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$2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARP 22, 1924 While Number 450 Vol. IX—No. 34
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I SIR SIDNEY OLIVER SCOUTS RACIAL INFERIORITY
BARNEY BURCH HAS
PROMISED OMAHA
WINNING BALL CLBB
President-Manager Burch Has Real
Talent Lined up for 1924 Burch
Rod Team. Squad Leaves
Soon for Shreveport
LIRCOLR IN AGAIN THIS YEAR
Several Player Deals Completed By
Burch During the Winter Giving
Popular Head of Team Money
and Good Players
Although many of the dyed-in-the
wool baseball fans will find it al
most difficult to Ibelieve, but spring
training time for the teams is almost
at hand and on or about March 1st
the advance squadron of the Omaha
Western League cliub will leave for
spring training quarters at Shreve
port, La.
President Burch will this year act
as bench manager of the team, hav
ing dispensed with the services of
“Big Train” Koney, who “managed”
the club last year. In the opinion of
the writer Burch is making a very
wise move in assuming the operat
ing reins of his club for Koney was
a “bust.”
Burch reports that he has in his
strong box the signed contracts of
.several of his best holdovers and let
ters from others signifying intention
of being at Shreveport when the first
duty bell rings.
Everything has been most admir
ably arranged at the camp. The
Chamber of Commerce, has donated
one of the city’s two ball parks for the
preliminary work of the Omahas, with
roomy clubhouse, lockers, showers and
all the paraphernalia of a complete
gymnasium.
The team will have less than a
week’s limbering up when they will
be lined up for their initial exhibi
tion game. This will be on Sunday,
March 10, with the Shreveport Texas
league team, with which the Burch
Hods have five more games sched
uled—March 16, 22, 29 and 30—and
as the Texas league is as fast as the
Western, Manager Burch expects some
very thrilling and valuable practice.
April 4, 5 and 6, the Omahas are
booked for Muskogee, Okla.; April
i 11, 12 and 13 with Wichita, Kas., and
»* according to the tentative Jack Hol
land schedule, will open the champion
ship season with St. Joseph on the
St. Joseph grounds, April 16. Follow
ing the series there, the team will
play a series at Oklahoma City, Tulsa
R and Wichita, reaching Omaha on the
fk evening of April 29, and inaugurate
the championship season at the Vin
ton street park, Friday, May 2, with
St. Joseph. The team will fill in as
many odd exhibition dates between
those already scheduled with any
teams available, as Manager Burch
intends to keep the team on the hop,
step and jump every moment pos
sible.
According to Manager Burch, the
fans, owing to the general strength
ening of all the teams, will see a lot
better and more uniform ball club this
coming season than ever before.
And the 1924 team. As nearly as
can be stated at this time it will con
sist of John McCarthy, first; Chick
Thompson, second; Jim O’Neil, short!
Jimmy Wilcox, third; Dick O’Connor,
Joe Bonowitz and Henri La Vallie,
outfield; George Hale, Red Wilder,
Oscar Seimer and Hippo Hansen,
catchers; Bill Bailey, Nick Cullop,
Sandy Burke, Harry Lee, Emil
Sthmanske, Koupal, Praul, Miller,
Prefean, Matthews, Darrough and Ok
rie, pitchers.
Next week look for a story giving
the up and down of the bright lights
on the Omaha club, who each man
is, where he came from, his “sticking”
average and what we expect from
him.
It’s soon going to be spring and ball
season so get your enthusiasm keyed
up, and your lungs in shape to be
present at the opening game.
The Monitor is for all sorts of
clean sports and is back of the Oma
ha ball club straight through. They
made a great record last year, but
watch their dual this year, especially
when they tackle Lincoln who will be
a member of the Circuit again uus
season.
Omaha’s population, as shown by
the Federal census of 1920, was 191,
601. The federal estimate July 1,
1928, was 204,382. The latest school
census taken in Omaha gives an sali
nate of 209,000. The colored popu
lation is above 18,000.
ACTIVITIES OF
THE COLORED
COMMERCIAL CLUB
The Colored Commercial Club of
Omaha has as its objectives the de
velopment of commercial and indus
trial enterprises among our people
and the promotion of civic and social
enterprises that advance the public
welfare. The largest work it is do
ing at this time is that which falls
under the department of the Free
Employment Bureau. Finding hon
orable and remunerative employment
for our people is a very important
and essential phase of welfare work.
The report of the Commissioner for
January shows suggestive facts that
will repay careful study. The total
number of applicants was 669 of
whom 391 were men and 268 women.
