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p H E M O NIT O R —•• A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor (100 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924 Whole Number 464 Vol. IX—No. 48 B' ■ ^ - - -- -. - - - NEGRO CONGRESSMAN A POSSIRIUTY NEW YORK ENTERS RACE CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESSMAN Prominent and Successful Business Man Has Been Induced by Leaders To Staand for Election HAS EHTHSSIASTIC BACKIM Republican Party Being Pat to the Test and Prospects Bright for Representative in House, New York, Special, May 28.—Con sternation has been thrown into the ranks of the republicans of the 21st Congressional District and the entire country by the determined fight that the friends of James L. P. Rumble have started in his behalf to elect him the Congressman of the Harlem and Washington Heights District. Rumble is the inventor of the Rum ble Health Foods with his huge die* laboratory at 20.”> Duane street and his demonstration rooms at Seventieth and Broadway. He was educated in the public school of Washington and Mississippi and later completed his academic and scientific education iti France. I'lion his return to this country twenty years ago the prospective can didate settled in Atlantic City and be gan his propaganda preaching the scientific gospel "that your health de pends upon your food”, which has made him a recognized authority In medical circles, greatly sought after as a lecturer before the scientific so cieties and women”s organizations of the country. Known as Fighter Mr. Rumble at the repeated urgings of his friends announced his candi dacy a few days ago In Harlem. Since this time his candidacy has been the major topic of discussion. He Is known far and wide for his fighting qualities and by reason of his wide connection, being the largest colored employer in America, politicians everywhere know that Rumble’s candidacy means busi ness. The colored people of the country are. everywhere clamoring for repre sentation In Congress. They are de manding that the republican party de signate colored men to run from the North as the price of their continued alleigence to the G. O. P. The colored voters in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and Missouri in the last cam paign voted in large measure against l the republican party because of its failure to give them elective and ap pointive recognition. The colored press of the country has already taken up the Rumble can didacy, and is urging vehemently the National Republican Committee to re quest the republican powers in the Umpire State to designate a colored man from the Harlem district because here is the largest colored population in any city in the North or the country or in the entire world. Fearing that Tammany Hall may continue to make great inroads on the colored vote dur ing the coming campaign if Governor Al Smith Is nominated for either the presldepcy or the governorship again New York republican leaders are giv ing this matter grave consideration. Tammany Hall on the other hand is continuing to hid for the black vote and as proof of this has appointed within the last week three colored democrats to outstanding state posi tions. Cornelius A. McDougald, for mer deputy district attorney under District Attorney Whitman, has been made an assistant state attorney-gen eral at a salary of six thousand dol lars a year. Two other lieutenants of the democratic leader, Civil Service Commissioner Ferdinand Q. Morton, in the persons of Lieutenants Oswald Desverney and Benjamin F. Wright, veterans of the Buffalo and famous Fifteenth regiments, have been made distributors of the bonus assigned to New York and Albany respectfully. Republican politicians have made aware of the things and many of them candidly told State Chairman Morris, Senator Wadwortb and County Chair man Samuel 8. Koenig that the only way that they can regain the vote that they have lost is by naming a clean, independent, big colored man for con gress. This, these alarmed white repub lican leaders declare, would attract the colored votein throughout the state back to the republican fold. . Mr. Rumble has Issued the following statement announcing his candidacy: "I am In the fight to win. The five hundred thousand colored people of New York state demand representa tion In Congrees. Conditions North and conditions South, racially speak HOLY LAND CONTENT DRAWING TO CLONE Tlic Public Has a Last Chance to Vote for the Favorite Candidate— AH Coupons Must lie in By Jane 30th. Indianapolis, Ind., May 30.—The of fer made by the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company of thiB city to send three ministers on a free trip to Palestine and another to Paris, France, is soon to be fulfilled. The nation-wide contest in which the trips are to be awarded is fast drawing to a close. But five short weeks of the race remain to be run and then—July 1st—the world will know the winners of these matchless travel prizes. Three hundred fifty-eight ministers were nominated to the contest and have made it the biggest thing of its kind every attempted by Negro business. Many have proved themselves good campaigners and set dizzy paces for the others. Contestant has rivalled contestant,city has fought against city, state against state, district against district—all in friendly, but no less determined, competition. Friends have rallied to support their favorite. Churches, lodges—entire cities—or ganized to put their candidate over and in these last and hotest days of the contest an appeal goes up from them and the candidates to rally round your own. Do your bit! Help send your favorite contestant on a 10,000 mile tour to Palestine free of cost to him. A broadcast warning urge# all coupons to be in to the Mine. C. J. Walker Mfg. Co. by mid-night, June 30th. ANTI KLAN CALL TO RACE VOTERS IN INDIANA New York, May 30.