r^n the Monitor n^~i
A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
__THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor
S3.00 a Year. 10c a Copy_OMAHA. NEBRASKA. DECEMBER 23, 1920_Vol. VI. No. 26 <Whole No. 286)
A Very Merry Christmas to All of Our Readers
MARINE!: «( HAITI ARE
EN. VV EXONERATED
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Secretary Daniel-' Naval l Tt >uirj Reports TTiat Charges
of “Indiscriminate Killing ives .Are Absolutely Un
warranted—Brigadier Genet. .rnett. Former Commandant
of Marine-', a Much Mistaken .'tan. According to Report
COURT DOES NOT RECOMMEND COURT MARTIALS
Claims to Find That Only Two Unjustifiable Homicides and Six
teen Other Acts of Violence Have Been Committed by Marine'
Against Haitians—Adequate Punishment Has Been Admin
istered in Farh Case Reported—Qualify for IJme-kiin Clult
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. — The
naval court of inquiry which
investigated the conduct of the ma
rine* in Haiti reported to Secretary
Daniels Saturday that there “had been
no proper grounds" for the statement
by Brig. Gen. George Barnett, former
commandant of the marine corps, that
the force had been guilty of “prac
tically indiscriminate killing” of
Haitians.
After a careful survey, the court,
presided over by Rear Admiral Henry
T. Mayo, found General Parnetfs
charges were “ill-considered, regret
table and thoroughly unwarranted re
flections” on the work of the marine
corps in Haiti, adding that the corps
had performed difficult, dangerous
and delicate duty worthy of the high
est commendation
The marines virtually were given
a clean bill by the court, which de
clined to recommend trial bv court
martial of Freeman Lang of Los An
geles and Doras Williams of Birming
ham. Ala., charged by native wit
nesses with the murder of Haitians.
Indeed, the Lang and Williams cases
were not mentioned.
In all "isolated” cases of unjusti
fiable conduct by marine*, the court
found disciplinary action had been
taken.
The findings as made public were
approved by Secretary Daniels and
Maj. Gen. A. Lejeune, commandant of
the marine corps.
"The court finds two unjustifiable
homicides have been committed, one
each by two of the personnel of the
United State.- naval service which ha
served in Haiti since July 28, 1915,
and that 16 other serious acts of vio
lence have been perpetrated against i
citizen? of Haiti by individuals of such
personnel,
“The court finds that these of
fenses were all isolated acts of in
dividuals and that in every case tin
responsible party was duly brought
to trial, convicted and sentenced.
“The court has found no .evidence
of the commission of any other un
justifiable acts of oppression or of
violence against any of the citizen- of
Haiti or unjustifiable damage or de
struction of their property caused by
any of the personnel in question.
“In view of the fact that the only
justifiable acts found to have been
committed are those wherein dis- ]
ciplinary action has been taken and
where no further proceeding- could
be had in the matter, the court has
not deemed it necessary to report
further a? to responsibility.”
WILL CONSTRICT
MODERN HOTEL
1 By the Associated Negro Press*
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Dec. 21.—
A new and modern hotel for colored
people is to be constructed here in the
very near future. Dr. W. H. Bruce,
local physician, and Bishop L. W.
Kyles of the colored Methodist Epis
copal church, now a resident of St
Louis, but owner of considerable
property in this city and section, have
procured a site and are now having
plans prepared for the building.
Architect Oilbert C. Humphries ex
perts to complete the plans in the
next few days, after which the pre
liminaries to construction will be
worked out.
KENTITkY GIRL CHARGES
NEGRO WITH ASSUT.T
COMMITTED BY LOVER
LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec 28.—While
Miss Fannie Brasher, night telephone
operator at Middlesboro, Ky was
talking on the wire after midnight,
November 29, to a girl operator at
Pineville, twenty miles away, she
whispered: “Some one’s breaking
Into the office.” The Pineville girl
responded: “Connect me with your
police station.”
Ah the connection was made the
Pineville girl heard Miss Brasher
scream. The station Is a block from
the telephone office, and when officers
reached the place Miss Brasher was
found on the floor unconscious with a
gash In her head. Held tightly be
tween her teeth were many stands of
red hair.