During the first five days of Janu
ary there were 90 applicants, 58 men
and 32 women; while during the last
five days of the month, from the 26th
to the 31st, the number of applicants
had risen to 167, 82 men and 75 wo
men, the ratio of men and women
being nearly equal. This would indi
cate that many husbands being out of
employment and unable to get work,
their wives sought work to help keep
the wolf from the door.
The number given employment thru
the Bureau was 87, or a little above
I 13 per cent of the number applying.
Of this number 31 were males and 56
females. The men placed were as fol
lows: cooks, 1; janitors and porters
3; laborers Missouri Pacific Round
house 20; handy men 5; truck drivers
1; delivery boys 1. The classification
of the women given employment in
cludes cooks 7; chamber maids 12;
house maids 23; waitresses 14.
Among other activities are the Boy
Scouts under Dr. Craig Morris. In
formation has been supplied to Dis
abled Veterans of the World War as
to how and where to receive com
pensation and vocational training;
and to business interests and indi
viduals seeking facts concerning the
population and other matters.
The public should become better
acquainted with the activities of the
Colored Commercial Club.
OUR universities
AND WORLD PROBLEMS
Today we hear much and witness
great agitation regarding racial equal
ity, industrial reorganization, the
Justification of war, and the evangel
ization of the world.
Realizing that these important is
sues are far from solution we often
wonder who or what factor will be
responsible for an evolution (for we
cannot hope for a revolution in such
social questions) which will ultimate
ly make possible the realization of the
ideals for which we have all looked
in vain
It has often been said that the ad
vancement and salvation of the world
Is In the hands of the youth of the
world. In accordance with this belief,
an organization of college students
known as the “Student Volunteers”
was organized by Mr. Robert P. Wil
der thirty-seven yearB ago. The prime
purpose of this movement is to chal
lenge college students to take up for
eign mission work. An inter-national
student volunteer convention is held
every four years. The last such con
vention was held In Indianapolis dur
ing Christmas holidays. Seven thou
sand delegates from the ends of the
earth met to consider the questions
mentioned in the first of this article.
In order that more students may be
challenged by these vital issues, state
conventions of a similar nature are
held each year. The Nebraska State
Student Volunteer Conference was re
cently held at Wesleyan University on
February 16, 16, 17.
Hm University of Omaha had a del
egation of seventeen students attend
ing the state conference. It may be
said with candor and yet with em
phasis that Miss Lucile Bivens and
Mima Cecilia Starks of the Omaha del
egation were the only Negroes at the
conference. However, the white dele
I gates from Omaha University are
| proud of their colored Bisters; for, in
the estimation of the writer they were
responsible In a large measure for the
success of the convention as regards
l he discussion upon the question of
racial equality.
Miss Bivens made a stirring appeal
at the convention in behalf of the Ne
gro. It is useless to spend time here
in discussing a question with which
the reader is already thoroughly ac
quainted. However, to prove that
white people who are broadminded
and of the right spirit want racial
equality, Miss Bivens may be quoted
as follows; "I have lived in Omaha
for five years and have never felt at
home; but, in the three days I have
been with you folks at this conven
tion you have made me feel as though
I were as white as you. In fact, it
would have been necessary for me to
look in a mirror to see if I were black
or not. I know that you folks regard
me i s a sister for I have slept in
white people’s homes, I have eaten at
the same tables with you, and I have
felt free to associate with you at all
times. It gives me Joy to know that
there are some white folks who Judge
us as Christ would; who do not dis
' regard human personality and Judge
i us as inferior because our skin hap
] pens to be darker than their own.” It
was the consensus of opinion at the
convention that the Negro should not
be pitied for he is capable of the same
accomplishments as the white when
living under proper environment; but,
tl at the white race on the other hand
should be ashamed of the Christianity
which it has practiced. So, there are
many broadminded and non-prejudiced
whites who are awaiting the day when
they can take their black brothers by
the hand and say, “We are glad that
pou have at last obtained total eman
cipation.” <
When the question of race equality
is settled somewhat, the other ques
tions will In a large measure be
solved. Briefly, it may be stated that
five ways were advanced for the solu
tion of war. They were as follows:
Preparation as a means of preventing
war, disarmament, education, world
organization (league of Nations and
World Court), and pacifist.
Hut, we must all first realize be
fore we can ever hope to solve these
questioas that we are brothers and
sisters, that we are all the children
of God and that we must obey his
commands.
JOE HOUSTON,
Leader of University of Omaha
Delegates.
