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ballot for his people. hope Col. c. H.
Young will not get hold of this, for
he will join with the white folks or
will have something to say to them.
Have you ever met Hon. Charles
Banks, the financier of Mississippi,
and that is putting it mildly. He is
man with vision, and a man who
has done something to better the con-
dition of his race in this world, and
will help US in the world to come.
He has taken hold of Mound Bayou,
redeemed it, and put it in the manu-
featuring world. or something like
that, BY building in that little town,
Mound Bayou, the largest cotton seed
mill in the South, raised the money
and its wheels will be going this fall,
furnishing employment to thousands
of our people. / am willing to take
of not alone my hat but my head to
the man who is doing something. He
is connected with the things in Mis-
sissippi that mean uplift, and has been
for years next to DR.. Booker T. Wash
ington, being first vice-president Of
the National League, but has refused
to allow his name to be used as pres
ident.
R. E. Clay. o. Virginia, is also
some hustler in this business He is
assistant registrar. ] know he helps
to write down al The names Of the
delegates or the men who attend the
meeting. He is some pumpkins III this
matter. / net man from Memphis
by the name Of D. NJ. Roddy, who
is without a doubt our Pigly Wigly
man. for he is establishing a chain
of stores all over this country, and
what tell you they are some stores
We are lesrning the art of putting
our money together, and making big
things, and if we fail get up and
try again just like others. They have
five stores, D. N. Roddy is president
and Thomas H. Hayes, that wealthy
undertaken, is the vice-president- They
call It the Citizens Cooperative
Stores, with authorized capital stock
of $4,000. You can buy only ten
shares in this store project, but it is
not mine to tell you the cost.
It is a big thing to meet repre-
sentative men and, believe me, honey
1 am going to another meeting. Johr
L. Webb came to my attention, and
he is a great big man, and you may
say / told you this if you desire to
He Is at the head Of the WOOdman
of Union, which Is = fraternal organ
izati0n doing one hundred thousand
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dollars worth of business every year.
He lives in Mississippi, and that tells
you that he is a man. He is also
president of the National Insurance
Association, connected with the bus
mess league. He brought along with
him his family to catch the inspira-
ton, Mrs. John L. Webb, his daugh-
ter, Miss E. E. Webb, and then he
went above the ordinary by bringing
along his mother-in-law, Mrs. E. Bran
son of Mariana, ARK. Who will be
the next to 10 something great?
l heard that YOUNG intellectual and
financial giant, E. C. Brown, of Phila-
delphip. who is establishing a chain
of theatres over the country, and /
am sure that you have heard of that
great one in New York, and the one
being erected in Philadelphia, the one
in Baltimore, Savannah, and other
places. / will talk about them later,
and / am going to tell you a few
things about R. E. Clay in my next
letter, or Just as soon as can go
down in his country and see about
the hospital they are building. Mr..
Brown is a wonder himself, and / am
proud that I met him.
have seen the light of a new day
for you and for me. / am just full
this week, and it would take a whole
paper for me to express myself. /
will tell you about the Supreme Lodge
in my next letter. Keep your eye on
me, for ] shall say something to you
from time to time. / heard Mrs. Ma
.ilda Andrews, Of Denver, Colo, tell
them about raising hogs. She said
that she did not make a hog out Of
business, but business out of the hog.
She told the people who desired 70
raise hogs if they would be kind to
the hog he would be kind to them,
and give great returns. She did not
permit her hogs to wallov in the
mud and filth, but kept them in a dry
pen, giving them plenty fresh clean
water to drink. In 9 years she had
never had any disease among them,
and when asked by some one con-
corning lice, she said her hogs did not
have them because she kept them
clean.
l think had better stop here for
a while and turn my attention to other
things. Nail viii reach me for the
next two. weeks at 1928 North 9th
street, Philadelphia, Penn.
1 had the pleasure of seeing Bishop
W. h. Heard down here in this part
Of the world.
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COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON TO
BE GUEST OF CHICAGO
CITIZENS.
By DR.. M. A. Majors.

