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t growing. 'Ttjp 1\/T r*VTTTVYD uF™t X rlL lVXXJiNl 1 UK —lpttoo1 A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS. __THK KEY, JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Mttor $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy_ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, APRIL 22, 1920 Vol. V. No. 42 (Whole No. 251) GEN*VL WOOD SPEk\ SATUR DAY X OMAHA Met at Train En Ron incoln by Delegation of C’itlzc ** eaks at Auditorium to Large Audience— Discusses Issues Before Eeuntrj and E rankly Tells Where He Stands on Vital Questions. •SPEAKS AT DROVE METHODIST CHURTH First Presidential Aspirant to Ad dress Colored Audience in Omaha Major R. Lynch. Who Was on Wood's Staff In Culm, Delivers Great Speech William Warley aiid Mrs. Margaret Gaynor Also Speak at Rally. 1 A telegram was received at Wood jFTL headquarters Friday afternoon Advising t hat Oeneral Wood would spend Saturday in Nebraska, speaking in Lincoln and Omaha. He arrived in Omaha over the Rurlington. en route to Lincoln, at 9 o’clock, and was met by a delegation headed by John W. Towle. Among others in the delega tion were N. P. Dodge, Thomas Fry, ’’Ted’ Metcalfe, James Knox, labor leader of Indianapolis; Major John R. Lynch of Cihcago, Rev. John Albert Williams, John W. Long and M. F. Singleton. As the general stepped off his \ sleeper he cordially shook hands with all present. As he shook hands with Major Lynch, he said. “I’m very glad to see you. major. You did splendid work for me in Chicago. The people there gave me over 25,000 ma jority." > Rev. John Albert Williams said, “Our people In Omaha, general, are united for you here just as they are In Chicago, and we hope to give you the same proportionate returns here as there.” Mr. Towle called Oeneral Wood’s attention to The Monitor’s lead head line, “Give Wood Nebraska’s Full Vote Tuesday." His attention was also called to the advertisement of Wood-for-President rally to be held at Grove M. K. church and he was asked if it would he possible to he present there for a few minutes before leav ing for Chicago Although his day was crowded with engagements he cheerfully and unhesitatingly con sented to do so. His train pulled out for Lincoln where he spoke to 2,000 people at ( noon. He returned to Omaha and spoke at the Auditorium at 4 o’clock to an audience numbering nearly 3.000. It was a remarkable speech and enthusiastically received. There was no playing to the galleries, no Impugning of the motives or methods of other presidential aspirants. He confined himself to a plain straight forward discussion of the policies for which he stands. There was no side stepping, no pussy-footing, no cama flouging of any vital issue. All who heard him were impressed with his sincerity, honesty and his statesmanly grasp of the issues before the coun try. Summarized these were points stressed by General Wood: Immediate return to constitutional government. Spreading the war debt over a long er period of years to ease heavy war taxes. A foreign commercial policy to per mit of trade expansion. Reduced national expenses, elimin ation of unnecessary government em ployees and establishment of a bud get system. Establishment of our merchant ma rine. Encouragement of good business, large or small. Anpl leaf ton of the golden rule to labor problems, remembering that la bor is “neither a chattel nor a com modity. hut a very human element.” Avoidance of undesirable Immigra tion. More attention to schools, remem bering that teachers are “building our citizens of tomorrow.” A stand against clasB legislation. I Fearless courts, not controlled pol itically. Equality of all Americans, regard less of race, color or religion. At 8 o’clock he spoke at Grove Me'hodlst Episcopal church to an audience which filled the edifice. He was Introduced by John W. Long, who presided. This Is the first time that any presidential candidate has ad dressed a meeting of colored people In Omaha. Many were present at the Auditorium and several were seated on the platform. General Wood spoke of the loyalty of our people and their taw-abiding character. He briefly alluded to the Issues before the coun try and urged that all work unitedly to make the nation all that it should be. He referred with pride to his command of the Tenth calvary and to the services of our soldiers under him in Cuba and the Philltpines. At the conclusion of his address as he was about to leave ,for his train Mr. Williamson, one of his old soldiers, who had served under him over thirty years ago. came forward and shook his hand. The program as scheduled was then carried out. William Warley, editor of The Ixmlsville News, who is a young man of sterling character and an excell ent speaker, spoke briefly but effec tively on racial unity and solidarity, and stressed the point that the race in no section can be indifferent to the injustices which affect it in other sections. He said in part: “I was sent here to speak for Leonard Wood, but since you have had the pleasure of looking Into his face and hearing him for yourself, and know ing what manner of man he ts, It is needless for me io speak for him. I shall confine myself to a few simple suggestions on racial unity and urge you to go to the polls on Tuesday to vote for General Wood and to vote to a man for your own four repre sentatives who have filed for office. Mrs. 