The Monitor
Friday, February 16, 1923
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TEXAS JUDGE RELEASES NEGRO; WHITE MEN HELD
LIFTING
LIFT TOO
RACE RELATIONS SUNDAY OBSERVED IN CITY CHURCHES
Movement Inaugurated by Federated Council of Churches of Christ in America Starts Out Successfully.
UNITED PROGRAMS ARE GIVEN
Mass Meeting at Zion Baptist Church In Afternoon Feature of the Observance.—May Exchange Pulpits.
Race Relations Sunday, the observance of which on the Sunday nearest the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, as suggested by the National Council of the Federated Churches of Christ in America, which includes all the Protestant denominations, was very generally observed throughout the country last Sunday. Omaha churches entered wholeheartedly into the movement. Several of the churches, white and colored, carried out the program suggested. Most of the churches had their special services and exercises in this connection in the evening.
Among the white congregations who had colored persons on the program were the First Presbyterian church, the largest and wealthiest of that denomination in the city; First Central Grace Methodist; Westminster and Coveannt Presbyterian and Plymouth Congregational.
At the First Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks, pastor, made a brief address commending the movement and expressing the hope "That from such occasions as this may a spirit of helpfulness be generated by reason of our getting to know each other better." The Harmony Quartette, Dr. John Andrew Singleton, baritone; George Griffin, second tenor; H. Sherwood, first tenor; and H. L. Preston, bass, sang several songs to the delight of the congregation present.
Several of the colored congregations united in a mass meeting Sunday afternoon at Zion Baptist Church, at which a fair proportion of the audience was white. The meeting was opened by the Rev. E. L. Hollis of the C. M. E. church. Other ministers taking part in the program were the Rev. Wm. Franklin, pastor of Pilgrim Baptist; the Rev. Fred Divers, pastor of Bethel the M. A. E.; and the Rev. E. H. McDonald, pastor of Mt. Moriah Baptist. The principal address was made by Attorney John Adams. A solo was sung by Rufus C. Long and several selections were sung by a union choir.
At the Westminster Presbyterian church, Twenty-ninth and Mason streets, in the evening, a Lincoln day program of Negro music, poetry and literature was given, a visiting quartet made up of representative colored church singers sang, while the church choir and quartet together rendered "Swing Low, Sweet Charlot." The Rev. MELVIN Robert Laird presided. Archie Baley delivered an address on Lincoln.
At the Plymouth Congregational church, Eighteenth and Emmet, a similar program was held in the evening, including singing by a visiting colored quartet, and a play depicting the advance of the Negro race in this country. The play, "What We Have Done," was presented by the young people of the church, and the Rev. F. H. Anderson, pastor of the church, and Mrs. Anderson, took the roles of "Dad" and "Mammy."
A quartet from St. Paul's Colored Presbyterian church, Twentysixth and Seward streets, members of the congregation and the pastor, the Rev. Russell Taylor, visited the Covenant Presbyterian church, Twenty-seventh and Pratt streets, of which the Rev. F. H. Grace is pastor, at the evening service. The Rev. Mr. Taylor addressed those assembled. Several young peoples meetings held race relations programs in the afternoon.
An interchange of pulpits between white and colored churches, which was originally planned, could not be carried out because it was too late, to make such arrangements when notification of the proposed dates was received by many of the pastors. Dr. A. A. DeLarme of the First Baptist church, the Rev. M. Allen Keith of Pearl Memorial Methodist, and the Rev. Charles W. Savidge, People's church, were among those who would have welcomed such a program if arrangements could have been completed.
Mrs. Larry N. Peoples returned last week after a three months' vacation with friends and relatives in Chicago and Davenport.
THE MONITOR
FOUGHT SEGREGATION IN
NEW JERSEY SCHOOLS
New York, Feb. 16—Irving T. Nutt, president of the Camden, New Jersey, Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who consistently and persistently fought segregation in and about Camden, has been appointed a member of the Camden school board by Mayor King.
Mr. Nutt, according to the Camden Post-Telegram (white) "is a well known colored resident of the Seventh Ward and is an earnest advocate of equal rights for his race. He has been making a determined effort to have colored children sent to the schools nearest their homes, and is opposed to making them travel long distances to attend schools set apart for colored children. As a member of the board Mr. Nutt will be in a position to more vigorously press his demand for equal rights for his race."
HARLEM OFFICE GETS
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
New York, Feb. 16—Louis Berry, of Indianapolis, pastor of St. Philip's Episcopal church in that city, will take up the duties of executive secretary of the Harlem office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York City beginning March 1, it has been announced. Mr. Berry is the first person to fill the office which is newly created in order to deal with the increasing work of the Association in New York City. He was educated at Howard University and at the General Theological Seminary and has had experience in organization work. The Harlem Office of the N. A. A. C. P. is located at 2350 Seventh Ave., New York City.
COMMUNISTS REJECT
FRENCH OVERTURES
Essen, Feb. 16—(Crusader Service) The French army of occupation approached the Communists here with a view to reaching a friendly understanding in case of serious labor troubles, but the Communists peremptorily rejected the overtures, one of the Communist leaders telling a French official that the Communists were at no time in favor of enslaving the German workers to pay France reparations for a Capitalist war for which French Capitalists were as much responsible as German capitalists.
HEROISM OF RACE IN WAR IS LAUDED BY VICE-PRESIDENT
Coolidge Commends Contribution of Negro to Progress of Country During Times of Peace and of War.
EULOGIZES LINCOLN'S WORK
Negroes Have Justified the Faith of Abraham Lincoln, Declares the Speaker at Dedication of Government Hospital.
Tuskegee, Ala., Fab. 16—America stands unchangeably committed to the principle of the right to individual freedom made forever plain and clear by Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared Monday in an address dedicating the $2,000,000 government hospital for Negro veterans of the World War.
"The life of Abraham Lincoln," he said, "gave a new and practical meaning to the right of self-government which was to grow into a great world of influence. Americans are not without justification in assuming that this nation has been called into existence to establish, to maintain, to defend and to extend that principle. Insofar as the World War was a conflict between different theories of civilization, it was a conflict between those who supported this principle and those who opposed it. It was the liberty-loving nations of the earth, those most generously committed to the principle of sovereignty of the people, who were victorious. In that victory, Abraham Lincoln had a very large share."
"Freedom places grave duties and responsibilities on the individual which will bring success if met and performed, but failure if neglected and evaded," the vice president asserted. "It was the belief of Abe Lincoln," he continued, "that all people could and would finally rise to these requirements. In the less than 70 years that the Negro race in America have been in the enjoyment of freedom they have (Continued on Page Two).
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A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1923
JOHN A. BROWN
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Born a Slave in Maryland, February 15, 1817, but who escaped from slavery and subsequently rose to high positions of honor in the United States.
All our youth should read the story of his life.
THE NEGRO SANHEDRIN
Kelly Miller Submits Certain Practical Suggestions Looking Towards Effective Functioning of Proposed Conference of Colored Americans
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My suggestion for an all-race conference has met with a nation-wide response. It is unanimously agreed that such a conference is not only important, but imperative. The proposition elicits immediate and spontaneous reaction.
Great ideas are rarely ever the product of a single mind. They are but the outcome of scientific or social necessities demanded by the advancing state of knowledge or social need. Fundamental thoughts stir spontaneously in the minds of many thinkers. It is only by chance or good hap that some fortunate individual is first to formulate and give them public utterance. Fortunate indeed is he if he escapes the rivalry and jealousy of those who are fond of the self-glory of priority.
