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issiTHE MONITOR H n NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS § THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. A $2.00 a Year—5 C a Copy.OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1926.VoL XII—No. 6 Whole Number 576 BOY SCOBT SAVES NEGRO BOYS FROM DROWNING IN LAKE I'ulU Boy to Shore; Going Back for Other, Dives and Kind Him rnconHciotiH. UFA'IVES THK SECON D ONE Having learned as a Boy Scout how to resuscitate a drowning person, Cezere Zampese, 16, 426 Center street, wa- able to save the life of James Allen, 10, Negro, 1619 North Eight eenth street, after he had already sav <d James’ hrother, Jesse, 12, at Cart er lake Thursday. The drowning boys, with two pals, Robert Quarel, 12, Eighteenth and Charles streets, and Jim Green, 12 1518 North Nineteenth street, had gone to "hare beach” north of the Illinois Central trestle at the lake for a swim this morning. Cezere and a group of white boys, also unclothed, were swimming about a hundred yards to the north. James and Jesse were 50 feet r from shore when both became tired, and thought to wade back. But a "stop-off" In the lake lied there gave | the water a depth of 15 feet, and struggling, both sank. Saves One; Goes Back. ^ Hearing the shouts of their friends ■ on -hore, Cezere came running down the bank and swam toward the spot. He seized Jesse as he came up and pulled him to shore. Then Jesse told him his brother was at the bottom. Swimming back Cezere dived re peatedly. After several minutes he brought up the unconscious James, and swam with him to shore. Then he made use of his Boy Scout training. He emptied James’ lung* of water, and applied artificial res piration by raising anil lowering the arms and compressing the lungs. Police Surgeon Adams, summoned j to the scene, arrived after natural breathing had been restored. Dr. Adams said Cezere had undoubtedly •.aved James’ life. OMAHA MATRON SPEAKS AT PORO COLLEGE: Mrs. Joseph 0. Is'wis and daughters j -pent the week end in St. Igiuis as | guests of Mrs. A. Malone, founder of I I’oro college. Mrs. lewis received a special invitation to accompany the Omaha delegation and to appear on the program Saturday afternoon in the auditorium. She made a most favorable impression for which she was complimented hv the Omaha dele gation, the hostess and others. CONGRESSMAN DYER COUNTS ON JUDGE SEARS St. Louis, Mo. Moil W. G. Sears, Omaha, Net). My dear Colleague: \ I hope that you will be most suc cessful in your campaign. Your work in Congress has lieen most able and painstaking at all times. Among other things that we wish to accomplish at the next Con gress is the enactment into law of a bill to make lynching a crime against the United States. 1 have figured greatly upon your assistance in view of your help in the past. With best wishes, I am, Very truly yours, (Signed) L. C. DYER Hon. L. C. Dyer is the author and champion of the anti-lynching bill in the Congress. WOMEN’S SPECIAL REACHES OAKLAND Oaklanl, Cal.—Special trains bear ing 275 delegates to the biennial con vention o.' the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs arrived Thursday morning, July 29. They ■ ere welcomed by a special delega tion of the city federation, and were J showered with flowers. The trip across the continent was inspiring in every way. There were no acci dents. TENNESSEE GETS MORE ROSENWALD SCHOOLS Nashville, Tenn.—Thirty-five addi tional Rosenwald schools were com 9 pleted in Tennessee during the last year, it is revealed in the annual re port. These schools now supply a to tal of 29,160 school children. LINCOLN NOTES Mr. T. T. McWilliams went to Kan sas City last week on business. Mrs. Marie Copeland left for Colo rado last week to visit her mother. Mrs. Mayme Griffin is confined to her home with illness. Dr. Scott of Omaha spent Sunday in the city. The relaying of the cornerstone for Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. Church, took place Sunday afternoon at 4 p. m. M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Nebraska had charge of the serv ices. M. W. G. Master Charles W. Dickerson of Omaha was speaker, as sisted by Grand Secretary Anderson of Omaha, grand officers of Lincoln and the local lodge. The services as car ried out by Mr. Dickerson and his corps of officers were beautiful. Cornhusker Lodge No. 679, I. B. P. O. E. of W. turned out with the Ma sons. A large crowd witnessed the services. Mrs. Sarah Morgan of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting her son, Chris C. Stith, here. Kev. T. W. Kidd of Omaha was a visitor in the city Sunday, and preach ed for Rev. M. C. Knight during tne day in his rally. The afternoon serv ices were held In the church, Sunday afternoon. Other services at the church, Seventh and A streets. Covenant and commissioned serv ices were enjoyed by a good number of members at Mt. Zion Baptist church. The annual carnival of Mt. Zion will be held August !)