The Monitor
g THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
I $2.00 a Year- | Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1924 Whole Number 489 Vol. X—No. 21
f WOMEN’S I I TING
AT NORTI.JE “V”
A MARKED SUCCESS
Attendance Taxes Seating Capacity of
Auditorium and Overflows
Into Adjoining
Rooms
EXCELLENT PROGRAM GIVEN
Sunday afternoon the North Side
“V” was filled to overflowing by rep
resentative women of the city tQ con
sider vital subjects dealing with the
welfure of our people. The response
to the call for this mass meeting was
most gratifying.
Several admirable papers were pre
sented and discussed in a manner
which fully shows that the women are
mentally alert and thinking. Mrs. Se
nora Mae Wilkinson presented an ad
mirable paper on “The Possibilities of
Organized Womanhood’’ in which she
traced historically the things accom
plished by the united efforts and
whole-hearted co-operation of women.
The lesson drawn for the womanhood
of the race in Omaha was quite ob
vious. Miss Mamie Jones opened the
discussion on this paper.
“The Relation of Teachers and Par
ents’’ was ably treated in a paper by
Miss Gertrude Guess, who has had
practical experience as a teacher and
is now one of the welfare workers of
the city, she pointed out the necess
ity of co-operation between parents
and teachers and urged parents to
visit the schools of which they are
patrons and learn first-handed of con
ditions. Mrs. W. N. McMillan and Mrs.
John Alber* Williams were the speak
ers on this topic.
“What Is the Y. W. C. A.?” was
the subject of a paper by Miss Edna
M. Stratton. Among the points em
phasized were the following: it is not
simply a Christian association for
girls and young women, but a Chris
tian movement for all women young in
spirit. It is a Christian movement
with a Christian platform. Every
woman in the community should con
sider the association her personal In
vestment. Mrs. Estella Craig and
Mrs. D. W. Gooden spoke on this topic.
“The Work Accomplished by the
Committee on Colored Work" was the
topic presented by Mrs. T. P. Maharn
mltt This committee is composed of
three colored and three white repre
sentatives. The writer showed the
cordial spirit of co-operation mani- j
fested upon the part of broad-minded
white woman to- help In the better
ment of conditions. Two letters which
had been written to Superintendent
Beveridge and the School Board with
reference to the Janitor of the How
ard Kennedy School and his treatment
of the Boy Scouts were read showing
the practical interest manifested in
difficulties confronting us. Mrs. A.
I.. Hawkins was the speaker on this
paper.
It is proposed to have a subsequent
- meeting for the purpose of effecting
' some central civic organization for
making effectual some of the practical
suggestions made at this enthusiastic
and successful assembly.
LEAVES $100,000 TO
POOR AT JOPLIN, MO.
Carthage, Mo., Nov. 21.—A trust
fund of $100,000, the interest from
which is to be used by the city of Jop
lin for the relief of the "deserving
poor of the city without regard to
race, religion or color,” was left to
that city by Gilbert H. Barbee, retired
Joplin newspaper publisher and demo
cratic political leader, who died Oc
tober 17.
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PROTEST DRAWING OF
COLOR LINE IN DEATH
Washington, Nov. 21.—Vigorous pro
tests are being made against the
separation of the names of whites and
Negro treasury employees killed in the
war on tablets recently placed in the
lobby of the department register’s of
fice.
One of the protests, addressed to
President Coolidge by West A. Ham
ilton, commander of the James E.
Walker post of the American Legion,
described the action as “a most vicious
bit of discrimination and un-Amer
icanism. Secretary Slemp, replying,
said the matter had been referred to
Secretary Mellon at the president's di
rection.
Upon receipt of this letter, the
Walker post sent messages to the
Walter Carter post of Boston, Chas.
B. Young post of New York, Lemuel
Boydston post of Cleveland and the
Tilman-Harpoole post of St. Louis,
charging that the "drawing of the col
or line in death” was an insult to four
hundred thousand Negro veterans and
urging them to Join in the protest to
the secretary.
