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The monitor □=□ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor $2.00 a Ye« ".e a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, MARCH 10, 1921 . Vol. VI No. :!7 (Whole No. 297) SCOn IS SLATED FOR II. S. MINISTER TO BOLIVIA CAMPfc V OPENS FOR QUAk OF A MILLION % - 'I he National Association^ ;e Advancement of Colored People Has Begun Drive for t membership of 250,000—The Greatest Massing of Colored People and Their White Friends, of Whom There Are Thousands, Against Discrimination, Ever Attempt ed in United States. ASSOCIATION OFFICERS COVER ENTIRE COUNTRY An Intelligent, Well-Directed Force of a Quarter of a Million Will Be an Irresistible Power for Justice—Definite Program Out lined for 1921, Which Includes Anti-Lvnching Legislation by Congress, Enfranchisement. Abolition of Jim-Crow Cars and Suppression of Activities of Ku Klux Klan. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 10.—The National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, "0 Fifth avenue. New York, announces the opening of its drive for a quarter of a million members, the greatest massing ’ of colored people Bnd their while friends against discrimination ever seen In the United States. The heads of the association and the executive officers are distributed among the various states and sections and the drive Is beginning simultane ously everywhere with local mass meetings. In the South, irr. \V. I It. Pullets" editor of the Uriaia magazine, and William Pickens, former dean of Mor gan College and now field secretary of tin association, are getting the drive under way. In thp Middle West, James Weldon Johnson, the national secretary, and Walter F. White, assistant secretary, together with Mrs. A. W. Ilunton, arc addressing meetings and responding to the calls fpr organization among colored people. In the Far West. Mary White Ovlng ton. chairman of the board of direc tors, Is on a lecture tour and w-t|| de vote her efforts especially to the work In California. The executive work In the national office In New York is In charge of the Rev. Robert W. Hagnail, formerly of Detroit, who has become director of branches of the association Every means is being used in the drive to make it known to the public. Publicity committees are being formed lo keep ih touch with local news papers, white and colored. Automobile committees are formed and members are to be canvassed by telephone. The local drives are In charge of colonels, who appoint their majors, captains and lieutenants where the imputation is large enough to warrant. In blanches of over 1,000 members there is to be an additional major for each 1.000 members, and the majors appoint their subordinate officers. Roughly, the captains are responsible for 100 members and the lieutenants for 10 members. Constant mass meetings everywhere In the country are to he held in the progress of the drive and the national office Is to receive reports of the growth of membership. Reports will - i,e st-nr n it from the national office at Bhort Intervals announcing the status of the campaign. In addition to the motor squadrons which will consist of automobile own ers willing to furnish transportation in the drive, there is to be ft speakers’ bureau which will eo operate with the churches and other public bodies In furnishing speakers. Tn connection with the drive for a quarter of a million members, the Na tlonal Association for (he Advance ment of Colored People announces the following program: Program f"r 1W1 I-Anil-lynching legislation by con gress. 2- Abolition of segregation In the do partments at Washington. :t- Enfranchisement of ttie Negro In 1 the South or reduction of South ern representation, if necessary. 4—Restoration of Haitian in depend ence and reparation, ns Tar as pos sible for wrongs committed there by the American administration, through congressional Investlga tton of both military and civil ads of the American occupation. 5- Presentation to the new president , of a mammoth petition of, say, 10,000,000 honk fide signers, col lected l>y the various branches, request ink the pardon of the sol diers cf the Twenty-fourth Infan try Imprisoned at Leavenworth on the charge o frloflng at Houston, Texas. f| The abolition of jlm-erop cars In Interstate traffic. 7—Treatment of colored men in the navy. Where once many ratings as noncommissioned officers were held by Negroes, now colored men can enlist only as mess boys. In other words, as servants, g— Appointment of a# national racial commission to make an earnest study of race conditions and race relations in the United States, it Appointment of colored assistant secretaries in the Departments of labor and Agriculture, which would give Ihe Negro representa tion in the two phases of national life where he needs most and suf - fers most. 10— -Continuance of the fight in the Arkansas cases. 