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• t f , , f ;.‘'V • . ‘ craapjawg:;?--. -ygi^igi , . \ 'Jr * ’ ' . . —^ The Monitor 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, FRIDAY, MAY 19th, 1922 . Vol. VII—No. 46 Whole Number 357 TEXAS BURNS HUMAN BEINGS AT STAKE WHILE SENATE SLUMBERS OVER DYER BILL SENIOR CLASS OF HAMPTON INSTITUTE WINS COMMENDATION Student Addresses and Demonstrations Are Well Received by Hundreds of Fifty-fourth Annual Anni versary Guests. YOIRG STUDENTS MAKE GOOD Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Bishop Bratton, and Principal Moton Express Their Grateful Thanks. (By Wm. Anthony Aery) Hampton, Va., May 19.—The ad dresses and demonstrations by mem ber;- of the Hampton Institote grad uating class at the recent fifty-fourth anniversary celebration were received with enthusiastic applause by a largo company of representative men and women. Chief Justice Taft, who is president of the Hampton Institute Board of Trustees, Bishop T. I). Brat ton of Mississippi, and Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute w ere among those who commended the student speakers. The Negro and His Songs Asa part of the anniversary concert program Richard Wilson Howe of Wil mington, N. C., spoke on "The Negro and his Songs.” He declared that the ideas and experiences of the Negro are expressed in his songs. IJe stated that among the savage tribes of Af rica there are found songs of harvest, of life, and of death. Although these songs have come from so-called hea then souls, they nevertheless have an intensely human touch. He described the Negro folk songs under five headings: The “spirit • uals,” or religious songs; cradle songs; labor songs; game and dance songs; and songs of freedom. He gave illus trations of Negro “spirituals,” which showed faith, hope, love, determina tion, courage, adc ration, patience and humility. Campaign for Clean Milk Clara E. Majors of Lynchburg, Va., demonstrated methods of preserving i milk After showing how milk can I be easily tested for the presence of dirt, she pasteurized some milk and later explained how to test milk for the presence of formalin, which is a powerful preservative. Co-Operative Buying. The growing interest of farmers in co-operative buying was reflected in - "A Demonstration Age tit at Work," pre onted by three Hampton seniors,! Waiter I.. Webb, Sijneca, S. C., Joshua; W. W illiams, Lightfoot, Va., and Jas. j A. Harris, Hope, Ark., who showed! graphically what can be done by farm-; ei in the buying of fertilizers, for instance, if they are guided by intelli- j gent, level-headed leaders and are1 willing to pull together to defeat the; crop lien system. Shirt-Waist Project. That several attractive waists could ; be made from a single, plain pattern, which had been carefully drafted, was clearly demonstrated by Florence I. Wilson of Hampton, Va., who showed j in detail how a woman or girl with; training can make attractive tailored waists and then, by making duplicate new-paper patterns, turn about and; make fancy waists with a minimum of effort and a maximum of satisfac tion. Hampton Idea of Education “Hampton s Idea of Educated Men and Women as I Have Learned It,” j was outlined by John H. Calhoun, Jr.,; of Greenville, S. C., salutatorian of hi- class, who declared that the aca demic training at Hampton had always been noted for its thoroughness; that Hampton had adapted its courses to the needs of the peoples it served; thut Hampton hud taught thousands of pupils with thoroughness those vo cations which were greratly needed, Hampton and the Davia Family Arthur J\ Davis of Hampton, Va., the ranking scholar of his class and valedictorian, told the story of his grandfather’s life both as a slave and as a freedman and of his relation to the American Missionary Association, which made possible the establishment of Hampton Institute in 1868, and to Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, who served as Hampton’s principal from 1868 to 1893. CHORDS IS MAKING EXCELLENT PROGRESS The great chorus of seventy voices, composed largely of members of the various choirs of the city, which is being trained for the concert to be given under the auspices of the Col ored Commercial Club at the City Aud itorium, May 81, is making excellent progress. Practices are held at St. Paul’s Presbyterian church Sunday afternoons at four o’clock and Monday and Wednesday evenings of each week. Rev. Russell Taylor is training the choir. PIONEER PASSES AWAY. Atchison, Ivans.