^ The Monitor =5
m NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
| THB REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor.
$2.00 aY«r -5 Cents a Copy. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 3, 1926 VoLXIL—No. 10 Whole Number 580
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NA HAL MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION HOLDS
SHCCESSFDL MEET
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Delegates, Numbering Nearly 2,000,
Representing Practically Every
State in Union Present.
WELCOMED BY MAYOR OF CITY
Philadelphia, Pa.—-The thirty-first an
nual session of the National Medical as
sociation was a most colorful gathering.
Doctors, deatists, and pharmacists from
pructicaly every state in the union were
present, numbering nearly two thousand.
Monday night the Hon. W. Freeland
Kendrick, mayor of Philadelphia, wel
comed the large number of delegates fo
the “City of Brotherly Love”, asking them
to return again, believing that the visit
will be helpful to both the city and the
association. The mayor expressed the de
sire to have the persons present know the
sincerity of his welcome, anil paid a high
tribute to the men representing this
branch of science. At this time addresses
were delivered by Dr. I. M. Lawrence, i
who expressed welcome on liehalf of the
professions of Philadelphia; Isadore Mar
tin, chairniah of the Citizens’ committee,
who spoke on behalf of the citizens of
Pennsylvania, and Prof. John Miller Mar
quess. who on behalf of the citizens, com
pletely electrified his audience by (mint
ing out what the Philadelphia Negro has
done for this commonwealth along
scientific lines.
I)r. George W. Bowles, of York, I’a.,
made a most fitting response to what May
or Kendrirk had said. Dr. Bowles let it
lie understood that there is no place in
American life for any (Caucasian who is
so mean, so low, so narrow, and so full
of prejudice that he would limit the pro
gress of those of a particular racial group.
Dr. Valter G. Alexander, the president,
read his annual address. Interesting feat
ures of this meeting were several selec- !
tions rendered by Carl Ditnn, tHe well
known pianist-eom|M>ser. Mrs. Clara Koma
Peters of Washington, D. and the
Coleridge Taylor society rendered selec
tions.
An ovation greeted the announcement
that Mariap Anderson, the famous con
tralto, would sing. Miss Anderson was
in fine voice and had to respond to an
encore, which went even better than her
first number, it being several minutes
liefore the presiding officer could restore
quiet. Mayor Kendrick was particularly
well pleased with Miss Anderson’s sing
ing.
A capacity crowd greeted the medical
men at the Union Baptist church Tuesday
evening, when a testimonial in honor of
the unique service rendered by Dr. Wal
ter G. Alexander, was given. Addresses
were delivered by Dr. Garland I. Penn,
founder of the National Medical associa
tion, and Dr. C. V. Roman, of Nashville,
Tenn., who delivered the chief oration
commemorating Dr. Alexander’s twenty
years’ service to the National Medical
association.
The feature of the testimonial was the
presentaton to Dr. Alexander by E. T.
Belsaw, D. I). S., of Mobile, Ala., of a
quarter-century gold cane, as a mark of
esteem. Dr. Alexander made a touching
acceptance of this token. ■
Interesting Meetincr ami Cl.iNtcs
The session of the National Medical
association was marked by a number of
interesting clinics and demonstrations
which were held throughout the entire
session in hospitals, and at the sesqui
centenniak The Chevalier Jackson Oper
alive clinic held in the amphitheatre of
the Jefferson hospital was perhaps the
most interesting and outstanding.
Several important exhibitions were also
held, especially at the headquarters of
the association. Many notable manu
facturing chemists and medical and drug
companies staged huge demonstrations of
ibier products.
Interesting papers were read on the
jiart played by the X ray in diagnosis, and
Dr. W: H. Henry, of Philadelphia, said to
he one of the best informed medical men
■ m the use of the X-ray, opened the dis
mission.
The dental section was equally interest
ingn. anil modern methods used in the
correction of defects of the mouth and
teeth were demonstrated lry prominent
dentists from various sates.
There w is also a surgical section, and
I ifter a rather spirited time at this meet
I no, member* nf the profession went to
i the Phipi>* Institute, University of Penn
vlvauia. anil from there to the Jefferson
i hospital where clinic* were held.
