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THE' KANSAS ELEVATOR THE ONLT NEGRO DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE WEST. Volume I KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, SATURDAY MARCH 4, 1916 No. 4 WHAT THE ELEVATOR GEORGE WASHINGTON The fiery brain of fever, heart of DOINGS OF THE RACE. From our Exchanges. who waited on President Lincoln when he headed the nation.

Wells was Lincolns coach man. He served in the Civil war on the side of the Union and when he returned to Washington he was Speaking of his selection, George Gordon Battle, a well-known New York lawyer and Democrat and former assistant district attorney, says in a letter to the New York Evening Post "As a man of southern birth who is deeply interested in the future of the Negro in the south, I am much gratified. at the selection of Major Robert R. Moton to take charge of the Tuskegee Institution as the successor of the lamented Booker T. Washington.

Booker Washington was nowhere more highly esteemed and respected than among the white people of his community. Undoubtedly he has done more than any man of either race to inspire hope of an ultimate and happy solution of this great problem (the Negro problem). WOULD LIKE TO KNOW If the Paul Jones Masrazine is not the cleanest and best publi cation of its Kind in tne united States published bv a Negro, and why that splendid book is not more generally read Dy tne Negroes of the nation? If M. W. Fields will be the next Grand Master of the Ma sonic fraternity of Missouri, and if he is not the best man yet mentioned for that exalted posi tion? If the briliant William Henry Harrison will be able to overthrow the new election law of Oklahoma? If the colleges of the country are not turning out too many Negro lawyers and doctors and not enough farmers and business men? If Hon.

W. S. Dickey will be able to line up the Negroes of Missouri and if they will stand hitched until the primaries? If a good cook is not of more service to any community than a poor school teacher? If the days of great Negro opera and minstrel companies are numbered and if so, why? If Col. Nick Chiles had Bishop Parks in mind when he wrote his masterful article aaginst abuses in the Methodist Church, and if the good 'Bishop was sent a marked copy of the same If the Rev. Sam Bacote will continue to serve as the seventh member of the Kansas City Board of Education? If Brother John M.

Collins of the Sacramento, Review will ever be able to build up "a Negro newspaper in the capital of California? If Dr. Ernest Lyon of Baltimore really favor segregation for a mess of pottage, and if so, should anyone feel surprised Lyon is a politician and more need not be said. If the Negro policewoman gave satisfaction to the department in Seattle, and if so why she was not retained? If the Negro who himself draws the color line has any right to holler about segregation, and if Washington, D. hasn't more of this class of Negroes than any other spot on God's green earth? If the race-lifters, in the various women's leagues, are not more interested in Uf tine them selves than they are the race Tf Charlev Banks of Mound Bayou did not make a mistake at the last Republican national convention hv an exhibition of the hitr sums of monev triven him for his in-Flee-Ence? and if he had, at that time, any intimation tnat the bottom of his town was about to drop out? If Col. William Jenninirs Bryan has seen the hand-writing on the wall, and if this is why the associated press reports him as being for the renomination of President Wilson? If Prof.

Lee of Lincoln High School, Kansas City, will cut off some of the dead limbs attached to that school. Some of whom have neither ability nor manners. If all of the Negroes of Kansas City should feel proud of Mons. William Clarence Hueston and Nelson Crews? If Homer G. PhilliDS and Geo.

Vaughn will test the validity of the segregation law, just pased in St Louis to the Supreme court of the United States I If the new Board of Education of Kansas City, Missouri will cut off some of the worthless and useless men assistants in the public schools? By so doing they will confer a great favor upon a long suffering public' pain, So great the faith of souls in vir tue power Which radiates, like grace of God, from you, God bless you, sister of the Naza- nne Like him you go about to cure the ills Of men, within the world's vast hospital: Christ crucified upon the cross your model is. Blest sacrifice and service give you power. You are a virgin, and a mother, too: Your children are the deeds of love and toil You daily bring into the world of sin. The records of your faith and chanty. Your bride is Christ who eke your Savior is, His mother is your mother, yea, and mine.

The healing balm you deftly pour in wounds Is God's sweet grace distilled on Calvary. Hail! Most heroic figure of the age! Hail! Consolatrix of the stricken race! Sweet Nun of Christ, may the God of mercy bless Your life of sacrifice, transform your deeds For men performed, but in His name, Into eternal years of peace and joy. The world salutes the conse crated Nun, God's angel in the world's great hospital. Rev. Henry B.

Tierney. TEXAS LOSES JIM CROW SUIT AGAINST RAILWAY. Austin, Tex. Chief Justice Key, of the court of civil appeals, has handed down an opinion de- ciding against the State in its suit against the Galveston-Har-risburg and San Antonio railroad, charged with violating the state's jim crow law by allowing four Negroes to ride in a sleeping car from Los Angeles to San Antonio. The justice ruled that the train was an interstate carrier and the state had no jurisdiction over the passengers also, that the state failed to show whether there were cars with separate compartments for Negroes, which is all that the law requires.

