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fii' HE MONITOR Ml NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. *-.<»> a Year—5 Cenff Copy. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1926 Vol. XI.—No. 52 Whole Number 570 JUDH COBB IS FINALLY SWORN IN MORTALITY RATE EXCEEDINGLY HIGH AMONG COLORED < < kired Americans Have Death Kate of 17.1 Per Thocsand as Compared With 11.8 Among Whites. INDIAN MORTALITY HIC.HKST Iw. th K-ttf Among the Red Men 22.5 Per Thousand; Among Japanese It Is Onlv 11.5 — New York, June 16 Commenting on the mortality of colored races in the I nitod State*. American Medicine says j that of each thousand death* in this I country during 1923, 873 were white, 122 Nrgrs two Indian, one Chinese and one Japanese. Th>- death rale of the entire registration area exclusive of Hawaii was 12.3 per thousand population. “The discrepancy between the white mortality rate of 11.8 and that of the colored of 17.1 merits attention. It is not without interest that in the registra tion states tlie mortality of the white males »a> 12.1, colored males 17.VT* white lemale* 11.2. colored females 16.5. 'The state of affairs, however, is more ! -1 nifinn! when one contrasts the mortal- • ilv rates in the cities and the rural parts of registration states. In the lilies the mortality rate was 13.6 for male white, and 25.2 for male colored; 11.6 for fe male white and 20.1 for female colored, while in the rural section the rate for male, white was 11.4 and colored male 14.0, and for female while 10.8. and for colored female 14.4. “It i* interesting therefore to note that where sanitation and health administra tion might lie expected to he more effect ive in improving the colored mortality rato, it is relatively inferior to the natural status in the rural sections. Inasmuch as in the rural sections Rn-re appears to be a greater similarity in the mortality rates of the white and the colored, it would seem as though the colored race were particularly penalized by residence in the cities in die registration states. "The distinction thus observed in mor tality rates is not generally true, as there are marked variations in northern and southern states. Hy way of contrast, for example., one notes that in Massachusetts the urban mortality rate of white inales is 12.9 and in rural sections 14.0 while for the urban colored male it is 80.1. fit New York City tlie urban white male had a rale of 13.1 while the colored male was adacer2andCyahaokaa 22.0, and in the rural sections it was 16.0 for the white male and 20.1 for the colored male. “ff otic compare* the mortality of the white with that of the colored race* one notes the Negro mortality rale of 17 • per thousand, Indian mortality rate Tl.t, lapamws- mortality rate 11,5. This con trast raises various questions. The low j rate of the Japanese is in striking contrast with the higher rale of the Negro and the unusually high mortality rale of the Vmerican Indian. In contrast with the mortalities of other 1 nations that of the United Stars j. e« cedent, says the writer. The mortality rate of the Japanese in the registration states of only 11.5 is in shaip yonlrast with their mortality rate of 22.3 in Japan in 1922. There i« a marked difference, however, he asserts, in the constitution of the Japanese population in this country and in the home land. "The mortality rate for the Indians in Vmerica in 1923 was approximately that of Jamaica,” the writer continues. “Con sidering that the Indians are virtually wants ol the Unites! States Government, and that there is a Bureau of Indian Af fairs whose function it is to regard their welfare it ia shocking to learn that the Indian mortality rate is higher than that of the whiles and Negroes in this country.” FATHER OE TRIPLETS i WANTS A PREMIUM Washington. D. G—(By the Associated Negro Press)—According to Congressman Wilson, a Mississippi democrat, one of his constituents, Charles McCollum, whose wife has just borne triplets, has appealed through him to President Coolidge for a premium, claiming that a poor fellow needs a little help "in such a caae TO GIVE NEW GOt USE ON WOMEN Philadelphia, Pa. (By the Associate,J Negro Press) A new course is to he in augural cl at the I Diversity of Pennsyl vania will lake up the economic, social, and political advancement of women, and will he under the direction of Dr. Thomas Woddy.. who g, I the inspiration for the course from a tour of the south. MED AES EOR SHERIFFS WHO PROTECT PRISONERS Atlanta, Ga. —For the recognition of sheriffs who exercise notable dili gence in the protection of prisoners threatened by mobs, the Commission on Inter-Racial Co-Operation, with headquarters here, has prepared hand some bronze medals which will be awarded by a committee composed of Governor John W. Martin of Flor ida, Governor Henry L. Whitfield of Mississippi, Ex-Governor Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia, George B. Dealey, Editor of the Dallas News, Marshall Bullard, Editor of