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. l=j The Monitor — i A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS. _____THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor_ $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy_ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, MAY 20, 1920 Vol. V. No. 46 (Whole No. 255) ATTENTION COLORED WAR VETERANS Latest Inform;. ^ 'oncerning Gov ernment Life . re and Com pensation for Sei <$►. -»n. By Lieut. J. Willii. \ fford. — X (Representative Colored S. and Sailors War Risk Bure. % Washington, D. C., May 2t ^ gardless of how long your gov n ment life insurance has lapsed or been canceled and regardless of how long you have been discharged from the service, a special ruling permits your reinstatement at any time be fore July 1, 1920, provided a signed statement is made to the effect that you are in good health. This is an opportunity that no service man can afford to spurn or neglect. Govern ment policies are cheaper and contain •v more liberal provisions than the av ( erage life insurance policy offered by private firms. It is important to colored veterans to know that in reality this insurance is offered to all former service men as a measure of compensation for service rendered during the recent war. Many colored former service men / are unaware that a new law provides ' that the insured may request that at the time of his death his beneficiary be paid the amount of his United States government converted insur ance in one lump sum. Also, many are entitled to enjoy the benefits of I government life insurance who do not know that there is a provision in every policy which permits the pay ment of regular monthly payments to the insured former service men in the event that they become totally and permanently disabled by any cause ami at any time during their lives provided they have not allowed their policies to lapse. Compensation. It is indeed unfortunate that many disabled colored former service men uii net taking the propel steps to secure government compensation which congress has provided. There are thousands who are ignorant of the fact that not only the service man who became disabled while in the service but those who may become disabled any time within one year as a result of injury incurred in the service may claim government com pensation, and if their claims are al lowed they will receive monthly fi nancial compensation in accordance with the per cent of their disability. Compensation is given without *i> charge to a service man, regardless Jp- of whether war risk insurance is car ried by him or not, and is payable for all degrees of disability rated over a 10 per cent reduction in earn ing capacity. All colored sendee men who have a just reason to suppose that their health has been impaired because of their military service and who wdsh to file a claim for government com ) pensation which has been provided for them should write tq this office at once requesting the necessary ap plication blanks for government com pensation; prompt and sympathetic attention will tie given all such re quests. TEXAS GOVERNOR URGED TO VINDICATE HONOR OF STATE National Association Requests Appre hension and Punishment of Lynchers of Charles Arline for Alleged Threats. New York, May 20.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has made public a telegram sent to Governor W. P. Hobby of Texas in which the associa tion urges the apprehension and pun ishment of the lynchers of Charles Arline, a Negro, who, arrested for “threatening to kill” a white man was taken from officers at Woodville, Tyler county, Texas, on May -8, by forty masked men and flogged to death. The association calls the at tention of the governor to the recent conviction and placing under suspend [ ed sentence of three men in Van Zandt county, Texas, for the lynch ing of a Negro in 1919 and says that if these convictions could be followed up by energetic action in the Tyler county case, particularly if in this case sentence should be carried out instead of suspended, it would be an act to vindicate Texas from the charge that white men who lynch Negroes may do so with impunity. Yesterday tomorrow was today. HOWARD ASSISTING U. S. TREASI’RY THRIFT DRIVE Washington, D. C., May 20— Mr. William Mather Lewis, director of the War Savings Stamps organiza tion of the U. S. Treasury depart ment, and Mrs. Charlotte Eldridge, field director of the District of Co lumbia War Savings Stamps organi zation, addressed the officers, teach ers and students of Howard univers ity, bringing to their attention the significance of the thrift movement which has been put under way by the V. S. Treasury Department in all parts of the country.1 A headquar ters office has been established at the university and students are urged to purchase stamps regularly, thereby aiding in a movement which is of such great importance to in idividuals and to the country as well. COLORED WAITERS MAY BE EMPLOYED (By Associated Negro Press.) Chicago, 111., May 20.