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$2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA. JULY 14, 1922 Vol. VIII—No. 2—Whole Number 366
NORRIS OF NEBRASKA
SENATOR NOT VOTING
iinn | -*• **■ M,*
ON PTEN MEASURE
Kerom mended by Close Vote of Fight
to SI* NVIth Two Senators, One
Republican nnd One Deniorrnt,
Listed us “Not Voting” •
AMENDMENT STRENGTHENS
Proof of Failure by Stale to Protect
Vlrtims Required by nn Added
Provision Proposed by
the Committee.
Washington, I). C.. July 14th—The
Dyer Anti-Lynching BUI, providing
for imposition of penalties by the Fed
eral Government for mob action, was
reported favorably, with amendments,
by (he Senate Judiciary Committee
here Friday, June 30. The vote stood
8 to 6.
Eight Republicans—Chairman Nel
son, Minnesota; Dillingham, Vermont;
Brandegee, Connectlcutt; Cummins,
Iowa; Cold, Rhode Island; Sterling,
South Dakota; Ernest, Kentucky;
nnd Shortridge, California, voted In
favor of the bill. One Republican, j
Senator Borah of Idaho, and five dem
ocrats, Culbertson, Texas; Iverman,
North Carolina; Reed, Missouri;
Shields, Pennsylvania; and Walsn,
Montana, were recorded In opposi
tion.
Senators AshurBt, Democrat, Ari
zona, and Norris, Republican, Nebras
ka, did not vote.
Ends Hitter Fight
The action of the Senate Judiciary
Committee in placing the issue
squarely up to the Senate, ended one
of the bitterest fights in legislative
history. The bill passed last Janu
ary by the Mouse, has been urged by
colored citizens from every section
of the United States, and it Is the
general concensus of opinion tha* the
action of the committee was taken
only after pressure had been brought
to bear.
Opponents of the bill have fought
it from ptller to post, on the grounds
that tt was unconstitutional interfer
ence with State Rights. But the
changes recorded in the Committee
were said to be designed to meet
the constitutional objections. Senu
tors who voted in favor of the bill,;
said that its constitutionality should 1
be left with the supreme court.
Provides Federal A el Ion
The bill declares that If States
fall, neglect or refuse to maintain
. protection of life they shall be deem
ed to have denied the Constitutional
guarantee and the Federal authorities
will have power to act by Indict
ment of State officials or members
of a mob and trial in tile Federal
Courts. The measure requires "rea
sonable” efforts by State officers to
maintain order and protect prisoners,
and (heir fsllure would subject them
to imprisonment for five years and j
a tine of $5,000. Members of mobs
in which a prisoner Is put to death,
would be subject to conviction for
conspiracy with imprisonment for
five years to life providwi. Counties
in which fatal mob disorders occur
would be liable to the family of the
victim under a forfeit of $10,000.
Amendments adopted by the Sen
ate Committee require that failure of
the State officers to protect mob vic
tims must be charged in the Federal
indictment and proven to the satisfac
tion of the Federal trial court.
700 BORN IN ST. LOUIS I
OUT OF WEDLOCK j
St. Louis, Mo., July 14.—Over 700;
colored children have been liom out j
of wedlock here, according to Dr. Geo. i
Mangold, director of the State School
of Social Economy. Many of the
mothers are laundresses, he said.
Unmarried mothers were found as
young as thirteen, but the greatest
years for danger to girlhood are be
tween sixteen and nineteen.
REFUSED ORCHESTRA SEATS
IN THEATRE, SUES FOR $500
Elizabeth, N. J., July 14.—Louis
Moore of Plainfield started suit in the
District Court here against Michael
Connihan and Patrick Shannon, pro
prietors of a theatre at Plainfield, for
$500 damages, claiming he was “re
fused full and equal advantages under
the Civil Rights law of New Jersey."
Moore sets forth that on March 7
last he bought two tickets for the
orchestra In the theatre, and when he
went there he was told to go to a
box in the balcony.
