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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Negro Business and Professional Directory Of
Greater Kansas City

OACotCA hduSdS lily
perm months $500 a year; lest han one cent q day.. IAN you beat IL? To secure nae
call Sun ofne.B Bell phone 800 East or see oura gent)
BARBECUE.
r. w. ALEXANDER, 1919 East 18th street. Bell phone 3062W. Free
delivery.
CLEANERS, OVERS AND TAILoRS.
0. K. CLEANERS AND OVERS, guarantee not to shrink any gar
ment they dye. 113 East 18th street. Bell phone, Grand 2437.
FLORISTS.
WEAVER FLORAL co, Flowers for all occasions. Funeral designs
Homes, churches and halls decorated. 1910 f. 18th street. Bell
phone 479S East, Home phone 7555M.
GROCERIES.
COTTAGE GROCERY, 121 westport Ave, Rosedale, Kas. Rev. S. A.
Anderson, proprietor.
LAWYERS.
G. H. GALLOWAY, COL Delaware, Home phone MSS. Practices in
all courts.
w. G. HUEsToN, COL Delaware, Home phone M58. Legal advice.
Practices in all courts.
PHYSICIANS.
DR.. R. J. LAMBERT, Theraptics, P. o. box GOA, Bell phone, RosedaIe
53, Rosedale, KaS.
REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT.
AFRO AMERICAN REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT co, Help fur
nished. 81 McGee street.
Bell Phone ISL Main. Home Phone 1855 Main.
MILLINERY.
NINE. STELLA HUBBARD, latest things in hats. Old hats made
ned. 1910 East 18th street. Bell phone E. 479S.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

The funeral of Mrs. Florence Mar
tin, $50 Rowland avenue, was held
at the home, the Rev. G. E. Horsey
officiating. He paid a high tribute to
her memory. The services were held
under the auspices of Primrose Tab
e%rnacle, Kansas City, Mo-, and Pearly
Gate Temple, S. NJ. T., Kansas City,
Kas. The resolutions from the church
by Rev. G. E. Horsey, from class No.
IL, by Mrs. NJ. E. Glover and the
lodges and resolutions we're all very
fine. Floral offerings were beautiful
The body was shipped to Memphis
Tenn, accompanied by the husband,
where they were met by her sisters
and hosts of friends. The funeral
was at the A. NJ. E. church. Rev. c.
c. Thomas officiated. Interment was
in Zion cemetery.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

= = .
" Drop in at C. A. FrankIin's Print
' shop and see how his work is
= counted. Then you will know
. one eason why he can do your
= printing satisfactory. 1908 East
. 18th street, ear Troost. Bell :
> phone, Grand 2989.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

The City Federation of Art clubs
met at the Y. w. c. A. April 90 and
held the election of officers, as fol-
lows; Mrs. Mayme Jenkins, presi-
dent; Mrs. Maud Brooks, first vice
president; Mrs. Davies, second vice
president; Mrs. Ursa Perkins, secre-
tary; Mrs. Crump, treasurer.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

Mr., Thomas Hayes, 247 Poplar ave-
nue., e r Fourth street, Memphis,
Tenn, undertaken and embalmer, who
has been in business there for thirty
years, writes that the body and cas-
ket of Mrs. Florence Martin was in
the finest condition of any body that
has ever been shipped to him.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
NOTICE.

Again Songs of the Seasons" is
postponed another week.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

Mrs. James Edmond, 443 Freeman
avenue, left the 4th for Chicago to
~recuperate after undergoing a serious
operation. She will be the house
guest of her sister, Mrs. Joe Carter
and Mr.. Carter, and also her brother
and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Taylor.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
VOmel's Club Notes

The Ladies' coterie will give
their first exhibit Monday even
Ing, May IL, at Lyric Hall.
Dancing from 500 to 1900.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

your name. business. address and telephone carried in this di
call Sun Office. Bell phone 99 East, or see our AGENT
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

The Twin City Baptist Ministerial
Alliance of the two Kansas Cities will
conduct a weeks service at the High
land Avenue Baptist church, lib
Highland avenue, commencing Monday
| night. Nav 10. 1915
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
EU0ENIST'S VIEW OF WAR

