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es™ The Monitor \ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Edita# BOY SCOOTS ENJOY FINE WEEKS OOTING AT CAMP GIFFORD Scouts Joseph Dorsey and Henry Gor don Arc Awarded Qoreted Mark Dlanmond Honor Which Carries Special Privileges. TROOP 23 PRESENTED PLAN -- ' IS* Several Sconls Receive Honors In the Various Tests Dr. Itruenlng Presents Troop King with Appropriate Remarks. Troop 23, Scoutmaster Dr. Craig Morris, Assistant Scoutmaster Win. S. Haynes; Troop 7, Scoutina’ster T. P. Mahammitt; and Troop 33, Acting Scoutmaster Dr. Craig Morris, spent the week of August 18-25 at Camp Gifford. Dr. Price Terrell acted as Camp Physician. The Court of Honor awarded the following badges: Tenderfoot lladge—Fred Hanks, Tr. 7; Arthur Garner, Tr. 33; Iceous Hit ton, Tr. 33; Wilbert Brown, Tr. 33; Nicholas Oliver, Tr. 33. Second Class Badge—Orville John son, Tr. 33; Ulysses Watson, Tr. 33. First Class Badge—Dwight Dorsey, Tr. 23; Jesse llutten ,Tr. 23. Mcrl tBadge Henry Gordon, Tr. 23, athletics, pioneering, personal health, public health; Joe Dorsey, Tr. 23, pio neering, public health, personal health, athletics; Dwight Dorsey, Tr. 23, per sonal health, public health, athletics, first aid; Janies Jewell, Tr. 23, per sonal health, public health; Jesse Hut ten, Tr. 23, Swimming, athletics, per sonal and public health. Merit Badges, Officials—T. P. Ma nammltt, Sr., Tr. 7, personal and puo Uc health, first aid. Second Class Scout John Sims, Tr. 23, was awarded tbe efficiency athlet ic badge scoring 386 out of a possible 400 points. The boys were classified according to weight. The boys were awarded different' colored diamonds for personal cleanli ness, obedience, cheerfulness, table manners, and stunts on amateur nigtu. Seven boys received all five diamonds. On amateur night entertainment was provided the boys from their tal ent and it is not possible to describe their acting. On Thursday about 35 purents and friends visited tbe boys in Camp. Some regret was expressed because of the relatively small number of boys en joying the privileges and conveniences of the camp. Scouts Joe Dorsey and Henry Gor don, Tr. 23, were awarded the coveted black diamond of the summer camp, which automatically makes them mem bers of the honor society Nani-ba-shu. This is the first time our boys have been so honored. Certain qualifications difficult of fulfillment and certain standards hard to measure up to are the requirements to be so honored. Congratulations to lAiouts Gotdon and Dorsey. The most impressive ceremony of the wliole week wus the presentation of a regulation troop American flug and staff to Troop 23. Troop 23 was returning in ideal hiking order from near Nathan’s Cake in Marcli accom panied by their Scoutmaster, Dr. Craig Mon Ji. While so formed the troop met Dr. E. H. Bruening, Scoutmaster No. 9 during the absence of Morely Young at war, and Dr. J. M. Prime. Dr. Bruening requested that he might supply a troop flag as the troop was minus a regulation flag. Choosing the week of camp as the most opportune and impressive time, Troop 23 stood at attention while Dr. Bruening made a few remarks about the Importance of and necessity for scouting and then graciously preented the flag to the troop. Senior Patrol Deader Harry Gordon received the flag while the troop stood at salute. After the pledge to the flag was given rous ing cheers were given Dr. Bruening. Troop 23 was so honored for such rapid advance in scouting, as one year ago there were no First Class Scouts. Today Troop 23 has five First Class Scouts, and 29 Merit Badges in the troop. The troop has a standard In character building, in citizenship training and Americanism, that is doing much to place scouting on the plane now held by our scouts, and when the fact is taken into considera tion that the troop is now only 1V4 years old, due credit must be given the boys, because the officials of Troop 23 have made the boys understand that It la the boys themselves who make the troop, not tbe officials. I The scouts and officials through the generosity of Mr. S. H. Dorsey, weib each presented with a box of candy. The unnamed and unsung hero of the Wee kstands out as a tall lanky youth Who qn Wednesday morning started with two shreded wheats, then con sumed sixteen pancakes and two cups of cocoa, and then wanted to know, “when