The Monitor ——1
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A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
* y THE REV. JOHN ALBERT \\ i. UAMS, Editor
$2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1923 Whole Number 391 Vol. VIII—No. 27
EMPHASIZES URGENT
DEMAHD FOR BIG
RACE COHFEREHCE
Time Is Ripe for Rare Meeting to
Deliberate on the Serious Phases
and to Formulate a United
Platform.
RACIAL PORTENTS OMINOUS
Negro Is Separated from the Rest of
the Nation by the Whole
Diameter of Social
Difference.
The times are out of Joint. Racial
IKJi tents are ominous. The rising tide
of color threatens to engulf us. The
problem Is becoming more complex
and perplexing. Unless the Negro's
courage rises with danger the cause
will be lost through timidity and
cowardice. The welfare of the ten
million Negroes in the United Stutes
is leas well safe-guarded through self
directive leadership than that of any
other group of similar size and like
advantage In the world. There la the
widest margin between what is and
what ought to be. Loudsome boasting
of our present attainments blinds us'
to the magnitude of things yet to be
attained. This gap can be bridged
only by wise guidance and direction.
The incoming of the new year em
phasizes our delinquency. Within the
next half generation there is going to
be a tremendous change In the scheme
of race adjustment. Whether this 1h
to be for the better or for the worse
depends upon the initiative, the cour
age and the wisdom which the Negro
u splays. The present tendency is in
the wrong direction. For#cs and in
fliiemes now at work if unchecked
will fix him for good in a helpless
and hopeless position. Instant action
is demanded. Hesitancy is dangerous.
Delay may prove fatal.
The time Is fully ripe for a race;
conference to deliberate upon the sell- j
ous phases of the problem, and as far \
a* practicable, to formulate a plat
. form of principles and a program or
programs of procedure.
The Negro group has special and pe
culiar Interests and relations Infinite
ly more serious and vital than any
other subordinate element Into which
■ our population is divided. The pe
j. culiar probelms of the foreigner are
f temporary and limited to one genera
| tion. The Jew is isolated only in rell
s gious relations of his own making and
I preference. The Catholic differs from
the Protestant only in the mode of
worship.
The Negro alone is separated from
the rest of the nation by the whole
diameter of social difference which
entails the regulation of all of the es
B gential inttmacies of life. This regime
Is imposed upon him. He didn’t make
and he cannot unmake it. Special and
specific racial Interests require as
| thoughtful and as wise deliberation as
, the congress gives to the affairs of the
j nation. And yet today we have no
If adequate or competent body to give
K our issues comprehensive and states
manlike consideration. At present the
i various interests and activities at
I work in the field are absorbed in their
I own objectives and are wholly without
| efficient co-ordination or union of aim
k and purpose. The waste and friction
are inexcusable.
The demand for a nation-wide con
s ference is imperative. Tills confer
\ ence should not be fostered by any
[one organization, but every type of
; agency or interests now at work
f should unite upon a call to consider
Ii ‘ The state of the Race”. Political
& movements such as the N. A. A. C. P.,
I the Equal Rights League, the Lincoln
I League, the Race Congress, religious
L. bodies like the National Baptist con
| pen tion, the African Methodist Epls
S copal, the A. M. E. Z., the C. M. E.,
!■ and the M. E. churches, as well as
i those of smaller numbers; moral and
| social agencies such as the Y-. M. C.
i A., the Y. W. C. A.; business and eco
L nomlc agencies likes the Business
I league, the Urban League; education
al associations, fraternal organiza
tions, the Federation of Women’s
Clubs, the Press Association, and all
well established movements of wide
ramification should be represented.
The time has come for all to pull to
gether. If we continue to pull apart,
we will pull to pieces. The whole is
greater than any of Its jiarts. The
members of the body can never co
operate properly unless they become
consciously subordinated to the wel
fare of the body as a whole.
It may be Just as well to anticipate
the objection that several such abor
tive attempts have been made before.
While no one of these efforts has been
permanent each endeavor has left a
residuum of lasting good. The race
today has more maturity and sound
judgment than ever before. Many will
recall the effort of Mr. Joel E. Spln
garn at a race conference at his sum
mer home. If an alien to the group
saw the necessity of formulating a
common program, surely we must heed
the call to conference.
The Negro can no louger look to the
k .;;sj§ -. ■
whilte race for intimate advice and
direction. No one outside of a group
can regulate the intimate procedure
for the Inside. The white philan
thropists have done a good part. The
people who must be helped forever
are not worthy of being helped at all.
