T7ne Monitor
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, MARCH 20, 1925 Whole Number 506 Vol. X—No. 37
Farming Population Among Negroes Shows an Increase
COLORED FARMER |
LOOK FOR SQ0AR?
DEAL FROM JARS IE
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Appointment of the New Secr..oij of
Agriculture Awakens a Wide
spread Interest Among
Our Race
POPULATION LARGELY RURAL
Practically Two-Thirds Resident in
Country Districts and Farm
Ownership in on the
Increase
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Washington, D. C., March 20.—(Co-!
lumbian Press Burean.)—Few presi
dential appointments in recent years
have attracted wider interest among
colored citizens than the selection by ;
President Coolidge of William M. Jar
dine, of Kansas, former president of
the Kansas State Agricultural College,
to lie Secretary of Agriculture. On
March 4th, Dr. Jardine succeeded Sec
retay Howard M. (lore, who retired
to become governor of West Virginia.
The new memlier of the cabinet, who j
worked his way through college, has 1
a comprehension of farm problems
based upon intimate experience. Once i
a cow puncher, a broncho buster, a
rail-cutter and ranch hand, he is now j
said to be the best authority in the
country ori dry farming and the grow
ing of wheat and grain sorghums. Be
sides learning stock-raising he has
given a great deal of his time to the 1
marketing phase of the problem, a
subject of growing importance and of
vital interest to the thousands of col- j
ore I farmers who, because of the de
tached attitude of the various organ- j
izations among the white farmers, j
find it necessary to depend largely, tf
not wholly, upon the United States
Department of Agriculture for infor
mation that will guide them as work-'
«rs in a basic production upon which I
the welfare of the country depends.
Approximately 66 per cent of the
Negro population, us compared with
47 per cent of the white population,
lives in the rural districts. During
the census period, 1910 to 1920, Negro
farmers insereased at the rate of 3.6
per cent; native white at the rate of
3.1 per cent; while foreign-born white
farmer, increased at the rate of 13.2
per rent. Negro farmers operate in
excess of 41 million acres of land, or
2 per cent of the total land area of
the United States. They are farming
in every state of the Union, and in
three-fourths of the counties. They
are not leariers but producers, who are
contributing to the agricultural
wealth of the nation, and as such
they appreciate the helpful and stimu
lating influence that emanates from
the Department of Agriculture. They
feel that the new secretary, as did Mr.
Gore, will follow the policy of the
late lamented Secretary Wallace, who,
having an intimate knowledge of their
problems and a sympathetic interest
ii> their woi’are, extended to them the
full facilities of the department.
PROF. WADDLE’S BAND
ENTERTAINS BIG CROWD
Prof. Waddle’s ladies band of forty
instruments entertained a large aud
ience in the basement of Zion Baptist
church Tuesday evening. An unusual
ly large crowd welcomed the first
strains of the melodious music at
promptly 8:30.
The program was a diversified and
interesting one. It consisted of vocal
and instrumental solos by individuals
and serenades and marches and other
classical selections by the band. The
audience never lost patience, but eag
erly -ooked for the next selection.'
FANS HERE HOPING JIMMY RETURNS
WANTED— One
first class ball
player, experienced
in playing third
base on a real
ball club. Must
be capable of hit
ting from .310 to
.340 in the Western
League; field .980
or better and have
a pleasing person
ality which will at
once make him a
general favorite
with the general
with the Omaha
fans. Prospective candidates please
wire Omaha Base Ball Club.
Such a man is wanted to fill the
shoes of Jimmy Wilcox, popular Oma
ha third saclter, who is dangerously
ill at his home in Pennsylvania with
typhoid fever. It is said that very
probably Jim will be out of the game
for at least three months should he
survive this illness.
Aside from the gloom over the miss
ing Jimmy, the Omaha team is pro
gressing splendidly in their spring
training. Weather has been somewhat
against them the past few days but
Griggs has had them on the hop in
a rented gymnasium.
Catcher Red Wilder from Massachu
setts, reported Monday, and tells
Griggs he hopes to have a much bet
ter season this year than last. We
can stand it Red, so hop to it, for re
member young Leubbe is constantly
ready to hop in regularly.
Joe Dailey, long legged pitcher,
will again be back, his sale to Read
ing having fallen through.
Taking it all in all the signs look
good for another pennant winner,
much depending of course on the re
turn of good old Jimmy Wilcox.