COLORED GIRL WINS
IMPORTANT LAWSUIT
The lawsuit known as Bertha
Thompson against the Yellow Cab and
Baggage Company and others has Just
been decided in the District Court. It
lias been on the calendar for nearly a
year and a half, having been tried once
before, when the Jury decided against
the plaintiff, Miss Thompson. Judge
Charles Leslie who heard the case
granted Miss Thompson a new trial,
and this time the Jury awarded Miss
Thompson a verdict of $2,500.00.
Miss Thompson was injured April
I, 1923, when a Ford and a Yellow
cab collided at Twenty-fith and Deca
tur streets.
The case involved a great deal of
medical testimony, given by eight dif
ferent physicians and specialists. The
trial lasted more than four days. At
torneys for the plaintiff were Pinkett,
Morgan & Bryant, and the defendants
were represented by Kennedy, Hol
land, DeLacy, McLaughlin & Rose
water, Meecham & Burton.
JAMES A. COBB ELECTED
MEMBER OF H. A. A. C. P.
HOARD OF DIRECTORS
New York, Nov. 14.—At the last reg
ular meeting of the Hoard of Directors
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 69
Fifth avenue, this week, James A.
Cobb, of Washington, was elected' a
member of the board to fill the vacan
cy caused by the resignation of Dr.
George E. Cannon of Jersey City.
Mr. Cobb has for some years been
an active member of the N. A. A. C. P.
and in his office of Chairman of the
Ixtgal Committee of the Washington
Branch, has fought a number of im
portant cases before the higher courts
of Washington. He is at present lead
ing the N. A. A. C. P. fight against
residential segregation before the U.
S. Supreme Court, which is. expected
to be argued in April of the coming
year.
Mr. Cobb was born at Arcadia, La.,
on January 29, 1876, studied at
Straight University of New Orleans,
at Fisk University in Nashville, and
has received the degrees of I*. L. B.,
L. L. M. and Ph. B. from Howard Uni
versity in Washington. He was ad
mitted to the bar of the District of
Columbia in 1901 and was appointed
by President Taft special assistant to
the U. S. Attorney for the District of
Columbia in 1907.
Mr. Cobb is a Mason; member of the
Sigma Pi Phi society and is a prom
inent and influential republican.
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Suddenly over the border V_>
J$That shelters night from day
the sun had dropped and as .quietly
- „ Sped on its ceaseless way.
~ But in the west there lingered
^ In dapper hues and fair,_f_
nA twilight which ^wakened
The Watcher’s heart to prayer7"
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. i God, for beauties shown me,
. \. The mauve, the crimson and gray,
\' That herald the advent of evening
v\ ' And tell of departing day; ^ v,
y \For clouds tinged with gold and silverf
\v \ For heaven’s lanterns fair,
, For : all of earth and its wonders,' ‘
\V.\ I offer this, my prayer.
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•' , I thank thee for friends who are loyal,
For dear ones, for love that is true,
: For home and the comfort it brings me
When day and my labors are through;
1 For victories won o’er the tempter,
For strength of my body of clay.
For peace in our land of freedom,
And hope—for the coming day.
^5 —Chicago Tribune.
HARD TO KILL A RACE THAT LAUGHS AT FATE
The man who is able to laugh under
oppression to see the humorous side of
the most serious situation, to extrrct
a brief surcease from the horrors of
impending disaster, is, to say the least,
a philosopher. He is akin in spirit to
Socrates.
There was a tradition that Zantippe,
the wife of that great thinker, the
absent-minded husband, who had the
rather bad habit of going about the
city poorly and, at times, almost in
decently clad, would steal up behind
him a-tip-toe when she desired to sur
prise or assail him. Socrates was too :
magnanimous and devoted a husband J
to upbraid his wife alone, or to speak
of her disparagingly to others. To ease
the situation, when he observed her
approach, and pretending not to see
her, he would remark to the young
men who always surrounded him that
the mass of women comprising the
good, ordinary housewives of his ac
quaintance walked slowly and secure
(Prom the Newport News-Star.)
