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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—5c a Copy OMAHA. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1925 Whole Number 503 Vol. X—No. 34
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GUGGENHEIM GIVES
S3,000,000 TO AID
ADVANCED STUDIES
Mining Magnate Endows Fellowship*
As Memorial to Deceased Son
Who Died on Eve of His
Entering Harvard
NO RACE OR SEX BAR RAISED
Scholarship* Are Open to All Wht
Can Qualify Under Conditions
Applicable Alike to All
Aspirants.
New York, N. Y.. Feb. 27—An
nouncement was made Sunday night
of a preliminary gift of 3 million dol
lars by Simon Guggenheim, mining
magnate, and former United States
senator from Colorado, to endow John
Simon Guggenheim memorial founda
tion fellowships for advanced Study
abroad.
The fellowships, to be awarded on
a program even broader than that of
the Cecil Rhodes scholarships, will be
a memorial to Mr. Guggenheim’s son,
who died in 1922 while preparing for
Harvard and later to study abroad.
The announced purposes of the
foundation are “to improve the quali
ty of education and the practice of
the arts and professions in the United
States to foster research, and to pro
vide for the cause of better interna
tional understanding.’’
~ Open to Everyone.
The Guggenheim scholarships will
be open to men and women, married
or single, of every race, color and
creed. Any subject may be studied
in any country in the world. There
are no age limits, although since the
scholarships are intended for those
who have shown marked ability in
their particular subject, it is ex
pected that moat appointees will be
between 25 and 35 years old.
The principal obligation for those
receiving fellowships will be that
they shall produce contributions to
knowledge in their special subjects,
and that they shall make the results
of their studies publicly available.
Only candidates of exceptional
aptitude for research, or who have
undertaken an important piece of
work, or who have demonstrated abi
lity in one of the fine arts will be ap
pointed.
The first fellowships will be award
ed for the academic year 1926-1927.
Each scholar will receive about $2,500
a year. Larger or smaller sums, und
longer or shorter appointments than
one year may be granted in individual
cases. After the first year it is ex
Iiccted that forty to fifty scholars will
tie appointed annually.
Wants to Help
“We all realize,’’ Mr. Guggenheim
said in a statement, "that some of the
finest minds, some of the most con
servative thinkers in the world have
heen seriously hampered in turning
their natural gifts to the best advant
age by the lack of adequate financial
backing. 1 want t.o do my part to
meet this need.”
advancement association
AS USUAL LETS RESULTS
Hospitalization la Secured For Sick
Veteran Refused Entry On
Account of His Color
New York. Feb. 27—Telegrams and
letters have been exchanged by the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored people, and the Veter
an’s Bureau in Washington, over the
case of Thomas Albert White, colored
war veteran, denied accomodation in
government hospitals because of his
color.
The outcome of the correspondence
Is that the Veteran’s Bureau has or
dered the prompt hospitalization of
the colored soldier and has demanded
a full report on the situation.
The N. A. A. C. P. telegram read:
“Thomas Albert White, of 351st Ar
tillery, was sent by Veteran’s Bureau
of Pittsburg on December 28, 1924,
to United States Hospital at Dawson
Springs, Ky., accompanied by a
white nurse. After reaching Kentucky
he was separated from his nurse and
forced to ride in a Jim Crow car.
"Upon reaching Dawson Springs,
White was told that no Negro soldiers
were not allowed there and was imme
diately sent back to Pittsburg. White
asked Congressman Clyde Kelly to get
him admitted to United States Hos
pital at Beacon, N. P., but was in
formed that colored soldiers were
not admitted there. Consequently he
is at home and is failing rapidly.
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NEGRI )TEL MEN ORGANIZE
Washington, D. C., Feb. 27, (By Tht
Associated Negro Press)—Respond
ing to the call of Joseph I. Greenlee
proprietor of the New Liberty Hotel
the owners of 23 colored hotels of the
country assembled in his hotel on Feb
ruary 10, and organized the National
Hotel Managers’ Association. Eight
other hotel managers declared theit
willingness to join by letter authoriz
ing the use of their names, and theii
willingness to abide by the consitution
to be adopted by those present.
Joseph Greenlee opened the meeting
with a brief speech outlining the pur
pose sought. His talk included men
tion of co-operation, advertising, im
proved sendee, cultivation of the trav
eling public of the race, and the need
of a united effort tow'ard a higher
sanitary standard for rthe hotels
catering to the colored trade.
