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1777770 * " f I ^ 1 T ¥7' 1\^[ f \ TVT T r I s "D growing « - - L'fTt°° I rlt/ 1V1UIN 1 1 UK » thanktou • NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS \ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor _ $2.00 a Year- \ Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1925 Whole Number 495 Vol. X—No. 27 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm m- -^ -————————————■—■mmmtmmm CHURCHES I IAND JUSTICE Ft IE6R0 AT RECEHT MEET Representative Federal Council Ma jors on the Christianizing of Relations Between Races in Country MUCH PROGRESS IS REPORTED Vigorous Stand Now Being Taken by Representatives of Twenty Millions of American Protestants IDy Associated Negro Press) Atlanta, Ga,. Jan. 1.—The Christian izing of race relations wrsis a major topic at the quadrennial meeting of the Federal Council of Churches, Just concluded here. That subject shansl 1 with war alone the first place in the thought and discussions of the Coun cil, which is composed of 400 repre sentatives of twenty-eight denomina tions having an aggregate member ship of twenty millions. Two entire sessions were given over wholly to the question of race relations, while incidentally the subject was constant ly coming forward throughout the en , tire work of the meeting. AA number of powerful appeals for the application of Christian principles I to race relations were made from the platform, the ehief speakers being I>r. M. Ashby Jones, chairman of the com mission on Interracial Co-operation,’ Bishop F. F. Reese, President John Hope of Morehouse college, Bishop j George C. Clements and Dr. E, T. Johnson. The council adopteil a vig orous paper on this subject, setting forth its principles and outlining i>ol icies for the next four years. Tms will he given to the press at an early date. OMEUA PHI Pill HOLDS ITS AXXIJAL MKETIXH AT XATIOXAI, CAPITOL (By Associated Negro Press I Washington, D. 0., Jan. 1.—Tbe^ Omega Psl Phi Fraternity held its an nual meeting here from December 27 31. This fraternity, the first of its kind to be organized in a colored irstitu tion of learning, has chapters in fifty four schools and cities throughout the! United States and Canada. More than five hundred delegates and members registered for the convention. On the evening of December 27th ' the visiting delegates and members met in a pow-wow. Dr. C. Herbert Marshall, Jr., grand marshall of the fraternity presiding. The annual pub- ; lie meeting was held Sunday, Decem ber 2k. in the Andrew Rankin Memor-; ial chapel, Howard University campus at four o’clock. After remarks by! Attorney John W. l»ve, the grand I hasileus of the fraternity, President: J. Stanley Durkee of Howard Uni j versity, delivered the address of wel-! come, William Stuart Nelson, inter-; national student and journalist, dis ; cussed the “World Outlook of the Ne ; gro.” The annual address was de livered by l>r. J W. E. Bowen, Oam mon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, | Ga. Music for the occasion was fur-1 nished by Carl Diton, the noted mu-1 sHan and composer or Philadelphia, j On Monday morning, December 29th,! a delegation of the Omega Psi Phi. fraternity was received by the presi-j dent of the United States after which ^ the eutire convention went to the Ar j ling National cemetery to place, wreaths upon the tomb of the Un known Soldier and upon the grave of Colonel Charles Young. The late Col. Young was one of the early members of the fraternity. \. A. A. C. I’. SECRETARY TO It\OIO SPEECH OX "AMERICAX XEURO POETS AXD POETRY” fN. A. A. C. P. Press Service) A radio address on “American Ne gro Poets and Their Poetry”, illus trated by readings from the work of himself and other i«>ets, will be de livered by James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo pie. The address has been arranged for by the Radio Corporation of Amer ica and will be broadcast on Station f. WJY, at 10 P- m., Thursday, January 8, 192f>. EXPKXS1VE JELLY (By Associated Negro Press) Columbia, S. G\, Jan. 1.—Although they said they had taken a Jar of jelly from a house because they were hun gry and wanted something to cat, James Sachel, James Webber and Les ter Hill were fined $100 each or 30 days on the chain gang. C. L. Curry, Sr., cobbler. Shop in rear of 1520 North Twenty-sixth street. Work called for and delivered. WEbster 8792. .NEGRO UNITS URGED TO SEND RECORDS (By Associated Negro Press) Washington, D. C,, Jan. 1.