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The monitor | NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS _ S THE REV J0HN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.00 a Year—5c S opy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1925 Whole Number 534 Vol. XI—No. 14 - i . ■ - ■ i THL AMERICAN LEGION CAPTURES OMAHA Smuts and Dr. DuBois Claim Africa Original Seat of Civilization ORGANIZE COMPANY TO MANUFACTURE DRINKING GLASS Sanitury Device Invented by Kansan Has Been Patented and Will Be Handled by Local Rare Corporation IMPORTANT BUSINESS MOVE The Walker-Leland Manufacturing Company Hopes to Develop Strong and Well-Paying Racial Enterprise. While visiting a friend in a hospital John E. Walker of Pittsburg, Kansas, noticed that a piece of paper or card board was placed over the top of a drinking glass to protect its contents from dust or other particles which might not improve the patient’s con dition. He noticed further that it was qute easy for ths temporary coverng to become displaced. This gave him an idea which eventually may mean millions to him. He believed that he could invent a device that would serve as a sanitary and permanent lid or covering for a drinking glass to be used in the sick room or elsewhere that could lie lifted and lowered, or opened and closed automatically. The Walker sanitary drinking glass, here illustrated, was the result. The John E. Walker, President. device consists of an aluminum frame, in which the glass is placed, with a small lever which lifts the aluminum top when the container is raised from the stand or table, and automatically lowers the top when the container is placed on the table. Mr. Walker has secured a patent upon his invention. A large firm has offered to take it over and manufacture this useful ar ticle, paying him a royalty. But the »■ ■ " 1 " . ""I Harry W. Lcland, Sec. Tress. patentee wants to build up an insti tution which will bring the advantages to be obtaned to the members of his race. He is ambitious to keep It in the hands of the race and develop a business concern that will give var ied employment to young men and wo men of the race who are deprived of like opportunities elsewhere. The Walker-Inland Manufacturing Company of Omaha, Nebraska, has t’ refore been organized and incor p, ted for the purpose of manufac tut ,ig and marketing Mr. Walker’s invention. The capital stock of the corporation is placed at $10,000.00 divided into one thousand shares of common stock of the par value of $10.00 a share. The officers of the company are John E. Walker, paten tee, president and director; William E. Jackson, vice-president and direc toh; Harry W. Inland, secretary treasurer and director. Several Omaha men who see the possibilities of this invention and bus * DOCTOR MADISON SUSTAINS SERIOUS AND PAINFUL INJURIES Ex-Service Man Run Down by Auto mobile in Front of Dreamland Hall Taken to Hospital With Fractured Skull. While Dr. Amos B. Madison and several friends were crossing Twenty fourth street opposite Dreamland Hall early Tuesday morning he and Gene Harris were knocked down by an automobile driven by Cole Anderson, .1414 Ohio street. Dr. Madison, who : was commissioned at the Officers Training Camp at Des Moines and served overseas, was severely bruised and lacerated and his skull fractured. He was taken to Swedish Mission hos pital where he is receiving careful at tention. Gene Harris suffered a broken leg and was taken to the hos pital NEW LAMAR OPENED WITH MUSICAL CONCERT ON OCTOBER FIFTH Just at the eve of the American Le gion convention The Lamar, Omaha's newest hotel for colored, was opened with a musical concert at 1801 North i '.14th ^treet. There was also a five course winner of which many par took. The music and dinner started at 9 p. m. and lasted until the wee 1 hours of morning. The music was played in the lobby of the new hotel, a very snugly ar ! ranged little place. The dining rooms were a little to the left, but adjoining the lob* y. The orchestra played sooth ing strains which gladdened the hearts j of the diners during their meals. All the decorations in the hotel and cafe were in the colors of the U. S. A. iness venture are enthusiastic in their support of it. It is not impossible, in deed, it is highly probable, that the 1 Walker-I.eland Manufacturing Com pany may be the corporation thnt will put the race in this city, as well as elsewhere, upon the commercial map. Showing Cup With Lid Open. KANSAS-MISSOURI CONFERENCE HOLDS SESSIONS HERE Cleaves Temple C. M. E. church, 25th and Decatur streets, is the scene this week of the Kansas-Missouri an nual conference, which opened Tues day evening with a large attendance from all churches, and