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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1918)
Colored People Are to Organize Women Mill Have Red Cross Unit and Men a Food Saving Club. ORGANIZER AN IOWA HOY Herbert Wright Had Interesting Career as Consul in Various Countries. VENEZUELA IS PRO-GERMAN Wright Declares Also There Must Be 100,000 Huns Residing in Prov ince of Mexico. /COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA.—'The Col V_J ored people of Council Bluffs are organizing for more effective work in food conservation and Red Cross activities. Herbert R. Wright, a spe cial organizer for the United States food administration, with headquar ters at Des Moines, held a meeting with local representatives of the Col ored people Monday night, July 8 and a preliminary organization of both the men and women was ef fected. The Colored women will organize a Red Cross auxiliary and will under take to do their share of the Red Cross work of the community. The men will form a food conservation or ganization and will do all in their power to see that the food regula tions are observed among their peo ple, as well as to promote the produc tion of food. Rev. W. H. Moore has been chosen president and James Bry ant secretary. Quarters are to be se cured and a complete organization ef fected. Herbert Wright, the organizer, is an Iowa boy who has had an unusual career. He was one of the youngest Colored men in the state to be ad mitted to the bar, having read law ir the office of Judge Sutton of Mar shalltown years ago. Then he got an appointment as United States consul to San Domingo, later being trans ferred to Honduras, where he spent lour years, and was then sent to Venezuela. He spent nine years in Venezuela, and passed through many exciting times incident to the numer p ous revolutions, which he says are very frequent and for the most part of the comic opera type. In the case of one revolution Wright said the port was closed, not a ship of A •' any kind being permitted to leave. , This was done he said to prevent in ,1 terference with the revolution on the part of the United States or other nations. Wright thought that the commercial interests of the United States might suffer, go he managed to get away unobserved in a sailboa' and at the nearest station forwarded a message to the government. A few days later the cruiser Des Moines steamed into port and the revolution was called off. Venezuela I’ro-German. Venezuela, while pretending neu trality, Wright says is pro-German due largely to the fact that German commercial interests predominate When war hroke out he said the ves sels in port immediately got busy with a view of supplying coal to the German raiders. As an instance he cited the case of one captain whose vessel was already laden for a Eu * ropean port. He had sealed orders which he opened as soon as he heard that war had been declared. The vessel sailed to a neighboring island, discharged the cargo of coal went immediately to a rendezvous for the Gentian raiders, which were final ly discovered by the British fleet and destroyed. All German captains of merchant vessels Wright said, had sealed orders to be opened only in case of war, Wright says thousands of Germans left Venezuela after the war was dr dared. Most of them, according to Wright, went to a Cuban port and thence to Mexico. He thinks there are 100,000 Germans in Mexico now.— The Nonpareil. WIIAT THE EDITORS SAY .-»-i _ Wonders Will Never Cease “Wonders will never cease.” . The National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, as represent ed by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois and the Booker T. Washington ideas, as repre sented by Dr. R. R. Moton and Hon. Emmett J. Scott, supplemented with the association of Hon. Harry C. Smith, a “free lance,” os to speak, and as unbridled in his thought and ideas as a Texas mustang—all meet ing together and reaching a har monious conclusion relative to affairs affecting the race and agreeing upon a joint statement—is one of the anom alies and surprises of present-day happenings.—Richmond Planet. No Color Line in Our Army A court-martial at a Southern camp has dismissed from the service a cap tain who insisted on drawing the color line. The justice of the action is plain. A man who undertakes at this time to i discriminate against another hecauso 1 of his color is unfit to wear the uni ' form of an American soldier, much | less to represent the government as ; an officer. If our fight for freedom j means anything at all, it includes 1 every race, tribe, kindred, sect or creed under the sun. We cannot say i to this, “We recognize you as broth ! ers ami the proper object of our sacri fice,” and to that, “We know you not, ! your skin is red, or black, or yellow, and you have nothing in common with I us.” Liberty to all men is our aim. To achieve it we have taken into our army men from every quarter of the world who are physically and morally fit; not only this, but for many years we have granted all the rights and privileges of citizenship without re gard to “age, color or previous condi tion of servitude.” Old Glory knows no color line, and men called to serv ice under that flag must understand the fact.—Omaha Bee. “Dago” No More How those Italians (lo fight! All America rejoices in their courage, their ability and their victory. Let us blot forever from out our lexicon the foul word "Dago.” America will honor and love Italy, even as it honors and loves France; and there is now and forevermore a new bond between the two countries, as there will be a finer appreciation of the high qualities of the people of Italy.