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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11

and luxurious appearance to the en-
tire surroundings. Dr. Smith had in
stalled some two years ago beautiful
plate glass revolving serving tables
in his establishment which at that
time were the finest and latest thing
in drug store soda service; these still
remain, but in addition to meet his
increased trade DR.. Smith has had
built several mahoganyr and glass
booths with beautifully upholstered
leather settees and the latest thing
in serving tables with brilliant plate
glass mirrored tops something not
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11

The story of Theodore Smith. Kan
sas City's pioneer Druggist, and his
achievements read like the story from
Alladin's Fables; so brilliant and sue
cessful have been his endeavors along
business lines. DR.. Smith, who is yet
a young man, came to this city some
IS years ago from the capital of the
Nation to take charge of the first
drug store that had been established
by Colored people in this city which
was owned by the late Bishop c. T.
Shaffer and one or two local physi-
clans. After remaining with them
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11
Allied Bankers and
Industrial Corporation

Washington, d. Announcement
has already been made of the decision
of a group of Colored men, represent
ing Colored banking institutions and
Negro business, to put under way
national banking program looking to
closer affiliation with metropolitan
banking interests.
Application for charter has already
been made by the following Colored
bankers and business men: L. E. Will
liams, President, Wage Farmers Saw
ings Bank, Savannah, Ca; Harry H.
Pace, formerly Secretary-Treasurer,
Standard Life Insurance Company,
now President, Pace G Handy, New
York City; E. c. Brown, President,
Brown G. Stevens, Bankers, Philadel-
phia, Pa; and President, Quality
Amusement Corporation; John E.
Nail, of Nail & Parker, Real Estate,
New York City; ]. S. Jones, Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Tidewater Bank &
Trust Company, Norfolk, Va; Charles
Banks, the leading factor in the de-
velopment of the Negro town Of
Mound Bayou, Miss; and Emmett j.
Scott, Washington, D. c. The new
enterprise is to be know as The AL
lied Bankers and Industrial Corpor-
alton.
The incorporators of the new con-
Germ are to meet in New York City
shortly for purposes of organization.
Contracts, prospect, ETC., are now be-
ing printed and by the opening of
the new year new one million
($1,000,O0O) dollar concern will have
been launched by the strongest group
of Negro financia! interests ever
Joined together in an allied move
ment.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11
RAMRouLA COMING.

1t will be a source of pleasure to
theatre goers to know that Tut and
Whitney in their latest creation Bam-
boula which has veritably taken the
East by storm are coming to Kansas
City the week beginning Sunday.
January to the Auditorium theatre.
With the established popularity of
this excellent company, there is no
doubt but that they will play to cap
acity houses during their stay.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11

/ NJ. L. Finn, one of the most cour.
teous and most popular members OF
our race group you could hope to
come in contact with while DR.
Smiths courteous and affable dispo
sition makes for his establishment a
permanent and constantly increasing
patronage.
In spite of his arduous business &C
tivity DR.. Smith finds time for social
and civic engagements and is noted
for his very liberal contribution to
public institutions of merit. 1t is a
custom with him at Easter time to
send a generous check to all deserv-
ing churches in the city and it is sell
dom a destitute member of the race
appeals to him that his needs are not
| Immediately relieved.
For two years DR.. Smith maintained
a Free Clinic at 1900 East 18th street,
employing two physicians, filled all
prescriptions written by them at alb
solute cost and paid the entire ex-
pense for the maintenance of this
worthy institution out of his own
pocket.
And in a social way he has enter
tanned many of the most prominent
and exclusive clubs and social organ
izations at his own expense and is
rated as a Chesterfield by those who
know him personally.
In DR.. Smiths spacious stockrooms
adjoining his drug store is a variety
of drugs, supplies, ct cetera, making
it one of the most complete reserve
| stocks owned by the race anywhere.
And to epitomize everything to be
found and expected in afirst class
complete and up to date drug store
can be found at DIR. Smiths. And it
is quite common thing when asked
where certain drugs, periodicals, race
papers, household necessities and so
forth can be purchased, that invari.
ably the answer is, "If you can't find
it at so and SOS, you can certainly
find it at DR.. Smiths"
Six years ago at Christmas time
just before DR.. Smith was leaving for
Boston, his former home, to visit
friends and relatives, The Sun asked
him for an editorial expression that
would be helpful to the struggling
men and women of our racial grouI
who were trying to succeed in bust
ness, and he gave us this brilliant anG
inspiring contribution which holds just
as good today as it did when he
penned it six years ago:
For more than quarter of a cen
tury the white man contended thai
the Negroes were incapable of taking
in the higher education.
Such contentious must have beer
based on prejudice, because the Ne
gro has not only measured arms with
him in the present knowledge, but il
many instances has outdistanced him
The American Negro has invaded al
most every field known to human en-
deavor, such as art, science, literature
industrialism, commercialism, etc, aIid
with all of his achievements the white
man has failed to give him consider
alton.
And l believe this is largely due tc
his economic weakness. Were we q
factor in the business and the finan
cial world we would be in a position
to force recognition and respect.
No race of people can expect to be
morally strong that is economically
weak.
The Negro women have done re
markably well when you consider
they have no protection from their
own race, and the white man looks
upon them as his legitimate prey.
! The Negro women should demand
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11

