.a*, i The Monitor "1 ^tz, . A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor $1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA. MARCH 30. 1918VoL HL No. » Wtcte So. 141) President Wilson Receives Methodists Commission Appointed by the Bishop’s Council of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Given Audience by Chief Executive. '1 HE PETITION FOR PROTECTION TTfASHINGTON, D. C.—“Woid? ” urging patriotic duties upon the Negroes while they are lynched and j:m-crowed have the apeparance of in sincerity" was a sentiment expressed to President Woodrow Wilson by a commission appointed by the Bishop's ‘ Council of the African Methodist Epis copal Church to make representation against discrimination against the Ne groes of this country. The appointment with the President was arranged by Prof. John R. Haw kins, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church. The commission was headed by .*». Bishop W. D. Chappelle, of South Car olina. The other members of the committee were: Prof. J. R. Hawkins, of WashCigton; Dr. W. T. Vernon, of Tennessee; Dr. W. H. H. Butler, of Pennsylvania; Dr. J. G. Robinson, of Tennessee; Dr. A. H. Hill, of Arkan sas; and Dr. A. L. Gaines, of Balti more. Bishop Chappelle made the repre sentations to the President and left with him a written document setting forth the views of the commission. The response of the President, though guarded, was very gratifying. The sentiment of the commission follows: Washington, D. C., March 14, 1913. Hon. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States. Mr. President: Sir—We, the undersigned citizen. of the United States, and representa f tives of the African Methodist Epis copal Church, appointed by the Bish op’s Council of said church, which met at Louisville, Ky., Feb. 14, 1918, beg to submit to you the following me- ] morial or prayer. With a due sense of appreciation of the great struggle in which we are new engaged, and the arduous task laid upon you as chief magistrate of our country’, pledge to you our fidelity as loyal citizens of our republic. These are trying times, and we are passing through ordeals that try men’s souls, and now more than evei before, our people need hope and en couragement. We believe you have read with deep regret of the inhuman and unlawful tieatment of our people in many sec tions of the country’, and we come praying you for relief from mob vio lence and other distriminations which knee and other discriminations which We do not condone crime committed by any people; nor are we asking that you wink at crimes committed by' our people, but we are asking that in cases of alleged violation of law', that each and every individual be given a fair and impartial trial by a jury of twelve men of their fellow citi zens. Since congress has given you, as President, power to conscript citizens from and within all the states of the Union, to fight for the common cause of human liberty, and for protection of this country, w-e believe that it is equally within the power of congress to authorize you to enter any state ir1 this Union with said power, to protect the life and liberty of the citizens therein. Believing this as we do, we ask: First, That lynching be made a fed eral offense. Second, We ask that in all cases of lynching and mob violence where cit izens are guilty of participating in the same, they shall be punished by law and declared ineligible to hold office in our government, either federal or state. Third, We ask that any sheriff al lowing his prisoner to be lynched or maimed while in his custody, be de < larecLunfit for that high office and nt or.ce removed by' the governor. When we compare what is told us with what is being done to us, it must of necessity create a suspicion as to the sincerity of some of those who speak to us. If these difficulties are removed then you make it easier for the lead ers of our people to control them as patriots; and, too, to advise and direct their activities in such movements as the purchase of Liberty Bonds, Thrift j Stamps, and the cheerful enlistment in the United States army and navy. Mr. President, we can ask no less end be men. So, in the interest of all that is righteous, of all that is just and of all that is in keeping with tine democracy, of which you are the exponent, we beg of you to act. >ET YOU* TIMEPIECE ONE HOUR AHEAD SATURDAY NIGHT Don’t forget to set your clock on? hour ahead Saturday night. Time changes all over the United States Sunday morning. Set your watch ahead, too. If you don’t set your time P'ece ahead you will be one hour late Sunday" morning. OLD COMMANDER CALLS ON SERGEANT LETCHER General Alexander Dade, who was a commander of Sergeant Letcher's troop over twenty years ago, was in the city recently. Although a very busy man he took occasion to honor Sergeant and Mrs. Letcher by calling at their home General Dade is now stationed in Chicago and is in charge of the Central Aerial Division. Attorney Objects to the Term “I key” Presiding Judge Concurs With the Protestant and Promptly Bars Of fensive Appellations from His Court. WASHINGTON, D. C.