WE RE LIFTING ^ I TT^ |\/l /^\1VTTK P^TI I STEADILY GROWING BETTER LIFT ALSO, . ■ |~| | J IV | IIJJV If ™ANKS ALL A“0UND! 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, DECEMBER 22nd, 1921. Vol. VII. No. 25. Whole No. 337. THE 1 DORMITORY AT fcX'RFORCE IS DESTRw V BY FIRE TV - % Historical Building of . amous Ohio School Which Has Contributed So Largely to Race Education Goes Up in Smoke LOSS RUNS INTO THOUSANDS Two Hundred Male Students Are Without Homes and Many Lose Clothing and Personal Belong ings. Prompt Aid Offered WILBERFORCE, O., Dec. 22. Shorter Hall at Wilberforce Univers ity, was completely destroyed by fire, Wednesday night, December 7th. From an invstigation on the part of he authorities at the University, and also on the part of the State Fire Marshal’s Office, it appears that the fire must have started from defec tive wiring in the attic of the north wing of the building. The fire was discovered by students who were re turning to the building from weekly prayer sendee which was conducted at Galloway Hall, at the other side of the campus. President J. A. Greeg, who con ducted the prayer meeting, and Secre tary Jenkins who lives directly across from the building, were the first of ficials in the building after the alarm was sounded. They directed the few hoys who were already striving to put out the fire. They werd soon joined by Superintendent Berry, Bishop J. H. Jones, Dean Jones, W. A. Anderson and pther members of the faculty | and friends from the neighborhood. Had there been adequate file fight ing appartus on hand the building might have been saved. Appeals for help were sent to nearby towns but none would respond, and the author ities at Xenia, the nearest town, when called upon, refused to come. Everything possible was done to save the building and when it finally became certain it was doomed, the boys were directed to save whatever they could. Very little was salvaged,! hoWever, which left a total loss of | several thousand dollars and two hun dred Imys without homes, and many of them without clothing. Superintendent Berry and Dean Woodson very generously threw' open the doors of their departments, and a committee called by President Gregg, including Bishop Jones and the heads of departments, was able to plan on the housing of students and the care of the college department, whose class rooms were on the first floor of Shorter. Mr. H. E. Schmidt of Xenia was in strumental in getting Governor Davis to send one hundred cots and two hun-. dred blankets to President Gregg, to be distributed to the young men whose bedding was lost in the confla gration. The local Red Cross unit under Miss Schaeffer has offered aid, and people generally are doing all possible to care for the wants of the students. EVIL OF PEONAGE NOT YET CRUSHED SAYS DAUGERTY (Special to Monitor) (By Walter J. Singleton) WASHINGTO, D. C., Dec. 22.—The annual report of Attorney General Daugherty has just been published, and contains some statements that will excite wide comment. It is frankly admitted, in this report, that peoria'ri. ^till exists, to some extent in the Southern states. IN OTHER WORDS —THE SLAVE DAYS ARE NOT OVER. The report reads in part as fol lows: "The victims are almost always ex tremely poor, ignorant and friendless,’ said Daugherty. "Many times it ao >'ears that county officers conspire with the employers to force these un fortunates into bondage, which Is worse than outright slavery.” The attorney general said federal •> gents have been instructed to stop the practice and several cases have f successfully been prosecuted. Propagandists Busy “Som of the cases in the hundreds of those reported received have been exteremely aggravated and in several instances the poor victims have been murdered when it was discovered by *he employer that this bureau was 'inducting an Investigation.,” Daugh erty said. “In such cases bureau agents have been instructed to work with the state authorities, and convicitions for mur der have resulted in some instances. The very helplesness of this class of citizens impels the bureau to proceed with all possible vigor, and the sal utary effect is beginning to appear.” KELLY-BUCKNER WEDDING Zion Baptist church was fillp. The church was artistic a’lj decorated with palms. Prior to the ceremony Miss Mattie Hendrix sang an appropriate solo. To the strains of the Lohengrin wedding march, played by Miss Irene Cochran, the bri dal party entered the main auditori um. the groom, accompanied by his attendants, Hubert Glover and Harrold Bentley, from the men’s parlor; and the bride, preceded by her maid of honor, Miss Emmeretta Jackson; brdesmaid, Miss