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—-— The monitor —■ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS • THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy )MAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 17th, 1922 Vol. VII No. 37 Whole Number 348 COLORED BOY NAMED BY NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN AS CANDIDATE FOR ANNAPOLIS OMAHA’S COLORED CITIZENRY AND ITS MANY ACTIVITIES Population \ uinhering Out £ Thousand Is Coiitrlhillliig lie Share Towards Upbuilding of tin- (’oniniunlly OBR RELIGIOUS MOVEMEBTS Second of a Scries of A rtleles on “The Colored People of Omaha,” Written for the Colored Commercial Club (By H. J. Ptnkett) (NOTE: This bureau has agreed to contribute a number of articles on the Omaha Colored People under the following subjects: Our Religious Activities; Business Effort: The Pro fessions; Musical Progress; In the l«ibor Field; Fraternal Societies; in the Schools; Civic Effort; In Politics.! The religious se.ntlment In the Col ored people Is very great. It has been so since the dawn of history. It survived the scourges of war and conquest; the curse of the slave trade, two hundred and forty-four years of American Slavery, and since, fifty seven years of bitter struggle of This people to know1 and to be. It Is with the events during the past fifty odd years this article shall deal. About half a century ago Methodist »ui Baptist denominations beg*® their work In Omaha. From a small beginning this religious movement has grown until communicants of the colored churches In Omaha number about five thousand souls. There are eighteen churches and ten active denominations The denominations are: Baptist. Methodist,- Episcopal ian, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Adventist. Peoples Interdenomina tional, and Church of Cod and Saints of Christ. The Methodists are divided into three denominations, African Methodist. Episcopal, Methodist Epis copal. and Colored Methodist Episeo pal. ThPre are two religious socie ties outside the church, the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. The Baptists In Omaha, as else where in the Pnlted States, are the most numerous; the Methodists are serond numerleally, with smaller and varying numbers among the other denominations. The combined real estate holdings of all of them arc in the value of more than a quarter million dollars. In addition to the eighteen pastors of the churches, there are several or dained ministers who belong to the Ministerial Union. And it tnay be added quite safely here that this body of colored men has more Influence In the community with the colored group than any organization In it. It also has more responsibility. It is not alone charged with the work of church organization and religious In struction and preachments, but be cause of the great influence the Indi vidual colored minister has. It helps In a very real way all secular efforts within the group. These church activities have their problems and griefs like other move ments among us, but on the whole they meet their problem successfully. The simple fact Is that the Colored People have developed much more rapidly in the work of church organ ization than in any other effort, be cause no sentiment had to he creat ed In this behalf, which made the work of organization less difficult than In other lines of effort. Of the eighteen churches In Omaha Zion Baptist church has the largest enrollment of members. St. John’s A. M E. Church is second, and In the next class we have Pilgrim Baptist, Bethel Baptist and Pleasant Green Baptist and Orove M. E. churches, Mt. Moriah Baptist and Allen Chapel A. M. E. and the Peoples Interdenomin ational follow In order In numerical strength. Next In number of com municants would come St. Philip's Episcopal, St Paul Presbyterian, the C. M. E. church, the Adventist church, St. Benedict’s Roman Catholic churcn. Spring Hill Baptist, and the several mission churches whch have regular pastors and services. Relatively, the colored churches are used very much more than the churches of white people: th*V ar" made community centers In which are held various activities. Among the eighteen ministers of churches six are products of classical and theological schools; the other twelve have had some schooling and have supplied whateevor they might have lacked by hard and earnest personal study and work. Borne of these latter ones are among the most successful of them all. More and more these ministers are urging the young men who wish to enter the ministry to acquire educa tions provided in our schools. A few days ago a very successful minister within the group told this story re spectlng a young man who wished to become a minister. "The young man,” said the minister, "wished to start to preaching at once; he had been 'called' to his work and the Lora would supply him with inspired know ledge.