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| NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
I THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor.
$2.00 j I in—5 Cents a Copy. ’ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1926 VoL XI.—No. 47 Whole Number 565
FLORIDA SUPREME
COURT REVERSES
DIVOROE ACTION
Mimuny Granted Addie Hunton Floyd
Denied by Higher Court, Which
Reverses lsiwer Court Ruling.
1‘MNCI l*AI,S ARK PROMINENT
Husband Retired Wealthy Sea Captain
—Wife W idow of Kormer National
Y. M. C. A. Secretary.
Jacksonville' Fla., June 11.—A very
important decision in the famous
Floyd divorce case was rendered here
in the supreme court of the state of
Florida, when it reversed the lower
court and denied alimony to Mrs. Ad
die Hunton-Floyd. This case has at
tracted nation-wide attention, because
of the prominence of both the parties
Involved. In August, 1924, Captain
J. W. Floyd of Jacksonville, who had
married the former field secretary of
the N. A. C. I’, some months before,
filed his suit on grounds of desertion.
Immediately she employed attorneys
in New York apd Florida to file peti
tion for temporary alimony against
her husband. Much testimony was
taken in New York and Florida on
the question of the necessity of the
wife for support and of the ability of
the husband to pay, and the circuit
court at Jacksonville awarded the wife
a sum to be paid her monthly as ali
mony. All hopes for a compromise
were shattered when her attorneys re
fused to consider anything less than
$10,000.
Captain Floyd, through his attor
ney, S. D. McGill, appealed the case
to the supreme court of the state
which in a well-written opinion just
handed dow n reversed the lower court
and remanded the case. The deci
sion said in part:
“That alimony in Florida is not a
■latter of right, that a wife voluntar
ily absenting herself from her hus
band's household without his fault is
not entitled to temporary alimony,
and though the husband in this case
i abundantly able to pay his wife ali
mony yet he is justified in withhold
ing from her any support unless she
can show that she is living away from
dm through his fault and that she
is destitute ami in need.”
The case has attracted wide atten
tion because of the prominence of the
parties involved. Captain Floyd is a
wealthy retired sea captain, perhap;
the onlv real colored sea captain in
the country.
He was captain of the steamship
“Dauntless” of Spanish-American war
fame, which rendered great service for
the Cuban cause." Mrs. Hunton is a
widow of the late A. W. Hunton, for
merly secretary of the National Y.
M. C*. A., and is nationally known as
a lecturer and public speaker.
PICKENS DELIVERS SERIES
OF “LUNCHEON ADDRESSES”
Seattle, Wash. (By the Associated Ne
gro Press I William Pickens, field sec
reiarv of the National Association for the
Xdvancement of Colored People, delivered
a aeries of “luncheon addresses” in this
city this week that have excited wide
spread comment. The first was Thursday
at the Butler hotel to the memliers of the
Young Men’s Republican club; the sec
ond, at the University of Washington on
Friday, and the third, to members of the
Seattle Democratic r.Iuh, Saturday.
NEGRO YOUTH gaining
POPULARITY AS A POET
Fayetteville, Ark.—Although work
lair daily as a porter in a local bar
ber shop. George Ballard is rapidly
gaining a reputation of being 11 Poet
and by his verse is attracting the
attention- interest and favorable com
ment of literary critics throughout the
stute.
Ballard writes poetry as a side line
and for his own amusement and re
cently ome of his work found their
way into the columns of one of the
dailies and attracted the attention of
students and teachers of the Univer
dy of Arkansas.
MEMORIAL SERVICES BESPEAK
NATION'S TRIBl'TE TO CANNON
New York—"It is always an inspir
•tion to others thus to honor the mem
ory of one who has been of service
j to his fellow men,” wrote President
i Coolidge in tribute to the memory of
e late Dr. George E. Cannon, of New
N rsey, who was an influential leader
in national republican politics, ami
[ who seconded the nomination of Mr.
I Coolidge at the republican national
' convention in Cleveland, in 1924.
