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\ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
J2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1923 Whole Number 425 Vol. IX—No. 9
PRESIDENT CUOLIDGE FAVORS FEDERAL LAW
FOB THE SUPPRESSION OF WO VIOLENCE
STOREY SHOWS SIGHS
OFSOUHDSEHTIMEHY
OH RACIAL JUSITCE
President of National Association
Sends Kncou raging Message
to Fourteenth Annual
Conference
MICH BEEI ACCOMPLI SHEI
Progress Shown In the Arousing of
American Conscience Through
Which Redress of Wrongs
Will Come
Kansas City, Kans., Aug. 31.—Moor
field Storey, of Boston, ex-president
of the American Bar Association, and
now president of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People, has sent a message of greet-1
Ing to the Advancement Association in
its Fourteenth Annual Conference
here, which was publicly read at the
opening mass meeting, Wednesday
night, August 23.
In his message, Mr. Storey said the
inter-racial committees throughout the
South showed that the consciences of
white people were being roused
against the ill-treatment of Negroes.;
The defeat of the Dyer Anti-Lynching '
Bill In the last Congress by the fHi-1
buster of southern senators was an1
admission, said Mr. Storey, that tho
crime of lynching was a southern one.
Mr. Storey’s message in full is as fol
lows:
“I am sorry that I cannot meet you j
face to face and in person offer you
my congratulations on the successful
year that has passed since our last j
meeting, and (he prospects of assured j
and complete success that awaits us.
"It is true that the Anti-Lynching
Bill was defeated in the Senate by the I
refusal of southern senators to allow j
It even to be considered. This was an !
admission that lynching was a south
ern crime which they could not de
fend, and would not even discuss, but!
the vote in the House of Represents- j
tives, the strong backing from power-1
ful influences all over the couutry, |
the signatures of governors and lead
ing citizens, and the vote of conven
tions and legislatures were in them
selves a success, for they showed
what our agitation had accomplished
In creating public opinion.
‘'Tbe results of tbe election In
northern states showed what our votes
can accomplish, and made us a re
cognized power which can not be
trifled with. Our success in the last
election [joints the way for our future
action.
“The inter-racial organizations in
the southern states show that the con
sciences of people, who have probably
long felt that the colored people in
their various neighborhoods were Ill
treated, but have been silent, are at
last aroused to action, and this is most
important for till the people's con
science ie aroused, nothing is really
accomplished.
"The Ku Klux Klan, calling Itself
a purely American society and organ
ized to use lawless methods for ac
complishing its ends, is on the de
fensive, and in the nature of things
cannot endure.
"Our various branches have accom
plished brilliant results in various
cases which they ;have undertaken
and the association as a whole is re
cognized and respected as a force
which is working for good.
"The road before us Is long and dif
ficult, but look backward for a mo
ment and see how much longer and
harder Is the road which has been
traveled In the last sixty years. Then
look forward again with fresh cour
age and pledge yourselves never to
admit defeat but to press on till every
vestige of race discrimination has dis
appeared, and the Negro citizens of
this great country are in fact, as they
are now in law, the unquestioned
equals of every other American citi
zen.”
CALLS ON THE PRESIDENT .
Washington, Aug. 31.—W. H. Lewi*,
of Boston, assistant attorney general
under President Taft, called upon
President Coolidge last week. Mr.
Lewis was the first colored man nam
ed to the position of assistant attor
ney-general. He was a delegate to
the republican national convention in
1920 and attended Amherst College
with Mr. Coolidge.
FRANCE BANS “BIRTH OF NATION”
French Prohibit Showing of Vicious
Film ax Negroes Show
Resentment
(Crusader Service)
Paris, Aug. 31.—Because feelings of
French Negroes ave been outraged by
the barbarities of Americans, who
resented their presence in restaurants
and bars, the showing of D. W. Grif
fith’s film, ‘'The Birth of a Nation”,
has been prohibited by the police.
The censor passed on the picture
favorably twelve days ago, but it is
understood the police ban has been
clapped on as a concession to France’s
Negro population. Premier Poincare
himself has officially recognized their
complaints by publishing a general
warning to Americans that the equal
rights of French Negroes must be re
spected.
