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Show WEALTHY NEGRO, ONCE SLAVE, STATES POLICY ATLANTA. Ga.. Oct. 20 Born a slnve. and now reputed to be one of the wealthiest and most respected no-! no-! groes in the south. David T. Howard. 71, today celebrated his golden wedding wed-ding anniversary and made it the occasion oc-casion to give Home advice to members of his race Hop inning on a legacy of $ 1 G 0. left by his former master. Howard now i owner of business rat'd as the fourth I larpent of its kind In the city and financial institutions readily make loans on his name. "I never wasted time; I never went in for wll oats, never saw a baseball game and never danced a step but always attended to my business." said I Ha word "No social equality for me; no sane thinking negro wants it." The negro today, Howard said, i wants beter Justice in courts, better i accommodations on railway trains and more schools for his children. "Too rpany silk shirty and too much much Rood time." said he. wcro the causes of racial unrest. |