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$2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy_ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 5. 1920 Vol. VI. No. 6 (Whole No. 266)
National Negro
Business LeagV
Annual Contention In Meet in "( it)
of llrotlierl.t Love.” Litelj Sessions
( entering Arnmitl Lleetioo of t'resi
(lent Anticipated.
HANK Kit BROWN BOOM
IS BEING BOOSTED
(By Associated Negro Press.)
PHILADELPHIA, PA., August 6.—
The Annual Session of the Na
tional Negro Business League, aside
from the program of unusual propor
tions prepared for the occasion, prom
ises to make things very lively in the
election of officers for the ensuing
year.
At the convention in St. Louis, Dr.
R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee
Institute, was elected president. He
succeeded J. C. Napier, the well
known banker of Nashville. Tenn.
Dr. Moton’s selection by the nomin
ating committee, of which Perry W.
Howard of Jackson, Miss., was chair
man, came about only after several
days of heated discussions and clever
maneuvering bv his friends. At one
time, it looked as if the committee
were going to nominate Dr. Enimett
J. Scott, the national secretary, and
i Secretary-Treasurer of Howard Uni
versity. Thereupon, the Moton follow
ing threatened to carry tiieir fight to
‘.he floor of the convention. .Matters
were adjusted, however, and the re
port of the nominating committee was
adopted unanimously.
The year has been marked with but
slightly more activity, and general
achievement, so far as the general
public knows, than the previous year.
It was decided to open national head
quarters in Washington, but this was
oniv accomplished in a modest way, a
few months ago. The scope of the ac
tivities is not nearly as pretentious
as at first contemplated. Thereupon,
tl:e discussion of officers has become
a lively topic among the delegates who
are shaping their affairs to he in Phil
adelphia, August 15 to 20.
A group of tile friends of E. C.
Brown, the banker of this city, head
of the firm of Brown and Stevens, and
owners of tlte Dunbar Theatre, are
grooming him for the head of the Busi
ness League, and have begun an ac
tive campaign in bis behalf. Biogra
phies containing detailed accounts of
Mr. Brown’s carreer, are being distri
buted, particularly among tlie ntws
papers, and the facts are set forth
that be will make an ideal president,
"for the organization should have a
business man for president,” it is
claimed.
The friends of Dr. Moton. who has
a la’ge following, particularly in the
.South, which furnishes the largest ar
ray of delegates, are letting it be un
derstood, that they intend to back the
successor of Booker T. Washington
for another term in the office of presi
dent of the Business League. They
state that he lias been as ac-tiv as
any official could be under the c ircum
* stances, and that he is known to have
a program, which he will enunciate at
the convention, that will place the
organization in the very front rank
of national achievement.
During tile life of Booker T. Wash
ington. the success of the Business
League was built up around his mar
velous personality, and as the found
er be was always president, and the
election of officers was more or less
a matter of form. With his passing,
a new economic change has come
over the nation and the race, and the
opportunities for a strong, going na
tional business organization were
never brighter. The eontest for of
fice promises to be a new feature at
the Philadelphia meeting, and is ex
pected to precipitate more liveliness
than anything that has occurred in
tiie annals of the Business League’s
history.
The attendance promises to be the
largest since the organization was
formed.
RETURNS FROM AN
EXTENSIVE SOUTHERN TRIP
Mrs. Jessie Hale-Moss, president of
i the Omaha branch of the N. A. A. C.
P., returned Friday from an exten
sive southern trip. Mrs. Moss went
as a delegate to the Eleventh An
nual National Convention of the As
sociation, which was held at Atlanta,
Ga., in June. After the convention
she visited points in Georgia and
Louisiana. She spent some time at
her former home in Ohio. Her moth
ers, Mrs Hale, returned with her from
t Ohio.
BROOKLYN TO HAVE
COLORED HOMAN
CATHOLIC CHCKCH
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sQ Ty Associated Negro Press.)
% klyn, N. Y„ ug. 5.—The Rt.
. ^ harles E. McDonnell, D.D.,
H. Brooklyn, will soon provide
a i ■*£ for the Colored Roman
Path. jople of this boro. The
Rev. Bernard Qninn, curate of the
church of Our Lady of Mercy, who
has been identiled with work among
the people of the race, and who has
given considerable time to religious
work among the people, as well as
attending to his parish duties at the
church of Our Lady of Mercy, has
been assigned as rector of the new
parish.
MOVEMENT FOR LAW
ENFORCEMENT
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 5.—The
movement for law enforcement is
spreading throughout the south. The
unorganized majority sentiment
against mob violence is being uni
fied, organized, and made effective.
