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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, JUNE 5, 1925 Whole Number 517 Vol. X—No. 47
PRESIDENT COOUDGE GREETS H 6R0 0
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STATE DEPARTMENT ‘
GIVEN MEMORANDNM
BY HATIAN DIPLOMAT
Pierre Hudicourt Submits Document
Asking Withdrawal of United
Armed Forces from
Island
WANT THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT
Patriotic Union Making Withdrawal
Demand—A Non-Partisan Organ
ization With Membership
of 20.000
New York, June 5.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has announced that
Pierre Hudicourt, former memlier of
the Hague Peace Tribunal and now
a member of the American Institute
of International Law, who is repre
senting the Haitian Patriotic Union
in the Unted States, has sent a memo
randum to President Coolidge ami the
Secretary of State asking the with
drawal of armed forces of this coun
try from Haiti.
The memorandum charges that in
violation of the Haitian constitution
the country has been governed with
out regularly elected representatives
of the people, by a council of state
nominated anil dismissed by the Pres
ident. Mr. Hudicourt charges that
President Louis Bomo of Haiti on
March 18 of this year dismissed seven
members of the council and appointed
seven new members more favorably
disposed toward himself, in order to
make his continuance in office more
certain.
Despite the fiction of a Haitian gov
ernment, Mr. Hudicourt charges that
General Russell, the American High
Commissioner in Haiti, “concentrates
into his sole hands all the powers of
the country. The de facto President
Homo depends upon him for all and
everything.”
Urging restoration of representa
tive government in Haiti, Mr. Hudi
court says:
“The U. S. Government has always
given the assurance that it does not
intend to confiscate or to attempt to
confiscate the sovereignty of a weak
neighbor. Recently Secretary Hughes
said: ‘We recognize the equality of
the American republics, their equal
rights under the law of nations.’
“There is no reason not to believe
such official declarations. However,
the Haitian people believe that after
almost ten years, time has come for
this Government to prove the effi
ciency of those various promises and
declarations.”
The Patriotic Union of Haiti, in
whose Itehalf Mr. Hudicourt drew up
and presented the memorandum, ts a
non-partisan organization with more
than 20,000 members throughout the
island of Haiti.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
COMMENDS HERO’S ACTION
Thomas Lee Received at White House
—Entertained by Tennessee Asso
ciation of the District
of Columbia
Special to The Monitor by Walter
J. Singleton.
Washington, D. C., June 5.—Thomas
Lee, Memphis hero, credited with sav
ing the lives of thirty-two persons
when the steamer Norman went down
in the Mississippi river recently with
the loss of more than a score of lives,
was received by President Coolidge at
the White House.
Accompanied by the owner and edi
tor, respectively, of the Memphis
News-Scimitar, who arranged for
Lee's trip to Washington, he was
ushered into the President’s office,
was commended by him for his brave
ry, and was later photographed shak
ing hands with Mr. Coolidge.
The Tennessee association of the
District of Columbia met Lee at the
Washington Post building and enter
tained him until 3 o'clock. He was
taken to the Arlington National ceme
tery, where he placed a wreath on
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He
was then conducted on a sightseeing
tour of the city, and finally turned
over to the Rev. F. I. A. Bennett, an
Episcopal clergyman, with whom ho
remained until his departure.
Before returning to Memphis Lee
expressed his pleasure at his recep
tion in Washington, and was especial
ly desirous of returning here to edu
cate himself and his two sons, Thom
as and Woodrow. He also expressed
his gratitude for his treatment by the
citizens of Memphis. He has been
recommended for a Carnegie medal
award for heroism.
The American public spent $260,
000,000 on radio equipment last year.
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UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA
Among the graduates of the class of
1925 of the University of Omaha are
Misses Grace Dorsey, Frances D. Gor
don and Cecelia Starks. Miss Dorsey
receives her certificate from the Pri
mary Kindergarten department. The
Misses Gordon and Starks receive
j their B. A. degree from the College
I of Arts and Sciences. The Misses
Dorsey and Gordon are daughters of
: Omaha, having been born, reared and
educated here. Miss Starks is a na
tive of Texas and took her prelimin
ary training in the schools of that
state. Miss Dorsey is the daughter
■ of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Dorsey of 3643
Parker street and Miss Gordon of Mr.
and Mrs. Gibson D. Gordon of 2416
; Binney street. All these young ladies
plan to teach.
