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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
We Desire 1000 New Subscribers DwQ January Will You Help Us

The Business League held delight
full meeting watch meeting night at
their headquarters, 1903 East 18th
street. After the routine of business
an elegant luncheon was served by
the following lady members Mrs. e.
A. Robinson and Mrs. Mary Mitchell
Those present were: Mrs. Tucker,
Miss E. p Washington, Edward Jones,
William Johnson, Marshall Wilson, &.
A. Starks, Ralph Wortham, ]. L. Will
liams, Sol Smith, r. Bennett, E. A.
Robinson, F. ]. Weaver, ]. A. Wilson,
n. c. Crews, w. NJ. Dabbs, c. Durliy,
Texarkana Mrs. F. ]. Weaver, Miss
Carr of Shawnee, Okla, Miss Lorene
Taswell. The league meets the first
and third Thursdays of every month.
Addresses we're made by Mr. Robt.
Bennett the tailor, 1910 East 18th and
William Dabbs.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
GREAT MASS MEETING.
With Earnest and Loyal Race
Men and Women.

Pointed and foroefuI speeches made
by Drs. c. w. Brown, Alex 5easley,
r. 3. Watkins, and N. c. Crews.
One of the most largely attended
and earnest Mass meetings ever held
in this city was that held at st. Steph-
ems Baptist church last Monday night
to protest against the assault of
Greek restaurant keepers upon Ne
groes and to raise funds for the pros
ecution of those Greeks who killed an
inoffensive old colored man in their
place of business two weeks ago, be-
cause he refused to pay for sand
wich he had not ordered. The meet
ing was presided over by Rev. ]. w.
Hurse, D. D., the intrepid and cour-
ageous pastor of st. Stephens and a
leader of his race who can always be
depended upon to come to the defense
of the prosecuted membrs of our race.
After a song and prayer, he intro
duced the various speakers who force
fully and vividly portrayed the crimes
committed and urged upon their fell
lowmen the necessity of assisting in
movements of this kind and to keep
out of these places where they are
subjected to insult and injury. Indig-
nation ran high and the consensus of
opinion was that the Negroes would
hereafter patronize places conducted
by their own people and let the Greeks
severely alone. At the close of the
addresses, the collection of $4,000
was raised which DR.. Hurse hopes to
increase to $4,000 to be used in OBJ
tanning the services of a capable Ne
gro Attorney to assist the prosecution,
to hunt up the witnesses and to assist
in seeing that justice is meted out to
the murderers. 1t is movements like
these that bring the colored people
together and demonstrate to them the
necessity of racial adhesion if we
would attain our rights as American
citizens.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09

Western University.
acter and in some respects decidedly
novel. Under the direction of Capt.
Smith, the band gave a good account
of itself, playing with much enthusi-
asm and considerable finish.
A Master.
Capt. Smith gave evidence of being
thoroughly routined musician and
conducted his forces with an ease and
freedom from gesticulative excess
that might well be initiated by some
of his Anglo-Saxon compatriots. He
is deserving of special praise for the
clever way in which he has utilized
some of the old plantation songs for
thematic material, building round
them composition that showed real
feeling for effective scoring. 1t was
happy thought that led the director
to have the quartet preface each num-
Der of the Folk-Melody Suite with a
vocal rendition of the song selected
for the theme,
Glee Club Pleases.
THE Glee Club, in turn, gave some
of the newer plantation melodies, in
which sound philosophy, quantity
harmonized, predominated, and while
proved so much to the liking of the
audience that an encore was vocifer-
ously demanded and graciously accord
ed. We have always maintained that
there is an elusive timbre in the
singing of the negro that is as beauti-
bul as unusual. and in this respect the
vocal part of last nights progrem was
especially pleasing. Singing with Gus
tomary abandon and enjoyment melo-
dies of the haunting beauty that
Dvorak immortalized in his New
World Symphony" the club threw over
the audience spell of the south that
was only dispersed when one deliber-
ately opened his eyes and saw that
he was in the confines of Festival
hall.
More Concerts Wanted.
Concerts such as this~one was are
given all too seldom and it is to be
hoped that efforts will be made to
make the visits of such organizations
oftener than enthusiastically"
Captain Smith is the author and
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
"THAT's GOOD"
By R. F. Green

