[PAGE 1] KANSAS CITY CALL

TENTH ANNIVERSARY AND PROGRESS EDITION

Vol. 10 No. 13 Kansas City, Mo., July 27, 1928.

PROGRESS

THE PROGRESS of Negroes in the United States is so great that history will point out what you have done as one of the achievements which mark this age. Your rise is one of the best proofs of the value of the American theory of government. Successes by individuals here and there have been multiplied until now yours is a mass movement. You are advancing all along the line, a sound basis for your having confidence in the future. The world’s work needs every man. I look to see the Negro, prepared by difficulty, and tested by adversity, be a valued factor in upbuilding the commonwealth. In the Middle West, where The Kansas City Call is published, lies opportunity. In addition to urban pursuits you have available for the man of small means, the farm which is one of the primary industries. The Negro in your section can develop in a well rounded way. Above all things, take counsel of what you are doing, rather than of the trials you are undergoing. Look up and go up!

Julius Rosenwald

[page 2] “PROGRESS EDITION” CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY

Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July

YOU ARE WELCOME!

The changes in The Kansas City Call’s printing plant are completed. We now occupy 1715 E. 18th street as an office; next door at 1717 is our press room and stereotyping room; upstairs is our composing room; in the basement we store paper direct from the mill. We are now ready to receive visitors. Come yourself and bring your out-of-town friends to see The Call, one of the three modern newspaper plants the Negro race has in America.

[T]he first step toward a successful business is a good bank connection — When The Call was started ten years ago, the City Bank was its [dep]ository. We were then in one room of the two-story building that [?]d to occupy our corner. The Call came to us not only as a pro[?]tor for its deposits, but it came to us as a friend. This we have [?]n, as we are to all our depositors. They grow and we grow. We [?]p each other. The City Bank offers you a complete service, which includes a savings department, safety vaults, real estate department handling mortgages and loans, bond department, trust department, as well as the usual bank accommodations for your checking account. Give your business a chance to succeed by dealing with a good bank as The Call has done.

THE CITY BANK 18th and Grand Ave.

SOLID AS A ROCK!

The foundation upon which the Press of The Kansas City Call stands is our READY-MIX CONCRETE.

Wise builders are finding the product of our plant not only better but actually cheaper and less trouble than concrete made on the job.

The Call will tell you our READY-MIX CONCRETE is as Solid as a Rock.

READY MIXED CONCRETE CO. Grand 3800

T. J. PENDERGAST W. A. ROSS

A. R. Ewing Carpenter - Contractor I am prepared to handle your job, from making the simplest repairs to building a new building. A pleasure to figure on your work. Phone Fairfax 1211 2506 N. 7th St. Kansas City, Kansas

L. W. Bellamy Painter and Decorator My Work Is My Recommendation 1508 Park Avenue

R. L. Evans Contractor - Bricklayer Builder of Six Units of the American Radiator Co’s Plant. 1912 E. 23rd Street

Plant 25th and Summitt

Lumber and Mill Supplies for The Call building were purchased from A. O. THOMPSON LUMBER CO. 3100 E. 18th Street Phone Benton 7221 9th and L Road Phone Fairfax 1577

The Call’s six motors, aggregating 42 horse power and the lighting for The Call’s new equipment were installed by EVANS ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Inc. 1626 Walnut Street Grand 3397

The heavy moving, and handling of The Call’s new equipment was done by GRANT RENNE, The man who moved the buildings back when 18th street was widened. 2640 E. 28th Street Phone Linwood 0510

Plumbing supplies for The Call building were purchased from GOLDBERG PLUMBING SUPPLY and PIPE CO. 800 E. 18th Street GRAND 4814

Plaster, sand and cement for The Call building were purchased from WELCH-SANDLER CEMENT CO. 1311 E. E. 19th St. Phone, Grand 1216

J. S. Golden Plasterer Residence 1718 Euclid Phone Harrison 7877

Ed. Douglas Sheet Metal Works Repairs and New Work in Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ten years in the same location Phone Grand 2563 1429 E. 19th St

J. W. Kincaid Plumber I do The Call's Plumbing and Will Be Pleased to Do Yours. 1605 Virginia Phone Grand 3990 [page 3] Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt Denies Charge of Lily Whitism

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SCHOOL TEACHER’S WIFE HANGS SELF

[L]loyd Is Re-elected Head of Pythians [P]RESENT HEAD [SE]RVING HIS [2]9TH YEAR Opposition In Many [?]ars Aroused; Defeat for J. H. Coleman [HAN]NIBAL.—A. W. Lloyd, St. Lo[uis,] was elected grand chance[lor of] the Missouri Knights of Pythians [f]or his 29th term at the grand [?] Thursday. For the first time se[ver]al years Lloyd received op[position from] A. C. Maclin, St. Louis, [?] the race. Chancellor Lloyd [?] 100 out of the 117 votes. Ch[arl]es Baker, Farmington, by vote [?] 95 to 23 defeated J. H. Coleman, [C]olumbia, for grand master of exch[equ]er and Geo. P. Jones won over A. Knox, Kansas City, the gran[d] attorneyship of the order. The [?]m of $197,500 was reported at the [?]sion. St. Louis will be host to the lodge next year. The officers elected Thursday were [?]t and chancellor, A. W. Lloyd [St. Lou]is, 29th year; W. P. Kinney, Kans[as] City, vice grand chancellor; Fran[?] Amos, Kansas City, grand [?] Rev. A. Ross Brent, Sedalia, grand prelate; W. T. Ancell, Huntsville, grand keeper of records and seal; Charles Baker, Farmington, grand master of exchequer; Dr. Thomas A. Jones, Kansas City, grand medical director; grand attorney, George P. Jones, St. Louis; G. Emervay, grand master at arms; C. B. Whitcomb, grand master at arms; J. T. Ancell, Macon, grand inner guard; Edward Anderson, St. Louis, grand outer guard.

MURDER NO. 29 LAST TUESDAY Killing Wave Continues to New Record Notwithstanding that two murders were committed the week of June 16, the murder mill grinds unceasingly on in Kansas City and last Tuesday Ludie Northington, 815 E. Eighth street engaging in a fight with an unknown Negro, was killed, bringing the total to 29 murders for as many weeks. The fray took place at 1118 Campbell in the rear. Northington’s throat was cut. The Negro has not been apprehended. Despite the supposed tightening of the law’s dragnet and action by a law enforcement league murder has not abated and its committers are not being brought to justice in the manner that they should. Only when the full penalty for murder is meted [ou]t to those who kill for trivial re[as]ons will such wholesale killing [?]op. Men [a]e killed in arguments over dice, sm[a]ll money matters and other such flimsy causes. Of those arrested and formally charged with murder has any one of them received is just deserts. The 30th murder will no doubt be committed soon while those forces that can partially remedy this deplorable condition prefer to let “sleeping dogs lie." It is probable that the unfavorable homicide record will be broken this year as the murders thus far exceed those of last year.

LARGEST NEWSPAPER This [e]dition of The Call, numbering fifty six pages, is the largest edition, a[nn]iversary or regular, ever published by a Negro newspaper.

In the year 1928 29 Negroes have been murdered by Negroes 45 Negroes were murdered by Negroes in 1927 [in Ka]nsas City, Missouri!!

The Call WILL BE 5c NEXT WEEK AS USUAL

QUARRY BLAST HURTS WORKER Dynamite Cap Explodes Prematurely Clarence Barbour, 51, of 2115 Flora avenue was dangerously injured in a premature dynamite blast at a quarry at 70th and Agnes Wednesday. Fellow workers state that Barbour had prepared a charge to be used in his work and when he attempted to place it in the hole which he had drilled, the cap exploded, severely lacerating the man’s head and left eye, and driving bits of rock into his arms and body. Physicians at General hospital No. 2 state that Barbour's condition is serious.

Man Who Robs Call Newsboy Gets $100 Fine "You ought to stay in jail the rest of your life,” said Carlin P. Smith, judge of police court No. 1, to Walter Moore, 64 years old, who was arrested last Thursday morning for stealing 75c from Lafoy Daniels, a Call newsboy. Moore was fined $100, or to one who cannot pay, means 200 days in jail. Daniels, 12 years old, who lives at 2214 Forest, was shouting “Call paper! Call paper!” last Friday morning about 7:30. Moore accosted him at 24th and Tracy and inquired if he had change for a dollar. As the boy took the money from his pocket the man snatched his 75 cents and fled. The newsie shouted again, not The Call however but for help. Q. J. iGlmore, 2440 Tracy, heard the appeal and with the boy started in search of the culprit. Moore was found at 27th and Troost where according to Daniels, he was attempting to rob another boy. The man possessed 75 cents but denied robbing the boy. He was haled into police court and thence to jail where Fridays will elapse before any newsie will again become victim of his “taking ways."

Mason Tenders Union Elects Officers for Year Local Union No. 555, Mason Tenders, located at 1731 Lydia, held their last meeting on June 11. W. M. Gatewood was elected president for the fourteenth term. He is also president of the district council, delegate to the Building Trades council, vice-president of the Lyric association, and member of the Urban league. C. H. Harris was elected for the twenty-fourth term as business agent. He is a member of the district council, Building Trades council, Urban league, and president of the Lyric association. Other officers elected have been in office from five to fifteen years. They are as follows: O. H. Lacy, third term, recording secretary; J. E. Washington, finance secretary, fifteenth term; James Holley, treasurer, third term; W. M. Yokum, vice- president, second term.

The world is the best of schoolbooks. The most useful knowledge is that which is acquired, not by reading but by experience and observation.

These Newsboys Earn $12,000 a Year Selling The Call These are part of the army of small boys who earn between 12,000 and $15,000 a year selling The Call. The picture was taken at 5:30 one Friday morning while the boys were after their current copies of The Call. The paper is printed each Thursday night and is released to newsboys at five o’clock each Friday morning. Some boys who live in distant parts of the city come as early as 4 a. m. in order to be first waited upon and free to get back to their sections in time to catch customers as they leave their homes for work. Many workers purchase their Calls at daylight and read them on the way to work or at lunch time on Friday. Lower left photo shows Walter “Mose” Perkins, who for several years has been the champion Call newsboy.

National Bar Association Convenes in Chicago The National Bar association, representing Negro lawyers from all parts of the country convenes in Chicago next Thursday and Friday, August 3 and 4. It is reported that all of the business sessions will be held in the club rooms of the Cook County Bar association on South Michigan avenue. The feature public meetings of the association are to be addressed by Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard university, and the Hon. William C. Todd of the Republic of Panama. Carl R. Johnson, president of the Harlan State Bar association of Missouri, L. A. Knox, C. H. Calloway and W. F. Clark will make up the Kansas City delegation.

SERVES AS ASSISTANT CIRCUIT COURT LIBRARIAN Kansas City has a Negro citizen who is the fifty wheel of its Court of Appeals, the branch one step higher than the Circuit Court. He is Wesley Ellington. Mr. Ellington has been seventeen years in the employ of the court, going there first as janitor. He did that work exclusively for 7 years. Then he began to help in the library and was relieved of janitor duties. Finally his services received the extreme recognition of appointment as assistant librarian with some clerical work. He conducts the bureau of information on the appellate practice of the Kansas City Bar association and is the assistant to the judges of the court for case week.

PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL TOTAL TO $335,000 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — (ANP) The campaign of Mercy hospital, which campaign had been extended ten days, for a fund of $2200,000 for a new nurses’ home, ended with a total pledged of over $335,000. More than one hundred colored people were enlisted in an effort to raise this amount of money. Two hundred fifty white workers were also engaged in the work. Many persons gave large sums of money, Mr. and Mrs, George W. Deane, well-kinwn in social work, donated $22,000.

National "Y" Head Asks Better Housing New York—Assailing the increasingly crowded living conditions of the Negro populations of New York, Boston and other cities of the North as a dangerous menace to the health and morals of the country as a whole, the Rev. Channing H. Tobias of New York City, senior secretary of the colored work department of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A., made a plea for reasonable housing districts for Negroes in a recent meeting at East Northfield, Mass. His speeches in the afternoon and evening were the outstanding features on the program devoted to study of the problems of Negroes by delegates to the Northfield Foreign Missionary Conference. “Colored people must live somewhere. They believe that they should have the opportunity to show that they can be good neighbors. Unless openings are made such as those made by Mr. Rockefeller for th accommodation of 500 families, the people will be so jammed together that they will be a menace not only to themselves, but to the health and morals of the country as a whole,” Mr. Tobias said. “There is a racial deadline in industry and colored people are supposed to do nothing but the most menial tasks and domestic work. Trade unions hold them out whereever they can, and many establishments, even in Harlem, where they provide 75 per cent of the trade, the business houses give them practically no recognition so far as employment is concerned. “What we plead for is a chance," the speaker concluded. “We don’t want to be given positions because we are colored, but we do hope to get the chance to make good, and it is up to the Christian people to give the colored race that chance because many are in a position of control of these business establishments.”

DOING DUTY BY INDICTING PERRY HOWARD Woman Assistant Attorney General Says Race Is No Factor WASHINGTON, D. C. (ANP)— Declaring that she was actuated "in the prosecution of Perry W. Howard, Mississippi national committeeman, by no other motive than that of doing her duty as a law enforcement officer, Mrs. Mable Willebrandt in an interview Wednesday with a representative of the Associated -Negro Press, insisted that she would not be swerved by public opinion or political pressure from her program of seeking indictments and convictions wherever graft was found, no matter how big and powerful the person involved was or what his racial identity happened to be. Public attention has been directed toward Mrs. Willebrandt recently because of the militant attitude and eager zeal she has shown in her post-convention prosecution of charges of selling federal offices in Mississippi, a practice which in the absence of financing the Republican organization in that and other Southern states, is reported to exist in most of them. While it is understood that most present day state political organizations are financially assessments levied upon patronage, the practice was made a felony by a law passed last yet, sponsored by Southern senators for the express purpose of trapping those who levied upon federal jobs.

Kansas City, Kas., Newsboys

Wholesale Arrests Made in Coffeyville COFFEYVILLE, Kas.—Like a bolt out of a clear sky the federal authorities cooperating with the county forces, swept down upon the citizens of Coffeyville Friday night and made what might be termed a wholesale arrest of Negroes along with a few whites. According to statements of eye witnesses no discrimination was shown in the gathering of those who were to be arrested, good citizens, questionable citizens, guilty citizens and visitors, were all landed behind the bars without a chance to explain themselves. Those who happened to be passing, going home or about their business were gathered in as though they were a flock of sheep, it is said. The story is told of a man arrested who had just gotten home from work; when he protested that they were mistaken, they said well, some one gave us your name, so let’s go. Another is told of a woman who was arrested while nursing a sick child. She was forced to give up the child and carried to jail, later upon reflection the child was carried to its mother, where she could be. administered to by the mother, behind those gloomy walls where the sun never shines and souls are always sick. There is a considerable amount of indignation arising over the city because of the manner in which the arrests were made. Men and women are wondering if the spirit of the Ku Klux Klan is not trying to shake its detestable and ignominious arms over the city and county once more.

Missouri Pacific Picnic Tomorrow The Missouri Pacific Boosters club will hold its annual western district picnic at Heathwood park on Tenth street boulevard, Kansas City, Kas. Saturday, July 28. The picnickers will come to Kansas City on special trains and in special cars on regular Missouri Pacific trains. Boosters will be here from Sedalia, Atchison Omaha, Coffeyville, Ft. Smith, Van Buren, Wichita, Joplin, Pleasant Hill, Hoisington, Osawatomie, Pueblo, St. Louis, Kansas City and Nevada. A baseball game will be staged between the teams of St Louis, and Kansas City freight houses as a special entertainment at the picnic. Other games of various kinds and races will be features.

Court Denies Texans Vote in Primary HOUSTON, Texas.—Only person: classified as white will be allowed to vote in the Democratic primaries in Harris county as the result of a decision handed down Monday by Federal Judge J. C. Hutcheson, jr., in the case of J. B. Grigsby against Guy Harris, chairman of the county executive committee of the Democratic party.

Additional Copies of This Edition Are Available for Out-of-Town and City Readers

BABY DROPS THREE FLOORS Infant, Rolling from Cot, Dies of Skull Fracture Lavaughn Jones, two years old, of 1514 Harrison, died Wednesday afternoon at 5 p. m. at General Hospital No. 2 as the result of a fractured skull received when she fell from the third floor of her home. The child, said to have been playing on a bed which adjoined the window, when she rolled too far and fell to the yard below. A father and mother, Timothy and Treva Jones survive the infant. Funeral services have not been arranged.

“Kid” Williams, Blind Saxophonist Waits for Aid to Get Instruments “Kid Williams” is missing from his old haunts. For many months his old acquaintances have wondered what has happened to him and why he is not seen around making harmonius music with his clarinet or saxaphone, both of which he is master. This article is to let his friends know that the “Kid” whose real name is Walter Wright, is an inmate of the Jackson County Home for Aged and Infirm Negroes, where he sits patiently waiting for some one to help him regain his place in society. The “Kid" is blind, you know, and his instruments were his only means of supporting himself, and he wants the world to know that he is not satisfied to let the county take care of him. His ill luck started, said the “kid”, January the 8th when his wife, Anna died. And as though that was not enough he stated that he was beaten badly by a policeman in the early hours of February 11th as he made his way home from a "Job.” The injuries he is alleged to have received from the beating kept him in the hospital for three and one-half months, at which time, having no other recourse, he was taken to the county home. “I had to pawn my saxaphone,” he sighed, “and my clarinet this January to help pay my wife’s funeral expenses. And then when I got beat up that did settle it! I’ve played concerts at the Lincoln theatre, and at other places, such as Ebenezer church, and people know I can really make my instruments talk. All I want is for somebody to help me get my clarinet and my saxaphone out of pawn and then I’ll be able to support myself again. Just because I am blind don’t mean that I want anybody to take care of me." The “Kid” or Wright, has been playing some kind of musical instrument since early childhood. He is only 26 years old now. If there is any one who thinks the “Kid’s” desire to help himself should be encouraged, The Call will be glad to accept contributions to help the blind boy redeem his saxaphone and clarinet from the pawn shop. The clarinet is “in” for $7.50 and the saxaphone for $15. Address all donations to Walter Wright, care of The Kansas City Call.

When a man owns himself to have been wrong, he is only saying in other words that he is wiser than he was.

BODY IS FOUND IN ST. LOUIS ROOMING HOUSE Was on Way to Kansas City to Visit Chauncey Jenkins, a Relative By R. C. Fisher ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 27.—The dead body of a woman, discovered last Monday morning, suspended by the neck with a sheet that had been fastened to a third-floor banister in a residence at No. 3 South Twenty-third street, has been identified as that of Mrs. Ethel Jenkins of 613 Twenty-second street, Cairo, Ill., wife of L. D. Jenkins, manual training teacher in Sumner high school of that city. Prominent Church Worker Mrs. Jenkins, who was organist at Ward Chapel A. M. E. church of Cairo, started on a trip last Sunday morning with a book, entitled "Turbulent Duchess,” and a handbag, enroute to Kansas City, Mo., to visit her brother-in-law, Chauncey L. Jenkins, of 2434 Harrison street, a railway mail clerk. Arriving in St. Louis Sunday afternoon, she engaged transient quarters at No. 3 South Twenty-third street, where Mrs. Fannie Alcorn operates a rooming house. Mrs. Jenkins made it known that she would continue her journey Sunday at midnight as she had purchased her ticket in Cairo for Kansas City. She was immaculate in appearance, wearing a blue silk dress with hat to match, and black slippers. Despite the fact that she seemed to have been cringing in abject terror, the young woman displayed intelligence and refinement in the course of a conversation in which she was engaged last Sunday, according to Mrs. Fannie Alcorn. "My first impression of the woman--stranger to me—was her highly nervous condition. She appeared to have been a woman who suffered from a delusion of persecution.” related Mrs. Alcorn. “She called me upstairs, and after entering the room she had engaged, Mrs, Jenkins told me she was undergoing an ‘awful strain'. She said she had to slip away from Cairo—to get away from the persecution of public criticism and the white people who hounded her for the purpose of administering violence.” Mrs. Alcorn explained that Mrs. Jenkins admitted to her that the wrath of the white people of Cairo was upon her because she had been admired by a white United States Congressman, who resided in that section. "Later during the night the worn an became greatly perturbed an asked me to lend her a pistol, explaining that she wanted it to protect herself against her white enemies, should they come. I assured her that no harm would befall her in St. Louis, With this encouragement Mrs. Jenkins changed her mind with reference to leaving on the midnight train for Kansas City, and said she would continue her journey the next morning, Monday. I left her room, retiring to my quarters,” Mrs. Alcorn explained. Arthur Shaw, of 2301 Eugenia street, was the first to discover the lifeless body of Mrs. Jenkins at 8 o'clock last Monday morning as it suspended from a banister of the third-floor when he entered the Twenty-third street house. The tragic scene was within his direct view when he gained entrance to the hallway on the first floor. Shaw said he awakened Mrs. Alcorn and other occupants of the house. When they learned of the tragedy, their excitement aroused the entire neighborhood. Police were notified. When they arrived blood in the dead woman’s body was warm. Efforts to restore respiration failed. Coroner’s Inquest "Mrs. Jenkins met death by her own hands," was the verdict of a jury at the coroner’s inquest. Her body was given to a local undertaker for preparation. Having some apprehension of not hearing from his wife since her departure from Cairo last Sunday, L. D. Jenkins, husband of the deceased woman, arrived in St. Louis Tuesday, enroute to Kansas City, seeking her whereabouts. He said he had not learned of his wife’s death until his arrived in this city Tuesday. Mr. Jenkins accompanied his wife’s body to Cairo Wednesday for funeral services at Ward Chapel A. M. E. church. Interment will b[e] [?] in Trenton, Mo., her nativ[?] and where her [?] mother [?] Mrs. Jenkins was 31 yea[?].

[page 4] “PROGRESS EDITION” CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 19[29] Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July_27, 19[?] PLAYGROUND WORK IS COMMENDED During the past week the playground supervisors, Messrs. Vanice, Warren and Miss Newson highly commended the fine work being done by the Negro playground directors. Among the projects singled out for special commendation was the sand work at Garrison, under the direction of Mr. Moten and Miss Lacey. This playground won fourth place among the city playground in this activity last year. The fine organization of the Paseo baseball teams under Raymond Marshall and Mrs. Ross also came in for approval. The happy thought of the welfare department in retaining Miss Willie Dixon as an assistant to the directors when it was found impossible to use her in the capacity of director of the Leeds playground is especially appreciated by the Negro directors. It enables the men in charge to arrange their schedules in such a manner that on the days when games necessitates the absence of one director there may still be two on the grounds. Thus all activities depending on two directors may go on as usual every day in the week. This arrangement has made much of the intensive work that brought forth the commendatory remarks from the supervisors, possible. It is to be hoped that next year will see more playgrounds and more directors for the children of the city.

MASS MEETING ON CIVIC PROBLEMS JULY 30 Through the courtesy of Dr. Jeltz, the evangelist now conducting a revival meeting on Paradeway and through the cooperation of the pastors and members of Allen chapel, Ebenezer and Bethel A. M. E. churches, there will be a public mass meeting in the tent at 17th and Paradeway Monday, July 30. This movement is of a clvic nature sponsored by the young Negroes of Kansas City. Because of certain serious and pressing problems confronting the race here the young men and women have launched into an active campaign for the welfare of the Negroes of this city.

CORRECTION Through an error the Vine Street Baptist church was mentioned as having aided in the Cleo Williams case. Mention should have been made of Rev. Barker’s Holiness church which was the first to take up a collection for the Williams’ fund.

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Make all money orders payable to Mme. C. O. Taylor LaCour 1205-7-9 North 9th Street Drexel 4632 Kansas City, Kansas

MME. KATURAH FOSTER VALLEY the proprietor of the Katurah Shoppe at 433 Quindaro Blvd., was born at Jeffersonville, Indiana and received her education in the schools of that city. As a beauty specialist, Mrs. Foster is one of wide experience. Her first experiences were Mme. Evlyn Horton of the Hortona System at St. Louis, Mo. Later she spent a number of years at the Betty Mae Hall Shop of Wichita, Kansas, where the E. Burhnam service was given, coming to Kansas City, where the she took up the Mme. C. J. Walker System of Beauty Culture and is now entering her fourth year as owner of the Katurah Shoppe. Her business has proved to be a successful venture and is showing a consistent growth, catering, as she does to the best class of patrons has maintained the highest standard of work.

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Leaves Duties J. A. Jones, well known proprietor of Jones’ Billiard Parlor and Barber Shop, has been compelled by falling eye-sight, to retire from the acive management of his business. He announces that John X. Brown will assume full charge of the business. Mr. Brown is well known liked. For years he was secretary of the Midwest Lodge of Elks. Mr. Jones' activities will be confined to an advisory roll.

JACKSON COUNTY CITIZENS LEAGUE MEETS The mass meeting Monday night, July 23 at the Friendship Baptist church, 17th and Tracy, called by the Jackson County Citizen’s league, met with success. After announcement by the president, N. S. Adkins, that the disgrace upon the committee who attempted to give away free barbecue August, 1926 at the Liberty Park, August 4, that he believed some plan ought to be worked out where the donations received by the league for the Emancipation Day picnic, would be turned over to some organizations for distribution. Rev. S. C. Doyle suggested that the churches be given the donation and in turn sell it to the people to replenish their treasures. This motion was carried and the churches that endorsed the movement will have absolute charge of selling of the food at the picnic. Rev. S. C. Doyle was made chairman of the finance committee and the pastors of the above mentioned churches were made members of the finance committee. The next big mass meeting will be called Monday night, July 30 at the Friendship Baptist church, 17th and Tracy. The public at large is invited. Over 10,000 people are expected to attend the picnic August 4. For further information call N. S. Adkins, Harrison 6118.

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FREE AIR RIDE OFFERED CHILDREN IN DAVIS PLANE TITLE CONTEST All children wh submitted names or Dr. A. Porter Davis’s airplane in the title contest held recently will be given a free ride upon calling Dr. Davis and making arrangements for the air trip. Lloyd Quest, 946 Nebraska won the $5 for suggesting the title, “Inspiration.” Other names suggested were “Miss Eve,” “Pride of the Race,” “Spirit of Ethiopia," and “The Spirit of Kansas City.” Children who are entitled to a ride are B. Louise Orme, 344 Greeley: C. O. LaCour, 1207 N. 9th street, Henry White, Greeley street; De- Witt Howard, 2201 Hallock; Margaret Hart, 1043 Grandview; Emma Parks, 416 Troupe; Andrew Jackson, 332 Everett; Harold Parks, 416 Troupe; Andrew Jackson, 332 Everett; Harold Parks, 416 Troupe; Roy Robinson, 501 S. 16th street, St. Joseph, Mo.; Lon B. McDonald, 1903 Jean Alexander, 706 Washington; and Paul Howard Jones, 2450 Vine street, Kansas City, Mo.

12TH WARD CLUB FAVORS NUGENT, RADER, CARBAUGH On Tuesday evening, July 24 at the Baptist church at 14th and Spruce the Twelfth Ward Republican club and members of the Baptist church held a meeting. Rev. D. A. Holmes spoke. Rev. H. C. Gatewood presided at the meeting. The folowing candidates were endorsed for Republican ticket: Anthony P. Nugent, public administrator; Dr. Glenn Carbaugh, coroner; Frank Rader, prosecuting attorney. Rev. Holmes spoke very highly of Mr. Nugent and of having known his family as friends of the colored people. The meeting was very well attended.

Horatious Harris, William (Crip) Young, Joe Campbell, floor managers, Wednesday night, August 1. Paseo Hall. Lee’s Orchestra.—Adv.

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BENNIE MOTEN Bennie Moten’s Victor Recording Orchestra was the first colored aggregation to play in the main dining room of the Hotel Statler and Twentieth Century club of Buffalo. Bennie and his boys also broke the ice for colored musicians at the Robert College Prom, Geneva and the Pier Ball Room, Celeron Park at Jamestown, New York.

GARDEN PARTY Mrs. A. M. Wilson, and Mrs. Nora Sexton were hostesses to a garden party Friday evening in honor of Mrs. Ethlene Wilson Clark, and Mrs. Sexton’s siste[r], Mrs. Nettle Seymour, of Chicago, on the lawn of Mrs. R. W. aGmble, 2445 Montgall. Mrs. aGmble’s lawn was lighted and decorated with Japanese lanterns, among many bright colored blooming flowers in the garden. Light refreshments were served.

ETHEL WATERS’ SHOW HITS SALARY SNAG NEW YORK — (ANP) Much ado was raised in the Lafayette theatre here last week when the Ethel Waters show managment and the players had some misunderstanding over salaries. The manager of the theatre, Frank Schiffman, declared he had paid Miss Waters’ husband, Earl Dancer, the sum of $4,100 for the week and all money was coming from him. Dancer could not be found when it was time to pay the girls and much confusion was the result. There was talk of taking Ethel Waters’ group to England for a show, but after the argument last week, Dancer’s disappearance was unexplainable. One of the leading dancers, Margaret Beckett, has been signed with Lew Leslie’s "Blackbirds of 1928.”

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Local No. 555, Hod Carriers and Common Laborers Union HAS BEEN THE FRIEND OF THE CALL EVER SINCE ITS BIRTH It Congratulates It Upon Its Tenth Anniversary and Wishes It to Keep on Growing Headquarters, 1729-31 Lydia

N.A.A.C.P. Worker MRS. SALLIE LOVE, president of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Kansas City branch of the N. A. A. C. P. The sum of $1,000 has been turned over to the branch since May, 1927.

FACES MURDER CHARGE AFTER 17 YEARS CLARKSDALE, Miss. — (ANP) Lucius Bowen, charged with the murder of Rufus Woods, near the Coahoma-Tunica County line at Dundee, Miss., seventeen years ago, will be tried before a Jury and Judge W. A. Alcorn of Clarksdale in circuit court of Tunica county at Tunica. Cutrer and Smith of Clarksdale will defend Bowen and the prosecution is to handled by District Attorney J. T. Smith and County Attorney G. P. Ritchey of Tunica. A venire of fifty men has been drawn. Many of the witnesses have died since hte crime was committed, but the state claims that it has a number of important witnesses in the case. After the killing seventeen years ago, it was claimed that | Bowen left the state and was captured in Cincinnati, Ohio, in May, 1927, and was returned to Tunica County. Bowen escaped jail on July 20 last year and was captured September 20 of last year in Pittsburg, Pa., and again returned to Tunica County.

18-YEAR OLD WIFE KILLS HUSBAND PHILADELPHIA — (ANP) Ethel Gish White is charged with fatally stabbing her common-law husband, Willie White, during a quarrel in their home. The man died shortly after being admitted to the Pennsylvania hospital, and the woman was arrested. She is only eighteenth years old, while his age was given as 45 years.

What’s What in Allen Addition Lum County, Kansas, Negroes are giving a basket dinner at the home of Mrs. Etta Smith Young, 5624 East 36th street. Come to end of 31st street line Sunday, August 5 Bring baskets, or dinner will be served on grounds. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin, of 3709 Bellair, entertained at dinner Sunday. Rev. Holland and wife, Rev. Sargent and wife. Bethesda Church's pastor preached Sunday morning. After noon rally was a success. Rev. R. E. Holland is pastor. Mrs. Josephine Leathenberry, of 5814 East 35th street terrace, is improving. Mrs. Christine Sims of 3614 Bellaire is leaving for an indefinite stay in St. Louis. The Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church has been celebrating its pastor’s, Rev. J. C. China, tenth anniversary for eight days, ending Monday night with a reception. Each auxiliary has a night to itself to present a program. Some of the most important numbers were: Instrumental solo by Melvin Hansome. Paper, “The Pastor as a Giver,” by Allen Chapel. Report from the New Era District Sunday School convention, Independence, Mo., by Junior Johnson. Vocal duet by Mrs. Bryant and Miss Drayden. The church was decorated and many gifts were given to the pastor and his wife. The students who were successful with their trades are Junior Johnson and Alice Ruff. Miss Ruff took special sewing from Mrs. Marshall at the Lincoln high school and Mr. Johnson took painting from Mr. Massey at the same school. Miss Ruff is now working out and does fancy work at home during her spare time. Junior Johnson paints all inside and outside furniture. He had his first experience last summer with a carpenter. He now has many contracts for painting houses. Miss Ruff is a senior at the Lincoln high school and Mr. Johnson is a junior. Mrs. Ada Morris, of 3608 Bellair, is attending Grand Lodge in St. Louis. Mo. Mrs. L. C. Franklin, of 3610 White avenue, is canvalesence.

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WOMAN DIES AT 112 LAFAYETTE. La. — (ANP) Mary Victor said to be 112 years old, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Celia Culvester, here. Despite her many years the aged woman continued in good health until a few months ago, having good eye-sight, hearing, and other faculties. Five daughters, all of this city, one son of Beaumont, Tex.; thirty-eight grandchildren and thiryt-six great grandchildren survive.

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Patience is always crowned with success. This rule is without exception. It may not be a splendid success but patience never takes anything in hand that it does not succeed with. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hicks. 1428 South 24th street, Argentine, Kas., celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary Saturday, July 21, with an anniversary party. The color scheme of pink and white was carried out through the evening, both in decorations and menu. Members of the family and friends helped to make this a successful affair. Many beautiful wooden gifts were received. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Tucekr, Mr. and Mrs. Gregg, Mr. and Mrs. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Dothy, Miss Betty Jane Foster, Miss Dorothy Foster, Archie Gregg, Miss Eunice Smith, Miss Pauline Torwater. Mrs. Bessie Roland, Miss Leona Smith, Miss Ella Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick, Samuel Hicks, Jr.. and Mr. and Mrs. Hicks.

LILY WHITE GUNS TRAINED AGAINST BOB CHUR[CH] MEMPHIS, Tenn.—The indi[ct]ment of Perry W. Howard, Miss[is]sippi Republican leader, has encou[r]aged Tennessee lily white G. O. [P.] leaders to renew their attack Robert R. Church, Republican ch[?] of Memphis. A meeting of the [?] whites has been called for Wedn[es]day and is expected to result in letter being sent Mrs. Mabel Wa[lt]er Wlllebrandt, assistant U. S. [at]torney general, who directed t[he] grand jury quiz of federal patrona[ge] in Mississippi, asking her to co[me] to Memphis and start an inves[ti]gation of Church’s connection wi[th] alleged postoffice irregularities. These lily-white leaders conte[nd] that although Howard held a h[igh?] federal office, he never was as str[ong?] politically as Church. The lat[ter,] they assert, has seemed immune [to] every investigation launched agai[nst] him.

Mrs. Lue Brown of Fort Sc[ott] Kas., and Mrs. Ethel Myers of S[?] Park motored to St. Joseph Tues[day.]

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[page 5] [Kansas C]ity, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928 “PROGRESS EDITION” CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY 5

SPIRITUAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IS A TOWER OF SERVICE

Congregation Has Grown from Mere Handful in 1925 to 700 Members Today; The Rev. W. F. Taylor, Founder and Pastor

The Metropolitan Spiritual Church of Christ, located at 13th and Garfield streets, Kansas City, Missouri, has no need to use all of its name, which is “People’s Community Center” in addition because it lives up to the title. It is known far and wide for a different kind of a church, where the emphasis is put on doing. The Metropolitan church has a unique history. Back in 1925, two spiritual gospel singers, L. L. Boswell and W. P. Taylor, who had been busy spreading the gospel through song, up and down the country, decided that Kansas City was an ideal field of labor. So they became a part of the community. Today Boswell still sings, being the leader of a choir of fifty voices, and Rev. W. F. Taylor fills the pulpit preaching to congregations that fill the large auditorium at all services. The Metropolitan church had its birth September 22, emancipation day in the year 1925, its first location being 529 Lydia. It thrived. Later it moved to 1903 E. 9th street where it continued to thrive. Soon it moved into Taborian hall. Then it wanted a home and made a bargain to buy the church edifice at 9th and Lydia. Other persons, wanting the same building bought the contract. Then came the location at 13th and Garfield, where are the church, the parsonage and more recently the deaconess home. The church auditorium seats 500 persons. It is a modern audience room. In this month it has been equipped with electric fans. The whole property is valued at $100,000. The Metropolitan church is a working church. It is organized thoroughly. Its auxiliaries consist of a trustee board, a steward board, a deaconess board, a stewardess bord No, 1 and also a No. 2, an usher board No. 1 and also a No. 2, Community Workers No. 1 and also and a Pastor's Aid club. Its nine hundred members find in it more than a church. It operates a school of expression and the Metropolitan school of music. The church is distinctive in the dress of its official boards. In addition to a vested choir, it has a uniform dress for its stewardesses, deaconesses and community workers. Its policy is different also. It operates its business as well as preaches individual conduct on a "conscience basis.” In keeping with this idea it has no entertainments, it permits no begging for funds. The singers who used their voices for five years to charm, have faith in the principle of good deeds. Metropolitan church is unique in its services. To them all the public is invited. Besides the gospel and the songs, it has healing services. Some time ago an assault was made upon Rev. Taylor, the pastor, by a police officer, for which he later came to be tried. The injury was serious and endangered his life. But like everything else the incident had its compensation when the community made his illness the occasion for showing what they thought of his pastorate and his church. Because he had visited the sick and them that are in prison, the community visited him in person and in sympathy. The judge who was bound under the law to try Rev. Taylor, because the officer made a charge against him, refused to be a party to the inhumanity and went to the sick room to carry out his part of an unpleasant duty. Then the police authorities saw the uprising of the people and where Metropolitan’s pastor had been a worker for a limited group, he became the object of solicitude by all. Public opinion hastened his exoneration and then set about convicting his assailant The labors of his pastorate were indeed bread cast upon the waters.

St Paul Presbyterian Church 1720 Paseo REV. ARTHUR E. RANKIN, Minister 11:00 A. M.—Preaching Pastor 12:30 P. M.—Graded Sunday School. 5:00 P. M.—Vesper Service.

Jamison Memorial Temple COLORED METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1815 Paseo REV. L. E. B. ROSSER, Minister. 11:00 A. M.—Preaching Pastor 7:45 P. M.—Preaching. 6:30 P. M.—Epworth League—Special Address. 9:30 A. M.—Sunday School J. E. Hopson, Supt.

St. Augustine’s Church The REV. BERNARD G. WHITLOCK, Pastor Troost and 11th 7:30 A. M.—The Divine Service for Communion. 9:45 A. M.—Church School for Instruction. 11:00 A. M.—The Divine Service and Sermon.

Big Union Evangelistic Meetings Allen Chapel, Ebenezer and Bethel A. M. E. Churches 17th & Paseo Daily Vacation Bible School at 9:00 A. M. Praise Service, 7:30 Preaching 8:00 P. M. You Are Welcome Every Day. Dr. and Mrs. Nathaniel H. Jeltz

Music Lessons VOICE and PIANO Mrs. Selma Flack, Teacher For Appointments, Call [CL]IFTON 1909 OR VICTOR 1419

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COMPLIMENTS OF Berean Gospel Meetings EVERY NIGHT EXCEPT SATURDAY “WHEN JESUS COMES —?” THE DEVIL CHAINED 1,000 YEARS Sunday Night, July 29 Corner 16th and Forest Bring Your Bible! Bring a Friend!

METROPOLITAN SPIRTUAL CHURCH CHURCH OF CHRIST 13th & Garfield Avenue Order of Services: Sunday— 10:45 A. M.—Preaching 1:00 P. M.—Sunday School 6:30 P. M.—Spiritual Union 8:00 P.M.—Healing Service. 8:30 P. M.—Preaching. Tuesday, 9 A. M.— Special Help Service for spiritual and physical needs. Tuesday and Thursday, 7:30 P.M., Lecture and healing. The pastor, Rev. W. F. Taylor occupies the pulpit on all occasions with rare exceptions.

Cards of Thanks In Memoriams CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their kindness shown us during the illness and death of our mother, Mary Washington who passed away July 13, 1928. We especially thank Rev. Horton for his wonderful sermon, Mrs. Pitts, Mrs. Coralee Harry, for their beautiful solos, Gates Ajar Temple, Kansas City Social club and neighbors for their beautiful offerings. Mabel Finley, Esther Ervin, daughters, Reggie Washington, Clinton Washington, Thomas Washington, sons, Luella Garban, granddaughter, W. A. Finley, son-in-law, Garland Garban, grandson.

CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank so very kindly our many friends and neighbors of Leavenworth, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri for their kindness and faithfulness through the entire illness and death of our darling wife and mother, Mrs. Nancy Johnson, and for the many beautiful floral offerings. We especially thank Deborah Chapter O. E. S. for their untiring service. We also wish to thank the Fort Scott, Kansas and Omaha, Nebraska friends for their beautiful floral offerings, Rev. J. D. Jordan for his consoling remarks, Mrs. Georgia Marshall for the beautiful solo, and Wm. Holmes and son, undertakers, for their efficient service. Mr. Henry Johnson, husband, Mrs. Ceola Mason, Miss Naomi Morgan, daughters, family and relatives.

CARD OF THANKS We wish to take this method of thanking our many friends and coworkers for their kindness and faithfulness through the short illness of our dear sister and daughter, Narrissia Mae Dickson who died Tuesday, July 17, 1928. Also for the many floral offerings. We especially thank Miss Estella Pitts, Rev. W. M. Taylor of the Metropolitan church at 1231 Garfield, Mrs. Corinne King, Mr. Albert Jones, Mrs. M. E. Terril, and Rev. Gleen of the Pleasant Hill, Missouri, Second Baptist church. Mr. W. P. Dickson, father, Mr. V. L. Dickson, brother, Mrs. Rachel Dickson, sister-in-law, Mr. C. Williams, friend.

CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their unlimited kindness and beautiful floral offerings at the passing of our beloved husband and son, Roy Harvey, who passed away at 8:30 a. m., July 15, 1928. I wish to thank personally Mr. George Shepp, and Mr. R. H. Tait, the later the master mechanic at the Missouri Pacific railway shop. Also the colored employees who served as pall bearers, and the Missouri Pacific band who furnished their services free. We also wish to acknowledge the beautiful floral offerings from our Kansas City, Kansas friends, and the neighborhood floral offering sponsored by Mrs. Middle Story. We also wish to thank Mrs. Perry who rendered a sweet solo, an dMr. T. B. Watkins whose services were most wonderfully rendered. We also wish to thank Brothers Henry and Herman Harvey and family. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Woolridge of Clary Chapel, 14th and Campbell, whom we wish to thank for his consoling remarks. We wish to also thank the sisters at St. Marguerite’s hospital for their loyal services during the illness of Mr. Harvey. Mrs. Ella Harvey, wife, Mrs. Hester Green, mother,

SPECIAL CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend a special card of thanks to these friends who kindly gave us their service during Mother Washington’s illness and death: Mrs. Della Davis, Mrs. Dessie McKinney, Mrs. Lizzie Braxton, Mrs. Ruby Young, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jones, Mrs. Sallie Counsellor, Mrs. Susie Pearl Jones, Mrs. G. E. Meyers. May God bless you all. Mabel Finley, daughter, W. A. Finley, son-in-law.

CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and the Pastor’s Aid board of Pleasant Green Baptist church, especially Rev. McNeal for his consoling words, also Mr. and Mrs. Banks, Mary Davis, Bettie Caldwell, Pheba Carroll, Golden Rule Tabernacle No. 12 and Mr. J. L. Fairfax for their floral offering and sympathy during our sad hour in the loss of our son, father and brother. Mrs. Jennie Turner and family, 1330 E. 16th Street.

CARD OF THANKS We desire to gratefully express our thanks to friends and neighbors for comforting words of sympathy and beautiful floral offerings in the hour of bereavement during the death of our beloved mother and sister, Mrs. Flora Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. J. Tillman, Mrs. Bernice Hayes, Mrs. Grace Ward, Mrs. Sarah Anderson.

CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors and the chauffeurs for their kind expressions of sympathy and the beautiful floral offering and condolence during our sad bereavement, the death of our beloved son and brother, Glenn Artie Smith, who departed this life July 14, 1928. We especially thank the Rev. Horton and Rev. Green for their consoling remarks. Lizzie Brady, mother, Roberta Smith, sister.

IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our dear son, father and brother, Hardie C. Watts, who left us one year ago, July 29th. “Gone but not forgotten.” Sadly missed by Mrs. Sallie M. Watts, mother, Donna Hortense Watts, daughter, Myrthal Watts-Morgan, sister, Edwin H. Watts, Edgar Watts, Everette Watts, Oswald D. Watts, Waston N. Watts, brothers.

IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our dear father, Harry Ousley, who passed away one year ago, July 22, 1927. One year ago the angels called you To a home in heaven above; Now sleeping without dreaming The one we loved but could not save. Blame us not for weeping, We have no father now. Since your loving smile No longer greets the coming of our feet. We did all that was in our power Yet you were called away. The days are long and dreary And time roll slowly on, Oh how few are life’s pleasures Since you have gone to rest. Sadly missed by children Hattie and Laura Ousley, daughters, Arthur Ousley, son.

EVERYBODY WELCOME. EVERYBODY COME. Joint installation of U. B. F., S. M. T. Beautiful fraternal review, Friday evening, July 27, Recreation hall, 15th and Paseo. Come and enjoy yourself by the music of Chauncey Downs Rinky Dinks orchestra.— Adv.

Ebenezer A. M. E. Sunday School

HOLD POPULARITY CONTEST Progress Lodge No. 43, Knights of Pythias, is starting a big popularity contest August 1. Any woman or girl living in Greater Kansas City over 16 years of age is eligible to enter. First prize, $40 in gold; second $25; third, $15. Persons desiring to enter can do so by writing or phoning Mr. James A. Green, chairman of the contest committee, Melrose 0023-R. or 1620 Park avenue. Contestants can also apply to Mr. B. F. Isaacs, Chancellor Commander, Harrison 7977, 1315 Michigan. The contest closes October 2th.—Adv.

ANNOUNCEMENT Bennie Moten's Victor and Okeh Recording Orchestra will be open for club dates upon their return, September 15, 1928. Will be home until June, 1929. For further information call Mose Fields, Harrison 9407, Moten and Hayes Music Shop.—Adv.

The Whosoever Will club will meet Monday night the place of the meeting to be announced. The Friendship club will meet Monday night also, and will have an outing, the place to be announced. The Pastor's Aid will give a trip around the world Tuesday night, the train will leave the church at 8 p.m. There will be a lawn social at the church also. The Busy Bee will meet at its regular meeting place and time. We are in the midst of a rally which will come to a close the third Sunday in August. We are asking and expecting every member to pay the sum of Five dollars. There will be a secret program and pew rally at the church the first Sunday afternoon at 6 p.m. Each of the clubs will be expected to fill certain seats, and we hope that all of the members and friends will be present at that time.

ANNOUNCEMENT. Leman Robinson and James Starks are now mechanics at 19th and Vine Street Garage, J. H. Edwards, Proprietor, Har. 5400.—Adv.

Vote for Mrs. Nellie E. Young, candidate for Democratic committeewoman, Fourth ward, August primary. —Adv.

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[page 6] “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928

Ours a City of Fine Homes

Mrs. Willa Peebles, of 1204 Paseo is the owner of three apartments, all of which are modern, and one rivals anything owned by a member of the race in Kansas City.

Kansas City enjoys an enviable reputation for the class of housing its Negro citizens occupy. These pictures are presented to show not only the kind of homes, but to emphasize the fact that the properies are owned by Negroes. The one group are owned by a woman, the other by a man. Both are of the young generation. Progress of a race, if measured by indications like these, is already greater than anyone would have dared hope a generation ago. The aggregate of Negro real estate in Kansas City is placed at five million dollars.

The properties shown are: 2438-40-42 Tracy avenue Southwest corner, 12th and Paseo

John Smith, of 1114 Garfield is a believer in Kansas City real estate. Note the variety, and the substantial character of the investments he has made.

The properties shown are: 1013-15 Garfield 1017-19 Garfield 1110 Garfield 1114 Garfield 2412-14 Tracy 1110 Brooklyn

RECTOR AND COOPER HEAD GREAT SHOW AT LINCOLN RALPH COOPER Heading a great vaudeville bill at the Lincoln this week is the celebrated dancing team of Rector and Cooper. As clever and as good looking a pair of lads as have ever graced the boards of any theatre. Eddie Rector and Ralph Cooper have played the better spots on Broadway. Club Alabam, Plantation Cafe, Cotton club and Artists and Models Revue are some of the places they have worked. At the present time they are playing the Publix chain. Their coming to the Uptown here gave the Lincoln a chance to present them to their patrons. This fall they are again going to work for Shubert. But to get back to the Lincoln. Eddie Rector directs the Lincoln orchestra on the stage. Ralph Cooper acts as master of ceremonies. Ralph seems to be the "wise cracker” of the pair. Carter and Clark open with a comedy act of a different sort. They are followed by Charles Anderson, a real Kansas City favorite. Mr. Anderson can sing and scores a real hit with both popular airs and a "mean” blues. Brown, Marguerite and Mildred present a good dancing act of which the best bit is the Apache number. Rector and Cooper close the bill with their dancing and succeed in stopping the show. Brought Together by Earl Carroll The Rector and Cooper team was created by Earl Carroll who regards Eddie Rector as the world’s greatest tap dancer. Mr. Carroll selected Ralph Cooper whom he saw work at Club Alabam as Eddie’s teammate. The team has worked together for more than four years.

JOE SHEFTELL PRESENTS MISS BANDANNA NEXT WEEK Joe Shettell, international favorite whose revue here four years ago created a sensation, is presenting Miss Bandanna at the Lincoln starting Monday. It is a different kind of a musical revue with many new features including a realistic Mississippi flood scene. The cast includes Joe Sheftell, Weegie Paine, Ethel Ridley and a chorus such as only Sheftell can pick. The screen offering is the Metro-Goldwyn feature "Telling the World.”

TEXAS EXCURSION HERE FRIDAY The Dallas-Fort Worth Boosters, under the leadership of A. Oats and Pete Covington and J. H. Jones, are bringing an excursion to Kansas City Friday, August 3, 4, 5. They have arranged for a big dance and frolic Friday, August 3 at Paseo ball. Hundreds of visitors are expected from all points in Texas and Oklahoma.

CORRECTION Mrs. Clara Lynden Stokes gave $25 instead of $15 as reported in the Florence Home fund last week.

Mable Matthew at 2216 East 19th street, and Mrs. Rowes of Rosedale are sick.

Have smooth whiter skin quickly DO YOU long for a smooth, light-toned, lovely complexion? Nadinola, the super-bleach, will give it to you—as it has to thousands of other girls! And you don’t have to wait—Nadinola does it quickly! Shade by shade, your skin will grow lighter until, almost before you know it, you’ll have the gorgeous light complexion you crave. Troublesome oiliness and shine will disappear— pimples and eruptions will be erased away. Remember, Nadinola never fails. Every package carries our written, money-back guarantee and simple directions. Begin this wonder-working treatment tonight. At all drug stores 50 cents. Extra-large, money-saving size, $1. If you cannot buy it where you live, send us 50 cents or $1, and we will mail it postpaid; also dainty gift sample and beauty booklet. Address Department D, National Toilet Co., Paris, Tenn., U. S. A, Nadinola Bleaching Cream

Contest Winner Mrs. Ethelene Wilson Clark, first librarian of the Garrison library, was employed as both attendant at the Kansas City library, 9th and Locust, where she learned the inactions of the library association to provide a public branch library at Garrison school and their future need of a librarian. Having already taken a two-year college course, she began preparation for the position which entailed nine months training under the direction of Mr. Wright of the Kansas City, Mo. branch of public libraries. Mrs. Clark remained at the Garrison library one year. She continued her library work in Cleveland, Ohio and at present has charge over a large branch library in Los Angeles, Calif. The board of education of Los Angeles provides the school children with regular library lessons. Mrs. Clark has in connection with her library work, classes of Twentieth street, Nevin avenue, and Staunton schools. Mrs. Clark says the field of library work is wide and offers valuable opportunities for the Negro youth, More Negro students should enter he field. Only five Negroes, she estimates, are to be found in the fifty large branches of the Los Angeles library system. Miss Estelle Martin, a former Kansas City, Mo. girl is doing splendidly. Mrs. Clark remarked "What the Los Angeles library association is doing for the public is what the Kansas City branches can do. Continued Mrs. Clark, "for small children fairy tales stimulates imagination and mind- development that are benefited in later life, also the timely informa- ion received from references are essential and useful to everyone.” Mrs. Clark, who says she received her basic principals as librarian at Garrison, is visiting her parents in Kansas City at 2442 Montgall. She will return this fall to resume her library work.

MORE THAN 1,000 ON BOAT The first boat excursion of the season sponsored by George Golden Monday night on the steamer Idle- wild, was atended by more than 1,000 persons. Hundreds lined the dock to cheer the excursionists off. In spite of the huge attendance there was stall easily room for a thousand more. With plenty of tables and chairs available some enjoyed lunch and frozen dainties on the first deck. But by far the bulk of the crowd filled the main dancing saloon on the second deck which was cooled by huge celling fans. The observation and delicatessen are on the third deck and the fouth deck, a cool quiet place seemed to be the favorite spot of couples that had something “to talk over.” The crowd danced until nearly 1 o’clock. A record attendance is expected next Monday.

Mrs. W. M. Marshall, 2920 Madison, wife of Rev. Marshall, is ill with the third stroke of paralysis. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Roberts, of Wellington. Kas., are the guests of their son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Roberts.

HONORS ARE EVEN IN LEE-DOWNS CONTEST The battle of music waged between George Lee’s novelty singing orchestra and Chauncey Down’s Rinky Dinks at Paseo hall last Wednesday night, July 18, resulted in a draw according to the judges’ decision. Muted clarinets, moaning saxaphones, and clear toned cornets vied with each other to win the plaudits of the throng of dancers. More than 1,000 people attended the affair and crowded the boxes to hear the contest. Mr. Down’s star trombone player became ill at the last moment and was unable to compete. Several new numbers were introduced at the music fest.

MISS INGRAM NOT AT MENTORS Miss Ingram, popular sales lady, is no longer connected with the Menter Stores. She expects to announce a new connection soon. For the present her customers can reach her by phoning Wabash 4987. Her residence is 3931 Euclid avenue.— Adv.

Go Shopping With MARY ANN MRS. Andrews, formerly at 1711 E. 18th, wishes to inform her customers that she is now located at 2011 E. 12th, Benton 1674.

For day time wear sleeves are long and usually close fitting.

GORDON says: If in doubt call Exact Transfer Co., 808 E. 10th street. Victor 1151. Bonded service. R. A. Gordon, Manager.

The higher waistline gives a new personality to street frocks, but uneven hemlines and circular cuts should always accompany this type of frock.

It is no longer smart to wear a sports frock to tea or restaurant as in many seasons past. A SHAGGY head is never an asset to business. Hall’s Barber Shop, 2416 Vine.

Cotton has found a new dignity in this season.

FOR long hair take advantage of Ethel E. Wilson’s scalp treatments. 1323 Garfield, Benton 6983.

GET your ice-cold watermelon at Neal’s Delicatessen, 2605 Vine, Linwood 2172.

Costume jewelry must be carefully selected and the cheaper qualities avoided.

FOR quick service call Blue Line Taxi, Clifton 5563, 24-hour service; trips 30c up. 2407 1/2 Vine St. Arthur (Fat) Lawson and Melvin Mann.

Blue has caught the fancy of the Parisienne.

EVERY kind of first class work. Four efficient operators. No waiting. Early and late appointments. Euthola Beauty Shop,

Gwendolyn R. Jackson, Prop., 1602 E. 19th. Har. [?]

Over elaboration of sho[es] make the foot appear [?] and rather distorts an [other]wise harmonious ensem[ble]

MARK Cook, formerly, Bee is now at Pea[?] [?]ber Shop, 1826 Vine. EVERY man should [?] good photograph [?] [him]self. Miller’s Studio, [?]

Hosiery should blend w[ith] [?] costume or match the [?]. Very striking contrasts [are] longer smart.

MARY Ann found the [?] Hotel apartments a[t] [?] E. 13th street with the [?] two and three- room apart[ments]. One is instantly impressed their clean, attractive, and [mod]ern rooms, that are just [the] thing for high class fam[ilies]. Call Paul R. Riley, the ma[na]ger, any time and he is alw[ays] glad to show them to you. H[ar]rison 5317.

Bizarre effects in shoes are achieved in trimming spike hills with geometric appliques, but the smart women will choose the simpler models for street wear.

ARROW Barber Shop, the place to get a neat hair cut, 1709 E. 18th street.

WHEN you want satisfactory work done on all garments, call H. & H. Cleaners, Clifton 4242.

COOPER’S SATURDAY SPECIAL — ICE BOXES — Trade in your old on a new one. 3 DOOR SIDE ICER One of the better grade. 50 lb capacity $26.50 J. W. Cooper Furniture Co. 2405-07 E. 15th St Clifton 2080

PROGRESS SUCH AS YOU HAVE MADE DESERVES THE COMMENDATION OF ALL MEN. CONGRATULATIONS! 1119 Grand Ave. Collum Commerce Co. Complete Furnishings For Home, Jewelry & Clothing For Family 1119 Grand Ave.

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Women Active in Federated Club Work 1. Mrs. Emma Armstrong, district president of Kansas City district federation, Ottawa, Kansas. 2. Lula B. Daniels, president of Pleasant Hour Art and Social club. Kansas City, Mo. 3. Mrs. Sadie Ewell, vice-president of In-Ter-Nos Art and Literary club, Coffeyville, Kas. 4. Mrs. Mary B. Allen, president of Needle Craft Art club, Ottawa, Kas. 5. Mrs. Hettie Roberts, president of In-Ter-Nos Art and Literary club, Coffeyville, Kas. 6. Queenie Hurtado, secretary of Needle Craft Art club, Ottawa, Kas.

Moonlight Picnic [?]t Thursday a delightful moon- picnic was enjoyed by a group [of yo]ung folks largely made up of [?] from General hospital No. 2 [?] motored out to Swope Park in [?] cool of the evening there to [?] in a lunch that will be long re[mem]bered as a model of sumptuous [?]ng. [Tw]elve motor loads of happy pic[nicke]rs composed the party. On [?]al at Swope Park all the cars [?] centered so that their lights [?]ed a brilliant circle of light in the tables were set and in [?] an impromptu dance was [?]ly under way. [Th]ose present were: Mesdames [?] Maddux, L. S. Harris, Elmo [?]hell, M. Wilson, Zora Smith; Misses Pauline Hewlett, of Ok[lahom]a City, Bessie Lee, M. Tucker, [Char]lotte Cooper, Ione Coleman, A. [?]oykin, Cora Mitchell, Vivian [?]am, Beualah Phillips, Dovey [?] and A. Vinson. The men [?] Cal Burton, Billy Smith, [?]den, Dr. S. C. Humbert, H. [?]e, C. Harris, R. Scull, V. [?]son, H. Branch, Lewis Gor[?] [?]ul ins and Wilson.

Miss Pauline Hewlett, who is vising here from Oklahoma City, was [th]e guest of Miss Cora Mitchell at [a] card party at the home of Mrs. M. T. Wilson last Thursday afternoon. The hours were from 2 until 5. Sixteen guests were present.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Worthington, 1308 Cypress had as dinner guests on Friday Mrs. Cleora Burris of Los Angeles and Mrs. Verbena Bagby of Kansas City, Mo.

Miss Bazilee Howard, daughter of Mrs. D. H. R. Hayes, 1329 Euclid, arrived Saturday from her trip to Detroit, Mich., and Canada.

Mrs. Annie E. Floyd and daughter, Helen, of 1639 Cottage avenue, are visiting friends in Denver, and Colorado Springs.

Miss Oralene Jenkins entertained about forty-five guests at her home, 1311 Tracy, Thursday night. The evening was spent in playing games and dancing.

THE FINEST AND LARGEST SC[?]RS ARE GIVEN AT PASEO HALL 15th & Paseo The West’s Finest Dance Floor

Mr. and Mrs. William Jefferson, 2541 Woodland avenue., entertained Wednesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sutton of Milwaukee, Wis., who are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marigny. Other guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Marigny, Mr. and Mrs. A Murphy, Mesdames, Mayme Anderson and Barbara Vann.

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Rodgers entertained at cards Saturday night for Mrs. Marigny’s guests. Mr. and Mrs. Williams, and Mr. and Mrs. Sutton have returned to their homes in Milwaukee, Wis., after a delightful visit here.

Mrs. Raymond Clark and daughter, Miss Mary Jane of Pasadena, Cal., and niece, Miss Ethel Bruce of Los Angeles, guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Woods, 2219 Woodland, after spending an enjoyable two weeks visit in greater Kansas City, left Thursday of last week by way of Topeka, Kas., for a month’s visit in Denver, Pueblo and other cities in Colorado. They were recipients of many social functions, sight seeing trips, drives and gifts.

Miss Jeraldine Adamson, niece of Mrs. Nellie E. Young, is visiting her mother in Los Angeles, Calif.

Mrs. Rosia L. Bailey, 1523 Virginia avenue, spent a week in Hannibal, Mo., attending the Grand chapter of O. E. S. She is Worthy Matron of Queen Blue Valley chapter at Leeds, Mo.

Mrs. Ola L. Neal of Kansas City motored to Midland, Pa., last week, to the bedside of her sick mother.

Mr. and Mrs. James Reed, Jr., and Mrs. J. C. Reed, Sr., motored to St. Louis for the week end and visited friends.

Miss Willeta Anderson, 2730 Woodland has returned from Hannibal, Mo., where she attended the Harmony Grand Chapter meetings.

Mrs. Ernest Saunders, Jr., and moth, Mrs. Georgia Cooper entertained twelve guests at dinner, Sunday evening at her home, 2005 Howard. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Robinson and son, Paul, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cooper and daughter, Ruth, Ellis Hatcher of Parsons, Kansas, and Walter Cooper.

Ruby Lock, 3635 Bellaire of N. G. Art and Charity club entertained the inmates of the Jackson County home, Sunday afternoon, July 22, with a program. A cordial invitation was extended to the club to return as soon as possible to render another.

Mrs. Katie Cox and daughter, Norma Reed, motored to Leavenworth, Saturday, July 21, with Miss Francis Hayes to attend the funeral of Mrs. Johnson, the mother of Mrs. Mattie Coleman.

Miss Blanche Jordan entertained twenty guests at a lawn party Sunday afternoon at 1201 East 23rd street. The lawn and tables were decorated with lovely cut flowers making a beautiful background. The guests were: Misses Cleo Thornton, Ruth Tandy, Blanche Franklyn, Laura Smith, Pricilla Oats, Eliza Rouse, Ceora Payne, Margie Howlett, Beatrice Hardin, Lillie Howard, Lissel Williams, Ida Allen, Sallie Goodloe, Minnie Richardson, Rose Brown, Rosetta Shephard, Eta Fields, Alice McAdoo.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Richard Brown, Sedalia, Mo. .. 60 Ophelia Johnson, K. C. ... 57 John Moore, K. C. Mo., ...... 23 Bernice Anderson, K. C. Mo., .. 20 Ervin Walker, K. C. Mo., 38 Mabel Russell, K. C. Mo., . 38 Roy Wollery, K. C. Mo., ... 30 Levenia White, K. C. Mo., .... 22 Rufus DeVance, K. C. Mo . 25 Fernella Beckett, K. C. Mo., ... 26 Oliver Harris, K. C. Mo., .. 23 Fay Penny, Ellis, Kans ..... 28 Max McWilliams, Newton, Kans 52 Estell Webb, Sedalia, Mo., 41 Wesley Faulkner, K. C. Mo., .. 31 Frances Johnson, K. C. Mo., .. 25

Caramilla Beauty Shop 1307 Woodland Don’t stay ugly when you can buy beauty. Shampoo and Press .... 75c Marcel ...... 75c Thursday and Saturdays Open Evenings

MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. William V. Williams, 4223 West Belle place, St. Louis, Mo., announced the marriage of their sister, Miss Frances M. Johnson, to Mr. Joseph H. Fulton, Jr., July 7. Mrs. Joseph H. Fulton, Jr., was a hygienist in the public schools of Kansas City, Mo., for six years. They are at home at 431 St. Anthony avenue, St. Paul, Minn.

Mrs. Carl Gipson wishes to announce the marriage of her sister, Miss Faye McGee to Dr. Vernon O. Wilkinson, which occurred, February 11, 1928. The couple will be at home to friends at 2137 Woodland avenue.

Miss Eugene Williams, who has been out of the City, for four weeks, on account of the illness and death of her mother, Mrs. M. G. Polk, in San Antonio, Texas, has returned to her home, at 1327 East 14th street.

Phillip Jackson, chef for the officials of the State hospital in Fulton, Mo., is visiting his cousni, Clyde E. Walker, 2218 Tracy avenue for two weeks, on his vacation.

Mrs. Vivian Putney, who has been visiting her sister in Lawrence, Mrs. Rosa Washington, has returned to her home in Los Angeles, Calif.

L. E. Woods, 2219 Woodland avenue, spent a few days last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Woods, Rocheport, Mo. His mother is ill, but was recovering slowly, when he left.

Miss Ella Terrell left Thursday night for Indianapolis, Ind., where she will visit her aunt and cousin, Mrs. Mattie Carey and Mrs. Hattie Brown.

Mrs. Roberta Perry Evans died Sunday at Wheatley hospital. She leaves a husband, Wm. Evans, mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Perry; sister, Mrs. Pearl Lewis; two brothers, Wm. and A[?]d Perry. The services wer eheld at Allen Chapel Tuesday. Rev. Ransom of Topeka officiated.

Blackwell died July 18. The funeral was held Sunday at the Antioch Baptist church.

McMitchel Perry died at Wainwright, Okla., July 17. Mrs. Ernest W. Wright, 2048 Holmes street, is one of his daughters.

Mrs. J. L. Rodgers, 2740 Woodland is visiting in Denver, Colo.

Mr. and Mrs. Clark Walton, 2720 Highland are remodeling their home.

Mrs. Edward M. Clay entertained at luncheon Tuesday, Mrs. Wm. Bell, Mrs. Cora Cox, Mrs. Jennie Thompson, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., but now of Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Clara Walden of Rosedale, Kas. and Mrs. Theo. H. Clay.

Mrs. Edward M. Clay will leave Monday evening for Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Colo., for the rest of the summer.

Mrs. Josephine B. Smith, 811 E. Eighth street, was a visitor of Jefferson City, Mo. Sunday.

CONGRATULATIONS! WYANDOTTE ECHO “KANSAS’ GREATEST WEEKLY” 13[8?]6 N. 5TH STREET DREXEL 4417

The Dallas - Ft. Worth Excursion WILL ARRIVE Kansas City Friday, Aug. 3 Carrying 15 Passenger Coaches of Excursionists A Big Emancipation Pause Paseo Hall Friday Night, August 3 [ONE?] BIG TIME Fort Worth Dallas, Texas, August 1, 1928 TELEGRAM: PLEASE TELL OUR KANSAS CITY FRIENDS TO MEET US AT PASEO HALL. FRIDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 3RD. WE ARE COMING FOR A GOOD TIME. (Signed) Dallas Boosters A. Oats, Pete Covington, J. H. Jones.

DAVIDSONS Furniture Company 1210-12-14-16-18 GRAND AVE Annual August Furniture Sale Now In Full Swing! Reductions 15% to 50% -- 1/2 off Your Credit Is Good at Davidsons Davidsons extensive financial resources (5 stores) permit you to buy any amount of home needs on our Monthly Payment Plan —out of income—to suit your convenience —No interest or extra charges. Extraordinary! August Feature! 2 - Piece Mohair Suites Davidsons vast financial resources and buying power (now 5 stores) have again accomplished the unusual for this great August Sale. This two-piece Mohair suite of beautiful new color and small figure design — with reverse cushions is an unequaled value. Davenport and Club Chair — ordinarily $100 value — complete — August Sale price $69.85. $5 Monthly Reverse Cushions— Davidsons High Grade Spring Construction This {$100} 8-Piece Dining Suite $74.85 August sale feature — suite is made of walnut with hardwoods — finished blended walnut — includes Buffet, Oblong Table and set of six chairs with tapestry seats — a remarkable value in good design and construction. August Sale price complete $74.85. $5 MONTHLY No interest or other charges. Your Credit is Good at Davidsons

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Social News

Mrs. Ida M. Gillis and Mrs. Della Freeman are attending the grand session of the Order of Twelve at St. Joseph, Mo., this week.

Mrs. Lincoln Josua and Mrs. Wm. F. Bell spent a very enjoyable weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Willie Sanford and Mr. and Mrs. Fruit in Tulsa, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford and Mr. and Mrs. Fruit are formerly of Kansas City.

Mrs. M. A. Walker returned Tuesday fro mOmaha, ill, and is confined at her home, 1607 E. 19th street under the care of the doctor.

Mrs. Alberta Long will leave the city for a two weeks stay in Los Angeles, Calif.

Dr. Hambrick and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Taylor arrived home from their tour of the South, where they visited relatives and friends. Enroute they visited Mrs. John Smith, St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. C. O. Watson, Henderson, Ky.; Dr. O. L. Hambrick, brother, Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Peter Johnson, uncle, Fayettesville, Tenn.; Rev. and Mrs. O. G. Grear, Gurly, Ala.; Dr. W. B. Davis, Chattanooga, Tenn.; and Adam Thomas, Look Out Mt., Tenn.

A. C. Cunningham returned Sunday from the East where he has been visiting. Mrs. L. M. Wright, 1319 Vine, who has been confined to her bed, is much improved. She left the city Wednesday morning with her mother, Mrs. M. Phillips, for Sedalia, Mo. where she will be under the care of her mother.

Mrs. Addie Harrison, of Muskogee. Okla., was the weekend guest of Mrs. Lutie Johnson, 1412 E. 14th.

slhmael Glasss left Sunday night for California to spend his vacation with his wife and son, Mrs. Edna Glass and Edward, who have been there for some time.

Mrs. J. Zacherie was called out of the city because of the illness of her grandmother, Mrs. Mattie White, at Beaumont, Texas.

Mrs. M. H. Wilkerson of Omaha, spent several days here on business. He was a visitor Friday at The Call plant.

Miss Josephine Martin and nephew, Master Earl Harris, left Saturday for Toledo to visit Mrs. Mayo Harris. Mrs. Harris was formerly Miss Reba Martin.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Whitford, 1800 W. 41st street have as their guests, Mrs. Tom Whitford and little daughter Dorothy, of St. Louis, Mo., and Ernest E. Davis of Champaign, Ill.

Mrs. John A. Jones was hostess last Wednesday to a weiner roast in honor of visiting ladles: Mrs. Raymond Clarke, Miss Mary Jane Clarke and Ethel Bruce of Pasadena, Calif., guests of Mrs. L. E. Woods, Mrs. J. William Dorsey of Auburn, N.Y., guest of Mrs. Jules B. Jones, given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer, Parkville, Mo. The guests were about fifty in number.

Ellis Hatcher of Parsons, Kas. was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cooper during his stay Sunday. Mrs. eBulah Ingram, 2401 Tracy, spent four days last week in Hannibal attending Grand Chapter of the O. E. S. Mrs. nIgram is matron of Ruth Chapter.

Mrs. Helen Gatewood, president of State Federation of Colored Women’s clubs of Colorado, motored thrugh Kansas City o nher way to Washington to attend the National Federation. Accompanying her were her husband, W. A. Gatewood and grandson, W. G. Morgan, Jr., and son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gatewood, Jr. While here Mr. and Mrs. Gatewood and grandson were the guests of Mrs. J. C. Cooper, 2112 Howard and Mr. and Mrs. Earil Gatewood were guests of Mrs. Ernest Saunders, 2005 Howard. The party will stay in Washington one week and motor back by way of Niagara Falls and New York and then to Kansas City for a few days.

Miss Marjorie Sorney arrived from Seattle, Washington, enroute to Pittsburg, Kas., to enter summer school. She is the guest of Mrs. Clara B. Franklin, 1710 E. 28th street.

WOMEN SWIMMERS

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 4 until 6, are practice days for the women’s exhibition which is to be held in August, at the Parade bath house. For the women’s Red Cross Life saving, classes are in progress. For information see C. A. McCoy, life guard.

NEWDAY PRODUCTS MFG. CO. In harboring the New Day Profactures soap, Kansas City has the ducts Co., a concern which manu- distinction of having the only such factory in the United States which is owned and operated entirely by Negroes. Slightly over a year old this enterprising organization has enjoyed an increase in business which amounts to about 700%. Among their late contracts is one from an internationally known company for large quantities of soap and soap chips for Haiti, and an other for the Poro company of St. Louis, for an extensive line of facial and beauty soaps, for the coming year. The factory, which was started in a basement laboratory at 23rd and Grove now occupies a specially built concrete building on the comer of 19th and Vine, with ultra modem equipment and facilities for turning out 15,000 bars of soap a day. The organizer, U. S. (Chick) Arnold, is but 23 years of age and was bom in this city. With him as secretary-treasurer is Kenneth Campbell, well known young business man and former famous athlete of Lincoln universityy, Penn. W. M. Arnold, father of the younger Arnold is associated with the younger men in the enterprise, and the blending of his fifty years of practical experience in his craft with some of the leading soap companies of the country, and that of young Arnold, who studied electrical and chemical engineering at the Kansas State Agricultural college, bids fair to be a combination hard to beat. Their business is not confined to buyers of the race as many large white companies in the state are regular customers of the New Day Products company. Part of the country’s supply of soaps, etc., for the various institutions are bought from this company. At present, Mr. Arnold states that plans are afoot for the forming of a large sales organization to go after the ‘big business.’ By this fall he expects to have twenty salesmen on the road in the interest of his company. Among his buyers of large quantities of soap is the Dr[?] company of Atlanta, Ga., w[?] [ex]tensive business covers the portion of the south. The co[mpany] order shows that White M[?] laundry soap, is catching o[n] [?] strongly with housewives [of all] races, and that there is a ste[?] [de]mand from smaller beauty p[?] companies for cocoa oil soaps, [?] soaps, castile soaps, bath table [?] various other specially mauufa[ctured] soaps, which the company is a [?] turn out. Mr. Arnold and Mr. Campbe[ll] recently returned from an ex[?] business trip through the Sou[th] in the interests of their produc[?] report that several large co[?] resulted, not only with Negro [busi]ness men, but with white m[en as?] well, which they hold as an ext[?] hopeful sign for the greater exp[ansion], of their business for the future. The company, which was [incor]porated at Jefferson City, Mo., capitalized for $10,000, is owner[d and] controlled by the men mentioned [?] has no outstanding debts.

Roberts Building 19th & Vine Sts.—An Ideal Shopping Center

The Roberts Building, 19th and Vine street, was built by John Sears, and is one of Kansas City’s finest office buildings. It is of the latest type of architecure with all modern facilities and it houses eight different types of businesses, which in themselves form an almot complete shopping center for milady’s more intimate needs. The building is fronted entirely in white tile with an entrance and stairway of clear pink marble. The lower floor harbors beauty shops, a barber shop, a lunchroom, a dining room, and two ladies’ millinery and dress shops. The upper floor is given over to offices which are occupied by physicians, dentists, an exclusive pharmacy, a beauty shop, and a school of music. The rear of the building, which faces on 19th street, is an ultra modern, fireproof garage, with a large capacity for car storage and repairs. The Roberts Motor Company occupies a special built addition which also faces on 19th street. Givens Delicatessen and Restaurant is the first business on the lower floor. Carrie Givens is proprietor of this place and also the Roberts Building Dining Room. Next door is the Roberts Building Barber Shop, a well equipped place with H. A. Peace as proprietor. Next to the barber shop is the Emelen Shop, which deals in ladies’ ready-to-wear, and the more intimate garments for women. Mrs. Clara Lyndon Stokes is the proprietor. Then comes the Roberts Building Beauty Shoppe which has the only electrical automatic reducer and exerciser in the col- ored shops. Hazel Roberts is proprietor. The final shop on the lower floor is that of Stella Hubbard who deals in ladies' 4 | ready-to- wear and hosiery. On the upper floor are the offices of Drs. Edwin Lee, P. C. Turner, W. A. Ham- brick, and L. P. Richardson, who are phy- sicians, and Drs. V. O. Wilkinson and Pedro Campus, dentists. A Shackelford maintains an exclusive prescription pharmacy, g and Dr. Edward Canterbury, Chiropodist, has his offices on this floor. The Eva Beauty Shop, Mrs. Eva Williams, proprietor, has a suite of rooms on this floor as has the Jackson School of Music. The large garage which is in the rear of the building with entrances on 19th street is fireproof, and has a large capacity for storage. Mr. J. H. Edwards is proprietor, The Robets Company, which deals in automobiles, was especially built for the purpose by Mr. Sears. It fronts on 19th street and has direct access to the garage. Homer Roberts is proprietor.

View of the Roberts Building from the Corner of 19th & Vine

W. S. WOOD DRUG STORE “Where It’s a Pleasure to Buy” Roberts Building Harrison 9700

Roberts Building Mrs. Carrie Givens, Prop. Lunch and Dining Room Roberts Building

Harrison 9393 ROBEBRTS BLDG. BEAUTY SHOP Hazel Roberts, Prop. Operators: Jessie Harris Mattie Greene Elnora McCauley Oler Sewell Mollie Wilson, Modiste Scalp Tratment, Facials, Hair Dyeing, Marcelling, Shampooing, Arching, Manicuring and Automatic Bath Reducer

R. G. Jackson Studio Suite A-B At present on Ridpath - Horner Chautaqua Circuit with Two Companies Fall Season Opens September 1st

It Pays to Look Well, and It Isn’t Too Early to Wend Your Way to Roberts Bldg. Bob and Barber Shop Harrison 9428 The Safe and Sane Way H. A. Peace, Prop.

Inez Dress Making Shop Mrs. Chas. H. Thomas, Prop. Roberts Building

Harrison 4224 The EMELEN Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear Clara Lynden Stokes Roberts Building

Eva’s Beauty Shoppe Everything in Beauty Craft M. E. Williams, Prop Harrison 7900

Thomas & Williams Printing Co. Telephone Harrison 4748 Jas. O. F. Thomas Lemuel D. Williams

Edward E. Canterbury Chiropodist Treatment for Fallen Arches, Bunions and Corns; Ingrown Toe[n]ails, Sweaty, Ill-Smelling Feet, All Foot Trouble

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MONARCHS DROP SERIES TO DETROIT

[Lo]cals Drop First Game of Series to Detroit by 2-3 Score THE STANDING W. L. Pct. Chicago 11 3 .786 [St.] Louis 12 5 .706 MONARCHS 12 6 .676 [Me]mphis 4 4 .500 [Det]roit 6 7 .462 [Bir]mingham 3 10 .231 [Clev]eland 1 8 .111 [Cu]bans 0 5 .000

DETROIT, Mich. — Saturday — By clustering base hits in the sixth frame of today’s game the Detroit Stars nosed out the Monarchs when they scored three runs. Hitting was at a low ebb, the Stars getting 6 while the Monarchs could muster only five. The score: MONARCHS AB H O A Taylor, lf 5 0 5 0 Mothel, ss 3 1 0 3 Allen, 2b 4 2 4 1 Giles, 1b 4 1 7 1 Joseph, 3b 3 0 1 2 Livignston, rf 2 0 0 0 Dwight, cf 3 0 2 0 Young, c 4 0 4 1 Bell, p 4 1 0 4 Rogan, rf 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 5 24 12

Detroit Stars AB H O A Johnston, lf 3 1 1 0 Johnson, 3b 4 1 0 1 Stearnes, cf 4 0 1 0 Rile, 1b 4 2 12 0 McNair, rf 3 0 1 0 Radcliff, c 3 0 6 2 Orange, ss 3 1 1 3 DeMoss, 2b 2 1 5 6 Marshall, p 3 0 0 2 Totals 29 6 27 14 Kansas City 100 000 100—2 Detroit 000 003 00* 3 Errors—Orange, Young 2, Johnston, Giles, Taylor, Marshall, Allen. Runs— Mothell 2; Johnston, Stearnes, Mar- Marshall—3. Two-base hit—Rile. [S]tolen bases—Allen, Mothell, Rile. Hit [?] pitcher—By Marshall (Mothell, [?]ngston). Struck out—By Marshall, [?]ell, 1. Double plays—Mothell. Alle[?] to Giles Joseph, Mothel to Giles. U[m]pires—Neumann and McMahon. Time—2:15.

VICTORY LURKS IN JOSEPH’S BAT AS KAYSEES WIN DETROIT, Mich. (Sunday)—Today the Detroit Stars and the Kansas City Monarchs decided to make it a real thrilling ball game for the paid customers of Mack Field and they did — until the last man crossed the plate and the game was ended, but not until Newt Joseph, third sacker of the Monarchs had thrilled the thousands with his tenth inning triple which brought in the winning run and broke up the game. Rogan started on the mound for the visitors but was rescued by Andy Cooper who held the Detroiters until the tenth when he gave way to Army Cooper who struck out the heavy hitting Stack Martin, Detroit catcher, in the last frame with three men on the paths. Army Cooper It was a field day for the teams, each getting seventeen safe blows with one error each mingled into the fray. The score: R. H. E. Detroit 011 041 021 1—10 17 1 Monarchs 611 011 000 2—12 17 1 Batteries—Shaw, Currie, Davis and Radcliff; Rogan, Andy Cooper, Army Cooper and Duncan.

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JEFF CITY GIANTS AGAIN WINNER Jefferson City, Mo.—King, the former capta niof the Giants, returned to the fol dagain last week and aided his mates i ntaking a game from the A Hall 400 team, 8-1. Sockie, known here as the Hornsby of the A. B. C’s, is now the Giants' second sacker. The score: C. GIANTS AB R H PO A Ellis, rf 6 1 1 1 1 King, 3b 6 0 1 2 1 Tooley, ss 6 1 1 2 2 Sockie, 2b 5 1 2 4 3 Finis, cf 6 0 0 0 0 Evans, lf 4 1 1 3 0 Rucks, 1b 3 2 1 12 1 Upshaw, c 3 1 2 2 0 Butler, p 3 1 2 2 0 Totals 41 8 11 27 8 A HALL 400 AB R H PO A Daugherty, 3b 4 0 1 1 2 Spat, 1b 3 0 0 10 0 Alexander, ss 3 0 0 1 2 Johnson, c 4 0 1 0 0 Brewer, 2b 3 0 1 2 1 Dowell, lf 3 0 1 4 1 Scottie, cf 2 0 1 1 0 Jackson, rf 2 0 1 1 0 J. Cans, p 2 0 0 0 0 Carr, 2b 1 0 0 4 2 *Tookle 1 1 1 0 0 **Fugitt 1 0 1 0 0 ***Hooks 1 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 1 7 24 8 * Batted for Spot in 9th. **Batted for Alexander in 9th. ***Batted for Brewer in 9th. SUMMARY—Two-base hits—Sockie. 2: Tooley, Upshaw, Butler; Three-base hits—Sockie, Tookle. Sacrifice hits— King. Hits and runs—off Gans, 11-8 in 9 Innings; off Butler, 7-1 in 9 Innings. Struckout—by Gans. 9; by Butler, 15. Umpires—Blackrider and Morgan.

SNAPS MUGS OF DIAMOND STARS FOR 10 YEARS The full width eight-column photograph of the Monarchs baseball club used in this issue is the work of the Miller Studio as are most of the other baseball photographs used in the sports sections.

It is no small task, that of being the official photographer of the Negro National League, but it is the task of J. E. Miller, official photographer of the league who has occupied this position for lo these ten years, during which time he has snapped all of the famous players who have performed in the circuit. Mr. Miller is well known among the baseball fraternity and whenever a ball club arrives in town most of the players immediately make a rush for the Miller Studio there to have their likeness made. They believe in Miller’s photographic work—and Miller believes in the ball players too. He is known to most of the players and their managers and club owners. Ad, the semi-pro ball players, they also have knowledge of his work. Business places all over the country can be found with photos of ball players with the "Miller Studio’’ inscribed in the lower right hand corner of the photo. Has Photo of All Notables. Among the many notables of the game who have been photographed by Miller are: Andrew Rube Foster, the late C. I. Taylor, John Conners, Joe Green, John Matthews, Ed Bolden, A. Molina, Tenny Blount, and scores of club owners who have visited this city during the past eight or nine years. The, players who have works of his art are legion. He has made large group photos of practically all clubs who have played ball in this city during this period. In speaking of the baseball work recently, Mr. Miller said: "I am thinking very strongly of enlarging. my studio and increasing the scope of my work and will no doubt have something more to say relative to this in a short time.”

Barons at Chicago for Big Series The Birmingham Black Barons, popular member of the league from the sunny southland, will have Chicago as host during the coming week. The league leading American Giants will be hard to beat out of this series as they do not want to lose their leading role and too, the club is playing remarkable ball and will prove troublesome to the Barons. The Chicago team’s pitching staff is going good and will pitch as never before this season. The catching department of the Giants has been strengthened by the addition of Murray, former St. Louis catcher, whoe aside to being a dangerous bitter, is a crafty receiver and possesses a good throwing arm.

CALL TEAM IN TIE GAME The Call team will practice tonight on the Parade way. All players are asked to be out early.

The Frisco Fregiht House tied the score with 2 runs in the 5th while playing the Call team Friday, July 20. The Call had a 4-run lead until then. The final score was 6-6 when it became too dark to play.

MEMPHIS RED SOX HERE FOR 5-GAME SERIES The Kansas City Monarchs will play hosts to the Memphis Red Sox in a five-game series starting Saturday, July 28 and continuing for four days. The Mon-rchs have just returned home from a long and hard road trip which carried them to Memphis, Birmingham, Cleveland and troit, and they have succeeded taking care of themsevles during this trip. The club has been playing a great brand of ball, in fact, as good a brand as they displayed here at home. The Memphis club will give the Monarchs a tussle for the series. The club is going good and all players are in the mood to do capture the series to even up matters as the Monarchs broke even with them when Memphis recently. The local club as a whole has done well on this trip and the club has been Andy Cooper hitting harder than usual. Joseph, who recently broke up a game in Detroit with a triple has regained his hitting stride and will be heard from during the coming series. Livingstone is hitting hard and so are the rest of the outfielders. Manager Rogan is hitting and pitching also which means much to the team. The hurlers are going fairly well and will do better on the home grounds. The club expects to take the series and go into first place in the league standing. Fans are anxious to see the old favorites in action on the home field after a long absence. The outcome of the coming series between the Red Sox and the Monarchs will have a lot to do with the ultimate outcome of the pennant race as far as the Monarchs are concerned. They will have to win from the Sox to place themselves into a position to strike for the first place in the league standing. The advance sale of tickets for this series point to a record-breaking series attendance. Tuesday will be Ladies Day and scores of the fairer sex will be on hand to root for both teams. Let the men follow their lead.

FIFTH GAME TO SAINTS St. Louis, Mo.—Wednesday—A home run by Bell in the second inning with the bases full and the fielding of J. Russell at second for the Saints were highlights in St. Louis' fifth straight win over the Birmingham club here today. The score: Birmingham 00 100 001— 2 11 3 St. Louis 060 200 21*—11 15 0 Batteries—Wesley, Salmon, Parnell and Hall, Perkins, McDonald and Palm.

SAINTS AGAIN TAKE MEASURE ST. LOUIS—Tuesday—The St. Louis Stars again captured an easy victory over the Black Barons in today's game. The Saints scored a pair of runs in the fifth, 4 runs in the sixth and 3 runs in the 7th to ice the game, while the best the Barons could do was to grab a lone tally in the third stanza which ended the scoring for the Southerners for the day. This made the fourth straight win for the Saints. The score: Birmingham 001 000 000—1 4 4 St. Louis 000 024 30x—9 11 2 Batteries—Birmingham, Nash, Burdine, Hall Perkins.

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Cubans at Cleveland The Cuban Stars will invade the Ohio city of Cleveland this coming week, starting Saturday afternoon for a five game series with the Tigers. The Cubans and the Cleveland club should wage a stiff battle as both clubs are very evenly matched. The Cubans will have the edge in pitching while the Ohioans will probably have the fielding edge with the hitting standing fairly even. If the Cubans can wash away the Tigers they may be able to rise in the league standing.

Kansas Giants Lose The Kansas City, Kansas Giants journeyed to Paola, Kansas Sunday afternoon and met the M. O. P. Cubs in the first of a supposed nine inning game which was called at the end of the sixth frame in order to allow the M.O.P.’s to catch a train. The Giants had driven McMarlan of the M. O. P. team to the showers early in the game and had started a savage attack on Duncan who succeeded Mc on the mound when the game was called leaving the score 10-9 in favor of th Missouri Pacific Cubs. The second game was won by the Cubs from the Boicourt Ducks.

Mohawks Scalp Levesy Independence, Mo.—The Levsey ball clubs and the Mohawks played a thrilling nine innign game here Sunday, the Mohawks coming off victors 4-2. Barber of the Mohawks let the opposing club down with three hits, pitching one of the best games seen in this section. The score: MOHAWKS AB H PO E Noel, lf 5 1 1 0 Ash. cf 2 1 1 0 J. White, 1b 4 1 14 0 Broadus. c 4 0 0 0 White, 2b 3 2 2 1 Vergle, rf 4 2 2 1 Hunter, ss 4 1 0 1 Barber, p 3 0 4 0 Hudson, c 3 2 2 0 Whtieslde, cf 3 2 1 0 Moss, 3b 5 2 0 1 Moss, 3b 6 2 0 1 Totals 37 12 26 4

LEVSEY AB H PO E Dickerson, lf 1 0 3 0 L. Wynn, 3b 4 1 2 1 Snedley, 1b 2 1 12 1 Stenhaus, 2b 3 0 1 1 Stone, rf 3 0 1 1 Somville, rf 3 0 1 0 Alison, c 4 0 2 1 H. Wynn, ss 3 1 3 2 Johnson, p 4 0 2 0 Hill, lf 2 0 1 0 Fread, rf 2 0 0 0 Schrober, cf 2 0 0 0 Totals 36 3 27 8 Mohawks 200 001 100—4 Levsey 000 011 000—2 SUMMARY—Hits off Barber, 3; off Johnson, 8. Two-base hits—White and Virgle. Stolen Bases— Broadus, Moss and White. First on errors—1. Struckout—by Barber, 4; Johnson, 3.

ST. LOUIS AT DETROIT FOR FIVE GAME SERIES Starting Saturday afternoon the St. Louis Stars will invade Detroit for a series of five games with the Detroit Stars. The St. Louis club will try hard to take the series from the Stars and go into second place in the league’s standing. The De- Moss crew will fight like wolves to stave off defeat and they have the edge as they will be waging the battle from their home grounds. This week promises to bring out C. Torrienti some of the best games yet staged during this half in the league and all clubs will be found fighting desperately to gain the edge as this is the crucial week. Those who can gain this week will have an opportunity to stick and fight it out with the leaders.

GIANTS SHUT OUT BARONS St. Louis, Mo.—Sunday — The Saints whitewashed the Black Barons here today in the second game of the series, 2-0. Hensley held the Barons safely throughout the game, never allowing them an opportunity to get near the home plate. The score: Birmingham 000 000 000—0 5 2 St. Louis 100 000 10*—2 8 2 Batteries—Salmon and Perkins; Hensley and H. Williams.

ST. LOUIS GAINS DECISION ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Monday—The Black Barons again fell victims of the attack of the Saints here today when they lost the game, 9-7. The Stars bunched hits in the fourth and eighth innings in which they scored 4 and 3 runs respectively. The score: Birmingham 000 001 411—7 14 3 St. Louis 000 411 03x—9 16 0 Batteries — Payne, Burdine, Nash and Perkins; Cannon, Davis and H. Williams.

RALLY WINS FOR STARS DETROIT. Mich. — Monday .— Manager Rogan’s triple .which came in the ninth inning of today's game here, behind Joseph’s double, scoring on a sacrifice fly saved the Monarchs from a shutout at the hands of the Stars. The Stars hopped the offerings of Brewer in the fourth scoring six tallies. The runs double and a single. The score: were made on three homers, a Kansas City 000 000 002—2 8 2 Detroit 000 601 000—7 7 3 Batteries—Brewer and Young; Shaw and Radcliff.

HEAVY HITTING WINS GAME FOR KAYSEES, 12-3 KAWS AND STARS DIVIDE Detroit, Mich.—Tuesday The Kansas Ciyt Monarchs and the Detroit Stars split a double header here today, the Kaysee club galloping off with the first melee in handy fashion with “Army” Cooper on the mound. Currie, Davis and Mitchell, a trio of Detroit hurlers, proved duck soup for the visiting wrecking crew who pounded hit after hit with alarming regularity. In the second game Andy Cooper, former Detroit Star hurler, a southpaw, adorne dthe pitching mound for the Monarchs but did not do so well, being touched for eleven hits and 6 runs, more than enough to safely check the game on the right side for the Stars. Marshall, a former Monarch pitcher, working for the second time in the series, held the visitors in check while his mates got in their deadly attack. The Monarchs left immediately after the game for home where the> open a five game series with Memphis Red Sox starting Saturday afternoon. The scores: R H E Kansas Ciyt 311 003 103—12 20 1 Detroit 100 100 010— 3 8 1 Batteries—Cooper and Duncan; Currie, Davis, Mitchell and Radcliff. R H E Kansas City 001 100 0—2 6 1 Detroit 203 001 *— 6 11 1

MARSHALL IN GREAT VICTORY SLATER, Mo. — The Marshall Cubs; formerly of Kansas City, made kittens out of the Slater Bearcats here Sunday when they easily defeated them in a fast and well played game, 15-8. The feature of the game was the pitching of Scrubby Johnson for the Cubs who allowed only nine hits, and the hitting of Hancock, also of the Cubs, who poled out a single, a double and two homers. One circuit clout came in the first half of the eighth with three men on. He has hit four home runs in the last three games and the Cubs have won three out of the four starts made. Fast clubs wanting games with the Marshall Cubs at Marshall, write Mr. Crutchfield. Care Booker’s Cafe, Marshall, Missouri.

GIANTS CRUCH CLEVELAND Cleveland, O. — Saturday — The American Giants captured a twin bill here today from the Cleveland Tigers in the second and third games of their scries, 15- 2 and 10-3. The games were well played and furnished plenty of competition for both clubs. The scores: Chicago, 15—Foster and Murray; Cleveland, 3—Dean, Crawford. Johnston and Hamilton. Second game: Chicago, 10—Harney and Hines; Tigers, 3-— Currie, Dean and Hamilton.

GIANTS DOWN TIGERS Cleveland, O. — Saturday — The Cleveland Tigers could not solve the delivery of Powell here today and succumbed to the Giants’ attack, 2-0. They fought hard to score, but met a baffling delivery from Powell from every angle. It was a helpless case and the Tigers bowed in defeat. The score: Chicago 000 200 000—2 10 0 Cleveland 000 000 000—0 6 2 Batteries—Powell and Murray; Ross, Currie and Hamilton.

TIGERS CLAW WAY TO 5 TO 3— CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Monday— The Cleveland Tigers today clawed their way to a 5-3 victory over the Chicago American Giants by bunching hits in the second inning. Dean, former Monarchs pitcher hurled steady ball for the victors. The score: Chicago 030 000 000—3 8 0 Cleveland 030 001 01x— 5 11 2 Batteries—Miller, Treadwell and Murray; Dean and Hamilton.

CLIP TIGERS’ CLAWS CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Tuesday— The American Giants took the measure of the Tigers here today, Winning 8-2, Chicago bunched hits in the first frame to score three tallies and again in the fourth and fifth innings in which they scored one and two runs respectively, The score: Chicago 300 120 020—8 13 2 Cleveland 000 000 101—2 9 3 Batteries—Powell and Murray; Currie, Jackson and Hamilton.

WESTPORT WINS The Westport Athletics defeated the Acacia Boys Club on the Paseo Sunday by the score of 10-4. Although the score does indicate the closeness of the game it was very close and interesting. The feature of the game was the pitching of Scott for Westport who struck out 15 of the opposing batters. Westport will play the Cherrio club Sunday afternoon at 4, on the Woodland avenue and 27th street diamond. This game is expected to furnish plenty of thrills. The score Westport 031 202 011—10 Acacia 101 000 110— 4 Batteries J. Scott and H. Overton; M. Hill and Andy Smith.

Lincoln Theatre 18th and Lydia Week Starting Monday, July 30th JOE SHEFTELL International Artists Presents MISS BANDANA A Musical Revue That Is Decidedly New and Different. The cast includes the following well known artists: JOE SHEFTELL ETHEL RIDLEY WEEZIE PAINE Golden Brown Chorus

ON THE SCREEN EXTRA! William HAINES in TELLING the WORLD From an underworld murder to a Far Eastern revolution he hits the adventure trail in search of news--and love. As the star reporter, he brings you more first-page laughs and excitement than a circus. You’ll tell the world it’s great!

[page 10] 10 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, Ju[ly 28]

S. H. THOMPSON HEADS K. P. FOR ANOTHER YEAR The Present Chancellor Has Served 15 Years; Court Elects Officers Dr. S. H. Thompson was re-elected for the 15th time grand chancellor of the Kansas Knights of Pythias Thursday afternoon at St. Peter’s C. M. E. chapel. Although refusing to run for the office the grand lodge deemed it advisable to keep him at the helm. The grand court elected its officers Thursday morning and they are Norene Davis, grand worthy councellor; M. Motley Coran, G. W. inspector; Letha Hopkins, G. W. orator; Katie James, G. W. Sr. Dir.; Mable Grant, G. W. Sr. Dir.; Nettle Glass, G. W. C.; Mary Ridley, G. W. A. C.; Inez Wesley, G. W. A. C.; Ella Wright, G .W. P.; Millie Drumgold, G. S. E. B.; Ella M. Roberts, G. T. E. B.; Bertha Garrett, G. R. D.; Mattie Perkins, G. R. Dpts.; Dr. D. H. Davis, G. M. Dir.; Katherine Davis, G. W. lecturer; and Fred C. Helm, G. attorney. Dance with the Twelfth St. Boys Wednesday night, August 1, Paseo ball. George Lee’s Orchestra.—Adv.

Mrs. Nettie Milligan Operates the "LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTY NOOK” in [her] home at 919 Highland Ave., and is donig an unusually good business. In this one booth beauty salon there is complete equipment to take care of all kinds of beauty work.

Undertaker An ex-prospector who used to search for gold out west, is spending his mad-day of life in the quiet of Kansas City doing a labor of love. It is H. B. Moore, the undertaker whose building is 1820 E. 18th street. Mr. Moore was born back in Ohio but in early life he went to British Columbia and took part in the gold rush. He even went as far as Alaska. Ever now and then he now takes long motor trips, the residue of his wanderlust, but in the main H. B. Moore is steadily on the job on east Eighteenth street. Mr. Moore made his beginning in the undertaking business in Denver, where he spent three years. He came to Kansas City and opened in 1905, his early location being on Independence avenue where he was a favorite. After fifteen years there, he moved into his present location, where he had the foresight to buy. It is two story, extends to the alley, is of brick, with all modem improvements. One part of Mr. Moore’s equipment for business is his sunny disposition. It makes him friends and has contributed to his prosperity. In his career he has buried many prominent citizens, and cared for more than 6,000 funerals. Three times he has been city undertaker. He is the owner of six motor cars, and can conduct a funeral with all his own rolling stock, having hearse as well as limousines. Mr. Moore has been an investor in Kansas City real estate. Besides his place of business he has a modem duplex at 2740 Woodland and other properties. He is a member of St. Stephen Baptist church and one of its trustees. He belongs to the Masons, the Elks, the Odd Fellows, the American Woodmen, the Mosaic Templars, the United Brothers of Friendship, the Busy Bees, the Woodmen of Union, the Ancient Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem and to the Knights of Pythias of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere. Of this last, he has been grand chancellor for the state of Missouri. Mr. Moore gets considerable satisfaction from the confidence his past service has inspired in families who continue to trust him when their loved ones pass. He says their trust, more than any profit, inspires him to do his best. Having chosen his life work, he wishes it to be so well done that he will be counted a contributor to his fellow man. Mr. Moore has been given some positions of prominence in organizations, and is counted a good counsellor as well as business man.

Mother of The Call MRS. CLARA B. FRANKLIN The Kansas City Call had its beginning years ago, before it was foun- ed, before even Kansas City heard the name of Franklin, when Mrs. Clara B. Franklin, mother of C. A. Franklin, helped her husband and her boy with a small paper in Omaha, Nebr. While the elder Franklin was ill and Chester was working and attending the University of Nebraska, Mrs. Franklin set up the paper, stick by stick, “kicked” if off on the little job press, pasted on the address labels and carried the whole edition to the postoffice under her arm. There is very little about a newspaper that Mrs. Franklin does not know. When The Call was established in 1919, she was its first, and for a long time, its only subscription solicitor and collector. Hundreds of Kansas City readers of The Call know Mrs. Franklin and no other member of The Call’s staff. When The Call’s first linotype machine was installed, she watched her son’s operators set galleys and galleys of type in the time she had been able to put together a single stick. In 1924, when the flat bed web press of The Call was installed, she stayed up all night with the crew to see the first smudgy copies come off the press. Just a few weeks ago she pressed the button which formally set in motion The Call’s four-deck, high-speed press. Today nearly 72 years of age, Mrs. Franklin is still intensely interested in The Call and although her son employs 25 persons, she occupies relectantly and often rebelliously the office and title of “Manager Emeritus.”

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Engineer DAVID N. CROSTHWAITE, JR. With increasing frequency do we hear of achievements by Negroes in velds which we have considered closed to us because of race. Two local men, Earl Grey a mining engineer, and David D. Crosthwaite, a mechanical engineer, have achieved success in the profession chosen in spite of the handicap of color. Another case of high success in fields we are wont to consider foreign is that of Archie A. Alexander, a civil engineer of Des Moines, Iowa. Earl Grey, the youngest of the trio mentioned, graduated from Lincoln high school in 1918. The writer happens to know that Mr. Grey was urged to study an “orthodor” profession, viz: medicine, dentistry, law, or teaching, but steadfastly clung to his determination of becoming a mining engineer. He was told by men who occupied responsible positions, and who thought they were rendering him a service, that a Negro had no chance to succeed in such work, but in spite of the apparent truth of this advice, he went ahead, and after some difficulty succeeded in getting his degree in his chosen work, in 1923. Shortly afterward the chance came for him to work in Mexico with an internationally famous mining company. After two years with that organization another company secured him as superintendent of their group of silver mines in Zactec, Mexico. There he remained until December, 1927 when he was offered, and accepted the superintendency of a large gold mine in Trujillo, Peru, S. A., at a salary of approximately $8,000 per year. In a letter to the writer Grey states that: “They are not so much interested in what color I am as in the fact that I can and do accomplish what they pay me for.” The second case, that of David N. Crosthwaite, jr., who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Crosthwaite, of 1020 Virginia avenue, is equally interesting. He is a graduate of Purdue university. He received his degree of B. S. in mechanical engineering in 1913, and his degree of mechanical engineer in 1920. From 1913 to 1916 he was draftsman in the engineering department of the C. A. Dunham company. Among the installations designed by him during this time or on which he associated in the design were Monmouth college, Monmouth, Ill., Cook county hospital, entire high school, Kansas City, and the Iowa state Hospital for Insane. From 1916 to 1919 he served as checker. In 1920 he was raised to the authoritive position of research engineer, which position he still retains. In addition to his work with the Dunham company, Mr. Crosthwaite is an author of technical articles to various trade magazines. In 1918 he was a contributor to Industrial Management, in 1914 he had contributed to the Plumbers Trade Journal, in 1917 to the Power Magazine, and in 1921 to the Heating and Ventilating Magazine. He has also compiled a manual on heating. Since and during Mr. Croswaite’s incumbency as research engineer the Dunham Differential Vacuum Heating system has been developed. It is, according to experts, the most outstanding contribution to the science of steam heating since the beginning of vacuum return line steam heating. Mr. Crosthwaite is a registered professional engineer, licensed in the states of Iowa and Indiana. He passed the examination for reciprocal registration with an average of 97 in mechanical engineering, and 90 in electrical engineering. He is a member of the Masonic lodge, grand junior warden, and 32 degree Mason. Besides belonging to the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, he is a member of five different engineering and scientific societies. Mr. Crosthwaite’s especial work is the development of new products, new uses for old products, provision of technical information and data for use in the design and installation of heating and ventilating systems in large buildings and theatres. Few people are aware that he associated in the design of the heating and ventilating systems at the Orpheum theatre of this city. In Mr. Crosthwaite’s work a half dozen engineers and draftsmen work under his direction. He has been granted patents on an automatic boiler water feeder, a thermostatic trap, an automobile direction indicator, method and apparatus for setting thermostats. In the past he has given a number of lectures on heating, at trade schools and before engineering groups. His work is internationally known in heating engineering circles. The third case in point is that of Archie A. Alexander. His name is probably unfamilar to any but his business associates, who are white, and his immediate friends, but in his profession he is widely known as a brilliant artisan. Mr. Alexander was born in Ottumwa, Iowa in 1888. He attended the public schools of Des Moines, where he was graduated from high school in 1905. A few years later he entered the university of Iowa in the engineering department, from which he was graduated in 1912 as a bachelor of engineering. The way toward an education was not easy for him as he was forced to earn his way through high school and college in the face of constant discouragement. But in spite of everything he went through college with a high scholastic average, and also was one of Iowa's greatest athletes. Upon completing his college education he was employed for two years as designing engineer for the Marsh Bridge company of Des Moines. While in the employ of this company be formed a strong friendship with a fellow employe, George Higbee, white. In 1914 the two men formed a partnership, entering into the business of general contracting under the firm name of Alexander and Higbee, specializing in the designing and construction of concrete and steel bridges. Their partnership lasted until 1925 when Higbee was killed by a falling steel beam on a Job he was supervising. Since then Mr. Alexander has continued alone with increasing success. During the winter of 1921 Mr. Alexander went to England to take a post-graduate course in bridge designing in the University of London. In June, 1921 he was called to his alma mater to receive an honorary degree of civil engineer. As a further honor, the university awarded Mr. Alexander the contract for building a concrete conduit about a mile in length, connecting the university heating plant with the original campus. Other notable engineering Jobs which he has designed and constructed are the Forest avenue viaduct in Des Moines, the South Des Moines sewer system covering a stretch of 37 miles, the widening and paving of the Sixth avenue bridge in Des Moines, and the construction of the Coon River siphon, all of which contracts were secured from the city council through regular bids. Other outstanding structures designed and erected by him are the James river viaduct at Mitchell, S. D., the Skunk river bridge at Grinnel, Iowa, and the High river bridge at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, which is said to be the largest highway bridge ever constructed in the state. A conservative estimate of the yearly business done by Mr. Alexander since 1914 is about one half million dollars. At present Mr. Alexander has recently completed two large construction jobs—one a seven span concrete viaduct for Iowa City and the other a combined heat, light, power and water plant for the University of Iowa, which cost $800,000. If Mr. Alexander's phenomenal success does not tend to discredit the opinion held by many of us that color constricts one's chances of success to a neglible minimum, nothing does. His is not an isolated case by any means. Names such as Carver renowned scientist of Tuskegee, Dr. Dan Williams, internationally famed surgeon of Chicago, DeHart Hubbard, sensational athlete of Michigan university, Henry Ossawa Tanner, world famous artist, and Roland Hayes, universally acclaimed tenor singer, are familiar to the average Negro reader, but the host of colored men who have gone quietly about their business of attaining success in less usual fields, are not known to us. The fact of these men’s success indicates that ability and preparation really do count, even in America where color is an automatic bar to an equal chance. Fortunatey there seem to be enough sensible white men in this country to give Negro youth a chance at whatever he has been trained to do. The main thing seems to be in being able to do the thing well which somebody is willing to pay to have done.

