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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1927)
ee! the Monitor ms NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. $2.00 a Year—5 Cents a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 7, 1927 Vol. XII—No. 28 Whole Number 598 ONLY COLORED POLICE CAPTAIN WEST OF CHICAGO RESIGNS FROM POST Voluntarily Retires After Twenty three Years of Service—Re ceives Half Pay for Life Los Angeles, Cal.—The West, and Los Angeles in particular, has lost its only Colored police captain. Captain of Detectives William W. Glenn has handed in his resignation that took effect the night of December 31, 1926, ending twenty-three years of faithful service. At the time of his retirement, Captain Glenn commanded the de tective division of Newton Station, and white, as well as colored detec tives of the Newton division, were as signed to their duties by the very capable officer. Cnptain Glenn worked his way up from a beat walking patrolman and was the oldest Negro officer in point of service on the Los Angeles police force. The Captain was eligible for re tirement at the end of twenty years, but stayed with his duties three more years, this past year reaching the rank of captain, and he will receive half of a captain’s salary for the bal ance of his life. As a token of appreciation the re tiring officer was presented with a diamond studded badgs by his many friends, Los Angeles citizens and members of the Los Angeles police department. Race Officer Will Not Succeed Him Although Los Angeles has several lieutenant detectives of the Race it will probably be some time before any of them will have enough time to take the examination for captain. In Los Angeles the position is gained through a certain period of actual ex perience and a civil service examina tion. Lieutenant McDuff, exulted ruler of the local Elks, is next in line for captaincy. WHITE MOOSE SUE BLACK MOOSE New Orleans, La.—A suit for in junction to prevent members of the Paramount Progressive Order of Moose from wearing the emblem or using the word Moose has been filed in the civil district court by Nat W. Bond, dictator of the white organi © A.N.P. Negro insurance companies are rapidly pushing lo the fore in the ranks of racial business enterprises. The National Insurance Association, comprising twenty-three of the leading companies, reports the largest growth and the most successful year In the insurance field yet experienced. zation in this city. A. W. Brazief is supervisor of the colored organi zation in this section. A similar case was recently filed in a Missouri court which was decided in favor of the colored organization, the court hold ing that the Moos«»is the name of an animal and therefore not subject to copyright for exclusive use. Atlanta. Ga.—The flogging of Wimberly E. Brown, a Lyons lawyer, by masked Ku Klux Klansmen at Louisville, Ga., a few days ago, has aroused Governor Clifford Walker to a statement against the rule of the mob in this state and to offer a special reward of $1,000 for the first conviction of a member of the band that whipped Brown. NEGRO INSURANCE COMPANIES BIG FACTOR IN RACE BUSINESS Washington, D. C.—That Negro insurance companies are growing apace even though they carry but a small fraction of the insurance in force upon Negro lives is shown by the recent report issued by the National Negro Insurance associa tion. Some startling and encourag ing figures are present by the asso ciation in its statistics compiled upon twenty-one Negro insurance com panies, most of which are member* of the organization. White com panies are carrying many times more insurance on colored people’s lives than are the colored companies, but the report relates that “of the total of $73,581,675,814 of life insurance in force in the United States on December 31, 1925, the twenty-three Negro companies carried one hun dred and sixty-five million, two hun dred and forty-six thousand and five hundred dollars, ($164,246,500) a mere drop in the bucket when com pared to the total in force, but an enormous amount when all factors and handicaps are taken into con sideration. The Metropolitan Life Insurance company with $960,000, 000 on Negro risks carries five times as much life insurance on Negroes as all the Negro companies combin ed. We have just scratched the Bur face. The ' field and opportunities offered by life insurance companies for Negroes are too great to be measured; they are almost unlimit ed.” Some idea of where the more than a billion and a quarter dollars worth of Negro insurance is placed may be gained from the table which follows: Total Insurance Carried by Negroei in the United State* Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. $ 900,000,000 Colored companies in National Negro Insurance Asa.n 104,000'000 Other colored companies_ 26,000,000 All other companies insur ing Negro risks..-. 260,000,000 Total Insurance carried $1,890,000,000 A conception of the tremendous financial power which Negroes might control is revealed by these figures. It is estimated that colored com panies place only about one-eighth of the protection in force upon their own group. The fact is that only a negligible portion of the Negro population in America has awaken ed to the value of insurance in any sort of company. This is the task which the combined efforts of the companies who compose the National Negro Insurance association is con centrated on—not getting the Ne groes to transfer their risks to color ed concerns, but rather to appreciate in larger measure the value of build ing up insurance estates, thereby add ing to the total racial wealth and giving protection to the families of the insured. “The security of home steads,” the association points out, “the holding intact of