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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1919)
JUST KIDS— The Home Team Up! _^ Ad Cariw • OWE BALL. OWE STRIKE ZaWIlT J 1 rH*Trj LOOKIN'"'em''-1 r-r'TEAD'C THERE-STEE-J ( V/fHjf — She S A rOvfk H.|> - THAS LOOkInI A AO Y - NOW SHOW j’WUW. J™" ' EM OVER t t-1 EH WHERE YOH COME HOME-R— THASA (.AtE5t ’---iU Ftvnl j-._\OLE MAN THAS ACHEE^E V PAS9E3 THIRD - J RON! OLL BOY - RUN 1 \ like ever'thihg--yum [BIG FISH Run* 5 HOW WHITE RIOTERS WORKED IN WASHINGTON New Tori;, Aug. 20.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has made public the following affidavit, duly sworn to be fore a notary by a reputable Colored man who was dragged from a street car and brutally assaulted. The af fidavit reads as follows: “Monday, July 21, 1919, 1 was re turning to Washington after having been out of town since Friday, July 18, 1919. I arrived at the Union station at 12 p. m. Monday night, and on en tering the station noticed nothing un usual. 1 boarded a street car which went to ltockcreek bridge via New Jersey avenue, and got a transfer to the Brightwood car line. When I reached Seventh and Florida avenue, N. W., the place of transfer, I no ticed that things were as quiet as is usually the case at that hour of the night. 1 waited there about five min utes for the Brightwood car and when it came I and a captain boarded it. 1 walked into the car and soon noticed - that I was the only member of my f act pr< enl exc< pt a lad) « hom I noticed later, but not at this time. As 1 started to get a vacant seat a sold ier put his aim across me and said, ‘Where are you going, nigger?’ I said to him that I was going to get a scut. A- I was telling him that, I heard some other, in the car saying, ‘Lynch hire,’ ‘Kill him,’ ‘Throw him out of the car window,’ and at that t me 1 was being grabbed from all sides. I foiced my way to the iear door and was hit by something as I stepped off, which cut by ear and bruised my head. As the car moved away ,the conductor fired three shots at me. It was as 1 got off the car that T noticed the lady on the car. What became of her I do not know.” LIEUTENANT CONVICT EI) FOR COWARDICE Samuel H. Stone, White, Shows That He Had a Streak of Yellow in His Make-Up; Led Men Into Danger and Deserted Them. Ayer, Mass., Aug. 20.—Convicted of deserting his men, whom he had led into the fire of the enemy, Samuel H. Stone, formerly a second lieutenant of the 101st infantry regiment, has been sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to be gin a ten-year sentence. A cable mes sage from France notified officials of Camp Devens of the finding of a court-martial at Eccomoy, which con victed him in January. Testimony by members of Stone’s platoon in Company H, 101st regi ment, showed that he had headed night patrols to the edge of No Man’s Land - j*m four times, and when having drawn the fire of the enemy he left the men to their own resources and withdrew. Again when his company was going into action at Chateau-Thierry in the first wave, Stone was seen to run to the rear. A guard in the supporting line halted him, but Stone was allowed to proceed when he said he was re turning for maps. His platoon suffer ed losses which the court-martfal held included needless loss of life, due to Stone's defection. Stone, whose home is in Boston, was an officer in the National Guard be fore it was federalized and the 101st regiment formed. FOR II \RMONY BETWEEN RACES Houstonites Organize and Tender Services to Patriotic League to Pre vent Disorder and Promote Good Will. (By the Associated Negro Press.) Houston, Tex., Aug. 20.—The Ne-1 groes of Houston have organized and tendered their services to the Harris County Patriotic League and peace officers to assist in maintaining har mony here between the two races, and also to assist in locating and prosecut ing any person found guilty of spread ing propaganda for the purpose of; til l ing up racial hatred. At a meet-, ir.g Thursday, fifty persons, represent ing every avenue of life among the race, were appointed on a committee to co-operate with the Patriotic, league. Members of the Patriotic league ex-j pressed themselves as pleased with this spirit and are glad to have their < o operation. While none of them contemplate any disonlers, they are; ware of the fact that there are per . ons among both races who would like Theri e< ml to be un mistakable information in the hands j of the authorities at Washington that; ; adicals, who seek the destruction of organized society, are backing a na tionwide movement to promote racial troubles, just as they are labor trou bles and all other hinds of trouble that will bring on disorder in this country. It is this propaganda that will he closely guarded against and this new organization will be of great service in quelling such propaganda among the Negroes. — BECOMES MAYOR OF TRUXTON, VIRGINIA (By Associated Negro Press.) Truxton, Va., Aug. 20.