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WE RE LIFTING ^ I T J% /I TTF I STEADILY GROWING 1-1 W [: ■ ■ ^ 1 V K THANKS ALL AnOUND! A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS _ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor _ _ *_________ - . . •-•gaaM——tL $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER lb., r.,_. VoL VII. No. 22. Whole No. 334 SENATE REFUSES TO CONFIG JOHNSON ■ Friends Disappoint* Plan Resent ment at Polls. MiSj, “sert Party. .Many Staunch listration Supporters Will De\ Finds Long Period of Sump e. _ °r>. % (By The Associated Negro ,s.) NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 1.—The failure of the Republican majority in the Senate to confirm the nomination of Henry Lincoln Johnson is causing lots of comment here. The Senate us es as the reason for this amazing in sult to the fifteen million Negroes of tl e United States the sheep-like obed ience to a nonsensical rule known as “Senatorial courtesy." Because Tom Watson, Senator from Georgia, said Mr. Johnson was personally objection able to him, they—the Republican Majority, automatically became bound to reject the foremost Negro states man in America. Republicans, Con gressmen and Senators,—you will have to get a better excuse than “Sen atorial courtesy" before the congres sional elections of 1922. Henry Lin coln Johnson is Beloved of all Colored people and this desertion of him by the Republican party' is causing re sentment throughout the land. Negroes can’t and won’t listen to any talk about “Senatorial courtesy” to a man like Tom Watson of Geor gia. What courtesy has he shown the Senate? What has been his conduct that merits this courtesy? If the most capable Negro political leader in the country can’t be confirmed, then the case of the Negro under this ad ministration is hopeless. Uoscoe Conklin and Thomas C. Platt, Senators from New York, in 1881, invoked the rule of “Senatorial Courtesy” as against the confirmation of William H. Robertson as Collectoi of the Port of New York and Robert son was confirmed over their protest. Because of the failure of the Senate to extend the “Senatorial courtesy” to them BOTH SENATORS RESIGN ED! REPUBLICAN SENATORS. HERE’S YOUR PRECEDENT! JOHNSON’S FRIENDS RALLY Following the “turn down" of hisj confirmation by the United States! Senate, friends of Henry Lincoln! Johnson from all sections of the coun- \ try have written and wired their opin-j ion and feelings on the subject. There j was only one thing left and that was for President Harding to make a re-: ;ess appointment. Prior to the executive session of the Senate, when the Johnson confirma tion was finally acted upon, a com mittee of the National Committee inn's-friends went to the capital awl held a brief conference with Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, and Sen ator, Jones, who was chairman of the Committee on the Johnson case. It was^Tplained by the Senators tha if Senator Tom Watson of Georgia arose and declared that H. L. Johnson yas personally objectionable to him, "Senatorial courtesy” would prevent the confirmation of thp Georgia statesman as Recorder of Deeds. The Senator arose and he stated ome objections which Col. Johnson has declared are without truth, and there has been serious talk of libel suits against the maker of the charges and a Washington newspaper that printed an interview the next morn ing. The fact remains, however, that "Senatorial courtesy” and Republican politics, much or little, right or wrong have prevented 15,000,000 Americans who for the most part have always been Republicans, from having a sin gle Presidential appointment confir mation in the United States, in a ses sion of eight months, where Republi cans have everything overwhelmingly from basement to dome. UNION DEFEATS HAMPTON, 13 TO 3 By Charles H. Williams HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 1— Union defeated Hampton 13 to 3 in their annual game on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, before the biggest crowd that ever witnessed a game on Hovey’s Field. The weather was ideal for both players and spectat ors. The Union team, confident of vic tory, began an offensive that netted two touchdowns in the first eight minutes of play. The first touch down was made after several long end runs, while the second resulted from a blocked qicked that was jug gled in the air for about bwt^rtty cards and was finally recovered be hind Hampton's line by a Union player. In the third quarter, out of two trials, Gunn made one field goal. Most of the second hflf was played in UViion’s territory, but Hampton lacked the drive to score a touch down. The Union team played an aggres sive game, both on offensive and de fensive play. At all times they had Complete mastery of the situation. The punting of Jackson for Union and Gunn for Hampton was good. Dabney, playing