The Monitor
I NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
<® THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor.
$2.00 a Year—5 ( g Copy._ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, APRIL 30, 1926. Whole Number 559._ Vol. XI—No. 41
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POLITICAL POWER
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Chicago Colored Americans Under
Astute Leadership of Wright
Nominate Eight in
Primaries
CONCERTED ACTION COUNTS
Sate Senator, Four Representatives,
County Commissioner and Three
Senatorial Committeemen
Nominated.
Chicago, III.— In one of the most bit- ,
terly contested primary elections ever I
held in the state of Illinois, with the
World Court as an issue, and all the
ordinary factional patterns torn apart, t
Chicago Negroes under the almost un
contcsted leadership of Edward II
Wright, member of the state com
merce commission and committeeman
if the Second Ward, nominated a state
senator, four representatives, a county !
commissioner and three senatorial
committeemen.
The senate nomination went to the
present incumbent, Adolbert H. Rob
erts, who was elected two years ago,
the first Negro to ever serve in the
Illinois legislature His nomination
was contested by W. G. “Habeas Cor
pus" Anderson, and Nathan S. Taylor.
Anderson sought to have Roberts’ j
name stricken from the ballot because
he is a clerk in the municipal court,
but was unsuccessful. Taylor, two
years ago, made the most successful ^
fight ever chalked up against Con- i
gwssroan Martin B. Madden. His vote
in this primary was negligible, as was 1
that of Anderson.
Spirited fighting was done in the
races for the lower house of the As- j
sembly. In the First District, Jacob;
Tipper, publisher of the Chicago En
terprise, ami Richard E. Westbrooks, a
spectacular attorney, resilient consul1
for Liberia, and one-time assistant
state’s attorney, threw their hats in
the ring against Sheadrach T. Turner
and Charles Griffin, incumbents. Tur
ner and Griffin were nominated by
startling pluralities despite the contest
waged by the others. In the Third
district, the political death knell of the |
once powerful Oscar DePriest was
sounded. His candidate for the legis
lature, William King, was badly de
feated, the two successful nominees j
being George Kersey, father of the
monument bill for the Eighth Illinois (
Infantry, and committeeman of the
Third ward, and Warren 15. Douglas,
a Deneen incumbent. Kersey led the
ticket, getting more votes than the ,
others. He supports the faction domi
nated by Edward Wright.
P. W. Chavers, advertised as the |
founder of the Douglas National Bank,
and former apron manufacturer, made
little impression in his race against |
Congres man Madden, polling only
some 2,000 votes. Madden was not .
even forced to leave Washington.
There are many Negroes in the district
who want a colored congressman, but j
they want the right kind of a man
and they do not want to turn their
backs on a man who has been so valu
able to them as Madden. They claim
that Madden’s friendship dates for
many years hack. _
Col Frank L. Smith defeated Sen
ator McKinley for the nomination for
the United States senate, despite a
vigorous fight in which Walter Cohen
of Louisiana, Colonel Patton of Mis
sissippi, Wayman Wilkerson of Mem
phis and other southern leaders came
to Chicago to help McKinley win.
PHILLIPS FILES FOR CONGRESS.
St. I/)ui.- Mo.—Homer G. Phillips,
nationally known attorney, who has
been prominent in political circles in
his state for years, has announced
his cannidacy for congress to succeed
I,. C. Dyer In the Twelfth Missouri
district.,
GREEN AGAIN HEADS PYTHIANS
New Orleans.—S. W. Green was re
elected grand chancellor of Knights of
Pythias of Louisiana at the annual
meeting held in this city.
..hKIANAPOLLS RAISES OVER
$5,000 IN FIGHT ON SEGREGATION
New York.—The N. A A. C. P., 6!>
Fifth Avenue, has received a report
from Lionel F. Artis, campaign di
rector of the fight against the recent
Ij enacted segregation ordinance in
Indianapolis, to the effect that more
than $5,400 has already been raised to
carry the fight into court, more than
1,200 new members have joined the
N. A. A. C. P. and plans are com
pleted for filing suit.