I claim no originality or special merit for proclaiming the suggestion of a Negro Sanhedrin. When the cloud is surcharged with electricity, the flash may break out at any point. I have merely expressed the general feeling not before sufficiently focussed in definite form of statement. Enthusiastic
supporters of the idea declare that it was already floating in their minds without form—and void. Indeed it had already received implicit or explicit expression in sundry, partial ways. The National Race Conference had felt the need and uttered it. The Equal Rights League had already sent out invitations to the several Civil Rights organizations including the N. A. A. C. P., the National Race Congress, and the Blood Brotherhood, for a joint meeting and united action. Several secret and fraternal orders were contemplating similar procedure. My suggestion differs from the others only in the comprehensiveness of its range and scope. I would have the conference take into consideration, "the state of the race," involving the entire circle of interests pertinent and peculiar to our race, and its relations to the larger social entity in which it is submerged. The national race movements hitherto have limited their attention to some particular pressing and distressing features of the problem. The dynamic power of politics has been the chief reliance. These
conferences have split on the rock on which they were founded.
The political agency must loom large in any effective race program, but the subject must be approached in the spirit of comprehensive race statesmanship, and not of personal and partisan manipulation. Politics forms but a single factor of our tangled problem. The internal development of the race is of primary importance aside from its external relation to the environing white world. The statesmanlike attitude will not allow itself to become excited over any single distressing factor, but views the whole problem with sobriety of temper and deliberateness of judgment.
Napoleon Bonaparte suggested a Sanhedrin of the Jews of Europe in 1807. The constitution of this body comprehended the entire fabric of Jewish life and relationship. The agenda covered the whole field of Jewish interests as affecting and affected by the dominant Gentile world in which they were enveloped. The outcome of this conference has potent influence in Jewry until the present
day. The East Indians meet in annual session of an All Indian Conference to consider the inlock of the race itself, and its outlook upon the world at large. The Negro needs most of all the stimulation of a race conscientiousness and the formulation of a race ideal which will furnish inspiration to every member thereof. The proposed conference looks to this end.
The need is plain. A way farer, though blind, may see it. The demand is upon us. Hove we the wisdom and courage to meet it? The difficulties are great. To the timid they seem insurmountable. The cowarly spirit always sees lions in the way. But to those who have unswerving faith in the humanity of man, nothing is impossible.
The next step is to devise some feasible and effective method of procedure. Merely to issue a sudden call of the wise ones to meet and deliver fiery orations, and adopt heated and masty resolutions would accomplish nothing. Violent protest against oppression and wrong is but natural ebulation of feeling. Such has been the method of all the conferences which have gone before.
I now suggest that this be a conference of conferences. Let the varied organizations and agencies of nationwide aim and purpose designate some representative in Washington City. The representatives so designated will form a provisional committee. This committee is to meet as often as necessary and deliberae as long as requirements of the situation demand. When it has reached agreement upon a proper agenda let it set the time and place, and issue the call for the general conference.
I suggest the city of Washington as most fitting seat of the committee because of its central location and focal advantages. In order to meet inevitable objections I suggest that the central committee in Washington may organize, on the same plan of its own complexion, local committees in various centers to cooperate in the formulation of plans. The judgment of the committee should express the findings of our best minds and hearts and conscience, and should be based upon counsel as wide as the race and as broad as its needs.
If my suggestions are acceptable let the various organization proceed at once to designate representatives. I will undertake to call them together. Then my function will be at an end. The rest will be in the hands of the race. Yours truly, (Signed) KELLY MILLER.
URBAN LEAGUE IS STEADILY MAKING INFLUENCE FELT
Gift of $10,000.00 For Its Work Reported at the Annual Meeting When Reports are Read and Officers Elected.
PHENOMENAL ADVANCEMENT
Organization Which Began as Local Body With Expenditure of $2,500 Has Grown Into National Movement.
New York, Feb. 16—Steady increase in the forces making for cooperation between the Negro and white races was emphasized by L. Hollingsworth Wood, Chairman of the National Urban League, at its eleventh annual meeting in the Russell Sage Foundation Building Wednesday afternoon. He reported that the year 1922 had been the most important in the history of the Urban League movement which started with a small group in New York spending $2,600 in 1910 and has grown to a national movement with branches in more than forty cities spending more than $250,000 a year.
"The greatest handicap to better inter-racial relations has been the indifference of the great mass of whites and this indifference has been due mostly to the limited knowledge by the whites of Negroes," said Mr. Wood. "The last few years have shown a new and significant change which has come about through the great migration of Negroes from the South into the industrial centers of the East and Middle West and through the attention which has been brought to inter-racial relations by the exposition of Ku Klux activities, by the Congressional debates on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, by the public discussion of President Lowell's attempt to scrap one of Harvard's most precious traditions, and by similar incidents in which the Negro has figured in the news.
"These incidents have made the great contribution of focussing attention on this matter and for every per- (Continued on Page Two)
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THANK YOU
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TEXAS JUDGE FREES COLORED PRISONER CHARGED WITH RAPE
Man Accused of Criminally Assaulting White Girl and Murdering Her Escort is Freed by Order of the Court.
ARREST GIRL AND BROTHERS
Another Case Where Truth Thwarts Attempt to Make Negro Pay the Penalty for Crime Committed by Whites
Waco, Texas, Feb. 16—Watted on the wires of the Associated Press last November, came the report from this southern town that another "lynching party" was in the making, following an accusation that Ivory Clay was held in connection with a "brutal and vicious" assault on a white girl and the murdering of her escort. This crime occurred November 29, last.
Last week, wafted on the wires of this same press service, came the news that Ivory Clay had been released, and that the hundreds of spectators, who crowded into the historic court house, vigorously applauded the decision of Judge R. I. Monroe. (It will be remembered that Jesse Washington was burned alive in this same court house yard in May, 1916.)
This case is but one of the hundreds of cases reported over the press wires yearly, in which a colored man, accused of "assaulting" a white girl, is a prey to the fury of a blood-thirsty mob. The result is death, either via fire, bullets or the hangman's noose.
No one knows the true facts in the case. The victim is hunted to his hiding place like a drowning rat or either picked up, usually taken to the place of the alleged assault, and there forced to go through untold agonies and indignities before rope, fire or bullet puts a merciful end to his life.
And this state, with its warped and soulless ideas of justice, the home of the "lyncher and Ku Kluxer;" this state, at whose door the stigma of staining the Stars and Stripes of Old Glory, has fallen no less than four times in the last two months, has finally "played square." For not only was Clay released, but the decision of the court was cheered.
What a contrast to a similar case in North Carolina this past week, where the governor was forced to call out the State Militia to quell the spirit of mob control. that had threatened to lynch a race man, in case a jury deliberating on his case returned a verdict of not guilty, or anything less than murder in the first degree.
Girl and Two Brothers Held
Clay was arrested shortly after an alleged assault on Miss Naomi Boucher, southern girl, and the murder of her escort, Grady Skipworth, on the night of November 20.
At the hearing, Miss Boucher testified that Clay was the man who shot Skipworth and treated her roughly, finally throwing her over a cliff. The story as told by the girl was colored to the extreme and told of the climax to an auto ride, in which the "burly Negro," had shot Skipworth down in cold blood and then brutally assaulted her.