—(Preston News Service.)—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple issued u statement last Thursday over the signature of James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the association, advising every Negro voter in Indiana to make the issue of Ku Klux Klan dominance pramount in guiding his vote in the coming elections. The statement says: “The republican nominee for gover nor in the state of Indiana was nom inated under the full endorsement of the Klan . . . There is every reason for Negro votes to lie cast against candidates for office, of whatever par ty, who accept Klan support or indorse and represent Klan point of view, with its religious bigotry, its racial intoler ance and its appeal to crude mob senti ment.” REVOKE POORHOUSE CONTRACT—NO APPLICANTS Port Gibson, Miss., May 30.—(By Associated Negro Press.)—At the reg ular monthly meeting of the board of ' supervisors for Clairborne county, the I contract for the county poorhouse was revoked, the supervisors holding that there were no inmates and no oc cupants. The poorhouse had been used exclusively by Negroes. ORIGINAL “LITTLE EVA”, MRS. K. P. EMERY. DIES Chicago, 111., May 30. — (Preston News Service.)—“Little Eva”, who has died numberless times and as cended to a stage heaven, via silken ropes, while audiences wept, actually passed away last Saturday. Mrs. Ka tie Putnam Emery, famous actress and widow of Harry B. Emery, leader in the Mormon colony of Utah, died at the Knights Flanders Home here. Mrs. Emery was more than 70 years old and starred as the “original Lit tle Eva”, in the original Uncle Toni’e Cabin play when she was five years old. Later she starred in numerous other plays. For the past twenty years she had made her home in Ben ton Harbor, Mich. LIEUT. COL. JOHN E. GREEN TRANFERRED TO ARIZONA Washington, D. C., May 30.—(Pres ton News Service).—Under army or ders last Thursday, Lieut. Col. John E. Green, infantry, is relieved from duty as professor of military science and tactics at Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, effective June 30th, when he will proceed to Nogales, Ari zona, for duty. ing, demand competent colored spokes men for their people at the capltol of ,the nation. The Influx of the colored people to the North is due to their un protected rights in the South. The Negro of the North should at all times use whatever power Is at his disposal to extend a protecting arm to the Southern Negro. This will have a tendency to check the onrush from the South at a time when the farmer Is in great demand.” NEWSLETS There are forty colored school teachers in Detroit. It’s not far from a Rumble to a Rumpus in Congress. VV’e need a few more people like the Malones of St. Louis. If Methuselah had not been a drink ing man he might have lived to a ripe old age. In the United States as a whole, about 576 persons in each 1,000 are of voting age. TRAINING COLORED J $ SOCIAL WORKERS The Atlanta School of Social Work, conducted in connection with More house College, is just completing its fourth year of successful operation. Established in 1920 because of the spe cial need In the South for an institu tion for the training of colored young people in professional social work, it m.s been steadily raising its standards and enlarging its effectiveness. Courses are given in case work, human behavior, social investigation, physiology, home nursing, community organization, play leadership, social problems and field work. In addition the school is givi'ug extension courses to forty-six public school teachers, conducts a short course for ministers’ wives at Gammon Seminary, and gives two lectures a week to the senior normal students of Atlanta University. The school Is controlled by a com mittee of representative white and colored men and women, headed by Dr. John Hope, president of More house College. The faculty consists of E. Franklin Frazier, who is also the director, a teacher in case and field work, and a number of execu tives of Atlanta social agencies. A nominal tuition fee of twenty-five dol lars is charged. TIME TO LEAVE Baltimore, May 30.—“When mobs murder or outrage Negro men or women and the victim is unable to protect himself and the law fails or refuses to intervene and extend pro tection, the Negroes of such communi ty should leave en masse. The happy day has arrived when Negroes can secure work in any part of the country and there is no need for any Negro in any part of the South to remain where he is mistreated, outraged, or murdered. Every mob murder, every mob outrage upon a man, woman or child—every act of oppression winked at by law is an accelerator to Negro migration.” (From The Baltimore Her ald.) COLORED WOMEN STUDY POLITICS — Washington, May 30.—A political Plattsburg, under the auspices of the Republican Women’s Club of the Dis trict of Columbia, was held here sev eral days last week. Cabinet officers, senators and representatives made up the personnel of the faculty for this intensive training course, and in the group of three hundred and fifty women enrolled were ten colored, among whom were Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. Eva A. Wright and Mrs. Gabriella Pelham, all three of whom are widely known throughout the country. At the conclusion of the pro gram the members of the club were received at the White House by Presi dent Coolidge. \E«KOEN TO VISIT HOME OF WHITE SLAVES New York, N. Y., May 30.