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r~ i The monitor r==n A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, July 21. 1921. Vol. VII. No. 4. Whole No. 316. FLOG, TAR AND FEATHER WHITE PRIEST ' II ■■■ I" ■ ' — — ■■■ ■ . ■ ■ *■ * — .... II . — ■' ■ —.!■■■ II .1 I ATTRACT ATTENTION AT k'TIONAL CAPITOL - International Evems 'ing Towards Disarmament Occupies Chief Place A.mcpg !onal Legislators.—Matters in Which Our (ironp Are Moi ^ irticuiarly Interested Have Been Pushed Into 'rhe Backgi .d. Bonus Bill Demanding Consid eration. DOUBLE-CROSSING OF RACE IS NOW INTIMATED Claimed That There is a Real Conspiracy on in Congress, by no Means Limited to the Democratic Minority, to Deny a Square Deal to the Colored American. Those Who Claim to be In formed Charge That Many Republicans Have Forgotten Their W Colored Constituents Whose Votes Put Them in Power. \ __ 'll the Associated Negro Press) WASHINGTON, O. July 2! President. Harding has entered the field of worldwide statesmanship. His invitation to the various powers to hold a conference on the subject of disarmament bus met with a quick and hearty response Tiiis tremendous subject, which has 1 } hern working its wav forward for a number of years, is about to be con sidered in Washington. If is a sub ject that affects every citizen, and the course of the general program will be watched with the greatest of inteiest. ' The President's opposition to the consideration of th< bonus bill under the present economic strain, has been successful, and the majority of the soldiers are willing to look at> the matter from the Administration point of view. These big questions together with the consideration of the tariff, have somewhat overshadowed the matters \nv. JK!iM 1 III > I \ K I IMPORTANT STANI) i By The Associated Negro Press.) NEWARK, N. J.. July 21.—Special Xe 1 Jersey Colored Republicans have gone cn record of endorsing oii Iy s ,-h candidates for public office who trove themselves true friends of the people, and they will accept no political favors from their United State* Senators until after such a time as the Senators rescind from the endorsement of a candidate for office who was recommended for of ' i flee without the state organization .1 endisement. These facts were brought out in the monthly meeting of the Colored Republican Stale Committee, of which Isaac H. Nutter of Atlantic City Is chairman. There was an elec tion of officers at the meeting at which Mr. Nutter was re-elected * unanimously. The stale committee Is an organization which meets once each month in a principal city of the A state, -presentatives being present from every county of the state where Colored people reside, IN ( W; OK 11 IK lVITII JAI’IN i By The Associated Negro Pi ess.) PATERSON, N. J„ July 21 —The first American crew to capture a Jap anese warship in event of war be tween the United States and Japan would receive a prize of ii.OOO tier man matks by the will of Charles O H. Frltzche, former Paterson engin eer. made public recently. It was re ceived here from Dresden. Get many, where Mr. Frltzche died January I. This will, made April 10, 101D, cre ates a 000-mark Dust fund, the in come of which is to go to buy fire wood for the poor of Paterson unless country gets Into war with Jap an. Then the principal 1b to go for the prize. in which Colored Americans aie vit aliv interested. However, there is no letting up of tlie leaders in promoting the interests that affect the race. There is a real conspiracy on In Congress against giving the Colored Americans a square deal. It is not all fiom the source that might be ex pected. The Associated Negro Press has learned from authoritative 'sources that there arc men in Con |gress, some of whom have Colered constituents in large numbers, and who have been elected on the Repub lican ticket, who are double-crossing both the President and the Colored people It Is known that the Presi dent is pretty well disgusted with that class of “statesman" and it is an open secret that the Chief Executive does not take kindly to the idea of having all criticism directed to him. There are a number of these w'ho will lie tip for re-election in 1922, and there Is a goodly number of these Jalready on the "black list” WiMT.II stop si NOW WORK NAPMV'II l,R, Tenn., July 21.