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<2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy_ OMAHA. NEBRASKA. MARCH 18, 1920_Vol. V. No. 37 (Whole No. 246)
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LEONARD WOOD A
.’•EAT AMERICAN
Only Three ^ In History of Nation,
Washington, \ *oln and Roosevelt,
W ere Better < I fled for Presl
deney Declares V*lnent .Minister.
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SPEAKS AS A PAT». T
NOT AS A PARTISAN
Dr. Violette Extols Character and
Qualifications of Successful Gover
nor General of Cuba and Pacifica
tor of Moreland—Congregation Ap
proves Sentiments.
(Special to The Monitor by Staff
Correspondent)
KANSAS City, March 16.—That the
admirers and supporters of Gen
eral Leonard Wood arc not confined to
any one section is shown by the
econiums which he is receiving from
all sorts and conditions of men round
about the Kaw. Wood sentiment is
strong among the members of our
race in Missouri and Kansas, but that
this sentiment is by no means con
fined to our people is indicated by a
sermon on ‘‘Great Americans," which
was preached here last Sunday night
in Central Christian church. The
large audience frequently applauded
the speaker, showing how fully he
voiced their sentiments. Here is the
report as published in the Kansas City
Star:
Only three men in American history
—Washington, Lincoln arid Roosevelt
have been better qualified for the
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LEONARD WOOD.
M(j«r General, United States Army.
president than General I^eonard
Wood. Dr. E. E. Vlolette told his con
gregation at the Central Christian
church last night in the first of a
series of sermons on "Great Ameri
cans."
A congregation that filled the
church applauded when.Dr. Vlolette
explained he did not want his sermon
accepted in the spirit of partisanship,
and added:
“But I am hoping that our next
president, whoever he may be, has the
abtlity, the character, the courage and
the patriotism of General Wood."
Criticisms in General’s Furor.
A ripple of laughter swept over the
audience when Dr. Vlolette referred
to the criticisms enemies of General
Wood have advanced as “reasons”
why he should not be nominated.
“They say he is a doctor.” Dr. Vio
lette said. "Well, now, in the name
of high heaven, are’nt we sick?”
“They say he is a soldier. George
Washington was a soldier; so was
Grant, and some of you, perhaps. And
no one can say doing one’s duty is
bad
"And then they say he has the spirit
of Theodore Roosevelt. Now, that's
what I like about him.”
Applause Interrupted Dr. Vlolette
when he mentioned Roosevelt.
"All of us may not have agreed with
Theodore Roosevelt in everything," he
said, “but even his worst enemies
must admit he was 100 per cent Amer
) ican.”
“Wot All Are Good Americans."
In explaining the rule he had fol
lowed in selecting subjects for the
"Great Americans" series of sermons,
Dr. Vlolette declared Wood had not
been chosen because he is a presi
dential candidate.
"I believe a great American stands
J
for something." he said, "that means
more to us as a people than all else
in the world. Because a man is a
candidate for the presidency is no rea
son that he is a great American. In
deed, not all those whose 'hats are in
the rings' of both parties are good
Americans, by any means.”
Overcome Many Handicaps.
A brief sketch of General Wood’s
rugged life, the versatility of achieve
ment and the clean life he has led
was cited by the speaker as reasons
for Wood's place among the great. He
told of Wood’s going to Cuba, saying
the Rough Riders was “Wood's idea."
Then he reviewed the record the gen
eral made as governor general of
Cuba, recalling there were no schools,
no roadR and there were epidemics of
deadly disease to fight.
"And in two years," he said, "Gen
eral Wood did more for Cuba than the
Spanish had done in 400 years before.’’
Brought Down the H. C. L.
"An incident of the Wood adminis
tration in Cuba that may throw some
light on Leonard Wood’s ability to do
things occurred when the natives com
plained of the high cost of living."
said Dr. Violette. "They said they
were paying 90 cents a pound for beef.
Wood sent cut and brought all the
butchers in Havana before him.
