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is The Monitor == NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS ■!- THB REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. $2.00 a Year—~>e a g py_OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1926 Whole Number 547 Vol. XI—No. 27 SIXTEEN ARE LYNCHED COLORED ELKS WILL EDUCATE WORTHY STUDENTS ✓_ Commissioner I lues) on Actively En raged in Carrying Out Pro gram Planned at < (invention LODGES L O V \ L L V RESPOND I irst tssessinent Levied for Aiding Worthy and Ambitious Students Promptly Met Without Protest Gary, Did.,—(By the Associated Negro Press In pursuance of a step taken at the last convention of Elks when a bill was passed creating a department of education in the lodge and appointing Judge William C. Hueston of this city as commission er, a letter has been recently address ed to the six hundred branch lodges acquainting them with the progress of the work so far by the commis sioner. Each lodge member is assessed twenty cent a year for the new work to be paid quarterly and collected by the grand secretary and grand trea surer. It is reported that, due to the good work of the grand exalted rul er and other grand officials, the first collection was made without a single protest. The amount to be gathered in the year should amount to pra tically ?14.000. It is proposed to use this money to see that deserving boys and girls get into schools and, therefore, scholarships will be given throughout the county. Each lodge is to have the privilege of naming a candidate, with his or her qualifications. The depart menf of education will select from among the candidates named those persons to receive aid. This will be done each year. Another plan is to inaugurate an annual education week, to begin April 12 of this year. During this week, each Elk lodge and temple Is expected to arrange a program for txith the lodge and temple, arid to invite the entire community to join in and assist then. A recommenda tion is made by the commissioner that the Elks set up several broad-1 casting stations for the dissemina tion of racial propaganda. I»H. t t KBY HONORED BY AN I NI St Al. ELECTION Springfield, Ohio—Dr. E. W. Curry, pa.-tor of the Second Baptist church of Springfield, Ohio, became the pre». sident of the Clark County Minister V ial Association at Springfield, O., January 1st and presided over the first . ession of the year Monday Jan uary 3rd. Dr. Trust of the Congre gational church, was elected presi dent w ith Dr. Curry vice-president last October. Hr. Trust has taken cnaige of the Congregational work in Mans field, O., and this provided the open ing for the elevation of Hr. Curry. He i the first Negro to hold an of fice in this Association. The Associa tion has a memljership of between 90 and 100 ministers and professors of Wittenberg College of which 11 are colored and the rest white. It was! stated at the meeting by a number of th< white ministers that Dr. Curry was elected because of his high Christ an character, ability as a .scholar, and, success as a church leader. This brings another honor to the entire race and goes to prove that after all there are a number of white people who will give it to a man of brains and character regardless of his col or. dr. sw eet on SPEAKING TOl R Detroit, Mich.—(By the Associated Negro Press) Dr. and Mrs. O' start tt. Sweet, released on bail, pending re trial of their case in Detroit, and Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, are to deliver adddresses in five large ci ties, to stimulate interest in the Legal Defense Fund being raised by the Association. OMEGA I’.SI PHI’S CONVENE AT TUSKEGEE Tuskegee Inst., Ala.,—(liy the As sociated Negro Press) The Fourteenth Annual Conclave of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity opened here Sflnday night with exercises in the Institute Chapel. Matthew Mullock, former Dart mouth athlete and assistant district Attorney of the State of Massachu setts, delivered the principal address. After paying tribute to Hooker T. Washington, he commended Dr. Mot on for the “wisdom and tact” he has displayed in handling the affairs of the institute and particularly in re ference, to his contribution of the bet terment of race relations in the South. "From the time that Alonzo Pietro landed with Columbus, we have been doing our part in contributing to America’s greatness," said the speak er and then presented the long list of Negroes who have achieved not able success. In further reference to the Ne groes’ achievements, Attorney Mullock said: “And when we were set free, after more than 250 years of slavery, with apparently no visible means of support, we did not seek aid from our former masters or ask to be sup ported at the government’s expense; but through our own industry and thrift, in the few years which have separated us from slavery, we have purchased more tliun 000,000 homes, we have so conserved our resources that we are operating more than 900, 000 farms and cultivating more than 100,000,000 acres, we are conducting more than 50,000 business enterprises and last year we spent more than $2,000,000 for our own education a side from what we contributed through general taxation. Referring