The Monitor ——• A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS j5 THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editar $1.00 a Year. 5c a Copy £ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1924 Whole Number 466 Vol. IX—No. 51 _ r*- ___ ._ ___ -_■ SEVERAL SMTHERH STATES MAKE SAD MOCKER! OF JRSTICE I'ncertain Testimony of White Womel Sends Negroes to Cruel Death, While Black Women May Be Freely Insulted LEADING DAILY SPEARS OST Baltimore Sun Calls Attention to Con trast In Treatment of Races and Deplores Double Standard. Baltimore, Md„ June 20.—The Bal timore Sun, one of the leading white dailies of the country, in a recent ed itorial fearlessly and franklw calls at tention to the double standard of jus tice as applied to the races in many sections of the south. It says: In most states of the south a Negro who is charged with laying violent or heavy hand upon a white woman whether with intent to administer phy-; sical punishment, to steal from the i person or to attempt rape is punished with death, either summarily by the mob or railroaded speedily by a court. The bare, uncertain, hesitant testi mony of the woman who claims that! she has been assaulted is all that is; needed to send any Negro to a swift: and cruel death for crime. Positive identification is not even necessary in the case of such a white woman; any vague, general or partial description which will always be made to fit some unfortunate Negro will suffice. Any white woman high in the social scale and in character, or of the lowest SUNDAY MASS MEETING N.AAC.P. TO DE BROADCAST OVER RADIO New York, June 20.—Latest devel opments announced for the 15th an nual conference in Philadelphia June 25 to July 1, of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People include the following items: The Sunday, June 29, mass meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. conference to be held in the Philadelphia Metropolitan opera house, the entire proceedings of this meeting, which opens at 2:45 P. M. , daylight saving time, are to be broadcast by radio, and for this pur pose John Wannamaker’s store in Philadelphia, which controls the broad casting during those hours, has given the privilege to the N. A. A. C. P. The broadcasting will lie done over Gimbel's broadcasting station, WIP, with wave length of 509 metres. Paul Robeson, for two years a mem ber of Walter Camp’s All-American football team, member of Phi Beta Kappa Society ami star of Eugene O’Neill’s "Emperor Jones” and “All God’s Chillun Got Wings,” will sing at the Metropolitan opera house meeting on Sunday. The other participants in the Sunday program will be Repre sentative Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, keynote speaker at the republican na i tional convention; Hon. David I. Walsh, democratic senator from Mass achusetts: Rev. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community church of New York, and James Weldon John son. The Philadelphia branch, N. A. A. C. P. announces that a free automo bile ride will be tendered to all reg istered delegates and members of the N. A. A. C. P., on which the many points of historic interest in and about Philadelphia will be visited. On Monday, June 20, the morning business session of the conference will be adjourned promptly at 11:20, and all delegates and members will pro ceed in a body to Independence Hall, where the famous Liberty Bell i s plared. A short sesesion of the con ference will be held in Independence Hall, after which group photographs of the delegates will be taken in front of that historic building. Among the new speakers announced for the conference are William Stan ley Braithwaite, of Boston, Spingarn Medallist, and one of the leading lit erary critics of the country, who will speak on “The Negro in Literature” at the night meeting of Tuesday, July 1; and Charles B. Hall, president of the city council of Philadelphia, who will bring greetings to the conference in behalf of the city council. Another soloist at the conference will be Miss Marian Anderson, soloist with the Philadelphia Symphony Orcliestra, who will give a recital lasting half an hour before the Tuesday niight meet ing. The exhibition of Negro music, col lected by Mrs. Maud Cuney Hare, will be on view during the entire week of the conference, in the art gallery of John Wanamaker’s Philadelphia store. In making final announcements of the conference, the N. A. A. C. P. again urges all visitors and delegates to obtain certificates when buying railway tickets, and to register promptly at Conference Headquarters, the First African Baptist church, 16th and Christian streets, upon arrival in Philadelphia. Delegates arriving via Pennsylvania railroad should proceed to Broad street station; those via Baltimore and Ohio railroad to B. & O. terminal, at 24th and Chestnut streets; and those via Reading to Reading terminal, 12th and Market streets, at all of which ter minals there will be committees of welcome. The Y. W. C. A., at 1605 Catherine street has agreed to serve good meals at reasonable prices. Stop ping places will cost not more than one dollar. Breakfast served at stop ping places will cost not more tnan 50 cents. The cost per delegate per day for meals and stopping place will not exceed $2.50. COLORED WOMEN IN NURSING PROFESSION Hampton, Va., June 20.