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r The Monitor — ® A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Edinw $2.00 a Year. « i Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1924 Whole Number 474 Vol. X—No. 6 8 __________ Presents a Political Problem Doubtful Attitude of Colored Vote in National Campaign Is Attracting Considerable Attention HAITIAN PRESS REQUESTS HEQRO COMMISSIONERS Nouvelliste Declares Editorially That Only People of Black Race Can Understand the Islanders’ Needs PRESIDENT IS OPPOSED Haitian Chief Executive Wants No Collaboration From Colored People of the United States Port Au Prince, Aug. 8.—President Borneo’s hostility to Negroes in the United States rendering any aid to the former colored republic was chal lenged here recently by the “Nouvel liste’ which editorially demanded that the U. S. be asked to send a commis sion of Negroes to Haiti to study con ditions. The editorial states in part: "Another Wrong Charged Against the United States by Design. “W# said the other day that the news and commentaries of the Haitian press were not integrally reported in the United States. One can take this as one wishes. The fact is that many things about the true situation are un known. "There exists another fact even of a graver nature. The Haitian colored people are made to pose as horribly detesting the colored people of Amer ica. Feeling that the Black party in the United States is still the only or ganization which naturally, sincerely and automatically sympathizes with the Republic of Haiti, and that it will carry before the American conscience the Haitian cause in its details, every thing is done to create and maintain a firebrand of discord between the col ored people of Haiti and the colored people of the United States. “We wish the American people and above all, the government at Wash ington, to know that it is absolutely false that the Haitians do not wish to see the Ameriran Negroes. On the contrary the Haitians vo ciferously demand that colored Amer ican officials come here in order to know the situation of their race kin dred. Only people of the black race will be able to understand the true needs of the Haitian Negroes; these people alone wdll be able to measure the extent to which our pride has been chilled and the chagrin which gnaws us. “Every Haitian sees clearly today that the present situation calls for a commission composed of colored men of high competence who will under stand our situation and will make ev ery effort to change it. “If the present government of Pres ident Homo repels and has always re pelled the collaboration of the colorel Americans everybody knows why. But the Haitian people think all to the contrary. They know their needs and they know who their sympathizers are. The government did not deign to receive in Haiti Dr. Moton, a ge nius of the Negro race in America, while this same Moton has been in vited to the table of the King of Eng land, of the King of Spain and of the highest personalities in Europe. "What is there to say after that?” VIRGINIA FARMER IS FORCED BY MOB TO FLEE FROM HOME Clarion, Va., Aug. 8.—William No ble I>ewis was forced by a mob to flee bis 20 acre farm, leaving a bride of three weeks and his mother. Whites declare he was “sassy” to the white postmistress in demanding a key to the postoffice box he had just rented. She is reported to have threatened to sick relatives on him, Colored neighbors say whites are jeal ous because Lewis, who is a graduate of the Penn state agricultural college, had laid out and worked his farm scientifically to produce a large in come and that white neighbors who are backward desired it. Twenty whites in automobiles at tacked his home. Lewis beat them off and escaped to Pittsburg when they went for reinforcements. WOMAN IS CANDIDATE FOR N. Y. ASSEMBLY New York, Aug. 8.—Dr. Julia P. H I Coleman, head of the Hair Vim Chem ical company, has announced her can didacy for the assembly from the 19th district on the republican ticket. • YOUR VOTES NEEDED * • _ * * The Negro vote will be in * * greater request during the * * coming election than ever be- * * fore. It will be concededly the * * determining factor in ten states. * * Neither party makes a compel!- * * ing appeal. * * The Negro has been a repub- * * lican by tradition and inertia. * * He adheres to his ancient alle- * * giance because he lacks politi- * * cal energy and enterprise to * * break away. In nineteen twelve * * he divided his vote in compar- * * able numbers between Roose- * * velt, Wilson and Taft, but soon * * drifted back to his first love. * * No one can tell how this vote * * will be distributed in the pres- * * ent campaign. But whoever * * gets it will have to go after it * * vigorously.—Kelly Miller. * *.*»*••*•*»•** PRAISES DARBY SCHOOL HEAD FOR STAND FOR JUSTICE New York, August 7.