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. * ' % z The Monitor A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP COLORED A1IERICAN8 THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Ediur a ISjOO a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1924 Whole Number 477 Vol. X—No. 9 RACE BUSINESS LEAGUE HELPS EDUCATION i • « "/ t; y?;. * Has Served As Railroad Telegrapher on the Illinois Central System For Nearly Fifty Years COLORED MASONS HOLD SOCCESSFIL STATE SESSION The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Nebraska and Its Jurisdiction Warmly Welcomed at Alliance. DH'KERBON IS GRANDMASTER Strong Corps of Officers Is Elected— Delegates Spend a Highly Enjoy able Day at Hot Springs, South Dakota. ’ Alliance, Neb., Aug. 29 (Special to The Monitor)—This enterprising city, despite the fact that the colored pop ulation is small, gave cordial welcome to the sixth annual session of tbe most worshipful grand lodge of Ne braska and its Jurisdiction, A. F. and A. M., which closed the most success ful meeting in Its history hero Friday night. The grand lodge opened Wed nesday morening and put in three busy days, devoted largely to routine business. Grandmaster H. R. Young of Lincoln presided. Regular sessions were held daily from 9:30 a. m. to 12 noon and from 1:30 to 5:30 p. m. Nothing was left undone upon the part of the citizens of both races to make the visitors feel perfectly at home. Wednesday afternoon Grandmaster Young delivered his address which whs excellent in tone and matter. It reviewed briefly the work of the past year and dealt sanely and wisely with several practical matters making for racial uplift and stressing unity1 and co-operation along all lines. Wednesday night waB an open ses sion at which an admirable address of welcome was given upon behalf of the city by City Manager N. A. Kcmmlsh, marked by an earnestness, cordiality and sincerity which made the visitors feel at home. It was befittingly re sponded to In well-chosen words by Trago McWilliams of Lincoln. The Rev. C. A. Long most happily voiced the welcome on behalf of the church and Us branches and this was respond ed to in characteristic manner by Chas. W. Dickerson of Omaha. Grand master Young contributed a brief ad dress. ^ Thursday nighl the annual lodge of f sorrow was conducted by Grand Lec turer R. P. Booth of Hastings. Fri day morning the grand officers were elected and installed and a banquet Friday night closed the meeting. Delegates numberinge about one ^ hundred from Omaha, Lincoln, Has i tings, Grund Island and Alliance were in attendance. The Omaha and Lin coln delegates had a special car, which alBo took them to Hot Springs, So. Dak. Charles W. Dickerson of Omaha was chosen grandmaster to succeed R. H. Young of Lincoln; A. P. Curtis of Al liance succeeding Mr. Dickerson as deputy grandmaster. Other grand of ficers chosen were: Senior grant) | warden, George Evans of Lincoln; Junior grand warden, Roy E. Moore of Hastings; grand treasurer, John Wakefield of Omaha; grand secretary, I. B. Smith of Lincoln; chaplain, J. T. Sanders of Omaha; cuBtodian, R. P. Booth of Hastings; tyler, Joshua Brown of Omaha; relief board mem bers, William Woods of Lincoln and Walter Seals of Omaha. Saturday was spent at Hot Springs, So. Dak., where the members of the fraternity had a most happy day and were the recipients of many cour tesies. They enjoyed a dip in the great plunge, some of the fraters be ing loathe to leave tbe refreshing wa ters. The Omaha delegates returned home Sunday and all were most enthusi astic over their trip to Alliance and Hot Springs. Omaha friends are I showering congratulations upon Mr. I' Dickerson, who is an energetic and progressive young man, upon his elec K tion as grandmaster. 1 ALLEN CHAPEL A, M. E. CHURCH 26th and R Sts., Phone Market 3476 O. J. Burckhardt, Pastor There were good services all day Sunday. Next Sunday will be a telling day at Allen Chapel. At 11 a. m., the pas tor will preach on "Promises of His Coming” and the evening service will be strictly evangelistic. Mrs. Jennie Brooks, Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Quarrels were outside visitors. tMr. Cook is now a regular attendant at Allen Chapel. CHURCH ADVOCATES SUPPORT OF NEGRO NEWSPAPERS Washington, D. C-, Aug. 29.