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1 ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE f
UNITED STATES. |
Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged.
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, |
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No 4
;: state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ...
|; privileges or immunities of citizens of the Lnited States; nor y
<1 shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or pi op- y
< ’ erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person
|; within its Jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
THE CURTAIN DROPS
rpHE curtain has been rung down.
“Bert” Williams, one of the great
est comedians who ever entertained an
audience, has made his last appear
ance on the stage. The curtain of the
other life has been rung up for him
and he has gone to join his compan
ions of so many years here upon the
American stage, George Walker and
his talented and cultured wife, Aida
Overton Walker, who before him en
tered into rest. Thousands mourn
the death of “Bert” Williams. Those
who came into close contact with him,
professionally or socially, were im
pressed with the fact that he was a
gentleman of the first rank. His ca
reer upon the American stage has
done a vast deal to raise the race in
the estimation of the American pub
lic. Our own acquaintance with him
• began many years ago, in the hey
day of that brilliant company which he
then headed. Noticisg that they were
billed to appear in Omaha, we wrote
him stating that among his company
there might be some Episcopalians
who would enjoy the privilege of at
tending service; and if so, they would
be given cordial welcome at St. Phil
ip’s Church. We received a courteous
letter from him, regretting that our
letter did not reach him until he was
dressing for the matinee Sunday af
ternoon, or he and his wife would have
arranged to come. He wrote in part:
“I am deeply touched by your cour
teous letter, for I have been in the
‘show business’ now for eight years
and you are the first minister of any
kind who has ever invited me to go to
church or seemed to think that show
people had souls worth saving. You
will doubtless be pleased to know that
both my wife and I are Episcopalians
and that I have a half-brother who is
in the priesthood, the Rev. Richard
Bright, rector of St. Stephen's, Sa
vannah, Ga., whom you may know.”
Our friendship has lasted through
the years and we with others mourn
his sudden taking off. He played his
part well and has left an honored
name among those who have adorned
the American stage.
WHAT DO NAMES MEAN?
'J'H AT depends upon the personages
which they represent. If those
who bear them are persons of char
acter, ability and influence, names
mean a vast deal. In this connection
attention is called to the influential
names of men and women, not only of
national, but international renown
who have signed the memorial peti
tioning the United States Senate to
ia.a.x a a a a x x a * gKSg a a a a a a a a a a a
pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.
The Monitor departs from it usual
custom in publishing this rather long
list of names, which contains only
part of a long list of America’s fore
most citizens who have signed it, be
cause we believe it will be advantag
eous to let our readers know- the type
of American oitizens who believe that
the anti-lynching measure, recently
passed by the Hause of Representa
tives and now before the United
States Senate, will prove remedial in
freeing America from mob murder, a
crime which all law-abiding citizens
deplore. Any cause that can enlist
the influence of such a number of
prominent citizens of the republic re
presenting such a wide sweep of in
terests and activities must be a
worthy and vitally important one. It
augurs well for the success of the
measure, in which our people are
vitally interested because we are so
largely the unfortunate victims of
mobs; but our interest is overshad
owed by the responsibility which rests
upon all the citizens of the United
States to see that the orderly pro
cesses of the law are maintained, for
only so can this nation endure. The
fact that citizens of this type are
willing to lend the weight of their
names and influence to this measure
shows that they realize this grave re
sponsibility.
AGREES WITH STARK.
JgVIDENTLY that reporter on “La
Tribuna,” Rome, Italy, agreeg
with Professor Starr of the Chicago
University that colored women are
the most beautiful in the world, if one
is to judge by his description of Mrs.
Leila Walker Wilson, whose presence
he noted among the hundreds of thou
sands In the throng before the Vat
ican. He waxes eloquent in describ
ing her. Greek lyricists would stylo
her “An Ethiopian Artemis.” It is
conceded by all who know her that
Mrs. Wilson is a charming woman
her gracious manner not being the
I least of her charms, but that Roman
reporter seems to have been most
| wonderfully impressed. He doubles
| himself backwards in his efforts to
' describe the charms of this American
laughter of the sun.
CARD OF THANKS
We p?ish to thank our many friends
for their kindenss and for the ex
pressions of their sympathy with us
in the death of our beloved husband
and father.
Mrs. Fannie Looney and Family.
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REFUGEES HUNT
FOUU IN VAIN
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American Relief Workers Are
Finding Constantinople City
of Distress.
IS DAILY GROWING WORSE
City Teems With Refugees in Such
Great Numbers That All Cannot
Possibly Be Looked After
Children Cared For.
