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EzliT^ The Monitor » ; NEBRASKA'S WBHLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMEBIC AES I i THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.M a Year—5c & y OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1925 Whole Number 545 Vol. XI—No. 25 _ W _ ■ ■ I _ ■■ i ' GEORGIA WOMAN, MOTHER OF FAMOHS SONS, PASSES AWAY Mrs. Camilla Hillman Hubert Leaves Four Sons in High Positions of Public Service and Five Prominent Daughters GAVE ALL GOOD EDUCATION Horn in Slavery Mother Struggled to Give All Her Children Educa tional Advantages Which They Used Atlanta, Ga.,—A well known colored citizen in this section with heavy expres sions of sadness. Friday told the story of j the life of his mother, who died here I Thursday in her home at 140 Boulevard l)e Kalb. The account was touching to all who heard it, especially when it was related how the mother, an ex-slave, had i reared one of the most noted colored families in the United States. Five sons, all holding high positions, and five daugli- , ters wedded to men of high station, re mained to mourn the deceased. Neither the mother, Mrs Camillu Hill- j man Hubert, 67, nor her husband, Mr. Zack Hubert, who is still living, were : able to acquire an’ education due to ad verse circumstances. But the parents hail high ambitions for their children, and through their valiant efforts they were able to put them all on the “path” to learning and urged them on to the top. The youngest son, Theodore Hubert is the only one not having finished his educa tion and he is now a senior at Moorehouse College. There are four Huberts of Georgia, who are now occupying high positions of service in different sections of the country. They are Z. P. Hubert, president of Jackson College, Jackson, Miss.; B. F. Hubert, director of agriculture, Tus kegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; John W. Hubert, principal of the Negro High School,, Savannah; J. H. Hubert, execu tive secretary, Urban League, New York I City; Moses Hubert, farm demonstration! agent, Hancock County, Ga.; G. J, Hu bert, pastor of two Atlanta churches and operator of a 600-acre farm; Theodore j Hubert, senior at Moorehouse College. The five daughters are Beatrice Douth- j aril, Jenny Beeves and Lucy Bowling, of j Chicago; Esther Hubert, of Tampa, Fla., i and Maltel Warner, of Atlanta. KIRST COLORED WOMAN PASSES VIRGINIA BAR j Richmond, Va.7—Coming victoriously through four groups of examination pa pers in common, statute, adjective and substantive law, Miss L. Marian Poe, of Washington, has successfully passed the rigid Virginia Bar, and will bn the first colored woman to he admitted to the practice of law in that State. The Vir ginia law examinations are among the stillest given by any state in the Union; and in the last examinations held early in December only 59 candidates out of nearly 150 applicants were given their final qualification certificates by the Board of Examiners. Miss Poe will enter upon practice in Virginia. HALE AND HEARTY AT 122 Lexington, Miss.,— (By the Associated Negro Press) Patience Julian, claiming Ito be 122 years old and residing on the plantation of J. B. Cunningham with her son, Erank Ware who is eighty-five years old, is still able to walk without aid and j wail on herself. She was horn in the County of Pauline, Georgia, and was a slave, the property of Nathan Gan. Pa tience is a mulatto, and the mother of eleven children, nine of whom are still living, the oldest being eighty-seven and the youngest seventy years of age. There are eighty-seven grand children living. TRUSTEES OF FISK ELECT NEW MEMBER Nashville, Tenn.,— (By the Associated Negro Press! At the recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of Fislt University, Dr. Georgia White, dean of women of Cornell University, was selected as a mem- i her of the board. Dr. White is the daugh- ! ter of the late George White, who train- | ) ed and sent out the original group of Jubilee singers and her interest in Fisk is a very deep one. The meeting was at- ; tended by a full quota of trustees and the upbuilding and development of the University was discussed. RING UP ANOTHER LYNCHING Montgomery, Ala.,— (By the Associated ^ Negro Press! Following the receipt of ™ information to the effect that he had in sulted a white woman, Grant Cole was shot to death by a mob of whites. No arrests have been made in connection with the killing. PULLMAN POUTERS PONDER PUZZLING, PRACTICAL PROBLEM Chicago, III.