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%a A NATIONAL WEELLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
■ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
$2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy \ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1923 Whole Number 408 VOL. VIII—No. 43
“GO TO GH SC POL AND GO TO COLLEGE”
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WHITES BECOMIflfi
FREQUEHT VICTIMS
OF MOB HIOLEHCE
Only Negroes Suffered in Past Hut
Now Mostly Whites Are Victims,
Says Report of Civil Liber
ties I'nion.
VIOLENCE ON THE INCREASE
Heath Almost Invariably Penulty
Paid by Black Victims of Mohs,
Heatings, Tars and Feathers
for Whites.
New York. May 4.—(Crusader Serv
ice.). Mob violence is now directed
chiefly against white persons, even
women, as contrasted will the previ
ous record chiefly against Negroes, ac
cording to a report Just issued by the
American Civil Liberties Union, which
(toints out that in the 103 cases of
lynching, tarring and feathering or
flogging in the last six months of
15*22, over two-thirds of the victims
were white men and women. Among
the thirty-two Negroes in the record,
twenty were lynched. "When a mob
goes after a Negro, in most cases,’’
the report states, "it does not Btop
short of death.”
Violence on Increase.
Presenting the striking facts of mob
violence In the United States, the Civl]
Liberties report notes a marked in
crease in the number of cases, and
claims that ‘‘the violence is in most
cases Ihe result of an organized cam
paign of terrorism and lawless as
sumption of power by private organ
izations, notably the Ku Klux.”
Stating that Texas leads all the
other states in floggings* and tarrings
and featherings, the Civil Liberties re
l>ort claims 1hat the Increase in mob
violence "is the product of the class
feeling nnd prejudice aroused by the
war. The dominant group behind or
ganized mob violence is that of white,
Protestant and Gentile' southerners,
centering in the Ku Klttx Klan with
the object of class supremacy, private
vengeance and fantastic notions of
enforcing the 'moral code’."
< Ih’-s Feeling Responsible.
While most of the mob violence in
the last two years took place in the
south and southwest, "there were
scattered cases thoughout the west,
nnfl a few cases in the east," the re
port states. The record totals nearly
S00 victims at the lowest count, not
including riot victims, thus averaging
over one person a day. Of these, 102
persons were lynched, 33 whites and
*>ii Negroes; 63 persons were tarred
and feathered, 61 whites and only two
Negroes; 167 persons were flogged,
126 white- and 41 Negroes, and about
480 persons, chiefly aliens and I. W.
W.’s, were deported from local com
munities by mobs. Commenting on
this total, the Civil Liberties report
states that "the killings by mobs in
fact total more than 102, if account
is taken of the election riots In Flor
ida. where 30 to 60 Negroes lost their
lives and of race rioting in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, where thirty were killed.
•H'.o to High School: go to College!”
EXODI'H HITS NORTH CAROLINA
* Raleigh, N. C., May 4.—Migration of
more than 5,000 unskilled Negro
laborers to Richmond and Baltimore
from North Carolina during the last
week has necessitated the shutting
down of more than fifty highway con
struction projects, according to a
statement by State Highway Commis
sion officials. Better educational op
portunities and higher wages are said
to be the lure.
THE ministerial alliance
This body had a very enthusiastic
session Tuesday morning. The com
| mittee appointed last week to inves
' tigate the matter of the two mem
bers of the race sentenced to the
electric chair, made its report, which
indicated that considerable prejudice
was evidenced by the verdict of the
jury.
A motion prevailed to take up the
i matter of bringing the case to the
supreme court. This can he done
through the instrumentality of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, backed up
by the Ministerial Alliance.
The Rev. Dr. Harper of the St.
John’s Institutional Church, Dallas
Texas, being presented by Rev. W. F.
Botts, made some very timely and
encouraging remarks.
The discussion for next Tuesday
will lie on the seven vials as they oc
cur in Rev., chapters 15 and 16. TTie
Rev. Mr. McFarland will present the
paper for the occasion.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF
ST. PHILIP THE DEACON
A large congregation was present
last Sunday morning at 11 o’clock
when the pastor spoke on, “The Ox
ford Movement and Its Influence.”