Hon. Jas. E. Nugent, one of the most
progressive members of the School
Board of this city will speak at Lin
coin High School Sunday, December
18th at $3.50 p. m. Let's crowd the
building to hear Mr.. Nugent.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11

No singer comes more highly recon-
mended than Mfes Georgia Harvey.
Hear her December 81 at Second Bap-
tist Church. Admission Csc.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11

the hustIing manager of the Roberts
Automobile Co., who had this high
compliment paid to him through last
Sundays Kansas City journal, the
leading daily paper of this City:
Homer Roberts, the Negro car
salesman heading the Roberts Com
ptny at 18th and Paseo is reputed to
have sold one or more cars of every
make represented In Kansas City in
the past two years"
This demonstrates that II we do
business in business way, the other
fellow will eventually take note.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11
DIR. SMITH A REAL RACE LEADER

splendid achievement in is
an
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11
Beautiful Magnificent Superb

That's What Thousands Young and DID, Black and White Saying
About Dr. Theodore Smiths Up-tO-he- Minute Drug Store
Since the Installation of His New Furniture and
Fixtures and Enlargement of His Building
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-11
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
All delinquent subscribers to The
Sun for 1920 will be cut off after this
issue. Take due notice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
MARINE DIVERS SEARCH
FOR HIDDEN TREASURE

Savannah, Calf there is any hid
den treasure lying on the bottom of
the ocean near Paris Island, and
legend says there is, U. S. Marine
searchers have given up hopes of find
ing it.
Bell-divers of the Marine Corps are
operating off the coast of the island,
in an attempt to salvage boxes, metal
and odds and ends of cargoes lost ov-
erboard from vessels during. the last
few years. This is a side line for tile
Marines, who so far have been salts
fed with patrolling the land, sea and
air, and have never gone in for deep
sea diving.
Negro residents of this vicinity
have faith in an old-time myth that
there is hidden treasure on or near
the island, supposed to have been left
by Jean La Fitte, the pirate, on one of
his coastwise wanderings. The Sub"
Marines say the legend won't hold
water.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19

Secretary Daniels is getting a col
umn a day telling what he thinks of
Sims. Still there is no doubt that
Benson said, I'VE would as soon fight
the British as the Germans" and that
Sims had Josephus going strong for
the first few rounds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
MY AUTO, IT'S OF THEE.

