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Kelly Bill Endorsed.

The bill introduced into Congress
by Representative NJ. Clyde Kelly of
pennsylvania, providing for the use
of buildings at Army camps and can
tonments as cente~S TO- Co1iaotinn
and distribution of food, was Endorsed.
and council members as well as All
other interested persons in the Dis
trlct were urged TO do everything in
their power to insure the passage
of the bill.
Petitions to the War Department
asking that a number of these tenn
porary structures be turned over to
properly constituted organizations
for the purpose designated are being
prepared, Mr.. McGrath said Use of
Army motor trucks in the work of
collecting and distributing foodstuffs
is also to be urged According to the
terms of the petitions. the track
service, as well as use of the tempo
rary buildings at camps and canton
ments, would be under the direction
OF the Post Office Department and the
Postmaster General.
Few Changes in Constitution.
The amended constitution adopted
last night differs but little from the
original constitution of the council
the changes made being designed
merely to give permanence to the or
ganization.
1t was decided to make the first
Tuesday night of every month the
regular meeting night
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CITY ITEMS.

Lumber, Mill Work and Glass.
Special mill work gotten out in own
mill; large or small orders. Eisinger
Bros, 9Th and w NV. Phone N. 1173.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-18

Court has declined to grant an injunc-
ton prayed by Eta Gray against
Adolph A. Hoehling to prevent the
prosecution of suit for eviction in
the Municipal Court. The plaintiff
charged conspiracy between the
owner of the property and the tenant
from whom she claimed to have sub
let the premises by which possession
of the property was to be obtained by
the owner to her detriment. The
court dismissed the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-18

Brass Beds ReIacquered, Satin or Bright
John A. Gottsmann & Co,
$50 Pierce st. NV.
Franklin 5431.
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Can Cut Price of Oysters.

= President McGrath gave details Of a
trip he made into the country, seek
ing new sources of supplies of va
rious foodstuffs. He told of bringing
in oysters of the finest quality, which
could be retailed at not TO exceed
40 cents quart The same grade and
quality. it was shown, retailed in the
markets at from so to 20 cents Il
quart.
Establishment of new motor truck
routes penetrating out-of- the-w way re-
gions. President McGrath said, would
open up many sources of food sup
plies now closed to District consum-
ers because of absence of transport
tation facilities
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WAYSTOCUTPR|CES
i TO Be DEMONSTRATED
park View School to Hold Food
Conservation Affair on
January IS.

With Commissioner Gardiner in
butchers white apron and cap as one
of the stellar attractions, the Citizens
Food Council of the District of CO.
lumbia is to stage a demonstration
of food conservation Saturday, jan
uary Is, at the Park View School The
affair is to be in charge of John CT.
McGrath. president of the council, who
is to have a number of assistants to
show visitors just how they may save
money, evade the profteer and OBJ
tain better supplies by means of COM
munity buying.
At last nights meeting of the coun-
eli in the board room at the District
building an amended constitution was
adopted and the organization was
made permanent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-18

The Washington Railway and EIec-
trio Company is named as defendant
in suit to recover $4,000 damages
fled in the District Supreme Court
by Gertrude NJ. Jenifer, as admins
tratrix of the estate of her husband
George A. Jenifer. A car of the COM
pany collided November S last with
an automobile of Jenifer and caused
his death. it is asserted.
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11(,ITYxN1~fhl
m@BRIEE III

Soldiers, sailors and war workers
are invited to dance of the East
Washington Community Center in the
Easte n High School at $50 o'clock
tonight.
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Stafford. The plaintiff was injured by
tripping over a hose used by the COM
pany to carry water to a cement mixer
on 2Tth street northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-18

HippoIyte Marranes has filed suit in
the District Supreme Court to recover
$40 900 damages from Burr Bros, coal
dealers. for alleged personal injury.
The plaintiff says an automobile of
the defendants ran over him NoFem-
Der l3 last a Massachusetts and New
Jersey avenues and injured him
severely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-18

vernon NJ. h, Church South Will ad-
dress the lobby service at the Y. NJ
G. \. tomorrow afternoon at o'clock
on "A Hero Who Wanted to Run"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-18