He showed that three remarkable
movements to deepen the spiritual life
and show' the true Cathodic position
of the Anglican Communion, began
at Oxford University, namely, the
Methodist Society, which eventually
separated from the Church of Eng
land; the Tractarian of 1835, which
emphasized her corporate Catholic
character and the sacramental sys
tem; and that of 1890 to meet Ger
man rationalism. He discussed at
length the second and showed its en
I richment of faith and worship.
The services Sunday will be as fol
lows: Holy Communion 7:30 A. M.
Church School, 10:00; Sung Euchar
ist and Serrmon, 11:00; Evensong at
8:00 P. M.
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“Go to High School; go to College!”
PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. Wm. Franklin, Pastor
This congregation has been joining
the Union Baptist revival being con
j ducted by the Rev. C. C. Harper at
Zion Baptist church.
Superintendent Steward and wife,
of Bethel Baptist Sunday Sschool,
visited ours last Sunday and were
highly pleased with our organization
and progress.
CORNER STONE LAYING
BY MASONIC ORDER
The corner stone of the Clove
Methodist Episcopal church, corner
of Twenty-fifth and Decatur streets,
last Sunday afternoon at 2:30, at
tracted a large congregation. Grand
Master R. H. Young of Lincoln, of
ficiated. He w as assisted by the of
ficers of the United Masonic lodges
of the first district of Nebraska. The
lodges participating were Rough
Ashler No. 1; Excelsior No. 2; Res
cue No. 4: Omaha No. 9; Hiram No.
10; and St. John’s No. 11. Actively
as isting Grandmaster Young were
Walter L. Seals, district (’. M.; D. S.
Cunningham and Emery R. Smith.
'Hie Rev. E. L. Hollis is pastor of the
church. j
The Alhambra theatre ia a new ad
vertiser in this issue. This popular
playhouse Is presenting an exception
ally strong array of pictures, and it
will pay' readers of The Monitor to
watch for their program announce
ment each week.
RACE SCIENTIST
MADE FELLOW OF
DOTAL SOCIETY
Professor George W. Carver, Head of
Tuskegee Department of Agri
cultural Research, S.gnally
Honored
Tuskegee, Ala., May 4.—From slav
ery to a fellow in the Royal Society
of Great Britain.
This, in one brief sentence, sums
up the life of Prof. George Carver,
Negro, head of the department of ag
ricultural research at 1 uskegee In
stitute here.
Carver, by his research whrk, has
gained nation-wide prominence in
chemicul circles. Through his exper
iments, carrieii on over a period of
twenty years or more, he has discov
ered scores of products from the prin
cipal crops of the Bouth.
He is principally noted for his pro
ducts developed from peanuts and
sweet potatoes and for his cold water
paints and stains, developed from
Georgia clay. He has developed 165
by-products from peanuts, 115 from
sweet potatoes, and 85 from pecans.
Honor Unsolicited
Membership in the Royal Society of
Grerat Britain is an honor cherished
by scientists above all others. Carver
doesn’t know how he was elected to
membership.
“Maybe it was Sir Henry Johnson”
Carver said.
Sir Henry, while touring this coun
try several years ago spent a large
portion of his time at the Institute
here arid became deeply interested in
the work of the ex-slave. It is be
lieved he proposed Carver’s name for
membership whiclt was accepted.
In 1918 Prorf. Carver addressed
Congress on the subject of a higher
tariff on peanuts and succeeded in
raising the rate from $40 a ton to
$180, a great service to growers of
the south.
Prof. Carver has been closely as
sociated with the national depart
ment of agriculture for years and was
a warm friend of the late President
Roosevelt.
ANTI KLAN HILL PASSED
BY ILLINOIS HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES
Associated Negro Press.
Springfield, 111., April 25.—Illinois
joined the ranks of the states which
have gone on record as opposed to the
KuKItix Klan when the house of rep
rorsentatives passed an anti Ku Klux
Klan bill this week by a vote of 107
to 3. The bill was fathered by As
semblyman Adelbert H. Roberts, col
ored, of Chicago. Mr. Roberts, who is
distinguished as an orator, made a
long and striking speech in bfehalf of
the measure, holding the rapt atten
tion of his colleagues and undoubted
ly swept aside whatever opposition
exi.-ted except on the part of three
republican members. The democrats
voted solidly against the Klan.
j “<lo to High School: go to College!”
