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NEGRO REFUGEES LEFT IN DANGER LIFTING LIFT TOO $2.00 a Year—5 Cents a Copy NEGRO BRUTAL NEGLECT CHARGED AGAINST PLANTATION OWNERS GOVERNOR'S HELP IS ASKED Hundreds of Negroes' Lives Imperil ed When They Are Neglected and Left in Flood Vicksburg, Miss.—Reports coming from the city state that colored refugees were left unaided with their lives in peril near here due to the action of plantation owners in the vicinity. Only providence prevented scores from being drowned in the raging torrents of the flood, it is said. 2.000 Reported in Peril The report declared, "more than 2,000 Mississippi colored workers from the plantations between Morehead and Inverness were in a desperate situation Saturday." The report was from Captain McClure, commanding the refugee center at Greenwood, Miss. The report went on to state that the plantation owners refused to permit the national guard to move these refugees out of the flood zone to a point of safety. Governor's Aid Asked Gen. Curtis Green, commander of the Mississippi National Guard, investigating and discovering the plight of the refugees informed Governor Murphree of their perilous situation, reporting that they were housed in box cars like cattle and that the flood waters were slowly rising around them. Send Launches On instruction from guard headquarters, Captain McClue assembled a fleet of small gas launches in the vicinity of the concentration ready to take off the refugees only when the plantation owners gave their consent. Little could have been done in handling the large number of people had the flood suddenly gone to greater heights it is said, but the crest of the high waters passed without submerging the site to a much greater depth. Danger of disease setting in the crowded camp was declared imminent, however, and the Red Cross workers have interceded to remedy the conditions in spite of the opposition of plantation owners. 5.000 at Vicksburg Vicksburg, Miss.—Over 5,000 colored persons were concentrated in the refugee camp here it was announced Sunday. These refugees are under military control. CITED FOR BRAVERY Sergt. Isaac Bailey, retired, has received a certificate of the award of the Silver Star Citation for bravery while serving as sergeant of Troop B, Tenth Calvary in the Spanish-American War, in an engagement with the enemy July 1, 1898. It will be remembered that it was the famous Tenth Calvary that saved the Rough Riders under Col. Theodore Roosevelt at El Caney in 1898. Troop B played an important part in that engagement. Sergt. Bailey, who saw service on the frontier, in the Phillipines and in Cuba, who is very modest about his exploits, was accounted one of the bravest and most efficient non-commissioned officers in the United States army. He has been a resident of Omaha since his retirement about twenty years ago and is the owner of an attractive home at 2816 Pratt street, where he and his cultured wife reside. OLD FOLKS HOME ADDS TO EXECUTIVE BOARD The following members have been added to the Executive Board of the Negro Christian Women's Association Old Folks Home: Milton L. Hunter, George W. Hibbler, Rev. John H. Grant, Dr. Craig Morris and Rev. Russel Taylor. THE MONITOR TWO COLORED GIRLS MAKE HONOR SOCIETY Scholarship, Service, Character Are the Factors in Selecting Year's Membership in Society Last Thursday, in a general meeting in the school auditorium, Vice Principal J. F. Woolery of Central High school read the names of the students admitted to the honor society for the year. This is considered the highest award that the school can give to lower classmen. Scholarship, character and service are factors in the award. A large number of Centralals received this honor. Among them were two colored students, Miss Margaret Dallas, who was elected to Gamma chapter of the Junior class, and Miss Ollie Mattson, who was chosen to membership in Epsilon chapter of the Freshman class. CHICAGO UNI HAS NEGRO TENNIS TEAM CAPTAIN Chicago, Ill.—Richard Hudlin, better known perhaps, as "Dick" Hudlin, was elected captain of the 1927 tennis team of Chicago university here Tuesday. Hudlin is well known in collegiate tennis circles, having been a member of the Maroon team for three years. He is equally as prominent in amateur tennis circles and was last year one of the most formidable contenders for championship honors. CHÍCAGO BOY WINS GOLD MEDAL IN MUSIC CONTEST Chicago, Ill.—Spencer Odum, 13, 519 East Thirty-sixth street, Chicago, is one of the gold medal prize winners in the annual Greater Chicago's Children's Piano Playing Tournament. Spencer is one of the five in his district, in the elimination contest, and is now eligible to enter the finals, when prizes aggregating $1,500 will be distributed. Almost 15,000 Chicago children began in the contest, and this little man, who is regarded as almost a prodigy in music, came through the rigid test with colors flying. OMAHA YOUNG PEOPLE ATTEND FRAT DINNER A party of young people went over to Lincoln Saturday to attend the annual dinner dance of the Eta chapter of the Kappa Alpha Si fraternity, and returned Sunday afternoon. The young men, members of the frat, who were in the party, were Messrs. Gerald Adams, Mauranee James, Arthur McCaw, John G. Pegg, Weldom Solomon and Ray L. Williams, and the young ladies were the Misses Louise Decker, Myrth James, Mae Marshall, Melva McCaw, Madeline