Washington Bee

VQL$XXXIX. NO. 4. The Effective Advocate for Better Pay for Government Employees. An Uncompromising Friend of the Colored Race. When the Second Congressional District in Tennessee elected Hon. Richard W. Austin to represent it it called into public service one of the state's strongest and best equipped men, and one with whom duty to the country and its people is an obsession. Especially have the colored people found in him a staunch advocate and defender, for he is a true exponent of exact justice, and full liberty for all citizens, regardless of race or color. Mr. Austin is one, of those 100 per cent Americans, and as such has supported every war measure proposed which had for its object the destroying of autocracy and "making the world safe for democracy." He has literally done what the President recently suggested—"divorced politics" when all war measures came up. He really did this before the President's injunction so to do was heralded throughout the country. No man in Congress is a more ardent Republican than Mr. Austin; he stands by his party, and his party is now standing, and has stood, by the President in every emergency developed by the war. Especially, and strongly, and effectively has Representative Austin defended the underpaid government clerks and other employees, including postal clerks, railway and rural carriers, whose salaries have been permitted to stand all these years at the scale fixed when a dollar went as far as three goes today. On this subject his speeches were among the best and most effective delivered in Congress. The colored people of the District of Columbia; who more closely follow the career and course of congressmen on important questions affecting the race, possibly because of their close proximity to them, are a unit in the conclusion that no fairer and squarer man toward the race ever came to the halls of Congress from Tennessee, or any other state—not even from Massachusetts, long regarded as a sort of synonym for "liberty." To show how he stands on the question of better paid government employes, we quote from one of his recent speeches when the Borland resolution was up: Mr. Austin. Mr. Chairman, I am a partisan Republican, and it distresses me as a representative of my party to see the able and distinguished member from Missouri (Mr. Borland), in season and out of season, taking a position upon these appropriation bills which, to say the least, is a reflection upon the national administration, which was elected upon a platform pledged to economy. Mr. Borland. Will the gentleman yield? Mr. Austin. Yes. Mr. Borland. Does not the gentleman know that these abuses existed for sixteen years under republican administration? Mr. Austin. Therefore the gentleman from Missouri, being a member of a great national party committed to a reform of all of the so-called abuses under Republican administrations, is not excusable, and neither is his party of the administration he supports, when they fail to carry out those pledges and promises upon which they obtained the reins of government. Mr. Borland, Mr. Chairman, I take it the gentleman is really in favor of eight-hour day? Mr. Austin. The gentleman's speeches are cumulative evidence of the fact that his party has been derelict in carrying out in good faith its pledges to the American people made upon the election of President Wilson five years ago. Mr. Chairman, I cannot join the gentleman from Missouri in his repeated attempts to discredit the work or the record of the splendid efficiency of the government clerks in Washington city. My humble beginning in the government service was forty years ago in the Post Office Department in this city, and in the nine years I have served in this House I have never failed to be interested in legislation which affected their interests. Mr. Chairman, in all fairness, the American Congress is not fair with the District of Columbia. We ought to give the people of the District a representative in this House. We have given the Philippine Islands two representatives, Porto Rico a representative, and many of the American states with a population less than that of the District of Columbia have two senators and a member of this House. The Capital City ought to be treated fairly and justly, especially so when we keep its inhabitants disfranchised. They have no representative to appear before the respective committees of this House or upon the floor to plead their cause, to urge needed legislation which would promote and advance the interest of the District of Columbia, in which the whole country is interested. I know many clerks personally. I think they are doing their share in promoting the interests of the government during this war. Thousands are working night and day. They are making sacrifices of health, comfort and pleasure to do their full share in aiding a weak and vacillating administration in running the government. I hope the gentleman from Missouri will observe his loyalty to Woodrow Wilson and the party to which he owes allegiance by ceasing in this public manner in throwing discredit upon our government and the democratic national administration by calling indirectly attention to their lack of good faith in redeeming the pledges in reference to economy and the abolishing of useless offices, and so forth. (Applause.) On another occasion he manfully advocated increased pay for the overworked and underpaid rural carriers, hundreds of whom are colored, and to affirm this, we quote from his speech delivered in Congress: Mr. Austin. Mr. Chairman, I have been trying all the afternoon to get recognition in order to offer this amendment, which would mean an increase of 25 per cent for the rural carriers, or $300 additional per annum for a carrier whose annual salary is $1,200. Now that I have it before the House, I hope my genial friend from Virginia (Mr. Saunders) will give me an opportunity to present its merits to the House. In this connection I wish to thank and compliment him for the excellent presentation of the cause of the rural carriers a few months ago. Also, I think it is only fair and just to say a word of praise of the membership of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads for reporting the pending measure carrying increased compensation for all postal employees. While they have not, perhaps, gone as far as a majority of us hoped and expected, certainly they are entitled to praise for what they have done in the direction of a deserved increase in the salaries of a faithful and efficient set of government employees. (Applause.) I think we are all of one mind, namely, that the rural carriers of this country are now taxed to the limit for all the necessities of life by the increased cost from 100 to 400 per cent of everything they must have in order to maintain and keep up this splendid and popular service for the government and for the benefit of the people of the United States. I also give my acknowledgment to my colleague from the progressive city of Chattanooga, Judge Moon, for his faithful services on the committee. (Applause.) Then here on this side of the House is our beloved Martin Madden, always the invincible champion of the postal employees (applause) and from out of the Northwest comes that splendid typical American, who is, in season and out of season, working for the interest of the rural carriers, Mr. Steenerson, of Minnesota. (Applause.) Mr. Langley. Will the gentleman yield? Mr. Austin. Yes. Mr. Langley. Does not the gentleman think the committee deserves a bit of censure for overlooking the star routes in Kentucky and Tennessee and other sections of the country? 1918 1917 2,500 KUE VICTIMS ETHIOPIA REMEMBRANCE OF MY PEOPLE F. McGinn Mr. Austin. We can correct that mistake. But the committee has done so well and so handsomely that I think we can afford to overlook the minor faults and only remember the big things they have done, along with their able colleagues on the important Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Now, we are all of one mind, that the cost of the rural service to the carriers, of the maintenance, repair, and upkeep, is in the neighborhood of $500 or $600 a year. Fifty million dollars appropriated for this entire service in salaries for the carriers, and of this amount the carrier must pay one half in order to provide and maintain his outfit in order to efficiently discharge his duties. This financial burden is only required of rural carriers and of no other government officials. I hope we will make the increase $300 a year—about one half of the actual upkeep and maintenance cost, according to the statement submitted to us by the carriers residing in our district. And what a splendid body of men, along with their substitutes, they are. (Applause.) They must pass a civil service examination, always be on time or suffer a forfeiture, and they have upheld the high standard of American officialdom and have made the post office service of use and benefit to that great class of our citizenship—25,000,000 farmers—upon whom the hope and faith of the American Republic stands. (Applause.) Virginia's Stalwart Republican Representative in Congress. "Like father, like son," might very appropriately be said of Hon. C. Bascom Slemp, who has the distinction of representing the Ninth Virginia Congressional District in the United States as a Republican, Mr. Slemp succeeded his father, Hon. Campbell Slemp, in Congress in 1907, and is now serving his twelfth year in the national House of Representatives. That his constituents should return him to Congress six consecutive terms is in itself a tribute to his ability and fidelity as a servant and conservor of the people. When his father, who so ably represented Virginia in the State Legislature, and later in Congress, was a member of the Virginia Legislature, young Slemp was a page boy there. He there imbibed an ambition for a legislative career, and was fully equipped for the important duties imposed upon a congressman when his constituents called him. Mr. Slemp possesses many of the excellent traits of his father, who bequeathed to him that priceless legacy—an untarnished name and fame. In congressional circles Mr. Slemp is recognized as one of the most valuable members of the Appropriation Committee, in point of service being one of the oldest members, and authority on public debts, and a staunch champion of the farmers, the working man and manufacturers—for exact justice for each. An unswerving Republican, no member of Congress has stood more firmly behind the President during this great war crisis that is upon us, than Mr. Slemp. He is a nationalist, one of the greatest in Congress, and as such he has ever and always voted for every proposition designed to better racial conditions, and against every measure designed to discriminate against or restrict the colored man in the exercise of rights and opportunities guaranteed by the Constitution. He is always alert when legislation is proposed affecting the working man or the farmer, believing that both constitute the bone and sinew of the country. Mr. Slemp is one of the most democratic men—always easily approachable; always sympathetic—a man of the people, and for the people. A native of Virginia, he is proud of his ancestry and his state, and his pride in his state extends to the many thousands of splendid colored people who go to make up that commonwealth's population, and who contribute so much to the state's prosperity. For these Congressman Slemp will go to the limit. Virginia will do herself proud by returning Mr. Slemp to Congress this fall, for no abler or more conscientious representative sits in Congress today. FROM "THE BEE'S" FRIEND IN FRANCE. Mr. W. Calvin Chase: I am well and truly hope that you are prospering. I received The Bees you sent to me and I honestly appreciated them. I am lost for words to express myself for your kindness. All I can say, and the appreciation I can show you is, I am under many obligations to you. I enjoyed reading them very much; also my comrades. We see how our race is progressing Through The Bee. Allow me to thank you for publishing my last letter and I assure you that I hope to return with our victorious American Army. Remember me to all friends, and my love to my father-in-law. Wishing you continued success, believe me to be, Yours truly, Sergt. Arthur F. Chive. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. The Wonderful Success of Rev. J. L. S. Holloman. Second Baptist Church, 3d street, between H and I streets N. W., Rev. J. L. S. Holloman pastor, is now in the seventieth year of its existence. Having been organized November 10, 1858, it is one of the oldest landmarks of the Baptist in the District of Columbia. The Second Baptist Church leads all other churches in the establishment of new churches for the denomination. During the thirty-three years' pastorate of the late Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, D. D., L. L. D., the church sustained a great prestige in the Baptist denomination throughout the country. It was here that the National Education convention was organized. A great Sunday School lyceum of commanding influence was maintained here for a number of years. The Colored Men's Branch of the Y. M. C. A. was organized at the Second Baptist Church. It is safe to say that this church has been closely identified with the beginning and the growth of almost everything worth while for our people in the District of Columbia. After seventy years of varied existence the Second Baptist Church is still blessed with splendid vitality and is serving humanity everywhere PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS. This being William Calvin's thirty-ninth anniversary edition, he suggested to me this week that "brevity is the soul of wit." I took this as a hint that he wanted mighty little from the Sage this week, and that "little" would have to be boiled down to a paragraph or two. If he has made the same suggestion to "Unus," my co-laborer, who inflicts serious sermons on the same public I strive to make forget the serious, I won't have no kick comin'. I had made up my mind, in view of William Calvin's suggestion about "brevity," not to do a vandeville stunt this week, but I'm just forced to narrate a little incident. Tuesday I dropped into one of those "pay-as-you-center" colored hash houses that hand you New Willard prices and city dump service, and sitting across from me was a charming brunette—so brunette that if Garfield had seen her he would have fixed a "coal per ton price" on her. Now there ain't no dishonor in being black—I'm proud of my brunette affliction, but when a tar baby puts about four coats of powder on her face, and fails to cover her arms and hands with the same "25 cent per box" whitenin' stuff, it makes her look like a bit of anthracite with a thin coat of whitewash. This brunette chromo looked to me like she had stuck her head in a barrel of flour and then come up smiling with the ejaculation: "Black-no-more." Speakin' about colored hash houses, there are some of them that are passable, some of them that are tryin' to make a noise like the real thing, and then again there are some of them that have only got so far along the bases as to know how to charge New Willard prices and give you "honky-tonk" service. Suppose you know what a "honky-tonk" is? When you drop into one of these "honky-tonks" with a high sounding name like "The Fleur de Lis," "The Queen," or "The Imperial Cafe," etc. and have to keep preachin' to the roaches about their lack of courtesy in stealin' your Hooverized grub, or use your paper napkin for fannin' flies away, and have to use Woolworth two-for-five cent cups and plates, and knives and forks and spoons that lost their thin coatin' of silver four years before Noah's time, you just naturally have to kick on the New Willard prices. I wish Brother Archibald Grimke, who has made a name for himself protectin' the race against discrimination, would take up with the N. A. A. C. P. the matter of protectin' the race against New Willard prices for city dump service in these beautifully named restaurants we are forced to patronize or go hungry. If Brother Archibald can be the means of limitin' them to the "reasonable" we will vote him the Iron Cross, the Legion of Honor, and as soon as Needham Roberts and Johnson get back from France we'll borrow their Croix de Guerre and decorate him with it. If I could only get some of these hash house proprietors in the Muscovite Duck League, I'd trim them to the bone, and then some. But they won't get out of the "Pok Chop and Pig's Feet League, so they just keep me knockin' fungo flies to the outfielders. Just because William Calvin told me that, for this week anyhow, "brevity is the soul of wit," I will now heave to. DR. RICHARDSON. The Nestor of Local Pharmacists. Forty years as a compounder of prescriptions is a long time. However, Dr. W. S. Richardson, who is still actively engaged in the drug business at Fourteenth and R Streets enjoys that longevity record. Just one year before The Bee was found- M. B. ed—forty years ago—Dr. Richardson established a drug store in South Washington. At that time Fourteenth Street, on which street he is now located, was simply a country road, and the only road leading from the city into the wooded country northwest. It is interesting to talk with Dr. Richardson, who has a great fund of reminiscences, and hear him tell of "early" Washington; of his meeting famous statesmen, now long since dead; of frequently seeing the late James G. Blaine, Ingersoll's "Plumed Knight of Navarre," taking his morning horseback ride out the country road that is now Fourteenth street. It had been Dr. Richardson's intention to retire from active business on his fortieth anniversary, but the war coming on, depleting his profession, as it has, he felt he must do his bit by continuing on indefinitely. When he established his business in the Southwest, he was located among the poorer people. They contributed to his success, and he has never forgot them. In fact much of his success can be attributed to the fact that he has never destroyed the bridge that carried him over, nor smote the hand that first fed him. The colored race has never had a better white friend—a more sympathetic, earnest helper, than Dr. Richardson, and this contingent of Washington's population indulge in the hope that Dr. Richardson will be spared indefinitely to enjoy life, and to conduct a business in which he has made a success, and continue in his chosen profession, one upon which he has reflected highest credit. Still clear visioned, a past master in the science of pharmacy, Dr. Richardson is one of Washington's urgently needful men. COURTS OF CALANTHE. The ladies of the Courts of Calanthe, the female department of the Knights of Pythias, met pursuant to call of Mrs. Emma J. Murray, grand worthy counsellor of the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe of the District of Columbia, at Pythian Building, Thursday, June 13th, for the purpose of organizing a Calanthe Drill Corps. Great enthusiasm was manifested and forty-five ladies signed up for membership. Brigadier-General J. Clay Smith, commanding the Department of the District. of Columbia, was present by invitation and addressed the ladies, giving them instructions as to details necessary for the proper institution of a drill corps. The Calanthians say that they mean business and serve notice on the male members of the uniform rank that they had better get a move on if they do not desire a place at the rear of the column. Watch developments through The Bee. THE INDUSTRIAL PIONEERS. Charles E. Lane, inspired by the profound advice of Rev. Alexander Crummell, on the power of unity, has been a student of the co-operative principle for more than thirty years. Having been enthused by an editorial on co-operation and occupation in the August, 1917, number of the Crisis, and again later in that year by a lecture delivered before the Bethel Literary Society by Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, Mr. Lane is now assembling a group of persons, male and female, to be known as the Industrial Pioneers. This group when completed will compose at least one hundred persons, from different parts of the United States, banded together for the purpose of financing, organizing, incorporating and operation in a co-operative society which shall be national in its cope and purpose from the beginning. The idea of this co-operative movement is to gain strength with which to build up our own industrial machine; with a view to assembling our M. laboring, agricultural, mechanical, manufacturing, commercial and professional people, in order that we may enable them to employ and educate labor; correlate and direct our energy and productive ability; produce desirable necessaries of life and other merchantable commodity; create fields for our various enterprises and a market for our products; instill in the minds of the masses the spirit; principle and advantage of cooperation; wedge ourselves both as principals and subordinates into the business and commerce of American life as permanent fixtures like all The individual that is too lazy to do a thing will always find plenty of excuses for not doing it. 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The roof is the parasol or umbrella of your house. When your roof leaks you will look for the tinner and the painter. Why delay? Paint your roof before it is too late and save the expense of a tinner. J. JOS. CATLOTH DEPLETION INSTITUTE OF ATLANTA INDEPLETION DENTISTRY AT MODERATE PRICES PAINLESS EXTRACTANT CROOKING BRIDges METAL PLATES ADMINISTERED PRINTING OFFICE DENTISTRY AT MODERATE PRICES PAINTLESS EXTRACTION CROSS, BRIDges METAL PLATES ADMINISTERED PRINTING OFFICE Phone Franklin 5961 Dr. R. L. SURGEON 310 4½ Absolute Satisfaction Open S This is the greatest dental s R. R. L. Peyton RGEON DENTIST 310 4½ St. S. W. Absolute Satisfaction Guaranteed Open Sundays greatest dental surgeon in South Was Dr. R. L. Peyton SURGEON DENTIST 310 41 St. S. W. Absolute Satisfaction Guaranteed This is the greatest dental surgeon in South Washington other citizens; and be enabled thereby to conduct our productive and distributive activities with unity, skill and profit; without the elements of modern American schemes of finance and exploitation. This group has already grown to twenty carefully selected persons, residing in different parts of the United States, who are willing and financially able to help construct this proposed industrial machine. The persons so far associated in this movement have selected the following officers as preliminary organizers of the Industrial Pioneers: Charles E. Lane, 302 T street N. W., Washington, D. C., temporary chairman; Maurice C. Clifford, 1944 6th street N. W., Washington, D. C., temporary corresponding secretary; J. R. Combs, 2002 12th street N. W., Washington, D. C., temporary recording secretary, and W. W. Holman (of California) 2018 5th street CATLOTH Half Street Southwest Hardwork on your home, you will have your house before it is too late! By er's and lumber bills. The roof is the parasol or umbrella o peaks you will look for the tinner and it your roof before it is too late an AWK EXPERTION DENTISTRY AT MODERATE PRICES PAINLESS EXTRACTION CROOKS, BRIDges METAL PLATES OR ADMINISTERED Office Hours: 8 to 12 a. m. 1 to 7 p. m. . Peyton DENTIST St. S. W. ction Guaranteed Sundays urgeon in South Washington N. W., Washington, D. C., temporary statistician. The preliminary organizers of the Industrial Pioneers have designed, tentatively, a special line of action, to fit our peculiar condition, from which they sought to eliminate selfishness, fear, ambition and the elements of modern American schemes, deception and exploitation usually present in the hastily planned financial organizations designed for our people. These preliminary organizers, above mentioned, realize that we must correlate our creative ability and make and unite right conditions and right opportunities for our people before we can hope to establish and conduct large productive and distributive enterprises with unity, skill and profit. Persons who are interested in establishing the co-operative principles of production, conservation and distribution of the material necessaries HEAVY EAT RETAINING IGH GRADE STEEL AIR STRAIGHTENING ANDSOMELY CURVED IGHLY POLISHED ARD WOOD HANDLED COMB "THE BEST THERE IS- CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPER Ask your Druggist, or write to The G. A. Morgan 5204 Harlem A. PEOPLE'S These combs and all of Morgan Stores. Main agency at the Seventh supplied at wholesale prices CREED PRODUCE, PO CHOICE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES LOWE Stands: 80 and 81 O Street Open every week day Open-Air Carter's Lite are two For Co If you can't get all the ex Small Pill Small Dose Small Price CARTERS LITTLE IVER PILLS. 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Gaskins, Proprietor. of life; somewhat familiar with industrial activities, such as banking, farming, milling, manufacturing, storing and marketing, and have the spirit of progress and unity, and are both willing and financially able to help build up and operate the proposed industrial machine, will do well to get in touch with any of the persons named in this article, especially if they desire to meet and do business with some of the earnest, intelligent and progressive of our people from different parts of this country. All of the work of the preliminary organizers will be tentative until the proposed one hundred or more persons shall have been grouped and organized permanently for the work herein indicated. In Hair Refining Co., Ave., Cleveland, O. DRUG STORE. Men's goods on sale at the People's Drug h and M Street Store. 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Board's Drug Store, at 1912½ Fourteenth Street N.W., is the place where everybody meets everybody else for quality, service and satisfaction, from ice cream soda to the highest grade drugs and chemicals. Prescriptions filled just as your doctor ordered here.