Mr. Charles Slaughter One of the pioneer business men of Kansas City, Kas., has been in business 29 years. He was born in Liberty, Mo., and began his career on the small sum of $8.50 saved in pennies. His first investment was in an old shed at Liberty, Mo., for which he paid- $2.50 to have removed to the location that now houses his business on north 9th street. Resourcefulness was one of the natural propensities of Mr. Slaughter, and every opportunity as well as object was utilized to an advantage. Being near Sumner high school where for many years his place was the only place where the children could invest their pennies at lunch hour. Mr. Slaughter is widely known throughout Kansas City, Kas., by children as the owner of this plot of ground in the 1300 block. He has five buildings fronting on N. 9th St., one building of a brick two story, the upper story used for lodge purposes. The first floor is occupied by him where candy, chewing gum, cigars, cold drinks and many other sweets are kept for the children. 1313-15-17-19-21 N. 9th St. Fairfax 0455

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The photograph reproduced shows the attractive interior of the Paseo Beauty Parlor Owned and Operated by Miss Viola B. Chapman There are three booths where facial massaging, scalp treatments, hairdressing , cutting, marcelling and manicuring are done. Miss Chapman was bom in Kansas City, Mo., attended Garrison School and Lincoln High School and is now a kindergarten teacher in Garrison School, having held said position fifteen years. Aside from being an efficient teacher, Miss Chapman is an Ardent Church Worker is president of the B. Y. P. U., of Pleasant Green Baptist Church and has served as organist of the church for twelve years. She also has the distinction of being musical directress of the New Era District Baptist Conventions of the State of Missouri and of the State Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Conventions. Miss Chapman attributes the Secret of Her Success to her early Christian training, by her mother and father and to her constant devotion to the church. Visualizing the future with its needs of the race relative to employment of its women, Miss Chapman established the PASEO BEAUTY PARLOR with the one big objective of furnishing a means of livelihood for others. She operates the Mme. C. J. Walker System and is president of the Mme. C. J. Walker Club of Kansas City. In her shop are: Mrs. Ethel Smith, formerly of Houston, Texas, Mrs. Emma Logan of this city, and Mrs. Althea Griffin, recently of Tulsa, Okla.

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Lawyers Both, Father and Son [LA]WYER BRADLEY, SR. LAWYER BRADLEY, JR.

[?] is a sort of double-header, a fat[her] and his son, who represent the se[co]nd crop of Negro lawyers. I. F. Bradley, one of the pioneers of Negroes in the law, beginning in 1887, from University of Kansas, who blazed the way over un-surveyed bog and fen of opposition and covin on the part of the other group, and ignorance, credulity and lack of confidence on the part of his own race; to the height of real and true success as a Negro lawyer. The story of it all, is one full of pathos, replete with privation, and full of perserverence, coupled with an experience with men and measures, such as to render it interesting and instructive. His career was truly a blazing of the way, for his group. It began with his being elected to the position of City Justice of the Peace; then as first assistant county attorney for four years; the first to hold such, position; appointed by the City Council, one of 24 freeholders, to study and report upon the adoption of Commission forth of City government; elected presi[d]ential Elector in 1904; nomina[tion] on the independent (Hearst) [ti]cket for attorney general of Kansas in 1908; appointed by the chamber of commerce in 1927 on the committee on adoption of the managerical form City government; and was actually county attorney for Wyandotte County for a short interrim, having been appointed to the position by Judge F. D. Hutchings, in the fall of 1912, when there was a contest between the judges, as who should be appointed permanently to the position. In every thing connected w[it]h the uplift of his group, his [?]ne has been in the front rank. I. F. Bradley is one of the founders, and the first president of Douglass hospital, and still a member of the board. He established the Emancipation Association—he was the leader and fought almost single- handed, against the horrible blight, known as Porter-ism, which was an unwarranted propaganda against Negroes; and succeeded in restoring Negroes to the police force. He organized the Civic League, and has done much to maintain it since 1915. This league stands for the highest and best in citizenship for Negroes, in every line of human endeavor, desiring to develop the elements of statesmanship in them; rather than those of petty politician. Through this league, the final blow was given Porter-ism, and Negroes were again appointed to sev[er]al county deputyships, which has [be]en followed up by appointments [to?] every county office. As a propagator of Negro busi[nes]s and enterprise,—he goes the [?] it of,—"Every dollar and cent [?]means, and [ev]ery iota of force [?] power to m[ore] better, bigger, more substa[nti]al, Negro business and enterp[rise] and to raise higher the stand[ard o]f Negro manhood and woma[nhood] to the level where it rank as [?] as the best." In 1925 he [?] what he hopes wi[ll] foreve[r] [?] [ma]intained, and of which he fee[ls] [?] pride, —Boy's Week and Day,—by which It is hoped to shape the men of tomorrow out of the [boys] of today. The foregoing are [?] me, of the matters and things fo[r w]hich I. F. Bradley has stood and sta[nds]. And by his si[de] he has labored [to] [ha]ve young Bradley take his pla[ce] [?] expen[?] the force and power [of] you[r?] blood in the great doma[in] of social science. This young man is located in the office of the elder, in the practice of law, at the South East corner of Fifth street and Minnesota avenue. After having studied in Ann Harbor and Kansas University, he graduated from the [la]st named, in June 1917, and immediately entered the U. S. officers training school, from which he was commisioned second Lieutenant in 1918. With the close of hostilities, he ent[er]ed the practice of the law, where [b]y reason of association in the of[fic]e with Bradley, Sr., he has so[me] [adv]antage in his progress in t[?] [?]. Being of cong[?] [?]n and prompt and [?]en[?] in his business rela[tion]s, regardless of whether it be the prosecution for a wrong, or the defense of a right, his future is bright with hope.

CLAUDE JONES Claude L. Jones is of the active type in public matters, finding time in addition to his law practice to be president of the Civic League of Kansas City, Kansas, and be an active member on the board of managem[?]nt of the Children’s Orphan Home. He comes by that naturally because his father, W. W. Jones, was a teacher and useful citizen of Ft. Smith Ark over a long life. Yet Mr. Jones has never filled public office. He attended Kansas University for his literary training and finished from its law department in 1919. He first opened an office in Wichita but soon moved to Kansas City, Kansas, where he has been ever since. Mr. Jones has his office at 428 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas.

Four Mock Temples named after comic characters, have been the means of a closer contact between the members. Financially they have reported more than $200. They have been presided over by' the following: Mrs. Emily Drew. Mrs. Linnie Gillam, Mrs. Irvin Harold, Mrs. Anna Bailey.

YOUNG GIRL COMMITS MANY ROBBERIES PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — (ANP) Edna Taylor, 17 years old, who was recently released from the House of, Good Shepherd on parole, has been arrested in connection with a series of robberies. The young girl entered the homes when they were temporarily vacated, from one of which she made a haul of $2,000. She left the city and went to her home in Sweetheart, Va., but officers missed her there, she having left half an hour earlier for this city, where she was placed under arrst soon after arival.

DEATH NOTICES. Miss Bessie Green, who died at Bell Memorial was buried Tuesday from the residence of Mrs. Ella Hopkins, 813 E. 10th. Rev. Bacote officiated. MRS. Queen Shrout of 3529 Locust buried from Second Baptist c[hurch] Thursday morning at 11 o’cl[ock.] Rev. Bacote conducted the service[?]. Noble C[?]ied Monday morning at 2515 Highland. Besides his wife, he leaves a sister, Mrs. Della Beam, 1715 Paradeway; Walter Clay, a brother, St. Louis. The services were held Thursday at 2:30 o’clock, from the home. Rev. Mackay officiated. Mrs. Elnora Baker of St, Joseph, sister of Mrs. Clay, was here for the funeral.

Twelfth Street Boys Shirtwaist and Summer Dress Ball. Wednesday night, August 1, Paseo Hall. George Lee’s Orchestra.—Adv.

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Robert S. Cobb Robert S. Cobb, Cape Girardeau, Mo., is an assistant to the Missouri Workmen's Compensation with headquarters at Missouri State Capitol at Jefferson City. For seven years he served as secretary to Negro Industrial Commission. Mr. Cobb was born in Cape Girardeau, Mo., 40 years ago. His father the late John S. Cobb was one of the pioneer teachers of that section and taught at Cape Girardeau for 40 years. The school is now called the John S. Cobb high school. Mr. Cobb, son, was educated at Knoxville, Tenn., in the public school of the United Presbyterian college. He taught in the public schools of the State for twelve years. During the World War he served as Y. M. C. A. secretary, as business and religious director at Camps Dix and Dodge. In 1920 he was elected as Executive Secretary of the Missouri Negro Industrial commission in which capacity he was an ardent worker for remedial legislation for Race citizens. He with other citizens helped to establish the first state wide committee on Race Relations. This organization still exists and employs a part time secretary. Mr. Cobb was admitted to the Missour Bar in 1925 and now serves as an assistant to the Missouri Workmen’s Compensation commision with headquarters at the State Capitol. He is a trustee of Quinn Chapel A. M. E. church of Jefferson City chairman of the Executive committee of the local branch of N. A. A. C. P., secretary of the local Race Relations commitee, a member of the Board of Management of the Grand Lodge U. B. F. & S. M. T., a board member of St Louis Underwriters corporation, and said to be an authority on problems economic and social as they pertain to colored citizens of the State. He is staff correspondent for The Kansas City Call. In 1911 he married Miss Bessie Myers, a teacher of Knoxville, Tenn.. who died in 1923. Three children were bora, Mary Elizabeth, John and Robert Jr. In 1924 he married Miss Elizabeth Rhubottom, a teacher in the St. Louis public schools.

Veteran Resident

FLEMING McCULLAH Fleming McCullah, one of Spring- field, Missouri’s well known prosperous farmers and real estate owners, by diligence and perservance has surmounted all difficulties and is a worthy example of what a colored man can do along the lines of industry. Mr. McCullah was bora a slave in 1845 at Osceola, Mo. After being emancipated in April, 1865, he began life penniless and without education. He later moved to Spring- field and bought a one-hundred and twenty acre tract of land north of the city, which then was timber land. After much labor he succeeded in clearing it off and improving it. He now lives on forty acres of the tract of which part is in the city corporations, and is called the “McCullah Subdivision." This forty acres of land is well stocked with cattle, horses and chickens. He cultivates a portion of his farm and the other part he has in orchards. Besides this tract of land, he has ten houses and lots on prominent streets of the city. Mr. McCullah has been a member of the A. M. E. church for oyer forty years; and has acted as chairman and advisor of the trustee board and class leader during that time. He has been a friend to education and for a number of years served as school director. He has never been backward in his support of causes worthy of his patronage. With five children, fifteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, Mr. McCullah is 83 years of age and is in very good health.

Mrs. N. J. Henderson and son, John Wesley, of Bloomington, Ill., are the house guests of her aunt, Mrs. A. B. Barnett and Mr. Barnett, 2738 Woodland.

Ebenezer Choir and Deaconesses – A Red Cross unit The history of Ebenezer choir presents a theme of study and careful consideration. Beginning in 1910 the following have remained actively engaged in the work: Mrs. Ethel Shoves, Eli Dimery, Mrs. Mildred Mott and Ben Martin. In February 1912 Rev. W. C. Williams was transferred from the Colorado conference to Ebenezer to succeed the Rev. Tolson. The original choir and two others were disbanded by him and reorganizations were enacted. Under the leadership successively of Ben. Knox, Wm. L. Dawson, and at present Dr. A. Franklin Radford, the choir has steadily become more efficient. Together with the choir leaders have been the following organists: Mesdames Bell-Douglass, L. C. Bailor, Edna Hammett. Louise Stewart, and the Misses Eva Rigney, Beulah Douglas, Blanche Morrison and at present Lorenzo Countee. Ebenezer choir was the first colored choir of Greater Kansas City invited to broadcast programs over The Kansas City Star's radio station, WDAF. The choir appeared in seven regular monthly programs. Sixteen sopranos, seven altos, six tenors, four baritones and five bass singers compose the choir at present. The late Mesdames M. Rodgers and Bacie Biggerstaff are the only deceased members of the choir within the past sixteen years of organization. The present organization is as follows: Dr. J. O. Henley, president; Prank Jacobs, vice-president; Mrs. Myrtle Ewing, secretary; and Ben. Martin, treasurer; Mesdames Ethel Shores, Ada Moms, Mildred Mott and Ben. Martin are historians. “Queen Ether” and Jephtha’s Daughter,” two dramatis productions of the choir were given recently under the direction of Dr. Radford.

The Deaconess Board of Ebenezer A. M. E. church looks after the sick and feed the hungry. The president is Mrs. Anna Roberts. The Sunday school of Ebener has one of the best schools in the Fifth Episcopal district. It has six department Sunday school superintendents, fourteen teachers, and the enrollment is 300. The school has an orchestra which renders music each Sunday morning. Mrs. Anna Roberts, superintendent, has served fifteen years.

Queen of Sheba Temple No. 284, S. M. T. was organized August 15, 1909. It has reached its highest success both financially and numerically under the leadership of its present Worthy Princess, Mrs. Anna Roberts, who has served twelve consecutive years. Anna Roberts Degree team No. 1 won the first prize of $50 in Ritualistic work in 1927. Red Cross Nurse Corp which has successfully passed the examination in first aid nurse training. Mrs. M. C. Lewis is teacher.

G. N. BRYANT During the year of 1920 in the basement of an apartment at 1308 East Twenty-third street, Kansas City, Mo., G. N. Bryant began by experimenting with what has since become an upholstering and refinishing business. Plain flower boxes to which he later added stenciled designs which made them much in demand were his first projects. He then constructed various pieces of furniture such as dressing and telephone tables, combination music cabinets and other articles which were readily sold. This was an inspiration to go further. Later he began upholstering and refinishing on a small scale. All of this he did at odd times aside from his regular work. In 1922 he bought a home in the Southeast district, Hancock Addition. Although a distance from the business district, his work increased steadily until in 1926 he was forced to erect a building exclusively for his business and devote his time to it entirely. There is one thing he attributes to the success of his business, the kind advice of C. A. Franklin, editor of The Kansas City Call, which was, "Bryant, stick to it”. This he has done and today he has a business to be proud of and numbers among his patrons some of the city's wealthiest and most influential people. While upholstering, refinishing, repairing and slip covers are listed in his line, he has a promising used furniture sale which is an asset to the business. He guarantees his work and offers the highest quality for less money.

SAMUEL C. GIPSON Mrs. E. R. Hemsley, Correspondent Samuel C. Gipson, Pleasant Hill, Mo., a member of the State and National Master Plumbers association, distinguishes himself as the only Negro in Missouri with license and permits as a master plumber. Mr. Gipson was bom in Bourbon county Kentucky June 1, 1863. He came to Pleasant Hill, Mo. at the age of nine years where he has lived for fifty-six years. While attending the public school he enrolled in and completed the heating and plumbing course from the correspondence school at Scranton, Pa. In 1904 he married Miss Rosa C. Snead, the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Snead of this city. For twenty-five years Mr. Gipson was steamfitter and heating engineer of the Geo. M. Kellogg greenhouse, the largest greenhouse company west of the Mississippi. In 1912 he ventured alone on his merits and faith as a heating and plumbing contractor. The late Geo. M. Kellogg went his bond and he received the contract of the first modern house erected here. The Central school was his first public building contract, and the present seventy-five thousand dollar high school is a credit to his workmanship. He joined the State and National Master Plumbers association, therefore distinguishing himself as the only Negro in Missouri with license and permits as a master plumber. In 1921 he became proprietor, his wife manager, of his own heating and plumbing shop. This shop, the only one in Cass county, is complete in its stock, beautiful in its quality and fair in its service. The franchise with the Williams Oil-O-Matic and Ice-O-Matic corporation, the Holland Furnace company and the American Radiator company add to the reputation of his credit and his ability. He carries a bond. With his own tapping machine he tapps the city sewer and water mains for service connections. This season opened with five contracts for new buildings on file. As a reward for his competency, honesty and hard work, he has received the patronage of the finest homes and factories in this territory.

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Kansas K. of P. Make Reports The reports of the grand officers of Sunflower Grand Lodge and Sunflower Grand Court of the Kansas Knights of Pythias were made Tuesday afternoon, S. H. Thompson, grand chancellor reading the annual report for the lodge and Mrs. Norene Davis for the court. The grand session opened Tuesday morning and closed Thursday night with a military ball and drill contest at Paseo hall. A partial, list of officers, members of the court and visitors here for the conclave were: Mesdames Nettie Haley, Florence Smith, D. Wellington, Geo. Rainey, Topeka; Mesdames Burdie Conley, Lula McWilliams, Mary Brown, Lawrence; Mat- tie L. Morton, Cora Jordan, Bertha Garrett, James E. Cone, Effie Grayer, Leavenworth; Mesdames Barbara Perry, Muriel Letcher, Martha Fleming, Eddie Knightbowers, Wichita; Mesdames Georgia Morris, Millie Drumgold, Arkansas City; Mesdames Ethel and Inez Wesley, Independence; Mesdames Beatrice Hawkins, Ethel Brooks, Katherine Glover, Chanute; Mesdames Hattie Allen, Ida Henry, Katherine Manley, Garnett; Martha Morton, Mabel Grant, Jennie Hamilton, Coffeyville; Nettie Glass, Laura Davis, Parsons; Pearl Derrits, Eldorado; Emma Wheaten, Cherryvale; Hattie English, Paola; Queenie Hurtado, Ottawa; Minnie Moore, Girard; Lorraine Adams, Topeka; Bessie Singleton, Letha Hopkins, Pittsburg; Hattie Borders, Weir; Beatrice Contee, Leavenworth; Ida and Edna Wallace, Leavenworth and Ella Wright, Winfield.

N. G. Art and Charity Club Distinguished by its name of N. G. (Non Gossip), this club has for its purpose, caring for the aged and comforting the sick. Loyalty, unselfishness, unity, and charity are the controlling motive. Devotional services are held the first Thursday in each month at which time each member is expected to talk, sing or pray. The club is non-federated. The officers are: Mrs. Magnolia Remmer, secretary; Mrs. Ada Morris, president; Mrs. Anna Shields, chairman.

Mrs. Panzy S. Howard is ill at her residence, 2522 Highland.

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You hear them on the air! They are wanted Everywhere! GEORGE E. LEE Radio and Record Artist- Society Entertainer GEO. E. LEE’S Novelty Singing Orchestra Kansas City’s Greatest PERSONNEL OF THE ORCHESTRA Julia Lee, pianist and soloist George E. Lee, (Leader, Singer, Tax, Tenor Guitar.) Samuel Utterback, Trumpet & Mellaphone. Robert Russell, Trumpet & Mellaphone Wm. D. Woods, Drummer. Clinton Weaver, Sousaphone. Charles Rousseau, Banjo. Clarence Taylor, Saxophone. Herman Walters, Saxophone & Clarinet. After a year's absence in Oklahoma, where they were the sensation of the state, playing in the most exclusive places of entertainment, George E. Lee and his singing, playing masters of music, are broadcasting Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from El Torreon ball room.

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12 “PROGRESS EDITION” CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July [27,] 1928

Thirty-seven Employed in Police Department The police department of this city gives employment to 37 Negroes. listed on its roster are 2 detectives, 17 patrolmen, 16 hostlers. Many of these men have been retained in the department through several administrations, while others are newcomers to the service. Police officials are unanimous in their praise of the colored employees in their department, and point with pride to the efficient manner in which they have performed their duties, according to official records. The list of the colored men who are members of the police department follows: Detectives Lewis W. Foster, Headquarters, appointed 1921, 716 E. 22nd. Jesse Bates, Headquarters, appointed 1921, 2215 Lydia. Patrolmen Edward Blackburn, No. 1, appointed 1704 Howard. Cornelius Carter, No. 4, appointed 1910, 2206 Garfield. W. M. Dougherty, No. 4, appointed 1921, 1517 Woodland. Clarence H. Fowler, No. 1, appointed 1921, 1021 Woodland. John Garnett, No. 1, appointed 1921, 2502 Highland. Charles Garrett, No. 1, appointed 1921, 3108 E. 19th. Clarence Givens, appointed 1921, 725 Charlotte. James Hyner, No. 6, appointed 1921, 1116 Michigan. Charles P. Jackson, No. 6, appointed 1921, 621 Charlotte. Charlie King, No. 1, appointed 1921, 2122 Park. Andrew Moore, No. 4, appointed 1921, 1916 E. 19th. Alexander Moore, No. 4, appointed 1913, 1215 Garfield. Clarence McAfee, No. 1, appointed 1921, 2013 E. 13th. Harry Payne, No. 6, appointed 1921, 937 Stateline. John R. Rone, No. 4, appointed 1922 1415 E. 17th. Frank Stokes, No. 1, appointed 1921 1512 E. 21st. Ben Taylor, No. 6, appointed 1921, 1701 Paradeway. William Warren, No. 1, appointed 1921, 2624 Highland. Fletcher Cleveland, No. 6, appointed 1928, 1703 Park. Hostlers James Q. Adams, No. 1, appointed 1927, 1711 Holmes. William Bridges, No. 1, appointed 1927, 1711 Holmes. William Bridges, No. 1, appointed 1922, 1701 Paradeway. Ernest Ewing, No. 1, appointed 1926 611 Steptoe. Sterling Hall, Garage, appointed 1921, 2016 E. 16th. John T. Harris, 1209 Euclid. Rufus G. Hines, No. 9, appointed 1919, 1509 Brooklyn. Clement F. James, 1211 Highland appointed 1910. Le Roy Keelan, Garage, appointed 1926, 1420 Campbell. William Murray, No. 1, appointed 1926. 1420 Campbell. William Murray, No. 1, appointed 1926, 2022 E. 19th. William Moody, No. 1, appointed 1927, 2000 Howard. Samuel McClain, No. 6, appointed 1921, 2437 Woodland. S. W. Russell, No. 1, appointed 1926, 922 Campbell. William Saunders, No. 4, appointed 1921, 2106 Harrison. Washington Williams, No. 2, appointed 1928, 1735 Forest. Charles Wilson, No. 2, appointed 1921, 574 1/2 Tracy. Frederick Wilson, No. 1, appointed 1924, 1422 Campbell.

CLUBS—KANSAS CITY, MO. Pleasant Hour Art and Social Club On the afternoon of February 6, 1926, six young matrons met at the home of Mrs. Clayborne, with the object of organizing a club, for the purpose of developing the social, charitable and artistic ability of its members. or more members were enrolled until at present there are twenty good standing members. The club is non-federated. Among the many charitable deeds this group of women have accomplished are the helping of destitute families and the contributing of towels, bedding and other necessities to the Mercy Wheatley hospital. Under the leadership of Mrs. Ferguson, president and Mrs. Kimble, secretary, the club began. The present secretary and president, Louise Davis an dLula B. Daniels, have held their offices two terms. Mrs. Marie Pettiford and Mrs. J. Rogers are supervisors of the art work. The club color is blue, denoting loyalty to each other. Other officers are Mary Goodman, treasurer; Luvenia Claiborne, chairman of sick committee; Glantise Burch, reporter, and Bessie McGinnis, chaplain.

Park-Olive Community Club Four years ago, January 24, 1924, at the home of Mrs. L. V. Dorsey, a group of women organized this non- federated community club. Helping to obtain suitable homes for our people and encouraging the improvement of property and charity, were the outstanding achievements of the club. The officers are: Mrs. Lucille Edwards, president; Mrs. Lelie Ham- bright, secretary; Mrs. Neva Ross, treasurer.

Third District Federation The Third District Federation of Missouri Colored Women's clubs was organized by Mrs. Rosa Jenkins under the supervision of Mrs. Pearl Dabney. To attract the attention of clubs along educational lines was the purpose of this federation. At present there are thirty-two member-clubs throughout six towns. Officers are: Altheda, Moo[?] , [Su]pervisor; Mrs. Mossie Brigg[?], [sectre]tary; Mrs. Agnes Johnson, [tr]eas[ur]er; Mrs. Estella Woods, chairman [?] program, and Mrs. M. H. Parr, [re]porter.

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[page 13] "PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928

National President Reviews Negro Business

[N]UMBER OF [B]USINESSES IS [N]OW 70,000 [?]ers Are 25,000 of This T[ota]l; Recent Failures Not Unusual [b]y Robert R. Moton [Wit]h sever[a]l recent failures in [N]eg[ro] enterp[ris]es facing us and with the [pr]esent hard times attendant upon [w]idespread unemployment, this is a particularly opportune time to consider the achievements and possibilities of the Negro in business. This is a time to evaluate our achievements at their real worth, without exaggeration and without deprecation; to critically investigate our shortcomings and the causes of our failures; to plan for the fullest developments of our potentialities; to calmly survey the entire field of Negro business. The position of the Negro in business is a subject seldom approached with that dispassionate consideration necessary to scientific appraisal. The booster on the one hand is likely to overstate the progress of the race in this field; and on the other hand the gloomy pessimist all too often sneers at our solid achievements and refuses to contribute either economic goods or moral support to our struggling enterprises. Surely ther is a highway that leads between these two whereupon the judicious observer may view the situation according to its merits. In order to get such a view one needs to have the facts in hand. When, in 1900, Booker T. Washington issued a call to the business leaders of the race to meet in Bos[to]n to organize the National, Negro Business League to promote the financial and commercial development of the Negro, there were in existence some 20,000 Negro business enterprises, big and small. Now, there are more than 70,000. Then, there were 250 drug stores; today, there are a thousand. At that time, there were 450 undertakers. This number has been more than tripled. Then, there were only two banks; now, there are 70. During the 28 years since the organization of the League, the 10,000 retailers have grown to number more than 25,000. At that time we paid taxes on property valued at three hundred million dollars; today, our realty holdings alone amount to nearly two billion dollars. Certainly in the course of these years and those preceedings, we have had our business failures. Some our banks have failed. Insurance companies have gone to the wall. Some retailers have closed their doors. Some ventures into the manufacturing field have been abor[ti]ve. Some publications have been shortlived. But in all this there is nothing peculiar to black folk. The same thing has happened time and time again in other races. And it is a thing that would have happened more often in the dominant group in America had it not been for those great combinations of capital which are everywhere more available for the drowning white man than for the Negro similarly situated. These have offered a reserve and rescue for the white man and none for the [bl]ack. And yet withal the ratio of our business failures is not greatly in excess of that of other groups. Here is a task for the race—a task to test our foresight and business acumen. If in the future we are to [mi]nimize the number of failures [?]ng us, we must make available [? o]ur business men a reservoir of [?] that will come to their rescue [?] [?]s of stress. This is a service [?] we can and must insure to our [?] business enterprises. We are [?] [?]t to our obligation and false [?]ce if we do not use every [?] [?]e effort to pool wisely and [?]nd, of course, conservatively, [?] [?]f our resources in some kind [?] [o]rganization to do the things [?] [o]ther groups are doing so suc [cessfull]y. This we can do; this we [must] do; indeed, this we must do [?] [?]e to gain that economic se[curity] [w]hich alone will lift us out of [?] of mendicancy to the status [?] [i]independent race. [?] [?]nd large the success of Negro [?] rests upon Negro patronage. [?] [N]egroes buy from Negro deal[ers] [[?] race cannot expect, to pros-[?] [bu]siness. When we fully rea-[?] [?] our trade does not enrich [?] [?]he merchant but contributes [?] [i]ncrease of our general racial [?] [?] [?]ay look for a new boom [?]siness. The more dol- [?] keep within the race, [?] will be able to attract [?] sources. The Negro who [?] [?]y dollar he earns with [?] [?]ps contributes absolutely [?] the coffers of the race. [?] [?]acts as a channel through [?]th passes from one white [?]other. From such a Ne- [?]e receives no impetus to[?] [econo]mic advancement. [?]ce is to make any real [?]gress, it will have to be [?]ce patronage of race en[?] Such a universal practice [?] would result in far finer [?] substantial achievements [?] [a]verage person seems to [?] would mean the opening [?]es of employment for [?] [p]eople who in many in[?] [?]denied opportunities in [?]ss whatever their qual[ities] [ma]y be. It would mean the [?] of a substantial mercan[?] [?]t would mean increased [?] for ourselves and re-

Business League Head ROBERT R. MOTON President National Negro Business League and Principal Tuskegee Institute. spect from others. It would mean, further, power—power to sustain ourselves. power to exert economic pressure where needed; power to compete with others who would deny us opportunity. Not until that glad day when we spend more than fifty percent of each dollar with Negro businesses will we be able to achieve anything that remotely resembles economic independence. Because it is through retail merchandising that the greatest number of people are touched and the greatest expenditures made the National Negro Business League plans to devote its twenty-ninth annual session this August to the consideration of this field of business. A study will be made of the opportunities in retail business, methods of meeting chain store competition, store management and service, salesmanship and advertising. This is a fertile field for development which we in the past have too greatly neglected. Take any Negro district in any city in the country, and you will find the stores largely owned and operated by whites, chiefly foreigners—Jews, Italians, Greeks, and others. There is no reason why we should not have stores owned and operated by Negroes in these districts. More than that it is the duty of Negro business men to enter this field, and the duty of every one of us to support them in their efforts. To ascertain the facts concerning the Negro in business, the National Negro Business League is now conducting a survey of Negro business throughout the country. Effort is being made to discover in what lines we have proved weakest and why; what fields of business endeavor have the best prospects for success; what circumstances condition our success or failure; the various types of business we are engaged in; and the number of persons employed by Negro business. With this information in hand, the race will be the better able to shape its business policy with precision and reduce the number of failures arising out of the nature of businesses and the circumstances under which they were launched. Admittedly, in the years of our freedom we could have done better, we could have had more outstanding achievements. But of what other group is this not also true? What groups have always and under all circumstances achieved their best? If we have little in our business record to blat about, certainly our record, viewed as a whole, is not one to cause us to hang our heads in shame. In somber Justice it must be said that we have made tremendous strides in the business world. Yet much remains to be done. Equipped with greater knowledge of business methods, backed by more substantial capital, the young Negro now entering business faces a more inviting outlook than did his father of the past generation.

A DREAM COME TRUE Story of the Mme C J Walker Mfg. Co. Nine years ago this month the curtain of life was drawn on a character who for little more than a half century ahd moved across the stage of time and captivated her audience at her almost every performance. Seeing the first light of day in a tiny, one room, log cabin in the backwoods of Louisiana and moving o nlike a streak of God’s lightning through a handicapped adolescence, maturity, motherhood and widowed state; periodic domicile in Vicksburg, St. Louis, Denver, Kansas City and Pittsburgh, and endless battles with the vicissitudes of life, the late Madam C. J. Walker emerged at Indianapolis, Indiana in 1910 and began there to unford a dream which since early childhood had haunted her memory. It proved impossible to interest others in her little business. So, undaunted, she trod on, made and marketed her goods and like being the recipient of the wave of the magic wand of the good fairy, this tiny, unpretentious venture prospered and grew tremendously. Soon she needed more space, then more and more! She needed more workers and no matter what she needed, a way was ever found to get it. Honestly, patiently, securely, she laid the stones, one by one, for a vast structure whose ramifications were destined to reach not only into the highways of every state in the Union, but across the seas into foreign fields as well. (Continued on Page B-2)

STRUGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IS NOT OVER The Race’s Uphill Battle an Interesting Bit of U. S. History By W. E. B. DuBois Editor of The Crisis. Quite apart from our personal connection with it all, the struggle of persons of Negro descent to become full-fledged American citizens is a story of exceeding interest. When Negroes first came to the United States their status was no more fixed than the status of the whites who came. That is: it was not determined by their race and color, but by their conditions. Moreover, in the English colonies there was no legal status of slavery, but only of "service” or indenture. Negroes then landed as "servants”. But this was also true of white folk. Large numbers of whites came as indentured servants and very often when their term of Service was up they were not freed and became slaves in effect. The laws about servants applied to black and white alike, and if the development in the United States had gone on naturally and logically, black servants would have gained their freedom Just as white servants eventually did; would have become land owners and property holders, citizens and voters. This development actually took place here and there in nearly all the colonies, so that the Constitution was adopted by the vote of black people in many of the colonies where there were black folk born free or freed who held land and other property. The desire, however, of England and other countries to make money out of the slave trade forced the colonies to buy more slaves than they wanted. The colonies tried often to resist the slave trade. Many of them, even South Carolina, sought to stop the importation, or at least to tax the imported slaves so heavily that they would cease to come. But England overruled them. A new status, therefore, had to be envolved for Negroes and they became "servants for life” and then simply "slaves”. When the United States became an independent country, there was the chance to check the slave trade and to allow those Negroes already here gradually to develop into free men with full civil rights. Two things prevented this. First, the large number of Negroes already in America, which meant that if they were absorbed into the body politic, there would be eventual inter-marriage and economic and political equality. The second reason was even more potent, and that was, that slave labor once established created a demand for more slave labor. While the country then in the early part of the 19th Century hesitated at the crossroads as to whether they would have more freedom and civil rights for Negroes or more slavery and color caste, the Cotton Kingdom arose; that is to say, the cotton crop raised by slave labor became so valuable that slavery was established on an economic foundation. From 1820-60, thirty years, the fight was to prevent slavery from being permanent and universal in the United States. This was accomplished finally by the economic bankruptcy which arose from the impoverishing of cotton land and the consequent labor controversy and Civil War. After the war, the nation started again with the old question of civil rights for Negroes. An attempt was made to declare the Negro a citizen; give him a vote and made all discrimination in civil rights illegal so far as the United States was concerned. This legislation was nullified because the freed Negro had no real economic foundation. As long as in work and wages he remained a slave, he could not in politics and civil life become a free man. Negroes themselves saw this. The "Negro party" platform of 1876, in one state, advocated "division of lands of the state as far as practical into small farms in order that the masses of our people may be enabled to become landholders." In the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina, a colored man said: "One of the greatest of slavery bulwarks was the infernal plantation system, one man owning his thousand, another his twenty, another fifty thousands acres of land. This is the only way by which we will break up that system, and I maintain that our freedom will be of no effect if we allow it to continue. What is the main cause of the prosperity of the North? It is because every man has his own farm and is free and independent. Let the lands of the South be similarly divided. I would not say for one moment they should be confiscated but if sold to maintain the war, now that slavery is destroyed, let the plantation system go with it. We will never have true freedom until we abolish the system of agriculture which existed in the Southern states. It is useless to have any schools while we maintain the stronghold of slavery as the agricultural system of the country." That greatest of our statesmen, Charles Sumner, tried to make the United States furnish [th]e Negro with free land and a sm[al]l amount of capital—"40 acres and a mule”; but the nation was impoverished; (Continued on Page B-5)

Feautre Writer FLOYD J. CALVIN Feature Editor, The Pittsburgh Courier's New York Office. NEW TYPE OF JOURNALISM IN RACE, BELIEF Eastern Editor Says Negro Papers Turning to Features, Achievements By Floyd J. Calvin (Special Feature Editor, The Pittsburg Courier, office: 2311 Seventh avenue, New York City) It is my opinion that we now witness a “new day” in Negro Journalism. Time was, up until recently, when our newspapers strived to print the news, and that only, whatever it was. But now we see an increasing tendency toward the selecting and grading of news, and the introducing of new and varied features. Until recently there was no particular distinguishing mark between our newspapers as such, except that some were stronger financially than others, or more widely circulated than others. But today we see, among the newspapers more or less on the same plane in circulation and influence, a marked distinction in their character. Some are noted for one thing, and The Kansas City Call, of Kansas City, Mo. They are good, strong papers, although they cater primarily to their local field. Some are more or less sectional in their character, as in the case of the Norfolk Journal and Guide of Norfolk, Va., and The Atlanta Independent, of Atlanta, Go. These, too, are good papers, although they are published primarily for readers in the South, and are conservative in their tone. Others are still regarded as more or less as news papers, as in the case of The Chicago Defender and The Afro- American. The Pittsburg Courier is now generally noted for its features, which is a new departure in our Journalism and which, to my mind, marks the “new day” that is now upon us. I do not say this because I happen to be the lucky person, but it is a matter of record that The Courier is the first Negro newspaper to regularly employ a Special Feature editor. And since The Courier’s Feature department is in my charge, and since I regard this department as being of especial significance in our field of Journalism as a whole, I will, briefly, give my ideas about this work. First, it is my belief that the Negro newspaper will be more and more forced by white newspapers to make a special appeal to its readers in order to hold them—especially the national newspapers. In New York City today competition between not only the Negro newspapers, but between the Negro and white newspapers in the Negro field, has reached the cutthroat stage. The New York Daily News, a white tabloid, sells more than 60,000 copies every morning in the Negro section known as Harlem. Other white nespapers, making special appeals to Negro readers, sell less, proportionately. This situation is duplicated in other cities on a smaller scale. This not only presses the local Negro newspapers, but is much harder on the national. Negro readers will tell Negro editors of weeklies that their news is stale when it comes out. The only thing left for the Negro editor to do, it seems to me, is to make a special appeal which the white newspaper doesn’t make, can’t make and won’t make. At the same time, to grow and prosper, this appeal must be in line with the Negro’s progress. This appeal, as I figure it out, can best be made by putting the Negro newspaper in the position once held by the Negro preacher, and which is still substantially held by him. That is this—the Negro preacher is historically known to be guide, philosopher and friend of the Negro masses. He consoles his following spiritually, he counsels them in business, he looks ahead and warns them of what is coming and what steps to take to meet changing conditions. The Negro newspaper, I feel, by reason of its reaching a (Continued on Page B-2)

NEGRO LABOR SHIFTS FROM FARM TO CITY From Earliest Times Negroes Have Been Skilled in Farm Trades By CHARLES S. JOHNSON When Las Casas, the pious priest who came with the intrepid Spanish explorers to this continent, sickened of the pitable decimation of the Indians, in mercy he recommended the introduction of Negroes to do the work which neither they nor the Indians could do. The Negroes survived. They not only survived, but at the time of the Civil War, were better physiological machines than their white masters. The formal beginning of the slave trade, later, in the English colonies, had very much the same inspiration. The difference was, that for nearly seventy years after the coming of the Dutch “man of warre,” the line between Negro slaves and white indentured servants was hazy and uncertain. At the first census in 1790 over 87 per cent of the Negro population was located in Virginia, Maryland and the two Carolinas. With the introduction of cotton and its promise of becoming a profitable staple, the institution of slavery became crystallized and firmly fixed, the black population moved southward to the delta stretches, and the plantation system, many of the distasteful features of which survive today, had its beginning. There was a time when practically all of the cotton raised in the South passed thru the hands of Negroes, and the South controlled the world’s supply. Negro workers were thus established in agriculture and as bulk workers, adjusted mentally and in musculature to the simple route operations of cotton raising. But since plantations were complete self-sustaining units some of the Negroes learned to perform skilled jobs, such as, carpentry and masonry. In the towns where agriculture was not important and, where, also, the poor whites were treated by their slave holding brothers as economic slaves of the lower order, the skill and excess labor of Negro slaves were leased for profit. The system became notorious in its effect upon the physically free class of poor white labor, but it put Negroes into ascendancy as skilled workers. They built the fine old mansions which stand now as solid ghosts of the romantic old South; worked in the mills, were blacksmiths, wheelwrghts, mechanics and even steamboat pilots. The magnificent hand wrought iron work which gave distinction to one period of the architecture in old New Orleans was done by Negroes. A Negro shoemaker made the shoes in which President Monroe was inaugurated. A Negro slave mason completed the engineering feat of joining the huge granite blocks into the Statue of Freedom in Washington, after the whit superintendent had struck for more money, saying that no one could finish his job. With emancipation, freed black laborers were thrown into unprotected competition with the poor whites and a terrific struggle followed. On the plantations in the rich cotton sections the evils of the slave system reappeared in peonage, and in the poorer sections white and Negro farmers were in tense economic conflict. The struggle passed over into politics with the rise of leaders of the poor whites. Repressive laws were passed against the Negroes aiming at their elimination, not only from politics, but from the chance for work. The continued use of the soil for a single crop began to exhaust it and it became increasingly difficult to get a living out of the earth. Restlessness followed, and a tremendous death rate. The farm population began moving to undeveloped lands farther south and west, and the cities. The center of the Negro population for 130 years moved steadily southwest, a distance of 479 miles and did not change its direction until the decade of 1910-1920. Each year the poor whites emerging from their debasement were pushing Negroes out of their old strongholds. There was a mass migration of Negroes to Arkansas and Kansas in 1879, and this was a reflection of the impossible economic conditions existing then as later in the southern states. A dark period for Negroes had been reached by 1900. Only a few Negroes could find work in the North, for foreign immigrations were coming in such enormous numbers as to keep them absolutely unessential to industry. When the war came in 1914 and these incoming foreign hordes were reduced, the restless Negroes were given their first real opportunity to enter the larger industrial field. They were used first in the Connecticut tobacco fields to take the place of the Slavic workers who had been moved into better paying war industries. The Pennsylvania railroad brought up thousands for the essential road work and all but a few of these went into the surrounding mills. The stock yards of Chicago and the mills of the surrounding industrial towns drew them up from the lower Mississippi valley. In the twelve-year period 1916-1928 over 1,200,00 Negroes moved from South to North, Not all remained, but a vast deposit was left. They (Continued on B-8)

CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE President National Association of Musicians

ART OF NEGRO NOW POPULAR FAD OF DAY Artists Now Struggling for Individual Self-Expression, Says Dougglas By AARON DOUGLAS The great popularity which Negro art has enjoyed in the past five years is amazing. In many respects this acclaim is well merited. For years the Negro artist obtained slight recognition. Since the war, however he has been given a place in the artistic life of America. We are Just emerging into that phase in which the artist begins to detach himself from the group and strive for for conscious individual expression. The length of this article scarcely permits a detailed analysis of all the arts. I shall therefore limit my discussion to music, literature and painting. The spirituals are a peculiar combination, for the most part, of Protestant hymns and African chants Of course these elements alone could not have produced the spirituals. TO fuse these dissimilar elements there was a tremendous emotional outpouring rising above slavery like a great symphony of woe, and breaking into immortal songs of triumph and thanksgiving. Though great in itself this music affords further possibilities for endless development and expansion. So far, Negro composers have occomplished very little with this material beyond collecting, arranging and transcribing it. However, too much praise cannot be given men like the late J. W. Work. Nathaniel Dett. H. T. Burleigh, Will Marion Cook, the Johnsons and others for their invaluable work in preserving these songs. Nevertheless, one hopes for the time when Negro composers succeed in lifting the Negro theme to greater heights of musical expression. The task of placing this material among the shoulders of the present group of young composers. It seems to me that there can scarcely be an excess of talent and training necessary for such a great undertaking. The Negro singer, however, has never faltered. Although, the spirituals are regularly included in the program of the finest singers before the American public, he remains the best interpreter of his songs. Roland Hayes possesses one of the most refined and beautiful voices in the world. Few singers have the powerful rich quality of Robeson's voice and no one interprets the spirituals with the same charm and understanding. Jules Bledsoe and Abbie Mitchell possess voices of rare cultivation and beauty. Marion Anderson, George Garner, Mary Cole- Talbert, and Alexander Gatewood are among the most beautiful singers in America. As for the orchestra James Reese Europe came as near developing one as any man before or since his time. Since his death we have failed to develop an orchestra that could transcend the novelty of its material and produce music calling for more than elaborate tricks and phantastic instrument stunts. The big Jazz orchestras of the present both black and white have profited immeasurably by the amazing innovations developed by Europe and his players. But none of these it seems have had the same artistic and scientific interest in experimenting for the sake of new musical effects as James Reese Europe. George Gershwin with his "Rhapsody in Blue” has shown that the blues have musical possibility of a high order. The blues though allied to Jazz are less strident, less explosive, more introspective, bulbous and massive rather than sharp and angular. They are probably more Negroid than any other musical expression. Next to music the Negro's creative urge has found greater freedom in literature than in any of the other arts. It is manifestly impossible to discuss the whole of Negro literature in the short space of this article. I shall, therefore, confine my discussion to some of the poets, short-story (Contiuued on Page B-2)

NEGRO’S GIFTS TO AMERICAN MUSIC RICH Race Has Contributed to American School of Composition By Clarence Cameron White In recent years we have heard much about a national spirit, a national note in music, and of the all- important necessity and desirability of working out an American national music. It may be that the persons who advocate these ideas know what a "national note” in music is, as one knows what the national spirit is. For my part I confess that I feel some doubt as to just what it is. Those who have taken this point of view have placed before us statements as to what other nations have done, the French, the Scandinavians, the Russians, the Germans. And the claim put forth is that we Americans also must work out for musical independence. But does that mean a national note? Are the people of the United States a nation in the sense that the term applies to the people of France, the people of Norway, (the country of Greig and Sinding), to the people of Russia before the recent war? National means characteristic of a nation, peculiar to a nation, applies to all the people of a country, those under one government, not for the people of one section, not those of one class, not those of one blood or race. Lincoln said that a nation could not exist part free, part bound. No more can we have a genuine American music unless it be the music of all who have a share in the appellation, American. The music of one group of persons may be the music of Americans but it has not, on that account alone, the right to the exclusive use of the term American. The meaning of this thought is that just as our nation is made up of a number of smaller groups, politically, industrially, and racially, so also our music is made up of the contribution of different classes of people. In the colonial days and in the period following the founding of the American music was a reflection of the American nation up to the Civil War was brought from Europe by the people who came here to build a nation. The time was when music education in the United States was mainly in the hands of persons of foreign birth, when students were of the opinion that only by going to Europe to study was musical salvation a possibility. And so they went, much to the financial benefit of musicians in certain parts of Europe. When some of these seekers for truth in music came back home to share in the development of music in the United States they preached the doctrine that American music must remain in swaddling clothes unless serious-minded, thinking, trained musicians should seek to determine the qualities which are inherent in American product or real creative quality, and thus make it possible to set for our students a standard, a national character in its musical art as is the case in other lines. Starting with the notion that it must be thoroughly distinctive some of these seekers for a new and individual note claimed that the musical idiom of the North American Indians offered the best and most appropriate material. Others have turned to the simple vivid ideas of the songs of Stephen C. Foster, and acclaimed them as truly American, and as the proper basis for American music. Certain strong, piquant rhythmic characteristic of the marches by Sousa have been labelled as especially and peculiarly American. And we have come, in these later days, to consider "rag-time" as a distinctively American note. In a broader way we can include music of this type in the classification of music peculiar to the American Negro, not simply written by composers of that race, but also music which is based upon development from material in that idiom. The importance of this question of race is not to be underestimated. Beethoven is classed among German composers, yet his ancestry was from the people on the west side of the Rhine, from the neighborhood of Antwerp. His mother was of German origin and the environment is which the boy was raised was that of the Rhine country, not the north of Germany which produced the Prussian spirit. Haydn has been classed among German composers although his nationality was Austrian, and his family was Croatian, and therefore more Slav than Teutonic. Mozart was a child of Austrian environment, yet he has been loosely classified as a German master. His father was a Suabian or Bavarian, and therefore from the South of Germany, in no sense a product of what in later years has been considered typically German. In thinking about Mozart we are not to lose sight of the fact that Vienna and Berlin are not both German in the same sense of the word. Rubinstein was in no sense a Russian of the same characteristics as those of most or all of the men who have made the Young Russian School of Music. Scriabine, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Elgar, Cyrill Scott, Ornstein, have characteristics which one feels impelled to consider not national, but racial and individual. Granted that the fundamental idea as to the function of music may be the same, the actual working out which each one of these men has done is different. Debussy and Ravel are both French as to nationality, but not the same in music; so also do Sciabine and Stravinsky differ, and Elgar and Scott, and Ornstein from every other composer who has the right to American franchise. We recall that MacDowell objected to being classed as an American composer. Properly interpreted I believe this meant as a composer of American music not as a composer of American nationality. In one of his lectures at Columbia University MacDowell said that “nationalism in music is an outward garment which is a result of certain habits of thought, a mannerism of language so to speak.” The idea American music, in the sense of national music, is not easy to formulate or describe. But if we will make it include music based on material or habits of expression and thought which are distinctively American we may venture to call it national This will include music melody, harmony, or structure which are more American than European. For the purpose of this discussion we have preferred to narrow the question to one phase of the broad view, and consider but one phase, to class the music of the Negro artist as racial first of all and not primarily national one element in the great question of American music, with as much claim to the term American as any other music produced in this country. It belongs here. We do not want to disown it. What we ask is that it be developed just as any other line of art is to be increased and strengthened. In America today we have somewhere between ten and twelve million people of African descent The progress of any people will be greatest by those groups which are in close contact with civilizing influence. It stands to reason then that musically, the Negro has made his greatest progress during his American residence. To America, the Negro could only bring his music and with his freedom his music was one of his greatest possessions. It is only natural that with a limited opportunity for improvement he turned with greatest zeal to the development of this gift. The so called Negro spiritual or plantation song is so well known today that it may be of interest to recall that as far back as 1871 these songs were introduced to America by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a band of Negro students from Fisk University at Nashville. Tennessee. The Negro's rising standard of education which carries a deeper appreciation of the aesthetic has also brought a racial consciousness and pride in his musical background. He knows and is proud of the Negro blood in Chevalier Saint-George, born in 1745 in the town of Basse- Terre, Guadeloupe, who was a pupil of Gossec. St George wrote two concerts for violin and orchestra and numerous quartettes. Lawrence declares that Gossec and St George were the first French musicians to write string quartettes. We find the Mss. of his “L’Amant Anonyme” in the library of the Paris Conservatoire. St George died in Paris June, 1799. There is a street in Barre- Terre, Guadeloupe, which since November, 1912 has borne the name of St. George. The Negro is also proud of the Negro blood of George Augustus Bridge tower, violinist born about 1779 in Biola in Poland. Bridge tower was a friend and associate of Beethoven and it was he who played the famous “Kreutzer” sonata with the composer at Vienna in 1805. In June 1811 Bridgetower took the degree of Mus. B. at Cambridge. He died in England about 1845. A complete account of his career may be found in Thayer’s “Life of Beethoven." Edmund Dede, a New Orleans Negro, bom in 1829, entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1857 and took high rank as a violinist; composed numerous orchestra works. Perhaps the best known was “Le Palmier Overture”. He died at Bordeaux, France where for many years, he was conductor of the Opera. One other Negro who achieved lasting fame in Europe was Joseph White, bom at Matanza, Cuba January 17, 1836. By advice of Gottschalk he was sent to Paris in 1855 where he became an honor pupil of Alard, winning the first prize in violin playing in 1856; composed a violin concerto and numerous small works. White was appointed a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire in 1864; he visited America in 1876 playing in New York and Boston with great success. On his Boston program in March 1876, he played the Mendelssohn Concerto Op. 64 and the Bach Chaconne. He died in Paris in 1920. The musical world at large knows full well of the Anglo- African composer Samuel Coleridge - Taylor, born in London August 15, 1875 and who achieved lasting fame in thirty-seven short years. He died in London September 1, 1912. Herbert Anticline calls him “one of the most original thinkers among musicians of his generation." The achievements of these five musicians of Negro blood are achievements of which any race might be proud, and the American Negro realizes that with proper training he may reflect a degree of credit upon American art. On the whole here in America the musical output has been both large and creditable, although of course comparatively little known. Few names have appeared and only here and there work that could be called really first class, but this is not a pecularity of Negro music. The sum of accomplishment is but an imperfect indication of what the Negro race is capable of in America with proper technical training. And this proper training is eagerly being obtained by the pre- (Continued on B-8)

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FINANCE NEEDS OF COMMUNITY ARE CARED FOR Peoples Finance Company Has Made Confidence by Safe Operation The establishment of the Peoples Finance corporation in Kansas City December 2, 1926 at 18th and Paseo, marked one of the most interesting epochs in the history of Negroes in Kansas City. After a survey of the conditions under which it was possible, if at all, to borrow money and the lack of opportunity of receiving some of the profits made on the loans, a group of public spirited citizens decided to relieve the situation. A Success at the Start Because of the high esteem and the public confidence held by the organizers of this financial institution, it was necessary to seek the absolutely safe method. A plan that had succeeded in five other colored communities and the services of a man with sixteen years experience were secured and state requirements met. In the eighteen months of operation it has been demonstrated that this type of financial institution meets our needs more adequately even than a commercial bank. The Peoples Finance corporation is a medium through which the money earned by the people can be pooled and then used by them for whatever emergencies that may arise. Offers Ideal Investment So successful was our first year that dividend of 8 per cent was paid to holders of stock certificates. This institution not only offers much needed public protection and all-important security to our commercial life, but a means of securing for ourselves the actual earnings of our money. It epitomises the four elements of the ideal investment; Safety— Profit— Permanency— Convertibility. To illustrate: Stocks in speculative or commercial institutions are neither safe nor permanent, and are profitable only in sixteen cases out of 100 and convertable in less than ten cases out of 100 at the mercy of an unstable market. Safety No greater safety is offered, either in the character of business carried on or the system of safeguards surrounding it. FIRST, because all of its capital is workable, never leaves the form of cash, and its funds are loaned on a sound basis—government banking statistics on over $100,000,000 of the class of loans made by this institution show losses of less than one- tenth of one per cent. SECOND, because its plan of operation eliminates the hazards of money fluctuations assumed by commercial banks. THIRD, because its funds are kept in a separate depository, are indemnified and their handling secured by ample surety and protected by state supervision. Meeting the Needs No progressive community is without a financial service. It is necessary to the life of trade and individual comfort to have a place where money can be obtained at reasonable terms. From the 1,800 applications received by this institution it is evident that there is a great oppor unity to turn over unlimited capital in this safe and profitable manner. Some of the reasons why people borrow money are: to pay taxes— have surgical operations—to improve health—pay graduation expenses—prevent mortgage foreclosure-vacation expenses — improve business equipment. These services have been possible because a large number of people bought shares of stock. These stockholders enjoy the earnings of their money. Will Solve Problems The officers and directors of the Peoples Finance corporation are well known citizens, having resided here from ten to thirty-five years. They have the welfare of their race at heart and see in this institution the basis of sound advancement through economic Independence. Their ambition, is to have 1,000 or more citizens with $100 or more on reserve above their living expense in an enterprise controlled by their own group. Such a position will enhance the esteem among other racial groups and its potentialities in improvng health, housing and all influences retarding the advancement of Negroes. The program of the finance corporation is so planned that the producer of the smallest wages can enjoy the profits of this growing business. One may buy shares on the most reasonable terms, or purchase investment certificates on which is paid five per cent interest. The latter operates on the same plan as a savings account. Several prominent organizations have made this institution their depository. A man who is planning a trust fund for his beneficiaries has purchased a block of stock, the dividend from which will be used for his philanthropic activities. Money Always on Demand The Peoples Finance corporation has always kept faith with the public and made good on all promises. For the first place it paid a dividend and any stockholder needing funds was able to get the use of his money. This is one of the hopeful characteristics that distinguishes shares of the Peoples Finance corporation from that of any previous venture on a co-operative basis. About town the comments are the same: Homer Roberts, owner of the Roberts Motor company, says, “I have had considerable dealings with the Peoples Finance corporation and find they have succeeded far beyond the expectation of even the most critical." J. M. Sojourner, owner, Sojourner Printing company, says, “I believe in the corporation and my experience with it makes me believe that it is one of the most helpful enterprises we have in the community.” James Norman, Santa Fe freight department, thinks that every Negro in Kansas City who is able to work ought to own some shares in the Peoples Finance corporation. T. B. Watkins remarked that “of all the different movements to which I have contributed, I am most happy over the finance corporation." The officers of the corporation are well known Kansas Citians, all of whom have been active in civic and uplift activities in the community. The list of officers and directors follows: Dr. W. H. Bruce, president; T. B. Watkins, first vice-president; Dr. Wm. Blount, second vice-president;; R. L. Evans, secretary; H O. Cook, treasurer; F. T. Lane, manager; Alfredo Becerra, T.[ C. Chapman, Mrs. Myrtle F. Cook, W. E. Day, Dr. Lincoln Norwood, Nathan Thatcher, Mrs. Mary E. Bailey, Attorneys L. A. Knox and Claude L. Jones, legal staff and Mrs. Margaret Williams, bookkeeper.

ART OF NEGRO (Continued from Page B-1) writers and novelists who have achieved works of artistic significance. As far back as the Revolutionary period, we find Phyllis Wheatly writing poetry of some merit and considerable significance. Almost a hundred years elapsed between this poet who passed like a brief bright constellation across a midnight sky to Dunbar, the poet of love and laughter. Dunbar lifted his clear voice in lyric sweetness high above the din of racial conflict and sang of the black man’s love and joy, of his deepest hopes and aspirations. He was the first writer to use Negro dialect as a medium of poetic expression. His work, however, seldom reached the highest level of poetic form. Had his greatness rested quaint and charming dialect we solely upon the transcription of a should soon have forgotten him as we have many imitators. But he caught the wistfulness, the charm, the joys and sorrow that makes Negro life rich and colorful which has endeared him not only to his own people but to all America as well. With James Weldon Johnson we reach a sharp turn in the road. Johnson abandons dialect and the simple rural life that Dunbar loved to treat and strikes out into the deeper channels of Negro life and thought. He draws his lines closer to those c classic English verse and infuse them with a quicker beat which kept step with the rising militancy among Negroes during the ten years preceding the World’s War. In "God’ Trombones”, his latest work, he reached a level of artistic expression rarely attained by American poets. These poems are characterized by genuine religious feeling and are well sustained by simple powerful imagery. The poetry of Claude McKay added a strong and wholesome note to Negro poetry. There is a general feeling of sharp angularity and staccato like movement animating hi best verse. In “Color”, a volume by Countee Cullen, we find workmanship of great perfection. There is ease, precision, delicacy, fragility, and a general perfection of style which gives him a distinct position among Negro poets. Cullen has written another volume of verse "Copper Sun" as well as editing an Anthology of contemporary Negro verse. Langston Hughes has felt deeply the fierce peculiar rythms of Negro life and expressed them with great sensitiveness. He abandons entirely the humorous and sentimental appeal of dialect. There is no attempt to confine these strange rythms into the regular measures of classic English poetry. He took amazing liberties with his lines whenever the emotion or thought demanded. He adhered closely to Negro poetic traditions stemming directly from the unnamed creators of spirituals and folk songs. Excepting Toomer, no Negro poet has attained such objectivity as Langston Hughes. There are many young poets who as yet have not published volumes of verse but who have written poetry of great promise. Among these are Arna Bontemps, Sterling A. Brown, Helene Johnson, Mae Cowdery, Gwendolyn Bennett, Frank Home and Richard Bruce. "Cane”, a volume of short stories by Jean Toomer, marks the revival of this form of literary expression among Negroes. “Cane” deserves a very high place among American short stories. Toomer gives a feeling of having experimented with words checking their gravity with a view of giving each its particular color, sound, and tactile values. There is something elusive about the subtle and delicate strain of mysticism running through the book. “Tropic Death”, a volume of short stories by Eric Waldrond is a flash of the equatorial sun on the hard clean surface of polished stone. His style throughout is brilliant, clear- cut, and angular. The Negro has written a few novels. Some are important, others are merely sentimental records of his social and political frustrations. "The Fire in the Flint” by Walter White, however, is an impressive and important book. “Batouala”, by Rene Maran and "Home to Harlem” by Claude McKay are both fine novels. They are similar in a number of ways for both deal with simple unsophisticated Negro life realistically and without the glare of romance or the mist of sentimentality. In both novels simple primitive life dances to the quick rythm of strong elemental emotions. The art of painting among Negroes has had a much slower development than either music or literature. Several causes operate to produce this result. Painting in America seldom 11 thrived beyond the walls of gloomy museums. We see pictures quite as we see peep shows. For us in America there is a great vacuum between the first enthusiastic drawings of a child to the work of the great masters. We approach this void with no understanding and not a little hostility. Conforming to the existing social pattern Negroes have been drawn to those professions and callings which bring immediately results in terms of material wealth. Painting does not always pay in such terms. The artist should stand on a tradition inherited or borrowed and should be encouraged and supported by a public to whom this tradition is the outward and visible manifestation of a vital inner life. It is evident that the Negro emerging from bondage great and making the first steps toward economic security had no such tradition. The Negro Church gave hymns to black song makers who created the spirituals but to black painters it gave nothing. Even now the church is the one Negro institution that could give the artist adequate support. Notwithstanding the many difficulties a few Negro artists have emerged. Clothing themselves with a few tatters snatched from the traditions of others, they have expressed themselves. Notably among these are the two Spanish Negroes, Sebastian Gomez and Juan De Pareja. These men worked about four hundred years ago in the backwaters of the great Spanish traditions. Their work is adequate and in some respects quite wonderful. But they were too closely bound to the work of their great masters, Murillo and Velasquez. Pareja was the pupil of Velasquez and Gomez was the pupil of Murillo. They are also too completely isolated from their own peculiar traditions. A period of approximately three hundred years elapsed before we again reach an artist of sufficient merit to deserve mention. We finally get to E. M. Bannister, a New England Negro, who gained some distinction as a landscape painter during the last half of the past century. W. A. Harper, of Chicago, who died in 1910, had a short but brilliant career as a landscape painter. William Edward Scott, of Indianapolis, has painted a number of mural decorations. His form on the whole is slight and sketchy. His pictures lack proper organization. His use of plastic means rarely gets beyond literal representation. Hale Woodruff and John Hardwick are two young Indianapolis painters of considerable promise. Their paintings, however, seem too facile, too sketchy, and too confined to easy surface likenesses to current academic successess. Woodruff, who is at present studying in Europe, will undoubtedly dispense with the rather adventitious aid of broad vigorous brush strokes and arrive at an appreciation of the more solid values of painting. Although surrounded by the fierce rhythms of southern Negro life, Edwin Harleston is content to produce correct literal portraits and sentimental studies. Archibald J. Motley, who recently held a one-man show at the New Gallery in New York, has a great leal to his credit as a painter. During the past three years he has won number of prizes at the shows of the Chicago Art Institute. His recent pictures show noticeable modernist tendencies. In his imaginative pictures of East African voodooism Motley opens a field of great possibilities. However, I think, the lure of bazaar subject matter has grounded the artist upon the shallows of mere story-telling. In other words, the artist failed to realize the plastic power of light, color and space as true expressive means of achieving a work of art and succumbed to a rather easy type of melodrama. Finally, we come to Henry O. Tanner, who has been the colossus of Negro art for many years. His pictures have a quick sale both here and abroad. He is also a member of the principal academic societies in France and America. Tanner has Town fat on the ancient academic traditions of European art So far, he has failed to add to these traditions or make an original modification. There is a sad touch of irony in the vision of Tanner turning out his pictures of Jewish types in pious attitudes. Although African art has affected every phase of aesthetic expression from one end of Europe to the other it has failed to influence his work. The young Negro artist must solve three major problems. Outside of New York he suffers from neglect. His environment is usually unsympathetic or indifferent to his efforts. In New York he ails from too much fondling and pampering. He is also often abused by being woefully overrated. Greater than either of these the problem of his individual development. I think half of an artist’s life should be spent entirely in reparation for his work. Some men require books; others go to nature. Some need a teacher; others by great force of will succeed in cultivating their talents alone. Whether the resent art movement is to rise to s fullest possible expression or sink to a quick and unhappy ending will depend in a great measure on the artist’s ability to meet difficulties.

A DREAM COME TRUE (Continued from Page B-1) The dream of the late Madam C J. Walker was not of weath and power as such, but of them for the leverage they would provide for doing good. Her dream was not for an enormous commercial octopus but for a solidly entrenched, useful enterprise. That her dream was practicable is no longer a doubt; that it has come true is bespoken in the several monuments towering to heaven in more than one American city. The new home office and manufacturing building stands out, not only in realization of the dream of the late Madam C. J. Walker, but a fulfillment of her plans and wishes as carried out by her daughter, A'Lelia, who succeeded her as President and sole owner of the company, and her proficient associates. This fine, new testimonial of a lone black woman’s will to surmount barriers and succeed in the face of them is a show building as well as adapted most efficiently to the company’s needs. Like Villa Lewaro, quarter million dollar New York mansion of the late Madam C. J. Walker and present country home of her daughter, it contains the best that money can buy and is positively the last word in buildings of its kind. Efficient architectural use has been made of the 218 by 180 foot triangular corner lot which alone cost near $100,000, and rising from it is a magnificent structure of reinforced concrete, steel, hydraulic press brick and terra cotta, which houses five complete and separate projects: a beautiful theatre, a group of store rooms, factory space, office space and an auditorium, all fully equipped and costing around a million dollars. Each project is complete in itself, strictly fireproof and a harmonious unit of the entire structure which has many extraordinary features and reflects the historic development and progress of our race. The theatre, which is the finest in America owned and operated for and by Negroes, contains a main auditorium and balcony with 1,500 seats, is equipped with a $15,000 pipe organ, $5,000 gold grand piano, adequate stage, ladies and gentlemen’s rest rooms, smoking rooms, automatic washed air cooling and ventilating system, indirect lighting and elaborate decorations, etc. The offices, as a unit, are the finest group to be found anywhere in America in use by members of our race. This new building provides several thousand feet of much needed floor space for the even increasing business of the Madam C. J. Walker Mfg. Co. and will house the finest, most modem machinery for the manufacture of the twenty Walker preparations, marketed by thousands of Walker agents and drugstores throughout the world. The new Madam C. J. Walker building,—show place, mon[ument] [?] race progress that it is, is [a] worthy tribute to the vlsio[n] [?]sight, patience, planning, [?] of the late Madam C. J. W[alker] [?] a dream of her’s come true.

JOURNALIS[M] (Continued from Page B-1) the Negro preacher reaches [?] (once a week), can, by inviting [dif]ferent authorities in the va[?] fields of Negro life to give advic[e to]] their group in their particular f[?] simply multiply the work of the [Ne]gro preacher perhaps ten or a h[un]dred fold. There is no doubt of our pe[ople] still needing counsel and guid[ance] on the problems of life. In Penn[syl]vania there may be trouble at [the] coal mines; in Harlem there may [be] a multitude of complex proble[ms] [?] employment, social, housing, etc[.] [?] the South the farmers may be decided as what next to do; i[n the] cities of the South stimulation ma[y] be needed to get the proper [re]creation facilities; students may [w]ant to tell what they think will solve their educational ills; and so on through the whole gamut of our racial life and activity. Every week furnishes an opportunity to exploit either some new problem, or a new angle of some old problem. This has been the key of my feature work—trying to make the newspaper help the largest number in the best way. And also I have been able, through my newspaper connection, to make certain other contacts which I have tried to use to aid our group. For instance, it was my good fortune, through publicity in The Courier, to secure an hour on radio Station WGBS in New York. With the presentation of this hour I had the cooperation of some of our best musical artists, and this made a tremendous impression on the radio audience. Interspersed between the music I gave talks designed to present the better side of our group to the average white American who doesn’t know Negroes publish newspapers, or can sing anything except spirituals and the blues. "The Courier Hour" really paved the way for others to give similar programs on other stations. And in addition to this I have used my newspaper connection to try to get behind the scenes in the white world to see just what the average white man of affairs who is not a philanthrophist thinks of the Negro. I have interviewed B. C. Forbes, Julian S. Mason, editor of The New York Evening Post, H. B. Swope, managing editor of The New York World, Arthur J. Sinnott, managing editor of The Newark Evening News, Harper and Brothers, publishers, and Fannie Hurst, famous author. I found all of these people quite well disposed toward the Negro, and quite willing to receive me in the midst of pressing business to discuss the Negro.

PEOPLES FINANCE CORPORATION Paving the Way -- PROGRAM, CHARACTER and SERVICE are the vital points underlying the sound progress of movements and groups of people. The continued success of the Peoples Finance Corporation may be accredited to its board members who are well known and who have ever kept the public before them. Special Features -- Saving Service Paying 5% on Deposits. LOANS — on collateral, signers and mortgages — payable on terms. SHARES — the stock in the corporation is a profitable investment and can be bought on terms. ‘THE PEOPLES PLAN IS THE BEST PLAN FOR THE PEOPLE.” MRS. MYRTLE F. COOK, Director Secretary Homeseekers Savings and Loan Association B. L. EVANS, Sec'y. Building Contractor T. B. WATKINS, Vice-Pres. Undertaker DR. W. H. BRUCE, President Physician-Surgeon DR. WM. BLOUNT, Vice-President Physician H. O. COOK, Treasurer Principal Lincoln High W. E. DAY, Director Principal B. W. High, Sapulpa NATHAN THATCHER, Director Undertaker DR. T. C. CHAPMAN, Director Dentist DR. L. H. NORWOOD, Director Physician MRS. MARY BAILEY Director ALFREDO BECERRA Director F. T. LANE, Manager Director MRS. MARGARET WILLIAMS Bookkeeper-Cashier Counsel Counsel

[page 15] [Ka]nsas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27 1928 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY B-13 THE CALL’S PROGRESS EDITORIAL This is a great community! We knew it was getting ahead. But a newspaper is committed to one text: “Nothing is ever good enough.” We keep calling for more from habit, as the price the race must pay before it can realize its hopes. Week by week, we have been recording the growth of better conditions among us. We have told of the progress of schools and churches, of the multiplication of homes of our own, of the improvement in Negro business, of the sterling self-possession that has taken the place of the race’s former diffidence. Yet even we did not know how far the Negro in Kansas City and the Missouri Valley had advanced, until we tried to gather up all this progress in one edition. We apologize because our best endeavors could not do full credit to your achievements. We offer you our “Progress Edition” with pride in what you have done. We are so happy over the wonderful people that you are, that we are in no mood to apologize for our own shortcomings. After all, maybe we do not need to apologize. All that The Call is, you have made it. That you support us proves you believe we have honestly tried to serve you. No commendation could be sweeter to us. Life is a game of give and take. You and your newspaper work together for the common good. We help each other. Team work wins. Let us take heart from what we have done and keep on to the front, fighting with a smile, because after all life is worth living when Negroes, two generation removed from slavery, can make such a showing as does this community in this edition dedicated to its progress.

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SAMUEL B. WILKINS Linotype Operator FELIX M. MCGINNIS Solicitor and Collector W. T. “Billy” SMITH Special Writer J. D. HARVEY Pressroom Assistant EARL W. WILKINS Display Advertising Solicitor JOHN E. WATKINS Linoty[pe] Operator-Pressman

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Present Day Kansas City Far Cry From 185[0]

BEAR HUNTS WERE HELD WHERE 12TH AND WOODLAND IS TODAY “Society” Dwelled on Eleventh, Twelfth, Fourteenth and Walnut Streets; No Residence Segregation Then; Race Track on Charlotte and Twelfth by BILLY SMITH 1850! Three quarters of a century ago! Seventy-eight years! Streets had no yet dignified the “town” farther north from the river than 10th and no farther east of the State-line - than McGee. And this modest town space had not yet done very much paving in any direction. Where 12th street is now, especially that portion of it running through the colored district, was then a thickly wooded forest with wolves, wildcats, and even bears roaming with more or less freedom through it. One of the largest black bears ever killed in Missouri fell victim to the unerring aim of a hunter at what is now 12th. and Woodland. Covered wagons were still bravely outfitting here for the hazardous trip through the Rockies, and so west, to the “promised land”. The thrill of the discovery of gold in California in ’49 had by no means subsided, and the west-bound adventureres either had their wagons made in Independence by a Negro named Young, or else had him go over the wagons they had already secured with the view of his strengthening them sufficiently for the terribly rough Journey toward the “land of gold". Young is, perhaps the most interesting of early Negro settlers in these parts. Before the day of emancipation when all Negroes were supposed to have been set free, this giant figure of a man, who was like a sturdy black oak, was given his freedom by his master. Being an expert blacksmith, wheelwright and carpenter, Young began building wagons whose durability became famous from Kansas City to the west coast In addition he devised an especially powerful yolk that the strongest horse could not rip, and added it to his stock. No traveler dared start west at that time without having consulted Young as to his equipment and harness. it is now, the “Bottoms,” Dolds, the hostilities. Those folks were Young is said to have purchased several women from their masters [?] career and these concubines bore him numerous children of whom all trace has been lost by now. He was a sympathizer of the rebel forces when the Civil war broke out, and because he made wagons for the rebels, much of his stock and all his buildings were confiscated by the Union army. Later he became a wagonmaker for the Union army a tLeavenworth, Kansas and having botten back to grace with the victorious side. was later awarded compensation by Congress. He died in the early ’80’s with little of his former wealth left to him. By 1865 Kansas City had expanded in every direction, and some of the streets downtown (from about 8th down to the river, and over as far as Locust) had been paved, after a fashion. Neighborhoods had sprung up as far west as Troost, and as far north as 18th street. Beyond 18th street was still a heavily wooded expanse of uncleared timberland, but in the midst of the trees people were building cabins, and houses. Down in what was then called, as it is now, the “Bottowns”, Dolds, Armours, and Slavens packing houses were giving increasing employment to Kansas Citians, but not so much to Negroes. Later, when the white employees at Armours went on a general strike, Negroes were employed in their places so that in a few years the other packing houses followed the example of the fearless youth, Armour, and also gave Negroes much employment. In what is still known as Belvidere Hollow many Negroes and an equal number of white people lived with no hint of segregation or prejudice, side by side in rough shacks. They fought with and against each other in frequent, bloody "free- for-alls” but race did not figure greatly in the hostilities. Those folks were merely "tough.” In those days the river played a great part in the industrial life of the city, as barges, and big river "sidewheelers” plied up and down with freight of every imaginable sort, including human cargo. These boats were manned, except for officers and "mud clerks”, by Negroes, who made a singing game of the terrible labor of loading and unloading the freight on their tremendously strong backs, sometimes down a narrow gangplank leading from the boat to the bank, when there was no wharf, or wharf space available. In 1865, after all the slaves had been declared free the Bass family moved from its former master's plantation in east Missouri, electing to take its chance away from the "soft” living and sure meals obtainable there. And it is interesting to note that even after the Proclamation, thousands of ex-slaves remained with their “masters” under almost prescisely the same conditions as they had “enjoyed” before. But the Bass family was free and took immediate advantage of the fact by moving to Kansas City. There the elder boys scattered, but one remained with his mother, and in various ways managed to gain a semblance of an education. Part of it came from what was probably the first school accepting Negroes in Missouri, the J. Milton Turner school, which was established and maintained by J. Milton Turner and his wife. A little later, this youth, Minor Bass, continued and finished his education under Professor Bow- A KANSAS CITY INSTITUTION Evans’ Bakery Shop and Confectionary Always Good. Always on the Job. Always Reliable Bakers of Real Home Made Bread, Cakes and Pies. Extra Fine Pastries for Weddings and Parties Lunches Until Midnight A Race Institution That Has Become a Landmark on the Southside. | 2405 Vine Street Phone, Clifton 3637 — and upward! w ITH EACH year Negro business for Negroes continues to expand. Service, vision, and perseverance, all principles of this enterprise are embodied in these strides forward. Wholeheartedly we offer congratulations to every local endeavor aimed at the general community betterment. Drugs Candies -Free Delivery- Ice Cream Toilet Articles Prescription Work a Specialty The New REX Drag Store Clifford Jackson A. G. Anderson PROPS. 1803 Vine St. Harrison 9282 Lincoln Bldg ser. Shortly after, when he was twenty years old he went to a nearby country school to teach, but here the strong hand of Fate was in evidence, as it was all through his tragic life. He was recalled to Kansas City by his friends to run on the Republican ticket lor supervisor of registration, an important job in those days. He ran in spite of threats, and even actual shots fired at him, and was elected. He served in this capacity for one year, and ran for it again the next year, and old rumor has it that his enemies found it necessary to stuff the ballot box with fraudulent votes in order to defeat him. But he was defeated. The colored people were aroused over the matter so highly that Mayor Sever made him market master to appease them, a position which no Negro had held before, and none has since. Feeling between the two races ran high tor while but finally seeing that young Bass knew what he was about, the white people became apparently reconciled. In. addition to having the friendship of a number of white men high in politics Bass was the protege of Sam Jordan, who though not openly in politics wielded an unbelieveably powerful influence. When Thomas B. Bilene became mayor he showed especial favor for the brilliant, fearless young Negro who was market master of the largest matt in the mid-west. Bilene was the founder of Bilene, Moore, and Emery’s department store, of which Emery, Bird, Thayer is the offspring. Having been removed from his office by an administration change Bass was appointed to the city clerk’s office under Thomas Edwards. In 1889 he became first assistant clerk in the same office. In 1892 young Bass received an appointment as United States storekeeper and gauger, which appointment he refused on the score that he would not travel about for the government unless he received assurance that he would get equal living accommodations with white men holding the same position. The same year Bass had complete charge of Major Wm. Warner’s campaign for governor among the colored people of the state. Major Warner was defeated, but Bass became chief clerk in the city treasurer’s office. During all this time Bass was becoming one of the wealthiest men in the state, and did much for his race in the way of civic improvements, schools, etc. In 1893 he was appointed deputy U. S. collector, from which position he resigned in 1905. When he became deputy collector for the government Bass was frequently made gifts of fine liquors by men who sought his favor. Soon the once powerful man was reduced to a broken, drink-sodden | Victim of circumstance. Once he was able to make a determined effort at a "comeback”, but such an event was not to be for soon he had lost his money, his property, and all else. Today he is a bed-ridden inmate of the Jackson County Home for Aged and Infirm Negroes. “Liquor and false women blasted my life,” he whispers between coughing spells, from his cot at the home, “but my time is not long. I will be glad to go," he continues weakly, "for going will be escape from memories.” But his history is not all of Kansas City’s for the town was growing. Schools were being established in different districts. The old powder house in what was then the northeast part of town had been turned into the Douglass school. Lincoln school, which later became Lincoln high had been built at 11th and Campbell. Prof. R. T. Cole, one of Missouri's most famous educators, had himself established the Garrison school in what was then the Pleasant Green Baptist church in an alley near Independence and Tracy. And here is a good place to give credit to Mr. Cole not only for establishing a non-paying school when schools were badly needed, but for the establishing of manual training in the Kansas City schools, white and colored. The commendation of the school board for the "innovation," and the phrase “Father of manual training” are still to be found in the files at the main public library. Dallas Bowser, R. W. Foster, Parson Brown, S. R. Baily, John R. Jackson, Victoria Brody, Anna Jones and Prof. Gresham are among the illustrious honor roll of educators to whom the present generation owes much in the way of "clearing the path” in education. Their's were the hard days when a teacher’s salary was a mere pittance, the work tremendously hard and discouraging, and the prospects exceedingly dim for a much brighter future. Along about 1880 Kansas City began assuming a metropolitan air, what with a mule car that ran in a huge square from Main to Forest on 12th, down Forest to Independence avenue, over to Main, and so on; a fair ground at 12th and Troost, and a race track in the neighborhood of from 12th to 15th on Charlotte. At the time there did not seem to be any definite housing plan for colored and white people as such folks were too busy trying to live to think too much about racial differences. Kansas City was more of a western town, and "Get the money!” seemed to be the slogan. Negroes lived in houses and cottages which were scattered all over the city. At this time there began to be thickly populated districts, but the reason lay more with the desire of colored people to live together than anyone’s else wanting to pen them off. The Edwards family, the parents of Cl[?] Stella who were very popular belles, then lived at 11th and Walnut. Imagine that! The Perrys owned a nice residence where the Muelhebach hotel now it. The Jacobs lived at 8th and Locust and formed a popular center of attraction with their two beautiful daughters, Josie and Lena Rivers. The Jordans had “that fine brick mansion with the first bath-tub among our folks”. The house still stands between 11th and 12th on Campbell. Mrs. Kate Jordan, a noble woman who made a splendid wife to old Sam Jordan, and mother to all the Jordan sons, attracted the elite to her "mansion”. Across the street from the Jordans lived Captain and Mrs. Lewis Tompkins who reared their large family there. At 14th an Walnut lived the Deans and the Garrets, who were among the social leaders of that time, and held many fashionable parties at their residences. On the "west” side around 13th and Walnut on Penn, Washington and Summit, were other families such as the Pullams, the Stones, the Blakeys, and many others. Further west on the bluff where beautiful Kersey Coates drive now is, lived the Hubbels who are now among our most prosperous citizens, and the parents of the beautiful Mrs. G. W. Brown, the Colberts, whose pretty daughters attracted the east-siders to the bluff, one of whom is Mrs. Howard M. Smith, wife of Dr. H. M. Smith, and another Mrs. Dora Powell of Chicago, whose recent death was a shock to her many friends, and the last Mrs. Marie Cordell, who lives in Chicago. Mrs. Dora Powell was the first young lady of those prim times to ride a bicycle attired in what the present generation terms "knickers." And then in the same neighborhood were the Olivers, the fine family of Collins, the Beans, the Lusters, the Williams, and many more. Back on the east side many fine families had their little homes. On what is now the Paseo was home for the McCampbells, the Birchs, the Mayberrys, and others. Few houses were modem. There still stands a little cottage between 13th and 14th on Paseo where the attractive Maggie Smith was married to the dashing beau, Theodore Olay. On Lydia lived the Bouldins, the Baldwins, and the Davis, who were pioneer caterers. The S. R. Bailys were at 10th and Agnes, which in time became a totally white neighborhood. The Blake Browns lived at Linwood and Paseo, which was considered then "way out in the sticks”. The Bousfields lived at 11th and Holmes, and later at 30th and Chestnut. The Loves and the Bailys, the beautiful Mrs. Joe Hill and the popular Mrs. Sallie Rogers each presided, over an east side home. The Fairfaxs were on 14th street, the Elmores, and the Collins, with their golden voiced daughter Emma, who is now Mrs. Felix Payne also lived in that neighborhood. At 11th and Harrison lived Mother” Watts with her fine family of boys and girls, and nearby was Mrs. Jones and her daughter Frankie Kennedy. The Richard Allens lived on Campbell as did the Hollys and the Days, and in the neighborhood also were the Willis, the Herndons, the Nixs and the Overalls. The old Union Depot was the place to go to see things. Here a panorama typical of the day unrolled itself swiftly. Travelers, many of them cattle dealers, in wide hats and high boots, with “six-gun's” protruding from their belts, and roughly garbed miners, strode noisily along the streets, or else dived quickly into one of the many saloons along the way. Indians dressed in full tribal costume were frequently seen, lurking outside the saloons which they could not enter, buying bright materials in some, of the stores or sitting on a curbing calmly aloof in the midst of the hurrying crowd. And then there were the "mere” travelers garbed in fashionable frock coats, and high hats, or else full dresses with a tiny, feather bedecked hat perched atop an elaborately coiffeured mass of high piled hair. Mrs. Elizabeth Colbert, who lived on the bluff, and whom everybody knew and loved, was the kindly matron at the old Union Depot. Across the street on Union avenue, was what appeared to be continuous carnival. Hawkers crying their wares loudly, ticket scalpers entreating, or almost forcing their bargains on one, saloons wide open with the sign “Free Lunch” prominently displayed; restaurants large and small doing an enormous business, stores with gaily decorated windows offering souvenirs at prices "dirt cheap”. And occasionally the big thrill of seeing the streets quickly cleared as the strident shout: “Look out for the steers” rang out when some of the half-maddened creatures stampeded wildly down the main thoroughfare. Along the streets were no flashing motor cars, or even self-driven street cars. The cabby and his high hack and prancing horses were the stylish means of transportation. Once in a while one of these vehicles would get loose on the 9th street incline and come sliding down to the foot of the steep hill bottom uppermost. In those good old days everybody knew everybody else. No new teacher came to the town unheralded. And to board the teacher was a very great honor. It gave one eclat, and considerable prestige. Doctors and dentists, rare gentlemen, were accorded every social privilege, and courteous attention; and they took part In every civic activity. The "railroad men” were having their balmy days as many were employed and tips were generous and frequent. These stalwart pioneers were the means of many of the present generation’s education, and most of the professional men of today can trace their success back to "Dad", who was “on the road.” The vicinity of 10th and Charlotte and Campbell was called Church Hill, as Allen Chapel and Second Baptist churches were the center of church life, and the Meccas of Sunday crowds. Rev. Bacote, a handsome youth, had recently taken the helm at Second Baptist, and his "powerful” preaching was the talk of the town. The little Episcopal church at 10th and Troost stood bravely where it stands today, and Vine Street Baptist church was the fashionable place for the young folk to go Sunday night. It was “way out” on 18th and Vine, almost in the country. The Coates Opera house, then the leading theatre, was the scene, once each year of a drama produced and staged by Miss Victoria (Vickie) Overall This organization was in those flays considered rather marvelous. The members of the company beside Miss Overall were Samuel Middleton, Wm. M. Thomas, Leonard Johnson, Felix Shaffer, William Houston, Harry Lynn, Josie Jones, Annis Garret, Jennie Watts, Anna B. Colbert, and Olivia McCampbell. The once a year performance of this company was the event of the season, and everybody came. The beau brummel of the day, dashing young gentlemen who rented dress suits, glittering cabs, land boxes at the performance, proudly escorted daring young women who wore gowns that were in that day considered "decolette.” The old Vendome dancing academy in the downtown district was popular for the invitational parties and balls, and here the soldiers newly back from the Spanish-American war were welcomed for the heroes that they were, and were highly feted. Captain Leon Jordan was frequently an honored guest as were George Love, Phillip Scroggins, and others now forgotten. At the old Turner hall which was at 12th and Oak streets, society was often gathered at a “ball” to indulge gracefully in the waltz, the quadrille, the lancers, and the decorous two-step. One’s escort, if he considered himself at all modem, had to procure a carriage in which to arrive in state. Those dapper beaus of the ’90’s, "Jim” Baker, Theodore and Edward Clay, Pruitt Simpson, George and John Day, the Blakes, the Jordans, and hosts of others were the envy and the despair of less gifted young men of the town. Hospitality was a great factor of the city’s charm in those happy days. During the Christmas and New Years holidays everybody kept "open house” and dispensed enormous quantities of fragrant, rich egg-nog, wines, fruit cake, and much Compliments JULIUS MATLAW OUR JULY CLEARANCE SALE NOW GOING ON M a tl a w 18th & Vine Harrison 9604 else. It was a season of gaiety in which everybody had a part. The Blake home at 1725 Main was the favorite place for the "club” boys to entertain and receive. All during this time Kansas City was gsowlng, stretching north and east. Colored people lived thickly on Paseo from 12th and 17th for a while but finally they were bought out, some of them, by white people who saw the beauty of the neighborhood. As it happens the identical spot where colored people chose to live many ytars ago, has again reverted to them. Eighteenth street was no longer the border of heavy woods, but was beginning to be a business district. Farther north streets were being paved, gas lights were being installed, and motor can were making their first spectacular appearanies. Various new schools had been established for Negroes, and the opportunities for teashers bad grown greater. From 17,000 Negroes in 1889 Kansas City’s colored population was growing steadily. L. c. Stewart, prosperoos realtor of the present, had established the first high grade grocery store among the race. From the first Negro physician to come to town, Dr. John Brown of Howard arohnd 1875, many more had fohnd the city a profitable field. In the order named came Dr. James Henderson, in 1894; Dr. J. D. Ball, 1895; Dr. L. J. Holly, Dr. Howell, who turned from preaching to medi- cl nein 1895; in 1898 Dr. T. C. Unthank came, and relates buying succulent 10 cent meals at a boarding house operated by a Mrs. Tyler in the West Bohttoms; then came Dr. M. H. Lambright in the same year; and then came Dr. Shannon, and in 1900 Dr. Chapman, Kansas City’s first Negro dentist. Then came Dr. Dibble, and Dr. McRay, Dr. McCamty, Dr. Key, and a little later Dr. Perry. Those were the pioneer medical men who all had hard straggles to get a footing as patients were only charged a small fraction of the present day fee for treatment. And those are the men who put Kansas City in the front ranks of the medical world. The high school at 19th and Tracy then became a fact with that grand old man, Prof. Gresham as principal. Even then the alumni of Lincoln high school gave dances every year to provide the grads with honors. It is a far call from the days in the ’90s when the annual picnic given for all the schools was held in a now nonexistent park south of town which was gotten to by means of a special train boarded at the old Union eDpot, to the ultra-modern entertainments held for graduates of this day. Then the rough element from the bottoms invited itself and generally ended the picnic in a free-for-all fight. Beautiful Troost park at 27th [?] Paseo was then an amusement p[?] with chute-the-chutes, roller-co[ast]ers, merry-go-rounds, and b[?] upon which one could be ed without question as to race, one could enjoy an ice cream a[?] at 12th and Main without being suited. People who have lived through years period discussed and who have [?] in away marvel at the change wro[?] as in in a mere "half-century." I w[?] what the fellow will have to[?] who attempts such a "piece" as done a mere "half-century" now? And I wonder if he will to deal with facts of race ha[?] and segregated living places Tempus fugit! The Walter Williams Tire Co. 1722 E. 18th St. Vulcanizing, Repairing New and Used Tires For Sale ANY MAKE Road Service Harrison 9024 Business Grows Larger Each Year. Compliments of — D. T. GRANT Modern Cleaner 1831 Paseo Harrison 8684 BANKERS INSURANCE COMPANY CHICAGO Sells Life, Health and Accident Insurance in all its forms to any one. It is an Old Line Insurance Company incorporated under the State laws of Illinois with a Capital Stock of $250,000.00 which is guarantee to all policy holders. P. C. James began with the Company in 1915 and has been on the job continuously. In 1918 he was eelvated to District Manager and since that date has had full charge of the Company’s business here. Interviewed on the subject of the local agency of the American Bankers Insurance Company of Jacksonville, Mr. C. Y. Rowe, Vice President and Treasurer of the Company, made the following statement: “Kansas City, Missouri is the home of one of the strongest and best organized agencies of the American Bankers. Our District Manager, Mr. P. C. James, who heads the local organisation of Kansas City, has been with the American Bankers Insurance Company 13 years. Mr. James is one of our civil minded men who has always rendered valuable service to the community outside of his own business and at the same time, has held high the standard of the Disability Business in Kansas City. "Every year his agency has made progress under his efficient leadership. The Company considers its connection in Kansas City a very fortunate one for the many policyholders in that locality.” CAN YOU AFFORD TO HIRE A MAN TO TAKE YOUR PLACE when you are disabled from illness or accident? Let one of the American Bankers policies work for you then. Below is a partial list of those who followed this advice and what the Company did for them by way of CASH: Sol F. McGee, teacher .. $141.38 Dazzarine Fortson, teacher 11.60 Sallie Jackson, stenographer 15.33 Frances Johnson, nurse .. 38.32 Wm. Jefferson, Pullman porter Robt. A. Gordon, transfer 128.18 Louis B. Spears, teacher .. 35.00 ...... 32.00 Elmer Pullum, real estate 89.84 Mose Clarkston, porter ...... 20.00 John Oden, waiter 23.33 Edw. J. Brooks, chauffeur 25.50 Jas. Wiggins, janitor ....13.50Alonzo Plough, butcher .. 14.00 Earl Beck, J. Co. Home .. 24.95 Geo. Bailey, teamster .. 59.38 Felix McQueen, freight handler G. A. Sparkes, garage-owner 52.00 H. O. Cook, Pr. L. H. S. .. 20.00 ...... 10.00Guion Taylor, musician ...... 30.00 Dr. A. F. Radford...... 23.33 T. B. Steward .... 74.66 George Williams, janitor 56.00Fred Gilmore, janitor .. 8.67 These and many more were paid this winter, their claims being settled in a satisfactory manner by P. C. James, who gives all claims his special attention, no matter how large or small. ACCIDENT FACTS:— 24.000 persons were killed by automobiles last year. 780.000 persons were injured. The daily average was 65 killed, 2,140 injured. 2,006 persons were killed in street car accidents. 14,171 persons were killed in fires; 16,212 were injured. ONE DEATH IN EVERY TEN RESULTS FROM AN ACCIDENT. SICKNESS FACTS:— 3,000,000 persons are constantly ill in the United States alone. 1,052,200 persons die of illness every year; 2,800 every day; 120 every hour; one every thirty seconds. 27,000 people at home today will enter a hospital tomorrow. 1 person in every six suffers a spell of sickness each year. Think these facts over and see if you can afford to be with[o]ut HEALTH and ACCIDENT INSURANCE. It may be your time next. Your Motto should be:— “IT IS BETTER TO HAVE IT ALWA[Y]S AND NEVER NEED IT, THAN TO NEED IT AND NOT. HAVE IT." Agents Wanted P. C. James, District Manager 209-B Lincoln Bldg. Phones, Harrison 8129; Benton 7717. 18th & Vine St. Kansas City, Mo.

[page 17] [Kansas] City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY B-5

THIRTY YEARS OF SERVICE BRING RETIREMENT WITH HONOR

W. H. Hubbell at Three Steps in His Career. AT 25 YEARS AT 45 YEARS TODAY

Every community has its own favorite cases, stories which truly show self-development; stories which would put the books of Horatio Alger to shame; stories which make the successes told in popular magazines seem paltry gestures with little initiative and much luck; stories which in their pathos and hardship are incredible; stories of courage and vision rising triumphant over towering obstacles.

Hubbell Climbs the Heights Such a case is that of W. H. Hubbell, a Kansas Citian who early de[?]ed upon a career and with singleness of purpose followed it to a successful completion. He is the perfect diplomat in the science of catering to the needs of the public. He demonstrated tact when he worked for others in the Pullman service; he has continued to be tactful in his auto service and as manager of real estate. Letters, acknowledgements, records, show him to have the [un]ndisputed title to the claim for be[ing] [the] best Pullman porter the ser[vi]e could ever boast of. Mr. Hubbell has been a reader of The Call ever since it was founded in 1919 and has encouraged it from time to time by well-directed comment and helped it with suggestions drawn from his wide travel to all parts of the United States, as well as to the principal cities of Canada and Mexico. The Call came to know his wealth of observation and asked him again and again to let its readers hear his life story. He has just consented. The Call regards itself fortunate to be able to tell the career of one who made a superlative success of Pullman employment, an activity followed by thousands. Born in Richmond, Missouri in 1861, Mr. Hubbell, dissatisfied with his unpromising environment, and seeking an outlet for his youthful ambition, left home when he was seventeen years old to improve his condition and mould a place for himself in the great outside world. He went first to Columbia, Missouri, where he stayed until 1883. Thirty Years’ Service Leaving that city after a short time, he went to Omaha, Nebraska, and there found his career in the Pullman service. Two years later he was transferred to Kansas City, Missouri. From then until 1912, a period of thirty years’ continuous faithful service, he was employed by the Pullman company. In its service ambition beckoned him on. He did not stop with ordinary porter but graduated into the special class it super-excellent servitors entrusted with special parties. The task of handling people in large groups is as difficult as the marshalling and [m]aintaining of a small army. This [?] particularly true when the people [ar]e brought together as railroad pas[se]ngers. There is no means of disciplining them, and they are indivlduals governed by nothing but their own desires. In spite of the difficulties of the work, the long hours, and the necessity of pleasing every guest in turn, Mr. Hubbell, after making a careful study of this special work plunged into it with rare success. In Heavy Demand He made a scientific examination of each detail of his job. He eliminated unnecessary work, planned efficiently the duties that had to be performed, and made courtesy and personal service the keynotes of his endeavors. When he carried his efficiency program into action, it was not long before he was in heavy demand by guests who at one time or another had experienced his excellent service. After a time, so heavy was the demand for him by individual parties, that he was put solely in charge of special cars which were chartered by private parties for business trips, expeditions, and general pleasure Here it was that Mr. Hubbell came to the crowning point of his work. His unfailing tact, diplomacy, and courtesy in handling these parties brought him letters of commendation from men all over the country. Time and again, letters were sent not only to him, but to the Pullman company, praising his service, and requesting that he be assigned to the same party at future times. One of the first letters, dated June 27, 1899, takes up the matter of transferring Hubbell to the private car of John C. Fisher, a California theatre man. To show how greatly Mr. Fisher was impressed with Mr. Hubbell, he says in opening his letter, “I expected on my way from the East to catch the Limited that left Chicago on May 27th, and have further talk with you in reference to yourself .... ” Letters Give High Praise A series of letters interesting in content, and uniformly praising the excellent service of Porter Hubbell followed. Another unique one is dated April 4, 1906, and came from P. J. Morgan, head of an internationally known Cleveland lithographing company. “As I left the Stillwell party unexpectedly at Wichita before the trip was entirely consummated, I was unable to properly thank you for your extreme courtesy to me on our journey to Mexico. I wish therefore, to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for your many thoughtful acts in making more enjoyable a trip I shall always look back upon with a great deal of pleasure. “Courteous, always willing. Obliging and competent, your ability stands out in startling relief in comparison with the best of Pullman porters today.” W. H. Rhodes, cashier of the Lewistown National Bank of Lewistown, Ill., another member of the same party mentioned just above also sent Mr. Hubbell a letter of commendation: “ . . .. I want to take this means of expressing to you my appreciation of the services rendered to members of our party in general and to myself in particular … You naturally came into personal contact with every member of the party, and the general impression was that no better man for the place could have been found. Uniformly kind and courteous, and always attentive to your duties, you certainly made appreciative friends of all.” “Most Efficient Porter” One of the highest written tributes Mr. Hubbell ever received came from T. B. Campbell, president of the St. Joseph Commercial club in 1904. The letter was written to the superintendent of the Pullman company. “I have traveled much and have seen many Pullman porters, but in my judgment Hubbell proved himself to be the most efficient and courteous one that I have ever known. His attention to business, his politeness to all on board was a mark of comment on the part of all members who occupied his car … I take pleasure in certifying to the efficiency and competency of Hubbell.” In 1907, the Commercial Club of Dallas sent the warmest letter of congratulation in the whole list of impressive letters in Mr. Hubbell’s collection. The letter was signed by Vernon Beggs, assistant secretary of the club. After pointing out that Mr. Hubbell was with the Dallas Commercial club expedition by request in 1905 and 1907, and missed the 1906 trip only because he was otherwise busy at the time it occurred, the letter goes on to say: “In all the experience of the undersigned, with special parties, and with Pullman porters, he has never met a more efficient, tactful, polite and capable man than Hubbell. At all times his demeanor and service was of the highest order. Even in trying moments his good humor and courtesy served to smooth out even the most roughened dispositions. “There was no task in the looking to the comfort and convenience of the party of a hundred business men of this city, which proved too difficult for Hubbell to undertake and accomplish. At all hours he was extremely attentive to his duties, and it is a pleasure to state that in the opinion of the members of the Dallas Commercial club excursion, we believe him the most competent Pullman attendant in the United States.” Kansas City Commends A letter from the Commercial club of Kansas City in 1910, sighed by E. M. Clendenning, general secretary, states: “We wish to say for Hubbell that for the past fourteen years he has had charge of one of the cars on our regular trade trip and we have always requested his services for these trips. We have found him most efficient, courteous and thoroughly posted in regard to his duties.” The glamor of the old days when Jack Johnson was in his heydey is brought back by a letter from the Kansas City delegation to the prize fight at Reno: “We the undersigned members of the Kansas City party to the prize fight at Reno, Nevada, occupying car Pinafore wish to testify to the efficiency of our porter, W. H. Hubbell. He has given us the most careful attention, has not left the car without our permission, and at all times the car has been carefully guarded. We consider him one of the best porters we have ever seen. “Philip O. Ray, G. L. Adams, T. C. Kelly, J. L. Purdue, M. K. Purdue, Chas. R. Young, J. B. Carey, C. L. Anderson, T. J. Pendergast, W. J. McKinty, Wm. Kelley, W. D. Scoville, I. A. Steiner, S. P. Cook- son, S. A. Butler.” A Higher Templar Commends Martin J. Houck, past grand commander, Knights Templar, of Ohio, writing in February, 1906, says: It has been my privilege on many occasions to not only accompany, but manage large tourist or excursion parties to almost all the prominent and large cities of the United States, none have ever proved more enjoyable than Trip No. 6, “Stillwell Pilgrims,” to Mexico, in January last. “Permit me to say, that in all my experience, I have never met a more capable man, than yourself, in charge of a buffet-car, and I have employed many. Your conduct was at all times gentlemanly, discreet and exhibited a high order of ability in catering to the wants of a large party of gentlemen. “I can most cheerfully recommend you as one possessing capability and fitness for any position in your line, even the most exacting.” Charles Zoller, Jr., agent of the Fidelity and Casualty company, of New York, living in Greensburg, Indiana, writes in May, 1906: “Having returned from the ninth Orient Pilgrim trip through Mexico and the Southwest more than three weeks ago and getting settled to the usual business routine, I wish to express to you my appreciation of your services. I have had the pleasure of being a member of several trips of similar character and have come in contact with many men and various parties but I think one of the most trying tests on one’s nature and nerves were given the Pullman porters on the sixth and ninth “Stillwell Special” and especially do I want to congratulate and commend you on your congenial and ever-ready manner in attending to the wants and wishes of such a large party. My attention was more than one time attracted by the late hours you were compelled to keep and by the pleasant “good morning” smile and bow that greeted each one of us, so early at times the following morning. It certainly would be a pleasure to me to recommend one Wm. H. Hubbell at any time in any capacity.” Retires With Honors Until May of 1912 Mr. Hubbell stayed with the Pullman company, continuing always to give the same high grade of service with which he had started out. He retired May 20 of that year with all the honors which could be bestowed upon him in the capacity in which he served. He left the service with the high esteem of all the officers above him, with the goodwill of thousands of people who had met him in the course of his work, and with a reputation among both his fellow workers and his superiors for extreme courtesy, honesty, and efficiency. Upon leaving the employ of the Pullman company, Mr. Hubbell intended to devote himself solely to the care of the many real estate holdings which he had in Kansas City. After being at home for a few months he saw the need of automobiles for his people to ride in as there were very few cars owned by white people at that time and none by colored at all. Develops Auto Service Shortly his business grew to the point where he needed a larger and more powerful car. To satisfy that need, he bought a seven-passenger Cole Eight sedan in 1916. Since that time, he has always used the same make of car in his growing business. He has today one of the best equipped and finest cars in the two Kansas Cities for his type of business. He has a second time registered success, and has been enabled to add to his real estate holdings, which consist of both business and residence property. Since the beginning of Mr. Hubbell’s auto service, many taxi lines have started and flourished, but his business has never been affected, and is today as prosperous as ever. He caters to both white and colored patrons and does a large business with both groups. Mr. Hubbell’s extraordinary success in the two lines of endeavor which he has tried show conclusively that ambition, steadfastness, ability to plan and persevere, and courage are the essentials to the success of any man. The community counts W. H. Hubbell reliable. The same habits which were his when he was an employe, and now when he is his own boss, make him useful for public causes. He is not given to taking part in every little matter, but when he does move, he carries conviction. eKeping everlastingly at it, doing it a little better than anybody else, is proved by his career to be the sovereign recipe for success.

CIVIL RIGHTS (Continued from Page B-1) the politicians were stealing and grafting as never before, and it was impossible to get funds to establish a real and permanent Freedman’s Bureau. The civil rights of the Negro, therefore, had to follow his slow, economic emancipation. Most of the states introduced Civil Rights Bills which had to do with intermingling in hotels and theatres and restaurants. Through judicial interpretation most of these became dead letters, although in our day. a new set of more carefully drawn laws are very effective, particularly in the state of New York. These covered, of course, the less important part of civil rights. The greatest of civil rights has to do with work and wages, travel and treatment in the courts. In the South, travel was restricted, not only by the insult of the “Jim Crow” cars, but by every device to prevent labor from seeking higher wages and better conditions. Work was so hedged about by new legislation that the freed man became a peon in the Mississippi bottoms and the lower South, and unskilled workers at low wages in most of the country districts. In most states to leave a job was to go to jail. Only in the cities and larger towns did the Negro achieve the right to work as a skilled worker at something like decent wages. In the North, the Negroes for a long time had little chance to acquire technical skill and they became chance laborers and servants; they were carefully excluded from suffered in the courts. A distinct set of laws and customs made him in the South either the victim of excessive punishment, even extending to mob law and lynching, or what the organized labor movement and herded into slums. Both North and South the Negro was just as bad, a victim of no punishment so long as his delinquency was confined to his own people or one that made him more easily exploitable by the whites. In the North, like all laborers, he suffered in the courts chiefly because of his poverty; although in some cases he received savage sentences. Out of this morass the Negro has gradually but steadily made his way. It has not been a matter of better laws but gradual rise in the respect of the community. It has become increasingly difficult to classify all Negroes in a lump and discriminate against them. The economic power of Negroes as consumers has risen so tremendously that their wishes must be regarded. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the Negro, therefore, is gaining his civil rights. He has gained more defenders in the courts through his own lawyers and interested whites. The very precariousness of his situation before the courts in the South has so reacted that Southern courts either must reform themselves or white civilization is in serious danger. The World War brought the Negro his first chance since freedom to sell his labor on a wide scale to the nation at a decent price and the Great Migration resulted in bringing thousands of black labors to places where they could get better wages and treatment and even pound open the sealed doors of some of the labor unions. Every advance, however, brings new areas of oppression in civil rights. Particularly in recent years has prejudice found expression in residential segregation as well as in the boycott and riot after the migration. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been particularly engaged in breaking down segregation laws and bringing the matter before the courts both North and South. Today the individual Negro who has achieved economic emancipation: that is, who has good employment at reasonable wages, and who lives in the more civilized parts of the United States, can enjoy a fairly full measure of civil rights as an American citizen. Of course, when he travels South he may find still the “Jim Crow” car compulsory in certain regions. If he wishes to build a house and move into a new residential district at home, he may find difficulty about the purchase and the terms. He would have difficulty in sending his child to a private school, and if he lives in Gary, Indiana, even to a public high school. If such a man lived in the South and in the country districts he would be under severe civil restrictions; he might possibly vote, live in a good neighborhood and be protected in the courts; but he would always live in fear of unprovoked aggression; he would often find no decent schools for his children. In the city, schools for colored children would be more crowded and less well- equipped than those for whites. The Southern city Negro achieves independence and civil rights by erecting a more or less complete city within a city; he is only a large part of the most exploitable class. Whites strive for colored stores, theaters and real estate developments run by whites. Negroes contest this and political power determines the issue. On the whole, the battle for civil rights which the Negro has been fighting for a century or more, white not entirely won, has had an astonishing series of victories and gained so large an amount of territory that today there is no question as to the legal rights of American citizens in the North. It is a case of enforcing the laws and insisting on Justice on the part of those who can afford it. Throughout the South is it more and more a problem as to how the Negroes can be kept from a reasonable and increasing enjoyment of the more important civil rights. the ultimate in service There are only certain things which an under taking establishment can do. It cannot assuage grief, but it can, by caring with finesse for each detail of a grief-filled period, remove all worry from the stricken family. For years this firm has excelled in sympathetic service, an aim which it will continue to uphold. Public confidence clearly reflects our untiring efforts to furnish personal and understanding attention to each client. Interior of Office The Fleet T. B. Watkins WATKINS BROTHERS, UNDERTAKERS 1729 LYDIA AVE. HA. [?] HA.