DIR. Hubert Harrison of New York
will lecture Monday night at s o'clock
at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church
on "A Race in Search of It's Soul"
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strurent the Y, NJ. C. 4. wants You
TO join it's orchestra. Players will
meet this evening at the ~ assem-
bly, hall to organize the orchestra 1t
will play at camps and at the associ-
alton building. w K. Nondeli Will be
in charge.
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DR.. Edith Rabe Of the commission

of training camp activities, War De-
partment. will lecture Monday night
at 8 O'Clock at Peck Memorial Chapel,
2Sth and NJ streets and Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, on Some War
Conditions as Applied to Girls and
Women" The lecture is free and all
women and girls over fourteen years
are invited.
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Wash. Dancing Academy

Modern ballroom dancing tzusht, also stage.
The largest stsf Of lndy and xentieman tesra.
er. in Washington. The soft-ehos Eancy snd
Clog Dancing a speciality. 631 Of. NV. Pr
yate lessons Reasonable price. II you csn
walk. we guarantee you to dsnce osfpre yea. :
ing studio. Every night you SET prsctics dase-
ing free Main o46S.
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A meeting of the Political study

n me0l1HE VI inc Stuuy
Club was held at the home of Mrs. j.
|C Cantril1 yesterday afternoon. 1t
was decided to have a joint meeting
of a number of these clubs. at which
Senator Lewis is to speak. Mrs. Ed
ward Costigan spoke on her expert
ences in the war zone. A musical pro-
gram was furnished by Mrs Cantrill 5
young daughter, Miss Margaret Ripy.
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Annie fudge has been awarded q
verdict Of $500 damages against the
Crawford Paving Company by a Jury
N Circuit Division before Justice
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Miss Ethel Miner. soprano sOlOist,
and Miss Edith Athey. pianist. will
give a program at the Y. w. C. A.
this evening from $3.50 to Z o'clock.
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THE RICHTWAy STUDIO

ete 10Th II. NV. At ~ n, Avn
Pssf Gain ref<easiiy fr<trsstiNE
tes-h tes esefF eostse, n,etsmts, ~ fs.H
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-18

The COIOred DruEgtsts' AssOcia1On
met last midnight and elected the
following officers for the ensuing
year: r. F. Plummer. president; E. o.
Peters, vice president; Edward f,
Harris, secretary, and L. III. Single
ton. treasurer; executive committee,
E. o. Peters. Benjamin F. Hailstorks
and Ode f. Valentine. Four new
m ernbers were admitted to the assoc
cation on this occasion, and the or
rsanization now consists of all the col
ored drug stores, with one or two ex-
ceptions, in the entire District.
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The Georgetown Citizens, Associa-

ton viii meet in Potomac Savings
Bank Hall Monday evening at 8
20 clock. Rev. James ?. Marshall is to
lecture on Washington, the Capital
City"
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01

white girls who preceded them in that
doesn't like colored girls. They have
to be superefficient to get along with
her and must cater to all her moods.
She wouldn't treat white. girls that
way.
So far as efficiency is concerned,
there have been numerous cases
where colored girls, given equal con-
ditions, far excelled their white sis
ters In the cartridge factory at New
ark the colored women working
nights averaged fifteen hundred more
shells per eight-hour shift than the
white women who worked in the day.
At Decatur, Illinois, tent and awn~
ing company engaged in making bags
for the Government hired colored girls
to take the place of white. Accord
ing to the rate at which the white
girls had been turning out the work, it
was estimated that it would take the
new force until February to complete
llt ICOHlIdCI ne SOiOltu 6L ID
worked so much faster than their
white predecessors that the contract
was completed eaNs in December.
These examples have no significance
as to the comparative superiority of
white or colored girls, but they do
show that as many examples can be
given of the colored girls efficiency
as of her inefficiency. 1t has been
suggested that colored girls realizing
that they were on trial, should have
taken pains to be extra efficient. But
isn't this expecting too much vision
from poor working girl?
An American employer in his treat
ment of colored women wage-earners
should square himself with that demo
cratic ideal of which he made so much
during the war. During those perilous
times white and black women looked
alike in the factory when they were
striving to keep the industry of the
country up to 100 per cent production
just as white and black soldiers
looked alike going over the top to pre-
serve the honor of the country More
over, organized labor cannot afford
to sink below the high standard to
which it rose during the war.
If either the American employer or
the American laborer continues to
deny the colored woman an oppor-
tunity to make a decent living, the
Bolshevik cannot be blamed for pro-
claiming their affirmation Of demo
cratic principles a sham.-Life and
Labor.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
EAST ST LOUIS VICTIM
GETS JUDGMENT

