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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.
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