and Thelma Shipman, Ernestine Singleton and Alma Webster. WHITE MINISTER WHITE MINISTER IN NEGRO PULPIT Cleveland, Ohio—Dr. Dan Bradley, pastor of Pilgrim Congregational Church (white) one of the largest churches of the city of Cleveland, lived up to his reputation as a friend of the race, recently, when he took his chorus of one hundred and twenty voices with Prof. R. S. Bayham, his well known organist and conducted the services at Mount Zion Congregational Temple in the heart of the colored district. Dr. Bradley is a graduate of Oberlin college, and is associate moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches. WAITERS CELEBRATE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Philadelphia, Pa. The Private Waiters' Social Aid association celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, with a dinner at the Knights of Pythias Temple on Tuesday evening, April 19. Samson G. Ware, vice president, acted as toastmaster. The Private Waiters is a chartered organization, having no connection with any similar organization. The association has been active in training men to be first-class waiters. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927 EDITORIAL What do you think the col- matter of positions and jobs wi we were asked the other day. titled to a fair answer which w Colored citizens constitute, about six per cent of Omaha ration about 17 to 1. This me Negro American to every other not mean, however, that them white Americans to each Negro are various race varieties co per cent. Our special group co population. If, therefore, we our ratio of population, alone cause there are other factors then it might be said that we of the positions and jobs with county government. But this factors such as our per capita able property. To claim that we represent of the city or contribute this ra- are quite substantial contribute are relatively heavy taxpayer make no extravagant claims w substantiate. However, when we take into we are one-sixteenth of the pop portionate share in taxes and it ties, no fair-minded person wi of 2,119 city employees, exclu cation is a fair and adequat Forty-nine are all we have. I.0023. This means two and th These forty-nine are distrib Public Affairs Department Water, Gas, Health, Clerk Departments Fire Department Police Department Park Department Accounts Department Street Department Public Improvements The Board of Education em this number there are 1,200 to gro employed by the Board o We believe, therefore, th should ask the employment of Affairs Department. This w octor; a foreman and crew of lab in the Water Department; two in the Gas, Water and Health in the Public Library and one other words, instead of ONE w ees in the Public Affairs Depa In the Park Department we manent employees. In the Public Improvement one clerk, and two other emplo tion, or a total number of six in In the other departments The Board of Education least sixty of our people which janitors and laborers. We our three or four clerks or stenogra five other employees, such as An incredulous smile may y read these demands, requests may wish to call them; but T to deny that these requests are This is a specific answer to think the colored people shou tions and jobs?" you think the colored people show rations and jobs under the city and at the other day. Surely, a fair or answer which we shall attempt to censes constitute, according to the percent of Omaha's population. To get to 1. This means that there is enough to every other seventeen reside ever, that there are seventeen race varieties composing this other special group constitutes one seven therefore, we were to base our population, alone, which would not be other factors to be taken into he said that we are entitled to our and jobs within the disposal ment. But this should be discern our per capita wealth and pre- what we represent one-seventeenth contribute this ratio of taxes is ab- tractorial contributions to the wealth heavy taxpayers cannot be den- vagant claims which we most owe when we take into consideration the seventh of the population, and con- dure in taxes and in the support of a individual person will contend that 4 employees, excluding those of the and adequate representation, will we have. Expressed in per- means two and three-tenths thousand one are distributed as follows: Mairs Department, which includes Gas, Health, Library and City Departments 1; total ment 10; total artment 10; total artment 1; total department 6; total artment 18; total provements 3; total Of Education employs approximately there are 1,200 teachers. There is by the Board of Education. therefore, that with becoming employment of 30 of our people. This would include one and crew of laborers in the Gas Department; two clerks each on water and Health Departments; library and one in the City Clea- stead of ONE we should have The Affairs Department. Department we should have at these. Music Improvements Department, with two other employees, draughtsmans, number of six instead of three. Our departments we are fairly well of Education should give empl- our people which would include the laborers. We ought to have eight orks or stenographers, three jan- icees, such as mechanics and soumile may curl the lips of six hands, requests, suggestions or all them; but The Monitor chan- ese requests are reasonable and specific answer to the question, and people should have in the re What do you