the New Orleans Item, and Mrs. J. H. McCoy, presi dent of Athens Codege, Alabama. All nominations for the award will be I passed on by this committee and the medals will Ik* presented on a public occasion by some representative per son in each state. The medal is a beautiful work of art in bronze and was designed by one of the leading American sculptors. Its preparation was authorized by the Inter-Racial commission at the annual meeting of 1925 as part of the effort for the eli mination of mob violence which is being carried on by many represen tative agencies and individuals throughout the South. COMMITTEES ON Sl’RVEY MAKE THEIR REPORTS 1 Committees appointed to make a •survey of racial conditions in Omaha for collecting data upon which to de termine the need for a branch of the Y. M. O. A. here, gave their reports at a meeting held at the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A. last Thurs day night, at which Miss Gertrude Lu cas. vice chairman of the general com mittee presided. The survey included population, housing, employment, fra ternities, churches, educational and recreational facilities. Each commit ter* had done its work well and much valuable information was collated. Eaeh report was discussed. Mr. P>rc“. general secretary of the Central Branch, was present and took a help ful and active part in the consider ation of the several reports. The data, he advised, will be forwarded to the general survey secretary in New York and considered by him and the Regional Secretary for Colored Work, following which another meet ing will he called to which the public will be invited. m;t aside week to PATRONIZE NEGRO MERCHANTS _ Nrw Orleans. La. (By the Associated Negro Pres*) The week of July 19 to 24 ha* been ^et aside by the Young Ne gro Business League as Negro Trade Week during which period Negroes will be asked to purchase from merchant* of their own rare both the necessities as well as the luxuries of life. 'I'lus movement opens a new field and no doubt in the future more Negro business enterprises will Ik* established in this city. ARREST WOMAN FOR VIOLATION OF “JIM CROW" LAW Memphis, Tenn.—(By the Associated Negro Press)— Because Mrs. Blanche Cothran, 21, refused to move her child child whom she had seated beside two white children on a street ear, she has been arrested on a charge of violating the “Jim Crow” law. THREE DIF. IN EXPLOSION Pageland, S. C.— (By the Assciated Ne gro Press)—John Brewer, Tom V,o<khart, and Pete Johnson were killed by a dyna mite explosion Thursday afternoon while “planting” dynamite in the rock at the plant of the Lawrence Stone and Gruvel company. An Open Letter to Every Negro Club Woman in America The Fifteenth Biennial Convention of i the National Association of Colored Worn en, Inc., the largest organized body of j Negro women in the world, will he held I in Oakland, California, July 30-August 6, 1926. Special railroad rates will lie given to women all over the country, and special trains will leave from Chicago to: this great meeting. Perhaps some of our women do not j realize the significance and importance of this convention. The National Associ ation of Colored Women, which stands for the best in Negro womanhood, the best j scholarship of our youth, the best home 1 life, the best in business and in health, tha best in art, the best in legislation and the best in citizenship embraces u mem bership of nearly one hundred fifty thou sand women of our race, scattered in all sections of \merica. Individual dubs, city, town and rural clubs are connected withe the state federations and the state federations are affiliated with the na tional. Sin* brings to this organization i the work, the needs, the aims of the worn j«n in her section, and takes hack to them a report of the work thnt the supreme association is doing. The Fifteenth Biennial meeting, to he held in Ireautiful Oakland, Calif., will give unlimited opportunities for progress ive measures to Ik* taken among the wom en of our race. Business will he inter spersed with pleasure and sightseeing in the ^western section of our country. Creater efficiency will be sought in bring ing the women to the highest point at tainable in all that the national associa tion stands lor. j We desire the rural districts, the towns, the cities, and the states to be represented one hundred per cent. Send your repre sentative so we may know YOUR prob lem among the women of your community. Every Negro woman in the United Stales ought to read The National Notes, official organ of the National Association of Colored Women, and see what we are doing what we plan—what we need to do. Find out from The Notes what your assessments are for your club, and send them in at once to the National treasurer. Mu. C. R. McDowell, 1228 Center street, H»n nibal, Missouri. Send your subscrip- I lion of 50 cents for The Notes in to the j editor, Mrs. Myrtle Foster Cook, 2436 Mont gull avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Com municate with Mrs. Daisy Lampkin, 2519 I Webster avenue, Pittsburgh. Pa., concern ing your transportation to the convention. Communicate with the national president about anything about which you are in dpubt. Ju«t plan to be in Oakland, July 30 to August 6. The program for the convention will be printed in the July issue of The Na tional Notes. Get your subscription in : now, in order to get this issue. Praying God’s blessing on each *>ne of j you, and urging you to give your fullest co-operation in this work, I am yours for ! “l ifting as we climb.