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LIFTING :: :: LIFT TOO $2.00 a Year— Copy CHURCHES AND JUSTICE FOR NEGRO AT RECENT MEET Copy Representative Federal Council Majors on the Christianizing of Relations Between Races in Country MUCH PROGRESS IS REPORTED Vigorous Stand Now Being Taken by Representatives of Twenty Millions of American Protestants (By Associated Negro Press) Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 1.—The Christianizing of race relations was a major topic at the quadrennial meeting of the Federal Council of Churches, just concluded here. That subject shared with war alone the first place in the thought and discussions of the Council, which is composed of 400 representatives of twenty-eight denominations having an aggregate membership of twenty millions. Two entire sessions were given over wholly to the question of race relations, while incidentally the subject was constantly coming forward throughout the entire work of the meeting. AA number of powerful appeals for the application of Christian principles to race relations were made from the platform, the chief speakers being Dr. M. Ashby Jones, chairman of the commission on interracial Co-operation, Bishop F. F. Reese, President John Hope of Morehouse college, Bishop George C. Clements and Dr. E. T. Johnson. The council adopted a vigorous paper on this subject, setting forth its principles and outlining policies for the next four years. This will be given to the press at an early date. OMEGA PSI PHI HOLDS ITS ANNUAL MEETING AT NATIONAL CAPITO (By Associated Negro Press) Washington, D. C., Jan. I—The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity held its annual meeting here from December 27-31. This fraternity, the first of its kind to be organized in a colored institution of learning, has chapters in fifty four schools and cities throughout the United States and Canada. More than five hundred delegates and members registered for the convention. On the evening of December 27th the visiting delegates and members met in a pow-wow. Dr. C. Herbert Marshall, Jr., grand marshall of the fraternity presiding. The annual public meeting was held Sunday, December 28, in the Andrew Rankin Memorial chapel, Howard University campus at four o'clock. After remarks by Attorney John W. Love, the grand basilicus of the fraternity, President J. Stanley Durkee of Howard University, delivered the address of welcome. William Stuart Nelson, international student and journalist, discussed the "World Outlook of the Negro." The annual address was delivered by Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, Gamma Theological Seminary, Atlanta Ga. Music for the occasion was furnished by Carl Diton, the noted musician and composer of Philadelphia. On Monday morning, December 29th, a delegation of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity was received by the president of the United States after which the entire convention went to the Arling National cemetery to place wreaths upon the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and upon the grave of Colonel Charles Young. The late Col. Young was one of the early members of the fraternity. N. A. A. C. P. SECRETARY TO RADIO SPEECH ON "AMERICAN NEGRO POETS AND POETRY (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) A radio address on "American Negro Poets and Their Poetry", illustrated by readings from the work of himself and other poets, will be delivered by James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The address has been arranged for by the Radio Corporation of America and will be broadcast on Station WJY, at 10 p. m., Thursday, January 8, 1925. EXPENSIVE JELLY (By Associated Negro Press) Columbia, S. C., Jan. 1.—Although they said they had taken a jar of jelly from & house because they were hungry and wanted something to eat, James Sachel, James Webber and Lester Hill were fined $100 each or 30 days on the chain gang. C. L. Curry, Sr., cobbler. Shop in rear of 1520 North Twenty-sixth street. Work called for and delivered. WEbster 2792. THE MONITOR NEGRO UNITS URGED TO SEND RECORDS (By Associated Negro Press) Washington, D. C., Jan. 1.—The War Department is sending out requests to ex-soldiers that all soldiers send in any paper which they might have which would throw light on the participation in the war of units to which they were assigned. The papers are desired so that the historical section of the general staff may complete a series of monographs covering the American army's work during the late conflict. "Because it is a notorious fact, that little attempt was made to keep the records of the various units in which colored soldiers were engaged" and because there is a desire to have the colored troops receive whatever credit they deserve in the annals of the war, the Lincoln Legion is urging all colored men to respond to the call. If preferred they may send their papers to the officers of the Lincoln Legion, the colored ex-service men's organization, who will forward them. Lieut. George Lee, 390 Beale Avenue, Memphis, Tenn., is president; Monroe Mason, Prudential Bank Building, Washington, D. C., organizer; and Major West Hamilton, Washington, D. C., sentinel, are the officers. $8,250 SCIENCE HALL AT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY (By Associated Negro Press) Oxford, Pa., Jan. 1. The full amount needed for the new Science Hall at Lincoln university—$82,500—has now been secured. Architect's plans are being rapidly prepared and work will be begun as soon as the weather permits in the spring. The building will be made of red brick with limestone trimmings. CAPTURED IN CHICKEN COOP By Associated Negro 1-2-3 Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 1. -After a battle with a patrolman, in which he was badly battered up and taken to the Howard hospital for treatment, where he pretended that he was very drunk, Edward Hughes, 29, of 2810 Van Pelt street, dove through a window to the street, and was captured in a chicken coop at Thirteenth and Carpenter streets, where he was posing as a bulldog on guard. He was charged with robbing meters. DUNBAR'S WIDOW HELPS WRITE NEW SONG (By Associated Negro Press) New York, N. Y., Jan. 1. Alice Dunbar Nelson and Florence Cole Talbert, the concert artist, have collaborated upon the production of an official song for the Delta Theta sorority. Lyrics and music of the number are equally beautiful. It is published in The Delta, official organ of the body of Greek letter girls. HAS SEVENTY-NINE WIVES (By Associated Negro Press) Johannesburg, Africa, Jan. 1.—The existence of a native who has seventy-nine wives, by whom he has had one hundred and thirty-four sons and fifty daughters, is reported in the new report of the census, the most formidable blue-book ever published in the union. The native lives in Zoutpansberg district, where, according to the blue-book he has a rival with 110 wives. This man has fifty-one sons and forty-two daughters by fifty-five wives, no wife having more than three children. TAKE NEW BLOW AT THE JAPANESE (By Associated Negro Press) San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 1.