Services in Dr. Cannon’s memory
I were held Decoration Day evening in
the Mount Olivet Baptist church,
Lenox avenue and 120th street- un
der the auspices of the National Col
ored epublican conference, an organ
ation which the deceased founded
"'■! ral years ago. Dr. Cannon died
n New Jersey in April, 1925. Writ
ten tributes were also received from
Vice President Dawes, Senator Wil
•n M. Flutler, chairman of the re
ublican national committee, Governor
Smith of New York. Governor Moore
of New Jersey, Governor Pinchot of
Pennsylvania, Senator Wadsworth of
'Vw York, Senator Edge of New Jer
sey, ami Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
Among the speakers who eulogized
Dr. Cannon was Thomas E. Miller of
Philadelphia, the first Negro elected
‘o the house of representatives from
l the South. He was elected twice in
• Charleston- S. C., after he had served
ghteen years in the legislature of
hat state.
In state and national political cir
cles Dr. Cannon has been suceedcd
by Hon. Oliver Randolph, one of the
lording members of the bar of the
I state of New Jersey.
I rKNNESSEE GOVERNOR
WELCOMES TEACHERS
Nashville. Term. < By the Associated
Negro Press I Gov. Austin Peay extended
| greeting* nil lielialf of the state of Ten
nessee to more than 1,000 stale teachers
who assenilsled at the magnificent Tennes
see War Memorial Building Friday even
ing. Thu spirit shown at the opening i
I meeting indicated that the session will he 1
| one of the most successful in tire history
\ of the teachers' association of Tennessee.
| MORRIS MAKES HISTORY
AT GIRLS' SEMIN ARY
Allendale, N. C. f By the Associated
Negro Preset Charles Satchell Morris,
i Jr., son of the famous preacher liy mat
name, at^d known for years as the "hov
orator”, arose to unprecedented heights
i when he was invited to address the teach
er and student body of Coker College, a
seminary for white girls, at Hartsville, near
here. The appearance of tin* young ora
tor marked one of the few times that a
Negro has ever been called upon to ad
dress an exclusive audience of southern
white women, anil is perhaps only paral
leled by Morris' appearance before the
students of the Flora McDonald College,
a similar seminary, al Bod Springs, North
Carolina in 1924.
CREOLE BELLES DOING GOOD
Anniston, Ala -(By the Associated Ne
gro Press! K. I), late's Creole Belles, a
colored musical company, has been playing
a number of good towns and drawing
good business on its southern tour. The
company is well received, anti has ex
cited some comment. There arc twenty
five in the company, und it has its own
hand ami orchestra.
FORMER OMAHA BACHELOR
TO BECOME A BENEDICT
A wedding which will hr of inter
o-t to Ontuhans will be solemnized in
St. Philip's Episcopal church, St. Paul,
Minn., Sunday tnorning, June 27,
when Dr. Elmer Morris- successful
t. Paul druggist, will leatl to the al
tar, Miss Carrie Burnette Fillis, daugh
ter of Mrs. Carrie B. Ellis of that
city. Dr. Craig Morris of Omaha,
brother of Elmer, will be best man.
Other Omaha relatives will attend the
ceremony.
Remember the words of the Union
general whose forces had suffered a
temporary reverse: “Licked ? Hell.no!
We’ve just begun to fight.” Results
proved he had.
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COMMITTEE URGES
APPOINTMENT OF
COLORED TEACHERS
Representative Body of Colored Citi
zens Showing United Sentiment of
Race Meet Board of Education.
MUTE FRIENDS CO-OPERATE
Mrs. Vance, of Inter-Racial Commit
tee of Y. W. C. A., Makes
Effective Appeal.
A committee of twenty-five colored
citizens representing the N. A. A. C.
the Ministerial Alliance, the Roose
velt Post of the American Legion, the
Masons, the Odd Fellows, the U. B.
F., the Medical Association, the Col
ored Cimmercial club, and other or
ganizations waited upon the Board of
Education last Monday night to peti
tion the appointment of colored teach
ers in some of the schools of Omaha.
'Hie committee pinteil out that there
'■ere several schools such as the Long,
the Howard Kennedy, the Kellorn and
the West Side, in which there is a
large enrollment of colored pupils in
which such teachers could be advan
tageously placed.
