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I THE MONITOR A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy ^ \ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923 Whole Number 426 Vd. IX—No. 10 SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION WILL BE RADICALLY REDUCED BY MIGRATION, THE OPINION OF BLEASE KANSAS WARMLY WELCOMES WORKERS FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Fourteenth Annual Conference of the National Advancement Asso ciation Opens Annual Session. COOLIDGE SENDS MESSAGE Mayor and County Counselor Deliver Addresses of Welcome — Many Notables Are Present— Mass Meeting. Kansas City, Kansas, Sept. 7. — With delegates in attendance from nearly every state in the Union, tha National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People opened its Fourteenth Annual Conference in Kansas City, Kansas, with a mass meeting on the night of Wednesday, August 29. Mayor W. W. Gordon and the Hon. J. L. Brady, County Coun selor of Wyandotte County, delivered warm addresses of welcome and a message of greeting was read from President Calvin Coolldge in which the President termed the N. A. A. C. P. as "representative of one of the most useful and effective efforts in l>ehalf of the colored people of the country.” Others who snnVe at th» meeting were Bishop W. T. Vernon of the A. M. K. Church of South Africa, and Tester A. Walton, negro staff correspondent of the New York World. On the day before the meeting spe cial cars rolled into the Kansas City Terminal, bringing delegates and vis itors from all parts of the country and it was estimated fully 500 people had come to the conference from oth er parts of the country, states as dis tant as Texas, California, and New Jersev l*ing represented. In his address of welcome Mayor Gordon asserted that colored people were entitled to the co-operntion of whites and should have it. He said there had never been racial strife in Kansas City, Kansas, and said that relations were so cordial he had told the police department “to go fish ing" during the conference. Mayor Gordon said: “Th*» destiny of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col ored People lies within the co-opera tion of its membership because no or ganization of any kind, no State or Nation, can survive a wave of opposi tion unless those who compose the organization stand nobly by it and advocate its cause. In doing this, you must have the co-operation of the white race as well as of the colored race. This you are entitled to receive and I have no doubt that this co-op eration wil be gladly given you. Bishop Vernon spoke of the injus tices that were driving colored people northward from the southern states and Mr. Walton of the New York World, urged that the migrants be helped in every possible way to adjust themselves in their new environ ment. He urged the establishment of housing commissions, composed joint ly of white and colored citizens. White Southern Woman Speaks At the second evening mass meet ing, Mrs. Thos. W. Bickett, widow of the former governor of North Caro lina and chairman of the woman's section of the Inter-Racial Commit tee, delivered an address of greeting from that body and told of the south ern women’s efforts to stamp out lynching and mob violence. She said committees were at work in every southern state, and in 800 counties, working for race betterment. She said: “We are a long, long way from solving the race problem in the south, but we have made a hopeful begin ning. As interested, thoughtful white men and women we are seeking k through our civic and religious or ganizations to meet in the spirit of co-operation and leading men and women of the negro race In the com munity in which we live. We are be coming increasingly conscious of the fact that as those in authority our re sponsibility towards the Negro can not lie evaded and many of our peo ple are going forward with a deter mination that no unfair advantage shall be taken of the Negro, but that he shall receive justice and fair treat ment which is his due, and which we cannot withhold if we wish to retain AN IMPORTANT EVENT AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE; Four Students Receive Degrees In i Agriculture at Famous Seat I of Learning. — Hampton, Va., Sept. 7.