do we eat?” Ahnge ripe watermelon was hid in the woods Tuesday evening and im mediately after supper all scouts started to search for it. Joe Dorsey found it and after carrying it JuBt to the place Intended for eating it lie let it drop and break. But a little grass Is easily washed off by a hoy when he wants watermelon. ENTERTAINS TEXAS VISITOR Mrs. Wade F. Patton, 2881 Miami street, entertained at a three course breakfast Thursday morning, August 24th, complimentary to Mrs. McCowen of Dallas, Texas. The other guests included Mesdames A. L. Hawkins, W. ! O. Craig, Freddie Porter, L. Cain, C. ' E. Duncan, M. Vann, F. Tumbs, H. L. , Anderson, M. Perry and Miss Hazel j Perry. The table was beautifully set, j a large bouquet of roseS, carnations | and magnolias forming a center piece. — RACE PREJUDICE CAUSES TRAGEDY ON RAILROAD TRAIN White Passenger Strikes Colored Man in Mouth for Taking Seat Beside Him and Is Killed by Return Blow. SURRENDERS TO THE POLICE Orange, N. J., Sept. 1—Struck full in the mouth by an unknown white "cracker,” who objected to his sitting beside him in a coach on the Lacka wanna train last Tuesday, Frederick Foster retaliated with a blow over the hearty and as a result another man has paid the supreme penalty for his idea of “democracy.” The killing, which precipitated a panic, occurred when a party of five ■ colored men boarded the train at; Summit. Foster took a seat with a white man, who objected with a great deal of abusive language. See ing that he could not force Foster to get up, in a fit of uncontrollable rage, the man hit Foster in the mouth. Before any of the other passengers could interfere, Foster struck his as sailant a blow over the heart. He crumpled in his chair and could not be revived. The rnen stayed on the train until it reached here, when they gave themselves up to th police for ques tioning. Foster was held, while the other men were released on their own cog nizance. BAPTIST STATE MISSIONARY RETURNS The Rev. M. H. Wilkinson, Baptist State Missionary, has returned from a successful visit to Norfolk, Nebr., where the work is flourishing. He will preach at Bethel Baptist church, South Side, Sunday morning. SOME FACTS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW John E. Matzhelinger, a Negro, is the inventpr of the first machine which performed automatically all the oper ations involved in attaching soles to shoes. There are nearly a hundred towns and settlements in the United States populated and governed entirely or almost entirely by Negroes. Negroes have accumulated more than $1,080,000,000 in fifty-three years. t The Freedman’s Journal was the first Negro newspaper published in the United States. The paper was published in New York in 1827. Many free Negroes held slaves dur ing slavery. More than ’8,000 slaves were owned by Negroes. Negro farm laborers and Negro farmers cultivate at least a hundred two and a half millions are in farms owned or rented by Negroes, Since 1870 we have had four colored regiments in the regular army, two of cavalry and two of Infantry. For news when It Is news, you must read the Monitor. THE RACE LEARNING OF CO OPERATION IN BUSINESS WORLD The National Negro Business League Adopts a Constructive Program at Recent Successful Session. THE TRUTH WINS FRIENDS White and Colored People Make Rapid Progress Through Co Operation and Racial Good Will in Many Places. By Wm. Anthony Aery Norfolk, Va., Sept. 1.—Negroes in business and in all other important lines of economic and social work, in cluding education, public health, com munity improvement, newspaper and magazine development, law, real es tate, and farming, are now willing and anxious to co-operate heartily with one another and with justice-loving white people and are ready to seek and use the advice of available ex perts, regardless of race or cfeed or class, in the solution of their techni cal problems, according to Dr. Robert Russa Moton, principal ot Tuskegee Institute, who was recently re-elected, by unanimous vote, president of the National Negro Business League at its tvtenty-third annual meeting which marked the highwater success mark of this creation of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, who developed with mas terly skill the largest Negro business enterprise in the world—the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which now has a