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The Monitor me NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS | THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. $2.00 a Year—5 Cents a Cof 2 _OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1926. Vol. XL—No. 48. Whole Number 566 COOL.DGE DINES HAITIEN PRESIDENT ROMAN CATHOLICS NUMBERING MILLION ATTENDING MEET (.real Kurhnristir Congress Brings Pilgrimage From Whole World for Religious Devotion NEGROES ARE PARTICIPATING (riven Section of Congress and Will Also Take Part in General Program Outlined Chicago, June 18.—Adding a mil lion people to the normal population of a city is no mean task. Chicago, New York, and possibly Philadelphia, are practically the only cities in America that can do it. and sur vive Chicago is doing it now. The forty-sixth Eucharistic Con gress of Roman Catholics from all ■ arts of the world are assembling in Chicago for the big event which be gins Sunday, June 20. All available resources of Chicago are being placed ■ it the disposal of the unusual event, which is a pilgrimage of Roman Cath olics for religious devotion and c in sec ration. Negroes from all sections of Amer ica. and other countries, will have a definite and proportional part The program of the Negro section of the Eucharistic Congress, as an nounced by the Rev. J. F. Keeker, S. V. I)., pastor of Ht. Elizabeth’s church of Chicago, indicates that pilgrimages of colored Roman Catholics will come to the congress from New York, Cin cinnati, St. 1/vuis, Detroit, Louisville, and most of the principal cities of the south. The Josephite fathers, mis «ionarle< who work among the Ne groes of the United States, will lead •rge delegations of their parishioners from the southern states. Another re ligious order that dedicates itself to Negro missions, the Society of the Divine Word, will do likewise. One of the foremost educators and missionaries of the Negro race, the Rev. Jo.-eph Glenn of Richmond, Va., will deliver the principal address Sun day afternoon at a meeting at St. Elizabeth's church, where that morn ing a solemn high mass will he cele brated by the Rev. Father Eckert, as i-ted by two young colored priests. Negro Children to Sing. Participation of colored Roman Ca tholics in the congress will not he lim ited to meetings of their section. From Negro parochial schools more than 500 children will in the vast choir of 62,000 voices Monday, June 21, h-'itv the “Mass of the Angels” is -ung in Soldiers’ field stadium. Also more than 150 students from St. Eliz beth’s high school are to take part in the ceremonies of Higher Educa tion Day, June 23. and 1,000 Roman Catholic men of color will take part in the men’s night ceremony. c (HAIRED PORTERS ASSIST RESt I ERS IN DISASTER New York.—Alexander McKinney and his staff did tlieid bit in the task of transferring more than 300 pas sengers to safety when the magnifi cent steamer Washington Irving sank last Tuesday in the Hudson river, after being in u collision with a heav ily-laden barge. McKinney, who lives at 100 West 114th street, and who has been with the Hudson River Day Line company for more than 18 years, ordered a few ,,f his men ashore to assist the fear trtcken passengers to the pier. •EDIT ATION WILL SAVE HAITI" Washington.—Dr. Paul H. Douglas, who has recently returned from Haiti, where he investigated all the phases of that country’s priblems, gives an encouraging report upon the progress being made under American supervi sion. t He asserts that the greatest present day need of the Haitian people is edu cation, and says “Haiti has made e rious blunders but with the proper ed ucation Haiti will be able to find it self, and eventually be ripe for self government. KICV. THUS. S. HARTEN STIRS BOSTON Great Ovation Given National Organ izer Equal Rights League at Big Mass Meeting. Boston, Mass.