—Mr. Noah W Cooper of this city, chairman of the Southern Methodist Saliliath i"e Crusade, who says his organ ization represents the sentiments of 10,000,000 professing Christians of ilie South, hus arrived in Washington, as advance guard of a number of del egates from southern states, who, he 1 asserts, will reach there soon, to tiring their campaign before Con gress. The campaigners will present ito every member of Congress a peti tion asking for the passage of a law •prohibiting any man from engaging !in work on the Sabbath. ' sol TIIKltN Klin A TOR olio\nizks Tin sr company (By The Associated Negro Press. I PHII.AUKHPHIA, Pa., July 21.— President H. R. Wright, Sr., of the • Georgia Stale Industrial College, Sa vannah, Ga., resigned on the Cith lot June after having served this in stitution for thirty years. He was its I founder and first president and built tiie institution up from R students lo where It has over five hundred stud • enlrt, from one department to where R lias ten departments and made it one of the most Influential institu iorrs tor the education of colored people in the country. l)r. Wright left Georgia and has moved to this city where lie Is to be j'-ome president or the Citizens’ & Hanking Company of which lie is also one of the founders. He is organiz I tng the largest Trust Company lamnng Negroes In the north, being | capitalized at $500,000.00 and Is gos jing to devote the balance of his life ito organizing the financial resources |of his people. We know how (he moon comes to |i.e full, but it Is really a mystery bow I some men gel “full" In these dry days. iV MARCUS GARVEY RETURNS TO UNITED STATES Founder And Head of the Universal Negro Improvement Associa tion Concerning Whose Readmittance to This Country There { Was Some Question Lands in New York After Several Months Absence. <Hy the Associated Negro' Press.I NEW YORK CITY, July 21.—Mar cus Garvey Is back! The founder and bead of the Universal Negro Improve ment Association is once more on American soil, after an absence of several months. i Mr. Garvey was delayed several months In his return to the United States by governmental complica tions. Some time ago the Associated Negro Press stated that efforts were being made to keep the U. N. I. A. chief from returning to the states, on the grounds of being "an undesirable citizen." It can be authoritlvely stated that such was the p|nn. The auatter wan taken up with the Department of .Iuh lice and the Slae Deparment by the General Counsel of the Garvey move ment, William C. Matthews, of Dos ton, and aided by the assistant coun sellors of the movement, they were successful In producing evidence to show that the work of the organiza tion Is quite entirely In line with the prneiples upon which the American government was founded. No demonstration wag permitted by t e officers of the organization when Mi. Garvey reached New York, but a great mass meeting was held in Lib erty Hall following bis return. ' APPEAL Tulsa’s Colored People have not the earnest atten tion of the nation, because the associated press reports do • not state in a manner, that will stimulate a desire to give relief, the cruel conditions that have and do exist. Offi cial 'Tulsa and therefore Tulsa at large is NOT helping in proportion to the appalling need. People are without stoves, cooking utensils, quilts and bedding of all kinds— the merest necessities of existence—and ready money. ALL THEY H AVE LEFT IS COURAGE TO FACE THE FUTURE. Mr. James L. Fieser, Southwestern Division Manag er of the Red Cross said: “Winter’s approach worries the Red Cross,” Unless Tulsa w ishes to have a tent colony on its hands in the fall and face a more serious problem, it should speed up its reconstruction program. He sees a big job ahead here for Tulsans and that now the financial end of the undertaking is the most important feature. MONEY IS NEEDED FOR RELIEF AND NEEDED BADLY. WE APPEAL TO YOU FOR HELP Tulsa Colored Relief Committee S. I). Hooker, Chr.; G. A. Gregg, Executive Sec’y.; Rev. R. A. Whitaker. Sec’y.; Hon. E. I. Saddler, Legal Ad visor: J. Tyler Sn^ith, Treas.; E. A. Troupe. Rev. H. T. S. Johnson, Rev. Jan. A. Johnson. Rev. J. R. McClain. Dr. J. M. Keys, S. G. Smith, Mrs. A. Hankhead. Hon. J. H. Good win. (Advertising Space Contributed by The Monitor.) WHITE CLERGYMAN IS MALTREATED BY COWARDS The Rev. Philip S. Irwin. Archdeacon of the Colored Work, Diocese of Southern Florida, .And Pastor of St. Agnes’ Episcopal Church, Miami, Is Whipped, Tarred and Feathered And Or dered to Leave City. CHARGED WITH TEACHING SOCIAL EQUALITY Special to The Monitor: MIAMI, Fla., July 2).