MONTE LEON ROBINSON,
FRENCH INTERPRETER,
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Native of Washington, D. and
Served in French Army During
Boxer Uprising in
China
Pittsburgh, Pa., March 20.—Monte
Leon Robinson, aged 47 years, died
Friday night, March 6, at his home
here after a short illness with penu
monia. Mr. Robinson was born in
Washington, D. C., where he received
pulblic and high school education and
after reaching his majority, went to
France as the valet to General De
Gompey. He later enlisted in the For
eign Legion of the French Army and
served eighteen months, during which
time he saw actual service in the
Boxer Uprising in China 1899 and
1901.
After receiving an honorable dis
charge Mr. Robinson returned to the
United States and in 1909 returned to
France and served another enlistment
in thp French army. He then traveled
extensively through France and Italy
studsing these languages and became
very efficient in them.
Mr. Robinson returned to the United
States and came to Pittsburgh and
secured employment with the West
inghouse Air Brake Company where
he remained until 1920 when he was
appointed tipstaff and French inter
preter in the Allegheny county courts
where he remained until his death.
Mr. Robinson taught French to
Judge B. Drew and family, as well us
many other prominent and wealthy
white persons in Pittsburgh.
PHILADELPHIA N. A. A. C. P.
ASKS EDUCATION BOARD
FOR A SQUARE DEAL
Urges Joint Conference to End School
Discrimination Against Colored
Teachers in City of Brother
ly I-ove
Philadelphia, Pa., March 20.—The
Philadelphia branch of the National
Association for the Avancement of
Colored People, has written u letter
to the local Board of Public Educa
tion, asking a joint conference having
for its object the removal of barriers
against colored teachers and discrim
ination against colored students in the
Philadelphia public schools. The let
ter is signed by the Rev. William
Lloyd Imes, chairman of the N. A. A.
C. P. public schools committee; by
Isadore Martin, president of the Phi
ladelphia branch, and by Julian St.
George White, secretary.
“It is commonly reported,” says the
letter, “by our graduates of the Phi
ladelphia normal school who are on
the waiting list that they are openly
discouraged from even seeking posi
tions here right in their own city, and
even l>efore graduation from the high
schools, they ure being discouraged
from attempting the normal school
course of study.” The letter asks that
opportunity be given to colored teach
ers as well as white.
TWO MORE WEEKS OF WEL
FARE ON TUBERCULOSIS
Durham, N. Cur., March 18.—(Pres
ton News Service.)—Two more weeks
of fight upon tuberculosis are sched
uled beginning Monday, April 6th. For
the twelve week days of the period,
a tul>erculosis clinic will be held here,
one week for whites and one for col
ored. Durham’s tuberculosis record is
one of the most serious in the state
and the death rate during the first
two months of the year has been
alarmingly high. There is every in
dication, however, that the general
situation is coming under control.
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N. A. A. C. I*. ASKS KANSAS
GOVERNOR TO VETO PENDING
KU KLUX KLAN BILL
\ New York, Mar. 20.—Governor Ben.
S. Paulen of Kansas has acknowledged
receipt of a telegram from the Na
I tional Association for the Advance
| ment of Colored People, asking him to
veto a bill which would permit the
I Ku Klux Klan to operate within the
| state of Kansas. The N. A. A. C. P.
I telegram to Governor I'aulen is as foi
I lows:
“The National Association for the
I Advancement of Colored People, with
380 branches and a membership of
100,000 composed of white and colored
citizens of the United States, respect
fully urges that you veto the so-ealled
Ku Klux Klan bill now pending be
i fore you, which would permit this or
ganization, capitalizing as it does
vicious racial ami religious prejudices,
to operate as an organization in the
state of Kansas. There should lie no
place in America for any subversive
movement like the Klan which sets
neighbor against neighbor and fo
ments bitterness and hatred often re
sulting in violence. The record of
bloodshed during the past few years
caused by Klan propaganda, whether
those disorders come directly or in
directly from Klan activity would em
phasize that if America is to be the
democracy it should Im>, no movement
of this sort should be countenanced.
You will be applauded by all Amer
ica, if you veto this measure.”
RACE GIRL IN TECH REVUE
Miss Lueile Raymond, Tech Junior,
Takes Part In Fashion
Show.