—Advt. Mrs. A. H. Glenn entertained last Friday evening with a delightfully informal affair for Mrs. Ralph W. Tyler. Mrs. E. S. Williams is taking the course in the civilian relief branch of the Red Cross. * * * Mrs. Dumas, wife of Dr. Machel Dumas, who was quite ill last week, is much improved. * * * Mrs. Julia Waddleton, who has been quite ill, is able to be out again. * * * Mrs. Pet Henderson, wife of Dr. Henderson of New York, and daughter of Mrs. Laura V. Contee, arrived in the city Sunday afternoon to attend the funeral of her brother-in-law, the late William Evans. Mr. and Mrs. George Thornton have returned to their home in Richmond, Va., after being here to attend the funeral of their cousin. * * * Mrs. Annie L. Kemp left Wednesday from Danville, Va., for a short visit in this city. * * * Mr. George W. Murry, of Newport News, Va., is the honored guest of his brother, E. R. Murry, of Florida Avenue N. W. * * * Mrs. Isla T. S. Neil, after spending a few days with her parents and attending the funeral of her sister in Florence, S. C., has returned to her home in this city. Mr. and Mrs. McNear, of Orangeburg, S. C., are on their way to this city, where they will make their future home. ** Mr. R. A. Stepteau, of Clarksburg, Va., the brother of Dr. C. H. Stepteau, formerly a minister in this city, spent a few days here last week on very important business. Wedding bells will soon be ringing for Miss Ella Todd, of Riverton, N. J., formerly of this city, and Mr. Howard Conwell. Mrs. Amos Brown, of Riverton, N. J., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Saunders, of 1451 Q Street, N. W. Col. George W. Knox, editor of the Indianapolis Freeman, is in the city, the guest of Mr. R. W. Thompson. Miss Flossie M. Hunt, the expert typist of the War Department, has been home ill for several weeks, with an attack of neuralgia. Miss Genevieva Russell, sister of Mrs. Robinson, visited New York City last Wednesday and returned this week, after having a pleasant time. Rumor has it that she will be a war bride. THE OLDEST INHABITANTS. The Association of Oldest Inhabitants (Colored) of the District of Columbia was organized November, 1912, through the efforts of the late Jerome A. Johnson, its founder and first president. The membership is limited to males, and it is required that they shall be of good moral character and have resided in the District for thirty-five years, or be the son of such resident twenty-five years of age or more. Meetings are held the fourth Monday of each month, at which time routine business is transacted and informal talks by members on matters of local or general interest are heard. The 16th of April, commonly called Emancipation Day, and formerly observed with much parading and martial display, was adopted by the association as its natal day, and ```markdown ``` which is appropriately observed each year. The election of officers and the annual banquet occurs on this day, and the address of the historian is read. The association is aggressively alive to every racial interest, and is a liberal contributor to organized uplift effort in the community. It was one of the first organizations to subscribe for Liberty Bonds and owns $200 worth. Substantial contributions have been made to the N. A. A. C. P., the Colored Social Settlement in South Washington and the American Red Cross, besides voluntary donations from time to time to sick or distressed members. Without being specifically obligated to look after such cases, the association sees to it that its worthy members do not suffer. It is the hope of the association to realize the dream of its founder and at some not too far distant day to be able to welcome its friends to its own established home. The stated regular public functions are the annual sermon and memorial service, and an outing during the heated term, when the real old Washingtonians gather for a day of reminiscent sociability and relaxation. DISTINGUISHED. CLERGYMAN MARRIED. Trenton, N. J., June 11. At high noon today Rev. Sylvester Lemuel Corrothers, D. D., one of the most distinguished men in the Zion connection; was united in wedlock to Miss Geneva Fletcher Robinson, of Chula, Va., a graduate of the Ingleside Seminary, at Berkeley, Va., at the home of the sister and brother-in-law of the bride, 24 Montgomery Place, the Rev. W. H. Bachellor officiating, and Hon. Isaac H. Nutter acting as best man. Miss Rachel V. Corrothers was maid of honor. After the wedding dinner, the happy couple went to their home at Newark. The presents were numerous and handsome. A large number of the relatives of the bride and groom were present, and many distinguished persons, among them Rev. I. B. Turner and wife, Prof. T. Edward Kenney and wife, Mr. E. L. Dearp and wife, and T. Thomas Fortune, secretary of the Migrant Bureau of the Labor Department of the State. DR. JOHN W. MORSE. When Dr. Morse established his pharmacy at the northwest corner of 19th and L streets northwest, in 1910, he entertained the laudable ambition to give, to the public one of the best drug stores in the city, both in equipment and in stock, and how well he has realized that ambition can be ascertained by paying a visit to his store, which is a perfect gem. Because of his peculiar fitness for the business; his strict attention to business, and always injecting 100 per cent efficiency into it, he has built up one of the largest drug business of any colored druggist in the 7 city, and has but few white competitors whose establishment shows to a better advantage, or whose catering to the public is marked by finer tion filled at Dr. Morse's pharmacy is a guarantee that it has been filled exactly as ordered by the physician, and that it contains the purest of drugs. It is when business conducted by colored men, is so efficiently conducted that the race in general profits, and merits the praise and patronage of the public without respect to the color of the man's skin who conducts it. Dr. Morse has set a pace for other colored business men, no matter in what line of business they are engaged, if followed will secure for the race higher respect and greater confidence at the hands of the general public. Dr. Moss is one of the few men who take pride in attributing to an accomplished wife, such as he has, a large share in the success he has attained, and when a business man is so thoughtful of his good wife as to go fifty-fifty with her in the honor of his success, that magic word "Success" is rarely, if ever, elusive. Dr. Morse has helped marvelously to standardize the pharmacy business, and that his store is the favorite rendezvous for those in need of the many things assumed to be carried in stock by an up-to-date, modern drug store, is no longer a wonder. Reliability is his watchword, which is evidenced by the success he has achieved, and is now achieving, in this, one of the most necessitous business. 3d and I Streets Northwest. This church has made rapid progress under the leadership of its present pastor. In 1913 they found that their congregation was too large for their house of worship, and they purchased a larger edifice at 3d and I streets N. W. One of the most beautiful churches in the city, and in the most historical block in Washington. Gen. Grant's residence, the capital's first postmaster, the first mayor of the city's residence are also in this block. This is the church building in which President Wilson worshipped until it was purchased by the Mt. Carmel Church. They have a membership of over twelve hundred, and one of the best 1 churches in this country in supporting their leader in whatever he undertakes. In a thirty-day rally they led the city by raising $3,475.62, which enabled them to burn the second mortgage and inspired the members to make a financial drive next fall to clear the church of its entire indebtedness. The following auxiliaries and clubs have co-operated with the pastor in accomplishing this work: Deacon Board, Mr. W. O. Blagburn, chairman; Trustee Board, Mr. John Washington, chairman; Sunday School, Mr. W. F. Turner, superintendent; Missionary Society, Miss D. E. Harris, president; B. Y. P. U., Mrs. A. G. Brown, president; Deaconess Board, Mrs. Mary Brooks, presi- .Howard Theatre. All Star Cast Includes; Abbie Mitchell Inez Clough Susie Sutton Alice Giogras Chas. Olden Tom Brown J. Frances More Will Cooke Lionel Monages You have read the book now see thn real play Night Prices: 25c, 35c & 50 Matinee all seats 25c Next week—The Bliness of Virtue Annual Picnic Association of the Oldest Inhabitants will give their sixth Annual Picnic at Green Willow Park, Anacostia, Monday, July 15, 1918, and extend a cordial invitation to their many friends to spend an evening of pleasure with them. John P. Atkinson, Chairman, J. H. Shepard, Lloyd Stewart, Surphrane Payne, Arthur F. Boston, William J. Smith, dent; Lookout Committee, Mrs. Eleanor Brooks, president; Usher Board, Mr. Frank Smith, president; Auxiliary Usher Board, Mrs. W. P. Williams, president; Flower committee, Mrs. Harriet Clark, president; Cloir, Mrs. L. T. Gibbons, president. Clubs-Free Grace; Mrs. Mary McCowan, vice president; Carcanet, Mr. Frank Smith, president; Continuous Working, Mrs. W. J. Mills, president; Penrose, Mr. C. B. Washington, president; Willing Workers, Mr. G. W. Washington, president; Pastor's Aid, Mrs. Rosetta Pointer, president; Silver Leaf, Mrs. Ella Minus, president. The pastor, Rev. W. H. Jernagin, who is president of the National Race Congress, is a public spirited citizen and is interested in everything in the city and nation that is for the uplift of fallen humanity. In the recent Third Liberty Loan he was a member of the general committee, and in the recent Red Cross drive he was chairman of his denominational committee, and also chairman for the Colored Baptist Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains, and has been the means of having a number of colored chaplains appointed. Before Bethel Literary and Historical Association. Large and appreciative audience heard Dr. James Edward Mason, financial agent of Livingston College, and president of the Progressives of the A. M. E. Zion, deliver the closing address before the Bethel Literary and Historical Association. It was one of the ablest discourses delivered during the season. He discussed the subject, "Dr. J. C. Price in the Light of Current Events." Among other things he said: "Dr. Price, regardless of his great attainments, kept in touch with the masses of his race everywhere. With a scholarship that made him at home in company with the learned and philosophical, with tastes that might revel in the refinement of the select few, he still remained in his convictions, in his habits, in his sympathies, and in his affections a true brother and an abiding friend. His nature, like a mirror, reflected everything around it—the grass by the wayside, the clouds of the sky, the sunset and the stars. The period in which he did his brilliant work was enriched by some of the best known of Afro-Americans. He saw the dawn and noontide splendor of Douglas' unrivaled genius. He watched the soaring of the classic, John M. Langston; the scholarly, Prof. Greener, the Christian statesmen, Revs., Dr. Henry Highland Garnet, Alexander Crummell, Bishop Payne, the cultured Grimke brothers, African agitator, Bishop Turner; the great debater, Isaiah Wears; the popular Senator Bruce, the astute John R. Lynch, the erudite Robert Brown Elliott, and flaming through the literary sky, the FORAKER THEATRE Twentieth Street Between L. and M. Streets Northwest RAYMOND H. MURRAY, Manager. HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE WEEKLY and NEW MOTION PICTURES DAILY First Class in Every Particular. Come Early HIAWATHA THEATRE 1906 Eleventh. Street Northwest Raymond H. Murray, Mgr. MUSIC!—WASHING Columbia Conservatory of Music Violin, Pipe Organ, Harmony, Cor- courses with diploma. Pupils from tries. Correspondence courses in Open the year round. "THE MUSIC MASTER," on the world. Send your music news by mail. Subscribers in British C started small, but'll end big Join ADAMS' MUSIC HOUSE—"make, $5 to $200; any instrument of every class, from 10c. down. W stamp for reply. Customers as far B. W. I. MUSIC ARRANGED and rev. Address: W. A. ADAMS, 19 This Theatre is close to two lines of cars. The best pictures shown daily. If you want an evening of pleasure—come to the. Hiawatha. MUSIC! WASHINGTON, D. C. MUSIC! Columbia Conservatory of Music, teaching: Piano, Voice Culture, Violin, Pipe Organ, Harmony, Composition, Elocution, etc. Standard courses with diploma. Pupils from six States and three foreign countries. Correspondence courses in Harmony and Public School Music. Open the year round. "THE MUSIC MASTER," only colored music journal monthly in the world. Send your music news. Get agency. $1 a year, 12 cents by mail. Subscribers in British Columbia and eleven States. We've started small, but'll end big Join us! ADAMS' MUSIC HOUSE—"Things Musical." Violins of finest make, $5 to $200; any instrument desired: All kinds of sheet music of every class, from 10c. down. Will ship by mail anywhere. Send stamp for reply. Customers as far as Nicaragua, C. A., and St. Lucia, B. W. I. MUSIC ARRANGED and revised for publication satisfactorily. Address: W. A. ADAMS, 1911 Ninth Street N. W. foremost editor, T. Thomas Fortune, and the gifted historian, George W. Williams. Dunbar's songs resounded in his ears their entertaining melodies, and Dr. Washington had begun his marvelous work before his death. Prof. Du Bois was laying the foundation of his remarkable classic, "The Soul of Black Folks," described by Prof. Hart as "the only work of literature published by a Harvard graduate in forty years." The enrapturing eloquent Bishop J. J. Clinton, the far-seeing Bishop Hood, the controversialist, Bishop S. T. Jones, and the oratorical Prof. William Howard Day lighted their lamps before his dazzled eyes, while your own distinguished jurist, Judge Robert Terrell, Ex-Recorder and Orator J. C. Dancy, Dr. Walter H. Brooks, Prof. Kelly Miller, Congressmen White, Murray, Bishop, Walters, Derrick, Arnett, George C. Clinton, Drs. Golar, Bowen, Ransom, Lyons, Vernon, M. C. D. Mason, St Clair and others had their feet on the ladder of fame. JOSEPH S. GRAVES. The Man of the People-The Place Where the Inner Man Becomes Satisfied and the Appetite Appeased-Up-to-Date Dining Room. It is not everybody who can satisfy or appease the appetite. It is not every dining room you will visit. If your tables are clean and your tablecloths white, sometimes the sight will give you an appetite. There are hundreds of dining rooms in this city, but there is none that gives greater satisfaction than the dining room at 16 G Street N. W., and which is to soon occupy its new quarters a few doors beyond the present location. This place to eat is managed by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Graves, and where you can get your meals cooked to order. of cars. The best pictures shown daily. come to the Hiawatha. BUTTON, D. C.—MUSIC! Music, teaching: Piano, Voice Culture, composition, Elocution, etc. Standard in six States and three foreign coun- Harmony and Public School Music. Only colored music journal monthly in. Get agency. $1 a year, 12 cents Columbia and eleven States. We've us! "Things Musical." Violins of finest desired. All kinds of sheet music of will ship by mail anywhere. Send as Nicaragua, C. A., and St. Lucia, raised for publication satisfactorily. 11 Ninth Street N. W. that you can get the choicest products fresh from the markets. Hot bread every day. Steaks of all kinds of the finest quality. Chops of every description. Hot coffee and tea or cold tea if you prefer it. This dining room is conveniently located in front of the G Street entrance of the Government Printing Office, and about two hundred feet from the North Capitol street car line. His waiters are refined and well-trained young ladies. Mr. Graves has an art of catering to your appetite. Cleanliness is one of his greatest assets; fresh food is another necessary asset, and well cooked to suit the taste is his stock in trade. Mrs. Graves is a great help to his business. She is a woman of remarkable executive ability. Mr. Graves is a genial and accommodating host. His efforts are to please his patrons. He is entitled to everything The Bee may say of him and can say. It is like the cooking of your mother. If you are satisfied, after yu have finished, say that The Bee recommended you to try one of his meals. Once in Graves' Cafe, you will return again. His new place of business is a few doors beyond or above his old place. Special dining rooms will be arranged for ladies and gentlemen. During the season he will have edibles suitable to the season. Strangers coming to the city should go immediately to Graves and a good breakfast, lunch, dinner or supper will be your reward. It is but two or three minutes' walk from the Union Station. Joseph Graves, 16 G Street N.W. Open all night. JOHN A. MOORE Hardware and-Implements, Flour, Feed and Grain. 1915 Seventh Street N.W. Phone North 3273. Twenty-eight Years in Business The Bureau of Engraving and Printing—The Institution That Is Feeding the World. By Miss Julia Jenkins. "One all-extending, all-preserving soul Connects each being, greatest with the least— Made beast in aid of man, and man in aid of beast. All served, all serving, nothing stands alone. The chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown." Overlooking the placid waters of historic, Potomac stands one of the most imposing and picturesque structures that has ever graced any city or country, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. This building is one of the largest and most modern establishments of its kind in the world and contains many rooms and office rooms, spacious and well ventilated. Up to May 1, 1918, 6,556 employees were engaged on various lines of work, of which 2,684 are male and 3,872 female, competent in their respective lines of work. Director Jas. L. Wilmeth, a man of exceptional executive ability, has ably and commendably steered this great ship, notwithstanding the increased exigencies by reason of the war. Thus the Bureau has been able to meet the requirements in a most pleasing and satisfactory manner. With the co-operation and valuable support of the faithful and able assistant director, Mr. Frank E. Ferguson, and other officials the work is being systematically and successfully carried on. The beautiful sentiment, a fitting legacy and memento left by the Hon. J. E. Ralph, "Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you," has been set to music by our honored head and we are not only singing but keeping time to the music: The work of this great plant is making and engraving plates, printing, pressing, packing, etc., all of the government securities, bonds, notes, postage stamps, revenue stamps and all government currency and notes. Owing to the character and quantity of work necessary to meet the demands, the most efficient and skilled workmen are employed and retained. This great plant is divided into a number of separate divisions where necessary processes are followed towards the perfection and completion of each separate note, bond, stamp, etc. A large number of colored men and women are employed in the following divisions: Engraving, Printing, Examining, Trimming, Hydraulic Plate Press, Sizing Surface, Bindery, Gumming and serving in other capacities. Mr. George Thomas, private messenger to Director Wilmeth, is styled Dean of the Messenger Force. He has seen thirty years' service and is one of the best liked men in the building. Mr. Marion Williams has seen eleighteen years' service and is one of the most indispensable men on the force, polite and ever ready to render service. vice. Mr. Garfield. Harris has seen eight years' service and is a competent and reliable young man: Repton Moses, Paul Fruitc, Charles Marshall, Philip Simmons, Robert Bailey, and Roy Beverly are new men who are doing creditable work. are using grooves. The Engraving Division is an interesting and important one, for the engraving-of all of the work carried on in the various divisions is prepared here. Mr. John W. Boston, president of the Bureau Laborers' Relief Association, is one of the most energetic and reliable men of this division, and a few others. The Printing Division is composed of the chief of the several sections and his aids, competent foremen, who have charge of a large body of skilled workmen, the printers, and their assistants. The total number of the latter is 1,362; of that number 684 areleased. colored. Messrs. Ray and Childs are two of the most efficient register clerks in this division. Bright and intelligent assistants and messengers are found in the different sections. Misses Green. Braxton. Belle Turner, Payne, T. Cook, M. Saroy, R. Waddleton, N. Langston, Henderson, A. Dismukes, E. Wright, Z. Chew, A. Nawkins, Payne, Lightfoot, Spencer, A. Bruce, A. Hawkins, Barker, M. Thomas, E. Burges, H. Early, M. Hughes, A. Forrester, L. Payne, V. Turner, M. Wormley, Gibson, Harrod, Lee, Matthews, Flignor, Tilghman, M. Rector, L. Brooks, G. Ray, R. Adams, Bruce, and many others. Bruce, and Messrs. Carpenter, Fonville, Milton, Turner, Payne, Arnold, Parks and Thompson are some of the energetic messengers. Mr. George Simmons is one of the most reliable and competent messengers and is an attache to the office of the chief of this division. For years of prompt, efficient and satisfactory service, each printer's assistant passes out of the press room into the Examining, Trimming, Hydraulic, Sizing, Surface Divisions, etc. and are placed in the promoted list. Miss Meta Warner, M. H. Dorsey and Lucinda Walker, in point of service, are valuable counters and examiners. Misses M. Minkins, Sweeney, Dandridge, Miner, E. Minkins, Wilkerson, H. Thomas, and Thomas have been recently appointed assorters. These women have given efficient service as counters and examiners. Among the counters and examiners are, Misses Cole, Harris, Lawson Hamilton, Winston, M. Jones, A. Tortell, Nell, Johnson, Leobert, Winston Boston, Brown, Pasco, George Brown, Bewall Johnson, Lancaster Botta, Ramos, Lewis, Graves, Bowles, Addison Brown, Downes, Mills, Jenkins, Taylor, Saunders, Robinson, Randolph, Brington, E. Jones, Williams, Smith, Howard, Highsmith, Susie Parker, Mapkens, Jennie Brown, Ferguson, Ross, Natehe Frany, Crusor, Sara Murphy, Hansboro, Minta Simmons, Beatrice Clifford, Mabelle Overstreet, Edna Wheeler, Tallafera, Lula Solomon, Ferguson, Mattie Gray, Friend, Eva Cole, Rosa Jackson, Rhone, R. Mayo, D. Crichton, A. Solomon Mackall, Turner, C. Arthur, Lewis, Mary Johnson, Marie Johnson, Mra. Mary White, Luella Briles, Hattle Wells, L. Mackall, Mildred Jones, Emma Thomas, Grace Howard, Maggie Kelson, Nellie Morton, Dowling, Jannie Brown, Mopleine, Downes, Tolliver, S ward, Irene Smallwood, Nattle Brown, Robinson, Letitia Lewis, Sara Woodland, Lula Robinson, Ella Ashton, Mrs. Young, Alberta Taylor, Eliza Bell, Young, Alberta Taylor, Eliza Bell, Grant, Mattle Dale, Sarr Taylor, Rosa Walker, Carrie Sheafe, Jamie Harris, Corhine Ashton, Mamie Johnson, Brown, Wille Cyrus and many others on a mobile. Also we find smiler and more eratives: Misses M. Young, Eva Carter, B. Fisher, Diggs, Parker, C. McClane, Jenkins, Martin, F. Younge, A. Diggs, Green, G. Grantage, White, Louise Chloe, Clark Savoy, Newman, Orme, Waddleton, A. Lucas, A. Adams, L. Alexander, E. Spencer, B. McGwinn, C. Langford, I. Price, Brooks, Watson, Butler King, M. Montgomery, E. Jones, H. Williams, S. Daniels, Bottle, Queen, Henson, Dwiguld, Fisher, Hawley, P. Mullen, Norris-Hunter, Frazier, Lewis, McClane, Johnson, M. Hunter, Johnson, J. Harrison, Lee, McKenzie, Wilkins, M. Francis, Smallwood, Irving, Stevens, Lewis, Lawrence, Canty, M. Brooks, A. Glenn, and many others whose names do not appear in this issue. The Welting Division, one of the most important divisions, has a large force of competent men. Mr. Marcellus Syphox, a supply clerk, is the highest salaried colored employee and is an efficient and a reliable man. Messrs. N. Ricks and S. G. Alexander are the delivery clerks and rank next to Mr. Syphox in pay. Mr. Lewis Nutt, in point of service, is the oldest in this branch. He is a very energetic worker and has seen twenty-seven years' service. Messrs. J. S. Quander has seen twenty years, David N. Evans twenty years, N. Ricks seventeen years, S. G. Alexander nineteen years, W. O. Dawson eighteen years, W. E. Wills sixteen years, L. M. Thompson thirteen years, H. Sparks eighteen years, Willis Richardson seven years. Messrs. Lee, Lancaster, Hunter, King, Sharp, Dixon, Walker and Moon are new men who have been in the division one year and less and are diligent workers Many valuable men are found in the many divisions in this big plant and all are making good. Messrs. Scott, Patterson, Stewart, Howe, Diggs, Lewis, Carter, Bush, Jackson, Phillips, Davis, Chas.-Turner, Evans, Curtis, Scott, Seymour Hill, Turner, Montgomery, Taylor, Gant, Dulaney, Foote, McAllister, Williams, Bowie, Anderson, M. Peace, Addison, Thomas, Smith, McCleoD, Smith, Mitchell, Matthews, Burnett, Jessup, Scott, Allen, Taylor, Hopkins. Mr. Richard Stevens is one of the most efficient pressmen, being the only one of his color. He is to be commended. 'Among the oldest competent workers' are Messrs. David Johnson, Bagley, Paul Stewart, Edmund Scott, Lawrence, Phillips, Ed burnett, Winter Ford, Al. Taylor, J. L. Fountale, Lee, Chas. Ware, Eustace Johnson, Stewart Lewis, John Quander, Yarborough, Ware, Dr. Scott, R. Taylor, John Dillard, Walter Murray, David Martin, Watts, Howe Simms, Jones, Matthews and many others whose names are unavailable at this juncture. Mr. J. C. Crocker, chief of the Gumming Division, having been connected with this great plant for a number of years, is one of the most valuable and untiring heads on the force. Among this large force of skilled and competent men and women we find exceptionally motherly matrons and other employees who have, won for themselves enviable records for long years of useful and valuable services: Mesdames Syllarara Waddell, L. Ware, Overton, Lucy' Scott, Jennie Brown, Chancellor, Freeman, Shields, Bloodsau, Green, Malvin, Rosa H. Lewis, Susie Cushinberry, Eva Taylor, Harriet Louis, Louise Scott and Mrs. Mary Scott. The Bureau Laborers' Relief Association, organized December 10, 1914, for the purpose of relieving distress, aiding the sick, establishing and maintaining friendly intercourse and discourage the practice of soliciting, one of the best and most hepstr institutions of its kind in the Bureau. With a membership of about twelve, it has steadily increased so that today it has a membership of over 300. During the three years of its existence this work has been marvellous and far-reaching. All of its just claims have been promptly met, and today its treasury is in a very good condition. Such an organization should be heartily endorsed-and receive the support of every employee of the Bureau. Information concerning the association will be given by the officers or any of its members. John W. Boston, president; Richmond Milton, financial secretary; N. A. Roundsville, treasurer. Miss Susie Parker is one of the most enthusiastic workers in this association and is continually adding new members to the roll. Misses Milred Jones and Jeannette Brooks are also energetic workers who deserve great credit for their untiring efforts. Many brilliant and talented men and women are engaged in work at this plant. Many are products of the public and normal schools, the best universities and colleges in the country. Some are well known in the world of letters, arts and sciences. Miss Francis Flood was the first colored woman to be appointed in the Bureau. BUSINESS SUCCESS. Some of the Colored Men and Women Who Are Achieving Business Success. Colored men and women who en- ter the business world are but yet pioneers. Washington has far too few of these 'pioneers', but the few it has are making good. Not only does business require pluck, courage, intelligence, and application; as does the professions, but it requires capital also—something with which the race is not abundantly blessed. There are a number of our colored business men and women who have, by close application, by courteous treatment and who deserve the loyal support of the race, and The Bee is glad to present, a few of these to its readers, merely as in the case of professionals, of patrons, built up a good business, Joseph I. Undertak Form 227 K Corm Jose Chapel Service Free HARRY A. BROWN Shampooing, Cultivating and Straightening the Hair Scalp and Facial Massage Manicuring Thin and Falling Hair, Dandruff, Itching Scalp Successfully Treated by my own method. Originator of Mrs. R. E. Weaver's Hair Grower, the Great Hair and Scalp Preparation. For sale by Colored Drüggists. Price, 50 cents. Parlors open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Strictly first-class work. 1904 L STREET N. W. HOTEL DAILY CAPE MAY, N. 