Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-14
EVERY MAN HAVEA WAR
GARDEN ANAC0SIA IDEA
suburb Divided Into Five Sections
70 Push Enterprise-New President
{ of Association Installed.

Citizens of Aracostia launched a vtgor~
ne campaign at their meeting last night
tn have every vacant plot Of ground IN
that suburb cultivated this season. there
nv assisting the government in its effort
to conserve the food supply. and the sio-
gan adopted was Every Man Have War
Garden"
C. A. Williams, chairman OF the move
1nent, presented a report of the progress
made. which indicated that nearly every
resident who had any ground whatever
was planning to raise garden To facfh-
tate the work and also to make the cam
paign more successful the suburb mas
been divided into five sections, and Su-
pervisor has been appointed for each
Tbese supervisors are G. A. Williams.
chief: A G. King, AmStead Williams,
Charles N. putnam and Samuel Huhacher.
1t is the plan of the committee to render
cooperation in all matters Any one de
string information ON the best methods to
be followed to secure best results may
consult these SUPERVISORS
For Suffrage Propaganda
The association is to begin an active
campaign to interest the community IN
the proposed Chamberlain bill. granting
suffrage to citizens of the District, unan-
irnously !ndorsing a resolution for adop-
ton of this bill and appointing 2 special
committee for propaganda. This com
fnittee consists of DR.. j. A Watson, chair
man: Charles T. Graft. c.. \. Williams,
Robert Thompson and L. NJ Anderson.
Mrs. R A Pyles, chairman of the
housing committee. reported that there
have been listed so far about twenty
desirable rooms, most of them already
! taken It is the intention of the COM
mittee to continue its work.
Street Car Service Better.
A letter from the utilities commission
/ indicated that Improvement had been
made in the street car service to the
suburb. This was borne out by state
ments from members
William j. Latimer was installed as
president for the ensuing year. Upon
taking office he said it would be his
first effort to increase membership He
asked for the support Of every citizen
OF the suburb.
Personnel of Committees.
Committees were appointed as fol-
lows:
RaiIroads-c. F. Roberts, Maurice Of
terback and A. GUIDE. Schools-C. R.
Burr, J; o. Harmon and DR.. ]. ]; Mum
and S. NJ. Frazier. Water. lights and
sewers-Willian E. Weigel. H. L.
ScaSgS ana u. y. Malone Ponce and
FIRE departments-W. H. Lawrence, T.
z Reardon and ]. W. Marbury. Ana
costa hats-C. T. Graf, B. Crifosi and
W. j. Walther- Sanitation-Dr. James
a Watson, William Mushake and S. D.
Frazier. Parks and flower beds-J- A
Harmon. jr.; C. N Barrett, NJ. E Cor
nish and 1. n. Burch. Publicity-W
". Tolson- Printing-George W. Orem,
5r. and Charles C. Lohr. Membership
w. C. James, DR.. j. A. Watson, R A.
Pyles, DR.. J. J. Mundell, DIR. Thomas D.
Audd, G. A. Williams, G. A. Seaman, S.
J. kearns. L. NJ. McCauley. S. R Camp
bell, ]. F. Campbell. Robert Thompson.
Or. c. H. Weiss, J. 3. Redd. T. E. Rear
don. Mrs. Electra Bury. W. H. Ford,
W. A Smell, l. Sandman. N. r. Har-
hish. S. NJ Frazier. A Drummond, E. ].
Aiken. l. NJ Anderson. George w
King. B. F. Thorne. II. NJ. Chase, NJ. E.
Cornish. ]. W. BARLEY, NJ. C. Dyson, H.
G Lehman and W. ]. Walther.
In connection with the membership
committee it has been decided that a
thorough canvass of the section will
be made, with the hope of securing
every resident as a member.
The special committees appointed are:
,Colored amusement parks-Dr j. j.
lundell, DR.. R A. PyIes. Charles F.
Roberts, ". W. Tolsop; and William j
I.atimer. War gardens-Ci. A. Williams
and Charles N. Putnam. War clerks
housing connlittee-Mrs. Edith q.
Pyles. chairman: Mrs Charles F. Rob
erts and Mrs. S. NJ. Frazier Insurance
&C F. Roberts. DIR. r A PyIes and ".
J.. Latiu,er.