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A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
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$2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy % \ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1924 Whole Number 453 Vol. IX—No. 37
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REN FACES OH
THIS SEASOH’S
BUFFALO TEAM
Hans Reis, in an Interview With The
Monitor, is Highly Enthusiastic
Over This Years Prospects
of the Team
TEH PITCHERS OH THE SQHAD
Jimmy O’Neil, Washington Flash
Shortstop; Has Reported to the
Shreveport Headquarters.
Is .300 Hitter
Reports emanating from Shreve
port, La., the Omaha Western League
spring training camp, are very en
couraging, according to an interview
with Hans Reis, secretary of the club,
who has been in telegraphic communi
cation with Barney Burch, president,
who with Manager Art Griggs is in
charge of the Buffaloes, in their prep
aratory work.
Mr. Reis tells us that the recruits
as well as regulars are looking fine,
several of them looking as if they will
make great timber for a pennant
winning craft this summer.
By the time this yam is in type
the Oma|ias will have probably play
ed a couple of exhibition games with
the Shreveport team. Mr. Reis was
asked for a tentative line-up for team
and he gives us this information.
1st base and manager—Art Griggs.
2nd base—L. F. "Chick” Thompson.
3rd base—Jimmy Wilcox.
Shortstops—Jimmy O'Neil, and a
recruit named Phelps.
Outfielders—Lavalle, from the N. j
Y. Yanks, D. J. Brown, Joe Bonowitz,
Chief Robinson, (an Indian), Lena-:
han, from Iowa, Thornton ami I’eder
soa I
Catchers—-Wilder, Stallman, Sie
mers, Hanson of Omaha, and perhaps
Hale who is now holding out for more
salary.
Pitchers—Burke, Sohmanske, Cul-1
lop, Koupal, Praul and Prennergastj
all righthanders and Bailey, Harry
Lee Matthews and Gemandt, south
paws.
Another bit of good news is that
at the possible return to Omaha of.
Speece sold to Washington, and ofj
"Buckshot” May, sold to Pittsburg.,
A condition in the sale of these men ’
was to the effect that should they not j
make the grade, they were to be re-]
turned to Omaha for further season
ing. We want them to make good]
on their big chance in the majors, but!
would welcome them back home again.]
Omaha had a real ball club last
year and hitting over .300, as they
did, would have won the pennant, with ]
real efficient management. Ed Ko
necthy was a flivver. He did not
have the ability to discipline his men
as he should and was himself a weak
peg at first base.
If our theory of the reason of last j
years failure is right, we are then
predicting a great year this season,
for Art Griggs will see that the boys:
are playing the game at their beat
pace, and will do likewise himself.]
He is a strict general, but a gentle-j
man, he wastes no words but makes
his few well understood. We are;
expecting great things from him.
Plans are already under way for,
opening day in Omaha and a great
time is being anticipated by the dyed
in-the-wool fans. It should be warm
spring weather the middle of April
when the teams open in Omaha, but
opening day comes but once each sea
son and regardless of the weather
Barney, Hans and Griggs are assured
a mammoth crowd for the opener.
Mr. Reis stated that he well knew
a large percentage of the gate re
ceipts came from the Colored race
and we know that the ownership of
the Omaha Club appreciates the pat
ronage of our group. If you people
are not fans, become so, it is a great
game and a great season is promised
Boost for the Buffaloes.
COLORED WAITRESSES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ARE DISCHARGED
Boston, Mass., March 14.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—Harvard
University, acting on a report of. the
Woman’s Visiting Committee, com
posed of prominent society women,
has discharged the Colored waitress
es,numbering nearly one hundred,
who were employed in the Freshmen
dining halls; and hired white girls to
replace them. The Committee based
its recommendation which received |
the approval of the Overseers, on the
ground of “efficiency.” The students
who patronize the dining halls come
from wealthy families. College of
ficials are loath to discuss the
change.
