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THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
^ $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1924 Whole Number 446 VoL IX—No. 30
PEABODY CHALLENGES THE NEGRO’S EARNESTNESS
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COMMISSION OH THE
RACIAL QOESTION
IN UNITED STATES
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Congressman Oiler Introduced Bill
Providing for Creation of
Ameliorative
Agency
RACE TO BE REPRESEHTED
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Commission to Be Composed of Nine
Members of Which Six Shall
Be White and Three
Colored
Washington, D. C., Jan. 26.—In ac
cordance with the suggestion made by
President Coolidge in his message to
Congress that a commission be creat
ed to consider the Racial Question in
the United States, meaning, of course,
the relation between white and black
Americans, Congressman Celler has
introduced a bill making provision for
such a commission. It was introduced
January 16 and referred to the Com
mittee on the Judiciary and ordered
to be printed. The proposed commis
sion will be composed of nine mem
bers, six white and three colored;
three white members each to be from
the North and South respectively. The
full text of the Bill here follows:
A BILL
Creating a Commission on the Racial
Question.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Unit
ed States of America in Congress as
sembled,
That a commission of nine persons,
citizens of the United States, be, and
is hereby, created to be known and
designated as the Commission on the
Racial Question in the United States
of America. The commission shall be
composed of three white men from
the South, three white men from the
North, and three colored men.
Sec. 2. That said commission shall
be appointed by the President of the
United States and shall be divided in
to three groups of three men in each
group, two white anil one colored;
that the term of the first group shall
>e for one year, the second group for
two years, and the third group for
three years.
Sec. 3. That the commission shall
have authority to inquire into and
i thoroughly investigate the conditions
surrounding the colored people in the
United States, ascertain, if possible,
the cause of the unrest among them,
and, if there be racial friction, the
cause of the same, and to suggest
such remedies as they may deem best
calculated to relieve the situation and
to bring ahout harmonious relations
between white and colored Americans.
They shall have power to send for
persons and papers, administer oaths :
and affirmations, employ experts, and,
when necessary, travel from place to
place in order to ascertain the true
conditions affecting the interests of
the colored people in different sec
tions of the United States.
Sec. 4. That the expense of the
commission shall not exceed the sum
of $60,000 for any one fiscal year; to
include compensation of the commis
sioners when engaged in actual serv
ice of the commission not exceeding
$16 per day; rental of quarters if not
otherwise provided for; traveling ex
penses; clerk hire, and all other neces
sary expenses connected with the work
of the commission.
The compensation of each commis
sioner, when in active service of the
commission, shall not exceed the sum
of $7 per diem.
Sec. f». That the commission shall
report to Congress at the beginning
I of each session in December, the find
ings of the commission for the year
in which the report is made, and shall
also give an itemized account of the
expense of the commission during that
year.
Sec. 6. That the commission shall
have the power to fix the compensa
tion of a secretary, not exceeding
$3,600 per year, and to make rules
governing the procedure and work
ings of the commission.
Sec. 7. That the commission shall
be under, the supervision of the Secre
tary of the Interior, who shall ap
prove all drafts upon the Treasury,
made by the authority of the commis
sion, before they are allowed.
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proprietor of this store. They invite
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IN SAME CHURCH
BY SAME MINISTER
AS M ERE PARENTS
Wedding of Miss Theodocia Alice Tay
i lor and Mr. William Roulac will
Be Solemnized Under Unique
Conditions.
GIRLHOOD WISH COMES TRUE
The marriage of Theodocia Alice,
only daughter of the Rev. and Mrs.
Russel Taylor, pastor of St. Paul’s
Presbyterian Church, to Mr. William
Roulac, of Omaha, will be solemnized
at the Episcopal Church of St. Philip,
the Deacon, Tuesday night, January
29, under peculiarly rare and beauti
ful conditions which add unique and
unusual interest to the event. The
ceremony is tp be performed in the
same church in which the bride’s par
ents were married nearly twenty-five
years ago, Tuesday, September 12,
1899, and by the same minister, the
Rev. John Albert Williams, who offi
ciated then. Several of the friends
who witnessed the first ceremony will
be present at this. Circumstances of
this character are quite unusual.