—Miss Bes sie Walker, Norfolk, Va., who recent ly received her diploma from the three year course at the Hampton Training School for Nurses and Dixie Hospital, described the opportunity which the nursing profession offers to well trained, consecrated women. She said: "A few years ago there was a de mand for only two or three types of nurses. Today nurses are taking larger places In the life of social nursing activities. In three great movements the nurse today plays an Important part—public health, hospi tal social service, and household nurs ing. The public health movement did not create the public health nurse. It found her at work—nursing the sick and teaching personal hygiene and sanitation. Now 12,000 nurses are engaged in the form of public health work. Nursing has risen to the dig nity of a profession. A trade is fol lowed for profit; a profession is exer cised for service; a trade flourishes by copyrights and secret knowledge, a profession puts all its knowledge an skill at the service of others.” SOLDIERS GOING ABROAD Louisville, Ky., June 20.—(A. N. P 1—H. E. Hall, of thiB city has been selected as one of the five Negroes who will be delegates at the unveiling of monuments in France and Africa by the French, in honor of Negro sol diers in the world war. The delega tion will sail early in July. strata, even a social outcast, can thus cause to be done to death any Negro. But while the law or the mob in those states throw around the white woman every measure of protection and eag erly, swiftly and ofttimes savagely re venge an insult or attack upon her dignity, person or virtue, no protec tion or defense whatever is extended to the Negro woman who is mal treated, beaten or outraged by white men. The case of Alice Thomas in Or angeburg county, S6uth Carolina, who was unmercifully beaten by a mob of five white men who invaded her home and dragged her out of bed in her night clothes is an illuminating exam ple of the mockery of justice as be tween white and black in South Car oline. This poor, unfortunate black woman knew and positively identified each and every one of her assailants by name. And yet in a solemn court of justice a jury of white men “good and true” accepted the lying evidence of other white men of the kind who are ever ready to swear away the life or liberty of a Negro or to shield the crimes of lawless white men, and ren dered a verdict of acquittal. Such a verdict brings courts into de rision and lessens the respect not only of the group against whom justice has closed its doors, but of those as well who use the courts to oppress a race or class outside the pale of the law's protection. While Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, is making a plea for the Ne gro to remain in the south and aid in developing its resources, South Car olina mobs and courts are furnishing impetus to migration by outrages up on Negro men and women and main taining a double standard of justice as between black and white. AMERICAN YOUTHS TO VISIT FOREIGN LANDS To Try Its Hand at Promote ing International Amity. New York.—Embarking June 21 on a “friendship trip” through Europe, 20 American boys will constitute the first group of this kind to advance Inter national an^ty In accordance with s resolution adopted by the League of Nations assembly. The tour, which will occupy ten weeks, will be under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian association. The boys, ranging from sixteen to nineteen, are selected on the basis of outstanding leadership qualities. In nearly all other cases the trip will be financed by the boys' families. Special arrangements have materially reduced the usual cost of such a tour. The tour has been arranged as a re sult of plans made at last year’s “world conference of workers among boys,” at Portsehuch, Austria. It Is part of an effort to help establish bet ter understanding and more friendly relations among nations, us well as being a new feature in the educational work of the association. J. A. Vnn Pis, boys' work secretary of the international committee of Young Men’s Christian associations, Is general director of the trip. He will be assisted by Harry J. Center of l^llnt, Mich., and Ernest P. Roberts of Brooklyn, N. Y., both experienced in boys’ work, us well as In foreign travel. The Itinerary Includes, besides tho Norwegian cruise, trips to England, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden and Penmnrk. Outstanding features will be visits to Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon and the British empire exhibition In England, the Olympic games In France and the International boy scout jamboree which Is to be held In Copenhagen from August 15 to 20. Future similar tours are planned If this sPrnrner's experience fB success ful. Other plans under consideration call for an educational “friendship trip” of older boys to Japan and the Far East, tours In the United States for European boys, und a possible cruise around the world, occupying an entire yeur. Taxicab Driver Is Man Old Diogenes Sought “Honest” John Cody, New York taxi cab chauffeur at $35 a week, who found $75,000 In Jewels In his machine and turtied them over to the police, be littled his honesty. "It’s easy enough to be honest. I broke the speed limit getting to the station house, hut all the way I kept seeing that diamond necklace around my wife's neck. But I hurried to return them. When you’ve got a family you think twice before doing anything. Reward? Sure, I could use one. ' If there’s one coming I won’t refuse It." Cody Is shown at the wheel of his taxicab. French Village Recall* Days of the World War L’Orient, France.