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<2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy_ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, APRIL 29, 1920 Vol. V. No. 43 (Whole Na 252)
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Remarkable and Unpre. ♦/ Rec
ord of Tonssalnt L. v o„ 'rt,
Who for Fifty Years Has * %
Made Ills Hounds as I’osti.
the Heart of Detroit’s Bn*. j
Center.
“MAKE ONE FRIEND A DAY”
Tins POSTMAN’S MOTTO
The Veteran Carrier Has Lived Up to
This Motto and Numbers Friends
by Thousands—An Interesting Story
of a Faithful Useful Life as Told
by the Detroit News.
YV7TIEN Toussaint L. O. Lambert,
W mail carrier, swung his mail
pack over his broad shoulders and
strode to the door of the main post
office workroom at 8 a. m. today,
there was none that correctly inter
preted his smile. The veteran car
rier had a secret. Evidently he pre
ferred to keep it to himself. That
secret concealed something humor
ous.
He nodded to the clerks and car
riers as he passed, and when out
doors chuckled and winked at the
pedestrians he met. His secret was
almost too good to keep, he thought,
but it seemed a great jest not to tell
anyone just yet.
The patrons on ,his route along
Earned street from Woodward ave
, nue to the east several blocks ob
served the old carrier’s smiling face
and caught the note of mirth in his
voice as he bade them a good morn
ing. The smile was there all day.
On his return to office someone
guessed Lambert’s secret, and he
laughed himself into a betrayal.
His Anniversary.
Yes, he was celebrating his fiftieth
anniversary as a postoffice mail car
rier. For a half century he had
never missed a day on account of
sickness or other reasons for ab
sence from duty. He has to his
credit the honorary title of “dean of
* Detroit mailmen,’’ and in his half
century of service he has served un
der nine postmasters, all #f whom
pave him honorable mention for effi
cient and faithful service.
Lambert is extremely modest.
“I was workinp on the railroad
when Grant was elected president,”
he said simply when asked why he
entered the postal service. “I came
home one day, and my mother asked
me why I did not pet a dipnlfied job
like workinp in the postoffice. To
please her, I wrote a letter to Post
master Swift, and several months
later I pot a reply. It was a notice
to report for duty.
Wins Friend a Day.
“So I reported fifty years apo on
April 1, and have reported for duty
at the same hour on every work day
since.”
Toussaint Lambert made one reso
lution when he started to work for
the Detroit postoffice. It was to
make one friend a day. This reso
lution he has kept faithfully, and he
numbers friends by the thousands, a
majority of v^hom have not seen him
in years, but who do not fail to re
member him on Christpnas with card
preetlnps. These preetinps pour Into
him from all parts of the country.
One of his early routes lay out
Woodward avenue as far as Rlph
street
"I have never pone above tfaat
street, because there were only a few
scattered cabins,” he said. "A mall
carrier can do a lot of thlnpa for
people and make llfelonp friends.
The children I used to brinp Christ
mas toys to are now middle-aped
‘ men and women who always preet
me with a smile and a handshake
when we meet. That is some re
ward for me. I’m glad to be able to
carry mail, and make new friends
every day to add to my list. I never
expect to get too old to cover my
route on schedule time, because it
seems to me to get easier every
year.”
Reports on Holiday.
Toussaint Lambert is absent-mind
ed sometimes, but this afflication
never hinders him in being punctual
for duty or in delivering his letters
correctly. He discovered his absent
mindedness on Lincoln's birthday,
when the postoffice letter carriers
were given a holiday. Lambert re
ported at the main office at his usual
hour, filled his pack full of letters
and distributed them to the patrons
on his rohtn before postoffice offi
cials could remind him that the day
was a holiday.
“Well, I got the mail into the right
hands, and I don’t mind wirking on
my day off,” he said.—The Detroit
News.
SCOTTISH RITE TO MEET
IN PHILADELPHIA
(Special to The Monitor, by Walter J.
Singleton.)
ASHINGTON, D. C„ April 16.—
An event of vital interest to
Masons of the Scottish Rite is sched
uled to take place in Philadelphia, be
ginning May !) and ending May 11.
Prominent members of the Masonic
Ordrer from all parts of the country,
and from foreign countries as well
are to be in attendance. The notice
promulgated by the supreme council
reads as follows:
Tlie thirty-ninth annual session of
the thirteenth triennial session of the
supreme council of the A. A. S. R.
