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VICE RULES KANSAS CITY Not a Negro Cafe on Eighteenth Street 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 23. BLAMES PUBLIC FOR VICE. H. R. ENNIS CHARGES CITY IS HONEY-COMBED WITH IMMORALITY. Drug Peddling, Illicit Liquor Selling and the Luring of Soldiers Into Resorts Is Unrestrained, Welfare Head Says. Gambling, immoral resorts, masque-reaux, illicit sale of liquor and an almost unsurpassed traffic in narcotics, are a few of the underworld elements that continue unchecked here, according to H. R. Ennis, president of the welfare board. Speaking before members of the City Club he charged vice conditions in Kansas City were absolutely rotten. The responsibility for these conditions were checked directly up to the indifference of the public. In discussing the narcotics sold in Kansas City, Ennis used names of druggists and physician in his talk. "The Cooper & Campbell Drug Company, operating a string of drug stores in Kansas City," Ennis said, "buys whiskey by the carload and a short time ago made one purchase of $1,400 worth of narcotics from a wholesale firm." The speaker then called attention to the case of a Negro who has been operating a drug joint at 1005 East Seventeenth street. A Drug Seller "In Bad." "That Negro evidently has fallen out with some of his friends. He was arrested recently and fined in the South Side Court. He appealed and Judge Latshaw affirmed the findings of the lower court. He appealed to the Kansas City Court of Appeals. Since then I understand Judge Latshaw has granted the Negro a new trial." It was from this place twenty-seven addicts, among them white women, were arrested recently, Mr. Ennis reminded his hearers. The narcotic situation in Kansas City is appalling, according to Mr. Ennis. He charged thousands of dollars are paid daily for drugs. The names of a number of druggists were read to members of the club. The names of physicians who make a business of issuing drug prescriptions were also made known. "The Jackson County Medical Society should look after the physicians. It is their duty the same as it is the duty of the bar association to inquire into the alleged cases of lawyers violating rules of practice at the bar. "Independence Avenue, Sixth, Fifteenth and Eighteenth streets are alive daily and nightly with drug peddlers. They meet their customers at a certain time. It is no trick to see these things. All you have to do is get around a little and become interested enough to want to find out how these operations are carried on," Mr. Ennis continued. Lure Soldiers to Resorts. The speaker called attention to immoral houses and women of the streets. He charged the proprietors of houses had "leaders' on the streets, who picked up soldiers here on a visit, and took them to these places. Liquor, Mr. Ennis charged, was always to be found at these resorts and no exception of soldiers was made when it was served. "Kansas City is honeycombed with resorts. There are probably more now than ever before in the city." GEN. HOFFMAN WRITES. Headquarters 93d Division (Provisional) Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va., January 24th, 1918. Hon. Nelson C. Crews, Editor, Kansas City Sun, Kansas City, Mo. Dear Sir:— I would like to subscribe to your paper and arrange so that the publication may follow me overseas. Will you kindly advise me of the subscription price and senr me the last issue? I have been placed in command of this 93d Division (Provisional) composed of colored troops. My Chief of Staff. Major Mark W. Tobin, is an old Kansas City boy and knw you and your brother, Jim Crews, twenty-five years ago. The writer is an Oklahoman. From what I have seen of the personnel of this command, I am much pleased with it and believe we have an exceptionally fine body of men, who will make good and be a credit to the service and their race as well as an honor to their country. Very truly yours, ROY HOFFMAN, Brigadier General, N. A. The Kansas City Sun LORD, HOW LONG! Face to face with the greatest problem that ever beset America, wherein its form of government is made a pawn in the war against the monarchical governments of Europe; wherein we have laid down the challenge ourselves that Democracies are best for the people! notwithstanding that we have advanced of the American people's money $4,235,400,000 to our allies with a view to a vindication of our view of the rights of the people, the average American has not awakened to the fact that this country cannot win the war without the fullest sympathy and untied support of the 10,000,000 Negroes who contribute just one-tenth of the entire population of the United States. There has been no seeking for the sympathy of the American Negro in the war, although he has bottled his feelings and has gone forth with all of his might in behalf of the flag; and to show you with what reception he is getting, we are taking the liberty to quote from one George Patullo, whose name would suggest that he is a "Dago" recently given, either to himself or an immediate ancestor the asylum of free America, whose institutions were built with the brawn of black hands. However, this Patullo is a white man, or so assumes and is writing "funny stuff" from the seat of war to The Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia. This is the way he refers to the Negro soldiers who are in France fighting that "the world may be safe for Democracy." "Well, well, who have we here? Sam says in a minute. As I live, there's some of Jack Johnson's family! And I looked and there was a gang of darkies dressed up like soldiers and they was clearing away all the mess from the old battleground. "Just then one of them swung his pick and Blewey!—a dud—which is a shell playing dead—blowed everything sky-high. He had hit it, J. C, and I never expected to see one of them black babies no more, but after the country had come down again there they was beating it for cover like a flock of quail. "The smokes dove down into a dugout and scattered up and down an old trench, and when we got near one hollers out, Stretchah bearers this way! "Is there anything wrong with my hearing, say Sam, or has that tarbaby got an English accent? Down at the port where I landed, he says, one tried to pull some French on me, what do you know about it! "Well, they keut hollering for stretcher bearers, so I poked my head inside the dugout and asked how many was hurt. "My whole plattoon is wiped out." yells the sergeant. There's quite a bunch of 'em in sight, I tels him. Round them up. sight, I tels him. Round them up. "So he calls the roll and sure enough every last one was there except the guy with the pick, and we never did find him. "Then Sam wants the sergeant's name. Why do you awsk that, says the sergeant. Beacuse I want to recommend you for the Victoria Cross. Pray don't do that. I only done my duty, says the coon, and then we come away." There can be some excuse for this Pattullo for the possibility of his accident of birth by section or environment to bring about a personal hatred of the Negro; but just why The Saturday Evening Post, of whose boasted 2,000,000 readers, 200,000 are Negroes, should undertake to afford a medium for this rank insult to the loyal colored people of this country is a deep mystery. This much is true: That there must be some unanimity of spirit and action between those who are going out against the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs or this country is bound to be surprised at the result. If part o the white contingent feels called upon to refer to the most loyal people in, the army as "coons," "tar-babies," etc., there are sure to be reciprocations of insults that will not add anything to the service. —Phill H. Brown in Hopkinsville, (Ky.) News. To the Editor of the Sun:— Please find money order for the renewal of my subscription of "The Sun." I have taken the paper for ten or twelve years and I like it better each year. Yours truly, Mrs, Homer Nettles, 410 Freeman Ave., Kansas City, Kas KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918. M. RT, REV, H. BLANTON PARKS, D. D Escopal District of the A. M. E. Church having this distinguished Churchman laid down by the late beloved B. wonderful degree of success the ver- dge of this Escopal District. A power house student of civic affairs, Bishop it stand for real leadership and no more church building in advancing denomination has our present magnificent Bishop was in the City this week clocosing a near Independence Avenue to be knirmably located and will undoubtedly numerically from the start. Both the head of Bishop Parks. of 1710 East 10th Mrs. J. H. Lyons Mary Williams, were been ill for the parish week at Leaven- is improving at pro-ure of her many fr In High School Exte Monthly Musical Conc Sunday, Feb. 3, at 3:15 P. by the Following Seven Quartette 1. L. H. S. Saxophone Quartette 2. Smith Folk Song Quartette 3. L. H. S. Girls Quartette 4. Watt's Famous String Quartette 5. Dunham Verdi Quartette 6. Tutt's Quartette 7. L. H. S. Brass Quartette ed by: Lincoln High School Orchestra Miss Anna Smith, Contralto Mr. Lemuel Russell, Tenor Mr. Wendell Strong, Trombone The Fifth Episcopal District of the A. M. E. Church has been exceedingly fortunate in having this distinguished Churchman to take up the reins of government laid down by the late beloved Bishop Abram Grant and carry on to a wonderful degree of success the very difficult and far reaching activities of this Episcopal District. A powerful preacher, magnetic leader, a close student of civic affairs, Bishop Parks epitomizes those qualities that stand for real leadership and no man has done more in the way of Church building in advancing denominational interest in the general Church than has our present magnificent Bishop. Bishop Parks was in the City this week closing a deal for new church property on Tracy near Independence Avenue to be known as the Cain Chapel which is admirably located and will undoubtedly be a success both financially and numerically from the start. Both the race and African Methodism are proud of Bishop Parks. Mr. Robert Hill of 1710 East 10th Mrs. J. H. Lyons, 921 Campbell, has street, and Miss Mary Williams, were been ill for the past three weeks, but quietly married this week at Leaven- is improving at present to the pleasworth, Kans. Lincoln High School Extension Monthly Musical Concert Sunday, Feb. 3, at 3:15 P.M. Program Given by the Following Seven Quartette Organizations: 1. L. H. S. Saxophone Quartette 2. Smith Folk Song Quartette 3. L. H. S. Girls Quartette 4. Watt's Famous String Quartette 5. Dunham Verdi Quartette 6. Tutt's Quartette 7. L. H. S. Brass Quartette Assisted by: Lincoln High School Orchestra Miss Anna Smith, Contralto Mr. Lemuel Russell, Tenor Mr. Wendell Strong, Trombone PROGRAM “La Paloma” (The Dove) ..... Orchestra Saxophone Quartette“Aloha” ..... messrs. Smith, Duckett, Winfrey, Goodw g Quartette“That Might Day” “Reg messrs. Shunee, Smith, Boatner, Coate 2. L. H. S. Saxophone Quartette—"Aloha".....Lillioukalani Messrs. Smith, Duckett, Winfrey, Goodwin 3. Folk Song Quartette—"That Might Day," "Regular Army Man".....Smith Messrs. Shupee, Smith, Boatner, Coates 4. Piano Solo—"Folk Song Prelude" (new).....N. Clark Smith Miss Edna Hammett (Developed from a new version, "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See," given to the writer by Mrs. Davis of Kentucky, great- granddaughter of Geo. Harris, one of Harriett Beecher Stow's Characters in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.) 5. Tenor Solo—"Good Bye".....Tostl Mr. Lennuel Russell 10. Tutt's Quartette—"Far at Sea" ..... Mona Messrs. Tutt, Armstrong, Walker, Spaulding QUARTERLY MEETING. Quarterly meeting services will be held February 10 at the St. Paul A. M. E. church Independence, Mo. Rev. S. L. Brooks, pastor. Everybody is invited and welcome. Camp Funston, Kans. To the Editor of The Kansas City Sun: I want to say to the people of Kansas City, Mo., who have relatives and friends at Camp Funston, they need not be ashamed of the boys from Kansas City who were drafted, as I was one who saw fit to enlist in the service; the Kansas City boys as a whole certainly have made good here, as perhaps 20 per cent of our boys have been made non-commissioned officers and have proven their ability for even higher positions. Out of thirty-five or forty prisoners in the guard house, I believe one was from Kansas City and he is of a type who was constantly in trouble at home, living in the underworld. I have visited all the companies and barracks of Colored soldiers in the camp and find gambling and the worst kind of profane language going on all the time and especially on Sundays. Not 2 per cent of the Camp population are Kansas City boys. We have men here from as far east as Atlantic City, New Jersey, west as far as California, south as far as Texas and north as far as Montana and they are gathered up from all walks of life, but none have proven their gentlemanly manner any more than the boys from Kansas City. I would say to the boys who antici- pate being called in the next draft, keep up the high standard of the Kans- sas City boys who preceded them and I believe we shall all come back to the old 18th street in one grand body so that all Kansas City will be proud of the boys for whom they were crying to see leave there on the last of October. I hope you will pardon this boast- ful letter, but I am not saying it in the way of a boast, but this is a fact and I thought it might make some one who is not in touch with the Camp feel better to know that their friends were getting along so well. The work isn't hard and the treat- ment can't be beat if we observe disci- cipline, which must be observed to become a good soldier. I won't take any more of your valu- able time to read this, but should you have the occasion to speak at any gathering at home nad see fit to mention the fact, or in your wow- ful paper, I would appreciate your kindness. Yours truly, C. H. MAYES, Member of Jno. Lange Lodge, No. 103, A. F. & A. M. Co. 3, 349th M. G. Battalion. WESTERN UNIVERSITY OPENS ITS SECOND SEMESTER—PRESIDENT KEALING ILL AT HOME After eighteen weeks of hard work ending with the first semester examinations, the second semester in all departments of the institution started Monday, January 21. In addition to the increased enrollment of new students, several of last year have returned. The present student body is the equal if not the superior to any in the history of the school. In accordance with the fuel conservation idea, the Girl's Trade Hall has been closed for the past week and the departments removed to other buildings. The school's operations start an hour later in the morning and cease one-half earlier at night. The institution has been fortunate in securing sufficient coal during the present crisis and has turned over to the local fuel administration two cars of coal which was distributed to the poor people of the city in 500-pound lots. Much effort is exerted to conserve in every way possible in keeping with the demands of the time. The students are playing their part in the final move to win the war by contributing to the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., and Liberty Bond funds; several classes making donations as a whole. The work in tre various departments is well under way and a great closing is looked forward to with great interest. Although ill at his home, President Kealing has kept in close touch with affairs and knows every action of the machinery of the school. He is constantly advised and consulted by his assistant, Vice President French, who is the active head of the school at this time. The Sun desires to thank the many hundreds of intelligent, aggressive and loyal subscribers who have taken advantage of our special rate during the past month and have written us such splendid letters of continuous confidence and encouragement in the work this newspaper is trying to do for the West. We shall strive to make the "Sun" bigger and better each week and shall be found ever ready not only to give the news, but when needs be to fight the battle of the Race. On account of the high cost of paper and supplies, as well as increased postage, the price of The Sun on and after today will be $2.00 a year or $1.00 for six months. Appreciating every new subscriber as well as every old member of the progressive "Sun" family, we beg to remain Yours for Justice, America and the Race SWEET SINGER SANG A FALSE OILY NOTE. Negro Choir Member Pinched for De frauding "Sisttr" Out of $400 in Oil Deal. Thomas A. Ross is estimated as one of the "sw-etest singers" in the Negro Methodist Episcopal church of Kansas City, Kans. Saturday he was arrested in Kansas City, Mo., on the charge of defrauding one of the sisters, Annie G. Holder, 202 Stewart avenue. By applying herself conscientiously to the washtub she had saved $00. Ross discovered this fortune, she says, and proceeded to sell her 100 shares at $1 each in an oil company—shares which he had acquired at 10c each. He foretold big dividends. Each month the woman inquired after her dividends, but, she says, Ross explained that war conditions made dividends seem in bad taste. Growing suspicious, she applied for a warrant. Ross fled to Missouri, but was arrested and released on $500 bond. The police are also on the lookout for M. O. Kindred, 1800 East 16th street, who was implicated in the fraud charge.—Kansas City Post (Sunday). THE NEGRO'S. "Our Country 'Tis of Thee." Our country, 'tis of thee, Great land of liberty, Of thee we pray; Land where our fathers slaved, Union we helped to save, Justice of thee we crave Hear us today! Our adopted country! thou. Our home and birthplace now, Thy name we love; No longer us debar, Destroy the "Jim Crow" car; Let freedoms glorious star, Shine from above. Our wrongs rise on the breeze, And ring from gallows trees, In heart-wrung plea; Let man to right awake. Let dawn of justice break; Let all who breathe, partake Of true democracy. Our fathers' God, to thee, Author of liberty, Of Thee we sing; Our sons go forth to fight To uphold freedom's light; Protect them by Thy might, Great God, our King. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ NOTICE. * On account of the recent closing law passed the Graeco * Art Club wishes to announce that the entertainment advertised for February 11 will be postponed until a later date. * All tickets purchased will be honored at this future date. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ THREE NEGRO SECTION MEN KILLED BY TRAIN. Three Negro workmen, members of a section gang, were killed by a Missouri Pacific train at Leeds, Mo., at 10 o'clock Friday morning. The men were L. Gordon, E. Hose and B. M. Brown. They were working on a track when an approaching train caused them to shift their work to another track. Another train approaching from the same direction as the first was upon them before they could escape. They were killed instantly. The bodies were sent to Adkins Brothers' Undertaking rooms. HaveYouGotRooms,Houses or Flats Furnished or unfurnished For Rent? Advertise Them in the Sun SOUTH'S COLORED WOMEN ARE DOING WAR AID WORK. No one has paid much attention to what the Negro "mammies" and educated black women of America are doing to help win the war, but they're doing their share just the same. Parallelling the work and organizations of white women in the Southern branches of the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense, the Colored women are keeping even, and in some instances a jump or two ahead of the procession. "The Colored women," said a member of the National Defense Council's Woman's Committee today, "are valuable members of the women's army of America. "They, too, have their men in the war, and are anxious and well able to do their part. They work under their own leaders and often have their own units. Tennessee is planning to organize the entire state I separate units and to encourage them to train for nursing. Active in Maryland. "Colored teachers in Maryland are giving of the time that they have usually taken for much needed rest to do volunteer work and the state chairman including publicity reports that too much praise cannot be given to their devotion and patriotism. "In New Orleans a Negro woman lectures to other women cooks of the community on the value of wheat substitutes, and thy have classes in food conservation in the municipal kitchen. "Florida finds the co-operation of the Colored people particularly valuable in the case of fod conservation. In that state they are highly organized under a separate chairman of their own, who has her own organizer, and they have units all over the state. Given responsibility and a chance to co-operate, they are immensely loyal and valuable to the work. Camp Meade Visitor. "Maryland has a Colored field secretary, who has been visiting the Colored girls working at Camp Meade, and reports good conditions. She has ehtablished binding relations with all the workers and is keeping a record of them up to date. "In Amelia, Md., the Amelia Current Opinion Club, composed of prominent Colored women of that city, has taken up the study of food. In many counties the women are raising money to get wool for sweaters, and also to make comfort kits for men drafted from their counties. "A chairman has been appointed in Georgia, who is organizing the Colored women of that state. "It was a great step in Louisiana when the Colored women were asked to form one unit of the food conservation parade, in recognition of their able and faithful work in handling registration booths for their race."—Washington, D. C., Times. SHE TALKED IN HER SLEEP ABOUT "DAVE," HUSBAND CHARGES. Chicago.—She talked in her sleep! W. McKay White is the name of the husband and, he charges in his cross complaint for divorce, when she called out "Dave, Dave," during her slumbers, he was somewhat mystified. Later, he alleges, he learned her dreams centered upon David N. Ransom. White also has filed suit against Ransom for $50,000 for alienation of affections. Among other charges made against Mrs. White is that she staged a hammock party at 2 a.m. with an "elderly gentleman." Mrs. White previously had filed suit for divorce charging cruelty. the many hundreds of intelligent, ag- ers who have taken advantage of our month and have written us such splen- ience and encouragement in the work to for the West. We shall strive to better each week and shall be found the news, but when needs be to fight best of paper and supplies, as well as of The Sun on and after today will be months. Subscriber as well as every old mem- amily, we beg to remain usa and the Race, THE KANSAS CITY SUN, NELSON C. CREWS, Editor. WILLA M. GLENN, Bus. Mgr. From Our Foreign Correspondents A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction Officers—1917. W. W. Fields, Cameron, Mo., Grand Master. C. C. Clark, St. Louis, Mo., Dep. Grand Master. Ernest Boone, Louisiana, Mo., Senior Grand Warden. I. H. Bradbury, St. Louis, Mo., Junior. Grand Warden. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Mo., Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Kansas City, Grand Secretary. Nelson C. Crews, Kansas City, Relief Secretary. E. G. Lacey, Kansas City, G. L. 2st District. E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., G. L. 2nd District. OFFICERS OF GRAND CHAPTER R. A. M. Missouri and Jurisdiction, 1917-18. T. G. McCampbell, G. H. P., Quindaro, Kans. A. L. Thomas, D. G. H. P., Jefferson City, Mo. J. P. Moffett, G. King, Sedalia, Mo. S. A. May, G. Scribe, St. Louis, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. W. G. Mosely, R. E. G. C., Kansas City, Mo. J. W. Beard, V. E. G. C., St. Louis, Mo. G W. Lewis, E. G. G., St. Louis, Mo. C. Brassfield, E. G., Captain General, Kansas City, Mo. W. A. Ashley, E. G. P., St. Louis, Mo. J. H. Kenner, E. G., Treasurer, Marshall, Mo. J. T. Cannon, E. G., Recorder, St. Louis, Mo. George A. Johnson, E. G. S. W. Kansas City, Mo. Benjamin F. Graves, E. G. J. W., St. Joseph, Mo. Lodge Directory G MASONRY Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. M. meets the 1st and 3rd Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. Emmett Spruell, W. M.; C. H. Countee, Sec'y. G Liberty Lodge No. 37, A. F and A. M., Liberty, M., meet the 2nd and 4th Saturday nights in each month. William Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar Sec'y. St. Stephen Chapter No. 57. Royal Arch, Liberty, Liberty. Meets first Tuesday in each month. W. H. Robinson, H. P. H. Wm. Caps, Recorder. ```markdown ``` St. Matthew Commandery No. 17, Liberty, Mo., meets the third Saturday night William Capps, E. C.; W. M. Robinson, Rec. Seo'y. MOC ORGANIZATION IN VOLUNTEER E. A. Walker Lodge No. 257, U. B. F., meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month at 1403 Michigan Ave. W. 120 E. 18th W. W. 120 E. 18th Sec. W. W. Watkins Sec. 1629 Virginia. E. A. Walker Lodge No. 257, U. B. F., meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month. Rat 1403 Michigan Ave. E. R. Robertson, W. M. 1210 E. 16th St. W. W. Watkins Sec., 1629 Virginia. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION T. G. McCampbell, President. E. B. Thompson, Vice President. W. H. Washington, Treasurer. S. H. P. Edwards, Secretary. Board of Directors: N. W. Jordan. S. Myers. W. H. Brown. E. S. Baker. W. R. Patterson. R. V. Adkins. B. R. Francis. Richard Harris Geo Johnson. R. Fulbright. Meets second and fourth Tuesday in each month. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte. Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Temple. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost Avenue. St. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Bellevue. Seventh Dar Adventist, 23d and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia Vine St. Baptist Church, 182d Wash Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Elkridge St. St. James A. M. E. Zlon Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Second Christian Church, 24th and Woodland. St. James Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4039 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. CLARK CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH, 1664 Madison Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. Church of the Ascension Episcopal- Third and Stewart, Kansas City, Kans. First A. M. E. Church, $th and Neb E. St. Baptist Church, $th and Oakland. Gundaroo A. M. E. Church, Quindaro, Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rose- dale, Kan. Second Baptist, 9th and Oakland. Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby, Wesley Chapel M. E., 106 Shawnee, Bethie A. M. E. Church, Rosdale-Kan. Tabernacle Baptist Church, 780 Muncea, Kansas, Rev. D. Norfolk, pastor. HELENA, MONT. By S. L. Hammard The Federal Court in session here sentenced Ernest Walker to 30 days in the county jail for evading the draft law, Mr. Osborn Fenter of Butte, Walker's father-in-law, and Mrs. Margaret Hayes, also of Butte, were witnesses for the government in the case against Walker...Rev. C. N. Douglass was in the city last week and held quarterly conference at St. James A. M. E. Church...Mrs. Cannon has gone to Butte, at which place she will make her future home...Little Arthur is walking about after a prolonged wrestling with pneumonia...Mrs. George Christian and daughter and Mrs. Laura Sidney of Townsend spent the week in the city visiting friends...Mrs. Geo. M. Lee, Sr., chaperoned a party of Helena folks to Butte last week to a dancing party given in honor of Miss Ruth Hooper of this city, by Mr. J. A. Callender. The guests were: Mesdames Lee, Jr., Mathis, Pope, Harrell; Messrs. Maney, Palmer and Lee, Jr...During the next three weeks Mrs. Mona Mathias will be visiting friends at Kansas City, Mo...Mrs. Mabel Kingslow is very ill and if she has any relatives they should come at once or wire me...The faculty and students were present in a body at St. James A. M. E. Church Sunday, the 20th, to hear Rev. Geo. T. Martin deliver his sermon...The following persons who have been on the sick list for some time are convalescent: Mrs. Arthur Hampton, Mrs. Chas, Oliver, Mrs. A. L. Slitt and Mrs. Ruth Bland...Master Robert V. Leonard Brown surprised Master E. Marshall, Miss Alice Fisher and Miss Hilda Christian as guest of honor at a nice luncheon at their residence. After lunch the boys and girls were entertaining themselves when a phone call caused the girls to disappear...Mr. Andrew Smith, formerly of Galveston, Tex., died here the 21st and was buried the 24th. Rev. Geo. T. Martin and Rev. H. C. Parsona officiated. Mr. Smith was a cousin of the late Wright N. Cuney of Richmond, Tex...Mrs. C. C. Mathias entertained the Stewardess Board with a turkey dinner...Mr. and Mrs. S. Green of Butte and Mrs. Fenter were guests of Mrs. Ruth Bland last week...There are many strangers in town...Mrs. C. H. Harrell, a member of the G. M. O. O. I. S., was elected recently correspondent to this paper for the Pleasant Hour Social Club. Naturally we expected to hear from the club after Mr. Chas. St. Clair made a business trip here last week...The K. of P. goat is wondering where we go from here—Butte...Mrs. D. S. Gordon celebrated Mr. Gordon's birthday recently with a few friends. Earnest Walker, of Butte, in the federal court here last week, plead guilty to the charge of evading the draft law and was sentenced to serve 30 days in the county jail. Mr. Osborn Fenter, of Butte, father-in-law of Walker and Mrs. Margaret Hayes all so of Butte, were in attendance at the trial as witnesses for the government. ...What has become of the Montana and Puget Sound tour of Col. Roscoe Conklin Simmons? The management at this end seems to have effectually camouflaged the plans....Rec. C. N. Douglas, Presiding Elder of Puget Sound Conference, preached last Sunday at St. James A. M. E. Church, and at the Quarterly Conference held Monday night expressed considerable satisfaction over the excellent reports presented by the different departments and clubs of the church....The apparent machiavelism of some of our would be councils and their intellectual gymnastics are on a par with one certain ruler across the pond, who falls to realize the existence of a just and righteous judge in an ever-living God. Mrs. Cannon, of St. Paul, Minn., who has resided in Helena for several weeks has decided to make Butte her future home. She left for Butte on the 24th....The friends of Arthur E. McGnnis are rejoicing over his recovery from a severe attack of pneumonia....Mrs. George Christian and daughter, Hildreth, of Townsend, was initiated into the Household of Ruth last week. Mrs. Laura Sidney, also of Townsend, and already a member of the lodge, came over to certify as to the correctness and thoroughness of the initiation....Mr. J. A. Callander was the host at a dancing party in Butte last week, in honor of Miss Ruth Iola Hooper, of Helena. The invited guest from this city were Mr. and Mrs. George M. Lee, Jr., Mrs. Môna Mathis, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Pope, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Harrell, Mr. Arthur Palmer and Mrs. Pollie D. Lee chaperoned the party. The Pleasant Hour Social Club met with Mrs. Andrew Green on the 23rd and listened to the reading, by Mrh. Cora Johnson, of Talmage's sermon, "A Soft Toungue Breaketh the Bone." The club sent flowers to Andrew Smith, deceased, who was buried in Forestale cemetery on the 24th... Mrs. Mona Mathis left for Kansas City Mo., on a visit last Thursday. She will be absent about three weeks. ROSEDALE, KANSAS. By Mrs. Rosie Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Allen announce the birth of their daughter, January 19. to whom they have given the name of Francis Margaret....Freda and Linnel the small daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith are ill with pneumonia at the residence of their parents.....Mrs. J. L Pearson is ill THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918. at her residence, 2719 W. 41st.....Mrs. Irving Johnson is convalescens from her recent illness.....Mrs. Louise Mosely is somewhat indisposed this week.....Rueben, the little son of Mrs. R. Hayes is ill.....The Pleasant Valley Mission Circle was entertained by Mrs. T. T. Morton at her residence, 3029 Adams, Monday afternoon. The Circle made some donations to charity....The condition of Mr. Joseph Strickland who has been seriously ill with pneumonia is somewhat improved. ARGENTINE, KANSAS. By Mrs. Ophelia Jackson. Mr. Benj. Small was badly cut while at work in the packing house where he is employed last week and is in a serious condition....Mr. Benjamin Porter is confined to his home on the account of illness....Mr. Samuel Bigman was accidentally shot Thursday night at 9:30 o'clock and died from the wound at Douglass hospital Friday morning at 10:45. His funeral was held at the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Monday at 2 o'clock....The Patrons Club of Lewis School will meet at the building Friday, February 8, at 3:00 o'clock. A special program will be rendered....All arrangements have been made for the lunch room at Lincoln School and it will be in operation this week....Mrs. Mary Neely and Mrs. Dollie Baldwin are sick....Smallpox is still prevalent in Argentine and several new cases were reported last week....The funeral services of Mrs. Grey, grandmother of Mrs. Effie Williams, Mrs. Sarah Roberts and Mrs. Green were held in Rosedale last Sunday afternoon....Mrs. Gussie Locke left Tuesday for Oklahoma where her sister is very ill....Mr. and Mrs. Locke of St. Paul are visiting relatives in Spring Garden Addition and will leave for their home this week. OMAHA, NEBR. Johnny Bell, the well known musician who shot and killed Marshall Fielding last week in self defense, was acquitted by the Coroner's Jury last week. His many friends, both in Omaah and Kansas City, were glad to hear this as Bell has always possessed a splendid reputation for peace, honesty and sobriety in this community....Coldest weather of the year is prevailing in Omaha now temperature being as low as 22 degrees below zero....The Masons are beginning to make preparations and outline plans for the entertainment of the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M. this summer. MARYVILLE, MO Cyrene Lodge 56 gave a rabbit supper Tuesday January 22. Music was furnished by Tates orchestra of St. Joseph.....Woman's Mite Missionary met Wednesday, January 23. They are doing good and effective work under the leadership of Mrs. Henry Wilson and her corps of officers.....Mrs. James Palmer suddenly took ill Tuesday night, but is able to be about at this writing....Mr. Rufus Palmer was the victim of a serious accident Wednesday, January 24 while at work at the Hotel Bainum where he is Headwaiter. He slipped and spilled a cup of boiling coffee in his eyes and scalding his face seriously. He is much improved at this writing....Mrs. J. C. Cookle was hostess Thursday, January 24th, to a house party complementary to Mrs. Thomas. The dining room was decorated with candles and carnations. A three course luncheon was served. The out of town guest was Mrs. James Saunders of St. Joseph. Mo....The Stewardess of the A. M. E. Church gave an entertainment Friday, January 25, to raise their Presiding Elder's assessment. Mr. D. Carriger spent Tuesday in St. Joseph visiting his sister, Mrs. L. Anderson ....Prof. and Mrs. Ernest O. Boone, Jr. and son spent the day Sunday as guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Smart at their beautiful home on west Fifth St....Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gooden had as dinner guests Sunday, Rev. R. H. Longdon....Get your pocket books ready for the grand Old Folks concert to be given soon. Mrs. Henry Wilson, director....Mrs. W. M. Palmer was called to St. Louis on account of the illnes of her son, Mr. E. Schoolen at Jefferson Barracks. BUTTE, MONT. Butte is being blest with good weather once more of course there is plenty of snow....Rev. A. J. Woodward leaves Friday for Bozeman on business....Mrs. E. B. Reed is up and out again....The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. King is improving rapidly....Billy King's Exploits of Africa was the big hit of week a the Broadway, playing to a crowded house each night....Mrs. Wallace Hagin entertained at dinner Tuesday evening. Covers were laid for ten....The Sunshine Mission met with Mrs. H. C. Dunn Wednesday afternoon. A large number were present and enjoyed themselves....Mrs. Wm. Freeman had the misfortune to fall injuring her spine. We hope she will recover soon....Samuel Few of Tennessee died Tuesday at Anaconda of pneumonia, having ill about two weeks. He was a member of K. P. Lodge at his home....Mrs. Robt. Jackson suffered a spell of the heart while in the street Tuesday morning and had to call for assistance home, she is better at this writing....The Maple Leaf pool hall has opened its doors to the public and is ready to entertain all its guests. Rance Ware and Lee Marshall proprietors....You will have to hurry to join the K. P. club for the time is growing very short for enrollment. See Jesse H. Smith..Be sure and read all good books, magazines and papers of the race. Jesse H. Smith Agent. BOISE, IDAHO. By Miss Pairlee Hill. Bethel A. M. E. church is still progressing. Dr. T. J. Ross, our proficient pastor, is always at his post of duty. Last Sunday at 3 p. m. Dr. Ross and his very excellent choir visited, by request, the penitentiary and all were loud in their praise of this wonderful service. He chose for his text, II Kings 2: 9; subject, "Still, Small Voice." He has rose to the zenith of his wonderful powers, many hardened criminals were seen to wipe forbidden tears from their eyes.... Our chair simply displayed themselves wonderfully with their songs: "Old Time Religion," "Swing Low Sweet Charlotter" and "Walk Jerusalem Just Like John."...We are enjoying fine weather here while poor old K. C. is wrapped in snow and ice. We are sorry for you, better come to Boise and enjoy pleasant sunshine almost every day; no need for overshoes and rubbers....Mr. C. C. Seewall, the town socialist, still enjoys a splendid patronage....Mrs. M. B. Ross, wife of our pastor, is improving from her long spell of sickness.... Fifty or one hundred young women of color are badly needed for domestic service at best pay. Come, girls, good positions await you....Mrs. J. E. Brown, the caterist, is kept busy every day. Mr. J. E. Brown is also very busy in his carpet factory.... Janitors and soda dispensers could find ready employment here....The flowers are still growing and blooming in many yards. Strange, isn't it....Mr. James Montgomery left a few days ago for Seattle and Portland where men are paid from 75 cents to $1.00 per hour for work....Master Lion Smith is progressing nicely with his classic music....Master Adolph Carso nis attending high school.... Rev. Ross and congregation have special invitations to be present and take part in the opening of the New City Mission services next Sunday at 3 o'clock. The Helena District Conference will meet April 2 to 5, with Bethel A. M. E. church, Rev. C. N. Douglas, presiding elder....Great revival services are being held at Poca tello; Rev. J. A. Duncan, B. D. pastor....Sergt. George J. Wright of Co. ??, Dr. M. G. Battalion, Camp Funston, is expected soon to visit his mother and father, Rev. and Mrs. T. J. Ross, of 115 South 23rd street. SOCIAL SERVICE LECTURES. There will be given at Old City Hospital, a series of lectures on Social Service, beginning Wednesday evening, September 19, and every Thursday thereafter throughout the year. These lectures will be given by experts along their special lines, as indicated by the following program. They will also be free, and anyone wishing to take advantage of them is invited to attend. They will be given in the nurses' Study Room of the Old City Hospital, and will begin promptly at 8 o'clock p. m. Feb. 7: Mrs. T. W. H. Williams. Subject, "The School for Servant Girls." The Handy Colored Store 2409 Vine St. Ladies' and Gent's Furnishing Goods and Notions VISIT OUR DRY GOODS AND HARDWARE DEPT. BARGAINS FURNISHING COOPER'S HOME SPECIAL BARGAINS IN OUR NOTION DEPARTMENT AND HAIR GOODS. Help Make Our Store, Your Store, Our Customers Your Friends Special Values in Furnishings for Men, Women and Children. GIVE US A CALL. $2.50 In Goods Free. WE GIVE SURETY COUPONS. Taylor Holmes & Co. Mrs. Annie Holmes, Mngr. 2409 VINE ST., Kansas City, Mo. Beil Phone East 4221J 1. Because it is an association of Colored people, operated by and for the protection of Colored people, and is not operated for profit. 2. Its rates are those of the National Fraternal Congress and therefore it is enabled to maintain a reserve sufficient to meet the increased mortality of its members in later years without resorting to taxes or extra assessments. 3. Because all certificates carry old age, permanent and total disability, accident, sliness, death, and burial benefits, thereby enabling any member to cover in a single policy such protection as otherwise would require the carrying of two or more policies in different companies at a cost in the aggregate far in excess of the rates offered by the American Woodmen. 4. Because there is no discrimination in rates. The humblest wage earner pays no more than the professional or business man; age regulates the rate. 5. Because your policy cannot lapse on account of illness or accident unless you so desire, for it pays benefits from beginning of illness or accident until the restoration to health regardless of the time, whether measured in hours, days, weeks, months, or years. 6. In the event of death from whatever cause, there is an amount varying from $250 to $2,000 to maintain and protect those who are left dependent. It has paid within the past sixteen (16) years to its members, $400,000. 7. Because, by giving employment to hundreds of Negroes, it opens the door of hope to you. Its clerical force is composed of young men and women of the race, thereby giving an opportunity to earn a livelihood in a creditable way. 8. Because it is the oldest and strongest fraternal life insurance society for Colored people in America. It has $150,000 for the protection of its policyholders, and its solvency is questionable, being valued at one hundred per cent. 9. Because it accepts the membership of women on the same basis as men, and allows them to affiliate in all matters affecting the camp to which they belong. 10. Because of its fraternal feature, large numbers of men and women are brought into personal contact, thereby learning to guard and respect each other's interest, which ultimately develops into a racial love that promotes business. Then you should waste no time to become a member. Local Office, 1315 East 18th St., Kansas City, Mo. L. D. HINES, Supervisor. Phones: Bell, Grand 317; Home Main 3963. Vaughan's Values IDLEWILD!!! Michigan THE UNPARALLELED HEALTH RESORT FOR THE RACE. 11,000 lots, surrounding a lake two miles long, half mile wide, in which is an island park of 8 acres, with an excellent club house. Streets and boulevards all laid out. Pere Marquette Railroad right through the town. Has a tent city. Buy your family a rest home, in a resort that is being bought up by the best people throughout the country. Many cottages already built by both men and women whom we all have heard of. Environment and social contact assured of the highest. Lots $24.50 each. $6.00 down, $4.00 per month on one or two lots. Located near Chicago. Free information by EUGENE EDWARD VAUGHAN, General Agent, 26th and Parkway, KANSAS CITY, . . . KANSAS. Bell Phone, West 1757. Along the river more than half the way to SAINT LOUIS ON THE Missouri Pacific a delightful ride, day or night Lv. Kansas City Ar. St. Louis 9:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. 11:10 a.m. 7:30 p.m. 10:10 p.m. 7:10 a.m. The Scenic Line Across Picturesque Missouri Tickets at 707 Walnut Street andUnion Station L. R. WELSH, Gen. Agent Either Phone, Main 6740 MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT FLOUR Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K.C.U.S.A. FORMULATED 1900 PORO HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Miss Amber Fortune Mallory ST. LOUIS MISSOURI FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, ITCHING SCALP; GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY, COLOR AND A BUNDANT GROWTH THIS STYLE OF DOX ADOPTED JUNE 12,1915 PRICE 50 CENTS PORO COLLEGE COMPANY 3100 Pine Street, Dept. G ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Bell Phone E. 4394R Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. THE Modern Builders Co. A. E. ESTES, President General Contracting Repairing a Specialty ONLY ONE The history of Kansas City records but one real, legitimate, competent, established Negro jeweler, and he is J. A. Wilson at 1616 W. 9th St. Half. bleck west of Wyeming St. Mr. Wilson sells Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Staple Jewelry :: and :: Guarantees to the public satisfactory and proper treatment. BELL PHONE MAIN 2868W Kansas' Famous Wheat makes I-H FLOUR Hard, winter, "turkey red" is the world's flour wheat supreme. Given the benefit of I-H modern milling, this fine raw product becomes a super-fine food — I-H Flour — the aristocrat of every grocery. Try it. Ismert-Hincke Milling Co. Kansas City, U. S.A. Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. The Vandals By Augustus Goodrich Sherwin Always, when an acquaintance came to see him, or he ran across an old friend, or some children who had heard of his priceless possession, begged to view the same, Earle Dawson led one and all into a rear room sacredly devoted to a memento, a reminder of his early childhood. He was a full-grown man now, twenty-three, engaged to marry Norma Lane, his counterpart in that delicate refinement of mind and soul that had made him a dreamer. Through all the course of the years he had never for an hour lost sight of one ineffable longing to some day visit the little picturesque town, "somewhere in France," where he had been born during a sojourn of his parents abroad. His father had died there, was buried there, at Leisle. His mother returned to the United States with her child. She, too, died a few years later, leaving her child a competence. His guardian was a man of esthetic temperament and nurtured all there was of poetry, art and literary talent in his ward. So Earl Dawson had grown up with a soul as clear as crystal, but utterly unfitted to cope with the rigors of the world. When he was still a little child he received a wonderful gift. His father had given important financial assistance to a merchant at Leisle, deeply involved. The loan had saved the man from bankruptcy and ruin. At Leisle there were those ex- : Was He a Craven? quisite workmen in articles of the bijouterie that attract and charm the antiquary and the tourist. The merchant had hired an expert worker in cork to reproduce on quite a large scale the entire village of Leisl. It was so faithful a reproduction that it showed every steeple, the magnificent cathedral, castles four centuries old, even the village graveyard and the tall memorial shaft marking the grave of the father of Earle Dawson. "Some day we will go there," Earle had told Norma. "When the war is over, we will make this journey our deferred honeymoon." Norma sighed, but to herself. She fairly worshiped her lover for the fine qualities she knew he possessed. Her thoughts, however ethereal at times in harmony with his own, were practical. Ever and always Earle shrank with aversion when the horrors of the unnatural conflict abroad were discussed in his presence. The thought of cruel warfare, of the wreck and ruin of battle chilled him. When the call for volunteers came he was not responsive. "You're not going to be a slacker, are you, Dawson?" the brother of Norma Lane asked him one day. Earle writed at the insinuation. His intellectual face expressed varied batting emotions. "You are harsh and unjust," he said in a tremulous voice. "I could not bear the carnage that strikes terror to my merciful nature." "It isn't a question of feeling," spoke the other bluntly, "but one of patrolotism. See here, Dawson, we're shy our boasted quota. Join in." "I will think of it," murmured Earle. "You will think of it harder when you come to know the frightful vandalism displayed by the enemy daily coming to light." Earle was troubled. The shrinking timidity against practical and unpleasant things, catered to by his indulgent guardian, nurtured by chosen association with friends of a temperament like his own, had weakened courage and judgment. He fought against this conviction. He was generous in his contribution to every national aid movement presented to him. Deep down in his heart, however, he realized that this was as nothing. A more vital sacrifice was demanded. He found Norma distrait and secretly troubled one evening when he called upon her. More than once he noted the quick tears come to her eyes, but she smiled and laughed them away with assumed lightness of spirit when he solicitously sought to fathom the cause of her perturbation. "It is only a touch of the blues," she declared. "We all have them at times, you know." The next morning, however, Earle received a brief note from Norma, so unusual an event when he had seen her so recently that something intuitively told him that it was directly or indirectly connected with her mood of the previous evening. "I would like to see you, and alone, before noon," the missive ran. "It is important." Norma received him in a small room off the parlor. Her eyes could never express anything but gentleness, but there was this morning a gravity to her face that perplexed Earle. "I have sent for you, first to return you this," she said, and she slipped from her finger and placed in his palm the engagement ring he had given her months agone. "Oh, you cannot mean it, Norma!" he gasped, staring blankly at the pretty trifle. "Yes, Earl, it must be so," replied Norma firmly, although her sweet lips quivered. "There is a duty you and I owe jointly, as separately, to our country. I have thought everything over. I have resolved to devote myself to hospital work with the army abroad. One of us must go." He regarded her in profound consternation. He traced the delicate implication of his own unworthiness as a patriot. "I think I understand you," he sald, almost coldly. "You place a reproach upon me. There is nothing more to be said. Good-by." A sense of false dignity had come to his rescue. Sadly, but silently, she let him depart. He went home, to shut himself in his room, to think, to bare his soul to the most critical analysis. Was he a craven? Was it not just that the gentle being he loved should show him the path of duty? Morning came, after a sleepless night. He paced the room, ever and anon giving utterance to the monotonous words: "One of us must go!" The sudden strident cries of newsboys afoot at full excitement speed with an "extra," attracted his attention. He threw open the window and hailed one of the nimble messengers of the press. He sat down and glanced at the newspaper. It told of a great battle, and of the vandalism of the enemy, of the wanton destruction of town after town, holding the most precious works of art and science, the labor of years ravaged in a vengeful onslaught, and there on the next page was a vivid illustration of the results of a heartless, useless devastation of a month previous: "Leisle as it is today." Slowly the face of Earle Dawson became a rigid mask. At sight of the heartless desecration portrayed, it seemed as if, in the place of timidity, of a supersensitive shrinking from responsibility, there came to him a sense of justice that firmed up every element in his nature. The beautiful cathedral at Leisle was a meaningless mass! The grand museum which held the historic treasures of four centuries had been burned to the ground! The pretty, antiquated chalets were disfigured and defaced! Even the graveyard had been plowed up by bomb and ball, and the shaft that memorized the last resting place of his father lay prone, riven in twain. Earle Dawson took the picture to the room where the cork replica of Leisle was. "Leisle as it is today," he quoted, the stern insistence of retribution forcing itself upon his plant mind. Leisle as it was! Ah, there shall be no hesitancy now. The path of duty showed clearly before him. If it ended at some lonely hill, on some battle-beleaguered plain, better so, that the world might be free! Earle Dawson went straight to the recruiting office. There was a new majesty now in face and mien. "I have come to say good-by," he spoke, as he presented himself before Norma at her home. "You said truly, one of us owed service to our country. I am the chosen one." And to her glorified vision he was not only the man she loved, would ever love, but her hero, as well! Health So Necessary. "Health is, indeed, so necessary to all the duties as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly; and he that for a short gratification brings weakness and diseases upon himself, and for the pleasure of a few years passed in the tumults of diversion and clamors of merriment, condemns the maturer and more experienced part of the life to the chamber and the couch, may be justly reproached, not only as a spend-thrift of his happiness, but as a robber of the public; as a wretch that has voluntarily disqualified himself for the business of his station and refused that part which Providence assigns him in the general task of human nature."—Dr. Samuel Johnson. Tractors In Cochin China The French government of Cochin China has become interested in the employment of caterpillar tractors for the cultivation of rice. A 45 horse power track machine valued at more than $5,000 United States currency was purchased telegraphically. If the experiment is successful, larger orders will follow. Everything depends upon whether the tractor can operate in the soft rice-paddy fields of Cochin China. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918 Federal Hospital Inmates Knitting for the Soldiers C. HARRIS & EWINS More than 100 women, inmates of St. Elizabeth's hospital, the federal institution for the insane, are knitting for Uncle Sam's sailors and soldiers. Prior to the war the women inmates did no work, though the men who are not violently insane have always done manual labor around the hospital. The women take great pride in their achievements and are aware of its patriotic nature. They have turned out a great quantity of useful garments. President Approves the Timely Injunction Sent By Redfield to Chiefs President Wilson has set the stamp of his approval upon a timely injunction addressed by Secretary Redfield to his bureau chiefs. It is to be circulated, posted up, and made a guiding rule in the transaction of all war business. It should be a golden rule, a precept always to be heeded: "Forget how things were done before the war; eliminate red tape. We must learn with Germans that 'the war won't wait.' Delay is the kaiser's ally." Heads of department bureaus are not alone insisting upon doing things this year as they did them last year and the year before that. The "business as usual," "pleasure as usual," and "my own interests first" advocates are just as guilty as the tape-bound bureau chiefs. All such are playing Germany's game of delay. It is the business of each individual to bestir himself to help win the war. It is the business of all to realize that everything is changed, that nothing can be done this year as it was last. We must do the things the war demands, and do them now. THE DOLLAR QUEST Of the dollar you'll find There is many a kind While you seek it, as men have to do; And you shouldn't neglect Some care to select The kind it is best to pursue. There's the dollar that works, And the dollar that shirks; There's the dollar that loves to assist; There's the dollar that loves to assist; There's the dollar that slacks And just stands in its tracks, When it ought to get out and enlist. There's the dollar that thrives And the one that contrives, And the one that cry to please; The dollar that hopes And the dollar that gropes In the haunts of improvident ease. There are dollars that roam; There are, those that stay home, They are built both for joy and regret, And success will depend. End success will depend, More or less, in the end, On the kind of a dollar you get. -Washington Star. Men's Clothing for Spring Lighter Weight Than Usual With the wind-up of the buying season for spring delivery, manufacturers in New York of men's clothing find themselves with a volume of orders on hand which, in most cases, is above the record for the corresponding period a year ago. It is said that, as a rule, the fabrics to be used in these garments for next spring are lighter in weight than ordinarily. In other respects, however, there is practically no evidence of the war regulations," the modifications in styles that have been agreed to applying more to next fall than to the coming spring season. Patch pockets will be worn a great deal, and many double-breasted coats have been sold. Trousers will be turned up at the bottom as usual, though this feature may be cut out in the fall styles. The cloths used are mostly of subdued colors and combinations of colors, and conservatism seems to rule in the great majority of cases. Cats Eat Only Scraps. "There is absolutely no justification for anyone's proposing to destroy the cats to save the food they eat," said Dr. F. J. Flanagan of the Boston Cat club. "Not from any angle. They eat the scraps from the table which would only accumulate and be dumped into the garbage pail. The refuse can't be used to feed pigs, because no one in Boston can get a permit to raise them. It is taken down the bay by the Boston Developing company and turned into fertilizer; but the amount which the cats use is so small that it isn't worth counting." By Dr. Samuel G. Dixon Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania The modern method of preparing drugs for family use has its attractions, yet it has been the cause of many deaths, often from the fact that so many drugs are put up in form and color to resemble each other. One may be innocent and the other deadly poison, as for instance, calomel, an innocent form of mercury and bl chloride of mer- tions, yet it has been the cause of many deaths, of ten from the fact that so many drugs are put up in form and color to resemble each other. One may be innocent and the other deadly poison, as for instance, calomel, an innocent form of mercury and bichloride of mercury, one of the most deadly of polsons. One of these drugs might be picked up for the other in the dark or even in the daytime, if the label was not carefully read by the one seeking to take the medicine. This has resulted in an innocent father killing his child, or perhaps his wife, or in some cases himself. Another great mistake is to change a drug from one bottle to another without altering the label. It is often done in dividing up the contents of a rare drug with a neighbor. The one receiving the unlabeled bottle depends upon his memory, which often falls him, and a fatal mistake results. A very short time ago I knew of a generous doctor dividing up a rare drug with one of his colleagues, intending to label the bottle he kept for himself. He neglected to do so, and not long after he wanted to use the drug and picked up what he believed to be the proper bottle, but which proved to contain an agent active in its power to destroy tissue. This he dropped into his eye and only escaped flaving his eye destroyed by a narrow margin. Now this is quite a common mistake, and people have been made blind by this carelessness. Drugs that are most useful are, as a rule, most dangerous, and should always be kept under lock and key and plainly labeled. At present we are being robbed enough of the members of our families during the war, so that we should have no patience with the killing of the innocent at home by simple carelessness, and it is this common, everyday practice of confusing drug bottles that I warn you against. It can all be done away with if you will only give it reasonable attention. Sayings of a Cynic. Anything that disturbs serenity is an enemy of thought. The shriek of a penny whistle may cost the world a masterpiece. The possession of wealth has little to do with real happiness. Often a one-legged beggar on the street is happy. He of the fishy handshake is easy to index. There are people so filled with egotism that they can strut standing still. A trip to the country often proves to be mainly the purchasing of expensive inconveniences. Old Shoes for Paving. Wornout boots and shoes, chopped up and mixed with slag, granite, limestone, asphalt, and bitumen, make fine roads. The patent on this process was issued in 1010 in England, and the roads that have been paved with the product wear well, are resilient and have little dust. Culture Buttermilk More Beneficial as Drink; Has More of the Lactic Acid Culture buttermilk is more beneficial as a drink than the common variety, according to C. E. Buchanan of the dairy department of the Kansas State Agricultural college. It is more likely to be free from harmful bacteria, and to contain more of the lactic acid which gives it its healthful properties. Lactic acid bacteria are present in the digestive tract and destroy other bacteria which might prove injurious to the body. The use of buttermilk as a beverage is one method of introducing more of these lactic bacteria into the system. Whole or skim milk may be used to make culture buttermilk, but usually these are combined in equal parts. The milk is first subjected to a temperature of 180 degrees for 30 minutes to sterilize it. It is then cooled to 70 degrees and a small amount of starter is added. The milk is kept at this temperature for ten or twelve hours until the whole is coagulated. Afterwards it is beaten thoroughly or churned from three to five minutes and salted—one teaspoonful of salt to each gallon. The buttermilk is then cooled to 50 degrees, at which temperature it is kept ready for use. The starter is made from pure lactic acid culture obtained from the laboratories where it is cultivated. The lactic acid bacteria are carried by means of sterilized milk powder made from the dried casein of milk. A small quantity of this powder is put into a small bottle of milk, which soon coagulates. The curded milk is used in a new bottle of milk the next day and this process is continued through three or four propagations. These preliminary propagations of the starter are necessary to eliminate the peculiar taste of the original powdered milk culture. Food May Be Saved by Close Watch of Weather Forecasts Immense losses of food products, occasioned by freezing and other injurious weather conditions, occur annually that may, with proper precautions, be avoided. This is especially true of shipments by rail during the winter season. The weather bureau issues forecasts daily, and special warnings as occasion demands, giving information of expected weather conditions, including frosts, cold waves, high winds and heavy rains or snow. During the winter season, officials in charge of nearly all weather bureau stations issue daily what are known as "Shippers' Forecasts," giving the minimum temperature expected to occur within a shipping radius of from 24 to 36 hours from the station. These forecasts are published on postal cards. Careful watch of forecasts and warnings will often enable shippers to avoid losses, either by expediting or delaying shipments or taking extra precautions to protect goods from injury. No shipment of considerable length should be made without first ascertaining the expected conditions over the route. The occasion demands the utmost care to prevent losses of food not only as a matter of self-interest but as a patriotic duty. "Who is a stranger to him who hath the habit of speaking kindly?" Good Food for the Family. While we are cutting down on our meat, using less beef, mutton and pork, the following recipe will help out when planning a beef dinner: Beef and Kidney Ragout. BEET and KIDNEY RAGOUT. Wash skin and cut beef kidney into one-fourth-inch cubes; wipe a pound of stew meat and cut into inch cubes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Cut two slices of bacon into dice, put into saucepan, add one onion peeled and sliced, cook three minutes, then add the meat and stir and cook until well browned. Add a cupful of boiling water, a tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce and one green pepper cut in strips; bring to the boiling point, and cook slowly until the meat is tender. Thicken the gravy, add a half-cupful of stoned ripe olives and garnish with rings of green pepper and fried mush. A salad that is most appetizing is made of a small head of cabbage and one onion chopped fine. Cut a thick slice of salt pork into small dice and fry but until brown; pour the fat all over the cabbage, stir well, add salt and pepper to taste, then pour over enough boiling hot vinegar to moisten and further season the cabbage. Serve at once. Oatmeal Soup. Cook one good-sized onion in a tablespoonful of butter until soft. Add a bay leaf, celery-seed (one-fourth teaspoonful), three-fourths of a cupful of oatmeal, leftover; two cupfuls of water or stock and two cupfuls of milk. Boil up, season and strain and serve with hot buttered toast. Fine for a supper dish. Cranberry Salad. For this salad make a cranberry jelly as usual and mold it in a baking powder can. When ready to use unmold and cut in half-inch slices and arrange on lettuce; on top sprinkle a few broken walnut meats and some shredded celery with a spoonful of thick salad dressing. Nellie Maxwell BIG ARMY NEEDED FOR AIR SERVICE FORTY TO FIFTY MEN REQUIRED FOR EACH ACTIVE PLANE AT THE FIGHTING FRONT. FIGURES BY HOWARD COFFIN Veterinary Corps and Remount Service Growing Rapidly—Information About the Pay Received by Uncle Sam's Enlisted Men. (From Committee on Public Information.) Washington.—In a statement issued by Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the aircraft production board, is the following: "In discussing the accomplishments of the air service in the consummation of the army program, it will be well to point out the impossibility of certain proposals enthusiastically and persistently put forward by word of mouth and in the press. We have seen and heard much of the proposed 100,000 airplanes to be provided by the United States within the next year. In a country where one great industry produces 1,500,000 motorcars per year, the fabrication of 100,000 planes might seem easy, but actual figures based upon three years of practical experience in the war shows that there are now between 40 and 50 men of the auxiliary services required for each active machine at the front. If this same ratio should be adhered to in our service, it would mean that some 4,000,000 men would be required in our aeronautical department on foreign soil between our ports of debarkation and the fighting front. "Even though this number of men could be reduced by 50 per cent by increased efficiency and standardization, the number required is still staggering. Consider, also, the overseas transportation problem as related to material only and without reference to personnel and its maintenance. The transportation of finished planes, properly crated, with the necessary spares, accessories, and equipment is in itself a serious problem, in view of the situation in ship tonnage." When war was declared the strength of the United States army in animals was 63,145; it is now 344,000. The remount service April 6 consisted of one officer and four clerks in Washington, five remount depots where horses were received, and a personnel and purchasing organization in the field in proportion. The veterinary corps, responsible for the treatment of animals, consisted of 64 officers and no enlisted personnel when the United States entered the war. The veterinary corps faced the job of building an organization of about 1,000 officers and 12,000 men. The 1,000 officers have been secured and enlisted men are being transferred at a rate which will soon bring it up to its full authorized strength. The remount service had a similar task in securing personnel. Its present strength is about 300 officers and 11,000 enlisted men. In place of 5 remount depots it has 34. for which plans had to be drawn, sites chosen, and construction of shelter, hospitals, storage buildings, and unloading facilities in short time. The greater proportion of deaths of animals in the army results from influenza, popularly known as "shipping fever," and its complications. British losses on horses purchased in the United States during the war have been about 10 per cent, counting only deaths occurring in this country. French and Italian losses have been higher. The rank of commissioned officers of the United States army is shown by insignia on the shoulder loops. The shoulder loops of a general bear the coat of arms of the United States and two silver stars; lieutenant general, one large and two small silver stars; major general, two silver stars; brigadier general, one silver star; colonel, silver spread-engle; lieutenant, colonel, silver leaf; major, gold leaf; captain, two silver bars; first lieutenant, one silver bar; second lieutenant, gold bar. The shoulder loop of a chaplain bears a Latin cross. A recent comparison of health reports from troops in the United States and the expeditionary forces shows the admission rate to hospitals to be greater among the men in France. Admissions to hospitals in one week in the expeditionary forces, figured on a basis of 1,000 men, were 45.2; in the United States the rate was 33.7 per 1,000 men. In the overseas forces the noneffective rate (the total number of men excused from duty for any injury or allment, whether or not ordered to hospital) was 54.1 per 1,000 men; in the troops in the United States it was 46.4. The sale of "smilage" books, containing coupons good for admission to theaters and entertainment tents in all army camps and cantonments, is handled in the smaller cities and towns throughout the country by chautauqua and lyceum organizations. The books come in two sizes, for sale at $1 and $5. When sent to a man in camp a smilage book carries the name of the donor on the cover. Red Cross appropriations for work in Italy from November 1, 1917, to May 1, 1918, total $4,771,900. The pay of enlisted men depends on their grades, ratings, and length of service'. From June, 1, 1917, and continuing during the term of the war the pay of the enlisted men is as follows: Men receiving $30: All privates, the Men receiving $30: All privates, the army entering grade. Men receiving $33: First-class privates, men promoted to act in minor noncommissioned officer capacity. Men receiving $36: Corporals, saddlers, mechanics, farriers and wagoners, and musicians of the third class. Men receiving $38: All sergeant grades in the line, which include infantry, field artillery, coast artillery, and cavalry; cooks, horseshoers, band corporals, and musicians of the second class. Men receiving $44: Sergeants of the various corps of the engineers, ordnance, signal corps, quartermaster corps, and medical department; band sergeants and musicians of the first class. Men receiving $48: Battallon sergeant majors, squadron sergeant majors, sergeant majors (junior grade), sergeant buglers, master gunners, and assistant band leaders of the line. Men receiving $51: Regimental sergeant majors, regimental supply sergeants, sergeant majors (senior grade), quartermaster sergeants of the quartermaster corps, ordinance sergeants, first sergeants, electrician sergeants of the first class, assistant engineers and battallon sergeant majors and battallon supply sergeants of the engineers. Men receiving $56: Sergeants, first class, of the medical department. Men receiving $71: Hospital sergeants, master engineers of the junior grade, and engineers. Men receiving $81: Quartermaster sergeants of the senior grade of the quartermaster corps, band leaders, master signal electricians, master electricians, master engineers of the senior grade, and master hospital sergeants. All enlisted men, while on detached duty not in the field where there are no army quarters available, receive in addition to their pay $15 per month to cover the expense of housing and also a suitable allowance for subsistence and for heat and light. An enlisted man in active service has no necessary personal expenses except for barber and laundry. Uniforms, underclothing, shoes, hats, quarters, medical attendance, and subsistence are supplied them at government expense. Such materials as tobacco, postage, confectionery, and incidentals of individual taste may be purchased at the post exchange at cost. From uncensored sources the committee on public information has received editorial comment on the president's recent message in the Frankfurter Zeitung, a liberal organ with large circulation throughout the German empire. The following paragraph appears in the translation: "The foundation for the peace negotiations has not yet been found, but we have approached much nearer to it. Wilson seeks a way out of the war and does so in a manner not entirely in accord with us. We see no reason for exposing ourselves any longer to the charge of lack of clarity about our war aims. Germany and her allies should come out openly with their terms. Then perhaps it will be seen that a continuation of the war can be avoided and the resistance of governments to the desire for peace of their peoples can be overcome." A large harvest and storage of natural ice for summer use is being urged, accompanied by the statement that unprecedented demands for ammonia by the army and navy indicate a shortage in this chemical so widely used in producing ice and in refrigerators. A shortage of ice during warm weather in 1918 would result in untold waste of perishable foods in the home, in small creameries, and other establishments dependent upon constant ice service. The United States department of agriculture has for distribution complete information on the harvesting and storing of natural ice. A statement by the provost marshal general shows that of 859,150 total discharges for dependency 743,141, or 86.50 per cent, were for wife or wife and children; widowed parent, 6.51 per cent; motherless child, 0.66 per cent; minor orphan brothers and sisters, 0.58 per cent. Of the total of 1,057,363 men certified for service in the National army 418,300, or 39.56 per cent, are listed as involuntary conscripts—those who failed to appear or filed unsuccessful claims for exemption or discharge. Voluntary conscripts—those who filed no claims for exemption or discharge—numbered 639,054. Under the new food regulations Swiss people are allowed only one-fifth of a pound of butter per person per month. The United States, importing before the war as much as $10,000,000 worth of aniline dyes a year, in ten months of last year exported dyes valued at $12,500,000. Four tons of shipping capacity are required to transport a soldier, and another is necessary for his equipment. In addition, it takes 50 pounds of ship capacity a day to keep him supplied with food, clothing and ammunition. A million checks a month will soon be going forward from the bureau of war-risk insurance to safeguard America's fighting forces and their families. Applications from soldiers and sailors for insurance are near $4,000,-000,000. THEKANSASCITYSUN Bell Phone East 999. Bell Phone East 2789 Entered as second-class matter, August 1988, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews.....Editor and Owner Willa M. Glenn.....General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....60 Canada and Foreign Countries $1.00 add- itional. ADVERTISING RATES, $2.00 PER INCH PER MONTH. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. EDITORIALS. Subscribe now. Have you paid your subscriptions to the Hospital fund? In encouraging your children to buy Thrift Stamps and exchanging them for Baby Bonds you are simply teaching them to save their pennies and put them out at 4 per cent interest. The democrats may cover up or explain away all 11 their blunders and shortcomings in managing the war preliminaries, but the best way to carry this great enterprise to its deserved success is to place it into the hands of the Old Reliable Republicans who have won all previous wars for Uncle Sam. We respectfully suggest to the Board of Health that a good way to stop the spread of contagious diseases would be to clean up and ventilate the Vine street and the Fifth street cars, compel either the closing or the cleansing of the dirty picture shows and filthy rooming houses in which all these maladies are propagated. "Our Gruesome Customs" by Prin. Joe E. Herriford is being copied and favorably commented upon by several of our exchanges. Now who will make a tangible start toward the reforms which appear to be so popular? How would it do for the undertakers and the ministers to get together upon this important mater and ogether work out something effective? We are at least fifty years behind now. So, hurry! THE LIFE OF LEON TROTZKY. The author of "The Bolsheviki and World Peace," in conversation with some of his most intimate friends, gave the following sketch of his life a week or so before leaving New York to return to Russia: "I was born thirty-eight years ago in a little Jewish colony in southern Russia, in the government of Kherson. When about fourteen years of age I entered the gymnasium of Chernigov, and live most of the impressionable youth of Russia soon became interested in the revolutionary movements. Here in America school boys seem to spend most of their time in sports, baseball and football. In Russia, the boys and the girls too, for that matter—use their leisure for reading books like Buckle's 'History of Civilization,' 'Mary's Capital,' 'Kautsky's 'The Social Revolution,' and our own great classics that throb with the passion of revolt. Our pastime is chiefly attending underground Socialist meetings and spreading the propaganda among workingmen in the city and peasants in the country. "I was no exception to the rule. The revolutionary cause gripped me early in life and has never relaxed its hold. There was indeed a great deal of work to do. When I was little more than twenty years old, the Russian Revolution blazed up into a mighty flame. Most of the young people of Russia with any education were enlisted in the fight against the unspeakable Czaristic system, determined to put an end to the wrongs it inflicted upon the long-suffering Russian people. "My university education was interrupted, for I soon plunged deep in the work of propaganda, which left no time for anything else. I continued, however, to apply myself to the study of sociology, political economy and history and soon became a convinced Marxian Socialist. Whe nthe Russian Social Democracy split up into two sections on the issue of tactics I did not identify myself with either the Mensheviki or the Bolsheviki, but continued to work for the general cause, for the overthrow of Czarism be applied in gaining the same ends, and the cause of Socialism. Since the division in the party was not based on fundamentals, but only on a difference of opinion as to the method to I used all my efforts to effect a reconciliation between the two wings. However, I leaned strongly to the radical side. In other words, I was a Mensheviki of the extreme left, or a near-Bolshevik. "My ability as a speaker and as a writer soon drew me into the very center of Socialist activity. I wrote for the party press, composed pamphlets, and carried on personal propaganda chiefly among the city populations. "Naturally, I did not escape the general fate of Russian Revolutionists. I was arrested and imprisoned, and as I did not give up my work for cause after my release I became what the Russian authorities called an "illegal" person, and had to live under an assumed name. My first jailer was called Trotzky, and the idea occured to me to take his name. "When the Revolution broke out in full force in 1905 I was made president of the first Soldiers' and Workingmens' Council in Petrograd to succeed the first incumbent to that position. I remained president until the defeat of the Revolution, when I was arrested and sent to imprisonment and exile in Siberia. From there I succeeded in making my escape, and went to live in Switzerland. "In Switzerland I founded a Socialist paper called 'Prada' (The Truth) which was published both in Russian and in German. I also established an international news service for the dissemination of truthful news of current political and revolutionary events in Russia. "In 1910 I went to Germany, where my revolutionary activity incurred the displeasure of the Prussian authorities. I was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment, but escaped. Three days before the outbreak of the present war found me in Vienna. On the advice of Dr. Adler, the Austrian Socialist leader, I left Austria Hungary, and was in Servia when that country was invaded by the Austro-Hungarian troops, and was present at the Servian parliament, the Kupchina, when the vote for the first war credits was taken. "I returned to Switzerland dand was later summoned to Paris to edit the Russian Socialist paper there. When a Russian division of troops mutinied and killed t hegeneral. I addressed a severe letter of criticism of the French government to Jules Guesde, a Socialist member of the cabinet, for the savage punishment that was meted out to the Russian troops. This so displeased the French government that I was ordered out of France. I then went back to Switzerland, but Switzerland feared complications with hte Czaristic government and would not let me in. I then turned to Spain. Spain would not have me either. I was detained at Barcelona, where I was to be deported to Cuba, where I knew no one, and where I should have found myself completely stranded. Later the Spanish government decided to let me go where I pleased, provided only I left Spain. Every country in Europe practically was now closed to me, and so I turned by gaze across the Atlantic and arrived at Ellis Island at the end of December 1916. "Here in New York I lived with my wife and two children in three rooms in a Bronx tenement, wrote for the 'Novy Mir.' the Russian Socialist daily and spoke at Socialist meetings. I do not expect my stay here to be very long, however, for a revolution is bound to break out in Russia in a short time, and as soon as that happens I shall hasten to my home country and help in the work of Russia's liberation. "My book 'The Bolsheviki and World Peace' expresses in full my convictions on the world war. It is the result of wide and deep study and the program laid down there is the only solution that I can see to the problems that confront humanity." Mr. N. C. Crews, Kansas City, Mo., Dear Sir:— Enclosed please find check for payment of subscription of "The Kansas City Sun," for 1918. If I want to know anything concerning the race and its progress, I look for it in "The Sun." It is one of the brightest, breeziest and newest papers published by our race any where. 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CITY NEWS Mrs. Minnie Dodson, 8th and Grand room 214, is ill with pneumonia. She formerly lived at 2410 Flora. Mrs. Dollie Ford of 1318 E. 23rd, who has been seriously ill for the past four weeks, is able to be up again. Mr. C. H. Calloway left Wednesday night for Muskogee, Okla., on business. Mrs. Guy Marshall is still confined to her bed from a fall on the concrete floor of the basement, from which she received serious internal injury. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bronson, of 2319 Vine street, are the proud parents of a nine-pound boy. Mrs. Bronson was formerly Marian Compton and a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Compton. Mother and boy doing fine. Last Thursday, the 24th, at seven o'clock a seven-course dinner was tendered Madam Walker D. Booker by Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Merritt, 913 Washington Blvd. Places were laid for six. The National colors were beautifully carried out in the table decorations. Mrs. R. E. Glover, 2457 Mich., who has been in Billings, Mont., for the past six months with her sister, Mrs. G. W. Browning who was quite ill returned to the city this week. She reports her sister much improved but that she herself was compelled to return home on account of health. Mr. Edward Pritchett of Pleasanton, Kansas, was the week end guest of his sister, Mrs. H. B. Brooks of 2112 W. Prospect, while here he was entertained by his nephew with a theatre party at the Shubert last Sunday. IN MEMORIUM In loving memory of our dear husband and father, Adam Vernon, who died two years ago, January 30, 1916 MRS. MARGARET VERNON, MRS. E. F. LANDOR, REV. WM. T. VERNON. Mr. Blake B. Brown, about 72 years of age, one of the best known men of the race in this city, passed away after a brief illness last Wednesday night at his residence, 3507 Paseo. Mr. Blake came west from New York many years ago and was married to Miss Amanda Young, daughter of one of the pioneers of this section, she dying several years ago. Since that time he has lived alone with his adopted son, Dorsey B. Brown, who was recently called to the army and is now stationed at Camp Sherman, O., but is here for the funeral. Funeral will be this morning at 10 o'clock from St. Augustine P. E. Church. CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our sincere thanks to our friends for kindness shown us in the sickness and death of our beloved brother and uncle, Chas. Sutton, who died Jan. 27, 1918, and for the beautiful floral offerings and especially to Rev. Osborne for words of comfort and Mrs. Dimery for songs, also the employee's of the Parisian Cloak Co., for their beautiful offering. Mrs. Mamie Sutton, Mrs. Lavica Williams, sisters, Mrs. Mattie Finley, Mrs. Mary Lee George, nieces. MAYHUE-ARNOLD WEDDING MAYHUE-ARNOLD WEDDING. The marriage of Miss Libbie Arnold and Mr. J. W. Mayhue was solemnized Thursday night, January 24, at 7:30 o'clock at the residence of Mr. Mayhue, 1419 E 22nd street. Rev. Richard Davis officiated. The bride wore a gown of white Georgette crepe, a string of pearls, pearl ear-rings and carried a bridal bouquet. The groom wore the conventional black. The bride was given in marriage by her mother, Mrs. Mariah Arnold. Mr. McSmith, an uncle, Mr. Walter Arnold, brother, Gwendola Mayhue, daughter, and Mrs. Carrie Ward foster, mother, witnessed the ceremony. The wedding march was played by Mrs. Jessie E. Smith. After a delightful evening of music, the wedding dinner was served. The table was decorated with carnations, ferns and candles. The dinner consisted of dressed turkey, creamed potatoes, lettuce with mayonnaise dressing, olives, white bread and assorted cakes and candies. IN MEMORIAM. In loving memory of my dear mother, Mrs. Annie Epperson, who was called away seven years ago today, January 29, 1911. Mother I miss you everywhere. Miss your advice, love and care. A faithful mother, so kind and true, I always pray an dthink of you. You're not forgotten in my mind. To me you were so good and kind; How my heart is filled with pain, T hope some day we'll meet again. Sadly missed by her daughter, Hattie H. Butts, 1106 Highland Mrs. Virginia Moore, mother of A. T. and H. B. Moore prominent undertakers in this city passed away at her resident in South Park Kansas, at 7:00 o'clock Thursday morning January 31. She leaves five sons and two daughters as well as a host of friends to mourn her loss. The funeral services will be held from the St. Stephen's Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 1:00 o'clock. Rev. J. W. Hurse will officiate. Mrs. Stella Gant Douglas, of 614 State St., gave a dinner in honor of her father-in-law, Mr. Geo. Douglas, sr., og Davenport, Iowa. Those present were: Rev. A. M. Chatman, wife and mother and Mr. Geo. Douglas, Jr. of this city. Mr. Wm. Johnson, 2016 Tracy, was found dead in bed Tuesday, January 28th, 1918. His death was due to heart trouble. The funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. under the auspices of Watkins Bros., undertakers. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ THE FIRST TREATMENT OF PORO Given free for 30 days by Mrs. A. B. Holt. PORO HAIR DRESSER. Call at 934 Everett Street Kansas City, Kansas. Bell phone West 2955. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank Rev. Griffin, First A. M. E. church, Kansas City, Kans.; Rev. W. T. Osborne, Ebenezer; the members of Sylvester Temple No. 24 and our many friends for sympathy kindness and beautiful offerings during the illness and death of our sister, Mrs. Lena Bell, who died January 21, and was buried January 24, 1918. The following names were persons who contributed to the Wheatley-Provident Hospital but whose names were inadvertently omitted. We take pleasure in giving publicity to their generous contributions: Mrs. Fred Bell, $5.00; Mr. Robert Hamilton, $5.00; Raymond Knox, $5.00; Mrs. Lizzie Smith, $2.50; Mrs. Carrie Preston, $2.00; Mrs. F. Boaz, $1.00; Mrs. Overshiner, $1.00; Mr. Mr. James Stewart, $1.00; Mrs. Ella Thurber, $1.00. IN MEMORIAM. In memory of our loving sister Aunt and cousin, Mrs. Julia Peterson who departed this life one year ago January 31, 1917. A precious one from us has gone, A voice we love is stilled; A place is vacant in her home, Which never can be filled. A year has passed, We miss you more. Since you were called To the heavenly shore, Your vacant seat we cannot fill; The calling home was at God's will Mrs. K. Cummings, sister, Mrs. Cordelia Waters and Mrs. Maggie Harris, nieces, Mrs. Mamie Jones, Cousin. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 30, 1918. Hon. N. C. Crews, Editor of "Kansas City Sun." My dear Sir : Enclosed find one dollar for one year's subscription of your splendid paper. One cannot fully appreciate the merits of this news sheet until he is away from Kansas City a few months and has a chance to compare it with other papers edited by Negroes. It is then that one sees the real value of a newsy, breezy and racey paper like that coming from Kansas City, Mo., and edited by a man who when it comes to true Christian manhood and racial love, stands in a class by himself. Trusting that you shall live many years to do the good for your people that you are now doing and that long after you are sleeping 'neath the sod your paper shall live, a brilliant monument to your memory, I beg to remain. Yours fraternally. NEGRO BREAKS THE RECORD IN CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. Prof. J. Silas Harris Makes An Average of 95.5% For Keeper Of The Garrison Field House. At the recent examination held by the Civil Service Board of Kansas City, Mo., Prof. J. Silas Harris, an applicant for keeper of the Garrison Field House, broke all former records before that board by making a general average of 95.5%. Candidates are given one day to write upon the subjects submitted; Prof. Harris finished his papers in one hour and thirty minutes, with the above result. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918 HEAT IN OLD NEWSPAPERS. From the Boston Post. Use your old newspapers to keep cold out; out of your house; away from your body. Put them between your windows and curtains cold nights stop all cracks where too much cold enters. Put them under the sheets and between the covers of your bed. Cheapest blankets in the world. Put them around your person between your under and outer garments. An extra newspaper inside your vest. Put them between your stockings and drawers and around the lower extremities when out in the cold, well up toward the knees. Save coal, save wood, save cotton, save wool. Keep heat in, cold out. An opinion of Frederick Douglass As One of The Builders of American Civilization. By Prof. A. A. Hughes, Lacygne, Kans. He is dead. A star for 30 years blazed above the Scholastic Horizon, has sunk beneath its literary rim. He knew words as the devout Moslam knew his Karam: all the deep and shallows of the great sea of words was surveyed by him and marked upon the chart of his great mentality. He was an emperor in the realm of expression, a magician i the presence of an audience and with words he built temples of thought that at first excited the wonder and at last the world of Literature and Statesmanship. The Afro-American people will listen long before they again hear from one of their number, the harmony born of that perfect fitting of phrase to thought that marked the utterance of Frederick Douglass. HEADQUARTERS 349th FIELD AR TILLERY. Camp Dix, New Jersey. January 24th, 1918. At the suggestion of our Colonel, Daniel T. Moore, I am addressing you this letter. He desires that our people be informed and also aroused to the splendid opportunities now before them in the Artillery branch of the service. The 167th Brigade of Field Artillery with Headquarters at Camp Dix, N. J., is the first organization of its kind to be formed in this country for our people. And such as we can not afford to let this organization fail in its purpose or even fall below the standard previously set. But in order to do this we must have immediately a large number of skilled men to enlist in the service. Our success will be determined by the men we can obtain for the various lines of work, namely, electricians, machinist, clerks stenographers and experts in the care and handling of horses, and players of brass and wind instruments. At present the men who apply must be over or under the draft age. They should go to the nearest recruiting office and enlist for service in the 349th Field Artillery at Camp Dix, N. J. We have at present forty officers in this regiment and there is a splendid chance for promotion. We, therefore appeal to you to give this matter as much publicity as possible in order that we may secure the needed men and succeed in this new field. Very respectfully yours, ARTHUR T. RANKIN, Chaplain 349th Field Artillery. ATLANTIC CITY GETS NEXT SES SION OF BUSINESS LEAGUE. Tuskegee, Alabama, Jan. 26.