•_ , «• , ■*. ~~ J MW- • -■•*•■■« •> JW • ' »'>•»►• «r «* -*-•*■■**■ <*••’•» •'-'« •'•■■ • . : J The Monitor i_~_ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS if THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, APRIL 21. 1921. Vol. VI No. 43 Whole No. 203 OUR FIRST WEST POINT GRADUATE LIEUTENANT FLIPPER GIVEN APPOINTMENT A Popular Army Officer. The Find Man of His Race to he Grad uated From West nt Military Academy, Hut who After a Rrief Career Was 3^ «ssed From Service Receives Govern ment Position. Man^^, For Many Years Was Out of Public Eye Again Comes Into%^ 'inence. HAS ASSIGNMENT IN rC'RIOR DEPARTMENT _% F.ipper’s Retirement Was Gem rally Ikaeved to Have Heen Rased Upon Prejudice. Made a Determined, Persistent Hut Unsuc cessful Campaign For Re-instatement. Appointment Looked , I pon As Vindication of His Military Career. Fought in Many I Indian Campaigns With Famous Tenth Cavalry. Washington, D. C„ April 21.—Th** appointment of former lieutenant, Henry Ossian Flipper, of Thomas County, Georgo* to a clerical post in the Department of the Interior, with a salary of $4,000.00 a year, was one of the big political surprises of ^ the day that wil undoubtedly be pleasing news to the colored people throughout the nation. Henry O. Flipper, who was a victim of army ^ prejudice and cashiered by a military tribunal after a brief but thrilling, f couicgeous and an honorable periol rf r vice corering about four and a hid! ' car.-. After dismissal fiom the sendee, jjr. Flipper began a deter min'd campaign fighting relentlessly V for vindication and reinstatement. His appointment unoer the new ad ministration is looked upon as a vin dicat»on of his military career and X : rnMmM 3.3 HENRY O. FLIPPER First Man of His Race to Grad uate From West Point.—By Courtesy Cleveland Gazette an end to one of the moat sen-ation.'d controversies of army life. Henry Or ion Flipper was born l Then a ville, Thomas County, Geor y i, March 21, lfe&6. He entered the Atlanta University in 186b and when selected to attend the United States Government Military School, West Point, Young Flipper was a fresh man of the Collegiate Department of the Atlanta institution. He grad uated from the famous military school with high honors in June, 187", and was assigned to active duty with the Tenth Calvary as a second lieu tenant, but a few hours after Flipper joined his regiment in January the year following lie was assigned to commissary' duty. He saw' thrilling, dangerous and exacting duty on the reservations Indian fighting through all of which he was the idea! soldier lie; forming the most etfaetbig duty with intelligence, patience, courage and detei inination. J), -pite the popular belief that Ma jor Chart. Young was the first colored . ir *. >- >1 -h< ’ ■' 1 1 merit military school, Henry Flipper ■ was the first Negro, to be so sig nally honored. That these honors wen- not easily earned can well be imagined when one stops for a mo ment to consider the obstacles placed in the path of the Negro’s daily life And fortunately men like Flipper am' Young were representatives of the race courageou to the last degree. And little petty deeds of prejudice we e manfully ignored while the more serious offenses were deait with in a diplomatic way. The colored mill taiv student first learned he had to overcome a hostility of racial pieju dice and his former condition of slav ery. And while paying little atten tion to the studied forms of insult heaped upon him, he felt keenly the unenviable position he was placed -n and the responsibility he was burden ed with. There is a no more thrilling chap ter in American Military life than the Indian wa’-s, in which the famous Ninth and Tenth Calvary and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth in fantry were such conspicuous units. The maiden efforts of these dusky warriors, the numerous clashes with j their red skin foes, is fuil of bril-j liant achievements, exacting duty, dramatic episodes and daring adveh- | ture. Their military duties and op- i erations covered a wide expanse o! | terrain, embracing the then undo- i veloped lands of Kansas, Texas, Ok- ' New Mexico and Montana. There was scarcely a day that some stir- j ring incident did not make memorable I and historical. The trying, arduous, nerve exacting episode* were success-j fully niet by the Negro troops and they proved to the world their worth as efficient, valiant defenders of the i starry flag. The Tenth Calvary was organized | along with the Ninth in 1868 and saw 1 continuous service as an Indian fight- j ing outfit. It is very doubtful if there has been an Indian uprising that the famous "Fighting Tenth’’ i ha* not figured in. Several coloved officer* have been assigned to the j regiment, but Lientenant Flipper was j the first to officiate with the soldiers ' of his own race. W< was popular1 with and respected by the men, oen- j • • **• ‘ ■ I.