'Gaynor spoke with her usual effectiveness, addressing her remarks particularly to the women, urging them to take an active and intelli gent part in exercising the franchise, pointing out many questions in which they are vitally interested. Major John R. Lynch was the last speaker. To see him and hear him, no one would believe that this grand old man has passed three score and ten years. He told how that It was the interest of the future welfare of his race in this country that induced him to leave bis life of well-earned leisure to advocate the candidacy of Leonard Wood. He- had served on his staff and knew him intimately. He was void of race or class preju dice. He was the only presidential aspirant who had the courage to state where ho stood upon questions which with our race are vital and paramount. Because he knew Gen eral Wood, he was one of the men who had asked him to become a candi date. He believed that General Wood would be nominated and elected, not only because of his qualifications but as an act of poetic justice. Wood was one of the two men whom Wil son kept out of the war. Tt would he fiting as an act of poetic justice that. Wood should succeed him in the White house. The country under him will have splendid prosperity. APPARENTLY BELIEVER HIM SELF STILL ON FIRING LINE (By Associated Negro Press) New York, N. Y., April 22.—John Tucker told Magistrate Short in the Adams street court, Brooklyn, recent ly that he had killed twenty-one Ger mans in his fifteen months' service overseas. He was up fod the alleged shooting of K. Chumlane, a Porto Biccn, of this city. ORDER PEACEABLE RESI DENTS TO LEAVE TOWN (By Associated Negro Press) Lexington, Ky., April 22.—Fearing an outbreak of race troubles white men of Rcvena, Estill county,, in the eastern Kentucky oil fields, have or dered every Negro in the town to leave at once. Two hundred Negro residents of the place immediately be gan to board outgoing trains. The trouble arose over an attack on a white boy. CONTINUING TO MAKE AMERICA UNSAFE FOR AMERICANS (By Associated Negro Press) Laurens, S. C., April 22.—George Robertson was taken from the city jail at Laurens, S. C,, and hanged to a railroad bridge on the outskirts of the city. Robertson was charged with having cut three white boys with a knife after interfering in behalf of another colored boy in a dispute with the boys. Police arrested Robertson and then started a search for the other boy. While the search was in progress the mob stormed the jail, ob tained the prisoner and rushed him to the bridge where he was hanged. Later the body was riddled with bullets. JERSEYITES NOMINATE THEIR OWN DELEGATES Republican Leaders Decline to Give Race Recognition on Delegation. Colored Men Revolt—Place Ticket in Field. (By Associated Negro Press. Trenton, N. J., April 22.—Because the republican leaders of the state have not complied with the request from colored organizations to place on of their race on the Big Fur slate for the Chicago national convention, a faction of the colored voters filed with the secretary of state a petition nominating (wo colored men for dele gates-at-large and two for alternates at-Iarge. This breaks up the original plan of the Federation of Colored Or ganizations of New Jersey, which make up an entirely colored Big Four slate and proposed to have a com plete colored ticket in all the district. PRESIDENT SAVINGS SOCIETY. I.os Angeles. Cal., April 22.— Thomas Myles, a colored lad of 14. who . is president of the Rosewood, War Savings society, an organization of children, mostly of white parent age, called on Mayor ^nvder to ask him to set May 1 for official recog nition of the city's patriotic youth. ELECTED COMMITTEEMAN. Several Colored Men Hold Elective Offices in Chicago Because of Coifed Vote. Chicago, III., April 22.—Edward H. Wright was elected committeeman in the Second Ward over Warren B. Douglass, his chief opponent, by 2,906 votes. He will be the only col ored man on the county central com mittee. No other ward in the city had colored candidates in the field. The colored men holding elective of fices in this city and state are Louis R Anderson and Robert R. Jackson, aldermen, representing the Second ward in the city council; Warren B. Douglas. A'.ielbert If. Robers and S. B. Turner, who are members of the house of representatives in the state legislature. COLORED VOTE CARRIES CHICAGO FOR WOOD Chicago. 111., April 22.