think the colored people should have in the matter of positions and jobs under the city administration?" we were asked the other day. Surely, a fair question and entitled to a fair answer which we shall attempt to give. Colored citizens constitute, according to the official census, about six per cent of Omaha's population. This makes the ration about 17 to 1. This means that there is one colored or Negro American to every other seventeen residents. This does not mean, however, that there are seventeen Caucasians or white Americans to each Negro American resident, for there are various race varieties composing this other ninety-four per cent. Our special group constitutes one seventeenth of the population. If, therefore, we were to base our demands upon our ratio of population, alone, which would not be fair, because there are other factors to be taken into consideration, then it might be said that we are entitled to one-seventeenth of the positions and jobs within the disposal of the city and county government. But this should be discounted by other factors such as our per capita wealth and proportion of taxable property. To claim that we represent one-seventeenth of the wealth of the city or contribute this ratio of taxes is absurd. That we are quite substantial contributors to the wealth of our city and are relatively heavy taxpayers cannot be denied, but let us make no extravagant claims which we most certainly cannot substantiate. However, when we take into consideration that fact that we we are one-sixteenth of the population, and contribute our proportionate share in taxes and in the support of the public utilities, no fair-minded person will contend that 49 out of a total of 2,119 city employees, excluding those of the Board of Education is a fair and adequate representation o four group. Forty-nine are all we have. Expressed in percentage it reads .0023. This means two and three-tenths thousandths. These forty-nine are distributed as follows: Clerk Departments 1; total employees, 985 Fire Department 10; total employees, 316 Police Department 10; total employees, 273 Park Department 1; total employees, 97 Accounts Department 6; total employees, 52 Street Department 18; total employees, 226 Public Improvements 3; total employees, 171 The Board of Education employs approximately 2,000. Of this number there are 1,200 teachers. There is not ONE Negro employed by the Board of Education. We believe, therefore, that with becoming modesty we should ask the employment of 30 of our people in the Public Affairs Department. This would include one sanitary inspector; a foreman and crew of laborers in the Gas Department and in the Water Department; two clerks each or like employees in the Gas, Water and Health Departments; two employees in the Public Library and one in the City Clerk's office. In other words, instead of ONE we should have THIRTY employees in the Public Affairs Department. In the Park Department we should have at least three permanent employees. In the Public Improvements Department, we should have one clerk, and two other employees, draughtsmen, or like position, or a total number of six instead of three. In the other departments we are fairly well represented. The Board of Education should give employment to at least sixty of our people which would include teachers, clerks, janitors and laborers. We ought to have eighteen teachers, three or four clerks or stenographers, three janitors, and thirty-five other employees, such as mechanics and laborers. An incredulous smile may curl the lips of some when they read these demands, requests, suggestions or whatever, one may wish to call them; but The Monitor challenges anyone to deny that these requests are reasonable and just. This is a specific answer to the question, "What do you think the colored people should have in the matter of positions and jobs?" MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ENTERTAINMENT AT ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH Eighty mothers and daughters enjoyed a delightful entertainment in the Guild Room of the Church of St Philip the Deacon Thursday night, in observance of Mother and Daughter Week. Mrs. Craig Morris, who was chairman, was ably assisted by an efficient committee. The program consisted of several songs, an excellent address by Mrs. L. E. Britt on "Being a Mother," in which she emphasized the importance of study, keeping mentally alert, and co-operation with teachers by attendance upon parent-teachers' meetings; a thoughtful paper on "The Girl and Her Mother," by Miss Madeline Shipman, in which she stressed companionship, confidence and sympathy; a joint recitation, "Mother," by six little girls, Jacqueline and Norma Bullock, Mary Ellen Britt, Ethel Terrell, Irene Harrold and Mary Heddy Wiggins; and a side-splitting comedy, "The Fatal Necklace," by the Misses Sylvia Adams, Lavina Scott, Celestine and Elaine Smith and Catherine Williams, in which all the participants displayed unusual dramatic ability. Refreshments were served, and all present were enthusiastic in their praise of the successful affair. --- ) ordered people should have in the under the city administration?" Surely, a fair question and ene shall attempt to give, according to the official census, its population. This makes the means that theer is one colored on seventeen residents. This does not are seventeen Caucasians or non-American