-13. Voters—Tuesday, August 10 is primary election day. Remember to cast a vote for T. T. McWilliams for Representative. Mrs. Katherine Moore, accompanied by Mrs. M. C. Knight, Kev. H. W. Botts and daughter, motored to St. Joseph, Mo., Rlattsburg and Kansas City. Rev. Mr. Botts and his daughter, Ella, visited friends in I’lattshurg. The Civic and Improvement league held a get-together meeting in the Masonic hall, Thursday night. An elaborate spread was given and ladies of the league were honored guests. Mrs. Jennie Edwards acted as toast mistress. Speeches of much impor tance were given by all ladies and the majority of the men present. COLORKD WOMAN ARRKSTKD FOR RIDING IN PULLMAN CAR Jacksonville, Fla.—Mrs. Blanche Brookins was taken from a Pullman on train No. 85 of the Atlantic Coast Line at Palatka, Florida, incarcerated in jail all night, brought before County Judge J. G Calhoun the next day and fined $500 and costs with an alternative of six months imprison ment for riding in a Pullman in viola tion of Florida’s jim-crow law. The fine and costs amounted to $518.17, and was paid. Mrs. Brookins purchased Pullman reservations in New York for through trip to Orlando, Florida. At Jackson ville the conductor requester! Mrs. Brookins to vacate the Pullman for the jim-crow. This Mrs. Brookins re fused to do. The conductor then wired the Palatka authorities from Green Cove Springs. At the Palatka sta tion, officers took Mrs. Brookins from the train. After assessing the fine the judge is alleged to have said: “That hap pens to be the maximum penalty or It would be more.’’ It is thought that a test case will be marie of this occurrence. WOMEN’S CONVENTION OPENS Oakland, Cal—Five thousand per sons attended the opening mass meet ing of the bienniul convention of the National Association of Colored Women in the Civic auditorium here Sunday. Every state in the union was represented. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, president, at the opening meeting, and the delegates were wel comed by United States Senator Short ridge and representative* of the Oak land Tribune. All delegates pledged support to the national program of the association. EDITORIAL Tuesday next it is your duty and privilege to go to the pri maries and help nominate by your vote the candidates of your respective parties, for the position or positions, to which you de sire to see them elected in November. You may be a republican, as most of our race are; or a democrat, as an increasing number of our people are becoming to be; or a socialist, as a few others of our group are. But with whatever party you affiliate go to the primaries next Tuesday and vote for your choice. Vote as you like, but be sure to vote. The Primary Election is very important, indeed. Please do not underrate its importance or your duty. Vote according to your j best judgment for the candidates whom you think will serve the people best and give your neighbor the same privilege. Don’t fall out with him, or impute unworthy motives to him or her, because ; his choice may differ from yours. Boost your candidate for all ' you are worth and let your neighbor do the same thing without getting mad at him. The Monitor has certain favorite candidates which we hope to see nominated and in keeping with our usual custom we will, j according to our space, tell who some of them, at least, are and give our reasons. You may differ from us, of course, which is your privilege. First of all, and the question of most vital importance to us in the community is the regaining of our former political prestige by showing our ability to elect one or more of our number to the State Legislature, and subsequently to other offices, municipal, county and state, as the case may be. Wisdom, however, suggests attempting one thing at a time. Now, as we see it we have a fighting chance, as we pointed out last week to nominate one, and perhaps two—since death has changed conditions in the Tenth district—to the state legislature. We stated in our last issue that our best fighting chance was in the Ninth district, where only one candidate had filed. We at tempted to meet and answer some of the petty criticisms which have been advanced against the candidate, and urged the people to lay aside such petty personal likes and dislikes since we all have our faults, and get unitedly behind the candidate and put him over. This was the full force of our argument, which £ome readily grasped