The Kansas Elevator from Kansas City, Kansas • 1

KANSAS ELEVATOR THE ONLY NEGRO DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE WEST. Voume I KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19. 1916 No. 2 THE extremely fond, but that all Jew years, tnere nas oeen placed in Fla. S.

S. Campbell, M. Jacksonville, Fla. J. W.

Huguley, M. Americus, Ga. STATEMENT SHOWING BUSI-NESS OF THE PROBATE AND JUVENILE COURTS OF WYANDOTTE KANSAS, FOR THE FIVE YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1915. WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE? MAINLY MONEY. From the New York Age.

Brother Moore: If the Negro's political affiliations were as indeterminate as that of the Jews, and had he the same freedom in the selection of and voting for public officials, we venture the assertion that no senator would dare raise the question of "color" when the name of a member of our race came before that body for confirmation. We are unreservedly in favor of the confirmation of Judge Brandeis. He is, in every way, eminently fitted for the high station for which he has been. selected. be held at the above address at 8 o'clock every Sunday until further notice.

The Sunday school will begin on the first Sunday in March at 2 p. with a complete corps of teachers. The following is the open letter from the new work to the public: "The Washington Memorial Presbyterian Church offers the public a service simple, dignified, thoughtful and impressive; a church truly republican in its form of government, to be officered by men who enjoy the confidence of the community. A church where true Christian manhood and independence will be incouraged and respected. A church whose influence for Christian fellowship will be seen and felt in its sympathy and love for one and all.

We extend the invitation, 'Come with us and we will do the good' to all who are seeking a church home a place of peace, comfort and sweet communion." New York Age. ish persons, for some unexplain- able reason, were positively re pulsive to him. Again, in this country, both Jews and Negroes are forced to maintain their separate and distinct racial identity though the reasons for it may differ. Now, although there is so close a parallel between the two races, there is also the widest sort of divergence as the Bran deis case shows. This case does not cause us to ask why a Negro should not be named for a place in the Supreme Court, but it does cause us to ask another question.

There are, perhaps, twelve million Negroes in the United States and about two million Jews. Both races are separate groups within the nation. Both are the objects of race hatred. We might carry the analogy farther, but this is sufficient to prompt the' question "How is it that any Negrophobe in Congress need have no fear in introducing laws against the colored citizens of this country and no hesitancy in using the vilest and most insulting language concerning the whole race; while no Congressman with an equally bitter prejudice against Jews would dare to breathe his sentiments in public, much less introduce anti-Jewish laws or insult the race? We protest against injustice as well as do the Jews. Our vote in the states where it is counted is larger than the Jewish vote in the entire country.

Why is it then that anybody can kick and insult twelve million of one prescribed race, while nobody dares to open his mouth publicly against two millions of another race that also suffers proscription? Why is it that prejudice in the one case can run the limit and beyond, while in the other case, no matter how strong and bitter it may be, it must restrain itsein When you weigh the whole matter up and down and look it through and through you will find this to be the one answer that stands out big and clear the twelve million Negroes' in this country are, comparatively speaking, paupers while the two million Jews have a controlling interest in the finances of the nation. There is no doubt about it; we may accomlish what we will. but. until we make ourselves felt as a financial element in the country, they are not going to stop kicking our dog around. The writer does not intend to say that the possession of wealth by the Negro will bring an end to prejudice.

It has not done so in the case of the Jew; a Jew-baiter hates a rich Jew, perhaps, worse than he does a poor one. But the possession of wealth by the Negro, as a race will do this much, it will make presidents, senators, congressmen and all politicians, as well as business men and people in general, very particular about how and when they express or show their pre judice. And that is the main thing we are striving for. We should, of course, be glad to have everybody like us, but whether they like us or not, our demand is for them to "treat us right." If we must make a choice, we would rather be disliked and treated as men and citizens, than loved and treated without consideration. In this material world and in thi3 most material country in the world, it is an idle dream for the Negro to hope to be able to de mand full consideration until he is able to back up that demand with the power of money.