Scourged as a slave, scorned as a free
man, and caricatured as a human be
ing, the Negro has been able to laugh
upon their pedal appendages in the
public streets; but a woman of genius
and extraordinary talents—the par
agon of the gentler sex—such as was
his spouse, disdained to pursue the
common ambulatory habit of her kind,
but with feline ease or the avidity of
the feathery tribe, came as a silent al
ly of the wind, which no one can chart
or tell its intended course. When Zan
tippe decended upon him, he appear
ed surprised and took with equanim
ity his scolding or his beating, as the
case might be, while his disciples,
looking on, knew not which the more
to admire, the stately amazon or the
unruffled seer.
In very much this mood has the
Negro race carried itself during all ot
its dark history in this country.
to keep from weeping, to smile be
cause love conquers, and to grow and
multiply, even as the ancient Chris
tians did, because of this racial trait
of adaptability for the time being to
all sorts of conditions. The Negro is
essentially a serious human. His care
free behavior is but the outward sign
of his abiding optimism, his unshaken
faith, his undying hope of a better day.
Such a race was not born to die. Its
life is immortal. The spirit that ani
mates it is verily of Devine origin. It
cannot be extinguished.
Many leaders of the race become
impatient, desire immediate action, de
mand to be heard now. They are the
pioneers, the trail blazers, the men
born, as it were, out of season. But
the great laboring, teeming army of
ordinary men and women, pursuing
the even tenor of its way, fights the
day’s battle with the ammunition
ready at hand, and looks to the Great
Commander for ultimate victory. In
patience there is power.
RACE ARTIST TO PAINT
PORTRAIT RICH MAN
(By the Associated Negro Press.)
Dover, Del., Nov. 21.—A Negro art
ist, Edward A. Harleston, will paint
the portrait of Pierre S. DuPont, Dela
ware benefactor of Negro schools,
which will be unveiled at a state tes
timonial meeting in this city, Decem
ber 6.
Thlg announcement was made last
week by Mrs. Maud S. Thompson,
president of the DuPont Testimonial
association, which has been organized
to arrange a state-wide public meeting
at which the portrait will be unveiled.
The DuPont Testimonial association
was organized, according to its offic
ers, not only to give personal testimo
ny of the appreciation of Delaware to
the man who gave a million dollars to
erect schools for Negroes, but to pass
on to the country the spirit that has
made Delaware public county schools
for colored people the best in the en
tire country.
Considerably more than a million
dollars has been donated by Mr. Du
Pont to Negroes for schools with the
result that every building in the Btate
is modern and up-to-date and com
pletely equipped.
Not only this, but when the Dela
ware State Board ofl Education con
sidered the proposition of building
new schools for the whites and giving
the old buildings to the colored people,
Mr. DuPont objected, stating that any
school not fit for white pupils was not
fit for colored.
Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Georgia
Knickerbocker, 14, died here last week
from the effects of a lipstick applied
to a pimple in order to hide it. The
poison in the stick entered through
the sore and spread through her sys
tem.
WILLIAM B. BRYANT
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Mr. William B. Bryant, whose pic
ture appears above, has just been
elected state attorney general for Ne
braska for the Mosaic Templars of
America. He received his academic
training at the Kansas Educational
and Industrial Institute, and was
graduated from the law school of the
University of Omaha in 1923. He
was admitted to the Bar in 1922,
through examination, one year be
fore his graduation from the law
school, and for the past year he has
been a member of the firm of Pin
kett, Morgan and Bryant.
Mr. Bryant is a very active mem
ber of Zion Baptist church and the
Mosaic Templars of America.