Important Feature* of the Session
At a session of the National Medical
issociation the question of hospitals was
discussed, and there was considerable talk
IS to the best means of arousing interest
in the we|fare of racial hospitals. At this
meeting. Dr. Doone, superintendent of the
Philadelphia General hospital spoke
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NEGRO CULTURAL SETTLEMENT
HOLDS FORMAL OPENING
Over 200 people attended the opening
of the Negro Cultural Center at 2915 R
street last Tuesday evening.
Mrs. L. M. Lord, president of the So
cial Settlement, under whose auspices
the center has been organized, presided.
Rev. O. J. Burckhardt made the opening
prayer.
The chief addresses of the evening were
made by Rev. John Adams, presiding
elder of the A. M. E. Church in Nebraska
and Kansas, and by Mr. S. S. Caldwell.
Miss Lois Patrick, the recently appoint
ed director of the Center, from Atlanta,
spoke on the program of clubs and classes
which the Center will soon start.
Mrs. Lovetta Busch, president of the
West Side P. T. A., spoke on the plans
of the P. T. A. to organize adult study
clulis at the Center.
Miss Helen Gauss, head worker of the
Social settlement, in her remarks paid par
ticular tribute to Mrs. Busch and Miss
Patrick. Had it not lieen for their faith
and optimism and hard work, with that of
the friends they rallied around them, the
Center would not be open today, she
I stated. She said further thut the un
1 usually generous co-operation of the com
munity at large was a tiling that augured
well for the future of Omaha. Acknow
ledgments were due to the South Side
merchants who gave building materials
ut cost, to the colored men and women
who donated all labor, anil to the city
departments which helped so generously.
Dean Noyes, street commissioner, has been
an interested helper from the start. Com
missioners Hopkins and Hummel have
supplied light and gravel for the bark
yard playground. Other departments have
helped in other ways.
The program was made particularly
delightful by several numbers rendered by
the male quartet of St. Johns church.
Boy scouts in uniform served as ushers.
The Goiter, to which people adjourned
after the hour’s program in Bethel Baptist
church, was brilliantly alight from attic
lo basement. Flowers were in every room,
with young women acting as hostesses, to
show the guests almut.
Among the guests present were Mrs. C.
A. Campbell, and Miss Gillins from the
Y. W. C. A„ Mrs. L M. Lord, Mrs. Har
old Gifford, Mrs. J. J. McMullen, Mrs.
George Buckland. Mrs. J. B. Porter, from
the Social Settlement Board of Directors,,
Mrs. Sarah C. Joslyn, Mr. Joseph Koptetz,
Miss Gertrude Lucas from the City Wel
fare department und Mr. Dean Noyes of
the City Street Maintenance department.
CRITIC PRAISES NEGRO DRAMA
Ixis Angrles, Cal.—“If that play could
be seen by every white person in the
United States, it would lie the greatest
means ever usd to modify the inter-racial
relations between black and white and
would be a revelation to the Caucasians.’1
' So spoke a prominent white citizen
of Los Angeles, who is widely quoted
critic of dramatic art and music.
The occasion was the presentation of
“Easy Money” on August 23rd at the
Gamut auditorium. It was written by
Vivian Temple, and staged by the Neigh
borhood players.
TO WRITE NEGRO REVUE
New York—J. P. McEvoy, the success
ful delineator of the vagaries of the Amer
ican business man of Caucasian extraction,
is, according to well-supported reports,
to engage himself in the production of a
new revue which is to lie flavored heuvily
with the tang of life as it is in Harlem,
and is to be called “Hallelujah, Get Hot ’
The settings are pi be designed by the
young and brilliant Mexican, Cevarrubias,
the accompaniment is to be gathered from
every posible source of Negro music, he
einning with spirituals and ending with
jazz.
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$ Nebraska Civil Rights Bill
| Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights
X Enacted in 1893
X Sec. 1. Civil Rights of Persons. All persons within this state
•f shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations,
Y advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public con
X veyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; sob
X ject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and ap
X plicahle alike to every person.
X Sec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person
X who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, ex
X cept for reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of
X any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enum
X erated in the foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting Buch denials,
•|* shall for each offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined
X in any sum not less than twenty-five dolld-g, nor more than one hun
X dred dollars, and pay the costs of the proseution.
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X “The original act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can
X not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs.
