—— The monitor —— /A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.00 a Year r,c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd, 1922 Vol. VII—No. 35 Whole Number 346 OUR COLORED CITIZENS PAY DIRECT TAXES ON PROPERTY WORTH $2,500,000 NEGRO EDUCATION PAYS BtVIVIDENDS declaeVyrerts — V 'I he Ijiml-Grant Colleges 1 % ’ored People Need Many More '1. Teachers For the Rapildy Developing Work 6GVERNMENT CO OPERATING .Southern State legislatures Make Larger Annual Appropriations For Educational Work Among Negroes (Special to the Monitor) Hampton, Vu., Mar. M—The out standing need of the land-grant col leges for colored people is a supply of trained teachers who can uphold high standards and who can give their pupils what those pupils need. This fact was made clear at the recent Nashville meeting of the heads and other representatives of the colored land-grant colleges, called and pre sided over by Dr. John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education. Hon. J. B. Brown, State superin tendent of public instruction for Ten nessee, in his address of welcome, ex pressed the greetings and interest of Gov. Alfred A. Taylor. He stated that 101,000 Negro children in Ten nessec, of 160,000 who are of school age, are enrolled In school. Leaders Face Big Problem Dr. Tigert emphasized the value of the human clement in National pro gross, He declared that Negroes should be given freely the education which they need and should have. Dr. A. C. True, director of the States Relations Service, U. S. De partment of Agriculture, brought the greeting of Secretary Wallace. Doc tor True stated that it Is important that the Negro Colleges should get a correct idea of their obligations to the people whom they serve, since their work is one phase of a world-wide ed ucational movement for vocational education. “There are still comparatively few goml instiutions for vocational train ing,” declared Dr. True. “As long as industries were simple and labor was1 both cheap and plentiful, there was comparatively little progress or need j of skilled workers. The human ele- J inent in industry is now tremendously 1 Important, and prosperous industrial communities demand trained workers. Education is Needed For All Groups "Vocational education is not nar row; It must include the principles and fundamentals of the business and its relation to community life. “Negroes need, of course, a certain number of persons who will be pro fessionally trained, as well as me chanics and farmers. There will be gifted Negroes in music, In art and in literature, who must have the training that is suited to their needs. As with other races, however, the majority will be engaged in the more mechanical pursuits. Negro Farmers Are Assets “There are 925,000 Negro farmers in the United States, or 15 per cent of the total number of farmers. Over 700,000 of these are tenants or oper ators. There are about 218,000 farm owners. “There are about 160 Negro farm demonstration agents and about 80 home demonstration agents who are working under the United States De partment of Agriculture. There are also two Negro special agents. “The U. S. Department of Agri culture would like to develop this work further. Vet, even if the Congress should give us a larger fund for tills purpose, our greatest difficulty would be to find people with the requisite training and experience. Therefore, the land-grant colleges should try to turn them out. They need more money for this purpose.” Teacher-Training Interests Officials Chas. H. Lane, chief of the agricul tural education service of the F’ederai Board for Vocational Education, out lined the progress which has been made under the Smith-Hughes Act, passed in 1917, in teaching boys and girls in school and in helping farmers and housekeepers through.funds which are entirely In the hands of State boards of vocational education. Educattan for Colored Home-Makers Miss Anna E. Richardson, chief of the home economics service of the Federated Board for Vocational Edu cation, paid a tribute to the excellent work of the home economic supervis ors who are at work in the Southern states. “There arc three things which are to be done,” she said, "by land grant colleges for colored girls: train home-makers, train for occupations connected with home-making work and allied activities, and train teach ers. These teachers must have a good general education and a good teclud cal or professional training.” Negro Institutions Win Public Support William J. Hale of Nashville, pres ident of the Tennesse Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School, stated that in 1919 three white and one colored normal schools were es tablished In Tennessee. The first year $16,000 were given by Tennessee for its colored land-grant college, while last year $66,000 were given— and In addition $75,00n were given for houses. J. S. Clark, president of Southern University, which is located six miles out of Baton Rouge, La., declared that "the colored land-grant colleges have been called on to do almost every thing.” He stated that T. H. Harris, State Superintendent' of Public in struction, und (iov. John T. Parker have been outstanding figures in Louisiana’s educational program. The first year $10,000 were appro priated for Southern University. The last Legislature appropriated $267,000 for Southern University and also $80, 000 for a school for the Negro blind, which has been built on the Southern University-campus. Today 1000 col ored people own their own homes in the neighborhood of Southern Univer sity. 1223 Rosenwald Schools The Conference sent a resolution of appreciation to