It was when the present pastor of
St. Paul’s was a student at Bellevue
College, where he was graduated with
honors, that he met Miss Henrietta
Belle Scroggins, elder danghter of the
late Henry Scroggins, and his wife,
Theodocia Ames Scroggins, who still
survives. Miss Scroggins was a mem-*
ber of St. Philip’s choir and a faithful
and efficient teacher in the Sunday
school. Mr. Taylor frequently helped
with the choir. The friendship be
tween these young people ripened into
love. Mr. Taylor completed his theo
logical training at Lane Theological
Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, was or
dained to the Presbyterian ministry
and was assigned to Langston City,
Okla. Thence he came to claim his
bride, the marriage taking place in St.
Philip’s church. He filled successful
pastorates in Oklahomu, Tennessee,
West Virginia and Wyoming. Theo
docia is their first bom. Several sons
were also born to them.
One day in Tennessee when Theo
docia was quite a little girl, in talking
(o her mother she said, “Mama, if I
should grow up and be manned,
wouldn’t it be, nice to be married in
the same chnrch in which you and
pupu w?re married.”
"Yes, my dear,” was her mother’s
reply, “but that’s a long way from
here and my little girl has many years j
before tier yet before she will ever!
think of that.”
Three years ago the Rev. Russel
Taylor was invited by the Omaha pres
bytery to come from Empire, Wyo. to
Omaha to undertake work here, which j
invitation he accepted and organized j
St. Paul’s. Here his daughter was
wooed and won. Ami so it comes to ,
pass that the little girl who looked up
into her mother’s eyes in the mountain
district of Tennessee several years ago ;
and said, “Mama, if I should grow up \
and be married, wouldn’t it be nice |
to lx* married in the same church in j
which you and papa were married", is j
to have her wish come true.
CONQUEROR OF DAVE
SHADE TO FIGHT
SCHLAIFER HERE
Jimmie Jones, Who knocked Out Hilly
Wells and Scored Decision of Dave
Shade, Will Meet Omaha
Fighting Fool .
AUGUSTINE IN SEMI-FINAL
Omaha fight fans will have the op
portunity of seeing Jimmie Jones of
Youngstown, Ohio, the conqueror of
Dave Shade and Billy Wells, in action
at the Omaha fistic arena on Febru
ary 2, when he meets Morrie Schlaifer,
Omaha's fighting fool.
Fans ull over the country have been
clamoring for the match between
these two welters, who are near the
top of the class in which they fight.
Jones practically jumped into prom
inence over night last summer when
he defeated Dave Shade in a fifteen
round bout at Boston.
The victory was not a home town
decision but met with the approval of
over 10,000 fans that packed the
arena.
Following his defeat of Shade, he
knocked Billy Wells out in six rounds,
stopped “Tilly Kid” Herman in one
round and has not lost a fight in the
last year. He defeated Paul Doyle in
a twelve-round affair.
Jones promises to make trouble for
any welter in the world. He reminds
one of the style employed by Dempsey.
Right now he looms up as the logical
contender for1 the welterweight title.
He does not know what it means
to hack up. He is always coming in
and can hit hard with cither hand. He
is game and can take the punches of
any welter.
Jones will arrive here Sunday morn
ing. He fights Billy Wells at St. Paul
tonight.
Carl Augustine, St. Paul, will prob
ably meet Chuck Lambert in the semi
final. Augustine lost to and won
from Battling Monroe by the K. O.
route and has made himself a home
here.
MAYO AGAINST KLUXIES
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 25.—“The
Klan is un-American, and I won’t
stand for it while I’m mayor,” declar
ed Mayor Kendrick, newly inaugurat
ed. “The K. K. K. cannot come to
Philadelphia."