—Emmett J. Scott, secretary of the National Business League, has been authorized by the Hon. J. C. Napier, president, and Dr. Robert R. Moton, cairman of the Executive Committee, to announce that it has been decided to hold the next meeting of the National Negro Business League at Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 21-22-23, 1918. During the meeting at Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1917, invitations were read from various cities including Atlantic City, and it was decided then to leave the matter of selection of the meeting place for 1918 to a special committee consisting of the President, Chairman of Executive Committee and the Secretary of the League. In the telegram which came from the Mayor of Atlantic City to the Secretary of the League, he said: "We cordially extend you invitation and offer the city keys and unequalled hospitality for next meeting of National Negro Business League." A committee consisting of some of the officers of the Local Negro Business League at Atlantic City went to Washington recently and conferred with Mr. Scott the Secretary of he League, where he is temporarily located as Special Assistant to the Secretary of War. They outlined their plans for the entertainment of the guests, and he outlook is most promising for a good and helpful meeting. The meeting will afford an unusual opportunity for combining business and pleasure. Atlantic City being known as the "world's play ground." HOSPITAL SUBSCRIBERS ATTEN TION. The following persons having subscribed to the Hospital fund, were notified by letter but the letters were returned for better address. Will anyone knowing the correct addresses please notify our headquarters? Bell phone E. 2789, or E. 999. Mrs. Lottie Russian Pleasant Hour Club Mr. W. C. Snyder Mr. E. L. Surface Miss Julia Heuderickson Mr. Frank Stewart Mrs. Mary Brown Mrs. Edna Thomas Mr. Lester Rowland Mr. William Gorney Mr. Tom Colley Mr. J. E. Reed Mr. A. L. Smith Mr. A. M. Kleneheffer Mr. Frank Brady Mr. M. T. N. Chaney Mr. Arthur Liete Mr. George A. Miller Mr. E. A. Mathey Mr. A. M. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Lester Graham Mr. Jas. Graham Mrs. Ida Finney Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Reed Mr. Lewis Spencer Cave Mr. T. H. Armstrong Mr. Ellas Lyles Mr. Jno. T. Howard. Rev. G. W. Hart began a series of meetings at Calvary Baptist Church, January 13, despite the inclement weather, which is now prevailing in our city. A very large audience greeted the pastor, morning and evening. His subject, "Resurrection and the coming of Christ," was well delivered. . . Miss Beatrice Hudson, of East 3rd street, was very seriously injured by a fall Tuesday morning on the pavement. . . Mr. Chas. A. Johnson and Mrs. Mary Cartwright were quietly married January 3 by Rev. Daniel Jones at the A. M. E. parsonage. They are a well known couple. Mr. Johnson has been a waiter at the "Utah" for many years. The happy pair will reside at 1726 S. East 2nd. We extend many congratulations. . . Amity Red Cross meets each Friday from 10 to 5 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Mattie Halffield, chairman. The unit has a sewing and knitting class. The Baptist Young People's Union elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Douglas McMillan, Pres.; Mrs. Pearl J. Nance, Sec.; M. B. Brown, Treas. . . Cupid is very busy in Salt Lake. At this writing, we receive the announcement of the engagement of Miss Thelma Bradshaw to Mr. Dewey Washington in the early spring. Any one wishing copies of the "Sun" call Hyland 2346-W. . . Thornton Jackson, only 8 years of age, by permission from his parents, has enlisted with the U. S. A. and expects to leave for one of the cantonments soon. . . Eight girls and boys of East and West High School have organized a club and expect to take up "relief" work among "the boys at the front" families. The club met at the home of Miss Anetta Patterson, Tuesday, January 15. WEIR, KANS. Mr. D. L. Borders and Mr. Wiley Johnson were called to Bristow, Okla. last week to the bedside of their father, who has been very ill, and returned Tuesday evening, leaving their father in a much better condition.... The South Eastern District Executive Board convened with the Mt. Hebron Baptist church at Pittsburg, Thursday and Friday, January 24 and 25.... Our Honored Moderator, Rev. D. A. Jefferson, was at his post as usual although he has been recently called to pastor the Third Baptist church of Topeka, Kans. He is still with us. We pray God's blessing upon his labors....Deacon B. F. Crowder of Cherokee and Mrs. Lillie David of Pittsburg, gave us a New Year surprise by uniting in Holy matrimony. We wish for them a happy and prosperous journey through life. The wedding bells are still ringing among the older people....Mrs. Stella Cleveland of Kansas City, Kans., was a visitor in our city last Wednesday. LATHROP. MO. Mr. H. W. Hicks shipped a car-load of iron to Quincy, Ill., last week. He sold two early spring pigs, weighing seven hundred, seventy pounds and received $126.42. Some of the members of the Christian Church held prayer meeting with Prof. Tully. He certainly enjoyed it. Rev. D. L Lovell had quite a success with protracted meeting at Plattsburg. Mr. and Mrs. General Graham spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Reubin Lee. Mr. Lee Legon had the pleasure of being the first Colored soldier to visit his home. Douglass School Spelling classes are having a lively contest. The best speller in the "A" class this week is Fred Alexander; in the "B" class, is Oscar Williams, and the "C" class, Jewell Boggus. The attendance has been good this week. Prof Tully is no better. He has to be turned over in bed. Mr. Merrit Boggus is on the sick list. Mrs. Oliver Wes ton and daughter are quite ill. Mr Geo. Tilman spent last Thursday in St. Joseph. Mrs. John Hicks, of Kansas City, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. the last ten days. They returned home Sunday. KANSAS CITY, KAS. By Miss Elise Rogers. Mrs. R. C. Hayden of North Tenth street who has been suffering from an injury received by a fall is able to get out....Miss Estell Mitchell, of 947 Oakland Avenue is very slick....Mrs. Sallie Brown of 10th and Walker who broke her jaw bone incurred from a fall is improving. ...Clifford Lewis, 5 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lewis, 4704 Summit St. died at the General Hospital Tuesday morning as a result of burns received late Monday evening...Mr. Wash Elam of 9th and Oakland passed away Wednesday evening after suffering from an attack of La gripe...Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Weaver, 847 Oakland Ave. have purchased a home at 905 Washington Blvd. and expect to move in the first of March. It was formerl yowned by Mrs. Weaver's father, Mr. Winston Smith...Night school at Summer High reopened Monday night January 28...The Young Peoples Social Club of the 8th street Baptist church met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elme rwilson, 945 Oakland Friday night and were served an elaborate luncheon. Mrs. O. Scott is president...The Linnwood Club will meet with Mrs. Lillian White next Friday afternoon, 532 Parallel Ave. The Civic League will render the program at the Citizens' Forum Sunday afternoon February 3. Rev. D. A. Holmes will be the principal speaker...Mr. Wm. Price has returned to his home at Hennessee, Okla., after spending several weeks the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Tilford Davis, 1116 Wash. Blvd...Mr. Houston Jr., Asst. Registrar of the National Negro Business League received notice that the next sessio nwill be held in Atlantic City, N. J., August 21-22-23, 1918. He hopes that the two Kansas Cities will be represented by a large delegation...The Emanuel Prayer band of the 8th street Baptist church is doing great work. January 21 they met at the home of brother Daniel Harris, 2423 North 6th street. They are meeting with much success. Rev. D. B. Jackson pastor...Elder James Brunner will leave for Muskogee, Okla. February 5 to take the pastorate of the Church of God and Saints of Christ. Mrs. Laura McNeal of 101 Garfield Avenue is indisposed this week....Mrs. Laura Jones of 325 Garfield Avenue is ill....The U. B. F. & S. M. T. has started an emergency fund to strengthen the endowment fund....Mrs. Ida Boggs of 913 Oakland Avenue is seriously ill....Mrs. Laura Wood of 625 Troup was confined to her home last week with illness....The story of a "Beautiful Garden," Genevieve 1 Chapter will be given by Mrs Zula Jones in the Missionary Society which convenes immediately after morning services....All women who have sons or husbands drafted or enlisted in the war please leave your name and address with your pastor or report at the Y. W. C. A. at 900 Nebraska Avenue by order of the Civilian Committee....The parent teachers' Association of Douglass and Stowe schools are to be commended for their excellent work for the Red Cross....The pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist church brought to his members a message full of inspiration, which will be long remembered....The B. Y. P. U. Sunday school and various auxiliaries have taken on renewed energy for the year and expect to make this year a successful one....Mrs. Scales Brown of 844 New Jersey Avenue, was indisposed last week ...Mrs. Vary Jackson, who has been ill, is improving nicely at this writing ...Miss Augusta Nelson was confined to her home last week with an ulcerated tooth ...Miss Laura Nelson of Reno, Kansas, who was severely bit by a dog, was here under the treatment of Dr. J. R. Thompson. While in the city she stopped with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Howell. ...Mr. I. K. E. Holland, of St. Paul, Minn., and little daughter, Corrine, is visiting his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tunnely at 117 Greely Avenue...Mrs. Rosetta Williams of 732 New Jersey Avenue, who has been ill is improving nicely. The Negro Civic League of Kansas City, Kans., will hold their second public meeting next Sunday at the Metropolitan church, furnishing the program for the Forum. Rev. D. A. Holmes, the President, will be the principal speaker. We are interested in everything that concerns the Negro. Any information concerning the organization may be had of Dr. I. H. Athony, Secretary. Come to the four o'clock meeting Sunday. --- A NEW STEAM HEATED TAXI "Cut out your Yellow and call DAVID ALLEN, New Seven-Passenger Haynes Light Six Sedan. It is steam heated and warm as toast. Mr. Allen still has his seven- passenger Cadillac which can be secured on short notice. 2313 HIGHLAND AVENUE Bell Phone East 4154J --- ST JOSEPH MO Miss Corma Crews of Chillicothe, Mo., is the guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Crews. Mrs. Hocker, of Bethel, Kans., is visiting her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilkerson, 1820 Angellie street....Mr. O. J. Henderson will give a birthday party on the first of February at his home....Mrs. Main Browning died at her home on the twenty-sixth and was buried on the twenty-eighth. Mr. R. C. Jamison is a very sick man at this writing.... The Saxophone Orchestra that made its first appearance in public at the Ebenezer Church, Tuesday evening, was well attended and the indications are very bright for them. Mr. Robert Bibbs is very sick at this writing. Mrs. Nana Martin, who was operated on a few weeks ago, will be moved to her home. Mrs. R. McKissick has been ill with la gripe. Mr. J. R. A. Crossland, Jr. last left Thursday for Kansas City en route to his post of duty in the Base Hospital at Camp Funston. He spent a few days in the city visiting his father and many friends. Mr. Sherman Thal of Oregon, Mo., and Miss Maime Lincoln of St. Joseph, Mo., were quietly married at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Crews. Rev. Nathaniel Sawyers, an aged and well known minister in this state, is a patient at the State Hospital. Miss Carrie Wilson is very sick at this writing. The S. Anna Armstrong Open-door Gospel Mission will have services every Sunday at 3 p. m., at 7:30 p. m. and every Thursday evening. SENTIMENTAL. The world seems to move on to that harsh state where sweet and noble sentiment becomes the subject of ridicule rather than admiration or warm welcome. Take away this beautiful thing and you have a blank world. What beauty, lofty spirit of Fine Art we may boast of, we largely owe to that which we are led to style the "Sentimental Sentiment"—Treasures, peoples and Fine Feeling of the Soul." Sweet impulses, Joys and Sorrows of the heart! The thought which moves the hidden springs of love, whether it be human, inanimate object, time or place, all are touched by the quickening spirit which makes the Sentimentalist gloat over the glorious past, for what it has been, the Sweet Present, for what it is an dthe Hopeful Future, for what it can be. We are a warm hearted people, emotionally inclined and yet we are not sufficiently demonstrative of this finer sentiment. We sadly lack this beautiful trait and we rather despise any shown tendency to acquire a delicacy to cultivate and express it, still, nothing is more important in the shaping of noble character. Is it expecting too much of a people only fifty years removed from a state of The Dead; to look more to the sentiment and turn of Mind which Culture and Refinement will bring to any one? Why pay more to get a LIVE AND LET LIVE AUTO T. T. T Bell Phone Stand, 2109 C Haul Everything. The Spotle (All that its 23 WEST 13 The best place in Kansa some, Sat The best place in Kansas City for a Clean, Wholesome, Satisfying Meal Special Dinner and Lunch at Noon for those employed down town MRS. PEARL RILEY, Manager MARTIN YOUNG Proprietor THE DRUG STOCK Service and Quality WHITE-WOOD Bring Your Prescription of Absolute Accuracy OUR STOCK IS COM N. W. Corner 19th and W PHONES—HOME D LYRIC HALL FOR RENT For All Entertainments — See — C. H. 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The following lines seen below are advanced, not for any intrinsic value as poetical construction but merely to point out the Sentimentality that can be expressed in a natural spontaneous feeling. Though simple, they may be considered as coming from anyone who is reasonably alive to the call of Love or Friendship. PAST JOYS Links of memory bind us fast To the joys of the sweeter past. THOUGH DELUSIVE. A sweet delusion, a dream When it comes on Love's sweet mask, Is the bright boon and beam That I ever fondly ask. A moment of this delight Is elixir to my soul, Illuminating the night As its lovely waves unroll. WHO KNOWS? This wonder soul, who can tell. The magic wand which may wave O'er itself and shed a spell Of Glory, destroy or save? SOLITUDE. In the Communion of the quiet woods, Love speaks. FORGET-ME-NOTS. There is sweetness in fondling over the past When such memories lead to Love and Romance. The Heart, rich from the joys of yesterday. Answers the appeal of Forget-Me-Nots. NATURAL. There is pure balm in the breeze There is Love in Nature's Art Companionship in the trees Consolation for the Heart. THE OLD SMILE. My Soul is joyful today Because of memories that live. I feel the same sparkling ray. As from the smile you used to give. A GLIMPSE. Down sinks the sun behind the hills. Taking a last look while he reposes. He spreads his rich rays 'o'er the rills. As he bids his good-bye to the roses. By Chas. A. Starks. more than 50 cents trunk hauled? AUTO BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS TIVETT name Grand 1266 9 Campbell Street KANSAS CITY, MO. less Kitchen (its name implies) 13th STREET Kansas City for a Clean, Whole- atisfying Meal MARTIN YOUNG Proprietor STORE BEAUTIFUL city are Paramount at the D DRUG STORE options to us and be assured racy and Fair Treatment. COMPLETE IN ALL LINES Al Vine Streets. (Transfer Point) E EAST 2293, BELL E. 641. THE BARBER SHOP STORIES of AMERICAN CITIES Men Jumped to Obey When Jackie Took Command Men Jumped to Obey When Jackie Took Command CHICAGO.—The evening rush hour crowd in the subway had begun to thin out, but there were still plenty of standees on a north-bound express. In one car a row of women was hanging to the straps while every seat on that ates. But if he had thus indulged, it had but stirred his chivalrous impulses. For as he stood beside the door he looked with frowning disfavor upon the row of seated men above whom swayed the women hanging to the straps. Those near him heard him murmuring uncomplimentary remarks about "pin-heads" and "galoots." Presently his emotions grew too strong to be kept to himself. "Here, you muts," he shouted, "ain't you ashamed of yourselves, sittin' here, and all these ladies standin'? Get up now and let the ladies sit down! Get up, every one of you! If you don't, I'll make you!" Sheepishly one after another of the men got up, offered his seat and sought another car. The sailor moved down the line, and if a man affected not to hear or see what was going on Jackie addressed some remarks to him that were pungent and personal enough to bring him to his feet without delay. Then the young crusader's eye fell on the man reading the German newspaper, and no bull ever responded to the challenge of a red flag with more fervor. He snatched the sheet away, wadded it together, threw it on the floor and stamped on it. "You — Hun!" he shouted. "Get out of here and go join your kaiser, if you love him so much!" The train slowed down at a station, and the German, white-faced, made a dash for the door. The sailor saw him dive into the crowd and then, with a look on his face as if he were going "over the ton," rushed after him. Juvenile Army Mobilized to Fight the Kaiser KANSAS CITY.—It's all off with the kaiser now. He may just as well sue for peace at once and get the best terms possible while he has an army left to back him up. General Silvers has organized and he is ready to go over and tackle the German, kids, and teach army," but it won't be long before they do, the general declares. It's this way, according to the warrior; "You see everybody is talking about the Germans—licking them, making the world safe, and all that. "But nobody says anything about the German kids who are likely to grow up into as bad actors as their fathers. German kids about twelve or thirteen must be pretty hard to lick, and that's the job that we want to do." Realizing that it takes guns and uniforms to go to war, the general says all members of the army are required to pay 5 cents a week into a fund to buy equipment. "Any guy who has the money can buy his own, but them what ain'ts gonna get one from the fund," said the general. General Slivers' staff includes Capt. F. Santolo, First Lieutenant P. Santio, Second Lieutenant D. Leonardis, Sergt. Aniello Gupliano and Corp. Mutti Caruso. General Slivers announces that any "good clean kid" is eligible to join this army. No Room Even for Porker With Pedigree ST. LOUIS.—When is a pig not a pig? Answer: When it falls to the lot of a cliff dweller. Within the limitations of an exclusive apartment house, even a pedigree porker becomes a white elephant. If you don't believe it ask Mrs. apartments to include pigs as well as Persian cats and chow dogs. To keep the pig in the parlor, in the old Donegal style, would be to run afoul of the health department. To keep him in the kitchen would be to court the intervention of the food administration. A whole pig to one small family of three is not to be tolerated in the present food situation. When informed of her good luck at the bazaar and asked what disposition she proposed to make of the pig, she was overwhelmed and intimated that no steps would be taken until a family conference had been held to discuss the proposition. "I shall have to consult my husband," she repeated in a bewildered manner. "I really couldn't say what we shall do with the pig. There is certain: no place in an apartment for farm extension work." New York Does Away With Time-Honored Breadline NEW YORK.—The famous New York breadline is gone. Two institutions one operated by the Bowery mission and the other by a well-known baking company—have been closed by prosperity. The men who formerly depended almost wholly on the breadline have. ished. It has a religious atmosphere. But its fundamental principle—succor—soon was established and the breadline grew to thousands. The line dwindled when an eccentric millionaire tramp established the Hotel de Kink. There food and lodging were provided without cost. That place was closed two years ago and the breadline again grew. Meanwhile war depleted laboring forces. Work was more plentiful and the men of the breadline proved they would work if work was to be had. Many were broken in health, but the jobs were varied. There was employment for all. And so it comes about that one of the most famous institutions ever established in New York city, the breadline, simply expires for went of patronage. YOU HUN! sites. But if he had thus indulged, it had but For as he stood beside the door he looked with of sooted men above whom swayed the women near him heard him murmuring uncompliment and "galoots." Presently his emotions grew w "Here, you muts," he shouted, "ain't you here, and all these ladies standin'? Get up n Get up, every one of you! If you don't, I'll n Sheepishly one after another of the men mought another car. The sailor moved down not to hear or see what was going on Jackie that were pungent and personal enough to bri Then the young crusader's eye fell on the man and no ball ever responded to the challenge. He snatched the sheet away, wadded it toge stamped on it. "You —— Hun!" he shouted. "Get out o if you love him so much!" The train slowed down at a station, and a dash for the door. The sailor saw him dive look on his face as if he were going "over th Juvenile Army Mobilized to KANSAS CITY.—It's all off with the kaiser in peace at once and get the best terms pos to back him up. General Silvers has organiz --- tackle the German kids and teach them to be good before they grow up and turn into bad soldiers. The general is known in the bosom of his family as Pietro Venetucci, but to the gang he is just Slivers. And over in Little Italy, flanked by buttresses of ashes and tomato cans, and guarded by the native aroma of garlic and spaghetti, lies Camp Slivers. Military authorities have yet to learn of its existence or of "Slivers' army," but it won't be long before they do, the according to the warrior: "You see everybody—licking them, making the war safe, and a "But nobody says anything about the Ger up into as bad actors as their fathers. Germ must be pretty hard to lick, and that's the job. Realizing that it takes guns and uniform all members of the army are required to pay buy equipment. "Any guy who has the money can buy, gonna get one from the fund," said the general General Slivers' staff includes Capt. F. S toio, Second Lieutenant D. Leonardis, Serg Mutti Caruso. General Slivers announces that any "goes his army. No Room Even for Por S. T. LOUIS.—When is a pig not a pig? Answer cliff dweller. Within the limitations of an a pedigree porker becomes a white elephant. ? apartments to include pigs as well as Persia the pig in the parlor, in the old Donegal sty health department. To keep him in the kltc vention of the food administration. A whole is not to be tolerated in the present food si When informed of her good luck at the tion she proposed to make of the pig, she that no steps would be taken until a family cuss the proposition. "I shall have to consult my husband," mianner. "I really couldn't say what we s certainl; no place in an apartment for farm New York Does Away With Ti NEW YORK.