Mrs. Mary B. Talbert
Delights Audience
The Talented and Efficient President
of the National Association of Col
ored Women Delivers Instructive
Address Before Large Audience—
Outlines History of Organization—
Tells of Personal Observations of
Southern Conditions--Patriotic Work
of Women—Delegation From Oma
ha Woman’s Club Present.
KIND WORDS FOR THE MONITOR
MAHA is honored this week by
the presence of Mrs. Mary B.
Talbert, president of the National As
sociation of Colored women, the only
national organization of our people,
which has been called into consulta
tion by the government for effective
co-operation in war work. The organ
ization represents a membership
mounting up into the thousands and
necessarily wields a tremendous influ
ence.
Mrs. Talbert, who is cn route to
Denver to attend the national conven
tion of the Association, spoke Wednes
day night under the auspices of the
Greater Omaha Improvement Club, .1
woman’s organization, to a capacity
house in the auditorium of St. John's
A. M. E. church. She is a pleasing,
instructive and forceful speaker with
a most attractive personality and she
raptivated and delighted her large and
appreciative audience from the out
set.
Unfortunately, the program was
somewhat late in starting, entirely too
late, and those w'ho had come early
wrere somewhat restive because of thi
delay, but as soon as Mrs. Talbert
began speaking all thought of the
lateness of the hour vanished.
The program began w ith “The Star
Spangled Banner,” led by Mrs. Martha
Taylor-Smith and St. John’s choir.
The Rev. John Albert Williams, rector
of St. Philip’s Episcopal church, of
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fered a brief invocation. This was
followed by a selection by the choir
and a well chosen address of wel
come on behalf of the Improvement
Club by Mrs. John A. Smith, who
presided. Mr. J. Noah Thomas gave
a cornet solo, which demanded an en
core. Dr. L. E. Britt gave a most
befitting address of welcome on be
half of the business and professional
men of Omaha. Miss Mary Pegg
read a brief and thoughtful paper;
Mrs. Luther Dillard sang “Ah, I have
Sighed to Rest Me,” by Verdi, in
which she was accompanied by Miss
Ozelia Dunning and Mr. Maceo Wil
liams, violinist. Mrs. Alphonso Wil
son, president of the.club, in her own
inimitable and gracious way then in
troduced the distinguished guest and
speaker.
Mrs. Talbert expressed her pleasure
at being in Omaha and renewing old
acquaintances. She had been kept in
touch with Omaha through The Moni
tor, which she said was eagerly looked
for week by week and eagerly read >n
Buffalo and was also read by the city
treasurer and other influential peo
ple of that city. Its sane and fearles.
cditorials were most favorably re
ceived and commented upon, and the
reliability of its news service won ap
probation, as there could not be found
the slightest hint of "yellow journal
ism” within its columns. “I wonder,”
she said, “if you people here in Omaha
realize what a wonderful agency and
influence in social uplift you have in
that splendid publication. The Moni
tor? We of the east do, and I hope
> ou do.”
Passing then directly to her sub
ject, Mrs. Talbert said in part:
“It will give me great pleasure to
tell you of the organization, past
achievements and future plans of the
National Association of Colored Wo
men. It came into being twenty-three
years ago. Necessity called it into
being. A man by the name of Jacks
published an article in the St. Ix'uis
Globe-Democrat making an outrage
ous charge against Negro women.
This led Mrs. Josephine P. Ruffin of
Boston to invite 100 women to a con
ference in Boston. Forty-two respond
ed. They refuted this libel by a
scientific investigation of records and
found that the morality of Colored
women, all things considered, was not
only equal to but in many cases su
perior to that of their more protected
sisters. But these forty-two women
realized that the Colored women
should organize to help in every way
possible their own people. If the
white women found it necessary to
organize helpful agencies we realized
that we needed the same. If chasms
t nri pitfalls were to be avoided by our
young people it was necessary foi
motherhood to have the knowledge to
guide them.