Tennyson or Longfellow could
take a worthless sheet of paper
with a poem on it and make it
worth $4,000.
That's genius.
Rockefeller can write a few
lines on sheet of poper and
make it worth $5,O0O,OOO.
That's capital.
The United States can take
n ounce and a quarter of gold,
mp upon it an eagle bird and
make it worth 500.
That's money.
A mechanic can take material
worth $500 and make it into
watch springs worth $1,000.
That skill.
When you go into a Negro's
store and ask for an article tenn
porarily out of stock and go
away denOunclng race enterprise
That's ignorance.
If we would spend our nickles
and dimes among our own race
and have a little more conf
dence, patience and be more 10y
al to race enterprises, we would
be respected, protected and
counterously treated by all other
races.
That's common sense.
Do not believe him who claims
to be loyal to his race and fails
to patronize race enterprise, for
That's gall.
Do not practice nor teach ig-
noring Negro pictures, books
and literature that should be in
your homes for that of another
race, for
That's a mistake.
A copy of the Kansas City
Sun should be in the home of
every Negro family of Kansas
City.
That's a fact.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09

2 Rev. Sister Pearl is at home again
after spending many weeks at Hot
Springs, Ark. She has been touring
the East, visiting Cincinnati, Philadel-
phia and Cleveland, o., and many
other Eastern cities. Rest and recrea-
tion were the chief purposes of her
tour. She reports having done much
good work for the Master, especially
in Cincinnati, o. Rev. Sister Pearl
wishes to see her many friends at
home, 31O1 East Sixteenth street Bell
phone East 1867.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
DR.. WASHINGTON SPEAKS.
Let Every Negro Organization oe
Busy

Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
F. j. Weaver, president.
Negro Business League.
Kansas City, Mo.
Hope you and friends there through
organizations and by individuals will
bring influences at once to bear upon
members of congress to defeat Afri-
can exclusion bill in conference be-
tween house and senate committees.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
Note.-At largely attended meet
ing of the league last night resolutions
were drafted and sent to the Presi-
dent, and also to Congressman Mann,
protesting against the passage of this
unjust legislation.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09

Why is it so many Christians dread
or refuse to go to an unconverted per-
their Savious? 1t is a pleasure to sit
in Allen Chapel and watch the splen-
did work done at every service by Mrs.
A. B. Robinson one of the dea-
conesses of that church. Invariably
she goes to some man or woman and
with her convincing argument leads
them to the altar. If Allen chapel
had a few more earnest, courageous
workers like her, it could take this
city to Christ.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
CLOTHING FOR SALE.

Big Bargains in Size SO Clothing For
Sale.
Navy blue broadcloth suit. .....,. $500
Cream broadcioth party dress. $500
Very fancy white serge suit
with beautiful lace waist. '$12.oo
Swell gray broadcloth party coat
SILK lined throughout. ..... $500
Party dresS, flowered silk ehif-
Bell Phone East 1850.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
THE LYNcHINe RECORD FOR 1914