—Memories of war days were recalled In the town of Plouharnel recently when It was bom barded by long range French naval guns. A heavy coaat battery testing cannon was aimed inaccurately and several high caliber shells were sent crashing into the village fifteen miles from the scene of the firing. The shells landed In the center of the town In front of the church. There were no casualties, but the entire population was In a panic. Paris.—The planet Mercury may possibly be Inhabited, according to Professor Blgouran, the astronomer, who saw Its passage between the sun and the earth. “The heat and light on Mercury are seven times more Intense than on the earth," he said, “but the atmosphere surrounding the planet Is so compact ^hat their effects may be less violent. Furthermore, Mercury, like the moon, always shows us the same side, and the existence of life upon It Is highly possible." PICTURES OF WINNERS IN RECENT POPULAR BART CONTEST OF N. A. A. C. P. MAKY H0DDY WIGGINS First Prise CHARLOTTE A. HICKS Seconfl Priae CHARLES RICHARD STANTON Thlrtl Prize MADE MEMBER OF ROOSE VELT MEMORIAL COMMISSION (N. A. A. C. P. Service.) New York, June 20.—One of the men selected by Governor Albert Smith of New York as a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Commission is Andrew Condy, a Ne pto, who has been a Pullman porter on the New York Central railroad for thirty-five years. Condy, having been a porter for all these years, never had any time for politics. But he was al ways a great admirer of the late Col. and rode with him and took care of his luggage during his trips to ^md from Albany while be was governor of New York. The Colonel always had a cheerful word for Condy and was always interested in his views on the questions of the day and things in general. SAYS INDIA MUST BE FREE tN. A. A. C. P. Service.) London, Eng., June 20.—Great Brit ain must eventually give India Domin ion status, according to the opinion of the Maharajah of Rajapipla, a ruling prine of India, who is now visiting this city. Tall and lithe, the Maharajah might easily be mistaken for a well tanned Englishman, as he sits in his suite in the Savoy Hotel; but the ser vants who surround him like a court, are in flowing white robes and dispell any doubts. The Maharajah pointed out that, as a ruling prince, he is not directly interested in the independence of India, but he shows in his conver sation that he has made it his business to attempt to feel the pulse of the 1,200,000 people over whom he rules. Harrisburg, Pa., June 20.—(P. N. S.)—A survey of the conditions ef fecting the race in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has been officially started. On June 1 Governor Pinchot appointed Forrester B. Washington, director of this survey and Prince Ed woods, assistant and field worker. POSTAL UNION IS 50 TEARS OF ME Meeting at Stockholm, July 4, Marks Semi-Centen nial Anniversary. Washington.—On July 4, the league of postal nations, the Universal Postal union, embracing the earth, will hold Its ilftteth anniversary at Stockholm, Sweden. "It Is significant that the delegates of the nations of the earth gather for this celebration of postal peace on July 4, American Independence day, be cause to the United States goes the honor of laying the foundation of the Universal Postal union," says a bul letin of the National Geographic soci ety from Its headquarters at Washing ton. "This confederation of nations, at fifty years, Is the oldest comprehensive organization of world states. It has reduced the world's postage bill by bil lions, and Increased the letters ex changed by millions. It bas made neighbors of Kalamazoo and Timbuktu and put sewing machines in Turkish harems. When New Zealand Letter Cost $2.50. ! "The difference between $2.50 and a 2-cent postage stamp represents to the individual the most dramatic feature of the Postal union’s accomplishments. Ten years before the Postal union waa thought of it cost $2.50 to send an ounce letter to New Zealund; today It costs 2 cents. “The blow to the high cost of mail ing Illustrated by the United States New Zealund Instance has been repeat ed to a lesser degree with all foreign correspondence. Reduction of the cost ' of an ounostal convention signed at Berne, Switzer land, in 1873. Although the actual fif ty-year anniversary occurred last year, the Universal Postal union will cele brate it at Stockholm this year, since 1924 Is the year of Its regular meet