“We adopter! as our motto, ‘Lifting
j as we climb.’ We decided that the’-e
should be no countenancing of the
double standard of morality. We de
cided to teach our boys, as well as our
girls, that ‘whatsoever a man soweth
the same shall be also reap.’
“We found our people divided into
three classes—the aristocrat, who had
bud superior advantages and training
and who had drawn a circle aroun-l j
themselves; a middle class, not vicious |
'cut well-meaning and happy-go-lucky, !
who had also drawn a circle around '
themselves; and then, alas, the largest |
class, the lower class, ignorant,
v'cious and superstitious. We decided
that those above should join hands in
an effort to lift those below. And this
is the work the association has been
largely instrumental In accomplish
ing.
“If we do not help our own people
how. can we expect others to do so'.”’
Mrs, Talbert spoke of the loyalty of
cur race to the government in the
present world w'ar, which is being ■
fought for democracy. She said the
outcome of the war would be the de
throning of America’s sham democ
racy and the enthroning of true de
mocracy, which she aptly defined as
a country "where just laws are en
forced and where color does pot
count.”
She called attention to the fact tnat
“the black soldiers who are fighting
for democracy in Europe, when they
return will demand democracy In
America and wbll not tamely submit
t i the customary treatment meted put
to the black American by the brutal,
bulldozing ‘cracker’ element of the
South.”
She told of her recent investiga- i
tions of penal conditions in Florid i,
Georgia and South Carolina, and how
the women have been organized to
better these conditions. She brought
tears to the eyes of her audience when
she told them of the murder of Mary
Turner at Valdosta, Ga., on Sunday,
May 19, because she said they had no
business to lynch her husband, and
how. the Huns of Georgia for that re
mark hanged Mary Turner, who was
in a delicate condition and while hang
ing from the gibbet gave birth to a
child, a fact w'hich the Associated
Press suppressed. It w'as that act that
caused the organized protest of the
Colored women of Georgia, published
in last week’s issue of The Monitor, to
President Wilson, which elicited tie
only word yet spoken by him against j
lynching of Negroes. The Nationnl ;
Association of Colored Women intends
to start a movement to depopulate
Georgia of Negroes by bringing them I
to northern and western states unless
these outrages cease.
Mrs. Talbert urged the women of 1
each community to take up their own j
peculiar problem and work it out j
faithfully, perseveringly and courage- (
I ously. She plead for the manifest;*- 1
lion of sympathy anti helpfulness to
the fallen. To welcome and encourage
1 the strangers who are coining from
; the Southland.
The president of the Omaha Wo
man’s club and a delegation were pres
ent, who thanked Mrs. Talbert for hei
splendid address and said that they
j wished that the same address might
be given before their club.
TOWN IS SHOT TO PIECES
Minnesota Village Loses Band and
Baseball Team to the Ma
rine Corps.
St. Paul, Minn.—Isle, Minn., was a
village of 75 population, situated on
the Soo line near Mlile Laos Lake,
Minnesota.
Not a small part of its population
was of young men, so It lmd a baseball
team and a brass band, just as any
other really ambitious village should
have.
Tile past tense Is used advisedly.
Isle, Minn., still Is u village, situ
ated just where It always lias been.
Hut In no other way can the past and
present be compared. It Is without Its
baseball team, Its brass band—and its
young men.
For the baseball team and the brass
band—20 of ’em, have enlisted In the
Marine corps.
“The town’s simply shot t’ pieces I"
declared an elderly resident, one of
the few left.
U-Boat Victim to Get Even.
Pittsburgh, Pa.—Frank Wilson, four
times a victim of German submarines
while employed In the British mer
chant marine, left here for Canada ti
enlist in the English navy to “gel
even" with the enemy.,
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WAR CONGRESS
National Security League An
nounces Nation-Wide Non
Partisan Participation in
Fall Elections.
