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<2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy_ OMAHA. NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 18. 1919 Vol. V. No. 11 (Who 220)
„ Shayler, Nebraska’s New Episcopalian Prelab
TELLS URGENT NEEDS
OF AFD REPUBLIC
President-Elect King Speaks to Im
mense Audience at John Wesley
Church—Hundreds Unable to Gain
Admittance.
_ ASKS FOR U. S. CO-OPERATION
Calls for More Emigrants From
America—Recalls Trials of First
Settlers—Introduced by Secretary
Treasurer Scott of Howard Uni
versity.
(Special to The Monitor by Walter J.
Singleton.)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Comment
ing on the promising future
• which awaits the peoples of Africa,
President-elect C. D. E. King of Li
beria expressed appreciation for the
-r friendship the United States has
shown for the republic he represents
at a meeting in John Wesley African
Methodist Episcopal church Septem
ber 8. More than 1,600 representative
colored citizens of Wrashington attend
ed the meeting and about 1,000 per
sons who were unable to obtain seats
or standing room in the church were
addressed at an overflow’ meeting.
President-elect King emphasized the
difficulties which his country has en-,
countered and overcome since it wras
first established in the first part of
the last century.
Tribute to First Settlers.
He paid tribute to the efforts of the'
original and later settlers from the!
Uniteo States, who have contributed
much to the development of Liberia.
“Liberia owes much to the friend
ship of the United States, and is most
anxious to obtain the continued co
operation of both white and colored
Americans for the government mod
eled after your own republic,” said
President-elect King. “Liberia knows
that her future to a great extent de
pends upon the interest manifested
by the colored people of the United
States.
“We need emigrants from America
to help in the further development
of cur country, and to labor both w'ith
theii hands, their brains and their
hearts in the cause of progress in
Liberia.
Eager for Co-Operation.
“We are eager to obtain the co
operation of intelligent colored citi
zens of the United States, and w’e
know bv experience that this co-opera
ticn will continue to be forthcoming,
because the colored people of Ameri
ca may always be depended upon to
, interest themselves in a cause which
calis for altruism.
“The difficulties which Liberia has
met with,” President-elect King con
tinued, “were largely due to the fact
that 40,000 first settlers from Amer
ica were called upon to establish a
government among 2,000,000 natives.
But through the ceaseless efforts of
all Liberians these difficulties have
been overcome and Liberia is pro
gressing in a remarkable manner.
Introduced by Secretary Scott.
The first speaker was Emmett J.
Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard
university. Mr. Scott introduced Dr.
Ernest Lyon of Baltimore, Maryland,
formerly American consul general to
Liberia. Dr. Lyon in turn introduced
President-elect King. The Amphion
Glee club presented several musical
numbers. The Rev. W. C. Browm,
■ _ pastor of the John Wesley A. M. E.
church, pronounced the invocation.
President-elect King was escorted to
the meeting by the Washington troop
of Boy Scouts.
Dr. King plans to remain in Wash
ington during practically his entire
stay in the United States, because
he feels that the more representative
colored citizens live in the national
capital, and is of the opinion that he
can obtain better impressions of the
progress of the colored people of
America in Washington than in any
other city in the United States.
BUFFALO OPENS
^ COMMUNITY HOUSE
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 16.—A club
house for the use of returned sailors
and soldiers was opened recently at
No. 143 Clinton street. The quarters
are in charge of Lt. Mosby B. Adams,
assistant in Negro work of the War
Camp Community service.
Monitor office, Douglas 3224.
THE RT. REV. ERNEST VINCENT SHAYLER,
Fourth Bishop of Nebraska. Who Was Consecrated in His Parish Church, St. Mark’s,
Seattle, Last Thursday, and Arrives in Omaha This Week to Assume His Duties a."