My auto, It's of thee, short road to
poverty, of thee | chant. / blew a pile
OF dough on thee three years ago, now
you refuse to go, or won't or can't.
Through town and countryside YOU
were my joy. and pride, a happy day.
| loved the gaudy hue, the nice white
tires new, but you're down and out
for true, in every way. To thee. old
rattle-box, came many bumps and
knocks, for thee l grieve. Badly the
top is torn, frayed are the seats and
worn, the whooping cough affects thy
horn, do believe Thy perfume
swells the breeze, while good folks
choke and wheeze as we pass by. i
paid for thee price, 'twould buy a
mansion twice, now everybody's vel
ling "ice"-I wonder why? Thy motor
has the grippe, the spark plug has the
pip and woe is thine. 1. too, have suf-
fered chills, fatigue and kindred ills,
endeavoring to pay my bills since
thou vert mine. Gone is my bank
roll now, no more 'twould choke a
COW, as once before. Yet, if l had
the mon, so help me, John-amen,
I'd buy car again and speed some
mOre.-Auto Links
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
PROF. ALLYN LOCKS
- .0 WHISKY IN A SAFE.

Westfield, Mass Twenty quarts of
.bottled-in- bond whisky, owned by
Prof. Lewis B. Allyn, the noted pure
food expert, has been kept in his safe
since Jan. 16.
II know my friends are honest" he
says, but | am taking no chances.
The whisky is required from time to
time in the professors research and
experimental work, and he laid in a
liberal supply before constitutional
prohibition went into effect.
Prof. Allyn is working overtime
trying to keep pace with the demand
for analysis of homemade beverages
One small bottle of homemade
wine, which the owner assured him
possessed real kick proved to be rs
per cent alcohol, or from two to three
times the alcoholic content of wines
formerly offered for sale.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
NEW HEADLIGHT LAW.

The salient features of the new
automobile light regulation, which
went into effect May /, are:
Head lamps must not cast their
brilliant light above level of so inch
es. at point 100 feet ahead of the car.
The light intensity above SO inches,
100 feet ahead, must not exceed 2,40O
candle power. 1t must not exceed
500 candle power seven feet to the
left, so inches high, 100 feet ahead.
The light intensity must be gat
least 4,S00 candle power. at some
point between the ground and the
level of the headlights at point 100
feet ahead of the car It must be
1000 candle power strong seven feet
to the right 100 feet ahead.
Every vehicle must show one tail
and two headlights when in motion.
Spotlights may be used, but must
not strike the ground beyond SO feet
ahead of the car at any point within
80 degrees right or left. Back of this
zone they may be used at will
Parked cars may stand with one
parking light, provided it may be
seen 500 feet ahead and behind, a
white light showing ahead and a red
light behind.
DINNERS are legal only on streets
in cities where, in the opinion of the
local police authorities, sufficient
light is present to make lightless
driving safe. Such streets are 10 be
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19

'"The principle of individual free
dom requires the open shop" Herbert
Hoover declared in testifying before
the senate labor committee at Wash
ington holding hearings on proposed
legislation for the settlement of indus
trial unrest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
"TELL HIM Now"

If with pleasure you are viewing
any work a man is doing; if you like
him, or you love him-tell him now.
Don't withhold your appreciation till
the parson makes Grafton, as he lies
with snowy lilies DER his brow. For
no matter how you shout it, he won't
really care about 1.-THE won't know
how many teardrops you have shed.
If you think some praise is due him,
now's the time to slip it to him. for he
cannot read his tombstone when he's
dead.
More than fame and more than
money is the comment. kind and sun
ny, and the hearty warm approval of
a friend. For it gives to life a SAVIOR:
and it makes you tronger-braver.
and it gives you heart and spirit to the
end. If he earns your praise. bestow
It; If you like him, let him know it.
Let the words of true announcement
be said; do not wait till life is over
and he's underneath the clover. for he
cannot read his tombstone when he's
dead Selected.
294 DAYS MORE!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
Domestic