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KANSAS CITY'S PROFESSIONAL GROUP IS ABREAST OF THE TIMES Doctors Dentists and Lawyers Offer Examples of Real Ability Which Has Given the City Reputation Kansas City is one of the great medical centers for Negroes. Nowhere else in America is there three hospitals, with two of them grade A. In all, the grade A institutions are Freedman hospital, Washington, D. C., Mercy and Fred Douglass hospitals in Philadelphia, Provident hospital in Chicago, Flint-Goodridge hospital in New Orleans, City Hospital No. 2 in St. Louis and two in Kansas City—Old City, soon to be called City Hospital No. 2 and Wheatley- Provident hospital. Feeling that the public here and elsewhere does not realize the singular distinction that Kansas City has, and believing they have taken the excellence in their midst too much for granted, without thought of the men who make it, The Call has asked a number of the doctors to give the facts about their preparation for their profession. Some are not given here who are worthy, but these whose life medical story is presented in brief, are a galaxy of which any city can feel proud. Among them are men of whom The Call editor has heard leading white doctors, doctors who loom large in American medical circles, say they would as Boon have a member of my family treated by Dr. So-and-So as any they know.” A prophet is without honor in his own country, so the saying goes, but these men who have given their time to clinics, who have labored to get hospitals, who have lectured the public on how to keep well, and who have a pride in their profession, are worth a place in the public’s affections. They are given in alphabetical order.

The Doctors DR. L. W. BOOKER Dr. L. W. Booker has held three positions in the public service, which require a medical man. He is now superintendent of the Jack- son County Home for Aged and Negroe[s] His first public was that of pathologist at Old City Hospital, a post from which he rose to be superintendent in 1923-24. Dr. Booker is a Hampton man, having completed his literary work there in 1906, followed by study at Union University of Richmond. In 1917 he graduated in medicine from Howard University at Washington. He interned at Old City in 1918 and immediately began practice here. His office is 2128 Vine street. Dr. Booker is secretary of the Wheatley-Provident staff.

DR. W. HUBERT BRUCE Dr. W Hubert Bruce is president of the Missouri State Medical association. He has been practicing general medicine and surgery in Kansas City since 1913 when he came to the Old City as an interne taking special work to prepare for surgery. His is a product of Howard at Washington, having finished his literary work in 1906 and his medical work in 1911. Dr. Bruce made his first steps in medical work in Kansas City in connection with Dr. Perry's Sanitarium. Since then he has been active in staff work both at Wheat- ley Provident and at Old City, having held staff offices in both. He has been president of the Kansas City Medical Society. He is now assistant superintendent of Wheatley-Provident Hospital. Dr. Bruce adds to his medical activities an active interest in the Elks of which he is one of the leaders and past exalted rulers. Besides that he is president of the Peoples Finance Corporation, financial institution. His office is 1518 East 18th street, and his residence is 1216 East 26th street.

Kansas City attracted Dr. Walter W. Caldwell, after he had practiced [?] years in Atchison, Kansas. Kan[sas] [?] his native state. He had his [?] there in Topeka [?] Kansas State Nor[mal] [?] [Ka]nsas State Teachers [?] [Empo]ria, and finally was [?] medical doctor at [?] [T]opeka. He prac[ticed] [?] [?]ile in Topeka and [?] Kansas. When [?] [R]ichardson opened

DR. W. W. CALDWELL a special training course in the treatment of children’s diseases, Dr. Caldwell enrolled, and for two years, pursued studies at Mercy ward of Wheatley-Provident hospital and at Mercy hospital. He is now certified to be worthy to be called a pediatrician. Dr. Caldwell lives at 2131 East 24th street, and has his offices at 2432 Vine street. An interesting side light on the career of a Kansas Negro physician is that prior to coming to Kansas City Dr. Caldwell had always belonged to the county association of doctors, along with the white physicians. He has the distinction of honors for scholarship earned by his girls who have been attending Kansas University.

DR. R. C. HAYDEN Dr. R C. Hayden is a practitioner of long experience. He began in this community at first on the Kansas side, but now is on the Missouri side, with offices at 18th and Troost avenue. Dr. Hayden is a graduate of Meharry, which he entered after college preparation. He has been diligent and recently set the town a-talking about the nifty new apartments he built on the land adjiining his residence at 2018 E. 16th street.

DR. A. PORTER DAVIS The Negro doctor will find a place in the public service by election if the voters in the primary, select Dr. A. Porter Davis as the republican nominee for coroner. Dr. Davis is actively in the race, putting all his vigor into the campaign, and has hope of winning, because he has been able to do other things admittedly hard. Dr. A. Porter Davis, a son of the Lone Star State, was born about thirty-seven years ago in a log cabin in Palestine, Texas. He received his elementary education here, having been graduated from the Lincoln High School in Palestine at an early age. He. was a graduate of the class of 1913 from the Meharry Medical College. In his junior year he passed the State Board of Tennessee Medical examiners and is now licensed to practice under the state laws of Missouri and Kansas, where he has practised for the past fifteen years. Dr. Davis has shown his intense Interest in the civic affairs of his community by his continued activity in them. He has laid much stress on the colored people making greater and higher demands for representation in the local governmental affairs. Some years ago there were no Negro policemen on the force. Dr. Davis, along with several other men of the race fought for representation on the force and now there are eight uniformed Negro policemen in Kansas City, Kansas. As a result of his single-handed effort there are now five colored visiting nurses on the visiting nurses' staff of Kansas City, Kansas. He Is now fighting for one of our race to be represented on the motorcycle squad and says he will not be satisfied until one of our own young electricians is employed by the Municipal Light Department. At a mass meeting of citizens protesting against the indiscriminate murdering of members of our race by officers of the law, he was appointed chairman of the Citizens’ Committee to investigate the death of Dr. Shields, a prominent dentist in Kansas City. In the case of the "Birth of a Nation” motion picture, he appeared before the Governor and the Attorney General as the head of a committee disproving and protesting against its showing. He was a delegate in 1918 to the "Equal Right League” which met in Washington, D. C., where demands were made upon the government for equal protection of the colored people to that of the white in all parts of the United States. Dr. Davis is just as loyal to his country as to his race. He was, at one time, enlisted in the State Guards of Kansas and made Surgeon-in-Chief of the colored battallion. In the great world war he volunteered his services and was appointed 1st Lieutenant of the Medical Reserve Corps of the Regular Army under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. Dr. Davis has founded a school of Aviation for colored people and plans to make a good will flight to the east this summer in interest of the school as he goes to the National Medical Association in Baltimore and the Grand Lodge of the Elks in Chicago. Dr. Davis has toured the United States from coast to coast in his own car and delights in giving his less fortunate brother the benefit of his experience of wide travel. He wants to be better prepared to serve his people and is striving to that end by pursuing a Ph. D., Degree at the Kansas University, having already spent two years at the Junior College in Kansas City, Kansas. Dr. Davis is a member of the following organizations: American Woodmen, K. of P., Elks, Odd Fellows and Masons. He is trustee of the Metropolitan Baptist Temple. He is connected with the National Medical Association, Kansas Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association, and the Missouri Pan Medical Association. Mr. F. LeRoy Cooke, the present commissioner of Parks and Streets appointed Dr. Davis as Assistant Health Director of Kansas City, Kansas. This is the first time a Negro has held this position. Much work has been done in this department during the past year in the way of preventing and checking diseases. There is one work that the Doctor, himself, values the most beneficial work he has ever attempted. It is the work accomplished thru the Davis Maternity Sanitarium, which he, himself, founded. It fulfills the long felt need of our race and is endorsed by physicians all over the United States, by Medical Societies, and by other societies not directly allied with the practice of medicine. This is the work to which Dr. Davis has consecrated his life and the work which he prays will become a monument to him and his race. This institution was founded in May 1920 after seeing the great need of an institution for the handling along ethical lines, those cases of young colored women who have made the unfortunate mistake of becoming prospective mothers outside the social status of marriage and who wish to rectify their mistake without disgrace to themselves or their family. The eight years of operation of this sanitarium has meant much to its development. It has expanded from one lying-in room, one delivery room, and one combination kitchen and dining room to a spacious airy ward accomodating 30 beds, two private rooms, one moderately equipped delivery room, a nursery, a kitchen and dining room, and a large roof garden overlooking a portion of both Kansas Cities; from the one patient, a resident of Kansas City, Kansas, to the many patients who represent over half the states in the union. As an institution it does not undertake to do the impossible , that is, to solve the age old problem of the means for preventing such cases, the result of youthful passion, but sets itself to the alleviation of a condition that already exists and so long as human nature remains unchanged is likely to exist. Many girls have had their health and life protected by solving their problem with the obviation of criminal processes. Families all over colored America are more appreciative of their name that might have been dragged through the mire had their more fortunate neighbor known the family secrets. The physician himself can be a humanitarian now without laying himself liable to a life sentence for a criminal abortion. Some barren family is made happy by the addition of a smiling Innocent babe who might have been a blood clot floating down a stream. Many schools and colleges have been saved of an embarassing situation by the existence of this institution. The child also is benefited by bearing a family name and not being unnecessarily jeered at. The race as a whole should be benefited because it keeps our colored unfortunate youths, the race of tomorrow, from being socially ostracized, puts them back into the world, and gives them the chance to develop those latent talents and powers that make for progress and success of the race.

DR. J. E. DIBBLE Dr. J. E. Dibble has added to the general practice of medicine among families, a deep interest in medical attention to men in Industries. He is physician for the Kansas City Nut and Bolt Co., having taken that place in 1916, the same year that he became physician for the Hod Carriers Union No. 555. In 1917 he was similarly employed by the Kansas City Southern Railroad, and in 1924 he was appointed government surgeon by the employees compensation commission to look after civil service men. Dr. Dibble is a graduate of Wiley College, Texas. He received his medical degree at Meharry in 1900, and after practicing a short while in his home in Houston, he came to Kansas City. He has done work for the city in the contagious disease department and has been physician at the schools. He has been honored by the presidency of the Kansas City Medical society. He has his offices at 1518 East 18th street.

DR. C. R. HUMBERT Dr. Charles R. Humbert is a pathologist of national reputation. Because of his specialty, he has a varied residence and has served in different hospitals. He was educated, medically speaking, at Howard, interned at Old City hospital here, and there given the position of pathologist. He then studied at Rockefeller Institute in New York. He was assistant meningitis expert for Kansas City during the epidemic, and was city pathologist for a year. He then became chief resident physician at St. Louis city hospital. He returned to Kansas City to be pathologist and Roentgenologist at Wheatley-Provident hospital. He was then given the same kind of work in the U. S. hospital at Tuskegee where he treated 6000 cases of Tuberculosis and blood disease in 2 and one half years. Dr. Humbert has devised a method of making examination for stomach diseases which has been incorporated in a recent text book of medicine. He is now doing general practice, with offices at 1518 East 18th street.

DR. T A FLETCHER Dr. Thomas A. Fletcher is Kansas City's first general practitioner to stop general practice and specialize. He chose eye, ear, nose and throat, and applied himself to study for two years in the schools and hospitals of London, England, and of Paris, France, during 1921 and 1922, before beginning the work. He already had graduated in medicine from Howard and taken his interneship in Old City Hospital here. He had spent the years from 1914 to 1921 in general practice. Since limiting himself to the special treatment for eye, ear, nose and throat, he has been a frequent demonstrator at clinics in this city and in nearby states. Dr. Fletcher is on the staffs of three hospitals. He has his suite with the special equipment of his branch of medicine in the Lincoln Building, 18th and Vine streets. He lives at 1218 Michigan avenue.

DR. T. A. JONES Dr. Thomas A. Jones to the public is a general practitioner of medicine, but to doctors he is the anaesthetist, the doctor known far and wide for his ability to administer sleep producing drugs preparatory to operations. He is from Biddle University in North Carolina and Howard University. He interned at Freedman hospital in Washington. He practiced first in Washington and Philadelphia and then came to Kansas City. Dr. Jones has been president of the Missouri State Medical association. He is actively associated with the Knights of Pythias in a medical way. His son is now taking a pre-medical course in the University of Kansas. Dr. Jones lives at 1700 East 28th street, and offices at 1612 East 12th street.

DR. H. D. LYONS Dr. Harry B. Lyons is one of the original class who took special training at Mercy Hospital. He has received his medical preparation at Meharry, graduating in 1921, followed by an interneship at Old City Hospital in 1922. He then took the two years course in pediatrics, offered by Dr. Katharine Richardson. Later he took other post graduate work at Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Dr. Lyons is a graduate of the literary department of Clark University of Atlanta, Ga., finishing in 1917. He has his offices at 1623 East 18th street, and lives at 2444 Tracy avenue. His training in pediatrics makes him a specialist in children’s diseases.

DR. W. H. MADDUX Dr. Walter H. Maddux came suddenly to Kansas City’s attention when he took over the practice of Dr. Shannon, who until his death bore the reputation of being an internal medicine man par excellence. To fill such a place, Dr. Maddux had first the college training of the University of Kansas from which he graduated in 1914 and then the medical training of the university for two years, followed by the complete course at Rush Medical College, Chicago. Dr. Maddux has remained a student, and naturally entered the class in pediatrics when it was opened by Dr. Katharine Richardson of Mercy hospital. He completed the work and very naturally has been one of the mainstays of the Niles Orphan Home, in whose nursery picture he is shown in this issue. Dr. Maddux recently married, his wife being Miss Willa Mack, one of Kansas City’s nurses in charge of student nurses. They live in Kansas City, Kansas, at 846 Freeman. His office is 1618 East 18th street

DR. L. V. MILLER Dr. L. Virgil Miller is a Meharry man of the year 1912. Previous to that he had literary training in Bradley academy in his home town, Murphrysboro, Tenn., and in Wellen University. Later he went to the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, giving special attention to the diseases of women. In 1913 he took special laboratory training in the University of Minnesota, followed by a part term interneship in St. Joseph Hospital, St. Paul. Dr. Miller first practised medicine in Omaha, being the first race man on the staff of the Lord Lister Hospital there. He came to Kansas City in 1916. His office is 1426 East 18th street, and his residence is 2440 Paseo. Dr. Miller has made extensive realty investments.

DR. J. EDWARD PERRY Dr. J. Edward Perry is one of Kansas City’s well established physicians. with a special reputation for surgery. He is a graduate of Meharry Medical school of Nashville, and a post- graduate of the Post Graduate school of Chicago. He spent his years of early practice in Missouri, first in Mexico and later in Columbia. In the latter place, he was thrown into contact with the faculty of Missouri university, who appreciated his investigating turn of mind and gave him opportunities for observation in their laboratories. In 1903 Dr. Perry came to Kansas City, and despite attractions everywhere, he has remained here. He is a pioneer in hospitalization in Kansas City, having operated his own hospital, called Perry’s Sanitarium over a number of years. Later it was merged into the greater Wheatley- Provident hospital. He was made its superintendent, a position he has continued in, though without pay, for the sake of the good hospitals can do in safeguarding and restoring the race's health. He is on the staff of both that hospital and Old City. He is frequently called out of town for his services. In 1922 Dr. Perry was signally honored by being elected president of the Negro doctors of the nation who make up the National Medical association. Dr. Perry has also an extended record of public service outside his profession. In the Spanish-American war he was first lieutenant of the 7th U. S. Volunteers, the Negro troops called the "Immunes.” During the administration of Governor Hyde he was one of the curators of Lincoln university, Jefferson City. He is one man who is asked to help when civic movements are under way. Dr. Perry has his offices in a suite of rooms on the second floor of the Lee Building, 12th and Woodland. He lives at 2451 Montgall avenue.

DR. A. FRANKLIN RADFORD Dr. A. Franklin Radford Is a prod- duct of Kansas City, Kansas high school, the only Sumner graduate to be practicing medicine in Greater Kansas City. He took his medical training in Meharry, and naturally came back home for his interneship at Old City. That done, he again followed the natural bent and began practice here. He has given special attention to obstetrics. He has followed general medicine. Dr. Radford has taken an active interest in the Knights of Pythias and has been honored with a place on the medical staff of the Uniformed Rank. He has had charge of the medical examinations for all Kansas City that have been made during the membership drive the grand lodge has been carrying on this year. He lives at 2438 Tracy and has his office in the Shannon building, 1516 E. 1th street.

Dr. Howard M. Smith, is the present superintendent of Old City hospital and since his term of office is coincident with the city administration, he will be superintendent of City Hospital No. 2, now under erection to take the place of Old City. The new hospital will be the finest, though not the largest in the city. Dr. Smith is a product of the schools of his native city, Baltimore, and of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. He did his medical work at the University of Pennsylvania where he won his athletic letter as a track man. He did post graduate work in New York City. After a short period in Chicago, he came to Kansas City seventeen years ago. Here he has had an active career. He has been school

DR. HOWARD M. SMITH inspector; conducted a baby clinic in the North end under the supervision of the department of health; has been superintendent of the Jackson County Home for Aged Negroes twice, and has been always at the call of the children of the Niles home. He lives now at Old City, but keeps regular office hours at 2220 Vine street.

DR. S. H. THOMPSON Dr. S. H. Thompson is the veteran race medical man of Greater Kansas City. He says that Dr. Unthank followed him by six years, yet Dr. Thompson is the picture of vigorous middle age. He has kept himself young being busy. He received his literary education in Storer in West Virginia and in Fordham in New York City. He is of Howard’s medical class of 1892. He is a fixture in Kansas City, Kansas. He is still the superintendent and was one of the founders of Douglass Hopital at 336 Lafayette. When formed in 1898 it was one of four hospitals managed by Negroes in the United States. The others were in Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia. Dr. Thompson has completed 14 years as grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Kansas. He lives at 1321 North 8th street, and offices at 1512 North 5th street, over the Home drug store. As a practitioner he divides his time between general medicine and surgery.

DR. L. W. TURNER Dr. L. W. Turner is deputy coroner, the second Negro to hold that office in Jackson county. He is another of the doctors who took their finishing work as interne at Old City hospital. Dr. Turner did his literary work in Oklahoma City high school, taking his college degree in Wilberforce in 1917. He received his medical degree in Howard in 1921. Immediately after his interneship he began to practice here. He is ex-president of Wheatley-Provident staff. As deputy coroner has handled over 600 cases. It is to him that many homicides among Negroes are given for official inquiry. Dr. Turner offices at 1612 East 12th street. He lives at 2217 Tracy avenue.

DR. P. C. TURNER Dr. P. C. Turner is employed by the city in pathological work in Old City Hospital. His fitness to employ the scientific methods of the laboratory to diagnose disease, comes after a literary training in the Pittsburg, Kansas, Teachers College which he finished in 1921, and a medical training in Meharry College, Nashville, from which he graduated in 1925. He came to Kansas City for his interneship, remaining a year at Old City. He began practice in 1926. Dr. Turner has his office at 1830 Vine street, suite 2 and 3, and lives at 2928 Myrtle street. He spends his time in general practice in addition to his laboratory work.

DR. T. C. UNTHANK Dr. Thos C. Unthank is "T. C.” to everybody as though he had a copyright on those initials. Part of it is because he is Kansas City, Mo.’s oldest medical practitioner. He came to the city in the days when the Armours were down in the West Bottoms in personal charge of their packing house, and when a Negro doctor, a new thing in the city was almost a curiosity. He has lived to see the public depend on the Negro doctor as the race’s main health safeguard. Dr. Unthank was active in establishing Douglass hospital, and followed that by helping promote John Lange hospital. It is significant of the changes in the city, that this latter hospital, located at 1227 Michigan, was denied license by the city because it was in the heart of a white neighborhood. His third hospital venture was when he together with Dr. Lambright collected $1800 for a new hospital, from which effort grew the "Wheatley” in Wheatley- Provident hospital. Dr. Unthank has twice been superintendent of Old City Hospital, 1914 and 1924. His first interest in that institution was taken at the time when Mayor Henry M. Beardsley’s administration set aside $14,000 for the repairs of the building now In use by Negroes which was then made available because the whites had the new General Hospital. In his second superintendency, he was a leader in the movement to get hospital improvements, which were assured when the hospital bonds carried. Dr. Unthank lives and has his office at 1016 Woodland avenue. He has a son, Dr. DeNorval Unthank who has followed in his footsteps, being also a Howard graduate.

DR. E. A. WALKER Dr. Elijah A. Walker walked into the Call office back in May 1919 and said he wanted the honor of being the first subscriber. He paid for one year, and has continued a constant Call reader. Dr. Walker has offices at 1523 East 18th street and does a general medical practice. He is one of the best known of the city’s physicians, because of long residence and because of the active interest he took in the fraternities. Dr. Walker prefers to take his place in the "Progress Edition of the Call as its first subscriber.

The Dentists DR. A. R. EAGLESON Dr. A. R. Eagleson is a den[tist] with extended experience. He [?] Meharry product, who first prac[tic]ed his profession in Guthrie, O[kla]homa. After 8 years there he c[?] to Kansas City, and in 1916 was [?] (Continued on B-7)

[page 19] [Ka]nsas [C]ity, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928 “PROGRESS EDITION” CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY B-7 Our Professionals (Continued from Page B-6)

[?]er dental practitioner on east [?] [s]treet. He has been president [of the] Kansas City Medical society, [?] treasurer of the dental group. [He li]ves at 2464 Paseo, and his [?] at 1716 East 12th street. Dr. [Eagl]eson is a Topekan by birth.

DR. W. L. HAYDEN Dr. W. L. Hayden began the practice of dentistry on the Kansas side in 1912. He went over to during the World war with [th]e 350th Field Artillery and came back to practice in Walden University in 1907 and for dentistry in Meharry Medical school, in 1911. He has kept his office always at 2432 Vine street and lives at 1906 Howard street. Dr. Hayden is the county’s dentist, being given the dental supervision over the boys in the Jackson county boys industrial home and over the old people in the home for the aged and infirm.

DR. S. S. HILL Dr. S. S. Hill, dentist with offices at 1518 E. 18th street, Shannon building, has an office with equipment out of the ordinary. In fact he began his dental career in Kansas City out of the ordinary. He took an internship in dentistry at Old City hospital, doing in his line what the medicos do in theirs. Naturally be was influenced to locate here, and at once began gathering equipment. He does X-ray work and administers gas. Dr. Hill comes to Kansas City a graduate of New Jersey State Normal and of the Howard dental class of 1918. In his school days he was "some" baseball pitcher. Dr. Hill is one of the pioneers in dental inspection, starting in the days before the school authorities recognised its value. During that six years. Dr. Hill had no morning office hours, to permit him to make his visits to schools. He is now on the staff of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, doing the dental work of all its Negro employees.

DR O. D. PYLES Dr. O. D. Pyles completed his education in dentistry in Howard in 1918. He had already done college work in the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, from which he graduated in 1911. He practiced a short while in Washington and Annapolis, Maryland, and then came to Kansas City, opening his office here in 1919. Dr. Pyles has been especially useful to the clinic of Wheatley-Provident hospital and to the schoolchildren. He does X-ray work and administers gas. His office is 1201 East 18th street.

Dr. M. L. Taylor, dentist, moved to Kansas City in 1923, after an extended practice in Corsicana, Texas, his native state. He had been prepared first at Pra[r]ie View in a literary way, and then graduated from Meharry in 1910. Since coming here he has supplemented his training and experience by special work taking in Deener Dental Institute, specializing in extraction and making plates. Dr. Taylor has his offices in the Lincoln building, 18th and Vine, and lives at 22nd and Tracy.

DR. M. L. TAYLOR

Dr. A. B. Troupe is a dental graduate of Meharry of the year 1916. He had his literary training in Summer High school, St. Louis and in Texas College. After spending a period during the World War overseas,

DR. A. B. TROUPE he came to Kansas City to practice. He has offices in the Johnson building at 1621 East 12th street and lives at 2746 Woodland avenue. Dr. Troupe is equipped for the usual dental services and besides administers gas.

Dentistry caught a school teacher when Dr. A. C. Wilson received his degree from Meharry in 1926. Dr. Wilson, a literary product of Prairie View, Texas, taught both there in his native state, and at Tuskegee and at Kansas Vocational Institute, Topeka, Kansas. He came to Kansas City in 1926 to practice, and at first did the work of Dr. McQueen Carrion who [w]as sick at that time. Now he has his office at 1505 East 18th street. At the same time he maintains a west side office at 24th and Belleview. He

DR. A. C. WILSON is in charge of the dental clinic of St. Monica, 17th and Lydia. He is prepared for both gas and X- ray work.

The Negro lawyer in Greater Kansas City has had to face a peculiar condition. It is traditional on the Kansas side that Negroes shall sit on juries, appear in courts on an exact equality, and in all respects be indistinguishable from other citizens. On the Missouri side, as a result of an anti- Negro poltical campaign waged a generation ago, a Negro was a rarity on the jury up to four years ago. The Negro lawyer has therefore carried an undue burden in Missouri. In the face of these adverse circumstance the city has none the less had distinguished barristers. They have carried th edouble burden and won. Some of these men would have graced any race, and when judged by the depths from which they come, they are “progress" personified.

The Lawyers DAVID E. HENDERSON David E. Henderson, attorney at law, has had a varied experience, having been in both private practice and public service. At present he is in private practice, his offices being suite 32, Stubbs building, 645 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. He returns to it after four years spent as deputy county attorney. His other service for the public was in the office of the city attorney. Mr. Henderson is a graduate of Kansas university, in the class of 1904. He adds to its training a mind naturally gifted in the logic of the law, and a zealous pursuit of his profession which has made him richer for each experience in the courts. He bears the reputation of being a worker, one who diligently prepares each case. Civil and criminal practice find him equally at home. His reputation as a criminal lawyer is the best known, because of such celebrated cases as the recent trials of Mrs. Alma Cook and Dr. E. B. Tillery, both of whom were convicted with him as prosecutor. Besides being a success at the bar, Mr. Henderson is a useful man. He gives his time to the public and to the race and is both willing and able in the giving. He is a family man, living at 622 Troupe. His daughter, Alice, recently won honors in Sumner high school.

L. W. JOHNSON L. W. Johnson, attorney, has his offices in his own building at 452 Nebraska Kansas City, Kansas. He is one of the older lawyers of his city, having been admitted to the bar in 1899. He is of the practical school and got his training in a law office under a lawyer. In the course of the years he has been assistant city attorney, was deputy county attorney five years, and city enumerator 4 years. He is now attorney for several fraternities of his state, the Ancient Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, the Masons of Prince Hall Grand Lodge and the Brothers and Sisters of Consolation. Lawyer Johnson came much into the limelight for his defense of Mrs. Cook who was charged with the murdeer of her husband.

J. E. WESSON J. E. Wesson is the latest addition to the group of lawyers of Kansas City, Mo. He is a recent graduate of Howard Law school, having finished there in 1926, after graduating from the literary department in 1928. He came to Kansas City and associated himself with Attorney L. Amasa Knox, with offices at 1419 E. 18th street. He has shown his legal acumen already by raising a constitutional question in the recent trial of Oscar Jones of Independence, a point that required all day to settle. While he was overruled by the judge, the next day, Negro jurors appeared on the panel, the answer to the point in question. Mr. Wesson was associated with Mr. Knox in the Cleo Williams appeal.

L. Amasa Knox is a Howard University man of 1900 who had received his preparation in Petersburg, Va., Normal. He first practiced in St. Joseph when he came to Missouri, but moved to Kansas City in 1904. He is one of the organizers of the National Bar association and is active in the Missouri state group. In fact Mr. Knox has the public mind. He is attorney for the N. A. A. C. P. and has been for six years. He has given his services in case after case where the race good, not a fee was all he could gain. It was his threat to mandamus the county court which definitely set in motion the official machinery which resulted in the use of the Negro boys home as originally planned. Some years ago be appeared in northwest Missouri defending a friendless Negro charged with rape.

L. AMASSA KNOX Mr. Knox has been attorney for the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias for 18 years, for the Masons 8 years and for the Odd Fellows 3 years. At present he is making the race for the state legislature, with every prospect of winning the primary fight to represent the fourth district. He ran two years ago and missed by a small margin.

CHAS. H. CALLOWAY Charles H. Calloway began the practice of law in Kansas City in 1906, coming here soon after his graduation from the law school of the University of Minnesota. He was first associated with W. R. Morris in Minnesota and later with W. C. Hueston here. National honor came to Mr. Calloway in 1926 when he was chosen to lead the Negro Bar association of the nation. He has been admitted to practice beforee the Supreme Court of the Unitd States. Mr. Calloway is a Fisk man of 1901, a participant in many distinguished gatherings, one of the best known attorneys who lives in the West. He has always been called upon to speak in national campaigns. Race movements at home and the defense of race causes at law engage a liberal amount of Mr. Calloway's time.

CARL JOHNSON Carl Johnson is a Master of the Law through graduation from Boston University in 1921. He had previously had business training, having taken a course in Oberlin Ohio, Business College in 1914. He received his bachelor degree in law from Howard in 1920. Since coming to Kansas City to practice, Mr. Johnson has been retained as attorney by several enterprises. He is chairman of the trustee board of the Vine Streeet Baptist Church. He is at present the president of the Missouri State Bar Association. Mr. Johnson has his office at 1608 E. 18th street.

W. FRANKLIN CLARK W. Franklyn Clark received bis legal education in the University of Indiana after being prepared by a college course taken at Walden University. At first he practiceed in Los Angeles, but in 1919 he came to Kansas City. A brief partnership was followed by an office by himself now located in the Johnson building 1621 East 12th street He does a general practice of law, but finds most of his services in civil matters. His latest well-known criminal case was when Rev. F. W. Taylor was assaulted by Patrolman Jack Dalton. His first duty was the defense of Rev. Taylor, which soon changed over to prosecution of Dalton. Mr. Clark is attorney for the United Brothers of Friendship of Missouri. This position, usually only an honor, has meant hard work in recent years, and to date Mr. Clark has been able to get results for the order.

WESTERN COLLEGE $25,000 CAMPAIGN JUNE 1 TO OCTOBER 16, 1928 State Baptist Campaign for $25,000 In Progress — Western College the Beneficiary, President C. Lopez McAllister of Western College 2101 Woodland Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Uniform Plan of Campaign [Dea?]r Brother and Si[st]er Key Workers: Please note t[he] uniform movement for $25,000 for the [pur]pose of enlarging our educational work, and with your consent [?] must put it over. May we count on you in your local church, [Dis]trict and State? The plan in motion is: the local Church and all of its Auxil[ari]es throughout your Associational District, moving to raise [$?],000 for “Western.” This is not to displace any special plan you may have already [?] [o]peration to raise the penny per day from June first until our [?]e Convention next October, but if you have none, please adopt [?] and follow the suggested method. Report the money gathered from the local Church, or any other source through your District, between the first and tenth of aech month and at the same time, naming the church and the amount sent in. You will get a receipt for the same through our Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Dr. Charles B. Johnson, 412 N. Fifth Street, Moberly, Mo. It will also be reported through the papers monthly and finally at our State Convention on the Board.

The Method of Operation The Key Workers of the State are to, aside from their local Church (which means not only give freely, as an example, but enduce others to do likewise through personal effort and contact) talk about it in and out of the pulpit making it felt by advertising. They, the Key Workers of the State, are to work together with the Key Workers of the District viz: the Moderators and Presidents of the Women’s Convention, the Sunday School Convention, and the B. Y. P. U. Convention. These two classes of Key Workers, State and Districts are to blend their efforts with the most important and most outstanding of all, The Key Workers of the local Churches, viz: Pastors and Official Boards, Presidents of Mission Circles, Superintendents of Sunday Schools, Presidents of B. Y. P. U. and Presidents of all local Church Organizations.

One Penny a Day for Our Lord’s Work; Think About It. Rev. S. A. Moseley, President State Convention Sister Mary E. Goins, President of Women’s State Convention Rev. Charles B. Johnson. Cor. Secretary, State Convention Sister I. E. Maxwell, President State S. S. Convention Rev. D. A. Holmes, Member of Board of Management Sister Rosa C. Gipson, President State B. Y. P. U. Convention Rev. C. R. McDowell, Member of Trustee Board Rev. C. P. Morrow, Member of Local Board Rev. John Goins, General Missionary of State Rev. John T. Caston, Chairman of Campaign Committee Rev. C. Lopez McAllister, D. D., President of Western College

The Missouri State Baptist Convention has launched a campaign for twenty-five thousand dollars. If each member of the Baptist constituency should give one penny each day from June the first to the day of the sitting of the annual session of the Convention in October at Fulton, Mo., this amount and more will be fully realized. This can be done and nobody will feel the burden of the effort. Why not let the Baptists of Missouri pull together on this proposition, and put it over successfully.

WESTERN COLLEGE OFFERS OPPORTUNITY Western College offers many exceptional opportunities to young people wishing to complete the high school course, a College Course, a special course in Teacher’s Training or in Theology and in general Christian Work. The College occupies a wholesome site overlooking Kansas City. It is right in the City yet apart from the City. It has contact with the best churches, with the Y. M. C. A., and all the organizations that stand for improvement and advancement. Many opportunities are available for earnest and trustworthy students, who work all or part of their way through school. A few of such opportunities are offered at the school, while others are offered by good people of the city. The cost of attending school at Western College scarcely exceeds that of the cost of living at home. The total of $175 will furnish board, lodging and clothing for a student for nine months. The first semester of the College will open Monday, Sept 10, 1928. Those who are anticipating entering the College are expected to enroll on the first day. For further information address the President of the College. President C. Lopez McAllister of Western Baptist College, 2101 Woodland Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Western College Western College stands today as an exponent of the efforts put forth during the passing years along educational lines. The institution has developed rapidly in proportion to the money that has been given for its maintenance. It has done a great work in that it has sent forth hundreds of graduates who are today serving the people, their race, nation and humanity in general in a manner that is attracting everywhere. Failures are few among the graduates of this institution. A recent survey shows that these graduates are engaged in the leading professions, and are holding responsible positions socially, intellectually and religiously in the communities in which they are living. The twenty-five thousand dollars will place the institution in number one shape for doing a high grade of school work. Many difficulties will be removed by having sufficient funds with which to work. It is indeed encouraging to know through letters and otherwise, that all sections of the state are busy working forward to the full realization of this much-sought goal—$25,000. If every member is willing to make just a little sacrifice, this goal can be reached. We love old Western and we are going to do our best to see that the drive goes over successfully. Don’t forget to do your part for the DRIVE, for others are doing theirs. Rmember to meet us at Fulton to close the campaign, and rejoice with those who worked for the success which is surely going to be ours. The Alumni, Faculty and Friends are lining up behind this campaign. They are anxious to see it go over “the top.” Each one is expecting to make a heavy donation in order that others might fully realize that those who are directly interested are doing their "bit.” Every graduate and every member of the Faculty, and every friend has endorsed the campaign. All agree that NOW is the time. The College is to move into its new quarters within short. It is hoped that by the openng of the scholastic term that evrything will be in readiness to receive the student body in the new plant where larger and ample space for class rooms will be provided, as well as sufficient and comfortabe dormitory accomodations fo a larger student body. The probability of an increased Faculty as well as additional courses offered are attracting wide attention to Western College. The College has taken its place among other institutions excepting its lack of adequate space for housing its student body. Missouri Baptists will no longer allow this to be a stumbling block in the path of progress. DO YOUR DUTY TO-DAY. The Campaign Committee: C. LOPEZ McALLISTER, President of College.

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Political Advertisement

JOHN HAMILTON

TOPEKA ATTY. FLAYS RECORD 0F CLYDE REED IN SPEECHES HERE Produces Affidavits to Show Former Negro Railway Mail Clerks Were Embarrassed and Humiliated by Reed and Fired, Upon Trumped-up Charges.—Prominent Illinois Physician, and Missouri State Committeeman Make Damaging Statements Under Oath.—Five Thousand Held Spellbound by Scott, Who Hurls Bomb Into Reed Camp. Before an audience of four thousand people at City park, Kansas City, Kas., on Tuesday night, July 17, 1928, Elisha Scott, popular Topeka attorney, delivered one of the outstanding speeches of the campaign , when he flayed Clyde Reed’s record with Negroes in Kansas. For fifty minutes Scott held his large audience spell bound with his concrete facts and sound logic. At the conclusion of his address, he was rushed to Sixth and Quindaro where he addressed a second meeting of approximately fifteen hundred. Much comment has been aroused over the facts brought out by Attorney Scott. To back his assertions, two interesting affidavits were produced, read and discussed. The speaker invited anybody in the audience to come forward and examine the affidavits and interrogate the speaker. Not a voice was raised against the affidavits. Some of Reed’s supporters declared that if the affidavits were true, they would not support Mr. Reed for governor; The affidavits were from Dr. James I. Ford, a regular practicing physician of Springfield, Illinois. It will be remembered that Dr. Ford is the son of the late Major Ford of the 23rd regiment of Kansas. The other one is from Dr. E. T. Summytt of St. Louis, Missouri, who owns and operates the Summytt pharmacy located at 706 N. Garrison avenue. Dr. Summytt is a member of the Republican state committee of Missouri and inspector in the state food and drug department of the state of Missouri. He is a married man, lives with his family and enjoys the respect of the people of St. Louis. Dr. Summytt’s affidavit states in substance: That he was employed in the railway mail service permanently in 1904 and 1905 and ran from Wichita, Kas. to Amarillo Texas; that Clyde Reed, now one of the candidates for governor on the Republican ticket, was chief cleric of the United States Railway Mail service, stationed at Wichita, Kansas; That affiant, E .T. Summytt and the other colored clerks worked under his direction; that they received harsh and unfair treatment under the charge of the said Clyde M. Reed on account of their color. That these colored mall clerks had qualified as per the laws of the United States made and provided, and were competent to fill the position. The affiant says from personal contact and observation of said Clyde M. Reed, that it is his personal opinion that said Clyde M. Reed was prejudiced and biased to all colored employees in the railway mail service, and had no respect for colored people in general. It is further the personal opinion of the writer that said Clyde M. Reed used his official position to exclude all colored employees from the railway mail service and to keep all others out. It will be remembered that Dr. E. I. Summytt in his boyhood was known as “Thad Summytt" and was reared in Wichita. He comes from an old and respected family that has resided in Sedgwick county for thirty years. His mother, Mrs. Mary [?] ita. Dr. Summytt’s reputation for truth and veracity in Kansas is unquestioned. Dr. James I. Ford states in substance under oath, that he resides in Springfield, Illinois, and is engaged in the practice of medicine; and that he was employed in the railway postoffice mail service of the United States as a clerk in the seventh division in the year of 1905. Affiant says that he received his permanent appointment in the spring of 1906 and was assigned to Richill and Salina railway post office under the then Chief Clerk Clyde M. Reed, one of the present candidates for governor on the Republican ticket in Kansas; states that he was shown every discourtesy that could possibly be shown an employee by an official and was constantly humiliated by the said Clyde M. Reed. And affiant further states the the said Clyde M. Reed called him into his office and said that if it were in his power that there would not be a man of my race (the colored race) in that branch of service that he supervised; And that the said Clyde M. Reed trumped up charges which had no foundation that caused him to be summarily dismissed from the service. There were numerous other incidents cited by Elisha Scott to show that Clyde Reed is not right on the race question. His remarks were well received by the audience. He was cheered constantly and held his crowd spellbound. The crowd closed in and listened attentively to every word that he uttered. The speaker then spoke of John Hamilton, candidate for governor on the Republican ticket, as a boy and as a man. He said that he had known him from boyhood. And that he was right on all questions concerning the common people. He did not belong to any clock or machine, and that his life is an open book as follows: Attended Topeka grammar and high schools. Graduated from Phillips Academy, 1913. Graduated from Northwestern U., June, 1916. Began practice of law, 1916. Married Laura Hall, 1915. Son Daniel bom 1917. Served as private, Fourth Machine Gun training battalion, U. S. army, August-November, 1918. Topeka lodge No. 17, A. F. and A. M.; Topeka Consistory, and Topeka lodge No. 204, B. P. O. Elks. Probate judge, Shawnee county, 1920-24. House of representatives, Thirty- fifth district, 1925-29. In 1925 session served on these committees: Education, insurance, Judiciary, state affairs, military affairs. Chairman important calendar revision committee, 1925. Introduced and secured passage of state budget law, 1925. Speaker of house, 1927, 29. President, Kansas Probate Judges association, 1923. Member faculty, Washburn law school, since 1920. Counsel for special legislative committee appointed to revise and codify insurance laws of Kansas. The Republican primary will be [?]

Pullman Employee VINCELL DANIEL HARRIS Vincell D. Harris, porter instructor for the Pullman Company, is considered one of the best instructors in the company. Mr. Harris was born in Columbia, Mo., fifty years ago. He was reared on his uncle's farm in Boone county and went to school in Columbia at the Douglas high school. Then he attended Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City, Mo. In 1896, during the month of January, he came to Kansas City. In Mayl902 he went to work for the Pullman company as porter. While travelling he devoted his leisure to the study of music, later buying a set of band instruments and training fifty boys o fthe city, many of whom are making good livings with their instruments. In 1918, out of 375 porters in this district, he was chosen as porter instructor, the position he now holds, and he is considered as one of the best instructors in the Pullman service.

NEGRO LABOR (Continued from Page B-l) wider audience, and as regularly as entered the iron and steel mills, stock-yards, railroad maintenance and repair work, light manufacturing, textiles, construction, and scattered themselves in smaller numbers over a large range of work. In New York City, in 1920 of 321 occupations listed, Negroes were employed in all but five of them, and there were 175 occupations in which 50 or more were employed. They were 21 per cent, of all steel workers in Pittsburgh, ten per cent, of all iron molders in Chicago, although but 3.5 per cent, of the population. In Detroit when the automobile industry was in full swing, 11,000 were employed in the Ford plant, 900 in the Dodge plant and 500 in the Studebaker plant. The shift from agriculture relieved 333,093 women from labor and child labor was reduced from 46 to 21 per cent. Important problems have followed this shift: Although Negro skilled workers averaged an increase of 34 per cent, before 1923, the great majority of Negroes were restricted to unskilled work, which is most sensitive to seasonal change and to employment fluctuations; they are the poorest paid and least secured. The enactment of immigration legislation has reduced most severely the South Europeans who were the chief competitors of Negroes in the unskilled work, and made necessary the use in industry of more workers than can be produced by the white population Itself. This gave a constant opportunity for the excess Negro labor in the south to fill these gaps, but the opportunity has recently been restricted by the introduction of Mexican laborers. In the past ten years nearly one half million Mexicans crowded over the border into this country. The more desirable skilled trades are guarded by labor unions, and these have not generally been willing to accept their colored brothers into full membership privileges, except where circumstances forced them in self-defense to do it. Certain unions such as the miners, the longshoremen, hod carriers, have extended membership freely, but these represent work in which a slight preference is given Negroes by employers. The loss of so many workers to the South has had the effect of increasing wages there, and indirectly of bringing about better treatment of the Negroes living there. However, the white working classes are becoming even more class conscious and, with the growth of industry and. labor organizations in the section, the Negro skilled workers are encountering more of their opposition. Many social problems are connected with this fundamental economic issue. They have been brifly: the difficulty of securing homes of the proper sort, overcrowding, insantita- tion; health and the process of acclimatization; recreation and the new devices for making the most satisfactory use of leisure time; and as important as the rest, the problem of racial contacts, direct and indirect. Negroes have been exposed to industry long enough to become adjusted to its operations; some of them have become skilled and securely established and nearly 100,000 have entered labor unions. There is, unquestionably a permanent base for them now in industry, but further advances will come more slowly. The larger use of machinery in industry, the large use of women on the routine machine jobs, the increased efficiency of management resulting in decreased man-power necessary for a given production unit, all tend to reduce the volume of work. Except in a few lines, Negroes are at a disadvantage when applying for work on an equal basis of competition with white workers. The most ef-[?] [sit]uation is a margin on the side of the Negro workers of superior competence for the work on each level. Slavery has taught us that economic motives can eventually control even racial “instincts”.

MUSIC GIFTS (Continued from Page B-1) sent day Negro musician. The Negro youth is acquiring a degree of confidence and pride in his race that is awakening in him a new spirit and his true poet soul which has found expression in a humble way through his plantation melodies begins to mount to sublimer heights of expression. The storehouses from which he may draw are filled with material, albeit most of these storehouses are the minds of his hoary- haired parents and grandparents who are last disappearing from his midst. Many people in speaking of Negro music are inclined to think of it as consisting solely of Negro spirituals. They are possibly ignorant of the wealth of Negro compositions, both those based upon the spirituals and other Negro themes and music which is not Negroid in character or in any way connected with or expressive of racial feeling or idiom. For the past eight or ten years there has been a steady increase in the number of services for church choirs given over to sacred compositions, and works of Negro composers for vocal solo, mixed choruses, pipe organ and violin solos. It is perhaps natural that the Negro singer has attracted attention first rather than the Negro composer. It is an accepted fact that even the untrained Negro voice has an appealing quality that arrests one’s attention; but the Negro singer of today has not lost sight of the fact that proper training of the voice is essential to artistic singing, so we find most of them before the public today with highly trained voices. Most American musicians are acquainted with the name of Harry T. Burleigh, baritone soloist of St. George Church of New York and at the Temple Emanuel in the same city. Mr. Burleigh was born in Erie, Pennylvania, where he received his early education, graduating from high school in 1887. Later he was a scholarship pupil at the National Conservatory of Music, New York, and at one time a teacher of singing at this school. He travelled extensively abroad and it has been his rare privilege to sing for the King and Queen of England, Prince Henry of Prussia, Prince Louis of Batten- burg, the Crown Prince of Sweden, and many other members of the nobility. A pioneer for the Negro’s right to enter the field of serious art, Burleigh has worked for years in New York never lowering his standard, never doing anything that would compromise his dignity as a musician and never allowing himself to be beaten back by prejudice. Quietly, unassumingly, but firmly he maintained his hard earned place among professional musicians. The poignant melodies of the Negro spiritual are heard in the land. For many years they have been sung by the glee clubs of Southern schools, and now they have emerged from their scholastic seclusion and become the popular music of every-day life, along with the work songs and the folk ballads of the old South. Today the appeal of the spirituals seems universal. They have blossomed forth on symphony orchestra programs. They are to be heard in John Alden Carpenter’s new ballet, "Skyscraper,” at the Metropolitan Opera House. The wave of popularity on which the spiritual is riding promises to revive many of the genuine work songs, ballads, plantation melodies and other secular songs of the South. This music has a color, a flavor, a richness of its own. Here are songs redolent of box cars, railroad ties and levees. They have been wrung from the sweat of construction crews and chain gangs. Some of them are the product of painful imprisonment, hard labor and crushing conditions of existence. Others shout of simple joys, homely blessings, racy humors and lusty, red-blooded vulgarities. One group mirrors scenes of milder hue, singing of the soft langour of Southern nights. Side by side with the spirituals have arisen the secular songs, which of course, rank below their religious brethren in genius and inspiration. Northern song writers and musical carpet- baggers found the South a valuable source of supply. Led by such pioneers as Stephen C. Foster and Louis Gottschalk, they listened to roustabouts rolling cotton bales abroad the Mississippi river fliers; they saw the lurid glow of turpentine stills and heard the songs of the tappers. They imbibed some of the atmosphere of old bayous and water-fronts of pillared porticos and rambling mansions, and they caught the chanteys of blacks working West India vessels in Charleston and Savannah harbors. In America today we find a well equipped group of Negro composers who are contributing their share to American art and it is not an idle supposition that the Negro will be an important factor in establishing the long looked for American school of composition.

The Women’s Auxiliary Was organized May, 1927, at the suggestion of Mrs. Sallie Love. The purpose of this organization is to give its support to the Kansas City branch of the N. A. A. C. P. At present the organization is composed of 100 women. Since May, 1927, this organization has turned over to the Kansas City branch of the N. A. A. C. P. the sum of $1,000. Much credit is due Mrs. Sallie Love who was quick to see the need of such an organization and has worked hard for its success.

Officers are: Sallie Love, president; Alma Taylor, secretary, and Callie [?]

Perfects Test Kansas City School Teacher Credited with Having One of the Outstanding Educational Tests in the Field of Education. F. Leslie Clark, principal of the Douglass school, Kansas City, Mo., has received unusual recognition for his test in letter writing which is published by the Public School Publishing company at Bloomington, Ill. This test is listed among various tests included in the third annual nation-wide testing survey conducted in 1926-27. The Clark Letter Writing test has been listed as one of the outstanding tests in English composition by Charles W. Odell, assistant director, bureau educational research, University of Illinois. In connection with this test the director of educational research, New York City, and Dr. Truman Kelly of the University of Southern California have requested some statistical data which is now in preparation. It is the intention of this test to check the pupils on the knowledge of correct form in business and social letter writing. Through a study of the test results, the teacher can determine what particular features of letter writing are especially in need of drill. The Clark Letter Writing test was used in the nation-wide test with 18,000 students, 3,000 of whom were in Kansas City, Mo., where the test was conducted by George Melcher, director of research and efficiency in the Kansas City, Mo. school system. Mr. Clark has received annually two neat royalties from the Public School Publishing company. Mr. Clark is a Missourian by birth and a graduate of Lincoln university, this state and a principal in the Kansas City school system for nine years. He studied at Columbia university, New York; the Y. M. C. A. college, Springfield, Mass.; University of Minnesota, and received the degree of bachelor of science in education from the University of Kansas the past year. He served three years in the famous Tenth U.S. cavalry and has traveled extensively in the Phillipines, Hawaiian Islands and Japan. He was physical director in the A. E. F. in France with the 92nd Division. Wide publicity has been given the work of Mr. Clark. Articles have appeared in the Daily Kansan, University of Kansas; the Journal World, Lawrence, Kas.; the Teachers Journal, Kansas City, Mo.; and Dr. Truman Kelly's new publication on educational measurements. A teachers’ handbook of "Ready- to-Use Diagnostic Tests”, which is Mr. Clark's latest work, will soon be off the press. Mr. Clark has a family and is an outstanding citizen who takes part in all campaigns for public welfare.

FRANK D. RADER For Prosecuting Attorney Republican Primary August 7, 1928

A Clean Man With a Clean Record To Make Sure of the Nomination of George E. Kimball for Prosecuting Attorney So He May Be Elected in November Vote in the Republican Primary August 7, 1928, by Scratching All Other Names. Judge of Jackson County Court, 1921-1922 City Comptroller 1924-1925

VOTE FOR Clyde A. Shockley Graduate Engineer Registered Professional Engineer Member Am. Soc. C. E. —For— County Surveyor “An Engineer for an Engineering Office”

Clarence I. Spellman Candidate for Congress Subject to the Republican Primary August 7

Howard J. Vrooman Candidate for County Judge Western District Subject to the Action of Democratic Primaries August 7, 1928

VOTE FOR ANDREW FORD AND MRS. ADAH B. CRAWFORD Republican Candidates for Members County Committee Ninth Ward Primary Election, August 7, 1928

Dr. Chas. S. Nelson 1. Mason—Shriner. 2. Knights of Pythias. 3. Baptist. 4. Vice Pres.,—Parents-Teachers Association. 5. Member Jackson Co. Medical Society. 6. Legionaire—Swearingen Post. 7. Reserve officer. 8. Graduate of a State University. 9. Former Chief Deputy Coroner. 10. Pres., 10th Ward Republican Club. 11. Active Republican Worker. 12. Precinct Captain 2-10. Your Support Solicited

Important Announcement Do not fail to vote the Republican Ticket August 7, and be with the victorious party, for Hoover and Curtis will win and Missouri will follow. If you want employment or favors, the friendship of the Committeeman and Committeewoman in your ward is essential. FRANK H. AUSTIN ( REALTOR ) Residing 36 years Hotel Victoria, Ninth and McGee MRS. EULALA MORRIS ( HOUSEWIFE ) Residing 18 years Utopia Apartments, 820 E. Ninth are long time residents and now candidates on the Republican ticket for Committeeman and Commitee- woman in the New 1st Ward — (North End). Mr. Austin and Mrs. Morris are property owners, widely known, highly respected and trusted by the better class of white people in this city and if elected can and will be of great service to the good people voting the Republican ticket and seeking employment. If you fall to vote August 7, and for Mr. Austin and Mrs. Morris, 1st Ward, you may be sorry and our party the loser.

Political Advertisement

DR. E. D. WILLIAMS OUT FOR CORONER Examining physician for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Favorably Known Dr. E. D. Williams, Huron Bldg., has announced he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination as county coroner, at the primary election August 7. Dr. Williams is well known to hundreds of residents of Wyandotte county. For more than 30 years he has been examining physician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance company. Dr. Williams has been active in the practice of medicine in Kansas City, Kansas for almost thirty years. He is a native Kansan, being born in Manhattan, and is a grduate of the old University Medici college in Kansas City, Mo., where many physicians in the middle west received their medical training. As a physician he is a member of the staff of St. Margaret’s and Bethany hospitals and is a member of the Wyandotte County Medical society. Although he has never before sought a public office of this character he was a member of the school board for fourteen years and during the war was county physician. He is president of the Wyandotte Motor club, an organization in which he has always been active; has been a trustee of the Y. M. C. A. since the association’s beginning here; is president of the Citizens Savings and Loan company and is vice-president of the Armourdale state bank. While in medical college Doctor Williams was an assistant to the coroner of Jackson county, Mo., and feels that his experience there justifies his becoming a candidate for the office of coroner for this county.

Chris H. Rucker Republican Candidate for State Senator Seventh District Subject to Primary, Tuesday, August 7, 1928

Herman Lufcy Candidate for State Treasurer Subject to Republican Prima[ry] Herman Lufcy Is a Stoddard [coun]ty newspaper man, now hold[ing] office of county treasurer, wh[?] the race for state treasurer [of] record. He is the man to w[?] Gov. Hyde's administation the [?] [?]tant general’s representative w[?] counsel about the peonage d[?] southeast Missouri. At that t[ime] [?] farmers in Stoddard count[y] employing migrant Negroes [?] cotton, but were trying to ke[?] [?]zen rights from them. T[?] [gov]ernor wanted them to ge[?] [?] deal. He sent his agent [?] said bring on the militia [?] to uphold the law. Lufcy is his own ma[?] [?]qu[?] dealer, a hard-hitt[ing,] hons[est] treasurer. He asks the [su]pport [of] the readers of The Call, on his re[c]ord. He promises to carry out th[e] duties of his office, with a sincere interest in getting the best resultss[.] Vote in the primaries for Lufcy, a republican whose Abraham Lincoln republicanism is proven by his record.

Vote for Johnson for Committeeman FOURTH WARD I am asking the people of the Fourth ward to give me their vote in the primary election Tuesday, August 7th, for committeeman of the Fourth ward. I have lived in this ward the larger part of my life. I am interested in its welfare, both because of my own interests and the welfare of my neighbors. I promise you I will stand for what you want, and will be my own man, not the too[l] of others. ALBERT A. JOHNSON

“Your Vote Will Be Greatly Appreciated” ANTHONY P. NUGENT Candidate for Public Administrator Subject to Republican Primaries, August 7th

B. B. MORRIS Candidate for Sheriff (8 YEARS A DEPUTY SHERIFF) Our Reasons For Endorsing Him 1. He has pledged to appoint five (5) colored Deputies. 2. He has eight years of experience as a Deputy. 3. He is sympathetic to racial issues. 4. H is human to-prisonesr, regardless of color. 5. He is endorsed by Ministers, Business Men and Laborers 6. Five Colored Deputies is more than has been offered by other candidates. 7. Representation is what we need and will get. Vote For Morris Subject to Republican Primary, August 7 (Ad Donated by the Independent Colored Voters)

[page 21] [K]ansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928 "PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY B-9

Milton Bledsoe Correspondent

News of Kansas City, Kansas Rosedale Argentine 1308 North Fifth Street Telephone, Fairfax 2232.

[Se]veral Kansans Attend Church Summer School [Me]mbers from Metropolitan Bap[tist] Strangers Rest, Antioch, [?]h Street Tabernacle and First [?]st churches were enrolled in a [?]h summer school at Topeka, [?] the session opening July 2, [?]losed July 15. [Ka]nsans in the school were Mes[dames] S. A. Fitzhugh, R. Jordan, [?] Tooley, H. Webster, C. M. [?]en, E. Johnson, Anna Ander[?] and Lizetta McClellan. Mrs. [?] Weeden received a certificate [?] the school.

[?] Franklin Maunfacturing [Compa]ny was organized 5 years ago [?] Franklin, who introduced [auto]mobile, furniture and metal polish [to] a cold scrutinizing public. Today there are 10,000 regular users of the Franklin products that are on sale at 125 places. The company’s trademark is, “The true value of any commodity depends upon the confidence it has created." The Franklin Manufacturing company is at 400 Richmond street.

Inquisitive Sneak Thief Snatches Girl’s Purse As Jaunita Cypert, 2508 Hallock, got off a street car at Third and Minnesota about 10 o’clock last Tuesday a white man asked her what she had in her purse and at the same time grabbed it and boarded a car bound north. The purse contained $3.

Beer Bottle Instead of Gun Used in Attempted Holdup Ernest De Drene, 347 Cleveland, was struck on the head Sunday night about 11 o’clock by another Negro in an attempted holdup at 1116 North 3rd street. De Drene sustained a painful cut on the right side of his head. He received medical aid at the city hall and was taken home. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Marshall of 1412 Euclid avenue, and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lee Clay of 1523 East 13th street motored to St. Joseph Sunday. Mrs. Marshall is a delegate to the Grand Lodge.

Be Represented By Your Own. Vote For W. M. BLOUNT Candidate for Representative 8th Legislative District Subject to Republican Primaries, August 7th

People’s Market Groceries - Meats - Notions 1409 N. 11th St.

C. DEAN Dry Goods and Groceries Ice Cream and Cold Drinks 1315 N. 11th St. Fairfax 4551

Thatcher’s Funeral Home Office Phone, Fairfax 1211 Res. Phone, Drexel 4578 15[?]0 N. 5th Street Kansas City, Kas.

HUSBAND’S SHOT FATAL TO WIFE Cleveland Says Shooting Was Accidental; Attempted to Intercept Prowler A shooting claimed by Robert Cleveland to have been accidental resulted in the death of his wife Roberta Cleveland, 25 years, who was found dead in an upstairs bedroom Sunday morning about 2:30, at 325 Richmond, where the couple had been rooming since last Thursday. Cleveland was charged with vagrancy and suspected murder and released on $2,000 bond. Cleveland said he shot his wife accidentally when he attempted to look out of the window upon hearing someone tamper with his Whippet coupe parked in front of the house. James Cleveland, 9 years old, was asleep on the floor in the same room at the time of the shooting. According to Mrs. William Welton, with whom the couple stayed, the Clevelands came here last Thursday from Shawnee, Okla. Cleveland acted rather strangely at times, said Mrs. Welton and both Friday and Saturday nights considerable rumbling was heard upstairs. Mr. and Mrs. Welton who were directly below the room in which the shooting took place say they did not hear the report of the gun and were told of the affair by Mr. Cleveland, who asked Mrs. Welton to call the doctor. Leroy Branch, 1110 Garfield, Kansas City, Mo., and T. J. Thomas, 205 Franklin, who were sitting on the porch at 320 Richmond say they heard a woman scream twice after a shot was fired. Mrs. Cleveland was shot in the left breast. Dr. William A. Love was summoned but the woman was beyond medical aid. Cleveland’s preliminary hearing was held Wednesday.

J. W. Barbee, former resident of this city died in St. Paul, Minn., July 12, and was buried in Atchison, July 17. Mrs. Nannie Brooks, 2401 North 5th street, a daughter, attended the funeral in Atchison.

The Red Tie club, a political organization met Monday night at 1958 N. Thompson and made plans for a public mass meeting to be held soon.

Mesdames Eva. Brackens, Emma Vaughn, Beatrice Childs and Susie V. Bouldin left Wednesday night for Washington to attend the national convention of National Association of Colored Women.

We Strive to Please KANSAS FLORAL CO. Once a customer, always a customer. One trial and you’ll see why. call us. Prompt service. MRS. FLORENCE SCRUGGS, Fairfax 2232 Fairfax 0332 1308 N. 5th St.

“Best Quality, Most Quantity Best Service Most Friends.” BERTHELLE FLORAL SHOPPE CELESTIA MEEKS. Florist Ardelia Corporal Ass't. Office, Fairfax 5381 Res. Fairfax 0260 1604 N. 5th St. Kansas City, Kas.

N. B. Robinson Laundry Yes'm, We Do Wet Wash Office and Res., 333 Quindaro Blvd Kansas City, Kansas Fairfax 1174

Oscar and Ferguson First Class Shoe Repair Shop and Shining Parlor Shoes Called For and Delivered Drexel 1082 1416 N. 5th

Milton Collins Robbed In Front Yard Sunday Night While sitting in his front yard Sunday night, Milton Collins, 2039 North 6th street, was held up at 11:30 by a young man. A purse containing $14 in cash and some fraternal cards was taken. The robber carried a large automatic and drove a Ford roadster.

K. C. K., ORGANIZATIONS The Rose of Sharon club met with Mrs. Martin. Mrs. Carrie Ten- all won the guess box. The next meeting is with Shed Mincen.

The Political Study club met with Mrs. Palasteen Humphrey Monday night. Duties and privileges of senators were discussed. The next meeting is with Mrs. Holmes, 931 Splitlog avenue.

The Jolly 16 Art club gave its first picnic last Wednesday at Swope Park. The club’s guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones and daughter, Mesdames Hightower, Bertha and Melissa Dorsey, Willis Allen, C. Gray, P. Younger, G. Hardy, J. D. Blair, A. Hatcher, Mary Moorhead, L. M. Burdette and Mr. Dorsey.

The 4 O’clock Art and Social club met with Mrs. Lillie Johnson, 1938 N. 5th street. Mrs. B. Barnette will be hostess, at the next meeting, in which sewing will be participated in by members.

Personals Misses Antoinette Bailey, Salisbury, Mo., and Clara Mae Caldwell, Columbia, Mo., are visiting their aunt, Mrs. William E. Bailey, 612 Paralle. A Cunningham, who has been visiting in Detroit and points in Canada has returned home. J. M. Stovall has returned from a trip to Kentucky. Roland W. Alexander, Sedalia, who has been visiting his brother Dr. C.W. Alexander has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Clark, Chicago, are visiting here. Dr. D. H. Davis, Independence, Kas., is here attending the K. of P. Grand lodge. Mrs. Carrie Payne, New York, and Mrs. Mary Horsley, Chicago, are visiting their sister, Mrs. M. C. Cotten, 1922 N. 6th street. Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Stovall, Minneapolis are visitor here. G. E. Lowry, Paola, is attending the K. of P. Grand lodge. Mrs. Birdie Mae Dee, Arkansas City, Ark., is at the bedside of her cousin, Mrs. Otamuse Dodd, 609 New Jersey, who has been critically ill but is somewhat better now. Little Miss Zenobia Jane Baskerville, 2046 N. 4th street, who has been seriously ill is improved. Mrs. E. C. Pickens, New York, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Dow, 1100 N. 12th street. Kathryn McLaurian, 842 Ohio, has left for St. Louis, where she will visit Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Isaacs. From there Miss McLaurian will visit in Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Bell Hall left recently for Los Angeles. Attorney De France Williams, Leavenworth, was the guest of Leon Washington, 1958 Thompson, last week. Mr. Williams is en route to Chicago where he will be affiliated with the National Republican committee. Miss Pauline Hackney, 1962 Thompson left Friday for Minneapolis and Canada and will return the latter part of August. Mrs. Andrew Wilson and Miss Estella Wilson have gone to Denver where they will spend a month visiting relatives and friends. While in Denver they are the guests of Mrs. G. W. Leslie and Mrs. Way- man Ward, they also will visit Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs and Pueblo.

Since 1921 JONES WET WASH LAUNDRY The Jones Laundry Co., operated by Mr. James Jones, had its beginning in 1921, when with but very little capital he decided to open a steam laundry. With two washers, an extractor and a small mangle, he opened on Monday morning, March 18. The first day’s business consisted of eight small bundles and the proceeds therefrom, which marked his first day’s receipts was very small indeed. Delivery of these bundles was made in a hand-made pushcat assembled from parts rescued from back yard Junk and wood piles, but that was delivery service too. Despite this cude beginning Mr. Jones has, through efficient reliable service, established a patronage that warrants the employ of 4 regular persons with a dlivery service distinguished by courtesy and promptness. Every day between the hours of 7 a. m„ and 5:30 p. m., the truck you see so regularly bearing the inscription "Jones’ Laundry”, is none other than the modem delivery service that has supplanted the push cart of The Jones Wet Wash Laundry 900 Walker Ave. Kansas City, Kas. Phone, Fairfax 2060

BIRTHS IN K. C., KANSAS Mr. and Mrs. Clint Beasley, 2925 N. Sherman, July 14, girl. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williams, 2900 W. 39th street, July 16, boy. Mr. and Mrs. Lillie Calhoun, 1216 N. 9th street, July 16, girl. Mr. and Mrs. Vernle Stewart, 805 Ray, July 17, boy. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Addison, 1643 So. 19th street, July 14, girl. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bailey, Bethel, Kas., July 19, girl.

MARRIAGE LICENSES K. C. K. Charles Rousseau, K. C. Mo., 23 Myrna Youngblood, Oklahoma City, 21 Le Roy Foreman, K. C. K., 22 Cecil Mae Billlngsby, K. C. K. 21 Alfred Lewie, K. C. K. 68 Effie Wilson, KC.K Ardmore Flowers, K. C. K. 30 Luella Lane, Marshall, Tex. 20 Cleveland Williams, K. C. K. 37 Elnora Washington, K. C. K. 35 Allen Green, K. C. K. 56 Annie Watson, South Park, Kas. 44 Clarence Moseby, St, Louis, Mo. 35 Mary H. Bassett, St. Louis, Mo. 30 Charley H. Washington, K. C. K. 28 Rose C. Victor, K. C. K. 22

DEATH ROLL K. C. K. Freeman James, 926 South 26th street, died July 16, buried July 21, at Maple Lawn.

Easley, William, 634 Troupe, died July 20, interment July 23, at Woodlawn.

Marshall, Katherine, 1717 Campbell, died July 23, buried July 26.

Brown, Charles, 442 Walker, died July 24. Interment July 28 at Westlawn.

Elizabeth Fields, mother of Louise Jones, grandmother of Libby Wilson, passed away Monday, July 23, buried Friday, July 27, 2 o’clock First Baptist church, 5th and Nebraska, Kansas City, Kansas.

Maxine Evans, 7 years old, 449 Oakland, who was hit by a car at 4th and Virginia Sunday is some better according to Dr. C. W. Alexander, attending physician. Miss Evans is at Douglas hospital.

A tennis tournament by the Edgerton playground group is scheduled Friday afternoon at the Tenth and Washington boulevard courts. In the singles James Johnson, Merle Anderson and Virgil Gaines will participate, the doubles, Robert Johnson, Christopher Caldwell, Bennie Odom and Merle Anderson.

A toy pistol created considerable confusion in church services at Ninth and New Jersey Sunday night. The police upon arrival took a toy pistol from a small boy near the church. Witnesses told the officers the youth was annoying the gathering with his firearms.

Leon Washington and his gang broadcasted from WLBF Saturday night at 8:30. Numbers were given by Conrad Cotten, Mary Graham, Hazel Bryant, Mae Day Waters, Marnesba Davis and Nicola Payne. The group will be on the air from 7:15 to 8:00 Saturday night.

AT THE LIBRARY Fiction Out of the Ruins—Philip Gibbs; Basquerie—Eleanor Mercien; Back Fire—Lola Simpson; Etched in Moonlight—James Stephens. Non-Fiction After Dinner Stories—Harrison; What You Should Know About Health and Disease— Haggard; The Next Age of Man—A. E. Wiggam; Rice’s Parliamentary Rules.

CLAYBORNE’S MARKET for Best Eats CORN-FED BABY BEEF Fairfax 2682 10th and Washington Blvd.

White City Market Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Watermelon on Ice Fourth and Garfield Mrs. Carrie Stewart, Prop.

K. and R. Market Neighborhood Delivery 1605 N. 10th St.

George W. Hughey Barbecue and Chilli Stand 1607 N. 10th St.

W. P. DAVIS, Grocery Headquarters for Low Prices Groceries and Meats; Vegetables Fruits and Candies 852 Walker Ave. Kansas City, Kas.

Service: Our Motto Satisfaction Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Repairing a Specialty BLACK DIAMOND SHOE SHOP 2318 N. 5th Street Kansas City, Kansas We Solicit Your Patronage Ladies Men’s Half Soles, 85c Half Soles, 95c Heels ... 35c Heels .... 40c Open 7:30 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. N. STUBBLEFIELD. Prop.

BISHOP GREGG IS WELCOMED Newly-Appointed Prelate Is Warmly Received by Fifth District The A. M. E. church of Greater Kansas City tendered to Bishop John A. Greeg of the Fifth Episcopal district an honor reception at the First A. M. E. church Monday night. The program opened with the Negro National anthem and invocation by Rev. T. W. Greene, Jr., U. S. Guyer, congressman, second district extended the welcome on behalf of Kansas; F. LeRoy Cooke, park commissioner for Kansas City, Kas., and welcome for Inter-denominational association was given. The choir rendered an anthem, then President F. Jesse Peck, Western University gave the welcome for his school; J. P. King for Northeast junior; Dr. W. M. Blount for Medical association; Attorney Dorsey Green for legal profession; Mrs. A. E. Jenkins, president, Federation of A. M. E. Church clubs, for A. M. E. Federation and Miss Bernice Wilson, Allen Christian Endeavor. Greetings from the Missouri annual conference were extended by Revs. S. R. Stanley and Noah W. Williams; the North Missouri annual conference, Revs. W. B. Brooks, M. S. Bryant and C. S. Bowman; South West Missouri conference, Rev. F. F. Moten; Kansas conference, Revs. J. R. Ranson and R. S. Everett; Colorado conference, Revs. W. T. Osborne and John H. Grant. Rev. C. S. Williams gave greetings for Allen Chapel; Mrs. Minerva Jackson, Ebenezer and Rev. G. W. Williams, Bethel. Bishop Gregg responded to the welcomes and greetings.

J. C. Penney Co., Enjoys Rapid Growth in 26 Years The rise of the J. C. Penny company has been phenomenal. The organization started in 1902 with one store and today has 1,024 stores throughout the country. The huge buyin gpower of this gigantic concern enables it to offer the best merchandise at the lowest prices. Harry L. Hoagland is manager and H. C. Stephens, assistant of the Kansas store at 606 Minnesota avenue. The present quarters have been outgrown and a new location at 638-40 Minnesota avenue has been secured which will be ready for cocupancy the first of the year, Smart styles, sturdy quality, low prices and courteous service prevail in the Penny stores.

Oscar and Ferguson, 1416 N. 5th street have renovated their shoe repair and shining parlor which presents an attractive appearance. Mr. Oscar is the leading shoe repairer on the Kansas side nd Ferguson is a first-rate shoe polisher an dcleaner.

A free basket dinner will be given at St. James A .M. E. church, Tonganoxie, Kas. Sunday. Rev. C. L. Holliday, evangelist, Little Rock, Ark., will preach at 2:00, subject, “Where will you spend eternity.” Morning service at 11. Rev. Percy Roe, pastor.

Mrs Katie Cox and daughter, Miss Norma Reed, 1612 has as dinner guests, July 14, Miss Helen Brown of Chicago.

Adah Jeanne Beauty Shoppe Fairfax 5381 Res. Fifield 2645-W MADAM C. J. WALKER SYSTEM Phone for Appointment Marcel Wave, 50c 1604 N. 5th St. Kansas City, Kas. Gladys Greer Leake Ruth E. Scott

White Man Claiming Negor Pushed Wife Takes Pot Shot M. L. Lillis, 737 State avenue, claimed a Negro pushed his wife off the sidewalk and Lillis therefore shot at him between 8th and 9th streets on State. Upon investigation Nelson Marshall, 1211 Ann avenue was Lillis’ target but was unhurt. Marshall denied insulting Mrs. Lillis saying that he and his wife were walking along State when a car drove up, a man got out and shot at him. Marshall stated that he ran one direction and his wife another., both meeting at home. Lillis called police headquarters immediately and reported the incident

Miss Flora Grant, 2442 Tracy, entertained Mrs. Robert Shamwell, of Washington, D. C., at a luncheon last Thursday.

VOTE FOR BOULDIN to do your Cleaning and Pressing. He pledges good work and service at reasonable prices. Election every day except Sunday. For Quick Service Call FAIRFAX 0838 1606 N. 5th St. Kansas City, Kas.

NO “SALES.” LOWEST PRICES EVERY DAY J.C. Penney Co. A NATION-WIDE INSTITUTION "quality - always at a saving" EVERY STORE A LOCAL ENTERPRISE 606 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kas. quality - always at a saving! Shop Where Low Prices Include Quality Quality! What is it? How can you tell it? What are the tests by which you can make sure that you're getting quality when you make a purchase? Style is a matter of eye-sight and taste. Not hard to tell whether a thing is stylish or not. Low prices are a matter of comparison. You don’t have to be a wizard at figures to determine whether the price you pay is high or low. Your pocket-book tells the story all too well and quickly. But Quality! That's different! You have to be something of a detective, a scientist and a mechanic to recognize quality—and even then you may be mistaken. The Test of Quality is SERVICE For the average shopper the only true, reliable test of quality is the SERVICE that the merchandise gives. Quality endures. Like true friendship—it wears well and stands the test of time. Where inferiority wilts and crumbles under wear and tear—quality survives and proves its presence and its worth unmistakably. The J. C Penney Company has grown in 26 years from one small store to 1024 Department Stores. It serves millions of regular customers. And the reason for its record is that its merchandise has consistently met the SERVICE test of Quality. We make sure that our goods shall meet this SERVICE test satisfactorily by careful inspection of all merchandise made for us, and by insisting that such goods shall conform strictly to our specifications in materials and workmanship. Millions have applied the Service test to our merchandise—and have f[ound] Quality. That’s why they have become regular J. C. Penney custo[mers.] Quality at low prices mean real values. You will find such values [?] local J. C. Penney Company Store.

[page 22] B-10 “PROGRESS EDITION” CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City. Missouri, Friday, July [?]

LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY CLERK’S NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION., Notice is hereby given that a primary election will be held at the regular polling places in each precinct of said County of Jackson, and that the polls will be open between the hours of six (6) a.m. in the morning and seven (7) p.m. in the evening, on the first Tuesday of August, 1928, A.D., being the seventh (7) day of August, 1938. A. D., for the purpose of nominating candidates for state, district, county and township offices, to be voted for at the general election to be held on Tuesday, sixth (6) day of November, 1928, A. D. That the hereinafter mentioned list contains the name and postoffice address of each candidate for nomination, together with a designation of the office for which he is a candidate, and the party or principle that he represents; the hours during which the polls will be open.

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION.

For Senator in Congress: Robert I. Young, St. Joseph. Charles M. Hay, 9 Windermere Place, St. Louis. James A. Collett, Salisbury. For Governor: Alfred L. McCawley, Carthage. Francis M. Wilson, Platte City. Ralph T. Harding, 1417 Main St., Kansas City. For Lieutenant-Governor: Clyde W. Wagner, 1149 Bell Telephone Bldg., St. Louis Mo. Samuel Rosenfeld. 1932 Railway Exchange Bldg., St. Louis Frank G. Harris, Columbia. Otto W. Hammer, 3601 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis. N.W. Brickey, Festus. C. Arthur Anderson, 6811 Lansdowne Ave., St. Louis. John T. Baird, 8794 Brentwood Place, Webster Groves. For Secretary of State: James T. O’Brien, 4131-A Kennerly Ave., St. Louis. Dwight H. Brown, Popular Bluff. For State Auditor: Edward Tiffin, Ferguson. Forrest Smith, Richmond. Tim Birmingham, St. James. For State Treasurer: Richard R. Nacy, Jefferson. John H. Stone, Adrian. Frank F. Stone, 541 Scott Ave., Kirkwood. For Attorney General: Lue C. Lozier, Carrollton. George G. Vest, jr., Webster Groves. Elmer O. Jones, La Plata. For Judge of Supreme Court (Division No. 1): For Judge Kansas City Court of Appeals: Ewing C. Bland, Kansas City. For Representative in Congress, Fifth District: Floyd E. Jacobs, 209 Scarritt Bldg., Kansas City. For State Senator, Fifth District: M. E. Casey, 423 Gladstone Blvd., Kansas City. For State Senator, Seventh District: Wallace Sutherland, 5723 Oak, Kansas City. E. M. Tipton, 620 West 60th St. Ter., Kansas City. For Judge of Circuit Court, 16th Circuit, Division No. 1: A. Stanford Lyon, Kansas City. For Judge of Circuit Court, 16th Circuit, Division No. 2: Olaf A. Lucas, Court House, Kansas City. For Representative of General Assembly: District No. 1—John B. Haskell, Majestic Hotel, 1217 Baltimore, Kansas City, Mo. District No. 2—William H. Lafferty, 2825 Belleview, Kansas City. District No. 3—Max Asotsky, 1408 Forest, 3d fl. south, Kansas City. District No. 4—Albert Victor Morris, 2615 East 29th, 2d fl. west, Kansas City. District No. 5—Ely J. Bradley, 3110 E. 10th St., Kansas City. District No. 6—Clarence P. LeMire, 314 Spruce, Kansas City. District No. 7—Numa R. Holcomb, Oak Grove. District No. 8--Carroll W. Berry, 8220 Holmes St. Road, Kansas City. District No. 9—William J. Leahy, 4925 Woodland Ave., Kansas City. District No. 10—William Randall Smart, 6445 Walnut, Kansas City. For Judge of County Court, Eastern Dsitrict: Robert William Barr, Independence, Mo. Benjamin Franklin Knight, Hickman Mills. For Judge of County Court, Western District: Thomas B. Bash, 3431 Woodland Ave., Kansas City. Howard J. Vrooman, 1102 Commerce Bldg., Kansas City. For Prosecuting Attorney, Jackson County: James R. Page, Inez Hotel, 9th and Troost, Kansas City. For Sheriff of Jackson County: Jefferson H. Smedley, 3217 St. John, Kansas City. For Assessor of Jackson County: Geo. M. Wagner, 5531 Forest, Kansas City. Todd M. George, Lees Summit. For County Treasurer of Jackson County: T. W. Kirby, 608 South Noland, Independence. For Public Administrator of Jackson County: Fred W. Klaber, 443 West 62d St. Ter., Kansas City. For Coroner of Jackson County: Calvin L. Cooper, 716 Benton Blvd., Kansas City. For Surveyor of Jackson County: John M. Weir, 110 West 39th, Kansas City. For Justice of the Peace, Prairie Township, Jackson County: Harvey W. Wilson, Greenwood. For Justice of the Peace, Sni-a-Bar Township, Jackson County: M. N. Womacks, Blue Springs. For Constable of Blue Township, Jackson County: T. W. Faunce, 1501 West Short, Independence. For Constable of Washington Township, Jackson County: B. W. Waterbury, R. F. D. 2, Hickman Mills. Gustav Wilhelm Knecht, 1831 Maddi Ave., Kansas City. For Constable of Brooking Township, Jackson County: William Howard Dehoney, Raytown. Harry L. Lewis, Rayton. For Constable of Sni-a-Bar Township, Jackson County: Ernest D. Owings, Grain Valley. H. J. Binger, Blue Springs For Constable of Fort Osage Township, Jackson County: Larey Alderman, Buckner. R. H. Elsea, R. 2, Box 155, Independence. Luther Ryan, Levasy. For Constable of Prairie Township, Jackson County: Roger T. Boggs, Lees Summit. J. H. Bowin, Greenwood. For Committeemen, First Ward, Kansas City: Mary Affronti, 517 Gillis St. Thomas J. Finnigan, Hotel Baltimore. For Committeemen, Second Ward, Kansas City: Mrs. Anna K. Murphy, 1216 Tracy Casimir J. Welch, 1415 East 15th St. For Committeemen, Third Ward, Kansas City: Catherine C. Oswald, 2539 Charlotte. Chas. F. Wurzer, 2326 Holmes St. Victor Stern, 708 West 17th St. Margaret A. Benoit, 1616 Washington. For Committeemen, Fourth Ward, Kansas City: J. N. Becker, 2629 Garfield. Lida Wechsler, 912 East 31st St. Mrs. Nellie E. young, 2020 East 24th St. Preble Hall, 2540 Forest Ave. For Committeemen, Fifth Ward, Kansas City: Mrs. Jessie Robison, 3221 Penn St., Kansas City. Richard J. Nugent, 2336 Central St., Kansas City. J. J. O’Gara, 3314 Summit St., Kansas City. Mrs. Thos. C. Glynn, 3607 Summit St. For Committeemen, Sixth Ward, Kansas City: Agnes Bolefahr, 3909 Kenwood Ave. Anthony P. Glasscock, 4405 Harrison. For Committeemen, Seventh Ward, Kansas City: George Kingsley, 4518 Mill Creek Blvd. Kansas City. Irene Wade, 3926 Mercier. For Committeemen, Eighth Ward, Kansas City: Mrs. Mary J. Townsdin, 5801 McGee St. Shannon C. Douglass, 310 West 66th. For Committeemen, Ninth Ward, Kansas City: L. M. Hegarty, 510 Maple blvd. Mary Dixon, 1328 Prospect Ave. For Committeemen, Tenth Ward, Kansas City: Andrew A. McElwain, 614 Cypress. Cecilia T. Thompson, 4414 Windsor. Carrie Wofford, 4007 Morrell Ave. Dean Henderson, 139 North Chelsea. For Committeemen, Eleventh Ward, Kansas City: Eleanor R. Swope, 2926 Victor St. Tim Moran, 2333 Benton Blvd. For Committeemen, Twelfth Ward, Kansas City: Stella M. McGinnis, 2009 Spruce St. Wm. E. McMurty, 1805 Cambridge. For Committemen, Thirteenth Ward, Kansas City: Cora E. Nivenes, 3760 Highland. Peter J. Kelley, 3300 Paseo. For Committeemen, Fourteenth Ward, Kansas City: Wm. A. Curran, 2813 Poplar St. Lester Jordan, 3225 South Benton. Mrs. Katherine B. Webster, 3017 East 33rd St. For Committeemen, Fifteenth Ward, Kansas City: Wilda Johnson, 4919 Troost Ave., Apt. 4 George Harrington, 5727 Paseo. For Committeemen, Sixteenth Ward, Kansas City: Bertha C. Duncan, 3827 East 59th. James W. Gadwood, 4141 Agnes. For Committeemen, Blue Township, Jackson County: Mrs. L. F. Baker, 439 Tennessee, Athol. John D. Strother, 214 S. Pleasant, Independence. For Committeemen, Van Buren Township, Jackson County: Mrs. Sallie Corn, R. 2, Oak Grove. W. O. Perdue, Lees Summit. Mrs. Maude Land, Lees Summit. For Committeemen, Prairie Township, Jackson County: Harry Y. Hall, Lees Summit. Mrs. Maude Land, Lees Summit. For Committeemen, Brooking Township, Jackson County: Mrs. John A. Stout, Raytown. Lee F. Caldwell, jr., R. F. D. 5, Independence, Mo. For Committeemen, Washington Township, Jackson County: Mrs. Mary Hendrix, 1912 E. 80th St., Kansas City. Henry J. Theobald, Hickman Mills. For Committeemen, Fort Osage Township, Jackson County: W. I. Rudd, Sibley. Tutsie Davis Alderman, Buckner. For Committeemen, Sni-a-Bar Township, Jackson County: May Brown George, Oak Grove. Everett Harris, Blue Springs.

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION

For Senator in Congress: Oliver J. Page, Springfield. David M. Proctor, 7404 Mercier, Kansas City. William O. Atkeson, Butler. Roscoe C. Patterson, Kansas City. Henry A. Bundschu, 601 W. Maple St., Independence. Nathan Frank, 5291 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis. Bernard P. Bogy, 1310 Bayward Ave., St. Louis. For Governor: Sam D. Hodgson, 230 Sylvester Ave., Webster Groves. Henry S. Caulfield, 6253 Washington Blvd., St. Louis. Frank H. Wielandy, 2944 N. Euclid St. Louis. Phil A. Bennett, Springfield. William R. Schneider, 5370 Pershing Ave., St. Louis. For Lieutenant-Governor: Edward H. Winter, Jefferson City. For Secretary of State: Charles U. Becker, Bolivar. C. Eugene Stephens, 2636 Margarett Ave., Maplewood. For State Auditor: L. D. Thompson, Jefferson City. For State Treasurer: Larry Brunk, Aurora. Herman Lufoy, Bloomfield. A. H. Steinbeck, Union. W. F. Norris, Perry. For Attorney General: Stratton Shartel, Neosho. For Judge of Supreme Court, Division 1: William F. Frank, Kirksville. Alroy S. Phillips, 4772 Ashland Ave., St. Louis. Almon Ing, Poplar Bluff. For Judge Kansas City Court of Appeals: M. D. Aber, 207 E. Gay St., Warrensburg. Harry L. Donnelly, 5922 Charlotte St., Kansas City. Miles Elliott, 401 Corby Bldg., St. Joseph. For Representative in Congress, Fifth District: Clarence I. Spellman, 1008 Benton Blvd., Kansas City. Charles P. “Tod” Woodbury, 532 E. 56th, Kansas City. E. C. Ellis, Scarritt Bldg., Kansas City. For State Senator, Fifth District: Homer R. Balsbaugh, 423 Maple Blvd., Kansas City. Robt. M. Chambers, 3035 Independence Ave., For State Senator, Seventh District: Harry L. Ruby, 2501 East 37th St., Kansas City. Chris H. Rucker, 3700 East 59th St., Kansas City Allan T. Finnell, 1109 Gloyd Bldg., Kansas City. Manvel H. Davis, 915 Continental Bldg., Kansas City. For Judge of Circuit Court, 16th Circuit, Division No. 1: Phineas Rosenberg, 601 West 67th St., Kansas City. Ben Loren Gatley, 501 Grand Ave. Temple, Kansas City. For Judge of Circuit Court, 16th Circuit, Division No. 2: Charles Summers, 523 Gloyd Bldg., Kansas City. Darius A. Brown, 6520 Linden Road, Kansas City. For Representative of General Assembly: District No. 1—Fred L. Royal, 311 E. 6th St., Kansas City. District No. 2—James Montgomery Logan, 2816 Madison St., Kansas City. District No. 3—Orville A. Hills, 918 Cherry St., Kansas City. District No. 4—Harold E. Finch, 3215 Olive St., Kansas City. District No. 4—L. Amasa Knox, 1835 Paseo, Kansas City. District No. 5—Herman H. Kube, 2636 Prospect Ave., Kansas City. District No. 6—Eli H. Wherry, 422 Spruce, Kansas City. District No. 7—Edmund C. Harrington, 206 Pendleton Ave., Independence. District No. 8—George W. Meyer, 5330 Lydia, Kansas City. District No. 9—Carl P. Werner, 4015 Tracey, Kansas City. District No. 10—Everett R. Meyer, 4217 Locust St., Kansas City. District No. 10—Wilbur F. Maring, jr., 109 E. 40th St., Kansas city. For Judge of County Court, Eastern District: Wm. L. Hutchison, 69th and Palmer Road, R. R. 2, Kansas City. For Judge of County Court, Western District: Hugh R. Ennis, 3126 East 9th St., Kansas City. Henry M. Griffith, 3307 Askew, Kansas City. Elsie Pearl Truskett, 3228 Benton Blvd., Kansas City. Arthur William Wolf, office 609 City Bank Bldg., res. 11 W. 66th, Kansas City. James B. Wallace, 39 East Concord Ave., Kansas City. Francis D. Ross, 423 Maple Blvd., Kansas City. For Prosecuting Attorney, Jackson County: John S. Cannon, 3418 Wyandotte St., Kansas City. George E. Kimball, 3410 Indiana Ave., Kansas City. Frank D. Rader, 5924 Grand Ave., Kansas City. For Sheriff of Jackson County: William K. Buxton, 2951 Victor, Kansas City. G. Ray Hough, 4300 Holmes St., Kansas City. Edward L. Joy, 3438 Summit St., Kansas City. Butler B. Morris, 4728 Holly St., Kansas City. Benjamin D. Pugh, 339 S. Lawn Ave., Kansas City. William G. Woods, 2738 Prospect, Kansas City. Fred W. Woolf, 2444 Monroe, Kansas City. E. Jay Starks, 1714 Ewing Ave., Kansas City. William H. Toohey, 6316 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City. Lincoln R. Toyne, 4018 Woodland Ave., Kansas City. For Assessor of Jackson County: Lee M. Allen, 547 Arlington Ave., Mt. Washington. Walter W. Carter, Elsmere Hotel, Linwood and Troost, Kansas City, Mo. Harry J. Curl, 940 West 33d St. Ter., Kansas City. Frank R. English, 2949 Cleveland Ave., Kansas City. Barto E. Leinbach, 4203 East 68th St., Kansas City. For County Treasurer of Jackson County: Calvin S. Edwards, 3918 Harrison St., Kansas City. Joseph Hugh Fayman, 3106 East 72nd St., Kansas City. Frank B. Rohe, 1706 Cypress, Kansas City. Harry A. Sturges, 513 N. Pleasant St., Independence For Public Administrator of Jackson County: Paul R. Byrum, Res. 3914 Benton Blvd., office 510 Rialto Bldg., Kansas City. John F. Cell, 807 Scarrit Bldg., Kansas City. Harry A. Hall, Res. 2037 Ward Ave., office 909 Sharp Bldg., Kansas City. Winfred B. Kelley, Independence, Mo. Leslie J. Lyons, 1003 Continental Bldg., Kansas City. Anthony P. Nugent, 5325 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City. For Coroner of Jackson County: J. W. C. Boone, 4646 Troost, Kansas City. Glenn C. Carbaugh, 6521 Brookside Road, Kansas City. Charles S. Nelson, 4117 East 6th St., Kansas City. William C. West, 5541 Lydia, Kansas City. For Surveyor of Jackson County: William Henry Harrison, R.F.D. 6, Independence. Leo E. Koehler, 2415 Linwood Blvd., Kansas City. Walter R. McCaslin, 7516 Wabash Ave., Kansas City. John Edmund McDougal, 3717 Paseo, Kansas City. Clyde A. Shockley, 4326 Indiana Ave., Kansas City. For Constable of Blue Township, Jackson County: Wilbur D. Rader, 1308 E. 81st Terrace, Kansas City. A. Lester Chowning, 8151 Flora, Kansas City. For Constable of Brooking Township, Jackson County: Oscar L. Hanson, Raytown, Mo. For Committeemen, First Ward, Kansas City: Carmen Palmesano, 519 Charlotte. Joe Feld, 814 Grand Ave. Arthur W. Garrett, 1232 Penn St. Harvey L. Newman, 824 ½ East 8th. Mrs. Fred W. Coon, 1001 Pennsylvania Ave. Frank H. Austin, Hotel Victoria. Mrs. Eulala Morris, 810 East 9th St. Mary A. Young, 812 Penn St. For Committeemen, Second Ward, Kansas City: Charles S. Bramble, 1001 Locust St. H. F. Settle, 827 East 12th. Zephys Allen, 1314 Michigan Ave. John F. Kagel, 1326 Lydia Ave. Agnes Johnson, 1222 Woodland Avenue. For Committeemen, Third War, Kansas City: Benton L. Ogilvie, 2100 Summit St. Mrs. Geo. B. Bearden, 1835 Washington St. Henry C. Jones, 909 West 18th St. C. B. Ellis, 401 East 31st St. Norman C. Hall, 2801 Jarboe. Charles A. Barker, 3008 Oak. Hattie Root, 2811 Madison St. Mrs. Kittie Evans, 1221 Cliff St. Mrs. Nellie Detrick, 2801 Southwest Blvd. E. E. Kithcart, 2914 Campbell. For Committeemen, Fourth Ward, Kansas City: Alice J. Siebert, 2515 Forest Ave. William H. Houston, 2300 Vine St. Harry L. Morast, 2804 Michigan Ave. Ada Monroe Piillow, 2543 Woodland Ave. Mrs. Albert (Linnie) Heidgger, 2919 Woodland Ave. Albert A. Johnson, 2731 Highland Ave. For Committeemen, Fifth Ward, Kansas City: Mrs. Myrtle A. Joy, 3438 Summit St. Frank Schibsby, 3525 Genessee St. Milton C. Siegfried, 3814 Bell St. For Committeemen, Sixth Ward, Kansas City: Mattie E. Knoop, 1010 East 42nd St. Lawrence Newton Wylder, 516 Scarritt Bldg. Edward L. Winn, 807 East Armour. Gertrude S. McBride, 2415 Charlotte St. Robert H. Tschudy, 2 Janssen Plac.e For Committeemen, Seventh Ward, Kansas City: Theo. Carlson, 4535 Washington St. Milford W. Rider, 711 Hamilton Terrace. Fred H. Carlson, 4535 Wyoming St. Harry E. Kirk, 4020 Walnut St. S. D. Pollock, 624 West 40th St. William O. Von Dorn, 19 East 41st St. Jos. B. Thompson, 4442 Fairmount Ave. Mary Elise Blees, 4004 Warwick Blvd. Fred O. Zimmerman, 3920 Hyde Park. Mrs. A. M. Hannah, 4823 Jarboe. For Committeemen, Eighth Ward, Kansas City: Charles M. Blackmar, 806 West 60th St. Terrace. Guy Brown, 116 East 70th St. Mrs. David B. Childs, 440 West 67th St. For Committeemen, Ninth Ward, Kansas City: Andrew Ford, 316 Wabash Ave. Mrs. Adah B. Crawford, 1223 Prospect. Frank O. Denney, 812 Bales Court. Oro B. O’Connor, 506 Maple Blvd. For Committeemen, Tenth Ward, Kansas City: Mrs. Lula Atkinson, 310 N. Van Brunt. John N. Love, 436 S. Colorado Ave. Mrs. Mary E. Bailey, 148 N. Bellaire Ave. Robert James Weaver, 653 Elmwood Ave. Harry H. Pierce, 420 Lawn. Earl S. Smith, 319 S. Van Brunt Blvd. For Committeemen, Eleventh Ward, Kansas City: Bertman H. Hockett, 2546 Benton. Mrs. Norine E. Bindley, 2934 Prospect. R. R. Adams, 1819 Agnes Ave. Hazel M. Campbell, 3623 Lockridge. James M. Rader, 2332 Benton Blvd. For Committeemen, Twelfth Ward, Kassas City: Jessie M. Parker, 2227 Chelsea. Edw. V. Simons, 2214 Hardesty Ave. Maude Harris 1227 Bennington Ave. June L. Groh, 2224 Quincy. Reese R. Peironnet, 3217 Peery Ave. Sidney S. Holland, 4201 Winchester St. For Committeemen, Thirteenth Ward, Kansas City: H. E. Moss, 3221 Olive St. Clarence E. Walker, 3208 Michigan. Mrs. Laura M. Jackson, 3430 Michigan. Charles M. Olsen, 2117 East 37th. Mrs. Grace E. Finch, 3215 Olive St. For Committeemen, Fourteenth Ward, Kansas City: William W. Howell, 2435 Long. Clayton E. Cook, 2440 Cleveland. Frances E. Trowbridge, 2629 Mersington Ave. Maude M. Scott, 3033 Bales Ave. Robert T. Wells, 3240 Agnes Ave. For Committeemen, Fifteenth Ward, Kansas City: Mrs. Zelpha A. Brown, 2115 East 44th. Leslie Thomas Jones, 2039 East 71st. Marie C. Harris, 2311 East 73d St. Wilton A. Smith, 1440 East 78th St. Harvey E. Meyer, 6204 Wabash Ave. For Committeemen, Sixteenth Ward, Kansas City: Mrs. W. R. Hill, 4046 Bellefontaine. Frank Hilmes, 3611 Agnes. Elsie L. Craig, 3924 Chestnut. Mack E. Ballou, 7010 Indiana Ave. Walter C. Bauer, 3931 College. Mrs. Helen Parsons, 4003 Bellefontaine. Velma P. Baker, 6707 Bellefontaine. For Committeemen, Blue Township, Jackson County: Augusta M. Holloway, R. 3, Box 135, Independence. Frank Bartlet, R. 6, Independence. Jessie L. Martin, 131 E. Kansas St., Independence. Mrs. Lillie Smith, Mt. Washington. Jess Flowers, 604 West Farmer, Independence. Selma Emily Hampton, 2021 S. Wayne, R. 6, Independence. For Committeemen, Van Buren Township, Jackson County: Fabius M. Butler, Lone Jack. Noah F. Hutchins, Lone Jack. Lelah M. Campbell, Lees Summit. For Committeemen, Prairie Township, Jackson County: Olive F. Reeves, Lees Summit. Robert Thomas Williams, jr., Lees Summit. Mrs. Jessie A. Lucas, Lees Summit. Harvey A. Shannon, Lees Summit. For Committeemen, Brooking Township, Jackson County: Harvey McKeever, R. R. 3, Lees Summit. Mrs. Ida Hansen, Gen. Del., Raytown. For Committeemen, Washington Township, Jackson County: Wallace J. King, 8122 Highland. Harrison S. Rainwater, 8107 Flora. Lillie M. Coleman, Martin City. Remembrance Harley Metcalfe, R. R. 1, 97th and Grand, Kansas City. Adah B. Goddard, Grandview. For Committeemen, Fort Osage Township, Jackson County: Henry W. Luetkemeyer, Buckner. T. F. Borgman, Levasy. Mrs. Maude Hedrick, Buckner. For Committeemen, Sni-a-Bar Township, Jackson County: Mrs. Margaret Brownfield, Box 13, Blue Springs. E. E. Perry, Oak Grove. J. H. Parr, Blue Springs. Cora Vestal, Oak Grove.

SOCIALIST CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION. For Senator in Congress: Charles H. Harrison, 135 West Pine, Warrensburg. For Govenor: Joseph G. Hodges, 2720 Park Ave., Kansas City. For Representative in Congress, Fifth District: Simon Ommerman, Woodland Hotel, 1723 East 8th St., Kansas City. For Sheriff of Jackson County: George C. Grant, 5852 East 10th St., Kansas City. For Assessor of Jackson County: John T. DeShazo, 1706 Indiana Ave., Kansas City. For Treasurer of Jackson County: Elias F. Hodges, Sugar Creek, Box

SOCIALIST-LABOR CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION. For Senator in Congress: William W. Cox, 3954 Shenandoah St., St. Louis. For Governor: Edward T. Middlecoff, 2249A Indiana Ave., St. Louis For Lieutenant-Governor: Carl Oberheu, 2722 Summit, Kansas City, Mo. For Secretary of State: Leo L. Aberle, 1612 Belt Ave., St. Louis. For State Auditor: J. W. Molineaux, 1401 Jefe[rs]on [?], Kansas City. For State Treasurer: James Wagoner, 3519 Califor[nia] Ave., St. Louis. For Attorney General: Theodore Baeff, 3519 California A[ve.,] St. Louis. For Representative in Congress, F[ifth] District: Michael L. Hiltner, 1219 Asnew Av[e.,] Kansas City.

State of Missouri, ) ) ss. County of Jackson ) I, Robert L. Hood, Clerk of the Cou[nty] Court within and for the County of J[ack]son, do hereby certify that the a[bove] and foregoing is a true and correc[t] [?] containing the name and Postoffice [ad]dress of each candidate, together w[?] designation of the office for which [?] candidate, the party or principle [?] [re]presents; also the hours during [which] the polls will be open. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I [?] unto set my hand and affix the s[?] [of] said County Court. Done at office in Kansas City, Mi[ssouri,] this the 12th day of July, A.D., 1[928.] (SEAL) ROBERT L. H[OOD] Clerk of the County [Court]

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Lincoln Hotel S. E. Corner., 13th & Woodland Clean, attractive, modern rooms for [l]adies and gentlemen. High class [h]otel service. Ladies’ parlor and [g]entlemen’s lounge room. PAUL R. RILEY, Manager Telephone Harrison 5317

J. M. Sojourner NOTARY PUBLIC JOB PRINTING 1604 E. 19th Street Victor 7899

MONEY TO LOAN Loans on Household Goo[ds] Legal Rate. Quick Service H. G. OLIVER 1919 E. 15th St.

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FOR RENT FOR RENT--Apt. 2 rooms and bath; light, gas and heat furnished; newly decorated; apply shoe store, 18th and highland. Har. 9304--Ind. FOR RENT—Furnished and unfurnished rooms. 1608 Cottage. FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms and kitchenettes; modern; everything furnished. Ha. 6195. FOR RENT—Three rooms and bath. Modern. 2538 Euclid. $15.00 FOR RENT—Furnished rooms; clean rooms in private home, first and second floors. 1412 Paseo. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, strictly modern, prefer single men. Call Mel. 4101-J. 2421 Brooklyn. FOR RENT—Neatly finished rooms, 1915 E. 13th. Vi. 3283. FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms kitchen privileges, $2 up. Ha. 8529. 1717 E. 13th. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. Ha. 0155. FOR RENT--Nicely furnished rooms at 1511 Euclid. FOR RENT—Front room, kitchen privileges, 1923 E. 14th St., 2nd floor west, Ha. 1388. FOR RENT—3 rooms, neatly furnished for light housekeeping, 1518 Indiana, Benton 3511. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in quiet Christian home for man and wife. Melrose 5295-W. FOR RENT--Furnished front room, man and wife, home conveniences, everything furnished. $4.50. 1219 E. 22nd. FOR RENT—2-room kitchenette, lights and gas furnished, reasonable. See janitor. 2072 N. 5th street. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room, modern conveniences, home privileges. 1318 Garfield. Benton 2622. FOR RENT—3 large room kitchenette, unfurnished, modern; porches nice neighborhood. $15 per month. Call Mel. 5543-W.

See Paul R Riley Lincoln Hotel S. E. Corner, 13th and Woodland, Harrison 5317, for Hotel Rooms or Furnished Apartments.

Reduced Rent 1809-11 E. 11th St. Four room apartment reduced to $20.00. Will Redecorate See manager, 1107 Woodland

PASEO HALL Finest Hall in the West For Rent CLifton 3831

For Rent FOR RENT—Rooms: if you are looking for cheap rent, we’ve got it. Rooms from $7 to $15 a month. Newly decorated. Call Eisenberg; Linwood 4952. FOR RENT—Five-room duplex. $22.50. 2012 Olive. Clifton 3553. FOR RENT—Strictly modern room, everything convenient. Call Mel. 6457-M. Evenings. FOR RENT--911 E. 24th, 4 rooms modern, independent, oak finish, porches, yard, basement, first class, reduced rent. VA 3343. FOR RENT—1213 E. 16th, elegant 5-4oom apt., well arranged, hot and cold water, first class condition. Call Levinson, Vic. 3135. FOR RENT--1515 Oak, rear, cozy 5-room cottage, good condition, gas range; water paid, reasonable. Levinson, Vic. 3135. FOR RENT—5 rooms, upstairs, modern except heat, newly decorated. 2620 Woodland, Linwood 7521. FOR RENT—1614 Tracy, 5 rooms and bath, good condition, $22.50. Call Levinson, Vic. 3135. FOR RENT—Four-room house, newly decorated. Lights and water in. Paved sidewalk to door. $15.50 per month. 3625 White avenue. Inquire 3623 for key. FOR RENT—Four-room apartment. Partly modern. Call Melrose 2654-W. 1622 Olive. FOR RENT—Hightower Apt., one front apt., Clifton 0628. FOR . RENT—2008 E. 14th. Modern steam heated five-room apartment. Disappearing bed. Redecorated. See janitor. FOR RENT—2203 Wabash. Four rooms and bath. Apartment for nice and responsible tenant. Reduced summer rates. Janitor will show. FOR RENT--Four-room apartment. Also single or double room for men. 1416 E. 24th FOR RENT—9th and Garfield, 3- Nice neighborhood; very reasonable! FOR RENT--2118 Tracy, 4 rooms modern, porches, newly decorated. $17.50. Call Va. 3343.

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FOR RENT 2420 Tracy Are. Two and four room efficiency apartments — furnished; summer doors, modern. $5 to $7.50 MR. ROGERS

FOR SALE FOR SALE--Peerless, modern fifty-six, four passenger sport. Cheap for cash. Perfect condition. Elm. 0347-J. FOR SALE—Completely modern brick and frame. $350 down. Harrison 7059. FOR SALE or RENT—Ten-room brick, strictly modern. Bargain. 2201 Park. Clifton 3553. My equity for sale at a sacrifice. Clifton 5777. FOR SALE—Beautiful massive dining room suite, burl walnut bedroom suites, fine rug, living room suite, gas range, breakfast set, sweeper, extra beds, dressers, ice box, extra chairs, mattress and springs. Will be sacrificed for cash. Must see to appreciate. Call any day except Sunday. 3245 Norton.

