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' t \ • TIMm The Monitor f § NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS j” THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor a Year—5c £ 3opy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1925 Whole Number 524 Vol. XI—No. 3 NEG 0 DQCTO S FOB GOTHAM 0SP1TALS The Local Klu Kluxers Secure Services of Famous Negro BancLi HAL LIE Q. BROWN IS AGAIN HONORED Famous Lecturer to Serve On Reception Committee at Atlantic City W I L B ERFOItCE COLLEGE, Ohio—Miss Hailie Q. Brown, of the faculty of WilberLtrce College, lecturer, scholar and teacher of international repute, has accepted the invitation from Madame Mamie Hightower to serve on the Recep tion Committee at Atlantic City in honor of Miss Golden Brown of America, and four other scintillat ing beauties from our race firma ment. Reading like a fairy tale. Miss Brown’s life story is extremely rich ir. romance and high achieve ment. Born on a little farm in Chatham, Canada, Miss Brown has rapid:; risen in tile esteem of the peoples of two continents, and she is today as firmly fixed in the af fections of the residents of Aber deen -wotiftnd, as she is in those of Abe deen, Mississippi—in York shire, England, as in New York, U. S. A. She is both a lecturer and inter r.roUifve reader of the front rank. Mis? Brown has appeared on the . lyceura platforms of hundreds of American and Continental cities, . always with a single result: a cor dial greeting and the unanimous acclaim of the populace. Included in the Hailie Q. Brown \ repertoire are: Ha* Big Repertoire “Queen Victoria's Golden Jubi lee'’—My visit to Windsor Castle. "Robert Burn-, th;> Scottish Plowman”—Song, Lecture and Re cital. “Pair! Lawrence Dunbar”—His humor and pathos ill poetry and pros* “Folk-Lore and Folk-Song”— Illustrated by quaint wit and wis dom o£ cotton field and cabin. “The Humor and Conflict of the World's Oppressed.” , I or Sunday—“Character Build ing and “The Cull to Arms.” Besides these lectures. Miss Brown has delivered hundreds of talks before the Women’s Chris tian Temperance Union and other organizations, including the Y. M. C. A., B. W. T., etc., on various weeks’ temperance missions. The Aberdeen (Scotland) Journal, one of the leading literary lights of Lauder-Land, recently said: “Miss Brown displayed remarkable elo cutionary powers, and her gestures were graceful and appropriate. . . . Her Negro Folk-Song was a quaint and plaintive lullaby." For some time Miss Hailie Q. Brown has honorably filled the chair of oratory and public speak ing at Wilberforce College, Ohio. Fine Reception Committee Long an admirer of her friend, Madame Mamie Hightower’s ines timable service to our Group as a beauty culturist and benefactress, the acceptance of Miss Brown on the International Reception Com mittee completes a group of race publicists unique in the nation’s annals. B -sides Miss Brown, Rob ert L. Vann, editor of the Pitts burgh Courier; Edouard Scott, the Rembrandt of rucc artists, ami C. C. Spaulding, president of the North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Co., have already signi fied their intention of assisting Madame Hightower in welcoming the loveliest girls and women of our Group in Atlantic City. Besides the Hudson Super-Six Coach, which will be given to Miss Golden Brown of America, along with a $100.00 trousseau and free trip to Atlantic City, with all ex e penses paid—four other free trips ;ar.d four other $100.00 trousseaus and forty-eight dazzling diamond rings will be given to those glo rious girls, the very flower of our Group, who receive the most votes in Madame Mamie Hightower’s Na tional Golden Brown Beauty Con 1 From 50 to 100 are packed with each of the justly famous Golden Brown Beauty Preparations, and girls from Portland, Maine, to jr Portland, Oregon, are striving with might and main to achieve the coveted honor. Friends, too, have entered the spirit of the Contest and are backing their favorites to the limit. Do you believe in evolution? Subscribe for The Monitor! SHERIFFS ARE CREDITED WITH LYHCHIHG DECLIHE Interracial Commission Sends Com mendatory Letter to South’s Law Enforcement Officers PREVENT MANY MOB MURDERS Vigilance and Determination of Of ficers to Protect Prisoners Re sult of Aroused Public Sentiment Atlanta, Ga., July 24.—To the en deavors of sheriffs and other peace officers in the performance of duty— sometimes dangerous and on occa sion unpopular— is to be credited the steady decrease in the number of lynchings, the Commission on Inter racial Co-operation holds in a letter sent the sheriffs of the several south ern states. The growing number of reported “preventions" of mob violence in pro portion to the decreasing number of lynchings, the letter sets out, is clear ly the result of the officers’ vigilance, and at the same time points “the way to the final extinction of mob viol ence,” by which peculiarly the Amer ican crime may speedily be wiped from the map by fuithful officers, backed by an aroused public senti ment.” The commission’s letter to the sheriffs, signed by Dr. M. Ashby Jones, chairman, and Will W. Alexan