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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1917)
j==lE=SS==3BIIHIZIIZS3i3E====]EI[====3E3E ■;-■=■--■! IBI-— | General Race News g ILlji- IPi il— , :::ibi=-—=11=11 " ■ =1BII==1l=j APPROPRIATES $163,000 FOR DEVELOPMENT. Raleigh, N. C.—The state legislature has appropriated $165,000 for race de velopment. Of this amount $25,000 has been given to the Negro Agricul tural and Technical College, which has an enrollment of 529 pupils. NEGROES NOT WANTED AS NAVAL RECRUITS. Washington, D. C.—The story is told of three Howard University sopho mores who offered to join the navy. When they asked what service wold be required of them they were told they would be assigned to the “mess department”—that is, to the dining room service. The young men declined. They were not burning with desire to serve the nation in war times as serv ants for naval officers, and they were quite right about it. CANADIAN SOLDIERS PRESENTED WITH SOCKS. Owen Sound, Canada.—The W. C. T. U. has sent 289 pairs of socks to the members of Construction Battalion No. 2. Handkerchiefs and other articles of wearing apparel have been sent to the colored Canadian troopers, soon to sail for Europe. MISSOURI PYTHIAN'S FIGHT FOR CONTROL. St. Iiouis, Mo.—The colored mem bers of the Knights of Pythias are en gaged in a legal controversy for con trol of the order. An attempt is be ing made to unseat Aaron W. Lloyd, who has been grand chancellor of the state body for sixteen years. ORGANIZE TO FIGHT RICHMOND SEGREGATION. Richmond, Va.—The Negroes of Richmond have organized to fight segregation, and the Civic Improve ment League has registered a strong protest against Richmond’s segrega tion ordinance. LEAVING GEORGIA BY THOUSANDS Albany, Ga.—A careful compilation of records available in the offices of railway agencies shows that the total movement, of colored citizens from this immediate section of Georgia to northern and western states from June 1, 1916, to March 1, 1917, was approximately 4,500. This ratio is maintained throughout the state and shows the alarming numbers in which the south’s best labor is leaving the country. ATLANTA ALBINOES HAVE MORE DEFECTIVES THAN NEGRO. Report of Medical Director Great Sur prise to the Citizens. Atlanta, Ga.—The board of educa tion received with great surprise last week at its meeting in the Chamber of Commerce assembly hall the infor mation from the report of Dr. W. N. Atkins, former medical director of schools, that 74.6 per cent of the al bino children in the city public schools were physically defective, and that only 36.6 per cent of the negro chil dren were lacking physically. Dr. Adkins’ report was from September 1, 1916, through March 1, 1917. LOUISIANA ALBINO SERVES THIRTY MINUTES FOR MURDER. Mansfield, La.—The shortest sen tence for murder on record is that served by E. L. Calhoun, an albino, convicted of the murder of a colored man named Green Columbus, who is alleged to have made improper ad vances to Calhoun’s daughter. The murderer spent thirty minutes in a cell and was discharged. It is re markable that an albino should be even convicted for the murder of a Negro in the south. FIFTEENTH REGIMENT NATIONAL GUARD READY. New York.—The Fifteenth Regiment, National Guard, New York, the new organization of colored citizens, was inspected Sunday morning, March 25, in Lafayette Hall, 132d street and Sev enth avenue, by Col. William Hayward, Lieut.-Col. Lorillard Spencer and Capt. Hamilton Fish, officers of the regiment. The state has accepted the regiment, but cannot muster it in un til the federal government has ac cepted it. AFRICA FURNISHEES WORKERS FOR EUROPE The native labor brigade of South Africa has furnished over 10,000 vol unteers for work in Europe. They have uniformed, drilled, and organized. The Cape Colored Corps has been serving with the English troops in East Afri ca. The Swazi chiefs have sent their young Paramount Chief and a number of his companions to be educated at Lovedale. Khama, the aged chief of the BaMangw'ato, being seriously ill, has become reconciled to his son. Chief Lewanika, of the Barotse Na tion, has been succeeded by Chief Leita. ROSAMOND