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$2.00 a Year—5c a Copy * * OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1925 Whole Number 496 Vol. X—No.28
START DRIVE FOR j
$5,000,000 FUHD TO
EHDOW SCHOOLS
Alumni of Tuskegee and Hampton
Join in Nation-Wide Campaign
to Secure Conditional
Donation
EASTMAN’S OFFER STIMULUS
Kodak King Will Increase His Dona
tions to Schools Provided Desig
nated Sum Is Raised in
One Year
Hampton, Va., Jan. !).—Hampton
and Tuskegee alumni have joined
hands in a campaign to raise $300,000,1
as an nlumni contribution to the $2,
500,000 drive being conducted by the
two institutions in order to meet
George Eastman’s promise of an ad
ditional $2,000,000 to the industrial
schools should they raise a total sum
of $5,000,000 before the end of the
year. The pledge of the Rochester,
N. Y., millionaire places the Hampton
Tuskegee forces in a position to start
the year 1926 with a $7,000,000 en
dowment.
Starting with a $5,000,000 endow
( ment drive, of which $2,500,000 have
already been unconditionally pledged,
the Hampton-Tuskegee combination
received from George Eastman, the
Kodak manufacturer and philanthrop
ist, whose most recent benefactions '
have attracted nation-wide attention,
the promise that if the balance of the 1
desired $5,000,000 endowment was col- j
leeted before December 31, 1925, Mr.
Eastman would swell the total by an j
additional $2,000,000. The spur of a
prospective 40 per cent increase in
the amount which would be available
from the endowment for the educa
tion of youth, has led the adminis- j
trative heads of both institutions to
concentrate every effort upon the
task of reaching the $5,000,000 goal
by December, in order to capture the !
added $2,000,000 pledged by Mr. East
man.
Alumni Join Hands
To relieve their schools of a por- j
tion of the burden, the alumni have
taken it upon themselves to pledge
to the success of the drive the sum
of $300,000 and have launched a cam- |
paign which will reach Hampton and
Tuskegee men in every city and town 1
in the United States in order to make
good their pledge.
Thirty graduates of Hampton and
Tuskegee, members of the executive
committees of the alumni associations
' of the schools, allied in the drive, met
at Hampton institute recently and out
lined plans for their drive. From as
far south as Alabama and from as far
W'est as Chicago, these thirty sons of
the two institutions, before they i
separated, pledged the executive com
mittee^ alone to $5,000. In addition,
each member placed himself at the
disposal of the general committee in
the campaign of personal solicitation.
"The motives of the alumni asso
ciations in making their contribution
toward the $5,000,000 drive are: The
fund will enable the two institutions
to develop their advanced courses of
collegiate grade; by reducing the fi
nancial burden of the principals, it
will give them more time and energy
to devote to actual development of
their institutions; the joining hands
by the two institutions will make for
closer and more effectual co-opera
tion in the future.
"The committee adjourned confi
dent that each Hampton and Tuskegee
man and woman would enthusiastical
ly work to the limit to provide larger
educational opportunities for the
youth of the race.”
CLEVELAND’S HOME FOR
YOUNG WOMEN TO LAUNCH
CAMPAIGN FOR BUILDING
Cleveland, Ohio., Jan. 9.—The Phyl
lis Wheatley association of this city,
which provides a Christian home and
opportunity of advancement for girls,
is to campaign during the last week
in January for $600,000 to provide a
new building, increased facilities and
a summer camp.
The Phyllis Wheatley association,
founded in 1913 with 22 members, to
day has grown until the membership
list includes 2,814. “The service ren
dered,” says Miss Jane E. Hunter*
founder and general secretary, "paral
lels that of the Y. *W. C. A. and has
the interest and support of Cleveland
men and women who know the uni
versal girl need for recreation, whole
some activities and the protection of
a £ood environment.”
The fund will permit the extension
of present activities and service of
the association, which include the
housing of girls, educational work
through literary clubs, musical, dra
matic and domestic science groups
through a large employment bureau,
and camp and playground work.
Are you doing all you can every
day to prevent accident?—Omaha
Safety Council.