der, director, is as follows: “During the last three years Amer ica’s annual lynching record has de creased 70 per cent— from fifty-eight in 1922 to twenty-eight in 1923 and to sixteen last year. This is most gratifying and has occasioned nation wide comment. “That this trend is due largely to the vigilance of sheriffs is dearly in dicated by a study of the records. In 1914 there were fifty-two lynchings and only fourteen reported preven tions. In 1924 the figures were re versed—sixteen lynchings and forty five preventions. These figures tell the story and point the way to the final extinction of mob violence. In this effort our officers have undoubt edly had and will have the full ap proval and support of enlightened public opnion in the south. “The purpose of this letter is to express on behalf of the Interracial Commission and its hundreds of af filiated state and county committees their cordial appreciation of the fidel ity and courage on the part of the sheriffs which has brought about this gratifying change. In successfully op posing mobs these officers are doing something more than protecting their prisoners, whether guilty or innocent. They are protecting the law and con stitutions of state and nation. They are upholding the good name of their communities, their states and their country. They are defending civiliza tion itself against the threat of anarchy. This peculiarly American crime may speedily be wiped from the map by faithful officers, backed by an aroused public sentiment. To that end we wish you Godspeed and pledge you our hearty co-operation and sup port.” REV. CHARLES STEWART DIES Chicago, III., July 24.—(By the As sociated Negro Press.)—Telegraphic dispatches from Guthrie, Okla., bring the news of the death of Charles Stewart, vpteran newspaper man, who resided in Chicago. Mr. Stewart, per haps better known as Charlie Stew art, has been one of the foremost journalist of the Negro race for many years, writing under various pen names, such as, “J. J. O. Midnight” and “Charles E. Stump”. He was a correspondent to many weeklies and dailies and to the Associated Press, and was a familiar figure at various conventions held throughout the coun try. In addition to being a good news paper man, Mr. Stewart was an or dained minister and a leading spirit in the National Baptist convention. His passing coming after several years of failing health, brings to a close a brilliant and useful career. He is survived by Mrs. Effie Stewart and Charles, Jr. FOR RENT—Furnished or unfurnish ed rooms for rent to respectable married couple. 2310 Twenty-second street. WEbster 4162. j RECHRISTENED AS A MARK OF RESPECT (Editorial in Dallas, Tex., Morning News.) The sleeping car Sirocco was in the ! wreck that cost so many lives near Rockport, N. J., last month. When it comes out of the repair shops it will bear the name of Daniels. The new name is in honor of the porter who used to have the car in charge. Oscar J. Daniels he was on the pay roll of the Pullman Company, but he an swered to Oscar or Daniels or George. It was all the same to Oscar. Illack though his skin was, he had the heart of courage when the last great test ing came. In the face of clouds of live steam from the wrecked locomo tive he closed the door of his car and saved others instead of himself. The steam took Oscar into its arms of agony and handed him over to death. But he lived long enough afterward to wave an attending physician to a little child whose need he adjudged greater than his own. It is said that this is the first time in the history of the sleeping car com pany that an employee’s name has gone on a car. But there will be no criticism of its lapse from policy. J Bravery knows no conditions save the need of it, and manhood rises above j the accidents and inheritances of life. No man could have done more than Oscar Daniels did. A man can not be born too humble or by misfortune sink too low to reach up and achieve heroism, pro vided the stuff of heroes is in his heart. It may be that Oscar Daniels did what he did without thinking. It may be that it was all over before he consciously thought at all. It may be that the grooves of duty to those for whom he was responsible held his actions when actions counted most for them— and most for him because of them. But, however, these things may be, no man, be he black or brown or white, need hesitate to take off his hat as he enters the sleeping car that Oscar Daniels rechristened with sacrifice. The next regular meeting of the Old Folks Home will be held at Elmwood park August 5th, instead of at the Home. Meet ing at 10:30 a. m. Breakfast will he served to all ministers and their wives, also mem hers, at 8:30 a. m. Members who are not donating who attend the breakfast will be expected to pay for their breakfast. The hoard meeting is the first Thursday even ing in August at 8:00 p. nt. All members expected to be present. Dr. Hutlen's of fice. UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE PUBLISHES VOL. 1 OF TESTIMONY ON AMERICAN IMPERIALISM Volume I of the testimony given before the Senate Committee on For eign Relations, on the subject of