—The War Department is sending out requests to ex-soldiers that all soldiers send in any paper which they might have which would throw light on the parti cipation in the war of units to which they were assigned. The papers are desired so (hat the historical section of the general staff may complete a series of monographs covering the American army’s work during the late conflict. “Because it is a notori ous fact that little attempt was made to keep the records of the various units in which colored soldiers were engaged’’ and because there is a de sire to have the colored troops re ceive whatever credit they deserve in the annals of the war, the Lincoln legion is urging all colored men to respond to the call. If preferred they may send their papers to the officers of (he Lincoln Legion, the colored ex service men's organization, who will forward them. Ueul. George Lee, "JHO Beale Avenue, Memphis, Tenn., is president; Monroe Mason, Prudential Bank Building, Washington, D. C., or ganizer; and Major West Hamilton, Washington, D. C., sentinel, are the officers. $v_\5(MI SCIENCE HALL AT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY (By Associated Negro Press) Oxford, Pa., Jan. 1.—The full amount needed for the new Science Hall at Lincoln university—$82,500— has now been secured. Architect’s titans are being rapidly prepared and j work will be begun as soon as the I weather permits in the spring. The j building will be made of red brick with limestone trimmings. I'.A PITHEII IX CHICKEN C001* (By Associated Negro Press) Philadelphia, Pa., Jen. 1.—After a battle with a patrolman, in which he was badly battered up and taken to (he Howard hospital for treatment, where he pretended that he was very drunk, Kdward Hughes, 29, of 2S10 Van Pelt street, dove through a win dow to (he street, and was captured in a chicken coop at Thirteenth and Carpenter streets, where he was pos ing as a bulldog on guard. He was charged with robbing meters. Ill NBA IIS AVI DOW HELPS WRITE XEW 80X11 (By Associated Negro Press) New York, N. Y., Jan. 1.—Alice Dun bar Nelson and Florence Cole Talbert, the concert artist, have collaborated upon the production of an official song for the Delta Theta sorority. Lyrics and music of the number are equally beautiful. It is published In The Delta, official organ of the body of C.rcek letter girls. HAS SEVKXTY-NINE AATVES (By Associated Negro Press) Johannesburg, Africa, Jan. 1.—The existence of a native who has seventy nine wives, by whom he has had one hundred and thirty-four sons and fifty daughters, is reported in the new re port of the census, the most formid able blue-book ever published in the union. The native lives in Zoutpanaberg district, where, according to the blue book he has a rival with 110 wives. ThiB man Iish fifty-one sons and forty two daughters by fifty-five wives, no wife having more than three children. TAKE XEW BLOW AT THE JAPANESE (By Associated Negro Press) San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 1.—’Sixty thousand Japanese are deprived of their farm interests in this state by a decision of the United States supreme court during the past week upholding the validity of the so-called anti-crop ping contract provision in this state’s anti-alien land law. These persons must either quit farming altogether or remain only in the capacity of wage earners. EX-SLAVE LEAVES (By Associated Negro Press) New York, N. Y., Jan. 1—. Vlien the will of Mrs. Julia Washington, 90 years old when she died, was filed for probate here during tho week, it was discovered that she had left more that $1,000 to friends living in the city. Mrs. Washington was formerly a slave, but had left the South at the end of the Civil War and lived North. The money was left to Lee Clayton and his wife and Mr. Clayton’s son and wife, who live at 1,737 Van Buren avenue. Some merchants say that they are so well known they do not need to advertise. Some cemeteries are well known, also, but there is nothing do ing around them. Blowing- Bubbles ] ■ ■■ ■■■ m. ■■ - ..m i ... Cfr AW -W-W-wnj //X* Colored Youth’s Drawing Is Selected For Carnegie Steel Co. Beautiful Art Calendar A Calendar for 1925 just put out by the Carnegie Steel Company of Pitts burgh, Pennsylvania, is one of the broadest and most original ideas in the broadcasting of safety toward which this company’s extensive work along this line has been turned. It is purely a safety calendar, the result of work by the company’s Gen eral Safety Committee, and each of the illustrations on twelve pages of the calendar carries a lesson in safety, conceived and executed by a school pupil in towns or cities where the company maintains a steel plant. The idea first took form early in 1923 when the safety committee ar ranged a Safety Poster Contest in the public and parochial schools of the mill communities. Three cash prizes I iWffUKieWMittH a- wtaa? • mwflltirxr were awarded in each community, as well as a number of special cash prizes aud several honorable men tions. Approximately 7,500 posters were submitted by the various school pupils and these