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HOWARD UHiicRSITY
HOLDS CONVOCATION
WITH DODD RESULTS
Three Dnys Devoted to Study of the
Christian Ministry—Inspirational
Addrexyfs of High Educa
tlonal Value
MiTABLE SPEAKERS on PROGRAM
Two Hundred Fifty Pastors and Other
Church Officials Reglrxtcr and
Actively Participate in
Discussions
Washington, D. C., Nov. 14.—The
Eighth Annual Convocation of the
Howard University School of Religion
was held on October 28, 29th and 80th.
The three days were devoted primarily
to a study of the Christian ministry.
Beside many inspirational addresses
of high value, careful consideration
was given to three phases of the sub
ject, though many others were dealt
with by one or more of the speakers.
These may be stated in general terras
as first, The Field; second, The Call,
and third, The Training of Ministers.
These phases were not treated in a
formal orderly way. but were con
stantly coming to the front In all of
the discussions.
The African field was presented by
ati eminent educator, Dr. James H.
Dillard, Charlottesville, Va., who is a
member of the General Education
Beard; by a leading scientist, Dr. H.
L. Shantz of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, and by a missionary
bishop, the Rt. Rev. Matthew W. Clai'
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
er.eh of whom has recently visited
Africa. The vast natural resources
and the great possibilities of the peo
ple were set forth as challenges to
America to provide leadership of the
light sort. The home field was the
subject of three remarkable addresses
by Bishop George C. Clement of the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church. The practical problems con
fronting the minister in the rural and
urban churches were considered with
sympathetic insight and candid cri
ticistn, so that all were made to feel
that the function of the ministry is
the most important the most challeng
ing and ihe most rewarding of all.
The call to the ministry was a subject
much discussed. An extreme case was
tola of a colored man who lay down
at full length beside a log and prayed
“O I^ord, if you don’t want me to
preach, Just lift me up and put me on
the other side of this log." Needless
to add that he got his call! ! ! In
general, however, it was asserted that
visions and voices and midnight grave
yard experiences cannot be a sub
stitute for good character, adequate
training, personal consecration and
general fitness for the work as tested
by the judgment of others. Great em
phasis was placed on the necessity for
proper intellehtua! training as a sup
plement to consecrated enthusiasm.
Zeal and knowledge, rightly harness
ed, make a good working team.
Great interest was aroused at the
round table discussions, conducted by
Dr. Robert I.. Kelly of New York, di
rector of the recent survey of the
fifty-two Negro theological seminaries
in this country. Dr. Kelly pointed
out the weaknesses and the possibili
ties of these schools.
The convocation sermon by Rev. W.
H. Abernethy, D. D., of the Calvary
Baptist church, pastor of the lute
President Harding, dwelt in a master
ly way with the saying of Jeroboam,
"It is too much for you to go up to
Jerusalem" and the words of Jesus,
"The Son of Man must need go up to
Jerusalem."The ehsy way of self-inter
est and the hard way of self-sacrifice
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MRS. MALONE PAYS
HIGHEST INCOME TAX
(By the Associated Negro Press)
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 14.—Accord
ing to published figures, the highest
income tax for 1923 paid by any Ne
gro in America was that of Mrs.
Annie M. Turnbo-Malane, founder of
Poro Beauty College, this city. It
amounted to $38,408 and denoted a
probable income for the year of $170,
000.
It is thought that the figures for
Mr. and Mrs. Malone would have been
larger but for the large amounts
which they gave to charitable pur
poses. Their wealth is credited at
being more than a million dollars.
Last May they contributed $25,000 to
the general building fund of the Y.
M. C. A. here. Previously they had
had given large sums to the colored
branch and had made o gift of $10,000
to the medical department of Howard
University, besides contributing to
various other schools and philanthro
pies.
RECOMMENDS SPECIAL
HISTORIES FOR THE SOUTH
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Quitman, Oa., Nov. 14.—If the
Daughters of the Confederacy can do
anything about it, every Southern col
lege and university will have endowed
a chair in Southern history and South
ern literature to deal with the social
and economic development moat inter
esting to the South. The proposal
was made by Mary Rutherford before
the state convention of the confeder
acy who told the delegates that in the
event they accepted the Idea she would
submit plaiiB for carrying it into exe
cution.
were contrasted with apt illustration
so as to make a powerful appeal for
personal loyalty to Jesus Christ. No
one who heard the address of Dr. Ed
win E. Slosson on the relation of
science to religion can easily forget
the pungent, cogent phrasing with
which he showed the essential unity
of all truth and that religion and
science have grown together. He as
serted that the leading men of science
are with few exceptions active in the
Christian church.