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—It is an nounced that one of the places to be visited in the Inid-wlnter Aladdin Cruise to the West Indies January next, is the Barbadoes islands, where, | more than a century ago, Scotch and Irish rebels were bought for 1,500 pounds of sugar each by the ruling class of the islands and made slaves. The descendants of theBe rebels have remained in a backward state until the present time, the whites of the better class and the Negroes on the islands looking down on them and treating them as outcasts so that they have Bteadily degenerated until at the present time they remind one of a strange throwback In the human race. They have existed largely through in breeding which has been productive of disease and numerous forms of de generacy. There are more colored persons 66 years of age and over In Philadelphia than In New York or Chicago. In the Congo, where fur coats are not expensive, a man’s wealth 1* reckoned by the number of his wives. LEADING WHITE NEWS PAPER OF NEW YORK RACKS N. A. A. ANTI- KLAN FIGHT New York, May 30.—The Evening World, a leading white newspaper of this city, has endorsed the demand of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth Avenue, that President Coolidge state his position on the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana. The following editorial en titled “President and Klan in Indiana’’ was the leading utterance of the Evening World on May 21: “There is every justification for the determination of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People to demand of President Cool idge a definite statement as to his at titude toward the Ku K'.ux Klan. “Up to the present hour, the only place where the Klan has taken over one of the major political parties, bag and baggage, is in Indiana, where the party of the President is running a Klansman as its candidate for Gov ernor and the boas of the party has met with the boss of the Klan under the dome of the Capitol to arrange the details of the amalgamation. “In the primary in which the Klan candidate polled more votes than all his republican opponents combined, the President was a candidate for the presidential preference with an op ponent. The Klan candidate for gov ernor won overwhelmingly. The Pres ident prevailed overwhelmingly. And the President could not have won without the hearty support of the Klan. “It may be urged that the President is not responsible for the fact that his friends voted for the Klansman for the governorship and not respon sible for the council of war, the dicker ing, trading and agreements between Senator Watson, the President’s sena torial spokesman cyi f recent notable occasion, and «t,t, >if the Klan; but (be fact remains at the Presi dent would not have rev ved the Klan vote if the sheeted brotherhood of bigotry and hate believed that he was hostile to their organization. The President is not responsible for what the bigots may believe, but under the extraordinary conditions in Indiana, Catholics, Jews and colored citizens of tlie country have a right to expect a clear definition of his views. “As matters now stand his cam paign in Indiana this year is under the management of the Ku Klux Klan. It dominates the organization. It dic tates orders and terms to the repub lican bosses. It has its own state ticket. It becomes the official sponsor thore of the President’s candidacy. It announces that through the co-opera tion of the President’s party it pro poses to take over the government of a great state and ‘Klux Indiana as it has never been Kluxed before.’ “As President of the United States Mr. Coolidge could remain mute; as a candidate for President of the United States, dei>endent absolutely on the 126,000 colored citizens of Indiana for the electoral vote of that state, he cannot ignore the demands of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People that be define his position.” WILL GRADUATE FROM UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Williams who last year graduated from the Pri mary-Kindergarten department of the University of Omaha will be gradu ated from the College of A^ts and will receive her Bachelor of Arts degree at the commencement to ,be held in Jacob’s Hall next Thursday night. Miss Williams has made an excellent record in scholarship during her en tire university course and is the first colored student to receive her degree at the Omaha university. She expects to engage in teaching. She is the: daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. John [ Albert Williams. A savage has at least one advan tage over a civilized man, in that he can see one-tenth farther, even on a rainy day. JiEWSLETS “I am for economy,” is a good slogan. _ There are twenty-six colored opera tors, officials and managers of mines. The First Standard Bank of Louis ville already has resources of $400,000. Most of our divorced females are between 35 and 44 years of age. The “Keynoter” at the National Col ored Democratic Convention will have no easy job. WOMAN PROBATION OFFICE Des Moines, la., May 30.—(By As sociated Negro Press.)