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A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
$2.00 a Year—5c a Copy ^ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1924 Whole Number 491 Vol. X—No. 23
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New York, N. Y., Dec. 5.—(B. —
Associated Negro Press.)—Announce
ment has just been made by Clarence
H. Kelsey, an official of Hampton
Tuskegee Endowment Fund commP
tee, of a gift of $200,000 to the fund
for the two schools by a New York
banker who asked that his name be
withheld.
“This $2">0,000 donation,” explains
Mr. Kelsey is symptomatic of the in
creasing interest men of large affairs
are taking in Negro education. Bank
ers, business and professional men
and other lenders in public and indus
trial life have come to a realization
tha* the Negro problem can be solved
only through education. The type of
education fostered by Hampton and
Tuskegee makes a special appeal to
these men. The two schools train Ne
gro young men and women to he real
producers and at the same time to be
leaders and teachers of their race.
The Ceneral Edncation Board of the
Rockefeller Foundation recently has
pledged $1,000,000 to Hampton and
Tuskegee on the condition that the
trustees of the two institutions raise
an equal amount.
"BUCK THE BARBER” A SUICIDE
Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 5.—-(By
the Associated Negro Press.)—How
ard Buck, locally known as "Buck the
Barber”, committed suicide on an in
genious gallows improvised from a
rope fire-escape in his room at the
Malatesta hotel, North Carolina and
Atlantic avenues. His body was found
bv a colored maid Monday. Indica
tions were that he ended his life Sun
day night.
“Buck the Barber” figured in the
notorious cigarette girl murder caso
here recently of a Negro girl whose
lifeless body was found near the
meadows. He had been extremely
nervous since that time and resorted
to numerous relief measures.
I-. S. PLANS READY
FOR HAITI EVACUATION
Washington, D. C., Dec. 5.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—The re
maining 1,500 American marines, now
composing the force of occupation in
t Haiti, will be withdrawn in a short
time, leaving the maintenance of or
der. so-called, to native troops, ac
cording to the present plans of the
state department. The American of
ficials now in the island will remain
until 1956, under the terms of a treaty
p. between America and Haiti.
RESOLUTION AGAINST
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL
Lancaster, Pa., Dec. 5.—(By the As
sociated Negro Press.)—A resolution
calling on Congress to repeal the act
passed last March authorizing issu
ance of five million memorial fifty
cent pieces in connection with the
carving out of a great stature on
Stone Mountain, Georgia, which is to
be a monument to Robert E. Lee, Jeff
Davis, Stonewall Jackson and others
who led the southern forces in the
Civil War, was passed by George R~
Thomas, Post No. 84, G. A. R. of this
city, at a meeting held recently.
Be Courteous, Be Pleasant—Shop
Early.
TEN COMMANDMENTS OF HEALTH
New York, N. Y., Dec. 5.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—Speaking
at the first annual American Educa
tion Week Exposition, Dr. Thomas
Earlington, former health commission
er of New York, laid down the follow
ing as the Ten Commandments of
Health:
1. Keep your mouth closed when
breathing, also when angry.
2. Drink cool water with your meals,
also between them.
3. Bathe daily, a shower, if possible.
4. Eat slowly, this leads to eating
sparingly. Make your meal a
ceremonial pleasure.
6. Exercise daily and breathe deeply
while so doing, but avoid over
exertion and never eat when fa
tigued.
6. Never read or transact any busi
ness while eating.
7. Work ten hours, sleep eight, and
use the balance for recreation
and meals. Always rest on Sun
day.
8. Ever keep a contented mind.
Equanimity means longevity.
9. Neglect no portion of the body.
Employ a physician to examine
you at regular intervals and so
watch for the beginnings of di
sease and build up resistance and
pay some attention to his opinion
iind direction.
10. Moderation in all things.
METHUSELAH WAS ONLY SO
Berkeley, Calif., Dec. 6.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—According
to Prof. R. T. Crawford, of the astro
nomy department of the ITsiversity of
California, years in the old days were
measured in terms of cycles, probably
lunar cycles, which average about a
month in length and after all, the 969
years attributed to Methuselah may
have amounted to only about 80 of our
years.
SET HOrSE AFIRE
Germantown, Pa., Dec. 5.— (By the
Associated Negro Press.)—The origin
of three mysterious fires which oc
curred at the noon hour on the last
three days of last week in the home
of Mrs. Ellen O’Donnel, was revealed
recently when Johnny O’Donnell, 11
years old, sobblngly confessed to Fire
Marshall McNitt that he started the
fires because he didn’t like the old
house and wanted to move.”