For Rent 2735 Highland 3 Room Modern Apartment, built-in-beds and laundry. $22.00 Call Linwood 7863

FOR SALE Duplex, Bargain -- Modern, excellent condition, near 24th & Brooklyn. BEST BUY IN TOWN. TERMS Victor 1735

1515 Wyandotte 4 Room Apartment Good condition, water furnished. $15.00 See Mrs. Wilson South Side, 1511 Wyandotte

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[page 23] [Ka]nsas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY B-1[7]

News From Missouri Towns MIAMI, MO. The Mission Circle met at the Sec[on]d Baptist church Friday after[noo]n. A program was rendered by [Mis]s Maude Beason, music by Miss [Dor]othy Moore of Sedalia. Each [me]mber of the club quoted a verse [from] the Bible. Mrs. I. J. Moore [?] daughter, Dorothy, of Sedalia, [?] bee nvisiting her sisters, Mrs. [?] Williams and Mrs. W. Brooks. [Sund]ay school was well attended on [Sund]ay morning. The Mission cir[?] [i]s planning to send Miss Maude [?]on as a delegate to Lexington to [?] association. Mrs. Sadie Carter [?] [K]ansas City was visiting her sis[ter l]ast week. Mrs. O. B. Williams [?] Mrs. Will Brooks. Rev. A. H. [?]h preached at 3 o’clock Sunday. [?] was by Miss Dorothy Moore. [?] Garrett of Marshall was with Mrs. Will Brown and Mrs. Jno. [?]n were Sunday afternoon guests [?] and Mrs. S. Gaines and chil[dren] were Sunday afternoon guests [?] [M]rs. Mildred Wilson and son, Ed[?] John and Muriel Herriford of [Kans]as City. Mo., visited S. Lamp[?] [?] the week-end. Miss Dorothy [?] of Sedalia spent the night [?] Miss Elizabeth Lampkins Sun[day.] [T]he A. M. E. church will [?] ice cream supper Saturday [?] [?]e B. Y. P. U. will have [?] Sunday night. Rev. Rob[?] [?] preached for Rev. Jackson [?] [ni]ght to a large audience.

CLINTON, MO. Many people from Windsor and Clinton enjoyed a basket dinner given by the members of the St. James M. E. church, Sunday, July 22. A sermon was preached by Rev. Hester of the M. E. church of Windsor whic hwas followed by sermon by Rev. B. W. Lowe of the Second Baptist church of Clinton. Rev. D. J. Mitchell of the St. James M. E. church preached Sunday evening. July 22nd. The Steward's offering of the St. James M. E. church for the 22n dof July was $26.75. The Bible class topic of the St. James M. E. church for July 22 was “What Is the Spirit of Our Church?" Discussion was led by Miss Millie Badgett and Miss Mattie Swindell. Frank Watson has resigned the office of secretary of the Bible class of the Saint James M. E. church. He was replaced by Thomas Sweets. The Bible class offering Sunday was $1.70. The brethren of the St. James M. E. ch[ur]ch have been busy in the past we[?] preparing the church for the qua[rte]rly conference which will convene July 28, 29. The Bible class of St. James M. E. church will render a program July 29 under the direction of Mrs. Nevada Davis. The Junior league will meet at the St: James M. E. church Tuesday afternoon at 4 p. m. Prayer services will be held at the church Wednesday evening. Devotional service will be led by Mrs. Margaret Watson and Mrs. Nevada Davis. The visitors of he church Sunday, July 22, were: Dan Crouch, Jesse Crouch, of Butler; Mrs. Hunley and son and Miss Ella Wall of Clinton. Devotional service at. the St. James M. E. church was led by Dan Crouch of Butler and Miss Toledo Cooper. Miss Irene Smit his on the sick list. Clint C. Masseingale is in poor health. Harry McKay was seriously ill for about two hours July 22. Mrs. T. Barker left for grand lodge at Hannibal, July 23, where she will represent the Anna Rhodes court of t[hi]s place.

SALISBURY, MO. B. F. Adams, grand lecturer of the A. F. and A. M. state of Missouri, and its jurisdiction, was here Sunday in interest of the Masonic lodge. He stopped in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bently. He left for Huntsville, Mo., Monday. Mrs. Emma Herring and Mrs. C. M. Hughes of Dalton, Mo, spent Wednesday evening in the home of Mr. and Mrs. T[?] Black. Little Richard Patte[?] has been on the sick list. Little [Mi]ldred Fristo, daughter of M[rs.] Goldie Morehead is very sick with tlphoid fever. J. S. McAdams spent Saturday and Sunday with his family. Mrs. Wm. Dameron and son, Herbert, motored to Clifton Hill Monday to see her daughter, Mrs. Grace Harvey who is ill. Mrs. Clydia Phelps and sister, Miss Mabel Lewis motored to Roanoke, Mo., on Monday and took the latter’s son, Wendell to the doctor. Mr. and Mrs. Festus Williams and children of Namrash, Mo., visited Mrs. Riley Patterson Sunday. Miss Katherine Bently is down sick this week but is reported better. Misses Clara Mae Caldwell and Dorothy Antoinette Bailey visited their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bailey at Kansas City, Kas, Saturday and Sunday. Bishop Lee of Chicago, is visiting his parents at Roanoke. Mo. Misses Leona Gooch and Myrtle Harvey gave a musical program on Friday night July 20, at the Saint Luke A. M. E. church. Mrs. Elizabeth Moss left Thursday for Davenport, Ia., to visit her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Young. Cecil Yancy of Carrollton, Mo., visited his cousin, Mrs. Laura Harvey Wednesday. Rev. J. S. Swancy was in Glasgow Thursday on business. Lonnie Pettigrew, of Dalton, was guest of Miss Myrtle Harvey Sunday. Rally Day Services were held at the A. M. E. church Sunday, July 22. A church picnic was given on the church lawn Saturday prior to the rally. Mrs. W. M. Seals was a visitor at Glasgow, Mo, Frida[y.] She was guest of Mrs. Helen Butner. Those reported on the sick list this week are: Mrs. Chas. Bailey, C. H. Bentley, Little Wendell McCoy and Elijah Fristo. Mr. and Mrs William Black, Miss Minnie An[der]so[n] and and little Elsworth Gooch attended the annual sermo nat Forrest Green last Sunday. Mrs. Thos. Black and children are visiting at Dalton, with her father, Kneal Shepa[r]d and other relatives.

PILOT GROVE, MO. Rev. [?] S. [?]. Moore and A. M. Jackson motored to Lamine where Rev. [Moor]e caught the train for his home. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Wright spent the week-end in Speed visiting their mother, Mrs. Wright. Misses Grace Wright, Helen Banty [?]ty and Carl W[illi]ams accom[panied] heir home. Rev. Davis and [?]ew[?] of Houston, Texas, worshipp[ed] at Mt. Olive Free Baptist Sun[day.] Rev. Davis preached for [Rev.] M. aJckson at 11 a. m. The [f]oll[owi]ng from here attended the rally and basket dinner at Blackwater Sunday: Rev. and Mrs. A. M. J[ac]ks[on] and daughter, Luella D., M[?] [?]issie Wilson[,] Misses Leola and G[?] Givers[?], [B]eaulah Buckner, Agne[s] M. [?], Lucille Ham[?], [?] and [?] Butler. Leslie William[s] [?] [?]n. N. Hawkins, [?] Will[?] [?]ones and Robt. Sm[?] [?] motored here Sunday. Rev. R. [?] Chasteen preached at Sp[?]ed Sunday. Aaron Hamm[o]nds made a business trip to Boonville Thursday. He was accompan[i]ed ho[me] by [hi]s son, Ernest and Miss Gladys oYun[g]. Mrs. Lillie Buckner and li[ttl]e Lue[ll]a D. Jackson are on the sick list. Mrs. Lucy Hammonds was calling on Mrs. Hattie Moore on Sunday evening. Rev. W. E. Burns of Sedalia spent several days visiting Rev. A. M. Jackson. Rev. services. Mr. and Mrs. Porter Kinney of Chauteau Springs were here shopping Saturday. Rev. Jackson filled his appointment here Sunday. Mt. Olive Sewing Circle met with Mrs. Luella D. Jackson Friday. Officers were elected.

WELLINGTON. MO. There were out-of-town visitors at the A. M. E. church Sunday. They were: Mrs. Winfield and daughter-in-law of Kansas City, Kas.; a daughter-in-law and friends of Lexington, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Theoda Miller; Ossie W. H. White motored to Richmond to the basket dinner. Mrs. Bell Carey is ill with the rheumatism. John Walton met with an accident when he fell and broke his collar bone. The Ladles’ Aid will give a social and a a Bible scenery Saturday night, July 28. The Beaver club gave a weiner roast at the Wiley chapel M. E. church. Rev. Glaspie will be with us Sunday at Wiley chapel. The picnic given by the Lexington band boys was a success. Miss Cassie Garr is visiting her mother and father. Mrs. Mabel Hannah motored to Lexington Friday. Mrs. Edna Slaughter spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Hannah. Mr. Miller and wife and son of Kansas City have been visiting his father, Archie Miller for the last few weeks. Mrs. Miller’s son, Elmer Jones and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Jones left for Lexington where he has a job. The picnic given by Robert Johnson and Mrs. Olden was a success. Over $100.00 was cleared. Rev. Parker left Sunday evening for Mason City, Iowa, and from there to Minneapolis, to visit his children.

MT. LEONARD, MO. Rev. Dreams of Malta Bend delivered the sermon at 11 o’clock. The services were good all day. Rev. J. S. Spriggs preached in Salt Pond at 11 o'clock service. Mrs. Sarah Clark, Miss Myrtle Rich were caller in Malta Bend Friday. Mrs. Alice Smith, Myretle Rich visited Mrs. Lizzie Baker and Sadie Baker Friday. They are improving. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones were the guests of Mrs. W. M. Clark Sunday. R. L. Clark and W. M. Clark motored to Malta Bend Sunday to visit friends. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Cunningham were in Mt. Leonard en route to Waverly on Sunday. J. S. Spriggs and family, Jim Hodge and family motored to Waverly to church Sunday night. Jasper Baker and family have moved to town. Mrs. Agnes Williams was guest of Mrs. J. S. Spriggs last week. Mrs. Carrie Falkner was the guest of Mrs. W. M. Clark Friday.

FOREST GREEN, MO. Rev. McTerry and family of Keokuk, Iowa, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Bush Saturday evening. Our two weeks’ meeting was conducted by Rev. W. M. Storrs. Rev. Storrs and a number of the members of the First Baptist motored to Shanondale and worshipped with them. Rev. Terry of Keokuk, Ia., preached at 3 p. m. They had a rally and raised $60.00. At 8 p.m.. Rev. Terry preached. Miss Rosa Lewis who has been sick is much improved. Total collection Sunday was $21. Rev. Storrs goes to Keytesville to serve the Baptist church. Mrs. Viola Hayes is appointed agent, and correspondent for The Call at Forest Green.

UTICA, MO. Miss Evelyn Gudgell is visiting friends at Carrollton, Mo. Clyde Banks of Chillicothe was a business visitor here last week. George Dandridge and friend, Miss Geneva Hughes of Mooresville visited Mrs. Irene Crain last week. Elbert Brown and daughter, Helen, were Chillicothe shoppers Wednesday. Little William Douglass of Breckenridge, is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Gudgell. Mrs. Ellen Ballinger spent Sunday as the guest of Mrs. Lucy Brown. Mrs. Clarence Brown and family, Mrs. Oliver Trosper and daughter and Mrs. Irene Crain and family were Shade Hill visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Ballinger and George Ballinger were Chillicothe visitors Sunday. Homer Frazier was a week-end visitor. Misses Arletha, Carrie and R. Brown Helen Brown and Brother Russell and Edward called at the J. T. Gudgell home Sunday evening.

CARROLLTON, MO. The fourth quarterly meeting was held at the St. James A. M. E. church Sunday. Rev. Kidd presided. Rev. Price of Norborne preached the sacramental sermon in the afternoon. Mrs. Roberta Thomas of Detroit, Michigan, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lillian McKinzie. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Marshall returned to their home in Excelsior Springs, Sunday. George Washington spent Saturday in Kansas City. Miss Evelyn Gudgell of Utica is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Catherine Washington. Thomas Bennett left for Kansas City. Miss Evelyn Gudgell of Utica is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Catherine Washington. Thomas Bennett left for Kansas City Saturday. Mrs. Etta Yancey stuuck a nail in her foot Wednesday. Mrs. Nellie Wilson has painted her house. Ora and Oris McKinzie and sister, Mrs. Christine Martin were in Carrollton Saturday. A few attended the picnic and dance at Norbome Saturday. Miss Ruby Yancey won the first prize as being best dancer, a gold fountain pen [an]d ever-sharp pencil. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith, first as best waltzers, a double strand of pearl beads. Silas Hill visited in Kansas City Sunday. Rev. Ellis returned home from Fayette last week. Mrs. Spicy Scearcy is on the sick list. Don't forget the picnic at the City park Saturday. Mrs. Minnie Miller and family have returned home from Marysville after a two weeks visit with her father. Please pay cash for the Call. Don’t let theagent beg you. If she didn’t pay cash they would not be delivered at your door.

HIAWATHA, KAS. Services at the Second Baptist church, bot hmorning and evening ewere conducted by pastor. Rev. Wm. Monroe and his members are planning to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the church during the early part of August. A large number of members of both churches here attended the basket dinner at Sabetha, Kansas. Sunday afternoon. Rev. Walker of St. Joseph, preached The choir from his church was present and furnished the music. The condition of Geo. Walthall who is same Rev. and Mrs. Geo. Alexan[der] of Winfield, aKs., arrived last M[on]day evening to visit, Mrs. Alex[ander’s] mother, Mrs. Helen Alexan[der. E]n route they met with a car accident in which one of the children received a broken arm and the baby was badly burned in the eyes with acid. Both are doing nicely. Miss Beatrice Robinson who had been visiting in Winfield returned home with the Alexander family. She was only slightly bruised, as were others in the party. Miss Mildred Miller is visiting in Kansas City. Miss Mildred Hollingsworth is visiting in St. Joseph. Mo. William Brunt returned Sunday from Western, Kansas, where he has been harvesting. On his return trip he stopped in Beloit and brought his daughter, Aleta, home with him. Oscar Banks is suffering from lumbago. Muriel Gamble and Wilbur Gamble are visiting relatives in Elwood and St. Joseph.

SWEET SPRINGS. MO. Rev. J. W. Terrell, pastor, preached sermons both morning and night at the St. Paul M. E. church. Mrs. Arnold of Marshall spent Wednesday with her niece, Mrs. Katherine Pollard, Miss Marie of Topeka, Kas. is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Hannah Fields. Miss Mabel Henry and Cleo Simeon of Conoway, Ark, are visiting Miss Henry’s sister, Mrs. J. W. Terrell. Mrs. Lizzie Radd had a slight stroke of paralysis Thursday. Her daughter, Mrs. Sophia Hanners and Mrs. Lelolia Melton of Kansas City, were called to her bedside. Mrs. Hanners returned home Monday. Mrs. Melton will remain for an indefinite stay. Mrs. Mary Whe[al]er and little sons, Ray and Raymond, Mrs. Mattie Winstead, Mrs. Sallie Miller were callers on Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Miller. Miss Alberta Mady called on Miss Mabel Henry Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. Wilson, Dr. and Mrs. Ollie Brown and little son of Kansas City motored hens and spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Lucas and family. Halleck Johnson, Owens Shannon and Harold are on the sick list.

OTTAWA, KAS. Mrs. T. L. Barlow entertained a number of children with Juanita Smith of Chanute, Kas., as guest of honor, Saturday afternoon. Sunday was the closing day of home-coming week at eBthany Baptist church. Pastor Favors selected as his subject for the morning service: “Homegoing of Naomi” and at night a program was rendered at 3:30 p. m. by the Sunday school. Talks were given by Rev. William Enyard of St. Paul A. M. E. church and Ernest Crith, Chanute, Kas., a former superintendent of Bethany Sunday school. Among the visitors present during the past week were: Rev. Bates, St. Louis, Mo, who resided in Ottawa and attended Ottawa university thirty years ago, Mrs. F. Simpson, Kansas City, Mo, Mrs. Mae Smith, Juanita Smith, Mr. and [Mrs. Ernest Crith and granddaughter, of Chanute, Kansas; George] Turner and family and Mrs. Stella [Woods and children, Wichita, Kas. A car load of Paola people drove ov]er Friday evening and spent the evening with Mr. and Mrs. Spottsville. W. S. J. Lewis and family spent Sunday as guests of relatives in Kansas City. Mesdames Camper, A. J. Williams, Misses Opal and Phy[ll]is Clayborne and W. O. Bell visited relatives and friends at Lawrence, Kas., Sunday afternoon. Charlesetta Favors will entertain as her guests: Miss Lela aDvis of Topeka, Wednesday afternoon. Maxine McBrier was hostess to the Junior Mission circle Tuesday afternoon at her home west of the city. Miss Davis, of Topeka, was a visitor. Rev. and Mrs. Enyard attended the funeral of Rev. White at Topeka, Kas., Wednesday. They returned home Thursday evening. A tea was given at St. Paul A. M. E. church Friday afternoon and evening by the Mite Missionary society. Mesdames eVnessa Britton. Queenie Hurtado and Miss Florine Gross constituted the committee in charge. There will be a basket dinner at St. Paul A. M. E. church. Sunday, July 29. Rev. Chas. Favors will preach at 3o’clock. Clarence (Jan) Hooker who has been ill is improving. Mrs. Emma Armstrong is ill. Vernon Washington has returned from California where he took his vacation. Misses Thelma and Elizabeth Wilson are visiting relatives and friends in Kansas City guest of relatives at Mo. Mrs. Wm. Lewis was the guest of relatives at Kansas City on Sunday.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. North Main Street Baptist Church Sunday school was well attended at 10 o’clock Sunday morning. The pastor, Rev. Jones preached. An impromptu program was rendered by the B. Y. P. U. at the regular hour, Rev. C. R. Campbell of Kansas City was present at the evening service and preached. Several members, Rev. Jones and family, attended the basket dinner at Richmond Sunday afternoon. A tacky party was given by the B. Y. P. D. last Friday evening. The Mission society will meet at the home of Mrs. eDsmond on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Simpson, Mr. Morrell, Miss Louise White, Mrs. Elliott and Mrs. Crowley are on the sick list. The grand daughter of Mr. Clark was brought home from Chicago last week ill. Rev. and Mrs. Jones attended the funeral of Mrs. C. R. McDowell in Kansas City Saturday. A musical recital will be presented Friday evening of July 27, under the direction of Mr. Burton. Refreshments will be served. Mr. Moberly of Kansas City, Kas., was a visitor in the services throughout the day. Mrs. Allie Estell and children are visiting out of the city. Mrs. Myrtle Smith left for Denver Colorado Thursday night. Mrs. Carrie Perkins and children left for Los Angeles. Calif, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. Craig had an accident while driving on the highway. Both escaped uninjured, Tom Moore of St. Louis is visiting in our city. Miss Eva Triplett, Miss Minnie Duncan and Miss Mildred R. Carter were visitors here Thursday night. Miss Louise White and Mr. Murrell are on the sick list. J. D. Harvey gave a tacky party Friday night at the church. Roy Monroe is back from a two weeks’ visit in Kansas City. W. H. Seals and S. Cox were week-end visitors. Thornton Curry of Chillicothe spent a week in the city visiting his wife. Mrs. Geneva Curry. R. L. Lewis and Melvin Layton have moved to Missouri City. Mrs. Elvira Clevenger was visiting her sister Monday evening.

SALT POND, MO. Rev. J. S, Spriggs preached Sunday at 11:30 o'clock. Mrs. W. S. Stevenson attended the funeral of Mrs. McDowell, Hannibal, Mo, and Kansas City Mo. and returned home Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Hodges were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cly Walker. Charley Howard, Willie Johnson of Kansas City, Mo., in home of J. Howard. J. Carter, Charles Lucas and McKinley Pollard motored to Marshall and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lizzie Carter and relatives Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry William and family motored to Marshall Sunday as guests of daughter and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. George Carter and family, Mr. and Mrs. George Pollard motored to Waverly, Mo., to at ten dthe meeting. Rev. Geo. Cla[m], Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smiley and family worshipped in M.t Leonard Sunday night. Mrs. Will Austin was guest of Mrs. N. E. Pollard Friday evening. Miss Grace Smiley, Miss Daisy Pollard, Tearonia Stevenson, Doff Williams were visitors Sunday. Grace Smiley, T. Stevenson, Leon Williams were guests of 1 Daisy Pollard. N. E. Pollard was a guest of Rev.. Dennie Payton. [B]en Jackson spent the day with Rev. Geo. Parker and family. Mrs. Ben Jackson was called home to be at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Geo. Baker.

OTTERVILLE, MO. Rev. E. Scool preached Sunday at Taylor chapel. Rev. Scoot held his second quarterly meeting. Rev. E. L. Pate of Sedalia, preached at 11 o'clock. Rev. E. Scoot preached at 3 o’clock and Rev. E. L. Pate at 8 o’clock. Collection for the day was $32.55. Don’t forget the rally and basket dinner at Taylor chapel M. E. church the first Sunday in August. Those out of town who worshipped at Taylors chapel Sunday were. Mrs. E. Scoot, Misses Brooks and Beatrice Russells, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Perkins and Miss Stella Shackleford of Tipton. Mr. and Mrs. John Money and Floyd Simms of Pleasant Green, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley Hopkins and samll son, Mrs. Amanda Hopkins and daughter, Miss Blanch Hopkns of By Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Gellie Lyles of Sedalla. Rev. Scoot was dinner guest Sunday of Mrs. Mollie Cooper and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley Hopkins and son, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Jackson Sunday. Mrs. Hurley Hopkins and Mrs. Amanda Hopkins of Bye Berry, were guests of Mrs. Mollie Cooper Monday. Rev. and Mrs. L. R. Grant, and Rev. and Mrs. E. L. Pate of Sedalia, motored to the city Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Nuton Balance and Miss Julia Miller of Syracuse were callers in town Sunday. Misses Beatrice and Brooks Russell of California, and Misses Lena Finley and Bernice Cooper were dinner guests of Miss Mabel Points. Rev. E. L. Pate of Sedalia was week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Hogan. Mr. and Mrs. Gillie Lyles of Sedalia, were guests of Mrs. Matilda Lyles Sunday. Mrs. Millie Hopkins and grandson, Eugene Sims, of Bye Berry attended the quarterly meeting Sunday.

LATHROP, MO.

Miss Hazel Bosier s visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. General Graham. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Walker of Des Moines, Iowa, a little niece, Gloria Gates, of St. Paul, motored here and spent part of their vacation in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Childress. Mr. and in St. Paul. They in company with Mrs. Childress, Mrs. Black and Rev. Berry went to Kansas City. Leslie Williamson returned with them. Mr. and Mrs. Walker returned to Des Moines last Friday. Miss Marion Pearly returned to Liberty Tuesday after a few days visit in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Whitsett. Miss Pearly, Mrs. E. A. Winfrey and Mrs. Whitsett were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Davis Monday. Mrs. E. A. Winfrey left Saturday via Chicago for Saginew, Michigan where Mr. Winfrey is employed. She visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mesdames Alice Whitsett. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin. Mesdames Alice Black, Lou Etta Childress and Rosetta Whitsett motored to Plattsburgh to attend the S. M. T. and juevinle program last Sunday. Rev. Wm. Reed preached in Oregon Sunday. Mr. Childress was in St. Joseph on business Monday and went to Maryville for a short visit with Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Bell. Services at the Christian church were well attended. Rev. Davis of Kansas City, pastor. Miss eVrena rGaham sang a solo at the night services. Rev. G. A. Terry is on the mend. Mrs. Josie Findley of Kansas City visited in the home of the Misses Graham’s last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jep Gamer and daughter, Mr. McDonald, visited home folks last week. Mrs. George Tillman and daughter, Mrs. Vernice visited in Kansas City and Plattsburg, respectively last week. Mr. Tillman’s nephew is visiting in their home. The Jubilee singers of St. Joseph were well received at the Baptist church Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Furgerson of St. Joseph motored here Sunday and visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis. Mrs. Ferguson and Mrs. Davis were girls together and he is a member of the Harmony 4, which sang at the Baptist church Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas of St. Joseph, visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks last week. Little Erma Lee Brooks, accompanied them home. Mr. Brooks and H. D. went to St. Joseph Sunday to visit and bring the baby home. Mrs. Carrie Tully returned fro maKnsas City where she has been attending summer school since the 4th. Rev. and Mrs. Daniels of Moberly motored here to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hardin last week. Rev. Crawley of Platt City also visited with Mr. and Mrs. Hardin. Rev. Reed went to Hamilton Sunday where he preached. Services were good Sunday at St. Mark’s A. M. E. church, Rev. G. W. Berry preached. The M. M. met in the Home of Mrs. U. S. Childress Tuesday. The B. B. S. C., the O. L. M. C. will meet with Mrs. Calvert. The Famous Lee orchestra of Chillicothe will put on a program at the A. M. E. church bazaar the 4th of August. There will be a program at the Christian church Sunday sponsored by Mrs. Frank Lee and the Misses Graham. Mrs. U. S. Childress is able to be out again after a few days’ illness.

HENRIETTA, MO. Services at the A. M. E. church Sunday were well attended. Rev, Richardson, pastor, preached. Mrs. Georgia McDonal and Marguerite White attended the basket dinner in Richmond, Mo. Sunday. Henrietta Giants played the fast stepping Kansas City Call team of Kansas City, Mo. Sunday and won 12-1. Mrs. Ora Seals of Excelsior Springs

CHILLICOTHE, MO. Services were well attended Sunday at the Mt. Zion Baptist church. Rev. J. Q. Evans of St. Joseph, Mo, preached. Rev. R. O. Johnson will preach his farewell sermon Sunday, July 22. The Sunday school was well attended. Rev. and Mrs. J. Q. Evans and daughter, Maurice, of St. Joseph, returned home Monday morning after spending the weekend as the guests of Rev. and Mrs. R. O. Johnson. Sunday morning and evening services were well attended at Bethel A. M. E. church. Our pastor, Rev. E. Thomas preached at both services. The Sunday school was also well attended. Mrs. Bernice Black held a rummage sale in the lecture room Monday. An entertainment was given by the Stewardess Thursday evening in the lecture room. Mrs. J. W. Center and children, John Wesley, Hattie Julia and Bernice, spent Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo, as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Briley. Little Miss Mary Catherine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rozelle left Sunday morning for Minneapolis, Minn, where she will be the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Pauline Waldon. She was accompanied to Des Moines by her cousin, Miss Helen G. Banks. Augustuc Anderson of Marceline, returned home last Friday evening after spending a few days as the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Alnutt and family, of Olathe, Kas., have returned home after spending the week-end a sthe guest of Mr. Alnutt’s sister, Mrs. Carrie Banks and Mr. Banks. Mr. and Mrs. Coy Browne announce the birth of a son Saturday, July 14. Mother and baby are doing nicely. Mrs. Hattie Patterson of Kansas City, Mo, returned home Thursday morning after being the guest of her father, Louis Waller and Mr. Waller. Mrs. Scottie Saunders and granddaughter, little Miss Josephine Golden, have returned home from St. Joseph where they have been the guest of their daughter and mother, Mrs. Mildred Golden.

MARYVILLE, MO. Mrs. Mayme Guin entertained a number of children on Thursday afternoon in honor of her son, Lloyd's birthday. Mrs. Jno. Gooden was hostess on Thursday night to the Sun Dial Art club. The Ladies’ Aid society met Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. B. T. Elders.

NEVADA, MO. Rev. Henry Claytor left Tuesday for Butler to fill his regular appointment Sunday. The Sunday school and Allen League opened at the usual hour with good attendance. The social given at the A. M. E. church Thursday night was a success. Leroy Potter, a former resident of this place, is in our city again and is chef at Hotel Mitchell. Mrs. Alta Campbell, Thelma Cox and Eugene Cross are visiting friends in Springfield. W. O. Reynolds of Ft. Scott gave a motion picture show at the residence of Mr. Hallie Pryor Monday evening. Mrs. James Mack and children are in Higee, Mo., visiting her mother, Mrs. Gaines. Mrs. Nelson Sweets has arrived home from Bell hospital at Kansas City, and is much improved. Mrs. J. H. Davis and family motored to Butler Sunday afternoon. J. H. Evans who has been ill is able to be out again. If you want to know good news, read The Kansas City Call, 5c per copy. Have money ready when The Call boy arrives.

LA BELLE, MO. Mr. and Mrs. Vadie Baker of Monticello, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Irvin. Rev. J. W. Harris preached Wednesday evening at the first anniversary at La Grange. Music was rendered by the Mt. Olive Baptist choir of La Belle. Rev. and Mrs. Harris returned home Saturday evening. Mrs. Goldie Elegan spent the week-end as guest of Mrs. Harry Garr. The social given at the church Thursday evening was a success. Mrs. Bud Coby was dinner guest Sunday of Mrs. Frank Miller. Wallace Coby who has been ill returned home from Ft. Madison, Iowa, Friday evening. He was accompanied by his son and daughter, Mrs. Clarence Smith and Roscoe Coby. Mesdames Miller, Karris, Clay and Coby served dinner on the lawn of Mrs. Frank Miller, July 15th. Twenty-four guests were present and spent an enjoyable time. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Smith have moved to Maywood. Miss Pauline Thomas who is here visiting her mother, Mrs. Sofira Thomas spent a few days in Canton visiting with Mrs. Ralf Nickerson. Mrs. Callie Harrington spent a few days with her daughter. A few from here attended the Fish Fry at Monticello July 14. The anniversary of Mt. Olive Baptist church, La Belle, Mo., will begin August 7, ending Sunday, August 12. Fish fry, August 11.

BOONEVILLE, MO. Mrs. Cora Bell Ball of St. Louis, and Miss Hazel Jones of Sedalia, were visitors at the A. M. E. church last Sunday morning. Rev. Tillman preached Sunday morning. Stewardess Board No. 2 had a successful gathering at the Jackson farm last Tuesday night. They are indebted to Harry Johnson for the use of his truck. Mrs. Russell, the evangelist, was a caller at the A. M. E. parsonage last Sunday morning on her way to Fayette. The Church of God in Christ, located in east Boonville, will [host?] a meeting conducted by pastor’s [wi]fe and other missionary sisters. Elder Barner, pastor. Mrs. Lydia Jenkins is back home from Berger, where she has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Eva Allen and her sister in St. Louis.

GALLATIN, MO. Mrs. Minnie Young and daughters, Nannie and May, of Liberty, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Jack- son here. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Benton and Mrs. Abbie Taylor of Trenton, attended the basket dinner | here, July 15. Miss Marguerite Smith of Kansas City visited relatives here for a short while. Services were held at A. M. E. church Sunday. Collection for day was $18. Rev. Donald Crenshaw preached at afternoon service. Rev. J. R. Carter of Keytesville, ex-pastor there is here visiting for several days with Mr. and Mrs. Martha Lee and family. Mrs. Clara Page was dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Jackson Tuesday. Rev. J. R. Carter was the dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Holloway Wednesday. Rev. J. S. Butler left Tuesday for Trenton to | be present at the church anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Jackson entertained at 6 o’clock dinner. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Ewell McGill, Mrs. Blanch Smith, Miss Evelyn Cunny, Harold Holloway, Mrs. Minnie Young and two daughter and Mrs. Maud McGaw.

KNOBNOSTER, MO. Rev. Riley, pastor of Mt. Moriah Baptist church, preached all day Sunday to a large attendance. Rev. S. A. Graves left Saturday for Chilhowee where he has charge. A basket dinner and rally was given at Chilhowee. A large sum was realized. A few from here attended the basket dinned and rally in Chilhowee Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rucker and daughters motored to Kansas City Sunday. They visited Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. wall. Misses Marie Carroll Willana Looney and Emanuel Cooper of Osceola, who spent the past two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Graves returned home Monday. A picnic was given Saturday night by the Ladles’ of the Baptist church.

ARMSTRONG, MO. Sunday is quarterly meeting at Grant Chapel. Rev. W. M. Daniels of Moberly held services at Ebenezer Baptist church Sunday. Rev. Isom Watts preached the annual Thanksgiving sermon of the U. B. P. at Shannondale Sunday. Frank Mansfield accompanied him there. Mrs. William Moss accompanied Rev. and Mrs. Daniels to Moberly Monday. Mrs. Sydney Richardson had As guests last Saturday and Sunday Miss Beatrice Graves of Mexico. Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Daniels of Moberly. Rev. H. J. Harrison preached the annual sermon for the U. B. P. and S. M. T. Sunday. Duke Diggs, G. M. passed through Armstrong Sunday enroute to Fayette, Mo. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ballard Richardson. Mrs. A. J. Abington and a party of friends attended the annual sermon and were the guests of Mrs. Sydney Richardson. Rev. Herman Harvey and wife, Henry Harvey of Yates returned home Wednesday night from Kansas City where they attended the funeral of their brother Roy Harvey. Roscoe Baines and Hobert Baines are working here for an indefinite time. Mrs. Mary Lee who is in Kansas City under the care of a specialist, came home for one day and returned the following. She is reported getting along fine. Mrs. Bert Bronner, who had the misfortune to get her ankle sprained some time ago is having trouble with it. Mrs. Fannie Hughes was burned about the face one day last week while she was cooking. She is reported improving. Mrs. Erylyne Enyard returned from Yates Saturday after a week's stay. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Robinson and Ollis Yancey of Columbia visited the former's parents, James Bogie Sunday. Mrs. Emma Buckner and Luther Holliday were Armstrong visitors Monday. The following persons motored to Glasgow Sunday: Misses Bettie Moore. Sylvia and Ruth Watts, Mrs. Logan Moore and Mrs. Palestine Robinson and Ollie aYncey of Columbia. Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper of Mexico, is spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Patton, sr. Mo. was visiting Mrs. Thomas Finch Sunday. The Giants are playing Bogard, Mo. Sunday July 29 and August 5. They are expecting to play a team from Independence, Mo. or Jefferson City. Watch The Call and get the exact date and team. Prayer services every Wednesday night at the A. M. E. church and an entertainment Saturday night. July 28. Mrs. Lovie Young of Omaha, Nebr. is here visiting her aunt, Mrs. Hannah Thornton, who is very ill. She remains the same this week. When thinking of a good place to fish in the cool country away from the heat in the city motor to Henrietta, Mo. to England's pond, 3 1/2 miles south of Henrietta. Inquire at Rev. Robinson’s. News was received last week of the marriage of Miss Aileen Finch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Finch, to Henry Pickens of Chicago, Ill. They will make their home in Chicago.

HIGGINSVILLE, MO. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Groves gave a party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton T. Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Sutton of Milwaukee, Wis. These present were Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Poster and their little niece, Mrs. Ellen Perry and little daughter Earlean. Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Chinn, Mr. and Mrs. Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Sutton. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Johnson of Ft. Scott, Kas. spent the week end visiting their brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Crigler. They entertained with a party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Chinn, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Smith, Mrs. Ellen Harper, F. B. Brown, Abner Pollard Sam Benton and Mrs. Helen Seward Mr. and Mrs. Johnson returned home Friday. Chas. Jackson received a message Wednesday evening that his sister, Mrs. Omelia Bell died and was buried Friday Mrs. Bell was a daughter of M[r.] and Mrs. Caleb Jackson of this city Those who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Jackson parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jackson and little Sophia Lee Jackson Rev. G. W. Cross who officiated, Mrs. Rebecca Jackson, Mrs. Nettle Woods, Mrs. Susan Hardin and Robert Smith. Mrs. Ellen Harper was in Sweet Springs the past week. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Smith, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Chinn spent the day at Swope park and motored to Kansas City and visited several homes. F. B. Brown left Sunday morning for St. Joseph, Mo. to meet the grand lodge of the International Order of Twelve. Mrs. Lewis James and Mrs. Malinda Benton left Monday morning for the grand lodge. Frank Jones of Mt. Leonard, Mo. was in Higginsville enroute to Denver, Colo. Mrs. G. W. Cross came home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Colebert and Safronia of Okmulgee, Okla. are visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Green, Warner Britt is here from California this week. Guy Workcuff of Santa Barbara, Calif, visited his aunt, Mrs. Sallie James this week.

TRENTON, MO. Rev. J. S. Butler preached both morning and night. The 55th anniversary celebration of the A. M. E. church was a success last week. Rev. W. R. Palmer is unable to fill his appointments. Freddie Helm is here visiting his brother William. A. Moore, Mrs. Georgia Pittman and children motored to St. Joseph, Mo. Sunday to visit Mrs. Pittsman’s mother, Mrs. Emma Ward. Floyd Benton, Bluford Montgomery, Junior Wallace and Mr. Green were Trenton visitors Sunday. Roy Trosper, Simon Estes, little Mary Josephine Weaver, Mrs. Mildred Estes and son Vernon motored to St. Joseph Sunday. Vernie Pittman spent Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. Pelase have your money in your lands when you see your paper boy coming.

APPLETON CITY, MO. The Ladies Aid met with Mrs. John Mack Friday afternoon. Mrs. Arthur Harper is spending her vacation in West Plains, Mo. A number of Kansas City people have been here spending their vacation among friends and relatives and enjoying fishing. A basket dinner will be given at Graves Chapel Sunday, July 29. Mr. and Mrs. James Mack and Mrs. John Mack motored to Marshall Creek Sunday. Visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Ray and Horace Wright of Mt, Rose, Lloyd Marshall and Sam Mack of Clinton, Dic kand Harry Costello of Kansas City, Mo. called on Mr. and Mrs. John Mack Sunday afternoon. The Appleton City ball club was defeated by Horton Sunday at Horton. Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Davis, Mae Anderson, Geneva Anderson and Ruby Madison were visitors in Butler Saturday evening. Myrtle Walls. Moline and Velma Lee Walls, Virginia Harper and Leonard Langley attended the ball game in Horton Sunday.

PLATTSBURG, MO. Services were good at Second Baptist Sunday. Rev. J. D. Hunt preached two sermons, morning and light. Rev. G. W. Berry left Saturday for Lathrop. The basket dinner at Second Christian church at Mecca, Mo. was largely attended. People from Lathrop, St. Joseph and surrounding towns came over. Rev. Lisha Willis preached sermons; collection, $25. Charley Taylor left Thursday evening to visit his sisters in St. Joseph. John Albert Walker md Miss Lucille Scott of St. Joseph came in to spend the day with Mr. Walker's parents; also to attend the basket dinner at Mecca. Mrs. Della Lewis and grand baby eDlois rGay and Nath Coleman spent Saturday and Sunday with her nephew and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young. They motored to basket dinner in Mrs. Lewis' car. Ella Naomi Botts and Ruby Hines of Lincoln, Nebr. are visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mose Boswell. Mrs. Hazel Roseberry were operated on Friday at Sister's hospital in St. oJseph. Mrs. Fannie Coleman spent the week with her mother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Green. Mrs. Luella Clark received word her daughter, Mrs. Balnche Taylor of Des Moines, Ia., was to be operated on for appendicitis. Born to Mr. and Mrs. eJssie Saxton Wednesday, July 18. a boy. name dJesse Ray, Jr. Mother and babe doing nicely. Miss Armenta Sidney entertained Sunday at dinner for Misses Ella Naoma Botts, Ruby Hines of Lincoln, Nebr., Misses Hallie Mae Summerfield, Anna Cowdin, Ella Mae Evans, Roy Tate, Johnnie Clark. We welcome new readers at all time. Basket dinner at Mecca third Sunday in August at Second Baptist church. Mrs. Ellen Bowles and Mrs. Lezzie Frazier attended women's day program at Shiloh Baptist church at St. Joseph Sunday. Mrs. Bowles' husband i spastor there. Mrs. Rose Rivera an dsons Marshall and Robert of Leavenworth, Kas. came in Sunday to bring aunt Eliza Brooks home, also to see her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. John Tate. J. P. Roseberry and Roosevelt Miller motored to St. Joesph Sunday to see Mrs. Roseberry. Mrs. Mary Miller went to St. Joseph Monday to see her sister-in-law, Mrs. Roseberry. Mrs. Chas. Tate received news of the death of her son-in-law in St. Joseph. Mrs. G. V. Walker and sister Mrs. Gertrude Miller were in St. Joseph on business Friday.

BUNCETON, MO. Sunday services were good and well attended. Pastor Nelson delivered two sermons, morning and evening. Quite a large number attended the basket dinner at Mrs. Maria. There will be the annual basket meeting at California, Mo., Sunday, July 22. Several cars will leave from this place. The Bright Light Sunshine band held their annual election Monday afternoon at the church. Mrs. Nelson gave them a picnic on Thursday afternoon. They were treated to lemonade, chocolate cake and ice cream. They all had a lovely time. The junior missionary circle will have an entertainment July 27. The Ladies’ Aid will have an entertainment Saturday evening. The Missionary society met at Mrs. Pender Jackson Friday. The Pride of Bunceton Royal House met Tuesday evening at the Hall. Mrs. Anna Numan, most excellent queen, arranged for the grand Royal House which will meet in Lexington. The sick are: Tommie Drafton, Will Henderson and Ott Suttington. They were overcome by the heat and were in for a few days. Mrs. Katie Hanger of the State of California is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Basket and relatives. She worshipped at Mt. Zion Sunday morning. Miss Francis Jackson and John Blackston of Prair Horme worshipped at Mount Zion Sunday evening. Mr. Willoughby, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Dorris motored to Tipton Saturday evening.

LEINGTXON [LEXINGTON], MO. Services were very good at St. John's M. E. church Sunday. Rev. C. G. Glaspie delivered sermons at both services. The trustees of the church gave an entertainment Friday night. Mrs. Katie Foster left Saturday for Kansas City to visit her sister. She was accompanied by little Leila May Francis Foster. Mesdames Kittle Williams and Martha Nash remain on the sick. list. Mesdames Lizzie T. Bolton and Rosa C. Oliver attended the Grand Chapter O. E. S. session last week at Hannibal, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Graves left for St. Joseph Sunday to attend the Tabor grand session. Mrs. Mary Hayden has hay fever. The Ladies Aid society met at the home of Mrs. A. W. Robinson last Monday and a splendid meeting was held. The Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary society will give an entertainment on the parsonage lawn Friday night and the Steward board will have a social on the lawn on Wednesday night. Mrs. Nettie Duncan spent a few days in Kansas City, Mo., last week. Rev. and Mrs. Leroy Woolrich were in the city last week on business and were callers at the parsonage while here. Usher board of Second Baptist church gave a weiner roast last Tuesday night. William Carey jr., Mrs. Edith Carey Smith and Miss Myrtle Garr spent Sunday in Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Briscoe attended the basket dinner at Richmond last Sunday. Ida L. Garnett Juvenile will give a Trip Around the World Tuesday night, July 24. U. B. F. and S. M. T. Grand Lodge will convene at Lexington on August 20. Mrs. Car[?]e Burle, chairman of Home committee is putting forth every effort to provide for the comfort of the delegates. Members of the Second Baptist church are looking forward to the coming Central district association which convenes here on the 13th of August. Mrs. Daisy Maberry and her housing committee are sparing no pains to provide for the comfort of the delegates. Rev. N. H. Henderson preached at May- view on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. L. T. Bolton represented the O. E. S. at the state meeting in Hannibal last week. Jas. H. Wilson and the Mesdames Washington and Bolton attended the U. B. F. sermon at Mayview yesterday. Mrs. Lillie Davis and Mrs. Orph A. King of Sedalia spent a few days in Lexington last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. Core of Independence spent Sunday in Lexington, Mrs. Core was [Mi]ss Mazine Booker, formerly of Lexington. The trustees and trustee helpers of Zion A. M. E. church met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hicks Tuesday night. The Trustee Helpers turned over to the trustees $15 for the indebtedness of the church. Joe Reiger, Mr. Preston Austin Hancock and the Radd brothers visited in Lexington Sunday. They returned to the circus Sunday evening. Mrs. Moran Wilson and little daughter, Laulean left Saturday evening lor Rockyford, Colorado, to visit her brother, Lovey Douglass. Guey Workoff of Santa Barbara, Calif., left Saturday evening en route for Santa Barbara and topped over in aKnsas City to visit his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Roe Brashears. Mrs. Flora Houston motored from Liberty to this city. Mrs. Fannie Winfield and Mrs. Julia Flemming of aKnsas City were the guests of Mrs. Carl Winfield.

SLATER, MO. The services were well attended at all churches morning and evening. Mrs. Inez Logan has returned from Hannibal, Mo. where she was attending grand lodge. Rev. Willingham of Macon, Mo., was a visitor of Jeff Thomas Monday evening. Mrs. Eliza Allen, John Bassett, Lelon Allen motored to Sedalia Monday. Miss Angie Allen has returned from Kansas City, Mo. after a few weeks visit. Jeff Thomas, Mary Lindsey, Margaret Lollis are on the sick list. Mrs. Lucile Smith are visiting in Wyoming. Robert Nichols of Armstrong, Mo. was a visitor of Miss Angie Allen Sunday. Lelon Allen, Raymond Campbell motored to Marshall Sunday afternoon. Please have all your news in at Thomas’ store by 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sharon left lor Hannibal, Mo. this morning to attend grand lodge. Mrs. A. C. Lewis, [and] daughter are visiting in Abbington, Mo. Rev. U. S. G. Moore, Mrs. Bennie Wright, Hester Brown, Carrie Williams, Lucy Coxton were attending quarterly meeting at Gilliam, Mo. Jacob Lyre and William James left for St. Louis, Mo. Eddie C[un?]ch was visiting in Kansas City, Mo. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Goode, David Powell and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilson motored to Shannondale, Mo. Saturday. Evert Lewis and Robert Wilson motored to Kansas City, Mo. Saturday morning and returned Sunday. Mrs. Henry Reed motored to Arrow Rock.

CAMERON. MO. Mrs. Frances Dunn, T. Jackson motored to St. oJseph Sunday and Mary Richard accompanied them back. Mrs. R. Young who has been visiting in Oklahoma for a few weeks, returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Euel Tapp of Lathrop, Mo. were visiting relatives and friends Sunday. Euel Fultz motored to Maysville Monday morning to visit friends. Mrs. Grayson and Mrs. Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Riching were visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Tapp Sunday. Mrs. Lula Wills who has been visiting her daughter in Iowa for a few weeks returned home Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. James Henderson accompanied her. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Duncan of Maysville were visiting relatives and friends, also Mr. Duncan’s sister. Miss McDonald Sunday. Mrs. Owens is visiting her husband in Lathrop. L. Bell was a Cameron visitor Saturday, motored to Lathrop, Mo. Mrs. Frances Dunn, J. Jackson, Mary Richardson motored to Ottumwa, Iowa for a few days visit with her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Phillips. Mrs. A. Taylor is on the sick list. Reed Tapp of Maysville and Harry Bell were visiting relatives and friends Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Randell and W. Bell of Maysvllle, Mo. were visiting relatives and friends last Monday.

[page 24] B-16 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 192[8]

Congratulations! FOR TWENTY years I have lived in the central part of Kansas City and have had daily observation of the progress of the colored people.

I remember the beginnings, and I see the wonderful improvements now. Once upon a time the home owner was rare. Now every block has its home owners, and the houses tell in unmistakable terms that those who live within are getting up in the world. I could go further and congratulate the colored people of Kansas City upon their churches, schools and business places, upon their upstanding appearance, their part in making Kansas City great, upon their intelligent outlook on public matters. But I wish most to emphasize the home.

Associated with Harry Sandler, I am conducting the Welch-Sandler Cement company, dealers in building materials, such as cement, brick, sand, plaster. I know most about improvements of the home, because my firm has been favored with a very considerable patronage by colored home owners. I thank you for your preference shown us, and promise you we will always try to deserve a continuation of your business.

After all, life is full of relations which can be made mutually profit- able, and I want to say now, through The Kansas City Call’s Progress Edition that your group can always count on me to go with them in building up both themselves and our city.

CASIMER J. WELCH.

Welch-Sandler Cement Co., Inc. Building Materials and Specialties General Offices and Yard: 1311 East 19th St. Telephones Grand 1216- Grand 1217

[page 25] KANSAS CITY CALL Women and The Home—Schools

National Association of Colored Women In 32nd Year [FE]DERATED CLUB MOVEMENT NOW [?]S 300,000 WOMEN ENROLLED Pu[rchase] of Frederick Douglass Home as Shrine Is One of Later Achievements During the past few years the National Association of Colored Women has recorded many creditable achievements in the various fields of its broad program through its several avenues, namely: The national itself, its five regional federations, its young women’s department, junior federations, cradle roll and miscellaneous clubs. The national association (in its own right) met in its thirtieth year or fifteenth biennial in Oakland, California in August, 1926, carrying across the continent a solid train of eighteen coaches, among which were fourteen sleepers, two diners, one club car and an observation car, and around four hundred delegates. Other delegates and visitors, making a total of more than one thousand travelers over other roads, all meeting in Oakland for one of the most inspiring and beneficial gatherings held in the history of the association. The women of the west were electrified and the eastern women caught a vision of the breadth of their country and its countless possibilities. At this meeting our constitution was revised to meet the needs of today. An official directory was authorized—the same has been compiled and broadcast throughout the country and contributes wonderfully to the solidarity and influence of our association. Ample provisions were made for the completion of our $50,000 National Scholarship fund, which will begin to operate in 1928. The building of a keeper’s house at the Frederick Douglass home in Anacostia, as well as a maintenance fund for the home, were authorized and provided. Authority was given for the purchase of national headquarters in Washington, D. C. Our headquarters at 12th and O streets, Washington, D. C., have been secured, and we are very proud to report that we shall throw wide our doors for a grand opening in August, 1928, when we shall meet in our sixteenth biennial convention. Our national organizer is now on the field and the work moves steadily on. The official organ of the National Association of Colored Women is National Notes, and is twenty-nine years old. It is published monthly. Through this medium we reach the women of the country. Through our twenty major and twenty minor departments, with regional and state chairmen, we propagate and develop the following program: Outline of Departments Headquarters. Business. Publication. Young women. Junior federation, cradle roll. Health and hygiene, sanitation, tuberculosis, hospitals. Educational standards and achievements: illiteracy, vocational, physical, rural, home economics, kindergarten, race history, conservation of natural resources. Social work: housing, temperance, recreation, community centers, maternity and child welfare, delinquency— child and adult. American home. Big sister. Fine arts: arts and crafts, dramas and plays. Program and literature. Music. Citizenship. Legislation. Peace and foreign relations[.] Interracial relations. Fraternal relations. Women in industries. Church relations and religious education. There is a continuity of programs extending from the national through the regions, states, counties and cities to the individual clubs. In this way we have been able to develop similar state programs, covering state training schools for delinquent girls and boys. Each state in the entire Southeastern region is working out this particular program—there being very limited, if a[n]y adequate provision made by the s[ta]tes themselves for Negro girls and boys. Many state federations are furnishing state scholarship funds for deserving students, while many are cooperating with the Rosenwald and Anna T. Jeannes funds in providing adequate schoolhouses and longer school terms for the great uneducated mass so long neglected and so anxious to become, in truth, law-abiding American citizens. Hospitals are being built in the Southland and in the Northern, Central and Western sections in which Negro physicians, male and female, may function. Smaller plants are being standardized and Negro nurses are becoming registered. Many state federations and city federations are raising funds, etc., for Negro colleges in order that they may become accredited. Many are agitating and assisting in securing high schools, state club houses and city community centers. All of these are being bought and operated by our c[?] women. From these centers, h[e]a[lt]h and recreational programs of city- wide proportion are radiated. Many p[u]blic clinic[s] are provide[d] [?]enters by club women. Too numerous to mention here are the activities of the members and units of the National Association of Colored Women, for with them everything is needed and calmly, but persistently, they are striving to do whatever lies in their power to carry out their motto, “Lifting As We Climb.” All of our activities are covered by our seven-plank platform: education, industry, thrift, citizenship, social service, racial solidarity and interracial relations. The work of the city federation is a replica of the state, as the state is of the national, with the exception of one or two outstanding state or national projects. The regions promote regional programs controlled by the existing conditions therein. To better understand national or international conditions, and people in general, the president of the National Association of Colored Women visited nine countries of Europe this past summer. Many other outstanding Negro women toured Europe during the past summer, studying conditions and widening their visions by contacts made in these foreign countries. To these women America presents wonderful possibilities not found elsewhere, while at the same time they plainly see the great need of the united efforts of the women of America, white and colored, for purifying the channels of our national life whereby we may strengthen our forces for a practical, Christian country—a real “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.” The National Association of Colored Women is proud of its membership in the National Council. It extends cordial fellowship to its sister organizations and pledges its loyalty and support to the Council in helping to provide greater opportunities for service, and in working out, together, the culmination of all of our desires for peace and Justice and fair play to all.

Leads National Women's Clubs MARY McLEOD BETHUNE A consecrated leader, a magnetic personality, a convincing speaker and a powerful factor in the interracial, educational and civic life of this country, Mary McLeod Bethune, president of Bethune-Cookman college and president of the National Association of Colored Women of the United States, is the most outstanding Negro woman in the world today. She was born in South Carolina, graduated from Scotia seminary and took advanced work in the Moody Bible school, where she was trained for the missionary field. She is the founder of the former Daytona Normal and Industrial institute, later merged with Cookman institute, of Jacksonville, Florida, to form the present Bethune-Cookman college of Daytona Beach. Florida. Through her efforts as its president, the National Association of Colored Women has secured for itself headquarters in the capitol of our country, Washington. D. C. According to the statement of same, the National Association of Colored Women has experienced more signal growth under her administration than during any previous period. She has traveled extensively in this country, having visited every state in the union and some provinces of Canada. Recently she toured Europe where she was royally entertained in nine countries. Mrs. Bethune has the distinction of being the only woman who has served as president of the National Association of Teachers in Colored schools, and is the acknowledged woman leader for the Negroes of of America on the commission on interracial cooperation.

Many Organizations in Ottawa, Kansas CHURCHES Bethany Chapel Baptist, Rev. Charles Favors, pastor. St. Paul A. M. E. church, Rev. Wm. Enyard, pastor.

ORGANIZATIONS N. A. A. C. P. The N. A. A. C. P. was organized October, 1926 at St. Paul A. M. E. church. The officers were: T. L. Barlow, president; Russel Allen, vice-president; Frank Holbert, secretary; Clara Clayborne, assistant secretary; W S. J. Lewis, treasurer; executive board, Jerry Lewis, Ruth Thompson, Isabell Willingham. Rev. Charles Favors was elected president in 1927 election; Jerry Lewis, vice-president; Clara Clay- borne, secretary; Lena Holbert, assistant secretary; J. H. Wilson, treasurer; eexcutive board, Rev. Wm. Enyard, Jerry Lewis, Mrs. Ruth Thompson, T. L. Barlow.

Civic League Was organized at Bethany Chapel Baptist church December 20, 1923 by Rev. C. P. Morrow, pastor, and Rev. J. W. Warren, pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church. Officers were: J. H. Wilson, president; Mrs Queenie Hurtado, vice-president; Mary B. Allen, secretary; T. L. Barlow, treasurer; Rev. J. A. Allen, chaplain. At the sixth meeting five precinct women were appointed by the League: Mrs. Naomi Johnson, second ward, city limits and out; Mrs. Ruth Thompson, seventh and third ward; Alneta Wilson, second to first ward; Evylan Barlow, second to fourth ward and its contributaries. Later Mrs. Myra Clayborne was added to look after farmers. Mrs. Ross White and Mrs. I. M. Hughes were added. Program committee: Mrs. Lena Holbert, chairman; Mrs. Alneta Wilson, Mrs. Myria Clayborne. October 12, 1926 the secretary received a letter from Mrs. O. M. Babcock, Topeka vice- chairman, representative of state central committee, appointing Mary B. Allen over the Franklin county colored women, through Miss Katherine Campbell (white) county vice-chairman. Interracial luncheons were attended at the Lutheran church, 1924; and North American hotel October 6, 1926. Delegates, J. H. Wilson, Rev. C. P. Morrow and T. L. Barlow attended the Republican colored convention held at Topeka, Kas., 1924. These delegates, J. H. Wilson and Mrs. Mary B. Allen, alternate, were elected by County Central committee with fourteen whites to attend the first Congressional district meeting at Olathe, February 22, 1928 and the state convention at Wichita March 6, 1928.

K. C. K. Club Leader Mrs. Emma Vaughn was born in Magnolia, Arkansas, attended the public schools there, later studying at Wiley and Bishop colleges. She taught several years, after which she came to Kansas City. She is married to Edward R. Vaughn, dean at Western university. In 1926 she began her club work in Wyandotte county. Mrs. Vaughn is president of the city federation and was recently elected delegate to the National Federation of Women's clubs that meets in Washington, D. C., July 27.

CLUB WORK AMONG NEGRO WOMEN Until woman made up her mind that her efforts to help in the development of the world's work were not taken into account, there was nothing among us that could be rightly called organization. In 1895, in the city of Boston, Mass. was called the first National Body of Colored Women. The call was made by Mrs. Josephine Saint Pierre Ruffin, who had for many years been associated with Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cody Stanton, and other forward moving women, and from whom she had received the inspiration which led her to know and to feel that what one group of organized women could do another with equal chance could also do. Mrs. Ruffin knew too weel that the colored women would have to fight, not separately, but together. The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs now has a membership of over 300,000 women located in every state in the country, including Canada, Liberia, Hayti and Cuba.

Kansas State Federation of Clubs Organized in Topeka, June, 1900 Mrs. Elizabeth Washington, of Topeka, organized the Kansas State Federation in June, 1900, and was its first president. The aims of the Federation are: to promote the education of Negro women, raise the standard of the home, to stumlate the social, moral, economic and religious welfare of women and children, to secure and enforce civic and political rights for the group. The charter members of the organization were: Mesdames J. W. Bell, Leavenworth; William Gamble, Kansas City, Kas.; Amelia Tolbert, Robert Sims, Dora Ware and Mary Clark, Topeka, Kas., and Mrs. LeMay, Kansas City, Kas. Mrs. M. C. Matthews, Kansas City, Kas., composed the state song. The charter clubs were Oak Leaf, Ne Plus Ultra and Oriental and Golden Rod, Topeka; Alpha and Adelphia, Kansas City, Kas., and Progressive Leavenworth. Presidents who have served the Federation since its organization are Mrs. Elizabeth Washington, Topeka; Mrs. J. L. Dryson, Kansas City, Miss L. B. Harris, Topeka; Mrs. Edward Robinzine, Kansas City; Mrs. A. Y. DePriest, Salina; Mrs. T. W. Bell, Leavenworth; Mrs. J. L. Harper, Wichita; Mrs. W. W. Shole, Salina; Mrs. A. R. Jordon, Newton and Mrs. Beatrice L. Childs, no wpresident.

Accomplishments Varied Accomplishments of the various city federation clubs have been many and the local organizations serve their communities in a commendable manner. In Topeka the city federation, Mrs. Mattie Perkins, president, has established a club house and day nursery. It assisted in the development of the first Negro Florence Crittenden home for girls in America. Mrs. Sarah F. Malone who has been president of the home 23 years estimates its value at $14,000. The day nursery is valued at $6,500 and the club home when completed will exceed the amount by far. The federation has raised more than $25,000 for charity in 28 years. The late Mrs. Elisha Scott was an ardent worker for the club house and Secured money for its establishment. Topek a organized the first Junior city federation in state and it has progressed much under the leadership of Miss Viola Scott, state supervisor of Juniors.

Build Orphans’ Home An orphan home valued at $17,000 and no indebtedness is the contribution to the community of the Wichita city federation, Mrs. Helm. Mrs. Beatrice Childs, first president of the city organization was instrumental in securing funds for the home. A Y. W. C. A. building in the city is due to the organization’s efforts and Mrs. Elsie Miller, who became federation president in 1922, paid off the first mortgage of the orphan home in three years. The Parsons federation sponsors a community center and hospital due to the leadership of Mrs. Nettie lass. Each year community sings are giGven under the direction of Mrs. Clayton.

Establish Playground Public playgrounds and a library constitutes the Atchison federation contribution to civic welfare. Mrs. Emma Shackleford is the energetic and fore-sighted president of the club group. The Wyandotte County Council, Kansas City, organized in 1926 by Mrs. Emma Vaughn, secured this year a $00 scholarship for Miss Mary Edwards, graduate from N. E. junior. The award was given by Leroy Cooke, park commissioner of Kansas City. The dramatic department headed by Mrs. Eva Brackens stages an annual fashion show; the proceeds from which are used for charity and scholarship purposes. The Kansas City Council under Mrs. Vaughn is now the largest in the state. The officers of the state federation are: Mrs. Beatrice Childs, Kansas City, president; Mrs. Camille Briggs Atchison, vice-president; Mrs. E. Harrison, Junction City, second vice- president; Mrs. Lillie Patton, Atchison, treasurer; Mrs. Ella Bailey, Oswego, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Bernella Lee, Kansas City, assistant; Mrs. Jeanette Haley, Topeka, recording secretary; Mrs. Elsia Clark, Topeka, chairman, executive board; Mrs. Magnolia Cook, Pratt, state organizer and Mrs. I. F. Bradley, Kansas City, chairman of advisory committee.

Present Department Heads The departments and heads are: Mrs. Susie Bouldin, Kansas, art crafts; Mrs. Oleatha Kerford, Atchison, recreation; Mrs. Clayton, Parsons, music; Mrs. Maude Mosby, finance and Mrs. Fox, ways and means, Kansas City; Mrs. Bertie Taylor, Topeka, church; Mrs: Priscilla Rosson, Ft. Scott, missions; Mrs. Lula Colbert, Atchison, Frederick Douglass home; Mrs. Mineola Walker, Parsons, dramatics; Miss Lucile Kerford. Atchison, homeeco- nomics and Mrs. Barlow, social service. The other departments are Mrs. Hutcherson, Wichita, health hygeine; Mrs. Norene Davis, Kansas City, fraternal organization; Mrs. Kate Broadus, Independence, foreign peace relations; Mrs. Lutie Elliott, Emporia, legislation; Mrs. Charles French, Topeka, juniors; Miss Viola Scott, Topeka, interracial commission; Mesdames Mattie Perkins, young women; Irma Bradshaw, vocational education; Clement Richardson, religious education. Topeka; Mrs. Barlow, Ottawa, social service. The other departments are: Mrs. Hutcherson. Wichita, health hygeine; Mrs. Norene Davis. Kansas City, fraternal organizations; Mrs. Kate Broadus, Independence, foreign peace relations; Mrs. Lutie Elliott, Emporia, women in industry, Mrs. Chas. French, legislation; Miss Viola Scott, Juniors; Mrs. Mattie Perkins, interracial commission; Mrs. Irma Bradshaw, young women; Mrs. Clement Richardson, vocational education; Mrs. Bell, Bonner Springs, temperance; Mrs. Gilbert, Coffeyville, sanitation; Mrs. Mattox, big sister; Miss Hazel Mattox, juvenile, Kansas City; Mrs. Paul Jones, Topeka, race history; Mrs. Ruth Downy, Atchison, state pianist and Mrs. Bessie Evans, Hutchison, better homes. District chairmen of the state organization are: Mrs. Emma Armstrong, Kansas City, Mrs. Nettie Glass, Parsons and Wichita; Mrs. Mabel Bright, Pratt and Mrs. Laura Williams, Topeka. The national officers are: Mrs. Beatrice Childs, national chairman, junior federations: Mrs. Mollie Fines, Wichita, national chairman of music; Mrs. Susie V. Bouldin, central chairman of fine arts and Mrs. Charles W. French, national chairman of budget. Contribute to National Funds The contributions of the state and national federations are $672 to scholarship fund, $500 to Frederick Douglass home fund. $300 to headquarters, a scholarship for Miss Francis Phillips to attend the New oYrk School of Fine Arts and Neo- la Parks. Wichita, to enter State Normal at Emporia. Men interested in the federation and who hold membership are: Rev. J. R. Ransom, Topeka; Messrs. P. and R. Hogans, Parsons, Kas.; Geo. Payne, Newton and Mr, Colbert, of Atchison.

In 28th Year The state federation now in its twenty-eighth year is girding its armor for another progressive period. If its achievements in the future are in any manner comparable to those in the past the struggles and labor of its sponsor shall not have been in vain.

OTTAWA. KAS., CLUBS Florence Crittenden Circle Federated in the National Federation of Colored Women’s clubs, was organized October 21, 1923. This circle is a branch of the Florence Crittenden home at Topeka, Kas.. and does community mission in general. Officers are: Ruth Thompson, president; Leona Lewis, vice president; Evylan Lewis, secretary; Ethel Spottsville, corresponding secretary; Oma Garrett, treasurer; Anica Rodgers, chaplain; Mamie Johnson, assistant chaplain; Ida Hughes, chairman of program committee; Alneta Wilson, chairman of relief committee; Evylan Bailow, chairman of executive board.

Heads Clubs in Sunflower State MRS. BEATRICE CHILDS, now serving her eighth year as state federation president has been instrumental in making the Kansas organization one of the prominent in the national federation. Since she has assumed her position the state organization has grown from 21 clubs in ten cities to 165 clubs in fifty cities. Her interest in art has inspired much more study on the part of the women of the state. Mrs. Childs is the first colored women to receive appointment as director of extension for the state schools, Kansas Vocational and Western University by the governor. She is president of the state interracial commission, president state republican league, vice-president of Central association of colored women and was recently appointed delegate to the Pan-Pacific International Council that convenes in Honolulu this summer.

First City Federation of Clubs on Missouri Side Numbered Five Organizations Realizing that “In union there is strength,” the clubs of this city, on November 26, 1904 united to form the Kansas City Federation of Colored Women's clubs. Under the leadership of Miss Anna H. Jones, then president of the Missouri State Federation, assisted by Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates, then president of the National Association of Colored Women, and Mrs. Frances Jackson, the following clubs joined in the organization of the federation: the Woman’s league, Progressive Study club, Phyllis Wheatley Art club, the Pandora circle and Little Women’s auxiliary. This closer union of clubs aimed to do better and more efficient, to reach more fully and quickly all classes of our women and to accomplish more readily the object of the national motto, “Lifting as we climb.” The first officers were: president, Mrs. Lucinda Day; vice-president, Mrs. Frankie Taylor; recording secretary, Mrs. Minnie L. Crosthwaite; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Florence Crews; treasurer, Mrs. Laura McCampbell; chairman of executive board, Mrs. Anna H. Jones. Under Mrs. Fannie Taylor, second president, the federation was engaged in relief of the Old Folks and Orphans’ home; then followed by Mrs. I. F. Bradley, Mrs. Jennie Campbell, Mrs. R. E. L. Bailey, Mrs. Minnie L. Crosthwaite, who adopted "Baby Week,” Mrs Myrtle Foster Todd, Mrs. Laura A. McCampbell, under whose leadership a Red Cross unit was organized in December 1917, with established headquarters, then followed Mrs. A. E. Jenkins, who made many improvements and used her influence as a business woman and financier; Mrs. Clara Adams, Mrs. Nannie Bunch and Mrs. Estelle Woods followed in holding the office of president. Mrs. Ida M. Becks was then elected to the office for the 1926-28 term. The following officers arc assisting Mrs. Becks: Mrs. Ethel Robinson, first vice-president; Mrs. Caddie Lawson, second vice- president; Mrs. Alma Boone, recording secretary; Mrs. Willa Lewis, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Clara Miller, treasurer; Mrs. Hattie Jackson, chaplain; Mrs. Irene Garrett, organizer; Mrs. Susie Guthrie, statistician; Ms. Myrtle F. Cook, auditor; Mrs. Maggie Clay, parlimentarian, and Mrs. Fredericks D. Perry, historian. For the ensuing term of office, 1928-30, Mrs. Rosa Jones will be the presiding official of the city federation of Kansas City, Mo. clubs. Mrs. Jones’ assisting officers are named as follows: Mrs. Caddie Law- son, first vice-president; Mrs. Willa Lewis, second vice-president; Mrs. V. Alma Boone, recording secretary; Mrs. Irene Garrett, recording secretary; Mrs. Miles, assistant recording secretary; Mrs. Clara Miller, treasurer, and Mrs. Jessie Novel, auditor. GRAECO ART club was organized by Mrs. Minnie Adams in 1912. The club is composed of thirty ladies, the object of which is to improve in art and literature. During the year, about four afternoons is devoted to literature, giving quotations from famous authors and discussing advancement of our leaders. Main officers are, president, Mrs. Bettie Lee, secretary, Mrs. Lucile Vaughn. CARNATION ART club was organized September, 1914, at the residence of Mrs. Fannie White, under the first presidency of Mrs. Mamie Todd. The object of this club is to do charitable work. The club was federated February 19, 1915. The president is Mrs. Lillian Steward, and secretary, Mrs. Estella Waldron. KEWPIE klub—“Work and Keep Smiling" is the motto of the Kewpie klub, which was organized in 1917. The object of this club is to promote charity, art and social work. The president is Mrs. Violet Oliver, and secretary, Mrs. Mary Lee George. WHEATLEY PROVIDENT HOSPITAL Auxiliary No". 1 was organized in 1915, by a group of prominent young women who had wished to devote much of their time to the hospital. The auxiliary furnishes the hos pital with necessities each year. As a means of raising funds to carry on its work, the auxiliary gives a fashion show annually. The president is Mrs. Minnie L. Crosthwaite, secretary Mrs. Irene Garrett. BOOK LOVERS club was organized by three women, Mrs. Calpurnia Edwards, Mrs. Daisy Cook and Mrs. Anna H. Jones, who during the winter of 1903-04, were reading DuBois' “Souls of Black Folk.” Desiring to share with a larger circle, the pleasure and profit of the discussion, they called in some fifteen others on February 27, 1904, organized as the Book Lovers club and membership was limited to twenty- five. More than twenty years of its history, the club has enrolled more than a hundred of women who have been interested in literary work and study. Some of the former presidents were: Mrs. C. Edwards, Miss A. H. Jones, Mrs. Ida G. Woods, Miss C. Brydie, Mrs. Fannie Meyers, Mrs. F. J. Jackson, Mrs. Myrtle Cook, Mrs. Maggie Clay, Mrs. Corrine Eagleson, and now Mrs. Rosa Jones, with secretary, Mrs. Jessie Thompson. WOMAN’S CIVIC AND ART club. On April 13, 1920 a group of women made up from Auxiliary No. 28, American Red Cross, who had worked successfully during the World war, under the leadership of Mrs. L. A. McCampbell, met at the residence of Mrs. Louise Winn and organized the Woman’s Civic club with twelve members present. The object of this club is to assist in charitable work, stimulate civic pride and promote the general welfare of the community. The club joined the city federation in May, 1920. Former presidents were: Mrs. Louise Winn, Mrs. Clara Miller, Mrs. Sarah Coursey, and now Mrs. Carrie E. Haley, with Mrs. Zephia Brown, secretary. SOCIAL SEWING club was organized March 17, 1921 for sociability, charity and needlework. The president is Mrs. Eleanor Eaggleston, with Mrs. Willa McRoy as secretary. TWELVE CHARITY GIRLS club was organized February 28, 1919. At the first meeting there were eight members present. The purpose of this club is to aid charity. They have contributed to the following organizations: Federated Charities, Western university gymnasium fund, Wheatley Provident hospital, finance committee of Red Cross. Orphans home, Bundy fund, Y. W. C. A. The first president was Mrs. Sadie Penn. KENSINGTON ART club grew out of an art class instructed by Mrs. Simon of Kansas City, Kas. This class met once a week for several months, and in the spring of 1899 a permanent organization was established. The object of this club is art work, but thoroughly realizing the need of a helping hand and that the ultimate object of every club should be to develop the mind, the character and to be charitable those less fortunate than ourselves. The following have served as presidents: Mrs. Frances Jackson, Mrs. M. L. Crosthwaite, Mrs. M. B. Bradley, Mrs. Clara Knox, Mrs. Agnes Johnson, Mrs. Edmonia Brown, Mrs. Lauline Holbert, Mrs. Della Brookins, Mrs. Frankie Givens, Mrs. Maude Gamble and now Mrs. A. J. Moore, with Mrs. Estella Garrison, secretary. WOMEN'S SELF IMPROVEMENT club composed of a group of energetic women realizing the need of social and artistic literary improvement, organized February 7, 1918. Every call from chairman civic department with the president, Mrs. G. G. Mason, then, following up various civic movements, has been answered. Mrs. Gertrude Evans is now president, with Mrs. Gwendolyn Jackson, secretary. HARMONY ART and LITERARY club was organized April 6. 1916. The object of the club is intellectual and artistic development. Money from entertainments is turned over to charity fund. Mrs. Naomi Foster is now president, with Mrs. Lucille Everett, secretary.

FEDERATION IN MISSOURI HAS 100 CLUBS Organization Was Founded in 1900 Missouri State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs which has a membership of approximately a hundred clubs was organized in 1900 by the following women: Miss Anna H. Jones, Mrs. J. Silone Yates, Mrs. Ida Walker and with Lucinda Day, as president. During the first years the work of the federation was devoted to the establishing of the Girl’s Industrial Home at Tipton, Mo., which was accomplished when Pearl Dabney was president, in 1918. Objects The purposes and objects of the state federation are to unite the women’s clubs of the state, to promote various kinds of work tha[t] properly comes within the scope women’s clubs; to enlarge and [sys]tematize all charitable activities and to promote intellectual improvements through education. Departments of the state federation are as follows: Mary B. Talbert Memorial Fund, National Scholarship loan, business, health and hygiene, educational standards and achievements, social work, big sister, fine arts, program and literature, publication, American home, citizenship, legislation, peace and foreign relations, music and kindergarten. Past Presidents The past president in their order were: Lucinda Day, Mrs. Paul Vashon, Mrs. J. Silone aYtes, Miss Anna H. Jones, Mrs. Ida Walker, Mrs. Mary E. Goins, Pearl M. Dabney, Lillian Booker, Minnie L. Crosthewaite, Rosa E. Jenkins, Miss Arsenia Williams, and Miss Delsenia Barker, present president. Other officers under the leadership of Miss Barker are: Mrs. E[?]la. Woods, first vice- president: M[rs.] Minnie Worten, second vice-president; Mrs. Jennie Hayes, third vice- president; Mrs. Marie Stewart, 4th vice-president; Mrs. Benora High- smith. fifth vice-president; Mrs. Mildred W. Boone, financial secretary, Mrs. Anna Palton, recording secretary; Mrs. N. B. Richardson, assistant recording secretary; Mrs. Ethel Robinson, corresponding secretary; Mrs. T. J. Nevins, treasurer; Mrs. Alice Mason, organizer; Mrs. F. B. Jones, chaplain. The club roll is as follows: Art and Literary, Hannibal; Art Lovers, St. Joseph; Artistic Art, Columbia; Book Lovers. Kansas City; Book Lovers, St. Louis; Busy Woman's Idle Hour; Busy Women’s Art, Lexington; Blue Triangle, Richmond; Carnation Art, Kansas City; Carnation Embrodiery, St. Louis county; Carnation Art, Independence: Christian Art, St. Louis County (Scudder Heights); Christian Art, St. Louis County (Kinloch); Child Welfare, St. Louis County; City Federation, Carrollton; City Federation, Columbia; City Federation, Kansas City; City Federation, St. Joseph; City Federation, St. Louis; City Federation, Independence; County Federation, St. Louis County; Clio Art, Kansas City; Corterie Girls, St. Louis; Delphian Art, Kansas City; Evergreen, Kansas City, [?]ern Leaf, St. Louis; Golden Link. Carrollton; Graeco Art. Kansas City; Harmony, Kansas City; Hi Art, Kansas City; Informal Dames, St. Louis; Informal Charity, St. Joseph; Jewel Art, St. Joseph; Jolle Couer Fillis, Kansas City; Kensington Art, Kansas City; Kewpie Klub. Kansas City, Ladies Art. Columbia, Les Gentiles, [K]ansas City; Lucinda Day Art and Study. Kansas City; League of Women Voters, St. Louis. Matinee Matrons, Kansas City; Matrons Civic and Social, St. Joseph; Modern Priscilla, Jefferson City; Metropolitan Excelsior Art, St. Louis; Mary B. Talbert, St. Louis County; Melrose Art, St. Louis; Married Ladies Needle, St. Louis; Masonic Matrons, St. Louis; Phyllis Wheatley, Kansas City; Pleasant Hour, Carrollton; Poinsetta Art, Kansas City; Poro, Kansas City, Progressive Art, Jefferson City; Peace and Harmony, Richmond; Phyllis Wheatley Art and Study, St. Joseph; Phyllis Wheatley Branch, Y. W. C. A., St. Louis. Rose Buds, Sedalia; Royal Society, St. Louis; Social Sewing, Kansas City; South Side Art, St. Joseph; Sundial Art, Maryville; Social Service and Dramatic, St. Joseph; T. C. A., Sedalia; W. D. S., St. Joseph; What So Ever, Independence; What So Ever Jr., Independence; Willing Workers, Carrollton; Woman’s Civic, Kansas City; Wheatley Provident Hospital Aux. 1, Kansas City; West End Art, St. Louis; Woman’s Self Improvement, Kansas City; Woman's Record, St. Louis; Yates Art and Charity, Sedalia, Woman’s League, Kansas City, Omega, Kansas City; Nimble Fingers, Liberty; Macon Woman’s, Ma* con; Circle D’Etude, Kansas City; City Federation, Jeeffrson City; Junior Graeco, Kansas City; Pleasant Hour, Independence.

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SOCIAL RECONSTUCTION INSTITUTIONS UNPARALLELED IN AMERICA, GUIDE YOUTH AND PROTECT OLD AGE IN JACKSON COUNTY Two Already Built, Make a Record of Efficiency and Economy, Encourage County Court to Build Home For Girls Jackson County, Missouri has a most remarkable social reconstruction program for Negroes. Two institutions, the best in America, are already at work: the Jackson County Home for Aged and Infirm Negroes and the Jackson County Home for Negro Boys. Two other institutions are in immediate prospect, the Jack- son County Home for Negro Girls, and the County Hospital which will have accommodations for the Negro sick who are dependent upon the county. This last institution will amount to a hospital for the permanently disabled, because City Hospital No. 2 is to care for the Kansas City Negro population which requires emergency treatment, or which is confined only for a short period. Kansas City has nearly all the Negro population of Jackson County. The two homes already built, the one for the aged and the other for the boys, stand near each other 20 miles out south and east, between Independence and Lee’s Summit, on the east side of the Lee’s Summit road, across from the county home for aged whites. They top a hill facing west. In front of them lies a lake of several acres. They are in the center of 160 acres of land, devoted to their use, good tillable land on which the boys raise a variegated, crop, dividing the yield between the two institutions. The Home for the Aged The Jackson County Home for Aged and Infirm Negroes lies to the North, built of brick and concrete. It takes the form of two wings, joined by administration rooms and dining room and kitchen, two stories with a basement. The women occupy the north wing and the men the south one. The stronger inmates and those so crippled that they are confined use the upper floor. Both floors have ample porches glassed in so that they form an integral part of the building. Each inmate has a separate bed placed in larger or ward with easy access to lavatories. Meals are prepared by the paid staff of cooks, and served by the attendants. Under the present superintendent, three meals are served each day, and at supper a sandwich, wrapped in a paper napkin, is given in addition, to appease hunger through the night. The county wants the old folk to have a plenty, and knowing how appetite grows with the years, is providing food accordingly. Until the county hospital is built, the inmates, regardless of the state of their health are housed in the one building, the extra care for the sick, being given by the attendants. When the hospital is completed the home will be used by the healthier ones only. At present inmates who become seriously ill are brought to Kansas City for treatment in the city hospital. County Courts Passes on Admission Admission to the home is by order of the county court. When by reason of old age or sickness a citizen of Jackson county becomes unable to take care of himself and wishes entry to the home because there is no relative to give proper care, the court hears the plea for admission, and takes the case up on its merits, within the limit of the home’s capacity. Once there the inmate becomes one of the large family, a relationship which accurately expresses the good will which pervades the institution. The Jackson County Home, a public institution, making no charge, is so human in its dealings with the inmates, that for comfort and security, they are as well off as if in the best private homes for the aged in the east. The building is fitted to its use, with floors that can be and are kept clean, with hard smooth sanitary walls, with ample toilet conveniences, with a kitchen that produces food under appetizing surroundings. In the dining room, the men have one side and the women the other. There is a piano, a player with records, and to the soothing strains of good music, meals are served. Besides the piano, they have a radio. In very truth the home is home indeed. Among those whose declining years find them incompetent to care for themselves are some who have done their part by the community. The open door is always welcoming visitors who come to talk over the busy yesterdays of the inmates. Sometimes it is an active politician who goes to see a one-time lieutenant. Sometimes it is a church group to sing and pray with a member. Most often it is simple good heartedness searching out a lonely soul to cheer. There are some who are favorites. Just as a family has affection unevenly distributed, so it is in this home. Like the family, the one best beloved is on one extreme or the other, the weakest who needs most, of the strongest who gives most. The women over the bit of sewing, and the men while they smoke, grow into each others' lives. The wide open country, beautiful with its hill and vale, is a well spring of peace. The grassy lawn on three sides invites in the summer time. In winter, when snows fly and winds blow, every nook and comer is warm and cheery. The Jackson County Home for Aged and Infirm Negroes is “home” indeed, now. Once it was typical of the average county institution for the poor. In other days it was a rented building, close in, dirty, dark, and crowded. It was the end of the long trail at nightfall, discouraging in every particular. Over its door might have been painted ‘‘Failure.” A county court several years ago, over which presided Judge Miles Bulger, made a beginning of building a real home. Citizens Help Court to Plan In the choice of site and in the cornerstone laying Negro citizens participated. Autos were not so common then as now, and roads right to the door had not been built, but great crowds went out just the same. The fraternities were present in their regalia. Women’s clubs were represented in large numbers. Orators, black and white, spoke. Citizens applauded. The land was already under the county’s ownership. The court planned the building and pushed it to completion, furnishings and structure, at a cost of $135,000. Dr. Howard M. Smith was the first superintendent. A staff of twelve were his co-workers. The work of the Home was so well done that everybody, even those of opposite politics than the democratic county court and its appointees, rejoiced in its high-class service. In fact from the very day its doors opened the Home has been praised on every hand. The next superintendent was Mrs. Frances J. Jackson. Dr. Howard M. Smith again returned to the superintendency when Elihu Hayes was presiding county Judge, and Harry S. Truman, now presiding judge, and H. F. McElroy, now city manager, were the other two members of the county court. Dr. Gideon W. Brown succeeded Dr. Smith when administrations changed. Then came Dr. D. M. Miller, who resigned after eleven months, to be succeeded by Dr. L. W. Booker, the present superintendent. Intimately connected with the whole instittuion and directly in charge of the women is the matron. The matrons have been Mrs. Frances J. Jackson, Mrs. Ella S. Mossell, Mrs. Poole, Mrs. M. Hadley, Mrs. Bessie Bibbs and Mrs. Lee Howard. Medical care of the inmates is constant, being in the hands of the superintendent, a regular practicing physician who makes dally trips to the institution. Lives Read Like Romance The shades of evening do not blot out all the romance of life. The years do not cut all human relationships. The Home, with its hundred inmates, has been the scene of such happy occurrences as the meeting of brother and sister, parted years before. Two people, a man and a woman, had been living in the Home for several months. One evening while outside, the brother pointed out two women walking down the road and said ‘‘One of those women walks like my sister.” Inquiry followed and recognition, with all the Joy of meeting again after years of being apart. Another story: A father and son, both inmates, lived in the institution happy in each other’s presence until the flu epidemic claimed the father in 1922. One Remembers Gen. Sherman In a home for the aged, there are some older than the rest. Five years ago a woman died there age 106 years, who used to live in Georgia. She was grown at the time of the Civil War and remembered vividly Sherman’s troops on their march to the sea. Another inmate was a man who as a boy had worked on the very farm where the home is located, which fact in itself is interesting. The land had once been the farm of Cole Younger, a member of the Jesse James gang. Over One Hundred-fifty Housed Until the time when the state legislature passed the law pensioning the blind, the County Home always housed from ten to twelve who could not see. The number -of inmates at the home varies particularly at this time of the year. There are many who are able to do little things, when the climate and weather permits, and they are anxious too, to get out and break the monotony. It has at present 84 men and 60 women. Through the winter months the number is 160 to 170. Of this number about 3 per cent are invalids; about 5 per cent require regular medical attention. All have some physical defects which incapacitates them and makes them unable to support themselves. As to their ages, 5 per cent are between 90 and 100 years; 10 per cent are between 80 and 90 years; 15 per cent are between 70 and 80 years; 60 per cent are between 60 and 70 years; 10 per cent are between 50 and 60 years. The working force consists of 16 employees, as follows: Dr. L. W. Booker, superintendent; A. V. Monholland. fireman; Birch Hunt, assistant fireman; Mrs. Bessie Bibbs, matron; Mrs. Lee Howard, matron; M. C. Shipp, Janitor; Wesley Smith, Janitor; Harvey Hoard, janitor; Benj. Swann, janitor; Mrs. Ophelia Roberts, cook; George Bartlett, cook; Altan Graham, cook; Mrs. Josie Williams, dormitory supervisor; Mrs. Lutie Sewell, dormitory supervisor; Mrs. Fannie Jones, seamstress; Dr. W. L. Hayden, dentist. County Court in Charge The county court of Jackson county consists of three members, a presiding judge and two others, one to represent the eastern district, which is all outside of Kansas City and a western district which is Kansas City. It is an executive and administrative, not judicial body.

The County’s Oldest Wards MRS. MOLLIE RICE Age 104 DR. L. W. BOOKER Superintendent SQUIRE SMITH Age 98

Members of the County Court Howard J. Vrooman Harry S. Truman Robert V. Barr The judges who constitute the County Court of Jackson county have a record of genuine interest in the human side of their responsibilities. Other county courts have been humane and considerate, but the present judges seem to have taken all that has gone before as the proper place where they should begin. They have tried to discharge their debt to their predecessors in office by improving upon the past. The three Judges were elected on the democratic ticket in 1926. Judge Harry J. Truman is the presiding Judge. He is a resident of Independence. It is typical of his mind that he would name the girls home about to be built after Hiram Young, the Negro who in the days of the Santa Fe Trail ran the most famous blacksmith shop on the trail, and who later came to make the yokes used in teaming in those pioneer days. Judge Truman’s judgeship received its highest public commendation in May when the county bonds of the courts proposing were adopted to the extent of six and a half million dollars. Judge Howard J. Vrooman, sitting for the western district which is Kansas City, is best known for his real estate operations. He has large and varied interests, but is faithful to the business requirements of the court. He has taken a personal interest in the two Negro institutions, the home for the aged and for the boys. To the latter he gave his pigeon house, a gift exceeding one thousand dollars in cost. It is needless to say the boys think Judge Vrooman, a prince of good fellows. The rural part of Jackson county, called the eastern district, is represented by Judge Robert W. Barr, who operates a dairy. He is a West Point man, one who is rarely gifted and then well prepared. Judge Barr’s technical training has made him invaluable especially in the country. It is his opinion of the good and bad points of land for human habitation that is likely to cause the girls home to occupy a higher and healthier site than the one planned by the preceding court.

County Industrial Home For Negro Boys Three Short Years Prove It to Be Invaluable—Pride of the County Court The Jackson County Industrial Home for Negro Boys is located just south of the Home for the Aged, east of Kansas City, Mo. It is a beautful red brick construction, with north and south wrings on either side of the main building. The south wing houses three, modern equipped school rooms and the north wing, eight rooms and bath for personnel. There is a basement under the entire building, with an electrically equipped industrial shop, steam heated garage with space for six cars, ten shower baths, foot bath tub, laundryroom. ten wash basins, boiler room and store rooms. The home has one hundred and fifty acres under its supervision. one hundred for pasture run and fifty for garden use. It was first opened June 25, 1925. by its present superintendent, Earl W. Beck, and took for its aim the rebuilding of the Negro youth, who have not been blessed with proper environment and making him a fit subject for society. In carrying out ambitions through the co-operation of the Board of Education and the Court of Jackson county, this Home has become a first class industrial institution for delinquent and neglected Negro boys. Pre-natal Handicaps Overcome The superintendent has found one very significant fact,—fully half of his boys carry hereditary blood taint. Therefore his first care is to see that they get proper medical attention. This done, they are physically fit, and the mental and moral improvement follows. Attendance in Detail The following report will tend to show the activities of the Home ending April 1, 1928, and will be given departmental. Received up to Jan. 1, 1927 147 Paroled up to Jan. 1, 1927 43 Escaped up to Jan 1, 1927 6 Present up to Jan. 1, 1927 93 Received 51 Paroled during year of 1927 51 Escaped during 1927 4 Present Jan. 1, 1928 93 Received to date 28 Paroled to date 11 Escaped to date 3 Present to date 107 New work done is: Construction of dairy barn. Estimated cost $5000.00, the mechanical operations included; excavating, concrete work, carpentry, tinning, plumming, electrical work and sewerage. The conservative estimate of saving in cost of labor $2750.00. Construction of shelter for stock. 20’ x 40’, mechanical operation; excavating. concrete, carpentry, tinning and painting; labor estimate $100. Construction of concrete hot beds and sash operations; excavating of work, sash building and glazing. Estimate of labor $60.00. Pipe line for irrigating garden, length 600 feet, with four outlets; labor $50.00. Electric lights in chicken house. Reconstruction Work Pigeon haven, operations; concrete work, carpentry and plumbing. Window screens. Dental clinic equpiment. Farm implements. Re-roofing chicken house. Doors placed in school building and dental clinic, and garage doors. Cabinets within the building. Repairs 800 pairs of shoes. Operations include sewing, relining, sole and heel repair, hook and eyelets. Tin work; repairing buckets, laundry tubs, and kitchen utensils. Electrical work; lights, fuses, switches and minor motor troubles. Glazing; window cord, etc. Plumbing; faucets, sewerage, etc. Carpentry; screen, building, locks, out houses, etc. It is the belief of the department that much labor cost is saved by its functioning, and more important than all else, opportunities for the acquisition of trade information are presented the boys. Agricultural Report of Produce of Summer of 1927 Beets ...... 215bu. Irish potatoes ...... 300 bu. Sweet potatoes ...... 65 bu. Carrots ...... 110 bu. Parsnips ...... 80 bu. Turnips ...... 265 bu. Stock beets ...... 200 bu. Green Beans ...... 95 bu. Green peas ...... 33 bu. Apples ...... 375 bu. Cabbage ...... 1800 heads Strawberries ...... 45 crates Corn ...... 450 doz. Hot bed plants, 10,000 (1928; 40 acres, vegetables planted to date. (1928) Animal Husbandry Department Dairy cows ...... 13 Yearling heifers ...... 5 Calves ...... 8 Bull ...... 1 Mules ...... 3 Horses ...... 3 Chicks ...... 250 Hens ...... 100 Pigeons ...... 35 Sows ...... 5 Bear ...... 1 Pigs ...... 20 Shoats ...... 3 26 hogs averaging 375 lb, 3 yearling calves were butchered during the winter; 150 inmates of Home for Aged entirely supplied with milk and vegetables. School enrollment for academic work which carries regulation 5 1/2 hours in first four grades and three hours in upper three grades. Miss S. Nora Sexton, upper grades Mrs. E. Thomas lower grades. The Boys Home is the pride of Jackson county. Though one of the, youngest institutions it has for the reconstruction of its citizens, it has a commendable record for economy, for results, and for the happiness of those within. The home when first built, was not equipped. For a long time it stood empty, with various groups struggling to get it for their pet project. It was alleged during this period that no more than twenty-five Negro boys would ever be wards of the county. That figure was reached by searching the records of the detention home and of the Juvenile court presided over by Judge E. E. Porterfield. All the gatherings which had led to its choice of site, to its construction from comer stone laying to completion, even the preliminary work of the Colored Children’s Improvement Society seemed to have gone for naught and the building was about to be an adjunct to the Home for Aged Whites. But at last it was furnished and put to its original purpose. The board of education of Kansas City cooperated by assigning teachers, three of them. The County court appointed a superintendent and the work began. Immediately results were apparent. It is an institution for correction for the delinquent part of its boys, but they respond to the training just as do the neglected boys, so that the home is really one big family, drawn together in love.

Building of Girls’ Home Starts in August Companion Institution to Care for Negro Girls, to Be North of Old Folks Home Jackson county, through its county court, has had plans drawn and is having bids submitted for the construction of a home for Negro girls, serving the needs of the neglected and wayward, just as the Industrial Home for boys does. This home, originally planned for a site south and west of the two nistitutions for Negroes already built, is likely to be

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The Two Superintendents DR. L. W. BOOKER Superintendent Old Folks Home EARL W. BECK Superintendent Boys Industrial Home

Out in the Most Beautiful County in the World, Where Earth and Sky Make a Glorious Setting. JACKSON COUNTY HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM NEGROES JACKSON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR NEGRO BOYS.

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Proposed $50,000 County Home for Girls

Building of Girls’ Home Starts in August (Continued from page 2) placed on land already owned by the county to the north of the Old Folks home, about where the orchard stands, directly in front of the gateway. Two institutions the same in function, one for boys and one for girls, has been the aim through all the years that the public has been interesting itself in the Negro children who from time to time come under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile court. It can be seen by the picture, the girls home will have the appearance of a private dwelling, with two floors, basement and attic. Its surroundings will be the same rolling country, lakes, trees, green vistas and golden fields, which surround the other county institutions. It will be served by the same hardsurfaced rock road. It will share in the produce from the farm acreage tended by the boys.

$5,000 Barn at Boys’ Home This barn is the work of the boys of the Industrial Home, built solely by their labor under the direction of their instructors.

JUNCTION CITY, KAS. CLUBS The Harmony Literary and Art Club Was organized October 19, 1925 by Mrs. C. W. Bridgeforth, who was district director at that time. At present there are sixteen members. The club stresses literature, art, charity and racial advancement. National Negro Health week is observed with appropriate programs each year, annual contributions are made to the Florence Crittenden home at Topeka, Kas. The club was affiliated with the state federation in the spring of 1926. The officers are: Mrs. D. R. Harrison, president; Mrs. Laura Boner, vice-president; Miss Alta Locke, secretary; Mrs. Henry Wilson, treasurer; Mrs. R. L. Robinson, corresponding secretary; Mrs. C. V. Bridgeforth, parliamentarian. The Bethune Charity and Art Club Was organized June 2, 1927. The purpose of this club is to promote charity and art work. The officers are: Mrs. Rush D. Taylor, president; Mrs. Lizzie Reed, vice-president; Miss La Vera Hamilton, secretary; Mrs. Jones Hardin, treasurer; Mrs. Maryland Martin, pianist.

AT EVENTIDE Observation of a Visitor at the Home for the Aged By BILLY SMITH The County poor farm! What a picture that conjures! What a pitiful picture of helpless old age forced by cruel circumstances to take refuge on the bounty of the people! One perhaps may vision a prison-like place with cold, gray stone walls, and equally cold, Legree-like overseers, who are not sympathetic with the frail, time-worn old folks, but impatient, and even, perhaps, cruel. One would not want his mother, or father there! But come with me! Let me take you to one place, at least, where the picture above is quite misleading. It is far out into the country, but you won’t mind that, as the ride through the fresh, rolling green hills is in sharp contrast to the stuffiness and dust of the city. And now we are there. See, at the top of the gentle hill? The large, many-windowed brick buildings? That’s part of what we have to see, the Jackson county Home for Aged and Infirm Negroes. Surrounding it is a sweeping expanse of well kept, smooth green lawn, with many shady trees scattered about. At the foot of the hill is a small lake, glittering brightly beneath the warm sunshine. Back of the Home are many acres of neatly furrowed fields, with waist-high young com waving in the soft breeze. In this field many of the old men, those not so decrepit, are wont to work, slowly. carefully, cheerfully; of their own volition, as does another group in the shady lanes of the extensive apple and peach orchard, which is Just north of the Home. Around on the lawns, on benches beneath the coolness of the wide- branched trees, sit groups of blue clad men and women. The men have their intimate groups; and likewise the women, who hold hesitant, slow speech from the shadows of their polka-dotted bonnets. Most of them are snowy-headed, but not all, as even the years, an incredibly many of which have passed over some of them, have failed to whiten their heads, or put deep furrows in their faces. Draw close to a group of these old men. At first perhaps they will regard you with faint curoisity, greet you pleasantly, gravely even, but soon they will have forgotten you. Listen to their talk. It is never of the present, but invaraibly of the past—far into the past. Bits of talk about Lee, Grant, Sheridan (this from civil war veterans), and the ‘big house, and ole marster’ float quietly on the warm air, carrying one back for dreaming instant to days that were much before one’s time. “Emancipation," one is saying a little bitterly,” an’ I ain’t never seen the ole woman since. . . I went to town . . . . " Now let’s go among the old women. Our advent creates a perceptible stir among a group of them. They do not greet us as the men did, but from the depths of their clean white dotted bonnets, they peer timidly, but interestedly at us. They seem older in a spiritual way than the men too. and their faces are more sharply cut with deeper lines, as though they had seen overmuch of suffering and pain in their lives. And what old woman has not? All of them are garbed in spotlessly clean blue, and striped dresses with aprons of the same color. Some of them are sewing, or knitting or smoking; others merely sit back with hands folded across their stomachs, staring far away over the bright green of the surrounding hills. What I would give to dream with them the scenes they are seeing! I venture to make conversation with one of them. “Mother," I ask, “don’t you like living out here?” For minute the dark old woman stares at me silently, as though trying to recognize my features. Finally she answers: Like living out here alright, but I’d rather be back up to the big house with missy. How they gettin’ long? Did they ask ’bout me?” And then I’m forced to fabricate for her benefit. Some of the other women who still retain their full mental faculties smile gently, knowingly, understandingly at me as I invent inconsequental tattle for the benefit of my inquisitator. “Yes, mother,’’ I say, “missy is fine. She asks about you. You’ll being going to Join her soon.” And she will. A particularly bright old woman with a smile that seems to me the essence of all the mother- smiles in the world, nodded a solemn amen to my words, and glanced at a companion, a tiny, faded wisp of a woman with many wrinkles, and she also nodded solemnly. And I was thinking that all of us must some day go to join ‘missy.’ The sudden, loud ringing of a gong from the main building created an instant stir among all the inmates. From the fields dark figures raised themselves slowly, painfully, and began making their ways toward us slowly. All over the benches are emptying as the blue clad figures converge toward the source of the still ringing gong. Some are barely able to move, dragging one foot behind the other as though the effort of moving each foot is a tremendous undertaking. An old, old woman stumbles and goes into a little heap, and an old man hobbles gallantly, and Instantly to help her. Now the gong has ceased ringing and the tinny music of an electric piano playing a martial air has taken its place. The stirring music seems to have an instantaneous effect on the feeble old folks, for they seem trying to walk straighter, and faster. Two old men, evidently cronies, attempt, after several efforts, to ‘catch step’, to march very erectly, heads thrown back, and canes reposing in the manner of the rifles they had once carried, on their right shoulders. “Hip! Hip!-hip-hip-hip!” they say smartly as they pass us. A few of the benches still hold occupants. and for these the matron emerges. After calling them with no result, she goes up to one, an old woman who clasps defiiantly in her ancient jaws a corn-cob pipe which still emits faint wisps of smoke. ‘Mary Mary! the matron calls, assuming a mock-anger manner, “It’s dinner time!” Didn’t you know?” The old woman removes the pipe from her mouth regretfully. “Yes I knows it,’ she replies crossly,” but I don’ want no dinner. I’d ruther—" “But you must eat, Mary,” interposed the matron in the manner of one talking to a child. “Don’t need no vittles!" insists Mary a little wrathfully. “But if you don’t eat you’ll die. Mary” suggests the matron direfully. “Don’t care,” mutters Mary disdainfully. “Gonna die anyhow!” The matron seeing the futility Of argument, puts an arm around the old woman and leads her, unresisting toward the building. After a while, dinner over, the lawns again are dotted with the groups of blue-clad figures. An automobile comes sweeping up the entrance drive. A number of the old people begin getting up, with a great show to unostentation, and edge toward the walk up which the occupant of the car must come. And as he nears each one accosts him with some tale, or request, or maybe, merely a greeting—an invaribaly warm, affectionate greeting. This is the superintendent, Dr. Booker. As he nears us a sprightly old man stops him again. “And what can I do for you Dad?" inquires the smiling superintendent, patting the ancient's shoulder. “Got a little story t'tell you Doctor,” the old man begins. “Down in Paris, Texas, where Iused to live there was a preacher come to our church named Booker. Know what we called that preacher, doctor? Well we called him Elder Booger! 'Course we don’ call YOU Doctor Booger, though!” And after Dr. Booker has laughed heartily at the Joke the old man goes back to his bench with conscious importance. His dignity, once he has attained his seat is that of the man of affairs who has Just spoken on equal terms to some one very important such as the president of the United States, at least. Now let us go into the Home itself. It is a cool place of bright, clean cool corridors, and spacious, high ceilinged wards with many white, neatly made beds, some of them occupied by the hopelessly bed-ridden. Neatly garbed atendants straighten a pillow here, or carry a glass of water there. Again Dr. Booker comes near us, and we feel the sudden shifting of glances in his direction. At each of the beds he stops, doing the things that medical men do for the sick. All the while he is smiling, and evoking smiles from his ‘patients,’’ and he drops quick words of cheer which seem to have more effect than medicines could. I find myself thinking that being an old dependent is not so terrible as I had imagined, if one is able to find such a haven as this wind-swept clean place. Life seems to glide by thees old people like a pleasant dream after the nightmare of reality has faded. They are once gallant vessels of an outworn age finding secure harbor rom the storms of the open sea. And so they sit and dream, and gossip, and smoke in the sun, and wait with infinite patience the time of release, which they know is just around the bend. And I ack you if seeing such a place does not do much to revive a perhaps waning faith in man's goodness to man?

The Woman's League Thirty-five years ago last February the Woman’s league was organized including more than one hundred women of the two Kansas Cities, the first club in this section and one among the first in the country. The idea was promoted by the late Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates, who brought from the East this progressive movement among women. The league at first operated a school for teaching of domestic art and the science of cooking. By persistent efforts with the board of education, the women succeeded in having these departments introduced into the public schools; also the kindergarten and manual training. The league purchased a piece of property and operated a home for delinquent girls until the state erected the Industrial Home at Tipton, then the property was used for a home for working girls. In 1915 the league launched the Y. W. C. A. movement, and when the Y. W. board was organized the league presented to the Y. W. C. A. their property which has since been sold for $2,300 for the building fund. Seeing the need of a home for neglected boys, the league set up a movement which became city-wide under the name of the Colored Children’s Improvement association. Nine years efforts resulted in that splendid Jackson County Home for Colored Boys at Little Blue, erected and maintained by the County court, and also the purchase of a site for a Girls' Home on which the present Court promises to build the first unit this year. Five president have served the league: Mrs. Yates, Miss Anna H. Jones, Mrs. Frances J. Jackson, Mrs. L. A. McCampbell and Mrs. Myrtle Foster Cook.

COFFEYVILLE, KAS. CLUBS In-Ter-Nos Art and Literary Club Was organized June 9, 1927 and federated April 14, 1927. Officers are: Mrs. Hettie Roberts, president; Mrs. Sadie Ewell, vice- president; Mrs. Helen Fisher, secretary. The purpose of this club is to encourage women along lines of art and literature.

OTTAWA, KAS. CLUBS The Needle Craft Art Club Was organized May 25, 1921. The purpose of this club is to promote art and charity work. It is federated in the National Federation of Colored Women’s clubs. Officers are: Mary B. Allen, president; Maggie Johnson, vice-president; Queenie Hurtado, general secretary; Gertrude Hooker, treasurer; Martha McBrier. chaplain; Emma Armstrong, parliamentarian; Freda Wilson, pianist.

