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The Monitor 4>- A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS Ss., THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor __ _, _ — - —— $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy * OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923 Whold Number 419 Vol. IX—No. 3 MOORLAND IS PAID TRIDDTE DV MANY ADMIRING FRIENDS — Retiring Senior Secretary, Colored Men's Department. Y. M C. A., Signally* Honored at Harper* Ferry. FOUNDATION IS ESTABLISHED Fund of $10,0000 Being Raised For Training of Secretaries for Association Work. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. July 20. This famous spot, the scene of John Brown’s last stand for the free dom of the slave, was chosen as the place for the Testimonial Exercises held in honor of Dr. J. E. Moorland, retiring Senior Secretary of the Col ored Men’s Department, International Committee of the Young Men’s Christ ian Association, on Tuesday, July 10. Y. M. C. A. Secretaries from all parts of the country were gathered here to pay tribute by their presence and in eloquent speech to the Christ ian service of a man who has rendered rignul service in behalf of boys young and old, during the past thirty-one years. Principal Educational Institutions. The arrangements were in the hands of a General Committee. The names of the presidents and officers of the most prominent universities for the training of Negro youth in the country appear upon the list includ ing, Howard University, Fisk Univer sity, Lincoln University. Wiley Uni versity, Wilberforce University, At lanta University, Morgan College, Morehouse College, New Orleans Uni versity, Hampton and Tuskegee In stitutes, the Utiea Institute, Clafln University, Tennessee State Normal School, Southern University, lame University, Bishop College, Mehnrry Medical College, Clark University, The Cheney Institute, Walden University, West Virginia Collegiate Institute, and many others. Through these in stitutions from year to year Dr. Moorland and his associates have been piopogating the spirit of the Y. M. C. A. All of the addresses paid eloquent tribute to Dr. Moorland and to Mrs. Moorland who was also present. Testimonials Presented. Mr Taylor of the New York City Branch Y. M. C. A., in concluding his lemarks presented a diamond stick pin to Dr. Moorland and a diamond brooch to Mrs. Moorland. Mr. Tobias in concluding his re i arks presented Dr. Moorland with a black leather bound volume contain ing expressions of appreciuton from many of the most important men of < the country who know of Dr. Moor land’s work and who have been aso ciated with him in it including Dr. John R. Mott, the General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Julius Rosen wald who has given so lienefieently for the Y M. C. A. buildings for col ored men, and dozens of others. It is a volume whch will lie treasured by j Dr. and Mrs. Moorland. At the close of the exercises, Dr. William T. Nelson of Cincinnati, Ohio, who worked so hard along with ; Mr. J A. Green of the Dayton Ohio Y. M. (’. A. to make the affan a suc cess informed Dr. Moorland anti th'1 assembled delegate* that it has de cided to establish the Jesse E. Moor land Foundation for the training of j Y. M C. A. Secretaries, and that a good proportion of the proposed foun- i dation, which will amount to $10,000, bus already been subscribed. It was decided that with the assist ance of the schools, and colleges, city associations, and interested indi viduals, both white and colored, the Committee would in all probability reach the goal of $10,000 by Novem ber 1, the date of Dr. Moorland's re tirement. Dr. Moorland, under a regulation of the Y. M. C. A. is retiring from active labors as the Senior Secretary after thirty-one years. WHITEN ( AN STOP THE NEUKO MIGRATION State-Wide Conference of Race Lead ers Discuss Situation and Place Grievance Hefore Assembly. Atlanta, Ga., July 20.