Miss Dorsey is a communicant of
St. Philip’s Episcopal church; Miss
Gordon attends St. Paul’s Presbyteri
an church and Miss Starks Pilgrim’s
Baptist church.
The commencement exercises of the
University were held Thursday night.
THANKS N. A. A. C. P. FOR AID
IN DISCRIMINATION CASE
—
New York, June 5.—Dr. Leon W.
Headen, Chicago dentist, who recent
ly won a Civil Right suit against the
Tivoli Theatre Co., has written to
thank the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
for its aid in winning the case and
has sent a check reimbursing the N.1
A. A. C. I’., which advanced money to
permit a witness from New York to
testify at the Chicago trial. Dr.
Headon writes:
“In the future, I sincerely hope that
I can be of some material assistance
in the advancement of the principles
of the organization. Until then,
please believe that I appreciate and
am in sympathy with your work.”
ETHIOPIANS NOT NEGROES
(Columbian Press Bureau.)
Washington, D. C., June 5.—It is
now claimed by Harvard University
scientists, headed by Dr. Geo. A. Reis
ner, who has spent twenty-six years
exploring ancient Egypt, that Ethio
pians are not African Negroes. He
says: “The inhabitants of both Abys
sinia and Ethiopia were mixed races.
In antiquity, as today, the whole re
gion was inhabited by dark colored
races in which brown prevails; but
they were not and are not African
Negroes, although many individuals
show a mixture of black blood through
intermarriage.” For the benefit of
these learned scientists we might add
that there is not now nor has there
ever been a tribe on the continent of
Africa ethnologically classified as Ne
groes. The term “Negro” originated
with the Portuguese and originally
meant black.
PULLMAN COMPANY
APPOINTS NEGRO EXPERT
(Columbian Press Bureau.)
Washington, D. C., June 6.—C. Cor
nelius Webb, of 1773 Tea street, N.
W., veteran employee of the I*ullman
Company, has been appointed as spe
cial investigator and conciliator in
the Company’s Bureau of Industrial
Relations, Chicago, 111. This appoint
ment was made in order to give the
11,000 Negro service men running on
Pullman cars actual representation
and a voice in their work relations
with the company.. Webb will travel
through the eight Pullman zones, with
the idea not only of improving the
service, but seeing that fair play in
the matter of wages and conditions
of labor is made a positive policy of
the company in providing profitable
employment for the thousands of Ne
groes in the Pullman service.
There is one colored retail dealer
in groceries to 1,661 colored people,
as compured to one white dealer to
407 whites.
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Omaha is to again have the rare
and to-be-coveted privilege of hearing
the eloquent and scholarly William
Pickens, former dean of Morgan Col
lege, who resigned his influential and
lucrative position in the educational
world to devote himself to the work
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. Mr.
Pickens will speak in Omaha at a
mass meeting at St. John’s A. M. E.
church Sunday afternoon, June 14.
Wherever Mr. Pickens speaks he at
tracts large audiences. Those who
have heard him once want to hear him
again.
U. S. LABORER BEST PAID
(Columbian Press Bureau.)
Washington, D. C., June 5.—Labor
is being l>etter paid in the United
States than anywhere else in the
world, according to the National In
dustrial Board, which recently made
public a survey of economic conditions
in America and Europe. The Boanl
sad: “The American wage-earner, or
the basis of what his pay will buy
for him, is paid more than twice as
well as his British coleague in Lon
don; nearly three times as well as
the man in Amsterdam; more than
three times as well as the worker in
Germany; and nearly five times as
much as the worker in Italy.
GIRL BRUTALLY ATTACKED
AND BEATEN BY UNKNOWN
DEGENERATE ASSAILANT
Miss Bernice Givens, a young girl
employed at the DeLuxe Cafe, was
attacked by an unidentified man, be
lieved to be colored, at Thirtieth and
Ohio streets, about 1 o’clock Wednes
day morning, as she was on her way
home from work, and brutally beaten
in her struggle to defend herself from
the evident design of her assailant.
According to the young woman’s
story, she was detained at the cafe,
where she is employed until nearly
10 o’clock, when she started for her
home at 3008 Miami street, going
west on Burdette street. As she
peached Thirtieth and Ohio street a
man suddenly came up behind her and
dragged her into the alley between
Ohio and Miami. As she screamed
and struggled her assailant beat her.