The Law and Order League of Ten
nessee, with its branches in almost
every county of the state, has led the
way, and the co-operating colored
league, with its equally wide organi
zation, has shown the effectiveness of
points of contact between the better
elements of both races. One of the
results is the growing good will and
co-operation between white and
black in this state.
Mississippi Mayor
Makes Precedent
( HUM'S Binmer f<• Be Suspended Over
>1 iiiii Street of Citj truing Co
Operation ol' Both Knees in Meet
ing Acute Situation.
C"A ANTON, MISS.. August 5. An
Jt unusual insignia that lias never
been seen in any Southern city and
in fact no city in America is flying
across the streets of Canton today.
Tlie insignia reads: “white and colored
people, let’s come together for the
best interest of all.” The move that
is being made to bring a better un
derstanding between the races is a
result of the large exodus of Negroes
from tlie slate to northern cities. It
is said that the State of Mississippi
lias lost over one-half of its colored
population as the result of mob vio
lence and that labor is at a premium
for the farms and other minor occu
pations. This fact has caused the
leading white people of the state to
openly condemn the mal-treatment of
the Negroes in Mississippi and a
move is on to work for harmony
among tlie races. Statistics gathered
since the beginning of spring show
that approximately 25,000 Negroes
have left the state and each train is
carrying loads to other sections. It
is said that unless the exodus is
stopped that the state will he unable
to move the crop that has been made
next fall. Another move that is be
ing made lo show the Negroes of the
state that they are to be dealt with
fairly in the future is that a large
number of cities are preparing to
build better schools for the Negro chil
dren.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
The Swatiska Racquet Club will
give a three days tennis tournament
August 11 to 13th on the grounds at
twenty-eighth and Miami.
On August 13th after the tourna
ment tlie club will give a ‘‘.Jinx’’ lawn
social at the residence of the presi
dent Miss Madeline Huberts, 2GI0
North Twenty-eighth avenue. The club
challenges tennis players to enter the
tournament and Invites the public to
attend the lawn social.
The Loyal theater was crowded at
every performance of “The Home
steader,” the popular movie, written
and staged by colored folk, which was
shown Monday and Tuesday night.
Crowds were waiting outside of the
Loyal for opportunity to enter. It is
an attractive and well pictured story
of western life.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Shipman were
week-end visitors from Lexington,
Neb. The Shipman Bros, are rail
road contract graders. They have a
contract for grading twenty-one miles
for the Union Pacific at Lexington.
Thirteen miles have been completed.
The Shipmans hope to return to their
Omaha home the latter part of Sep
tember.
BISHOP MATTHEW W. CLAIR
WILL BE AN OMAHA VISITOR
Distinguished Washington Pastor Recently Elected Bishop by the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and One of the First Members of
His Race to Be So Honored by His Denomination Will Speak at
Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, August 15.
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OMAHA is to be favored with a
visit from the Rt. Rev. Rev, Mat
thew \V. Clair of Washington, D. ('.,
one of two colored men, the first of
their race to be so honored by their
donimlnation, recently elected as
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church at the General Conference
held In Des Moines, la. For many
years there has been a demand for
the election of colored bishops in the
Methodist Episcopal church. The
question has come up repeatedly and
several times it looked as though
leading candidates would he chosen.
It remained for the last General
Conference to grant this merited rec
ognition, Two were chosen, the Rev.
Matthew W. Clair of Washington, D.
C., and the Rev. Robert E. Jones, men
of character and scholarship and well
qualified for the position
Bishop Clair will visit Omaha, Sun
day, August 15, At 11 a. m. lie will
preach at Grove Methodist Episcopal
Church. Twenty-second and Seward
streets. At 3 o’clock he will address
a mass meeting of the citizens,
churches and congregations in the in
terest of the Colored Y. M. C. A. At
this meeting Mr. W. H. Higgins of
Chicago, son-in-law of the late Rev.
M. C. B. Mason and a Y. M. C, A. of
ficial, will also speak. All who are
WOMEN’S REPUBLICAN CLUB
TO HAVE MEETING
Large Attendance Is I rgctl to Hear
Speakers On Suffrage
Amendment,
The Douglas County Colored
Wednesday night, August 11th, at Co
Wednesday night, ugust llt.h, at Co
lumbia hall. All members, girls of
21 or over, are urgently requested to
bo present. There will be speakers
on Ihe proposed amendment to the
Constitution of Nebraska to be sub
mitted to the people at a special elec
tion September 21st. Also informa
tion on the full right of suffrage for
women. This is of vital importance
to the Negro. Don’t fail to attend.
J. ALICE STEWART, Pres.
JESSIE HALE-MOSS., Sec.