" ‘How much are you getting for
beef ’ he asked bluntly. 'It is very
high,’ they replied. ‘But how much;’
Wood insisted. ‘It is very, very high.’
they returned. ‘How much?' Wood de
manded, and they admitted 90 cents a
pound. Then he demanded the cost
of the beef, and a similar crosR exam
ination he learned the beef cost 15
cents a pound. Whereupon Leonard
Wood fixed 25 cents a pound as the
price to be charged and that was the
price.
"Wouldn’t it bo fine if some official
in the United States today had sense
enough to perform like that?”
Then Dr. Violette told of Wood's ex
ploits in the Philippines, his diplo
matic trips to Germany, and the trip
to Argentina which resulted in a
closer bond of friendship between the
Americas.
"Men who think Leonard Wood has
not accomplished anything," Dr. Vio
lette said, "should take on a Job like
he had in Moroland. where he brought
erder out of chaos."
Told of General’s Work With H#th.
In speaking of General Wood’s rec
ord In the great war. Dr. Violette took
the audience on a word tour of Camp
Funston with the Eighty-ninth divi
sion. thence to the seaboard where the
general received the notorious order
denying him the privilege of leading
bis troops into battle.
"It shall stand as one of the saddest
disappointments in life,” Dr. Violette
declared. "But fate is a strange old
creature, after all. Wouldn’t it be the
irony of fate, though, if the secretary
of war should wake up on the sixth of
November next, and glance at the
headlines in the morning paper, an
nouncing, ‘Wood Elected President, by
Largest Majority in History?*"
EIGHT TONS OF MAMMALS
SENT TO IJ. S. MUSEUM
New York, March 17.—The biggest
collection of mammals ever taken
out of Mongolia—1,300 specimens,
weighing more than eight tons—has
been brought from that country by
the second Asiatic expedition of the
American Museum of Natural His
tory, it was announced by Roy Chap
man Andrews, associate curator of
Maramalorgy of the mfciseum and
chief of the expedition.
Mr. Andrews told of the timing of
the speed of antelope by automobile
chase and speedometer records by
which It was demonstrated an an
telope can run fiO miles an hour at
top speed and for two miles, then
drop to 50 miles an hour for two
miles and then to 35 to 40 miles an
hour for an almost Indefinite period.
He said he ran one antelope 40 miles
an hour for 20 miles and then it quit
out of "curiosity,” as it never be
fore had been chased so long. When
he examined the animal it was not
winded.
FINEI) FOR RIDING IN
UOAfH FOR COLORED
Nashville, Tenn., March 17.—Three
wlhite men were fined $10.00 each here
last week for refusing to vacate
seats got apart for colored people in
the Jim Crow car. Miss Lillie
Smith declared the men played cards
and used profane language. She has
filed suit against the railroad com
pany for $15,000.
OVER TEN MILLIONS
AMOUNT DESIRED
Four Leading Religions Denominations
of Color Apportioned Immense Sam
to Raise in Great Interrhnrch Na.
lion-wide Movement.
ONE-THIRTIETH ONLY
OF ENTIRE BUDGET
Millions to Be Spent in Evangelistic,
Educational and Eleemosanry Work
In United Slates and Foreign Fields
—Bndget Planned to Meet. World
Need in Advancing Civilization.
NEW York, March 17.—A total of
$10,729,263 in1 eluded in the
budget of the communions co-oper
ating in the Interchurch World
Movement is for the educational,
missionary and benevolent work
among Negroes to be done by four
communions whose membership ag
gregates more than 4,000,000 of the
colored people of this country.
Most of the money to be raised for
work among the Negroes is in the
budget of the national Baptist con
vention. The total of askings of this
denomination covers a five-year pro
gram. Two million fifty thousand of
the amount is to be paid during 1920.
The $250,000 asked for the work
of the Colored Methodist Episcopal
church is for colleges and schools
supported by this body.
Zion church with askings for $212,
000 will distribute the amounts as
follows Foreign missions, $52,000;
American education. $60,000; Ameri
can ministerial support and relief,
$40,000 and miscellaneous work,
$10,000.
The Reformed Zion Union Apostle j
church has one item in the budget
for $17,263 to he used for home mis
sions.
