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WILL IGNORE PARTY LINES National Conference of Social Workers Elect Negro Worker an Officer KLAN BIGGEST POLITICAL ISSUE FOR NEGROES. SAYS MR. JOHNSON LIFTING LIFT TOO $2.00 a Year. 5c State Historical Society WIL National C PRESSING PROBLEM BEFORE AMERICAN NEGRO IS BALLOT National Advancement Association Issues Important Address to Members of Race. PARTISANSHIP IS SECONDARY Organization Urges Scrutiny of Candidates and Intelligent Discrimination in Their Support at Election. Philadelphia, Pa., July 11.—The N. A. A. C. P. in Fifteenth Annual Conference has made public the following message to the American people: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Fifteenth Annual Conference, assembled believes that the pressing problem before the American Negro today is the use of his vote in the approaching election. We face the two old parties and a possible third party movement. The republican party, which has always commanded the great majority of our votes, has, during the last two administrations, recognized our right to a voice in the party counsels and made some effort to carry out our wishes in legislation and administration; nevertheless, although in power in all branches of the government, it has specifically failed to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, to abolish segregation in the government offices at Washington, to take any action with regard to "Jim Crow" cars in interstate travel, to withdraw our military forces from Haiti, and to make a loan to Liberia. Democratic Party The Democratic Party appears to us in two distinct parts. The northern wing of the party has recognized our demands in many states and treated us with great fairness. But this northern wing is at the absolute mercy of the "solid South" with its "rotten borough" system depending upon the disfranchisement of the Negro; with its segregation and "Jim Crow" legislation, its mob law and lynching, and its denial of proper education to Negro children. The Klan Denounced Both parties are catering to the Ku Klux Klan, that secret fomenter of religious intolerance, race hate and midnight murder, whose spread is the greatest proof of national decadence and the greatest menace to democracy. The Negro Vote It is manifestly impossible that under these circumstances the enfranchised Negroes of the United States should vote a straight ticket for either of these parties. Our voting must be primarily a matter of individual candidates for office. In order to vote KLAN BIGGEST POLI FOR NEGROES, SA James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in an address at the Sunday afternoon mass meeting of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association held in the Metropolitan Opera House, urged Negroes in the United States to make the Ku Klux Klan the main issue in the coming election. Mr. Johnson said: "The most imminent question before the American Negro at the present time is that of his political responsibilities and opportunities. The biggest single political issue before him is that of the Ku Klux Klan. Colored Americans should not be bullied into a feeling of security by the fact that the Klan is seemingly no longer anti-Negro. The Klan is as much anti-Negro now as it was the day it was organized. At present it is not spending much time in tarring and feathering or branding or mobbing individual Negroes. It is devoting its energies to a bigger job, the job of gaining political power, of gaining control of government. When it has done this, if it succeeds, it will again turn its attention to the Negro and it will then execute its policies not upon individual Negroes but upon the race as a whole. "If the Klan gains the power which it contemplates it will at once begin to take from the Negro his guarantees and even his claims to the common THE MONITOR effectively we must know the records of such candidates. We must demand of them clear statements as to their attitude toward matters of vital interest to us. We must remember that we are electing in the approaching election and other near elections not simply the President of the United States, but members of Congress and of the State Legislatures, state officials, judges, members of school boards and other local officials. We must especially keep in mind the fact that the emancipation of the Negro today is more largely a matter of state law and local ordinance than of national enactment and that the interpretation of the law by the courts and the administration of the law by officials are just as important and often far more important than its actual content. We need, therefore, to redouble our agitation and our effort in court action and law administration, and we need especially to use our ballot in order to reward our friends and to punish our enemies. We must utterly ignore party labels and vote for the man who will best serve us and our country. Education The need for such determination is shown in many ways but perhaps more especially by the continued attitude of this nation toward the education of Negro children. We have no adequate common school facilities and we have continually put forward by United States government, state and local undemocratic segregation in education, but the astonishingly undemocratic doctrine that Negroes should have no voice in the education of their own children but that their schools and colleges should be dominated by their enemies. We have repeatedly asked federal aid for education and in answer we have now a bill before Congress which seeks to grant it but which is a travesty on justice and would perpetuate in local school systems these very discriminations against which we vigorously protest. Third Party Nothing will more quickly bring the old parties to a clear realization of their obligations to us and the nation than a vigorous third party movement. Such a movement may save us from a choice between half-hearted friends and half-concealed enemies or from the necessity of voting for the same oppression under different party names. Such a movement may give the American Negro and other submerged classes a chance to vote more directly for economic emancipation from monopoly and privilege and a fairer chance to work according to ability and share more equitably in the social income. Migration Finally, may we remind the new immigrants to the North as well as Negroes living there that the greatest significance of this migration is the increased political power of black men in America. We have at last (Continued on Page Three.) rights of citizenship. That is one of its deepest laid plans. It is, therefore, the duty of Negro citizens in states where the Klan is an issue and where the votes of Negroes count and are counted, to discard sentimental political allegiance to any party and vote against candidates who are named or supported by the Klan. "The situation in Indiana is a case in point. There the republican nominee for governor has the open endorsement of the Klan, an endorsement which he has fully accepted. In that state the republican senator, James E. Watson, who stands high in administration circles, openly confers and consorts with Klan leaders. It has been left for the democrats