WIN PRIZES FOR
PROTECTING HEALTH
Diamond Rings and Gold Prizes Dis
tributed Among Those Who
Conserve Health and
Sthow Thrift
PLAN MAKES FOR EFFICIENCY
St. Louis, Mo., January 0.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—One of the
novel features of the celebration of
the New Year at the Poro College
of Beauty Culture in this city, was
the award of prizes in gold to those
employees of the firm who have pro
vided themselves with rubbers, rain
coats and umbrellas during the year.
These awards were initiated by Mr.
and Mrs. Aaron E. Malone, heads of
the college, to encourage their work
ers to guard their health.
The heulth awards, however, are
only one set of a number of ohers
which have placed the college in a
distinctive class in its observance of
the Yuletide. An annual Christmas
dinner is held at which all Poro em
ployees and many friends attend. At
this dinner diamond rings are given
all employees whose fifth anniversary
with the firm has occurred during
the past year. This year twenty-seven
workers received rings and of the 175
employees at the home institution
more than 100 have received diamond
awards.
On New Year's day gold awards
were given to those employees who
had made investments in ”eal estate
during the year, or those v.’ho had as
sisted their parents in acquiring real
estate. Other consideration was given I
to employees who had been punctual
and regular in attendance at their
work.
Some employees are regarded for
particular service by being given trips
to interesting places. Tt is said that ,
there is no time of the year when j
workers at the college are not being |
sent on these educational or pleas- .
ure Journeys.
Interested observers have voiced the (
opinion that many of the above evid- ,
ences of human interst on the part of (
the owners of the college are respon- ,
sible for a practically complete ab
sence of a labor turn-over among
Poro workers and for the splendid
spirit manifested by the employees.
SEEK SUBSTITUTES
FOR NEGRO LABOR
IN THE SOUTHLAND
Imported Italians Failing to Fill Bill
—Cotton Planter Turn for
Aid to Mexican
Peons
Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 9.—First it
was the Italian who was to replace
on Southern cotton fields the workers
of our race—but the hot-tempered and
swift-acting Filipo didn’t warm up to
the caste distinctions of below the
Mnson-Dixon line, and white South
erners soon found that the gentlemen
from southern Italy and Corsica were
not exactly safe to fool with. A
lynehing-bee that left an Italian who
hadn’t bothered to take out his na
turalization papers swinging from a
Georgia peach tree wouldn’t make
good reading for an Italian govern
ment official.
So, recently, the Mexican laborer
entered the scene. According to the
statement of Henry B. Smithson, pro
prietor of a large cotton plantation
here, a determined effort is being
made to import more and more of
the Mexican peons into the United
States for work upon the southern
plantations. The need for the Mexi
can laborer is due, Mr. Smithson ex
plained, to the discontent which was
driving members of our race from the
South into the factories and into the
large cities of the Northern and
Western states. Strict immigration
laws, Mr. Smithson admitted, handi
capped the work of bringing the Mex
icans into the country, but that they
were coming in growing numbers, he
plainly asserted.
With them, however, is coming a
problem as distressing to the white
Southerner as the problem presented
by the attempt to southernize the
Italian laborer. The Mexican Is prov
ing no more amenable than was the
Italian to the life imposed upon the
cotton field worker by the white,
southern owner and “boss". In 1922,
Mr. Smithson admitted, more than
478,000 laborers left the states of
Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mis
sissippi, and their loss had left a gap
which had to be filled with some form
of foreign labor. That the attempt
to get along with the Italian labor had
proved a failure, was proved by the
changing over to the Mexican peon.'
But Little Pedro is proving no more
of a successful "fit” with the South
ern white man’s system of doing
things than was Filipo. As a substi
tute for Old Black Joe, they were
both about equal failures.
The first female student in the
world who received a diploma in law
was Misa C. B. Ray, a young colored
lady of New York City. 8he grad
uated from Howard University.
[ . January Thaw
Law Enforcement and Economy Are
Stressed in Gov. McMullen’s Address
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 9.—Governor
Adam McMullen who was inducted
into office yesterday stressed law en
forcement and economy in his in
augural address.
He set forth that "it is frequently
the case that prudent expenditure is
the truest thrift,” and asserted that
the state institutions should not be
made to suffer “through a misap
plication of so-called economy.”
The new chief executive also rec
ommended enactment of a gasoline
tax, amendment of the “intangible
tax” law, a constant policy of road
improvement, enforcement of law.
