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NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor.
a rgr—5c a Copy _OMAHA, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1926 Whole Number 550 Vol. XI—No. 30
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WOULD ..EGALIZE
AND ENCOURAGE
CONCUBINAGE
Another Vicious Anti - Intermarriage
Bill Is Introduced by Senator
Caraway of \r
kansas
PASSAGE WILL BE FOUGHT
National Advancement Association Is
Urging Branches to Unite
in Opposition to
Measure
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
notified it brunches throughout the
United State of the bill introduced
in Congress by Senator Caraway of
Arkansas which would prohibit the
intermarriage of Negroes and white
people in the District of Columbia and
rbake it unlawful for persons so mar
ried to reside in the District or for
those so married and now residents
to return to the District for residence,
if they once leave it. The penalty
prescribed by the bill for anyone
violating any of the provisions of the
act i: a fine of not more than $1,000
and imprisonment for not less than
one year or more than five years.
N. A. A. C. P. branches are called
upon by the national office to send
telegrams to the senators from their
state, and to induce prominent white
and colored people to send letters and
telegrams demanding that the bill be
opposed. I»cal editor ., of both white
and colored publications are to be
urged to denounce the lull editorially,
and churches, lodges, fraternal bodies
and political clubs are to be a <ked to
pass resolutions denouncing Senator
Caraway's measure.
Ihe bill is numbered S-2160 and a I
communications to senators should
mention it by number.
The N. A. A. C. I*, gives the follow
ing reason for opposing all such
measures:
I. That marriage should be entirely
a matter of individual choice between
persons who are eligible to enter the
marriage contract under the general
laws of the land.
2 That the Negro cannot in self
respect consent to have himself writ
ten down in the statute books as
something outside and beneath the
human race.
3. That every such law -weeps
away from colored girls an I women
the protection, legal recourse and
remedy, where white men are con
reined, to which they are entitled as
well as other girls and women.
4. That the enactment of such laws
does not stop intermixture but sets
the stamp of legal appoval upon con
cubinage, bastardy and the legrada
tion of colored women, deprived of
the protection of matrimony.
111! LOCKE \ DDK ESSES EOIII \l
OE YOI N'(i DEMOCRACY
Philadelphia (By the Associated Ne
grn Press) At a meeting of die Forum
of Young Democracy, whom* membership
consists of foreigners who arc socialists
held ul Musical Fund Hall on .Sunday
afternoon. Dr. Main l.cKoy I sake, former
professor of philosophy at Howard I ni
versity, stated dial there is a movement
among the American Negro group daily
asserting itself along cultural and spir
ilual lilies, dial is sure lo benefit the na
I li ill. Di. I -ockr expressed himself as
lalieving dial this transformation in the
social slums "is the result of turning from
protest and apologies to raciul slf-expres
sion and self development.” Dr. IxH'ke
was of ibe opinion that professional lead
ers and writers are proclaiming the change
as a benefit to raeial groups. 'Hie meet
ing was presided over by Mr. Simon Ll
bros.
OFFER $1,000 PRIZE
FOR NOVEL TO BE WRIT
TEN RY A NEGRO
At the request of Messrs. Albert
and Charles Boni, publishers, the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, 69 Fifth ave
nue, announced a prize of $1,000, to
be pai l outright, in addition M roy
alties for a novel of Negro life, to
be written by a person of Negro
descent. Hitherto unpublished manu
scripts may be submitted to Messrs.
Albert and Charles iloni before Sep
tember 1, 1926.
T e judges of the competition are:
Henry Seidel Canby, editor of The
Saturday Review; Dr. W. E. B. Du
Bois, editor of The Crisis; Charles S.
Johnson, editor of Opportunity; James
Weldon Johnson, secretary of the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People; Edna Ken
ton; Lawrence Stallings of The N. Y.
World, and Irita Van Doren, editor
of The Tribune Weekly, “Books’’.
The conditions for the contest state
that in addition to being written by
an author of Negro descent: “The
novel must deal with Negro life in
the sense that one or more of its
leading characters must be of Negro
descent and its action must show tin
influence of this fact.”
Full details of the contest may he j
obtained from Messrs. Albert and
Charles Boni, 66 Fifth avenue, or
from the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 69 t
Fifth avenue, New York City, N. Y. i
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lilt. MV,I,ETON FILES
FOR EEGISCATI RE
lh. John A. Singleton, the well known
dentist, files for nomination for state re-1
preventative from the ninth dl si riel. |)r.
Singleton is the youngest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Singleton, pioneer residents of Oma
ha. lb- i* a graduate of Central High
school and of Howard I niversity, and is
active in the American Legion and (rut
ernal organizations. He is married, a
home owner and taxpayer and is well
‘luafified to make a good representative.
