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    .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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80% of the Colored People of Council Bluffs
75% of the Colored People of Lincoln
60% of the Colored People of Nebraska
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Colored Physicians
May Be Internes
The Trustees of Btleiw anti Aifieit
Hospitals Assert That n Dttnn
ShaS Operate 4 ;nn AyyiotK
MERIT DECLARED -STANDARD
E® YORK.—On Tuesday. Mar>-n
I 5. at 4 o’clock, a conference wns
held m the office of the Beuevtie
Board of Trustees. First Avenue ant!
38th street, between a Connrrilt» in
terested in the <pestinn of securing
the appointment of Negro internes »
the New York hospitals, and the
Beard of Trustees of the Bellevue amt
Allied Hospitals.
The committee consisted of Mr. I_
Hollingsworth Wood, President of the
National League on Urban Condrcinns
Among Negroes. Mr. James Wei Am
Johnson. Field Secretary of the Vc
tiooal Association for the Advance
ment of Cotored People. Mr, Eugene
Kinckie Jones. Executive of the Na
tional Urban League. Dr. MiUiam F.
Hayes. Pastor of the Mb. Olivet Baa
list Church, and Mr. Alrurheua A.
Taylor. Industrial Secretary of the
Urban League.
The following members of the Belle
vue Board of Trustees were present;
Dr. Joint W. Braanac. President:
Mr. John G. O'Keeffe. Secretary; Mr.
James K. Paulding; Mr. Leopold
Stern; Mr. Samuel Sachs; Mr. James
A. Farley; Mr. Henry C Wright; Mr.
Bird 3. Oder, ex-officio.
Mr. Wood briefly outlined the pur
pose .A the conference stating that the
committee wished to get some ex
pression from, the trustees of these
hospitals on the question of admittmsr
ouatified Negroes to their wsenus
staff.
Mr. Jones and Mr. Johnson were
asked to state the ease 'or the cmn
rrittee.
Mr. Jones said, in part; “The Col
ored people of New York feel that
there is a prejudice against Negroes
being admitted as internes m Betie
Yue Hospital. We would like to con
vey to them. from, yon a message that
would alter this impression.
We want to know if cotar ss a de
termining factor in year selection of
internes. If our young students ef
medicine felt that they would be ad
mitted on a basis of merit rasher than
color, we are certain that more of them
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