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G :: :: LIFT TOO $2.00 a Year—5c a Copy NASHVILLE SEEKS APPREHENSION OF RECENT LYNCHERS Southern City Feels Keenly Disgrace of Murder of Fifteen-Year-Old Boy by Blood-Thirsty Mob CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ACTS Reward of $6,500 Is Offered for the Arrest and Conviction of Wounded Youth's (N. A. A. C. P, Press Service) Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 26.—Unlike Chicago; which permitted a Negro to be lynched and then allowed the alleged slayer to go free on a paltry $10,000 bond, the better-minded citizens of this community, southern though they are, have banded themselves together and put a price on the heads of the masked murderers who took 15-year-old Sam Smith from his bed in the General hospital, hanged him to a tree and riddled his body with bullets. The boy had been wounded by Ike Eastman, white grocer, after he is alleged to have shot the latter during a robbery of the grocery. Eastman was only slightly wounded. Practically every organization in this city has condemned the murder of Smith. Six thousand five hundred dollars was pledged as a reward for the capture of the slayers within two days after the crime had been committed. Public-spirited citizens and lovers of law and order stood for $5,000 of this amount and the state offered the other. Public officials have been unanimous in their denunciation of the perpetrators of the deed. Mayor Hilary E. Howse, Sheriff Briley of Davidson county, and past and present law officials of the county are as one in their effort to see that the criminals are brought to justice. Nashville is pround of its good name. Only four Negroes have been lynched in or near the city since the Civil war. The case of Smith is the first for nearly thirty years. The people of the city have a pride in boasting of their fairness and they are also afraid of the effect such crimes may exert on the Negro residents of the city and county who, by migrating to the north, can produce as hurtful results as they might be fighting back and seeking reprisals. The chamber of commerce passed the following resolution: "The board of governors of the chamber of commerce of the city of Nashville, having met on this, the 16th day of December, 1924, for the purpose of considering conditions that exist in the county of Davidson and the city of Nashville in the observance of the law, express our unqualified condemnation of the act of lynching which took place on the night of December 15, when the Negro, Samuel Smith, was taken from the city hospital in Nashville by an armed mob and hanged. "This act was done in defiance of the law, without any measure of justification, and its perpetrators were guilty of murder and are answerable to the law as murderers. The Negro lynched was in the custody of the law, and while he had committed a grave offense and deserved the limit of the law in punishment, the law should have been enforced against him by its regular processes and not by mob which acted in disregard and defiance of all law. "We pledge ourselves to assist in every honorable way to bring to trial the parties guilty of the murder of this Negro, and believe that the majesty of the law must and should be upheld, and in no other way than by the trial and conviction of the perpetrators of this crime can the law be vindicated. "We, therefore, pledge ourselves to raise a fund of at least $5,000, to be used by the chamber of commerce for the purposes (1) of offering a reward for the arrest and conviction of the criminals, and (2) of employing detectives and attorneys for that purpose." Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Colored workers employed on a tie boat at Cumberland City were responsible for the saving of the vault and much of the furniture of the Cumberland City bank and the Haffield hotel Sunday night during & fire which broke out in the kitchen of the hostelry. The Rev. J. W. Samuels was severely injured fighting the fire. Damages amount to $7,000. C. L. Curry, Sr., cobbler. Shop in rear of 1630 North Twenty-sixth street. Work called for and delivered. Webster 2722. THE MONITOR SOUTH AFRICAN WHITES ON QUI VIVE Capetown, South Africa, Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Native protests against the annexation of Premier Herzog, Unios of South Africa, have reached the point where they are viewed with much alarm. It is said that the premier has his eyes on Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Southwest Africa. The first two prefer to live under British rule and in the last-named one of the largest native tribes, the Reboths, is reported on the verge of rebellion. LOOKS FOR GREAT BLACK REPUBLIC TO ARISE IN AFRICA Sir Harry Johnston, Explorer and Empire Builder, Sees White Control Imperilled On Continent. (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) London, England, Dec. 26.—In an interview here recently, Sir Harry Johnston, the empire builder who carved out Rhodesia, Uganda and Nyasa for Great Britian during his forty years in Africa, told a correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, that he visioned a vast republic of the colored races playing its part in the balance of world power. In the coming clash of color which he envisions, white control in Africa will be imperiled and the heart of the dark continent will again belong to its own. "I don't expect to see a black Africa in my time," said Sir Henry who is 66. "However, it is entirely possible that within half a century all of Africa from the Zambezi to the Great Sahara may be one great black republic." Points to Liberia as Example "Many considerations go to indicate the eventual success of a black domain throughout Africa. The deadly climate in the central portions—the Congo and the Cameroons—a climate absolutely fatal to whites, is one factor. The encouraging success of Liberia in being able to maintain its identity is another. The rising desire for independence—the flowing tide of color—is yet another. Many of the Negro and Negroid tribes in Africa are fully capable of independence and unless their political instincts are depraved by the ingress of whites they should be able to take care of themselves. The African type at its best is a fine type of manhood." Sir Harry is usually considered the greatest living authority on Africa. He went out to the Congo in 1880, worked with Stanley. His scientific discoveries and researches have made him even more signally known. For two decades he collected fauna, flora, geology and made an especial study of its language. He is the author of the only available work in English on the Bantu tongues. EDITOR OF CENTURY MAGAZINE ATTACKS K. K. K. AS FANATICISM (By N. A. A. C. P. Press Service.) Glenn Frank, editor of the Century Magazine (353 Fourth avenue, New York City), in the December number attacks the Ku Klux Klan as an attempt to "unite in one crusade Protestant Christianity and the cult of racialism, welding the two together in the fires of fanaticism." After pointing out that the Klan is anti-Negro, anti-Catholic and anti-Jew, Mr. Frank says: "One of the distinctive contributions Jesus made to the spiritual future of mankind lay in the fact that, in the higher realms of the spirit, he wiped out the frontiers that divide races." Mr. Frank states that the spirit of Christianity and the spirit of racialism are opposed, and that "The Ku Klux Klan has no right to celebrate Christmas as long as it holds to its dogma of racialism." "The favored flaunting of the dogma of race inferiority and race superiority," he continues, "can have no other end than a world staggering from one blood-letting to another until civilization itself goes down in a red sunset. "Here, as I see it, is the international mission of modern biology. There are superior and inferior men in all races. Civilization will advance at the rate we are able, throughout the world and in all races, to breed away from the inferior and toward the superior. The problem of modern statesmanship and of modern science is not to classify the races into defensive groups. The problem of modern statesmanship and of modern science is this: To bring together the superior men of all races in a vast international conspiracy to breed all races to a higher level." Miss Lucile Bivens is home for the Christmas holidays from the University of Nebraska. NEBRASKA'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor A Bright and Happy New Year 1925 (Copyright, W. N. U.) OMAHA---WHERE EAST MEETS WEST By Montagu A. Taneock, Manager Publicity Bureau, Omaha Chamber of Commerce. "What was it the engines said Pilots touching head to head, Facing on a single track Half a world behind each back." —Bret Harte. Fifty-five years ago those engines met. It was the end of one of the most exciting races ever staged. Abraham Lincoln was the starter, the whole nation waited breathlessly for the result and the prize was empire. It was a race that brought the noise of iron and steel and steam to deserts that knew only the creaking of covered wagons. It was a race that joined East and West and out of that race sprung one of America's fairest cities, gateway to East and West —Omaha. President Lincoln fired the gun that started the race, July 3, 1866, when he signed an act authorizing the Central Pacific Railroad to build eastward from California and the Union Pacific Railroad to build westward from the site of Omaha, until a junction of the two roads should be effected and America's first transcontinental service established. The act guaranteed to each railroad the stretch of right-of-way that it should build upon until the two roads met. Naturally each railroad desired to have as long a right of way as possible. So the race started. The enthusiasm of the contestants was proved by the fact that they met and passed—paralleling more than 200 miles of grading before officials of the two companies agreed upon a point of union, at Promotory, Utah. At that point on May 10, 1869, was driven the spike that welded together the East and West. It was a golden spike. It marked the end of the race and the blows of the descending sledge that drove it were reported by telegraph to all parts of the United States. It was there that the engines met symbolizing the joining of the East and West and at that moment Omaha ceased to be the terminal of covered wagon trains and became the central point on America's transcontinental railroad highway. At that date, fifty-five years ago, Omaha's population was 14,000. Establishment of the Eastern Terminal of the Union Pacific at Omaha brought additional