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Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-27
Frank RachWalik Bound
Over to District Court

Frank Rachwalik, 4311 South For
ty-first street, charged with shoot
ing with intent to kill" Constancy
Ogalkiewiez, Forty-second and K
streets last Sunday was bound over
to district court under $500 bombs
by Judge Fitzgerald in South Side
police court.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-27
|oMAHA STORES
BEST IN COUNTRY,
ASSERTS BLACK.
President of Retail Merchants
Gives Figures on Advertis-
ing Spread in Local Pa
pers Each Year.

Retail merchants of Omaha, 20
the number of $50, last night at
tended a smoker at the Chamber of
Commerce rooms, at which Charles
Black, president of the association
presided. He paid a high tribute 20
the integrity and business ability Of
the Omaha business men, asserting
that the retailers of the city are a
progressive lot and are constantly
boosting for Omaha and the tribu-
tary country.
Omaha, according to Mr.. Black,
has the best retail stores of any
city in the country. The merchants
are liberal advertisers and, accord
ing to the assertion of the speaker,
last year they paid for 90 per cent
of the advertising that was carried
in the local newspapers.
Secretary Metcalfe of the Retail
Merchants association presented
figures showing that during last
year Omaha merchants representing
AZ lines did a business of $89, 403,-
1872. The retail grocery trade ag-
gregated $l7, sos 900, and department
store trade, $17,6S0,000.
E. M. Reynolds of the Benson
Thorne company predicted a sue
cessful era for the retail business of
Omaha. He urged organization for
instruction along business lines, ad-
vocating a vocational school where
young men and women might be
taught business principles. He urged
merchants to advertise in the news
papers, saying that advertising is
the life blood of business"
Predicts Coal Shortage.
]. A. Sunderland of Sunderland
Brothers, talked on the fuel prob
lem, contending that some of the
people are of the opinion that a
coal dealer is a necessary evil" He
took exceptions to the spreading of
any such idea, asserting that the
coal business of Omaha represents
an investment of $3,000,000 and that
the profits on coal sold by the re-
taller is not so great as that OBJ
tanned in many other lines of trade.
He told the retailers that Omaha
has the best of facilities for laying
in surplus supplies of coal, but that
in all probability. there will be a
shortage during the winter, owing
to the mines being unable to pro-
duce quantities sufficient to supply
the demand.
The Muny coal yard was attacked,
| it being asserted that the money
belonging to the taxpayers was be.
ing taken out of the public treasury
to pay for the coal retailed to con-
sumers.
w. w. Head of the Omaha Ma
tional bank discussed Confidence,
Cooperation, Credit and Service"
pointing out where each of the four
are necessary in business of al!
kinds, the retail trade, as we'll as in
banking.
Charles C. Belden of Thompson
Belden company spoke on the Ben
e6ts of the Association" saying
that the best way to learn of the
benefits is to join. The association
has lessened the hours of labor of
employees, has resulted in the cut
ting out of fake advertising, reduced
cost expenses and has helped to
make the retail business a success.
he said.
A passenger on Wichita street
car caused a great commotion and
got himself arrested the other day
by falling on his knees in the aisle
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09

the Georgia legislature had offered
price for his head, and on his way
to his ship at New York, through Con-
necticut, he was pursued by a sheriff
with writs for his apprehension.
But he reached London safely. 1t
was his first trip to the worlds met
ropolis and in company with his CO.
worker, George Thompson, he was
shown some attention by the anti
slavery element in London. Garrison
was the accredited agent of the New
England anti-slavery society, and his
object was the collection of funds for
the establishment OF manual training
schools for the youth of African blood
in the United States.
Another object was to combat an
African colonization scheme, to which
Garrison was firmly opposed. A meet.
ing was arranged for the American
champion of the American slave at
Exerter Hall on the evening Of July
18th. The great auditorium was
packed. Garrison was introduced by
George Thompson. He began thus:
'Mr. Chairman, it is long since 1
sacrificed all my national, complex
tional and local prejudices upon the
altar of Christian love, and breaking
down the narrow boundaries of a sell
banner this motto: my country is the
world; my countrymen are all man
kind.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
REV. B. N. MURREll.
Writes an Interesting Letter to The
Appeal From Paris, France.

Writes an Interesting Letter to The
Appeal From Paris, France.
Rev. B. N. Murrell has written a.
letter to the editor of THE APPEAL
from which the following facts have
been condensed:
Peace having been declared he will
shortly return to America.
Since leaving st. Paul, his health
has been the best and every day has
been spent in service to the soldiers
furnishing remarkable experiences.
He plans to join his wife in Wash
ington and may visit st. Paul, has
several offers but has not decided
where he will locate.
He says that all of the 10000 dead
soldiers at Beaumont, Thiancourt and
Ramange cemeteries were buried by
coIored American soldiers, no white
man helped to move one. "A lasting
debt of gratitude is due to the colored
soldiers from American citizens"
He says that many statements that
have been made by speakers and
writer's, who were not actually on the
ground, are not veritable facts. Hav-
ing worked in the Verdun sector four
and half months I know the dead
there tell correct story.
II have spent ten months on the
Western front. It has given me a
fairly general acquaintance with Sec
tors from Switzerland into Belgium,
but the facts at hand compel me to
speak guardedly. All units alike who
faced the Germans have left here on
the field, proportionately,. their silent
representatives.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
THE. LOWDEN COMMISSION.