—The sensation of the week here has been the great acclaim given Rev Thus. S. Harten of Brook lyn, national organizer of the National Equal Rights league, by the people of '’oston, who crowded the Peoples Bap tist church to its 1.000 capacity Tues day night The attendance was the more remarkable because the meet ing had been arranged on two days’ public notice. The ovation was in part a welcome back home as Rev. Mr, Harten formerly pastored in Cam hridge and was locally a civic leader. Rev. Mr. Klugh. local executive chairman, announced the occasion as the monthly meeting of the Boston Branch of the National Equal Rights ' eague, and Rev. Mr. Harten as guest. William Monroe Trotter, national sec | retary; Albert G. Wolff, local sec | retary, who presided; J. A. Hagan, Rev. G. Somerville, Rev. W. H. | Hester urged a united race demand ; for redress and eulogized the guest, i Rpv. Mr. Klugh introduced him with | high praise. The audience rose, gave him the Chatauqua salute ami voci ferous applause. Rev. Mr. Harten responded gra ■ iously and then in forceful and elo ! quent words told of outrages 'iri Brioklyn and New Jersey, eondemned in detail the1 segregation of colored clerks at Washington as well as the Jim-Crow Beach bill, declared condi tions had become most critical, urged race unity and action, finally urg ing the signing of the Sesqui-Cen tennial petition to President Coolidge to abolish the federal segregation now. Hundreds signed. The vast audience were still in their eats though it was nearly midnight. When Mr. Harten finished with an appeal not to compromise round after round of applause followed, the peo ple rushed forward fairly mobbing the guest in eagnerness to shake his hand. Some embraced anti he was carried about in the arms and on the shoul der of the men. Seldom has a race neaker received such hearty endorse ment on his return here. UNIVERSITY TRUSTEE CITES RACE'S EDUCATIONAL NEEDS New Y<^rk.—William H. Baldwin, well known philanthropist, educator, and trustee of Fisk University, has just announced to the public a signifi cant review' of the needs of Negro duration, particularly in connection with such institutions as Fisk univer ity, which is specifically training the I mind of the Negro. The war has stimulated a mass migration from the rural South into the industrial centers of the country and thus has created a vital need for well-trained colored men and women to serve and lead their race as doctors, ministers, businessmen, teach ers and social workers in the con gested colonies of our cities. This training must be provided in terms of college and professional school, not of agricultural and industrial institutes. It is for this reason that the com pletion of a million-dollar endowment fund at Fisk university, the oldest rind most strategically located Negro ] college in the south, is of special sig | nificance. Thanks to the participation i of all the foundations which study Negro education in all its phases and to the generosity of many individuals in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chi cago and elsewhere, $60,000 is all that is required to establish this fund, and it has become of great concern to Fisk and to public-thinking on a peculiarly American issue. FREDERICK DOUGLAS HONORED Washington.—Several hundred col ored pupils of the public schools, to gether with their parents, teachers and school principals, joined in the annual Memorial Day pilgrimage to the home of Frederick Douglass at Cedar Hill. Anacostia, in tribute to his life and services to his race and country COL. THEODORE ROQSEVELT TO ADDRESS N. A. A. C. P. CONFAB New York, N. Y.—Col. Theodore Roos evelt lias accepter! an invitation to ad dress the Seventeenth Annual Conference in Chicago of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, it was announced today. Col. Roosevelt has been a warm friend of the N. A. A. C. P. and has server! as a member of the Spingarn Medal Award committee. He will speak at the night mass meeting on Monday. June 28 The City of Chicago is ready for the influx of delegates to the conference, ac cording to reports from Dr. Hubert A. Turner, chairman of the Chicago N. A. A. C. P. The elaborate preparations for the entertainment of delegates and visitors include a tea on Wednesday afternoon. June 23, before the opening night maas meeting, tendered at Chicago's and the country's most celebrated settlement house, Hull House. The tea is given by the Woman’s Huh of Chicago, co-operating with Miss Jane Addatns, head of Hull House and a me mbers of the N. A. A. C. P. board of directors; Miss Mary E. Mc Dowell. Chicago commissioner of public welfare; Mrs. Julia Lathrop, president of the Illinois League of Women Voters and Mrs. Irene Coins of the Inter-racial com mittee. \ feature of the conference will be an automobile