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A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans %
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor >
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$1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy _OMAHA, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 25, 1917_ Vol. III. No. 8 * hole No. 112)
PICKENS MAKES
LENGTHY TOUR
Dean of Morgan College Shows
Great Energy.
LABORS IN MANY FIELDS
Capable Yu "J Educator Foregoes Va
cation and Responds With Alacrity to
Call of His People to Serve In Im- !
portant Movements—To Address Na
tiona! Baptist Convention.
By N. BARNETT DOBSON.
Foremost among tlm large number
of well educated young men <>f expert
erne and health)' moral stamina to
whom the race must look for adequate
representation, ad) tee and guidance nt
times like the present is Dean William
Pickens of Morgan college, Baltimore. ;
I’rofessor Pickens stands upon an emi
nence in preparation and scholarship
which overlooks several years of dili
gent effort on the pint of u well quali
fied man who Inis done yeoman serv
ice for racial advancement.
From this height he has caught the
vision of racial struggle, need and hu
mail Justice for which wo lire striving
He knows our handicap and is striving
In schoolroom ami upon the public plat
farm to assist in t lie amelioration of
the unnatural conditions through which
the race is groping its way. Practical
•ly setting aside leisure from education
work and home comforts, he is spend
ing the time assisting in the many
movements extant for the opening of
larger opportunities for the masses of
our people.
Professor Pickens is now making his
third speaking tour for this summer.
Stirred by the East St. X.ouis riots.
Dean Pickens accompanied and acted
ns spokesman for the Baltimore dele
gation which carried Its protest against
lynching to Washington. He appeured
before Vice President Marshall, Speak
er Chump Clark, senators and repre
sentatives of the lia ise for the pur
pose of getting federal action against
lynching mobs and nlso in support of
Congressman I »yer's Joiut resolution
(118) calling for untlonal investigation
of lyncliln^nM^fltfi.lEliinent of lynch
She" *
From July 15 through till the 22d lie
made u tour In company with M. L
McCoy, principal of the Virginia Col
leglatc anil Industrial Institute ut Pe
tersburg, Vu., through tlie Shenandoah
volley, speaking In the interest of bet
ter ni.d larger educational facilities for
our people. The speakers were given
niti. Ii attention, am! ihelr message was
recoiln.l with enthusiasm. Professor
M<Cny Is making the Influence of the
inyiiliite felt throughout the state.
Ketuiniiig to ltultlinore mid the north.
tb« dean spent a few days with his
family at Atlantic City, N. J., and then
proceeded to Cleveland, where on
Thursdaj, Aug. 2, lie delivered a most
Informing address on ‘ The Ilelution of
the American Negro to the I’resi ,t
Work. Crisis.” Tills address embodies
the i-ue meaning of (lie kind of democ
racy foe which America Is fighting
Th» sneaker shows in ttils address
breadth of r.tiitc.-iinnnship and learning
•d<‘.;U.il3 to grapple with ami master
to a saiis't.etory degr-e the many in
trl. u.i | ro'.dems v lileh confront Amer
ica now.
Sunday. Aug. A, Professor Pickens
addressed n great throng at Toledo and
proceeded to C'd-ago and other points
in Iliinol)'. where he spoke to enthusi
astic crowds of white and colored peo
pit. The ii s fit Fort Des Moines got
a loc.-oige to tlie dean asking him to
licit their military training camp be
fore leaving for the southwest. Leav
ing iillrobi,, lie went to Blucfleld,
W. VVi., where bo extended Ids lutel
loccuc! powers to great heights in a
masterly address before the Cbautun
rjm| on Friday, Aug. 17.
I
It Wai Hi* Own.
Shirley Brooks, the famous Punch
editor, once met Charles Salamar, the
composer. On l>eltig Introduced to
Shirley the composer said:
“I had often and often seen your |
face, Mr. Brooks, but I never knew to
whom It belonged.”
“Ob,” replied Brooks quickly, ‘it al
ways belonged to me.”
A statistician has figured the losses
to agriculture as a result of depreda
tions of Insects and rodents as $12 a
year for each man, woman and child
In the United States.
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TULSANS IN CONCERT
Render Splendid Program I'nder Di
rection of Prof. Jackson.