Active participation by it in the Con
gressional campaigns, which will short
ly commence throughout the country,
has been announced by the National
Security League. The league declares
that unusual measures must he taken
to insure the election this fall of a
Congress which will stand mllitantly
behind the carrying of the war to a
decisive victory.
The entire force of the League’s 281
brandies and its membership of over
100,000 patriotic American citizens will
he thrown into this campaign. The!
creation of support of the movement
outside the league will also be un
dertaken by means of an active propa
ganda among the leading citizens of
every state In the Union, irrespective
of party.
Elihu Root Takes Lead.
Elllni Itoot, who is Honorary Presi
dent of the National Security League,
at the recent Annual Meeting of the
organization laid particular emphasis
on tiie necessity of non-partisan sup
port of the Government in its ef
forts for the aggressive prosecution of
tiie war and the consequent lmpor-j
lance of tills year’s Congressional elec
lions. The matler was then taken up
by the National Executive Committee
of the League and the campaign decid
ed uiion at a meeting attended by Al
ton B. Parker, who is Honorary Vice
President of the Security League;
James W. Gerard, former United
States Ambassador to Germany, one of
tiie League’s Vice Presidents; S. Stan
wood Menken, President of the
League; Lawrence F. Abbott of the
Outlook, and other prominent men.
The League for National Unity and
other great national organizations
have already indorsed the movement.
The leading newspapers of the country
arc also expressing their approval.
The following are a few of tiie fa
vorable editorial comments which are
appearing in all parts of tiie country:
Editorial Approval.
Williamsport (Pa.) Sun: “The Na
tional Security League's effort will
have the hearty support of all patri
otic voters.”
Springfield (Mass.) Union: "This
idea Is sound and eminently worthy of
serious attention.”
Des Moines (la.) Tribune: “Here In
Iowa we may well emulate tills exam
ple which will lend to victory foi
Americanism regardless of party desig
nation.”
. Saginaw (Mich.) News: "Tills cam
paign will have a strong and growing
following all over the country."
Helena (Mont.) Independent: "Ameri
leans upon whom party lines rest light
ly and many who are strong for their
party will find reasons for commenda
tion of the plan of ihe National Se
curity League.”
25,000 Letters.
The League's campaign will be con
ducted by a committee headed by
Charles l). Orth, « prominent New
York commission merchant. This com
mittee, as a preliminary step, has laid
the matter before 2.ri,()(K) leading citi
zens in all parts of the country and ol
all political beliefs In-the following let
ter :
“Tiie conduct of the war and, in
fact, the very future of America are
dependent not Only upon the election
of a War Congress that will enact nec
essary laws, hut upon the presence in
the National Legislature of men ol
vision, ability and broad experience,
who are the best qualified of our citi
zenship to correctly solve the great in
termil and international question!
which will come before tiie next Con
gress.
“Grave Duty.”
“The National Security League, pur
suant to unanimous action of its Ex
eculive Committee, has taken upon it
self the grave duty of impressing
these matters upon you and asking you
to pledge your service for prompt ac
tlon to prevent disaster which tnlghl
follow the election of incompetent oi
disloyal men to Congress. This can
be prevented through definite and eon
certed action on the part of loyal eitl
zens, who are in tiie vast majority,
Neglect and Indifference may prove fa
tal.
“The remedy is for every one to as
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political leaders, newspaper men and
others who form public opinion Id
their Congressional Districts. Make
them realize sharply that the need ol
the nation Is the election of men of ah
solute and unconditional loyalty whe
are determined to prosecute the war
to victory and who possess t lie
strength of character and unquestlon
ed ability to be of real service to Hie
country in this crisis. The problem!
before the nation are such as to try
the very souls of the best men that we
can elect.
Perscosl Responsibility.
"The people of your district will un
doubtedly take the right stand If uwak
ened to the political situation In time
to secure the highest type of enudi
dates to vote for In the prima-ies. Ev
ery citizen can directly Influence re
stills to that end, and we earnestly
hope that yon will recogulzu the re
sponsibility of so doing."
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