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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-26
The Action of the Metropolitan Board in Dis
missing Secretary DeFrantz, Of the Paseo
Department Taken After Deliberate
Consideration.
THE ACTION OF THE BOARD Is FINAL
Says Chairman H. o. Cook Has Been Disturbing Factor
in Preserving Harmony Between the Paseo Branch
and the General Department.
SECRETARY FRANK A. HARRIS In CHARGE.

the DIRECTORS OF THE ASSoCiA-
TloN and that the only thing for the
Committee of Management to do
would be to submit list to the direc-
tors of all the men in the Organiza-
tion eligible to membership on this
Committee of Management.
Second Mr. Bishop said the Chair
man of the Department who is by
law constituted an advisory member
of the Board of Directors has never
availed himself of the opportunity or
performed his full duty by attending
the meetings of the directors. Sec
ton 10 of the Bylaws says That the
Secretary shall always notify not only
the Committee of Management but the
President and General Secretary of
the Association of all meetings of the
aforesaid Committee of Management.
This has not been done constituting
a wilful violation of the Bylaws.
Finally Mr.. Bishop called attention
to Article 4, Section 1 of the Articles
of Incorporation of the Young Mems
Christian Association which seems to
determine conclusively the powers of
! the Directors or Metropolitan Board.
Article reads as follows:
"Section 1. The Directors shall have
the power to establish or disband de-
partments or branches of the Associa.
tion in various parts of the city; shall
make rules for their government and
APPOINT AND REMOVE Commit
tees of Management for the same"
With these indisputable facts a
great many men of the Association be
lieve that General Secretary BishoI
was only performing his duty in call
ing to halt the mismanagement (bu
possibly unintentionaD of the PaseC
| Department.
tive Secretary had been warned OF
several occasions of the unwisdom o.
some things that were done at the
Paseo branch but apparently to quote
him these warnings fell upon dea
ears" The Directors felt an unneces
sary expense had been created in the
installation of Three Chair Barber
Shop Wnen oniy one DarDer is EN-
ployed. They also felt it was a dis
tinct and flagrant violation not onl!
of Christian ethics but of the yer!
spirit of the Y. M. c. A. Organization
in installing a gas pump and thu
Board finally instructed Mr.. Bishol
to write letter, a copy of which ou
, representative saw but which 1--WE d.
not feel justified III reproducing with
out consent of all parties concerned
: which notified Secretary DeFrant
that unless the offending gas puml
, was Immediately removed the Boar,
I would take drastic action; and in re
ply to that letter one was receives
by the General Secretary saying tina
, the Committee of Management o
which Mr.. Cook is Chairman had OF
dered the installation of this gas puml
t and that it would not be removed uu
{ til that Committee had passed upol
} the matter regardless of the Mandat
) of either Mr.. Bishop or the Board o
t Directors.
n Upon receipt of this letter, anothe
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-26
KILLED NINE oFFsPRINGs BE.
CAUSE HER HUSBAND CAME
OF NEGRO BLOOD.

Columbus, Ohio.-Mrs. Alfred Cas-
tie, 29, arrested following the myster-
ious disappearance of her three-day-
old baby, confessed, police said, that
she had killed nine children born to
her because her husband has Negro
blood in his veins.
while l love my husband, despite
his race, cannot bear his children"
Mrs Castle said according to police.
"It would have killed me had any of
our little ones lived and turned
black"
II there ever was time when the
government, at least, ought to make
no distinctionbetween citizens on ac-
count of race, it is now, when, con-
fronted by the most difficult task of
its history, it is seeking the support
of its citizens to break down these
artificial barriers across the sea.
Play the game fair; don't use
marked cards" Don't further insult
and humiliate loyal Americans whose
only offense is that they are of an
other race than the majority. Make
no distinction except that between
loyal and disloyal. True patriotism
knows and recognizes no other.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-26
LINCOLN HIGH ALUMNI AsSocIA
TION.

