Kansas City Advocate from Kansas City, Kansas • 1

A TThWffnrn- A TIT hi A NwJ VWV TAX 1 1 i Kansas City, Kansas, Friday, July 15, 1921 VII. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE-TWELVE MONTHS, $1.50 THOMAS KENNEDY EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Number 49. Number 2 ta Open Monday, July 18, by Lambright Coal and At Fifteenth Street and College Avenue, Kansas City Mo. Ji Fuel Co. KANSAS MAN -IS REPLACED ON JOB BY COL.

LITTLE Congressman Prevents Injustice Being Done to Kansan by Chief Clerk in Washinj 1 or. ton Bureau Washington, D. July 6, 1921. To the Editor of The Advocate: Kansas City, Kansas. My Dear Editor: Please insert in your paper, The Advocate, for the benefit of the colored readers and subscribers that Hon.

E. C. Little, congressman from the Second District, Kansas City, Kansas, is in the writer's opinion one" of the greatest friends of the race ever sent from Kansas. He has on several occasions defended colored constituent? from his district as well as those from the state at large irom gross injustice meted out to the race by ranking Democrats here in government departments. When a Democrat acting as chief clerk of one of the departments proceeded to take advantage of a colored employee, one John E.

Phillips of Kansas City, Kansas, without sufficient allegations to merit his discharge, as it was conceded by friends, he was told to appeal to his Congressman, Hon. E. C. Little. who put Aip a staunch fight and had him replaced his former position with full pay during the time of suspension.

Let us hope for Congressman Little and all such men who take such stand for the right for all individuals regardless of race, creed or color a long and con- nuucu aumimstrauon tne House of Congress. Respectfully submitted, EDGAR H. BANKS. NOTICE SUNFLOWER COMPANY. Company Ladies Drill Team No.

1 will not drill Friday night at the public installation of Bright Eagle Court. The company will go to Leavenworth Saturday, July 16 SADIE BULLARD, Captain. DR. H. FRANKLIN BRAY, ROCKY MOUNAIN EVAN ELIST, IN INDIANA- POLIS Indianapolis is stirred with revival fires as never before.

A great tabernacle has been erected in the heart of the residence district of our people in this city and under the direction of St. John A M. E. church, Rev. T.

H. Stoner, pastor, Dr. H. Franklin Bray, the Rocky Mountain Evangelist, is conducting a revival meeting that gives promise of such an awakening and ingathering as old Indianapolis has not witnessed in many a year. There have-been results from the very beginning and the interest grows with each succeeding service.

Evangelist Bray is a wonderfu man of God delivering such telling blows against sin as cause the most sin-hardened to yield. Ministers antl people are co-operating and an abundant harvest is assured. The revival will continue until the first week in August. To Friends and the Public I desire to inform you that I am now locaUd at 428 Minnesota avenue. Room 3, upstairs.

See ray ad in this issue. J. C. BRANCHE. Mrs.

D. W. Carson, 914 New Jersey avenue, returned to St. Louis, -Mo, with her sister for a few weeks' visit. Coal Yard MUST TREAT WITH US AS MAN TO MAN SAYS MIDNIGHT No More Hat-in-Hand, "Yassah, Boss," Will Go Our Writer is in Washington at Present Wnhincton.

D. C. have never had any desire to get away from the race. God made me a real back man, with blue eves and I think He knew oust Avhat he was doing, and I am going to fight it out along this line if1 it takes all summer. But there is an.

effort on the part of one man to crush the real manhood in his brother, and unless "he goes "way back and takes a seat and permits the white man to do thinking then he must be looking for a job. I am sure that you have been keeping up with the times, and you have seen that there have been some changes made the schools ot our people, instance, for the past 20 years or more Prof. N. B. Young, one of the strongest men in this race of ours, a man who has devoted his life in helping to maka men, to helping our young people to find the real man and woman, has been let out as president ot the State School in Tallahassee, and reason assigned was that he was not in harmony with the industrial plan.

Prof. Young has worked and worked hard to develop a real school in Florida. He has advocated the reaching of a man through the mind. He has believed manual training, but wanted it all -done through the cultivation ot the mind, which is the real man at work. He wanted more blacksmiths, more carpenters, more wheelwrights, more everything, but he thought that they should all be educated men and aV the same time ne wauteu iui Ada a real college.

To this end he has worked, and to this end he has acted, tloing a great big 30b for my people. He was a man, every Sof him. He aid.notjgoto the white Pple with hi? hat jftW.i,5a am "Yessah boss, UI1UC1 liiu but it was man meeting man, as it should be, and now you see what it costs to be man. The same thing happened to Prot. Sampson, of Staunton school, Jacksonville, and next year he will be in a school where he can exercise his gift as a man.