* I told the young man to go to school for four or five years and pre nare himself; that, If the Lord could t hold the world together while he l^|t *cd and prepared for preaching, . V >uld, indeed, lie a very weak Ix> °cy \nd the young man went away 'tool. One .tie ministers has served a church in Omaha for thirty years. Another minister has served a church as pastor for twelve years, another eight years, and the others a smaller number of years. More and more these ministers are urging group efforts along construc tive lines, and the members of their churches are rallying to this view. They are advising their tnemhers to buy homes and Improve them and to improve their neighborhoods. They have passed the stage of being mere exhorters; they are becoming com munity builders. Recently, one of the very thoughtful ministers made this statement: “In the field of religious activity the Negro has done much, hut a great ileal remains to be done. We need to de velop In the young men and women a deeper spiritual devotion and a finer moral sense; our entry Into the mod ern economic struggle in this country has not made for moral progress among us. Here we will have to guard ourselves. First, the minister him self must be guarded and helped, and strengthened, anil then the lesson (Continued on Fage 2) CANADA RELEASES BULLOCK; ICNORES CAROLINA'S DEMAND Thnt Judge Sii)der's Action Is Full) Justified Under Treaty R>ght Is Admitted by United States OffHalx. CANADIAN STICKS TO GUNS Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.—The last effort of the authorities of the State of North Carolina, United States, to secure the extradition of Matthew Hullork, a young Negro charged with attempted murder, came to an end here on Friday, March 3rd, when County Judge Snyder ordered Bullock’s unconditional release. The colored man escaped from a mon at Norlina, N. C., after the crowd had lynched his brother. Extradition on charge of inciting to riot had pre viously been refused by the Canadian authorities and the North Caro'i officers then based their extradi l request on a charge of attempted mur der, alleging that in escaping Bullock had fired on the pursuing mob. The extradition proceedings were fought on the ground that Bullock would not receive a fair trial in North Carolina, with a strong probability that he would be lynched. State Department’s Action. Governor Morrison called upon Sec retary of State Hughes for assistance in having Matthew Bullock returned to this country, and on February 27, Acting Secretary of State Fletcher authorized publication of his tele graphic reply to Governor Morrison, sent on February 25th, in which the North Carolina official was informed that oral testimony would have to be offered in Canada by the North Caro lina officials at the hearing which County Judge Snyder of the Hamil ton, Ontario, court, had set for March 3rd. The judge had ruled, when Bul lock was rearrested two weeks pre viously, that witnesses would have to be produced by North Carolina in or der to establish a prima fade case against Bullock. Judge Snyder’s action followed his announcement made last week that “he was going to stick to his gunB," and that, unless North Carolina au thorities could produce witnesses be fore last Friday, the man would be released. State Department Defends Action. According to State Department of ficials the Canadian authorities were justified by the terms of the extra dition treaty between the United States and Great Britain in requiring that a prima facie case of an extra ditable offense be made out against Bullock. Acting Secretary Fletcher of the State Department explained the situ ation to Governor Morrisojt, saying in part: “It is providedd that extradition shall be granted only upon such evi dence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugi tive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offense had there been committed.” A NORTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPER TAKES I STRONG POSITION The Greensboro News, One of the Most Influential Dailies In the Southland, Turns on the Limelight. DIXONISH TERMS TWADDLE “White Men Must Stand by tile Ijtw If They Expect to Hold I'p Their Heads Among Other White Men,” Declares Editor. (Associated Negro Press.) Greensboro, N. C., Marh 17.