Gladys Ratliff; the ring bearer, little Olive Jackson, and the flower girl, little Elretta Gustin, coming from the ladies’ parlor, on the arm of Mr. Shaw. All members of the bridal party were handsomely gowned; the bride wearing also bridal wreath and veil and carrying a show er bouquet of roses. The Rev. W. 1*'. Botts performed the ceremony. A re ception followed at the residence of the groom’s mother. The gifts were many and beautiful. CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON The services Christmas Day will be Holy Communion at 7:30; full morn ing service and eucharist at 11 o’clock —evening prayer and sermon at 8 o’clock. The Christmas tree and party for the children will be held in the Guild Room on Wednesday, the Feast of the Holy Innocents at 8 o’clock. The holy communion will be celebrated at 7 a. m., Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, being the Feasts of St. Stephen, St. John the Evangelist and the Holy In nocents, respectively. The annual bazaar and dinner giv en by the Woman’s Auxiliary last Thursday was a marked success from every point of view. The Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Newby left Saturday for an extensive east ern and southern trip, including Chi cago, Nashville, Huntsville and Bir mingham, Ala. They will stop in St. Louis and Kansas City on their return. They expect to be gone for two months. BADLY WOUNDED, IS TAKEN FROM HOSPI TAL AND LYNCHED Victim Alleged Strike Breaker Who Was Charged With Shooting Two Picket* In Altercation Over W'ork NURSE VAINLY PLEADS with mob FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec. 22.— While the conflict between the pack ers and striking stock yards employ ees raged throughout tha country, with varying degrees of violence, it remained for Texas to resort to the favorite Southern form of outlawry and lynch Fred Rouse, a packing house employee who was being used is a strike breaker. Shot Two Pickets Rouse was beaten and left for dead upon the streets after he had shot two pickets who had attempted to nrei-vent him from entering the stock ards during the strike. After being ’eft for dead by the mob he was pick d up and taken to the city hospi tal. When it was learned that he had not died, thirty men called at the hospital and demanded him. Attach es first refused to surrender their patient, but finally submitted when told by the mob that he would be taken by forrce if necessary. Rouse made a desperate effort to fight the members of the paity as he was being dragged from the hospital, hut he was weakened by loss of blood from his previous beating. Twenty minutes later his body was found dangling from a tree by Chief f Police Hamilton. Lynched in Nightshirt He was dressed only in his night shirt, which was tom pnd bloody, and his body riddled with bullets. He was hanged to the same tree from which Tom Vickery was lynched just a year ago. When the mob entered the hospital a nurse pleaded with them to watt until he had recovered from his wounds but one of the lynchers ans wered that “hd was going to die any how, so it didn’t make any differ ence.” VTLANTA Y. M. C. A. NEARS COMPLETION ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 22.—The col ored Y. M. C. A. here has been under construction for some time, and now ’8 about ready for" occupancy. A campaign for $10,000 for completion and furnishings has been launched. / OW. after many patient weeks, The kiddies have their tree; They scamper out of bed in haste And romp downstairs in glee! WONDER comes iuio their eyes fi As hand in hand they gaze, To try to understand old Kris £\ ^ And his mysterious ways. NOTICE!—The Executive Board of the New Era Baptist Association of Nebraska will hold Its quarterly meet ing Tuesday following the first Sun dav In January. All members are asked to be present. Business of im portance. Churches are urged to see that their apportionment be paid at that meeting. Remember the date— Jan. 3, 1922. Rev. W. F. BOTTS, Moderator. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 20.