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! I THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS_,_ Editor
< , W. W. MOSLEY, Lincoln, Nob._ ___ Associate Editor
] > LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS_ _Business Manager
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A HEARST PUBLICATION
Omaha now has a Hearst
publication. The Omaha Bee
News on August 1 was formal
ly transferred to the Hearst in
terests which controls a chain
of newspapers and other pub
lications from New York to San
Francisco. Henry J. Allen, for
mer governor of Kansas and
well known journalist, heads
the local publication. He an
nounces that the policy of the
paper will be that of construct
ive service to the community
and that ‘‘it will champion all
those progressive and con
structive projects that will ad
vance the interests of the com
munity in which it is pub
lished.”
We do not know, perhaps
this is due to inexcusable ignor
ance, what has been the gen-t
eral attitude of the Hearst pub
lications towards our particu
lar group, in other places,
either in their news and editor
ial policy, or in the matter of
employment, but we assume
that it has been just and fair
and will prove so locally. If
so, the Bee-News will gain the
support and approbation of
our people and win the place in
our confidence which the Bee
held under the editorship of
Edward Rosewater and for a
time under his son and succes
sor, Victor, but subsequently
lost for reasons which it is not
necessary to recount.
“Although little among
newspapers, nevertheless we
wish the Bee-News under its
new man..gement abundant
success in this progressive city
of the middle west.
CONGRATULATIONS,
CHESTER
The Monitor extends sincere
congratulations to The Kansas
City Call upon its tenth anni
versary and progress edition.
This splendid issue contains fif
ty-six pages of excellent news
matter, feature articles and ad
vertisements, many of the lat
ter occupying full pages, which
would do credit to a great met
ropolitan daily, and is there
fore a distinctive journalistic
triumph. What enhances the
merits of the publication is the
fact that all the work was done
in the Call’s modern and well
equipped plant, which has the
latest linotypes and Goss high
sped press. The operatives, of
fice force, editorial and report
orial staff are all Negroes and
demonstrate what brains, abil
ity, integrity and hard work
can accomplish.
Started ten years ago by its
able editor, Chester A. Frank
lin, assisted by his mother, and
one or two others, the Call in
ten years has grown to the
place where it owns its own
modern three-story brick build
ing, with its splendid mechani
cal equipment and employs a
staff of eighteen persons. With
its circulation rapidly ap
proaching the 20,000 mark, tho
future of The Kansas City Call
as one of the great outstanding
weekly race publications of the
country is assured.
Omaha should take a special
pride in the success and prog
i ess of The Kansas City Call,
for its foundation was really
laid here, when George F.
Franklin started “The Enter
prise,” and Chester, then a
lanky school boy, acted as
“devil” around the office, while
his mother set the type for the
publication by hand. It is a far
cry from “The Enterprise” of
Omaha, thirty-five years ago,
to the splendid progress edi
tion of The Kansas City Call of
July 27, 1928.
Congratulations, Che s t e r.
May God continue to bless andj
prosper you.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY
A Thrust at Race Leadership
The fact that Walter Cohen, Bob
Church, Ben Davis and Perry Howard
are being called into question for
their acts both civically and criminal
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ly is an evidence that the “lily white”
republicans of the south are deter
mined to kill the race in the south.
Therefore, Perry Howard is a victim,
incidentally of the old sectional color
prejudice of the south. What posi
tion the republican party is going to
take in the indictment of Perry How
ard, we are waiting to see. In this
fight against Howard, the party has
more to lose in the Negro vote
throughout the north than it can pos
sibly gain from the solid white south.
This fight is a thrust at the race lead
ership in anticipation of the Hoover
administration. These charges are
wrenches thrown into the political
machine of the so called big four.
Cohen, Church, Davis, and Howard.
Hoover is not yet elected. The
race in the north is not yet commit
ted to the republican campaign. We
are watching the political leadership
of the G. O. P. Its relation and atti
tude toward the “lily whites” of the
south is certainly vital to us in the
north.—The Detroit Informer.
G. O. P. Not Sincere
If the republican party is sincere
about building up the party in the
south to the extent as to make it
possible to carry several of the states
in national elections, why doesn’t it
enfranchise 4,000,000 Negroes down
there and be assured of such a pos
sibility?