Rev. John Albert Williams and H. J.
i’inkett were chosen to present the
use to the Board, which they did
riefly and cogently, stressing the fact
hat with our population totaling one
fifteenth of that of the city, paying
taxes on several millions of real and
personal property and contributing
our share to the upbuilding of the
•ommunity we were entitled to repre
entation. It was shown that among
the more than 2,000 employes of the
Board of Education our race has not a
single representative. Resolutions
from the Omaha Branch of the N. A.
A. C. P. requesting the appointment of
teachers were presented.
Mrs. Vance of the inter-racial com
mittee of the Y. W. C. A. and chair
man of the colored work of the As
sociation, made a most effective ap
peal and stated that her organization
was deeply interested in seeing that
justice was done in this matter. Mrs.
'•ilmer Findlay of the same organiza
* 'on was also present to lend her in
fluence. Mr. S. S. Caldwell, who is
deeply interested in the welfare of
our people, also made an earnest ad
dress advocating such appointments.
President Van Orsdel assured the
committee that the request would bo
considered by the committee on teach
ers. Just what the present outcome
will be is problematical.
SEGREGATION DEFEATS SOUTH
CHATTANOOGA LOSES MEET
Cleveland, O.—The fifty-third nn
"ual convention of the National Con
ference of Social Work, which has
iust closed in Cleveland, dealt preju
dice a severe blow and blasted the
hopes of the South for a convention
of this organization as long as colored
delegates are not guaranteed the
ame privileges and accommodations
accorded others. Thus Chattanooga,
although it made a persistent demand
for the convention, was forced to yield
to Des Moines, Iu.
This National Conference of So
cial Work, one of the most democratic
organizations, has always accorded
Negro delegates just and fair consid
e’ation. Once the executive commit
tee threatened to call off the con
ference when they faced New Orleans’
attempt to bar Negroes from the meet
ings less than two weeks before the
delegates were to arrive.
COLORED FILM CO. ORGANIZED.
St. Louis.—The Colored Motion Pic
ture company, a motion picture or
ganization for the filming of two-reel
comedies in which colored actors and
actresses play the various roles, has
been organized here. The company is
to be financed and headed by Morris
M. Burke, a white real estate oper
ator, with whom will be associated C.
H. Turpin, the owner of the Booker
T. Washington theater, and F. J.
Fegan. former president of the St.
Louis Film Board of Trade. T. J. Ray
of Hollywood will direct the pictures.
ANOTHER SUPREME
COURT CASE
Washington—The brief in his appeal
contesting the validity of the Texas
lav, under which he was prohibited
from voting in the general democratic
primaries in July, 1924, has been filed
in the U, S. supreme court by L. A.
Nixon of El Paso, Texas.
Mr. Nixon contends that the stat
ute which renders a Negro ineligible
to participate in democratic primaries
in the state is unconstitutional. In
he federal district court for western
Texas the suit which sought to re
cover *5,000 damages against precinct
edges was dismissed on the grounds
I fhat the federal constitution and laws
relating to suffrage do not apply to
primaries.
The case will be reached for oral
argument early in the next term of
1 ‘he court, beginning in October.
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COLORED AND WHITE TEACHERS’
ASSOCIATIONS FORM CONNECTION
'I uskegee, Ala.— (By the Associated Ne
gro Press)—The names of the personnel
of two committees, one from the National
Educational Association, white, and one
from the National Association of Teach
ers in Colored Schools, have just been an
nounced. These committees are to wirm
! one large committee of the whole whose
purpose is to lie the study of educational
problems in their particular reference to
colored students and teachers
I file chairman of the committee is S. L.
Smith, representative of the Roesnwald
; Fund for colored schools. Other mem
bers of the association, white, are Dr.
Thomas .lease Jones, N. C. Newbold, W.
| Sanders and Dr. W. T. Williams. The
representatives on the committee from the
• National association are R. S. Grossley,
president, C. J. Calloway, Mrs. Mary Mc
| I cod Bethune, Leslie Piekney (fill, Dr.
i F. A. Sumner.
All members of the committee have been
i prominently identified with Negro edu
cational work in the past, and two repre
sentatives from the while association are
colored. The committee will make a re
port on the progress of its work at the
annual session id the National Association
of Teachers in Colored Schools at Hot
Springs, Ark., July 28-.'50.