One of the most prominent law
firms in the middle-west, namely Mil
ler, Hailey and Thompson, which was
founded by President Benjamin Har
rison and had the former U. S. At
torney General W. H. Miller for a
member, has been retained to fight
the case; the colored attorneys asso
ciated with them being: R. L Broken
burr, W. S. Henry and F. B. Ransom,
member of the board of directors of
the N. A. A. C. I’., Mr. Ransom serv
ing without compensation.
Mr. Artis reports that white people
helped to raise the fund, contributions
of $100 each having been received
from the novelist, Meredith Nicholson,
and Herman Richer, recentlp chosen
chairman of the Community Chest
fund. Mr Artis reports that the entire
state of Indiana is being organized for
the fight against segregation as other
towns and cities are preparing to
enact ordinances similar to the one
passed by Indianapolis.
Walter White, assistant secretary of
the N. A A C. P., who has been on
the scene, reports that it is planned
to take the case immediately into the
federal court by taking a case involv
ing $11,000 or more, that being neces
sary in order that the federal court
shall have jurisdiction.
CHICAGO UNION GIANTS
TO PLAY KANSAS CITY
ALL NATIONS IN OMAHA
Omaha baseball fans will have the
opportunity of seeing the Chicago
Union Giants, a fast colored aggrega
tion, play the Kansas City All Na
tions at League Park, lfith and Vin
ton streets, on Saturday arid Sunday,
May 16 and 16.
Both of these teams carry some of
the well-known Negro ball players
familiar to readers of this publication,
and a pair of fast games can be ex
pected.
If proper support is given these
clubs by fans, they will be returned
here on several of the open dates at
the park during the summer.
Games will be called at 3 p. m.
ONE COLORED WI)MA*N,.
AMONG FIVE LIVING
CIVIL WAR MOTHERS
W ashington.—Five mothers of men
who were killed or who died in the .
civil war have been found by the pen
sion bureau on the roll of those re
ceiving $30 a month from the govern
ment.
The oldest, Louisa Sheldon, of Man
chester, 0„ is 08. The two youngest
are Eliza Teuton of Freeport, N. Y.,
and Elizabeth Emmons, Port Jervis,
N. Y , both 06.
Tile others are Laura J. Smith, 08,
Alameda, Cal., and Samantha Ferrer,
Athens, Ala. Samantha Ferrer is a
Negro woman whose first born son,
Henry F’errer, a former slave, enlisted
and died in prison at Mobile, Ala., in
1866.
1 IIREIvt ORNERED FIGHT AIDS
( ONGRESS ASPIRANT.
Philadelphia.—Attorney G. Edward
Dickerson, candidate for congress, has
the best of a three-cornered fight in
his district, where he has two white
opponents, over whom white voters
are planning to split. Forty per cent
of the district is colored. Governor
j Pinchot is supporting Mr. Dickerson.
FIRST NEGRO AMERICAN F'OR
GRAND JURY IN 20 YEARS.
Newark, N. J.—For the first time
in 20 years a member of the race has
been drawn for the grand jury in
Essex County. The honor goes to
former Assemblyman Dr. Walter G.
Alexander of Orange.
E D I T O R I A I,
Omaha is a city of splendid possibilities and there is only one
thing that wrill prevent its becoming one of the greatest and most
progressive cities in the country—and that is, community spirit.
This is sadly lacking. Why it is so we do not know. Omaha’s pioneer
citizens like the Creightons, the Poppletons, the Kountzes, the
Caldwells, the Bartons, the Cornishes, the Millards, the Davises,
the Rosewaters, the Hitchcocks, the Yates, and others were not
only men of vision, but men in whom the sense of civic duty and
community interest was strong. They believed in Omaha and
worked for Omaha, realizing that as Omaha advanced and made
progress, so would they, and their faith was justified as this city of
splendid attainments and, as yet, untouched possibilities, testifies.