—The strike of waiters and cooks in the big hotels in this city has again raised the ques tion of the availability of colored men to fill these positions. A make shift has been devised by Tracy Drake of the Congress hotel, who is, at present, employing girl waiters to take the place of the strikers. The hotel proprietors are giving serious consideration to the matter of usine colored men but as yet have come to I no definite conclusion regarding the | question. APPOINTS DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONFERENCE (By Associated Negro Press.) Atlanta, Ga., May 20.—Governor 1 Dorsey has appointed twenty white and five colored delegates to repre sent the state at the national con ference on education to be held in Washington, D. C., next week. The colored delegates are. H. A. Hunt of Fort Valley, J. A. Martin, Macon; Rev. W. E. Farmer, Fort Valley; R. R. Wright, Savannah, and J. W. Holley of Albany. DISCOVER “TEASING BROWN” BEAUTIES (By Associated Negro Press.) San Francisco, Cal., May 20.—Re turning travellers from the Orient and the Pacific islands are bringing news of thp discovery of what they are calling the “most beautiful wom en in the world.” These women are said to be natives of the cannibal islands that dot the Pacific ocean and are described as being most beauti ful ir. form, very graceful and posses sing skin that is very smooth and tawny ljke that of a white man who has been tanned by the sun. AMERICAN SPORT CONTINUES. (By Associated Negro Press.) Tampa, Fla., May 20.—An un identified colored porter was taken from a northbound train on the At lantic Coast line and lynched by a mob for an alleged insult to a young white woman passenger. A deputy who had arrested the porter wras overpowered and his prisoner taken from him. ARCHITECTS STUDY MODELS (By Associated Negro Press.) Los Angeles, Cal., May 20.—Paul Williams and Hugh E. Macbeth made a trip to the Santa Clara district last week. Mr. Williams, who is a lead ing architect in this section of the country, made a study of the many beautiful architectural examples to be found in the Santa Clara country. HEALTH WEEK BIG SUCCESS. (By Associated Negro Press.) Tuskegee, Ala., May 20.—Health week was a big success. It was ob served here with fitting ceremonies and Principal Moton delivered an epoch making address. As a nation wide observance, it can now safely he regarded as a national institution. ORGANIZE FAIR ASSOCIATION. (By Associated Negro Press.) Huntsville, Ala., May 20.—The Madison County Fair usosciation has been organized in this city. A capi tal stock of $10,000 has been raised for the colored people’s part of the work. The fairs will be annual af fairs and the colored fair will be held during the week following the annual white fair. The difference between a little and a big fool is seldom more than one or two inches. Colored Scientist First in America to Receive Grant From Research Council Dr Ernest E. Just, Professor of Biology at Howard University and Winner of the First Spingam Medal, Wins This Distin guished Honor.—Has Written Extensively on Fer tilization and Kindred Topics and Is a Mem ber of Leading Scientific Bodies. PROFESSOR JUST’S CAREER INDICATES A NEW FIELD FOR AMBITIOUS YOUTHS OF RACE TVTASHINGTON, D. C., May 20.— W Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary treasurer of Howard University, of ficially announces that the National Academy of Sciences, operating under congressional charter, the highest scientific body in America, has noti fied the authorities of Howard uni versity, an institution for the train ing of Negro youth, that beginning with the school year of 1920-21, it will provide a grant at the university for Dr. Ernest E. Just, that the latter may be free for teaching and for re search work wholly in the field of the physiology of development. Dr. Scott made the above official announcement in an address on “The Progress of the American Negro in Science, Art and Literature," at the meeting of the Southern Sociologic al congress, held here in Washington this week. He said: “This is the Na tional Research council's first grant in the field of biology, in fact, the only grant so far made by the Na tional Research council in any of the fields of scientific research. It is a very great distinction to come to any member of any race. To the Negro people of America it is an honor and a distinction greatly prized for it serves once more to remind us that the competitions of intellect know no color line." I)r. Just’s Career. Dr. Just was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1883. He was grad uated from Kimball Union Academy, I MISSOURI REPUBLICANS ELECT OR. CROSSLANI) DELEG ATE-AT-LARGE Colored Citizens of the Stale Practical ly Unanimous For Him.—Nominated hy Acclamation,—Roll Call Gives Him Vote of Every Delegate. MRS. VICTORIA CLAY-IIALEY ELECTED AS ALTERNATE KANSAS CITY, Mo„ May 20.