-’ MARY McLEOD BETHUNE Natioruil President. 1 SPONSOR MONI MENT TO NECRO PHILANTHROPIST New Orleans, lai. -(By the Associated Negro Press)—Steps are being taken to erect a monument to Tlminas Lafon, a colored philanthropist who died thirty three years ago, leaving his wealth which amounted to nearly half a million dollars, to various Negro charities, which will be play;.! in a prominent si-ction of the city. The movement is sponsored by the Auto crat club. Subscribe for The Monitor, the only race weekly published in Nebraska. ————^. PETITION AGAINST SEGREGATION AMERICAN SESQUI-CENTENNIAL PETITION TO PRESIDENT OF U. S. A. i , ? By Colored America to Abolish Federal Executive Segregation on Sesqui-Centennial of Declaration of Independence To the President, Calvin Coolidge, Chief Executive, White House, Washington, D. C.: In this year 192G Sesqui-Centennial \ ear of signing of the Declaration of Independence of U. S. A. which asserted human equality, at and for American Inde pendence Week, June 28-July 5, set aside by Federal Commission under yourself to the end of nation-wide observances of its i.50th anniversary; We, the under signed, for ourselves and all other Americans\)f Afri can extraction or descent, do hereby earnestly and ol right petition you to abolish by Executive Order the present segregation of Colored Federal Employes in Executive Departments—Treasury, Justice, PostofIice Army and Navy and others, a subjection of one racia element to the race prejudice actual or presumed of all other elements, and therefore a denial of equality of citizenship to the race singled out from all others fo> such subjection. For we hold it to he self-evident that consistency and national honor require that race distinction in de ference to race prejudice be removed from federal ! buildings as the federal government arranges nation wide observances of the Sesqui-Centennial of a Re public’s first'document which enunciated equality and freedom. This is the more incumbent \Vhen this one race ' so proscribed furnished the first martyr, and soldiers in the war, for the very independence to be celebrated, with soldiers in every other war, thereafter, and never a traitor. Thus lead the nation generally to end Color pro scription at 150 years NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE, for UNITED COLORED AMERICAN COMMITTEE, 9 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. NAME .* . . ADDRESS . NAME . ADDRESS. Mail to National Equal Right* Leagued Cornhill, Boston | COBB TAKES OATH OF OFFICE Washington, I). C.—(By the Associated Negro Press)—The oath of office was ad ministered to James A. Cobb, newly ap pointed judge to the position formerly held by the later Robert H. Terrell, Mon day morning by Justice George C. Aukam, in the courtroom where Judge Cobh is to serve at 321 John Marshall place. TO CELEBRATE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY The Rev. and Mrs. John A'bert Wil liams will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage by a ] reception at St. Philip’s Rectory from i 8 to 11 Monday night. They were 1 married in St. Philip’s church June ! 27, 1001, by the Rt. Rev. Arthur L. | Williams, Bishop Coadjutor of Ne- i h task a, assisted by the Rev. John Wil- 1 liams, rector of St. Barnabas’, and j the Rev. Chillies Herbert Young, rec tor of St. John’s church, Omaha. The Rev. Joseph H. Livingston was groomsman; Miss Eva Watson, now) Mrs. Anderson Chenault of Sheridan, Wyo., was maid of honor; Miss Ce cel'fi Wilson, now Mrs. James G. Jewell; Miss Florence Thomas, now Mrs. T. S. Riggs of Chicago; and Miss Gertrude Thomas, now Mrs. A. D. James of South Omaha, were brides I maids. The ushers were Messrs. Fred | L. Smith, Emery R. Smith and Pres i ton Hieronymous. INSURANCE FIRM OPENS *75,000 HOME New Orleans, La.,— (By tile Associated Negro Press)—Formal opening of the *75,000 home of the Loiusiana Industrial Life Insurance company at Drydes and Euterpe streets occurred Saturday with many prominent men in attendance. This company is owned, operated, and patron i/.ed by Negroes exclusively. TRUSTEES RAISE *25,000 FOR EDWARD WATERS i Jacksonville, Fla.—(By the Associated! Negro Press)—More than *25,000 was! raised here at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of Edward W aters College, of which Bishop John Hurst is chancellor. The twenty-eight presiding elders of the state reported some $22,000 and gifts, which included *1,514 from the Masons, *1,000 from the Household of Ruth and 5,000 from the Odd Fellows brought the ! total to more than *25,000. MEMPHIS TO STAGE A HUGE PAGEANT Memphis, Tenn.