-' •« net .-1 is hi f I' it V groes resent being led by a Negro, j But the while officer, prejudiced, j tried in various ways to discredit and injure him. They were finally suc cessful according to the general be lief, in framing charges against him that resulted in his dismissal from, the service. WHO DISCOVERED NORTH AMERICA Harvard Professor In Book Prows! 'that The Negroes Sailed Here First. Vi ere Here Before Christo- > pher Columbus Was Born. BOSTON, Ma s,—Who discovered ! America? Columbus in 1402. Not on your life. That is old stuff j 'and nonsense founded on myth and j imagination. So says Prefer or Leo Wiener, white, professor of Slavic Languages in Harvard University, and j lie gives his proofs in a. new hook "Africa and the Discovery of Amor : rca.” According to Professor Wiener, black men from the Guinea and Con go sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, ' traded with the Indians, and some of j -them came to America and settled! three hundred years before Christo ! pher Columbus was bom. j Here are some of the pro ifs! ] presented, w hich have set Boston and ! flaivard University by the cars, the more so because Profes-nr Wiener is j I an authority on the history of riviliz- ; iatinn and has un international repp- | tation. He points out that in Columbus’ ac- , count* of hi* voyage to America, Col- i | ttmhus said he had heard of Africans | ; reaching a continent in the west and I That he went first to Africa to verify j it before sailing. A good part of ouri present opinions almut Columbus the ■ discoverer, he adds are frauds and "horrible lien.” Tobacco, Professor Wiener adds, as well as aweet potatoes, yams, manioc and peanuts were brought here b.v Africans. “It is a historical fact that in 1503 Negroes in large numbers were 'iving in America, and smoking and raising tobacco. Even the wampum belt, al ways thought of Indian origin, I have found was un African product and the making of it was taught Indians by the Africans. 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. NEW PASTOR FOR GROVE _ .. M. E. CHURCH, The Rev. Thomas Sidney Saunders of Mt, Olive M. E. Church, Topeka, Kans., has been assigned to the pas torate of Grove M. E. church, suc ceeding the Rev. S. L. Deas, who has been assigned to Tulsa, Okla. Tr.e new pastor of Grove is said to l>e an eloquent speaker, profoundly spir't ual, energetic and amiable and withal a master financier. He is a graduate of Talledega College and Gammon Theological seminary of Atlanta, Ca. It is predicted that the Rev. Mr. Saun ders will rapidly develope the impor tant work at Grove M. E. and will prove a valuable acquisition to the religious leaders Of the city. NEWS OF THE OMAHA BRANCH N. A. C. P The N. A. A C. P. meets everv Sun day at some church and takes up mat ters affecting the welfare of the race. Come out, join and help put the final touches on your emancipation. You are needed. In numbers there is pow er. Last Sunday's meeting was held at Pleasant Green Baptist church with President Black presiding. An al leged case of discrimination against a Pullman porter was discussed and re ferred to the committee on grievan ces. Members were urged to write Washington urging thorough investi gation and prosecution of peonage in the south. Several new members were reported. The next meeting will lie held Sunday afternoon at Grove M. E. church. Prof. Nathan Bernstein will lie the . [leaker. Dr. John A. Single ton will sing. RETl RNS FROM CONFERENCE. The Rev. Griffin G. Eogan, D. lb, district superintendent Topeka Lin coln conference has returned hoip*» from the recent session of the annual •onferjenc# held in Oklahoma City, Ok lahoma. He leaves soon for Ciai'e inore, Okla., where he will spend two weeks before beginning the round of nis quarterly conference in Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado. WEST VIRGINIA HAS ANTI-LYNCHIKG LAW Legislature Passes Measure, Intro duced by Representative Cape hart, Providing Forleiture of $5,000 It} County To Family Of Victim of