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LIVING TESTIMONIAL TO RACE PROGRESS
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Chicago, 111., Dec. 14 (ANP).—
After 45 years as an active knight
among the Pythians, Supreme Chan
cellor S. W. Green led in a cere
mony here recently, dedicating the
million dollar pational Pythian tem
ple, which, as he described it, repre
sented the consummation of a quar
ter of a century of sacrificial effort.
This ceremony in the heart of Chi
cago’s expansive Negro neighbor
hoods, was impressive, not only be
cause of the magnitude of the task
which it symbolized, but because it
represented the materialization of a
vision, the final display of 25 years
of effort which had for its purpose
the building of a monument that
would be an inspiration to the Negro
race.
Since that grand goal was set, hun
dreds of men and women who put
their shoulders to the noble wheel of
service, had passed away, but this
great temple is a sturdy and magni
ficent attestation of the fact that the
good that men do lives after them.
While explaining the purpose of
the temple; the supreme chancellor,
in an address that was rich in its
idealistic conceptions, took time to
pay a tribute to the city of its home
and to express the hope that the Ne
gro of the future would derive the
benefits from the structure which the
fathers who had worked and gone
had hoped for.
“Only a few of the original num
ber who planned this temple can an
swer the roll call today,” the supreme
chancellor observed solemnly; “but
the seeds of higher ambition and de
sire that were sown in the hearts and
minds of the members of this order
by the faithful and efficient leaders
of that day and time have now grown
into the beautiful building that we
behold today.
“Through trials and tribulations,
through darkness and despair, over
rough and stony paths we have come
until now we stand in the bright sun
light of success to enjoy the fruits
of our labor.”
The Pythian supreme chancellor
then traced the history of that labor,
from the first mention of a grand
national temple made at the 1903
convention by the late supreme chan
cellor, Samuel W. Starks, and the
appointment of the first commission,
on through the years. Starks died in
1908 and Green was left to carry on
the work. How well he has done so
is proved by the completion of the
temple.
Chicago was selected in 190Q as
the city of the temple and that al
most ancient choice moved Sir Green
to comment in his dedicatory address
that “with almost prophetic vision
and with rare human foresight, the
commission selected the most pro
gressive and the most prosperous city
of all of the west, if not of all
America.”
Fitting and proper, he deemed it,
that the commission should have
chosen as_ the home of the temple, a
city whose first settler was a colored
man, Jean Baptiste Point deSaible.
“The commission not only selected
the most progressive city of the west,
but it selected a city composed of the
iperfit prosperous, the most progress
"THE HANGING OF GREENS”
A Fantasy to Precede the Holiday
Season to Be Presented
December 20th.
This year is a striking opening to
the Christmas season, at the North
Side branch Y. V/. C. A. The Hos
pitality committee of which Mrs.
Roberta Bailey is chairman, will pre
sent the lovely fantasy, “The Hang
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Office Building
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ive, and the most aggressive mem
bers of the colored race in all of the
Americas,” he continued.
‘‘Here in Chicago, despite the
handicaps of noverty and prejudice,
we find members of the colored race
going forward by leaps and bounds,
acquiring education, acquiring prop
erty, acquiring culture, and filling
positions of honor and responsibility
in city, county, and state. It is in
such a city and among such a people
that we have chosen to erect this
great temple, the largest and most
valuable building owned and con
trolled by the Knights of Pythias in
the world.”
He then expressed the hope that
the people of Chicago would quick
ly “avail themselves of the comforts
and conveniences of the temple.”
The Knights of Pythias and the
Court of Calanthe, he pointed out,
shall reap the rewards of their la
bors and sacrifices in the proud sat
isfaction of knowing that they have
contributed in a very large measure
to make the world a better place to
live and in the glorious knowledge
that when coming generations of col
ored boys and girls shall look upon
the temple with pride and admira
tion, they shall gather inspiration to
go out in the world to do nobler and
better things.
Dr. A. A. Wesley, grand chancel
lor of Illinois, was master of cere
monies for the dedicatory exercises.
He was introduced by Sir A. T. Wat
kins, supreme attorney, who also
called upon the Rev. N. C. Nix, su
preme prelate, for the invocation.