many honored guests. Among these are: Bishop J. A. Hamlet, Mr. T. H. Copeland, Hop kinsville, Ky.; Rev. John Adams, Bethel A. M. E. church; Rev. J. H. Ellis, Grove M. E. church; Rev. Z. C. McGee, Pleasant Green Baptist church, all of Omaha; and Rev. C. A. Williams, St. Johns A. M. E. church. This was the begining of the forty fourth session of the Kansas-Missouri conference. The opening consisted of the following program of welcome to the presiding bishop, Rt. Rev. N. C. Cleaves. Opening song .Choir Response.Rev. T. A. Bowers, A.B. Vocal solo .Lucy Mae Stamps Welcome address on behalf of the Legal Profession.Atty. Oliver Response... Rev. C. E. Chapman, I). D. Vocal Solo.....Mrs. Lula Hilton Welcome address on behalf of the Ministry .Rev. J. H. Ellis Response.Rev. N. T. Walker, A. B. Vocal solo.Miss Edna M. Stratton Instrumental solo.. Mrs. Sadie Divers Welcome address on behalf of the Church. Mrs. Vera Harris Response....Rev. T. J. Moppins, B. S. Vocal solo . Mrs. Rosie Grant Remarks. Bishop N. C. Cleaves, D. D. Mrs. Martha Bell, Mistress of Ceremonies. Wednesday, Oct. 7th, the business session was held with Bishop N. C.! Cleaves presiding. The opening ser-1 mon for this session was delivered by I Dr. N. T. Walker, subject, “This do j in remembrance of me.” Immediately ; after the sermon the conference went into the election of officers which re sulted as follows: The Rev. Messrs. L. A. Storey, Den ver, Colo., secretary; C. H. Houston, Des Moines, Iowa, assistant secretary; C. E. Chapman, Sedalia, Mo., press re porter; C. H. Anderson, Parkerville, Mo., statistician; Mrs. L. A. Storey, Denver, Col., musical directress; Mrs. N. C. Clenves, private secretary to Bishop \. C. Cleaves. In the Rev. J. S. Blaine’s report to the conference it was disclosed that for :11 purposes $4,619.89 was raised by l.im for Cleaves Temple. He re t'viteu that the recent contest was a pleasant success. T.irec prizes of $10, $7 and $3.50 were won by Mrs. Ber tha Bell, Mrs. Gertrude Yates and Mrs. Alice Stalsworth, respectively. The conference will end Sunday night. PLEADS FOR COLLEGE EDUCATION LeMars, la.— (By the Associated Negro Press.)—The anniversary address on the education of the Negro before the white ministers and visitors of the Northwest Iowa Conference in session here, was de livered by Dr. I. Garland Penn. Dr. Penn recounted the wonderful growth of the schools and colleges for the Negro of the Methodist Episcopal Church, saying that thirty years ago there was not a Negro filling the presidency of one of the schools, now there are eleven Negro presidents. Thirty years ago most of the teachers were white missionaries; now out of 450 teachers fully four hun dred are Negroes. The university of the system at Atlanta, Georgia, is headed by a Negro, while the institution having the largest college enrollment has a Negro as presidnt. This, he said, showed what the investment of white missionaries and means meant in race development and as sumption of responsibility. He Baid, however, we are not over stocked with college graduates for leader ship; for in sixty years there have been graduated only ten thousand and this num ber has been depleted from time to time by death. He stated, however, that more Negroes were seeking college education today than ever. In 1910 there were not more than 100 college students in the Negro Method ist Episcopal Schools while in 1924 there were 690. Dr. Penn dwelt at length upon religious as well as intellectual training as a solvent for problems as well as their solution followed as men were able to know and practice the truth of God. He stressed the need of endowment to make permannt the institution he repres ented at a time when their future was threatened because of high cost of educa tion and the ever-increasing standards. | WHITE DOMINATION IS DOOMED IN ASIA AND ON AFRICAN CONTINENT . I Newspaper Correspondent Bases This Prediction on Observation of Moroccan War and Gen eral Outlook (From the New York Times.) London, England.