EXPERIMENT IS
AN OPPORTUNITY
I)o You Want Grocery Clerks, Meat
Cutters, Bookkeepers and
Delivery Mien?
The well known Hermann Grocery
Store at Twenty-fourth and Willis
avenue has made a unique departure
In its policy which ought to result in
substantia) gain not only to the firm
but to the colored people of Omaha.
Mr. Hermann has taken into partner
ship with him a well-known, popular
and progressive young colored man In
the person of Edward W. Killings
worth. The proprietors of the store
announce it as their policy to employ
colored help in all departments as
rapidly aB the growth of the business
Jus*ifles it. There are many stores
on Twenty-fourth street getting rich
off colored patronage and giving noth
ing in return in the way of employ
ment or even advertising in colored
newspapers. The firm of Hermann &
Killingsworth offers •& golden oppor
tunity to build up a business which
will give returns to our race. A lib
eral patronage from our people means
eventually a large corps of workers.
SOUTHERNERS AT ODDS OVER
“THE FIRE IN THE FLINT”
A stir in Southern white news
papers and among literary circles has
been made by "The Fire in the Flint ,
the novel of Georgia life written by
Walter F. White, assistant secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
! A number of white Southerners
have championed the book and have
been fiercely assailed for doing so.
Lawrence M. Stallings, who praised
the book in the New York World, was
warned by the Macon Daily Telegraph
that he need no longer worry about
that "home boy business". Another
white Southerner, Herschel Brickell,
writing in the New York Evening
Review, says the book “takes its place
easily as one of the most important
novels that have yet been written
about the present status of race rela
tions in the South."
Meanwhile, Gerald W. Johnson, in
the Baltimore Evening Sun, pokes fun
at the Macon Telegraph for its attack
on Stallings. He says: "It was a
I severe penalty to inflict on a native
son, but then, Stallings' offense was
extreme. There is no obscurity about
what he did. His crime stands up as
stark and bold as a stone mountain.
He wrote up a novel by a Negro and
referred to the author as ‘Mr.’ White.”
The Savannah Prefjs goes so far
as to comment editorially on “The
Fire in the Flint’’, with true Southern
courtesy, heading its editorial “A Book
of Lies”, and saying it is ‘‘unfair, un
just and thoroughly reprehensible.”
On the other hand, the Raleigh, N.
C., News and Observer, In its review,
by Josephus Daniels, Jr., says that
every Southern man should read the
book “even if It makes him mad”, and
goes on to assert: “It is an unan
swerable indictment in that every
Southern man knows that every In
cident in it could be duplicated in his
own community.”
Finally an "enlightened” white
Southerner, Judge Blanton Fortson of
the Georgia Superior Court, declares:
“To those who are intelligently work
ing towards a solution of the race
problem with open minds, it must ap
pear as but another proof of the be
lief that to give the Negro an educa
tion along other than industrial lines,
is frequently worse than useless.”
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POSSIBILITIES OF ORGANIZED WOMANHOOD
(Paper read by Mrs. Senora Mae
Wilkinson at Womens Mass Meeting
held at the North Side Branch of the
Young Women’s Christian Associa
tion, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 17.)
In the history of the Negro in
America no more heroic work has
been done than that performed by
the Negro woman.
Today whether in public life, so
cial service, education, missions or
business, the Negro woman is mak
her way and'reflecting credit upon a
race that for so muny years has been
struggling against odds, combating
opposition, resisting prejudice, segre
gation and endeavoring to take ad
vantage of every opportunity and
gain a rightful recognition by meas
uf.Vig up to the social requirements
of races.
With little or no help and many
discouragements she has proved to
the world her capability and perse
verance, standing unequalled in her
loyalty, in sharing the burdens of a
race that has pushed and edged its
way through privations and hin
drances. Always on the alert, she has
discovered the importance, force and
possibilities of organization.
Thus, we have had developing in
all of our cities and towns various
clubs working for the uplift and bet
terment of our group, in particular,
and society at large; for as a part of
this great civilization we add to her
glory as we lay our offering upon her
shrine.
When Matthew Vassar gave a mil
lion dollars to found Vassar College
he said, “I consider that the mothers
of a country mould its citizens, de
termine its institutions and shape its
destiny." No race rises higher than
its womanhood. Present conditions
call for thoughtful women, strong
women, loyal women, women with
vision, who will rally to the aid of
our manhood and see to it that the
needful program of the Negro race
is put over and put over with credit.