center for Hamp ton, was easily the star of the game. | He was a bulwavk of strength for | Hampton’s line, which at all times I was impregnable. The game was one of the cleanest j hat has ever been played between the two schools, and from the spec tators’ standpoint was perfect. The Lineup Union, 13 Position Hampton, 3 Bof/man le Watley Baiksdale It Gayle Johnson lg Coleman, J. B Waller c Dabney McDonald rg Coleman, J. T Hammond rt Coleman, T. T. | Brown re Mann Jackson, A. (|b Smith Jackson, C. lhb Gunn Wilson rhb Green Fentress ' fb Morris Substitutes for Hampton: Shum ate for Gayle; W'hite and Quallo for Si ith; Jones for Watley. Officials: Pinderhughes, Howard referee; Lew, Amherst, umpire Walker, Shaw, linesman; Brown Hampton, timekeeper. Time of quarters: 16 minutes. Score: Union, 13; Hampton, 3. SEC. MAX YERGAN SR FOR AFRICA Is First Permanent Secretary of Y M. C. A. Sent to That Continent —Will Remain in Country Six Years NKW YORK CITY. Dec. 1.—Max Yeargan. International Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. sailed for East Africa Saturday, Nov. 26. He leaves almost on the eve of the International Con ference, which will meet in Cincinnati Dec. 1-4. Max Yeargan was bom in Raleigh, Notth Carolina, about thirty years ago. He attended school at Shaw Uni versity of that city, graduating from same in the class of 1914. He attend 'd the Y. M. C. A. Training School in Springfield, Mass., and was later sent to India and German East Africa, where he served the troops both white ’nd colored as Y. M.’ C. A. secretary. He returned to this country in 1918 and went immediately into camps. While in Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va, he was ordained to the ministry in the Congregational Church and was ap pointed ehaptain in the same camp. In May of 1919, he was sent to France to serve among the Pioneer Troops, then engaged in the removal of the dead soldiers to International Ceme teries. Yeargan was truly a self-made man. During his course in Shaw, he pushed chairs on the board walk in Atlantic City and served in hotels, not loosing a day. He graduated with honors. He married a Miss Wiseman, also a product of Shaw, who yill ad company him to East Africa. VA. VOTERS DEFEAT “LILY WHITES’ Danville, Va., Dec. 1—The fond hopes of the Lily Whites of Virginia were nipped in the bud Tuesday, No vember 8, when the Democrats com pletely swamped them because of the fact that colored people very largely suported their own ticket. Dame rumor has it that the Republicans are blaming- their defeat on President Harding’s Birmingham address. Of course this is done rather than admit that the colored voters are the cause of their overwhelming defeat. In Danville every Lily White was defeat ed by his colored opponent save one. This was done—mind you—and col ored people not half voting. When the colored man thoroughly organized him elf and gets on the regristration books it will be as dangerous for a Lily W’hite to show his head as it was for a soldier to venture across “No Man’s Land” in the World War. We are seeking an answer to this luestion: Will colored people organ ize and get on the regristration books, or will they allow glibbed tounged Lily Whites to lull them to sleep witr hollow promises. VETOES DISCRIMINAT ING ORDINANCE. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 1.—Mayor Jas. L. Key has vetoed the ordinance pass ed by council last Monday forbidding the joint worship of whites and Ne groes in Atlanta churches. The Mayor’s veto message declared the ordinance “will and does invade that which is a matter of conscience with a great many people’’ and would cause a great deal more trouble and irratation than it would allay.” Armament Conference IV. By Herbert J. Seligmann (This is the fourth of a series of articles by the author of “The Negro Faces America,” publicity director of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.) Someone has said that there are on ly nine original stories in the world, and that every one of the thousands of stories published yearly is only a variation of one of the nine originals. This has its parallel at the Anna rent Conference in Washington. The scene of struggle has shifted to the jar East, to China and Siberia, but -he diuma remains the same: a scram-1 ale for markets and for undeveloped regions where labor is cheap and raw aterials are plentiful. It only proves that the source of uci: of the world’s difficulty is eeo ior- ic, that is to say, slovenly house keeping. Japan becomes the hero or the vil • ain of the drama, according to thp oint of view. The drama is un hanged. Japan’s position is similar to Great Britain’s, when Japan insists that her population is larger than her islands can support, that she there fore needs colonies or “spheres of in fluence” like Manchuria, Korea, and Shan-Tung to supply her with food