11— The successful holding of the sec ond pan-African Congress that the colored peoples of (he world may gain a mutual understanding of their common problem!). 12— The defeat by every legitimate means of the nefarious Ku Klux Klan,*both South and North. V A. A. r. I*. OPPOSED TO KATE * HOSPITAL I' CLEVELAND Argue I lint Such an Institution Would Trend Towards Separate School* nnd Segregation in toiler Uesperts. CLEVELAND, O., March in. The Cleevland branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Is unalterably opposed lo a separate hospital in Cleveland for colored people on the ground that It would be the opening wedge for segre gation of the races, William R. Green, president of Ihe Cleveland branch, an nounced recently. Plans for such a hospital have be* formulated by the Cleveland Hospital Association, an organization of colored physicians’ and are awaiting Indorse menl by the welfare federation. The hospital would be known as the Lin coin Memorial hospital. "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has 3,000 members in Cleveland, all of whom are opposed lo a separate hos pital,” Mr. Green said. "At a meeting of the Cleveland branch Tuesday night resolutions were adopted disapproving t lie idea “If wo have separate hospitals foi white and colored, why not separate schools? And If separate schools, why not Jim Crow cars? The trend from a separate hospital would be towards segregation in other respects, and we do not want segregation in Cleveland. "The advantages from a separate hospital that would accrue to colored physicians and colored nurses would he far outweighed, In our opinion, by the harm that would result.” A Nil VII K CA M I* A If* N (By Ihe Associated Negro Press) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 1U.~ Raids in the disreputable districts among the colored people are being continued by the council's puhlt" safety committee. At the beginning the colored people, as a whole, were inclined to discredit Ihe campaign of the committee, but now appear to he reconciled to the program of "making Hie city safe,” because the campaign has not been wholly confined to the Negro sections, but Is being carried into all the neighborhoods where the criminal elemen's have been found |carrying on their depredations. SEGREGATION SIGNS RAPIDLY DISAPPEAR (By the Associated Negro Press) WASHINGTON, March 10.- Colonel Henry Lincoln Johnson states that in accordance with the campaign pledges that all segregation signs In the vari ous departments would be taken down before "sundown on March 4," he asked for special representatives to bestir themselves and loette some of I (he said signs. After a long and falth i ful look, It was discovered that the democrats evidently “smelled a rat,” for the "specials” returned without finding a sign anywhere. There are no segregation signs in Washington under the new administration. 1*1, INNING FOR LARGE DEPARTMENT STORE (By the Associated Negro Press) CHICAGO, Marc hlO.—A quarter of a million dollar drive with a million dollars as an ultimate end is the milk in the coeoanut of a vigorous cam paign now being conducted by the Progressive company, a Negro cor poration of this city. A big, modern department store has been planned, ground purchased to be the site of a $150,000 building and a $200,000 stock of merchandise are included in the general designs of this company to establish the first genuine department store among the colored people In this country. Chicago hag been “zoned” by the or ganization and clubs set up in the sev eral sections, which have already raised enough of the money needed .'or (he preliminary work of purchas ing the site for the proposed building and the preparation of the large corps of heads of departments and clerks that will be used when the big store is opened to tile public. Stock is now being sold at a rapid rate and the projectors are very con fident that the building operations of the company will be started before the year Is ended. C. H. Turner is the president of the company and W. A. Bryant Is the treasurer. Both of these men are popular and enjoy a wide ac quaintance in the business and church work in Chicago. WOULD ESTABLISH SPECIAL HOSPITAL (By (he Associate* Negro Press! CLEVELAND, O., March 10.