—in one of the most largely attended as well as enthusiastic conventions ever held by the republicans in grand old Missouri, Dr. John R. A. Crossland of St. Joseph, Missouri. ex-Minister to Li beria, and one of the race's most dis tinguished citizens, was elected unani mously as one of the delegates-at lurge to he republican national con vention with Mrs. Victoria Clay-Haley of St. Louis as his alternate. Dr. Cross land was nominated in a well-chosen speech by Editor Nelson C. Crews, which was received with great ap plause and was seconded by one hun dred voices from all sections of the state and upon motion of Hon. Fred W. Dabney of Kansas City and second ed by Hon. Charles H. Calloway that the rules be suspended and Dr. Cross land be elected by unanimous vote, with a whoop that could be heard to Main street the motion prevailed.After wards to make sure that the election was regular the chairman ordered the call of the congressional districts and Dr. Crossland received what no other man in the convention was given, the vote of every delegate. Mrs. Haley was ably nominated by Hon. I. H. Bradbury of Rt. Louis and seconded by Congressman I* C. Dyer and was also given a unanimous vote. AFRICAN METHODISTS ELECT FOUR BISHOPS (By Associated Negro Press.) St. Louis, Mo., May 20.—The genera] conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church have elected the fol lowing persons as bishops of that de nomination and they were consecrated before a congregation of 10,000 people in the Coliseum here last Sunday: Dr. W. D. W. D. Johnson, of Georgia; Dr. A. J. Carey, of Chicago; Dr. W. S. Brooks, of Baltimore; Dr W. T. Ver non, of Memphis; Dr. W. A. Fountain, of Atlanta. The election was spirited and a largo number of candidates were pre sented to the delegates. The following were elected as gen eral officers: Editor Christian Recorder, Dr. R. R. Meriden, New Hampshire, in 1903, and from Dartmouth College, Hanover, in 1907, being the only Magna Cum Lauile man in his class. He received his degree, doctor of philosophy, from the University of Chicago, in zoology and physiology, in 1916. For ten years he has been a student at the Marine Biological laboratory at Wood’s Hole, Massachusetts. He has been a worker under such scientists as Dr. Frank R. Lillie, professor of zoology; Dr. A. P. Mathews, professor of bio chemistry, and Dr. A. J. Carlson, pro fessor of physiology—all scholars of the front rank serving on the faculty of the University of Chicago. Dr. Just is the author of various papers on fertilization, artificial partheno genesis and kindred topics. Dr. Lil lie, in his book on "Problems Of Fertilization,” refers fifteen times by citation to the researches and scien tific conclusions of Dr. Just, who is a .members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Society of Zoologists, of the American Museum, and the society of the Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa. Governor Charles S. Whitman pre sented him on February 12, 1915, the first Spingarn medal, "offered annual ly to the man or woman of African descent and American citizenship who shall have the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field Of elevated or honorable human en deavor.” Wright; Financial Secretary, John R. Hawkins; Secretary of Education, A. S. Jackson; Secretary of Missions, Rev. F. T. Rankin. Secretary of Church Extension, B. T. Watson; Edi tor African Methoist Episcopal Re view, Rev. R. C. Ransom; Editor Southern Recorder. Dr. B. W. Allen; Secretary Allen Christian Endeavor .League. Rev. S. S. Morris; Editor Western Christian Recorder, J. D. Barksdale; Secretary Sunday School Union, Dr. Ira T. Bryant. The Conference voted unanimously for Church Union. Friday night in the Coliseum a meeting was held in the interest of Dr. Leroy N. Bundy and was addressed by Bishop Vernon, Bishop J. H. Jones and Attorney W. C. Hueston. Bishop Parks presided and a fund of $1,500.00 was raised to as sist in carrying Dr. Bundy’s case to the Supreme Court.. HARVARD AND YALE PROFESSORS ON HOWARD BOARD OF TRUSTEES Washington, D. C., Ma y20.—Two distinguished educators of more than national reputation, Dr. Albert Bush nell Hart, Eaton professor of the science of government in Harvard uni versity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Dr. Charles R. Brown, dean of the School of Theology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, have been j elected to membership upon the board of trustees of Howard University. Thus two of (he oldest and most fa mous of American educational insti tutions become linked In interest and sympathy with the “GREATER HOW ARD” reconstruction movement. Dr. Hart was present at the inaugu ration of Dr. Durkee as president of Howard University and delivered one of the notable addresses upon that occasion. Dean Brown attended the annual convocation recently held at Howard and spoke twice to inter ested groups of educators gathered from all parts of the country, and to the officers, teachers and students of the university. These splendid additions to the board of trustees together with the recent nomination of Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt of Oyster Bay. New York, indicate that Howard is in deed adding to her already strong hoard of trustees a group of dyn amic forces to help her establish her claim to recognition as a university truly national. He who discovered gossip came very near to the discovery of the se cret of perpetual motion. WANTS HISTORY BARRED FROM SCHOOLS (By Associated Negro Press.) Atlanta, Ga., May 20.