SOCIETY PROTESTS
COLOR BAR AGAINST
TALEHTED STODENT
I .ruder of Ethical Culture Society
Sails For France to Bring Case
Of Discrimination Before
Authorities
AMERICANS RESPONSIBLE
Committee Charged With Selection
Refuses Admission To Miss
Savage Solely on Racial
Grounds
New York, May 4—The question of
discrimination againar students of Ne
gro blood assumed international im
portance with the sailing recently of
one of the leaders of the Ethical Cul
tuie Society of tbjs city to. make u
formal protest to the French author
ities at Fontainebleau.
Augusta Savage, twenty-three, of
228 West 138th Street, has been re
fused admission to the Fontainebleau
School of Arts because of her racial
identity. The. school she expected to
attend is a summer school for Amer
ican architects, painters and sculptors
at the Palace of Fontainebleau, and
is under the patronage of the French
government. Miss Savage is the first
colored person to apply for admission.
The refusal was made by a commit- ]
tee of American men which has the
power to select one hundred American
students as it sees fit. Miss Savages
application was in charge of Ernest
Peixette, the painter.
Other members of the committee
are: Whitney Warren, architect,
chairman of the committee; Edwin
E. Blashfield, president of the Na
tional Academy of Design; Howard
Greenley, president of the Architect
ural League; Thomas Hastings, Ar
chitect of the New York public li
brary; president of the Beaux Arts
Institute of Design, etc.; J. Monroe i
Hewlitt,1 president of the Mural
Painters; Hennin A. McNeil, presi
dent of the National Sculpture So- j
ciety, and James Gamble Rogers,
president of the Society of Beaux
Arts Architects.
The representative of the Ethical
Culture, who will take up the matter
with the French authorities—Alfred
W. Martin, of 995 Madison Avenue—
said he felt certain the French people
would not approve of discrimination
on racial grounds.
Strange Democracy
Miss Savage has studied sculpture
at Cooper Union since she came up
from Florida two years agq. Her
friends raised for her the necessary
1500 for the summer course at Fon
tainebleau. She has returned the
money.
“Democracy is a strange thing,”
Miss Savage said yesterday. “My
brother was good enough to be ac
cepted in one of the regiments that
saw service iti France during the war,
but it seems his sister is not good
enough to lie a guest to the country
for which he fought.
“I don’t care so much for myself,
because I will gpt along all right here
hut other anjVhetter colored students
might wish to apply some time. This
is the first year the school is open
and 1 am the first colored girl to ap
ply. I don’t like to see them estab
lish such a precedent.”
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Cowan have re
turned from I-diwrenee, Kane., where
they were called by the death of Mr.
Cowan's uncle, Isaac Johnson, who
had served for twenty-nine years as
deputy sheriff of Douglas county, Kan
sas, and* was most highly esteemed.
During his funeral, Tuesday, April
24th, the court house was closed as
a mark of respect.
TO COLLEGE” CAMPAIGN
I Alpha Phi Alpha Seeks to Iteaeh Three
Million Parents and Students
in National Campaign
This Week.
Washington, I). C., May 4.—‘‘Go to
High School—Go to College” ie the
message being delivered this week to
the Colored students of America by
the members and friends of tne
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Starting
with the observance of Educational
Sunday, April 29th, and continuing
through the week with conferences
with parents, teachers and students,
and with visits to homes and special
communications to leaders asking co
operation, this educational campaign
will end in a great mass meeting in
the various large cities of the country
on Sunday, May 6th, at which ad
dresses will be made by outstanding
educational leaders.
This year marks the fourth annual
campaign to spread the gospel of “Go
to High School—Go to College” among
the youth of our rac.fi,. From all in
dications, this important message will
be carried to every stale in the Union
as there arc now some forty-five
chapters of the Alpha Phi Alpha with
members in practically every city of
importance. The goal of the fra
ternity is to reach over three million
parents and students with the funda
mental message regarding the need of
education.
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“Go to High ScfioolV go to College’”
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HACK PHILANTHROPISTS
HIVE $10,000 TO MEDICAL
SCHOOL EI'ND AT HOWARD
Mr. tinii Mrs. Aaron E. Malone, Poro
College Pounders, Make Generous
Donation to Dig Unj»ersity
Endowment.
