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■ $2.00 a Year 5e a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1922 Whole Number 376 Vol. VIII—No. 12
CHURCH CONVENTION
TAKES FIRM STAND
A6AINST MOB RULE
Sestkern Delegates at the National
Kpisropnl Gathering Leaders in
Fundeiniinlion of Mob
Violence.
GEORGIANS SCORE KLUXIES
Organizations Which Foster Itaelnl
and Iteligious Prejudices Are
Fandnincntull) Disloyal lo
True Americanism.
_
(Special to The Monitor)
Portland, Ore., Seut. 22—'Two cler
ical delegates from Georgia electrified
(he. bouse of deputies of the General
Convention of the Episcopal church
last Thursday by their scathing denun
ciation of mob violence aud the de
mand that the Church leave itio doubt
as to her firm stand against lawless
ness. These eloquent deputies were
Rev. i»r. o. B. Wlintar of Atlanta,
chairman of the inter-racial committee
of that city, and the Rev. John 1J.
Wing of Savannah. Their position
found hearty endorsement from the
deputies.
"Vengeance is the Lord’s,” saia
Dr. Wilmer, “Violence begets violence.
It is not possible to cast out demons
by Beelzebub, chief of the demons
Mob rule is a menace to the nation
and threatens the overthrow of civiliz
ation. The man who commits a crime
against another is like a man who
breaks out a window pane on the top j
floor of a building: hut the mob wtio
lynches that man for his crime is tear
ing away the very foundation of that
building—civilzation. Every suspect
Is entitled to fair trial. It m undeni
able that men have bean tortured by
mobs, who as afterwards transpired
were absolutely Innocent of any wrong.
The Church and ministry can arouse
a much needed sense of Justice.”
Dr. Wilmer introduced resolutions
in line with his ringing speech which
were promptly referred to the commit
tee on social service.
Closely allied with Dr. Wiltner’s
Speech and resolutions were those of j
the Rev. John D. Wing, who in ;
scathing language denounced those so- j
called "patriotic” societies of masked!
and unknown membership, who foster
lacial and religious prejudices. While
he mentioned no name, the resolutions
presented and acted upon left no doubt
as to w hom the speaker and mover of !
the resolution had in mind. Here is J
the resolution:
"Whereas, there have come into ex- \
istence In our country since the world .
war certain societies whose members
are secret, disguised and masked; j
which organizations while proclalmng
loyalty to the go\u nment of the United j
States, In reality, by appealing to re
ligious prejudice and racial antipathy,
by preaching bigotry and intolerajice
f and by affording opportunity for acts
of violence, have pursued a course to
^ ward the overthrow of ordered society,
and
Whereas, In many places where a
society of this nature has been intro
duced there have followed numerous
instances where persons, without the
ceremony of a trial, have been taken
out by masked men, tarred and feath
ered, cruelly whipped and otherwise
humiliated and maltreated, and others
by threats and intimidations, have
been driven front their homes and com
munities and deprived of their inalien
able rights without due proci*s of
law; and
Whereas, Such an organization is
morally responsible for crimes of this
nature committed in its name by men
wearing its garb, whether they are
really members thereof or not, because
the very nature of the organization
opens the way for any lawless element
in a community to operate with but
little fear of arrest and punishment;
therefore, be it
Resolved, By the house of deputies,
the house of bishops concurrng, that
we solemnly condemn all secret, so
on lied "patriotic” societies whose
masked and unknown membership cap
italize bigotry and hate, foster racial
md religious prejudice and encourage
act* of lawlessness and mob violence.
Be It further
Resolved, That it is the conviction
of this convention that any men or set
of men, organized or unorganized, who
seek to set man against man, citizen
against cttlxen, neighbor against
neighbor, race against race, or creed
againet creed, are enemies to society
and disloyal to the fundamental ideas
at America, no matter in how strident
tones their claims to the possession of
ulta-patrlotism may be voiced.
LYNCHING IN TEXAS
Fremcnt, Texas, Sept. 22—Fearing
that a jury would turn loose A. J.
Johnson, twice tried on the charge of
murder, led a mob to take him from
the jail at Newton last Thursday and
riddle his body with bullets.
