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\ $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy ' OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1924 Whole Number 447 VoL IX—No. 31
LINCOLN LEAGUE
PLANNING FOR ITS
CHICAGO MEETIHG
Large Attendance Is Anticipated—
Several Men and Women of Na
tional Prominence Expected
to Participate
1IVE TOPICS CONSIDEREB
By MORRIS BROWN,
Washington Correspondent.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 1.—Great
interest is being manifested in Wash
ington in the coming convention of
the Lincoln League of America to be
held in Chicago, 111., February 12; in
fact, more than has been shown in
any meeting held by the race in 25
years.
Will Excel 1920 Session
Present enthusiasm indicates that
the meeting this year will excel the
convention of 1920. It promises to
be a potable gathering. Both white
and colored politicians and statesmen
are turning toward Chicago. Certain
ly the leadership of the race will be
present when the convention opens.
Asked for a statement of the ob
ject and purposes of the Lincoln
League, Roscoe Conkling Simmons, its
president, said:
“The Lincoln League is the only
organization in this country where
colored men and women and white
men anil women meet together on a
common platform to discuss the issues
and measures affecting the country.
“The Lincoln League has a definite
program. That program embrances
getting a hearing for the race where
a hearing will do good, and getting a
hearing in a way that will be effect
ive in results and not embarrassing
to the people.
“The Lincoln League believes that
the race has an universal problem and
that therefore those who seek to work
it out must have an universal heart.
It seeks to nationalize the leadership
of the race and break down all lines,
whether of religion or section."
Vital Issues to Be Discussed
Live and vital questions are to be
discussed at the coming session of
the league. Among them are “Migra
tion and Its Political Effects”, “Our
Political Status”, “Congressional Elec
tions” and "The Jim Crow Car”. These
are only a few of the questions near
est the heart of the American Negro,
to which the Lincoln League will give
its attention.
Chairman John T. Adams of the
Republican National Committee will
deliver an address to the convention
on the evening of February 12. That
^ same evening, Roscoe Conkling Sim
mons, president of the Lincoln League,
will deliver his address and Medill
McCormick, United States Senator
from Illinois, will speak on “Abraham
Lincoln".
MANY FAVORITES
ON OMAHA ATHLETIC
CLUB FIGHT CARD
Many local favorites will partici
pate in Omaha Athletic club’s first
professional boxing card, at the Audi
torium next Thursday, according to
Denny Ryan, matchmaker for the
Omaha Athletic Club.
Ryan plans to match Sailor Liston,
Erwin Bige and Joe Stangl against
good opponents. Morrie Schlaifer is
scheduled to swap punches with Jim
my Jones of Youngstown, O., in the
main event.
In the semi-final, Carl Augustine,
who won a sensational bout-with Batt
ling Munroe on the legion show last
month, will probably be matched with
Chuck Lambert of Minneapolis or
Tommy Burns of Milwaukee.
Bige, in all probability, will meet
Jack O’Toole, a slugging lightweight
from Sioux City. Stangl, local heavy
weight, is slated to box six rounds
against Harvey Perkins of Casper,
Wyo., a westerner who recently fought
a draw with Tiny Herman.
A1 Van Ryan of St. Paul may be
Liston’s opponent in one of the pre
liminary bouts. Liston is the Council
Bluffs lad who surprised local fans by
defeating Glen Milligan here last
^ • month.
LADIES’ BIRTHDAY CLUB
ENTERTAINED AT HILLCREST
The Ladies’ Birthday Kensington
Club met as the guests of Mrs. Alfred
Jones at Hillcrest last Wednesday
afternoon, at which time there was
a wonderful display of exquisite and
artistic needle work. An, interesting
literary and musical program was
given. About fifty guests were pres
ent.
CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP
THE DEACON
Bishop Shayler leaves for the Holy
Land early in April. For this rea
son he has appointed the Fourth Sun
day in Lent, March 30, instead of
Palm Sunday for his annual visita
tion to St. Philip’s for Confirmation.