—An epoch j making event took place in Ogden! Hall, Hampton Institute, Thursday evening, August 30, when the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agricul tural Fiducation was conferred upon each member of the first class to graduate from the new agricultural college course. Five young men start-! ed thiR course, and of the five four j remained to the end. These four rep- 1 i resent the North, South, East and | West—Harrison D. Jacobs from Mas- I j sachusetts, Thomas E. Johnson, Jr.,; j from Mississippi, Burke M. Mathias I I from Oklahoma, and D. Coaken Jones from Georgia. These four young men | already have excellent positions up I on which they will enter at once. The | first becomes, a teacher of agricul ture in the State Normal 'School at Elizabeth City, N. C., the second a teacher of vocational agriculture in a high school in Marion, Ark.; the third a teacher of agriculture in Langston University, Langston, Ok ■ lahoma; and the fourth will become a farm-demonstration agent under the Federal Government in Virginia. For more than half a century Hampton Institute had been known as a secondary school, and when it was proposed to add courses of col lege grade some doubted whether such a thing would actually be done. , The conferring of degrees has con clusively answered all such doubters. 1 Hampton Institute has now taken its place among institutions of college 1 grade. i 1 THE Til I HI) PAX-AKRIfAX COM)BESS MEETS IX NOVEMBER | New York, Sept. 7.—The third Pan African Congress will meet in Ixmdon, England, and Lisbon, Portugal, next November. This announcement was made Friday by l)r. Du Bois, acting chairman of the executive committee of the Pan-African Association. The Pan-African Association Is th/ per manent body formed in Paris in 1921 for the purpose of promoting a Pan African Congress every two years and for other objects. The president is M. Cratlen Candace, the colored depu ty in the French parliament repre senting the Island of Gaudelope. M. Candace has been in print lately be cause of his Biiccess in forcing the French government to take a stand on American Negro prejudice. The secretary of the association is \1. Isaac Beton, a young teacher in the French public schools. M. Ueton has been much discouraged at the ap parent lack of response to his effort to rally the Negro race throughoutXhe world to the support of the Pan-Afri can Congress. The congress was ori ginally announced for Lisbon in mid September hut it seemed impossible to arrange a meeting so early and Dr. Du Hols and his executive committee j have therefore called a November i meeting. It is hoped that a number of American Negroes, especially repre sentatives of large organizations, will make the trip to I»ndon and Lisbon. They will get a chance to see the real Europe In winter and not simply at vacation time. There will be an op l portunlty to visit the beautiful winter ! resorts of southern France and Africa I lies only an hour's Hail from Portugal, j Persons Interested are invited to cor respond immediately with Dr. W. E. j B. Du Hols, G9 Fifth Avenue, New i York City, N. Y. ASK YOUR MERCHANT OR THOSE FROM WHOM YOU BUY WHY HE DOES NOT ADVER ’ TISE IN YOUR NEWSPAPER. our self respect.” The program of the N. A. A. C. P. Conference included a visit to the Federal Penitentiary on Saturday, Sept. 1, where the delegates and vis itors were to talk with the impris oned members of the 24th infantry, sentenced after the Houston Riot. Other speakers on the schedule in cluded Governor Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri; Arthur B. Spingarn, Bishop John Hurst, T. A. McNeal, Kansas editor; Representative L. C. Dyer, T. G. Nutter of West Virginia; Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson of Deleware, Harvey L. Ingham, editor of the Moines Register; Dr. G. W. Lucas of New Orleans; James Weldon John son; George W. Gross of Denver and Dr. George E. Cannon. NATIVE AFRICANS JOIN NATIONALIST PARTY Cape Town, S. A., Septf. 7.—Native Africans, meeting at Bloemfontein and calling themselves the African National Congress, passed resolu tions declaring that Prime Minister Smuts had lost the confidence of the native population, “and that the time had come when the Bantu should consider the advisability of support ing a Republican form of govern ment. This declaration is considered of arresting significance by the colonial press, and indicates the success of the Nationalist Party propaganda among the colored people, following upon the resolution, the Nationalist leader, General Hertzog, addressed a meet ing of colored people at Kimberley. He assured them that the Nationalists would accord them full justice ana sconomic equality. I'KENIBEN'T COOLIDGE SENDS GREETINGS TO NEGRO ADVANCEMENT BODY Calls Its Work “One of Most Useful and Effective Efforts’’ for Colored People Kansas City, Kans., Sept. 7.