—Dr. Joseph T. Thomas, president of the Cleveland Hospital Association, Is or ganizing a Lincoln Memorial hospital, which is to provide hospital attention for the colored sick of this city. The hostile attitude of hospital authorities toward colored physicians is declared to be the reason for the establishment of the new hospital. Members of the Cleveland branch of the N. A. A. C. P. are opposing the establishment of a separate hospital. JOHNSON SI’EtkS ON HAITIAN QUESTION (By the Associated Negro Press) NEWPORT, R. I., March 10.—Janie Weldon Johnson delivered an address on the Haitian situation here last Wednesday night. The address was well received by a large and enthusi astic audience. Mr. Johnson is tour ing this section of the country as the secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. WILL BUILD AND OPERATE MOTION PICTURE HOUSE (By (he Associated Negro Cress) DAYTON, 0., March 10.- Jefferson Roberts and Moses ('. Moore, local business men, are planning to build and operate a motion picture theater for colored people. [.and has been purchased for the piiriHise and the building is to begin very soon. FARMERS TO RECEIVE SCIENTIFIC TRAINING (By the Associated Negro Press) NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 10.— Tennessee is to lead in a general southern movement to give Negro farmers scientific agricultural train ing. Other southern states have signi fied a willingness to join hands with this state. Leading men and women here feel that success will attend the effort. TROTTER IN MONTANA (By the Associated Negro Press) BUTTE, Mont., March 10.—William Monroe Trotter of Boston, Mass., is I delivering a series of speeches in this I state. His lecture on his European 1 experiences during the recent war are being heard and applauded by large (nixed audiences. He experts to be in this end of the country for several more weeks. COUPLE, E 1(11 AGED Hit, HAVE LITTLE BABY NEW BERN, N. C., March 10.—Re ports of tlie birth of a child to a couple in Pollocksvillc, both aged 83, were confirmed here when persons ac quainted with the couple added also that both the mother and father weie white haired and showed every evl deuce of the age they claimed. The child was born several days ago and a local photographer lias received an order for films to take pictures of the father, mother and child. REMEMBERS EMPLOYES IN WILL (By the Associated Negro Press) LOUISIVLLE, Ky„ March 10.—Dr. Marcus Lindsey Cooper, a prominent physician who died here recently, left six bequests of $100 each to his col ored employes. ' Two others received a life Interest In twenty acres of farm ing land. EMMETT J. SCOTT Secretary-treamirer of Howard University who, it is reported, will be ap pointed United States minister to Bolivia THE FIENDISH LYNCHING AT ATHENS SHOCKS GEORGIA Governor Dorsey Offers Reward of $.3,000 for Arrest and Convic tion of Members of Mob Who Burned George Lee Eberhardt at the Stake, Protesting His Innocence to the Last—Athens Ministerial Association Demands Thorough Investigation. “WHEN THE LAW DIES GOVERNMENT DIES,” ASSERTS CHANCELLOR BARROW ATLANTA, Ga., March 10. —Re wards totaling $3,000 for arrest and conviction of members of the mob that broke Into jail at Athens, Ga., on Wednesday night, February 16, and burned John Lee Eberhardt, a Negro, at the stake have been offered by Gov ernor Dorsey. The governor offered rewards of $500 each for the first three convic tions on the burning charge and tile same amounts for the first three con victions of persons who broke Into the jail. The Athens Ministerial Association in resolutions adopted demands an in vestigation of the entire affair, includ ing responsibility of the officers hav ing the Negro in custody. Eberhardt was accused of the murder of a white woman. Dr. Plato Durham, dean of the theo logical department of Emory I'nivcr slty, and the Rev. M. Ashby Jones, Atlanta, conferred with Governor Dor sey for several hours on February 26 regarding the mob action. No slate inent was given out, but It was repott ed that the governor soon would ask for a special session of the Clark grand Jury to Investigate the storming of the Jail and for another grand Jury investigation In Oconee county, where the Negro was taken and burned. A THENS, Ga., March 10.—Demands t«- of the Ministerial Association of ANNUAL MEETING NATIONAL NEGRO PltEHH ASSOCIATION (By the Associated Negro Press) WASHINGTON, March 10.