A Brother Institution Extends Congratulations to THE CALL — and to Its Readers! TEN YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE ANNIVERSARIES mean nothing except as they mark milestones of achievement and progress. We, as a brother institution of public service, sincerely congratulate The Kansas City Call, on this, their tenth anniversary, upon their faithful striving for the advancement of their readers and their unselfish efforts in the promotion of higher ideals through the publishing of a paper generally acknowledged high in vision and editorial standards and of something more than usual reader interest. May it continue to serve and steadily move onward and upward, keeping its vision steadfastly on the higher ground. The Call readers are to be congratulated in having such a newspaper to serve them. This company is proud to work hand in hand with your paper, striving ever to serve the race in a better, more modem way. Just as The Call is giving the best that is in them for you, so is your street car company providing the very best in service, convenience, and economy. RIDE THE STREET CARS AND READ AS YOU RIDE Kansas City Public Service Company

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183 AGENTS CARRY PORO WORK FORWARD Kansas City Women Making Beauty Culture a "Big” Business Kansas City women are making beauty culture a big business. Years ago, the avenues for women to earn independent incomes were few indeed, but today brings an entirely different story. An increasing number of fields have been opened to women and they are making the most of them. Not the least of these has been the beauty culture business. Some women, with vision and initiative, like Mrs. Annie Malone, have built great beauty schools and manufacturing establishments. Others have devoted themselves to individual beauty parlors and have prosperous and successful business women. In Greater Kansas City, alone, there are 183 agents for the famous beauty products of Poro College. St. Louis. Some of these agents operate large shops and some small, but they all give the same high standard- of service set by the name “Poro.” Sanitary Poro Beauty shoppe, located at 1804 E. 12th street, operated by Mrs. Beulah J. Hodge, is the leading Poro beauty shop in the district including Kansas City, Kas. and Kansas City, Mo. and other small outlying districts. This shop has been in operation for more than ten years by Mrs. Beulah Hodge alone, starting in a small house with meager equipment. Kerosene oil was used for heating apparatus. Today the modernly equipped building has four operators in private booths. Main Shops Since the establishment of Sanitary Poro Beauty shoppe, four other Poro shops have begun operation in the. city. These shops are fully equipped, with two or more operators. They are as follows: Greens Beauty parlor, operated by Miss Ada Green, at 24th and Vine; Mrs. Nancy Harper’s Poro Rose Beauty shop, at 2011 E. 12th street; Mrs. Elizabeth Lucas’ Elizabeth Beauty shop at 910 E. 12th street; and Mrs. Elnora Egglestons’ Poro shop at 1711 E. 18th street. In the Poro sub-station, Mrs. Birdie Johnson, who is in charge, has her office at the Sanitary Poro shop Other Agents The smaller agents in Kansas City, Mo. are as follows: The Mesdames Pinkie Anderson, Gertrude Allen, Mary Brown-Andrews, Janie Adams, Ida Brown, Amelia Brown, Daisy Baldwin, Cora Black, Irene [?]k, Claudine Barker, Daisy Bar[?,] Minnie Bell, Maggie Brooks, [?] Brewer, Emma Brown, Ida [?]s, Wm. Beasley, Mary Cum[mi]ngs, Anna Clark, Beatrice Cald[w]ell, Ivory Curtis, Mary Clarksville, Nellie Clayton, Lula B. Daniel, Luvena Hale, Lenora M. Bush, Mabel Daniel, Mary Davis, Bessie Dale, Beulah Davis, Lena Davis, L. M. Duncan, Irene Davis, Virgie Douglas, Claire Duncan-Jackson, Willie Eley, Elnora Eggleson, Elsie Everett, Myrtle Franklin, Josephine Franklin, Pearl Gibson, Susie Gibson, Ada Shelton-Green, Amanda Harrison, Pansy Hunter, Odessa Hicks, Winifred Hughes, Eugene Horn, Nancy Harper, Cora D. Williams, Berta Johnson, Minnie Johnson, Clarence Jones, Fanny Johnson, Constance W. Jackson, Helen Kinckaid, Portia Kennedy, Sadie Kenner, Lillian B. Keyes, Lena B. Keyes, Lena Lee, Elizabeth Little, Arline Lewis, Elizabeth Lucas, Frankie Lyons, Helen Lindley, Hattie Mason, Minnie Matron, Rhoda McCullough, Anna McGee Marshall, Ida McCoo, Lula Mitchell, Mamie McLean, Zypher Manseur, Flora Miles, Irene Woods, Lucile Nelson, Ruth Owens, Cora Precious, Marguerite Powell, Mary Redmond, Mary Reed, Nannie Reed, Rosie Rochester, Maggie Ruckman, Mary Simms, Alice Smith, Ethel Smith, Barbara Stevenson, Elizabeth Watson, Gertrude Sampson, Margerie Smith, Pearl Sullivan, M. Simmons, Rudy Trowser, Elizabeth Tunley, Gertrude Taylor, Rosie Turner, Rosa Thomas, Carrie Thompson, Ora Thomas, C. B. Thrash, R. N. Taylor, Odessa Hicks Viser, Julia B. Walker, Essie A. Walker, Rosa Watson, Laticia Woodard, Roosevelt White, Viola Williams, Beatrice C. Woods, Alma Ward, E. M. Williams, Flora Williams, Ehel Walker, Elnora Walden, Lucile Williams, Cleota Wilson, To lisy Yancy, Laura Jacobs, Maggie Adams, Lydia Broadnax, Georgia Boswell. Kansas Side Agents The Kansas City, Kansas Poro agents are as follows: Mesdames Bradley, Clara Billins, T. Betts, Mary Ballew, Effie Bruce, Sadie Bruce, Nettie Byers, Frances Banks, Ollie Clark, Janie Crutchfield, Maggie Clark, Josephine Cato, Lucinda Cook, Beatrice Cotton, Esther Collins, Hattie Chandler, Janie. Crout, Viola M. Dayton, Louise Donahoe, Georgia Dillard, -Pearl Desmukes, Nannie Daniels, Ella Downing, Hazel D. Jackson, Mary Eaber, Helen Farris, Lucy Greer, Lena Henderson, Mattie Hughes, Mandy Hayes, Elizabeth Hightower, Clara Hawthorne, G .A. Herrington, Leulla Johnson, Ophelia Johnson, Rosie Jordan, Odessa Jordan, Pearl Love, Luella Mons, Melisie Morgan, Pauline Payner, Hazel Parker, Lottie Parner, R. C. Pate, Sarah Powell, Mercedes E. Payne, Rachel Robinson, Minnie Robinson, Ellen Robinson, Earlie Robinson, A. Ford Simmons, Eva Lee Shephard, Sophronia Simms, Elsie Spencer, Pearl Taylor, Ethel Thompson, Myrtle Taylor, Hattie Washington, Della West, Lillian W. Williams, Aletia White, Lizzie Walker, Mattie Johnson, Carrie Jackson.

The Telephone Building, Tallest in the City Development of business on a big scale has caused men to consider the world as one big Job in which every one has a place. We have contributed to that development, and in whatever degree it has been a factor in the Negro’s rapid progress, we have a place in this Progress Edition by right of service. It is a significant fact that the devolepment of the telephone and the progress of the Negro in America as a free man have taken place in the same era The chaevements in the great Southwest which the Kansas City Call is celebrating in this Progress Edition have taken place at the same time that the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company has had the expansion typified by our twenty- eight story building. There is no distance where the telephone is in use. It makes possibl such rapid exchange of ideas that to all intents and purposes, telephone users are in the same room. For that reason the growth of the Southwstern Bell Telephone Company is not only a source of pride to the company, but of satisfaction to the community. The telephone speeds up commerce, it searches out employment for the worker; it binds the family together when apart. The telephone is the real wonder worker of the modern world. Where only the rich used to have means of overcoming time and space, thanks to the Bell telephone, the cottage as well as. the mansion is now included in the magic circle of communication.

Women and Their Charm It has been said “that at this time America and England are producing the most beautiful of women.” If that is true, Kansas City comes in for her share of race beauty. However we think less of beauty where there is outstanding charm. In many cases though, natural charm is lost to sophistication. Each season brings its own beauty problems in addition to those that are with us always. In hot weather the problem of personal daintiness seems to be the most difficult that milady has to solve. It is hard to look cool and immaculately groomed when the temperature is soaring and the humidity takes the pep out of one. What to wear is often a vexing question in hot weather because both comfort and style must be considered. Corsets are needed for stout figures, but they should be flexible and low. Hosiery should be held up by garters attached to a girdle or garter belt that fits around the hips rather than by tight garters above the knees that impede the circulation and tend to make the flesh below them puffy. All clothes should hang from the shoulders or hips so that constricting bands around the waist may be avoided. Garters should be fastened at the sides rather than only in front, as the latter position tends to cause a “hollowback" figure by pulling down the pelvis in front. White and pale colors are best for hot weather because they do not obsorb heat rays, but deflect them. While deciding upon the colors and types of clothes to be worn, do not forget to plan for summer foot comfort. The lightest weight shoes are of kid or some fabric such as linen or satin. Calfskin, suede and patent leather are unsuitable because they shut off the air from the feet. Besides choosing a cool, porous material for summer shoes select a style that allows direct ventilation through holes cut out of the leather or cloth. A word of caution should be put in here about wearing sandal type slippers that are cut so low that they afford no support to the feet. Girls or women with weak arches should wear in summer the oxford style of shoes with a cut-out pattern of small squares or diamonds to give ventilation without weakening the shoe itself. Hosiery should be changed as often as it becomes damp with perspiration. To do so not only ministers to comfort, but prolongs the life of the stockings, which should be rinsed out each time they are used. The same rule, of course, applies to silk underwear. The feet should be scrubbed well with soap and warm water at the close of each day. In the morning they may be rinsed in cold water, dried an ddusted with a mixture of equal parts of com meal, boric acid and stearate of zinc.

Shoe Etiquette First of all, there are certain occasions when high heels are not only bad form but ridiculous, they are not only bad form, but are not allowed, because they spoil the turf. One of these places, of course, is the golf course, another the tennis court. For traveling high heels are never worn by the tasteful. Not only is this a matter of taste, but it is also a practical necessity. For instance, nothing is more ridiculous than some of the women one sees tottering about the galleries of Europe on high heels. Nothing could be more uncomfortable for walking about a slippery promenade deck than a pair of high heels. Nothing could be more absurd for sightseeing in the country than high heels, and any one who wears them for such occasions stamps herself as either ignorant or tasteless. Now, there are certain women who will say, "But I can’t wear low heels. They make my legs ache.” The answer is, so much the more reason for wearing them. If they make your legs ache it is because the muscles have been so long disused that they are stiff, and even in danger of withering. Very well, then; it is time you did something about such a condition. Either take exercises shoeless to strengthen the muscles until you can wear low heels when required, or gradually lower your heels, wearing them a few hours every day, until you get used to them. Others, again, will say,“I can’t wear low-heels because my arch is too high.” The answer is the same for them. If you have accustomed your arch to high heels until it has become weak, the best thing to do is to strengthen it by exercise until you can wear any kind of a heel without pain. These recommendations are especially true for women who are nearing middle age and putting on weight, and they had better take the stitch in time that saves nine or they may find themselves with serious foot trouble later in life. To get back to the etiquette of shoes, it, like all other etiquette, has changed of late years and become easier and less formal, but there are still very definite things that Dame Grundy forbids and commands. First of all, as has been said, heels must be low for sport, travel, hiking, all country daytime wear, and now or medium low for the street. High heels are for afternoon and evening wear only. Next Dame Grundy commands that the heels, whether low or high, must always be straight. A crooked heel is the mar kof a slattern—always was, always will be. Then the shoes should be kept in good condition. They should be clean and polished and neat. That is why it is so essential in choosing shoes on a limited income to choose ones that will not scuff. This does not mean that because one has a limited income one must forego the fascinating and luxurious shoes in odd colors and fabrics. It simply means that one must possess at leat one pair of sensible shoes for the occasions when such are demanded, and that those one wears every day to walk and work in should be of a hardier variety. When fanc yshoes become scuffed and fallen looking they should never be worn for street, as one sees them so often. The sunlight is cruel, and if one must wear scuffed shoes, honest shoes of leather that are a bit scuffed are far better to look at than scuffed and dirt finery.

One who follows style closely must be wary, as fall styles are tricky.

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A very light weight of velour, known as Soleil, will be the popular hat material this fall.

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Kansas City, Kas., Woman Is a Successful Writer of Song Poems and Memorials Mrs. Margaret Calaway - Matthews has attained considerable success as a poet and writer of memorials. Her recent poetical history of Electa chapter, O. E. S., which was read at the organizations home-coming created much comment and will be published by the order. Mrs. Matthews attended high school at Leavenworth but graduated from the Atchison, Kas. high school. Later she taught at Lincoln school when it was located at Sixth and State. She was the first woman to teach in Douglas school, then the largest grade school in Kansas City, Kas. Mrs. Matthews attended the state normal at Emporia and has studied at Kansas university. Booker T. Washington commended Mrs. Matthews’ poems several years before his death and she has received complimentary letters from Judge Harrison, Senator Curtis, and former Governor Capper. She has written song-poems for the state federation of art clubs, the N. A. A. C. P. and has read many of them in white churches of the city. The Metropolitan Baptist weekday church school was organized by Mrs. Matthews, also its first principal and is the largest school in the city. She Is also interested in the Citizen’s forum and other civic clubs. Mrs. Matthews’ versatility and ability make her a valuable asset to the community.

NEARLY 100 WALKER AGENTS IN KANSAS CITY School of Beauty Culture Here Is One of Best in Country Another large group of business women in Kansas City are the agents of the Mme. C. J. Walker company. There are approximately a hundred of these agents who own and operate beauty parlors—some in modernly equipped shops, with facilities for training students, and others in their homes. Mrs. Alice C. Burnett, national Republican organizer, assembled the first Kansas City Walker agents together some years ago. This marked the beginning of Walker shops and agents in Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. P. O. Osborne was one among these women to establish shops and agents in Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. P. E. Osborne was one among these women to establish shops and secure agents in Kansas City, Mo. Her school of beauty culture at 19th and Tracy is said to be an outstanding symbol of service for Mme. Walker agents among both older and younger women. In Ebenezer chapel at 16t hand Lydia sixteen students were graduated in February of 1924. Over 200 students in all have been graduated from Walker schools of beauty culture in Kansas City. The Mme. Walker schools of Kansas City beauty culture organized with 23 members after a visit of F. B. Ransom, general manager of Walker agents Protective association. The following were elected as officials: Mrs. B. V. Chapman, president ;Mrs. Keturah Foster, vice-president; Mrs. Charline Edwards, secretary, and Mrs. Daisy Burnett, treasurer. In 1926 Kansas City Walker agents entertained other Walker agents here . The object was to raise the standard of beauty progress of America. Among the larger Mme. Walker shops are: Paseo Beauty shop, 12th and Paseo, by Mrs. Viola Walker; Carrie and Esther shop, 12th and Garfield, by Carrie Morgan; Roberts Beauty shop, Roberts building, by Hazel Roberts; the Walker parlor, 19th and Paseo, by Daisy Burnett; the Katurah parlor, Kansas City, Kas. The smaller agents for Mme. C. J. Walker in both Kansas Cities are as follows: Mesdames Maty Brown, Mayme Logan, Katie Martin, A. D. Vinson, J. L. Washington, Pearl Patton, Fannie Holmes, Carrie Morgan, Bessie Stovall, Anna Allen, Velma Halley, Lena Williams, Elvory W. Anderson, Addie Thompson, Mary Jackson. Nellie Davis, Frances Pierce, Cora Murray, Wilma Johnson, Frankie Whitledge, Madge Howard, Nellie Buckner, Lee Davis, Hattie Smith, Blanche Johnson, Etolia Hieds, S. W. Redmon, Mamie Williams, Nannie Wilson, Nola Ross, R. F. Green, Anna Ware, Ruby Littlejohn, Daisy Johnson, Rosie Bruce, Charline Edwards, Lillian Floyd, Ruth Grant, Justine Hoand, Emma Logan, Elnora Moore, Hattie Richey, Laura Moore, Lena Valen, Ethel B. Whitely, Lula Smith, Sarah Williams, Dradie Green, Nellie Milligan, Mildred Moth, Susie Murphy, Minnie Countee, Maymie Penn, Emma L. Price, Leona Watson, Leota Webb, Hattie Bradley, Hazel Roberts, Maude William,s Charles Guyer, Zora Duvall, Evelyn McNealy, Carrie Sydnor, Bessie Walker, Eva Hall, Ida Emerson, Julia C. Morrison, Gladys Hedspeth, Laura Washington, Victoria Hightower, Otis L. Blakey, Gladys Booth, Louise McDonald, Edna Turner, Jessie Whitely, Grace Booth, Laura Lovinggood, Orean Hogan, Ora Robinson, A. Ramsey, E. J. Smith, Leila Grant, and Alpha Griffin.

Mrs. P. Erlyne Osborne Heads Walker Company District Mme. P. Erlyne Osborne, who is now a national representative and instructor for the Mme. C. J. Walker manufacturing company, is a graduate from the Evans high school, Glasgow, Mo., valedictorian of her class. She finished her education at Waldern university, Nashville, Tennessee, and took a special teachers course at Dixon college, Dixon, Illinois. She taught school in the state of Missouri, her last six years of teaching being at Macon, Mo. as first assistant in the Dumas school. It was there she married the Rev. W. T . Osborne who is now presiding elder of the Kansas Cityk Kas. district, the Kansas, Nebraska conference. Because of her great love to serve, she enjoys the honor of having occupied every position the local church could give from the Sunday school organist, secretary, teacher to the district superintendent of Sunday schools. From the local missionary secretary, treasurer, president, to the conference branch president, and on to the connectional editor of the Woman’s Missionary Recorder of the A. M. E. church. She will always be remembered in Kansas City by her very splendid church work at Ebenezer and in the community at large. She has staged some of the most difficult dramas and cantatas suih as Damon and Pythias, Queen Esther, Mme. X, etc., always to large audiences, for churches and other organizations. Her husband being presiding elder, she accepted a position with the Mme. C. J. Walker company five years ago. Her first work was to open a beauty parlor and college in her own home town ,Kansas City, Mo., from which near 200 persons have graduated, some coming from several other states, and are now making independent, livings, the Walker way. Before Mme. Osborne was connected with the Mme. C. J. Walker company, it did not function very largely in Kansas City, but today there are eight well equipped Mme. C. J. Walker beauty parlors in the two Kansas Cities and any number of agents operating in their homes. Mme. Osborne, in the last five years has traveled extensively for the company opening beauty parlors and teaching large classes the beauty course. She has a pleasing personality that wins and a determination that makes her succeed because she thinks she can. She owns a beautiful well-furnished home at 2811 Vine street, a twelve- room stone on a nole of 100x150 ft. overlooking Troost lake and the Paseo boulevard. Mme. Osborne is a finished dramatic artist but having accepted the position with the Mme. C. J. Walker company and being of that calibre to know all possible about the kind of work in which she is engaged, she graduated from the Mme. C. J. Walker school of beauty culture then entered the E. Burnham School of Beauty Culture (white), Chicago, where after three months she graduated and is one of the first of the race to have an Illinois state beauty culture license by examination. She then took a special course in marcelling from the Wenzel School of Beauty Culture, Chicago, and is now among those who are paid very large salaries by the Mme. C. J. Walker company to put over their programs.

Carrollton, Mo., Has Voice-Piano Studio Mrs. Pearl Bell-Crutcher has for the past season been conducting the "Pear Crutcher Studio of Voice and Plano” with marked success, at Carrollton, Mo. The studio is located at the Lincoln school and students receive the benefits of the work. Mrs. Crutcher came to Carrollton from Casper, Wyo., having taken a prominent part in the. musical circles of that city, numbering among her pupils many white as well as Race persons. For two years she was directress of the choir of the Second Baptist church. Since the nshe has roganized A. M. E., church choir and has presented her students in recital and upon various programs. Mrs. Crutcher was reared in South Dakota and attended school at the University of Kansas. She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

LINCOLN BOOK SHOP Lincoln Book shop is located [at] 1602 East Nineteenth street. It [?] opened September 5, 1927 at 1[?] Vine street by Miss Robbie A[?] and was moved this spring to [its] present location. The openin[g] [of] this book shop by Miss Arnold [?] the first undertaking of its ki[nd in] Kansas City and considered an asset to the community a[nd] Kansas City. High school st[udents] welcomed it as an ascertained [?] recommended place to buy school books and supplies. [?] time to time during the schoo[l] [?] they found it a handy place [?] school squipment there, that [?] occasionally hard to obtain [else]where. Their parents went to obtain music sheets, cards [?,] [sta]tionery and other necessities [?,] [re]ligious pictures portraying al[?] [Ne]groes were bought for many [?] Little girls colored baby dolls [?] obtainable there. It has [?] many people in many ways sin[ce] opening. Here are some of th[e] [ar]ticles that are sold at the L[incoln] Book shop: school text book [?] ward and high school, school [sup]plies for elementary and [high] schools, commercial supplies, [?] paper store in all sizes, [?]ers material, sheet music, circulating library containing popular fiction, and new books, literature, fiction, non-fiction, cards of all types for various occasions. Recently cards in postal card size have been made on fifteen points of interest in Kansas City. Included among these special cards are pcitures of the Emelen, Kansas City's leading modiste, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., Peoples Finance corporation, W. C. Service, station at 19th and Vine, future Centennial church, Lincoln high school, Lincoln library, Peoples Drug store, and so forth. Pictures of historical and prominent Negroes may also be obtained at tills shop. Golf and tennis supplies were recently added to the Lincoln line of supplies. This supply will be enlarged next year. Miss Arnold, the Lincoln high school clerk who owns and operates the book shop appreciates the patronage she has enjoyed. In the future she expects Kansas City to enjoy a larger, better equipped book shop.

Mrs. Lula May Chester is a poetess, who memorizes, recites, impersonates and characterizes her poems and songs. Mrs. Chester was born in Memphis, Tenn., and has travelled widely. Her last recital was given in Kansas City, which is now her home.

George Crittenden, 85 years old, a resident of Springfield, Mo., who. served in the Civil War, was made a successful realty investor. He has invested most of his money in property and the renting of houses on the street where he lives and owns all the houses in the block but htree.

Lawrence Baldwin, Emporia, Kas., is a bell captain of the Hotel Broadview, the largest hotel in Emporia, where he has been employed for seven years.

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AGGRESSIVE COMMUNITY SPIRIT SHOWN BY ST. JOSEPH CITIZENS Enterprise and Initiative Finds Expression in Varied Building Program in City The civic progress manifested in St. Joseph by the erection of a million dollar hall, a proposed civic center costing another million, the completion of a new 12 mile boulevard and park system, and the finest municipal-controlled airport in the United States, is in a smaller but yet as effective manner displayed on the part of the Negro citizens. In 1927-28 several projects were completed (despite unemployment and scarcity of money) that bid fair to place the Negro group in St. Joseph with even larger groups throughout the state. A public spirit is being displayed, that will in the future mean much to the advancement of the younger group. The Charwood theatre is the outstanding contribution to the community and to the enterprising ability of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phelps belong the honor. The Charwood is a BOO seating capacity house, modern in every detail, built along Georgian lines and screening the best cinena productions available. For the first time in its history St. Joseph Negroes are afforded entrance to a first-class house owned and controlled by one of their groups and can sit anywhere without fear of jim-crowism. The house was erected at a cost of $75,000 and is the state's finest, all Negro movie theatre. Progressiveness is apparent in the New St. Francis Baptist Temple opened last May. The inclusion of a gymnasium to care for the physical welfare of its young as well as older members is a long stride in modernizing the Negro church. The structure is cla[ss]ic in design and an architectural monument to the vicinity in which it is located. The new St. Augustine’s church, Catholic, is another addition to group welfare. It affords those of the Roman faith opportunities for developing leaders in the world's old est faith. The new school project is also under way. The Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. and other social service organizations are performing their duties in a commendable manner through the medium of mass meetings, classes, musical entertainments, distribution of literature and personal contact with youth and the citizenry. The schools, churches and clubs are all laboring to stimulate the educational. religious and social interests of the group. The graduates of its schools enter America's greatest colleges and many are now holding positions of honor and trust thru-out the country. Business is on the increase. A first-class auto laundry, garage, two contracting firms, a furniture repair shop are some of the new concerns recently established. Messanie street is destined to become the commercial street of the city. Never flashy, never boastful, the group in its conservative manner is buying homes, establishing businesses, educating its youth and building a foundation for the future. Phenomenal growth may not be apparent upon first sight but it is there. The groundwork is being constructed carefully so that the super-structure may not collapse from the first wind. Therefore, St. Joseph can well share with The Call its tenth anniversary and also progress.

Short Sketches of St. Joe Business Men Edward W. Thompson, St. Joseph’s pioneer prescription druggist, has been in business for 16 years. He was the first Negro to graduate from the University of Iowa pharmacy school and also the first to pass the Missouri board examination. Mr .Thompson is active in civic, church and political activities. He was a delegate to the state Republican convention in 1924 and 1928 and has served many times as committeeman- at-large. W. F. Tolson is a native resident of St. Joseph and recently acquired the Messanie street garage now known as Tolson’s auto service. Mr. Tolson is a member of St. Francis Baptist temple and is a Mason. He is a spirit booster for St. Joseph and a supporter of all civic movements. I. F. Ramsey came to St. Joseph twenty years ago from Chicago and established the Ramsey Funeral service, one of the best in the middle- west. He holds embalming licenses in Illinois, Missouri and Kansas and is a graduate of Roger Williams university, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Ramsey is prominent in church and civic affairs and is a members of the Masonic order, Knights of Pythias, Elks, Knights of Tabor and U. B. F. fraternal orders. Mr. Ramsey is a civc worker and active in club life.

R. Nathaniel Dett Glee Club of St. Joseph The R. Nathaniel Dett Glee club was organized November 7, 1927 by Mrs. Dorothy Watkins- Hundley. The object of the club is to render service to the community and to bring before the public not only Negro music but the larger choral works of the other group. The club is composed of nineteen picked voices and is undenominational. The personnel of the organization: sopranos, Othella Sledge, Josephine Woodson, Gladys Freels, Agnes McGee, Marie: Martin; altos, Melvina Parker, Edna Ray, Louise Harper, Tina Smith; tenors, Bruce James, George Brewer, Theodore Sledge, Alfred Harts; baritones, Oliver Browning, Edward Potts; basses, Earl Sidney, Noel Peterson, Robert Hundley, John Keller; Dorothy Hundley, pianist-director. Each member is a soloist, and any four of the group are capable of putting on a complete program. One Monday night a month is given to study, at which time members respond to roll call with the answers to questions written the previous week, also the lives and works of composers are studied and discussed. The club gave a mid-winter musical February 1, at Ebenezer A. M. E. church; other entertainments were given at St. Luke M. E. church, St. Francis Baptist temple, City hall, Elwood, Kas., and Troy, Kas. It also assisted on the following programs: Oliver Browning’s recital March 1, the observance of Negro Health week in March, National Negro Music week April 15, both of which were sponsored by the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. The club celebrated National Negro Music week April 16 at the home of the director in the following way: chorus, “Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray,” (Burleigh); solo, “Go Down Moses” (Burleigh); Edna Ray; (a) She Rested in the Broken Brook” (Coleridge Taylor), (b) Song of the Heart (Rosamond Johnson), Edward Potts; sketch of Coleridge Taylor's life, Oliver Browning; piano solo, "Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveller” (Coleridge Taylor), Dorothy Hundley; “Onaway Awake Beloved” (Coleridge Taylor), George Brewer; trio, "Since You Went Away” (Rosamond Johnson), Josephine Woodson, Gladys Freels, Edna Ray; solo, “Lil Gal” (R. Johnson), Louise Harper; chorus, “Sinner Please Don’t Let This Harvest Pass” (Burleigh). The most outstanding choral event of the season was the rendition of DuBois “Seven Last Words of Christ”, at Ebenezer A. M. E. church Good Friday night. Miss Gladys Freels substituted- for Mrs. Stella Mae Hill who was indisposed. The other soloists were: George Brewer, tenor; Edward Potts, baritone. The chorus was assisted by Miss Bertha Salles, Mrs. Adah Duncan and J. E. Jones. Mrs. Hundley presided at the pipe organ, Miss Ruth Gregg at the piano. The club’s last appearance was on June 18 when it assisted at the musical fete given for the benefit of the Y .M. C. A. at Robidoux school. The choruses rendered were “Don’t Be Weary Traveller” (R. N. Dett) ; "King Jesus Is A Listening” (Dawson), “Goin Home” (Dvorak). Regular work will be resumed in the fall. Officers: president, A. D. Harts; vice-president, Oliver Browning; secretary, Miss Gladys Freels; assistant secretary, Mrs. Louis Harper; treasurer, Edward Potts; Dorothy Hundley, director. From left to right, top—Bruce James, A. D. Harts, Theodore Sledge, George Brewer. Middle— Oliver Browning, Marie Martin, Edna Ray, Othello Sledge. Earl Sidney. Bottom— Josephine Woodson, Gladys Freels, Dorothy Hundley, Tina Smith, Agnes McGee and Louise Harper.

Y. W. C. A. Social Center For Women and Girls The Young Women’s Christian association is an international organization. It is an organization whose aim is to reach women and girls of every class, race and nation. The ultimate aim of the association wherever it is—its buildings, its rooms; all the education values to be found in its processes—board and committee meetings, classes and clubs, councils and conference; all of its cooperative work with other good institutions of the community may be said to advance the interests of young women whether members of the association or not. The Blue Triangle branch of the Young Women’s Christian association of St. Joseph is endeavoring to do its bit in this great world movement. This branch was organized nine years ago. During this time the activities have been carried on in many locations. Four years ago the women felt the need of permanent quarters so a building was purchased at the cost of $5,700. At present the amount due on this purchase is $1,251.87. The various committees of the association are always ready to serve the people of the community. The general education committee is always ready to project classes; classes in association work, training for Girl Reserve advisorship, music, social etiquette, and art, such as Italian clay and wax modeling. The religious education, Girl Reserve, and membership committees strive through their vesper services, special educational meetings and parties to keep the general public in touch with the association work. During the year of 1927 we administered in various ways to the needs of 5,790 persons. For the year 1928 our wish is to create a broader interest throughout the community, and enlarge our membership, both adult and Girl Reserve. Special programs observing Negro Health week, Negro Music week and World Fellowship week will be given during the year. Miss Ruth Gregg is secretary of the Blue Triangle branch Y. W. C. A.

Trinity Baptist Church Rev. J. H. Herring, moderator of the Mt. Zion District association organized Trinity at 1510 Messanie street, January 3, 1925. The Rev. Geo. Chinn, of Glasgow, and Rev. Ferguson of Savannah Avenue Baptist (white) assisted. The charter membership was 16, presided over by local ministers until June of 1925, when Rev. H. B. Stone was appointed pastor. Under his able leadership the church progressed, activities were broadened and a splendid spirit prevailed. He contracted a serious ailment and after a struggle of a year died January 1, 1928. He was supported by the church till his death. Rev. J. Q. Evans became the pastor in 1927 for a short while after which Rev. F. I. Hammonds accepted the pastorate. The church is advancing steadily and furnishing to the community as well as member the spiritual guidance necessary to maintain a high order of citizenship.

Introducing Some of the Residents of Saint Joseph to The Call Readers Miss Ruth G. Gregg, secretary, Blue Triangle Y. W. C. A., who has put 110 So. 13th street on the map as a social center. She is also an accomplished musician and has an inclination to teach school. J. E. Jones, principal of Bartlett high school, graduate of Howard university vocalist of distinction and participant in every worthwhile civic movement. Leon W. Stewart, executive secretary, So. 16th street branch Y. M. C. A., formerly of Pine St. “Y”, St. Louis. A hail fellow, well met with every boy in St. Joseph. Mrs. Dorothy Hundley, director of R. Nathaniel Dett Glee club, and through whose soul music surges. She is always ready to do more than her share of work in community affairs. Leon Henderson, registered pharmacist, who has had charge of stock department in Kinnison’s drug store, (white) downtown. A. T. Walker, principal, Lincoln school, M. A. from University of Nebraska, a good science teacher, mathematician and public worker. Mrs. R. L. Scott, a tireless worker in women’s activities and president of city federation. R. G. Armstrong, postal clerk, a “Y" worker and consistent booster for St. Joseph. And the St. Joseph ministers, Revs. W. B. Brooks, Ebenezer A. M. E.; W. M. Crain, Holsey C. M. E. Temple; W. . FWalker, St. Luke M. E.; J. W. Gordon, New Hope, Baptist; Rev. Phillips, Grant Mission; C. P. Morrow. St. Francis Baptist Temple; W. B. Hill, Mt. Union First Baptist and F. I. Hammond, temporary minister at Trinity. C. W. Black, principal Douglass school, prominent officer in the Baptist church and well- known in civic affairs. W. F. Neil, meat inspector, prom- circles. inent fraternally, a leader in South St. Joseph and well known as public speaker. Mrs. Stella Mae Hill whose musical ability is pronounced and the annual recital by her pupils is eagerly looked forward to by music lovers. Mrs. Josephine Woodson, whose voice (whether in solo or group work) is especially pleasing and quite an addition to the R. Nathaniel Dett Glee Club. Charles Hairgrow, mail carrier, who is well liked along his route, principally white, and in his quiet unassuming way doing much interracial good. Mrs. H. H. Walker, whose Book- lover’s club is stimulating a new interest in literature in the city. Miss Bertha Sallies, school teacher at Lincoln school, a true representative of her profession. Oliver Browning, baritone soloist, one of the city’s talented singers, whose work is outstanding. Mrs. L. G. Gillum, prominent club worker and active in church circles.

Bartlett High One of First Class Schools Bartlett high since its establishment in the early nineties has become one of the leading schools of the state. It is an accredited instiution, with a comprehensive course of study (for a school of its size) and is a close runner-up for literary and athletic honors in the state. Some of the recent principals at Bartlett have been the late J. H. Simms and W. F. Jones, A. W. Reason, now in St. Louis and C. W. Black, principal of Douglass school. J. E. Jones, the principal, is an alumnus of Howard University, has done summer school work at Columbia University and held a principalship in Columbia, Mo., before coming to St. Joseph. Bartlett is equipped with a commercial department, manual training room, domestic science and chemical laboratories. An assembly room and library are provided. But the one real need of the school at present is a first-class gymnasium, so that more physical training might be participated in by the entire student body. Because of the extreme youth and smallness of its male contingent, the development of a husky football team is well nigh an impossibility and its gridiron record in recent years has not been impressive but in basketball it has humbled such formidable foes at Lincoln high, Atchison and other able teams in this section. Several track prospects are on hand each year as threats to present champions. In the academic depart[ment] [?] offered ample courses in languages, German and Fren[ch,] [?]cient, Latin, mathematics, a[?] geometry and commercial ar[tis]tic, grammar and English lite[?] subjects, a complete comm[?] course, sciences, chemistry, p[?] biology and botany, social sc[ience,] sociology subjects, civil gove[rnment] and extra-curricula activities [?] [de]bate, dramatic art, Hi-Y, Y.[M. C.] A., athletics and music are [?] able. The foregoing resume [is not] complete but only representa[?] what Bartlett has to offer. Not comparing population [?] graduates more students a ye[ar] are graduated (Negroes) fr[?] mixed school system of Omah[a.] Nebraska City has a Negro [popula]tion of 18,500, and St. Josep[h.] Bartlett graduates may be [?] continuing their work at univ[ersities] of Kansas, Illinois, Chicag[o,] Nebraska, Howard and Lincol[n] [(Jef]ferson City) universities, a[?] Morehouse and Hampton. S[ome] girls from Bartlett are now i[?] training at schools in St. Louis and Chicago. Bartlett’s glee club, quite superior for a high school organization, is sponsored by J. E. Jones and Miss Maud Nelson. It has broadcasted over the local station KFEQ and and has sung at several white church, clubs and public meetings. With a capabale faculty, enthusiastic student body and a vibrant school spirit, Bartlett will soon begin another glorious year and again contribute to that never ending procession of students the nation over— its quota of those trained and prepared to advance into college.

BELL BEAUTY SHOPPE 1703 Messanie St Courtesy Service Mrs. Ada Bell, Prop. Messanie Street Cleaners Men’s Suits Cleaned and Pressed, 90c Shirts Hand Laundered. Repair Work Done. Free Delivery W. H. Monroe, Prop. 1617 Messanie St. Phone 6 – 1083

Tolson’s Auto Service 1316 MESSANIE ST. General Auto Repair 24-HOUR TOWING SERVICE Phone 6 - 1723W Marland Gasoline and Oil

GRAVES FUNERAL HOME 807 So. 17th Street

OLD RELIABLE ESTABLISHED 1905 RAMSEY FUNERAL SERVICE PHONE 6 - 2456 Ninth at Olive St. Joseph, Mo.

New $75,000 Charwood Theatre in St. Joseph The Charwood was opened April 17 to an overflow audience. It was erected at a cost of $75,000, seats 500 has a unique tea room on a balcony and is equipped with every modern appointment necessary for the comfort of its patrons. It is the finest theatre in the southwest owned and controlled by Negroes. Only the outstanding screen productions are screened at the Charwood.

Greetings From Masonic Bodies A. F. and A. M. St. Joseph, Mo.

BIG BEN BARBECUE Meats of All Kinds Beef, Pork, Ribs and Mutton. Orders Delivered. Ben Williams, Prop. 1619 Messanie Phone 6 - 1732 J

P. F. HAYNES, O. D. Optometric Eyesight Specialist Optometrist Optician Phone 6 - 4158 210 Francis St. St. Joseph, Mo.

Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobacco; Ice Cream and Candies MRS. HICKS HOME COOKING Special Sunday Dinners SANDWICHES Telephone 6 - 3452 W 1714 Messanie Street

Little Savoy Hotel 601 SO. FIFTH ST. St. Joseph, Mo. RATES REASONABLE FIRST CLASS Restaurant, Barber Shop, Billiard Hall When in St. Joseph Make This Your Headquarters F. R. Brown, Prop. Successor to JEFF BANKS

Thompson’s Drug Store PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY Toilet Articles, Candies and Cigars E. W. Thompson, Ph. G. Prescription Druggist Phone 6 - 0814 Free D[el]ivery Messanie at 17th

For a cool glass of beer visit the East Sid[e] Soft Drink Parlor Cigars and Tobacco Barbecue Sandwiches a Specialty A. T. THOMAS, Prop. Messanie at 17th

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PORO, An Internationally Known Institution

PIONEER COSMETIC BUSINESS, FOUNDED BY MRS. ANNIE M. MALONE, IS MISSOURI'S GREATEST NEGRO BUSINESS-SHADOW CAST BY HEROIC WOMAN

Poro College is Always Pointed Out as Evidence of the Heights to Which the Negro Has Risen in America—An Ideal Setting of Beauty, for the Culture and Capability It Was Established to Teach

Her Work Has Gone Around the World MRS. ANNIE M. MALONE Founder of “PORO"

Poro as the name of a group of products which are an aid to beauty, is being swallowed up in the larger thought of Poro as the summing up of an ideal physical appearance. Wherever womankind longs to radiate the charm of pleasing persanality, Poro is a household word. The dark skinned sisterhood in the days of the Queen of Sheba were acknowledged beauties. They have come again into their own in this “brown skin” age. The restoration of their pristine reputation is in part the result of beauty aids, but most of all is founded upon their belief that cleanliness, health and personality are any woman’s who wishes them enough to strive for them. Mrs. Annie M. Malone and her college have pointed the way to what every woman wants, and “Poro”, once the name of a thing, or rather of a set of things, is now the name of a service.

Pioneer in Cosmetic Business Mrs. Annie M. Pope Turnbo-Malone is a pioneer in treatment for the growth of the hair. The four-story structure, a half-block long either way, that now is the nerve center for a business covering all the United States, Canada, and crossing the sea to foreign lands, is Poro as the present day knows it, but its secure foundations are not the stone which go deep down on the comer of St. Ferdinand street and Pendleton avenue, but the heart-breaking struggles of a woman who in the beginning of the century, envisioned the possibilities of what had been up to that time a personal service. She set about multiplying the hands which should beautify the Negro women. Mrs. Malone was a young woman in 1900, living in Lovejoy, Illinois, a Negro town which lies across the Mississippi from St. Louis, a town named for Elijah Lovejoy, the noted abolitionist, whose indomitable spirit seems to have entered into this race woman, inspiring her to prove in business that his labors for the freeing of the Negro slave, were spent on a race capable of taking its place in the march of progress.

Kept Ideals in Business There she had begun the manufacture of the hair preparation which was to play so important a part in the economic life of her whole people. and raise her to a position of wealth and prominence. St. Louis, however, seemed to offer a larger field, so in 1902, she moved to the Mound City, and into the quaint old brick building at 2223 Market street, where the acorn which was to produce such a remarkable oak of achievement sprouted and grew. The building stands there today, motley and forlorn. The corner grocery, whose proprietor would not allow her more than $5 credit back in those days, has given way to a Greek ice cream parlor, the owner of which little knows the romantic background of the hole in the wall where he holds forth. Like Joan of Arc, Mrs. Malone is a woman of deep religious feeling whose every step is taken in the conviction that only by service to others, should she be guilded. Now when wealth from the four comers of the world pours into her lap, she says in dedicating her latest official brochure on Poro college: “Dignity, grace, beauty, industry, thrift, efficiency, godliness— that these ideals be held aloft for the glorification of the women and girls of my race, Poro College is consecrated." In the same spirit, she made her beginning, putting the selling of goods, a prosaic business effort, on the high plane of genuine interest in the welfare of her sisters of the race. It was not enough to be sure that along with her product went the personal touch which would tie her goods and her agents to the women served. So she adopted the plan of traveling about giving lectures, as the preliminary to establishing agencies.

Establishes Agencies Starting in Missouri, then in adjoining states, she traveled, lecturing in churches, talking to groups, anywhere, everywhere, the burden of her plea being the hygienic importance of a clean scalp and the value of beautiful hair. The pioneer in the field, she contended that clean scalps encouraged clean bodies, that better appearance meant greater business opportunities, higher social standing, cleaner living and beautiful homes. Her disciples and agents broadcast the message, and spread what became almost a racial culture. Those who can remember the heads of 90 per cent of colored people twenty-five or thirty years ago and compare the group's appearance then with what it is today, can realize Just how far this doctrine has spread. In the year 1904 she spent nine months in the South, visiting every city and most of the hamlets in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, and later Mississippi, Arkansas and other Southern states, giving her business the firm roots which it has in that densely populated section. She appointed agents. This in turn made new representatives. The idea grew rapidly. Women who had little outlet for their abilities and energies except domestic work or the wash tub seized upon the profession as an economic outlet.

Name "Poro" Is Copyrighted The preparation originally was known as the Wonderful Hair Grower, but numerous imitations began to appear, so in 1906 it was copyrighted as "Poro" for protection. The business continued as grow. The “Poro” system had grown into a well organized plan by this time, 1905, and had accumulated agents in a score of states. With these bumble representatives, Mrs. Pope kept close personal contact. She knew a majority of them by name and developed through her interest in them a loyalty which has been the marvel of her competitors until this day. Any real understanding of the industry of caring for women's hair depends upon knowledge of what conditions existed prior to the spreading of Mrs. Pope-Turnbo’s business. Thirty years ago the agent was not a business woman such as now occupies a neat store or office room, equipped with chair, washbowl, hot and cold water, dryer, electrical treatment kit, etc. These have come because the business from which they drew their supplies, and their inspiration moved on.

Into West End St. Louis The aristocratic section of St. Louis, west of Jefferson avenue, was just beginning to open up to Negroes. Mrs. Pope moved into one of the largest and finest residences in that section. It became the home for her business and for the school which she then established as Poro College. Her invasion of that district was a forerunner for the hundreds of colored families who immediately followed to better homes. Even then she was visualizing and dreaming about the great institution which she was to erect in the future. She never ceased to plan for it. Mrs. Pope’s circle of travel widened constantly. She and Miss Maudell McMurray, her travelling secretary, by 1910, had invaded and covered Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Indiana. Even at this early day she was purchasing raw material and tin containers in quantity lots. She was an established success and news of her progress and material worth began to circulate about the country.

Many Thousand Agents Poro is now a business selling service and products through scores agents. Its equipment for handling the vast business is housed in a building representative of what it is, fudged not by race standards, but comparable In every way to the best done by whites. Notwithstanding the tremendous step it was when the original structure was put up at St. Ferdinand and Pendleton, volume and detail required still more room, which was provided for In the annex, constructed a year later than the main building.

Mrs. Malone Public Spirited Mrs. Malone has been more than a business woman. Her nature makes for thoroughness, so besides being for thoroughness, she has served her community as becomes a leading citizen. Her charities have been extensive. Twenty-five thousand dollars to the Y. M. C. A., gifts to the local Y. W. C. A., and numerous churches. $10,000 to Howard university, Tuskegee and Wilberforce; provision for the education of numerous young people and the establishment of what is the finest Orphans' Home In the country, maintained by the Community Fund, but is has been erected at a cost of $93,00 through contributions principally from Negroes. Gifts of homes, or loans on them, were made to a number of individuals who either had served the Institution well, or who were engaged in work of benefit to the community labor in which Mrs. Malone felt that they sacrificed their opportunities to earn larger incomes. Robert Gardner, the oldest employee in point of service, Mrs. Clara Eaton, an old employee and Mrs. A. H. Steveley, one of her secretaries, were among those who received homes. Great as is charity, mere giving is not all. Annie M. Pope Turnbo-Malone is the race's benefactor in that she has put into the hands of tens of thousands of women the means of making their own living, a solution of the race’s employment problem, so stupendous that its very size puts it beyond comprehending. A thousand people made self-sustaining would cause any employer to be called a captain of industry. Here is a woman who has put tens of thousands to work. The main building and auditoriu mfinished, Mrs. Malone noticed, for several Sundays, Jews inspecting the adjoining property. She determined on an effort to buy all the immediately surrounding property, which she did. She planned the erection of the annex to house the laboratory, laundry, shipping department, bakery and music hall for the use of the public. St. Louis remembers Mrs. Malone’s industry, how she has taken her place right along with her helpers, so that literally they worked with her, not for her. She put in long hours at her desk and about the establishment. She has not played the social butterfly. Save for community service, she has kept her hand at the wheel. She has done her work without show. Along with her Midas touch which has enriched not only her, but provided the livelihood for her agents, she has done a service which has revolutionized the race in America. Whatever the reason, and whatever its value, the fact remains that the Negro here has adopted the white standard of beauty. The parent stock in Africa esteems beautiful the racial characteristics which are theirs. The Negro in America praises long hair and other white characteristics. Pride of personal appearance is an essential, for which there is no substitute. The distinction of color and of hair has cost the Negro his faith in himself here, because he allowed it to obsess his mind to the forgetting of the real sources of power, such as energy and morality. It was the fly that buzzed about the head, and left no time for real endeavor. The sale of Poro and the growing of hair was the lesser of the two works of Mrs. Malone. Above that, transcending it completely, was the service she rendered in unshackling the mind of the women of her race, by implanting in them the belief they could be beautiful. As a result, today the Negro woman of every shade of complexion whatever her station and activity, presents a carefully groomed appearance which in other days was expected only of those with a generous admixture of white blood. Along with the changed appearance of the women, has come appreciation from the men, so that today the race is freed from thought of unkempt appearance. This work of substituting confidence for shame, is like unto the freeing of the race's mind from the fears which were the accompaniment of superstitious voodooism.

Poro College Girls’ Orchestra with Their Director. This group of artists appeared in Lincoln high school July 11th and in the Memorial building, July 12th.

PORO COLLEGE, CORNER OF PENDLETON AND ST. FERDINAND. ST. LOUIS, MO.

PORO IS A “RACE” BUSINESS BY PLAN OF ITS FOUNDER Distribution Methods Keep Service in the Hands of "Race” Women for All Time.—Operates Like One Big Family Poro College reflects the deep interest of its founder in the Negro race. A product such as Mrs. Annie M. Malone’s, sold in large quantities in every state, and in almost every country on the globe [i]s the natural temptation for exploiters. She has had offers in the most flattering terms, from distributors, who hold out the picture of a life of ease for her, if she will let them be the go-between to her agents. Mrs. Malone has made one unvarying answer—Poro is for Poro agents first, for the members of the great family she has gathered about her. Her decision has meant work, hard unending work. Up and down the country she goes, telling the story of how race women can find beauty culture a source of livelihood, if they choose to be agents, and a source of satisfaction, if they will accept its service. How well the agents respond can be understood from some of the letters she receives. PORO Agents are making money faster and easier than ever before. Mrs. Gaffey of South Carolina, writes: "The people here are carried away with Poro. I never saw a business grow as fast as mine. I am holding my Poro business here In my home;" Mrs. Holmes, of Florida, writes: "I'm busy all the time. I'm having fine success with my Poro business." Mrs. Wake of New York says: 'I have taken in over $3000 in ny Poro business during the past eleven months, and I have banked $2000." Mrs. Terrell, of Alabama, says: "I have more Poro business than I can take care of, and I help other Poro agents get Poro customers." Mrs. Glenn of Ohio, writes: "I feel very grateful to you. I'm getting along fine with my PORO business. My customers are so well pleased." Mrs. Robinson of North Carolina, writes: “I have been very successful with my PORO Beauty Shop. Many thanks to you for my start in business." Mrs. Young of Rhode Island, writes: “I have been in the business eight years, but I want to take the Agency for PORO because my customers want PORO now." Mrs. Smith of Nebraska, writes: "My PORO business is growing rapidly and I'm doing nicely. I will always praise the day I became a PORO Agent." Mrs. Lassiter of New York, writes: ‘I have found PORO a true friend indeed. My customers are highly pleased, and I rejoice in my PORO business as it is profitable and growing rapidly." Mrs. Carr of Georgia, writes: Nothing could induce me to give up my PORO business because the good profits give such a comfortable reeling of confidence and independence." And letters like these come from thousands of happy, prosperous PORO Agents who write of their PORO profits. Mrs. Malone feels that business is a matter of principle as well as profit. Once an agent starts, she wants to keep in touch. She says to all agents: “As a PORO Agents you come to PORO COLLEGE at your own convenience for the Ten- Day Review Course as often as once every twelve months if you wish, and there are no charges whatever, — room and board here being free. You have this fine opportunity to review the work under our experts and get new ideas that help you in your PORO business. This means your progress—your success! What other institution anywhere makes such an offer?" When the agent is at work, Poro College undertakes to assure her that 6he has begun what can be her life's work. They back a quarter of century of service with this definite promise: Druggists and other store keepers cannot sell PORO preparations because we do not furnish them. With the great demand for Poro and your profits protected you can be assured of a good paying Poro business. You can have a good paying business whether you handle Poro in your home or conduct a beauty shop some other place in your town. Very many Poro agents have their PORO business right in their homes without in terfering with their housekeeping. Our people everywhere would rather use PORO because they want the best, and they know PORO Preparations lead all others in quality, sat- faction and sure results.

Belongs to Mrs. Malone Poro College is the property of Annie M. Pope Turnbo-Malone. It is not a corporation, it is not a partnership.

TAKING PORO TO THE PEOPLE Mrs. Malone, with Moving Pictures, Tells the Story of Poro College PORO GIRLS ORCHESTRA In recent months. Poro has taken a definite new step, by showing moving pictures of its operations inside and outside, in St. Louis and in distant cities. Mrs. Annie M. Malone herself goes with the pictures and appears in person. She has been enthusiastically received in eastern cities and recently came to Kansas City appearing on both sides of the river. In some of these trips she has carried with her the Poro College Girls orchestra, an aggregation of her own employees. They were roundly applauded for their renditions in this city. The Poro Girls orchestra is a conception of Mrs. Malone herself and indicates in a measure, her deep ap predation of music. The orchestra gives concerts at the auditorium in the Poro building in St. Louis and also accompanies Mrs. Malone on some of her lecture tours, such as was given recently in Kansas City. There are twenty-five girls in the orchestra and their handling of the various instruments has won high praise wherever they have appeared, appearance away from home, where In the combined lecture and concert Poro pictures are also shown. Mrs. Malone always gives the net profits to churches or charitable organizations which sponsor the concert.

THE BEGINNING LOVEJOY, ILL. 1900 CONCISE HISTORY OF MRS. MALONE AND PORO COLLEGE 1884—Born in Metropolis, a little city in the southern part of Ilinois, name Annie Minerva Turnbo. 1900—Began manufacture of "Wonderful Hair Grower," afterwards copyrighted as “Poro,” in Lovejoy, Illinois. 1902— Moved business to 2223 Market street, St. Louis, Mo. 1903— Became Mrs. Pope. 1904— Toured the South demonstrating her preparat[ions] and methods. 1908—Copyrighted "Poro" and changed her name to "P[ope] Turnbo,” thus including her maiden name. 1910—Invaded eastern states on demonstration tour. 1910—Bought elegant mansion at 3100 Pine street, to c[?] for her growing business. 1912-13—Continued tours of the country, holding conv[en]tions of her agents. 1914—Became Mrs. Aaron E. Malone. 1917— Projected new site and large establishment at [?] Ferdinand and Pendleton, the present Poro Col[lege.] 1918— Completed Poro College, opened with celebratio[n] [at]tended by race notables from all parts of the c[ountry.] 1920—Added Poro Annex to care for still further [?] of business. 1927—Was granted divorce and given undispute[d] [?]sion of her property and business, being [?] by court order sole owner of Poro Colleg[e.]

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PORO PREPARATIONS Has developed into one of the institutions of its kind in the World

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CIVIL EMPLOYES IN WYANDOTTE COUNTY, 125 Many Departments of County and City Have Colored Employes 14 IN WATER AND LIGHT Wyandotte County, Kansas, including Kansas City, Kansas, gives employment to 125 Negroes. A Negro, Dr. A. Porter Davis is assistant health director of the city. In the county court house Negroes occupy responsible and influential positions. The water and light department leads in colored employees with 44. The health department is next with twenty, and in all the other city departments, with a few exceptions, Negroes are employed. WATER AND LIGHT DEPTS.— Edward Sickler, Theodore Williams, John Gardner. Chas. Smith, foreman; John Wilson, Thos. McIntosh, Robt. Henderson, William Bowman, Ben Braxton, Charles Brown. Isaac Brown,, Andrew Cox. James Cooper, Sam Davis. Julius Fitzhugh, Luther Hall, Ben Hicks. Horace King, David Lee, Frank Mayfield, Charles Parker, Herbert Pope, Arthur Simmons, John Taylor. Marion Turner, James Williams, George Wheeler, Ruben Henderson, Henry Haygood, foreman; Tillman White, John Baker, Louis Bolar, Obie Bowman, Essex Johnson, Mose Parker, Charles McClain. Enoch Smith, William Spencer, C. H. Montgomery, Wm. Nichols, Walter Watson. Wm. Benson, True Payne, Harold Abel. HEALTH AND SANITATION DEPARTMENTS Or. A. Porter Davis, assistant director of health; B. M. Cox, sanitary inspector; G. P. Bryson, Bush Gilbert. C. Creek, E. R. Cahill, W. H. Lambright, U. Scott, A. Scott, A. Edwards, S. C. Buckner, Wm. Harvey, Wm. Harris, Wm. Thomas, John Ralls, H. S. Saunders, N. Locke, S. H. Riggins, Lewis Sasley, Harvey Spencer. CUSTODIANS, CITY HALL— Samuel Walker, custodian; Mrs. M. Jackson, Fred Lee, Arthur Moody, Lewis Bowlin, J. A. Henderson, Mrs. E. S. Bills. WELFARE BUREAU—Mrs. K. R. James, assistant welfare officer; Preston Younger, assistant welfare officer. STREET REPAIR DEPT.—S. R. O’Neil, foreman; A. F. Wilson, clerk; Thomas Richards, assistant clerk; James Morgan, Roily Williams, W. J. Jones, Wm. Nixon, Walter McEwin, Bruce Williams, W. T. Ross, Roger Thomas. Oscar Sears. POLICE DEPT.—Patrolmen A. D. Dorsey, 1818 New Jersey; E. Holmes, | 636 Winona; Thomas K. Napper, 1717 N. 8th; Edward Lyles, 810 Nebraska; J. A. Smith, 2030 N. 5th; S. Vaughn, 2305 Hallock; J. W. Robinson, 321 Nebraska; Bright Williams. 405 Freeman; John Ghering, 922 Walker. FIRE DEPARTMENT Kansas City, Kansas also has a fire company commanded and manned entirely by Negroes. This is No. 5 fire station under the command of Granville Morgan, and Night Captain Fred White. The other members of the company are: P. J. Perkins, Samuel Cole, James Edwards, Fred Smith, Charles Cox, Charles Sadell. WELFARE BUREAU In this department Mrs. K. R. James is an assistant welfare officer as is Preston Younger. Their work deals with the morals of young men and women, and with the conditions with which they come in contact which might be detrimental to them. COUNTY COURT HOUSE In this division Negroes hold responsible positions, and are represented in almost all departments. Roosevelt Butler, clerk of the 2nd division of the city court occupies a position that few men of color are ever fortunate enough to obtain. According to various officials in the building, the positions which colored people hold in the court house are well taken care of in the matter of efficiency and trustworthyness. The list follows: Walker Manaway, clerk, Probate court; Mrs. Dorsey Green, clerk, treasurer’s office; Miss Edna Hueston, clerk, county clerk’s office; Homer Shannon, deputy sheriff; D. Booker, clerk, district court; George Brown, deputy marshal; Roosevelt Butler, clerk, 2nd division, City court; Howard Brown, clerk, registrar of deed’s office; Mrs. Lilly Claybourne, matron, court house. COUNTY CUSTODIAN DEPT. . . Henry Bryant, assistant engineer; Curtis Watson, forester; Arthur Craig, Janitor; H. Clay, Janitor; W. H. Holly, elevator operator; Henry Flake, Jailer. GOVERNMENT SERVICE .... Twenty-eight Negroes are employ- d in the postal service in this city. There are 16 carriers, 2 chauffeurs, 2 clerks and 8 in the custodial department. The list follows: Carriers: A. O. Brooks, Tilford Davis, Fred K. Douglass, Goldie Everett, Wm. Frye, Newton G. Fullbright, Wm. A. Henderson, Wm. T. Lewis, John H. Moorehead, Percy C. Swancy, Frank L. Thomas, Wm. F. Vincent, Luther Whitefield, John H. Williams, W. S. Stewart, Eugene O. [W]inston. [Cler?]ks: Horace G. Dwiggins, Henry [?] oiley, [Custo]dial Dept.: Thomas Griffin, [?] C. Willis, Wheeler S. Dudley, [?] Florence, Richard Moore, [?] L. Prince, Cora L. Ryles, [?] [?]ussell.

Head of Kansas Fine Arts The fine arts and crafts department of the Kansas State Federation of Women's clubs has been under Mrs. Susie V. Bouldin's super vision since 1923 at which time the department was organized. Mrs. Bouldin plans the work of the department, provides instruction bulletins and sends instructor throughout the state to senior and junior clubs. Art contests and exhibits with articles valued at a thousand dollar and more are given each year. The popularity contest staged in1926 netted the department $500. A very interesting exhibit was held at the Kansas Vocational school in June, 1927. The school gymnasium was filled with art pieces of all kinds and the display was valued at $37,500. In Kansas City, Kas. the S. V Bouldin Art school is the center for art enthusiasts. Each week man; students are busily engaged in furthering their knowledge of art. They are taught brush lacquer work, clay and wax modeling, hand painting, fancy crochet work, polychrome decoration and oil painting. The 1928 exhibit of the class organized only eight months ago was quite pretentious, hundreds of art pieces as polychrome frames, fancy candlesticks. luncheon sets, telephone screens and clay model work being on display. The Kansas junior art club won the national junior loving cup for superior art work at the national association held in Oakland. Calif. in 1926. The Kansas art division is recognized as one of the best in the association. The fine arts department is planning even a greater year. With the great interest manifested by the junior and senior divisions and the capable instructorship of Mrs. S. V. Bouldin the high standard, of art work in Kansas is certain to be maintained, and probably raised to a greater height.

The Monrovian Club It was Thanksgiving day, 1924 and at an informal dinner at the home o fAdrian Shelby that Mr. Shelby and Dr. Wm. H. Dyer conceived the idea that the men of Kansas City, Kansas should be formed into an organizaton devoted to the social and civic welfare of the community. A meeting was therefore arranged at which the following men attended: Dr. W .A. Lave, C. S. Matthews, A. O. Brooks, F. K. Douglass, I. F. Bradley, Jr., A. Shelby, Dr. Wm. H. Dyer, S. D. Scruggs and J. E. Wilson. From this meeting the Monrovian club was organized with the following officers: Dr. W. A. Love, president; Dr. Wm. H. Dyer, vice-president; I. F. Bradley, secretary, and S. D. Scruggs, treasurer. The club decided that to keep the spirit of the organization alive, weekly meetings should be held and that memberships should be sold with the purpose of securing a club house as early as possible. In the absence of a permanent meeting place Dr. Love opened to them his beautiful home where for one year meetings were held every Friday night, the organization perfected and members added. In June, 1925 from the sale of memberships and profits from smokers, there had been accumulated sufficient funds for the initial payment on a club house and the present location at 2068 North Fifth street was purchased. In 1925 the club was incorporated and on September 22 of that same year a state charter was issued with the following named men as charter members: W. M. Harris, Dr. W. A. Love, Chas. Owsley, Dr. Wm. H. Dyer, Adrian Shelby, Dr. W. M. Blount, S. C. Morgan, Willis Allen, Homer Shannon, J. M. H. Smith, Wilson Smith, Edward Houston, R. T. Trotter, F. B. Anderson, E. C. Paschal, S. C. Buckner, Edward Buckner, J. G. N. Gray, Wm. Tate, James Murphy and F. K. Tankersley. The purpose of the club has been to create and stimulate business enterprises among the Negro, to improve his civic conditions, and to promote wholesome social recreation. The Monrovian club now has a membership of one hundred and and forty. Its work is carried on by committees, namely: the business, civic and activites or social committees. The business committee is headed by H. W. Sewing, the civic by Dr. A. Porter Davis and the activities by W. E. Jackson and these committees are continually working on projects for the benefit of our group in general. The club house has developed into a community center with many civic organizations meeting there and the young people using it for parties and socials. A junior department was developed in 1927 to care for boys ranging in ages from 14 to 20 years and to instill into them the value of organized efforts along constructive lines. Father Robert Johnson and Edward Bowles were chosen to head that department and through their efforts sixty boys of excellent character have been enrolled. Much of their work has been along literary lines with a portion of their time given to athletics and social functions. The present officers of the Monrovian club are: Dr. Wm. H. Dyer, president; Wilson Smith, vice-president; A. Shelby, secretary; Dr. W. A. Love, treasurer, and Irving Hawkins, manager of the club house.

HOTEL BELL CAPTAIN Lawrence Baldwin. Emporia. Kas., is a bell captain of the Hotel Broadview, the largest hotel in Emporia, where he has been employed for seven years. Mr. Baldwin is a member of both the Masonic and Elk lodges, Knights Templar and Royal Arch.

Seek Larger Quarters to Care For Yates Y. W. C. A. Work

Y. W. C. A. Head MISS VIRGINIA DURLEY, Secretary, Yates Branch Y. W. C. A.

YATES Y. W. C. A. (K. C. K.) The Yates branch Y. W. C. A. was organized in 1910 by Mrs. Ida Wood, now at Northeast Junior high and was located at Fifth and State. The headquarters there were outgrown and the branch moved to Ninth and Nebraska. Mrs. Smith was the secretary and was succeeded by Mrs. Cook. The organization next found quarters at 337 Washington boulevard. Miss Amy Hall assumed the secretaryship and was followed by Miss Garrett from Louisville, Ky. In 1924 Miss Virginia Durley of Detroit became secretary of the branch. The branch membership is now 105 and is representative of the community's most energetic and public-spirited women. The Yates “Y" is fast becoming the center for civic organizations of the city, its reception hall being used by many clubs. It extends at all times a welcome to organizations to make use or its facilities. The committees of the association are: Girl Reserves, Mrs. Ella Collins; executive, Mrs. Mabel Clayborne; management, Mrs. Gertrude Jackson; finance, Mrs. Zephyr Carraway; publicity, Mrs. Maude Basham; membership, Mrs. Ruth Rice; religious education, Mrs. Louise Mosley; industrial, Mrs. Edward Hill; house, Mrs .Bertha Kimball; colored work, Mrs. Genevieve Love; social, Mrs. Celestine Brown and Mrs. J. T. Richardson, and employment, Mrs. Minnie McClendon. The Girl Reserve advisers are Miss Florence McNorton and Mrs. Claudia Grant for Sumner high; Mae McClelland, Northeast Junior; Mrs. Maeday Waters, Dunbar; Mrs. Rowena Fowler and Miss Glena Wright, Douglass; Miss Scott ,Lincoln; Miss Ethel Ross, Grant, and Miss Virginia Durley, Bruce Mrs. Tilford Davis is a member of the interracial committee and Mrs. Nellie Wilson alternate. Many get-acquainted social affairs are held each year, among them the membership dinner and the mother and daughter banquet. The interracial Sunday program is one of the year's most important events. The branch is an open house and visitors are welcome at all times. Plans for a larger and greater Yates branch are being made. A new location is being sought so that more commodious quarters for the organization's increased activities. Mrs. Grace Jacobs will sponsor a basketball team next year and athletics in general will be engaged in by the girls. The Yates “Y” serves the community in many ways. It provides for the girls wholesome recreation and opportunity for leadership. It is the clearing house for community activities among women and will increase its value with increased interest on part of the citizenry.

K .C. K. Churches

Allen Baptist church at 3rd and Quindaro is pastored by Rev. Allen, the organizer. At present this church is in a store building but has plans made to build a larger church in another site. The Antioch Baptist church is located at 5th and Waverly, Armour- dale. Rev. A. Sayles is the pastor. The membership of this church is about 75 with 20 in the Sunday school department. The church is a one story frame structure. Bethel A. M. E. church is in Rose- dale. Rev. N. Robinson, the pastor has been at this post for one year. The membership of this church is about 100 with a Sunday school class of 30. The building is a frame structure of one story with facilities for serving. The Church of Christ Temple at 7th and Oakland has no pastor at present. Its membership is about 50. The structure is a one story frame building. Carey's Chapel is located at 4th and Stewart streets. It is at this time meeting in the basement of what will later be the first floor of the church. Rev. Carey, is pastor. The Church of God in Christ at 4th and Oakland has for its pastor Rev. Young who has occupied that post for seven years. The membership of this church is 100 with 50 in the Sunday school. The building is of one story with basement, built of brick. This church is remodeling at the present time. The First A. M. E. church is at 8th and Nebraska. Rev. Flipper is pastor and has occupied that position for one year. The membership of this church is 1,200 with a Sunday school of 350. The church is two stories, built of brick and has a balcony, large auditorium, modernly equipped basement with steam tables and banquet room. There are several class rooms, a special room fo rthe junior and senior choirs, an official room for the Board of Stewardesses. and study for the pastor. In addition a 10-room parsonage adjoins the church. The First Baptist church is located at 5th and Nebraska. Rev. Bowren is the pastor at this church and has been for 17 years. This church is probably the oldest church, white or colored in Kansas City, Kas. Its membership is about 1,200 with a Sunday school class of 300. It is a handsome brick structure with stone supports and foundation. It has a balcony and well equipped basement for serving. All of its accoutrements have been made very modern. The Episcopal Church of the Ascension is located at 5th and Stewart. Father Robert S. Johnson has been the rector for 3 years. Its congregation numbers 100 with 25 on its Sunday school rolls. The building is a frame structure, with rectory adjoining. The Eighth Street Baptist church is located at 8th and Oakland. Rev. D. B. Jackson is its pastor. It is of stone construction, fairly large, and is modern in appliances. Its membership is 700 with a Sunday school department of 170. King Solomon Baptist church is located at 3rd and Garfield. The Rev. Montgomery is pastor and has occupied that post for 4 years. The membership of this church is 350 with 125 Sunday school pupils. The church itself is a stone building with spacious auditorium. Mt. Zion A. M. E. church is located at 37th, Argentine. Rev. W. M. Hilliard is pastor. Metropolitan Baptist temple is located at 9th and Washington. Its pastor has been called away and none has yet come to the church. The membership of this institution is 800 with 150 in the Sunday school department. It is very large and handsome, built of brick and grey stone. The Mason Memorial M. E. church is located at 9th and Oakland. Rev. Sawyer is pastor. The Mount Olive Baptist church is located at 3rd and State. Its pastor Is Rev. Mosely. The membership of this church is about 200 with 75 in its Sunday school department. The structure is brick with basement and class rooms. The Mount Zion Baptist church is at 4th and Richmond with Rev. J. P. Holmes as its pastor. The membership of this church is 300 with 90 in its Sunday school department. The building is of brick with large auditorium. Pleasant Green Baptist church is located at 4th and Everett. Rev. George McNeak has been its pastor for 34 years. The membership of this church is 700 with a large Sunday school department. The church is a large brick building with balcony and organ. Trinity A. M. E. church is located at 5th and Greely with Rev. Green as pastor. Its membership is 500 and a correspondingly large Sunday school following. The edifice is a three story brick building with large auditorium, gymnasium, banquet room, numerous class and choir rooms and well equipped kitchen, with steam tables and all accessories. Strangers Rest Baptist church is located at 5th and Stewart with Rev. Washington as pastor. The church boasts of 500 members with a Sunday school class of 200. It is constructed of brick. The St. Paul A. M. E. church is located in Argentine with Rev. Horsey as their pastor for two years. There are 200 members in this church with 80 on the rolls of the Sunday school department. The church at present worships in the basement of the building that they are building. The St. Peter C. M. E. church is located at 8th and Oakland. Rev. Bowers is the pastor, having been there 7 years. The membership of this church is 350. The building is a two story brick structure with basement, dining room, study and choir rooms. The Seven Day Adventist church is located at 7th and Oakland. Rev. A. Baker is the pastor. The Walnut Blvd. Baptist church is located on Walnut at Parallel. Rev. Richardson has been pastor at this church for the past 25 years. The membership of this church is 250 with 60 in the Sunday school department. Rest For the Weary church is at 8th and Freeman. Rev. H. J. Hines is pastor and organizer of this church. The members hold services in a store building at present but plan a new church for next year. The church roster gives 90 as the membership. Mt. Oriah Spirit church is located at 6th and Freeman. Father Holsey is in charge in the absence of Father James. The membership of this church is two hundred. The building is of stucco, two stories with meeting rooms above, and kitchen and dining room in the basement. The Pleasant Valley Baptist church is located in Rosedale. Rev. Fuller is pastor. The membership of this church is 50 with a Sunday school numbering 30 pupils. A new church is planned for the summer.

K. C. K. Educator Works on Study of Errors Sherman D. Scruggs, supervisor of colored elementary schools, was born in Nashville, Tennessee and reared in Kansas City, Kansas. He attended elementary and high schools here, later receiving his A. B. from Washburn college and A. M. at University of Kansas. Tougaloo college, Tougaloo, Miss., engaged his services for several years, after which he spent seventeen months service overseas in the World war. Mr. Scruggs was in the 370th infantry, Eighth Illinois and became an officer. He was cited for bravery under fire and received the Croix de Guerre. Upon his return from France Mr. Scruggs engaged in war camp community service in Asheville. N. C. Later he came to Kansas City, Kas. and taught at Garrison a year, then at Sumner, after which he was made principl of Stowe school. He is now supervisor of elementary schools. In his education work Mr. Scruggs is interested in discovering why pupils make certain errors and also how those errors may be overcome. His experiment, diagnostic and remedial instruction in handwriting Is being used with good results. Another study made by Mr. Scruggs is reader Interest of Negro children, a survey of what interests children most when they choose their own reading material. In a quiet unassuming manner Mr. Scruggs is endeavoring to find out why mistakes are made by students rather than to merely rectify them after they are made. This system is indicative of a long stride being made in elementary instruction.

Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Cowan, old residents of Wichita, Kas., own and operate the largest Negro grocery store in the city. They have lived in Wichita 18 years and have been in the business for two years. The euipment of the store is valued at $4,500. Mr. Cowan is in the United States Bureau of Animal Industry.

St. Joseph Y.M.C.A., Has Mde Recor[d] Growth in First Six Months Perio[d] The first six months history of the South Sixteenth street branch Young Men's Christian Association of St. Joseph is a clear demonstration of the interest of the St. Joseph Y. M. C. A. in the Negro as an integral part of the community life, the interest which St. Joseph men of color have in advancing themselves through the promotion of a character building program of a wisely managed Christian movement. and emphasizes the great need of a movement dedicated to the task of discovering and developing the high possibilities of Negro youth which otherwise might be overlooked or neglected. As a result of the vision of the general secretary, E. D. Chadwick, who first ordered his Boys’ Work secretary to establish a Hi-Y club in Bartlett high school, the work of the Y. M. C. A. was brought to the Negroes of the city. As a result Drs. F. N. Goodson and J. C. Marshall offered their services to Secretary Chadwick in extending the work of the Y. M. C. A. to include the Negro boys and men of this community in a more comprehensive way. A committee was formed to make the study and before long Secretary W. L. Hutchinson of Wichita, Kansas, was called to address the people on the need of Y. M. C. A. work and inspire them to act. A nominating committee consisting of Messrs. J. B. Jones, E. W. Thompson and I. F. Ramsey selected the following named men to form the committee of management of Y. M. C. A. work for colored men and boys: A. T. Walker, chairman; Dr. F. N. Good- son, vice chairman; Dr. J. C. Marshall, R. G. Armstrong, Kirby Williams, Charles Johnson, A. D. Harts, Andrew Baker, B. Hurt, Jacob E. Jones and R. L. Scott. In July the Community Chest recognized the Y. M. C. A. work for Negroes in its current budget. The task of selecting and securing a trained and experienced secretary was concluded when Leon W. Steward. with eight years of secretarial experience in Los Angeles and Saint Louis reported for duty on October 1, 19257. On the day of the arrival of the secretary, a site was selected for headquarters, the committee was called together, the work approved as the “South Sixteenth Street Branch” and activities began. Atty. J. H. Kelly, who had headed another attempt to establish a Y. M. C. A. some twenty years ago, C. W. Black, principal of Douglass school and Dr. J. D. Sexton were approved for membership on the committee, the office and dub room was equipped, a membership campaign was planned and the formal opening services were held at Francis street Baptist church on Sunday, October 30. Speakers on the opening program included Mayor L. V. Stig[?,] E. D. Plummer, president of th[e lo]cal Y. M. C. A.. General Sec[?] Chadwick, Mrs. Ada Bell. [Repre]senting the mothers, C. W. [?] the schools, E. W. Thompso[n] [?] business and professional [?] Holland Alexander, the you[?] [?] and Eugene Kelly representi[?] [?] boys. A membership campai[gn] announced by the campaign [chair]man, J. H. Kelly. The ca[?] netted 154 members and $5[?] [?] the end of six months the[?] 202 members who had con[ributed] $800. Among the many activities [?] the branch has promoted are [?] boys' clubs reaching 205 d[?] [?] boys once or twice a week, [?] them in health habits, sex [?] [?]tion, thrift, religious living [?] craft, nature study, signali[ng] [?] and other traits of Christian ch[?]. Mass meetings were held co[?] “What Is the Y. M. C. A., [?] Race History, Health, Negro[?] [?]ic and Christian Citizenships. Average attendance per meeting was 178. The speakers were local white leaders and out-of- town colored speakers of ability. A young men’s division was the first organization started. It promoted the first basketball game for Negro high school graduates ever held here, sex education courses, father and son banquet, young men’s religious discussion group and other character-building projects. The Bartlett senior Hi-Y club sent delegates to Northwest Older Boys' conference, promoted health and sex education activities, instituted prizes for character values in basketball and met twice a week at 7:45 a. m. The junior Hi-Y made splendid record also. The Employed Boys’ Brotherhood still meets at 8:45 p. m. for vital discussions of employed boys’ problems. Mothers clubs have been formed and are functioning splendidly. All committees are doing fine work. Employment is being found for men and boys. Vocational guidance is being given to high school boys and young men and several are ordering their lives in line with the suggestions which came out of vocational interviews given. The annual musical fete was a distinct success as a community-wide cooperative project and a musical treat. And so goes the list of many more types of services being given by the branch from talks on racial topics before white audiences and with civic leaders by the secretary also to tearing down traditions which have prohibited the races to dine together in local hotels. The summer promises the first real camping season for our boys in old St. Joe and the organization of “Y's" men's clubs, the annual picnic and the anniversary celebration are to be given in September.

Kansas City, Kas., Clubs Du Bois Club A professional organization of colored elementary teachers in Kansas City, Kas., was organized about 1919 by A. J. Neely who was then then the supervisor of colored schools. The purposes of the organization are to promote the interest of the teachers as a group, give the members a civic prestige which could not be attained through individual effort, and to give teachers a broad perspective along professional and cultural lines. Every new teacher on coming into the system automatically becomes a member. Among the outstanding accomplishments of the organization are its maintenance of a one hundred percent membership in the local council, the state association and the national education association. There is a one hundred percent attendance at the state meetings and at least one delegate to the national meeting. This year the club will increase its representation to the national meeting which convenes in Minneapolis in July. A fifty-dollar scholarship fund has been created. A banquet for new teachers is given annually. The presidents who have served this group are the late Miss Ollie Henderson, Mrs. Jessie Saunders, Mrs. Julia M. Jones. A. J. Starnes. Miss Gertrude Booker. Miss Mabel Jones, Mrs. Estella Wilson and Miss Leila D. Miller. Miss Wylma G. Dwiggins is now the president of the club. Aside from maintaining the high standard already existing in the club, a central group known as a general committee has been formed which handles all routine factors and leaves the club meetings open for programs of a cultural nature. A play by members of the group, assisted by students of the Junior college, and directed by E. A. Taylor, instructor in the Junior college, was presented this year as an added feature in the club's activities. Sherman D. Scruggs, supervisor of schools, by lending constant encouragement and advice, has done much to raise the club to the level of professional eminence which it now holds.

Good Housekeepers Club Was organized October 20, 1927 to promote better housekeeping; to help one another through the medium of exchanging ideas on making the home more beautiful, comfortable and economical; to learn the different works of art; and offer a source of relaxation from exacting household responsibilities; are the motives of this club. Among the social activities are: members birthday parties with a gift from the club as a whole; a Christmas party; and a closing bazaar in July. Officers are: Maude Williamson, president; Effie Carroll, vice-president; Rosa Riley, secretary; Nellie Morrison, assistant; Ella Griffin, treasurer; Bessie Davis, chaplain; Susie Smith, instructor. The club is non-federated.

L'Amour Girls Club Was organized in September, 1924 and made its social debut in December, the same year. The present membership consists of eighteen active members and three honorary members. Miss Beatrice Anderson, Miss Tina Blanchard and Mrs. Mildred Scales Henley have served as presidents. Officers are: Christine Davis, president; Mildred Hudson, vice- president; Thelma Robbins, recording secretary; Charlotte Delthea New, chaplain; Wylma G. Dwiggins, reporter. Though organized as a social club, some charity has been done for the Childrens’ Home and Day Nursery.

St. Joseph, Mo., Churches ST. LUKE M. E. CHURCH St. Luke church was organized a number of years ago on Fifteenth and Olive streets. It moved from there to Twelfth and Renick streets, after which it moved to its present location, Nineteenth and Angelique streets. A large line of pastors labored unceasingly to hold the congregation together up until the year 1915 when were assigned at that time the Rev. F. D. Woodford, who labored with us two years. The year 1917 Rev. J. B. Walker was assigned pastor. Under his leadership our church began growing as never before. The Sunday school and membership of the church seemed to take on new life and under his leadership we were able to complte our new edifice. The growth has been steady from that time forward. After laboring with us six years, he was succeeded by the Rev. E. L. McAllister, who pastored one year, and in 1924 our present pastor, Rev. W. F. Walker was then assigned and is now serving his fifth year. During all these years, St. Luke church has proved to be a friend to the young, a comfort to the older, a solace to the troubled. We have now grown until our membership is composed of a very fine set of members and friends.

HOLSEY TEMPLE Holsey C. M. E. Temple located at 18th and Beattie has been serving the community since 1883. It is one of the oldest churches n the Missouri-Kansas conference. Among former pastors of the church are: Rev. R. P. Tyler, J. E. Kuykendall, E. D. Hughes, A. D. Wilson, T. L. Scott, J. R. McClain, J. G. McCullough. W. M. McCray, C. H. Blacksher, N. T. Walker, W. J. Turner, C. W. Redd, H. H. Edmonds and W. M. Crain present pastor.) Holsey Temple, one of the outstanding churches in the conference has suffered a decrease in membership due to many deaths and recent migrations but new members are being enrolled constantl[y] and it bids fair to resume its form[e]r popularity.

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“THE MOST OUTSTANDING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL[“] NORTHEAST JUNIOR OF KANSAS CITY, KAS., SETS HIGH STANDARD High Morale of School Produces Good Scholarship and Wholesme Conditions All articles on this page are prepared by Northeast Junior students. Prof. L. M. Lyman, of the Department of English, Chicago University, while visiting the schools of Kansas City, Kas., paid high tribute to the Junior high school system of the city and left these parting words with Prof. J. P. King of Northeast: “This is the most outstanding junior high school I have visited to date."

There are good schools and better schools. Kansas City, Kansas boasts what a distinguished visitor was pleased to call the best school. It is Northeast Junior High school, a relatively new kind of educational effort in Kansas City, located on the block of ground between Fourth street and Walnut boulevard and Troup and Parallel. About one thousand students attend, doing work which begins with the seventh and ends at the ninth grade, when they enter the senior high school. Northeast Junior High is housed in a new building, a twin structure with Northwest Junior High, which was erected at the same time for whites. It is a thoroughly fire-proof, modern building, with auditorium, cafeteria, gymnasium, study and laboratory rooms and all that makes a first-class school building. It was not the brickand mortar that drew Dr.. Lyman’s comment, but the student body, the faculty, and the principal. Deportment, scholarship, intrest are the real foundation supporting columns and roof of a school and these are what make Northeast great.

A Better Northeast The most forward-looking step toward a more progressive school has been taken by Northeast Junior high school in the city-wide school Betterment Project, encouraged by Supt. M. E. Pearson. For the past six weeks, there has been uppermost in the minds of both teacher and pupil, one live issue, that of “making a good school better.” Without pressure brought to bear, each child of the school realizes that the improvement of Northeast Junior high school is directly dependent upon his support of everything that contributes to high standards and therefore to be able to take an hourly inventory of himself, every pupil carries from class to class, throughout the day, a “self-rating graph card" which he marks at the end of each class to show his “upward or downward" trend for the good of or detriment of a better Northeast. This record of self-improvement has stimulated honest effort and pride in eliminating personal weaknesses on the part of the students. In entering upon this school betterment plan, the faculty conferred upon what was considered heart-felt needs of the school and as an outgrowth co-operative thinking, definite fields of betterment were determined by departments. The method was that of several projects within the major project of School Betterment for each department directed some definite phase or phases which would contribute to building improvement. The plan, as finally adopted by which each department, through or[ga]nization, charts and graphs, is simulating greater activity toward school improvement, is as follows: The English department has made a survey of typical language errors common among the pupils and with the aid of the pupils, has inaugurated a campaign for better speech outside of the class room. A weekly survey has shown a satisfactory decrease in errors. In place of letters of complaint sent home to parents about deficiencies of their children, letters of appreciation are written telling of the boy or girl’s progress and aspirations. The mathematics department has made a study of school attendance and punctuality. Charts and measuring schemes, showing daily records and progress along these lines have been posted on the bulletin boards, therefore, stimulating a spirit of rivalry between the different floors. The science and geography departments are co-operating in a plan to improve the appearance of the school grounds by caring for the lawn, flowers and shrubbery. Seasonal posters and home beautification posters adorn the halls as a result of the work of the art department. While the domestic science group has posted suggestive nutritous menus for school children. Improvement in citizenship—conduct in public places, the worthy use of leisure time and courtesy and respect for those in authority—has been brought about by pledges, mottoes and courtesy clubs. Each morning the day is started with music appreciation. The doors of the classrooms are thrown open in order that strains of music from the trio or choral classes might lighten the hearts of the listeners. Following this three minutes of physical exercise is supervised by a stu[d]ent director, appointed by the physi[cal] training department. This de[partm]ent is also stressing cleanliness [?]e keeping of the school grounds [?] waste paper.. [?] industrial arts department [?]nted one pupil in each home [?] [?]s to act as a sponsor for [?] [?]ification. [?] personal appearance charts are kept by the students and for furtherance of personal pride the sewing department has established a "repair shop” where buttons, needles, threads and other notions have been collected for the convenience of children whose apparel needs slight repairs. All the departments are receiving material assistance in promoting their plans through the co-operation of the commercial department in preparing typwritten reports, announcements and news items. The school motto, “Be the Best” insures continued progress.

One of many trophies won by Northeast students in athletics.

Principal J. P. King and Faculty of Northeast Junior High, Kansas City, Kansas

What the Junior High School Stands For J. P. KING If there is a time of pronounced idealism in the life of a child, it is the period from twelve to fifteen years of age, for in this time, life pleasures and life responsibilities are stirring, careers are being planned, and life habits are being formed. This is the time when attention should be given to refinements of emotional nature for it is the inquiring age of adolescence. To meet the demands and needs of this age of child life, the junior high school has been established as the stepping stone between the elementary and high school, or the place where the child is introduced to larger and more advanced fields of knowledge which he may further pursue, and in which he is given a chance to discover his limitations on his interests and abilities. Hence the courses of study are not rigid, but very elastic. The junior high school is unique, and it is the last note in our American school system. It is a school of transition and adjustment and has certain functions to perform which are peculiar to itself. The aim of the Junior high school Is to develop in the child the power to find his place and to use that place to develop himself and society as well. This school becomes a means by which boys and girls may discover their interests and ambitions, and be started on the career which they, their parents and the school are convinced is most likely to be profitable to them. It must combine the present and the future welfare of the child and permit him to try his strength in many ways and to browse in many fields; it must permit him to initiate, to organize and to administer projects, and it must encourage self-expression. It is clearly seen that many try-out and elective courses must be furnished, for the fundamental purpose of the junior high school is to give liberal culture even though it be on an elemental plane. The right of the Junior high school to exist, is proved beyond a reasonable doubt, when it tells us that it can and will minimize the social dangers which seem to exist in the instincts of adolescence, and that it can develop habits for good citizenship, workmanship and sportmanship. One of the most pleasing effects of the establishment of the Junior high is that the number of children who drop out of school in the seventh and eighth grades, is decreasing due to the fact that the work given is much more interesting and of more value than that offered by the old type of school, and the method of presenting it is more in keeping with the nature of the adolescent girl or boy. The fact that the course of study has been enriched and the child is permitted to choose the subjects he likes, stimulates his interest.

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES ENLIST ENTIRE STUDENT BODY Education From Books Is Supplemented by Experimental Knowledge Gained by Doing Supplementary to the regular class room work, Northeast Junior High School offers its students an extra curricular activity period once each week. These activities are given not only to enrich the child’s learning at Northeast Junior but also to enable each student to exercise a great amount of freedom in selecting his activity. Thus- giving him an opportunity to become acquainted with a wide range of vocations, and skills. The activities might be crudely classified into three distinct groups with three separate aims. The first group of activities, consists of those that aim to give drill and motivation to the regular class room work. In this group might be found the following activities: Journalism club, Better Speech club, Debating club, and the Dramatic club. The above named clubs are correlated with the English work. The Athletic and Better Health clubs are correlated with physical education; commercial club with commercial department. The Harmony club correlates its work with music department Woodcraft with industrial education, X. Y. Z. club with the mathematics and Needle- craft and Embroidery with the sewing department The second group of activities aims to give pupils an opportunity to exercise their natural proclivities or aptitudes along various lines, with little or no correlation with regular work. In this group are the following activities: Student Council, Camp Fire Girls, Girl Reserves Hi-Y. Big Sister and Big Brother clubs. The last group of activities aims primarily to introduce the pupil to an entirely new field of thought and to encourage resourcefulness and thrift in each pupil. In this group are the following activities: New Invention club, Home- Makers club and Nature club. The entire student group is exposed to these activities. Aside from a small number of limitations as to classification, any student might enroll in any activity he chooses. Freedom of selection is encouraged. The teacher, or more exactly the leader of the group directs the activity from a vantage point in the background. Thus, apparently placing the responsibility of the success of the activity upon the students. Altho each activity has a program of its own. the great underlying purpose of the activity program is to enable the pupil to become acquainted with a large number of vocations and skills; thereby to realize more fully one of the aims of the Junior high school, that of a finding school. Space will not permit us to make a complete review of the years of accomplishments of these activities. Each club has done many worthy things during the year and all merit our highest commendation, however, we shall only attempt to hit the high spots without any detailed account of any activity. The Harmony club has enlivened the old French harp into a modern musical instrument and has developed one-hundred piece harmonica band. This band played several numbers at Memorial Hall during music week, and was the only new feature presented. The Journalism club edits and manages the school paper, The Junior High Life, published monthly. The students council is composed of worthy pupils selected from each home room. Many worthy things could be said about the council, but most particularly the council stands as a constant reminder to the general student group for better conduct. The Embroidery club has made luncheon sets. Each child was required to make three pieces. The Better Health club went on several hikes during the year. The purpose being to teach the value of outside living to health. The New Invention club has on record three remarkable accomplishments, in the form of three inventions. English Is Live Wire at Northeast In the Junior high school English has a very broad field to cover in that practically every phase of the child's development is touched there. The purpose of the course is to develop English control, to be sure, but beyond that many elements are stressed that certainly tend toward character building. Among these elements are service in the home, the school, the community, the nation, and the world; patriotism; worthy home membership; ethical ideas and worthy use of leisure time. It is obvious then that there is a practical point of view. The pupils learn to do by doing. They have an opportunity to think and express themselves in various fields of activity with the teacher’s guidance. The pupil who has control of his English is able to speak intelligently before an audience, he is decidedly careful to avoid grammatical errors when writing or talking, his tones are pleasing and he finds that he succeeds in other courses when he practises English control. At the Northeast, one of our specific aims has been to improve the English control of the entire school. Individual slips have been given to each pupil that he might record common errors heard while associating with his schoolmates. Interest has been aroused in this way and pupils have become more careful of their own expressions while listening for the errors that others might make. Neatness and carefulness have become the watchwords wherever written work is done, because at last the pupils realize that they are Judged largely by how their work appears as well as by how they express what they have in mind. We have felt that the course could not render its greatest service unless it extended beyond the school into the home and the community. With this in mind the teachers and pupils have developed projects which show that what is practised at school must also be observed when away from school, if the child is to become and remain standard. The worthy use of leisure time is the concern of every pupil in each English class. In order that the pupils might not use the wrong types of literature, when they plan to use their leisure time reading, lists of books appropriate to their age and grade are placed at their disposal. They are taught to appreciate works of art and worthy pictures have a real significance for them. With these experiences their lives become more full, their sense of appreciation more keen, and consequently their expressions more choice. During this school year, 1927-28, our students have won enviable places in several types of contests and we feel that these places have been won due to the general efforts of the English department. In the Interstate Contests held at Topeka, Kas., our record was as follows: In the oratorical contest, J. C. Davis won first place; in the declamatory contest, David Wynn received first place and Ethelue Gayden second place; in story telling contest, James Pace, was awarded second place and Dorothy Hodge, third. The Chamber of Commerce of this city sponsored an essay contest on City Beautification. Norine Davis and Marnesba Davis. Bessie Jefferson and Mildred Davis, Josephine Buster and Grace Prince, received first and second awards for the best essays written from the ninth, eighth and seventh grades respectively In the Elks’ Oratorical contest, Jessie Saunders received third place although all other contestants were from senior high schools. With results like these every one agrees that English is a live wire in the course of study at Northeast It is to continue to influence the child at home as well as at school.

Physical Education The interest in physical education is a feature of the general conservation movement that has aroused the American people in recent years. Surely there is no greater national resource than the health and physical vigor of the people. This movement has taken four leading forms in our schools: 1. Better senitary and hygienic conditions in school buildings. 2. Medical inspection, with adequate remedy for individual physical defects. 3. Instruction in personal and public hygiene. 4. Physical training as a means of physical development. Play is Nature's method of developing the nervous and muscular mechanism that give control of the body. As children advance in age, they turn from the spontaneous friskings to games of co-operation involving intellectual and social elements. The mere joy of muscular exercise is forgotten in the effort to secure the object of the game. Imitation. emulation, rivalry, the most persuasive human motives are enlisted. But games have moral values quite equal in importance to their physical values. Co-operation, courtesy, a spirit of fairness are vital in well conducted games. Hence, the modern school is provided with a spacious playground equipped with suitable apparatus; for it is recognized that air, sunlight, championship and play are essential conditions of growth and development. In all ages, rythmic exercises have appealed to the sons and daughters of men. The very constitution of our nervous muscular systems demands alternate tension and relaxation. When these are accurately timed there is absence of fatigue and the maximum of physical benefit. That these activities are enjoyed is Nature’s testimony that they are normal and wholesome, if carried on in moderation and with due regard to the proprieties of life. They give smoothness, grace, and harmony to the carriage and movements of the body. The school must teach proper health habits to the entire group. Health habits at Northeast Junior high school not in a general theoretical way, but with practical hints on how the individual should take care of himself. Physical education thus taught, should or does equip the student during the formative years with knowledge essential to keeping the body in as perfect working condition as possible. With this situation in view, the fundamental purposes for which physical activities are conducted at the Northeast Junior High are: 1. Knowledge and skill in activities. 2. Physical development. 3. Wholesome recreation. 4. Social training, and 5. Health.

Spring Exhibitions Each year in May, the physical training class, girls and boys, have given a public demonstration of the time and kind of work that Is carried on in the class room during the year. Each year the attendance increases until now in order to accommodate the parents, patrons and friends, the performance is given two consecutive nights instead of one as formerly, to accommodate the crowd.

CARLSON OF SCHOOL BOA[RD] PROUD OF NORTHEAST JUN[IOR] Pleased to Have Had a Hand in Making It “The high standing of Northeast junior high school,” said John E. Carlson, member of the Kansas City. Kansas board of education, "gives me satisfaction more than I can express, because it is the working out of my hopes. I remember well when first we decided to divide high school education so as to have a junior high. Later I had the privilege of voting for the building of a home for it, and we made it the best money could buy. A while after the work was removed there and the students began to pour in, I became president of the board. That put me intimately in touch with the school. I saw it take hold on the students, I could feel their pride in it. I caught some of their enthusiasm and watched over it with all the personal interest their parents felt. It Is our city's pride, and I speak by the book when I say it gives me more satisfaction than I can express. “I see by our school records that Northeast stands first of all schools in Kansas City, Kansas in attendance. This most significant of all records, beyond anything ever done in our city is due to the high tide of interest. In the contests in English composition, fostered by our Chamber of Commerce, I remember how this school has been first twice and runners up once. No wonder I am proud of Northeast. Put it anyway you wish, Mr. Call man,— you cannot say too much about Northeast junior high school in expressing my opinion. It is not only that they do well, but they do it with good will. I found that out in our Community Chest work.” The above words, summing up the Northeast junior high school, are apt and from an authoritative source. Mr Carlson has always taken an active interest in the community. He has served as president of the Boy Scout council, president of the Community Chest association, president of the Kansas University Alumni association of greater Kansas City, has been a member of the board of directors and vice-president of the Kansas City, Kansas Chamber of Commerce, and has served as president of the board of education of his city for more than five years last past.

Glad He Had A H[and] [?] JOHN E. CARLSON Member of the Board of Education of Kansas City, Kansas Mr. Carlson has Just been elected one of the fifteen directors of the Rotary international, an organization which operates in 44 countries. He is being mentioned as the most suitable man to represent his city in the senate of the Kansas legislature.

Music Department Music in Junior high school is more or less a continuation from the grades. There are three types of children: 1. Those not musical and having [l]ittle interest in music. 2. These interested, but having [l]ittle talent. 3. Those talented. Different voice situations due to changing voices and psychological situations due to spirit of youth demand much attention. If ever a [c]hild needed to be studied, he needs close observation at this time. The director should, if possible acquaint himself with the child's environment, [l]ikes and dislikes, and should give songs that will appeal to the child not in common-place moods, but high moods. The work should be planned in such a way as to develop enthusiasm for the subject that will carry over. Music at Northeast is an elective subject. The department consists of three girls' chorus classes with a total enrollment of eighty girls: boys glee club of fifty voices, the orchestra numbering twenty-six pieces. The Harmonica Band, an outside group has been added to the department this year by the director. One hundred seventeen boys and girls compose the band. Many of this latter group will be transferred to the orchestra next year. The department looks with pride upon the Girls’ Trio: Mary Edwards, soprano; Almeta Davis, mezzo-soprano; Janie Dillard, contralto. The trio has rendered several programs of spirituals during the year, two of which were at the London Heights Methodist Episcopal church and Ivanhoe Congregational church. As the result of the former concert, Miss Edwards was awarded $500 scholarship by an interested listener, with which to study voice and piano.

A Cherished Friendship Perhaps, nothing has been more significant and more highly appreciated this year by Northeast Junior high school than the visit of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the leading historian of the race. Seldom do the students get a glimpse of those characters about whom they study in the classroom. It was through the presence of Dr. Woodson in a special assembly that the boys and girls formed an abiding friendship with an outstanding man of the race with whom they had previously become acquainted in their study of Negro history in the classroom. In turn, Dr. Woodson did not fall to appreciate the activities and spirit of co-operation of the boys and girls he faced on that morning. In recognition of the spirit of unity existing in the school, he said. “Northeast Junior high school exhibits the best organization of any school of its calibre I have ever visited.” These words are not regarded as final attainment for “the highest good” for which Northeast is striving but they serve as a stimulus for larger and better accomplishments. School Organisation Commended Since Kansas City. Kansas is regarded as the junior high school center of the state, the schools are fortunate in their reception of the most outstanding educators of the country who come to the city for school surveys. Prof. R. L. Lyman, author of junior high texts and director of the Laboratory School of Chicago University, on an extensive survey of junior high school for “The School Review”, included Northeast Junior high school in his visits of the schools of the city. Dr. Lyman’s comment upon his visit was: “Of more than eighty junior high schools visited in my survey, Northeast Junior high school ranks as one of the outstanding ones.”

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[?]100 Rosenwald Schools Aid Education in South [CHIC]AGO MERCHANT HAS GIVEN [?]70,000 FOR EDUCATION [A]lso Contributed $500,000 to Y. M. C. A. Buildings in Eighteen Cities [N]egro education in the South [?] [in]evitably with the name of [Julius Ro]senwald, Chicago philanth[ropist] [?] the total number of Ne[gro] [?]ls now standing, approxi[mately] [?]e fifth have been built with [?] the Julius Rosenwald fund. [?] of the million and a half [?] [?]en in school in the rur[al] [?] [?]in schools made possible [?]right by Rosenwald funds. The interest in Negro welfare which has made this record possible originated in 1910. At that time Mr. Rosenwald offered $25,000 for a Y. M. C. A. in Chicago with the specification that $75,000 additional should be raised by public subscription within a five year period. Meets Booker Washington Shortly before this initial step, Mr. Rosenwald had become acquaint with the work at Tuskegee Institute through his interest in Booker Washington, then president of the school. His interest developed to the point where he became a patron and later a trustee of Tuskegee. It was out of this contact that the real motivation for the Rosenwald school building program may be said to have developed. Realizing the tremendous odds under which Negroes were striving for education, Mr. Rosenwald came to the belief that one solution of this educational problem would be possible if Negroes in the mass could have readily available the type of training which was being provided for a comparative few at Tuskegee.

Rosenwald Program Starts In 1912 Mr. Rosenwald made a gift of $25,000 to Tuskegee. With the last $2,100 of this sum, the Rosenwald program was unofficially started. Dr. Washington asked permission to use that amount of the gift to construct and promote six experimental rural public schools for Negroes in the vicinity of Tuskegee. The venture was exceedingly successful. As a result of the experiment, Dr. Washing[t]on, Dr. Wallace Buttrick, Dr. James H. Dillard and members of the General Education Board staff and others persuaded Mr. Rosenwald to give his assistance in the construction of rural schools for Negroes on a more elaborate scale. Mr. Rosenwald was himself so impressed with the functioning of the first six schools and so enthusiastic about the potential good influence of similar schools that he offered $30,000 to assist in the building of 100 schools, additional gifts to be made from year to year. Creation of Fund The Julius Rosenwald Fund was created in 1917 with the purpose of bettering the welfare of mankind. Following its creation, additional sums were turned over to it from time to time until now the principal amounts to twenty million dollars. Daring the past ten years, the Fund has been used exclusively for the development of a rural school program for Negroes. In the future it is planned to widen the purpose of the Fund. In its enlarged function, the money will be used for other educational endeavors, health programs and other worthwhile activities; it will not necessarily be devoted entirely to the promotion of Negro welfare. Certain specifications are laid down with which a school must comply before it is eligible to receive aid from the Rosenwald Fund. It must result from the quadruple efforts of State and County authorities and from the joint aid of the local colored and white groups. It is also essential that the school be a part of the public system and, to check on the grants of local powers, the county authorities must agree to maintain it out of tax funds. It is further stipulated that schools be built in accordance with plans which [?]ate either originated or approved by representatives of the Fund. Stipulations Made Some of the stipulations sound the keynote of the origin of the plan in the Tuskegee background. Each of the schools given assistance must provide not only courses of formal and theoretical study, but must also teach practical industrial work. Every school must have at least one industrial room and a minimum of two acres of ground which may be used for agricultural experimentation. Students, in addition to classroom theory are taught sewing, cooking, farming , and shop work. Representing an outlay of $19,196,334, there were on May 1 of this year 4,178 Rosenwald schools in the fourteen Southern states. Of this total, the Rosenwald Fund had contributed $3,210,967, slightly more than one sixth of the whole amount. Public tax fund had supplied $11,371,875; Negroes [ha]d contributed $3,770,369; and thei[r w]hite neighbors had raised by direct [?]ft $843,123. When [the] William E. Harmon Awards [wer]e made last year, Mr. Rosenwa[ld] was given the award for Distingu[ish]ed Achievement in Race Relations[.] At the same time, he was [gi]ven a [g]old medal which was pre[se]nted in recognition of the national impor[t]ance and effectiveness of his work [i]n making possible better school b[u]il[din]gs for Negro children in [?]e [?] and for his aid in [?] Y[. M. C.] A. buildings for [co]lored [?] in numbers of cities. [?]y Contributor Mr. R[senw]ald has a varied list of activities [in] addition to the noteworthy [work] he has done in helping Negro [educat]ion. He has given a to[t]al o[?[ [?] million dollars to the cause of Jewish colonization in Russia; he has contributed $25,000 each to 20 Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. buildings in 18 cities; with his wife, he gave three million dollars to the University of Chicago; two years ago he pledged three million dollars for the building of an Industrial Museum in Chicago. Welfare agencies both in' Chicago and other cities have been materially aided by him. A conservative estimate states that in addition to the creation of the Rosenwald Fund, Mr. Rosenwald has given $15,000,000 for civic, educational, and philanthropic causes. Mr. Rosenwald is a trustee of the University of Chicago, Hull House, United Charities, Chicago Orchestra association, and Art Institute; and is chairman of the Bureau of Public Efficiency and honorary president of the Jewish Charities. All the institutions named are in Chicago. He is also trustee of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, and numerous other organizations.

Gives Schools JULIUS ROSENWALD

Bartlett Vocational Offers Courses in Practical Farming The Bartlett Vocational school is the outgrowth of an attempt to establish a school along agricultural and industrial lines at St. Joseph, Mo., several years ago when N. C. Bruce was principal of the colored high school of that city. The work of this St. Joseph colored school attracted the attention of eminent educators. Notably among the distinguished visitors who came were Dr. A. Ross Hill, formerly president of Missouri university, the late Dr. Calvin M. Woodward. Washington university, St. Louis, Mo., and finally in 1905 came Dr. Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Dr. Washington commended the thoroughness, practicability, adaptability, and results in the highest terms ,and suggested a "Country Life” movement for Missouri colored people, following the general lines of Hampton and Tuskegee. In 1907 N. C. Bruce, by and with the advice and counsel of the late Dr. Henry Bullard, Herschel Bartlett, the late Judge W. K. James and Vavan G. Wyatt, and other St. Joseph, Mo. friends, located the school and began work at Dalton, Chariton county, Mo. In grateful acknowledgement of Herschel Bartlett's and his brothers' families who made the first contribution for locating and founding this school for Missouri rural life colored people, the institution was called the “Bartlett Agricultural and Industrial school", and was incorporated under that name. Recently the school has been reorganized and legally incorporated as the "Bartlett Vocational school association”. The institution is owned and controlled by a board of trustees, all of whom are Negroes. The members of the board of trustees are A. B. Clay, president, Bunceton, Mo.; H. L. Drew, secretary, Dalton, Mo.; Samuel Lewis, treasurer, Dalton; Floyd D. Winn, Dalton; Archie Christopher, Keytesville; N. C. Bruce, Jefferson City; N. T. Thornton, sr., Dalton, and John Ewing, Dalton. The members of the executive commitee are N. T. Thornton, chairman; H. L. Drew, and Samuel Lewis. There is also an advisory board of white men and women, among whom are J. D. Elliff, Missouri university, Columbia; Mrs. N. K. James, St. Joseph; Hon. Z. B. Myers, representative, Chillicothe; Hon. Sam Jordan, Columbia; T. W. Noland, state poultry experiment station, Mountain Grove; Hon. W. L. Nelson, congressman 8th Missouri district, Columbia; and Hon. John F. Case, editor, The Missouri Ruralist, St. Louis. The school is non-sectarian in its aims, organization, etc., but it is unequivocally Christian. The object of the Bartlett Vocational school is to provide colored youth an opportunity to learn a vocation and to gain a sound moral, literary and industrial training. In addition to literary training in the grades and through four years of high school work, the institution offers courses in domestic science, domestic arts, music, and the various branches of agriculture. The school is located on a hill, one of the highest in Chariton county, overlooking the town of Dalton and the fertile Bowling Green prairie. The scenery is not excelled in the whole state. The climate is salubrious and unsurpassed for healthfulness. The school property is valued at $75,000. The Busch building contains classrooms and dormitory rooms for boys. The Bartlett building contains the kitchen, dining room, chapel, and dormitory rooms for girls. Both buildings are steamheated and electric lighted. The James hall contains boys’ quarters. There are also on the school property a principal’s residence, several teachers' cottages, a large dairy and stock bam, silo, and other improvements. In the farm there are 130 acres including the campus. The school has won both state and national prizes in the production of crops. It has also sent out graduates who are making good in their occupations and professions, prominent among whom is the present principal of the school, H. L. Drew. Through the efforts of the State Negro Farmers’ bureau, the General assembly in 1923 was induced to make an appropriation for the establishment of a state Negro demonstration farm. $15,000. was appropriated for the establishment and maintenance of such a plant. The Bartlett school, realizing that this sum was inadequate for purchasing land, erecting buildings, etc., donated to the state 50 acres of its land for the establishment of the demonstration, farm, which is adjacent to tile Bartlett school property. The $15,000 was expended in erecting buildings, purchasing some purebred livestock, a few tools, etc. The legislatures of 1925 and 1927 have failed to make appropriations to maintain this plant, hence it has been of no educational value in recent years. The property is being cared for by a Negro farmer, who cultivates the land and cares for the stock on shares. The Bartlett Vocational school is strictly a Negro institution owned and controlled by Negroes. The outlook for its continued success is good. The principal of the school H. L. Drew, who is a graduate of the institution, is slowly but surely raising the standard of the school. He has associated with him a staff of well qualified teachers who are devoted to the work. This institution will prove a great factor in the shaping of our Christian civilization. The late Judge W. K. James of 8t. Joseph, Mo., said he considered his work in connection with this school the "greatest achievement of his life.” He was president of the board of trustees from the establishment of the institution until August, 1927, when he was forced to resign because of ill health. He gave not only his money, but a great deal of his time and his life for the cause of Negro education. May the work which he and the school’s other benefactors have established live on forever and prosper-

Sumner School In September, 1927 the board of education turned the former Morse school over for the furtherance of Negro education in spite of the protests of the surrounding white population. It was renamed Sumner school. According to reports the much needed school is appreciated and progressing under J. H. Coleman, the principal at present. The former Morse school was first built in a cornfield with John E. Cole as the first principal. It was attended by farmers' children of the sparsely populated county, All elementary subjects were taught by One or two teachers. Later a new building was erected at 22nd and Charlotte streets, costing approximately $85,000. It contained a large playroom, manual training department, branch library, sixteen classrooms, a general assembly and a kindergarten room. In this modernly equipped building with a large corps of teachers the school is progressing, All elementary subjects are taught from the first to the seventh grades inclusive. School organizations and activities are a part of the school curriculum in which many students participate.