THE JENNIE EDMUNDSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Council Bluffs, Iowa. One of the leading; institutions of its kind in the country.
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BOSTON JEWS TO VIGOROUSLY
FIGHT DISCRIMIN ATI ON
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Boston, Mass., Sept. 22—Jewish
organizations throughout Greater Bos
ton have retained counsel as a first
step in what gives promise of becom
ing a huge fight to combat the activ
ities of a widespread “ring” of race
haters whose work, has resulted in a
anti-Semitic demonstrations in var
| ious communities.
The latest incident in the alleged
activities was the stoning of a Jewish
synagogue in South Boston and the
barring of a Jewish front a fashionable
hotel in Winthrop, which, it is charged,
was the work of "high-brows.”
These incidents and a number of
other local demonstrations during the
last lew months are characterized as
aftermaths of the so-called anti-Se
mitic utterances made at Harvard
which attracted attention throughout
the country. Harvard definitely re
pudiated any antl-Jewish policy in its
matriculation program.
RE-ELECTED TO HEAD
KNIGHTS OF FREEDOM
McGehee, Ark., Sept. 22—Dr. V. M.
Townsend of IJttle Rock Thursday
was re-elected Grand Master of the
American Knights of Freedom at the
annual election of grand officers. S.
D. Hildreth was named endowment
secretary and J. L. Cox endowment
treasurer.
THE GREEN DRAGON,
HEADEN ADTO, IS j
DRAWING ATTENTION
Bccord-Hreaking Car, Designed and
Built by Negro, Is Viewed and ;
Admired by Hundreds of
Omaha Citizens.
DEMAND EXCEEDS OUTPUT
A handsome five-passenger automo
bile, with an apple green body and red
top, rolled into the city Sunday morn
ing from St. Joseph, Mo. Its occu
pants were Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Headen,
Chicago, Illinois, president of the
Headen Motor Company, and designer,
patentee and builder of the car in
which he and his cultured wife rode.
From Sunday until Thursday wherever
the car went it attracted attention and
admiration. Whomever it stopped
crowds surrounded it. Those who had
the privilege of riding in it praised it
for its easyriding. It took the highest
hills with case. Automobile critics
and mechanical experts spoke of its
many excellent features. This car is
called the Green Dragon, which low
ered the best record from Chicago to
St. Louis by twenty-nine minutes and
clipped off several minutes of the rec
ord between Chicago and Kansas City.
Mr. Headen is going to lower the best
record between Chicago and Newr York
soon. The car in all its parts was de
signed and built by Mr. Headen in his
own factory at 4027-31 Wabash Ave.,
Chicago, where he at present has thir
ty employees. The present capacity of
the factory is five cars a week, which
capacity will be enlarged as funds
allow to meet the rapidly growing de
mand for Headen cars. Orders for
cars will tax the present capacity of
the factory for several months. The
Headen Motor Company is capitalized
at a half million dollars and is selling
shares at $2.00 per share. Mr. W. H.
Barrett, manager of the company, is
spending the week in Omaha. An
interesting meeting was held at the
North End “Y” Tuesday night where
several prominent citizens, men and
women, listened to interesting ad
dresses from Mr. Barrett, Mr. Headen
and Mr. Harper, attorney for the com
pany. Several persons subscribed for
stock in the enterprise.
For news when It is news, you must
read the Monitor.
NEGRO MEN OF.
AFFAIRS WHOM
I HAVE KNOWN
Dorsey Macon Webster, Brilliant Ap
praisal Attorney, Who Efficiently
Fills Important Place in Great
Mercantile Establishment.
SOME FACTS ABOUT HIM
(By E. B. Goodman)
John Wanamaker is the prince mer
chant of America today and is not a
Negro. D. Macon Webster is the lead
ing appraisal attorney in the country
today and he is a Negro. All the dif
ficult problems which Wanamaker as
an importer has are turned over to
Webster.
Now that you have some idea of
the man to be discussed, permit me
to give you a pen and ink sketch of
the man—physical. Dorsey Macon
Webster stands six foot high, is as
slender as a mountain pine and as
hardy. The first time 1 talked with
him and walked with him, the young
women of Fifth Avenue smiled to
Webster and looked shocked as they
noticed me at his side. I am black
beside him. Then again there never
was a better dressed man than Dorsey.
