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[=\ The Monitor —— A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS t THE REV. JOHN ALBERT 11,LIAMS. EdtUr $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 1922. Whole Number 386 ^ Vol. VIII—No. 22 GIVES $2,000,000 FOR NEGRO EDUCATION MILLIONS BEING SPENT BY CHURCH IH RACE EDUCATION Nineteen Schools Have Enrollment of Princely Sum for Important Ed ucational Work, Chiefly In Southern Schools. INCREASE TEACHERS RACES Nineteen School IIlive Enrollment of ti,3Wl Students iind Corps of 40fl Teachers—Salary Budget Is Raised to $200,000. Cincinnati, Ohio, Doc. 1—The great advance movement in the Methodist Episcopal Church, by which fifty mil lion dollars have been expended in benevolent uplift of the races of the world, has reached the Negro in Amer ica and is greatly benefiting him thru the Board of Education for Negroes of that church. The annual meeting of the board has Just been held, and Dr. I. Garland Penn, Cincinnati, O., one of the cor responding secretaries of the hoard, has issued "Seventeen Points of Pro gress,” showing what has been accom plished in the past three years, involv ing an expenditure of $2,000,000, as follows: 1. Additional teachers have been chosen, and salaries increased. The total annual salary budget amounts to 200,000. 2. Every building of the ninteen In stitutions ha$ been repaired and im proved. 3. Heating plants have been Install ed at all of the Institutions. 4. Addition* are being made to lab oratories and libraries, and two to four teachers are being provided for science departments. 5• Property valued at $606,000 at Meridian, Miss., has been purchased for the Haven Institute and Conserva tory of Music. 6. Proper!# valued at $155,000 has been purchased at Nashville, Tenn., for Walden College. The buildings are being remodeled at a cost of $200,000. 7. There was transferred to Mehar ry Medical College all of the old Wal den University property valued at $100,000. 8. The sum of $200,000 has been contributed to the endowment of Me harry Medical College. The General Education Board and the Carnegie Cor poration have given an additional $300,000, a total of $500,000 for Mehar ry’s endowment. 9. Administration and School build ing and a refectory have been erected at Wiley College, Marshall, Texas, the old buildings being renovated; cost $125,000. 10. An administration and school building erected at Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, with chapel and gym nasium, each equipped with modern furnishings, cost $230,000. 11. A girls’ dormitory and a refec tory erected at Bonnet College, Greens boro, N. cost $100,000. 12. The sum of $150,000 has been expended upon the eroction of the Car negie Hall and other buildings at Mor gan College, Baltimore, and in the pur chasing of a tract of land covering 85 acres, for the new site. 13. At Rust College, Holly Springs, Miss., a model elementary school build ing has been erected costing $20,000. 14. Three new buildings, two dor mitories and a refectory, are being erected at the Morristown Normal and Industrial College, Morristown, Tenn., costing $150,000. 15. A new site for Philander Smith College of 42 acres, within the city limits of Little Rock, Ark., has been purchased, costing $42,000. 16. At Clafltn College, Orangeburg, S. C., the endowment has been advanc ed to $130,000, and Invested. 17. A hook, "Methodist Adventures in Negro Education,” glvos the entire history and progress of the fifty years of education of the Negro by the Meth odist Episcopal Church. During the scholastic year 1921-22 there were 6383 students In the nine teen institutions, with 406 teachers, an Increase of 49 teachers and 600 stu dents over the previous year. The current expenditures of the nineteen institutions amounted to $1,041,000 for the year 1921-22. 75 K. K. K. IN CONGRESS Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.—(Pres ton News Service.)—According to in formation available it is estimated that seventy-five members of the new congress are also members of the Ku Klux Klan. ANTI-LYNCHING CRUSADERS ORGANIZED IN 40 STATES Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 1.—A million women united to suppress lynching and a million dollars to spend in pub licity, is the motto of the Anti-Lynch ing Crusaders, ari organization of women only, which is organized in forty states of the union. