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TUSK1 'GEE MOURNS FOR FOUNDERS WIDOW
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PRESENT PAGEANT
FOUNDED ON BOOK
OF OMAHA AUTHOR
George Wells Parker’s “Children of
the Sun” Furnishes Theme
For Magnificent
Spectacle.
MUSIC BY CLARENCE WHITE
West Virginia Collegiate Institute
Students Delight Audience
With Wonderful
Pageant.
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Institute, W. Va., June 12.—Pag
eantry of artistic expression on June
1, at West Virginia Collegiate Insti
tute, when more than 1B0 students as
sisted by the Institute band, orches
tra and glee clubs, presented the
‘‘Children of The Sun. The college
auditorium was packed beyond capac
ity and it is the concensus of opinion
that the new pageant not only adds
new valuation to American composi
tion, but that it has opened an unex
plored fields of dramatic treasures
that are priceless to the new race in
America.
The pageant is the result of several
years of colaboration between Clar
ence Cameron White, nationally
known violinist, and George Wells
Parker, author of the Jiook, “The
Children of the Sun.” The music of |
the pageant is the first lengthy com
|K»sition by Mr. White and from the |
years he has given to extended re
-earch into the study of ancient mu
ic for the purpose of this pegeant,
he has not only contributed new valu-;
ues to our racial art, but to national j
art as well. The scenes and dances |
were arranged by Mr. Parker, who is I
an authority as a race historian and
is well known to our reading public.
The theme is startling in its new
ness, inspiring in its gorgeous set
tings and masterful in its musical
treatment and presentation. The pro
logue represents a Negro student
deeply studying ancient Egyptian
magic. Unwittingly he repeats a
cahalstic form that calls before him
the Spirit of the Past. The Spirit de
mands why he has been disturbed ]
from his repose of centuries and the j
student, half in feaf, explains that ticj
has been trying to learn something
of the past history of his race. When
he tells how modern opinion has railed
his race inferior, the Spirit laughs
and asks him if he would have him
recall from the past some of the epi
tides in the history of the mighty ]
African race. The student assents,
whereupon the thunders roll and
lightnings flash and one by one come
inspiring ami gorgeous scenes of the
time when Africa ruled the world.
The first scene depicts the disper
sion of the Ethiopians. It is dusk and
the populace and heroes await the
coming of their queen, Aurora, the
goddess of the dawn and the messen
ger of the gods. Aurora is the wife
of Tithonus, king of Ethiopia, and j
she returns to him each evening after I
she has driven the golden chariot of j
the sun across the skies. To each of
the heroes she delivers the commands j
of the gods that they go forth thru- |
out the world and build nations anil i
create civilizations. The succeeding I
scenes are laid in Egypt, Chaldea, j
Tyre and Greece anil each is worked j
out with gorgeous stage settings, per- ,
iod costumes, characteristic music |
and native dances. Mr. White’s inter-!
pretive music is marvelous for its i
haunting beauty, exotic melodies and i
minor strains. Those who heard it |
could not help but feel the tie that!
linked them across the ages.
Each scene carried a classic dance j
and while all were beautifully and j
rhythmically executed, undoubtedly j
the Dance of the Zodiac was the most \
beautiful of all. The scene showed j
night upon the Plains of Shinar. Up
on the top of the tower were seen
wise men and astrologers studying
the stars that lighted the midnight
sky. Below were the dancers of the j
dark, twelve maidens, each bearing aj
sign of thP zodiac electrically lighted
and of glowing gold. This dance
brought round after round of applause
from the thousands who witnessed it.
The other scenes presented were
Sun worship before the temple of El
Kamnc, at Thebes in Egypt; astrol
ogy and prophecy in Chaldea; the har
bor of Tyre, the first mistress of the
seas; the marriage of Helen and Me
nelaus at Argos in Greece; and the j
last a symbolic scene of the modern |
African laying the foundations of a
new and grander civilization. In the
background of the last scene a raised
dais shows many of the great heroes
and heroines half enveloped in clouds
and watching the labors of the mul
titude below. As the scene approaches
an end, Aurora, the golden goddess,
drives in with her chariot and raises
her hands in blessing, repeating the
promise that she has made the Chil
dren of The Sun of old, that she shall
watch over them always from the
skies and love them forever and for
ever.