LAW LEAGUE HITS LYNCHING
Atlanta, Ga., July 14.—Denuncia
tion of lynching, laxity in law enforce
ment and of “maudlin sympathy"
which, it was asserted, encourages
the lawless, was voiced here at a con
ference of the league of Enforce
ment of Law Through Constituted
Authority, a newly organized Georgia
institution.
COLORED VETERANS
TRAVEL FROM TEXAS,
BARRED AT MEETING
San Francisco, Cal., July 14—Three
colored veterans of the World War,
who journeyed from Texas to San
Francisco to protest that they rep
resented the Fairview chapter of the
Disabled American Veterans of the
World War, in annual convention here,
were not given seats in the conven
tion. According to the Texas order,
held at Waco, Tex., the charter of
the chapter had bee revoked.
The order refusing to seat the men
was issued from the headquarters of
Judge Robert S. Marx, national com
mander of the disabled veterans.
“It is not a question for the na
tional officers to determine,” was the
statement. “It is a state matter, and
has been ruled on by the Texas de
parment.”
NIGERIAN NATIVES
PETITION GOVERNOR
FOR TRADE SCHOOL
West Africans Desire Educational
Institution Patterned After
Famous Tuskegee
School.
—
WANT GIRLS TO BE EDUCATED
Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa, July
13.—A Bill of Rights, petitioning Gov
ernor Sir Hugh Clifford for a com
pulsory educational system and a
normal and industrial institute along
the lines of Tuskegee Institute, was
presented by natives here recently.
Says the petition, “Education should
be ertended to tht girls as well as
the boys as is not now the case, and
the courses extended so that natives i
may attend college here instead of
having to go all the way to England
for this purpose.”
Other subjects in the Bill of Rights
deal with, the request for trials by
jury and qualified judges instead of
by military officers, excessive timber
royalties, the liquor question and the
lessening of taxes on exports.
The governor is bIbo requested to
force shipping lines, especially the
Elder Dempster Company, to reduce
their fares between England and West
Africa, and to aid in covering the
colony with a network of motor roads
to supplement existing railroads. The
fares of officials going to and from
England are said to constitute a
“colossal charge upon the colony”.
YOUTH, FEARING FOR
LIFE, ASKS OFFICERS
TO PUT HIM IN JAIL
Kinston, N. C., July 14.—Fearing
for his life, Eliah Dunn, whose truck
ran amuck here when his steering
gear broke, resulting in serious in
jury to several persons and the death
of one, asked to be kept in a safe
place pending the investigation of
authorities here.
Although laborers, in the truck with
Dunn, proclaimed that the youth
showed rare bravery and fortitude
during the mad dash of the truck,
feeling among white persons here is
high.
COLORED ATTORNEY
FILES FOR LEGISLATURE
Charleston, W. Va., July 9—Clay
ton E. Kimbrough, well-known attor
ney of this city, has filed his certifi
cate of candidacy for member of the
West Virginia House of Delegates on
the Republican ticket. Mr. Kim
brough is a practicing attorney of
Charlestown for several years and a
graduate of Howard University.
Delegate Attorney T. G. Nutter will
not be a candidate, it has been an*
nounced.
NEGROES IN SOUTH GROW
90,000 ACRES OF CORN
Washington, D. C., July 14.—More
than 14,000 Negro farmers in North
Carolina, Texas and Virginia who
raised 90,000 acres of com last year
under the advice of county agents,
employed co-operatively by the De
partment of Agriculture and state
agriculture colleges, obtained average
yields of 36 bushels an acre. The
average for all farms In these states
ranged from 17 to 26 bushels an
acre, the department said today.
In Virginia, nearly 6,000 of the
Negro demonstrators planted pure
seed and about 3,000 selected seed for
their 1922 crop. All these demonstra
’on plats of corn were harvested ex
cept 87 acres which were “hogged
down”. It is estimated that 70 per
cent of the Negro farmers in Virginia
are following methods of growing
com taught by extension workers.