Am erican domination and exploitation of Haiti, Santo Domingo, Nicaragua and other South and Central American countries, has now been published and includes the testimony of James Wel don Johnson, Secretary of the Nation al Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Dr. Ernest H. Omening; Lewis S. Gannett, an editor of The Nation; Dr. Samuel Guy In man and Mrs. Helena Hill Weed. The hearings were held on the Ladd Re solution which would prohibit military action by the government in behalf of private investors in foreign countries. Startling facts were elicited in the testimony now first published. Mr. Gannett stated that 10 of the 21 re publics in the Western Hemisphere “are under almost complete domina tion by North American bankers. In 6 of the 10 the financial agents are,! or have been, supported by American ' troops on the ground. At least four other countries are closely tied to the United States by fiscal bonds, and in these and other concessions and loan contracts seem likely to lead to a re petition of the old process by which the marines follow the investor.” In the case of the Republic of Sal vador, asserted Mr. Gannett, “the bankers, in selling their bonds, prom ised substantially that warships of the Unites! States would be used if necessary to collect their loans.” James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peple, who was the next to testify, said of the occupation of Nicaragua and Haiti: “I think that the placing of American troops in those two countries was al most wholly if not entirely dictated by the protection of the financial in terests. The reasons put forth for our intervention In Nicaragua and Haiti, that is, the reasons put forth to the public, I don’t think are the true reasons. Indeed, they are sheer hypocrisy. When w;e went into Haiti our government said, and it w'as gen erally given out to the American peo ple, that we went in to protect Amer ican lives and to establish order. The truth of the matter is that we had keen negotiating diplomatically with Haiti for several years, and very ac tively for more than a year, to estab lish some sort of suzerainty over Haiti. There came up some events which gave us the opportunity Or, I might say, the excuse to go in, and we went in and took over the Haitian government. Actually there never hal been the loss of any American life in Haiti before the American occupa tion.” Of the churge that American troops had to suppress “banditry” in Haiti, Mr. Johnson said: “There was no such thing as banditry in Haiti before the American intervention. They had a country in which the percentage of crime was considerably less than in 'our own country, and women—white women—could travel from one end of the country to the other without the least molestation. Robbery was al most unknown. These Haitians who got the name of ‘bandits’ were men engaged in a futile attempt to expel the invader believing they could do something to regain the sovereignty of their native soil. The America of 17f6 would have called them patriots, not bandits.” The testimony of Dr. Ernest Gruen ing, former managing editor of The Nation, gives the full history of the United States invasion of Haiti, the seizure of custom houses and national funds and characterizes as “murder" the dropping of bombs on Haitian vil lages and shooting of Haitian na tives. Mrs. Helena Hill Weed-, whose hus band was a mining engineer, testified that she had travelled throughout the mountains of Haiti on horseback and had never been molested. She gave it as her opinion that the American oc t upation had worked great harm to the country. Dr. Samuel Guy Inman,\ in the course of his testimony, gave an ex haustive analysis of the loans made to or forced upon South and Central American republics by bankers of the United States. The volume of testimony is recom mended by the N. A. A. C. P. to -all those wishing accurate and extensive information on the imperialism prac tised by their country. HAMPTON ENROLLS OVER SIX HUNDRED TEACHERS Hampton, Va., July 24.—(By the Associated Negro Pres.)—Dr. George P. Phenix, vice-principal of Hampton Institute, reports that the first ses sion of the Summer School for Teach ers includes 76 men and 521 women. Of the total enrollment of 667, Vir ginia has furnished 226 students; North Carolina, 244; Maryland, 54; South Carolina, 27; Georgia, 18; Ala bama, 14; Fiorina, 13; Kentucky, 10; Arkansas and Mississippi, 9 each; New York, 4; Kansas and New Jersey, 2 each; Connecticut, Illinois, Oklaho ma and Pennsylvania, 1 each. PAYS TRIBUTE TO OUR SONGS Hampton, Va., July 24.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Rose Mor gan of Leonia, N. J., who is well known as the author of “Songs That Live”, published by Cornell university, recently gave in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute, a song recital as a curtain raiser to the observance of Indepen dence Day. Mrs. Morgan declared that the Negro folk songs had made a distinctive contribution to the song life of America. COLORED TEAM CHAL LENGES KU KLUX KLAN Sterling, III., July 24.—(By the As sociated Negro Press.)