—Colored people as a race <lo not desire to leave Geor gia and the south and the remedy for existing conditions is in the hands of the white man, according to a com munication addressed to the General Assembly and the people of Georgia, adopted at a state-wide conference of leaders of the race here last Thurs days The conference was presided over by Bishop J. 8. Flipper of the African Methoditt Episcopal Church of Atlanta. While declaring his opitosition to migration. Bishop Flipper said he did believe the Negro as well as any other race, ought to have the right to scat ter to all parts of the Union. Cites Hardships The communication, which it is proposed to have printed for distribu tiohn to members of the legislature and through the state generally, sets forth the evils which the Negroes claim they labor under in this state. These included: Low wages for farm labor; poor bousing conditions; bad working conditions on plantations managed by overseers in the absence of the owners; lack of educational facilities; poor accommodations for Negroes when traveling; inequality in the enforcement of the laws; the con tract tabor law, the repeal of which s asked, and mob violence. The legislature was urged to pass an anti-lynching law. HA IT! NT SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS HOLD CONVENTION The Hixth annual session of the New Krn Baptist Sunday school and Young People’s Union convention opened Tuesday morning at Pilgrim Baptist church with delegates present from all the local churches of the* connec tion and from Council Bluffs, lincoln and South Sioux City. The features of the opening session were an inspira tional address by the Rev. Pau Cal houn, pastor of the United Presby terian church, Omaha, and the intro ductory sermon hy the Rev. William Franklin, pastor of Pilgrim. Business se sions with reports of various com mittees interspersed with thoughtful | papers, dismissions, addresses and mu sical numbers, have fully occupied the busy sessions, morning, afternoon and night of the convention. The conven-j tion will close Saturday morning. _ I YOUNG MEN ORGANIZE LITERARY CLUB. Brethren of the Silent Twelve is1 the name of a literary and social club recently organized hy several young men of the city. The club held an interesting meeting last Saturday ew pning at which time plans were per-1 footed for a reception to be given next Saturday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs F. L. McHenry, 2851) Ohio: street, in honor of Mrs. K. V. White ley. Invitations have been sent out for this pleasant social function. Mr. Grant Parker. 2784 Caldwell street is president of the organization. GIRVKY SUIT AGAINST IMMII AGO Til ItOYY A OUT New York, July 20.—Marcus Gar vey's libel suit against Wilfred H. Domingo, editor of The Emancipator,! and a member of the Supreme Execu-| live Council of the African Blood Brotherhood, was dismissed by Geo. V, Mullan in Part ! of the Supreme, Court on motion of William Karlin, counsel for the defendant. IMPORTANT MEETING COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB IS CALLED. An important meeting of the Col ored Commercial Club is called for next Thursday night, July 26, at the club roms, 2414 Maple street. It is the regular monthly meeting and as imperative business is to be transac ed every member is urged to attend II VS V A'I I - VI OH LAW Jersey City. N July 20.- New Jersey’s first statute as a curb for the Ku Klux Klan heaame effective today. It was introduced by Senator Ran dolph, the only colored member of the legislature, and recently signed by Governor Siltzer. Inrter the new law, a mob may con sist of five or more persons, subject to a fine ranging from $'> to $UH» and | imprisonment from thirty days to one year, when its members can be proven | guilty of violence or intended violence. | The city or county in which the violence occurs is liable for damages I not exceeding $ft,oou. The law in structs the governor to remove from office any sheriff who permits a mob to take from him a prisouer. Kzekiel Phinney, I lift North Twen ty-first street, who has been detained at home by Illness for several weeks, is steadily improving. ^Raising the Family- Bullet s Quostion wasn't so Pooiiah at <hfld - -p— _ (mo cur~ 'yHEPe i* mwe Art* ( NA CO.N' ? I ( UOH? t— "_—' IM _I IHTERWAT. <AL CAKTOOW CO K Y^ bM ;■ ■ .y t . .. ■ , ' £ ' _■ ( • * v- ' ' - V' ’ . , •’ \/ / JV- fi*‘‘ ( — >■■■'•- ' ■' i ~~ - Big Events in the Lives of Little Men PAY THE COLLECTOR. Arthur B. McGraw, a Central High sehool student, is earning money to help pay his way through school and go to college by collecting for The Monitor. He is being paid a commis sion for collecting. That’s the way he earns his money. He is working hard. Please pay him promptly, whenever you promise to do so. Don’t keep him running back for the small amount you owe. A.nd don’t put him off by saying, “You’ll see the Editor.’’ INVENTS ELECTRIC KCLB Washington, July 20. Oeorge Wash-, ingtori Turner, age •r*2. living at 1411 1 L Street, N. VV„ this city,- has invented an incandescent electric lamp which in time may revolutionize that indus-j try, in that when, it is burned out a new filament may be inserted anil the a me lamp used again. GARY STEEL MILLS EMPL0YIR6 MANY COLORED LABORERS Itlu Mills Adopting Suggestion Made fteeentl)' liy Km inert Seott to Supply Labor Shortage in I’lants. WILL SHORTEN LABOR NOIRS Shorter l>oy Will Require 60,000 Ad ilitional I borers Is the Opinion of Judge (•ary. Washington, 1). C., July 20.—Within three months from the date of the sig-| nally important telegram to Judge El-1 bert H. Gary sent by Dr. Emmett J. Seott, Secretary Treasurer of Howard University, Iu reply to Mr. Gary’s sug gestion upon the occasion of bis return front Europe that alien labor be util ized to supply labor shortages in the Industrial plants of the north, Doctor Scott has the satisfaction of seeing his suggestion that Negro labor be used lo supply such shortages adopted by the great U. S. Steel Corporation. In a recent interview Judge Gary advises that the United Steel Corporu tion is planning to abolish the twelve hour day in the steel Industry. He sta ts that the main factor which will make this possible will be the influx Into northern industrial centers of Ne groes from the south. Judge Gary also hopes that there may be some labor supply from Mexico and from some of the European countries. When aHked what had been the ex tent of the influx of labor from the south and the outside countries, Judge Gary said he had no figures but be lieved that one of the most important torture in the increase of labor in the steel industry was the migration of Negroes from the south. Judge Gary estimates that the change from a twelve-hour day would require 60,000 additional laborers and would increase the cost of the finished product by 15 per cent. The decision to do away with the long day, Mr. Gary said, was made in recognition of the growing public sentiment in favor of such a step. „ UHATAI (tt,A AT /JOIN BAPTIST CHURCH, JULY 2»th TO AUG. «th Placards are out announcing the| first annual chatauqua to be given by Zion Baptist church, beginning July 2!)th, when services will be conducted exclusively by the men, to August 6th, inclusive. Sunday. August 5th, to he ( Women’s Bay. Educative programs will be render-1 ed each day and evening, featuring the most talented people of the city. Specimens from every line of bus iness conducted by our own people will he on display throughout the entire) week. May we expect you there? ■ -- ■ 1 - OM AHA ELKS TO GIVE MONSTER PU NIC FOR BOYS. The Omaha Elks arc planning for another monster picnic for all boys of the city between the ages of 6 and 16 at Elmwood Park, Saturday afternoon, August 4. Dr. Michael J. Ford, chair man of the committee, and his hust ling co-workers are busy as can be whipping things into shape to give the boys a higger and better time than they had last year, if that is possible. All boys, without distinction of race, creed or color, are welcome and urged to attend. MASS MEETING FOR OLI) FOLKS’ HOME A mass meeting will be held Sunday afternoon, July 22, at Zion Baptist church in the interest of the campaign for funds for the Old Folks’ Home. Notice is given at this time so that the public may plan to attend at the time designated. Talk it up with your friends and remember the date, Sun day, July 22. ANNAPOLIS ELECTS TWO ALDERMEN Annapolis, Maryland, July 20.—For the first time in the history of Annap olis two colored men were elected members of the Board of Aldermen Monday, July 9th. They are: K. P. Dorsey and Charles Bell. GIVE BAZAAR AND JAPANESE DRILL. The bazaar and Japanese drill given bv the Educational Committee of the North End Y. W. C. A. last Thurs day night was a very pleasant and successful affair. The Japanese fan drill by eight little misses was a pret ty feature. Musical numbers were furnished by Mrs. Shaw-Daniels and Mrs. Fred Divers. Among the ladies assisting were Mesdames Bell, Canty and Charles T. Smith. Mrs. R. S. Hunt, demonstrator for the Paxton & Gallagher’s famous Butternut Coffee, served the coffee and iced tea. A V\OYEI> IY JAIL Frederickstead, Virgin Islands, July 20.