1 f LIFTING— GROWING — * LIFT TO'' The Monitor THANK YOU NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. _ l $2.00 a Year—5 1 4,ti a Copy Omaha, Nebraska, Friday, November 16, 1928 Vol. XIV—No. 20 Whole Number 692 PROTEST ELIMINATES RACE RECEPTION FOR URBAN I AMERICAN NErO INSULT FROM NEW BOOK Herbert Hoover, President; Colored LEAGUE EXECUTIVE RACE RELATIONS and the Outlook in DISCUSSION TOPIC GIVEN PROMINENCE New York City—A slur against the America the The reception tendered Mr. Eu- IN PUBLICATION Negro race is to be removed from a New Political World of “Do It Now” gene Kinekle Jones, National Urban OF SOCIAL WORKERS recently published book following a league secretary, of New York City, j vigorous protest made by Prof. G. Tuesday night, at the Y. W. C. A. j Annals of American Academy of So- David Houston, principal of the By Nahum Daniel Brascher by the board of the Omaha Urban Eugene Kinckle Jones, Urban League Delivers Address at cial Science Devotes November Technical school in league, was a very auspicious affair. Executive, High Washing- Chicago, 111., Nov. P.) cial leaders, in the last analysis, the to 14.—(A."N. Annual Conference. Race Rela- ton, according to a report to the Na- A large number of representative Opens —The tumult and the shouting are whites control party organization. It tions. tional Association for the Advance- Omaha citizens was in attendance. the Discussion. (Issue over. Herbert Hoover will be the is not believed that the new admini- ment of Colored People by Neval H. Mr. J. Harvey Kerns, executive sec- next president. The “I-told-you-so” stration will countenance procedure GREAT ARRAY OF SUBJECTS Thomas, president of the Washington retary of the local league, had full LOCAL WORKERS ON PROGRAM association is holding daily sessions, on any line in the south or north, that branch. Professor Houston’s charge of affairs and was assisted by protest, and, the "Alibi club” is giving out completely eliminates colored Amer- Negro's Contribution to Art, His Le- writes Mr. the Mrs. Hiram R. Greenfield, chairman Various Aspects of Social Problems Thomas, brought statements on "if” and “however/' ica. 6*1 Status, Economic Achieve- Washington representative to the of the reception committee. The | Affecting Race and Community Various newspapers, daily and oth- If and when colored Ameirca looks ments, Mental Ability and school at once with a to call ladies wore charming gowns which i Frankly and Practically promise erwise, and various wiseacres, local, to the ideals of national wel- larger Presented. Organizations Noted. in the book, have the insult elimin- : lent a picturesque background to the and national, if not always so wise, fare and progress rather than purely ated, and a sharp letter sent to the occasion. The following ladies as- are describing the part colored Amer- individual advancement, more consid- New York City, Nov. 15.—The writer. sisted: Mesdames A. L. Hawkins, That the rights of the Negro in the ica played in the national game, and eration will be given by the powers, November number of the Annals of The book in question is “The Pil- Gooden, Solomon, McIntosh, Jack- United States are to be secured not what position will be taken, or forced and more will be merited. Develop- the American Academy of Political grim’s Progress in Culture,” distrib- son, Murphy, and Wilson, and re- by physical force but by the force in the coming days. Some have said ment of a program of real statesman- and Social Science is devoted to the uted by the Grolier society in which ceived the guests. Mrs. Augustus of the spirit and that this is gradu- this was the first year democrats ship will place colored America in a American Negro and contains 39 ar- occurs the following sentence: “Most Hicks presided at the prettily arrang- ally being brought to pass, was the ever “went after the Negro vote." position in every section of the nation ticles on all phases of the Negro’s people born with a tongue between ed table, serving sherbert cake and message delivered by Eugene Kinckle The record, of course, belies this. to receive more favorable considera- problems, written by those familiar their teeth know how to talk more or coffee. She was assisted by Misses Jones of New York, national execu- The democrats have always gone “af- tion on the problems of the most im- with the subject. The editor of the less, but between talk and conversa- Lutie Bryant, Ruth Seay, Gertrude tive secretary of the Urban league, ter the Negro vote,” north, in all na- mediate concern. On the other volume is Donald Young, assistant tion there is as much difference as Mesdames Evans and Smith. speaking before the annual tional elections since enfranchise- the of demo- Lucas, meeting hand, minority party of the professor of sociology at the Univer- between the beating of a nigger’s The board members were in receiv- Nebraska Conference for So- ment, and has always had a goodly crats, north and south, may be ex- I of and the advis- tom-tom and a fantastic on the line with Mr. Jones.' An im- cial Work at the Jewish sity Pennsylvania, piano ing Community number. Grover Cleveland made out- pected. even in a larger way, to be editorial committee includes a Paderewski.’’ was Center, Monday night, on “The Ne- ory by standing appointments and had zeal- less drastic in opposition to regain promptu program giver, during Charles S. Johnson, chairman; F. 0. j Professor Houston, on receiving a the evening and Mr. Jones gave an gro’s Opportunity.” Judge L. B. ous adherents. Bishop Walters and position. That is ever the story of Nichols, Graham R. Taylor, James i of the book, wrote inspiring short talk. Music was fur- Day, recently elected to the supreme copy promptly Monroe Trotter earnestly supported politics, from the beginning. Weldon Johnson, and Mary Van that he was this matter to nished Miss Elaine Smith and Miss bench, president of the conference, j calling Woodrow Wilson in his first election, De Priest in Congress by Kleeck. the attention of the National Asso- and several vocal numbers presided. J. Harvey Kerns, secre- to be humiliated Wilson’s Oscar De Priest of elect- Liverpool, only by ig- Chicago, of seven I ciation for the Advancement of Col- were rendered Mrs. Pearl tary the Omaha Urban league, in- The volume is divided into noble double after ed to to succeed the late by Ray crossing getting congress troduced the A as follows: ored People, and added: Reese. The evening was very enjoy- speaker. large mixed parts in the White House. Four years ago Martin B. Madden, will be seated, de- audience was Part I. Race Relations.—Race and “You will not, perhaps, sustain any able. present. j the racial democratic wing was di- spite the many tricks that will be re- Herbert financial loss from such Mr. Jones called attention to the Class Parallelism, by Adolph-1 appreciable rectly in national headquarters, in- sorted to, endeavoring to keep him us Ohio State university; Race I resentment as the colored people may fact that the Negro problem is no Miller, stead of being camouflaged in outside out. He will occupy an unique posi- DU BOIS ON LECTURE TOUR Relations in the United States, by manifest ,but you will learn that in longer a sectional problem. The j locations with more or less dubious tion and will be in a position to serve TO SOUTHERN COLLEGES this of social unrest colored peo- masses, it is are in the W. E. B. Du Bois, editor of The Cri- day names. race in a much needed true, south, Probably 1928 furnished the the entire — are how to feel and re- and will remain sis; The Basis cf Race Prejudice, by! ple learning on there, but migration largest number cf colored voters who way. De Priest thrives best op- New York City—Dr. W. E. B. Du Robert E. of sent insults.” has brought large numbers into the Park, department so-1 protested against republican sins of position. A native of Alabama, who editor of The left No- Bois, Crisis, ; north. The attitude Chicago university; Self-Re- a house of each section ciology, j omission by voting for A1 Smith. The came to Chicago and became vember for a lecture tour AWAY 10, during j As a Factor in Racial Advance- MOTHER BROWN PASSES differs. The south is gradually com- spect j proportion at that, however, except decorator and then a real estate man, which he is to address students in the H. M. Bond, department of ing to see that its methods have been ment, by | in New York and St. Louis, was not who got into politics, he knows the leading southern educational institu- social science, Fisk university. Mrs. Georgia A. Brown, 1712 No. wrong and is admitting that it must anything like many anticipated, and “ins and outs” of American life, “for tions, including Tuskegee Institute, Part II. The Negro As An Element! Twenty-fifth street, died Friday, No-! change its method. There must be some seem to think. Better than 70 better or for worse.” He is shrewd, Fisk and Atlanta universities, More- in the Population of the United | vember 2, and was buried Tuesday co-operation and understanding. per cent of Chicago Negroes voted aggressive, and sometimes domineer- house college, Virginia Normal and November 6. Funeral serv- The curve of States.—The Negro in the United | morning, mean progress during the for Hoover.