The united simultaneous financial |
campaign to he conducted under the
general direction of the Interchurch j
World Movement from April 25 to
May 2 will be nation-wide in its
scope and will Include the askings of
thirty denominations aggregating the
sum of $336,777,572. Of this sum
$175,448,349 is to be paid by the sub
scribers this year.
Coincident with the announcement
of the budget. Dr. S. Earl Taylor,
general secretary of the Interchurch
World Movement, issued this state
ment;
“In presenting the budget the Tn
terchurch World Movement asks
nothing for Itself. All of the ex
penses incurred will be paid by the
eo-operating age.neles and the Inter
church World Movement Is merely
the servant of all.
"The budget represents an earnest
attempt on the part of thoughtful
Christian men and women to make a
study of the world’s needs, as viewed
from the standpoint of the co-opcrat
ing churches and to lay these needs
upon the minds, the hearts and the
consciences of the people of America,
thus placing the responsibility where
if. belongs—upon the shoulders of the
individuals who make up that ele
ment of our republic who believe
that the security of our democratic
foundations has been because they
have rested upon the Christian home,
the open BIMe, the free school, and
the free church."
ARKANSAS COURT CONTINUES
CONDEMNED MEN’S \PPEW,
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Little Rock. Ark., March 16.—The
appeal of the twelve men condemned
to death for participation in the
Elaine race riots last October was
continued in the supreme court again.
The attorney general asked three
week in which to file a brief. The
appellants filed their briefs Monday.
Fourteen wthites and nine colored
men lost their lives in the uprising
at Elaine.
LONDON TIMES DECLARES
INDIES NOT ON MARKET
London. March 9.—"Not for sale”
is the heading of the liondon Times
editorial today on the question of the
transfer of the British WeBt Indies to
the United States In payment of Great
Britain’s war debt. It adds that
Great Britain should allay all idle
talk and any misgivings or feelings
of insecurity that may have been en
gendered bf the report.
WANT TWO DELEGATES.
Waco. Tex.—Colored politicians are
agitating here for two colored dele
gates-at-large to the next republican
national convention.
FAMOUS COLORED REGIMENT
SENT INTO MEXICO
Nogales, Ariz.. March 17.—The fa
mous Tenth cavalry and the Twenty
fifth Infantry, crack regular army reg
iments which have been watching the
Mexican border for months, moved
into Mexico Sunday as a demonstra
tion against the outlaws of that coun
try, who committed a raid on Ameri
can soil on Friday, resulting with the
loss of American life, and the de
struction of. American property. As
to the extent of t|ie expedition into
the hostile country of t he republic
south of the Rio Orande, little could
be learned, but it is generally under
stood that the troops are bent on bus
ienss. and are acting in conjunction
with the civil authorities of the bor
der states.
All during the world war the men
of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty
fifth infantry and Tenth cavalry were
kept in close touch with lllie Mexican
situation as neither Carranza nor his
treacherous soldiers were trusted.
The colored troopers know and un
derstand the border work better than
any other soldiers in the United
States army, and if given orders to
make a cleanup on the "greasers," re
sults would he forthcoming.
WHAT FLANKS DO YOU
WANT IN PLATFORM
REPUBLICAN PARTY!
Members of Committee on Platform
anil Policy Desire Clear Statements
of What Race Demands of G. 0. P.
(By Associated Negro Press.)
New York, N. Y., March 16.—The
five colored members of the repub
lican party’s committee on platform
and policy, recently appointed by
Will H. Hays, chairman of the na
tional committee, desire clear state
ments front colored people through
out the country as to what they ex
pect and demand from the republi
can party.
I 'Heeh Interested person is requested
to write at once to any one of the
five members stating, as briefly as
possible, his views as to those things
which the colored voters of the
Unted States wish presented to the
republican party for incorporation in
the platform, and adoption in the pol
icies of the republican party.
The members of the committee are:
Robert R. Church, 391 Beaie avenue.