—“In Africa or Asia, the old easy conditions of poli tical suzerainty or commercial as cendancy will not again be enjoyed by European peoples or their American descendants.” That is the lesson drawn from the Moroccan war by J. L. Garvin in The Sunday Observer. “Without wider unity in Europe it self and without more far-sighted and sympathetic association between Eu rope as a whole and the United States,” he continues, “the existing supremacy of what we call Western civilization will be severely reduced in i the couise of the present century and ; the balance of a changing world may i even be turned against all the w-hite races without distinction. The aw-ak ening of Islam and Asia is already one of the larger forces of history, i and that movement is only beginning.! All Islam sympathizes openly or at heart with Abd-el-Krim. “In Syria, those very different but j equally virile highlanders, the Druses, j are in arms, while discontent of Arabs! is simmering in the same quarter and j they would throw off French rule if i they could. In Egypt, India and Chi-' na agitation is nourished by Western I ideas and by the native press.” Mr. Garvin also sees omnious signs of discord among the white races; themselves, which may have direct consequences. He writes: “Abd-el-Krim, Zafhiul, Mustapha I Kemal and extremists in India and j (China are as.popular in Berlin as at! Moscow. The isolated disarmament or Germany is a spectacle for Asiatic moralists. America's rejection of the I-eague encourages the same dispar agement of the white race as a whole. Unless war prejudices are forgotten and some crude blunders of Versaille rectified, unless reconciliation is pur sued and white solidarity restored the power of white civilization in the world will decline from its zenith at no very remote date.” SEEK AMERICA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL COLORED GIRL j Oklahoma City, Okla.—(By the Asbo-1 dated Negro Press. I—Who is Miss Col-1 ored America? Officials of the National j Negro Business League who already are laying plans for the 1926 meeting are de termined to find out. One of the most interesting features of the Tulsa meet this year was the popularity contest in which various Oklahoma cities vied with one mother to name their favorite daughters i | Miss Oklahoma, and delegates from dozens of other states expressed a desire at the next meeting to see their own girls repre sented as well. Roscoe Dunjee, president of the Oklahoma State League, was ap pointed chairman of a committee to work out a feasible program which would em brace all of the cities of the country and give each of them an opportunity to pre sent its most charming representative, while it would be of interest to the busi ness men of every community. Mr. Dun jee has written Secretary Holsey that the committee has an interesting plan to pre sent, one which will catch the fancy of both the most charming girls in the coun try and the business men and women as well. So that the 1926 League meeting ought to give a definite answer to the query. Who is Miss Colored America? COUNCIL BLUFFS NEWS The Rev. Mr. Gamble, pastor of Wesley Chapel A. M. E. church of Kansas City, stopped here enroute home from Horton. Kane., where he was called to attend the funeral of his father-in-law, Robert Madi son, who died here in Mercy hospital, Sep temher 16. The body was shipped to his home at Horton for burial. He was a member of Bethel A. M. E. church and ol the Knights of Tabor. His widow, three daughters, one Bon, three sisters, two bro thers and other, relatives survive him. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH O. J. Burckhardt, Pastor. 26th and R Sts. The American Legion will find a hearty welcome at Allen Chapel. Sun day School at 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. League at 7:30. Evening service at 8. Rev. J. W. Bruce, the Baptist missionary, gave us a splendid sermon at 11 a. m. THE LINCOLN ANNUAL CONFERENCE M. E. CHURCH CONVENES HERE NEXT WEEK The Lincoln annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will hold its 24th session in Grove M. E. church, 22nd and Seward streets, Om aha, Nebraska, October 14-18. On Tuesday night, October 13th, a reception will be given by Grove church in honor of the conference. A program beginning at 8 o’clock will be worth your time, the public is in vited to join us in the evening festival. The conference will be called to order Wednesday morning at 8:30 by Bishop T. Keeney, D. D., LL. D. This conference is in the Covington Area, Rt. Rev. M. W. Clair, D. I)., LL. I). Resident Bishop of the Covington Area of the M. E. Church, Covington, Ky. over which Bishop M. W. Clair pre sides, but for the fact of a legislation of the last General conference, re questing the bishops to rotate in their work of holding conferences; at the meeting of the Board of Bishops in May, Bishop Keeney was assigned to the Lincoln conference. We anticipate a great session under the direction of this beloved bishop of the church. Many of our connectiona! men, rep resenting various boards of the church | will be in attendance during these ses sions. See program. Doctors E. M. Jones, representing the board of pen sion and relief; F. H. Butler, Epworth League representative; Dr. L. H. King, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, said to be the greatest religious organ published by our group; and W. A. C. Hughes of Philadelphia, our old friend, the rep resentative of the Board of Home Mis sion and Church Extension, with many others not named. We invite our many friends of other churches, and the public at large, to come to any and all of these sessions possible for these five days and study the work and program of the great Methodist Episcopal church, with us. Reverend B. R. Booker, district su perintendent. J. H. Ellis, pastor. ARRESTS MAY FOLLOW BIG SHREVEPORT FIRE ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS Shreveport, I,a.