When the class in millinery and ar
tistic designing at Technical Hi gave
their annua! style show last Friday
in the school auditorium one of its
principal meml>ers was Miss I.upcile
Raymond. Dressed in a stunning cos
tume of pink, trimmed in black, de
signed and made by herself, one would
wonder how she ever did it at so con
servative a cost of $6.50. The other
girls wore costumes ranging in cost
of making from $4.50 to $41.00.
Miss Raymond is the only colored
girl in this class, composed of 16
members. She says she loves the
work and hopes to enter college upon
the completion of her course at Tech
nical to take up commercial art and
designing. She is reputed to be a good
student in this department, her grades
ranging from 1 to 3 which, it is said,
is equivalent to A to B.
Miss Raymond, who formerly en
tered Central Hi in 1922, spending her
freshman and sophomore years there,
after remaining out of school one
year, registered at Technical Hi in
1924 as a junior. A short time after
she entered Technical she became in
terested in commercial art and de
signing. She entered the class and
is now one of its most representative
members. Aside from the chic little
costume she made, there is a hand
painted sketch of it, clone by her, on
display at the school.
Miss Raymond is empolyed after
school hours at the Colored Commer
cial Club as assistant to the secretary,
where her work is most satisfactory.
N. A. A. C. P. TO APPEAL
LOUISIANA SEGREGATION
TO IJ. S. SUPREME COURT
X. Y. World and Louisville, K y., Post,
a White Daily, Ridicule State of
Louisiana Supreme Court's
Decision
New York, Mach 20.—The residen
tial segregation of whites and Ne
groes in New Orleans, recently af
firmed bv the slat•? *.”preme court of
Louisiana will be carried on appeal to
the United States supreme court, it
has been announced by the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People. Both the New York
World, a democratic paper, and the
Louisville Post, a white daily, have
editorially ridiculed the Louisiana
court’s decision as being a direct viola
tion of the Fourteenth Amendment
and running counter to the decision of
the U. S. Supreme Court in the Louis
ville Segregation case of 1917. The
following summary of the case to
date is released by the N. A. A. C. P.:
“Benjamin Harmon, owning real
estate in New Orleans on Audubon
street between Magazine and Meadow
streets, proposed to turn his house into
a two-family residence and to let one
half of it. An act passed September
18, 1924, by the New Orleans City
Council prohibited any person of the
Negro race from inhabiting any block
in which white residents were in the
majority, without the written consent
of all the white residents.
“Joseph Tyler applied for a writ of
injunction to prevent Harmon from
letting half of his two-family house to
colored tenants. The case was first
heard before the civil district court
which ruled that the city council’s or
dinance, together with two acts passed
in 1912 and 1924, violated the Four
teenth Amendment to the U. S. Con
stitution in that they deprived a citi
zen of his property without due pro
cess of law. Tyler appealed the case
to the Louisiana supreme court which
reversed the verdict of the lower court,
thus contravening the U. S. supreme
court’s decision in the Louisiana se
gregation case of 1917.
“The Louisiana supreme court re
manded the case for retrial in the
lower court.”
It is the general feeling among col
ored people of New Orleans that the
Louisiana supreme court, in remand
ing the case for retrial in the lower
court is playing into the hands of
those who wish to delay appeal to the
U. S. supreme court and who hope to
wear out the colored people by pro
longing and increasing the cost of
litigation. These people also hope that
the U. S. supreme court will reverse
its decision rendered in the Louisiana
segregation case of 1917.
CINCINNATI TO PLAY
CHICAGO DEFENDERS
Preston News Service)
Cincinnati, O., Merch 20.—What is
expected to be Chicinnati’s greatest
social as well as athletic event of the
season will take place on April 4th, at
the Freeman Avenue Armory when
the Dunbar Flashes, pride of the
Queen City, will meet the Chicago
Defender flashes, of Chicago, in a
post season basketball match.
GEORGIA GOVERNOR
ASSURES N. A. A. C. P.
OF PUNSHING LYNCHERS
New York, March 20.—Governor
Clifford Walker of Georgia, replying
to the recent telegram of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People on the burning at stake
of a Negro in that state, has written
a letter in reply stating that he will
do all possible to abolish mob violence.
Governor Walker's letter is as fol
lows :
Mr. James Weldon Johnson, Secretary,
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People,
69 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
Dear Sir:
j I acknowledge receipt of your tele
gram and assure you that this as
I well as any other suggestion you may
make to me, will have my earnest
personal consideration. I remind you
that in my executive order entered
some months ago, I directed that the
maximum reward allowed by law be
offered immediately upon the an
nouncement of any mob violence in
this state. Pursuant to this order,
such a reward has been offered and
you may be assured that this office
will co-operate in any possible way in
the effort to abolish mob violence in
this state.