—Despite the enmity of the Klan und the supersti tion which Negroes are supposed to harbor in respect to the organization the Sterling Browns, one of the best baseball teams in this section of the country, has challenged the local Ku Klux Klan outfit for a game to be played here for a side purse during the Klan demonstrations at the end of the month. On the day after the challenge was issued the Browns de feated the Sterling Stars, a white team which had not been defeated this season. BRIEFS (Columbian Press Bureau) There are approximately 3,100 colored women employed as elevator operators. Farm wages have increased over 200 per cent during the past dxty years. The report is currant that our hair dressers are forming a national organiza tion. Charleston county. South Carolina, has 398 less colored farmers than five years ago. When more of our leaders adopt the old slogan Not for self hut for all” our prog ress will he more pronounced. HOUSTON SEEKS HIGH SCHOOLS Houston, Tex., July 24.—By the Asso ciated Negro Press.—1 he Interracial Com mittee of this city at a recent meeing de cided to ask the city administration for the addition of five colored men to the police force of Houston, and also for the establishment of a senior high school and two junior high schools for colored chil dren. The meeting was held in the Cham ber of Commerce rooms and was attended by a group of representative white and colored leaders, mostly business and pro fessional men. NEGROES PROTECT HOME FROM HOODLUMS Detroit, Mich., July 24.—Determined not to lie run out of their new home by a mob *of white hoodlums, seven Negroes baricaded in u house opened fire on the atackers who were bent on ousting them from the house on account of their color In the melee one white boy was killed. The police arrived on the scene just in time to prevent other casualties. Follow ing the event, signs were poster in the neighborhood calling a meeting of the Ku KIux Klan on July 25. TENTH CAVALRY BAND AT BUSINESS LEAGUE MEETING Luisa, Okla, July 24.—The entertain ment committee of the Tulsa Negro Busi ness League, has through the instrumental ity of the Senators Harold anil Pine, just completed arrangements with the War De partment for the 10th Cavalry hand to fur nish music for the entertainment of the National Negro Business League, which meets here August 19-20-21. Tulsa expects to entertain the National Negro Business League in grand style. NORTH CAROLINA SUMMER SCHOOLS THRIVE _I Raleigh, N. C. July 24.—That the col ored teachers are vastly interested in bet ter perparing themselves for their present i profession, is clearly indicated in the re port released by N. C. Newbold, director of the Bureau of Education in the state of North Carolina, which states that more than four thousand teachers are enrolled in the summer schools of the state. Com menting upon the schools Mr. Newbold says: “If the white people would see how these schools are run, some of them would change their views concerning the pro gram that education is making among col j ored people.” USE AMERICAN METHODS IN AFRICA New York., July 24.—The peonage sys tem so prevalent in the southern states is being used by the Portuguese in Africa according to a statement issued by Dr. Edward Ross, professor of sociology of the University of Wisconsin, who has recent ly traveled extensively in Africa. The statement charges that the Portuguese colonial government requisitioned native labor in Portuguese Africa on a wholesale scale and used it without pay to promote and develop and was further leased to private planters. The report has been turned over to the League of Nations for action. NEGRO PHYSICIANS GAIN ADMITTANCE HARLEM HO ITAL _ i First Time in History of America That Negroes Have Been Chosen For Metropolitan Hospital Staff VICTORY RESULT OF AGITATION j Ex-Alderman Harris, Editor of New j York News, Heads Movement in Which Various Organiza tions Join New York, July 24.—As a result of ten years of effort and agitation, the Board of Bellevue and Allied Hos pitals of New York appointed in June five colored physicians of New York to the regular staff of Harlem Hos pital located at 136th street and Lenox avenue. Harlem Hospital is one of the chain of the Bellevue and Allied Hospitals which include Belle vue, Harlem and Fordham Hospitals in New York City and King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn. The physicians appointed to the staff are Drs. Louis T. Wright, Douglas B. Johnson, Ralph H. Young, Jas. T. W. Granady I and Lucien Brown. Ten colored in i ternes will be appointed after passing the required examinations to begin their services July l, 1926. The agitation for admission of qual I ified colored physicians to the staff | has been led by former Alderman Geo. | W. Harris, editor of The New York | News; Ferdinand Q. Morton, demo cratic leader of Harlem; the North | Harlem Medical Association; the N. A. A. C. P., and numerous other or ganizations and individuals. Harlem Hospital is located in the heart of Harlem and with the rapid increase of the Negro population in that section of the city, a large ma jority of the patients are colored.1 There has been a steadfast