X State, 25 Nehr. page 677. N. W. 638.”
X "A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with
X refreshments in a certain part of his restaurant for no other reason
X than that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him
X by setting a table in a more private part of the house. Ferguson vs.
X Gies, 82 Mich. 358; N. W. 718.”
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M\NY NEGROES IN COLLEGE
New York—According to an article in
the August "Crisis", mure than {4.000 Nr
gro students were enrolled last year in
American colleges and universities, over
7.000 of this number being in Negro col
leges and 1,600 in white institutions. The
former conferred degrees on more tnan
1.000 students, 33 of whom received the
degree of Master of Arts, 519 that of Bach
elor of Arts, and 173 that of Bachelor of
Ccience. There were 100 graduates in
medicine, 72 in dentistry, 38 in pharmacy,
37 in law, and 47 in theology. In addi
lion, the big northern universities c* 3
ferret! degrees on about 300 Negro stu
dents. Several received the degree of Ph.
I). and a number were elected to member
ship in Phi Beta Kappa. The number
graduating last year was about three times
as great as that five years ago.
TEACHERS TO STUDY
NEGRO TRAVEL CONDITIONS
Atlanta, Ga.—The transportation com
mittee of the National Association of Col
ored Schools recommended a program that
was adopted by the association in its
twenty-third annual session at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, looking toward improving the
conditions under which colored people
travel throughout the south. The pro
gram provides for an annual Transporta
tion Improvement day. The first Monday
in March of each year was designated by
the teachers’ association as Travelers’ Im
provement Day. On this day local com
mittees in various states will seek con
ferences with railroad officials as well as
officers of the interurban and bus lines
and present before them such unsatisfac
tory conditions confronting the colored
people who travel as occasion the greatest
inconvenience and discomfort.
SECOND BOOK OF NEGRO
SPIRITUALS PRINTED SEPT. 1
The Second Book of Negro Spirituals,
arranged by J. Rosamond Johnson, with
introduction by James Weldon Johnson,
secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., is being
published on .September 1 by The Viking
Press, .30 Irving Place New York City,
it was announced recently.
This book includes 61 additional songs
not published in the first book. The new
collection nincludes among others, "Some
times I Feel Like a Motherless Child,”
"Zekiel Saw I)e Wheel”, “Sinner, Please
Don't Let Dis Harvest Pass”, “Walk in
Jerusalem Jus' Like John”, the fumiliar
version of “Nobody Knows Do Trouble I
See” and “Jubulee”.
GIRLS LIVE LONGER THAN ROYS;
EOl ND TO Ol TNI MBER THEM
Durham, N. C. A recent survey con
ducted among the approximately 15.< M)0
Negroes in this city revealed that there
are more girls thun Isiys, there being
108 girls to every 100 Isiys. The girls
also live longer. Eight men die while
six woman are dying. The average age at
which the males die, between 3 and '£)
i 21 The average aye at which
the females die, between the age of 3 and
29 years, is 19. Ninety per cent of both
sexes die between 17 and 25 years of
CONGREGATIONA LISTS
CONGREGATE IN 11TH
BIENNIAL CONVENTION
Keynote Address Is Delivered by the
Assistant Moderator of the Na
tional Council of Churches.
Detroit, Mich.—“Religion is a trans
cript of the emotion or vision of the hu
man soul when standing alone before it
Maker.”
This definition was given by Rev. W.
L. Cash in an address Tuesday evening
at the opening of the eleventh biennial
session of the Nationul Convention of
Congregational Workers Among Colored
People. Mr. Cash, who is pastor of Cent
ral church, New Orleans, La., is president
of the convention and also assistant mod
erator of the National Council of Con
gregational Churches in the United States.
The convention is being entertained by
Plymouth church, Detroit, and is meet
ing in Masonic Temple, 632 Livingstone
street.
A vision which bears fruit in service,
Mr. Cash emphasized, is characteristic of
the Christian religion.
“When man climbs the mount,” he said,
“and looks into the face of his God, he
is forthwith driven from the mount into
the plain among the people. Christian
character knows no other secret than this,
vision and service."
“It is an interesting fact that man’s ev
ery physical activity is an effort to ex
press in some tangible way in the world
without, as much as possible as that which
is going on the world within. The meas
ure of every man is measure of his vision.