Successor of the Late Arthur L. Williams. Bishop Shayler Bear* the Reputation of
Boinu a Man of Broadmindedness and Larue Sympathies, and a Warm Friend of the
Colored People
COLORED CITIZEN'S OF BOSTON
TOOK NO PART IN RECENT RIOT
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Boston, Mass., Sept. 16.—There is
prime irony in the recent riots that
have swayed in this cultured com
munity for a number of days. It was
not a race riot, but its destructive ele
ments have all the baneful effects of
such an orgy and serve to alarmingly
demonstrate that it is high time for
the American people to throw off
their indifference and use every means
to bring about universal peace and
tranquility. There are so many sig
nificant lessons in this Boston affaii
that they cannot wilfully be overlook
ed. In the first place, the very men
whose sworn duty it is to uphold the
law, have defied it and left the peo
ple at the mercy of the mob. Hun
dreds of thousand of dollars worth of
damage have been done. Hundreds of
soldiers and marines and private citi
zens in all walks of life have been
called upon to restore law and older.
There have been nearly a dozen of
deaths and hundreds of people in
jured. So reckless was the hoodlum
element that it was unsafe for women
to be upon the streets after dark, and
in no instance, has the Colored citizen
had a part in the destructive side of
this unfortunate situation.
OKLAHOMA FEDERATION
OF WOMEN’S CLUBS
Oklahoma City, Sept. 16.—The Ok
lahoma Federation of Negro Women’s
clubs closed its ninth annual session
at Guthrie, Okla., August 29, 1919.
The president, Mrs. Judith Horton,
presided. There were 74 delegates
and 11 officers, representing 37 clubs
from 8 cities. The reports from the
different clubs showed the results of
much work during the past year. The
annual membership fee to the N. A.
A. C. P. was paid; also our yearly
donation to the upkeep of the Doug
lass home. Because of the vividness
with which the club motto, “Lifting
as We Climb,” was illustrated a prize
of $6 was awarded to Miss Manilla
Johnson of Guthrie. Prizes to the
amount of $6 were awarded to sev
eral of the girls of the local Girls
Canning club because of their excel
lent exhibition of canned goods. Mrs.
Annie Cooper of Eufaula is our newly
elected president.
RIGID ENFORCEMENT OF LAW
WILL PREVENT RACE RIOTS,
SAYS JUDGE STOUT
Kentucky Official Conics Out for Fair
Treatment in the Courts.
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 17.—The gen
eral unrest throughout the United
States was the subject of the charge
principally today by Circuit Judge
Stout when the grand jury convened
for the fall term. Race riots which
have disgraced other sections of the
United States, Judge Stout said, were
not an impossibility here, but he de
clared he had not heard that any ill
feeling existed between the races in
his judicial district.
The ways to prevent such outbreaks.
Judge Stout said was the rigid en
forcement of the law. As far as his
information carried him, he said, he
did not know of a single instance when
the Negro man had been unfairly dealt
with by the juries of this district be
cause he was black or for any other
reason.
An impartial enforcement of the
law, Judge Stout declared, would pre
vent not only an ill-feeling between
the races, but would be the proper
step in the direction of allaying the
unrest between the wealthy man and
the poor man.
He said that there should be no
discrimination between men in the
law, and that when men had occasion
to bring their disputes into the court
house for adjustment, there ought
not to be any discrimination because
one is white and the other black.
Men had a right to select their as
sociates said he, but fair treatment
should lie given to every man on trial.
BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL
TO BE OPENED AT NASHVILLE
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 16—The sum
of $600,000 is in sight to be invested
in initial equipment for the full
fledged theological seminary for Ne
groes in Nashville, provided the Ne
groes of this city will provide an ade
quate building Hite, so Dr. O. L.
Hailey, secretary of a commission
from the Southern Baptist convention
to establish such an institution, told
a mass meeting of Negro Baptists
of this city at the Spruce street Bap
tist church Sunday afternoon.
Of this sum $200,000 has already
teen apportioned by the Baptist sev
enty-five million dollar campaign;
$100,000 will be raised immediately
by the board of directors of the Na
tional Baptist convention composed of
representatives of the Negro Baptist
churches of both the north and south
while the remaining $200,000 will be
raised from other sources by Dr.