LINCOLN’S ONLY SON OLD AND
ILL IN WASHINGTON.
Washington, Feb. 12 (U. P.)—
Abraham Lincoln’s son, Rohert Todd
Lincoln, now in his eighty-second
I year, is failing in health. The doors
I of the quaint old Colonial house here
where he lives with his wife are closed
to all except his most intimate friends,
and behind them he passes his de
clining years in the strict seclusion
prescribed by his physicians.
Lincoln’s major activity is corre
sponding with historians and pub
| Heists who write him td inquire for
! details of his father’s life. In this he
is extremely painstaking and has the
aid of one of the most complete col
| lections of books and documents on
Abraham Lincoln in the world.
The bearded old man, the last liv
ing link with the great emancipator,
j is very modest about his heritage and
i his own career, which included a
cabinet post, four years as minister to
j England and high places in the busi
! ness world. His mind is still very
alert, and though not actively in busi
i iness since his retirement in 1916, he
j still remains a member of the board
of the Pullman company and of sev
eral Chicago banks.
Mr. Lincoln has never written a life
of his father and probably never will.
Before he injured a leg he was an
ardent golf player. Astronomy now
monopolizes his spare time as his
lobby. His last public appearance
was at the dedication of the Lincoln
Memorial in 1922.
ARE CONTRIBUTORS TO CAM
PAIGN FUND
Washington, D. C., Fel>.# 27—The
Borah committee, which investigated
campaign contributions last fall, lists
only two colored persons as having
contributed $1000 or more to any of
the political parties last year.
They are Walter L. Cohen, comp
troller of customs at New Orleans,
la., and E. P. Booze, of Mound Bayou,
Miss. Both are credited with having
given $1000 each to the Republican
National Committee.
No colored Democrats are listed as
having contributed to their party’s
war chest last year. Likewise no col
ored adherents of Robert M. LaFol
lette are listed with having contribut
ed to the progressive campaign.
The committee made no itemized
report of contributions under $1000.
DISGUISE AS NEGROES TO MAKE
ROBBERY
New York, N. Y., Feb. 27, (By The
Associated Negro Press)—Following
the tip revealed by the license number
of an automobile, taken by a boy, the
leader of three robbers who had enter
ed the home of Edward Sullivan, wras
caught and the fact revealed that he
and his confederates, is making the
robbery, had disguised themselves as
Negroes through the use of burnt
cork.
APPEAL TO COOLIDGE
Boston, Mass., Feb. 27—Meetings
held throughout the State in honor of
the birthdays of Lincoln and Douglass
sent resolutions to Washington urging
President Coolidge to put an end to
segregation in government depart
ments.
FAMOUS SINGER DIES
New York, N. Y., Feb. 27, (By The
Associated Negro Press)—Lavina
Mallory De Cauldwell, one of the
famed family of five Mallory sisters,
all of whom were celebrated singers
died here February 11, and was buried
from Mother Zion Baptist Church of
whose choir she has been for some
time past the leading soprano.
( Fifteen Hundred Miles From Washington ~~~
Beautiful Haiti and It’s Brave Hearted People
H ow they achieved their independence and preserved it—Helped the
American colonies to achieve independence
When the Republic of Hayti is men
tioned, so few people seem to know
where it is located or confuse it with
' its twin sister, the Republic of San
I Domingo, that a few words of geo
1 graphical and historical import may
I not be amiss.
In the year 1492, when Christopher
I Columbus, after a long and perilous
journey, once more set foot on solid
land he found himself on an island in
| habited by Indians. This island, which
is located at the entrance of the Gulf
Stream, midway between Cuba and
Jamaica, was called by the aborigines
by the double name of “Haiti,” or
"Quise<|ueys,” meaning respectively
"Mountainous Country” or “Big
land.”
Five chieftains governed the island
under the title of Kacik, the indian
wonl for king. King Guacanagario
governed the Marien in the North
west; King Guarionex ruled the Ma
guain in the Northeast; Kings Cotuba
namu and Bohechio presided over the
Higuey and Xaragua, situated in the
Southeast and Southwest, respect-1
ively; and, most impressive figure of!
all, the Havtian Caonabo, first de
fender of the Haytian soil, reigned
over the Maguana amid the fastnesses
of the frowning Cibao.