— (By the Associated i\e gro Press i An interesting problem has emerged out of the agitation going on throughout the country for the forma tion of an union of Pullman Porters. The proposed organization, which has been held up by those who are promoting it as a cure-all for the evils, actual and imagin ary, which the “travelling men who wear the blue” suffer, may not be able to do so much as its advocates claim for it. Always the urtion has been depicted as the force which would "compel" the Pull man company to treat with its employes’ "outside officers”, and in the event of their failure to do so would promptly yank them before the United Stalls Kail road Labor Board. Prospejbtivtl members and pilose who already have paid initiation fees are dis turbed by the discovery that the union will have no power to force the company to ileal with it or make it deal with the Labor Board, which the unsuspecting por ters have regarded us the “big stick”. The Labor Board itself has no power to force any currier to confer with representatives of its employees. The decisions of the Labor Board are not compulsory. All of the foregoing was thrashed out by the United States Supreme Court in deciding the case of the Pennsylvania Railroad versus the Railroad Labor Board, which held, in the opinion handed down hv Chief Justice William Howard Taft in IV23, that the Labor Board had no power to enforce its decisions other than that of public opinion. How the proponents of the organiza tion are going to carry out their promises is hatlier difficult, to understand. Those | who have been relying on these promises are seriously worried. INDIANS GET MONEY FROM OIL Washington, D. C.— (By the Associat ed Negro Press) A total of $29,422,800 was paid to the Osage Indians of Okla homa from royalties and bonuses on oil and gas produced on their reservation during the last fiscal year, it was an nounced the Interior Department. Tltis is tite largest amount ever paid per ca pita to the Osage Indians, each share be ing $13,200. CAPPER INTRODUCES MARRIAGE MEASURE Washington, D. C.— (By die Associat ed Negro Press* Senator Arthur Capper, Kansas Republican, has introduced into the Senate two measures designed to affect the marriage and divorce laws of the country. One measure provides for a con stitutional amendment which will permit the lederul government to make the laws und the odier contains the terms of the so-called law. The introduction of the bills was made at the behest of the Gen eral Federation of Women's Clubs. The measures have been' fought by Negroes bcause of the possibility of their being used to their disadvantage. S1K1/S FRIENDS VOW VENGEANCE New York—(By the Associated Negro Press) The afternoon following the mur der of Battling Siki, several of his Senga lese countrymen gathered in his home and vowed vengeance on the cowardly whites who were responsible for the death of the idol. These men paced about the floor, re-enacting as the imagination dic tated, die tragedy and muttered curses against the murderer. They were quieted by one of the more prudent among them. It is believed that Siki came to his death from the hands of a bootlegger, known as “Jimmy.” KU KI.UX KLAN AT HAMPTON New York, N. Y.—(By the Associated Negro Press) According to a dispatch in the New York Age, the Ku Klux Klan recently invaded the premises of Hamp ton Institute und horned a cross in front of the home of Principal Gregg. A note was also left warning Major Allen Wash ington, commandant of cadets, that he had lietter leave the school widiin ten days. Tho action of the klan is taken to he the culmination of feeling engend ered by articles in the Newport News Press, criticising the lack of “Jim Crow” restrictions at the school. WANTS HIS OWN CHILDREN BRANDED AS BASTARDS New Orleans, La.—(By the Associated Negro Dress) Charging that |iis wife, Mrs. Hazel Ray Bush, is of Negro un eestry, Joe Bush, Saturday filed suit for divorce and asked that their two children be declared illegitimate. His plea is bas ed upon the Louisiana law that prohi bits marriage between the Caucasian and Ethiopian races. Bush has just discover ed that his wife is a Negro woman, the petition slates. The two sons mentioned are aged four years and eighteen months, respectively. WHITE AFRICAN EDUCATOR STUDIES AMERICAN WAYS Tuuskcgee Institute, Ala.,— (By the As ! seriated Negro Press I H. S. Keigwin, director of native development in South | rrn Rhodesia, Africa, who has been spend | ing some time at Tuskegee observing ways in education, spoke to students and teach ers. He said in part, “It is to me a priv ilege and distinction to appear and sit where your great founder. Dr. Washing ton made a name for himself and his race. His name has gone across the seas ami is beginning to be well-known there as it is here. The Tuskegee doctrine of education has been recognized as sound, sane, and