—The famous New York bread one operated by the Bowery mission and company—have been closed by prosperity. almost wholly on the breadline have taken up work deserted by those who shouldered the rifle. Established nearly 40 years ago, New York's brandlines have fed and saved countless thousands. Men have emerged from the line to meet success. Some have climbed to the highest pinnacle of fame and more dismal careers in Sing Sing or the Potter's field. Bowery habitues looked askance at the breadline when first estab- ished. It has a religious atmosphere. But it —zoon was established and the breadline dwindled when an eccentric millionaire tran-There food and lodging were provided with two years ago and the breadline again grew. Meanwhile war depleted lboring forces the men of the breadline proved they would Many were broken in health, but the jo-ployment for all. And so it comes about the tutions ever established in New York city, went of putonage. side of the car was occupied by men, each of whom had his nose buried in an evening paper. At the far end of the row, near the middle door, sat a stout, red-faced man reading a German paper. Upon this scene came with jaunty step one of Uncle Sam's sailor boys, a fine, upstanding lad. It may be that someone had violated the law and given or sold him of the cup that sometimes cheers but always inebri- and but stirred his chivalrous impulses. kicked with frowning disfavor upon the row of the women hanging to the straps. Those supplimentary remarks about "pin-heads" grew too strong to be kept to himself. n't you ashamed of yourselves, sittin' get up now and let the ladies sit down! t, I'll make you!" the men got up, offered his seat and down the line, and if a man affected Jackie addressed some remarks to him to bring him to his feet without delay. the man reading the German newspaper, challenge of a red flag with more fervor. it together, threw it on the floor and get out of here and go join your kaiser, on, and the German, white-faced, made m dive into the crowd and then, with a over the top," rushed after him. **To Fight the Kaiser** kaiser now. He may just as well sue for arms possible while he has an army left organized and he is ready to go over and THEM KASER KIDS BETTER LOOK OUT do, the general declares. It's this way, everybody is talking about the Germans, and all that. The German kids who are likely to grow German kids about twelve or thirteen the job that we want to do." uniforms to go to war, the general says to pay 5 cents a week into a fund to buy his own, but them what ain't the general. F. Santolo, First Lieutenant P. Sans, Sergt. Anielle Gupliano and Corp. my "good clean kid" is eligible to join Porker With Pedigree ? Answer: When it falls to the lot of a class of an exclusive apartment house, even elephant. If you don't believe it ask Mrs. Benjamin W. Tone of 5 East Eighth street. She has had experience. Mrs. Tone was charitably moved to become a stockholder in a Berkshire at the Hero Land bazaar, with no idea of entering the live stock market. Now she knows the embarrassment of riches. Either she must give up her apartment and retire to country life or she must renounce her new pet. To date hard-hearted landlords have shown no disposition to extend the live-stock provision in fashionable Persian cats and chow dogs. To keep legal style, would be to run afoul of the kitchen would be to court the inter-whole pig to one small family of three food situation. At the bazaar and asked what disposing, she was overwhelmed and intimated family conference had been held to disband," she repeated in a bewildered it we shall do with the pig. There is farm extension work." With Time-Honored Breadline breadline is gone. Two institutions—on and the other by a well-known baking charity. The men who formerly depended Walters But its fundamental principle—succora headline grew to thousands. The line were tramp established the Hotel-de Kink, and without cost. That place was closed grew. forces. Work was more plentiful and would work if work was to be had. But the jobs were varied. There was embody that one of the most famous insti city, the breadline, simply expires for THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918. The Housewife and the War (Special Information Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture.) DINNERS IN ONE DISH—ECONOMICAL. WHOLESOME. MILK The One-Dish Meal Is Not a Myth—Here Is What Goes Into One for Five Persons, Proportions Given Below: Fish, Potatoes, Carrots, Onion, a Little Pork, Milk, Flour, Pepper. DINNER QUESTION NEVER GETS OLD Good. Satisfying Meal Whole Family Enjoys Is Wanted. COMBINATIONS ARE IN FAVOR Something Hot, Savory, Easy to Cook and Serve Is Always in Order—Three Recipes Given to Help Busy Housewife. "What shall we have for dinner?"—the daily question that never grows old. Well, you want a good, satisfying meal which the whole family will enjoy. It must be cheap and easy to cook and must supply what your bodies need to help you grow, and to help you work or play and keep warm. And, if the spirit of war sacrifice abides in your household, the meal should reflect your food saving efforts. People of all nations have used combinations of foods cooked together in one dish. Perhaps you can remember such dinners in your grandmother's home. Why not renew the custom and serve your family with a nutritious one-dish dinner occasionally, for variety at least? For such a dinner you might serve a fish chowder. Here it is, a dinner in one dish, sure enough. This one, and the others that follow, makes enough for five persons: Fish Chowder. 1½ lbs. fresh fish. 2 cupfuls carrots (eod. haddock. cut in pieces. etc.) or ¾ lb. salt ¼ lb. salt pork. or dried fish. 3 cupfuls milk. 9 potatoes peeled $ \frac{1}{2} $ teaspoonful peep and cut in small per. pieces. 3 tablespoonfuls flour. 1 onion sliced. Cut pork in small pieces and fry with the chopped onion for five minutes. Put pork, onions, carrots and potatoes in kettle and cover with boiling water. Cook until vegetables are tender. Mix three tablespoonfuls of flour with one-half cupful of the cold milk and stir in the liquid in the pot to thicken it. "U. S. LEAFLETS" NOW CARRY WAR FOOD HINTS War food suggestions for American housewives, prepared in four-page "United States Food Leaflets" by food specialists of the department of agriculture, the food administration and state representatives, are now ready to distribute. The leaflets carry the country's expert thought on food conservation translated into popular language. Each one has its helpful war message for the housewife. Seven are now available. More will follow. "Start the Day Right With a Good Breakfast," is food leaflet No. 1. Others now ready are: "Do You Know Corn Meal?" "A Whole Dinner in One Dish," "Choose Your Food Wisely," "Make a Little Meat Go a Long Way," "Do You Know Oatmeal?" "Food for Your Children." These leaflets are designed to supplement rather than replace the department's publications on food and other home problems. With the funds at its disposal the department of agriculture will be able to supply these leaflets directly only to leaders and active workers in the food conservation movements. ************************** Add the rest of the milk and the fish, which has been removed from bone, and cut in small pieces. Cook until the fish is tender—about ten minutes. If salt fish is used, soak first. Serve hot. This one dish makes a satisfying meal served with crisp crackers or corn dodgers with stewed fruit or jam for the "something sweet" you like with your meals. Now that meat is so high-priced you like to make a small amount go as far as possible. A meat stew can be made very appetizing and with proper care in the selection of the ingredients to combine with the meat you may make another one-dish meal. Hot Pot of Mutton and Barley. 1 pound mutton. 4 potatoes. ½ cupful pearled 6 onions. barley. Celery tops or other 1 tablespoonful salt. seasoning herbs. Cut the mutton in small pieces and brown with the onion in fat cut from meat. This will help make the meat tender and improves the flavor. Pour this into a covered saucepan. Add two quarts of water and the barley. Simmer for one and one-half hours. Then add the potatoes cut in quarters, seasoning herbs, and seasoning, and cook one-half hour longer. This is also good served as a shepherd's pie with mashed potatoes lining the dish and piled on top for a crust. The stew is better if thickened with a little flour in this case before adding to the mashed potato crust. Or your one-dish meal might be of dried peas or beans instead of meat or fish combined with other vegetables. Here is a hearty dish made from split peas. Many kinds of dried peas or beans could be used in the same way. Split Peas, Rice and Tomatoes. 1½ cupfuls rice. 1¼ teaspoonful pep-1 pint split peas. per. 6 onions. 2 cupfuls of tomato 1 tablespoonful salt (fresh or canned). Soak peas over night in two quartz of water. Cook until tender in water in which they soaked. Add rice, onions, tomatoes and seasonings, and cook 20 minutes. Such meals are a help to the busy housewife on especially busy days, as they are easy to prepare and make but few dishes to wash. With bread and butter and jam, perhaps, or stewed fruit, any one of them makes a well-chosen nutritious meal. If there are children in the family give each one a glass of milk besides. Such a meal will satisfy the body's needs as well as a more elaborate one. Cottage Cheese Salad. Nutritious salad makes a good dish for a home luncheon. As they are rich in protein, cheese salads take the place of cold meat dishes. The following is an inexpensive, nutritious cottage cheese salad: Mix thoroughly one pound of cheese, one and one-half tablespoonfuls of cream, one tablespoonful of chopped parsley, and salt to taste. First, fill a rectangular tin mold with cold water to chill and wet the surface. After removing the water, line the bottom of the mold with waxed paper; then pack the cheese in three layers, putting two or three parallel strips of pimento, lettuce leaf, or chopped nuts, between layers. Cover with waxed paper and set in a cool place until ready to serve; then run a knife around the sides and invert the mold. Cut in slices and serve on lettuce leaves with French dressing and wafers. Minced olives may be used instead of the parsley, and chopped nuts also may be added. "Finicky" tastes in food often prevent the use of many valuable materials which might be the means of saving money. Don't stick too closely to habits and customs in the food you eat Try new dishes occasionally. Five Ways to Food Variety. We must have food to grow, to keep warm, and to work. Our food must be nutritious in that it does all these things. It is also important that it should taste good. It will not only be better relished, but it will be better utilized by the body if it does. Food will be more healthful, more palatable, and more nutritious if it is varied. Variety may be secured by selecting for the daily diet something from each of the following five groups of food: (1) Fruits and vegetables; (2) milk, meat, eggs, cheese, fish, peas, beans, and nuts; (3) cereals; (4) sweets; (5) fats. WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS One More Instance of the "Bird in the Hand" WASHINGTON.—How $1,000 worth of candy, a colored messenger and one thin dime may be worked into a new version of the old proverbs, "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," was demonstrated at the city post office just before Christmas. Bill Sherwood, private secretary to Postmaster Chance, bought the candy. Sherwood, as right-hand man to Chance, who is chairman of local exemption board for division No. 3, knows a whole lot about the draft. He received his training under Chance, who runs the city post office with his right hand, the affairs of the exemption board with his left hand and the "Billy" Sunday campaign the Lord only knows how. I learned. Lord only bowever, that the candy was purchased for the C would be divided among the hundreds of member Sherwood was walking around with the "thou ready to hand across the counter, saying, meanwhi dollars' worth of your best, please." A thousand dollars in your pocket makes you in "Sam," said Sherwood to the colored messenger lars for you." In order that the messenger might not take him gave an understanding smile, one of those smiles what I say, but what I mean." need for the City Post Office club, and ads of members of that organization. With the "thousand" in his pocket all wing, meanwhile, "Give me a thousand makes you in a benign mood. need messenger, "here's a thousand dol- not take him too seriously. Sherwood those smiles that says, "Don't mind however, that the candy was purchased for the City Post Office club, and would be divided among the hundreds of members of that organization. Sherwood was walking around with the "thousand" in his pocket all ready to hand across the counter, saying, meanwhile, "Give me a thousand dollars' worth of your best, please." A thousand dollars in your pocket makes you in a benign mood. "Sam," said Sherwood to the colored messenger, "here's a thousand dollars for you." In order that the messenger might not take him too seriously, Sherwood gave an understanding smile, one of those smiles that says, "Don't mind what I say, but what I mean." The messenger understood. Yes-indeedy, he did. He touched the roll reverently. Then he resolutely put it aside, and said: "Dat am sho' a great roll, boss; but ten cents a-coming' would look better ter me." Worth Waiting For, Was This Particular "Worm" SHE looked as if time had gathered her face into rows of fine tucks and pulled the drawing strings. And her hair was so sparse that you could see how bony her skull was between the threads of ash-gray. As she stared through the bars of a gate at Union "Dat am sho' a great roll, boss; but ten cents a-coming' would look better ter me." "Dat am sho' a great roll, boss; but ten cents a ter me." Worth Waiting For, Was This Pa SHE looked as if time had gathered her face into pulled the drawing strings. And her hair was so how bony her skull was between the threads of Worth Waiting For, Was This Particular "Worm" Worth Waiting For, Was This Particular "Worm" SHE looked as if time had gathered her face into rows of fine tucks and pulled the drawing strings. And her hair was so sparse that you could see how bony her skull was between the threads of ash-gray. As she stared through the bars of a gate at Union station, she somehow suggested Charlotte Corday—per Corcoran gallery pose—though, naturally, a turnless worm of a woman could not otherwise favor the Joan of the Revolution, who helped to put Napoleon on his throne. Nor did she, in the least, convey an ownership of folks, except that you knew somebody must be coming by the way she waited, and waited—and d herself into eager notice, and at each day pose and an expression that was always an at last, you notice, no matter man swung ahead of a string of hom- tately apotheosised into exultant moth- not by no means. He was a big-jointed, fast-striding, E. Pluribus Unum eagle led down on the worm——. metaphors. Honest, only expert writers roam free among the flowers of speech—if a man lifted up the small woman as kissed her with an honest gladness that wrecked metaphor—that there may be it—that have no occasion to turn. Reads Over Questionnaire and a place where one may get gold, but hers of registrants to the questionnaires are filling out these days. "The great- under the umbrella shed she galvanized herself into disappointment subsided into the Corday pose and entirely her own. At last—there is always an at last how long it takes a coming—at last a man swung aing travelers and boomed out: "Lo, little mom." And the turnless one was immediately apothec erhood by her answering quver. "Son!" Son wasn't in the worm class—not by no mean yellow-toothed, red-faced, gray-haired, fast-striding, of a man. And when the eagle swooped down on the One moment, please, to change metaphors. He should be allowed an editorial pass to roam free amo what happened was, that the giant of a man lifted if she had been a little child and kissed her with made you rejoice for the poor soul. Which shows—to go back to the wrecked met worms in natural history—and out of it—that have Many Puzzle Their Heads Over SURELY there is a mine for silver, and a place wh wisdom is not found in the answers of registr which thousands nay, millions, of men are filling our est place for under the umbrella shed she galvanized herself into eager notice, and at each disappointment subsided into the Corday pose and an expression that was entirely her own. At last—there is always an at last, you notice, no matter how long it takes a coming—at last a man swung ahead of a string of homing travelers and boomed out: "Lo, little mom." And the turnless one was immediately apotheosised into exultant motherhood by her answering quaver. "Son!" Son wasn't in the worm class—not by no means. He was a big-jointed, yellow-toothed, red-faced, gray-haired, fast-striding, E. Pluribus Unum eagle of a man. And when the eagle swooped down on the worm—— One moment, please, to change metaphors. Honest, only expert writers should be allowed an editorial pass to roam free among the flowers of speech—what happened was, that the giant of a man lifted up the small woman as if she had been a little child and kissed her with an honest gladness that made you rejoice for the poor soul. Which shows—to go back to the wrecked metaphor—that there may be worms in natural history—and out of it—that have no occasion to turn. Many Puzzle Their Heads Over Questionnaire Many Puzzle Their Heads Over Questionnaire SURELY there is a mine for silver, and a place where one may get gold, but wisdom is not found in the answers of registrants to the questionnaires which thousands nay, millions, of men are filling out these days. "The greatest place for the study of human nature I have ever seen," said one prominent member of the legal advisory board, as he stood in an exemption board headquarters one day last week. The faithful work being done by members of the legal profession in helping registrants fill out their questionnaires is a phase of selective service work which will go down in that unwritten history which is always greater in extent than the written. A registrant claimed omission because he already was in the "audience department are developing over night, it would seem, from a claims on account of industrial grounds. Of courts well defined by the new selective service regulation the man who wishes to make a claim when he has no "I am an expert buss boy," wrote one registrar "I am an expert shammier," declared another, comes to polishing up the "bright work" on an auto al by himself. The divorce courts are being helped out wonders, it is averred. Many men are providing regular dependents who never were too good "providers" be Some of the men are conscientious to a degree in One man, answering the question, "What was the past twelve months, in cash, in other things o answer to the second part the fact that he was pigeons. Why Not Have a "Stay-at-Home" "WHY not a 'stay-at-home day' to help solve the a philosopher friend said one day last week. Washington can help largely in this matter, if they A registrant claimed exemption force department" of the army. "Experts" them, from a consideration of exemption leads. Of course, industrial grounds are device regulations, but does that bother when he has none? Not a bit of it. One registrant. Shared another. He meant that when it k" on an automobile he was in a class need out wonderfully by the new regular- providing regularly for wives and other "providers" before, it is alleged. to a degree in answering the questions. "What was your total income during other things of value?" included in his that he was the proud raiser of two It-Home" Day for Women? Help solve the local street car problem?" may last week. "I believe the women of matter, if they once take a mind to," he because he already was in the "audience department" of the army. "Experts" are developing over night, it would seem, from a consideration of exemption claims on account of industrial grounds. Of course, industrial grounds are well defined by the new selective service regulations, but does that bother the man who wishes to make a claim when he has none? Not a bit of it. "I am an expert buss boy," wrote one registrant. "I am an expert shammer," declared another. He meant that when it comes to polishing up the "bright work" on an automobile he was in a class all by himself. The divorce courts are being helped out wonderfully by the new regulations, it is averred. Many men are providing regularly for wives and other dependents who never were too good "providers" before, it is alleged. Some of the men are conscientious to a degree in answering the questions. One man, answering the question, "What was your total income during the past twelve months, in cash, in other things of value?" included in his answer to the second part the fact that he was the proud raiser of two pigeons. Why Not Have a "Stay-at-Home" Day for Women? WHY not a 'stay-at-home day' to help solve the local street car problem? a philosopher friend said one day last week. "I believe the women of Washington can help largely in this matter, if they once take a mind to," he continued. "From daily observation on the street cars of the city, I am convinced that the serious overcrowding of the cars is brought about in large part by the women. "Try to go home any time in the afternoon, especially between four and six o'clock, when the workers of the city, in all walks of life, seek their homes for rest and a good dinner. "Then you will see every street car packed with human freight, and a woman. But I believe that if every man office would resolve to stay at home what happened, the street car jamming. I myself a 'stay-at-home day,' and stick to the public utilities commission will have scheme?" asked this philosopher. "at they think of it," I answered. seat in every car is occupied—by a woman. But woman who does not have to work in an office would at least one day a week, no matter what happened would be lessened to a marked degree. "If every woman would set for herself a 'stay-at it, I don't believe Mr. Beeler and the public utilize half so hard a job. "Now what do you think of my scheme?" asked "You'd better ask the women what they think seat in every car is occupied—by a woman. But I believe that if every woman who does not have to work in an office would resolve to stay at home at least one day a week, no matter what happened, the street car jamming would be lessened to a marked degree. "If every woman would set for herself a 'stay-at-home day,' and stick to it, I don't believe Mr. Beeler and the public utilities commission will have half so hard a job. "Now what do you think of my scheme?" asked this philosopher. "You'd better ask the woman what they think of it." I answered. ITS REAL, SAM He touched the roll reverently. Then he resolutely put it aside, and said: through the bars of a gate at Union station, she somehow suggested Charlotte Corday—per Corcoran gallery pose—though, naturally, a turnless worm of a woman could not otherwise favor the Joan of the Revolution, who helped to put Napoleon on his throne. Nor did she, in the least, convey an ownership of folks, except that you knew somebody must be coming by the way she waited, and waited—and waited. As each train chooed-chooed I THINK ILL BE A·A·EXPERT STREET CAR CONDUCTOR washington can help largely in a continued. "From daily observation on the street cars of the city, I am convinced that the serious overcrowding of the cars is brought about in large part by the women. "Try to go home any time in the afternoon, especially between four and six o'clock, when the workers of the city, in all walks of life, seek their homes for rest and a good dinner. "Then you will see every street car packed with human freight, and