ing. "Dispatch or zz,vw earns or mail from the New York foreign mail post office Is not uncommon today. On one trip recently the Mauretania brought In 14,000 sacks. ‘‘East year the United States spent $10,000,000 to send 415,000,000 piece* of mull, excluding imrcel post, abroad, and received 302,000,000 pieces. It Is a far cry from these thousands of sacks of mail to Burns Coffee House, post office for all Manhattan for a century. In this old tavern near the Battery letters were stuck In a rack, to he called for by the addressees. Even the king of Hed.)az had to give up recently the old custom of dump ing mail In a pile where the pilgrims In Mecca, at their leisure, picked out letters sent for them. “No man who sticks a 5-cent stamp on a letter to a missionary In Tibet can realize the tribulation of his grandfather sending a letter only to Canton. First his grandfather had to choose one of five ways of sending the letter. It might go hy Orman malls through England to Brindisi, Italy, to the Orient, or through Germany to Brindisi. It might pass through Great Britain via Southampton or via Brin disi, or might go hy the United State* packet. Each wny had a different charge, varying from 20 cents to 88 cents. In our grandfathers’ time each sender had to pay the cost of transpor tation over and above postage; now nations' represent* tlves calculate transportation costs, cancel off like bank* do with checks, and pay the charges. Countries Not In Union. “The parts of the world not repre sented In the Universal Postal union agreements today are Afghanistan, Arabia, Baluchistan, Johore and Trengganu In the Malay states, Mal dlve Islands, Northern and Southern Nigeria, Nyasaland, Northern Rhode sia, Santa Cruz islands, Pitcairn is lands, Russia, Iraq and Tonga islands. "Tlirough the offices of the Universal Postal union magazines have become International as well as national by virtue of the economy In cost to sub scribers. Foreign malls take the Na tional Geographic Magazine to 01 In dependent countries and 92 dependen cies. The same material which Is read by members of the society In the Unit ed States Is read by other members In Gambia, Monaco, Abysslnlu, Gabon, Zanzibar, the Society islands and the Seychelles.” U. S. to Serve Reindeer Meat on Alaska Trains Seattle, Wash.—Between 00,000 and 70,000 pounds of reindeer meat soon will be purchased by the government to be served In the dining cars of the Alaska railroad, according to word re ceived by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. This was said to be the first time that a large market for rein deer meat has been created within Alaska. • SUBSCRIBE FOR THE MONITOR POLICEMAN’S HOME BOMBED IS KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Kansas City, Mo., June 20.—(P. hr S.)—After 15 years the bomber has returned to Kansas City. Beginning with demands three weeks ago and culminating in a bomb thrown Sat urday night, terrorism against Negro home buyers has burst forth again. The buyer who suffers this time is Patrolman Smothers, who has pur chased a cottage on the southwest corner of Montgall avenue and 25th street. For a number of years 25th street has been on the “line” on Mont gall, although on the other avenues the “line” has been as far south as 28th street. The bomb was thrown between the Smothers’ house and another home and two windows were broken in the oficers’ home when the bomb exploded. Fifteen years ago a number of colored homes in white sections were bombed. NURSES GRADUATE AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE Hampton, Va., June 20.—Frank W. | Darling, president of the board of di- j rectors and board of incorporators of , the Hampton Training School for' Nurses and Dixie Hospital, recently presented diplomas to seven nurses, who had finished the three-year course. Bessie Walker, Norfolk; Izet ta Shade, Wilson, N. C.; Bertha Long, Pocomoke City, Md.; Ionise Dennis, Newport News; Ruth Matherson, Lau rlnburg, N. C.; Inez Miller, Norfolk, and Emma Brooks, Surry County, Va. He referred to the fine records which have been made by the Dixie Hospital nurses and urged the members of the class of 1924 to do their best al! the time. The program was given in Clarke Hall, Hampton Institute. The Rev. Laurence Fenninger, chaplain of the Institute, delivered the annual address to the graduating class of Dixie nurses. He spoke on “Re liability, Radiance and Reverence”, and emphasized the opportunity for service which is offered to those who enter the nursing profession. Dr. H. I). Howe, speaking pn behalf of the medical staff, spoke on “Faithfulness in Small and Big Things.” CHURCH CELEBRATES 15TH ANNIVERSARY (N. A. A. C. P. Service.) Philadelphia, Pa., June 20.—The 115th anniversary celebration of the First African Baptist church in this city, at Sixteenth and Christian Sts., began Sunday and will continue three days under the direction of the Rev. William A. Herrod, the pastor. The First African Baptist church began work the same year as did the First Baptist church of Philadelphia. In the 116 years of its existence it has had eight pastors and five meeting houses. Today it has an enrollment of more than 4000 members, and a property valued at more than $200, 000: COLORED BABIES SENT TO JAIL WITH THEIR MOTHERS IN TEXAS New York, June 20.