—The Bureau of Public Affairs, inaugurated at the recent General Conference of the A. M. E. Zion church, with Bishop E. D. W. Jones, of Washington, D. C., as its head, sends out, in its third weekly release, an appeal to the min isters and laity of the church to sub scribe, support and aid Negro news papers. The Negro church and the Negro press must work together In the education of the race, not only in religion, but in politics, in social deal ings, in economics and in general up lift movements. The buteau urges its constituteney in particular and the race in general: FIRST To rend Negro newspapers, i SECOND—to create a demand for them at newstands in the country to Bell Negro papers by asking for them weekly. THIRD—To aid Negro editors to secure news of the race, its progress and ventures by becoming a volun tary reporter in your community. Ex pose injustice; tell of relationship be tween the races; give out important happenlings and let the world know us through our own mediums. We are not in position. Just yet, to be come members of the groat press associations oft the world, but we are able to form a voluntary news gather ing associatin maotig ourselves. No town should be without such a repor ter. FOURTH—To subscribe for Negro magazines. FIFTH—We urge our ministers everywhere to emphasize from pul pits the necessity of having Negro newspapers in every Negro home. SOUTH SIDE NEWS Labor Day Monday, Sept. 1. There will be a big picnic, given by Alton Chapel church, at 701 Railroad Ave. Albright cars will bring you direct to the place. Attorney John Adams and Rev. E. C. Cox will deliver racial ad dresses. Everybody will be made wel come. Plenty of barbecued meat, fried fish, ice cream and pop will be for sale. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are in the city and are stopping with Mrs. J. D. Ev ans, 6637 So. 24th St. Mr. and Mrs. Burnell have come back to live with Mr. and Mrs. Evans. Mrs. Town and daughter have re turned to Winfield, Kans. They in deed had a splendid visit with friends and relatives here. MT. MORIAH BAPTIST fHURUH Twenty-fourth and Ohio Street—Rev. G. W. Day, Pastor. The Young People Literary under the leadership of Dr. A. M. McMillian is making great progress and will soon he recognized as one of our lead ing organizations for the development and training of our young people. Last Tuesday evening the women of the church had a rare treat In an ad dress delivered by Mrs. G. W. Day on ‘Key of the Kingdom". The pastor and members worshipped with Zion last Wednesday night. The women State Mission Society will hold 'heir quarterly rally; meet ing here Sunday afternoon at 3 o’ clock. Ministers from the various churches will give five-minute talks each, and there will be musical num bers. CAMBRIDGE HAS A COLORED POLICEMAN Cambridge, Md., Aug. 29.—For 30 ^ years, according to the rejAMs of the : police department here, this town has j had a colored police officer who wears , surne uniform and receives same pay as other officers. Samuel Nutter, the present incum bent, has been on the force for two years. Others who have served on the : force Jacob Camby, Joseph Collins, j Charles Hudson, Dennard Clash and i Nebemiah Henry. ABBYNINIAN PRINCE REGENT NAILED HOME Marseilles, August 29.—Ras Tafri, Prince Regent of Abyssinia, has sailed for home after his visit to the capitals of Europe. He took with him a moun tain of baggage, weighing more than thirty tons, composed in large part of the sumptuous presents made to him by the various governments. FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms, 2536 Patrick avenue. Two blocks from car line. The Negro Child By JOSEPH S. COTTER, SR. My little one of ebon hue. My little one with fluffy hair, The wide, wide world is calling you To think and do and dare. The lessons of stern yesterdays That stir your blood and poise your brain Are etching out the simple ways By which you must attain. An echo here, a memory there, An act that links itself with truth; A vision that makes troubles air And toils the joy of youth. These be your food, your drink, your rest, These be your moods of drudgeful ease. For these be nature’s spur and test And heaven’s fair degrees. My little one of ebon hue, My little one with fluffy hair, ■j Go train your head and hands to do, ^ Your head and heart to dare. VISITING HOME OF CHILDHOOD Mrs. Milton Jones of Wichita, Kans., whom old Omaha residents will re member as Susie Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Jones, who went to Oklahoma some years ago, is vis iting relatives, Miss Sadie Nickens and Mrs. Sussie Rice, of 926 North Twenty-seventh street. With her are her oldest and her youngest child, the former a daughter, Eunice, now Mrs. J. A. Hutt, and latter a five-year-old son, Robert. This is Eunice’s first visit to Omaha since 1898 when she was brought here as a baby with her sister Annabel to be baptized in the same church, that of St. Philip the Deacon, in which her mother had been baptized as a little girl. Mrs. Jones has visited Omaha relatives and friends at intervals since her mar riage and residence in Wichita, but this is the first time since her in fancy that Eunice has accompanied her. They are being made the re cipients of many social courtesies. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. Frederick Divers, Pastor. Splendid attendance at Sunday school, and a large attendance at the morning service. The pastor preached and the services altogether were good. At the evening service Pilgrim Bap tist worshipped with Bethel in the sec ond joint service of the two churches. The two choirs united, forming one large choir, and sang as if the yahd always been singing together. The Rev. Wm. Franklin of Pilgrim preach ed to combined congregation which filled the church. Everyone went away satisfied with the unusual ser vice. Bishop A. J. Carrey, D. D., with his son Archibald, Jr., was in the city Tuesday cn route to Chicago land spent the day here. He looked over the plant and expressed his satisfac tion at the undertaking on the part of the denomination, as well as the good people that constitute the local con gregation. OMAHA—LEADERS OF WESTERN LEAGUE HOME FOR FIVE GAMES Barney Burch's Athletes On Final Rush to Win Western League Pennant. Denver and Tulsa Close on Heels of the Buffalo Wallopers KEENO CIILLOP LEADING RUTH IN HOME RDNS-HAS 42 Omaha baseball fans will see within the next three weeks the winning losing ot the Western I^eague pennant by the Omaha club. It is more than probable that they will witness the winning of the first pennant in seven years. The Omaha club is out In front with a nice lead, not too comfortable, bat still a lead, and the team is fighting bard to retain this advantage. The club opens on the home lot to morrow with the Deg Moines Boost ers for the final group of games at Fifteenth and Vinton Btreets, and as Grigg’s boys have been very success ful In their Invasion of Des Moines the past week winning four out of the first five games, great things can be expected of them on the home lot. Let everyone make It a civic duty to attend the gatnes during this final stretch and help Barney Burch retrieve some of his heavy losses during the season. There will be one game Saturday, with double headers on Sunday and Monday. The old park should not be able to hold the fans for the next few weeks. Come out during the week-end and see Cullup, Oeborne or Robinson clout out a few homers. Cullup is now leading Babe Ruth with a season's total of 42. Box seats at Beaton’s drug store. TRAIN DISPATCHER ILLINOIS CENTRAL FOR HALF CENTORT Kelly, Colored Telegrapher, Handles Thirty-one Trains Daily Out of Carbandale Station HOLDS AN UNUSUAL POSITION (By the Cameraman for the Preston News Service) Out in Carbondale, Illinois, on the main line of the Illinois Central rail road, in a telegraph booth, there sits a veteran telegraph operator, who has been tapping out the Morse alphabet for nearly fifty years. To be more accurate, on December 24, 1874, J. H. Kelly was given his chance to mas ter the mysteries of the Morse code and the telegraph key. Since that time he has been a telegrapher for the Illinois Central. We met him last week. He was taking his first vaca tion. Hale and hearty, with every white glistening tooth that God had given him, and with an everlasting smile, Kelly, who is 73 years of age —and he looked like 37 instead of 73 —grasped our hands in a grip that was without a tremble, and said “How dy” in true Illinois style. On the Illinois Central Kelly han dles about 31 trains a day which he has dispatched through his block for years and years without a single mis hap. Little do travelers know, aS they journey this route from the heart of the Missouri Valley to Chicago, when the semaphores swing up and down and the red signals change to green and yellow, that a colored telegrapher has given their train the 0. K. on its thundering way. They ride in ignorance at what they would consider an impossibility if they knew; and the Illinois Central offi cials, who have been wise to the situa tion for the full fifty years of Kelly’s existence, know that Kelly is merely an efficient, tried and true telegraph ARMOUR EMPLOYEES’ PICNIC AT LAKEVIEIV Armour and Company gave a picnic for their colored employees at Lake view Park Monday afternoon. It was attended by over 2,000 people who en joyed a most delightful time. The employees were given admission tick ets which entitled them to a generous dinner and supper and free admiss.