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    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
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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 oun<e letter to Englaud from 12
cents to 2 cents, to France from 72
cents to 5 cents, and to Brazil from 30
cents to 2 cents, dates back to a con
ference called with the approval of
Abraham Lincoln. Agreements of :hls
conference were built into the t>ostal
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.