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_THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
$2.00» Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, MAY 13, 1920 Vol. V. No. 45 (Whole No. 254)
HUNDREDS NOM'NATED
FOR NALL OF^ ME
Frederick lion glass. First Anl?^ n of
Color lo Be Proposed For^, is
BlsUngnished Honor—His Notify/
tion Causes Wide-Spread Comment
SELECTION IIIFFICCLT
AMONO MANY NOMINEES
A
Electors W ill Select From Large List
Twenty Nantes for Coveted Place
Among the Justly Famous—Ap
parently Easier to Chose Women
Thuu Men.
NEW YORK, May 13.—The Hall of
Fame Committee haH announced
that several new selections had been
received and seconded by the Board
of Directors, making 91 new names
to be considered among “the justly
famous." Next fall the 102 electors
of the Hall of Fame will select 20,
whose names are to occupy a place
in the Hall at New Y'ork university.
There are 111 n mes of men and
23 names of women which have been
held over from the last election in
1915. This year there have been
added 87 names of men and four of
women. Every name has been pro
| posed by the public, and some re
ceived hundreds of public nomina
tions.
Only two public nominations were
received this year by the Committee
of the Hall of Fame. These were
Barbara Fritchie and Hiawatha. They
were rejected because the Committee
ruled that both were literary charac
ters. Several women’s organizations
have made determined efforts to
have Barbara Frttchirs name among
the 56 already in the Hall.
Contest Historical Facts.
8ome of the nominations which
have been made this year have
caused much discussion among the
members of the committee. One is
that of Dr. John Clark; whose pro
posers declared that he was the real
founder of the Rh«»de Island Colony.
The name of Roger Williams will be
voted on again this year, and a tab
let bearing ttie name of this contem
porary of Clark iu Rhode tsland is
ready for unveiling
Frederick Douglass, the first Negro
to be proposed, is among the new
nominations. His nomination has
caused much comment among those
who believe that Booker T. Wash
ington would be more representa
tive of the colored Americans. Medi
cal societies also are in controversy
over the nominations.
} Walt Whitman has many suppor
ters. The actors have Indorsed the
name of Edwin Booth. Admirers of
Waller Hunt assert that he, and not
Elias Howe, whose name is in the
Hall, was the real inventor of the
sewing machine. Ottoinar Mergen
thaler, the inventor of the linotype,
also has been nominated for a place
among the Immortals.
The names of women have caused
less discussion. The women have a
separate Hill of Fame, but their
names are proposed and accepted
under the same rules. Four women
whose names go upon the prelimin
ary ballot this year are Susan B.
Anthony, Jane Cunningham Croly,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Eanny
Davenport.
SENTENCED TO DKATII
FOR MURDER IN RACK RIOT
In Again Found Guilty of Killing
Itailroud Agent In Arkansan Uprls
ing Last September.
Helena, Ark., May 13.—John Mar
tin was found guilty of first degree
murder for the second time In Phil
lips County Circuit Court here last
Tuesday for his part In the "racial
uprising" In the Elaine section last
fall.
Martin was charged specifically
with the murder of W. A. Adkins, a
special agent of the Missouri Pacific
railway, at Hoop Spur the night of
Sept. 30, 1918, when a small sher
iff’s posse was fired on by a crowd
who were In a darkened church. It
was this shooting which precipitated
the uprising. Martin, who was one
of the si* Negroes under death sen
tence whose cases were remanded by
the Supreme court, again was sen
tenced to be electrocuted.
BUTS 1* BUILDINGS.
Indian Head. Mr., May 13.—At the
recent sale of unused buildings at the
naval proving ground here, Samuel
Freeman, one of the employes, pur
chased ten buildings.
CONGRESSMEN ARE
MUCH DISTURBED
OVER IRISH MATTERS
Protest Treatment of Political Prison
ers liy England us Destructive of
Human Rights and Conducive to
War. — Accused Entitled to Trial
Before Sentence Is Imposed.
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0» DTE CONSTITUTION
OF UNITED STATES
England’s Attitude Towards the Irish,
Allege ns American State-men, So
Violates the Frinciples Which the
United States Exemplifies That
Friendliness Demands Frank Speech.
Washington. May 13.—A cablegram,
signed by 88 members of the house,
protesting against imprisonment,
without arraignment or trial, of per
sons arrested in Ireland for political
offenses was sent last week to Pre
mier Lloyd George and the British
Parliament, it said:
"With the profound conviction that
further wars and acts of war should
be avoided, and believing wholesale
arrests without arraignment or trial
disturb the peace and tranquility of a
people, are destructive of human
rights, and are at variance with that
principle of liberty which is embodied
in the United States Constitution in
the provision that no person shall be
‘deprived of life, liberty or property
without due process of law,' the under
signed members of congress protest
against further imprisonment without
arraignment or trial of persons resi
dent in Ireland arrested for acts of
a political nature, and we ask in the
spirit of American freedom and love
of iustice, out of our friendliness to
the peoples of England and Ireland,
and in the name of international peace
that, hereafter If arrests based in
acts of a political nature are made
in Ireland by any form of authority,
the right of trial shall without un
reasonable delay be accorded to the
acused.”