—Although a group of white high school student* in Darby, Pennsylvania, protested against the appointment of a colored girl. Hilda _ Bolden, as valedictorian of their class, and threatened to hold separate commencement exercises of their own, the school authorities led by Walter It. Donthett, superintendent of schools in Darby, stood by the col ored girl. “So far as we are concerned there Is no race distinction In the schools,” Mr. Donthett is quoted as saying. Mr. Donthett’s stand, based on Mis® Belden’s excellence as a student, elic ited a letter of appreciation from the N. A. A. C. P., which said in part: "Unequivocal and courageous action like yours In refusing to listen to race prejudice will be a source of much encouragement to other colored chil dren who will aspire to high records, knowing that they' will be given that which they earn.” GET KLANSMKN WHO SHOT TOPS (By Asociated Negro Press) Ardmore, Pa., August 7.—Captain Donaghty, the seventy-three year old police officer, suocedad in arresting four residents of this borough for the shooting of two policemen on July 3, when they attempted to arrest a cdowd of Klansmcn for burning a cross in the section near where Negroes lived and causing them to leave bag and baggage. Two of the four men arrested worked in the post office, (he third is a brother of the commander of the American legion Post and the other Is a brother officer of the two who were wounded. Whether commander Boyd, of the American legion Post, who offered the services of the post to run down the klansuien knew that his brother was a member of the klan could not be learned. However, at the poet meeting a split occurred when part of the members demanded the klan be denounced by name while the others who were in majority killed the mo tion. Then the members who were against the klan denounced the Amer ican legion and left the meeting in disgust. The four men confessed and impli cated others of the police force. A sergeant and another policeman will have a hearing before the township commander on charges of being “un loyal officers.” Three of the men who could not raise bail included Joseph Boyd, brother of the Legion Post command er, who refused to aid him in any way. PHILLY REPUBLICANS DISPLAY UNMISTAKABLE SIGNS OF INSURGENCY Philadelphia, Aug. 8.—By a vote of I 29 to 12, the Citizens’ Republican club I of which Edward Henry is president, refused to endorse Coolidge for pres ident. The club is organized against the President for his refusal to make ap pointments; second, for the naming of Bascom Slemp, lily white, as sec retary; third, for his refusal to state his attitude toward the Ku Klux Klan, and fourth, because his party did not insert an anti-klan plank in their plat form. The club will defeat Bill McCoach for council in the 30th ward unless colored people are given a member on the school board, state committeeman and a city councilman. NEW TORE HAS SIX COLORED HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS Willis Huggins Recently Elected to Teach European History During Next Scholastic Year APPOINTEE STUDYING ABROAD By Lester A. Walton. New York, Aug. 7.—Among the 250 receiving appointments to teach in New York high schools at the begin ning of the next scholastic year was one Negro, Willis N. Huggins. His appointment makes the sixth member of his race to teach in the local high schools. He will instruct in Europeaen history. Mr. Huggins is a native of Selma, Ala. After supplementing his normal training at Selma university with two years’ special training in technical subjects at Armstrong Technical School, Washington, he came to New York in 1911, entering Teachers Col lege, Columbia university, from which he was graduated in 1914 with the de gree of Bachelor of Science in Educa tion. The following year he received the Master of Arts degree. For five years he was a teacher in the public schools of Chicago, coming to New York in 1922. He has been teaching defective children in the day element ary schools and in the evening ele mentary schools among the foreign born. The new appointee sailed for Eu rope, July 2, on the Paris to take work in French history and literature dur ing July at the University of Paris and to take a vacation course in me diaeval and modem history of Eng land and Western Europe in August at Oxford University, England. SCHOOL BOARD REFUSES TO OUST TEACHER Wilmington, Del.—A. N. P.)—The hoard of education decided that It could not compel its employes to live In any specified district. A petition! was presented by some of the residents living in the vicinity of Thirteenth and Tatnall streets protesting against a teacher living in that neighborhood. The teacher is Miss Charlotte Slowe, of Baltimore. All other houses in the block are occupied by white persons. Miss Slowe is a principal of No. 22 school. She formerly lived at Second «nd Justison streets, but a little more than a month ago, she purchased the 1301 Tathall street property. Part of the house she altered into hn apart ment, which she let to another colored family. NEGRO HISTORY IX 3RD EDITION Washington, I). C., August 8.—So popular is the “Negro Tn Our His tory”, a text book suitable for gram mar and high schools published orig inally two years ago, that the third edition revised has Just come from 'he press of the Associated Publishers here. The revised book has over a hun dred pages of new material, enlarg ing the volume to a volume of nearly 50ft pages Including sketches of the modern phases of Negro life in Amer ica and numerous illustrations. HAITIANS WELCOMED Port An Prince, Haiti, Aug. 8.