you will observe that practically every TO AVOID HAZARDS BY FIRE Right Kind of Construction and Efficient Inspection Will Prevent Much Damage, Says Engineer. "Proper methods of construction and efficient building inspection will prevent a very large proportion of the fires which annually do so much damage in American cities," says R. S. Whiting, an architectural engineer, who has made a compilation and careful study of more than 200 building codes. Whiting sums up his conclusions thus: "The allowance of ten feet between buildings in uncongested districts is about the average found in building codes, although a greater distance is advisable and often specified, and in some cases the space is increased to 80 feet or more. If an ordinance limiting the distance between buildings had been provided in the building code of Atlanta, Ga., the conflagration of May 21, 1917, might have resulted not so disastrously. It is next to impossible for firemen to fight a fire satisfactorily between two burning buildings if the space between them is not wide enough for two persons to pass comfortably, which seems to have been the case in Atlanta. The width of building lots is a matter that should be carefully thought out and regulated by local authorities, and especially in a congested dwelling house district, and should not be permitted less than 35 feet; better still, platted with a width of from 40 to 50 feet, thus allowing liberal space on each side of every dwelling. "Buildings such as public garages, oil houses and refineries, rendering plants, varnish works, etc., as well as buildings used for the storage or handling of large quantities of combustible material, whether of fire resistive or non-fire resistive construction, should be erected only in isolated locations, where their contents cannot be considered as a fire hazard for adjoining or nearby buildings." FEARED NEW QUARTER BOGUS Coin of Recent Vintage Caused Baltimore Business Houses to Make Hurried Investigation. In the future Uncle Sam should certainly notify Baltimore in advance when he is going to spring a new coin, for the appearance of a new quarter of the vintage of 1917, which differs slightly from the first issue, has caused anxiety to a number of good Baltimoreans because they thought they were "sting." Rumors that counterfeiters were flooding the city with "phony" money naturally followed, states the Baltimore Evening Sun. The new coin arrived unannounced and it was not long before experts noticed the slight difference between it and the first issue of the 1917 quarter, and then they got busy. The most persistent rumor was that counterfeiters were plying their trade in Baltimore and that many of the large business houses, the United Railways and the public in general had been "caught" for hundreds of dollars. On the old quarter there are no stars under the eagle, while on the new coin there are three. There are seven stars on one side of the eagle and six on the other on the coins of the first issue, while the bird on the new coin is flanked by only five stars on each side with three underneath. The milling on the new coin is different from the old and the "In God We Trust" on the one is much larger than on the other. The subtreasury has had a number of inquiries about the coin, and a half-dozen banks which were consulted had also been asked to express an opinion as to whether it was good or not, and they all vouch for it. The whole trouble seems to be that the new coin was sprung on Baltimore without notice. The Life of the Skyscraper. Builders and men of allied interests are discussing again the question of the lifetime of the modern skyscraper. When a symposium on this subject was published along in 1905 there still were in the foreground some "ifs" of corrosion, vibration and electrolysis as affecting steel frames. Nevertheless, estimates of durability ranged from 5,000 years to a vague "forever." Today sees the old "ifs" happily disposed of, says a writer. Tall structures torn down after a decade or more of service have revealed their protected steel work as good as new. But the very act through which this reassuring condition has been made known has shown forth the real, lurking enemy of the towering city edifice. The foe of the modern skyscraper is the more modern skyscraper. And the prophet is justified who, in the 1905 symposium, merely said for the many-storied structure that it would last "as long as we want it to." Master and Servant It is held to be the duty of a master to see that the number of servants engaged on any particular work is sufficient to secure the reasonable safety of each one of them, in Wallace V. Tremont & G. R. Co., L. R. A. 1917D, 859, which further holds that the duty of a master to furnish proper tools, appliances and a safe place, embraces human instrumentalities and mechanical devices. Kaiser's Spies Beaten At Their Own Game A. BRUCE BJELASKI T HREE years ago it began to dawn upon American officials that the great German conspiracy—concerning which the few revelations so far made have electrified the nation—was under way. To meet it they had only the agencies which were barely adequate for peace; there was hardly a man who had ever matched wits with the foreign government experts. The story of how this menace was met can as yet be told only in part. But not the least interesting part concerns the men who have done the work. Chief of the weapons which were at hand was the secret service of the department of justice. Its agents were an unobtrusively efficient lot, but woefully small in numbers and, for the most part, inexperienced in international affairs, "White slaves" and predatory business had been their chief game. The even smaller force of the treasury secret service was almost fully occupied with its routine duties of guarding the currency and the president's life. It, too, has rendered amazing service against the spies, but upon the department of justice agents fell the chief burden. They were called upon to match the craft, the experience and the ruthlessness of the keenest of German spies, who were backed by a renowned secret service organization and unlimited funds. Their chief, the man who had developed the government detective force, who had laid the foundation for an extensive, loosely geared, even running mechanism, and who promptly assembled it when the need came, is Alexander Bruce Bielaski ("Home Run" Bielaski they called him in his high school days). He entered the department a dozen years ago, when the development of a bureau of investigation to handle secret work for which no other provision had been made was started. This bureau was commissioned to wrestle with violations of neutrality, with those of the national banking laws, with antitrust cases, bucket shop cases, "white slave" cases; it was to prosecute those who impersonate an officer of the government, to pursue those who flee the country and seek to evade the long arm of the federal law. There were already several detective agencies in the government, each created for a specific purpose and limited by law in its operations. For instance, there was the secret service in the treasury department. There were customs agents to prevent smuggling, land agents to protect the public domain, post office inspectors to make difficult the misuse of the mails. But the special agents of the department of justice had a field many times as broad as that occupied by any other detective agency. One phase of its work alone—that of circumventing violations of neutrality—became a herculean task when the war broke. The department of justice refused to follow precedent in its creation of a detective agency. It built a staff of operatives that was a new thing in the field of detective work. In doing so it made brains its first requisite of selection of men and held that education was a developer of brains. The youngsters of this service have succeeded where veteran police have failed. Every case an operative undertakes is an entirely new problem, in which his past experience is by no means an infallible guide. It needs brains and initiative. A young agent of the bureau of investigation, formerly a salesman for a wholesale grocer, went into the Alleghenies on his first case and cleaned up a nest of moonshiners that had defied local authorities and United States marshals for years. Another of these men worked as a laborer on the docks of New Orleans and found out the methods employed by the sugar samplers in so grading imported cargoes that the loss to the government was hundreds of thousands in duties every year. Still another "roped in" with Mexican revolutionists in El Paso. The importance of the work of these special agents may be measured by an account of the circumstances back of the seizure of the port of Vera Cruz in April, 1914, and the part played in that event by one of those ingenious men. It was some months before that event that a huge, bearded Russian attracted the attention of a house detective in a New York hotel by the display of a draft for $3,000,000 signed by President Huerta of Mexico. The house detective telephoned the special agents, who watched the operations of the Russian. That individual bought firearms and ammunition in sufficient quantities to load a ship. It was the business of the government to see to it that he did not send this to Mexico, as there was an embargo on firearms to that country. The ship, however, cleared for Odessa, Russia, and the special agents traced it to that point and witnessed the refusal of the Russian government to allow the ammunition to be landed, because of a fear that it was to be used by revolutionists. They saw the ship again traverse the Mediterranean and unload its cargo at Hamburg. The special agents, noted, however, that the Russian had disappeared, and suspected that he was more loyal to his own pocket than to the Mexican government. The ammunition was reshipped from Hamburg to Vera Cruz. As it approached the latter port the United States, under the influence of the information furnished by its special agents, entered and seized the port that Huerta might not get this ammunition. The occupation of Vera Cruz followed. It later developed that most of the ammunition bought by the Russian was junk, and that Mexico had been cheated by him, and that he had returned, probably enriched to the extent of $1,000,000, to the land of his fathers. Such was the work of the special agents before the war. Biehlskl, in Washington, sat at the center of the web which covered the nation. In other important cities, such as New York, Chicago, New Orleans, there were lesser web centers. In the federal building in each important city was an office of special agents with a group of operatives which revolved about it. In the smaller centers were single representatives who could call for re-enforcements whenever an emergency developed. Then there were the free lances of the service, those who could be shuttled to whatever point required the attention of especially skilled men. Bielaski is the silent man with every mesh of the web in his sensitive fingers. His career is one that might well be an inspiration to any ambitious youngster. He entered the department of justice 12 years ago as a laborer and for a compensation of $660 a year. Soon he was a clerk of special agents, then an examiner, a special examiner, an assistant to the attorney general, acting chief and chief of special agents. This latter post he has held since 1912. These have been the years during which the newest and greatest of the government's detective agencies has been taking definite form. Bielaski has been molding it. Then the great war came, and the United States found itself a non-participant faced with the necessity of maintaining neutrality within its borders. Finally this country was itself in war and must combat the much vaunted secret service of the Germans, and must watch those millions of people living within its borders that had been born in enemy countries and whose allegiance was sufficiently in doubt to make their surveillance necessary. During the period of neutrality scores of unpleasant situations arose because of the insistence of Germany upon abusing the hospitality of the United States. Almost the first of these resulted from a plan laid by Capt. Franz von Papen, military attache to the German embassy, for obtaining false passports for the use of German reservists. First through Lieut. Hans von Wedell and later through one Ruroede he operated an office in New York which sought to get vagabonds around the wharfs and cheap boarding houses and to induce these men to apply to Washington for passports, which he purchased and used in returning reservists to Europe. The plan had not been working long when a special agent from the New York office was on the trail. He succeeded in representing himself as the proper sort of man to secure fraudulent passports, and was soon deep in the confidence of the Germans. Ruroede was sent to prison; von Wedell fled, but was intercepted by the British and imprisoned, and the whole scheme was broken up. Van Papen was recalled at the request of the state department because of "improper activities," of which this was but one. The watchfulness of the special agents was evidenced by the fact that they knew the exact hour when, on April 19, 1916, Wolf von Igel had taken 70 pounds of secret papers out of various hiding places and assembled them for transfer to Washington. Von Igel operated from an office at 60 Wall street. Though he was an employee of the German embassy, there was a question as to whether his papers were immune from seizure, as they would be in the embassy. So he was making ready to transfer them to unquestioned safety. He claimed that his papers were exempt from the right of seizure. The German ambassador backed his claim. The special agents admitted that if they were official papers of the embassy they should be returned. They took them to Washington, where, at the state department, they met the German ambassador. Through long hours of night that official dug through those papers. They placed him in a most embarrassing position. If he claimed them as state papers he admitted an official part in their revelations. If he failed to claim them he left this incriminating evidence in the hands of the American authorities. He decided that the latter course was the less embarrassing. Practically all the papers were left with the special agents. These papers revealed a degree of scheming and intrigue against a neutral country that is almost beyond conception. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918. Remarkable Organization Built Up by Uncle Sam Since World War Began When Capt. von Papen laid his plans in the German club, in New York, for the invasion of Canada by Germans in the United States, the special agents knew of his plans. The flasco of the Welland canal, the unavailing activities of Paul Koenig, chief detective of the Hamburg-American line; the machinations of Capt. Karl BoyEd—all came to naught and were well known by the American authorities. Finally came the master spy of them all, Capt. Franz von Rintelen, intimate of the kaiser, a man of highest social rank and vast wealth, with plans to overturn all in America that worked against the interests of Germany. He poured out money like water and met enthusiastic co-operation on all sides. It seemed almost as if every man in America was willing to help to the extent of accepting large amounts of money from von Rintelen. In fact, Americans took his money right and left, and rendered no service in return. Great quantities of German money were spent, but little progress was made toward attaining the results for which Germany strove. When these activities are surveyed as a whole, the effort of German intrigue in America is seen to have been astonishingly fertile. In the face of such a lack of results it is difficult to believe in the excellence and cleverness of Prussian espionage. This newly organized agency of the United States, intended for application to the tasks of peace, crossed swords with what is termed the greatest spy system in the world, and thus far it has not been bested. Then, suddenly the United States itself was thrust into the war. With tens of thousands of German reservists, hundreds of thousands of German citizens, millions of people of German blood, this country would appear to have been in a position of great danger from within. Certainly there was need of sharp watchfulness. No other belligerent nation was confronted by an internal alien-enemy problem of such magnitude. The government in this emergency offered Bielaski the assistance of representatives of its other departments elsewhere. There were, for instance, certain representatives of the department of agriculture, scattered from coast to coast, who knew their communities well. These were instructed to watch for individuals who gave evidence of disloyalty to the United States and report back to the department of justice, when there was time, or to the nearest United States attorney when quick action was required. The post office sent instructions to 45,000 postmasters, 33,000 letter carriers and 43,000 rural delivery man. Each of these was instructed to keep his ear to the ground for any showing of disloyalty from within and report promptly. The land office, the Indian office, the public health service, the reclamation service—all those governmental agencies that spread out among the people were officially instructed to help protect the nation from any possible foe from within. Those other detective agencies of the government such as the secret service, the post office inspectors, the customs agents, were called upon for skilled assistance. On the instant, almost, and entirely aside from these government agencies, there was built up in silence a secret service of volunteers which is today effectively at work. Its tentacles steal out through newspaper offices, banks, hotels, over railroad systems, into municipal governments, through the radiations of traveling salesmen. It is a loose organization, but it works under instructions and knows what to do when it finds a plague spot. And this vast machine has been placed in the hands of a young man, who, 12 years ago, fresh from high school, entered the government service as a laborer at $600 a year. "Home Run" Bielaski, son of a minister, grandson of Capt. Alexander Bielaski, who died in battle at Bull Run, descendant of a Polish patrolt who fought that America might become a nation, is making operation difficult for the spies of the enemy. USING CAST IRON SHELLS They are making shells of cast iron in France, making them at the rate of 1,000,000 a day. The Scientific American quotes Edgar A. Custer as saying these are more effective than steel shells in attacking earthworks. (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 3 JESUS LORD OF THE SABBATH. LESSON TEXT-Mark 2:13:3:6. GOLDEN TEXT-The son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath,-Mark 2:3. GOLDEN TEXT-The son of man is TEACHERS-Ex. 20:11-Isa. 15:13, 14:Neh. 13:15-22; Matt. 12:1:8; Luke 4:16; Acts 20:7; I Cor. 16.1; Col. 2.16; 17.1 PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus and the Sabbath day. MEMORY VERSE—Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.—Ex. 20:8. JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus and the Sabbath. MEMORY VERSE—Ex. 20:8-11. INTERMEDIATE, SENIOR AND ADULT TOPIC—Our day of rest and worship. I. The Sabbath a Boon, Not a Burden (vv. 23-28). It has been suggested that this passage, particularly verse 23, indicates something of the poverty and simplicity of the lives of the disciples, that they lived not only a day at a time but literally from hand to mouth. America is the most prodigal nation on the globe, but it is today facing the necessity of conservation and retrenchment, not because it is desired but of necessity in winning this great world war struggle. Perhaps this will prove to be a boon growing out of the darkness of the days through which we are passing. Notice that the disciplines were not particularly criticized because they plucked and appropriated the grain that belonged to another even though it was for their bodily needs, but because they did it on the Sabbath day. The Jewish law permitted them to take that which did not belong to them because of their necessity, but would not permit them to do it on the first day of the week. The criticism of the Pharisees, based upon Deut. 5:14; Ex. 31:15, though apparently scriptural, was, however, based upon an incomplete knowledge and application of those scriptures. Jesus shows them first that ceremonial prescriptions and laws must give way before the needs of man and he cites the case of David as an illustration. Again he shows them that the demands of the temple service were superior to the prescriptions of the common law (See Matt. 12:5, 6), that he, himself, is greater than the temple for he is the one in whom God tabernacled (John 1:14 R. V. Margin). The sabbath the God made therefore must give way before the necessity of Christian service. Again he shows that mercy is more than sacrifice, and so ceremonial demands must give way before the needs of mercy and compassion. He also shows them that the sabbath was made for man (vv. 27, 28) rather than man for the sabbath. He, the "Son of Man," is the consummation and head of the race, Lord even of the sabbath, and as Lord of the sabbath he has set aside the seventh day sabbath, which was the shadow of things to come (Col. 2:17) and belongs to the old order and dispensation. It is true that we have no right to judge any man regarding the Sabbath (Col. 2:16, 17), but as Christians who are "risen with Christ" (Col. 3:1) we are to keep the Lord's Day, Rev. 1:10, the first day of the week, Acts 20:7) the resurrection day, and are under no law whatever to keep the seventh day. II. A Proper Use of the Lord's Day (Ch. 3:1-5). It is somewhat unfortunate, our divisions of the Scripture into chapters and verses. This next passage is really a practical application and illustration of the principle with which Jesus has just been dealing. It was the custom of Jesus to frequent the synagogue on the Sabbath Day (Luke 4:10), the day upon which the Jews still gathered in large numbers. We need to note (v. 2) that the question which was asked of him was not a fair question, not so much honest seeking for information, but rather they "watched him" for they wanted to find something with which to trap him. Jesus taught that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, that it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day (Matt. 12:10) that it is lawful to restore a lost ass or ox on the Sabbath Day (Luke 14:5; Matt. 12:11) that a man is of more value than a sheep (Matt. 12:13), and that the new methods and new times demanded new applications (Mark 2:21, 22). In these teachings Jesus does not necessarily abolish or abrogate the ancient fourth commandment, but rather the misinterpretation, misuse and misapplication of the Sabbath law. For a correct interpretation of the Old Testament Sabbath see Isa. 58:13, 14. The difference between the Sabbath Sabbath and Christian Lord's Day is a matter of counting; we begin to count at the point of the resurrection of Jesus. The Sabbath Day is a means to an end; it is not the end itself. The man was really and organically sick; he had a withered hand which all could see—no "moral error" about it at all, and he was really healed. The Lord's Day is America's great heritage. Are we going to throw it away? It is of economic value as well as a spiritual heritage. The observance of a day of rest has actually increased the amount of output in the munition factories of England. In this land of hustle and bustle the brain needs the rest, the soul the feeding, and the body the relaxation which Sunday observance alone can furnish. 