Memphis Tenn.: T)r. Sumner N. Fur
niss, 132 West New York street,
Indianapolis. Ind.; James Weldon
Johnson. 79 Fifth avenue. New York
City; William H. Lewis. Old South
building. Boston Mass.; Roscoe Conk
lin Simmons, 3199 State street, Chi
cago, 111,
PEOPLE OF LOUISVILLE
ORGANIZING BANK
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Fjouisville, Ky., March 16.—The
First Standard bank, with capital of
$100,000 and surplus of $10,000. is be
ing organized in this city. The Fi
delity & Columbia Trust company,
one of the leading trust companies in
the south, is trustee. About $60,000
worth of stock has already been sub
scribed. The organization committee
of the First Standard bank is com
posed of thirty-five well known and
influential men and women, repre
senting every activity among colored
people.
LABOR ORGANIZATION
FAVORS EQUAL PAV
Baltimore, Md., March 16.—Ui>on a
proposal of the Colored Waiters’
union. No. 836. the local body of the
American Federation of I^abor went
on record at its weekly meeting for
equal compensation for colored
teachers and white. The labor or
ganization listenel to the arguments
of several delegates of the waiters’
union and then deemed it proper to
rupFMjrt the measure.
SOUTHERN BLACKSMITH ACCUM
ULATED $100,000 IN FORTY
YEARS.
Anderson, S. C., March 17.—Report
comes of the death of David Dooley,
a colored blacksmith of Anderson,
8. C.. who “in forty years of labor
accumulated a fortune conservatively
estimated at $100,000." The career
of this "highly respected and es
teemed citizen” of color in a south
ern town is worth the consideration
of (the bolshevists.
FIRST WOMAN DELEGATE
IN SOUTHERN CONVENTION
Historical Precedents in South Bro
ken by Mrs. Annie Simms Banks,
Actively Participates in Republican
State Convention.
OTHER WOMEN ATTEND
AS INTERESTED SPECTATORS
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Le Grange. Kentucky, March 16.—
Although Kentucky women will not
get full suffrage this year, but will
vote in the presidential election,
Negro women already have entered
politics. This is the first time in the
history of the south when Negro
women have taken any apparent in
terest in politics, and certainly the
first when a woman member of that
race has participated as a fully ac
credited delegate at a convention.
When the Seventh Congressional
district republican delegate met here
preparatory to the state convention,
among them was Mrs. Annie Simms
Banks, of Winchestor, Kv„ one of the
delegation from Clark county, who
not only took part in the proceedings,
but was appointed a member of the
rules committee, and as such helped i
prepare the report submitted to the
state convention. She was referred
to whenever it hecame necessary as
“the lady from Clark.” and was ac
corded as much courtesy as any oth
er delegate.
When the resolutions committee
reported Mrs. Banks gave a short
talk, which was heard with much in
terest.
Added inieresf was given to the
meeting by the presence in the hall
of other colored women, who. how
ever, had no voice in the convention.
They watched the proceedings very
closelv.
FARMERS MAY BANK BY MAIL.
Innovation In Banking Circles Ad
vanced by Nashville’s New Bank
President.
(By Reciprocal News Service.)
Nashville, Tenn., March 16.—Bank
ing by mail is an innovation in bank
ing circles introduced in this city by
the new president of the One Cent
Savings bank, in the person of Henry
A. Boyd, who was recently elected.
His recommendation to the executive
committee, which already has been
indorsed and which was acted upon
by the hoard of directors in their
meeting the first Wednesday night in
March, proposes to offer to the peo
ple even in the remote rural districts
an opportunity to open an account
with this, one of the strongest insti
tutions in Tennessee and do it by
mail. Already the plan has met with
popular favor. Deposits have been
sent in from such states as Arkansas,
Texas. Louisiana and Mississippi.
The department will be conducted by
special clerks but no deposits are to
be sent to the bank except through
registered mail and these pass books
for the “banking by mail” department
will hear the name of One Cent Sav
ings bank, banking by mail depart
ment.