—The Rev. Philip S. Irwin who for several years lias been Archdeacon of the Colored work of the Episcopal Church or the Diocese of Southern Florida, and pas tor of St. Agnes' Episcopal church this city, was the victim of a coward ly and indefensible assault Inst Sun day nght at the hands of members of the Ku Klux Klan. The clergyman was seized by eight masked men, tak en to the woods, flogged, tarred and feathered. He was brought hark to the city and thrown out of an automo bile and oi dererl to leave town. His assailants charged him with teach ing and encouraging social equally among the members of his congrega tion. Father Irwin’s faithful work among the Colored people of this section has made him very much beloved by them j COMMITTEE IKKI’KK \ I’l’E \ I, FOR HEM EE (By The Associated Negro Press. I TULSA, Okla., July 21. -S. D. Hooker, Chairman of the Colored cit izens' relief committee has just is sued an appeal to the general, public for help in its work to bring a re turn to normal conditions, among Colored people In this city. Thous- j nds of the people are now living in j tents and In such other Improvised homes ns can he given them by the ] local Colored committee. Unfortun ately, the Colored people have been loft to their own resources despite, the general plan for relief. Senator Pat Harrison is an Irish man. It follows that he is a friend | of liberty. He has endeavored to teach them as a Christian priest should to be law abiding and self-i especting, and as their pastor he went In and out among them. This and his outapokeness for JuHtlee and fair treatment have fur nished the grounds of the charge that he was teaching the Negroes BOclal equality. The .grand jury is conducting an in vestlgatlon, which it Is believed will not amount to much. .Imlge Branning in charging the grand jury said that free speech should he exercised in ac cordance with the traditional senti ments of the community, which shows sympathy with the floggers. The Kt. Itev. Cameron Mann, bishop of Southern Florida, has exonerated Archdeacon Irwin from the accusa tion of the mobbtsts. Since Archdea con Irwin Is a British subject serious consequences may result from this outrage. MONITOR WILL ISHI'K LARGE ILLLSTRATE!) M M BEK The Monitor is issuing on August 4 a special illustrated number featur- j ing the progress of our people since emancipation. The edition will he from sixteen to twenty-four pages in size and will contain cuts of import ant personages and institutions thru out the country, together with pic tures of representative homes owned by our citizens, churches, business institutions, business and profession al people, and other attractive fea tures. The issue will carry also a large number of attractive advertise ments Persons desiring ‘extra cop- j ies to send their friends should send !n orders at once. The war is over. 8 Nebraska Civil Rights Bill 8 ; 4 « ... i Chapter Thirteen ot tlie Revised Statutes ot Nebraska, Civil Rights. Enacted in 1883. Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall he entitled to a full und equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges ol 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. ■gj . !S fa Sec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who shall violate I the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the foregoing section, or by uiding 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 us to citizens; barber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs. Statel 25 Nebr. 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 colored, is civilly li h able, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in a more private part of the || |«i house. Ferguson vs. (lies, 82 Mich. 358; N. W. 718,” | TI'LNA KELIEE DAY The Colored Citizens’ Committee Makes A Strong Appeal to Congre gations Throughout Nation for Im perative Needs of Vtetims of Riot. TULSA, Ok la., July 21'.—The Col ored Citizens of Tulsa, Oklahoma, through their l'.elief Committee, tes pectfully ask that Sunday, July 24th, 1A21, will be set aside in all church es throughout the United States, as Tulsa Relief Day, and that the Cas tors and officers of their churches will ask prayers of every member of their regpcxUve congregations for the thousands of victims of the cruel mob that looted and burned the homes and business places, churches, schools, lodges and everything that the people possessed, and to this day have tried to take the land for other purposes and remove the Colored people to a remote field of eighty acres of land wholly outside the city limits and to which a good title can not be had. Our people are living in tents loaned to them by the Red Cross, nuinv