(Special to The Monitor)
Tulsa, Okla., Aug. 20.—A chorus of
one hundred of the befft voices of the
city, under the direction of R. G. j
Jackson and Miss Beulah Douglas, in
structors at Western University, Kan- ]
sas City, Kansas, rendered a splendid
concert at Convention Hall, Thursday
evening. An appreciative audience of
both white and Colored persons heart- ■
ily received the program, applauding
generously and demanding encore af
ter encore.
N. Clark Smith’s “Steal Away,”
Dett’s “Listen to the Lambs” and a
number of the old plantation melodies '
were offered.
Pleasing features of the program ■
were the harmonious singing of the i
male quartette and the tenor solos by
Forrest L. Oliver, accompanied by
Prof. Jackson at the big municipal
pipe organ. The concert was given
under the auspices of the Vernon
chapel and was capably managed by
H. O. Abbott, a young newspaper and
advertising man. Abbott announces
that efforts will be made to make the
concert an annual affair.
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DR. CRAIG MORRIS
RECEIVES COMMISSION
Wednesday Dr. Craig Morris re
ceived his commission as first lieuten
| ant in the dental Reserve Corps of the
j United States Army and expects to
receivfe orders to leave for duty al
most any day. Dr. Morris, who is the
youngest son of Mr., and Mrs. David
j Morris, was born, reared and educated
i in Omaha. He is a graduate of the
Omaha High School and of the Creigh
I ton College of Dentistry, in both of
; which institutions he ranked high in
i scholarship. He has built up a good
j practice in this city. Dr. Morris is
| one of the officers of St. Philip’s Epis
j copal Church.
COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG
Whose retirement August 3rd is a keen disappointment to twelve
million Colored Americans who had hoped to see him in com
mand of our troops.
Give Us a Colored Commander for
Colored Troops
The Monitor urges the race to make a united appeal to Presi
dent Wilson that opportunity be given Colonel Young to serve our
country to the limit of his strength. We believe that such an ap
peal will not be in vain. Colonel Young believes himself to be
physically fit to lead troops. He expresses his determination to
do all in his power to keep himself physically fit and mentally
alert to serve his country when his country shall need him.
His country needs him NOW. The Colored troops to be mo
bilized for the country’s defense WANT his LEADERSHIP.
TWELVE MILLION COLORED AMERICANS, LOYAL AND
TRUE, DEMAND THAT THIS VALIANT AND TRIED SOL
DIER BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD OUR MEN
TO WHICH HIS SERVICES AND PROVEN ABILITY ENTITLE
HIM.
PRESIDENT WILSON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE
ARMY, TWELVE MILLION COLORED AMERICANS RE
SPECTFULLY PETITION YOU, SIR, TO GIVE OUR RACE A
GENERAL IN THE PERSON OF CHARLES YOUNG AND TO
GIVE HIM COMMAND OF COLORED TROOPS; AND WE
PLEDGE YOU OUR HONOR THAT OUR COUNTRY WILL
THRILL WITH PRIDE AT THE VALOR OF THE TROOPS
UNDER HIS COMMAND.
GIVE US A COLORED COMMANDER FOR COLORED
TROOPS. OUR LOYALTY AND SERVICE MERIT THIS REC
OGNITION.
COLONEL YOUNG HOPES
TO SERVE COUNTRY
'i hanks Monitor For Articles and In
terest Shown in His Behalf.
Wilberforce, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1917.
Rev. John Albert Williams,
Editor The Monitor,
Omaha, Nebraska.
My Dear Editor: I thank you for
the articles in my behalf which have
appeared in The Monitor.
Let us not take the matter too hard.
You see the same order that retired
me from active service in the U. S.
Army placed me on active duty with
the mititia troops of the State of
Ohio, and as these have all been mus
tered into the service it is barely pos
sible, as I am wholly physically fit,
that the authorities may allow me to
serve with troops of the National
Army. Of course things might be bet
ter; they might also be worse, you
see.
Wishing you success in your jour
nalistic work and again thanking you
for all you have done for me, I am
Yours for the country,
CHAS. YOUNG,
Col. U. S. Army, retired.
Loyalty of Colorad Race Not Doubted.