md material; and that she needs a navy to insure open communications or her with those regions on the mainland. This is almost exactly the position of the British Islands with . egard to the territories all over the world grouped under the title of British Empire.” Japan differs not a bit from Great ritain in her excuse for wanting a navy. Nor does Japan differ from the Germany of before the war in say ing her population has grown too dense and needs foreign territory to xpand in. Nor does Japan differ from France in demanding “Security.” That the skin color of the Japanese is “yellow” has nothing to do with the case. The problems of empire do notj ary according to skin pigmentation, j V, hen statesmen sit down to “do bus iness," skin color fades as an issue.| Skin color only becomes an issue \yhen| someone can abet a mob in making1 trouble over it, as dishonest newspap ers do in the South and on our Pacif ic coast. And it would therefore he a •nave mistake for colored American to look upn Japan’s curse as heroic right or wrong, merely because the lapancse are not white. The Japan ese government's course is to be Uflgcd exactly as the course of while governments is judged. For the Jap anese government has been as repre hensible a sinner against that othei j yellow-skinned people, the Chinese j and against the Koreans, as any. white! government. it remains to be seen, in Japan fun/ -s much as in our own country an< ■n England, France and Italy w he the tlie people can force peace and smai navies on the governing group; or vhetber steel and battleship makers .ogether with hankers arid diplomat .11 force large navies and armies 01 ;he people, with the inevitable conse (uenco: war and death. For if peace is to come and remain, it vil! lie because the peoples of the ■vorid make their diplomats afraid to ■r: i Inn per that peace. It will be be ausp Americans, Japanese, French, English, foire the hands of their sec ants in Washington, teach them that iiploniats were made to obey and that the voice they must hearken to is the voice of the people. And the pen pi i d peace. If they want it enougl they will get it and pay for it and no price will be as heavy as the price o. war. Meanwhile, Japan has been used as m agpnt in bringing on the downfall if Europe. Her influence and her ar mies have been used in that great rame played by the Allies and chiefly France to strangle the present Rus ian government. Japan has been a loweiful soure.e of opposition to the Far Eastern Republic which is close v allied to the Russian Soviet govern ment. Having seen that, game played in Europe; and having seen the Europe an governments gobbling up China, in the interest of their bankers, the Jap anese government naturally impelled to try the game also. Japan accord ingly gobbled up Korea and Manchur ia, and took the oppoitunity provided by the world war to seize Kiao-Chao and thoroughly penetrate the Chinese; province of Shan-Tung. If the European powers are going, to keep parts of China for the use of their bankers, there is no reason whv Japan should not do the same. In fact, her “security” would demand her, doing so. It can only be done with a, navy. And navies mean war. The obvious altar lie five is to take China out of the hands of bankers and to put her on her feet in the East; to In the same for Russia and Germany in the West, whereupon there ought* to he enough raw materials and, enough trade for everybody without the need of first killing millions of men, women and children, and wasting the raw materials and destroying th i markets in which the trade is to tak place. If the world war taught us any tiling it is that mankind is one; that .ve will have to work together and that no people can be driven into fam , ,ie like the Russians, intp bankruptcy like the Germans, into spoliation like ,,v* Chinese, without endangering the future of all human kind. For the . ictors always will quarrel over the »] oils. There must be no spoils. If every European power which has forced China to make concessions to Its bankers washes its hands of those bunkers, Japan will be unable to do otherwise. The Japanese government can no more defy the opinion of man kind than any other government can. but governments, being usually composed of small groups of igeii.l either their office to, or being in close touhe with the bankers and other business men in whose behalf wars are fought, are not ,likely to wash their hands of those bankers. The! men now assembled in Washington! will not do so unles the voice of the people is heard unmistakably. And there is no way for the voice of the people to be heard except through the lewspapers which, for the most part, ire in the control of those very gov erning groups. Every thinking coi ned American knows how the facts about lynchings and race riots have been distorted in the white press of the