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• I THE MONITOR A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor . g .----- --- * ..■ — ■ ■■ 1 -■ ■■■ -- - - - 1 ..'-■■■ ~ ff-gg—-r~g» $2.00 a Year. ? ;5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1924 Whole Number 473 Vol. X—No. 5 _ £ ____—— ■ ■■ OH AHA ELKS LODGE PICNIC FOR ROYS *1 _ I _ 1 Elmwood Park, Saturday, August 2. The Elks Want All Boys in Omaha from 5 to 15 as Guests NEW MEMBERS ARE ADDED TO FACILTY "" • University Now Has 175 Instructors Three Inspructors Are Studying j In Europe While Others Are In American Institutions. t .. 1 SEVERAL PROMOTIONS MADE (Special to The Monitor by Walter J. Singleton) Washington, D. C., Aug. 1.—W’ith the addition of several members, the teaching staff at Howard university now numbers 175. Among those ap pointed to the faculty for the coming year are Charles H. Houston of Wash ington, a graduate of Amherst and of the Harvard School of Law, who has for the past year pursued graduate | work in law in Spain. He goes to the j law school faculty. William S. Nelson of New Haven, Conn., a graduate of Howard college,; class of 1920, who has since pursued courses at Union Theological semin ary. New York City; the University of Paris and the University of Berlin, j will teach Biblical literature in the school of religion. Lewis K. Downing of Cambridge, Mass., a graduate of Howard, bachelor of science in civil engineering, class, of 1921, and who has this year re-! ceived a similar degree from the Massachusetts Institue of Technology, will come as instructor in civil engi neering, school of applied science. Miss Gwendolyn Bennett of Brook lyn, a graduate of Columbia univer sity, New York City, with the degree of bachelor of science in art, has been added as instructor in art, school of applied science. During the summer three members of the university faculty are pursuing graduate work in Europe. They are Miss Helen M. Wheatland of the de partment of Romance languages, and Miss Madeline V. Coleman and Miss Carolyn Grant of the school of music. A number of other members of the faculty are pursuing advanced work in American institutions holding sum mer sessions. The board of trustees at the annual meeting voted advances in rank to the following members of the college fac ulty: Frank Coleman, from associate to full professor; George W. Hines, from assistant to associate professor; Jason C. Grant, Jr., from instructor to assistant professor; Stewart R. Cooper, from instructor to assistant professor; Miss Madeline V. Coleman, from instructor to assistant professor; Wesley I. Howard, from instructor to assistant professor, and Charles Cecil i Cohen, from instructor to assistant professor. EAST ST. LOUIS WANTS NO MORE MIGRANTS FROM THE SOUTH New York, Aug 1.—The mayor and city council of East St. Louis, Illinois, have asked the help of the National Association for the Advancement of Political Disorders Give Us Additional Strength (By Walter Irwin in Chicago Whip.) While the world gazed on in con sternation, wonder and surprise at the great rifts that have been made in the democratic party and while the en trance of Senator La Follette upon the field with a third party caused ridicule from some sources and cau tion from others, while the republi can party disregarded the Ku Klux issue, and perhaps wisely, so the black voters of the north have been silently imperceptibly, and unconsciously in vested with the balance of power in the coming election. In other words if the black vote of New York, Penn sylvania, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois is thrown to the republicans they will win the coming election, if the black vote is thrown to the democrats while Ija Follette takes away five republican states in the northwest and a scat tered dissatisfied element throughout the nation it means that the demo crats will win, but the balance of power lies with black voters. In Indiana. A startling and perplexing situation has already developed in Indiana be cause of the admitted power and pres ence of the Klan. Senator Watson, republican leader of that state, is op enly and notoriously associated with the hooded knights and Investigation into local issues have satisfied the col ored voters that republicanism is dominated to a large extent by the Klan. James Weldon Johnson, of the N. A. A. C. P., recently in Philadel phia advised the colored voters of nl diana to vote the democratic ticket and they probably will to a large pro portion. In Ohio the same condition obtains, only the situation is not made obvious, and in consequence is not so intense. In Pennsylvania, Atty. J. Austin Norris, Yale