! THE MONITOR I A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2, 1915. at the Postoffice at Omaha. Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. _ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAM*_~---1'.-Editor W W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb------Asaoclate Editor LUCINDA W^ WILLIAM8___Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR; *1.25 « MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 * i i i——— - ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE ;j ; UNITED STATES ; I Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged ■ • 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ; !; and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the 11 ;; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No ;; ! ■ state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ; ! I privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor ! ;; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- ; ■ • erty without due process of law. nor deny to any person ; ! I within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ! * U THE PATHWAY TO DISASTER ATTORNEY H. J. Pinkett fvrote a thoughtful and most commendable article on the recent KI a n parade in Washington, D. C., which wras published in the "Public Pulse” section of the World-Herald Tues day morning. Mr. Pinkett's logical and thought-corn pelling article will undoubtedly commend it to the favorable consideration of thous ands of World-Herald readers, and we are glad that he wrote it. Such calm, candid and unimpassioned articles from writers of our race cannot but be helpful. For the benefit of our readers we herewith re print Mr. Pinkett’s letter, and commend it to their thoughtful perusal. Here it is: August 8. 1925. j Editor Omaha World-Herald: The news columns of the daily papers this morning convey the intelligence that in the Capitol of the Nation, Washington, D. C, fifty thousand Knights of the Order of the Klu Klux Klan will parade down Pennsylvania avenue today. The apparent purpose of the demonstra tion in the nation's capitol is to show by weight of numbers, the political power of the organization. Surely, if Washington, and I.incoln, and Roosevelt, and Wilson, who suffered so much, and gave so much, to advance the cause of human hrotherhood. could see and know what is passing today in the capitol they knew and loved they would how down in grief at such a spectacle. For the announced principles of this or ganization are the opposite of the Amer ican ideal. They would array man against man. woman against woman, and child against child; and, of a united nation, composed of all races and creeds, they would make a land of suspicion and mis trust. and hate, and, maybe, a land drenched again in fraternal blood. Must we admit that the great American experiment in Democracy has ended in failure? This question must necessarily give concern to all men and women who love and serve their country. What would it profit America, if the Klan principles should prevail for a time? They would necessarily deny the equality of opportunity to certain races and creeds and would teach the lesson to them of hate and oppression, and at some future day the oppressed elements might gain the sceptre of power and in turn apply the lesson which they had learned to their fellowmen. This condition would not ad vance the cause of our country or the in terests of civilization itself. If civilization in America and the world is to endure and progress, it can only do so on a basis of justice and the principles of brotherhood laid down by “The Man of Sorrow.” And she must have, to achieve her high destiny, a rededication to the American ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality. We cannot endure “half slave and half free," whether our action be in the physical, economic, political, or relig ious sphere. The colored* people of America who have suffered most and who have given most for their country, earnestly hope that the day is dawning when hate, and prej udice, the child of ignorance, and its hand maiden, shall be banished from our land, and in their places shall be erected the standard of justice and liberty and equal ity for all. And in that day there will be no organization teaching oppression and in justice toward their fellowmen. When that day, in truth comes, we will have an American democracy worthy to claim the right to the “moral leadership of the world.” It is the high duty of the lighter races of mankind, who, today hold the sceptre of power and leadership, to so teach anti to so treat all the races of men amenable to that leadership, as to make it well for mankind when the sceptre of power and leadership shall pass to other hands. The demonstration in Washington today is not that way. It is the pathway to disaster. THE SIMMONS CASE WALTER SIMMONS has been rxecuten ; for the murder three years ago of a man named Pahl