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r22^'"100 THE M0NITOR • A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor 12.00 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1923 , Whole Number 429 Vol. IX—No. 13 BAPTISTS RE-ELECT CHICAGO PASTOR NATIONAL HEAR Doctor Williams Chosen By Great Convention Which Closes Epoch Making Session at I .os Angeles. _ OMAHAN AMONG OFFICERS President Urges Better Schools and Social and Economic Justice For the Race. (By the Associated Negro Press) Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 27. — The forty-third annual convention closed here after what officials and dele gates declared to be one of the finest sessions the convention has ever had. The attendance of delegates was large, many ministers having em braced the opportunity to bring their wives and families with them on this trip to beautiful California and they leave loud in their praises of the beauty and charm of Los Angeles, as well as the enterprise and hospitality of her people. Business of major proitortions was transacted and the annual report of President L. K. Williams of Chicago, pictured a march of Christian prog ress and constructive effort on behalf of the body which was highly inspir ing to the assembly. In his annual address, Dr. Williams touched, among other vital subjects. Missionary Endeavors, Home and Foreign, the Home Mission Board, better facilities and preachers for the rural population, the development of young men for the church, co-opera tion with standard Baptist organiza tions of the world, Christian Educa tion, the new publishing house at Nashville, and migration, on which he said: War Helped Race "The World War helped the Ne gro, for it has made him conscious of his inherent powers and rich op portunities, and feels keenlv the pres ent world’s unrest. Questioning these migrants you will find that '.his movement is a strike against an un satisfactory order of things. He toils his own story. He wants better tchdbls, equal civil rights, and justice in the courts. He wants higher wages anil better living conditions: be wants better transportation accommoda tions and a just distribution of pub lic funds to take care, of dependent members of his race; he wants the abolishment of the convict lease sys tem, and the end of a class of over seers, the passing of certain cropping, tenantry systems and non-setMemenf practices now in vogue in many lo calities. He wants freedom from fears of mobs and lynchers and from all group rule, visible or invisible; he desires safety and the guarantee of better police protection; he wants inter-facial misunderstanding and prejudice wiped out, and restored confidence in his white neighbor: he wants economic freedom, undisturbed industrial opportunities and in many cases better religious environments. Among the national officers elected wag the Rev. E. H. Me Donald, D. D., of Omaha, Nebraska, who was chosen for the position of assistant secretary. The Rev. L. K. Williams of Chicago was re-elected as president. -* WELL KNOWN W AITER DIES AT DEN MOINES, IOWA Warner Maunders, formerly of this city, waiter on on the Union Pacific railroad from Omaha to Ogden, Utah, died September 19, being confined to bed only ten days by pneumonia tuber culosis. He w’aa converted and bap tized Sunday, September 17. His moth er, Mrs. Ella Long; father-in-law, W. H. Lung, 2517 l.ake street, and aunt, Idna Branham, were at ^ls bed Bide when the end came. They took the body to Chllllcothe, Mo., where funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Zion church. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Long returned home Sunday night. -O - REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATIC \ * BACKS DYER b. < Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 28.—“Believ ing that the enactment of the Dyer Anti-lynching Bill will be in harmony with the traditions and spirit of the Republican Party of the Nation and State,” Kings County Republican Club passed a resolution backing the measure to be presented to the next Congress. Charles C. Lockwood, State Senator, is a member of the club, and many other leading Republicans are connected. . TENNIS TOURNAMENT WON BY TEXAS GIRL New York, Sept. 28.—Miss Viola T. Dolphie, who came to New York a year ago, won the annual tennis tour nament at Central Park. As her op ponents appeared they were singly eliminated by the brilliant playing of Miss Dolphie, whose opponent in the finals was Miss Dalia Schwimmer, a Jewish girl. The winner is from Cor pus Christi, Texas, and attended Aus tin High School, Tillotson College, and finally graduated from Fisk Uni versity at Nashville. L ABOR LEADER DIES AT ST. PAUL, MINN. St. Paul, Minn„ Sept. 28. — While talking and laughing with friends at his home, Charles E. James, 69 years of age, nationally known colored la bor leader, was attacked by heart failure and died immediately. Mr. James was president of the Trades and labor Assembly, and was active in St. Paul circles, acting as a mem ber of the national board of the Shoe Workers’ Union for twenty years. RETURNS FROM NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION The Rev. F,. H. McDonald, D. D., pastor of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, returned Thursday from Los Angeles, Cal., where he attended the National Baptist Convention. Dr. McDonald was elected for the fifteenth consec utive time one of the assistant secre taries of the convention, a postiion he has filled with eminent success for severul yeurs. Dr. McDonald will con duct services at Mt. Moriah Sunday at the