Hailey, who has been delegated by the
white Baptists of the south to see
the proposition through.
Negro Baptists of America propose
to raise $3,000,000 in a campaign of
their own during the next five years
simultaneously with the $75,000,000 to
be raised by southern Baptists, and
the seminary of this $3,000,000, it is
announced.
LOCAL PAPERS FOLLOW
THE MONITOR LEAD
Dailies Try Monitor Novel Advertis
ing Stunt on Motion Picture
Publicity.
Following The Monitor’s lead in the
publication of a novel double page j
advertising stunt in the issue of Au
gust 28, the Omaha Daily News adopt
ed the same plan in its issue of Sep
tember 11, in which it carried a double
page advertising contest relative to
Clara Kimball Young in “Better
Wives,” then playing at the Strand.
Sunday, September 14, the World
Herald joins in with one better, a
four page insert in colors with a co
operative advertising plan featuring a
Paramount Artcraft special “The Mir
ac’o Man," showing at the Rialto.
<Vhile the idea is an old one, it
was revived locally by Geo. P. John
son, the publicity manager of the Lin
coln Motion Picture Co. (Inc.) of Los
Angeles, as a local co-operative pub
licity feature in the exploitations of
their latest release “A Man’s Duty,”
recently shown with great success at
the Boyd theater.
As a matter of record this is the
first instance of this novel publicity
stunt of a double spread page ad by
a race motion picture corporation in
a race paper.
Polish up your brains on the emery
wheel of study.—Worthington Wil
liams.
AUSTINITES RESENT
MISREPRESENTATION
The Statement Issued by Preacher
That Negroes of Texas Capital Ap
proved Assault on Shillady Con
demned by Prominent Citizens.
CAMPBELL SPOKE
ONLY FOR HIMSELF
His Sentiments Not Even Representa
tive of His Own Followers—Rev.
J. L. Wattles, Manly Minister,
Places Facts Before Public, That
Race in Austin Be not Misjudged.
(f\>ecial to The Monitor.)
□USTIN, TEX., Sept. 10.—Some
time ago you might have noticed
an article in a southern newspaper
entitled “Shillady’s Beating Gets
Praise of Austin Negroes.”
I am frank about the matter. These
words were those of Rev. Dr. L. L.
Campbell, pastor of the Third Bap
tist church, and president of the St.
John’s association ot that denomina
tion.
i’his, howe' er, wa. not the voice of
ihe enti' e , opulatior of Austin, nor of
Travis county. Wo Austin Negroes
do not voice the sayings of that ar
ticle, nor do we join Dr. L. L. Camp
bell in his broad statement. If any
thing we defy his idea concerning the
••ace question.
On Sunday, August 3^, at Ebenezer
Third Baptist church, there was an
open discussion concerning the race
problem. In the Monday morning
Austin American’s report of what was
said that Sunday night we found that
nearly 2,000 Negroes and 200 whites
attended the meeting. Some of the
partise who appeared on the program
were ex-Mayor A. P. Wooldrige, Mr.
Walker, Miss Blanton, state superin
tendent of the public schools; Dr.
Campbell and others. It was repeated
by two or three of the speakers that
the Negro must stay in his place.
I would like for those speakers to
tell me where is the Negroes place
in America? Does not the constitu
tion of this great republic provide
that all persons born or naturalized
in the U. S. are citizens of the same
and have equal rights to all of its
laws and protection?
Then is not the Negro a citizen?
If not why did Uncle Sam draft 400,
000 into the army ? Why did they de
fend this grand old U. S. A. ? Why
did they fall by the hundreds at Metz,
Chateau Thierry, Argonne Forest and
St. Mihiel ? I write this article to
let the people of this great U. S. A.
know that Dr. L. L. Campbell is not
large enough to speak for the entire
city of Austin, nor has he brains
enough to lead its Negro population.
He can only speak for Campbell and
that’s all. Personally I do not believe
he can speak for all of his members.
I want to serve notice on him and
all that believe he was right by hav
ing such a meeting and saying what
he did about his own people.