—Pres ident Calvin Coolidge sent the follow ing message of greeting to the Four teenth Annual Conference of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, holding a race relations conference in Kansas City: THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON My Dear Mr. Whit®: Thank you for drawing my attention lo the approaching Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I have long regarded this gathering as representative of one of the most use ful and effective efforts in behalf of i the colored people of the country, and ] sincerely trust that its sessions this yeur may be as productive of benefi cial results as they have been in the past. Most sincerely yours, (Signed) CALVIN COOLIDGE Mr. Walter White, Assistant Secretary, National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, Bit Fifth Avenue, New York City. GOES TO LITTLE ROCK ON BUSINESS TRIP George H. W. Bullock left Tuesday morning for Little Rock,Ark.,to meet the officials of the Mosaic Templars of America on business connected with the Kaffir Chemical Laboratories, a race enterprise of this city, which manufactures Dentlo, a well-known tooth paste, Sultox and other pro ducts, in their building at Sixteenth and Cuming street, advantageously located property which is rapidly in creasing in value. Don’t BORROW your neighbor's Monitor, become a subscriber your self or buy one at the newsstand. JOSEPH P. EVAHS CASE CORRECTLY STATED FOR PUBLIC Incomplete Press Reports and Inac curate Accounts Shown to Be Quite Misleading — In terest Intense. RULING MIST IMPORTANT (Special to The Monitor, by Walter J. Singleton.) Washington, D. C., Sept. 3, 1923. The intense interest which has been created in the case of Joseph P. Ev ens, former Grand Master of Masons for the State of Maryland against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Co., has led The Monitor to obtain through its Washington correspon dent a complete story of the whole affair. Evans was in Charleston, W. Va., on March 21, 1922, whefe he pur chased a first class ticket over the C. & C, lines for Cincinnati, Ohio, on through train No. 3, leaving Charles ton at noon, At Kentucky State line he was requested to leave the car in which he was riding with the whites and go into a car set aside for colored passengers by a secret rule of defen dant requiring the separation of all white and colored passengers regard less of their destination. This car, No. 447, was a combination express and passenger car, and the car No. 651, in which he had been riding wan a whole passenger car. Evans declined to be disturbed and at Ashland. Kentucky, was arrested by a special officer of the State of Kentucky for refusing to be segregated. He was taken before Judge Kennedy of theAshland Muni cipal Court, who held a long confer ence with the local prosecuting attor ney and the Kentucky counsel for the road, which resulted in his release. Judge Kennedy informing him that he had committed no offense for which he could be held. After return ing to his home in Baltimore, Evans retained the Hon. W. Ashbie Hawkins to secure redress. Mr. Hawkins in turn associated with him Counselors Richard R. Homer and George H. Murray, the well known authority in matters relating to interstate com merce, who acted as chief counsel for Evans. At the hearing which occupied the entire day of June 20, 1928, it was developed that the road* had never filed its separate car regulation with, the Interstate Commerce Commission, which counsel for Evans contended invalidated the rule and the fare. Ev ans also contends that one-half of an express car for colored passengers and a whole car for white passengers paying the same fare does not con stitute equal accommodations in in terstate commerce within the mean ing of the Interstate Commeice Act. The road, through its Assistant Gen eral Solicitor, Mr. Sherlock Bronaom, NOTED COLORED RECTOR WAS PAGE WITH SLEMP New York, Sept. 7. —The Rev. George T. Bragg, Jr., rector of the leading colored Episcopal Church in Baltimore, as a boy, was page in the Virginia legislature with C. Bascom Slemp, former Con gressman from Virginia, and recently appointed secretary to the President. “The elder Slemp was at that time a member of the house," writes Dr. Bragg in the New York Age, "and he was a magnificent man. Bascom' was as fine a boy as on# would desire to meet. It does not fol low that a white Republican who does not agree with us in everything is necessarily a Negro hater. Let us be fair and give Mr. Slemp a trial. He may prove a better friend than ex pected.” recognition from fraternal order FOR LOCAL PHYSICIAN Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Gooden return ed Saturday morning from Denver, Col., and