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NEW JERSEY COLORED
DEMOCRATS ARE ACTIVE
(Preston News Service)
Neward, N. J., Mar. 14.—A meet
ing of the advisory committee of the
New Era Colored Democracy of Es
sex County, Inc., was held last Fri
day night at the office of the pres
ident, William B. Brandon. Plans
were made preparatory to a monster
meeting of the organization the lat
ter part of this month at which time
definite arrangements will be made
for the coming campaign. Mr Bran
don announced that there is a very
strong desire on the part of Colored
Democrats for a Colored candidate on
the Democratic ticket, and it is one
of the matters that was given seri
ous attention.
An educational campaign is being
planned to be conducted among Negro
voters of the county and state. •
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PROMINENT PIONEER
CITIZEN SUCCUMBS
TO LONG SICKNESS
Joseph Carr, Resident of Omaha for
Thirty-seven Years Answers
Summons Saturday
Afternoon
Joseph Carr, who had been a high
ly respected resident of Omaha for
thirty-seven years died at his late
residence, 2701 Va Cuming street, Sat
urday afternoon, following an illness
of several months. He was Worship
ful Master of Excelsior Lodge No. 2,
A. F. & A. M., and Royal Grand Pa
tron of the Eastern Star. The fun
eral, attended by a large gathering of
friends was held Thursday afternoon
ut 2 o’clock from the Masonic Hall,
Twenty-fourth and Parker streets.
Preceding the ritual exercises of Hi
awatha Chapter O. E. S., the burial
service of the Episcopal Church was
read by the Rev. John Albert Wil
liams. The Masonic Lodge had its
service at the grave, conducted by
Emery R. Smith, W. M , assisted by
other officials. Interment was at
Forest Lawn.
Among the exercises at the hall
were the reading of resolutions from
Hiawatha Chapter O. E. S., by Mrs.
L. McCullough; from the Grand Ma
trons’ Council by Mrs. W. H. Ransom
and from Eureka Commandery by
Maynard L. Wilson.
Joseph Carr was bom February 13.
1863 at Cambridge, Mass., and was
the second child and son of John and
Maria A. Carr, who had been slaves
but gained their freedom. He was
sent to school when four years old at
Cambridgeport, which he attended un
til he was a little past seventeen when
he enlisted in the United States Ar
my, January 7, 1870, serving with the
Twenty-fourth infantry for seventeen
years as private, sergeant and post
quartermaster sergeant, also acting
clerk and sergeant-major He was
honorably discharged August 26, 1887
coming to Omaha in September of
that year. For a number of years he
was janitor at the library where he
made good use of his opportunities
for reading and study which was his
ruling passion. He studied law at the
Omaha School of Law, receiving his
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1899,
and passed the state bar at Lincoln
June 17, 1899, and was admitted to
practice. He devoted his attention
chiefly to real estate and some years
ago organized the Pioneer Real Es
tate Company, the other members of
which were T. P. M ahum mitt, Alphon
so Wilson and Silas Terrill.
Mr. Carr was a profound historical
student and a well-read historian. He
has no surviving relatives. The de
ceased has left a modest but com
fortable estate which bears testimony
to his thrift and industry. He was a
pleasant, affable gentleman, kindly
and charitable and always anxious to
interest young man and women in
good literature.
•SUDDENLY ROUSED FROM
HLS SLEEP, MAN SHOOTS
HIS AGED MOTHER
(Preston News Service)
Memphis, Tenn., Mar. 14.—Dream
ing that burglars were in the house
William Shelby shot his aged mother,
Mrs. Louise Gowdy, aged 80, when
she awakened him early last Thurs
day night, according to a story told
the police.
Shelhy was at his home, and seeing
that he appeared to be having a bad
dream, his mother shook him. Shel
by seized a revolver that was under
his pillow and fired before he real*
ized what he was doing. His mother
corroborated her son’s story to the
police and no arrests were made.
The aged woman was shot in the
stomach. She was taken to the Gen
eral Hospital. Physicians examining
her indicate that the wound may prove
serious.
Officers of the Colored Klaver for County Assessor Club
JOHN ADAMS 0<3« Qesctttti*.#. Jolttf dmittc.