If the German government Ims no
better Judgment of the character of the
American Negro than to believe that
he will play the part of Benedict Ar
nold, the trultor, It Is certainly going
to wreck fast, suys V. P. Thomas In
the New Orleans Times - Picayune.
There Is no element of the American
population that will more earnestly
Join the regular mllltury and naval
forces of this government In giving the
Germans a Round thrashing on land
or sea than the American Negro.
Several Persons
Killed and Wounded
Famous Twenty-fourth United States
Infantry Recent Treatment by
Houston Police.
(Special to The Monitor)
Houston, Tex., Aug. 24.—Resenting
mistreatment at the hands of police,
members of the famous Twenty
Fourth United States infantry, sent
here to guard Fort Logan, engaged
in a fight here last night with police
and citizens in which thirteen persona
were kililed. In the promiscuous
shooting eighteen persons, including
one young woman and three of the
Negro soldiers were seriously
wounded
“The trouble started at the camp
about 7:30 Thursday night,”, said
Major K. S. Snow, who is command
ing the Negro troops used as guards
at the camp. “I saw the feeling that
had risen over the treatment that
the men said some of them had re
ceived at the hands of the police and
they were hard to control. Soon it
wras learned that they had entered the
tent where the ammunition was kept
and a large number of rounds had
been secured before I learned what
was happening. I did all I could to
stop the men, but they were beyond
control, and some 150 of them started
to shoot in the camp and soon scat
tered in every direction.’
The city has been placed under
martial law. The Twenty-fourth
wherever stationed in the north, west
and Hawaii has had a splendid record
for good behavior.
WIDE SPREAD INTEREST IN
NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS
Colored Americans “Brought to Their
Feet” by Outrages—Equal Rights
Committees Being Formed.
Boston, Mass.—That the Colored
people of the country have been
“brought to their feet” by the Mem
phis lynching, East St. Louis mas- 1
sacre and Chester riots, is shown by j
the instant interest taken in the call i
issued for a “Speedy Getting To
gether” at New York by Rev. Byron
Gunner, president of the National
Equal Rights League. Already Pres
ident Gunner has received word from
representatives in a dozen different
states who will attend the 10th an
npal meeting of the league and 2nd
Annual Race Congress under the
league’s auspices, which will be held
three days, September 18, 19 and 20,
in Mother Zion church, W. 136th
street, New York City.
Colored newspapers all over the
country are announcing this National
Colored Equal Rights convention in
their columns, and the editors are
working with success for the forma
tion of local “Equal Rights Commit
tees” that are to send delegates.
The “Call” has been given such
| wide publicity, the invitation being
open to every organization as well as
; the Equal Rights League, the oppres
sed in every country in the civilized
j world have met as a group and put
j forth their case and their demand
except we Colored Americans.
Thoughtful citizens everywhere see
that the race will be judged by the at
tendance at this National Race Con
gress.
Every community that has not al
ready formed a Citizens’ Equal Rights
Committee to send delegates is urged
to do so. Three full weeks remain in
which to do so. The last Race Con
gress brought men and women of all,
factions and all organizations to- j
gether and increased co-operation. It;
i is ten times as critical now for the 1
race as then.
Pres. Byron Gunner, of Hilbum, N.
Y., and Corr. Secretary W'm. Monroe
Trotter of 34 Comhill, Boston, are re- j
ceiving many letters on the conven
tion and will answer all inquiries.
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RED CROSS WORK
We hope that the women of our
race in Omaha wil 1 engage actively in
the work of the Red Cross this autumn
and winter. A cordial invitation was
extended to them to become identi
fied with the work being done along
this line by the white women of the
city without difference or distinction.
This invitation was accepted by only
one woman. An effort was then made
to organize an auxiliary among the
Colored women, but please bear it in
mind, that the white women of this
city showed commendable broad
mindedness in inviting their darker
sisters to come in with them, and our
women foolishly and short-sightedly
lost an opportunity for engaging in a
common work that would make for
better understanding and more sym
pathetic feeling between the races.
A few of our women under the leader
ship of Mrs. Philip Letcher met and
made up some Red Cross supplies,
and the work was so neatly and beau
tifully done that they were highly
complimented for it. We have the
skill, what is needed is the will. An
other effort is to be made to get our
vomen interested and we hope that
there will be a generous response.