in that state to denounce and disvow the Klan. It is, therefore, the plain duty of all colored voters in Indiana to vote against the republican candidate for governor and against every other republican candidate in that state who is touched with the tar brush of the Ku Klux Klan. "In the states of the north and the northwest, where the vote is close and where the Negro holds what may be the balance of power, we must use our votes in a manner which is demanded not only by common sense but by safety. We must make men and measures and not party labels the deciding factor in casting our votes in the coming elections." A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor "THE NEGRO'S PLACE" --- BISHOP L. J. COPPIN BURIED FROM MOTHER BETHEL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 11. —One of the largest funerals held in Philadelphia for many a year was that of Bishop L. J. Coppin, who was buried from Bethel Church on Tuesday of last week. On Monday night the body lay in state in Bethel Church and services were conducted by the Masonic fraternity. A large crowd of friends of Bishop Coppin viewed for the last time his body as it rested in the shadow of the pulpit from which he had preached so many years. Long before the time "I remember reading some time ago a statement made by Prof. Commons of the University of Wisconsin to the effect that the Teutonic race, until 500 years after Christ, were exceedingly primitive in their civilization, yet had mental qualities which made it possible for them to absorb the highest Roman civilization. And I was particularly impressed with his assertion that, 'Could their babies have been taken out of the forest 2,000 years ago and transplanted to the homes and schools of modern America, they would have covered in one generation the progress of twenty centuries.' "Well, you say, that may have been possible in the case of the Teutonic race, but it is by no means possible in the case of the Negro race. You might say so if you did not know Bloem. "Glancing through a pamphlet published by Garre; Biblical Institute, I read with great surprise that the father of one of its students had been a 'village warrior.' I learned later that this student was a young African, named Blooa; and that he had a perfectly fasinating lecture entitled "From Cocoanat Tree to College," and that this lecture was the perfectly true story of his own life. For he was, quite literally, up in a cocoanat tree when he caught sight of the first white man whom either he or any member of his tribe had ever seen; and today he is doing post-graduate work in an American theological school. "Blooaah, a native African, as black DELEGATES CHEER HAITIS PLEA FOR FREEDOM (By The Associated Negro Press) Lyons, France, July 11.—At the close of a brilliant address by Dantes Bellegarde, the Haitian leader and delegate to the League of Nations in session here, the members of the League arose enmass and cheered him for several minutes. Delegate Bellegarde made a plea for "justice and liberation" directed at the United States which is now occupying his country by force. It was very evident that the entire assembly was in sympathy with the views as expressed by Haiti's representative. C. A. Duniway, white American, agreed after the debate to the resolution on the subject which was passed unanimously by the congress. The resolution expressed the satisfaction of the federation at the fact that the secretary of state of the United States had declared the intention of the government to withdraw from Haiti as soon as possible. TEACHERS TO HOLD SESSIONS AT DALLAS Dallas, Tex., July 11.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—The twenty-first annual session of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools will be held here for three days, beginning July 30. Mrs. Mary McLeed Bethune, president, has arranged for an original American Negro music night at at time R. Nathaniel Dett, composer, will be one of the chief contributors to the program. Mrs. Portia Washington Pittman of this city will have general charge of the musical program. St. Benedict, the Moor, is one of the first colored men canonized by the Roman Catholic church. He was born at San Fradella, Messina, Sicily, in 1526, of African parents, who had migrated from Ethiopia to Sicily. He was superior of the monastery of Santa Maria de Jesus a Palermo and ruled until his death in 1537. REPAIR Workers El for the service on Tuesday morning at ten o'clock the church was crowded. Hundreds of people had to be turned away and many reluctantly stood on the outside of the church paying their last tribute of respect to Bishop Coppin. The funeral was attended by all the bishops of the A. M. E. church, except Bishops W. A. Chappelle, W. A. Fountain and J. S. Flipper. Bishop J. S. Caldwell of the A. M. E. Zion church and representatives from all of the other churches of the race were present. Men came from long distances to pay this last tribute of respect. NEGRO'S P by ERNEST FREMONT LITTLE (In Rocky Mountain News) as midnight, has actually done what Prof. Commons conjectured the natives of the Teutonic race might have done had they been taken out of the forest 2,000 years ago and transplanted to the homes and schools of modern America. He has actually covered in one generation the progress of twenty centuries. "How impatient we are with the Negro. Only sixty years out of slavery; yet we expect him to measure up to the very highest standard of white world culture. And because he sometimes fails to do this, we jump to the conclusion that he is an inherently, and therefore permanently, inferior being who may be tolerated only if he 'KEEPS HIS PLACE.' What is the Negro's 'PLACE?' "The youngest student ever to receive the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania was Harris F. Blackstone, a Negro." "In 1922, second on the list of 200 young medical students examined for internships at Cook County Hospital was Dr. Walter S. Grant, a Negro. "In 1922, as the result of four years study, Smith College granted both the A. B. and M. A. degrees to Miss Eunice Hunton, a Negro. "In 1921, the prize for the best French novel for the year was granted to Rene Maran, a Negro. "In 1921, the Drama League of America elected as one of the ten persons who during the year had contributed most to the art of the theatre, Charles S. Gilpin, a Negro. LOOKING BACKWARDS July—The Year of 1923 By Robert Paris Edwards for the Associated Negro Press. New York—Dr. R. R. Moton, president of the National Negro Business League complimented Harlem business men on the fact that 75% of the real estate occupied by Negroes in Harlem is owned by them. Richmond—The 10th anniversary of the Interstate Dental Association was held at Buckroe Beach, Hampton, Virginia. Toronto, Can.—The Coleridge-Taylor chorus, Robert P. Edwards, conductor, was voted a special resolution of commendation and thanks by the directors of the Canadian National Exhibition on their performance on Music Day, it being the first time colorized talents had ever participated in that event, during its 45 years of existence. Chicago, Ill.