—Sixty thousand Japanese are deprived of their farm interests in this state by a decision of the United States supreme court during the past week upholding the validity of the so-called anti-croping contract provision in this state's anti-alien land law. These persons must either quit farming altogether or remain only in the capacity of wage earners. EX-SLAVE LEAVES $1,000 (By Associated Negro Press) New York, N. Y., Jan. 1. When the will of Mrs. Julia Washington, 90 years old when she died, was filed for probate here during the week, it was discovered that she had left more than $1,000 to friends living in the city. Mrs. Washington was formerly a slave, but had left the South at the end of the Civil War and lived North. The money was left to Lee Clayton and his wife and Mr. Clayton's son and wife, who live at 1,737 Van Buren avenue. Some merchants say that they are so well known they do not need to advertise. Some cemeteries are well known, also, but there is nothing doing around them. NEBRASKA'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1925 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS GOOD INTENTIONS OH-H-H-H!! AW-W-W-W!! RESOLVE (Copyright, W. N. B.) Colored Youth's Drawing Is Selected For Carnegie Steel Co. Beautiful Art Calendar CARELESSNESS DESTROYS HUMANITY AND INDUSTRY SAFETY FIRST INSPIRES INDUSTRY AND PRESERVES HUMANITY EDGAR THOMSON WORKS LEON WADDY AGE 18 SENIOR B BRADDOCK HIGH SCHOOL BRADDOCK. PA. A Calendar for 1925 just put out by the Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is one of the broadcast and most original ideas in the broadcasting of safety toward which this company's extensive work along this line has been turned. It is purely a safety calendar, the result of work by the company's General Safety Committee, and each of the illustrations on twelve pages of the calendar carries a lesson in safety, conceived and executed by a school pupil in towns or cities where the company maintains a steel plant. The idea first took form early in 1923 when the safety committee arranged a Safety Poster Contest in the public and parochial schools of the mill communities. Three cash prizes CARELESS DES H AN SAFETY FI INSPI IND AB C PR HU were awarded in each community, as well as a number of special cash prizes and several honorable mentions. Approximately 7,500 posters were submitted by the various school pupils and these were judged by a committee individual to each town or community, usually being composed of an art teacher or artist, the general superintendent of the plant, and a school principal or supervisor. The general class of the work of the young class was of such a high grade, and a demonstration of the excellent work of the American Public School System, the ideas of what safety meant being so well illustrated, that it was decided to present this excellent work to the public in the form of a calendar, and the first attempt along this line was the one for 1924. So enthusiastically was this received, especially by the teachers' organizations throughout the country that it was decided early in the year to repeat the contest and to present another calendar, which just has been issued. In this last poster contest about 7,600 posters were submitted from which were selected, by the General Safety Committee, one for each month of the year, for the calendar. Each of these pages bears an exact reproduction of the poster drawn by a school pupil, and selected for this purpose. Each plant too is represented on one of the pages. Every line of the child's work is reproduced and every color maintained by a four-color process of the printer's art. A portrait of each child appears at the side of the poster with his or her name, age, grade, school and home community, thereby carrying a brief sketch of the child artist. In selecting the posters for the calendar, the Safety Committee did not confine itself to the prize winners, but rather was guided by the idea portrayed and that representing NESS ATTROYS HUMANITY INDUSTRY IRST IRES INDUSTRY AND RESERVES HUMANITY EDGAR THOMSON WORKS LEON WADDY AGE 18 SENIOR B BRADDOCK HIGH SCHOOL BRADDOCK. PA. each community, and having each poster displayed carry an individual idea. The front cover of the calendar, done in black and soft grey tones, carries an illustration of the Company's Safety Trophy for 1925 with a story of the composition. It was conceived and executed by Guisseppe Moretti of Pittsburgh. This is the fourth year that a safety trophy of this nature has been put into competition among this company's plants. It is of bronze, twenty-one inches high, and is awarded in perpetuum at the end of the year to the plant making the greatest reduction in accident records. Leon M. Waddy Among the twelve calendar posters there is one by a colored boy. This boy, Leon M. Waddy, is a native of Pennsylvania. He lives in Rankin, Pa., where he was born eighteen years ago. His father and mother are both natives of Virginia but have lived in Rankin for more than thirty years. The father, Richard M. Waddy, came from Louisa, Va., determined to earn some of the big money that was being made in this section at the time. He also had in mind that he was going to marry the sweetheart that he had left behind him. As soon as he had worked several years he returned to Virginia and married his present wife, Lucy. At the time Mr. Waddy was employed at the Carrie Furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, at Rankin, Pa. Soon after his marriage he was placed on the police force of Rankin where he has served for the last twenty years. He has served well for today he is a lieutenant and is respected as one of the best men on the force. In the Waddy family there are seven living children: Della, aged 20, secretary to the principal of the Rankin public school. Leon, aged 18, senior in the Braddock high school. Marie, aged 16, and Louise, aged 15, both in the Braddock high school; Herbert, aged 13; Kenneth, aged 11, and Ethel, aged 9, all attending the graded school in Rankin. The chief ambition of Mr. Waddy and his wife is to give their children a good education. Young Waddy is quite different from most of the boys who live in the neighborhood. He is not interested in athletics of any kind so far as taking part in them himself, but is a loyal rooter at all if the games for his school teams. As he himself says he does not have time to play. From early childhood he has been anxious to become a physician. His parents have encouraged him in this ambition, but have told him that he must earn his way through. Therefore, in the summer months Leon works in the mills—the money he thus earns is laid aside to pay his way through college. In the class room he is only an average student. However, there is one subject at which he excels. From the time he entered public school until the present time he has been interested in drawing. His father says that since he first could hold a pencil he has been copying or tracing pictures from books and magazines. In the Rankin grades school from which he graduated in 1921 his marks in drawing always were exceptionally good. In his second year in high school he contributed several drawings to the Red and White, the school magazine. In his junior year he received the highest honor that the school bestows in art when he was appointed by the faculty as one of the two art editors of the Red and White. Early in 1924 when the poster contest was started at the high school, Waddy decided to enter it. He with the other art editor, Kozan, contributed their drawings. The picture of Kozan's won the prize for the district and that of Waddy's was second. When the selection for the calendar was made, however, the drawing of Waddy's was selected. Leon is very proud of his work and says that no matter what he takes up in life, he will always have his art as his hobby. Wilberforce, Ohio, Jan. 1.