WHAT IS BEING CIVILIZED?
There have been-at least six defin
itely known civilizations preceding
this one—the one we call western civ
ilization. There may have been many
more. Civilizations may have come
and gone of Which not a remnant re
mains.
We know, however, that there were
six and we are fairly familiar with
them—the Egyptian, the Chaldean
the Indian, the Chinese, the Greek
and the Roman.
They have grown up over long peri
ods, flourished, flowered, drooped and
dropped. In some ways we have rea
Much of that apparent consciousness
were superior to the western. In fact,
we all know that, judged by certain
customs and habits, the western civ
ilization is immeasurably crude and
imperfect.
To wonder, to try to learn whether
we are superior to the men of the
far past is fascinating. We must ad
mit that it is doubtful if we are much
advanced. We appear to lie more
John Carlyle, in The Chicago Daily
News.
(By The Associated Negro Press’)
kind; we have a keener consciousness
of the rights and pains and priviliges
of the weak, or at least we seem to.
Much of that .apparent consciousness
and conscience is a thin coating of
civilization, easily scratched through
and destroyed.
We know that we have made enor
mous strides in mechanics. We can
do things by machinery that our an
cestors never dreamed of, or at least
if they dreamed of them and did them
their tracks do not convince us. One
man today does the work of a score
of ancients, faster, sometimes better.
But—and this is a very large but—
has man a better brain than he had
during the fruitful years of those
older empires? Is he smarter? Does
he think to finer intellectual purpose?
Take a day off and read the Plato
of your school days with a more un
derstanding heart than you had then.
Read Confucius. Read the early pro
phets of the race. Have we learned so
much since then? Have the truth
seekers of today found much that is
new and much that is of greater
value ?
How many words of fundamental
wisdom have been added to the words
of the ancients—the lawgivers of
dead and gone civilizations?
And there is a final question to put
to ourselves, more important than all
the rest: Has the heart of man
changed? Has the intention changed?
The true test of civilization is
man’s plans for himself and his fel
lows. Has he a wider, finer perspec
tive? Does he know more than he
did in the far past, sense something
of the divine plan for the universe?
Had he learned that he is keeping
step in an eternal progress?
Has man begun at last to learn
“what it is all about”? That is the
test of civilization.
NATIONAL MUSIC
UNIVERSITY: $50,000
BUILDING FUND
Chicago, 111., March 14.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—The stu
dents and friends of the National Uni
versity of Music of Chicago, have set
aside the -irijt week in May to be
known as National University of Mu
sic week, and ask all race loving peo
ple to assist in a drive for a $50,
000 building fund for the purchase of
permanent quarters for this great
race institution. The University is
not for profit, but for the purpose of
affording a musTcal education to stu
dents from anywhere in the United
States.
Some two years ago Miss Pauline
I.*e, founded the University. Aided
by a few friends__she leased the old
home of Madame Schumann-Helncke,
the famous prima donna, located at
3673 Michigan boulevard, for the ren
tal of $150 per month. At first tne
struggle to survive was a very dif
ficult one, but the unfailing energy
of the founder coupled with the grad
ual recognition by the race of me
great value of the institution, it has
managed to continue to keep open its
doors to the many eager students who
seek a musical education.
The building in which the univer
sity is housed is about to be sold and
it becomes necessary either for the
members to purchase the building or
provide other quarters. It is for this
reason that the board of directors
and friends have considered it advis
able to make an appeal to the entire
race throughout the United States to
aid in the drive for the sum of $50,
000 to be used in the purchase and
alteration of the present building, or
the buying of a new one.
This is the first time that the Na
tional University of Music has ever
called upon the general public for
support. Music has become one of
the most important considerations in
national life, not only as a means of
enjoyment but as a source of profit
to hundreds of young men and wo
men.
Volunteers are sending their names
to the University and outlines of the
plans are being sent.
