I’ =rzrL|,T,o° xhe Monitor ^ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS \J, THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor r - — 1 — V— — — 1" 1 ••• .. .. • I $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1924 Whole Number 448 Vol. IX—No. 32 --_ .M - V -—_____—__ . -- SOME FACTS ABOUT OMAHA—A GOOD PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE Omaha is nearer than any other L large city to the geographical center ■ of the United States. Omaha is fourth railroad center in the United States and is entered by ten trunk railway lines. Many of our race are employed by these roads. Omaha is located on thirteen na . tional and inter-state highways. ' Omaha is the midway point on the transcontinental air mail route. Omaha’s immediate wholesale trade territory includes approximately 11 states which represent one-fourth of the total farm wealth of the United States. In this area are 1,500 towns and 400,000 farms. The average val ue of these farms is $24,626 as com pared to $12,084, the nation’s average farm value. Omaha has more than 500,000 peo pie within a 50 mile radius. In this area are 154 towns and 29,000 farms. Omaha hns 1,400 retail storeR which do a business of approximately $150, 000,000 a year. Omaha has 200 restaurants serv ing approximately 70,000 people a day. Omaha is the third largest fur mar-1 ket west of the Mississippi River. I Omaha distributes $70,000,000 worth of building material annually—nearly $200,000 worth daily. Approximately $8,000,000 worth of building material is manufactured in I Omaha annually. Omaha has more than 500 factories producing $382,000,000 worth of prod-1 ucts annually—more than $1,000,000 a day. Omaha manufacturing output has increased 125% since 1910. Omaha packing plants produce more than $500,000 worth of products a day. They employ 13,000 people of whom about 2,800 are colored people. Omaha factories produce $1,868 worth of products to each resident of Omaha annuAlly. Omaha manufactures more pig lead than any other city in the United States. Omaha manufactures more butter than any other city in the world— more than 150,000 pounds a day. Omaha factories manufacture more than $3,000,000 worth of auto tires a year. Omaha manufactures 1.3,000,000 worth of bakery products a year. Omaha is the third largest live stock market in the United States, 8,600,000 head of live stock received in 1923—23,000 head a day. Omaha is the third corn market in the United States. Omaha is 17th city in bank clear ings although 34th in population. Omaha has the largest building and loan association in the United States. Omaha has 23 banks and 10 build ing and loan associations. Omaha savings in banks and saving and loan companies average more than $800 for each resident. Have you got your $800? Start saving. Omaha has 183 churches with a membership of 80,000 people and 25, 000 children enrolled in the Sunday schools. Omaha has 22 hospitals. Omaha’s community chest super vises 30 charitable and public insti tutions. Omaha has 5 theatres and 35 mov ing picture theatres. Omaha’s municipally owned audi torium has a seating capacity of 6, 500. Omaha is third city in the United States in per capita park area. There are 1,400 acres in Omaha’s parks connected by 35 miles of boule vard. Omaha has 13 supervised public playgrounds. Omaha has 2 universities, Creigh ton university, the university of Oma ha, the medical college of the Uni versity of Nebraska and a Presby terian Theological Seminary. Omaha has 56 public grade schools and 4 high schools. The public school investment is $16,000,000. Omaha’s new Technical High| School, valued at $3,000,000, has an enrollment of 3,500 pupils and is one of the leading schools of its kind in the United States. Omaha is building its fifth high school, North High, at a cost of $750, 000.00 Vocational training was established in Omaha’s high schools in 1920. Omaha has no slums or tenements. There are 48,000 homes in Omaha, 48.4% occupied by their owners. A large ratio of the colored population are home owners. Omaha is fourth city in home own ership in the United States. Omaha spent $13,000,000 for new homes and buildings in 1923. More than 1,700 new homes were built in Omaha in 1923. Omaha is second city in the world in the number of telephones in use per capita. Omaha has four daily newspapers and seventy periodicals. The Omaha Post Office handles ap proximately 158,000,000 letters, sells $2,800,000 worth of stamps and for wards nearly 7,000,000 pieces of par cel post annually. More than 100 mail trains enter Omaha daily. Omaha’s population, as shown by the Federal census of 1920, was 191, 601. The federal estimate July 1, 1923, was 204,382. The latest school census taken in Omaha glvee an esti mate of 209,000. The colored popu lation is above 13,000. PRESENT HOUSTON MAITTRS PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT Document Contain* 120,000 Name* From Members of Both Race* From All Sections of the Country STRONG PLEA FOR CLEMENCY Church, Pretw, Fraternal and Other; > Organization* Represented in Group Headed by N.A.A.C.P. Washington, 0. C., Feb. 8.