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__ ''J'' jj- Q ^ J 'J'1 O R A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILL1AM8, Editor $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 18, 1922 Vol. VIII—No. 7—Whole Number 371 METHODIST PRELATE GIVEN A WELCOME BT LARGE AUDIENCE Bishop Robert E. Jones, First Man of His Race to Be Elevated to Epis copate hy Methodist Episcopal Church, Visits Omaha. DELIVERS NOTABLE ADDRESS “God Not a Principle, But a Personal ity Interested in the Daily Af fairs of Men,” Declares Speaker. Declaring that God is not a prin ciple but a present, potential Person ality, intimately interested in the everyday affairs of life, Bishop Rob ert E. Jones of New Orleans, La., former editor of the Southwestern Christian Recorder, and first man of his race to be elevated to the epis copate by the Methodist Episcopal Church, delivered an eloquent and in structive address to a large audience in Grove Methodist Episcopal church, of which Rev. T. S. Saunders is pas tor, last Friday night. This was Bishop Jones’ first visit to Omaha He is a man of charming personality, unassuming and unosten tatious, magnetic, scholarly and elo quent. His address made a favorable impression upon all who heard him. He expressed his pleasure at being in the city of which he had long heard and from which he had received many courteous invitations. “With absolutely due appreciation of the splendid work all Methodists and other Christian bodies are doing among our race, I believe I may be pardoned, if I say that I do not be lieve any Christian body has done or is doing more for the evangelization, education and recognition of the Col ored people of the United States than is the Methodist Episcopal church,” said Bishop Jones. " I here are three great denomina tions, commonly spoken of as white churches, aside from our own, with Colored communicant s and doing good work among Negroes. These are the Presbyterians, the Episcopalians and the Congregationalists. We have five times as many colored members as all three of these combined. Our membership is 350,000. Our educa tional work among Negroes stands without a parallel, not only in in structing our youth but in recogniz ing the ability of our own people to stand in positions of leadership and administration. Institutions like Wi ley. Sam Hueston, Rust and George R. Smith colleges and Claffin univer sity are among the striking examples of this. For theological education we point with pardonable pride to Gam mon Theological seminary; and it must not be forgotten that Meharry Medical school was founded and main tained by the Methodist Episcopal church for the education of Negro physicians and dentists. The latter institution has just been turned over by this board to the race, with all its buildings and the sum of $400,000 for the development of its splendid work. From the Centenary fund which cen ters around Negro work, there has been already appropriated the im mense sum of $1,750,000 for educa tional work among Negroes. More over. there is not a single hoard ad ministering the affairs of the Method ist Episcopal which has not at least one colored member on it. So, I think it must be conceded, that no other Christian body in America has done or is doing more for the ad vancement of our people or in giving us merited recognition.” Bishop Jones then passed on to the discussion of man's relationship to God and God’s relationship to man. Among some of his striking utter ances on this head were: " ‘One and God make a majority.’ It was Fred erick Douglass who put this state ment upon the lips of 100,000,000 Americans, who use it without think ing of the author. One and God make a majority, if that one is of the right type. God is not a principle but a present potential Personality, deeply interested in every day affairs of life. God to me is a Personal God, who thinks, loves, wills, judges and helps men in every time of trouble. I love to think of God not far off on the circle of the earth but down here among the busy haunts of man, where men are at work in the shop, office, field or mart; by the editor as he sits down to write with the desire to help men, with the physician at the bed side, with the teacher in the school room. I like to think of God with a labor union card in his pocket. In sym pathy with his fellow workman, and by the washtub with the toiler there, a God of love and sympathy Who is inte*«sted In our work a day world. "God can use men, If they will let Him. In order that God may use men, men must be