—Mrs. Mary Mosley passed away at her home, 722 W. St., last Friday at 4 p. m., from the effects 1 of a paralytic stroke, which fell upon i her several days prior to the end. i Mrs. Mosley had been in ill health forj some months, but had been able to I perform domestic duties until becom ing bedfast. Deceased was the widow of the late j Wilson Mosley, who passed away many * years ago, since which time she has • been the head of the family, which was quite large, but has since lost all, but three sons, Willis W., Andrew B. and Preston Mosley. These survive her. Also two daughters-in-law and , seven grandchildren, and three great-; grandchildren. She was a devoted Christian, having joined Ebenezer Bap tist church under the pastorate of the late Rev. W. M. Smothers, and was a constant attendant until she became unable to attend, but always advised her children to attend. The funeral was held in Ebenezer Baptist church at 2 p. m. last Sunday, Rev. W. C. Cartwright preached and was ably assisted by associates minis ters. deacons and the choir. Mrs. Mary Walker spoke of the deceosed in behalf of the Woman’s Relief Corps. A large crowd of friends turned out to pay last respects to the deceased. Beautiful floral offerings were re ceived from City National Bank. Lin coln, and State Journal Co., Lincoln, and friends here. Interment in sol diers plot in Oak Hill cemetery. Ji. A. A. C. P. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met at Freestone Baptist church last Sun day afternoon and despite the fact that the Odd Fellows and Ruthltes were having their annual sermon, quite an appreciative audience was out and participated in the meeting. A program is being arranged for the Mass Meeting to he held Sunday, May 28lh. All of the ministers, profes sional men. business men, lodges, etc., have been invited to be out to this meeting as It is of vital importance to every man In Omaha. The next meeting will be held at the Y. W. C. A. next Sunday afternoon. Monster Mass Meeting next Sun-: day at 3:30 p. m. Watch this paper for place. It Is to your interest to be there. , Minnie Jacques Garret and Walter L. Hibbs were married in Council Bluffs May 3rd. They are at home at 2318 North 22nd street. SPECIAL EXPERT OF VETERANS’ BUREAU VISITS IN OMAHA !>r. J. It. A. Crossland in Charge of Work Among Negro Veterans Spends a Strenuous Bay in the City. VISITS THE MILITARY POSTS Has Largely Increased the Number of Kx-Sertiee Men of Race Tak ing Vocational Training Pro tided by Government. _ Dr, J. R. A. Crossland of the Wai | Veterans’ Bureau and directly in charge of the important department1 of Negro veterans, spent a strenuous i day in Omaha, Tuesday. Dr. - Cross-; land, who is eiow on his fifth tour of! inspection to get first hand knowledge ' of the needs and status of colored ex- | service men, arrived in Omaha from . St. Louis early Tuesday morning and j was driven to the beautiful residence I of Mr. and Mrs. Alhponso Wilson,! friends of many years’ standing. Lat- j er in the day, accompanied by the; Rev. John Albert Williams, Dr. Cross land visited Fort Omaha, where he was courteously rerceived and had a j pleasant interview with Capt. Levin- j son, quartermaster. Returning to the : city, he interviewed Dr. W . W. Peebles, commander of the Roosevelt Post American Legion, visited the pub licity department of the Chamber of Commerce, paid his respects to Walter W. Head at the Omaha National Bank, j a personal friend; visited the local headquarters of the United States War Veterans Bureau where he had a plea sant interview with Mr. Crandall in charge of the office, later drove to Fort Crook where he was coureously received by Major Buerkle, and ended the day with an interview with several ex-service men and a few prominent citizens at the residence of Mr. Wilson. When Dr. Crossland took office he found that 110,000 ex-service men were receiving vocational training, lejfs than 1,000 of whom were colored men, whereas the number should have been ten times this number. During his incumbency the number has in cleased to 3,776. The vocational training now being given colored ex TYPES OF OMAHA HOMES Pretty Home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lei and 25th and Maple Streets Handsome Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W King 2531 Maple Street A great deal of favorable comment is being made upon the showing of types of homes owned by colored citizens which The Monitor is featuring. It is not generally known that our group of citizens pay taxes on realty totaling approximately $2,500,000. This week we pi'esent to our readers illustration of two more types of homes. service men covers a wide range. The government, I)r. Crossland pointed out is anxious for the rehabilitation of all ex-service men, and he is desirous that all ex-service men, especially of our race, avail themselves of the op portunity of securing vocational train ing and thereby fitting themselves for useful careers. The government is considering the feasibility of establishing three well equipped vocational training schools for colored ex-service men, two in the! south and one at some central point in some northwestern state, where thor-1 ough training can be given under the i-.ost favorable conditions. i The Negro W ar Veterans Relief Hu-1 reau is anxious to have it known that all ex-service men should keep in touch with the bureau. It has been established to assist in every legiti mate way possible Negro ex-sfervice j men to secure all the rights and priv-1 ileges to which they are entitled at the hands of the government and which the government is desirous that they should receive. Dr. Crossland j desires the widest publicity given to I the fact that his bureau is anxious to j be of assistance to ex-service men. Dr. CrOssland left Wednesday morn- j ing for Chicago and other eastern points. He was most favorably