For the citizens of Chicago to give
to one of our eminent men a recep-
ton is indeed a most fitting tribute
to one so worthy as Americas only
Negro Colonel, Franklin A. Denison.
The writer has known him for many
years and knows him possibly better
than any one in Illinois. And, know
ing hin appreciates his stalwart char
aeter and spirit to advance in spite
of bis racial identity and the difficult
ties attendant thereto.
What makes Colonel Denison diff
ferent in many things from most Of
the white and colored men one meets
doubtless is a rich heritage of manly
force bequeathed to him by birth. All
Of US are not born under suspicious
skies. Our colonel apprenticed to the
wheelwright and blacksmith trade,
studied concert music and trained
Negro military band which could play
martial music, but those were merely
the first whisperings of his obstruce
nature to occupy his early years. 1t
was at a colored mems convention
in Texas and in the presence OF its
then governor Ireland that he became
inspired with a promise of future use
fitness, seeing then for the first time
a greater life great Nature had map
ped out for his rugged spirit. 1t was
there, in the house of representatives
Of TIE Texas Capital at Austin, in
1888, that a determination fired him
to 60 to college.
1t was Disraeli who said: 1.-The
secret of success in life is for a man
to be ready when his opportunity
comes"
Many men so handicapped, with
only a meagre observation of big
things, and confronted with none OF
those greater aspects of racial prog
ress to lure him on, with a humble
start in the sphere of human knowi-
edge and cursed with poverty, there
must have been present in his COM
position the superman spirit to over
nde obstacles and break down BAR
rers that seemingly everywhere were
present. &
In the year 1883 he left Texas as
delegate to the COlOred Mems Ma
dOnal convention which met in Louis
vile, KY, and that fall entered Lin
University from which he graduated
i've years later.
Coming to Chicago soon after his
graduation he entered the Chicago
Law School from which he graduated
With honors. He was appointed as
assistant city attorney, assistant cor
pOratiOn counsel, served in the Span
ah-American war as officer for the
United States land Office, made
major of the 9Th regiment I. n. Gu
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promoted colonel, trained and led his
regiment to France. He is now as
sistant attorney general of Illinois.
This is quite a remarkable career
for any man and no matter of what
race. AS to his worth in the mat
tiers of race welfare, he has been a
faithful servant, filling positions Of
such prominence with ability and
such credit as to place him in the
very front ranks of our most emf
nent men. He has shown by his
devotion to whatever official duty
assigned to him that men of our race
can be trusted with important af-
fairs.
This unique distinction that all
of Chicago feels and appreciates,
comes unsolicited, but is happy cul-
mination of a joyful conscience that
impels such sober thought and &C
ton.
Col. Denison has distinguished him.
self as an able lawyer and as a brave
commanding officer of the 9Th regi-
ment, whose gallantry in arms was
invincible on the battlefelds OF
France.
He has a beautiful family and has
managed by thrift and the proper
kind of investments made their COM
fort and happiness secure.
As colonel of the famous 9Th regi-
ment he conducted himself as a man
of military authority and dignity be-
coming his rank. His earnestness and
great force of character is reflected
in the deeds of valOr portrayed BY
the brave soldiers under his COM
mand.
The work he mapped out in the
training and preparation of his regi'
ment through rigid and ardous, spoke
chapters of race history on the fight
ing front in France. At Fort Sam
Houston and at Camp Logan at Hous-
ton. Texas, his diligent watchfulness
and sober, earnest painstaking devel,
oped a military ingenuity in the ranks
of his men that caused the entire
world to take notice Of their splen-
dor and gallantry in arms
So well did he train them and
equip them for the rugged Ordeais OF
the worlds greatest war in the finest
points of military proves that the
press of the south, the north and the
east was most fiattering in its praise
of his regiment. And when they had
crossed the Atlantic ocean and land
ed in France they were almost nObbed
with admiration and praise by the
people of the French republic. So
wen did they rank with the best OF
the sesOnod troops Of England and
France and America that Col Deni-
SON seemed almost a cOnquerer with
the black troops, men Of his own race.
Strange, indeed, was il when the
black troops under their own ON
GERS fighting against wen trained
unbsatsn foe, captured his strong
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in-law, Mrs. Mckinley Emanuel, left
for Idlewild, Mich, where they will
spend two weeks vacation and enter
tain some of her friends at her sum-
mer home, where they will be able
to enjoy delightful rides on the lake
in her Iarge-sized family motor boat
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DR.. FANNIE EMANUEL WILL
SPEND TWO WEEKS AT HER
SUMMER HOME, IDLEWILD,
MICH.