Will meet Tuesday, May 29 at eight
p. m. at the Y. NJ. C. A. The presi-
dent, Prof w. E. Griffin, and the sew
enty members already registered
would be pleased to welcome all grad
yates of the school into the organiza-
tion. Come out as the final plans
must be made for the commencement
activities. 1t is necessary to know
the exact number who will take part.
MRS. ANNA B. SMITH,
Chairman Executive
Committee.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-26


No man in the public schools of
KANSAS City has lahored more earn
estly or Zealously to develop the
school system in this city than has
Thomas w. H. yW.iH,2Gis. the brilliant
Principal of the B. X. Bruce School at
18th and Jackson.
Prof. Williams has been teaching in
the Public Schools in this city longer
than any other man living except Prof
j. D. Bowser who is now teaching in
Quindaro, Kansas, and has probably
developed more boys and girls and fit
ted them out for higher training and
life of usefulness than any other
man in our Public School System.
Prof Williams began his career as
a teacher in 1882 at the old Sumner
School where he taught for nine con-
secutive years from which place he
was transferred to the old Phillips
School. At the time he began teach
ing there were but two COlored
Schools in this city and he assisted
much in securing the buildings which
now stand as the Sumner and the
Wendell Phillips Schools Mr. Will
liams has always been an organizer
of new schools, having organized the
Bruce School, where he is now Prin-
cipal, nineteen years ago, September,
1898, where he has since been. He
organized the Attucks School in 1893
at 18th and Garfield, and did much
effective Work with D. V. A. Nero in
the organization of the first High
| School in this city, now the Lincoln
High School.
Prof. Williams is a high class, in
| tellectual, Christian gentleman whose
name has never been mixed up in any
scandal in all the years he has taught
and who stands as synonym of that
| sturdy manhood, clean living and de-
votion to duty that not only makes
for racial integrity but adds to the
glory of the splendid school system
of this city of which he is an integral
part.
| For II years he taught at Bruce
School without Vocational Work OF
any kind which was unquestionably a
hindrance TO the progress and devel
| opment of the School but by persis
tent effort he secured the ear of his
| superior officers and finally secured
two Annex Buildings one for Domes'
tic Science demonstration and the
other for manual training.
| In 1916 when the limited number
of children threatened to cause the
closing of one of the rooms in his
building, Williams, assisted by Rev
Mr.. Arnett, secured the leasing of two
large brick flats on Kensington ave
nue. to Colored people and they spent
the entire vacation period in filling
them with respectable Colored fam
lilies and by the opening of the Schoo
season had added fifty families to the
School district with more than lot
children whoSwere entered in Bruce
School,
Prof Williams has not only beer
Jealous worker in behalf of the
Schools but he has urged thrift, in
dustry, and home buying upon his peo
pie throughout the city. He is a Ma
son of high degree and was one O
the original Board that purchased tn
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-26
PHILADELPHIA HAS 2s7 POLICE.
MEN OF RACE,

Philadelphia, Pa.-An examination
for patrolmen in the Bureau of Police
will take place on June IS in the Civil
service rooms at the City hall. This
examination provides for twenty-six
separate tests. Councils have provid-
ed for the appointment of 500 new po-
lice. We now have PSI Negro police.
men.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-26

Dr. L. L. Shelton, 2432 Vine Street,
announces to his many friends and
patrons that he will be absent from
the city for about three weeks on a
visit to his parents, oeeasioned by the
III health of his father.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-26
LECTURE.

Prof. Lewis d. Moore, Phi. D., Dean
of Teachers College, Howard Univer-
sity, Washington. d. c., will deliver
a lecture, THE New Science of Matri,
mony," at Allen Chapel, Wednesday
evening, May 30. The admission is
10 cents
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-26
Kills Her S Children

splendid property owned by the Ma
sonic fraternity at 18th and Woodland
at at 14th and Vine streets. He has
done much for the various Churches
of all denominations in this city and
more useful man substantial citizen
and capable teacher would be hard to
find.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-26

Zatella Turner, 1888 Freeman
avenue, Kansas City, Kas., a 12-
year-old pupil in the 7th grade
at Douglas School, won the
$1,000 prize offered by the Metro
politan Street Railway Co., for
the best original essay on "Safe-
ty First" over all the other 7th
grade pupils in the city, white
and Colored.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
Deserts Are Disappearing
Before March of Progress.