—Tlie twentieth annual meeting of the Na tional Negro Press Association was belli in the library of Dunbar High school March 2 anil 3. The session was under the direction of J. Finley Wilson, first vice president, who pre sided in the absence of the president, Chris J. Perry of the Philadelphia Tribune, who Is confined to a hospital. There were over fifty editors and newspaper representatives present from various parts of the country. The subject of advertising was discussed with special interest. The association members were entertained nt Howard University at luncheon. Dr. Emmet J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of the uni versity, acted as host of the occasion. Prior to the luncheon the visitors were introduced to the faculty and student body in the chapel. The association was Invited by A. L. Athens for investigation of the storm ing of the jail here Wednesday night February 16, and subsequent burning of a Negro near here were followed promptly by denunciations of the crime by David C. Barrow’, chancellor of the University of Georgia, and An drew J. Cobb, formerly a justice of the state supreme court. “This is a country where we depend for safety on law,” Chancellor Barrow declared in an address to the student body. “The faw'less acts of certain citizens Wednesday night must make each of us fear for the future of our country.” He added that information (minted to the Negro’s guilt of mur der, but,he deplored the mob’s act. After declaring that “the life of an excellent woman has beeS de3troye» by a fiend,” former Justice Cobb as serted In a signed statement that the Negro burned was not shown to be: guilty and asserted that “the murder | of the law is a far graver offense than j the murder of a human being.” “Organized government has sur vived and can again survive the mur der of human beings," he continued. When the law dies, government dies; all things desirable die, chaos reigns and anarchy is enthroned. Choose you tills day whom you will serve, the law or anarchy.” There was a legal way to punish the Negro, If guilty, he concluded. Holsey to hold the next session at Tuskegee Institute. Mr. Holsey stated that at the same time the monument erected to the memory of the late Booker T. Washington will he un veiled. The invitation was accepted. WELFARE ASSOCIATION ELECTS OFFICERS (By the Associated Negro P^ess) MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 10.— Lillian Dungee was elected president, Mary Berkeley, vice president; Lilly Calahan, second vice president, and Mattie Beverly, secretary, of the Anna | M. Duncan Club, a colored women’s welfare organization, recently. I - DYING IN ALMSHOUSE, MAN LEAVES H,000 FREDERICK, Md., Marcli 10.—Ray mond A. Lanzell, who for years ran errands for stores, died at Montevue | hospital, the county almshouse, and left an estate valued at about $3,000. ATMOSPHERE C RGED WITH M Y RUMORS National Capital All Astir Concerning Reports as to Which of the Faithful Will Be Rewarded by Harding Administration for Loyal Service—Considered as Settled That Scott Will Be Ap pointed as Minister to Bolivia, a New and Delicious Peach in Our Political Orchard. OTHER APPOINTMENTS BELIEVED SETTLES Cottrell for Register of the Treasury; Anderson for Collector of Customs at Port of New York, the Position Which He So Ac ceptably Filled During Roosevelt’s Administration; Nelson for Recorder of Deeds—Henry Lincoln Johnson, Lewis and Church Decline Appointments Is Rumor. (By The Associated Negro Press) Washington, d. c„ March 10.— ” Rumors and then more rumors are keeping the atmosphere charged with suppressed excitements and in tolerant fears of just what no one ap pears to know. One is simply sub merged and actually drowned in the( great suction of things without know ing clearly the why or the wherefore. And there is no end to it. President Harding is the central figure in the situation, but not the central thought. ‘Where and when will I land?” is the present all-absorbing idea and no one is making any apparent effort to get away from this question. There are just a few attitudes which appear in the nature of a surprise. William H. I^wis, Robert R. Church and Henry Lincoln Johnson are de clining appointments. To what? is a query that baffles reply. They have declined is the rumor that is holding the center of the stage, and that is all there is about the matter. On the other hand, it has been very | definitely decided that Charles A, Cot trell is to be the next register of the treasury; Charles W. Anderson is to I he collector of customs at the port of New York; Emmet J. Scott is to rep-1 resent the government as minister to j Bolivia; Perry W. Howard has his1 weather eye on the attorney general's office: Ernest Lyon is yearning to get his former post at Monrovia; Phil Brown has picked out a soft berth in the war department; Fred R. Moore, MUNICIPAL FARM FOR DELINQUENT GIRLS (By the Associated Negro Press) ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 10.