I do not mean a loud dresser, one who
puts on pink socks to match a pink
tie, wears black and white shoes to
match a pepper and salt suit, nor
struts an elongated cane to announce
that the jockey is coming. Webster is I
not that kind of a dresser. He is a j
faultless dresser. From head to foot |
he is clean, inside and outside. Not.
only what he showed, but what he wab
and felt, and thought within. His soft
hut was not rakishly tilted to one side.
His collar was clean and his shirt was
of good linen. His suit was of the
shade Itest calculated to protect his
body against the weather. That is
what clothes are intended for. No
jewelry adorned his long, delicate fin
gers. The only jewels he wore con
sisted of.a watch and chain, very thin.
He affected spats late in the fall in
order to keep his ankles warm. But
otherwise you could not hear him
coming because of the loudness of his
; attire.
He attracted every one’s attention
the moment he opened his moutn to
speak. Pearly wisdom dropped from
his lips. Learning properly spiced
with humor gave his thoughts a hu
man grip such as was characteristic
of Abraham Lincoln. Courtesy was
not a veneer hut a part of his bone
and tissue, and his finest sarcasm
brought the smile to the lip of his bit
terest legal opponent, it was so deli
cate, so refined, so apt, and never
aimed low. Like all young lawyers in
New York, Webster first was a clerk.
Gradually his steady qualities and su
perb mind won for him the respect of
his fellow lawyers and judges soon be
came acquainted with Webster’s earn
estness and accuracy. It was through
a jurist that Mr. Wanamaker’s atten
tion was called to the capabilities of
Webster. For several months the
daily life of the young man was watch- :
ed, and when the reports showed clock
like regularity, Mr. Wanamaker called
young Webster to him and made him a
proposition. Needless to say, Webster
accepted.
Mr. Hooker T. Washington in his
book on The Negro in Business, pub
lished in 1907, reports the fact on
page that I). Mason Webster read i
a paper on “Business in Greater New I
York,” at the largest session of the
National Negro Business League, from
the same platform that Mr. John Wan-!
amaker, prince merchant"and former
Postmaster General of the United
States, spoke. It takes the spirit of
the Metropolis to bring the best to
gether, the best wherever and in what
ever it is found.
THE N. A. A. C. P.
HOLDS WEEKLY MEETING I
The N. A. A. C. P. met at Grove
Methodist Episcopal church last Sun
day afternoon, Henry W. Black presid
ing. Attorney Everett C. Wilson was
the principal speaker and delivered
an interesting address on the Dyer
Anti-Lynching Bill. Mr. Barrett and j
Mr. Hcaden also spoke briefly, and
subsequently the latter explained cer
tain features of his car which attract
ed a large crowd on the outside after
the meeting. Next week’s meeting will
be held at the North End “Y”.
IMPERIAL WIZARD
IS ARRAIGNED FOR
VIOLATION OF LAW
While Delivering Speech on Law En
forcement Whiskey In Discovered
in II am! Hag Claimed by
Kluxie Head.
HYPOCRISY IS DISCLOSED
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 22—A writ
imperial wizard pro tem. of the Ku
Klux Klan, was ordered Thursday by
Federal Judge Baker o,n information
furnished by District Attorney Elliott.
The information charges Clarke, whose
home is in Atlanta, with possession
and transportation of liquor.
It Is charged In the information that
the imperial wizard addressed a meet
ing at Muncie, Ind., Wednesday night
on "Law Enforcement” during which,
it was reported to the police, that a
handbag had been stolen from Mr.
Clarke’s automobile. It is declared,
however, that the bag fell from the
automobile and burst open, revealing
n quart bottle of liquor and $500 in
currency. The evidence, it is de
clared, has been placed in charge of
the prohibition officers.
Clarke’s bond was fixed at $2,000.
REPUBLICANS PLAN
ANTI-KLAN PLANK
Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept. 22—
An anti-Ku Klux Klan plank may be
included in the platform of the re
publican party at the state convention
here Thursday, according to party
leaders gathering at state headquar
ters Wednesday night. It was said
that this move was considered a meas
ure to prevent defection of the Negro
vote.