Self expression on part of the Negro
will encourage our white friends to
extend the necessary assistance. But
they cannot be expected to carry him
on tbelr shoulders any further. The
Negro henceforth must walk with his
own legs. The white man can only
furnish him a crutch.
Lynching and lawlessness of which
the Negro is the chief victim, the
shift of population, congestion in ci
ties and the acute situation resulting
therefrom, the moral aloofness and
religoius Indifference of the educated
classes, the downward moral tendency
of the times in which our young peo
ple are being carried away, the neces
sity for co-operation in business and
trade, the growing apathy of the white
race and the need for concerted en
deavor to stem the tide all unite in
demanding the proposed conference
at an early date. The situation calls
loudly for the requisite race states
manship. Will it be forthcoming?
I,o, I have made the suggestion and
invite correspondence and suggestions.
“All who are in favor, signify by
saying
(Signed) KELLY MILLER,
Howard University.
CLAIM DISCONTENT IS
GROWING AMONG NEGROES
New York Professor Has Been Mak
ing Study of Much-Discussed
Race Problem and Draws
Certain Conclusions.
NOTE INSIDIOUS INFLUENCES
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 4—At a
meeting of the American History
Professors’ Association here Prof. Hol
land Thompson, of the College ol Ihe
City of New York, declared that he is
convinced that discon lent among Ne
groes in this country is increasing.
He said changed conditions had given
rise to more apparent hostility to Ne
groes as a race Norch of the Mason
and Dixon line than south ot it.
For years, he said, the Negri ha.?
been urged by certain members of h'S
race, hacked by white sympathizers,
to demand all the right? of ci*'zenshIo
and to oppose every form of segrega
tion and diesrimination.
“This advice,’’ he continued, “had
more effect in the North during the
World War than in the South, and
Negro populations in Northern cities
had more than doubled. Large num
bers of Negroes came from the West
Indies, anil as these latter had not
been accustomed to racial discrimin
ation, their resentment influenced the
native Negroes in the cities. ’
Professor Thompson described the
increased circulation of newspapers
for Negroes and the encouragement
given by publications to the contentons
that Negroes must resist oppression
bv force, if necessary. In politics,
the speaker said, the Negro was begin
ning to vote as a Negro and not ns a
member of any political party. Race
prejudice, he said was increasing and
not diminishing. In short he declared
the Negro question has become a com
plex and national one.
Professor Thompson’s subtle at
| tack on the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People;
his direct praise of the South; his ref
erence to the Garvey movement; his
tab at Negro newspapers his accu
sation of Negro voters; his slap at
broad-minded white people, all go to
show his place of nativity, as well as
indicate his secret organization affil
iations, if we are to read between
the lines.
did not report finding name
Last week the name of Rev. M. H.
Wilkinson, 2308 North Twenty-ninth
street, appeared in the advertisement
of the Alhambra Grocery and Meat
Co., 1612 North Twenty-fourth street,
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A nation is no better than its home
life, and its home life is no better
than that nation’s womanhood.
Annual Survey of 1922 by Associated Negro
Press Shows Substantial Progress
Colored America may well look
with pride on the achievements of
1922. It has been the greatest year
of Racial achievement. The millions
within the ranks have marched for
ward, and their unquestioned tread
has shaken the world into careful ob
sei-vation. In all avenues of endeav
or. there has been more than an
awakening; there has been steady
progress. The outstanding features
of the forward march have been the
widespread understanding with which
it has been accomplished, and
the unflinching determination that
animates the people everywhere.
Obstacles have been turned into tri
umphs, and failures into success.
Timidity and fear are unknown quan
tities, sacrifices are accepted as
blessings and persecutions are held
aloft as beacon lights. "The Negro
Faces America,” indeed, and also the
world, resolved highly to sail on into
the Harbor of Opportunity on the
“Rising Tide of Color."
POLITICAL
World Conditions—The complexity
ot world affairs is being studied by
the people. Reading the same publi
cations along with the rest of the
nation; amplified with special con
tributions by sympathetic writers in
all parts of the world, listening to
lecture'- from returned travelers, and
v, atching the signs of the time, Col
ored America has knowledge and
vision on world conditions. Particu
lar attention is given to the struggles,
aspirations and achievements of the
darker peoples of the world. Africa,
the fatherland of America’s Colored
| population of 15,000,000, has taken
' front rank in consideration, for the
j political entanglements and oppres
sion in certain sections as well as the
stupendous resources and future pos
sibilities. Africa is no more ridi
culed; it is loved. England’s darker
millions in India, the millions in
China, Japan and South America all
afford field for observation and com
parison. The opportunity is not be
ing lost; it is embraced.