Within seven years from the land
ing of the Spaniards in Hayti the na
tive population had been reduced from
an estimated million and a half souls
i to about 700,000. Farming and min
1 ing, the two sources that had been fill
i ing the royal coffers of Spain, were
! almost at a standstill. To insure the
1 continued prosperity of the colony and
contribute to that of the metropolis,
slaves were imported from the coasts
of Africa.
Four centuries later the descend
ants of those slaves revolted against
the joint oppression of France and
Spain. Toussaint L’Ouverture, of im
mortal fame, led them from slavery to
By Theodora Holly in The Negro
World.
emancipation; -and hav,ng ejected the
Spaniards and repiulsed the English
swore undivided allegiance to France.
When Toussaint’s devotion to France
was rewarded with betrayal and mar
tyrdom, one of his former lieutenants,
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, stirred up a
general insurrection against French
domination and on January 1, 1804,
solemnly proclaimed the independence
of his people and forged them into a
nation.
The Spaniards of 1492, discarding
the Indian names of Haiti and Quis
queya, had rechristened the island
"Hispaniola,” Little Spain. They had
founded a capital, first to the north,
then to the south of the island, to
which they gave the name of Isabella.
The former had been destroyed by
Canonabo, king of the Maguana; the
latter was destroyed by an earth
quake. Rebuilt by Nicolas Ovando, the
first Spanish governor, it was re
christened Santa Domingo, in honor of
Christopher Columbus’s father, Do
mingo Colombo. The riches and mag
nificience of this city became such
that its fame spread all over Europe
and it became customary to say “Let's
go to San Domingo," instead of “Let’s
go to Hispaniola.”
When the political independence of
the island had become an accomplish
ed fact, Dessalines, the liberator, and
his lieutenants, decided in solemn con
clave that, to wipe out the last vestige
of foreign domination, the appellation,
“Hispaniola,” would be dropped and
the Indian name Hayti reassumed.
While the young and unfledged nation
was yet exposed to the dangers at
tendant on premature birth, while it
was still in the thoes of re-adjust
ment, the eastern portion of the is
land, comprising the city of San Do
mingo, recanted, invited the renewed
domination of Spain, thereby imperill
ing the existence of the western por
tion, now officially known as the Re
public of Hayti. Toward the end of
the first decade of Haytian independ
ence they proceeded to establish a
government of their own. But the
brunt of the great insurrection, which
culminated in the general freedom
from foreign domination, the subse
quent negotiations and the payment
of indemnities fell on the people of
the western or Haytian portion alone.
Through the misapprehension that
their retention of the name San Do
mingo has fostered in the minds of
most people, the people of the eastern
portion credited with having furnished
the “San Domingo Legion” which, un
der Count d’Estaing, volunteered their
services to the American Revolution.
In reality it was the westerners, the
ancestors of the present-day Hay
tians, who distinguished themselves at
Savannah, Georgia. Those were not
cringing slaves dragged thither by the
will of a master, but black and white
mulatto freedmen who had received
a liberal education in France, and
were fully conscious of their dignity
as men. Such men as Alexander Pe
tion, Beauvais, Rigaud, Henri, Chris
tophe; men who even then were al
ready planning their last desperate
campaign for independence, but de
ferred their own salvation to come to
the assistance of the American Colo
nies because the principles for which
these were fighting had awakened in
their souls a response that would not
be denied or ignored.
Such then, is Hayti. One of two
Negro Republics that share in com
mon an island of the Caribbean Sea.
Geographically, a near neighbor of the
United States of America; morally, a
generous, big-hearted people, as evi
denced by many an instance in her
national history. The local back
ground now being roughly indicated, I
will give in my next article a general
outline of the Haytian woman.
ST. ATHANASIUS’ BASKET BALL
TEAM RETURNS IN TRIUMPH
i _
On Tuesday morning, February 17,
the Basketiball team of St. Athanasius’
School Brunswick, Georgia returned
from their trip to Atlanta, Augusta
and Savannah during which they play
ed against college, high school and
club teams. The last of five games
was played Monday afternoon, Feb.
16, in Savannah against the Cuyler
Junior High School, St. Athanasius’
winning by the score, 31 to 13. The
Brunswick quintet lost one game dur
ing the tour and that one to More
house, the Collegate Champions of
the South-east. Prior to this game,
persistent predictions from all sides
were to the effect that Morehouse
would win by a very large margin. It
seemed that this prophecy would be
fulfilled from the showing made by
the Aitlanta College’s excellent fight
ing machine during the first half
which ended with Morehouse 20 and
St. Athanasius’ 6. The Brunswick
High School rallied, however, during
the second half and rang up 20 points,
exactly duplicating Morehouse’s scor
ing during the first half.