—An investigation into the origin of the big fire which swept the Allendale residential section Friday night, destroying scores of (Negroes homes, in flicting property loss variously estimated from $1,000,000 to $1,750,000; wiping out 196 homes and leaving 1,200 homeless, has been under way since the night of the con fiagatinn, it was learned Saturday from the Department of Public Safety. Police Commissioner Stringfellow is re ported as saying there is a grave possibility of two or more arrests being made in con nection with the fire within the course of a few days. Several suspects are under close observation by the department ana arrests are expected anytime. “JIM” HILL’S COACHMAN DIES PRACTICALLY A PAUPER St. Paul, Minn.—(By the Associated Ne gro Press).—Waiting to be claimed by a relative, the body of Louis Liverpool lies in the city morgue here. More than fifty years ago he was brought to this city from New Orleans by James Hill, "the empire builder”, and founder of the Great Northern railroad. Liver ■ pool was the first colored coachman in this city and in the old days enjoyed the con fidence of its leading men. After the elder Hill’s death, however, and the break ing up of the family, the former coachman fared badly and died here, practically a pauper. GEN. SMUTS CLAIMS AFRICA WAS CRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE Famous Soldier Quotes Darwin In Support of Claim That Man’s Progenitors Came from Africa. (From the New York Sun.) General Jan Christian Smuts, who presided at the recent meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, maintained in a brilliant address the theory that Africa was the cradle of the human race. He quoted Darwin as saying it was more portable that man’s ear liest progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere. The great expounder of the theory of evolution was led to this conclu sion by subtropical flora in Southern Africa, which were more like the plants of South America and Austral ia than those north of the .equator. Darwin also advanced the hypothesis that certain temperate zone flora which in Africa grew only in the southwest of the Cape Province might have had their origin in an isolated continent, possibly near the South Pole, which gave to South America Australia and South Africa flowers that have handed down their pecular ities through the ages. General Smuts rejected the theory of migration from Europe. He pointed out that most scientists were trained in Northern countries and so have absorbed a Northern bias, assuming too readily that the flora and fauna of South Africa came from the north. He called attention to the facts that Africa, India and South America are the sole diamond producers of the world; that several geological forma tions near the Cape are parallel in the other two regions, and that pecu liar ancient banded iron stone are found in South Africa, Brazil, West ern Australia and India, but are not found in Europe. He cited the Boskop skull as showing a connection between the Hottentots and their prehistoric ancestors. His address is attracting the attention of scientists everywhere and may stimulate study of prehis toric times in this less exploited part of the earth. NEGROES BEGAN CIVILIZATION (Dr. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Author and Editor, in the Forum.) During the period that may vary from ten thousand to fifty thousand years mankind struggled with the steps of advance. It was during these years that the black race seems al ways to have been first. To be sure, blacks were not the only beginners, but they seem to have been the suc cessful and the persistent ones. Thus Africa appears as the father of man kind, and the people who eventually settled there form the largest and often the only group of human beings successfully advancing from animal savagery toward primitive civilization. In the African village were bred re ligion, industry, government, educa tion and art. The primitive religion of Africa underlies the religions of the world. The African villagers from early days wove cloth, baked earthenware, manufactured instruments and arms, baskets and shoes, soap and glass. They worked in