—Governor Lowden carried Illinois in the recent primary election held in this city General Wood carried Cook county by a plurality of 27,533 votes. The colored votes was practically solid for him ! Just Where and How | I Is the Money to be Spent? A businesslike Answer to a businesslike Question THIRTY denominations cooperating in the Inter church World Movement have budgeted their needs. No business could have done it more scientifi cally. They have united to prevent the possibility of duplica- , tion or waste. At least a million dollars will be saved by the fact that thirty individual campaigns are joined in one united effort. Each denomination has arranged its budget under six main heads: IFOR THE CHURCH'S WORK ( FOR RELIGIOUS TRAINING. At AT HOME. A score ofitemscome lesst 12,000,000children a.id young undar this hend Consider only one. people under 25 years of age areen Fiva and ■ half million people in the tering American life without any United States cannot even read and raligious training at all. Remsmber write the English language-Who is ing tha faith of Washington and to carry forward thla vaat work of Lincoln, do you think that America Americanisation If tha church dona will continue to produce Washlng not? tona and Lincolns if faith diaa out of the hearta of its youth? 2 FOR HOSPITALS AND HOMES. f- FOR THE CHURCH’S WORK Every y.ar thousand.o!incn.nd O ABROAD. Influenia came firrt women aerlou.ly III are turned away from the Orient thirty years ego: from Church hospitals because of oear)y all plagues are Oriental lack of room. The chlldren'r homes p|.guee. So long as Chine hes only are compelled to turn away mora one phyricTan to every 400,000people children then they con recolee. the Orient will continue to be a menace. So Jong as one-third of tha babirs of India dia before their sec 3 FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. Of ond year ofcr own babies are not the 450,000 American students in safe. A Christian doctor or teacher institutions of higher grade, one- sent abroad ia working for America half are in institutions founded and as truly as though ha worked at supported by theChurches Many of home, these institutions have had no great •ndowment campaigns, but their needs are Just as pressing as the /l PREACHERS' SALARIES. The needs of larger schools; and you U preacher ia called tha iorgottsn have only to read their list of alum- man." and well he may be. Eight nl and alumnae tomeasurethe valus out often preachers ars tpaid less of their contribution to America. than $2U a week I Each denomination has its own detailed budget, and will administer its own funds. Your pastor has copies of the budget: examine them for yourself. In the week of April 25th-May 2nd you will be given your opportunity to help. You can do it with the full satisfaction of know ing that every dollar of your gift has its post assigned to it in advance. Every dollar for better America and a better world. When your churtfh calls on you give—and give with your heart as well as your pocket-book. United . i April 25th Financial I I to Campaign ' f May 2nd ‘Tm INTERCHURCH World Movement of dforth Jlmtrica Th, fmhHtstum »/ (if, sdvtrriumnt it maJt fttdUt thrmgh tkt mfi Mu »f thirty immhtmtiamt. I SENATOR M’UORMICK DISCUSSES MIGRATION Illinois Senator Foresees Modifica eation of Unpleasant Environment Because of Large Exodus North ward of Agricultural Workers. CHICAGO, 111.. April 22.—In a let ter recently, sent by Senator Me dlll McCormick of Illinois to the As sociated Negro Press on the migration of the race from the south to the north the Senator has this to say. “The migration of agricultural workers to industrial centers, the economic developments in the indus trial field, have profoundly modified, and will more profoundly modify, the environment of a large part of the colored population of the country. The violent outbreaks in some of our cities, to which lawless elements of both races immediately eontributed. have borne some good fruit. Leaders of the colored and white races, pub lie-spirited. wise and prudent, have joined their purposes to secure an ad justment of the differences between colored and white people, to their ad vantage and advancement.” JOINS TUSKEGEE STAFF. Tuskegee Institute, Ala., April 22.— Charles H. Stewart, former associate editor of The Savannah (Ga.) Journal, has joined the staff of workers in the principal’s office of the Tuskegee In stitute. Mr. Stewart has been ap pointed the associate editor of the Tuskegee Student. CANDIDATE FOR STATE AUDITOR (By Associated Negro Press) Topeka, Kans., April 22.—Sherman Scruggs, of Wyandotte county, will be a candidate for stat? uuc'.itor, ac cording to announcement by repub lican workers in Topeka. Scruggs is a Washburn college student ana fought with the Ninety-second divi sion in France. RAISING FUNDS FOR Y. W. C. A. BUILDING (By Associated Negro Press) Fort Worth, Tex., April 22.—Col ored citizens of Fort Worth have be gun a $12,000 Y. W. C. A. building fund campaign, in which they are en listing the dollars and cents of every colored citizen of Fort Worth. It is the intention of the citizens of the city to erect in Fort Worth a build ing for their young women which will meet the imperative needs which they ate facing. HILL RETURNED TO ARKANSAS (By Associated Negro Press) Kansas City, Mo., April 22.—Judge John C. Pollock in the federal court instructed the local district attorney to draw a writ for the return of Rob ert L. Hill to Arkansas where he is wanted in the Arkansas federal court for impersonating a federal officer. Judge Pollock Specified "that if Hill is not convicted on the federal charge that he shall be returned to Kansas under the protection of United States r.uthoi ities for alleged participation in the Elaine riots last fall. CHAUFFEUR RECEIVES BEQUEST. Savannah, Ga., April 22.