—At the annual football dinner given in honor of the 1924 football squad, Mike Wooldridge, regular end, was elected captain for the 1925 season. During the entire football season not a gain was made around his end. Whole Number 495 RECREATIONAL CENTERS DOING IMPORTANT WORK (By Associated Negro Press) New York, Jan. 1.—Throughout America there has been developed a keen appreciation of the fact that there must be recreation or "play periods" for all, old and young. The National Recreation Movement, under the auspices of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, of which Ernest T. Attwell is the national field director of racial work, has had a successful year, making available such facilities and community programs as will offer greater opportunities for colored people to enjoy playgrounds, community centers and wholesome recreation considered important factors in their social, moral and economic life. The playground census indicates 680 cities in which playgrounds are operated; for the particular use of all people or in neighborhoods largely populated by Negroes 42 centers operated for adults; 133 cities where colored people are being reached through community recreation program. The community service effort has been in the direction of year-round activities in leisure time activities, which have included music, drama and social recreation. 106 YEARS OLD; SUES FOR DIVORCE (By Associated Negro Press) Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 1.—Charging that she had deserted him for five years, William Smith appeared before the Ware county superior court last week and filed suit for divorce from his wife, Mrs. Lou Hinton Smith. Smith is 106 years old and has been married to his present wife for thirty years. CONVICTS GET CHRISTMAS PARDONS (By Associated Negro Press) Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 1.—Eight of the convicted men sentenced to 21 years in the state penitentiary for complicity in the "Elaine riots" were granted indefinite furloughs by Gov. Mrae just before Christmas. The eight men released two days before Christmas were: Will Barnes, Sikes Fox, John Ratcliff, Gilmore Jenkins, Sam Wilson, Charles Jones, Ed Mitchell and Will Perkins. All except Perkins had been at the state prison farm at Cummins since their conviction. COURAGEOUS COLLEGE MEN William Monroe Trotter, Neval H. Thomas By Kelly Miller. Those of us who have kept close watch of the output of our schools and colleges for the past twenty years are often forced to ask ourselves the question: Is the young Negro collegian fulfilling the hopes and expectations entertained for him in the earlier years? The first output of the college, naturally enough, was baptized with the spirit of racial service and zeal. The good missionaries who came down from the North brought the Bible in their right hand and the secular text book in the left. One can only impart that which he has. Their soul was full to overflowing love for God and service to man. The zeal of the missionary was upon them. They believed in the Negro and he believed in them. Grimke, Crogman, Simmons, Geo. W. Moore, Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson are sample fruits of their labors. But in these later days a new element, if not a new spirit has crept into our education. The mercenary motive has all but supplanted missionary zeal as the aim and objective of the higher education of the Negro. We may naturally expect this spirit to be reflected in the new college issue. Educational equipment and facilities have greatly increased since the earlier day. The work of the college has been multiplied in efficiency. We laugh today at the faculty and facilities of thirty years ago. And yet the trismis is as true today when it first fell from the mouth of Paul: "The letter killeth, the spirit maketh alive." The educator of Negro youth years for the return of that social spirit which actuated the youth a generation ago. Then every student was preparing to reclaim and uplift his race; now the burden of his ambition is to achieve a distinguished career. Then the objective of his ambition was social, now it is essentially selfish. I do not enter into wholesale condemnation of the younger college men. They are just as worthy and of just as noble nature as their elder brothers who have gone before them. But the times have changed. The whole end and aim of college culture is being transformed by the allurements of the times. The most helpful indication of the younger college men is seen in the organization of fraternities and sororities. They are anxious to har- (Continued on Page 2) GROWING :: :: :: :: THANK YOU Vol. X-No. 27 RADICAL DECLINE IN LYNCHING EVIL DURING PAST YEAR Tuskegee Records Show That Sixteen Persons Were Victims of Mob Murder During the Ytar of 1924 NEGRO AMERICANS VICTIMS Forty-five Instances in Which Officers of the Law Prevented Lynchings—Two Women Were Thus Saved Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Dec. 31. I send you the following lynchings for the past year as compiled by Tuskegee Institute in the Department of Records and Research. I find there were sixteen persons lynched in 1924. This is the smallest number lynched in any year since records of lynchings have been kept, and is seventeen less than the number thirty-three for the year 1923 and forty-one less than the number fifty-seven for the year 1922. Nine of the persons lynched were taken from the hands of the law, six from jails and three from officers of the law outside of jails. There were forty-five instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Two women, one white and one colored, were among those thus saved. Eight of these preventions of lynchings were in northern states and thirty-seven in southern states. In thirty-six of the cases the prisoners were removed or the guards augmented or other precautions taken. In nine other instances, armed force was used to repel the would be lynchers. In four instances during the year persons charged with being connected with lynching mobs were indicted. Of the nineteen persons thus before the courts only five were convicted. These were given jail sentences. Of the sixteen persons lynched all were Negroes. Seven or less than one half of those put to death were charged with rape or attempted rape. The offenses charged were: Murder, one; rape, 5, attempted rape, two; killing officer of the law, two; insulting woman, three; attacking woman, one; killing man in altercation, one; wounding man, one. The states in which lynchings occurred, and the number in each state are as follows: Florida, five; Georgia, two; Illinois, one; Kentucky, one; Louisiana, one; Mississippi, two; Missouri, one; South Carolina, one; Tennessee, one; Texas, one. Yours very truly, R. R. MOTON, Principal. L. C. DYER SENDS N. A. A. C. P. $50 AND COMMENDS WORK (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) New York., Jan. 1.