Confirmation classes for adults and
children will be organized for instruc
tion at once. Services last Sunday
were well attended. Mrs. W. H. Rob
inson was baptized Sunday afternoon.
The usual services Sunday.
DEATH ENDS LONG
SERVICE OF OLD
TREASURY MESSENGER
Richard Green, for More Than Fifty
Years Confidential Aid of Secre
taries, Won Respect by
Devotion
HAD HONORABl 3 CAREER
Special to The Monitor by Walter J.
Singleton.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 1, 1924.—
i Richard Green, for more than fifty
years confidential messenger of Sec
retaries of the Treasury, died at his
residence, 307 Elm street, northwest,
| January 24 after several months’ ill
I ness.
He was appointed to the Treasury
Department in 1871, and for more
than fifty years had been a familiar
figure stationed at the door of the
Secretary of the Treasury. His height
and bearing as he stood ready to an
swer summons have daily drawn the
attention of all who frequent Treas
ury corridors. His long service had
been characterized by the utmost de
votion to his superiors, and he had ac
companied various secretaries over the
length and breadth of the country and
in foreign lands. He had been in
Europe and the Argentine republic
on missions with secretaries.
So highly thought of was the mes
senger that on the occasion of his
fiftieth anniversary as a treasury em
ployee a public reception in his honor
was given in the Whitelaw hotel. For
mer Secretaries Cortelyou, Gage, Mc
Adoo, Glass, MacVeagh, Shaw and
Houston attended the reception and 1
gave testimonials of their regard for j
his faithfulness.
Milton E. Ailes, president of the j
Riggs Nutional Bank, who had known
Mr. Green for thirty-four years, upon
learning of his death spoke of his un- .
impeachable integrity and the fineness
of his character. Mr. Ailes recalled
an incident which exemplified Green’s
character. When the Virginia family,
in which Green’s people were raised
as slaves, fell upon hard times, he
sent them money to repair the home
stead.
Mr. Green was a member of the
Banneker, Crispus Attucks and Men’s
Cliff Rock beneficial associations.
Funeral services were held on Mon
day, January 28th, from Shiloh Bap
tist church, of which he was a life
long member.
PROGRAM FOR THE HOME
TALENT ENTERTAINMENT
The Home Talent Entertainment
which is to be given at Zion Baptist
Church Monday evening, February 11,
by the Women Laymen’s Club will in
due the following program:
1. Instrumental—Sunday School Or
cestra.
2. Vocal Duet—Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Johnson.
3. Recitation—Melva McCaw.
4. Vocal Trio—Saybert Hanger, Jas.
Lewis, John Pegg.
6. Musical Reading—Richard Gar
ret.
6. Vocal Solo—Ethel Jones.
7. Recitation—Mrs. Carrie Carter.
8. Vocal Solo—Mr. J. W. Owens.
9. Playet, “The Burglar”. Trained by
Mrs. Jno. A. Smith. Grace Ad
ams, Nonence Gibson, Florence
Jones, Margaret Murray, Helen
Redd.
10. Instrumental—Sunday School Or
cestra.
Roland Hayes Sings in O. H. Kahn’s Home; American
Negro Tenor Once Was an Humble Stove Moulder
From the New York Times
Monday, January 21, 1924
Roland Hayes, the remarkable
American Negro tenor, who for three
years has won reputation as an artist
in European capitals and who last sea
son in London sang "by command” at
Buckingham Palace before King
George, made his first ptrivate ap
pearance in a Fifth Avenue mansion
last evening, following several public
concerts in New York, of which he
gives but one more before sailing
abroad early in February.
He sang on the present occasion to
the guests of Otto H. Kahn, Chairman
of the Metropolitan Opera Board, and
Mrs. Kahn, at their home at Fifth
Avenue and Ninety-second Street,
with his accompanist, William Law
rence. He shared a joint program
with Mme. Marya Freund, soprano, a
niece of Sir George Henschel of Lon
don, first conductor of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra many years ago.