The attempt to “put over” "The
Birth of a Nation” upon the French
public is another of a long series of
determined attempts being made by
white Americans to Impose their color
prejudices upon the people of Europe.
These attempts, backed as they are I
on several occasions by American of
ficials, give the average European the
impression of a war being fought out
over the breadth and length of Europe
between the I’nlted States of America
and the Negro race.
N E W MEETS
The lull In lynching activities for
the state of Georgia became spirited
last week when three colored men
were hanged and two flogged.
Hon. Oliver Randolph, a successful
colored lawyer of Newark, N. J., has
been named Assistant U. S. District
Attorney in that state.
Felix Randolph, a colroed man,
"sasHed” Roy Toney, white, and paid
the penalty of being shot to death. His
body was thrown into the river.
—
The Baptists proposed to erect a
theological seminary for colored peo
ple at Nashville, Tenn., but the white
people successfully protested against
the project.
Statistical reports of the Supreme
Lodge of Colored Pythians, which met i
last week in New York, showed a
membership of 300,000 and realty hold- j
ings throughout the country valued
at $2,017,000.
Speakiag at Atlantic City, Congrees
inan L. C. Dyer of Missouri, author of
the Dyer Bill, declared that upward of
4000 colored citizens had been lynched
in the South in thirty-five years.
i
Colored farmerB near Greensboro,
N. C., have been granted extensive
credits by the Federal Farm Ixian
Board for the purpose of improving
their farms and purchasing new
equipment.
Bertram Hodges, fifteen-year-old, re
cently arrived with his parents, mi
grating from Georgia, received a prize
from a Phialdelphla daily paper for
the brigheat answer to a want-ad
| query.
W. B. Butler, prominent In demo
cratic circles, ,who killed William
Freeman and fatally injured Mary lou
Gamble, both colored, at Fayetteville,
Ala., was held under bond for carry
ing concealed weapons.
The Supreme Lodge of Knights of
Pythias, meeting In New York last
week, was Insulted by the refusal of
Tammany Hall to permit the thou
sands attending to pitch a camp in
the suburbs. The local committee lost
$4,000 in preparing the camp.
COLORED WOMAN STUDENT
OF VOTER’S PROBLEMS
(From Clinton, la., Morning Journal).
Mrs. Lena Watters Hall, of this city,
has returned from the Summer School
in Government and Politics, conducted
by the National League of Women
Voters in co-operation with Columbia
university. This is the third League
School of Citizenship that Mrs. Hall
has attended. Northwestern university
and the University of Chicago being
the other*.
Mrs. Hall made a tour of eight
countries in Europe last year to sup
plement by first-hand '.jntacts her
studies of political economy.
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MINNEAPOLIS EDITOR
VISITS THE MONITOR
S. Quay Herndon, assistant manag
ing editor of The Northwestern Bul
letin of Minneapolis, Minn., one of our
best-edited exchanges, was a pleasant
and welcome caller on The Monitor
Thursday. Mr. Herndon was called
to Omaha by the death of his uncle,
Captain Charles C. Trent. He left for
Minneapolis Thursday night.
DAUGIITEHS OF" BETHEL
HOLD GRAND LODGE
The Daughters • of Bethel held
their grand lodge here Wednesday,
Thursday and F'riday of last week.
Sessions were held at Zion Baptist
church. Delegates were present from
several points in Nebraska, Kansas
and Iowa. Reports showed encourag
ing growth and progress.
STATE GRANDMASTER
GOES TO ARKANSAS
D. M. McQueen, state grandmaster
of the Mosaic Templars of America,
left Wednesday enroute to Hot
Springs and Little Rock, Arkansas, to
attend the annual meeting of State
Grandmasters which convenes in Hot
Springs September 1-3, and the ex
ecutive Council which convenes in
Little Rock September 4-6.
TEXANS OMAHA VISITORS
Mrs. H. R. Perry and sons, J. B., W.
E. Jack, daughter Neva and grand
daughter Jolmie Male, of Houston,
Tex., motoring home to Texas from
Denver, Colo., where they visited Mrs.
Perry’s daughter, Mrs. Ernest Sapen
ta, were the gueets Saturday of Mr.
and Mrs. H. J. Ford, 2884 Ohio street.