—Congressman Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri, sponsor of the anti-lynching bill bearing his name, has renewed his annual subscription of $50 to the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and has written the following letter, in which he touches on the prospects of the anti-lynching bill: "I want to do the same as I did last year. Hence, I am enclosing a check for $50. The splendid results that you are obtaining should secure for you the help of all good citizens. "The anti-lynch bill should become a law without delay. The House of Representatives is for it and will pass it any time there is any assurance at all that the Senate will do likewise. President Coolidge is for it and will sign the bill if Congress passes it. Hence, our only difficulty is with the Senate. I think, through your organization, these facts should be given wide publicity, so that the people generally can see for themselves that the failure in this respect is due entirely and absolutely to the United States Senate. The best way is for the Senate to take this matter up themselves, through one of their members introducing an anti-lynch bill. When they have passed it, the House will do likewise again, without any delay at all. The President will then sign it. "Wishing you and all of your associates a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I am, "Yours very truly, (Signed) "L. C. DYER." The N. A. A. C. P. is already taking steps to procure the introduction in the Senate of the Dyer anti-lynch bill, as recommended in Mr. Dyer's letter. Mr. Dyer is one of the stauch friends of the N. A. A. C. P., publicly calling attention to its achievements, and giving of his own time and money to further its work. The increase is shown in the total premium income of all companies here. Last year the total premium income was $38,000,000. Indications are that the 1924 figure will exceed $47,000,000. THE MONTTOR A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY 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 WEBsther 4243 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. 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 choicest heritages 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 Black Folk." PAGE TWO THE MO A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED OF COLOREDEN PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY A MONITOR PUBLISH Entered as Second-Class Mail Mattter Omaha, Nebraska, under THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAM W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb. LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR. Advertising Rates Furnish Address, The Monitor, Post Office, Telephone W ARTICLE XIV, CONTAINED Citizenship Rights 1. All persons born or naked and subject to the jurisdiction United States and of the State shall make or enforce any privileges or immunities of citizens shall any state deprive any property without due process of law within its jurisdiction the equi- WHAT WILL YOU DO? AT this time you ought to have some definite thing you wish to and will do your level best to accomplish this year. Let us make one or two suggestions. If you have been spending every penny you have earned why not plan to pinch off some definite sum each week, if it is only $1 or even less and put it in a savings account in some bank. Be sure to put it in a bank. If you keep it in the house you will be more likely to spend it and besides that it will be earning no interest. If you put it in a savings account it will be earning interest. Suppose you do this. The important thing to do is make a start. Why not begin buying a home if you have enough money laid by to make the initial payment? Get something within in reason and in keeping with your income. Don't aim at a $5,000 house when your circumstances will only allow you to handle a $3,000 property. Aim at becoming a home owner. Make a modest beginning and improve as means allow. Then, too, plan to improve your mind by some simple definite course of reading or study. Plan to be more consistent in your religious life. In a word do your level best to improve your condition morally, mentally, religiously and materially during this year. What will you do? Think it over. GIVING HEED AFTER reading our editorial about spending some of our money with coal dealers of our race a woman called and asked us the name of such a dealer because she said she did not know that any colored people were selling coal. We gave her the name of a dependable coal firm. We think that dealer got an order. This shows that people read The Monitor and are guided by its suggestions. It also shows that race firms should use dependable race publications in advertising their business. It pays to advertise. The great firms of Madam C. J. Walker and that of Poro were built up by advertising in Negro newspapers. When Madam Walker began selling her products in Denver one of her first investments was $1.25 spent for advertising. The Walkers and the Malones are outstanding examples of the value of advertising in race publications.—Local business people will gain by giving heed to these suggestions. CO-OPERATION THE Colored Commercial Club and the Roosevelt Post of the American Legion did valuable work in spreading Christmas cheer among the poor and needy. These organizations working jointly distributed forty-six well filled baskets to families who appreciated them. In this connection, it may be of interest to learn that the various agencies working through the Christmas Bureau of the Community Chest sent baskets to 1,908 families. It is gratifying to know that among these agencies were several of our own group. The Colored Elks did 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 explorers and helped in explore the first the foundation of the cause of the rapid growth economic importance. Moder their part also. This spirit of cooperation in all civic and welfare activities is most valuable. By doing our part we will win the recognition of our manhood and citizenship to which we are entitled. DECLINE IN LYNCHINGS THOSE who love America will be pleased to be advised of the decline in lynchings during the past year. The number has fallen to 16. This is a tremendous decline from former years. It demonstrates what the Negro press and the agencies opposing this barbary have steadfastly maintained that when the American people really wanted to lessen, if not eradicate this crime, it would be done. To the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People belongs unstinted commendation for its sane, persistent and well organized fight, since 1911, against this evil. Some day the United States will appreciate the splendid service which has been rendered to our country by the Negro press, pioneers in efforts to arouse the national conscience against this menace and the great organization, the N. A. A. C.P., which organized and carried on the campaign against lynching and whose work is not yet done. Sixteen are just sixteen too many mob murders for Christian America; but when one recalls that the number has fallen from 225 in 1892 to 16 in 1924 it will be seen that decided progress has been made in the blotting out of this menace. COURAGEOUS COLLEGE MEN (Continued from Page One) ness their energies to some noble social cause. The Negro Sanhedrin engages to show them the more excellent way. In my mind two college men stand out most conspicuously for vicious devotion to the welfare of the race. One represents the older generation from the Northern college, and the other the younger breed of the Negro college. William Monroe Trotter is the pioneer Negro collegian who threw himself and all there was in him into the scale of race service and devotion. He has lost all and gained nothing by way of personal recompense. Others have become thrifty on comfortable incomes by reason of racial advocacy and zeal. Frederick Douglass was made all that he was or could have hoped to be by espousing the cause of the freedom of his race. Trotter, alone among Negro