While those whose. sympathies are
keen already are thinking Of the
human losses of the European war,
eugenists are pointing, not only to
the possible character of those chill
dren yet to be born, but to the tre-
mendous loss of those who never will
be born at all.
According to G. Stanley Hall, a
child psychologist alive to the value
Of child life, the "baby crop" of Eu-
rope has been lessened by 5000 or
1000 day by the war. Here is a
waste that cannot be reckoned in
economic terms. 1t cannot be
gagged at all. 1t is proitless to
speculate about the unknown. But
one cannot help wondering how
many Goethes, or Schillers, or
4 Curies, or Hegels, or Wagners might
have been included among this hu-
man output now being lost to
civilization.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
BE KIND TO YOUR HORSE

The Boston Work Horse Relief
Association, which, by the way, is a
most efficient organization, has is
sued its annual hot weather rules
for the care of horses. Not many
horse owners are willfully incon-
siderate of their animals during the
hot weather, but ignorance or disre-
gard does not lessen the suffering of
the faithful beasts. We are glad to
print at the request of the associs-
ton simple rules which, if obeyed,
will be of value to the owners and
of relief to the horses:
/. Load lightly, and drive slowly.
2. Stop in the shade If possible
3. Water your horse IS often as pos
sible while he is working. Do not
has eaten.
4 When he comes in after work.
sponge off the harness marks and
sweat, his eyes. his nose and mouth,
and the dock. Wash his feet but not
his legs.
8. If the thermometer Is rs degrees or
higher, wipe him all over with a damp
sponge. Use vinegar water If possible
Do not turn the hose on him.
6. Do not use a horse hat, unless It
is a canopy-top hat. The ordinary
good
l. A sponge on top of the head, or
even a~etoth. is. good if kept wet If
dry 1t Is worse than nothing.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
UNCLE SANS HELPS

Educators are keenly alive to the
practical and useful service per-
formed by the United States Bureau
of Education. The first in a series
of Summer school letters" which
contains a hist of the more popular
publications of the bureau, indi-
Gates the part the bureau is playing
in the dissemination of knowledge
upon child teaching and child well
fare among schoolma sters.
But a glance over the list will
show a number of bulletins, to be
had free of cost, which are of great
interest to the layman, and espe-
cially to the parent. You don't
know your boys aptitudes 1t is
entirely probable that the sugges-
tions Of Meyer Bloomfield, one of
the country's foremost vocational
experts, contained in "The School
and the Start in Life" might help
you. Vocational Guidance" too,
might prove interesting reading for
you.
Perhaps your child has reached
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
WAShIN0TON'S BUILDING
RECORD

Building construction is one Of the
surest barometers of community's
prosperity. While building in 90 Of
122 principal cities of the United
States either showed no gain or an
actual falling off this June, as COM
pared with last June, Washington
reports gain of 21 per cent over
building operations this time last
year.
OF the go cities not showing an
increase II experienced positive
decline. Of the thirty cities which,
like Washington, reported gains,
some, like New Britain, Conn.,, Pat
erson, N. j., New Haven, Conn.,,
Syracuse, N. Y, could be accounted
for by the additions to factories in
cident to a boom in products mostly
in demand because of temporary
conditions created by the war.
Washington's increase is not Of
that sort. The building now going
on in Washington is the sort that
goes on regularly, year after year,
in response to a wholesome business
development, and a regular influx
of new residents.
It is a favorite, and untrue, bro
mide that Washington is not a busi-
ness center. Within it's scope busi-
ness activities here are active, and
because they are not affected so
much by fluctuations which occur
elsewhere, the safe and conservative
investor is attracted here. In the
midst Of the business flurries that
have troubled other cities, and which
have caused decreases in building
operations in New York, Chicago,
Boston, and practically every other
large city except Philadelphia,
Washington has kept on it's normal
and steady course of development.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
ATTACK IMPEDES SETTLEMENT.