United States—Political conditions
in the United States have experienced
marvelously radical changes during
the past year, so far as Colored
America is concerned. An unques
tioned ally of the Republican party
! from the time of enfranchisement,
this year’s elections in all sections
I of the country have revealed an un
i precedented spirit of independence
which has been to the profit ot the
Democratic party in the North, but
is not to be construed as being in the
least sympathetic with the beliefs and
methods of the Democratic party of
states South. Concentration of hope
centered in two measures before Con
gress, the Liberian loan, and the Dyer
Anti-Lynching Bill, both of which
passed the House of Representatives
but failed in the United States Sen
ate. This condition of surrender to
Democratic minority tactics has dis
turbed the poise and dampened the
enthusiasm of Colored Republican
leadership, while on the other hand
it has spurred the masses of the peo
ple to resourceful political thinking.
At least ten colored citizens in
northern states have been elected to
places in state legislatures, one in
New York, a Democrat, and the oth
ers Republican. President Harding
has been unsuccessful in having Col
ored appointees confirmed by the
Senate, except in two instances, and
there has been much criticism
; throughout the group against politi
cal compromise and official segrega
tion. Colored political leadership at
present is lacking in statesmanship
that is able to get effective nation
wide results, and demonstrates the
absolute necessity of having in both
the Housp und the Senate racial rep
resentation.
Haiti and Santo Domingo, West In
dian Island republics under Ameri
ican domination, have been thought
fully studied in this country. Study
of these republics aside from the
complicating question, of right or
wrong of United States intervention,
along with Cuba, Porto Rico, the Cen
tral America and South American re
publics have seemed to offer unusual
opportunities for racial sympa
thetic action and development. The
State Department appointed Captain
Napoleon B. Marshall to a position in
the American Legation, Port au
Prince, Haiti; and there are at pres
ent at least half a dozen business
ventures organized by Colored Ameri
cans for the purpose of promoting
commercial trade in the countries to
the South, all of which have promis
ing possibilities, and one of which is
a line of ocean going steamships.
Through exchange in reading and
travel Colored America has learned
with enthusiasm that the people to
the South of this republic are broth
ers of kind, in numerous instances
that color discrimination is an un-'
practiced art except where intro
duced by whites of the South, and the
achievements in the field of business
as well as along other lines promis3
to produce results that will be both
profitable and satisfying.
ECONOMIC
Industrial Opportunity — Colored
America is in th emidst of an unprece
dented industrial opportunity, and
this is not excepting the unusual
demands of World War tmes. Pros
perity has been restored to the in
drstrial world, and, largely because
of the stringent immigration laws,
labor is greatly in demand. So great
has become the openings for colored !
labor that even at this winter period,
there is now in progress a new exodus
from the South. Observation in the
great railway centers leading from
the South discloses in this winter sea
son that thousands are coming North
and finding their way into industrial
fields. It is opportune and important1
to state that the present migration
augurs serious possibilities for tne1
spring of 1923, when the opportunities
as well as the demands will be greatly
increased North as well as South. The
migration of 1917 and 1918 created a
new consideration of the better class
of whites in the South for industrial
and educational betterment, but the |
continued feeling of unsafeness, the
unabatement of lynchings, disfran
chisement and various forms,of op
pression, serve to keep up the desire
to move somewhere North, where ad
ditional problems are created for the
pioneer residents of the northern sec- I
tions, hut in the face of industrial op
portunities and thoughts of larger
freedom, seem for the present to be
beyond control.
Unions and Open Shop—A majority
of all Colored workers do not belong
to any labor union. The increased i
Colored population of the North has I
caused the American Pededration of
Labor to give careful study to the
subject, and in its Li*Lsie law there is
supposed to be no discrimination; and
yet on the other hand there are a
number of crafts in the North in
which it is absolutely impossible for
Colored workers to become members.
This kind of discrimination has had
a tendency to embitter workers
against labor unions, and has created
wide interest of the “Open Shop.” In
fact, the “Open Shop” advocates are
the largest employees of colored work
ers, and in many instances, the most
notable of which of course is the
United States Steel Corporation, the
treatment has been so fair, and the
opportunities so encouraging, that the
workers have steadfastly refused to
come under the banner of unionism.