im-1 pressed with Omaha. PROMINENT BAPTIST MINISTER VISITS NIS OMAHA RELATIVES Director of American Home Mission Society on Official Western Tour Speaks in Omaha. . \ ““ The Rev. Elbert W. Moore, director of the Negro work in the North of the American Home Missionary Society, whose headquarters are in New York City, was a Council Bluffs and Omaha visitor Sunday. Dr. Moore is a neph ew of the Rev. William Moore, a re tired Methodist minister, who many years ago was pastor of St. John’s A. M. E. church in this city, but now re ,-ides In Council Bluffs. Dr. Moore, who was enroute west, planned to spend Sunday with his uncle. Sun day afternoon he called on his friend, M. F. Singleton, and was taken by Dr. C. H, Singleton, in company with some other gentlemen for a delightful sight-seeing ride around the city, with which he was much impressed. In the evening Dr. Moore spoke at Zion Baptist church. LOVETTA BUSCH NOW LEADS IN CONTEST Votes for contestants in popularity are coming in from outside points. Miss Lovetta Busch seems to be pop ular in Kansas as votes for her have come from that point. Here is this week’s standing: Lovetta Busch, 5219 So. 29th street,- 26 votes. Audrey Trueheart, 1443 South 17th street, 23 votes. Dorothy Williams, 1119 No. 21st street, 19 votes. Cerelda Tucker, 2508 M. Street, So. Side, 15 votes. Ireta Walker, 1926 So. 14th street, 9 votes. Otis Watson, 2925 Grant Street, 9 votes. j NEW MUSICAL HIT The .Jack Mills Music House is in troducing a new song and dance num ber called ‘‘Dear Old Southland.’’ It is written by two colored boys and should go over big especially as a dance number. Get this from your dealer in either sheet music or orches tration and try it out. Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Tymony have returned from a short visit with Mr. Tymony’s parents at Moberly, Mo. | GIRLS!!! GIRLS!!! | EE The Monitor is interested in a question that has been brought up EE many times among the young people, and one that is very hard to answer HE HE satisfactorily, namely, who is the most popular young lady? We are EH EE going to try and answer it with your co-operation. EE Have your friends vote for you using the coupon below. The list of contestants will be published each week with the number of votes they EEE receive. No votes will l>e counted unless sent in on one of these coupons EE properly signed. There are no obligations attached to this, so get busy and have your friends cast their votes. The young lady receiving the greatest number of votes will receive a handsome present, absolutely free. EE ST. PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 26th and Seward Sts. R. Taylor, Pastor Mother’s Day was appropriately ob served. The attendance was good. The sermon, “The Mission of a True Mother,” received many expressions of commendation and the pastor has been requested the repeat the same, which he has consented to do early in June. It is pleasing to note the marked activities in the Auxiliaries of the Church. The remarkable success of the Ladies Aid in their recent bazaar and dinner has inspired new life in both the Sunday School and Christian Society. All are determined to make this a banner year for the church. Next Sunday the sermon topics will be as follows: M. a. m., “The Un speakable Possibilities in Doing What Christ says-Do;” 8:00 p. m., “The Downward Man;” 6:15 p. m., Christian Endeavor; Topic, “What Christian En deavor Does for Me.” Matt. 25:14-30. ALLEN CHAPEL, A. M. E. CHURCH 5233 So. 25th Phone Market 3475 .... O. J. Burckhardt, Pastor Sunday being Mother’s Day was an interesting day here. Many strangers were present. The Sunday school was fairly well attended and the League work under the direction of Miss Ruby Redd is moving along nicely. The pastor preached at 11 a. m. on “Search me, O Lord, and know my heart.” At 7:30 he talked on “Moth ers,” from John 19-37, “Behold Thy Mother.” Mrs. Severe and Mrs. Gray, Deaconesses, were in full uniform. Next Sunday will be a great day at Allen. RETURNS FROM BIG MASONIC MEETING Nate Hunter returned last week from St. Paul, where he attended the forty-first annual session of the Unit ed Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic jurisdiction of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Ma sonry. He reports an enthusiastic meeting. ISLANDERS ASK FOR ABSOLUTE INDEPENDENCE Washington, May 19—A Philippine parliamentary mission, composed of the most prominent men of the islands ! is on the way to the United States to { ask immediate and absolute independ-: ence. The committee, it is reported, sailed from April 30. — WILLS IS MATCHED! v TO FIGHT DEMPSEY IN MOHTREAL SOON Only Formality of Signature by Jack Kearns, Dempsey’s Manager, Re mains to Cinch Big Battle in Canada, July 1st CHAMPION TO GET $300,000 . - Wills Entirely Satisfied to Get a ' Chance for Championship After Many Delays and Dodging of Issue by Champ. New York, May 19.