unselfish, good, not saints, but genuinely good m their hearts, loving and prayerful. “Our race has a characteristic which I hope they will never lose. It is said with truth, Negroes quickly forgive and soon forget. This is the manifestation of a loving heart, and after all love is the power that will conquer. Not force, but love. The World war was a manifestation of force and hate. It settled nothing. No man can make me hate him, for hate damages more the hater than the one hated. Therefore, let love rule the hearts of this race and no-power can hold it back. “God is not a luxury but a neces sity in every life. X plus Y plus Z minus God is a failure in every life. X may equal intellectual ability; Y, great wealth; Z, untold influence, but minus God life will be a failure. X plus Y plus Z PLUS God is a success in every life, always and everywhere. X may equal ignorance; Y, poverty; Z, weakness, but PLUS God that life is a success, always and everywhere.” The combined choirs of St. John’s A. M. E. and Grove M. E. lead the singing. The lesson was read by the Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor of St. John’s; prayer was offered by the Rev. O. J. Ilurckhardt. Several min isters, physicians and dentists, many of the physicians being alumni of Mcharry, hal seats on the platform. The Rev. Dr. Griffin G. Logan, pres iding elder anti former pastor of Grove, introduced Bishop Jones. The Rev. J. O. Williams of Paris, Tex., and the Rev. C. S. Williams of Beau mont were also present. BISHOP JONES PAYS MONITOR COMPLIMENT Bishop Robert E. Jones of New Or leans, La., In speaking at the Grove Methodist Episcopal Church last Fri day night, paid The Monitor an appre ciated complifent. He said that he was anxious to visit Omaha for many reasons, one among many being that he desired to meet Father Williams, editor of The Monitor, the splendid publication which ns editor of the Southwestern Christian Recorder he had always read with delight and In spiration. He then asked for those who were subscribers, "not mere read ers, but subscribers of The Monitor, to hold up your hand.'’ Many hands went up. “That’s a good showing,” said the bishop, ‘‘but it ought to be better. It’s an able publication and deserves unanimous support.” Thank you, Bishop Jones.—Editor Monitor. OlFR SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN OPENS The Monitor Offers Hadnsome and Valuable Premiums Which Any Wide-Awake Person Can Easily Secure. The Monitor is putting on a SIX WEEKS' CIRCULATION CAM PAIGN. We are making a DRIVE for 1,000 NEW SUBSCRIBERS in OMAHA and VICINITY by OCTO BER FIRST. We are going to get them. Watch and see. During this campaign we will accept NEW SUB SCRIBERS ONLY at the SPECIAL RATE OF $1.00 A YEAR; 50 CENTS FOR SIX MONTHS. No subscrip tion accepted for less than six months. Cash must accompany every subscription. As an inducement for wide-awake hoys and girls and men and women to secure NEW SUBSCRIBERS we are offering the finest and most valuable set of premiums ever offered by ANY NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE any where in the United States. Any per son seeing these premiums will be an xious to secure one. Read our adver tisement on back page of this issue. Then go to Levy’s Drug Store, Twen ty-fourth and Decatur street, where these handsome premiums are on ex hibition for a few days and see them; and then if you do not get subscription blanks and get busy securing sub scribers, we will miss our guess. The Monitor is a paper good enough to go into any home. You need not confine yourself to securing subscrib ers among colored people, but are sure many of-your white friends and neigh bors will be willing to subscribe to help you secure one of these prizes. The premiums offered are a beau tiful chocolate set; a handsome elec tric lighted vanity bag, something new which every lady wants; a beautiful watch, and an Eastman kodak. SMARTER SET SOCIETY GIVES DANCING PARTY The annual dancing party which wae given by the Smarter Set Society last Monday night at the Hanecom Park Pavllllon wae a delightful social func tion from every point of view. The pavililon wae artistically decorated in the club’s colors. A large number of guests were In attendance. The mu sic was furnished by “The Melody Boys' Orchestra,” a new organization composed of Messrs McPherson, Sayles, EMIlard, Moseley and Williams, whidh gave eminent satisfaction. Ev erybody had a good time. .. " .. ■ ■ it I ! I I Uln., —»■ f ■ m-,-m±m< ..