appointed hour. I’l Ml KI M BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. William Franklin, Pastor. A large congregation greeted the pastor Sunday morning after a three weeks’ absence. The young men’s Sunday school class, of which he is teacher, was present in large num bers. He paid them a high tribute. A bunriuet wsb given in his honor Tues day night under the auspiceB of the Florida club. A capacity house welcomed Rev. E. L. Phillips of Anniston, Ala., at 8 p. m. He was introduced by the pastor as one of hiH fellow workers In that stale. His subject was "The (Ireut Flection Day". As a token of appre ciation he was given a purse of $16.00. The monthly Joint meeting of the B. Y. P. U. was held tit Bethel Baptist church, South Side, Sunday evening. H. J. Ford, vice-president, presided; Mrs. J. N. Bruce, secretary. The les son was Illustrated and analyzed by Prof. Steward, ex-psesident of Bethel. A rally of the B. Y. P. U. will be held Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock for which a special program has been arranged. Principal among tlTP speak ers will be the Rev. Frederick Divers, pastor of Bethel A. M.E. church, and the Rev. E. C. W. Cox, pastor of Orove M. E. church; a special violin rendi tion by Prof. N. M. Richards of the Richards Schools of Music, and solos by Madames Downing, Bruce and Bentloy. Tags will be sold by the four groups comprising the Union and a handsome prize given to the group raising the most money. NATIONAL EVANGELIST VISITS OMAHA FRIENDS The Rev. E. L. Phillips, recently ap pointed national evangelist by the De partment of Evangelism of the Na tional Baptist convention, stopped over In Omaha the latter part of last week, enroute to his home at Anniston, Ala., and was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. West Dean and their daughter, Lucille Dean, at the Hallam Apartments. He preached at Zion Baptist church Sun day morning at Pilgrim at night to large congregations. EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON The usual services will be held 811% day at 7:30, 10 and 11 a. m. and 8 P m.—The Friday night services will be resumed October 5.—The Girls’ Frlend .ly Society held an interesting meet ing Monday afternoon at the Rectory. The Woman’s Auxiliary met with Mrs. H. R. Roberts Thursday afternoon. Have you paid your subscription for The Monitor? &. j' The Annual Fall Game ~li ~ EI6)HTEEH. SEVENTY- Fivi- | IP nineteen-nineteen amp k A QUARTER-NINETEEN k f if tv,-Nineteen seventy E HOW* WE SHOULD FACE THE BIG PROBLEMS OF MIGRATION Original Oration Delivered by Mrs. M. H. Wilkinson, of Omaha, Nebraska, in the Oratorical Contest of the Na tional Meeting of the Baptist Women’s Missionary So ciety at Los Angeles, California, Friday, Sept. 7th, 1923. Every race .and each generation has its problems which it must face and solve. Fifty-nine years ago, God heard the groanings of our forefathers, and moved the great heart of the immor tal Abraham Lincoln to sign the Em ancipation Proclamation that gave freedom to three millions of slaves, who, through Providence, were brought from the sunny shores of Af rica to the sunnyland of the South, where they faithfully served for two nundred and fifty years. Scarcely had they sipped of the joy of freedom when they and their progeny were I so-called heathen nations have been moved to compassion for the Ameri can Negro, why not the great com passionate God who Is peculiarly in sympathy with T?'*. righteous when oppressed. It was He, who shook their slumbering consciousness and awoke it to all its miseries; by His Spirit, He moved them to unrest, to desire and seek a place of safety and opportunity. The country wondered at the gneat unrest and exodus. The South became alarmed and its Phar aohs said, ‘‘We will not let this peo ple go!” “Hut,” said they, “does not your Declaration of Independence for , I MRS. M. H. WILKINSON ushered into a second fornj of slavery more wretched than the first; morally free and yet in bondage, without pow er o’r protection, citizens without suf frage, taxed without representation, a margin age, a boy in privilege. Had the South, with her great resources, measured up to her wonderful oppor tunities of making these faithful peo ple a part of her constituency her economic condition today would be unparalleled instead of tottering on the brink of ruin! The social relations of humanity are such that one cannot, hurt others, without inviting disaster to one’s self. The problems of migration with the South must bn faced on the square, not with the Ku Klux Klan. The Negro has lost faith in the South The World’s War stimulated his morale and enlarged his vision; he therefore demands justice and the rights of a man and citizen. He has proven himself trustworthy as a ser vant, patriotic as a citizen, heroic as a soldier, unselfish in sacrifice for the country called his home. Still, he is burned and tortured and subjected to jimcrowism and hellish peonage. His human blood and burnt bones send up an abominable stench to God from the earth. * You wonder why the migration? If your country say, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are en dowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’?” Our lives are in jeopar dy, our liberty restrained, our happi ness is chased away by the bitterness of our experiences.” Hud the South, at this time, re pented and faced these victims of jealousy and prejudice with kindness and justice to better conditions, her (large plantations would not be vacant today! Like every migrant, by night they had dreams and by day visions of