N. A. A. F. P. FOLDS
BI-WONTFLY MEETING
The Advancement Association In Fav
ored by an Eloqnent and Inspiring
Address on Lincoln by Attor
ney John Adams.
The Omaha Branch of the N. A. A.
‘C. P. held Its regular bi-monthly meet
ing last Sunday afternoon at the Anti
Lynching Fund Campaign Headquar
ters in the Jewell building, Twenty
fourth and Grant streets. ^he pres
ident presided. An eloquent and ad
mirable address based on the lifei of
Abdaham Lincoln was delivered bp
Attorney John Adams, who was given
a vote of thanks for his inspiring
words. Brief remarks on Frederick
Douglas were made by Rev. John Al
bert Williams and Dunbar's poem on
Douglas was read by Mrs. 8. M. Wil
kinson. In addition to the eet pro
gram important business was dis
patched among these being the refer
ence to the Committee on Education
for investigation the report of alleged
derogatory remarks made in the pres
ence of her pupils by a teacher in one
of the public schools. Report was
made by the chairman of the commit
tee In charge of the drive for the
Antl-Lynehing Fkiiyl. It was decided
to meet weekly during the drive. In
accordance with this resolution the N.
A. A. C. P. will meet next Sunday
afternoon at 4 o’clock at the same
place. Public is Invited.
Remit for your paper now.
KLAVER CANDIDATE
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR
A Magnetic, Energetic and Well-Qual
ified Young Republican, Who Has
Served aa Deputy Four Years
Seeks Deserved Promotion
Do you recognize him? This is S.
E. Klaver, the young republican who
filed for County Assessor, subject to
the will of the voters at the primaries
April 8. Mr. Klaver, whom many
Monitor readers will recognize from
his picture, has a wide and favorable
acquaintance among our people in this
city. He is a self-made young man,
who is well-qualifie<f for the position
which he seeks. For some years he
was a proficient clerk in the County
Treasurer’s office, and for the past
four years has been Deputy Assessor,
in which position he has made good,
and is therefore thoroughly convers
ant with the duties of the important
office for which he is a candidate.
If the electorate of Omaha are looking
for one fully qualified for County
Assessor, then Mr. Klaver’s nomina
tion and election are %jumrcd.
Several clubs have been organized
to further Mr. Klaver’s I candidacy.
Many friends, among whom he num
bers many colored people, are en
thusiastically boosting for him. Mr.
Klaver solicits the votes of all. If
you have not been a booster for Sam
Klaver for County Assessor get busy
at once among your friends and keep
it up until everything is over but.
the shouting. Here is the slogan:
“Klaver for County Assessor.”
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SCHLAIFER TO MEET
“ASSASSIH’SIMOHICH
REXT FRIDAY HIOHT
Battling Monroe, Colored Light-heavy
Will Attempt Come-back in the
Eyes of the Fans. Meets
Chuck Lambert
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36 BI6FR6BRBS 6F FIGHTIRG
—
On the evening of Friday, February
29th, Morrie Schlaifer “Omaha’s
Fighting Fool,” will meet one of the
most severe tests of his career when
he meets U. S. Joe Simonich, of Butte,
Montana, known as “The Assassin,"
in a red hot ten-round go.
Simonich is one tough, rugged
fighter as he so aptly demonstrated
to Schlaifer last summed in Council
Bluffs, where he decidedly beat Mor
rie at his own game of “give and
take 'em."
In the Blue Book of Boxers Simon
ich is rated as one of the toughest
nuts to crack in the game today, and
fans can be assured that he will make
the little party very interesting for
the slugging Jew. It is rumored that
Billie Uvick, Schlatter's old trainer
will second the Montana lad.
In the semi-windup, Battling Mon
roe, colored light-heavy will take a
crack at Chuck Lambert of St. Paul,
and as both of these boys are slug
gers with comparatively little science,
a good battle can be presumed.
Ace Hudkins, Lincoln, lightweight
champ of the state, will meet Rusty
Jones of St. Paul in their 10-round
go. Jones has had 18 fights and won
15 by the K. 0. route and won 3 de
cisions. Watch ’im Ace.
In a 6-round preliminary Red Wil
son and Jack Shafer, local middles
will clash. Both are comers who
fight toe to toe.
This is a very well balanced card
and as it is given by Bennie Boyle of
the Nonpareil club, it is a guaranteed
genuine fight. Bennie puts on real
fights, no frames or set-ups. Boyle
has a real reputation to sustain.
Tickets are now on sale at popu
lar prices $3, $2 and $1, plus tax.
