Show NEGRO L LEADER ADER TRIES TO HAVE BLACK MEN GET THEIR OWN TOWN LOS ANGELES Cn Cal Oct 20 26 Col Allen United States I army retired one of the most prominent nea nent negroes of the tho west west has hag addressed a communication to the members of theu the u negro o race race in in the United States ask asking ing for expressions regarding the tho hold lag ing of a national convention look looking ng to the solution of the ra race e problem in inthe inthe the south and the desirability in particular particular ular of establishing a a purely nc negro ro commonwealth in some somo t part Dart art of the United States Colonel Allensworth is isa isa a 1 Baptist minister of Bowling Green Ky His Ills address says in part If we wo expect to hold the tho friends friend we e enow now have havo and win tho the respect of the world we must- must improve our condition b by a J of our moral and aDd in in- in influences in some organized form Ther Therefore oro I invite all whom it may concern to state th their ir opinion of a n time and place for a n national meeting to discover if the negro is a 11 disturbing element in tho the intellectual and industrial industrial indus indus- trial cir circles Jes in any part of the countr country and how how- the disfranchised ue negro ro can maintain his bis dignity |