—Two hundred thousand dollars for the es tablishment of a municipal farm for delinquent colored girls is the basis for the summer work of the St. Ixtuis Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. At a meeting of the federation last Monday night Circuit Court Judge Moses Hartman made an address fa voring the plan. NEW YORK LEADS IN POPULATION (By the Associated Negro Press 1 NEW YORK, March 10.—New York City has a Negro population of 158,088. These figures make this city the big gest center of Negroes on the western hemisphere. #.-.0.000 COMMERCIAL HANK TO RE OPENED SOON WILSON. N. C., March 10.—The Commercial Bank of Wilson, char ! tered with an authorized capital of $50,000, is now an assured fact, and j the home of the Institution will be ready by the last of March. One of j (he active promoters of (his enterprise is Prof. J. I). Reid, who sold $,'19,000! worth of stock In thirty days, and of this amount 99 per cent is cash. DANGER SIGNAL A blue pencil mark on your paper means your subscription is due and must be paid at once or your paper will be stopped. _ the heavy gun of the New York Age, slates himself for the electrically charged atmosphere of Port Au Prince; James Weldon Johnson or W. S. Scarborough is heading for Hawaii; Robert J. Nelson, the gracious jour nalist and editor of Wilmington, Del., will record deeds for the District of Columbia; Dr. J. R. A. Crossland will he given the very important position of superintendent of the Freedman’s hospital, and Walter L. Cohen will be the naval officer at *he port of New Orleans. Under the guidance of Mrs. Lethia C. Fleming of Cleveland. O., and di rector of women’s activities in the last campaign, a goodly number of the women of national repute held a meet ing of women voters in the John Wes ley A. M. E. church. Hallie Q. Brown, Mary Church-Terrell, Victoria Clay Haley, Alice Ruth Dunbar-Nelson, and Mary B. Talbert were among the women leaders present at"the sessions and took a prominent part in the dis cussions. They were addressed by H. L. Johnson, Charles Cottrell, Bishop Clinton and others. An executive committee was formed and plans for ttie maintenance of a national headquarters at Washington, with Henry Lincoln Johnson as the executive head, were adopted. The chief duty of the women’s organiza tion is to keep vigilant watch over legislation affecting the status and in terests of the race as it may appear in either house of the national con gress. MRS. VARNER LOSES SENSATIONAL SUIT IN FEDERAL COURT Jury Finds Plaintiff Guilty of Im proper Relations With Baxter Me Rury—Return Verdict After Delib erating 42 Hours—Alimony Denied. GREENSBORO. N. C., March 10.— The federal court jury, trying the case of Mrs. Florence C. Varner, who sued her husband, Colonel Henry B. Varner of Lexington, for support, on Febru ary 26 returned a verdict for the de fendant after two days’ deliberation. One of the issues required the Jury the find whether she was guilty or innocent of the charge of improper re lations with Baxter McCrary. The jurv answered this affirmatively. The verdict came after the jury had deliberated for forty-two hours and had cast setten ballots. The case followed sensational de velopments in I^exington, N. C., on the night of August 9, 1920, when a group of citizens are alleged to have dragged Baxter McCrary, wealthy colored man, from under the home of H. B. Varner. A few flays later Varner entered suit against McCrary for $100,000, charg ing him with having alienated his wife's affections, and at the same time Instituted divorce proceedings against Mrs. Varner. The divorce was thrown out of court under a technicality. Mrs. Varner, in November, filed a suit in federal court, asking for a rea sonable subsistence from her husband and title to a building in Lexington, owned by Varner, said to he worth $50,000. The trial of the case was be gun In federal court here February 15 and on February 24 It went to the Jury. When news of the verdict was con veyed to Mrs. Varner at a local sani tarium she collapsed, according to at j tendants. * METHODISTS LAUNCH $5,000,000 DRIVE (By the Associated Negro Press) DALLAS, Tex., March 10.—A five million dollar drive has been started by the African Methodist Episcopal church for its connectional educa tional work. The drive will bo led by John R. Hawkins, financial secretary of the church. The bishops’ council, which huH Just closed its annual bps sions in this city, gave its official sanction to the drive, which will be started at once. SLOGAN: “The Monitor In Every Home And I’ll Help Put It There”