TOE BITE WORTH $4,000
New York, January 25.—Dorothy
Vahrndt, white, was granted $4,000
damages from the Pullman company.
She said a porter bit her toe while
she was sleeping in a berth.
“The Negro Must Fight Segregation in Cities All Along
the Line,” is the Declaration of Professor Kelly Miller
Writing in The Baltimore Afro
American Professor Kelly Miller calls
attention to the menace of residential
segregation which must be vigorously
fought. He says:
Residential Segregation
in all of our large cities with a con
siderable Negro population, the white
people are seeking in one way or the
other to establish separate residential
areas for the two races.
In most instances this can be done
by understanding among the manip
dators of real estate who agree among
themselves that they will neither rent
nor sell to Negroes within certain pre
scribed sections. As long as they all
live up to the gentleman’s agreement,
the colored race is impotent to break
through the barriers. It is only when
he sense of gain outruns the restraints
of a common understanding that the
colored buyer or renter breaks over
his confines into the forbidden terri
tory.
When this occurs with threatening
frequency, recourse is sought to legal
expediencies to fix the residential
by statutes. Some ten years ago Balti
more, Louisville, and sundry other
cities had undertaken to enact ordi
nances setting forth the conditions un
der which certain blocks should re
main forever white or colored accord
ing to the present proportion of the
two races. All such ordinances were
declared unconstitutional by tHb Su
preme Court of the United States on
the ground that they violated the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution.
The Wur Period
It is worth while noticing that this
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decision was rendered just as this na
tion was about to engage in the world
war. The case had been brought by
the N. A. A. C. P. an Argued before
that august tribunal ffully a year in
advance of the decision, the court call
ing for rearguinent before opinion was
handed down. It is also worthy of
note that the only affinnative decis
ions upholding the rights of the Negro
under the Constitution of the United
States were rendered during the per
iod of the war for democracy.
This decision in no wise deterred
the determination of the cities to keep
the races residentially separate. The
effort merely took a different direc
tion. In fact segregation was acceler
ated at a greater speed after the de
cision than before. In this tendency
and purpose the white race presents
a solid phalanx. There is no differ
ence between North and South, Demo
crat or Republican, Protestant and
Catholic on this issue.
In quest of some legal contrivance
that will stand the test of the courts,
Washington city has devised the plan
of a covenant or agreement among
property holders not to sell or rent to
persons of African extraction for a
period of twenty-one years. The col
ored citizens of the national capital are
now testing the legality of such cove
nants. The Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia has rendered a
decision in favor of their legality.
We are now pushing the case through
the Court of Appeals, and if need be,
through the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Segregation In llaltimore
In the mean time Raltimore City is
proposing a scheme of zoning where- ]
by the races will be restricted to ex
clusive zones as part of the police pow
ers of the state. The judge of the
local court has given an opinion out
of court, that the Baltimore plan will
stand the test of law. The colored
people of the Monumental City are
again called upon to defend their
rights to free and unrestricted resi
dential range.
What Washington and Baltimore are
doing all of the other cities are con
templating or planning to do. The
Negro must fight all along the line.
If we allow this limitation of residen
tial rights to go uncontented, the race
will be shut up in the alleys and shade
places of all the cities in America.
If no Negro had broken over the
traditional boundaries of residential
restriction in Washington and Balti
more against the protestation of
white people whose section was invad
ed, the race would sjill be confined to
South Washington and South Balti
more, the least desirable quarters of
the respective cities.
The Negro race as a whole should
unite in establishing a defensive fund
to defend its constitutional rights in
the highest court of the land. The
cases should be consolidated, regard
less of the city in which they originate.
If the various civil rights bodies would
unite under such combinatory influ
ence as the Negro Sanhedrin pro
poses to exert, the nation-wide threat
of segregation could be handled with
efficiency and dispatch. Thisl is the
method of procedure employed by the
Jews and the Japanese when their
racial welfare is placed in jeopardy.
