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<% A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
a Year. 5c a Copy °\/ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1924 Whole Number 454 VoL IX—No. 38
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FHEAR BAGNALL AT ZION BAPTIST SUNDAY AT 3:30
f NRMASKING OF KLAR
» DEMANDED BY
I NEW YORK SENATOR
ftathasiastie Im Meeting Held by
Advancement Association
Attended by Over
0,000
HAYWARD FOR ARTI-LYHCH
Former Nebraskan and Colonel of Fa
mous Fighting Black Regiment
Favors the Proposed
Federal Law
New York, March 21—An audience
ofl 3,000 cheered Senator James J.
Walker of the New York State legis
lature, author of the Antl-Klan Hill,
and Col. William Hayward, former
commander of the old 15th Regiment,
now the 369th, who spoke at the Third
New York Mass Meeting of the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, in the Re
naissance Casino on Sunday, March
9th.
James Weldon Johnson, N. A. A. C.
P. Secretary, in introducing Senator
W-alker, "dared” the Klan to parade
through Harlem or any other section
of New York In their regalia, and
Senator Walker took this up.
"If the Ku Klux Klan were to go
up Lenox Avenue or any other Ave
nue,” said Senator Walker, "if we
knew who they were we would not
worry about them. The most unfor
tunate aspect of this thing In Ameri
ca Is that they don’t come like men'
in the sunlight where we can see
them, but wear masks like the cowards
the are.
"All we want to do is to make them,
take off the mask. Let us get a good j
look at their faces. While the mask
is on, the fellow with whom you and
I are rubbing elbows every day, whom j
you and I perhaps know best and are!
trusting, is quietly undermining the
foundations of this wonderful country!
and doing it in the dark. All we
want is to be able to look at them,
just to be able to catalogue them and
then whether is it on Lenox avenue or;
down on the Bowery, don’t you worry ,
shout them.”
Col. Hayward, declaring that no
regiment in the United States Army
had a more distinguished record in
Prance than the colored troops he had
| commanded, spoke of the insults tOj
which colored soldiers wearing the
uniform had been subjected. He de-j
dared that as United States Attor
ney, his present office, he had no
right to make recommendations, but
if it were in his power he would re-1
| commend clemency for the men of the
' 24th Infantry still imprisoned for their j
alleged share in the Houston Riot of
1917. Col. Hayward declared him
self as strongly favoring enactment
of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.
John E. Nall, President of the A*-;
^ociation of Trade and Commerce of |
Harlem, anther speaker at the meet-'
Ing, urged that the 72 Negro banks'
throughout the country and various,
other financial institutions controlled,
by Negroes unite their forces to bring
about political and civic justice for
the race.
Tiie audience gave $335.9* in cash
and $69 in pledges toward the work
of the N. A. A. C. P. Miss Revella
Hughes, of the Runnin’ Wild Com
pany, sang and was encored enthusi
astically. William H. Roach, owner
of the Renaissance Casino, for the
third time, returned the check paid
him by the N. A. A. C^ P. for rent or
the hall, donating It to the AssiAda
tlon. Col. Arthur Little and many!
members of the 36l*th Regiment, in
cluding the Cadet Band, attended thej
meeting in honor of Col. Hayward, j
EDUCATION MADE PRACTICAL
(Lincoln News Service)
Topeka, Kans., March 21—The Kan
sas Industrial and Educational Insti
tute is carrying the work of this In
stitution to the people in what seems
to be a most practical and helpful
way. They have thrown open their
institution to the apprentices of the
Santa Fe Shops, so that the young
men can come on to school and ad
vance themselves and graduate at the
same time they complete the appren
tice trades at the shops. These young
men are from 18 to 22 years of age,
and the work promises to be most
helpful from every point of view.
THE ADVANCEMENT
ASSOCIATION WINS
PEABODY DONATION
Halses More Than the D,0M Required
To Meet Boston Donor’s
Conditional Uift
of $1,000
New York, March 21.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, has announced that
on the evening of March 10, the last
day of the 60-day drive for a $10,000
fund, it had received and had In hand
the sum of $10,102.14, thus entitlng
the Association to the $1,000 offered
by Mr. Philip G. Peabody of Boston,
on the condition that $9,000 be raised
in 60 days to meet his offer.
In announcing the successful ter
mination of the drive, James Weldon
Johnson, Secretary of the N. A. A. C.