BAPTISTS TO ERECT HOSPITAL
New Orleans, La.— (By the Associated
Negro Press) — Final arrangements have
l»-en completed for the erection of a
baptist hospital by churches of that faith
in this city. A movement is also under
way for the erection of a charity hospital
for the care of Negro patients only, and
ii which Negro physicians and nurses will
he employed. It is said that Negroes
do not receive the treatment they deserve
a! the state owned and controlled hospital
in his city.
GW ERA BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
The New Era Baptist Association |
has been in session all this week at j
Pilgrim Baptist church with a large I
ttendance. An interesting program
•s occupied the three sessions held
daily. The Rev. W. F. Botts is presi
ient of the Association and Rev. I. M.
( ogg. secretary. Among the striking
features is the exhibit of beautfful art ]
nd handicraft work by the children
and adults of several of the churches,
notably Zion, which has the. largest
exhibit; Pilgrim and Mount Moriah.
The delegates from Lincoln are the
Bov. H. W. Botts, Mrs. E. J. Griffin,
Pie Misses Ella Botts, Anna and Eve
lyn Johnson
The officers of the New Era Bap
tist Sunday school convention are H.
1 . Anderson, president; Charles Stew
rt, first vice president; H. W. Botts,
'r., second vice president; Miss Ber
i ce Fowler, recording secretary; Mrs.
Alphurn Tinsley, corresponding secre
tary; Mrs. Cornelius Woods, treas
urer.
MAN GIVEN LIFE; STRANGLED
4-YEAR-OLD CHILD
Ferriday, La.—Alex Floyd, a white
man, was sentenced to life imprison
ment for strangling to death a 4-jiear
old colored baby, Adelie LeBlack, who
annoyed him while at play. He ad
mitted the crime.
DUBOIS IS RIGHT
By William Pickens
The Crisis article in the June num
ber exposing the aims and animus of
Thomas Jesse Jones’ attack on ‘‘Ed
ucation in Africa” is very much to
the point—and is done with the frank
ness and fearlessness which even Du
Bois’ opponents and even his enemies
ought to appreciate. A lack of plain
and honet speech is what has damned
most Negro leaders. Most of them
i ry to say it without saying it, or not
to say it and yet get it said.
A desire for Negro inferiority is
the bedrock of all that type of "phil
anthropy” led by the Thomas Jesse |
jones mind. These men usually pre- |
end to believe that the Hampton-Tus
kegee idea of education solely for in- j
dustrial interests and purposes is the !
cause of all the really educated Ne
groes of the United States—and they j
make this pretense in the face of the j
ain fact that most of the education j
at Hampton and all of that a Tus
kegee has been conducted by Negroes
who got their education in the col- ,
leges—and that Hampton what was I
not conducted by college-bred Negroes
has been conducted by college-bred |
white people—which proves the same
truth.
A.- a fact, which any mind can see I
t a glance, the really educated Amer
ican Negroes who are busy in every 1
eld of life, including those who help i
Thomas Jesse Jones, are not products j
of such schools as were Hampton and
Tuskegee; they may have begun at j
Hampton or Tuskegee. but they had j
to go elsewhere to complete their edu
cation for the best service in the world.
We are talking of the old Hampton
and Tuskegee, of the industrial and
ti ade-education epoch. Now, of course
both of those schools are beginning to
increase the very type of “literary”
and higher education which Jones de
cries in Africa. The education of
Negroes in America never could have
ieen built on "Hampton or Tuskegee.
!■ mpton and Tuskegee had to be built
on the work of fundamental education
done at the schools like Atlanta and
Talladega. Look up any Hampton or
Tuskege man who stands above the
ordinary man in the world of achieve
ment, and you will find that he started
at Hampton or Tuskegee but went to
school, or got an educating experience
in other institutions or places. The
only horse sense view of either Hamp
ton or Tuskegee, especially before
they began to add higher courses to
their curricula, is that they are good
places to begin an education, and in
nany instances the only places where
many poor blacks could get a begin
ning. But to say that Hampton and
Tuskegee produced all the educated
people who started in them is every
kit as sensible as to say that the
kindergarten or the first grade pro
duced all the educated people in the
world—and then to attempt to limit
all education to the kindergarten or
the first grade.