railroads to Omaha to connect with the transcontinental line. Population and agriculture followed; industrial development kept pace with railroad development; educational and cultural growth advanced with industrial growth until Omaha today is fourth railroad center in the nation, where manufactured products are valued at $1,000,000 a day, where distributing totals $1,310,000 a day and where 50,000 children attend public schools. Founded upon its railroads, Omaha has developed primarily as a receiving, distributing and manufacturing center. Such development is naturally postulated upon the existence of a desirable trade territory. Given a strategic location and ample transportation advantages, commerce develops in proportion to the productivity of the territory. In this respect Omaha is most fortunate. States directly tributary to Omaha represent one-fourth of the total farm wealth of the United States. This great region extends from a point some 200 miles east of Omaha, westward for 1,000 miles and takes in a great oval shaped area including western Iowa, Nebraska, southern South Dakota, Wyoming, southern Montana, eastern Idaho, northern Utah, northern Colorado, northern Kansas, northwestern Missouri and Nevada. There are about 1,500 towns in this territory and 310,000 farms averaging 390 acres each. The population of this area is made up of the most desirable of native American and foreign stock. The high standard of education of this population is shown by its extremely low illiteracy rate. Less than two people in one hundred are illiterate. The average illiteracy in the United States is six people in one hundred. The population of the area is 66% rural. Its percentage of foreign born is 11. The latest national census estimated the crop production of this territory at about $2,000,000,000 and live stock on farms as worth about $1,000,-000,000. There are 3,400 national and state banks with deposits averaging approximately $400 for each person. Ten trunk and twenty-two branch railroad lines, thirteen national and interstate highways now lead from Omaha into this territory. Hundreds of interconnecting lines from a network of communication. From this territory and beyond it, Omaha receives annually approximately 8,000,000 head of live stock and 68,000,000 bushels of grain, in addition to cream, poultry and other products of the farm. The Omaha live stock market, which is the third largest in the United States, pays approximately $800,000 a day to stock raisers for live stock received at Omaha. Omaha's packing plants in turn produce food products valued at $500,000 a day. Omaha manufactures more butter than any other city in the world. The value of this product manufactured in 1923 was $23,000,000 and represented 55,000,000 pounds of butter. Flour and mill products produced in Omaha annually are valued at more than $12,000,000; alfalfa products add another $8,000,000 a year. Omaha's manufacturing, however, is not by any means confined solely to agricultural products. In addition to fabrication of the products of the soil, there are more than fifty manufactured articles which Omaha produces on a scale of a million dollars a year or more. Omaha refines more pig lead than any other city in the United States. Smelter production during the past year totaled approximately $40,000,000. The fabrication of automobiles, trucks and accessories totaled another $20,000,000. Omaha wholesale houses distribute throughout the United States and to many foreign countries. However, a large percentage of this distribution is naturally absorbed in the territory outlined above. Omaha's 500 wholesale establishments distribute an average of $1,300,000 worth of products every day of the year, totaling $434,000,000 annually. Among leading products distributed from Omaha are groceries and provisions, oil, lumber, automobiles and trucks, commission and produce and building material. Omaha's growth in manufacturing and wholesaling is evidenced by the fact that manufacturing increased from $193,000,000 in 1913 to $382,000,000 in 1923 and wholesaling from $161,000,000 in 1913 to $484,000,000 in 1923. During the same period bank clearings increased from $908,000,000 to approximately $2,000,000,000. Omaha's population as shown by the latest government estimate is 204,000. Within a fifty-mile radius of the city, Omaha's retail establishments transact a business of $150,000,000 annually. Leading from Omaha into this area are two interurban lines, fifteen bus lines and the railroad lines already mentioned. Mail is dispatched from Omaha to points in this area on an average of three times a day. The high standard of living that maintains among these 500,000 people is shown by the fact that 118,000 telephone are in use and 122 newspapers are published among them. Omaha is the second city in the world in the number of telephones in use in proportion to population and third in use of electric lights. Indications of Omaha's commercial well being and development are amply furnished in the statement that while Omaha has attained thirty-fourth place in population among cities of the United States, it ranks seventeenth in business as shown by bank clearings. Omaha insurance companies have a total premium income of $38,000,000 a year. Omaha is the home of the largest building and loan association in the United States. Savings in banks and loan companies average more than $800 for each resident. Omaha is headquarters for the Federal Land Bank covering Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Wyoming. It has a branch bank of the federal reserve system, twenty-three state and national banks and ten building and loan associations. Keeping pace with commercial growth, Omaha has concentrated upon the health, happiness, education and general well being of its citizens. Enrolled among the healthiest cities in the United States, Omaha maintains an efficient and effective Public Health Department. The extent of recreational facilities afforded by the city is shown in the fact that Omaha is third city in the United States in park area in proportion to its population. Thirteen supervised public playgrounds are maintained at municipal expense for Omaha children. Omaha's leading parks provide municipal golf links where thousands indulge in this healthful sport. There is also a municipal bathing beach. Omaha has twenty-three parks connected by thirty-five miles of boulevard and covering 1,400 acres. Omaha has fifty-six public grade schools and five high schools. A recently completed Technical High School is valued at $3,000,000 and is considered the most modern school of its kind in the United States. In the Manual Training Department of this great building it is possible to build a six room house, which upon completion can be moved bodily through the main portal of the work room and so transported from the building (Continued on Page 2) Whole Number 494 AUTHORITIES EXONERATE NEGRO MAGISTRATE Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Magistrate Amos Scott, the first colored magistrate of this city, whom some prejudiced whites tried to get something against several times, appeared before the district attorney with his books for an investigation. After several weeks he was given a clean bill of health. It was found that he had been conducting his office to the satisfaction of the police department and the district attorney. RACE ARCHITECT WILL COMPETE FOR $300,000 PRIZE All California Architects to Enter Contest—Race Enrant Has Been Successful Prize Winner (Pacific Coast News Service) Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 26.—Over a quarter of a million dollars is the price to be paid the successful architect who is awarded the contract for drawing up the plans for the new $5, 000,000 city hall. With the assistance of an advising architect, not residing in the state and whose salary will be $5,000 plus expenses, the city will select four architects, not connected with the contest, as jurors. They will each receive a fee of $1,000, plus expenses. All the architects of the state will be invited to compete and the winning architect will receive a contract on a percentage basis estimated to be worth $300,000. Only Negro Member Paul R. Williams, winner of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design medal for 1912 and the only Negro member of the American Institute of Architects, is one of the contestants. Williams entry into the contest has created great concern among his many white competitors due to the fact that he has a reputation of winning all competitions in which he enters. He has won three national and four western architectural competitions; and recently his design for a civic center was accepted by a western city of 30,000 inhabitants. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announces that four Houston martyrs released on Sunday, December 14, made a total of 20 released from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth during the year. The list of men released is as follows: Issac A. Deyo, Ben McDaniel, Reuben W. Baxter, Douglas T. Bolden, Gerald Dixon, Roy Tyler, Jos. Williams, Jr., Albert T. Hunter, John Ranier, Jas, E. Woodruff, J. H. Hudson, Jr., John Geter, John H. Gould, Jas. H. Mitchell, Edward Porter, Jr., Grant Anderson, William Burnett, Chas. J. Hatton, Robert Tillman, Hezekiah J. Turner. The reductions of sentence making possible the release of the twenty men paroled this year and the last of the Houston martyrs by 1928, were made as a result of an examination of the men's records by a board of officers of the war department this spring. At that time Secretary Weeks informed the N. A. A. C. P. that 18 men would be eligible for parole during this year, but in addition to that eighteen two more have been paroled. SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD Franklin, Tenn., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.