Governor McMullen made no spe
cific proposals for agriculture, saying
"legislation cannot create wealth" but
he said that within certain limitations
every effort should be bent to the
assistance of agriculture.
Traffic Regulations
A proper system of highway traffic
regulations and provisions for sum
mary punishment of offenders “cal
culated to prevent a repetition of the
offense,” was suggested to the law
makers.
The new governor declared that the
republicans, the majority party, in the
legislature, pledged certain specific
legislation in their platform and he
also asserted all such pledges should
$475,000 AWAITS MISSING MAN
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 9.—James R.
Johnson, formerly of 2480 Rivard
street, Detroit, Mich., has disappeared
and a small fortune is awaiting him
on his return. He has been absent
for several months although the fam
ily has been making strenuous efforts
to locate him.
A short time ago a grandfather of
Johnson’s died in Oklahoma, leaving
a fortune of $475,000 in real estate
and bonds, all willed to his four
grandchildren. It is necessary that all
the grandchildren be present to ex
be redeemed and “all promises cover
ing definite legislation should be held
inviolate.”
The chief paragraphs on economy
and law enforcement here follow:
Economy
There is always an urgent need of
economy in connection with public ex
penditures. I urge upon you the most
mature consideration of thrift and ef
ficiency in the use of appropriated
Adam McMullen.
I funds. The burden of the taxpayers
is heavy. Where possible it should
be lightened.
Law Enforcement
The basis of sound government lies
upon respect for the law. Unless the
laws are adequately enforced this
basis is impaired. The governor of
this state makes no laws. It is his
duty to enforce such laws as the stat
utes direct him to enforce. I invite
your thoughtful consideration of such
amendments to our civil and criminal
codes as may increase the certainty
of punishment and may tend to lessen
the number of shocking crimes of
violence against the persons ana
property of our citizens. As gov
ernor of Nebraska, I promise you
every effort will be made within my
constitutional and statutory power to
enforce them.
ccute the will, therefore the division
of the estate is being held up by the
absence of Johnson. The missing man
is an expert electrician. He is about
5 feet 5 inches in height, weighs about
150 pounds, brown skin with heavy
eyebrows, black hair and has a gold
tooth on the left front side of his
mouth.
The first colored school south of
Mason and Dixon’s line was organized
May 20, 1885, in Lexington, Ky. It
was established in the same building
over which Capt John Morgan hoisted
the first Confederate lfag in Kentucky.
EIGHT-YEAR-OLD WINS
JUVENILE ARTIST CONTEST
Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 9.—Duncan
Campbell, 8 years old, in a juvenile
painter’s contest wherein over 8,0001
school children were entered, was se- ■
lected as the winner.
The winning painting consists of a
tiger on a canvass, fully five feet
long. The painting was considered by
the judges to be true in line and per
fect in detail. The thing that appealed
to the judges was the excellent por- ■
trayal of the tiger in action, which
showed in detail the tiger snarling at
an inteiTuption while feeding.
Duncan is a pupil in the 6-B grade,
in the Brooking public schools. His
father is a high school teacher of the
Boys’ High School in Brooklyn. This
is the third prize young Campbell
has won,
SOUTH AFRICA NATIVES
SEEK INDEPENDENCE
London, England, Jan. 9.—News
reached here that the natives of South
Africa are restless and are arming
themselves. The African correspond
ent of the London Express states that
the aim of the natives is to establish
their independence and set up a re
public. The Zulus especially are
arming heavily and the authorities
are becoming alarmed. A fund that
the natives are collecting, ostensibly
for the building of churches was be
ing used to buy arms and ammuni
tions.
PRESIDENT RECEIVES
COLORED FRATERNITY
Washington, D. C., Jan. i).—The
Omega Phi Psi Fraternity, established
at Howard University eleven years
ago, which met in conclave, was re
ceived by President Coolidge recently.
It was the first time that the Presi
dent has greeted a body of Negro
university men.
After the visit to the White House
the delegates visited Arlington Ceme
tery. Wreathes were placed on the
tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and on
j the grave of Col. Chas. Young, a
member of the Fraternity and who
reached the highest rank ever at
tained by a colored man.