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[Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie, looking directly at the camera. The background is a dark, indistinct area with no visible text or details.] President—Archibald H. Grimke [Image of a man with a hat and a tie]. L. M. HERSHAW, Chairman. A. MR. JOHN S. QUANDER. Secretary—S Treasurer—Gan MEMBERS OF EXEC L. M. Hersh Miss Charlo Neval H John S. Rev, A. Secretary—S. M. Kendrick Treasurer—Garnet C. Wilkinson MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: L. M. Hershaw, Chairman Miss Charlotte E. Hunter Neval H. Thomas John S. Quanden Rev. A. C. Garner Little Americans Do your bit Eat Corn meal mush- Oatmeal Corn flakes- Hominy and rice with milk. Eat no wheat cereals. Leave nothing on your plate. UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION to colored people the rights which especially against disfranchisement, cars. Are you a member? One will give the organization a poten- FICERS: D M. B. Prof. George W. Cook M. Kendrick Ret. C. Wilkinson EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: W. Chairman E. Hunter Thomas Quanden Garner It is very fortunate that at the head of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where so many hundreds of colored men and women are employed, there is a man as director of the type of James L. Wilmeth. Mr. Wilmeth's many years' service in the Treasury Department, starting in as clerk at a modest salary, has brought him in contact with hundreds of colored clerks, messengers and laborers. Naturally of a sympathetic nature, his contact with efficient colored employees has increased his respect and admiration for them. Although a Tennessean, from a section where for years there had been certain preconceived ideas respecting the colored race, Mr. Wilmeth's treatment of colored employees, and his recognition of their ability and efficiency has been absolutely free of race prejudice, and it is hardly to be anticipated that after all these years of official association with them he would develop colorphobia. The tribute paid to Mr. Wilmeth by Ralph W. Tyler, who as one time auditor of the Treasury for the Navy came into intimate contact with him, and which was published in The Bee some months ago, was a tribute which Mr. Wilmeth had justly earned, and which his course, as director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in which bureau are quite one thousand colored employees, has sustained. We bespeak for every colored employee at the bureau justice and fairness, sympathy and encouragement, at the hands of Mr. Wilmeth, and it is to be hoped that each and every one of them will so perform their duties as to justify his fairness toward the race. Coming up from the ranks, as Mr. Wilmeth did, earning each and every promotion because of intelligence and efficiency, he entertains a helpful sympathy for the man farthest down, and who he is always ready; if deserving, to help up... The end of this world war for democracy will come when the peoples of every part of the civilized earth is secure in the equal enjoyment of all their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness intended by the God of Creation. Just how long it may take to settle that fact, I am unable to say, but we are more particular about how the end may affect us on the western continent. We have every day evidences of what we may reasonably believe the end will be when we see black men, white men, yellow men and brown men proudly, earnestly, and courageously marching under the same old Star Spangled Banner, the American ensign of liberty and fair play to all the people without regard to race or the color of their skin. What the end shall be to America depends upon the regeneration of the people of this country; the white, the yellow, the black and the brown people must cooperate in bringing about a great reformation in our own country. I frequently hear it said by men of renown that there is a Negro problem to be solved; while the fact remains that there is a great human problem to be solved by the Christian peoples of the civilized earth, joining in the great work of that solution. There is also an American problem to be solved, and that problem must be solved by the best people of this country, of the North, the East, the West and of the South. These are the kind of people to revolutionize the world. I look forward to see the day come when this cruel war is over, to hear that beautiful old anthem resound throughout the world, "Peace upon earth, the Angels sang, good will unto man, the chorus rang," and when the Kaiser will exclaim, "I yield, I yield at Thy command; no other hope have I save Thee." The question occurs to me right here, how can we best help to bring about that glorious day of peace? I should answer, by helping with all our might and power on the field of battle, with the gun and sword to win the war, help by subscribing to the Liberty Loan, help in every way to carry comforts to the boys over there. Everybody can do something if only the "widow's mite." Let the men saye one-half of that which they spend for intoxicants, the women save one-third of that which they spend for ribbons, and let the girls and boys save all of that which they spend for those things which must inevitably destroy their chances to become good and useful women and men. If you can't buy bonds, buy stamps and help win the war, help by stopping this most ungodly and un-American crime of lynching in certain parts of our country; he by condemning this arrival, discrimination against our most loyal African-born citizens, help by keeping out of power in this country, children as Cole Blease of South Carolina, Vardaman of Mississippi, Dies of Texas and Trammel of Florida. Help to win the war by condemning all such men as above named. They are a menace to the peace of our country. Their tenets are dangerous to the peace of our country. There are so many so-called hairgrowers on the market, a large number of which are nothing more than perfumed grease, it is no wonder people get discouraged and lose faith in all hair tonics. In deciding what to use on your scalp be sure and get a remedy of proven merit. Seeby's Quinade is a highly medicated pomade that has stood the test of time. It is a real scalp food; it stimulates and nourishes the roots of the hair, causing a natural growth of long hair. Quinade is the invention of an expert chemist and is made under the supervision of an experienced registered pharmacist. It makes the hair soft and smooth and easy to put up in the style desired. To get best results from the use of Quinade, it is necessary to shampoo the scalp about every two weeks with Seeby's Quinasoap. Quinasoap is made entirely out of pure vegetable oils; principally cocoanut oil, and is a thorough cleanser. Quinasoap lathers very freely. It leaves the hair soft and fluffy and imparts a refreshing feeling to the scalp unequaled by any other shampoo. Do not accept any substitute, but insist on getting Seeby's Quinade and Seeby's Ointment, asking for them by the full name. Price is 25 cents each. If your druggist or dealer does not stock these two articles, ask him to obtain them for you from his wholesaler or send us the price and we will mail them to you. Write to Seeby Drug Co., 79 East 130th St., New York City, for a sample of Quinade, mentioning the name of this paper. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORES. The Palmer Skin Whitener is sold at all of the People's Drug Stores, as follows: Store No. 1, 7th and K Sts. N. W. Store No. 2, 7th and E Sts. N. W. Store No. 3, 14th and U Sts. N. W. Store No. 4, 7th and M Sts. N. W. Store No. 5, 8th and H Sts. N. E. 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Look for the name "Ca. Fred Palmer" on both cinnamon and asses. The price is based on the cost. As your drugist a. or sent direct upon receipt of price. Manufactured by JACOB'S PHARMACY CO., Adelaide, Ca. AGENTS WANTED. Write for our Legal terms. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORES Store No. 2. 7th and E Sts. N. W. Quimade and Quinac soap are sold at Store No. 3. 14th and You Sts. all of the People's Drug Storea, asN. W. follows: Store No. 4. 7th and M Sts. N. W. Store No. 1. 7th and K Sts. N. W. Store No. 5. 8th and H Sts. N. E Published by THE CHASE PUBLISHING COMPANY AT 1109 Eye Street N. W., Washington, D. C. Entered at the Post-Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. With this issue The BEE enters upon its thirty-ninth year, and with a record of having never missed an issue during its long, successful and helpful career as a newspaper devoted to the interests of the race. We have not attained the ideal the editor and founder had in view when the paper was founded; we may never attain that ideal; but we have striven to conduct a publication uncompromisingly devoted to the best interests of the race as God gave us light to see it. During the many years that this paper has been issued, many rivals have sprung up, existed for a short spell, and then expired. Some of them were inspired by the one controlling desire to "put The BEE out," a desire they never realized, but failed in the attempt. Some were born of the belief that a community with one hundred thousand colored people was large enough to support more than one colored newspaper—a perfectly logical conclusion. But these, too, failed, while The BEE continued to be issued weekly without interruption. The late Dr. Booker T. Washington, perhaps the sagest of colored leaders who have risen, led, and then passed on "to that borne whence no traveller ever returns," once said, when referring to his critics and detractors: "If I am right, I will succeed; if I am wrong, I will fail. If they are right, they will succeed; if wrong, they will fail. If we are both right, we will both succeed, and likewise, if we are both wrong, we will both fail." While the editor and founder of this old palladium was never capable of so expressively expressing his position as was the late "Wizard of Tuskegee," still he entertained the same belief, and that we have succeeded, while many that were established to put a period in the life of The BEE failed, constitutes the proof that in many things, at least. The BEE was right. In entering upon another year, during which we hope to far better conserve the interests of our race, to champion its cause and to defend it without equivocation, we are not unmindful that the thirty-nine years of life allotted to this publication was due to the sufferance of the colored people in the District of Columbia, and for which The BEE is profoundly grateful, and which long sufferance imposes upon us an obligation—a sacred duty—to ring true in the future on every question affecting the betterment of the race. Without malice towards any; with the high resolve to serve the race alone; recognizing no factions or cliques as being the object of our favor or our enmity, simply because of something which may have transpired in the past; determined to bestow praise where praise is deserved, and to sanely criticize measures, rather than men, when criticism has been earned, The BEE enters upon another year of life, hoping to retain the confidence and support heretofore bestowed and given. We shall strive to approach nearer to the ideal to which we aspired thirty-nine years ago. We are grateful to friends.. We bear no malice towards enemies, for life is too short, too momentous; to indulge grievances. THE NAME "BEE." to needs, and an equally invaluable knowledge of how to subserve those needs. Long ago, in the days of Egyptian kings, a colony of bees was recognized as the embodiment of the idea of government, so adequate and well-adjusted is its system of laws and practices. The government of a beehive is well-nigh perfect. The name "Bee," which is our name, is typical of the character and aim of this paper. The name was suggested by the characteristic attributes, the wonderful efficiency and service of the honey bee. It may be proper; as a side remark, to observe here that the appreciation of the honey bee as a source of advantage is known to have existed from the most ancient times. May this not be a parallel of a like advantage for those who cultivate and support The Washington BEE? It is erroneous to associate the bee with the dominant notion that it can sting. That is one of the least significant of its attributes and habits. It seldom stings. It sometimes stings in defense of self or of the colony, but it is never the aggressor in war. It sometimes coaxes a drone or a miscreant in the colony. But its sting is never seriously hurtful to man. Poets, philosophers, historians and naturalists (among whom were Virgil, Aristotle, Cicero and Pliny) have eulogized the bee as unique among the species of the animal creation, endowed by nature with wondrous gifts beneficial to man in a greater degree than any other. Some of those ancient scientists passed years of their lives studying the wonders of bee life, which on many points agree with the investigations of later observers. One of the latest persons to write a book on bees is the famous Belgian author Maeterlinck. The Washington Times printed a review of that book by Mr. Arthur Brisbane not long ago. It would bear reprinting. The most notable characteristics of the bee are its wisdom and its usefulness. It is an indefatigable worker; it produces a surplus of wealth, which it shares with man; it evidences a marvelous adaptation Its policy is preparedness. Its motto is probably that of a certain Scotch clan whose emblem is the thistle: "Nemo me impune lacesit" (No one shall hurt me with impunity). The most prominent fact about the bee is that it does the best sort of work, and does it admirably. In many things the sagacity of man has never been able to approach that of the honey bee. The one must try to learn by laborious study and practice what the other knows instinctively. These are some of the reasons for the name of this paper, The BEE. The men and women who make this paper, being only humans, the paper can never hope to equal the real bee in perfection of In these times of stress, of sorrow and need, whenever man should become his brother's keeper, what are you doing to help the dependents of your brothers at the front? Interest in the needy ones, regret for the departed ones, and sympathy for the sorrowing ones left behind is best shown in the real, tangible help you render. Today every colored man must be his brother's keeper; he must be the keeper of the needy dependents of our colored soldiers who are in the trenches and on bloody battlefields "over there" fighting for democracy—fighting for YOU. Those of the race who, immediately after that awful, tragic affair at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, December 11, 1917, indulged in protests and denunciation but have not contributed to the support of the real innocent victims—their families—dependents left behind—have NOT done their FULL duty. But you MUST do your duty, as our colored soldiers will do and are doing their duty in the trenches. What are you doing? From all over the country come reports that the colored people—the colored men and the colored women—have been aroused to the urgency of relief and the necessity of contributing to the NATIONAL COLORED SOLDIERS' COMFORT COMMITTEE for the relief of sorrowing and needy dependents of our brave boys at the front. The colored women—God bless them!—are forming auxiliary organizations in many communities and making a drive for funds for us. What are you doing? Various women's clubs in various cities and towns are sending on contributions to help provide relief for the needy dependents of our boys who are fighting for them—fighting for YOU. What are you doing? Churches are taking up collections, women are making house-to-house canvass for funds, and lodges are contributing. What are you doing? Relief is URGENT. Race loyalty to "our race" is at stake. What are you doing? Remember every colored man and woman—every colored child—who is able to contribute, owes it as a sacred duty to give their mite. What are you doing? Thousands of our boys are NOW "over there," many thousands more will soon be at the front. These—all of these—are leaving dependents behind—many sorrowing and needy dependents. What are YOU doing? If you have a spark of race loyalty; if you have genuine regret for colored soldiers who have met a tragic end; if you have real sympathy for their dependents left behind, you will DO YOUR DUTY by sending on a contribution, by getting your friends and neighbors to contribute, and by helping to organize a big campaign in your community to raise funds for the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee. Act TODAY. Don't delay. If our boys at the front know that their dependents left behind are being cared for, they can fight harder, more heroically, more enthusiastically. Help "our boys" help win this war quickly by providing relief for their needy dependents left behind. Do SOMETHING! Organize! Send on your contribution TODAY to THE NATIONAL COLORED SOLDIERS' COMFORT COMMITTEE, Washington, D. C. wisdom or method. But we aim to maintain the parallel so far as we can. EDWARD F. HARRIS. Edward Franklin Harris graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1912. Manager Gates' Pharmacy, Burrville, D. C., beginning REV. GRIMKE'S ADDRESS. Rev. Francis J. Grimke, in addressing his Sabbath School children last Sunday morning, delivered a most startling address. In speaking of Sabbath Schools and attendance, among other things, he spoke as follows: EDWARD F. HARRIS. Edward Franklin Harris graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1912. Manager Gates' Pharmacy, Burrville, D. C., beginning July, 1913. Purchased same in 1914. Sold out in 1916. Entered the law offices of Edward Hill, Jr. Appointed as member, legal advisory board January 2, 1918. Through Attorney J, A. Cobb, commissioned notary on February 23, 1918, upon recommendation of Hon. Jesse E. Adkins, assistant attorney general of the United States. He is now the corresponding secretary of the Colored Drug Association and professor of botany and pharmacy in the pharmaceutical department of Freilinghuysen University. Dr. Harris is a wide-awake individual and most energetic in everything he undertakes. "There are now 130 Sunday School missionaries under the board; new schools organized by them during the year, 1,300; money necessary to keep up the work, $250,600 annually; children out of Sunday Schools between the ages of 6 and 20, west of the Mississippi River, 4,000,000. "Five dollars provides lesson helps and papers for a mission school for three months, and $25 organizes a mission Sunday School and furnishes it with supplies for the first year. "Last year our school gave $25, and hopes to make it larger this year. The outlook is promising." In Men's Furnishings, Hats, Shoes, Collars, Shirts and All Kinds of Wearing Apparel Used by Men. It is the cheapest and the best place in the city to secure goods. 1900 and 1902 SEVENTH STREET N. W. Shoes of Quality! Shoes that are Durable! Shoes that are Cheaper than you can buy them elsewhere. As-for Style, we will put them against any Shoes in the city. KINNEY'S, 729 SEVENTH STREET N. W. While The BEE is celebrating its thirty-ninth anniversary as Washington's Newspaper to the Colored People, HELLER'S HAIR STORE is celebrating their SIXTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY as the store of WASHINGTON that has supplied the wants of the colored population of the town. Both The BEE and HELLER'S have tried to serve as friends of the colored people, and both have tried to consider their customers as FRIENDS. We wish to congratulate The BEE on their anniversary, and hope that they will serve the colored people of Washington for many years to come. 712 Seventh Street N. W. NATIONAL LIBERTY CONGRESS Under auspices of the National Liberty Conference, formed in Boston, June 18, 1917, will be in session in Washington, D. C., at John Wesley, Church, Fourteenth and Corcoran Streets, June 24, 25, 26 and 27, 1918, day and evening sessions. Representing, as we do, more than one-tenth of the fighting strength of the United States, we desire in this Congress to ask President Wilson and Congress at this time to remove from the statutes of our country all proscription laws of race discriminations of whatever kind, that we may have at home, for ourselves and our posterity, that which we are fighting and dying in a strange land to secure for others. The following are expected to be in attendance: W. Ashbie Hawkins, Baltimore; Edw. H. Morris, Chicago; William Pickens, Baltimore; R. S. Abbott, Chicago, and William Monroe Trotter, Boston. A. CLAYTON POWELL, New York, President. W. MONROE TROTTER, Mass., Secretary MAURICE W. SPENCER, Local Committee Chairman. 12th St. Branch Y. M. C. A. Community Enterprise Practical Religion 34 Organizations meet here We serve the fellows Good Rooms for your friends and Strangers Swimming Good Games and Good Fellowship Our Gym gives: Good Health Wholesome Recreation Cheerful Environment EXPERT SECRETARIES: W. F. Coleman, Building Sec'y W. R. Williams, Boys Sec'y John P. Parker, Recreation Sec'y John W. Davis, Executive Secretary Congratulations MURRAY BROTHERS Printers on 7th Street Issues Policies—Ordinary Department $250 to 5,000 Capital Fully Paid $125,000 OLD LINE LEGAL RESERVE (Not fraternal, nor assessment) Home Office: ATLANTA, GEORGIA OLD LINE LEGAL RESERVE (Not fraternal, nor assessment) Home Office: ATLANTA, GEORGIA The Standard Life Insurance Co. entends hearty greetings to its many policy-holders and friends, on the second rniversary of our entering the District of Columbia. NEW FEATURES—including the Di3ability Benefit Clause, the Limited Income, Installment and Life Income options, make our proposition equal to any. OUR MEN. Connected with our Washington office is a high-class agency force, including influential young people. Among them are Messrs Walter Dyson, John P. Quander, A. Mercer Daniels, Frank Miller, George C. Adams, George H. Hines, Willirm H. Matthews and Miss E. A. Braxton. OUR SERVICES. We extend to the public the assistance of any of these agents, whom we vouch for, to give you honest intelligent information and a heaping measure of service on all matters pertaining to insurance. The Branch Office is located at 1107 U St. N. W. J. P. BOND, Agency Director Howard Theatre Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Co., Prop. BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR STRUGGLE. Andrew J. Thomas and His Struggle. No theatrical producer in the United States has made greater struggle to give the people of Washington a playhouse of the highest class than Andrew J. Thomas. His productions have been of the highest order, coming as they have from the Quality Amusement Company of New York. His efforts have been to please and satisfy the people from 1911, the day he assumed charge of the Howard Theatre, to 1918. He has succeeded with the help of the people and to them he is indebted. [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. ANDREW J. THOMAS, Proprietor of Howard Theatre and the Greatest Theatrical Producer in the United States. New. J. Thomas, the owner and manager, passes his gratitude to the patrons of the people, and his congratulations to the Born of the thirty-ninth anniversary of his Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, the owner and manager of the Howard Theatre, expresses his gratitude to the patrons of the theatre, his gratitude to the people, and his congratulations to the Editor of The BEE on the occasion of the thirty-ninth anniversary of his publication. OUR PATRONS. of the theatre are the people who have in the management is indebted. He ree of their encouragement and liberal ARE GIVING TO OUR PATRONS IN PHOTOPLAYS: Our Patrons. Mutual Special Feat Paramount—Famous Players. Blue Fox. The Best in the Market. The patrons of the theatre are the people who have made it a success, and to them the management is indebted. He respectfully wishes for a continuance of their encouragement and liberal support. WHAT WE ARE GIVING TO OUR PATRONS DAILY IN PHOTOPLAYS: First Run for Our Patrons. Mutual Special Features. World—Brady-Made. Paramount—Famous Players. Blue Bird. Metro. Pathe. Triangle. Fox. The Best in the Market. THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN RUFUS H. BYERS, House Manager of Howard Theatre. Popular and Progressive. DESCRIPTION OF SHOWS. High-Class Dramas. ented at the theatre that may be s and the management will continue Howard Theatre such plays as are appreciative. Every drama has be with age. Plays are presented at the theatre that may be seen upon the best American stage, and the management will continue to give the people who patronize the Howard Theatre such plays as are edifying, instructive, pleasing and appreciative. Every drama has been high-class, and they will improve with age. Howard Theatre. This, the handsomest and the best constructed theatre in the United States, has every comfort and convenience. Its exits are perfect—a necessity to the success of a large house. ridding it of all Dandruff. Her magic touch in massaging the scalp invigorate it and imparts new life to the hair. Her parlors are located at 1904 L Street N.W., and are well equipped with all the modern appliances. Business hours are from 9 a.m. to 10.30 p. m. Those wishing to become adept in the science of treating the scalp are advised to see Mrs. Weaver and get her prices. Telephone Frank. 