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WORKING CONDITIONS ARE STEADILY IMPROVING AMONG NEGROES OF OMAHA Colored Free Employment Bureau, Member of Omaha Community Cheat, Placed 120 in Jobs During September The report of R. L. Williams, Employment Manager of the Colored Free Employment Bureau, for Sep tember, shows suggestive facts that will repay careful study. The total number of applicants was 317, of whom 162 were men and 155 were women. During the first five days of the month there were 100 appli cants, 60 men and 40 women, while during the last five days of the month the applicants had decreased to nearly 30. This would indicate that many had secured work either by personal solicitation or with the assistance of other welfare organiza tions. Bureau Placed 120 in Jobs The number given employment through the Bureau’s efforts was 120, or a little better than 40 per cent of the number applying. Of this num ber 58 were men and 62 were women. The Bureau received 141 calls for employees during the month. The men placed were as follows: Porters and janitors 9, day workers 22, wait ers 4, car washers 4, paperhangers 1, dish washers 5, solicitors 1, laborers 4, shoe shiners 2, kitchen help 3, cooks 2, house boys 1, footmen 1. The classification of women given employment includes: House maids 33, day workers 20, cooks 2, nurse girls 5, silver girl 1, waitress 1. The average pay per week was $14. The aggregate sum received by these 120 employees per month is nearly $10,000.00. The Committee of Man agement has requested an increase in budget from the Community Chest for 1928, which will enable them to employ a part time assistant, which will enable the Employment Manager to devote part of the day to field work, thereby increasing the number of placements. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Rev. L. W. Harris arrived in the I city from St. Paul, Minn., and was i the guest of Rev. H. W. Botts of Mt. j Zion Baptist church. Mrs. Lucinda Bowen, aged 70, J passed away at 10:15 p. m., Tuesday, l at the home of her son, J. D. Bowen, 1600 Whittier street, after a long ill-1 ness. She was the widow of Burl I Bowen. She leaves as survivors! three daughters, Mrs. Lulu Abner, Mrs. M. Edwards, Lincoln, Mrs. Eng lish, Alliance, one son, J. D., Lincoln, and other relatives. The funeral was held in the Henry Brown Chapel last Thursday at 3 p. m. Rev. H. W. Botts preached. The services were attended by a large concourse of friends. Miss Minnie Bell is able to be up and around her home. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Gordon have returned from their extended auto trip to the east. Mr. James Shelby received sad in telligence of the death of his mother at Detroit, Mich. He will attend the funeral. The forty-seventh anniversary of Mt. Zion Baptist church and seventh annivfersary of the pastor, Rev. H. W. Botts, closed Sunday night in termi nation of the financial rally. The program throughout the past week was filled with good services, both spiritual and intellectual. The Rev. L. W. Harris of St. Paul, Minn., was at his best in all of the sermons and addresses he gave. He paid special tribute to Rev. H. W. Botts on Sun day night in his sermon on his sev enth anniversary. Rev. S. H. John son of the Newman Methodist church, addressed the church Wednesday night. The financial efforts of the rally was $218.55. Mr. W. H. Rossier, aged 73, passed away at his home, 727 Rose street, after some illness. Mr. Rosier was a pioneer of Lincoln, a well known citi zen by both colored and white. He leaves as survivors his widow, a brother, Dan Rosier, two nieces, Mrs. Dora Holcomb, Mrs. Retta Grant, and other relatives. The funeral was held in the Henry Brown undertaker parlors Sunday at 2:30 p. m. Rev. P. G. Johnson of Westminster Pres byterian church, preached. The Ma sons attended. Rev. L. W. Harris left Monday for his home in St. Paul, Minn., after spending a pleasant week as guest of Rev. H. W. Botts. The Solon club resumed its duo semester activity. Trago T. McWil liams and Lester B. Edwards retire as president and vice president, re spectively. Lonnie Thomas and Wal ter Gill were elected president and vice president. John Quincy Adams and R. Harold Saunders were re elected as secretary and treasurer. Karl Finnely was initiated into the club. A Hallowe’en dinner party is being planned for youths within and without the city of Lincoln. One by one the nations of people have gain ed prosperity, co-operating our mo tive, is sought from each individual of Lincoln or elsewhere in order to advance, intellectually, morally and physically. W. W. MOSLEY. JAPANESE DIVERS FIND FIRST GOLD COIN IN SEARCH FOR $2,500,000 Sebastopol, Crimea—It is reported here that Japanese divers, who were searching for a half million sterling i in gold ($2,500,000) aboard the i British cruiser Black Prince, have ! discovered the first gold coin. The coin bears the inscription of George IIV and the date 1821. The coin was discovered after 20 tons of stone had been removed from the cruiser, which was wrecked in Balaklava Bay during the Crimean war. LEADING EDITORS CONDEMN GARY SEGREGATION STRIKE New York, N. Y.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reports that leading editors throughout the country are outspoken in condemnation of the segregation strike by white high school students in Gary, Indiana, and the capitulation to the mob sentiment j by the city council. The N. A. A. C. P. recently published the follow ing editorial extracts as indicating the tone of newspaper comment: Chicago Daily Tribune “The strike of school children in Gary is as discouraging as it is re grettable. . . . The Gary incident is an aspect of what is called the race problem. . . . Men of good will and enlightenment do not waste time in denying the existence of race prej udices, but devote themselves to hold ing the consequences within bounds. . . . Such an embittered attitude of mind in a cosmopolitan community like Gary is particularly discouraging. . . . The children, needless to say, would not have acted without the ap proval of their parents. The par ents may live to