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THE MONITOR A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1924 Whole Number 455 Vol. IX—No. 39 EUROPEAN POWERS WATCHING AMERICAN NEGRO PRESENT STATIS OF DYER ARTI-LYNCH BILL III COHBRESS Judiciary Committee Has Favorably Reported Measure Which It Is Believed Will Again Pass In House MATHIS KUY YIE ACTIOI Advancement Association "Secretary Issues Statement Concerning Anti-Lynching Campaign New York, March 28.—James Wel don Johnson, Secretary of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, on his return from Washington, where he conferred with lenders in Congress and mem bers of the Judiciary and Rules Com mittees of the House of Representa tives has issued a statement sum marizing the history of the Dyer Bill in the present Congress and giving its status and prospects. Mr. Johnson declared leaders in the House of Rep resentatives felt* 'confident the Bill would be passed there. The history and present status of the Dyer Bill, in the present Con gress, as given by Mr. Johnson are a* follows: “On the opening day of Congress, the Bill was re-introduced, by Con gressman Dyer as H. R. number 1. It was referred to the House Com mittee on the Judiciary. "On January 10, the Judiciary Com mittee favorably reported the Bill. “On January 21, Mr. Dyer Intro duced a resolution asking for a rule to give the Anti-Lynching Bill im mediate consideration. This resolu tion was referred to the House Com mittee on Rules and ordered printed. "The Committee on Rules has not yet acted. A prominent member of this Committee informed me that ac tion on the Dyer Bill had been de layed by other pressing matters be fore the House, including the Rev enue Bill, the Muscle Shoals Bill, the Immigration Bill and ithe Bonus. Three of these bills had already been disposed of, he said, and the other two would be shortly. My informant gave as his opinion that as soon as that had ben done, colored people should bring all possible pressure to bear for quick action on the Dyer Bill. "The leaders in the House of Rep resentatives with whom I have talked feel confident that the Dyer Bill will be passed in the House. They feel, however, that it will be best to clear away other pressing matters which might be used as an excuse to retard action on it. "It is the consensu* of opinion among Congressmen most interested in the Dyer bill that the publicity giv en the subject on the floor of Con grss has affected the entire country and has been the greatest cause for the falling off in the number of lynch Ings. They feel that the fact has been driven home to the authorities and the people in lynching states that if they did not attempt to stop lynching the Federal (Government eventually would step in on It. Those friends of the Bill believe farther dismis sion In this Congress will do still more to curb mob violence and lynch ing, regardless of what action the Senate may take.” The National Office of the N. A. A. C. P. is prepared to put its en tire machinery and as many agencies as will cooperate Into action to bring the greatest possible pressure for enactment of this Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. FINK GETS 1850,000 Nashville, Tenn., March 28.—Fisk University, after receiving $260,000 from the Rockeftellow Board and $960,000 raised by Paul1 Cravath, son of a former president, Is today the best endowed college In the race. TANNEB GOING BACE TO GAT PABEE New York, March 28.—Henry O. Tanner, world’s famous religious painter, is going back to Paris after ik a sojourn here. He has agreed to paint a panel for the top of the bronze tablet commeratlng the 136th anni versary of Mother Bethel Church, of Philadelphia. Be Sure to Vote for Klaver for County Assessor TO FOSTER BETTER RACE RELATIONS Rev. J. W. Jackson Employed by State Committee to Work With Colored Groups Atlanta, Ga., March 28.—Dr. T. J. Woofter, Jr., secretary of the Georgia Race Relations Committee, announces the employment, as colored associate secretary, of Rev. J. W. Jackson, for mer Baptist pastor and for ten years field worker In Georgia for the Gen eral Missionary Baptist Convention. He will work especially with the col ored committees throughout the State, organizing, strengthening, and assisting wherever his services are required. The State Committee has long felt the need of a competent col ored secretary for this phase of the work and feels that it has chosen well In getting a man of fine spirit, many years experience as minister and missionary worker, and wide ac quaintance throughout the State. The object of this Committee is to bring about better understanding between the races, eliminate friction, correct Injustices and promote community cooperation for the common welfare. BAGNALL SPENDS BUSY FOUR DAYS FOR ASSOCIATION Director of Branches of the National Advancement Association Makes Good Use of Visit Here Robert W. Bagnall, director of branches of the N. A. A. C. P. spent four busy days in Omaha last week in the interest of the Association. Ar riving from Kansas City last Wed nesday night he met a conference of representative men at the Colored Commercial Club, where he laid be fore them the program and plans of the N. A. A. C. P. He was kept busy until midnight answering questions and giving information. At this con ference pledges and cash for the im portant work before the association to the amount of $145 were voluntarily made by the men present. Thursday was largely devoted to correspond ence and meeting of individuals. Fri day morning he delivered an inspiring address before the