Miss Mary L. Strong of the insti
tute was the general director of the
pageant and its presentation be
speaks her ability as an organizer
and manager.
ST. PAUL PRESBYTERIAN
PROCURES PROMINENT
PITTSBURGH PASTOR
The Rev. Charles Henry Trusty Be
gins Pastorate Here Next Sun
day—Has Strong Testimonials
From Former Field.
Rev. Charles Henry Trutsy, D. D.,
of Pittsburgh, Pa., commences his
work as pastor of the St. Paul Pres
byterian church on next Sabbath, June
14th. Dr. Trusty comes to Omaha
with a record of unusual achieve
ments and as a recognized leader
among the colored people of the
North.
He was born in Cold Springs, N. J.,
where he graduated from the public
school. Later he completed his col
lege course and received his A. B. de
gree from Lincoln university. From
this institution he also graduated from
the seminary. His unusual ability
was immediately recognized and for
three years he taught in this institu
tion. From here Dr. Trusty was culled
to Louisville, Tenn., where he organ
ized a Presbyterian church. At Chat
tanooga he built a church and manse
and founded the Newton Normal In
stitution and added more than 200
members to the church at that place.
As pastor of the Lafayette Presby
terian church, Jersey City, he was in
strumental in erecting a splendid
brick structure, providing a manse
and doubling the membership. From
Jersey City he was called to his pres
ent pastorate in Pittsburgh. During
his pastorate there he has received
988 members and organized two
churches as a result of the mission
stations established by the Grace
Memorial church of which he was
pastor.
The high esteem in which Dr. Trus
ty is held in Pittsburgh is attested by
the fact that he was recently chosen
Moderator of Pittsburgh Presbytery
which is the largest Presbytery with
in the bounds of the Presbyterian
church. The letters received, not only
from our people but the white breth
ren of his Presbytery, have been uni
form in words of praise and commen
dation, describing him as an eloquent
preacher, a tireless worker and a con
secrated Christian gentleman.
Both the St. Paul’s Presbyterian
church and the Church Extension
committee, under whose direction Dr.
Trusty enters upon his work, is to
be congratulated in securing such an
able leader to minister not only to an
individual church but to render as
sistance to all that pertains to the
moral and spiritual advancement of
the colored people of the city of Om
aha. For the present the services
will be hebi at the Y. W. C. A. build
ing at 22nd and Grant. The public
is cordially invited.
COMMENCEMENT AT LINCOLN
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Oxford, Pa., June 12.—Commence
ment exercises were held at Lincoln
university, June 6 to 9. Memorial
services were held for the late Rev.
John Bullard Randall, late president
of the school, and for Dr. George E.
Cannon, late president of the Alumni
association. The commencement ad
dress was delivered by Howard Mc
Clenahan, dean of the college, Prince
ton university.
Miss Edna liickinan is quite ill at the
resilience of her mother on North Twenty
first street.
COMMENDS MONITOR EDITORIAL; PRESENTS PERT
INENT FACTS AND MAKES EXCELLENT SDGGESTIONS
Omaha, Nebr., June 5th, 1925.
Editor, The Monitor:
Your editorial "Our Strength In
Omaha”, which was published in The
Monitor of May 28th, has just been
carefully read by our committee, it
is the best editorial you have ever
written on an economic subject ap
plicable to the Colored People of Om
aha.
We wonder if the colored people
who read it, understand it. If they
do, our business enterprises will soon
prosper. If they do not underdstand
it, they must be educated to do so.
How shall that be done ? As fol
lows:
Every colored minister, attorney,
physician, dentist, business man, frat
ernal leader and every newspaper and
other organization should give the col
ored people the facts concerning them
selves and their power. They should
tell them, and tell them every day,
that the colored people of Omaha
spend every day an average of $16,
000.00 for the necessities of life, such
as food, shelter, clothing and health.
This would total $450,000.00 per
month, $5,300,000.00 per year. Ex
cluding the subject of health, to which
reference shall be made hereafter, less
than one per cent of this vast total
is spent among the colored people.