resident, for there imposing this other ninety-four constitutes one seventeenth of the were to base our demands upon, which would not be fair, be to be taken into consideration, are entitled to one-seventeenth in the disposal of the city and should be discounted by other wealth and proportion of tax. At one-seventeenth of the wealth ratio of taxes is absurd. That we wars to the wealth of our city and cannot be denied, but let us which we most certainly cannot consideration that fact that we population, and contribute our pro- m on the support of the public utili- tion contend that 49 out-of a total tending those of the Board of Edu- representation o four group. expressed in percentage it reads three-tenths thousandths. quoted as follows: t, which includes library and City 1; total employees, 985 10; total employees, 316 10; total employees, 273 1; total employees, 97 6; total employees, 52 18; total employees, 226 3; total employees, 171 employs approximately 2,000. Of teachers. There is not ONE NeF Education. At with becoming modesty we 30 of our people in the Public would include one sanitary inspectors in the Gas Department and clerks each or like employees in Departments; two employees in the City Clerk's office. In we should have THIRTY employment. we should have at least three per- s Department, we should have yees, draughtsmen, or like posi- isted of three. we are fairly well represented. should give employment to at would include teachers, clerks, right to have eighteen teachers, phers, three janitors, and thirty-mechanics and laborers. the lips of some when they suggestions or whatever, one The Monitor challenges anyone reasonable and just. to the question, "What do you would have in the matter of posi- AT THE PUBLIC MARKET In the advertisement of M. Jacobsen, the well-known fish merchant, published in last week's issue and again in this a serious mistake was made. It gave Mr. Jacobsen's location as being with the "Central Market." Mr. Jacobsen is still with the Public Market, 107 South Sixteenth street, where he will be pleased to serve his old customers and welcome new ones. GIRLS' TEAMS WILL PLAY BASEBALL The Girls' Friendly Society of St. Philip's Episcopal church, and the Girl Reserves of the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A., each of whom have a live team, will play a game of baseball Saturday afternoon on the municipal playground at 22nd and Seward streets. The Omaha lodges of the Mosaic Templars of America will fittingly observe Founder's Day with appropriate services and exercises Sunday, May 22nd, at Cleaves Temple, C. M. E. church, Twenty-fifth and Decatur streets at 2:30 p. m. All Mosaics are expected and urged to attend and the public is cordially invited to be present. The Camp Fire Girls of the Cultural Center, Branch of the Social Center, 2915 R street, South Side, had their first observance of Mothers Day in Bethel Baptist church last Sunday afternoon. A large audience was present and an interesting program of music, vocal and instrumental, recitations and addresses was enjoyed by those present. The program was as follows: Processional, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," G. R. and C. F. G. Chorus, Camp Fire Group. Duet, "Old Fashioned Mother," Trudie and Lu Helen Morgan. Prayer, For Mothers of the World, Mrs. Lovetta Busch. Welcome to G. R. and C. F. G., Rosalie Oliver. Response, Gertrude Harris. Solo, "Mother O' Mine," Willie Liggins. Poem, Laura May Austin. Double Quartette, Girl Reserves. Poem, Alice Lydell. Duet, "That Wonderful Mother of Mine," Laura Smith and Ernestine Love. Recitation, "My Mother," Cecil Walls. Ukelele Solo, "Silver Threads Among the Gold," Alice Lydell. Chorus, "Mother," Six Juniors. "Mother's Love," Mrs. Grace Hutten. Solo and Chorus, "Songs My Mother Used to Sing," Casena Love and Others. "My Pal," a Daughter's View of Mother, Miss Ruth O. Collins. Double Quartette, Girl Reserves. "Prayer for Daughters and Sons of the World," Mrs. Jackson. Tributes to Mothers, Seven Minutes, Audience. Offertory. The Benediction. Recessional, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds," Girl Reserves and Camp Fire Girls. GREEN AGAIN HEADS LOUISIANA PYTHIANS Alexandria, La.—S. W. Green of New Orleans, supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and grand chancellor of the state of Louisiana, has again been re-elected to head the Pythians of Louisiana at the Grand Lodge session just closed. The annual message showed 9,000 members in Louisiana with assets over $600,000 and no debts. BLACK KU KLUX KLAN FAILS Los Angeles, Cal.—Among the recent attempts to corral and control a majority of the Negro vote before the election in May was a movement started by the Ku Klux Klan to organize Negroes into an order somewhat similar to the Klan, aiming their fight against Jews, Roman Catholics and such candidates as did not meet with their approval. Of the large number of Negroes approached, only 20 or 25 joined the organization. Certain so-called reforms were to be made through the ballot and the usual furtherance of the Negro's interest was held out as an inducement. Knights of the Black Circle or some such name was to be given the order but the idea was so obnoxious to the average intelligent Negro that those who joined were ashamed to stay and with the opposition and ridicule it met the order died before election day. MORGAN COLLEGE GETS $125,000 APPROPRIATION Baltimore, Md.