^ti to all the concessions. There were sports of various kinds including races for fat men and fat women with valu able prizes for which there were keen and close contests. A large number availed themselves of the privilege of flancing. No untoward incident of any kind marred the pleasure of the flay. A street railway official told The Monitor that they had never had a more orderly or well-behaved crowd at this popular pleasure resort. MOTOR OVER TO ATTEND U. B. F. GRAND LODGE Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Gooden accom panied by Miss Teressa /Liverpool motored over to St. Joseph, Mo., last week to attend the Grand Lodge of the U. B. F.’s and S. M. T.’s. Dr and Mrs. L. E. Britt and family in their Durant Bedan accompanied them to Hiawatha, Kans., en route to Hig gins, Mo., where they went to visit Dr. Britt’s mother. Miss Ruth Seay also motored over to St. Joseph in her Hudson. Dr. Gooden is the Grand Medical Director of the Order and Mrs. Gooden is Grand Keeper of the Finance of the Royal House. er. They’ve forgotten that he is a Negro. Kelly has economic brains as well as telegraphic speed and ability, and out of his $200 per month salary, he’s managed to become the owner of a $22,000 home at 546 East 46th St., Chicago, where you can find him your self on rest days, if you want to verify what we’ve just told you about him. Here’s truly an example in ability, thrift and persistent effort. May he live long and prosper. BOY SCOUTS RECEIVE HONORS AT CAMP GIFFORD Fifty Boy Scouts from Troops 23 and the City Mission, Dr. Craig Morris, scoutmaster, and Troop 78, Mr. T. P. Mahammitt, scoutmaster, closed their ten day outing at Camp Gifford last Sunday afternoon and reluctantly left for home. Mr. Mahammitt spent the entire period at the camp, Dr. Morris spending a portion of the time there. The camp was in charge of the regular official staff and the boys received ad mirable care. Sunday afternoon at the Court of Honor badges and other honors were awarded the boys. Fourteen boys who had passed the tenderfoot tests were awarded badges for this degree; eight were awarded second class badges and sx, first class badges. In addition to these national badges Camp Gifford awadrs different colored felt dia monds, not for their intrinsic value, but for the honor attached to them for various matters such as cleanli ness, table manners, cheerfulness, courtesy, general improvement, etc. These number seven. In addition to these there is a specially coveted mark of honor, a black diamond, which is awarded for general excellence. This coveted honor was awarded Wade Mc Raven. The next highest honor was awarded Forrest Perkins. Several ol Athe scouts received all seven dia monds. A large number of parents and friends were present to see tne scouts awarded their honors. A service was held at 10 o’clock by the Rev. John Albert Williams, of the Episcopal Church of St. Philip the Deacon, who gave them a brief sermon on, “A Boy Who Helped The Savior.” BLOOD RACE TEST THEORY PURE BUNK New York City, Aug. 29.—Electric theories of the late Dr. Abrams out of which he made millions by claiming to be able to distinguish the blood of the races, etc., were termed the great est bunk in history by the Scientific Committee. FOUR APPLICANTS FOR NORTH CAROLINA BAR Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 29.—In a group of 132 applicants for admission to the North Carolina bar were four colored persons. The examination was said to be the most severe ever given in the state. DEATH CLAIMS COL. GILES B. JACKSON, NOTED LAWYER Richmond, Va., Aug. 29.—Col. Giles B. Jackson, noted Virginia lawyer, died Wednesday morning here. PITTSBURG STRUTS HER STUFF (By the Associated Negro Press) Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 29.—This city has been put to the test of proving its boast that it is the ideal convention city and, therefore, rightly due the three big gathrings which are sched uled for a period scarcely covering a month. The Shriners have been to town with their conquering motto and the populace has capitulated. The ap pearance and deportment of the Ma sons now in session here has bom a proportionate resemblance in brilliance and rectitude to the achievements in council of the various lodges working for th advancement of Masonry and the weal of the Negro race. One of the finest parades ever held in this city was given by the plumed Knights Templar. Blocks and blocks of the city’s thoroughfares were black with onlookers craning their necks to catch a glimpse of the dazzling spec tacle. But there has been more than a grand parade. At one of the sessions of the Shriner council it was voted to distribute $18,000 to widows and or phans of deceased Nobles. Another sum set aside by the council was $1,500 for prizes for drill teams of the patrol department of the organ ization, the consideration being ad vanced that the drill teams of the or der are the fertile soil for the devl opmnt of the ideas of organized ODed iance and disciplin. COTTRELL SUFFERS STROKE (By The Associated Negro Press) Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 29.