Elizabeth City, N. C., March 14.—
(By The Associated Negro Press). A
mob which stormpd the county jail
here Sunday night in an effort to get
hold of Elwell Overton and Sap
White, was foiled by the hurried
removal of the two men to Norfolk
Va. Overton is charged with having
thrown W. R. Ballance, engineer of
a tugboat, overboard during a fight.
STANDARD LIFE PREMIER IN
SURANCE COMPANY OF RACE
(Preston News Service)
Atainta, Ga., Mar 14.—The Insur
ance Department of the State of
Georgia has just approved the annual
report of the Standard Life Insurance
Company of Atlanta. This state
ment indicates that Standard Life is
still the premier life insurance com
pany in the world managed and con
trolled by Negro brains and capital.
The gross assets of the company it is
revealed, amount to nearly three mil
lion dollars. The increase in assets
for the one year 1923, alone, being
more than a half million, or $682,
571.31.
The report also indicates that
Standard Life has the largest surplus
of any Negro life insurance company
in America, and that the increase in
its income is more than one-half mil
lion dollars. The total insurance in
force at the close of 1923 was nearly
thirty million dollars, representing
an increase for the year of nearly six
million dollars.
These are staggering figures when
it is kept in mind that the Standard
Life Insurance Company is but ten
years old.
NO STAR; NO POLICEMAN
Little Rock, March 14.—(By The
Associated Negro Press). Because
after the town marshal had been ar
rested by Federal authorities on
charges of bootlegging, there were no
more police stars left, the town of
Edmondson, numbering four hundred
was compelled to go without a law of
ficer until the town marshal was
released from custody, on bail, and
permitted to return his star. The al
leged bootlegging marshal is Gabriel
Thompson.
COLORED YOUTH HONOR •
HARVARD GRADUATE
Boston, Mass., March 14.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.) — James
Theodore Hewlett has been awarded
the Bachelor of Science Degree, by
Harvard University, at midyear, hav
ing completed the regular four year’s
course in three and a half years.
Young Hewlett is a product of the
Boston public schools, having gradu
ated from the Boston English High
School at fifteen years of age. At
Harvard he specialised in biology and
chemistry. He was appointed by Dean
Greenough to act as Undergraduate
Student Advisor for 1923-1924. While
pursuing his studies, he has worked
as a clerk-carrier In the Post-Office.
He intends to study medicine.
PUSHING KLAVER’S CANDIDACY
FOR COUNT YASSESSOR
Friends of S. E. Klaver, present
Deputy County Assessor, who is a
candidate for the position of County
Assessor, for which promotion he is
well qualified, are working enthusi
astically for his nomination. Among
his most active supporters are the
members of the Colored Klaver for
County Assessor Club, of which the
following are the officers: Dan Des
dunes, president; Sergeant Isaac
Bailey, vice president; John A. Smith
secretary; and Attorney John Adams,
chairman of the Executive committee.
This is the first time during his many
years’ residence in Omaha that Dan
Desdunes, the famous and popular
bandmaster, has ever taken any active
part in a political campaign. That he
as well as the other officers are whole
heartedly for Mr. Klaver for County
Assessor is quite complimentary to the
candiadte and will unodubtedly make
many votes for this aspiring young
republican.
WINS $50 PRIZE
FOR NEWS STORY
—
New York City, March 14.—(By
The Associated Negro Press). Miss
Thelma Berlack, 202 W. 143d St., and
a pupil of the Theodore Roosevelt
High School, was the winner of the
“Biggest News of the Week” prize of
fered by the New York World in a
competition in which there were en
tered 1800 contestants. Victory car
ded with it a cash award of $50. It
came at a time when Miss Berlack
was on the verge of leaving school
because of the lack of funds. She
has been an honor student in her
class for three and a half years.
WHITE MAN HAS COHEN’S
NEW ORLEANS JOB
New Orleans, La., March 14.—(By
The Associated Negro Press). De
nying reports that Walter Cohen, re
jected by the United States senate for
the post of comptroller here, was
serving without pay, E. F. Koelle
white, assistant collector of customs
here, informed Mr. Cohen on his ar
rival here this week that he was run
ning the office and that Cohen had
nothing to do with it. Koelle is sign
ing all letters and documents and
said he would continue to do so.