ATTENTION, MINISTERS
AND EDITORS OF OMAHA!
The Roosevelt Post No. 30, Amer
ican Legion, cordially invites you to
attend a banquet at the Y. W. C. A..
I Friday, January 16th, at 5:30 P. M. j
The purpose of the banquet is to
have a heart to heart talk and ac
quaint you with the work of the Post
in reference to the needy ex-service
men, their families and the welfare of
the Negroes of Omaha. It is the de
sire of the Post to solicit your co
operation in outlining a program for
the entertainment of the ex-service
men and their families, that will at
tend the Legion Convention, which
will convene in Omaha September of
this year.
Ed. Killingsworth, Commander.
R. C. Long, Adjutant.
The first colored Roman Catholic
priest in this country was Rev. Augus
tus Tolton, of Quincy, Illinois.
Frederick Douglas, the famous ora
tor and philanthropist, was often
called "Black Douglas” so as to dia-j
tinguish him from Stephen A. Douga#. I
WOMEN PURCHASE
PERSONALLY FAMILY
SUPPLY OF MEATS
Yet Government Report Shows Their
Knowledge of Various Grades
and Cuts to Be Extremely
Limited
HOUSEWIVES SHOULD LEARN
Chicago, 111., Jan. 9.—In spite of
the fact that the majority of Amer
ican housewives shop personally for
the family meat, their knowledge of
the various cuts and grades is most
limited. These facts were revealed in
a preliminary report of government
experts to the National Live Stock
and Meat Board regarding a survey of
the retail meat trade being conducted
by the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture throughout the United States.
Practically 70 per cent of the wo
men interviewed to determine the con
sumer’s habits regarding meat stated
that they go to the shops themselves
for their meat supply, says the re
port. About one family out of seven
depends on the telephone to make
purchases and the man of the family
is the purchasing agent in one out of
ten families.
On the other hand, most of the wo
men questioned were familiar with
only two or three steaks and the num
ber of roasts known to them was less
than two. The general lack of in
formation on the part of the con
sumer further emphasizes that the
housewife is not a careful purchaser
in making meat selections, concludes
the report. These questions together
with a number of others were asked of
housewives of all circumstances.
Beef is apparently the favorite
meat of the American household.
Results of the Department of Agri
culture survey showed that three out
of five families prefer this meat. To
further quote the findings of the in
vestigators: “In every group beef was
rated as the favorite kind of meat.
Pork was rated second choice by the
poor families and lamb was second
favorite among the well-to-do fam
, ilies. Veal was generally not used
j with the exception of the Italians
who indicated that veal was nearly
as important to them as beef.”
The day of solicitation of orders by
the butcher is gone. The government
investigators discovered only a few
| isolated cases where the market man
j either called personally or by phone
I to secure business.
The neighborhood market is a pop
ular place to trade, according to the
survey. Sixty-one per cent of the
population purchases meat from shops
that are within a radius of less than
three blocks from their homes. Only
25 per cent are in the halbit of going
five blocks or more in order to make
meat purchases.
It appears that quality and meat
that is satisfactory are the chief at
tractions drawing the housewife to a
particular market. Upon this subject
the government report took occasion
to say that unless housewives know a
great deal more about quality than
they do about cuts, their actual knowl
edge of quality is very limited.
KELLY MILLER ASKS
THAT GOVERNMENT
STOP INJUSTICES
Scholarly Dean of Junior College,
Howard University, Persists
in His Efforts for
Reform
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.—If the
use of photographs in civil service
examinations, through which it has
long been alleged, color discrimina
tion is facilitated, is only to avoid
impersonation, why not, urges Dean
Kelly Miller, abondon the photograph
for the more accurate and less effi
cient finger print method of identifi
cation ?
Since 1923, Kelly Miller, for many
years dean of the junior college at
Howard university, has exchanged
correspondence with heads of the
United States civil service commis
sion, and with heads of the Civil Ser
vice Reform league, to secure a rem
edy for the existing color discrimina
tion in the application of the civil
service enactments. The reply of the
commissioners, Dean Miller asserts,
to his contention that the use of the
photograph as a means of identifica
tion in taking the examinations, aided
color discrimination was that it was
used purely for the purpose of avoid
ing impersonations. If that is the
only use of the picture, Dean Miller
has advised the commission, it might
well fall in line with the rest of the
government departments in substitut
ing for the photographs the finger
print.