—This city has its first colored woman probation of ficer. Mrs. Lillian Smith, the presi dent of the Gilpin Dramatic Club and an active worker in many sociaal and civic activities in the state of Iowa, has been appointed probation officer by Des Moines, la., commissioner of public safety. Des Moines has a number of Ne groes in responsible municipal posi tions, about seventeen, including seven policemen and two women. Mrs. Smith is an energetic woman who will prove a valuable addition to the city staff. She is specifically charged with investigations growing out of vice and delinquencies of girls. BISHOP’S SON CARRIED OFF SECOND HONORS Chicago, 111., May 30.—(By the As sociated Negro Press.)—Archibald J. Carey, Jr., talking son of a bishop, romped away with second prize in the oratorical contest bringing together the victors in the mid-westem zone of the series of meets being conducted by the National Oratorical Society. Carey is 16 years old. He spoke on the American Constitution. Last week he won the Chicago Daily News prize of $1,000 with the same speech. One hundred dollars of this money he donated toward scholarship of $1,000 to be provided by the A. M. E. conference for the education of an African who would promise to go back to help his people. WHICH BABY WILL WIN? Richard Stanton Fast Closing Up On Mary Heddy Wiggins. Sat urday Will Tell Story The standing of the entrants in the N. A. A. C. P. Popular Baby Con test which closes Saturday is here given. It will be noticed that Richard Stanton is within 170 votes of Mary Heddy Wiggins who has been far in the lead. The Elks have not rallied as yet, to the support of Edna Ber nice Taylor, who was entered as the Elk baby, and was considered a sure winner. Here is the standing up to the time of going to press: Mary Heddy Wiggins, age 3.1105 ichard Stanton, age 3.. 935 Charlotte A. Hicks, age 3. 210 Pauline Divers, age 2... 150 Nonice May Williams, 5 months.. 56 Lulu Bullock, age 1. 40 Edna Bernice Taylor, age 3%. 20 Lillian Austin, age 3. 0 May Jefferson, age 1. 0 Lena Paez, age 2. 0 George Bullock, age 2. 0 Cecil Walls, age 2. 0 GRADUATES FROM MEHARRY MEDICAL A. Gerald Edwards, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. Gerald Edwards graduated in dentistry last Thursday from the Meharry Medical and Dental School, Nashville, Tenn. This is the same in stitution from which his father, one of our leading physicians, graduated over twenty-five years ago. Gerald stood high in his classes during his entire course. Dr. A. Gerald Edwards, Jr., will probably open an office here. He arrived home Sunday morning. PRIZES AWARDED NEXT SUNDAY AFTERNOON The popular baby contest which the Omaha branch of the N. A. A. C. P. has been conducting closes Saturday. The prizes will be awarded Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the regular monthly meeting of the Branch which will be held at the North Side branch of the Y. W. C. A. at 4 o’clock. An excellent program will be given. All members of the N. Ai. A. C. P. and others are urged to attend. As votes received up until Saturday will be counted it will not be definitely known who the winners are until Saturday night so the full report will be published in next week’s issue. The prizes are $10, $5 and $2.50 respect ively. Vote for your baby. OMAHA WESTERN LEAGUERS HOME IN SECOND PLACE Taking of Present Series From Denver Team Will Place Buffaloeai in Tie With Berger’s Leaders A doubleheader for tomorrow, Dec oration Day, another game for Satur day and a big two-timer with the Capitol City boys Sunday. That is the program in store for professional ball fans over the week end. Denver, the plutocrats of the Tier ney loop are now showing their stuff in Omaha for the first time this sea son and to say the least, Joe Berger, the old Wichita pilot, has a sweet looking squad of players. They are full of pep, and up and bustling for their jobs and will bend every effort to clean house with the Omaha crew, their nearest competitors for the lead ing honors. Mammoth crowds should greet them on their visit here. Lincoln, the cellar champs, who cleaned house with Omaha on the Holy City diamond arrives here Saturday for four games and Barney and Mr. Griggs are out to get that clean sweep back home again. While Lincoln has played into tough luck, you don’t want to get the idea into your cranium that they are weak lings, even if they are the league in fants. They have a pretty fair club. The standings up to and including Tuesday’s games follows: W. L. Pet. Denver .25 11 .694 Omaha .20 15 .571 Wichita .:.20 15 .571 Tulsa . 21 18 .538 Okla. City .17 17 .500 St. Joseph .18 18 .500 Lincoln .12 21 .364 Des Moines . 7 25 .219 1 SOUTHERN BAPTISTS WON’T DISCUSS RACE PROBLEM WITH NORTHERN BROTHERS Atlanta, Ga., May 30.—(Preston News Sendee.)—For some time there has been a tendency on the part of a great number of southern white churchmen as well as northern white churchmen to get together in an en deavor to come to some common un derstanding concerning the question of dealing with the so-called Negro problem. In an effort to ascertain the attitude of southern white Bap tists on the matter, it was brought before the convention here recently by the executive committee. The convention voted its determina tion to handle the Negro problem in the South according to the southern white man’s conception of how it should be handled without conference or consultation with the Northern Baptist Convention or any other or ganization. Many speakers declared that it was but a piece of impertinence on the part of the northern white churchmen to endeavor to intrdue themselves into the affairs of the South as respects the Negro. “We know the Negro better than anybody else, and also how to handle him best. We don’t need any outside advice or help in taking care of the situation,” one speaker declared. The convention finally decided to more politely word the refusal to accept the proposal and went on record stating that “it would complicate a situation already delicate enough.” LOUISIANA SINGERS TO BE FEATURE AT CLEVELAND MEET New Orleans, La., May 30.