When Miss Brasher recovered her
senses she declared a Negro had at
tacked her. After an all-day search
proved futile the girl’s attention was
called to the red hair she had in her
mouth. She admitted then that James
Thompson, a sweetheart, she had Jilt
ed. had committed the assault, after
telling her he Intended to kill her.
MOTICETTTr
; men’s Ball at the Au
ditorium is NOT post
I poned.
COOK* GET *1.5fl. LITE
IS RIHOGIM HOI'SES
PORT At; PRINCE, Dec. 23.—'There j
is no high labor market in Haiti. The
iman working by the day gets one i
gourde, which is 20 cents, and some- ,
times a gourde and a half. Cooks are :
to be had w-Sthout advertising. Most
of them earn $1.50 a week, and in ad- j
dition get 6 cent* a day on which to |
feed themselves and their flock. You
do not have to include car fare in the
weekly wage down here.
At some points in the interior wages
for cooks are even lower. Many of
Them live In mahogany houses, at
that.
Haiti's population is estimated at
around 2.500,000. Ninety-seven per
cent of these people are classed as
illiterate, which may account for the
size of the pay envelope.
LEILA WILSON SEEKS
*300.000 IN'SI'RA NCE
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Mrs I^eila
Walker Wil*on of Irvington on the
Hudson, who inherited the bulk of a
$1,000,000 estate from her mother,
Mme. C. J Walker, reputed to have i
been the wealthiest woman in the,
country at the time of her death in :
May, 1919. has applied to life lnsur- j
ance companies for policies aggregat
ing $300,000.
Mme. Walker started her meteoric !
rise in 1907. when with $2 and a for
mula perfected through much study, i
she started the manufacture of prod
ucts which afterwards made her fa-1
mous. When she died she was pro- j
prietor of the Mme Walker Beauty
Corporation, Indianapolis, and of i
hairdressing parlors throughout the
country. She left a $250,000 home, !
Villa Lewaro, at Irvington, N .Y., to'
her daughter. She gave liberally to
all purposes In aid of the race.
CENSES GIVES CHICAGO
LARGE COLORED POI’CLATION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—The col
ored population of Chicago Increased
65,491 in the last decade and now is
109,594, the census bureau has an
nounced. The percentage of Increase
was 148.6, The total white population
Is 2,589,104, an increase of 450,047, or
21 per cent, and all others numbered
3,007.
HVl M'NPEETS tRE RELEASES
Rea Wet* Held in (on section With
Alleged i <«nli Which I aired
Lynching.
Di iJTH, Minn.. lie-. 23.—Fi^ye cir
cus employee held since last June in
connection with the aIV eed assault on
a young white girl were released late
last Friday when their rases were
dismissed on motion of the county at
torney. Three Negroes were lynched
as a result of the alleged assault and
the prosecutor declared this had “re
moved” material witnesses in the
cases i>ending without whose evidence
he could not hope for convictions.
JOHX f. DHfT'S WIIMiW
GIYEA «1 jm YE A KI T
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—The will
of John C. Dancy, former recorder of
deeds for the District of Columbia,
was filed for probate last week. Ita
l ief provisions were an annuity of
$1,500 for life to the widow. Mrs. Fior- |
ence Dancy and contributions of $100
each to the Zion A. M. E. church and
Livingston College of Salisbury, N. C.,
Xfra. Dancy was also devised two
premises in Washington, and a daugh
ter. Lillian, ia to receive an annuity
of $50 monthly and a premise In the
northwest part of Washington.
Real estate was devised to a son.
Joseph, and John Dancy, the other
sen, is to receive a piece of property
ir the northwest part of the city. A
bequest of $500 was made to the sis
ter, Mrs. Ella E. Bovd: and $100 to
another sister. Martha Dancy.
ORGANIZE STORY
TELLERS’ I.EAGCE
(By the Associated Negro Presst
HARRISBl'RG, Pa. Dec. 23.—Mrs
Harry G- Feffer, president of the east
ern district of the National Story Tell
ers' league, has organized a colored
branch of the league in this city, to be
known as the Paul l^aurence Dunbar
Story Tellers’ league. This is the sec
ond branch of its kind in the T'nited
States, the other being at Iatuisville,
Ky.