Very respectfully yours,
(Signed) CLIFFORD WALKER,
Governor.
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NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS
HITS SEGREGATION RULING
Washington, D. C., March 19.—
The National Race Congress in ses
sion here last week attacked a recent
decision of the Supreme Court of the
state of Louisiana in upholding a se
gregation ordinance, and pledged its
support in fighting this question to
the end.
The matter was officially brought
before the conference by its president,
Rev. Dr. Jernigan, who read news
paper clippings relative to the raising
of a fund of $40,000 by colored people
of New Orleans and the entire coun
try to bring the case before the Su
preme Court of the United States.
Speakers on the subject appeared
to be puzzled and amazed at the stand
taken by the Louisiana Supreme Court
in the face of the decision handed
down by the U. S. Supreme Court on
the question of residential segrega
tion in connection with the Kentucky
case.
EDITOR WASHINGTON TIMES
ADDRESSES MU-SO-LIT CLUB
Washington, D. C., March 20.—(Co
lumbian Press Bureau.)—Mr. Avery
C. Marks, managing editor of the
Washington Times, addressed the Mu
So-Lit Club recently on “The News
paper as a Public Servant”. Since he
took over the management of the
Hearst-Brisbane newspaper interest
here, Mr. Marks has directed The
Times to its present policy of judging
news as it affects the colored people
upon the same basis as it affects
white people, i. e., a creditable achieve
ment by a colored man would get the
front page upon the same basis as
it would be granted to any other man.
DEMPSEY AND WILLS ,
MUST MEET IN DECISION
BOUT, SAYS BOARD
New York State Athletic Association
Apparently Anxious to Tave
Champ Defend
Title.
(Preston News Service)
New York, March 1!).—Jack Demp
sey is free to defend his heavyweight
title in any part of the world, but the
bout must go to a decision and his
opponent must be Harry Wills, the
New Orleans challenger, if the cham
pion desires not to incur the displeas
ure of the New York State Athletic
Commission.
“The rumor has spread,” said J. A.
Farley, chairman of the commission,
“that we will not countenance a match
between Wills and Dempsey in New
Jersey. This is very true, but it is
not because we do not want our
neighbors to steal the bout; it is be
cause no decisions are rendered in that
state, and Wills could only win the
title by scoring a knockout.
“Dempsey may fight Wills any
place where a verdict is handed down
at the end of the bout. Do not think
we will insist that the match must
come to New York.
Forfeit Posted
“Of course, we would like this state
to receive the benefit of the taxes
which will acrue from the bout, but
our main idea is to get an acceptance
or a refusal to Wills’ challenge. Wills
has posted his challenge as well as a
forfeit. We are interested only in
Dempsey’s ‘yes or no’. After that we
are through. It is then up to the
promoters to do the rest.”
NATIONAL TRAINING
SCHOOL GETS $73,235
Washington, D. C., March 19.— i
(Preston News Service.)—The Na-J
tional Training School for Colored
Women and Girls, Lincoln Heights,
has just received $73,233 from the na
tional Baptist convention, it was an
i nounced last Wednesday night by
i Nannie H. Burroughs, president, as
its share of the money raised by the
Baptists throughout the country for
educational purposes.
The national convention of Baptists
' raised during 1924 $609,952.43 and
spent $32,965.28 for home missions,
$85,241.70 for foreign missions, $351,
373.10 for national Sunday school
work and $102,642 toward the build
ing fund of the Sunday school pub
lishing house.
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
WORK AMONG NEGROES
Nashville, Tenn., March 20.—(Pres
ton News Service.)—The directors of
the Davidson County Anti-Tubercu
losis association in a meeting Tues
day at the headquarters in the Cham
ber of Commerce building, voted to
increase the activities among the col
ored people by placing a colored work
er in the field for part-time work.
This work will be done in co-operation
with a colored committee. Dr. Mattie
Coleman, wellknown physician of this
city, and a graduate nurse, has con
sented to give part-time service, ac
cording to the officials of the Anti
Tuberculosis association. Under the
program mapped out Dr. Coleman will
do both educational and nursing work,
giving to this Work two week of each
month..