I The Industrial Workers of the World
have, with their radical propaganda,
sought to encourage Colored member
ship. Their success has been only
nominal, but their propaganda con
tinues. The Communists, from their
far away headquarters in Russia,
have, it is learned on high authority,
helped to finance propaganda and
movements calculated to embitter
Colored workers against the so-called
“Capitalistic ^lass,” as well as
against the government itself. In the
face of certain conditions, they are
able to present convincing arguments,
but thus far they have had but little
effect on the masses. However, the
gravity of the situation is recognized
and counter movements and activities
have been launched by the more con
servative, who, through wise coun
sel and education hope to bring about
a state of affairs based on practical
possibilities and sympathetic under
standing that will redown for all time
to the benefit of the great and in
creasing army of Colored industrial
workers.
j ABRAHAM LINCOLN MEMORIAL
The national memorial in Washing
ton as a tribute to the life and deeds
| of Abraham Lincoln, was dedicated
this year. There were only three
speakers for the occasion, including
President Harding and Dr. Robert R.
Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Insti
tute. The event was international in
scope, and Dr. Moton delivered an ad
dress of genuine interest. The occa
sion was marred by an effort to segre
gate Colored guests, which was re
sented by a majority, who left the as
semblage in disgust.
NEWSPAPERS THE VOICE
There is a generally accepted opin
ion that the voice of Colored America
today, as of white America, is most
audible through their press. Never
before have the newspapers held such
a commanding position, nor have they
ever before had such a high standard
of news and opinion as well as circu
lation and commercial business. There
are two publications recently from the
press, both written by white authors,
that deal with the growth and power
of the press for Colored America. One,
the “Voice of the Negro,” by Prof
Robert T. Kerlin; the other, “The
Negro Press in the United States,”
by Frederick G Detweiler. Added to
these important productions, as a
vital treatise on race adjustment in
America must be “The Negro in Chi
cago,” a publication of 900 pages, deal
ing with the problems in the frankest
form, and impartially; the study cov
ering a period of two years.
Magazines of national ciruclation1
have this year given unusual consid- j
eration to stories and articles deal-;
ing with Colored America. A num- j
her of the fiction stories have been
reduced to book form, and are having 1
a wide circulation. Daily newspapers
in all sections of the country have
been more liberal in their placing the
better side of Colored America before
the reading public. A number of the
metropolitan dailies have Colored
writers on their staff, probably the
most important instance being Lester (
Walton, an experienced journalist,j
who is a staff writer on the New
York Worldd.
(To be continued.)
01AHRELBETWEEN KLAN8MEN
CAUSES ARREST IN INDIANA
South Benil, Ind., Jan. a.— (Crusader
Service.)—A quarrel between mem
bers of the hooded mob, which result
ed in one of the giving information to
the police, caused the arrest here to
day of Wesley Hollyoke, twenty-one.
Hollyoke, admitted Klansinan, is
charged with transporting two suit
eases of dynamite on a passenger
coach from Culver, Ind., to South
Bend. He was questioned three hours
and is said to have given information
about the activities of the rest of
tnr gang.
ILLINOIS VILLAGE MARSHALL
WOUNDED IN GUN BATTLE
Colp, ii)., Jan. 5.—Charles Baker,
colored village marshal here, was
fatally wounded in a pistol battle here
last Sunday night when he attempted
to place a bandit under arrest. The
bandit, Melvin Bush, was finally ap
prehended by the Marion police and
lodged in jail.
SAY l\ S. ATTORNEY
TRIED TO SAVE KEAN
IN FEDERAL INQUIRY
Responsible Citizens o* Morehouse
Parish Charge ‘‘Attempt to Block ’
Mer Rouge Investigators.
Bastrop, La., Jan. 5.— (Crusader
Service..)—P. H. Mecorn, federal dis
trict attorney for the western district
of Lousisana, will probably be called
upon to answer charges which have
been lodged against him by respon
sible citizens of Morehouse parish,
vho allege that he has attempted to
interfere with agents of the depart
ment o justice who have been inves
tigating the ' Snapping and murder of
Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards
a id Ku Klux Klan conditions general
ly in western Louisiana. The lharve
is made that he even went so fa" as
to threaten the federal operatives with
arrest if they did not stop their in
vest ibation.
Well-konwn citizens of Mer Rouge,
who refuse to let their names become
public at this time, insist that Mecom
informed members of the Klan in
threeveport. Mer Rouge and other
near-by cities and towns that the fed
erai men were operating withi ut
authority, (hat they were not empow
ered to make an investigation with
out his permission and that he hud
granted no such permission.
A warrant tor the arrest of Dr. B.
