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growing. r | snr lV/TniNTTHrm? LIPnNG' L thank you! 1 nL IVIUiN 11 UK _i-,Fr-TO°i A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor 0; -:-— - $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA. NEBRASKA. JULY 17. 1919 Voi. ,,, °' VWhole No. 211) --—--------- ' jj, _.. Omaha Boy First to Cross Lake Ontario in Frail v anoe Hazardous Feat in Face of Storm— Preston W. Bryant and J. Clarke, a Native of Barhadoes, Two Young Colored Men, Paddle in a Sixteen Foot Canoe From Toronto to Niag ara-on-the-I.ake. WAS A NOTEWORTHY EVENT So Far as Known This Is the First Time Such a Feat Has Been Accom plished Except Perhaps by Indians Before Coming of the White Man. (Special to The Monitor.) TORONTO, Ont., July 16.—A feat of unusual daring was accom plished here Saturday, July 5, when Preston W. Bryant of Omaha, Neb., a musician, now residing at 184 Queen street, this city, and J. Clarke from Rarbadoes, a silver spinner, residing at 224 Simcoe street, set out from the foot of Y'ork street in a frail six ■ * teen foot canoe, with the purpose of paddling forty miles across Lake On tario. It was not as daring as cross ing the ocean in a flying machine, hut it took a lot of courage on the part of Bryant and Clarke to under take this voyage. By many it was considered a fool-hardy trick. They left York street at 6 o’clock and were out of sight of land at 7:10. They were passed by the Cayuga at 8:10 twelve miles out, and by the Chippewa at 10:15 both on the same journey. A severe wind and rain storm overtook the frail craft about noon and the men were glad to sight land about 2 o’clock, and to land at Niagara on the lake at 2:40. When the Chip pewa passed within fifty feet of them Bryant exchanged greetings with his wife and sister who were on board. A mist closed in on them when they were eight miles out and bothered them considerably. The men wore onlv trousers and shirts, used side Daddies and steered by compass. A local newspaper says these “two Col ored gentlemen, of 34 and 38 years of age, undertook the hazardous task as an experiment and are to be con gratulated on their success. So fai as known this is the first time this feat has been accomplished.” Bryant is the son of Charles Bryant, the well-known horseman of Omaha. CONTRIBUTING GENEROUSLY I OR EDUCATION OF CHILDREN (By Associated Negro Press.) Statesville, N. C., July 16.—Charles H. Moore, state inspector of Colored schools, finds that in 38 counties of the state, Colored people have con tributed for building new school houses for their children the sum of $32,453.75, public school officials in the 38 counties appropriating $43,000 for the same purpose. It means that the Colored people of 38 counties have voluntarily con tributed, in addition to their regular taxes, an amount almost equal to that appropriated from the public funds to build school houses for their race. D1 PONT, POWDER KING, GIVES $400,000 FOR NEGRO SCHOOLS (By Associated Negro Press.) Wilmington, Del., July 16.—1-Pierre S. DuPpont, president of the DuPont Powder company, has created a trust fund of $2,000,000 for the remodeling and modernizing of the public schools of Delaware, outside of Wilmington, to be expended during the next four _ e years. Four hundred thousand dollars will be applied to the improvement of schools for Negro children. MEMORIAL MEETING FOR FALLEN HEROES Providence, R. L, July 16.—A me morial meeting to commemorate the death of Negro young men in the war was held in the Union Congregational church. Rev, Alfred F. Ware of Wor cester, Mass., delivered an address. He was in charge of the Y. M. C. A. secretaries of the Ninety-third di vision, which included the Three Hun dred and Sixty-ninth infantry, known as the "Hell Fighters.” / I OR HEALTH IMPROVEMENT Cincinnati, O., July 16.—A move ment for intensive health activity among Cincinnati’s Negro population was launched at a special meeting of the board of health, attended by May or Galvin, and some of Cincinnati’f leading business men, physicians and social workers. I (ton W. Bryant. NOT “UNDESIRABLE” .SAY? CHICAGO TRIBUNE Chicago Daily Says, “The Colored People Were Not “Undesirable” When They Donned the Khaki and Went Away to War, and Are Not Now.” “UNDESIRABLE” IS FALSE NOTE “Races Must Cooperate for Betterment of Community. Adjustment Must Be Reached by Honest Methods,1 Cards All on the Table.” Chicago, July 13.