the dawn of the new day, that would afford them more favorable opportunities. Their hearts were filled with hope and joy, for long op pression suppresses the spirit, damp ens hope and kills aspiration. It is true many problems have arisen from their migration in a measure distressing and alarming. Whether these be religious, social, economic or political—there is a solu tion. It is a question for us now; how should we face these problems? A strong raciul consciousness is neces sary. The people of the world are divided into races. Every group has racial in [ terests aside from the national or the common interests of mankind. The world now exacts all races that seek recognition to prove whether they are possessors of an operative social capacity which enables them to bring about social amelioration equal to it her races that are contributing to ward the advancement of the world’s civilization. The nobility and accom plishments of any race depend upon the pride and loyalty of its individual members. The great apostle Paul boasted first of being a Jew, and second a Roman citizen. Individuals are hon ored according to the status of their race. Does not £he government file every citizen according to his race? As a group, we can ill afford to al low the sections of the country to cause any dissensions among us. “Seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” Let our faces, our hopes, our aims be one. Unity of opinion and unity of action are neces sary if we would face and solve our problems. Migration brings such problems as adaptation to new environments, housing, employment, and so forth. Organization and co-operation are the great factors needed to face and cope with these increasing problems. Ac cording to Dr. Haynes, there are four classes of migrants from the South: the first the floating class; the sec ond the thrifty middle class, which is in the majority, honest, hard work ing, semi-skilled and unskilled work ers, who seek better wages and bet ter living conditions; the third class comprising a considerable number of skilled artisans, such as carpenters, brick layers, and tailors; the fourth class a number of enterprising busi ness and professional men. As an as set they are invaluable, especially in the sparsely settled West. They are an inspiration and support to our re ligious work, an impulse to our busi ness, and an addition to our political strength — when we systematically harmonize our forces. Rut, tell me, is it wise for the South to move North, East, and West, and still endeavor to be a separate people and to establish Southern cus toms—or to be left alone to face and acquaint themselves with new condi tions and problems in a strange city? Mark other nationalities, the Jew in particular, who always has welfare organizations to give legal advice and to assure comfort and protection for members of their group who desire it. Will the Negro orgunize themselves for the common interest of all, or will the South remain South wherever ij; goes? A capacity for readaption is the acid test of a people, to show their spirit for advancement or for clinging to an old beaten path. The alooftness of the North, in some in stances, has caused the correspond ing distancy of the South. COLORED WOMAN LEAVES ESTATE TO WHITE PEOPLE Baltimore, Mr., Sept. 28. — Balti moreans prominent in society were remembered in the will of Mrs. Alice Davis, colored, filed for probate in the Orphans’ Court by William F. Lucas, Jr., executor. Mrs. Davis died July 27 at the age of seventy-two. She had served for fifty-five years in the family of Mr. and Mrs. John Moncure Robinson, and in her will remembers several mem bers of the Robinson family. HUSBAND SHOT BY WIFE SUCCUMBS T TO HIS WOUNDS Mrs. Hazel Vaughn Held for Shooting Husband Who Threatened Her Life Released By Court. Anton Vaughn, died at St. Joseph's hospital Sunday night as the result of a gunshot wound in the abdomen, in flicted by his wife, Hazel Vaughn, Friday night about 6 o’clock at the Godley home, Twenty-third and Izard street. The couple were separated and he had frequently threatened to kill her unless she returned to him. He had been arrested on several occa sions for beating her and had just been released from jail a day or two before the tragedy for attacking her. Learning of his release and fearing for her safety, Mrs. Vaughn, who is employed at the Foutenelle hotel, took a pistol with her to work Friday morning. As she alighted from the car at Twentieth and Cuming street F'riday evening her husband met her and insisted that she accompany him to the Godley home to clear up a mis understanding. When they reached there, he knocked her down, kicked her, drew' a knife and threatened to kill her. She shot him and gave her self up to the police. Thursday morn ing at the hearing she was released from custody, the court holding from the evidence that it was a case of self defense. Mrs. Vaughn has two chil dren by a former marriage whom she had been working hard to support. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 28. -*• An ex hibition showing what is being done for the advancement of colored people of Cincinnati will be given by the Y. M. C. A., for one week, beginning October 1st. These migrants are facing new conditions — they feel a certain strangeness. There is inevitably a feeling of loneliness and friendliness, perhaps, the expectancy of being un welcome. There should be strict ex amination on the part of the old resi dents to see if either consciously or unconsciously they furnish ground for this feeling. If so, they should banish it, and meet them with love and friendliness. A friendly spirit must be cultivated to face and solve these problems. Do we realize fully our racial and social responsibilities ? Are we ask ing ourselves as individuals, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” A greater so cial spirit must be created among our group or else we will be helpless to face the problems of migration. For the sake of the unprepared migrants, who have not had the opportunity to acquire the knowledge, habits, and graces of the cultured migrants, our forces should be organized in every city in some welfare organization supported by membership fees and dues. A Bureau of Information should be maintained. An Employ ment Bureau, a Committee on Hous ing, a Social Settlement should be kept with the necessary classes, such as Citizenship, Racial Progress and Capacity, Domestic Science, Child’s Welfare—thus meeting the needs of the parent and the child. Welfare workers should be engaged to make friendly visits and raise the standard of citizenship in the community. The Church should lead in encouraging this work; she must grasp her oppor tunity for applying the social teach ings of Christ, who ministered not only to the spiritual but physical needs of man. Such collective effort would enable us to face and help solve many prob lems of migration. Quoting Sutton E. Griggs, “The advanced section of the world today, has each of you standing against the wall, not to be measured by the height of your body, nor the strength of your intellect, nor (the size of your purse, but by your capacity for handling the civic duties of man. In short, the world demands a new chorus from the throats of the various races of men. The cry we are men, we think and feel as you do, no longer has weight. What is demanded is the shout backed by evidence, that we are splendid team mates, alert to the social duties of man, and able to execute them with a high degree of efficiency.” This efficiency will demonstrate it self in the genuine whole-heartedness with which we welcome the migrant, and by the Divine alchemy of helpful friendship, transmute him into an asset of priceless value to our com munity, if she would hold her prest ige in this period of reconstruction. JOHISTOWMTES REPUDIATE THEIR i CZAR-LIKE MAYOR Citizens Overwhelmingly Defeat Canf flel Candidate for Denomina tion at the Decent Primaries FOIL-HARDINESS REBUKED Governor Pinchot Disapproves of Highanded Methods of the Johnstown Mayor Johnstown, Pa., Sept. 28.—Joseph Catfffiel, self-styled “Ivan the Ter rible”, arch prosecutor, has been call ed to account for his infamous edict ordering the wholesale deportation of Negroes from this city. Mayor Cauf fiel, following the killing of two po licemen, by Negroes, is credited" with ' ordering all Negroes who have not been residents of Johnstown for seven years to leave immediately; command ing all Negroes coming to Johnstown to report to himself or the chief of police their business here, and deny ilg to Negroes the right of assembly other than for worship. Following the protest of the'National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Governor Pinchot tele graphed tlie association that “the whole power of this commonwealth will be used, if necessary, to maintain I constitutional rights.” The governor also announced that the mayor had been wired requesting a “full statement of facts and" reason for action taken.” Caul'flel Defeated at Polls The mayor was further rebuked Tuesday in the election in which he was stamped for a second term. Not only Negroes, but also whites regis tered their harsh disapproval of this iniquitous modern Biblical Hainan, who has attempted to inject poisonous venom into the hearts of the local citizenry against a peaceful people who have come at their own Invita tion. It is believed in authentic circles that the mayor issued his ignominious decree bidding for the vote of the Ku Klux Klan and" its sympathizers. The returns of Tuesday'^ voting showed that he had made himself very unpop ular and was trailing behind in sixth place. LEDRUE GALLOWAY, ATHLETIC STAR, GOES TO IOWA UNIVERSITY Ledrue Cooper Gailloway, the pop ular athletic star of Central High school, left last week for Iowa City, Iowa, to enter the Iowa State Univer sity to pursue his pre-medic course. Fellow students and influential friends were anxious to have him enroll! at Nebraska State University, but be cause Nebraska is now in the Missouri Valley association, some of the mem bers of which bar colored athletes, other friends urged him to enter Iowa or Minnesota. Galloway stood well in scholarship at Central and V'as the outstanding star on the football team for three seasons, being chosen as All State Tackle in 1921 and All-State Half-Hack in 1922. He also starred In track, basket-ball and base-ball work. Speaking of his almost unanimous selection as All-State Halfback, the World-Herald said, “He is tine, clean player, and a gentleman on the field and off.” Ijedrue Galloway will win for himself a high place in college athletics. Geneva, Sept. 28.—Italy has notified the League of Nations that she has ordered the abolition of the slavery system existing within the Italian legation in the empire of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), which recently applied for membership In the league. New York, Sept. 28.—There is talk of consolidated colored banking houses of several northern cities with banks in Jacksonville, Savannah and Norfolk. It is said that such a merger with its financial backing would commend Wall Street respect. LEDRUE C. GALLOWAY