at Spencer. Nebraska, and for j which he was convicted on strong circum stantial tvidence. A desperate legal ba( tie was fought to save him from the elec tric chair. He was granted twenty-three reprieves. Each time the defense claimed to have discovered new evidence which would establish his innocence. This new evidence was never produced. It can be understood why further appeals for clem ency and extension of time were denied. There were those who urged commuta tion of the sentence from that of death to life imprisonment since the evidence was circumstantial. In the face of the increase of murder and homicides and the belief that the parole system in some cases has been abused many held that such com mutation would be a serious mistake. Those who doubted Simmons’ guilt, claimed that he had been “framed” and was the unfortunate victim of bootleggers, who really committed the crime and that he was only an accessory to and not a principal in the crime. If this be true, it would seem that the defense was given .ample time and opportunity to present these facts. It is true that innocent men are some times punished for the crimes of others. It is to be hoped that this was not true in the Simmons’ case. But if ever a man was granted respite after respite in the hope of proving his innocence that man was Walter Simmons. GO \FTF.R BFTTF.R LIGHTS THE MONITOR'S suggestion that thi1 merchants and business men of North Twenty-fourth street organize and go af etr better lighting of that growing busi ness thoroughfare has elicited favorable comment. We hope that it will not slop with words of approval but will result in organization and action. It’s up to the business interests and and property owners of that section to get busy and get a white way from Cuming to l^ake street. North Twenty-fourth street business men get busy. Go after better lights. They cost no more on North Twenty-fourth than thev do on South Twenty-fourth street. FOR A FREE BRIDGE THE MONITOR is for a free bridge be tween Omaha and Council Bluffs. Our toll bridge between these two cities is something that should have been aband oned long ago. Let everybody boost for a free bridge between Omaha and the east. ;; THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE | 1 2 A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded £ 2 2 persons that the contribution of the Negro to American j 21 nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from | 2 negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and | 2 yet dearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking | 2 2 and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first j 2 2 explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from | < 2 the first the foundation of the American prosperity and •;! 2« the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and \ < • economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply | 2 on the striving white men in Europe and America but also * ; on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for * 2 two centuries. The military defense of this land has de- * ; pended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial ■ wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does ; 2 the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera 2 • tore but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep ; 2 significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the • 2 ehoieeet heritages of this land. PinaOy the Negro has played 2 ; a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, ; 2 breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, ; 2 hope and tolerance of our reHgion.—Du Beis, “The Gift of 2 2 2 Mach Folk.” 2 2 Utf.. | GOOD WORK. COMMISSIONER NOYES THE MONITOR desires to compliment i Dean Noyes, Commissioner of Streets, for I his good work in keeping Omaha streets clean, even in outlying districts. Keep ! the good work up. It is easy to find fault when commissioners neglect their work and to forget to commend when and where commendation is deserved. IMPORTANT NEWS—RUSH! By William Pickens (For The Associated Negro Press) Dempsey will fight Harry Wills soniew'hen, somehow, somewhere,—in the east or the west or the north or south,—in New York or somewhere else,—under “Tex” Rickard’s promo tion or under that of somebody else, —in 1926 or 1936,—probably, perhaps, and MAYBE. The fight is always “next year.” It is always just twelve months from NOW. This is fresh “news" all the time. Once upon a time the audience laughed when the chairman announced: “We have just received some important news,—if true”. One thing we may assert with reas onable confidence: That “Jack” Dempsey will fight Harry Wills if and when he is compelled to do so by pub lic pressure and boxing commissions. But not otherwise nor otherwhen. BRIEFS (Columbia Press Bureau) Customs officers at New York have; seized a tapestry rug with the design of a one-dollar bill on it, including pictures of Grant and Lincoln. A scientist in Switzerland claims i to have invented a cement that holds machinery on floors. When the prize-winning “Golden Brown Beauties” reach Washington they will see hundreds of other bobbed hair Cleopatras. There is more rice eaten than any other grain in the world, wheat oc cupying second position. The total Boy Scout membership is 601,130, and the adult leaders 166, 354, making a grand total member ship of 764,484. KILL OFF USELESS WILD HORSES TO MAKE HOG FEED •tockman Favor New Plan aa Solu tion of Range Problem In Eaat ern Waehington. Olympia, Wash.