were judged by a committee individual to each town or community, usually being composed of an art teacher or artist, the general superintendent of the plant, und a school principal or supervisor. The general class of the work of the young people was of such a high grade, and a demonstration of the excellent work of the American Public School Sys tem, the ideas of what safety meunt being so well illustrated, that it was decided to present this excellent work to the public in the form of a calen dar, and the first attempt along this line was the one for 1924. So enthu siastically was this received, especial ly by the teachers’ organizations throughout the country that it was decided early in the year to repeat the contest and to present another calendar, which just has been issued. In this last poster contest about 7,600 posters were submitted from which were selected, by the General Safety Committee, one for each month of the year, for the calendar. Each of these pages bears an exact repro duction of the poster drawn by a school pupil, and selected for this pur pose. Each plant too is represented on one of the pages. Every line of the child’s work is reproduced and every color mainbjned by a four color process of the printer’s art. A portrait of each child appears at the side of the poster with his or her name, age, grade, school and home community, thereby carrying a brief sketch of the child artist. In selecting the posters for the calendar, the Safety Committee did not confine itself to the prize win ners, but rather was guided by the idea portrayed and that representing £D<jA(? Thomson VORKS1 Leors Waddv ▼ ACit Id » 5ENIOII 0 SflAPDOCK High School. 0RA.OOOCK. Pa each community, and having each poster displayed carry an individual idea. The front cover of the calendar, done in black and soft grey tones carries an illustration of the Com pany’s Safety Trophy for 1925 with a story of the composition. It wa* conceived and executed by Guissepp* Moretti of Pittsburgh. This is the fourth year that a safety trophy of this nature has been put into com petition among this company’s plants It is of bronze, twenty-one inchef high, and is awarded in perpetuum at the end of the year to the plant making the greatest reduction in ac cident records. Leon M. Waddy Among the twelve calendar posters there is one by a colored boy. Thif boy, I-eon M. Waddy, is a native ol Pennsylvania. He lives in Rankin Pa., where he was born eighteen years ago. His father and mother are boti natives of Virginia but have lived ir Rankin for more than thirty years The father, Rifhyrd M. Waddy, cam* from Louisa, Va., determined to eari some of the big money that was beinj made in this section at the time. He ! also had in mind that he was going to marry the sweetheart that he had left behind him. As soon as he had worked several years he returned to Virginia and married his present wife, Lucy. At the time Mr. Waddy was employed at the Carrie Furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, at Ran kin, Pa. Soon after his marriage he was placed on the police force of Rankin where he has served for the last twenty years. He has served well for today he is a lieutenant and is respected as one of the best men on ] the force. In the Waddy family there are sev en living children: Della, aged 20, secretary to the principal of the Ran kin public school. I^eon, aged 18, se nior in the Braddock high school. Marie, aged 16, and Louise, aged 15, both in the Braddock high school; Herbert, aged 13; Kenneth, aged 11, and Ethel, aged 9, all attending the graded school in Rankin. The chief ambition of Mr. Waddy and his wife is to give their children a good educa tion. Young Waddy is quite different i from most of the boys who live in the neighborhood. He is not interested in athletics of any kind so far as tak ing part in them himself, but is a | loyal rooter at all if the games for his school teams. As he himself says | he does not have time to play. From early childhood he has been anxious to become a physician. His parents have encouraged him in this ambi tion, but have told him that he must earn his way through. Therefore, in the summer months Leon works in the mills—the money he thus earns is laid aside to pay his way through college. In the class room he is only an average student. However, there is one subject at which he excells. From the time he entered public school until the present time he has been interest ed in drawing. His father says that since he first could hold a pencil he has been copying or tracing pictures from books and magazines. In the Rankin grades school from which he graduated in 1921 his marks in drawing always were exceptionally good. In his second year in high school he contributed several draw ings to the Red and White, the school magazine. In his junior year he re ceived the highest honor that the school bestows in art when he was ap pointed by the faculty as one of the two art editors of the Red and White. Early in 1924 when the poster con test was started at the high school, Waddy decided to enter it. He with the other art editor, Kozan, contri buted their drawings. The picture of Kazan’s won the prize for the district and that of Waddy’s was second. When the selection for the calendar was made, however, the drawing of Waddy’s was selected. Leon is very proud of his work and says that no matter what he takes up in life, he will always have his art as his hobby. Wilberforce, Ohio, Jan. 1.