PINKSTON PUPILS
PLEASE PATRONS
IN PIANO RECITAL
Talented and Successful Teacher Pre
sents Pupils in Their Eigth Demon
stration and Recital.
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MARKED PROGRESS IS SHOWN
An audience of parents, friends and
patrons filled St. Paul’s Presbyterian
church to overflowing Tuesday night,
when Mrs. Florentine F. Pinkston,
presented her pupils in their eighth re
cital and demonstration. The aud
ience was pleased with the delight
ful program given and noted with
great pleasure the progress shown by
many of the pupils who have been
studying with Mrs. Pinkston for a
term of yearss.
The program consisted of a class
drill of rhythym and musical notation
in general; a duet by Miss Gordon
and Gretchen Cash and the follow
ing selections: Waltz, Streabbog,
Dorothy McRaven; Little Brook,
Aileen, Bernice Phannix; Pedles
D’Ecume, Warren Jackson; Love Song,
Cadman, Marie Smith; Pink Waltz,
Streabbog, Gladys Mitchell; Spring
time, Mallard, Ruth Campbell; Little
Friends’ Polka, Streabbog, Addie
Wade; L’Arbesque, Burgmuller, Jose
phine Breedlove; Pink, Licher, Ruth
Bigby; A Song at Twilight, Williams,
Vera Walton; Harvest Time, Thomp
son, Dorine Bush; Ballade, Burgmul
ler, Louise Pryor; March of the
Brownies, Gebhard, Madeline Ship
man; The Storm, Burgmuller, Char
lotte Leddox; Revel of the Wood
Nymphs, Barbour, Mrs Dana Mur
phy; Pearls, Burgmuller, Mildred
Lawson; Flying Leaves, Rolling,
Florence Jones; Swallow’s Message,
Seybold, Joella Washington; Balan
cella, Wachs, Gretchen Cash; Flight
of the Gypsies, Englemann, Con
stance Singleton; In the Woods,
Klauser, Dorothy Allen; Flirtation
Dance, Blown, Catherine Williams;
The Ghost, Rockwell, Grace Adams;
Valse Caprice, Gebhard, Aline Bent
ley; Polonaise, Chopin, Della Howard;
2nd Mazurka, Godard, Frances D.
Gordon and March of the Indian
Phantoms, Kroeger, Lucy Mae Allen.
Two well written papers were giv
en, one by Aline Burnett on “The
Educational Value of Music” and one
by Florence Jones on Chopin.
All the participants showed careful
training, diligent study and pains
taking work. Several of the more dif
ficult numbers were given with fine
technique and displayed decided
musicianship.
FUNERAL OF VETERAN MASON
HELD FRIDAY AFTERNOON
The funeral of Joseph Henry Wil
liams, who was said to be the oldest
and highest colored Mason in Omaha
was held from the Masonic Hall,
Twenty-fourth . and Parker streets,
F'riday afternoon under the auspices
of Rough Ashler Lodge, with repre
sentatives of other lodges participa
ing. The~Masonic ceremonies were
in charge of J. S. Saunders, W.M. Pre
ceding the Masonic ceremony, the
Rev. John Albert Williams, pastor of
the Church of St. Philip the Deacon,
of which the deceased who was con
firmed in England was a communicant,
read the full burial service of the
Episcopal church, including the com
mital. Resolutions were read from
the lodges and an original poem by
Mr. Perkins. A large number of the
friends of the deceased were pres
ent. Interment was at Mt Hope ceme
tery. Mr. Williams had no relatives
in this country, his wife and daugh
ter, having died many years ago.
LEAVES FORTUNE OF $200,000
Mobile, Ala., Jan. 25.—(By the As
sociated Negro Press.)—James F. Pe
terson, prominent business man, lodge
man and newspaper man, one of the
wealthiest men of the state, is dead,
after a protracted illness. He was un
married and left a fortune estimated
at $200,000.