—May 6.—Through a bill, which has just been signed by Governor Ritchie, Morgan college will receive an appropriation of $125,000 to be used to build a science hall. The bill also provides for an increase of $10,000 in the annual appropriation to the school. WILL: PRESENT PUPILS IN PIANOFORTE RECITAL Mrs. Florentine F. Pinkston will present her pupils in a pianoforte recital at 3:30 Sunday afternoon, at Hillside Presbyterian church, 30th and Ohio streets. There will be two contests by her advanced pupils, one in which Dorothy Allen and Willa Hayes will compete, and the other in which Sarah Brown and Catherine Williams will be the competitors. The judges will be Miss Bernadine Gilman and Mr. Karl Tuneberg. The public is cordially invited. GROWING THANK YOU! Whole Number 616 ANGER NEGROES DONATE FUNDS TO PRESS PROSECUTION Seek Vindication of Race of Charge of Crime that Resulted in Race Riot on March 18 PETITIONS CIRCULATED; WHITE YOUTHS ACCUSED Evidence Pointing Towards Guilt of Whites in Ruse That Threw Blame Upon Negro Coffeyville, Kans.-Vigorous and unrelentled demands for an investigation of the story of two white girls of an attack upon them by three Negroes, which resulted in a race riot here March 18, became more tense here Tuesday when petitions were circulated urging a sweeping grand jury probe of the incident. Demand Probe Colored citizens of Coffeyville have been the principal exponents of the proposal that a searching inquiry be made of the girls' story. Colored citizens, as well as whites, believe that the assault upon the girls was really committed by white youths, who blackened up so as to look like Negroes and throw blame for the crime upon the race. Negroes are urging the investigation because they feel that it will mean a vindication of the members of the race. Nearly a thousand dollars has been raised by the colored inhabitants of Coffeyville to help push the prosecution in the case. Name Prominent White Youths Members of prominent white families and some officials have been named in connection with the crime. At one time a local minister announced that he would reveal the facts in a sermon the next Sunday, but when that day came nothing was said about it. Although many Negro suspects have been brought before the girls none of them has been identified by the two as their assailants. It has been pointed out by authorities that all things indicate that the attack might have been committed by whites. One of the most convincing evidences was the finding of soot smeared on the bed clothes in the girls' room. It has also been pointed out that the alleged attack occurred in the girls' room sometime before dawn and that they would have hardly been able to distinguish blackened faces of white youths from Negroes. Law Takes Little Action Last week three colored persons, who were injured by the rioters, filed damage suits amounting to $35,000. Warrants were served against persons said to have participated in the riot, but most of those who were arrested have been released and none has been sentenced. SOUTH MUST SOLVE RACE PROBLEM, SAYS ALEXANDER Nashville, Tenn.—The practice of "the brotherhood gospel" in addition to the preaching of it was advocated as a means of solving the race problem, by Dr. Will W. Alexander, of the Southern Inter-racial Commission, in addressing 240 country ministers and religious workers here Tuesday. Dr. Alexander, who received the Harmon award for his work in developing a more friendly attitude between the races, declared that the Protestant church and the South must do something definite in the solution of the problem and in promoting the brotherhood gospel, and urged the reawakening of the spirit of democracy that existed during the great World War. "The old cries," said Dr. Alexander, "of self-determination, the right of the minorities and the slogan of make the world safe for democracy have dimmed in our minds. We fought and bled and died for these things and then on November 11th, 1918, democracy died." Mr. A. L. 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Those, therefore, when The Monitor must see to it paid, as the law requires, in ing sent to all those who own and unless your subscription to cut off your paper which to do. We, as publishers, MUCH pay the penalty. THE RIGHT TO SUICIDE A man seventy-five years of age, author and scientist, recently committed suicide here, leaving a rather lengthy letter in which he seeks to justify his act. He makes the fallacious claim that inasmuch as his life is his own, he has a right to do with it as he pleases. There are, no doubt, some who will claim that his position is sound. His reasoning, however, is absolutely wrong. Man has no right to take that which he cannot give. Life is a gift from God. It is not any man's own to do with as he pleases. Murder is the wilful deliberate taking of human life. If it be wrong to take the life of another, be it that of an unborn babe, one of tender years or one grown old, it is wrong to take one's own life. Self murder or suicide is an abhorrent crime and cannot be justified by an process of reasoning. The right to suicide runs on all fours with the right to murder. If murder be right, and who claims that it is, then self-murder or suicide is right. COMMON DANGER, BUT- Stories of wilful neglect and indifference toward the sufferings of Negroes in the flood districts of the