—At the annual football dinner given in honor of the 1924 football squad, Mike Wool dridge, regular end, wan elected cap i tain for the 1925 season. During the entire football season not a gain was ' made around his end. RECREATIONAL CENTERS DOING IMPORTANT WORK (By Associated Negro Press) New York, Jan. 1.—Throughout America there has been developed a keen appreciation of the fact that there must be recreation or “play per iods’’ for all, old and young. The Na tional Recreation Movement, under the auspices of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, of which Ernest T. Attwell is the na tional field director of racial work, has had a successful year, making available such facilities and commun ity programs as will offer greater op portunities for colored people to enjoy playgrounds, community centers and wholesome recreation considered im portant factors in their social, moral and economic life. The playground census indicates 680 cities in which playgrounds are operated; for the par ticular use of all people or in neigh borhoods largely populated by Negroes 42 centers operated for adults; 139 cities where colored people are being reached through community recrea tion program. The community service effort has been in the direction of year-round activities in leisure time activities, which have included music, drama and social recreation. I (Ml YEARS OLD; SUES FOR DIVORCE (By Associated Negro Press) Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 1.—Charging that she had deserted him for five years, William Smith appeared before the Ware county superior court last week and filed suit for divorce from his wife, Mrs. Lou Hinton Smith. Smith is 106 years old and has been married to his present wife for thirty years. CONVICTS GET CHRISTMAS PARDONS (By Associated Negro Press) Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 1.—Eight of the convicted men sentenced to 21 years in the state penitentiary for complicity in the ‘Elaine riots” were granted indefinite furloughs by Gov. McRae Just before Christinas. The eight men released two days before Christmas were: Will Barnes, Sikes Fox, John Ratcliff, Gilmore Jenkins, Sam Wlison, Charles Jones, Ed Mitch ell and Will Perkins. All except Per kins had been at the state prison farm at Cummins since their conviction. COURAGEOUS COLLEGE MEN William Monroe Trotter, Neval H. Thomas By Kelly Miller. Those of us who have kept close watch of the output of our schools and colleges for the past twenty years are often forced to ask ourselves the question: Is the young Negro col legian fulfilling the hopes and ex pectations entertained for him in the earlier years? The first output of the college, naturally enough, was baptized with the spirit of racial service and zeal. The good mission aries who came down from the North brought the Bible in their right hand ami the secular text book in the left. One can only impart that which he has. Their soul was full to overflow ing love for God and service to man. The zeal of the missionary was upon them. They believed in the Negro and he believed in them. Grimke, Crogman, Simmons, Geo. W. Moore, Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson are sample fruits of their labors. But in these later days a new ele ment, if not a new spirit has crept into our education. The mercenary motive has all but supplanted mis sionary zeal as the aim and objective of the higher education of the Negro. We may naturally expect this spirit to be reflected in the new college is sue. Educational equipment and fa cilities have greatly increased since the earlier day. The work of the college has been multiplied in effi ciency. We laugh today at the fac ulty and facilities of thirty years ago. And yet the truism is as true today as when it first fell from the mouth of Paul: “The letter killeth, the spirit maketh alive.” The educator of Ne i gro youth yearns for the return of that social spirit which actuated the youth a generation ago. Then every student was preparing to reclaim and uplift his race; now the burden of his ambition is to achieve a distin