McKenzie fisk regime condemned
The leading editorial in the April
Crisis is devoted to the recent dis
turbances at Fisk Urfiversity, and
the editor of the Crisis declares the
issue to be one of freedom for stu
dents: “It is not a question of color
or race. No colored man has demand
ed a colored president at Fisk. No
colored man has demanded a white
president at Fisk, but we do demand
a president who can teach and inspire
and not merely drive and repress, and
we care not what his color may be . . .
Black folk want their children reared
under all necessary restraints but
they demand for them at the same
time, that equally necessary freedom
and self-respect without which man
hood and womanhood is impossible.
Fisk university today denies this, and
denies it openly and frankly and bases
its denial on ‘race’, so far as it ex
plains it at all.
Charging that the inner conditions
at Fisk have been going from bad to I
worse, the Crisis editorial reports a
disposition on the part of the trustees
of the university last November to
remedy some of the conditions com
plained of, but that President SfcKen
*ie nullified that favorable impulse
and announced charges against Fisk
administration would be ignored. The
editorial further charges that during
the recent riotous disturbance by stu
dents at Fisk President McKenzie
called in eighty white Southern police
men and gave them a list of six stu
dent to arrest, the list being that of
“the student committee who had ar
raigned him three months earlier be
fore the board of trustees.”
“The judge gave a suspended fine
and when McKenzie was faced with
six damage suits he decided to be
‘merciful’, had the record expunged
and the students given honorable dis
missal.” The fight against the pres
ent administration of Fisk is only
just begun, says the Crisis.
Other features of the April Crisis
are an article by E. Franklin Frazier,
entitled “All God’s Chillun Got Eyes”,
in which he tells of the humiliation
a colored man had to endure to obtain
medical treatment of his eyes from
a white physician in the South; a
description of "Dark Algiers the
White", by Jessie Fauset; an essay on
the Arabian poet, Mabed Ibn Cuhab,
by Maud Cuney Hare; a summary of
the annual message to the legislature
of Liberia by President King; and
poems and illustrations.
RACE WOMEN SHOW
DECIDED TENDENCY
TO TEAMWORK
Evidence of Growing Unity of Thought
and of Action Is Becoming More
Noticeable Within the
Group
LEADERS WILLING TO CONFER
Women Said to Have Definite Pro
gram Embracing Greater Indus
trial Opportunities for
Their Sex
Washington, D. C., March 20.—Co
lumbian Press Bureau.)—The oneness
of thought and of action, which is
gradually making itself felt within
our group, seems destined to develop
into an actual unity, such as has not
been effecteively noticeable and na
tionally useful for a number of years.
This evidence of strong cohesion, be
tween both leaders and followers in
the many matters of vital interest to
race members, is being coroborated
almost daily, without regard to sex
or location. In no wise have the wo
men of our group been backward in
their appreciation of the opportunity
to come together and discuss problems
to which they might definitely direct
their future activities, assured that
when they are ready to present their
recommendations, unity will prevail
both among themselves and the stern
er sex in the matter of the solving of
their questions.
Word has come from Mrs. Myrtle
Foster Cook that the Women’s West
ern Division is standing solidly be
hind the present administration and
its advisory forces and supported by
virtually our entire representation.
During the past week Miss Hallie Q.
Brown of Ohio, and Mrs. M. C. Law
ton, of New York, have been active in
holding a number of meetings in the
interest of genuine progress, indus
trially as well as politically. No less
active have been the women of Wash
ington and those from the districts
farther south.
This meeting of minds from both
east and west, north and south, be
speaks such a unity as has not existed
in a number of years.
It is understood that the women
intend to take up, in due course, such
important matters as child welfare,
health, and greater industrial oppor
tunities for their sex; and it is not
improbable that both federal and state
legislation along these lines be sought
in the future. To use the homely ex
pression that “in unity there is
strength”, seems but to express the
sentiments which are apparently dom
inating ones at this time, and out of
which a new political day, with its
attendant advantages seems to be
dawning.
ASK IMPORTANT POST
FOR J. SILAS HARRIS
Washington, D. C., March 19.— *
(Preston News Service.)—The local
branch of the Negro National Educa- *
tional Congress, through a set of re
solutions adopted at its meeting last
Friday, requested the President to rec
ognize the organization by appointing
its president, J. Silas Harris, of Mis
souri, to some important post in the
government.