helpful and in Africa we have deliberately copied the methods of your founder. I have thought of the secret of his success and have come to believe it was a sort of divine insight into the home life of the people he was trying to help. He believed that the school must begin on the level of those taught.” Writes Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones: “Mr. Keigwin’s work in behalf of the natives of Africa is a notable achievement which ' has commanded the gratitude of all who know his work. He is a Cambridge Uni versity man who has spent the most of his life in Africa. Through his early stu dies of the education of the colored peo ple in America, hd has acquired consid erable knowledge of American activities in education and this has been applied with singular success in Southern Rhode sia.” HARROW IS WRONG ON HIS STATISTICS Middleton, Conn.,— (By the Associated Negro Press) In a speech before Negroes in New York u week ago, Clarence Dar row, the famous criminal attorney, dec lared that there were more morons than intelligent people in the United States. But, according to Prof. Horace B. Eng lish, professor of psychology at Wesley an University, there are only between 4,000,000 and ten millions of persons in the country who may be classed as mor ; ons berause of their mental deficiency, depending on the mental standard as signed to the classification. There is a higher class, whom Prof. English calls '“dullards” who number about 25,000,000 Even this figure, however, would not be sufficient to support Mr. Darrow’s charge. FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE HOLDS FARMERS’ CONFERENCE Tallahassee, Fla.,— (By the Associated Negro Press) Better schools, 1 fetter homes, and better farms constituted the princi pal subjects discussed at the annual Farmers' Conference which closed here Wednesday night at the Floridan A. and M. College. The conference adopted resolutions urg ing the farmers to hold the farm lands which they already own; to produce more foodstuff and to rotate and diversify their crops. SWEET TRIAL COST S21,938 SO FAR New York—Hie National Association | for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth Avenue, today made a full re port of expenditures in the trial of Dr. and Mrs. Sweet and nine others in Detroit, showing that the total cost of the first trial was $21,938.69, which was expended by the National Office and the Detroit Branch of the N. A. A. G. P. and a City wide Committee of Detroit citizens head ed by the Rev. Joseph Gomez. The expenditures of the National Of fice of the N. A. A. C. P., totaling $11, i 377.74, included attorneys' fees of $4,000 I to Clarence Darrow. $3,000 to Arthur Gurfield Hays and $1,000 to Walter M. Nelson. For travelling and living expens es of attorneys and witnesses, telegrams ■ and long distance telephone calls, court ; and attorney’s stenographers, and bail bond fee, the National Office spent $3,337. 74. The Detroit Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. raised in all $6,137.64 and appointed a disbursing committee, consisting of its vice-president, M. L. Walker, Dr. E. A. ('.artei and J. W. Cooper, both members of the Executive Committee of the Branch. Among the disbursements of the Branch were payments to investigators, witness ; fees, legal fees of $400 to each of the three local colored attorneys in the case, fee of $550 to Walter M. Nelson, trans cript of the court record, meals to de fendants while in jail, printing, telephones and telegrams anil advances to meet obli gations of the imprisoned defendants. The City-Wide Committee under the leadership of the Rev. Joseph Gomez, raised a fund of which certain sums were expended in conjunction with the Detroit Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. through a joint committee appointed for this pur pose. These sums so expended totaling $2,650, include $1,000 to Clarence Dar row, $400 each to Cecil Rowlette, Julian Perry and Charles Mahoney, the local colored attorneys in the case and $450 to Walter M. Nelson > The City-Wide Committee reports a balunce of $300. Bail bitnds for all eleven defendants who have been released from prison, were obtained by the Detroit Branch of the i N. A. A. C P. und furnished jiy Detroit Colored citizens as follows: For Dr. O. H. Sweet, $10,000 by H. ! Shepard; for Mrs. Gladys Sweet, $5,000 by Dr. A. Thomas; for Dr. Otis Sweet, $5,500 by Dr. Lewis; for Henry Sweet. j $10,000 by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson; I for Henry I-atting, 5,500 by Rev. R. L. Brad by; for Morris Murray, $5,500 by Nathan King (white); for Joseph Mack. $5,500 by Dr. J. A. Miller; for Hewitt Watson, $5,500 by Mrs. Lee; for Charles j Washington, $5,500 by Mrs. E. Johnson;-j for William Davis, $5,500 by M. Porkes, j (obtained by Dr. Raiford). For Leonard Morse a professional bonds man was obtained to post $10,000 bail, for which the fee was $400 of which the Detroit lhanch paid $200 and the Na tional Office $200. In connection with the accounting, die N. A. A. C. P. pointed out, as an in stance of the heavy cost of such a trial, the transcript of record at 80 cents a page, running up to 2.602 pages which cost in all $2,081.60. 