And, think of it, forty per cent of
the colored people have white physi
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cians, with whom the treatment of
colored people, in the very nature of
things, is much more difficult than
for colored physicians. The same sit
uation prevails among dentists, and
it is even worse when we reach attor
neys. Even in the district largely
occupied by the colored people, all
white people wak by taxicabs owned
by colored men and ride in cabs owned
by white men, cabs, too of the same
model, while more than half the col
ored people walk by the cabs owned
by colored men and ride in cabs owned
by white men, and wonder why colored
men do not have more cabs.
There are two establishments in the
district largely occupied by colored
people which are owned by colored
people which sell hosiery and other
wearing apparel. They are The North
Side Bazaar and H. J. Crawford &
Sons. They sell women’s hose and
men’s socks. We have 17,000 pairs of
feet, colored, which have to be cov
ered with either hose or socks. If
the colored people would buy them
from these concerns they would be
independent within a year. The
turnover in these items alone would
amount to $40,000 annually . Don’t
you see that, if these concerns got
the business, they could employ many
boys and girls, advertise in the col
ored papers, and even lay the founda
tion for many competencies. And
what is true of these two concerns is
true of every other Negro business.
We must educate the people; we
must prepare to serve them; we must
organize all lines of business so that
one desk may serve as the purchasing
center for all in the same line. In
this we can receive the advice and
help of trained experts without cost.
And these things we must do. And
if we do them, we shall thereby win
what we should have. And unless we
do these things, we get what we win,
which will be exactly nothing.
It is up to the colored business men
and women; ,the colored ministers,
everyone of them; the doctors, den
tists, attorneys, fraternal men, news
papers, and Mr. Every Day Colored
Man and Woman.
The Colored Commercial Club of
fers the aid of its Publicity Commit
tee in this campaign of education;
if offers any other service it has to
that end, and it invites all business
concerns to use its rooms for organi
zation purposes and meetings for the
discussion and furtherance of their
businesses.
The Monitor inspired this long com
munication, and we say now that there
will be many others to the same ef
fect.
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE,
Colored Commercial Club of Omaha.
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JIM HANCOX, NEGRO BABE RUTH,
AT LEAGUE PARK THIS WEEK-ENO
The Sioux City Ghosts, colored base
ball team, proclaimed by Sioux City
sport writers to be the fastest colored
nine ever gathered together in the
northwest, is to play the Omaha Royal
Giants at league baseball park Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday.
Friday is to be ladies’ day and all
ladies are to be admitted free of
charge to the grounds and grand
stand. F’riday and Saturday the game
is to begin at 3 o’clock while Sunday
afternoon, the same teams will play a
doubleheader, beginning at 2 o’clock.
This is one of the best athletic at
tractions ever booked for Omaha from
the standpoint of Omaha’s colored
people.
Included in the Ghosts’ lineup are
to be Babe Hancox, known throughout
the south as the “Babe Ruth of Negro
Baseball”, because of his tremendous
hitting power. Last year Hancox
played first base for the Oklahoma
Go Devils and hit fourteen home runs
in sixteen consecutive games, a world
record for long range hitting. Han
cox plays first base for* the Ghosts.
On Decoration Day he hit a ball over
| the left field fence at Lakeview, La.,
estimated to be a distance of 412 feet
from home base. It was the first
time in the park’s history that a
player had hit a pitched 'ball over that
fence.
Wingfield, who pitched last summer
for the Chicago Giants, and who
struck out sixteen men in six innings
against the strong all-salaried Corn
ing, la., team two weeks ago, is to
be on the mound for the Ghosts in
two of the four games.
Manager and Owner T. J. Brown of
the Omaha Royal Giants said yester
day that he probably will send his
pitching ace, Smoky Ragland against
the Ghosts on Friday and in the sec
ond game Sunday.
The Ghosts are not only one of the
best ball playing clubs in the central
west but their infield practice before
each game is better than many vaude
vile acts today. They haven’t failed
thus far this season to get a laugh out
of every crowd before which they
played. In four games they have
amassed a total of 61 runs to their
opponents’ 6.