—In an editorial, on “Candor Between the Races, July! 1, the Chihcago Daily Tribune makes a scathing denouncement of the treat-! ment Colored people are receiving, be- j cause of their natural tendency to im prove their living conditions. Refer ring to the residential trouble in Chi cago, the Tribune says in part: “Malice and envy and jealousy and revenge must not enter into the nego tiations. In at least one instance we have noted the use of the word "un desirable;” it is a false note. The Colored people are firmly established ;n the United States, and. of course, in Chicago. They were not "undesir able” when we needed thousands of them to carry on war industries here; not “undersirable” when they eagerly donned the khaki and went away to war; and they are not “undesirable” because they obey the instinctive de sire for a home. “It is not to be denied that racial characteristics prevail among the white people to the extent that they are most content when living among those of their own race; but the same is true of the Colored people. They want their own homes, their own lo cality, their own institutions, this be-; cause if the Colored race is to find salvation, as its brightest minds, tes-: tifv, it must alone work it out. “We believe the Colored people are; agreed that what they most want is the right to comfortable living con-1 ditions. We believe they have not thought of intruding, maliciously, in to districts far removed from the1 centers of their race. We believe the; thoughtful Colored people grant to the1 whites the same ideas of ethical segre-, gation. “The principles of the adjustment, I it seems, cannot faiil to lie thus; lines! of demarkation to be adopted out of consideration for the needs and com-; forts of both races; willingness to co-| operate in all essentials of community j betterment; and complete eagerness] to confer on all subjects without re- ] course to bitterness. "In other words, the white people cannot adjudicate the matter to suit themselves; nor can the- Colored peo ple. Clash will surely follow. The settlement must come in a meeting of the minds, so that the Colored people will not think themselves wrongly used, but will have the assurance that whatever ethical understandings are adopted are with their approval and for their best interests. Property rights are inviolate; but just as much for the Colored as the white. Adjustment must be reached by honest methods; cards all on the table.” Y. M. C. A. COMMITTEE TO MEET SUNDAY Mr. Nate Hunter, general chairman of the Y. M. C. A. committee, requests the members of the committee to meet with him at Pleasant Green Bap tist church Sunday afternoon at the close of the N. A. A. C. P. meeting. Longview, Scene of Riot, Under Martial Law Trouble Caused by Invasion of Colored District at One O’Cloek in the Morning by Group of White Men Who Seek to Punish it Highly Respectable School Teacher for Alleged Publication in Chicago Newspaper of Article Said to He a Reflection Upon Character of Young Woman. ACTION OF MOR IN BURNING RESIDENCES IS DENOUNCED (Special to The Monitor.) T ONGVIEW, Tex., July 16.—This •*-* city has been tbe scene of a seri ous riot, and though feeling runs high there is a determination upon the part of the authorities and the best citizens of both races to prevent further dis order and to protect law-abiding citi zens. Members of the National Guard arrived here Friday night in response to an appeal from the local officials to Governor Hobby, who expressed themselves as unable to cope with the situation. The troops are still here and will not be withdrawn until all danger of another outbreak is passed. The city is under martial law. The trouble started early Friday morning when a party of fifteen or twenty young white men invaded the Negro section in search of F. L. Jones, a popular Negro school teacher, who was accused of causing the publication in the Chicago Defender of statements derogatory to a young woman of Kil gore. This is the article, published in the Defender of July 4, which it is claimed is responsible for the outbreak: “Despite the fact that every effort has been made by officials here to keep the outside world from learning of the lynching of Lemuel Walters at this place June 17, the news has leak ed out. Walters was taken from the Longview jail by a crowd of white men when a prominent white woman declared she loved him, and if she were in the north would obtain a di vorce and marry him. No charge was preferred against Walters other than the statement made by the white wo man to her personal friends. The woman has been prostrated since the lynching occurred. She is under the care of a physician at Kilgore, Tex., where Walters was arrested prior to being spirited here for ‘safekeeping.’ "The sheriff of the jail gladly wel comed the mob and acknowledged rec ognitions from the men as they passed FLAN INDUSTRIAL CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (By Associated Negro Press.) San Francisco, Cal., July 16.—A campaign is on to raise $150,000 to erect a headquarters building for the Colored Young Men’s and Women’s Industrial Christian association. A de sire to provide proper quarters for re turning soldiers and to uplift the Col ored race generally is given as the reason for the campaign by Rev. J. A. Dennis. Hotel accommodations will be a fea ture ol' the building. An industrial tiaining department like the one founded by Booker T. Washington is included in the plan. A free employ ment department also will be oper ated. I in the gate to seize the prisoner. Wal ters was taken to the outskirts of the town and shot to pieces. His nude form was thrown near the roadside. He was buried by people of his race. While people here are angered because our people have been leaving this part of Texas in droves, and since thiv lynching all the farm hands have left.” Two of the young woman’s brothers met Jones on the street and heat him severely, although he protested his in nocense. The brothers were not with the crowd who approached Jones’ house about 1 o’clock Friday morning, when they were met with simul taneous fire from all sides of the resi dence, where Jones’ friends, antici pating an attack, had gathered to pro tect him. The whites returned the fire; and retired for reinforcements. They returned to renew the attack at 4 o’clock, but found the Negroes had dispersed. The mob then set fire to five of the homes owned by the prin cipal citizens of Longview, among j them being those owned by Jones and Dr. C. P. Davis. Several of the white j men were wounded severely in the j first attack, among whom were Ernest White, Ed Nelson, Albert Carey and Louis Baer. Twenty-five representative citizens ir-'t with the state officials at noon Sunday, passed resolutions denounc ing the burning of the residences of j Negro citizens and decided that it j would be advisable to keep the sol- j diers here in charge of the situation. [ The authorities are investigating responsibility for the outbreak. Four-j teen white men have been arrested on j warrants charging “assault with in- j tent to murder” in connection with the pitched gun fight. Longview is a prosperous railroad center, with a population of about 18, 000, about one-third being Colored. The relations between the races have j been generally amicable, and this un fortunate outbreak is keenly re gretted. RECEIVES HIGHEST DECORATION OF WAR * — Boston, July 17.—Clarence R. Van Allen, corporal of Company L, 372d Infantry Regiment, who put a German machine ghn out of action single handed, killing four of its crew and capturing three others, one of the bravest exploits of the war, has been decorated with the Medaille Militarie, the highest honor France confers on an enlisted man. Officers of the Northeastern department, who turned out in a body to honor the man, who was formerly a waiter here, said thej believed he was the first American soldier to receive the decoration. His valor is a distinction for the entire race. I i Subscribers, Attention, Please! 1 — ' .! Many Subscriptions Are Expir- f | ing at This Time f *1* X Look at the Yellow Iiabel on your paper. If it reads y X •{• X “7-1-19,” or “July 19” your subscription is due. Please drop X X in Monitor office and pay or phone and our collector will call. X L i “THE NEMESIS OF AMERICAN LIFE” Senator Borah So Designates the Race Question in Recent Speech Oppos ing Susan B. Anthony Amendment. SENATOR PLAYING TO SOUTHERN GALLERIES Adroitly Advocates the Doctrine of State Rights—Pleads That North Give Economic Justice to Race Be fore Calling South to Account. MACON, GA., July 16.