Her screams were heard by people in
the neighborhood who called police,
but the assailant made his escape. It
is alleged that persons who heard the
girl’s screams hesitated to investigate
lielieving that it was some man quar
reling with his wife.
As Miss Givens says she can give a
good description of her assailant it
ought not be difficult for the police
to arrest him.
The average value per acre of farm
land in Beaufort county, North Caro
lina, has decreased nearly $30 since
1920.
The latest controversy in the Bap
tist Church (white) is whether the
rite of baptism by immersion should
be regarded as optional or compul
sory.
PRESIDENT AND
MRS. COOLIDGE
SEE CADETS DRILL
Special to The Monitor by Walter J.
Singleton.
Washington, D. C., June 5.—An
assemblage of 30,000 persons wit
nessed the competitive (trill of the |
24th Regiment, Washington High
School Cadets Corps at the Griffith
Stadium recently. A distinguished
gathering was in attendance, headed
by the President of the United States
and Mrs. Coolidge, and the Japanese
ambassador. Among the other not
ables present were Lieut. Col. Arthur
Brooks, Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Curtis,
Mrs. Daniel Murry, Dr. and Mrs. Em
met J. Scott, Mrs. Robert H. Terrell,
Mrs. George H. Murry and Mrs. Fred
T. Smith of Jersey City. They occa
sion marked an epoch in the history of
the cadet organization in that it was
the first time the. Presdent ever at
tended the competitive drill.
Company G (of the Armstrong
Manual Training school) commanded
by Captain Carl E. Darden, was the
I winning company. Dunbar High
School Cadets were awarded second
and third places in the company drills,
and finished first in the batallion drill
which followed company maneuvers.
Campany F. commanded by Capt. Rob
ert G. Weaver, was the company win
ning second honors and Company A,
commanded by Capt. John C. Payne,
won the third place. The batallion
commander in this victorious com
j petition aws Major John G. Baytop.
1 The entire regiment headed bythe
i cadet band was reviewed by Presi
dent Coolidge.
Amid stirring enthusiasm the prize
winning companies were marched be
fore the committee on awards to re
ceive their hard won trophies. Cap
tain Darden received a valuable dia
mond studded medf.l, and the other
■ officers of his company gold medals.
Blue ribbons, symbolic of the 1925
cadet drill championship, were pinned
on the tunics of the non-commission
ed officers and privates. Silver med
als were presented to Captain Weaver
and the other officers of Company F,
and white ribbons to the non-commis
sioned officers and privates. Captain
Payne and his officers received bronze
medals, and the non-commissioned of
ficers and privates red ribbons. The
committee on awards, which presented
the prizes, consisted of Lieut. Col.
Noburn Morits, military attache of the
Japanese embassy; Lieut. Col. Wal
lace M. Cragie, U. S. A., professor of
1 military tactics and science in the
Washington high schools, and Dr.
J. Hayden Johnson, member of the
board of education. Other officials
1 of the education department parti
! cipated in the presentation ceremonies,
among whom were Superintendent
I Frank W. Ballou, Assistant Superin
j tendents Stephen E. Kramer, Robert
I L. Haycock and Garnet C. Wilkinson;
James T. Lloyd, president of the board
of education; Edwin C. Graham, Mrs.
Coralle F. Cook and Rev. F. I. A. Ben
nett, members of the board of educa
tion.
The Armstrong and Dunbar high
schools, and the Shaw and Randall
junior high schools were represented
in the drill, there being eleven com
panies in all. Leiut. Col. Benjamin
O. Davis of the U. S. Cavalry, himself
a former cadet captain, was the senior
judge, assisted by Captains Harry O.
Atwood and Sylvester Epps, both of
these officers being members of the
Infantry Reserve Corps. The line of
ficers of the victorious company
(other than Captain Darden) were
First Lieut. Othello De W. Branson
and Second Lieut. Frank J. Herbert.
Mrs. H. J. Crawford and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Florentine F. Pinkston, left
Monday for Denver to attend the bed
ding of Miss Harriett Russ which was
solemnized in the Church of the Re
deemer Wednesday. Miss Russ is
Mrs. Crawford’s niece.
RECEIVES HER DEGREE AT
NEBRASKA STATE UNIVERSITY
Miss Gladys Edrose Brown, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper E. Brown,
i883 Miami street, will receive her
B. A. degree from the Nebraska State
University, Lincoln, Saturday. Miss
Brown was born and reared in Omaha
and graduated from Central high
school in 1921. She spent her fresh
man year at the University of Kan
sas, but entered the University of
Nebraska in her sophmore year. She
majored in history. Miss Brown
plans to teach. She is a communicant
of St. Philip’s Episcopal church.