Following is the lineup for the three
days:
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Omaha Royal Giants: Smith If,
Stewart of, Redd ss, Hines 2b, Brown
rf, Hancock 3b, Giles lto, Gray c, Rag
land p, Blackboume p; Sioux City
Ghosts: Scott If, Dials cf, Williams
ss, Broadway 2b, Jones rf, Spearman
3b, Hancox lb, Harris c, Wingfield p,
S. B. Smith p, Joe Smith p, Clyde
Smith p, Bailey utility.
HOWARD’S BUDGET A MILLION
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Washington, D. C. June 12.—How
ard university’s budget for the next
school year will total $856,000 or near
ly a million dollars, according to Dr.
Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer
of the institution. This is the largest
budget of any colored school in the
world, and includes more than a hun
dred thousand dollars for the equip
ment of the medical school.
Dr. Francis J. Grimke, a Howard
trustee for 40 years, resigned. New
trustees elected were: Victor B. Dey
ber, C. M. Pope, Dr. C. Sumner Worm
ley and John E. Hawkins, all of this
city. Mr. Hawkins recently succeeded
in securing a gift of $200,000 for Kit
trell college in North Carolina.
Miss Margery Weston of New York City
is visiting her mother, Mrs. Elmira Wes
ton, Twenty-sixth and Corby streets. Miss
Weston came to the city last Saturday
morning and will remain for six weeks.
KITTRELL COLLEGE
GIVEN $200,000
(Associated Negro Press)
Durham, N. C., June 12.—One of
the most significant gifts to Negro |
education in many years is that of
$200,000 given by Benjamin H. Duke,
tobacco magnate, to Kittrell college,
about fifty miles from this city. John
R. Hawkins, financial secretary of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church, was largely responsible for
the donation which is unconditional,
except that $100,000 of it, stock in
the Southern Power company, be used
as an endowment fund. Hitherto the
school’s endowment has been only
three thousand dollars. It is the ward
of the Second Episcopal district of
the A. M. E. church.
Trinity, now Duke, college, white,
and Kittrell college have long been
the beneficiaries of the manificence
of members of the Duke famiy, and
much of their interest is thought to
have been inspired by what Negroes
themselves have done for the school,
there being buildings on the campus
now erected with money given by the
late president Merrick of the North
Carolina Mutual Insurance Company
and W. G. Pearson, president of the
Bankers Fire Insurance Company.
The next building to be erected at
Kittrell will be an administration
building, named Angier B. Duke, in
honor of the donor’s son.
PERSONS OF NOTE
VISIT TUSKEGEE
(Associated Negro Press)
Tuskegee Institute, Ala., June 12.—
Among the recent visitors at Tuske
gee Institute were Basil Matthews,
the noted English writer, who is in
America making a study of social con
ditions. Mr. Matthew’s most recent
book is “The Clash of Color.”
Another prominent visitor was Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Jr., who in com
pany with his secretary, Mr. Brodix,
stopped over at Tuskegee while mo
toring to California.
Mr. Vanderbilt had planned to stop
for thirty minutes but was so im
pressed with the magnitude of the in
stitute that he remained for more
than three hours.
He was greeted by Dr. Moton and
after visiting a number of the shops
and listening to songs by the insti
tute choir, he made a few remarks of
appreciation of the work of Tuskegee
Institute in which he paid special
tribute to the present principal for
the wise and helpful manner in which
he is conducting the affairs of the
school.
Mr. Hastings S. Hart, Consultant
in Delinquency and Penology of the
Russell Sage Foundation, was also a
visitor at the institute during the past
week.
COLORED TEACHER HONORED
(Columbian Press Bureau)
New York, June 12.—Prof. Isaac
Fisher, teacher of Fisk university,
Nashville, Tenn., has been chosen as
one of the 15 scholars and educators
in the United States who will receive
fellowships from the John Simon Gug
genheim Memorial Foundation. Prof.
Fisher will study danger trends in
world racial relations in this country
and abroad. The Foundation, with a
fund of $3,000,000, was established
by Simon Guggenheim, former United
States senator from Colorado, and
Mrs. Guggenheim in memory of their
son, who died in 1922. After this
year it is expected to appoint from 40
to 50 scholars annually, each to re
ceive about $2,500 to carry on specific
work.