PHILIP PEABODY
PLACES COLORED
RACE OH ITS HOHOR
Noted Boston Lawyer Issues Challenge
to American Negroes to Show
Their Real Manhood
and Worth
A 8IFT OF $500 IS MT0I8IIT
And Will Give $1,000 More for Anti
Lynching Fund Provided N. A. A.
C. P. Raises $9,000 More
Within Sixty Days v
New York, Jan. 25.—Philip G. Pea
body, a noted lawyer of Boston, who
has for a number of years been in
terested in the Anti-Lynching fight
waged by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, has sent that body a check for
$500 and has further offered $1,000
to complete a fund of $10,000, if the
N. A. A. C. P. will raise the other
$9,000 in a period of sixty days, the
final date set being March-10, 1924.
The N. A. A. C. P. has begun an In
tensive campaign to raise the money
to meet Mr. Peabody’s offer.
Mr. Peabody has long been an ac
tive supporter of the N. A. A. C. P.
Since 1913 he has contributed in cash
$7,992.50 besides his legal advice par
ticularly with regard to Federal Anti
Lynching Legislation. Mr. Peabody is
practically the father of the Anti
Lynching Fund with which the N. A.
A. C. P. has been able to wage so ef
fective a campaign against mob viol
ence. In 1916 he offered $1,000 to
wards such a fund, provided, $9,000
be raised. The latter amount was ob
tained by the N. A. A. C. P. and with
the $10,000 thus obtained the inten
sive campaign of investigation and
publicity was started which culminat
ed in the introduction in Congress of
the Anti-Lynching Bill.
James Weldon Johnson, Secretay of
the N. A. A. C. P., in announcing Mr.
Peabody’s generous offer said:
“Mr. Peabody has asked the colored
people of the United States a question. %
He has said to them: Do you really
want to see lynching stopped, Ne
groes protected in court, and discrim
ination fought? If you do, are you
willing to pay the price?
“The bulk of the $9,000 to meet Mr.
Peabody’s offer must come from col
ored people and properly so. But
whi»e friends will help. Already one
of them has volunteered to give $500.
There are many colored men and wom
en with us in spirit, who can now
translate that spirit into action. To
obtain Mr. Peabody’s $1,000, we must
have in the national office by March
10th $9,000 to meet his generous of
fer. Present contributors to the N.
A. A. C. P. can help in two ways: By
contributing themselves and by solicit
ing contributions from those who have
not given before.
“1 believe the colored people of the
United States are interested enough
in their own welfare to meet this of
fer.”
Contributions may be sent to the
Treasurer, N. A. A. C. P., 69 Fifth
Avenue, New York. The N. A. A. C.
P. will publish the names of all con
tributions of $5 or more.
EX-ARMY CHAPLAIN DEAD
Wilberforce, O., Jan. 25.—Theophi
lus Gould Steward, professor of his
tory at Wilberforce university and for
sixteen years chaplain in the U. S.
Army, died here recently at the age
of 81.
CONFIRM NEW GOVERNOR
Washington, D. C., Jan. 25.—Philip
Williams, white, nominated by Presi
dent Harding, has been confirmed by
the Senate as Governor of the Virgin
Island, whose inhabitants are all black.
DYER BILL SURE TO PASS
Washington, Jan. 25.—The Dyer
Anti-Lynching Bill reported favorably
in the House Tuesday, January 8, by
the Judiciary Committee will pass
both houses of Congress by March,
republican leaders have announced.
ZUCKER’S LARGE STOCK
DAMAGED BY SMOKE
The entire $25,000 high grade stock
of general merchandise carried by
Zucker’s Department Store, 1615
1619',i North Twenty-fourth street,
was damaged by smoke Friday, Jan
uary 18th. A sale is being prepared
by the store, the date to be announced
later. Watch The Monitor for fur
ther developments and announcement
of this Great Smoke Sale.
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