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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 t OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1922 VoL VH—No. 51—Whole Number 363 ^ IS IN THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR’S CHAIR RACE PRESS IS VERY POTENT AGENCY IN DEVELOPING GROUP Important Part Pined by the Weekly Newspaper in Improving Civic Condition of Itare in Every Community CITY OWES EDITORS MRCH _ Allies of Organisations Working for lletferment of City.—Ninth Article on Omaha’] Colored Clttaenry. (By H. J. Plnkett) The effort on the part of honest his torians to define the true status of the American Negro has resulted In con fusion. First he was a slave; then, theoret ically, a freeman, with the right to vote and be voted for, and enjoying all the rights and privileges vouch safed a freeman of lighter hue. Act ually he i* not free; he does not have the right to vote; his civic status is beneath that of the humblest and bas est white man in America, north and f south. And this, in spite of the mar velous progress the Negro has made. He does not enjoy life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness; he has not protection of life and property; after fifty years of so-called freedom in Ameriea hlR civic status is less hopeful and promising than it has been for one hundred years. In spite of these hard conditions he has made progress. For many years In slavery and since the only teacher the Negro had was the clergyman. From him he learned j bis all. The clergyman’s power over his floek whs absolute. And it re mained so until colored men and wo men entered the professions of teach ing, medicine, law, etc. Then came the Negro Weekly Newspaper. First in Importance was The North Star, owned and published by Frederick Douglas, and then the New York Age, The Indianapolis Freeman, The Pio neer Press, The Richmond Planet, The j Dallas Express, and The Chicago De- j fender, and many others throughout ^ the country. The number is now way j up in the hundreds, with many maga- ! zines of merit In addition, foremost of I which is The Crisis, the official organ of the N. A. A. C. P. In the years that have gone many organizations have been formed to Improve the ctvlc status of the colored people. The best known of them all In this day is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Others well known are the Y. M. C. A, and the Y. W. C. A., and certain res cue homes, social settlements and j centers which are working gto achieve civic betterment. Of all the agencies, the Colored Press Is the most potent. More is due! to the Negro Press for the progress the race has made than to any other single agency we have developed tn our civic progress. And the men and women who have borne this burden have made greater sacrifices to do It than any class of workers in the race. These veterans of all the battles' of the race, in most cases, have had no ; reward, and many times they have suffered the privations *of physical hunger that the clarion note might be sounded for the Negro when all other i voices were stilled. These men and i women have taught the Negro to buy homes and land: to enter business; to educate his children; to be sober, In dustrious and on the side of law and * order always; to do Justice and to de mand Justice In all relations of life. I In Omaha the record has been a good one In the fight of the race for better things. The Omaha Progress and the Omaha i Enterprise served the race well for many years. Then came The Omaha , Monitor which has borne the brunt of i battle for many years that the colored i people might in truth he free. Had its editor, with, his Intellectual attain-, i ments, been born In France, he would i have been knighted for service to his i country. Here his paper lies wound- i ed, as It were, and those for whom It i went upon the altar watch to see It die. It fights on, and no matter what hap- i pens Its place is secure, it has served i the group that stands in direst need of i service. i The New Era, the youngest of the i Omaha weeklies, Is rendering excellent service in every constructive way for the betterment of our group. The ed itor of this paper has, the writer be lieves, the quality of humor that will i be required to laugh the silly Ameri- - can prejudice out of the country. The paper, also, appreciates the necessity of building along constructive lines as well aB fighting for rights and oppor tunities. Quite recently the editor has been Joined by a capable and versatile young business man and the literary and financial success of the New Era is now