They left Sunday morning homeward
bound by the way of Kansas City, Mo.
CARD OF THANKS
We extend our heartfelt thanks to
our friends and neighbors for their
kindness shown during the brief ill
ness and death of our dear husband
and brother and for their beautiful
floral offerings. Especially do we
thank Rescue Lodge No. 4 of which
he was a member and for the Omaha
City Fire Department, who turned
out in a body. May God’s blessing
rest upon them all.
MADAM C. C. TRENT.
MR. AND MRS. J. R. HERNDON.
MR. AND MRS. R. G. TRENT.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Mrs. Isabelle Nance Crouch enter
tained twelve young ladles at her
home Monday evening, at which time
iho announced the engagement of her
laughter Blanche Zelle Nance to Mr.
Z. W. Webb of Mound City, 111. Since
Miss Nance’s return from Canada Bhe
has been attending Wilberforce uni
versity of which they are both grad
uates. The young couple will be mar
ried In Chicago early in September.
CLAIMS DETECTIVE
ASSAULTED HIM
William Smith Show* .Monitor Swollen
Jaws the Result of Blows from
Fist* of Burly Police
Officer
BRUTALITY IS UNJUSTIFIED
William Smith, 1506 South Twenty
second street, who claims to be thirty
years old, but who is quite small of
stature and looks like a youth of six
teen, visited the editor of the Moni
tor Sunday morning and showed hinii
two badly swollen jaws which he
said were the result of blows struck j
him without provocation by one of the
city detectives Saturday afternoon
about half past three o’clock at .the
corner of Thirteenth and Pacific
streets.
According to' Smith’s story, which
The Monitor has since verified by wit
nesses interviewed, he was standing
on the comer in question with a radio
Ret in his hand, talking to two boys,
Clany and Ural Lee of Thirteenth and
MaBon street, when two plain clothes
men said to be Detectives Aughe and
Frank, unobserved, came up behind
j him and one of them seizing him by
the arm accused him of stealing a
radio set and trying to sell it to a boy.
This Smith, who mukes radio sets, de
nied. The officers said their Inform
ant was a woman. Upon Smith’s de
nial one of the detectives, “the older
man with gold teeth”, as Smith de
scribed him, struck him several heavy
blows on the jaw. He was then taken
to the police station, but no charges
were filed against him, as the desk
sergeant or chief detective told the
men to take him to his home at 1506
i South Twenty-second street, and if he
was lying about making radio sets
they could find it out. They took him
to his home where they were shown
his tools and uncompleted radio sets
and were evidently satisfied.
The brutality practiced upon Smith
was damnably cowardly and unjusti
fiable as he is a mere boy in stature,
| and. even if he had been insolent to
the officers, which it is claimed he
was not, they would have had no right
to strike him. The Monitor advised
Smith to be sure of the identity of
the man who struck him and file
charges against him. Cases of this
kind should not be permitted to drop
or go by default.
BISHOP SHAYLER WILL
CONFIRM CLASS SUNDAY
The Rt. Rev. Ernest Vincent Shay
ler, D. D., bishop of Nebraska, will
visit the Church of St. Philip the
Deacon Sunday morning at 11 o’clock
to administer the sacrament of Holy
Confirmation. This will be the second
class presented this year. Evening
services will be resumed Sunday at 8
o’clock.
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RETURN FROM GRAND LODGE
Mrs. I^avinia Rose and Miss Jennie
Hieronymous, delegates from the Le
ona Burton Royal House and Aksarben
Temple, returned home Sunday from
attending the Grand lodge of U. B.
F. and S. M. T., held at Jefferson City,
Mo. They reported a pleasant trip
and a fine session.
VISITS COLLEGE FRIENDS
Dr. Joseph C. Dancy of Washing
ton, D. C., son of the late John C.
Dancy, late registrar of the United
States treasury, en route to Califor
nia for his health, has been an Oma
ha visitor for several days. Dr. Dan
cy is very favorably impressed with
Omaha He was a fellow student at
the University of Pittsburgh,, of
which he is a graduate, with William
G. Haynes and Ellsworth P. Pryor, of
this city.