Despite any contradiction, accom
plishments prove that there is no
power on earth so patient, so perse
vering and persistent, so powerful
and convincing, so inspiring and
achieving, as organized womanhood.
Suffrage, prohibition and missions
are three of her strongest proofs.
The organized power of the Negro
womanhood is remarkable because of
her many disadvantages and financial
limitations. From almost nothing she
has erected hospitals, schools, re
formatories, old folks’ homes, nurser
ies, religious and business institu
tions; launched civic welfare leagues
that are endeavoring to get rid of
conditions that reflect, injure or set
back the moral, social, intellectual,
physical development and welfare of
our race.
The possibilities of the organized
womanhood of Omaha are just as
promising as that of other commun
ities, this being an undeveloped field
in many phases of the social life.
With 14,000 of our group owning over
$3,000,000 worth of taxable property
it affords a great opportunity for
progressive womanhood. There is
much to be done! Then, why the de
lay? Are we not idle to our retard
ment and shame? What will be our
example or bequests to the generation
behind us? Will they call us blessed
or slothful? Are we united in heart
and purpose to expand and elevate
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our group life in Omaha on par with
other progressive communities?
It is true that we have to our credit
an Old Folk’s Home, a Y. W. C. A.,
and a few charity and art clubs. But
are we giving them the proper sup
port? Is there not manifested more
condemnation than praise, more fric
tion than unity, more hatred than
love? The N. A. A. C. P. is a dis
tressing example of our race interest.
No organization is more deserving
than it, a friend that speaks for us
when we haven't voice nor influence,
and works for us incessantly should
never be forgotten or neglected.
There are women enough in Om
aha, properly organized and with the
right spirit, to revolutionize condi
tions here. And it must be done!
What is the great need? Is it educa
tion ? No, we have it. Is it exper
ience? No, we have women who
know how and what to do. Is it
character or executive ability? No,
we have honest and noble women who
are willing and capable. What, then,
do we need?
First of all we need to get together
on some common ground for a com
mon cause. Second, to have a vision
and conviction of our major needs.
Third, to have the courage and stick
ability to carry out our plans.
Omaha is too much possessed with
the individual and clique spirit. Such
condition renders any group of peo
ple #weak and backward with no in
terest for the general welfare. There
must be collective efficiency among
us before we can succeed in develop
ing our community by getting to the
front that which is hightest and best
in our group life.
Why knock Omaha? Why com
plain of conditions? I^et us concen
trate our forces, face our social res
ponsibilities and make our community
safe, attractive and progressive. No
use talking of social conditions in
Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Den
ver and other cities. What others
have succeeded in doing we can do.
Chicago landed several Negroes in
political offices in the last election.
Where there is unity there is strength.
Omaha didn’t do it, but she can. Our
only obstacles are ourselves. When
we get rid of petty differences, sel
fishness, jealousy, indifference and
unjust criticisms, when we learn to
stand for a principle and love our
race supremely, it will be done!
Some of the things we need: A
civic welfare league to teach the
principles of good citizenship. An
attempt was made to organize one
last summer but could not function
because of lack of co-operation. Vis
iting workers or community centers
to instruct in home economics, home
hygiene, home responsibilities as al
lied to the city. It has been stated
that in our last election that hundreds
of our people were too unconcerned
or afraid of taxes to register or vote,
ignoring their privilege as a citizen
and their divine given rights as a
man or woman. Men have fought and
died for suffrage and democracy
whereby they may exercise their
rights and help in the government
of their country. We need a day
nursery for the convenience of work
ing mothers.
To stimulate race pride and awaken
race consciousness, we need a liter
ary society, where we may acquaint
ourselves with composers, authors
their works as well as the achieve
ments of our people generally while
keeping in touch with current events
as affecting our race.
We need, like other cities where a
large number of our people live, a
hospital to assure the development of
the skill and experience of our doc
tors and nurses We need an open
ing for race teachers as an incentive
and opportunity for our young wo
men.
Races are judged now by what they
can do not as individuals but as a
group. Other groups are watching
and asking, “Have they social effici
ency? Can they do team work and
do it harmoniously without wrangl
ing and fighting?” We will never
gain the respect and confidence of
other races until we learn to face
our tasks or problems unitedly.
Will the women of Omaha organize
and measure up to their possibilities?
Have you enlisted and consecrated
yourself to the cause of your race or
are you willing to do so?
