l=~j The Monitor i — i A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor $2.00 a Year. 5c a < •/ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 23, 1919 Vol. V. No. 16 (Whole No. 225) Honorimkthe “Dead Lion”—The Roosevelt Memorial * _____ ■■ ... .... . LYNCHERS OF WILL £4~X~X*«~XK*<~X~X~X“X~X~X~X~X~X“X~X~X~X~X~X~;* Events in the Life of Roosevelt X Born in New York City. Oct. 27, 1858 ;j; X Elected to Assembly, New York State--Nov. 8, 1881 X £ Appointed U. S. Civil Service Gr.nmissioner. May 7, 1889 X fj Appointed N. Y. Police Commissioner. May 6, 1895 ;j> X Nominated Assistant Secretary of Navy.. .. April 6, 1897 ? Appointed Lieut. Col. First Volunteer Cavalry X X (Bought Riders) ... -- May 6, 1898 X X Elected Governor New York .Nov. 8, 1898 •{• Elected Vice President of U. S. .. ..Nov. 6, 1900 X L1* Succeeded McKinley as President of U. S-Sept. 14, 1901 X Elected President of U. S.. . Nov. 8, 1904 •}• Died . -Jan. 6, 1919 | TRIBUTES TO THE GREAT AMERICAN BEW YORK, Oct. 17.—William Boyce Thompson, president of the Roosevelt Memorial association, has received tributes to Theodore Roosevelt from Mrs. August Belmont (Eleanor Robson Belmont), Irwin R. Kirkwood, publisher of the Kansas Kansas City Star, to which newspaper the colonel was a contributor; Wil liam Wrigley, Jr., of Chicago; Medill McCormick, United States senator from Illinois; William S. Hart, the moving picture star; the Rev. Dr. Samuel Schulman, rabbi of Temple Deth-El in New York City, and John S. Cravens of Los Angeles, Cal. These tributes are as follows: “It seems to me that first and fore most Theodore Roosevelt was a great American in the best sense of the phrase; a capable and courageous fighter; an adventurer in thought and action, as eagerly hunting big ideas in the minds of men as he sought big game in the jungle. Generous in praise of others and fearless in com petition with them, whether that com petition took him into the field oi sport or world affairs. “Democratic in his friendships but beyond that he was deeply interested in and loved humanity, and humanity loved him in return. Take him all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.—Eleanor Robson Belmont.” “Whenever I think of Theodore Roosevelt one incident stands out in my memory. I met him just after the report of Quentin’s death had been confirmed. It was a terrible blow. But the whole tenor of his conversa tion was: ‘We mustn’t talk about it. We mustn’t think about it. The onl> thing to think about now is the coun try. What can be done to speed up the war?’ “The picture of this heart-broker father, putting his private grief be hind him to consider what should be done for the nation, will always stay with me. “One thing I believe the proposed memorial will help keep before the American people. It is the ideal of supreme devotion to the country that forever will be associated with the name of Roosevelt.—Irwin R. Kirk wood,” “I am heartily in favor of a me morial to our greatest American— Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, not only because his works while alive entitle him to the very best the citizens of this country can give him in the way of a memorial, but for the good influ ence such a memorial would have in perpetuating the ideals that he fought so strenuously for.—William Wrigley, Jr.” “I cannot yet think of Theodore Roosevelt without bitterness, that he, who so loved his country and who gave it his all should have been so maligned and during these last years should have been so meanly treated by those who might have mustered his great powers to the service of the war. Hut it was Roosevelt’s fate, as it was Washington’s and Lincoln’s, to be fought by envious enemies and by them to be held in derision and con tempt. He was truly simple. He was as generous, gentle, affectionate and open minded, as he was constant, strong willed, courageous, high tem pered and violent of speech. “He had a revulsion, instantaneous and communicable to all who were about him, against the petty and shabby vicps of mankind. He hated the more rugged sins, as do all good men, but he utterly loathed hypocrisy, sloth, cowardice and equivocation. It was this in him which made him the greatest moral power in the country. He was himself the essence of our common paradox, the buoyancy and Puritanism of America. He recalled to us what lay covered, embedded in our hearts—our love for the simple virtues which had made our fathers great. In spite of the materialism which attended the exploitation of a virgin continent, the growth of ugly cities, the development of vast indus tries; in spite of the shabby exploita tion of the immigrants who crowded to our shores; in spite of the crass ad mi ration in which the last generation beheld their sudden millionaires, America cherished its traditions. Roosevelt spoke for those traditions and the country heard, as it were, a familiar voice long silent. “He was the prophet of the old pub lic morality, to which he brought back (Continued on Page 2.) EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONFERENCE AND URBAN LEAGUE CONVENE The General Convention of the Epis copal Church Considers a Large Constructive Plan for Evangelistic and Educational Work—Sidelights on Ecclesiastical Gathering. ANNUAL CONFERENCE URBAN LEAGUE Attended by Delegates from Several States Who Consider Industr . Problems and Opportunities ol Race—Optimistic Note Dominant Throughout Session—Notable So cial Workers of Both Races Attend. (Special to The Monitor by the Edito DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 23.