Julius Rosenwald of Chicago for his interest and coopera tion in the rural school-building cam paign which is going on throughout the South. Today there are 1223 Rosenwald schools, with a teacher capacity of 2812, built at a total cost of $4,012,923, which has been con tributed as follows: Negroes $1,139, 165; whites, $277,668; public funds, $1,840,210; and Rosenwald aid, $755, 880. Dr. Walton C. John of Washington, D. C., specialist in land-grant college statistics, U. S. Bureau of Education, who served as the executive secretary of the Conference, stated the princi pal objects of this meeting of leaders in colored land-grant college work: the revision of courses of study in ag riculture and home economics; the im provement of equipment; the develop ment of higher standards; and the stimulation of more interest so as t secure more adequate financial sup- i port for colored land-grant colleges. INTERNATIONAL Y. SECRETARY VISITS OMAHA FRIENDS — Robert B. DeFrance Spends Several Days in City in the Interest of Effort to Organize Local Colored Branch Ilobeit B. DeFrantz, international ! secretary of the Young Men’s Chris tian Association, with hearquarters ini New York City, is spending several days in Omaha this week in the inter est of the effort to organize and es tablish a branch of this organization | among the colored men and boys of the city. This movement has been under way for some months, an active committee has been at work and a secretary in the person of J. Fletcher Bryant has been on the ground, sur veying the field and organizing und j directing such activities as the tenta tive plans and circumscribed situation would permit. The work thus far has ls*en primitively experimental because of unfortunate limitations, but some progress has been made. Mr. De Franze has been busy holding confer ences with the special committee and also the officials of the Central Branch, whom the Monitor considers rather luke warm over the proposition and is (fuite sanguine of the success ful development of the Branch. He is particularly well pleased with the cal ibre of our own committee who have the matter in hand. Mr. DeFrantz leaves Saturday morning for Des Moines. While here he was the guest of Dr. W. W. Peebles. PROMINENT BASEBALL MANAG ER STRIKES OUT (Associated Negro Press) Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 3—C. I Taylor, owner of the A. B. C. baseball club, one of the most prominent busi ness men in the country, died at his home here after a ten days’ illness, Thursday morning at 10:20 o’clock. He was taken ill with the influenza and his condition became so serious that two doctors and two nurses at tended him constantly. He was fifty years old and came to Indianapolis from Birmingham, Ala., some years ago. His affable manner and business traits caused him to be successful and the name of the A. B. C. baseball team which he headed is known all over the country. PRESIDENT HARDIN6 DIVES FARM MATTER DUE CONSIDERATION Favorably Receiver Committee Which Lays Before the Chief Executive Peculiar Difficulties of the Colored Farmers FAVORS A LIBERAL SUPPORT Provisions of the Federal F'arm Loan Act Should be Impartially and Equitahly Applied to Meet Needs of Negroes (Special to the Monitor) By Walter J. Singleton (Staff Co rrespondent) Washington, D. C., March 3.—At the recent National Agricultural Con ference, held In Washington, the race was recognized as a factor in agri cultural industry. A committee on Negro Farm Problems was organized, and a report was prepared and sub mitted, officially to the Conference. The personnel of the committee was as follows: Benjamin F. Hubert, of Alabama, chairman; Chas. E. Hall of Illinois, secretary; W. S. Scar borough, of Ohio, and It. W. Westber ry, of South Carolina, members. The Conference adopted the report in its entirety. Facts of momentous interest to colored farmers and particularly to those of the western states, were brought out and should encourage ; those who contemplate entrance into this field of industry, as well as those who arc already so engaged, j The difficult and all-important prob- ; lem of finances is made easier than j ever before in the history of the j country. The Federal Loan Act fa cilitates easier and more practiable terms than ever before. The committee, introduced by Sec-! retary Wallace, of the Department of Agriculture, was received at the White House by President Harding, who expressed a lively interest in its I work and high approval of the promo- ! tion and stimulation of agricultural activity among the people of our race. The committee was enthusiastically j received on every side. It is hoped j that the participation of the race in agriculture may be extended and stimulated as a result of the better opportunities now offered. The eco nomic world offers no finer pursuit for the home-loving element of our race than that of farming. The for- j mcr is most vital and necessary to i the country, No occupation offers | greater stability of citizenship or se- I curity in home and living. The far- | (Tier’s standing in the community is : on the ascendency and his influence | in politics is beginning to be felt. Outstanding paragraphs in the re- j port of the committee follows: There is a special need for a more j favorable application of the Federal ■ Farm Loan Act in its relation to col- j ored farmers so that they may be able j to obtain all of the assistance that; may he had through this helpful ! source and be relieved from the tou frequent pressure of local money loaners. There is much dissatisfaction among the rural districts on account of poor school