But in direct rebuttal to this story was the action of the father of the slain man ordering the arrest of Miss Boucher and her two brothers, Horace and Bernard. What a different angle this puts on the case.
Indications point to the fact that the elder Skipworth caused the arrest of the trio after he had gleaned certain facts seeming to show that the girl and his son had been surprised in a compromising position, that Skipworth was killed, and that the "Negro" story was trumped up in an endeavor to save the girl's "honor" and the lives of her brothers.
Arrest Creates Sensation Recently Miss Boucher and her brothers were arrested by Ranger Captain E. D. Shumate and removed separately to other counties in order that he might have better opportunity to investigate the death of young Skipworth. The removal of the three from McLennan county created a sensation which rocked the entire state and the three were brought back only after Judge J. P. Alexander had issued a warrant for the arrest of Shumate on charges of evasion of service.
"Evidence Insufficient"
Habeas Corpus hearing of Clay followed sensational testimony of J. P. Williams and his son, who named Joe Miller, an alleged former roomer at the Boucher home, as the man in the
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ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES.
Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged.
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No
state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor _
shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop-
erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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‘THEORY AND FACT.
Reece > Teme, COSUKge 1 bis ex-
cellent address delivered at the
‘opening of the “Government Hospital
for Negro Veterans of the World War”
at Tuskegee on Lincoln's birthday,
enunciated several fundamental prin-
ciples to which all right-mindea ana
well-thinking people will subscribe.
He clearly defined the position to
which America in theory, at least, is
committed, and the principles for
which she theoretically stands, but
‘even a superficial observer must admit
that there is a wide divergence be-
tween theory and fact. The theory
is, as Mr. Coolidge aptly states it,
“That America stands unchangeably
committed to the principle of the right
of individual freedom made forever
clear and plain by Abraham Lincoln,”
but the faet is that “the right of in-
dividual freedom” is largely mythical
80 far as a large group of American
citizens is concerned. The theory .is,
that the United States is a democracy,
where all her citizens are entitled to
the same privileges in American na-
tional institutions; but the fact is, as
the opening of this very hospital ex-
clusively for “Negro Veterans of the
World War” most grahically _ilus-
trates, that principle and application
are at hostility. It is because there is
such a wide divergence between theory
and fact in our American life that the
voice of protest is becoming clearer
‘and louder with the belief that ulti-
mately theory and fact, principle and
practice will become more fully in ac-
cord.
We are grateful for Mr. Coolidge’s
review of the deeds of our race which
have justified the faith of Abranam
Lincoln. We accept with gratitude his
statement that “The Negro's record
‘at home and abroad during the war
won for them the gratitude of the
American people,” but we regret to say
that we fail to see much evidence of
this gratitude. In this again there is
@ yawning gulf between theory and
fact. If the undeniable increase of
race prejudice, in all sections of the
country, studied and systematic ef-
forts to restrict privileges and humil-
iate and embarrass our self-respecting
peonle, be manifestations of this grat-
itude. then indeed are the American
people grateful for “the Negro’s rec-
we are by no means discouraged, nor
ord at home and abroad during the
war.” But even though we thus speak
wil! our people abate by on jot or tittle
all honorable efforts in the future to
surnass their splendid record in peace
and in war during the past sixty-five
years until by the very strength of
their character. manhood and achieve-
ments they will force the ideals to
which America is unquestionably com-
mitted to become real not only in
Pheory but in fact.
r is rather remarkable that Febru-
arg should have been the birth-
month of that most illustrious trium-
virate of Americans, Washington,
Douglas and Lincoln. If named in
chronological order, it would be Lin-
coin, Douglas and Washington, for
Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. 12,
Frederick Douglass on Feb. 15, and
George Washington on Feb. 22." The
first two were born in humble circum-
stances and lowly station, and the last
in comparative wealth and affluence.
‘Two were of white parentage and
free born, the other of African blood
and lineage and born a slave, Yet
all three rose to entinence and useful-
ness in the nation. Two of ther
reached the presidency of the Repub-
Me; the other, despite his color and
previous servitude, arose to the high
position of minister pleniotentiary cf
the United States and the trusted ad-
visor of presidents. When Lincoln
born in the backwoods of Ken-
‘who could have foreold or for-
the. work to which he would be
ad, the eminence to which he would
the historic place he would
e nobly ‘great? When
ave was born on a
who ever dream-
jed that he would become a free man,
|sway hundreds of thousands with his
‘eloquence and serve his native land,
which counted him as a chattel, with
merit and distinction, and attain a high
niche in the hall of fame? Though the
son of a country gentleman, none
would have foretold that George
Washington would have become the
first president of the United States
and won a place among rulers and
princes of the earth. From birth and
parentage his case is not so phenom-
enal as that of either Lincoln or
Douglas. ‘The case of the latter seem-
ed the most unlikely and unpromising
of all and yet note well to what emi-
ence he arose. All things are pos-
sible when a child is born. No mat-
ter how lowly his parentage or humble
his birth who can gauge the eminence
to which he is destined to arise? It
is well for us to celebrate the anni-
versaries of this illustrious triumvir-
ate. They force upon our attention
many helpful thoughts. The lives of
Douglass and Lincoln should prove an
inspiration to all youth born in hum-
ble circumstances. The life of Fred-
erick Douglass, the slave boy who be-
came a United States minister and
the adviser of presidents, should prove
an inspiration to children of our race
and fill them with the desire and de-
termination to be and do al! that may
become a man. The life of Douglass
and of Lincoln teach clearly this truth
among many others:
“Ffonor and shame from no condition
rise,
Act well thy part, there all the honor
lies.”
Hundreds of thousands of people
throughout the world are observing
a forty day perfod of fasting, peni-
tence, prayer and special services.
This forty day period, or to be exact,
forty-six day period, for the Sundays
are not included as days of fasting,
is known as Lent. The word “Lent”
really means spring, but in common
nsage it means the period of special
religious exercises and observance
which many thousands of people find
to be of great help to them in the
spring of each year. A period of this
kind, so generally used by so many
thousands and for many hundreds ot
years, must have some real meaning,
value and significance. It has. That
such a season of intensive religious
training, for that it what it really is,
must be helpful to those who use it,
goes without saying. The purose of
the observance of Lent is to help dis-
cipline character and strengthen the
will. For many years the observance
of Lent was confined to Roman Cath-
olies, Episcopalians and Lutherans,
hiefly, but in later years other bodies
of Christian people have begun to re-
cognize its value and so its observ-
ance is growing. It may be a mere
perfunctory thing, or it may prove a
real spiritual help. We are quite sure
‘hat those who enter rightly and sin-
cerely into the spirit of Lent will re-
ceive help from it. Like everything
else worth while people will get out o1
the observance of Lent just what they
put into it,
RACE RELATIONS
THE movement inaugurated by the
‘Commission on the Church and
Race Relations of the Federal Council
of Churches is a step in the right di-
rection. The plan proposed is suffi-
ciently elastic to be applied to all com-
munities where there is the slightest
desire to come to a better under-
standing and more genial relationship
between the races to counteract the
much to be regretted and unealled for
misunderstanding which is becoming
seute and which only the spirit of
Christ can allay. The interchange of
visits upon the part of representatives
of both groups to their respective
houses of worship and an attempt
thereby to become aequainted cannot
but bear good fruit. Where this is
not deemed practicable conferences be-
tween representatives will be helpful.