The splendid addresses given at the
University Chapel by Col. John T.
Axton, chief of chaplains of the U. S.
Army; by Dr. William Pickens of the
N. A. A. C. P., New York, and by
Bishop Reverdly C. Hansom of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
were received by students and mem
bers of the Convocation with great
enthusiasm.
Three features of the Convocation
in general are worthy of notice. First,
the attendance was unusually large.
Nearly 250 pastors and church offi
cials registered, beside the general
public and the university family. Sec
ond, the startling facts brought )Ut by
Dr. Kelly awakened deep concern. In
face of the evidence that Negro theo
logical seminaries are not meeting the
demands made upon them, the convic
tion grew that the church must de
vote itself more earnestly to the task
of training its leaders. Third, an out
standing feature of the Convocation
was the spirited discussion which pro
fitably occupied ail of the time avail
able. Great vital questions were ask
ed, challenging conditions were pre
sented and perplexing problems were
fearlessly faced. Practical not theore
tical, sociological rather than theo
logical subjects were uppermost. The
prevailing mood of the delega'es as
the Convocation closed was neither
ecstacy nor despondency, but that of
chastened optimism. The Christian
Church and its ministry have a great
service to render, but the call for
deeper consecration and better train
ing is insistent.
WH. PICKENS AND WHITE
JUDGE DEBATE MIGRATION
l By N. A. A. C. P. Press Service.)
William Pickens, field secretary of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, and
Judge Blanton Fortson of Georgia are
the Joint authors of a debate on the
northward migration of Negroes pub
lished in the November issue of “The
Forum” (247 Park avenue, New York).
Judge Fortson, admitting that the
South is a backward part of the na
tion and that progress is prevented
by the status of the Negro influencing
every public question, blames the
South’s lack of progress upon the Ne
gro’s “inferiority”. He claims that
the South is “held back by this mass
of inferior peoples”, that the white
man can take and is taking the Ne
gro’s place as a laborer, and that it is
better for the Negro to migrate to the
North for that will mean the even
tual extinction of the burdensome
race.
Mr. Pickens points out that the
migration northward has benefitted
both those who have gone North and
those who have remained in the
South. It has also opened the eyes ,
of the North to the fact that the race
problem is nation-wide. Mr. Pickens
further points out that the South did
not want the Negro to migrate, even
resorting to threats, false arrests and
mob violence, as well as prosecution
of labor agents, to hinder the Negro’s '
going. Not only has the Negro dem- |
onstrated hie capacity to do the work j
of the white world, says Mr. Pickens, :
but he is in no danger of extinction,;
"his color may be dissipated, but his
quota of blood in the nation’s veins, i
somewhere, will not be diminished.”
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MADE UNIVERSITY DAILY EDITOR
Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 14.—(By |
the Associated Negro Press)—Earl [
Wilkins, a sophomore at the Univer
sity of Minnesota, has been appointed
a member of the editorial board of The
Minnesota Daily, the official news
paper of the university. The other
four members of the board are white j
students. It will be the duty of the ;
board to write the editorials for the '
daily this year.
Mr. Wilkins, who is a student of
business administration and a resid
ent of St. Paul, is a brother of Roy J
Wilkins, city editor of the Kansas City 1
Call, and a graduate of Minnesota,
1923. The two Wilkins brothers are
the only colored students ever to hold
positions on the university daily. Both
are members of the Omega Psi Phi
fraternity.
GOVERNMENT PLANS
TO LEAVE HAITI
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 14.—
Leading Haitians are incensed over
the reported steps taken by President
Borneo to have President Coolidge
retain American soldiers in Haiti.
The news is current that word was
sent here to the effect that the troops
would be taken from the island in the
near future but that Borneo, who was
put into th presidency at the instance
of the American high commissioner,
General Russell, has written to Amer
ica with the warning that the Haiti
ans would start fighting among them
selves. Haitians declare that Borneo
is afraid of losing his job should the
Americans depart.
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NEW ORLEANS N. A. A. C. P.
WINS SUIT AGAINST CITY
SEGREGATION ORDINANCE
Decision Based on Louisville Segrega
tion Case Win in Supreme
Court, 1917.