Masons of the Northern Masonic
Jurisdiction of the United States will
convene in tho city of Philadelphia,
Monday, May 10, 1920, at 9 o’clock
a. m., at 409 South Eleventh street.
The triennial election of officers
will occur at this session and it is
expected that the reports of the work
of the organization will show the larg
est increase in number of consistories
and membership ever before noted.
The war seems to have given all Ma
sonic organization a new impetus, and
in no department has it been so no
ticeable as in the Scottish Rite.
The Sovereign Grand Commander,
James Francis Rickards of Detroit,
Mich., reports considerable interest In
the work all over his jurisdiction. Re
cently the work has spread to Mani
toba and other points of the British
America possessions. This session of
the supreme council will be the larg
est in point of attendance of any ever
held.
SPECIAL EXHIBIT BT
FREEDMAN'S SCHOOLS
Des Moines, la., April 22.—The lo
cal committee of arrangements for
the general conference of Methodist
Episcopal church, which convenes in
this city next month, announces that
Dr, I. Garland Benn, ome of the gen
eral secretaries, has prepared a spe
cial exhibit of the work done In the
Freedman’s Aid schools of the con
ventions.
WINS MAXWELL TOURING CAR.
Kansas City, Mo., April 22.—The
Call, a weekly published In this city
has just closed a ’’Popular Lady”
contest. Mrs. Kate Tate, as popular
race society leader, won first prize,
a five-passenger Maxwell touring
car. The leaders in the contest
were: Mrs. Kate Tate, MIsb Winetta
Donahue, Mrs. Pearl M. Dahney, Mrs.
C. W. Reed, Mrs. Amy Ward, Mrs.
D. M. Henry. Miss Evangeline Kinney.
ORGANIZE CIVIC LEAGUE
(By Associated Negro Press)
Georgetown, Del., April 22.—The
Georgetown Negro Civic league has
organized with the Rev. Henry Gar
rison, president; Joseph Bradley, vice
president; Rebecca Ingram, treasurer,
and L. V. Warrington, secretary. The
league has been organized in behalf
of the school code.
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THOUSANDS OBSERVE
HEALTH WEEK
(By Associated Negro Press)
Austin, Tex., April 22.—Thousands
la all parts of Texas observed Negro
Health Week, April 4 to 10. Special
programs were held hi the Negro
over the state, and doctors,
nurses and teachers spoke to the chil
dren on personal hygiene, school sani
tation, prevention of tuberculosis,
cleanliness of the home and other sub
jects. Ministers over the state gave
health sermons on Sunday, April 4,
which was called "Health Sunday.”
HOSPITAL ACQUIRES
BEAUTIFUL PROPERTY
Trustees Receive Encouragement and
Support from Whittier Centre, an
Association Seeking to Better Health
Conditions in “City of Brotherly
Love”
(Bv Associated Negro Press.)
Philadelphia, Pa., April 22.—
The trustees of the Mercy hos
pital, which has been doing very
creditable work for twelve years in
a converted dwelling, have chosen
the boautful site of the Episcopal
Divinity school, the Whittier Centre,
a social service organization com
posed mostly of influential white per
sons w’ho are endeavoring to improve
the health and living condition of
Negroes in Philadelphia, felt that im
proved facilities should be afforded
colored young women to learn trained
nursing here. To that end they made
an offer to Mercy hospital, that if
they succeeded in obtaining the new
site they were striving for, the Whit
tier Centre would contribute a fund
sufficient to support the best super
intendent of nurses obtainable, white
or colored. The board of directors of
Mercy hospital were unanimously in
favor of having a colored woman for
that position, feeling that her influ
ence would be greater with colored
nurses, and by her example fill them
with more inspiration. They accepted
the offer, which was a most gener
ous one, confident that they would
be able to find a colored woman who
would measure up with any available
white wman.
Miss Lulu G. Warlick, R. N., for
merly assistant superintendent of
Provident hospital, Chicago, but more
recently superintendent of nurses at
the Old General hospital, Kansas ,
City, Mo., has Just entered upon the
duties of a similar position at the
new Mercy hospital in Philadelphia.
INTRODUCES ANTI
DISCRIMINATION BILL
(By Associated Negro Press)
Boston, Mass., April 22.—Senator
John J. Walsh of this city offered in
I the state senate a substitute for the
i hill to prevent discrimination against
colored persons in hiring employes
for publicly controlled street railways,
i Senator Walsh’s amendment is broad
er than the original bill. It provides
for an amendment to the present stat
utes which prohibit discrimination
aeain't colored persons (Section 89,
Chapter 212, of the Revised Laws),
and adds “employment on all public
utilities.”