THE LYNcHING RECORD FOR 1914.
Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Dec. 81,
1914.-Ifind according to records kept
by the Department of Records and Re-
search of the Tuskegee Institute that
during the year that has just passed
52 persons were put to death by mobs.
OF this number 49 were colored and 8
were white. The number of persons
lynched in 1914 was apparently the
same as for 1913 and is the smallest
number for g year since records Of
lynchings have been kept.
Although the number of lynchings
has not increased. there appears to
be an increasing tendency to lynch for
any cause, however trivial, and also
to disregard sex. OF the 90 persons
lynched in the. past year only seven,
or 13 per cent, two white and five col
ored, were charged with rape. Three
of those lynched were women. One
years old, and was charged with kill
ing a man who, it was reported, had
raped her. Another of the women
lynched was accused of beating child
to death; while the third women and
her husband were charged with
setting fire to barn. In the presence
of their four-year-old child they were
put to death.
The crimes charged against the per
sons killed were: murder, 10; robbery
and murder, g. robbery and attempted
murder, /; suspected of murder, l.;
rape, G; attempted rape, 1; killing an
officer, 5 wounding officer, | murder
Gus assault, 3; alleged murderous as
sault,1 biting off mans chin, /; ac-
cused of wounding a person, l; killing
person in quarrel, A. beating child to
death, / trying to force way into
woman's room, i; stealing shoes, |;
stealing mules, l; setting fire to a
barn 2; assisting man to escape who
had wounded another; L.; being found
under a house, 1. I
| find that lynchings occurred dur
ing the year in fifteen States as fol
lows: Alabama, 2; Arkansas, /; Flor
ida, A Georgia, 2; Louisina, II, Mis-
sissippi, 12; Missouri, l; New Mexico
l.; North Dakota, 1 North Carolina
L. Oklahoma, 3; oregon, /; South
Carolina 4 Tennessee, /; Texas. g.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
spinsarn Reception; Band Conc

spinearn Reception; Band Conc
Monday, January IS, in the
auditorium of the y. M. c.
building on Paseo, Prof. ]. SIN
parn of New Abolition" fame will
speak. Capt. N. Clark Smith of
Western University former mu-
sical director of the touring Tus-
kegeans), will introduce his now
w. U. band in q concert before the
= reception. Concert beginning at
I" $3.50 p. m. All given under the aus
. pices of the aNtional Association
for the Advancement of Colored
" People. Admission free.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09

We will send the Sun for 1915 to
any address In the United States for
S1.oo, II ordered now and accompanied
by the eash.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
TuskEeEE NEGRO CONFERENCE.


Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.-The
annual Tuskegee Negro Conference
will be held at Tuskegee Institute,
Alabama, Wednesday, January 90,
1915. In addition to the meeting in
the Institute Chapel an Agricultural
Parade, to start from Millbank. Agri-
cultural Building at ten o'clock, will
feature possibilities of agriculture as
carried on by the Tuskegee Institute,
and the Farm Demonstration work of
the National Government A series of
contrasts will indicate the agriculture
of the past with the present. A be-
ginning in this direction was made
last year but the parade for 1915
promises to be more thoroughly in
structive and will include many fea-
lures not included in last years pa
rade.
The Conference program has been
arranged with special reference to as
sisting the Negro farmers to get in
position so that they can best CO.
operate with the agencies which are
working to improve farming and fl
naneial conditions in the South,
The Workers Conference.
The workers Conference is to be
held Thursday, January 21st. The
subject selected for discussion is;
The Schools and the Hard Times -
situation.
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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09

Pointed and foreefuI speeches made
by Drs. G. w. Brown, Alex 8easley,
r. B. Watkins, and N. c. Crews.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02
CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE

had not told Dick about my decis.
ion to invest the six thousand dol.
lars OF Aunt Mary's money in munic.
ipal bonds. In fact, we had not men.
toned the matter.
know that we had both steered
clear Of the subject because we each
had an instructive fear that we would
not agree on its investment and dis
posal.
After my talk with Mr.. Selwin l
Realized that Dick thought he was
going to be the one 10 invest that
money, but, little book, may as well
confess to you that to let him do this
was the very last thing ! intended to
do.
What l wanted to see Dick for was
to see IL the money had as yet been
placed in my name. The will had
been probated and wanted to know
II the provisions had been carried
out.
According to Aunt Mary's will, Dick,
Jim and are executors. Nothing had
been said to me about the settling,
but ! thought II ] could get hold Of
Dick we might fix up things that
morning.
Mr.. Selwin told me that Dick was
out OF town. He looked surprised
when l was asked about him. did
you think he would be back this
morning." he asked. II am sure he
will not come before tonight"
/ said something about misunder.
standing Dick, for did not want to
tell MIR. Selwin that he had not told
me he was going out OF town or that
he had stayed out all night SO fire.
quently OF late, that was not sure he
was out or In town. However, hunt
ed up Jim, to ask II there was any
way could get that six thousand
dollars.
you see, Jim, the man must have
the money today. He doesn't want
to borrow the money at the bank
because he owes them SO much mo-
ney now that he is afraid II they know
he has this collateral they will make
him sign II over to them as security
for his notes"
"Margie. Margie, you are helping a
man defraud his creditors. Who is
he and how did you come to know
him."
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er sell his bonds than put another
mortgage on his building which was
paying very well and would in time
allow him to pay back his indebted.
ness at the bank.
I'll tell you what I'll do. Margie,
Ill let you have that money until you
get it from the estate"
l presume; little book, that It was
not the thing for me TO do, but why
should my sex preclude me from &C.
cepting this loan from Jim. Dick
would not have hesitated. took the
money and gave Jim my note for
thirty days with six per cent interest.
! am satisfied that good old Jim did
not think any more OF 1T than | did.
After he had gone TO the bank and
gotten the money for met was he,
not !, who suggested that had bet.
ter have the CASH. spoke to him
about Niollie.
yes" he said. ~ was and am In
love with Mollie-so much SO that
want her 10 be happy at any expense
TO myself-Hatton is a splendid fel.
low. He had q much better chance
than either Sullivan or |. His story
OF 1t would appeal to young girls
pity and usually the distance be.
tween a sad look and look of sym.
pathy leads TO love.
81 guess, Margie, I'll just stay an
old bachelor and beau all my friends
wives around when their husbands
neglect them" he said with a quis.
ical smile behind which / felt he gave
me a rather keen, look.
How much do you suppose he knows
about Dick, little book? Probably
much more than do. A mans men
friends always know more about his
peccadillows than does his wife.
But can see that Jim is more cut
up about Mollie than he would have
me think. l believe 1t hurts mans
pride more than anything else to be
refused by woman. Most men seem
to think they are irresistible, whether
they offer love legitimately or illegiti-
mately.
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has guided them In their plans. l say
that yonder coin is bewitched and al.
ways fights for Gretzhoffen and not
for u.s."
Tho chase went on. and now under
such curious relations as left the three
vessels of the surface. OF the subsurf-
AGO and OF the air. drifting along, none
taking the offensive.
But though the giant air craft fol.
lowed close. seeming ever to hold the
yacht at its mercy, It made no often.
sive movement; It seemed rather to
shelter than to menace the fleeing
vessel which steamed on so calamity.
And In the rear OF both. helpless, i'm
potent, with speed and naught but
speed at its disposal, came the sub
marine Of Cortislaw and his noble
man. Thus neither Of the three could
or would hurt another.
But Sachio's guess had been right.
The governing influence in Gsetzhof.
fell affairs scarce was SO much req.
son as instinct, intuition-a woman's
intuition. For he had been right-a
woman was aloft. yonder with the
pilot OF the air craft,
1T is a curious chase. mademoi.
selle." said Count Frederick, turning
to the companion at his side and
speaking so that his voice could be
heard above the loud drone Of the en-
gines. What have We gained? What
do we kncw?"
Continued Monday.1
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02

LONG BEACH, Cal, Oct. Yes,
they fall in love, sigh, lose their ap.
petites, like pickles" get jealous,
have spats and make up and finally
get happily married, Just like ordi-
nary folks, these moving picture
princes and queens!
In fact, this has happened so fire..
quently around the big alboa studios
here that the management Is consid.
ering hanging this sort OF warning
on<the doors:
"All crusty, selfish players, atten-
ton! II you are afraid OF double har.
ness you are hereby warned against
getting on the payroll OF this com.
pany, as there is no guarantee OF i'm.
munity from matrimony given with a
job"
The idea budded into a resolve a
few days ago when 1.-THE boss" was
invited to bestow his blessing and his
smiles upon four hearts that decided
TO beat as two. They we're:
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02