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If the spirit of Christ is in the heart
of both races, as we believe it is, even
though it may be very imperfectly
manifested, there is no reason in the
world why amity and goodwill should
not supplant suspicion and dislike
which develops rapidly into hatred.
HEROISM OF RACE
IN WAR IS LAUDED
BY VICE PRESIDENT
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made marvelous progress. That pro-
gress is shown not only in the prop-
‘erty which they have acquired, aot
only in the talent which they have ex-
hibited in the arts, in the professions,
nor yet in the administration of busi-
ness affairs, all of which have been
very great, but most of all in the hon-
‘est, industrious way in which the great
body of their people have performea
Their greatest contribution lies in the
fact that they have helped to do the
work of the nation.
“When the call came in time of war
they were ready and desirous of enlist-
ing. More than two and one-quarter
millions of them were registered un-
der the selective draft. They were
more anxious to enlist than they were
to evade any service for their country.
In spite of every deception or tempta-
tion to which public enemies artfully
subjected them, they exhibited a layol-
ty and devotion to the cause of Amer-
ica which was unsurpassed. Nearly
400,000 of them went into military
service,
“The total casualty of Negro troops,
he said, was approximately 103 offic-
ers and 1,548 enlisted men, of whom
six officers and 208 enlisted men were
killed in action. Four Negro officers
and 43 enlisted men received the dis-
tinguished service cross, he added.
It was not merely their soldiers in
the field but their citizens in the sup-
porting army of production and trans-
portation at home, both men and wom-
en, whose efforts contributed to the
success of the allied armies, the vice
president asserted. “More than that,
they gave generously of their re-
sources, purchasing the securities ot
the government and contributing to
the Red Cross and other war charities.
Their patriotism shines forth in every
field of action.”
‘The Negro’s record at home and
abroad during the war won them the
everlasting gratitude of the Amencan
people, he said. “They have justifiea
the faith of Abraham Lincoln.”
‘Turning again to the life of Lincoln,
the vice president said:
“It takes time and patience and per-
severance to put into practice our
theory of human rights. Lincoln knew
that. If there was one virtue that he
seemed to possess more than another,
it was that of forbearance. It is well
for us, who must live together as Am-
ericans, whatever our race or creed
may be, constantly to remember his
words: “We are not enemies but
friends. We must not be enemies.’
Liberty, the vice president said, is
of slow growth, but irresistible. Tt
took the long debates of Clay, Calhoun
and Webster and the vigilant action ot
Jackson, no less than the decisions of
Marshall and the wise counsel ot
Washington, to reveal the true spirit
of the union. At length the time came
for another forward step, another ex-
tension of the principle of freedom.
Like all others, it was wrought in sac-
rifice. At last the national characte)
of our government was finally est~
lished. ‘The fabric of the union was
finally complete. The rank of citizens
was all free. It was out of this per-
iod of suffering and sorrow thera
emerged a great statesman. Abra-
ham Lincoln,and two great soldiers,
Grant anl Lee. Each of these repre-
sented an American ideal. Lee stands
for the power of the states. Grant
stands for the power of the nation.
But to Lincoln it was given to stand
for the power of the people.”
UBBAN LEAGUE IS
STEADILY MAKING
INFLUENCE FELT
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son whose prejudices have been foster-
ed there bave been many real Amer-
icans who have accepted the challenge
to our traditions of justice and fair
play and have become aroused to
throw their influence with the con-
structive forces,
“The result bas been an increased
interest in and support of the Urban
League movement and a like stimula-
tion of the other forces for co-opera-
tion, such as the Commission on Inter-
Racial Relations which is becoming
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South, and the activities of the Fed-
eral Council of Churehes of Christ in
America.”
‘As material evidence of this tn-
creased interest, the Urban League an-
nounced that four new cities had or-
ganized affiliated groups in 1922 and
that the income of the national organ-
ization had increased from $15,000 to
a total of $43,486.
Announcement was also made that
friends of the late Mrs. Harry Plots,
who died in Paris last spring, had
raised $10,000 which had been given
to the National Urban League for the
establishment of the Ella Sachs Plotz
Fund, the income from which is to be
devoted “to the development and
training of some Negro man or woman
especially fitted for social and civic
service in the community.” Mrs.
Plots, who was a daughter of Samuel
‘Sachs, was an active member of the
Urban League Board and a Trustee
ie Fisk university.
Irving S. Merrell, president of the
Merrell-Soule Company of Syracuse,
and a trustee of Tuskegee Institute,
and C. C. Spaulding, secretary-treas-
urer of the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company, the largest
Negro insurance company, were elect-
ed to the Executive Board, and among
those re-elcted for a term of three
years were Felix Adler, Mrs, Julius
Rosenwald Mrs, Booker T. Washing-
ton, William G. Willcox, Miss Nannie
Burroughs of Washington and James
1. Dillard of Charlottesville, Va. The
ttcrs, including Mr. Wood, chair-
ran; Dr. Robert R. Moton as vice-
chairman, William H. Baldwin as sec-
retary and A. §. Frissell as treasurer,
were re-elected.
‘The executive secretary of the
league, Eugene Kinckle Jones, pres-
ented his annual report showing the
establishment of four new branches of
the league, the establishment of a new
monthly magazine, “Opportunity”, a
Journal of Negro life, surveys of the
Negroes of Hartford and of the in-
dustrial opportunities of the Negroes
in Baltimore,
Record of the work in local com-
munities was also presented.
N. H. THOMAS PROTESTS
AGAINST “MAMMY” STATUE
Neval H. Thomas, member of the
Board of Directors of the National
Association for the Advaricement ot
Colored People, has written a letter to
the Washington Evening Star, pro-
testing against that newspaper's edi-
torial endorsement of the plan to erect
4 memorial to “colored mammies” of
the south in the national capital. Mr,
‘Thomas refers to the plan as ‘“move-
ment having for its object to keep col-
ored people in their former state of
servitude.” Mr. Thomas, after point-
ing out that the measure is sponsored
hy Senator Jolin Starp Williams of
Mississippi, continues:
“We are glad that the white race
appreciates the divine virutes of truth
and loyalty which the ‘black mammy’
~t-and has in abundanee, but it over-
looks the other divine virtue that is
here, a divine love for her offspring.
She bore her suffermgs in patience
because she believed that through them
America’s conscience would quicken
and give her children and her chil-
dren's children the justice they so rich-
ly deserve. My own beloved mother
was one of those unfortunates who haa
the flower of her youth spent in #
slave cabin, and I know the heart of a
slave mother, its intense longing for
better things for her children.
“Every ‘black mammy’ who looks
down from Heaven today upon this
lisordered world delights to see her
beautiful daughters and granddaugh
ters aspiring and attaining unto th
heautiful and the true in spite of their
handicaps which the southern spiri
which proposes this monument throw:
around them. She loves to see ther
reading the best in literature, filling
positions of usefulness, taking hon~
at the best universities in the Inn’
and reigning over cultured homes, not
as ‘old mammy,’ but as dutiful wife
and tender mother.
“So if the South has such deep grat-
itude for the virtues of this devoted
group from which it reaped vast riches
let it remove the numberless barriers
it has gone out of its way to throw up
against the progress of the noble Ne-
gro womanhood who sprang from
these ‘mammies.’ Democracy is the
monument which the ‘colored mammy'
wants erected to her, and not a mar-
ble shaft, which at best will be bur a
symbol of our servitude, to remind
white and black alike that the memal
callings are our place in the scheme
of things.”