guished career. Then the objective of his ambition was social, now it is essentially selfish. I do not enter into wholesale condemnation of the younger college men. They are just as worthy and of just as noble na ture as their elder brothers who have gone before them. But the times have changed. The whole end ami aim of college culture is being trans formed by the allurements of the ; times. The most helpful indication of I the younger college men is seen in the organization of fraternities and sororities. They are anxious to har (Continued on Page 2) RADICAL DECLINE IN LYNCHING EVIL DURING PAST YEAR Tuskegee Records Show That Sixteen Persons Were Victims of Mob Murder During the Ytar of 1924 NEGRO AMERICANS VICTIMS Forty-five Instances in Which Offic ers of the Law Prevented Lynch ings—Two Women Were Thus Saved Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Dec. 31.— I send you the following lynchings for the past year as compiled by Tuskegee Institute in the Department of Rec ords and Research. I find there were sixteen persons lynched in 1924. This is the smallest number lynched in any year since records of lynchings have been kept, and is seventeen less than the number thirty-three for the year 1923 and forty-one less than the num ber fifty-seven for the year 1922. Nine of the persons lynched were taken from the hands of the law, six from jails and three from officers of the law outside of jails. There were forty-five instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Two women, one white and one colored, were among those thus saved. Eight of these preventions of lynchings were in northern states and thirty-seven in southern states. In thitrty-six of the cases the prisoners were removed or the guards augment ed or other precautions taken. In nine other instances, armed force was used to repel the would be lynchers. In four instances during the year per sons charged with being connected with lynching mobs were indicted. Of the nineteen persons thus before the courts only five were convicted. These were given jail sentences. Of the sixteen persons lynched all were Negroes. Seven or less than one half of those put to death were charged with rape or attempted rape. The offenses charged were: Murder, one; rape, 5, attempted rape, two; killing officer of the law, two; insult ing woman, three; attacking woman, one; killing man in altercation, one; wounding man, one. The states in which lynchings oc curred, and the number in each state are as follows: Florida, five; Georgia, two; Illinois, one; Kentucky, one; Louisiana, one; Mississippi, two; Mis souri, one; South Carolina, one; Ten nessee, one; Texas, one. Yours very truly, R. R. MOTON,, Principal. — L. DYER SENDS Jf. A. A. C. P. $.',0 AND COMMENDS WORK (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) New York., Jan. 1.—Congressman Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri, sponsor of the anti-lynching bill bearing his name, has renewed his annual sub scription of $50 to the work of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, and has writ ten the following letter, in which he touches on the prospects of the anti lynching bill: “I want to do the same as I did last year. Hence, I am enclosing a check for $50. The splendid results that you are obtaining should secure for you the hell) of all good citizens. “The anti-lynching bill should be come a law without delay. The House of Representatives is for it and will ! pass it any time there is any assur ance at all that the Senate will do likewise. President Coolidge is for it and will sign the bill if Congress passes it. Hence, our only difficulty is with the Senate. I think, through your organization, these facts should be given wide publicity, so that the people generally can see for them selves that the failure in this respect is due entirely and absolutely to the United States Senate. The best way is for the Senate to take this matter up themselves, through one of their members introducing an anti-lynching bill. When they have passed it, the House will do likewise again, without any delay at all. The President will then sign it. “Wishing you and all of your asso ciates a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I am, “Yours very truly, (Signed) “L. C. DYE1R.” The N. A. A. C. P. is already taking steps to procure the introduction in the Senate of the Dyer anti-lynching bill, as recommended in Mr. Dyer's letter. Mr. Dyer is one of the staunch friends of the N. A. A. C. P., publicly calling attention to its achievements, and giving of his own time and money to further its work. The increase is shown in the total premium income of all companies here. Last year the total premium income was $38,000,000. Indications are that the 1924 figure will exceed $47,000,000. j