The attack on the Orduna. however.
was evidently much similar to the sue
crseful one on the Lusitania. That tht
Orduna escaped Is remarkable. The tor
pedo is said to have come within a few
feet Of her bow. and she was chased by
the U-boat.
The impression created here BY such
an attack is decidedly unfavorable and
seriously impedes a settlement Of the
present controversy between the
Kaiser's government and the United
States.
1t has been taken for granted here
that the next note will be the last to
be addressed by the United States to
Germany in at least this stage Of the
submarine correspondence. The note
itself. it Is asserted. must contain a
certain tone of finalitv which will make
1t quite clear to the German govern
ment that this Government does not
think 1t worth while to discuss the mat
ter further until Germany Is prepared to
meet the demands that she has thus
far ignored.
1t is also thought probable that the
note will give some hint as to what
action this Government would take in
the event Of another attack on Amer
ican lives. Now that another attack.
even though unsuccessful. is reported to
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
r. ROSS PERRY

The regret with which Washing
ton heard Of the death of R. Ross
Perry was universal. Like many
another member of his profession he
was the victim Of overwork for
others, Of overexertion for those
whose causes he made his own. A
Washingtonian by birth he had de-
voted his entire life to the inter-
ests of the city and it's people. Emil
nent in his profession he was not
less known as a citizen of high
ideals. He was identified with the
business interest of the community
in many resultful ways and contrib
uted of both time and money to its
advancement. Respected for his abil-
ity, trusted for his integrity, ad-
mired for his personal charm and
fellowship, he will be missed by all
who bore relations to him during a
long and successful career.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18

the mountain climber finds harder
tasks awaiting him in the great
Northwest than in the Alps; that
the springs at a hundred resorts are
as good or better than the waters at
the more expensive "cures" on the
Continent--how is a man going to de-
eide where to go? Books and fold
ers multiply the problem and word
of mouth Endorsements increase the
perplexity. Americans are in the
situation Of the hungry boy at the
bountiful table who remained hungry
because he couldn't make up his
mind what to eat first. There are
some disadvantages in a vacation: it
is so much Of strain on the mental
center of decision.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
EDUCATION IN STATISTICS

Some extraordinarily interesting
figures are coming from Editor
Ryan Of the Federal Bureau of Edu-
cation. There were in 1914 $4,000, 900
pupils enrolled in the country's edu-
cational institutions and the expense
attached to instructing them was
$750,000,000. This seems like a con-
siderable sum, but comparison dwin-
dies it before ones eyes. 1t is $780,
000, 900 less than the cost of running
the Government; it is less than one
third the expenditures for alcoholic
liquors; it is only q little more than
three times as much as was spent
for admissions to moving picture
shows; it was only half the value
Of the years wheat crop, and fell
short of the value of the exports
from the port of New York by $780,
100000. What instructors received
for their labors, from the teacher
in the rural school to the principal
in the city building averages in the
public schools $7S per month for
men and $61 per month for women,
but there were plenty of cases found
where the teacher got not more than
a fifth Of the remuneration Of the
mail carrier who passed the school
house door and scarcely more than
the laborer in the adjoining field.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18

the kindergarten age. You have
heard vaguely of the Montessoii
system. "The Montessori Method
and the Kindergartens" would give
you accurate information about it.
Perchance you live in suburb
or in the country and think your
school might be improved. 'Elenen-
tary Rural Schools" would put you
in q position to discuss with intel
ligence improvements in your COM
munity's school.
Uncle Sam publishes, either free
or at a nominal cost, books which
the agents cannot surpass. Only
Uncle Sam does not employ sales
men. The community intelligence
needs to be awakened to the very
helpful information to be had from
various Government departments
right here in Washington.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
THE VACATION PROBLEM

One of the troubles of the "See
America First" movement is the diff
ficulty in deciding where to go.
There is such an embarrassment of
riches that one wastes the summer
deciding which of the wonders or
which of the beauties of his own
country he shall journey to. :.
To the annual visitor to Europe
there may be the fear that what he
sees here being better than what he
sees abroad, may dull his appetite
for and Guench his pleasure in things
foreign.
When one considers that Europe
offers nothing comparable to the
great canyons of the West; that the
Canadian Rockies are fifty Switzer-
lands rolled into one; that the blue
grotto at Capri is only a feeble imi-
tstion of the Caverns at Luray; that
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
PERHAPS A POEM..-SURELY
THE TRUTH