The man who is most likely to be lovable
and apreciative of the worth of others
is the man who has the largest worth in
himself; the man whose vision is the
widest
“What the world needs today is a clearer
and deeper vision of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In order to speak boldly and work earnest
ly for His kingdom, men and women must
see the glory of the Christ.”
COLORED CIRI.S WILL FILM
PICTURE IN AFRICAN INTERIOR
New York, N. Y.—(Pacific Coast News
Bureau.I—Undaunted by the hardships
encountered by two lone girls in 22 weeks
of touring foreign countries, Emma Mait
land and Aurelia Wheedlin, two American
colored girls who have just returned to
New York, announce theii^ intention of
returning to Africa after the first of the
year in an attempt to film a motion picture
in which natives of the interior will pro
vide the background.
MUses Maitland and Wheedlin departed
for Paris October 29, 1924 to fill theatri
i al engagements under a contract obtained
through Hilly Pierce, colored New York
hooking agent. At the expiration of the
contract Miss Maitland took charge of
the business end and established a record
heretofore unecpialled in bookinig herself
ami partner as a team doing a novelty
boxing anil dancing act, without any agent,
manager or personal representative for
engagements covering one year and ten
months In Paris. Milan, Rome, Turin,
Genoa, Verona, Belgium, Holland and
Switzerland.
COOLNESS AND WIT
SAVES NEGRO WORKER
FROM IMMINENT DEATH
Fellow Workman Also Nearly Loses
Life in Attempting Rescue of
Man Buried in Sand.
New’ York, Sept. 1—What seemed an
imminent tragedy was turned in a tremen
dously human drama by the wit and cool
ness of William Clark, Negro, employed
on a huge concrete mixer used in a new
subway construction.
Clark fpll into the hopper of the huge
mixer while seeking to remove unwanted
pieces of wood from the concrete mixer.
The sand seemed to afford secure footing.
Clark leaped into a veritable death trap
and found himself sinking into the funnel.
A workman shouted for the engineer to
stop the mixer. And on the street level,
Hans Schultz, truck driver, heard his ap
peal. As the machinery stopped Schultz
ran to a water hose and cut off a 12-foot
section. He climbed to the top of the
pit and let down one end of the hose to
Clark.
“You sure have got a head on you.
white man," called Clark, now huried to
the shoulders in the sand, which had
ceased to flow. He reached for the end
of the hose which meant the breath of
life, should he sink deeper. Schultz then
lost his balance and fell with the other
end of the tubing. There was another
slide and Clark was huried, while Schultz
sank to his waist, several feet above him.
From the other end of the hose came the
voice of the huried Negro: “I ain’t gone
yet. white man." he shouted. “Get some
shovels, men! [ don't crave to stay down
here no longer than I positively lias to."
W hen Superintendent Groves, iiV charge
of the work, poked his head over the edgf*
I of the bin, he saw Scultz still holding up
the hose, while Clark was singing.
BIG $10,000 DRIVE FOR
DOUGLASS HOME GOES OVER
Oakland. Cal. According to an an
nouncement made by Mrs. Sallie W. Stew
art, Evansville. Indiana, the $10,000 fund
to be known as the Mary B. Talbert Mem
orial fund for the maintenance of the
Douglass Home at Anacostia, D. C., had
l>cen raised.
With the goal set in 19294 at the Chi
cago meeting of the National Association j
of Colored Womens* Clubs, and Mrs. Stew
art as the chairman of the drive committee j
the machinery was set in motion in the
various states and at the recent meeting
here in Oakland the committee reported
$9,436.28 had l>een raised and with pledges
in hand the fund went over the $10,000
mark.
The ten leading states and amounts
contributed were as follows: Indiana,
$1,004; Pennsylvania, $803: Kentucky,
$623; Michigan, $592; Uabarna, $432:
Missouri. $381.20; New Jersey, $379.38:
Virginia, $337.10; Kansas, $198.15, and
Florida, $181.
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NEGRO ADDRESSES KU KLUXERS;
DENOUNCES ORDER
Los Angeles, Cal.—The unusual action
of u Negro being taken to a klan meeting
then asked to speak, occurred to Titus
Alexander, candidate for assemblyman of
the 76th district for the next election. Mr.