iron, copper, brass, bronze, gold, silver, bone and ivory. Out of this industry developed the Af rican market place which knit the con tinent together, with paths and trade centers, from the Gulf of Guinea to Zanzibar and from Walfish bay to Lake Chad, long before the modem coming of Europe. The sense of beauty is the last and best gift of Africa to the world. We have long known of the African artist Traces of his work have been found in prehistoric Europe. Later rich cen ters of African art were brought to European knowledge on the African west coast. The primitive art of Af rica is one of the greatest expressions of the human soul in all time; “black men invented art as they invented fire,” they spread their ideas of art among their white neighbors, and their white neighbors, and their earli est expressions had an originality and fidelity of purpose that the primitive world never surpassed. Mrs. Luther J. Dillard died at her home, 501 South Twentylfourth av enue at 2:30 this (Friday) morning. The funeral wil lbe held Monday aft ernoon at 2 o’clock. OMAHA IS HOSTESS AMERICAH LEOIOH 7TH COHVEHTIOH City In Gala Attire and Gives Cordial Welcome to Thousands Ex Service Men and Other Visitors PARADES THRILLING SIGHT Roosevelt Post and Colored Citizens Unite In Extending Their Hospitality to Our City’s Guests. Omaha has been the gracious ’and generous host this week of the sev enth annual convention of the Amer ican Legion. The streets and build ings have been in gala dress, and our fair city looked charming and be witching in her best bib and tucker. The carnival spirit ran high. Bands' and drum corps galore and gayly uni formed men and women have been al most omnipresent. Everywhere were good-natured, jostling merry crowds. It is estimated that over 100,000 vis itors enjoyed Omaha’s hospitality. The parade of Tuesday with over 20.000 marchers in line, was a brilli ant, colorful and thrilling spectacle. State delegations vied with each other in the beauty of their uniforms, floats and distinctive features. Delegates were in line from every state in the union and from as far distant as Man illa. Florida, Nebraska, Iowa, Wis consin, Minnesota and South Dakota had the largest delegations. The Theodore Roosevelt Post and the Woman’s Auxiliary made a fine appearance with over a hundred m line and was heartily applauded. The delegation was headed by Lieutenants Edward Turner, Wesley Jones and Burns, the latter of Iowa; and other detachments were headed by Lieuten ants Singleton, Williams and Cowan, and the Legion Auxiliary by Sergt. H. L.- Preston. Throughout the line of march here and there, with several of the state delegations, were mem bers of our group, but far too few. The electrical parade Wednesday night featuring the American Legion surpassed in beauty any previous dis play of artistic floats, beautiful as they have been in the past. This par ade is said to have been viewed by 150.000 people. Thursday morning’s military parade was another interesting feature. Among the reserve officers, corps Lieutenants Jones of Omaha and Bun derant, formerly of Omaha, but now of Beckley, W. Va., were noticed. Among the R. O. T. C. of Creighton University marched Robert A. Greene, Joseph Wakefield and Weldon Solo mon, and of course some of our own boys were with the Central high school cadets who always make a fine appearance. The Roosevelt Post headquarters on North Twenty-fourth street, was one of the <fondeveaux for colored legion airres. Many amusements and enter tainments were provided for the vis itors. Among those of our own group at tending either as delegates, alter nates or visitors, are Majors West H. Hamilton, Captain L. E. Jones, of Washington, D. C.; and Mrs. C. Good low, president, and Mrs. Francis P. Wedge, secretary of the ladies’ auxil iary, Washington, D. C.; L. A. Cole man, Indianapolis; James O. Conrad, Orvil L. Carter, E. Burns, Des Moines, la.; Floyd Crouch and Benjamin Brown, Wichita, Kans.; Davis T. Fin ley, Pittsburgh, Pa.; William Hall, St. Paul, Minn.; Stewart P. Tyler, Mason City, la.; Sanford Baxter and Fred W. Cooper, Atchison, Kans.; F. M. Spencer, C. R. Saunders, John H. Graves, _ A. Ablon, Homer Roberts, Kansas City, Mo.; Fabian G. Gannon, Topeka, Kansas; Arthur Rice, Cres ton, la.; Kirby Williams, Nolan Hines, Walter Young, St. Joseph, Mo.; and Matt. Fowler, Detroit, Mich. SPRING HILL BAPTIST CHURCH The Spring Hill Baptist church, through its pastor, Rev. M. H. Wil’ inson, has paid its note of 1225.50 the first of the I month. Sunday night, the 11th, Rev. Mr. Lane of the Omaha and Council Bluffa Associa tion will be the speaker. Tuesday night, the 13th, Rev. J. S. Wil liams of Salem and his congregation will be in charge.