We cannot be accused of social par
alysis—that is, being entirely inac
tive; but we may justly be accused
of social epilepsy, kind of “fitified,”
you know. Work hard while the ex
citement is on but as soon as the ex
citement is over our enthusiasm is
dead. Have to wait until we are
seized by another fit. Now to avoid
social epilepsy we must be moved by
a deep devotion and interest and build
on moral and social rock bottom prin
ciples, which will stand the severest
tests. The womanhood of Omaha is
on trial, may we prove ourselves
equal to the test. The spirits of Har
riet Tubman, of Mary Talbert and
others, who wrought well are urging
and inspiring us to go forward.
“Oh, daughters, thou hast passed be
yond the shore!
But still thy voice is ringing o’er
the gale:
Thous’t taught thy race how high her
hopes may soar
And bade her seek the heights nor
faint nor fail.
She will not fail, she heeds thy stir
ring cry,
She knows thy guardian spirit will
be nigh;
And rising from beneath the chasten
ing rod
She stretches out her bleeding hands
to God.”
PR. HERMAN JAMES
MADE ROYAL FELLOW
Washington, D. C., Dec. 5.— (By the
Associated Negro Press.)—Dr. Her
man Haughton James, a graduate of
the school of medicine of Howard uni
versity, returned to the United Stales
recently with possibly the most dis
tinguished honors ever conferred upon
a Negro physician for work in his
profession from this country. He is a
Licentiate, of the Royal College of
Physician and Surgeons of Edinburgh,
and a Licentiate of the Royal Faculty
of Physicians and Surgeons of Glas
gow, distinguishing himself in medi
cine, surgery and midwifery.
Dr. James graduated from the How
aard university school of medicine in
1912. He has practised in Bridgeport,
Conn., and New York City, and he
sailed for Scotland in September, 1924.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eddings were
dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.
George A. Love, 2430 Grant street.
DO YOUR XMAS MAILING EARLY
Last year, though the generous co
operation of the press, the movies and
other advertising mediums, Christmas
mailers were induced to dispatch their
Yuletide presents earlier in the month
than ever before in the history of the
institution of gift exchanging in the
holiday season,
As a result, the spectacle of the last
minute rush of former years, with its
attendant heartbreaking labor on the
part of wearied and nerve-worn store
clerks and postal employees, was
avoided.
This year Postmaster General New
and First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral John H. Bartlett have determined
to make an even better record and to
banish for all time the suffering un
dergone in past years by those en
gaged in the sale or transportation of
gifts. They hope to make “Shop
Early” and “Mail Early” a habit with
the American people.
Mailing early does not mean De
cember 1 or before, but if everyone
could get their holiday tokens in the
mail between December 10 and De
cember 20, the post office could not
ask more.
Particular attention this year will
be paid to greeting cards. Despite
the success last year it was noted that
the last-minute mail consisted largely
of cards. Possibly many of them
were returned greetings to friends,
heard from on a previous mail, but
overlooked on the original Christmas
list. Unlike parcels and letters con
taining money orders, cards, of
course, can not well be marked “Do
Not Open Until Christmas”. There
fore, it is possible that the many mail
ers hold them until the last to insure
delivery on Christmas Eve. This class
of mailers this year, however, may
find their cards undelivered until
after Christmas day.
Believing that the energies of postal
employees should not be sapped to
the last degree for any avoidable rea
son, and intent upon securing for
them the same Christmas privileges
enjoyed by others, Postmaster Gen
eral New asks the hearty co-opera
tion of the public. The last-minute,
or zero hour has been moved up so
that all postal employees may eat
their Christmas dinners at home.
Rural carriers will deliver no mail at
all on Christmas day and clerks and
carriers in the city offices will stop
work promptly at noon.
Be Courteous, Be Pleasant—Shop
Early.
TINY HERMAN
A6AINJN ACTIO?
Tiny Herman, Omaha’s heavy
weight contender, who recently con
quered Lloyd Johnson in a ten round
go on the coast, will be seen in action
Friday night, December 12, against
Martin Burke, the Southern slammer.
Tiny has been working in a grad
ing camp for several months and is
said to be in great condition for the
go, which should make him travel to
beat Burke, who is one of the real
boys in the game.
The balance of the card includes
Royal Coffman, the Olympic boxer,
against Sailor Liston in the semi
windup with two six-round prelim
inaries between Evert Strong and
Schaeffer, and Battling Ed Levinsky
against Tony Folan.
The South Omaha Eagles, with
George Miller as promoter, are in
charge of the show.
Tickets for the show are on sale
at the Sportsman, Baseball Headquar
ters, Flemming’s Cigar Store, Offut’s
and Forest & Meany’s.