-Geo. Hunter, 50, well-to-do owner of a barbecue stand in the public square of this town, was called to the door of his home recently by a group of white men and shot before he could seek cover. He died while being taken to Nashville for aid. His assailants drove off in an automobile. He had had his business for more than 20 years. GOES TO COURT AT 106 YEARS Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Maria Maria Baker, 106 years old, who says she was once employed by Gen. Andrew Jackson, was called to Circuit court here last week as one of the witnesses in a will case. Monitor - SIX JUMPS FROM HOSPITAL WINDOW Baltimore, Md., Dec. 26—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Visualizing himself being cut and sawn, and deciding that the hospital was no place for him. Waverly Purnell, a patient in the John Hopkins Hospital, wrapped himself in a red blanket and jumped out a second story window. GROWING :: :: :: THANK YOU Vol. X—No. 2 FAKE COLORED FILM PROJECT FLEECES VICTIMS Sick Scamp Promises to Star Colored Investors in Movies and Rakes In Considerable Cash. LEAVES IMPERTINENT NOTE Film Organizations and California State Bureau of Labor Warn Public of (Pacific Coast News Service) St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 26—Visions of movie careers in which 400 colored investors of St. Louis pictured themselves riding in limousines and chatting intimately with the famous stars of Hollywood, vanished recently when Al. Edwards, a fake Negro promoter, departed for parts unknown, leaving his future movie stars the following note: "To all my movie stars and my many colored friends of this most splendid city, St. Louis, I wish to thank you one and all, for generous contributions. My only regret is that I cannot appear before you each and every one and thank you personally. I count, but I can't, because I am gone, just gone. You may sing this to 'He Come and Stole My Confidence, etc.'" According to "Variety" Edwards arrived in the Black Belt and announced he was general manager of the greatest Negro moving picture company in the world. Edwards backed up his announcement with loud clothes and a smooth tongue. He opened up an office and sent out word he needed 100 "beautiful Negroes" for a film entitled "Jingle of the Jungles." A day or two later his office was crowded with applicants. Special Train for Hollywood Edwards explained it would be necessary to charge each $1.50 to assure their sincerity and that they would show up when the special train pulled out for Hollywood, California. More money rolled in until Edwards finally left word he would be waiting for his future movie stars on the special train which departed at 7:15. On his desk in the office he left the above note for his secretary. War On Fake Promoters Enraged at the increased stock selling activities of various fake promoters throughout the country, the various film organizations, the California state bureau of labor and the Hollywood chamber of commerce are continually sending out warnings to the public. Last week Deputy Labor Commissioner of California ordered the Klan Kid Kodemy Co. to pay wage claims of 212.50 for services of children whose parents had bought stock in the organization under an agreement that their little ones would be employed. Of the 25,000 persons who are listed at the various studio employment agencies in Los Angeles, only one out of every 600 has a possible chance of steady employment as a movie actor. And out of this 25,000 there are only 45 colored film actors who make their entire living from employment in pictures, and not one of them was asked to invest in or own a single share of stock in the companies in which he is employed. Harriet Shadd Butcher, Who Has Had Successful Career as a Teacher, Takes New New York, Dec. 26.—The National Urban League announces that Mrs. Harriet Shadd Butch, employed for one year at Howard University and for seventeen and a half years as teacher in the Dunbar High School, Washington, D. C., assumed her duties on December first as extension secretary for the National Urban League with headquarters at 127 East 23rd street, New York City. Mrs. Butcher is the daughter of the late Dr. Furmann J. Shadd, Washington physician who was for many years secretary-treasurer of the Howard University medical school, and of Mrs. Alice Parke Shadd, formerly a teacher in the public schools of Washington. Mrs. Butcher is a graduate of Smith college, A. B., 1905, and has studied as a graduate student in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has travelled extensively in Europe, the West Indies and America. Mrs. Butcher will carry on an educational program in connection with the League's activities for improving the living and working conditions of Negroes in cities and will assist in spreading the Urban League idea by personal interviews, in conferences and at public meetings. THE MONTTOR A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged 1. All persons born or naturalized in the Uni- and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citiz- United States and of the State wherein they re state shall make or enforce any law which shall a privileges or immunities of citizens of the United S shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty erty without due process of law, nor deny to a within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the 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 property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. SETS GOOD EXAMPLE THE Rev. Z. C. McGee, pastor of Pleasant Green Baptist church, gave a practical illustration of how to encourage and build up worth while business enterprises among our people, which The Monitor cannot permit to pass unnoticed. Monday afternoon he took several of his congregation to the North Side Bazaar and every one of them made some purchase. We do not know the aggregate amount of the purchases made, but it must have been a neat sum. The important point that we want to stress is this: That one of our pastors, who has a large congregation and influence, not only went himself but took a large number of his congregation to a store run by members of our group and gave that store some of their patronage. It is the manifestation of this spirit that is going to build up and support business enterprises among us. Let more of the pastors of this city follow Rev. Mr. McGee's example and it will not be very long before such stores as The North Side Bazaar, Mrs. H. J. Crawford and Sons, J. H. Holmes, M. Lynch and like business ventures among our people will be large and successful institutions giving employment to a goodly number of our young men and women. Thank you, Mr. McGee, for your good example and excellent practical suggestion. LOOKING FORWARD IT IS customary for people at the close of the year to look forward to some of the things which they desire to accomplish the next year. As a people we need to plan ahead. The Monitor would like to suggest a few things that we should aim to accomplish in the New Year which is so near at hand. First and foremost we would place racial unity and solidarity. By this we mean that we should strive to present a united and solid front in our efforts to obtain economic and social justice in all matters which peculiarly affect us. United we can get anything within reason we desire in this community. Unity is our first great need. Shall we strive to attain it? We are gradually growing in this direction. Our great difficulty seems to be with details. Details are minor. If we can agree upon one or two fundamental or major principles we can leave the details to take care of themselves. Can we not unite on one or two fundamental principles and work out from these? One of these fundamental principles should be our determination to patronize and support worthwhile business enterprises in which our people have invested their money. Here is something upon which we all ought to see the wisdom of being at one. Commercial development should be one of the objectives before us the next year. Another objective should be increased recognition and representation in civic affairs. We should have teachers in our schools, janitors and other employees in the school system, a juvenile court officer, THE NEGRO'S CONTRIB A moment's thought will persons that the contribution nationality as slave, freedom negligible. No element of An yet clearly woven itself into and acting as the American N THE NEGRO'S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE A moment's thought will easily convince open-minded persons that the contribution of the Negro to American nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from the first the foundation of the American prosperity and the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply on the striving white men in Europe and America but also on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for two centuries. The military defense of this land has depended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American literature but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the classic hertigues of this land. Finally the Negro has played a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, hope and tolerance of our religion—Du Bois, "The Gift of PAGE TWO naturalized in the United States, in thereof, are citizens of the state wherein they reside. No law which shall abridge the zens of the United States; nor person of life, liberty, or prop- law, nor deny to any person al protection of the laws. a baliff in our district court and several state employees. These are some of the important things towards which we should look forward in the coming year. The first great requirement is unity upon fundamentals. All the rest will follow. ADVERTISING NEGRO business men and women must learn the importance of advertising. Too many of them seem to think that money spent in advertising is money thrown away. This is a great mistake. Would the great business firms of our city and country spend millions of dollars annually if it did not pay? A certain amount should be set aside for advertising and the advertising should be of such a nature as to bring results. It is a valuable business asset to keep one's name and business constantly before the public. THINK SOME MORE THE colored population of Omaha is approximately 14,000. This represents about 4,000 families. Suppose every one of these families spent 5 cents a week for a local race newspaper. Suppose again, every colored business firm carried even a small advertisement regularly in your race newspaper. Just think, that's all, and if you think you will act. BOOK CHAT (By Mary White Owington, Chairman, Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.) "The Negro Faces America" (By Herbert J. Seligmann.. Second edition with new foreword. May be secured from The Crisis, 69 Fifth Avenue, New York. Price $1.00, postpaid.) This was one of the first books that I reviewed when I began Book Chat a little over three years ago. A review every two weeks, eighty reviews in all, of books dealing with a momentous subject. Some have been more important than others, but no one has gathered together material on the happenings between the races in recent years so well as this book of Mr. Seligmann's. And now it is reprinted