ENTERTAINS AT
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mrs. J. W. Gatus, 2731 Caldwell
street, entertained at a delightful
birthday party in honor of her moth
er, Mrs. Elmira Owens of Ft. Du
quorin, HI., who is her guest, on Wed
nesday afternoon. A feature of the
party was a white birthday cake,
upon which were placed seventy-six
pink and white candles which was
brought in while the guests were be
ing served. The guest of honor was
made very happy by many gifts of
flowers and other tokens. About
twenty ladies were present.
ST. PAUL PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Twenty-fifth and Seward Streets.
Russel Taylor, Pastor.
Services Sunday were unusually
good. It so happened that a goodly
representation of those who are in the
railway service were In.
Dr. W. H. Kearns, synodical superin
tendent of missions and executive sec
retary of the New Era movement,
preached a very helpful sermon which
was enjoyed by all.
Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Mattie
Johnson, superintendent of the Sun
day school, and Mrs. Taylor, superin
tendent of the primary department,
plcniced with the children in Elmwood
park. The children certainly enjoyed
their play and bountiful luncheon.
The pastor will have for his morn
ing topic, "The Toilers".
Sunday evening ,1s the regular
monthly consecration meeting for the
Endeavorers. The topic and Scrip
ture are interesting, "Lessons from
the Psalms—A Singing Psalm”. Psalm
96:1-13.
We have made a decided step for
ward in attendance at our evening
services. Let’s keep It up!
Mrs. C. Rector of Little Rock, Ark.,
arrived in the city Sunday to visit
her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Davis, of
the South Side.
SAYS FRANCE WILL MAKE
NO RACE DISTINCTIONS
French Professor Declares Country
Owes Debt of Gratitude to Loyal
Black Defenders
(Crusader Service)
Williamstowh, Mass., August 31.—
Speaking at the Institute of Politics
here, Professor Cru, in answer to cer
tain remarks by Count Kessler, em
phasized that France owed a great
debt of gratitude to her African troops
and would make no distinction be
tween colored and other troops.
Count Kessler had stated his belief
that France started the new armament
race. In spite of France’s diminish
ing population, he said. France had
colonial reserves of men that were
increasing fast. Epen if France re
duced her metropolitan army she al
ways had the means of retaining the
largest military force in the world.
Count Kessler did not object to
black troops as such. From all he
heard they behaved no worse in Ger
many than white troops. What he
wanted to bring out was the develop
ment of France’s reserve of man
power in African troops.
COLORED ASSISTANT
CITY ARCHITECT
Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 31.—Mayor
Magee has appoited Louis A. R. Bel
linger as assistant to the city archi
tect. Mr. Bellinger is a college grad
uate and is a regular practicing archi
tect and one of the few Negroes of
the country who is registered to prac
tice under rigid state laws. His ap
pointment is merited because of his
splendid ability and fitness for the
position.
NEW YORK COLORCD MAN
GETS FEDERAL APPOINTMENT
New York, Aug. 31.—Paul W. Hen
derson, Assistant Postmaster-General,
directing head of the Railway Mall
Service, has appointed Samuel Lee, a
colored railway mail clerk, as super
visor of the New York terminal of the
Pennsylvania railroad. The commis
sion making Mr. I/?e supervisor was
brought, to New York by John D. Gai
rey, assistant chief clerk of the Rail
way Mail Service, who is a colored
man, recently raised from the ranks
of the service to the high position
that he now holds.
CAPTAIN TRENT OF
FIRE DEPARTMENT
DIES SUDDENLY
The community was startled Satur
day afternoon by the sad news of the
sudden death of Charles C. Trent,
junior captain of Hose Company No.
11 Omaha Fire Department. Captain
Trent who had been on night duty
this month was in good spirits and ap
parently in good health, with the ex
ception of what he considered a slight
cold contracted at a fire Thursday
night, when he went home Saturday
morning. About 2 o’cock in the after
noon he became quite ill, medical aid
was summoned and he was rushed to
Paxton Memorial hospital, where he
expired almost as soon as he reached
there from cerebral apoplexy.
Captain Trent was 49 years old. He
was born at Dalton, Mo., and had been
a resident of Omaha for twenty-five
years and a member of the Fire De
partment for sixteen. He is survived
by a widow, a brother, a sister and
other relatives. The funeral was held
Wednesday afternoon from Zion Bap
tist church under the auspices of
Rescue bodge A. F. and A. M. No. 4.