graduate, is lead ing a large vote to the democrats and predicts a split vote in that state. In New York, Ferdinand Q. Morton, col ored lawyer, indictment expert and civil service commissioner, i^ leading the colored forces of Tammany Hall and predicts that New York will sure ly write a cross in the democratic cir cle in November. In Illinois. In Illinois the situation is not as acute and determined as in the east ern states. The entrance of a colored democrat as candidate for Congress and the recent actions of the repub lican, Madden, in regard to the col ored clerks in the war department will create a tight situation, and Chicago and Illinois will remain in the doubt ful column as in the primaries. Just what will be done with the balance of power that colored voters received as residuary legatees is hard to tell, but it is expected that the leaders will re alize their strategic position and se cure recognition that has never been accorded them before. ; ,\ Colored People, in making public that owing to the overcrowded condition of the labor market there, no more mi grants from the south are wanted in that city. Clarence J. McLinn, president of the East St. I/ouis Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. writes that the colored popula tion there has increased from less than 6,000 in 1914 to nearly 18,000 at present, with little improvement in the housing situation, which forces “scores and scores of houses to fur nish homes for eight and ten families under one roof of from five to seven rooms. The leading whites and cap ital here are friendly and favor the rights of our people, but the senti ment of 1917 engendered by organ ized labor is yet rumbling under cover. The city officials and real friends fear that the heavy incoming during this dull term may cause a repetition of the memorable 1917 riots and they be lieve, as do the more thoughtful of our group, that with publicity of in dustrial and housing conditions in our city, it will, at least for a while, stop the heavy migrating of our southern brothers into fruitless fields.” The East St. Louis branch of the N. A. A. C. P. is now discussing the es tablishment of a headquarters for the migrants, where they may either be helped to obtain employment and ad just themselves to prevalent condi tions, or be assisted to obtain farm employment in St. Clair county. EXCELLENT WORK BEING CARRIED BY LANGSTON UNI. Progressive Educational Ideas Demon strated In All Departments of Popular School. I.angston, Okla., Aug. 1.—“A school with a program.” This is what the colored people throughout the state of Oklahoma assert when they find oc casion to speak of the Colored Agri cultural and Normal university of our city of Langston. And this pronounce ment is given a hearty echo by the white people in the state who have progressive ideas about education. President Young has gathered about him a faculty whose members come from Harvard university, Syracuse university, Columbia university, the University of Iowa, Howard univer sity, Lincoln university, Wiley univer sity and Wilberforce university. The school’s program, as a consequence, is of a very high order and includes courses in agriculture, mechanical arts, commerce and general business as well as high school and college de partments to which are attached an extension and correspondence depart ment. Much stress is put on the work in the agricultural department. Concern ing this part of the university’s pro gram the president has the following to say: “If we can first be made to understand that the farm is the basis of all wealth and that productive farms beget prosperity, we will have gone far on the way toward the solu tion of our economic problems. As a race the hundreds of years of enforced labor and bondage on the farm has left its mark of protest on us and we have wandered away from the real fundamentals of life.” In the mechanical department stu dents are taught the complete elements of industrial mechanics and the efforts in this direction has met with such amazing success that it has attracted the notice of the U. S. Bureau of Education which has pronounced the C. A. and N. university the best land grant school in Oklahoma. The department of social science is under the special direction of Prof. It. E. lies, a noted teacher and ex pounder of social science. The aim of this course is announced to be, “the study of living conditions as they ac tually apply to the Negroes living in nira' communities ir America; a study of (he chief factors and influences in rural ((immunities and their effect upon the standards of living; and to determine to what eJtcnt these in fluences ere brought to bear upon the NegJo mere ’ban othei race groups in America.” An extension cr.d correspondence de partment is under tht direction of Prof. W. Bruce Jones. Its work is carried into t ne homes and among the teachers in schools who can not afford to >pare the time it. attendance at the university. It is declared to be doing a splendid work throughout the state. The colored agricultural and normal university is i.a keeping with the won derful growth of the great state of Oklahoma. CHILDREN CLOTHIERS WQl’Ll) STARVE IN ABYSSINIA - • * London, England, Aug. 1.