—Omaha Nebraskan. THE NEGRO’S CHALLENGE OUR country’s voice is pleading. The call to arms has come, And we are not unheeding— We’ve answered every one. We’re with the old red, white and blue; You need from us no vow; We’ve always to our trust been true And we’ll not be less now. When duty call’d for men who’d brave The despot’s angry wrath, Their lives, their all, they gladly gave; Theirs was the martrys’ path. They fought for justice, truth and right; They’d not to tyrants bow; The Lord God helped them in their fight, And He will help us now. On Massachusetts’ wind-swept plains, Where freedom cried for birth; At Pillow and at New Orleans, There fought the "brave of earth ’; Amid the rain of shot and shell, Up San Juan’s bloody brow, No foe could stop them, though th< y fell, And none can stop them now. From east to west they hear the cry; From north to south they come, To live, to fight, to fall, to die, Nor die ’till victory’s won. For country, God and fireside reside, To strike one might blow, The flag is our’s, whate’er betide, And we’ll protect it now. Democracy, the nations’ hope, Thou gift of God to man, Through all thy broad and boundless scope Send peace throughout our land. Break down the bars of prejudice, Fulfill thine unfilled vow. Make this the land of freedom’s bliss, The land of freedom—now. —R. J. Johnson, Baltimore, June 25. St. Iliilip’s Episcopal church, Twen ty-first, near Paul. Sunday services: 8:30, 10 and 11a. m., and 8 p. m.; daily, 8:30 a. m.—Adv. (** M M *> O .. ». » »»(.** *• **' 1 " ” " " " " " ” i « \ | Get a Sick and Accident Policy With a Company i That Is On the Square! M A policy with the |j Home Casualty Com- « pany is the one you » 1 want. Take no other i” /The protection is for £ working women as ;>< well as for working 1■ r 1 ! rnen• i' | DON’T DELAY. 1 personally attend to the adjustment of all claims. | GEORGE WELLS PARKER, Agent | ^ 933 North 27th Street. Phone Harney 5737. jg I N ATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN HOLD GREAT CONVENTION iContinued from First Page.) Lawyer Addie Dickerson of Phil adelphia presided at the afternoon session and pledged the first $100 to ward an endowment of the Fred Douglass Memorial Home. The au dience rose and sang "The Star-Span gled Banner,” while thirty Colored women in Red Cross regalia marched down the aisles. Miss Lettie Welch, director of the Rocky Mountain Bureau of Red Cross Nurses; Dr. Mary Waring of Chi cago; Miss Eva Bowles, secretary of the National Young Women’s Chris tian association (Colored department) —these speakeis gave very interest ing information as to what has been accomplished by the women, and urged a continuance of hearty co operation. On the Red Cross program Mrs. Martha Taylor Smith of Omaha de lighted the audience with her singing and Mrs. Kate Wilson by her dramatic recital of “The Black Regiment.” Representatives from Omaha and Lin coln let the convention know that Ne braska is on the map. Miss Ovington Speaks Thursday Night Thursday night there was a re markable meeting—but all the meet ings were wonderful and inspiring— held in Shorter chapel, when Miss Mary White Ovington, a wealthy and prominent white lady of New York, who is one of the vice presidents of the N. A. A. C. P., spoke on “The Aims and Achievements of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of the Colored People.” Thursday with busy with sectional conferences on suffrage and temper ance, purity problems, health, educa tion and other vital topics. Mrs. John A. Smith, representing the Greater Omaha Improvement club, .made an excellent address on kindergarten work at the educational conference Thursday afternoon and she also spoke for Georgia, her native state, at the banquet given for the delegates in the Baptist church. Friday night the Thrift club, one of Denver’s exclusive clubs of the wealthiest and foremost white women of the city, tendered the delegates a delightful reception in their elegant rooms. Election of Officers The election of officers resulted as follows: President—Mrs. Mary B. Talbert of Buffalo, N. Y„ re-elected by acclama tion. First Vice President-at-Large—Miss Hallie C. Brown of Ohio. Corresponding Secretary—Miss Ro berta Dunbar of Rhode Island. Recording Secretaries—Mrs. Alice Webb of Colorado and Miss Theresa Macon of Illinois. Treasurer—Mrs. C. R. McDowell of Missouri. Chairman of Executive Committee —Miss Georgia Nugent of Kentucky. Chairman Wajs and Means Com mittee—Mrs. Charlotte Dett of New York. National Organizer — Mrs. Belle Bennett of Pennsylvania. Trustees of the Douglass Home— I)r. Mary B. Waring of Chicago, Mrs. Archibald B. Grimke of Washington, D. C., Mrs. Horton of Oklahoma and Mrs. Mary B. Talbert for life. Tuskegee, Ala., was chosen as the place of the next biennial.* A NEW SOUTH INDUSTRIALLY A new South industrially is emerg ing from war conditions, a South that will be more concerned with the fu ture possibilities than with the preju dices of the past. That is the best hope for an awakened popular opinion that will end the lynching disgrace and free the nation from the reproach of racial anarchy. From the depths of despondency at the beginning of the war and the “buy a bale of cot ton” period, the South is today ex periencing the greatest prosperity in its history. The northern migration of labor seems now to be the only annoying feature in connection with Southern industry. The fear of losing its staple supply of labor is causing a revolu tionary readjustment of racial preju dices. The original explanation that the Negro movement northward was caused by the attraction of higher wages has been found not wholly sat is factory with the advancing labor costs extending into the South itself. The fact has been slowly and reluc tantly grasped by the South that there is a deeper and older reason—the vio lent race prejudice with the conse quent denial of law and justice and mob violence to which the Negro pop ulation has been subjerted. It is beginning to be understood that, all things being equal, the South ern Negro prefers the Southland, which lie loves as his home, but can not forever submit to the treatment and perils to which he has been ex posed by Southern habit and preju dice. When the exceptional labor con ditions due to the war offered him an asylum in the north he fled to it. The South, bereft of its labor, has only it self to blame, it would seem, and it is seeing this today. One evidence is the stand taken at different places in the South in con demnation of lynch law and mob i methods. Self-interest is demanding this reform because it is the sole hope of keeping the labor remaining. It may not be to much to hope that the enthusiasm with which the Negro draftees have taken their places in the army of democracy may also have something to do with it. Men who are good enough to fight for their country i are entitled to its protection in their home lives.—Flint (Mich.) Journal Editorial. 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