in popular edition for the low price of one dollar, its heavy paper cover likely to endure as well as a cloth one. The excellent foreword brings the book up-to-date. The chapters deal with race riots, the south's color psychosis, anthropology and myth, certain effects of the war, the scapegoat of city politics, the Negro in industry, the American Congo, (what a gorgeous title for the Mississippi), social equality and sex and the new Negro. It is a story of fact and opinion. The race riots of Chicago, Omaha, Washington and other cities are described, and especially the Elaine, Ark, cases, with a chapter on present peonage conditions. We learn much of the progress CUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE and easily convince open-minded n of the Negro to American an and citizen was far from american life has so subtly and warp and woof of our thinking negro. He came with the first of the Negro in industry. But it is in his treatment of opinion that this writer, with his caustic wit, deals his best blows. Such unctious words as he loves to quote from the Southerners, William B. Smith of Tulane University, New Orleans, especially comes in for his satire. Indeed, Mr. Smith's book is a gem of its kind, a book now hard to get but which lives in the pages of "The Negro Faces America." "The South is entirely right," Smith says, "in keeping open at all times and at all hazards and at all sacrifices an impassible social chasm between black and white." One remembers the insults that the colored delegates to the "National Conference of Social Work" had to endure when they were in New Orleans, and realizes that this professor perhaps more than any other one man is responsible for the rudeness and stupidity that clings to his city's name. His preaching is being carried out in the efforts today to create a black ghetto in New Orleans. We realize as we go through the book that science is showing us the great difference between good stock and poor stock but also that this difference is not one of race. Mr. Seligmann quotes the psychologist Woodworth as saying: "One thing the psychologist can assert without fear of error. Starting from the various mental processes which are recognized in his text books, he can assert that each of these processes is within the capabilities of every group of mankind. * * * Statements to the contrary, denying to the savage powers of reasoning, or foresight, can be dismissed at once." And Mr. Seligmann makes this interesting conclusion: "Science has not meant the extinction of God; but it has sounded the doom of tribal and racial gods. And in science's twilight of the gods lurks in which races will be valued not by any scale of superior or inferior, quantitatively, but as different coors in civilization, qualitatively different." Let us look forward to this dawn, not forgetting that its color will come if each of us treasures such cultural and racial differences as are fine and beautiful, and refuses to be poured into any typical, Americanization society, public school, mould. (Continued from Page One) OMAHA—WHERE EAST MEETS WEST ready for occupancy. More than 3,500 pupils are enrolled in this one building. There are also twenty-eight parochial grade schools, five parochial high schools, four academies and colleges and four business schools with an additional enrollment of 9,000 students. Omaha is also the home of Creighton University, one of the most complete institutions of learning in the Middle West. It is also the home of the University of Omaha, the Medical College of the University of Nebraska and of a Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In addition to the high standard of Omaha, it is interesting to note that Iowa and Nebraska, on the border line of which Omara is located, lead the nation in low illiteracy rate, Iowa ranking first with an illiteracy rate of 1.1 per cent and Nebraska coming second with a rate of 1.4 per cent. Omaha is a See city of the Catholic, Episcopal and Methodist churches. There are 183 churches in the city with a membership of 80,000 people and 25,000 children enrolled in Sunday schools. These churches are among the most beautiful buildings in the city. The clergy play an important part in the secular as well as the clerical work of Omaha. Maintaining a high standard in the medical and surgical professions, Omaha maintains twenty-two hospitals and it is the meeting place of leading doctors from all parts of the nation annually. The spirit of Omaha business men is well reflected in the activities of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce and of Nebraska's booster organization known as Ak-Sar-Ben. The spring and fall racing events put on by the latter organization have taken their place among the leading turf events of the United States and are attracting to Omaha the leading stables of the nation. The Ak-Sar-Ben pageants and "den" shows, at which the leading figures of the nation have been entertained from time to time, are known throughout the land. Omaha's central location and its many railroad lines play a large part in making Omaha an increasingly important convention center. More than 160 conventions are held annually, bringing people from all parts of the United States. A score of first class hotels, the majority of which have been constructed within the past ten years, add materially to Omaha's success as a convention city. Commission form of government, efficient public utilities, low power rates and street car service that is probably unexcelled in any city of proportionate size, are factors which make Omaha a desirable residential city. As a military point Omaha is headquarters of the Seventh Corps Area, of Fort Crook and of Fort Omaha. Fort Omaha was America's leading balloon training school during the war. The response on the part of citizens to Omaha's many advantages, is best demonstrated by the fact that nearly 50 per cent of Omaha families own their homes. Omaha is fourth city in the United States in home ownerzip. THE MONITOR That means that Omaha people like Omaha, that they have faith in Omaha and that they are willing to link up their future with Omara. And there you have it—Omaha a progressive young American city, fresh from recent accomplishment, vigorous for future accomplishment, alert to opportunity, hospitable and eager. To put it in the words of Omaha citizens, "We're for Omaha—it's a good place to live." Omaha's population is now 210,525, according to an estimate made by the bureau of publicity of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, based on the estimate of population made by the government which gives the population of Nebraska on July 1, 1923, as 1,333,922 as compared to 1,296,372 in the 1920 census. The estimate shows that Nebraska's population gained 37,550 in the three years, or an increase of 3 per cent. On that basis one year's population growth for the state would be at the rate of one per cent, making the present population of Nebraska 1,354,000. The increase in Omaha's population from the time of the 1920 census up to July 1, 1923, was 12,781, or from a total of 191,501 to 204,382 by federal estimate. This s a growth of 7.2 per cent for the three years, or 2.4 per cent a year. On July 1, 1924, the government estimated the city's population to be 208,025. Adding the average percentage gain for the past six months would make the present population of Omaha 210,525. Omaha has ninety-seven business firms which are rated in Dun's credit book as possessing assets ranging from $500,000 to $1,000,000, out of a total of 5,036 firms listed by the mercantile agency for Omaha. In 1870 there were but two such firms in the city, according to the bureau of publicity of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce which has made a study of these business facts and compared them with the early business status of the city. In 1870 there were 417 firms and individuals rated by Dun's in Omaha. There were but seventytwo cities and towns in the state of sufficient importance to be included in the credit rating book. Now there are 584 such towns and cities in Nebraska. Omaha, with a population of 16,083 in 1870, was by far the largest city in the state, and Nebraska City with 126 business firms was second. Brownville and Fremont, each with 69 rated firms, tied for third place, and Plattsmouth, with 57, was fourth. All of these cities have grown except Brownville which at present has but eleven business firms listed, but none but Omaha has maintained its rank among the cities of the state. Besides the two big firms in Omaha with assets approaching $1,000,000 each, in 1870, there was one listed as having a financial strength of from $250,000 to $500,000; six with capital and assets from $100,000 to $250,000; and twenty-three with capital and assets ranging from $50,000 to $100,000. The comparison of the business strength of Omaha fifty-four years ago and today shows that this has increased in about the same proportion as the city's population, or more than twelve-fold. With a new high record for conventions hung up by Omaha in 1924—a total of 173 conventions this year as compared to 163 in 1923 which was the banner year to date—the bureau of publicity of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce which is Omaha's official representative as host, has taken stock of just what this activity has accomplished. In the past year approximately 40,000 convention delegates were registered at the 173 conventions held in the city. For 192 days of the 366 there were one or more conventions in session in Omaha, or for more than twenty-seven and one-half weeks Omaha entertained a daily host of 2,000 convention delegates. Had these 173 conventions been held consecutively during the year, it would have required 345 of the 366 days to accommodate them. May and October were the busiest convention months with twenty-five held in twenty-three days in the former month, and twenty in seventeen days in the latter. In June, however, sixteen conventions were held, their sessions lasting twenty-three days. The convention record by months, both as to the number of conventions and the number of days on which conventions were in session in the city, is: No. Conv. No. Days January .....11 14 February .....15 13 March .....10 17 April .....14 16 May .....25 23 June .....16 23 July .....8 12 August .....10 16 September .....11 13 October .....20 17 November .....17 19 December .....16 19 Total .....178 189 The bureau of publicity already has fifty-five conventions listed for 1925, twelve of which are of national and district associations. The