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"Years "Work.
That is the kind of increase in salary
the minister has received. His living
expenses have risen just as fast and as far
as yours.
But he is paid on the average just 52 cents
more per church member than he was paid 34
years ago.
The Minister Never Fails Yoa
Every officer of the Government with a war
message to deliver appealed to the ministers first
of alL
But 80$ of the ministers receive less income
than government economists figure as a minimum
for the support of an average family.
When hospitals need money they enlist the
support of the ministers—and receive it.
But when sickness visits the minister or the
members of his family they must be treated in a
charity ward. His pay is less than a day laborer's.
8 out of every 10 ministers receive less than
$20 a week—about half the pay of a mechanic.
We Pay Him Half the Wages of a Mechanic
And of these pitifully inadequate salaries, how much do
you contribute? Nothing if you are outside the church;
en average of less than 3c a day if you are a church
member.
All of us share in the benefits of Christian ministers to
the community. They marry us; bury us; baptize our
children; visit us when we are sink. In their bands is the
spiritual training of the youth.
We Are All Profiteer* at Their Expense
Part of the Interchurch World program is this—a living
wage for every minister of Jesus Christ; an efficient plant,
and a chance to do a big man’s job.
If you want better preachers, help to pay the preachers
better. It's the best investment for your community—and
for your children—that you can ever maki
Interchurch
WOBJJ) MOVEMENT
« WEST t>th STREET, NEW TORE CITT
A. pubUoatiom of tUo odrorttommomt to mmdo poootSto
LAKE STREET COMMUNITY
SERVICE TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN
Plans are now being made by the
Community Service executive council
for a campaign to raise $4,000 as our
required quota of the year's budget
to carry on community work through
January 31, 1920, among colored peo
ple. White citizens propose to raise
$8,000.
Appeal will be made to churches,
lodges, and all organizations as well
as to individuals for liberal donations
toward the desired fund. It has al
ready been demonstrated that the
work Is worth while. There Is no
level-headed or logically thinking
person but will concede that Com
munity Service, by working as a pre
vention rather than a cure, provid
ing wholesome recreation, has done
a work which no O'^anlzatlon limit
ed by certain laws and customs could
possibly do. Community Service is
not an organization, it is only a pro
gram ; it is of the people for the peo
ple and by the people and the people
must support It.
Subscription cards will be mailed
to all persons who are, and should
be, interested In race and community
uplift asking that the cards be re
turned with a liberal subscription.
These cards will be accompanied by
letters of explanation and a purposed
program of the work and will also
be followed up In most cases by per
sonal interviews.
No one can afford to miss the op
portunity of putting himself In line
with a movement which tends to build
up the morale of the youth. It will
be a rare privilege to invest money
in human lives. It may be years be
fore the money will yield returns but
when the returns begin to come in
it will mean clean men and women
to combat the evils of the world,
strong men and men who will’ be
physically fit to live long useful lives
evolving from year to year a race in
creasing in Intelligence, strength,
morality and loyal citizenship.
Your donation will prove that you
are interested in your posterity. Can
you afford to deny the fact?
Members of the executive council
who have charge of the campaign are
EJ W. Pryor, president; Dan DeS
dunes, vice president; Mrs. Lillian
Black, secretary; Nate Hunter, treas
urer; H. J. Pinkett, Dr. J. A. Single
ton, Mrs. J. H. Moss, Mrs. J. H. Hut
ten, Mrs E. R. Jackson, Mrs. J. A.
Smith, Noah Thomas, Mrs. Julia Hud
lin, Alfred Jones, sr.
PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY SPEAKS AT
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
Washington, D. C., April 22.—Presi
dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Co
lumbia university addressed the stu
dents of Howard university, Monday
morning, March 29, in Andrew Rankin
Memorial chapel. Dr. Butler spoke
with very great clearness and defi
niteness of the responsibility resting
upon students privileged to attend an
institution such as Howard university.
He traced in chaste language the steps
one must take to reach the station of
“educated men and women,” and then
devoted himself to a discussion of the
value and importance of the judg
ments which such men and women
must make in their contact with the
problems of life. Dr. Butler was
warmly received by the whole student
body when he arose to speak and was
tremendously applauded at the con
clusion of his eloquent remarks.