KANSAS CITY HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE GOOD SCHOLARSHIP Sumner high school, Kansas City, Kansas, and Lincoln high school, Kansas City, Mo., have gained an enviable reputation for producing scholars of high rank.

WESTERN “U” A GIFT FROM WHITE PASTOR Present School Supported by State of Kansas and A. M. E. Church What is now known as Western university, located at Twenty- seventh and Parkway, Quindaro, Kansas, was a gift of a white Presbyterian minister, Rev. Edwin Blatchley to the Negroes of Kansas shortly before emancipation. It was known as Freedman university for the uplift of colored youths until 1887, the time of Rev. Blatchley's death. Thereafter it was named Western university by the citizens of Quindaro, Kansas, who organized themselves into a board of trustees and had the property transferred to the A. M. E. church by legal processes. For the following few years progress was not so rapid due to the remaining unsettled state of legal procedures. Under the early guidance of Bishops T. M. D. Ward, James A. Handy and later Bishops Ben T. Tanner and C. T. Shaffer assisted by services of the Reverends J. C. Embry, J. H. Hubbard, John Turner, B. F. Watson and George Booth, all of whom are now dead, the university steadily progressed. From two buildings which early comprised the university ,it now has nine modem equipped buildings. They are as follows; Stanley hall. Studio building, Boy's trade hall. Grant hall, Ward hall. Ladles' reception hall, central heating plant building, Girl’s trade hall and Agricultural equipment building. Each of these buildings have many divisions and departments. Western university controls a central heating plant for heating and lighting. In the Girl's trade hall is located the department of music, domestic arts, sciences and home economics. In the Boy’s trade hall are the departments of tailoring, agriculture, project rooms, carpentry, manual training, auto mechanics, blacksmithing and other trades. A fourth class post office, built by the students of classes 1908 and 1909. In Stanley hall (administration building) are located offices of the president, registrar and secretary, library, science rooms and departments of mathematics. Other departments. are as follows; college, normal, academic, theological, music, vocational and industrial. Ward and Park halls are the exclusive centers of the university, contining the college chapel, normal, theology, college and dormitory for boys. At present the university portion is supported by both the A. M. E. church and the industrial portion is supported by the state of Kansas. Within the past two years Kansas state has appropriated $142,000 approximately. Other gifts are coming in annually. The present site of the university comprises 133 acres, 37 of which are used for farm land. Last year’s enrollment at the university was 244 boys numbering 128 and girls 116. This enrollment is somewhat larger than the one of the year before. At the close of the nine month school term, some of the students remain to do agricultural work. Rewards of various forms are also given the students for accomplishments during the year. The student organizations are as follows: honorary fraternity, debating societies, and various types of athletics. Western university has progressed from two to nine buildings, in educational work and financially. The president of the university is Dr. F. Jesse Peck, who is holding his position for the second term.

Attacks School In 1880 the first Attucks school was established in two rooms of a building located at 18th and Euclid by a Prof. P. H. H. Williams. Two teachers comprised the faculty of a student body numbering less than one hundred. The present Attucks school at 19th and Woodland is known as one of the best and fullest equipped Negro schools in Kansas City. The building consist of twenty class rooms, six special rooms, two offices, a fully equipped gymnasium, an auditorium seating 600, manual training, branch library, a corrective gymnasium and a cafeteria in which many children, who cannot afford to buy lunches, are served free of charge. From less than one hundred students in 1830, Attucks has an enrollment of 1,086 last year. Class divisions of A and B provided a mid-year graduation for the entire school. A completely organized safety council provides children who are stationed at 19th and Paseo and at 18th and Paseo during school months. These children begin their duty at the assigned poets before and after school hours. Principal Walter H. Harrison, who has been at Attucks for ten years says that during that time only one child has been injured by traffic about the school. School organizations and clubs are numerous to which many students belong and are benefitted. Children who attend the elementary school are taught educationally, morally and socially.

Bartlett Principal H. L. DREW Principal Bartlett Vocational School at Dalton, Mo.

Wendell Phillips School Wendell Phillips school, now located at Howard and Vine streets, Kansas City, Mo., was organized in September, 1883, in a building which the board of education rented from W. H. Craig. This building was located at 19th and Cherry streets, and the school was first named the Cherry school. This name was retained until May, 1884. The first principal of the Wendell Phillips school was Prof. W. W. Yates, who came from Paola, Kas., and was elected to the principal- ship of Cherry street school on May 21, 1883, and who retained this position until December 20, 1906, when he was transferred to the principal- ship of the Lincoln school, 11th and Campbell, a position which he held until his death in November. 1910. In September. 1884, the board of education rented another building at 1918 Cherry street from one T. Conway; and the Cherry street school was moved to it. However, immediately after the opening of school in September. 1884 the building was found inadequate to house the school activities of the Cherry street school; and the board was forced to provide additional space. It met this problem by renting the old Asbury Methodist church, which became an annex to the Cherry street school. The population in the neighborhood was growing so rapidly, that the problem of housing [con]ntinued to confront the school auth[o]rities. In May 1885 the board decided to solve the problem of housing by the erection of a new building for this school. That body purchased a site on the east side of Cherry street between 19th and 20th, and ordered the erection of a two story building, containing six regular class rooms. This “new” building was completed and ready for occupancy at the opening of school in September 1835. Its name was officially changed from Cherry street school to the Philips school, in honor of Wendell Phillips, the great abolitionist and anti-slavery advocate. The school remained in this new building for a period of nearly thirty years. When Prof. Yates was transferred from the principalship of the Cherry street school to the corresponding position in the Lincoln school, in 1906 he was succeeded by Joe E. Herriford, who was transferred from the Page school. On the death of Prof. Yates in November 1910, Joe E. Herriford was transferred from the principalship of the Phillips school to that of Lincoln school as successor to Mr. Yates, and G. A. Page was made principal of the Phillips school to succeed Joe Herriford. In June 1912, Mr. Page was moved to the principalship of the Attucks school, and the building at 19th and Cherry was vacated, because of its delapidation and general inadequacy for school work. During this same year, the William Cullen Bryant school at Howard and Vine streets, was opened to colored children, and the Wendell Phillips school was moved to this building, where it has remained ever since. In this location the Wendell Phillips school has had its greatest growth, both in numerical aspects and in the character and wide range of educational programs carried on, for it is during the life of Wendell Phillips school in its present location that the greatest expansion has come in educational activities generally. The new movements in public education began shortly after the Wendell Phillips school moved into the old Bryant building, and many of these movements have influenced in a very large way the work of the Wendell Phillips school. Former Principals Former principals of Wendell Phillips were; W. W. Yates, Paola, Kas., May 1883; Joe E. Herriford, Page school, November 1906; G. A. Page, assistant teacher, November, 1910; R. W. Foster, Attucks school, June 8, 1912; Henley L. Cox, Columbia, Mo., July 20. 1916. Activities Regular academic work in seven elementary school grades; large kindergarten, in charge of two competent teachers; open air school for the care and treatment of anemic children; school bank with five hundred depositors and nearly two thousand dollars on deposit (estimate only); trained nurse giving full time to healthier work in the school and community; school newspaper operated by students as an extra-curricular activity; safety council as an extra-curricular activity, whose members look after traffic and general safety of pupils; (Continued on page C-14)

WESTERN HAS COME FROM A 1-ROOM SCHOOL Located in Paris, Macon and Independence, Mo. Before Kansas City Western College was started in 372 as a tiny one-room affair with one instructor, in Paris, Mo. By 1880 the schood had moved to Independence, Mo. where the experiment of using a second teacher was Inaugurated. In 1892 a pretentious prospectus was issued under the name of "Missouri University". The next year the college as moved to Macon, Mo. It was having a very hard time to continue in existence ,and its plea was We want an institution in which ministers may receive biblical training and at the same time prepare or the education of hundreds of ten and women for teaching and other useful pursuits in life.” For thirty years the college strove t for a foothold at Macon with varying success, during that time turning out many men who entered the ministry and teaching professions, The housing problem was one of the very great problems the school ad to solve and it was not until 1920 the old Ridge estate at 20th and Woodland was secured. At one time when an institution at Bolivar, Mo. was being vacated by the white Baptists of the state the trustees were induced to make an exchange with the Macon school, when, after all the arrangements had been made, the Bolivar building burned to the ground. After this heartbreaking blow the school at Macon was resecured after much difficulty. However it was decided that conditions were no longer suitable for its stay at that lace so another search was begun for another site. A very promising one was found in this city at 33rd and Jackson avenue. The site was composed of nine acres, and no trouble was anticipated, but suddenly after the purchase had been completed the whites of the neighborhood forced the trustees to forego their arrangements. This was a severe blow. Confronted with the problem of continuing to pay for the property at 33rd and Jackson as well as continuing the school elsewhere, the Missouri Baptist State convention, an incorporated body who owned the college, wanted to give up the newly purchased site altogether, at a few stalwarts such as Rev. S. W. Bacote and C. R .McDowell insisted that the property be retained. The search next disclosed the site at 20th and Woodland, and so in 1920 a statewide drive was made by the trustees with the result that the property was purchased, at a price of $50,0000. At this time the payments have almost been completed. The institution’s troubles were by no means over, however. The buildings were in a delapidated condition, and everything needed repairs. After a large sum of money was spent on repairing the heating apparatus of the building it was found unusable and new equipment had to be purchased. In 1922 Clement Richardson assumed the presidency of the college and the enrollment that year was 91, the largest in the history of the school. Improvements were made for the comfort and health of the pupils, some of the buildings laving been remodeled, with modern conveniences installed. The enrollment in 1924-25 was 131, and in 1925-26, 151. New buildings and an improved campus, which will make the Western college one of the most beautiful in the mid-west, are under consideration at the present time. Since the nomination of C. Lopez McAllister as president of Western Baptist college in August, 1927 a business department and a missionary-Sunday school department lave been annexed to the other established departments. Together with these departments are also the college, teacher, high school, English and divinity school. Two hundred or more students attended the college last year. Twenty teachers composed the teaching staff. This school is maintained by the educational plan established by the Missouri State Baptist convention and by personal gifts from individuals. Clubs and school organizations about the school are numerous. The activities of the school are under strict supervision. Won first place in the football M. V. I. A. A. Some of the students also won first prizes in the annual 1928 track meet this spring. Prior to Mr. McAlister's term as president, Clement Richardson, present president of the Kansas State Vocational school, was president of the college.

TO START JUNIOR COLLEGE WORK AT LINCOLN HIGH High school graduates of Kansas City are to have one more avenue of higher education opened to them this fall when a Junior college will be established at Lincoln high school. The Junior college work comprises the first two years of college work and is planned on exactly the same standard as regular college work.

L.H.S. Principal H. O. COOK

W. W. Yates School (Formerly Lincoln School) By Joe E. Rerriford The first free school for Kansas City Negro youth was begun in a small rented building at what was then the comer of Chestnut and McGee, now Tenth and McGee streets. That was in the year 1867. A Mrs. M. J. Copeland was the first teacher employed. In March, 1868 J. Milton Turner, afterwards internationally known as the most brilliant and effective of Negro politicians, was employed as teacher of the school serving but a short time. By the following September the board of education had purchased a building at the comer of Ninth and Charlotte streets and J. Dallas Bowser was appointed teacher. In 1878 the school authorities had erected a much more commodious building at Eleventh and Campbell streets and christened it the Lincoln school. Mr. Bowser was in charge of the new school. In 1879 A. J. Agee was brought there to take charge of the school which had become pretty well disrupted through the events attending Mr. Bowser's removal. Before the end of his second year, in March, 1882, he left. In July, 1883 S. R. Bailey, a cultured gentleman of quiet and decent manners was chosen to be principal. He at all times maintained such intelligent and Christian demeanor as to win for himself not only the high esteem of the school authorities but the affectionate regard of his constantly growing list of patrons. In 1887 the present annex to the school was built and therein was begun the Lincoln high school, Mr. Bailey acting as its principal along with his other duties. May 23, 1889 G. N. Grisham was made principal of the high school and continued as its head after the new plant was established at Nineteenth and Tracy September 6, 1906, Mr. Bailey was in falling health health when he began his thirteenth year as principal, September, 1906 and after a few weeks was forced to retire from his work. He died January 11, 1907. Not only had the Lincoln school increased to an enrollment of nearly seven hundred pupils under eleven teachers, but the Garrison, Douglass. Wendell Phillips and Sumner schools were rivaling it at every point. The attitude of the board of education was at all times most generous. The Negro schools were well equipped and only the best available teachers were employed. Upon the death of Mr. Bailey the board of education transferred W. W. Yates from the Wendell Phillips school to be principal of the Lincoln. This was December 6, 1906. He served until his death which occurred in November, 1910. Joe E. Herriford who had succeeded Mr. Yates at the Wendell Phillips was the next principal at the Lincoln, being elected thereto November 21, 1910. The board of education at this time commenced a thorough overhauling of the school plant. The grounds were improved, the building was equipped with a full sanitary plumbing system, electric lights were installed and more rooms were supplied by excavating underneath the old building. Soon afterwards the authorities gave their sanction for the opening of a “penny cafeteria,” the first of its kind in any Negro school in the city, and later on there was opened a fresh air department for delicate children,—the first of its kind in any Negro school in America. It being found that much confusion resulted from two schools in the same city bearing the name of Lincoln, Mr. Herriford petitioned the board of education to change the name of the elementary institution. Several names were suggested, but the board chose to name the school W .W. Yates, after its previous principal and at the same time honoring the name of a man who had endeared himself to all the citizens through his industry, devotion and fidelity. The W. W. Yates school now includes all the usual features of elementary organization.— kindergarten, seven grades, a fresh air department housed in specially built quarters, a well supported cafeteria,—all under the supervision of a principal, fourteen regular teachers, three part time teachers, a teacher of home economics, a teacher of manual training, a hygienist and two building custodians. The school enrolls close to seven hundred pupils each year and we (Continued on page C-14)

LINCOLN HIGH STUDENTS GET BROAD STUDY Vocational Classes Important Phase of Regular Curriculum Lincoln high school of Kansas City, Mo. is the only public Negro high school in the city of Kansas City. It is located at 19th and Tracy. The building together with wo annexes at the rear and a library cover nearly three-fourths the entire block. This high school modernly equipped as it stands today is quite a contrast to the first Lincoln high school that was erected in the same place in 1905. To the building have since been added the library, trades departments, home ecoonmic and science rooms and a fully equipped gymnasium. The trades building departments were built by boys in he late Mr. Gaillard’s masonry classes. Lincoln library was once the Garrison branch of the city library, established in 1914 with only one woman operating it. In August 1922 t was moved to Lincoln high school with a former circulation of only 7,348 books per years to 2,172 per month. Last year the circulation totaled 34,963 with two library operators. The book collection also has grown from 2,000 in August 1922 to beyond 10,000 in 1927. Recent surveys of the sources that the libraries were to Negroes throughout the country revealed that Lincoln library located in the school, ranked first in giving the best service of any other in the country. The survey of our school was made by Miss Florence R. Curtis, who was in charge of this district. Mrs. McCampbell Lee was libraby operator at the Garrison school library. She also served as a co-operator in the Lincoln library. Other operators have been Mrs. Flossie Gregory and Miss Weaver. At present the library operators are Mrs. Priscilla Byrd and Miss Price. Because the library is located in the building many library assignments can be gotten in little ti[me.] The school courses and subje[cts] at the school have increas[ed] until there now are offered t[?] commercial, technical and academ[ic] courses together with special subjects. Closely connected with the regular study requirements of the school are connected the school organizations. Organizations Probably the most outstanding of these organizations is the student council which is supervised by the faculty and governed entirely by students who are chosen as representatives from each advisory group of the school. Each year the opening of council sessions the office for president of the council is vacant. To this office a junior or senior student member is elected by the council members. The Junior N. A. A. C. P. is another important organization of the school. This president also is elected annually. The branch of work is important insofar as so many of the affairs of the school receive aid from it. It is associated with other junior high school branches as well as the senior branch. A branch of the National Honor society is an organization to which outstanding junior and senior students are elected by appointed members of the faculty at the close of each school year. The members wear pins signifying character, scholarship, leadership and service. The Hi-Y is a world-wide organization for high school boys. A branch of this organization, too, is located in the schol. Representatives of this movement are sent annually to various sections of the country. The Girl Reserve movement may be included as a branch of the high school curriculum to which many girls of the school belong. This is an affiliated part of the Y. W .C. A. Miss Jean Wiliams, class of '29 and Miss Essie Green, class of ’29, close competitors in a membership drive last year attended the National Girl Reserve in Virginia this summer. Clubs to be found in the school are numerous. Among them the following may be listed: literary and debating clubs, science, sewing, mathematics, foreign language, physiology, trade, art, painters, civics, public speaking, newswriting, history, girls ’L' club to which only girls attained the initial for services, gym clubs, psychology, girls' and boys' glee clubs, various music clubs, girls 'and boys' choruses. Departments The music departments are instructed by Miss Blanche Morrison and Julius Jones. William L. Dawson who now forms a part of one of Chicago’s leading symphony orchestras, was music instructor prior to Mr. Jones.. Special Red Cross work also is appointed to certain students during the annual charities campaign. Of the athletics of the school both boys and girls officers are elected annually. Leon Ellis '28 boys' student manager was given a reward last year for his faithful service as student manager. In these dubs and organizations the progressive, social and useful everyday habits may be formed by (Continued on page C-14)

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Y. W. C. A. Boarding Home

PASEO Y.W.C.A. HAILES GIRL PROBLEMS HERE New Boarding Home for Girls Is Immediate Concern of Management By Miss Elsie Mountain Paseo branch Young Women's Christian association has been a potent factor in the lives of Kansas City women and girls through its various departments since 1919. An investigating committee was organized in 1916 to study the need: of a branch association. The personnel of that committee was as follows: Mrs. L. A. McCampbell, Mrs. J E. Perry. Mrs. Ida M. Becks. Mrs M. F. Cook. Mrs. Lena B. DeFrance, Mrs. J. E. Dibble, Mrs. R. L. Shannon. We do not believe it has been as far reaching as perhaps many of us would like to have seen but with an uneducated mass as to the value of its program, we believe an impression has been made. Then have been some extenuating circumstances for Central association and Paseo branch both have had secretarial turnovers and untrained leadership, which has handicapped greatly the progress of the work. We are no longer thinking of the Young Women’s Christian association in terms of buildings, where girls gather to play games, adults come for Bible study and the housing of girls. We are beginning to have an appreciation of a worldwide program for women and girls meeting them in their respective places and helping them to realize a fuller life through the sharing and giving of a living Christian program. The future is full of boundless possibilities, but it will be a new future and a different future to past years because of our changing attitudes. There is no other organization like our own at present, which has the ear and eympathy of so many thousands of women representing all races. There is something unspeakably beautiful in the moral courage and the willingness to attempt the impossible and the simple faith which abounds in the hearts of these women representing the nations of the world. It is this world’s consensus whether it be with girls and women in industry, business grade or high school girls or in the home that assures us of a brighter future, laboring with and for others and serving them. Paseo branch has over a period of [?] the years been without an executive [sec]retary and a staff of trained [wo]rkers. In January of this year, [?] found ourselves with an execu[ti]ve secretary, additional volunteer leadership both on the committee of management and general committee. Our attention during the past six months has been centered primaril yupon five of the fourteen departments, namely: membership, finance room registry and employment, industrial and Girl Reserve. The membership department set as their goal this year one thousand members. Every indication points toward a realization of their hopes with already two hundred and ninety-five new members and one hundred and sixty-nine renewals. There are three hundred and eighty expirations which the committee is now working on to secure. The finance committee, because of lack of secretarial leadership, had been unable to bring about an appreciation of our group sharing in the real finance matters as they affect Paseo branch. Each month has brought with it a consciousness of our sharing our financial responsibility in the city wide, nation wide and world wide program of the association. By world wide association work we are reminded that so few people realize first that the Young Women’s Christian association’s program is world wide and secondly, that associations throughout America share in financing secretaries in foreign fields. Central association's quota is seven thousand dollars, in this amount but Paseo has given little. If Paseo branch is to participate in the Young Women’s Christian association’s activities program, it is willing through the finance committee to share in the financing. Room registry and employment are combined as one committee. They are interested in employment and in adequate housing of employed girls and women. This committee completed a study of the housing of girls in Kansas City and the need of a residence fostered by the Y. W. C. A. which of itself must be self supporting. This study terminated in the plan for opening a residence for employed girls and women at 2200 Brooklyn avenue, on October 1. The needs of the lower wage earning group will be given first consideration. Temporary accommodations for emergency cases will be one of its features, because of the lack of facilities for colored girls in Kansas City. Recently enclosed in more than one hundred and fifty letters sent out to interested persons, was the following memeographed article on employment. (See attached article.) Our business and industrial girls department, we believe has made some progress toward better understanding between groups. Meetings of the business girls department of Central association and white girls employed in downtown business have been the speakers. Our own girls were keen for organization and understanding. The Business and Professional Women’s club in Paseo branch is a reality and to date, represents twenty-six young women, indicative of a future program to solve some of the problems which seem to be crowding our girls out of their rightful places as citizens. Perhaps it is our fault or perhaps it is the other fellows. However, we are out to see through organization. The industrial situation in Kansas City is a closed door to colored girls only here and there, we might find a few employed. In discussing the attitude of white industrial girls toward the employment and working together of race groups, we are told that they are not yet ready. We agree that we are a most producing group but we do belong to the consumers class. There is a way of working out what we believe should be equal industrial opportunities. The industrial department through intelligent leadership of both groups hopes to bring into realization a place in the industrial life of our community. The future depends very largely upon the youth. Our Girl Reserve department is one of the strongest links in the association. Most of the work of this department depends on the attitude of the principals and teachers in the public schools, since much of the work is centered in the schools. Their co-operation has been most gratifying The success of our association work depends largely upon the personnel of its volunteer leadership. Mrs. Frances Jackson, chairman of the committee of management, has associated with her the following women of the city: Committee of management: Mrs. R. Paul Jackson, first vice-chairman, Mrs. R. L. Shannon, corresponding secretary, Mrs. Altheda, Moore, recording secretary, Mrs. Della Green, treasurer, Mrs. Estella Woods, Mrs. L. A. Knox, Mrs. Laura Gilmore, Mrs. Myrtle Cook, Mrs. Ada Franklin, Mrs. Ida R. Jackson, Mrs. Nannie Bunch, Mrs. Thomas A. Jones, Mrs. O. A. Guthrie, Mrs. S. J. Smythe, Mrs. Editha Edwards, Mrs. L. A. McCampbell, Mrs. Tommie James. Mrs. Rosabelle S. Jones, chairman of the educational committee; Mrs. Floy Roberts, Mrs. Tom James, Mrs. Maggie Clay, Mrs. Eva Fox, Mrs. Clara Miller ,Mrs. Clara Stokes, Mrs. Jessie Novel, Mrs. Ethel Hawkins, Mrs. Lucile Troupe, Miss Massey. Mrs. Myrtle F. Cook, chairman industrial committee; Mrs. Margaret Graham, Mrs. Mabel Thompkins, Mrs. Della Brookins, Mrs. Etta Jeffress, Mrs. Mattie Whetfor, Mrs. Edith Evans, Mrs. Irene Garrett, Mrs. Coursey, Mrs. Mary Dougherty, Mrs. Eugene Simmons, Mrs. Gertrude Evans, Mrs. L. B. Laurie, Mrs. Corinne Coles, Miss Victoria Newsom, Miss Catherine Washington, Miss Gertrude Day. Mrs. L. A. Knox, chairman employment and room registry committee; Mrs. Pearl M. Dabney, Mrs. Marguerite Day, Mrs. D. M. Miller, Mrs. Laura Blackburn, Mrs. Grace Stevenson, Mrs. Evalena Baldwin, Mrs. Geneva Phoenix, Miss Grace Thornton, Mrs. Nellie Young. Mrs. Rosalind Shannon, chairman membership committee; Mrs. Ella Nora Smith, Mrs. Adora Smith, Mrs. L. V. Miller, Mrs. L. A. Knox, Mrs. J. D. Herndon, Mrs. Fred Fairfax, Mrs. J. F. Coles, Mrs. A. J. Moore, Mrs. Anna G. Allen, Mrs. Susie Martin, Mrs. P. C. Turner, Mrs. Alice Brown, Mrs. Ifagenia Mitchell, Mrs. L. M. Tillman, Mrs. Luela R. Turner, Mrs. M. A. Ford, Mrs. David West, Miss Leona Estes, Miss Cora Mitchell, Miss Josephine Martin, Miss Ella V. Payne, Miss Alice Grady, Mrs. Celia R. Johnson, Mrs. P. M. Hoffman, Mrs. Scottie Dickens, Mrs. Dollie Cotton, Mrs. Sadie Bannister, Mrs. Zula White, Mrs. Martha Freeland, Mrs. Maude Gamble. Mrs. Laura Gilmore, chairman, religious education and committee; Mrs. Virginia Cavalle, Mrs. Cora Hopkins, Mrs. Dora Hayes, Mrs. Mrs. Nora Darmon, Mrs. L. A. McCampbell, Mrs. Viola Nickens, Mrs. W. C. Williams, Mrs. L. P. Bryant, Mrs. D. A. Holmes, Mrs. F. F. Moten. Mrs. R. P. Jackson, chairman, house committee and committee; Mrs. F. West, Mrs. Chloe Clay, Mrs. Della Green. Mrs. Ida R. Jackson, chairman, health committee and committee; Mrs. Jessie Perry, Mrs. Rosa Marshall, Miss Gertie Mae Monroe, Mrs. Gladys Pullum, Miss Judith Symns, Miss Maude Green, Mrs. Adeline Groves, Mrs. Marie Ellington. Mrs. Ada Franklin, chairman girls’ work and committee; Mrs. Anna Williams, Mrs. Addie Bluford, Mrs. S. S. Hill, Mrs. Katie McCampbell, Mrs. Jean Lee, Mrs. Edith Price, Mrs. Anna Smith, Mrs. F. A. Radford, Miss Roberta Bell, Mrs. Blanche Morrison ,Mrs. Minta Caldwell, Mrs. Frances Hayden, Miss Ted Barker, Mrs. Margaret Lane, Miss Alma Taylor. Mrs. O. D. Pyles. Mrs. Estella Woods, chairman of finance and committee; Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. M. A. Ford, Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Pauline Hoffman, Mrs. Caddie Lawson, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Backburn, Mrs. Altheda Moore, Mrs. Editha Edwards, Mrs. Irene Garrett, Mrs. Gillis, Mrs. Ida R. Jackson, Mrs. Mossie Briggs, Mrs. Gladys Pullum, Mrs. A. P. Groves, Mrs. Frances Jackson, Mrs. Estella Hubbard. The Paseo branch is represented on the Central association board by the chairman of the committee of management, chairman of the Girl Reserves and the finance chairman. The staff of Paseo branch is affiliated with the staff of Central association.

Y. W. C. A. Boarding Home The present management of the Paseo Y. W. C. A. has solved an old problem by leasing this boarding home located on the southeast comer of 22nd and Brooklyn. It will be ready October 1, 1928.

Lincoln High School (Continued from page C-13) students belonging to them. Trophies Various trophies have been won in the athletic, literary and commercial endeavors of the school. Many R. O. T. C. trophies may be found in Lincoln’s cases. This year Lincoln won the M. V. I. A. A. basketball and football trophies. Last year Lincoln won the M. V. I. A. A. tennis trophy for the year. In 1924 Algerman Fisher won the literary trophy for Lincoln. In 1921 the Interstate athletic award was given to the girls basketball team. Lincoln also won the M. V. I. I. football trophy and girls basketball trophy in 1925. In 1926 the trophy given by the Book- lover's club was won in an oratorical contest. Ex-students whose names appear on the Schmeltzer trophies are: Chauncey Smith, Clifford Johnson, Albert Blake, Clarence Berry, Claude Elliott, Emmett Walls and McKensie Coleman. Wiliam Gooch, Virgie Warren, Zelma Taylor, Lue R. Goode, Helen Johnson, Bernett Smith, Anna Curry and Fern Beck are other names that appear in the school’s trophy case. Under the present supervision of H. O. Cook, principal and George Ellison, vice principal, are listed fifty instructors who comprise the faculty. Some of these teachers have been graduated from the school and returned to teach. Night sessions are held in the building during the months of October to May, inclusive. This has nothing to do with the nine-month term of day school. The products of night school classes show benefits derived from it. This year for the first time in the history of the school, a two year course will be offered to high school graduates. The new high school that has long been promised will not be had for a number of years. The lot has already been purchased by the board of education and the cost of the structure-to-be, is estimated approximately $128,000. Since 1905 Lincoln has steadily moved on under the guidance of the following principals: Mr. Bailey, G. N. Grestian, R. E. Lee, and the present, H. O. Cook. From less than 200 students in 1905, Lincoln’s last enrollment exceeded 1,000.

MISS ELSIE MOUNTAIN Executive Secretary, Paseo Y.W.CA

Dunbar School Like all history this article will impart information on the growth and influence from an atomical stage to its present site and size, of one of the city’s youngest schools, unique in its development is the fact that up to the present time Whitfield Ross is the first and only principal, who has experienced its assimilation from the dream, perhaps, to an artistic actuality. Mr. Pinkerton, a former president of the board, named the school which opened in September, 1917. The first class of fourteen was held in Green Grove Baptist church by Mr. Ross. At the end of the first year the class had grown to 39; and increasing to 53 by the close of the second year. Miss N. C. Goins was added at the beginning of the third year as kindergarten and first grade teacher and the school enrollment reached 97. Expansion Economic features of the locality expanded the neighborhood to such an extent that Dunbar school passed from its larval stage to the chrysalis. Miss Eva Grant was added as kindergarten and first grade teacher the opening of the fourth year. Ten weeks later, the Lincoln high school boys completed the construction of the first four rooms on the present school site and the school was moved there November 16, 1920. Before the close of the fourth year Mrs. Ophelia Jack- son was added to take charge of the kindergarten and at the end of the year the enrollment was 151. In 1922 Dunbar school reached the adult stage by taking on four additional rooms. Misses Frieda Cooley and Edna Anderson were added instructors. Transfers and resignations necessitated changes so that the sixth year Miss Stella Henderson filled a vacany. The enrollment had climbed to 251. The following year Miss Minnie Lee Harris was added. During the seventh year Dunbar reached the high point of 303 in its enrollment. The following year transfers and resignations again invaded the faculty and Misses Ida Gladnee and Juanita Mills filled vacancies. The present faculty is: Juanita Mills, N. Corrine Goins, Pauline Tarwater, Eunice Bacote, Minnie Lee Harris, and Mr. Ross. The present enrollment is 254. The Building The Dunbar building is a stucco structure consisting of a basement and first floor housing seven class rooms, a manual training room, a clinic, and a home economic room. Its newness and location make it a well lighted building. The landscape view from any room would be an inspiration to anyone who loved and appreciated the beauty and grandeur of nature. Working diligently to keep things clean, Mr.s Jackson served as our first janitress. Two years ago she was forced to resign because of ill health. Mr. Brown is now custodian. Organizations During Dunbar's existence 82 graduates have been sent to Lincoln high. With Mrs. Ophelia Jackson as instructor, Dunbar claims the honor of being first among our group of schools to give instruction in piano. There are two student organizations, other than the student council in the school, the Girl Reserves and the Boy Scouts under the directions of Miss Goins and Mr. Marshall. The Parent-Teacher association is again active. The officers are: Mrs. Page, president; Mrs. Bryant, vice-president; Mrs. Ross, secretary. The association is attempting to get shower baths in the school by next year.

Wendell Phillips School (Continued from page C-13) milk service to all children who are 10 per cent or more, under weight; ability grouping of pupils to provide for individual differences, and rates of progress; for three consecutive years the winner of the prize given by the Children’s bureau for the best work among pre-school children of the district; one hundred an dthirty-three children (grades 1-4) won nine point buttons last year for health corrections and development; large active parent- teacher association, working with the school, in efforts to improve school conditions, and assist the teachers and parents in improving the service of the school to the commumity; various club activities among students, for the purpose of training in moral character, as well as to, give knowledge values of things studied and projects developed in the clubs; winner of Ward school athletic track meet for three consecutive years. School year Just closed, 1927-1928: Gross enrollment, 1,098; average attendance, 753.09; average belonging, 793.2; net enrollment, 936.0.

PASEO Y.M.C.A. OFFERS CLUB ROOM SERVICE More Than 70 Organizations Use Facilities (or Regular Meetings The Y. M. C. A. offers club rooms and facilities for more than seventy various religious, educational, social, fraternal and business organizations for their use in conferences, alliances. associations. conventions and other forms of public meetings without reference to membership. Organizations follow: National Negro Business league, Methodist General conference, National Medical association, International Order of Twelve. Inter-State Association of Negro Teachers, state annual meeting Court of Calanthe. Pan-Missouri Graduate Nurses association, K. of P. grand lodge. State Medical society, National Republican convention. National Nurses association, Court of Calanthe grand session, the Walker Agents convention, Masonic grand lodge, Elks grand lodge. Regular groups: Y. M. C. A. men’s club. “Y” boy’s club, Missouri Pacific Boosters club, Old City Graduate Nurses association, Kansas City Music club, Y. M. C. A. Bible class, district B. Y. P .U., Self Improvement club, Book Chatterers club, Beacon club, Colored Railroad men, North Central association, Fisk university alumni, Presbyterian official board, Sunday School Teachers Training school, Centennial building committee, the Paseo Investment association, Poro club. Western College alumni. State Baptist Educational board, Kansas City Druggist association, Lincoln high alumni association, Kappa Alpha Psi, Stellar Concert company, Second Baptist Mission society, district Sunday school mission, Centennial trustee board. Ministerial Alliance, three Boy Scout troops, Howard alumni association, Pull Together club, Cheerio Boys club, Kansas City Tennis club, Phyllis Wheatley Art club, Kansas City Negro Business league, Missouri Valley Athletic association, Lilley Motor Co. baseball club, Merry Maids of Allen Chapel, Lincoln university [alu]mni, postal employees. American Woodmen (nurses), Second Baptist B. Y. P. U., Delta Sigma Theta, Y. M. C. A. Boys club, Harlan State Bar association of Missouri. Portella Girls club. Kindergarten club. Joint Hi-Y clubs. Second Baptist church meeting, City Mission society, district missionary society, Business Women’s league, the Golden Limited club, directors Home Seekers association, Christian Culture class, Spring Valley Improvement club, LaPremiere club, N. A. A. C. P., City Conquest union, commercial class. Kansas City Barbers association. Phi Delta Mu, Clippers club, ladies band. Much of the Y. M. C. A. service is rendered to the general public without reference to membership. Chief among the facilities which are open to all may be noted: Chess, checkers, piano, writing tables, free stationery, free parcel checking accommodations, reading room with current magazines, information bureau, lobby, movie, lectures, entertainments. Sunday meetings, Bible classes, club rooms for all kind of meetings, free employment agency. To render this type of service, that from which we get no income, gives us a deficit of $2,500 per year. Lodging and meals are often given to men and boys who drift into the city, and many of our own home fellows are given relief.

Music Department in Each School, Is Ideal When schools for the education of Negroes were opened only the three "R" subjects that are absolutely essential to education were taught by a few teachers in each school. No attention was given to the teaching of artistic subjects such as dramatics and fine arts and music. A few years later music was taught under the supervision of A. Work. Following Mr. Work came Clark Smith, Charles T. Watts, who now instructs music under the general supervision of Miss Glenn, William L. Dawson. Miss Blanche Morrison, a present instructor of music at Lincoln high school, and Julius Jones, Mr. Dawson's successor who is also a Lincoln high school music instructor of classes, the band and orchestra. Miss Blanche Morrison is the present vocal instructor of grade schools in Kansas City. Miss Morrison's grade school classes are taught certain day of every week in the various schools. Five years ago the piano department was taken over by three colored teachers, Miss Doris Novel. Mrs. Ophelia Jackson, and Miss Bona Perry, who assisted Miss Novel one year and Mrs. Jack- son one year. At present Mrs. Jack- son has the entire piano department of 250 students in the following schools: Wendell Phillips, Attucks, Phyllis Wheatley, Dunbar, Cherry street, Booker Washington, Yates, Garrison, Bruce and Penn. Lessons are given to these students on Saturdays at Attucks school at the price of ten cents each. The orchestra departments of the schools from the third to seventh grades inclusive are under Charles T. Watt’s instruction. School orchestras, bands, choruses, glee clubs and group singers now participate in all school activities as well as other outside functions. Miss Morrison's glee clubs and choruses have taken part in affairs at Ivan- hoe temple, Linwood Christian church, and assisted also in entertaining guests who are in the city from time to time on all special occasions. Local simple talent that was once exhibited at various schools the first Sunday in each month at community meeting that served as inspiration have since been abandaned because of the constant growth of music in the Kansas City schools. Within the next few years Kansas City will probably have music departments in each of the public schools. This will enable students to receive better music training, more conveniently.

W. W. Yates School (Continued from page C-13) have been encouraged to hope that within the very near future the board of education will establish for us an entirely new plant in some more conveniently located part of our school district. Early in 1927 the board of education negotiated for a new site for the school at the northwest corner of 13t hand Lydia. Upon this site was a highly substantial building formerly used for a factory and this was easily converted and remodeled into one of the most convenient and substantial school buildings in the city. Herein every modern school convenience was incorporated and the average daily attendance for the first year was 725 with a gross enrollment of over 1.000. The finely equipped playgrounds just west and across the alley from the school cannot be surpassed in any of the Kansas City school plants.

DOUGLASS SCHOOL Douglass school located at 27th and Jarboe streets, in a white neighborhood, was opened in 1886. The property has a frontage of 125 feet on 27th street and 206.93 feet on West Prospect place. The present building was constructed in 1891. It has eight standard class rooms. The manual training is a frame room some distance from the brick building and the domestic science is in the basement in a room. The first principal was J. W. Foster. He was succeeded by Miss Anna Jones, she in turn by M. H. Thompkins, who is now an instructor in Lincoln high. The present principal is F. Leslie Clark who has held the position for the past six years. The school organizations are: Standard Junior Safety council which hold a membership in the National Safety Council; thrift club which saved $388.34 during the past year, and Girls Reserve. Eight teachers constitute the faculty.

INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR NEGRO GIRLS The Industrial Home for Negro Girls, a place of "Begnining Again’’, is located one mile north of Tipton, Mo. on a magnificient site of one hundred and sixty-five acres, the home was opened May 15, 1916. Mrs, Elizabeth Shelby is superintendent and matron. To solve youth and its problems, properly through supervised physical activities is the purpose of the home; therefore a well equipped playground is maintained where the girls enter whole heartedly into the different exercises and games; competitive work, where quickness and perception and a desire to excel shows itself in other work. The state course of study is used In school work. Four and one-half hours a day is spent in school and students go as far as the eighth grade. Regular training in household arts and home making is a part of the educational work. At the home there is a herd of Holstein cows which supply the girls with milk; many improvements such as a steam table for the dining room, a full electric laundry equipment, beauty parlor, commercial course, new band instruments, library, moving picture machine, an orchard and an improved campus.

Woman Writer Finds 4,000,000 Slaves For Sale in World T[?] McCall’s Magazine. August, 1928 Do you Americans, whose soil in the sixties was stained red to end slavery, know that there still exist in this day of democracy and freedom between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 human chattels who can be bought and sold like so many pounds of meat? That there are now more slaves in bondage than were set free by Lincoln's famous Emancipatio nProclamation? Almost half of these are in China, but it is with their fellow serfs in Africa that we are concerned here, Africa that mother of mystery and terror and beauty. Slavery, from the dim dawn of history, has been what Livingstone And it still is—not among European settlers, as you might imagine, but among certain native tribes themselves. whose dark practices of kidnaping. raiding, and trading are precisely the same as they were when the triremes of Carthage plied venturesomely back and forth upon the bright and dangerous waters of that strange coast. Back beyond the headlands lies the dreadful stillness of the Jungle. There among somber trees decked with orchids and serpents and sluggish rivers hiding crocodies under their water-lilies, secret things are happening, shuddering terrors, beyond the bounds of one's most fevered imaginings. And the victims are human beings. Since I, like yourselves, perhaps, have been brought up to believe that slavery, whether expressed as slave-owning, slave-trading, slave-raiding, was dead and buried in the past; that the work of Abraham Lincoln, Wilberfore, Buston, Clarkson, and others, had been finally finished, it came as a shock to me to discover the conditions which I have Just mentioned. At once I Joined that little band of statesmen and humanitarians who in Great Britain, have kept alive the flame of the anti-slavery cause. With them I have adopted the ideal of the League of Nations to bring about the abolition of “slavery in all its forms" and I, personally, should like to see added the words, within this generation. The rudest part of the shock was learning that the power of Great Britain extended over a slice of this slave territory. For some time my mind and energies had been focused upon the tragedies of the slave traffic in Abyssinia, the ancient kingdom of Etheopia, which, ironically enough, though it is the only independent native government that has survived through the ages in Africa, has one slave to every five persons. But for my own country to countenance anything of the sort was another matter. As a British woman it was a terrible thought to me. While we had been concentrating upon the abolition of slavery among our neighbors, here was this system operating right at our very doors and seemingly under our protection. There were 215,000 slaves in Sierra Leone! Turn to your map of Africa. Skirt along the west coast until you reach the great equatorial region where the Dark Continent spreads its widest. That little watermelon-pink spot Just south of French Guinea and north of Liberia is the British Colony of Sierra Leone, which is about the size of Connecticut. It has been Justly called the most beautiful spot in all Africa, and contains more natural beauty, perhaps, than any of the other continents. There the frothing surf of the green-blue Atlantic breaks not upon a low white beach or upon reefs of coral but against the unyielding base of mountains which spring straight upward six thousand feet into the pitiless, throbbing rays of the tropic sunshine. Its deep rivers and safe harbors have long beckoned sailors to weight anchor there; its soil, the richest in the world, has called them to stay. In other days most of those who dared go did stay forever, having as their portion six feet of that same fatal earth that had seemed to offer them such plenty. For the hot breath of Sierra Leone carried, often in a few weeks or days or even hours, the cold touch of death. It was known, indeed, as “the white man’s grave.” Even the freed Negro slaves transported there from Europe and America, beginning in 1787 with three ship-loads, died until only a handful were left. Freetown, the capital of the Colony was named in honor of these refugees. Today, however, thanks to modern sanitation, there is not a more healthful place in all Africa. Travelers can even sleep safely there now without mosquito bars. When Great Britain acquired Sierra Leone by treaty session in 1787, the slave trade, dating back to time immemorial, was still operating in all its barbarity. The chiefs regarded it as part of the burden life had put upon their people and. indeed, the civilized world up till the nineteenth century considered it necessary for “working” the tropics successfully. “Black Ivory” was very profitable. There are not many people who know much about this corner of West Africa, but history has known it as far back as the time of Hanno of Carthage. Its river. Sierra Leona, attracted mariners of all nations down the ages to anchor their ships there. It has been known by various names: Pliny the Elder called it Flumen Bambotem, the early Portuguese called it Rio de Sierre-Liona, and the ancient Temmes—natives of the country referred to it as Robung Darkell or “river of scales.” I knew, of course, that there could be no slavery in that part of Sierra Leone now, for the sovereignty is directly under the British Crown. Instead, I found, it flourished in the Protectorate of Sierra Leone, a huge territory sprawling back into the hinterland toward the headwaters of the Niger. This happens to ben under the sway of the governor of the colony. He rules it only indirectly, however, the actual administration being largely in the hands of native chiefs whose power resembles that of mediaeval overlords. The slave-owning [?] the protectorate numbered [?] by far the richest being t[?] [?]ful and warlike Mendes [?] held more than 83,000 s[?] Mende war is still a painf[ul] [?] in the British foreign offic[?] why the business of eman[cipating] these slaves was such a d[?] fair. When the Protectorate w[as] [?]stituted in 1895, it was op[?] [?]mitted that slavery was [?.] Under native law and [?] [?] master had always been a [?] capture a runaway slave [?] means within his power. [?]ten into the declaration th[?] the Protectorate, was an [?] that would gradually ha[?] [?] every slave within the regi[?] [?] that time forward, all pe[?] [?] in the province or broug[?] [?] were free and all bonds [?] came free, automatically, [?] death of their masters. [?] process was painfully slo[?] [?] January 1920 until Sept[ember] [?] only two thousand slave[s] [h]ad been redeemed. At that rate [eig]ht [hu]dred a year would be emancipated and there were many who would never live to see the light of liberty. The British Colonial office had been trying for six years to find a way to hasten the process, to abolish the system entirely. Various officials in high places had offered various solutions from time to time. Notable among these were Lord Milner. Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Amery. Lord Milner is said to have summoned the governor of Sierra Leone all the way to England to discuss the matter with him. And still the system continued. It continued as such things always continue until an impulse came from the inside. It appears that when the Protectorate was constituted in 1895, it was admitted that the instituion of slavery flourished throughout the territory, and that under native law and custom the right was clearly recognized to recapture a runaway slave, by any means within the power of the owner. From the date of the declaration of the Protectorate, ordinances were issued dealing with the question ,and from the very beginning the institution of native slavery recognized, regulated and controlled. It was then only a matter of time before every slave in the Protectorate would become free, owing to the fact that under the ordinance all persons born or brought into the Protectorate were declared free, and all persons became free on the death of their owner. But the feature which ultimately led to the recent abolition of slavery in the Protectorate was that which characterizes every system of slavery in the world—an attempt by the slaves themselves to secure their freedom. It is this feature which is likely to lead to serious international embarrassment around the frontier of Abyssinia. Today slaves are escaping from that country in ever- increasing numbers in the hope of obtaining their freedom. It was this issue which came before the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, and the presiding judge, who, after very long land careful consideration, came to the conclusion that the law of Sierra Leone did not take away from the slave-owner the right to recapture his runaway slaves and that he had committed no offense against the slaves in doing so. His conclusion made the position quite clear. “I hold that the defendants in each of these two cases should have been acquitted, and that the judgments of conviction in the court below should be set aside and the judgments of acquittal in lieu thereof be pronounced and entered in the court records. I should add. perhaps. that both the slaves in question were recaptured in the Protectorate. Had they succeeded in escaping to the Colony it is obvious that their masters could not have touched them so long as they resided there.” Justice Sawrey Cookson supported Justice Aitken, but Justice Petrides differed from his two colleagues, and differed rather strongly. He admitted, however, “that the status of slavery has not been abolished in the Protectorate, and that the existence of slavery therein is recognized by necessary implication. Slavery in the Protectorate is a creature of native law and there can be no doubt that according to native law an owner can recapture a runaway slave. But in a lengthy judgment he stated why he disagreed with his two learned colleagues. As this minority statement is of such importance, I append its material passage: “I have not the slightest doubt that the right of recapture has been recognized by native law and custom ever since the inception of slavery in those territories which are now in the Protectorate. “It is necessary in this case, however, to consider whether the recapture of slaves in such circumstances is ‘repugnant to natural Justice, equity and good conscience.’ . . . It has been argued that if the law recognizes slavery then the law should recognize the right of the slave- owner to recapture a runaway slave, provided undue force is not used. “This line of argument leaves n[?] unmoved. Two wrongs d [o] not make a right. The legislature [m]ay have neglected its duty. The [m]ay have for many years allowed wrong to exist. If a wrong has b[een] done by the legislature it is not [?] a court of justice to do another [wr]ong, and say because the legislatu[re] has allowed slavery to exist jus[t] will also blind its eyes and appro[?] of assault . . . One has to a[sk] oneself whether one can reco[nci]le one's conscience to the fact th[a]t a human being desirous of an[d] seeking to obtain man’s most priceless gift of freedom is to be brought back by force, however reasonable, t[o] a serfdom from which he has escaped. One can well imagine the mental torture an escaped slave suffers

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St. Joseph Business Executives MR. AND MRS. C. T. PHELPS promoters of the Charwood Charwood Realty Co., and builders of the Charwood theatre at Third and Francis. Mrs. Phelps is prominent socially and is active in women’s clubs.

[St.] Joseph Business Information Period [?] of a centralized Negro dis[?] [?]as retarded industrial devel[opment] among St. Joseph Negroes. [The colo]red population throughout has not aided in the estab[lishment] of strong self-supporting [?]es. [?]are as in every colored com[munity] [t]he full quota of restaurants, [?] [sh]ops, pool halls and barbe[r] [?]nds. Few beauty parlors [?] as do taxi services. While [?] as if an establishment deal[?] [st]aples as groceries and men’s [?]gs would thrive in the [?]ty there is no indication [?] the opportunity will be tak[en] [adva]ntage of. [Dive]rsity in industry is appar[ent] [in r]ecent years. An auto loun[ge] [?] [patr]onage chiefly white) is pros[?] [?] furniture repair shop was [?] [?]ecently; a garage and filling [stati]on on Messanie street caters to [?] and enjoys a good business, two [con]tractors are kept busy and there are paperhangers, carpenters and electricians. The city’s only pharmacy is also well patronized. With the gradual shift of the colored population to the east side (the churches, and most of the other institutions being located in that section) there will no doubt develop more and larger stores to accommodate the incoming residents.

Lincoln School Lincoln, the north end elementary school has had a long and impressive record for graduating star pupils to Bartlett high. Its location and equipment are ideal and conducive to good work on the part of its pupils. A. T. Walker, formerly science instructor at Bartlett, is principal. Mr. Walker has received the B. S. and M. A. degrees from the University of Nebraska. The teaching staff is comprised of Misses Marie Waldron, Dorothy January. Bertha Sailles, Anna Venable, Kitsey Townsend and Brown. The outstanding events at Lincoln each year are the Christmas entertainment, operetta and closing exhibit displaying all work done thru- out the year by the pupils. Another big feature is the May festival in which Lincoln along with the other schools, is a a participant. The enrollment is 250 and the daily attendance but slightly less.

Douglass School This school was established to [ta]ke care of the educational interests of the industrial section of the city. The first building erected to serve the district was located on Division street, west of King Hill avenue. This location was in the very center of the Negro population of this section. As the improvements in this part of the city increased the location became undesirable because of the needed sanitary surroundings. Hence when the recent bond issue was proposed for school improvements the people were promised a new location and adequate building facilities. The present site is on Russel St., Just east of King Hill avenue. This location is ideal, a beautiful view of the surrounding landscape, such as the historic King Hill, the majestic Missouri river as it winds its course between the two states of Missouri and Kansas. The building is of the latest type of school archiecture, the light is ad mitted from the north and south sides, each of which is entirely of glass construction. The interior is modern in every particular. The full eight grades are taught in this school, including instruction in domestic art and manual training. The Parent-Teacher circle is headed by Mrs. H. K. Williams. This organization is quite helpful to the school. The improvements of the school grounds by way of beautifying the same is under way by this organization. C. W. Black is principal.

Mystic and Art Study In order to stimulate a greater interest and development in art and study, the Mystic Art and Study club was formed January 26, 1927, at the home of Mrs. Newton Hicklin. Sixteen members comprise the organization. The club meets every Thursday night, the third Thursday being devoted to study. Work, study and play is the motto of the club. The colors are orchid and pink and white and flower, sweet peas. An art exhibit is held at the close of each club year. The officers are: Mrs. Margaret Williams, president; Mrs. Nora Hicklin, vice-president; Mrs. Myrtle Williams, treasurer; Mrs. Margaret Phelps, secretary and Mrs. Katherine Hutchins, assistant secretary.

Matrons Civic and Social The Matrons Civic and Social club was organized February 4, 1925 by Mrs . A. D. Harts assisted by Mr. Estella Woods, Kansas City, who [?] state organizer of the Missouri Federation of Colored Women’s c[lu]bs. The organization has sixteen members. Two meetings are held each month a business session at which parliamentary rules, civics and governme[nt] are studied, and a social meeting. Much charity work is engaged in by the club, the county infirmary and the colored orphanage being the chief recipients. Mrs. L. G. Gillum was the first president, serving three years and was exceeded by Mrs. J. T. Miles, now president. The other officers are Mrs. Oscar Martin, vice-president; Mrs. E. O. Wilson, secretary; Mrs. [?] F. Veanble, assistant secretary [;] Mrs. A. D. Harts, treasurer; Mrs. [?] Gillum, chairman executive committee; Mrs. R. H. Pen[nin]gton, program and assistant, Mrs. [?]. E. Jones.

(Kitchen Band) We’ve heard of brass bands, singing bands, and drums bands, but only last winter did we learn of the existence of a kitchen band. This novel organization is composed of twenty-five ladies whose instruments are made from kitchen utensils. Dish- pans, ladles and the familiar rolling pin all make music under the control of the musicians. The band has another aim other than musical and that is to help finance the Ebenezer A. M. E. Sunday school. This organization has appeared in Elwood, Wathena, Atchison and other towns. Several return engagements have been fulfilled at local churches. The band's repertoire consists of spirituals, folk song, classical and popular selections. The program is so balanced as to please every type of music loved. Mrs. J. C. Marshall is the innovator of this unique combination. The officers are: Mrs. J. C. Marshall, president; Corinne Thomas, treasurer and Lucille Robinson, secretary.

U. D. S. Club, St. Joe The U. D. S. club is one of St. Joseph's most popular organizations devoted to social and dramatic activities. Organized in April, 1925, by Mrs. Margaret Phelps, the club has enhanced greatly the social life of the community. Two unique affairs sponsored by the society last winter were the Japanese tea carried out in detail with the oriental costumes, menu and atmosphere and the Martha Washington party possibly the most novel affair of its kind ever given in the city. The organization is interested in civic welfare also. When the state federation convened in the city the U. D. S. quartet participated. The quartet has appeared in Kansas City, Independence and surrounding cities. Mrs. Dorothy Hundley is director. The proceeds from several of its functions have been donated to charity institutions. Officers of the U. D. S. club are: Mrs. Mabel Harts, president; Mrs. Myrtle Williams, vice president; Miss Anna Venable, secretary; Miss Frankie Shannon, assistant secretary; Mrs. Margaret Phelps, treasurer, and Mrs. Edna Conway, reporter. The band has another aim other than musical and that is to help finance the Ebenezer A. M. E. Sunday school. This aggregation has appeared in Elwood, Wathena, Atchison and other towns. Several return engagements have been fulfilled at local churches.

MISS ETHEL BLEDSOE Miss Ethel Bledsoe has served 9 years as district president of the Missouri and Kansas C. M. E. conference and twice elected a delegate to the general conference. She has also served several years as secretary of the annual conference. Aside from church activities, Miss Bledsoe has written considerable poetry and contemplates having her first volume published soon.

St. Joseph A. M. & A. M. The Masonic bodies of St. Joseph are fortunate in that they have had capable leaders and have made good showings at both state and national conclaves. The Masonic hall at Second and Lewis is the meeting place for the several branches of Masonry. The directory of orders of A. F. and A. M. are: Wilkerson lodge No. 26, Luther E .Beery, worthy master; W. F. Neil, secretary. Queen City lodge No. 41, Wm. E. Baker, worthy master, John Duncan, secretary; Pioneer lodge No. 109. Robert Roundsville, worthy master, Edward Galloway, secretary; Royal Arch Masons, Lone Star chapter No. 18, B. W. Williams, high priest, W. F. Neil, secretary; Knights Templar No. 6, R. McKissick, eminent commander, A. D. Butler, recorder; Scottish Rite Consistory, Dr. P. F. Haynes, illustrious commander, O. L. Smith, secretary; Ancient Arabic Order of Mystic Shrine, William F. Nell, illustrious potentate. A. D. Butler, recorder, and Order of Eastern Star, Foster chapter No. 11, Mrs. H. L. Campbell, worthy matron and Mrs. Emily Hill, secretary; Alice O. Jones chapter No. 18, Mrs. Dora Dunlap, worthy matron.

St Francis Baptist Temple The St. Francis Baptist temple, one of St. Joseph, Mo.'s most modern and oldest Negro churches, was organized in 1860 as the Francis St. Baptist church .by Adam Demmitt, pastor for 13 years. In 1875 Rev. W. W. Stewart, pastor until 1891, laid the cornerstone. Then followed Rev. G. L. Prince as pastor for ten years; Rev. P. A. Bedford next, for one and one-half year; and Rev. C. P. Morrow, the present pastor, who has been the leader for two years. The new church building, located at 17th and Angelique, was erected under the pastorate of Rev. Morrow. It is one of the most complete and modem churches here. The building contains completely furnished pastor's study, Sunday school rooms, a balcony of the latest type, a gymnasium fully equipped and a modem steam heating plant. At the back of the church there is a beautiful lawn which is used for lawn parties and socials. The officers of the church are; deacons, J. Wynn, chairman, Geo. Langford, A. Tubbs, W. Tolson, R. Anderson, Henry Hem; C. Thompson, secretary; Mrs. Blanch Thompson, clerk; trustees, I. F. Ramsey, chairman; Wm. Cessney, John T. Mills, Wm. Hayes, R. G. Armstrong, secretary.

St. Augustine Catholic The formation of a parish for Negro Catholics in St. Joseph was inaugurated by the Right Rev. Francis Gilfillan in November of 1925. The work of organizing a class in catechism was entrusted to the priests of the St. Joseph cathedral. A small bungalow at 2217 Locust was rented for the purpose, classes were held twice a week at which both young and old attended to imbibe the faith of Catholicism. The first quarters were soon outgrown and a larger and more convenient site was secured at Eighteenth and Angelique where a small chapel was provided. The number of members increased until the second location became inadequate. It became evident that a new church was needed and therefore plans for a new church situated at Twenty-first and Angelique were made. The building is of brick. 70 feet long and 30 feet wide and has a portico, vestibule, combination assembly room and sacristy. St. Augustine’s church, the new edifice was dedicated December 18 with all the colorful ceremony of the Roman ritual. The Right Rev. Francis Gilfillan officiated, assisted by pastors of the local churches. The Holy Mass was observed and St Gregory's choir of the Cathedral school furnished the music. Plans' are under way for the erection of a Catholic school which will be opened next year. The church membership is increasing and Catholicism has made a good start in the community.

4,000,000 Slaves (Continued from Page C-14) when his former master approaches to take him back to the state of slavery from which he escaped, no doubt to disciplinary treatment, if nothing worse, for his attempted escape.” This was in July. 1927. The news of the judgment was my first knowledge of the existence of slavery in British domain. I saw Sir John Simon and other legal authorities and put the situation before them. It offered, they found, a close parallel to the famous Mansfield Judgment, in which the right to recapture a slave in London was challenged by Garnville Sharp in the year 1772. Whereupon my husband fired the opening shot in our campaign with a letter published in the "Times” August 25, 1927. The British government and what it represented were inconsistent with the holding of slavery, he said, and it would be lamentable to allow the African chieftains to believe that our power supported them in maintaining such a system. The next day the "Manchester Guardian” published the full text of the judgment. Then the whole press of England blazed away and the fight was on. Mr. Amery, the British Colonial secretary, took prompt and vigorous action. He instructed the governor of Sierra Leone to summon a special meeting of the Legislative Council early and last autumn a law was passed abolishing in Sierra Leone the status of slavery forever. And that is how at the dawn of this year of our Lord, 215,000. slaves entered into freedom. The uprising of public opinion in England was the real secret of our successful effort, just as it was the total lack of public opinion in Sierra Leone that had hampered the local government and delayed action on the post. In 1924 the governor of the Colony, Sir Ransford Slater, deplored the indifference of both the natives and the whites in slavery. Even the churches and the missions, he said, ignored it. The only reference he ever found to it in the Freetown press was severe criticism of a district commissioner who had the hardihood to advocate reform in this "really delicate matter.” And Freetown is largely black, many of the inhabitants having enjoyed education for three generations! Mr. Amery took prompt action by instructing the governor to summon a special meeting of the legislative council, and a law pas passed completely abolishing the status of 215,000 slaves free as from January l of this year, 1928. The Sierra Leone Judgment declaring slavery to be in fact legal in the Protectorate of Sierra Leone was issued on July 1927 but for three weeks nobody in England knew anything about it. On July 27 it was brought to the knowledge of Mr. Amery, the British Colonial secretary. and he took vigorous actin. What, then, is the position today in Sierra Leone? So far as we can gather, the chiefs have loyally responded to the appeal of the British government to acquiesce in the legislation which has been passed, but there are two or three main features which should be kept in mind. In the first place, there is abundant work for freed slaves in Sierra Leone, and therefore, the only economic change which will take place should be one with considerable advantage to the natives. It has always been found that a free man will work better than a slave, and the forests of Sierra Leone abound in natural products, all of which can only be gathered by the natives themselves. And yet we hope for the best. No matter how stubborn its hinges, the last dark door is opening toward the light!

Ottawa, Kansas Clubs Mothers Congress Club Was organized April 4, 1924. It is federated in the Kansas branch, National Congres of Colored Parent-Teachers association. Club colors are purple and white. This club does child welfare work and community mission. Officers are: Mary B. Allen, president; Alneta Wilson, first vice-president; Hattie Garrett, second vice-president; Minnie Bivens, third vice-president; Thelma Wilson, secretary; Queenie Huatado, corresponding secretary; Anna Rhodman, treasurer; Naomi Johnson, chaplain; Reesie Stovall, assistant chaplain; Isabell Willingham, pianist; Rev. Charles Favors; Margaret Thompson, historian; Isabell Wakefield, usher; Lydia Benson ,reporter.

Kansas City District Federation District No. 1—Emma Armstrong, district president, Ottawa; Mrs. I. F. Bradley, first vice- president, Kansas City, Kas.; Mrs. Cloe Green, second vice-president, Atchison; Mrs. Mary B. Allen, secretary. Ottawa; Mrs. Carrie Wilson, corresponding secretary, Atchison; Mrs Clara Powell, treasurer, Kansas City, Kas.; Mrs. Queenie Hurtado, parliamentarian, Ottawa; Mrs. Norene Davis, organizer, Kansas City, Kas.; Mrs. Evylan Barlaw, historian, Ottawa; Mrs. Emma Vaughn, chaplain. Kansas City, Kas.; Mrs. Vera Mattex, social welfare. Kansas City, Kas.; Mrs. Edith Barno, statistician, Atchison. The first district meeting of Kansas City district was held at the Eighth Street Christian church February 5-6, 1924. Mrs. V. Alma Boone, Kansas City district president. Second district meeting was called or because of the illness of the state president, Mrs. Beatrice L. Childs, Kansas City, Kas. Third district meeting was held in Kansas City, Kas., at the First A. M. E. church, February 1926. Mrs. Willa Baldwin, Ossawatomie, second district, was president. Fourth district meeting, Ottawa. Kas., was held February 3-4, 1927 at the Be thany Chapel Baptist church. Mrs. Emma Armstrong, Ottawa, Kas., third district, was president. Fifth district met in Atchison, Kas., February 8-9, 1928. Mrs. Emma Armstrong was district president In 1929 the meeting wil be in Kansas City. Kas.

FRATERNAL ORDERS Corinth Lodge No. 12, A. F. A. M., Ross White, W. M. Adah Chapter No. 30, E. S., Mrs. Adline Edwards, W. M. Olive Branch No. 33, Rev. D. W. Gross. M. W. J. Court Heroines of Jericho, Mrs. Fannie Edwards, M. A. M. United Brethren Odd Fellows, T. L. Bailow, M. N. G. Princess Household Ruth No. 5447, Mrs. Myria Clayborne, most noble governess. Rebecca Ann Tabernacle, Mrs. Pauline Wilson. C. P. 8. M. T., Mrs. Pearl Clayborne. Knights Pythians, Lane Lodge No. 49, V. B. Brady. W. C. The Queens Court Calanthe No. 49. Mrs. Queenie Hurtado, W. C.

Rural Education in Missouri a Crying Need, Says Inspector By Nathan B. Young Missouri undertakes to educate her Negro youth in separate schools. She is the only Mid- Western state that supports a dual system of schools a hangover from her slave days. With few exceptions, the system works to the educational disadvantage of the Negro youth. In conservative estimate, there are 50,000 school-age children of "African descent” in Missouri. For about 25,000 of these (who for the most part live in her major urban district) she provides adequate (tho not always equal) elementary and secondary schools. In like estimate, to around 10,000 Negro children, who live In her minor urban districts she offers inadequate elementary and secondary educational opportunity. For those living in village and rural districts, with but few exceptions, she provides limited, and in some places, well-nigh negligible educational opportunity. To the residue, about 5,000, she denies any educational opportunity whatsoever thru the operation of the law requiring a minimum of 15 Negro children with an average daily attendance of 8 for the organization of a school for them. Finally, to none of her Negro youth does Missouri offer fully standardized higher educational opportunity— nor any kind of graduate professional training. In a word, Missouri does not provide an educational highway leading from the kindergarten thru the University for the feet of her Negro youth such as she provides for the feet of her white youth. The road she provides for Negro youth is good only in spots, and in some places it is not even a blazed trail. Such are the facts. Now what is the remedy? It is not far to seek. 1. Repeal the law requiring 15 Negro children as a minimum for setting up a Negro school. That law is literally slamming the schoolhouse door in the faces of several hundreds, if not thousands, of Negro children. Establish in lieu thereof some such arrangement as that by which Australia and Maine are extending school privileges to their isolated children. 2. Establish by legislative enactment secondaryy scholarships to subsidize the expense of those Negro children who are denied local high school opportunity The necessity for some such an arrangement for high school training is as imperative as that for elementary training, since the doors of the high school are closed against hundreds of Negro youth who do not live in districts where accredited high schools are open to them. In this connection it may be observed that the proposition to be submitted to voters of Missouri next November will remedy somewhat the situation as regards the elementary and secondary schools for Negroes. 3. Lincoln University—devoted to the higher education of Negro youth of Missouri should be placed as to management, as to curricula, in the same category with the University of Missouri. It should be made to render literally the same educational service to its patrons that the University of Missouri and the State Colleges render to their patrons. To have it do less will be to have it fall short of its purpose as indicated in its official style, and set out in the law establishing it. However, such legislation can be secured only by bringing to bear on the Missouri General Assembly all of the political power of the Negroes themselves together with the influence of those of their white fellow citizens who believe in fair play and a fair deal for all citizens. The situaton challenges the united efforts of all Missouri Negroes regardless of party alliances. The education of the Negro child should be the concern, of all Negroes and transcend in importance the welfare of any political party. Fifty thousand Negro children appeal to all Missourians for what is now denied—a fair break in matters educational. Shall their appeal fall upon deaf ears?

CLUBS—KANSAS CITY, MO. The Stewardess Social Club The Stewardess Social club of Cain's Memorial church. "Uplift of Humanity” is the motto of this club, which has for its purpose that of paying its church bills and upbuilding the community in general. This club meets every Friday night with prayer services or programs. The officers are: Mrs. Sarah Mosby, president; Mrs. Clara Bryant, secretary; Mrs. Lillie. Beaks, trea[s]urer; Mrs. Julia Boyd, critic M Luella Jackson, reporter.

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New St. Joseph City Hall New City hall , St. Joseph, devoted to the best interests of its citizenry [to] preserve those ideas and traditions upon which good government is based.

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[page 41] Kansas City Call LODGES — SPORTS

[K]ansas City Has Fifteen A. F. & A. M Lodges

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LODGE, NO. 25 IS OLDEST, [?] ORGANIZED JULY 17, 1870 [T]he Organizations, Named for Prominent Kansas City Masons, Have Been Potent Factor for Progress

Masonic Grand Master FRED W. DABNEY

The increase in lodges of the Masonic order is an interesting cross-section of the progress of Kansas City. From the first lodge org[a]nized in 1870 a steady increase can be noted up to the present time when Kansas City has fifteen lodges. Rone Lodge. 25, A. P. & A. M., was chartered by the Grand Lodge of the State of Mis[s]ouri on July 17, 1870 with Jacob Pritchard as Worshipful Master, Andrew Hubbard as Senior Warden, Benjamin Edington as Junior Wa[r]den, and since that time the follow[ing] named have been entrusted with t[he] [s]acred trust of keeping the warran[t:] Jacob Pritchard, Andrew Hubbard, Thomas Walker, J. T. Pierson, Andrew Jackson, Edward Gibbs, William Rhodes. Porter Mahan, Alford Darnell, W. F. Adams, John Rone, Sr., Samuel H. Hale, Lucian B. Carter B. Carter, E. B. Francis, T. G. McCampbell, William Tooley, J. W. Baldwin, A. R. Harris, Nelson C. Crews, James M. Harris. A. O. Coffin, C. H. Countee, L. J. Moore, Eugene Lacey, P. G. M., Fred Gilmore, Preston Overton, John Rone, Jr., J. C. Granger, Emmett Spruel, F. A. McWilliams, Hermon Kenslar, Samuel Hines, R. A. Walls, H. G. Conway and Eugene King. Some of Kansas City’s most illustrious citizens have been and are of this the first and consequently the oldest of all Masonic lodges. Some of them are: T. G. McCampbell, Past Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Masons, and present Grand Joshua of the Heroines of Jericho, who has been secretary of Rone Lodge for the past twenty years; L. D. Carter, Past Deputy Grand Master, Past Eminent Commander of Knights Templar; B. B. Francis, Past Grand Patrol of the O. E. S., for the Missouri jurisdiction, and And[r]ew Hubbard who established the first [u]p-to-date restaurant in the city a[m]ong colored people. This lodge gave two grand masters, Nelson C. Crews and Eugene Lacey. The next lodge to be established was Pritchard 42, whose warrant was granted July 3, 1873 by the M. W. G. L„ of Missouri with Wm. Lawton as Grand Master, J. W. Braxton, Deputy Grand Master, J. G. Pettiford as Senior Warden, J. W. Hughes Jr as Junior Warden, and G. W. Guy as Grand Secretary. The charter was granted on the petition of Brothers Jackson, H. McClain. Wm. F. Adams and Nathaniel Harris. The following are the Worshipful Masters who have headed Pritchard lodge: B. F. Brasher, E. Hayden, A. Cannon, R. McCampbell, W. F. Davis, Thomas Jackson, Nathaniel Harris, M. W. Love, J. J. Williams, Sampel Early, J. W. Brown, Louis Rhodes, A. J. Nash, Louis Bradley. T. W. Williams, J. F. Houston, W. R. Patterson, J. H. Walker, J. W. Crowe, A. Chouteau, H. J. Spigner, A. F. Neal, C. R. Bruce, W. H. Washington. H. W. Millre, J. W. Hubbard, Columbus Jones, R. J. Grear, Cecil M. Thompson, Wm. Hopkins, W. W. Young, H. W. Miller, S. W. Brown, W. A. Murray, J. T. Collins, A. E. Pullam O. L. Bruce, LeRoy Chandler, R. F. Gaines, and J. D. Brown, who is the present Master. Westport lodge, No. 46 was the third lodge to be set up in this city. It was organized in July, 1903 and chartered the same year. The first Master was Harry Bean. Past Masters are: Harry Bean, Thomas Sears, D. N. Crossthwait Sr., Jack Sears, Wm. Stewart. Benjamin Martin, A. V. Barton, Benjamin Cave, A. Russell, Benjamin Givens, R. H. Longdon, J. D. Wilkins, Joe Owens, Herbert Tilford, George H. Roy, Pickford Harris, Lesly Hammonds and the present Master, Harvey Anderson. Charter members of this organization are: John N. Kennedy; Chas. Kennedy, K. J. Slaughter, Harry Bean. The Nelson C. Crews lodge No. 47. was organized February, 1924 and chartered by the Grand Lodge of the state in August of the same year, by Eugene Lacey, P. G. M., with Elmer Jackson as Worshipful Master, Donald H. Rife as Senior Warden, and Thomas E. Smith at Junior Warden. The lod[ge] was given its name to perpetuate [th]e memory of the [s]tatesman, orato[r] and Past Grand Master of Free M[as]onry, Nelson C. Crews, who pass[ed] away some years ago. [?]age, John Garnett, Silas B. Gleaves[,] Paul Hicks, Elmer Jackson, Young [?] Jackson, Edgar Langum, Joseph W[?]rowell, Don H. Rife, Edward [?]on, Harry Scruggs, Henry Smith[,] James Smith, William Smith, Th[o]mas Simms, James Saunders, Robe[r]t B. Sales, S. Tillman, Alfred Thompson, Ethan Walker, Jesse Ward, Herbert Williams and Chester Wedd. The present Master is Thomas E. Smith[,] Secretary, Elmer Jackson. The [M]ount Olive Lodge No. 53 was organize[d] 18[?] and chartered in 1897 with M. [W.?] Wooder as Worshipful Ma[ste]r, [H]enry Wright, as Senior [Master?] [an]d Curtis Bazel as Junior [Warden.] T[h]e charter members are: Ar[ch]ie W[al]dron, Wm. Ca[r]ter, Chas. Monholland, H. F. Scott, Frank Williams, Henry Wight, R. L. Bruce, Eugene Miller, Wm. H. Brown, Wm. Jones. John McKay, Chas. Gillias. The past Masters are: M. W. Woden, H. F. Scott, Wm. Moore, Wm. Carter, Alexander Jackson, George A. Johnson, Tyler Jackson, Thomas Jackson, Sandy Meyers, John A. Johnson, Earl Foster, Jesse Whitney, George W. Jackson, C. F. Jackson, and Nim Noles. The present Master is Wm. Vaughn, with Earl Foster as Secretary. Blue Valley Lodge No. 64, was organized in December, 192[6] by Grand Master Lacey. The present officers are Jasper Collier, Worshipful Master, J. Jefferson, Senior Warden, John Shield, Junior Warden, Joseph Sawyers, Treasurer and Clyde Ewings, Secretary. The Ideal Lodge, No. 70 was organized in 1907, receiving its charter in 1908 with George Love as Master. Other Masters are: Wm. H. Dawley, Wm. E. Griffin, Gaitha Page, L. A. Knox, Theo. Clay, Frederick S. oDuglass, Leonard H. Roy, Otis Schoolen, Joseph Thompson, Frank May, John B .Lucas, Frank A. Hall and Wm. H. Anderson, present Master. Charter members: Geo. W. K. Love, Wm. H. Dawley, Wm. E. Griffin, G. A. Page, J. W. Carter, Theo. H. Clay, L. A. Knox, Past Master and present Grand Attorney; H. Waldon, F. S. Douglas, Clay Brasfield, Otis Schoolen, L. W. Roy, Joseph Thompson, Frank May. John B. Lucas, Frank A. Hall, Wm. I. Anderson. The Mt. Oread Lodge, No. 76 was organized December 27, 1913 by Past Grand Master Nelson C. Crews with W. C. Hueston as Master, H. W. Bruce as Senior Warden, J. W. McCuin as Junior Warden, Henry Compton as Treasurer, and D. C. Houston as Secretary, and was chartered in 1914. Fred Dabney, present Most Worshipful Grand Master of Missouri and its Jurisdiction, was the second Master of this lodge. The Past Masters are: W. C. Hueston, Fred Dabney, G. M., E. C. Bunch, D. C. Houston, J. H. Samples, George Fowler, S. R. Austin, James B. Kincaid, Elmer Dotson, Cornelius M. Monroe, William Ballard, and the present master, Duffy Reagor, J. Kincaid, secretary. The Charter members are: William C. Hueston, Daniel C. Houston, J. W. McCuin, Charles J. Nelson, George Fowler, Henry Compton, John H. Sample, William R. Bass, E. C. Bunch, Robert J. Brown, J. H. Marshall, Benjamin McCormick, Daniel W. Walker, J. W. Birch, Geo. O. Smith, W. H. Bruce, Isaac Caldwell, Fortune J. Weaver, Dell Hutchinson, Ryland Schell, James A. Fowler, William Finney, Samuel Price, Charles Black, Stephen R. Austin, Henry E. A. Daugherty, Geo. Winsstead, John H. Lyons, Charles Hagood, Martin Young, Coloni D. Cowans. Graham Lodge No. 85, was granted its charter the 23rd of August, 1876 with H. R. Graham as Worshipful Master ,S. J. Foster as Senior Warden, Oscar Rollins as Junior Warden, Evans F. Chandler is the present Worshipful Master of the lodge and E. B. Thompson is the secretary. The R. T. Coles Lodge No. 86, was organized Nov. 19, 1910 with James Lee as Master, with about 140 charter members. The charter was granted the next year. The lodge is named for one of Missouri’s most famous educators, R. T. Coles, who was at the time of the organization of this lodge the Grand Master of the Missouri Jurisdiction. The John Lange Lodge No. 103 was set up in 1916 with 25 charter members. The first Master was Otis R. Hines, with C. H. Calloway as Senior Warden, and Charles W. Wilson as Junior Warden. Other Masters are: C. W. Pratt, Charles Wilson, J. B. Cespedes, Wm. A. Afrond, John Berryhill, James Garfield, Wm. H. Calloway, Wm. James. Wm. Lyles and Wm. S. Sutton, W. M., B. Walker, secretary. The lodge was set up by the following Grand Masters: Nelson C. Crews, Richard H. Young, J. N. Green, Crittenden E. Clark and H. H. Walker. The John Turner lodge No. 106 was organized in August 1881 and received its charter the next year. John Turner was the Worsipful Master, with W. T. Davis as Senior Warden and R. T. Coles as Junior Warden. The charter members were J. C. Simmons, C. Monroe, W. C. Carr, L. T. George, Johnson Pope, Ben Justice, N. C. Powell, B. H. Compton, D. E. Blackburn. The Past Masters are: A. Hunt. C. L. Williams, Wm. Dabney, M. E. Carter, Wm. Emerson, F. L Scott, Charles Carr, Ben Justice, R. T. Coles, Joe Herriford, W. H. Bennet, S. B. Bryant, Chas. Monroe, A. W. Fox and Wm. Lewis. R. J. Foster is the present Master, A. Hunt, Secretary. J. W. Hurse Lodge No. 117 was organized Aufiust 11, 1916 with Rev. J. W. Hurse as Worshipful Master, Dr. O. W. Brown as Senior Warden, and J. W. Jenkins as Junior Warden. The lodge was set up with a class of thirty-eight men, and today has one hundred and five on its roster. At the organization J. W. Hurse was elected the first Worshipful Master, next Chester Sims became the W. M„ and following him Robert Connor. In the order named these men served as W. M.: J. W. Council, G. W. Brown, C. W. West, Robert L. Grant, Hiram McAllister, and the present Master, Roy L. Turner. Gilbert Daniels is the present secretary. The Green Pastures Lodge No. 128 was organized in 1888 and set up by John Williams of the Pritchard ldoge with John Bell as Senior Warden, Louis Thomas as Senior Warden, Louis Thompkins as Junior Warden. The charter members are: B. L. Thompson, Edward Barker, Jesse Lester, Thomas Anderson, George Thmo- as, George Jordan, L. H. Jordan, Alexander Jordan, L. H. Barber, S. I. Johnson, C. Riley, Robert Lewis, W. S. Hoskins, C. Shinall and Moses Morgan. The lodge received its warrant in the same year it was organized. The present officers are: Ernest Hawkins, Worshipful Master, George Sales, Senior Warden, M. B. France, Junior Warden, H. D. Timmon. Treasurer, and A. A. Moore, Secretary. The Past Masters are: John Bell, B. L. Thompson, J. Anderson, Robert Lewis, W. D. Taylor, Geo. W. Bryant, S. Baker, J. H. Wilkins, M. W. Wilson, Edward S. Lewis, Charles Lewis, P. C. Kincaid. S. M. Winston, T. W. Flood, A. A. Johnson, H. D. Timmons, A. Moore, G. L. Lewis, Edward Grant, G. W. Graves. The Amos Johnson Lodge, No. 148 was chartered August 23, 1900. There were 22 charter members. The lodge took its name from Rev. Amos Johnson, a Baptist minister who was a noted preacher. The lodge was set up by George Diggs, Special District Deputy Grand Master. Four of the charter members are still living: W. G. Mosely, R. W. Wiley, George H. Thomas and Ezekiel Johnson. The Past Masters are: A. R. Chinn, G. E. Gamer, H. R. Edwards, M. H. Lambright, W. O. Mosby, S. L. Von, Thomas Watson, George Thomas, N. W. Jordan, Richard Harris, and Cl[har]ley B. Taylor, J. Curruth is the present Worshipful Master, and S. Martin is the Secretary. The total membership of all the lodges in Kansas City is about two thousand, which puts this city second to St. Louis in the matter of Masonic numbers.

Missouri Jurusdiction of Masons Has Grown from Five to 138 Lodges Am I my brother's keeper? Shall I keep him in health with friendship, in sickness with care, in destitution with provisions and in sorrow with solace. No doubt this question was uppermost in H. McGee Alexander’s mind when he organized the Most Worshipful Grand lodge of A. F. and A. M. of Missouri. He realized that thousands of people were primarily interested in their own affairs, that they felt prosperity would always smile upon them and that dark lean days would never come but he knew that even money will not buy friendship and loyalty, therefore he set about to build an organization that would serve rich and poor, clergy and layman, professor and laborer. An organization is no stronger than the moral and mental strength of its leaders. Among the early leaders of Missouri Masonry were: Moses Dickson. Alexander Clark, Thomas W. Stringer, William R. Lawton, Willis N. Brent, G. W. Guy, Amos Johnson, J. W. C. Owens, Joseph H. Pelham, Alexander R. Chinn, M. O. Ricketts and Nelson C. Crews. The first grand lodge was organized in Missouri in 1865 with five lodges participating in its formation. Among the five were three that had been organized by the grand lodge of Ohio, viz: H. McGee Alexander No. (Continued on Page D-8)

TABOR LODGE ORIGIN HERE Missouri Is Mother Jurisdiction of Order of Twelve Founded in 1872 By JOE E. HERRIFORD The Knights and Daughters of Tabor have their own quiet way in winning success as a secret organization. The order was instituted in this state in the year 1872, in Jack- son county and has maintained a steady growth in members, influence and service. Like all other fraternal ventures having their origin soon after freedom the Taborian order had its “ups and downs’’ and made its full quota of mistakes due to inexperience but it always managed to land upon its feet and has kept down all forms of confusion and unrest among it smembers. That's doing a great deal more than some fraternities which claim to have been instituted under direct wisdom of the super-human. There are sixteen state jurisdictions of Taborians in the United States all being children and grandchildren of the mother jurisdiction of Missouri. Missouri is regarded as the most progressive Jurisdiction, even though greatly outnumbered by Texas, Tennessee and Georgia. The big center of Taborian influence in Missouri lies in the city of St Louis where there are fully 3,000 adult members under the enthusiastic leadership of such outstanding workers as Dr. Jas. A. Rainey, Chas. W. Dixon, Jerry Dement Florence G. Davis, Annabel J. White, Bertha E. Rhodes, Mollie Morgan , Ida Evans and others of equal zeal and ability. Kansas City comes next with 900 adult members who are looked after by such well-known spirits as Julius [?]. K. Ficklin, Susie Dotson, Lettie Miller and the chief grand mentor , Joe E. Herriford. Then there are such points as Liberty with Geo. W. Ruff and Lillian Booker at the helm, and Higginsville is strong under the leadership of Frank B. Brown and O. N. Chinn. Strong organizations are maintained at Chillicothe, Glasgow, Warrensburg, Columbia, Clarksville, St. Charles, St. Joseph, Plattsburg, the home of Wm. Green, grand treasurer, Springfield, Greenfield, Neosha, Odessa, Richmond, Hannibal, Louisiana, Macon, Moberly, Brunswick, Lexington, home of A. G. Graves with his famous drill team, Waverly, Cape Girardeau, Commerce, Jackson, Festus, Caruthersville, New Madrid, where last year $300 was sent by members to the flood sufferers, and other points throughout the state. Secret fraternities have their positive mission among the members of the race and Tabor strives to find out the medium of greatest usefulness and finding it to stick to it and make actual deliveries. Their fifty-sixth annual grand session is being held in the city of 3t. Joseph this week and a large attendance is at the sessions.

Story of Old City Hospital Is Romance of Struggle of Negro Doctors for a Chance Up on Twenty-second and McCoy something interesting is taking place. A building is being erected, or rather is in the process of erection, with much clanking of steam shovels; and much thudding and hammering from another building which is being tom down; all of which gives the neighborhood an air of bustle and business. Maybe you don’t know what’s going on up on Hospital Hill. Maybe the significance of the hungry steam shovels and the tearing down of buildings is lost upon you. But if you are not intimately acquainted with the actual event ,you have at least read the newspapers, and so know that Kansas City is building a new hospital—for Negroes. But maybe that means very little to you still. As an individual such news might not be expected to cause you to burst into loud hurrahs, since you are, no doubt, quite well, and even if you are not, you have perhaps, ample funds to take care of yourself in a private hospital. But let’s look a bit farther. What of the masses of your blood brothers who are much less fortunate than yourself? They are part of you, and by them, by the least of them, will you be Judged. Their health is yours, since as a race you are constricted to certain compact and well defined areas. And too, what of the young physicians who must complete their educations with a year's interneship in an accredited hospital? One of them is perhaps your son, or a relative's son. And what of the many nurses who each year are graduated from this institution, and who take their places in the great work of tending the sick, and of fullfilling the humane offices to which they have dedicated their lives? Are you still skeptical of the interest and actual importance that a new hospital for you should awaken? Does the fact that in this institution Kansas City has the finest training school for colored nurses in the mid-west mean anything? Then let me tell you the story about the Old City hospital that soon is to be no more, and the new General Hospital No. 2 that in a few months will be a beautiful fact. In 1905 Kansas City voted bonds for a new city hospital. The building which was later given over to colored people, and is now called the Old City hospital, was at that time the sole civic institution of its kind. Negroes were assigned only five beds in the whole place, and all of these were in the surgical ward. There were no colored nurses or doctors in its personnel, and indeed a Negro doctor could not even enter the place by the front door. The dark population of Kansas City at that time was about 15,000 and the sole hospital aid they could expect from the city was the use of the five beds already mentioned. Even the white people could see that something needed be done not only regarding the hospital facilities for the city's growing white population, but for its darker brethren also. It was. scarcely reasonable to expect the percentage of the 15.000 Negroes who might be sick to crowd themselves into five beds! As has been said a new, greatly larger city hospital was planned for all citizens which was supposed to include the colored folks too. In due time, perhaps in the next two or three years, the new buildings were completed ,and the patients moved into them—that is all except the colored patients. Perhaps the white people thought the new, handsome buildings much too fine for colored people. At any rate they decided to leave them in the old building, which was perhaps a good thing as then more colored people could be accommodated. And the fact that colored people offered richer clinical material might have also weighed in the decision. Under the new order of things Negro physicians were still not allowed to follow their cases into the hospital, and the only dark faces seen were those of the patients themselves. Superintendent, nurses, and internes were all white. The Negro physicians of the town cramped under this arrangement. Knowing themselves capable, they felt that they should have a part in the treatment of the Negro patients. At first they tried to stir up a similar sentiment among the colored citizens, and to their extreme surprise, found much opposition, and from supposedly enlightened groups such as the clergy, and the educators. Feeling the need of action keenly they persisted, their indomitable leader being the fiery young physician T. C. Unthank who spoke his mind freely and without fear. Around him he gathered such men as Dr .J. E. Perry, Dr. Shannon, Dr. Lambright, and Dr. Holly, and together they made visit after visit to the health board putting their proposition before the city's health directors with no success. At last, seeing direct means would avail them nothing, crafty Dr. Unthank and his colleague. Dr. Perry visited the editor of The Kansas City Journal and told him they thought that Negroes should have the chance of running the hospital, or at least be eligible for interne- ship and nurse training. When the newspaper man laughed at them as presumptous dreamers, Dr. Unthank boldly informed him that the white people had to give them the hospital's management, and went on to explain the proposition that, since the whites could not be rid of the blacks, that it was incumbent upon them to allow Negro physicians and nurses to get the proper experience that they might keep their patients throughout the day in good health, and so insure the safety of the whites. The editor must have been impressed by the idea, as very shortly a lengthy editorial appeared in The Journal making the same argument that Dr. Unthank had used, and in addition making quite a plea for the betterment of colored people from a moral point-of-view. That ,seemingly, was the wedge. Dr. Unthank used the very same argument to Charles Armour, president of the Armour packing company, whose servant he had ordered to stay home because the servant’s child had scarlet fever; and he explained to the elder Armour that unless he had thus protected his safety, the disease might have entered Armour's home. The rich man. who was a member of the health board, seemingly was much impressed, and promised to help Dr. Unthank. The white physicians, Drs. Jabez Jackson, J. D. Griffen, and Herman E. Pierce had so been converted to the idea and had also promised their assistance. Time went on and Dr. Unthank and his cohorts kept fighting. An incident occured during this period that incensed all the Negro physicians greatly, and caused them to bend every effort toward obtaining the hospitals complete emancipation. Two of them had been called in to treat a case, which they decided needed an immediate operation. They called the white city doctor who agreed to perform the operation, and who sent the ambulance for the patient The two Negro doctors ran every step of the way from l4th and Vine up to the hospital in order to witness the operation, and on attempting to gain entrance to the hospital were told curtly to go around to the back door where “you nigger quacks” belong. When at last it was decided to have Negro internes and nurses for the hospital, the medical and surgical staff of General Hospital did everything in their power to prevent the plan from being executed. An article from the August 14, 1912 Journal will be quite explanatory. It follows: Note: Members of the visiting staff of General hospital, who had petitioned to displace Negro internes at the old hospital by whites ones, gave low percentages on the examination papers of four Negro graduates of medical colleges to keep them from making the required grade of 75 per cent, which would entitle them to positions as internes. The president had the papers regraded and found that the Negro graduates received the highest averages and won positions.

HOSPITAL RETAINS NEGRO INTERNES

President of Health Board "Puts One Over” on Surgeon Staff.

HAS PAPERS REGRADED

Outside Doctors Rank Negro Applicants as Winners at Old Institution.

President W. P. Molley of the hospital and health board has worked a neat move on the members of the medical and surgical visiting staff of the General hospital, who recently graded examination pap[e]rs (Continued on Page D-8)

1,200 ELKS HERE SEEK 1929 MEET Famous Marching Club and Band to Boost City in Chicago The Bills are coming! Or at least such is the freely made prediction of the members and officials of the Mid-West lodge No. 233, I. B. P. O. E. of W., who state that 1929 will see the grand session of the order holding its annual meeting here. Once before Kansas City had the honor of entertaining a grand session of the Elks lodge. That was in 1920, and right royally were the visitors feted, so that with a second invitation extended, the local lodge feels some confidence that it will be accepted. A general invitation with specific promises has been issued from which the following is quoted: OUR PLEDGE TO YOU. More than thirty revived and new lodges. All grand officers will be the guests of our lodge. Free parking space for 5,000 automobiles, fully protected. Atuomobiles at the disposal of convention visitors. Fully equipped officers for the Grand Exalted Ruler and Grand Secretary. Two thousand new members in Mid-West lodge. Our governor, our senators, and city officials will in person welcome you to our city and state. That the increased railroad fare in coining to Kansas City will be offset by our convention prices. Last, but not least the great hospitality of Kansas City and Mid-West lodge. Kansas City, Kansas has joined in the invitation, and is almost as anxious as its sister city that the next grand session be held here. The prospective program for the entertainment of the visitors in the event that Kansas City does get the 1929 grand sission, is more than elaborate, and includes many motor trips to interesting portions of the state, moonlight excursions on the river, a national beauty contest, baseball matches, boxing contests, and of course dances, and that intimate hospitality such as only Kansas City knows how to extend. The men who are actively responsible for the move to bring the grand session here are on the general committee, a list of which follows: Quincy J. Gilmore, chairman; T. B. Watkins, Wm. Hueston, R. S. Street, Dr. J. E. Dibble, George Golden. Felix H. Pyane, G. B. Merritt, W. N. Brooks, Dr. W. J. Thompkins, A. E. Pullem, Joseph Butler, Frank Amus, Atty. C. H. Calloway, Atty. L. A. Knox, Ellis Webb. R. W. Childress, Emory J[ef]ferson, Atty. J. B. Gibbs, Douglass Gregg, Louis Boxx, Rev. W. C. Williams, Robert Davis, Dr. J. O. Henley, Frank Bush, Wm. F. McCrary, E. W. Meek. rD. S. S. Hill, Dr. W. H. Bruce. Thomas Brown, Frank Banks, Wm. Maupins, John Carter, A. E. Toney. The Mid-West lodge was organized in this city largely through the efforts of Quincy J. Gilmore and Dr. W. H. Bruce. On May 19, 1919 the lodge was launched with a membership of 34. Before the lodge was six months old Mr. Gilmore and Dr. Bruce went to Atlantic City and succeeding in capturing the grand lodge for this city. In less than a year’s time the membership had increased from the original 34 members to 1,000. The following men have served as Exalted Rulers: Quincy J. Gilmore. T. B Watkins. Dr. W. H. Bruce, Wm. Hueston, Wm. Maupins, John X. Brown and Arthur Pullem. The lodge, at present, is located in a building at 18th and Euclid blut plans are on foot for a permanent Elks temple to cost $250,000. The building of this new temple hinges on the securing of the next grand lodge for Kansas City next year, in which event actual work of the proposed edifice will be started at once. The activities of Mid-West lodge are many and varied. It has given scholarships to deserving pupils; it has sponsored charity benefits, and each year has contributed heavily to the Christmas Charity funds, besides doing much individual charity work. Among its prides is its 50-piece band under the direction of Capt. Wm Cooper, one of the best known band leaders in the country. The Mid-West Marching Patrol is known all over the country by reason of its beautiful uniforms, and is expected to carry one of the big prizes at Chicago this August. At present the lodge has 1,200 members and is in the midst of a drive by which they hope to secure 800 new members.

[page 42] D-2 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July [1928]

A.U.K. and D. of A. Begins Campaign in Missouri and Kans[as] ORDER, FOUNDED IN ST. LOUIS, HAS HAD PHENOMENAL GROWTH Unique Single Tax Plan and Broad Program of Racial Uplift Responsible for Expansion SAINT LOUIS.—This city is the headquarters of a fraternal organization, the Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa, which has had a phenomenal growth both in membership and financial prosperity, due to the incorporation of advanced ideas into lodge work. Settled now upon a solid foundation and convinced that its organization is sound and its guiding officers crrect in their policies, the A. U. K. and D. of A. is beginning at once an intensive organization campaign in Western Missouri and Kansas, placing these two sections in one distrct, with headquarters in Kansas City. The actual work in the Kansas City district will start immediately after the 1928 grand convention closes in Columbus, Ohio August 11, 1928. Has Proved Its Worth No better proof of the worth of the order can be found than its financial condition today. It has been said frequently of lodges that they handle a great deal of money, but do not always invest it wisely. Whether this is true or not, certainly no such charge can be brougnt against the A. U. K. and D. of A. Its financial statement shows careful and conservative management. Assets Today, $106,000 The order’s assets in 1927 were $87,000 with liabilities of $5,000. Today the assets are listed at $106,000 and the liabilities have been reduced to $1,200. The A. U. K. and D. of A. was incorporated in 1908 under the laws of Missouri and registered in 1909 at Washington, D. C. with the librarian of Congress. It is under the supervision of the insurance department of the state of Missouri. Organization Is Different A new idea in fraternal organization—the encouragemtnt of Negro business by trading with Negro mer[c]hants—is among the many reasons for the growth of the order. According to William Herbert Fields, founder and national grand master since the incorporation of the order in 1908, the lodge has grown from a mere handful to more than 50,000 members organized into local councils in thirty-one states. There are a number of features in the organization and conduct of the lodge that have been responsible for the steady growth. Chief among these have been the three cardinal principles of the order: racial unity, racial uplift and racial reciprocity. Second in attractiveness, no doubt, is the spirit of true fraternalism that exists within the whole order. Members of other lodges who have joined the Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa have been astounded at the harmony and real fraternal spirit of the organization. The method of organization and the character of the administration also have been factors in the growth. Encourages Race Business In it cardinal principles the order stands first for racial unity. “It is trite, but nevertheless true,” says Grand Master Fields, “that we will never make any nota- able progress as a people until we unite our fronts. Despite the fact that our orators and writers have been sounding this warning for two decades, we are not yet together. Our order, with its rapidly widening circle of members, proposes to make racial unity an accomplished fact. “In following out our second objective—racial uplift—the lodge aims to have its members work for all those things which make for racial uplift: better homes, more effective churches, more schools, better citizenship and the like. At the same time members of our organization believe in refraining from all acts which tend to cast reproach upon the race. “It is the support of our third cardinal principle—racial reciprocity—that forms one of the outstanding features of the organization,” Mr. Fields continues. In subscribing to this principle the lodge has not only encouraged its members to buy from Negro merchants and professional men, but as an organization, it has invested its funds in sound Negro business enterprises, thus concretely demonstrating its faith in its own doctrine.” Fraternalism Manifest Not a little of the popularity of the order has been due to the true spirit of fraternalism within its ranks. A stopover of a single unit in a large Ohio city recently resulted in a dozen local councils of the order being organized in that city, all enthusiastic over the spirit manifested. Boston and New York have been captured by the new order and more than fifty delegates were present at the last grand session from New York councils. "Much of this growth, I believe, is due to the fact that within this order people have found a spirit of harmony and true brotherly and sisterly peace.” Blanket Fee Popular There is no red tape over dues and fees in the A. U. K. and D. of A. There is a joining fee of $2.00 which includes the cost of issuing the insurance policy required by the state. Then a monthly fee of fifty cents covers all taxes, burial, sick and grand taxes. There are no special assessments for anything. The fifty-cent monthly fee is divided as follows: burial tax, fifteen cents; endowment tax and grand tax, ten cents, making a total of twenty-five cents sent to the grand treasury; the other twenty-five cents remains in the local treasury of each council. There is a band and revenue tax of 50c per year. Burial payment is $75. An endowment of $50 is created after a member has been in the order for twenty- four months. For this fee the grand council pays a death claim of $125. Under the leadership of Major General James A. Shackelford, of St. Louis, the uniform rank of the United Knights and Daughters of Africa has grown to be one of the best in the country. Building New Building With Grand Master Fields as the helm, the order has prospered and at the present time owns two buildings here at Compton and Lucas avenues—its own home office building and an annex building at 711 N. Compton, now nearing completion. The order will use the new building as national grand financial department headquarters and fit it out also with modem living apartments for rental purposes. On the street level there will be a number of store rooms. Many members are attracted to the order because of the simplicity of its organization and the efficient, businesslike manner in which it is run by its officers. Men and women sit together in the Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa. At the last national grand council meeting, the 571 delegates chose the following national officers: William Herbert Fields, national grand master; S. D. Davis, national grand secretary- treasurer.

A. U. K. and D. of A. to Have Quarters at Street Hotel The temporary headquarters during the membership drive on Western Missouri and Kansas will be at Street’s hotel, 18th and Paseo, where Grand Master Fields and some of the Deputies will be in charge assisted by Mrs. Marjorie Holly, State Grand Queen of Missouri and the Most Excellent Queens:— Mrs. Odessa Wilson, 2821 Myrtle Ave. Mrs. Sara Hines, 1006 E. 16th St. Mrs. Clara Knox, 1825 Paseo. Mrs. Sophia Lyons, 818 E. 10th St. Apt. G. Mrs. Mattie Porter, 2003 Park Ave. Mrs. Irene Lewis, 1715 Linwood Ave. Mrs. Callie Woods, 1710 Oak St. Sir William Saunders, 2106 Harrison.

Boys’ Work at “Y” Grows Under Russell James Lowell Russell, promoter of Boy's Work programs in the Y. M. C. A. fields, is a native son of Kansas City, Mo., and was educated in the public schools here. He took his high school course at Western Baptist college, then at Macon. Mo., now located in Kansas City. His normal work Was done at Western university, Quindaro, Kas., and his college work at Morning Si[?] [?] Iowa and the Chicago [?] college. Mr. Russell’s public l[?] young in years, has [?] having taught two ye[?] [?] Bartlett Agricultural a[?] [?] school, and one year a [?] [?]ern college as history director of physical ed[ucation.] Three years ago he [?] to take up boys’ work [?] Y. M. C. A. by G. A[.] [?] was then executive sec[retary] [?] that time Mr. Russell [?] much progress in deve[?] the best boys’ work pr[?] Y. M. C. A. fields a[?] leaders of the associati[on.] The secret of Mr. [Russell’s] [pro]gram of success, as he[?] in the fact that any[?] [?] program must be app[roach]ed sc[ien]tifically, that is truthfully seek[ing] the causes of conditions as they [?] and then systematically, spiritua[lly] and educationally working out [?] solution with the greatest degree [of] efficiency possible, serving t[he] greatest number with the greate[st] good. That greatest good from th[e] Y. M. C. A. point of view is the four-square development of body, mind[,] spirit and social service given t[o] boys and young men in their everyday activities. Boys’ Work Accomplishments The furnishing of speakers for Hi-Y club in Westport, Southwest hi[gh] school Hi-Y, Humbolt school an[d] Boys club, downtown. (All white.) Organization of the first Pa[seo?] Older Boys Echo conference i[n] which 124 high school boys hav[e] taken definite part. City-wide high school club fellowship meetings bringing about bett[er] race relation understanding among white and colored boys. The certificate of affiliation of the Lincoln high school Hi-Y and Western college Hi-Y clubs with the Y clubs of North America. Organization of Western college Hi-Y club; a successful continuation of Lincoln Hi-Y club; organization of Clean Speech, Clean Sport and Clean Habit clubs in several of the grade schools in the city; organization of Four-Square clubs in some churches that are in the Sunday school league; promotion of Y Four-Square clubs according to age group; promotion of “Y” boys membership campaign. In the Physical Department Mr. Russell organized the Sunday school basketball league of Kansas City, Mo. in which 250 boys have taken part on two seasons, and fifteen pastors and eighteen laymen leaders have been actively interested. Promoted the first Paseo Y. M. C. A. marathon run, of the two runs in 1926-27, 66 young men entered 39 actually finishing the course and over 100 trained for the event.

Founder of A. U. K. and D. of A. W. HERBERT FIELDS, Founder and National Grand Master, A. U. K. and D. of A.

DR. S. D. DAVIS National Grand Secretary-Treasurer

New A. U. K. and D. of A. Annex The new A. U. K. and D. of A. annex building now nearing completion at 711 Compton avenue, St. Louis, Mo. The building is unique in that when it is completed, the lodge will not owe a penny on it.

Dean of Original Negro Fraternities 777-The International Order of Twelve—333 Knights and Daughters of Tabor Fifty-Sixth Annual Grand Session, St. Joseph, Missouri, July 23-27, 1928 Established in Missouri, 1872, by That Greatest Negro Ritualist, Moses Dickson, Tabor Has Planted Its Banner in Every State Through Its Sixteen Grand Jurisdictions. Missouri, The Mother Jurisdiction Seven Thousand Adult Members in Missouri. The Maids and Pages of Honor, the Oldest Children’s Fraternity, Enrolls ThreeThousand Members. Tabor is operated for its members Investigate Through the Temple or Tabernacle in Your City, or Write: Joe E. Herriford, C. G. M., 2406 The Paseo Kansas City, Mo. Wm. Green, C. G. T., Plattsburg, Mo. A. G. Graves, G.P.P., Lexington, Mo. Willis Williams, P. C. G. M., 1823 1/2 Mulberry St. St. Joseph, Mo. Mrs. Annabel J. White, G. Q. M., 2725-A Stoddard St. St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Florence G. Davis, G. H. P., 2729 Lucas Ave. St. Louis, Mo. Geo. W. Ruff, End.-Bur. Sec., Liberty, Mo. Dr. Jas. A. Rainey, C. G. S., 2623 Wash St. St. Louis, Mo. Chas. H. McElroy, D. G. M., 600 15th St. Hannibal, Mo.

[page 43] The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Missouri and Its Masonic Jurisdiction

Born while yet the echoes of the Civil War were the accompaniment to which our fathers and mothers lifted their first songs under freedom, after a long and honorable career of service during which it has given Masonic life to Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska, greets the Negro of the Great Southwest, congratulates him upon his progress, and pledges itself anew to the erection here, in the fairest granary the Creator has given to man, of still nobler structures, both of matter and of men.