Western Funeral Home
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COLORED PRISONER
CHARGED WITH RAPE
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automobile the night Skipworth was
killed at “lover's leap.”
In releasing Clay, Judge Munroe
stated that the evidence was insuffi-
cient, even to hold Clay under bond.
And as the spectators, feeling the
undercurrent and the sensational rev-
lations likely to be disclosed, wildly
cheered the decision of the bench, the
reporter silently reiterated the state-
ment that “Texas has at last played
fair.”
ONLY FIFTEEN STATES
FREE FROM LYNCHINGS
Washington, Feb. 16— (Crusader
Service)—Only fifteen states have
been free from lynchings in the past
ten years, the commission of church
and race relations of the Federal Coun-
cil of Churches of Christ in America
declared recently in an analysis of
lynching statistics from 1885 to 1921.
Of these, no lynching has ever been
‘reported in Massachusetts, Rhode Is-
land, New Hampshire or Vermont, the
‘statement said, and none has been re-
ported since 1889 in New Jersey, Utah
or Connecticutt. The other states
with a “clear record” in the last ten
years were Nevada, Colorado, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Dela.
ware, and Pennsylvania.
The lynching victims from 1885 to
1921 included 1,011 white men, 17
white women, 3,001 Negro men and 68
Negro women. The number of white
persons lynched has decreased rapid-
ly since 1900. The statement cited the
lynching of Italians, Mexicans, Jews,
and a German during the war as “in-
dicating that lawlessness spreads
where prejudice abounds.”
It added that the annual rate of
lynching declined slowly after the peak
years of 1892 and 1893 until 1900, in-
creased in that year and the next, and
then fell off until 1918, when the ten-
dency again turned upward.
KLAN PROBE ASKED
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 16—An inves-
tiation of alleged activities of the Ku
Klux Klan in Michigan is demanded in
a resolution prepared for introduction
in the legislature by Representative
James A. Burns, of Detroit.
PROBATE NOTICE
In the matter of the estate of John
H. Costello, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the
creditors of the deceased will meet the
executrix of said estate, before me,
County Judge of Douglas County, Ne-
braska, at the County Court Room, in
said County, on the 27th day of Maren,
1928, and on the 28th day of May, 192%
at 9 o'clock A, M., each day, for the
purpose of presenting their claims for
examination, adjustment ’ and allow-
ance, Three months are allowed for
the creditors to present their claims,
from the 24th day of February, 1923.
Bryce Crawford, County Judge.
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PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. W. M. Franklin. Pastor
Because of the inclement weather
‘the services were not so well attended
‘Sunday. ‘The pastor gave a very
strong and interesting sermon on the
Inter-Racial question. Mrs. W. L.
Bingham of Chicago, who worshipped
with us, was introduced to the church.
Rev. J. B. Phelos of Atchison, Kans.,
preached a very interesting sermon at
8 o'clock on “The White Stone.”
‘The Ladies Aid Society recently or-
ganized is making splendid progress
Mrs. P. L. Anderson is president. Be-
cause of the growth of the church a
new chub has been organized known
as the Mississippi Club. Mrs. E, Dus-
‘on was elected president.
‘The banquet given under the aus-
pices of the Lone Star Club February
8 was quite a success. Many distin-
guished persons of the city were pre-
sent. Attorney Adams and Dr. Jones
were the principal speakers.
The following persons are reported
on the sick list: Mrs. H. M, Wilkin-
son, Mrs, Jessie Winston and Mrs,
Pharr, The B. Y. P. U. will render
a special program next Sunday at
5:30, President Ford urges all to be
anti,
SPECIAL ARTICLES BY EDITOR
Beginning with next week’s issue
the Editor will give a series of articles
under the caption “From Nebraska to
Arkansas and Back,” in which he will
give impressions received on his trip.
‘These articles will tell of some of the
great business blocks owned by the
race, for example by the Mosaic Tem-
plars and others at Little Rock; the
Pythians and the Woodmen at Hot
Springs; the Masons at Pine Bluff; of
schools, homes, business enterprises
‘and important personages whom he
met. Readers of the Monitor.cannot
afford to miss one of these articles.
EDUCATION KEYNOTE
TO RACE ADVANCEMENT
New Orleans, Feb. 16—Bishop W.
A. Fountain of Atlanta, Ga., told vis-
itors and delegates attending the sec-
ond session of the Louisiana A. M. B.
Conference at St. James church to
stop complaining and go to work, striv-
ing to accomplish something for their
race through respect for law and order
and through edueation.
Mrs, Jesse Beard is reported recov-
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Mr. James H. Wood, an old resident of Omaha, died at the University hospital Monday morning, after a long siege of sickness and an operation. The funeral was held from the Western Funeral Home Thursday afternoon. The Rev. E. H. McDonald, pastor of Mt. Moriah Baptist church, officiating. Interment was in Forest Lawn.
The Rev. John Albert Williams returned Wednesday night from a two weeks' visit to Arkansas where he went to hold a mission at St. Andrew's Church, Pine Bluff. En route to Pine Bluff he preached at St. Phillip's, Little Rock, and St. Mary's, Hot Springs. He also gave addresses at the Merrill High School and the A. M. & N. Institute at Little Rock.
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The A. C. E. society conducted services at the A. M. E. church last Sunday in the way of rendering programs. The Sunday School was held as usual at the morning hour. Father Evans Corneal is growing quite feeble. His children are obliged to keep watch after him. Mrs. Lottie Corneal is confined indoors on account of soreness in her limbs.
Services at Mt. Zion Baptist church were well attended last Sunday. The Sunday school at 10 a.m., devotionals and preaching by the pastor at 11:30 and 8:00. The B. Y. P. U. had a splendid lesson at 7 p. m. The State President, Mrs. Odessa Harris, will be present next Sunday. The Saturday night suppers at the parsonage continues with financial and social success. Teachers meeting at Parsonage, 920 South Twelfth, each Monday night. Prayer meeting Wednesday nights at the Church, 23rd and P streets. Mrs. J. L. Wright was reported ill the past week. Attend the George Washington Carnival at Wiley Hall, 1122 O street, on Thursday night, Feb. 22, given by the Utopian Art Club.
The Relief Board of the Nebraska Jurisdiction of A. F. & A. M. met in the city Sunday, and transacted business. The M. GG. M., R. H. Young, and officers here were joined by GG Treas., J. H. Wakefield of Omaha.
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O. J. Burckhardt, Pastor
Sunday services were very good all day but very poorly attended in the evening. Rev. John T. Brown preached at 11 a. m. to a nice crowd, and Rev. P. M. Harris preached a splendid sermon at 8 p. m. on Christian Brotherhood. Sunday we expect a great day both morning and evening. The pastor will preach on "Marriage Relationship" at 8 p. m. Don't fail to hear this sermon, especially the young married people.
Our League and Sunday School work is moving on in a satisfactory manner. We have quite a few sick. Mother Helm, Julia Bradford, Martha Moffatt, Josie Blackwell, Deaconess Severe and Gray are all on the sick list.