Tuesday evening DR.. flannel Eman-
Juanita Emanuel, and her daughter
Juanita Emanuel, and her daghter-
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at Hampton Institute-in fact he was
the leading spirit down there ever
holds and drove him back, sustain
ing themselves on the fields of battle
against the flower of the German
army, asking no quarter and giving
none. This was quite sufficient to
arouse the jealousies of the associate
officers of command. They did not
enjoy the chagrin such a condition
set up by the gallant colonel whose
command more than withstoOd the
fury of the German army, achieving
laurels, taking positions no white
military force could hold against the
Germans.
This routine became an every day
occurrence and white men who boast
of their rich, red blood do not grow
eloquent over their own lack of man
" courage and weak forbearance.
This, of course, made Col. Denison
a mark of scorn and brought to him
sleepless nights. God alone knows
what hardships he had to bear because
of the infallibility and advanced mil
itary training of his regiment. Hard
words among military officials find
Justice blind to the cause of a minor
force. A colonel will maintain his
rights and exercise military authority
given him by his official rank. But
color is discredited even when right
it seems sits on the throne.
1t was an awful day for the black
man of the world when the allied mil
itary officials virtually stole the COM
mand of the old 9Th regiment, which
became the 37Oth.
They stole from the Negro race
of the world the right to promotion
beyond the colonelcy in the Amer
lean army and it was done to satisfy
that morbid, insane nature of the
rich. red blooded white man who dis
dams the Negro because of superior
physical force beyond his contempt
bic comprehension.
The war was waged to save the
world for democracy, and no element
of the races fought more valiantly
nor to more noble purpose than the
black soldiers of the world.
Ask the Germans who survived the
awful war who made them bite the
dust the hardest and there is but one
answer, 'the black devils" This, too
is the plaudit of the press of the civ
ilized world.
Some fine day the virgin truth Of all
the diabolical trickery and intended
humiliation to our officers and sol
diers will be written, and people of
civilized America will wonder at the
wholesale dare deviltry of the south
which had its cohorts in the militia
of the nation in the battle front in
France. The south is in the saddle
and that was all the trouble.
Col. Franklin A. Dennison viii
not be appreciated to a full measure
for his rare achievement in the mill
tary life of our nation until the facts
are made known. At any rate, we are
too near the huge undertaking and
the colossal achievement Of our men
in arms is too recent for rs, unused
to sing Of our own heroes, and write
the praisewOrthy things that at this
date are ours for splendor and world
significance. But truth win not die
1t win live, it win Outlast envy and al
ssPping time
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
URGE HIGHER
SALARIES FOR
STAT|ST|C|ANS
Pay Reyisers Told Government
Must Cease to Be Training
School of Private Firms.

rhe Senate Appropriations Com
miftee this norring reported IA
vorabfy on the resofutton Of
Senator jones Of New Mexico to
extend the tfme for the eomplet-
fng OF the work of the Joint Com
mission on Reconsideration of Sal
aries from January II to March
II. Tie program Of the commits
saon las developed to sseh an ex-
teat that IL was found Impossible
to nntsh IL by January II, the
aate set By the bill creating the
eoaaiasken.
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
l2-YEAR OLD GIRL
Is RUN DOWN BY CAR
Esther Sinons Cut On Face When
Struck by w. r. & E. Train
sn East Capitol Street.

Esther Simons, twelve years old, IL.
Twelfth street southeast was struck
by Washington Railway and Elec.
trie Company car At Twelfth and Ea.t
Capitol streets yesterday afternoon
She was removed to Casualty Hos
pital and treated for cuts on the face
Her condition IL not serious.
Private walter Newman. COMPANY
E Stxty-shird infantry, vas struck
by An automobile driven By John q 7.
Ritter. OF the National Coal Com.
pany. At Tenth street and Pennsyl.
vAatA AVENUE north west last night
He received . scalp wound and severe
contustons OF the right hip and leg
He was taken to Emergency Hospital
where his condition Is reported as no,
serious.
Joseph F. Jones co31 Ninth street
northwest was struck by wagon
owned by the W. w. Griffith Goa
Company at Ninth and U streets
northwest last night. sustaining in
,ufies ABOUT the right knee He was
taken to Freedmen's Hospital
An automooile driven by Miss Cath.
crime Ayres, daughter of Congressman
William A Ayres, collided with .
Washington Railway and Electric
Company car at North Capitol stree,
snd Massachusetts avenue. The auto
mobile was slightly damaged.
Miss Clara Steyiason, 1906 1 stree,
northwest, q stranger in the city
made q left-hand turn at Fourteenth
street and New York avenue through
ignorance OF the traffic regulation,
and coliided with an automobil.
driven by George Mesta Mesta's ca,
was slightly damaged
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
PR|CEF|XERS
FAIL To ACT,
|SCR|TC|SM
Two Members of Committee,
DispIeased at Inaction, Con-
slider Resigning.