—The apparent suc cess of an experiment In converting horse flesh Into hog feed has given rise to the hope among eastern Wash ington stockmen that a practical means has at last been found to rid Washington ranges of thousands of worthless wild horses, declares Harold Dobyns. fleld leader for the biological survey, who returned recently from a coyote hunting trip In Renton county. Cattle men and wool growers have long considered the horses a menace to the live stock Industry, since the animals, described locally as "knot head Cayuses," place an added burden on the none too abundant range. In recent months, Mr. Dobyns said, an enterprising individual has estab llshed a slaughter-house and hog-feed lng plant at Plymouth, on the south ern border of the Horse Heaven coun try, long famous as Its name Implies as a horse range. The horses are pur chased at an average price of about $3 a head, which while low, enables the owners of the long-neglected ponies to realize a profit by rounding up their otherwise valueless animals, and the supply has so far kept pace with the demand. The slaughter-house Is modern In every respect, Mr. Dobyns said, and none of the carcass Is wasted. The flesh Is cooked with corn and other cereals for hog feed, and hides bring about $2 each, or nearly the cost of the horse, while the bones are dis posed of to fertilizer plants at a price •aid to average $15 a ton. The hogs are shipped In, fattened and then re shipped to the markets. Approxi mately 600 hogs are fed at a time, while there is always a supply of horses awaiting slaughter In the cor rals. When the supply of cheap horse flesh Is exhausted at Plymouth, the slaughter-house will be dismantled and moved to other fields. Kentucky Boy, 11, Win* National Spelling Prize Washington.—Frank Neuhauser, an eleven-year-old achoolboy of Louisville, ] Ky„ Is the national Juvenile spelling 1 champion, because he was able to spell “gladiolus” after Edna Stover, eleven, of Trenton, N. J., had spelled It with s “y" Instead of an “L" Young Neuhauser won the title here In the finals of a national contest sponsored by newspapers. The $500 he received, along with a 1 gold medal, will be used for a col lege education, he said. About 2, 000,000* school children were entered In eectlonel contests. The nine finalists laughed at the eeey words pronounced for them dur ing the first half-hour of the spelling bee the other night. At the end of that time all were taking the hurdlee easily, and then Almeda Pennington, Hous ton, Texas, fell out on the word “skit tish.” “Cosmos” proved the undoing of Mary Coddens of South Bend, Ind, and Loren Mackey, Oklahoma state champion, failed on “propeller." Ten-year-old Patrick Kelly, orphan of New Haven, Conn., stumbled on “blackguard” and “statistician" baffled Dorothy Karrlck of Detroit Then Mary Daniel and Helen Fischer ' tripped on “valuing” and “moribund," j respectively, and the contest was be tween the first and second prise win WANTED Wide Awake Boys to Sell The Monitor in Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs Call Webster 4243 or apply at 1119 No. 21st Street ." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN NEGRO HISTORY | This column is conducted by George Wells Parker, author of “The Chillren of the Sun” and founder of the Hamit ic League. He will be glad to answer in the column all questions of a reas onable length. Where space will not permit, he will answer correspondents who inclose postage for a return re ply. Questions for him should be ad dresed to George Wells Parker, Asso ciated Negro Press, 3423 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Will you kindly refer me to a vol ume that treats scientifically with the question of racial values and the matter of so-called inferior and super ior peoples? G. B. F., St. Louis,! Missouri. ' 1 One of the best and least technical ; is “The Mind of Primitive Man” by Frank Boas, who is an authority and ; fair-minded writer. Are the Rififans who are fighting, I the French Negroes? B. K. L., Des Moines, Iowa. The Riffians are a Mohammedan | tribe inhabiting the hills of Morocco 1 and considerably mixed with Negro blood. Perhaps it would be more cor rect to call them originally African and Negro people whose blood has been mixed with various strains. Of just what