P., said:
“Several large contributions came
from white members of the Associa
tion ana from those interested in the
work, among them Mr. Edward Lask
er of New York who gave $500, Mrs.
J. E. Splngarn, who gave $1,000 and
Mr. Ix>uis Marshall, who gave $250.
Very gratifying has been the general
response on the part of colored peo
ple, both through branches of the N
A. A. C. P. and from individuals. A
number of large contributions were
made by colored people, among them
Mrs. Maggie L. Walker who sent $200
for the Independent Order of St. Luke
and $50 as a personal contribution.
The s uccessful completion of this
drive to complete the $10,000 fund
begun by Mr. Peabody, is the best
possible evidence that colored people
are rallying to the organization which
is fighting their battles on a national
scale and that those who have are
willing to support the fight for those
who have not.” o
ARKANSAS GOVERNOR
PROMISES INQUIRY INTO
ALLEGED MURDER
Little Rock, Ark., March 21.—
Through his secretary, Governor
Thomas C. McRae of Arkansas, has
written to the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, New York, promising a grand
jury investigation into the killing of
Charles Ruck, a colored man who is
alleged to have been shot in cold
blood by a white man. .
Mr. Ruck's daughter reported to the
N. A. A. C. P. that late in December
her father, who was 70 years did, had
been met by two white men, one of
them a constable, on the road about
a mile from his home. Upon being
ordered to throw up his hands, the j
old man who was unarmed, being slow
in his movements, was shot through
the head by the white man accom
panying the constable. Gov. McRae’s
secretary, in acknowledging the ori
ginal report made by the N. A. A. C.
P., wrote: “. . . that there seems to
be no doubt about the killing of Chas.
Ruck, in very much the same way as
described in the letter of this woman
who claims to be aVIaughter of the
deceased.’”
NEW BUILDING FOR
RECORDER OF DEEDS
(Lincoln News Service)
Washington, D. C., March 21—Re
order of Deeds, Arthur G. Froe, of
West Virginia, is to he congratulated
upon the success of his efforts for the
construcion of a new building, wl^lch
has long been needed for increased
business of his office. The bill pass
ed the State without debate and now
goes to the Hoiise for consideration.
The architect of the Capitol Is to have
charge of the construction of the new
addition to the Court House, which is
to be fireproof and to cost not more
than $736,000. Recorder Froe has
worked persistently for the passage
of this bill and has had the active sup
port. of President Coolidge, Chairman
John T. Adairts and the Republican
members in Congress.
DISTRIBUTION OF
EMPLOYED PERSONS
(Lincoln News Service)
Philadelphia, Pa., March 21—The
distribution of gainfully employed
persons by class shows that in this
country, taken as a whole, among
every 1,000 persons employed thkre
are 493 native whites of native par
entage; 201 native whites of foreign
or mixed parentage; 186 foreign born
whites; 116 colored; 2 Indians; 1 Chi
nese and 1 Japanese.
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FAMOUS PUBLISHER
CHOOSES NEGRO’S POEM
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Chicago, III., March 2.—With the
announcement that Pascal Covici, long
associated as a member of the well
known Chicago publishing house, Qp
vici-McGee, had severed his connec
tion with that company and would in j
the future lie associated with Mauritz
Alfred Hallgren and James Lindsay
Renshaw, under the firm name of
Pascal Covici, comes the further in
formation that one of the first books
chosen by the new firm is a de luxe
edition of the poem of a Negro, Wil
liam H. A. Moore. The poem is en
titled, "The Lay of the Purple Grape”.
Pascal Covici Compuny engages in
the production of limited editions ex
clusively. Type, format and outer
gaberdine of its books are in accord
with the best taste in bookmaking.
Such publication is a distinction for
which many American authors com
pete.
Mr. Moore’s poem is frankly a plea
for wine. He declares: “I am a wor
shiper at the Shrine of Beauty and
I love wine because it brings laughter
color and sweetness in bountiful
measure to life."
"Too much of bitterness, to much
of shadow, too much of tears must
not be ours today, tomorrow, or ever.”
The author is a pure Negro who
boasts of a lineage “unclouded by
white blood”. He got his first glimpse
of life in the east end of the famous
Greenwich Village section of New
York City and received his earlier
training in the New York public
schools of forty odd years back, at
the College of the City of New York
and later in a course of belles lettres
at Columbia. He is ranked among
the first flight of "American writers
and is well known in the literary
circles of Chicago and New York.