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made public an account of the jailing in Texas of three col ored babies, 7 months, 8 months and 3 months old respectively, vdth their mothers. The Houston Post, of Thurs day morning, May 22, prints the fol lowing report of the case: BLACK BABIES GO TO PRISON Mothers Sentenced to “Pen"; Take Children With Them. 'Three suckling Negro babies passed through Houston Wednesday on their way to the penitentiary. They are charged with no crime, but their mothers, all sisters, two brothers, and their grandfather, were convicted of assault to murder in Foard county last week. They were in charge of Bud Russell, penitentiary agent. The assault was made upon Sheriff L. D. Campbell and his deputies when they made an official visit to the farm op erated by the Negroes. MONITOR—TWO . The brothers, Eugene, 12, and Na thaniel, 14, were sentenced to the re form school. Their grandfather, Luke, and the three women, Bertha, Levy and Mandy, were sentenced to the state farm for from two to three years. The babies are Emma Sue, 7 months old; May Lou 8 months old, and Bob by Cloud, 3 months old. The entire family gave their surnames as Wells. When the babies are released from the! farm they will be husky young sters. “We ain’t done nothin’ ” one of the women said. “These white folks said that we had to go and they wuz no body to take the babies so they had to come ’long too.” The Negroes are said to have fired on the sheriff’s force with shotguns. But in spite of this, he gave a letter to the agent directed to penientiary officials, asking that the family ba treated kindly. JAPANESE REFUSES DIPLOMA BECAUSE OF EXCLUSION (By the Associated Negro Press.) Chester, Pa., June 200.—Kuranoske Fujii, a Japanese student at Crozier Theological Seminary, refused a dip loma at the commencement exercises, although his name was included among the graduates. In a letter written to Mr. Milton Evans, presi dent of the school, Fujii said: “Since the Japanese Exclusion Bill we Japanese students begin to ask our selves whether Christianity has ever got a real spiritual and moral power on the general policy of the nation. So long as such an exclusion measure is imposed upon us in the so-called Christian country or nation, the American missionary work in Asia will have the most difficult situation with regard to teaching of Christian ity to the natives and to be sure the in telligent people of Asia will make mock of such an undertaking.” Coffeyville, Kans., June 20.—Re fusal of the board of education to ad mit a colored girl to the high school upon order of the Court, has caused the board to be cited for contempt. SUPREME COURT CALLED TO DECIDE ADVERSE OPINION Cases Growing Out of Bold Attempt at Residential Sepregation Are Taken to Highest Tribunal HRLUFIES FORMER DEC I SIM National Advancement Association throws Full Power of Organiza zation Into Prosecution of Case. New York—The National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth Avenue has an nounced that appeal had been taken to the United States Supreme Court from the decision of the Court of Ap peals of the District of Columbia, handed down on June 2, affirming a decree of a lower court, which would permit real estate owners to agree among themselves not to sell property to colored people, and to insert such agreements into the sale contracts. James A. Cobb, who fought the case for the N. A. A. C. P. in Washington, reports as follows: “The Court of Appeals affirmed the decree of the lower Court, to the effect that a covenant entered into by a group of white people forbidding the alienation in any way of their prop erty by themselves, their heirs or as signs to any person of the Negro race or blood for a period of twenty-one years, was not unconstitutional or contrary to public policy. The opin ion by the learned Justice was disap pointing, not only by reason of its holding, but because of the fact that it treated in the most meagre way of the vital issues here involved. “As a matter of fact reference' to the opinion will immediately reveal that the Court travelled entirely out side of the case as presented for the facts upon which its decision was based; and failed entirely to pass upon or treat of the real issues as given rise to in the briefs and arguments pre sented in this cause. “An appeal was immediately taken to the Supreme Court of the United States; and as of this date, June 7, that appeal was allowed.” In 1915, the N. A. A. C. P. won the Louisville Segregation Case before the U. S. Supreme Court, the decision pro hibiting the enactment of any law or ordinance providing for residential segregation in American cities. The Washington, D.C., form of segregation by agreement among property owners threatens to nullify the victory of 1915, and the board of directors of the N. A. A. C. P., recognizing the dan ger, voted at their meeting of June 9, that the N. A. A. C. P. put all of its power behind the prosecution of the present legal struggle.