regret their mistake. These youngsters have been allowed to flout authority, and as these lines are written it appears that the chil dren have defeated authority. . . . The parents who abetted them in re bellion will deserve the consequences of their folly. We have small sym pathy for them, but much for the chil dren who are, after all, too young to know how cruel and stupid their strike has been or how thoroughly un-American has been their behavior toward constituted authority.” Newport, Rhode Island, Daily News “Race prejudice is an evil thing, al ways. It is particularly evil in this country, for the reason that unless we drown it out it will make a ter rible amount of mischief. Whites and Negroes must live together here. The Negro has as much right as the white. The Constitution guarantees him every right and privilege enjoy ed by people whose skins are white. Yet we find, not only in the South, but far too often in the North, peo ple who are fired with race hatred and race prejudice, and who would treat the Negro as though he were an outcast. . . . Americans like to believe they are exponents of the gospel of fair play, yet many of them are notably unfair to the Negro. We expect the South to be unfair to the Negro, as the Southerner is inheritor of a tradition of unfairness to the black man. We do not expect that a modern community in the middle west shall exhibit race hatred. This Gary incident is one of the most de pressing of its kind which has come to public attention in recent years.” New York Evening World “It is significant of the community sentiment that the students have the approval of their parents and of the business men of the town. No community in the country can so ill afford nationalistic and racial con tentions, for in Gary the result would be feuds and factions born of the most ugly instinct of human nature." Chicago Journal “The youths who have forced from Gary a promise of immediate total segregation of the races in the schools offer the most pronounced in stance of jim crowism observed in the North in a long time. A certain de gree of self-government in student bodies is desirable, in the interest of enthusiasm and honor, but total usur pation of authority is intolerable and is certain to be costly if not curbed.” HOLMES | | The Tailor | y Reliable in all transactions. % Call us any hour. £ £ Bus. Phone Res. Phone ’£ % WE. 3320 WE. 3652 f 2218 No. 24th St. \ +♦»♦♦♦♦♦»»»»»♦♦♦»»»♦»»»■»»» REIGN OF TERROR ON IN ALABAMA Farmer's Barn Burned When He Re bukes Negro Floggars— Death from Masked Violence Luverne, Ala.—A “reign of ter ror” in Crenshaw county, resulting from masked violence which has “re | suited in several deaths,” is under in ! vestigation by Attorney General Charles McCall. In a statement here, Mr. McCall ! said that conditions in Crenshaw county were the “worst yet brought to his attention” and revealed that twenty or more masked floggings re cently uncovered by authorities were being investigated “with all indica tions that 90 per cent of the guilty persons will be brought to justice.” The firebrand, he added, has alter nated with the lash in Crenshaw county as an instrument of intimida tion in the hands of masked men. Solicitor Walker cited one instance where a farmer’s barn had been burn ed because he rebuked a party of men who flogged a Negro farmhand. “More than 150 persons are involv ed in the whippings, with the mask and hood involved in 90 per cent of the cases,” Mr. McCall said. “I want to assure the public that these guilty ! parties will not get away with it. I am going to get them. With good | grand juries and good trial juries, I am confident I can get indictments in | 90 per cent of the cases.” The attorney general revealed that I he had 93 flogging cases in all parts of Alabama under investigation. Names of suspects and victims will not be announced until the Crenshaw i county investigation is completed, he I said. "1 am not a fanatic on the ques tion,” Mr. McCall said, “and I do not seek to exaggerate the situation, but it was virtually a reign of terror. { “I find that immediately after these crimes are committed those re sponsible get together and frame up falsehoods and false alibis.” Several floggers have been identi fied and their cases will be presented as soon as a grand jury can be con vened. Many victims have been intimidat ed into refusing to testify as to their injuries, Mr. McCall declared. FOR NEGRO HOSPITALi Washington, D. C.—The American Hospital association and the National Hospital association, the latter organ ization composed of Negroes, are co operating to raise a fund of $10,000 to be used in inspecting and seeking to raise the standards of colored hos pitals. It is claimed that only eight I colored hospitals in the country are | approved as training places for in j ternes. — <kk~x~x~x~x~x~X"X“X~x~x t For LOWER PRICES f ! n FURNITURE! Y X f Hugs and Draperies with CREDIT •j* and the smallest monthly £ ♦j£ payments see f. | HARTMAN’S I 413-15-17 So. 16th St. :-x-X“X"X~x-x--x~x-X"XK"X"X ! STATEMENT OF THE OWNER SHIP, MANAGEMENT. CIRCU LATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OP AUGUST 24. 1912, Of the Monitor, published weekly at Omaha, Nebr., for October 1, 1927. State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss. Before me, a notary public in and for the state anil county aforesaid, personally appeared John Albert Wil liams who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor cf the Monitor, and that the following is, to the beat of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, manage ment, etc., of the aforesaid publica tion for the date shown in the above ust 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses caption, required by the Act of Aug of the publisher, editor, managing ed itor, and business managers are: Publisher—The Monitor Publishing Co., Omaha, Nebr. Editor—John Albert Williams, Om aha, Nebr. Managing Editor-j-John Albert Wil liams, Omaha, Nebr. Business Manager—Lucinda W. Wil liams, Omaha, Nebr. 2. That the owner is: John Al bert Williams, Omaha, Nebr. ’. 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