refusal! to admit qualified colored physicians but after a hearing before Mayor Hylan, it was decided to appoint the above named five men on the indoor staff, and a number of other colored physicians on the out patient depart ment staff. There has been great enthusiasm in Harlem as a result of this step. The j success of these five men will in a large measure determine the question j of admitting other physicians to Har lem and other New York hospitals j and will profoundly affect the hos- ■ pital situation in other cities of tne country. This is the first time in the history of America that Negroes have been admitted to the regular staff of a Metropolitan hospital, as a part of the institution’s policy. WOMEN CONDEMN BULLARD Newburgh, N. Y„ July 24—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—The Em pire State Federation of Women’s Clubs in their annual meeting here; recently assed resolutions condemn-1 ing Robert Lee Bullard’s Memoirs of | ! the Great War in which the erstwhile general disparaged the courage and valor of Negro soldiers. The resolu tions were as follows: “Whereas the memoirs of General Robert Lee Bullard on the recent World War have been spread over the entire United States; and “Whereas these memoirs are untrue and slanderous, be it “Resolved, That the Empire State Federation of Women’s Clubs goes on record as deeply resenting the state ments of General Bullard, and be it further “Resolved, That we urge the Negro youth of our state to attend the Plattsburg camp and get all the bene fits to be derived therefrom and qual ify for all legal activities of our state and country.” In its resolutions concerning the Klan the federation declared that “the principles of the Ku Klux Klan are an outrage to all Negroes, Jews and Catholics”, and that “the parade of the said Klan in the nation’s capital is an outrage to all American prin ciples.” ST. PAUL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH’S LAWN SOCIAL Group A of St. Paul Presbyterian church will give a lawn social on the church lawn, Thirtieth and Ohio streets, Thursday evening, July 29. Come and enjoy a delightful evening and inspect St. Paul’s new church home. Date Kept Dan from Accepting But Desdunes Has Agreed to Play for Omaha Klan Some Other Time Omahans who haunt the Ku Klux field on Pacific street, hoping for a thrill, may get it soon, says the Oma ha Daily News. For they are likely to be confronted with the strange spectacle of Dan Desdunes’ band, famous Negro musi cians, playing for a Kluxer parade. “The Ku Klux Klan wanted me to play for them on the Fourth of July,” Dan proudly reported. “I’d have been tickled to death to do it, if I hadn’t already contracted to play over in Macedonia. And I’d have put it over with a bang, believe me! Couldn’t have any better advertisement than to play for the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan offered me double pay, and I tried to get off from Macedonia. But I couldn’t, so I agreed to play for them some other time.” Mr. Desdunes has accepted an en gagement to play on two diferent ocassions, The Monitor is reliably in formed, one at Council Bluffs, next Tuesday night, and anoth&r at a sub sequent date not y\ given. CHICAGO COLORED POSTAL WORKERS ARE PROMOTED Chicago, III., July 24.—(By the As sociated Negro Press.)—Word receiv ed from Congressman Madden’s office in Washington recently brought glad ness to the hearts of local postal workers when the announcement was made that three Negro clerks had been promoted to foremen. David B. Hawley, president of the Appomattox club; Howard Cornwell, also a mem ber, and Henry F. Wilson, president of the local branch of the National Postal Alliance, were the newly select ed. Their appointment was somewhat in the nature of a compromise. For several years the postal employees have been urging promotion for some few of our workers as a proof that there was no limit on ability when demonstrated and that the govern ment placed all its servants upon a par. More persuasive methods were adopted when Leader Edward H. W. Wright with the support of Congress man Madden entered the fray. A superintendent of a station was hoped for and the names of the three men now appointed were mentioned in con nection with that position. The re sult was the appointment to foreman ships of all three who had the en dorsement of all the local postal or ganizations, the Phaanx club, the Chi cago branch of the National Postal Alliance, the Railway Mail branch of the Postal Alliance and the Chicago Post Office Circle Club. UPHOLDS BEQUEST TO MAID Trenton, N. J., July 24.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—The will of the late Mrs. Emma L. Woodward, of this city, who died leaving most of her $50,000 estate to her colored maid, Miss Amelia M. Stewart, was upheld last week by Vice-Chancellor Learning in the Mercer County Orphans' Court. The bequest to Miss Stewart includes the $25,000 home and personal prop erty to the value of $25,000. Relatives of Mrs. Woodward contested the will, but the vice-chancellor held that there was nothing to support the charge that the testator had been unduly in fluenced.