7301. Mr. Arthur F. Boston comes from one of the most aristocratic families in the city. He is a matter-of-fact kind of an individual; but a true and devoted friend. If he can't agree with his friends, he remains silent. He is a sound reasoner and a good debater. He also belongs to several popular organizations, one of which is the Young Men's Protective League, and he is regarded as the philosopher of that organization. He is known as Honest Arthur—a title many cannot possess. MRS. R. E. WEAVER'S HAIR CULTURE AND BEAUTY PARLORS. Mrs. Weaver is a graduate of the French and Pollard systems, with a practice of twelve years, making a specialty in treating the scalp and One of the Best Known Citizens in Washington. The subject of this sketch, Dr. Aaron Russell, Jr., is the son of Mr. Aaron Russell, well known to the older residents of Washington for his manly worth and for his particular interest in all matters having for their object racial advancement. Mr. Russell until recently occupied a position "on the inside" that gave him an opportunity to influence legislation affecting our people; an opportunity that was always taken advantage of to their benefit. Mr. Russell has taken a deep and unselfish interest in the political and civic affairs of this community for more than ```markdown ``` The son, like the father, has also taken an interest in local activities, particularly those affecting public schools. He has been president of the Original Parent-Teacher Association of Alfred Jones School for ten years, its birth antedating that of any similar organization in the District of Columbia. As a young man he was identified for years with the Republican National and Congressional Committees, serving under such war horses as the late Matthew Stanley Quay, Edward McPherson, Thomas W. Carter, Joseph W. Babcock and Senator Goff, who was at that time a representative. After years of toil in the political world it became evident that he would have to rely (for racial reasons) upon some other method for keeping the wolf a safe distance from the door. It was suggested that he try something involving mechanics in its prosecution, he being of an ingenious and mechanical temperament. He will in the near future have patented several practical appliances invaluable to his profession. Dr. Russell has been practicing his profession, dentistry, for fifteen years, during which time he has built up a reputation which fully justifies his selection of dentistry as his life's work. He has studiously declined election to office within the Robert T. Freeman Dental Society, the largest local Negro dental organization in the world. He recently allowed his name to be presented for the treasurer-ship, to which he was elected, and also a member of its executive committee. Dr. Russell has consistently preached and practiced dental ethics since graduation, and has refrained from employing any methods that would commercialize his profession. As a member of the executive committee of his dental organization with its other members, is trying to make it the most progressive as we see the largest race organization. The present executive committee is weary of walking in the prints made by the shoes of members of the more favored race, and seeks to awaken the individual ability existing among its membership and the adoption of up-to-the-minute methods and appliances, some of which (methods) call for the application of initiative too often lacking in the affairs of our people. A schedule of activities has been edited, which include several public meetings, and will become operative beginning with the September meeting. ARTHUR F. BOSTON. DAVIS AND JACKSON, Attorneys uprime Court of the District of Col- umbia—Holding Probate Court. Number 651 Administration. No. 24,045. Administrative This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters testamentary on the estate of Mary Theresa Neil, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of May, A. D. 1919; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Noting that the anniversary of your journalistic career it at hand, and being an admirer of the most forceful efforts you ever make in behalf of our people, I am inclosing you a few lines that I have written attempting to sing the praise of one to whom honor is due. the trend Of events touched by your mighty pen. Probhetic, the writings, so doubtless BROWN'S CORNER. Speaking of the landmarks in Washington and places that have stood for years without a rupture, and the proprietor continues, his happy and friendly relations with the people, "The Bee" on the occasion of its thirty-ninth anniversary takes this opportunity to remind the people in this city that Brown's Corner, at the corner of 7th and T streets N. W., has been standing in one place since 1893. The corner is a household word to the people. Mr. Brown is one of the most liberal and one of the most conscientious citizens of Washington. His entire family is composed of genial personages. When you enter this store, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in the edition, you enter a place of business in which you will receive fair treatment and the value of your money. money. This is a store that you will never come out of without bringing something with you. It is Brown's Corner, Philip M. Brown proprietor. GEN. HENRY CLAY SMITH The Big Factor in the Pythian World. One of the very biggest factors that has contributed to make the Colored Knights of Pythias the wonderfully benevolent and numerically strong organization that it is is Gen. Henry Clay Smith of this city. A public-spirited, race-loving man, he ever and always places his services at the disposal of those who need his services, and does it with a fine feeling of sincerity. Energetic and genial, he is a prime favorite in Washington colored circles, and he numbers his friends and admirers as legions. General Smith earned his prominence in the Pythian world not by favoritism, but by dint of hard, earnest labor, and a rare showing of necessary knowledge. The placing of him in charge of the big Pythian building here, at 12th and You streets N. W., showed the wisdom of the organization, for his conduct of that building has made it more popular than ever as a meeting place, and its assembly rooms as desirable rooms for entertainments. Scrupulously honest, careful, methodically so, in all his business affairs, General Smith makes an ideal man for the important trust assigned to him, and few men in the order have done as much, or are doing as much as individuals to maintain the just popularity of the Knights of Pythias as General Smith. One of the greatest demonstrations witnessed in this city, in which colored citizens were the chief factors, was the parade and ceremonies, last spring, incident to the dedication of the Pythian Temple of which General Smith has charge. Much of the work preparing for that demonstration was performed by the subject of this sketch, and its success, all will agree, was largely due to this indefatigable, conscientious knight, who enjoys the love and respect of all—a man who has given no occasion to make a single enemy. General Smith is a distinct contribution to racial progress, in this city just as he is a distinct potent factor in making the Colored Knights of Pythias the most influential and progressive and substantial fraternal organization in the country. AN APPRECIATION. Hon. W. Calvin Chase, Editor. Washington Bee. Given under my hand this 15th day of May, 1918. Alonzo J. Olds, 1118 Fifteenth Street N.W. Attest: W. Clark Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Wm. O. Davis and Bernard I. Jackson, attorneys. THOMAS WALKER, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court— No. 2412 Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters testamentary on the estate of George W. Milford, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or, before the 21st day of May, A. D. 1919; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. saned estate Given under my hand this 21st day of May, 1918. Thomas J. Brown, 1411 Corcoran Street N. W. Attest: W. Clark Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court. No. 24,560, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of James E. Pratt, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. 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The real test of drug store's capabilities is its prescription department, and ours is perfect. We fill your physician's prescription to the letter and no mistake is possible. PLUMMER'S PHARMACY Robt. F. Plummer, Prop. Accuray, Service, Quality A. D. S. Remedies We Pay Particular Attention to Our Prescription Department Telephone Your Wants—Phones Franklin 2703 and 26 301 H St., Corner Third St. N. W. Washington, D. C. —Advt. JUSTH'S OLD STAND Workingmen, we have made an impressive showing of suits, panty satchels, suit cases, etc., mostly slightly used; but it will pay every hustler to see this stock; and there's some overcoats at $5 up—remarkable value—and worth more money. JUSTH'S OLD STAND Big D Street TUESDAY The Washington Bee OVER MEAL WHEATLESS USE NO SWEAR CRACKLE TASTE OR INFLATION FOOD CONTAINING WHEAT COLORED JOURNALISM IN WASHINGTON. A Reminiscence of the "Palladiums" That Were Born, and Died, While THE BEE Continued On. VOL. XXXIX, NO. 4 The Bee will be pardoned for referring, in a reminiscent mood, on this, the thirty-ninth anniversary of its establishment, to the colored newspapers that have been born and have died during the thirty-nine years. The Bee has served as the reliable organ, champion and defender of the race in the District of Columbia. The Bee has had many rivals, competitors and immitators during its helpful career, but no survivor. The fact that The Bee has outlived all other colored publications in Washington clearly establishes the fact that The Bee has always had, and now has, merit. Douglass the Pioneer. The late Frederick Douglass was the pioneer colored journalist in the District, an area that has been strewn with expired colored publications. Some few years after the Reconstruction period Mr. Douglass considered the time ripe for a race newspaper in this city. Although he sunk thousands of dollars, and with his prestige, and scores of gratuits contributors, among whom were such brilliant people as Stella Martin and Richard T. Greener, the National Era, the child of Mr. Douglass' brain, expired for lack of proper support or mismanagement, or both. Mr. Douglass' son Lewis was its business manager, and Frederick Douglass, Jr., the foreman of the mechanical department. After a few years existence, during which, doubtless, it exerted great good and paved the way for others, the National Era made for itself a grave in what has become a cemetery for colored newspapers. Colored Citizen. The Colored Citizen followed in the wake of the National Era. The Citizen was established by Prof. John P. Sampson, who styled himself as a "writer and phrenologist." He claimed to possess the power to read men and their characteristics, but he evidently lacked the power to read the future of the Citizen, for after a brief existence the Colored Citizen became but a memory, its founder, at its demise, being at least a wiser man. The Commoner. The next adventurer to attempt to shoot the rapids of journalism in this city was the late George W. Williams, who established the Commoner, some time after the demise of the Citizen. Although be brought to the Commoner the unusual prestige of having been the second man to be elected to the Ohio legislature, a brilliant orator and minister, and a race historian, than which none better have preceded or succeeded him, the Commoner, like its predecessors, soon expired. The Exodus, edited by John D. Bagwell, followed the Commoner, followed it both into the field of colored journalism and into the newspaper graveyard, after but a short existence. After the Exodus' short and fitful life had become a memory, we had the Bruce Grit, John Bruce's conception, and although John was one of the most efficient and prolific writers the race had produced, he was unable to keep his newspaper afloat, and it joined, in a very short time, its laudable predecessors. The New Era. Arthur St. A. Smith next moved upon the scene, possessed with the belief that he was called, by some omnipotant power, to give the race in Washington a real live newspaper, and the New Era was the result of his dementia. It soon passed out of his hands into the hands of Henry Johnson, Lewis Douglass, et al., only soon thereafter to pass out of existence forever. Some time after the New Era had become a memory, our own John W. Cromwell was moved to establish The People's Advocate, which he edited, and which remained in the field for several years. Associated with Mr. Cromwell was Dr. George H. Richardson, who in his time wielded a rather trenchant pen. With two such able writers, each of whom had a good following, the Advocate in time was forced to go the way of all previous colored publications in the District. Then followed the Item, an item of conteit that ensued from the brain of S. S. Lacy. Although Mr. Lacy, its editor, was wont to tell his friends how he had remained up all night writing some editorial he had destined to go thundering down the corridors of time, the Item, too, died—possibly because of too little sleep. Then The Argus came upon the scene, flushed with pride, buttressed with determination, and filled with promises of endurance. The Argus was edited, and sustained, during its short life, by Charles and Henry Otty, while officeholders were the good "angels" who tried to satiate its appetite for needful money. The "angels" of this venture becoming dissatisfied with the management of the Otty brothers, these two were removed, and Wm. Calvin Chase was installed as editor, and L. Gorham Fletcher as business manager. To insure longer life, the name of The Argus was changed to the Free Lance. Under this name, for a while the Free Lace created somewhat of a sensation by its free, and oftimes vitrolic, criticism. It waged a vigorous fight against Civil Service as maintained by John Sherman, then Secretary of the Treasury. Most of the stockholders in the Free Lance were government employees in the Treasury Department, who, becoming alarmed at the vigorous fight the new editor was making, removed him. Under Chase's regime nearly all of the debt of the publication had been liquidated. Shortly after Mr. Chase, had been forced out, the Free Lance became a newspaper corpse—just as the many before had become. Following the Free Lance's death The Washington Bee became an actuality, with Wm. T. Turner as editor, and Wm. Calvin Chase as city editor and conductor of the "Chit-Chat" column. Mr. Chase subsequently succeeded Mr. Turner as editor and manager, which was thirty-eight years ago today. The Advocate made frequent attacks upon The Bee, and that, too, for no particular cause. Many of Mr. Cromwell's editorials in the Advocate, were sensational in their attacks on the editor of The Bee. Reminiscences. It was during the existence of the Advocate that Editor Chase wrote and published that memorable, editorial censuring President Cleveland, and who called Mr. Chase's attention to it when later Editor Chase, called, with a delegation, to invite the President to review an Emancipation Day parade. It was charged that Mr. Cromwell, who was a government employee, had sent the President a copy of The Bee containing the editorial attack upon the occupant of the White House. That year there were two rival Emancipation celebrations, one headed by Mr. Chase and Maj. C. C. Fleetwood, and one by the late Perry Carson. After the President had promised to review the Chase parade, and after he had been furnished with a copy of The Bee's editorial attack upon upon him, it appears the President sent his messenger, Arthur Simmons; with a message to the effect that he could not review the parade unless the two rival celebrationists confer and consolidated? To this Editor Chase sent the cryptic message back to the President: "Please inform the President that I wont confer, and neither do I receive messages from a mere messenger." Getting. Even. Believing that it was Editor Cromwell of the Advocate who furnished President Cleveland with a copy of The Bee containing its criticism of the President, Editor Chase solaced himself with the belief that it was a long-road that had no turn. Some time later the Advocate contained a scurrilous "boiler-plate" article on President Cleveland's connection with Maria Halpin, Editor Cromwell was, at the same time, an $1,800 clerk in the sixth auditor's office. By a singular coincidence, President Cleveland received several copies of the Advocate containing this "boiler-plate" article, and as a natural result Editor Cromwell lost his job, an 1 HON. RICHARD W. AUSTIN A Friend of Humanity. See Part 1. the Advocate, soon after, lacking the $1,800 per annum support of its editor, passed into oblivion, leaving The Bee the only occupant of the field here. The Late E. E. Cooper, who had established the Indianapolis Freeman, disposed of his interests in that publication, and came to Washington to establish the Colored American. Backed with the hustling abilities of Mr. Cooper, and supposed to have the favor of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, and with many of the best writers of the country as free contributors to it, the Colored American made quite a noise in the journalistic world, and appropriated to itself the title of the "National Organ of the Race." But Death is no respecter of either "national" or local organs, so the American also finally succumbed to the inevitable—went the way of many predecessors. Following the Colored American came the paper published by Nathan Spriggs, son-in-law of the late Frederick Douglass, and Charles S. Morris. Its life was short—very short—and full of natural vicissitudes. Later two clerks in the department, Oliver Randolph and Oca Taylor, the latter now supposed to be "passing for white," launched The Washington Americar, which after a short career that was full of trouble; and which nearly cost both their government positions, also died. Shortly after its demise, Finley Wilson and Mrs. Julia Coleman founded the Sun. It had a vicarious existence. While Mr. Wilson was out of the city Mrs. Coleman removed him as the "man of all work," and installed T. Thomas Fortune as editor, but even Mr. Fortune's long experience and national prestige could not stay the hand of death, so the Sun finally went into eclipse. Then followed the Eagle, which is still being published "somewhere" in Washington, and with a high resolve to "fill a long-felt want." The "long-felt want" with every newspaper established since The Bee was founded has been to put The Bee out of business: Thousands of dollars have been ruthlessly wasted by misguided would-be editors in attempt to put The Bee out of business, but The Bee continues on, having never missed an issue during its thirty-nine eventful years of publication. It has survived all its rivals, competitors and imitators. THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, WEST WASHINGTON. The First Baptist Church of West Washington was organized by Rev. Sandy Alexander, October 5, 1892. The first place of meeting was at the southeast-corner of Twenty-seventh and N Streets, and thence to Twenty-seventh and P Streets, and thence to the home of Collins Williams and his wife, who gave a small piece of ground for a church at Twenty-ninth and O Streets. A small frame structure called the "Ark" was erected on the site given by Mr. Williams. The church under the able leadership of Rev. Alexander soon outgrew this building and the present site, Twenty-seventh Street and Dumbarton Avenue, was selected. The foundation of the new building was dug at night by the male members. The stone foundation of the church cost $800 which was raised by the few members at a great personal sacrifice. When the trustees went to pay their first note to Mr. Woodward he made out the receipt to the "First African Baptist Church," whereupon Trustee Brown refused to turn over the money insisting that he represented the "First Baptist Church." After a heated debate Mr. Woodward gave a receipt as requested thereby giving the colored people the honor of establishing the first church of the Baptist denomination in Georgetown. Rev. Sandy Alexander was pastor from 1862 to 1898. Rev. James H. Hill from 1898 to 1906, Rev. E. E. Ricks from 1907 to 1915, Rev. J. R. L. Diggs from 1915 to 1916. Rev. James L. Pinn is the present pastor having come to Washington after a very successful pastorate of fourteen years in Syracuse, N. Y. During the pastorate of Rev. Ricks the bonded debt of $7,665.53 was paid in full. At a rally held Sunday, May 19th last, the church raised the magnificent sum of $1,670. Last July the church presented its pastor with a handsome late model "Auburn" touring car, which is fully paid for. REV. DANIEL REED. There are few theologians or pulpit orators who may be compared with Rev. Daniel L. Reed, B. D., who is now pastoring Mt. Zion Baptist Church at Fredericksburg, Va. Rev. Reed is an alumnas of Guadaloupe College in Texas, and of Howard University, from which later he graduated from the School of Theology. At his graduation from Howard he had the honor of being selected by the dean to deliver the class oration, which was admitted by the faculty to have exceeded, in dictum and delivery, all previous class orations, and worthy a place in preserved literature. After his graduation from Howard, Rev. Reed was called t Fredericksburg, Va., where for seven years he has builted well and wrought good, no minister in the old commonwealth being better loved, or who is achieving greater church success. The great Baccalaureate serman which he delivered before the senior class of the Fredericksburg Normal and Industrial Institute, A. B. June 10th a year ago, attracted so great attention, and became so much in demand he was forced to have it published in pamphlet form, thousands of copies having been sold, and still being in demand, being now on sale at newsstands, here in Washington at Townsley News Stand, on You Street. His class oration, when he graduated from Howard seven years ago, stamped Rev. Reed as a "coming man," and that Bacccalaureate sermon delivered in Fredericksburg last year proved him to be "the man who has come." Those who have never read that Bacccalaureate sermon should not fail to secure a copy, for it is something to be treasured and preserved. DR. GEO. W. CABANISS. Dr. George W. Cabaniss, whose cut appears above, is one of the most successful physicians of Washington. Every worthy civic activity receives his zealous support; and with unusual devotion he gives generously of time and means for the uplift of the race and the general betterment of mankind. After this country entered the war Dr. Cabaniss, with other public spirited men, insistently appealed to the military authorities of the nation for the establishment of a training camp ```markdown ``` for colored officers. His efforts were not in vain; and when camp opened, despite the sacrifice of a large and envied practice, Dr. Cabaniss went with the District quota to Fort Des Moines and rendered valuable service under the army branch of the Y. M. C. A., giving his time without pay. Officers at Fort Des Moines and high government officials commended the work of Dr. Cabaniss, and after the camp closed he was recommended to the National War Council of the United States for further service. Many cantonments sought him, but finally he was stationed at Camp Meade, Md., where he is doing much toward preparing draftees for efficient military service on the battlefields of France. Dr. Cabaniss has been frequently urged to file claim for military rank, but absolutely declines to do so, claiming that it will narrow his opportunity to serve both the masses in civilian life and the splendid young men under military training. Dr. Cabaniss is an active and influential member of many charitable organizations, and is the president of the National Medical Association. He keeps in closest touch with civic affairs, and works incessantly for the THURSDAY ONE MEAL WHEATLESS USE NO BREAD Crackers, TASTY OR BREAKFAST FOODS CONTAINING WHEAT PART II. MILLER AND TERRELL There are at least two colored men in Washington whose names are household words in every colored home in the country, they being Prof. Kelly Miller and Judge Robert H Terrell. Throughout the country whenever Kelly Miller's name is mentioned Howard University is at once associated with it, and whenever the name of Howard is mentioned that of Prof. Miller is intuitively recalled as Howard's best asset and most favorably known professors. As a writer—a pamphleteer—Prof. Miller is without a peer today. That open letter to the President some time ago will go down in history as one of the very distinct bits of "best literature" and one of the most incisive and conclusive WOODFORD, ENGLAND communications ever addressed to a President of these United States. The fact that Judge Robert H. Terrell has entered upon his fifth consecutive term as judge of the Federal Municipal Court; that he successfully ran the gauntlet for reappointment and confirmation of a Democratic President, and from a Democratic Senate known to be uncompromising opponents of the race, has given him, being "the only" colored judge in the country, a country-wide reputation. It was not until Judge Terrell successfully, and surprisingly got by the barricades of a Democratic President and Senate did colored people awake to an appreciation of his judicial worth, which alone prompted his reappointment and reconfirmation by a hostile Senate. The judge, a delightful bon vaunt, a typical mixed—one who can camouflage as to make it not only effective, but desirable, by both the savant and proletariat, had never been known seriously by many of his race, because of his easy approachableness and his easy, ready adaptation to the high and to the lowly circles of society. However, when his fifth consecutive appointment and confirmation became a matter of record, colored people began to conclude that Judge Terrell must be one of the best equipped and just judges—an honor the white litigants and bar had already conferred—that ever sat upon the bench; that he really had the goods. So these two celebrities—Prof. Kelly Miller and Judge Robert H. Terrell—constitute colored Washington's best advertised men. SECRETARY DANIELS Pays Deserved "Mouth" Tribute to the Race. Albany, N. Y., June 14.