On Thursday, January 18th, Mrs
Carrie Observation-Disclosures, of Madi-
son, ILL.,, was awarded judgment of
$4,000 against the East st. Louis and
Suburban Railway Company.
This case grew out of an assault
upon Mrs. Williams on one of this
company's cars during the East st.
Louis riot of July 2, 1917. Although
she was injured in East st. Louis,
ILL.,, the case was filed and tried in
the courts of st. Louis Mo-, because
of the cars of the company entering
this state and it was possible to get
service on them here.
There are a number of other cases
filed against this railway company
and Mrs. Williams is the first to be
tried. others will be heard during
this term of court.
Attorney Homer G. Phillips, rep
resented Mrs. Williams and is also
the plaintiffs attorney in the remain
ing cases to be heard.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
HUNS FRIGHTENED BY NEGRO
TROOPS OF YANKEE ARMY
German Civilians Regard Them Cur
iousIy Wherever They Go.

With the American Army of Occu-
patton, Jan. Correspondence of
the Associated Press) Wherever
American Negroes have appeared in
the area occupied by the Americans
they have attracted great attention
among the civilians. In Treves, Co
blenz and other places, during the
early days of the occupation, crowds
assembled wherever any Negro sol
diers stopped in the streets, and 1T
was necessary for the military police
to enforce the orders, prohibiting
gatherings in the public thorough
fare. Even now in Coblenz and
Treves, where there are number OF
Negro soldiers, they attract crowds
of German children every time they
appear in the streets.
The German soldier also regards
the Negro with great curiosity. Ac-
cording to a discharged German sol
dier in Rengsdorf. the German army.
early in the war. offered reward of
400 marks for the capture alive of
each Negro. The discharged German
soldier said that throughout the war
German soldiers lived in great fear
and even terror of the Negroes, and
it was in order to overcome this fear
that rewards were Offered.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01

| 1t is especially significant that Chi
cago, which now has the third largest
Negro population in the country,
should be the most inconsiderate in
its treatment of the colored woman
worker AS a matter of fact, the
country as a whole has not treated
the colored working woman accord
ing to the spirit of democracy. The
essential difference between Chicago
and elsewhere is that in the other
cities the colored women made some
little progress into the skilled and So
called semiskilled industries. In Chi
cago, while she did get into many oc-
cupations into which she had never
gained entrance before, they were
only the marginal occupations. She
became the sbus girl in the dairy
lunches, the elevator girl, the ironer
in the laundry, etc. Now she is be-
ing discharged rapidly from even
these menial and low-paid positions.
For some years colored girls have
studied shorthand, typewriting and
bookkeeping in the public schools of
Chicago. But the majority of them
have been unable to find employment
other than as domestic or mattresses.
1t is especially said that just when
big mail-order house had been
forced by necessity to employ large
number of them, the scarcity problem
disappeared with the end of the war;
and the firm notified the colored girls
that after the Christmas holidays
their services would be no longer
needed
A questionable sent out by rep
resentative of the Department Of La
Dor to the Chicago employers who had
taken on colored he{p during the war,
asking if they intended to retain these
employees brought the following state
ment from one firm which expresses
the sentiment of several others ON the
discharging of colored girls at this
time: "They were employed solely on
account of the shortage of labor, and
our white girls, appreciating the fact,
acauiesced in working with them, but
, as soon as the situation clears itself
no more colored help will be en-
ployed. If the colored girls leave,
they will not be replaced. The white
girls object"
In Philadelphia the Hog Island
shipyards are adjusting their working
ee,o. 30 nrosapt oopditiopc bv letting
the colored women go and retaining
the white women, employees Would
it not be fairer to retain those of each
race who have made good?
1t is interesting to note that the
cities that are the first to release col
ored women now that the war is over
are the samei cities in which colored
women made the least industrial
progress during the war The Chi
cago advance" has been no real ad-
yapce, 1t has been simply widen
ing of front. From employment in
one or two of the nonessential occu-
nations, colored women have been per
| mitted-during the war-to get into
over score of others of the same,
grade. They made very little prog
ress up the industrial scale. Out OF
| 17O firms that employed .colored wom-
en- for the first time during the war,
40 or "a per cent of these concerns
were> hotels or restaurants, which
hired them as kitchen help or bus
girls. Twenty-one or 12 per cent were
hotels or apartment houses which
hired them as chambermaids. The
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
STRUCK NEGRO SOLDIER-IS
DISCHARGED.