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, of this city, is national director. The program of the organization includes placing pages of advertise ment in the daily press, informing all sections of the country how persons are being lynched; pressure upon con gress; pressure upon state legisla tures investigation of each lynching and mob violence which occurs; legal steps to find out and punish members of mobs. FIRST JUSTICE OF THE PEACE IN STATE BEGINS HIS DUTIES Crittenden Clark, Recently Elected, Takes His Meat Amid Flowers and Receives Congratulations of llis Friends CONSTABLES ENTER OFFICE St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 1.—The fact that members of our group have only re cently begun to run for office accounts for the Interest here taken In the for mal entry upon the duties of his office of Crittenden E. Clark, who has the proud distinction of being the first member of his race to be elected a jus tice of the peace in this state. He formally took office In the Pontiac building here last Friday, succeeding Harry McChesney, The Court was formally opened by Constable Cbas. H. Turpin, who was the first Negro Constable to be elected in the State. Turpin succeeds him-( self In office. The new Judge was almost hidden1 behind many large bouquets of flowers. After Court was over, Mr. Fred Dab ney of Kansas City, a life long friend of the Judge, made a few brief remarks congratulating the people of the dis trict for their choice. Attorneys pre-1 sent made a few remarks, among them were Wra. B. Flynn, firm of Lemen Field and Flynn; A. Lowell Morris,' Harry K. Stocker and Joseph Lind sey. Other remarks were made by Robt. Janies, Rev. J. K. Parker, Theodore j. Wolfley, Thos. Wattse, Alderman from 17th Ward; Mrs. Carrie Tillman,! Committeewoman from the 16th j Ward, and J. E. Mitchell, Editor of the St. Louis Argus. Accompanied by a note a set of I white diamond cuff links was present ed from Mrs. Pearl Dabney of Kansas City, Grand Matron of the Court of H. of J. and Deputy, Alma A. Clark. Langston HarrlHon, Cltas. Turpin and Ira Dorsey, Constables, took tbelr seats. Langston Harrison appointed Thos. Harris (white) 17th Ward, and Clar ence Fleming, of the 6th Ward, as Deputies. Crittenden Clark appointed W. E. Van Camp, white, his Clerk. It is reported that Ira Dorsey appoint ed one white and one colored as dep ot. es in his office. ASKS COHEN’S REMOVAL Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.—Gdver nor John M. Parker asked members of the Louisiana delegation here to .ecure aid of the Ku Klux Kian and also asked President Harding to re move from office Walter L. Cohen, recently given a lecess appointment a. surveyor of customs at New Or leans. Cohen succeeded a white demo crat. LEAVES $75,000 ESTATE Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.—The will of the late Dr. Phil Brooks dis poses of an estate estimated at $75, 000 including $18,000 in life insur ance policies. The major portion goes to his five-year-old granddaugh ter, Grace Brooks, who is left $10, 000 together with all diamonds and household furniture. BEVERIDGE TO WRITE A BOOK ON LINCOLN Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 1.—Former United States Senator Albert J. Bev eridge, who was defeated in the recent election for United States Senator by Governor Samuel M. Ralston, an nounced Monday night that he would immediately start upon the prepara tion of the "Life of Abraham I-in-, coin”. LIBERIAN LOAN IS DEFEATED IN UNITED STATES SENATE Thirteen Republicans, Including Nor ris of Nebraska, and Capper of Kansas, Vote Yvith Democrats to Recommit Resolution. CONSIDER VOTE DEATH KNELL .11 Appropriation for Reclamation Work in West Involving Outlay of $20,000,000 Rides in Same Machine. Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.