—Secretary Daniels of the Navy, in an address delivered here last night at a banquet, paid the following high tribute to the colored people of this country: "While there has been occasion to question the patriotism of some of the people of this country, the loyalty of our colored citizens has never been questioned." In view of this fine tribute made by the Secretary of the Navy, who hails from North Carolina, colored citizens would be immeasurably pleased if the Secretary, recognizing the race's loyalty, would lower the bars he suffers to remain against the enlistment of colored men in the navy for other than as mess attendants, stokers, etc., and would give them a fair chance The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale background with a speckled texture. Like the immortal Douglass who rose from slavery to distinction, Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, the Chesteffield of the colored local bar, rose from the lowly labor of the fields of Virginia to a leading place in the most difficult profession in a democratic government. With toil, ability, matchless oratory, persistent pleading, a firm belief in the rights of his people, and a persistent, fearless demand for those rights, our distinguished colleague and fellow citizen overcame, every obstacle and rose to eminence and distinction. As a lad, Attorney Jones met with a cane, but even this, our invincible lawyer has turned into an asset, for it marks him with the air of a gentleman in a gentleman's profession. Always faultlessly dressed, always dignified his cane, like his rounded tones, are as well known as any of the national characters in Washington Early in life, Attorney Jones yearned for an education, and soon made his way from the corn and octon fields where it took him two days to earn 50 cents, to Wayland Seminary, where the late Dr. M. W. King broke the bread of knowledge to so many of the race's ambitious and afterward distinguished youth. Young Jones graduated from Wayland with honors, and accepted a position in the Interior Department of the Federal Government. eral Government. He was in love with the law from the start, and frequented the courts and delighted in the oratory which was so common in appeals to the jury in those days. Very soon his desire to be a lawyer became so strong that he entered Howard University School of Law and was a classmate of many men since distinguished; among them Prof. L. M. Hershaw, formerly of Atlanta University. Graduating in law and being admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, Attorney Jones.was for a time associated with Attorney Fountain Peyton, but two such pronounced and independent characters could not occupy the.same space, so our young lawyer opened his own suite of offices, paying his clerk, as he says himself, more in one week than he could earn in a month back in the days of the corn and cotton fields. heids. From the start Attorney Jones was in demand, and in the passing years he has defended more criminal cases than any three attorneys at the bar. He has the proud distinction of DR. ROBERT F. PLUMMER Washington perhaps leads both in the number and modernness of its colored drug stores, and few have contributed more to make and maintain this lead than Dr. Robert F. Plummer, who conducts a pharmacy at the northwest corner of 3d and H streets N. W. Dr. Plummer, still a young man, for he is but in his prime, was one of Howard's first graduates in medicine. He first entered Wayland Seminary, from which institution he graduated, receiving there a foundation upon which to build his superstruction. After four years practical experience in the drug business, he went to Meridian, Miss, where he became an assistant in a saving from the executioner every man he ever defended. A Candidate for Congress. Attorney Jones' ability as an orator naturally attracted attention in political circles, and be became associated-with the late John M. Langston in his candidacy for a seat in Congress from the sixth congressional district of Virginia. So valuable were the young orator's services in the elevation of the Honorable Mr. Langston, that the mantle naturally fell upon Attorney Jones himself when Mr. Langston decided not to run again. That campaign will long be remembered, and so powerful was the appeal of the oratory of Attorney Jones, that his success was conceded. He was finally induced to withdraw from what had developed into a three-cornered fight, through treachery. His withdrawal led to the defeat of the other Republican candidate and the election of his democratic representative. Through those stormy and trying days the editor of The Bee was both friend and counsellor for Mr. Jones, and is proud here and now to hold him up to the younger generations of an example of the kind of indomitable will and high ability which The Bee commends for their emulation This great anniversary number of The Bee would be imperfect without this weak tribute to the genius of this great lawyer, orator and statesman. statesman. The rewards for Mr. Jones labors at the bar have been in a way commensurate with his exertions; and today he lives with his charming and cultured wife in a palatial residence on one of the prominent avenues in the residence section of our city. His two daughters are happily married. They are cultured young matrons and the musical evenings in the Jones' home. are enjoyed by Washington's select society. If anything were needed to add the last touch to Mr. Jones' substantial and deserved rise in the life of this great city it is supplied in the presence before his door of his handsome and noiseless motor vehicle in which he now moves about the city's smooth and inviting avenues. smooth and that democracy in America is opportunity for the man who can and will surely the career of this great lawyer shows it clearly, for by sheer force of will and native ability he rose from the ranks of the lowly and untrained to a most enviable position before the bar of the Capital of the greatest nation on the face of the earth. drug store there. Returning to Washington in 1902, he purchased an established pharmacy in 1903 at 2d and 1H streets, which he later sold, and then established himself in his present up-to-date pharmacy, where he is now conducting a fine business; his efficiency as a pharmacist, and his uniform courteous treatment of patrons, making his place a favorite pharmacy for people in that section. Dr. Plummer is unusually fortunate in possessing an unusually competent and intelligent wife, and two talented daughters, one of whom will soon graduate in medicine. The history of Dr. Plummer's life clearly proves that ability, efficiency, when accompanied by pluck, will send a man on the high road to success. ```markdown ``` J. Plummer, and surely none better equipped or more careful in the compounding of prescriptions, or more thoughtful and considerate of his patrons. Dr. Plummer is unquestionably an important cog in Washington's professional and business machinery. THE LAST LEAF. Governor Pinchback Alone Remains of That Splendid "Old Guard" That Went Through Reconstruction Days. When one thinks of or meets Ex-Governor B. P. S. Pinchback involuntarily he recalls that beautiful poem, "The Last Leaf," and that particularly reminiscent line in "The Last Rose of Summer" which runs—"All her lovely companions have faded and died." Although now in the "seer and yellow leaf," in so fat as number of years go, Governor Pinchback is still as clear of visions as ever, but his life is now in the past rather than in the future, as is every one who has reached the ripe old age of three score and twenty years. Of all those brave heroic figures who blazed the way for the race back in those black Reconstruction Days, and before, Governor Pinchback alone remains to reminis about them. One by one he has followed the others of "The Old Guard" to their final resting, but he alone remains to tell of their virtues and their deeds. In those years when most of us now living were but children—thonsands of us had never been born, this man was a towering figure in the political world. Representing his state, Louisiana, in the State Legislature, as its chief executive, and later being elected both to the national-House of Representatives and the United States Senate, the latter honor, fairly won, being denied him, he stands today the mos in- which cula- of with- nius and doors to- and ence s in mar- ma- t the ash- l the ential this "THE HOUSE OF MURRAY." In a quaint old building, one of the landmarks in Washington, standing at the corner of Second and D Street S. W., is installed the pharmacy of Dr. George W. Murray. It is a unique establishment, like its proprietor, a sort of connecting link between the present and the years that have flown. In this quaint old building that has survived a half a century or more, Dr. Murray has built up a wonderful business. Perhaps one reason for his success is that he was so considerate of his mother, when she was in life. For her, who had nursed, raised and educated him he entertained such a strong love that he even shied at Cupid's darts, preferring not to divide the love he bore for his mother. Dr. Murray is perhaps, in point of service, Washington's oldest druggist, though not in years. When he established his pharmacy in South Washington, and which he has styled "The House of Murray," that section was a great political center, such men as Prof. J. D. Baltimore, A Bowen, John Francis Wilkinson Rey. Dyson and others, most of whom have long since crossed the Great Divide, were the men of the hour. Dr. Murray's pharmacy has not only been the favorite establishment to which the residents of that unique and most exceptional colored man in the United States. Those were gruelling days—days that made and required strong men—fearless men, when he rode the crest of the political wave, and that he has survived them increases our admiration and love for him. The race can never approximate the debt it owes to this grand old man who is now in the very evening of life, and it will never pay that debt. About a year ago a banquet was given here in honor of his having reached his eightieth anniversary. That was fine, but it was but a niggardly recognition of the debt it owes him. Our recognition ought to now, and by rights, take on a more substantial form. Still as erect in figure as was the little Corsician when he directed his legions over the snow to Moscow, but with silvered frosted hair that tells of eighty years that have come and goa, and with a clear mind, and fascinating remembrance of those "dark, stormy days" in which he labored for the race—days that tried men's souls, the old patriarch, we are pleased to say, is still with us—and "may his shadow never grow less" is the wish and hope of twelve millions of his people whom he never forsook. Hats off to Ex-Governor Pinchbackl MADAME A. J. SMITH'S SUCCESSFUL BEAUTY PARLOR When facial massaging was in its infancy and such a necessity as a "beauty parlor" was but a dream of the future, Madame A. J. Smith was in the Southland, wondering when and how she could leave that section of retarding racial discrimination and prejudice and come to some section in which she might enjoy reasonable privileges and opportunities. After preparing herself for a business in which she has established an enviable reputation, she came to Washington, and in time established a beauty parlor—an institution that would improve feminine physical appearances. She prepared herself for this business at a Northern college for beauty culture, and where she continued to go each year, for some years after the completion of the course, as she was possessed with the idea that one must continue to improve to be able to improve others. During the time Madame Smith has been in business, many beauty parlors have opened and closed, but hers, due to her proficiency, efficiency and cordial treatment of patrons, has continued to live and to grow, until now few enjoy so enviable a reputation as her establishment. Beauty culture is no longer the mere applying of a little powder and paint to the face, and to idl ele to to ity es of section have repaired for drugs, to have prescriptions filled, and to purchase the customary things carried in stock by an up-to-date pharmacy, but it has been sort of a community center where the residents frequently gathered to discuss current topics, for it was really "the people's drug store." Always enjoying the reputation of a careful pharmacist—an alchemist than whom there are none better—his patrons felt, and knew, that the ancient appearing little frame building in which Dr. Murray catered to trade was stocked with the best and purest of drugs, and that a prescription left with him for filling would be carefully compounded exactly as directed by the prescribing physicians. There has been another side to Dr. Murray's life. He has been, for years, a sort of sideral go-between for the residents of that section, and a sort of "Father Bound" to such as were in distress, for with him, to do good was an obsession. Dr. Murray's clientele has not been confined to his own race alone, but, because of his genial and courteous treatment of patrons, his reputation as a thorough and careful pharmacist, his patrons include white as well as colored—all nationalities in that section, and these have helped to make "The House of Murray" a unique and city-white known establishment. 1930 ```markdown ``` Thirty-nine years in the good old T fight For the uplift of mankind; Thirty-nine years in the strenuous race And not once left behind; Fighting the fight for liberty, Still fighting yet, The Good Old Bee. Thirty-nine years with a watchful eye For the under dog's welfare; Thirty-nine years through thick and thin, The Good Old Bee's been there; Fighting the fight that makes men free, Fighting the fight for you, for me. Thirty-nine years on the battle front, Facing the black man's foe; Preaching the truths that right will questionable preparations to the hair, but it is now a science, and Madame Smith is master of that science. Her parlors at 935 R Street N.W. are modern to the last degree, the furniture and equipment being designed to meet the approbation of her rapidly increasing trade. With modern electrical appliances, she is enabled to accomplish in an hour what used to require half a day. Possessing a delightful personality, a thoroughly modernly equipped establishment, and recognized as one of the most efficient in her business to ur- ed cy, ity BOARD'S DRUG STORE situated at 1912% 14th St. N. W., has always enjoyed a certain distinction and advantage in being the only colored drug store on this popular thoroughfare. Since its establishment in 1905 by Board & McGuire this store has enjoyed a period of over twelve years of uninterrupted success, being well patronized by persons of both races, and enjoying the confidence of a large clientele of the best physicians in Washington. This confidence of physicians and the public has been won and maintained by strict adherence to sound business principles—honesty and fair dealing—giving to the physician just what his prescription called for, compounded with accuracy and integrity from absolutely pure and reliable drugs by registered pharmacist, and giving the public full value for its money in reliable and well-selected goods of the right quality, rightly priced. Quality has ever been the watchword of this store, and the wisdom of this stall had been fully justified by the public's support. Most people That unjust wrongs must go. The Good OJd Bee's a terrible tool. Against lynch law, against mob Thirty-nine years, 'tis a long, long time, And many have come and gone And left behind a memory And a "long-felt want" to mourn; The Good Old Bee has stood the test And held its own among the best. Thirty-nine years, what a grand record! And the race may well be proud To have a fearless man like Chase To watch and cry aloud; And tho its foes may fume and fret; The Good Old Bee's still buzzing yet. James Conway Jackson. in the city, it is not to be wondered at that Madame Smith's business has grown and flourished. Women—modern women—well know that it is just as imperative that they please with their personal charms of hair, face and form as to please with their culinary art; in fact, more imperative. And a woman who neglects to preserve and improve her personal charms neglects that which God intended should survive the years. Realizing this, Madame Smith has become the beauty preserver of Washington's femininity. ```markdown ``` have come to realize that while the price is important, what you get for the price is more important. This firm believes in fair and open dealing, not tricks of the trade, in order to gain customers, and has always maintained the system of legitimate profit on all things sold, and avoided sacrificing one article for the purpose of getting unfair profits on others. As a result of this policy, it can count scores of customers that have dealt with it for years, and the present year has far outstripped all previous years in the amount of business done, notwithstanding greater competition in the neighborhood. Their ice cream soda trade has been the talk of the town for years, and here, as elsewhere, quality and purity is insisted upon. Delicious to the last drop is what their customers say. for its The proprietor of this store takes effected this opportunity to thank his many highly patrons for their confidence and support, and wishes to assure them that watch- he will ever strive to merit their con- domined patronage by giving them the stifled best and most efficient service in his peoplepower. Nothing gives greater or more lasting pleasure than an appropriate "Present" of Jewelry . . A constant reminder of the Donor ... M. THE BOY OF THE HOUR. Left alone when a baby who now ranks with the leading real estate operators in the city, read law while an office boy under Attorney Thomas Walker, at $1.50 per week to an income of several hundred per annum. It was the French cardinal and statesman, Richelieu, who in one of his flights declared there is no such word as fail. Just whether the subject of this skatch ever read the life of this great French statesman, the writer is unable to state, but one thing is true, however, that he must have imbued many of his qualities. Commencement We guarantee the " Quality & Performance " . Taylor You St. at Eleventh. many of his principal activities and successors, if nothing more. There is one thing certain, Clarence M. De Veile is living in the house in which he was born and now owns. His father and mother were for 35 years faithful members of Asbury M. E. Church, which today stands as a monument to the colored Methodists in the city of Washington. His father was a local preacher and was known in bygone days. Jackson and Caroline De Veile, his father and mother, remained as members of Asbury Church up to and including their deaths. when they died. He was an object of pity while struggling for existence. His father died 20 years ago; he had not entered school and it was a struggle for him to to obtain an education. Daily he has walked the streets looking for work. He entered the public schools and went as far as the eighth grade in the Garnett Building. Miss Katie C. Lewis was his teacher. How he was to earn a livelihood he didn't know. So he decided to look for work. At last he found a true and helpful benefactor for whom he worked for $1.50 per week during vacation. This was after school hours, without board however. Out of the money he earned he saved enough to purchase books which enabled him to enter the high school, where he also took a high school and business course, from which he graduated. Soon after his graduation his mother died, which left him an orphan, and a few days thereafter he found a friend indeed in the person of Thomas Walker, Esq., a successful lawyer and real estate operator. He was appointed his bookkeeper, collector, typewriter and stenographer. His stay with this well known lawyer was an inspiration to his ambitious youth. He was taught by his benefactor how to shave a penny without detecting any of its parts, how to collect rents of tenants vacated without notice, how to loan money and receive just return. The seven years in the office of Mr. Walker was a scientific and business schooling for Mr. De Veile. His Gratitude. Mr. De Veile is grateful to his benefactor, for what is to be learned of real estate in Attorney Walker's office, Mr. De Veile received it. He was taught how to draw legal papers and save his money. The leading real estate men in this city speak of him as a young man possessing a thorough knowledge of real estate and all of its minuteness. He was not satisfied with being the second man in a big successful office. He soon become intoxicated, not with "John Barleycorn," but with the declaration of Caeser who once said that he would rather be the first man in a certain little-town, than to be the second man in a room. So Mr. De Veile decided to open a law and real estate office of his own. He informed his benefactor of what Caeser once said and all the arguments and pleadings of his benefactor, who didn't want to lose him, failed to divert his ambition. So in 1913 he went into business for himself. The homestead he now owns and purchased, several houses which are in his own name, and is also the depositor of over fifty thousand dollars with a liberal income monthly from rents and sales of houses, and to whom he gives his benefactor credit. The lesson in the life of this young man should be an inspiration to every young man. His Religious Proclivities. Although Mr. De Veile was ambitious to save money and no doubt inspired by the moral taught by Iago in the play of Othello, "Put money in thy purse, put money in thy purse," this was not his ambition in life. He conceived the belief that there was a religious side of life, so h connected himself with Simpson Memorial Sunday School and it wasn't long before he was elected superintendent, church clerk, secretary and treasurer of the Northwest Private Day and Night School and president of the W Street Bible Reading Club. Can there be a life more beautifully related? Can a better-picture be thrown against the canvas as an inspiration to the young? Then let the young men read this story and follow the footpaths of Clarence M. De Veile, whose place of business is at 1014 W street northwest, phone N. 6144. He is the boy of the hour, Mr. De Veile is a oung bachelor and is in the market. That he should have been the first and only colored man to have been dean of the Theological Department of Shaw University, is not surprising, when The Bee considers the surpassing qualities of the Rev. Dr. Norman: Being a native of the State of North Carolina, Dr. Norman was not satisfied with anything less than a complete education, hence he followed his course in the State Normal School, with a course in Shaw University, where he received both his A. B. and A. M. degrees. He followed that work with a course in the Emerson School of Oratory at Boston, Mass., and studied theology ```markdown ``` GEORGE W. TAYLOR. "The Colored Galt" of Washington. With all the old-fashioned virtues, modesty, honesty, courage, persistence, tact and honor, George W. Taylor, the soldier, student, merchant, fireman and gentleman, has won merited distinction and is building a substantial business in the Capital City. He made for himself and his race an enviable record in the Philippines, as a lieutenant in the United States Army, as a member of the local fire department, and as a business man, and was rewarded for his bravery and retired with honor. Mr. Taylor was born, reared and educated in North Carolina, where he graduated from the North Carolina University, and then matriculated in medicine in the Shaw University. He was appointed regimental quartermaster surgeon, in 1899, and subsequently commissioned second lieutenant in the 48th United States Infantry, and saw service in the Philippine Islands. Lieutent Taylor was the only colored provost marshal in that country, and came as near as any officer in the army to capturing the famous Aguinaldo. He was recommended for a commission as captain, but, for some reason never explained, he did not receive it. As a compromise he was offered a position in the government service here in Washington, but declined that. No man was more popular among officers and men in the Philippines and was made resident pastor of Shaw, where he became dean of the department. Dr. Norman has all the qualities of an orator. He is well educated, well informed, has the training in all the arts of persuasion, and appeals to the senses in his appearance and voice, but above all he stands in his life and character for all that he says, and that finally gives the full force to oratory. JOHN H. HARRIS "How can I hear what you say, when what-you-are is crying to me and staring me in, the eyes." No such statement can be made of Dr. Norman; on the contrary, everything he says is given added value by what he is and by what he has done. No modern orator in our pulpit weaves such pictures with language, and probably no one but the great Talmage, ever did so in this city. Dr. Norman's church, on R Street between Twelfth and Thirteenth, is one of the largest in permanent and regular attendants. His people never tire of his teaching and his appeals have been means of bringing hundreds of our young people to the blessings and guidance of the Christian life. Although in no sense a politician, like too many of our ministers, Dr. Norman is actively interested in the political welfare of his people, realizing that American ideals of equality and liberty can rest upon nothing less than the equal rights of all men and women. He is bold and outspoken than was Lieutenant George W. Taylor. His services were well known to and commended by his commanding officer. He accepted a position in the fire department upon his return to the States, and was rewarded for his bravery in saving the life of a well known lady who conducted a millinery business on G Street between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets. Soon after that he was so severely injured in the terrible fire at Hugo Worch's music house, after which he was retired from the department and pensioned for life. Upon his recovery from this injury in the line of duty, he accepted an agency with Chas. E, Tribbey, Jr., a large and active dealer in jewelry, wholesale and retail. Mr. Taylor brought to this work his large acquaintance and his genial and honest qualities, and was so successful that he decided to engage in the business for himself. At the busy corner of 11th and You Streets, there is no more modern or well patronized establishment than the jewelry house of George W. Taylor. Mr. Taylor brings to the business an engaging personality, a smile which moves from a large heart, a cultured voice and manner, a long experience in the business which he conducts and thus has secured for himself a clientele which knows no color and no social lines. In every way, Mr. Taylor's life and activities prove that the old fashioned virtues are not old fashioned at all, but are the one sure way to success. against the wrongs to his people and a fearless champion of the right. The Bee extends to Dr. Norman the congratulations of its great anniversary number and wishes to the Metropolitan Church the long and useful service which he alone can render. "JACK" JOHNSON WANTS TO JOIN AMERICAN ARMY Jack Johnson, the American pugilist, who now is in Madrid, wants to enlist in the American Army to fight for his country. He has written a letter to Capt. E. H. La Guardia, representative in Congress from New York, asking him to take steps in his behalf. Captain La Guardia, who recently went to Madrid on an inspection trip, saw Johnson and talked with him. The next day he received the following letter from him: "Good American." "After my talk with you yesterday it occurred to me to ask you to use your good offices in my behalf. I am as good an American as any one living, and naturally I want to do my bit. I firmly believe I wasn't fairly treated at home. "All I ask now is a chance to show my sincerity. America is my own country. "There's no position you could get for me that I would consider too rough or too dangerous. I am willing to fight and die for my own country. I can not offer any more. Referred to Army. "Will you kindly make my offer known to the proper authorities? I am anxiously awaiting a reply." Captain La Guardia referred the letter to the Adjustant General, saying he did not know the nature of Johnson's trouble in Illinois, but believed it would be hard to deprive any American of the right to fight. Johnson will be disappointed, however, in his ambition to join the American Army. When officials here heard of it they promptly said any application he made would not be approved by the Adjustant General's office. --- A CENTURY OF COLORED SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK AT THE CAPITAL OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC. dly an act of Congress, January 10th, 1790, the District of Columbia was selected as the seat of the National Government, which included the city and county of Alexandria, Virginia, which was ceded back to Virginia by Congress in 1846. The public offices were opened in the new city of Washington on June 15th, 1800. Congress convened there on November 21st, 1800. The lands of the city were then farms, owned by Daniel Carroll, Robert Peters and David Burns, all of which were surveyed and planned for the National Capital by Peter Charles L'Enfant, the French engineer. Benjamin Banneker, the colored astronomer, was one of the commissioners for this work. According to the census of 1800, the population of the City of Washington was 3,210 souls, the most of whom were workmen employed on the public buildings. The population for the entire District was 14,000. According to the census of 1830, the inhabitants for the District of Columbia, including Alexandria City and county were 39,884. There were 6,152 free colored people and 6,119 slaves. A large number of these freemen and slaves were intelligent men and women, with sincere Christian zeal and high moral worth. In 1818 a number of colored people were members and worshipped in white churches in the places assigned to them. Colored children on Sunday were also taught in white churches by white teachers. Very many of the intelligent free colored people taught their children on Sunday from the Bible at their homes. About this time the colored Christians, with