First Lieut.. illus c. Miller, 60th
Pioneer Infantry, has been dismissed
from the army, by order of the Pres
ident. Lieut.. Miller was convicted by
court martial at Camp Wadsworth.
S. c., of the charges of striking two
coIored soldiers on their hands with
club, and with striking another col
ored soldier on thel head with his
fist.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01

lam OF noise. by the heu,
White and Blue, held high
~ above all else. the throngs
proclaimed that the Allies
were at last victorious. Joy, wild
mad, unrestrained joy was the pre-
vailing emotion
Whats the matter, Sally? Amt
you glad the war is over?" shrieked
one bus girl to another in the dairy
lunch, trying to make herself heard
above the ceaseless din outside, as
they picked up the soiled dishes from
the arms of the chairs where the Gus
toners had left them.
II don't know" replied Sally, as
she mechanically wiped off another
vanished chair-arm with her towel.
q Il suppose now us colored girls will
all lose our jobs
Shocking, isn't it, that even one in
dividual should be so unpatriotic at
such a time? Unfortunately, how
ever, subsequent developments. have
proved that Sally was correct in her
deduction as to what the termination
of the war TOR democracy" would
mean to her and, her race. Sally was
reasoning from bitter experience.
Isn't it somewhat tragic also that
what meant happiness to so many
should mean to one racial group a
plunge back into hopelessness?
They pulled a bedraggled mass of
cloth and mud out of creek of the
Toledo River recently. why, it's a
colored GIRL" the policeman said. 81
didn't know they committed suicide" ."
Her landlady, when interviewed, said
that on account of the end of the war
they were discharging colored girls
from the decent jobs which they
had secured during the labor scarcity.
The suicide, who was a graduate of a
Southern college, had declared, she
added, that she would kill herself be-
fore she would go back to work in a
kitchen. There's no chance for us
colored girls, even if we have an edu-
cation" the unfortunate girl had told
her friends. 'In the South they try
to make us immoral and in the North
they won't let us keep a decent job. y
Everyone is aware that almost as
soon as the armistice was signed, the
cancellation of war orders began, and
factories engaged in production de-
pendent upon the continuation of nos
tilities commenced to release their
&c ptIt c
orally known that in the majority of
plants in Chicago the first persons to
be released were colored women. II
only those were discharged who had
taken soldiers positions, it is doubt
full if any serious distress would be
caused the colored people; but the
fact is that many colored people who
had obtained their positions as re-
suit of the labor vacuum caused by
the cessation of immigration year or
two before we entered the war are
now being discharged as well as those
hired more recently. The history of
the experiences of colored women in
the present war should make fair
minded Americans blush with shame.
They have been universally the last
to be employed They were the mar
ginal workers of industry all through
the war. They have been given,
with few exceptions, the most unde-
sirable and lowest paid work. and now
that the war is over they are the first
no be released.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
CLERKS PROMOTED.