RE-ELECTED TO DISTRICT
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Washington, D. C., July 14.—J.
Hayden Johnsonn was re-elected and
sworn in last week as one of tihe
three colored members of the District
Board of Education.
Nathan Bernstein for Congress
MAJOR MOTOR SAVES
WOMAN FROM INJURY
AND PERHAPS DEATH
Prominent Educator at Kink of Own
Life Delivers Dazed Woman from
I’alli of Swiftly Moving
Automobile.
BRAVE ACT, STATES OFFICER
Itescoer Declines to (live Name When
Requested. “Just Say n liluck
Alim Did it,” Educator
Tells Officer.
New York, July 14—Threading the
traffic during Fifth avenue’s most
crowded hour, F’rlday, a woman was
confused and stepped directly in the
puth of swiftly moving automobiles.
Crowds on the sidewalks looked on
with horror or turned away from what
appeared to be an inevitable fatality,
but one man dashed through the ve
hicles thronging the street, seized the
woman by the arm and dragged her
hack to safety.
Dazed by her sudden and unexpect
ed delivery from death or serious in
jury she failed to thank her rescuer. A
traffic policeman was more alert. He
stopped the man after he had taken a
dozen steps and asked his name.
The stranger, who was colored,
tu rued.
"Are you going to arrest me?’’ he
asked.
“No,” said the officer. "That was a
brave act, and I want to report it.”
"Just say a black man did it,” he
said, and turned away.
He was Dr. Robert Rusea Moton,
successor to Hooker T. Washington,
us head of the Tuskeegee Institute,
major in the American army during
the war, and one of the foremost fig
ures of his race in America.
SUES U. S. FOR $100,000
Washington, D. C., July 14—Charg
ing that the American marines in
Haiti caused him moral, physical and
financial damage and drove him and
his family from the island in an open
canoe, Rev. L. F. Evans of Wyoming,
Pa., Baptist missionary, filed a claim
for $100,000 with the State Depart
ment.
MUSICIANS TO MEET
Washington, D. C., July 14.—Henry
Grant, president of the National As
sociation of Negro Musicians, has an
nounced that the annual meeting of
the association would be held in Co
lumbus, O., on July 25th, 26th and
27th.
KU KLUX DONATES $25
Oil City, Pa., July 7—The Ku Klux
Klan is not an enemy of the colored
race, declared the local branch of the
order in a special delivery letter con
taining a twenty-five dollar gift to
Brown Chapel A. M. E. church.
HOWARD PROFESSOR
TAKES ADVANCED DEGREE
AT CATHOLIC UNVERSITY
Washington, July 14th—Professor
George Morton Llghtfoot, well known
scholar, educator and editor, or the
Howard University Faculty, has satis
fied the requirements of the Catholic
University of America for the Master’s
Degree In Classical Philology. In
partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree, he presented a forty
eight page thesis on “The Question of
the Origin of Roman Satire”, in which
discussion he makes a survey of the
lengthy and ingenious debate which
has continued almost without cessation
for over half a century. After a thor
ough Investigation of the various
claims of priority in producing satire,
Professor Ughtfoot establishes his
conclusion that “the Romans were the
first to produce and to develop the
satire as a separate and distinct type
of literary expression.”
Professor IJghtfoot is a product ol
the Preparatory Department of How
ard University. His College career
was spent at Williams College. His
successful scholarship at Williams
won him a teachership in the Prepara
tory Department at Howard University
and later he was given a teaching
place in the college where he has been
employed ever since as Professor of
Latin Uanguago and Literature.
N. A. A. C. P.
The Omaha branch of the National
Association met last Sunday at Free
stone Baptist chinch at the usual
hour. After the regular routine of
business had been disposed of discus-j
sion was had upon the records of the I
candidates seeking re-election in the
coming primaries. It is upparenl
that the voters are no longer bound
to vote for any man simply because
he is a member of a certain party
and they seem ready to support the
man and not the party.