The attention of President Coolidge
was called to the abuse of the civil
service regulations, in a personal let
ter from Mr. Miller in the mid-sum
mer of 1924, but as the chief execu
tive was at that time In Vermont, the
matter was handled by undersecreta
ries.
CONVICT CONCEALS
HIMSELF UNDER HOT
ASHES AHD ESCAPES
Endures Tortures of Scorching Bed
Until Truck Passes the Prison
Gates Convict Commandeers
Automobile
RACES THRU CROWDED STREETS
John Campbell Under Heavy Sentence
for Robbery Makes Thrilling
Escape from Eastern
Penitentiary
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 9.—Suffer
ing great pain as he was hidden un
derneath a pile of hot ashes on a five
ton motor truck belonging to the
Eastern penitentiary, John Campbell,
a convict at the prison, remained si
lent until the truck had passed the
prison gates and was a block away,
then jumped from the scorching bed
and made his escape in an automobile
driven by one of the prison attend
ants.
As Campbell leaped on the running
board of the prison sedan, which was
driven by Charles Krout (white), the
prison guard chauffeur, he pressed
his pistol against Krout’s head and
commanded him to drive away at his
maximum speed.
Firemen Give Chase
Two firemen recognized the prison
denim of the leaper as he exchanged
machines and, hailing another car, fol
lowed the swiftly moving sedan in
close pursuit. Krout, feeling the
gun’s warning muzzle pressed against
his skull, opened up the car to its
highest speed and soon outdistanced
the anxious followers.
The mad chase followed down one
of the most congested streets in the
eastern part of the city. The convict
and the prison chauffeur continued to
gain, failing to observe traffic reg
ulations and narrowly avoiding col
lision with other vehicles on the road.
The wild ride continued until the
first car had reached the extreme
northeastern corner of the city. Here
Campbell ordered Krout out of the
car and obtaining a hammer, beat him
unconscious. He then took the chauf
feur’s overcoat and a green cap from
a passerby and continued his journey
on foot.
Held for Robbery
Campbell was convicted of robbery
at 24 years of age and confined to
the state institution on a sentence of
25 to 60 years. With the exception
of the overcoat and cap, which he ob
tained on the way, he was attired in
the regular blue prison uniform.
Director of Public Safety General
Butler ordered out several bandit
chasing motor cars to take up the pur
suit of Campbell. After hours of
search no trace of him had been
found. Penitentiary authorities are
puzzled as to how Campbell was able
to hide in the smoldering ashpile.
RESPONSIBLE POSITION
GIVEN HARLEM ATTORNEY
BY REPUBLICAN MACHINE
C. T. A. French Appointed Deputy to
State’s Attorney General With
Salary of $6,000 a
Year
New York City, Jan. 9.—The New
York state republican machine opened
the new year auspiciously by announc
ing the appointment of C. T. A.
French, Harlem attorney, as special
deputy attorney general for the state.
The position is said to carry a sal
ary grade of $6,000 per annum. At
torney French succeeds Cornelius Mc
Dougald, a democrat, whose appoint
ment to the position some months ago
came in the nature of a distinct sur
prise. Old-timers hereabuts are in
timating that it marks the reading of
the “handwriting on the wall" by G.
O. P. state leaders, and that the party
has decided to meet Tammany Hall on
its own ground of holding our votes
through patronage recognition.
Attorney French has had a very
regular republican career. When he
began practicing, 1912, he immedi
ately launched into Harlem political
activities. For years he has been a
district captain, recently becoming the
right hand man of David Costuma,
leader of the 19th assembly district.
He is also active in community, civic,
and literary movements, is a member
of Grace Congregational church, serv
ing as chairman of the program com
mittee of the Young People’s society,
is a member of the N. A. A. C. P., and
is affiliated with the Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity.
The new official, who is yet a
bachelor, was bom in Topeka, Kans.,
and was educated in the public schools
of his state. He received the degree
of bachelor of arts from New York
university, and the degree of master
of arts, bachelor of laws, and master
of laws from Columbia university. Ha
is senior member of the law firm of
French and French, with offices in
the Harlem district.