national conventions include the American Legion, National Altruza clubs, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, National Shorthand Reporters, United Master Butchers and International Printing House Crafts- men's association of United States and Canada. Nebraska will produce this year approximately 207,600,000 pounds of beet sugar, or a supply sufficient to fill the sugar demand of more than 2,000,000 persons for one year, according to a survey made by the Bureau of Publicity following the recent close of the 1924 beet sugar "campaign" in the western section of Nebraska. In this section, centered in Scotts Bluff, Morrill, Lincoln and Sioux counties, the beet growing industry is conducted on such a large scale that Nebraska holds rank as fifth state in beet sugar production. Approximately 65,000 acres of land were planted to sugar beets this past season, producing a crop estimated at 734,500 tons of beets. Five beet sugar factories in the state, four of them at Bayard, Scottsbuff, Gering and Mitchell being the property of the Great Western Sugar Refining Company, and one at Grand Island belonging to the American Refining Company, will produce approximately 207,600,000 pounds from this crop. This is enough to supply the sugar demand for 2,035,294 persons, or of 701,372 more persons than live in Nebraska with its estimated population of 1,333,922. The final value of the 1924 sugar beet crop to the farmer is hard to estimate, because it fluctuates with the market. The grower is paid a flat rate this year of $5.50 per ton for the beets delivered to the dumps, a haul of not more than three miles from any farm in Nebraska. This would bring the Nebraska beet growers an immediate return of approximately $4,029,750. Should similar market fluctuations in sugar prevail for the 1924 product as in 1923, a final price yield of $8.05 will be paid the growers by the sugar companies, or a total of $5,912,725 with an equally good prospect of still higher total yield as foreign markets are opened. The farm value last year was $44,769,000, indicating a probable increased return this year of $1,143,725. In addition to the value of the sugar produced in the state, may be added the value of the by-product, beet pulp and tops, used extensively for the feeding of cattle and sheep. Omaha as headquarters of the air mail service of the United States has taken the lead in promoting a wider use of the air mail by business men of the country. More than 200 business men of the city signed a pledge recently to mail at least one letter a day by air mail, and while they signed this pledge and dropped a letter into an air mail box, a Pathe cameraman ground out several hundred feet of film for a Pathe News Weekly to be shown all over the United States. Arrangements for the news reel was made with Pathe by the publicity bureau of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, and with the co-operation of Carl F. Egge, superintendent of air mail. The film shows business men, headed by Mayor James C. Dahlman, John L. Kennedy, president of the Chamber of Commerce and king of Ak-Sar-Ben; Mark Martin, president of the Omaha Real Estate board; Willard D. Hosford, president of Ak-Sar-Ben; Frank W. Judson, chairman of the Greater Omaha Committee; Harley Conant, chairman of the publicity bureau; heads of other civic and business organizations and members of Rotary, Kiwianis, Lions and Concord clubs signing the pledge and mailing a letter. Miss Emma Hoagland, member of Ak-Sar-Ben is featured as she had charge of the pledge signing. A postman also drives a mail truck into the picture and carries the two big arm-loads of mail from the box, and the final scene in the film is the loading of a mail plane at the Omaha air mail field with this mail. ALLENTOWN JOE GANS STALLS Allentown, Pa., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—The first indoor boxing tourney of the season was staged at Mealey's Auditorium by Promoter W, Rutherford, featuring for the main attraction Allentown Joe Gans and Frank Moody, Boston, in a scheduled 10-round bout which proved a farce. Gans acted as if he was afraid of Moody's punches and proved it by staging a running match. He put up a poor exhibition of boxing and disappointed the large gathering who knew his ability as a fighter. The boxing commissioners who were present stopped the fight. Now Gans is in bad as far as boxing his concerned. SHOT BY HIS DOG Wiscasset, Me., Dec. 26—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Theodore Sherman, of Edgecomb, was shot by his dog while gunning near here. He placed his leaded gun on the ground while he crawled under his automobile to make an adjustment. The dog stepped on the trigger. The charge of shot entered Sherman's leg between the knee and ankle. METHODISTS OUST KU KLUX KLAN MINISTER Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—The Rev. C. D. McGhee, white, alleged to have been active in the interest of the Ku Klux Klan, was expelled from the ministry and from membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, South. He was charged with using his pulpit and church for distributing propaganda favorable to the klan, with immorality and with falsehood. HOW HANS AND FRITZ DID BUSINESS Hans and Fritz were two Remote from the world, With their pretzels and be And the fruit of their lab Hans and Fritz were two Deutschers who lived side Remote from the world, its deceit and its pride; With their pretzels and its beer their spare moments w And the fruit of their labor were peace and content Hans and Fritz were two Deutchers who lived side by side, Remote from the world, its deceit and its pride; With their pretzels and beer their spare moments were spent, And the fruit of their labor were peace and content. Hans purchased a horse of a neighbor one day, And, lacking a part of the Geld—as they say— Made a call upon Fritz to solicit a loan To help him to pay for his beautiful roan. Fritz kindly consented that And gave the required a Remarking—his own sin "Berhaps it was bedder The note was drawn up "I, Hans, gets from Fritz When the question arose "Vich von holds dot bape "You geeps dot," says Frit You owes me dot money." Dot makes me rememper Und I prings you der not A month had expired, wha Paid back the amount and Says Fritz, "Now dot set Now who dakes dot bape "I geeps dot now, aind't i I always remempers you Says Hans, "Dot ish so; Dot I knows vot to do v Fritz kindly consented the money to lend, And gave the required amount to his friend; Remarking—his own simple language to quote: "Berhaps it was bedder ve make us a note." The note was drown up in their primitive way— "I, Hans, gets from Fritz feefty tollers today"; When the question arose, the note being made, "Vich von holds dot baper until it vas baid?" "You geeps dot," says Fritz, "und den you vill kn You owes me dot money." Says Hans, "Dot ish so; Dot makes me remempers I haf dot to bay, Und I prings you der note und der money some da A month had expired, when Hans, as agreed, Paid back the amount and from debt he was freed. Says Fritz, "Now dot settles us." Hans replies, "Y Now who dakes dot baper accordings by law?" "I geeps dot now, aind't it?" says Fritz; "den you I always remempers you baid dot to me." Says Hans, "Dot ish so; it vas now shust so blain Dot I knows vot to do ven I porrows again." —Charles F Fritz kindly consented the money to lend, And gave the required amount to his friend; Remarking—his own simple language to quote: “Berhaps it was bedder ve make us a note.” The note was drawn up in their primitive way— “I, Hans, gets from Fritz feetty tollars today;” When the question arose, the note being made, “Vich von holds dot baper until it vas baid?” “You geeps dot,” says Fritz, “und den you vill know You owes me dot money.” Says Hans, “Dot ish so: Dot makes me remempers I haf dot to bay, Und I prings you der note und der money some day.” A month had expired, when Hans, as agreed, Paid back the amount and from debt he was freed. Says Fritz, “Now dot settles us.” Hans replies, “Yaw; Now who dakes dot baper according by law?” "I geeps dot now, aind't it?" says Fritz; "den you see, I always remempers you baid dot to me." Says Hans, "Dot ish so; it vas now shust so blain, Dot I knows vot to do ven I porrows again." THE VILLAGE DOCTOR Along the village str Together like old frie A faithful pair oft and He and his nag, both What secrets lurked w Of mother love, of thre All safely kept beneat Receptacle of powder, Thrice happy he when Grew moist with love Snugged to her breast Within her soul and How of he held the w Pulsations of the feeb While his kind words, Essayed to calm the w He was to all a father Their joys were his, He sleeps in peace w Above the violets that A NEW ATTORNEY OPENS OFFICE HERE Along the village streets, where maples lean Together like old friends about the way, A faithful pair off and anon were seen— He and his nag, both growing old and gray. What secrets lurked within that old man's breast Of mother love, of throb of pains and ills, All safely kept beneath that buttoned vest, Receptacle of powders and of pills. Thrice happy he when some fond mother's eye Grew moist with love unspeakable to find Snugged to her breast her babe whose paradise Within her soul and bosom were entwined. How oft he held the wrist to mark the slow Pulsations of the feebly fluttering heart, While his kind words, soft murmuring and low Essayed to calm the mourner's pain and smart He was to all a father, brother, friend; Their joys were his, their sorrows were his o He sleeps in peace where yonder willows bene Above the violets that kiss the stone. —Horace Along the village streets, where maples lean Together like old friends about the way, A faithful pair oft and anon were seen— He and his nag, both growing old and gray. What secrets lurked within that old man's breast: Of mother love, of throb of pains and lills. All safely kept beneath that buttoned vest, Receptacle of powders and of pills. Thrice happy he when some fond mother's eyes Grew moist with love unspeakable to find Snugged to her breast her babe whose paradise Within her soul and bosom were entwined. How oft he held the wrist to mark the slow Pulsations of the feebly fluttering heart, While his kind words, soft murmuring and low, Essayed to calm the mourner's pain and smart. He was to all a father, brother, friend; Their joys were his, their sorrows were his own. He sleeps in peace where yonder willows bend Above the violets that kiss the stone. Omaha's legal talent has received an addition in the person of David H. Oliver, LL.B., who has recently opened