Mob Violence And Imposing Death Pen alty For Participating in Mob. Charleston, W. Ya., April 18 -Sub jecting the county to a forfeiture of $5,000 for the benefit of the family of j the peison lynched and making par ticipants in a mob a felony punisha ble with death, both houses of the West Virginia legislature have ap proved the most stringent anli-lynch bill thus far enacted by any of the states. H. J. Capehart, the colored mem ber of the House of Delegates from McDowell county, drew and sponsor ed the measure in the lower branch, overcoming the most determined op | position of the democratic minority I which sought to emasculate it by pro posing various amendments. As orig inally drawn, the bill provided for a forfeiture of $25,000 and made every county through which the mob might pass jointly and severally liable. To meet the objections of! many of his ] party members and seen re Their sup- . port, Capehart reduced the amount to | $5,000 and limited the, forfeiture to j those counties whose citizens might; aid and abet the lynchers. In his fight to put the measure | through, the member from McDowell j had the able and active support of T. G. Nutter, Kanawha County’s color ed delegate, and the legislative com mittee of the West Virginia State League, composed of all classes of colored citizens, of which T. Edward Hill, of Keystone, is pro ident, and J. C. Gilner, of Charleston, secretary Others of the race all over the state ' assisted with petitions, while mem- : bers of the state administration and other infiuenrial citizen-; among the ,whites, both men and women, contri buted much to the passage of the bill. STUDENT STRIKE ENDS (By The Associated Negro Press) pHARLO'JTE. N. C., April' 14.—, The student strike, which was organ ized some time since at Biddle Univer- | sity, ha> been settled satisfactorily. A. suspension of a member of the spnio' class by the faculty board has beer modified. The students’ action was determined when they concluded in a public meeting that the faculty was unduly severe in the terms of the pun ishment meted out to the aforesaid senior. Insubordination was the charge lodged against the accused by the faculty. BOV SCOUTS ARE ACTIVE Troop 23, Boy Scoyts held a rousing meeting Friday evening at the Colored i Commercial Club looms. Twenty-two Scouts were present. Instructions were given in knot tying. Several scouts passed their. Tenderfoot Tests. Henry Gordon won the O’Grady spell down. Jesse Hutten and Henry Gor don were elected to plant the Troop tree on Arbor Day at Camp Gifford. The scouts enjoyed a very exciting ganfe of hand ball. Dr. Gooden gave instructions on First Aid. Demonstra tions wore given of Schaffer’s Method of resuscitation. It is indeed interest- ! ing and encouraging to note the won derful enthusiasm these scouts show in ! their work. Any boy wishing to join this troop will have to hurry, only a few more can be admitted. Meetings j held e\-ery Friday evening at" 7:30 p j m at the C. C. C. - I EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON. Th * Board of officers of the church are undertaking a vigorous campaign among the membership to make this the most successful year in its history in th? matter of needed improvements. D. V. Cordon is chairman of the Fi nance (ommittee and Miss Lena Paul, chairman of the property committee. The services next Sunday will be at the usual hours; 7:30, 8:30, 10:00 and 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. The courteous man wins in the long run over the curt fellow. Hearing President Harding’s Message By NAHUM DANIEL BRASCHEKl The eyes of the world were turned to Washington. Crafty England and loyal France; defeated Germany an I running Japan; hopeful Liberia ami bleeding Haiti, and other nations ol the world, looked this way. Heie in America [he atmospher • was tense with expectancy. Business and political Interests of every meas ure; that great army of "Everyday Americans” who year after .year go along the even tenor of their way, and let rne speak of the South, the whole South, where the Negro ques tion is a constant nightmare, and our own good people everywhere, looked with anticipation and longing toward Washington. The President of- the United States was to deliver a mes -age, present u chart as it were, for the guidance of the ship of State—a ship of destiny. While the fate of peoples and of nations, in a measure, depended on the nature of the President’s mes sage, there was no excitement in Washington, as excitement goes bv the mob. Approaching the Capitol from the West front, magnificent and grand as it appears, I actuailv thought of “The Deserted Village." There were few people In sight, and I said, here is a wonderful demon stration of peace. On the Bust front the scene was i'hj; t< x •!;; ;i I;!.' )t lot!