There was an esprit de corps which animated them. Many of their i
sons survive, worthy sons of worthy sires, but somehow or other
there seems to he lacking in them, the spirit which animated their
fathers. There seems to he a lack of leadership. Perhaps this is
due to the fact that leadership has been handed over to an organi
zation, rather than delegated to an individual or individuals. Or
ganizations are impersonal and where there is impersonality there
is ineptitude and inefficiency. Whatever be the cause, Omaha is
suffering, temporarily we hope and believe, from what may be.
called Egoitis, the fever of individualism, which blurs civic vision,
deadens the sense of corporate responsibility and annihilates corri
1 munity spirit. We are of the opinion that this civic malady is due
largely to the fact that it is believed the welfare of the city has
' been delegated to what may not be inaptly called “A Mutual Ad
I miration Society”—the Chamber 6f Commerce—which hinders,
rather than helps the progress and development of Omaha, be
cause* it talks much and does little. It is a select coterie represen
tative of some of the business interests, but not of t he rank and
file of the people. Something must be done to awaken civic con
sciousness if Omaha is ever going to rise to the fullness of her
possibilities' A program which will include all of her citizens—
black and white, native-born and foreign-born, Protestant, Roman
Catholic and Jew—making each feel, not that they are separate
and distinct groups, merely tolerated as things apart, I>ut vitally
essential and component parts of the community—Omaha citizens,
with all the term implies, sharing in its responsibilities and enjoy
| mg without let or hindrance all its privileges and opportunities.
Omaha, and we speak advisedly from an unintei rupted resi
dence of thirty-five years here—has in the last few years swung
far away from this ideal, and she must return to this ideal 01
“Ichabod” will be written above her shrunken frame. Omaha has
as capable citizenship, white and black, as can be lound anywhere
in the country. It simply needs to be awakened to a sense of its
responsibility and the development of sane, far-sighted, broad
minded leadership. |
MOTHER-AND-DAUGHTER WEEK
The third annual mother-and-daugh
ter mass meeting, which will be held
Sunday, May 2, at 4 p. m., at Hillside
Presbyterian church, Thirtieth and
Ohio streets, under the auspices of
the Girl Reserves of the North Side
Branch, Y. W. C. A., will be the open
ing of Mother and-Daughter Week,
which is being observed throughout
the city. A very beautiful, yet sacred
service, will be enjoyed A cordial in
vitation is extended to every Mother
and Daughter of Omaha to attend.
Throughout the coming week, be
ginning with Monday, May 3, mem
bers of the five Girl Reserve clubs will
be hp: tor es to their mothers at
a Mother-anil-Daughter Tea given on j
their club day. A brief but interest
ing program will be given at each
occasion.
Help the girls to start their week
by attending the Mother-and-Daugh
ter mass meeting, Sunday afternoon.
NORTH SIDE “Y. W.” NEWS
The dressmaking class brought j
about under the Smith-Hughes act
nnd taught under the direction of Miss
Emily Mercer, was a decided success
_each lady being able to finish one
or more dresses. The class closed
Monday evening, April 26.
The North Side liranch takes this
opportunity to express its appreica
tion to Miss Emily Mercer for her un
tiring effort in making the class a
success.
Standing of *vi rls who are contest
ants for the cedar chest to be given
away*the last week in May by the
house committee, are as follows: Mer
cedes Johnson, $6.50; Louise Scott,
$2.15; Gladys Reynolds, no report;
Mercedes Ferguson, $1.40.
LECTURE
The public is extended a special in
vitation to be present May 7 at 8 p.
m., at which time there will be a social
hour given in connection with the 10th
and last of a series of lectures given by
H. J. Pinkett on the "History of the
Negro.” The topic at this hour will be
"The Contribution of the Negro to
America; His Debt and His Duty ” Re
freshments will be served.
A bad beginning may mean a good
ending, but it hardly ever turns out
that way with a joke.
may have plowed gold.
Alany, Ga.—While plowing his field
a short while ago Cleve Riley, a fann
er of Lee county, uncovered three
bars of supposed gold bullion. Each
of the bars was stamped $50,000 and
dated 1784. He is now awaiting re
ports from Washington.
( I(I.OKED CARTOONIST DRAWS
FOR WHITE DAILY.