Love and war are great provokers
Of the muse. Occasionally they are
wooers. Once in a long time they
inspire a poem. Perhaps it is too
much to say that "The Five Souls"
is a poem, but at least it rhymes
and the feet march in unison. Most
Of all it expresses q truth and for
that reason it has a place here. Who
was it's author is untold because
unknown. Let it speak for itself.
was a peasant on a Polish plain.
sage ran:
Russia in danger. needed every man
To save her from the Teuton. was
gave my life for freedom. this I
For those who bade me tight had
told me so.
I was a Tyrolese. a mountaineer.
gladly. left my mountain home to
Against the brutal. treacherous Mus
kovite,
And died In Poland on a cossack's s
gave my life for freedom. this I
know,
For those who bade me fight had told
me so.
worked in Lyons at my weavers'
When suddenly a Prussian despot
hurled
His blow at France and at the world
And ] went forth to Belgium and my
doom
I gave my life for freedom. this I
know,
For those who bade me night had told
me so.
owned a vineyard by the wooded
plain
Until the Fatherland begirt by foes
Lusting her downfall called me and l
rose
Swift to the call and died in far
Lorraine. 50
| gave my life for freedom. this I
know,
For those who bade me fight had told
me 30.
Clyde.
There came a sudden word of war
declared,
or Belsium-peacetul. helpless. un-
prepared
Asking our aid. Joined the ranks
and died.
I gave my life for freedom. this ]
know.
For those who bsds me night had told
ne %.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18

have occurred. II IL generally consider
ed that II is imperative that the note
should contain this hint.
Strong Case Against Berlin
The reported attack on the Orduna in
itself 10 regarded a. constituting the
strongSst kind Of a case against Ger.
many. It u now believed probable that
tho newt note may refer to the orduna
incident as indicating the unwarrantsd
menace to which tho United States con-
sidsrS Germany Is exposing Americans
and just1fytn< all that the United states
has said to Germany. =
What is regarded al the particularly
agsrasating feature Of the Orduna case
as reported Is that the vessel was not
carrying contratand to England. but
%as outward bound from Liverpool to
the United States. In other words. II
Is felt .here that had, the attack proved
successful, Germany never could have
ATTEMPTED to Justify 1t on the ground
that she was saving the lives Of Ger
man soldiers by destroying ammunition
destined for the enemy; she could not
cl aree Americans with shielding cargoes
Of contraband Of war.
The reported attack on the Orduna
must be REGARDED. It is declared here, as
nothing less than an attempt simply. to
destroy British property and without
any regard for the lives Of neutrals and
honc ombatants on board. .,
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
OUR AEROpLANE DEFIC IENcY

Three aeroplanes in the, United
States navy, half dozen more in
the army, the army aviators using q
private aerodrome through the cour-
tesy of Rudolph Spreckels-this is
the sorry condition of affairs dis
closed by the Aero Club Of America
in a letter which will be read on
Aerial Navigation Day at the San
Francisco fair.
In the development of the military
uses Of aeroplanes, the letter points
out, the country which gave the
heavier than air flier to the world is
far behind Switzerland and Morocco
and China. The half dozen naval
officers who hold aviators' licenses
never have maneuvered with the
fleet and "do not know what ships
and submarines look like from the
air." Our artillery never has prac-
ticed firing with aeroplane "spot-
ters." In a word, we, the inventors
of flying, have done almost nothing
toward developing its possibilities.
If the aviator today literally is the
eyes Of each army in the European
struggle our army is stone blind.
Happily the Aero Club believes
better days are coming. It thinks
Congress, with the terrible lessons
of Europe before it, cannot remain
deaf to appeals for more adequate
national defenses. In any plan for a
larger or better equipped army, or
for the upbuilding Of the navy, the
students Of the situation believe,
must be included the establishment
of an adequate aerial service.
The Aero Club estimates the cost
at $17,5OO,00O, divided into $780,
600 for the navy, $5,0oo,Ooo for the
army, and $5,C00,00O for the militia.
Events in Europe seem to prove that
an aeroplane, manipulated by a
capable aerial scout, may save q
division of an army from slaughter
or a battleship from destruction.
Considering the question in that
light, the estimate seems not to be
excessive.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
PATRIOTISM ABOVE PROFIT