LEAGUE TO BETTER
(By Associated Negro Press)
INTER-RACIAL CONDITIONS
New Orleans, La., April 22.—M. L.
Alexander of the department of con
servation told an audience of more
than one thousand colored and white
persons at a meeting of the Colored
Civic League of New Orleans in the
Dauphine theater that the Association
of Commerce will stand back of the
newly-begun movement of the league
to better conditions among the race in
New Orleans. Mr. Alexander spoke
for a delegation of six from the As
sociation of Commerce, of which he
is a member.
Let us pray that the saloon has de
parted to stay. This will be the great
est blessing brought to us by pro
hibition.
suits: Adams, 363; Diet A 396 Hol
lister, 216; Leon, 218; Ure, 349; Wil
liams, 303.
Taken all In all the candidates who
will contest for the mastery at the
November elections average np well
and a hot campaign may be expected.
WOOD WINS IN
DOUGLAS COUNTY
Loyalty of Colored Vote Decisive Fac
tor in Second District—Also Puts
General Across in First—Delegates
at-Large Chosen Are Wood Men—
Johnson Carries State — Pershing
Poor Third.
WOOD DELEGATES ARE
FAVORITES AT PRIMARIES
Ten of the Twelve District Delegates
Had Declared for Wood—Colored
Candidates Make Good Showing in
Race for Political Honors.
AMONG the outstanding features of
the primaries held here April 20
may be mentioned the carrying of the
state by Hiram Johnson by a plurality
of 18,000; the election of a large ma
jority of delegates who had declared
their preference for Leonard Wood;
the success of Wood in First and Sec
ond districts, the latter of which in
cludes Douglas county, where there is
a large colored population; and the
strength shown by at least two of the
colored candidates. Contrary to ex
pectations, Barnett, candidate for the
state legislature, received a larger
vote than Singleton, an older and more
experienced campaigner, although
both men showed they were in the
running. Amos P. Scruggs, ior puD
Iic defender, was the low man among
the colored candidates and John Al
bert Williams, candidate for district
delegate, whose filing for this honor
was most displeasing to the Howell
Smith-Ure machine, polled a surpris
ingly large vote, being fourth man in
the race.
The coalition between some of the
men who announced themselves as
champions of Leonard Wood’s candi
dacy and the Johnson forces did not
impress many of those who were and
are uncompromisingly for Wood as
fair or honest. It gives the impres
sion of an attempt to mix oil and
water. It looked very much as though
some local gentlemen were more in
terested in promotion of their own
candidacy than that of Leonard Wood.
This, to be frank, is The Monitor’s
opinion. It looks very much like a
political trade which gave Johnson his
plurality in the state.
Among the delegates-at-large John
W. Towle of Omaha was the high
man. He undoubtedly received prac
tically the cnanimous vote of our
people. The Second district delegates
who won were William G. Ure and
Gould Dietz, the latter of whom also
received a heavy vote from our peo
ple. Ure was in the combination.
Dietz ran independently.
Samuel McKelvie, present governor,
against whom there was a powerful
combination to defeat him, won an
easy victory over Adam McMullen of
Beatrice, who had the backing of
many Douglas county savants.
Great interest centered in the clerk
of the district court, a position which
has been held by Robert Smith for lo!
these many years. But the canny Bob
Smith had his ever trusty rabbit foot,
which John W. Long brought with him
from Missouri about the time that
Robert came from the bonny braes of
Scotland and presented to Robert and
so Robert said to both Sammie Wes
tergaard and Frankie Bundle, who
would disposses him, “Hoot mon, gae
awa” to the tune of aboot 12,000
votes.
Robert B. Howell had a tight
squeeze to win out as national com
mitteeman. He ran like a grey
hound or gazelle in Douglas county,
but out in the state he made the speed
of a snail; but he got there just the
same; and that’s what counts after all.
The democrats had lots of fun, too.
The chief contest was over delegates
between the Bryanites and Hitchcock
ites. The odds are in favor of the
latter. The claim was that it was a
fight between the wets and the drys,
Bryan representing the drys and
Hitchcock the wets. Arthur Mullen
was defeated as national committee
man. Morehead for governor sur
prised the natives. His personal pop
ularity gave him the nomination in
spite of the opposition of the two
factions of his party.
The vote in this district for presi
dential preference with reference to
the two leading candidates was as
folows:
Wood Johnson
Douglas -7,122 6,640
Sarpy _ 880 441
Washington _ 194 667
7,696 7,468
The vote on district delegate In
Washington county gave these re