New York.—As warfare and petty
tribal couillcts in tbe Near East con
tinue, American relief workers are
finding Constantinople a city of dis
tress, where conditions dally grow
worse as new refugees wander hope
lessly in on the endless—and usually
vain-—quest for food. Returning
members of the overseas personnel of
the Near East relief all bring back
the same story of misery. These are
supplemented by the letters and
periodical reports of relief agents on
the field.
Situation Is Desperate.
When the evacuation of the French
from Cilicia and tbe consequent (light
of the Armenians and other portions
of the native Christian population,
the situation threatens to become one
that the Imagination recoils at pic
turing.
“Constantinople already teems with
refugees In such great numbers that
1 all cannot possibly be looked after,”
writes Mrs. Jeanette W. Emrlch, a
' member of the relief unit In the Otto
man capital, who previously had wide
experience as a missionary.
••Now the people of Cilicia are com
ing to us. Wo simply will not be able
to care for them. How terrible the
| need is in spite of all that America
has sent us would be hard to make
any one understand who has not been
here. The weather is bitterly cold
I and each day brings its fresh stream
of misery.
“Yet there are also encouraging
things—the gratitude of a group of
Armenian mothers, last week, when
! old clothes from America were dls
i tributed among them. One mother
; said, as she held out the few gar
ments given her: ‘I could never have
| bought these, as they would have cost
some liras. Just the same, I want to
give something. I can only give a
| mejldi’—or about 10 cents—*but all T
can give. I want to give.’ And each
woman present did the same. Out of
their dire poverty they gave some 12
liras—about $8—and, since this is a
country with free education, we need
the money to put additional children
into school.
Clothes for Children.
“At present we are distributing
these old American clothes among
5,000 children. They have no fathers,
these having been killed In the war
or deportations; hut they %nve moth
ers or grandmothers. The mother
| scrubs, sews, works In a restaurant—
anything to keep a home together,
which home consists of one mean
room renting for a dollar or so month
ly. These wretched families are scat
i tered through 42 sections of this great
I city, and embrace six nationalities—
j Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Syrians.
\ Chaldeans and Turk*. The Near East
I relief cannot support them—It must
j look after Its orphanages—but It does
! help them with orth can of condensed
! milk and two loaves of bread weekly
per child. Also during five winter
months we sell them charcoal at half
! the market price.
“The sister of the lad who works In
1 my home was recently put Into one of
| the- Near East relief orphanages here.
| She Is thirteen years old. was taken
hy the Turks when she was only eight,
was held by them for five years, and
of course can speak only Turkish now.
One of her eye* Is gone, and she has
the oldest, unhapplest face Imaginable
for a child of that age.”
HOLDS WALKING POOR SPORT
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Youth Who I* Famous Pedestrian Has
Enrolled at Kansas
College.
Emporia, Kas. — Hiking across
j country for fun is poor sport, accord
ing to Milo Gibson, boy hiker, who
j walked to Washington last summer
and was received by President Har
ding
“If you travel and write or do some
thing for the benefit of humanity,
these long hikes are all right," Gib
son said, “hut there’s too much danger
of becoming a professional hobo."
Gibson has enrolled as a freshman
in tfie College of Emporia. He had In-,
tended to enroll at the school last
fall, but was taken sick with pneu
monia at the Grand Canyon of Ari
zona last August while on a hike from
his home in Ohanute to the Pacific
coast.
Gibson traveled 500 miles last sum
mer. On his long tramps he caught
many rides, hut he did a great deal
of leg work, especially in the West.
Drove Out Gamblers Quickly.
Bloomshurgh, Pa.—In 24 hours after
he took the oath of office Police Chief
Vervin Mericle drove the gambling out
of Bloomshurgh. His first edict was
against punchboards and they disap
peared quickly. He next visited sev
eral establishments where poker was
played and notified them to close up
and “beat it” or land in jail. The
proprietors closed up and hurriedly
left.
DAY NURSERY
Will take care of children, under
school age, by day or week at my
home,—8121 Franklin street. Terms
reasonable. Mrs. Mary Hayes, Web
ster 0267.—Adv.
BETTER ACQUAINTANCE IS
NEEDED
(Associated Negro Press.)
New York City, March 10.—“It’s too \
bad the white people of America can- j
not know us as we realy are,” said 1
William Pickens of the Associated
Negro Frees, recently. Fifteen hun
dred people paid one dollar each to
enter the Star Casino in New York
City, last week and to entertain them
selves with games and music, for the
benefit of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
and to forward its great fight against
lynching and other evils.