RACK HKRO AWARDED
CARNEGIE MEDAL
Walter Itoss, North Carolina Fire
man, Who Risked His Life to Save
Another. Receives An Award for
Heroism.
Pittsburg, Pa., May 13.—Twelve
acts of heroism have been recognized
by the Carnegie Hero Fund commis
sion. Walter Ross of West Spencer,
N. C., was one of the recipients. Ross’
deed of heroism is described by the
commission as follows:
Walter Ross: colored, W'est Spen
cer, N. C.—Thirty-four; locomotive
fireman; attempted to rescue Roy L.
Riley (colored), nineteen, driver, from
a runaway, Greenville, S. C., July 19,
1916. W'hile Riley was driving a
horse hitched to a wagon, the lines
fell to the street. He reached for
them and fell on one of the thills,
striking the horse and causing it to
run away. Ross ran into the street
in front of the horse, reached for the
bridle, hut was knocked down. Riley
fell on top of Ross and a wheel of
the wagon ran over Ross’ right leg.
Riley was not injured, but Ross’ leg
was broken.
YEAR’S EARNINGS OF FEDERAL
RESERVE BOARD $100,000,000
Gov. Harding Testifies Amount Will
Exceed Thai of Last Year by
Washington, May 6.—Earnings of
the federal reserve system this fiscal
year were estimate at $100,000,000 by
Governor Harding of the federal re
serve board, in testifying today at
the house rules committee hearing on
the resolution proposing an investiga
tion of the federal reserve adminis
tration. These earnings, he said,
would exceed by $10,000,000 those of
last year, which he said represented
a return of 110 per cent on capital
stock.
ASSASSIN KILLS GRAND RABBI
ON STEPS OF SYNAGOGUE
Jew Who Embraced Christianity Was
Refused Itcml mission to Faith In
Morocco.
Mellila, Spanish, Morocco, May 13.
—Grand Rabbi Abraham Cohn of
Mellila was assassinated here May 5
by a Hebrew who had recently em
braced tbe Christian religion, and
who claims that his petition that he
be permitted to return to the Jewish
faith had been refused.
The murder occurred on the steps
of the synagogue.
LIBERIAN GIRL IS FITTING HERSELF
FOR VALOABlf SERVICE
Determination to Obtain Education and Fit Herself to Administer as a
Trained Nurse to Her People. Who Are in Need of Hospitals, Physicians
and Nurses, Brings Brave Orphan Girl to the United Staten—Undaunted
by Obstacles She Adheres to Her High Purpose!—Visits Omaha Woman
Who in Early Days Befriended Her.
LUCILLE TODD SHOULD PROVE AN EXAMPLE
AND INSPIRATION TO YOUTH OF RACE
OMAHA has bad as a visitor for
several weeks a young woman
whose marked intelligence, gracious
manrters and high ideals have
charmed all who had the privilege
of meeting her. The story of her
life and the noble ambition which
animates her should be an inspira
tion and incentive to the youth of
our iace everywhere. It should
shame the aimlessness, shiftlessness
and indifference of multitudes of
American girls who have splendid
advantages of training themselves
for lives of usefulness, but whose
chief ambition seems to be the pur
suit of selfish pleasure. It is hoped
that the example of Lucille Todd of
Monrovia, Liberia, west coast of
Africa, will move many to make
their lives count for something ifi
some needed field of human en
deavor, either at home, where op
portunities for helpful service abound,
or abroad, where the need for con
secrated lives is very great.
Lucille Todd, the third child of the
Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Todd, was bom
in Minneapolis, Minn. Not long aft
er her birth, her parents decided to
carry out a long-cherished ambition
to go as missionaries to Africa. So
in 1893, with their family of five
children, Mr. and Mrs. Todd left the
United States for Liberia, where as
independent missionaries, they hoped
to he of sendee to their people. They
arrived in Monrovia at the beginning
of the rainy season, where they re
mained but a day or two, and then
journeyed westward to a little settle
ment called Virginia. Here the whole
family fell ill of fever, to which the
father and mother succumbed, both
dying the same day, a half hour
apart, leaving five children little or
phans in a strange land, but among
a kind-hearted people. A week later,
the eldest of the children, a boy 9
years of age, died. A kind-hearted
family took care of the four little
orphans ,the youngest being only 18
months old. Subsequently two other
children died, leaving only Lucille and
a brother. The children were care
fully reared by their foster parents.