According to Mr. Bryant’s friends,
a successful future awaits him in the
law, if he will but devote himself to
hard study and hard work in the pro
fession he has chosen.
Attorney H. J. Pinkett spent Mon
day in Des Moines, la., on legal busi
ness. *
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS OF
NATION WRITE COOK HOOK
Chicago, 111., Nov. 21.—The first
cook book of its kind ever to be pub
lished, in that it is made up of materi
al furnished by high school students
of home economics in all parts of the
United States, will goon be off the
press, says a statement coming from
the National Live Stock and Meat
Board. Under the title, “Meat, and
How I Cook It,’’ this publication, fea
turing attractive ways of preparing
the less-demanded cuts of meat, will
be given free national distribution to
schools, colleges and housewives who
request it, according to the board.
The publication is the outgrowth of
the National Meat Story Contest held
recently under the auspices of the
board. Nearly 12,000 girls competed
in the Story Contest, which also re
quired that they submit recipes test
ed at home or at school. The recipes
appearing in the cook book were select
ed as the best of the thousands sub
mitted and each is accompanied by
the name and address of the girl send
ing it in.
The title, “Meat, and How I Cook
It”, is pointed to as doubly significant.
Under this caption Miss Pearl Graves
of Lemoore, Calif., wrote the story
which won the national championship
and it was selected as most appro
priate for the cook book, for each of
the girls, through this medium, is
telling of “meat, and how I cook it”.
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 21.—A resolu
tion urging the North Carolina board
of education and the general assembly
to take steps to create a four-year
college for colored teachers was pass
ed as the feature of a one-day confer
ence of education leaders from all
sections of the state held at Shaw
university Monday.
COLORED LAD CLEANS UP
FORTUNE BY INVENTION
Zanesville, Ohio, Nov. 21.—The
mechanical genius of Arthur Tate, 18
year old student of the Zanesville
High school, has revolutionized the
automobile industry with an invention
which has already brought him a
small fortune. Young Tate is a Junior
in the high school and his achieve
ments have put him in the front ranks
with other American inventors. His
latest invention is a transmission
which he has sold to the Chevrolet
Motor Company. His royalties are
estimated to bring him from $7,000 to
$10,000 a year.
The patent was on demonstration at
a meeting in Detroit when the Chev
rolet people bought the lights. A year
ago the company was producing about
167 cars per day. The production has
fallen off greatly and it Is the hope
of the company that Tate’s invention
will pull the sales back up to where
they were. The local boy in return
for his patents is to receive a roy
alty.
Tate is now working to perfect sim
ilar transmissions for all other makes
of cars. He has already applied for
a patent for a new transmission for
Ford cars, which eliminates all bands,
both from the transmission and from
the brakes. It will also provide the
Ford with three speeds, two forward
and one reverse gear shift adaptable
to the present model. It is rumored
that Henry Ford is interested in the
patent and will demonstrate it as soon
as rights have been obtained.
COLORED MISSIONARY
OF COLD COAST HERE
Washington, D. C., November 21.—
Dr. Mara C. Hayford, of West Af
rica, head of the Baptist missionary
movement on the Gold Coast, is mak
ing addresses to various organizations
and in churches in America to further
plans for the missionary work.
Dr. Hayford was presented to Pres
ident Coolidge Monday by Sir Esme
Howard, the British' Ambasador, and
the President gave his signed indorse
ment of the missionary’s work.
Dr. Hayford is one of the outstand
ing colored missionaries. He is a Fel
low of the Royal Geographic society
of England and his work in improving
sanitary conditions in parts of Africa
has won for him wide praise and a
place in the Royal Sanitary Institute
of London.
He is head of the largest church of
native origin on the Gold and Ivory
coasts and is president of a large
training college.
MEMPHIS HOLDS JIM CROW
SOLDIER CELEBRATIONS
(By the Associated Negro Press.)