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PHILIP THE DEACON
The services Sunday will be Holy Communion, 7:30 a. m.; church school at 10; Holy Eucharist and sermon at 11; vespers and confirmation address and instruction at 5 o'clock. Special Lenten services Wednesday and Friday night at 8 o'clock, and Holy Eucharist Thursday mornings at 9. The Woman's Auxiliary held a successful meeting Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. John W. Gatus, 2731 Caldwell street. The meeting next week will be with Mrs. H. R Roberts, 2610 North Twenty-eighth Avenue. The Lenten study is "Wanted, Leaders" by Bishop Bratton, an interesting book on the Race Question which the Episcopal Church throughout the country is studying during Lent.
Faithful Temple No. 1533 of this city of the Mosaic Templars of America in the membership campaign closing December 24, 1922, has been awarded a prize of $100 by the National Headquarters at Little Rock, Arkansas, for the largest ratio of increase in membership in this state. This little lodge of five members added sixteen new members. Attorney General Scipio A. Jones in speaking of this to the writer last Monday at Little Rock expressed himself as delighted with the splendid showing by the little Omaha lodge.
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Dean McGinley of Trinity Cathedral extends a cordial invitation to the public to attend the noonday Lenten services at Trinity Cathedral, Eighteenth and Capitol Avenue. Services begin at 12:10 and close at 12:30. The speaker next week will be The Rev. Lloyd B. Tolsapple, rector of St. Barnabas church. The speaker this week is The Rev. Thomas Cassady, rector of All Saints.
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Among the fifty boy scouts who received special merit badges at the hands of James E. West of New York, Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, at the Court House Tuesday afternoon, were Joseph Dorsey for craftmanship in wood carving and Jesse Hutten for first aid. Joseph Dorsey also received the star badge for having earned ten merit badges.
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FORMER KAISER CALLED INSANE
This Time His Own Best Friends Make the Charge.
SLAVE TO TRAVELING MANIA
One of the Stanchest Monarchiet Papers Gives Space to a Sensational Article Obviously From an Authoritative Source—Says if William Had Been Born a Laborer He Might Have Perished as a Tramp—Worries Other Crowned Heads.
Significant indeed are the signs of the times when the most resolute of junkers and most loyal of monarchists seriously and publicly discuss the question of William von Hohenolzlern's sanity. For many years, indeed ever since early in his reign, opponents have impugned his sanity. They have recalled the acknowledged strain of insanity which showed itself in former generations of his family, and have also stressed the well-known fact that for nearly all his life he has suffered from a chronic and most severe affection of the ear, which might readily involve a lesion of the brain. But now it is not his foes but his friends who are saying these things.
The most sensational or such utterances appears in that stanchest of monarchist papers, the "Berliner Staatsbuerger Zeitung," which gives conspicuous place to a communication obviously from an important and authoritative source. In part it follows:
"A mere layman is generally quite incapable of detecting any mental danger, or, if he does perceive it, of giving the sufferer suitable treatment. When, some twenty years ago, I visited an asylum for the insane in the Rhenish provinces, and was shown by the director through all his wards, I was so strangely affected that I actually began to doubt my own mental sanity, and finally asked if there really existed any mentally normal men. The director was open to conviction. It seemed as though he had expected my question or as though he himself had often thought of it. (Incidentally, ten years later he himself became insane.) He replied that perfectly normal men were in fact very rare. But to this circumstance he attached little importance. In the world there go about men who, though abnormal, are not suspected of insanity. Confined in the asylums are the patients who are dangerous to the community, though some of them may seem sane.
"That the violent insane are dangerous to the community needs no detailed explanation. Many patients need only the temporary care of an asylum.
The Ex-Kaiser's Mania.
"The ex-kaiser suffers from psychopathic vagans, or traveling mania. An internal unrest urged him to lead a vagrant life. Men afflicted with this disease are not capable of performing their duties in regulated work. Had William been born as a laborer he might have perished as a tramp. As a member of the middle class he could have become, under certain circumstances, a capable commercial traveler. His abnormality became dangerous for the community only through the circumstance that, in accordance with tradition and usage, he had to adopt the calling of his father and lead the destinies of a people of 60,000,000, which he was not able at all to do. That the thing went wrong was really not his fault, but the fault of the monarchial German constitution, which does not intrust the direction of the reich to the most capable but to the man designated by birth.
"When the ex-kaiser fled to Holland his passion moved him to disregard safety with his big traveling automobile. Holland is a little country and the imperial car ran at a speed of 80 kilometers an hour, and the imperial horn signal sounding everywhere made the Hollanders nervous. The Dutch government thereupon, without a moment's hesitation, interned the kaiser in its Amerongen castle. The order for confinement was diplomatically made, for the alleged reason that only in this way could the Dutch government assure the kaiser's safety. The confinement to the premises of the castle was for the patient the hardest blow of his life. Since then he has spent a great part of the day roaming about in the wood and in the mendows, or reading books of travel so as to procure for himself a substitute for his passion.
Nut on Traveling.
Traveling was to such a degree a fixed idea of the kaiser that when affairs of state or the fact that there was no one to be visited, made traveling impossible to him he sometimes passed a night in his parlor car, which stood in the railroad preserve, only five minutes from his new palace, under the pretext that he had to be in Berlin at an impossible hour the next morning. At the beginning of the summer of 1895 he indulged in this strange pastime until one evening in June the empress found the courage, when he was about driving to the station, to threaten that she would visit him in his bachelor abode. William then for several months abandoned this habit, and this was fortunate because a conspiracy threatened to break out among the domestics, who did not care to sleep so often in their clothes. They threatened to inform members of the left in the rechagst about his majesty's wandering and tell them that the entire railway traffic was much de
Soap Kept In Bond.
Up to less than seventy years ago all soap manufactured in England was made in bond and subject to duty, and each boiling pan was fastened down at night by an excise officer.
Record Long Word.
It has been reported that a word of 182 syllables has been found in the Sanskrit. The report does not include a translation of the word.
ranged when his majesty passed the night in the station.
"More than a hundred officials and workingmen are awake tonight owing to the kalser's caprice of sleeping in his car." Count Eulenberg said to me one evening.
"Impossible! A hundred persons!"
"A hundred and more—the list has passed through my hands. Just consider for a moment the work; freight trains have to be shifted on a siding and passenger trains have to run slower, as the usual signals, the whistle of the locomotives and the ringing of the bells, are not allowed. The number of employees has to be doubled in order to prevent accidents."
"The first imperial travels were to St. Petersburg, Vienna, Copenhagen, London. In Copenhagen the emperor declared that he liked it there so much that he would return every summer. The Danish king almost fell from his chair. If one considers that Denmark is but a small country and that the king of this minor state has only limited means at his disposal, one will understand his dismay. In consideration of the Danish poverty the czar, whenever he visited his father-in-law, paid liberally the cost incurred by him and his retinue. The German emperor, however, whose retinue consisted of 60 heads, never spoke of money. He rather asked military parades, warship salutes, gala opera, banquets and the like. No wonder that a panic broke out when the puffed-up Berliners announced themselves. Subsequently, whenever the kaiser proposed a visit to Copenhagen the Danish ambassador in Berlin was directed to call attention to the sickness of the queen, who needed rest, and ask that the visit should be postponed.
"Czar Alexander was more outspoken in his refusal of William's visits. He, to be sure, had no reason to fear that the Berlinders would eat him poor and bare, as at the court of Copenhagen, nor could he allege as an excuse that the czarina was not strong enough to stand the excitement of such visits. The czar simply wrote to his Berlin ambassador that he refused to be disturbed in his retirement by that young man of Berlin. When Bismarck during a discussion smuggled this letter into the kaiser's hands William grew pale after perusing it."