St. Patrick’s Day Ball at Dream
land Hall, Monday, March 17. Adams’
Orchestra.—Adv.
HAMPTON HEAD TELLS OF
LAND GRANT COLLEGES
(Preston News Service)'
Hampton, Va., Mar. 14.—The objec
tive toward which the Negro land
grant colleges of the South are striv
ing is “to turn out young men and
women who are fitted in body and
mind and conscience and will to face
conditions which they must face,” ac
cording to Dr. James E. Gregg, prin
cipal of Hampton Institute, in ad
dressing the final session of the'
fourth annual conference of these
schools here last Wednesday.
The conference extended over three
days and was attended by executives
of seventeen Negro land grant col
leges and a group of well known Ne- j
gro educators.
UNUSUAL HONORS TO
FAMOUS COLORED HERO
Four Wreaths Hung by City, State
State Civilians in Boston for
Crispus Attucks—Mayor
a Speaker
Boston, Mass., March 14, 1924.—
After issuing a “Call to the Race” to
observe March 5th as Citizenship
Foundation Day, for Crispus Attucks
as the first martyr for American in
dependence and liberty, the National
Headquarters of the National Equal
Rights League certainly practiced its
own preaching on Wednesday in Bos
ton. For on that day, the great Mer
chants National Bank on State Street
opposite the wheel in the Cobble
stones marking the spot where At
tucks fell hung out its big U. S. flag.
On the electric pole there the Boston
Branch hung a laurel wreath, Jas. G.
Wolff making a statement to the
crowd held back by two mounted po
lice. Wm. H. O’Brien, champion of
the Irish cause, at the League’s sug
gestion, placed a large galox wreath
on Attucks’ grave near the Common.
At 10 a. m. Boston’s Public Celebra
tion Director flanked the Attucks
monument with the state and national
colors. Noon-time found two wreains
on the statue, one by the state and
one by the city, the former one placed
by Major Sampson of the Governor’s
staff and the latter by Mayor Curley
himself. The flags were flown from
all city buildings.
Then at 12:30 national headquar
ters held outdoor exercises in front of
the statue, the keynote of which as
sounded by Secretary Wm. Monroe
Trotter was that the race which shed
its blood first for the founding of the
Republic and liberty certainly has
original ground title to every public
right and privilege. The speakers
were Mayor James M. Curley, Major
E. J. Sampson of the Staff of Gov
ernor Cox, Stewart E. Hoyt, the Col
ored Deputy Collector and prominent
Elk and Mason; Rev. J. W. Hill, na
tional league chaplain; Ex-Rep. Wm.
H. O’Brien of the State House, Rev.
D. S. Klugh, Chas. L. Raysor, Esq.
Mrs. Mary James and Rev. J. W. Pow
ell of the Sons of Veterans. The crowd
stood in the rain through nearly two
hours of eulogy of Attucks and his
Irish comrades.
Mass Meeting At Night.
The Boston Branch loyally backed
up the national body by a great At
tucks mass meeting in the old 12th
Baptist Church at night. Demands
for the Dyer Bill, for Soldier Pardons
for abolition of federal segregation
in view of Attucks’ heroism were
voiced by white and Colored orators
including E. T. Morris, presiding, Rev.
D. S. Klugh, John A. Hagan, E. Mark
Sullivan, Corporation Counsel, Rep.
W. H. O’Brien, Dr. Alice W. McKano
A. G. Wolff, Esq., I. T. Dontch, Esq.
and J. W. Schenck, Esq., Colored As
sistant U. S. District Attorney. Carl
Logan sang at the statue and Mrs.
Ethel G. Russell at the church.
JUNIOR MUSIC CLUB
ATTRACTS ATTENTION
St. Louis, Mo., March 14.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—The lately
organized St. Louis Junior Music Club
is making rapid progress, and is de
stined to take a high place among the
younger people of this city. Its mem
bership iR made up of boys and girls
in their “teens” and the monthly
meetings are planned so as to culti
vate the highest conception of the
musical art, as well as to bring out
| the talent of the budding artists.