Fred W. Dabney, Grand Master R. Leon Hill, Grand Secretary

[page 44] D-4 "PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL'S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27[, 1928]

The Progress of a Race Well may the Negro say: “Lo, we. have come these many miles! Behold our Progress!” and with equal right may. he add: “But how far have we yet to go!” Progress! Advancement! Improvement! And the story of the Progress of the Negro in America reads like an incredible tale of a super-people. We were slaves. There are very few of us whose ancestors were no bondmen, literally “bound-men.” Those “bonds” have been burst with a crack that was heard around the civilized world. And once we were free of them we began the long, arduous march toward the high pinnacles of world respect and freedom, in the absolute sense of the word. The way has not been easy; it has been as bitter as the way of man ensalved has ever been. Miraculously we have, come through it all with unbroken heart, limitless faith, [a]nd the divine gift of laughter where tears would not have been unseemly. “Lo, we have come these many miles! Behold our Progress!” Children of the Sun— Salutations! I. SLAVERY The most ancient records of the human race, the carved inscriptions in the Nile valley, indicate Negro slaves from the Sudan were then, as today, one of the important articles of Egyptian trade. Neither the habit of slavery, nor the trading of slaves were forced upon Africa nor its. natives, in the first instance, by Arabic, Moslems, or Christian Europeans. So far as human knowledge indicates, slavery has always been an element in the social order of Africa, as well as in other countries. Some reasons for this state of affairs rests in the fact that first of all, parents have the right to sell their children. Secondly, runaway slaves, or liberated slaves, or even freedmen, rather than take the chance of being kidnaped, preferred to sell themselves to masters of their own choice. Famine, and war were also contributory to the voluntary choice of slavery. And. again those who became too poor to care for their families gave themselves for their debts. And since their were no prisons, punishment was always paid by death, or payment of a fine. Having no goods to pay for a fine, and not wishing to die, men frequently agreed to become slaves for the one who would pay their fines. Another factor was that slaves were secured by capture in war, or else by kidnaping. A not infrequent occurrence was for slaves themselves to own slaves. But even in that wild country of jungles a slave might by thrift buy his freedom, and even aspire to be come a headman of a tribe, or hold other high office. Europeans Enter Slave Trade But when Europeans took up the lucrative business of the slave trade, conditions changed for the black folk. The Portugese are said to have been the first continental people to have engaged in the practice, and over a period of 400 years, through violence, forty millions of black women, men and children were torn from their African homes. This was about in 1400. Slavery was introduced into the new world by the Spaniards. Their cruelty to the humble, inoffensive Indians in the West Indies had so greatly reduced their numbers that African slaves were imported to prevent complete extermination of free labor. The first cargo of Negro slaves is said to have been landed at San Domingo, Hayti in 1556. The world knows how one of these slaves, the immortal Toussaint, termed the “Black Prince”, led his people in a successful rebellion against slavery. Slaves Enter America The first important record of slaves being brought to the United States was a large shipment landed at Jamestown, Va., in 1619 by a Dutch trading vessel. These black men were exchanged for food and other supplies. Immediately they were put to doing the heavy labor of farm work. But it was not until fifty years later that slavery became well established in the English colonies. In 1748, 97,000 slaves were brought to America, and during the 18th century six millions were entered in the country. Many of them died enroute as the ships in which they were brought were usually so crowded with them that there was seldom room for a slave to even lie down. Frequently they were brought in the dark, filthy holds of the vessels, sometimes manacled together, since there was great inequality in the numbers of the ship's crew and its human cargo. End of Slave Trade in U. S. In 1774 the Articles of the Continental association agreed that no more slaves should be imported, and that the African slave trade should be wholly discontinued. In his message to Congress at the beginning of the session of 1806, President Jefferson asked of that body the wisdom of abolishing slave trade. The southern representatives, naturally unwilling to lose the enormous profits which the free labor of the slaves gave, fought the idea furiously. With slavery goes lust, and much there was of lust on the part of the white planteds. Also unimaginable cruelty in the form of manacles, bullwhips, bloodhounds, and the irresponsible murdering of slaves according to a white man’s mood, was a daily happening. This was the period when American chivalry, and southern gallantry were supposed to have been in flower. Slaves Part in Revolution The first blood for liberty shed In the colonies was that of a slave, a Negro. On March 5, 1770 occurred the Boston massacre, which opened the most eventful and thrilling chapter in American history, and which gave America her freedom. The slave who fell was Crispus Attucks. And too there was Peter Salem, who fought side by side with the white soldiers. It was he who on the memorable occasion at Bunker Hill, when Major Pitcairn at the head of the British army made an attack on the American forces shouting "The day is ours,” poured the contents of his gun into the white officers’ body, killing him instantly, and effectually checking the advance of the British. And so none can deny that Negroes had no part in the very war that gave America, as a distinct unit, her freedom from England. But the lot of the slave was not entirely abolitionists—hopelss as there were some white men who agitated incessantly for the freedom of the slaves. The Pennsylvania Quakers, Benjamine Lundy and William Lloyd Garrison were some of the agencies who worked for the emancipation of the Negro. In 1836 there were 250 societies whose object was emancipation, and in a little over a year the number grew to 1,000. A notable silence on the slave question resounded from the pulpits of most of the American churches. An anti-slavery party grew up with Parker Pillsbury, Stephen Foster, James Birney, Samuel Brooke, Theodore Parker and the immortal John Brown. Wendell Phillips was another famous abolitionist. These abolitionists had no easy time of it, and frequently suffered as a result of their efforts to help the lowly Negro. Congress took steps to halt the agitation, and clashes between sympathizers of both sides were many. The “Underground Railroad” was established, and through by means many slaves escaped the south and fled to the north, as far as Canada. Many methods were resorted to to get the slaves out of bondage. They were packed up in boxes, and shipped on the trains; they were hidden under wagons loaded "with grain or cotton, until the “line” was passed; and those who were fair enough boldly rode the trains as passengers. In the event that any runaway slave was caught his lot was hard, and rewards for the return of slaves made escape trebly hazardous. The Negro in the Civil War The records of the war department show that there were close to 200,000 Negroes regularly enlisted as soldiers in the Union army during the rebellion and whose conduct on the field and off was commendable. At the beginning of the war even President Lincoln did not believe the Negro would make a good soldier, in spite of the fact that as soon ns war was declared, Negroes from every walk in life volunteered, and stood ready at the recruiting offices eager for service. The objections to the Negro as a soldier were, according to papers of the time: the Negroes will not fight; the whites will not fight with them; the prejudice of the whites is so great that if colored soldiers are used the whites will not enlist or will quit the service. Such were the opinions shared even by the Northern newspapers. The sentiment was: This is a white man’s war, and the Negro has no part in it. They seemed to be overlooking the fact that slavery was the real cause of the whole affair. To General Hunter goes the credit for dispelling all the above tommy- rot. He could not get white recruits, but was surrounded by a vast number of willing Negroes who begged for the chance to bear arms. In advance of instructions he formed a regiment of colored troops, and was called to account for it by the secretary. He informed the secretary that he had instructions to employ all loyal persons in defense of the Union, and hence was not limited to color. Finally after great confusion in Congress the president authorized the use of Negro soldiers “only as laborers.” In 1862 the clouds of war had grown thicker. The Union army had won a few victories, but the southern climate in which they had to fight was not to their liking. But the Union men began to see that Negroes were capable of fighting, and did not run away in the face of danger. Sentiment began shifting; Negroes in innumerable instances became heroes. Congress prohibited the surrender of the Negroes to the rebels, and the president issued his Emancipation Proclamation. Negroes then were enlisted rapidly. Soon the- war was won. The Negro had helped gain his freedom, and had helped continue the Union. Negro in the Spanish American War The persistent efforts of Spain to retain, under her cruel, corrupt government the fertile isle of Cuba, resulted again in showing the splendid qualities of the Negro as a soldier, and his adaptability under any circumstnces. The most colossal Negro figure produced by the Spanish American war was Anthony Maceo, a leader unsurpassed in military tactics and fortitude, whose very name was a dread one to his enemies. It is an historic fact that the first regiment ordered to the scene of hostilities in this war was the colored unit known as the 24th U. S. Regulars. The glorious conduct of the colored troopers in the historic charge up San Juan can never be forgotten, and even the most prejudiced must admit that the Negro soldiers that day saved Col. Roosevelt and his Rough Riders from total extermination. Throughout the war Negroes were to the front, and they saw much action in all of which they acquitted themselves bravely. Their good spirits even in the face of danger, or when wounded, helped to keep up the morale of their white companions. In the course of the war a severer test than that of actual fighting was given the valiant Negro soldiers. A yellow fever hospital was to be cleaned, and its sufferers nursed. General Miles issued an order that a regiment be detailed for that service. "In response to this order,” says R. B. Cramer in the Atlanta Constitution, August 16, 1898, “the 24th Infantry made up entirely of colored men, left their trenches at night and at dawn the next morning they had reported to Dr. La Garde. An hour later they were put to work, and before sunset the work was done, and the entire camp had become a place in which a sick man at least had a fighting chance of getting well." And then came the World War. The story of the Negro's part in it has been told elsewhere. Sufficient is it that he did his bit unflinchingly and well. Migration The real exodus of the Negro to the North began as early as 1815, when some Northern states voluntarily abolished slavery. These states became a haven of refuge for the oppressed Negroes in the south. Along during this period there were only 102,000 colored people in the north. At first the north did not grant the Negro a hearty welcome. He was considered, more or less, as a fugitive from justice. The Quakers of North Carolina, and Virginia were the first people to lighten the Negro’s burden as to reaching free territory. In 1822, at a meeting of North Carolina Quakers, territory now composing the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio were selected as most suitable for black colonization, and Negroes were sent there as fast as possible. In Detroit, Mich., in 1860 a large settlement of Negroes had sprung up, and large numbers of them had migrated to Canada, there being 60,000 of them during this period who were settled there. Thus began the great movement which in our day became so extensive as to greatly alarm both the south and the north. Mississippi and Louisiana in spite of every sort of intimidation, or blandishment on the part of the white people. Many of them settled in the Territory of Oklahoma, and in the state of Kansas. Labor agents at this time approached the southern Negro with invitations to come to the mountain states where large wages could be made working in the mines. The movement must have been extensive as there were literally thousands of Negroes to accept the offer. And again during th World War similar conditions persuaded the Negro to go north. The south became alarmed for the safety of their crops, the very bread in their mouths. That Is why reforms are being offered. They want no labor shortage down there even if they must show more consideration to those who were once merely chattels. Education In spite of the most severe restrictions against teaching the colored people in the south how to read and write, effort was made on their parts to secure an education by stealth. Today that earnest desire to learn is manifested in useful, truly American citizenship. During the Civil War, under Freedman's Bureau there sprang up hundreds of schools all over the south for the education of the Negro. The teachers came from the north, and their progress among the mass of ignorant blacks was remarkable. Almost at once normal schools and academies for higher education came into existence. Atlanta university, Fisk university, Straight university, Howard university, and Hampton Institute are among the nationally known institutions which resulted from these efforts. The common schools of the south came into being through the political power of the Negro vote in the reconstruction of the new state governments after the Civil War. Expenditure of time and money on Negro schools had been terribly inadequate when compared with similar expenditures on white schools, but in 1890 the rate of illiteracy among Negroes dropped from 39 to 30 percent, and at present it is estimated to be no more than 20 per cent. The records of Phi Beta Kappa indicate that at least 200 students have been honored with membership in that exclusively honorary organization. Gradually the sentiment has changed in regard to Negro education, and gradually an increase of attendance in the institutions of higher learning can be noted. Each year signalizes “Go to school” movements sponsored by various college fraternities and fraternal organizations. Numerous scholarships are offered by members and organizations of the colored race, and they enabled more Negroes to attend college. Many funds and many white organizations, and white men such as Julius Rosenwald, are devoting some of their time and money for the purpose of Negro education. Arts Negro music and Negro literature are beginning to be recognized throughout the world. Roland Hayes, Clarence Cameron White, Madame Evanti have world wide reputations in their fields, and Charles Gilpin, Paul Robeson, Edmund Lowe, and others bid fair to put Negro dramatism to the fore. Diton, Burleigh, Cook and others have shown that a Negro may successfully reach the highest pinnacle of difficult musical composition, while Bert Williams, and Florence Mills, during their lives were acclaimed as second to none in the field of lighter entertainment. There are other examples of resounding succes in these and similar lines of endeavor which are much too numerous to mention. In the prize-ring, on the gridiron, in war, and in business has the Negro leaped with amazing swiftness to the fore, until there is no possible doubt that he is ably fitted to take his place among the highly civilized races of the world. Insurance, banking, and even manufacturing have seen the successful entrance of the black man in the past twenty years, and the next decade will see an enormous Increase in similar enterprises as it is evident that he is learning hard-won economic lessons in what has been perhaps the hardest school the world has yet seen. Different from other oppressed peoples in that his skin and features mark him definitely for what he is; constricted to his own group by the same differences; battered, misused, and vastly misunderstood by a group who obviously fear him, the Negro has indeed come far in the few short years of his freedom. He has become a recognized economic factor in the welfare of America, and has undoubtably added much to America’s actual culture. He has gone through the darkest period that any race has ever had to endure, and he has suffered as no other people hav eever suffered; and yet from chaos, has come a semblance of order, from ruin there has come brilliant reconstruction; from stygian darkness has emerged a capable, laughing, powerful figure, whose stay in the outer dark has made him appreciate the light of the living day. “Lo! We have come these many miles! Behold our Progress! But how far we have yet to go!”

Colored Social Workers on Staff and in Office of Provident Association The Provident association, with headquarters at 1115 Charlotte, yearly does an unbelievable amount of work among the poor families of Kansas City. The association is supported mainly by the Charity bureau of this city. Walter W. Whitson is superintendent. An especial type of work that the association specializes in is the rehabilation of families, which through misfortune, have been reduced to poor circumstances. Not only do the workers relieve such families of actual want, but plan for them a means to become self supporting. Work is found for those who can work and other means are located to care for those who are unable through physical disability, to support themselves. Cases are brought to their attention mainly through their “visitors”, who are volunteer, or paid workers for the association, and according to district these “eases” are assigned to the workers in that territory. The city is divided into five districts: North, South, East, West and Central. In the South, East and West districts the cases are handled by whie workers, regardless of the color of the ones benefitted. But in the North and Central district colored "visitors” are employed. Miss Abrazenda Henderson is the workers in the Central district which comprises the territory fro[?] 33rd, and from Grand ave[nue.] In the North district, whic[h] [?] streets north of 18th and Grand avenue as far as [Bellefon]taine, Mrs. Sallie Dibble [?] [su]pervising visitor, with [?] James as visitor. Of the work that these tw[?] have done too much canno[t] [?]. Mrs. Dibble who became [?] [em]ployee of the association in [?] previous to that time been [?] [volun]teer worker. Mrs. James [?] with the association since [?] has done volunteer work [?] city’s poor, and both of [?] [?] hearted women have on[?] [?]able occasions gone far [?] requirements of their [?] in the pursuit of the [?] g[?] they have elected to fo[?] [hun]dreds of poor families, a[?] [?] thousands of individuals [?] sexs have been brought b[?] level of social independe[?] [?] the efforts of these wom[en.] The Provident associ[ation] serves as a practical tra[ining] for students who intend [?] similar callings. At t[?] time Miss Esther Davis, [?] the University of Kansa[s] [?] volunteer work at the ass[o]ciation i[n] order to further her ambition of following Y. W. C. A. work. Mr. Whitson, superintendent of the association has this to say: “I believe that social case work is equally applicable to all groups, and races; and the same standards can be equally maintained.” According to Provident association figures, colored cases receive 15 per cent of the funds distributed for social work in Kansas City. As the Negro population here is about 12 1/2 per cent is will be seen that their allotment is generous.

Prohibition should aid a slender figure. I call the attention of a certain habit that is growing among women and which I call attention to not because of any sympathy with the prohibition amendment but simply because the drinking habit is not one to cultivate or indulge in if one is honestly interested in arriving at a nice lean figure. It is commonplace to hear a man described: "He looks awful. He’s getting fat and sloppy from his drinking.” Well, men haven’t any corner on physical deterioration from alcohol consumption. In the past perhaps theirs has been the greater freedom to drink their figures out of shape. And I’m not sensationalist enough to think that women today are leading them a merry pace in acquiring physical unloveliness on the alcohol route. But there’s no winking one’s eyes at the fact that men alone are not making the bootlegger’s income tax the worry it is to them and the government.

W. T. Sidney of Plattsburg, Mo., who started a grocery store in 1911 in a “little 10x12 room," has over fourteen years enlarged his business to the place where it averages over $100 weekly and employs two clerks besides himself. The largest per cent of his patronage is white.

INTEGRITY STABILITY VISION POSSIBILITY for great achievement grows only out of great service. Negro organizations idealistically striving for the betterment of Negroes are a recent outgrowth. Daily, however, they are proving their worth and ability. In just so great measure as they succeed, winning and holding the confidence of Negroes, by just so much will the formulation and welding of our common group aims be advanced. THE Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Missouri over a period of years exhibits a record of soundness and worthwhile activity. Its Grand Session, one of the greatest in the history of the order, is now being held in Hannibal, Mo. It is another milestone in the rapid progress of an organization which is ably and proudly serving the needs of its race. General Facts There are 101 subordinate lodges which are well scattered over the entire state. The first mortgages are all made on colored people’s property, and all in Missouri, except the loan on the famous Groves estate at Edwardsville, Kans. The organization has purchased a job printing plant and is doing a large volume of business not only from St. Louis, but from many towns in Missouri and Illinois. Amount of Municipal and Improvement bonds $80,002.10 Interest per year 4,515.00 Amount of First Mortgage 72,500.00 Interest per year 4,350.00 These interest items do not include a two per cent Daily Balance on cash in bank which amounts to between four and five hundred dollars per annum. The total assets of the interest are $194,993.94. There is also twenty-eight thousand dollars of Grand Lodge assets invested in “Headquarters Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Mo., 3137 Pine Blvd.,” St. Louis, Mo., whose net profit runs nearly to six per cent over the entire period that this building has been operated. EACH DAY ON THE CALENDAR, OUR INTEREST INCOME IS OVER TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS PER DAY. EACH MONTH IT REACHES EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS. The institution pays out annually almost forty-thousand dollars in burial and death claims. During the past ten years the organization has shown a steady increase in its assets averaging fifteen thousand dollars per year. Although the past year has brought one of the greatest industrial crises since the lean days of the Cleveland administration in 1896, this organization has been able to hold a normal membership and to keep its finances on the right side of the ledger.

GRAND LODGE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS OF MISSOUR[I] Jurisdiction of N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. A. W. LLOYD, Grand Chancellor W. T. ANCELL, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal 3137 PINE BOULEVARD, ST. LOUIS, MO.

[page 45] [Kansas] City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY D-5

[T]HE WORK OF ORGANIZED NEGRO CHARITIES [NILE]S ORPHANAGE, THE PERFECT [?]E AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS [Wond]erful Gift Which Has Wanned the Heart of the Community [?] [t]he belief that most people are willing to do for the un[fortuna]te, we have asked The Kansas City Call to include in its [“Progre]ss Edition” the facts about the charities which are help[?] [nee]dy Negroes. Little children, the sick, the unemployed, [?] [unf]ortunate will always be with us. Their condition is our [?]ty. It is for us to do what we know to do for them as far as we are able. Almost everybody will give to help suffering that comes right up before the eyes. But it takes the understanding heart to appreciate that many cases of suffering exist for every one that we see. That is the reason for organized charity. In directing attention to the recognized agencies of charity,—charity that works winter and summer, charity that backs goodness of heart with diligent feet,—we believe we are doing that which will strik a responsive chord in your heart. THOMAS J. BROWN, FELIX H. PAYNE

Neglected and orphaned children must be cared for and the community is responsible for the service. Prior to 1915 there were in Kansas City, several small orphanages sponsored by public spirited citizens, churches and other social uplift organizations. There were the children’s industrial home, 1416 Vine, founded by Mr. Eson.; St. Simons Nursery at Lydia and Pacific, fostered by St. Augustine Episcopal church, Rev. E. S. Willet, superintendent; Highland Day Nursery organized by Mrs. Lou Ellen Williams; Old Folks and Orphan home, 2446 Michigan, under the auspices of the Colored People’s Christian Charity association, Bigelow mission, and the Children’s Christian home by Mrs. Brown. These organizations were poorly supported and seldom able to meet current expenses. All these institutions with the exception of the Children’s Christian home and Bigelow mission were consolidated in July 1915 and were housed in the quarters of the old folks and orphans home. The building afforded accommodations for 30 inmates but as many as 50 were crowded in at times. The indebtedness of the combined homes, $1700 was finally liquidated yet the struggle to maintain the institution with the slender support it received was heroic. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Niles, philanthropists, visited the home in June [o]f 1923 and after an investigation realized the neeed of a bigger and better equipped home for neglected and orphaned children. Thereupon, Mr. Niles purchased a plot at Euclid and 23 street and erected a strictly modern building which when completed in December of 1924 represented an outlay of $65,000 and furnished quarters for 120 children. The F. C. Niles home for orphans, an imposing three-story structure stucco-covered is one of the finest homes of its kind for Negroes in the middle west. On the first floor is a spacious office and reception room, the kitchen equipped with every modern convenience including an incinerator for refuse disposed, a commodious dining room, an isolation ward and two baby rooms. The boys and girls dormitories are located on the second floor, each cozily furnished and well ventilated. Three bathrooms including a shower, linen closet, a drinking fountain and employee’s room are other conveniences and quarters provided on t[e] floor. [?] the third floor are three rooms [for] smaller children, sewing room, [?] bathrooms and helper's room. [?] the basement are the storerooms, laundry and playroom. There is an [?]ple playground provided with swings, turning poles, sand beds and teeter-totters. Other conveniences are several house phones and a clothes shute from top floor to basement. Dedication services for the home took place in October, 1924, and were in charge of the Masons. Forty-six children were transferred to the new home upon its completion. There are now 106 children in the institution and their ages are from less than one year to fourteen years. They attend the public schools and receive religious instructions from nearby churches. The children are seemingly a happy lot. They are lusty-voiced and hardy in appearance. Several of them are unusually bright and in all the group seems less conscious of be[i]ng “home” children than is usually the case. The well-equipped home, efficient and motherly care are partly responsible for the contented state of the youngsters. Miss Alice Grady, matron of the home has been in children's work for sixteen years. She was matron at Shorter College, Little Rock, Ark., for two years. Miss Grady’s home is in Evansville, Ind. She enjoys her work with the little tots and the larger children are much attached to her. The health of the children has been exceptionally good. Even in the older and more cramped quarters illness was a minimum. Twelve deaths have occurred in the home within the last sixteen years. The physicians who have at some time donated their services to the children of the institution are Drs. W. J. Tompkins, H. M. Smith, L. M. Tillman, L. C. Richardson, W. H. Bruce, G. W. Brown, T. C. Brown, T. C. Unthank, W. W. Caldwell, L. W. Booker. T. A. Fletcher, T. A. Jones, J. O. Henley. H. Gilky, H. B. Lyons, D. M. Miller and J. E. Berry. For more than fifteen years Dr. Smith has given his time willingly day or night to the home. The Niles home for orphans should be the pride of every citizen in Kansas City and each should feel that it is his duty to aid it in every way possible. Even though the home is a sharer in the Community Chest there are personal interests citizens should have in the home that would aid greatly the work of the charity fund. One needs only to see the bright faces of the hundred odd children there to hear their lusty laughter at play to realize just what the institution means when only a few years ago there were housed in inadequate quarters with cramped conditions for play and meagre means of support.

Urban League Is Busy Doing Charity Story of the Local League's Years of Service The ever-increasing complex problems of city life created by migratory waves from south to north, changing industrial conditions, inadequate housing facilities and which problems exact their toll in disturbed race relations, labor displacement and abnormal sick and death rates can no longer be entirely coped with successfully by voluntary and untrained social workers but require full time workers well trained in social investigation and the national Urban league is supplying these workers in the large urban centers of America. The league was organized in 1911 as the result of the fusion of three agencies, the league for the protection of colored women, the committee on improving industrial relations among Negroes and committee on urban conditions among Negroes. There are now forty-two branches [s]trategically located from coast to coast. Prominent Negroes and whites comprise the. board of directors. Branch secretaries, their assistants and field workers are college graduates who are required to attend special schools of social work. The Urban league is concerned with (1) industry, to obtain jobs for Negroes in businesses that do not now offer employment, to impress upon Negroes industrial efficiency and to stress their employment by public utilities; (2) health, promotion of health campaigns to reduce Negro death rate by one-half; (3) housing, to improve conditions and urge home ownership; (4) inter- race relations stimulated, better race relations and, (5) research and information, to make intensive studies of the Negro’s social, literary and industrial life. The Kansas City Urban league came into being November 1, 1920, as the result of the efforts of a few progressive white and colored citizens and was th[e] outgrowth of the war time co[mm]unity service program. Frank T. Lane was the first secretary. The new organization soon projected itself into the community by contact with the various social and municipal agencies and with its broad and constructive program in operation it soon became the center for social service. The projects considered first by the new organization were: recreation centers, employment and industrial welfare, health, housing, education, information, social planning, the twilight baseball league and organized play, including swimming. The league was responsible for the employment of two swimming instructors now employed at the Paseo bath house. The Urban league community center, 1731 Lydia, is the meeting place for conventions, rehearsals, parties, educational assemblies and various other activities. The service report shows that during the past 6 months 11,000 periodicals have been distributed, 813 group meetings held at the center with 6,528 people in attendance, 478 people furnished employment and 458 children have been care for at the Northside day nursery. The center is a haven for forums, educational tours and lectures. However, the field proved too large to be covered from the central office and necessitated expansion. There are now three other social settlements, West Side, Belvidere Neighborhood and the Northside day nursery under supervision of paid trained workers. Young people’s organizations, sewing and canning clubs have been organized in these districts. The adjustment of recent migrants from the South to city life has been and still is a big task for the league. The newcomers are taught the fundamental principles of health, household economy and industrial efficiency. Clubs are organized among the women for home beautification and every effort is made to adapt underprivileged persons to their environment. Some of the services rendered the community by the organization are: in 1926 employment secured 1,067 people, establishment of three community centers, stimulation of interest in Negro health week, organization of Big Sister and Big Brother clubs to curb Juvenile delinquency and the placing of the first assistant in an standard oil filling station here. The Urban league is a sharer in the Community Chest fund along with the Florence home for unmarried mothers, Niles home for orphan children, Wheatley Provident hospital and the league settlement houses. The Urban League Pilot, a bulletin devoted to the local branch activities and problems is issued monthly. Edward S. Lewis, executive secretary, is a graduate from the University of Chicago. He received his high school training at Sumner high of Kansas City, Kas. After leaving college Lewis taught social science subjects in Florida A. and M. College, then followed his association with the Urban league. Mrs. Pearl M. Dabney is industrial secretary. Mrs. Mattie Rucker is matron of the Northside day nursery and Mrs. Minnie Hudson, assistant. The neighborhood worker, Miss Aminda Badeau is a University of Chicago graduate and was formerly with the St. Louis Provident association. She did relief work there during the last tornado. Mrs. Sallie Jackson is office secretary. Mrs. Ida M. Clark, director of West Bottoms community house and Arsenio Gutierrez is custodian at the central headquarters. "Not alms but opportunity” is the slogan of the National Urban league. It seeks to open the closed doors of industry and public utilities to Negroes and teaches Negroes the value of Jobs and to hold them. By bringing together members of both group to discuss matters of common interest it endeavors to erase racial friction. By employing highly trained workers the league endeavors to repay fully in service rendered citizens who contribute to its support. In fact the league is a clearing house dedicated to serve migrants unaccustomed to urban life, to keep at a minimum unemployment, to obtain more and better Jobs for Negroes in industry and through its research and education department to harmonize the Negro culturally with his environment.

UNMARRIED MOTHERS FIND A HAVEN IN THE FLORENCE HOME Wonderful Work, Established Only a Few Years Ago, to Have New Building Soon Unfortunatte girls we have with us always. Some of them can be redeemed, others have gone too far to turn back. The task of saving those who would under proper guidance regain their place in society is tremendous, requiring tact, sympathetic understanding and a wide knowledge of human nature. In 1923 this herculean problem of re-shaping the lives of girls who became unmarried mothers was grappled by Mrs. Elizabeth Bruce. Having spent much time in the Jackson county Juvenile court and girl’s advisory bureau as a volunteer worker. Mrs. Bruce came face to face with the unmarried mother problem. Over a period of eighteen months she supervised personally seventy-five cases, making use of foster homes, orphanges and hospitals. In many instances marriages were arranged, employment obtained and families established that proved successful. Through these efforts many girls returned to civil life ready to face responsibilities with renewed vigor and confidence. With the discontinuance of the Colored Christian Charity association headquarters at 2446 Michigan, the board of management realizing the great service rendered by Mrs. Bruce in behalf of unfortunate girls and the need of a permanent institution for such girls decided to use the property for founding what is now the Florence Home for Colored Girls. The building was remodeled and equipped by William Volker. Maintenance of the institution however became the Negroes’ responsibility. A campaign was staged and $1,700 raised in a very short time. The home is now included in the Community Chest fund. The home has had its full quota of girls since the opening September 3, 1925. Since that time a porch has been added to relieve the congestion. While the present quarters are strictly modem and desirable from point of location more room is needed in order to effectively carry on the work therefore a site has been purchased and soon there will be erected a new and more commodious Florence home. Mrs. Dora Harris is matron of the home and has been with the girls for three years. She is devoted to the work of rebuilding the girls who come to the home. Miss Rose Canifax is the home nurse. Doctors who have rendered free service to the institution are: Drs. L. W. Booker, W. H. Bruce. L. M. Tillman, V. A. Wilkerson, E. J. Marshall, D. M. Unthank, W. H. Maddox, baby specialist; and Dr. S. S. Hill, dentist. Aside from receiving the sheltering care and association of home life the girls during their six months residence are. taught home making and child welfare and upon leaving are properly adjusted in some line of work or placed in training for vocations as business, nursing and associated occupations. Many of the girls are talented and only recently two of them dismissed from the home were exceptionally good French students. The institution is seldom without good musicians and in programs given at the home several vocalists of unusual ability have been discovered among the group. The Florence Home is synonymous with the name Elizabeth Bruce whose determination, courage and tireless efforts made it possible. She saved character where others would have condemned it. Mrs. Bruce did not believe that a first mistake should be fatal and the success of those girls whom she has helped evidences the truth of her belief.

MODEST GREATNESS Dr. Katherine Richardson deserves praise on this page. But she preferred all attention to the causes for which she has worked.

Wheatley-Provident A Hospital With a History Grade A Institution Now, Had a Small Beginning Hospitalization is a vital human need and is necessary for the physical well-being of the community. The police guards the commonwealth against organized crime and vice so the hospital effects a defense against dsease and pestilence. The present Wheatley-Provident hospital was first known as the Ferry sanitarium and nurse training school of which Dr. J. E. Perry was founder. In 1913 the Provident association was organized with Mrs. Evalina Baldwin president. Mrs. Eva Fox secretary and Mrs. Clara T. Knox, treasurer. This body served as a governing board of the institution. In 1915 the association merged with the Wheatley association whose officers were: J. E. Herriford, president; Jessie Novel, secretary and Mrs. Frances Jackson, treasurer, and then the hospital became as Wheatley-Provident. The hospital, first located at 1214 Vine street, is now housed in its quarters at 1826 Forest avenue. It is a 65-bed institution with accomodations for forty adults and twenty- five children. Forty-seven doctors comprise the active staff and one hundred fifty physicians, the courtesy staff. The hospital annex, a two-story cut stone structure, the gift of William Volker and F. C. Niles was opened in March, 1927 and provided for a clinic and twenty-five childrens’ rooms. Wheatley-Provident has a nurse training school with a superintendent of nurses and assistant in charge and three graduate nurses. A three year course is offered and the fifteen nurses now in training are from Oklahoma. Kansas. Nebraska, Missouri and Texas. Dr. Wm. A. Johnson. Howard university is taking his interneship and in July a class specializing in eye disease will be graduated. Through the efforts of Dr. Katharine Richardson a department of pediatrics giving service to sick, crippled and deformed children was opened. Graduates from the nurse training school have done well. Miss Bessie Lee is a visiting nurse in charge of one of the well baby stations. Mrs. Lee Burger is nurse in charge of emergency hospital, Union station and Miss Aubrazenda Henderson, a social worker for Provident association. Special duty nurses in the city are: Misses Helen Miles, Corda Brown, Fay McGee, Laura Brown, Edna Turner, and Jessie Rowan. Miss Rose Canifax is nurse at the Florence home. Wheatley-Provident is equipped with a pathological laboratory and x-ray room. In the annex are located ear, nose, throat, child care, medical adult, eye and ear clinics. Hello-therapy equipment is provided and most of the chemical work is done to the institutions own laboratory. (Continued on Page D-8)

NURSE TRAINING GIVES NEW EMPLOYMENT TO NEGRO GIRLS Two Schools With High Standards Turning Out Graduates Yearly. —Details of Course of study. A career that appeals strongly to many girls is that of the trained nurse. Just as medicine has a powerful appeal for men so does the profession of tending the sick seem to atract women. Perhaps it is the mother-feeling in women that leads them to choose this humane profession. At any rate vast numbers of them each year apply to the various hospitals throughout the country for entrance to their training schools. The colored aspirant has not the same opportunity for training to this class of work as her fairer sister has, and usually the colored hospitals have a surplus of applications. The general requirements for the girl who would become a nurse are: good health and sound physical condition; not younger than 18, and to most hospitals, not older than 35; a desire to learn, and the willingness to work faithfully under trying conditions; and a four year high school education. Those requirements may not seem difficult but according to figures from the General Hospital No. 2 Nurse Training school, the average number of applications is 100 each year, and the average number of appointments, from 15 to 30. Kansas City has two institutions to which colored women are trained for nursing. The General Hospital No. 2 is the first and the largest, and Wheatley-Provident, a private hospital, is the other. Both of these insitutions are grade “A” training schools, and both are adequately equipped to graduate finely trained nurses. The General Hospital No. 2 training school has a capacity of 40 student nurses, and its average number of graduates is from 12-15 yearly. It is a grade A school of the first rank, having received that official rank from the American College of Surgeons, a national organization of physicians. Mrs. Lorenda Harris is superintendent of nurses, and Mrs. S. J. Smythe is night superintendent. The supervisors are Mrs. Willa Maddux, Mrs. Minnie Wilson, Miss Cora Mitchell, Miss Amy Boykin, all of whom are graduates of the hospital school. Mrs. Willa Maddux, who has seen the most lengthy service to the hospital of any of the present corps, also took a post graduate course at the hospital. The life of the student nurse once she enters the school is one of routine and soldierly obedience to orders. She learns by doing under the competent instruction of capable teachers. In addition to this practical work she must pursue theoretical course of studies which prepare her for the more advanced work she must do the next year. The general scheme of theoretical instruction for the nurses at General Hospital No. 2 training school follows: Preparatory for first year, first term: Hrs. Anatomy and physiology ..... 60 Bacteriology ...... 20 Personal hygiene ...... 10 Applied chemistry ...... 20 Nutrition and cookery ..... 40 Hospital housekeeping ..... 10 Drugs and solutions ...... 20 Elementary nursing principles and methods ...... 60 Bandaging ...... 10 History of nursing ...... 15 Total ...... 265

Second, or Spring Term : Nursing to medical diseases 20 Nursing to surgical diseases 20 Materia medica and therapeutics. .10 Total ...... 70

Junior, or Second Year, First Term: Nursing to communicable diseases 20 Nursing to diseases of infants and children ...... 20 Massage ...... 10 Principles of ethics ...... 10 Total ...... 60

Second, or Spring Term: Gynecological nursing ...... 10 Orthopefic nursing ...... 10 Operating room technic .. 10 Obstetrical nursing ...... 20 Nursing to diseases of the ear. eye, and throat ...... 10 Total ...... 60 Senior, or Third Term. First Term: Clinical studies ...... 20 nursing to mental and nervous diseases ...... 20 Introduction to institutional work 10 Introduction to laboratory work ..10 General review ...... 10 Total ...... 70 Total number of hours for three years ...... 585

The above chart will show that nurses must do more while to training than do the actual work of ministering to the sick. But for them it is not all work and no play as all the nurses become members of the Y. W. C. A. and take part in Its activities. Also they have among themselves, art and literary clubs. The probationary nurses are allow- lowed two nights out a week, until 10 p. m., and once a month they (Continued on Page D-8)

Niles Orphan Home — The Babies’ Corner

At Urban League Waiting For Work

The Florence Home Nursery

[page 46] D-6 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 2[7, 1928]

St. Louis and Kansas City Negroes Have Made Forward Strides in the Municipal Services of their Cit[ies] STORY OF ST. LOUIS IS AN EPIC OF PROGRESS AGAINST GREAT ODDS Factions of Race Have United to Secure the Benefits of Citizenship; Hope Soon to Have a Negro Congressman By R. C. Fisher SAINT LOUIS. Mo.—In spite of the political handicaps, the Negro in St. Louis is using his political power to secure the benefits offered by the Government, and his intelligent leaders are finding places in legislature and courts, with the support of white and black constituents. Race solidarity is not an uncommon condition in this city. Infrequently it finds expression through various organizations. A mass movement, which was, as a matter of fact, the forerunner, advocating that Negroes should have some of the benefits offered by the city and state was known as the Citizens Liberty League; an organization of which J. E. Mitchell, Editor of The St. Louis Argus, was the moving spirit. The influence of that movement was strong; as a result a number of Negro men and women are holding important elective positions. Probably the most remarkable political achievement in the history of St Louis was in 1922, when a Negro was elected Judge to preside over one of the Justice of the Peace Courts. Crittenden E. Clark was the first to achieve the distinction, and his record as a judge is a landmark in the Negro's rise in the field of politics in this city. Following his retiring as Grand Master of Masons of Missouri, Clark sought political honor, and filed for the office of Justice of the Peace for the Fourth District in May, 1922, and August 3 he was nominated. A motion for a recount of ballots was immediately filed, and it was sustained by the Board of Election Commissioners. The recount disclosed that Clark gained more than 100 votes. A mandamus proceeding was filed in the Supreme Court of Missouri to keep his name off the ballot, but after a long proceeding he again won the victory and his name appeared on the official ballot in November election. At the election, Clark won by more than twenty-five hundred votes. His white opponent filed an injunction suit against the Election Board asking a restraining order to prevent the board from giving Clark his certificate of election. This restraining order was denied by Judge Robert Hall of the Circuit Court and again a writ of mandamus was sued out in the Supreme Court of Missouri An alternative writ was issued but before the same was served Clark took charge of the office of Justice of the Peace for the Fourth District of the city of St. Louis, thus becoming the first Negro judge in this state. The cost of the many litigations to hold the office honestly won by Clark was more than $7,000. It was said that if elected he -would not have enough business to keep the Court open, yet at the end of his first term the cases had increased from one hundred fifty in his Court to more than four hundred a month. At the primary election in 1926. the Judge was a candidate to succeed himself and secured the nomination by the largest majority of any candidate who ever ran for the office He was re- elected by an overwhelming majority. The fight made by Clark and his friends swept into office three constables who were also re- elected in 1926. Clark is one of two Negroes from the 12th Congressional District, chosen as delegates to the National Republican Convention at Kansas City, Mo. June 12. Judge Clark was born 58 years ago in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of six years his parents moved to Greensburg, Indiana where young Clark secured his elementary education There he established a newsstand, selling papers while attending school, He learned the barber trade and at the age of thirteen was the owner of the Seitz House Barber shop in Greensburg, Indiana. He completed his course in school in that city and came to St. Louis April l, 1888. Ha worked at the trade as barber until he entered the law department of Washington university, St. Louis, in 1895 and was admitted to practice law in 1897. Shortly after being admitted to practice his profession, the great question of Negro representation in the St. Louis postoffice, as far as clerks and mall carriers were concerned, was before the people. Appeal was made to Major Pierce who represented the 12th Congressional district at that time without success. At a mass meeting held in 1898, it was decided among the leaders of the race to run a candidate of their own for Congress in the 12th district. The late Dr. D. W. Scott was agreed upon as the logical candidate, and young Clark was selected as one of the standard-bearers of that campaign. Petitions were signed and a sufficient number of electors secured and the name of D. W. Scott was placed on the ballot as an Independent -candidate; after much litigation was had to prevent his name being placed on the ballot. Clark had earlier affiliated himself with the late Chauncey I. Filley, with whom he was associated in politics for years. In 1910 after the legislature had passed the primary election law, Clark filed for the office of Prosecuting Attorney for the City of St. Louis and made a creditable showing, running third in a race with five. Two years later he filed for the office of a member of the Legislature from the Third District and ran third in a field of five; two to be nominated. In public activities, Judge Clark is always ready to lend his aid financially and otherwise. His love for and work among children of his district and the poor and needy is outstanding. First Committeeman Of the Negroes who have achieved success in politics in St. Louis, we have to mention Robert T. Scott, who possesses vision and ambition—that invisible force which makes man want for higher ideals. His rise from an obscure president of the “Lion Tamers” club to Republican committeeman of the largest Negro ward in Missouri, is unprecedented. Scott came to St. Louis 30 years ago. He is a native of Richmond, Va., and is 56 years old. His political career began in 1910. In 1915 he was appointed inspector in the street department of St. Louis, where he served three years. At that time there was an opportunity for a Negro to be placed in a position as deputy clerk in the court of criminal causes. “Bob,” as he would rather be called, was chosen for the place. He was faithful in the discharge of the important duties of that office. As a reward for his efficiency he was promoted to a clerkship in one of the court rooms of the criminal court, where he is engaged daily. In August, 1924, “Bob” was elected committeeman of the Sixth Ward over two white opponents. Of the 7,000 registered voters in the ward, 75 per cent are Negroes. “Bob's” advocacy for racial representation and better housing conditions in his ward and the effectiveness of his labors find evidence in the results he has achieved. There has been no “ballyhooing" or blare of trumpets associated with his methods. Nevertheless, with pliable diplomacy he has wrought well always persistent and insistent for those considerations justly due his constituency. Three hundred Negroes of the Sixth Ward are employed by the city. A goodly number receive salaries ranging from $110 to $250 a month. When “Bob” is not at his post of duty in the criminal court, you will find him at the elaborately appointed headquarters of the Sixth Ward Republican club. 2326a Market street, debating political topics as they affect his ward, and campaigning for his re-election. Our Probate Clerks There is an increasing number of Negro leaders in St. Louis who stand out because of individual attainment. In the Probate Court of St. Louis, the Negro has representation in Attorney Joseph P. Harris, an expert in Probate law. Mr. Harris was born in the city of St. Louis, Mo., 1874, and received his education in the public school of St. Louis, and after growing to manhood he followed the catering business for a number of years. About twenty years ago, he was appointed by Judge Chas. W. Holtcamp as assistant janitor and served in that position for about three and one-half years. While he was assistant janitor, he enrolled with the American Correspondence School of Law at Chicago, Ill., and shortly thereafter was appointed by the judge as a Deputy Probate clerk and assigned to the work as assistant to the judge, which position he now holds and fills with credit. After finishing a three-year law course, he was licensed by the Supreme Court of the state of Missouri to practice law in all the courts, of record in the state. On the steps of the Court House where now Attorney Harris is recognized as an expert in Probate law and procedure, our Negro forefathers were sold as slaves. Judge Holt- camp, in thus recognizing and promoting upon merit, Mr. Harris, has rendered high service to the entire Negro community. In the Probate Court, we find also William H. Banks, who has the distinction of being the first Negro to hold the position as a Deputy Probate clerk, which service he has been efficiently rendering for more than 14 years. His activity in Republican politics in St. Louis dates back almost to the year he made this city his home. He is a native of Montgomery City, Mo. and came here in 1899. During the Spanish- American war, he was a member of the E company, 25th United States Infantry, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He served as United States Custom Inspector in charge of the Philippine Agricultural building during the World's Fair, and was awarded a bronze medal by the Philippine Exposition board for efficient service. He has held several city and state positions, among which were deputy sheriff, clerk, special tax department, special clerk, Comptroller's office; special officer, Metropolitan Police department, and deputy Probate clerk, which position he held with credit to his race. He is a former student of Lincoln university, Jefferson City, Mo. Mr. Banks gained political distinction some years ago, when through his efforts, the first solid Negro delegation to attend a State Convention was made possible. The delegates were from the old Sixth, now Seventh Ward, and the convention was held in Kansas City, where they elected delegates to National Convention at Chicago, for the purpose of choosing the late Theodore Roosevelt for president of the United States. Mr. Banks was chairman of the delegation to the State convention. He was assistant sergeant-at-arms for the Republican National convention held in Chicago where President Harding was nominated. Later, at the convention in Cleveland, Ohio, when President Coolidge was nominated, Banks filled the position again as assistant sergeant-at- arms. Political Unrest While the Negro is participating to some extent in the political affairs of the city and state, there is an apparent unrest, for example, some time ago. Attorney Joseph L. McLemore addressed the Democratic City Central committee and strongly urged them to make a real bid for the Negro vote, pointing out that such a step would prove profitable to both the Democratic party and the Negro and further urged them to make attractive inducements to the Negro for his vote. Later he addressed them and advised them to elect Negroes to the State convention which was held at St. Joseph in February. Several Negroes were elected and attended, among them Sam Favors, now deceased, well known politician and philanthropist of the levee. McLemore was president of the Mound City Bar association, which together with the Harlan State Bar association, entertained the National Bar association when it was in session here last August, and is at present vice-president of the Harlan State Bar association. He is 32 years old and is a graduate of Howard university with the bachelor's degree in law, and also New York university, where he received the master's degree in law. Calvin Branch, who was sergeant- at-arms of the old House of Delegates is president of the organization that endorsed McLemore, but the meeting was presided over by Maceo Mays, who is president of the 17th Ward club of the organization. At a meeting of the Associated Negro Democratic Ward clubs held Thursday, March 29, that body endorsed McLemore for Congress from the 12th Congressional district. Happily for the political reputation of the Negro in St. Louis, to successfully maneuver with the ebb and flow of movements of which he is an integral part, his accomplishments, however, have not been without opposition; aggressive in certain quarters and sullenly passive in others. Regardless, he has achieved success and it has always been under the regime of the Republican party. The Leaders’ Philosophy A brief glance into the political life of the Negro in St. Louis, we also find Walthall M. Moore, the first colored man to be elected a member of the Missouri State Legislature, on the Republican ticket. It was in 1920 that Moore, backed by a mass movement—the Citizens Liberty League, was elected representative from the Third district of St. Louis. He was born May 1, 1881 at Marion, Ala,; educated in the public schools of Marion, Ala., St. Louis, Mo., and at Howard university, Washington, D. C. He has been a clerk in the St. Louis postoffice, and later in the railway mall service. Moore was a member of the 51st, 53rd and 64th General Assemblies and in the latter was a member on the following committees: Appropriations, Criminal Costs, Federal Relations, Justice of the Peace and Permanent Seat of Government. His outstanding characteristics are an all-consuming loyalty and devotion to his race and the Republican party; a tenacity of purpose which he shares with all the political leaders and a profound faith in the destiny of his people. He is a strategist and a careful administrator of the first class: an indefatigable worker with a decidedly practical bent of mind. Such is the sketch of the first Negro lawmaker in the history of Missouri. The high educational standing of Lincoln university, Jefferson City, Mo., is the monument of his greatness, for it was his unflattering faith in the destiny of his race that Lincoln Institute developed the. rank of a creditable university with educational methods recognized by leading institutions of learning. At the Republican State convention at St. Joseph, Mo., last March that august body elected Moore as a delegate-at-large to the National Republican Convention in Kansas City, Mo„ in June. It would be impossible here to enter into details of the political progress of the Negro in St. Louis. Generally speaking, a narration of events in their due chronological order has clear advantages. But here is an occasion when the writer finds it convenient and certainly profitable to mention a pertinent happening of conspicuous importance that centers around what has been said in the above paragraph. Such a happening was the sending of the second Negro as a representative, from St. Louis, to the Missouri legislature. This outstanding triumph was in 1926 when John A. Davis, a young lawyer was elected from the Third district in St. Louis on the Republican ticket. Davis was born in Navasota, Texas October 31, 1895. He received his early training in the public schools of Dallas, Texas; and received degrees of A. B. and LL. B., from Howard university, Washington, D. C. He has been engaged in the practice of law in 8t. Louis since 1922; has been active in politics for the past five years. In 1924 he filed and was a candidate for Missouri Legislature, but lost the Republican nomination by 180 votes. When he sought the office in 1926 he won it by a large majority of votes. The appearance of this new leadership is one of the most important phases of the St. Louis Negro’s development. While the philosophy of these leaders is that Negroes are equal citizens and should participate in all activities open to A merican citizens, it may be noted that they are advocating the spread of education among a large element of the population, which is partly reflected in Mr. Moore’s fight to raise the educational standard at Lincoln university and the phenomenal increase in the number of Negroes in Missouri, receiving college education. Records of the Missouri legislature will show that Representative John Davis is creative, and his viewpoint of politics is in its true relation to other social forces. As a legislator, he has been responsible for several important bills of which he is the author. Chiefly among them is the bill to establish high schools throughout the state for Negro children and homes for the feeble-minded and tubercular members of his race. An anti-lynching bill was designed by Davis. It provides that $5,000 damages can be collected from the county by relatives of lynching victims, and the county in turn can recover from bondsmen of the officer responsible for the protection of the prisoner in his keeping. The representative is also the backer of a bill introduced prohibiting motion picture houses and theatres from staging performances that create racial prejudice and hatred. Davis has won distinction in St. Louis as a lawyer, having handled successfully, several important cases, the most recent Of which was the sensational Flipper divorce case. Davis represented Mrs. Flipper. Highest Legal Honor From courthouse janitor to assistant circuit attorney with a $3,600 year salary, is the record of George B. Jones, of St. Louis, who is an assistant to Circuit Attorney Sidener (white). The former janitor now holds the highest position ever occupied by a lawyer of the race in St. Louis. Studying law nights from a correspondence school because the evening law schools of Missouri would not admit him, Mr. Jones by sheer grit and determination won his way into the coveted position. He has been a deputy circuit attorney since 1923, winning the cordial friendship of all members of the 8t. Louis bar through this efficient and cheerful service. Jones was born in St. Louis. Left an orphan at the age of 5. he was taken in by a kindly widow, who sent him to public school as long as she could afford to buy clothes for him. At 13 he went to work, first as a newsboy, then as a bootblack; then as houseman for the late Roger P. Annan, commission merchant and former president of the Merchants' exchange, who became the ambitious youth’s benefactor. It was an accident that caused Annan to realize his employee's studious bent. Annan smelled smoke one night and rushed to Jones quarters, where his table was in flames. The youth had fallen asleep over a book with a candle burning and the candle had overturned. Instead of dismissing Jones, Annan arranged that two hours of daylight be set aside each day and Jones pursued his studies under the tutelage of Mrs. Annan. Jones remained with the Annans for several years as houseman, coachman, and butler. Then he went to the courthouse as Janitor, where prominent lawyers and judges soon noted his earnestness and ambition. It was a circuit Judge who arranged for his appointment as deputy clerk in the old Dayton Street police court during the Kreismann administration. It was at Dayton Street court that Jones realized he might become a lawyer. He visited the evening schools and was turned down because of color. A lawyer friend advised a correspondence course. He subscribed and for six years pursued the law course, supplemented by advice and counsel from friendly lawyers who visited the court. In 1920, Jones was admitted to the Missouri bar. When Dayton Street court was abandoned Jones was transferred as assistant clerk In police court in the municipal court building. Sidener and his first assistant, I. Joel Wilson, noted his work and in January, 1923, when Sidener needed a clerk, Jones got the Job. A year later he was made a deputy at $2,400 a year. As assistant circuit attorney, Mr. Jones is in charge of all research work and has shown great adaptability in digging up old cases, which were particularly needed for investigation by the circuit attorney. He also frequently represented the circuit attorney in the St. Louis Court of Appeals. Mr. Jones is receiving the maximum salary of $3,600. His appointment is said to be highest public position ever attained in St. Louis by a Negro attorney. The Three Constables A further evidence of the St. Louis Negro’s political achievement was noted six years ago when Ira A. Dorsey was elected to the office of Constable of the Fifth Constabulary district of the Fifth and Nineteenth Wards of which former Committeeman Nat Goldstein is a political leader. On that day of election in 1922, another Negro, Langston Harrison, led on the Republican ticket in the race for Constable of the Fourth district, and was elected. Dorsey and Harrison have made good as officials. They were re-elected at a recent election and are serving a second term in office. Harrison is attached to the Court over which Crittenden E. Clark presides as Justice of the Peace. In addition to their regular deputies, these constables are invariably making it possible for deserving persons of their districts to have employment. It is an infrequent custom of Constable Dorsey to see to it that members of his race serve as Jurors in the Court of which he is an official, a custom which has not been practiced heretofore. Watchmen are sent out by him on attachment proceedings, receiving compensation for such service as high as $150. In order to increase the efficiency standard of His office, Dorsey has appointed William Osborne, former grand chancellor of Pythians of Missouri, and well known citizen, Chief Deputy constable. He was a deputy to the Clerk of the Court of Criminal Causes for a period of 14 years. Osborne entered his position in the Constable's office May 1, this year. The bulk of the Negro vote in St. Louis is in the Fourth Constabulary district. That voting strength was utilized in the election of 1926 to elect another Negro to the office of Constable in that district. William A. Morant, real estate dealer, was the successful candidate. He is attached to Justice of the Peace Schuler’s office. Morant’s conduct as a public official has been creditable. Women in Politics Since granting to our women the full, free enjoyment of citizen rights, they have used the ballot with other powers of citizenship for the political advancement of the race in this city. Mrs. Jeanne Beatrice Galion is recorded as being the first colored woman of our race to be elected committeewoman. Her activities for woman suffrage began two years prior to President Harding’s election, when she was on the National speakers bureau in interest of Harding’s candidacy. Mrs. Gallon was elected committeewoman of the Twenty-third Ward by a majority of 346 votes over her nearest white opponent. She was chairman of the colored division during a Bond issue program, and through her influence as a committeewoman, secured several positions for colored and white voters of her Ward. Mrs. Gallon was defeated at the last election when she sought re-election. Our women in St. Louis, have no less vision and ambition than the men; therefore, are using their political power to secure some of the benefits offered by the city government. In Wards where Negroes are in the majority, they have elected their moat capable women as members of the City Committee of the Republican party. With that group of white leaders, the Sixth Ward has representation in Mrs. Elisabeth Gamble; Mrs. Florence Davis of the Nineteenth Ward; Mrs. Cassie Harris of the Fifth and Mrs. Carrie Tillman of the Sixteenth Ward, include the other three members of the City Committee, who are persistent in their efforts on behalf of their constituents. Through the strong influence and agitation of the Citizens Liberty League, about eight years ago, Negro policemen in uniform are now walking beats in St. Louis, and others are identified with the City Fire department. A Negro in Congress It is understood that the Negro’s political achievements in St. Louis have, for the most part been through the influence of mass movements; yet through the same organized efforts, they have failed in their attempts to send a representative to Congress, The Twelfth Congressional district,

STAFF CORRESPONDENT. R. C. FISHER A deputy clerk in the Circuit Court of St. Louis. Mr. Fisher was born in New Orleans, La., attended Leland university and Chicago 8chool of Technology. He has taught art printing at Tuskegee Institute, been editor of The Square, popular Masonic Journal, and is on the staffs of several publications of the race.

330 Negro Employes in Jackson County In the various governmental departments of Jackson county, including Kansas City, 330 Negroes are employed in various capacities. General hospital No. 2 leads with a total of 117 employees, including internes and student nurses. The department of street repairs follows with 40 colored workers including two colored foremen, and the police department is next with 37 employees ranging from detectives to hostlers and Janitors. The park department employs 35 Negroes steadily, and often through the summer months uses many more. The street cleaning department has 34 colored employes including 4 colored foremen. Negroes are also employed in other city departments such as the welfare board, which has Negro dance hall inspectors, and dance hall matron; and in the city water department. In county departments colored workers hold positions ranging from superintendents of such institutions as the County Home for Aged and Infirm Negroes, and the Home for Incorrigible Boys, to Jailers in county penal institution. According to figures submitted by the postmaster of Kansas City 95 Negroes find employment in the postal service. There are 35 regular carriers, 14 substitute carriers, 2 special delivery carriers, 1 regular clerk, 4 motor vehicle employees, 4 regular laborers, and 8 substitute laborers. Dr. Howard M. Smith is the superintendent of General hospital No. 2. Dr. Chester E. Harris is house physician. Mrs. Howard M. Smith is matron. The list of the other employees follows: Mrs. Nellie. Young, social worker; Dr. L. M. Tillman, clinician; Dr. T. A. Jones, city physician; George B. Golden, chief clerk; Floy Roberts, record clerk; Opal Bennet, night clerk; W. Staples, relief night clerk; Dr. P. C. Turner, pathalogist; Dr. C. Humbert, x-ray; Hermenia Clay, laboratory assistant. INTERNES—Drs. Marcus Tucker, Willard Mullins, DeKoven French, Clyde Bradford, Curtis U. Franklin, Hugh Browne, H. Branche, A. N. Gordon, jr., Ralph Scull and James T. Lewis. SUPT. OF NURSES—Mrs. Lorenda Harris, R. N.; Mrs. S. J. Smyth, R. N., night superintendent. SUPERVISORS—Mrs. M. Wilson, R. N.; Miss A. Boykin, R. N.; Mrs. Wills Maddux, R. N.; Miss Cora Mitchell. R. N. SENIOR NURSES—Bessie Lucas, Marie Hurd, Monderlon Mack, Gladys Young, Nina Moore, Ruby Patton, Charlotte Dyson, Dorothy B. Williams, Lietha Jackson, Jenny Bryant, Jessie Cotton, Josephine Alexander, Lottie Moore, Verneitha Weddington. INTERMEDIATE NURSES— Queenesther Houston, Aurelia Smith, Bertha Rogers, Alberta Jack- son, Gertie Gilbert, Alice Morse, Mattie Laws, Mannie Johnson, Vera Curtis. JUNIOR NURSES—Mamie Williams, Letitia Smith, Velma Hunely, Audrey Trout, Willa Mae Gay, Elnora Reeves, Gladys Alexander, Florence David, Katy Darlest, Sammie Washington, Anna Mae Lucas, Luner Goodman, Ida Stafford, Semonia McGlory, Ethel Wicks. CONTAGIOUS ORDERLIES — Henry Winters, Robert Johns, Henry Jones, Vernal Lawshea, Colestine Graves, Leila C. Johnson, Ella Lee, Mary Finney. Operating Room Orderly — Charles Williams. Rose Allen, Matron of Nurses' Home. James Bunn, Janitor. TURKMEN—Hayes Petree, John Bliley, John Reynolds, John Stuart. Abbie D. Vinson, dietitian; Mobeata Williams, chef; Blanche M. Kerford, pastry chef; Anna Birt, waitress; Margaret Harris, waitress. ORDERLIES — David Bernard, Kenneth Woodson, Frank Wells, Henry Hayes, Bert Gholston, Jack Penn, Marshall Tabor. JANITORS — Frank Flemming, head Janitor; Abbie Burns, James Johnson, Arthur Campbell, R. C. Marshall, Orville Bryant, Mamie Mathenia, Thomas Smith. LAUNDRY—Arthur Lacy, Juanita Ricketts, head laundress; Anna Lewis, sterile laundress; Laura Griffin, Susie Craig, Esther Williams, Janie Wilkins, Anna Goldman, Emma Morgan, Artie Clark, Anna White. John Todd is the captain of Kansas City's only Negro fire company, ana Jack Cespedes is his lieutenant. Officials of the fire department are high in their praise of this small company who with limited equipment and men sucessfully protect the district to which they are assigned, one of the most densely populated in the city. NO 5 FIRE STATION—John Todd, captain, 1312 Michigan; Jack Cespedes, lieutenant, 1509 E. 12th; Clarence Blankenbaker, 1912 Vine; Edward O. Wilson, 1928 Olive; Edward Queenan, 2200 Vine; Oriel W. Young, 1914 Olive; Walter Woods, 2528 Michigan; Amos Smith, 1906 E. 19th; Eugene King, 1618 Euclid; R. H. Davis, 1606 Troost; Leon Steele, 1516 Woodland; Howard Wright, 2439 Highland; Joe King, 1518 Euclid. WATER DEPT.—Wm. Travis, 1324 Brooklyn; Phillip Diggs, 717 E. 17th; Claude B. Lewis, 2412 Montgall. STREET CLEANING DEPT. Colored men in this department number 28, including 4 foremen. It is the duty of the men of this department to see that Kansas City's streets are kept free of refuse and dirt. Each of the colored foremen is in complete charge of his group of workers. Every group, under a foreman, is assigned to a different district: FOREMEN—Thomas Bibbs, 2805 Woodland; L. W. Spencer, 1818 Tracy; Matt Emery, 2307 Lydia; Thomas O. Lee, 1617 E. 22nd; Wm. Maupin, 1319 Euclid. WORKERS—Isaac Mitchell, 1341 E. 18th; George Martin, 915 E. 3rd; Wm. Clark, 2409 Flora; Edward Haines, 1606 1/2 Lydia; Eugene Brown, 1908 E. 18th; Wm. Dandrige, 1505 1/2 Cottage; Pearl Day, 1404 Kensington; Wallace Fuller, 2305 Lydia; Archie James, 803 Campbell; Harry Jackson, 532 Harrison; James Smith, 804 E. 3rd; Granville Cooper, 1617 E. 26th; Harry Jacobs, 2027 Flora; Mack McKirey, 2901 Myrtle; George Parker, 2229 Vine; Lillburn Smith, 3826 E. 16th; Wesley Wright, 2119 Olive; Louis Kane, 1605 Norton; Edward Harris, 2308 Flora; Oliver Hicks, 1718 Euclid; Daniel Miller, 2040 E. 19th; Samuel Stubblefield, 1626 Olive; Wesley Young, 1327 Vine; Floyd Buchanan, 804 E. 4th; Morgan Green, 1626 College; Mose Johnson, 1611 Charlotte; Macey Jones, 901 Paseo; James Jefferson, 5803 E. 35th street terrace; Daniel Williams, 713 Locust. DEPT. OF STREET REPAIRS In the department of street repairs 40 colored men are employed, including 2 foremen. This work gives employment to more Negroes than any other in the city, with the exception of the health department: FOREMEN—Pinkney Dale, Robert McKay. WORKERS—Walter Brown, Ernest Bozier, Orange Robinson, Wm. Kermer, Harry Thatcher, Walter Brown, Wash Pryor, Ted Williams, Henry Oliver, Lige Richardson, George Brown, Edward Milton, Bert Willis, John Richardson, Harvey Davidson, Silas Mills, Carson Brown, Luther Slaughter, John McGee, George Narey, Gus Gates, John Taylor, Naten Holder, Press Morrow, Will Colbert, Wm. Thatcher, George Sullivan, Lem Shepard, Robert Steward, Bill Evans, Frank Merrity, Henry Hutchinson Arcadia Williams, Jesse Carr, Julius Brown, Archie Preston, William Foster, William Green. CUSTODIAL SERRVICE CITY HALL PARK DEPARTMENT The park department employs 35 Negroes steadily, and during the summer season, many more find temporary employment. Keeping the parks clean, the grass cut, repairing tennis courts and golf links, etc. is the work of the men in this department: Wm. H. Thurmond, Joe Miller, Oliver Jiles, Wm. J. McCord, Lee London, Paul Gray, Edward Rollins, Alonzo Williams, Joe Richardson, Wm. Wright, Wesley Bonner, Dorsey Ewing, Julius Wilson, Charles Calloway, Houston Judkins, Boyd Lewis, Augustus Shirley, Clark Hedgwood, Wm. Dickson, John Tummage, George Thomas, Joe Harris, Lewis Clark, Charles Smith, Charles Marshall, Lewis Allen, Aris Martin, Peter Jordan, Squire Marshall, Wm. Chappie, Lige Mason, Arch Waldron, Warnnie Bunch, John H. Yates, Archie Lewis, James M. Tompkins, Carrington Thompson. WELFARE BUREAU. In this department Thomas Clark, 1332 Garfield, and Frank Watkins, 253 5Highland, work as dance hall inspectors, visiting all public dances with the view of keeping such places in strict accordance with decency. Mrs. L. O. Weaver, dance hall matron, serves in a similar capacity, although her work has mainly to do with the young girls who attend public dances. JACKSON COUNTY HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM NEGROES Twenty-six miles out into the country, nicely located on high, windswept ground, and handsomely builded is the home for aged and infirm Negroes. Dr. Booker is superintendent. Seventeen Negroes find employment in this institution. The list follows: Dr. L. W. Booker, superintendent; Mrs. Bessie Bibbs, matron; Dr. W. L. Hayden, dentist; A. V. Monholland, Lee Howard, M. C. Shipp, Birch Hunt, Wesley Smith, Benjamin Swan, May Kinsler, George Bartlett, Altan Graham, Josie Williams. Fannie Jones, Lutie Sewell, Harry Hoard. Dorsey Ginn. LEEDS REFORMATORY ATTENDANTS—Lillian Armstrong, 4012 E. 17th; Susie Smith, 1408 E. 19th; Gladys S. Walker, 1408 E. 19th; Anna M. Wisdom, 1203 Euclid; Betty Harris, 1611 E. 22nd. JACKSON COUNTY HOME FOR NEGRO BOYS. Carl Beck, superintendent; Maude E. Beck, matron; Sam Simpson, William Ockleberry, Edward Anderson. Son Bradshaw, Pearl Webb. CUSTODIAN DEPT., JACKSON CO. C. Watley, S. E. Lockhart, Rufus Barnes, Charles O'Neil, Ross Carr. GOVERNMENT SERVICE In the employ of the government of the United States in the various postal stations of this city, there are 95 colored men and women. Their work is in various capacities such as carriers, special delivery messengers, clerks, chauffeurs, janitors, etc. The list follows: REGULAR CARRIERS—J. W. Allen ,E. M. Arnold, A. V. Barton, H. W. Becks, Jas. V. Bell. L. L. Bell, Tapley S. D. Berger, C. S. Burton, Theodore Clay, J. E. Cole, A. L. Countee, J. H. Crews, W. A. Dabney, A Fields. J. S. Fields, L. C. Fields, Elliott Gales, H. Gurnell, I. Hawkins, A. B. Higbee, Timot[y] [?,] E. M. Irving, Elmer Ja[?,] [?]rey Jetts, Jas. A. John[son,] [?] Kemp, E. S. Lewis, S. H[.] [?,] [?] A. Moore, G. R. Myers, [?] [?]liam, C. E. Ross, G. A. [?,] [?] E. Williams, E. L. Worte[?] SUBSTITUTE CARRI[ERS-] [?] McAdams, Leroy Shields[,] [?,] W. S. Brookfield, E. C. [?,] [?] Johnson, N. H. Walls, W[?] [?,] S. W. Cleaver, L. D. H[?,] [?] Clark, W. F. Monroe, W[?] [?,] R. W. Hays. SPECIAL DELIVERY [?]GERS—R. C. Neal, L. G[?] REGULAR CLERK- [?] Mu[?]drew. MOTOR VEHICLE EMPLOYEES —P. D. Burgin, P. L. Groomer, Ed Sarver (substitute), Albert Winchester. LABORERS (regular)—Thomas D Jackson, T. S. Rhinehart, Isaac W Toney, Hurburt R. Williams. LABORERS (substitute)—Joe Brooks, Wm. E. Coursey, J. D. Hudspeth, J. W. Jackson, Leoper Justice[,] Aaron Patterson, N. H. Wheeler, Joseph Williams. CUSTODIAL DEPARTMENT Frank A. Green, James D. McLean James Bates, Cluster Cary, Richmond Cuby, Isaac Davis, Richard Davis, Daniel Edwards, Henry Elliott, Mermon B. France, Edward Grant, James P. Hammons, Felix E Henderson, Will Kemp, Oscar Logan Thomas Payne, Easter Person, Lawrence Peyton, Joy Valley, George Walker, Clara E. Adair, Salina Berry Frances A. Cary, Zulah Jones, Lucille H. Mitchell, Willie Tucker, Mary Wilson.

38 EMPLOYEES AT CAPITOL In the seat of the government at Jefferson City, Mo., there are thirty- eight Negroes employed in various positions permanently. Of this number of employees, 24 are Janitors, 3 elevator operators, 5 clerks 2 messengers, 1 truck driver, 1 stenographer, Robert S. Cobb on the workmen’s compensation commission and N. B. Young, inspector of schools, department of education. The following are names of persons employed permanently by the state: JANITORS Richard Murry, Cedar City, two years. Richard Ramsey, Jefferson City 4 years. Sam Ramsey, Sedalia, 8 years. Glen Sutton, Vandalia, 8 years. Hillard Banks, Kansas City, 4 years. Phillips Hicks, Columbia, 3 years John Warren, Jefferson City, 4 years. August Patton. Jefferson City, 2 years. Grant Wingo, Crystal City, 1 year Mrs. Beulah Ellis, matron of building, St. Louis, 8 years. Kenneth Murray, Cedar City auditor’s office, 1 year. John Slater, Jefferson City, secretary of state’s office. Roy Jamerson, Jefferson City, 4 years in secretary of state’s office Charles Dixon, Jefferson City, one year. Adrew Richmond, Jefferson City 4 years in public service commission. Edward Gibson, Caruthersville, 4 years in public service commission Billie Turner,JeffersonCity, 8 years in insurance department. Ray Evans, Jefferson City, 4 year in finance department. Price Logan, Jefferson City, 8 years in adjutant general’s department. John Smith, JeffersonCity, 8 years in board of health. James Carter, Appleton City, 4 years in permanent seat of government. Wm. Scott, St. Louis, one year in treasurer's office. Tom Hughes ,St. Louis, 8 years in permanent seat of government. Frank Graham, Jefferson City, 8 years in secretary of state's office. CLERKS J. P. Washington, Columbia, Mo. clerk in treasurer’s office, 8 years. Frank Abington, Warrenton, Mo. clerk, auditor’s office, appointed by George Hackman, 12 years. Charles "Lefty" Robinson, veteran baseball pitcher, Hannibal, Mo. stock clerk, 2 years. Oscar Beasley, mall clerk. St Louis, one year. Walthall M. Moore, clerk, automobile department, secretary o[f] state, St. Louis; representative elected from St. Louis for 3 terms active in securing appropriation: for L. U. Virginia Gathright, Jefferson City elevator operator, 8 years. Mrs. Vivian Webb, Jefferson City elevator operator, 8 years. Miss Pearl Graham, Jefferso[n] City, elevator operator, 2 years. Richard Jamerson, Jefferson City truck driver, 8 years. MESSENGERS Charles Spencer, Jefferson City 8 years in governor’s office. C. C. Raines, Fayette, Mo., 4 years in fish and game department Other positions: Workmen’s Compensation Commission, Robert S. Cobb, Cape Girardeau, head of report section, fo[r] one year; seven years secretary o[f] Negro Industrial commission. N. B. Young, Tallahassee, Fla., no[w] Jeeffrson City, inspector of schools department of education, forme[r] president of Lincoln university, [?] months, succes sorto N. C. Bruce. Mrs. Alberta Hall, Jefferson City stenographer, one year.

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[?]169 Served in the World War From Missouri [KANS]AS CITY FURNISHED 2,700 [?] [SA]VE DEMOCRACY FOR WORLD [?]an's Record in Flanders Fighting Is a Story of [Brave?]ry and Glory Despite Post-War Efforts to [Bra]nd Negro Troops and Officers as Cowards LEST WE FORGET. Oh you black men who fought another’s fight— Who died for another’s idea of right; You who went gladly nor even asked "Why?"— For your country glad of the chance to die; Oh you black men, you brave men, heroes all Who answered as one to America's call— Is there, would you truly, this day confess A deep hurt within, a hard bitterness? L’ENVOI. To you black fighters who are with us yet And you glorious ones who have "Gone West"— Your own remember, will never forget How you red-blooded black boys met the test! —W. T. Smith. In a few months it will be ten years since the signing of the Armistice which signalized the end of the World War, the mightiest combat that history has chronicled. War is an unpleasant thing at best, and that people have already begun to forget it is but natural and fitting. However the “Great War” in its relation to Negroes should not so soon become something that happened and is over. For white Americans can afford something that happened and is ver. For white Americans can afford to forget it. They got something out of it; something tangible. But the Negro got very little out of the whole affair unless it was the lesson that however much he desired to help his country, and however much he did help his country, very little reward did he receive for services rendered. Perhaps he also learned the lesson of self preservation. Basis in Race Hate It is generally accepted by thinkers whose opinions are unheated by prejudice, and who have had almost ten years to reason the matter out, that the Great War had its [r]oots in racial hatred and international jealousy between rulers and peoples of different European countries. The German Kultur was merely an outward sign of an inward ill: that of the illustion that any one, people has a divine right to rule; that any particular group is ordained to rule another group, regardless of method, or right. What directly brought on the war was the resentment of the Serbians) of the effort of the Germanic Austrians to rule them. For centuries the oppression of one race by another had been going on in Europe. Races were ruled and exploited by people of another race all over Europe. The Poles had no government of their own but were divided among Germany, Russia, and Austria. Italians bitterly resented the rule of Austria over large territories whose population was almost entirely Italian. On the west the French people of Alsace-Lorraine were held in subjection by Germany. The Czecho-Slavoks of Bohemia were under the control of Austria; Turkish authority tyrannized the Armenians, and the Lithuanians were the subjects of Russian masters. 400,000 Negro Soldiers Germany ,confident of her ability to overcome all resistance, determined to reduce still more nations to her subjection, and to extend her dominion from the North Sea to the Indian Ocean, and perhaps westward to the Americas entered upon this war to crush friend and foe alike. It was natural that the whole civilized world revolted when the German government declared that its solemn treaty in which it had agreed to the permanent independence of Belgium was only “a scrap of paper,” and sent its army ruthlessly into that neutral country. The invasion of Belgium was the act that decided several of the larger | nations that a “hands off” policy was no longer politic. Atrocities similar to those attributed to Germany, but on a smaller scale, when committed by American Nordics against black Americans, had never excited much comment. And so America went to war. and with America, as usual went Negro soldiers— willingly, even eagerly—400,000 of them. It should be a mater of pride to every Negro that at the instant of the declaration of war there were 20.000 soldiers of color in the United States uniformed, equipped, drilled, trained, and ready to take the field against any foe. In proportion to the total of the Negro population in America, this was a splendid showing. Many of these Negro soldiers had already seen as much and as active service through being in the national regular army and the national guard, as any white companies of the same type of untis. About 10,000 of these Negro troops who were ready when war was declared were in the original four colored units of the regular army. Of these, the most famous were the Ninth and Tenth cavalry, the Negro troops of the regular army who saved the day at San Juan hill for Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, and helped him to the pinnacle of fame and power which he later achieved. Everybody should remember the story of these famous black fighters who stormed the Spanish stronghold singing "There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight." In the beginning, as in the end, the whites could not forget the fact of color, even in the face of what threatened to be a war to the death; a struggle in which America’s very existence was threatened. It was found "necessary" to provide seven widely separated camps for the Negro soldiers, and it was deemed "ad-[Ms. text cuts off] commanders. That such a large number of Negroes attained the dignity of commissioned officers is probably as high a record of their fitness and ability as can be cited when one is aware of the unwillingness of the white officers to believe that colored officers were at all qualified to command. Unfortunately, or perhaps in the light of later events, fortunately, the preponderance of Negro troops were assigned to labor battalions. But the divisions who served as combat troops, and who were actually under fire were credited with extraordinary heroism. Many colored officers and colored soldiers received various honors for bravery in action. The Negro under fire proved that the stories of his timidity when danger is imminent were largely imaginary. Praised by Pershing After the war Major-General Bullard spread the statement that the Negro was not a good soldier, and he even claimed that the dark soldier was timorous, if not actually cowardly. In direct contradiction to that testimony we have an official extract from a speech made by General Pershing to the assembled units of the 92nd division at Le Mans in January, 1919 which reads: “I want you officers and soldiers of the 92nd division to know that the 92nd division stands second to none in the record you have made since your arrival in France. I am proud of the part you have played in the great conflict which ended November 11, yet you have only done what the American people expected you to do, and you have lived up to every expectation of your commander-in-chief. I realize that you did not get into the game as early as some of the other units, but since you took over your first sector you have acquitted yourselves with credit, and I believe that if the Armistice had not become effective when it did the 92nd would have still further distinguished itself. I commend the 92nd division not only for its achievements in the field, but for the records its men have made in individual conduct. The American public has every reason to be proud of the record made by the 92nd division!” This is a far cry from the cowardly accusations made by Bullard in his peace time propaganda to defame the Negro troops. Before President Wilson sounded the call to war; it will be remembered that black men were already contributing their share to pushing back the Hun. These were the Sengalese, Algerian, Soudanese, and other troops from the tribes of Africa. The story of their valor is one of the glories which will illumine France's honor roll until the end of time. The Negro in America had actual difficulty in finding service in the American army at that time. It was not until the selective draft was authorized, and the organization of the national army begun, that the Negro was given opportunity to take part in the great war. Of the four colored regiments in the Regular Army, the 24th Infantry had been on the Mexican border since 1916; the 25th Infantry in Hawaii all the years of the war; the Ninth cavalry in the Philippines since 1916, and the old Tenth cavalry had been doing patrol work and garrison duty on the Mexican border. These four organizations dated their formation back to the days of the Civil War, and were seasoned soldiers. It is surely no reflection on them that they were chosen to protect home territory. Negro National Guard organizations had increased since the Spanish-American war, but they were not numerous in 1917. The ones accepted by the war department were the Eighth Illinois Infantry, a regiment entirely of Negroes including officers, the 15th New York Infantry, whose senior officers were white; the Ninth Ohio, a battalion manned and officered by Negroes, and Negro companies from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. The Eighth Illinois became the 369 infantry, the Ninth Ohio battalion [Ms. text cuts off] states already mentioned became the 372nd infantry. The 369th and the 370th, and the 372nd infantry regiments became a part of the 93nd division, later, the 371st also became a part of this division. The 93rd division was brigaded with the French poilus. One of the regiments from the 93rd ,the 369th was among the first American troops to reach France. The 92nd division was another entirely Negro division. Units belonging to one or the other, or both of these illustrious divisions saw much action and fought with especial distinction at the Forest of Argonne, Balleau Wood, St. Mihiel, at Metz, and the Vosges mountains. In the 92nd division was the 325th Field Signal battalion ,the only Negro signal unit in the American army. Homer Roberts, a local automobile dealer, served as an officer in this unit. The division also contained the 349th, 350th, and the 351st Artillery regiments, each containing a machine gun battalion; the 317th Trench Mortar battery; the balance being made up of Negro chaplains and over 350 Y. M. C. A. secretaries, the most famous of whom perhaps is H. O. Cook, present principal of Lincoln high school who rendered valuable services upon the firing line among the wounded until he was gassed and carried to a base hospital. He was later recommended for a Distinguished Service Cross. Negro nurses were authorized by the war department for service in base hospitals at six army camps over here—Funston, Sherman, Grant, Dix, Taylor and Dodge. Race women also served as canteen workers in France, and were in charge of hostess houses in this country. The women of Kansas City wil be especially remembered for the invaluable aid they rendered as a Red Cross unit. Missouri sent 9,219 Negroes to war, and of this number nearly two thousand seven hundred were from Kansas City. Many others enlisted, or were drafted from other parts of the country. Most of the men from this district received their training at Funston, a large number being made officers, among whom the following are listed: Frank Love, captain, infantry; E. H. Lee, captain, medical corps; William Hayden, lieutenant, dental corps; Bruce Williams, captain ,infantry; Edward Fladger, lieutenant, machine gun corps; Homer Roberts, lieutenant, field signal battalion; Tacitus Galliard (deceased), lieutenant, infantry; J. L. Johnson, lieutenant, infantry; E. S. Baker, lieutenant, medical corps; J. C. Banks, lieutenant, machine gun corps. Kansas City has the honor of having part in the formation of the only complete voluntary unit in the 92nd division, which was the 325th Signal Corps. When the plan was conceived at Camp Funston, the army officials looked around for a man fitted by experience in signal work to help with the forming of the corps, and coming to Kansas City, chose Homer Roberts as the one best fitted. Some of the immediate volunteers for the unit whose first meeting was held at the Y. M. C. A. in the fall of 1917 were, Homer Roberts, Homer (Jap) Eblon, W. (Bill) Knox, Clifton Lear, Albert Jetton, Cordell Avery, Zenus Bradley, Ollie Terry, John H. Graves, James Hollingsworth and Dave Jackson. After the Armistice was signed Lieutenant Homer Roberts was given charge of the large signal school near Marbasche, France, and received credit for the efficient training of over four hundred men in signal work. Officers under him in the school were Second Lieutenant Herbert, Second Lieutenant B. Wilson, First Lieutenant C. S. Smith and Second Lieutenant Richard Walker. A fact that few people know is that the 15th New York Infantry, a colored unit which entered the war and saw service beginning in 1917, spent more hours in the trenches than any other American unit, white or colored.

"TRUTH” by Cecil O. Moss Let us define the word, "Truth.” Truth means "exactness" facts and conformity to rule, true state of facts or things are called truth. Jesus Christ is called truth and we as a people should endeavor to do what he has commanded us to do. He lived truth during his ministerial career on earth. Therefore, truth is the fundamental principle of Christianity. Truth has made men defy the conventions of Christian living and believe that Christ is not a superior being, the ruler of the universe. The death he died proves that those wicked people knew not the truth, and the wonderful substance it contains. Although he died that tragic and cruel death for the salvation of the world, yet people are hardening their hearts against truth. The world today is being retained by truth. Ministers of the Gospel are unceasingly endeavoring to prove to the world, that truth is the most essential issue in life today. Truth has not only made Christ stand out as our most leading example. But there are earthly characters who have died for the principles of truth. Truth has lead these men to perform miracles. Before any of our historical characters ever accomplish their aims, they inherited the fundamental principle of life so as to make them a success and that is truth. Our different vocations of life are governed by truth. We must have the real meaning of our purpose at heart and get it conceived in our minds as a fact, before we can accomplish our aims. Let our lives be guided by truth, so that we may attain our inheritance from God, which is everlasting life, and by our mode of operation [Ms. text cuts off]

The Liberty Memorial: to All Kansas City Men Who Died in France

LEGION POST IS NAMED FOR FIRST SLAIN Wayne Miner Post Has Aided Ex-Service Men in This Area The Wayne Minor Post of the American Legion was organized in October, 1919 by Homer Roberts, former signal officer in the 92nd division, and he was its first commander with P. R. Crutchfield as adjutant. The post was named after Wayne Minor, the first Kansas City Negro to fall in action in France. In 1920 the following officers were elected: T. E. Gailiard, commander; A. H. Hamilton, vice commander; Jas. O. F. Thomas, adjutant; Marshall Jackson, finance officer; John H. Graves, sergeant-at-arms; P. R. Crutchfield, historian; Norvel Lemons, chaplain. In 1921 much interest was shown in the election of officers on account of the coming national Legion convention. B. H. Muldrew became commander; A. H. Hamilton, vice- commander; Jas. O. F. Thomas, adjutant; Marshall Jackson, finance officer; P. R. Crutchfield, historian: Norvel Lemons, chaplain; John H. Graves, sergeant-at-arms. During this year the Post had the pleasure of assisting in the entertaining of the Third National convention of the American Legion. About three hundred colored delegates and visitors attended the event which was considered a great success. In 1922 the following officers were elected: F. W. Love, commander; Marshall Jackson, vice commander; Lawrence B. Walton, finance officer; Jas. O. F. Thomas, adjutant; P. R. Crutchfield, historian; C. R. Banks, chaplain; J. L. Johnson, city committeeman; Dr. H. E. Lee, medical officer ; and David Jackson, sergeant at arms. During this year the ex-service men displayed an unusual amount of interest in the Legion because of the recently passed Missouri bonus law. The Wayne Minor Post made special efforts to care for the colored ex-soldiers. A staff of typists was secured from Lincoln high school which worked under the supervision of the commander, F. W. Love, Adjt. Thomas, F. T. Lane and Geo. Elson. This committee handled 2,500 applications and paid a sum of $22,000 to the colored veterans of this vicinity. In 1923 the new officers elected were Thomas Dent, commander; Marshall Jackson, vice commander; Jas. O. F. Thomas, adjutant; A. H. Hamilton, historian; Richard Ewell, finance officer; C. R. Banks, chaplain; John H. Graves, sergeant-at- arms; T. E. Gailiard, city committeeman, and Dr. E. H. Lee, medical officer. For 1924 Marshall Jackson was commander; Earl Gibbs, vice commander; Jas. O. Thomas, adjutant; L. B. Walton, historian; Rev. A. E. Rankin, chaplain; John H. Graves, sergeant-at-arms; Francis Spencer, committeeman; and Dr. E. H. Lee, medical officer. The following year, 1925 saw Homer Roberts as commander; Jas. O. F. Thomas, adjutant; A. H. Hamilton, historian; L. B. Walton, finance officer; Rev. A. E. Rankin, chaplain; John H. Graves, sergeant- at-arms; Francis Spencer, committeeman, and Dr. E. H. Lee, medical officer. In 1926 Robert L. Sweeny became commander; Earl Gibbs, vice commander; Jas. O. F. Thomas, adjutant; Lewis W. Foster, finance officer; Rev. A. E. Rankin, chaplain; John H. Graves, sergeant-at-arms; and Francis Spencer, committeeman. In 1927 Jas. O. F. Thomas who had served the Post for seven years as adjutant was elected commander with Earl Gibbs as vice commander; Thomas Williams as second vice commander; Francis Spencer, adjutant; Lewis Foster, finance officer; [Ms. text cuts off] Jeffress, chaplain; and Tapley Berger, city commander. For this year Robert L. Sweeny has been elected commander; Francis Spencer is vice commander, Tapley Berger is adjutant, Earl Gibbs is finance officer, Lewis W. [?] Foster is historian, and James A. Jefferies is sergeant at arms. Since the organization of Wayne Minor Post of the American Legion it has been active in work pertaining to the veterans, especially disabled veterans. Hospitalization, insurance, and charity work are part of the duties of this organization. Many colored veterans have been sent to government hospitals through the Post's activities, and many ex-soldiers have had their compensation adjusted, or claims completed through this Post. When a veteran dies, regardless of where he is from -the Post gives him a full military funeral, just as though he had fallen on the battlefield. To the adjutant falls the work of handling the various claims held by colored ex-service men, and it is due to his efforts, and those of the legion that many apparently hopeless claims are secured. Each year on November 11 the Post holds a reunion. In 1926 the Post held its most successful reunion, entertaining the presidential escort, and assisting in decorating the Liberty Memorial.

One hundred and seventy-three women lawyers are members of the Paris bar, and 234 have been admitted since the beginning of this century.

The Prussian minister of justice has just appointed Germany's first woman judge, Dr. Marla Hagenmeyer having been selected to pre-[Ms. text cuts off]

St. Louis Citizens Are Making Good in the City’s Various Departments (Contiued from page D-6) in this city, offers the best opportunity for electing a Negro of any district in the nation where the Negro vote is not suppressed or counted against him. In recent years, there have been a number of Negro candidates to seek the honor; but they have encountered difficulty in securing the nomination of their party because of the multiplicity of aspirants. The Negro's desire for one of his group to represent him in Congress has been reflected through his most influential political organizations, wherein it was agreed to support some particular candidate. Such a course has invariably met with disruption, because of other over- ambitious candidates who would not be bound to a program of mass movement. Therefore, to elect a Congressman has been a problem, and usually much strife and rancor have characterized whatever interests put forth in that direction for political achievement. Welfare Department Dr. J. B. Bell, supervisor of the public school dental clinic, is another Negro in St. Louis who stands out because of individual attainment. He has the distinction of being directly responsible for the dental care of more children than any Negro dentist in this country. He has nad charge of that department of the city’s activity for ten years, which is a longer period than any of his predecessors, white or colored. Dr. Bell is a native of St. Louis, where he received his elementary training in the public schools. He was graduated from the dental department of Howard university, Washington, D. C., with the class of 1913; was engaged in the private, practice of his profession here until receiving the position he now holds. His influence on the general health of the Negro youth has been felt throughout the state by his appearances on program of the Negro State Teachers association—in discussing the care of the teeth, and its effect on health and school success. He is a highly respected citizen, a man with adequate experience in handling children and one of the best dental clinic operators employed by the City of St. Louis.

23RD KANSAS REGIMENT IN CUBA IN 1898 Troops Were Recruited in Face of Discouragement; First to Leave U. S. Kansas people sympathized from the first with the Cubans in their struggle against the tyranny of Spain, and their knowledge of the situation was increased by the arrival from Cuba in January, 1898 of Colonel Fred Funston, a Kansan, who spoke in many places of the situation on the little island. The president's call for volunteers to the number 125,000 was issued on the 23rd of April, but Kansas had not waited for the call, as a few days previously she had offered her services. On the 21st of June Governor Leedy announced his intention of raising two battalions of colored troops. James Beck, of Riley county. and John M. Brown of Shawnee county were bulletined as majors. It was given out that the command of the battalions as Lieutenant- Colonel would be assumed by Major H. H. Young, U. S. A., but for some reason that officer was not allowed to assume that position, and remained with the Ninth Ohio, at Camp Alger. In face of many predictions of its impossibility, the enlistment of colored soldiers proceeded. By the 4th of July there were 400 men at Camp Leedy ;in two days there were 550, and on the 13th of July Governor Leedy telegraphed the war department that two battalions were ready, and asked permission to raise a third; and was informed the appropriations had been filled. On the 28th of July, Captain Reynolds, U. S. A., mustering officer of the 23rd Kansas, was notified that its arms and equipment would be forwarded from Springfield. Mass., mamunition from the Franfort arsenal and the reminder of its supplies from Rock Island. The regimental officers of the Twenty-third were: Lieut .-Col. James Beck, sr.; Majors John M. Brown and George W. Ford; Surgeons Charles S. Sunday and Frederick G. Harvey: Adjutant Samuel T. Jones; Quartermaster Frederick M. Stone. This colored regiment was the first to leave American soil. Leaving Topeka August 23, 1898, the regiment proceeded directly to New York, and sailed on the Vigilencia for Santiago, arriving there on the 1st of September. Eight hundred and fifty strong the regiment arrived in Santiago Just in time to see the Spanish troops embarking for Spain. Within twenty- four hours the Twenty-third was loaded on a railroad train and was transported to the old Cuban town of San Luis, where it was destined to remain until its return to the United States.

Discussing Newspapers In an article entitled ‘Is the Negro Newspaper an Important Factor in the Elevation of the Negro?”, written by Magnolia Remmer, the value of the Negro press is discussed. “The Kansas City Call, like all others had to begin at the bottom and grow not particularly after any other paper, but fashioned to suit the tastes, conditions and Interest of its customers, to develop the tastes and so elevate the race. Through the medium of The Call we have been awakened to our conditions, and our rights and jealously guard and clamor for their enjoyments and recognition.”

John T. Miles, Atchison, Kansas, is a pioneer Negro funeral director there. He completed his embalming course at the St. Louis College of Embalming and holds license to practice in Missouri and Kansas.

Mrs. Emmett J. Scott has been reappointed on the District of [Columbia charity board.]

PROGRESS By Billy Smith Arise ! Arise! Arise! My Son! For there is yet much to be done!

In age spast, when time was young And deeds of men were yet unsung, Then were nations fierce and proud, Then were men with heads unbowed; Men who walked with kingly stride And kings were they, of kingly pride. Strong they were of arm and back, Ethiop’s own, whose faces black Were e'er turned to the rising sun With consciousness of work well done. . . . They feared no host for were they not Of Egypt prince’s fair begot? They knew not of a paler race— (None but the weak were pale of face!) Wise they were in every art. Great lovers they, of pass’nate heart. They toiled and fought and reared great kings And they were great in all known things. Palaces splendid, mighty halls— And then—a misty curtain falls. . .

Across the surging seas were brought Men whose bodies were sold and bought; Black men, who understanding not The reason for their woeful lot Took the fierce lashings as a part Of it all, with unbroken heart. And some there were at first who knew Their ancient glory, but these few Soon were called, and so—were not... Ethiop's splendor .... was forgot....

Could Solomon, greatest of our kin And wisest, speak to his kinsmen. Seemly it is that would say he “Awaken brethren, why sleep ye? Sluggards! They say that ye are free! Awake and let thine new eyes see! Draw ye aside oppressions veil For seeing once, ye cannot fail! And so these things I bid ye do: Keep ye good heart—to Truth be true! Worship our God, but thine own brain Use ye for thine own people’s gain! Pierce ye through the monstrous Scheme That steel-like binds ye; and the beam From thy own eye remove ye first! This must be done before are burst The hidden bonds within and out That ye make as well as they! Shout From the pulpit and the press Not of revenge! Nor of redress! But of what for ye is the best— Of what for ye will meet the test Teach ye, and preach a clannish creed Of racial loyalty ,not greed For self. Nor yet forget ye not The Christly way and Christly lot!”

Harder! Harder! Let it arise! Higher! Puff harder ,that mine eyes May see this Stage, and what thereon The Curtain, bare lifted, hides! Dawn Could not itself be yet more slow In disclosing Morn. Let the show Begin! This great drama of Man; This new Aframerican!

Judah! They should scream at you; and Harry you until you left the land! Sold you your own! Betrayed them all! Smashing, crashing, will be your fall! (And whose volition made of you A politician twice untrue To self, and kin? Leperous! traitorous! Yellow, beneath the skin!) A people with the right of choice, Some right to vote—they should rejoice And use that right with single mind And purpose one, thereoff to find Wherein the power lay, and who A promise made, will see it through!

Now is the man where once the clown Fawned and writed at the frown Of the “Boss”! He’s not arrogant But would he he could grimly chant. “I’ll not be butchered like a hog! Nor kicked, nor cursed like a dog! Any longer for now I see That men are but men, even as me! You crucify my weaker kin [Ms. text cuts off] men Who have not e’en a chance to fight! Try me, I say, though ten to one One will fall with me, ’ere I’m done! Onward! Progress! Advance! Succeed! And let all feel the common need! To spur us in this bitter fight! With what is gained be not content And what is lost let’s not lament! Remember Ethiop’s old pride— Pride for which black men gladly died! List ye! A voice that feebly rings Through dim ages a message brings: "Rise up for ye are sired by kings!”

Arise! Arise! Arise! My son! Well started we—But far from done!

Harvey Dillard “Ambition and determination will always lead one through”— is the motto of Harvey Dillard, merchant and property owner of Kansas City, Kas. Born in Murphysboro, Tenn., he became an orphan at the age of six years. Being deprived of chances to go to school, he learned to read and write from newspapers and copies from other children’s tablets. During his youth he worked at divers | occupations but always had the desire to become a brickmason. At the age of twenty-two he started his ‘apprenticeship” by earning $1.15 per day as a hod carrier. He worked diligently and after five years of patient toil, he arose from the ranks of a “cub” and became a mason. About this time he came to Forres[t] City and invested money in real estate. In the summer of 1920, he, his wife and youngest son, James, came to Kansas City, Kansas and settled at 705 Winona. In Forrest City he had belonged to a union of masons, but here he was refused work as a union man. This however, did not discourage him and he soon secured a series of reliable jobs with a real estate and building company. In 1923 he bought a lot on North Seventh street. The following year. Dillard and his son. James who is also an accomplished mason, laid brick while his older son and nephew carried hod. In less than four months the family group had finished the store by themselves save for wiring, plumbing and plastering. As soon as the store was finished it was rented by an aspiring young man who opened a grocery business. He ran it about six months. In the faff of 1925 Mr. Dillard stocked up the store and has been progressing up to this day.

Taylor Jackson Taylor Jackson is employed by the Missouri Interstate Paper Company as night watchman, with thousands of dollars invested interests under his care of which there has been little complaint from his employers during his nine years of regular service. Mr. Jackson was born May 10, 1847, in Whitfield county. Georgia, a slave in the family of J. H. Gordon, an uncle of the late General John B. Gordon, who served as senator and Governor of Georgia. “I served as a slave from birth to the month of April, 1862, at which time I and a number of fellow servants ran away from a place known as Coal City, Georgia and entered the Union Army at Bridgeforth, Ala., said Mr. Taylor. “I was very young when I went into the war and was the youngest in the bunch of runaway slaves, but notwithstanding my youth. I was fortunate to obtain work from a lieutenant whom I served oh the firing lnie of the following battles: Perryville, Ky., October. 1862; Stone River, Tennessee. 1862; Chickamauga, Georgia, September, 1865, and in the Union army when it was almost surrounded and shelled in Chattanooga, Tenn. After I was mustered out of service. I was employed as a railroad fireman in 1865. My engine was draped in heavy mourning for the death of Abraham Lincoln." Mr. Taylor attended school in Richmond. Ind., which was controlled by the A. M. E. church. In 1876 he came to Kansas and settled in Hodgeman county, where he was elected as the first coroner of the county. Now he has been employed by the Missouri Interstate Paper company as night watchman, for [Ms. text cuts off]

[page 48] D-8 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, [1928]

Wheatley Nurse Head ELIZABETH BROWN HOLLAND, superintendent of nurses at Wheatley-Provident hospital.

Nurse Training School (Continued from Page D-5) have the privilege of being out of the hospital until 11:30 at night, which indicates that their indulgence in the social whirl is not too extensive. Certain of their studies are received at Lincoln high school under various department heads, and there also they receive instruction in gym work, such as basketball, and other healthy games, and in aesthetic dancing. In the past the school has been cramped for room in the matter of housing for the nurses, but an entire floor will be set aside for their quarters in the new hospital which is being biult at Twenty-second and McCoy. And also when the new hospital is completed Kansas City will have probably the finest training school for colored nurses in the country Upon graduation the nurses have little difficulty in obtaining lucrative positions as graduate nurses are greatly in demand Many who have finished at this hospital now hold responsible positions all over the United States. The hospital draw its students mainly from Missouri. Oklahoma. Texas and Kansas, but numbers on its rolls girls from almost every state in the Union. The Wheatley-Provident Nurse Training school is a private institution which has a capacity for 20 nurses Though smaller this hospital is very well equipped for the training of nurses It has received the grade of A from the Missouri Board of Nurse Examiners This school receives on an average of 25 applications a year from those desiring nurse training and from five to ten are accepted. The usual number graduating are 3 to 4. Elizabeth Brown Howlland is the superintendent of nurses at this hospital. She hails from New Bedford. Mass., and was for eight years a supervisor at Freedman’s hospital. Washington, D. C. Miss Annabel Harris is night superintendent. Also Miss Hilda Keplar is stationed at the hospital, and is in charge of the Mercy ward for children The curriculum as laid out by the National League of Nursing is strictly adherred to at Wheatley-Provident, and highly competent graduates are the result Much theoretical work is received at Lincoln high school by the student nurses at this school, and Miss G. E. Massey, a supervisor at the hospital, teaches principles of nursing to the students. Miss Massey also is an instructor at Lincoln high in hygiene. An especial feature at this school is a large well equipped demonstration room where the nurses receive instruction in practical work of every type. As at the other school mentioned the nurses at Wheatley-Provident are members of the Y. W. C. A. They are allowed three nights out a week until ten p. m. for pleasure, and one night a month they are allowed until twelve p. m. At present the nurses are quartered in two rented buildings near the hospital, but the ground has been already bought just north of the hospital upon which a nurses home is planned. Building is expected to start within the next 13 months.

Old City Hospital (Continued from Page D-l) of five Negro graduates of medical colleges who took examinations for interneships at the old General hospital. The move was so neat that it already has been referred to as the "royal kibosh.” At the last meeting of the hospital and health board a petition signed by fourteen of the eighteen members of the visiting staff re commended that the board displace the Negro internes at the old hospital by white ones. The principal reason given was that only five young graduates took the examination to fill the four vacancies soon to exist and that not one of the five had made the required grade of 75 per cent. The papers which had been graded by a half- dozen members of the staff who had prepared the questions, ranged from 30 to 65 per cent out of a possible 100 per cent. "Just give me those papers,” said President Motley last week. “I will bring them back next week. I would like to know how a man can go to medical school four years, be graduated there and then make such grades.” Springs His Coup. Yesterday at the meeting of the board Mr. Motley, with an “I thought so” expression, surprised the rest of the members by announcing his coup. “I have four sets of papers here which I had regraded by physicians not connected with our medical and surgical staff,” he announced. "The men I asked to do this work were simply handed the questions asked these men, with their answers. They were not even told they were Negroes. The papers were numbered from one to four and bore not even a name. Look over the results for yourself.” It was seen that No. 1, who had received a grade of 30 per cent on the part of the visiting staff, had been given 89 per cent; No. 2, who had received 63 per cent, was graded 83 per cent; No. 3, who had been given 55 per cent, was raised to 85 1/2 per cent, and No. 4, whose grade was 63 per cent, rose to 87 1/2 per cent. Applicants Notified. The papers of No. 5 have not yet been regraded. President Motley asked A. C. Stowell to take them and give them to any disinteresed physician and he would agree to abide by the result. The board ordered yesterday that the four men receiving the highest averages be notified that they had won positions as internes and to prepare to report for duty in October, when the year of the men now at work expires. President Motley always has favored having Negro internes, nurses and visiting physicians at the old hospital. It is said that the regular staff of the new hospital wants white internes in the old institution because of the unusual clinical material found there which is not found among white patients. Previous to this time the white public, and much of the colored public did not believe Negroes capable of handling hospital work, but the publicity given the unfair attempts of the white staff at General hospital to keep the capable colored internes out, swayed sympathy to the idea. At first Dr. Pipkin, aw hite man, was superintendent, and a white woman was superintendent of nurses. But this state of affairs did not last long. A young physician, newly come to town had aligned himself with the Democratic party, and after a year of Dr . Pipkins incumbency the Democrats were victorious, and the young Negro physician, Dr. Wm. Thompkins thus became the first colored superintendent of the hospital. Also came a Miss Purcell of St. Louis as superintendent of nurses. Succeeding her came Miss Mary K. Hampton, who is now the widow of the late Dr. T. C. Brown. Dr. Thompkins served for two years and with the change of administrations Dr. T. C. Unthank was made superintendent. In turn came again Dr. Thompkins for four years, then Dr. Shannon, who died in less than two years, his term be[i]n gserved out b yDr. Booker. Then Dr. Unthank was again superintendent for two years when he was succeeded by Dr. Howard M. Smith, the incumbent. From the time the hospital was given into the hands of colored phycians a steady improvement can be noted, up until the present time when the hospital enjoys the rank of grade A, and has become the greatest training center for nurses in this part of the country. Some of Kansa sCity' sleading physicians received their interneship at this hospital. Among them are: Dr. W. H. Bruce, Dr. T. A. Fletcher, Dr. C. A. Humbert, Dr. P. C. Turner, Dr. Lewis, Dr. L. M. Tillman, Dr. Maddux, Dr. Luke Williams, Dr. Silas Hill, Dr. A. F. Radford, Dr. L. W. Booker, Dr. I. F. Scott, Dr. Alexander, Dr. Hedgepeth, Dr. Pedro Campus, Dr. Dr. Verne Wilkerson, and Dr. Ben Moore, and perhaps others . And so after having learned of the struggle it took to secure the old hospital doesn’t it seem "something interesting,” that building and tearing down up on Twenty-second and McCoy?

Masonic Jurisdiction (Continued from Page D-1) 8, Prince Hall No. 10 and Lone Star No. 22, the numbers being those by which they were known in grand Jurisdiction of Ohio. These lodges are still a part of the Most Worshipful Grand lodge of Missouri and are known as Prince Hall No. 1, Lone Star No. 2 and H. McGee Alexander No. 3. The Missouri jurisdiction has grown from five original lodges to 138 active lodges that are distributed throughout the territorial boundaries of the state and which include five military lodges in the U. S. army and civilian lodges in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. There are two adopted rites to the order, the Order of Eastern Star and Heroines of Jericho. The Missouri lodge has acquired considerable property since its organization and has holdings in St. Louis, St. Charles, Point Pleasant, Jefferson City, Lexington, Independence, Hannibal. Marshall, Arrow Rock, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Nelson. Liberty, Springfield, Cape Girardeau, Canton, Sedalia, DeSoto, Boonville, Dalton, Pleasant Hill, Waverly, Higginsville, Carrollton, Shelbina, Huntsville, Slater, Festus, Bowling Green, Martinsburg, Steele and Frankfort. In several of these places the ground floor of the building is rented to prominent white and Negro business men. A Masonic home for aged and disabled Masons is located at Hannibal, Mo. Every convenience of a home is provided for in the institution and it has been the haven for many a person who without friends, relatives or funds would have fared ill elsewhere. Medical service is provided weekly for the inmates, the policy of the home being “to keep the charges well” rather than to "get them well." The relief department of the order was founded in 1881 at which time Wills N. Brent was grand master. The duty of this department is the distribution of funds to widows and children of worthy deceased Masons. During the last [?] years $706,300 has been disbursed in relief benefits, $253,00 of this sum having been paid the past six years. The Missouri grand lodge officers are: Fred W. Dabney, Kansas City, grand master; C. C. Hubbard, Sedalia, deputy grand master; Geo. K. Ford, Butler, senior grand warden; J. W. Damel, Jefferson City, junior grand warden; Dr. G. B. Key, St. Louis, grand treasurer; Dr. R. Leon Hill, Boonville, grand secretary; Dr. H. H. Longdon, Moberly, grand relief secretary; Rev. T. H. Warfield, Richmond, grand chaplain; B. F. Adams, Springfield, grand lecturer; Lewis W. Fairchild, Poplar Bluff and Rev. H. H. Curtis. Joplin, members of Masonic relief board; Dr. W. H. Madison, Marshall, grand medical examiner; L. A. Knox. Kansas City, grand attorney; Geo. H. Roy. Kansas City, grand senior deacon; W. W. Hoskins, Kirksville, grand Junior deacon; Geo. M. Washington, Slater, grand senior steward; John B. Loving, St. Louis, grand Junior steward and Geo. Hicks, Lathrop, grand tyler. The roster of state district deputies is: Geo. W. Lewis, St. Louis; Lew H. Farris, Springfield; W. S. Steverson, Sweet Springs; Andrew Cravens, Fayette; Geo. M. Washington. Slater; Dr. S. E. Moore, St. Louis; William Gray, Morristown; R. F. Fowler, Festus; Rey. H. H. Curtis. Joplin; Thomas Basis, Mexico; A. O. Wolfscale, Bucklin and Chas. T. Johnson, Nogales, Ariz. The past ten-year period in Missouri Masonry has been triumphant. The increase in membership and finance has been phenomenal. Under the leadership of Fred W. Dabney, grand master, there has been an increase of 2,000 in membership during the past three years and financial progress made under his guidance has not been less marked. It is apparent that while other orders have been losing ground in membership the Masonic order is gaining. It can now be clearly seen that the Mason is his brother's keeper. From the time one joins the order till death this task is not merely maintained but enhanced: Masonry is one of the greatest symbols of brotherly love and devotion.