—This wide-awake, progressive city, fast becoming one of the great manu facturing and industrial centers of the world, has gotten the habit of enter taining conventions and representative gatherings of all sorts. Two gather ings of especial interest to our people, one concluded, the other to end this week, and of far-reaching influence are the General Convention of the Episcopal Church and the Annual Conference of the National Urban League. The General Convention The General Convention, among other things, is vitally interested in pushing aggressively a far-reaching evangelistic, educational and socio logical campaign among Negroes in the United States, Haiti and Liberia; and in furtherance of this recommend ing a budget of something over $2, 500,000. This, of course, is interest ing information. The election of a bishop of Liberia is another important event. So it will be readily under stood that these are matters in which all our people are more or less inter ested. This convention opened with an impressive service in St. Paul’s cathedral Wednesday morning, Oc tober 8, and is scheduled to close this week. In the long line of prelates were Bishops Demby of Arkansas and Delaney of North Carolina. These two bishops, with Archdeacon Russell, principal of St. Paul’s Nor mal and Industrial school, of Law renceville, Va., and the Rev. Dr. N. H. B. Cassell, president of Liberia col lege and clerical deputy from Liberia, have been much in demand as speak ers and have everywhere made a mo. t favorable impression. High Spiritual Love The convention has been markeu throughout by a high spiritual tone. In the house of deputies which is com posed of both clerical and lay deputies or delegates the laymen have taken the most advanced ground for en larged work by the Episcopal church in pushing to the limit the activities of this great communion so that its in fluence upon the Christian life of America may be in some degree com mensurate with its historic claims and opportunities. One clerical deputy was overheard to remark: “It looks like the Episcopal church has become ‘converted,’ as some folks say.” Bishops Open Doors A notable feature of this session of the General Convention is the fact that tfie House of Bishops which has always hitherto sat with closed doois, has thrown open its sessions to the public. It reseives the right, how ever, to sit in executive session when ever it is deemed desirable. The Detroit General Convention of the Episcopal Church will go down into history as epochal. The Urban League Probably of more immediate inter est to our people has been the con ference of the National Urban League for Work Among Negroes which con cluded its sessions here Saturday afternoon. The conference opened Wednesday morning, October 15. Dele gates from several states were in at tendance. Among the national offi cers present: L. Hollingsworth Wood, chairman, of New York City; John T. Emlen, of Philadelphia, vice chair man; Dr. George C. Hall of Chicago; Mrs. Henry G. Leach of Philadelphia; Miss Elizabeth Walton of New York; Eugene Kincle Jones, executive secre tary, and Henry G. Stevens. The morning and afternoon ses sions were held in the lecture room of the Ginsberg library and the eve ning sessions* at Bethel Methodist church and the Second Baptist church. Large audiences were present at all the meetings and especially the night sessions. Live Subjects Discussed Among the subjects discussed were: “The Negro’s Industrial Opportunity,” “Recreation and the Worker,” “Health of the Worker,” “Housing of the Worker,” “Training for More Skilled Work,” “Organization of Negro Work ers,” “Community Program for In dustrial Efficiency” and “A National Industrial Program.” The general sub ject of which these were some of the subdivisions was “Industrial Prob lems of the Negro." Some of the chief speakers were Miss Elizabeth Walton, chairman New York Urban league; Eugene K. Jones, W. T. B. Williams of Tuskegee, supei' visor of the Jeanne and Slater funds; Dean William Pickens of Morgan col lege; Walter A. May, president Pitts burgh Urban league; Miss Josephine Pinyon, New York; Dr. George E. Haynes, J. G. Lemon of Savannah; Dr. W. N. DeBerry of Springfield, Mass.; Miss Eva D. Bowles and Miss Mary McDowell, head University of Chicago settlement. The note struck by all the speakers stressed again and again throughout the conference was industrial prepar edness and efficiency to take advan tage of the present industrial oppor tunity. The conference fully demonstrated the fact that thoughtful, earnest, well- trained men and women of both races, for both were in attendance and took part upon the program—are fully alive to the Negro’s industrial opportunities and needs. SAGAMORE HILL A PILGRIMAGE CENTER Funds Will be Used to Save This Place as National Park. EW YORK, Oct. 18.—William Boyce Thompson, president of the Roosevelt Memorial association, on October 18th gave out the follow ing statement from Charles E. Hughes, former governor of New York and ex-associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, who is an honorary president of the association: “I have a great desire that in all that is done memorializing Colonel Roosevelt, that there should be con stantly impressed upon the succeed ing generations of America, the hab t of thought and the ideals of that man as he actually was and walked among us. If there is anything that has rescued Washington from the mists of an impossible legendary' character, and brought him to us and enabled lib in some way to reconstruct his life, it is Mount Vernon and the picture ol the conditions amid which he actually lived. And in a future day, I have no doubt there will be pilgrimages to Sagamore Hill in equal number with those that are made to Mount Vernon, and in that community there may be gathered various articles which will illustrate his activities, and there will be continued the atmosphere of his home, and the place where he live< among his neighbors, and in his hours of retirement after his public services. “But after all, we have this to con sider. You can never perpetuate memory by monuments; those whose memory will ever abide, need no monuments. Nothing can be done in the way of tributes to the great; they abide because they are great, they abide because there is something in their influence which humanity needs. “There is an instinct in humanity which goes out after the food of the soul, just as there is an instinct in the animal to go out after its natural food, and those who have really served, those who have enlarged our conception of what the human mind is capable of, those who have really touched the hearts of the masses and made the people feel that here is a great man, kin to all—those can never die; and I believe that Theodore Roosevelt is one of those abiding per sonalities. “The invested capital of American democracy consists in the memory of her great leaders and servants, and among those we put in the foremost rank our old friend, Theodore Roose velt.” For Monitor office call Doug. 3224.