assured. This paper is des tined to become in this territory a tremendously greater influence than it now Is. Both the local papers, like the weekly papers the country over, aid every good cause and oppose harmful encroachments. The Omaha Branch of the Nattouai Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a fine civic influ ence. It serves the persons and causes that all else falls to serve. Its officers are constantly on the watch towers, and they cooperate with every agency In the community for progress. Just now this society is leading the fight to induce congress to pass a law against lynching and burning human beings. In Basutoland, Africa, the natives are wondering what kind of savages we have in America and what lack of government which requires the enactment of laws to prevent burn ing of human beings. Lynching is the greatest evil in America today. For the most part, the white and the black pulpit are silent on It; but the Colored Press and the National Association "carry on.” j And if they had rendered but this | single service, they would rightfully receive the homage of all good Amer- ! leans tor the greatest civic and social i service it is possible to render in thte land. The result of this all is to improve the status of the colored people, and, therefore, the status of all the people. It is useless to think of this problem in any other way. Some men who are very wise on all other questions, ure very unwise on this one. They think that the race problem is solved when all the colored people are placed in a single section of the city, where the (Continued on Page Four) COLOR THEIR FACES, ATTACK A WOMAN AND ANE KILLED Farmers’ Wives, lirescil In Otcrall* Hint Masquerading a* Colored Men, Said to Have Murdered Neighbor TENNESSEE SCENE OF CRIME — [Jruesome Story Comes Ffom Remote and Isolated District Showing How Suspicion May lie Cast on Negroes. Howling Creen, Ky., June 12.—Re ports of the killing of three white women, two of them with blackened ’uces and dressed as men, reached lere from a point In Clay county, Tenn., last week. First reports were rery meagre and names were not glv n. The place where the killings oc curred is a wild isolated section forty idles from here and thirty miles from .he nearest ruilroad. Only a few 'armerg inhabit many square miles of his section. A few days ago one of the farmers lold hlg property for $1,800 cash. A dg fox hunt wag put on two days fol owlng by neighbors, who urged him ■o go. The scared Informant did not tlve names of the parties concerned. He declares that wives of two of he men, dressed as men, and with darkened faces, went after the money. They viciously attacked the farmer's wife, beating und choking her unmer •iftilly, trying to force the woman to five up the money. She refused, then ho two women bandits cut her throat. A man living with the family was isleep up In the loft of the barn, twakened by the commotion, he rush id to the scene gun in hand and shot he two women robbers dead, in belief hoy were colored men. The boarder hen fled. He told a distant farmer ind hastened on; this farmer brought Irst news of the affair to Bowling Ireen. Authorities here at once com nuntcated with Clay county (Tennes lee) officials to Investigate. One of the party rode horseback to he nearest station and wired for the ■oroner. His brief message confirms Irst reports. The dead bodies of the hree women were found by the re urned fox hunters. i TO RUN FOR CONGRESS Bluefield, W. Va., June 23.—J. E. Meadows, newspaper editor, announc id himself as a candidate for congress m the Independent ticket in the Fifth district. “There are nine counties In ny district and five of them have nore colored voters than white." PRESIDENT HARDING REAPPOINTS JUDGE TERRELL TO DENCH Distinguished Jurist Who Has Given Excellent Service on Municipal Bench Is Retained in Office. RMKIK JUDGE IU DISTRICT RANKING JUDGE IN DISTRICT Washington, D. C., June 23—Robert H. Terrell was reappointed Judge of the Municipal Court for a term of six years by President Harding, Tues day. Judge Terrell has served on the bench continuously since his first ap pointment during the administration of President Roosevelt. Since then, he has been appointed once by President Taft, twice by Pres ident Wilson, and now conies the news of his re-appointment by President Harding. Harvard Graduate. A graduate from Harvard Univer sity in 1884, Judge Terrell was one of the commencement speakers, and won notoriety through his forceful, clear, logical way of expressing him- \ self. Following his graduation he taught for a number of years in Washington, D. C. He