United States. Similar distortion went on about international affairs before the world war, during the orid war and it continues now that 1 e war is over. Rut it is a legitimate hope that at least, even if it is not an expectation, that public feeling throughout the world, against war and the instru ments of war, may over-ride the news papers, the diplomats, and the govern ing cliques of" moneyed men. Already the pressure of public opinion in the United States is intense. Without knowing exactly how to get it, or what to do with all the shipbuilders and sailors who will be thrown out ol work, people want navies scrapped. That is a feeling which overrides race and race prejudice. For people are lie ginning to realize that race prejudice is merely another instru ment, in the hands of demagogues and venul journalists, for continuing thn rule of war on this planet. (A fifth article by Mr. Seligmann j will a,ppear next week.) KANSAS I. K. 1. SURPRISES L VXGSTON UNIVERSITY IIY SCORE 29 TO 2 The Kansas Industrial & Education il Institute football team jumeyed t< Langston, Okla. on Turkey Day, am theie under ideal football skies am before a record breaking crowd o four thousand enthusiastic gridiror ,'ans defeatcrl the mighty Langstoi university eleven in a hot fought con st by a score of 29 to 21. Roth teams entered the game with 1 | OMAHA’S JOBBING DISTRICT By the Courtesy of the Bureau of Publicity, Omaha Chamber of Commerce considerable confidence as neither has been defeated this season. Langston won the toss and kicked to K. I. By end runs and line plunges the ball was carried to Langston’s five-yard line; Stevenson slipped over tackle for a touchdown and goal was kicked. Dur ing the remainder of the quarter the ball see-sawed up and down the field. The second quarter began with K. I.’s ball on the 20-yard line. Burton dropped back and passed 35 yards to Harrison for a touchdown but failed to kick goal. Half ended score 13 to 0. At the beginning of the second half Langston kicked to K. I. and the ball was advanced twenty yards by Tuck er. By short over line passes and off tackle smashes K. I. carried the ball 50 yards for a touchdown by Tucker; goal was kicked. K. I. received the kick. On a shift play Sanders fum bled and Haynes covered the ball and' ran 30 yards for touchdown; goal was kicked. ’Third quarter ended K. I. 20 and Langston 7. At the beginning of the fourth quar ter Langston received the hall and by end runs and off tackle plays carried the ball 70 yards for a touchdown by Robinson; goal was kicked. K. 1. re ceived the kick and by a fake play which developed into an end run Ste venson circled right end for 20 yards. At this .point Boyd replaced Burton who was injured. Boyd made 10 yards off left tackle; Stevenson 25 yards around right end; Tucker failed cen ter; Harrison dropped back and made a perfect 40-yard drop kick. Lang ston received the ball and was held for downs; K. I. attempted to kick the hall was blocked by Parrish who recovered it and ran for touchdown; goal was kicked. The Lineup Langston Position K. I. E. I. Haynes le Harrison Grace It Williams Ward lg Shoals Black c' Smith Hawkins rg Camp Parrish rt Warrior Johns re Cartyright Barnum qb Sanders Johnson lh Burton Robinson rh Stevenson F. Vann fb Tucker Substitutes—Langston: Sands for Johns; C. Town for Vann. K. I. E. I.: Wilson for Shoals; Boyd for Burton. Referee—Marquis, Dartmouth; umpire —Carry, Bishop College; lineman— Ellison, University of 111.; time of quarters, 15 minutes each. WAR-NAVY SECRETARIES CALLED IN HAITIAN PROBE WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1.— Daniels and Newton D. Baker, Secre taries of War and Navy in the Wil-] son cabinet, have been summoned to appear before the committee as soon as it returns from Haiti. Sensational charges that the navy department .ordered marine forces in Haiti to compel the Haitian congress to adopt a constitution favorable to America “by peaceable or forcible means,” are embodied in an official report placed before the committee by Brigadier General Elf K. Cole, who engineered political plans of the American state department and the navy with respect to Haiti. “I was in touch constantly with Washington and it approved every move I made,” General Cole told the committee. CHARGE AGAINST JOHNSON DROPPED ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 1.