—A message wap received by St. John’s lodge No. 11 A. F. & A. M. from Geo. B. Chris tensen, Jr. Sec’y to the Pres., assuring the Brethren that the president had given approval to the “Dyer Anti Lynching Bill” as reported to the house. The Mission Circle and matinee Club will give a Musical Thursday night, Jan. 6, at Zion Baptist church. Music will be furnished by the U. B. F. Band. ' Big Shoe Sale Now Going On BOYSEN SHOE CO. 412 N. 16th St. Opposite Jefferson Square THIRTY-EIGHT HAVE BEEH MOB VICTIMS DURIHG BILL REBATE Striking And Convincing Evidence Why Dyer Anti-Lynching Meas Should Become Law WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Since the introduction of the Dyer Anti Lynching Bill in Congress on April 11, 1921, there have been 38 persons murdered by mobs in the United States, of whom two were burned, four bodies being publicly burned af ter lynching. One of those lynched was a colored woman. Three were white men. Since the Dyer bill was favorably reported by the Committee on the Ju diciary, on October 31, 1921, there have been seven lynchings, one body being publicly burned, in Helena- Ar kansas. f Among the causes assigned for these lynchings are the following; 1. A colored man called to inquire of a white girl why she had not re plied to a note he had written to her. He was lynched for this offense. 2. An old man was accused of as sisting a man to escape. 3. Two colored men were lynched 'or aiding a third to escape. 4. One colored woman was thrown from a bridge and drowned for assist !ng a colored man to escape. Georgia leads in the list of lynch igs since the Dyer bill was intro duced, having had 10. Mississippi is second with 7, South Carolina third, vith 5, Louisiana fourth, with 4, and Arkansas and Texas each have 3. Mrs. Charles Hemphill of 2706 Lake St. is now confined to Nicholas Hospi tal where she underwent an operation for appendicitis. The operation was successful and the patient is now im proving. Women’s Shoes $1.95 BOYSEN SHOE CO. 412 N. 16th St. Opposite Jefferson Square COLORED YOUTH IS* STAR PLAYER ON TEAM 'leveland Tech Cannot Take Him to Texas and Therefore Decline To Go Without Him CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 16.—East Tech football players Thursday re fused to play Bryan, Texas, High School in the annual inter-sectional grid classic. They refused to accept the challenge after first agreeing to it. The reason is that they could not he Big John Trice, their star tackle, ,vith them. Trice is colored, and is one of the greatest football players •or develped in this section. He is to East Tech what the fa mous Fritz Pollard was to Brown Un iversity, what Shellbupme was to Dartmouth and what “Duke” Slater is to Iowa. Trice could not go to Bryan with out being embarrassed and members of the team voted unanimously to re ject the long trip during the holi days on this account. “He gave us the best he had—we owe it to him,” said one member of the team. Faculty Manager Gordon B. Frost hen sent Coach C. B. Hudson at Bry an a telegram telling him that the trip was impossible. COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB The Colored Commercial Club will entertain Troop 23 Boy Scouts Mon day night at the Club rooms. Refresh ments for the occasion were given at a meeting of the Executive Commit tee, Tuesday night, at which time also the respective committees of the club were appointed and confirmed. The Club has a live program outlined for the coming year. MIDNIGHT MASS AT ST. BENEDICTS Midnight Mass will be celebrated Saturday, Christmas Eve in the chap el of the Community House of St. Benedict the Moor, 2416 Parker St. The Christmas tree will be held Mon day with gifts for the Christ Child society. Public invited. MARINES CHARGED WITH THE OUTRAGES AGAINST NATIVES ' lleged Atrocities In Hatii and Santo Domingo Are Being Probbed by The Senatorial Commission Now On Ground INDEPENDENCE IS DEMANDED SANTO DOMINGO, (via naval ra dio) Dec. 16.—Stories of alleged mil itary atrocities fill the record of the eirst 10 days’ hearings by the sena torial commission investigating Am erican occupation of Haiti and the Do minican Republic. Celicoow Rozier testified that on Tune 19, 1919, she saw her eight chil dren, seven girls and one boy, killed by forces under Captain Becker. Forced to Bury Body Llidor Romain testified forces un der Lieutenant Williams, beat his mother to death and then compelled him to bury the body. Former Communal Magistrate Mas sade told the committee that these witnesses were probaly friendly to the Cascos guerilla forces. The senatorial commission arrived n Santo Domingo yesterday, after five days spent in the interior and a four-day hearing at Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The commission’s progress through the island was marked with imposing demonstrations demanding abolition of martial law, independence and the restoration of constitutional perogatives. Hearings were held at Santa Marc, Gonaives, Maisade, Cape Haitian and Hinche, Eight witnesses were heard at Hinch and 16 at Mais ade. Hereaux Belloni testified that In June, 1920, his father and mother were taken from their home at mid night and shot, and that their home was then burned. Salvir Fleurin testified