VIRGINIA I A CK SON RANKS
AMONG HONOR PI 1’II.S
Ales A iinini.i Jackson, aged 16, duugh
lei of Mr. and Mis Tony Jackson. 3117
Corby street, a senior at Central High
school, is one of thirteen pupils to go on
the honor roll the last semester with
lour and a half As. Eight students
seven girls and one lroy, made a record
of five A s. The A pupils fall into five
classes, running from five to three As.
A irgiriia i* in the second group.
JONES INSTALLS DEACONESSES
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N, w Orleans. I.a. t liy A. N. P. i In
,n elaborate installation service, llislio]
Robert I Jones oi the New Orleans area
ol the Methodist I pi-copal Churches
inducted deaconesses Maxwell and Russell
from the General Deaconess Training
School of lie- Moines, Iowa, into office
in this city. They will assist in social
service and religious work.
Muatuma Mni VUI( Mlapali, l\lrw Towualie .War Atlantic City.
Atlantic City, N. J. Illy the Associated
Negro I’resst Predicting that Mizpuh.
the town site being established near here
would help to solve the congested living
problems of Philadelphia and other cities,
while providing a new haven for oncom
ing immigrants, u group of men prom
inent in business, religious and welfare
activities of the country headed by Mr.
Anthony Overton, president of the Doug
las* National liank of Chicago, III., spent
a day recently inspecting the land and
investigating the opportunities of the ven
ture.
The men who are enthusiastic in their
endorsement of the idea which prompted
Mr. N. Kathblott, president of the devel
opinent, ami a well-known business man
and philanthropist of Philadelphia, are as
follows: Dr. L K. Williams, president
"f the National Baptist Convention; J
I'inloy Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler of
Elks; Mr. Anthony Overton, president ol
the Douglass National Bank and presi
dent of the Victory Life Insurance Co., of
Chicago; Dr. Earnest Lyon of the Liberian
Council; Rev. J. H. Branham of Chicago;
Dr. Jordan, field secretary of the Fore
ign Mission Board; Rev. Pennick, presi
dent of the Baptist State Association of
Illinois; Rev. Junius Grey of Baltimore,
Dr. Martin, pastor Ashbury M. E. church;
Mr. Earnest T. Attwell of Philadelphia,
and Mr. Ira A. Hall, Deputy of Elks, Cam
den, N. J.
The Mizpah development comprises
about two thousand acres situated on the
Pennsylvania Eldctrfc Railroad on the
direct route between Atlantic City and
Philadelphia. Passenger busses are run
ning from Mizpah to Atlantic City. Tin
distance it twenty miles from Atlantic
City to Mizpah. and only forty miles to
Philadelphia from Mizpah. Most of the
inhabitants who are not farming on a
small scale commute to Atlantic City and
other nearby cities where they work.
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Some Salient Facts of Negro History
Important for Negro History Week
THE NEGRO AS A PIONEER
The ancien African taught the mod
ern world the use of iron, the most
important of all metals, the one by
which science and initiative have re
made the Universe.
Negroes have a place among the
pioneers of American history. Afric
ans were the first to visit the shores
of America, according to Professor
Ueo Wiener of Harvard University;
for he has found evidences of African
influences on this continent prior to
the coming of the white men from
Europe.
Negroes were with the other adven
turers in the discovery and explora
tion of America. It is said that Pie
tro Alonzo, il nigro, was a pilot of
the fleet with which Columbus dis
covered America.
In the discovery of the Pacific
Ocean liulboa carried with him Nuflo
de Olano, a Negro.
In the conquest of Mexico Cortez
was accompanied by a Negro, who on
lulling in his rations of rice some
grains of wheat, planted them as an
experiment and thus made himself
the pioneer in wheat raising in the
Western Hemisphere.
Negroes assisted in the exploration
of liuatemala and the conquest of
Chili, Peru and Venezuela.
Estevanico, most noted of all the
early Negro explorers, actually led
expeditions of the Spaniards in Mex
ico and Central America and discov
ered what we now call the states of
New Mexico and Arizona.
Matthew A. Henson, the last to ap
pear in the role of explorer, was
chosen by Commodore Peary to ac
company him to the North Pole. Com
modore Peary and Commodore Mac
Millan testify that Henson was
chosen because of his peculiar ability
to grapple with the problems of the
Arctic. He was the best builder of
stoves; he was the best dog driver;
lie was the best interpreter. Henson
is, therefore, today the only living
man who has seen the North Pole.
THE NEGRO LABORER
Twenty Negroes were brought (o
Jamestown, Virginia, in Jfil!), and
were sold into service. They were
not enslaved but were indentured a
servants; for one of the number not
only gained his freedom but became
later a slaveholder himself, when most
Negroes had been gradually debase 1
to lhe condition of slaves.