—The Haitian rifle team, which performed so brilliantly in the Olympian Games In France, tying the French team for second place, arrived home July 21 and was given a great public welcome. The marksmen were met by a regi ment of gendarmi and were escorted through the streets In a gala parade to the presideatial palace, where they were given a reception by the presi dent of the republic. AFRICAN MOTHER GIVES BIRTH TO QUINTIPLETS Lagos, West Africa, July 11.—A re markable Incident was recently re ported from Yei district, when a native woman of Chief Kobwa’s vil lage gave a birth to five children— four males and one female. Unhap pily, all five have died at hirth. It recalls a similar happening in Uganda a few years ago, when it was reported a native woman had given birth to eight children, all of whom died. MIGHT CAUSE QUAKE THAT WOULD DESTROY NEW YORK Mad Search for Oil May Cause Radi cal Changes In This Planet, Says Scientist. Philadelphia.—"There Is a very real danger that New York city may Buffer from an earthquake one of these days. Unless the world gets over ltB mud search for oil there are going to be some radicul changes on this planet.” These are some of the startling pre dictions made by Prof. David Todd of Amherst college, professor of astrono- I my, lntemntlonolly known scientist J and author of half a dozen hooks and ] Innumerable articles. Professor Todd Is spending the summer on the es tate of P. M. Shurples, near West Chester. New York city, he says, Is as likely a site for the next earthquake as any In the United States. This Is because of the geological formation of the land beneath It. Earthquakes almost In variably come ut n point where two strata or layers beneath the surface of the ground come together. When terrific pressure comes on this point It Is Inevitable that it should crack. According to Professor Todd, It has been ascertained that Just such an un derground joint lies beneath Manhat tan lslund. The pressure which even tually will force this Joint apart and 1 cause an earthquake is caused by the thousands and thousands of tons which are being heaped onto the Island in the shape of huge buildings and stUl huger foundations. He predicts that when the earth quake finally comes the destruction which will follow will be far greater nnd more terrible thun that whlPh fol lowed the Japanese upheaval of last summer. Professor Todd Is also pessimistic over the consequents of the >>!l mad ness” which Is gripping the world at the present time. “Did you ever see a driller strike oil?” he asked. "If you have you will get some Idea of the tremendous pressure which Is locked up In the ground beneath us. It Is this pressure which holds the world In slmpe. And with countless hun dreds of oil wells tapping this pres sure In every part of the globe, what will be the result I dare not predict." +4-+++++++++++++++++++++++* Aids Farmers’ Wives in Selecting Clothing *++++++++++++++++++++++++4 M —I Miss ltuth O'llrien, u specialist u clothing und textiles, has been em ployed by the Department of Agricul ture ns a textile and clothing expert und she is to obtain facts that will help the homemaker In better selec tion und cure of the family clothing. The photograph shows Miss O'Brien making some studies at the depart ment. She is a graduate of the Uni versity of Nebrasku and received her Ph. D. degree from Chicago university. Salvaging of German Fleet at Scapa Flow Started Scapa Blow.—At Scapa Flow a seri ous commencement has been made with the salvage of the Oermau fleet. One of the divers atates that aome of the sunken ships are covered with growths 20 feet long and record-slxed barnacles and mussela. The divers found the Hlndenburg, at one time the pride of the (Herman navy, with engines and Interior Intact. Cham pagne bottles and glasses were found In the officers' quarters and bunks un disturbed. The Hlndenburg Ilea in eleven fathoms of water and, if aha proves seaworthy, she may be towed for dismantling to Queensborough. A curious fact U the entire absence of flah In Scapa Flow. Crabs and lob sters are as thick as trees In a forest, eald a diver, but other kinds of flsh must have been scared sway. PRESIDENT RING DRGES PROGRESS BY REPUBLIC Advocates Abolishment of Chain Gang, the Establishment of Fed eral Prison and Improved Roads PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM GROWS The message of Charles D. B. King, President of Liberia, West Africa, to the 35th legislature has just arrived in printed form in this country and is being distributed through Liberian Consul General, I>r. Ernest Lyon. The president urges the abolishment of working prisoners in the chain gangs on the road on the ground that “nowhere in civilized centers of the world does this practice now obtain.” A centralized federal prison is urged for the Republic. Increase of customs at all ports is noted by the President, w’ho declared that 864 ships with a total tonnage of 2,000,000 entered ports of the Re public last year. Free city delivery by the Liberian post