— (By the Associated Negro Press.)—-In Abys sinia children go about practically naked during the first twelve or four teen years of their lives. When the boys enter young manhood they begin wearing cotton trouers, very gener ous about the seat and tight at the ankles. With these is usually worn a shirt. Over shirt and trousers is thrown a red bordered mantle called the chamma, which serves at night for bed covering. Women dress practically the same as the men, but possible errors in Identity are avoided by the peculiarly feminine way the women have of drap ing their ebammas. The most desired article of clothing in Abyssinia is the pelerine, which oan be worn only by the nation’s bravest and wisest men, those whom the Prince Regent wants to reward for some unusual services. The pelerine is made of a lion’s or black leopard’s skin, ornamented with silver thread. The skin is cut so that the forlegs and tall dance in the wind and this makes the costume remark ably picturesque. RETURNS FROM EAST Rev. P. M. Harris, South Omaha's leading tonsorialist, business man and minister, who recently went eaBt on ——— I Rev. 1*. M. Harris an extended pleasure trip and vaca tion returned home last Tuesday much, benefitted by the trip. While in the east Mr. Harris spent several days in New York) City with his two sons, Willie, 13, and Eleven stlnc, 11 years, who are attending school in that city. He also made brief business stop in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D. C., Pitts burg and Chicago, returning July 15. While in Baltimore Mr. Harris was shown through the Wilson Banking Institution of which Mr. Harry O. Wil son is president. It employs over1 a score of colored men and women. POSTAL EMPLOYES GAIN RECOGNITION Washington, D. C., Aug. 1.—No or ganization of the nation’s postal em ployes enjoys a greater respect of the heads of the postal service than the National Alliance of Postal Employes. This organization is comprised of the Negro employes in this branch of the national service and is duly recogn ized as a very effective factor in main taining a high degree of efficiency and a more than respectable position for character and general integrity. The organization is a self helping body providing accident and death insurance for its members as #ell as definite protective measures in rela tion to their various employments in the postal service. From July 1, 1923, to June 30, 1924, the organization is sued policies to 753 new members thereby bringing the total member ship up to more than 14,400. Nine death claims, amounting to $2,700.00 were paid during this period, accident claims reached the sum of $2,182.12. V The total assets of the Alliance are stated to be $21,000.00. The headquarters of the organiza tion are in Atlanta, Ga., the present officers being A. L. Glenn, president, Atlanta, Ga.; H. H. Ateman, vice-pres ident, Memphis, Tenn.; Josiah H. Jones, secretary, Chicago, 111.; W. H. lieeves, treasurer, Atlanta, Ga.; and W. H. Bass, auditor, Little Rock, Ark. MADAM C. J. WALKER HOLT LAND CONTEST CLOSES Several Ministers Will Enjoy Delight ful Trip Through Courtesy of Great Race Enterprise Idianapolis, Ind., August 1.—The Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing company’s grand trip to the Holy Land contest cloed at midnight, July 1. A great last minute rush of coupons Into the Walker company’s offices literally swamped the tabulators and after weeks of close, accurate counting, checking, comparison and verifica tions, the winners have been oeter mined. It was a great race, rull of excitement from the beginning, when three hundred fifty-eight ministers took off in friendly competition, to the very closing day when some contest ants made personal visits to the con test department and cast votes which they hoped would send them over the line a winner. Of course, all couldl not win the cherished trips, but two A. M. E. ministers, a Baptist and a Church of God evangelist polled the highest number of votes and will make triiis abroad at the expense of the Mme. C. J. Walker Manufacturing Co. The competition was keen and