He will be at Edward Waters college. Bishop John Hurst called him in, and extended him a place, and there is right now a real place for Prof Nathan B. Young, but I have not heard from him yet. He will be some place within the next few days. You can't keep a good man down.

It is hard to tell just where that white man is going to strike next, but let us keep on coming on and at the same time keep on preparing our Doys anu girls to meet the demand of the times in which we live. I believe the policy in the future will be to get me in our schools who will teach the Negro that he is not a man, and that his mission is to do only manual labor, and not to fill the higher stations in life, but any man who thinks that the Negro is going to accept any-such doctrine at this day he belongs to the class of American dam- Dhools, and he could easily taKe his place at the head of the a-" TpII him that I said so. class. and then tell him who 1 am. The school room has been preparing men for a long time.

Man is no longer comparing his manhood with the brute, but he is putting his, mind in touch (Continued on Fourth Page) XSVWttJ 38TH ANNUAL SES SION OF ODD FEL-LOWS TO BE HERE District Grand Lodge and Household of Ruth Will Convene Here Next Week-Many Visitors The District Grand Lodge No. 17 of Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and Grand House hold of Ruth Number 12, will convene in a three days session in this city next week. The first session will open Tuesday morn ing atthe Sumner High school auditorium, Ninth street and Washington boulevard, with Nathan Thatcher, District Grand Master, presiding. The ladies 'Will meet at the same hour, across the street at Metro politan Baptist Temple, with District M. N.

G. Henrietta Har per presiding. Tuesay evening at Metropoli tan church, welcome addresses and reception of delegates and visitors will take place including a finely arranged program. Wednesday night at Heath- wood Park, competitiev drills will take place, of which companies from the Knights of Py-ihias and Knights of Tabor will contest for a prize of $25.00. Thursday afternoon' the street parade will take place, then on to Heathwood Park, where Patriarch teams of Kansas, Missouri' and Nebraska will contest for annual prizes.

The local committee has evr everything in readiness for the coming and 'entertaining of the biggest annual meeting in the history of this Grand body. Every home in the city is standing ajar for the reception of their welcome guests. IV RAY OF HOPE Prof. Gregg received a letter from Mme. Lozanto, vice-president of the International Purity Association, of which Rt.

Rev. Samuel Fallows, D.D., Ph.D.,' L.L.D., Bishop, is president, stating, "It is to my mind, high time for some of my race to step out in the open and stand for justice for the Negro in all lines. And the Tulsa riot is a call loud and strong for a change in conditions." Mme. Lozante is white. The times are ripe for women and men of her type to step out without mental reservation in the cause of humanity.

Mme. Lozanto is aiding in a financial pen and platform way. The "Tulsa Then and Now" has been read and favorably commented upon by groups of white men in Kansas City. Lodges, churches and individuals are beginning to realize the intense need of the riot victims and are contributing accordingly. Send money in any amount, making money orders or checks payable to S.

Hooker, chairman of the Colored Relief Committee, Tulsa, Okla. Thanks to Rev. J. F.Griffin, his congregation and. the N.

A. A. C. for underwriting the expense of getting out the booklet, "Tulsa, Then and Now." G. A.

GREGG. Miss Dora Porter, 925 Nebraska avenue, left Tuesday for Coffeyville, Kansas, where she will visit her parents and friends for several weeks. Miss Porter will visit also friends in Parsons, Kansas. Miss Laura Harlan, principal of Douglass school, has returned from Lawrence, where she had a pleasant 10 days' visit. YORK RITE MASONS HAD ANNUAL SERMON LAST SUNDAY More Than 5,000 Filled the Beautiful Pews of St.

Stephens Baptist Church in K. Eighteen hundred York Rite Masons attended the big annual sermon Sunday, July 10, at St. Stephens Baptist church, Ninth and Harrison streets, Missouri side. the pews of beautiful. St.

Steph- onc "Rn-nief fiiirli SnnHnv nf- teroon in the Twent-sixth Annual sermon of York Rite Masons in the State of Misouri. Thousands of people waited along the thoroughfare in the rays of a blazing hot sun tq witness the pasing of more than 1,800 York Rite Masons and Heroines of Jericho as they marched from he hall at Eighteenth and Grove streets, on their way to the church, where thousands of people anxiously waited their coming. More than 700 Heroines of 1 Jericho barricaded themselves on the upper floor of St. Steph- ens Church, the Scarlet cord hung out of the window to wait the approach of hundreds of workmen from the Temple, wi.ito thpv VinH hepn tauerht to approach the East and receive wages. It vas a high day for York Masons.

There were three bands in the procession and they furnished a shower of highly appropriate music for the occasion. At the head of the procession was the Royal Arch Chapter, and the Knights of Templars acting as an escort of guards which Masonry would feel at a very disadvantage without, Many Masons of every degree and Rite were curious ana invested spectators filed into the church which had never been occupied before by men of color. Nor have there ever been a more nobler collection of people filled the pews of St. Steph-Panicf rhnrch in all its his- torv of a Presbyterian church. There were many interesting adresses and no small collection of beautiful papers read by both men and women.

