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Men of the Month
A LEADING EDUCATOR.
KELLY MILLER, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, was born at Winnsboro, S.C., July 23, 1863. He was graduated at Howard University in 1886 and did post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at Johns Hopkins University, 1887-89. He began his active work as a clerk in the Civil Service, then taught in the Washington High School and in 1890 become Professor of Mathematics at Howard University, a chair which he still holds. 
Dr. Miller is a writer and critic of unusual power and grace. He has written two books of essays, "Race Adjustment" and "Out of the House of Bondage," and has contributed widely to periodicals and newspapers. Recently he has sent out a series of excellent brochures on various phases of the Negro problem which have had wide circulation and attracted much attention. His latest one is "The Disgrace of Democracy," an open letter to President Wilson, which is a striking contribution to war literature and has been widely commented upon. 
Dr. Miller is, without doubt, not only a prominent Negro but a leading American and one of the few whose biographies are in "Who's Who."

A PHYSICIAN.
DR. CONWELL BANTON, of Wilmington, Del., was recently elected to the Board of Education of that city. He is a graduate of the Institute of Colored Youth and the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He began his practice of medicine in Wilmington sixteen years ago. Together with Dr. J.O. Hopkins he conducts a drug business and outside of his regular work has held health-week exhibits, at which physicians, teachers and social workers have spoken, and also conducted a tuberculosis clinic at a local hospital. As a result of his efforts the Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis Society has erected Edgewood Sanitorium for colored tubercular patients. The colored people are fortunate in having Dr. Banton to represent them on the board of education.

A HEADWAITER.
MR. WILLIAM H. WHITE, a native of North Carolina, is a headwaiter at Emerson Hotel in Baltimore, Md. He has served here and at the Merchants' Club for ten years and receives a salary of $1,680 a year. Mr. White and his crew replaced white help at this leading hotel and they have given satisfaction. He and his men contributed recently $1,000 to the Provident Hospital Fund, and in many other ways Mr. White has shown himself a public-spirited citizen. 

A CITY COUNCILMAN. 
WHEN West Virginia's Democratic state law librarian recently assumed office his first official act was directed toward the removal of James Arthur Jackson, who had served as an assistant librarian for sixteen years under men of his own race. So indispensable were his services considered by the Judges of the Supreme Court and members of the Bar, Democratic and Republican, throughout the state, that pressure had been brought to bear on the governor-elect to retain Mr. Jackson, even before his chief had been decided upon. Mr. Jackson remained in office, but thought seriously of resigning, because of the humiliations to which he was subjected. In the meantime, the bench and bar had again busied themselves in his behalf. The result was the creation by the legislature of the office of Supreme Court librarian and page, to which Mr. Jackson was immediately appointed by the Supreme Court judges. The tenure of this office is not dependent upon changes of administration. Mr. Jackson is, therefore, assured of the position as long as he cares to hold it. 

A LIBRARIAN. 
HARRY SMYTHE CUMMINGS was born in Baltimore, Md., May 19, 1866, and died September 7, 1917. He was educated at Morgan College and graduated from Lincoln University in 1886. He took his law course at the University of Maryland and soon after graduation was elected a member of the City Council from the Eleventh Ward. He has served in this capacity for thirteen years, a longer term than any other councilman. He has done much for Negro education while in the Council and was, at the time of his death, working to secure a much-needed modern high school building. At the Presidential convention in 1904 he made a national reputation by his speech seconding Roosevelt's nomination. He leaves a widow and four children. 
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[[image - photograph]] [[caption]] J.A. JACKSON - W.H. WHITE - KELLY MILLER - After the Bust by May Howard Jackson THE LATE H.S. CUMMINGS - DR. C. BANTON [[caption]] 23