INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION
OF NEGRO TRAINMEN
Substantial Men of Oklahoma Incor
porate Union for Protection of Col
ored Employees of the Nation’s
Railway Systems—Five Brother
hoods in Prospect.
(Special to The Monitor.)
Washington, D. C., June 26.—“The
Interstate Association of Negro Train
men of America, looking to the per
fecting of a union of all unorganized
Colored employees of the railway lines
of America, for their full protection
in working conditions and wages, has
been incorporated in the District of
Columbia, following the completion of
preliminary plans inaugurated about
a year ago.
Attorney E. T. Barbour, of El Reno,
Okla., is named as general counsellor
and organizer. Richard A. Buford, of
Oklahoma City, Okla., is general sec
retary, under a bond of $5,000, with
the United States Fidelity and Guar
antee company. Both are substantial
and reliable men of affairs of Okla
homa, and are vouched for by the
strongest financial forces of that
state.
The objects of the Interstate As
sociation of Negro Trainmen are: To
maintain and insure standard working
conditions and a uniform wage scale;
to destroy caste and color prejudice
that militate against justice as to
these essentials; and to establish reci
procity between such other bodies of
organized labor as shall be necessary
for the promotion of the welfare of
the Negro employees of the nation’s
railway lines. It has the exclusive |
right, under its terms of incorpora
tion, to form a National Union of Ne
gro railway employees, subordinate
associations as auxiliaries to the par-1
ent stem. The association at this
time has upwards of 2,000 members.
The primary aim of the organizers
is to place the association upon a firm,
business basis, anti its success in at
tracting to its ranks a group of our
most intelligent, influential and pub
lic-spirited men is regarded as a trib
ute to its worth as a faeor for racial
uplift.
NO SATURDAY HOLIDAY SAVES
ALABAMA $26 000,000 IN 1918
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Raleigh, N. C., June 25.—Dr. Rob
eit R. Moton, of Tuskegee Institute,
is organizing the Rare in the South
' into an association which pledges it
self to work on Saturday afternoons
as on other days. In 1918 the race in
Alabama, it is alleged, made $26,000,
000 as the result of their decision not
to use Saturday afternoon as a hol
iday. Three hundred thousand men
of the race are organized by pledge to
work six full days through 1919.
BIENNIAL SESSION OF ASSO
CIATION FOR THE STUDY
OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Washington, June 25.—The Asso
ciation for the Study of Negro Life
and History convened in biennial ses
sion here June 17 and 18, at the
Twelfth Street Branch Y. M. C. A.
The reports for the year were heard,
new officers elected, and plans for
the coming year were formulated.
The chief interest of the meeting,
however, centered around the address
es on “The Negro in the World War,”
by Julius Rosenwald, George Foster
Peabody, Emmet J. Scott, George E.
Haynes, W- T. B. Williams, Ralph W.
Tyler, James H. Dillard and Thomas
J. Jones. Every phase of the war
history which the Negro helped to
make was treated. Returned soldiers
were invited to take part in the dis
cussions.
The association worked out the
plans by which it will collect data to
write a “History of the Negro in the
World War,” just as soon as the
treaty of peace is signed and docu
ments now inaccessible because of the
proximity to the conflict become
available.
In addition to publishing for four
years the Journal of Negro History,
a repository of truth now available in
bound form, the association has
brought out also “Slavery in Ken
teekv,” an interesting portraiture of
the institution in that state; “The
Royal Adventurers Trading Into Af
rica,” a study of the early slave trade,
and a “Century of Negro Migration.”
The officers of the association are
R. E. Park, president; J. E. Moorland,
secretary-treasurer; and C. G. Wood
son, director of research and editor;
who, with Julius Rosenwald, George
Foster Peabody, James H. Dillard,
John R. Hawkins, R. E. Jones, A. I,.
Jackson, Thomas Jesse Jones, Sir Ed
mund Walker, Irving Metcalf, L. Hol
lingsworth Wood, Moorfield Storey
and J. G. Phelps Stokes, constitute
the executive council.
$50,000 LEFT ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL
(Special to The Monitor.)
Lawrenceville, Va., June 25.—Intel
ligence has just reached the St. Paul
Normal and Industrial school, an in
stitution of the Episcopal church for
the training of Colored youth, Law
renceville, Va., founded by Archdea
con James S. Russell, 31 years ago, of
the bequest of $50,000 left to the
school in the will of the late Miss
Harriet Blanchard, of 1511 Walnut
street, Philadelphia, who died on
June 2.
For many years Miss Blanchard was
one of the school’s most interested and
liberal contributors.
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RACE PAPERS REFUSE
TO RETRACT STATEMENT
ABOUT WHITE COLONEL
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Chicago, June 26.—Neither the
Union Reformer nor the Raleigh In
dependent, two race papers published
here, will retract statements published
May 24, in regard to Col. James E.
Young, (white), which the latter al
leges are false and defamatory. Yes
terday, each 'paper carried copious
references to the issues involved, to
gether with announcements of deter
mination not to accede to the demand
of Col. Young for a retraction and
apology served on them last week by
Col. Young ^through his attorneys.
With the refusal of the papers to re
' "ect. Col. Young will proceed with
his action for damages on account al
leged libel in the editorial references
to him.