other Colorado points where they went for a brief visit after the meeting of the Grand Lodge of the United Brothers of Friendship and the Sisters of the Mysterious Ten which met at Jefefrson City, Mo., August 19-21. Dr. Gooden was elected grand medical register of the order for this jurisdiction which embraces Missouri. Iowa and Nebraska. As this is a coveted position Dr. Gooden is re ceiving the congratulations of his friends upon the recognition. takes the position that the rule, being one intended to promote order and de corum and not affecting the value of the services was not required to be filed and that the accommodations of fered Evans in car No. 447 were su perior to those in No. 651, in which he was riding. Other issues raised by Evans were that the rule is unreas onable and not in conformity with the actual sentiment of Kentucky, and that his unlawful arrest and deten tion subjected him to undue prejudice in violation of the Transportation Act. The hearing, while spirited from a legal standpoint, was at all times amicable, the usual references to ra cial inferiority and other stock inci dents of hearings of this kind were markedly absent. A striking feature of the testimony was that, of Con ductor L. B. Miller, who testified thal as much trouble is experienced with the whites as with the colored passen gers in enforcing the rule of segrega tion. Exhaustive briefs have beei filed by both sides and the next stej will be the filing of the proposed re port of Examiner Fuller, before whon the testimony was taken. The case will then go to the Commission on ex ceptions to the Examiners findings The case is regarded in interstab commerce circles as a very sweeping and adroit attack on Jim Crow car which, if upheld, will bring about i radical revision of carrier practices. EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON < Bishop Shayler Confirms Class of Five Candidates and Preaches Sermon | A large congregation was present Sunday morning at 11 o’clock when the Rt. Rev. Ernest V. Shaler, D. D., bishop of Nebraska, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to a class of five, addressed them, and delivered ! an instructive sermon from I. S. Timo thy, 2:15. The bishop stressed the ; fact that the Church is the pillar and | ground of the truth. The address to the candidates on "The Christian Life” ! was most practical and peculiarly be fitting. The confirmees were Dwight Robinson Rorsey, Mrs. Mary (Wood) ! Jackson, Virginia Jackson, Adele : Jackson and Hattie Gaston. Just before the 11 o’clock service the Sacrament of Holy Baptism was administered to Adele, Warren, Madree and Homer, children of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Thckson, the sponsors being I the parents, George H. Bullock and Mrs. John Albert Williams. The serviees next Sunday will be as follows: Holy communion 7:30 a. m.; matins, 8:30; Church school, 10; sung eucharist with sermon, 11; evening prayer and sermon, 8 o’clock. NEWSLETS — Three automobile loads of white men rode through a colored settle ment! at Savannah, Ga., firing into the houses, killing one man, seriously wounding another and slightly injur ing several. Having confessed participation in whipping Mrs. Myrtle Goolsby in July, 1922, Arthur Finley, constable at Broken Arrow, Okla., was sen tenced to the penitentiary by the Tulsa court. Colonel David P. Barrows, former president of the University of Cali- j j fornia, sailed for Africa to live a year 1 j among die Negroid Senagalese and Sudanese to study their characteris tics and the governmental administra tion devised for their control. Re vival of Mohammedism among the 180,000,000 natives of Sudan is given | as the cause for their unrest. Warsaw papers consider favorably the proposition of the French govern ment to colonize the overflow of Pol ish population in Africa. The determ ination of the United States to re strict immigration into this country from foreign countries until its own labor is fully included and employed in its industries causes the Poles to seek other countries. Ras Tafari, descendant of the in domitable Menelek and present King of Abysinnia, is a working monarcn. Executing a recent road building program in that country, each man carries a stone from the Kubbana Rive r tothe highway under construc tion. Ras Tafari leads the procession of his subjects carrying the heaviest burden. W. S. George, of East Pales tine, Ohio, has contributed $50,000 to erect the first modem hospital in the kingdom. —o When Secretary of the Treasury Mellon learned that his messenger, Richard Green, was critically ill, he called in the