budget of $500,000 per an num and commands the reSpect, sym pathy, and good-will of the best cit izens of all lands. Address (o the Country The League’s address to the country, offered through a representative reso lutions committee, which wqs headed by W. T. Andrews of Baltimore, Md., referred to the favorable economic out look for Negroes, who, though they have suffered some serious business losses, have learned valuable lessons through their own business failures and the failures of other races; noted the steady migration of Negroes to ward the North! congratulated the Negro insurance companies on their ample reserves; praised the Negro farmers for their progress in land ownership; endorsed the Muscle Shoals cheap nitrate proposition; called at tention to the steady progress of Ne gro education in the Southern states; especially in furnishing high school facilities and in making college edu cation for Negroes a requirement in teaching; emphatically condemned mob violence and called for the enforcement of existing law, especially the Four teenth, Fifteenth and Eighteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution, and for the wiping out of the black and bloody stains of lynchings; and called upon the U. S. Senate to pass : the Dyer Anti-Lynening Bill. Tributes to Doctor Moton The League delegates, in addition to taking out a large number of life memberships, subscribed within fifteen . minutes over $4600, under the leader ship of Dr. Moton, for the curreht an nual expenses of the work of develop I ing a year-round program which will i stimulate the work of some 650 local j Negro business leagues. Fred R. Moore, eidtor of “The New York Age,” presented to Dr. Moton, on behalf of League members, a hand some, seven-passenger Cadillac tour ing car as an expression of the good will and appreciation of Negro busi ; ness men and women who gladly co operate with Dr. Washington’s modest and efficient successor. Throughout the session numerous references were made by Negro busi ness leaders from all parts of the Un ion to the courageous leadership and unfailing service which Dr. Moton has rendered. Especially warm tributes were paid to the re-elected President by Perry W. Howard of Washington, D. C., president of the National Negro i Bar Association; Dr. George Cleveland Hall, eminent physician and surgeon of Chicago; Henry Lincoln Johnson of Washington, D. C.; W. Ashby Haw kins of Baltimore, Md.; J. C. Naplei of Nashville, Tenn.; and John M. Gan dy of Petersburg, Va. White and Colored Speakers Nearly 5000 white and colored cit izens of Norfolk and the adjacent ter ritory crowded into the Norfolk Arm ory to hear Dr. Mot n deliver his an- 1 nual address. The program included, I besides opening and closing prayers, and appropriate choral numbers, ad dresses by Charles E. Ashburner, city manager of Norfolk, who paid tribute to the progress of 40,000 Negroes that live in Norfolk; President J. M. Gandy, who declared that Governor Trinkle of Virginia has been eminently just to colored people; Lt. Gov. J. E. West of Virginia, who declared that “God in tends the Negroes to be a great peo ple,” and read Gov. Trinkle’s official message of “kindest regards and sin cere good wishes”; J. R. Levy of Flor-1 ence, S. C., who declared that “the time has come when white and colored people are not only willing to reason together, but they also actually talk over thejr problems face to face and come to a common understanding”; and Bolton Smith of Nashville, 'ienn., who spoke vigorously in favor of the passage of the Dyer Bill, on the ground that “a lynching in any state harms friendly race relations in all States.” Hon. J. C. Napier, former register of the treasury and former president of the League, presided at the Armory mass meeting. He advocated the organization and conduct of short, essential courses in business for Negroes under the aus pices of local Negro business leagues. He recommended the employment of an efficient, wellpaid agent who should devote all of his time to the work of organizing and promoting local Negro business leagues and of putting Negro business men and women in touch with the most helpful sources of aid in de veloping their business enterprises. He also advocated the establishment by the League of scholarships which would aid promising candidates for the profession of business by sending them