At the present time there are many
young Australians who are reaping
good crops from areas which were
marked on the maps as deserts" when
these young fellows went to school in
Australia in fact, some of the most
prosperous districts were not long ago
shown on the school maps as deserts"
or uninhabited spaces, but as settle
ment has pushed on, and the landseek-
er has had to go farther for his Sc
lection, these blanks have been filled
with prosperous settlements.
Thriving towns are growing here and
there, and, instead of being shown as
deserts" the school children in Aus
tralia are being taught the names of
these agricultural towns. The same
thing applies to Australia as whole.
Maps get out of date rapidly on ac-
count of the changes being effected
throughout the country. Active rail-
way construction policies are assisting
the settler, and before many years
have passed spaces now uninhabited-
through being almost inaccessible
will be shown as scenes Of activity and
prosperity.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
World Developments are Bringing About
Revolution in Public Education
BY WILLIAM L. CHENERY

In the United States national policy If the
the street halted suddenly and his opinion demanded
he would probably reply that education important Them after
embarrassing silence the subject would be dismissed Yet other
country does education receive greater emphasis
Schools with however, matters of If the local
board of education the schools will tend be good But the
schools district The state and the nation re
lively feeble control education Public opinion
There subconous competition between localities supported by the
general feeling that Education very important" That however
nearly much be said.
Public education however in the midst Of revolution have
always known rather asserted that the of
depends universal education Now getting fresh emphasis
creed from other Russia correspondents have sad
busy learning that intervals have energy doing
land which be getting its democracy less dramatically but
perhaps not less thoroughly having revival Of learning
Among the practical discussed in England rst and fore
most the need for teachers BETTER for substantial
advance the status and remuneration what ought regarded
single but highly differentiated pedagogical service from the kinder
garten mistress to the regus professor"
The nation must create better facilities for training teachers
should naonae the system of private scholarships order increase
the number Of young people for whom higher education feasible
Twenty-Five thousand national scholarships suggested beginning
purpose this would be give choice professions
to all able and willing to take the training.
Large these but they at the basis of genuinely democratic
system of education.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
The Wife and Mother

Had she lived to the age of the
Patriarchs, every day of her life would
have been filled with clouds of good
ness and of love. There is not yirtue
6at can abide in the female heart
but 1t was the ornament of hers. She
had been fifty-four years the delight
of fathers heart, the sweetener of all
his tolls, the comforter of all his sor-
rows, the sharer and heightener of all
his joys. 1t was but the last time
when I saw my father that he told
me with an ejaculation of gratitude to
the giver of every good and every
perfect gift, that in all the vicissitudes
of his fortunes, through all the good
report and evil report Of the world.
in all his struggles and in all his sor.
rows, the affectionate participation
and cheering encouragement of his
wife had been his never failing sup
port, without which he was sure he
should never haye lived through them.
John Quincy Adams.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
Simplicity in Army Dress.

The London Times reporter who
met General Pershing and his stair
on the occasion of their passage
through the British metropolis was
so much impressed with the sim
plicity of the officers uniforms that
he described them in some detail for
the benefit Of the Thunderer's read
ers. Especially did he remark that,
compared to those Of the British
army, the Americans uniforms are
unobtrusive. This may comfort some
Of our home folks, who have imbibed
their idea of official dress from
watching a parade Of the governors
staff, says the Omaha Bee. AS mat
ter Of fact, the American army officer
never has been given to excess in the
matter of dress. While he has always
been arrayed more definitely than was
Gungha Dhin, he has at no time
sought to shame the MONDAY sum-
and some Of his greatest accomplish
ments have been achieved at times
when his apparel was least impress
sive. General Grant received the sur
render Of Robert =. Lee attired In a
battered service uniform, much worse:
for hard riding over dusty roads on
that memorable morning, and many
stories are related of how General
Washington went among his men UNI
recognized because Of the lack Of OFF,
cial designation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
Poultry Pointers.