another day perhaps would have meant an other story, but here’s how they fin ished: FIRST PRIZE: Free trip to Pales tine and $250 in cash. Won by Rev. Jl. J. Key, pastor Turner A. M. E. Church, 1715 North Jersey avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. SECOND PRIZE: Free trip to Pales tine and $100 in cash. Won by Elder K. H. Burrus, Church of God' Evangel ist, 286 North Ashby street, Atlanta, Ga. / THIRD PRIZE—Free trip to Pales tine. Won by Rev. S. S. Jones, pastor Antioch Baptist Church, 1720 Emporia street, Muskogee, Okla. FOURTH PRIZE—Free trip to Par is, France. Won by Rev. J. O. Haith cox, pastor Allen Temple A. M. E. Church,, 3096 Mathers Btreet, Cincin nati, Ohio. Twelve other contestant* won dis trict prizes and one hundred and two were compensated for votes cast In their favor. It is barely conceivable that a ten thousand mile tour by rail and steam er, motor car and caravan, would be afforded free of cost to anyone, but the grand capital prize winners of this Death Rate of Race Is Decreasing Tononto, Con., Aug. 1.—Dr. Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the Metropol itan Life Insurance company of Netf York, addressed the National Confer ence on Social Work, July 2, on the subject of “The Effect of Health Ed ucation on Negro Mortality.” “The Negroes are only a genera tion behind the health achievement of the white people of the country,” said Dr. Dublin, “not a serious handicap to overcome when we consider that they have had control of their des tinies for only a little more than half a century and have been served by health conserving agencies for even a shorter period. The pessimism which prevailed 25 or 30 years ago with re gard to the future of the Negro is no longer even remotely justified. A race, still living in many areas under primitive conditions of sanitation and often from hand to mouth, is today enjoying a life expectancy just about that of the white people of America only 30 or 40 years ago.” , Improvement Shown. Dr. Dublin based his statements up on the mortality experience of the 15.000. 000 industrial policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany, which group includes nearly 2, 000,000 of our people. The detailed mortality records of the company be gan in 1911. In that year, our death rate was 17.6 in 1,000 insured per sons; in lj)23, the rate had dropped more than one-sixth, or to 14.5 in 1.000. The average baby of our race, at, birth, today can expect to live to he more than 46 years of age; the average white baby can only count on living 68 years, and this high expec tancy has only been attained in the last few years. This decrease of the death rate i among our people engaged in indus-1 trial work is all the more remarkable, Dr. Dublin considers, because this I population group resides almost en tirely in crowded sections of cities I where, heretofore, the death rate has been exceptionally high. In the reg istration states of the United States the rural part was 13.8 per 1,000, as contrasted with 10.6 for white, where as the rate iq the cities was 19.7 per 1,000 as against 11.8 for the whites. Tuberculosis has been and still is the outstanding cause of death among our people, this statistician reports. One of every six Colored persons ul timately dies of this disease, but great improvement has been made in recent years. In 1911, tuberculosis was responsible for 418 death for each 1,000,000 of our people insured in the Metropolitan; in 1923, the rate had dropped to 246, or nearly one half. Great Advances Made. “The mortality among the Colored policyholders from tuberculosis is be ginning to look like that among the white only 20 years ago, when the tu berculosis campaign was begun,” states Dr. Dublin. “Nothing indi cates so well the general health con dition of *a race as the incidence of tuberculosis and nothing reflects so well an improvement in its mode of life as does a big drop in this death rate. There can be no question that this improvement in tuberculosis is the result of great advances in the economic and social advances in the Colored people. The Colored people have, as a race, good physiques and they are learning all the time how to take better care of themselves in re latibn to their changing environment.” Much of the credit for the improved health standards should be given to the various health agencies who have been working among them. Distribu- j tion of health literature, attendance for 1921, the last year available, the death rate among the race living in of visiting nurses in illness, advice to mothers regarding their own care and the care of babies, recommendation for periodical health examination— all