Postmaster of Wichita. endeared him to the people who delight to honor him. Capt Shields would be an honor to any position even that, of the postmaster generalship of the U. No appointment made by the President and Senator Thompson has given more general satisfaction. He is kind, sympathetic and a friend to all humanity.

His voice from out its silent holt Of destiny and death Is speaking to us through the years And listen what it saith Does banded bravely still prevail, Are yoemen, old and young, Ready to leave the plow and flail When the battle-call is sprung? Broad-based upon my soldiers' blood, Does the land of which I'm sire, Still ride unconquered on the flood That sweeps her spirit higher? His voice insurgent as of old Amid its dust of dreams Is speaking to us words of gold What answer in us teems? Yea, father of immortal worth, We strive as you would ask To measure by truth's broader girth Our country's creed and task; For here amid the worlds at strife Thy spirit bears increase In us a living balance-of-power In the kingly cause of peace There is a smile upon his face, And lambent o'er his brow The radiance of immortal grace Bedecks his visage now No coward and no cringing heart Holds now the sword he drew, But one who sets in space apart The vajtn and blatant crew While he, as Washington would have, Coerces to his will The uses of the power of state To a higher purpose still. Baltimore Sun. THE WORLD'S WORKERS. New times demand new meas ures and new men; The world advances and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' days were best; And doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the Steady growth of truth. We can not hale Utopia on by But better, almost, be at work in sin, Than in brute inaction browse and sleep.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil! The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set Until occasion tells him what to do; And he. who waits to have his task marked out Shall die and leave his errand un fulfilled. James Russel Lowell. NEGROES PROTEST AGAINST M'CUNE League Holds Judge Culpable for Objectionable School Conditions. From the Kansas City Post.

The Negro Civic League of Kansas City is unalterably op posed to the retention of Judge McCune on the board of educa tion and takes this means of making its position clear to the people of this community. 1. In the past ten years mill ions of dollars have been voted by the taxpayers of Kansas City for the building and improvement of public schools, yet not one dollar has been spent on ne gro schools, which are a disgrace to the municipality. With three exceptions, the miserable shacks in which negro children are housed are unfit for dumb brutes. 2.

To set a position in the negro schools of Kansas City the applicant is told that he must have been educated in a white school This being true, what hope is there for the negro girls and boys who are unable to go to white schools, and who must content themselves with what learning they can get in negro schools. We hold, without reservation, Judge McCune partly responsible for the, above condition of our schools and appeal to the voters of Kansas City to refuse him a renomination. Prof. John T. Layton Dead.

Washington, D. C. Professor John T. Layton, assistant director of music in the public schools of Washington, District of Columbia, died Monday, February 14, 1916, at 11 o'clock p. m.

Professor Layton was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, and received his early education in the public schools of Trenton and Bordentown, N. J. In young manhood he responded to the call for service in the navy of the union. He was in the historic explosion of ships in the harbors of Charleston, S. being among the 125 survivors of that catastrophe.

For a few years Professor Layton was connected with the police department of Washington also he was a member of the District National Guard. The Grand Army of the Republic had no, prouder member through many years, and to this body Professor Layton devoted time and his rare musical talents. In 1881 he was appointed to teach music in our public schools. Only "one other instructor in this subject was found when he entered the system. When he died there were eight, of whom he was the chief.

The influence of this man was not confined to the schools, but went out into public civic service, in elevating the tone of music in the community here and elsewhere. The drilling and interpretation of Coleridge Taylor's "Hiawatha" by Professor Layton revealed not only the genius of the composer but the rare powers of the leader. Forty years and more he led the choir of the here, and made it the Mecca of Metropolitan A. M. E.

Church lovers of religious song. The splendid hymnal of the Methodist Church was prepared by him. He is the author of several musical compositions. The body laid in state in Metropolitan Church on Friday, February 18, 1916, on which day he was buried. He studied at the Cardiff and Collins Institute, and Round Lake Conservatory at Martha's Vineyards, at the West End Conservatory, as well as at Wilder-force University, from which he received the degree of doctor of music in 1906.

He also studied under Dr. E. S. Kimball and Dr. E.

Lent. He was a member of Eureka Lodge, F. A. A. and the Scottish Rite (33) the Colored Oldest Inhabitants' association, the Colored Teachers' Aid and Annuity association, the Independent Order of St.

Luke and the Ban-neker Aid association. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, and two sons, J. Turner Layton, a musicion of New York, and Alfred Mason Layton, a student in the Stree High school here. TUSKEGEE'S NEW HEAD (From the Atlanta Constitution) It is as fortunate for Tuskegee Institute and its future as it is gratifying to those who are really interested in the work it is doing for the Negro race, that the man chosen to succeed the late Booker T.

Washington as head of it believes, as he did, that the best friends of the Negro are the intelligent and broad-minded white people of the south. Major Robert R. Moton he gained his title through actual service with the Hampton Institute cadets the new principal of Tuskegee, is a full-blooded Negro a thorough black, and he is proud of the fact He comes to Tuskegee from Hampton Institute, where he served under Dr. Fris-sell, the white principal of the institution, and an educator of national distinction. While somewhat widely sepa rated in their respective neids, Maior Moton and Booker Wash ington were friends and associ ates, to the extent at least that the former acquired an understanding of the ideas and aims of the late head of Tuskegee.

and has both stated and shown deter mination to carry them out. There is every indication that he is not onlv canable. but possesses those qualities and characteris tics which will have as muca not more to do with the success of the institution than capacity. given employment by Lincoln. Wells served many of the foreign legations in Washington and was known for years as "the dean of the diplomatic door tenders," having served the Mexican Legation twenty-four years in that capacity.

