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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1916)
General Race News M’VEA AND JEANETTE WILL MEET AT NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, La., April 27.—Sain McVea and Joe Jeanette, two of the best known Colored heavyweights in the game for many years, will meet in a New Orleans ring in the first oi a series of elimination bouts for the Colored championship of the world. The contest will be staged by Domi nick Tortorich at the New Louisiana Auditorium, about the middle of May, according to the announcement of Pro moter Tortorich last Monday night, and after it is finished, the winner will be matched with some of the other big Colored fighters, probably Harry Wills. Then the situation will again be narrowed down to a contest for the winner of this bout and the “little brown man from Boston,” Sam Lang ford. This is the program planned at pres ent. The first match is already lined up. VARDAMAN AFRAID OF COLORED SOLDIERS Washington, May 5.—Senator Var daman, in discussing in the Senate re cently the National Guard section of the army increase bill, sees danger to the South in the authority that is given the federal government. In dis cussing this phase of the question, he said in part: “I do not know who is going to suc ceed the present occupant of the White House. I hope he may succeed him self, but I would not hazard a pre diction of what is going to happen. If a man should be elected President who is color blind on the race question and whose olfactories have become so benumbed that he could not distin guish between a white man and a Ne gro, and who is so politically antag onistic to the South that he would be willing to use the power conferred upon him by Section 56 of this bill for partisan political purposes, he could order Negro regiments to mo bilize for military training in every congressional district of the state of Mississippi. TWO DELEGATES FROM NEW JERSEY. Atlantic City, N. J., May 5.—In the Presidential primaries held April 25, the surprise in the voting in the city was the probable election of two Ne groes, James A. Lightfoot, a lawyer, and W. F. Cozart, a head waiter, to the National Republican convention as delegates from the Second district over County Clerk Harry L. Knight of Burlington County and Richard M. Moore, a Bridgeton glass manufact urer. The heavy vote was due to the ef forts of Mayor William Riddle in a battle with City Commissioner Harry Bacharach and his brother, Congress man Isaac Bacharach. Out of twenty five precincts in the city the Negroes carried twenty-one. The other sec tions of the district will likely show their defeat. Halifax, N. S., April 27.—“The Birth of a Nation” has been barred after a delegation of about forty citi zens of both races waited on the pro vincial government. Several showed that the picture failed to portray his tory as it should and showed the in crease in prejudice wherever it went. COLORED BOYS MAKE ATTRACTIVE TOYS Chattanooga, Tenn., April 27.— Small Colored boys at the Chattanoo ga Avenue School have become so iroficient in the art of toy-making hat keen interest is being shown in heir work by persons who have seen amples of it. Many orders for doll furniture and bric-a-brac have been filled for poi sons out of the city, as well as in it, it is said, and only lack of material and proper tools prevent their doing a big business in this line of work. Toy making was taken up at the beginning of this school year, there being a teacher at the Chattanooga Avenue school that was interested in nanual training and willing to teach .he art free. A limited amount of ools was furnished by the depart nent of education, and from this start vhat probably will be the nucleus for \r, industrial school for the Negro •ace in Chattanooga has resulted. The iced for manual training in the Coi ned schools appears to be urgent and -.ince such aptness in the use of the lammer and the saw has been shown )y these little boys of the fifth, sixth ind seventh grades, that department irobably will be added to the schools .t an early date. COMMENTS FROM RACE PRESS. The Issue. Of course, as American citizens, concerned about the general welfare of the country, we are interested in preparedness and the tariff and our foreign policy and all the other more or less important issues which are be ing considered and discussed in view of the coming Presidential campaign. Rut for us there one issue which stands out above them all. We want to know where the man for whom we are asked to cast our votes stands on the question of equal civil and politi cal rights for the Negro. We can overlook his views on pacificism or preparedness, on free trade or high tariff, on swallowing our words or fighting Germany and Mexico com bined, if he is right on the one issue. This issue is forced upon us. We regret that it is so, but it is, and upon that issue we must stand. Let Colored voters everywhere use every means in their power to give this is sue influence in the coming campaign. —New York Age. PLAY GROUNDS OPEN. W'ilmington, N. C., April 27.—The committee on recreation and amuse ment of the Social Service and Civic Improvement league is securing a number of playgrounds for the Col ored children. They have purchased a coaster-slide, ocean-wave, merry-go round and other amusements for the children. COLORED BABY TAKES PRIZE At a recent baby show at Tecum seh, Neb., the infant of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Paires, the only Colored fam ily in the place, scored six points higher than any other baby exhibited. Dr. Davies said that the Paires baby was an almost perfect specimen of babyhood physically and one of the finest types he had ever seen. IMPROVISED BURIAL SERVICE ON BORDER TOLD BY BINGHAM Colonel Gonzales S. Bingham, in charge of the local army quartermas ter’s depot, has received the follow ing description of the burial of one of the Villa raiders who was shot and killed at Columbus, N. M. A platoon of American Colored troops had been detailed to inter the dead Mexican. A grave has been pre pared, the body placed in it and the soldiers were about to cover the corpse with dirt when the non-com missioned officer in charge sugested that a brief service might be appro priate over the remains of the de ceased bandit. Cap in hand, an ebony-hued trooper stepped forth and solemnly uttered the following words: “Earth to earth and dust to dust, “If Carranza won’t shoot you, “The United States must!” HAVE YOU TRIED PANO-MA’S BISCUITS 1 You’ll Find Them Delicious 1 1!) 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