—The Binga State Bank has bought property at the center of the world (35th and State St.) and is preparing to erect an exclusive bank building costing $200,000. Philadelphia — The Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs, comprising states from Maine to District of Columbia, and representing 20,000 colored women held its 27th annual conference in the new Y. M. C. A. BISHOP BROOKS ON WOMEN'S PROGRAM Chicago, Ill., July 11.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Bishop S. W. Brooks, of the African Methodist Episcopal church, will be one of the principal speakers on the program of the National Federation of Colored Women's clubs at the biennial convention to be held here in August. Others whose names have been announced as being on the program are Mrs. Luke Johnson, Georgia; Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Dr. Sara Brown, Mrs. Julia Lathrop and Franklin Nichols, Miss Pauline Lee, president of the National University of Music, will direct the musical program. Bishop John Hurst preached the sermon from the text, "And the king said to his servants, know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?" (2 Sam. 3:38). Bishop Hurst reviewed the life of Bishop Coppi and pointed out how his life should be a benediction to the generations which follow him. He reviewed his life as a school teacher, as a minister, as an editor and general officer of the A. M. E. church, as a bishop of South Africa, as a bishop of America, as a friend, and as a husband and father and public spirited man. "The United States Patent Office has granted fifty-seven patents to Elijah McCoy, a Negro. "And there is Scott, the mural painter of religious subjects; and Charles W. Chestnut, the novelist; and W. E. Burghardt DuBois, the brilliant savant; and William Stanley Barthwaite, the widely read literary critic; and Paul Laurance Dunbar, the poet whose "Lay me down beneaf de willers in the grass, Whah de branch'll go a singin' as it pass, An' when I's layin' low, I kn byeah it as it go Singin' 'sleep, my honey, tek yo' res' at las!" has made the whole world of sensitive spirits his debtor. "What then is the Negro's PLACE? "We men and women of the white race have treated the Negro badly enough, God knows. We have laid violent hands upon him and taken him from his home in Africa to serve us as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water in America. We have debauched his women folk and then branded him as immoral. We have, in many instances, kept him in ignorance and then pronounced him as hopelessly stupid. President Moton of Tuskegee is authority for the statement that for 2,000,000 Negro children in the United States, there are even yet, no education facilities provided. We have treated the Negro badly enough. Has not the time now come for us to give him a fair chance? A. M. E. BISHOFS ASSIGN CHICAGO DISTRICT (By The Associated Negro Press) Philadelphia, Pa., July 11.—The death of Bishop Levi J. Coppin so soon after the general conference left the important 4th district embracing Chicago without an episcopal head. The entire Chicago and Illinois delegation attended the Coppin funeral here and the Bishops council later presented a petition that Bishop A. J. Carey be assigned to the 4th district. Bishop Coppin's last letter is said to have contained this same request. Owing to the heavy demands of the important work with which Bishop Carey has been intrusted by the council he declined the nomination, retaining the 5th district. The 4th district was divided between Bishop A. L. Gaines and Bishop Vernon, the former taking the Chicago and Northern Illinois and the latter the Southern Illinois and Indiana districts. COLORED BOY ADDRESSES BAR ASSOCIATION Terre Haute, Indiana, July 11.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—The joint meeting of the Illinois and Indiana State Bar Associations in session here had has their special guests the winners of the two states in the recent nation-wide high school oratorical contest. Archibald Carey Jr., who won in Illinois and Miss Margaret Jenkins (white) of Indianapolis, Indiana victor, were the two who attended the banquet and spoke. Young Carey who was presented by Hon. Roger Sherman, president of the Illinois State Bar Association, chose as his subject "The Constitution". Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson delivered the principal address. When a child dies in some parts of Greenland, the natives bury a live dog with it, the dog to be used by the child as a guide to the other world. When questioned in regard to this peculiar superstition, the natives will only answer, "A dog can find his way anywhere." --- SAYS RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION VIOLATION OF U. S. CONSTITUTION Whole Number 470 Y LII o Worker EUGENE KINCKLE JONES At the fifty-first annual session of the National Conference of Social Work held in Toronto, Canada, June 26th to July 2nd, Eugene Kinckle Jones, executive secretary of the National Urban League was elected to the executive committee. This was the first time in the history of that organization that the conference at large, consisting of nearly 6,000 persons—3500 delegates present—has voted a colored person into this office. As evidence of the fact that Mr. Jones was a popular choice, the audience applauded vigorously when the announcement was made by the president at the general sessionon Tuesday night. There were thirteen candidates for the five positions on the executive board that were open—Mr. Jones standing third on the list of candidates. The other persons elected to the board were Edith Abbott, dean of the School of Social Administration of the Chicago University; James F. Jackson, chairman of the section on Family Welfare of the Cleveland Council of Social Agencies; Julia C. Lathrop and Robert A. Woods, former presidents of the National Conference of Social Work. At this conference there were some forty colored delegates. There were nineteen places on the program at which the Negro was discussed in some form and fourteen of the speakers were colored. This recognition of the problems among Negroes and the part which Negro social workers are playing in efforts to improve the community life of the nation is considered most significant by students of inter-racial problems—it being considered that this conference group made up of the leading and most active social workers of the United States and Canada is the most liberal and democratic of the organizations interested in human betterment. Mr. Jones who served this year on the Committee of Time and Place was elected for a term of three years. WILBERFORCE. UNIVERSITY HONORS PROMINENT COLORED WOMAN At the commencement of Wilberforce University held June 11-18, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was confere upon Miss Mary G. Evans, prominent minister and evangelist of the A. M. E. Church. Miss Evans is an alumnas of Wilberforce, having received her B.D. degree from there in 1914. She has since then pursued her theological studies in Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. She is now pastor of St. John A. M. E. Church, Indianapolis, Ind., and is considered one of the most prominent evangelists in the country. She is one of the 24 trustees of Wilberforce University, and a woman of rare talent. It is generally