Washington, D. C., May 4.—An
nouncement was made at the Howard
University last week of the pledge of
$10,000 by Mr. and Mrs. Aaron E.
Malone, who conduct a large manu
facturing establishment at St. Louis,
Mo., to the endowment fund of the
School of Medicine of the Howard
University. The Malones are liberal
givers to every cause In behalf of the
Negro race, contributing in a large
way to the Y. M. C. A. and schools
conducted In behalf of the Negro.
The pledge of $10,000 by Mr. and
Mrs. Malone is the largest single
pledge made by colored persons to
wards the Howard Medical School
Endowment Fund, and is as large as
any other pledge made except the
conditional gift of $250,000, made by
the General Education Board itself.
Nothing more clearly indicates the
idea of racial self-help in this effort
by the Howard University to meet
the challenge Of the General Educa
tion Board than this single pledge of
$10,000 by representatives of the col
ored people.
OMAHA WESTERN LEAGUE
CLUB PENNANT CLIMBERS
Omaha Can This Season Boast of a
Real Outfit of Regular Ball
Playing Fools.' Nearly
Every Man o Slugger
By Sporting Editor
Omahp has at last gathered togeth
er under the leadership of Big Ed
Konetchy a real ball club. It is a
team of which Omaha should be
proud. They are going good and will
be at the top of the ladder or squeez
ing the leaders at the close of the
pennant race. The efforts of the team
should be supported by our race.
The manager, known for many
years as “Big Ed Koney,” played for
several years with the St. Louis Na
tionals and later managed the Toledo
“Mud Hens” in the American Asso
ciation. He is known as a strict
disciplinarian and a brainy teacher of
the great American game.
Mopt of the team he has gathered
together are youngsters and the
promise for a strong team is great.
Omahans in general should attend
games whenever possible and encour
age Mr. Burch and Mr. Konetchy in
giving Omaha a fence-bustin’, pen
nant-winning aggregation of players.
Sunday’s game will surely find
Omaha in the first division, and then
i watch the battle.
ADMISSION SERVICE HELD
AT TRINITY CATHEDRAL
An impressive service was held at
Trinity Cathedral last Friday after
noon at five o’clock when several
girls and women from the various
parishes and missions of the city
were admitted to membership in the
Girls’ Friendly Society by Bishop Shay
ler. Nearly all the city clergy of the
Episcopal church were present, par
ticipating in the service, each one
presenting the candidates from his
parish. St. Philip’s presented nine,
the largest number of any parish.
They were the Misses Grace Adams,
Dorothy Allen, Evelyn Battles, Inez
Battles, Dorene Bush, Nonance Gib
son, Florence Jones, Ruth Pegg and
Helen Redd. A supper and program
in Trinity parish house - followed.
Bishop Shayler delivered a helpful
address on “Loyalty, Friendship and
Religion.”
NEGRO IN AMERICA
IS CEHTORY AHEAD
OPINION OF VISITOR
Noted Mouth African Educator Greatly
Pleased With Progress of
Race in Cnited
States.
SETS STANDARD FOR WORLD
\frica Offers Fine Field of Service
for Well Trailed American Ne
groes .Many of Whom Are
Now There.
Atlanta, Ga., May 4.— (Special.)—
That the Negro in America is in every
way a hundred years ahead of the
natives of(. South Africa, is the state
ment of Dr. James Henderson, a noted
educator from that country, who is
spending a few months in America
in the study of race relations and Ne
gro education. This is due, he said,
to the fact that the American Negro
came much earlier into contact with
Christian civilization and has had far
greater opportunities for education
and self-development, tie was parti
cularly impressed with the economic
progress which the race has made in
this country, which he said was far
beyond anything he had expected.
Dr. Henderson has given his life
to the education of the natives of
Itritish South Africa, having been for
many years principal of Lovedale In
stitute, the great African Tuskegee, a
missionary institution with a faculty
of sixty and a student body of 900.
While in Atlanta he visited a number
of Negro colleges and was greatly
pleased with them, commenting most
favorably on their fine equipment,
competent and devoted teachers and
intelligent students. A number of
well-trained American Negroes, he
said, are rendering fine service in
Africa as teachers and social workers.