By request of the hostess, Hayes
sang the impressive air, “When I Am
Laid in Earth,” from the “oldest En
glish opera,” Purcell’s “Dido and Ae
naes,” recently performed here by
Metropolitan stars for the Society of
Friends of Music. He added songs in
German by Schubert and other classic
composers, and in conclusion a group
of American Negro “spirituals”.
It was remarked that except for
private appearances by the baritone
Harry T. Burleigh of St. George’s
Church at the home of the late J. P.
Morgan, and also by the late Bert
Williams, the actor, this was possibly
the first time a man of his race and
a recognized artist had sung in sim
ilar surroundings. It was an open
secret that the Negro singer last night
received for his services a check in
four figures.
When Roland Hayes had been sum
moned before King George, his old
mother, since dead, wrote to him in
England, unknowingly using the ex
act phrase of Sir W. S. Gilbert in
“Pinafore” as to Ralph Rackstraw—
“Remember what you are.” The dis
covery of Hayes as a singer occurred
in Chattanooga, Tenn. He was heard
in a church choir there in 1905 by
W. Arthur Calhoun, an Oberlin Col
lege student, now teaching music here
i in Harlem.
! The boy, then 16, was employed as
molder in a stove factory, and his wi
dowed mother sternly opposed his
quitting work, saying ie was the sup
port'of the family and her only am
bition was “to keep him a good boy.”
Colored singers in those days either
sang in their own churches or picked
pp odd change in saloons or dance
balls.
Mrs. Hayes was persuaded, how
ever, and her boy was assisted by
friends to a career. Two who helped
were townsmen of his race, Mrs. Ken
nedy Jackson, organist of the Monu
mental Baptist Church, and the Rev.
Frank Hyder, now pastor of St. James
Presbyterian Church, Harlem. The
other was a white man, William Stone,
then foreman in the printing depart
ment of the Chattanooga Times.
The first teacher, Mr. Calhoun sent
his pupil to F'isk University under
Miss Jennie A. Robinson. Hayes came
north with the Fisk Jubillee Singers,
and on ending a Summer’s tour at
Boston, remained there with Arthur
Hubbard, the teacher of Charles Hack
ett, the oratoric tenor.
He has since continued his studies
abroad, where his singing of German
was praised in Vienna, as was his
French in Paris. He will start his
fourth tour of Europe when he sails
on F'ebruary 6. He has before ap
peared in Paris at the famous Con
certs Calonne conducted by the French
composer, Gabriel Pieme, and with
the Queen’s Hall Orchestra, under Sir
Henry Wood, in London.
Here in his own country, Hayes’s
forty conceits this Winter have taken
him south of Mason and Dixon’s line.
He sang at Richmond, Raleigh, Ports
mouth, Greensboro, Woncester, Nash
ville, Bluefield, Charleston and Louis
ville. At Orchestra Hall, Chicago, he
sent a box to a white family for whom
he had worked at Nashville while
earning his way through F'isk uni
versity. A Richmond, Va., critic wrote
that Hayes’s first concert was most
applauded, not by his own people but
by the white efolk who appreciated
his songs. He appeared in West Vir
ginia before what was said to be the
first “mixed” audience since the Civil
War.
NEWS LETS
(Lincoln News Service.)
We have 12,660 female barbers,
hairdressers, and manicurists.
A New York democrat has intro
duced another Race Commission Bill
Accomac County, Virginia, produces
more sweet potatoes and yams than
any other county in the United States.
The Bishop with the golden cross
will probably receive a political doub
le-cross.
Our business men are experiencing
difficulty in finding trained young
men and women.
The whole continent of Africa has
only three independent states, Egypt,
Abbysinia and Liberia.
Mr. S. E. Parker, a progressive
colored business man of Richmond,
Va., has opened a new bakery.