held his first government posi tion under President Harrison, being appointed to the Treasury Department as Chief of Navy Pay Division. He then took up the study of law at Harvard and upon the completion of his course, formed a partnership with J. R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi. This firm, known as Lynch ami Terrell, operated success- j fully for many years, until his ap-1 pointment by President Roosevelt. | Since then, he has served on the bench, and has rendered many not able decisions. He is the oldest Mun icipal Court Judge in the District in j point of service and is unanimously endorsed by the Columbia Bar. CAN’T WRITE IN ALABAMA Birmingham, Ala., June 23.—When A. B. Dubose, white, handed a letter to Mrs. Hattie Robinson, colored maid in a downtown office, both were ar rested. They were charged with crossing the color line. The white man was fined one hundred dollars and sen tenced to six months in Jail, the wo man fifty dollars and three months In Jail. YOU ARE INVITED The conference of Colored Repub licans which was postponed from last Thursday night will be held in St. Philip’s Guild Room next Thursday night, June 29th, at 8 o’clock. You I are invited. iTTTTfrtTrrmimiiirTnrugnininjliiaUIimPITTtlllltiil*lll*'ll**tlilllllllllll*^llllllll*“*i>-^l^-“‘*-lll^,t^^ j J Nebraska Civil Rights Bill Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights. Enacted in 1893. Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advan tages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every person. BSec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the ■ foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall for each offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs of the prosecution. “The original act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs State, 25 Nebr. page 677. N. W. 638.” “A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with re freshments in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other reaspn than that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in amore private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich. 358; N. W. 718.” THE POET’S INGLE NOOK The Tilings That Count Not what we have, but what we use; Not what we seem, but what we are; These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness. The things near by, not things afar; Not what we seem, but what we are; These are the things that make or break, That give the heart its joy or ache. Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what we dream, but good we do; These are the things that shine like gems, Like stars in Fortune’s diadems. Not as we take, but u« we give; Not as we pray, but as we live; These are the things that make for peace, Both now and after Time shall cease. —Clarence Urray. COLORED STDDEHTS RECEIVE DIPLOMAS AT COAST COLLEGE Largest Number in the History of the University of Southern Cali fornia Are Given Degrees. ALL ARE AWARDED DEGREES Los Angeles, Calif., June 23.—The largest number of colored students ever graduated from the University of Southern California received their di plomas at the 1922 commencement of this Institution last Thursday at Expo sition Park. Ten received degrees, three in liberal arts, ‘wo in dentistry and five in pharmacy. Those receiv ing "A. B.” were the Rev. S. M. Beane and Bert McDonald, of Los Angeles, and MisB Rush Prince of Pasadena. The graduates in dentistry were Hay ward Thompson of Portland, Oregon, and William Pillow of Los Angeles. In pharmacy, Malcolm Patton, Sim eon Draper, Lillian Flory, Bernard Herndon and Leola Lewis, all of Ixis Angeles. TEXAS LYNCHERS WANTED DEAD MAN’S WEALTH Kirvln, Texas, June 23.—Leroy and Ally Gibson, shot to death when a tracker mob lynched four here recent ly, were the grandchildren of Moses Gibson, one of the wealthiest colored farmers in Texas. Gibson owns three hundred acres of land in the Mexia ail section. The boys had no part in the crime ;ind were put out of the way by the inob with the ultimate hope of getting control of the land. HARDING IS ASKED TO DISMISS SHERILL FOR INSULTING RACE Officer Responsible for Insulting Colored Americans Twice Within Two Months Should Be Removed. REPUBLICANS ARE WARNED Washington, D. C., June 23.