collegians of his day, had a choice of ways, but like Moses, the Hebrew collegian in the days of Pharoah, preferred to cast in his lot with his afflicted race rather then enjoy the ways of prosperity for a season. I cannot espouse many of Mr. Trotter's policies and methods. I find myself at vital variance with him in most of his modes of procedure. But I know that it was none other than he who held aloft 1 the light of racial rights when all besides were wavering. He is shot through with a zeal that will not let him go. He will die in the faith he espoused in his youth. It would be a fitting tribute if the college men throughout the country would undertake a race wide testimonial to William Monroe Trotter for thirty years' sacrificial devotion to his race without money and without price. But the main purpose of this article is to set forth the altruistic service and devotion of a younger college man who is in closer touch with the present college generation. Neval H. Thomas was graduated from Howard University in 1901. His spirit and metal showed themselves in his college days. He was always ardently devoted to reform. Immediately upon graduation he entered upon teaching in the Washington high school where he has been engaged ever since. But no pent up Utica contracts his powers. He completed a course in law, not so much with the expectation of practicing that lucrative profession, but in order that he might all the more intelligently serve the cause to which he had consecrated his chief energies. Nor was his light long hid under a bushel. Only a few years after graduation do we find him advocating equal and exact justice for the colored race in the organic act reorganizing the public schools of the District of Columbia. He was the only colored teacher of the entire council that had the temerity to appear before the committees of Congress in this behalf. He insisted in and out of season that the colored schools should share and share alike with the whites in school appropriations, appliances and facilities. His insistence often proved embarrassing to his more moderate and restrained colored superiors. But he insisted all the more. The reformer must always take liberties with the established proprieties. Single handed and alone, Neval Thomas compelled the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to remove restrictions against colored citizens in the restaurant under the court's control. The colored lawyers who were chiefly concerned were in the mean time indifferent or apologetic of existing discrimination. He fought a great department store with large colored patronage and compelled it to remove discrimination at its lunch counter against colored patrons. He also fought segregation in the restaurants of the House and Senate in the United States Capitol. Mr. Thomas has waged ceaseless war upon the city library for refusing to give colored girls the same opportunity for library training as is accorded to the whites. He has well earned the sobriquet: "The John Brown of the District of Columbia". More concrete advantages have come to the colored citizens of the District of Columbia through the temerious advocacy of this college reformer man through all other agencies combined. Washington is heavy laden with college men from the North and from the South, as well as from the East and from the West, but Neval Thomas in the field of reform has wrought more valiantly than they all. The has created the growth on which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People thrives in this jurisdiction. But for him, it would in all probability have therere but feebly like a tender plant out of dry ground. But mainly through his courageous initiative, the local chapter is the largest in the country. Mr. Thomas is a member of the National Board of Directors of the M. A. A. C. P. and is rapidly extending the radius and range of his potent influence. The test of sincerity and genuineness of character is determine THE MONITOR ARD M. WADDY n tioned in story on front page. ed by the response of the common people. The common people will always hear gladly any one who speaks from the heart. As in the water face answerst to face, so the heart of man to the heart of man. Mr. Thomas is the idol of the masses. He speaks their language better than they can speak for themselves. But they know a true note when they hear it. They cannot be fooled by a hollow or artificial voice, however learned or appealing it may appear. Audiences all over the country hang spellbound on his words. Thomas Wentworth Higginson used to say: "If you want to become an orator, join a reform." Mr. Thomas has the oratory of the reformer. He has no new doctrine to proclaim, but repeats the philosophy of Chas, Sumner: "Equality of rights with the i' dotted and the t' crossed". Like William Lloyd Garrison, he will not equivocate nor recede one inch. He has the courage of his cause and cares nothing of the effects upon his personal welfare. He has never received one cent for his racial service, but gives freely of his own means. As in the case of Mr. Trotter, I do not follow Mr. Thomas in all of his moods and methods, but he commands an unlimited measure of my respect and admiration. Many men of many minds. We do not desire that all college men should be like Neval H. Thomas in all of the idicsyncrasies and peculiarities of his mind. But if all possessed the full measure of his sacrifice and devotion our cause would be well on the way of solution. Fifty well-trained, well-poised, consecrated college men turned out yearly from our colleges, well distributed among the callings and professions throughout the mass of the race would put a new edge on the problem in the next half generation. But as things are now trending in the direction of narrow efficiency and selfishness the immediate outlook from the college group fills us with a mixed feeling of hopes and fears. I would place Neval H. Thomas on a pedestal and invite young college men and men to look upon his like, and imitate his courage, his concession and his zeal for his race. December 22, 1924 BURBO Distinctive Apparel for Wom Take Elevator 16th, Between De Anno Every new shade, all sizes, lavishly fur trimmed Don't fail to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity These business and professional firms many of whom belong to our group extend New Year's Greeting to patrons ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Suite 19, Patterson Block 17th and Farnam Sts. 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Porters North Side Market Wishes you all a Happy New Year Our resolution for the New Quality is Remember QUALITY, SERVICE AND Thanking you for ention for the New Year is to maintain our Quality and Proper Service Remember Our Past Reco ILITY, SERVICE, CAREFUL ATTENT AND COURTESY banking you for your past patronage. Signed, "BU Our resolution for the New Year is to maintain our policy of Quality and Proper Service Jackson 3841 ADDRESS BOX 1204 Messrs. Joseph and Dwight Dorsey entertained at Hanscom park pavilion on Friday with a delightful dancing party. Many of the visiting university students as well as some who are now teaching attended. The Girls' High School Athletic Club entertained at Hanscom park pavilion on Monday evening with a dancing party. Some of the former members who are now in the different universities were present. Among these were Miss Ernestine Singleton, Joseph and Dwight Dorsey, Lovejoy Crawford. E. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Peters Trust building, Jackson 3841 or Harney 2156. Miss Ireta Walker of 3124 Maple street, entertained at luncheon Friday afternoon for the Misses Dorothy E Williams, Gladys E. Brown, Audrey Truechart, Alberta Brown, Ruth Jones and Maxine Holmes of Lincoln, Neb. The Birthday Kensington Club was delightfully entertained at the home of Mrs. M. F. Singleton, 2865 Corby street Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Julia Wright, 1918 No. 25th street, entertained at a dinner party Wednesday evening, Dec. 24, in honor of Mr. George Hines, who left for Oakland, Calif., Dec. 25. Covers were laid for fifteen. A. P. Scruggs, lawyer, 220 South Thirteenth street, over Pope's Drug Store. Atlantic 7812. Kenwood 2492. —Adv. Mrs. D. B. Gordon, Miss Inez Gordon and Miss Ione Pinkett, sister and nieces of Attorney H. J. Pinkett, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Pinkett during the holidays. James W. Pegg, who spent the holidays here visiting his mother and other relatives, left Thursday night for Chicago. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms in modern private home, two blocks from car line. Rates reasonable. 2858 Burdette St. Web. 4901. 2t Miss Maxine Holmes of Lincoln, Neb., who was the holiday guest of Miss Gladys E. Brown, 2883 Miami street, has returned to her home. The Impromptu Cooking Club entertained at dinner and cards Monday night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Peoples, 2606 North Thirtieth street. William Ousley of 1516 North Twenty-sixth street has been detained at home for several days by illness. FOR RENT—Nice furnished rooms. Strictly modern. Two blocks from car line. Webster 5731-51-12-19-24 John Lecoste of St. Paul, Minn., spent Christmas week as the guest of his sister, Mrs. A. M. Harrold, Jr., 2602 Binney street. He left for St. Paul Tuesday night. Miss Ruth Seay who spent Christmas with her mother, Mrs. Richard Sealy, returned to St. Joseph, Mo., Sunday to resume teaching in Lincoln school. Miss Dorothy E. Williams after a pleasant two weeks' vacation will leave Saturday for Sedalia, Mo., to resume her duties in Franklin school. 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. 2802. 4t-12-26-24 Miss Frances Gordon, 2418 Binney street, entertained whist Saturday evening. Seven tables were in progress all the evening. Miss Ione Pinkett of Beatrice, Neb, won the first prize for ladies and Miss Maxine Holmes of Lincoln the booby prize. Mr. John Pegg, Jr., won the first prize for men and Mr. Charles Ennis the booby prize. Miss T. P. Mahammitt of 2116 North Twenty-fifth street, has been on the sick list for the last few days. She is reported much better. LOOK—Fine Social Stationery. Two hundred sheets and fifty envelopes printed with your name and address. A dollar bill. Register Press. Hannibal, Mo. Mr. Barnie Evans of 1712 North Twenty-fifth street was seriously hurt in an automobile accident on Christmas day. He is now in the Swedish Mission hospital with a broken knee cap. Mr. Evans is a brother of Mrs. Anna Tubbs of 1712 North Twenty-fifth street and Mrs. Cora Davis of 1136 Park avenue. FOR RENT—Light housekeeping rooms. 1 block from car. All modern conveniences. 1712 North Twenty-fifth street. Webster 405—tf. 5 COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB AND ROOSEVELT POST SPREAD CHRISTMAS CHEER The Colored Commercial Club and the Roosevelt Post of the American Legion made many homes happy by distributing 46 well filled baskets on Christmas Eve. This picture shows the baskets in the rooms of the Colored Mrs. Dennis Harris of 2528 Burdette street, will leave for Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle about the 24th of month. Mrs. Harris will be gone for about two months. The Royal Dukes gave their first dancing party of the season at Dreamland hall, Christmas eve. It was a delightful affair and about 200 guests were present. Mrs. Lulu Harris, formerly of Oakland, Calif., now of Honolulu, is visiting her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. McGill, 2520 Patrick avenue. WIFE OF CAPTAIN GREER DEAD Mrs. J. C. Greer of 3321 Emmett street, died December 27th at Paxton Memorial hospital. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon from Bethel A. M. E. Church, the Rev, Frederick Divers officiating. The deceased who had been an invalid for several months is survived by her husband, Capt. Greer of the Fire Department; four little sons, her mother and four sisters. Despite the unusual cold weather fair sized congregations were present at the Midnight Mass and morning services. The children's festival service was held Sunday night, December 28th, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, at 7 o'clock. After a program of carols and recitations, gifts were distributed from a beautiful tree in the guild room. WEDDING BELLS CHIME AT CHRISTMAS TIME Among the prominent social events of the holiday season was the marriage of Mr. John Lennox Haley to Mrs. Frances Smith, which was solemnized Tuesday evening at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs Frederick Hawkins, 2312 North Twenty-second street, by the Rev. C. A. Williams, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. Church. The affair was a very picturesque one. The bride was handsomely gowned in white satin trimmed in fur. The maid of honor wore a chic gown of green chiffon, while the bridesmaids wore respectively peach and pink creations of the same material. Miss Lucile Raymond was maid of honor; the Misses Sybil Merrifield and Ruby Evans were bridesmaids and little Helen Sherwood ring bearer. The best man was Mr. Harrold Watson. There were one hundred guests at the wedding. After the marriage ceremony a three-course dinner was served. WHERE THE RAINBOW NEVER FADES It cannot be that the earth is man's only abiding place. It cannot be that our life is a mere bubble cast up by eternity to float a moment on its waves and then sink into nothingness, else why is it that the glorious aspirations which leap like angels from the temple of our hearts are forever wandering unsatisfied? Why is it that all the stars that hold their festival around the midnight night are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory? And, finally why is it that bright forms of human beauty presented to our view are taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of our affections to flow back in alpine torrents upon our hearts? There is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread out before us like islands that slumber in the ocean, and where the beautiful beings which now pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. —George D. Prentice. It is better to sleep over what you are going to do than to be kept awake afterward by what you have done. Commercial Club, ready for distribution and the committee in charge. Those in the group are Dr. W. W. Peebles, ex-commander of Roosevelt Post; H. J. Pinkett, R. L. Williams, commissioner, and Mesdames Foster and Gordon of the Women's Auxiliary of the Roosevelt Post. The majority of the baskets went to families of ex-service men. Omaha will gain approximately 2,900 persons this year through the net gain of births over deaths, according to a survey of the mortality records made by the bureau of publicity of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Records of the city health department for the ten months of the year show that 4,334 children were born in the city in that period as compared to a