conceded that she will be one of the first women delegates to the next General Conference, African Methodist Episcopal Church. SAYS RESIDENTIAL VIOLATION OF U Speaking at a mass meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at its Fifteenth Annual Conference in Philadelphia, James A. Cobb, former assistant U. S. attorney for the District of Columbia, declared that residential segregation of colored people was a violation of the federal constitution. Mr. Cobb said in part: "Several years ago there sprung up a veritable epidemic of city ordinances passed to accomplish the purpose of racial discrimination and segregation in the matter of occupancy of homes. Atlanta, Ga.; Louisville, Ky.; Richmond, Va.; Baltimore, Md., and Raleigh, N. C., may be mentioned as typical of the cities which attempted to pass such laws. So flagrant was this attempt to defeat the constitutional rights of citizens that the courts even of some of the Southern states put themselves on record as definitely opposing such legislation. "Mr. Justice Day, delivering the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the well considered case of Buchanan vs. Warley (known as the Louisville Segregation Case) said in part: "That there exists a serious and difficult problem, arising from a feeling of race hostility which GROWING THANK YOU Vol. X—No. 2 NES an Officer SPEAKER OPPOSES SEGREGATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN Philadelphia Presbyterian Pastor Presents Phenomena Promoting Separate Schools in North. MIGRATION PLAYS BIG PART Southern Sentiment and Propaganda Have Far-Reaching Influence—Advancement Association for American Ideal. Philadelphia, July 11.—Dr. William Lloyd Imes, pastor of Central Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, speaking at the mass meeting of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in the Union Baptist church, Nineteenth and Fitzwater streets, Friday night, June 27, declared his opposition to segregation of colored children in public schools of the North. Dr. Imes said, in part: "Racial segregation of Negro children in schools of the North is connected with two phenomena; first, the migration northward of colored people especially during the five years following the World War and, second, a feeling among white people that the Southern way of dealing with the so-called 'Negro Problem' is the best. "Colored people of the North are themselves divided on this question. One group believe racial separation to be hurtful to the welfare of America and are willing to struggle for full interracial fellowship in all public and civic institutions. The other group believe the easiest way lies in submitting to a color line drawn by the dominant race. "There are, of course, other shades of opinion, such as the extremists on both sides and those who favor complete separation not because they wish to submit to a dominant hostile group, but because they wish to be rid of that group's prejudice "Thus, although it is clear that the opposed forces are not divided along the color line, since there are both white and colored segregationists and anti-segregationists, yet it is regrettably true that the greater part of the segregationist group is composed of white people. "Now children do not naturally hate each other. But segregation infects them with the hatreds of adult life. Such separation has been carried on steadily in the border states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, to name only the most important battle grounds of this controversy. Such Ohio cities as Cincinnati, Portsmouth and such Pennsylvania cities as Harrisburg, Chester and Philadelphia together with Jersey cities like Atlantic City, Trenton, Camden, Asbury Park, all have separated schools in which only colored children attend and colored teachers instruct. To save the pride of the dominant race, the idea is that colored teachers shall not be (Continued on Pore Thre) (Continued on Page Three) I. SEGREGATION U. S. CONSTITUTION the law is powerless to control, and to which it must give a measure of consideration may be freely admitted. But its solution cannot be promoted by depriving citizens of their constitutional rights and privileges.' And further on in the same opinion, he said: 'We think that this attempt to prevent the alienation of the property in question to a person of color was not a legitimate exercise of the police power of the state, and is a direct violation of the fundamental law enacted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, preventing state interference with property rights except by due process of law.' "Certainly this would appear to be the last word on this question of segregated housing. But now the individual fiat of a group of people, entering into a mutual covenant not to dispose of their land to people of the Negro race or descent, is chosen as a means of doing what the Constitution of the United States, and the interpretation by the Supreme Court of the United States, has indicated definitely cannot legally be done. "If the Constitution does not protect the rights of all citizens, it does not protect the rights of any, since it knows no distinction of race or color." i WamkLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMANLY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS FUBLISHED BVERT FRIDAY AT OMAHA NEBRASKA BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY “Petored aa Gecond-Clase Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Powtoffice at Omaha Hebrastar unter the Act of Mareh 3, 189. THE REV, JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS Editor Welw moaaty, Lincsin Noten ————Aasoclats itor Soctaa en wititams ee ——atsinees Manager See set ron CAMS ———__———————cirentation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, #200 A YEAR; 9125 6 MONTHS: Toc 3 MONTHS Nalcttiaina Rates Purnitod Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 ; ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Citizenship Rights Net to Be Abridged 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, snd subject te the jurisdiction thereot, ara citinens 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 seal any state deprive any pervon of life, Uberty, or prop- iz withent due proceas of lam, nor deny te sty person its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. A’ PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM RACE PREJUDICE By Morney Williams (For the Associated Negro Press) GOD, who hast made man in Thine own likeness and who dost love all whom Thou hast made, suffer us not, because of difference in race ,color or condition, to separate ourselves from others, and thereby from Thee; but teach as the unity of Thy family and the universality of Thy love. As Thy Son, our Savior, was born of an Hebrew mother and ministered first to His brethren of the House of but Sefeicet in the faith of a Syro-Phoenician wo- man ofa soldier, and suffered His cross to be by a man of Africa, teach us, also, while loving and serving our own, to enter into the communion of the whole human eae forbid that, from pride of birth and of we should despise any for whom Christ or injure any in whom He lives. Amen. PAGE TWO DEATH ENTERS WHITE HOUSE TTWICE within a year death has en- tered the Executive Mansion at Washington, first to claim a man of mature years whose work was done, and then a boy of sixteen years whose work in life had not begun. ‘The death, so sudden and unexpected, of Calvin, jr., the second son of Presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge, has filled the nation with sorrow and awakened tender and heartfelt sympathy in the hearts of the American people for the bereaved family. In the sorrow of their sovereign the people sincerely share. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INSIGNIFICANT QNLY 2 scratch, only a blister, has been responsible for the death of untold multitudes. It was a blister on his foot received in playing tennis with his elder brother which caused the death of the President's son. Boy- like and manlike, too, the lad con- sidered it a mere trifle and paid no attention to the broken blister, but within a few days he was in a serious condition. A germ, so small as to be undiseoverable save under @ powerful lens, had entered the wound and be- gun its deadly work. So rapid was its progress that all that the best scientific and medical skill could de could not stay the ravages of the infection. How we overlook and neglect what we consider the littl insignificant things. This is true ir the physical realm and: also in the moral and spiritual spheres. It i ‘only when we have some striking ex. ample, as in the case in mind, of the importance of the trivial, the ap parently insignificant, that we be ‘come, at least momentarily, thought ful, and decide to be careful anc ‘watchful even in little matters, W. all need to learn the potentialities fo good or evil, for health or sickness for strength or weakness, for life 0 death, fon success or failure, whic) inure in what we consider trifles We need to have impressed upon w ‘the significance of the insignificant PARK COMMISSIONER COMMENDS CLEANLINESS COMMENDATION for cleanliness and considerateness upon “he part of our people in the use of the parks for picnics comes from Park Commissioner Joseph Hummel in a letter from that efficient and cap- able public official which we here publish. Under date of July 8, Mr. Hummel writes to us: “I note that the colored people in the City of Omaha held a very large pienie at Miller Park on July 4th. “I wish to commend you and your people for the interest you have taken in helping us to keep the premises ‘as clean .as a pin’. “I wish our white brethern would take as much interest in the up-keep and cleanliness of our parks as your people did on this great day, July Fourth, 1924, “Yours’ very truly, “J. B. HUMMEL, Supt. “Dept. Parks and Public Property.” It gives us pleasure to receive and publish this letter for various rea sons, which will readily suggest them- selves to our readers. It indicates, among other things, as we have fre- quently pointed out, that the conduct of our people in public places is be- ing carefully observed and public opinion is being moulded thereby, A PRAYER FOR DELI PREJ By Morne (For the Associs GOD, who hast made 1 O who dost love all whom because of difference separate ourselves from othe: teach as the unity of Thy { Thy love. As Thy Son, our boop op dig ee ry e man of nian soldier Y by a man - ates. ; serving our own, to enter Ema Seats mae far either favorably or unfavorably. Mis- conduct upon the part of a few in- dividuals of our race has been res- ponsible in many instances for the withdrawal of privileges to which we were and are justly entitled from all. Of course, this is manifestly unfair, for the well-behaved, self-respecting and law-abiding many ought not be made to pay the penalty for the ill-be- haved, uncouth and lawless few. This ought not be, but in the case of our people this is-unfortunately so. Some- day America will outgrow this unjust attitude, and it will be brought about by such superior conduct and consider- ateness as is commended in this letter. In Omaha, our people enjoy as tax- payers shoukl everywhere the full and untrammelled privileges of splendid parks, playgrounds and _ recreation centers. The Monitor has learned of no case in which these privileges have been abused. So long as this is true, there can be no excuse for restriction in the full enjoyment of these priv- ileges. Of course, there are rough and disorderly colored people, just as there are rough and disorderly whitte people, and these should be judged and treated accordingly; but the great mass of our people will continue to be well-behaved in public places, and it is to be hoped that even the rougher class will realize their res ponsibility for helping to create and ais a favorable public opinior for all members of their race and s¢ make it better and easier for all. The picnic on the Fourth of July at Miller Park was under the auspice: ‘of Zion Baptist church. The severa hundred people participating thereir ere as well-dressed, well-mannered well-behaved and as intelligent anc nice looking as could be found any: [where in any group. It is by thi: class that the Negro race should be judged and not by the rougher ele ne We are glad that their per sonal conduct and their carefulness ir Keeping the picnic grounds clean wa: such as to win the commendation o ithe Park Commissioner. BRYAN FOR VICE-PRESIDENT Al Nebraskans will feel, or at least should feel, commendable pride in the nomination of Governor Charles W. Bryan for vice-president on the democratic ticket. It is a distinguished honor which reflects credit upon the citizenry of the state. As Mayor of Lincoln and as Governor of Nebraska Mr. Bryan has been eminently fair to all classes and has won many loyal and sincere friends among the colored people of this state who heartily rejoice in the distinction which has come to him. The Monitor congratulates Governor Bryan upon his nomination for the vice-presidency. In this connection it may be well to note that Lincoln is the only city in the United States that has had the unique distinction of furnishing two vice-presidential candidates in the same year. While General Dawes now resides in Chicago he hails from Lincoln, Neb., and still considers. it home. ee 100 PER CENT AMERICANISM ANY MAN who is good enough and patriotic enough to shed his blood for the defense of the United States is good enough to fill any office with- in the gift of the American people for which he has the adequate train- ing and ability, regardless of his race, color or religion. This is simon-pure 100 per cent Americanism. Any other kind is spurious. ENFORCING THE LAW JUDGE McGEE is making it very plain that the Government can and will punish those who break her laws. The sentences he is dealing out to bootleggers and violators of the Eighteenth Amendment ought to lessen the number following that pro- fession, Among those to receive stiff sentences are three or four colored men and women, but the overwhelm- ing majority are white and chiefly foreigners. Law should be enforced impartially without fear or favor and that’s what Judge McGee is doing. THE BONUS WE have been informed that colored ex-service men of this city are not registering in very large num- bers for the bonus. This is a serious mistake, We hope that all will realize the