New York, Nov. 14.—A court vic
tory has been won by the New Or
leans branch of the National Assoc
ciation for the Advancement of Col
ored People against the segregation
ordinance enacted Sept. 18, 1924, by
the City of New Orleans. The vic
tory, according to the decision ren
dered by Judge Hugh S. Cage, of the
civil district court, is based upon the
decision of the U. S. Supreme Court
in the Louisville Segregation case,
won by the N. A. A. C. P. in 1917.
G. W. Lucas, president of the New
Orleans branch of the N. A. A. C. P.,
writes to the national office:
“Our people are very much encour
aged and it is possible that this mat
ter will be settled without going to
the Supreme Court of the United
States. However, we are prepared to
go any distance. We are waiting on
another arrest and then our attorneys
plan on taking it immediately into
the federal court as they say it can
be done.”
The present victory is won in the
case of Joseph W. Tyler, a white man,
who sought to enjoin Ben Harmon, a
Negro, from making over his single
cottage into a double house for the
purpose of renting the addition to
colored people. Judge Cage’s deci
sion, as quoted in part by a local
white newspaper, in referring to the
New Orleans segregation ordinance,
states:
“I cannot find that the ordinance
in question differs from the similar
Kentucky ordinance on which an opin
ion was handed down reversing the
decision of the Kentucky court of ap
peals, and I am forced to bow to that
decision and hold the ordinance a vio
lation of the Fourteenth Amend
ment.”
Judge Cage is quoted as express
ing himself out of sympathy with the
decision he was forced, by the prior
N. A. A. C. P. victory to render.
The segregation law declared in
valid in New Orleans, had provided
that neither whites nor Negroes
might live in a district inhabited by
the other group, without the express
consent of a majority of the residents
of either color.
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PLATERS PLEASE PATRONS
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 14—Members
of four local churches combined to fill
the city auditorium this week at a
rendition of “Ilamon and Pythias” un
der the direc'ion of Richard B. Har
rison, famous dramatic reader. The
play was received with much accalim
by the audience and many of the local
members of the cast measured up to
the high standard set by Mr. Harrison
as Damon.
LEAVES REQUEST TO MEHARRY
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 14.—The will
of the late Hr. George W. Hubbard,
former president of Meharry Medical
College, provides that the principal
of $10,000 trust fund left to a niece
revert to Meharry at the death of the
niece and that the remainder of his
estate after the deduction of the
$10,000 trust fund and sundry smaller
bequests, also go to the institution.
ATLANTA SEGREGATION
DEFEATED ON BASIS
OF LOUISVILLE C ASE
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 14.—A section of
Atlanta’s zoning ordinance which
would segregate white and colored
residents, has been declared uncon
stitutional on the basis of the victory
won before the U. S. Supreme Court
in the Louisville Segregation Case in
1917 by the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
On October 17, the Supreme Court
at Atlanta decided that Luther Crittle,
a Negro, could not be evicted by city
officials from property he had bought
in a “white” residential section.
The Georgia court in resdering its
decision, referred to the following
ruling in a similar case:
“A city ordinance forbidding color
ed persons from occupying houses as
residences, or places of abode, or pub
lic assembly, on blocks where the
majority of houses are ocuupied by
white persons, and in like manner
forbidding white persons when the
conditions are reversed, and which
bases the interdiction upon color and
nothing more, passes the legitimate
bounds of police power and invades
the civil rights to acquire, enjoy and
use property, which is guaranteed in
equal measure to all citizens, white or
colored, by the Fourteenth Amend
ment.”
It is on this ground that the N. A.
A. C. P. and associated individuals
and groups are fighting segregation
ordinances recently passed by the
Louisiana state legislature and by ■‘he
City of New Orleans.
MEXICO TO HAVE TUSKEGEE
(By the Associated Negro Press)
New York, N. Y., Nov. 14.—General
Plutarco Elias Calles, president-elect
of Mexico plans to use Hampton and
Tuskegee institutes as models In es
tablishing similar schools in his coun
try, the “Tiger of Sonora” declared
before leaving here for Washington.
President Calles, while in New
York, conferred with officials of the
Hampton-Tuskegee endowment fund,
with headquarters at 5 Madden Lane,
on the methods emplowed at the two
American institutes. Following the
conference he issued the following
statement:
“It is my earnest hope as president
of Mexico to aid in the introduction
of a system of education which may
raise the masses of the Mexican peo
ple. I am particularly impressed with
what I have learned of the two great
schools in the south, Hampton and
Tuskegee.