Other addresses were made by Mrs.
Rosa E. Hoard, grand worthy coun
sellor of Illinois; Dr. E. A. Williams,
past grand chancellor; Sir E. D.
Green, secretary of the Pythian tem
ple commission, who prepared and
presented the first resolution for the
temple; Sir E. G. Tidrington, su
preme vice chancellor and ex-officio
supreme worthy counsellor, and R.
R. Jackson, major general of the uni
form rank department.
LEADS FOR RACE UNITY
Rabbi Cohn Believes Tolerance
Would Bring “World
Symphony.” *
Comparing the various races to the
instruments of an orchestra, Itabbi
Frederick Cohn, Sunday explained
that by working together, the races
would produce a grand symphony,
the history of civilzation being the
music played. Rabbi Cohn was the
principal speaker at a meeting of the
Urban league of Omaha at the Zion
Baptist church, 2215 Grant street.
Dr. Palmer Findley was chairman.
“Treat the people as individuals,”
Rabbi Cohn urged, “and not as races.
Each race has good and bad in it,
but there is no such thing as one
race being superior to the other.
1 Each race has given something to
the world which no other could give.”
John Hall, director of the Commu
nity Chest ;C. A. Cushman, general
manager of Swift Packing company,
and J. Harvey Kearns, secretary ol
the league, were other speakers.
ing of the Greens.” This ceremonia
is given annually by the Y. W. C. A
in Honolulu and because it gives ar
opportunity for all the members ol
the association and the community a:
large to participate in the decoratint
of our “Y” for this most joyous sea
son, it is moit fitting that it is pre
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MILLION-DOLLAR PYTHIAN NATIONAL TEMPLE, CHICAGO
BOY KILLED WHILE COASTING
Companion Seriously, If Not Fatally
Hurt. Four Others, Including
One Girl, Seriously In
jured Sunday.
Omaha was shocked at the news
Sunday of the accidents of several
children who were killed or fatally
injured in the crash of their sleds
while coasting on guarded streets.
Earl Smith, colored, was killed in
stantly, while Louis Strowder, also
colored, a companion, was so serious
ly injured that he is not expected to
recover.
Two of the six coasting crash vic
tims injured the last week were re
ported in critical condition today.
The other four are improving, and
are expected to recover.
Little hope is held for the recovery
of Vlasta Miracky, 11, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Miracky, 1224
Edward street, who was injured Sun
day. She is at the South Side Gen
eral hospital, where, physicians said,
her condition is critical.
Boy Fights Death
Louis Strowder, Negro, 12, injured
Sunday in an accident in which Earl
Smith, Negro, 12, 2302 North Twen
ty-seventh street, was killed, was re
ported unimproved at Lord Lister
hospital. His skull was fractured,
and physicians doubt that he will re
cover.
Harold Peterson, 4808 North
Twenty-Beventh street, who is in
Covenant hospital suffering with a
fractured skull, will recover. He
' was reported greatly improved to
day.
Three Will Recover.
Lawrence Tilton, 15, 207 North
Nineteenth street; Clifford Mitchell,
12, 1216 Farnam street, and Jack
Parkinson, 12, 207 North Twentieth
street, all injured in a coasting ac
cident last Thursday, were reported
improved at Lord Lister hosptial to
day and will recover, physicians say.
LOUISVILLE MAYOR’S
CHAUFFEUR KILLS MAN
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 14 (ANP).—
Tuesday evening the citizenship was
startled when it was learned that Al
, bert D. Hathaway, the mayor’s pri
vate chauffeur, with rank of city de
tective, shot and killed Robert Bur
nette, well known in this city. The
killing occurred at Tenth and Chest
; nut streets near a taxicab stand. A
woman was heard to cry out when
• struck by a companion, the man ran
<iuwu the stree., Hathaway filing aiiu
i striking Burnette. Hathaway has
i been placed under $3,000 bond, and
his case continued.
To Those Who Wish to Have Writ
ten Articles Carried in This Paper:
Such matter must be in this office
by Wednesday of the week o fissue.
Otherwise it will not appear until the
week following. The Editor reserves
the right to censor all articles to be
printed. THE EDITOR.