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SENIORS ENTERTAINED
BY HOWARD PRESIDENT
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Washington, D. C., June 12.—Grad
uate students of Howard university
were guests at a reception in the
home of the president, .1. Stanley Dur
kee, Monday afternoon.
URBAN LEAGUE
SECRETARY TO MARRY
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, 111., June 12.—A. L. Foster,
recently appointed secretary of the
Chicago Urban League, will be mar
ried on June 23 to Miss Mildred Louise
Randolph of New York, at St. Philip’s
Episcopal church.
BUYS KILLYS KNIGHT SEDAN
J. D. Lewis, the enterprising and pro
gressive taxi man, has added to his equip
ment a handsome up-to-date seven-pas
senger Willys-Knight sedan.
B. T. WASHINGTON’S
WIDOW ANSWERS
FIIAL SUMMONS
Famous Helpmeet of Founder of Tus
kegee Institute Succumbs to
Illness at Her Late
Residence.
RECOGNIZED AS WISE LEADER
President of International Council of
Women of the Darker Races
and Prominent in Inter
Racial Affairs.
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Tuskegee Institute, Ala., June 12.—
Mrs. Margaret J. Murray Washington
is dead. The widow of the late Book
er T. Washington succumbed at her
home, “The Oaks’, at nine o’clock last
Thursday night after an illness of a
month’s duration. Friends and ac
quaintances the country over were
shocked because after being in feeble
health two years ago, Mrs. Washing
ton had rallied and of late months
had been particularly strong and vig
orous.
Mrs. Washington was born March 9,
1865, at Macon, Miss. Graduated from
Fisk University in 1899 and was em
ployed as lady principal at Tuskegee
Institute after her graduation.
In 1892 she married the late Book
er T. Washington and was later ap
pointed director of girls’ industries.
She ably complemented the work of
her husband and became a prominent
figure in educational and social ad
vancement of colored people. She
served two terms as president Na
tional Federation of Colored Women’s
Clubs and at the time of her death
was president of the International
Council of Women of the Darker
Races and president of the Alaba/na
State Federation of Colored Women’s
clubs.
In the state of Alabama she aided
the organization of reformation of
Negro boys at Mt. Meigs, Ala., and
more recently through the activities
of the Tuskegee Women’s Clubs of
which she was president, organized a
similar institution for delinquent Ne
gro girls.
She was laid to rest Tuesday beside
her illustrious husband.
MISS ANNIE ELEISE COTTRELL
VISITING RELATIVES HERE
Miss Annie Eleise Cottrell, who will
tie remembered by music lovers from
the splendid program which she ren
dered last summer at Zion Baptist
church, arrived in th city Sunday eve
ning. She is visiting her aunt, Mrs.
James Turner, 2514 Corby street. Due
to a teaching engagement this sum
mer, Miss Cottrell will spend only a
week with her aunt. She will leave
Sunday or Monday for Jefferson City,
Mo., where she will immediately re
sume her work for the summer at
Lincoln university.
It was hoped at her graduation by
her teachers and most ardent friends
that Miss Cottrell would one day be
the foremost concertist of the coun
try. In a recent interview, however,
she said that she is no longer in the
concert mood. She says that she likes
teaching better.
BRIEFS
(Columbian Press Bureau)
Of the more than 1,800 female den
tists, only 35 are colored.
Sumter county, Georgia, has lost
9G1 colored farmers during the past
five years.
Over in Africa the native children
are crowding into the schools where
ever an opportunity is offered.
In Georgia, more than 108,000 chil
dren, 7 to 13 years of age, do not at
tend school.
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis
advises every boy and girl in the land
to learn a trade.
Mortality from all causes is much
higher among twins and triplets than
among other babies.
joining any such owners as seek to
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Washington, D. C., June 12—The
right of white property owners in the
Bloomingdale district of this city, to
keep out colored citizens, under the
covenants contained in the deeds to
all the property in the block, by en
sell to colored persons, was sustained
this week in the District Court of Ap
peals.