“Their practical system of educa
tion with special reference to char
acter building and fitting men to be
farmers and effective teachers ap
peals to mq1 strongly. I have heard
with great interest of the way the
Hampton-Tuskegee itlea is being
adopted in other parts of the world,
and I hope before long to see Mexico
have its Hampton and Tuskegee also.”
The General Education Board of
the Rockefeller Foundation recently
gave striking recognition of the im
portance of the work being done at
Hampton and Tuskegee by pledging
$1,000,000 toward a new $5,000,000
endowment fund for the two schools.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Griffin wish
to announce the engaginent of Miss
C. C. Fruit of Omaha, Neb., to Deacon
Guy Wiley of Lincoln, Neb. Date
given later.
THE LITTLE THINGS OF LIFE AND
LIVING MAKE THE BIG THINGS
The little things in life make for
the big thingB. Some of the greatest
and most decisive events in the his
tory of mankind have been the result
of what appeared to be the smallest
and most inconsequential things.
Dr. Washington ascribed his suc
cess in life to the sweeping of a room
at Hampton Institute in such a thor
ough way as to command the approval
of a person whose influence was worth
everything to the young student at
that time. Those who knew Dr. Wash
ington when he had come to occupy
a large and influential place in the
world can very well understand the
importance he placed upon the sweep
ing of a room at Hampton Institute
and the infulence it had upon his after
success. He was a poor and friend
less boy at the school, which he had
reached by walking and working his
way, and it was necessary to have
much help from those in authority at
the Institute, and this could only be
had by his show of willingness to do
the small things expected of him in a
thorough way.
It was characteristic of Dr. Wash
ington that he paid the greatest pos
sible attention to the smallest thing
which he had to do as with the larg
est. He never forgot a promise and
he never kept it an hour or a day after
(By T. Thomas Fortune, in The
Negro World)
he had promised it. He was always
on time in fulfilling hos engagements.
When he was at Tuskegee he gave
personal attention to all of the de
tails of the work; when he was away
from the institute he had daily re
ports from all of the departments of
the work. By regulating his life in
this way people came to know that he
was thorough and dependable, with
the result that students and insti
tute officials labored to do things as
the principal did them.
The small things of life cannot be
neglected without impairing the ef
fectiveness of the large things. Those
who get the reputation for being
thorough and dependable always out
distance in the race of life those who
are not. Those who do not succeed,
on this account, are puzzled at the
success of others whom they know
are not as bright and capable as '.hey
are. They even complain that there
must be injustice somewhere. So
there is, but it is in the person him
self and not in others. And in every
person there are always three persons,
sometimes more, who work at cross
purposes and often destroy the one
person responsible for the thought
and words and acts of the others.
This principle of human life is not
generally understood, although most
of us are interfered with from within
and thwarted of our desires from with
out and not understanding it all in
the least. “Ye be men and brethren*”
That applies to each of us in his in
dividual person.
The Negro people have much to
learn in the matter of caring properly
for the small things that make for the
big things; for the thoroughness and
dependability that make for character
and respectability; for time, which is
precious and should not be* frittered
away, and for promises, which are
binding and cannot safely be ignored.
We all need self-examinatiort in this
matter, because we all want to have
our own self-respect, and we cannot
well have it unless we so shape our
conduct as to have the respect of our
neighbors; we all want to succeed,
and we cannot do so unless we learn
to care for the small things that make
for the large things.
Take care of the pennies and the
dollars will take care of themselves.
Bring up a child in the way it should
go and when it becomes a man it will
go as it should.
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BARS COLORED NURSES
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—Dr. N. F.
Mossell, director of the Frederick
Douglass Memorial Hospital and
Training School for Nurses, stated in
a letter to the governor of this state
that the Post-Graduate School for
Nurses at the University of Pennsyl
vania refused the admittance of a
nurse, who desired to take a special
course in operating room technique.
Dr. George H. Meeker, manager of
the graduate school of medicine of the
university hospital, denied the state
ment of Dr. Mossell. Dr. Mossell
stated that after many telephone con
versations with the head of the post
graduate school Mrs. Helene Herman,
at the Polyclinic hospital, and Miss
Gillian Clayton, chairman of the state
board, “we were finally informed that
no colored graduate nurse could be
admitted to the post-graduate school
of the University of Pennsylvania.
However, such is the case and Dr.
Mossell’s letter to the governor re
vealed the sad state of affairs in this
city concerning people of color.