—I). Hamilton Jackson, jailed by American naval authorities for con tempt of court for one week, declares that authorities prevented him from having visitors or receiving any gifts from friends while ha was in jail. DECIDED DECREASE IN MOD OUTRAGES IN THE SOUTHLAND — Aroused Public Sentiment and Steady Migratory Movement Believed to be Largely Responsible for Drop. 15 LYNCHED IN A HALF YEAR Florida Has Displaced Georgia as Ranking State in Great Amer ican Disgrace and Menace. TUSKEGEE, Ala., July 20.—'The steady migratory movement and the rising tide of sentiment against lynching is manifested in the latest report concemng lynching throughout the country, issued here by Monroe N. Work, director of the Department of Records and Re .■jparch Work. According to Dr. Work, a survey of “mob killings” during the first six months of 1023 shows that there have been IB lynchings, just half the number of outrages committed by mobs during the first six months of 1922, and 21 less than the number of 36 for the first six months of 1921. Of those lynched, two were whites and thirteen Negroes. ,One of those put to death was charged with the crime of rape. The other offenses charged were: Murder. 2; killing of ficer of the law, 2; wounding officer of the law, 2; no charge reported, 2; assisting man charged with rape to escape, 1; trying to pass for white 1; resisting posse searching for man charged with rape, 1; participating in depredations connected with rail road strike, 1; cattle stealing, 1; try ing to act like a white man and not knowing his place, 1. The states in which lynching oc curred and the number in each state are as follows: Arkansas, 1; Florida, 7; Georgia, 2; Louisiana, 1; Missis sippi. 2; Missouri, 1, and Texas, 1. APPRECIATIVE MONITOR READERS STILL GROWING. During the past ten days The Mon itor has received the following NEW SUBSCRIBERS in Omaha, which in dicates how our subscription list is steadly growing locally: Mrs. Laura Keene, A. B. Young, Elijah Smith, A. R. Goodlet, M. H. Alford, Arthur Sampson, L. D. Johnson, G. R. Avant, Grant Parker, Jesse Wiggins, R. T. Mallory, Mrs. D. Washington, Mrs. W. W. Smith, Mrs. Etta Jamison, Jesse Wiggins, Mrs. I. D. Wilson, Mrs. Willard Brooks, Gus Hupp, Ed ward Lewis and Mrs. Maud Brown. Beside these, requests for sample cop ies have been received from Maine, Mississippi and Texas, and renewals from California and Oregon,1^showing how widely The Monitor is read. “B” CIRCLE MEETS Sunday, July 15, the B Circle met with Mr. Isaac Fisher at his home, 2310 North 27th avenue. The meeting opened with the president, Miss Hazel Roulette, presiding. After a short bus iness hour the meeting was turned over to the program committee who rendered a very interesting program, each member responding without h ‘s-, iitancy. During the social hour an elaborate three-course luncheon was served by the host, Mr. Fisher. The B Circle will hold its next meeting with Mr. Harold Bently, 1702 North 26th street. MISS MATTIE RENFRO, Secretary. 2621 Grant Street. GOVERNMENT (SHOULD UALL KLUXIEiS’ BLUEE 1 National Advancement Association De clares—Tuskegee Hospital Is How Test of Hording Administration. New York, July 20.—James Weldon’ Johnson, secretary of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Col-1 ored People, 60 Kifth Avenue, New York City, has issued a statement call:' ing the contest over the Tuskegee Hos pital for Colored War Veterans a test of the Harding administration's at-: titude toward Negroes. The statement is as follows: "Despite the government’s promise made by President Harding to staff! the Tuskegee Hospital for Colored War: Veterans with colored doctors and nurses, the Ku Klux Klan, with the apparent connivance of Colonel Stan ley, have already driven away Dr. Kenney, a colored physician of high standing, who has had to flee with his family from Tuskegee. This whole situation is one which again tests the administration’s attitude towards colored people, as well as the govern ment’s integrity in the face of the Ku Klux Klan mob. The government could settle this whole matter in an hour by taking a firm stand. The Ku Kluxers around Tuskegee are bluffing, and will carry that bluff as far as they can. IF PRESIDENT HARDING HAS A BACKBONE THE SIZE OF A TOOTHPICK, HE WILD CALD THAT BLUFF AND THAT WILD BE THE END OF THE PRESENT DIS GRACEFUL SITUATION. "The contentions of the Alabama white people are untrue and absurd. They pretend to fear the menace of a colored personnel in charge of the hospital. The Tuskegee Institute, en- j lirely manned and attended by Ne groes with several hundred teachers' and fifteen hundred students, has never given them, although in their midst, grounds for the slightest ap pienension. “Colored people throughout the United States are awaiting to see how the United States government will meet this challenge of the Ku Klux mebbists.’’ TERRORIZATION TRIES TO TRIUMPH TUSKEGEE TOWN Several High Officials of School Al leged to Have Fled Because of Threats Against Their Lives. ADVISE MOTOD TO STAY AWAY Principal's Family Have Left School— Doctor Kenney and Family Gone —Calhoun, Accountant, Also Leaves. (By the Associated Negro Press.) Montgomery, Ala., July 20.—A reign of terror exists at Tuskegee Institute! There never was anything like it in the history of the institution. So crit ical is the state of affairs that a num ber of the highest officials of the in stitution have been forced to flee for their lives. Among those who have been forced to leave the institute grounds under threat are: Dr. Kenney, one of the best known surgeons in the country, and superin tendent of the Andrew’s Memorial Hos pital on the institute grounds. John H. Calhoun, a graduate of Hampton Institute, who had been an employee in the chief accountant’s of fice of the institute, and who took the civil service examination recently for a position in the disbursing office of the government hospital, and was ap pointed, reported for duty and was threatened with his life. Friends were compelled to spirit him away under cover of night. The Ku Klux made their demonstration particularly against his api>ointment. He replaced a white woman. Dr. R. R. Moton, who has been away from the institution since the trustees’ meeting in New York, has not returned to Tuskegee at this writing, and has been urged by his closest friends, be cause of ugly rumors afloat, to remain away. This program does not suit him, however, and despite the warn ings, he is determined to return to the school. Mrs. Moton and the chil dren left under advice a few days ago. The National Association for the ad vancement of Colored People, with of fices in New York, has been projected into the picture by sending a telegram to President Harding, calling for fed eral troops, since the parading of the Ku Klux. This creates a new angle that is very delicate, viewed from this point. Many thoughtful people be lieve it is difficult to see the situation clearly from New York, Chicago and other far away points. The people at the institute, however, are determined to protect themselves and their fam ilies. General Hines, director of the Vet erans’ Bureau, made a special visit to the hospital recently. He was met by whites from the town of Tuskegee and from Alabama, who voiced their objec tions. He appointed a committee to work out the situation. BREAKS WORLD’S RIFLE RECORD Battalion of Twenty-fifth Infuntry Sets \ew Murk on Douglas, Aris., Target Range. Douglas. Ariz., July 20.—A world's record in rifle fire was made by the first battalion of the Twenty-fifth In fantry, stationed at Camp Harry J. Jones in the course of target work completed last Thursday, according to Major Harry J. Castles, commander of the post, who personally supervised the work on the range. Every man in the three rifle companies of the bat talion, numbering about 320, qualified as marksman or better, which, so far as records available at the1 post here show, has never been equaled before in the history of the United States ar my. Corporal Jesse J. Williams, of B Company, made the highest record of the battalion, which is also the high est in the regiment, making a score of Mil out of a possible 350. B Company made the highest average, running up a mark of over 291, its ranks number ing forty-nine expert riflemen, the highest grade attainable, and twenty nine sharp shooters The average for the entire battalion, according to Major Castles, will run between 285 and 290, which is well above the sharpshooter mark of 275. FLORIDA “WHIPPING BOSS” FOUND GUILTY LAKE CITY, Fla., July 20.— Thomas W. Higginbotham was con victed of murder in the second de cree here Friday afternoon by the jury that heard the evidence against him in connection with the death of Martin, the North Dakota farmer boy, whose murder in a Florida con vict camp inspired the crusade that has at last forced the State of Flor ida to abolish its barbarous convict ileasing system.