The Negro has made a di-tinet con
tribution a. a laborer. He supplied
the demand for cheap labor necessi
ated by the expansion of trade in the
cotnmericial revolution. To Negro
labor belongs the credit for opening
the South, clearing the forests, drain
ing its swamps, and preparing its soil
for the culture of sugar, rice, tobacco
and cotton. The Negro has enabled the
upper strata to produce what culture
the South can boas* of today.
The Negro has not been merely a
dull laborer, but of his brain has
come the .skill of the mechanic and
artisan. This aptitude has gone still
further, even to the extent of produc
ing in the ranks a number of inven
tors.
THE NEGRO INVENTOR
Norbert Rillieux, a Negro of Ix>ui
siana, invented the vacuum pan which
revolutionized the refining of sugar.
Benjamin Banneker, the noted as
tronomer and mathematician, who
worked out one of the first series of
almanacs in this country, made the
first clock produced in America.
Jan K. Matzelliger, a Dutch Guinea
Negro, invented a lasting machine by
which the tremendously large indus
try of making shoes by machinery
started on its way toward unprece
dented success.
Elijah McCoy, the pioneer inventor
of automatic lubricators, opened a
new era in the use of machinery
throughout the world.
Granville T. Woods, an inventor of
electrical appliances, made an undy
ing reputation for himself in the
technical and scientific world.
, THE NEGRO AS A SOLDIER
As a soldier the Negro has acquit
ted himself with honor in all Amer
ican wars.
t'ri.'pus Attacks, who fell in the
Boston Massacre, was among the first
to give Jr in i elf as a sacrifice for the
independence of this country
In 1775 Salem Poor showed such
military prowess in the battle of
Charlestown that fourteen white of
ficers reported him to Congres a«
having behaved like an experienced
officer as well as an excellent soldier.
Negro soldiers came to Andrew
Jackson’s rescue in the Itattle of New
Orleans' in 1814. In return for that
contribution to his splendid victory
he said: “I knew that you loved the
land of your nativity and that, bke
ourselves, you had to defend all that
is most dear to man. But you sur
pass my hopes. I have found in you,
united to these qualities, that noble
enthusiasm which impels to great
deeds.”
In the Civil War the Negro soldier
gave a still better account of him
self. Of those fighting at Port Hud
son one said; “The deeds of heroism
performed by these colored men were
such as the proudest white men might
emulate.”
At Fort Wagner the 54th Massa
chusetts, a Negro Regiment, stood
like heroes in the midst of caranage
and evoked from their superiors the
heartiest thanks for their courage
and dash wich convinced observers
that Negroes cannot be exceeded as
soldiers.
in the punitive expedition, under
Geueral Pershing, in Mexico in 1916
! members of the 10th Cavalry and the
14th Infantry distinguished them
selves as the heroes of the hour.
In the World War, Negro troops
I and officers were praised as courage
ous men, admirable in their attack.
Their bravery and dash won the ad
miration of observers and the grati
tude of France, to the salvation of
which they made a distinct and valu
able contribution.
THE NEGRO IN BUSINESS
Tin- economic progri^s of the Negro
' Is unprecedented in the history of thr
world. Starting almost without anythinf
hi 1865. the Negro has today to his cred
it property valued at more than a billion
dollars. Most of this wealth is in the
form of farm acreage and comfortable
homes. The race has made exceptional
progress. hftwever, in manufacturing, hank
mg. and insurance. As pioneers in de
veloping such businesses among Negroes
there stand out preeminently such persons
as Isaiah T. Montgomery, John Merrick.
Mrs. A. E. Malone, Madam C. .1. Walk
i er, Samuel Rutherford, W. G. Pearson.
C. C. Spaulding, Anthony Overton, and
Jesse liinga.
THE NEGRO PRESS
In no case has the Negro made greater
progress than that evidenced by the in
creasing power of the Negro Press. The
few dailies which have appeared here
and there have not actually succeeded; bul
in every large city with a considerable
Negro population there is now a success
ful weekly newspaper publishing to the
world the case of the Negro and direct-;
ing the race in the way of economic, so
cial and religious progress. These organs1
of thought now number more than three (
hundred.
N A. \. C. I1. WILL MEET SUNDAY
The monthly meeting of the Omaha
Branch of the N. A. A. G. P. will meet
next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the
North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A.,
Twenty-second and Grant street. Public
is cordially invited.
IMIl DELTA CLl'B ELECTS OFFICERS
Tlo* Phi Delta club was entertained
by the Misses Ireta Walker ami Martha
Roberts at the home* of Miss Roberts,
on Monday evening. Hie following of
ficers were elected: Mrs. Frances Peoples
president; Mrs. Mary Harrold, vice-presi-1
dent; Miss Otis Watson, secretary; Miss
Cnma Watson, social secretary; Miss Mar
tha Roberts, treasurer; Miss Ireta Walk
er, reporter. Evening was spent playing
bridge, after which a two-course lunch
eon was served.