Never allow broods of chicks to be
mothered by any except clean, healthy
hens, for filthy, diseased mothers carry
sickness and death to the youngsters.
A chick with lice will stand and cry,
or drop its heal as if sleeping while
standing up, but the fault may be with
the disposition of the hen. If she is
not naturally good mother, there is
no remedy but to get rid of her in the
brood yard.
Fowls are mot likely to contract
tuberculosis from domestic animals or
from Than, yet birds that have had
the disease are serious menace to
other farm animals, as well as the
poultryman and the family.
Do not neglect to give room to the
growing chicks. At six weeks, the
chicks are independent of the brooder,
and may be put in cold breeders or
colony houses. Their inclination on
cool nights will be to crowd. Piling
up means trouble. For this reason 1t
is best to have not more than twenty
in a group.
Let your poultry have the free range
of your orchard. There they will not
only find the shade so grateful to them
in hot weather, but they will feed on
multitudes Of insects which may be In
furious to trees and shrubbery.
AS soon as practicable, give the pull
lets more room by cutting out the cock
erels. Dispose Of the precoclous little
fellows that get red combs and begin
to crow before they are half grown.
They are unlikely to mako the best
birds, ands become a nuisance about
the place.
Leghorn pullets are capable OF COM
Stunning about 90 pounds Of skim milk
each during year.
A hen seldom chooses an open, ex-
posed location for a nest.
The shape Of the egg Is no indica-
ton of what the sex Of the chick will
be.
There is money in raising broilers
and roasters.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
THINGS THAT ARE NEW

Spun glass as an insulating cover
ing for steam pipes is being tried out
in Europe, being acid-proof and lighter
than all other insulating preparations.
For sprinkling floors of buildings,
lawns or streets one-man wheeled
tank has been invented from which
the water is forced by compressed air.
metal hat rack or clothes tree re-
Gently patented is so shaped that it
can be used as a fire escape by revers-
ing it and hanging it from a window
sill.
Valves for automobile motors, made
of pure carbon by two Boston in
ventors. are claimed to be self-lubricat-
ing and to be proof against the usual
valve troubles.
Shoes with quickly detachable soles
and heels have been invented by a
Frenchman for railroad men to enable
them to escape should their feet be
caught in tracks.
The back of BARRIERS chair invent
ed by a Philadelphia is made In two
parts. the lower swinging out horIzont-
ally to form a seat when a child oc-
cupses the chair.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
Food MASTERS Branded as
DisIoyaI to Country by
Head of Camp Fire Girls.

That people who waste food are aa
bad as those who overeat, was the as
sertion made to Camp Fire girls by
DR.. Luther Gulick, national president.
Doctor Gulick continued:
"We should look upon such persons
who are willing as hosts to take the
best Of the food on the table, leaving
our guests, the allies, to get anything
they can, as disloyal to our country"
The list Of suggestions for patriotic
manners follows: Save and use ev-
cry scrap of bread or other wheat
product; use meat or eggs but once
a day; use all leftover bits of meat
and bones for soup, stews and hashes;
use corn in place Of wheat to conStd-
cradle extent; buy only the food you
need; clean out all bread and cake
bowls and dishes used for cooking
cereals with a spatula; scrub the po-
tatoes and eat the skins; do not have
many things to eat at one meal; have
only two courses at meals; use rice
instead Of potatoes; use rice water
for soups; spaghetti and macaroni take
the place Of potatoes; use the less ex-
pensive and more nourishing cuts of
meat; use little butter; leave no scraps
on your plate; don't help yourself to
more than you can eat; when serving
food make the portions small use veg
etables which you have raised yourself
in your own garden; can all fruits for
yourself; in the fall gather all edible
nuts.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
GIVE CANNING
A FAIR TRIAL