Their sisters in other cities are active
in Red Cross work and the Colored
women of Omaha ought to emulate
their example.
DR. PEEBLES RECEIVES
COMMISSION IN DENTAL
RESERVE CORPS
The gratifying news has reached
Omaha that Dr. W. W. Peebles, who
has been in training at the Officers'
Reserve Camp at Des Moines, has
been commissioned as first lieutenant
1 and transferred to the Dental Reserve
Corps. Dr. Peebles was one of the
first of our Omaha men to offer him
self for the Des Moines camp, when
after a persistent fight the govern- j
ment reluctantly provided this oppor
tunity for patriotic Colored men to
train for officers. Dr. Peebles is a !
graduate of Amherst College and of
the Northwestern, Chicago. He has
been pActicing in Omaha for eleven
years where he built up a large prac
tice and his friends tried to dissuade,
him from relinquishing it. His trans
fer to the Dental Corps is gratifying
to his family and numerous friends.
HOME OF UNITED
CIVIC lEICUE
New York Organization Settles
In Fine Quarters.
STANDS FOR EQUAL JUSTICE
Thrifty Civic Body Founded by the
Well Known John M. Rcyal! Pur
chase* and Equips Buiidinq for Lar
ger Scope of Work—Motto of the
League Is “Pulling Together."
New York.—At last me colored citi
zens of New Y’ork city l-.'ire reslized a
long felt want, for they cave new pro
vided ibemselves with a modern and
up f, date clubliotn and will In tbe
future make a specialty o* providing
suitable lodging rooms and board to
representative men visiting and pass
ing through the city. Tbe handsome
and modernly equipped building re
cently purchased at 184 West One
Hundred and Tbirty-fiftb street is now
ready and will be used for the eon
PRESIDENT JOHN M. ROYAI.L.
venlence of the members of the United
Civic league and the accommodation
of the public.
The league's bu'tdlug is without a
doubt the only place in tills big city
offering the equipment sod facilities it
is provided with, and without doubt
also shows the rapid strides of the
United Civic league, which was found
ed by John M. Royall and a few other
loyal citizens in 1913 for elective rep
resentation throughout the state of
New York and the nation and for po
litical justice and an equal administra
tion of the laws.
The large and lengthy hasemeDt can
be suitably arranged for athletic
events or for business purposes, while
the main floor consists of reception and
reading rooms and a large auditorium
for entertainments and social func
tions. On the second floor there are
four extra large light rooms for office
use with steam, light and janitor serv
ices included. Adjoining these to the
rear are the large bathroom and the
manager’s room.
The third floor has three finely fur
nished, large, light, airy rooms for gen
tlemen lodgers by day, week or month,
and off these ure a large dining room,
pantry and kitchen, which are occupied
by Caterer Watkins for serving busi
ness men's lunches and catering to spe
cial parties.
The United Civic league's motto is
"Pulling Together," and the officers are
John M. Royall, president; W. II. Wil
lis, first vice president; J. E. Earlas.
second vice president; Joseph L. Pritch
ard, treasurer; Henry D. Dolphin,
secretary, and W. G. Isaacs, financial
secretary.
Board of governors are Benjamin F.
Thomas, chairman; B. H. Lewis, vice
chairman; J. C. Thomas, Sr.; John A.
Ross, Charles H. Payne, W. H. Rhodes.
V. T. Thomas, J. W. Rose, E. A. John
son, John Phinizee. Philip A. Payton,
George W. Royall, Philip M. Thorne,
Sykes 8. Beaman and Anthony McCar
thy. John E. Robinson is the building
secretary and manager.
Having on its official statf this corps
of business men, many who are mer
chants and representing the largest
there Is in the colored |>eople's com
mercial life, the league will continue to
add to Its long list of achievements
throughout the city and state.
NOT CONSISTENT
.. (Baltimore (Md.) Commonwealth)
President Wilson cannot consistent
ly contend for liberty, equality and
justice for Belgians, Russians, Poles,
French, English and Teutons without
conceding justice, liberty and equal
ity to ALL citizens of his own coun
try.