STUDYING RACIAL
RELATIONSHIPS
IN MINNEAPOLIS
Preliminary Survey of Labor and
Other Conditions Made by
Social Agencies
of City
DR. HAYNES IS THE DIRECTOR
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 5.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—This has
been a epoch making week in Minne
apolis in development of the friendly
relations between white and colored
citizens. Dr. George E. Haynes of
New York, secretary of the Commis
sion on the Church and Race Relations
of the Federal Council of Churches,
the colored ministers, and several so
cial agencies. With the hearty co
operation of a large number of white
and colored citizens he has made a
preliminary study of conditions among
colored people and their relation to
their white neighbors, especially their
relations as workers in the industrial
and commercial business firms of the
city. This preliminary survey was
made through the help of a staff of
volunteer visitors to the homes and
business enterprises under a unique
plan of conducting such surveys first
used in the Interchurch World Move
ment and since developed by Dr.
Haynes during the past four years in
several cities. The Civic and Com
merce Association, the Council of
Churches, the Council of Social Agen
cies, the Women's Christian Associa
tion, and several other organizations
helped with the effort.
SEVEN-ELEVEN CO. IN WRECK
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 5.—(By the As
sociated Negro Press).—On the jump
from Kansas City to St. Louis, the
Seven-ffileven company members were
in a wreck in which several of the
railroad employees were killed but
fortunately the show people suffered
only a severe shaking up. Miss Even
Robinson received injuries to a leg.
Otherwise the injuries were slight and
did not interfere with their appear
ance in this city.
MAMA DOLLS FRIGHTEN DRIVER
Los Angeles, Calif-, Dec. 5.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—When Mo
ses Washington, truck driver, heard
muffled voices from boxes which he
was hauling, he telephoned the police,
informing them that the boxes must
contain either a dying or dead victim
of foul play. When the police arrived
and opened the receptacles they found
that they contained a shipment of
mechanical dolls which said "Mama”
every time the jolting of the truck
compressed their mechanical lungs.
SUBSCRIBERS AND
ADVERTISERS,
ATTENTION, PLEASE!
Edward J. Green, an ambi
tious young man who is working
his way through Creighton Uni
versity, is collecting and solicit
ing subscriptions and advertis
ing for The Monitor. Patrons of
The Monitor will be helping a
worthy young man by paying
their subscriptions promptly and
giving their advertising to Mr.
Green, who is working on com
mission. Please pay him prompt
ly when he calls.
Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra of
Kansas City at Dreamland Hall, De
cember 10.—Adv.
ANALYSES NEGRO PRESS IN
DECEMBER “OPPORTUNITY”
For variety and raciness of discus
sion the December issue of Opportun
ity would be difficult to equal.
In a leading article, Charles H.
Wesley, head of the history depart
ment of Howard, a former Austin
scholar at Harvard and a student of
the Guild Internationale, Paris, set
tles with brilliant arguments, and
with finality the question of Negro
citizenship raised by the New Or
leans lawyer in the attack on the
Fourteenth amendment. He shows
that any tampering with the amend
ment would by the same stroke nul
lify other constitutional acts from the
election of George Washington down.
The great Rene Maran again ap
pears for an American audience with
an essay on “Anatole France”,
sparkling and ingenious.
Arthur A. Schomburg digs up from
the rich lore of his unmatchable Col
lection of early documents, a history
of the Negro’s part in the spread of
Christianity from Felicitas, the Ne
gro slave of Carthage, down to the
present
One article appears on the Negro
press in which Eugene F. Gordon of
the Boston Post makes an analysis
measuring twelve Negro newspapers
by rigid standards. It is not a mud
slinging diatribe but a careful well
guarded analysis.
A new writer, Zora Neale Husston,
from the younger generation is intro
duced with a fascinating story of Ne
gro life, and Eunice R. Hunton who
has contributed before to this publica
tion has a Christmas story.
L. Hollingsworth Wood is at his
best in his discussion of “The Sig
nificance of Inter-racial Justice”. His
discussion is sound, moving and yet
accompanied with a delightful touch.
Paul Robeson, inimitable star of
Eugene O’Neill’s much discussed
plays, gives his reflections on them.
The article carries four beautiful art
illustrations.
There is a continuation of the dis
cussion of “The Population Problem
and the Negro” by Arthur E. King.
In the same issue Benjamin Braw
ley reviews Dr. DuBois’ “Gift of Black
Folk”. Angelina Grimke reviews Mrs.
Wyman’s “Gertrude of Denmark”.
Miss Esther Popel contributes one
of her graceful poems.