A modern new brick business block,
erected by George Andrews, a colored
man of Bells, Texas, provides stores,
shops and offices for fou.sines men of
his group.
The “Modernists” are no longer
singing that familiar hymn, “The Old
time Religion is Good Enough for
Me.”
Several “modernist” colored bandits
recently held up a Kansas City bank
and escaped with $44,500 instead of
an old pair of trousers. They were
promptly captured by colored detec
tives.
An educational commission has
gone to East Africa to examine into
the educational needs of the natives
from a religious, social, hygienic and
economic point of view.
The state of Georgia, with a col
ored population greater than the com
bined population (all classes) of Dela
ware, New Hampshire, Nevada and
Vermont, is the only state having
more than 1,000,000 colored inhabit
ants.
ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH
O. J. Burckhardt, Pastor.
An interesting address was given
by Mrs. Hams at the morning ser
vice; at 3 p. m. the Rev. Mr. Spaights
was the speaker; the League gave
an interesting program at 6:30 and
at 8 o’clock the pastor preached a
sermon to young girls on “Character
Building.” Next Sunday the pastor
will preach at 11 and the Rev. Mr.
Alexander at night. Mesdames Mof
fatt, Maggie Clay, Pinkley Bryant,
Chris Riddles and Orie Stearns are
still on the sick list.
ROULHAC-TAYLOR
WEDDING WITNESSED
BY MANY FRIENDS
Ceremony Solemnized in the Church
of St. Philip the Deacon, Large
Congregation Present
At Service
RECEPTION FOLLOWS AT HOME
St. Philip’s Church was filled to
overflowing Tuesday night by friends
of the contracting parties when Miss
Theodocia Alice Taylor, daughter of
the Rev. and Mrs. Russel Taylor, was
united in marriage to William Roul
hac, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Al
fred Roulhac, of this city. Several
of the older citizens were present
who witnessed in the same place and
by the same minister marriage of the
bride’s parents nearly 25 years ago.
Shortly after 8 o’clock, the appoint
ed hour, to the strains of Mendels
sohn’s Wedding March, played by
Miss Frances D. Gordon, organist of
St. Paul’s Presbyterian church, of
which the Rev. Mr. Taylor is pastor,
the bridal party entered the church.
The ushers, Messrs Saybert Hanger,
Elbert Taylor and Worthington Wil
liams came first. Following these ,
were the maid of honor, Miss Amorett
May Jackson, of Tongonoxie, Kans.,
gowned in a simple but handsome
creation of pink Canton crepe, and
the bridesmaid, Miss Ethel Speece,
attractively gowned in a beautiful
blue fabrication of the same materi
al. The bride, beautiful in her simple
wedding gown of white crepe de
chene with the customary veil, fol
lowed upon the arm of her father.
The groom and his best man, William
Albert Taylor, brother of the bride,
entered from the vestry, and met his
bride at the chancel steps, where the
words of betrothal were said. Pro
ceeding then to the sanctuary rail the
closing words of the marriage service
were said by the officiating minister,
the Rev. John Albert Williams. Just
at the close of the service the beau
tiful marriage hymn, “O, Perfect
Love, All Human Thought Transcend
ing,” was sung by Mr. Taylor, who
substituted for Mrs. Calvin Spriggs
who was unable to sing because of
a severe cold. The bridal pary left
the church to the strains of the Lo
hengrin wedding march.
A reception immediately followed
the ceremony at the family residence.
This was largely attended by friends
who came to extend their congratu
lations and best wishes for the happy
pair. The wedding gifts were many
and beautiful.
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MRS. J. E. SPINGARN GIVES
N. A. A. C. P. $1,000 TO MEET
P. G. PEABODY’S OFFER
New York, Feb. 1.—Amy E. Spin
garn, wife of J. E. Spingam, treas
urer of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
and member of its Board of Directors,
has presented the organization with
a check for $1,000 to meet the offer
of Philip G. Peabody of Boston. Mr.