—Ad ministration forces in the senate lost the first major legislative contest of Lie extra ses-ion Monday when demo crats and progressive republicans united to recommit the resolution authorizing a loan of $5,000,000 to Liberia. The motion to recommit the resolu .ion to the liriance committee without instructions, which was offered by Senator Simmons, democrat, North Carolina, was adopted 42 to 33. Re publicans who voted with the demo rats to send the measure back to ■ommlttee were: Cameron, Arizona; Capper, Kansas; Gernald, Maine; Har 'd.I, Oklahoma; Jones, Washington; Ladd, North Dakota; LaFollette, Wis consin; McNary, Oregon; Nicholson, Colorado; Norris, Nebraska; Poindex ter, Washington; Sutherland, W es Vir ginia, and Watson, Indiana. The vote was generally interpreted as killing the resolution, which was advocated by the state department and was passed by the house last May. Attached to the resolution as an amendment was a provision authoriz ing an appropriation!' of $20,000,000 for reclamation work in the west ana another for employment by the inter state commerce commission of thirty ive additional locomotive boiler in spectors. <• prior to the vote on the motion to recommit the senate rejected, 38 to 14, an amendment offered by Senator McNary to send the resolution back 0 committee with instructions to eliminate the Liberian loan feature md report back the reclamation and locomotive boiler inspector provisions. The recommitment vote brought to in end debate on the resolution which ad been intermittent since the be ginning of the extra session. Ad inistration leaders urged adoption if the resolution on the ground that 1 e United States was morally ob lig'd to extend a credit of $5,000,000 to Liberia as a result of Liberia’s par icipation on the side of the allies in ►he world war. Opponents contended no moral obligation existe I. HEAD OF TliSKEGEE RETURNS FROM HIS EUROPEAN TRIP Doctor Moton Is Welcomed Home After Successful Pilgrimage to Old World Where He Kpcuks for Darker liaees. GIVEN WARM HOME COMING New A'ork, N. Y., Dec. 1.— (Associat ed Negro Press.)—Dr. Robert R. .Mo ton and his party arrived Tuesday, November 14, on the steamer Majes tic, returning from his four of Eng land, Scotland and France, where he went to deliver addresses before Seot 11st) Churches Missionary Congress which met in Glasgow. Dr. Moton was met at file pier by a large group of friends who welcomed him home after his successful pilgrim age to Europe to present (lie cause of (lie darker races. Wednesday night, the citizens of New York tendered him a welcome home reception at the Y. M. C. A., where the large auditorium was taxed to capacity by the throngs eager u> hear ills message. Among the speak ers at the reception were ltishop W. T. Vernon who has just returned from South Africa; Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, who likewise has recently com pleted a trip through Africa on which he made a survey on the educational needs there, a report of which has just been published; Dr. Will W. Alex ander of the Inter-racial movement; Miss Eva Bowles of the Y. W. C. A., and Mrs. Moton who with Major Allen A. Washington and Nathan Hunt ac companied Doctor Moton on his trip. The occasion was a noble and bril liant one and New Yorkers in the light of the important messages brought first hand are thinking in new terms of the racial problems of I lie world. | UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT TO SPEAK HERE SUNDAY I The Rev. Jesse Peck, I). D„ Head o> Western University, Will Preach at St. John’s A. M. E. Church. The Rev. Jesse Peck, D. D., founder and president of Western University, Kansas City, Kansas, will preach at St John’s A. M. E. church, the Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor, Sunday morning and evening. Dr. Peck is one of the ablest and best known ministers in the Afri can Methodist connection and ranks high in the denomination as an educa tor. A large number of Western alum ni reside in this city. They will ten der Dr. Peck a reception on Saturday night. The corner stone of the new St. John's Church, now in course of erec tion at Twenty-second and Willis Ave nue, will be laid Sunday afternoon at 3:30, with appropriate exercises, WM. PICKENS PLEASES LARGE A AUDIENCE Field Secretary A. A. C. P. Delivers Thonglitfnl Addresq Last Sunday Afternoon in {Connell Chamber. MAYOR INTRODUCES SPEAKER An audience numbering about 500 ic- i William Pickens of New York, field secretary of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People, deliver a scholarly and thoughtful address In the Council Chamber, Sunday afternoon. The Pen alty of Ignorance was his subject. With Irresistible logic, clothed in e’e gant diction of which the speaker is a master, emphasized with an array of stubborn facts and illuminated with apt illustrations, the speaker showed