After holding up five postal Clerks or
the New Orleans limited on the Illinoi:
Central railroad near Kankakee an(
stealing $4,000 from mail pouches
Royal Walton, former postal clerk
shot and Killed one policeman an(
wounded another, barricaded himsel.
in an apartment at SIG East Fifty-frs
street at Chicago, and was there rid
died with bullets and killed in a ter
rife pistol battle with the police.
Six men arrested when they attempt
ed to hold a meeting under the aus
pieces of the national committee fol
iron and steel workers, were released
under 5000 bonds each at Pittsburgh
Pa.
A per cent reduction in the acre
age planted to potatoes and a % PEE
cent falling off in areas devoted t
beans were indicated for this season
in reports just received by the United
Staets bureau of markets at Washing
ton.
Charged with attempted blackmai
of a Catholic priest of Kenosha, Wis.
Mathew Turk and Dewey Daggerty
were held TO the federal grand jury by
a United States commissioner at To
ledo. Ohio.
Deputy Sheriff Sid Biggs of Shelby
vile, died in a hospital at Pana, Ill.
of a gunshot wound in the right TEN
pie received at the village of Cowden
while he was attempting to capture
Lote Dayton, an escaped inmate Of
the state hospital for The insane a
Jacksonville.
Directors of Libby. McNeill & Libby
at Chicago. voted 80 per cent stocE
dividend on the 1.280,0O0 shares OF
stock, par value SO each. Stockhold
ers will be asked to authorize the dis
1z.13tiQQ Of the dividend.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19

Two or three years will be required
for the sugar situation to get back TO
normal, Herbert Hoover, former food
administrator, estimated before the
house committee at Washington in
vestigating the sugar situation.
Vice President Marshall, speaking
at Richmond. Va, declared that if ma
tional prohibition had been considered
by the senate in secret session, not
twenty votes would have been cast
for it.
Henry Layer farmer, has con-
fessed to the killing of Jacob Wolf, his
wife and five children and a chore hoy
Jake Hofer, on the Wolf farm, three
miles west of Turtle Lake, N. D., on
April %.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
Foreign

Adolfo De La Huerta, supreme com.
mander of the revolutionary movement
in Mexico, has issued a call for the
Mexican congress to convene and na1ne
a provisional president, it was1 an
nounced at I1I Paso, Tex. n
a -
A San Salvador dispatch says rebel
forces under the leadership of Arturo
Araujo, who aspires to the presidency
of the republic, have been defeated by
government troops commanded by
Gen. Juan Amaya near Arcataro.
Reports of the discovery of gold in
northeastern Siberia have reached
Nome, and many boats are awaiting
the opening of navigation in readiness
to carry "stampeders'' to the new
fields.
Eighteen police barracks and five
tax offices We're destroyed Thursday
night. Dublin castle announced official.
~. This makes IS police barracks de.
stroyed in two nights.
x M
The kings. of Norway and Denmark.
Prince Arthur of Connaught, the earl
Of Onslow, representing the king OF
England, attended the funeral services
at Stockholm of the late Crown Prin.
cess Gustave Adolph.
Great interest in shipping circles at
London is centered around the state.
ment that an attempt would be made
to raise the Lusitana A well-known
salvage firm is mentioned as likely to
undertake the project
Incomplete returns from the election
in Japan show the government party
leading, according 10 a Tokyo cable to
Nippu Jill, Japanese language news
paper at Honolulu
Forty-six Germans ranking from an
army corps commander to a simple
private, figure on the allies first speci-
fed list of alleged war criminals to be
arraigned in the Leipzig supreme
court.
Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp, COM
handing the United States naval its.
arrived at Constantinople on the
cruiser Pittsburgh from Black sea
ports, bringing with him Sc American
relief workers
A soviet government has been es-
tablished in Erivan, says a dispatch
from Constantinople. The old Erivan
government has fed. Soviets also have
been set up in other trans-Caucasian
centers.
Three dollar" wheat was predicted
by Edward Brown. provincial treasur-
er. He declared at Winnipeg that the
federal government will have to fix
the price again, and adds that banks
are exercising pressure to compel an
increase in the price of wheat.
At least fifty police barracks in vari-
Gus parts of Ireland were wiped out In
the course of widespread destruction
of public property and other activ-
tiles by bands of armed and masked
men in various parts of Ireland, ac-
.cod!ng to a Dublin dispatch
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19

Crop expert Becker furnishes what
he calls highly interesting statistics"
to the effect that Grant county farm
labor is 20 per cent of normal and
Richland county farm labor is 81
per cent of normal. Young Mr.. Beck
er may call these statistics highly
interesting" but the farmers will call
them something else
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
Politics