’ The African will have to fight this
.effort to make him the economic slave
of the white world just as the Amer
ican Negro has done. He will have
to build and conduct schools of his
own, and to join forces with the
whites who believe that there is nei
ther race nor color in real education.
SPCLDING SPEAKS AT FLORIDA
A. & M. COMMENCEMENT |
Tallahassee, Fla.—C. C. Spaulding,
president of the North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance company, deliv
ered the commencement address at
the Florida Agricultural and Mechan
ical college here Thursday morning,
when 60 students received diplomas
and degrees. The speaker took as
Sis subiect, “What Kind of Educa
tion.” He answered the question as
he developed the theme, “That educa
tion which fits one for service is
the only kind of education there is.”
The returns from Iowa, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Oregon show, as
we have predicted, that Coolidge has
no cinch on the renomination. Let us
boom a Nebraska man. Walter Head
is good presidential timber and we
dont mean maybe.
“It takes 65 muscles of the face to
make a frown and 13 to make a smile
-why work overtime?”
NATIONAL TRAINING
SCHOOL APPEALS FOR
AID IN REBUILDING
Excellent Institution for Education of
Women and Girls Destroyed by
Fire, Needs Money.
NANNIE BURROUGHS PRAISED
Work of Founder and President Is
Warmly Commended by Members
of Both Races.
Washington, June 0J.—The Na
tional Training School for Women and
Girls, of which Mis Nannie H. Bur
roughs is president, was virtually de
stroyed by fire last week. The dam
age done was only partially covered
by insurance, and steps are being
taken now to raise a $100,000 fund
for rebuilding the structure.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson, director of
the Association for the Study of Ne
gio Life and History, and editor of
The Journal of Negro History, is in
terested in the appeal sent out by
Miss Burroughs. Dr. Woodson states
that in view of the fact that the Na
tional Training School for Women and
Girls is the only one of its kind north
of Richmond. Va., the public should
generously support the movement to
rebuild the main building at least. The
cost for this structure, to be of brick,
says Dr. Woodson, would be about
$100,000.
High tribute is paid to Miss Bur
roughs because of her great effort on
behalf of this school, and promi
nent citizens of both races say she
has had tremendous struggle in fi
nancing the institution. The school
is incorporated and has a splendid
board of trustees.
The Evening Star, one of the lead
ing papers of the country, states that
it will acknowledge through its col
umns receipt of funds for the pur
pose of erecting a new building, and
contributions may also be sent to the
Washington Loan and Trust company.
In speaking of the place filled by
Miss Burroughs and her work, Dr.
Woodson concludes:
“The National Training School meets
a need which neither the public schools
nor a university can supply. In the
first place, this institution makes no
effort to compete with local institu
tions. The school, as its name implies,
is a national institution. The girls
attending this school come from all
parts of the country. Its students are
drawn frof families preferring to edu
cate their daughters under the in
fluences which are not exerted in pub
lic schools or universities. Further
more. being the only school for Negro
girls in the United States, north of
Richmond, Va., it should appeal to
philanthropists as an excellent oppor
tunity for supporting a very neces
ary piece of educational work among
the several million Negroes who live
outside of the South.”
COUNCIL BLUFFS NOTES
Mrs. Daisy Williams left for Rock
Island, 111., to visit friends.
Mrs. J. P Jackson is home from
Die hospital, and doing nicely.
Mrs. Nannie Rudd is home.
Mrs. Alta Birdsong has been ill
but is improving.
The entertainment given by the Sun
day school was well attended.
The Rally given Sunday, June 6,
was quite a success. Over $250 being
raised. There will be more as soon
as the rest of the captains report.
M,rs. Daisy Fox returned from Kan
sas City last week.
Mrs. Susie Robertson lost her sis
ter by death last week. She will
return from Kansas City soon.
Morning Star Tabernacle. No. 592,
gave a quilt contest anil concert at
Tabernacle Baptist church, June 8- It
was well attended and enjoyed by all.
The Eureka Art club met at the
home of Mrs. E. H. Madison, 417
Avenue D, June 2. A delightful lun
cheon was served.
The Hollis Art club met at the
home of Mrs. T. A. Reese, A deli
cious luncheon was served.