NEGRO REBELS RECEIVE
CONFEDERATE PENSION CH ECKS
Shelby, N. O. Among tin* Confederate j
veterans who received their pension check
this month were three “rebels of color,” i
Phil Roseboro, who served as body-guard
for his “master”, Jim Rice, and Sam Cab
inis, who served in the Civil War to
build breastworks for the rebel side.
HILLSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
TO HOLD DEDICATORY SERVICES
The* Hillside Presbyterian church, i
Thirtieth and Ohio streets, which has been
undergoing extensive repairs and improve
ments will hold a series of dedicatory
exercises from February 10 to 14. Inter
esting programs participated in by mem
bers of various churches will be features
of the occasion. Dr. Edwin Hart Jenks,
pastor of the First Presbyterian church
and other prominent ministers and officials
of the denomination will also take part.
The Rev. Charles H. Trusty, D. D., is
pastor of Hillside.
Mrs. George Ashby, entertained a num
ber of young matrons at her home, 2228
Willis Ave., last Wednesday, in honor of
Mrs. Grace Stephenson of St. Louis, Mo.
HOUSE MEASURE
FOR HOWARD UNI
MEETS WITH FAVOR
Bill Enables the Institution to Re
ceive Needed Federal Appro
priations in the Reg
ular Way
TO INSURE APPROPRIATION
Crampton Bill Is Designed to Frus
trate Annual Efforts to Throw
Out the Appropri
ation
Washington, D. C.—A hearing on
the bill to amend the charter of How
ard University was held Wednesday,
January 27th, by the Committee on
Education of the House of Represen
tatives, of which Honorable Daniel A.
Reed of New York is chairman.
For several years in the House of
Representatives the point of order
has been raised against appropria
tions for Howard University as car
ried in the Interior Department Sup
ply Bill on the grounds that they were
not authorized in substantive law. In
order to do away with this practice
each year, Representative Louts C.
Cramton. who handles the Interior
Department bill, introduced the How
ard University bill, which has the
hearty support of the administration
and, it is believed, a big majority in
both houses of congress.
At the hearing held Wednesday,
January 27th, Mr. Cramton as sponsor
of the bill, explained to the commit
tee that this legislation is needed as
substantive law that will make the
annual appropriations for Howard
University "authorized” as for other
government establishments.
Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, president of
Howard University, ami Dr. Emmett
J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of that
institution, also appeared and pre
sented in full details the claims of
the university upon the government
for upporf such as has been given
since 1879. The hearing was a sym
pathetic one.
On Friday, January 29th, the Com
mittee on Education was again as
sembled and a favorable report on the
bill to the House of Representatives
was ordered by the Committee on
Education. This legislation, if passed
by both houses if congress, will frus
trate efforts which annally are made
to throw out appropriations for How
ard University on the point of order
agains the Interior Department Ap
propriation Bill.
NEGRO WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION ELECTS OFFICERS
The Negro Women’s Christian Associ
ation held its annual meeting at the Old
I1 oiks Home. 924 North Twenty-fifth
street. Wednesday with Mrs. Martha Tay
lor Smith, presiding. Reports from offi
cers and committees were read showing
the excellent world accomplished. The
following officers were elected: Mrs.
Tilly Simpson, president; Mrs. Laura
Hicks; vice-president; Mrs. Eleise Turn
er, recording secretary; Mrs. Alice O.
McGee, assistant secretary; Mrs. Florence
Johnson, treasurer; Mrs, Georgia Thomas,
corresponding secretary; chaplain, Mrs.
W'. F. Bolts. Mrs. Martha Taylor Smith,
to whose zeal and devotion for so many
\ car- f • success of the Home is due,
was i\ inmush elected honorary presi
dent. ^
CONFIRM \TION CLASSES
AT ST. PHILIP’S CHURCH
Idle first meeting of the Confiralion
Classes of the Church of St, Philip the
Deacon, will be held immediately after
the 11 o’clock service Sunday morning.
Persons desirous of learning about the
doctrine, discipline, worship and customs
of the Episcopal church are cordially wel
come to attend any of these instructions.
The usual services will he held Sun
day. Holy communion 7:30 a. m.; Church
school 10 a. m,; sung Eucharist with
sermon, 11;' evening prayer and sermon
at 8 o’clock.
The Woman’s Auxiliary of St. Philip’s
church will give a Pre-Lenten Party at
tlm Jewell building, 24th and Grant, Wed
nesday evening, February 16.