United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts was chosen to
deliver the Keynote speech" as tenn
porary chairman of the Republican ma
tlonal convention by the convention
subcommittee of the Republican ma
tional committee at Chicago, which
also decided that someone else shall
be permanent chairman of the conven-
ton.
Eugene V. Debs federal convict No
2253, was nominated by reclamation
for the presidency of the United States
at the Socialist party's national con
vention at New York.
Indiana's four delegates at large
were instructed by the state conven
ton at Indianapolis to support Gen
Leonard Wood for the presidential
nomination so long as he has "cleal
and fair" chance in the Republican
national convention.
Edmund NJ. Wasmuth was unani-
mously reelected Republican state
chairman at meeting of the state GEN.
trail committee at Indianapolis.
Representative Henry L. Flood OF
Virginia was elected chairman Of the
Democratic congressional committee
at Washington, vice Representative
Scott Ferris of Oklahoma. resigned.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
orlain Of the Jazz Band.

The jazz band idea. according to a
French paper, originated in the time
of the Directory At the concerts Of
the Cat orchestra were twenty cats,
heads in row on the keyboard of a
harpsichord. The performer by strik.
ing the keys pulled the cats tails,
causing a caterwauling which sounded
like jazz band.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19

News Of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers
Washington
llNNININITIHIITIlIIIIlIlIIHIIIHIHEIHIIIIHTIIHE

1.-THE principle of individual free
dom requires the open shop" Herbert
Hoover declared in testifying before
the senate labor committee at Wash
ington holding hearings on proposed
legislation for the settlement of indus
trial unrest.
President Wilson at Washington
vetoed the legislative, executive and
judicial bill. The president said he
returned the bill because of the section
putting under congressional control all
government publications. This section,
the president said would give congress
a censorship encroaching on execu-
tive functions.
The conference report on the Wads.
worth-Kelley bill providing for an in.
crease in pay to enlisted men and of.
ficers in the United States service ur
to the grade of colonel in the army
and marine corps and captain in the
navy was adopted by the house at
Washington without debate.
The Republican majority in the
house at Washington failed by mar.
gin of % votes to override President
Wilson's veto of the legislative, execu.
tive and judicial appropriation bill
The vote was 10 to 127.
Charges that cablegram produced
before the senate naval investigating
committee at Washington when Rear
Admiral Sims was on the stand, bore 6
forged signature, were made by Secre
tary Daniels.
Legislation designed to aid the rail.
roads and shippers in the car shortage
situation by extending the use of the
$300,0OOO00 revolving fund provided
in the transportation act from five tc
fifteen years was agreed upon by the
senate commerce committee at Wash
ington.
kilograms were sent by the depart.
ment of justice at Washington to al
United States attorneys reiterating the
departments policy of holding the
margin of profit on sugar sales to one
cent for wholesalers and two cents fol
retailers.
President Wilson'S hitherto unpub.
lished war instructions to the officers
of the Atlantic fleet. given in person
on the quarterback of the flagship
Pennsylvania on August II. and hid
ding them throw tradition to the
Winds" "strike the word prudent from
their vocabularies" and "do the thine
that is audaciOuS to the utmost point
of risk and daring" were made pub,
lie at Washington by Secretary Dan
iels.
A resolution requesting President
Wilson to send an American warshiT
and marines to Batum, on the Black
sea. to protect the lives and property
at that port and along the railroad &c
Baku. was reported unanimously by
the senate foreign relations commit.
tee at Washington.
Bills authorizing the treasury al
Washington to coin special 50-cent
pieces in commemoration Of the one
hundredth anniversary of the admis.
sion of Maine and Alabama to state
hood were signed by President Wilson
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19

posted with signs informing the mo-
torist of the fact. DINNERS are I'M
necessary elsewhere if headlamps
are correctly adjusted and conform
with the law.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19
Personal

William Dean Howells, the novelist
died at New York. Mr.. Howells re-
turned few weeks ago from Savan-
nah. While in the South he was
stricken with Influenza and never had
fully recovered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-05-19

s'Walk mile before breakfast to
get up an appetite" says doctor.
Thanks! Now we know how to keep
down an apprehension Transcript.