PRESIDENT’ KAFFIR CHEMICAL
LABORATORIES TAKES
BUSINESS TRIP
Miss Madree Penn, president of
the Kaffir Chemical Laboratories,
Inc., manufacturers of pharmaceut
icals, medicines, toilet preparations,
and other household necessities, left
Thursday for Kansas City, Mo., and
other points in the South and South
interested in the welfare of young
Negro manhood are invited to ,>e pres
ent at this meeting. At S o’clock
Bishop Clair will speak at the Metho
dist Church, at Thirty-second and U
streets, South Omaha, of which the
llev. W. C. Conwell is pastor. And it
is expected that other opportunities
will be given the people of the city
lo meet Bishop Clair.
Bishop Clair, who Is a graduate of
Howard University and Morgan Col
lege lias been recognized as a man of
scholarship and a preacher of great
power for many years. His whole
pastorate has been passed In the
Washington conference. For IS years
lie was pastor of Asbury M, E. church
Washington, D. C., from which posi
tion he was elected bishop. During
the last year of his pastorate he
built a magnificent new edifice at a
cost of $100,000.
There is a story current to the ef
fect that some years ago a leading
Washington newspaper offered a trip
abroad to the most popular minister
at the national ' capital. When the
votes were counted the winner was
the Rev. Matthew W. Clair, but when
it was learned that lie was a colored
man there was some hitch in carry
ing out the program. His popularity,
however, was shown in the voting.
west on business for the company.
Mliss Penn expects to be gone for a
month. She will close contracts with
reliable firms, energetic and wide
awake young men and women who
will push Kaffir products in their re
spective territories.
COMMERCIAL COMMISSIONER
An opportunity was given the
members of the executive committee
of the Colored Commercial Club and
their wives, to meet the recently
chosen assistant commissioner, Mrs.
Grace Hutten, at a pleasant informal
reception held Saturday night from
!) to 10 o’clock, at the club rooms.
OMAHA BOY MAKING GOOD
William Ray, who is well known
in Omaha, is now a very successful
and prosperous farmer near Dunlap,
Kan., according to the Rev. G. G.
Logan, who has just returned from
that prosperous farming community,
where members of our race own a
number of farms. Mr. Ray has a
farm of nearly 400 acres, 200 of
which are in wheat and alfalfa. His
pastures are stocked with 100 head
of cattle and horses. He is highly
respected in his community.
CO-OPERATIVE LEAGUE
HAS LARGE ATTENDANCE
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 5.—More
than 1,000 delegates, representing
every county in the state of Tennes
see, were in attendance at the first
annual meeting of the People’s Co
operative League recently, held here
in the chapel of the A. and I. State
Normal. The objects of the League,
which has local branches in fifty
five counties, is co-operation along
all lines making for racial better
ment and inter-racial amity and good
will. A cordial reception has been
accorded the plans and ideas of the
League by members of both races and
white leaders in various counties
hate recognized the value of the or
ganization.
THE MILLENIUM
DAWNING IN TEXAS
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Paris, Texas, Aug. 5.—The special
grand jury drawn to investigate the
recent burning of two colored Ameri
cans. held on charges of murdering
a farmer and his son, reported five
indictments for first degree murder
and adjourned. In its repor,t it was
stated that many of the witnesses ex
amined could not positively identify
any of the crowd at the burning as
ringleaders. The names of those in
dicted were not made public pending
the arrests.
Chamber of Commerce
Takes Wise Action
Would Give Race Better Housing
Conditions, Particularly in Farm
ing Districts and Would Provide
Better Schools.
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 5.—The
Memphis Chamber of Commerce
created a Farm Development Bureau
when the bottom dropped out of the
cotton market in 1914. The bureau
has since steadily advocated diversi
fied farming and a better lease sys
tem for colored tenants. It has se
cured co-operation from the state
university and the county agricul
tural and canning agents in provid
ing speakers for meetings arranged
at the colored school houses of the
county.
These meetings last four days each,
include lectures, demonstrations
of improved methods of farming,
talks on school improvement, and the
Lettering of home and community life
in the country—including the build
ing up of understanding and co-op
eration between the races. Promi
nent business men of Memphis take
part in the meetings.
“In a recent talk,” writes one of
these men, “I stressed the fact that
better treatment of the Negro was
to the interest of the white people;
and that where that treatment was
not yet satisfactory the colored peo
ple should recognize that it was due
to mistake rather than to deliberate
intention. Some had failed to dealize
the importance of the colored man
If the community was to develop; but
all would recognize it in time. Every
year shows an improvement.”