Peabody offered $1,000, if the N. A.
A. C. P. would raise an additional
$9,000 in a period of sixty days, the
final date set being March 10, 1924.
Mrs. Spingam has for many years
been a generous contributor to the
work of the N. A. A. C. P.
Don’t miss the Home Talent Even
ing at Zion Baptist Church, Monday
evening, February 11.—Adv.
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OMAHA RATIO OF
NATIVE SONS AND
DAUGHTERS LOW
Nebraska’s Metropolis Ranks Second
in Small Percentage of Home
Born Residents Among
Race
ORLY THIRTEER IR HRHDREI
Washington, Feb. 1.—(Lincoln News
Service.)—In most of our large north
ern cities is is about as difficult to
find a native son or daughter—that
is, one who was born in the state in
which they live—as it is to find the
proverbial needle in the haystack. In
Detroit, Mich., nine out of every ten,
or, to be more exact, ninety-one in
every one hundred colored inhabitants
were born outside of the state, as
compared with eighty-seven in Oma
ha, eighty-five in Chicago, eighty-four
in Los Angeles, eighty-three in Cleve
land, eighty-two in Atlantic City,
eighty in Denver and seventy-six in
Cincinnati. In the city of New York,
seven out of every ten, or seventy
four in every one hundred are neither
native sons nor daughters of the
state, as compared with seventy-two
in Indianapolis, and seventy in Bos
ton, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh,
where, in the language of Editor Vann
of The Pittsburgh Courier “the peo
ple make iron—and sometimes steel—
for a living.” Out in St. Louis the
proportion drops to sixty-three out
siders per one hundred colored resi
dents, or to about six out of every ten.
There is every evidence that this new
blood and force are welcomed by the
old citizens in each of the communi
ties mentioned, because it means) in
creased payrolls, an expansion of bus
iness and the opening of industrial,
civic and other opportunities that will
be helpful in the development of the
local group.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
WILL RECEIVE HOUSTON
MARTYR PETITION
N. A. A. C. P. Announces Petition Has
120,000 Signatures and Will Be
Received by the President
February 7th
New York, Feb. 1.—President Cool
idge has appointed February 7th, as
the day on which he will receive a
delegation of colored citizens to pres
ent the petition with 120,000 signa
tures, asking for pardon of the fifty
four members of the 24th Infantry
still imprisoned for their alleged
share in the Houston riot of 1917. The
signatures were gathered by the N.
A. A. C. P., with the co-operation of
colored newspapers, churches, lodges,
fraternal bodies and other individuals
and groups.
The delegation will be received at
the White House at noon on the day
appointed.
The N. A. A. C. P. is now arrang
ing for a committee of fifty represen
tative organizations and individuals to
sponsor the presentation. The White
House has limited the delegation ac
tually making the presentation to ten
people, who will act for the whole
committee. The names of individuals
and organizations making up the
'whole committee of fifty will accom
pany the petition and will be made
public. The delegation of ten will
represent as adequately as possible
the organizations participating in this
effort.
It is hoped also that one or more
influential members of Congress may
accompany the delegation to the
White House.
G. O. P. SPEAKERS’ BUREAU
WILL OPEN IN CHICAGO
Chicago, Feb. 1.—(Lincoln News
Service.)—The Republican National
Committee will open headquarters for
its campaign speakers’ bureau in Chi
cago, Chairman John T. Adams has
announced. This bureau, he said, will
be in charge of Horace Ellis, formerly
superintendent of public instruction
of Indiana. In 1919 and 1920, Mr.
Ellis was a special representative of
the Republican National Committee.
THREE GRADUATE FROM
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
In the mid-winter claBB which grad
uated from Central High school last
Friday night, and which numbered 39,
there were three colored students who
received their diplomas. They were
Miss Robbie Turner, Oliver Butler and
Marcellas Ritchie.
Norfolk, Va., now leads Richmond
in the number of colored inhabitants.