10 SPRING DRESSES FOR LITTLE GIRLS. spring dresses for little girls are abundantly displayed just now and all women appear to enjoy looking at them. Surely she who has no interest in any little one is missing something that belongs to her; for these little dresses bring a smile and a lingering look to all eyes. Cottons as fine and smooth as those woven in French looms, and enticing colors, gay and soft, make the sections of stores where the dresses are shown as bright as spring gardens. These fine cottons are the product of American looms and these lovely colors show how great an advance has been made in the manufacture of American dyes. In force, in the vanguard styles. Sport skirts a for those morning and necessities in the smal parceling; she needs the goes and whatever she In all new material whether of wool or stripes and plaids and pear. Plaids are large varied and each inspir in his work of provide Combinations of plain the others promise a so variety and clever idea skirts. A good beginning with The dress at the left is so adequately pictured that it hardly needs description. It is shown in several patterns of fine gingham and is made with pockets cut on the diagonal, narrow blas banding and a collar of plain chambray of the same color as the dark bar in the gingham. The little dress at the right is of Peter Pan cotton, much like a smooth chambray but softer. It is shown in light yellow, medium shade of blue and two or three pink tones. There is a smocked panel between plats at the front and back and collar and cuffs of white cotton, with buttonholed scallops on the edges. I H SEPARATE SKIRTS MAKE EARLY ENTRY. Any of the heavier weaves of cotton will serve for these. Patterns for dresses very like these are to be had of any of the standard pattern companies. Mothers select the plainest ones and make up quantities of ginghams for play dresses. The Peter Pan dress is not for such hard wear; it has more needlework on it and is not so easily laundered. It may survive several dinner times, or visits, or trips to Sunday school before it must be consigned to the tub. And it may be depended on to emerge as good as new—as fresh and sweet as it should be for so sweet a wearer. The separate skirt and the separate blouse are made for each other and each makes its entry very early and yoke narrows to a whit back and front. In fr into two short straps, buttonhole in the end over flat buttons. A sishes the pockets. These skirts with su plaids and stripes, are blouses in a plain colo blouses with collar and haps narrow shoulder skirt result in pretty the skirt the privi partners if it is so min ing with other blouses its colors. in force, in the vanguard of spring styles. Sport skirts and blouses and those for morning and street wear are necessities in the smart woman's apparel; she needs them wherever she goes and whatever she does. In all new materials for spring, whether of wool or cotton or silk, stripes and plaids and crossbars appear. Plaids are large and stripes are varied and each inspires the designer in his work of providing new models. Combinations of plaids goods with all the others promise a season of endless variety and clever ideas in separate skirts. A good beginning with striped material is apparent in the skirt illustrated. There is a smart overdrapery that begins and ends under a wide fold made on the straight of the goods at the front. There is a narrow belt, made of the light stripe in the goods, that extends part way about the waistline. Large buttons and simulated buttons holes finish off the design, which commands itself for washable skirts of cotton or silk. An effective sports skirt is made of a crossbar in two colors, as tan barred with blue, set on to a yoke that is extended into pockets at each side and cut from plain blue material. The . yoke narrows to a wide girdle at the back and front. In front it is shaken into two short straps, each having a buttonhole in the end. These fasten over flat buttons. A single button finishes the pockets. These skirts with surfaces broken by plaids and stripes, are to be worn with blouses in a plain color or white. But blouses with collar and cuffs, and perhaps narrow shoulder yokes like the skirt result in pretty costumes, leaving the skirt the privilege of changing partners if it is so minded and appearing with other blouses that do not wear its colors. Julia Bottomly Mid-Vale Oil & Gas Co. A limited amount of our stock is now selling at $1.00 Per Share. Money needed to develop our field. First Contract for one well let last week. Drilling to begin immediately. WHEN THE OIL BEGINS TO FLOW, IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO BUY OUR STOCK Buy Now While You Can And while the stock is selling at a low price. If we need more money in the future our stock will be sold at a higher price. No less than ten shares sold to any person, but if you haven't all cash to pay for the stock you want, we will accept part cash add the balance monthly until paid for. What and Where the Mid-Vale Is The Mid-Vale Oil and Gas Company is backed by some of Kansas City's most influential, successful and progressive Negroes—men and women who have put their money into the company and who are enthusiastic about its success. The Company has a lease on eighty acres of some of the most valuable oil land in the Mid-Continent oil and gas district. Notice the accompanying map which shows the exact location of this tract—right next to the Prairie Oil and Gas Company's tank farm, which will enable us to pipe our oil at the very minimum of expense. We have already been offered a large sum of money for this lease, but instead have let a contract for the drilling of our first well, and are going to drill twenty in all before we stop. The Mid-Vale is the Company for you to invest your money in for the largest returns on your money. Remember, we are headed toward the millions, and have no intention of stopping with this one lease. Mid-Continent Oil News Comment This magazine, which is one of the foremost oil publications in the country, has published this about our Company: "Mr. J. J. Allen and associates have organized a company to operate in Allen County. The Company to be known as the Mid-Vale Oil and Gas Co. "They hold eighty acres in 10-26-18, joining the Prairie Oil and Gas Co.'s tank farm and right on the inclair pipe line. 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The Mid-Vale is the Company for largest returns on your money. Reme lions, and have no intention of stopping Mid-Continent Oil This magazine, which is one of the try, has published this about our Com- "Mr. J. J. Allen and associates has Allen County. The Company to be kno- "They hold eighty acres in 10-26-1 tank farm and right on the inclair pipe "This lease is considered one of the tinent oil fields and will, without a do- gest producers in that section." OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. PRESIDENT, J. J. ALLEN, District Manager, Clover Leaf Ins. Co. 58 VICE-PRES., G. A. BAGE. Only Negro Shoe Merchant in K. C. 2D VICE-PRES., DR. H. M. SMITH. Gen'l Offices: Despite the very cold weather a large number greeted the minister, Dr. William H. Thomas, who occupied the pulpit Sunday morning and preached one of those absorbing sermons that demand silence and concentrated attention. His text was Second Chronicles, 35: 21; subject, "Meddling With God." There was one addition, the Senior, Junior and Intermediate Endeavors held their regular meetings at the residence of one of their members. The service was held in the church Sunday evening, as we deem it our patriotic duty to aid in the conservation of coal as long as the present coal shortage lasts....Saving Class, which will be held in the church Tuesday night, as usual. No other services will be held in the church during the week. Prayer meeting at the parsonage....Mrs. Laura Collins, 1614 Norton Avenue, entertained the Mite Missionary Society, Monday afternoon, January 28....Mrs. G. D. Tyler, 1422 Michigan, entertained the four Stewardess Board, the four Stewardess Board were unanimously re-elected for the ensuing year....The name of the new mission church, to be established just north of Belvidere Hollow, has been changed from Brown Mission to Cain Memorial Chapel in honor of Bishop Cain. Contributions are still being received for the same. See the minister....Sunday, February 17, will be observed by all the churches of Kansas City as "Everybody at Church." We begin now to invite those who do not regularly attend some church, to come to our church and join, that Sunday....Gladly we welcomed the young man on his way to Camp Funston from Utah, who came forward Sunday morning and asked for the prayers of the church. Our minister is always glad to meet the young men when in the city and invited them to share our church home. ST. STEPHEN BAPTIST CHURCH. Dr. J. W. Hurse, the pastor, occupied the pulpit at 11 a. m. and preached the funeral of Sister Mary Lane Thompson. The attendance was large,....At 3:30 o'clock the congregation was favored with a musical program by the choir and they were at their best, after which Dr. John E. Allen of Hutchinson, Kans., preached the ordination sermon, there being four deacons to be ordained, namely: A. Bartell, L. Pierce, J. Acey and G. Hampton. Dr. Allen's sermon was Vale under laws, State o unt of our st elop our field mediately. W BE TOO LATE TH 2100 Wells on Humboldt Field producing Oil HUMBOLDT T 20 S R 18 E Mid-Vale Incorporated under limited amount of needed to develop ing to begin immediate BE Le You Can at a low price. If we need more money in the higher price. No less than ten shares sold all cash to pay for the stock you want, we once monthly until paid for. Are the Mid-Vale Is company is backed by some of Kansas City's progressive Negroes—men and women who company and who are enthusiastic about its eighty acres of some of the most valuable and gas district. Notice the accompanying portion of this tract—right next to the Prairie which will enable us to pipe our oil at the and a large sum of money for this lease, but we drilling of our first well, and are going to pay for you to invest your money in for the Remember, we are headed toward the mil- opping with this one lease. Oil News Comment of the foremost oil publications in the coun- Company: We have organized a company to operate in known as the Mid-Vale Oil and Gas Co. 26-18, joining the Prairie Oil and Gas Co.'s or pipe line. of the most valuable leases in the Mid-Con- a doubt, when developed, be one of the big- Incorporated under laws, State of Missouri. Authorized Capital Stock $30,000.00 Physician-in-Charge, Jackson Co. Home for Aged and Infirm Negroes. 3D VICE-PRES. E. W. BROWN, For ten years with the Fullman Company. SECRETARY, H. C. CROSS, Knows Oil and All the Oil Men. 18th STREE DAVID ALLEN, 2313 Highland Ave. Cheap John's Furniture Co. NEW AND SECOND HAND GOODS Bought, Sold, Exchanged TERMS IF DESIRED Bell Phone East 3851 2224 Vine Street Kansas City, Mo. Eyes Examined If you have discovered that you cannot see so well as you once did, or are troubled with headaches, or eye strain, come to us and we will examine your eyes and tell you whether you need Glasses or not. Broken Lenses Duplicated in Shortest Possible Time. ALCO OPTICAL CO 1103 Walnut St. Both Phones Pianos and Victrolas Easiest Place to Buy is THE JONES STORE CO 3rd Floor 12th & Main Sts. Have you ever tried the Spotless Kitchen, 23 West 13th street, the best place in town to eat? THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918. AMONG THE CHURCHES ALLEN CHAPEL. PLAT SHOWING HOLDINGS IN ALLEN COUNTY KANSAS OF THE MID-VALE OIL & GAS CO 1507 EAST 18 ST KANSAS CITY MO AGE A1 to SAND 2500 Wells in Humboldt field producing Oil HUMBOLDT THE MID VALE OIL & GAS CO. PILOT OIL CO. LEGEND: - OIL WELLS • GAS WELLS R 18 E R 19E PEGALIN MAP CO. KANSAS CITY MO. ASST, SEC'Y, H. B. MOORE, Fifteen years, successful Undertaker. TREAS., D. T. A. JONES, Official Anaesthetizer, Phyliss Wheatley Hospital. HISTORIC ALLEN CHAPEL Prove Himself."...Though the weather was very inclement, a fair audience was at the evening service to hear Dr. Allen....The spirituality of all the services are inspiring and helpful....We are glad to report sister Sophia Lyons convalescent....The revival has been postponed until the weather improves....The choir is plannin ga great musical program February 22....The B. Y. P. U. is progressing nicely under the leadership of Sister Ophelia Jones. We invite all that will to attend the B. Y. P. U. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Last Sunday morning at 5 o'clock the McDuffy Prayer Band held a soulsirting meeting in this church....At 9:30 the Sunday School held an interesting and instructive session....At 11 o'clock the pastor preached a fine sermon on "My Presence Shall Go With Thee," to a large congregation. At 6 p. m. the B. Y. P. U. held an interesting and progressive meeting. In the evening worship the pastor again preached a grand sermon on "Take No Thought of Tomorrow," which was greatly enjoyed by the congregation....The Bible Class which is conducted by Mr. Beck meets every Wednesday evening at this church....The Mission Circle held a very profitable meeting at the home of Mrs. Yancy. 1009 Vine street, last Friday afternoon at 2:30 p. m....The public is invited to share our church home. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. The Bible school attendance was good....The graded system in this work is growing in favor with teachers and pupils....The offerings are increasing, the cold weather notwithstanding....The Young Women's Missionary Circle had a fine attendance and meeting with Mrs. Nettle Jackson, 2220 Flora, Wednesday....The Aid Society had its largest attendance Oil & of Missouri. Auth Stock is now old. First Co. WHEN THE O TE TO BUY PLAT SHOWING HOLDINGS IN ALLEN COUNTY KANSAS OF THE MID-VALE OIL & GAS 1507 EAST 18 ST KANSAS CITY Ma ace ft to Sand LEGEND: - Oil Wells • T. KANSAS & Co. Authorized Cap Now selling at Contract E OIL BEGINS BUY OUR S OLDINGS KANSAS & GAS CO CITY Mo 62 COMPANIES PUMPING OUT OF HU Bureau of Oil Co. to promote on this property E OIL & GAS CO. The Diamond Lakes to promote pumping degree Pilot Oil Co. WELLS • GAS WELLS • FZ.G CHAIRMAN BOARD DIRECTORS, DR. MARTIN G. BROOKINS, Successful Physician and Surgeon. AUDITOR, DR. D. M. MILLER, Successful Physician and Surgeon. for some time at Mrs. Mary Yancy's 1412 Lydia, Tuesday. They are "ringing up" for some special work for the July rally, and are calling for all the women of the church....The recital, given at the Baptist church in Independence Friday night by Misses Whitside, Adams and Smith, was largely attended by members and friends from Kansas City. The recital was far above the ordinary and showed efficient training along all lines....The Church attendance was the best during the cold weather and the choir did some splendid singing. The offering was fine....Sunday is State Mission Day and a good offering is expected by the Missionary Committee. The minister will speak both morning and evening. Each member is urged to pay on his rally assessment each Sunday. All are cordially welcome to all services. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Only one service in the morning was well attended. One addition..... Mr. Geo. Clark was compelled to return to the Hospital and at this writing is no ebter. We hope he will get better soon....Mr. Thos. Glenn spent three weeks at Fort Funston helping to arrange the stock of sporting goods for the Smeltzer Arm Co. for whom he has been an employee for thirty years. Mr. Glenn reports a nice time with the exceptions of the day he spent in prison. He was sick three days after his return home, but is much better and has returned to his work. We hope he will continue to improve....Jessie Spigner, Junior, has been sick, but is some better at this writing. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Mr. L. Moore, one of Ebenezer's most loyal members and a leader of Class 6, was buried from the Church Sunday afternoon. Mr. Moore was devoted to his church and always found time to do service for Christ and the Church. When in the hospital unable to attend Church he held class meetings with the inmates. He was loved by the members and friends of Ebenezer and will be greatly missed. Resolutions' from his class and the church were read by Mr. W. W. Watkins, The Rev. W. T. Osborne officiated. ..Services were well attended in the morning and a splendid crowd at night for the weather. The Pastor's morning subject was: "Who's On the Lord's Side?" Evening subject, "Don't Write That." Both were interesting and full of food for thought. One addition. Collection, $155.64.... Members and friends present rallyed nicely with their twenty-five cent coal offering. All who were kept away on account of the severe weather are & Gas authorized Capital Sto selling at $ contract for o IL BEGINS T OUR STOCK GAS Co 6 5 4 7 8 9 x GAS CO. The Diamond Lines in well pumping lines 18 17 16 T 26 S Pilot Oil Co. 19 20 GAS WELLS R 19E FEGALUM MAP CO. PARKS CITY, MO CITY, MISS Peoples' Drug Store Northeast corner of Eighteenth Street and the Paseo For twelve years we have served you. We have never substituted nor given you an inferior article. We carry everything in the Drug line, all the latest and best toilet articles. We deliver anything to any part of the city -- promptly -- call us up. PHO Bell East 1814 PHONES East 1814 Home East 4 ONES Home East 4082 Stevenson, $2.20; Julia, Williams, $2.16; Cora Stevenson, $2.00; Emma Foster, $1.20; Mary Tivis, $1.14; S. W. Henderson, $1.10; Ethel Kemp, $1.04; Lola Hooten, $1.04. One dollar each: Ernest Finley, Ben Martin, William Rather, W. W. Watkins, T. B. Russell, Beatrice Henderson, Hester Owens, Ida Vaughn, Bessie Mason, A. Rubey, Carrie Ward, Katie Knox, Elizabeth Strain, Bell Fulcher, W. H. Scruggs, Sarah Hopkins, Rev. T. J. Clark, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. S. Esquire, Lucy Turner, Mollie Wilson, Dollie Collins 75c, Miss Taylor 51c. Fifty cents each: Rosa Morton, Zepha Baker, Mrs. A. Gilliam, Mr. Barnhill, Mr. Givens, Fannie Franklin, Ell Dimery, 68c, Mrs. Felix 61c. Numbers of persons gave from 41 cents to 16 cents. Entertainments and dues, $135.67. Mrs. Osborne thanks the public, who so liberally gave their pennies and purchased tickets and is also delighted with the hearty support given by the Missionary Ladies and members of Ebenezer, who always stands by its own. asked to bring the twenty-five cents for coal, Sunday...Class No. 4, Mr. Duncan leader, has the banner this week. His class reported $5.80!...A Missionary Program will be rendered Sunday afternoon at the Sunday School hour...The Sunday School has organized within itself a Missionary Society and will render programs the first Sunday in each month. The public and Sunday Schools of the city are cordially invited...The "One Night Bazaar" and supper, given by the Art Club, was a decided success. All the supper and articles were sold out...Mrs. Ida Vataugh entertained at an elaborate six-course dinner at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Myers, in Kansas City, Kans., and also Rev. and Mrs. Osborne. Covers were laid for eight...The Improvement Board will give a valentine and cap and tie social on February 14th. There will be a Postoffice where you can mail valentines to your friends...The Missionary closed the penny campaign "$200 in two months by saving the pennies," with $244.30 with more cards yet to come. Last reports turned in: Mrs. Josephine Abernathy, Captain, who lead in the individual captain's report, $11.60; Mrs. Missouri Ford, $16.20; Mrs. Geo. Holler, $9; sixteen winners of the silk shirt Art Club $5.00; Rev. J. W. Hurst, $5.00; S. P. Porter, $3.12; Geo. Henderson $3.00; Manerva Harris, $2.75; Pearl IN MEMORIAM. In memory of my beloved husband, Burrell T. Lewis, who passed away one year ago today, February 2, 1917. Gone but not forgotten. Sadly missed by his wife, LULU E. LEWIS. $1.00 Per Shift for one well let TO FLOW, IT BACK Mid-Vale Needs Your Developing Because of this favorable situation we mentioned price—$1.00 per share. We need lease, and to buy other good leases and to being used in greater quantities than ever supply to equal the demand. This makes trial investment the Colored people can pay. Don't Delay; Order Don't wait until tomorrow to buy stock be too late. We may have sold all the development needs. Use the coupon below reserved now! (NOTE—Other arrangements may be installments.) MID-VALE OIL AND GAS COMPANY 1507 EAST 18TH STREET, KANSAS Gentlemen: Please reserve for me, your Company, for which I inclose her payment in full. Balance (if any) to be payments in 30, 60 and 90 days. NAME. . . . ADDRESS. . . Co. $10,000.00 0 Per Share. well let last we LOW, IT WILL We need your money for devel other good leases and to develop them. Oil in p eater quantities than ever before. The market h the demand. This makes the oil investment the the Colored people can participate in today. Delay; Order Today until tomorrow to buy stock. Buy it today! Tom may have sold all the stock we need to sell for . Use the coupon below, and order your stock other arrangements may be made, if necessary, for OIL AND GAS COMPANY, LAST 18TH STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. n: Please reserve for me.....Shares of stock ay, for which I inclose herewith $.....as p ull. Balance (if any) to be paid by me in three equal f 60 and 90 days. share. at last week. T WILL Your Money for When we are offering stock at the above-need your money for developing this need to develop them. Oil in particular is never before. The market has not the makes the oil investment the best in participate in today. Order Today Stock. Buy it today! Tomorrow may the stock we need to sell for present delivery, and order your stock, of shares be made, if necessary, for paying the NY, KANSAS CITY, MO. me.....Shares of stock in herewith $.....as part or be paid by me in three equal install- Mid-Vale Needs Your Money for Developing Because of this favorable situation we are offering stock at the above mentioned price—$1.00 per share. We need your money for developing this lease, and to buy other good leases and to develop them. Oil in particular is being used in greater quantities than ever before. The market has not the supply to equal the demand. This makes the oil investment the best industrial investment the Colored people can participate in today. Don't Delay; Order Today Don't wait until tomorrow to buy stock. Buy it today! Tomorrow may be too late. We may have sold all the stock we need to sell for present development needs. Use the coupon below, and order your stock, of shares reserved now! (NOTE—Other arrangements may be made, if necessary, for paying the installments.) MID-VALE OIL AND GAS COMPANY, 1507 EAST 18TH STREET, KANSAS CITY. MO. Gentlemen: Please reserve for me.....Shares of stock in your Company, for which I inclose herewith $.....as part or payment in full. Balance (if any) to be paid by me in three equal install- ments in 30, 60 and 90 days. MR. JAMES FURCROW, AUTHOR A.KINS. Each of the above directors one hundred or more shares, fully paid up. CALL OR WRITE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: MR. WILLIAM SILVERS, MR. LEWIS VARNEDO, MR. WILLIAM YOUNG, MR. U. M. HARDY, MRS. JOSEPHINE HOPKINS, Bell Phone E. 21 Phone E.2766 SOURI Bell PI IN MEMORIAM. THE OIL TOWER