—In his speech opposing taking the con trol of the franchise from the states and placing it under federal super-vis ion. Senator Borah had this to say on the Negro feature of the Susan B. Anthony amendment: “To be entirely frank, I do not think we ought to force this situation. I be lieve that the wiser and better solu tion of the race question runs along different lines. I certainly want to see the Negro secure justice, but I realize, and every sane man realizes that you cannot force Colored rule upon the south. It will bring renewed racial warfare, which in the end will be vastly more injurious to the Col ored race than to the white race, and heaven knows it would be bad enough for either. I think it infinitely bet ter that we leave the situation to be dealt with through the several states than to undertake to force a rule which is not acceptable. “I regard the race question as the Nemesis of American life. I sympa thize deeply with the people upon whom falls most heavily the burden of solving it. Sphinxlike, inscrutable, and intractable it intrudes itself at every national feast and jubilee. There is no phase of national life, no out look but is colored by the sinister shadow of this problem. We of the north can afford to take counsel upon this matter: We can afford to listen to the requests of our southern friends. We ourselves are not without fault. As I have just said, look at East St. Louis, within the grand old commonwealth whose soil holds the sacred ashes of the emancipator, the man who gave the Negro his freedom. Talk about enfranchising 3,000,000 Negro women of widening the politi cal power of the Negro of the south when we massacre him, shoot hirrp down like a dog, burn him as we would inanimate rubbish merely because he appears in our midst as a laborer. We will not even endure him as a com petitor in the field of industry. Let us see if we cannot first do justice to this ward of ours, this race among us by no volition of his own, this race which sheds its blood for the republic when the republic is in peril. Let us, I say, first do justice to the Negro in the industrial world that he may educate and train his children for the duties of citizenship, then we shall be much nearer a final solution of the race question.” Harry Buford, Popular Police Chauffeur, Soars in the Clouds Harry Buford, the popular police believed that he is the first member chauffeur, for whom speedy crafts of of the race anywhere in this vicinity all kinds have a special attraction, took to take an aerial flight. Harry is a 4,000 foot flight into the clouds in most enthusiastic about his trip and an areoplnne from the Center street says it is great to be soaring up aviation field Sunday afternoon. It is among the clouds. DETERMINED TO EXERCISE FRANCHISE Well Organized Movement Among Colored People of the Southland to Secure the Ballot and Use It In telligently. CAUSES UNEASINESS AMONG CONGRESSMEN War Activity and Education and the Adoption of the Suffrage Amend ment Render Further Denial of the Vote to Race an Impossibility— Propaganda Spread by Churches and Newspapers. (By Associated Negro Press.) ASHINTON, D. C., July 16.— Literature pouring in on mem bers of congress demonstrates the ex istence of a well organized movement among the Colored people of the south to secure the ballot in the south and the application of the theory of “self determination” to themselves. The movement is creating uneasi ness among southern senators and members of the house, who realize that participation in the war by the Colored men and the adoption of the suffrage amendment will make it more difficult than before to deny the ballot to the Colored element of the population. In addition to that the 1920 census is coming, with its consequent reap portionment, and it is realized that the south may have to show why its rep resentation should not be based on voting strength rather than on pop ulation, so far as representatives in congress is concerned. The Negro propaganda is being worked through the various church organizations and the newspapers are giving it wide publicity. The claim is that since the principle of “self de termination” has been adopted as the fundamental element of the peace treaty they can see no reason why it should not apply in Alabama as well as in Czecho-Slovakia. They claim they bore their share in the fighting and should not be denied participa tion in affairs as a result. In addi tion to the letters which they are now pouring in on members of congress, .especially those from the north, they will, it is understood, petition the pres ident for interference in their behalf in support of the theory of “self de termination” which he has advocated at Versailles and Paris. The situation is regarded as ex tremely embarrassing to the southern members, who have first been com pelled to accept woman suffrage, which they feared in its possible re sults on the ballot situation in the south, and are now being urged by the administration to support a peace treaty which the Colored people are using as their argument for the right to vote.