office was inaugurated for the first time last year. Over 1,500 men were called out for camp last year in the Liberian Na tional Guard, exclusive of the Liberian Frontier Force. The President rec ommends a larger appropriation for ammunition and equipment for the military forces. Progress is also noted in the build ing of roads and the President rec ommends an annual grant of $200 for each, chief in the interior who keeps his roads in good repair. Pupils in the 46 public schools num ber 2,704, according to the President’s message with 43 teachers. In addi tion there are 17 native schools, five schools in the interior and 128 schools supported by missionaries. In the mis sionary schools there are 317 teachers. SMITH IS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO Cleveland, O., Aug. 8.—Harry C. Smith, editor of the Gazette, a race weekly, is a candidate for governor of Ohio at the next election on the republican ticket. George W. Sbanklin, a contractor, is on the ticket with him running for lieutenant-governor. Two years ago Smith startled the state by polling some 50,000 votes when he ran 'as candidate for the post of secretary of the state of Ohio. DELA W A BE REPUBLICANS THREATEN TO BOLT PARTY Wilmington, Del., Aug. 8.—In! view of the fact that Negroes are barred front practicing law in Delaware, segregated in the courts,, and not per mitted to serve on Juries, the state republicans organized in the office of Dr. W. M. Henry with plans to bolt the ticket in the fall campaign. SOCIALIST CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE New York, August 8.—Frank Cross waith made such a bitter attack upon the Ku Klux Klan on the street corner on Sunday before 3,000 persons, that his white comrades escorted him home. He has been nominated for secretary of state on the socialist ticket. SANG FOB KING AND QUEEN Philadelphia, Pa—While Harry T. Burleigh was receiving the Spingarn medal here, recently, acting as proxy for Roland Hayes, the tenor soloist, rt>e latter was appearing for his sec ond time in Buckingham Palace, Lon don, England, before the King and Queen by their expressed command. ESCAPES MOB Rockingham* N. C., Aug. 8.—Hassie Johnson was sentenced to thirty days in the chain gang for beating a ride on a freight train, after «. mob had nearly lynched him thinking he was James Jones, said to have shot and killed a white man at White Store township. JAMAICA LABORERS IN RIOT Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 8.—Two laborers were killed and 43 wounded when 80 members of the constabulary quelled a riot of 1,000 street working men here who demanded a minimum wage of $2 a day. »»**»******»»* * NO GRAVEYARD CAMPAIGN * * _ * * No longer can the republican * * party say to the Negro voter: * * “You have been bought and * * paid for.” No longer can he be * * frightened away from Davis * * and Bryan by the immemorial * * scare-crow of democratic antag- * * onism to the black man’s rights. * * Forgetting the things that are * * past we must press forward to * * the future. * * The Negro politician will not * * lie allowed to conduct his cam- * * paign in a grave yard, rattling * * the dry bones of Stevens and * * Sumner and Grant. The Negro * * wants to know “which way is * * your musket apinting today.”— * * Kelly Miller. * ***»****•»»**• PRESIDENT COOLIDGE CABLES GREETINGS TO PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA Washington, D. C., Aug. 8.—The President has sent out the following message to the President of Liberia in connection with the anniversary of the founding of the Liberian Repub lic and Independence Day celebration. “H's Excellency, Charles Dunbar Burgest King, President of Liberia, Monrovia: “On this recurring anniversary of the founding of the Liberian Repub lic, I extend to you Mr. President, and to the Liberian people, the cor dial felicitation of the Government and the people of the United States and their best wishes for you and your countrymen’s prosperity and hap • piness, with the renewed assurances of deep interest in the welfare and progress of your country. (Signed) CALVIN COOLIDGE.” 68 BRANCHES OF THE N. A. A. C. P. GO OVER* THE TOP FOR 1924 Break Record of All Previous Years and Establish a Precedent Which It Is Honed AVill Be Maintained New York, August 7.—Robert W. Ragnall, director of branches of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, has an nounced that sixty-eight branches of the N. A. A. C. P. in various parts of the country bad exceeded their allot ted quotas in the 1924 drive for funds, thus breaking the records of all pre vious years. In announcing this achievement, Mr. Ragnall said: “The record made by the branches is an indication of the growing rec ognition of the work the N. A. A. C. P. has been doing and it shows that colored people are desirous of sup porting and sustaining that work.” The Omaha branch is among the 68 on the honor roll. LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE ENACTS SEGREGATION LAW; N.A. A. C. P. TO TEST LEGALITY (By Asociated Negro Press) New York, August 7.