South, which are trickling in from many sources would be unbelievable were it not for the degraded sentiment of that section toward black Americans. It would seem that in the face of this great calamity, in which both races are common sufferers, wilful neglect and discrimination would be forgotten. Prejuicece and tradition are stubborn things even in the face of danger and death. THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE If there is one organization in the United States, formed to promote and protect the interest of American Negroes, which we endorse without reservations, its is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. There are several features about this great Association which stand out so boldly, that they significantly separate it from all other organizations of similar nature. Off-hand, we think of these: 1. This Association was conceived and birthed for the purpose of procuring for ALL Negroes in America the freedom and rights guaranteed to them under the Constitution. It is unselfish. One does not have to be a member to receive its benefits. 2. Its staff of workers, added to the faculty of any university in America, would raise the average of that faculty in learning and intelligence. 3. There has never been in its history an instance of temporizing when the principles for which it stands were at stake. 4. Neither the honesty, integrity nor the courage of any member of its staff, can be questioned by its bitterest opponent. 5. The learning, the efficiency, and the ability of the individual members of its staff are such, that with the whole of America to pick from, we do not believe that a single substitution could be made that would strengthen the organization. 6. Its many accomplishments are such, that almost any single one justifies its organization, maintenance, and continuance. Consider a few: (a) The anti-lynching fight and program. (b) The residential segregation victory. (c) The overthrow of the white primary. (d) The stopping of the grandfather clause disfranchisement farce. (e) The expose of peonage. (f) The Sweet case. (g) The Arkansas cases. (h) The Aiken case. The program of this organization has been so economically conducted, that the cost per capita to the Negroes of the United States during its seventeen years of successful warfare, has been practicly nothing. If the 12,000,000 Negroes in the United States were compelled to pay for its work, this work has extended over a period of seventeen years, seventeen years of warfare that required the quintessence of courage and brains, the tax would be about 10 cents per person. We, therefore, endorse the work of this organization. We stand solidly behind these great men who are responsible for the wonders which it has performed. The Negro's best opportunity for complete freedom, political equality, economic opportunity as well as unhampered justice, it seems to us, rests largely in the hands of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. If you are not a member, what is your alibi?—From The White and Black Chronicle, Akron, Ohio. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA The Mary Talbott club, Mrs. Katherine Moore, presiding, gave their musical tea in the afternoon, by way of an entertainment for mothers and daughters, which was nicely attended. At night, "Buds of Promise" rendered a brief program, and a sermon by the pastor, all of which was enjoyable. Attorney Perry of Little Rock, Ark., is in the city on business. Mr. Perry appears to be a man of note. He has addressed several gatherings in our midst. Mr. and Mrs. William Florence of Missouri Valley, Ia., were Lincoln visitors the past week. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Gordon, who have spent the winter season in the city, have returned to their home in Beatrice, where they immediately take up work again. Nicely entertained on last Thursday night by Mrs. Margaret Lyons, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Todd, on South Twentieth street. Mrs. R. E. Knight is home from Kansas City. The chicken dinner given at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. church on Monday night under the management of Mrs. Paul L. Moore, and assisted by other ladies, was a booming success. The affair was for the benefit of Lebanon Lodge No. 3 A. F. and A. M. The ladies were assisted by committees of Master Masons, and a large number of Masons were present. Our white friends were largely in evidence. The students attending the State University gave a dinner dance in Rosewild party house last Saturday night, which was well attended, and a good time had. Services were enjoyed at Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday. The pastor delivered a fine sermon at morning hour. THE MONITOR RESCINDING JIM CROW LAWS Under sponsorship of the Interracial Committee, a bill was introduced in the Maryland legislature to abolish the state jim crow car law. This bill, according to the secretary of the Inter-racial committee, Mr. T. J. Calloway, had the backing of some of the most influential public men in the state. Senator Bruce stated some time ago that the time had come for the elimination of such distinction in transportation in the state of Maryland. It seems that the bill was tabled in the committee, although the majority canvassed beforehand was supposed to be in favor of it. Mr. Calloway is still hopeful of the resurrection of the bill