outing to Lincoln Park on Saturday. June 26. followed by an after noon reception at the Vincennes hotel. The latest addition to the conference list of speakers is W illiam English Wall list of speakers is William English Wall ing. author and lecturer, and one of the founders of the association, who for many years has been a member of the hoard of directors. Because of congestion in transportation due ltr the meeting of the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, the N. A. A. C. P. at the suggestion of the railroads is urging ull delegates to Ik* in Chicago on the I morning of Wednesday, June 23, if pos sible. X special book booth for books by Ne gro authors and almul race matters is to be conducted at the conference by Mrs. Roscoe C. Giles and the Hook club of which she is a member. Mayor William E. Deverof Chicago, who was to have spoken on the opening night of the conference, has asked to have the date changed because he is obliged to at tnerl a dinner that night in honor of the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden. The Mayor has therefore been asked to speak oil Spingarn Medal night, the closing ses sion of the conference. All delegates to the confei$5nce are urged to register immediately upon ar rival in Chicago at the conference head quarters, Pilgrim Baptist church, 33rd and Indiana Avenue. Seats at the. night mass meetings will lie reserved for accredited delegates and all who register until 7:45. Rates for delegates have been established as follows: Stopping place with break fast. $1.50 per day. l uncheon and dinner will be served in the basement of the Pilgrim Baptist church. Already more -states ait represented than at any previous conference of the association and the attendance i„ expect ed to break all records. ! RECEIVES MASTER'S DEGREE New York—(By the Associated Negro P»es-i—Among the graduates of our group from Columbia University, New York City, upon whom the degree of Mas ; tei of Arts was conferred at the commence ment exercises on June 1. none deserves I greater praise than Miss Miarnda Mead I dough of Little Rock, Ark., daughter of Dr and Mrs. Meaddough. who received her Master of Arts degree at the age of i »enty‘-oiie. Miss Meaddough Wan consul erably the youngest in the university. There were only two others of her race group who also received the Master of Arts degree. Miss Meaddough intends to follow teach ing as a profession. SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT MAKES AN IMPORTANT REVERSAL Columbia, S. C.—In a unanimous opinion rendered, May 28, 1926, South Carolina supreme court found error to the charge of Judge H. F. Rice in the trial court, in which Demon Lowman, Clarence Lowman and Bertha Low man were convicted of murder of Sheriff Howard of Aiken, and sen tenced to electrocution and life im prisonment for the two men and one roman, respectively. Attorney N. J. Frederick of Columbia argued the on appeal. On trial, the defendants’ counsel, while acknowledging that the sheriff ’eld a search warrant and was within ’’is lights in entering and searching the premises of the accused, sought to prove that such entrance and search were hurriedly and improperly made without apprising the defendants that the sheriff was an officer of the law and properly clothed with its man dates and authority. The trial judge overruled this contention and in his charge to the jury held that no im- i proper conduct on the part of the | sheriff was shown by the evidence ! submitted. “This charge,” the su preme court held, “excluded the right of the defendants to protect them selves against search if they did not know the parties making the search were officers.” The defendants were entitled to have the jury charged that ther,- could stand on their rights as the occupants of the premises and protect their home from invasion, using so much force as was necessary, unless they knew that the persons were officers with the right to search. To convict any other than the person firing the one shot which killed the sheriff, the su preme court pointed out, there must be shown “a conspiracy on the part of the defendants to attack the of ficers.” The Lowman decision marks a vie- , for human rights under the Con- I stitution, as argued by Attorney Fred- I erick. who conducted the case of the 1 defendants with marked legal knowl edge and bearing. A new trial was accorded. ELKS FORM MIDWEST ASSOCIATION OF ORDER At a recent meeting held in Kansas City, the I. B. P. O. E. W. organized a Midwest association of the Antlered herd, embracing Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri anil Oklahoma. The honor of the headship in this association was given PRESIDENT OF HAITI IS GDEST AT THE COOLIDGE TADLE Cal, First Lady, Two Cabinet Mem bers and Mrs. Hoover Lunch With Borno and Wife. KELLOGG, WILBUR PRESENT Huge Delegation of Washington Negroes Greet Haitian at Union Station. Washington, D. C.