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth avenue, has received word that the Louisiana state legislature has enacted a measure, which has been signed by Governor Fuqua, providing for the segregation of colored and white people in com munities having a population of 25,000 or more. The N. A. A. C. P. announced, upon receipt of the report that the law would seem to be in violation of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States as handed down in the Louisville segregation case, but that the Louisiana measure would be fully investigated with a view to taking le gal action* G. W. Lucas, president of the New Orleans branch of the N. A. A. C. P., who reports the new law, writes: “This bill evidently was prompted by protests against certain of our people who are purchasing property In districts heretofore known as white. The first known attempt on the part of the authorities to force this act will be met by protests from the New Orleans branch of the N. A. A. C. P." DAVLS-BRYAN CLUB FOR NORFOLK, YA. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 8.—Plans are underway to form a Davls-Bryan democratic voters club among a group of colored citizens of Norfolk. Wasted—Wide awake toys to sail Hie Monitor every Saturday. CONCEDE COLORED VOTERS DECISIVE ELECTION FACTOR 1 Statisticians of Both Parties Agree That Race Vote Will Largely Determine Presidential Election NEBRASKA DOUBTFUL STATE Republicans, Democrats and Forces of La Follette Will Maneuver To Capture Votes In Such States Washington, D. C., Aug. 8.—Sta tisticians of both major parties are agreed that the colored vote will large ly determine the outcome of the pres idential election this year. It may continue the republican party in power or return the democrats, or throw the election into the House of Representa tives. Balance of Power. They base their calculations upon an analysis of the voting strength of the Negro in the states they classify as doubtful. In them the number of qualified voters are about equally di vided between the two old parties; but the colored vote is sufficiently large to swing any of these states into either the republican or democratic column. The East is conceded to the repub licans, the “Solid South” to the Dem ocrats, and a majority of the Western states is divided between Coolidge and La Follette. New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Nebraska are classified as extremely doubtful. With three tickets in the field, the electoral votes necessary to give either the republican and democratic candi date a majority at the polls in No vember must be obtained in these ex tremely doubtful states. If not the election will be thrown into the House of Representatives with the possibility of the La Follette bloc in that body preventing a choice, in which event the Senate would elect a vice-presi dent. A coalition of the La Follette forces with the democrats would prob ably result in the election of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, La Follette’s run ning mate. In these doubtful states the colored vote constitutes the balance of power. Consequently, both major parties— and the La Follette progressives as well—plan an intensive campaign among the colored voters. Difficult Task. Ordinarily this colored vote is re publican. But since the return of the republican party to power, there has been a decided tendency to ignore par ty lines. Hence, the job of the repub lican campaign management will be to keep this vote in alignment. But this will be a difficult task. With a nominee like John W. Davis in the field, the republican party will have to work assiduously to prevent defection in the ranks of its colored vote. The fact that Mr. Davis when he was solicitor general of the United States argued the Oklahoma disfran chisement case in the Supreme Court of the United States, resulting in the late Chief Justice White handing down a decision declaring all such laws un constitutional, will make his candidacy appealing to the colored electorate. Besides there will be a flank attack by the La Follette forces. As yet they have offered no special induce ments to the colored voter to come into their ranks. There is nothing in the platform on which he is running of special interest to them. But the Ne gro will be asked to vote for the La Follette ticket as a protest against the treatment which he has been ac corded by both parties in comparative ly recent years. No Plans. As yet, none of the three organiza tions, which will seek the colored vote, has worked out the plans for its cam paign among the colored electorate. William M. Butler, the chairman of the republican national committee, is here conferring with the President and party leaders. He may make some announcement of his intentions in this regard before departing. The newly elected democratic chair man, Clem L. Shaver, is also here. He is familiarizing himself with the work of the comipittee. At the first opportunity he will take up this phase of the campaign, which is something new in the history of the democratic party. The La Follette campaign will be in the hands of an executive commit tee, the personnel of which will be announced soon. It is not probable that a Negro will be on this com mittee.