(X ;< ;t x X :<:t :i X different. • Hundreds of automobiles were lined up, including those of the President, members of the cabinet, members of Congress and visitors. Hundreds of people, unable to get in because of regulations, of the da ' stood silently about, just to get a glimpse of the man who was to speak, anil seemingly anxious to he near the great spot, if not in hearing distance Just a few minutes before one o’clock the United States senator filed in through the long corri dors from the Senate Wing of the House of Representatives side. There they were, the men of the upper hous 3 of the law-making body of the nation. I stofid in the rotunda ection a. they passed, and studied their faces. Dem ocrats and Republicans walked- to gether with the slowness of a funeral march. 1 could not help wondering how many Democrats were holding seats because my people arc denied votes. I thought that there ought to be another Bruce and Lang ton in that line, and there will be some day. Every inch of space in the House of Representatives was taken. The Democrats sat on the East Side, the Hcpublieans on the West Side. About the Speaker’s desk sat the member of the cabinet. Beside Speaker Gil lott sat Vice-President Coolidge. The 1 galleries were filled with men and I!::!! w ;; il l! « ft a wg'ft.a.: « ft a 1: «« a ;; it » « it women from ail stations of life, from everywhere, a very fortunate group indeed, for history was in the making. When the President entered, all stood, and tlie re was applause. Hut the occasion was solemn. As I look ed down at the Democrats of the House from the South, I wondered how many of them were in places that should be occupied by our own representatives. The day before, in the same place, I had seen the venerable Congress man “Joe” Cannon administer the oath of office to Speaker Gillett, the oldest member in unbroken service. They had seen our last colored Con gressman, the late George White, pass from action, and heard his elo (juent valedictory. I wondered wheth er they will till be' there when the next Colored Congressman Is sworn in, ns he is sure to be some day. President Harding spoke from the desk of the clerk. He loked ever'/ , inch a President of all the people, j He was soon to prove it. When he began by saying: “Members of the Congress,” yuu could hear the pro verbial pin. drop. There was not a disinterested person in sight. Ho spoke all the way through his mes sage in a well modulated, conversa tional tone. There was applause here (fontinu“d on Page Three.) t a it it it n it it it it -t it it a x g git a x a it, a xrit'iOH Nebraska Civil Rights Bill >• K K . n Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes ol Nebraska, Civil Rights. Knaeled in 1893. Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons withiii Ibis state shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amuse ment; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every person. Sec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons of law applicable to ail persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall'/or each offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs of the prosecution. “The original act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs. Stalej 25 N'ebr. page 677. N. W. 638.” “.A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with refreshments in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other reason than that he Is eolored, is civilly li able, though he offers to serve him hy setting a table in a more private part of the house. Ferguson vs. Gies, 82 Mich. 358; N. W. 718,” wj 1_ _ 1 WHY SHOULD THERE BE SUCH A DIFFERENCE? The Striking Contrast In Reporting Alleged Crimes By The Same Type of Degenerates Is Illustrated By Two Items Recently Published in’ the World-Herald of the Same Date. Monitor Shows That Custom Works Hardship Upon Law-Abiding Colored Americans. FAIRNESS WOULD DEMAND SAME TREATMENT. Disposition lo Magnify In One Case and to Minimize In Other Is Not Believed To Be Due to Malicious Intent or Desire Wan tonly To Injure, But To Thoughtlessness and Unconscious Mental Bias. Firmly Fixed