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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Nebraska Civil Rights Bill
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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
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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<i
squirmed from his embraces and the
man fled.
Icged crimes, one can realize how
fixed this custom, manifestly unfair,
is, It is contrasts of this kind, in
which heinousness of crime seems to
depend upon race and color, rather
than upon the degeneracy of the cul
prit, irrespective of color, which adds
to the burden of the self-respecting,
law-abiding colored American.
NEWS OF THE N. W. C. A. HOME.
At the last monthly memeting two
pleasant and welcome visitors were
Mrs. Broatch and Mrs. Fletcher, who
spoke words of encouragement to the
management.
We are hoping that the Diamond
Theatre will be crowded when “The
Great Redeemer” will be produced for
the benefit of the Home through the
efforts of Miss Cleon Macklin inter
esting the managers of the theatre.
We wish to thank Mrs. Laura
Hicks for the donation of a carpet
for the sitting room and a bedspring
and mattress.
An invitation is given to persons
interested to visit the Home ond in
mates.
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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
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