There was a colored group, for sheer
physical beauty the most wonderful
thing in the round world. There was
present every color of man and woman
known to the creative powers of Na
ture. They were clean and bright and
attractive in their manners.
If only the LYNCHER could have
seen this social gathering, which he
indirectly helped to call into being!
Would he despair or would he grow
mad?—He could not lynch all of these
people, even, these gathered at the
Casino. Some of them won’t be
lynched. And yet the gathering was
only one-ten-thousandth of the colored
population of the United States.
EPISCOPAL CHl'RCH OF
ST. PHILIP THE DEACON
A large congregation was present
last Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock
service. The vicar preached the first i
of a series of Lenten sermons on I
"The Church and Her Apostolic Min
istry.” His specific topic was, "Cath
olic, Not Roman.” He showed how
the Church, which is Christ’s Mystical
Body, of which He is the Head, was
founded in Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost and given by Her Founder,
a definite Faith to teach, Sacraments
to administer, a commissioned Priest-1
hood and a Liturgy. Apostolic con
gregations Were founded in Antioch,:
Ephesus, Corinth. Colossae, Rome, etc.,.
and these were all Catholic churches,
because they taught the faith once for
all delivered to the saints, which is
the Catholic Faith. When, therefore,
these tn communion w’ith the Vener
able See of Rome they betray Inex
cusable ignorance of both Scripture
; and Church history. Belief in the
Holy Catholic Church Is fundamental
and necessary to salvation. Men de-!
lude themselves when they think they
! can be saved outside of the Church.
This subject will be continued in
the next Sunday morning’s sermon.
Confirmation instruction is given Fri
day and Sunday nights. A large class
is being prepared for Confirmation on
Palm Sunday, April 9, just one month
distant.
The Woman’s Auxiliary met Thurs
day with Mrs. Isaac Bailey, 2816
Pratt street.
The Girls’ Friendly Socety meets at
the rectory every Monday afternoon.
MY COUNTRY, ’TIS TO THEE
(Tune, America.)
My country, ’tis to thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
To thee we cry:
Land where our fathers came,
Land of our mothers’ shame,
I^and of our toil and pain,
Must thou too die?
Shame on thy starry crown,
No black hand tore it down
In days of strife,
But blood of bond and free
These black sons gave for thee
And saved by loyalty
A nation’s life.
“These black sons have no right
For which they need to fight,"
Thou now dost say:
We hurl thy sentence back
By million throats of black,
Pray God to clear the track
For freedom’s way.
Shall Justice longer call
In legislative hall
To thee in vain?
Where is thy boasted power?
Thine is the waiting hour,
Rise and no longer cower,
Remove tby stain.
Then shall we sing to thee,
I,and of the noble free,
Thy name we’ll love;
Ours be this land so bright,
Ours freedom’s holy light.
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God above.
These are the words of the song I
! sung by the Crlspus Attucks’ Chapter
: of the Red Cross at Pilgrim Baptist
| church last Sunday afternoon at the '
I Attucks’ Day memorial exercises.
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THURSDAY— ®
GEORGE WALSH in “WITH STANLEY IN AFRICA"
No. 5
HELEN HOLES in “GHOST CITY"
Also SNUB POLLARD in “ON LOCATION”
FRIDAY—
JUSTINE JOHNSON in “BLACK BIRDS”
Also WALLACE COBURN in “DESERT MYSTERY”
(A Ripsnortin’ Western)
BILLY WEST in “HANDS UP"
SATURDAY—
LESTER CUNIO in “BLUE BLAZES”
One of the Fastest Western Thrills ever Produced)
Also BROWNIE DAY in “BR0WNV1LLE VENUS”
SUNDAY—
SNOOKY the HUMANZEE in “SNOOKYS WILD OATS"
TEXAS GUINAN in “SPIT FIRE”
Also BESSIE BARRISCALE in “THE BREAKING POINT”
MONDAY
MORRIS TOURNIER in “THE WHITE CIRCLE”
Also Two-reel Western and Comedy
TUESDAY—
“WHITE EAGLE”—No. 6
MISS DU PONT in “GOLDEN GALLOWS”
WEDNESDAY—
ROBERT WARNICK in “THE THIRTEENTH MAN”
Also Two-reel Western and Comedy
NOTE—Coming “ROUND ONE”—By SAM McVEIGH—
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