The intellectual development of the race must be coupled with cor responding financial develop ment. In our present condition we can demand nothing, we must beg for all we get. Any member of Congress who wishes to do so can stand in the national legislative halls and vil lify and insult twelve million Negro citizens of the Republic, and he can do it with impunity but it is an extremely dangerous thing for any man in public life to breathe one word against two million Jews, or even to let it be known that he has anti-Jewish sentiments. the industrial schools: Boys 12 Girls 4 Total placed in the industrial schools during the past five years 112 Number of adults brought into court charged with causing or contribution to the delinquency or dependency of children: Men 72 Women 35 Total 107 Number of children made wards of the Juvenile Court, from the time of the creation of the court to and including December 31, 1915 2506 Expense per capita of the present wards of the Juvenile Court, including officers' salaries, witness fees, and other court proceedings $1.07 Respectfully submitted, JOHN T. SIMS, Probate and Juvenile Judge.

DOINGS OF THE RACE FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Colored Men Given City Positions Hopkinsville, Ky. Attorney Walter Robinson has been named by the city commissioners as deputy city assessor. The work will require all of his time, his district being, east of the railroad and north of Seventh street. Lucian Owens has been appointed by Dr.

Bassett to a po-siton in the street department. Another appointment which meets popular approval was made by L. E. Foster, superintendent of the county school system, when he named W. C.

Davis, principal of the Gainesville school, as special examiner of colored applicants for teachers' licenses. Bassand Asbury Get City Ap-i pointments. Philadelphia, Pa. Announcement was made Saturday of the appointments of Attorney Harry W. Bass and Attorney John C.

Asbury to the positions of as sistant city solicitors at salanes of $2,500 each per year. The appointments were made by City Solicitor John P. Connelly, and Mr. Bass and Mr. Asbury reported for duty Monday, February 7.

This is the first recognition ever given Negroes in an important appointive capacity in the city of Philadelphia. Mr. Bass served two terms in the General Assembly of Penn- sylvania, benig the first negro elected to that body. Mr. As bury was for a long time editor of The Odd Fellows Journal, and is now president of the Keystone Aid Society, a large insurance company.

Negro Schools Get Money From G. E. Board. Announcement from the General Educaton Board in this city on Monday included appropriations for a number of schools for Negroes in the South. These include the following items: For Calhoun Colored School, Calhoun, for Fort Valley High and Industrial School, Fort Valley, Manassas Industrial School, Manassas, $2,000.

The sum of $10,000 is appropriated for the Anna T. Jeanes Fund for employing inudstrial teachers in various schools, with $16,230 additonalo be expended for homem. clubs among the Negroes in the South. An appropraton of to assist rural schools in build ing homes for teachers. New Presbyterian Church Or ganized.

A number of splendid men and women assembled last Sunday evening at the Empire Friendly Shelter, 116 West 113th street, for the purpose of laying the foundation of a second Presby terian church in the city of New York. The gathering was or ganized into the Washington Memorial Presbyterian Church, with Dr. W. R. Lawton in charge.

Several important committees were appointed, and it was decided that evening services will The home office of the corpo ration is at 41112 Broad street, Jacksonville, Fla. WHY THE DIFFERENCE? The nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to be an Asociate Jus tice of the Supreme Court caused a sensation; and there are indi cations that his confirmation will meet with some opposition. Most likely he will be confirmed. but he is sure to come in for a great deal of discussion.

In the opinion of many this action of President Wilson bears all the marks of a political stroite. remaps it may so prove; but if Mr. Wilson had in mind the advancement of his political cnances, ne would, our humble opinion, have made a far more effective stroke had he named ex-President Taft. But we have no intention of discussing the Brandeis nomina tion from a political point of view. We do not believe the appointment will add greatly to the President's popularity, so we let it go at that.

However, we were struck by the following, clipped from the Washington dispatch to the New York Sun: "A telegram was received to day at the office of the Commit tee on Judiciary of the Senate as follows 'We protest to the end and resent vigorously the appoint ment of the Jew to the United States Supreme Court bench, We American gentiles feel bitter and will no longer support the President. Where he gained one Jew he will lose 10.000 gentiles, It is a disgrace and a shame. Sftllthovn fYlTila nnmnovoto Mr. Brandeis is not the first Jew to be appointed to high of fice in this country. Jews have held important places in our dip lomatic service; and President Roosevelt appointed a Jew to a place in his cabinet.