value to the American Negro is an ancient history of racial achievement? V. F. D., Philadelphia, Pa. Such a knowledge should stimulate pride and pride begets the desire for further achievement. It is the only study that can eventually overcome the so-called “inferiority complex" which is the greatest bane of the American Negro. As a man thinks, ! so must he be. Was Modern Masonry really found ed by Negroes? G. G. D., Washing | ton, D. C. Modern Masonry was not founded by Negroes but by English. Ancient I Masonry, such as we understand it, was pre-eminently an African craft. This subject requires considerable de ' tailed information and space will not permit the answer here. Is the wife of Harry Wills, the Negro heavyweight, a white woman? I saw her picture in the paper recently j on board ship with her husband aim j she seems rather fair. W. L. T., Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Wills is a colored woman. Was the science of mechanics well known to the ancient Egyptians? H W., Fulton, Ky. The science of mechanics was in deed well-known to the Egyptians anil many phases beter known to them than to modems. The secrets of lift ing enormous weights, moving mam moth stones, drilling into granite, etc., are but a few in which they excel even us of today. WHITE STUDENTS CHEER PLEA FOR FAIR PLAY No address delivered at the recent Y. M. C. A. Student Conference at Blue Ridtfe, N. C., made a deeper or more favorable impression than that of Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Presi dent of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and of Day tona-Cookman Institute. Addressing | 'hundreds of white students from ■ southern colleges, Mrs. Bethune made a powerful plea for better under- ' standing and fair dealing between the races, declaring that the people of her race are asking no special favors, but only the rights and opportunities to which every American citizen is en titled—the right of life, liberty, pro tection, education; the right to develop and achieve. “In asking for these rights,” said Mrs. Bethune, “the Ne gro is not trying to be white. He only wants a fair chance in the race of life, that he may be his own best." The address was received with pro longed applause; many of the students crowded forward to express their ap preciation of the address and all spoke of it in the highest terms. WAR OtiCHILD LABOR (Columbia Press Bureau) WASHINGTON, August 14.—The President of the American Federation of Labor is having distributed to all j all union workers a pamphlet entitled | “Child Labor.” The purpose is to ral ; ly sufficient support to the national ! ! child labor constitutional amendment to force its approval. The pamphlet shows that ‘‘over 1,000,000 children from 10 to 16 years of age are work ing in the United States in factories, mills, canneries, mines, farms and other occupations. Nearly 400,000 of I i them are less than 14 years of age. More than 400,000 of the million child j ren at work between 10 and 15 are in non-agricultural occupations." Mr. Green claims that twelve countries have at least the fourteen year mini mum and that the United States ha.-, no national standard or legislative I provision to give its children protec tion aaginst exploitation. Slightly more than 317,000 or nearly 30 per cent of these children are colored, about 85 per cent of whom are em ployed in agricultural work. FLOGGING OF NECRO CAUSE OF NEW N. A. C P. BRANCH New York, Aug. 14.—Application for the formation of a new branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People has come from Hardeeville. South Carolina, as the consequence of the j flogging of a colored man by a crowd of whites in that section. The colored man, Joe Jackson, was taken l from Hampton county and brought to Har deeville, where he was lodged in the jail by the town marshall, without the author ity of the country from which the colored man was taken, according to the report sent to the N. A. A. C. P. The colored man was placed in jail on Saturday nighl and on Sunday he was taken out and severely beaten by a mob, “no one know ! ing the cause of his arrest.” The letter reporting this occurrence con cludes: “We as a race would like to bo , connected with this association (N. A. A. C. P.) in order that brutal treatment to | colored people might lie slopped." The necessary literature has been sent to Hardeeville and reportB from there state that the organization of a branch of the N. A. A. C. P. is under way. Perpetual motion is re-invented about three times in every two years. I [ - I ! . ’asssar j ¥ M2 South 18th | ! 0 % Dividend* | Ptfabk Quitarlv r £ | Assets - - $16,700,000 | | Reserve - - 465,000 ;l; n* Tutty u* lurt • s«Tt»f • !j! Aw»yl TW*y | S’ Thirty ita ran a# •■««••• la <• OaiVa ni Ntbrub ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦I Buy a Hone! QUIT PAYING RENT! 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