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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.
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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.