WILL SOON ORGANIZE
AMERICAN LABOR UNIONS
(Columbian Press Bureau.)
Washington, D. C., June 5.—It is
announced by the Internationa) Labor
News Service that the 108 national
and international unions are about to
launch a great campaign in whcih
colored workers will assist in bringing
their labor group into local and na
tional organizations. Talks will be
given by organizers during the noon
hours near great factories where the
organization of Negro employees is
much desired, and scenes stimulating
unity among all workers will be
shown in moving pictures to be used
by lecturers who will visit all the im
portant points n the United States
and Canada.
DEPT. OF JUSTICE
TO INVESTIGATE MOB
INCITING NEWSPAPER
New York, June 5.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People is informed in a let
ter from the U. S. Post Office Depart
ment that its complaint against “The
Argus”, a newspaper of Rockaway
Beach, N. Y., which published an in
cendiary anti-Negro editorial, has been
referred to the Department of Justice
for investigation.
The editorial complained of, advised
white men to take into their own
hands the cases of Negroes accused of
annoying women and not to let the
cases come before the courts.
FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
THREATENS DWELLING
Fire broke out at 2411 Seward
street at 1:45 Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Mamie Atkins was sleeping in
the room where the fire originated
and could give no information as to
the origin of it. Hose company No.
6 was called by a passer by and soon
extinguished the fire with little dam
age to the house and none to the fur
nishings.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Morton, nee
Irene Cochran, who have been touring
the west in concert work, have re
turned to Omaha. Mrs. Morton will
fill engagements this summer with
Deadlines’ band.
Miss Frances D. Gordon left today
for Jacksonville, 111., to bring home
her mother who has been an invalid
for years but has improved since her
trip to her old home.
BROWN’S OMAHA ROYAL GIANTS
WILL BE A SUMMER ATTRACTION
A double-header between Omaha’s
first colored baseball team and one
of the fastest colored nines in the
National Colored League is scheduled
to be played next Sunday afternoon
at League baseball park, Fifteenth
and Vinton streets.
The Omaha club is to be known as
Brown’s Omaha Royal Giants, and is
to play in Omaha each week-end when
the Omaha Western League club is
away from home.
Manager Brown is now officing at
the baseball park preparing an out
of-town schedule.
On June 12, 13 and 14 the Omaha
Giants are to play the Sioux City
Ghosts, a team which has played
eight games in and around Sioux City
in the past two weeks without meet
ing defeat.
On June 16, 17 and 18 the Ghosts
are to play the Omahans in Sioux
City.
The following is the Omaha club’s
line-up for next Sunday’s game:
Smith, If; Stewart, cf; Redd, ss;
Hines, 2b; Brown, rf; Hancock, 3b;
Giles, lb; Gray, c; Ragland, p; Black
burne, p.
TWELVE COLORED STUDENTS
GRADUATE FROM CENTRAL
AND TECH HIGH SCHOOLS
Central and Tech Tigh schools grad
uate this year 576 students. Gradu
ates from South High, North High;
and Benson High bring the total to
734. Twelve colored students grad
uate from Central and Tech or about
two and half per cent of the total
number, which is a decided gain over
the ratio of former years. From j
Central the boys are in the majority,
which is quite unusual, there being
four boys and three girls while at
Tech there is one lone boy among
four girls. The Centralites are Ger
ald Adams, Jesse C. Hutten, Martin
Thomas, Weldon Solomon, Florence
Jones, Melva McCaw and Ruth Pegg.
Those from Tech are Mae Allen, Ka
tie Cheney, Cleone Macklin, Helen
Redd, Theodore Davis, “Teddy” being
the lone “male of the species”. Sol
omon and Thomas have been out
standing athletes at Central, Solomon
having been recently awarded six
medals and two silver cups for track
work and Thomas winning honors in
football, track and discuss throwing.
They were two of the thirteen out
standing stars of Central who were
honored by Coach Schmidt at the class
banquet last Friday night at the Ho
tel Fontenelle.
WASHINGTON COLORED
WOMAN BEQUEATHES
$1,000 TO N. A. A. C. P.