—(l|y the Associated Negro Press) All the Negro business houses and churches in this city are to co-operate in the promotion of a huge pageant depicting race progress and given for the purpose of raising *2,500 to pay off the indebtedness on the Industrial Settlement Home. A chorus of 1,000 voices will be mobilized. _ l ST. JOHN’S GIRLS DEFEAT ZION BAPTIST GIRLS — St. John’s A. M. E. Girls’ baseball team defeated Zion Baptist team in a lively game at the Howard Kennedy school diamond last Saturday after noon by a score of 11 to 9. The game was featured by brilliant playing on ! both sides. Thelma King and Mattie j Williams, and Edith Johnson and Dor other Pratt were the batteries for the Methodists while Hazel Gray oc cupied the mound for the Baptists and Gaiord Merriweather umpired. EVER LOYAL CLIill Mrs. J. W. Dacus, the president of the Ever Loyal club left Thursday, June 17 for Alabama to visit relatives and friends there and plans on extending her trip to Pittsburg. The vice-president and the Ever Loyal club members wish to say that they hope to keep up the interest of the club just the same. The regular meet ing was held Wednesday evening, June 23rd at the home of Mrs. Katherine North ington, 2409 Hamilton street, where the members were served with a very delight ful menu. A dinner will be served at the I Pilgrim Baptist church, Thursday, July 8. COURTS SUSTAIN RESIDENCE RIGHTS OF RACE IH TAMPA Injunction Stops Interference With Exclusive Negro Subdivision Vigorously Opposed by Whites. .ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE Ol'T RACE Prevented From Residing in Other Sections Enterprising Citizens De velop District for Themselves. Tampa, Fla., June 16—Colored Tampans consider that thev have won a long tight for residential rights in this city as a result of the action of the courts. The end of an era of strife and opposition to the settlement of Washington Park, a subdivision exclusively for colored Amer icans in the notrhwest part of Tampa is expected. The signing of an order of mandatory injunction against nine defendants by Circuit Judge L. L» Parks, barring fur ther interference with the development of the subdivision overthrows all opposition. Tile order followed the failure of the de fendants to post a supersedeas bond of $10,000 pending further action in the su preme court. A temporary restraining order was granted the Washington Park developers againHt the actions of whites in attempt ing to drive colored persons from Wash ington Park which was characterized by much outlawry. The defendants took an appeal to the supreme court. That trib unal allowed the lower court to set the amount of the bond, which was allowed to lapse. The defendants were J. I* Lightsey, W. L. Iiush, W. r. Coats, K. Vetsal, J. F. AI bury. W. T. Vetsal, J. W. Klingel. and F. W. Guyer. The injunction is against the erection of signs and intimida tion of prospective purchasers. Washington Park is in the center of an area north of Tampa Bay Boulevard, west of Armenia avenue and south of Hillsborough avenue, but not touching any of these thoroughfares. It comprises 360 acres. N. A. A. C. P. HOLDS SUNDAY FORUM The Omaha Blanch of the N. A. A. C. P. held its regular monthly forum meeting at Mt. Moriah Baptist church last Sunday afternoon. There was a notable increase in attendance. An nteresiting discussion on the ques tion, “Is Our Attitude Towards Crimi nals Too Lenient ?” was the chief fea ture of the program and elicited many instructive facts. The Rev. Russeil Taylor introduced the subject because of an alleged remark of a district court judge and county attorney to the effect that Negroes protected crimi nals. Others taking part in the dis cussion were Y. W. Ixigan, who felt that there was some justification for the statement; M. L. Hunter, who questioned it; Rev. John Albert Wil liams and Henry W. Black, who chal lenged the statement and denied it. citting specific facts to prove their contention. ROSENWALD OFFERS *25,000 FOR FLORIDA “Y” Jacksonville, Fla.— (By the Associated Negro Press)—An offer of *25,000 for a Negro Y. M. C. A. for this city by Julius Rosenwald. the Chicago philanthropist, has been made by C. J. Jackson, execu tive secretary of the local white Y. M. C. A. The offer is made that the citizens of Jacksonville, both white and colored, must, raise *125,000 and start the build ing, then after sixty days or when Mr. Rosenwald is assured that the project will go through, he will give his *25,000 cash gift. The local Y. M. C. A. is not willing to undertake the raising of this sum unless they are assured that the white citizens of Jacksonville will contribute as well as the colored. Jacksonville was selected be cause it is a clearing house for Negroes who must pass through here to reach other parts of the state, and has a Negro population of almost 50,000.