importance of promptly register- ing so that they may receive the compensation to which they are en- titled. LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT | Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Corneal of Port- ‘and, Ore. who were visiting relatives here for the past two weeks, left Sun- day to visit relatives at St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. L. W. Whittaker is here from Kansas City to remain indefinitely. Her husband has a run out of here, Miss Lora E. Ray has been con- ‘fined to her bed for several days, | Mr. J. ‘T. Wright spent Saturday in Omaha. Mrs, Alma Wiley returned home Monday after visiting her parents at Plattsburg, Mo., and friends at Kansas City, Mo. Rev. Mr. Ross and his members held a special rally last Sunday. ‘Three services were held during the day. Rev. H. W. Botts of Mt. Zion Baptist church preached. A fair col- lection was raised during the day. | Rev. H. W. Botts was an Omaha visitor to the annual session of Si Knights and Daughters of Tabernacle. | Services at Quinn Chapel A. M. E |church were conducted by the pastor and were as follows: Sunday school ie usual morning hour, general class j and praise meeting at 11 o'clock, fol- lowed by baptism. Usual meeting of A. C. Society at 6:30, preaching and communion at night. The summer school, which was'in progress at the church for several weeks, closed with a pageant Wednesday evening in which the children, who attended school, took part, and did well. Mrs. Jennie Edwards and Mrs. M. C. Knight were promoters of the affair: Mr. P. A, Abner returned Monday from his old home in Alabama after burying his mother. SOME HISTORICAL EVENTS FOR WEEK OF JULY 8 to 15 July 8, 1867—The right of suffrage is extended to the colored citizens of the District of Columbia. July 9, 1916—A Sengalese Battalior distinguished itself by the tenacit) | and vigor of its attacks. It earrie¢ | five successive lines of trenches and | held them. July 10, 1905—At Redemption, Ark. the Free Christian Zion Church ir Christ was organized by person: who had withdrawn for A. M. E and Baptist churches. July 11, 1873—Mifflin W. Gibbs lawyer, was elected city judge, be ing the first Negro to hold such 6ffice in the United States. July 12, 1920—Silver Jubilee of the National Association of Colores Women at Tuskegee, Ala, July 13, 1865—Slavery abolished i | Georgia. Alexander Sergeyeviteh Pushkin, a Negro, the greatest poet of Russia, died 1837, July 14, 1790—African Baptist churci at Lexington, Ky., organized. In 1820 it split into First Baptist chureh and Pleasant Green Baptist church. July 15, 1880—James A. B. Horton, surgeon-major. This is the highest rank ever attained in the British Tarmy by a Negro. He was an “ authority on diseases of the tropics. ec en nn oe Advertise in The Monitor! THE MONITOR —— GERMAN MAN POWER LOST BY EMIGRATION Population Cut 6 Per Cent Since 1913. Berlin.—Germany had 6 per cent Jess population at the beginning of 1924 than it had ut the beginning of 1918, according to the estimates of the German statistical office. ‘The total populetion is now placed at 63,500,000, An analysis of the figures shows the decrease in man power has been ‘more marked thn the general de- ‘cline, There are now 7 per cent fewer men between the ages of fifteen and sixty. five, and the number of able-bodied men between tweity and forty-five has been dropped 13 per cent. Also the proportion of children under ten has dropped from 88 per cent to 18 per cent. Emigration ts making violent redue- tions in population of the very char acter that Germany needs most for re construction, Discussing the migration of the sturdiest of Germany's young farm- ers, industrial workers, tradesmen and techniclans, Doctor Berger, counselor to the cabinet on subjects relating to emigration, says Germany's ability to Teconstruct itself speedily is being un- dermined by the flight to the new world. While he does not advocate the re- striction of emigration, he suggests that the social condition of the work: ing class must be raised so as to make it more Invitlig for the workers to re main in Germany, Purser Gives Banquet in Stowaway’s Honor New York—Nobiemen have fared no more handsomely than did three young German stowaways who were entertained abourd a shipping board vessel after It arrived from Bremen Cherbourg and Sou'hampton, ‘The youths dined in state upon the choicest things from the ship's larder At the head of the table sat Victor X de Caro, ship's purser, who directed the service of the banquet, and who will foot the bi, ‘Thirty-one years ago De Caro him- self began his sea career as a stow- away. At fourteen, the son of a Span- Ish diplomat in Rome, he set out for Marseilles with a companion, ‘There they hid aboard « German square-rig. ger and reached Sin Francisco. with bruises on thelr bodies and dispost- tions. De Caro, a gental man, whose black hair is streaked with gray, recalled the hardships of that first voyage in a day when life at sea, particularly for fa stowaway, was not attended by mod- ern amenities, He declared he could think of no more fitting way to cele brate his thirty-first anniversary at seu than by being host to such as he was when fourteen years old. De Caro speaks cight languages and jm @ talented raconteur. Immigrants Take Up Pacific Waste Lands Olympia, Wash.—Immigrants from eastern United States are steadily moving into the West and many of the counties of this state have received large deputations of Hollanders, Ital fans, Russians and Scandinavians this spring. ‘They are welcomed, as the majority have funds enough to take up land and begin farming and other agricultural pursuits, ‘The Hollanders with several colo nies of Swiss, have settled in the southwest section, where dairying pre dominates. Cheese-making 18 8 grow ing industry and has attracted consid erable capital from the Immigrant who know the business. On the logged-off lands pastur grasses grow abundantly and dairy ing Is profitable from the start, ‘A majority of the Italians, wit some Serblans, are skilled in frut growing, and hundreds of young or chards have been set out among th stumps of southwestera Washington Others have engaged In aut culture planting filberts, walnuts and pecans In the district near Winlock 80 new comers bullt poultry plants, and mor than 500,000 chicks have been import ed for the nucleus of next year's lay ing flocks. Priest Dies at 110 Guanajuato, Mexico.—Despite his ad vanced age, Father Jose Guadalupe Castorena continued serving his flock almost to the day of his death, whieh occurred after he had passed his one hundred and tenth birtlday anniver sary. He is believed to have been one of the oldest residents of Mexico whose birth record could be established be yond _* dovbt. Says All Food May Soon Be Made by Chemists Washington—Arttficial —pro- duction of the world's food supply, emancipating man from absolute dependence on the soll and eliminating the dangers of famine and overproduction, wax predicted before the convention of the American Chemical soc- ety here by Dr, Carl L. Alsberg, Girector of the Food Research institute of Leland Stunford unt- versity. Dr. Alsberg said there is every reason to belleve that the three groups of foodstuffs—earbohy- rates, fats and amino aclds— can oF soon will be producible artificially. COLORED LAWYER DIES Boston, Mass, July 11.