—Mrs. Denmark of this city died at her home a few days ago. Besides a number of other bequests, Mrs. Den mark left $6,000 and a Packard auto mobile to a colored man who had been her chauffeur for several years. MEETING AT ST. JOHN’S. Monday night an enthusiastic po litical rally was held at St. John’s A. M. E. church. E. G. Scott presid ed. and made an admirable chair man. and Walter L. Seals acted as secretary. The chairman in open ing the meeting stated that our peo ple were constantly talking about getting together and that now the time had come to show that we meant what we. said by voting solidly for our own candidates. Our candidates made speeches which were well re ceived and othed candidates also spoke. It was a splendid meeting. CHOSEN RELEGATE TO GENERAL CONFERENCE At the Lincoln conference recently held at Kansas City, Kas., the Rev. Griffin G. Logan was elected as a ministerial delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episco pal church which meets In DeB Moines in May. i FAMOUS ACTORS VISIT HOWARD UNIVERSITY Washington, D. C., April 22.—E. H. Sothern, the great dramatist who, with his wife, Julia Marlowe, has been playing to capacity audiences in Washington for two weeks, paid an unusual compliment to the officers, teachers and students of Howard uni versity by reading to them from Shakespearean dramas and from other selections on Friday, April 9th, in Andrew Rankin Memorial chapel. Be cause of conditions in Washington, the colored people have not been per mitted to see or hear Sothern and Marlowe at the local theaters, and Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe paid the colored people the compliment of reading to them at Howard university and at the Dunbar High school during their visit to Washington. Miss Mar lowe read “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” at the Dunbar High school, but was prevented by the many de mands upon her from appearing at Howard university. Mr. Sothern was most generous in his rendition of se lections. For more than an hour he read one selection after another, giv ing the students and teachers of the university full opportunity to appre ciate his finished art. His introduc tory addresses at both places on the valor of the colored troops he met in France, and on the pleasure and satis faction it gave him to meet the col ored people of Washington during his stay here, were warmly applauded. Seldom has he received so generous a welcome anywhere as given him by the representative colored people of Washington who gathered at both Howard university and the Dunbar ' High school with officers, teachers and students of those institutions to greet him and his distinguished wife. BIO REPUBLICAN RALLY, Allied Clubs Hold Enthusiastic Meet ing at Columbia Hall—Several Can didates Speak — Brief Addresses Olven by Mrs. Raynor and Major Lynch. Wednesday night of last week Co lumbia hall was filled with a large, representative audience of men and women, assembled at the call of three of our political organizations for a republican rally. Harry Leeland pre sided and called upon several of the candidates who were present to pre sent their candidacy. Each one prom ised, in the event of his election, to do the square thing by his brother of color, a promise heard oft before. Shortly after 9 o’clock, Major John R. Lynch entered the hall accom panied by his host, the Rev. John Al bert Williams, and was given an ova tion as he was escorted to the plat form, upon which was seated Sergeant Bailey, president of The Round Table club; John W. Long, president of the Wood Republican club; Mrs. J. Alice Stewart, president of the Colored Women’s Republican club, and Mrs. Margaret O. Gaynor of Wood speak ers’ bureau of Chicago. Mrs. Gaynor made a brief but effective address, complimenting the women upon their effective organization and giving co gent reasons for the nomination and election of Leonard Wood. Among many strong points made by her in the elimination of other candidates she said: “If Governor lowden showed his inefficiency to deal in a statesmanlike manner with exigencies which arose in one state in the cases of East St. Louis and Chicago, how could he adequately Administer the affairs of the nation? And as for Hiram Johnson, you can safely con clude that any man who is against one dark-skinned race, is against all dark 1 skinned races, and such men, from our point of view, are out of the question for us as presidential pos sibilities. Leonard Wood by his ac tions has proven that he is against class legislation, stands unqualifiedly for law and order, and will give all Americans a square deal.” Major John R. Lynch spoke briefly expressing his pleasure at returning to Omaha, but deferring his speech on Leonard Wood's candidacy until Saturday night when he was to de liver the principal address. He took the opportunity, however, to urge Omaha voters to stand unitedly be hind their own local candidates and demonstrate their solidarity. Remember the poor. They may be the rich of the future. «