Several spoke of the discriminatory
boxihg law enacted by the last legis
lature and the men who are respon
sible for the law, most of whom are
up for re-election. The Dyer Anti
lynching bill was reported favorably
by the committee and it is hoped that
the U. S. Senate will soon pass the
bill so that the greatest curse of the
entire country will soon be blotted
out.
The Rev. Russell Taylor reported
that the World theatre was discrim
inating against colored patrons and
had with the assistance of the police
ousted three last week. The matter
was referred to a special grievance
committee. More interest is being
shown by the membership and quite
a number of new members and re
newals are coming in. The meeting
next Sunday afternoon will be held
at Zion Baptist church, Twenty-second
and Grand streets. Come and bring
someone with you.
- BRAITHWATE’S NEW BOOK
Boston, July 7—William Stanley
Braithwaite’s "Authology of Maga
zine Verse for 1921" was recently
published by Small, Maynard & Co.
ASSOCIATION SPENT
NEARLY $120,000
IN WORK LAST YEAR
The Twelfth Annual Report of the X.
A. A. P. Shows Largo Expendi
tures Are Well Used la Its
Effective Work.
DYER BILL FIGHT TOOK CASH
Over $60,000 Spent In Pushing This
Federal Measure, Investigation of
l.ynehlngs. Exposing kluxics
and Peonage.
New York, July 14th—The twelfth
Annual Report of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People shows that the national
organization alone spent quite $120,
000 in its work last year.
Of this amount $65,831 was spent In
editing and publishing the Crisis, the
official organ of the Association which
has an average monthly circulation ot
10,750. According to Dr. DuBois this
I3 a loss of nearly 25,000 average
monthly circulation in the past two
years, due to the industrial depression
and due also to the ‘‘spiritual reaction
of the war and the demand for radical,
Hiking und unusual programs and
remedies such as the N. A. A. C. P.
and the Crisis do not advocate.” The
publication earned a profit of nearly
$4,000 last year.
During the year, five paid secretaries
addressed 616 public meetings In every
section of the country. The number of
paid-up members is not given, but the
report declares that 52 new branches
wqre formed during the year and mem
berships increased 67 per cent.
The Association spent In addition
$61,000 in its tight to secure the enact
ment of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill,
Investigation of the 64 cases of lynch
ings last year, exposure of the Ku
Klux Klan, holding of the Pan African
conferences, maintenance of publicity
offices, and legal defense in a number
of nationally prominent criminal cases
where discrimination was involved.
Time and money were also spent in
the effort to secure pardon for the sol
diers of the 24th In antry imprisoned
on charges growing out of the Houston
riot, and to secure the removal of the
U. S. marines from Haiti.
MISSISSIPPI LYNCHES ONE
(The Associated Negro Press.)
Summit, Miss., July 7—Bob Col
lins was lynched near here last Mon
day night. He was charged with an
attempt at rape on a white woman
several months ago.
$200,000 CHURCH STARTED
New York, July 7—Thousands oi
persons witnessed the laying of the
cornerstone of the $200,000 Abyssini
an Baptist church, on West 138th St.
last Sunday afternoon. The specta
tors even packed roofs and fire es
capes.
YOUNG GIRL ATTEMPTS
TO RESCUE COMPANION
BOTH DROWN IN CREEK
Memphis, Term., July 14.—While
relatives and members of the party
they were with tried in vain to aid
them, two young girls, Gladdys Pat
terson, 17, and Bertha Steel, 15, were
drowned in Nonconnah creek Thurs
day morning.
The two girls were members of a
“picnicing party”.
The Steel girl could not swim, and
while wading in the creek, she stepped
into water over her head. Miss Pat
terson was near her at the time and
went to her aid. The drowning girl
locked her in an unbreakable em
brace and both sank and perished,
while othr bathers were hastening to
their rescue.
