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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1915)
__i General Race News COLORED RAILROAD MEN FORM ORGANIZATION Chicago, 111. Sept. 24.—The organ ized railroad men throughout the United States were called together at Masonic Hall, 3959 State street, September 15th, by Mr. R. J. Hollo way, president of the local organized railroad men, acting as temporary chairman of the meeting. After pray ers, by Mr. A. E. Barnhill, Kansas City, Mo., the chairman outlined the object of the meeting, namely, to or ganize a national body to control the various organizations throughout the country. Mr. Gillem of Indianapolis was elected temporary secretary. Officers Elected. It was moved that the organized railroad men become a national body and the motion carried. This marked the birth of the National Railroad Men’s Benevolent Industrial Associa tion. Mr. R. J. Holloway, the father of the movement, was elected presi dent; Mr. Humphrey Bowling, Nash ville, Tenn., first vice president; Mr. E. A. Barnhill, Kansas City, Mo., sec ond vice president; Mr. Gillem, In dianapolis, Ind., secretary, and Mr. Lindsey, Chicago, treasurer; board of directors, Messrs. E. A. Barnhill, Kas sas City, Mo.; C. C. Cannon, Nash ville, Tenn.; Henry Hunter, Ports mouth, Va.; H. Jones, Louisville, Ky., and Rufus Wright, Chicago. There will be an annual session of the grand body of the association. DEATH OF A NOTED PHYSICIAN Newark, N. J., Sept. 15.—Dr. James A. Wormley, a well-known Negro phy sician, died in this city Friday, Sep tember 10th, after a brief illness, at his residence, 19 Marshall street. Dr. Wormley had practiced medicine in this city for more than twenty-six years. He was originally from Washing ton, a member of the Wormley fam ily of hotel fame in that city, and his body was taken there for interment. Funeral services were held on Satur day evening by the Alpha lodge, F. A A. Masons, of which he was a past master, after which the body was taken to the train for shipment. Dr. Wormley was deeply interested in the welfare of his race, and was one of the ablest physicians in this city. His patients numbered into the thousands. DR. I. GARLAND PENN, SECRE TARY OF FREEDMAN’S AID SOCIETY, AN OMAHA VISITOR 1. Garland Penn, secretary of the Freedman’s Aid Society of the Meth odist Episcopal church, was a wel come and distinguished visitor in Omaha this week. Sunday morning he delivered a most h“lpful address in Grove M. E. church at Twenty-sec ond and Seward streets. In the eve ning he spoke to a large congrega tion at St. John’s A. M. E. church. Tuesday evening he delivered a very practical and helpful lecture on Grace, Grit and Gumption,” in Grove Methodist church, to an all-too-small, but representative and appreciative audience. Wednesday morning he ad dressed the Nebraska Conference in the First Methodist church, where his dramatic recital of hard facts of the progress of education among the col ored people of the South made a pro found impression. Among many things he said that over $1,750,000 was spent by the society last year, and he told of one colored doctor in Neshville, Tenn., who donated $10,000 of his fortune of $100,000 to Meharry Medi cal college. “When I heard that a Negro, while he was alive, gave that much, I thought that was going some,” exclaimed Penn, and the con ference cheered. His dramatic story of a police judge who repented of his treatment of colored prisoners and wept while he sat in a meeting of educated col ored men, then pledged his support to the work of the Gammon Theolog ical seminary at Atlanta, visibly im pressed the conference. This was Dr. Penn’s first visit to Omaha since 1892 when he attended j the General Conference and he was most favorably impressed with the wonderful growth of the city. He left Wednesday night for Se dalia, Mo., to welcome and take part in the installation of the new presi dent of George Tt. Smith college SCATHINGLY REBUKES SOUTHERN LAWLESSNESS (Continued from first page.) inclined to accept the southern expla nation of the continued persecution of the blacks. With a romanticism un worthy of school girls, the North has swallowed the pretense of “chivalry,” “honor” and superior “gentility” with which the South has veneered Its barbarism. It is time that this folly came to an end. Statistics prove that not 3 per i cent of Negro lynchings are for the crime of rape. STATISTICS PROVE j THAT SOUTHERN WHITES ARE THE RAPE FIENDS AND NOT THE BLACKS. The truth is and it should be driven home to every fool who ap plauds “Dixie”—the tune that was played to disrupt the union and con serve slavery — that Negroes are lynched for the pettiest of crimes to satisfy the racial venom and blood- j lust of their former masters. And then this rot about the dangers of miscegenation! Who is responsible for the mixture of Caucasian and Ethiopian blood in the country, the Negro or the southern white? Not one light-colored black in 5,000 is the re sult of a Negro’s design on a white woman. The light-colored black, with scarcely an exception, dates his an cestry to the lust of some southern white master, who did not hesitate to make the creature he bought and sold as an animal the mother of his chil dren. So much for the southern hypocrisy that prates of miscegenation to justi-j fy its crimes. Hundreds of thousands of splendid men and women inhabit the south land, just as they did at the time of the rebellion. Stock that could pro duce a Lee has in it much of human virtue. But as at the time of the re bellion, so now', these men and wom en are not determining; they have permitted themselves to be swept along by the current of the majority because of sectional prejudice, reac tionary tradition and the recognized danger of opposing hectic public sen timent that thrives nowhere as in the South. But because the South seems help less to redeem itself is no reason why the bulk of the nation should stand idly by and permit it continuously to •disgrace this country in the eyes of the world; least of all, to propagan dize its doctrine of race hatred, anar chy and blood lust throughout the land by means of lying novels and motion pictures. If the cries of the burning black victims of a hundred southern sthki-s have not been able to rouse the con science of the North, can it remain deaf to the last agonized prayer of Leo Frank as his tortured body was swung by "southern gentlemen” from a southern pine? If Georgia cannot be scourged from out the sisterhood of states, if she cannot be reduced to a condition of dependence lower than that of the Philippines, she can at least be visit with a commercial, social and polit ical ostracism which will convince its gentry that true Americans still en throne justice and humanity as the chief bulwarks of the nation. Remember and Don’t | Forget to patronize tiie fellow who ap- | predates t fie business of the f colored people. J H. ALPERSON ! Wholeuale dealer in 4 Cigars, Tobacco and } Chewing Cum Prompt Phone 4 Service Web. 3769 { Your account is solicited in our checking and savings department Interest paid on savings CITY NATIONAL BANK Kith and Harney Streets ------ : Automoliile and Open Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night ALLEN JONES Funeral Home Lady attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Phone Web. 204 2314 No. 24th Street -- - CHAS. EDERER FLORIST Plants, Cut Flowers, Designs, Decorations Gieenhouses, 30th and Bristol Sts. 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