and gives the assurance of Governor Ritchie and other powerful democratic supporters as basis of his hope. This is perhaps the first attempted bit of legislation in recent years to wipe out odious race discrimination in state laws. It gives hope that all such discriminatory regulations which were borne of local condition will pass away when such conditions are ameliorated. Most of the iniquitous distinctions in Northern states were wiped out by the moral crusade of the Civil War. At least 15 Northern states had provisions limiting the franchise to white men when the Fifteenth Amendment was passed. Some of these states voluntarily removed such racial distinctions by the revision of their own constitutions, while in other states, like Ohio and Oregon, such racial legislation was wiped out by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The state of Michigan, at one time had a law forbidding the intermarriage between the races, but this discriminatory provision was wiped out by a subsequent state law. This first attempt to eradicate the jim crow car law makes me reminiscent. One harks back to the days of the Afro-American Council when race-wide effort was launched to check the rising tendency, especially in its inter-state features. A considerable legal defence fund was raised for this purpose, of which Booker T. Washington contributed or procured by far the greater part. When congress was about to revise the Inter-State Commerce Act, the Hon. Whitfield McKinley and myself called upon Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, chairman of the committee, and went away supposing that we had his endorsement of our proposition that there should be no discrimination of any kind in any interstate passenger traffic. But on a subsequent call we were frankly and flatly informed that the pending measure would be limited wholly to material freight. About this time, the Hon. Archibald Grimke and myself called upon Senator Foraker, to engage his good offices in behalf of guaranteeing no racial discrimination in inter-state travel. The good senator informed us that he would gladly work for a provision for equal accommodation, but that such a position as we suggested would be simply impossible in face of prevailing situations. We thereupon advised him that we would prefer that no action at all should be taken unless there was full guarantee of no distinction or discrimination and told him that we could secure equal, but separate accommodations from the Southern states, and that we preferred that the federal government should not touch the question one way or the other, unless it was prepared to act upon the broad foundation of no discrimination between American citizens. He thought that our attitude was very short-sighted and unwise. The first suit brought to test the jim crow car law was, I believe, instituted by Professor William H. Council of the Alabama Normal Institute. The case was lost. The supreme court has decided that the states may provide separate, but equal accommodations for the races, without violating the federal Constitution. This decision seemed to settle the legal status of jim crow car laws, so far as inter-state travel is concerned. The supreme court, has also gone on record to the effect that similar arrangements for inter-state travel may be unconstitutional. If I am mistaken about this, some of my legal critics are invited to set me right In those days came William Henry Harrison Hart of the Law School of Howard university, big of body, brave of heart and intrepid of spirit, of powerful intellect and learned in the law. The state of Maryland had just enacted its separate car law, and was operating it in both its inter-state and intra-state application. Professor Hart secured an inter-state ticket from New York to Washington. On reaching the Maryland border, he was asked to change to the jim crow car. This he stoutly refused to do. He was ejected and lodged in the Elkton jail. There- upon he brought suit in the courts of Maryland, and won. The court of appeals, the highest tribunal in that jurisdiction, held that the law did not apply to inter-state passengers, but merely to local traffic. Every Negro in the nation owes Professor Hart a debt of gratitude which remains unpaid. But for his brave and manly act, every colored passenger, from whatever section of the country he might hail, would be compelled to ride in a jim crow car, in order to reach the national capitol. From the beginning, the border warfare between freedom and slavery waged along the Maryland line. The Mason and Dixon line, of farflung political significance, marked the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Confederate army, in its northern movement, was turned back at the edge of Maryland border. The revised constitutions swept through the Southern states like wildfire, but was checked by the Maryland court of appeals. And now comes the jim crow car law, whose rescindment is at least under consideration. Let us consider some of the reasons which render such action on the part of Maryland feasible and seasonable at this time. Segregation, separate schools, jim crow cars and anti-miscegnation laws grow out of the common roots of race prejudice. It is stimulated in the main by the relative number of Negroes. The effect will continue as long as the cause remains. The main traffic in Maryland is inter-state. The two great railroad