zeal and far-sighted vision of duty for Christian work, began to discuss the question of organizing a colored church and Sunday School for larger and more useful independent operation in all Christian work and moral uplift. In 1820 a convention was held by the colored members to withdraw from Ebenezer M. E. Church, white, 4th street S. E. In that convention the Israel Bethel Methodist Church was organized. Those most prominent in the organization were Basel Simms, Moses Liverpool, Nicholas Franklin, George Bell, Ann Nichols, William Marbery, Thomas Thomas, Walter Humphries, Harriet Beans, Dr. William Costin, James Harris, E. G. Bell, Archibald Johnson, Frederick Lewis, Wiliam A. Nichols, Ginnie Bians and others. These persons met from time to time in the homes of the members, which soon became too small. They then secured "Wheats" Schoolhouse, on Virginia avenue S. E. Soon after removing to the schoolhouse the congregation was largely increased by the acquisition of converts, who became Christians during a large revival, which originated in the Sunday School. From this consecrated religious effort among the children of that new church may be specially noted the beginning of the larger Sunday School work by colored American teachers in the District of Columbia. The church remained at "Wheats" Schoolhouse for several years, after which it became too small for the Sabbath School. The next move was to Simims Rope Walk, corner 3d street and Pennsylvania avenue S. E. The church and Sunday School remained there until November 14th, 1828, under the pastorate of Rev. David Smith of the A.M. E. Church. Arrangements were made to purchase the First Presbyterian Church, then known as the Little White Chapel under the hill which was located on South Capitol street, near the United States Capitol. When the notes for this property fell, due the church, being unable to pay them, to keep the red flag of sale from the door, some devoted colored women took the burden on their own shoulders and paid the entire debt. The most prominent of this number was Mrs. Lytha Tanner, the aunt of the late Rev. John F. Cook. The Sunday School work in Israel Church continued to grow in its permanent home, on South Capitol and B. streets S. E. The teachers were men and women, who started the work some time previous; the most of them zealous in the holy work for children. The pastors of the church took special interest in the spiritual welfare of the children. This fact is verified by the large revivals and the continued additions to the church from the Sunday School. This list shows the faithful pastors of Israel Bethel Church, which is the mother of Methodism in the District of Columbia: Revs. David Smith, Jacob Martin, Richard Mathews, Daniel A. Payne, Clayton Durham, John Cornish; A. W. Wayman, Michael Sluby, Daniel More, Samuel Watts, William Waters, Jeremiah Thompson, James Shorter, William H. Hunter, H. M. Turner, C. T. Watkins, James H. A. Johnson and Jacob M. Mitchell. These men sacrificed time and talent to build the lasting monument of Christian character in the children. In those days Israel Bethel Church was the meeting place and center for disqussing all questions for the general welfare of the colored American race, and many of their best friends and statesmen participated in the meetings, giving words of cheer and comfort for the dawning day of liberty, which in due time came to the entire race. On May 12th, 1829, the second Sabbath School organized and taught by colored teachers in the city of Washington was the Union Friendship Sunday School, which met at the Cook School building, located at the northeast corner of 14th and H streets N. W. This school was organized by Rev. John F. Cook, the father of the late John F. Cook, Collector of Taxes for the District of Columbia from July 20th, 1874, to April 30th, 1888. He served faithfully in that office fourteen years. Roderick Hampton was the first superintendent of the Union Friendship Sunday School. His faithful teachers and co-workers were Rev. John F. Cook, Lindsay Muse, Benjamin McCoy, Joseph Smallwood, Dillard Gordon, Sarah Carroll, Mary Wormley, Fanny Hamton, Sibey McCoy and Charlotte Norris. This school continued its existence up to 1836 when it was transferred to Asbury Church. These good men and women were truly imbued with the spirit of God for work. requisite to save the children. Their names hold a high place in the great work of the Sunday School Union, which was organized in 1834. They no doubt heard with sincerity the voice from Joel, 1:3, which says: "Tell your children of it, let your children tell their children and their children another generation. The greatest thing we can tell the children is that God Our Heavenly Father so loved us that He gave. His only begotten Son, Jesus, to die that we might be saved from the death of sin, and whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but hath everlasting life." But Jesus said, "Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto Me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Mathew, 19:13. "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs, 22:6. The colored men and women engaged in Sunday School work had a vision for larger duties and greater success to be obtained in the work by unity of action, so that on May 20th, 1834, the great Sunday School Union of Washington was organized, and it did a successful united Sunday School work for one year. Those days were dark for the colored people, on account of race troubles—so much so that the Union had to suspend its meetings for a while, and after some time they met cautiously and continued to do so until July 4th, 1844, at which time a convention of all the colored American Sunday Schools in Washington assembled at Israel Bethel Church and arranged for reorganizing the Sunday School Union upon a permanent basis, pursuant to a resolution adopted at the Convention of Sabbath School teachers, held July 4th, 1844, at Israel Church, which assembled to establish a permanent Sunday School Union of all colored schools. The delegates met July 16th, 1844, at the Rev. John F. Cook School Room. The representatives from the various Sunday Schools were as follows: From the First Baptist Sabbath School, now Nineteenth Street Baptist, Messrs. Leonard Grimes, Elias Johnson and Henry H. Butler; from Asbury, Eli Nugent, Benjamin McCoy and R. Sims; from First Presbyterian, Rev. John F. Cook, John T Johnson, Alexander Hayes; from Zion Wesley, Enoch Ambush, Anthony Bowen, David Redin; from Israel Bethel, James Reed, Louis Wawne, David Dixon; from Union Bethel, now Metropolitan A. M. E., R. Carter, T. Wright, James Fitzgerald; from Ebenezer Sabbath School, none; from the A. M. E. Sunday School, in Georgetown, Messrs. Joseph Smallwood and Charles Cole. The meeting was opened with sincere prayer to God for unity of action and the extension of the Sunday School work over the entire city. Mr. Leonard Grimes of the First Baptist Sunday School was called to the chair. Temporarily Mr. Henry H. Butler, from the same school, was made secretary. A committee was appointed to present names for officers of the convention, which resulted in the election of Rev. J. F. Cook for president; vice-presidents, Leonard Grimes and Anthony Bowen; secretaries, Lewis Wayne and Benjamin McCoy. lution was adopted: "Whereas, at a meeting of the several Sabbath Schools of this city, held July. 4, 1844, in Israel Church, it was unanimously recommended that a union be formed of the several Sabbath Schools of this community for the purpose of promoting the cause of Sabbath Schools among us, the people of color. Therefore, we, the representatives of the several Sabbath Schools of Washington and its vicinity, do hereby agree to organize an association, under the title of the 'Washington Colored Sabbath School Union' for the promotion of the Sabbath Schools cause among our people in this community." A committee was appointed at this meeting to prepare a constitution and by-laws. On July 28, 1844, at an adjourned meeting of the Sabbath School Teachers' Convention, held in the school room of Rev. John F. Cook, located on the northeast corner of Fourteenth and H Streets N.W., the committee on constitution made its report, which was adopted. The report was, in part, as follows: "Whereas, it is a duty incumbent on all persons to do good and communicate good to others, and to try to improve themselves, their fellow-beings and the rising generation in useful branches of mental, moral and religious knowledge, believing these principles to be essentially necessary under God to the well-being of all mankind, and believing the sentiment that in union there is strength, especially in the promotion of any good cause, we, the subscribers, teachers and members of the several colored Sunday Schools of this city; do hereby agree to constitute ourselves with all those who may hereafter feel disposed to unite into a union for the purpose of establishing, promoting and carrying forward, in every proper and honorable way, the great cause of Sabbath Schools and Bible Class instruction among the youth and adults of our race in the city of Washington, and the neighborhood thereof, to be known and distinguished by the title of the 'Washington Colored Sabbath School Union.'" These men were heroic constructors of a great and lasting moral foundation in our city, and for the Sunday School workers of the world. They, no doubt, took their lessons from the union of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Their cardinal objects were to train colored children in moral and religious culture; to organize Mission Sunday Schools, and through unity of action collect money, for poor schools. The Prayer and Praise meetings were held the first Sunday in each month. The quarterly and annual meetings were held for the purpose of addressing the children, teachers and parents on the subject of Sunday School work, and Bible Class instruction, with the collection of statistics and money for the work. For various reasons the, Sunday School Union has done nothing in its line of duty for some time. All Christian workers will agree that the noble work begun by these consecrated men and women should not be permitted to die. I therefore suggest that all Sunday School workers in the various schools and other workers shall meet the first Monday in October, 1918, in general Sunday School convention in Washington, D. C., to take into consideration the needs and the general condition of the Sunday School work in Washington and its vicinity, and also the feasibility of organizing one permanent annual Sunday School convention, into which all the Sunday Schools can enter and meet to consider ways and means for doing greater work in the future than they have in the past. There are very many neglected fields which we may reach by united efforts. The said convention may meet at the call signed by the superintendents of nine active, zealous and working schools. Each school can send five delegates, and all Sunday School workers may be admitted to membership by complying with such rules as may exist for the general welfare of the convention. Let the existing organizations and denominational unions continue its work in its own way. It is not intended that one large united organization to meet once each year for mission purposes shall in any way interfere with denominational efforts. We can with unity of action be able cording to the need indicated. The following list shows the original schools of the Sunday School Union and the date of their organization: Asbury, 1829; Israel Bethel, 1833; Nineteenth Street Baptist, 1834; Union Bethel (now. Metropolitan A. M. E.), 1838; Zion Wesley, 1840; Fifteenth Street Presbyterian, 1841; Ebenezer, 1841; John Wesley, 1852; Union Wesley, 1852; Second Baptist, 1852; St. Paul's Chapel, 1857; Galbraith Chapel, 1859; Mt. Pisgah, 1865; Silohon Baptist, 1866; Third Baptist, 1869; Zion Baptist, 1871; Asbury Mission, 1874. The following list shows the presidents of the Sunday School Union and terms of office: John F. Cook, from 1844 to 1855; Anthony Bowen, 1855 to 1856; Benjamin McCoy, 1856 to 1860; Robert H. Dyson, 1860 to 1861; John T. Johnson, 1861 to 1864; George W. Walker, 1864 to 1867; Wm. H. Wormley, 1867 to 1870; Jas. L. Thomas, 1870 to 1872; Joseph Ambush, 1872 to 1875; David Warner, 1876 to 1878; Thomas H. Wright, 1887 to 1889; L. A. Cornish, 1889 to 1891; E. R. Russel, 1891 to 1892; J. A. Berry, 1892 to 1893; Wm. H. Conner, 1893 to 1896; Primos B. Bagley, 1894 to 1896; Miss Sarah G. Janifer, 1897. The last-named person is now president. In 1889 the Sunday School Union was doing good missionary work under President L. A. Cornish at which time. I was appointed a delegate-at-large and general missionary, and I have been faithful to my duties up to this time. In April, 1916, I was invited by the Second Baptist Sunday School to deliver to them an address. The following is in part what I said: "Through the invitation extended me by Rev. John W. Pope, your distinguished and beloved acting pastor, and by the mercy and kind providence of God, I am here to address the Second Baptist Sunday School and to present some facts covering a period of sixty-eight years which will show some interesting historical facts concerning the Second Baptist Church and its Sunday School. After an absence of more than a quarter of a century, I am glad to speak to you on this historic and hallowed ground. Permit me to assure you that during all these long years I have not been a silent nor an unconcerned spectator in the Master's Sunday School work, and the battle begun here forty-two years ago has been pursued by me with unrelaxing vigilance. I was converted and joined this church in the fall of 1874. I began teaching in this Sunday School in January, 1875, just forty-one years ago. Having found the pearl of great price, precious to my own soul, I had a great desire to tell it to others. I began to ask the Master what would he have me do for the advancement of His Kingdom. After very much prayer, my earnest desire was to work and teach the children in the Sunday School, and tell of the loving mercy and kindness of Jesus. While teaching in the Sunday School I served under Pastor M. H. Gaskins as clerk of this church, and afterwards I served as superintendent of the Sunday School, and also as treasurer of the church, and when my labor ceased here in the fall of 1889 I was still serving as superintendent of the Sunday School and as treasurer of the Second Baptist Church. I rejoice to say that my labors were wonderfully blessed with converts and additions from the Sunday School into the church. Conservative estimates will place the number about two hundred during the seven years of my administration as superintendent. I give God the praise for the precious work he per "As Sunday School workers, it is very essential that we come upon this scene of action with certain definite ideas fixed in our minds as to the very best way of making our work a success. First of all, we should have a clear conception of our moral obligations as Christian teachers and a true vision of duty as ambassadors for Christ in this sinful world. Our highest duty as teachers is to magnify, extol and make great the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for His wonderful sacrifice for the salvation of this wicked world. Every teacher and Sunday School worker who hopes to build in each child the lasting monument of Christian character can find true success by spiritual alliance with our Lord Jesus Christ. This alliance may be obtained by prayer, self-sacrifice and devoted consecration. We believe that Brother Henry Butler and his heroic band of followers were all actuated by a true vision of duty to God when they laid the foundation of the Second Baptist Church and Sunday School more than sixty years ago. "It appears that from the most reliable information to be obtained the Second Baptist Church of Washington, D. C., was organized in May, 1848, by Brother Henry H. Butler, of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. He was the first pastor of the Second Baptist Church, also the first superintendent of the Sunday School, which was regularly organized in 1852, and it became a member of the Sunday School Union of the District of Columbia in that year. There is reason to believe from records extant that Rev. H. H. Butler taught children in the Second Baptist Church before the Sunday School was regularly organized, which took place four years after the church began its existence. Brother H. H. Butler's name appears on record as an active Sunday School worker, in the great convention held in 1844, and he was one of the leaders in the adoption of the constitution of the Sunday School Union. From this record there is reason to believe that the Second Baptist Church was founded by him for the extension of Sunday School work." In attempting to write a history of the Second Colored Baptist Church of Washington, D. C., I regret to say that there is no complete record of facts from which a true history of the church can be written. It appears that from statements made by Rev. Sandy Alexander, the Second Baptist Church was organized in May, 1848, by Rev. H. H. Butler of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Other records show that a council was convened on October 24th and November 12th, 1848, in which Rev. George W. Campson and Brothers J. Bacon and Clayton took a leading part. The right hand of fellowship was given on the last-named date to the following brothers and sisters: William Bush, Lucinda Bush, Susan Bush, Samuel Watts, Eliza Stanford, William Roan of the Navy Yard Church, and Lewis Patton of Mount Poniey Church, Va. Rev. Clayton preached from the 122nd Psalm, "Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces." This text indicates a desire for peace. At that date this fact was verified by Rev Sandy Alexander before his death. The Second Baptist Church has been wonderfully blessed with very many good Christian men and women, but for real godly piety, moral worth fervency in prayer and sincere Christian zeal, Rev. Madison H. Gaskins Bro. Frank Dickson and Deacon Abraham Rawles stand in the front ranks of the noble army of men whose names are recorded in the history of the Second Baptist Church. In 1916 the Second Baptist Church reached sixty-eight years of its existence. It has done a noble work in magnifying the name of Jesus and in building the lasting monument of Christian character in the past, and there awaits a grand and glorious future, if the members will live in prayer, faith and in true alliance with the power of Jesus, Christ. Remember the five loaves and two fishes and the twelve baskets full left after feeding the multitude. Stand still and see the salvation of God and He will make a way for the success of His church. Be faithful to God and to every trust committed to your care and God will give you blessings and success. The Second Baptist Church has been fruitful in producing many branches, which are traceable to two causes, viz: zeal for the extension of the Master's Kingdom, and the unholy spirit of division. In each case God has been glorified in the end. The following Baptist churches can claim the Second Baptist Church as their mother: Rehoboth, Mount Olive, Mount Carmel, and the First Baptist Church of Bladensburg, Md. A large number of good men have gone out to preach the Gospel at The Pastors. The following pastors have served the Second Baptist Church: Henry H. Butler, in 1848; Augustus Brown, 1850; Sandy Alexander, 1856; Rev. Woodyard, 1860; Rev. Gains, 1863; Rev. Mayse, 1866; Chaunce Leonard, 1869; Madison H. Gaskins, 1870; W. B. Johnson, 1884; John W. Pope, 1916; Rev. Mr. Holloman, 1917. The cornerstone of the church should have three dates, as follows: Organized in 1848. Burned and rebuilt in 1876. Rebuilt and enlarged in 1894. as superintendents of the Second Baptist Sunday School: Rev. Henry Butler in 1848, Rev. Augustus Brown in 1854, Jesse Bumbry in 1856, Rev. Sandy Alexander in 1858, George Emser in 1859, Enoch Grasty in 1868, Cornelius Davis in 1869, George Emser in 1872, Frank Bell in 1875, A. D. G. Reddick in 1876, John W. Davis in 1877, M. C. Maxfield from October, 1882, to July, 1889; Cornelius Williams, 1890; J. Thomas Davis, 1891; Emma Kinner, 1895. young and old living monuments of Christian character. Nineteenth Street Baptist Church has been fortunate in selecting great and good men as pastors, and she has not failed to honor one of its pastors with the largest and most beautiful marble monuments of any colored ministers in Harmony Cemetery. The inscription on the monument is as follows: "The Christian Mite Society of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church nolds, D. A. Clarke, Miss S. C. Lewis, Eugene Wright, Dr. A. Stevens, Benjamin Washington and Wm. I. Lee. There are 94,446 colored people in the District of Columbia, forming 28.5 per cent of the total population. Washington has the largest number of colored people of any city in the United States. The population in 1910 was as follows: Adults, white, 236,128; colored, 94,446; children 6 to 14 years of age, white, 31,781; architect of his own fortune." If we were to select men in this community to hold before the many young men who are attending the public schools and Howard University, among the first of those whose achievements constitute an inspiration would be James A. Cobb. He simply made the most of his opportunities—just what every young man should do." There are two colored churches now existing which had colored members as early as 1802; one is Mount Zion Methodist Church, Georgetown, D. C., and the other is Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, located on the southwest corner of Nineteenth and I Streets N. W., Washington, D. C. Each of these churches at that time gave some time and attention to teaching colored children under white management, and at a very early date there must have been colored teachers in these two Sunday Schools. The early records of the colored Sunday School Union shows the names of Joseph Smallwood and Charles Cole and John Lee as delegates, representing the colored Sunday School of Georgetown, D. C. These delegates were in the convention in 1844, and they must have had some part in the organization, which took place in 1834. Mr. Leonard A. Grimes, Henry H. Butler and Elias Jameson all were delegates from the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church Sunday School. When the Sunday School Union Convention met in 1844, as early as 1829 Mr. Lindsey. Muse's name appears as one of the organizers of the Union Friendship Colored Sunday School, located on the northeast corner of Fourteenth and H Streets N.W. These men were all leading spirits in the First Baptist Sunday School, now Nineteenth Street Baptist. This church and school is the oldest and the beginning of all colored Baptists' work in the city of Washington. The Nineteenth Street Baptist Church Sunday School was organized in 1834, according to the records of the Sunday School Union, which makes the Sunday School five years older than the date of organization of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, which took place in 1839. for the First Baptist Church on Tenth Street, between E and F Streets N.W. These were the white Baptists, which had worshipped at the corner of Nineteenth and I Streets since 1802. Rev. Obediah Brown was then pastor of the First Baptist Church, white. He served that church as pastor forty years, and was succeeded by Rev. Stephen Dr. Hill in 1850. In the fall of 1859 the First Batpist Church moved to Thirteenth Street N.W. between G and H Streets N.W. Rev. T. C. Teasdale succeeded Dr. Hill as pastor of the First Baptist Church. On December 10, 1861, the trustees sold the Tenth Street church to Mr. David W. Heath and he sold it to John T. Ford, a well known theatre manager. The church was altered and turned into a theatre November 19, 1861. On December 30, 1862, this building which had been dedicated to worship God was destroyed by fire, all efforts failing to save it. The total destruction caused great loss to both the manager and performers. That same place was made into a theatre, after having been rebuilt, and the performances continued. On April 14, 1865, our great President, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated in this building. The ground on which it stood had been dedicated in 1833 to the holy purposes of God. The last disaster to this place occurred on June 9, 1893, when three floors with Government clerks fell through, and the records show that twenty-two deaths occurred. Dr. Cuthbert was pastor of First Baptist Church, while they worshipped on Thirteenth Street. He attended our meetings at the Second Colored Baptist Church, to advise us in matters for general welfare. His lovable disposition, Christ-like and staintly bearing, has left an impression on me that I will never forget. The First Baptist Church, white, is now at the corner of Sixteenth and O Streets N.W. The First Baptist Church, colored, was organized in 1839 by Rev. John Haley. Rev. S. D. Hill, Mr. Clayton and Rev. Sampson White. The last-named minister became the pastor of the First Colored Baptist Church, located on the southwest corner of Nineteenth and I Streets N. W., now known as the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. From this sacred place the good news of Gospel salvation has been faithfully proclaimed by zealous ministers for one hundred and sixteen years, and the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church has done its best from the time of its organization as a colored church, seventy-nine years ago, to build up in the young and old living monuments of Christian character. Nineteenth Street Baptist Church has been fortunate in selecting great and good men as pastors, and she has not failed to honor one of its pastors with the largest and most beautiful marble monuments of any colored ministers in Harmony Cemetery. The inscription on the monument is as follows: "The Christian Mite Society of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church render this tribute to the memory of their beloved pastor. We shall go to him, but he shall not return to us. Rev. D. W. Anderson. Born April 10, 1812. Died February 17, 1873. "I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do." He was ordained in 1844, and after a ministry of twenty-one years settled with the Nineteenth Street Church of Washington, D. C., where he fell asleep in the midst of a great revival. For the cause of education, the welfare of the poor, the promotion of humanity, liberty and the conversion of the world, he labored faithfully until the Master called him hence. Duke William Anderson was born April 10, 1812, in Lawrence County, Illinois. He was the product of good home training by a widowed mother. She was a black woman. She possessed excellent judgment, patience and industry. She stored her boy's mind with such useful knowledge as would gain for him the best success in life. He was sent to school, and received the rudiments of a Western education, but nature was his greatest teacher. He heard God in the rippling water, in angry tempest, in the sighing wind. He studied the millions of stars which God shals upon the plains of heaven. In these great meditations God was training this man for the great work which he was afterwards called to do. He married early in life, and by untiring industry made his home happy, but God moves in a mysterious way. On