Liberians believe in training girls
in domestic arts to the end that they
may became good wives and moth
ers. With this viewpoint many hold
that an elementary education is all
that girls need. This was the view
of Lucille’s foster mother, who, like
herself, had been taken to Liberia
in her babyhood. But Lucille was
anxious to obtain a good education.
This desire grew stronger year by
year and she determined, if it were
possible, to return to the United
States, at whatever sacrifice it might
involve, to secure it. The long prayed
for opportunity presented itself it
self in 1911, in the spring of which
year, in company with some native
Liberians, under the care of Bishop
I. B. Scott, of the Methodist Episcopal
church, she sailed for the LTnited
States.
Lucille appeared at Clafin univer
sity, Orangesburg, S. C., a short time
before commencement. Her strange
brogue, and neat but odd dress, not
being in the latest American style,
provoked the merriment of thought
less students. The little stranger,
thousands of miles from home, felt
lonely and homesick. One of the
teachers said to her:
“You foolish girl, whatever put it
into your head to leave home? You
have no money to pay your way and
if ypu think you can get along in this
country penniless you are very much
mistaken. I don't know what you are
going to do." ,
This was not very encouraging,
was it? Moreover, in a day or two,
the school was to close and the pupils
were to leave for their respective
homes. Lucille had no home to which
she could go, and felt quite discon
solate.
Miss Anna C. Jacobs was at that
time teaching at Clafin. She subse
quently became the wife of Dr. Jesse
H. Hutten, the successful and well be
loved physician of Omaha. Miss
Jacobs’ heart went out to the little
stranger.
Mrs. Hutten modestly said to The
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Monitor: “Although I was not her
teacher, my heart went out to the
little stranger, who impressed me as
a most worthy girl, and so I was glad
to be of some little assistance to her.
I wanted to help her all I could.
Whatever little I was able to do for
her, and it was not much, and I de
serve no praise for it, I was glad to
do. I thought her a worthy girl
when I first saw her; I have kept in
touch with her since then and she
has fully justified my faith in her."
Miss Todd remained at Claflin two
years and was a diligent student. A
f'iL> destroyed a portion of the. school
and then she went to Clark univer
sity where she was assisted by the
Women's Home Missionary society of
the Methodist Episcopal church. Sub
sequently she went to Chicago where
she worked and supported herself
and finished her high school course,
graduating last year.
Miss Todd is to enter a training
school for nurses in the fall. She
says, “My purpose and whole desire
is to return to Liberia as a trained
nurse and render all the aid possible
along medical lines to my people
there. No, I am not an American, al
though I was bom here, and the peo
ple despite many obstacles which I
have had to surmount, have been kind
to me, but I am a Liberian. Liberia
only needs the opportunity to develop
her wonderful resources to become a
great country, even measured by
American and European standards
which are commercial standards, but
in the ideals and aspirations of her
people she is a great country now.
Hospitals, physicians and trained
nurses are sadly needed there. I want
to receive the best training possible
and devote my life to Liberia where I
was reared and for which country my
parents offered up their lives. If
upon my return there is no hospital
there, I shall make an effort to es
tablish one. If one has berm estab
lished I shall begin my work in it
immediately upon my return home. To
complete my course and equip my
self will take at least four years
more.” ,
Th,» Monitor can state that the only
hospital in Liberia is a very small
one, St. Stephen’s, conducted by the
Episcopal church at Cape Mount. Ef
forts are now on foot by the Episco
pal church to acquire a large building
at Monrovia for a hospital. This
brave Liberian girl who left home to
acquire an education and fit herself
for service as a trained nurse will
unquestionably find a field for
service in her chosen profession in
the same city to which she was taken
as a child by her godly parents, who
filled with zeal for Christ, hazarded
their lives for the gospel and were
laid to rest beneath the flowery sod
of the West African republic, and
whose spirit for worth-while unself
ish service to humanity survives in
their daughter.
CANNON NOMINATED 2ATH TOTE
Danvill, III., May 13.—Republicans
for the twenty-fifth time nomtnted
Joseph G. Cannon for Congress. In
1872 Cannon defeated the Rev. W.
H. D. Moore, then Representative, for
the nomination, and except In 1890
and 1912 was successful at the polls.
THE UNITED STATES
CHAMBER OE COMMERCE
OPPOSES BONUS BILL
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Chief (around of Opposition So Silly
As to Raise Question of Sanity of
Proponents.—Claimed Would Place
&00.WML000 in Hands" of Colored
Men Which Would Be Squandered
By Them and Disrupt Labor Con
ditions.