Wherever they have been tried they
have made good, was his emphatic
testimony. He believes that the num
ber of such wokers will greatly in
crease and that in this way the edu
cated American Negro is destined to
make a great contribution to Africa’s
development.
The good will of the Interracial
Commission of which he had heard
in Africa where its methods are be
ginning to be adopted, interested Dr.
Henderson greatly. The problems of
race relations, he said, are much more
difficult there than here, and much
further from solution, it was his
opinion that the progress of the
American Negro is setting a new
standard for the world in the de
velopment of backward peoples.
THE FASCIST! AND “OCK
JIM” LEADS THE HANG
We have pot another “pet-rich
quick" patriotic (?) society. Elipibil
ity to membership therein is extended
to all “WHITE MALES, citizens of
the United States between the apes
of 18 and 65.” The repalia is a black
shirt, because it' won’t show the soil
as quickly as a white sheet; hut the
dirt will be on it just the same. The
name of the order is the Fascisti, pre
sumably remotely derived from the
root, “FAC," which means “to do”—
evidently the other fellow. And just
think of it. “Our Jim,” the Hon.
James C. Dahlman, mayor of Omaha,
leads the panp of patriotic “doers.”
He bears the tjtle of "Grand Lictor”.
“Our Jim” had always been so dem
ocratic that it is difficult to think
of his fallinp for royalty. Well, black
shirts may save somethinp on one’s
laundry bill.
Mrs. Leroy Kelly and infant son
left Monday for Broadwater, Neb., to
visit l*»r parents. Her husband left
Frid#yfto Join them.
ST. LOUIS WOMEN RAISE
$600.00 FOR N. A. A. C. P.
St. Louis, Mo., May 4.—The women
are still determined to secure 2,000
members for the lpcal branch of the
N. A. A. C. P.
Last Tuesday night the three mass
meetings held under the auspices of
the City Federation of Colored Wom
ens Clubs were well attended. Walter
F. White, assistant secretary Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, and Hon. L. C.
Dyer were the speakers.
A certified check for $600 was turn
ed over to Mr. White to aid in the
fight against lynching and racial dis
crimination.
The women had hoped that they
would be able to turn over $1,000
this week but time was too short.
According to a statement "by Mrs.
Jessie D. Robinson, President, the
women will continue their efforts un
til 2,000 members are added to the
local branch of the N. A. A. C. P.
“Go to High School; go to College!”
GLASS RECITAL PLEASES
The recital given by Clyde Leroy
Glass at St. John’s A. M. E. Church
last Friday night under the auspices
of the Western University Club, was
a rare musical treat, which was thor
oughly enjoyed by the audience pres
ent. Mr. Glass is among the fore
most pianists of the day, and the tal
ented artist fully sustained his repu
tation.
LEADERS ASKED TO
STOP SOUTHERN EXODUS
Meridian, Miss., May 4.—Reaction
seems to be setting in on the white
! larmerg of this section who have been
robbing colored farmers for the past
fifty years. In every city and town
the mayor and leading white men are
appealing to ministers and leaders of
our group to stem the tide of the ex
odus which is now in full swing. The
appeal seems to be falling on deaf
ears as far as our group is con
cerned, and the whites are getting
desperate. Negroes are packing up
their belongings day and night and
railroads are forced to add additional
cars to the regular brains in order to
accommodate them.
Mrs. Jeanne Deedunes Lattimore
who lias been* ill for several months
left Sunday night with her sister Mrs.
Mora for Stockton, Cal., upon the ad
vice of her physician who recom
mended a change of climate.
PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE PASSES
LYHCHIN6 BILL
Vudrew Stevens, Colored Lawmaker
Krom Philadelphia, Lots Bill
Through House — One
.Negative Vote.
DEMOCRATS SUPPORT IT
Special Correspondence.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 19—After
four hours debate which carried the
night session into the morning houffi,
April 18th, the Stevens’ Anti-lynching
Bill passed the House of Representa
tives with only one negative vote re
corded against it. So tense was the
interest in this measure, as evidenced
by the crowd in attendance which
packed every available space, that
the result of the ballot came as a
great surprise.
So skillfully had the author of this
remedial legislation engineered this
measure that every amendment pro
posed was defeated. The bill is al
most a replica of the Dyer bill, as it
was originally introduced in Congress.
The only difference is that it is made
applicable to the State.