The record of the tour follows:
Feb. 9,Atlanta, St. Athanasius’ 32
Morris Brown Uni. 26.
Feb. 11, Atlanta, St. Athanasius'
26-Morehouse College 33.
Feb. 13, Augusta, St. Athanasius’
19-Paine College 14.
Feb. 14, Savannah, St. Athanasius’
28-Red Sox Club 12.
Feb. 16, Savannah, St. Athanasius’
31-Cuyler Jr. High School 13.
THE N. A. A. C. P. WILL MEET
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The regular monthly meeting of
the Omaha Branch of the N. A. A. C.
P. will meet Sunday afternoon at 4
o’clock at the North Side Y. W. C. At,
Twenty-second and Grant street.
There will be a brief business session
followed by a debate on the question
which was discussed two weeks ago
and aroused so much interest that it
was decided to continue the discus
sion. The subject is “Resolved, That
the Negro is taking advantage of his
opportunities.” The leaders of the
discussion will be the Rev. J. A. Har
ris and Mr. Y. W. Logan.
KLAN ANTI-MARRIAGE
BILL STRIKES SNAG
La nsing, Mich., Feb. 27—(N. A. A.
C. P. Press Service)—Douglass Re
publican club and the N. A. A. C. P.
have joined forces fighting the Klan
anti-marrying bill just introduced in
to the Legislature.
The bill provides a $100 fine and
90 days in prison when whites and
blacks inter-marry. Two years age
the same bill was killed in comnyt
tee.
GARVEY MAY NOT SERVE FIVE
YEARS
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27, (By The As
sociated Negro Press)—If Garvey’s
prison record is good, he will have to
serve no more than three years and a
half according to the custom in the
federal penitentiaries. He is doing
as much of the work with his organi
zation on the outside as he can. In a
letter to his paper, the Negro World,
recently he wrote:
“The picture of me handcuffed to
a white marshall broadcast from New
York and reproduced in nearly every
Negro newspaper in this country, cut
out and hang on your walls as a silent
reminder for future generations of
the race’s humiliation in the year
1925.
“Don’t be deceived, there is no jus
tice but strength. In other words,
might is right, and if you must be
heard and respected, you have to ac
cumulate nationally, in Africa, those
resources that will compel unjust men
to think twice before he acts.”
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
BROADENS ITS WORK.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 27.—The
School of Public Health of Howard
University in its attempt to serve in
the largest possible way, has inaugu
rated a course of lectures for the col
ored social workers of Washington.
The will to do this important bit of
service has been stimulated by the
earnest and frequent requests of this
local group of workers.
This is but the beginning of a larger
program which the School of Public
Health and Hygiene contemplates pro
jecting. A department of social serv
ice leading to a collegiate degree was
originally placed in the comprehensive
plans of the School of Public Health.
Unquestionably there is a need for
training efficient social workers along
broad lines which combine humanita
rian with scientific principles, and this!
1 is the aim of Howard University. I
Among the lectures are the follow-1
ing: Dr. A. B. Jackson, director of the
School of Public Health and Hygiene:
Prof. A. S. Beckham, professor of Psy
chology; Dr. Benjamin Karpman, pro
fessor of Psychiatry; Dr. Mary Fitch,
professor of home economics; Dean
Kelly Miller, dean of the Junior Col
lege; Prof. W. S. Nelson, professor of
religious education; Professor Jones,
professor of sociology and Miss Emily
Dinwide.
ESTABLISH CLUB FOR BOYS
Chicago, 111., Feb. 27, (By The As
sociated Negro Press)—Two colored
men, Jesse Binga, banker and Oscar
DePriest, real estate dealer, are listed
along with six whites, as incorporat
ors in the promotion of a club for col
ored boys in this city. They recently
bought property which had been used
as a church.
It is proposed to have ready by May
1 a gymnasium, swimming pool, show
ers, billiard room, bowling alleys ami
a reading room. Other facilities in
cluding a workshop where the boys
can learn trades will be added. Among
the white incorporators, are Samuel
Insull, and Britten I. Budd, two of the
city’s richest citizens. Mr. Binga and
Mr. DePriest, had the highest income
tax returns published of any of the
city’s colored residents.