Custom Manifestly Unjust And Should Be Corrected. The Monitor in common with the race press throughout the country has repeatedly called attention to the striking contrast usually made by the daily press in reporting alleged crimes by degenerates where one is white and the other black. There is almost invariably a disposition, suc cesBfully executed, to magnify the crime of the one degenerate and to minimize that of the other. A case in point occurs in the World-Heralo (Alleged Crime by White Man) HOLD MAN FOR ALLEGED IMPROPER CONDUCT W. G. Davis, 55, 1614 California street, was arrested last night by Officer Haley and booked at police ■.tation on charge of disorderly con- 1 luct toward Rosie Stein, 7 years old, i laughter of Harry Stein, 114 North Eighteenth street. The World-Herald is one of the dailies of the country whose attitude towards our people is fair-minded and the Monitor is confident that it i lias no intention to do us as a clas.-1 of American citizens any injustice, When a fair-minded paper like the World-Herald, unconsciously perhaps , adopts this method of reporting al-l GEORGIA HAS OVER A MILLION OF US. The Known Colored Population cf The Cracker State, As Shown by Census is 1,106,365. The Associated Negro Press: WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 21.— The Director of the Census has issued :i preliminary statement showing the composition of the population of Geor gia according to sex, color or race, and nativity, as shown by the census taken us of January 1, 1920. The total population of the state, 2,895,832, comprises 1,444,823 males and 1,451,009 females. The corres ponding figures for 1910 were 1,305, 019 and 1,304,102, respectively. Dur ing the decade the total population increased by 11 per cent. The ratio of males to females in 1920 was 99.6 to 100, as against 100.1 to 10.0 in 1910. The distribution of the population according to color or race in 1920 was as follows: White, 1,689,114, Negro, 1,206,365; Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and ail other, 353. The correspond ing figures for 1910 were as follows: White, 1,431,802; Nejfro, 1,176,987; Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and all other, 332. During the decade the white population increase! by 18 per cent, and the Negro population by 2.5 per cent. The foreign-boni white population numbered 16.186 in 1920, as against 15,072 in 1920. This element of the population constituted approximately three-fifths of 1 per cent of the total in both 1920 and 1910. Paradoxical. Odd that a man should go In pur suit of his health when It Is alread; run down.—Boston Transcript. of Tuesday morning. Here are the two items referring to alleged crimes by two men, who, if the reports be true, are both degenerates of the same kind, and the respective crimes are of equal heinousness. We place t! i-se reports just as they appear, headline anti all, in parallel columns, capitioning one, {‘Alleged Crime by White Man;" the other “Alleged Crime by Black Man’ that the con trast may be noted: (Alleged Crime by Black Man) NEGRO ATTEMPTS TO ATTACK A LITTLE GIRL Nancy Nicholson, 13 years old, pu pil at Lake school, fought off a negro shortly after noon yesterday when he attempted to attack her in the dining room of her home at 1604 Corby street, according to a report made to the police. The negro, George Long, 30 years old, was raptured hiding back of a brick house in the neighborhood. He had moved into a house in the rear of the Nicholson heme a few days ago. The little girl positively identified him as her assailant, police say. The negro was taken by Detectives Scott Haney, Paul Haze, Devereese and Sledge. The girl’s brothers, Ed and Clyde, had just left for school, police were informed, and her mother and father had stepped across the street. Nancy was removing the dinner dishes from the table when the negro came into the house through -a back door and seized her. She screamed an but to stop the paper. We are therefore cutting off all delin quent subscribers. Look at pink » label on your paper. That tells when your subscription expires. We are sending out notices of expiration. Please respond promptly, so that you may co. - tinue lo receive your paper. THE MONITOR The Reason. They say that worry kills more than work. This, perhaps, Is tiecnuse so many people find It easier than work and devote their time to it.—Kostou Transcript. SLOGAN: “The Monitor In Every Home And I’ll Help Put It There”