These meetings vary studying the
various composers and most excellent
| programs are given in addition. The
attendance of patrons is encouraged,
] and the popularity of the organization
is attested in the crowded auditorium
of the Y. W. C. A. where these meet
ings are held. The officers are Miss
, Maude Oswell, Pres.; Miss Beulla
Miller, Sec.; and Miss Reed, Treas
| urer.
HOWARD HHIVERSITY
FITTINGLY OBSERVES
IT’S ANNIVERSARY
Suitable Exercises Mark Charter Day
Observance Commemorating
Fifty-seven Years of
Service
ALNMNI ENTERTAIN SENIORS
Prof. Dyson, One of First Students,
Relates Reminiscences Showing
Eagerness for College
Education
Washington, D. C., March 14.—
Four hundred alumni and members of
the graduating classes of all depart
ments of the University assembled on
Monday evening, March 3d, 1924, at
8:80 p. m. in the beautiful new dining
hall to commemorate the founding of
Howard University, fifty-seven years
ago, March 2nd, 1867, and to strength
en the feeling of friendship between
graduates and graduating students. It
was the occasion of the first annual
Alumni-Senior Charter Day Dinner
which was in the nature of a "fellow
ship feast,” the aim being to bring
the officers and faculty of the Uni
versity, the graduating classes, and
the alumni into closer relations and
to keep alive the traditional “Howard
Spirit.” The alumni were hosts on
this occasion to the members of the
graduating classes^
During the dinner, an inspiring pro
gram was rendered; the keynote of
the speeches being satisfaction that
at last the members of all depart
ments represented by their senior
classes had met with the graduates
in the interest of a greater Howard
University.
As a part of Charter Day observ
ance, addresses were delivered by
Professor Walter Dyson of the De
partment of History and Dean George
W. Cook of the School of Commerce
and Finance, at the noon-day Chapel
exercises. Professor Dyson’s address
was concerned with the history of the
University and Dean Cook’s had to
do with certain personal reminis
cences, he having had the privilege of
being one of its first students and
having served for many years as Sec
retary of the University.
An interesting feature in the early
life of the University was strikingly
referred to in the following remarks
made by Professor Dyson:
“When it became known that the
University was open, applications
came in from all manner of people
asking admission. It was impossible
for some to believe that Negroes were
being permitted to enter college.
Many applied, asking if it were true
that Negroes could enter. . Married
men applied to enter and, if possible
to bring their wives. Many, without
money, made application. Many,
without preparaCon, except the abil
ity to read and write, wished to en
ter. They brought with them in many
an instance a pick and shovel or
spade. They came to dig, literally, to
dig their way through school. It was
they who in a large measure drained
this hill, graded it and cut these
streets we now enjoy.”
Dean Cook’s reminiscences pictured
the early struggles of the University
in an intimate and personal way,
showing that in spite of the depriva
tions and the strenuousness of the
period there was much of charm to
lure onward the ambitious persons
who have since served their Race and
Nation in no mean capacity.
MASSACHUSETTS LOSING
HER COTTON MILLS
Boston, Mass., March 14.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—Massachu
setts is becoming alarmed over the
loss of her cotton mills. The State
Department of Labor and Industry
has just completed an intensive study
,of the textile industry, and reported
to the Governor that the number of
mills in the state will steadily de
crease, under present conditions, and
that the number will continue to in
crease in the south. The investiga
tion has shown that it costs the Mass
achusetts’ cotton mills 13 cents per
pound more to poduce certain grades
of cotton goods than it does southern
mills. The reason given is the excess
cost in the Old Bay State, due to re
strictive labor laws, especially those
concerning the employment of wo
men. It is considered that the change
will result to the benefit of colored
labor, which will be employed in the
southern mills, while foreign labor is
largely employed in Massachusetts
mills. ^
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