University of Omaha, where he made a very favor able impression upon faculty and stu dents. Friday afternoon he held a conference with a large group of rep resentative women at the Colored Commercial Club, where plans were laid for a popular baby contest and pledges and cash for the Associa tion’s work to the amount of $110 were received. Saturday he was busy interviewing individuals and Satur day night attended a meeting of the Executive Committee of the local branch. Sunday morning he preached at the Church of St. Philip the Dea con and in the afternoon he addressed a mass meeting in Zion Baptist Church, where he spoke for an hour and a half and so intensely interested was his audience that they thought his address was quite short. At this meeting $345 in pledges and cash were made. He left at midnight for Denver, Colorado. His visit here has been most beneficial to the local branch. Enroute to St. Paul, Mr. Bagnall will spend Tuesday here. HOWARD UNIVERSITY IS TO HAVE NEW ATHLETIC FIELD (Lincoln New* Service) Washington, D. C., Mar. 28.—Ac quisition of land at Howard Univer sity for the erection of An athletic field and gymnasium la provided In a bill introduced In the House by the House District Committee. The land to be taken over comprises 45,000 sq feet, and la faced with a 300-foot front on Euclid Street, Northwest. Portions of adjacent streets and alleys will be closed. RACE COMMISSION BILL PASSED Annapolis, Md., March 28.—Joint resolution authorizing the Governor to name a commission of 21 members of both races to study the welfare of colored people (n the State and re port to the Legislature In 1927, was passed by the House March 12. It was Introduced by Delegate Jo seph, of the fourth district, and the administration measure passed with out opposition. We have 608 photographers, 101 of' whom are females. f What Are the Wild Waves Saying? ) What is the Matter With Christianity Today? There is Something Wrong About It? What is it? (An address delivered by the Rev. Francis J. Grimke, D. D., pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., at the Seventh Annual Convocation of the School of Religion of Howard Uni versity, Washington, D. C. It was this address which so offended cer tain Southern Senators that they withheld the appropriation for How ard University. Part I “Ladies and gentlemen, in the time that I an to occupy l wish to address my remarks to the question, What is the trouble with the Christianity of today? There is something wrong about it; what is it? In one direc tion at least, I think I know what that trouble is. To my mind It is Its hypocrisy, its manifest insincerity. It professes to believe what it has no intention of living up to, except so far as it doesn’t interfere with Its selfish aims, so far ae It does not run counter to its pre judices. The great indictment which Jesus Christ would make against it if he were here today is, “Why call ye me Lord, and do not the things which I say?” (1) Its great deficiency, as I view It, is not in the line of its non-accept ance of Jesus Christ sb the Great Teacher sent from God. It hails him as the greatest of teachers. It has studied, and studied very carefully, all the things that he has said. Every word that fell from his lips, as hand ed down in the Scriptures, it knows and knows the meaning of. Volumes have been written extolling him as Teacher and expounding his words, setting forth his ideals and principles. The Christianity of today is not de ficient in knowledge of what JeBus said, of what was clearly in his mind as to the principles that were to have sway in his kingdom. He not only, while he was on earth, outlined what those principles and ideas were, but after he had gone, in accordance with his promise, sent the Holy Spirit to guide the apostles in unfolding those principles. No one can read the 21 Epistles of the New Testament and fall to see exactly what is Involved in the teachings of Jesus Christ. Ev erything is set forth clearly, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a lit tle and there a little. The Christian ity of to-day knows perfectly well what Is required of it, what it ought to be, and what it ought to do. (2) Ita great deficiency, as I see it, is not in its non-acceptance of Jesus Christ as priest- It makes much of his atoning blood; it magnifies the cross of Christ as the great sacri fice for sin. “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever belleveth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” it preaches. It believes that Jesus is the only Mediator between God and man and that His blood cleanses from all sin. A Federation of White Churches On these two point'd It seems to be mainly or largely right; but when we go a step further and think of Jesus Christ as King we find that it is far from, being right. The one thing which it does not acknowledge, except in a halting, hypocritical way, is the right of Jesus Christ to con trol its action, to say what it shall do and what it shall not do. It has never learned and shows no disposi tion to learn the great lesson which God taught centuries ago through Samuel, “To obey Is better than sacri fice, and to hearken than the fdt of rams.” The Christianity of today Is a Christianity that makes no seri ous effort to carry “out the whole counsel of God, to live up to the full requirements is precisely that of the bootlegger and the whole criminal gang represented by the liquor power in this country in regard to the eight eenth amendment and the Volstead Act; it chooses among these God-given requirements which it will carry out