families, the education of families, and the sat isfaction of life profitably spent are frequently dependent upon an ad equate conception of the value of insurance.” Despite the small por tion of business which our organi zations control, the steady growth of Negro companies, avers the Na tional Negro Insurance association, is a definite and hopeful barometer of racial business and progress. SERVICES AT ST. PHILIP’S Sunday, January 9 The services at St. Philip’s Sunday will be as follows: Holy Communion at 7:30 a. m.; matins, 8:30; Church School, 10; sung eucharist with ser mon, 11. No evening service. Con gregation invited to attend Bishops’ Crusade service at Trinity Cathedral at 8:00 p. m. Speakers are Bishop White and the Rev. Dr. Christian. You ought to subscribe for your local race newspaper. The Moni tor is the only race newspaper pub lished in Nebraska. $2.00 a year in advance. Send in your subscrip tion. Mrs. B. A. Lee returned Monday from Kansas City, Mo., where she was called by the illness of her sis ter, Mrs. Margaret Williams, whom she left much improved. FOR RENT—Three rooms furnished or unfurnished. Light and water. Web. 6188. 1H-7-27. KNOCKITIS We met a gentleman the other day who has recently come to our city and occupies a prominent and influential position. In the course of our very pleasant conversation he said, “I be lieve in being a booster and not a knocker.” This gentleman has the right philosophy of life, the right viewpoint. What almost every community is suffering from today, and this is especially true of our own community and of our group of people, is knockitis, if we may coin an expressive term, the knocking fever. Like most fevers it is infectious. This is a malady which afflicts many newcomers from Po dunkville and Squash Center. Those from the more metropoli tan centers are not quite so easily affected by it, because as a rule they are broader-minded, perhaps more politic than those from the rural and smaller centers. And yet some of them have this disease. As soon as they strike the town, they begin to knock and find fault with everything and everybody. With out knowing what difficulties have been overcome, what prob lems have been solved or their solution honestly attempted or what progress has been made they begin to knock. They have no constructive program to offer but plenty of fault to find. Nor is this malady confined to newcomers. Many of us older folk seem to take delight in knocking the young, their visions, their aspirations and undertakings. Nor do we stop at knocking the young, for knockitis robs us of fair-minded ness and impartiality, we become crabid and cranky fault finders with every undertaking and constantly impute sinister and selfish motives to others. Victims of knockitis have a grudge against the city in which they live and earn their daily bread, against its various organization, against lodges, churches and like organizations. Knock, knock, knock! never at quiet. Knockitis is a disease to be dreaded. There is a difference between honest-to-goodness, well-in tended, constructive criticism, which is intended to help and should be cordially welcomed by all sensible people and simo'n poor cussedness which takes delight in knocking simply for the pleasure of knocking and fault-finding. Too many of our people are afflicted with knockitu with reference to racial matters and racial welfare and that is why we suffer many handicaps of our own making. There is a powerful antidote for this socially dangerous disease, which palsies worth-while efforts and causes much heart aches and that is BOOST-ITIS, the fever for boosting. Boostitis is contagious, too. But unlike knockitis, it is stim ulating, inspiring and health-giving, not weakening, deject ing and sickening. Let us become inoculated with this germ. Let us begin boosting our neighbor, our city, our school, our lodge, our church, our newspaper, our leaders, our business ventures. Boost, boost, boost, and see if this will not make for your happiness and the prosperity of the community in which you live and every institution that looks towards social better ment. “I believe in being a booster and not a knocker” is a good creed to which all of us should most heartily subscribe and not only profess it with our lips but manifest it in our lives. PROMINENT PEOPLE SELECT CHRISTMAS SEASON FOR WEDDING Margaret L. Spaulding, Daughter of President of North Carolina Mutual, Becomes Bride of Shearin Durham, N. C.—Miss Margaret Louise Spaulding, daughter of Char les Clinton Spaulding, president of the North Carolina Mutual Life In surance company and officer and promoter of many of the most suc cessful and serviceable institutions and organizations of his state and the country, was wed to Alexander Moore Shearin, son of one of the oldest families of Durham and North Carolina, Sunday evening, December 26, at six o’clock, in the picturesque setting of the home, 1006 Fayette ville street, and with the attendance of members of the families and in timate friends of the betrothed to witness the ceremony and extend their benediction for happy wedlock. Miss Spaulding, amiable and cul tured, is one of the “favorite daugh ters” of her community and state, and a graduate of Scotia Seminary of North Carolina. She has the dis tinction of being one of the most successful teachers of music who have been trained by Fisk university, the center of music study and ap I preciation, and the source of folk ! music dissemination. Among the ! achievements of Miss Spaulding in her chosen art the direction of mu sic at the North Carolina College for Negroes, many community musical activities, and the establishment of the Chamberlain studio. Alexander Moore Shearin, son of William Henry Shearin, one of Dur ham’s most respected citizens, who has held many positions of trust, is a graduate of Wilberforce uni versity and has made most commend able progress in the field of business and finance. He is now general man ager of the Southern Fidelity and Surety company of Durham, of which W. G. Fearson, chief execu tive of the Royal Knights of King David, the largest legal reserve fra ternal organization in the country, is president. This company has a national program, and through the energy and business acumen of Mr. Shearin has already been promoted in several of the leading cities in many states. LIBERIA PLANS BANK | New York, N. Y.