—Investiga tion of a bill charging larceny after trust against Henry Lincoln Johnson. Republican National committeeman from Georgia and recently nominated by President Harding to be recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia, resulted late Thursday in a no bill being returned by the Fulton county grand jury. The charge against Johnson, it was stataed, was the outgrowth of a trans action in 1917 when A. G. Taylor, em ployed Johnson as his attorney pend ing the settlement of his wife’s es tate. FISK ADMITTED TO CARNEGIE FOUNDATION NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—For the first time in history a colored institu tion was admitted to the Carnegie foundation last week, when the trus tees voted to receive Fisk University, of Nashville, Tenn., into the founda tion. Other Universities admitted were Washington and Lee University and Cornell College. Panorama * of Omaha’s Wholesale District DR. CARTER WOODSON ADDRESSES HAMPTON ' Makes Strong Appeal to Race Pride. Praises Negro Press and Advises Race to Make Extensive Use of it —Predicts Great Outlook for Race—Is Editor of Journal of Negro History HAMPTON, Va„ Dec. 1.—“There are certain things which Negroes in this country must do, if they hope to enjoy the blessings of real democracy: they must attain economic independ ence; they must have educational in dependence; they must develop a press; they must develop a literature; they must learn to preserve their own records; and they must learn the value of tradition.” Dr. Carter G. Woodson of Washing ton, D. C., well known editor of the “Journal of Negro History,” director of research for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and author of “Negro Education Priori to 1861” and "A Century of Negro Mi gration,” made this declaration in a recent address on “The Negro and Modern Democracy,” which he deliv ered in Ogden Hall, Hampton Insti tute, before a. large audience of Hamp ton workers and students. Doctor Woodson said: “The people who control the coal and iron, the banks, the stock mark ets and other valuable resources are the people who will dictate exactly what shall be done for every group in this land. Liberty is to come to the Negro, not as a bequest, but as a con quest; that is, the Negro must contri bute something to the good of his race, his country, his God. “The Negro must find some avenue of business. He must exploit some thing to the extent that he will devel- ' op an industry or a business in which he can give some other Negro employ ment. Appeal to Race Pride “Until the Negro learns to do some thing for himself in the field of edu cation he will never be able to con sider himself a real man. If the Ne gro is not going to become an educa tional factor among hig own people, then education is not the leverage to lift him, in the sense that it has lift ed oher people. A man is educated when he can do without a teacher and when he can will—develop and grow without the stimulus of instruction. So it must be with a race. Power of the Press “Some Negroes never read a Negro newspaper. A few Negro newspapers tell the story of the Negro in a cool, calm way. They tell of the strivings of the Negro in such a way as to be an inspiration to youth. Every Negro ought to read the publications of his race. “We complain because white news papers publish our crimes and tell of the evils we do, but do not say any thing of our achievements in these lines that tend to stamp us as a peo ple of the world. We must learn to tell the story ourselves. It is our duty to develop a press. Outlook for Negro Race “Negroes should read something of their own people that they may be in spired thereby. We must realize that there are certain things in the Negro race which are worth developing. Those things may be worth as much to the world as the better things of the white race, when they are proper ly developed. “I-et us study our history with the understanding that we are not, after all, an inferior people, but simply a people who have been set back, a peo ple whose progress has been impeded. That history will inspire us to greater achievements.’’ JOHNSTONE TOPS RUNNING RECORD (By the ssociated Negro Press) DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 1.—Clipping better than 2 minutes from the course record, R. Earl Johnstone, Braddock, Pa., National A. A. U. ten mile cham pion, raced to victory Thanksgiving Day in the Irish-American Athletic club’s annual Femdale-Detroit ten mile run. He was crowded to the fin ish by Chuck Mellor, Logan Square A. C. Chicago, who finished two second’s behind the Negro star. Johnstone’s time was 63 minutes 46 6-6 seconds. The previous record was held by Mellor, who covered the course in 66 minutes 47 2-6 seconds twe years ago. DAUGHERTY BACKS DYER ANTI-LYNCHING BILL WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. l.-At tomey General Daugherty today ap proved the Dyer anti-lynchlng bill, de clared it constitutional and advocated its passage, according to statement* made by Representatives Dyer and ' Volstead of the House Judiciary com mittee, who conferred with him on the legislation. The Dyer bill ha* been favorably re ported from the House Judiciary Com mittee. It gives Federal jurisdiction wer the crime of lynching and impo ses fines on counties and other politi cal subdivisions of State* in which lynch in £8 occur.