The N. A. A. C. P. is not a propa
ganda to stir race prejudice as stated
by some of our city officials; but be
it well understood by our so-called
southern white friends that the com
field Negro does not exist any more;
the Uncle Sam and Uncle Tom Negro
died in the 19th century, where the
young Negro is settling the race
question and we only respectfully de
mand the respect given other races
that constitute this great republic.
We are not asking for social equal
ity in the south, but we are asking
for our rights as American citizens.
Social equality has been the admitted
bar to the Negro’s progress. Since he
does not want social equality what is
next to hinder his opportunity as oth
er races have? We only want equal
accommodation in public affairs.
(Signed) REV. J. L. WATTLEY,
1205 East 13th St., Austin, Tex.
BODY OF MAN 12 FEET
LONG FOUND IN MICHIGAN
Jackson, Mich.—What is thought to
be the body of a pre-historic man,
twelve feet in length, was found bur
ied in the yard of a Jackson police
man while excavating work was be
ing done there.
The body, it is said by physicians
who examined it, is in a perfect state
of preservation, even to the hair on
the head and the teeth, which show
no sign of decay. Physicians gave
it as their opinion that the body was
genuine.
Looks Too Respectable to Act a Tough, Doesn’t He?
Charles H. Hamby of Austin, Tex.,
Sends Monitor an Autographed
Snapshot of Himself and Requests
Copy of Paper Containing It—Ed
itor Acknowledges Receipt of the
Constable’s Picture.
CCOPIES of The Monitor of Aug
A ust 28, containing a report of the
attack on Mr. John R. Shillady by
three well known characters of Aus
tin, were sent to the principals in that
cowardly assault. Recently there
came by mail to The Monitor, in an
envelope bearing the name of George
S. Matthews, sheriff, a snapshot pho
tograph, bearing this signature and
inscription, “Charles H. Hamby, con
stable, Austin, Tex., John R. Shilla
dy’s Social Equality Manager. Please
Send Me a Copy of This Paper.”
The receipt of the picture was ac
knowledged in the following letter:
September 9, 1919.
Charles H. Hamby,
Constable, Austin, Tex.,
Care Geo. S. Matthews, Sheriff.
Dear Sir:
I desire to acknowledge with thanks
the receipt of your autographed pho
tograph. Unfortunately it is too late
to have “cut” of the same made for
this week’s issue; however, this can
be done in ample time for next week’s
issue, a copy of which, in accordance
with your request, it will give me
pleasure to send you.
I am very sure that readers of The
Monitor will be pleased to see your
picture and will be surprised that a
man of your gentlemanly and respec
table appearance could or would be
guilty of conduct characteristic of a
cowardly thug, such as the unpro
voked attack upon Mr. Shillady was.
Unless I am very much mistaken in
you, for in this picture you do not
look like a coward, I believe that you
are ashamed of your part in that af
fair which was anything but brave
and manly.
It may be of interest to you to be
told that in your picture you bear a
striking resemblance to my personal
OoceA^*—^\
friend, the Hon. Gilbert M. Hitch
cock, democratic senator from Ne
braska, who stands high in the coun
cils of your party.
I hope the day will come, sir, and
may it not be long delayed, when the
warm-hearted people of the great
Southland will realize that “consti
tutional rights,” to which all Ameri
can citizens are entitled, and “social
equality,” which laws cannot reach
and is dependent solely upon and
regulated by individual taste and af
finity, are totally separate and dis
tinct things. If the republic is to en
dure, the first, constitutional rights,
must be guaranteed to every citizen.
This position your section mistakenly
refuses to accept. And this accounts
for the attitude assumed by Gover
nor Hobby, Judge Pickle, yourself and
others, of justification for the unjus
tifiable and regrettable attack upon a
gentleman like Mr. Shillady.
Let us hope that some day we may
all grow into a larger and truer con
ception of what real Americanism,
real democracy means.
Respectfully yours,
JNO. ALBERT WILLIAMS,
Editor.