—What is regarded as one of the finest edi torial expressions ever written in a plea for law and order, while at the same time upbraiding the South for dealing with facts artificially, ap peared recently in the Greensboro News, daily, with reference to the Bullock case. This newspaper is one of the most influential publications of the South, and may he regarded as speaking officially, when writing under the headline of “What Lynch ing Means to the South.” The News says: “The Governor will not humiliate the state, he declares, by sending wit nesses to testify fo>' ft in a petty judicial officer’s court in Canada. No danger. That isn’t what has humili ated the state. If the state had sent a few Warren county lynchers to the penitentiary, It would probably have been under no obligation to send wit nesses to Canada in order to secure the extradition of Bullock. "Let us keep this thing straight. Canada may have been a little over zealous, but she had plenty of reason. We have a reputation of being blood thirsty murderers down here in North Carolina, and it is our industrious lynchers who have secured that repu tation for us. We shall never be re garded as a thoroughly civilized peo ple until we stop this lynching busi ness. It's no use talking in grand iloquent Tom Dixonish terms about what a white man will stand and what a white man wont stand. A white man has got to stand by the law, if he expects to hold up his head among other white men. “All this snorting about the fierce pride of the Anglo-Saxon race is the most disgusting poppycock ever in vented. If no Negro were ever lynched for anything but rape, it might have some shadow of excuse. But alleged rapists constitute only a small pro portion of the victims of mobs in the south these days. Negroes are lynched for all manner of crimes, ranging down to simple misdemeanors. Matthew Bullock’s brother was not 'ynched for rape, but for shooting at white men. Furthermore as every southerner knows, the mobs are noi composed of fiercely proud Anglo Saxons, but usually of the off-sourings of creation—the poorest, morally, of poor white trash, plug-uglies and thugs of every imaginable description, many of them wanted themselves by the police,- occasionally under the leadership of some semi-respectabl6 white man of the rattle headed type. The idea that any thoroughly decent citizen took part in any of the four affairs of the sort that disgraced the state last year is absurd. “This sort of riff-raff has no race pride, nor any other sort of pride, It has merely congenital tendency toward disorder, easily inflamed into crazy blood-lust. But it also has votes. Therefore, elected officers, more in-, terested in holding their jobs than in doing their duty, fear it with a ghast ly fear, and repudiating their oaths let the mob work its will. That Is what lynching means in the South today. There is not one redeeming element, not one word that can be said in its defense. It is our everlast ing disgrace, the one foul shame that blots our civilization and as long as we continue to paliate and condone it, it will disgrace us.” EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON John Albert Williams, Vicar. The services all (!ay Sunday from the early Eucharist at 7:30 a. m. to Evensong at 8 p. m. were well attend ed. At 11 o'clock the church was comfortably filled. The pastor deliv ered the second of the special Lenten sermons on “The Church”. Some of the points stressed were that the Church is a Divine organism. The word Church means by derivation the Lord’s house, possession or building. The Church is God-given not man made. God’s Church has always been in the world. It existed under the patriarchal dispensation and under the Jewish. The Jewish was local and national, tha\i>recursor of the Chrlstlon or Holy Catholic Church, which as the extension of the Incarnation, came in to being at Jerusalem at Pentecost, A. D. 33, and is inclusive of all man kind. A Divine Institution can have no human founder. No man or group of men, however good, could found or establish the Church of the Living God. The Church has well-defined characteristics and credentials. The third sermon in this course will be preached next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. The services Sunday will be at the usual hours, 7:30, 10 and 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Public welcome at all ser vices. KAFFIR CHEMICAL LABORATORIES ARE PUSHING DENTLO While the Kaffir Chemical Labora tories, located