—Fred D. Mc Cracken, who for some time was in the department of Negro economics under Dr. George E. Haynes, has been ap pointed town manager of Truxton. Mr. McCracken has the distinction of be ing the first and only member of the race to hold such an office. The town of Truxton was built by the United States government to relieve the hous ing conditions in this section of Vir ginia. This new million dollar town, built by the government for its Negro employes of the navy yard at Ports- j mouth, broke ground today for its new $100,000 school building. Town Man-1 ager Fred D. McCracken did not fol- j low the usual custom in having fa-1 vorite sons turn the first spade of | dirt, hut gave the honor to the little children of Truxton. f P. H. Jenkins, the Barber! X My shop stands on its merits for what is X f right, and what the people demand, with t | first class barbers, who know their busi- A A ness. I have added one more chair to my X X shop, in order to take care of the increase f A in my business. The Colored people are X A growing and improving and we must meet y . % their demands. They want the best and we f f A must deliver it. I have it for you, so come. {. A I solicit your patronage. There is no pool $ X hall connected with my business. Barbers X A are: Mr. W. Bruce, Mr. H. Bascom, Mr. A •j' J. T. Thompson, Mr. J. Rcddic, Mr. Ted Car- *t* X man—all first class hair cutters. I have in X A connection soda fountain and ice cream par- A X lor, with Mrs. Edith Whitney, soda dispen- Y <j! ser and manager. Webster 2095. .j! :j: New Location, 2122 North 24th St., Omaha | The Blacks in Battle From Jim Jam Jems Junior Some few weeks ago we had the honor of introducing Senator Ben Tillman of South Carolina, in one of his lectures on the race question. We were mayor of a western North Da kota city at the time, and during the afternoon we gathered a small party of prominent citizens to join us while we took the southern senator for a ride about the country. That evening Tillman prefaced his lecture with a few complimentary remarks about our "splendid little city with its wondrous ly progressive citizens,” anti then he spoke of our broad level prairies and wound up with the ejaculation: “Great God! What a country to chase Nig gers in!” And that warmed our south ern blood and we applauded long and loud. Jim Jam Jems has never been a defender of the black man. On the contrary, we have pooh-poohed the doctrine of equality between blacks and whites and have unmercifully flayed the black rape-fiend of the south. But we have never overlooked the fact that there are good Negroes as well as bad Niggers; we have al ways maintained that the greatest problem in America is the race prob lem; and the world war has done much to augment the situation while the public’s attention has been direct ed elsewhere. With a spirit of fair ness we have compiled this article and we commend it to our readers because we believp that common justice de mans a fair hearing for the Colored soldier who carried the Stars and Otripes into No Man’s land. Absorb some dusky facts. The fol lowing appeared in a daily paper pub lished in Montgomery, Ala., U. S. A.: "The city of Montgomery was visited last night by a Klu Klux Klan that bore all the earmarks of the ancient honorable order that placed white su premacy back in the paddle after a reign of terror for several years by Negroes and scalawags.” Other dem onstrations of this klan—resurrected after a burial of forty years—have occurred at Birmingham, Mobile, Troy and other smaller towns in “ole Ala ham.” Also the old ghost is reported as riding abroad by night in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. The general idea if that Colored soldiers and Colored officers return ing from the world war must be ter rorized into servility and subserv iency. The mayor of a small Georgia town thus addressed a company of; Negro draftees about to entrain fori Camp Gordon: “You boys are going out to fight for democracy and that is a very fine thing, but there is one j idea some of you have been express in1'. and T want you to get it out of your minds. Don’t think that aftei the war you are going to change I things. T want to tell you here to day that this isn’t so, and you want to remember that our white boys are "oing over to France and learning how to fight and that we heer at home are preparing for you when you come back. Don’t get any new fanglpd ideas about democracy.” Inspiring language to be addressed to a body of American fighters about to battle foi freedom overseas, wasn’t it, We are now going to hand you some facts about the blacks in battle for this U. S. A. Consider them: A Negro, Cirspus Attucks, in Boston, was the first human sacrifice on the altar of freedom in the revolutionary war. Many of his dusky brethren fought under George Washington un til America’s flag enfolded a free land —in which the Negro was enslaved. In the war of 1812, with Andrew Jackson at New Orleans, American Negroes again spilled their blood foi their