and which it will nob When it® pre judices are crossed, lit® selfish in terests interfered with, it sidetracks the law of God, it shuts Its eyesi to the violation' of the most sacred and fundamental principles laid down by the founder of Christianity. It pro fesses, e. g., to believe in the father hood of God and the brotherhood of man—these are both vital and fun damental principles in Christianity— and straightway, in the face of these principles, everywhere Is setting up barriers against men on account of race and color. Here in this city we have a federa tion of churches—a federation of wha kind of churches? A federation o white churches. The very fact tha such a federation exists in this city shows what kind of Christianity we have here, what kind of Christianity Is represented in these churches. It Is not a federation of Christian chur ches, but a federation of white chur ches, which shows that these chur ches, consciously, are standing for a Christianity that lays greater empha sis upon the color of a man’s skin that upon his Christian character. What right has any group of chur ches, calling itself Christian, to set up barriers against another group on account of race or color? When the Christianity of today comes to recog nize fully the an thorny of Jesus Christ in all that it does; when it turns a deaf ear to every other con sideration except the will of Jesus, as Lord, there will be no white churches, or colored churches, nor white feder ation of churches; nor will there be any colored churches, or colored fed eration of churches. All churches, all federations of churches will be open alike to all who are Christians with out distinction of race, color, or con dition. We have also in this city a white Y. M. C. A. and a white Y. W. C. A., from which colored people are ex cluded and excluded because they are colored, because they happen to be of another race variety The very fact of the existence of such asso ciations is a standing reproach to the Christianity that they represent. What right has any so-called Christian asso ciation to draw the color line on any one? It may have the right as an association to do so, but not as long as it bears the name Christian. That name, that sacred name, forbids all such distinctions. And the man1 who does not see that it does, it either a fool or is woefully ignorant of what Christianity really is and what it teaches. Surely, the wayfaring man, though a fool, if he knows anything about Christianity, the Cihridtiariity which Jesus taught and lived, knows that such distinctions are entirely out of place in a Christian organization. (Continued next week) HELP TAKE HOTEL Lakewood, N. J., Mar. 28.—Caras ljo Hotel closed here by bankruptcy is in the hands of 200 cooks, waiters, bellboys and maids. They declare they will act as guests until they get their month's back pay. Food enough is on hand to last several weeks. 10,000 WORKERS FOB WOMEN’S CLUB Washington, D. C., March 28.—A membership of 10,000 working women Is expected at the National Wage Earners’ Club headed by Miss Nannie Burroughs, which has purchased the property at the corner of 12th and Rhode Island avenues, N. W. SENATE REWARDS CHILD OF DEAD BARBER (Lincoln News Service) Washington, D. C., March 28.—Un der a Senate resolution recently pass ed, provision was made for the pay ment to Annie M. Peterson, sole sur viving child of John Hickman, of one year’s compensation at the rate Hick man was receiving at the time of his death. Hickman, a colored man, at the time of his death recently, had been on the rolls of the United States Senate for 58 years. Virtually all of that time he was in the Senate barber shop, where he became acquainted with every man who haB served in the Senate in the last half century. In appreciation of his faithful services the usual six months’ compensation in lieu of funeral expenses in his case was doubled. MBS. AMES JOINS’RACE COMMISSION’S STAFF Former Leader of Texas Women Vot ers Actively Enters New Field Belton, Texas, March 28.—Dr. J. C. Hardy, President of Baylor College, and chairman of the Texas Interra- , cial Commission, announces that Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames, of Georgeown, has been secured by the Commission for field work in the State and has entered upon her duties. Her work will be to set up, strengthen and stimulate local interracial commit tees, and to promote the work of the State Commission with special ref erence to the organization and de velopment of the woman’s depart ment As organizer and former head of the Texas League of Women Voters, Mrs. Ames is one of the best known and most influential womenl In Texas. She was also a charter member and the first chairman of the woman’s section of the State interracial Com mission. The Commission feels that she is peculiarly fitted for the work upon which she is entering. TELLS OF SHORTAGE OF NEGRO MEDICAL MEN (By the Associated Negro Press) Washington, D. C., March 28.