systems, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio, which dominate the traffic of the state, are through lines in all directions. The Negro local travel is almost negligible. One may travel on the jim crow cars in southern or western Maryland for hours without encountering more than one or two fellow passengers. In the main, the Negroes are going to Washington on the South or to Wilmington and Philadelphia on the North or to Harrisburg and Pittsburg on the West. All of those are interstate passengers. The empty jim crow cars are but a nuisance and an expense. Furthermore, the Negro's contingent in Maryland, outside of the city of Baltimore, is relatively declining. The Negroes are leaving the agricultural sections of the state for the metropolitan city or for regions further north. The jim crow car has little future prospect in the state. The proposed action on the part of Maryland still further indicates that the Negro must look to local, rather than to national action for tangible relief from the difficulties under which he labors. The elimination of the inter-state feature of the Maryland jim crow car law represents the only concrete advantage, which, I know recall, that has come to the race from agitation against jim crow cars. The defeat of the proposed restriction is to the franchise by the Maryland courts is the only action as I now recall, which has actually enhanced the power of the ballot in the black man's hands. The recent decision in the Texas case is magnificent, but the distance between Washington and Texas is magnificent also. Unless some liberal movement springs up in Texts the victory, in which we now exult, will be but a paper decision. It is also interesting to note that Mr. Callawoy throws the burden of advantage of this action or the brunt of disadvantage upon the democratic party which now has the reigns of power. If the democrats put this over, they will deprive the republicans of further supply of soft soap upon which to fool the gullible Negro voter. I recall how the democrats gave the Negro teachers in the public schools of Baltimore, after long and arduous efforts. In this connection, it might also be well to say that West Virginia is the only Southern state which has no jnir crow car system. Why? Here- by hangs a political tale. It was told me by J. W. Clifford, the well known journalist and politician of the mountain state. The issue was close between the two parties. The more Bourbon like democrats threatened jim crow legislation, if they won over the solid opposition of the Negro voters. 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Holy communion, 7:30 a. m.; church school, 10 a. m.; sung eucharist with sermon, 11:00 a. m.; evening prayer at 8:00 o'clock. M. Endeavoring at all times to meet the demand economically as well as scientifically Mrs. John Albert Williams has been requested by the Omaha branch of the N. A. A. C. P. to be chairman of a baby contest, to be completed by June 12, when prizes will be presented by William Pickens when he visits here at that time. Please send names and photographs of babies in at once. Three cash prizes will be given. The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Philip's church held an enthusiastic and largely attended meeting last Thursday at the residence of Mrs. A. D. James, 4521 South Twenty-sixth street. Sergt. Melvin McCaw, who has been seriously ill at his home, 2800 Ohio street for several days, is reported slightly improved. ATTENTION, ALL EX-SERVICE MEN The legislature has passed a bill providing funds for prosecuting claims of Nebraska ex-service men who have disabilities arising from military service. Under the World War Veteran's Act, July 2, 1927, is the final date for filing claims with the U. S. Veterans' Bureau. It is necessary that every ex-service man who expects to press a claim for disability, should have his claim filed and the case on record. No man, however meritorious his case, will be able to get consideration of his claim unless same has been filed with the U. S. Veterans' Bureau before July 2, 1927. It is therefore so imperative that Legion Posts are using this method to inform their comrades to have their claims filed NOW. The matter of securing compensation can be taken up later, but get the claim on record before July 2, 1927. All Post Commanders are taking this matter up at their next meeting night and are using every effort to get this information to ex-service men. The Roosevelt Post will meet Friday, May 20th, at 8:00 p. m. If you have a claim before the Bureau, or desire to file a claim, report to this meeting, as information of importance with reference to your claim will be taken up. Commander Killingsworth, of Roosevelt Post No. 30, states that there are many ex-service men in Omaha who should file claims and whose cases have merit, but due to the lack of proper information do not know how to get a hearing before the Bureau. During the past year Roosevelt Post No. 30 has prosecuted over fifty claims before the Bureau, and has been successful in securing aid in the majority of the cases. During the past year the Post has expended more than $2,500.00 for charity purposes among ex-service men and their families. They have given checks from $15.00 to $50.00 in many cases. "What we need most of all," says Killingsworth, "is a large membership. 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