but others misunderstood. But this does not alter the facts or change our sentiment. We again urge the voters of the Ninth legislative district to get unitedly behind Dr. John A. Single ton and, not underrating the fight they have got to make, or the strength of his opponent, use every ounce of energy to put him over. The increased registration has improved our chances of winning. As we now see it we have a good fighting chance in the Ninth district, if all our people who have registered will get out and concentrate their vote on Singleton. But they must get out and vote. . . How alx»ut the Tenth district? We have a good lighting chance there, too, where we now have only one candidate in the person of F. L. Barnett. He has his faults, too, like the rest of us. There may be things about him that you do not like, but that is no excuse for refusing to vote for him. Compare him with the other two candidates in the district and he will not suffer by the comparison. Let our voters in the Tenth district get unitedly lie hind Barnett and our chances are excellent for nominating him. He came very near winning the nomination two years ago, which adds to his chances this time. The Monitor urges hearty supixirt of Ixith of our candidates who have filed for State representatives, as we believe here is our best chances of securing nomination and election, and because they are equally as well qualified as their opponents. We hope we have made it plain that we consider it of supreme importance to make a united, determined and strenuous fight to nominate Singleton for State Representative in the Ninth and Bar nett in the Tenth. • * * * Now as to others: We are for Judge Sears for Congress for sev eral reasons, chief among which is that he has gone on record as favoring the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill, and l>ecause his experience in the House has given him advantages which a new member would have to gain. Were it not for this, Nathan Bernstein wouhl be our choice. . , For governor, Adam McMullen is our choice, because we be lieve he has made good and will continue to make good. For sheriff our choice is Ross McGowan. Joseph Koutsky has made a good city commissioner and would doubtless make a good sheriff; but the'Monitor is opposed to the custom, growing in fa vor of candidates holding on to one political job and grabbing after another. We believe he should continue to serve as com missioner. McGowmn is an untried man, but his platform and personality please us, and we believe he will make g<>od. roi this reason we are strong for Ross McGowan for sheriff. Henry Beal has, in our judgment, made a good, fair-minded County Attorney, and therefore is entitled to renomination and election. We are for him. , „ . Grace Berger has shown ability and efficiency as County Clerk and has been most fair and courteous to all classes of citi zens and she therefore has our unqualified support. These are some of the candidates whom we favor, and our reasons therefor. You may have as good reasons or better for those whom you are supporting. Be sure to vote. That s the maim thing, and good luck to the winner. CHARLES GILPIN READY FOR TITLE ROLE OF “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN’’ I,o.s Angeles, Cal.—Charles Gilpin, the first world famous colored actor since Ira Aldridge, in an interview, stated that final arrangements have been made with Harry Pollard to start In his part of the already much talked of feature picture, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin". It will be the first great play in which a Negro actor holds the title role though. FINES WOMAN FOR BEATING HER HUSBAND Camden, N. J.—A married woman of this city was fined $10 in police court here because she beat her hus band. The woman, Mrs. Jennie Chadwick, 32, 2715 Harrison avenue, denied she beat her husband, but he averred that she not only beat him, but put him out of the house and ordered him “to stay out.” The woman’s husband’s statement was corroborated by Policeman Po loff. Judge Cleary informed the woman that she had no right to beat her husband and imposed the fine. Chicago, 111.—Members of the National Association of Colored Wom en’s Clubs, throughout the country, are preparing to invade Oakand, Cal., July 30, to attend the biennal meet ing of the association. Special de luxe trains have been secured for the trip and present indications point to a record breaking attendance. What We Did 30 Years Ago, We Should Accomplish Today I ... .. = THE LATE DR. M. O. RICKETTS, who was one of the representatives j elected from Douglas county in 1892 I and 1894. He was elected temporary speaker of the House and made an eloquent speech seconding the nom ination of John M. Thurston, who was elected United States Senator from Nebraska. Omaha’s Negro population then, over 30 years ago, was less than 4,000, and our vote under 1,000. Now our potential voting strength is 7.500. With this increased power, why can we not do so in 1926 what was done in 1892? Answer this question at the polls I next Tuesday. WANAMAKER PROVIDES FOR MI SICA I. SCHOLARSHIPS Philadelphia, Pa.