John Hays Hammond, jr., whose
invention of radio wireless torpedo
is declared by experts to be the
greatest recent contribution to war
equipment, has refused to sell his
idea to any of the warning nations.
He declares on the other hand that
he will retain it's secret until his
own Government is ready to buy it
and that he will sell it then for
half the price he could get from a
European nation. Washington knows
the young man we'll and will ap-
plaud the patriotism which rises su-
perior to profit.
The Washington times., 1915-07-18

dozen men climbed on deck and began
to ADJUST one Of her guns.
Within minute the submarines gun
was trained upon the Orduna and a
Shell fell just astern. Two other shells
foil short. Tho Germans fired rap
idly. and six additional shells
sent UP their water spouts as the Or
duna plowed away to tho safety zzone.
The submarine. having failed both In
its underwater and surface attacks, was
rapidly outdtstanced and soon gave up
the chase. The attack and the es-
cape had occupied sixteen minutes, but
II seemed an hour to those aboard the
liner. who prepared to take to the life
Put on Life Belts.
When the torpedo first appeared the
passengers were awakened and wara.
ed to put on life belts. Many crowded
to the decks: a few became hysterical.
They were ordered below and all COM
piled with the order.
Wireless calls for help also were
Mashed as soon as 1t became known
that a submarine was near and had
attacked without warning. 1t was
four hours. however. before small
British armored yacht appeared.
The attack occurred thirty-seven
miles south Of Queenstown. and twen-
ty miles from the spot where the Lust
tania lies at the bottom OF the sea-
Protest to the American Government
will be made by at least one OF the
Americans on board, and possibly by
others. William o. Thompson, Of Chi
cago. counsel to the Federal Industrial
Relations Commission. who went
abroad In his official capacity in
March and was returning on the
Orduna to make his report. announced
he would submit the matter to WASH
ington.
To Make Formal Complaint.
II consider" said Thompson. that I
am in duty bound to make a report
Of the attack and protest against It.
As an American citizen employed in an
official capacity by the Government to
go abroad ! feel that I should bring
the Governments attention to the at
tack.
II felt that I had a right to return
homo on the Orduna, although she flies
the British nag, because she is a
passenger ship. The fact that she had
no munitions Of war aboard fortified
this opinion. The Orduna, an unarmed
passenger ship; carrying no munitions;
was deliberately attacked Withhold
warning. pursued and suhjsetsd 70 shsl
The Washington times., 1915-07-18
Saved From Sir1kingbv
Daring of Commander

A distance Of ten feet saved the liner
Orduna from destruction. prevented a
repetition Of the Lusitania tragedy. and
saved a situation which might have
plunged this country into war with Ger
many, or at least resulted In the break
Ing off Of diplomatic relations with the
Kaiser's government
BY so narrow a margin did a torpedo
miss the Orduna on the morning OF July
9, when a German submarine chased tho
New York bound vessel soon after she
left Liverpool Twenty-Five Americans
were aboard the vessel, which could
have carried no munitions for the allies
because she was bound for these neu-
trail shores
The story Of the attack upon the Or
duna, as told by her captain and pas
sengers, is one Of gripping realism. re-
veeling once more the stealthiness OF
sUhma rine attack and the constant dan
ger which lies in the path OF tho SEA
traveller
Torpedo the Only Warning.
The Cunard liner was sixteen hours
out of Liverpool en- route to New York
when she almost met the fate of the
Lrsitania 1t was early morning. few
minutes after o'clock, and most OF
the passengers were asleep in their
herths. Several early risers stood about
the decks. watching the glory OF sun
rise at sea and feeling as secure as
though they stood aboard a yacht on
Chesapeake Bay.
Suddenly the lookouts saw the white
wake of a torpedo. The few passen-
gers about also saw 1t. not realizing
for the moment what the ominous rip
ples Of the water meant. The tor
pedo plowed so elose to the ship that
its wake stirred beneath the overhans
of the vessel and against its steel
sides.
Only the officers realized what mar
row escape the ship had had. The
course Of the Orduna was suddenly
shifted. There was a moment OF sus-
pense as the chief engineer rushed to
the engines to crowd from them every
bit Of speed Of which the vessel was
capable.
Attack With Gun Fails.
No other torpedo came. but in about
eight minutes the periscope of a sub
marine was seen about three-quartere
of a mile or the Orduna's starboard
quarter. a direction opposite from which
the torpedo had come. The suomartne
rosa quickly 70 the surface and . hall