to race relations in the South, the speaker said: “Our friends in the South who have justice and fair play are beginning to speak out in no uncertain terms.” This he re garded as “one of the most hopeful signs of the ultimate triumph of just ice” for the Negro. Addresses of welcome were made by it. it. Taylor, acting principal ot the institute and Col. Joseph H. Ward, medical officer in charge of U. S. Veterans’ Hospital. The response : to these addresses was made by At- . torney George L. Vaughn of St. Louis, Grand Bacillus of the Fraternity. N. A. A. C. I*. REPORTS MOST SI K ESSFI I. YEAR IN HISTORY New York—(By the Associated Negro Press) The National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored ; People, 69 Fifth Avenue, today is sued a summary of its Annual Re port for the year 1926, showing the most successful effort in the entire history of the Association. The sum mary stresses the fact that segrega-1 lion lias been made a national issue confronting the entire American peo ple, arid that colored people through out the United States have been unit ed tu this fight as in no other ex cept the fight to end lynching. The National Association report ueals with segregation, the “White Primary” fight in Texas and other cases of discrimination; Ixigal De fense; reintroduction of a revised Dyer .V'li-Lynching Bill in Congress; release of 24th Infantrymen; publi city and branch organization, and the lvu Klux lvlan. -n \Y negro schools ARE A SUCCESS — Washington, D. C.—(By th<f Asso- j riuted Negro Press) In a statement to the press this week, Dr. I. Gar land Penn, one of the secretaries in ! charge of Negro work for the board 1 of education of the Methodist Epis copal Church, declared that the growth j and success of education in colleges and schools of the Negro is remark able. 1 Thirty years ago, according to Dr. I'cnn, there was not a Negro filling the presidency of any of the schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Now there are eleven. Thirty years ago, most of the teachers were white missionaries; now out of 460 teaeh ers fully 400 are colored. Some Significant Statistics ! Show Substantial Progress The following summarization of some of the things accomplished by the American Negro alone since 1865 should give encouragement to those who are inclined to think little prog ress has been made and spur all on to do their best: When freed in 1865, American Ne groes owned 12,000 homes and oper ated 20,000 farms. Now they own 700,000 homes and operate a million farms. Then they conducted 2,100 businesses, now they conduct 70,000. Meantime (heir aggregate wealth has increased from $20,000,000 to $2,000, 000,000, one hundred times as much. In 1924 there were 73 Negro banks, with $6,250,000 capital, $20,000,000 of resources, and an annual business of $100,000,000. Thirty-five Negro life insurance companies report $200,000,000 of in surance in force on the lives of 1,100, 000 persons. These cortlpanics have eight thousand employes and are wholly capitalized and managed by Ne- j grow. There are in the I nited States 47,- [ 000 Negro churches, with five mil lion members, and 46,000 Sunday schools enrolling three million pupils. Members of colored churches con tribute annually $550,000 to home and foreign missions. I he 332,000 Negro members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in five years contributed $1,911,979 to the Centenary fund of that church. Negroes have contributed nearly $'150,000 toward the erection of col ored Y. M. C. A. buildings in four teen cities. There are in the I nited States about 10,000 Negro college graduates. Six hundred and seventy-five received the bachelor’s degree last year. Through their churches and other wise, Negroes raise annually $3,000, 000 for the support of their schools. \ ntimbi r of Negroes have recently given to Negro colleges sums ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 each. In 1865, ninety per cent of the Ne groes were illiterate; nojv about twenty per cent. Then there were 100, 000 Negroes in school; now 2,150,000. CAN’T IOSE US, THAT’S ALL Some of the Omaha merchants of fered prizes for babies born on Christmas Day ami also New Year’s Day. Our people presented candidates for prizes on both days. Laura Marie, a bouncing baby girl, was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Rutler, 2701) Cor by street, bright and early' Christ mas morning, Dr. Herbert Wiggins, the attending physician, was pleased to report. Laura Marie was present ed with a handsome little bed by the Union Outfitting Company. On New Year’s Day nine births were reported in Omaha and among the arrivals was a son, weighing six pounds ami Seven ounces, born to Mrs. Gertrude Harris and husband, of 1117 North Twenty-first street, at University hospital at 5:30 in the morning. This young colored Omanan was the third arrival, being distanced in the race by a nine pound son born to Mr. and Mrs. Myron Jensen, 1717 Center street, at 12:15 a. m., and Theona Mary Ross, an eight and a half pound girl horn to Mr. and Mrs. George Ross of Persia, la., at St. Joseh’s hospital at 3:15 in the morn ing. JUNIOR G. F. S. ELECTS OFFICERS I — The Junior members of the Girls’ j Friendly Society