Of course, a place on the bench of the Supreme Court is higher and more important than any diplomatic or cabinet position, and the Brandeis appointment will there fore be a greater shock to people of anti-Semitic sentiments than any they have yet experienced. It may not be necessary to add that persons in this country who have anti-Semitic sentiments are numerous. Nevertheless, in spite of the number of people who hate Jews, in spite of the telegram reproduced above and the Senate will receive others like it anybody who supposes that any fight will be made on the ground of Brandeis being a Jew will be disappointed. In fact, the tele gram from "Southern Gentile Democrats" and any other at tempts which may be made to raise a racial issue against Mr. Brandeis will only serve to strengthen his hand.

The reason is simple; any senator who would have opposed the nomina tion on other grounds will now refrain from doing so for fear of being accused of fighting Bran deis on account of his race. In a word, there is not a single senator with any regard for his po litical future who would dare to let it be known or even suspi- cioned that he would oppose the confirmation of Mr. Brandeis be cause he is a Jew. And that bnngs us down to what started to say. we There is a parallel between the condition of the Jewish race and of the Negro race which is often remarkably striking.

They are both the victims of prejudice and persecution. In many parts of the world this prejudice is stronger against Jews than against Negroes. Even in the United States there are a great many people who have a stronger antipathy to the Jew than to the Negro. So eminent a man as the late Professor Shaler of Harvard University, in his book, "Neighbor," confessed that although he was a Southerner by birth and in sentiments his personal dislike of Jews was much stronger than of Negroes. He went so far as to say that he knew Njproes of whom he was The following report was handed to us by Judge John T.

Sims, Judge of the. Wyandotte Probate Court. Judge Sims is one of the best known as well as the best liked men in the State of Kansas. Probate Court. Total number of cases As follows: Administrations of intestate estates 641 Wills probated 205 Estates of minors 404 Foreign estates admitted to record 35 Adoptions 178 Insane 371 Habeas Corpus 31 Miscellaneous 6 1871 Of insane cases, the following is the present condition: Restored to right mind 36 Paroled as improved 69 Discharged by death 75 Refused admittance for want of room 10 Adjudged not insane on hearing 54 Now confined in State Hospital .......127 "37I Of the habeas torpus cases, the following disposition was made: Writ granted and prisoner discharged 5 Writ refused and prisoner re- manded 26 31 Number of marriage licenses issued :.....7613 Or an average of 1523 each year.

Fees collected belonging to the county and paid over to the coun- ty treasurer 41,779.73 Fees collected be longing to witnesses, ers, jurors, and paid over to them 8,355.95 Total amount of cash collected Value of personal property, as shown by the in- ventory and appraisement on file in the estates 50,135.68 above referred to. $1,127,510.85 Real estate sold by executors and administrators by order of the Probate -Court for the payment of Hphta and leg acies Real estate sow oy guardian by order of Probate Court for maintenance of minor children for distribution to such minors as have of toina their malority 79,920.00 Total sales of 207,321.00 Of the 1871 cases filed during the past five years, 1217 have been closed and fully settled. Juvenile Court Number of wards of the quents: children court as made delin- Boys Girls 462 60 Kfumhcr of children made wards of the court as dependent And npclected: Boys. 202 r.iri. 203 Total wards .1527 Of the foregoing wards, there has been placed in the industrial schools: P.nva 78 awu -18 Of the 'wards of the court, made so prior to the past five Si WHAT THE ELEVATOR WOULD LIKE TO KNOW If John C.

Dancy will trv to break into the Sixty-fifth Con gress? If Fisk University will ever have a Negro president? If Prof. Kelly Miller is getting out a 'semi-annual magazine instead of a monthly publication? If J. D. Rivers of the Denver Statesman has not grown tired of that barren field of newspa-perdom? If there will be any Negroes eft in Georgia after the hill billies of that state finish their ynching picnics If Prof. Inman E.

