot. ‘The valor and candid simplicity of our Indian Babu is proverbial, A story goes of one anent the German east campaign, who (in the words of a contemporary) was about the most laconic, competent, deadly earnest sta- tion master and marksman combined that ever lived, ‘This is the wire he sent: “One hundred Germans attack- ing station, Send jmmediately one rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition.” Nairdbi (India) Leader, Too Unanimous to Count. When the office of the secretary of state at Augusta hud received the re- turns from all the 525 Maine towns and cities except Hurricane Isle, in Knox county, it waited as long as its official dignity seemed to warrant and then gently pradded the delinquent town dlerk. ‘The answer was prompts “As Tam now the only voter here it did not seem worth while to Aold an election.”—Boston Herald, ‘Clee Reon Aad. A kiss ts a» peculiar proposition, Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for noth- ing, the young man has to steal it and the old man has to buy it. ‘The baby’s right, the lover's privilege, the hypocrite’s mask. For a irl, faith, to a married woman, hope, and to an old maid, charity, Not a Matter of Size. Some of the greatest colleges in Atmerica never have 500° students in any one ‘Year, On the other hand, some of the cheapest quick-lunch schools in the country boast thelr thou- sands of students. Wise young folks will keep that distinction in mind when choosing a college. — Exchange. . Who Can Answer This? Donald was holding his new cat and his mother told him to let it go whenever it wagged its tall so hard, as that showed it was unhappy. Don- ald said: “Well, mother, why is it that a cat wags its tail because it is unhappy and a dog wags its tall be- cause it is happy?” For Parents to Remember. Every mun who hus ever been a child should remember what be was when a child, what he loved, and how much he understood, and what he did, and should remember that his child is Just the sume sort of a child—Ex- change. Seeking Artificial Rubber. Artificial rubber as a by-product of the manufacture of steel may be a Possibility, as English scientists are experimenting with its . production from coke-oven gases. Why Concrete Cracks. Conerete expands in cold weather in- stead of in midsummer, This is due to the increase of moisture present in the cement, During the warm weath- er, the moisture dries out. All Have Part.in Great Scheme, Despise not uny~man, and do not spurn anything. For there is no man that hath not his hour, nor Is there anything that hath not its place— Rabbi Ben Azai, e ‘The Older Generation. Doesn't it strike you as disgrace- ful the way young women are display- ing their ankles? “Ankles, granny! They're going out. Now it’s knees!” —Life. GET YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT Quick Disposal Sale Pianos & Player-Pianos LIBERTY BONDS REDEEMED $105 for your $100 Bond; $52.50 for your $50 Bond. Accepted on your Piano or Player Piano purchase. ‘Terms if desired. THE Jones SToRE © VISIT “KANSAS CITY’S LARG- EST AND HANDSOMEST JEWELRY STORE OPPENSTEIN BROTHERS 1124-1126°WALNUT ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. Residence phone, Business phone, Bell, East 1233. Home, Main 6433. H. R. 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