BLACKSTONE WAITERS
HONOR WAITRESS
Miss Lulu Williams, the lone wait
ress at the Blackstone hotel, was ten
dered a banquet and reception Friday
evening, July 23, at the Monarch cafe,
by the crew of the hotel. Covers were
laid for eight. The table was pro
fusely decorated with choice flowers.
The menu consisted of the delicacies
of the season. At the close of the din
ner Miss Williams was presented with
a beautifully engraved wrist watch
from the Blackstone hotel waiters as
a token of their esteem. J. W. Shields,
(Ue head waiter, making tlie presnta
tion speech.
JOINS MONITOR STAFF
George H. W. Bullock, until recent
ly director of Community Service, has
joined the Monitor staff. His duties
will be chiefly connected with the
business department, but in addition
to this he will be responsible for cer
tain literary and editorial work on
the publication. The Monitor believes
itself ouite fortunate in securing Mr.
Bullock’s services.
WHO WILL TAKE DELEGATES??
The Masonic Grand Lodge convenes
here the latter part of this month.
Persons who will take delegates at
$2.50 per day should telephone J. H.
Glover, Webster 2255.
Churchmen Condemn
Mob Violence
i
: Tile Bishop of Mississippi. Hie Human
Catholic Bishop of Georgia and
Other Prominent Religious XeaiK
ers in South Would Slop Bastardly
Work of Molts.— Demand Justice for
Negro.
—
PULPIT BECOMING
OUTSPOKEN EOK RIGHT
(GREENSBORO, N. C., Aug. 5.—An
7 unusual number of prominent
white churchmen, ministers and lay
men, have in the last few weeks
spoken before large audiences of their
own people in behalf of the Negro.
The Bishop-Coadjutor of Mississis
sippi at his recent diocesan conven
tion, made a telling speech against
mob violence in general and that of
his own state in particular and
urged his hearers to uphold divine
and human law by putting a stop
to this crime. The Roman Catholic
bishop of Georgia recently published
a strong appeal for legal and econom
ic justice in that state without regard
to race. Dr. Alexander, of Atlanta,
representing the Xnterchurch World
Movement before the Southrn Metho
dist women in their annual Council,
urged wider recognition of the Ne
gro's rights and privileges, and the
obligations of white Christians to give
the Negro child better care and fuller
opportunity. Dr. Blackwell of Vir
ginia, president of Randolph-Macon
college, speaking before a Methodist
conference, laid on Southern white
Christians the obligation for ending
mob violence and making race
clashes impossible.
Dr. Blackwell especially commend
ed the inter-racial conferences being
held in most of the Southern states,
as a means of better understanding
of the Negro and the causes of his
unrest. He urged the protection of
colored people from racial influences
by a policy of open justice and sym
pathy from their white neighbors, to
whom they should be able to turn for
the righting of any wrong imposed
upon them.
Bishop Bratton of Mississippi, in
his address as president of the South
ern Sociological Congress, declared
Christian ethics the only solution of
race problems for white or black; and
in closing the conference he made a
moving appeal to the Negroes for
patience and faith in the growing
body of white men and women who
are determined to work out relations
between the races in harmony with
Christian principles.
The Southern Baptist Convention in
May took an equally pronounced
stand. The convention especially
commended the inter-racial confer
ences already referred to, and urged
active co-operation with them.
These are but a few instances of
many. Church leadership is especial
ly strong in the South; and nothing
is more promising in the outlook for
inter-racial harmony' than this move
ment in church ranks.
ST. JOHN’S A. M. E. PICNICS
AT LAKE MANAMA
Special cars took a large number
of men, women and children to Lake
Manawa last Thursday for the an
nual picnic of St. John’s A. M. E.
j church. Games and the various
' amusements provided by the man
agement furnished all ample oppor
tunity for enjoyment. A pleasant
time was reported.
IS AWARDED PRIZE
FOR RELIGIOUS ESSAY
Mrs. Luda B. Moore Writes Treatise
That Impressed Sunday School
Congress.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 5.—Mrs. Luda
B. Moore, prominent church worker,
was agreeably surprised when noti
fied by the Rev. A. Connelly, of Pa
ducah, Ky., that she was awarded one
of the 35 gold handled umbrellas,
valued at $25, given in the national
contest for written essays on “Re
ligious Works.” These prizes have
been awarded for the past five years
by the Baptist Sunday School Con
gress.
Mrs. Moore chose for her subject
“A Thorough Knowledge of the Bible
and Spirit of Christ,” two essentials
in the life of Sunday school teachers,
which the author read, before the con
gress in Muskogee, Okla.
The concise, forceful wording of
the composition, its masterful and
clever delivery, well deserved the rec
ognition received by Mrs. Moore.