JOINS MONITOR STAFF
Miss Edna McAllister, formerly of
Atchison, Kansas, was added to the
office force of the Omaha Monitor
this week as clerk and stenographer,
which position she is filling very ac
ceptably.
Miss McAllister is a native of At
chison, Kansas. She attended the
Ingall High school of that city, from
which she graduated with honors in •
1926. She has for some time been
an active member of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People in the Atchison
branch, having recently won second
prize ih a membership drive staged
by that organization this year, an
nouncement of which is carried in
The Crisis for December. Miss Mc
Allister is residing with her mother
and sister at 1818 North 26th street,
Omaha.
A. N. P. REPRESENTATIVE
WINS SECOND PRIZE IN
NATIONWIDE CONTEST
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 14 (ANP).—
Lee L. Brown, Louisville’s Associated
Negro Press representative, was no
tified this week by the System mag
azine that he had ben awarded sec
ond prize in a nationwide essay con
test conducted by the magazine in
September. Mr. Brown is the pro
prietor of Brown’s Letter and Print
Shoppe and principal of Brown’s
Commercial school, the oldest private
commercial school in Louisville.
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CRAWFORD-STEPHENS
MARRIAGE SOLEMNIZED
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
Parents of Groom Give Reception in
Honor of Couple.
John Dillard Crawford and Miss
Lucy Charlotte Stephens, daughter
of Mrs. Ophelia Stephens of Detroit,
Mich., and Girl Reserve secretary of
the Phyllis Wheatley branch Y. W.
C. A., Denver, Colo., were quietly
married at 10:30 Wednesday morn
ing, December 5th, at the Episcopal
Church of St. Philip the Deacon,
Rev. John Albert Williams officiat
ing. Only members of the family
and two or three close personal
friends were present at the simple
ceremony.
The bride was attended by Mrs.
Florentine Pinkston, sister of the
groom, as matron of honor, and
Lovejoy Crawford, brother of the
groom, was best man. Mrs. Ellen
E. Russ, of Denver, aunt of the
groom, represented the bride’s moth
er, who was unable to be present,
and gave her away. The bride made
a charming picture in beautiful white
enserhble.
An elaborate reception was ten
dered the happy pair by Mr. and Mrs.
John Crawford, parents of the
groom, at their residence, 2505 Ma
ple street, from 8 to 11 in the eve
ning, at which a large number of
friends extended their felicitations
and best wishes. Twenty-five em
ployees, the entire force of the coun
ty clerk’s office, where Mr. Crawford
is deputy auditor, headed by Miss
Grace Berger, county clerk, attended
the reception in a body. The wed
ding presents were many, beatuiful,
costly and useful.
Mr. and Mrs. Crawford will reside
at the Carbury apartments.
GETS EIGHT YEARS
FOR THEFT OF $10
Ne wOrleans, La., Dec. 14 (ANP).
—George Clark has ben sentenced to
serve not less than eight years nor
more than 14 at hard labor in the
state penitentiary, after being found
guilty of assault and robbery. The
loot did not exceed ten dollars.
SHOOTS RIVAL; GETS MAN
Gulfsport, Miss., Dec. 14 (ANP).
—Ip a controversy over a “man,”
Elizabeth Pattersor pulled a gun on
Irene Bond and p) ;ged her through
the hand. In p ice court, after
hearing the evidence on both slues,
the mayor invited Elizabeth to do
nate $25 cash, or go over the road.
She paid and “got her man.”
NEGRO ADVANCES
BUSI]
Survey Shows Great Sti
in Business and
WHAT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW
Dec. 14 (ANP).—There has been
a lot of wonder from time to time
about why Negroes do not maintain
a more important place in the gen
eral scheme of American business,
and many doleful expressions have
gone forth as reason after reason
has been advanced for more of the
nation’s business turning a profit to
pther peoples than to colored per
sons.
The answer is simple, according to
iiscoveries recently made by one
seeking information on the subject
Negroes are doing a proportion of
:he general business of the country
and doing such business to the ex
tent of their training, ability, and
murage to embark in business upon
the prevailing terms of the line in
which they happen to be engaged.