white brethren—whose manacled slaves they still remained. In the civil war at the call of their great liberator, Abraham Lincoln, over 200,000 Negroes fought for the union —and for the first time for theii own freedom. In the Spanish-Ameriean war at San Juan hill it was the feat of Amer ican Negroes that first pressed the heights of victory. Consider now the Negro in the world war overseas. It is a magnifi cent record. It should make the heart of every American—white or black— thrill with pride. We pass by the Negro stevedores who won the world’s record in freight and supply handling and come to the American Negroes in battle. In general these Negro units were known as the Three Hundred Sixty-ninth, Three Hundred Seven tieth, Three Seventy-first and Three Seventy-second regiments of the Nine ty-third division. They were offi cered largely—almost entirely, in fact —by Negro officers when they charged the Germans. And charge they did, too! Here are some of the results: The Negro lieutenant colonel of the Three Hundred Seventieth, a Negro major, eight Negro captains, seven teen Negro lieutenants, eight Negro noncommissioned officers and twenty six Negro privates were decorated with the croix de guerre in last No vember. General Vincenden, the J French commanding officer, said of j the Three Hundred and Seventieth on November 11, the day of the signing: of the historic armistice: “Fired by a : noble ardor they go at times even be yond the objectives given them by the! higher command; they have always wished to be in the front lines. In the name of Franee I thank you.” In his farewell address to his Negro regi-; ment General Vincenden said: "You have given us of your best and have given it our of the fullness of your | hearts. The blood of your comrades who fell on the soil af Franee, mixed with the blood of our soldiers, renders 1 indissoluble the bonds of affection that unite us. We have, besides the pride of having wo iked together at a mag nificent task and the pride of bear ing on your foreheads the ray of a common grandeur. A last time— au revoir.” This is the language of a man who recognized the bravery and the red blood of courage regardless of the color of the skin whence it gushed. Have some more. It is good stuff. This tells of the Three Hundred Sev enty-first and Three Hundred Seven ty-second brigaded with the One Hun dred Fifty-seventh French divisioh ! under General Govbet—known as the martinet and a fire eater—who said: “For seven months we have lived as brothers at arms, partaking of the: same activities, sharing the same hardships and the same dangers. Side by side we took part in the great Champagne battle which was to be crowned by a tremendous victory. Never will the One Hundred Fifty seventh division forget the indomit able dash, the heroic rush of the American Negro regiments up the ob servatory ridge into the plain of Mon thois. The most powerful defenses, the most strongly organized machine gun nests, the heaviest artillery bar rages—nothing could stop them. These crack regiments overcame every ob stacle with a most complete contempt for danger. Dear friends from Amer ica, when you reach the other side of the ocean do not forget the Red Hand (the One Hundred Fifty-sev enth) French division. Our brother- | hood has been cemented in the blood of the brave and such bonds will never be destroyed.” The distinguished ser vice cross was awarded four Negro officers, five Negro privates and one Negro corporal from the Three Hun dred Seventy-second regiment. Two Colored corporals and two Colored pri vates from the Three Hundred Seven ty first received the croix de guerre | and seventy other citations for valor were awarded among the Negro troops. Space prevents further details, but the fact is that American Colored troops in the world war bore them selves gallantly, courageously, and fought like demons when they were unleashed for a charge. The French know it and say it and the world should know' it. (Continued Next Week.) NO GENERAL FRICTION IS ANTICIPATED Louisville, Ky., Aug. 20.—Opposi tion to any race friction in Louisville I.... is voiced in resolutions adopted by ' Negro ministers and leading citizens, about 100 in number, who met at Cal vary Baptist church. The resolutions hold that there always is possibility of trouble between individuals, but call upon the “good white people to dis courage,” in every way, clashes in groups, where individuals are involv ed. Continued observance of order is asked, and the churches are requested to teach against trouble. Burgess-Nash Co. j ; Everybody’s Store X .... 1 " -= 2 t i An Enormous Sale of Mina Taylor f Aprons j 77c W E need but a small space to tell of 2 ” this wonderful sale, for where is there a woman that does not know the value of a Mina Taylor Apron ? These •{• are of percale in trimmed with con- '{• toasting colored stripes, checks, J7055 plaids, polka dots, etc., pockets, belts ^ and cuffs. 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