—A few days vT ago Prosecuting Attorney Han was very much surprised to be called to account in open court for using the term “darkey.” Former Judge Hew lett raised the objection and said: “May it please the court, as an at torney practicing in the district courts my duties call me here as one of its members. I have been shocked beyon.i measure this morning to have to listen to a reference by the prosecuting at torney, Mr. Hart, to a man by the term ‘darkey’—one that is and alwavj will be objectionable to me and to many of my associates sitting within this rail. He spoke of taking some thing from a ‘darkey.’” The Prosecuting Attorney: “I was not aware that I used such a term at all.” Mr. Hewlett: “You did so and there are those seated here besides myself who heard you. (Pointing to Mr. Col lins.) The use of this term is some thing of an innovation in our courts, and in fact was never heard until Judge Harrison, I regret to say, ma'l< use of it in a recent case, and it is a cause of greater regret that Mr. Hart usually so fair and equitable in hi? arguments, should emulate such an example. The judges of all the courts here have held it objectionable and in stantly suppressed its use when em ployed. You will remember, you! honor, that one of our judges came near facing impeachment because of this very thing, and I want to serve notice right here, and now, that it if objectionable, and further that it is so objectionable that I am not going to have it, nor are my associate members of the bar. As Idng as I am practicing law here Colored men and women wlto are unfortunate enough to fall into the clutches of the law, or who happen to be summoned here for any purpose whatever, are going to be referred to as such, and not by any such Souther* term as ‘darkey.’ We, your honor, are fighting for democracy and are doing our part; then, in the name of democ racy, let court officials, at least, De just” Judge Mullowney, who was presid ing at the time, said: “It is, indeed, a source of great regret, if it be true, as reported, that a recently appointed judge made use of a term that is of fensive to the Colored portion of our population. l?p until quite recently the intelligent and progressive people of the District of Columbia, without re gard to race, have endeavored to work t:> the mutual advancement of each other, and have so well succeeded that the petty frictions so frequent in the Southern states were unknown here. It was, therefore, with an eye of sus picion that they were brought to view in recent years the influx of so large a portion of the white South to take positions under the government here; and that this was not without reason is attested to the fact that they have been compelled to stand helplessly by and see many of their privileges and opportunities fade with this coming.” He further said that all men ap pointed to the judiciary by the presi dent of the United States should be above approaching matters of law from the color standpoint, but on the plane of man to man and justice to nil, and assured Mr. Hewlett that r.o such insults would be tolerated while 11 e was presiding. Hundreds of Skilled Mechanics Building Ships for U. S. The Newport News Yard Gives Employment to Nearly Foot Thousand Colored Men, Skilled and Unskilled. Who Do Satisfactory Work and Command Good Wages. HAVE you read the March 16 issue of Collier’s Weekly? If not you have missed a most interesting article by Edward Hungerford. entitled “A Shipbuilder on the Job,” which de scribes the activities in the great ship yard founded at Newport News, Va-, by the late Collis P. Huntington, and clearly shows the important part Col ored men are taking in building ship) for Uncle Sam. It also shows that black men and white men can work side by side, without strife or friction. Further, it demonstrates the fact that Colored men may become skilled me chanics when given the opportunity and can command high wages. Some of the men employed as riveters make as high as a week upon occasion. Homer L. t erguson. superintendent of this great plant, holds a most favor able opinion of the Negro as an indus trial worker. In this interesting article Mr. Hun gerford