- - —■ --- ■ '» I One of Omaha’s popular Municipal Bathing beaches showing how this progressive city provides for her cosmopolitan population. HAITIAN EDITOR IS TWICE IMPRISONED DT 0. MARINES Black Patriot. Vigorously Opposes American Plan to Force Loan Totaling $10,000,000.00 on His Country. JOHNSON MAKES STATEMENT Declares Acceptance of Loan Will Perpetuate American Occupation and Domination of Island Republic. ' New York, Aug. 18.—J. Jolibois, ot Port-au-Prince, Haiti, editor of He Courier Haitian, a leading newspaper of Haiti, was twice arrested and con fined to Jail during the month of June, for protesting against certain financial powers n the United States forcing a loan of $40,000,000.00 on the Haitian government, according to a letter re ceived and made public by James Wel don Johnson, Secretary for the Nation al Association for the Advancement of Colored People. M. Jolibois has been one of the most outspoken of Haitian leaders In denouncing the acts of the American occupation. 4n-commenting on the arrest of M. Jolibois and the causes of his having been Imprisoned, Mr. Johnson said: "It is obvious that the efforts now being made to force this loan of forty million dollars on the Haitian govern ment, which the Haitians declare they do not need and do not want, is for the purpose of future Justification of contnuance of the occupation of Haiti by the United States Government. When unpleasantly direct demands are made on the American Govern ment in the future to end the occupa tion of this Republic, the obvious re tort would be that such a step would be Impracticable until money loaned by American banking houses Is repaid. “The arrest and Imprisonment of M. Joltbols for daring to speak out on a matter regarding which there should be the utmost freedom of speech and press Is simply another Incident In what Is already a record in Imperial despotism. In spite of the recent re port by the Senate Committee, headed by Senator McCormick of Illinois, which almost completely absolves the Occupation from all blame, the case of M. Jolibols s indicative of Just what our neighbors to the south are under ' going tn the process of 'benevolent tutelage’ by the American Govern ment." TWO PROMINENT TEXAS MINISTERS OMAHA VISITORS The Rev. J. O. '.,'illiams, district superintendent of the Paris District, Texts Annual Conference Methodist Epscopal Church, Paris, Texas; and his brother, the Rev. C. S. Williams, pastor of St James M. E. church, Beaumont, were Omaha visitors last week. The former preached at Grove M. E. church last Thursday night. They left Saturday morning for Sioux City, Iowa, to visit the Rev. R. M. Williams, pastor of the Haddock Mem orial church of that city, who is the son of Rev. J. O. Williams. SON IS BORN TO FORMER OMAHA GIRL A fi,ne son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gibson at Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 9th. Mrs. Gibson wag formerly Made line Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Roberts of this city, where dhe was born and reared, and was a general favorite. Omaha friends send congratulations and best wishes. Mrs. Roberts is In Tacoma with her daugh ter and grandson. I EXPRESSES MIND ON AMERICAN ATTITUDE TOWARD NEGROES Mme. . Schumann-Heink,. World-Re nowned Opera Singer, Says Negroes Are Real Americans and Should be Given Better Treatment. MANSION NOW MUSIC SCHOOL Chicago, Aug 18—Miss Pauline Lee, President of the Chicago University of Music, which institution has stirred the pride of Chicago from center to circumference, has again thrilled the populace with her achievements. Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who was in the city for a few hours, on her way from California to New York, wired Miss Lee to arrange for a private conference on the progress of the school since its inception in the Schumann-Heink mansion. The mad ame was highly pleased with the re port of Mies Lee and the progress of the institution. While in the city Mme. Schumann Heink gave out a remarkable inter view concerning her attitude on Col ored Americans, which appeared in the Chicago Daily News. The inter view said: “Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, grand opera singer, Saturday paid Chicago, ‘the city she adores,’ a brief visit. Coincident with her arrival an nouncement was made that her old homestead at East 37th street and South Michigan avenue, where she lived for eight yeare, has been leased to the Chicago University of Music, a school for colored musicians, for a period of three years, with an option to purchase. “Few recognized the singer as she stepped from a Santa Fe train at the _ I Nebraska Civil Rights Bill Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights. || Enacted in 1893. Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advan tages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every person. I I Sec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities^ or privileges enumerated in the foiregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall for each offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs of the prosecution. I The original act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs State, 25 Nebr. page 677. N. W. 638.” “A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with re freshments in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other reason than that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in amore private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich. 858; N. W. 718.” i Dearborn street terminal. She i was accompanied by her daughter, I Mrs. Greif, who recently arrived in this country from Leipzig, Germany, and the latter’s twin sons, Heink and Horst, aged .16, and their sister, Ger trude, 16. The party went to the Aud itorium hotel. ‘‘I always love to come to Chicago; I adore it,” said Mme. Schumann Heink after they were comfortably settled at the hotel, where she con firmed the report that she had renied her home In Chicago to the school. Has No Fears “I expect to be criticized by Bonn, for turning my home over to and pa tronizing the colored people, but I don’t care. Negroes are real Ameri cans, and we are in duty bound to treat them as human. ‘‘I am independent and have m> fears. As I stood by the soldier boys I will stand by the colored folk. If we would treat them right we wouldn’t have strikes and crime and wr« wouldn’t be the laughng stock of the world. ‘‘We should give the Colored people a chance to develop instead of wel coming with open arms Russian radi cals and other foreigners, who, in many instances, do our country more harm than good. Refers to So nth’s Great “Look at the great men and women of the South; all were cared for by col ored mammies. Many of our colored people are good enough to act as our servants and do useful work. We | should treat them as humans. “It hurts me to see strangers in my home, but it has been vacant for two years, and with some one in it now it will be cared for.” Mme. Schumann-Heink arrived from San Diego, Calif., where she has taken up her resdence. She was en route East, where she has a number of con cert engagements. CONVICT WHITE MAN IN ASSAULT CASE Judy of W hite Men Find Married Man, a Father, Guilty of Criminally Attacking a Fonrteen-Year Old Colored Girt. Tit'ton, Ga., Aug. 18th—Coming as a climax to one of the most sensa tional court trials in the history of the local courts here, a jury of 12 white men fount another white man guilty of criminal assault upon a 14 year-old colored girl. The man was sentenced from two to three years in the penitentiary. The crime, one of the most revolt ing in years, was perpetrated by A. P. Cox, a married man and the father of several children. Feeling was teDse following the outrage and for a time it was feared that the man would be lynched. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED “Hill Crest,’ the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jones, was a scene of unique beauty last Thursday evening when the engagement of their daughter Irene to William Bernard Reed of Denver, Colo., was announced r.t a seven o’clock dinner. The 24 guests who were members of the younger social set were seated a* small tables on the spacious lower veranda which was decorated with ferng and hanging baskets. The colo; scheme was lavender. Just as the elaborate four course dinner was being brought to a close, a miniature news paper was passed to each guest. Sur prised Indeed were they when upon examination thef found a heart-shaped photo of Miss Jones upon the Inside announcing her engagement. A little item about each guest also appeared in the paper. Out of town guest® were Miss Irene Newman of Chicago and Mrs. Ethel Nash of Nashville, Te>nn. The wedding will take place October 2nd, 1922. CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON. The services op. next Sunday will be at the usual hours, 7:30, 10 and 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Public invited to all services. Next Sundry Is the time appointed for payment of subscriptions on the repair fund. Mrs. Floretine Pinkston has been serving as