M. McKoin, former niayoi of Mer
Rouge, bus been issued ir> connection
u th the Mer Rouge murders on re
quest of Attorney General Coco, and
he was arrested in Baltimore and
held for extradition. Unlimited fur.ds
have been placed at his disposal w!*h
which to fignt extradition
URGE ACTIVE OPPOSITION
TO THE KU KLUX KLAN
New York City, Jan. 3—Strong res
olutions denouncing the Ku Klux Klan
and calling for cooperation with organ
izations actively combating it were
adopted last Tuesday night at the
closing session of the annual conven
tion of the Mu Sigma fraternity.
Fourteen hundred members attended.
HAITIAN SOLDIERS
BECOME CRACK SHOTS
Port-Au-Prince, Jan. 5.—One year
ago the gendarme could not hit a
mark at 100 yards distance, but toda.'
scores of Haitians can be found who
are crack marksmen. The champion
shot of Haiti is Sergeant Astrale Rol
land of Jerminie, firing 50 shots in
strings of 10, both slow and rapid
fire, in the standing, kneeling and sit
ting positions, scored a total of 224
out of a possible 250 in the president’s
match, and in the national team match
he was high gun with 234 out of 250.
It is well within the range of pos
sibility that Haiti will be represented
in the 200-meter international rifle
match that will he shot in the United
States sometime thiB year.
BISHOP TERMS K. K. K
“CURSE OF COUNTRY”
Memphis, Tenn., Jan 5—Bishop
Thomas F. Gailor, speaking before the
Lions Club at a noonday luncheon last
Thursday, denounced the Ku Klux
Klan as “the curse of the country and
an anti-society organization.”
He recalled an incident some months
i ago in Dallas, Texas, when he saw
| 4,000 klansmen march in a parade
, down one of the principal streets of
I the Texas metropolis. His scorching
i remark relative to this group of men
1 came as a climax to his talk. He
said these men carried banners fav
I oring religious intolerance. “The
j trouble with our religion is too many
! donts. We must have some positive
! do’s and take positive, but religious
i steps to rid the country of this un
l godly blight,” he declared.
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AGED BLIND MAM MADE
WEALTHY BY OIL LAMHS
Louisianian, Mho Has Cleaned Up
Over $(10,000 in Royalties, Evinces
Little Surprise Over Suddenly
Accumulated Wealth.
IS FATHER OF 15 CHILDREN
Shree\eport, Ia., Jan. 5.—Sitting in
lie blackness of eternal night, for
many years ago he lost the sight of
both e.es, Wright Rock of De Soto
par:si 75 years old*, on whose land
oil was discovered recently, takes
calmly the sudden change in his for
tune which has elevated him to the
ranks of the financially independent.
Father of Fifteen.
Born in slavery times, “Uncle
Wright”, as he is affectionately called,
hardly realizes that the two Rock
wells in section 32-12-11, completed as
large oil wells on his farm by A. H.
Tarver, are bringing him daily far
more money than he ever hoped as a
return from the truck of his little
farm. The lands at present have re
turned him a profit of close on to
>>60,000.
lie is the father of fifteen children,
nil but two of whom long ago left the
paternal roof.
A “Matter of Course”.
When informed of his wealth upon
completion of the first well, and asked
what he was going to do with the mo
ney, the old man said, ‘‘Well, I guess,
I’ll Just buy me a few clothes and
something to eat.”
Besides the original lease money
which he received for the eighty-acre
tract on which the Tarver wells are
located, Rock reecivee a one-eighth
royalty from the production and other
wells will bO drilled, it is said. The
wells already producing are making
an aggregate of 2,500 barrels.
DIG DINNER GIVEN
DY DANCING PARSON
Kingfisher, Okla., Jan. 5.—The poor,
blind, maimed, orphans and widows
of the race here enjoyed a huge feast
on December 22nd last through the
generosity of the Rev. Apostle Paul
Sykes, familiarly known as the “Danc
ing Parson”.
The ministers and church people
here question Sykes’ methods of sec
uring funds for his charitable acts
and regard him as a queer fanatic,
but this does not deter him from his
methods. It is said that Sykes meets
all the trains coming in here and
sings and dances for the showers of
small change from the car windows.