METHODIST DISTRICT
COHFEREHCE HELD
AT HORTOH, RAH.
Successful and Well-Attented Meet
ings Mark Gathering of Ministers
and Laymen in Hospit
able City.
MAYOR MAKES WELCOME
(Special to Monitor by O. J. Burck
hardt.)
Horton, Kans., July 14.—The Dis
trirt Conference, Sunday School Con
vention, A. C. E League and Wimen’s
Mite Missionary Convention of the
Omaha District of (he Nebraska An
nual Conference met at the A. M. E.
church at Horton, Kans., Rev. A. H.
Hamilton, pastor in charge, on June
28th. In the absence of Bishop H. B.
Parks Presiding Elder Divers, who
has charge of the Omaha District,
presided over the conference. The
pastors present answered to the roll
call were Rev. W. C. Williams, Oma
ha; Rev. Wr. A. McClendon, Lincoln;
Rev. C. R. Tucker, Atchison; H. H.
McTassell, Troy, W; W. S. Hickman,
Hiawatha; C. C. Dent, White Cloud;
J. W. Slapleton, Fremont, and Ne
braska City; S. W. Henderson, Bea
trice, and O. J. Burckhardt, South
Omaha. The absentees: C. A. Jack
! son, Alliance; A. C. Talley, Elwood;
R. Ewing, Omaha Mission; Wm. Cam
per, Scott Bluffs. The conference was
highly entertained by the hospitable
people, both white and colored, did all
they could to make the delegates feel
at home. The mayor made us a wel
come address on the part of the city
and Rev. J. R. Ritchie spoke in be
half of the Baptist church. These
responses with others made by E. B.
Flemmings, Miss Marie Henry, Mrs.
A. H. Hamilton were responded to
by Rev. C. R. Tucker and Newton.
Dr. Tucker made a strong plea for
his church and race. In the absence
of Mrs. Jennie Edwards Mrs. Lillian
Webster of Troy, Kans., was elected
District Superintendent of the Sun
day School. Mrs. Webster is an usual
bright woman of our race, also Mrs.
Ellen Whiteside of Atchison was elect
ed president of the M. M. Society in
the place of Mrs. J. G. Jewell who
was not present. Mr. C. H. Brown,
superintendent of the Omaha District
of the Allen League work made a
splendid address to the league work
ers and conference. Mrs. S. K. Brown
low was the delegate for Bethel A.
M. E. Mission, Omaha. Mr. A. New
ton of Beatrice and Denny of Atchison
were elected delegates to the Annual
Conference and Miss Jennie Amette
of Beatrice was elected delegate to
the Young People’s League Congress
which will convene in Chicago dur
ing the month of August. Mrs. Sa
die Divers made herself useful while
at the District conference. Rev. W.
C. Williams, Tucker and McClendon
on the part of the ministry helped to
put real life into the convention and
Mesdames Lillian Webster, Whiteside,
Lee on the part of the women.
The conference closed on Friday
evening with an excellent musical
program arranged by Mrs. Lillian
Webster and Mrs. Divers. The white
M. E. church on account of our im
mense crowds voluntarily tendered us
the use of their church. And at the
close of our exercises great and glow
ing commendations were paid to our
race by them for the talents exhibit
ed. Horton, Kans., will long live in
the memory of the ministers and dele
gates of the District conference.
FREED OF EMBEZZLEMENT
Norfolk, Va., July 7—J. T. P. Cross,
cashier of the bankrupt Union Com
mercial bank which failed recently,
was freed in the court last week on
the charge of embezzlement.
TUSKEGEE BUDGET $435,000
New York City, July lb.—At the
annual meeting of the Tuskegee board
of trustees here, $35,000 was ap
propriated for current expenses for
next year and $150,000 for permanent
improvements, including a new boys’
dormitory.