organist for the past two Sundays. BOY SCOUTS GO TO CAMP GIFFORD Twenty-six boy scouts go to Camp Gifford for a two weeks’ outing Fri dal. They will be in charge of Scout Master Craig Morris and other scout executives. This annual encampment is eagerly anticipated by the scouts of Omaha and does the boy a world of good. Miss Lucille Bivens left Tuesday to visit relatives at Hopkinsville, Ky., and expects to be absent from the city for two weeks. WHITE EDITOR TAKES HIS RACE TO TASK FOR RIDICULING HS William Alien White, Famous News paper Man. Does Not Approve of Derisive Altitude of Caucasians Toward Black Folk. C0L5RED PEOPLE ARE HRMAR Their Aspirations For Recreation and Culture Are Normal and Fun-Poking Whites Betray Own Stupidity. (Associated Negro Prees) Chicago, Aug. 18—William Allen I White, nationally famed daily news 1 paper editor of Emporia, Kansas, in a syndicated article, published recently in a number of daily papers, told the “white people where to get oft,” so far as “poking fun” at Colored people is 1 concerned. Said Mr. White: ‘‘At Westfield, N. J., a Colored golf ! club has been established and a nine hole course laid out. A Colored col ony there seems to warrant the golf course. The item that this course is laid out will cause a million giggles to sizzle across the country. Car toonists will make funny pictures of it. Vaudeville artsts will do sketches about it. Something exquisitely fun ny seems to excite the white race I when it sees the Colored race doing I things which are ordinary parts of the | day’s work and play to the white j people. It is as though the elephant should drive an auto or a horse play the piano. “The reason for this risibility of the white man at the black man s human activities is obvious, and it Is no credit to the white man. He thinks it funny to see the black man doing things that normal human be ings do, because the white man does not think of his darkskinned fellow traveler on the planet as a human companion. The white man consid ers any Colored man—black, brown, red, yellow or maroon—as an ani mal. The anthropological conceit of the white man is ponderous, unbe lievable, vastly amusing to the Gods. “Why should not the black man play golf if his economic status gives him leisure for golf? Why should ho not have a motor car and a coun try house if he can afford it? Why giggle at the normal activities of men whose skins differ from our own? Something of the same psychological reason is behind the fact that we mid dle-class people make merry over the fact that the worker in the mines or shops or furnaces wears a silk shirt or rents a house with a bath or rides to work in a car. Why shouldn t he? is he an elephant do ing stunts? is lie a horse plaving the piano? What’s the joke if' he develops the same desires and aspira tions that we do? And who in God’s name we, anyway? ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH 5233 South Twenty-fifth Street. O. J. Burckhardt, Pastor. Sunday will be a day of unusual in terest with services all day, beginning with praise service at 10:30 led by Messrs Rayford and Herman. The sermon at 11 wll be by the Rev. W. S. Metcalfe, with the invitation song by Mrs. Sadie Rivers. Class reports by Supt. Tollie Starne, and class meeting led by Deaconesses Severe and Gray will follow. Doxolagy by the Rev. F. Oliver. At 2:30 song service will be led by Deacon Whit Clark of Bethel and Mrs. Elizabeth Clark. Rev. W. F. Botts will give the invocation; Rev. T. S. Saunders will read the Scripture les son; the Rev. Russel Taylor, pastor of St. Paul’s Presbyterian, will preach; the Rev. W. C. Williams will give the invitation; the benediction will be giv en by the Rev. S. M. Graves. At 7:30 the praise service will be led by Mesdames Sarah Jones and Laura Jefferson; invocation by Rev. Robert Ewing; Miss Fostoria Logan will sing a solo, and the Rev. J. Fletcher Bry ant, Y. M. C. A. secretary, will preach. The Rev. Mr. Burckhardt expects the co-operaton of all the ministers of the association to the extent that their congregations will attend at least one of the services during the day. A CONVERSATION “Oh, isn’t that silver chocolate set a beauty! I want one.” “Get subscribers for The Monitor and it’s yours.” “But, can’t I buy one? I’ll pay yon cash for one, right now.” “No, thank you, they are not lor sale. We give them as Premiums.” Conversation that took place in the Monitor Business Office Monday, August 14, 1922. Miss Mary L. Blackney of New York City is the guest of Mias Beasie Tal bot, 2816 Burdette street