his office in the Jewell building. Mr. Oliver is a graduate of the Nebraska state university and served his country in the recent world war, receiving disability in the line of duty. Mr. Oliver practices in all courts, state and federal. He believes that Omaha offers a good field and that is why he has decided to locate here. HILL-WILLIAMS DRUG COMPANY FOUNTAIN PENS-STATIONERY CIGARS and CANDY Eastman Kodaks and Supplies 2402 Cuming Street The Hotel The Hotel Cuming 1916 Cuming Street UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT This centrally located hotel is now in charge D. G. RUSSELL is centrally located hotel is now in charge D. G. RUSSELL This centrally located hotel is now in charge of D. G. RUSSELL "The Fire in The Fl The Fire in The Fli 2 The Great Race Novel of the Day By WALTER F. WHITE A thrilling story depicti South. Critical book reviewers piece. Should be read by EV or White. $2.50 For Sale by The Monitor of the N. a thrilling story depicting race conditions in South. critical book reviewers pronounce it a major piece. could be read by EVERY AMERICAN, Black or White. A thrilling story depicting race conditions in this South. Critical book reviewers pronounce it a masterpiece. Should be read by EVERY AMERICAN, Black or White. $2.50 A COPY ale by The Monitor and the Omaha of the N. A. A. C. P. For Sale by The Monitor and the Omaha Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. Deutchers who lived side by side, us deceit and its pride; er their spare moments were spent, or were peace and content. he money to lend, amount to his friend; the language to quote: he make us a note." in their primitive way— feeety tollars today;" the note being made, until it vas baid?" itz, "und den you vill know Says Hans, "Dot ish so: I haf dot to bay, und der money some day." en Hans, as agreed, from debt he was freed. does us." Hans replies, "Yaw; or recordings by law?" ?" says Fritz; "den you see, baid dot to me." it vas now shust so blain, in I porrows again." —Charles F. 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COPY and the Omaha Branch A. A. C. P. —Horace S. Keller. Local and Personal Happenings WE PRINT THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS ADDRESS BOX 1204 E. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Peters Trust building, Jackson 3841 or Harney 2156. Mr. Charles H. Hicks, who underwent an operation at St. Joseph's hospital, returned home Christmas Day and is improving rapidly. Mr. Joseph B. LaCour, former business manager of The Monitor, and now on the staff of the Kassas City Call, spent Christmas visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph LaCour, 2421 Maple street. A. P. Scruggs, lawyer, 220 South Thirteenth street, over Pope's Drug Store. Atlantic 7812. Kenwood 2492. —Adv. Mrs. Willa Day of Joliet, Ill., is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brooks, of South Twenth-eighth avenue. Ledrue C. Galloway is home from the Iowa State University spending his vacation with his parents. The Knife and Fork Club will hold its annual banquet and reception at Emoclew January 1st. This club meets only once a year. A. Green is president and William Soms secretary. "Dentlo," the tooth paste you ought to use—Adv. The Apex Sport Club will entertain with a Christmas party Monday evening, December 29. H. C. Brown is president and Mrs. H. C. Brown secretary. Mrs. H. C. Brown of 2508 Burdette street, who has been ill for the past two months, is much better and is able to be up again. The Charles Gilpin Club will hold its regular meeting Friday night, December 26, at the home of Miss Mabel Ray, 2865 Miami street. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms in modern private home, two blocks from car line. Rates reasonable. 2858 Burdette St. Web. 4901. 2t Little James Arnold, 3rd, son of son of Mrs. James Arnold, Jr., 2611 Caldwell street, enjoyed his first Christmas this year, much to the joy of his fond parents. Mrs. George W. Gamble of Minneapolis, Minn., arrived in the city Tuesday night to spend the holidays with her brother-in-law and sister-in-law the Rev. and Mrs. John Albert Williams. FOR SALE—High Grade Player Piano on very liberal terms. Inquire Rev. Jno. Albert Williams, WEbster 4243. James G. Pegg came over from Chicago Wednesday and is spending the holidays with his mother, Mrs. John Grant Pegg, 4308 Patrick avenue. Mrs. Joseph LaCour, 2421 Maple street, entertained at Christmas dinner, complimentary to her son, Joseph B., of Kansas City, Mo. Covers were laid for twelve. Mrs. Della Lea has returned to the city after spending several months visiting in the east. FOR RENT—Nice furnished rooms. Strictly modern. Two blocks from car line. Webster 5713.—4t-12-19-24 Mr. John H. Broomfield sent his usual turkey and fixings to the Old Folks Home for their Christmas holidays. This has been one of Mr. Broomfield's pleasures for several years. John and Harold Adams, students at the Nebraska University, are home spending the holidays with their parents, Attorney and Mrs. John Adams FOR SALE—Dorsey's Famous Chicken Shack on West Center street. A fine daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Smith, 2716 Burdette street, December 8th. Mother and daughter doing fine. A fine daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. George H. W. Bullock, 2420 Binney, Monday, December 15. Mother and daughter getting on nicely. CARDS OF THANKS Ogden, H., Dec. 10, 1924 I desire to thank Oziel Chapter 9, 69, O. E. S., of Omaha, Neb., for the prompt payment of my father's, W. H. Johnson, death claim of $200. Mrs. Willie A. Bradshaw. Madam W. Anna Schell, travelling spiritual evangelist. Public demonstrations every Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7 to 10:30. Private readings daily. 1016 Pacific street. Tel. Ja. 2302. 4t-12-26-24 Children's special Christmas service and tree at the Church of St. Philip the Deacon, Sunday night at 7 o'clock. WORK TO PAY NEGRO NURSE Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—In order that they may have a nurse in the field whose duty it shall be to look after their interests, colored people have sought and gained permission from the proper authorities to sell Christmas seals, the money from which will be used to pay the nurse. They are represented by a committee which is a part of the Davidson County Anti-Tuberculosis Association. (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) New York, Dec. 26.-Dr. W. S. Scarborough, the noted Negro educator and scholar, author of a Greek text book that is used in the colleges of the country, and former president of Wilberforce university, was honored at a public reception tendered by the colored citizens of New York, at the public library, 103 W. 135th street, on Tuesday evening, December 12th. A large audience of representative citizens was present, and joined in the tribute that was paid to the distinguished citizen and educator. Dr. Scarborough was praised as a scholar, as a distinguished citizen, and as one of the most prominent educators of the country. RACE RELATIONS REPORTED IMPROVING Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—A comprehensive survey of what interracial committees throughout the South are doing to promote better relations between the races is embodied in the annual report just issued for general distribution by the Commission of Interracial Cooperation, with headquarters in this city. Entitled "Progress in Race Relations", the report is a twenty-page pamphlet packed with stories of concrete achievements in better educational facilities, health campaigns, anti-lynching crusade, legal aid, adjustments of differences, provision of public utilities, the study of race relations in church and college groups, the work of women's organizations in this field, and the co-operation of the press. All the southern states except Arkansas and Florida are covered by the survey and results are cited reaching down into a great number of local communities. According to the report, the provision of better Negro schools has been a major objective everywhere, followed closely by efforts, for better sanitation, hospital accommodations, street improvement, library and playground facilities, justice in the courts, agricultural training, the care of delinquents, improved conditions of travel, and other advantages essential to the development of the colored race in character and efficiency. BEATS YOUNG HARRY WILLS Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press)—Al Markle, white, of Philadelphia, had the better of Young Harry Wills in the eight-round wind-up at the North Side club here last Monday night. Wills won three rounds, including a knockdown, but the white boy from Philly overcame this lead and won four rounds and one was even. Kid Lamont, a local boy, won over Young Battling Ski in six sessions. AGED WOMAN DIES Delaware City, Del., Dec. 26.—(By the Associated Negro Press.)—Mrs. Caroline Bayard, the oldest resident of this state, died recently at the age of 105 years. It was reported that she had remarkable possession of her faculties up to the end. Recently she had been slightly deaf. Mrs. Bayard voted at the election in November, and had also cast her ballot at each primary and general election since the advent of women suffrage. SOUTHERN WHITE MAN INVADES HOME TO SHOOT COLORED MAN'S WIFE (N. A. A. C. P, Press Service) The story of a murder committed by a Southern white man of South Carolina, upon the wife of a peaceable and respected colored man, was forwarded by the N. A. A. C. P. from the Anderson, S. C., Daily Mail of December 8. The white murderer, Joe Wright, not only deliberately killed the colored woman but accidentally wounded one of her children. Wright has been charged by the colored husband about a year ago, of a crime against his wife. The colored man had Wright indicted on charges of such a crime and the case had been twice postponed. It was due to be heard before the court of general sessions at Abbeville, in January. On December 6, Wright who was motoring with some friends, all of whom having gotten whiskey, stopped before the colored man's home. Wright said, according to the Anderson Daily Mail: "I generally drive my own car, but I was a little too full, and I got one of the boys to drive for me. I was riding and telling him which way to go. I had the car stopped and they thought, I guess, that I had gone in there for some whiskey. "I went in and did what I intended to do and came back out, and got in the car and told them to drive on. I told 'em that I had killed a dam nigger woman." Te colored man, his wife and their children