Page will be recalled to the presidency of Langston University? If. Dr. R. S. Wilkinson, presi dent of the State University of South Carolina regrets the passing of Cole Blease to the realm of private life If it is not high time that some Negro blood was put upon the Jeanes' Fund Board? If William H.

Lewis will be made attorney general in the event of the election of Theodore Roosevelt? If the Lily-Whites of Louis iana will retire Walter Cohen to the quiet shades of private life? If white men care' anything about the morals of the Negro that he appoints to office? If the great and renowned Billy Sunday is drawing the color line? If Henry Ford will be sent to the asylum upon his return to America, and if he could have gotten better results by spending his money in an effort to stop the brutal butchery of Amencan Negroes by the hill billies of Georgia and other states? If all Negroes who want white wives will not go to Europe after the close of the war? If the Baltimore is not the best Negro Journal in America? If the Negroes of Hayti will ever quit fighting? If J. Monroe Trotter will make another trip to the White House, and if so, will he put on another lecture stunt? If Governor Willis of Ohio will be a candidate for the presidency? If the meeting called by Mr. Church of Memphis will develop a new leader of the Negro race? If the state of Missouri will go dry at the next general election? If Mr. Church will make the new Lincoln movement a success, and if he will back it with his money? If the Jews of the nation appreciate the support that is being given Mr. Brandies by the Negroes of the whole nation? Florida Corporation Holds Annual Meeting.

Jacksonville, Fla. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Florida Home and Investment Corporation (the Unfon Investment Company and the business of the Florida Home and Investment Corporation, con solidated), was held at the office, 44IV2 Broad street, on January 26. The majority of the stock eport covering the business done holders of the corporation were present. The secretary read his by the corporation. The treas urer's and manager's reports were embodied in the secretary's report.

All of those present were well pleased with the operation of the affairs of the corporation. The Rev. Toombs McLendon of Wash ington, who is a stockholder and director of the corporation, was present and made a very in- erestmg speech, pointing out the splendid showing the institution had made and its future possibilities. Chas. H.

Anderson, cashier of the Anderson Co. bank, who is one of the largest stockholders of -the corporation, made a strong appeal to all of those present to subscribe for more stock in the corporation. Several of those present sub scribed for additional stock. The corporation has ten thousand acres of Bradford county fertile farm land, subdivided into five, ten, twenty and forty acre farms. The location is unsurpassed for fruit, truck, gen eral farming, stock raising, and dairying.

The lots are to be sold at low prices. They are within easy reach of, large markets and give a combination of soil and cli mate, with a growing season of from 300 to 365 days to the year. This affords a wide range of pos sibilities for the investor. The mid-winter vegetable gardens and orange groves are very profitable. The corporation owns also a large amount of city property in the heart of Jacksonville.

The following gentlemen were elected as officers and directors of the corporation: Dr. M. F. McCleary, president (physican and surgeon), Jacksonville, Fla. The Rev.

J. E. Ford, vice-president (minister), Jacksonville, Fla. Dr. S.

L. Warren, vice-presi dent (physician and banker), Durham, N. C. The Rev. A.

C. Porter, vice- president (minister), Jackson ville, Fla. J. M. Baker, treasurer (under taker), Jacksonville, Fla.

The Rev. Toombs McLendon, vice-president (merchant, un dertaker and fanner), Washing ton, Ga. G. W. Powell, general manager (real estate), Durham, N.

C. W. S. Sumter, secretary (real estate), Jacksonville, Fla. Col.

I. L. Purcell, general counsel, Jacksonville, Fla. W. L.

Girardeau, Springfield, Mass. J. W. Darden, M. Ope-lika, R.

A. Dozier (merchant), Rome, W. J. Geter, Jacksonville, Prof. N.

W. Collier (educator), Jacksonville, the Rev. S. A. Williams (minister), Tampa, J.

C. Baker (mechanic), Jacksonville, G. W. Adams (cashier of Mechanics Fanners Bank), Durham, N. Dr.

S. Means Plair (druggist), Jacksonville, E. D. Brown, Jacksonville, ft I' I I 'tV 4.