of the Episcopal I Church of St. Philip the Deacon held their annual election of officers Mon day afternoon with the following re sult; Helen Singleton, president; Ce lcstine Smith, vice-president; Saruh Brown, secretary; Catherine Wiliams, treasurer. The Juniors are rehearsing an original play to be given early in February. BISHOP CAREY TO ORDAIN FOUR DEACONESSES Bishop A. J. Carey will preach at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Twenty fourth anil Franklin street, the Rev. T. W. Kidd, pastor, Sunday morning and will ordain a class of four dea conesses at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The public is cordially invited to all services. A successful revival is being con ducted at Bethel by the Rev. Blanche Blake, an evangelist from Kansas ; City, Mo. The services began last Sunday night and will continue for three weekij. Up to the present time there have been fourteen accessions to the church. DR. CRAIN ADDRESSES MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE The Colored Ministerial Alliance met in the parlors of St. John’s A. M. E. Church Tuesday morning at the appointed hour. The outstanding fea ture of the meeting was an address by the Rev. James A. Crain, secre tary of the Omaha Federation of Churches. / CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING Washington, I). C.—(A. N. P.) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Minkins, 15 Ninth Street N. E., befittingly celebrated the 50th anniversary of their wed ding at their home here. — ALDERMAN PRESIDES New York—For the first time in Pie history of the city a colored man presided last Tuesday at the session of the Board of Aldermen. John Wil liam Smith, of Harlem, wielded tne gavel. FIND OIL IN OKLAHOMA AFTER MANY FAILURES Early History of the State Is Filled With Many Disappointments. Tulsa, Okla.—Where years ago the North American Indian roamed the hills nf eastern Oklahoma and the broad prairies of the western section, oil wells now appear, bringing to the surface the "black gold’’ for which eastern Oklahoma Is famous. The first well In Oklahoma was drilled In 1884 by Michael Cudahy of Omaha, Neh. When the well was at j a depth of 1,120 feet, an oil sand was penetrated and there was a small show ing but not In paying quantity. The drillers were Instructed to drill deep er, but at l.soo feet, with no further trace of oil, the well was abandoned. The showing of oil led many pros pectors to Oklahoma, although as late as 1801 only .'10 barrels of oil were pro- I duced. Hut there was considerable drilling. Production continued to slump the next two years, only ten barrels of oil being produced In all of Oklahoma territory In 1898, hut It Increased to 6,474 barrels In 1900. A well sunk Just outside of the city of Red Fork In 1901 proved to be one of the largest producers, and caused many “wildcat” wells to be put down. The big oil play started In 1904, how ever, when the Glenn pool was uncov ered. From a small Indian trading post, Tulsa became it city of 7,000 In a year Oil offices were brought to the city, , hundreds of persons became wealthy from oil and built fine homes, stores, factories and all types of business es tahllshments sprung up. Tulsa today 1 la a city of 125,000 people In a state producing 460.000 barrels of oil dally. 1 with Indications It will go higher. The year the Glenn pool was discov ered, production was recorded at 1, 800.000 barrels for the year, but the search for oil did not end there. It was found in the northern, central and southern portions of the state. The northern miscellaneous fields have proved to be the heaviest pro ducers. The southern and northern fields come next. The Garber field, In north central Oklahoma, Is the most promising, In the opinion of oil men, as there are 15 sands, which virtually assures the driller a producer at some depth. Wells range from l.OtJO to 4,400 feet in depth. A few wells are now drilling with a view to going below 5.000 feet. SERVANT PROBLEM WORRIES CONGRESS Washington—Now comes the pro posal of Representatives Sol Bloom, a New York City Democratic mem ber of Congress, to amend the Im migration Act to permit the en trance of European women who an nounce their intention to become domestic servants. This proposal directs attention to the 1920 U. S. Census report, which shows a decrease of approximately 345,000 females, during the ten-year period from 1910 to 1920, who were engaged in domestic and personal service. The decrease, however, waV off set by a corresponding increase in the number of females engaged in manufacturing and mechanical in dustries, and in trade and transpor tation, a change that resulted from war emergency work and one that gave females greater industrial op portunities, higher pay, and above all, regulated hours of work. In 1910, there were 853,387 color ed females engaged in domestic and personal service activities, as com pared with 790,631 in 1920, a de crease of 62,756. Similar decreas es were also shown for both native and foreign-bom white females; and the New' York Democratic Congress man claims that labor agencies all over the country are reporting a scarcity of trained domestics, although wages have advanced far beyond the former scale for this character of work. He believes that the servant prob lem is largely responsible for the breaking up of homes and proposes to remedy the situation by admitting European domestics who declare their intention of working as servants for a period of three years after their arrival. PULLMAN COMPANY SELLS STOCK TO EMPLOYEES Chicago, 111.