these welfare measures have helped bring about this reduction in the death rate, Dr. Dublin believes. Our children show the greatest im provement in mortality of any age group, he shows, and this undoubtedly is due to the gradual and persistent education of mothers in how to feed and care for their offspring. In the four communicable diseases of child hood, measles, scarlet fever, whoop ing cough and diptheria, a decline of 33 per cent in deaths was recorded be tween 1911 and 1923, and in all of these except whooping cough, the death rates for children were uniform ly lower than for white. The tubercu losis deaths among our children less than 15 years have been cut in half in this 13-year period. Other Diseases. Great improvement has been made in regard to typhoid fever and pneu monia, which, according to Dr. Dublin, indicates better sanitary conditions surrounding our people. Their pres ent high mortality rate results largely from the chronic degenerative diseases as cerebral hemorrhage, organic dis eases of the heart, and chronic ne phritis. Cancer and diabetes, too have increased in mortality figures since 1911. Syphilis and its sequelae are becoming more widespread and caus ing more deaths each year. A more extensive campaign against venereal disease is advocated to improve their welfare and lower their death rate. contest will start from their homes as guests of the Mine. C. J. Walker Manu facturing company and will go to New York, thence to London, Paris, Switz erland, Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land, see many of the world famous sights enroute and all without cost to tnem selves. Full'two weeks will be spent in the Holy Land, where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mount of Olives, Garden of Gethsemane, Dead Sea, River Jordan, Jericho, Bethlehem, and other biblically important places will be visited. The prize trips won by the popularity, organizing ability and industriousness of these splendid rep resentatives of our race, have great educational value, and with the win ners carrying cameras to record what they see and note books in which to write their impressions, their con gregations, their cities and the pub lic at large will be benefitted by their having toured the Holy Land, j Echoeing through the greatly in I creased business, the thousands of new i satisfied customers and the directly benefitted contestants, the grand trip to the Hd.v Land contest goes down as & great commercial achievement and a unique benefaction. _ WILLIAM JACKSON DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER William Jackson, known by many friends as “Missouri Jack”, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. I. H Emerson, 1517 North Twenty-sixth: street, Wednesday morning from can- j cer which had incapacitated him for! some months, although it had not con- j fined him to his bed until quite re-! cently. He was born in Glasgow, | Mo., June 15, 1865, and came to Oma- j ha, where he has since continuously i resided, in 1888. Mr. Jackson was a ] man who made and retained scores of friends. He is survived by his widow,; his mother, a daughter, three broth-! ers, George and Nelson of Glasgow,! Mo., and Alfred of Omaha; two sisters, Mrs. Mizner of Omaha and Mrs. Cor nelia Adams of Kansas City, Mo., and other relatives. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 from Zion Baptist church under the aus pices of Keystone Lodge, Uniform \ rank, Knights of Pythias. Rev. W. F. Botts, assisted by others, will officiate. BLACK RAPIST IS PROVEN “WHITE” Fairfield, Texas., Aug. 1.—(Inform er News Service)—The daily newspa pers of Texas carried an item, played up on their front pages, a few days ago about an alleged attack upon a white girl at Fairfield,, a little one horse town in Central Texas where six on more colored men and boys have been lynched and burned to death within the last two years for alleged attacks and offenses upon white wo men and girls. A day or two later, hidden on a back page in these daily sheets, ap peared a very brief news item to the effect that two white youths had been arrested and a third was implicated in. the “assault” and that his arrest was hourly expected. Advancement Association Corrects Misrepresentation New York, Aug. 1.