The Union Reformer, which alleged
‘hit Colonel Young is crazy, in its
editorial yesterday explained that it
did not mean Colonel Young is “non
compos mentis,” and expressed its
confidence that Colonel Young is very
sane, and for that reason expects to
hold him responsible for utterances
it has quoted him as making.
On the other hand, The Raleigh In
dependent heads its editorial column
with a large blank space, two columns
wide. At the top are the words: “The
Colonel Demands an Apology,” and
at the bottom the information: “We
Have None to Make.”
KICK-iiACK THREATENED
IN MISSISSIPPI
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Vicksburg. Miss, June 25.—Officials
here have received many threats that
'■'le Negroes of this section intended
to start riots here to kill white peo
ple in retaliation for the lynching and
burning of a Negro here recently.
Much uneasiness has been caused,
though officials apprehend no trou
ble. No chances have been taken,
though, for with big crowds here, the
police force has been doubled, dep
uties are on duty, no fire arms are
being sold, the cross river saloons are
closed and the jail has been converted
into an arsenal.
HIS HONOR, “JIM CROW”
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Chicago, June 25.—Congressman
Martin Madden, of this city, sent to
Congress on the votes of Colored cit
izens, has introduced his annual “jim
crow” opposition bill, and it has cre
ated the same little riffle that it
usually does.
Congressman Madden has the happy
faculty of introducing these bills and
sending copies of same to his “worthy
| constituents," but the bills never get
i beyond committee. There are a great
' many people who have become doubt
ful of the congressman’s sincerity of
purpose, and look dubiously on the
outcome of this new bill, which is all
right if it passes.
The Reidsville (N. C.) Review,
white, states: “No doubt there is a
good bit of politics in his proposition,
but it serves to disturb the good feel
ing between the races.” It is very
natural nevertheless, that there should
not be much good feeling between the
races on account of “jim crow” cars
in the South.
“HUMAN INTEREST” AGENCY
TO POPULARIZE CENTENARY
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Chicago, June 25.—Dr. Edward L.
Gillam, director of the Negro activi
ties of the centenary celebration, is
employing a “human interest” agency
as a medium of arousing the Meth
odists of his own race to support the
celebration by attending it.
To popularize the centenary idea
and to advertise the celebration, Dr.
Gillam has sent Dr. David D. Turpeau,
Washington, the Rev. I. G. Penn, Jr.,
Maysville, Ky., and the Rev. J. S.
Bailey, Columbus, as an embassy of
information and invasion to tour a
score or more of the principal cities
stimulating interest through address
es, interviews and publicity.
VOTERS SECURE COLORED
POLICEMEN IN WATERBERRY
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Waterberry, Conn., June 25.—This
famous old town is all agog over the
prospects of having a Colored police
man, a kind of a bi-product of the
war. The demand of the voters for
such recognition is to be recognized.
_
WISCONSIN PROGRESSIVE
ASSOCIATION HOLDS FOURTH
ANNUAL CONVENTION
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Madison, Wis., June 25.—The fourth
annual convention of the Wisconsin
Progressive Association took place in
the Grand Army rooms of the capitol,
June 17, 18 and 19. Speakers and
singers appeared daily.
Thursday night the annual banquet
and promenade took place at Kehl's
hall. Entertainments and outings
featured the gathering. Representa
tives from clubs all over the state
were present.
The address of welcome June 17,
was given by Mayor George C. Sayle.
BOMB THROWERS AT
WORK AGAIN
Chicago, June 25.-—A bomb was ex
ploded in the exclusive residence dis
trict of the North Side, known as the
“Gold Coast,” breaking windows for
blocks around and doing minor dam
ages to property.
The bomb was exploded near the
residence of William D. Austin,
broker, and is believed to be the se
quel to a telephone warning to Mr.
Austin to get rid of Negro tenants in
property he owns on the South Side.
In that section repeated bomb ex
plosions have occurred in buildings
occupied by Negroes.
BLACK TERN
(Hydrochelidon Dim DurinimaBDif)
Length, ten inches. In autumn oo
eurs as a migrant on the east coast
of the United States, and then Is la
white and gray plumage. During tha
breeding season it is confined to tha
interior, is chiefly black, and is th»
only dark tern occurring inland.
Range: Breeds from California,
Colorado, Missouri, and Ohio, north
to central Canada; winters from Mex
ico to South America; migrant in the
eastern United States.
Habits and economic status: This
tern, unlike most of its relatives,
passes much of its life on fresh-water
lakes and marshes of the interior. Its
nests are placed among the tules and
weeds, on floating vegetation, or on
muskrat houses. It lays from two to
four eggs. Its food is more varied
than that of any other tern. So far as
known it preys upon no food fishes,
but feeds extensively upon such ene
mies of fish as dragonfly nymphs^
fish-eating beetles, and crawfishes.
Unlike most of its family, it devours
a great variety of insects, many oI
which it catches as it flies. Dragon
flies, May flies, grasshoppers, predace
ous diving beetles, scarabaeld beetles,
leaf beetles, gnats, and other flies ara
the principal kinds preyed upon.
Fishes of little economic value, chiefly
minnows and mummichogs, were found
to compose only a little more than It
per cent of the contents of 145 stom
achs. The great consumption of in
sects by the black tern places it among
the beneficial species worlhy of pro
tectlon.
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