OVERNOR, HIGH OFFICIALS
VISIT TENNESSEE SCHOOL
Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 27.,( By The
Associated Negro Press)—All of the
department!! of the state government
were represented this week when
Governor Austin Peay, Judge A. W.
Chambliss, of the Supreme Court, and
members of the state legislature, vis
ited the A. & I. State Normal, of
which W. J. Hale is president, and
took luncheon. The occasion was one
of the most impressive in the history
of the institution.
APPOINTED DEPUTY HOTEL IN
SPECTOR
Topeka, Kans., Feb. 27, (By The
Associated Negro Press)—The Rev.
Rannavalona of Wichita has been ap
pointed deputy hotel inspector for
Kansas by Governor Ben S. Paulsen.
The Rev. Rannavalona has been active
in Kansas Republican work.
INVITE PRESIDENT KING.
Philadelphia, (A. N. P.)—Personal
invitation to Charles Dunbar King,
President of Liberia, to attend the
Sesqui-Centennial Exposition next
year in this city was forwarded Thurs
day afternoon by Mayor Kendrick.
WANT INDUSTRIAL
COMMISSION PUT ON
SKIDS IS BELIEF
Sinister Influences Alleged to be Ac
tively Operating to Abolish
Negro Industrial
Commission.
FRIENDS WARMLY DEFEND IT
Chief Need for Its More Effective
Functioning Is Much Larger
Appropriation and
Support.
Jefferson City, Feb. 27—Sinister in
fluences are at work among some of
the colored citizens of the state, it
is said, to have the Negro Industrial
Commission abolished. It is thought
by leaders of both parties that their
efforts will be in vain. Neither party,
it is thought, wishes to go on record
as slapping the Negro at this time;
the results may be far reaching at
the next election.
Its friends hold the commission
has done exceptionally well consider
ing the small appropriation, which
was only $6,000 for the biennium.
West Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylva
nia and other states have given their
Negro Welfare boards greater sup
port than Missouri they claim.
The chief need of Missouri’s Com
mission is greater support with ade
quate appropriation with which to
operate.
The Negro migrant is crowding into
the larger cities of Missouri where
housing and living conditions are
neither conducive to good health nor
to good good morals. This organiza
tion should have a corps of workers in
St. Louis and Kansas City so that the
migrants who desire could be sent im
mediately to the farmers of Missouri
who need their help.
The Negro Industrial Commission
is the logical representative and chief
spokesman of the Negro race in Mis
souri. it has gone on record from
time to time as making a fight for
better schools and living and work
ing conditions for Missouri’s colored
citizens.
The organization has assisted hun
dreds of colored soldiers in filing
proper bonus clatims, assisted wid
ows in securing pensions, appeared
liefore the Commission for the Blind
in the interest of worthy applicants
in addition thereto many homeless
Negro children have been placed by
this organization co-operating with
the Children’s Bureau of the State
Board of Charities and Corrections.
NEGRO COMPOSER’S MUSIC IS
PLAYED BY INTERNATIONAL
COMPOSERS’ GUILD
(N. A. A. C. P. Press Service
At the second of its three concertrs
of the season in New York City, the
International Composers’ Guild, which
specializes in the work of young mod
ern musicians, played a “Fantasy for
small orchestra and three women’s
voices,” by William Still, a colored
composer, 29 years old, bom in Mis
sissippi.
Mr. Still studied music at Gberlin
University, then at the New England
Conservatory and is now studying
with Edgar Varese, one of the leading
writers of modem music in New York.
Mr. Still has orchestrated the scores
for a number of successful revues,
such as "Shuffle Along” and "Dixie
to Broadway.”
NAMED ON CITY ADVISORY
BOARD
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 27, (By The
Associated Negro Press)—F. T. Lane,
secretary of the Urban League here,
Dr. J. E. Perry and C. A. Franklin,
editor of the Call, have been named
by Mayor Beach to serve on the
Mayor’s advisory committee of One
Hundred.
NEW MME. WALKER CONTEST
Indianopolis, Ind., Feb. 27—Another
contest similar to the one in which
three persons won trips to the Holy.
Land, will be staged by the Madam
C. J. Walker Company beginning
March 14th.
COLLEGE FOR DURHAM
Durham, N. C., Feb. 27—The Fin
■no# and Educational committees of
the Senate and House have apporved
the bill to locate a Negro State Col
lege in this city.