EDITOR R. L. VANN NAMED
AS ALTERNATE DELEGATE
Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 22.—Among
the nomination petitions to place upon
the ballot for the primary election
April 22, the names of candidates
slated by leaders of the State Repub
lican organization for delegates and
alternates to the Republican National
Convention, received by the local Reg
ister of Wills from Republican State
Chairman W. Harry Baker, was the
name of Robert L. Vann, editor of the
Pittsburgh Courier.
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ILLINOIS UNEMPLOYMENT
HIGHEST IN YEARS—INFLUX
OF NEGROES CAUSE
Chicago, 111., Feb. 22—(Preston
News Service.)—Unemployment in Il
linois attained its highest proportions
during January than any time in
years according to a report recently
made public by the state department
of labor. There were throughout the
state 166 persons registered for each
100 places reported vacant. Involun
tary idleness is worse than at any
time during 1923.
It is explained that the abnormal
increase in the supply of labor and
consequent unemployment comes from
four sources: Farm hands attracted
by higher city wages: unemploped
miners from Illinois and adjoining
states; influx of large numbers of Ne
groes from the South and immigration
of Mexican laborers.
The report shows that industries
throuhout the state are operating six
per cent above normal.
JACK JOHNSON’S WIFE
SUES FOR DIVORCE
Ney York, Feb., 22.—(Prestof News
Service.)—John Arthur Johnson, for
mer heavyweight champion of the
world, wag sued in the Supreme Court
here Thursday by his white wife, Lu
cille Florence Johnson, for divorce.
The action, undefended, was speedily
tried before Justice Wasservogel, who
reserved decision.
Johnson’s marital affairs, which
were indirectly responsible for his de
thronment from his position as world
champion, have kept him in hot water
and an unfavorable lime light for
years, and the granting of the decree,
if it is granted, will mark the closing
chapter of one of the most unique,
humiliating and disgusting, to a cer
tain extent, love affairs in this coun
try’s history.
RACE man to go with pirates
AS TRAINER TO CALIFORNIA
Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 22.—Preston
News Service.)—When the Pittsburgh
Pirates stepped “off” on their first
leg of the trip to California Saturday
there were accompanied by George
Aston, colored trainer, who has been
with the team since 1910.
Aston is one of the best known men
in baseball, as a trainer, and it is hi*
efficient work which has gone far to
making the Pittsburgh team known as
the best conditioned club in the ma
jors.
Of the 1,866 colored school teachers
in Tennessee, 1,497 are females.
ASSAILS KLAN,
PRAISES N, A. A. C. P.
OVER THE RADIO
In a Lincoln’s Birthday address,!
broadcasted by station WJAR, one of;
the most powerful radio broadcasting
stations in the country, Robert W.
Bagnall, Director of Branches of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, sent the As
sociation’s message out from Provi
dence, Rhode Island. Mr. Bagnall’s
subject was: “How to Preserve the
Spirit of Lincoln in American Life,’’
and his address was part of a one
hour program arranged by the N. A.
A. C. P.
Mr. Bagnall pointed out that the
Emancipator had stood for equal op
portunity and equal justice to all. As
against this broad spirit of tolerance,
the Ku Klux Klan had banded it
self together, not to obtain more
rights for its members, but to deny
rights to others. On the other hand,
the N. A. A. C. P., composed of both
white and colored people was working
in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, for
the rights of all people irrespective
of race, or creed or color.
Following his address Mr. Bagnall
has received a letter from Thomas
W. Bicknell, of Providence, age 90
years, who heard the radio address
and writes:
“You gave us an amazingly strong,
clear and comprehensive address to
day at Providence, by radio. I cheer
ed but you did not hear.
“In 1860 I was a student in Brown
University and a member of the Gen
eral Assembly of Rhode Island. My
first speech was to open all schools
in Rhode Island to Negro children.
In 1863 all schools were opened by
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
My life has stood four square with
your purposes and arguments. The
day of Deliverance is not far off.”
RIALTO MUSIC SHOP
RAPIDLY EXPANDING
Recently Purchased Gigantic Stock of
Records and Sonora Phonographs
and Has Opened Two New
Stores Within Year
The recent purchase by the Rialto
Music Shop, 1416 Douglas street, of
the entire stock of 30,000 records and
two carloads of Sonora phonographs,
carried by Lee, Coit Andreesen, has)
called public attention to the rapid j
expansion and development of this
enterprising and progressive firm.
Beginning only a few years ago with
a comparatively small stock, by strict
attention to business and courteous
treatment of all patrons, Mr. Joe
Himmelstine has pushed this popular
music shop to the fore. So rapidly
has the business grown that less than
a year ago a branch house was opened
at Twenty-fourth and N street to sup
ply the South Side trade, and now
the Rialto has taken over the Phono
graph department in Hayden Bros.
