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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1915)
General Race News THE NEGRO BLIND. Of the 57,372 blind persons in the United States, 8,849 are Negroes. This is to say that ninety-eight of every 100,000 Negroes have vision that is so defective, that they are unable to read. The number of blind whites is considerably lower (sixty-two) in each 100,000 of the population. The comparatively larger ratio of blind ness for Negroes is due to two causes; most important the greater number live in country districts where trachoma and cataracts are al lowed to go without treatment; and next, since the test of blindness Is ability to read, the figures for Ne groes include some aged folk who are illiterate and should therefore not be classed here. The colored blind include 4,971 men and 3,878 women; more men since men as a rule follow the more dan gerous occupations. Of these, 1,115 men and 265 women are gainfully em ployed. The occupations of the men include, as we would expect, mu sicians, newspaper carriers and chair caners, but in addition to these are farmers, 265; retail merchants, 42; clergymen, 52; wood sawyers and choppers, 106; hucksters, 4. The wom en are not represented among the blind clergymen, but there are laun dresses, 29; nurses, 14; seamstresses, 6, and agricultural laborers, 57. As if this were not sufficient and startling evidence of progress among the blind, we add finally, an author, two lawyers, two school teachers, two physicians and surgeons and one pro fessional entertainer. NOT TO BE MISSISSIPPIZED. Columbus, 0., Sept. 10.—The secre tary of the Slate Medical Board re cently prepared blank forms for appli cants who wished to take the state examination to practice certain lines of limited medicine and surgery spec ified in a bill enacted by the Ohio leg islature last winter. These blanks re quired the applicant to state if he was a citizen of the United States, and in that event he was required further to state his “race” and “complexion,” and further required to furnish a photo. There being objections to these requirements on the part of col ored citizens, Governor Willis sent for Ralph W. Tyler and discussed them with him. Mr. Tyler vigorously op posed the requirements and showed to the governor that such require ments would make possible injustice and discrimination for his race. There upon the governor immediately took up the matter with the secretary of the state medical board, and the fol lowing day sent a letter to Mr. Tyler advising him that these objectionable requirements had been eliminated. This ie another big victory against discrimination for the colored citi zens of Ohio in which Governor Willis took the side of the race, he stating that he did not propose that Ohio should be "Mississippized or Alabama ized." Professor Frederick Starr of Chi cago university has been created a knight commander of the order of the Redemption of Ethopia by the government of Liberia. He is given this highest honor which Liberia can bestow because of his services in placing her in her true light before the world. ABILITY AGAIN WINS. Providence, R. I.—Mr. William F. Pettiford, the trap drummer of Church’s American band, is now play ing the summer engagement with the band at Looff’s Crescent Park. He is the only colored musician among the aggregation of twenty-five mem bers led by the celebrated leader, cor nettist and bandmaster, Bowen R. Church, and Mr. Clarence W. Spary, the distinguished trombone soloist of this city. Mr. Pettiford is also a high ly valued member of Fay’s orchestra and band besides a highly respected and valuable member of the local lodge of the Musicians’ Union of this city. Bandmasters Church and Fay made many friends by recognizing merit and not color in selecting their musicians. PENSION SINGALESE WIDOWS Paris, France.—The French cham ber of deputies, which recently dis cussed the bill of the Negro deputy, H. Diagna, representing Senegal, pro viding for the extension of general compulsory military service in France to colonial municipalities whose in habitants enjoy French citizenship, was again presented in numerous new lights and complications at the session of the chamber on July 8. The ques tion of how to apportion a pension in cases of polygamist Senegalese leav ing several widows proved a poser for the deputies. 2,000 LETTER CARRIERS ATTEND ING OMAHA CONVENTION Nearly two thousand letter carriers from every state in the union are at tending the bienniel meeting of the National Association of Letter Car riers, which convened in Omaha Mon day. The convention is the largest in the history of the organization, due to the admirable railroad facilities for which Omaha is noted. New York City sent a delegation of more than thirty, while Chicago loom ed up with 125. Other cities sent pro portionate delegations. Omaha was fortunate to secure the convention, it being awarded the meeting in competi tion with Dallas, Tex., Pittsburg, Pa., Dayton, O., and Milwaukee, Wis. Omaha’s invitation was extended by the bureau of publicity, which had ar rangements for the convention in charge. GERALDINE FARRAR, SOPRANO, WILL SING IN OMAHA The name of Geraldine Farrar brings at once to mind the beautiful face of the most fascinating personal ity America has yet given the art of music. Here is a girl, born and bred in New England, who in her early twenties could honestly claim that the world was at her feet. From her very debut in Berlin at the age or 19, a foremost prima donna, she has gone from triumph to triumph in opera and in concert until last winter the ques tion of whethei or not she would sing at the Metropolitan opera house in 1915-1916 pushed to a secondary place in New York papers even the Euro pean war. She will sing in the Omaha Auditorium on the evening of Novem ber 22, under the auspices of the As sociated Retailers of Omaha in their charity concert course. jC. P. Wesin Grocery Co.! | J. L. PETTF.YS, Mfcr. 1 Fruits and Vegetables j [2005 I C. H. MARQUARDT ]j l CASH MARKET I {Retail Dealer in Fiesii and Salt Meats, J Poultry Oysters, etc 2003 Cumins St. Dous. 3834 f 1 Horae Rendered Lard. We Smoke I J and Cure our own Hums and Bacon | t W. C. Bullard Paul Hoagiand D. P. Bonadlet 1 Bullard, Hoagiand & Benedict t LUMBER Office, 20th and Izard Sts. | Phone Doug. 478 Omaha, Neb. Tel. Douglas 840 2109 Cuming St. FURNACES AND AUTO SUPPLIES F. J. 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