—Presi dent Coolidge at noon on February 7, 1924, at the White House received a V delegation of representative colored ^ citizens of the United States, who presented to him a petition signed bv 120,000 names of both white and colored people, asking for pardon for 'the 54 men of the 24th Infantry still imprisoned in Leavenworth Peniten tiary, having been convicted on charges of rioting at Houston in 1917. The delegation, which was made a small one by the White House, was headed by James Weldon Johnson, its spokesman, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which engineered the campaign for this monster petition. The other members of the delegation to the White House were: S. S. Booker, of the Alpha Phi Al pha Fraternity, representing 3,000 college graduates. Rev. L. K. Williams, of the Na tional Baptist Convention, represent ing 2,938,579 Baptists. Nahum I,. Brascher, of the Associ ated Negro Press. A. Philip Randolph, Editor of The Messenger and representing The Friends of Negro Freedom. Archibald H. Grimke, of Washing ton, D. C., distinguished American, former U. S. Minister to Santa Dom ingo and Spingarn Medallist. Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham, of the Na tional Race Congress. Mrs. Daisy Iaimpkin of the Na tional Association of Colored Women. J. E. Mitchell, Editor St. Louis Ar gus, representing National Negro Press Association. Robert S. Ahliott, Editor Chicago Defender. BiHhop J. S. Caldwell, of Philadel phia, representing the A. M. E. Z. Church. Channing H. Tobias, New York City, of the Y. M. C. A. Robert L. Vann, Editor Pittsburgh Courier. Carl Murphy, Editor Baltimore Afro-American. Cyril V. Briggs, Heftd of Crusader News Service, representing African Blood Brotherhood. Bishop John Hurst, of the A. M. (Continued to page 4) I EMI” ov'Tvt BUREAU COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB DOING GOOD WORK The public bus no idea of the real amount of good work the Free Em ployment Bureau of the Colored Com mercial Club is doing in finding work for our people. The demand for work is of course greater than the supply at this time of the year; but Commis sioner Williams is constantly on the alert for work of all kinds to which he can send applicants, and the pub lic is learning to call upon the Bureau >o- workers. Just recently the Rome Hotel, which has decided to employ colored maids called upon the Em ployment Bureau for ten maids, which were promptly furnished them. Reg istration with the Bureau is solicited. No charge is made for registration or for senfling applicants to jobs. OMAHA WELTER IS FIGHTING WAY TO RETURN BOUT WITH CHAMP Jimmie Jones, Ohio Welter, Touted as Best Man in World in His Class Next to Walker, De feated by Local WATSON LOSES PRELIMINARY Omaha fight bugs were treated to a rare dish last,night in the City Auditorium when Morrie Schlaifer, Omaha’s “fighting fool’ met and de feated Jimmie Jones of Youngstown, Ohio, the New York boxing commis sion. who has fought a draw with Walker, and has defeated Shade, | Shevlin, Schoell and Wells. It was a great fight, and a clean one, which the bugs will remember for many a day. In the early rounds Jones elected to box the local favorite and had he con tinued this method he would have, in the mind of the writer, undoubted!" been returned a winner, but after the Hebrew had floored him for the first time in his career he began slugging, a game at which Schlaifer is a mas ter, and Jones lost. Schlaifer outfought Jones virtually all the way and had him groggy on a number of occasions. Morrie floor ed Jones twice during the fight, once in the first and again in the ninth round. Jones was all but out for the count in the ninth. Readers don’t want to get the idea that it wag absolutely a Schlaifer fight, for Jones -was in scrapping all the time and impressed fans with his cleverness and wallop. A return bout between the two would be welcomed. A capacity house attended the fight which was under the auspices of the Omaha Athletic Club and promoted by Denny Ryan. A great card and one which pleased | nearly every fan. Don’t mlae the Home Talent Even ing at Zion Baptist Church, Monday i evening, February 11.—Adv. Washington, 1). C., Feb. 8.—(By The Associated Negro Press.)—Through an order of Postmaster General New, fol lowing a nationwide survey by postal inspectors, orders have been Issued by the Post Office Department placing newspapers in the same category with first class mail, which is the fastest going mail directed by the govern ment. This will be a great, boon to newspapers all over the country, par Ocularly will it be helpful to racial newspapers having a wide circulation. One of the big hindrances of building wide circulations has been the inabil ity to have newspapers properly dis patched. . ..— 1 -'-v r Somebody’s Valentine SUCCESS FACES NEGRO SANHEDRIN AS DAY FOR SESSION APPROACHES Chicago, 111., Feb. 8.