The apparent inactivity of the fair
price committee to enforce announced
scale of prices is creating dissatis-
faction among several Of the most
aggressive members OF the commit
tee. So discouraged are two members
OF the committee ait the failure of
that body to lower prices that they
today were considering sending their
designations to Clarence R Wilson.
chairman.
Since organizing, nearly six weeks
ago, the committee has taken but two
steps to reduce the cost of food. 1t
was ruled about month ago that
milk could not be sold by grocers at
more than Q cents pint, 1s cents a
quart
A resolution aiming to bring down
the cost Of meats was also passed.
and 1t was decided to make meat
dealers post in a conspicuous place
the wholesale prices paid for meat.
After these steps had been taken by
the committee, announcement of the
action was made in the newspapers.
Householders were urged to report
all violations Of the committees or
der.
month has passed. vioIators of
the milk rule have been found all over
the city. One member of the commit
tee secured evidence that would be
sufficient to prosecute four grocers
for violating the commissions order
by charging 10 and 20 cents a quart
for milk.
The committee referred the cases to
the District Attorney three weeks
ago. There has been no known action
taken on these cases. Grocers still
continue to sell milk at 10 cents a
quart, and 10 cents q pint, despite
the ruling.
The meat order has not been car
ried out. Dealers have not been in
structed to post retail prices. Con-
ditions remain the same today as
they were before the committee was
organized.
When 1t was learned no action was
being taken on the milk cases the
committee member especially in
terested In milk ceased securing evil
dance on violators Of the ruling.
The fair price committee met in
the Department of Justice Building
yesterday afternoon. Following the
meeting the announcement made
that There is absolutely nothing to
give out"
II no action is taken shortly the
designations of several members will
probably be in the hands of the COM
mittee. One member of the commit
teo recently expressed his attitude:
"If the committee is going to do
something, let them do 1t. There is
no use Of passing orders, then not
enforcing them. The public wants
action, and apparently they are not
getting it."
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
ZONE BILL LIKELY
TO PASS BY XMAS
Measure Restricting Height and
Character Of Buildings Here
Nears Senate Passage.

Passage Of the zone commission bill
for the regulation of building opera
Ions in the residential sections of
Washington Is expected in the Sen
ite before Congress recesses for
Christmas. An agreement has been
'eached. Senator Calder of New YORK
announced today, whereby objection
% the measure will be removed.
The establishment Of q zone com
mission in Washington that will pre-
cribe the heights of buildings and
: he character of new structures in
he residential districts," said Sem
.rtor Calder, will be one of the finest
things for the Identification of the
National Capital that Congress has
ever attempted to do. Such a law
has been enacted in New York city
with great success. There is great
need for strict regulation here to call
halt to the numerous business
structures that are being erected in
The residential sections, many of
which are an eye sore to the city"
Senator Smoot Of Utah has held up
action on the zone hill for a long time.
He objects to the wide powers given
the commission. which could prevent
a person from erecting a private gar
age on his property or otherwise in
terfere with additions to private resi-
dences. IL it sees fit
Commissioner Brownlow conferred
with Senator Calder at the Capito,
recently, with a result that an agree
ment was made with Senator Smoot
whereby that fault in the bill would
oe covered by an amendment strictly
safe guarding the rights OF resident
owners. Senator Smoot consents TO
the passage of the bill on these terms
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
ICE SKATING TO
FEATURE HOLIDAYS
Cold Weather and Promise of
More Cheers Hearts of
Lovers of Sport.
Skaters, attention!