Little Rock, Ark.—W. Anthony, a |
brilliant student of Shorter College in
North Little Rock, drew the editorial
cartoon for the Arkansas Democrat, a
leading white daily of this city, used
in its Sunday edition last week, en
titled “Last Minute Taxpayers.” Mr.'
Anthony was given full credit by the
paper for the cartoon.
FISK SUMMER COURSE POPULAR ,
Nashville, Tenn.—Much interest is
being manifested in the courses which
arc to be offered in the Fisk univer
sity summer school this year, accord
ing to the director of the summer
sc-sion. Teachers from all ai ts of the
country are planning to take advan
tage of the opportunities offered to
further their education and increase
their professional training.
DRINKS AMMONIA BY MISTAKE
New Orleans.—Thinking she was
picked up a bottle in the dark and took
a long swallow; at the hospital physi
cians discovered that instead of the
grape, household ammonia was in the
bottle. She will recover.
.TEACHES 50 YEARS;DIES
New Orleans.—Mary Ellis Jones,
68, who has taught in the public
schools for the last 60 years, is dead.
She was noted for her activities in
securing better conditions for her race.
ELECTS NEGRO OFFICIALS.
Uwnside, N. J.—“The People’s
Choice,” or the regular republican
ticket, swept the platter clean in
Lawnside’s first borough election
Tuesday. All colored officials will
rule over a nearly all-colored borough.
The People’s Choice ticket was op
posed by a Citizens’ ticket. There
were 318 ballots cast In the election
and the People’s Choice ticket won by
more than 2 to 1.
GEORGIA SCHOOL
CONDITIONS TOLD
TO THE WOULD
Alanta, Ga.—The Pilgrim, official
organ of the Georgia League of Wo
men Voters, startled its readers by a
first column, front page expose of the
discrimination against Negroes widely
prevalent in the educational system
of this state. Having reviewd the back
ground of Negro education in Georgia
and the remarkable educational pro
gress of the race since the Civil war,
the article turns to present conditions
and sets out frankly the facts as they
are today, showing an expenditure for
teachers’ salaries averaging $17.!).':: for
each white child of school age and
$2.58 for each colored child Value
of public school buildings is shown to
be per child, white, $58.72; colored,
$10.02; expenditures for new buildings
per child, white, $2.84; colored, 27
cents; expenditures for equipment per
child, white, 40 cents; colored, 3
cents. It is pointed out that many
counties use for white schools state
school funds appropriated to the coun
ty on the basis of the colired school
population, the aggregate so diverted
running to more than $600,000 a year.
For college education, according to
the article, the state appropriates to
white schools, $829,700 and to colored
schools only $32,500.
The article was prepared by R. B.
Kleazer, educational director of the
commission on inter-racial cooperation
and has been put into pamphlet form
for wide distribution over the state.
Its conspicuous publication in a jour
nal of so great importance, represent
ing the most intelligent and influential
white women of Georgia is considered
significant.
WILLIAMETTE UNI. STUDENTS
URGE DYER BILL PASSAGE
New Yrk.—Mrs. E. D. Cannady, or
ganizer for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple in the States of the Northwest,
forwards resolutions passed by the
students of Willamette university, Sa
lem, Ore., urging enactment of the
Dyer anti-lynching bill and calling for
a brotherly attitude in dealing with
race problems The students' resolu
tions followed an address delivered
by Mrs. Cannady in the University
chapel.
The students voted to telegraph the j
following resolution to the two Oregon
senators in Washington: “We, the
student body of Willamette university,
ask your support for and urge the
passage of the Dyer-McKinley anti
lynching bill."
The resolution passed by the stu
dents reads as follows: “We, the Stu
dent Body of Willamette university,
wish to go on record as being opposed
to mob violence and lynchings; separ
ate schools for colored and wihte chil
dren; and the discrimination between
races in places of public accommoda
tion.”
Mrs. Cannady also addressed the
Bahai assembly in Portland, Ore., |
which telegraphed the Oregon sena
tors in behalf of the Dyer anti-lynch
ing bill and reecived favorable tele- j
grams of reply from Senators Mc
Nary and Stanfield.