We know exactly what all of this
hullabaloo is about down in Mississip
pi and Georgia. It is simply that the
white people down there do not like
to see Negroes in control of federal
patronage, and the whole thing now
looks to us as though the national
G. O. P. has joined in the scheme.
We protest against such nefarious
methods as are being used with the
aid of the government, as an act of
bad faith toward the Negroes, not
only in the south, but in the north
and in the border states.—St. Louis
Argus.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY
Let’i Hear From the Candidates!
Party chieftains may beat their
tom toms, the orators may make the
welkin ring, but Negroes know there
is nothing for them in either party
platform, or in the deliberations of
either party convention. The thirty
six words of the republican platform
entitled “The Negro” were really
“law enforcement," and bore more
upon the lawlessness of thousands of
white lynchers than upon the few
Negroes who are the mob’s victims.
The democratic platform said as much
and as little as the republican when it
said nothing.
The conventions were alike in lack
ing advantage for us, and both were
marked by deliberate affront. The
republicans gave their official en
dorsement to lily-whiteism. The dem
ocrats seated their Negro visitors, not
only in a segregated section, but be
hind screens. f
Choice of party this year for Ne
groes will depend upon the candi
dates, because there is no other rea
son. The old arguments, for and
against, are claptrap, and whoever
makes them, is fooling nobody but
himself. The real issue is Hoover
or A1 Smith. Happily for the coun
try, both men as shown by their rec
ords, are better than Harding or even
Coolidge at the time he made his first
race for president.
The difference between the two
nominees is one of kind. Hoover, as
befits an engineer, has ben getting
things done. He has worked accept
ably as a private citizen, and as a
public official. He has done it at
home and abroad. He has done ^
over many years.
A1 Smith has spent most of his
days in public life, and in it has earn
ed his advancement. New York is not
the nation, but as far as a state can
show the man, he has proven himself
a thinker who has definite ideas
about government, which have been
approved by his constituency.
As the campaign develops, and the
fight gets hot, the Negro vote will
count. Much as the party man tries
to see a walk-away for his candidate,
the campaign of 1928 is going to bq
close! The small vote which Negroes
in northern states will cast can easily
be the deciding factor. We shall be
worse than fools if we do not make
our support the fair exchange for a
man’s chance, and a citizen’s right.
We will be wise to pledge ourselves
after, rather than before the candi
dates speak out on the Negro. LeJ
the campaign, rather than the con
ventions, tgll us where we stand.
Let Hoover and Smith do what their
parties failed at.
—The Kansas City Call.
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LINCOLN NEWS
Mrs. Kathryn Moore, accompanied
by Mrs. W. W. Mosley, Rev. and Mrs.
H. W. Botts and Mrs. Alma Wiley of
Plattsburg, Mo., returned home Sat
urday night after a four days’ tour
ing trip to St. Joseph and Plattsburg,
Mo., where they spent several days
at the home of Mrs. Alma Wiley’s
parents. They returned by way of
Atchison, Hiawatha and Horton,
Kan., and Beatrice, Neb., where they
were entertained at a sumptuous din
ner by Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Gordon at
their cozy home Saturday at 10 p. m.
Mrs. Alma Wiley will spend about
ten days here as house guest of Mrs.
Kathryn Moore and Mrs. W. W.
Mosley.
Mrs. M. L. Todd is yet confined at
home with illness.
Mrs. Ollie Ray entertained the
Mission at her home Tuesday night.
Attention, all Master Masons and
0. E. S. chapters: The annual meet
ings of the M. W. Grand Lodge of
Nebraska jurisdiction will convene in
Lincoln the third Wednesday, August
15, 16 and 17, 1928, with Lebanon
Lodge No. 3 at their hall, 1133 M
street.
Amaranthus Grand Chapter will
convene at Lincoln in Mt. Zion Bap
tist church, same dates.
The regular services were held in
all the churches as usual Sunday.
W. W. MOSLEY.
MRS. VENUS PARKER WINS
In the Trip-to-California contest
sponsored by the Woman’s Auxiliary
to the N. A. A. C. P., which closed
last week, Mrs. Venus Parker, who
reported $103.80, was awarded the
prize of $76.60, the amount of a
round-trip ticket to California. Shq
met the conditions for the second
prize, which were that the winning
contestant must bring in $80.00 or
more.
HERE'S YOUR CHANCE, GRAB IT*
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family went to California, leaving
their home with me to rent. ’Twas
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my money for repairs out of it. Calf
Webster 3667. He left a second one,
same thing, four rooms, call Webster
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