The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
NEGROES OF KANSAS CITY
AGAIN co OVER THE TOP
1907 Americanism From First Gun
Fire to Last.
United War Work Campaign Another
Victory.
$40, 900 Says Chairman Dabney.


Negroes to the war program as evi-
denced from the beginning of hostili-
ties to the signing of the armistice,
November II, which marked it's close,
by the cheerfulness with which he re-
sponded to every call, stamps him as
patriot of the Simon Pure breed.
But, for that matter, when was the
Negro here or elsewhere ever any
thing else? The true stout-hearted-
ness of the American Black has never
by his worst enemy been admissibly
to the realm of doubt. True charac-
ter as indicated by the significance
of color was never more pronounced
in the history of the world.
The German spy system, cunning
in device and devious in ways, in it's
aggressive ramifications, penetrated
the innermost seclusion of state and
industrial life, offering grave impedi-
ments, startling and stubborn opposi-
tion and many times successful, the
temporary barriers to the Nations
progress in it's efforts to get into the
war
A Shining Record.
The attaint of this nefarious sys-
TEN never was able to establish
contact that would bring the loyalty
of the American Negro under the
faintest suspicion. When spies were
sought for, fairer faces than that of
the Negro were scrutinized and the
Stacker, when found, was always of
different and supposedly more favor
ably racial type. He scorned the life
the proffer of German gold and dis
trigue, falling not prey to the one
nor dupe to the other; but notwith-
standing the many inequalities new
and old, of which just complaint
might most emphatically be made, all
thought of self was submerged to the
nobler obligation due to his Govern
ment and that due to the bigger debt
owned to the brotherhood of the
world, and lighting the fires of pa
triotism in 100000 hopeful hearts
he offered most freely and willingly
| the same spotless 1000 Americanism
as sacrifice upon the holy altar OF
| freedom which has characterized this
peculiar people from the struggle on
Boston Commons in 1776 and through
all intervening crises of the Nation
down to the inferno in the trenches
in France November IL, 1918.
The universal vote of confidence re-
posed in his unquestionable manhood
by the Governmental departments
from the beginning to the end very
amply attests this incontrovertible
fact. Throughout this heart trying,
nerve shattering conflict, willing sac
rifice, full service, manly fortftude,
and jeweled consistency, contributes
to the splendid record which his
dauntless hand has traced upon the
PACED history of the world
Kansas city's Part.
No American city can Justly point
with finger of greater pride to the
part which it's Negro citizenship has
played than Kansas City, Mo. One
big heart throb, black and white in
unison, may aptly describe the patri-
otic enthusiasm which greeted the
declaration of war by the President
against Germany and started this
community out upon the many hercu-
lanean tasks of multiplied war pro-
grams allotted and which it has been
called upon from time to time to per-
form. The lofty and high minded
white men and women composing the
various war work committees from
the very start, recognizing the splen-
did character of their Negro neigh
bors, Joined their hands unto ours,
giving us the widest possible oppor-
tunity for service and the dollars thus
raised and the effort expended in the
raising of them lost all traces of the
color line when blended into the over.
flowing quota of Kansas Citys abun,
dant success.
United War Work Campaign Another
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