The appearance of this astonishing publication in one of the strongest Prussian monarchial organs has aroused speculation upon its possible connection with the forthcoming second marriage of the ex-kaiser, to which most of his family, and especially his eldest son, the former crown prince, are known to be violently opposed. There is even gossip that a Hobenzollern family council may declare the ex-kaiser non compos mentis, and therefore incapable of reclaiming the throne, whereupon the succession would pass to the crown prince.
PAYS 40 CENTS A "CUSS"
Judge Invokes 1794 Law and Man
Pays $2.01 Fine.
It now costs 67 cents per violation for breaking the third commandment; common or garden variety of profanity is 40 cents a cuss at Patterson, Pa. Squire March, in trying Tom Burns for swearing at Miss Alice Jackson, unearthed the following blue law passed in 1794:
"If any person of the age of sixteen years or upward shall profane, curse or swear by the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, every person so offending shall pay the sum of 67 cents for each profane, curse or oath. Persons swearing by other names than the aforementioned shall pay 40 cents for each curse word uttered."
After perusing this venerable ordinance and hearing what Burns is alleged to have said to Miss Jackson, the squire collected $2.01 from the offender.
BRAZILIANS TAKE UP RADIO
Powerful Broadcasting Station at Rio Janeiro.
The radiophone craze, while now becoming an old story in the United States and other countries, has just hit Rio Janeiro.
A powerful broadcasting station has been erected on the summit of Mount Corcovado, overlooking the city, and besides the government buildings many commercial and private houses are being outfitted with receiving sets with which to "listen in" on the daily programs of concerts, news reports and lectures.
Other cities in the vicinity also are picking up the report, which has been heard as far as Sao Paulo. This is believed to be the first big broadcasting station to begin operation in South America.
BEE TREE HUNTING
Hundreds of Unemployed Have Sought Forest and Got Profit.
The quest of wild honey has enticed hundreds of unemployed into the Snoqualmie National forest in Washington, and men are reported to be able to locate two to three bee trees every day.
The bees prefer to hive up in a tall hollow cedar, but are also found in other kinds where lightning or natural deformities have caused cracks or crevices. The bees are not wild in reality, but are derelict swarms breaking away from domesticated colonies. The amount of honey found in some trees is prodigious.
A big cedar opened up near Baring one day revealed a column of beeswax ten feet long and from ten inches to two feet thick. Nearly five tubs of comb-honey was removed and strained.
Not Well to Be Too Observing.
A person who is too nice an observer of the business, of the crowd, like one who is too close in observing the labor of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.—Pope.
A Specialist.
Young Doctor (introducing his only patient to a friend) "Mr. Brandel—my practice."-Fliegende Blatter.
The Vanquishing of Nancy
(® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
You are raising this terrible dust?" Thus Nancy improvised, her head the least bit aside, her eyes dancing wickedly at sight of Lauren, most abject of all her thrails. He stood half way between door and window seat, his mouth mutinous, his eyes glowery. A letter had preceded him—the kind of letter jealousy writes and seals with a threat. Lauren had indeed threatened the empress of his heart that unless she ceased aspiring for universal masculine dominion, he was going to cut and run for it—she could take him, else have him leave her for good and always.
He had thought he really meant it—but all the way to the Fitch place he had been in blue funk, fearing she might also think so. Suppose she should take him at his word, give back ring and plunge even more badly into a sea of summer flirtations? That would be hard—she was already hitting on all six cylinders that way, according to the gossip of Blainhill. A select suburb, home of families boasting super-finished daughters, naturally it disapproved of their being put out of court by an upstart without a single accomplishment.
True, Nancy danced like a willow in the wind, but never bothered as to steps. She rode in any old costume she happened to be wearing, played golf with as little regard to sartorial requirements, and at auction "bid her hand" without regard for anybody's rules or signals. Also and further she called sports clothes loud, even vulgar, flip hats messy and beady things savage. Notwithstanding, she managed to look always like a picture, and to have all the most eligible beautx at her beck and call. Aggravating, considering her status as an accident. If the street had not got most of the Jennings' money, Nancy and obedient Granny would never have had a chance to snap up the Jennings' cottage for a year.
The rector had vouchered for them—a work of supererogation, considering their bank account. Its lusthood possibly made them so little of stickers for the social mint, anise, and cummin. Granny's world beginning and ending in Nancy, yet in its kindly round embraced all who were in need of kindness. Still—she wouldn't Join things—not the village improvement, the special Provident, the mothers' circle, nor even the library association. "We shall stay only until Nancy gets to wanting somewhere else," she explained. "Of course we'll do our part—but as outsiders—then there won't be any trouble leaving."
That had been lived up to. Her gardener had furnished plants for all the gardens whose owners lacked wherewithal to buy them—by help of the rector she was a very special individual providence—new babies might have howled down blessing on her gray head, so soft and plenteous were the layettes she supplied. The library was different. The Fitches had brought books aplenty—the they bought few new ones, so had evidently none to spare. If Nancy wanted to dip into the latest sensation it was sent her from some city agency under special contract. Granny read little beyond her Bible, prayer book and the morning paper. The paper kept her from stagnating, she said. What more could an old woman desire?
She stopped midway the heavy leader she was conscientiously wading through to ask plaintively: "Laury, do you know anything about stocks? or bucket shops?"
"Enough to let them alone," Laury growled, glad deep down of the stay in his progress Nancyward.
Nancy sat up very straight, saying primly to Granny: "Don't tempt innocence, Grannykins, I know you're a born gambler at heart. It's your head that won't let you play the market. Everybody hasn't got such a head. Take care to set a proper example."
"Now, ain't that Satan reproving sin? Laury, she has bought herself another bracelet, with her winsights at the Eton bridge last week," Granny complained.
Lauren looked relieved—Nancy made a face at Granny. "I'm glad to know," he said, "been wondering where it came from since yesterday—"
"And thinking it came by the Ben-Bob Bobo route," Nancy broke in. "Be ashamed of yourself for a sillykin as though I'd wear any trumpery thing you idols here would choose."
"Even a ring? Like this?" Laurie questioned, moving close enough to drop a fine plain small box in Nancy's lap. She opened it gingerly, took out what it held, but did not slip it upon her dimple finger—instead held it up so the light winking through its thready gold, struck rainbows from the two diamonds of clearest water, set delicately at the ends of the gold thread. After a long look she said softly: "Apologies, Laurie. The ring is inspired. Where, oh, where did you find it?" "Didn't find it—had it made to order—my own design," Laurie stammered. Then suddenly "But it is inspired—by you." "Well said! Well done, young sirl!" Nancy countered in her most sparkling elderly manner. "What a pity you have
Safety
"Yes," said Mrs. Plugleigh, "I always keep my dog tied up. I never can be sure when some tramp might come along and bite him or steal his bone—Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Daily Thought
The best portion of a good man's life are his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness.—Wordsworth
THE MONITOR
Forsworn me. I wonder what you will do with it?"
"Throw $\textcircled{R}$ in the river—unless I can put it where it belongs." Lauyria cried, catching her hand and trying to unclinch it. The fingers, strong for all their dimples, balked him; nothing short of violence would suffice to straighten them. Swiftly he knelt, and covered them with kisses. Nancy tried to snatch her hand away, but Laury held it with a firm, gentle varying clasp that yielded without loosing.