—General N. B. Forrest, a son of “Fort Pillow” General Forrest, is making a vigorous effort to have barred from the public schools of this city “The History of the American People," published by Beard and Bagley, because it is "highly socialistic in nature, treats unfairly the Negro question, is re pugnant to the people of the south, is not in accord with historical facts and magnifies heroes of the northern armies.” General Forrest has de clared that although he has made At lanta his permanent home, he will keep his children out of school before he will allow them to be taught from the Baird and Bagley history. AMERICAN TROOPS CLEAN OUT OUTLAWS j Port Au Prince, Haiti, May 20.— American troops have succeeded in clearing the Carribean islands of a large band of outlaws who have been preying on the islanders near Haiti for a number of years. The band numbered 750 and wras under the leadership of one Charlemague Mas *ena Peralti, who was killed by the troops. WOMAN IS AWARDED SPECAL CERTIFICATE (By Associated Negro Press.) Sedalia, Mo., May 20.—Francis Undine, a woman of our race, has been awarded special certificates by the Morristown, Tenn., Industrial college for special efficiency in com mercial studies. Miss Undine in tends embarking in a brokerage busi ness. PROTESTS INNOCENCE; SENTENCED TO DIE (By Associated Negro Press.) Baltimore, Md., May 20.—Although stoutly declaring his innocence. Isaish Fountain, a young colored man, was sentenced to die for an alleged crimi nal assault on a white girl. This was the second time that Fountain had been convicted of the crime. PAY YOUR BILLS CONTEST. (By Asociated Negro Press.) Birmingham, Ala., May 20.—“Why You Should Pay Your Bills Promptly” is the subject for the essay contest which has just started among the school children in this city. Money prizes amounting to $120 have been offered by the local Merchant’s Credit association. Colored and white pupils in the grammar and high schools are among the contestants. HOME OWNING CAMPAIGN. (By Associated Negro Press.) Jacksonville, Fla., May 20.—An “Own Your Own Home” campaign has been started among the colored people in this city. The movement is meeting with hearty approval, with the result that hundreds of people are engaged in an active campaign to increase the number of property holders. Patronize The Monitor advertisers. n- -= MODERN HOSPITAL AT OHIO CAPITAL Colored Physicians Build and Equip First Institution of Its Kind in Buckeye State—Drs. Method and Tribett Founders. MEDICAL EXPERTS TO COMPRISE STAFF (By Associated Negro Press.) COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 20.—There was formally opened in this city, one of the prettiest and most thoroughly modem hospitals, built and owned and conducted by colored professional men in the country. Be ing the first hospital of its kind to be built and conducted by colored men in Ohio, the very appropriate name of Alpha hospital has been given the institution. The hospital was con ceived, built and equipped by Dr. M. A. Method, surgeon and physician and graduate of the medical depart ment of the Ohio State university, and Dr. R. M. Tribbett, surgeon den tists, graduate of Howard university. Both of these men, although enjoying a wonderful practice in their particu lar lines, felt the need of a hospital wherein colored physicians might op erate—might have an opportunity to realize the dream of every medical man—become a specialist. Alpha hospital contains rooms for eighteen beds, in addition to operating room, x-ray outfit, all necessary rooms re quisite for a modem hospital. Its staff will comprise a number of the best known colored and white medical experts in the city. WEALTHY WHITE MAN RAPES COLORED CHILD Lustful Degenerate Is Killed by Girl’s Father, Who Is Acquitted by Jury Which Returns Verdict of Justifi able Homicide. - CIVIL AUTHORITIES HAD FAILED TO ACT (By Associated Negro Press.) Lancaster, wis., May 20.—jack Green, an aged colored man of this city, was acquited by a verdict of “justifiable homicide" by a jury in the criminal court for the killing of William Duncan, a wealthy white auto dealer of this city. The cause of the killing was the raping of Green’s 14-year-old daughter by Dun can. Evidence produced at the trial proved that Duncan had outraged the girl and then threatened her with death if sh' divulged the crime. The attorneys who defended the father of the girl declared that their client was justified in the killing because the civil authorities had failed to appre hend Duncan upon the charges made by Green of Duncan’s continued ad vances toward his child. Green, they declared had appealed to the police and to the civil powers without avail and then crazed by the shame he had killed the despoiler. The juiy took the view of the defendant’s lawyer and acquitted Green. The Monitor office has moved into the Kaffir block, 817 North Six teenth street, corner Cuming. Tem porary phone number, Douglas 7074. .. 11 Notice To Monitor Patrons The Monitor has moved its main office to Room 204 Kaffir Block, 817 North Sixteenth Street. As soon as our old phone can be changed the telephone number will be as before. For tem porary phon connection, call Douglas 7074. i..' . I