—After dodging all over America and half over Europe j Jack Dempsey, white heavyweight champion boxer of the world, will de fend his title against Harry Wills in the baseball p-.rk here July 1st, the j New York World learns today. All arrangements for the bout have been made and it only remains for j lack Kearns to sign on the dotted line and cinch the formal articles of agree ment. The bout, it is understood, will be promoted by the Montreal Press Club, and assurance has been given that no intereference will come from the au thorities. •Tulv 1 here is Dominion Day, which ; ’orresponds to Independence Day, or Inly 4th, in the United States The late falls on Saturday and it is antic ipated that 100,000 people can see the bout, as temporary stands will be erected in the baseball park. Harry Wills long has been consid ered the logical challenger for’ Demp sey’s heavyweight title. He has size, reach, poundage, and boxing skill in his favor, to say nothing of plenty of experience. The amount of the purse has not been divulged, but it is understood that Dempsev is guaranteed $300,000 with a privilege of a percentage of the grorss receipts, which are likely to reach $1,000,000 or more. Mrs. H. O. Wood, who has been in Washington, D. C., in charge of the Devereaux children, left that city for Brookville, N. Y., Monday, May 15th, and will return to Omaha on or about July 15th. John Dillard Crawford left Friday for Denver and other Colorado points. TEXAS MOB BBRNS THREE SUSPECTED MEH AT THE STAKE One of the Victims Alleged to Have Confessed Implicating Two Oth ers Who Die Protesting Their Innocence. TWO WHITE MEH SHSPECTEI Shoes Fit Footprints Found Near Body of Murdered Girl. Sus pects Released After The Lynching. Kirwin, Texas, May 19.—Following a man hunt in which an aeroplane was used to transport bloodhounds more than one hundred miles to the scene of the murder of a white girl, three colored men were arrested late Friday night and held until early Sat urday monrnig, May 6th, when they were burned at a stake driven in the ground in the center of the town. The three men burned were "Snap” Curry, J. H. Varney and Moses Jones. The body of Thomas Cornish, the fourth man, was found hanging to a tree outside the town on Sunday. Curry is said to have confessed, im plicating the other two, who died pro testing their innocence, one dying singing “Lord, I’m coming." Two young white boys were also arrested when their shoes fitted tracks leading away from the spot where the dead girl was found. These men were released from custody after the lynching. When the body of the white girl was found in the woods around eight o'clock Friday morning, aeroplanes were used to bring bloodhounds here from Hunts ville and with the whole county at their heels the manhunt began about two hours before dusk. In a little while three colored men and two white men suspected of the crime were lodg ed in Freestone county jail. Then the mob got into action. The sheriff surrendered his keys without any resistance and the three prisoners were taken from jail to the center of the public square where an iron pipe was driven into the ground. Third degree methods were used in order to secure confessions from the prisoners. Their bodies were hacked with knives and beaten with sticks in an effort to make them confess. In order to draw the spectacle out as long as possible, Curry was burned first, then Varney and finally Jones. Newspapers and wood were piled around each victim and his body thor oughly' saturated with oil before the spectators applied matches from sev eral sides and then hurried back to avoid the terrific heat. Fairfield, Texas, May 8. (United Press)—Two white men are being held in jail here in connection with the kill ing of Eula Auslay at Kirvin, for which three Negroes were burned there this morning, according to Sher iff Mayo Tracks leading from the scene of the murder to the home of the two men—brothers—and fitting the shoes they worer, were found, Ma yo said. One of the men was captured yes terday and the second surrendered at the jail after the mob left herer with the Negroes. BISHOPS URGE PASSAGE OF THE DYER BILL Thirty-four bishops of the Episcopal church have signed the N. A. A. C. P. petition requesting the Senate to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Among the number are Bratton of Missis sippi, Mann of Florida; Woodcock oi Kentucky; Manning of New York; Lawrence of Massachusetts; Griswold of Chicago; Howden of New Mexico; Winchester of Arkansas; Matthews of New Jersey; Burleson of South Da Kota; Hall of Vermont; Brewstey of Maine; Johnson and Nicholas of Cali fornia. From coast to coast and from north to south arises the cry to sup press^ lynching by federal authority. COLORED ATHLETS SCORE AT LINCOLN Central High won first place and Omaha Technical second, with Colum bus third at the State track and field meet held at Lincoln last Saturday. Thomas of Central won first place in the discus throw, the second place be ing captured by another colored stu dent, Lewis of the Lincoln high school Price, Tech’s fleet footed track star, won both the 880 and the 440 yard dash, making the first in 2 minutes 54 seconds, and coming within one fifth of a second of the state record in the 440 yard dash when he travelled the circuit in 52 and 8-5 seconds. More than 800 of the State’s best athletes took part in the meet which was one of the most closely contested of ath letic events in the State’s history.