1 rom the cost of the first trial as giv en, may be gained some idea of the sum needed for the second trial which is sched uled to begin the first week in January. That this vitally important case may be seen through to a triumphant conclusion there must lie no let up in the raising of funds for it and the other cases, the National Branch is handling. LEAGUE OF NATIONS MOVES AGAINST HUMAN SLAVERY Geneva, Switzerland—(By the Associ ated Negro Press) Sir Eric Drummond, general secretary of the League of Na tions, lias communicated to all of the nations of the world the League's draft treaty for the abolition of all forms of human slavery and enforced labor. Owing to the purely humanitarian char acter of the undertaking the treaty has been sent not only to all members of the League but to non-members as well, consisting of the United States, Germany, Russia, Egypt, Soudan, Ecuador, Mexi co, Turkey, and Afghanistan. As it is not expected that the treaty will be officially launched before the next assembly of the League in September, 1926, the League, in order to inaugurate as quickly as possible its world-wide ef fort for the abolition of slavery, has ac companied the text with the request that the various nations begin at once the in auguration of the measures and legisla tion which are provided for in the treaty, without awaiting for the latter's final adoption. I he different states are requested to comply at once with those articles which provide for reciprocal assistance between nations in suppressing slave traffic. All of the nations of the world have Iteeu asked to send in to the Secretariat any observation which they may have to make relative to the treaty and then to send to the next meeting of the Assem bly in September, 1926, plenipotentiary I delegates who will have authority to sign j the treaty after modifications have been ( made that may seem desirable as a result j of the observations of the various govern-' ments. The treaty as it now stands was I drawn up by the last assembly as a re sult of the initiative of England; Lord Robert Cecil was the principal support er of the subject. CARDINAL. GIBBONS INSTITUTE RAPIDLY FORGES AHEAD Washington, D. G—The Cardinal Gib bons Institute, which opened in 1924, at Ridge, Maryland, as a national training school tor colored boys and girls, re gardless of their church affiliations, is showing remarkable progress in its sec ond year. It now has approximately sixty students, representing six states. It has a splendid two story concrete building for school purposes, a dormitory for girls, a principal's home, a dormitoiy for boys, a barn, and a two hundred acre farm, with equipment and stock. The Institute is helping reduce illiter acy in the Ridge district of Maryland as well as to improve farming methods among the Negroes of the County. Its Ford truck is bringing small children daily from out-of-way districts to its ele mentary school; and its farm meetings and farm demonstrations work are im proving farm methods. Free tnedical and dental clinics are im proving local health conditions; and the general influence of the Institute, which is now only a year old, is being felt through out soutSfcero Maryland. Victor Daniel, a vigorous and conscientious educator, is principal of the Institute. WOMAN PLEADS FOR LIFE LIFE OF ASSAILANT Raleigh, N. G—(By the Associated Ne gro Press) To mitigate the sentences of the sixteen members of the mob who attempted to lynch Alvin Mansel, her al leged assailant, Mrs. Lucie Gartee has written to Governor A. W. McLean, ask ing that Mansel be accorded any punish ment other than death. Mansel was sentenced to die January IS at a hasty trial and Mrs Gartee in her letter said: “Now what I want to do is to plead for the life of the Negro. Give him any kind of punishment ex cept death.” In her letter of six pages, i however, she devotes one to Mansel’s case and five to the sixteen members of the mob and makes it clear that primarily her purpose is to secure clemency for the ! white mobists. Governor McLean also made the an nouncement that there was some doubt existing now as to the guilt of Manse], and that he had received a letter from John L Martin which