THE APPEAL is not enthusiastic
about the Race Problem Commission
appointed by Governor Lowden of II.
linois. The governor is a very doubt
full quantity on the race question and
it is possible that he would appoint
Jim crowists if such a body were
named, and it's findings would be of
no value in the matter.
AS matter of fact there is moth
ing to arbitrate. The colored people
are wholly within their rights as citi-
zens. The Supreme Court Of the
United States has decided that segre-
cation is unconstitutional and if a
jimcrow commission recommended a
plan for voluntary segregation, it
would stand for something illegal.
From what we learn the attempt lis
to be made to get the colored people
to agree to their own segregation but
we do not believe Illinois colored men
will do so.
If any attempt is made to segregate,
the colored people have the whiphand
and can prevent any such action by
appealing to the courts.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
ROBERT r. MOTION,
(FrOm the Crisis.)

! Neither R. H. Motion nor w. E. B
! Dubois had the slightest idea that the
| other was planning to sail for France
December 1, until they met in Wash
ingtOn on quest for passports, No
vember 80. They sailed on the Steam.
er Orizaba and frankly discussed their
agreements and disagreements. When
they reached France, each went about
his own business.
LII. Motion was sent by the Preside nt
OF the United States and the Secre.
tary of War to see and talk to colore6
soldiers. DR.. Du Bots was sent by
the N. A. A. C. P. and the Crisis to
gather the historical facts concerning
colored troops and to call Pan
African Congress.
On the night before DR.. Motion
started out colored man of national
reputation and unquestioned integrity
who had been in France six months
took him aside and told him frankly
the situation: the rampant American
prejudice against colored troops and
officers and the bitter resentment of
the victims. Dr. Motions letters gave
him every opportunity A special
Army Order preceded him, which
read: 80.
Dr.. R. r. Motion, President of Tus-
kegee University, will be present in
the Divisional area for the next few
days. The Division Commander d.
reefs that commanding officers render
all possible assistance in any visit or
inspection Dr.. Motion desires to make.
hey will also see that he is accorded
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
"SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY"

A well-known colored resident of
st. Paul who is serving in the United
States army now in France sends a
letter which gives an idea of the pres
ent conditions which surround the
colored soldiers who fought Ito make
the world safe for democracy" AS
the censorship has not yet been lifted,
we withhold the name and address
OF the writer for fear that he may
be punished for sending the letter,
which follows:
Somewhere in France, June 4, 1919.
To the Editor of THE APPEAL:
I am writing to let you know what
our boys are doing in France and
what is being done to us. We landed
at Sainte Nazaire, a city of 10000
people, and trained a while under
great odds. We were then ordered
to the front and were getting ready
to go when the armistice was signed.
We all wanted to go, as there was
not man in the whole division who
had streak of yellow down his back.
We are now located at =, France,
that is two companies, and the Med
ical Corps and the other companies
are at different places. The two
companies are in charge of two large
mess halls and can feed about 5000
men in about Is minutes. The men
in the Medical Department look after
the sick in the camp and examine
the troops that are embarking for
home.
What we are doing here is not ap-
preciated, and there is a great deal of
segregation over here. In some
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
THE RECENT RACE RIOTS.

Many factors have contributed to
cause the race riots in WASHINGTON
and Chicago, al the ways of intense
race hatred NJ sweeping the coun;
try. The principal ones are:
l.. The absolute failure of Chris.
tianity. The American Christian
Church has neither taught nor prac-
ticed the doctrine of the brotherhood
OF man, but has actually fomented ra-
cial animosities. Before the awful
color line Christianity stands dumb.
2. The present Democratic Admin
istration now in the saddle at Wash
mgton has encouraged segregation
and all kinds of injustices to the COL
ored people, including the colored SOL
diers who risked their, lives; and, in
thousands of cases, made the SUI
preme sacrifice for their native land
The treatment of these heroes in
France by the United States military
authorities is the darkest chapter in
the history of the world war. "
8. The South piqued at the emigra-
ton of its co1ored labor has spent hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in TO-
menting race troubles in the North,
SO that Atlanta when charged with
lynching and other atrocities could
shout back at Chicago, You're an
other
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
ABYSSINIAN BLOOD IN EUROPEAN
ROYALTY.