THE HOSPITAL NUN. Like breath of heaven in the smidst of hell, Liw love of God fulfilled in ec-stacy, Like smile benign on God's own face divine, You come to ease infernal pain, and pray. Samaritan in woman's sacred robes, Embassadress from God of peace and health, Fresh healing oil you pour in aching wounds, The way prepare for Christ the Lord to come. No labor is too mean, no thought too high, No prayer or sacrifice too great for you If by that toil, that thought, that sacrifice Some good be wrought for strangers whom you serve. Sweet angel of the battlefield, brave Nun, Meek spirit of the silent house of pain, Thou art the noblest martyr of them all, When angry cannon belch their stream of hell Into the very mist of firing line And sons of weeping mothers, bleeding, fall, You, woman, rob grim war of hate and pain, By toil unceasing wrought for wounded men, Redeeming slaughter by your Christ-like care, And plucking terror from the heart of Your eyes, so pure and fair, made bright By sparks from flames of Christ's most Sacred Heart.

Are stars of hope to sinners on the way So dark, that leads to penitential death; Your hands drop benedictions Those consecrated fingers whose soft touch A blessing is to sick humanity. To touch the hem immaculate, remote, Of your blest habit, angel Nun, would 'reft 1 4 t' Capt Jno. II. Shields, Capt Jno. H.

Shields, postmaster of Wichita, is one of the substantial citizens of the Peerless Princess of the Plains. Capt Shields has been a factor in Kansas politics for years and is a power in the councils of the party. His long brilliant career has Major Moton's views are all formed along the lines of his great preceptor, and I hope and believe that he will be equal to the task of carrying forward a work which has been so nobly begun, and that Tuskegee Institute, Hampton Institute, the Manassas Industrial school and other like institutions through the south will continue to be not only centers of education and improvement for the colored race, but also growing and continuing sources of that mutual good will and respect which will enable the two races to pursue their sepe- rate but friendly and honorable destinies. Mr. Battle's statement is a clear and accurate expression of that sentiment among the white people of the south, which has proven helpful to the advancement of the Negro race, particularly along these lines, which will be most useful to its mem bers.

NEW YORK CITIZENS ORGANIZED FOR WORK The colored citizens of Greater New York are making extensive preparations to carry on an active and thorough local campaign to raise their share of the which the race throughout the country has been asked to subscribe to the Booker T. Washington Memorial fund. Every colored person in Greater New York will be called upon to give from twenty-five cents to a dollar, at least, to the fund. Already the white people have raised over half a million dollars. At a meeting of citizens, held Tuesday evening in the assembly room of St Mark M.

E. Church, the following officers were chosen to carry on an extensive local campaign: The Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell, chairman; James W.

Johnson, acting vice-chairman; Lester A. Walton, secre tary; Miss Josephine E. Holmes, assistant secretary; Dr. E. P.

Roberts, treasurer; Miss Edith Leonard, assistant treasurer. Executive Committee: Bishoo Alexander Walters, Charles W. Anderson, James W. Johnson, Wilford H. Smith, Dr.

York Russell, Fred R. Moore, Frank H. Gilbert. Thomas W. Grigsby: John E.

Nail, Dr. Charles H. Rob erts, John M. Royall, the Rev. Dr.

W. H. Brooks, the Rev. Dr. W.

M. Moss, the Rev. Dr. B. W.

Arnett, William F. Trotman, Walter E. Handy, Philip A. Pay-ton, Edward A. Warren, George W.

Harris, Anthony McCarthy, Dr. C. A. Butler, Eugene Kinckle Jones, Mrs. M.

C. Lawton, Mrs. Dora Cole Norman, Mrs. Rosalie McClendon and Mrs. Daisy Reed.

Honorary Vice Chairmen (more to be chosen) W. David Brown, William H. Smith, George W. Allen, B. F.

Thomas, Lee Crawford, Dr. William E. Lee, the Rev. Dr. W.

W. Brown, the Rev. Dr. W. R.

Lawton, the Rev. Dr. R. M. Bolden, Oscar Payne, R.

E. Nicholas, J. W. Brown, Dr. V.

T. Thomas, Dr. J. Emanuel and J. L.

Jamison. The next meeting of the Gen eral Citizens' Committee will be held Wednesday evening, March 1. in the assembly room of St Mark's M. E. Church at 8:30 o'clock.

All are invited. The Executive Committee will meet for organization Friday. Editorial page LINCOLN'S COACHMAN LIVING IN WASHINGTON Washington, D. Richard Wells, a Negro, who lives at 1633 Street and who was born in Prince George's County. Maryland, in 1836, enjoys the distinct ion of being the only man alive.