to some institution for special business training. Leaders Hull Together All who spoke had a real message. Nobody attempted to talk over the heads of their neighbors or indulged in anything that might be labeled patron izing. A spirit of unity and peace prevailed throughout the meeting. There was not the slightest bit of quibbling. The meetings were well attended. There was throughout the meeting a fine spirit of give-and-take. In good fellowship the business of the meeting was transacted. The sessions were I long, but were all interesting. Every body was on the alert to get informa ion. The speakers weie asked search ing questions, but there was no heck ling. Teamwork, good temper, fellowship, construction, vision, faith, hope, love —these are the terms in which this meeting should be described and eval uated. The place of the 1923 meeting will be announced later by the executive committee, of which C. C. Spaulding is chairman. Invitations were receiv ed from Cleveland, Chicago, New Or leans, Hot Springs, Muskogee and Tuskegee. -- | “LIGHT WINES AND BEER” IS PLATFORM OF OTTO A. SINKIE “Light Wines and Beer” is the plat form of Otto A. Sinkie, “Candidate by Petition” for County Attorney of Douglas County. Otto A. Sinkie favor Light Wines and Beer. He believes that a candi date for office should announce spe cifically what he stands for. To vote for Sinkie is to say that you want the Volstead Act modified so as to allow Light Wines and Beer. Take advantage of your opportunity. Mr. Sinkie has practiced law in this state for six years. He is a graduate of the Kearney State Normal School and of the State University of Nebras ka and of the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Sinkie is not a member of the Ku Klux Klan.—Adv. 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. 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 foregoing 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. "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 reasjon 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.” | BETHEL METHODIST CHURCH ACQUIRES NEW LOCATION Offshoot of St. John’s A. M. E. Church Takes Possesion Next Sunday of Edifice of Evangelical Denomination. Some months ago former members of St. John’s A. M. E. church organ ized a new congregation under the name of Bethel which has been wor shipping in the Taborean Hall at 24th and Parker streets. Recently negotia tions were begun to acquire the pro perty on Franklin street west of 24th owned by the Protestant Evangelical denomination, white. Services are to be held at this new location Sunday, conducted by the Rev. Fred Divers, presiding elder. September 4 to 6 a “Mock Conference” will be held each evning at 8 oclock, admission free, to which the public is invited. Out of every hundred colored citi zens called during the war, 36 were certified for service and 64 were re jected, exempted or discharged; whereas, out of every hundred white called, 25 were certified for service and 75 rejected. _ RANSOM DENIES RUMOR THAT MME. WALKER HAS SOLD _ Company Not Sold to Jewish Interests, Agents are Told at Recent Successful Baltimore Convention. MRS. LELA WILSON PRESIDES Baltimore, Mr., Sept. 1—Voicing an emphatic denial to the persistent rum ors that have been going around for the past few months to the effect that the Madam C. J. Walker Manufactur ing Co. had sold out to Jewish inter ests, had white business managers and white advertising managers, and had been compelled to sell some of its real estate holdings, F. B. Ransome, gen eral manager of the company, declared that these reports had been broadcast by rival manufacturers of toilet ar ticles. Hundreds at Convention The declaration was made here to newspaper men, at the annual gath ering of the Madam C. J. Walker hosts, numbering more than 300, held at the Bethel A. M. E. Church. With Mrs. Leila Walker Wilson, daughter of the late Madam Walker, as chairman, the sessions proved the most enthusiastic and instructive ever held. The day sessions of the con vention Wednesday and Thursray were closed to the public, but Friday night Mrs. Mary Talbert, winner of j the Spingarn Medal for 1921, spoke at St. Mary’s Hall. Over $1500 in prizes were awarded different agents. Mrs. Wilson Speaks Mrs. Wilson received a hearty round of applause when she lectured on her recent trip to the Holy Land Wednes day