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, through its secretary, James Weldon Johnson, has made pub lic the following statement on its pol itical utterance with regard to a third party: The misapprehension has spread that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at its recent 15th annual conferencedn Phil adelphia “endorsed” Senator La Fol lette. The fact is, the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col ored People did not endorse Senator La Follette or any other candidate. That is not part of its business. What the Natiohal Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People is aim ing at is the emancipation of the Ne gro from voting blindly for any party and the exercise on his part of intel ligent political independence. After reviewing the record of the two major parties, our resolutions un animously adopted July 1, in Philadel phia had the following to say about a third party: “Nothing will more quickly bring the old parties to a clear realization of their obligations to us and the nation than a vigorous third party movement. Such a movement may save us from a choice between half-hearted friends and half-concealed enemies or from the necessity of voting for the same oppression under different party names. Such a movement may give the American Negro and other sub merged classes a chance to vote more directly for economic emancipation 1 from monopoly and privilege and a fairer chance to work according to ability and share more equitably in the social income.” It is perhaps needless to add that the kind of third party movement we are hoping and looking for did not materialize in Cleveland. But that does not alter the fact that a vigorous progressive third party, similar to th% Labor party in England, would be the Negro’s political salvation in America. In conclusion, those who wish to know the position taken by the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People at Philadel iVhia, can find it in the official resolu tions adopted at Philadelphia and sent out to the press. STATE’S FIRST MAYOR Brentwood, Md., Aug. 1.—Jeremiah Hawkins, well known politician, was elected first mayor of this town re cently. The town which is located in Prince George county, not far front Washing ton, D. C., was incorporated last month, has a population of 600, 120 homes valued at $400,000, all owned by colored people. Mrs. Edward Killingsworth is visit ing Miss Beatrice Majors at Cl eve- / land, Minn. She expects to return within the next two weeks. APPOINTED TO GOOD PLACES IN TNEASNRY Lieut. J. Williams Clifford Appointed Chief and Ferdinand D. Lee As sistant Vault Custodians by Register of Treasury RESPONSIBLE FOR MILLIONS (Special to The Monitor by Walter J. Singleton) Washington, D. C., Aug. 1.—The Register of the Treasury, Hon. Har vey Speelman, has announced the ap pointments of Lieut. J. William Clif ford and Ferdinand D. Lee to posi tions that are classed among the most important and responsible positions in his department. As custodians of the vault they are responsible for many millions of dollars in bonds and other treasury certificates. This vault is said to be the largest in the treasury department. Lieut. Clifford is a native and voter of the state of Ohio, is a college grad uate, and he was a first lieutenant in the World war, serving in France with honor to nimself and his country. Mr. -Lee is a native of Virginia, a graduate of the law department of Howard university, and is nationally known as the president of the Na tional Memorial association for the erection of a building at the national capitol in honor of the Colored sol diers and sailors who sacrificed their lives in the defense of their country and its flag. (Hon. Will R. Wood, member of Congress from Indiana, has introduced a bill in Cogress ask ing $50,000 for the memorial.) While the appointments of these gentlemen are greeted by the general public with great satisfaction, we must not overlook the untiring efforts of Mr. Speelman, register of the treasury, in securing positions in the Veterans’ bureau for the great num ber of clerks recently dropped from the rolls on account of non-appropria tion of funds. It can be stated, in justice and truth, that the present register of the treasury was not re sponsible for the separation of white and colored clerks in that department. We are fully aware, however, that he was wholly responsible for the ap pointment of our group. His super visors, with salaries commensurate with their positions, may be accepted as a most gratifying recognition of their fitness and executive ability. The appointments last mentioned were those of Mrs. M. Gray and Mrs. May Tyson Baker. Mrs. Mollie Mitchell of Dallas, Tex., who has been visiting her son, George Bennett of Detroit, Mich., is the guest of her niece, Mrs. Whidby, 2219 R street, South Side. The services next Sunday at the Church of St. Philip the Deacon, will be as follows: Holy comfunion, 7:30 , a. m.j church school, 10 a. m.; sung eucharist with sermon at 11. No eve ning service. *