total of 2,302 deaths of which 381 were non-residents. This makes a total of 1,921 deaths of residents, or an average of 192 monthly, and slightly more than 433 births as a monthly average. On that basis there will have been approximately 5,200 boys and girls born in the city this year, and 2,305 resident deaths, leaving a net population gain of 2,895. March holds the birth record for the first ten months with a count of 480, with July a close second with a tally of 476. April was lowest in respect to births with 378. In the death record, March also was first with a total of 263, and January second with 258, while February and June tied for low place with 202 in each month. LINCOLN NOTES Mrs. V. Clark and Mr. Harry Franklin spent the Christmas holidays with his sister at St. Joe, Mo. Mrs. Alma Wiley is spending the holidays with her paents and friends at Plattsburg, Mo. Mrs. Gertrude Bush is spending the holidays with her mother at St. Joe, Missouri. Miss America Marshall left Wednesday to spend the holidays with her relatives in Missouri. Rev. H. W. Botts attended the executive board of the New Era Baptist Association at Omaha this week. Mr. Guy Wiley spent Christmas day with friends at Omaha. Mr. W. E. Radley of Denver, Colo., is visiting his sister, Mrs. D. E. Nichols. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Graves are reported to have arrived at Oakland, Calif., last week where they will spend the winter. Mrs. J. T. Wright was confined to her bed several days the past week with lagripe. The Utopian Art Club is called to meet with Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Forbes, 2410 Holdrege street, Thursday night. January 8. Members are urged to be present. Election of officers. E. J. Griffin is confined at home with illness. Six o'clock services were held at Mt. Zion Baptist church on Christmas morning. Usual services were held Sunday. Rev. H. W. Boits preached two most interesting sermons. The Christmas tree was held on Wednesday; many receiving nice presents. The Mary Talbert Club held their mid-winter fair in Masonic hall Monday night. Though slightly attended the president reports having done fairly well financially. The proceeds go to the Old Folks Home. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Corneal entertained friends at dinner last Sunday, in honor of visitors. The Mission met with Mrs. Anna Burchhardt last Tuesday night, when officers for the ensuing year were named. The choir o the A. M. E. church rendered their cantata at the church at 5 o'clock Christmas morning. Ow- bster 4243 ing to coldness of weather the attendance was curtailed. It is said the program was fine. Usual services were held Sunday during the day. The church and Sunday school held their Christmas tree as usual and many hearts were made glad by remembrances of friends. Last Sunday was quarterly meeting at the Newman M. E. church. Services were held all day. Rev. H. W. Botts of Mt. Zion spoke at 3 o'clock. Rev. C. R. Ross of Newman M. E. church will speak for Rev. H. W. Botts at 3 o'clock next Sunday afternoon in his conscience rally. A Happy New Year to all. TO HUSBAND AND WIFE Preserve sacredly the privacies of your own house, your married state and your heart. Let no father or mother or sister or brother ever presume to come between you or share the joys or sorrows that belong to you two alone. With mutual help build your quiet world, not allowing your dearest earthly friend to be the confidant of aught that concerns your domestic peace. Let moments of alienation, if they occur, be healed at once. 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Washington.—Although the plandis which greeted the return of the triumphant army flyers from their spectacular flight around the world have hardly ceased, one of the six lieutenants who gained enduring laurels for the United States is a noncommissioned officer in the ranks and another is wearing the garb of a civilian mechanic at a flying field in Dayton, Ohio. Furthermore, it is said that there was nothing that the army could do about it. It was pointed out that it was army regulations issued under the national defense act and only congress can go beyond that. The fate of the two members of the expedition who happened to be reserve officers instead of regular army officers is up to congress. It's Up to Congress. Just what congress will do is still a question, but there is no doubt a bill will be introduced in the house of representatives this session to give proper recognition to the world flyers. The two men affected are Civilian Mechanic Henry Ogden, now assigned to McCook field, Dayton, Ohio, and Technical Sergeant John (Happy) Harding of Selfridge field, Mount Clemens, Mich. When the flyers left the shores of the United States, Harding, who was a second lieutenant in the officers' reserve corps, was called to active service so he could receive sufficient money to bear his increased expenses. Ogden was allowed to fly as a sergeant. However, when the flyers arrived at Shanghai, China, Ogden also was appointed a second lieutenant in the officers' reserve corps and placed on active duty. Army officers said army regulations, as set forth in the national defense act of 1920, forbid the promotion of any man to the grade of a commissioned officer except through regular channels. In other words, these two men, in order to become officers, would have to pass their examinations the same as any other man seeking a commission in the regular army. They are allowed, however, to hold their rank as reserve officers. Even President Coolidge cannot intervene to make either Sergeant Ogden or Mechanic Harding commissioned officers in the regular army. Army officers explained that it was largely to provide against possible misuse of power that the system of promotion provided under the national defense act was devised. To relieve the congestion in the grade of captain it was suggested by General Pershing in his final report as chief of staff that the act be amended to permit the promotion out of regular order of captains who showed signal ability. Secretary of War Weeks, it is said, would welcome both Ogden and Harding as officers of the regular army, but he is powerless to act. One officer said all the secretary can do is to write each of the officers a letter of commendation, but Secretary Weeks has gone further. In his report this year to President Coolidge he recommended that the present system of promotion by seniority be modified. In this connection he said: "It should be possible to provide for special promotion, one grade at a time, of some portion of the officers of the army as long as such promotions do not exceed 2 per cent of the promotions by seniority. Such a system would find room for all officers who have particularly distinguished themselves in the service of the United States. "I therefore recommend the adoption by congress of an amendment to the national defense act whereby the President might be authorized to promote, not to exceed one grade, any officer below the grade of colonel who, by some conspicuous act of service, has demonstrated his special fitness for such promotion." Tiffin, Ohio.—Fright has cured Russell Lewis, Seneca county farmer, of paralysis. Lewis' left hand had been paralyzed for three years. He was alone in his home near Bascom recently when he heard a noise at a rear door. Fearing some one was trying to break into the house, Lewis caught up an ax handle with his left hand and started for the door. Suddenly he realized he was using the hand which had been helpless for three years. He stopped and moved his hand, working his fingers back and forth. With a shout of joy he ran from the house, discovering as he did so that a pet dog, scratching at the door, had been the cause of his alarm. 