Store, where they have just placed on
sale at phenomenally low prices, the
entire stock of Sonora Phonographs;
and 30,000 records. The Rialto Music
Shop enjoys and appreciates a large
patronage from our people. Among
other things it has featured from the
outset records by artists of our race.
CAREFUL DISHWASHING
NECESSARY TO HEALTH
Columbus, O., Feb. 22.—(Preston
News Service.)—According to Prof.
Faith Lanman, of Ohio State Univer
sity, instructor in Home Economics,
careful dishwashing, sometimes re
garded as menial, is one thing on
which depends much of a person’s
chance to live to a ripe old age. Miss
Lanman says she has made many
experiments in connection with home
economics and finds that throat bac
teria on practically every dish that
had been hand-washed In soapy water
without rinsing. Sbe Bays that dishes
should be scraped, then washed in
soapy water as hot as the bands can
stand and then rinsed in boiling hot
water to kill the bacteria germs.
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RACIAL EQUALITY
DEMOHSTRABLE
SATS GOVERHOR
Sir Sydney Oliver, Newly Appointed
Secretary of State for India,
Speaks from Close
Observation
EXPERIENCE IN WEST IRRIES
Recognition of Merit and Equality
Makes Negro Valuable Helper
Toward Good Social
Order
London, England, Feb. 22.—Sir Syd
ney Oliver, newly appointed secretary
of state for India, Is a believer of ra
cial equality for white, black and red
men.
Speaking on the strength of the ex
perience which he gained during hla
colonial service in the West Indies,
and especially In Jamaica, which de
pendency he administered as Captain
General for close upon fourteen years,
he writes in his new book, “White
Capital and Colored Labor”.
“There is no artificial or conven
tional disqualification whatever to ba>
any Jamaican, of Negro or mixed
race, from occupying any position for
which he Is intellectually qualified in
any department of the social life of
the island, including public service.
Black Men Judges
“Many colored men are magistrates
of petty sessions. More than one holds
the office of custosfl that is to say of
chief magistrate of a group of par
ishes; more than one holds or has
held stipendary magistracies under the
government. These positions they
filled with credit. According to their
professional position, they associate
with white residents on precisely the
same terms as persons of pure Eu
-opean extraction.”
The recognition of this equality
works in the direction of making the
Negro a conscious helper toward good
social order, whereas Americans, ac
cording to Sir Spdney, by insisting
continually on the Inferiority of the
black man, have spurred him into
violent resistance and called forth
some of his worse faults. As an il
lustration of this, he calls attention
in his book to the number of crimes
perpetrated in America that are laid
it the door of the Negro and which
ire usually dealt with by lynch law.
No. Apprehension Felt
“Now, the fact is,” writes Sir Syd
ney, "that in the British West Indies
assaults by black or colored men on
white women or children are alto
gether unknown. No apprehension of
them whatever troubles society. I say
this as an administration officer fam
iliar with the judicial statistics, as a
resident familiar with all parts of Ja
maica and all classes of its population,
as the head of a household of women
and girls who have frequented the
suburbs of Kingston and who have
lived for weeks and months In the
remote country districts with neither
myself nor any other white man with
in call. Any resident In Jamaica wll!
tell the same storp.
Women Are Safe
“A young white woman can walk
alone in the hills or to Kingston in
daylight or dark, through popular set
tlements or exclusively black or col
ored folks, without encountering any
thing but friendly salutations from
man and woman. Single ladies may
hire a carriage and be driven by Ne
groes all over the island without
trouble or molestation. Offenses
against women and children come into
the courts. But they are not against
white women and children. Whatever
may he the cause, It is an indisputable
fact that Jamaica and every other
British West Indian island is ag safe
for white women to go about in if not
safer, than any European country with
which I am acquainted.”
AT ST. PHILIP’S SUNDAY
Pursuant to plans approved by the
Bishop of the Dtoceee the subject of
Near East Relief will be presented In
an address by a special speaker at
the Church of St Philip the Deacon
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Offer
ings and pledgee will be taken for this
worthy cause. The services will bo at
the usual hous: Holy communion 7:M
a. m.; church school and mloeleoarp
program 10; morning prayer 11; even
ing prayer and oonflrmatloa instruc
tion at 8 o’clock.
A. E. Andersen, manager of the
Paxton Hot Works, 1M7% Vfcriam
street has Jwt returned from n vMt
to Bioax Cltjr. la.