—(By the ‘Associated Negro Press.)—Curtis J. Wright, a resident of Boston for the last forty years, the city’s oldest col- ored lawyer, died on Monday, June 28, of heart disease. He was a mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Funeral services were held at the Charles Street A. M. E. 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All persons within this state shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every person. Sec. 2. PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF PRECED- ING SECTION. Any person who shall violate the fore- going section by denying to any person, except for rea- sons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall for each offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs of the prosecution. “The original act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs. State, 25 Nebr., Page 677. N. W. 638,” “A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored a with refreshments in-a certain part of his res- urant, for no other reason than that he is colored, is ty liable, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in a more private part of the house, Ferguson vs, Gies, 82 Mich, 358; N. W. 718.” BETHEL A, M. E, CHURCH Rev. Frederick Divers, Pastor. “The Supreme Invitation” was the theme used by the Rev. Mr. Divers Sunday at the 11 o'clock service, and communion followed. ‘There was bet- ter attendance than usual, a continu- ation of the gradual growth that is taking place in the church. ‘The Sun- day school made a good showing, its membership continues to increase. The Daily Vacation Bible School with Mrs. Sadie B. Divers in charge, assisted by Mrs. Beatrice Gray’ and others, and backed by the Mothers’ Club of Bethel A. M, E. church is making a fine showing. ‘They plan to have a big pageant and out-door picnic at the end of the session the last of month. Bethel is to have a visit from the new Bishop, Rt. Rev. A. J. Carey, D. D., LL. D., of Chicago next Tuesday evening, July 15th. Come and hear him! ALLEN CHAPEL A, M. E, CHURCH Twenty-fifth and R Streets—Rev. 0. J. Burckhardt, Pastor, Sunday the Rev. Mr. Blake of Coun- cil Bluffs preached a good and prac- tical sermon at 11 a.m. and at 8 p m. Mrs, Carey of Chicago was the speaker. Sunday at 11 a, m. the pastor wil preach and at 8 p. m. it is expected that Bishop Carey will fill the pulpit, Mr. Fred Little will get out of hos- pital this week, Mr. and Mrs. Galvy and Mr. and Mrs. Firenoy from Oklahoma were at the church Sunday. ST. PAUL'S NOTES Russel Taylor, Pastor, We are pleased to see so many young people out to the services Sun- day morning. Nothing will prove of more permanent value than the habit of being found in God’s house on the day set apart for his worship. At the morning services Sunday the Lord's supper will be administer- ed. The communion address will be “The Transition from Law to Grace.” The evening subject will be, “The Impossibility of Neutrality When Right Is am Issue.” ‘The superintendent, Mrs M. A. Johnson, and a number of the Sunday school pupils enjoyed a hike and lun- cheon in Elmwood park Sunday after- noon. TEACHERS PLEDGED TO WIPE OUT ILLITERACY Jackson, Miss., July 11.—(By the Associated Negro Press.) —Four thou- sand Negro teachers of this state, through their representatives, at the State Teachers’ Association conyen- tion here, are pledged to wipe out adult illiteracy in the state. Each teacher in the state is to agree to teach one or more illiterate adults for fone year without compensation, The state association will stand behind the sectional and county teachers’ groups to see that the peldge is carried into effect. Another important move was made in the establishment of an $8,000 fund for the publication of a monthly magazine, devoted to the interests of the teachers. Mrs. Arthur Diggs has been called from Charitan, Ia., where she visited her son, W. J. Green, ‘TAKES KINK OUT IN THREE TO | SIX DAYS If you have tried the rest, now try the best—-New Discovery: Weeie Kink ‘Straightener contains no. grease, does not harm the hair. Guaranteed to straighten your hair or you can re- ‘turn bottle and money will be refund- ect” Convincing testimonial: *Weci Laboratories—My husband, Earnest Martin, used your Kink Straightener 3 days, night and et and hi hair is erfectly straight. le surely thinks it wonderful. It straightened it_some the very first time he used it. 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Usually they are sold as ribbon is sold; the more you want, the more you have to pay. Pythons form an industry, and New York is the center of it for America. Every year men go from here to Africa, India, Sumatra and South America, and early in the spring New York has a python population of 250 or so. They are sold mostly to traveling shows, which go on the road in the spring. Possibly because the show people always expect bad business in a Presidential year, or perhaps because of the backward weather, the early part of 1924 brought a slump. In general, however, the python trade is steady; pythons and boas are two of the world's commodities which have not been greatly affected in price by the war. Quotations and demand are now about what they were ten years ago, or twenty. A seven-foot python can be had for $20. A length of 25 feet—found in the regal pythons from Sumatra—runs the price up to $600 or $700. Boas come smaller: 16 feet is the maximum at an age of eight to ten years, according to snake dealers, and this is also true of rock pythons. In price the boas start where the pythons do, and the biggest of them fetches about $200. Cheap Pet to Feed. The upkeep, though, is astonishingly small. The big snakes are as economical a pet as one could have; one of them can sometimes get along on an expenditure not much larger than the seed bill of a husky canary, and while they usually live 13 years or so, occasionally they last 40 or 50. “Sometimes they do not eat for two or three years,” says Louis Rube, who imports 150 a year out of the 250 that are brought into the country. “Then you have to use forcible feeding. Two quarts of milk, with half a dozen eggs in it, administered through a those every two or three months, will keep them alive.” If the python is cheerful it feeds once a month on live animals. That is the meal schedule in captivity; in the wild it feeds when it can, more or less. Wild porcupine is a tibit and plain pig will often tempt a python, though rabbits and guinea pigs are the most frequent dish. The porcupine's quilts have no terrors for the reptile; it knows which end to swallow first so the quilts will lie flat. When a box or python is in captivity, however, it may become disgusted with life and look as if it were too tired to eat. A few months of this and a 25-foot snake that normally weighs 260 pounds will drop 40 pounds. Then is the time for the eggs and the rubber hose. If a snake hasn't eaten for several months it looks lethargic; one that has fed is not easy to handle. It takes six men to measure a big python, according to Mr. Ruhe; it takes it out of the box and use the tape and put it back. The snake