of which have only dirt floors ;id no bedding save government cots. Cooking utensils are very much need ed. Should winter catch us in this siiape there will be great suffering. We respectfully suggest that on this day Pastors and laymen will make talks along the line of better racial undo;standing that will make such things as race wars impossible, and that each church will take an offering to help relieve these people who are suffering through no fault of their own. This appeal is to every church, lodge, club, Commercial Club and ev *-.y other organization of tile race, and to organizations of ther races who will help. Send all money and other articles to S. D. HOOKER, Chairman, Colored Citizens' Relief Com. Cor. Exeter & Easton Sts., Tulsa, Okla. COLORED .MAN A( CI SCO; WHITE MEN CONFESS (By The Associated Negro Press.) PBNSACOLA, Klu., July 21. After a Negro had been accused, two white men charged with the murder of Jno. .VI. Tuggle of Chipley, Fla., near Iteerland, in Oskaloosa County, Fla., July 4, have been arrested at Bain bridge., Ga., according to information received here. The men who gave their names as Joe Martin of Bruns wick, Ga., and Jim Lingo of Camden, County, Ga., are alleged to have con fessed to Sheriff Martin of Bain bridge. I'EITLIAR KELH1I0I S mEI'T .(By The Associated Negro Press.) CAPE TOWN, Africa, July 21. A native religious sect which calls it ■ cB the “Israelites," under a “proph et” named Enoch, who refused to evacuate Government land at BiflVv hoek, near Queenstown, Cape Colony, has been forcibly ejected, losing 171 killed and 126 wounded in a fight with mounted Cape police. For some years the Government had permitted the “Israelites" to cel ebrate “Passover” on a common, but each year a growing number of pil grims remained behind on what they called "holy ground,” until a village or some 350 huts had sprung up. The sect forbade anybody to enter the vil lage, or to recognize any authority except orders from “Jehovah, the God of Israel,” as interpreted by Enoch the prophet. We wonder who has been jockylng owner Moore and editor Harris. Pis tols! Two funerals! Then peace for a tired world! DECIDE TO REBUILD DESTROYED HOMES The Race in Tulsa Smiling in Face of Adversity Have Gone to Work With a Will to Restore Devasted District. Victims of Race War Building Huts And Enlarging Tents.—Are in Need of Many Necessities. PEOPLE ARE UHDAUHTED DY THE DIFFICULTIES A Special Representative of the National Urban League Finds Ad mirable Spirit Among. People. Maintains That Few Will Sub mit to Arbitrary Removal to Remote Section Outside City Limits. By Geo. IV. Buckner (Special Representative, National Urban League) TULSA, Okla., July 21.—The first impression one gets upon returning to Tulsa is the changed spirit of the Negroes. No longer do they sit around and discuss their losses. On the contrary, they are busy building huts, enlarging their tents and get ting ready to stay. There are also more people here now than l found upon my first trip. Many who have gone as far as Canada are now' re-1 turning to Tulsa. Building Begins Several new buildings are now go ing up in Greenwood, after the per mits were issued with much reluct ance. In some cases I am told, Ne-j groes have been building without per mits. It now seems evident that the | Negro section as a whole will not be turned over to the whites for an in dustrial district. This idea of “grabbing” the Negro section has brought about the most resentful atti tude on the part of Negroes and they are determined that they shall not be killed and looted, and “cuffed” as well. Utitndc of Whites The altitude of the whites has not changed since the reaction set in. At first, there was the emotion for re-' naration and restoration. Then cane. the “blow up’’ of the city administra tion and the consequent affixing of the blame for the riot upon the Negroes. The feeling now is one of nonchal ance and many of the influential whites have gone away for the Sum mer. A site for the Negro district has already been selected by those who own the land or own land near it. The location of the site is therefore obvious to anyone. That the Negroes will never occupy it seems definitely certain, however. Negroes Deserve Help To smile and sing under such ghastly conditions is indeed almost unbelievable. Negroes throughout the country should rally to assist the thousands of homeless in Tulsa. The need of temporary relief in food and clothing has been sufficiently met, [but there is a very urgent need of bedding and cooking