—(By the Associated Negro Press) Any employee of the j Pullman Company who has been in' the service more than three months is entitled to purchase from among the 10,000 shares of the stock which the company has recently offered its j employes. The shares sell to the em- ; ployes for $140 although the market i price is $160. The employe may sub scribe for one or more shares, ac cording to his annual salary and pay | for the stock at the rate of three dollars a month. CHILD ACQUIRES ADULT INTELLIGENCE EARLY Ithaca, N. Y.,—(By the Associated Negro Press) According to Prof. L. L. Thurstone, psychologist of the University of Chicago, full adult in telligence is developed by the aver age child at the age of about four teen or fifteen. 127-YEAR LIFE ENDS _ Washington, N. C.—(By the Asso-! ciated Negro Press) Mrs. Emiline Dade has just died here at the age i of 127 years. Up until she was 120 j she worked as a laundress. She was j born in slavery in Virginia and mar-1 ried twice before John Brown’s raid. | She had one brother who died at the j age of 109 and has another living j who is 90. WHITE DAILY IS SANTA TO TEN THOUSAND CHILDREN — New Orleans, La.,—(By the Asso ciated Negro Press) Over ten thous-1 and Negro children were recipients of | Christmas presents through the med ium of the Times-Picayune, a lead ing morning paper, the amount being raised by popular subscription through the columns of that paper. COMMITS SUICIDE TO AVOID LYNCHING Wynona, Miss.—John Noey, 17, dis charged farm —emUoe,oi?iisdaio od charged farm hand, killed his em ployer, Mrs. W. C. Brooks, white, and then turned the rifle on himself and committed suicide. SOUTHERN STATES STILL STENCH IN NATION S NOSTRILS Lyncher’s Rope and Fagot Take Life and Burn Bodies of Human Be ings in Christian America. Two Insane MISSISSIPPI HEADS RED LIST Sixteen Victims of Mob Murders Were Negroes; One Killed in North. » Several Lynchings W’ere Prevented Tuskegee, Ala.,—(By the Associat ed Negro Press) According to figures compiled by the department of re cords and research of Tuskegee In stitute, the American record of lynch ing remained unchanged during 1925. There were sixteen persons lynched. This number, ranking with the number 16 for 1924 as the smallest number of persons lynched in any year since records of lynchings have been kept, is 17 less than the number 33 for 1923, and 41 less than the number 57 for 1922. Two of the victims were insane. Three others had been form ally released by the courts. Ten of the persons lynched were taken from the hands of the law, two from jails and eight from officers of the law outside of jails. Two of those lynched were burned at the stake and one was put to death and body burned. There were 39 instances in which officers prevented lynchings. Seven of these were in northern states and 32 in southern states. In 26 of the cas es the prisoners were .removed or the guards augmented or other pre cautions taken. In 13 other instances armed force was used to repel would be-lynchers. In three instances during the year persons charged with being connected with lynching mobs were indicted. Of the 41 persons thus be fore the courts, 21 were sentenced; five suspended sentences, dependent on good behavior, of from four to twelve months on the road; one for thirty days in jail, and 15 from six months on the road to eight years in the penitentiary. Of the sixteen persons lynched all were Negroes. Six or less than one half of those put to death were charg ed with rape or attempted rape. The offenses charged were: murder, 6; rape, 4; attempted rape, 2; killing an officer of the law, 2; attacking child, 1; insulting woman, 1, The states in which lynchings oc curred and the number in each state are as follows: Alabama, 1; Arkan sas, 1; Florida, 2; Georgia, 1; Louis iana, 1; Mississippi, 6; Missouri, 1; Utah, 1; Virginia, 1. WINS $150 PRIZE FOR COTOTJN Little Rock, Ark.,—(By the Associ ated Negro Press) James Ferguson, a share-cropper on the farm of John W. Naylor, has just been informed that he has won the $150 prize of fered by the Forrest City Chamber of Commerce for the largest amount of lint cotton gathered from five acres'"in St. Francis county. Fergus Bon’s yield was 4,963 pounds. NEGROES HAVE CLEAN RECORD New Orleans, La.,—(By the Associ ated Press) The records of the pro hibition office and federal courts do not show for the past two years the arrest of any Negro charged with bootlegging or manufacture of beer, whiskey or wine. All arrested, and their number is legion, have been white men and women. MARRIES HIS ACCOMPANIST London, Eng.—S. Coleridge Taylor, Jr., musician, son of the famous com poser was secretly married to his ac companist, Miss Kathleen Markwell, white, last week. Young Taylor is a violinist and or chestra director in his own .right. His sister married the scion of a well known white family here two years ago.