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 21.—It was
necessary to hold two parades here
Armistice day for the boys who united
six years ago against the common
enemy in France. There was one
parade for white soldiers on Main
street and another for colored soldiers
on Beale avenue.
The sidewalks were lined with spec
tators to view both processions, many
of the leading whites of the city doing
the Negro veterans the favor of com
ing over on Beal avenue to watch
them strut their stuff. The colored
boys walked up Beale avenue just
like they owned it and the white spec
tators did not seem to mind.
Many colored business organizations
and military units united to make the
parade a success. The prizewinning
float was put in line by the Fraternal
savings bank. Other bright floats
were entered by the Porter school and
the Madanno Art club. The postmen’s
and the Pullman porters’ bands pro
vided excellent music for the occasion.
KELLOM SCHOOL
GIVES BAHQOET FOR
DADS AND LADS
i More* Than Two Hundred Fathers and
Sons Accept Princlpnl Gepson’s
Invitation to He Guests of
School
GOOD FELLOWSHIP PREVAILS
It would be difficult to find a more
i enthusiastic or congenial crowd than
, the fathers and sons who accepted the
invitation of E. D. Gepson, principal
of Kellom school, to be the school’s
I guests at a father-and-son dinner at
the school Tuesday night. More than
200 fathers and sons with other invit
ed guests, including Mayor and Mrs.
James C. Dahlman and representatives
of the Board of Education attended
and thoroughly enjoyed the delicious
menu, prepared at the school, the ex
cellent program of songs and speeches
and the admirable spirit of good fel
lowship which prevailed.
The hall in which the tables were
spread was most artistically decorat
ed and everything in connection with
the dinner showed painstaking work
upon the part of Mr. Gepson and his
corps of teachers, who were assisted
by some of the older pupils.
Kellom school has the largest en
rollment of any grade sclTbol in the
city, its pupils numbering nearly one
thousand, composed of many national
I ities, among them being a large num
| ber of colored children. All groups
' were represented at the dinner with
I out the slightest semblance of discrim
; ination. It was just one big happy
school family, with common aims and
common interests, the development of
intelligent American citizenship. The
, dinner was in line with Mr. Gepson’s
desire to have the school promote ai
j healthy and helpful community spirit.
Jacob Adler, a bright and energetic
lad, recited a poem, “Over the Hills
to My Childhood”. Howard Shinrock
spoke on “Neighborhood Dads”; Man
, ny Goldberg, a boy born in Poland,
j spoke on “The School Dads”, contrast
| ing the limited educational opportuni
i ties offered in some European coun
tries with the liberal advantages offer
ed in the United States; Curtis-Jones,
' a promising colored boy, spoke on
: “Our City Dads”. The above named
( spoke for the boys. The speakers tor
! the father’s side were Rabbi L. Shar
lop, the Rev. C. C. Sharp and the Rev.
! John Albert Williams. Brief address
es were also made by Leon O. Smith,
assistant superintendent, representing
Superintendent Beveridge; Dr. J. H.
Wallace and Dr. Jennie Callfas, mem
bers of the Board of Education, and
: by Mayor Dahlman. Two vocal num
I bers were contributed by Mr. Wilson.
It was a delightful and successful af
fair from every point of view.
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ATTENTION, EX-SERVICE MEN!
The Roosevelt Post No. 30, Ameri
can Legion, will hold their annual
election of officers at the Colored
Commercial Club, 1514% North Twen
ty-fourth street, Friday, November 28,
j at 8:30 p. m.
Every ex-service man should feel it
a sense of duty to join the American
Legion. The Post under the leader
ship of Dr. W. W. Peebles has accom
i plished a great deal this year by giv
ing relief and locating Jobs for ex
service men. Judging by the large at
tendance at their meetings and the in
terest expressed by ex-service men,
. 1925 should be a banner year.
I Come—cast your vote! Lunch will
be served.
W. W. Peebles, Commander.
J. F. Faucett, Acting Adjutant.
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