For a number of years he has been
giving a feast to the dependents in
the city. He uses the money he gets
at the railroad station for charitable
purposes and supplements that money
throughout the year witli offerings and
donations secured from businessmen
MASKED RANDITS ROD
DISHOP D. F. LEE IN Ills HOME
Wilberforce, O., Jan. 5.—Two heavi
ly masked bandits entered the home
of Bishop B. F. Lee, senior bishop of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church, last Sunday evening at 7:30
o’clock and' after covering Bishop Lee,
his wife and daughter with guns rob
bed them of a considerable amount of
money and escaped.
It is said the burglars boldly en
tered the front door of the house
while the bishop and his family were
reesting after dinner and while one
of the men guarded Bishop Lee, an
other went through Ills clothes. They
also picked up a purse containing $50,
belonging to Miss Lee, and another
containing a small amount of money
belonging to Mrs. Lee.
STIRRING HP FARGO
OF RACIAL HATRED,
DECLARES HYLAH
New York Mayor Requests President
Harding to Stop Publication
Attempting to “Awaken
Race Prejudice.”
DUTY OF FERERAL AUTHORITY
j ——
Brands as Absolute Falsehood State
ment That He Instructed Police
of New York to Shoot
Klansmen.
New York, Jan. 5—President Hard
ing Thursday was requested by Mayor
Hylan to stop the publication of Col
onel Mayfield’s weekly Ku Klux Klan
paper published in Texas. The re
quest was made on the ground that
the paper was deliberately dissemin
ating race hatred.
“There is a blatant display of race
hatred and religious prejudice in this
paper and considerable misstate
ments”, the mayor wrote the Presi
dent. “As an example of the latter
Mayfield alleges in his newspaper
that I have issued orders to the police
to shoot klansmen. Such an accusa
tion is both wilfully wicked and ab
surd.”
Mayor Hylan attacked the Ku Klux
Klan and their efforts to “awaken
race prejudice,” and concludes:
“Is it not the duty of ieoerai au
thorities to check the activities of
those who would destroy the peace
and happiness and prosperity of the
people of this nation ? Does there not
rest upon them the inexorable duty
of repressing every attempt to incite
religious prejudice and racial hatred?
I respectfully urge that if an exami
nation of a complete file of the issues
of Colonel Mayfield’s weekly bears
out the sinister motives for which
this publication is apparently dis
seminated, official action be taken by
the Attorney General and the Post
master General to suppress the sheet,
and to proceed against its publisher,
Earl B. Mayfield, the Democratic Sen
ator-elect of the state of Texas.”
j PASTOR HAS CLOSE CALL
: I he ltev. E. II. McDonald Overcome by
Las in Garage and Unconscious
for Several Hours.
Last Monday the Rev. E. H. Mc
Donald, pastor of Mt. Moriah Baptist
church, while working in his garage
was overcome by gas, and had just
presence of mind and strength enough
to make his way into the house, where
he collapsed and was unconscious for
several hours. Dr. D. W. Gooden wag
called and worked deligently and
skillfully to revive him. His flock
and many friends are rejoicing that
Dr. McDonald providentially escaped
what might have been a fatal ac
cident.
CHICAGO RIOTS OF 1919
TO COST OVER $500,000
Chicago, III., Jan. 5.—The 1919 race
riots will cost Chicago more than
$500,000 in addition to its share of
the expense of maintaining 6,000 state
troops nine days, it was estimated last
week, after eighteen death claims, ag
gregating $81,000, were approved by
the citv council’s finance committee.
The city previously had paid $20,800
for five other deaths. Fifteen death
claims remain unsettled.
During the riots, according to an
investigating commission, 543 persons
mere injured, 178 white, 348 colored
and seventeen of unidentified race.
NATIONAL CONGRESS TO
HOLD RIG MEETING
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 5,—A nation
al convention for the. race under the
auspices of he Negro National Educa
tional Congress, will be held in Wash
ington, March T,-9th, according to the
announcement of J. Silas Harris, pres
ident of the organization, recently.
Matters of national interest to the
race will be discussed and delegates
by governors of several Stott's will be
named. The organization claims mem
bership in forty-two states.
PEEKSKILL SEES FIERY CROSSES
Peekskill, N. Y., Jan. 5. (Crusader
Service.)—Police of this city were no
tified that several large flaming
crosses, supposed to have been
lighted by the Ku Klux Klan, were
seen late Tuesday night on the hill
sides around Peekskill.
CYCLONE KILLS FOUR
Jackson, Miss., Jan. 4.—When a
cyclone passed over Champion Hill,
between Bolton and Edwards, Miss.,
late last Wednesday night four Ne
groes were killed and several thousand
dollars damage was done to property
in that section.
Don’t sneer at the man who fails,
but remember that he at least dared
to try.