at 817 North Sixteenth street, manufacture Dentlo, Kern, Sul tox, Kaffir Cream and other products, the company is now making an inten sive sales campaign of DENTLO, a pyorrhea preventive tooth-paste, one of the best dentifrices on the market. Everybody who has regard for health and cleanliness knows the importance of using a good tooth paste. Suppose for example all the colored people in Omaha alone, who use tooth-paste would use DENTLO. Can you not see how this race enterprise in which all our people should be interested would grow. It would not be many years before the present plant would have to be enlarged and hundreds of our people would be employed. BUY DENTLO. America’s stock of gold has reached a new maximum, $3,680,882,401. Less here and more abroad would be health here and more abroad would be health ier for all. FORMER OMAHA GIRL DIES IH'BROOKLYH Mrs. Hugh Lattimore, Only Daughter of E. W. Pryor, Passes Away Alter Protracted Illness in Eastern Home. BURIAL HERE IN FAMILY LOT Algernon Marie, wife of Hugh Lat timore of Brooklyn, N. Y., and only daughter of Ellsworth W. Pryor of Omaha, died ajt her residence in Brooklyn Wednesday night, after a protracted illness with tuberculosis. Mrs. Lattimore was bom in Omaha, December 14th, 1894, and was reared and educated here and in Washington, D. C. Always rather delicate, after she reached womanhood she spent con siderable time for her health with relatives in the east. Four years ago she was married to Hugh Lattimore of a highly-esteemed Brooklyn family at Denver, Col., where Mr. Lattimore was then employed. After a brief residence there they removed to Brooklyn. Mrs. Lattimore’s condition was reported as unfavorable since about the first of the year and small hopes were held out for her recovery. The body will be brought to Omaha for burial beside her mother, who died eight years ago, in the family lot at Forest Lawn. The funeral will be held from the Church of St. Philip the Deacon, where Algernon was bap tized and confirmed and was a mem ber of the choir before her removal from the city, 10 o’clock Monday morning. INVENTS AUTOMATIC HAIR WASHER Atlantic City, N. J., Mach 17.—Wm. C. Chapman has patented a tubular comb guaranteed to wash and thor oughly cleanse the scalp drying the hair by a compressed aid process and straightening it all in fifteen min utes. Mr. Chapman has sold another In vention, a bathroom fixture, for $18, 000 two years ago. FOURTEEN YEAR OLD AFRICAN BOV SHOWS UNUSUAL ABILITY >1u( ii 111 lm. Belonging to the Alunda Trllie, Inhiiliiting Isolated Section of (lie Dark Continent, Con sidered Prodigy. SPEAKS SEVEN LANGUAGES Missionary to the Congo Recites .Musi Interesting Story of the Youth’s Helpfulness ami Willingness tmong Native People New York, March 17.—Negro intel lectual possibilities have naother ex ample to add to their long list in the person of Mutumbu, a fourteen yea: old Negro boy of the Alunda tribe in Darkest Africa, according to Miss Marie Jensen, missionary to the Congo under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Churcn, just returned to this country. This hoy is a native of one of the most isolated parts of the Dark Continent. His home is at Musumba-wa-Mwata Yatnvo (City of The Prince of Death) capital town of the Alunda tribe of the Congo Beige. It is situated more than three hundred miles northwest of the northernmost and of the Cape-to-Cairo railroad at Bukatna on the Upper Con go River. And there is no way or traveling thru this territory save by foot or bicycle thru the jungle paths. It requires a month’s steady treking by caravan of native carriers who march with packs of baggage upon their backs, to reach Musumba. At the age of five years, Mutumbu was taken /fn by Dr. Arthur L. Piper, the new medical missionary at Mu sh mba. Being an orphan, Mutumbu has since resided in the Piper house hold and the daily contact with the missionaries at the Methodist station— which has since been founded there and is in operation—has developed the mLnd of Muhumbtl far beyond the av erage child of his years. The little Ne gro hoy did his best to be of service about the new mission station where everyone worked at all kinds of man ual labor to establish some form of civilization in that wild land. He aided in the kitchen and garden, ran errands for the workmen building the houses and school building of sun dried brick. When the mission station began active work for the good of the people about, Mutumbu had made himself a part, of the institution. He attended school and studied assidu ously. and