tells us why Mr. Huntington decided to found Newport News and how the races work side by side. This is the way he puts it: Black and White Work Side by Side “Newport News differs from most Virginia towns in the fact that it has r.o fine streets shaded with old trees, no Christopher Wren architecture, rc ancient families, and no old colonels. When the late considerable drought spread across Virginia it found few sideboards in Newport News to empty. For the place is new—comparativeiy new, at any rate. It is a made-to-or der town, and looks it. For even thought it long ago reached its thirty fifth birthday, it still has some of the raw newness of pioneer communities. “It was founded by the late Collis P. Huntington as a tidewater terminal for the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, purchased as the eastern link of the ocean-to-ocean transcontinental sys tem which he planned definitely, but was never quite abie to consummate. And because a tidewater terminal means a real seaport and a real sea port in turn means a drydock and ship repair facilities—then almost entirely lacking in the neighborhood of Hamp ton Roads—the California millionaire bethought himself of establishing a shipyard at Newport News. Anothei factor there at Hampton Roads changed the idea into determination. His friends and advisers argued against the enterprise—but wasted their efforts. Huntington did not then lay stress upon his commercial reason! for building the yard. He merely point ed toward the tall tower of a great school for Negroes, a bare half-dozen miles distant, and said: ‘I'm going to try and give the black man the same industrial opportunity that Hampton has given him educationally.’ And to day fully one-half of the 7,800 mer and boys who work under Homer Fer guson in the Newport News shipyard are black skinned. White men and black men work not only in the same yard but in the same buildings. And this is the South—the Old Dominion if you please. On a huge traveling crane that runs the length of the yard’s biggest erecting shop a wh’t« man operates the motors overhead; a Negro on the floor minds the grips. In the yard outside on a huge ship com ing into being white painters worn upon the upper side of the deck; black painters upon the under surfaces of the same deck. “Do you get me? Something must be conceded t6 the traditions of the South.” Hungerford quotes Homer L. Fer guson, the master builder, as saying. "Don’t you dare come down from the Nortji to this yard and tell us that the black man in the South is an in dustrial failure—you who only use him as an elevator boy or a parlor car porter or a chauffeur and refuse to give him an equal industrial oppor tunity with white labor. How long would one of our expert machinists last at Trenton or at Paterson or at Schenectady ? What opportunity wou.d the unions give him? Can one of our good riveters go North and join the union ? He cannot. And otherwise he cannot drive a single rivet.” Some of the riveters make as high as $90 a week upon occasion, but these are the exceptions. All, however, a'e drawing big pay. They are well boosed sad there is also a special amtotaaenx and a hut provided by the Y. M. C. A THE 13TH N. Y. REGIMENT BAND Lyons, France.—The 15th X. Y. reg iment, one of the units of the Ameri can army in this country, was recent ly here. Xo regiment received 3 greater welcome than did this enr» Afro-American regiment. The entire city turned out to greet it, the offi cials of the city extending the wel come. When its hand, under the lead ership of James R. Europe, swung down the streets of Lyons, follow wi by the regibent. the people of this city was treated to musk that simply charmed them, and all Lyons now de clares that it is the grandest banc, that ever visited here. SlbO.IKk STOCK INCREASE Atlanta. Ga.—The stockholders of the Atlanta Savings Bank voted to increase the capital stock by $100,000 J. O. Ross is the president of the n st notion. REGISTRANT WORTH $5*.*«* Birmingham, Ala.—Chas. King in herited oil land worth $50,000 some t>me ago and went there to look after it. He was of draft age. A tracer was sent for him and the chief of police of Muskogee, Ckla.. returner? with him last week. He was no slack er. He did not know that he was crjled until the police informed him. OPEN WORKING GIRLS' HOME Xew Orleans, La.—A formal open ing of the Working Girls’ Home, re cently established at 2415 Annuncia tion street, was held here recently with impressive ceremonies. Mi”. Francis Joseph Gaudet, active social worker, heads the association which is promoting the school. 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