how that ignorance is the basis of all class, racial, national and internation al prejudices and misunderstandings. Ignorance is the root of racial prej udice which looms so large in Amer ican life. The white American is prej udiced against the black American be cause he does not know him. News papers, unfortunately, foster this ig norance and prejudice by over-empha sizing and playing up alleged crimes of Negroes. Reports of crime are giv en front page prominence, while honor able and worth-while achievements are minimized or ignored. It’s easier for a Negro criminal to get space in the average American newspaper, than for a Negro banker, inventor, artist or professor. And yet court records show that if prizes were given for crime, ihe colored man would not even get an honorable mention. The colored Am erican knows the white American bet ter than the white American does the colored, for the reason that as servants they enter their homes, they read their newspapers and magazines, they hear their speakers, whereas few white Americans ever enter a colored home, nor do they read our literature, nor hear our speakers or artists in other lines. He plead for the widest educa tion for all races; a fuller knowledge and better understanding between all people. He maintained that as a rule men’s hearts are light and they be lieve in a square dual and fair treat ment, but. Judgment is warped and jus tice and fair-dealing between man and man Is thwarted by Ignorance and lack of mutual acquaintance. He urged colored Americans to stand for the highest ideals of character and to es chew any tendency towards bitterness. Mayor Dahlman introduced the speaker. Henry W. Black, president of the local branch, presided. Musical numbers were furnished by Miss Dar lene Duval, Otis Watson and the Tay lor quartette. Rev. W. F. Motts gave the invocation and the Rev, J. A. Har ris made an appeal for members. Over hoo mob victims in U. S. IN TIIE MAST 22 MONTHS New York, Dec. 1.—More than 800 persons were victims of mol) violence in this country in the period from September 1, 1910, to June 1, 1922, the American Civil Liberties Union I reported last week. The union’s figures included eighty five lynchings, fifty-one tar anti • feather cases, 122 floggings and the remainder forcible mob deportations Five of the victims were women ant less than a third of the whole wert Negroes. The report explaining that the fig ures were incomplete, said that mosi ol the cases occurred in the soutf and southwest. SUPREME COURT BARS JAPERESE FROM CITIZENSHIP Highest United States Tribunal Knles That Appellents Are Not of the Caucasian Race and Hence Are Ineligible. OZAWA OF WHITE DESCEHT Assodiatei Justice Sutherland Gives Decision Which Eliminates Yel low Islander from Ranks of White. Washington, Dec. 1.—Japanese are not eligible for American citizenship because they are not of the “white” race, according to a decision an nounced recently by the United States Supreme Court in two test cases. Section 216!f of the revised statutes restricts naturalization to “free white persons” and those of African des cent. The Supreme Court held that ,hese restrictions still apply. The sub ject has been in controversy for sev eral years on the Pacific coast. Associate Justice Sutherland, who delivered the decision, ruled that as the Japanese are not of the Caucasian race they are specifically barred by the statute, which has never been re pealed or modified. His Children Are Citizens. The court’s verdict on the “color” of the Japanese was sought on ap peal of both cases from lower courts. In one, Takao Ozawa of Honolulu ased his claim for citizenship on the ground that he belonged to the white race, had lived according to American ideals and customs, and received his education in American schools. His children attend American schools and • re citizens. His case first came to the Federal Courts in Hawaii several years ago. I His plea was denied, and he appealed to the Federal Court of Appeals in California, which sent the case up to ho Supreme Court. The other case was that of Takuji 'amaschita and Chares Hio Koko, both of the state of Washington, who appealed from a ruling of the secre ary of state there, denying them the right to incorporate as a real estate "inn. Called Citizenship Illegal. The refusal was based on the state f Washington’s position that al though both Japanese had received na turalization papers they were illegal made citizens. On appeal to the lower federal courts that position was sustained and the case was appealed. The Fed ral Circuit Court applied to the Supreme Court for instructions on the ■1 jgihility of the Japanese. The Su preme Court’s decision settled the controversy, which is understood to involve several similar cases. UK-CONGRESSMAN JOHN R. LYNCH CELEBRATES 75th BIRTHDAY Chicago, 111., Dec. l.