emphasized this doubt. A full investigation has been ordered, although no formal petitions have been filed. , SEVENTYONE DRIVERS GET CERTIFICATES Nashville, Tenn.,— (By the Associated Negro Press) Seventy-one Negro motor ■at drivers were given certificates of ef ficiency at the closing session of the safe driving school of the Chamber of Com merce Building which was conducted under ' M=n'r“9 of the safety department of the Chamber of Commerce. The seventy on candidates, who attended the session answered correctly the thirty-one ques tions asked by the Board of Examiners. INDIAN, NOT NEGRO, HERCE MARRIAGE TO WHITE LAWFNL Virginia Court Frees Man Held for Violation of Racial Integrity Law Operative in State INDIAN CONSIDERED EQUAL Fellow Tribesmen Testify That Ac cused Is of Pure Indian Ancestry Which Settles His Racial Status Richmond, Va.—Because it was rumor ed that Ray Winn, a man with the fea ! tures of an American Indian, was a i>e gro, he was put on trial here on a charge that he had committed miscegenation by marrying a white woman, while he was j not of that race. The Husting County I Court Friday after an exhausted hearing j however, decided that he did not have Negro blood, and was satisfied with testi mony that he was of Indian parentage. A breach of the new race integrity car ries a 2 to 5 year sentence. Winn was indicted by a grand jury up | on the allegation that he bore strains of the Negro race in his veins. The evidence, [ however, did not sustain that charge and I the verdict meant that Winn was entitled to he considered upon equality with all 1 white men, and that the marriage of Winn to Miss May Wilson last year was legal. Representatives of the State Bureau of Vital Statistics sought to show that Winn has colored ancestors. Numerous old residents of New Kent, King William and other counties in which Winn and his people were known, came forth as witnesses to support Winn’s contention that he had only Indian and white blood in his veins. Some of the witnesses were aged members of the Indian tribes of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey, who testified that a grandfather of the accused was a white man and his mother a full-blooded Indian. Others went farther back in the past to show that some of his ancestors were Indians. ELEVATOR OPERATOR SAVES WOMAN’S LIFE Chicago—(By the Associated Negro Press) Only the quick action of Henry Smith, an elevator operator in the Crimi nal Court Building in this city saved the life of Mrs. Georgette Romini, white.1 Mrs. Romini had just come from an in quest into the murder of her husband and was in a dazed condition. On leaving the office of an assistant state's attor ney on the second floor of the Criminal Court Building, she saw the elevator about to leave. She rushed forward in an effort to make it. Just as it started up, she shot t her hands between its closing doors, flung the gate open, missed the elevator, and, carried by her momentum, plunged par tially through the opening. Smith instantly stopped his elevator dead and held it motionless wdiile (lie wo man, supported by the side of the car and her hands, dangled eighty-five feet above the floor of the shaft. Onlookers warmly congratulated Smith on his quick thinking. Had he raised or lowered his car a few inches, Mrs. Romini must either have fallen to her death or been crushed between the elevator and the floor. ELKS RAISE MONEY TO PAY CONVENTION DEBTS I - Richmond, Va.,—(By the Associated Negro Press) In an effort to wipe out the deficit of more than $3,000 left on the hands of the finance committee of local Elks who had charge of financing the great Elks’ convention held here in August, last, the committee headed by M. A. Norrell and James T. Carter, Grand treasurer of I. B. P. O. E. of W. has started a campaign to raise funds by pub lic subscription to pay off the indebted ness of the Elks here. The News-Leader, a while daily paper, made the first con j tribution of $250. In all, about one thous and dollars have been raised. KITTRELL COLLEGE TO EXPAND WORK Kittrell, N. C.,— (By the Associated Ne gro Press) According to an announce ment by Dr. Geo. E. Edwards, president ol Kittrell College, a gift of some $75, 000 by B. N. Duke, brother of the late | James B. Duke, who did so much for Ne gro schools throughout the state of North Carolina, Kittrell College will be able in the near future to expand the scope ot its work. 1 lie new plan of development, which was made possible by the gift, includes ili" erection and equipping of new build bigs, within the next year. This means a | forward step in education in North Caro 1 lina and will add another well-equipped ^ institution to the state’s roster.