—Con gress recently struck out from the Howard University appropriation the items designed to take care of an improved and enlarged medical school which had been recommended by Sec retary of the Interior Hubert Work. Mr. Work called attention to How ard’s position as the only college, save one, for colored physicians and den tists. In his annual report to Presi dent Coolidge, made the 13th of this month, he explains. “The recommendations were made after an investigation showing that the colored population of the United States has Increased to nearly 12, 000,000 and that there is only one colored physician! to 3,194 persons, while the white race has a physician to every 553 citizens thus raising an important issue in the Negro inhabi tants. The disparity is even greater in the proportion of white and colored dentists. Statistics show that there is one white dentist to every 2,070 white people in the United States, while there ie but one colored dentist to every 20,500 colored' persons. Other figures reveal the fact that only a very meager number of colored doctors and dentists are completing the course every year at the Howard University, the) (average number of physicians graduating for the plast .ten years being 20 while the number of dentists averaged 22. Responsi bility for the situation is attributed not to the disinclination of colored youths to study medicine and dentist ry and adopt them as professions, but to the deplorable limitations of the capacity of colored educational in stitutions. During the fall term of Howard University ;1ihere were 1166 applicants for admission to its medi cal school. Out of this number but 50 could be admitted to 'take( the course because of the inadequacy of laboratory space, the number reject ed being 125. The appropriation pre sented to Congress included $370,000 for a new building and $130,000 for equipment LIBERIA REFUSES GARVEY DELEGATES (By the Associated Negro Press) Monrovia, Liberia, March 28.—Pres ident C. B. D. King of the Republic of Liberia, has denied the application of the delegates sent here recently from the U. N. I. A. for a conference on the subject of the colonization of Liberia by members of the U. N. I. A. The President stated, “I am will ing to meet the delegates if the inter view is of an un-official character and the discussions to take place are of an informal nature and as be tween private individuals.” The presi dent informed your correspondent that he is keeping his mind on the obligations of Liberia to the Great Powers and looking particularly to the maintenance of the Independence of the Republic. Now that the undertakers have de cided to take the bloom out of fun erala by disguising their hearses they should take steps to dispel the gloom that follows the presentation of their exborbitant bills. DU BOIS TELLS OF THE FAH4FRICAH AHD TRIP ABROAD Touched Three Continents, Saw Fire African Colonies and Islands; Is Impressed with Possibilities of Dark Continent WATCHIM AMERICAN HERRO European Countries Especially the Colonial Powers, Show Great In terest in Development of Race New York, March 28.—Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, editor of The Crisis, who has just returned from) extensive Journeys in Africa, today through the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, recently gave out a statement summarizing his voy age. Dr. Du Bois said: “I have Just returned from a Journ ey of 15,000 miles in the course of which I touched three continents and five European nations and 6 African colonies, also 5 Afridan islands. I attended the inauguration of Presi dent-King of Liberia for his second term, as a spectator representing the President of the United States, with the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. I saw two colored Consuls at Dakkar, and St Etienne, in France. "I spent one month in Liberia, a week in Sierra Leone and ten days in Senegal. I visited Portugal and Moor ish Spain and am tremendously im pressed with the beauty of Africa and especially of Liberia and its future opportunities. “I was sent by the Foreign Rela tions Committee of the National As sociation of Colored Women to attend the third Pan-African Congress. This Cngress held one session in London in November, one in Lisbon in Decem ber. The sessions were not as large ly attended as In the case of the Second Congress but the territory reached was greater. The reports were more definite and Interesting and the interest developed in the movement, both among Negroes and European nations is growing. Europe Watching American Negro “Especially was the strength and importance of the rising black popu lation of Portugal and her colonies shown. The interest of European countries, especially colonial powers, in the development of the American flfegro Is astonishing. The American Negro on the one hand stands for what the race may accomplish and on the other hand stands as a sort of warning to colonial powers as to what the race may demand. There is not a single colonial power with po sessions in Africa that is not watch ing, through literature and personal representatives, every development of the Negro problem in America." OHIO LEGISLATOR RAISES $635 FOR N. A. A. C. P. Detroit, Mich., Mar. 28.—Harry E. Davis, of Cleveland, member of the Ohio legislature, addressed a meeting of thirty-four colored citizens hen on March 7, in the Second Baptist church, and obtained cash subscrip tions and pledges to the work of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, amounting to $635. At the meeting plans were laid for an intensive financial campaign for the N. A. A. C. P., to include social, fraternal and civic bodies. HARVARD WANTS RACE WAITRESSES BACK Cambridge, Md., March 28.—Race waitresses dismissed from the fresh man dormitories are wanted back by the authorities who find they have to pay white girls more money. GARMENT WORKERS OF * CHICAGO ON STRIKE Chicago, 111., March 28.—Hundreds of girl workers in the dress end waist factory are out on strike for ten per cent in pay and 40 hours per week. For the first time these race girls are picketing the factories and urging scab workers of the South not to ac cept employment. Remit for your paper new.
