Show smile that yields large dividends provides funds for family of murdered kansas city policeman kansas city mo just how good an investment in life Is a smile the question Is answered in kansas city where fortune Is being bestowed upon the widow and children of J H happy smith traffic patrolman who was shot and killed by bandits who raided a downtown bank during the recent republican convention mapy delegates and visitors from the east made the acquaintance of happy smith during their stay here to have seen happy at his post directing as much with his smile as with the semaphore was to know him day after day rain shine or snow smith was on duty directing and untangling traffic all tor the a month to support a wife and five children the city had learned to love him for his faithfulness and good spirit when visitors arrived their attention always was directed toward happy smith who could smile at the traffic violators and make that smile mean more than a lecture guide convention crowds so tt was that when the city was full of visitors for the republican convention happy was a center of attraction when he held back traffic at four corners to escort an aged couple across he was not staging an exhibition but was performing a dally duty prompted by a kindly heart at high noon on june 14 six raided the home trust company near happas happys Hap pys comer when the bandits were scooping up money tear gas was turned upon them by an employee of the bank crazed by the effect of the gas the bandits scrambled into their car and started away shooting wildly out both sides of the car and there was happy smith he baw the car approaching in violation of the semaphore the patrolman put up his hand and widened bis smile but the response was something he was unused to receiving one of the bandits possibly two let happy have it ia the stomach although he was rushed to a hospital and obtained blood by transfusion from his brother happy smith had smiled for the last time before arrangements had been made for smiths funeral his smile began to pay dividends money came pour ing in from high and low toward a fund to provide for mrs smith and the five children A dozen benefits were arranged As money came trickling in another move was on foot A contractor started it he offered to supervise the building or a home for the smith family and another man donated a tot accounting to date shows approximately in cash a home and lot a position for the older smith girl a scholarship for another and physicians and dentists services tor years to come all of which are the dividends reaped by the family of a man who invested heavily in smiles |