—Charles Cottrell, famous Ohio political leader and a high figure in Shrine circles, col lapsed while reading a report before the Shrine council here last week. H was put under the care of two physi cians. The session was adjourned im mediately following his collapse and reopened with a prayer for him. SILVER JUBILEE HEBRO BUSINESS LEAGUE SUCCESS Marks Turning Point In Life and Work of Organization Which Has Commercial Development of Race MOTON REELECTED PRESIDENT Reorganization Effected and Several Business Scholarships Established for Youth. (By The Associated Negro Press) Chicago, 111., Aug. 29.—The progress of the race was reviewed and possibil ities for further and more rapid econ omic advancement were pointed out n the reports and addresses at the “Sil ver Jubilee” of the National Negro Business League, which closed its twenty-fifth annual meeting here at the Wendell Phillips high school, with the reelection of Dr. Robert R. Moton as president, A. L. Holsey as secretary and C. C. Spaulding as chairman of the executive committee and with the elec tion of B. M. Iii.ririy as vice-president at large and field director and W. M. Rich of Norfolk as treasurer. The “Silver Jubilee” represents the turning point in the life and work of the league. The piogram which was launched by Dr. Moton in his annual address, the lea’ ere of the Wednesday evening sessic n, emlicdied a complete reorganization. Th new plan consists of the division into 14 districts which will be under the vice-presidents of the league and supervised directly by, B. M. Roddy, vice-president at large. This assures the members of a more effective yearly program while the National Negro Finance Corporation will function to aid and promote busi ness enterprises with intention of bringing about an unparalled era of prosperity. One of the outstanding accomplish ments of the league was the astab lishment of several scholarships in business colleges for deserving young men and women of the race. The an nouncement of this decision which was made by Perry W. Howard, legal advisor of the league and special as sistant to the U. S. attorney general, was received with a great demonstra tion. The meeting was, according to dele gates who have followed the fortunes of the league since its founding by the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, the greatest meeting as to attendance and results in the history of the league. The spacious auditorium was filled to its capacity at each session and at the night sessions thousands were turned away while hundreds of others congre gated in the corridors. Upon the recommendation of the committee on resolutions, a committee will be appointed by the executive committee on building and loan edu cation to work with the colleges and local leagues, in training our people in the building and loan idea. The committee will have the support and co-operation of the American Saving Building Loan Association of Madison, Wisconsin. LAKEVIEW PARK AS PLEASURE RESORT Within the last month a committee of well-known citizens entered Into an agreement with the management of Lakeview Park, a beautiful and well appointed pleasure resort in East Omaha, which was about to be closed, to take it over for the use of respect able colored patrons, where there would be no restrictions in the enjoy ment of all the privileges of the place. Lakeview. has been opened three nights a week—Mondays, Thurs days and Saturdays—during this time and* has enjoyed a liberal patronage. A good ten-piece orchestra, under the management, of Thomas Roulette, has furnished music for dancing in the spacious and beautiful dance pavillion. i The roller skating rink has also been | popular, as have other features. Mon day, Labor Day, there is to be a spe cial program and a large patronage is anticipated. Messrs. Nate Hunter, John Woods, Edward Webster, Fred Thompson and several others con stitute the committee who have made, | this venture of faith. Mrs. Vernie Jackson, 969 North Twenty-seventh street, returned Mon day from Topeka, Kans., where she attended the Grand Lodge of the Heroines of Jericho. Mrs. Jackson it one of the grand officers of the lodge. She reports an excellent time. 0