Washington, D. C., June 5.—
The late Mrs. Bettie G. Francis of
Washington, D. C., by the terms of
her will recently filed for probate,
bequeathed the sum of $1,000 to the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, it was an
nounced recently. Other beneficiaries
of the will are: Howard University,
$2,500, and Phyllis Wheatley Y. W.
C. A., $1,000.
Mrs. Francis was for years an act
ive worker in the Washington branch
of the N. A. A. C. P.
BRIEFS
(Columbian Press Bureau.)
Mortality is lowest for infants born
in August and highest for those bom
in June.
We are sure than we can pick the
winner in the Chicago Defender’s
“Prettiest Girl” Contest.
Detroit will probably be the lead
ing convention city in 1926 because of
certain conditions just across the
river.
Colored retail dealers in boots and
shoes average one to every 73,169 per
sons of their own racial group.
The mortality rate for premature
infants is over six times as high as
that for infants bom at term.
In each group of 1,000 colored fe
males, 10 years of age or over, 389
as compared with 172 native white fe
males are gainfully employed.
TEACHERS SEEKIHG
EQIALIZATIOR IH
SALARY PAYHEHTS
Colored Teachers Are Conducting
Vigorous Campaign to Remove
Discriminations in
Stipends
PARITY IMPROVES EFFICIENCY
Illiteracy Rapidly Declining in States
Which Made Adequate Provisions
for Education of AH
Classes
(Columbian Press Bureau.)
Baltimore, Mil., June 6.—In Balti
more the colored teachers are con
ducting a vigorous campaign to have
their salaries in the public school
system placed upon a parity with
those paid to their white contempora
ries. In the Monumental City teach
ing qualifications for both races are
identical and the stadards of educa
tion for school youth are the same,
leaving the discriminatory salary dif
ferences between whites and blacks,
together with inferior building and
class room equipment the only dis
tinctions which prevail in Maryland
in its duty to its youthful ctizens of
today, who will take up the burden
of tomorrow.
Salary discriminations, usually com
mon to states which have separate
schools for white and colored youth,
are the most baneful result of that
system. However, in those few state
which have equalized salary standards
for white and colored teachers a fair
ly happy sentiment exists in the minds
of colored taxpayers, who know that
their contributions to the public treas
ury of the state are being equitably
divided for all public purposes, in
cluding teaching compensations for
both white and colored instructors.
Close scrutiny will disclose that il
literacy among Negroes is declining
in states which make adequate ap
propriations and grant equalized sal
aries for the education of Negro
youth. School attendance, too, is on
the increase in those states, whether
they adhere to the separate schools
or mixed schools policy. Maryland’s
democratic governor would do well to
press for the equity sought by the
colored teachers of his state, and thus
point out the way for other southern
states to follow, in case any of them
desire to show a change of heart and
genuinely apply themselves to supply
ing increased educational advantages
for all citizens; for, as Governor Cool
idge of Massachusetts once said: "No
talent is too high for education, and
no price too great for understanding.”
And it naturally follows that talent
and understanding know- no color line
-neither do the dollars and cents
with which talent and understanding
may be stimulated and promoted.
Since 1920 there has been a decrease
of 302 farm operators in Warren
county, Mississippi, 295 of whom were
colored.
The chief divisions of mankind are
the Causacian, Ethiopian (not Negro),
Mongolian, Malay and American; or,
as familiarly called, the white, black,
yellow, brown and red races.
Some of our automobile drivers will
not be able to qualify as chariot driv
ers on the golden streets.
G. W. Turner, a young colored man
in New \ork City, is the proprietor
of an electrical shop in which he em
ploys twelve men and a female book
keeper.
A candidate for office had been
campaigning rather strenuously for
several weeks and it was his habit to
get home about 1 a. m. with a beauti
ful jag. Finally his wife got tired of
his conduct and concluded to give him
a scare. She watched for his home
coming and whe nhe staggered from
the gate toward the house she jump
ed out from a cluster of bushes with
a sheet over her head and posed dir
ectly in front of the old man. He
halted and staring as the ghost-like
form said, “Who-hic- are you?” "I
am the devil,” growled the ghost. “Oh,
that’s all right,” stammered the hus
band. “I ain’t afraid of you. 1 mar
ried your sister sixteen years ago.”
One of the important political
speakers addressing a packing house
audience wes interrupted by a laborer
and it made him angry. Pointing his
finger in the fellow’s face the speaker
said: “I don’t mind being swallowed
by a whale, but I do object to being
gored to death by a shrimp. Now you
keep still.”