Mr. Boyd states this this idea or
this recommendation to the directors
was gleaned from his experience in
bis Sunday school congress work,
which has forced him to visit the
rural districts throughout the United
States where people were denied
hanking privileges and were forced
to keep their money around their
home, due to the fact they were not
permitted to go to the cities often.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ASKS
DATA ON USE OF WHITE PAPER
Washington, March 17.—Chairman
Steenerson of the house postoffice
committee has written newspaper
publishers calling attention to the
committee’s request that they reduce
consumption of newsprint paper 10
per cent, because of the acute short
age. The publishers are requested to
furnish information as to the amount
of paper consumed by them in the
four montSis ending March 1, 1920,
and before the same period the year
before.
COULD NOT TELL
THE DIFFERENCE
Pittsburg, Pa., March 17.—Because
Ills two companions looked liKe white
women, Walter Graham of North
Carolina, was arrested in the Penn
sylvania station last week. One of
the women was his wife. Although
"white” the two women are colored.
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WILL UNITED STATES
ACQUIRE WEST INDIES?
Snggestion That Great Britain Re
linquish Island Possessions in Pay
ment of War Debt to America Has
Reached Stage of General Debate
Raises Important Question.
INHABITANTS LARGELY
OF AFRICAN DESCENT
Enjoy Privileges and Equality Before
the Law Which They Woaid Be Re
luctant to Surrender for Restric
tions Placed Upon Race by Ameri
can Prejudice Declares Chicago
Journal.
(By Associated Negro Press.)
CHICAGO, 111., March 16.—One of
the most important expressions
concerning eradiction of American
prejudice and indifference that has
ever been made, comes from the Chi
cago Journal, the oldest publication
in the city, and democratic in poli
tics. It is under the caption of "An
International Aspect of Lynching”
and affords a lesson for America that
cannot be overlooked.
“The suggestion that Great Britain
relinquish her West Indian islands
and the Bermudas to the United
States, says the Journal, as part pay
ment of the British debt to this coun
try has reached the stage of general
debate. It must be added that up to
date, one of the basic questions in
volved has not been mentioned by
the debaters.
“Neither Britain nor the United
States is going to transfer popula
tions from one sovereignty to the
other without their consent. In the
case of the islands mentioned, will
that consent be given?
“A heavy majority of all these
islanders are wholly or partly of Afri
can descent. In Jamaica the whites
form only 1 per cent of the popula
tion, and though they are somewhat
mere numerous in the Bermudas, they
are still in a minority. The Bahamas,
likewise, show a heavy preponderance
of blacks.
“Under the British flag these
islanders have a social position high
er than the people of their race en
joy in the United States. They have
something much more important, ab
solute legal equality, and constant,
competent protection from the law.
There are no lynchings in the Brit
ish West Indies. There are no race
riots, though something more than a
generation ago there was a disturb
ance in Jamaica which the governor
suppressed with considerable se
verity.
“Meanwhile, in the first six months
of 1919, the last period for which au
thoritative figures can be had, twen
ty-five Negroes were lynched in the
United States. Only seven of these
were even charged with assaults on
women. Year by year, lawless vio
lence of this sort goes on, and at Ir
regular intervals came race riots like
those of Springfield, East St. Louis
and Chicago.
“Will the colored populations of
the British West Indies vote to leave
their present security and Join a
country where members of their race
are treated in this fashion? It seems
doubtful. The Islands are natural
appanages of the North American
continent. Under ordinary circum
stances they would gravitate into
some sort of affiliation with or
allegiance to the United 8tates. But
between them and their natural
tendencies and interests the lynchers
and race rioters of this country have
placed a barrier which may well
prove to be impassable.’’
WINS FIRST PRIZE IN
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEST
Los Angeles, Calif., March 17.—
First prize of $’00 offered by the Los
Angeles Pressed Brick Co. for the
best design for a house not to cost
more than $5,000 was won by Paul
R. Williams, 110 Story builllng.
The competition was open to archi
tects of California and Arizona. Four
prizes of $300, $150, $100 and $50
were awarded. White architects won
the second, third and fourth prizes.
FORBIDS RIOT MOYTES.
Lexington, Ky., March 17.—Moving
pictures of the riot here recently
when six whites were killed storming
the city jail, where prohibited by
Mayor Bradley as likely to cause dis
order.