DOl t.L \S REPUBLICAN
LEAGUE TO MEET
The Douglas Republican League
will hold an important meeting next
Friday night in the Guild room of St.
Philip’s Episcopal church, Twenty
first near Paul streets. All members
are requested to be present.
Nebraska Civil Rights Bill
Chapter 1711116611 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights. f
enacted in 1898.
Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall
I 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 Jj'
person. H
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 |f
accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the |i
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 I
discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs State, ||
26 Nebr. page 677. N. W. 688." |f
“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 i|
a table in amore private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich.
1 868; N. W. 718." §
MOSAIC TEMPLARS
OF AMERICA HOLD
STATE CONVENTION
Enthusiastic Sessions Mark the First
Meeting of Nebraska Grand
Lodge of This Influen
tial Order.
The Mosaic Templars of America,
organized in Little Rock, Ark., only
forty years ago, but now having a
membership of 135,000 and strong or
ganizations in twenty-eight states and
five foreign countries and beginning
with only fifteen cents in its treas
ury has assets of $3,500,000 and an
annual income from its endowment
dues of $800,000 a year, held its first
Nebraska state convention Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of last week at
Mt. Moriah Baptist church. The Rev.
Dr. Jesse I. Elliott, National Grand
Master, presided. Enthusiastic ses
sions marked the meeting. Many new
members joined the order. Friday
night a public meeting and reception
was held at which Dr. D. W. Gooden
presided and speeches were delivered
by Mayor Dahlman, Grandmaster El
liott, the Rev. E. G. McDonald, Mrs.
Mable Mills, A. Harrold, Rev. T. S.
Sanders, Mrs. D. W. Gooden, Mrs.
Borden, Rev. John Albert Williams
and Rev. W. F. Botts, with musical
numbers by Miss Dorden, Miss Irene
Cochran and Miss Ruth Williams. Sat
urday the elections were made. D.
M. McQueen, grandmaster, and the ef
ficient corps of officers being re
elected. The sessions closed Satur
day night.
MEET CHICAGO BUSINESS MAN
—
Last Saturday night upon invitation
of Mr. Alphonso Wilson several gen-:
tlemeii met at his residence, 523 North j
Thirty-third street, where they met j
his guest, W. H. Barrett, general
manager of the Headen Motor Com-1
pany of Chicago. A very pleasant j
and profitable evening was spent by l
those present in a business discussion.
LOSES ARMY CHAPLAIN
Washington, D. C. ,Sept. 22—Under
its new policy of relieving retired of
ficers of the army from further civic
educational institutions of a course in
military instruction. Captain J. W.
Blanchard, instructor in military
science and tactics in Howard Univer
sity, was removed August 31st. Other
officers of both white and colored uni- j
versities were removed. ,
MEMORIAL TABLET
FOR AFRICAN CHIEF
IN LONDON HOSPITAL
Memory of Native of the Congo Who
Succumbed to Experimental Treat
ment to Aid Medical Science
to Be Honored.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY MADE
—
(By the Associated Negro Press)
London, England, Sept. 22—A tablet
is to be placed in the ward of a Lon
don hospital where an African hero,
Chief Mandombi, allowed himself to be
used for experimental treatment which
resulted in locating the germ which
causes the dread sleeping sickness.
Attacked by sleeping sickness in the
Congo in 1890, Mandombi suggested
to an English missionary that he be
sent to England and experimented up
on in order that some effective cure
might be found for the disease. For
four months specimens of Mandombi’s
blood were taken every four hours un
til at last the germ was identified.
The strain had been too much, however
and Mandombi died as truly a martyr
to the cause of human progress as
any of those who have sacrificed their
lives that their fellows might have an
increased chance for health and happi
ness. It is well that the memory of
such men should be perpetuated and
tht their names should be known, for
they have contributed to human ad
vancement the dearest thing given
them and when they give up their
lives they come as near the divine as
ever a man does.