worked to learn to aid Nurse Jensen in the dispensary where his people came to have their wounds dressed and their ills healed. Speaks Seven Languages Mutumbu has picked up a variety of learning beside what he gleaned from the yhite folk. He speaks five other native languages Mbundu, Chttuba, Swahili, Bichokwe and Kan yok) in addition to his ow,n Alunda) and English. He writes In both the latter languages well. Whenever strange chiefs come to the mission from the far depths of the jungle speaking in a strange tongue which confuses the regular Interpreters of the missionaries, someone always says: “Call Mutumbu. He knows.” And Mutumbu generally does. He comes and acts as "pinch” interpreter. So well has Mutumbu learned the lore of the gospel as it is taught in the mission station that he is often called upon to lead the services at the little mission church, and he does so with a simple dignity that is quite Im pressive. When Bshop Johnson, of Africa, visited Musumbu, he made Mu tumbu his protege and has done much for him l,n the gifts of books and other means of self-improvement. Mutumbu ) is anxious to get a real education, be lieveing that he can the better aid his people In this way. Working with Miss Jensen supervis ing, Mutumbu translated fifty Bible stories and more than a hundred hymns into the native language. He was of material aid to the Reverend Mr. T. R. Brinton, who translated the first three books of the New Testa ment, and alone he has successfully translated'the entire life of Christ. He learned to use a typewriter. When he was given a Bible of his very own, brought to him by Miss Jensen from Bukama, Mutumbu was overjoyed. He ofte,n reads it to groups of his people of his own age and adults, fot he is honored and listened to by all. Wants a Pair of Shoes Since arriving in this country Miss Jensen has received a letter from Mu tumbu. He wants her to bring him just, one thing from civilization, since she can’t bring him a modern educa tion in a box. He wants a pair of shoes so that he can walk through the jungle to other villages and teach his people. He tells her that his people have been sick in large numbers, and Br. Piper treats more than thirteen hundred cases a month. Miss Jensen is trying to take back some other things to Africa. Stie is studying simple methods of spinning and weaving cotton into cloth. The situation at Nusumba is pitiable in the extreme. There is very little money and few things for barter in that wild country. The Negro people only earn about a franc a day. or about 20 cents in normal times, and seven cents at . (Continued on Page 2.) WOMAN IS PLACED AS STENOGRAPHER IN MAYOR’S OFFICE Colored Candidate in Competitive Ex iimlniitloii Wins Position In Office of Pittsburgh Executive. — EMPLOYED BY WASHINGTON (Associated Negro Press.) Pittsburgh, Pa., March 17.—In a competitive examination with five of the best stenographers of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Beatrice H. Bayless made the highest grade and was appointed stenographer to the Mayor of Pitts burgh. It is said that Mayor William A. Magee is the first mayor of the country to honor women of the race by appointing them to clerical posi tions. Mrs. Bayless is a graduate ot tne commercial department of the fam ous Fifth Avenue high school of Pittsburgh .and also of Carnegie In stitute of Technology. She was ste nographer to the late Dr. Booker T. Washington for two years and was stenographer to Attorney Robt. L. Vann, editor of the Pittsburgh Cou rier, for four years. ROCKEFELLER BOARD GIVES $184,475 FOR RACE EDUCATION New York, N. Y., March 17.—Fol lowing the decision of John D. Rocke feller to permit the general education board to distribute principal as well as income from its funds to colleges, payments of $184,475 were announced Saturday by the board. The list of gifts follows: Supervising industrial teachers, $78,000. Summer school for teachers, $43, 275. County training schools, $51,000. Miscellaneous, $12,200. Total, $184,475. LEOPARDS BESIEGE THESE AFRICAN TOWNS Inhabitants Fear to Go Out of Dwell ings After Seven P. M. Freetown, Sierre Leone, W. Africa, March 17.