"Don't judge the success of canning
by your first effort with whatever
product you happen to find in market
when you begin operations" says a
statement just issued by the United
States department Of agriculture. 'It
is more than likely that if you were q
beginner at canning you started with
strawberries, the first fruit available.
If you did you should realize that
Strawberries are one Of the most diff
ficult of all products to can satisfac-
torily. 1t is next to impossible, in fact,
to can this fruit, as distinguished from
preserving it Tin which case a much
larger proportion Of sugar is used), so
that it's color, size, and texture will be
preserved.
''It is normal, if ordinary canning
practices are followed, to have straw
berries shrink, turn more or less brown,
and float to the top of the Jars. The
product Is palatable, however, and will
keep perfectly if the sterilization has
been done properly.
''Don't feel, therefore, that your
strawberry canning is failure. Above
all, don't become discouraged and fear
that all Your canning will be unsatis-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09

away to suburban residences. The
fans never saw them except in uni
form. There was no common bond be-
tween player and patron.
Bodie is different. He is demo-
cratic, and the fans can get a close
view of him. He is a mingler and a
mixer, although he never permits popu-
larity to affect his usefulness as a
player.
AS matter of fact, Bodie has been
the most maligned player in the coun-
try. His name was connected with so
many tales Of the "bone head" type,
all of which existed only in the mag
ination of writer's, that the fans can
not be blamed If they formed this con-
ception of him.
1t was really Bodies good nature
that gave him his ill-deserved repu-
tation. He was big, loud-voiced and
laughing, and the writer's picked him
out as a mark and made him the foil
for all the humor they had in their
systems. Ping never objected. II
SnOulu worry was MS pHllOSOpny. he
let the writer's go the limit, and they
did.
Bodie is not a college graduate and
makes no pretensions of being such.
He is a boy from San Francisco, Of
Italian parentage, his real name being
Franceto Pizzola, who has earned his
own living ever since he has been able
to get about.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09

Of English invention is camera
that looks like a short telescope and
takes photographs at right angles to
its users line of vision without their
subjects knowledge.
A fluorescent microscope invented
by an Austrian scientist for use with
ultraviolet rays enables the recogni-
ton of differences in matter not per-
ceptible by ordinary light.
Some seeds have such hard cover
ings as to be almost impervious to wa
ter, but an Iowa man has invented
a machine to scarify them and thus
improve their terminating qualities.
Tongs kept open by a spring have
been invented to enable an angler to
hold open fish's mouth to recover a
swallowed hook, scaling and cutting
knives being mounted on one arm Of
the device.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09
Something in Your Eve?

Among the lesser ills of the flesh to
which all travellers are liable is a
speck or cinder getting into the eye.
To remove ii, get someone to take
hold of the upper lid and turn it up so
that he can look on the inside of the
lid. Then. while you make several
movements with the eye, first up. then
down, to the right side and to the left,
have your companion remove the for
eign body by means OF swab. This
swab is made with piece of match
or toothpick for the stem, around the
end Of which is tied or twisted piece
of cotton taken from the corner of a
handkerchief or wearing apparel. The
cloth should be moistened in cold wa
ter. The foreign body in the eye will
adhere to the swab. and can be re-
moved without any trouble. If. by
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-09

S For those who cannot go to war-as
well as those who will go to the 'front.'
there is a distinct obligation to dedi-
cate themselves to the task of helping
on the great new brotherhood Of the
world. fa
This brotherhood will be founded
upon the revolution which is sweeping
through every country on the globe,
and which is working itself out through
the war, from the effects of which no
nation can escape.
Nor can this movement for the broth
erhood of man be retarded by petty
hates and spites or by the ambitions
and intrigues Of kings and cabinets and
the heartless Vaccinations of con-
temptuous politicians.
For hundreds of years the race Of
men has been getting ready for this
world brotherhood. And all the signs
point toward the fulfillment Of the
noble ideals which has been vaguely,
though persistently floating through
the hearts and minds Of those who,
each in their day and generation,
brought their contributions toward this
world democracy.
The Russia of hundreds of years Is
no more-the car is gone forever.
The Germany of generations has closed
itself into be opposed by every for
ward-looking nation, and by the larger
minded Germans themselves, until 1t
has been crushed for all time.
England self confident, self-satis-
fed, luxurious, with class spirit highly
developed though sound at heart
has seen the need of closer and sin
cerer cooperation with the wider-vis-
Toned nations of earth.
France-light-hearte and gay, often
careless-although it had the blood Of
heroes and martyrs In its veins-can
never again be what 1t was.