In Providence, R. I., a jewel decor
ating concern where a Negro em
ploys 22 girls of his race to do enam
el artistry upon gold and silver com
pacts, meshbags. cigaret lighters, etc.,
sve find that more than a hundred
pf the leading jewery manufacturers
avail themselves of the product of
the house of J. G. Lewis, Jr., Com
pany.
One of the largest five-and-ten
phain stores has just placed an order
ivith the Overton Hygiene company
’or nine carloads of toilet prepara
tions to be offered over the counters
pf several thousand stores scattered
about the country during the next
vear.
The Maryland garage and auto
service station of Boston, owned by
Basil Hutchins, is being enlarged to
meet the increased demand of a bus
iness that already includes the up
keep of more than 200 commercial
automobiles.
Down in Arkansas, John Clay
brooks sells more than a hundred
thousand dollars worth of hardwood
and farm products each month, and
everyone knows his own people have
no use for so much wood of that sort
each month of the year. Neither do
we buy baled cotton since we have
few factories to supply.
Out in Kansas, a Negro who not
only does a nice business, but has the
temerity to have joined the chamber
of commerce, quarries and sells many
carloads of limestone annually.
Those are basic industries. In the
field of merchandising, one often
find a colored man in a responsible
place with some otherwise Caucasian
organization. For instance, we have
John Minkens, city editor of the
Providence, R. I., afternoon Trib
une. There is Henry Smith, super
in endent of the Omaha body works,
one of the largest builders of auto
bodies in the country.
When you strike one of the every
day parlor matches, you perhaps have
not heretofore known that the head
of that match is composed largely of
finely ground glass mixed with read
ily ignited chemicals. It is even more
likely that you were not aware that
much of this prepared glass is ship
ped from the factory of The Dykes
By-Products company, Cleveland,
Ohio. Mr. H. L. Dykes, the presi
dent, and all of his employees are
colored.
These are but a few of the high
lights being disclosed in the commer
cial circles of our country by the ac
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MESS AND FINANCE
■ides of Colored People
Industrial Field.
tivities of the domestic commerce di
vision of the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce as its representa
tives go about their duty of survey
ing the business of the nation.
Now that the government agency
is co-operating with the National Ne
gro Business league, the Associated
Negro Press, and a score of other
race trade organizations, and a more
accurate picturization of the Negro
in business is being presented free
from bias and prejudice, we are like
ly to be very often treated to revela
tions that are of the most encourag
ing character.
The department of commerce is
primarily concerned with serving all
business and of itself does not take
cognizance of any groupings as to
race; but in the organization of the
department is a Negro in adminis
trative position who has the instinct
ive interest and pride in race achieve
ment that prompts him to want to
seek out and make public such infor
mation when it comes to his notice.
This, however, is not his elemen
tary service. His main object is to
make available the government helps
to business to those who have not re
alized how much help the government
tenders. Whether you are doing bus
iness within your group, or with the
general public, there are some helps
that are yours for the asking. Per
haps the answer to someone vexing
problem may set yon on the way to
becoming one of those highlights of
commerce such as has been men
tioned in this story. Write to the
department of commerce and get ac
quainted with this service.
THIS IS WHAT HARRISBURG, PA.
IS DOING
In accordance with our former
statement that we should alternate
i npreparing surveys between south
ern and northern cities, we are tak
ing for this week one of the large
urban centers of the steel district of
Pennsylvania. This city has a much
smaller Negro population than many
of the others, which will be covered
in our articles, but we present data
regarding it in the hope that some of
its citizens may be encouraged to at
tempt activities which have proven
successful in larger cities.
Survey of Harrisburg, Pa.
Negro population, 1920 census,
5,248
In the field of retail trade, Ne
groes own and operate:
3 drug stores
7 groceries and markets
8 restaurants
They also own and operate:
8 barber shops
9 beauty parlors
2 hotels
1 printing establishment
1 manufactory of cosmetics
2 loan associations
2 investment companies
1 public dance hall
Harrisburg has seven physicians,
four dentists, one lawyer, five under
takers, seven real estate operators,
and three orchestral organizations.
There are seven colered police, eight
postal employees, 16 in the city’s
school system, and one other city
employee. Two Negro sick and acci
dent companies have branch offices
here and one life insurance company.
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