MISSOURI DELEGATES
ARE SQUABBLING
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(Lincoln News Service.)
St. Louis, March 21.—Not less in
teresting than the Reed and Mc-Adoo
struggle to capture tty? Missouri del
egation to the National Democratic
Convention, is the fight now being
staged by our leading colored male
and female politicians, each .of whom
are ambitious to attend the National
Republican Convention as a delegate
at-large. Among the most prominent
of those mentioned in this connection
are J. Silas Harris, Aaron Malone, J.
H. Bradbury, J. R. A. Crossland, C.
G. Williams, Miss Bertha Buckner,
Mrs. Minnie Crosswaite, Fred Dabney,
B. F. Bowles, C. H. Calloway, Homer
Phillips and L. A. Knox. As the Re
publican State Convention does not
meet in Springfield until April 27, it
is thought that there is ample time to
considerably reduce the size of the
slate by the well known process of
eliminating those whose party records
in local as well as state affairs will
dot stand an X-ray exposure.
BLACK SWAN JOINS
PARAMOUNT RECORDERS
New York, N. Y„ March 21.—(By
the Associated Negro Press.)—The
Black Swan Company, of which Har
ry H. Pace is founder and president,
has combined its business interests
with the Paramount company.
The deal bringing together these
two leaders in the record field was
closed between Harry *H. Pace, rep
resenting the Black Swan interests,
and M. A. Supper, of the New York
Recording Laboratories, representing
the Wisconsin Chair Co., a large
manaufacturing concern controling a
number of other corporations, and who j
own the Paramount Company.
Stockholders of the Black Swan
Phonograph Co. will profit very great
ly by this transaction, as the pricej
paid to that company for the good 1
will and trade name alone runs high
up into five figures.
President Pace, when asked how the
transfer would affect the Black Swan
stockholder, replied: “The Black Swan
Phonograph Co., as a corporation, will
continue in existence just as hereto
fore. It ''will become a holding com
pany instead of an operating company.
The Black Swan catalogue of several
hundred masters is the most valuable
of its kind1 in existence. Instead of
the Company operating that catalogue
the Paramount company will receive
a definite payment each month. After
the Black Swan company has paid its
own accounts and obligations such as
every operating concern must have, it
will be in a position 10 pay its stock
holders a substantial and continuous
dividend, or it can retire its capital
stock at a substantial premium.
It will be remembered that the
Bluck Swan Phonograph Company
was a pioneer in the race record field.
Mr. Pace will devote his entire time
to the organization of the North
eastern Life nsurance Company, of
Newark, N. J., an old line legal re
serve company, capitalized at $100,
000.
IKX-KLAX WIZARD FIXED
FOR IMMORALITY
(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Houston, Tex., March 21.—A $5,000
fine was imposed upon fid ward Young
Clarke, former acting imperial wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan, by_Judge J. C.
Hutcheson in Federal Court after
Clarke had pleaded guilty to violating
the white slave act. Clarke was
charged with havlngi transported a
young woman of this city to New Or
leans in 1921 for Immoral purposes.
Judge Hutcheson informed the for
mer klan leader that he refrained
from sending him to prison only be
cause of the admission of guilt and
reprimanded him severely for having
attempted to lead an organization
rwhich purported to terrorize and in
timidate citizens because of the in
fraction of the moral code while at
the same time breaking such laws
themselves. The young woman in the
case was in court.
RACE PREJUDICE
CURBS U. S. PROGRESS
(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Chicago, 111., March 21.—Before
1,000 students present at the annual
convocation of Northwestern Univer
sity, Dr. George Sherwood Eddy, In
ternational Y. M. C. A. secretary, de
clared that unless the United States
forgets its race prejudice it is doomed
4o become a hinder nation, rated
among the lower civilized countries
and backward in progress.
Dr. Eddy gave as reasons for this
assumption the fact that over one
third of the country’s wealth is in
the hands of 180 men, that race prej
udice, Ku Klux Klan and corrupt poli
tics are operating in opposition to the
constitution and that labor will some
day demand other terms.