"Let go my hand," she said imperatively after a minute of tacit struggle. He smiled at her silently—his eyes saying for his lips: 'Don't you see I can't?' The look made Nancy furious—it was so near to upsetting her determination. He ought by rights to rage at her—then she could flout, and deny him to her wicked vanity's full content. She had no thought of letting him go free—then nor ever. But neither did she intend to let him vanquish her in fair game—he must make a proper submission before he might hone for pardon.
He did nothing of the sort. Instead, he rose slowly to full height—six foot two, one hand still holding hers, the other stretched protectingly around her, the emblem and sign manual of loving strength. "You are the very best girl in all the world," he said. "Trouble is, you need such a lot of making. Because I've shown myself all sorts of a fool, you've no need to try matching me. There! That's better—why! the ring fits perfectly," slipping it in place upon the member she had involuntarily unflexed, and again lifting it to his lips. A move that cost him something—namely, a hard sidewise blow that gashed his cheek with a point of the diamond nearest. Blood spurted from the slash, spotting Nancy's white frock, even staining her furious fingers.
"Sight of it turned her white, sick, faint—she would have sunk to the floor but for his compelling hold. He felt her breast heave, saw tears gather and fall, heard Granny cry out in alarm—then the world went black for him, also; he barely managed to stumble toward the davenport, and fell, rather than sat down. But the blackness lightened at Nancy's cry: "Lauray I—I hurt you—but hurt myself—worse," as she stained the red flow with her soft handkerchief under which she pressed her softer lips.
GIRL IS HALTED BY "SUICIDE CURE"
Plan Devised by Police Proves Successful in Case of Woman Seeking Death.
Los Angeles, Calif.-A "sulcide cure" devised by the Los Angeles police department, has proved its efficacy in the few cases where opportunity has been afforded to apply it. It consists of a demonstration to the person who desires to end his life that no matter how dreary and unbeatable existence seems to him, there are others who face greater troubles without even the thought of resorting to self-destruction. The most recent exposition of the value of the "cure" was in the case of a young woman who had quarreled with her fiance. She decided life was no longer worth the living. She
THE BOY IN THE JAIL
Was Shown Women Charged With Murder.
wrote a note to her mother that she was on the way to a beach resort to drown herself. To reach the resort she had to pass through Los Angeles. Her mother notified the police of her city and they notified the Los Angeles police. The result was the latter met the train which the young woman thought was taking her to death. The policewoman to whom the young woman was turned over said little directly bearing upon the latter's case, but immediately started upon a "personally conducted" tour of the city and county jails and the homes for unfortunate young women. The would-be suicide was shown girl mothers who had no husbands; girl wives who had been deserted by their husbands; girl wives seeking divorces from their husbands; girls and women charged with various felonies, including murder.
The point was soon driven home. "I see what a fool I was," said the young woman taking the tour. "I can never thank you sufficiently. I am going right home to mother and be a good girl."
Clean Organs Protected
Cow-wood wool is a little methylated material which effectually clean unprotected photographs without in an way destroying their polished surface.
Farmer's Handicap.
The farmer deals with the earth open-handed; he deals with commerce with his hands tied.-Liberty Hyde Bailey.
THE FASHION WEEKLY
BARRY MELTON She's a goodly portion of the reason why next week's big musical show at the popular Gavety is called "Keep Smiling."
Bert Lahr and Harry Kay Will See to it that You Continue Grinning
Smiles, laughs, tuneful songs and graceful dances, are a few of the outstanding features of James E. Cooper's music-girl revue, "Keep Smiling", which occupies the stage of the popular Gayetey theatre for the week beginning Saturday afternoon. This show is another of those delightful entertainments the Columbia Circuit is offering its patrons this season, and it is credited with being among the very best.
The piece is in two big acts and nine scenes, including a prologue. Wm. K. Wells, who has contributed many successes to this circuit, has both written and staged the piece. Melville Morris and Hal Dyson have composed the tuneful numbers while Raymond B. Perez has staged the maze of dances. There are 17 musical numbers of theingly, singable variety and they are interpreted by a cast and chorus who can really sing.
Advance heralding for "Keep Smiling" promises Bert Lahr, the clever German dialectician, as the featured comedian with Harry Kay as his associate in merrymaking. Dick Pritchard, Leo Pelletier and David Woods will play essential roles in "The Land of the Sun God," and will also offer a singing speciality. Lillian Rockley, the prima donna, comes highly recommended as a soprano of great personal charm. Miss Barry Melton sings "blues" in a manner all her own and Mercides LaFay is rated as one of the liveliest of soubrettes. With Emily Dyer, ingeneue, these ladies will lead the chorus in musical numbers while fine raiment will dazzle the beholders of what is in reality a fashion show. Special scenery and lighting effects will keep the stage in constant transition from one beautiful setting to another as the fun proceeds.
Luke From Pineapple Leaves.
The finest lace in the race is made by
Philip Philip pine islands from strong, silky fiber
obtained from pineapple leaves.
She was a film star of recent creation, and she was paying into the bank the first installment of her salary. On the paying-in slip were she words "check" and "specie." Opioi site the first, which presented no difficulty, she wrote in the amount. And opposite the second, after a little coy hesitation, she wrote the word "female."
"An education for individuality should include in a large way the essential beauty of poetry of things; the essential order of history of things; the ultimate values or the religion of things; and, in childhood particularly, the eternal yea and nay or the reality of things." Dallas Lefor Sharp.
Hookworm Is World Menace
**Hookworm is World Menace.**
Of the estimated 1,700,000,000 people inhabiting the world, something more than 900,000,000 live in countries where bookworm infection is a serious menace to health and working efficiency. With increasing pressure for the development of tropical and sub-tropical lands, the control of this disease as of malaria and sleeping sickness—becomes a matter of serious international concern—*Truffit Magazine.*
Love Always to Be Desired
But love directed towards the eternal and infinite feeds the mind with pure joy, and is free from all sadness. Wherefore it is greatly to be desired, and to be sought after with our whole might.—Spinoza.
Wanted to Know.
Harold accompanied his uncle down to the business district one day recently and heard a number of the latter's acquaintances greet him with a cheery familiarity. Harold was impressed with this and when they were alone he said, "Uncle Ben, when nearly all the hair is worn off my head will folks call me 'old top,' too!"—Boston Evening Transcript.
Full Explanation.
Today's Wise Word.
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WAVE OF MIGRATION SWEEPS DELTA AREA Merigold, Miss., Feb. 16—The great migration wave has at last struck the Delta, and hundreds of farmers are reported to be leaving Solivar county, one of the greatest cotton producing counties in the world.
FORMER OMAHA RESIDENT DIES
Mr. J. H. Smith and her son Henry, left Tuesday for Chicago to attend the funeral of Mrs. Smith's cousin, Scott N. Taylor, who passed away suddenly there Monday morning at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Sam Davis, 3746 Giles Ave. Mr. Taylor was a former Omaha, making his home for several years with Mr. and Mrs. Smith. He left here about 12 years ago for Chicago to reside with his mother and sister, Mrs. Davis, of the well known vaudeville team of Walker & Davis. Mr. Taylor was a young man of brilliant attainments, a graduate of Harvard University, and was prominently identified with civic affairs in Chicago, fighting relentlessly the segregation bugaboo in that city, with signal success. Although in poor health for some time his sudden death came as a distinct shock to his relatives and friends.
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