(Associated Ne gro Press)—Ex-Congressman John R. Lynch celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday by being the guest of honor at a banquet held in his honor by the Men’s Club of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church on the night of Thursday November 9th. About 100 memuer. or tie club and about 50 guests were in attendance. President Tidnngton presided and the principal addressee were delivered by Eugene II. Marshall and W. H. A. Moore, and Fathei Simon, the rector of St. Thomas church. In Major Lynch’s response to the addresses he made a touching appeal to the young men of the race to keep close to high ideals and laic strong emphasis on the part the\ would be called upon to play in the making of a place in the future foi the race throughout the world. The veteran statesman’s new book will be off the press in time for the holidaj j trade, it was announced at the ban j quel. ITALY BARS SIKI Rome, Dec. 1.—Tentative efforts tc arrange a match between the neve European light heavyweight rham pion, Battling Siki, and Guiseppe Spalla of Milan, have resulted in the closing of the doors of every boxinj club in Italy against the Senegalese from Paris. *■ GIVEN SENTENCE OF 111 YEARS FOR THEF'l Houston, Tex., Dec. 1.—Jame Davis, 21-year-old youth, was givei a sentence of 111 years in the peni ‘onte'sv.* m thirty-five charges o burglary anel felony theft, when triei here in crimnial court. • dean McGinley to SPEAK AT ST. PHILIP’S Special Services During Advent Will He Held at the Church ol St. Philip the Deacon Every Sunday Afternoon. Beginning next Sunday, December 3, which is the first Sunday in Advent, special services will be held at the Church of St. Philip the Deacon at five o'clock in the afternoon with sermon by a visiting clergyman. The speaker Sunday will be the Very Rev. Stephen T. McGinley, dean of Trinity Cathedral. There will also be special music. At the close of these services a social hour and get-together meet ing will be held in the Guild Rooms. At the 11 o’clock Eucharist Father Williams is preaching a series of Ad vent sermons under the genera ltitle, “The King Comes.” The services on Sunday will be as follows: Holy Communion, 7:30 a. jn.; matins, 8:30; Church school, 10; Sung Eucharist with sermon at 11: shortened evensong with sermon oy Dean McGinley at 5 p. m. REPUBLICANS ABLE AND INFLUENIAL gCAUSE_ ITY j . he Impotency of Powerful Political Leaders in Senate to Pass the Dyer Bill Arouses Some Scepticism. POLITICAL TRICKERY HINTED — New York, Dec. 1.—All the repub lican leaders of the Harding adminis tration, since the coming into contro1 | of the Harding administration, have •laid that they favor the Dyer Anti Lynching Bill. President Harding said he favor ed it. Vice-President Coolidge said he fav ored it. Speaker of the House, Gil let, said he favored it. Senator Lodge, leader of the re publican senate, said he favored it. Senator Frelinghuysen, New Jer sey senator, said he favored it. New York’s senators, Calder and Wadsworth, said they favored it. France, Curtis, Watson, all of the republican senators close up and high up in the Harding administration, say they favor the Dyer Bill. John T. Adams, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said he favored it. Senator McCormick, chairman of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, said he favored it. Congressman Fcss, who was chair man of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee until nominated for United States senator in Ohio, aid that he favored the Dyer Bill. Yet, with all this powerful political array of influence, the Dyer Bill fail ed to pass in the senate. It was simply favored to death. It was as unanimously favored as it was un animously shelved. Multi-millionare Senator T. Cole man du Pont said he favored it too. These big and these powerful re publicans perform in those things that they want done. They did not perform with reference to the Dyer Bill. It slept in senate committee un til it was dug up and dug out to make votes. It ilid not even get a serious discussion in the senate, and politics was played with it only on the day before adjournment. EXPECT ANSORGE TO WIN OFFICIAL COUNT New York, N. Y., Dee. 1.