If the cold weather keeps up, and
Edward II. Bowie. the supervising
forecaster of the Weather Bureau
thinks it will, there's going to be lots
Of ice skating around Washington
during the Christmas season.
And the first place Washingtonians
are going TO journey to try out their
skill on the ice will be the Geological
Park, or possibly the Soldiers Home
Out at the Zoo this morning. N. Hol-
lister. superintendent. who's always
trying to get ice on his pond for the
skaters, says "wait a few days"
At the Zoo all but about 500 square
feet of the pond is covered with ice an
inch thick. The rest is not frozen
and the ducks are still having a mer-
~ time. Superintendent Hollister
says the skating cannot begin until
all the ducks are out, and the ducks
won't come out until it's completely
frozen. Then again Superintendent
Hollister said he would take the
ducks out of the pond IL it wasn't for
the fact that every time they try to
catch a duck, he dives under the ioe
and disappears.
A thin layer of ice covers the Tidal
Basin. Five or six days of zero
weather probably will cover the basin
with sufficient ice to allow skating
L. Gordon Leech, manager Of the
Basin Beach. will conduct the skating
when the ice becomes thick enough.
Mr.. Leech today was making arrange
ments to care for hundreds Of Wash
ington skaters at the basin.
There is very little ice on the Poto-
mac river. A thin layer can be seex
around the shores, but the middle OF
the river has not frozen.
Forecaster Bowie makes this state
ment:
at appears today that the cold
weather will continue for some time.
Although the temperature will mod
crate between now and tomorrow, /
think IL will remain cold enough to
permit ice to form"
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
LEAGUE WOMEN AID
CHlDREN'S HOSPITAL

At the meeting yesterday afternoon
of the Anthony League, Mrs. Archi-
bald Hopkins spoke on the Children's
Hospital campaign and suggested
that 81 be given by each one present
as memorial to some beloved child.
In response to that appeal the fol-
lowing members of the league con-
trtbuted to the fund: Mrs. Anna E.
Hendley, Mrs. Laura F. McCarty, Miss
Clarine McCarty, Mrs. Evelyn c. Wild
ney, Mrs. Holm. Mrs. Furlow, Mrs.
Anna Jenness Miller, Mrs, Clara
Avery, Mrs. Pope, Miss Myrtle Stem
son, DR.. Du Comb. Mrs. Henry Nc
Crea, Mrs. II. T. Wilson, Mrs. H E.
Stine, Mrs George Taylor, Mrs. Percy
NJ. Bailey, Mrs. Margaret Neale and
Mrs. W. H Moses
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
What's the Matter
With
1heSchOOlS?

Washington school system IS
short of teachers, short of room,
short Of equipment, and IN de-
pIoroote state otherwise. In this
series of articles The Times tpill
set forth the conditions, for the
iryormation of Washington peo-
pie and members of Congress.
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
TEN ABOVE ZERO HERE:
SNOW DUE TOMORROW

When your family alarm clock goes
off tomorrow morning and you make
grab for it, smother it in the bed
covers, and slowly start to pull on
your clothes, don't be surprised IL you
just happen to glance out of the win
dow of your room and see snow on
the ground.
No, not a heavy snow, mind you;
just one of those light SHOWS that
come in the night and are gone be-
fore noon.
Then when you stick your head out
Of the door you probably will fino
that 1t is slightly warmer; for the
Weather Bureau predicts a minimum
temperature of about Is degrees
above zero. -
The thermometer this morning reg
istered 10 above, the coldest this win
ter. and in fact since the winter Of
1918, the coolest day of which was
on January S, when the lowest was
IL degrees.
However, it will turn slightly
warmer before nightfall, and maybe
the snow will start falling Just as 1t
Is beginning to get dark.
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
PAVING OF SEVENTH ST.
URGED BY ASSOCIATION

A resolution urging the paving Of
Seventh street southwest. from P
street to the river front, was adopted
unanimously by the South Washing
ton Citizens Association, at q meeting
last night in the Jefferson School.
The Commissioners also will be
asked by what authority frame stor.
age buildings have been erected at
Sixth and c streets southwest
Dr. Louis A. Johnson, former presi-
dent, reviewed the work of the asso-
citation.
The membership committee reported
the enrolment of $50 new members
during the recent drive in the south.
west section Of the city.
DR.. Millard Thompson, president,
was in the chair last night.
The Washington times., 1919-12-18
ON TRIAL FOR FORGERIES.

benjamin r. Fuller. alais Frank
uher' indicted by the grand jury
Tor tofsery and uttering was places
On trial yesterday before a Jury IN
Criminal Court No. :. Justice STAFFORD
presiding II Is alleged that Fuller
formerly was an employe OF the Co
1umoia Hotel Supply Company and
that he forged the name Of Philip
ID. Armour TO q series OF promissory
notes axgresating $4,000 and that
he passed notes totslinS S3l 900 and
uttered sorged note for $4,000 to
the Franklin National Bank. He is
represented by Attorney Henry e.
Davis Assistant District Attorney
James Archer appears for the Govern
mAat