Wheatley Hospital (Continued from Page D5) The Mercy Wheatley children's ward, the gift of Frank C. Niles and Wm. Volker, serves the community quite well. A minimum fee is charged for treatment of children’s cases, in fact much lower than could be in any similar institution. The Capper fund organization for sick children has several patients in the ward as has the Wichita Shrine. Wheatley-Provident has two auxiliaries that furnish it support aside from the Community chest, Wheat- ley Provident hospital auxiliary No. 1. Mrs. Emma Crosthwaite, president; and the Beacon club, Mrs. Editha Edwards, president. The auxiliary has for eleven years sponsored a fashion show, the proceeds from which are donated the hospital. Last spring seven thousand people attended the event, now one of the most popular of the year. The Beacon club is interested in building a nurses home for which a site has already been purchased. Through its efficiency Wheatley- Provident is the only institution owned and controlled by Negroes that has an "Class A" rating by the American College of Surgeons. The hospital is also a member of the American hospital association. Miss Elizabeth B. Howland from Freedmen hospital, Washington, D. C., is superintendent of nurses and her assistants are Misses Annabelle Harris and Nataie McKinney. Miss Eva M. Fox, secretary, came here in 1903 from Jacksonville, Ill. The hospital's title is vested in a board of trustees composed of five white and five Negro citizens: Dr. J. E. Perry, Attorneys L. A. Knox and C. H. Calloway, Mesdames M. L. Crosthwaite and Frances J. Jackson, Drs. Katharine B. Richardson, Harold P. Kuhn, Mrs. F. C. Niles, R. R. Brewster and William Volker. An out clinic department was opened at the hospital in 1920 giving free service to those unable to pay and last year 4,270 patients were treated. The amount of this service totalled $8,000. Wheatley-Provident through its service to the community lives up to its purpose of furnishing hospital facilities, opportunities for young women in nurse training and clinical advantages for doctors

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Nurse Superintendent MRS. S. HARRIS, superintendent of nurses af General Hospital No. 2

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[page 49] KANSAS CITY CALL Sports and Theatricals

[RE]MARKABLE NEGROID STAGE GROWTH RAISES NEW QUESTION

[BURTO]N BEACH [P]OLLS OPINION OF STAGE FOLK Indicates Colored Actors Will Soon Gain Chance With Best Productions SHOW REAL PROGRESS By Barton T. Beach Chicago Evening Post. NEW YORK.—Is the 1928-29 theatrical season destined to bring an epoch-making increase of Negroid participancy in American productions? Are the dramas, musical comedies, revues and films of the not remote future to become less exclusively Caucasian, broadening down from precedent to precedent, until the twentieth century stage reaches the status of interracial consanguinity where—to paraphrase and amplify the swansong metaphor of the lamented Florence Mills, Afro-American prima donna—the whitebird and the blackbird, searching through and beyond the somber boskage of age-long dislike and prejudice, shall find at last the bluebird of happiness caroling in the vestibule of the Temple of Thespis? Will London as well as New York and Chicago, feel the workings of the latest born factor in modernist art? Page George White, architect of Apollo in a robe studded with every brilliant device of extravaganza that every sparkled in his dreams. "Yes, I would not be surprised to see a formidable colored invasion. No objections whatever in my quarter. May have a Negro in ‘Scandals' yet. Don't get the notion that because my name is White I dislike dark meat" Mr. White uses a long-range telescope. How about yourself? Do all coons look alike to you? “Not to me.” rejoins Brock Pemberton, who is one of the white hopes of our native theatre, despite his occasional dalliance with European dramatists. Next month he will edify Broadway with Ramson Rideout's "Goin' Home"; and the leading role he has offered to James B. Lowe, who was Uncle Tom in the latest film of Mrs. Stowe's prose epic.

"Not to me.” rejoins Don Mullaly, who is prominently in evidence at Wallacks’ with a three- act comedy. "Wanted,” as far as the poles asunder from "Conscience." Many competent judges of farce insist that Mr. Mullaly injects most of the cracker- jack humor of his thesis into the roles of two Negro maids—or of one in particular. Rena, from Baton Rouge, with gleaming dental frontispiece. a Dixie smile that well nigh hides all of her fact but the ears, and a southern vernacular that Jeff Davis would have identified as inborn and ingrown. "Not to me.” says Lew Leslie, sponsoring "Blackbirds of 1928” at the Liberty, where crowded audiences yelp delight over the antics of Nubian performers in skits like "Harlem Gossip” and a dozen others quite as snappy. "Not to me.” says Charles B. Cochran, renowned British impresario. who calls Mr. Leslie's entertainment "the fastest I ever have seen,” who introduced Florence Mills and the "Plantation” company to Fleet street reviewers five years ago, and "Blackbirds of 1927” last season. He characterizes Miss Adelaide Hall, the focus of attraction at the Liberty, as the best in her line and may exploit her on the Thames almost simultaneously with his presentment of “Porgy”—drama of the artistic darkness that can be felt. John Bull likes Negroid artistry. "Blackbirds of 1927” had a year's run in London. Miss Lillie (Lady Pee) sat through the program and at the finale ejaculated: "Too bad Cleopatra didn’t have a chance to invite Mark Anthony to see this Afric melange.”

And it was less than a fortnight ago when Paul Robeson—whose singing in "Show Boat” at Drury Lane theatre with the company headed by Miss Edith Day is the strongest card in Mr. Ziegfeld's hand—furnished proofs yet more convincing of the growth of Negro vogue in England's entertainment projects. Note the following from Samuel Dexter Hawley, British musical and dramatic critic: "Went to a Drury Lane matinee to hear Robeson deliver his ‘spirituals'; went in a materialistic mood, prepared to scoff. But remained to weep and left to pray. The big house was jammed. Caruso or Chaliapin never could have drawn such a crowd. Robeson held everybody spellbound. Tell me, can a white man find and intone the secret of the 'spiritual'? Nothing we have had from the States this year has snared us so effectually as this singing blackamoor." That the colored captains and kings in New York are preparing to take independent action and to stand on their own feet is indicated by the formation of the Majestic Theatrical Circuit, Inc., with Jack Goldberg in the saddle. The objective of the organization is to free the Negro slave from the domination of white owners and masters in footlight enterprises. Mr. Goldberg is not without experience; and his audacity would have aroused the enthusiasm of Bernhardt, whose motto was: "Audace, audace, toujours audace.” He and his associates are confident that they have not bitten off more than they can chew in their tentative arrangement for franchises at twenty theaters in carefully selected sections. A circuit of Negro theaters and a booking business—that is the goal. "What about Chicago, Mr. Goldberg?” was the query. Here’s the jocund answer: "Chicago? Why. man, Chicago is the greatest Negro city in America, just as New York is the new and true Jerusalem.” Hemsley Winfield, hitching his wagon to a group of colored stars, crashes forward with a program to lure Broadway to the Triangle theatre, Greenwich Village, where the recently formed Negro Art theatre will be domiciled—underground architecturally, but—if we may trust Mr. Winfield—in the upper airs artistically. Last month Miss Kathleen Kirkwood, once the priestess down below in the Triangle, organized a midnight performance at Wallack’s of "‘Ten Nights in a Barroom," with all the characters in full Roman costume—helmets and togas and spears. "How about a presentment of Othello’ by your artists, Mr. Winfield?" was the query. Here's the smileless response: "Ask Frederick Warde. Irving is dead. So are Mantell and Booth. I’ll take Warde’s judgment. In our company are players who can do Desdemona, Emilia, Iago and the Moor. Why should the devil have all the good music? Why should the whites monopolize Shakespeare? If you think our spirituals are O. K., Why not give us a shot at the melancholy Dane?” Among the September offerings of the Messrs. Shubert will be John McGowan's “Nigger Rich.” Does that adumbrate a new departure? Lew Leslie goes on record as pledged to unroll a colored revue annually in memory of Florence Mills. Will Nurse Cavell be memorialized more fittingly? Tot hominues, tot sententiae. Every Macaulay's schoolboy knows what it means. But this scribe confesses shamelessly that of the latest fourteen revues he has been in Manhattan the two most successful in getting his goat and the blessed lamb by his side were "The Dark Town Follies" at the Columbia and "The Shores of Honolulu.” at the Harlem Alhambra. Both were black as coals. But, despite the lack of colored cuticle in the ninth edition of the "Scandals” at the Apollo, Mr. White's ensemble of humor, grace, agility and beauty measures up to the best of its predecessors, altho in a first-number recitative the shapely chorus damsels' chortle something to the effect that the people in front will be sure to say "Not so good as last year.” Apropos to the fad for memorializing the great and the good and the gifted—in Lew Leslie’s mode and in others—the item in the "Scan- dale” roster that appears most potently to the highbrows is Mr. White’s tribute to Victor Herbert, whom he places in the category of he musical immortals with Wagner, Beethoven and the Schubert, who [l]eft a symphony unfinished. He takes a long stride in advance of his last season's propaganda for jazz as a formula worthy of universal acceptance. He assigns to William O’Neal, tenor, the task of vocalizing Wagner's “Evening Star” and Schubert's "Ave Maria”; then contrasts their artistry with that of Herbert by letting Miss Rose Perfect render the waltz song "Kiss Me Again." Truly a delicate and handsome service to the American composer, and an agreeable surprise to all votaries of his compositions. When the pendulum swings to the limit in the opposite direction on-lookers are diverted by an adroitly subtle satire on the talking movies, "vocaflim,” in which Willie Howard and Happy Richman sing, a la battledor and shuttlecock, "On the Crest o fa Wave,” a love ballad. Rather more uproarious is a burlesque of "Strange Interlude," where the participants act their thoughts. Instead of uttering them. Miss Frances Williams is the wife—capital in all she does as actress, singer and dancer. Most boisterous is the sketch in which Miss June MaeCloy, as a nurse, is pushing a baby perambulator, armored with a full complement of guns, in Chicago, to illustrate the Atlantic coast notion of citizenship privilege and precaution, under the aegis of Mr. William Hale Thompson.

Reverting to Mr. Mullaly's "Wanted,” let it not. be assumed that all the color in the cast is black—if black is a color at all, at all, as Mark Twain twittered. Mr. Mullaly’s heroine, Penelope Merton, from Louisiana, is the woman with red hair in the tale of haughty innocence shipwrecked on Manhattan Island with a trifle over $7 and a million dollars’ worth of optimism. Miss Alney Alba keeps the procession of events moving swiftly. She snickers at the piano when a boy proposes marriage; she sneers at the door when she shows out a chap whose innuendoes had not flattered her virtue; she is calm as a clam in high water when taken to the police station on suspicion of having stolen Jewelry; she is not overelated when freed. This perennial equanimity may have been the chief reason why she was "wanted” all around the circle. Ultimately she gets what she wanted, and that is the end of Mr. Mullaly's exhibit of a blue-blooded, brainless redhead from Baton Rouge, who said a few saucy things about New York—and especially about that big grampus of a policeman, scowling and snarling in the station-house. Mr. Mullaly might not make a mistake—now that the New York police are being cleaned up—were he to invite the chief commissioner to Wallack's for a glimpse at the bull in this farce. As a precautionary measure in his publicity endeavors, Seamon Lewis, author of “The Lawyer's Dilemma,” staged at the Belmont, with Robert G. Pitkin, Isabel Dawn and Lee Geggs in the principal roles, arranged an invitation night for attorneys and counselors of New York City and suburbs. After Shaw's "The Doctor’s Dilema,” it was to be expected that the legal fraternity would figure, soon or late, in a theatrical travesty of professional ethics and devices. As a well-known Manhattan Jurist was leaving the Belmont after the performance, he muttered to his companion, a prominent criminal lawyer, "Oh, Emma; whoa, Emma; oh, why do you put me in such a dilemma.” That was a favorite gag of Richard Mansfield. No moral.

Four Harmony Kings in Europe Es ist noch keine hundert Jahre der, daß im Süden der Vereinigen Staaten das schwarze Sklaveatun blutete. ünd heute gibt es Neger-Professoren an den amerikanischen Universitaten, heute gibt es Neger Theater in New-York, die allabendlich ausverkauf sind. Leidenschaften seizen sich church, wenn hinter dent Herzen Gedanke und Künnen steht. Wirhabengeschen daß der afrikanische Rhythemus es wagen konnte, fünf Erdteile zu erobern. Weil Leidenschaft und unverbildete Natürlichkeit überall überzeugen. Die Zivilisation der [Weltstreichtnurcindndilnnen?] Firnis über die Rassen-Energien. Das willnichtssagen, daß die vier Harmony. Kings in granen Fracks eines ersten Londoner Schneiders auftreton. Aber, daß sieihre Heimat, daß sich selbst singen, mit aller spielerischen Leidenschaft einer überzeugenden Kanst, -das hatihnen die Welt von Alaska bis Odessa geöffent.

Four Harmony Kings amerikanisches Gesanges Quartett

Kansas City people have a special interest in the Four Harmony Kings, recognized as the finest Negro quartet in the world, for W. H. Berry of Kansas City, Kansas sings tenor in the aggregation. The quarett has been in Europe for three years, since the closing of Sissle and Blake’s "Chocolate Dandies." In England and on the continent they have won the continued favor of theatre goers. The picture above is a facsimile of a page from the program of the Hansas theatre, Hamburg, Germany, showing how the famous quartet was featured during its extended German appearance. Members of the quartet are Ivan H. Browning, first tenor; W. H. Berry, second tenor; A. W. Draytor, baritone; and John S. Crabbe, bass.

JAMES B. LOWE Mr. Lowe, after a number of appearances in Pacific coast amateur dramatics, was chosen to play the leading role in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, the 22-million dollar Universal filming of the immortal Harriet Beecher Stowe story. By his acting on the screen Mr. Lowe stamped himself as a dramatic artist of the first water. Following the release of “Uncle Tom,” Mr. Lowe spent several months in Europe, from which trip he has but recently returned. While abroad he was not content with several engagements on the European stage, but took some courses in voice and dramatic art from English masters. At his home in Los Angeles. Mr. Lowe is soon to begin rehearsals for the leading role, that of Israel DuBois, a soldier of fortune, in the play, ‘‘Goin’ Home” which was the prize-winning play last year of the National Drama league. Ransom Rideout, a protestor in the University of California, is the author.

Local Theatre Owner HOMER "JAP” EBLON Owner of the Handsome Eblon Theatre. Five years ago Homer "Jap” Eblon decided to give the theatregoers of Greater Kansas City a theatre of their own—one which would create a feeling of pride in the race of which he is a member, the result being the erection of the handsome Eblon theatre located on Vine street n[e]ar 19th. Has Great Orchestra The Eblon Orchestra is one of the best in this section and broadcasts weekly programs over KMBC, aside from furbishing music at the theatre for every picture. The theatre has a seating capacity 876 and Is well arranged and beautifully finished with all modern appointments and conveniences.

FOOTBALL RULES CHANGED FOR BETTERMENT OF GAME - EASIER FOR OFFICIALS TO FOLLOW Many Points Are Made Clear and Speedier and More Efficiently Played Games Are Now Looked Forward to The football rules committee which met early in the year at Seaview Golf club, Absecon, N. J., in a two- day session cleared up several rules that will materially benefit the game this fall. The slight changes will in no way affect playing of the game as presented to the public but does relieve the officials of considerable responsibility and gives the public a little better understanding of some plays that in 1927 seemed to be the souce of many controversies. It is possible that the rules will be rewritten in 1929. In making the changes, the rules committee sought to eliminate the possibility of games being won by errors. The changes are as follows: -[1].—Backward pass must be thrown two yards through the air to come under the ruling of last years. 2.—Elimination of the muff and fumble clause regarding punts; ball dead at point of recovery if retrieved by kicking side; ball to receiving team if it goes out of bounds, regardless of whether it was ouch- ed in field of play by kicking team after having been fumbled. 3. In all shift’s players must come to a stop for one second after coming out of a huddle; one player may be in motion, providing he comes to a definite stop before the ball is put in play. 4. —On all forward passes no player of side in possession of the ball, either before or after the pass has been made, shall interfere in any manner with an opponent. The word, “before” has been inserted into the rule to discourage screen passing. 5. —Any kicked ball which strikes the goal posts is to be ruled dead. 6. —Committee urgently requests that coaches take responsibility for the use of dangerous equipment. 7. —Close line play was defined as the space between the two defensive tackles and three yards either side of the scrimmage line. Explanation of Backward Pass After considering the backward pass from every angle and at the same time showing no inclination to revert to the 1926 rules, the committee decided that a lateral pass must be thrown through the air two yards to have the protection which governed the play a year ago. If such a pass is made but the ball strikes • the ground, the oval shall go to the offensive 11 but shall count a down at the point where it struck the ground. On the fourth down the ball shall go to the opponents. If the ball does not travel through the air two yards, it is illegal and shall be played like any other formation. If the ball strikes the ground, it is a fumble and can be played like any other loose ball. This places a reward on good defensive play. Last year the aggressive forwards were not repaid for breaking up reverse, double or triple pass formations. If the ball struck the ground on a handed backward pass, the offending 11 did not lose possession. The play simply counted a down. Regarding the handling of punts, the words muff and fumble have been eliminated. If a player attempting to catch a fly ball muffs or fumbles it he must recover it in the field of play to retain possession. If the kicking team recovers, it is their ball but no run will be allowed. If the catcher fumbles the ball so that it goes out of bounds, it is the receiving team’s ball at the point where it goes out of bounds regardless of how many of the kicking team touch ed it before it crossed the side line. In other words the general rule of the team which last touched the ball in the field of play will not govern the case. A kicking team to obtain possession of the ball on a fumbled punt must do so in the field of play. Bar Man In Motion Last year there was a difference of opinion as to whether a player could be in motion toward his own goal while a shift was in progress. The committee ruled this cannot be done and has modified the rule to such an event by saying that all players must come to an absolute stop for one second. This rule does not apply to teams using set offensive formations. The committee, however, will permit one man to be in motion before the ball is passed. On a set formation, for instance, an end may be in motion along the scrimmage line, but he must come to a stop for a fraction of a second before the ball is snapped. On all shift formations an end may be in motion after the shifted players have come to a stop for one second, but the end also must stop for a fraction of a second before the ball is put in play. The committee ruled that two or more men constitute a shift and that if one man is shifting he should be ruled under the player in motion clause. Members of the committee reported that a growing tendency of coaches to use the screen forward pass had necessitated a rule discouraging this practice. Rule 16, Sec. 3. par. a, was changed to read as follows: “If the side in possession of the ball makes a forward pass, no player of the side who has crossed the line of scrimmage, shall, either before or after the pass has been made in any manner interfere with an opponent until the ball has been touched, except in an actual attempt to catch or bat the ball himself." Penalty for Interference In other years passers delayed as long as possible in order to permit linemen to get past the line of scrimmage to screen eligible receivers. If forwards continue this practice of breaking through to hinder members of the defense in getting to the ball, they will be guilty of interference and penalized accordingly. The committee was insistent upon striking a way to discourage screen forward passing. Any team making a forward pass will now realize its forwards must not give protection to their receivers. In this connection the question of long, trust to luck forwards passes were discussed. Members of the committee and coaches were of the opinion the short passing game is suffering at the expense of the long [t]hrowing game. Two ways of combating the present long pass were suggested and will be considered by the reconification committee. One s to have a zone for the passer. It was suggested that the passer be prohibited from running more than 15 yards back of the scrimmage line. This would not permit receivers to get down the field and the passer would not have much time in which to throw the ball. The other remedy was changing the penalty for interference by the defense on forward passes. Under the present rule, the ball goes to the passing side at the point of foul when the defense interferes. The change suggested was to give the offense 15 years and a down. Members of the committee believe the same should apply when the defense commits a forward pass interference foul. Ball Dead If It Hits Post Any kicked ball or one which has been touched in the field of play and [i]s alive becomes dead the moment it strikes any part of the goal posts. Last year ball on the kick-off, free kicks or punts which had been touched in the field and which struck the uprights or crossbars and bounded back into the field were ruled alive.

A Trainer De Luxe JAMES "JEW BABY" FLOYD The above is the likeness of one of the greatest trainers of baseball players in the Unitd States of America. "Jew Baby" as he is affectionately called by sport lovers of Greater Kansas City, is trainer for the famous Kansas City Monarchs and has served in this capacity for many years. The Monarch players swear by him. He has gotten many a player into condition when the player himself hda given up hope. He is a wizard at the training table and has trained some of the best fighters who have appeared here at the International arena in the past year. Floyd has been approached by several white big league club owners and offered positions but has remained with his first love. He is in a class with the two Buckners, of the White Sox and Milwaukee clubs who have made good as trainers and rubbers. Though he has remained here all this time, refusing offers, it will not be surprsing to see him go up to the big show in the near future. He deserves it.

WHO AM I? —Call Staff Photo Posed for The Kansas City Call by Herbert Fanniel, 1617 Tracy avenue, who attends Attucks school. I AM the king of all outdoor sports. Millions adore me and witness my activities. I AM the greatest leveller of humanity known to mankind— The rich and the poor, high and low rub shoulders with me. I furnish employment to millions— Making it possible for them to earn a livelihood. I AM a great teacher of “good sportsmanship”— A fundamental which should permeate all athletics. I AM a great physician; I cure the pleasure-sick— Millions enjoy my treatments I AM SUPREME—for I AM BASEBALL!

COULDN’T GET POLLARD OFF HIS FEET. WRITER DECLARES By GEORGE TREVOR. (N. Y. Sun) One of the greatest tributes paid a race athlete by a sports writer, comes from the pen of George Trevor, noted writer on the New York Sun. To Trevor, Fritz Pollard is one of the greatest football players of all times, and of him says the following: "Great backfield players rather than superlative linemen stand out in Brown University's football history. Subconsciously, one thinks of shifty, twisty Richardson; of Rue McKay’s pinging punts; of Spreackling’s snaky dashes; of “Sailor” McCarthy's diving plunges; of elusive Jackson Keefer and, above all, of the ebony ghost Fritz Pollard. This dusky half-back was more than a broken field phantom. Pollard was a great football player. He could in- fere or back up a line as effectively as he threaded his way past rows of clutching hands. Pollard weighed only 155 pounds, but most of that poundage was below the waist. The slippery Negro was the antithesis of Bob Fitzsimmonds in physique. Both had freak builds. "Frits" was a heavyweight from the waist up; Pollard’s ballast was sung low. His hips, knees and legs were inordinately developed. They had to be to withstand the savage shocks Pollard was compelled to take. Racial antagonism should have no place in football, but unhappily the millenium has not yet arrived. Unscrupulous opponents did their best to knock Brown s gritty colored star cold. They were out to "get" Pollard and they weren’t too particular how they got him. No white man would have had to take the punishment Pollard did. ‘Getting Pollard' “In one of Brown’s big 1916 games. Pollard was tackled out of bounds. His forward passes had been definitely stopped, though Pollard remained standing. You couldn’t get that black boy off his feet. At that moment a husky enemy guard came tearing up full tilt with the intention of clipping Pollard from behind. The Negro would have been whip- sawed between the two opponents and possibly seriously injured. It was the boldest, rawest piece of work you ever saw! Pollard noted what was happening out of the tail of his eye. He braced those cast iron legs of his to take the shock. That unsportmanlike guard must have thought he had hit a concrete wall! He bounced off Pollard’s granite thigh and dropped as though hit by a Mauser bullet. That was one time when the guilty party got what was coming to him. “Pollard’s shadowy runs are a part of Brown’s athletic history. Six times he raced through the Harvard and Yale Elevens for touchdowns! What other back can match that record? How many of you know of Pollard’s remarkable ability on defense? In the Colgate debacle of 1916, when the heavy Maroon team tore Brown to shreds on a quagmi[re] field, Pollard stood like Gilbra[lter.] The plucky Negro made 80 per cent of his team’s tackles that day. Colgate won 28 to 0. The score would have reached 50 but for Pollard's heroic backing up. Gillo, Spencer and Anderson repeatedly fought clear of all the Brown defenders save Pollard. The Negro stood 'em on their heads."

[page 50] D-10 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, J[uly 27, 1928]

RACE ATHLETES SHOW PROGRESS IN TRACK AND FIELD ATHLE[TICS] LINCOLN “U” MAKES STRONG BID IN TRACK IN 1928 MEETS By HADLEY HARTSHORN. (Student Track Manager) J.D. Parks For the first time in the history of Lincoln university of Jefferson City, Missouri, in the spring of this year, the first track and field athletics were put on as a major sport, equal to football. A special coach was assigned to this sport in the person of James D. Parks, the head of the art department a t Lincoln. Coach Parks was formerly a member of the crosscountry squad at Bradley Polytechnic, Peoria, Illinois. Facing the difficulties of introducing a new major sport, a lack of finance and material composed very largely of novices. the season to date has been the most successful of athletics at Lincoln university during the school year. Starting with a squad of hopefuls in the fall. Coach Parks has built up a team of thirty men with at least one capable performer in every event on the track program. Lincoln wasthe only Negro college invited to compete at the Illinois Relays. Drake Relays. Western A. A. U. meet at St. Louis and the Olympic Trials at St. Louis. March 31, due to the work of Walls and Rogers, Lincoln University, in competition with seven white colleges was outstanding. Walls lowered Loren Murchison's Western A. A. U. record in 50 yards and came within one-tenth of a second of the world’s indoor record in fast time of 5 3-10 seconds at Coliseum, March 31, St. Louis, Mo. A pulled tendon which has handicapped Walls all year kept this star from putting in a strong bid for the Olympics in the 100 and 200 metre races. Walls hurls the discus over a hundred feet, puts 12-pound shot 46 feet, broad jumps 22 feet, runs 440 in 52 flat, in addition to running everything from 50 to 300 yards in record time. He is a former Lincoln high school graduate of Kansas City, Mo., where he starred in athletics. Leander Rogers, Another Important Cog Leander Rogers, another important cog in the crack Lincoln track team hails from Nowata, Okla. He is one of thohe rare runners who com bine the speed of a ten second man with the supreme endurance of a distance runner and because of this he can run any race from 50-yards to five miles and run it in close to record time. At Illinois Relays he qualified for semi-finals in 75-yards running against the Missouri Valley and the Big Ten. At St. Louis in Western A. A. U. meet he qualified for semi-finals in 50-yards by winning his heat in fast time and then turned around an hour later and won the 600 yard open race lowering the record by a full second. In the college-high school duel meet he ran the hundred in 10 1-10 seconds. Javelin Thrower to the Fore For the first time since Charley West, a Negro jevelin thrower is coming to the fore. George Brown, of Springfield, Ill., a junior in the college at Lincoln, has been throwing the javelin only three months and despite handicaps caused by weather conditions, has heaved the spear 172 feet, 8 inches, and bids fair to hit 190 feet with warm weather. He is a so quite capable in the discus. Other capable weight men are: Capt. Walls in shot and discus. Farr and Win. Johnson in javelin, Basil North in shot and discus and eKrmit Booker in discus. Rogers and Spencer take care of the broad jumping and Spencer, Drew and Campbell, all capable of well-over five feet do the high jumping. Campbell has cleared close to six feet in practice. Lansdowne and Cole, two lads in the high school, have both proven adept in skimming over the bar in the pole vault. New Stars Lead Distance Men The distance men are led by the newly uncovered star, "Iron Man” Scott who is apparently utterly tireless in the two mile run; George Brown of high school, makes a very capable running mate to Scott in Lincoln university vs. Paseo Y. M. C. A. departments K. C., Mo., at Lincoln field. Won by Lincoln. June 2—Olympic trial at St. Louis, the two mile. In the mile the sturdy Ralph Smith Of Poplar Bluffs. Booker of Lexington, and Anthony of Fulton hold up the Lincoln colors. Rogers who runs the half like a minature Phil Edwards and Wynn of Columbia are thoroughly tried performers in the 880. The slender Ralph Spencer of Poplar Bluffs is the ace of the quarter milers. The sprints are well fortified with Rogers, Benton and Spencer all doing close to ten flat in the 100 yards. 1928 L. U. Track Schedule J. D. Parks. Polytechnic, coach. Emmett Walls, captain. Hadley Hartshorn, manager. March 3—High school vs. college, Lincoln field, (out doors); won by college. 59-26. March 10—Exhibition races and time trials by Lincoln university track team at Westminister college, Fulton, Mo. March 17—Illinois relay carnival at University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill., Rogers goes to semi-finals in 75- yard dash. March 24—Time trials on Lincoln Field. March 31—Western A. A. U. meet at Soliseum, St. Louis, Mo., Walls and Rogers break record in fifty yards and 600 yards respectively. April 21—Annual inter-class track and field meet won by sophomore college class. May 12—Duel inter-collegiate meet

A Few Lincoln “U” Track Stars GEORGE BROWN, crack Lincoln "U" javelin thrower. Record. 175 feet, 8 inches. Four Lincoln sprint aces—Left to right. K. Booker, R. Benton, T. Robinson and L. Rogers. Standing—1 mile relay team, left to right: Capt. E. Walls. L. Rogers. Coach James Parks, R. Spencer. T. Robinson.

FOUR COLORED ATHLETES HOLD JUMP RECORDS The Four Horsemen of Color Stand Pre-eminent Among Broad Jumpers By Alvin J. Moses (For The Associated Negro Press) DeHART HUBBARD If men shall call thee mighty— They do so truly and well. For thy star is set in sport's fiirmament. As firmly as Liberyt's Bell.

Thou dost put to shame the fleeting. With thy blinding speed of foot, And well might the falcon match thy form. As in hop-and-step-and broad jump along; Thy body hurls aloof.

DeHart Hubbard, Sylvio Cater, Eddie O. Gourdin, and Sol Butler, a quartette of dark-skinned broad-jumping fools, despite the inelegancy of our phraseology, who must be accorded the same invincible position as the 'Boxing Four of 1910”, Johnson, Langford, McVey, and Joe Jeanette. Pat O’Connor of Ireland held the World's broad jumping record for twenty years with a a jump of 24 feet 11, and three quarter inches. Such famous American broad jumpers as Wendell. Withington, famous footbal lace and broad jumping star of Dartmouth, Paul Gutterson of Dartmouth, and Sol Butler of Dubuque college, Iowa, came within inches of shattering the great Irishman’s performance on numerous occasions, but always it was a matter of inches that saved it for him. Guttreson, once came within a fraction of an inche of besting the figures. Gourdin Was Harvard’s Wonderman It remained for Ned Gourdin, one of the greatest, if not the best all around athlete that ever matriculated at Harvard, to break the mark back in 1923 during the running of the Yale- Harvard, vs Oxford-Cambridge dual meet at Harvard Stadium. The giant colored ace rose to dizzy heights of stardom that beautiful afternoon when he flew through the air to a new amateur world's record of 25 feet 3 inches. Harvard university has had her Mahans Brinkleys, Hardwicks, Cables, Binghams, Teschner's et al; but not one of them measured up in all around ability with the first holder of the world's new standard since the reign of Pat O'Conner. Just look over this imposing list of performances set up by Gourdin during his three years at Cambridge, Mass.: 100 yard dash ...... 9 4-5 sec. 220 yard dash ...... 22-15 sec. 440 yard run ...... 52 1-5 sec. Running broad jump .. 25 ft. 3 in. Running high jump. 5 ft. 9 in. Running hop step and jump 45 ft. 3 in. Javelin throw ...... 178 ft. Discus throw ...... 110 ft.

In this three years at Harvard. Eddie scored 35 points in dual meets with Yale, an average of more than 11 points a meet. He also played football, and for a while handed the big catcher s mitt with the baseball team until Coach Donovan persuaded him to take to the track.

Perhaps the greatest natural broad jumper that ever lived is DeHart Hubbard, famous all around star of Michigan university, Hubbard's exploits on the track have rarely been equalled, his work in the sprints, hurdles, broad jump, and hop, step and jump, all being close to the existing world's record. Hubbard won the broad jump at the last Olympics, and if he gets over that broken ankle he sustained in creating a new record of 26 ft. 2 in., that was disallowed by the A. A. U., is a certain bet to cop at the coming 1928 games at Amsterdam, Holland. Hubbard broke the record set up by Bob Legendre who erased Gourdin's figures during one of the Penthathlon events of the last classic games. One of the most homeric efforts on record, was that of the effervescent Sol Butler of Dubuque college in the 1920 Olympic games at Belgium. Butler was a ten to one shot to cop the honors for America, and the five points were practically counted in advance by the American contingent. Like Howard P. Drew during the running of the 1912 games in Sweden. Butler had the misfortune to pull a tendon on his first jump. Despite the protests of the coach and others of the American team. Butler essayed the jump again this time collapsing on the edge of the takeoff block of ashwood. Sylvio Cater of Haiti has jumped close to 25 ft. 6 in. officially, and better than 26 ft, in practice leaps; he will be a tough nut to break at Amsterdam. Brunetti of Italy is the one white broad jumper who stands a ghost of a chance against the two colored stars—Hubbard and Cator. The World's Professional Broad Jumping record stands at 29 ft. 7 in. made in 1854 by J. Howard, an Englishman, but how? Howard, employed 5 pound dumbbells, taking off a raised block of ashwood five inches from the ground. With such an equipment, Hubbard in all likelihood would put to shame the legendary leap of 'Finn McCool” for whom it [i]s claimed leaped over the "Blarney Stone” but that’s the [?] pure[.]

The Zero Hour 1930?? ??" 1925 HUBBARD 25'10 7/8" 1924 Legendre 25' 6 3/16" 1921 GOURDIN 25'3” DeHART HUBBARD, breaking a record. What will he do at the Olympics?

At the Olympiads New York University Star, who established new 1000-yard Indoor Record. PHIL EDWARDS Now in Amsterdam

Former Monarch Fans of this and other cities of the Negro National league will remember Plunk Drake, pitcher, who hurled for many seasons on the lo[c]al club and who [w]hen in his prime was one of the best hurlers in the game. Drake hails from Sedalia, Mo. and is a there. [F]ans of Sedalia [id]olize Plunk and [he] deserves it too. Before coming [t]o the Monarchs Drake was star [?]abster for the St. Louis club of the league and it was there that he gained prominence. When last [he]ard from Drake was playing on a club in the far west.

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The Ten Comm[andments] By Call Sp[?] 1. HONOR thy [?] club owner that yo[?] [?] team may be long [?] honor the decisions [?] the umps, lest ye b[?] [?] the game with a fi[?] [?] kopecs detached fr[?] [?] pay-check. 2. ASSOCIATE not with S[outh] paws, for hear ye, no matter endowed with a goodly cleverness, or possessing a left foot of a rabbit, is RIGHT [?.] LEFT-hander is on the mound. Verily I say unto thee, keep away from the proximity of the plate when facing a determined Fork- hander. It is far better to contract "cold feet” than to acquire a sorehead. 3. THE Lord loveth the cheerful giver—but verily I say unto thee, a good receiver is not to be sniffed at, nor is he to be fooled with in a pinch with the score tied and the third strike coming up. Keep thine eyes on the ball rather than the eye on the receiver. 4. THOU shalt not throw thy bludgeon at the umpire because he calls a close one. Remember, son, he too, hath had many close calls. Verily I say unto thee, it is better to be called out on strikes than to be carried out on a stretcher. 5. THOU shalt not covet thy owner's luck; look not too often into the stands at the goodly number of cash customers, for verily I say unto thee, the pass-gate hath been over-taxed. All that yell loudest doth not enter by the turnstile but more often through yon gate marked 'PASS’’. 6. THOU shalt not kill the goose—The Fan—that oils the turnstiles and keep them revolving at each game, for though he may stand for a lot of abuse, like the worm he is subject to turning and a turning fan is not half so much desired as a turning stile. 7. THOU shalt not expect to gain stardom overnight, nor shalt thou expect to monopolize the sport pages the first day; rather learn the art of obeying orders given by thy manager which is another form of insurance against the loss of thy pay-check. 8. THOU shalt not look too long, nor too fondly upon the “joy- syrup,” "hootch”, and other liquids guaranteed to produce a thrill, neither shalt thou spend thy evenings in search of the elusive “7-11,” nor behind the wheels of a high- powered gas-buggy with a young Miss who thinks she's a HIT, for one and all of these, my dear athlete, leads eventually to the gate marked, “EXIT.” 9. IT is just as easy to lift the Flatiron building as it is to lift a ball over a high fence after lifting high-balls over the bar the night before; and prattle not of the escapades of thy teammates, for verily I say unto thee, thou also must go the way of all flesh. 10. THOUGH thou may'st be Babe Ruth, because thou can swat the ball, be careful for in the end thou wilt find that hitting the high spots after dark leads only to hitting the air on the field of play; and though thou may’st be called a high-flyer, it is written not that thou art a Lindbergh; verily I say unto thee—thou art but a groundhog in the athletic scheme of li[?]. —A. D. W.

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League Prexy JUDGE W. C. HUESTON President Negro National League of Colored Professional Baseball Clubs. Judge Hueston has accomplished much for the league since his election two years ago and today he is responsible for much good coming

ATHLETICS -- OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS” KANSAS SHOWS WAY TO OTHERS IN ATHLETICS Great Hail From the Sunflower State Sun ower State By W. L. HUTCHERSON (Executive Secretary, Y. M. C. A. Water St. Branch, Wichita, Kas.) Kansas is west of the Mississippi; off the main arteries of the transpor- world of athletics. But, I would retation; and there, little heard of the mind the world of sport that Sol Butler hailed from the Jayhawker state. Abbott, the wizard of Tuskegee did his first football coaching at Topeka, Kansas Vocational school. From this neck of the woods, hails Graves, the present coach of Wilberforce. Stephens, the “triple threat” man of Abbott’s machine, went via. Kansas. George Sweat, for three years with the Monarchs; but last year, with the Chicago Giants, first felt his powers, in a Kansas college. Therefore, the public should know something of the present generation of college and high school athletes. Gridiron The colleges of the state have produced but one man in the past two years, “Tige” Foust, of Wichita. Municipal University, who has attracted any considerable attention. He has played tackle on this team fortwo seasons, with very great credit. Of course, there are lesser lights. In high school, creditable showings have been made by: Hockett of Wichita; Harris and Stokes of Pratt; Porter and Cole of Kingman; and Buck Henderson of Hutchinson. There are some dozen other colored boys on high school teams; but who have attracted no special attention. The Cage eoGrge Brady, Teachers’ College, Emporia, is the only Negro on a college basket ball team. He is a great player. Jack Knight of Salina, made a very creditable showing on his high school team. He was high point man in more than one game. Several [?] The Court Tennis is a field in the interschoolastic relm; and especially in the west, that is yet young. Therefore, but few Negro students have taken to tennis, as a major sport. M. T. Fort of Friends of University, has represented his school in several meets. Jas. Anderson is a member of the team from Wichita high school. The Cinder Path The larger number of Negroes have made their mark in track. Elijah and Lois Williams, now at Howard and California universities, are among the present generation. Shaw, of Teachers’ college, Pittsburg, is dean of the present group of men in college. He holds the state record for the century, 10:1. Brady is giving a good account of himself in the distances and with the shot. Foust has run the dashes, but having become too heavy, is concentrating upon the shot. Herbert and Wilbur King, Wichita Municipal University, are showing up well in the sprints and relays; and Wilbur is making a creditable showing in the broad jump. Rochal Mounts, the veteran of Friends university, runs the 100, 220, and broad jump. Here, the high school firmament is well illuminated. Clifford Madison, a fellow townsman of Sol Butler, Hutchison, Kas., is captain of his high school team; however, he Is the only Negro on the team. He holds the state record in both the high and broad jump. Holder, of Marion shows up among the best in the century, 220, mile relay and pole vault. Ross of Independence does both the sprints and distances, and has cinched more than one meet for his school. Cole, of Kingman, tho around five feet in height, gives the “long ones” trouble in both sprints and distances. There is another score of Negro boys on the various track teams. It is needless to say, they are above the average, or they would not be on the teams. Northeast Junior high school has taken the Kansas university meet in their class, two years, while Sumner high has placed in these meets. These are the only secondary schools for Negroes in the state. After seven years of "close up", I concur in an observation, made by Sol Butler, over five years ago— that the average Negro athlete is always tempted to "double up” and over do their normal endurance by participating in too many different sports, or too many track events. Instead, they should concentrate upon one sport or one track event and become a leader in one event.

SEND IN YOUR SPORT NEWS! Sport news of all kinds are welcome. Send in your news. Write on only one side of the sheet and mail to Sport Editor, Kansas City Call, Call Building. Kansas City, Mo.

The Wonder Player JOHN DONALDSON John Donaldson is perhaps the most colorful player to enter Negro baseball in the past decade. Donaldson is a former All Nations hero, having played with that club for a number of years under J. L. Wilkinson, the present owner of the Kansas City Monarchs. John was a pitcher who could pitch and a left-hander who could baffle the greatest of the great hitters of the best clubs in the country. John McGraw once said that if John Donaldson were white he would give him a contract for $100,000 annually. Donaldson is now playing out in Minnesota with a white semi-pro club. He lived in Kansas City for a number of years and is well known [?]

Mother of Women Tennis Players “Ma" Seames of Chicago, Ill., mother of women tennis players. Mrs. Seames has attended and participated in all national tournaments of A. T. A. She is affectionately known as "Ma" Seames. With Dr. L. W. Downing of Roanoke, Va., she was holder of the mixed doubles championship for the [?]

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[page 52] D-12 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 20,192[8]

COLORED BOXERS ARE ENTITLED TO FIVE PLACES IN ALL TIME” RATIN[G] A Sketch of Activities of the Ring’s Most Notable Ring Men By Alvin J. Moses (For The Associated Negro Press) Though many eminent white dispensers of sportive tidbits will take issue with the writer on awarding five of the eight places in the boxing divisions to colored fighters, we believe the facts we shall attempt to bring out in our article, will justify the nominations. Those five immortals are;

George Dioxn, bantamweight. Joe Walcott, welterweight. Joe Gans, lightweight. Sam Langford, lightheavy. John Arthur (Jack) Johnson, heavyweight.

George Dixon was bantam and greatest little man that ever laced on aglove, one has only to glance over his record. When Dixon scaled a mere 109 pounds, he thought nothing of spotting some of the world’s greatest fighters a matter of twelve to fifteen pounds. A greater bantamweight or featherweight than the lion hearted Nova Scotian never lived. His handicap matches with Frank Erne and Young Griffo, are ring epics, to be sung by the sages in Valhalla’s sacred halls until time is no more. When Terry McGovern humbled Tom O’Rouke’s precious jewel, he was but a broken down shell of himself. The real George Dixon would have beaten Terry McGovern for all his far-famed ferocity, just as surely as Young Corbett turned the trick. The lightweights were a wonderful crew, Just take a peep at this sterling array of lads who weighed in the neighborhood of 133 to 138 pounds: Erne, Lavigne, McAuliffe, McPartland, McFadden, Fitzgerald, Rufe Turner, Spider Kelly, George Memsic, Battling Nelson, Herrara, Blackbum, Everhardt, Bobby Dobbs, and a score more equally as brilliant. Here again a colored boxer comes forth to dominate the whole wrecking crew of ’em. Joe Gans, who rose from the obscure position of fish boy in a Baltimore market, exerted his mastery over the field to that extent that even bias critics were forced to refer to him as the “Old Master.’’ Although Gans fought in the lightweight class, he was really a few pounds over the standard of his day which was 133 pounds. His best fighting weight was between 135 and 140 pounds. This writer believes this was the best fighting poundage of another great lightweight champion, Benny Leonard. In the parlance of ring lore, Gans possessed everything. Brains, science to the steenth degree, hitting power, gameness, and the coolest head of all fighters with the possible exception of Jack Johnson . Some writers argue that because Kid Carter, mysterious Billy Smith, and Tommy West were sort of nemesis for Joe Walcott, and just the reverse for Tommy Ryan; that Tommy instead of the dreaded “Barbadoes Demon’’ is entitled to premier honors among the 145pound boys. We merely want to ask one question, gentlemen. Was Tommy Ryan as great a fighter as Joe Choynski? And could he have duplicated Walcott's feat of knocking out the man who struck Jim Jeffries his heardest blow, breaking three o fhis ribs in the bargain? When Walcott lost to Lavigne at Maspeth, L. I., in one of the blooddiest duels known to fistiana, the facts were these. Lavigne forced Walcott to agree that he (Walcott) would have to knock out Lavigne inside of 15 rounds or forfeit the purse. The other killing part of the agreement was that Walcott should weigh in at 3 p. m. the stipulated weight of 133 pounds. The terms of that match all but killed Walcott, cramps attacking him so badly he was forced to stand up in between rounds. When he fought Choynski with the great John L. Sullivan acting as the Pole’s second, Walcott weighed 135 pounds ot Choynski’s 175. His manager once posted a forfeit of $5,000 for Walcott to fight Jim Corbett and Kid McCoy the same night, the money to be forfeited unless Walcott licked both men in convincing fashion. Such was the greatness of Joe Walcott, who stood head and shoulders over any welterweight that ever lived. Mysterious Billy Smith was the one man who gave him his hardest battles and they hooked up a number of times, Joe winning frequently. Sam Langford could have licked any man that breathed between the weights of 155 and 185 pounds, and that’s no leaving out Bob Fitzsimmons whom we rate as the world’s greatest “All Time" middleweight. Jack Dillon, Kid Carter, George Gardner, Jack Root, Jack O’Brien, Fireman Jim Flynn, Ketchel, and Jack Twin Sullivan were wonderful lightheavies or heavy middles in some instances. But the devastating author of the six-inch [?]ok, that bone and sinew could withnot stand, was the peer of them all. As for Jack Johnson, he was the perfect athlete. His reflexes were equal to that of the gorilla, his coordination was a thing of beauty unequalled by any heavyweight. It’s hard to overlook Peter Jackson here the man who forced Bob Fitzsimmons to admit he wanted none of his game,—but Johnson gets the palm nevertheless. No boxer was ever able to make Johnson lead a punch to him, and his short uppercut went out of existence when he became too old to fight. Defensively, he has no close seconds, just the big noise among the playboys who hit the old beam in the neighborhood of 200 or more.

The Passing of the Fistic Straight Flush GEORGE DIXON BANTAM and FEATHER JOE GANG LIGHTWEIGHT JOE WOLCOTT WELTERWEIGHT "TIGER FLOWERS MIDDLEWEIGHT JACK JOHNSON HEAVYWEIGHT

With the advent of Tiger Flowers into the picture as a champion middleweight fighter, fistiana had its first Negro straight flush, so to speak. The big five of the ring who made up the flush have faded from view, some having died, yes, most ,of them leaving only Jack Johnson, ex- heavyweight champion and Joe Walcott, welterweight, George Dixon, bantam and featherweight champion has long since died as has that king of battlers, Joe Gans, lightweight, who made ring history back in the good old days when a fighter was a fighter. The greatest of the recent days fighters, Theodore ‘Tiger” Flowers, middleweight champion, the last to gain the title, died suddenly in New York more than a year ago. His death caused much grief in the fistic world. That Star Colored Straight Flush George Dixon, bantam and featherweight champion of the world: a marvel with the gloves and considered by many to be as fine a ring- man as ever crawled thru the ropes. Dixon, while weighing but 109 pounds beat the world's best bantams and then, taking on the featherweights, often gave away 18 pounds or so. He was the first American to bring back a title from a foreign land— that was when he went to England and beat Nuno Wallace, the English champion. Joe Gans, the Old Master, champion lightweight of the world, and one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all pugilists. Gans was a marvel of coolness in the ring, a clever boxer and a deadly puncher. He not only easily boat anything and everything in his own class, but once fought a 20-round draw with Joe Walcott, welterweight champion of the world. Wlacott stood about five feet two inches tall and weighed at his best 185 pounds. He licked the best of the welters, middleweights and heavies, including Joe Choynski and George Gardner. Walcott always said “the bigger they the harder they fall." He proved it in his case. They did not come too big for this fellow. Tiger Flowers, middleweight champion. stood with his right hand extended, hailed from Georgia, where Ty Cobb and Young Stribbling come from, and was a whirlwind fighter with a good kick. Tiger fought without the sight of one eye. He was a good church member. Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion of the world, won the title by defeating Tommy Bums, the pretender, and Jim Jeffries, who retired in an attempt to avoid a meeting with the Galveston boxer. Johnson, a great refensive fighter, was an easy-going performer, never letting himslf out entirely. He gave Sam Langford, a farful beating in Chelsea, Mass., dropping Sam twice and winning with ease in a 15-rounder. He stopped Stanley Ketchell in one of the gretaest battles of his career, and Sam McVey and a number of others . Johnson would never box a colored boxer after he became a champion, as he wanted to be the only Negro to ever hold the title. The colored boys have had five of the greatest fighters of the age to represent them in all divisions. It is doubtful if they will ever have another title—judging from the manner in which they are treated at the present time by boxing promoters who refuse to match them with any one whose defeat would make a championship battle necessary.

The Old Master and His Nephew The above photo is that of the old original Sam Langford and his nephew, Walcott Langford. Middleweight, and one of the best in the business. 22 years old and 160 pounds of flesh, who has fought his way from the depth to the heights, meeting all who cared to don the gloves and enter the ring with him. Last year was the first complete year in the cauliflower industry for Walcott, but he made good use of the time. Langford was a busy boy last year. He scored knockouts over Shuffle Callahan, Joe Egan, Emil Baksic, Bobby Barrett, Chief Jack Elkhart and Farmer Tod Adams. He fought Jock Malone three times, Jack McVey twice and single engagements with Dave Shade, Maxie Rosenbloom, Sunny Jim Williams, Navy Rostan, Mickey Forkins, Mickey Rockson, Allentown Joe Gans, Del Fontaine and Red Uhlan.

Heavyweight Contender BEARCAT WRIGHT Omaha, Nebr. Bearcat Wright, who has perhaps met and defeated more of the present day heavies among the two races than any other boxer now before the public. Wright, a few years ago met and held to a draw George Godfrey. The fight was held in 1926.

A Star Dimmed KID ROGAN, Kansas City, Kansas At one time a promising lightweight appeared on the fistic horizon of Greater Kansas City in the person of Kid Rogan, managed by Piney Brown. Rogan started out like a house and afire and won consistently until overmatched, he met his Waterloo. He tried again and met defeat, this time taking a terrible beating. This was the Swan Bong for Mr. Rogan.

JACK PAYNE BEATS GEORGE GEMAS RENSSLEAR, N. Y. — Jack Payne stopped George Gemas, Philadelphia in the third round Monday night.

A Pacific Coast Star JAKE KILRAIN, Light-heavyweight Few lightweights have shown as much in a bout as shown by Kilrain here last spring when he appeared at the International arena against Neil Clisby. He is short and squatty and can box and hit and is hard to beat. He halls from the Pacific Coast where he has fought the best of the West.

Audience Pleaser WALTER “KID" PALMER A middleweight from the Pacific Coast who fought around Kansas City for some time and later went to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., where he has had several good fights with high class men. Palmer fought some of the best battles seen in this state at the International arena and proved to be one of the best audience pleasers to appear here.

Jack Johnson Jack Johnson was without doubt a wonderful boxer, he had size, speed and ringcraft, was a punishing hitter and a marvel on defense. Probably the art of picking off blows as he did has never been equalled. Had he shown more determination to win decisevely, instead of protecting himself and making the other fellow look bad, he would have been a power with which to be reckoned. Johnson probably faced the poorest crop of heavies the game has known; naturally he looked good quire a great fighter to win over them. Jim Flynns of that period didn’t re- against them,—the Al Kaufmans, Jack was knocked out by Joe Choynski and also lost a 20-round decision to Marvin Hart. Johnson, realizing most of the white boxers would fight him along the lines he liked best if he encountered them, played his golden smile and line of kidding chatter to the limit and most of his opponents plunged in, while Jack stabbed them, grabbed them and won about as he pleased. His snappy uppercuts were effective against this style of milling and he worked them overtime.

Harry Villa The last of the grand old men of the heavyweight division of a levy years ago,

Oklahoma’s Heavyweight Pride BRADFORD SIMMONS, Heavyweight Drumwright, Okla. Simmons, a quiet, reserved fighter, built for endurance, has been seen in action at the International arena on numerous occasions and has always pleased the fans with his willingness to mix it. Brad can hit and take punches also and come back for more. He has met some of the leading heavy contenders in the game.

The Alabama Bear Born at Troy, Ala., June 11, 1903 [Height 5 ft. 11 in. Under management of Walk Miller.] [Lawson, a stablemate of the late] Tiger Flowers, is rated as one of the greatest fighters of his weight in the [co]untry. He has met and defeated [?]e of the best of the white and colored boxers among the heavyweights. He fought Big Bill Hartwell at the International arena, Kansas City, Mo., in 1927.

Boxing — A Real Man’s Game A. D. WILLIAMS Call Sports Editor BOXING is primarily the real man's game. It is the only contest in the world in which an opponent faces his competitor in the open, one at a time, and is disqualified if he hits low. IT IS THE SPORT that from the time of a distant past, the love to win, the struggle to conquer, has been the predominating thought in all men. IT IS A GREAT GAME, boys, to keep clean. To those of us who are young—to these of us who are old—it is ourselves boxing. It is the other half of you and I in the ring, striving, swapping blow for blow, getting hit, ducking—and perhaps winning. The picturization of the individual spectator seeing in his favorite what he himself would appear. That is boxing. That is why so many people enjoy the ringside. Boost the game folks. Keep boosting it, here and elsewhere, for when boxing is allowed to die, to grow lethargic, in the vernacular, to pass out of the picture, then be assured that from that day forward this glorious country of ours, with its millions of stalwart young manhood, will lean like the tower of Pisa toward eventual toppling and decay. That speaks for life of even the prosiac kind. Whatever walk or calling one pursues the fundamentals embodied in boxing hold true. Boxing teaches a lesson in the paths of life that only a few of us who have been in the ring, or have been closely connected with it, can understand. Let us continue to go to boxing matches. Teach the young how to box. Better the game. Love the game. Keep it alive. But last and yet not least, from one who has been closely identified with the game, tasted its sweets and its bitters, heard its cheers and its shouts of derision, the sighs—I say keep it clean. Keep it pure—but keep the boxing game going in this and other states. Boxing has moved from the darkness of a shady past into one of the big business enterprises of the day. Almost half of the states have passed bills legalizing it and many of them are drawnig heavy revenue. It is the only sport recognized on the statute books of this government; in every state there is either a law for or against it. The field of boxing is prolific in intimate stories of boxers once of a time enjoyed by fans, and we shall endeavor to entertain with the records and tales of a few of the real boxers of the present age—Negro boxers, large and small of local and national fame—yet boxers all—and our own real men of the squared circe.

“BIG BILL” NO[W] BLACK MENAC[E] OF HEAVIE[S] Kansas City Heavywei[ght] Scrapper, Under Ne[w] Management, Will G[o] to the Fore With the announcement of the appointment of Leo Flynn to the managerial reins of Big Bill Hartwell fans of the boxing game and friends of the fighter are elated over the prospects of having again a real heavyweight contender of our own. Big Bill has th goods and will deliver them safely to their proper address if given the opportunity. With Flynn guiding his destinies he will get this chance if it is humanly possible to turn the trick. Hartwell is a rare find in the heavyweight division. At first he appeared too clumsy to ever make a real fighter. The writer was of the opinion at the time that Bill would certainly prove a frost; now he admits that he was wrong from the beginning for as fight after fight Hartwell showed such marked improvement sentiment changed to his favor and today all who have seen him in action agree that he has the necessary qualities to make a champion. Big Bill can hit and hit like a triphammer. He can stand toe to toe and slug with the best of them. He can take all any of them has and still rush in for more. He is clever. Much more clever than he appears on first sight. He is quite deceiving in his appearance in the ring. He is a southpaw and one of the hardest men to fight in th ecountry. He is the next Negro champion of the division if he gets a chance. Hartwell is now in the East where he is getting the necessary training fights to put him in the pink of condition for one of the real heavyweight batles which will mean so much to him. Kansas City boxing fans are watching the upward climb of this mountain of muscle and flesh with bated breath. They are hopeful for him and wish him well. His fights will be their fights and his defeats their also. They are with him to a person. That’s the spirit of the Great Southwest; That’s the Greater Kansas City spirit. That’s the spirit of real sports!

The Ten Commandments of the Squared Circle (By Call Sport Editor) 1. HONOR thy referee, sports scribe and judges—make no insinuation regarding their eyesgiht or honesty. lest they be responsible for thine enemy’s hand being raised at the conclusion, even though thou hast smitten with acuracy and effect. 2. ASSOCIATE not with Southpaws, for hear ye, no lefthander can be RIGHT. Ask Larry Gains, he knows! Neither shall thou lead with thy chin—thus committing the unpardonable sin. 3. THE Lord loveth the cheerful given—but verily I say unto thee, a good receiver is not to be sniffed at. Thou shalt not keep thine eyes on the socks but rather thy socks on the eyes, for remember—a pub and his pompadour are soon parted. 4. THOU shalt not throw thine air- dales into Reverse at the first bash on the beezer—for if thy puppies had been intended by nature to travel backwards all the while thy toes would be where thy heels are. 5. THOU shalt not covet thy rival's speed, nor his sinful swipes, nor his cleverness — rather parctice these things thyself nad who knows whether or not thou will contract convas colic? 6. THOU shalt not kill the goose— John Public—that lays the Golden Egglets. for even tho he may absord abuse like Spearmint and come back like an ideal punching bag, even he hath been known to sicken and seek other modes of amusement. 7. THOU shalt not expect to start at the top and learn thy trade; rather practice falling backwards, for eventually thoushalt go the way of all flesh and verily I say unto you, the worst managers are better than none at all and the best are none too good. 8. THOU shalt not look upon the simpering syrup, nor sop up socks with a smile, neither shalt thou spend they evenings meddling with a Miss in thy motor, for one and all of these will make thee a star boarder in. the paper doll domicile. 9. IT is as easy to name an undiscovered isle in the Pacific as to come back—if thou wouldst do so— DON'T LEAVE. Neither must thee prattle of being a ten minute egg, for in these days, there are many Egg Beaters, therefore be as fre from such as a fish is a waistline. 10. THOUGH thou mayst be called a Jack Johnson—because thouare good to the last drop, in the end thou mayst be called Debutante, because thou art always COMING OUT—feet first! —ADW

[page 53] “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY [?]TED - BIG LEAGUE BOX OFFICE ATTRACTIONS FOR NEGRO BASEBALL [?]E GAME [?]E WANE [C]OLORED [?]S 0F U.S.

[?] [M]ethods of the [?] Be Used to [A]dvantage at This Time A. D. Williams "WANTED—Big League Box Office Attractions. Apply to any colored big time club owner,” is the mental advertisement being silently broadcast by club owners of the colored organized baseball clubs today; And it is not without just cause. Years ago—a few short years ago—to be exact—Negro baseball clubs rated as members of the big time circuit advertised their star players, their box office attractions. Today, club owners are hard put to dig up a star with enough color and outstanding ability—real or imagined, to materially aid the almost depleted box-office. In years past, the All-Nations heralded that premier slabster, John Donaldson and fans came from near and far to see him perform; the American Giants, in more recent years, had the famous battery of Brown and Brown, and they drew them in through the gates double- file; the A's had that colorful diamond character, Oscar Charleston, the great [ki?]ng of outer- ga[?]ners and a swatsmith of no mean ability, as well as the Taylor brothers. These men drew the gate to overflowing. The, Kansas City Monarchs had its John. Donaldson in later years and more recently sported the battery of Rogan and Dunban, and Dobie Moore, shortstop deluxe; the St. Louis Giants heralded as a gate stimulator ‘‘Plunk” Drake, then in his prime and one of the best hurlers in the business; while the Detroit Stars could advertise such stars as Cooper, Holland and Force for mound duty and also claimed that superior inflelder, Warfield. That got the fans. The great Bacharach Giants, made famous by the late lamented John W. Conners, had the one and only "Cannonball” Dick Redding to pack ’em in with —and they did, with the aid of ‘‘Hickpockets” Hudspeth, initial sacker. John Henry Lloyd starred on many ball clubs and the best in the country and is still playing. The Cubans had such stars to draw as Rios, shortstop, the midget wonder of the inner works; “Hooks” Jimminez, Baro, LeBlanc, the greatest hurler to come over from the Island for many a year; Chacon and [o]thers aided the cash customers to make up their mind to come and see a ball game. Space will not further enumeration of the Various stars, but there were many More equally as famous as the ones noted. But these were stars of yesteryear. True, a few of the above named players are still at it—but they are not the attractions as of yore—far from it! Today the clubs in the colored [?] of big time baseball are s[?] [?] of stars. Nowhere will one [?] such outstanding stars as in [?]e days. How many clubs can [?]ound who can boast of a truly [gre]at box-office attraction, from an individual standpoint? Can it be that we have overlooked these “greats”? Hardly, for today ball players are recipient of more publicity than ever before in the history of the game. Almost every newspaper in the U. S. A. of any note chronicle their activities. What then, is the reason for the sudden dimming of the light of the stars? Our candid opinion is: Baseball as it is played todays naturally submerge the individual more than in former years. Players nowadays— since the advent of colored organized baseball, play to win ball games, forgetting self, playing more in unison with the club as a whole, oftimes to the detriment of individual agrandisement. And this is a mightly fine spirit to show in any sport. That is one view. We have another, however: ball clubs today are in many instances, operated more on the order of machinery; the games are becoming more mechanical—players are constantly drilled in meeting and upsetting certain plays which are sure to come up during the orderly course of a ball game with the result that the average fan sees the play from a purely group view, failing in most instances to realize how much each player depended on the other player to make the play a success. It was the combined effort and perfection of the combination of players that made the play possible. This very often escapes the notice of the average fan, who always recognizes individual greatness and perfection but has not as yet learned to fully appreciate the scienti[f]ic group performance. Perhaps an illustration may serve to clarify this view of the fans: when batter come up to the plate in a big league game the manager of the opposing club is almost sure to know pretty much what this particular batter can hit and hit hard. He signals his pitcher what to pitch to him and the infielders also get the signal and relay it to the outfield. You will immediately note that the fielders shift their position, coming in or moving back, going to right or left, according to who the batter is and what the pitcher is offering him to hit. Finally he hits one—more often right into the hands of a waiting fielder. Science has made this heretofore heavy hitter an “easy mark,” a “trick”. The fans razz him perhaps—and often fail to understand why he met defeat. Thus many fans are lost to fandom because fandom itself does not always know or recognize stars when they appear on the horizon of the diamond. However, there are a few players in the big show at present who possess an uncanny ability in doing things which upset the dope —turns the table on the opposition and forces the fans to acclaim them as "GREAT". Baseball today is more of a machine than formerly and players who can fit into the cogs of the various clubs are in demand. The stars of one club might prove lemons on other clubs— they might not fit in with the rest of the machinery. And on the other hand, players who are rated as second-raters on one club might be transferred to another club and become stars—if they fit into the cog of that particular club’s machinery. Such is baseball today! There isn’t much time for individual starring in baseball today! The mass performance leads and after all it is the thing that has helped baseball grow into the big business it is. Now we have star ball clubs. The past showed great individual stars. Will they return We think not. Individual stars of the diamond are gone forever—on a wholesale scale, though we will find them here and there. Fans will eventually learn to appreciate the mass performance of the diamond and not individuals. In the meantime, the club owners are seeking box office attractions to bolster up their treasury while the fans change idols.

SCHEDULE of Negro National Baseball League St. Louis at Detroit—July 28, 29, 30, 31—5 games. Memphis at Kansas City—July 28, 29, 30, 31—5 games. Birmingham at Chicago—July 28, 29, 30, 31—5 games. Cubans at Cleveland—July 28, 29, 30, 31—5 games. St. Louis at Kansas City—August 4, 5, 6, 7—5 games, Cubans at Detroit—August 4, 5, 6, 7—5 games. Memphis at Chicago—August 4, 5, 6, 7—5 games. Birmingham at Cleveland—August 4, 5, 6, 7—5 games. Cubans at Kansas City—August 11, 12, 13—4 games. Cleveland at Memphis—August 10, 11, 12—4 games. Cleveland at Birmingham—August 13, 14, 15, 16—5 games. Chicago at St Louis—August 11, 12, 13, 14—5 games. Chicago at St Louis—August 11, 12, 13, 14—5 games. Detroit—Open. Detroit at Memphis—August 17, 18, 19—4 games. Detroit at Birmingham—August 20, 21, 22, 23—5 games. Cleveland at St Louis—August 18, 19, 20, 21—5 games. Kansas City—Open. Cubans—Open. Chicago—Open. Detroit at Chicago—August 25, 26, 27, 28, 29—5 games.

Doing His Stuff, Down East LEWIS, Catcher Hilldale (Darby), Pa. One of the most consistent catchers in the business is the way some of the players speak of Lewis. He has played with the Hilldale club for many seasons and always kept up his ned of the game. His hitting is O. K. and his throwing A No. 1.

Regains Batting Eye PYTHIA RUSS. Catcher and short-stop, American Giants Russ came to the club three years ago from the south where he played on a college club. He got off the train in Chicago, reported at the office of Andrew "Rube" Foster, secured his togs and went to the ball park and caught the game that afternoon. He was a sensation and popular with the fans immediately. Russ later played short for the team and made good in the position which he has filled with regularity all season. He hits well and fieds well and is a crafty receiver and can throw well.

One of the Bright Spots of the American Giants. JAMES BROWN, Catcher and Firstbaseman Chicago American Giants Brown has been one of the mainstays behind the bat and on first base for the Giants since the departure of Leroy Grant. Brown is temperamental at times, but in later months seems to have gotten hold of his temper and is playing a wonderful brand of ball. He is brainy and crafty behind the bat and can throw to second like a shot. Few runners steal on this veteran catcher. Since the addition of Hawkins, he is again behind the plate nad aiding his club win many games.

Red Sox lnflelder EDWARDS, Memphis 2nd Baseman A promising youth is Edwards, second baseman of the Memphis Red Sox and a fielding fool, as they say of him in Memphis. Edwards has been with the Sox for several seasons and refuses to play away from his home town. He like Memphis and Memphis evidently likes him—he stays there.

Still Going Strong "RUBE” CURRIE, Pitcher. Detroit Stars Pitchers we have and pitchers we have lost to the game, but it seems that Rube Currie refuses to die from the game. When we have thought that he was certainly through—he comes back, and with a vngeance. Rube has pitcher for the Monarchs, Chicago, Hilldale, Detroit and other clubs. He is now on the pay-roll of the Detroit Stars and from reports is going good. He is well liked thruout the country wherever the game is played.

Cunningham Speaking of first sackers, don’t forget that old master of the game ‘Daddy” Cunningham of Memphis Red Sox. Cunningham has played the game as far back as the writer can remember— and that’s way back. Once in Detroit this grand old fellow caught three foul balls which would have been missed by 99 per cent of initial sackers and these balls proved the cause of his club winning the game. He can sing—this Cunningham fellow!

A Terror to Base Stealers HAMILTON, Catcher, Memphis, Red Sox Catcher Hamiton of the Memphis Red Sox is one of the best receivers in the game. He has been out of the game for some time, returning to the game in Chicago recently during the Memphis-American Giants series. He has added much needed strength to the club and Memphis will play an important part in deciding the flag race in the second half season. Hamilton is a type of player who is popular with the fans and is a hustler who goes after everything in sight.

Giants’ Ace South Paw "BIG” BILL FOSTER, Pitcher, American Giants “Big” Bill Foster, pitcher extra-ordinary of the American Giants, a brother of the former league head, Rube Foster, he mows down opposing batts with alarming regularity and is one of the most effective pitchers in the country, bar none. Foster is a young fellow and takes his game seriously. He will improve as the years go and will take his place among the baseball immortals in the diamond hal of fame. As a strike out artist. h[e] has few superiors, none of whom as young as he in the game.

[page 54] D-14 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, [July 27, 1928]

Semi-Professional Baseball Activities of Greater Kansas [City]

AMATEUR CLUBS GROWING FAST IN POPULARITY Call Team Proves Sensation of the Season—Great Club Predicted By S. B. WILKINS Semi-professional baseball took a tremendous upward climb in 1927 when the City League of Colored Semi-Pro Baseball clubs was organized. Until then the amateur ball player was drifting along, sometimes seen in a uniform of this club and again in a uniform of another. He could not for the life of him tell what his batting or fielding averages were—whether he was batting .300 or .500—whether he was fielding a thousand or .250. In some games and with some teams he was a stellar player, thrilling the fans with his spectacular feats of baseball, and perhaps in another game in the uniform of another club he would not be seen. There was a City league in Kansas City several years ago but like all good things, it found the road rocky, grew weary and disbanded. Several years lapsed and R. H. Barber came into prominence in 1927 with a strong organization of baseball clubs. Mr. Barber brought the Missouri Pacific Freight House, the Missouri Pacific Shops, Leed's Black Oilers and his famous 18th Street Merchants into one body with Dr. A. R. Eagleson president, and played organized amateur baseball. Each player player was placed under a contract, which allowed him to play under one management only. A statistician was appointed who kept fielding, batting and all records of each player registered. The City league had an iron clad constitution and the well-thought- of president enforced it to the letter. An immensely appreciated league developed. The player’s averages were published at regular intervals. Attention of several players were drawn by the Negro National league and at least one was called to spring training in 1928 by a prominent N. N. L. member. The league awarded a silver cup, donated by Schmeltzer’s Sporting Goods company, at the end of the season to the league leader, which was the Missouri Pacific Freight House, under management of W. H. Brown. Umpiring was a feature to be proud of. At the outset the league determined on training umpires. For this purpose the services of Bert Gholston and N. Boone of the N. N. L., were secured. Classes in umpiring were held regularly at the Paseo Y. M. C. A. and from this effort came umpires well versed in the game, who were, F. A. Brown, O. U. Brown, A. D. Giles, Lewis Fambro, Geo. White and Arties Diese. At least one of these umpires have worked games in the N. N. L. This year an attempt was again made to organize the semi-professional baseball clubs of greater Kansas City. Several clubs not in the former organization were induced to come together and form an organization. This time L. Warren (white), of Elliott Arms company took the responsibility of organizing the clubs. A constitution was drawn up, franchises were signed by eight clubs as follows: Kansas City Call, Lilley Motor company, Kansas City Royals, Frisco Freight House, Missouri Pacific Shops, Missouri Pacific Cubs. Wilson Packing company and the Santa Fe Scouts. This year the City league has had many obstacles affront it; many have been overcome and it has had a hard struggle but is still carrying on. Several clubs have withdrawn, yet there is always a quorum when the roll is called and interest in the pennant race is very keen among the remaining teams.

Independence A. B. C.’s The Independence A. B. C.’s is one of the oldest semi-professional baseball clubs playing in and around Kansas City, having been organized eight years ago when the old Indianapolis A. B. C.’s were leading the Negro National league, by Willie Williams of Independence, Mo. Until three years ago all members of Mr. Williams’ team were residents of Independence. This team represents one of Kansas City's best amateur baseball clubs, both in organization, discipline, playing ability and financially situated. The owner of the club has placed at the disposal of the boys two cars, a Cadillac and a Chevrolet, which are used principally to transport players to and from games in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and some few games in Missouri. Local teams no doubt will vouch for the veracity of the statement that the Independence A. B. C.’s is a strong aggregation on the diamond and hard [to] beat, they having played at one [tim]e another every semi-pro club of repute in town—and usually have won. The present manager of Mr. Williams’ outfit is William Love, known to the fans as one of Kansas City’s greatest outfielders, although he is playing third base now due to the [l]oss of the regular third sacker. In managerial ability Mr. Love is rated [a]mong the best. The pitching staff of the A. B. [C]’s places fear into most hearts of [ba]tters of opposing teams. What [you?]ngster would not appear timid [?] [?]at to face the delivery of such men as L. Robinson, L. T. Williams, right handers; ’Toots” Darcy and R. Alexander, southpaws? Wendel Sydner needs no introduction to the baseball public, for he is known locally and rated as one of the best infielders in town by all clubs opposing him. Hymo Downs at the initial sack, and Orle Robinson at 2nd base are two well known infield men; Danny Brooks, outfielder, was one of the mainstays of Piney Brown’s Royal American Giants when this club was going great-guns in Kansas City. Ralph H. Alexander perhaps is the least known on the A. B. C.’s roster, he being the wide awake secretary who is always seeking new lanes in which to boost his team. We thank him for material furnished for this article. Willie Williams, the owner, is one of the finest and best-loved sports of today; he is a man widely known not to give that which he is not wont to take. He is a good loser, the definition designating a good sport.

The K. C. Call Team The Call team, known as the "gentlemen ball players club”, is sponsored by The Kansas City Call sport editor, A. D. Williams. This is their first season before the public. Mr. Williams purchased the rights of the 18th Street Merchants which came into prominence last year, from Ralph H. Barber and then appointed Mr. Barber manager. We cannot refrain from saying Barber is the only man we know of, who can take nine or ten youngsetrs, place them together in uniforms on a baseball diamond and nave a good brand of ball against any seasoned team that might oppose them. How he does it no one nas been quite able to discover, but if you have seen him in action you know that he has ability seldom found in an amateur. He knows the rules, plays strictly accordingly and can be always depended upon to pull a play usually expected of a big leaguer. He is known by many as a technical baseball player, winning many games on technical points of the rules, nevertheless he can hit, field, pitch a little, catch and hold down the keystone sack. It is regreted that Mr. Barber is no longer the leader of this young squad, having resigned a few weeks ago to accept a position in the East. Oscar Bartlett, the present field manager of The Call team, is a ball player of the gentle type. He never disputes a decison, always plays a clean game, is a good hitter and knows the game, having, played as an amateur for several years on the local sandots. He was known as "Charleston” on the old K. C. Comets, a name being bestowed upon him by fans because of his playing in the outer garden, which was similar to that of Oscar Charleston, one of the greatest outfieiders in Negro baseball today. S. B. Wilkins now supervises the business end of the team as business manager. He served last year as secretary of the City league and secretary of the 18th Street Merchants, This season he acted as secretary of The Call team under Mr. Barber's management. Until coming to Kansas City three years ago, Mr. Wilk[i]ns was active in different amateur sports in St. Louis. Dee Love, 1st baseman, is well known as a persistent and ambitious ball player. J. D. McGinnis and F. M. McGinnis, uncle and nephew, respectively, are pitchers and ball players from Texas—this being their first season before Kansas City [?]ans—when we say ball players from Texas there is a special impression we wish to convey and that is that they are GOOD—in big letters! Other players constituting Che Call team are Dan Shingleton, outfielder and batsman that is hard to beat, a born athlete who also excels in tennis and basketball; Maceo Broadnax, outfielder, Known all over town as ‘‘Little Monarchs"; Fred Frye, a pitcher of no mean ability and The Call’s ‘‘Ace’’; led Hunt, 2nd base; Bennie Mitchell, catcher; Fay Bradley, 2nd base; Ivory Ferguson, 1st base; R. Mitchell, a coming shortstop that soon will be "made” ;and last but not least is Nathaniel Foster, catcher deluxe.

Sante Fe Scouts Of the Santa Fe Scouts, sponsored by the Santa Fe railroad, you seldom hear “heap much talk”, but every one knows that this is really one of the strongest baseball clubs playing semi- pro baseball in this vicinity, and that they are proud of the fact they have lost less games compared to the number played, than any club in greater Kansas City. The baseball club is only two years old. J. W. Clark was the manager last season and E. Cooper, assistant. At the outset of the present season Mr. Cooper was elected manager. The Scouts played 25 games the first season and won 20, tied one and lost 4. So far this season they have played 15 games, won 11 and lost 4. The lineup of the Scouts presents some ball players well versed in the art of baseball and well known locally. They are as follows: Triplett,, of Cunningham, of Doty, of Palmer, 1b Hinton, 2b Judge, 3b Hicks, ss Collins, p Hughes, p Warren, c Mayhue, c Strickland, u

Has The Jinx Got Him? CHXET BREWER, [Mon]archs pitcher who has met defeat in his recent trips to the mound. Brewer it would seem is hampered by a jinx which he seems to be unable to shake this season. However, with the return of the club to the home grounds he is expected to take his turn on the mound and turn in victories. When right, Brewer is one of the best pitchers in the league. If he succeeds in getting back to winning form during the coming series with Memphis the old club will make things hum.

Missouri Pacific Cubs The Missouri Pacific baseball club of the Missouri Pacific railroad freight house was organized in February, 1925 by A. D. Jiles who is now a City league umpire. The club was managed by F. McQueen and captained by M. Massingale. They won two games and lost four in that season. In 1926 the club began the season under the same management and played such strong clubs as the Coffeyville Boosters, the Carthage Giants and the United Trucks. They were able to win ten games out of nineteen and tied one . In 1927 W. H. Brown was elected to manage the club, C. Hammonds was appointed captain. Under the management of W. H. Brown the club won eighteen and lost seven out-of-town games. When the City league was organized in 1927 the club secured its franchise and became the first champions of the newly organized league, losing only two games in the league during the season. Manager Brown won the respect of the players and all were willing to do whatever he said. The club showed a decided improvement under his management. An accurate record is now kept of the players under the direction of D. P. Patterson, who is now the secretary of the club, who took the lessons that were given by R. H. Barber in baseball statistics. Because of the records kept by S. B. Wilkins, secretary of the City league in 1927, two players of the club were given tryouts with the Monarchs this season. One of them, M. Massingale, went to Hot Springs while the other, H. Spicer, joined them after they returned to Kansas City. Massingale is a hard hitting first baseman and H. Spicer is an outfielder deluxe. Although neither made the club they were promised berths next season should they come up to the standards of the N. N. L. Their teammates believe they will. The club began this season with a strong team but was weakened by the lost of five players who are now playing with the All Nations champions of the northwest. The players who joined the All Nations are as follows: B. Campbell, W. Combs, pitchers; O. Zacherey, infielder, and L. Roach, an outfielder who is now captain of his team. M. Massingale began the season with the All Nations but was forced to return to Kansas City because of illness in his family. They are attempting to sign H. Spicer, who is first baseman and captain of the Cubs. The Cubs is said to be one of the only two clubs in Kansas City that keep a record of each player. This lot falls to B. Richard Smith, a young baseball enthusiast who also took baseball statistical lessons from R. H. Barber. The club had been known as the Missouri Pacific Freight House until this season when it changed its name to the Cubs, a name which is very appropriate. The members of last year’s club regretted to lose the services of E. P. Giles who served as secretary in 1927. The present officers are as follows: W. H. Brown, manager; Dan P. Patterson, secretary; B. Richard Smith ,scorer and reporter; Harry Spicer, captain; W. M. Brown, treasurer; Willie Terry, mascot.

CALL FIELDING AVERAGE Name PO. A. E. TC. Pct Bradley, cf 3 0 0 3 1.000 R. Mitchell, ss . 1 0 0 1 1.000 *Hunt, 2b, rf 1 3 0 4 1.000 Shingleton— p-ss-rf-cf 6 6 1 13 .923 F.M’G’nis, p-1b-3b-cf 7 11 2 20 .900 *Ramsey, 2b 8 9 2 19 .895 *Ward, rf-c 9 0 1 9 .888 J D. McGinnis— 3b-ss-p-2b-1b 15 12 4 31 .879 Brodnax, 2b-rf-cf 6 0 1 7 .857 *Barber, c-1b ..... 40 12 9 61 .853 Love, 3b-ss-lb 47 4 10 61 .836 Bartlett. lf 5 0 1 6 .833 *Hammonds, ss 2 6 2 10 800 Frye, p-3b 1 7 2 10 . 800 *B. Mitchell, c 22 3 7 32 .781 •Fields, c-1b 5 0 2 7 .714 Totals ...... 177 73 44 294— .816 (*)No longer with The Call team.

CALL TEAM INDIVIDUAL BAITING AVERAGE Name AB. R. H. 2B. 3B. HR. SH. BB. HB. SB. SO. TB. Pct. *Hammonds 11 6 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 9 .636 Bartlett 31 14 17 6 2 0 0 3 2 8 1 35 .515 Shingleton 34 14 17 5 1 1 0 0 0 6 2 34 .500 *Ramsey 19 7 9 0 0 0 0 9 0 4 10 9 .473 Dee Love 32 8 15 1 1 0 0 1 2 5 3 22 .468 J. D. McGinnis 27 8 11 1 2 1 1 5 0 3 10 23 .407 F. M. McGinnis27 13 11 1 3 0 0 1 0 4 3 22 .407 *Barber 25 3 9 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 11 .360 Frye 14 4 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 8 .285 *Ward 7 2 4 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 3 7 .285 R. Mitchell 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .250 Brodnax 19 5 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 6 4 .210 *Hunt 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 .142 *B. Mitchell 8 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 .124 Bradley 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .000 *Fields 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 280 87 116 18 11 1 1 22 6 41 56 190 .414 (*)Players who are no longer with The Call team.

FRISCO BATTING AVERAGES Name G. AB. R. H. 2B. 3B. HR. SB. TB. Pct. Page 4 16 3 8 0 1 0 2 10 .500 White 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 .500 Potts 3 9 5 4 0 1 2 0 9 .444 Blackburn 3 12 3 5 1 0 0 0 6 .417 Roach 8 30 7 11 2 0 0 5 13 .367 Hill 4 15 1 5 0 0 0 0 5 .333 Countee 2 9 1 3 1 0 0 0 4 .333 C. Williams 2 9 1 3 1 0 0 0 5 .333 Everett 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333 McGill 5 15 3 4 2 1 1 0 11 .267 Ellis 5 19 4 5 0 0 0 1 5 .263 Humphrey 6 21 1 5 0 0 0 1 5 .233 Long 5 17 3 4 0 0 0 3 4 .232 Clark 6 15 0 3 0 0 0 2 3 .200 Lewis 6 26 4 5 0 2 0 2 5 .192 Farr 3 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 .125 Boyd 4 13 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 .059 Hawkins 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Rucker 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 F. Williams 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Gray 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Robinson 2 6 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000

FRISCO TEA M BATTING AVERAGE G. AB. R. H. 2B. 3B. HR. SB. TB. Pct. Frisco 8 259 45 69 8 4 3 18 95 .267

FRISCO FIELDING AVERAGES Name G. PO. A. E. DP. TC. Pct. Clark 6 2 9 0 1 11 1.000 C. Williams 2 3 0 0 0 3 1.000 Countee 2 1 4 0 1 5 1.000 Hawkins 1 2 1 0 0 3 1.000 Blackburn 3 3 0 0 0 3 1.000 Everett 1 6 1 0 0 7 1.000 Boyd 4 11 0 0 0 11 1.000 Farr 3 1 4 0 0 5 1.000 White 1 5 2 0 0 7 1.000 Lewis 6 19 6 0 3 25 1.000 Hill 4 36 0 1 1 36 .973 Roach 8 41 6 2 3 47 .966 Ellis 5 5 5 1 0 10 .909 Page 4 8 17 3 1 25 .893 McGill 5 35 1 5 0 36 .878 Robinson 2 3 4 1 0 7 .875 Long 5 17 1 3 0 18 .850 Humphrey 6 2 18 4 1 20 .833 Potts 2 4 2 2 0 6 .750 Rucker 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 F. Williams 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Gray 2 0 0 1 0 0 .000

TEAM FIELDING AVERAGE G. PO. A. E. DP. TC. Pct. Frisco ...... 8 201 81 26 5 282 .915

PITCHING AVERAGES G. W. L. Pct. Whitehead...... 1 1 0 1.000 Clark ...... 6 2 1 .667 Farr ...... 3 2 1 .667 Blackburn ...... 1 0 0 .000 Potts ...... 2 0 2 .000

FRISCO WON AND LOST W. L. Pct. Frisco ...... 5 4 .550 NOTE: Batting and fielding averages of the game at Joplin, Mo. are not included as no score was kept.

Kansas City American Giants, Jr. The Kansas City American Giants jr., is a fast young aggregation of ball players, all under 17 years of age. A. W., a promising 14-years-old first baseman. Ed. Johnson, 15- year-old second baseman who won’t stop for red lights. Cleo Major, short-stop deluxe. Little Owens Perry, the baby of the team. Richard Rogers, rightfielder. John Gray, a catcher among catchers. Berry Melven, leftfielder. Cleo, a very good pitcher and can play shortstop too. John Roberts, the star pitcher of the team. Utility men: Blue, Alfred, Bill, Hamilton and Jones. Frisco - Freight House R. M. Patricks, manager, has been in organized baseball for a number of years but for the past ten years has been managing independent and semi-pro clubs with a great deal of success, in his playing days he has faced such pitchers as "Red" Faber and Herb Pennock. Will Lewis, short-stop, and captain, is 26 years of age and married. He began the season with the Kansas City Royals but Joined the Frisco force May 13. He has been in a batting slump but recently has shown signs of coming out of it. He was appointed captain July 15. Booker Roach, second baseman, married, started the season with Frisco, he played with the Lilly Motor club last year. He is the leading base stealer of the club with 5 to his credit. He also is one of the leading clubbers with a mark of .367. Paul Humphrey, 3rd baseman, is married and the father of a little boy. He started the season with the Kansas City Royals and Joined the Frisco battalion on May 13. On the ball field he is a human peper box and is always shouting encouragement to his mates. Virgil Long right fielders and second string catcher, was with the A. B. C. club last year, and like some of his mates started the season with Frisco. Off the ball field he is a quiet chap but on the field is a regular radio with a loud speaker. Everett, first string catcher, is single. He started the season with the Baxter Blues at Baxter Springs, and joined the Frisco club July 15. He possesses a rifle shot pegging arm and bats left handed. Ellis, left fielder, is married, played part of the 1927 season with the New York Tigers, then in mid-season Joined the Frisco team and has been with them since. He is dangerous with the bat. McGill, catcher, single, played the 1927 season with the Rosedale All- Stars. Has been with the Frisco club all of this season. He specializes in long-distant hitting. In the game with the Rosedale Merchants on July 4, he was struck by a foul tip and suffered a badly torn finger. He is still on the injured list. Hugh Blackburn, right fielder and relief hurler, is married. He was playing independent ball in Iowa last season. Misfortune trailed Blackburn at the start of this season, he was ill for more than two months. He rejoined his mates on July 8. Since his return he has been banging the ball at a .417 clip besides fielding 1.000 he is the only southpaw hurler with the staff. Joe Hill, first baseman, after starting the season with the Lilly Motor club, joined the Frisco battalion June 10. Joe is one of the best fielding first basemen seen around these parts in a long time. He swings a timely bat. Bevo Boyd, centerfielder, like his teammate, Hill, began the season with the Lilly Motor club and joined the Frisco team on the same day with Hill. Bevo is in a batting slump now, but as a fielder he has no equal. Many a time he has pulled in drives that were labelled sure basehits, just as soon as he shakes off his batting slump, watch him go. Raymond Clark, pitcher, has been a mainstay on the Frisco staff all season. He formerly played with the Missouri Pacifis Frieght House. He is always cool under fire taking part in six games, he is credited with 2 victories and 1 defeat. In several games he acted as relief hurler. His best pitching is done with runners on the bases. Roba Farr of Lincoln University fame, joined the Frisco club on June 10. On that date he easily defeated the Garden City, Mo., club 9 to 3, along with Clark he is sharing the pitching honors, both having won 2 games and lost 1. In the three games he pitched he has allowed 6 runs and 15 hits, a very respectable average. - Kansas City Royals Everybody in Kansas City who knows anything at all about semi- pro baseball knows of the Kansas City Royals. When one thinks of this club one’s mind instinctly thinks of Ben Powell, perhaps one of the greatest semi-pro baseball managers local sandlots ever had, and original organizer and owner of the Royals. Powell organized the Royals way back in 1917 and managed a winning ball club until 1924 when he sold his outfit to Piney Brown. At the time the club was known as the Royal Giants under Ben Powell but after it was acquired by Piney Brown, the name was changed to the Royal American Giants. In 1926 Powell again became in possessio nof the club. Powell began his career in Austin, Texas some 20 years ago as first-string catcher for the Austin Red Juniors. He was at the time known as a coming ball player with a bright future. He had great ambitions and has been in the game long enough to partly see his ambitions realized. No other semi-pro baseball manager in Kansas City has had under his wing such a large number of now professional ball players. Eddie Dwight, now playing centerfield for the Monarchs, is perhaps the most widely know player developed by Powell. Dwight was in shortstop for Powell’s Giants from 1920 until 1923. As everyone knows Dwight is now one of the mainstays in the Moanrchs lineup, being a good hitter as well as fielder. Among other prominent players developed by Powell are: Harry Walker, now centerfielder on the powerful Monitors club; Vernon Cunningham, now centerfielder for the Santa Fe Scouts was one of Ben Powell’s protege; Nels Emery, catcher, now with a white baseball club drawing a handsome salary at Sioux Falls, S. D., was without a doubt the most capable catcher ever donned a mask on the Paseo. We are all acquainted with Charlie Hancock, the powerful heavy hitter and efficient baseball player who held down the initial sack with the Royals in 1920. Hancock was in the spring training camp of the Chicago American Giants of the N. N .L .last year and will be called again next year. At the present time he is first-string catcher for Powell and is doing a mighty fine Job, folks. W. Thompson, first baseman and star infielder for the Royals, was last season with the Monitors. Sterling Hall, last season with the Monitors, now second baseman for the Royals, is without a doubt the best all round ball player on the local sandlots, and should be in the N. N. L. today. R .Tyree, centerfielder with the Royals, is a former N. N. L. player, having been on the American Giants lineup in 1915. Richard Green, left fielder for the Royals, is a former member of the Tennessee Rats club. Freddie Hicks, last season with the Monitors, now playing third bas efor the Royals, also played with the old Kansas City, Kansas Giants. Leland Johnson, the greatest sand- lot pitcher of today, last year with the Monitors, is a real curve ball artist. H. Ragland, another Royal pitcher, was given a chance with Columbus of the N. N. L. in 1920. Theo. Stockard, shortstop, was started out by Powell in 1917—but last year and part of this season was with Cleveland of the N. N. L. Fred Thomas, right fielder, is now getting his trial with the Royals. The Royals club has recently announced its removal from Kansas City to Marshall, Mo., where it has a park and all home facilities. The club's business representative is M. Crutchfield located at Booker's cafe, Marshall, Mo.

Mrs. Nora Brown of Linneus, Mo., is one of the boosters for The Call, in every town, colored games, or anywhere there is a gathering of colored people. Eighty per cent of travelers going to Europe are women. K. C. Kansas Giants The Kansas City, Kansas Giants baseball club was organized last year by Lewis W. Owens and Stanley Goldsmith, both of whom are well known on the west side of the Kaw river as lovers of athletic sports of all kinds. Under their management last year the Giants won 22 of the 27 games played. Though it was late in the season before they started, their team finished as one of the strongest colored semi- pro club in Kansas City, Kas., having played practically every fast baseball aggregation in that vicinity. This year Mr. Goldsmith is the sole owner of the Giants; he is very proud of his team and will support them all the way. Mr. Owens is now the very able and efficient secretary, who has complete charge of booking games and performing other secretarial duties. Mr. Goldsmith has appointed Matthews Grant as manager of this fighting machine, which is great on offensive as well as defensive. Mr. Grant is small in stature, it is true, but he is a giant in ability; he is already predicting a better season than last year, having lost only one game out of ten starts. Grant has put together a fighting bunch of seasoned ball players, with several new faces on the lineup. The manager can well be said to be a prototype of the great "Bullet” Rogan, Monarchs manager, for he too is a pitcher of no mean ability and twirls from the left side. He is not new in the game in no sense of the word, having at one time played the role of "Ace” on Ben Powell’s Royal Giants and the All Nations. It is a well known fact that he has lost only one game during his time with the Kansas City, Kas. Giants, this to the white Union Pacific club, 2-1. With Grant on the pitching staff there is that big Californian, Percy Holloway, who has done most of his flinging on the Coast, not having played in this section of the country until being signed by the Giants; he delivers from the right side. Mintors goes a long way to help make the pitching staff so efficient. He is a curve ball artist and a new addition to the Giants. He also delivers from the right. Samuel Gordon is a coming southpaw and it is pleasing to the eye to watch this boy perform. The Giants team is well fortified in the catching department, with "Jelly” Walker as first- string man. It goes without saying he will some day surely catch the eyes of the N. N. L. scouts. Lewis W. Owens, a former college player, is a big catcher and a real target for the pitchers to shoot at. Although he has been out of the lineup for two months, he will bear watching by opponents for he is handy with the stick, being the “Babe” Ruth of the Giants club. The team boast of an air-tight infield and what club would not with such players as: Arthur “Red” Henderson, a Paseo boy who came up with A. Currie, F. Duncan, Dwight, Allen and others, who is kicking first to a won't don't, and is as full of pep as pepper-sauce. He boast of being the only blond in colored baseball. There is Eggleston on the hot corner who played with the Spring Valley Athletics and Skinner’s All Nations. Also in short is none other than Allen “Boots” Dwight, who is following in the footsteps of his brother. Eddie Dwight who strolls centerfield for the Monarchs. Kid brother is working hard and gobbles up everything that comes in his direction. On the keystone sack is Stanley Goldsmith, who is batting as cleanup man and is doing his duty as a batsman. Elmer Nickens is a very capable infielder and can function in any position in which he is placed, and at present he is performing nicely in the outer garden. H. Mixon, another outfielder, bats from the heart side. Jordan Givens is a good fielder. a former Memphis Black Sox player, and is a sure hitter. All in all the Kansas City, Kas. Giants has a combination to be proud of and you can ask Stanley Goldsmith if we are right about it. The headquarters is 1141 Barnett avenue, K. C., Kas. Names of some other teams playing amateur baseball in greater Kansas City, are as follows: Kansas City. Kas. Sunflowers, M. Martin, manager, 1124 Armstrong. Monrovians, M. Dooley, manager, Monrovian club, Kansas City, Kas. Lilley Motor, Geo. Robinson, manager. 1521 Euclid. Frisco Freight House. M. Patricks, manager, 3410 Rudy. K. C., Kas. Wilson Packing Co., Charles McFarlane, manager. Monitors. J. A. Finnell, manager, 2725 Wenzel. Santa Fe Scouts. E. Cooper, manager, 340 Quindaro, K. C., Kas. K. C. Royals. Ben Powell, manager, 1520 Euclid. Missouri Pacific Cubs, W. H. Brown, manager, 2017 E. 18th. Missouri Pacific Shops, H. Lyons, manager, 1808 E. 22nd. Kansas City, Kas. Giants, Drexel 4114. Independence Mohawks, Independence, Mo. Independence Stars, Independence, Mo. 27th Street Pirates. Third Ward G. O. P. Cheerio Boys. Acacia club, Marcellis Hill, captain. In speaking of diamonds, culture and refinement will not put more than the wedding and engagement ring on the marriage finger. It is said, "A lady is known by the care given her nails,” now she is also known by the way she wears her rings and when. SCHE[?] Negro Nati[?] Lei St. Louis at Detr[?] 31—5 games. Memphis at Ka[?] 29, 30. 31—5 ga[?] Birmingham at 29, 30, 31—5 ga[?] Cubans at Clevel[and] 30, 31—5 games St. Louis at Ka[?] 4, 5, 6, 7—5 ga[mes] Cubans at Detr[oit] 7—5 games. Memphis at Chi[cago] 6, 7—5 games. Birmingham at Cleveland 4, 5, 6, 7—6 games. Cubans at Kansas City—August 11, 12, 13—4 games. Cleveland at Memphis—August 10, 11, 12—4 games. Cleveland at Birmingham—August 13, 14, 15, 16—5 games. Chicago at St. Louis—August 11, 12, 13, 14—5 games. Chicago at St. Louis—August 11, 12, 13, 14—5 games. Detroit—Open. Detroit at Memphis—August 17, 18, 19—4 games. Detroit at Birmingham—August 20, 21, 22, 23—5 games. Cleveland at St. Louis—August 18, 19, 20, 21—5 games. Kansas City—Open. Cubans—Open. Chicago—Open. Detroit at Chicago—August 25, 26, 27, 28, 29—5 games. The trophy pictured above was awarded to the Missouri Pacific Freight House baseball club by the City League in 1927. The Freight House was piloted to the tpo to the league by W. H. Brown. This season the team play under the name of the Cubs and is again piloted by Mr. Brown. It is well on its way to another successful season in the present City league. ♦ Harmon Foundation Seeks Negro-Created Art Forms NEW YORK — “We are striving." says Miss Mary Beattie Brady, director of the Harmon Foundation. New York, ’to stimulate the Negro artist to give free expression of his own individuality and the artistic impulses of the Negro people developed with the highest technique. Through such production in the fine arts Negroes will achieve universal values rather than through the imitaiton of the conventional art forms already produced by another race. Sargent Johnson's prise piece o fsculpture in the Exhibit at International House last year — the terra cotta head of a Negro boy — is a fine example of such artistic expression. The Hannon Foundation and the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches after a careful review of the experience of the past twa years inseeking creative work in th Fine Arts from Negro men and women believe that it is possible to get better material in larger quantity than most of that heretofore submitted for the Harmon Awards and to the first exhibit of Fine Arts. ’The Negro spirituals and musical composition based upon them produced by Negroes have an appeal to music lovers everywhere.” Miss Brady continued. “In a simliar way the latent talent for creative work in the fine arts undoubtedly possessed by many Negroes needs t obe stimulated to secure finished results in creative and original work of high merit. There is unlimited scope for such development. We recognize that the effort to bring about this achievement involves the dangers of inelastic standards. This, however, is not our aim. We wish to encourage new creations from Negro men and women moved by artsitic impulses and to induce such aspiring artists to study and strive for perfection in expression of what they find in themelves and in thei racial experience.” The Harmon Awards for Distinguished Achievement in Fine Arts among Negroes is one of seven awards consisting of a gold medal and $400 each and a bronze medal and $100 each open to Negroes of American residence. The date for presentation of candidates closes August 15.

[page 55] Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928 “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY

BRILLIANT PLAY AND LOYAL FANS MAKE MONARCHS CLUB GREA[T]

A Few Facts of the Greatest Colored Baseball Club Ever to Represent Kansas City

THE MONARCHS HAVE — The largest and finest park in the country. The largest seating capacity in the circuit. The best equipped press boxes in the circuit. More modern conveniences than any other league club. A $10,000 Bus which comfortably carries 24 players. A high class trainer and rubber who cares for the players. A first class business office with efficient secretary.

AN APPRECIATION The management of the Kansas City Monarchs takes this opportunity to thank the baseball fans of Greater Kansas City for the loyal support extended the club from its birth ten years ago. It is to you, loyal fans, goes the bulk of the credit for the wonderful showing and progress it has achieved during these trying years. It was you who. made possible the continuance of the club, the perpetuation of the league of which it is member, that we extend our sincere thanks. It is your club—yours to make of it what you will—a winner or a loser. The choice is yours and we know that you will, as you have always had—A WINNER!

---A PROMISE The management at this time, promises you the very best that can be produced by a well balanced baseball club, always a good game, always a fair and square deal in all our dealings with you. When better ball clubs can be produced—THE KANSAS CITY MONARCHS WILL BE THE ONE. Again we thank you, KANSAS CITY MONARCHS BASEBALL CLUB.

J. L. WILKINSON The above is the once likeness of J. L. Wilkinson, owner of the Kansas City Monarchs (we say “once" likeness because of the fact that the picture was of him some fifteen years ago, being photographed in Des Moines, Iowa, where he started his baseball connections.) Attempting to give our readers a real close-up of the man who is responsible for Kansas being on the baseball map of the nation, so far as the Negro is concerned, is like attempting to catch lightning in a bottle. It simply cannot be done, therefore we are not going to make the attempt. However, we shall try in a concise way to give ah inside view of the local team, its owner and secretary and some of the facts pertaining to the game as it is known to us. Had we the information and ability the space allotted to this [s]tory would be indeed inadequate to [f]airly deal with the subject. Wilkinson Got Early Start in Iowa “Wilkie”, as he is known to many of the men in the game, got an early baseball start and has never recovered from his first taste of the diamond lust. He has been actively engaged in baseball through all these years in one capacity or another. Years ago, we do not know just how many and the data is not at hand to attest, Mr. Wilkinson started out playing baseball with the Hopkins Bros. in Des Moines, Iowa. They toured the United States, quite a remarkable feat in "those days to be sure, but they got away with it— and made some money while doing it. You may take it from us, this fellow knows how to make a ball club.

Tours Country With Bloomer Girl Team The second baseball venture of this remarkable man was that of organizing a bloomer girl baseball team. With a special car, Mr. Wilkinson toured the country playing some of the best clubs of that time and the girls really won a large per cent of their games, too! This unique aggregation proved to be a winner and again he made money. He played into the far, wild west and Northwest and finally gave up the bloomer girls club and temporarily retired from the game, so he thought but the lure of the diamond again grasped him and he returned again to his first love.

Organized All Nations This time it was something new— yet unique that was given birth by this baseball genius— the All Nations baseball club, composed of players from many races and some of the best in the country. They cleaned up everything in their way and soon were known from coast to coast as the best drawing card in existence. The All Nations played up and down the northern border line and down through Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, Kansas and finally Missouri. They still talk of their activities out this way with vim and vigor and they will let no one tell them (the old- timers) that better club exist than the All Nations of yesteryear.

Develops John Donaldson tI was with the All Nations that John Donaldson gained his prominence. He was billed as Donaldson the great and pitched some of the greatest games ever witnessed in any man’s ball park. Donaldson it was who packed the parks and furnished the thrills. In directing publicity to Donaldson, Mr. Wilkinson showed his financial genius and business perception. It was good business. He practiced good business to perfection and won. He had the All Nations for approximately eight years and then the cry for a Negro league made itself heard. Ever alert to the best interest of the game he loved so well he listened to the cry for organization.

Charter Member of N. N. League It was in the latter part of 1919 that the cry for organized baseball reached the territory of Missouri and of course, Mr. Wilkinson heard it. with the result that when the league was organized in this city on [?]ered as a charter member. He is the sole survivor of that union, all the other club owners having passed away fro mthe mortal scene or quit February 14, 1920, his club was enthe game. He named this league club the Kansas City Monarchs and since that day they have proven to all that they are MONARCHS OF ALL THEY SURVEY. They bear their name with pride and fight to retain it.

Pennant Winners Twice in Succession In the year of 1924-25 the Monarchs won the Negro National league pennant, finishing with a spurt that took the breath away from even the most optimistic fans. They played a brand of baseball hard to equal and impossible to excel. They showed a spirit of team co-operation seldom exhibited on any club and a fighting spirit that would have tickled that renowned warrior, Napoleon. But in doing this these gentlemen of the diamond who have composed all the Monarchs club have displayed a deportment on and off the filed which would do honor to the most exacting, conventional English family.

Kansas City Proud of Monarchs Greater Kansas City is justly proud of the Monarchs. This goes for both black and white. Both races are true supporters of the club which bears the colors of the diamond throughout the circuit of the Negro National League. By their playing they have made the name Kansas City mean a great deal to baseball lovers over the western loop.

Has Finest and Largest Park Muehlebach Field, the home of the Monarchs is the finest and largest park of its kind in the country. No other association club can boast of a park quite so magnificent and modern. It has the largest seating capacity of any park in the nation in which Negro club plays. It has the largest and best equipped press box of any Negro park in the country. It has the best and most efficient attendants. It is far beyond any other in the circuit and the playing field is ideal.

Never Finished Below Third In Race A remarkable [f]eat of the club is that of having never during the 8 years of its league career, finished lower in the league standing than third place. It has always been a contender for the flag and even when losing freely manages to keep that old fighting spirit which caused them to be named Monarchs.

Travels in Modern Motor Bus Be Luxe In order that the club may have all the conveniences of modem travel coupled with privacy, the owner has purchased a large de luxe motor bus which transports the team from city to city with all the comforts possible. It is a specially designed Forris 24-passenger bus with waterproof luggage carriers. It has sliding seats built so that the utmost comfort can be had. It can maintain a speed equal to that of the fast trains and has never delayed the club on any of its trip. It runs on a regular schedule which fits in with the league schedule.

LADIES’ DAY! The Management ofthe Monarchs extends a standing invitation to ladles to attend all the games played by the Monarchs in this city during the remainder of the season. Especially is this extended on Ladles’ Day. Get the Habit — Come EVERY DAY.

Highlights on Manager Rogan Bullet has been with the club almost since its organization. He is a pitcher of extraordinary ability; he is a great ball player. Rogan, in his prime, could be safely ranked with Walter Johnson, Ed Walsh ,and many other big leaguers who won fame on the diamond. And at this time, a time when he no longer graces the pitchers’ mound with regularity, he is still great. Today, after all these years in the service, he is still the greatest all around ball player among the Colored lads who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow on the diamond. He is master on the mound, a past-master at bat and hard to beat on the infied or outfield. The success of the Monarchs is his success—and Rogan loves success. Count on this fellow Rogan to deliver the flag to you fans this season. Count on him and his mates and your faith will be well founded. Turn out to see him battle for you and the name of your city and you will have done much to add fame to your race and city.

QUINCY J. GILMORE Secretary of the Kansas City [Mon]archs, Secretary and Treasure[r] [of] the Negro National League Mr. Gilmore has been a resi[dent] of this city for the past four years. He enjoys an acquain[tance] rarely equalled by any one. [He has] been connected with the Kans[as City] Monarchs baseball club ever the league was organized i[n] [?] city the winter of 1919. Mr. Gilmore was for a nu[mber of] years connected with the W[?] Bros. undertaking company. [He has] for a number of years been [?] undertaking business in the c[ities of] Chicago and Denver. He was bom in Chillicothe, [Missouri?]

Prominent Elk Leader Fraternal America knows [?] [Gil]more well. He is one of th[e] [na]tion's most prominent Elk[s.] [He has] been connected with the El[ks] the past 26 years and has bee[n] [hon]ored by being elected to sev[eral of] the Grand Lodge positions. [?] the past exalted ruler of M[?] Lodge of Denver, Colo. He [?]ized Lake City Lodge of Ga[ry,] [In]diana, and was its first exalt[ed] [rul]er.

Organizes Local Elks in [?] With the assistance of sev[eral loc]al citizens he organized M[?] Lodge of Elks in May 1919, [?] less than six months went to [?]tic City and secured the [?] Lodge of Elks for this city. He is again at the head [?] local Elks whose membershi[p] doubled in the past six mont[hs] [?] is fostering the movement t[o] the National Grand Lodge of this city next year. He will [?] delegation of more than 500 [?] their bands to Chicago in A[?] He is a member of the. Bea[u Brum]mel club and holds member[ships in] the leading clubs of the count[ry.]

In Charge of League Headq[uarters] Ever since the illness of th[?] Rube Foster, Mr. Gilmore ha[s] charge of the Negro National [?] headquarters and it was th[rough] him that this city was select[ed] the headquarters for the leagu[?.] It was also through the eff[orts of] Mr. Gilmore that the Eastern [?] and the Negro National leag[ue en]tered into an agreement to Colored World Series at the e[nd of] each season. Q. J. is known all over the [?] as one of the bright spots [in the] game and his work with the [?] stands out as one of the [?] achievements made in the pro[motion] of the game among the race.

Welcome Home After Long Road Trip WELCOME BACK HOME, MONARCHS AFTER A LONG HARD ROAD TRIP. Lo, the conquering heroes! Which in other words answers the same purpose of welcome Monarchs, welcome! Yours has been a hard and terrible battle-that long road trip, but you come back to us — VICTORIOUS! You have proven by your road trip record that you are really MONARCHS OF ALL YOU SURVEY — and we salute you hearty athletes of the diamond. Yours is a well earned victory, but rest not upon the laurels won abroad for there is yet much work to be attended to here at home. Remember Memphis — LET'S KNOCK THE SOCKS OFF THE RED SOX! LETS GO!

[page 56] “PROGRESS” EDITION CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 19[28]

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