PATTON HOTEL GUESTS
H. T. Dudley, Chicago, 111.; H. May
berry, Lawrence, Kans.; J. Chase,
Kansas City, Mo.; J. Grimes, Los An
geles; G. Woods, Chicago; E. Lazrame,
Des Moines, Iowa; Chas. Tackery,
Alma, Ark.; L. K. Blackburn, Salt
l^ike City; J. H. Henry, St. Louis;
W. H. Deadman, Minneapolis, Minn.
AFRAID OF BANKS, LOST $950
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 22—When Mrs.
Sarah Fair, 164 Fourth street, hired
an unknown youngster to look after
her house while she was away, Bhe
forgot about the $950 in a tin cup in
the cupboard, which was gone when
she got back. Asked why she had not
banked the money, she said she didn’t
trust beaks.
METHODISTS PLAH
GREAT CONFERENCE
OH PBBLIC MORALS
Inter-Racial Co-operation Objective of
Promoters of Conference to Be
Held at Nashville in
October.
COGGIN IS MOVING SPIRIT
One Thousand Outstanding Leaders
From All Sections of Country
Invited to Take Part in
Meeting.
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 22—(By As
sociated Negro Press.)—As a sign
that the inter-racial relations between
the races in the south are assuming
a more than genial aspect, the pro
posed conference to be held in this
city during the first week of October
under the auspices of the Board of
Temperance, Prohibition and Public
Morals of the Methodist Episcopal
Church to determine the relation and
attitude of the Negro towards the
Eighteenth amendment, is being look
ed forward to with more than a con
siderable interest by the Nashville
public at large.
The call for the conference is signed
by Bishop F. McDowell, president of
the board; Dr. Clarence True Wilson,
! secretary, and by Dr. J. N. C. Cog
gin, promoter and director. The con
ference is to be welcomed by the.gov
ernor of the state, the mayor of the
city, the chamber of commerce, white
and colored ministers’ alliance and
the business and educational institu
tions of Nashville.
Membership in the conference is to
consist of: 1) One thousand outstand
ing Negro leaders from widely separ
ated sections of the country. 2) Rep
resentatives of prohibition, social wel
fare and reform organization. 3) The
delegates are to be representatives of
their respective organizations. They
must be furnished with credentials
by their appointing bodies.
One of the outstanding features of
the proposed conference is the in
dorsement given it by many of the
national organizations of the colored
people. The International Conference
of the Masonic Fraternity, the Na
tional Negro Business League, the Na
tional Federation of Colored Women’s
Clubs, the National Negro Medical
Association, and more than eighteen
church denominationas and reform
agencies have signified their inten
tions to send delegates to the confer
ence.
The sessions of the conference will
he heh’ in the big hall of the audi
torium at Fifth near Broad street.
They will continue from the third to
the sixth of October inclusive. A local
committee of the colored and white
citizens will have charge of the ar
rangements and look after the com
fort. of the large .number of delegates
and visitors expected to be in attend
ance.
Dr. Coggin deserves a world of
praise for the success which has at
tended his efforts to make the confer
ence a big feature of the Negro’s de
sire to assume a leading part in all
the forward and uplift movements
that are just now engaging the at
tention and active service of the best
social forces in the entire nation. It
is one of the first instances when the
Negro has taken the initiative in any
of the general reform movements. Dr.
Coggin is the central figure in this
present instance and as such he has
attracted the favorable consideration
of the entire force of the Methodist
Episcopal church who have joined with
him in the organization of this inter
racial conference in the very heart of
the south.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF
ST. PHILIP THE DEACON
The services last Sunday morning
were as usual quite well attended.
The services next Sunday will be at
the usual hours. At 11 o’clock a spe
cial speaker will address the con
gregation in the interests of Far East
Relief. The Women’s Auxiliary has
resumed its meetings Thursday after
noons.
WEALTHY WOMAN
DIES VERY SUDDENLY
New York, N. Y., Sept. 22—Mrs.
Ella Thomas, widow of the late James
C. Thomas, the far famed and popu
lar undertaker, who was known as the
wealthiest colored man In New York,
died suddenly on Monday afternoon,
Sept. 11th, at her summer home at
Fairfields Beach, Connecticut.
24th ORDERED TO GEORGIA
Nogales, Aris., Sept. 22—The 24th
United States colored regiment now at
Columbus, New Mexico, is reported to
have been ordered to Bennlng, Ga.