Stay to Progress
The world will nevet progress as
»«> as It migtn along t^hrtsfian lines
ys long as our own headache Is more
mportant to ns than a neighbor’s loss
tt his farm.
Wolsey's Grave.
8omewhere amidst the ruins of Lei
cester ahlie.v. which the earl of Dysart
has presented to Leicester, lies the
dmw of the great Cardinal Wolsey. but
the alte of his grove, like that of
Moses, is unknown
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cbtlb tottb iHarp \)is mother, anb fell boton, anb toorsfjtppeb
btm: anb toben tfiep bab openeb tbetr treasures, tbep presenteb
unto btm gifts; golb, anb franfuncense, anb mprrb.
Matthew II : n.
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WHISKEY SUBSTITUTES
ARE CAUSING INSANITY
Superintendent of City Hospital Reports Startling Increase of
Insanity Among Colored Population of Kansas City, Directly
Traceable to Intoxicating Beverages Concocted as Substitutes
for Banned Liquors
FRESH CORN WHISKEY IS THE MOST POISONOUS
Doetor Thompson Prominent Race Physician and Specialist, De
clares I that the Past Six Months Record Exceeds That of
Preceding Twelve Years—Majority of Cases Treated in Hos
pital Are of Violent Nature
JZ AN'S AS CITY, Dec. 23.—There
*■ has been more insanity among
the Negro population here in the last
six months than in the previous twelve
years because of substitutes for liquor,
Dr. J. Thompkins, superintendent of
the city hospital for Negroes, told
members of the hospital and health
boards. He said that fifty insane Ne
groes had been treated at the hospital
daring the past six months. Virtually
all were of a violent nature, he said.
Recently, Dr. Thompkins said, twelve
cases were received within twenty
four hours.
Drinks concocted to revive the
banned intoxicants, he said, cause the
prevalence of violent insanity.
“Fresh com w'hiskey is one of the
most dangerous beverages,” said the
doctor. "When drunk after recent
distillation, the com product contains
unneutralized fusel oils which causes
violent insanity if taken frequently.”
I’HOBABf.Y ASHAMED OF
THEIR IXEFFICIESC1
Colored Women Ask Permission to
, Attend Federation as Spectators to
Fenm From While Women How to
Organize and Conduct Meetings—
Request Denied.
IBy the Associated Negro Press)
ALEXANDRIA. La., Dec. 23.—One
of the interesting incidents of the con
vention of the State Federation of
Women’s Clubs of Louisiana, held
here, will not form part of the records
of that organization.
This incident was the fight over the
question of allowing a committee of
Negro women, contemplating organiz
ing a women’s club, to attend one of
the sessions of Federated Women’s
Clubs to “see how the women conduct
a convention.’’
The request to allow a committee of
women to occupy seats in the rear of
the hall as spectators, came from a
number of our women of Alexandria.
The question wag put up to the coun
cil of the Federated Women’s Clubs,
composed of elected officers and state
presidents.
The council was about evenly di
vided on the question, and when the
“yea’’ and ’’nay’’ vote was taken it was
believed the question had carried fa
vorably to the Negroes. Those oppos
ing the entrance into the convention
hall forced an immediate adjourn
ment, and hurried consultations en
sued.
Meanwhile someone notified the
committee of women they could enter
the hall. After they entered it they
were told that a mistake had been
made, and that while the council had
passed on the question, the general
body had not ratified it. The women
left the hall and when the question
was put before the general body, the
question was defeated by a vote of
two to one.
The motion to expunge the record
of the proceedings on the question
from the books of the organization
was raiTied unanimously. According
to prominent members of the Feder
ated Women’s Clubs who opposed the
entrance of the women Into the con
vention hall, an organizer of the Fed
eration of Eastern Clubs, numbering
about fi OhO Negro women members, Is
in Alexandria, organizing women into
clubs
PURCHASE HOSPITAL BUILDING
(By the Associated Negro Press)
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec, 23.—One of
the most important financial transac
tions in the history of the race in
Memphis in recent years was consum
mated by the purchase outright of the
large and well equipped St. Anthony’s
hospital. This institution and its
grounds have been acquired by the
National Grand United Order of Wise
Men and Women of the World for
311,000