she saw her father, mother, sister and two young brothers shot. Joaquin Nord gave a detailed ac count of the killing of his wife. “What does Santo Domingo want?” demanded Senator Pomreance in op ening today’s hearing of former Am 'rican Minister, Francisco Peyando. “Our independence with the assur ance of American friendship,” he re plied. “That’s all we want.” ANTI LYNCHING BILL UP WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—After a bitter fight the house voted to take ip the Dyer anti-lynching bill under i rule limiting general debate to ten hours. Leaders, however, have agreed that the measure will not be pressed to a final vote before the Christmas recess. WAR DEPARTMENT OPPOSES CLEMENCY FOR THE SOLDIERS Efforts On Behalf of Members Of Twenty-Fourth Infantry Serving Prison Sentences Meets Decided Opposition WAR SECRETARY STATES WHY WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 22. Colored citizens throughout the coun try are up in arms against the oppo sition furnished by the War Depart ment in granting clemency to the sixty-three former members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, who are in prison on a charge of participating in the Houston riots of August, 1917. The decision of the War Depart ment was made public Thursday when Secretary Weeks wrote to Chairman Kahn of the House Military Commit tee. “The only reason clemency has not been extended and is not now rercom mended,” Weeks stated, “is that on account of the offenses of which these men clearly were guilty they are not entitled to such clemency.” Secretary Weeks then reported that fifty-eight of the 110 men convicted of participating in the riots were serving life sentences, while five others were in prison serving sen tences of fifteen years each. Of the remainder, nineteen were executed, six have died in confinement and the rest either have served out their terms or have been granted clemen cy. Th resolution, introduced by Rep resentative Anthony, Republican, of Kansas, recalled the famous cases of 1917, and it was believed that 3 close investigation into the War Depart ment records would place a new light on the alleged hasty and summary conviction of the men. The measure is for the purpose of determining w'hether or not the men were convicted on circumstantial evi dence, and if so, how far fetched. LINCOLN, NEB. (W. W. Mosley) Mrs. Pinkie Porter and Mr. Frank Burden were united in marriage last Thursday and have gone to housekeep ing. Messrs. R. H. Young, C. T. Denton j and H. M. Hill were Omaha visitors Saturday and Sunday. Rev. I. B. Smith spent Saturday and Sunday at Emporia, Kans., this week. Grandma West was reported on the sick list the past week. Rev. H. M. Botts was called to Plattsbur*, Mo., Monday, where he preached the funeral of a former member of his church, while there. Mrs. Alma Wiley and Mrs. Ger trude Bush will spend Christmas holi days at their former homes in Mis souri. , Mr. Ben Colder left Monday for his home in Missouri to remain until the spring. Services were held at usual hours ! at the A. M. E. Church last Sunday, Rev. Mr. McClendon filled his pulpit. The Sunday School held at usual hour. Vital points were brought out of les sons. The Sunday School hold their Christmas tree and exercises on next Saturday night. Rev. W. A. McClendon and members of the A. M. E. will join in union watch meeting services with Rev. H. W. Botts and his members at Mt. Zion Baptist church Saturday night, Dec. 31st. All are invited. Meeting starts at about 10 o’clock. Lebannon Lodge No. 3 A. F. & A. M. are preparing for a big jollifica tion on Sts. John Day, Dec. 27. Ma sons take notice. Election of officers in the Dt’s of Isis occurred some days ago and the following were named: Mrs. Grace Stanley, Illus. Commandress; Mrs. Mary Williams, Illust. 1st Lieut. Com mandress; Mrs. A. G. Smith, Illust. 2nd Lieut. Commandress; Mrs. L. B. Alexander, Illust. Treas.; Mrs. J. R. Thomas, Illust. Recorder. Sunday school was held at 10 a. m., at Mt Zin Sunday, lessons were inter esting; Rev. Botts preached morning and night; other services were held as usual The Sunday School will hold their Christmas tree Saturday night with appropriate exercises. DEAR READERS:—As the year 1921 draws to a close, I thank those who have taken or have an interest in what I have been trying to do for the Monitor. And, as you well know, there is nothing that can run without assistance either in words, deeds or money. Therefore, hoping that when the New Year appears, will you lend some of these things. Again, I wish one and all, A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Yours, WILLIS W. MOSLEY