September 4, 1839, the loving and devoted wife of Duke William Anderson died and left him four children to care for. This sad event filled his previously happy home with gloom. His heart was fixed upon his wife, and this sad Providence smote him severely, but God was training him to become a chief worker in His vineyard; The same year in which Mrs. Anderson died, 1839, and in the same year in which D. W. Anderson made up his mind to enter the Gospel ministry—that same year the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church was organized. Rev. D. W. Anderson was called to the pastorate of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church soon after the Civil War, just at the time when a man of his qualities was so much needed. He was a civilizer and a reformer wherever he acted. There was Godly reverence, thrift and improvement. When he came to Washington the city had large numbers of colored people, who came by reason of war conditions. They were mostly illiterate. He by his education, wisdom and large heart appeared as a bright star of hope to the race. He was in demand in every direction. He was elected trustee of Howard University; also trustee of the Freedmen's Savings Bank; Commissioner of the Washington Asylum, September 3, 1871; Justice of the Peace, April.8, 1869, to April 9, 1872. All this work he did, besides performing faithfully all the duties of pastor of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. In 1857 the problem regarding the future welfare of the colored people was at its zenith. This era presented a number of brilliant colored orators. The leaders were as follows: Frederick Douglass, John M. Langston, William Wells Brown, Charles L. Reason, Henry Highland Garnett, Martin R. Delaney, J. W. C. Pennington, Robert Purvis, P. A. Bell, Charles B. Ray, George T. Downing, Wm. C. Nell, L. A. Grimes, John Sella 'Martin and many others. Duke William Anderson belonged to this school of thinkers and actors, but none of them excelled him in piety, spiritual sincerity, the devotion to God's cause and in his desire to attain the highest virtues in Christian civilization. The following ministers have served the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church since 1839: Revs. Sampson White, Chauncey Leonard, Augustus Brown, S. W. Madden, D. W. Anderson, Rev. Mr. Bingey, Rev. Mr. Bolden, Rev. Mr. Waring, and Rev. W. H. Brooks. The following persons have been leaders and superintendents in the Nineteenth Street Baptist Sunday School since 1834: Henry H. Butler, L. A. Grimes, Elias Johnson, Lindsey Muse, William Pierre, John E. Clark, W. H. A. Wormley, D. A. Warner, William Walker, G. B. Anderson, E. W. Brown, J. R. Brown, John Rev- nolds, D. A. Clarke, Miss S. C. Lewis, Eugene Wright, Dr. A. Stevens, Benjamin Washington and Wm. I. Lee. There are 94,446 colored people in the District of Columbia, forming 28.5 per cent of the total population. Washington has the largest number of colored people of any city in the United States. The population in 1910 was as follows: Adults, white, 236,128; colored, 94,446; children 6 to 14 years of age, white, 31,781; colored 12,910; teachers' salaries, 1913-14 (public schools), white, $1,224,545; colored, $544,968; illiterate, 1910, white, 1.5; colored, 13.5. A clear vision of duty can to some extent be gained by the study of facts and figures here stated. When the leaders in all our Sunday Schools desire to know the full extent of work they are called to do for the general uplift of the colored population, they can get a general idea from the facts and figures relative to the colored children attending the day schools, as all the statistics of the colored Sunday Schools are not now at hand. Credit to Race, Bar and Community. When one stops to reflect upon the rising of James A. Cobb from darkest obscurity to monumental success he is very apt to recall the poet's lines, "Lives of others can remind us we can make our lives sublime, and in parting leave behind us foot prints in the sands of time." Born down in Louisiana, and with only adversity as a companion, he made his way, successfully, through Straight University at New Orleans, then matriculated at Fisk University, and later won the degrees of L. L. B., L. L. M., and Pd. B. at Howard University. He was admitted to the District bar in 1901, and has practised here successfully ever since, being recognized as among the ablest practitioners at the District bar. President Roosevelt appointed him assistant district attorney, during his incumbency of the presidential office, and so meritorious was his work that President Taft continued him, and has was only retired later through the mutations of politics. So splendidly equipped was he, as a student of law, Howard University, his alma mater, called him to A. B. JAMES A. COBR. the chair of professor of negotiable instruments, which he now fills. Mr. Cobb is a REAL lawyer—a clean, upright, gentleman in whom all have the utmost confidence, both in his ability and honesty. Perhaps no better tribute could be made him than to quote the following from an editorial which appeared in The Bee a few years ago, and which is as true of him today as on the day it was written: "The career of James A. Cobb, assistant United States district attorney for this city, ought to be an inspiration for every young colored man, and Mr. Cobb himself is yet but a young man. Born down in the rice swamps of Louisiana, robbed of parents when yet in the tender years of childhood, he has come up through the vicissitudes of fortune, inspired on by the success of men who came before him, and nerved on by the grit that was in him, until he succeeded to the honorable and responsible position he now holds under this great overment of ours. * * * It is sufficient to begin life, at the very threshold, with the absence of the protecting care of parents, but when is added to this the greater handicap of color, life spreads out before us like the mad, uncontrollable currents of the ocean. When it is considered what he had to battle against; that he was almost a derelict beached upon a deserted island, it is remarkable that he should have accomplished anything. He educated himself, and became the architect of his own fortune, and stands today a shining example of that oft repeated quotation, "Every man's the architect of his own fortune." If we were to select men in this community to hold up before the many young men who are attending the public schools and Howard University, among the first of those whose achievements constitute an inspiration would be James A. Cobb. * * * He simply made the most of his opportunities—just what every young man should do." JUSTH'S OLD STAND. Fifty Years in Business—Veteran Merchants Who Know No Patron by the Color of His Skin—List of Employees of Long Standing. Justh's Old Stand, at 619 D street N. W., is an old landmark in Washington. The father, E. S. Justh, who died some years ago, was a distinguished and enterprising merchant, and about fifty years ago he established a business in second-hand clothing and second-hand shoes. For years the elder Justh was seen in his place of business handling all grades of shoes and clothing, such grades that could not be duplicated or purchased elsewhere in this city for double the money. No man or boy was too large or too small to be fitted. His goods were purchased in almost every state and territory and shipped to his store, which is the same today as it was fifty years ago. The elder Mr. Justh retired from business several years ago, and sold out to one of his sons, who assumed charge where his father left off. He also was a success for several years. He carried on this business under the firm name of Justh's Old Stand, who, after a successful operation for some years, retired. The son, who now is the present manager, is known as the Napoleon in the second-hand business. His name is W. S. Justh. Keen and energetic in business, careful in his dealings with the thousands of patrons that patronize his place, and from all indication he has been more successful than all of his predecessors. His help consists of highly educated men, and once in his employment they very seldom leave, as will be shown later on. The success of Mr. Justh, the present manager, is good and gives fair treatment to his help and patrons. He is never known to lose his head. Mr. J. May has been with this firm twelve years. He is an active salesman and a man who is honest and loyal toward his employer. R. R. Bohn has been with the firm for fourteen years. He is the manager and an up-to-date salesman and business man. He is always able to account for every suit of clothes and pair of shoes brought to this store. What he doesn't know about goods is not worth knowing. Howard Pickett has been with Mr. Justh for eighteen years and is as competent, as any salesman in this place. He is respected by the white patrons and given the same consideration by his employer as is given his white help. The color of his skin is no bar to his success. The most remarkable thing in the business of this firm is that 85 per cent of the trade is colored and 15 per cent white. It is a poor man's store. The goods in many instances surpass those in some of the largest and most costly stores in the city. The Landmark. The house, which was erected fifty years ago by that old veteran merchant, E. S. Justh, yet stands. The exterior as well as the interior are the same. It is a curiosity shop. It is a pleasing sight to the eye if you once visit this place. This little frame building has thousands of dollars' worth of clothes and shoes artistically arranged upon those ancient shelves. In the extreme rear of the building is the workshop, where a number of persons are seen repairing clothing day in and day out. They never seem to get tired. They seldom take their eyes off their needles, but are constantly busy. Mr. Justh is not a hard taskmaster. He is most pleasing in his manners. He is forever ready to answer all questions pertaining to his goods and politely tells you that he has but one price—that is on the goods he offers you for sale. The Bee cannot say too much concerning one of Washington's greatest landmarks, whose present head is W. S. Justh, a man for the people, who are satisfied with the goods he offers you for sale. The Bee, on the occasion of its thirty-ninth anniversary wishes him continued success and contentment of mind. Mr. Charles C. Brent has been in the employ of Mr. Justh for eighteen years. It can be seen that his business dealings must be good by the length of time employees remain with him. 1 The time was, and not many decades ago, when table waiting was looked down upon by most of the aspiring people of our race and the waiter as one unfit to be honored with an invitation to the "best" homes. That was before the influx of French, Italian and Greek waiters, with whom waiting was a profession, and who, adapting themselves to it, made it a highly respectable calling. The old adage, "all honest labor is honorable," is just as applicable to table waiting as it is to teaming, farming, portering, or what not, but the average colored man and woman, who had received a smattering of education, or who had assumed themselves members of "society"—a rather indefinite thing, and frequently spurious—regarded table waiting as the most menial occupation. Even the colored janitor—the traditional "custodian of the cuspidors"—who through lodge or church connection had been elevated to a place in that indefinite group, "colored society," thought himself above—far above the table waiter, who was his superior in intelligence, morals and providency, and his home was barred, especially if he had a daughter, to the most circumspect colored table waiter. The colored walter, too, as a rule, regarded his vocation as but a means to an end, and so failed to improve it—failed to maintain a high standard—with the result that the Frenchman, Italian, Greek and Austrian crowded him out of many hotels, clubs and cafes in which the race had had the monopoly in table waiting. These foreigners, recognizing table waiting as a profession to be maintained and improved, like all other professions and gainful occupations, waxed wealthy—they, some of them, crystallized into proprietors of palatial hotels and luxurient cafes—while the colored waited who failed to inject intelligence into his waiting deteriorated and lost out. There are few occupations, when intelligence is injected into them, that are so remunerating as table waiting, for with the tips an intelligent, courteous waiter receives, in addition to his wages, he averages much higher than the best skilled mechanics. The war has returned back to their country many foreign "knights of the apron," and it has estopped the hegira of the Gascons, Franciscos, Guiseppis and Panhellenics to this country, with the result that the colored waiter is again in demand. If he is wise; if he injects intelligence into the occupation—makes a profession of it, and recognizes that all honest labor is honorable, applies to table waiting—he will monopolize this gainful occupation, and like his disappearing successful foreign competitor, will wax wealthy, and may also crystallize into proprietors of palatial hotels and sumptuously appointed cafes. Table waiting is a necessitous and honest and an honorable profession. Provincial, false ideas about its respectability have long since vanished. One of the deservedly popular attorneys in Washington is Robert I. Miller, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Miller read law under the late Campbell Carrington, and imbibed from him his excellence in law. He graduated from the National University of Law, and was shortly thereafter admitted to practice before the District bar, and since his admission has established a most enviable reputation as one of the ablest and most careful attorneys of the many who have their shingles hung out in this city. He perhaps has defended more criminal cases since his admission to the bar than any member of the local bar, and the fact that his calls reached the one hundred mark last week constitutes a sure indication of his popularity, a thing that was achieved through hard and successful work. Mr. Miller's office, at 505 D Street N. W., is a mecca for hunamong the white attorneys here, he perhaps, enjoys a greater number of colored clients than any, and because of his uniform, courteous treatment of the race, he recogniz- ing in his profession no racial or color line, always giving his best to every client, without respect to his race, color or nationality. In one of the hottest contests ever waged here for the honor of delegate to the Republican national convention, and with an old campaigner like Aaron Bradshaw as his competitor, Mr. Miller won the coveted honor handily in 1916, which was but another evidence of his popularity in the District. In that contest he made one of the most remarkable campaigns ever made in the District. He covered the entire District, speaking day and night, and surrounded himself with some of the most astute and effective political workers in the city. Such a wonderful effective campaign did he conduct, and with such marked success, that already he is the one most favorably spoken of for the honor of representing the District in the next National Republican Convention, and should, he aspire to that honor, when the eime comes, it can be said with reasonable assurance that he will have the united support of the colored men in the District, who recognize in him an exceptional attorney, and—a man who has always been sound and square on all Some Little Known Facts About the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. By Stewart M. Lewis, Bec Staff. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is one of the busiest branches of the Government service these days, and one of the most important. Very few people have any conception as to the size of the building, the number of employees or what is necessary to produce Liberty Bonds and the various stamps, including War, Savings Stamps, etc., turned out by the Bureau. The building is said to be the best lighted and best ventilated building in the world. In it every day of the six working days in the week are housed 6,000 employees—men and women—1,000 of whom are colored men and women. There are over 700 plate printers and over 2,000 printer's assistants employed, and a battery of 150 power presses are constantly in use printing over two million revenue stamps per day, more than ten thousand Liberty Bonds, ten million various other stamps, and thirty-five million paper money per month. Those who quickly spend a note of the dollar denomination have no idea, perhaps, that it requires thirty days to complete one ready for use as a medium of exchange, or that it costs the Government one and one-half cents to make a dollar note, the average life of which is but about thirty days. There are more notes of the dollar denomination redeemed at the Redemption Division in the Treasury Department than of any other denomination. Gold certificates require more impressions before they are ready for use than silver certificates, it requiring thirty days to finish a silver certificate and forty days for a gold certificate. The first Liberty Bond issue printed required nineteen million sheets, and with the seven billion dollars worth of bonds authorized by Congress one could cover a twenty-foot boulevard that would extend from Washington to Petrograd, Russia. In the wetting division, where Liberty Bonds and stamps are prepared for the presses, twenty-five machines are in use for wetting the paper that is to be printed up for stamps, bonds or money, and it requires fifty women and fifteen men operators to man these machines, each of which has a capacity of 35,000 per day. While there has always been a very appreciable number of colored women employed in the Bureau, labor shortage and the increased amount of working coming to it, due to printing Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps, has added hundreds of young colored women as counters, printer's assistants, etc., to the Bureau's roll of employees. The dining-room maintained at the Bureau, where the most wholesome and appetizing food is prepared and served to the employees at simply actual cost, is unsurpassed by any in the country, and the kitchens are models of cleanliness and up-to-dateness. No branch of the Government service today, with the possible exception of the War Department, is so urgent and so heavily worked as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and perhaps, for efficiency, it surpasses any, for the director, Jas. L. Wilmeth, has been for several years one of the greatest efficiency experts in the Treasury Department, and his assistant, Mr. F. E. Ferguson, is a man of remarkable executive ability. FRANK E. FERGUSON. A Case of True Merit Rewarded. It is rare that a man will stay in one place long enough to win deserved promotion and get it, and at the same time labor unceasingly to see that all his fellow employees are likewise rewarded. Such is the case with the Honorable Frank E. Ferguson, assistant chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of this city. Mr. Ferguson was born in Washington, August 1, 1860, attended the local schools, and was appointed as a helper in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at the age of 18 years. His pay then was $1 per day. By dint of hard work and conscientious attention to duty, coupled with fairness to his fellow employees, without regard to color or other distinctions, he rose through all the divisions and the clerical grades, until he became assistant director in May, roof. The employees, especially the colored people, are loud in praise of his fairness and consideration, and the fact that he has progressed in a department of the government where the work is so exacting and the responsibilities so great, shows just bis what his individuality and his merit must be. The Bee is happy to be able to congratulate Mr. Ferguson in its great anniversary number and to wish him additional honors and rewards for his high values to the Treasury Department and the Government of the United States. BRIGHT LIGHTS. In Washington's Professional World Lives That Constitute a Real The professional world is splendidly represented in Washington by capable colored men and women, and few cities in the country, if any, contain so many well equipped colored professional men and women. In law, in medicine and in theology colored men here stand high, their reputations not being confined to the limited boundaries of the District, but extend over the country. The hundred thousand colored people of this city are proud of their, men and women who have won enviable standing in the professions, and The Bee wishes it might afford the space to speak of each and every one of them who have made, and are making an impress upon the nation. There are always, however, a limited number of men and women in every line of endeavor in every community who, because of certain achievements, stand out in bolder relief than others, and there can be no reflection upon the many splendid and successful professional colored men and women who represent Washington if we enumerate a few representatives who have earned the right, with others, to be considered worth while. Brief sketches of the following shining lights in Washington's professional sphere may serve as an inspiration to the many who are just coming on the stage of action, and this is the real aim of The Bee in presenting the few whose brief sketches follow. DR. T. THEODORE PARKER Osteopath and Optometrist. The West Indies have contributed some very brilliant and efficient colored men to aid race advancement in this country. Prominent among them is Dr. T. Theodore Parker, of 1810, Ninth Street N.W. There is one tribute you can always pay to a West Indian, and that is, if he is a professional man, his education is always thorough. Dr. Parker, the subject off Open an account here. Buy whatever you want. Pay a small amount each week. Use the money that you'd be spending for "almost nothing." You probably "throw away" more than 50c every week. That 50c weekly will buy something handsome here. It will be the same as though some one gave it to you, for you'll never miss the money. values at this price. At any time we will al paid us for a diamond if you a stone of greater value. 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Becoming interested in the science of osteopathy, the most modern and natural method for curing human ailments, he resigned his position and went to Chicago, Ill., to enter the American College of Osteopathy, from which he graduated in 1903 with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy. Later he went to Philadelphia, Pa., and entered the Philadelphia Optical College, where he pursued a most thorough course in the study of the eye, graduating in 1907 with the degree of Doctor of Optics. Returning to Kingston, his home, he quickly built up a large practice. After four years' practice in his home city, he became possessed with the laudable desire to pursue further the study of optics, and so returned to Philadelphia for a post-graduate course at his alma mater, which he completed. 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Following his post-graduate course, he attended clinics at the Wills Eye Hospital, and at the Fairmount Avenue Osteopathic Hospital, both of which are white institutions. He returned to Jamaica in 1912 and resumed his practice. A desire to travel and see possessing him, he made a tour of Panama Canal, Colon, Carthagena, Savannilla, Grenada, Barbadoes and Trinidad, remaining in Port of Spain, Trinidad, until 1916, to practice his professions. Believing that Washington offered a great field for his professions, he sailed for America, and made this his objective point, where he has been since practicing osteopathy and optometry with signal success. Dr. Parker is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, and of the Academy of Osteopathic Clinical Research. Eugene E. Howley, Pharmacist NAPPER'S PHARMACY Prescriptions Carefully Compounded 1930 Seventh St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Orders Promptly Delivered. TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. If you want first-class printing done, call at 1109 Eye Street N.W. Triangle Printing Company. BLADE Open An Account PRIDE'S PHARMACY, Cor. 28th and P. Streets N. W. Washington, D. C. The Man Who Has Made Good as Special Assistant to the Secretary of War-The Man Behind the Race. HOWLEY'S PHARMACY, Drugs, Chemicals, Stationery, Toilet Articles, Rubber Goods and Tobacco, Cor. Vermont Ave. and S Sts. N. W. Phone North 3006 One of the Best Things in Colored Business World. Banking is the highest branch of business, and the one that demands men to man it, of the most conservative of men. No others can secure the confidence of the public. Five years ago, the first of May, 1918, the Industrial Savings Bank was incorporated. Its history since has been Let Us Do Right, Act Right, and Ge Rights—The Man Who Believes in the Rights of Man. Washington, D. C., June 23. To the Washington Bee: I received your courteous solicitation and subject, which you selected. I thank you for space to appear in your paper, which has so bravely, through dangers, enemies and clouds of adversities, outlived all competitors, and has never been called a slacker when it comes to defending and safeguarding the rights of colored Americans. For thirty-nine years, you, as manager and editor, have lost much, but the race has received great and lasting benefits, and they should manifest their hearty appreciation by a grand yearly subscription. This is not in accord with your request. You want me to, say something about democracy. Owing to present conditions, I have a delicacy in articulating on paper, as it is as old as the Constitution, and I regret that it has taken a world war to convince my race that it did not mean slavery and all other bad things. We have lost much awaiting this knowledge, but I thank God that the rank and file are not to blame. Leaders kept us hot for self-agrandizement, Democrats as well as Republicans. Now we see that we can act with either one of the parties, for neither of the parties means what it says; so here-THIRTY-SEVEN—Bee after we will get right, do right and act right, and demand rights from all, as we do not hold the Democratic party responsible for all the ills that are unjustly put upon us, and exonerate the Republican party, which has held all branches of the government every year since our emancipation, with the exception of fourteen years out of fifty-four. Now it is high time we were getting right to get rights. Why keep our eye closed? Did we not see the blue and the gray pull the old bridge down; and dump you in the chasm, and unite in a grand love feast? Did we not see one Republican President feast on bear and another on opposum in the State of Georgia? Did we not see a Republican Supreme Court turn as down? Did we not see INDUSTRIAL SAVINGS BANK AND THE DIRECTOR a record of careful protection of the funds deposited with it for keeping and the wisest investments. That a bank incorporated by colored men, and in the city of Washington, where for years many have done little other than talk about a long-time predecessor which failed, should in five short years show deposits aggregating the big sum of $125,167,66, on June 17th, this year, is the highest possible tribute to the conservativeness