facilities, which, in mapy cases have been the cause for a general migration from the farms to the cities. Because of this we urge a more liberal support from the state and local governments. There should be a more adequate j distribution of federal funds than are J allotted to the different states under) the Smith-Lever and the Smith Hughes Acts so that Negro farmers may receive a greater benefit, to the j end that we may have a larger num- j her of well-trained men and women to ! advise and to work in the rural dis tricts. This is especially necessary because of the fact that this class of our farming population has had less advantage than most of the other farming groups. VETERAN EDITOR VISITS TUS KEGEE — Tuskegee Institute, Ala., March 3— Mr. J. H. Murphy, editor of the Afro American, Baltimore, Maryland, was among the prominent visitors at the Tuskegee Institute, during the past week. During his stay Mr. Murphy, who Is, perhaps, the Dean of Negro editors, spoke to the students and faculty upon two occasions, pointing out the good of industrial training and urging the students to strive to press forward at all times. He was enter tained at dinner by the Twentieth Century Club, on Monday evening. Mr. Murphy was accompanied by his son, D. F. Murphy, and is enroute to Florida. While at the Institute, he was the guest of Dr. R. R. Moton. DESDUNE’S BAND SCORES ANOTHER GREAT TRIUMPH Famous Musical Organization Gives Most Pretentious Program in Its Eventful and Highly Success ful Career — Despite severe cold weather which made shivering Omaha reluctant to leave its fireside, an audience of over 1,600 braved the elements Monday night to attend the concert given by Dan Desdunes famous band at the City Auditorium. The audience was well repaid for its attendance, the band delighting it with the best rendered and most pretentious program in its eventful, successful and pleasing ca reer. Numbers like the Tannhauser Overture by Wagner, accounted by critics the highest and most difficult composition written; and the Barber of Seville by Rossini, played faultless ly, will give some idea of the charact er of the program, and the excellence of its rendition. The program was exceptionally well balanced. In at tack, rhythm, phrasing and interpre tation every number approached per fection. “The Sheik,” by Ted Snyder, hut especially arranged by Desdunes, elicited high praise; hut this is equally true of every selection. The numbers by the large chorus showed good training and were well received. As a comet soloist Jeff Smith well sustain ed his national reputation. Messrs H. L. Preston, baritone, and Levi Broonfield,. tenor, were in good voice and sang well. The star of the solo ists was Madame I-ena Curry, who has a cultivated soprano voice of high register and great sweetness. She was forced to respond repeatedly to encores. The concert was given for the ben efit of St. John’s A. M. E. church, and was under the direction of Mr. William 'Lewis, manager of the band, and the Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor of the church. Mrs. G. B. Riley and Rev. J. Fletcher Bryant assisted in training the choir. (Continued on Page Four) ( 1 — MARYLAND LADY’S VIEWS REGARDED WITH DISFAVOR State Senators Would Deny Admission of Mrs. Hooker Into State Capitol Because of Her Sentiments on Intermarriage HAS VERY DECIDED 0PIHI0H Declares Belief That Inter-Racial Marriages Are Justifiable When j Founded in lx)ve and Would Lessen Other Evils Annapolis, Md., March 3—Declar ing that Mrs. Donald It. Hooker, white, of Baltimore, was a “red” and a "radical” for advocating intermar riage of the races, senators urged that she be denied the privilege of enter ing the state Capitol February 22. j Mrs. Hooker’s ideas would destroy Maryland’s miscegenation laws, de- J dared Senator Robb, of Allegheny county, who criticized Mrs. Hooker’s attitude, but offered no facts to prove the falsity of her statements. W'hat Mrs. Hooker Said The cause of the senatorial ebulli tion was the following remark of Mrs. Hooker, who is an ardent champion of woman’s rights, before a meeting of the Just Government League in Bal timore a few days previous. Said she: “Intermarriage between white wom en and Japanese, Negroes, Hindus or members of any other race is justi fiable, provided the union is founded on love. "Too often,” said Mrs. Hooker, "marriages are founded on considera tions which have little to do with love. When mutual affection is taken as a basis for marriage, unnatural selec-1 tion of mates disappears and the sit- j nation is as nature intended it to be. j The present intermingling of races j exists without being sanctioned by law. “There are Negro half-breeds and j Japanese half-breeds and half-breeds of other races. The great hordes of these tragic souls would diminish con siderably, in my opinion, if women would mate merely for love, for I do not believe that there would be an in termingling of a superior race and an inferior race if that were the case.’’ _ HAVE YOU THIRTY-FIVE CENTS WORTH OF RACE PRIDE? — The Kaffir Chemical Laboratories, located at 817 North Sixteenth, where it can be visited and inspected by evehybody interested, is a race enter prise and manufactures Dentlo, one of the best tooth pastes on the mar ket. This tooth paste retails at thirty five cents for a full two-ounce tube. | Just suppose that 1000 of the 12,000 colored citizens of Omaha, would buy ONE TUBE a month, how long do you think it would be before the Kaf fir Chemical Co. would have to enlarge its plant and give employment to hun dreds of our people. 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