night. A number of other speak ers followed her and paid high tribute to her ability to step into the plage of Madam Walker and carry on the busi ness. GETS THIRTY DAYS WITHOUT ANY PAY Patrolman Joseph Zich Who Insulted Dr. Hawkins, Is Reprimanded and Suspended from the Police Force. Policeman Joseph Zich, against whom Dr. A. L. Hawkins filed charges with the City Commissioners for con duct unbecoming an officer, when he was appealed to for assistance in re leasing the physician’s car, which charges, as reported in last week’s Monitor, were unanimously sustained, was on Tuesday of this week repri manded and suspended from the police force for thirty days without pay. The vote for this penalty stood 4 to 2. two of the commissioners being in favor of a severer penalty. 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 you cash for one, right now.” “No, thank you, they are not for sale. Wc give them as premiums.” » THE FAMOUS BLACK GENERAL OF FRANCE BURIED WITH HONORS Hero of Several Successful Campaigns and Idol of the French Populace Answers Final Roll Call at Advanced Age. GAVE COUNTRY VAST EMPIRE General Alfred Dodds Was Native of Senegal and Member of the French Supreme Council of War. Paris, France, Sept. 1—Highest mil itary ceremonies were performed here at the funeral of Gen. Alfred Dodds, ' famous black general, hero of several campaigns, which added vast colonial possessions to France, and idol of the French populace, who died in his 84th year two weeks ago. He had a bril liant and unblemished military career which has firmly fixed his place high in the history of a grateful republic. General Dodds was a native of Senegal, son of a French white colonial officer and a native black woman. He wore the grand Legion of Honor and a military medal which are conferred upon generals who have commanded victorious armies in the field. He was commander-in-chief of the armies that added the great native kingdom of Dahomey and much of the Nigeria region as well as of the trans Sahara territory, with millions of pop ulation, to the huge colonial empire of Fiance in West Africa, where he did most of his campaigning when not fighting under the tricolor in Cocliin China and Tongking. As a captain of infantry he was one of the heroes of the memorable defense of Bazeiiles in the Franco-German War of 1870 and tho twice captured, escaped each time under the most sensational cir cumstances, to resume his place at the front, receiving the officer’s cross of the Legion of Honor on the restoration of peace. NIGHT WATCHMAN MITCHELL CAPTURES DARING BURGLAR Special Officer or Night Watchman C. N. Mitchell, who for some years has done good service on North Twenty fourth street, made an imoprtant cap ture Sunday morning about three o’clock. A man broke a window oi the Friedman Bros. Booterie at 1510 North Twenty-fourth street and snatched two pairs of shoes. Mitchell saw him and called to him to halt, but the culprit took to his heels. Shots from the officer failing to halt him, Mitchell’s trusty bull dog Joined in the chase and the burglar was brought to bay. Mitchell placed him under arrest. He gave his name as James W. Russell. He was tried Tuesday and given six months in the county jail. PROMINENT RACE HORSE MEN HERE FOR AK-SAR-BEN Messrs North and Row of San Diego, Cal., owners of Cofield, Near Penny, Barrissade, and other famous horses, with their manager, Eddie Mark, are in Omaha for the Ak-Sar-Ben races. They have just come from Toledo and other eastern points where the horses of their famous stables captured sev eral purses. The horses owned hy these enterprising men of our race are val ued at several thousand dollars. Their horses have been entered in the Ak Sar-Ben races. SOME FACTS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW There are now seventy-two Negro banks in the Urftited States, capitalized at about $2,500,000, and they do an annual business of about $35,000,000. A Negro regiment has for its record 191 days on the firing line, exceeding by five days the term of service at the front of any other American regi ment. » The first vessel to make the return voyage across the Pacific from tne East Indies to Mexico was steered by a Negro pilot in 1565. The first blood for American in dependence was shed by a Negro— Crispus Attacks, at Boston. The estimated black population of the earth is 458,112,000. 4