of the men who conduct the In- injustice in the dishonorable discharge of our brother in blue? Did we not see that no colored man was M. R. S. promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel until a few months ao? Did we not see Mr. Lincoln make an exslaveholder Postmaster General? Did we not see Andrew Johnson of Tennessee elected Vice-President with Mr. Lincoln? Did we not see a Republican President appoint Chief Justice White, a Democrat, of Louisiana, the only one who has helped us in a legal way in forty years? Did we not see the Republicans throw off the "Negro plank" at the last convention? Did we not see discrimination in the seduction of Southern delegates to the Republican convention? Let us remove the scales of delusion from our blinded eyes—get right, do right, and receive rights. I am not a demagogue, but I appeal to conscience. What have we, as a comparative unit, gained by fighting one party and upholding the other? Is it right or wrong? Why will we leave our mother's and father's house, the home of our birth, when we feel that we are not treated right? Yet, because the Republican party was in power during the period of Reconstruction, and needed our vote to perpetuate its national power, and still we struggled under the laws of State rights until we fainted and gave up—when the lily white carpet baggers left and turned against us—then the blue and the gray united in a grand love feast, and when the lily whites met in dustrial Savings Bank, and to the confidence the public has, reposed in them. When John W. Lewis, the president of this bank, began to talk about establishing a colored bank in this city of one hundred thousand colored people, the only encouragement he received was discouragement. But nothing daunted him. Along-headed business man, a man having implicit confidence and interest in his race, so surrounding himself with men of his stamp—men Democratic hotels and high chambers, and hung up a sign, "Negroes Not Admitted,"—yet we hang on to the tailboard and let them occupy the cushioned seats. A man will be a fool sometimes, but a fool is a fool that will be a fool all the time. King Solomon says, "Wise men change, but fools never." Therefore, I say, "Get right, and receive rights. Stop being buncoed." No one can eat and sleep for us. No one can deliver to us our constitutional and lawful rights but the enforcement of the law. Get right, do right, and stop trusting in man. Trust in God, and we shall receive our rights, or God will send fire upon the mountains, wind on the plains, and water in the valleys, and destroy the wicked from the earth. If I aid your enemies in keeping you out in the cold, and you triumph over me; would you shelter me in time of storm? Think right, do right and get rights. Too much display of hallucination is the fruits of damnation. Get right, and come to yourself; pull the plugs of delusion out of our ears; move the scales of deception from our eyes, and get right; examine ourselves. Sew good seeds, and we shall pluck good fruit; scatter pebbles and we shall receive rocks; discriminate and we shall receive discrimination; kick the pricks and our feet shall endure the pain: Get right, and receive rights. Did the Republican party in 1865 and 1860 decree our freedom if elected? No. Was the army Democrat? What generals in the Union Army were Democrats when the South declared war against the North? They were Grant, Sherman, Logan, Butler, McPherson, McClellan, Hancock, Sheridan, Meade, Steele, Banks, Sickles and others who belonged to the Whig party. Did the ex-slaves pay the price of blood for their freedom? Yes. What did Mr. Hughes say in his letter accepting the nomination that safeguarded our future if he was elected President? Nothing. He was not elected. I say unto you "Do right, and get rights. Do wrong and ye shall receive wrong. He that maketh himself a slave shall be abased and beaten with many stripes. Do right and get rights. We have been in the wilderness over fifty four years. Let who were not afraid to venture, he incorporated the bank. The beginning was modest, the directors believing that crawling should precede walking. By careful management; by conserving the interests of its depositors, the bank grew, and today it occupies one of the most pretentious, modernly furnished homes occupied by any colored bank in the country, and for it is really "home," for the building is the property of the corporation. With John W. Lewis as us rise up and come out and give honor to God and our emancipation, as the time has come in which the color of our skin should cease to be the badge of our politics. The Republicans have long since dropped us, because we failed to use political intelligence. Although we only had a place on the tailboard, yet we made the wagon too heavy. Hence, I refer to the writings and speeches of ex-President Roosevelt, of a few years ago. He is the dictator and big boss today. Do right, and get rights. Let thinking men who love the race and who have tried the two predominant political parties see that neither party is fascinated with a God-like spirit for humanity. One gives us constitutional rights without protection and an equal chance with your foreign competitors in the North because we vote that way; the other disregards our rights as men, but will protect our financial and industrial rights, because we vote that way. One gives you every privilege to spend money, but little chance to make it; the other gives you equal chance to make money, but you must spend it with your own race, because you vote that way. The time has come for every tub to stand on its own bottom. "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." (Proverbs, 13-20.) So think for yourself, act for your race, and obey the laws of Nature. Let us do right, act right, and get rights. In God we trust to see the right, and demand rights. REV. WALTER S. JACKSON Pastor Simpson Memorial M. E. Church—Statistician of the Annual M. E. Conference. The subject of this sketch, the Rev. Walter S. Jackson, was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, near Mt. Winans, the son of Andrew Jackson, an ardent Christian and exhorter in the Sharp Street Mission of the M. E. Church, and his mother, Elizabeth Jackson, a devout Christian woman and an efficient trained nurse. He received his early training in education in the public schools of president, William Bowie, cashier, and a board of directors composed of these and Logan Johnson, Walter S. Carter, John H. Simms, W. H. Ricks, Margaret Robinson and Charles H. Neal, colored Washington is given positive assurance that all trust funds deposited will be carefully and honestly administered—dollar for dollar. To hear a recital of these men's lives; of the incorporation and growth of this bank, appears more like a tale from the the said county, under Principal Grant E. Biddle, M. A.; thence to the preparatory department of Morgan' College, at 44 Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Md., under Rev. J. H. Nutter, D. D. In 1891 he went to Philadelphia, Pa., and was employed by a very PETER H. HARRIS prominent family of "Orthodox Friends," the late Josiah and Mary Bacon, of Torresdale, Pa., now survived by a daughter, Miss H. R. Bason, who remains as a living monument to that illustrious family of Abolitionista. While serving in this religious home in the beginning of the sixth year he received the call to preach the Gospel. He left with the blessings of this family upon him, and whose personal and practical interest he enjoys unto this day from the remaining member of said family. In 1899 he married Miss Rosa Duvall, of Charlottesville, Va. She is a devout woman and an ardent assistant in his ministry and work. In 1909 his conference appointed him to the Simpson charge, Washington, D. C., and he entered Howard University and graduated from the theological department June 5, 1912, under the president, now Bishop W. P. Thirkield, L.L. D., and was one of the three commencement orators. Rev. Jackson is now vice-president of the Theological Alumni of Howard University. He is serving his tenth consecutive year in his present charge, the same being his fourth appointment since he was admitted into the conference in 1900. He is Arabian Nights than a recital of actualities. Men who have builded as these men have built; a bank that has grown as this bank has grown; deserves the confidence and the deposits of every colored man, woman and child in this city. The name, Industrial Savings Bank, is a synonym for care, for honesty and for conservatism. serving his tenth year as conference statistician, having received a unanimous vote each year. Rev. Jackson is a soul winner, a successful pastor and a forceful, convincing preacher of the Gospel. Three churches have been cleared of mortgage debt, including the present charge, where he has secured a new modern house for a parsonage costing $3,000 during the last two years, and the notes due on same are easily met because of the arrangements made in the contract. He is a promising young man and is beloved by brethren and the people of his parish; is faithful and true to his financial obligation, personal and otherwise, and enjoys the confidence of the business men along all lines. Rev. Jackson is one of the best-liked pastors in this city, and, above everything else, he belongs to the clean class. He is a man above suspicion. GEORGE W. WISE, Funeral Director, 2907 M Street N. W. Tel. W. 138 Washington, D. C. JOSEPH H. STEWART Patents, Trade-Marks & Copyrights Obtained on Easy Terms. Write for my folder giving particulark. JOSEPH H. STEWART, Attorney at Law, 494 Louisiana Avenue N. W., Washington, D. C. KINNEY SHOE STORE Mr. W. H. Brown, manager of the Kinney Shoe Store, is one of the best shoe men in this country. The large number of colored customers in Richmond, Va., where he conducted the Kinney Shoe Store, regretted his transfer. [Name] GENERAL HENRY FORREST. The World-Famous Pullman Porter. It is given to few men in this life to be universally loved and respected; yet that is true of General Henry Forrest, who has traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, in the company of the world's most famous men and has unfailingly won their respect and appreciation. Wherever the name of Pullman is known in railroad circles, there the name of Forrest is known also, and whenever a race enterprise is worthy, there the name and subscriptions of General Henry Forrest are known and manifested. In one year he traveled 83,220 miles, and is almost as well known in foreign countries as he is to the many prominent men who travel on the Congressional Limited from New York to Washington and back. Indeed, General Forrest may be said to have established the standard by which all Pullman service is judged. The district superintendent of the Pullman Company, writing from the Pennsylvania Station, New York City, on February 28, 1916, said: "Being now approaching 70 years of age, being a traveler through the length and breadth of the United States, and abroad, as a steady porter of the Pullman Company, with a life time of experience, it gives me pleasure to state that the colored porter on the Congressional Limited, better known as General Henry Forrest, is by far and long the best public servant that I have had in attendance." Among the thousands of commendatory letters which General Forrest has received from time to time, there may be found some from ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, J. Ogden Armour of Chicago, J. Ogden Tridder, governor of New Jersey in 1915 and hosts of other distinguished men Lawyer, Realty Operator, Philanthropist. On no man in Washington is it so clearly stamped that he who runs may read the experience; the strength, the kindliness, the courage, the integrity that is carved into every line of our own Thomas Walker. The Bee calls him "our own Thomas Walker," for though he, like many of our best men, comes from the South, he is distinctly a Washington man, for he has matured his promise and wrought his fabric of character so Providentially laid down in his boyhood home in Alabama. Rising by sheer force of merit, Mr Thomas Walker became a member of the State Legislature in Alabama in the stormy days of Reconstruction, and his memories of the glories and the wrongs of that time, have not only been the cause of his life-long loyalty and service to his people in their struggle for political freedom, but they have been an inspiration, when recounted by him to his many young admirers and associates. Mr. Walker came to Washington in 1882 and entered the service of In 1912, Dr. Washington, in acknowledging a contribution from General Forrest to Tuskegee, among other things said: "I acknowledge and thank you for your contribution of $815. This money comes at a time when it will help us more than you know or can appreciate, and we shall use it to the best possible advantage. "I am very glad, indeed, that you came to Tuskegee, and we shall well welcome you again, whenever you have an opportunity to come back. I enclose herewith our treasurer's receipt. Yours very truly, "Booker T. Washington, "Principal. "P. S. Sorry I was not at home." The foregoing letter is one of hundreds in the possession of General Forrest, in reply to his many acts of charity and aid to worthy race enterprises. Not only is General Forrest the prince of railroad porters and a philanthropist, but he is the prince of friends. His diplomacy and tact have smothered out many a snarl, in the meetings of his fraternal organizations, and his geniality and polished manner among men, women and children make him a man who is hailed with delight wherever he goes. In bringing to his task the high and splendid qualities of his own great and kind soul, General Forrest has secured honor and fame, while his services, and his wisdom have brought him that worldly success which such a career warrants. The Bee is honored in being privileged to include in its great anniversary number, this week, tribute to a man who deserves and has received the homage and commendation of the man who serves his day and generation. "Let him who would be greatest among you, serve," said the Messiah, and General Henry Forrest has obeyed the direction and won the distinction. M. the War Department, but government service was not congenial to a man of Mr. Walker's temperament and previous experience, hence he studied law at Howard University and left the service in 1885. He has practiced his profession continuously and successfully since that time, and so well has he labored, that today his name is the synonym for integrity and honor at the bar of the District of Columbia, where so many able men are and have been found during the years. Mr. Walker makes his clients' problems his own personal problems, and the sympathy and sanity of his advice is of far greater value than his legal aid. In his investments Mr. Walker is cautious but certain, and so scrupulous is he in the administration of his trusts that he is sought on every hand to serve for treasurer for every kind and character of public fund. His love of his people is shown in accommodating his hours to their convenience and his time to their needs. The humblest man or woman will find in Mr. Walker as courteous and sincere an interest as the most elevated, if not more so; yet he is not without admiration for honors won by our men and women in open competition and thorough merit. Mr. Walker is a patron of art and literature and struggling genius will find in him a wise counsellor and an enthusiastic friend. Indeed his contributions to the welfare of the race and to the needs of his people would long ago have bankrupted any other but a man who had been well paid by the people for the services he has rendered them. In the humblest church, for the smallest movement which looks to the betterment of the conditions of his race, Mr. Walker's generous purse is open. For many years he was treasurer of the Independent Political League, and was of the delegation which called on President Wilson to present the prayers of the colored people for recognition as American citizens. He was treasurer of the Committee of One Hundred on War, which was the first organization to outline and present the part which the Negro is playing aid, will play in this great world war. In dignity of bearing, knowledge of and respect for the law, in intense patriotism and in reverence for the Creator, in love of his people and high regard for the distinction of worth, the only distinction he recognizes, Mr. Walker reminds The Bee of a Roman Senator, of the days of that great republic. The material reward which has come to Mr. Walker is a sign to our young men who seek a career, of just what can come to them through loyalty, honor, thorough preparation and patriotism, without shallow social distinctions. Whether you find him at his modern, comfortable home at 1811 Eighth Street N. W. or at his office at 506 Fifth Street N. W., you will find the same kindly, courteous, dignified gentleman, who is everything we could wish in a lawyer and an officer of the court of the District of Columbia. Competent, Progressive Beauty Specialist. If it be true that any one who adds to the general aggregate of beauty in the world is a benefactor, then Madame Mary M. Smith belongs in that class. She improves the appearance and hence improves the self respect and personal value. Nothing so marks the progress of the people as their general interest in personal appearance, but the natural THE WORLD'S FIRST WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY improvement in one's personal charms, which follows from scientific and artistic treatment. Madame Smith's work has its best testimony in the increase of her patrons. So satisfactory has been her work, that she was forced to increase the size of her beauty parlors, and now at 905 You Street, she conducts a modern and attractive establishment second to none. The special merit of Madame Smith's work is that it is based upon scientific training in one of the best beauty culture colleges in the country. She pursued the entire course and received her diploma. Madame Smith uses no dangerous preparations. Everything she needs in her work she prepares herself, from materials which she knows and thoroughly understands. Her own appearance and her natural refinement are an added attraction to her customers. Her gracious charm of manner and her keen personal interest in each and every one of her customers, make a visit to her parlors a pleasure. Just as it is necessary to begin the general culture of children at an early year, so it is wise and necessary to begin the general attention to their personal improvement in childhood, and no small part of Madame Smith's business consists in giving to the children of loving and intelligent parents, that care of the hair and the skin which is so valuable in afterlife. The Bee is proud of everything its people do, but more than proud of every achievement of its women. It it a distinct pleasure to offer to the general public the beauty parlor and the kind of work done by Madame Smith at 905 You Street, because she is of a superior type, and is increasing the self-respect of hundreds of our people by improving their personal appearance through care of their hair and skin, and laying the foundation for even a handsome race than we now are, by giving such special care to the children: The Bee would like to see the business of Madame Smith increase to such proportions by its next anniversary that she would be known as one of Washington's greatest, thus leaving her free to direct and instruct her attendants, and to lecture to our people on the value and importance of Beauty Culture. If you have not been there, visit Madame Smith's Beauty Parlor, at 905 You Street N. W. It will pay you. No profession demands such a combination of moral strength, mental resourcefulness and physical completeness as the legal profession, and few cities present such difficulties to the practicing attorney as does the city of Washington. When a man makes a success at the bar of this city, and becomes known as a man of integrity and undisputed social position, that man is worthy of honor and praise. Every session of the National Congress sees alterations in the local laws, ordinances are promulgated daily by the Commissioners of the District, the high caliber of the attorneys practising in all the courts and the presence of the United States Supreme Court, all combine to test the fitness of a man of color in the legal profession. In the midst of these difficulties, L. Melendez King has achieved a noteworthy success. Mr. King has been in Washington A. since his graduation from school, and during all that time, a period of about twenty years, he has practised his profession. Like so many of nature's noblemen, he worked his way through school and college, without financial aid from any outside source. He was born in Amhurst County, Virginia, of extremely humble but, God-fearing parents. He attended school in his native state, and subsequently finished his education in the University of Michigan and Howard University. About eleven years ago he married Miss Anna Johnson, one of Washington's most popular teachers, and established his happy and comfortable home in the fashionable Thirteenth street block, between Tea and You streets. Recently Mr. King has made a specialty of converting large houses into comfortable and convenient modern apartments, and now has many such pieces of realty in his possession. In fact, Mr. King, though very modest about it, is a man who is rated among Washington's wealthiest colored citizens. Mr. King's prosperity is founded upon the only sure foundation for DR. E. G. EVANS. DR. ELIAS G. EVANS. The You Street Dentist. In a modern, well-appointed office in the busy section near Eleventh and You Streets, you may find one of the race's most competent dental surgeons busily engaged at his profession from nine in the morning, until ten at night. Coming from the fair state of Florida, Dr. Evans has brought to Washington the thrift and enterprise of the Florida State Normal College, taught for a term of years, and then prepared for his profession at Howard University. Dr. Evans is a prodigious worker in religious and literary fields. He is alert to all that makes for race progress, and a patron of its enterprises. He is a bachelor, The Bee regrets to say, but we hope that is only temporary. He is an ex-member of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church and a member of the advisory board of the Bethel Literary and Historical Society. Like all true Southern gentlemen, Dr. Evans is an active fraternity man. He is a member of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to the Peter Ogden Lodge. He is past grandmaster and a member of the Council No. 4 of the Washington Patriarchy No. 18, being lieutenant of the Drill Team No. 18. No less active in the Masonic fraternity, he is member of Hiram such a condition, that is, upon his integrity. During the twenty years of his practice and residence here, he has handled large sums of money and many pieces of realty and trust estates, but not one penny has been unaccounted for, and not a single trust unperformed. In the early days of his law practice, Mr. King conducted the defense in many criminal trials, and has the splendid record of preventing every possible execution entrusted to his defense. During the later years he has restricted his practice to civil and equity cases, and has won equally merited renown in that work. He was most active as an associate of the late A. A. Birney, in the conduct of the defense of the late Wr. Wilson Bruce Evans, winning a long and hard fought victory against the local Board of Education at that time. Mr. King is the financial head of the Berean Baptist Church of this city; and, in line with men of his stamp, whose tendencies are always toward helping the younger generations, Mr. King has assumed the burdens of the deanship of the John M. Langston School of Law, from which four young men were graduated in law, June 7. Thus by labor, precept and example does Mr. King inspire all ambitious young men of his race. Allow me to congratulate you on the thirty-ninth anniversary of your very valuable paper. It has always afforded me great pleasure to read your paper. I have been reading it for thirty-six years and I am still reading it. Aside from that, I have known the editor, Mr. Chase, for forty years, and I am glad that Mr. Chase and his paper are still alive. I arrived in Washington in 1873, a period of forty-five years, and from Lodge No. 4, member and officer in the Henderson Commandery No. 2; a member of the Mystic Shrine of North and South America, a 33rd degree Mason, and treasurer of the Scottish Rite Masons of this city. Dr. Eyans has the true professional spirit, and believes in keeping 'abreast of the latest scientific discoveries and research. Like most of Washington's professional men, he believes in study and cooperation, hence he is a member and was first vice president of the Robert T. Freeman Dental Society of Washington; is chairman of its executive committee and still finds time to serve as treasurer of the District of Columbia War Camp Community Service. On the ground that a busy man is the one to whom to appeal when you want a' thing done right, it is clear that Dr. Evans is the man, in a busy neighborhood, to whom The Bee's friends and readers will and do go when they need the attention in oral hygiene which modern investigation has found to play so large a part in general health and activity. The general condition of the teeth and mouth has come to be an index of many hitherto unknown conditions, and the dentist who is well equipped, well prepared and progressive is an asset to any city and especially to our race here in Washington. Dr. Evans is another of the modest, competent men whom The Bee delights to commend to public favor. that time on I have always taken pride in our race. In this connection permit me to say that I believe in organization. About thirty years ago I joined the Willing Helpers' Relief Association, and I am still an active member in that organization; a member of the Crispus Attucks Relief Association, a member of the Elder Men's Relief Association, a member of the Columbia Aid Association, a member of the Home Benefit Association and a member of one of the greatest associations in the United States, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to which I am devoting most of my time. The Moorefield Storey drive was a great success, I am glad that our people are getting together. I believe in my people, and I hope to see the day when they will become a factor in the American body politic. No race of people can succeed without unity of action, and I firmly believe that they have awakened to the necessity of seeing the importance of co-operating in everything that will advance their interest. Yours for continued success and prosperity believe me to be. MANILA, P. I., CONTRIBUTES TO SOLDIERS' COMFORT COMMITTEE. The National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee has just received a contribution from Mrs. J. B. Garner, of Manila, Philippine Islands. This contribution, with some received from Alberta, Canada; San Francisco, Cal.; Key West, Fla., and Bocas del Toco, Republic of Panama, shows to what extent the news of the work of this organization, and interest in it, has traveled. The great work the committee is doing appears to be gripping the country. John L. Quander 1222 Wylie Street N. E.