—One thousand dollars have been given by Rodman Wanamaker to the National Associa tion of Negro Musicians to be award ed in scholarships for work in com position. His gift came as the cli max of an interesting day spent in the great department store which bears his name by delegates to tne convention of the association which just concluded its annual meeting in this city. The association awarded other scholarships amounting to $700. One of these, $200, went to Harold Brown, Kansas City pianist, for stU(P? abroad. A like sum went to Harri son Ferrell, Chicago violinist, and two scholarships of $75 each, to Fisk University and Hampton Institute, the winners to be chosen by the fac ulties of the schools. Information-5 was brought by Le roy Godman, counsel for the associ ation, that a judgment for $900 against Deacon Johnson, New' York, a former treasurer of the organiza tion, ha- been sustained, and that im mediate steps would be taken to re cover the money. Carl Diton of this city was elected president of the association; Mrs. Martha Anderson, first vice-presi dent; Miss Alice Simmons, financial secretary; Miss Camille Nickerson, cor. secretary; R. Nathaniel Detts, treasurer; Maude Roberts George, publicity director; Leroy Godman, counsel. Mrs. Martha Mitchell and Mrs. Ruth Shaw were added to the boaid of directors, and Henry L. Grant, Mrs. Minnie Johnson, and Mrs. Olive Coleman Thompson to the ad visory board. “AMERICAN AESOP” IN “AFRO-AMERICAN” Baltimore, Md.—Stories from the new book, “American Aesop”, by Wil liam Pickens, will appear in every issue of the "Afro-American”, of Baltimore, Maryland. This book now contains over 200 distinct stories, and is said by Clarence Harrow to be the best thing of its kind. HOLD CONVOCATION AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY Atlanta, Ga.—The summer convoca tion at Atlanta university, held on the closing day of the summer session, July 30, was the first exercise of its kind in any Negro college of Georgia. The convocation address was delivered by Rev. Dr. C. Breckinridge Wilmer, one of the trustees. There were three college and five normal grad uates. ALABAMA BAPTISTS MEET - • Birmingham, Ala.—Baptists from all over the state in this city this week are attending the twenty-eighth an nual meeting of the Alabama Baptist Young People’s Unions state conven tion. Two thousand churches, with a total membership of 300,000, were rep resented at the meetings, held in the Thirty-second street Baptist church. LANGSTON HUGHES WINS New York City—Langston Hughes, poet and author of “The Weary Blues”, has won the Witter Bynner first prize, for the best poem, written by an undergraduate in an American university this year with his poem, “The House in Taos”. JUDGE GEORGE AT KANSAS CITY CELEBRATION Kansas City, Mo.—Judge Albert Bailey George, Chicago, was one of the principal speakers at the indus trial exhibit and emancipation cele bration which attracted 15,000 per sons here this week. The celebration was held in Liberty park under the auspices of the Kansas City Business Men’s league. COUNTY COURT TO HAVE NEGRO MEMBER IN SOUTH Knoxville, Tenn.—Opposed by thir teen white candidates and supported by a district largely colored, Harry C. Cansler is virtually assured of elec tion as a member of the Knox county court from the eighth district. His election will mark the first instance of such elevation of a Negro. RACE RELATIONS COMMISSION FINDS NO SUPERIOR RACE Ocean City, N. J.—According to the findings of a thousand or more delegates to the Friends General Conference, there is “no superior or inferior" race. The result was at tained by a ballot, conducted by the Race Relations section under Dr. R. T. Kerlin, of West Chester, Pa., and Rachel Davis DuBois. With the question settled, the con ference then sought to determine ways and means of bringing about more amicable relations between the va rious races in this country. William S. Pickens, contributing editor of the Associated Negro Press, suggested a program of larger and closer contact between the mediums of inter-racial « committees, literary clubs and the study of cultural contributions of other races. Lawrence E. Ludley, of the Indiana Rights association, spoke of the at titude toward Indians and urged a closer study of racial groups.