—Col ored people of Washington, D. C., in censed at segregation of colored guests at the dedication of the Lincoln Me morial in Washington on May 30, are asking the dismissal of Col. Clarence C. Sherrill, a Southern Democrat Superintendent of Capital Grounds and Buildings, at whose door the segregation order is laid, according to announcement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. Action has been taken by the Dis trict of Columbia Branch of Advance ment Association which has forwarded ed resolutions demanding Col. Sher rill’s dismissal to President Harding and Chief Justice Taft who is presi dent of the Lincoln Memorial Com mission and the Secretary of War. The resolutions state that the seg regation complained of is the second incident of its kind in less than two months, the first being the placing of segregation placards in Rock Creek Park. The resolutions contain warning of the Republican party. “It would be a rude awakening and a painful disillusionment to us to realize that the party was approving and following a practice which was an incident of the institution of chat tel slavery. Such a realization, in the case of a self-respecting people, could result only in severing of ties which until now have bound us to that party.” EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE TO CONVENE IN BOSTON Boston, Mass., June 23.—The fif leenth annual meeting of the National Equal Rights League, Rev. M. A. N. Shaw, president, will be held in July in Massachusetts, the state of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge who, as majority leader of the United States Senate, holds the fate of a federal law against inching in his hands. CONFIRMATION AT ST. PHILIP’S SUNDAY MORNING Bishop Shayler will visit the Church if St. Philip the Deacon Sunday norning at 11 o’clock to administer ,he Sacrament of Confirmation. COUNTRY COUSIN GUN CLUB The Country Cousin Gun Club will lave a big shoot Sunday. Call J. S. Bell, Douglas 4533.—Adv. HISTORY DAY BY DAY Friday, June 16—Negro soldiers dis tinguish themselves in (he assault up on Petersburg, Va., 1864. Dessalines became Emperor of Haiti, 1804. Saturday, June 17—Men from every State in the Union, representing all professions, take oath of enlistment at Reserve Officers’ Training Camp, Fort Des Monies, Iowa, 1917. Sunday, June 18—The United States forced a Constitution upon Haiti free from discrimination against white men 1918. For 114 years Haiti had been living under a constitution of her own choice. Monday, June 19—West Virginia ad mitted as a State with constitution providing for gradual abolition of slavery, 1863. Tuesday, June 20—Charles W. Chest nutt, foremost novelist and short story writer of the race, born in Ohio, 1858. The colony of Georgia refused to ad mit slavery, 1739 Wednesday, June 21—The Supreme Court of the U. S. declared the Grand father Clause invalid, 1915. Two troops of the 10th U. S. Cavalry were ambushed at Carrizal, Mexico, by 70® Mexicans., 1916. Thursday, June 22—Sir Samuel Lew is, of British West Africa, is the only Negro ever knighted within the British Empire, 1903. 80,000 MARINES NOW IN' HAITI Washington, D. C., June 23.—Twen ty thousand marines, being used by the United States government to boss the natives of Haiti and Santo Domin go around, are costing the tax-payers of the country nearly $1,000,000 a month. While talking about peace and rais ing a rumpus about Japan sending its army in China, the United States has sent an army larger than Geo. Wash ington’s across the Florida straits into Haiti and robbed them of their lands, goods and independence. QUESTION OF RACIAL IDENTITY IS NOW IN STATE HIGH COURT 1 Arkansas Supreme Court Rules Thai , the Slightest Trace of Negro Blood Is Sufficient to Determine Racial Identity. _ SCHOOL BOARD CAUSES SUIT — Children of Jefferson Black Denied Admission to Maine School as Whites.—Father Files the Action. Little Rock, Ark., June 14.—In one of the most bitterly contested cases that has come before the courts of this state in years, Jefferson Black, pre sumably white, contended that his children were entitled to all the rights and efoluments of the Constitution of he United States and, therefore, should snjoy the privileges and opportunities guaranteed to American whites, but the Montgomery county court said •no." Black carried the case to the state supreme court which upheld the decision of the lower court. “A person with the slightest trace of Negro blood is a Negro, regardless of how closely he resembles a Caucas ian,” so declared the courts of Ar tansas. The above decision was hand sd down by the Arkansas Supreme Court last Tuesday in affirming the decision of the Montgomery county circuit court. The lower court had issued an order excluding the children of Jefferson Black from attendance it one of the white schools on the grounds that they were Negroes. The case came before the trial court on Black’s petition when the directors of the school district declared