—The Liberian goernment is sponsoring a national bank capitalized at $1,000,000, ac cording to Oscar Hudson, San Fran cisco lawyer, who is Liberian con sul. Mr. Hudson has just returned from Liberia. The bank is expected to play an important part in the dis posal of government land. Twenty per cent of the capital will be sub scribed by the government and forty per cent will be offered to American Negroes, it is explained. GREAT AMERICAN GAME OF LYNCHING GROWS IN POPULAR FAVOR Thirty-Three Human Being* Victim* of Mob* La*t Year Include Two Women, Three White* and One Indian FLORIDA TAKES FRONT RANK Texa* and Mi*si**ippi Close Second*. Advancement Axociation Say* lncrea*e Due to Senate’* Failure to Act. New York, N. Y.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reports 33 recorded lynchings in the United States for the year as against 18 last year. Florida leads the lynching states with eight, Texas is second with five, and Mississippi third with four. The other states having recorded lynch ings are as follows: Arkansas, South Carolina and Georgia, three each; Louisiana and Tennessee, two each; and Kentucky, New Mexico and Vir ginia, one each. Of the victims of lynching mobs three were white, one was a Nava jo Indian and among the victims were two colored women, one of them lynched at Aiken, South Caro lina, and one near Houston, Texas. One of the mob victims had been ordered acquitted by the presiding judge at his trial, one in Texas was shot by white officers while man acled, one was accused of house breaking, and among the alleged of fenses of the victims were—enter ing the room of a white woman; murder; and three Negroes were kill ed in Texas in revenge for a crime with which they had no direct con nection. A statement issued by James Wel don Johnson, secretary of the Nation al Association for the Advancement of Colored People, lays the increase in lynchings to the failure of the United States Senate to take action on a federal anti-lynching bill. Mr. Johnson’s statement says: “There is one excellent and rea sonable explanation of the increase from 18 lynchings in 1926 to 33 in 1926. While there was threat of a federal law, with consequent juris diction of federal courts over this crime, the lynchers hesitated. When the United States Senate refused to even discuss the Dyer anti-lynching bill, that was equivalent to serving notice on the lynchers that they could pursue their pastime virtually unmolested. “So far only one lynching, and that one in Georgia, has been visited by punishment at the hands of the law. The United States Senate re fuses to discuss the Dyer anti-lynch ing bill, because of the obstruction ist tactics of a small group of Sen ators from the lynching states.” Mrs. Lulu Rountree and Miss Aurora Rountree are visiting in Chicago where they went to spend the Christmas holidays. THE BISHOPS’ CRUSADE The Episcopal Church, noted for its sanity and conservatism, is embarking upon a great religious campaign, which, we do not doubt, will have far-reaching influence upon the religious life of America. Little as it may seem every houghtful stu dent of religious phenomena admits that this conservative communion has more deeply influenced religious life in Amer ica than is appreciated save in retrospect. Occupying a via media between Romanism on one hand and Protestantism on the other, claiming to hold to primitive faith and Apostolic order while sympathetic with modern progress, emphasizing corporate life while not ignoring individual freedom, the Episcopal Church has made a large contribution to American Christianity. This is silently attested by liturgic and ritualistic services in many of the Christian communions which once look ed askance upon these things. This new venture or campaign is called “The Bishops’ Crusade”, because the bishops are rightfully assuming the leadership, albeit the inspiration for this movement came from a layman, Mr. James H. Pershing, of Denver, Colorado, a cousin of General John J. Pershing. The “Crusaders” are to be bishops, priests and laymen. Its purpose is conversion and rededication of all members of the Church, to loyal devotion and service to Jesus Christ and the winning of other souls to allegiance to Him. It is a nation wide venture in evangelism, a word which has been much abused and much misunderstood. Its adaptation and use by the Episcopal Church in this Crusade which is to be carried on over a period of years will do much to rescue it from the bad odor of sensational and commercialized evangelistic efforts. It is a new preaching of the Cross for the sincere conversion of those who now acknowledge at least nominal allegiance to Christ. A truly converted America will do much to win the world for Christ, and as a contribution towards this the in fluence of the Bishops’ Crusade will extend far beyond the boundaries of that special communion. It will be observed with sympathetic and prayerful interest by all who sincerely believe that the only panacea for the sins and sorrows, the selfishness and greed, the hatred and ill-will, the strife and discord which mar he world and make countless millions mourn is the practice of the Christian religion.