JOHNSON WRITTEN UP IN TRANSCRIPT A lengthy and interesting article, "From Vaudeville Turn to Composer’s Desk—The Rise and Progress of James Rosamond Johnson Into Writ er and Apostle of Negro Music Taken Seriously,” is published in the Boston Transcript of February 17. A group of Negro melodies, freely developed for concert use by Mr. Johnson, is soon to be published by the Oliver Ditson Company. __ PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT FOR AMERICAN NEGROES TO IIE MAND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (Continued From First Page) have the courage to say to the white American people, ‘Give us the same rights which you enjoy, and then we will fight by your side with all of our might for every international right on land and sea.’ "If this kind of talk is not loyalty, then I am disloyal; if this is not patri otism, then I am unpatriotic; if this is treason, then I am a traitor, it is not that I love Caesar less but these black Romans more, who have been true to the flag for two hundred and fifty years. It is infinitely more disgrace ful and outrageous to hang and burn Colored men, boys and women with out a trial in the days of peace than it is for Germans in time of war to blow up ships loaded with mules and molasses." South Side Notes (Mrs. Lulu Thornton, Correspondent) Little Miss Amy Fisher is still quite sick at the home of her mother, 5907 South Fifteenth street. Mrs. Alyce Tapps entertained at lunch Easter Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. Kelley and son. She also entertained Mrs. Vaughn and daughter, Mrs. Ora Custer, Mr. Stout of Wichita, Kas„ and Mr. Clayborne were present. She also wishes to thank Undertaker Johnson for the beautiful Easter to ken. Mrs. Lulu Thornton of 4607 South Twenty-fourth street is on the sick list this week. Miss Coreasia Broomfield celebrated her sixteenth birthday Wednesday evening, April 11, at the Odd Fellows’ hall, between N and O streets on Tw'enty-flfth street. The hall was beau tifully decorated and there were thir ty-two young people in attendance. The evening wras spent in games and music. Those present expressed them selves as having had a delightful time. Miss Bloomfield was the recipient of many beautiful presents. Mrs. W. H. Scruggs returned home last Sunday from Kansas City, where she went to consult a specialist. Don’t forget Mrs. V. Hill of 5310 South Twenty-seventh street serves Sunday dinner every Sunday SUBSCRIBE FOR THE MONITOR. AFRICA. A slave, and old, within her veins There runs that warm forbidden blood That no man dares to dignify In elevated song. The chains That held her race but. yesterday Hold still the hand of men. Forbid Is Ethiop. The turbid flood of preju dice Of prejudice lies stagnant still, And all the world is tainted. Will And will lie broken as a lance Against the brazen mailed face Of old opinion. None advance Steel-clad and glad to the attack, With trumpet and with song. Look back! Beneath yon pyramids lie hid The history of her great race. Old Nilus rolls right sullen by, With all his secrets. Who shall say: My brother clipped the dragon’s wings, My mother was Semiramis. Yea, harps strike idly out of place; * Men sing of savage Saxon kings New-born and known but yesterday. —Joaquin Miller. ANNIVERSARY of EMANCIPATION The forty-fourth anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in Porto Rico was celebrated March 22 under the auspices of the Laborers’ Institute of Social Reforms, with the co-opera tion of the authorities of the Island. T • 1 1 i i 1 1 I i I_I HE Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen Gas for Painless Extractions Best 22 K gold crowns...$4.00 and $5.00 Gold fillings _ .. $2.00 and up Casted gold inlays....$5.00 and up Heavy 22K bridgework...$5.00 and $6.00 per tooth Porcelain crowns .... $5.00 Full upper or lower plates, best material....$10.00 Silver fillings .._.$1.00 Temporary fillings.....$ .50 Extractions ........$ .50 and up Clarence H. Singleton, D. D. S. 109 South 14th Street (Over Peoples’ Drug Store) Office Hours, 9 A. M. to 12 M. 1 P. M. to 7 P. M. Phone Douglas 7812 I Omaha’s Most Successful Barber. 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