best specialists in Wash ington to attend him. Mr. Green en tered the service of the government under President Grant. He is six feet in height and possesses rare courtesy and dignified bearing, which make him a general favorite in the depart ment. He has been on the door of the highest officials of the Treasury for thirty years. Arthur G. Froe, of West Virginia, Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, called upon President Coolidge last week and enlisted his support for an appropriation of $500,000 to build a suitable office for housing the priceless documents un der Mr. Froe's charge. Mr. Charles Waters of Pittsburgh, Pa., who has been visiting his daught Mrs. E. P. Pryor, Bon-in-law and family, returned to his home Tues day evening, delighted with his visit and very favorably impressed with Omaha. Messrs. J. H. Broomfield and Har ry Buford returned Froday from an i extensive motor trip through the l east. They reported a most enjoyable and interesting trip. POLITICAL POWER RAPIDLY PASSING FROM SORTHLAHD Migration Northward Will Canae Rad ical Reduction In Congressiona 1 Representation and Prestige . SOLID SODTH IS DOOMED Ex-Governor Cole Blease Presents Unwelcome and Startling Facts Before Large Audience at Columbia. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 7.—TOe Mi gratory Movement has cost the state of Georgia more than 32,000,000 in a single year! The migratory movement has cost the south a decrease; of almost 600. 000 people in population. The migratory movement ha* caused federal authorities to inve^i gate more rapidly the stories of peonage and to urge a federal law to abolish lynching and the use of the mask. But more potent, more powerful and more dreadful (to the white south) is the realization that with the departure of the Negro goes the political power of the South. Speaking on this phase of the ques tion, an entirely new angle is given it by Cole Blease, one-time Governor of South Carolina. South’s Power Doomed “The Might of the1 Solid South is a Fading Glory.” Standing before an audience of five thousand white and colored citizens here, Cole Blease, one-time Governor of the State, at a conference for the discussion of inter-racial relations, * threw a bomb shell into the calm con tentment of the whites by telling them that the scepter of political power was about to depart from Ju dah. Taking the question up in detail, he told them how they had enjoyed representation in the lower house of Congress upon the basis of popula tion. In a state where the two races were equal in number, like his own, the whites had all the representatives though the blacks furnished half of the population on which they were apportioned. With migration going on, and thousands and tens of thou sands leaving, the 1930 census will find an entire shift of population, the South having less and the North hav ing more people. The result will be less Southern Congressmen and more Northern. Cole Blease, in all his terms of of fice, made nationally famous by his spectacular acts, such as the release of many hundreds of prisoners from the state penal institutions, never made spch a sensation as this speech. Secure for half a century in political power, regardless of shifts of opinion, elsewhere in the country, Southern democracy has wrapped its mantle of power about it and stood to be catered to. Its certainty of continued victory has made it the leader of even the National Democratic party. It has imposed its will upon the National party through its unity in caucus. And now, as related by Cole Blease the boll weevil and the migration of the Negro have stripped off the robe and shown it to be just a big impos ing shell, covered over with pretense and supported on the skeleton legs of shifting population. DR- J. H. HUTTEN GOES TO CALIFORNIA BY AUTO nr. and Mrs. Jess* H. Hutten left by auto early Saturday morning for Cali fornia where they expect to remain for a year. Dr. Hutten, who has been one of Omaha’s most successful physi cians, has been practising here for the past twenty-five years without taking a vacation. He has decided to take a year’s rest. The beautiful Hutten residence on North Thirty-third street has been rented by Mrs. Lizzie Buford wha has sold her large and attractive * home, 3610 Blondo street. Friday night a reception was tendered Dr. and Mrs. Hutten at St. Paul’s Pres byterian church, of which Dr. Hutton 1h an elder, and many friends availed themselves of this opportunity of wishing them Godspeed upon their Journey. Mrs. Ruth Seay leaves this after noon to resume her duties as teacher in the St. Joseph, Mo., high school