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• 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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