—Con gressman Martin C. Ansorge, who, by the unofficial returns was defeated by his democratic rival in the twenty first congressional district, is expect ed to win in the official count. All colored Harlem is interested, and a major portion of its inhabitants are praying for his return to congress, because of his magnificient and cour ageous record in the Holley and mani fold other instances. I—---— COLORED VETERAN WOULD QUESTION SENJIITCHCOCK Impassioned Reply of Nebraska Solon tt Cleneneean’s Charge of Falsi fication Is Interrupted by Spectator. HOT HEADED HEFUN RILED Alabama Senator Demands Removal of Impudent Spectator From Senate Gallery—Jones Ejected, but Returns. Washington, D. C., Dec. 1—A senate debate Monday on the recent utter ances of former Premier Clemenceau of France, took a sensational turn when a Negro wearing the uniform of the United States Army Interrupted , from the gallery a speech by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking demo crat of the foreign relations committee, regarding alleged atrocities by black French troops in Germany. The soldier, who said he was Lucius Jones, a patient at the Mount Alto, Maryland, government hospital, finally was removed from the gallery by the police after his attempt to join in the debate had resulted in a sharp passage of words on the senate floor. Senator Heflin, democrat, Alabama, led in de manding the soldier’s removal, but Senator Hitchcock said he hoped the police would not interfere. Previously Senator Hitchcock had renewed his challenge to M. Clemen ceau to disclose the real facts about the use of black French colonials in the occupied area, and had read a let ter in which the writer had declared the former premier had “deliberately lied” in saying that no black troops were being maintained in Germany. “I don’t believe that Clemenceau de liberately lied,” continued Mr. Hitch cock, “I believe in his public life he lias made reckless statements as in this case, when he says that black troops were not there and when he said Germany was making hundreds of cannon to prepare for war. “These black troops are brutes and are stationed among white people, and that’s all there is to it. The evidence shows it beyond contradiction. There is not any use to quibble as M. Clem enceau does.” It was soon after the senator had made this statement that Jones shout ed a question from the gallery. “Mr. President,” he said, “may I ask the senator a question right there?” Vice President Coolidge banged hts gavel and the Jones sat down, while gallery attendants rushed to his side and ordered him to be silent. When Senator Hitchcock concluded, Senator Heflin arose, and his face aflame, demanded that the man be removed. Senator Hitchcock interrupted to say he thought the matter should be dropped, but Senator Heflin retorted: “It wasn't ignorance. It was im pudence.” While both Senators Hitchcock and Heflin were on their feet and the chamber was in an uproar, with both endeavoring to make themselves heard, a capitol policeman wormed his way through the crowded men's gallery and led the offender away. No charge was lodged against the man, and some time after being taken from the gallery he returned and tak ing a seat on an aisle row, in view from Senator Heflin’s place, remained through the senate proceedings on the • Liberian loan bill. NAMED ON SCHOOL BOARD Providence, R. I., Decs 1.—Dr. W. H. Higgins was recently appointed a member of the city school board. He is the first colored man to hold such position. HAITI WILL EXPORT BUMPER COFFEE CROP St. Mark, Haiti, Dec. 1.—The cof fee crop now being picked and ship ped will be the largest exported in the history of the island. MONITOR BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM MONITOR Ads brine: RESULTS. That’s what wide awake merchants who use our columns soon learn. We 1 carry more advertisements than any weekly of any kind or class published in Nebraska. There is a reason. We invite comparison. ' OUR PHONE—ATLANTIC 1322
