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$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