STULIEICATION BY
SOUTHERNERS SUCCEEDS
Atlantic city, n. j„ May 13.—
The United States Chamber of
Commerce went on record as op
posed to the granting of a bonus to
soldiers of the world's war by adop
tion of a resolution submitted for ac
tion by the resolutions committee at
the initial session of its eighth annual
convention here.
The resolution declared that a mil
lion Negroes in the south would re
ceive from $500 to $600 each, and
would immediately quit work until
the money was spent, thus instituting
an orgy of spending and a period of
decreased production which would
disorganize labor and bankrupt the !
south.
When it was suggested that prob
ably the money would be spent for
farm and industrial improvements by j
the colored recipients, several south- j
era members indicated that such an
eventuality would be almost as bad
as a period of decreased production, ^
because it was the program of the j
south to keep the Negro financially J
dependent, so as to keep his labor j
cheap.
Tbe convention was dominated by
southerners, whose stultification
methods, as usual, succeeded
BRAZILIANS REQUEST
COLORED BISHOP
Commission From Latin Republic
Presents Petition to African Method
ist Episcopal Zion Conference for
Episcopate.
Knoxville, Tenn., May IS.—Four
hundred delegates from forty-two
conferences in the United States,
Africa and South America are gath
ered here in the Twenty-sixth con
ference of the A. M. E. Zion church.
Commission From Brazil.
A commission from Brazil has
come prepared to make a request for
a colored bishop. They represent
200,000 Brazilians who feel that they
cannot gain anything from allegiance
to the Catholic church and are cer
tain that because of the amalgamated
rce condition in Brazil, domination of
church affairs by the darker people
will result in greater things. The
commission represents all of the
churches in the connection in Brazil,
from the thatch jungle church to the
palatial cathedral.
LODGE WILL PRESIDE
AT NATIONAL CONVENTION
Washington, May 13.—S e n a t o r
Lodge of Massachusetts Is to be tem
porary chairman of the Republican
national convention at Chicago and
will deliver the keynote speech, ac
cording to Republican leaders in
Congress who have conferred reeent
I ly with Chairman Hays of the Re
publican national committee.
WHITE MAH SHOOTS
DEMEHTEDHEGRO BOY
Frightened by Storm Lad Takes
Refuge in Farmer's House During
Family’s Absence—Crawls Under
Bed—Wife Orders Husband to
“Shoot the Little Fool”—Man Ad
mits He Is Southern and Says That
Is the Method Down There.
BOY NOT SERIOUSLY INJURED.
(Special to The Monitor.)
EMPIRE, Wyo., May 12.—Otis R.
Taylor, a brother of the Rev.
Russel Taylor, a highly respected
Presbyterian minister of this place,
lives in eastern Wyoming, about
three-fourths of a mile west of the
Wyoming-Nebraska state line. It so
happens that in this vicinity a num
ber of southern families have settled.
While the majority of these white peo
ple are fair-minded and just and al
ways ready to give the Negro a
square deal, unfortunately there are
a few of the copper-head class who
are always on the alert to start some
thing. This spirit was manifested
last summer when a party of colored
boys and a young lady, attending
services at the Sheep Creek Presby
terian church, white, located in this
neighborhood, was brutally attacked.
One of the boys was so badly beaten
over the head by these rowdies that
he became unconscious the following
day, and was with difficulty restored
to consciousness after one of the
most skillful physicians of the county
worked with him for hurs.
This diabolical spirit came to the
front again Sunday night, May 2,
when the 14-year-old boy of Otis R.
Taylor, whose mind has been slightly
unbalanced by a recent attack of in
fluenza, while on his way home from
his uncle’s place, becoming frighten
ed by the appearance of storm clouds,
wandered from his course and entered
the house of a white family by the
name of Kingery. The family was
absent at the time. Hearing the
family approaching, the boy crawled
under the bed. Kingery ordered him
out. His wife, whom he said “was
nearly scared to death at the sight
of the ‘nigger’ under her bed,” shout
ed “shoot the little fool!” The com
mand was readily obeyed.
Thinking that the boy was one of
Russel Taylor’s, Kingery gathered up
a car load of his neighbors and drove
down to Taylor’s house. He immedi
ately began to give vent to his ire,
saying he had unloaded a shot gun
into the boy and would do it again
if any came on his place. The Rev.
Mr. Taylor quietly informed Kingery
that if he were disposed to start that
kind of a southern stunt up here, he
was at liberty to get busy, where
upon the brave gentleman said he
didn’t want to start anything, but
that he was from the south and that
was the way they did down there.
It has developed that the boy was
not seriously injured, nevertheless,
steps have been taken to at least put
Wyoming on record with regard to
such dastardly deeds.
Capetown, Union of South Africa,
May 13.—The house of assembly last
week passed a resolution favoring ex
tension of the parliamentary fran
chise to women.
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