utensils and household articles. Over 1 ">00 suits [are to lie filed against the city and county for damages. This will call for money for attorney fees, securing affidavits, etc. The Clored people of the country could render no larger I human service than by helping these destitute and deserving people in their hour of blackest despair. Here is the greatest opportunity to show our Race loyalty in a most tangible I way., SEMITIC BLOOD AMONG ENGLISH ROYALTY (By The Associated Negro Press.) LONDON, England, July 21—Once more the tradition that England and America are the ten lost tribes of Israel, tbe British throne the Throne of David, and that the two nations shall dominate the world has been re vived with the meeting of the Brit ish-Israel Congress last week. Its ac tivities have more than once aroused to fury such anti-Semitic organs as the Morning-Post and have revived tales that Semitic blood entered the royal house through Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s consort. \ ME RICANS IN MEXICO (By the Associated Negro Press.) MEXICO CITY, Mexico, July 21.— There are approximately 30,000 Amer icans in Mexico, and 10,000 of this number are Negroes, according to a (eni estimate by (he Department of Immigration. The number in Mexico City repre sents a decrease of 6.') per cent from pre->t evolutionary days. Americans out-number all other foreigners with the exception of the Spanish. BRICKLAYER VICTIM OK FATAL ACCIDENT (By the Associated Negro Press.) NAPOLEONVILLE, La., July 21.— Jim Pleasant, colored, a bricklayer in the employ of John C. Corbin, a local contractor, was killed instantly Sat urday while laying cement in the new ice factory of Clarence C Barton, Jr. He was struck by the shaft of the fly wheel while at work around it. Pleasant was about 50 years old and resided in Ascension parish. LOUISIANA BAPTISTS RAISING QUOTA (By the Associated Negro Press.) BATON ROCGE, La., July 21.— Rev. L. T. Robertson, evangelist, has l»een appointed director ct the Louis iana district in the ef'iciency cam paign of the General Conference of Negro Free Baptists. The quota for Louisiana has been set for $30,000, and active work of gathering the amount has begun. STRIKE OIL IN ARKANSAS (By the Associated Negro Press.) BOONKVILLE, Ark., July 29.—Oil, with an estimated flow of 50 barrels daily, was discovered very recently in the Pitts-Stryker well, five miles southwest of Booneville. Drilling is being continued night and day in the hope of discovering a greater pool of oil In a deeper sand. It will be a lucky thing for the country if Mr. Taft should prove to .be a bigger man as Chief Justice than he was as President. WRITER CAPTURES ANOTHER LITERARY PRIZE Isaac Fisher Who Has Kstablished a Reputation In Nation-Wide Competitive Contests Is Awarded Third Prize by Metropolitan Magazine for Article on Japanese Question. NASHVILLE, Tenn. July 12.- The j third prize. of $75, offered by the Met Iropolitan Magazine of New York in its contest for writers on the subject “Can We Keep Peace With Jjtpan?” was won by Isaac Fisher, editor of the Fisk I'niversity News, according to an announcement made in the August issue of the magazine just re leased. The first prize of $300 was I won by Gregory Mason (white) of ! New York, and the second award of $125 by John Collier (white) of Taos, N. M. Fisher has won several other prizes in nation-wide contests con ducted by well known magazines. Among the prizes he has won in the past through his writings are first prize of $500 offered by Everybody’s Magazine; first prize of $100 offered by the St. Ixmis Post-Dispatch; first prize of $50 offered for the best digest of the merits of the money-weight scales; second prze of $400 offered by Hart Schaffner & Marx’ executive committee of Chicago; second prize of $1011 offeied by the Manufacturer’s Record of Baltimore. Those who know Mr. Fisher's rec ord are aware that these are but a few of the prizes he has won in com petition with the best minds of the country. It will be remembered that he won the first prize of $500 In Everybody’s Magazine contest in competition with 900 writers, includ ing some of the best legal and pro fessional men of the coutnry. Re cently the senior class of Fisk Uni versity" presented him a gold watch for creditable service in coaching the debating teams. Mr. Fisher won the St. Louis Post Dispatch cash prize in 1913 in the naton wide contest on "Ten Best | Reasons Why People Should Go To | Missouri.” ---- I SLOGAN: “The Monitor In Every Home And I’ll Help Put It There”