Alexander was asked by a white klansman
friend to attend the meeting of the klan
as his guest. It was held out in the open
in the hills, and was attended by hun
dreds of l^e hooded knights. During the
course of the meeting, Alexander was
asked to speak. He mounted the rostrum
and lashed forth a vindictive tirade de
nouncing the klan as un-American and
cowardly.
TREASURY ROBBED; KLAN YIELDS
CHARTER
Jackson, Miss.—The local body of the
Ku Klux Klan, one of the largest in the
state, has surrendered its charter. Many
reasons are given for the disbandment,
hut the paramount one, given out by those
on the inside, is that a good brother who
has acted as treasurer for several terms
“went south” with four thousand dollars
of the treasury.
New Orleans, La—The National Negro
Insurance association has selected Mem
phis, Tenn., for the next meeting which
will be held the third week of April. 1927.
ANTLERED HERD
HEADSHIP AGAIN
GOES TO WILSON
Elks Almost Unanmously Endorse
Successful Administration of
Grand Exalted Ruler
OTHER ELECTIONS SPIRITED
Cleveland, Ohio—In a convention which,
counting delegates and friends, is said
to have attracted nearly 50,000 persons
and is said to have been unequalled in the
long history of the Elks in excitement and
the dramatic highlights of a convention
of its nature, the Improved Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks of the World
began pulling up thir stakes here Friday
afternoon, changed the “Hello Bill!” to
“Goodbye Bill", and these thousands be
gan the journey hack home to talk over
what might have been.
• There was a regular election of officers
and in this election there were disappoint
ments, hut no surprises. The disappoint
ment was probably most keenly felt in
the camp of the followers of the two flashy
easterners. Judge Edward Henry, political
leader and adopted son of Philadelphia,
who, it had been charged, was to have
been made grand exalted ruler of the
order at any cost, if the money of certain
Jews could do it, and Harry H. Pace, the
distinguished and politic Neiw Yorker,
who made a long and spirited fight to
be elected secretary of the order.
f inley Vt ilson, the idol of the ordinary
Elk. of whom there are many and are
hound to he more, came through with his
colors flying. So badly did the Phila
delphia entrant fare from the start that
he early caused to be thrown into the
election ring the towel he had used in
the heat of the fight, and Wilson’s elec
tion was unanimous.
The stampede for Bates of New Jersey
whom Pace had sought to dislodge was al
most as glorious from the standpoint of
Bates and his friends.
Mrs. Ella Berry of Chicago, was elected
to succeed Mrs. Laura Williams as the
leader of the Daughter Elks. Carter of
Richmond, \ a., was re-elected grand
treasurer. There was not much of a fight
for his job.
A large amount of constructive work
for the Order was taken up during the
convention, the principal of which was
the educational program, under the
matchless leadership of Judge William
Hueston of Gary, Indiana. This was work
which was horn only last year, and that
the Cary man has developed beyond the
wildest dreams of his brothers. The Elks
are now contributing funds which are
divided into scholarships, provide radio
lectures, and many other things calcu
lated to inspire the desire to learn and
and learn and learn.
^ BISHOP GREGG SAILS FOR FRANCE
New \ork, N. Y.—Bishop J. A. Gregg,
resident bishop of the A. M, E. Church
in South Africa, sailed September 1st,
aboard the French liner, De Grasse, for
Havre, France, after a stay of several
months in this country, most of which
time was occupied in the nation-wide cam
paign which his church has been making
for missionary work. Bishop Gregg has
been designated by the Bishop’s Council
to represent the church at the Internation
al Missionary conference which will bo
held in I.eZoute, Belgium, September 14
to 21. This conference which is to be
made up of representatives of all the
protestant churches of the world promiset
to be one of the most far reaching mis
sionary gatherings in recent years and
and it is felt that the bishop's wide ex
perience in the field will make him a
potent factor.
BISHOP TUTTLE SCHOOL FOR
TRAINING IN SOCIAL WORK
Raleigh, N. C.~To prepare social and
religious workers for the most effective
service the Bishop Tuttle School for So
cial Training will open its second annual
session here on September 22. The course
of study covers two years. In addition to
classroom work, provision is made for prac
tical experience in the courts, hospitals,
state institutions, churches, and Sunday
schools. Two years of college work are
required for entrance. •