Every Democrat Supported Hill
The entire Democratic delegation of
forty-three (43) members voted for
the Stevens bill. The one negative
vote was cast by a Republican. The
bill went to the Senate on Wednes
day for final passage and will soon
become a law, as Governor Pinchot is
strongly urging the measure.
Representative Andrew F. Stevens,
the’ author of the bill, is a member
of the well-known Philadelphia bank
ing firm of Brown & Stevens. He
is one of the most popular men in
public affairs and is the recipient of
great praise from all classes for his
remarkable higher legislature honors.
All Omaha High school graduates
are invited to meet at the Y. W. C. A.,
Twenty-second and Grant streets, next
Thursday night at 8 o’clock.
The Men’s Club of the Church ol
St. Philip the Deacxm will hold iti
regular monthly meeting Monday
night.
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COHRRESSMM DYER
SEVERELY SCORES
SELFISH SUCKERS
Author of the Federal Anti-Lynching
BUI Arraigns Religious Leaders
Who Show No Interest in
Work of N. A. A. C. P.
GOVERNMENT REMISS TO DITY
Having Authority to Draft All Citi
zens to Fight for Country It
Should Have Power to
Protect Them
Claiming that ministers and relig
ious leaders of the race who refuse
to actvely enlist in the fight that the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People is wag
in gfor justice are unworthy of the
positions they occupy, Cc^igressman
L. C. Dyer of Missouri, author of the
Federal Anti-Lynching Bill, delivered
an effective address before a large
audience Monday night in the Council s—'
Chamber.
He told how he became interested
in the anti-lynching fight. It was
after the East St. Louis massacre,
when more than 100 coolred men,
women and children were murdered
at his very door, helpless babies being
torn from their mothers’ arms, their
brains dashed out and thrown into the
fire. So deeply moved was he by that
horrible affair that he resolved to do
what he could to remove ^America’s
shame. Convinced that only a fed
eral law would be effective, he in
troduced it.
He told of the tremendous telling
work of the National Association for
such a measure and paid a glowing
tribute to James Weldon Johnson,
now ill because of the great strain of
| working night and day at Washing
ton for the passage of the measure
Which was enacted by the house but
defeated in the senate by filibustering
southerners and weak-kneed traitor
ous republicans.
This measure is to be the first in
troduced in the ^iext Congress, he
said, and he urged that the member
ship of the N. A. A. C. P. be so en
larged everywhere that the hands of
those fighting for it would be
strengthened.
Congressman Dyer said he was not
fighting the South but for simple
justice. Himself a native of Missou
ri, his father a Virginian, his mother
a native of Kentucky, he could not be
hostile to the South. Unfortunately
lynching is more prevalent there than
elsewhere but the evil is a national
menace. China and Turkey and other
nations hurl the just taunt into the
teeth of America that she is the only
country that bums human beings at
the stake. Of the more than 5,000
persons lynched in the past thirty
five years, less than nineteen per cent
had not even been suspected of the
crime of rape, so the widely circulat- ,
ed and generally accepted story that
Negroes were only lynched for such
crimes was false. Colored people
should be deeply concerned in seeing
that this slander is refuted.
The race in the North and West,
where they can vote, owe it to their
brethren in the South where they are
denied the suffrage, to stand up for
their brethren. This can be done
most effectively through such a
strong organization as the N. A. A.
C. P.
Congressman Dyer charged the gov
ernment with remiseness in its duty
toward the race, whose record in ev
ery war had been a glorious one. If
the government can draft the Negro
to fight for it, then the government
should see to it that he is protected
in every state in the union.
The N. A. A. C. P. is fighting for
justice for all American citizens;
against peonage, the evils of which
are now being brought to the atten
tion of the country; for better edu
cational advantages; in short, for the
| best interests of American citizen
ship. Its principles are such as all
true Americans, black or white, can
support. It vitally concerns all col
ored Americans and therefore they
should enroll as members.
Ex-Congressman Jefferis intro
duced the speaker. Congressman
Sears was also present and spoke.
Henry W. Black, president of the
local branch, called the meeting to
order. An appeal for members was
made by Rev. John Albert Williams
resulting in an increased enrollment.
Harold Jones came up from Lin
coln Thursday to attend “The Price”
given by the Dubois Players at Braa
dei# theatre.