He further discussed the growing
youth movement as he found it on his
recent tour through twenty-two na
tions about the globe. “The younger
generation is disgusted with old ma
terialism, autocracy and militarism,”
said Dr. Eddy, “it is discontented with
the old order of things. It is wearied
of strife and is looking toward a new
order.”
DROPS DEAD WHILE
VISITING SICK FRIEND
(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Springfield, S. C., March 21.—While
returning from the death chamber of
Mrs. H. P. pallman, Mrs. Wick Bowen
dropped dead. Death was due to na
tural causes. She, her husband and
family, were highly respected citizens
of this town. Mr. Bowen, now past
eighty, fought on the side of the South
during the Civil War, was afterwards
captured and carried off into slavery
in the West Indies, and escaped to re
turn to Charleston in this state. He
has lived here for thirty-seven years,
owns much property, and is the father
of several children, leaders in the com
munity.
MAN FOUND GUILTY
OF MANSLAUGHTER
(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Camden, S. C., March 21.—Gulty of
manslaughter with recommendation
for mercy was the verdict returned
this week in the case of Wade Rey
nolds, white, who was charged with
the murder of William Harris, owner
of a filling station on the outskirts
of the city. Reynolds’ attorneys con
tended that he shot Harris while the
two of them were scuffling for the
possession of a pistol. The white man
was under suspended sentence at the
time of the shooting. He was given
ten years. Reynolds is the first white
man convicted' here for killing a Ne
gro in thirty years.
AT RADIO CONVENTION
Detroit, Mich., March 21.—Harold
Johnson, 183 King street, E-, was the
only colored delegate attending the
radio convention here recently.
RURAL TEACHERS
SHOULD HELP THE
FARMERS ORGANIZE
Sane Organization and Cooperative
Marketing and Baying Exchanges
Chief Need of
Farmers
(Lincoln News Service)
Boston, Mass., March 21 — In ad
dressing the annual banquet of the
Eastern States Farmers’ Cooperative
Exchange, Senator Capper, of Kansas,
told how the farmers are hurt by
their failure to organize. Because of
the opportunities for progress resul
ing from cooperative efforts, the ad
dress is of particular interest to the
colored farmers. “When the farmer
sells," said Senator Capper, “he sells
to an organized market—a market or
ganized (o take speculative profits.
When he goes into the market to buy,
he buys from an organized market.
The farmer is the only unorganized
group is a highly organized business
and industrial community. Because
he lacks organization, because he
lacks determining voice in the sale
value of his commodity, the farmer
gets but $7,500,000,000 for products
for which the consumer pays $22,500,
000,000. For speculators, middlemen
and transportation to collect a total
of $15,000,000,000 on that for which
the farmer gets but $7,500,000,000 is
a tragic absurdity.”
Senator Capper declared that altho
Congress will “go just as far as it
possibly can along sound and practi
cal lines,” |only a fraction of the
farmers’ problem could be solved by
legislation. The big remedy, he said,
lay in the extension of cooperative
marketing and buying exchanges and
the gradual development of farmer
leaders who could hold their own in
competition with leaders in the busi
ness world.
It is thought that the rural school
teachers should be of great assistance
to the farmers of our group by study
ing and explaining to them how to
take advantage of cooperative me
thods.
ELEVATOR OPERATORS’
UNION IN NEW YORK
IS BEING ORGANIZED
New York, March 21.—White and
colored elevator operators in apart
ment houses and office buildings are
being organized together in the same
union. James Weldon Johnson, secre
tary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
will address an organization meeting
to be held Sunday night, March 23, in
the Y. M. C. A. building, 135th street,
between Seventh and Lenox avenues.
Other speakers at the meeting will
be: A. Philip Randolph, editor of “The
Messenger”; Alderman George W.
Harris, Thomas J. McGill, president
of the union, and Frank R. Cross
waith, organizer for the union, presid
ing.
The union is affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor and
has been recognized by the real estate
owners of New York City. A wage
scale has been adopted, through the
union’s efforts, to become effective
April 1, by which the men are to re
ceive substantial increases. The scale
is based Upon the heights of build
ings in which the elevators are oper
ated.
A clause in the oath taken by every J
memftr of the union provides against
discrimination against any fellow
member because of race or color.
Mr. Crosswaith estimated that there
were 35,000 elevator operators and
starters in the city, of whom 20,000
are colored.