COLORED FARRIERS
HOLDIRR MEET AT
HAMPTOR INSTITUTE
Twenty-five Virginia Counties Send
Representatives to Recent Annual
Two-Day Farmers’ Conference
at Hampton.
SECRETARY PR6SLEY SPEARS
In Virginia Alone 2N,000 >’egro Farm
Families Are Advised by 24 Farm
and 7 Home Demonstration
Agents
By Wm. Anthony Aery.
Hampton, Va., July 14th—John B.
Pierce, field agent of the States Re
lations Service, who supervises the
Negro extension work in Virginia a,nd
seven other southern states, reported
at the recent two-day Hampton Insti
tute Farmers’ Conference that there
are at work among Negroes In Virgin
ia 24 farm and 7 home-demonstration
agents, who are in touch with 28,000
Negro farm families and who, with 28
county advisory boards, have organ
ized 305 community clubs in which
there are enrolled 7400 families. In
28 Virginia counties there are Negro
farmers’ conferences, whose officers
are the officers of county advisory
boards, which cooperate with the ex
tension workers to help improve the
economic and educational conditions
of rural Negroes. Every year in Vir
ginia there are held twenty-odd coun
ty fairs, which serve as educational
exhibits for the work of Negroes.
Conference Rem iters hip
Charles W. Pugsley, assistant sec
retary of agriculture, Dr. C. B. Smith,
chief of extension work for the States
Iterations Service, William B. Mercier,
agriculturist, extension work, and
Miss Grace E. Frysinger, who is in
charge of extension methods in home
economics, all of Washington, D. C.,
represented the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
John R. Hutcheson and W. P. Moore,
both of Blacksburg, Va., the State and
assistant State directors of extension
; work, represented the Virginia Col
lege of Agriculture and Polytechnic
Institute.
The remainder of the official con
ference membership of 146, in addi
tion to the demonstration agents, was
distributed as follows: 1 Field Agent,
4 District Agents, 49 Representatives
of Clubs, 18 Members of County Ad
visory Committees, 40 Members at
l Barge. This conference represented
the vital interests of Negro families in
25 Virginia counties.
Rural-Life Improvements
The home- and farm-demonstration
agents gave detailed progress reports
on the constructive work which has
been 'done in helping rural Negroes
screen, paint, whitewash, and repair
their homes; buy better livestock;
improve their flocks of chickens and
their poultry houses; buy labor-sav
ing devices for the homes; can and
preserve vegetables and fruits; culti
vate home gardens; organize clubs for
hoys and girls, as well as for men
and women; hold outings for boys and
girls; buy pure-bred seed corn; pre
serve eggs: arrange attractive exhib
its; develop co-operative buying and
selling organizations; build ,new
sehoolhouses and extend school terms.
»ed of Trained Leaders
Secretary Pugsley outlined the pol
icy which teachers and other leaders
should take in guiding rural commun
ity pupils intq the study of agricul
ture and the improvement of rural
communities. He declared that in no
other lin eof work are there so many
| opportunities for culture and for delv
1 ing into the secrets of nature as in
agriculture, which the whole world i«
coming to recognize as the foundation
of all other things, including business
and national life.
462 MINISTERS RETIRED
Washington, D. C., July 14.—Sec
retary John R. Hawkins of the A. M.
E. church, reports 462 retired minis
ters of the denomination, 1,016
widows and 435 orphans under four
teen years of age.
AGED TENANT IS FIRST
WITH COTTON BLOOM
Greenville, N. C., July 14.—Living
up to his reputation of the past twen
ty years, Frank Moye last week
showed the first cotton bloom of the
season here.
JOHNSON—JACKSON
BOUT IS BARRED
Washington Court House, July 7—
The scheduled boxing bout between
Jack Johnson, former world’s cham
pion, and Tut Jackson which was to
take place on July 4th, was called off
by Common Pleas.
The Mercy hospital reports that
they are entirely filled to capacity
and are turning away patients be
cause of not having room. Every bed
is filled.
