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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
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| 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
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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.
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