—The president of the United States, the first lady of the land, two cabinet members and a score of lesser dignitaries flanked President Borno, head of the West Indian Negro republic of Haiti, and his wife at an official luncheon at the White House. The tall, debonair West Indian sat on the president’s right, the seat of the guest of honor. On his right was Mrs. Coolidge, while Mme. Borno sat ; on Mr. Coolidge’s left. Nearby were I Secretary of State Kellogg, Secretary j <>f the Navy Wilbur, Hannibal Price, the Haitian minister, and Mme. Price, Under-Secretary of State Grow and Mrs. Grow and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the secretary of commerce. The Nordic president of the United : States and the brown-skinned presi dent of Haiti broke bread together Tuesday, twenty years after President I Roosevelt stirred this country by in viting Booker T. Washington, Negro educator, to luncheon. President Borno of Haiti bears little of Negro characteristics. He is tall and imposing; He dresses fashionably and is well educated, having attended a French college. A huge delegation of Washington Negroes greeted him at Union sta ton, as he stepped from the train. The Haitian president was escorted by State Department officials to a White House car flanked by a troop of cavalrymen. JUDGE RULES NEEGROES MAY OWN, BUT MAY NOT OCCUPY Detroit, Mich.— (By the Associated Ne gro Press)—In this city, the home of the celebrated Sweet case, the outcome of which to date, has guaranteed the Negro’s right to defend his home. Judge Leland W. Carr, has just ruled that Negroes may own property in restricted districts which they may not legally occupy, which is going some. The opinion was rendered in connection with a petition offered by certain whites and the Lakewood Boulevard Civic Associ ation against Mr. and Mrs. William H. Starks. The whites sought to get the Starkes to sell a house which they had erected next to an apartment building oc cupied by whites. The Civic association regarded the price asked by Mr. Starkes as exorbitant. The decision of Judge Carr is to the effect that if they won’t sell the house, the Starkes can’t live in it, which accomplishes the purpose the Lakewood Civic uplifters sought just the same. Judge Carr issued an injunction. PAGEANT PLEASES AUDIENCE Fort Wayne, Ind.—(By the Associated Negro Press)—Depicting the history of the Negro from its beginning in Egypt down to the present time, “Loyalty’s Gift,” an interesting and entertaining pageant, presented under the auspices of the Phyl lis Wheatley Social Center at the Majestic Theater, Friday evening, pleased the large mixed audience in attendance and evoked favorable comment of dramatic critics of this city. ROSENWALI) NEGRO SCHOOL BUDGET FOR 1926 IS $450,000 Nashville, Tenn. — S. L. Smith, white, general field agent of the Julius Rosenwald fund, has just an nounced that a budget of $450,000 for distribution among southern schools, has been approved by Julius Rosen wald, president of the fund. This fund is to be spent through the de partment of education of 14 southern states. I COUNT WILKINSON Chairman of the Press Committee of the I. B. P. 0. E. W. Pres. Middle-west Association of Elks to Nebraska, Mr. A. Count Wilkinson, of Omaha, being unanimously elected presi dent. Mr. Wilkinson who is exalted ruler of the local lodge, has also been honored , by being appointed chairman of publicity . for the national body, which is an office of distinction and responsibility. Little Rock, Ark.— (By the Assocated Negro Press)—Changing 'their plea of not guilty at the last' moment, two white boys, J. R. McCormack and H. P. Price, on trial for the murder of Jack Mactaney, a colored taxicab driver, were sentenced to not more than eight years in the pen itentiary.