We highly commend Dr. J. W. Hurse upon his address of welcome to the fraternity of York Masons. He could not have said any more under any circumstances notwithstanding the very peculiar lines that Masonry witnm itself has drawn of which we are not responsible.

Would that all distinction of individual rites could be removed and the lines erased from around the state and the cause of Masonry i a a nvnnen throughout the International and the National World. So when raternahsm looks to Ovl vv 1111 wvvi the East for light there it will see the letter inshrouded all the mysteries of geometry, with the Square hanging the South, and the Plumb suspended in the West, and men of every walk of life and every shadow and degree of Masonry could be seen coming up out of the four corners of the world, marching under one great banner of International and National free-born Masons. An interesting sermon was delivered by the Grand Master of King Solomon Jurisdiction of Kansas City, Kansas, Rev. A. Broadnax, and he showed himself master workman from the workshop of the Temple.

The corners of rough stones were easily broken off and made ready for the builder's use. We are very grateful to Kansas City, and commend THATCHER Arnual Session of Odd Fellows, to be held in this city next week. ALONG THE LINE REASON OF Waitin, waitin, waitin, yes, Ise er waitin, an still er waitin. Well, what in the world are you waiting so for, Uncle Ike? Chile, I doan kno what I is er waitin fur. It's fur whatever is gwynter be done, by whoever is gwyne ter do it, I reckon; da ts what Ise er waitin fur, I guess.

An I lo wish that some move would be made, or something would be said, by those who are in the right attitude to do so. For I am fully convinced that our continuance to do Nothing, does not Drevent thosp would exploit us from doing something. While any suggestion or move, though it may not be productive of all we may desire, would have the soul-satisfying quality, that comes from knowing and feeling that we are trying to do our best. While to lie by, inactive, may be all right or even better, still I cannot believe it the best plan. However, I am still waiting, and it is somebody's move.

UNCLE IKE. MANY ATTEND EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION The teachers who attended the National Educational convention at Des Moines report a splendid session. There were only four colored delegates out of the many thousand attending f.nd Kansas City, Kansas, had the honor of one of the four, Miss JVIae McCleland. Others from here attending were: Profs. J.

A. Hodge, A J. Neely, J. Starnes Misses Smothers, E. Robinson, S.

Brown, L. Ir-vin, Mary Thomas, A. Carroll, J. K. Mickey, C.

Lightbody, Maude Turner, Ida Wood, Lillian Adams, L. Miller, Amanda Gillespie, Lillian Green, Myrtle Smith and Mabel Jackson. There were four thousand delegates, some coming from Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands. Mrs. S.

E. Ellsworth of Albuquerque, is visiting her brother, Rev. W. B. Johnson and family, 128 Greeley avenue.

Bethel A. M. E. church will hold a rally Sunday at Frater nity Hall, at 3 p. m.

Rev. Moses Williams will preach the ser mon. The public is invited. NATHAN W. District Grand Master, of Kansas City, Kansas, who will preside over the Thirty-eighth them highly on their human sublime.

Let us use the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, when he declared that "There are many sheep, but not of this want to thank you for your presents and contribution as a square man. We feel it would be an injustice to the principles of the secret order of our ancient institution if we fail to extend to you this gratitude that is rightfully due you as well as the general public. Again we thank Dr. Hur? and St. Stephens Baptist church for the open hospitality for the reception of our order.

May Stephen flourish in the Courts of King Solomon Temple and reap its rich reward in the dews of Mount Henman. J. W. WILLIAMS, G. 2017 Howard Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.

WILL GO TO LEAVENWORT 1 The four uniform companies of Knights of Pvthias and the First Regiment band wil jour-to Leavenworth Saturday, July 16th, where they will join Attucks Company at -Dixon Park, for a day's outing. Special cars will run from here, starting a. m. Special rates have been secured for all who want to spend f.he day in the Cars leave Fourth street and jta avenue. ADVOCATE OFFICE The Advocate and Homestead Development Association have moved their office to 28 Minnesota Upstairs.

Phone Fairfax 1258. Mr. McField entertained the teachers of First A. M. E.

Sab bath school, at Mrs Berry's: to a delisrhtful luncheon a few eve nings ago, serving two kinds. of sandwiches, fruit, punch, ice cream and cake. Mr. McField is an ardent worker in the Sabbath school and church and stands high in the ideals of this community as a young Christian man. 1 Mrs.

Mary French and Mrs. Victoria French-Gray, 1130 Bamett avenue, attended a basket dinner at Edwardsvile Sunday at the J. G. Groves picnic park. 'i.