—Assured suc cess faces the Negro Sanhedrin, or All Race Conference, when on the eve of its initial meeting here in Chicago, February 11-16, 1924, sixty national organizations have accepted invitations to partticipate and will have in attendance more than five hundred delegates. Everything points to the success of this gifat movement started by Dean Kelly Miller. Among the large number of nation al and other organizations which have recently accepted invitations to parti cipate are: The A. M. E. Church, The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, National Association of Colored Wo men, National Alliance of Postal Em ployees, Royal Circle of Friends, An cient Egyptian Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrink, National University of Music, National Brotherhood of Workers of America, Knights of Py thias of North America, South Amer ica, Europe, Asia, Africa and Aus tralia, Knights of Pythias of Eastern and Western Hemispheres, Colored Actor’s Union, The Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sor ority, The National Negro Business League, Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa, The M. E. Church, Grand United Sons and Daughters of Peace, Chi Delta Phi Fraternity, Delta Sigma Tehta Sor ority, National Urban League, Grand United Order of Locomotive Firemen of America, Committee for the Ad vancement of Colored Catholics, The American Federation of Negro Stu dents, and the National Negro Fun eral Directors. Additional speakers to appear on the program are: Honorable Robert R. Jackson, of Chicago; Dr. U. G. Dailey, Chicago; Hon. William Mon roe Trotter, of Boston, Mass.; Claude A. Barnett, Anthony Overton, both of Chicago; Rev. William Johnson, Gen eral Secretary, Board of Church Ex tension, National Baptist) Convention, Unioo; Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Historian, National Association of Colored Women; Hon. Charles A. Cot trell, of Toledo, Ohio; Prof. R. C. Woods, President, 'Virglinia Theolo.1 gical Seminary and College, Lynch burg, Virginia; Rev. C. S. Brown, President, Lott Carey Convention; and Benjamin W. Clayton, represent ing the Omega Psl Phi Fraternity. A considerable number of import ant men and women have accepted places on the Enlarged Committee underwriting the conference by a sub scription of Five ($5.00) Dollars. The list of such persons to date includes; (See enclosed program.) Information from the Chicago Lo cal Committee on Arrangements, headed by Dr. George Cleveland Hall, Chairman, Dr. Carl G. Roberts, Vice Chairman, Hon. Morris Lewis, Secre tary, and H. X Watkins, Treasurer, is that everything is in readiness tc receive the delegates to the confer ence. OMAHA BRANCH OF I N.A.A.C.P. TO RAISE 1 ANTI-LYNCHING FUND The 1-egular bi-monthly meeting of the Omaha branch was held last Sun I day afternoon in the lecture room of ' Grove M. E. Church. While the at- ( tendance was not large, much import ant business was transacted. A reso I lution was unanimously passed en dorsing the raising of an anti-lynch ing fund to help meet Mr. Philip G. Peabody’s provisional gift of $1,000. I I A committee of five was appointed I to take charge of this matter. The j committee consists of the following:! j Messrs C. C. Galloway, Henry W. Black and Asa C. Oglesby and Mes dames Bostic and Canty. The com mittee met Wednesday afternoon in a room donated as headquarters for the drive by Mr. James G. Jewell in Jew- 8 ell hall and mapped out plans for the 8 campaign, particulars of which will 1 i tie given later. j iREMEMBERED IN WILL OF 4 RETIRED GERMAN GROCER | - f (Special to The Monitor) ( St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 8.—In the will i of John Texten, a wealthy retired Ger- ( man grocer, which was recently pro- , bated here, bequests of $5,000 each ( were made to Mrs. Helen Bradley and f her daughter, Miss Teressa Haven of i this city. Mrs. Bradley had been in ] Mr. Texten’s employ for a number of , years as had her mother before' her. ( A bequest of $1,000 was also left in j trust to Mr. C. M. Wheatley, to be used i at his discretion “for the benefit of \ Negro orphans of St. Joseph. A be- , quest of $1,000 is also made to the j Bartlett Industrial and Agricultural School for Negroes at Dalton, Mo. ; - l ALLEGED TO BE MEDIOCRE A show entitled “ ” is scheduled for the Brandeis the atre beginning Sunday. The Bran- , deis management has the reputation, , and a well-deserved one of featuring only high-class entertainments. It is alleged however^, that this aggrega tion does not measure up to the usual , standard and will prove disappointing to our people who are always large patrons of race shows whenever they | come to this city. FRANK DEWEY, COUNTY CLERK MAKES APPOINTMENT Frank Dewey, the popular and pro ficient County Clerk, has supplied the vacancy made in his office several months ago by the Resignation of John A. Smith, to accept work in an other department, by the appointment last Friday of John Horton to a clerk > ship. Mr. Horton is a promising , young man and it is believed he will make good in the position given him. Mr. Dewey who has always been fair to our people has done the right thing in making this appointment. There are others who could and should fol BIG DAILY STOPS PRESSES ARD RILLS FLAMING HEADLINE Chicago Herald and Examiner Does I nusual Thing For a Great Metropolitan Daily ME CHANGE INVOLVES COST Editor Acts Promptly When Harmful Practice of Featuring Crime Is Brought to His Attention Chicago, 111., Fob. 8.—(By The As lociated Negro Press.)—In a recent is sue of the Chicago Herald and Exam iner, one of the great dailies of Amer ca owned by William Randolph Hearst, this flaming, page-wide head ine appeared in one of the early street editions; ‘‘Woman Shot By Negro Bandit; Dying.” As soon as it was seen by a representative of The Asso ciated Negro Press, he communicated by telephone with the managing edi tor. Strong protest was made, the managing editor, who had not seen the edition called for a copy, and with a surprised exclamation, asked the rep resentative