were seated at.dinner when the white man burst into the room, and with the question: "Where's Rebecca?" opened fire and continued shooting while the woman jumped up and ran out of the door. Wright went to the door and continued firing, backing out then and rejoining his companions. The Anderson Daily Mail, commenting editorially upon the crime, asks for justice against the murderer, and says: "It is useless for us to tell of what would have happened had the positions been reversed—had it been a Negro man who entered the home of a white man and committed such a crime—for everyone knows what would have happened. We do not want, with maudlin sentiment, to attempt to prejudice the case against the prisoner; nor do we want to array class and color in such a manner as to argue for his acquittal. We do, though, want to remind those from whom there has always arisen such a howl for the observance of the law, that here is an opportunity to prove sincerity." THE GLORIOUS GOLDEN WEST! Most of us have been poor, one time or another, out here in the boundless West, and been up against all kinds of rocky roads and hard propositions. We have not always had pie for dinner, porterhouse steak for supper, or spike-tailed coats and decolle gowns for evening receptions, where the floral decorations cost a fortune. We have pioneered and blazed the trails over deserts and across mountains, fighting our way against heavy odds to wrest this great western empire from the wild and odoriferous redskin, the yelping coyote and the government, and in turning it into a land of plenty, where milk and honey sprout spontaneous from the fertile valleys and gold and silver rolls gleaming down the mountain sides, where fruit and flowers vie in almost tropical luxuriance, where the climate will grow positively anything—whiskers on the statute of Liberty Enlightening the World, if she would but hike toward the setting sun—where the placid Pacific cools the heated brows of great cities and growing hamlets, we have bumped up against vicissitudes that would have daunted hearts less strong and minds that were weak. More often in the days that are past have we ridden bronchos than automobiles, and it is little we know about the ethics of the New York four hundred, and still less about the rottenness and immorality of Newport's high society, but we have learned things from Nature and from Nature's God of far more value to the human race and to the upbuilding of a nation so great that the pulse of the world throbs and is regulated by it. The West is the home of brave men and true women. Our shirt bosoms may not shine with rare diamonds, but beneath them beat hearts of gold. We of the West have been thrown in constant contact with Nature and with God's own handwork of ocean, mountain and plan, and the vastness and sublimity of it all have become a part of ourselves. LINCOLN'S LETTER Dear Madam:—I have been shown in the files of the war department a statement of the adjutant general of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously in the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, AERBAHAM LINCOLN. WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR FREE DELIVERY I. LEVY, Druggist 24th and Decatur Webster 5802 THE MONITOR AIR MAIL SERVICE READY FOR WINTER Cross-Continent Flying to Go On Unhampered. Omaha.—An unprecedented contingency for the United States government, that of operating the transcontinental air mail service throughout the winter months, will be met satisfactorily if the already completed plans of the government are carried out, according to Carl F. Egge, general superintendent of the air mail service. Mr. Egge, at his headquarters here, has announced that the cross-continent flying service will go on regular schedule, hampered only slightly, if at all, by snowstorms and blizzards. Every air mail flying base and emergency landing station has been equipped with winter flying facilities, "monkey suits" for pilots, stoves to heat water and gasoline, protection of beacon lights, and skills to be attached to the landing gear in case heavy snowfalls present the use of wheels. The "monkey suit," Mr. Ege explained, has been adopted after extensive experimenting with various flying garments. The suit, fur-lined, includes everything from helmet to socks. The electrically heated suit, the air mail chief said, transmits heat too rapidly, affording no even heat for the comfort of pilots. In addition the cockpit of every plane will be heated by a pipe running from the engine parallel to, and on top of, the exhaust pipe. This new arrangement, the speaker declared, prevented fumes from entering the tonneau, as was the case when the cockpit was heated direct from the exhaust pipe. All main beacon lights, from Hazelhurst field, New York, to San Francisco, Cal., have been equipped with plate glass housing, assuring pilots of adequate guiding lights even in the heaviest of storms. The wheel landing gear, plots have found, can be used in case of a 10 or 12-inch snowfall, but in excess of this, the ski landing apparatus must be employed. This winter landing apparatus is on hand at every field. SAYS SUN IS OVER BILLION YEARS OLD Princeton Astronomer Accepts Theory of Britisher. Princeton, N. J.—Ten thousand billion years probably are no longer than the life of a star, Henry Norris Russell, head of the department of astronomy in Princeton university, said when he voiced his agreement with the theory recently advanced by Professor Eddington and Doctor Jeans, English astronomers. "The sun has undoubtedly shone for more than a billion years," Professor Russell said. "Assuming as Professor Eddington does that matter in the interior of stars may be gradually converted into energy to supply these losses, the life of a star probably exceeds ten thousand billion years. "Having accepted this, a serious difficulty regarding the origin of the solar system is removed. The best hypothesis so far is that which assumes that planets owe their existence to eruptions from the sun produced by the close approach of another star to the sun. This was first suggested by Professors Chamberlin and Moulton of the University of Chicago." Professor Russell explained how it could be demonstrated that the approach of one star close enough to another to cause eruptions would be an excessively rare occurrence. If the stars have been shining for only a few hundred million years, few indeed would have planetary systems around them, he said, adding that if, as Professor Eddington suggests, the stars have existed 100,000 times longer than this, it is probable that large numbers of stars are attended by planets. "We have no hope at present of finding out which ones are the centers of such systems, for the planets are so small in comparison with the interstellar distances that no human means of observation could detect the ones like those in our system if they revolved about even the nearest star," Professor Russell said. "Among a large number of planetary systems there would probably be many planets which were potentially habitable, having the proper temperature and suitable supplies of air and water. We can hardly say what chances there are that life would actually exist on such planets, because we know virtually nothing of how life originated on the earth. The forms which life might take on another planet are of course matters of pure speculation. "It may be added that although the new point of view makes it probable enough that life has existed or will exist in many places in the sidereal universe we are not yet in a position to say how many of these would occur at the same time. It is fairly likely that the time during which any planet is actually the abode of life is but a small fraction of the life of the star about which it revolves." H. A. CHILES & CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS Chapel Phone, Web. 7133 Res. Phone, Web. 6349 1839 No. Twenty-fourth St. fear Are you self-conscious about the impression you make on people? PERSONAL appearance has a lot to do with the way you feel. Clothes count, of course. 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PAGE FOUR 区 ELECTRONS HEARD BY NEW RADIO DEVICE One Hundred Thousandfold Amplification Used. Ann Arbor, Mich.—Experiments by which scientists have been able to listen to the movement of electrons, the smallest particles of matter, were described here by Dr. A. W. Hull of the research laboratory of the General Electric company, at the annual meeting of the American Physical society. The vacuum tube amplifier in which the amplification is carried to a hundred thousandfold, and with which a millionfold can be reached, makes this possible, Doctor Hull stated. The sound produced by the electrons is caused by bombardment of the plate by electrons, released from the hot filament. It is these electrons which carry the current and which make the operation of the tube possible. The noise is therefore a fundamental property of electron emission, a characteristic of the electron, according to Doctor Hull. The experiments have been conducted jointly by Doctor Hull and Dr. H. H. Williams of the University of Michigan at the university. Called Schrot Effect. The noise, due to the electrical oscillation which is set up by the impacts of the individual electrons on the plate, is known as the Schrot effect. The energy of each blow is extremely minute, but, like rain drops, the energies of the many individual impacts add, and their sum becomes very large. With sufficient amplification, Doctor Hull stated, the blows may produce a roar like that of Niagara. The electron is the unit charge of electricity and the determination of its value is of the utmost importance. The oil drop method, devised by Professor Milliken in the physics laboratory of the University of Chicago, gave science its first accurate measurements of the charge of the electron. Accurate as the experiments are, however, it is desirable that they be checked by some independent method. Milliken's method of measuring the charge of an electron is based on the influence of gravity and of electric charges on minute oil "droplets." These droplets are so small that the effect of gravity causes them to fall only a quarter of an inch in ten seconds. In the formation of these small drops with an atomizer, occasionally one becomes charged through friction; for example; it may carry an additional electron. If, then, the droplet is between two electrically charged plates, it will behave differently from the uncharged particles, Doctor Hull stated. Those which are not charged will fall. The charged particles will be attracted to the positive plate. By the use of the proper voltage between the plates, these charged particles can be made to fall more slowly, held stationary, or caused to move upward. If two electrons, instead of one, are held by the droplet, the effect is doubled. Measurements made by this method give the value of the electronic charge very exactly. In recognition of the importance of this work, the Nobel prize in science for last year was awarded to Professor Milliken. Opens Up New Field. Doctors Hull and Williams have measured the charge of the electron in a different way, by means of the Schrot effect, and have opened a field for research which promises to add to the knowledge regarding the electron and its properties. It was not such a long time ago that the electron was unknown, the speaker declared. First scientists had the molecule, itself so small that man's ability ever to see even one of the largest may seriously be doubted. Then came the atom, the minute integral part of the molecule. For a long time the atom was considered as the ultimate particle of matter. But each element presents a different atom. Science was not content to rest. It sought to connect all phenomena, and the electron was the result. It was discovered that all matter is composed of electrons, the different substances resulting from the different properties possessed by the atoms according to the number and arrangement of the electrons they contain. Woman Mail Carrier Lansing, Mich.