—(Pres ton News Service.)—Baptists of New Orleans are completing plans for the annual National Baptist Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. convention to be held in Cleveland, O., June 18 to 22. The New Orleans delegation will leave June 15 and is scheduled to ar rive in Chicago on June 16. It will spend a day there and on the night of June 16 will give a New Orleans night program in one of the Chicago churches, rendering plantation melo dies by the St. Mark’s Chanters, among Louisiana’s best known jubilee singers. James B. Gayle, chairman of the special committee, said the chorus of New Orleans will be one of the outstanding features of the con vention program in Cleveland. INDIANAPOLIS DONATE $200 New York, May 30—The United Su preme Council of 33rd and Last De gree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry of In dianapolis, have voted $200 for the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, It was announced today, Dr. Summer T. Furniss forwarding check for that amount to J. E. Spingarn, N. A. A. C. P. treasurer. “OLE MISS” ADOPTS INTERRACIAL PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT White and Colored Leaders Organize to Promote Better Conditions Among People of Section. EPISCOPAL BISHOP IS HEAB State Official Made Executive Head Able Colored Men Speak for Race —Sentiment In State Is Favorable. Jackson, Miss., May 30.—The cause of good will and co-operation between the races in Mississippi took a decided step forward in the organization here recently of a strong State interracial Commission, which enters enthusias tically upon the task of improving condition in this state. The organize tion meeting was called by Bishop Theodore D. Bratton, the best-known Churchman in the state, and was at tended by more than twenty white and colored leaders. Bishop Bratton was elected chairman, Mr. Blake Godfrey of the State Y. M. C. A. was made recording secretay, and Hon. Francis Harmon, assistant attorney-general of the state, was made executive secre tary, backed by a strong executive committee. The colored leaders present who ac cepted membership on the commission were Professors W. H. Ho'.tzclaw, Z. T. Hubert, L. J. Rowan, B. B. Dansby and W. A. Battle, Dr. A. W. Dumas, and Dr. Zuber. Dr. Dumas was the principal spokesman for the colored group and made a fine and effective presentation of their viewpoint. He emphasized especially the need of bet ter educational facilities. Prof. Bura Hilburn, state supervisor of colored schools, made a happy response, pledging his department to do all in its power to improve educational con ditions for colored people and point ing out the rapid progress already be ing made in that direction. Mr. Harmon and the executive com mittee were authorized to organize the whole state as rapidly as possible. R. W. Miles, field representative of the General Interracial Commission, was immediately sent out on this mission and within the week has interested leading citizens of Meridian, Laurel and Hattiesburg and formed the nucleus of committees in those cities. Sentiment over the state is said to be more favorable to this work than ever before. COLORED Y. W. C. A. WORKER HONORED New York City, May 30.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—A step for ward was taken in the development of the colored race when at the Eighth National Convention of the Young Women’s Christian Association in New York City, Mrs. George E. Haynes of New York City was made a member of the National Board. This is the first time in the history of the Association that a colored woman has been so honored. Mrs. Haynes will have a voice with over ninety women in the decisions affecting the program and ideals of the largest organization in the world concerned with the wel fare of women and girls. The Young Women’s Christian As sociation became interested in work for colored women and girls in 1906 when the National Board was formed. This was not so many years ago, but today over one hundred thousand women and girls of the colored race are participants in its programs. There are, scattered over this country some sixty-five branches for colored work, employing one hundred and twenty-two secretaries. Four thou sand and sixty-five colored women sit on committees in these branch associ ations. Mrs. Haynes was the first colored student association secretay on the national staff, traveling from one sec tion of the country to another to meet and confer with colored girls in schools and colleges. She is a member of the colored branch of the associa tion in New York City and of the council on colored work. She is a member of the Baptist church. Her husband is the secretary on the Inter racial Commission of the Federal • Council of Churches. Lynn, Mass., May 30.—(By Associ ated Negro Press.)—When Edward Slattery was handed his pay envelope recently the action marked the fifty eigtii year that Slattery had worked in a shovel and tool factory in North Easton without losing a day on ac count of sickness. .