often shows fight, and its way of fighting is to coll. If it gets a grip on something, then comes a tug of war. Just lurging it out and straightening it and dropping it back in the box is a half-hour's work for six strong men, and it leaves them exhausted. Recovering a Stray. Sometimes one of the big fellows gets loose. That happened not so long ago. Small boys looking up at a store window saw 25 feet of snake hanging out and looking around. They called a policeman, and the policeman, after some hours, succeeded in calling the store attendants. They all got together at the stern and heaved-ho until the snake was boxed again. It was an arm-wrenching job. The men who do the hunting in the wilds take chances, for they go out, often hundreds of miles in the forests, with only two or three attendants. Often they are among natives who will not touch a snake because of tabu. There are narrow escapes, but the tight boxes of pythons keep arriving in New York in time for the circus and show seasons, and not a snake of the lot is under seven feet. India sends two where Africa sends one. Now and then it is a case of "Pigs Is Pigs." The trip from India takes 45 days. A snake that started alone may be found at the end of it coiled around two dozen eggs, and in another two weeks the young are out. America has a considerable domestic snake business, with flourishing plants in Texas. This deals with rattlesnakes and such, which have their special attractions, but it is the big snake that draws the crowd when the barker begins his patter before the tent. Favor Forget-Me-Not Cordova, Alaska—The Grand Iglou of the Pioneers of Alaska in a resolution has requested the territorial legislature to make the forget-me-not the floral emblem of Alaska. The resolution declares this flower grows "on every hill and in every valley through Alaska's more than one-half million square miles." New York, N. Y., July 11—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—According to Dr. Elwood Linssey Haines, head of St. John's. Academy and Industrial school, Cape Mount, Liberia, the Ku Klux Klan of America has nothing on an organization among the 2,000,000 natives of Liberia known as "The Human Leopard Society." This body is supposed to deal in magic and its members upon joining take an oath. GAINS 7 MILLION IN LAST 4 YEARS Our Population Increased by Low Death Rate and Immigration. New York.—The population of the United States totaled 112,826,000 on January 1, 1924, according to estimates announced by the national bureau of economic research. This compares with 110,883,000 on January 1, 1923, and the census count of 105,711,000 on January 1, 1920. The most remarkable gain was recorded in the last half of 1923, the net increase being 1,192,000, a greater growth than in any other half year during the last two decades, and probably greater than any six months' period in the nation's history. The gain for the entire year was 1,943,000. Figures by Half Years. The bureau estimates the population of the continental United States for each half year since January 1, 1920, to have been approximately as follows: all the figures after January 1, 1922, are necessarily tentative, for the bureau of the census has not as yet published complete monthly data for births and deaths, covering the periods since 1921. Improved methods of estimating the nation's population for the years following the census count in 1920 were developed by the bureau of economic research in continuance of its studies of income in the United States, and the relation of income to population. The process evolved by the bureau is based on the "registration area" theory and takes into consideration all elements of error disclosed in previous work and the results attained by it are believed to approximate very closely actual figures. In announcing the figures Dr. Willford I. King, under whose supervision they were gathered, said: "The fact that the rate of increase in population during the decade 1910 to 1920 was considerably less than the corresponding rate during the previous ten years led many persons to anticipate that in the future we might look forward to a rate of population expansion considerably lower than that experienced during the last century Phenomenal Growth in 1923. "Such expectations have been rudely shattered by the events of the last four years, and especially by what occurred during the latter half of 1923, in which period the rate of population growth appears to have been greater than in any other half year during the last two decades, and probably greater than in any six months within the history of the nation. "This unusual increase was due to two facts: First, a very heavy recorded excess of immigration over emigration, which increased our population by 505,000; and, second, by the fact that the death rate was as low as has ever been recorded. "According to the estimates of the bureau, there were about 1,238,000 births, against some 621,000 deaths, giving a net natural increase of about 617,000. "This number, added to the 505,000 gain from immigration, totals 1,122,000, the estimated increase in population indicated by the government reports for the last half of 1923, as compared with a similar estimate of total growth for the entire year amounting to 1,863,000. "This yearly total may, in turn, be compared with a similarly calculated figure for 1920 of 1,784,000, for 1921 of 1,643,000, and for 1922 of 1,505,000. "Since the government reports apparently underestimate either births, immigration or both, by an average of 80,000 a year, it is necessary to add 320,000 to the sum of these four items in order to arrive at the final estimate of the gain for the four years, namely, 7,115,000. "It appears, then, that the average gain during the last four years was 1,778,750 a year, as compared with an average increase of 1,418,100 during the decade 1910 to 1920." Kreisler Detects Genius New York—The spine is the indicator of genius, Fritz Kreisler, composer and violin virtuoso, firmly believes. He gave this as part of his credo when he and Mrs. Kreisler boarded a liner, bound for Europe to resume a concert tour and holiday interrupted by the death of Mrs. Kreisler's father, George T. Lies. They first sailed April 17, but were aboard only forty-eight hours when called back. "I have made a study of genius," the virtuoso said, "a study of all sorts of geniuses, and I have found that when I listen to a musical genius play, or read what has been written by a writer who is a genius, I get a thrill up and down my spine. I have made inquiries and I find that other people get the same sensation." As for genius itself, Mr. Kreisler believes it is largely the perspiration of a talented individual. "It is a gift," he said, "but the success is due to a great extent to the adaptation of the gift. Hard work is needed." called the blood oath, to slay a blood relative. When this relative is slain, the heart is cut out and combined with other ingredients to make a magic charm to be used by the powerful men of the tribe. When the members go out on their death missions they wear the skin of a leopard. It is claimed that Garvey could make no headway among them. 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