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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1916)
t* The Monitor A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight Thousand Colored People in Omaha and Vicinity, and to the Good of the Community The Rev. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy. Omaha, Nebraska, February 5, 1916 Volume I. Number 32 Miss Helen Hagan Captivates New York Accomplished ArtiBt Given Ovation on Her First Appearance In Amer ica’s Metropolis. INTERPRETS MASTERPIECES Her Musicianly Rendition of Beetho ven, Chopin, Taylor and Other Masters an Inspiration. New York, Feb. 4.—Seldom has an artist of the race with which we are connected come to New York with more flattering credentials than those presented by Helen Hagan of New' Haven, Conn., at present teaching in Cambridge, Mass. This young woman s a Pianiste, and announcements of1 her appearance told of her winning the degree of Mus. B. from the De partment of Music at Yale University in 1912; at the same time she was awarded the Samuel Simons Sanford Fellowship which provided for ad vanced study in a foreign land, which, in her case, resolved into a course at the Schola Cantorum, Paris, France. In 1914 this Paris conservatory awarded her a diploma. She was un der the instruction of Blanche Silva, piano pedagogue, and Vincent D’lndy, the eminent French composer. Returning from Paris in 1914, this young woman, for she is only recently out of her teens, made a tour of the States, and her piano playing created a furore wherever she was heard. So far as I can learn, she had never made an appearance in Manhattan, though some six years ago, I think, she was on a program in Brooklyn. So it was that her appearance at the Music School Settlement, 4-6 West 131st street, of which J. Rosa mond Johnson, himself an eminent composer and musician, is supervisor, attracted much attention from Great er New York’s musical element. She made her debut at this place on the evening of Thursday, January 20, to an assemblage that filled every avail able nook and comer of the three rooms and hallway on the first floor ^ besides many of the auditors tried to find places on the stairs. Tf any came to scoff they remained to praise. Probably a third of the au dience could not see the performer at all, and it was a wonderful tribute to her that they sat quietly and gave all their faculty of hearing to her interpretation of the elaborate pro gram. Most folks go to concerts to see and be seen, as well as to hear, and in some cases, it appears they go to be heard, but to a remarkable de gree was the Hagan recital audience composed of people who came to hear, and to hear with understanding. From the first appealing note of Beetho ven’s Sonata Appassionata to the dy ing away of the last sprightly flash (Continued on seventh page.) Please Remember This The Monitor is the only Negro newspaper published, not only in Omaha, but in the whole state of Nebraska. It now has a large cir culation in Omaha and vicinity and ultimately will be read by every colored family in the state. To reach the colored people, advertise in The Monitor. TYPES OF HOMES OWNED BY OUR PEOPLE. Residence of Dr. A. G. Edwards, 2411 Erskine Street. Something to Make You Think Pan-Americanism and the Darker Races. Feeling that the Pan-American Congress and its probable influence on the destiny of Americans of all colors and condition, was of more than pass ing interest, the Baltimore Afro-American sent a letter to a number of prom inent colored Americans. The answers seem to be unanimous in the opinion that the Negro in the United States has nothing to lose, but rather has every thing to gain by Pan-Americanism. Among the answers received by the Afro-American were the following from Bishop Hurst, Prof. Kelly Miller, Dean Pickens and Dr. Dubois. SOUTHERN REPUBLICS KNOW THE UNITED STATES. In .answer to your question regarding the New Pan-Americanism preached by President Wilson and its effect upon the darker races which form an exceedingly large part of the Southern Republics, I may say that, to my mind, the question of itself may be construed as an attempt to introduce an element in Pan-Americanism which is of the least concern both on the part of the United States and the other republics. In 1899, there sat in Washington the first Pan-American Congress in itiated by Mr. Blaine, Secretary of State. Its purpose was simply to bring about closer economic and commercial relations between the United States and the Southern Republics. The same Congress has met since at regular intervals and at various places. At the first Congress it was made clear that the trade league sought to be established should not be regarded as a steii toward political union. It was not to be another Zollverein, which though accepted for trade purposes brought about absolute political union between the forty German States. Recent developments in the life of some of the Southern Republics, viwed from the standpoint of the Monroe Doctrine, nat urally have suggested to the United States that a covenant for mutual politi cal and economical advantages should be formulated, and if possible adopted by all parties concerned. This is the gist of the New Pan-Americanism. The future of the black and of the mixed blood among the citizens of these republics is not a question. I doubt but that if it had been there would have been the least inclination on the part of those countries to accept a discussion of such a proposition. The Southern Republics know how hypocritical, insincere, unjust and I may add, criminal, is this government in its dealing with the black man and they would have discountenanced any movement that tended to jeopardize the social and political well-being of this people. JOHN HURST. Howard Drew Again Champion Runner Defeated in California Last Year Be cause of Sprained Tendon Comes Back in Fine Fettle. EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE Witness Great Race in Madison Square Garden When Popular Colored Boy Wins. New York, January 28.—Howard P. Drew of the University of Cali fornia traveled three thousand miles across the continent to compete in the games of the Millrose Athletic Asso ciation in Madison Square Garden Wednesday night, and demonstrated :o the largest crowd that ever viewed in athletic meet in the old arena that ie could again become the world’s greatest sprinter. The diminutive col ored sprinter placed himself once more on the top of the athletic ladder by winning the seventy-yard invita tion race, which brought together four of the best sprinters in the world. In order to win the event Drew had to equal the world’s indoor record of 7 1-6 seconds, which was made first n 1903 by W. A. Schick, then equaled in 1910 by Jimmy Archer, and in 1912 by Drew' himself. Right at the world’s record holder’s shoulders as he breasted the worsted first was Roy F. Morse, another col ored sprinter, who holds the junior na tional 100-yard and the senior 220 yard championship. Joe Loomis, the Chicago A. A. representative, who won the national century champion ship from Drew' at San Francisco last year, was third, barely a foot back of the victor, while Frank Stephenson, the military title holder, who com pleted the field, pulled up last. It was a great race, for it could not have been closer at the finish. It certainly served to make Drew' the leader in his class again. To many of the spec tators it seemed as if Morse, who was on the outside, had caught Drew on the tape, and some of the judges must have agreed with them, for there w'as a conference before the verdict was awarded to the Californian. So great was the crowd w'hich wit nessed the sports that the doors of the Garden were closed by order of the Fire L>epartment long before nine o’clock. When Morse, Drew, Loomis and Stephenson lined up before Starter McHugh, in the order named, from the outside there was not a sound to be heard. All four got off practically together, with Drew perhaps receiving a slight advantage. It was the Drew of 1912 who rose gracefully from his mark and darted down the second lane like i dark streak. In fifteen strides the stocky little boy showed slightly in (Continued on second page)