The following colored clerks in the
Internal Revenue Bureau of the
Treasury Department were promoted
to $3.50 each; John H. Paynter, w.
T. Wilson. Robert A Stewart and w.
T. Mckinney.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
RACE NEWS T.ti,'s' S,tisss s,srsss rrsn

Patron left his new home and has re-
fused to live with his bride. Today
he got an order of annulment from
Supreme. Court Justice Chester upon
the ground that his wife had misrep-
resented her race. The marriage was
the result of four weeks court
ship.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
NEGROES APPOINTED.

Prof. R. L. Logan. Prof. ]. Silas
Harris and Hon. C. w. Stokes. prom
inent Missouri Negroes, were ap-
pointed to important positions in the
souri,.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
HUSBAND DECEIVED, HAS MAR
RAGE ANNULLED.

Albany, N. Y, Dec. 31.-Discover-
wife was a colored woman, Thomas
The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
RECONSTRUCTION AND
THE COLORED WOMAN
(By Forester B. Washinston.)

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Evening star., 1919-08-31
Col. H. o. Williams Goes to Panama

Col. Herbert o. Williams, general
staff, in this city. has been assigned
to duty as chief of staff, Panama De-
partment.
Evening star., 1919-08-31
PENSION TRANSFER BILL
REPORTED FAVORABLY Y

The bill to transfer the pension
work of the bureau of war risk in
surance to the pension Office has been
reported favorably by the House PEN
sions committee.
Chairman Fuller Of the committee
says that he has been promised a
special rule to give this matter
prompt consideration in the House.
He says that in the bureau of war
risk insurance there are more than
1900 employees engaged on pension
work alone.
Officials of the pension bureau after
an investigation of the situation said
that with the facilities in their bu-
reau they could take over this work
and carry it on efficiently with less
than 500 employees.
Chairman Fuller said that his COM
mittee has received hundreds of COM
plants against the situation and the
method of operation in the bureau
of war risk insurance and that he
belives the House will act promptly
upon this measure.
Evening star., 1919-08-31
HIGH LICENSES FOR IOWA.
Owners Receive First Intimation of
Fees Under New Road Laws.

Owners of cars in Iowa have just
received the first official announce
ment of what license fees would be
under the road laws passed by the
recent session of the Iowa legislature.
For those owners who had not taken
time to figure out their fees the an
nouncement came something as a
shock.
The law bases the fee on 1 per cent
of the valuation as fixed by the state
executive council. plus 40 cents for
each 100 pounds of weight. The state
highway commission has figured fees
on this years standard models of
some of the leading cars as follows:
Buick, $3.50; Cadillac: s12.4o; Ford,
$12 to SIG: Hudson. $500; Dodge.
Overland. $3.50; Packard, $69; Paige,
ss6: Peerless. $41.
Officials of the State Department
are preparing tables for use of
county treasurers in collection of
fees to show what the registration
fees will be on all cars as far back
as 1913.
Evening star., 1919-08-31
AUTO SPEEDERS FORCED
TO VIEW BODIES OF DEAD
Chicago Court Also Sends Them to
Hospital Where Manned Are
Being Treated.

Judge Stelk of the speeders' court in
Chicago. last week adopted a new
punishment for auto speeders. He
sentenced eight men accused Of
speeding to be taken through the
morgue and the county hospital to
gaze orf the dead and manned vic
TINS of drivers.
Two hundred more will be dead be-
fore the first Of the year." said the
judge, "if reckless driving continues
as il has. If those sights don't touch
your hearts nothing will. 1 think
that a little psychology may do more
than all the fines l can impose; even
the most outrageous violators of the
speed regulations must be touched at
the sight Of the suffering faces of
some of these little children"
The men protested and pleaded to
have fines assessed. No." replied
the judge. II will postpone your
trial until after you make this trip.
My clerk is in bed, in plaster casts, now.
due to reckless driving
In the morgue the drivers saw the
body of child who had been killed
by car. In the hospital they saw
fifteen victims Of automobiles. some
of whom will never get we'll. The
eight formed a subdued party when
they had ended their inspection.