Rev. W. F. Botts officiated.
RETURNS TO HOME IN TULSA
Mrs. M. E. Dane of Tulsa, Okla.,
who has been the guest of her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R.
Parker, 1104 North Twenty-second
street, for the past month, has re
turned to her home in Oklahoma. She
told a distressing story of the Tulsa
riot of which she was a victim, her
house being burned at the time. She
has since rebuilt it and is getting on
nicely.
SAILS FROM NEW
YORK NEXT THURSDAY
Mrs. Grace Morris Hutten, who
has been appointed a government
teacher in Porto Rico, will leave Om
aha Monday for New York, whence'
she will sail Thursday, September «
on the San Lorenzo. Her many
friends wish her bon voyage.
MULTIPLYING MOBS
MENACING COUNTBY
MOVE COOLIDGE
_
Ko Klux Klan and Flogging Outbreaks
Cause Chief Executive to Con
sider Federal Anti
Mob Law
2 MORE LYNCHED, GEORGIA
Martial Law Suggested by Governor—
Disturbances Continue In
Oklahoma and
Ohio
Washington, D. C., Aug. 31.—Con
tinuing outbreaks of mob violence in
5 states have caused the Coolidge ad
ministration to consider legislation
making such offenses a crime against
the government.
Here is the tenor of dispatches
which reached the President’s desk
this week: 4
GEORGIA—Two colored men, Lee
Green and Aaron Harris, hanged and
riddled by mobs on trivial charges.
Three Hudson brothers, white, arrest
ed near Macon charged with flogging
colored men. They are thought to
be part of a gang terrorizing the
country for the past six months. Mar
tial law has been suggested to the gov
ernor.
FLORIDA—Alleged Klansmen over
powered the jailer at Eau Gallie and
: released an alleged member of the
l Klan from Jail.
TEXAS—Four state investigations
are under way in the supposed effort
to uncover who is responsible for the
| hundreds of floggings by masked
gangs.
OHIO—A district gathering of 50,000
Klansmen near Steubenville, Ohio,
threatens to end in bloodshed and civil
war.
OKIxAHOMA—Since martial law has
been proclaimed in Tulsa, there have
been four more floggings by alleged
Klansmen.
Coolidge Interested
President Coolidge was reported
deeply concerned by the apparent in
creased disregard for law and order.
The President and other government
officials were said to be considering
the advisability of enacting an anti
mob bill in the next Congress. The
proposed legislation would apply not
only to lynch mobs, but to all organ
izations of masked men who take the
law into their own hands.”
The Dyer bill, passed by the last
House, but “talked to death” in the
Senate by a Democratic filibuster, will
be reintroduced in the next Congress,
it has been learned. The Coolidge
administration is expectad to support
this measure inasmuch as the Execu
tive was elected on a platform which
pledged its enactment.
Federal authorities, however, hope
to extend the Dyer bill to include all
masked organizations attempting mob
violence of any nature.
Anti-Whipping Law
A movement now under way yould
amend the bill to make any act of
mob violence a federal crime. Under
this inventory would come the whip
pings, deportations and "tar and
feather” outrages, frequently attribut
ed to the Ku Klux Klan. Penalties
on a lesser scale than those applying
to lynchings would be provided.
WORK ASKS $509,000
FOR HOWARD UNIVERSITY
Washington, August 31.—Dr. Hubert
Work, Secretary of the Interior, will
ask Congress to appropriate $500,000
for the construction and equipment of
an addition to the medical and dental
school at Howard university here. Of
the amount sought $130,000 for equip
ment. These amounts have been al
ready included in the estimates of the
appropriations of the Department of
the Interior for the coming fiscal year
of 1925. Secretary Work said that it
is due to the insufficient facilities for
the education of the colored race in
the medical and dental professions
existing throughout the United States.
At the present time the medical
school of Howard university le being
conducted in a small building. Tike
proposed appropriation would be used
to build a large structure, which would
practically double its present capac
ity.
Miss Anna McKoin of Portland,
Oregon, is the guest of her cousin,
Mrs. W. E. Davis, 26th and Q street,
South Side.