NEGRO’S TRAFFIC SIGNAL
IS PLACED INTO SERVICE
St. Paul, Minn.—The automatic
traffic signal invented by R. L. Milton,
.‘!24 Rondo street, has been inspected
by city officials and pronounced a
success. Plans are already underway
to install one of the colored inventor’s
signals at one of the principal inter
sections of the city. The signal was
placed on display in the city hall and
was viewed by hundreds of curious
citizens.
j OBJECT TO STATUE OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
New Orleans, La.—White sitizens
here are opposing the placing of a
statue of Abraham Lincoln in this
city, as proposed by Col. Wade H.
Cooper of Washington, D. C. It was
here that Lincoln as a boy first saw
human slaves sold at auction and
made his resolve to fight if he ever
got a chance.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
NEGRO PHYSICIAN
WINS FELLOWSHIP
FROM GUGGENHEIM
Chicago Pathologist Selected as One
of Thirty-Eight Scholars Who
Are Beneficiaries of
Foundation.
FIVE WOMEN AMONG WINNERS
Members of Faculties of Twenty-Two
Colleges and Universities Among
Appointees—Harvard
Leads.
New York.—The John Simon Gug
genheim Memorial Foundation, estab
lished a year ago with a $3,000,000
fund by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggen
heim in memory of a son who died in
1!>22, announced Monday the appro
priation of $100,000 for the assistance
of young American scholars and ar
tists during the year 1926-27 and the
appointment of 38 new fellows from
18 states. The fellowship are general
ly $2,500.
One colored American, Dr. Julian
Herman Lewis, was named among
those selected.
Prominent Scientist.
Dr. Lewis is associate member of
Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Insti
tute; assistant professor of pathology
at the University of Chicago; anil
pathologist at the Provident hospital,
Chicago He is a member of the
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He was
appointed to study the fundamental
nature of immunity phenomena
Others Named.
The list of appointments includes
five women. Three artists are ap
pointed for creative work in painting
and three musicians for creative work
in musical composition. Among the
fellows are members of the faculties
of 22 colleges and universities. Har
vard leads with four fellows. The
University of Chicago has three, the
University of Cincinnati three, the
University of Wisconsin two and Yale
two.
The appointments just announced
were made on the recommendation of
the Committee of Selection of the
Foundation, consisting of President
Frank Aydelotte, Swarthmore college,
chairman; President Frederick C.
Ferry, Hamilton colege; Dean Virginia
C. Gildersleeve, Barnard college; Pro
fessor Charles Homer Haskins, Har
vard university; and Dean Carl Sea
shore, Stato University, of Iowa.
The trustees are: Simon Guggen
heim, Francis H. Brownell,r Carolt
A Wilson, Charles D. Hilles, Roger
W Straus and Charles Earl.
SECOND SWEET TRIAL.
Detroit, Mich. (Special to The Moni
tor)—The second trial of Dr. Sweet and
his codefendants is under way here, the
courtroom being crowded at all hearings.
It was called April 19. Henry Sweet is
being tried first. A week was consumed
in selecting a jury, more than 200 jurors
being called. Clarence Darrow made it
plain that he wanted no Southerners or
Kluxers on the jury.
Several witnesses for the prosecution
have been examined and while the prose
cution has attempted to show that there
waa no mob outside of the Sweet home,
all the witnesses have been forced to admit
that there were many peoplo across the
street. It has also been shown by the
testimony of witnesses that stones were
thrown against and into the Sweet home.
It will be recalled that in the first trial
the state attemped to prove that Dr. Sweet
. and hia family were unduly perturbed be
cause there was no mob in evidence ami
I the state called 70 witnesses who claimed
to be present to prove that there was no
crowd or moh present on the night in
question.
PORTER DANIELS’ WIDOW
IS AWARDED $15,000
Chicago, 111.—Mrs. Oscar Daniels,
widow of Oscar Daniels, who lost his
life while attempting to save passen
gers on his car last June, has been
awarded $15,000 by tbe Pullman com
pany- The settlement was made out
1 side of court.