the child- . ten to be Negroes and ordered them taken to another school. Evidence filed by the directors to the effect that the great-grand-father of the children had been a Negro slave. Black, however, declared that the children had a faint strain of Chero kee Indian blood in their veins, and in his petition stated that, “petitioner’s crildren, in appearance, show no sign of Negro blood, and judged from their appearance alone would pass for per sons of pure Caucasian blood. In Mr. Black’s transcope of appeal, filed in the supreme court, appeared pic tures of the children. In affirming the finding of the low er court that the children were Ne groes and the school directors were Justified in excluding them from the school, the suprefe court, commenting on the laws interpreting what consti tutes a person of Negro blood, said: ‘‘The languave is broad, and has no relation to the degree of blood.” HARRY SMITH FILES FOR HOMIHATIOH AS GOVERHOR OF OHIO Veteran Newspaper Editor, Who Polled Heavily Two Years Ago For Secretary, of State, Enters Gubernatorial Race. UNITED VOTE ABLE TO ELECT (Special to The Monitor) Cleveland, Ohio, June 23.—Harry C. Sfith, the well-known editor of the Cleveland Gazette, which has not mtseed an issue in forty-eight years, has entered the race for nomination on the republican ticket for governor of Ohio. Two years ago Mr. Smith filed for the nomination for secretary of state and rolled up the handsome vote of 62,000 which was only a few thousand behind the successful candi date. Encouraged by this fact and urged by loyal supporters and admir ers throughout the state Mr. Smith has announced his candidacy for governor, paid the required filing fee and has entered actively upon his campaign for the nomination at the August pri maries. When it is known that the race vote in Ohio numbers 126,000 It can be read ily seen that with anything like unan imity Mr. Smith stands an excellent chance of winning. He served accept ably as a member of the State legisla ture in the early nineties and is the author of Ohio’s famous Anti-Lynching Law and also of the effective Civil Rights Bill of this state. He intro duced the mob-violence and anti-lynch ing law in the session of 1894 and re introduced it in 1896. He persistent ly fought for it until it was placed on the statute books. It has stood the test of the supreme court, and has proven effective. TO NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION DELEGATES All Colored Americans going to the Convention of the National Educa tional Association which convenes in Boston, July 2 to 8. are invited to be delegates to the Fifteenth Annual Convention of the National Equal Rights League, which convenes at the 12th Baptist Church July 4 to 8, with advance registration headquarters at 96 Hammond St., Mrs. M. E. Gibson, chairman. All such delegates are asked to send word in advance to the Registration Chairman, also to Hous ing Chairman, Mrs. M. Cravath Simp son, 5 Claremont Park. Sor General Advance Information write to W. M. Trotter, 34 Comhill, Boston, Mass., Secretary. MAN, 109, WIFE, 108, MARRIED 85 TEARS Atlanta, Texas, June 23.—Living up on the plantation of V. D. Glass, near here Is a colored couple who are be lieved to be the oldest man and wife in the state. Joe Knight is aged 109 and his wife Is aged 108. They were married in slavery times 85 years ago. . “Uncle Joe,” as he is called, still pot ters around the farm. FEDERATION OF WOMEN TO MEET IN BEATRICE The Annual Meeting of the State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs will convene in Firemen’s Hall, Beat rice, Nebraska, on Tuesday and Wed nesday, June 27th and 28th. FEDERATION OF NEBR. COL ORED WOMEN IN CONVENTION The State Federation of Nebraska Colored Women will convene at Bea trice, Nebr., June 27th and 28th. MINNIE TAYLOR, Corresponding Secretary. BIG OUTING FOR BOYS One of the largest outings for boys ever given In the city of Omaha will be held under the auspices of the Col ored Commercial Club thru their com mittee on Boys’ Work Sunday after noon, July 2, at Elkhorn, Nebr. The number of boys who can be ac commodated will depend largely upon the generosity of Omaha citizen* in donating the ubc of their autos for the trip. Already twenty autos are pledg ed, but more are needed. One of Omaha’s prominent citizens has given a liberal check to purchase wieners for the roast, without which no boy’s plciRc 1* complete. Come forth, gentlemen, and help to make this the happiest day of the year for the boys. Anyone wishing to do nate their car for the afternoon kindly call Grace Morris Hutten. Webster 1822. %