125,000 Years ago, Chicago—Some years ago, 125,000 to be exact, a great flood swept over the eastern section of the state of Washington and left the unusually beautiful scenery which exists there now, according to Prof. J. Harian Brets of the University of Chicago, who has made a report upon the work of his expedition in that territory this summer. Huge canyons were cut down in a few centuries by the torrent of water, and numerous catrances, some of them higher than the Niagara falls, created. The giant among these waterfalls was 400 feet high and formed a river, in places three miles wide, which cut a canyon more than 1,000 feet deep. The situation, the professor asserted, has never occurred anywhere else on the earth. Washington, D. C.—Premphe, last king of the stalwart Ashantis, is returning to his forest-girt capital, but he goes as a private citizen. He will never again occupy the golden stool. These facts, contained in news dispatches, are explained in the following bulletin from the Washington (D. C.) headquarters of the National Geographic society: "The capital of the People Who Eat Corn in the City Under the Oakm Trees, which is the translated way of saying that the capital of Ashanti is Kumasi. There are many potentates in Ashanti but, until Premph was deposed, the king of Kumasi was the paramount monarch of all the ebon Ashanti tribes. He it was who, in theory at least, maintained the traditional harem of 3,333 wives, drank from the skulls of his would-be conquerors, and immolated relatives of distinguished dead in the Spirit house in the grove so that the departed might have an ample entourage in the next world. Where Plants Struggle to Live. Ashanti lies north of the Gold coast of Africa, between the Ivory coast and Togoland. The country, now under British control, is approximately the size of West Virginia. About half its area comprises one of the thickest, densest, most impenetrable primeval forests in all the world. The iron tree and the bombax, the silk-cotton and the hardwood, bamboos and ferns, and an almost infinite variety of growths engage in a fierce fight for life. Every plant, from slender tendril to giant tree, rises erect, seeking a place in the sun, 'drawn out to an absurdly disproportionate height in its endeavor to force its own head above those of its neighbors.' "The mahogany, the teak and the ebony, varieties which civilization prizes, here crowd each other for life. Flowers, birds and beasts are excluded from these thicknesses; the plant life sucks in every iota of sustenance from sun and soil. Parasites abound. Velvety moss clings to the decaying trees that have met defeat. There being no more room aloft the lianas, or monkey ropes, festoon themselves from tree to tree and form weird arbors for lesser horizontal growths. "The white man, even with all the aids of modern medicine, cannot survive long in such a habitat; only the most stalwart of the black men can adapt themselves to it. In the Seventeenth century, or a little earlier, migrating Moslem tribes to the north drove bands of negroes into the country. The newcomers took possession of this forest realm, and, in defending it, developed themselves into a vigorous, clamish people. "Tradition has it that a famine drove large numbers of the settlers south, and that these refugees kept alive on herbs, or 'fan' in the native tongue; while those left behind are corn, or 'son.' The former, who inhabit the Gold coast to this day, are known as Fanti; while those who remained were called Ashanti. Both tribes speak the same language but the Ashanti. in their isolation, have developed a physical superiority to their southern neighbors. "In 1807 the Ashanti came into first contact with the British by attempting to invade the realm of the Fantis. Not until a quarter of a century later were the northmen driven back from the sea coast. Early in the seventies difficulties arose which caused British forces to undertake the exceedingly arduous task of marching upon Kumasi. The expedition was successful, and it was not until after the elevation of Prince Prempeh to the golden stool in 1888—the same Prempeh who now is returning to his former domain—that troubles arose again. In Company of Noted Exiles. "Prempeh was enthroned after a civil war, and he had to consolidate his power; but, in 1893, he closed the roads of his dominion to traders from the south, so that the British government had to intervene in behalf of their Gold coast protectorate. This intervention resulted in the surrender of Prempeh, three years later, and his exile, first at Elimina, a gold coast town, and later upon the Seychelles islands. There he spent 28 years and had, for varying periods, the company of such picturesque exiles as Saad Zaghloul, of Egypt; the warlike Kabarega, of Unyoro, and Sayyid Khalid, of Zanzibar. "When Premphe returns to Kumasi he will miss the king's palace, a hand-some red sandstone building which has disappeared. Gone, too, is the Spirit house, scene of human sacrifices, which used to lie just behind the market place. Instead there is now a railroad station, terminus of the line from Sekondi, on the coast, 168 miles away. And he will find his old political capital transformed into a busy distributing center for the inland Gold coast colony, of which Ashanti now forms a part." Dresden Cheers Unhappy With Symphony Concerts Dresden.—To cheer the downtown, a series of free symphony concerts has been given to the unemployed of this city by the League for Musical Culture. The attendance was overwhelming, and the interest of the audience keen, especially when the management provided musical experts as speakers who, previous to each performance, sketched the life of the composer and explained in simple language the underlying musical ideas of the opus. Pays After 40 Years Pattonsburg, Mo—Forty years ago George N. Gromer lent $50 to a friend for a short period, but the man left the neighborhood before he repaid the loan. Several days ago Gromer received a letter in which was a check for $200. It came from the man who had asked the loan of the $50. The debtor said he had become prosperous and wanted to liquidate the obligation. YOUR DRUG STORE Help Wanted WANTED--Colored men to qualify for sleeping car and train porters. Experience unnecessary, transportation furnished. Write T. McCaffrey, Supt., St. Louis, Mo. Miscellaneous Use DENTLO for the teeth. Large tube 25c.—Adv. 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. E. F. MORIERTY, Attorney. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, in the Matter of the Estate of Marie Lee, Deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said Court alleging that said deceased died leaving no last will and praying for administration upon her estate, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said court on the 10th day of January, 1925, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on the said 10th day of January, 1925, at 9 o'clock A. M. to contest said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to Harvey Ray King or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. BRYCE CRAWFORD 1-2-25-3t. County Judge. 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