Lillian West and Edwin ]. Brady,
both "heavies," and now Mr.. and Mrs.
Brady; Ethel Fleming, ingenue, and
VIM. Courtleigh Jr., star in the Neal
of the Navy" series, now Mr.. and Mrs.
courtleigh, Jr.
Ninety days ago the two girls came
TO Long Beach from New York to go
into pictures. They had, been pals
in the show business for six years and
both had vowed 10 each other TO shun
what they called the pitfalls of mat
rimony.
But those two are the brides In the
double wedlock program, which is
causing such a stir in the Long Beach
film world today.
And now the question is: "Who
will marry next at Balboa?" Every.
one, still single. is under suspicion,
and subject to the daily morning cat
echism, Were you married yester-
day."
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81 can't tell you, but think
If he can get this money he will work
out and pay everybody" l could not
tell him that It was the owner OF the
apartment house who had come to
me knowing had this money let me.
The mortgage was due on.the apart
ment and he did not have the money
to pay it. He thought he would rath.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02
To Remove In.ee. In Ear.

II an insect gets into persons ear
the person should lie down at once
on the opposite side and have the az.
fected ear filled up with sweet olive
oil, which will probably kill the insect
and cause 1t to float re the part OF
the ear where it can be picked out.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02

She's the only member OF the An.
glo.French "billion.dollar loan" com.
mission now in America who. isn't the
least bit interested in finance. She's
the only woman travelling with the
commission and she's more interested
In American shops than American
banks. She's travelling companion to
her father. Sir Edward Hopkinson
Holden Of the commission.
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lish.Italian driver who has won fame
in this country, must suffer.
Mrs. Resta's own brother, young
Spencer Wishart, was killed in a race
at Elgin, Ill, two years ago. Yet.
a few months Ater the sister eloped
with Dario Resta.
81 just pray that fate will be kind
TO Dario." she says. "and, of course,
! can do nothing but trust In it."
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02
Former Pastor Will
Preach at Temple

Dr.. G. E. Wilbur, of Pittsburgh, a
former pastor Of the Methodist Epis.
copal Temple, in this city, will &C.
cupy the pulpit Of this church at both
services tomorrow. DR.. Wilbur is
editor OF the Sunday School publica.
tons Of the denomination. DR.. vii.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02
HE TIL HINTS
SEALED HOMES.

.| Nl11 :
1t once was customary at about this
time OF the year 70 anil down win.
dows, bank the house about with
straw and otherwise exert every an
genuity to hermetically seal IL.
These sealed homes housed six or
eight persons through the winter.
These persons breathed the same aid
over and over again-and air is not
only exhausted in consequences 81
much breathing and rebreathing. but
also made nauseatingF by coal gases,
fumes from the cook stove and human.
exhalations.
Those who lived in the sealed
homes generally suffered from head.
aches, ruined digestion and other
numerous ailments, wondering why
they should be thus afflicted.
Probably these sealed homes are
one cause OF the many ills that coun,
try people suffer: for It unfortunatels
Is true that many country homes still
are sealed with the coming Of cold
weather.
City. homes are not usually thus
closed. However. at this time OF the
year many persons replace theiI
screens with storm windows and 81.
perheat the atmosphere In which they
live.
1t is advised. therefore, that the
sealed house" be avoided, In the IN.
terests OF good health.
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lobe the wife Of man who earns
his living by driving a monster of a
racing car at a speed of 100 miles an
hour in automobile races and who
may lose his life any minute-how
would you like that for a domestic
career?
That's the ordeal Of fear that Mrs.
Dario sResta, wife of the famous Eng.
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Don't begin the winter with. a base
ment full or rubbish. Burn this rub.
bish during the first cool days Of
early fall-this sort of cleanliness
means better health In the home.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02

bur is well known in this city and
scores OF his friends will attend the
Temple tomorrow to hear his sermons.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02

imaginary discus as illustrated in the
accompanying picture by Americas
famous 1915 beauty, Kay LAUREL OF
"Ziegfeld's Follies."
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-10-02
RETuRNEp FROM TEXAS.

Miss verna Ksergan has returned 30
Fairmont after spendiig the summer
with her sister. Mrs. Charles schuck.
in Ell Paso, Texas.
Enroute here she spent few days
in Frostburg, Md, with her parents.
Miss Kergan is the primary teacher
in the Thoburn School and will re.
sumo her duties Monday.
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! 1t is advised. therefore. that the
sealed house. be avoided. in the In
terests Of good health.