COHEN APPOINTMENT
CONFIRMED BY SENATE
Washington, D. C., March 21.—Re
versing itself on two previous1 votes,
the senate ended a sixteen months’
fight by confirming in executive ses
sion the nomination of Walter L.
Cohen, Negro republican leader of
Louisiana, to be comptroller of cus
toms for the New Organs district.
Thirty-nine senators voted for con
jfirmation and thirty-eight for rejec
tion, a net switch of two votes from
j the poll on February 18, when the
nomination was rejected 37 to 35.
Senator Ransdell, democrat, Louisi
ana, characterized the insistence of
the administration upon confirmation
of the appointment as an outrdgeous
proceeding and out of harmony with
representative government.
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' Clarence Desdunes is confined to
, his home with a lame leg.
HISTORIANS OF THE
RAGE TO MEET
IH PHILADELPHIA
Association for Study of Negro Life
Has Planned an Interesting Pro
gram for Its Annnal
Conference.
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TAKE WORLI-WIDE PROBLEM
Africa, Latin America, Migration,^^
Racial Crossing, Folk Lore and
Like Topic* to Receive
Attention.
Philadelphia, Penn., March 21.—
On the third and fourtr of April the
Spring Conference of the Association
for the Study of Negro Life and Hist
ory will take place in this city.
Reports on the status of investiga
tions will be made, men of scientific
preparation will be invited to discuss
serious aspects of their studies, and
prominent persons interested in the
Negro will bring a word of cheer.
We are endeavoring to make this the <
most significant meeting in the his
tory of the Association.
The conference will direct its. at
tention to the Negro in Africa, the
Latin American of color, the migra
tion in its historical setting, racial
crossings or interbreeding, labor be
fore the Civil War, labor during the
reconstruction, the free Negro prior
to emancipation, folk-lore, and the de
velopment of the church.
Practically all of the speakers are
persons of national reputation and the
topics which they will discuss are of
paramount importance. Mr. L. Holl
ingsworth Wood, President of the Ur-i
ban League will discuss “Some Happy
Results of Race Contacts;” Mr. Chas.
S. Johnson, "Editor of Opportunity,
will present the "Migration of the
Negro in i*s Historical Setting;’’ Dr.
Melville J. Herskovitz of the New
School of Social Research will speak
from the results of his study of “Ra
cial Crossings of the Whites and the
Blacks in Harlem, New York City.”
Dr. Alain Leroy Locke, who has re
cently returned from Africa, will dis
close "New Approaches *to African
Culture;” Professor Charles E. Wes
ley of Howard University, will deliver
a discourse on the “Economic Status
of the Negro in the Decade Prior to
the Civil War;’’ Dr. Robert T. Iferlin
the noted author and reformer, will
discuss the "Latest Developments in
Negro Poetry;” Mr. A. A .Taylor, As
sociate Investigator of the Associa
tion for the Study of Negro Life and
History, will speak on “The Move
ment of the Negroes to the South
west between 1830 and 1850; the Hon
orable Thomas E. Miller, former mem
ber of Congress will enlighten the
Conference on the "Free Negro Prior
to the Civil War;” Dr. R. C. Woods,
president of Virginia Seminary, will
deliver an address on "The Value of
the Assocaton to the Race; and Miss
Nannie H. Burroughs, head of the Na
tional Training School for Girls, will
speak on "The Importance of Negro
History.” Here is a new movement
of tremendous significance and possi
bilities. We hear much about down
with-the-Negro and the like, but such
spokesmen represent the mob. As the
years go by the public learns more
and more to appreciate the value of
the Negro in the life of the nation.
This change is not an accidental re
sult. It has been brought about by
the men and women who are using
the printed word to put the case of
the Negro befoie the world. Some of
this has been done by means of prop
aganda and some of it by scientific
research and publication. The latter
is the task of the historian.
A few years ago it was considered
exceptional to meet a Negro who
could read and write an article for
a magazine or publish a book. Now
with the rapidly increasing number of
those studying the social sciences in
the best universities of the country,
we find a large group of scholars pre
senting the Negroes’ case to the
world in definiive form. They have
not as yet won their point, and it will
require some time before men given
to bias will concede the force of wnat
these historians are writing; but no
man can in the future write the his
tory of this day and generation with
out taking Into account what these
students are unearthing and publish
ing to the world.
Remit for your paper now.