JAMAICANS TRY TO BAR CHINESE
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 14.—Native
Jamaicans, through the Jamaican Im
perial Association, are making repre
sentations to the governor asking that
Chinese and Syrians be excluded from
the island because of the trade com
petition of the orientals. Legislative
candidates for the next election are
being sought who will favor the ex
clusion of these aliens.
ARE OPPOSING “MARCHING
THROUGH GEORGIA”
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Quitman, Ga., Nov. 14.—Because it
is weighted with horrible memories,
delegates attending the state conven
tion of the Daughters of the Con
federacy here have gone on record for
the complete abolition of the song
“Marching Through Georgia”. The
suggestion was made by Mrs. R. K.
Rabo.
MINISTER SUES KLAN FOR $60,000
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 14.—The Rev.
Qtis I* Spurgeon, white, former lec
turer for the Ku Klux Klan, has sued
the Kourier, official publication of the
hooded order, for $60,000, alleging that
the publication of the edict of banish
ment against him from the realm of
the klan injured him to that extent.
NORTH CAROLINA NEGRO
EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 14.—A state
wide conference of Negro education
was held at Shaw university Monday
under the auspices of the division of
Negro education of the North Caro
lina department of public instruction.
Among those present were Mr. and
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, Dr. J. H. Dil
lard and representatives of the Ros
enwald fund, the General Education
board, and the Slater, Jeannes funds.
WILEY COLLEGE BREAKS
GROUND FOR NEW BUILDING
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Marshall, Tex., Nov. 14.—Ground
has been broken at Wiley College on
the new $100,000 girls’ dormitory.
This was made possible by the re
lease of a conditional gift from the
General Education board of $25,000,
contingent upon $75,000 to come from
the board of education of the Metho
dist Episcopal church.
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COMMUNITY CHEST
WILL EHLIST VAST
ARMY OF WORKERS
The Second Campaign for Funds for
Welfare Organizations Will
Occupy Omaha Citizens
Next Week
RIVALRY BETWEEN ALL TEAMS
Women Under Chairmanship of Mrs.
Fetters W'ill Strive to Outdo
the Men—Prepare to do
Your Share
“It’s everybody’s Job!”
This is the slogan for the Com
munity Chest campaign which will be
gin Wednesday morning, November
19, to collect $402,000 for the twenty
nine welfare organizations which take
care of the less fortunate families of
Omaha.
Committees numbering 2,500 men
and women will start out Wednesday
morning and during the following
week they expect to see every person
in Omaha for a contribution. The
one big drive, Just like last year, when
$400,000 was collected by a similar
plan, will take the place of all tag
days and other drives which used to be
held every week in former years.
Cripples, orphans, aged persons,
homeless girls, disabled soldiers and
helpless babies will be made happy
during 1925 through the Community
Chest. The organizations which are
supported by the fund are:
Colored Old Folks’ Home
Colored Commoricial Club Employ
ment Department
American Red Cross
Associated Charities
Bethlehem Children’s Home
Boy Scouts of America
Camp Fire Girls
Child Savings Institute
Christ Child Society
City Mission
Council of Americanization
Creche
Day Nursery
Disabled American Veterans of the
World War
House of Hope
Men’s Service League for Boys
Nazareth Home
Nebraska Children’s Home Society
Nebraska Humane Society
Nursery Committee of the Salvation
Army Home
Old People’s Home
Omaha Social Settlement
Salvation Army, Four Divisions
Scandinavian Y. W. C. A.
Society for Friendless
Society for Relief of Disabled
Visiting Nurses Association
Wolf Cubs
Young Women’s Christian Association
There is much rivalry between the
committees of men and women. The
men will convass the downtown sec
tion, from the river to Twenty-fourth
street, between Leavenworth and
Cuming, and the business section of
South Omaha. Five hundred two-men
teams will cover this territory. Frank
Builta is the chairman.
The women’s division, under Mrs.
A. H. Fetters, will canvass the res
idential section, thirty times as large
as the territory of the men. Mrs.
Fetters expects to have 1,500 commit
tee women at work.
“Give a day’s pay”, asks Harley
Conant, noted hotel owner who is
chairman of the general committee.
A contribution of $10, for instance,
divided among the twenty-nine wel
fare organizations, means 33 cents for
each organization. The contribution,
it will be seen, means only a third of
a dollar for each agency, every one of
which is doing good work in caring
tor unfortunates.