—For 21 years Mrs. M Wood has driven a rural mail route here. Mrs. Wood has the second heaviest route out of Lansing, delivering mail to 450 families. British Woman, 106, Is Looking for Mate Tiptree, England—Mrs. Betsy Pennick, who was a debutante when Victoria became queen of England in 1837, is on the look-out for a husband. She is 106 years old and still going strong. Having just recovered from a period of illness, she says she wants someone to provide for her for the rest of her days. Mrs. Pennick was married 86 years ago, but has been a widow for 40 years. She is thought to be the oldest of King George's subjects in England. TRACE ORIGIN OF AMERICAN PEOPLE To Use as Guide in Fixing Immigration Quotas. Washington.—The task of tracing the family tree of the American people is under way, representatives of the secretaries of state, commerce and labor having begun investigations to determine the broad lines of national origin for use as a permanent guide in fixing immigration quotas. Ancestors or descendants of particular individuals are not being considered in the study, which was provided for in the immigration act of 1924, their place for the purpose of the nation's genealogy being taken by statistics of immigration and emigration, rates of increase of population as shown by successive decennial censuses and such other data as may be found to be reliable. Monographs prepared by the census bureau and by the Department of Labor are being used in the work of determining as accurately as possible the origin of the homo-American. The investigation is expected to continue a year and the results must be formulated by April 1, 1927, the date when President Coolidge, under the law, must proclaim the new quotas fixed according to the ratio of the alien origins of the American people. The present quotas are determined on the basis of the census of 1890. William R. Vallance, assistant to the solicitor of the State department, and Col. Lawrence Martin, chief of the division of maps, library of congress, represent the State department in the investigation. Dr. Joseph A. Hill, assistant to the director of the census, and Laverne Beales, expert on population statistics, represent the secretary of commerce, and W. W. Husband, commissioner general of immigration, and A. E. Reitzel, assistant solicitor acting as alternate for Ethelbert Stewart, are the members for the secretary of labor. Intricate System Guards Gem Dealers' Offices New York—in the wholesale jewelry district of this city, where millions of dollars in diamonds and precious stones are daily handled, extraordinary precautions are taken against possible holdups. It is, of course, a simple matter to provide burglar-proof vaults. In buying and selling precious stones it is necessary, however, to remove the gems from the safes to display and examine them. The offices where fortunes in gems are handled are ingeniously safeguarded. The casual visitor to these offices will scarcely notice precautions to guard against attack. The offices usually contain an outer room enclosed by high partitions. The only employee in evidence is behind a small window. When the visitor satisfies the observer at the window, and not before, a door is opened in the partition, and on his entering is quickly closed. The office is divided into a series of rooms, each closed with high partitions. To enter any one the door is opened by the observer behind the window in the outer office. It is impossible to gain entrance to one of these inner rooms without the help of a man in the outer office. Once inside, the door is fastened, and it can only be opened from the desk outside. Should a holdup be attempted in the outer office the thief would find himself confronted by a formidable series of barriers. Should the man in the office be overcome the doors to the inner rooms would remain locked. Let the thief attempt to hold up anyone after gaining admission to the office and he would be locked in without the assistance of the man in the outer office. Six Years After War Mines Still a Menace Copenhagen.-Recent reports disclose the presence of drifting mines in the Baltic as a menace to shipping, and it is evident that official reports as to the clearance of mines in these waters are not to be wholly trusted. It is believed that any storm might dislodge the units of some mine field laid during the war, and it is argued that dangerous mines, frozen up in the ice of winter, may well float about until next spring and then reappear in totally unexpected locations. In Steeple, Saves Church London.-Sir Frank Dyson, astronomer royal, while testing the big telescope at Greenwich observatory turned it on London. A church steeple caught his eye. He observed a menacing crack at the base of the steeple. Although the church was ten miles away he measured the crack with the instruments used to determine lunar distances and was convinced it was dangerous. It was difficult for him to find out where the church was, because the magnification was so great only the steeple showed in the telescope's field, but with the aid of a large scale map and instruments Dyson placed the church. He telephoned the vicar, who when he heard a voice say the astronomer royal wished to warn him his steepe was about to fall thought it was a practical joke. Sir Frank finally prevailed upon him to examine the steepe, in which was found the crack which, invisible from the ground, was so dangerous the church has been closed. Ohio Wesleyan University Gets John Wesleyan's Cane Delaware, Ohio—Frank S. Monnett of Columbus, former attorney general of Ohio, has given Ohio Wesleyan university a riding cane carried by Rev. John Wesley. The cane will be displayed permanently in the Ohio Wesleyan library, along with other valuable relics. Mr. Monnett, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan in the class of 1880, recently came into possession of the cane during his trip to England. The founder of Methodism is said to have left the cane by accident in a London coach operated by Thomas Park, a follower of Wesley's teachings. Park preserved the cane and took the first opportunity to return it. Meanwhile, however, Rev. Mr. Wesley had purchased another; so he presented Park with his original riding cane. The cane since has been preserved continuously in the Park family. During a trip to England last summer Mr. Monnett was a guest at the home of Sir John Powell, a relative of T. E. Powell of Columbus. Sir John Powell is a descendant of the Powell family which originally owned the land upon which Ohio Wesleyan university stands. During Mr. Monnett's visit Cecil Wellington, great grandson of Thomas Park and for many years a chauffeur for Sir John Powell, presented the riding cane to him with the understanding that it was to be brought to America and presented to Ohio Wesleyan. Capt. Eagle and Priv. Hawk Real Birdmen Washington. — Capt. G. I. Eagle, late of the office of the chief of air service of the War department and now of Bolling field, whose name has been used in many puns upon the air service, has at last found companionship. It appears that there is a Private Hawk in the air service, too. Hit by Burglar, Woman Traps Him in Close Philadelphia. — How Mrs. Sarah Kaufman unwittingly trapped and almost caused the death of a burglar who had felled her unconscious was revealed 15 hours after the attack. Then a closet door in the Kaufman home was opened by police and out fell the burglar nearly unconscious. Mrs. Kaufman was passing through a room on the second floor on the way to her bedroom when she was felled by a blackjack. Police say that in falling she struck the closet door into which her assailant had darted, and closed it, the spring lock snapping. Her husband found her unconscious and took her to the Misericordia hospital. She was able to return home the same day and was passing through the room where she had been assaulted when she heard a faint scraping noise in the closet. Going to the door she heard a faint breathing and called the police. As the officers opened the door a youth, who later said he was Melvin Barnes, eighteen, of Galveston, Texas, fell out, almost unconscious from lack of air. He admitted later he had broken into the house, but denied striking Mrs. Kaufman. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DEFENDANT To Hurrel Greenway, Non-Resident Defendant: You are hereby notified that on the 29th day of July, 1924, Marie Greenway, as plaintiff, filed a petition in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, against you as defendant, the object and prayer of which are to obtain a divorce from you on the ground of desertion. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 22nd day of December, 1924. When You Are In Town EAT AT PEAT'S RESTAURANTS If you desire home cooking at prices that please, you get both here. THE MONITOR For Rent ROOMS ROOMS FOR RENT—Strictly modern. Rents reasonable. 2433 Franklin street. 4t-12-26 FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms, 2536 Patrick avenue. Two blocks from car line. 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