—News received from sev eral surrounding towns indicate that they are guarded by a large numbers of leopards and that the inhabitants fear to leave their dwellings after seven p. m., especially on dark nights. Most of the domestic animals of the natives have already fallen a prey to the beasts and inhabitants of Gloucester, Songo Town and Leicester have appealed to the governor to fur nish guns and cartridges to the na tives. The laws of these colonies prohibit the natives from possessing guns or cartridges, but in Gloucester the leo pards have attempted to clamor at the kitchen doors and play at the latches. TWO COLORED POLICEWOMEN Washington, D. C., March 17— Dance halls and other places of amusement are kept under supervi sion by Washington’s twenty police women, two of whom are colored. A F. Rcrwgg*. Lawyer, 890 8. lttb St Douglas 7818, Colfax 8811.—Adr. NAMED CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES NAVAIL ACADEMY Emile Treville Holly, Student in New York City College, Principal Nominee for Entrance to Annapolis Academy, FOUR CANDIDATES NAMED Congressman An surge's Position Is That Colored Constituents Are Entitled to Recognition in Making Appointments New York, March 17.—Congress man Martin A. Ansorge has appointed Emile T. Holley, a colored boy. of 102 West 138th street, to the United States Naval Academy at. Annapolis. Holley is named as the principal candidate. No colored boy has ever graduated from Annapolis nor go far as it known has any been named in the past forty years. Congressman Ansorge announced that of the four appointees to Annap olis which he was privileged to make for the 21st Congressional District, it was a matter of simple justice and fair dealing that one should be a col ored boy. The other named are Thos. H. Reed, Arthur J. O’Reilly and Vin cent Henry. Congressman Ansorge said that his colored appointee was highly recom mended to him by prominent people of both races, and he felt sure that he would be a credit to him and the col ored race. Emile T. Holley Is seventeen years of age, and was born in Aiken, S. C. May 23, 1904. When he was two years old his parents moved to New York. Several years later he entered public school 89, at 134th street and Lenox Ave., from which he graduated with honors. While at school he was solo violinist of the orchestra, a mem ber of the track and baseball teams, and prize speaker at the school. Freshman at, City College During the latter years of the war he Was among that' few chosen from his school to assist in the work of the Draft Board located in his district. He Is now a freshman at the College j of the City of New fork. While at | tending Townsend Harris High School he was on the varsity track and base ball squads and was an officer of his class. He is superintendent of the St. James Presbyterian Sunday School of 67 West 137th street and a member of (he Boys’ Executive Council of the Y. *NT. C. A. In peaking of the nomination, Con gressman Ansorge said:: ‘‘I have tried to’ live up to the principle of the ‘square deal’ to all my constituents and on that basis T feel that of the four appointments to Annapolis at mv disposal, my colored constituents are entitled to one as a matter of simple justice. The colored boys enlisted or were drafted in the World War, Ir respective of race, and if they are good enough to fight for Uncle Sam they are good enough for appointment to Uncle Sam’s academies. Three colored boys have already graduated from West Point. Why has there never been a graduate from Annap olis?” DELICATESSEN STORE PROVED REAL SALOON “Tomatoes” Was Pass Word for Gin, While “Beans” Brought Real Rye Whiskey. New York City, March 17.—White federal prohibition directors, with blackened faces and hands, bought liquor in the delicatessen store of Lewis Immerman, white, 456 Lennox Avenue, and then raided the place carrying off several truck loads of liquor. Four hundred bottles of gin alone were found, one hundred bot tles concealed in a barrel f of dill pickles. The store caters especially to col ored trade. The agents found that in order to obtain gin the pass word was “tomatoes,” while “beans” brought rye whiskey. When a customer asked for a small can of tomatoes he would receive a small can of tomatoes, to gether with a half (pint of gin for which he was charged two dollars. BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH 29th and T Streets. Thomas A. Taggart, Pastor. The services Sunday will be as fol lows: Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; morn ing service, 11; Starlight Mission Band, 3 p. m.; B. Y. P. U. service, 5:30; evening services, 7. Last Sun day the pulpit was filled by Rev. Prince .Condelee, a native African, j who preached a remarkable sermon. There were two additions to the church Sunday morning. The Pas tor’s Aid and Literary Society will meet Monday night in the T. D. C. hall. The usual prayer meeting Wed nesday night, Mission Circle Thurs day and choir rehearsal Friday night.