Editor The Appeal:
The presence in Washington, D. c..
OF a delegation from the Abyssinian
government is of historic and scien
tific interest,"
GibbOn, in "The Decline and Fall OF
the Roman Empire" recognizes the
Abyssinians as black Negroes. Fol
centuries these peoples have main
tanned the Coptic form of the Chris
ton religion against the strong Mo.
hammedan influence of both Egypt
and Arabia.
At the battle of Adowa in 1895, the
military forces of the Abyssinians de.
feated an Italian army of 10000 men,
under Gen. Bolderossa, defeating
Italy"s attempt to conquer their coun.
try. The Abyssinians use modern
military equipments
Alexander Pushkin, the only poet
that Russia has ever produced, was
the son of an Abyssinian Negro. The
direct and lineal descendants of Push
kin have married into the wealthy
and royal families of the British EN-.
pire, and incidentally, breaking the
back of the great Charles Darwin's
biological theory, "reversion to type"
or, as the common people say, "tak-
ing back" The rock bottom facts in
the case, are Numerically opposed
to this Pigment of the Darwinian i'm
agination
If the now reigning family of the
British monarchy should become ex-
tinct, the next heir to the throne
would be the. Prince of Battenburg.
whose beautiful and accomplished
wife is the direct descendent of Push
kin. She would be the queen of Eng
land and Empress of India.
DIR. }. M, Boddv.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09

and which is an insult to one group
Of American fighters.
On the authority of Deets Pickett,
research secretary of the board who
has just returned from Europe, the as
sertion is made that drunkenness, dis
honesty, immortality and the associa-
ton of French women with colored
men, are some of the causes for their
dissatisfaction" with France
In another column of this issue of
THE APPEAL will be found a letter
from St Paul man who is now a
soldier in. France thousands of such
letters have been received from col
ored soldiers), which shows that the
alleged young Mems CHRISTIAN
Association" drew the color line, and
colored soldiers were continually in
suited by signs reading, "For White
Troops Only"
There is no color line in France
or any other European country, not
even in Germany. The French people
treated the colored Americans as if
they were human beings. There was
no patronizing. They were treated
like men because that is. the custom
in France. On the contrary the white
American soldiers continually insulted
and mistreated their colored brothers
in arms. To infer that the relations
between respectable French women
and colored men were immoral is an
Infamous slur on the French women
and an insult to the colored defenders
of democracy.
1t is said that the French demi-
mondaines preferred the colored men.
and this piqued the white Americans.
They did not object to the sin, but
the fact that the female sinner was
French woman and the male sinner
an American colored man.
The averave white American accus-
omed to the Infamous, abnormal, un-
Christian, and really un-American
color line, can not grasp the psychology
OF the French people who not only
have no color line but cannot com
pfehend it's meaning.
France which gave to the world
the Dumas, pere ct fills, judges men
by merit not by color. France is true
to it's motto,
"Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919.
NOT A WHITE MANS COUNTRY

One Beauregard Moseley of Chicago,
a colored man of local prominence
presumably in order to be patted on
the back and called "good negro
in an address at colored meeting dur
ing the riots informed his auditors
that, "this is a white mans country"
He was promptly rebuked and we
trust he'll know better next time.
No, this is not white mans coun-
try" 1t is true that the white man
stole it from the Indians, and also stole
some colored men who were free in
Africa, brought them over here and
made them slaves to work the stolen
property. Three hundred years of un-
requited toll gives the colored man a
better title to the land than the white
mans.
The colored man knows no other
land; he speaks the vernacular of the
country; he has fought in every war
to preserve it's integrity; has has al
ways been loyal though deprived Of
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap.
piness.''
The colored people of the United
States are not aliens; they were all
born here. They are Americans and
as Americans have their share in our
common country
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
MISTAKEN FOR NEGROES"

During the recent race riots in Chi
cago, about half a hundred, Mexicans
East Indians, Malays, Cubans, Porto
Ricans and other peoples of dusky hue
were mistaken for negroes" and
either insulted or badly beaten. There
was not such great mistakes after all
as the majority of these peoples have
a percentage of African blood.
On the contrary not less than TO-.
600 colored Americans, often called
negroes" some as fair as lilies went
unmolested through the streets of Chi
cago. 1t was one of the queer Incl
dents of the riots. The white rioters
with murder in their hearts often
could not tell negro CO" when
they met him.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
Should Open the Doors to Opportunity

(F'rom the Christian RegiSter)
A circular sent out to employers in
a large city, calling attention to the
number and quality of young colored
men trained in the schools of the city,
and asking cooperation and counsel
in making their services available,
brought one reply which though anony-
nous is significant of an opinion still
widely influential. Kindly send them
to Africa, instead of mixing them
with u.s." AS the expression of an in
dividual desire these two points are of
course admissible, but as practicable
measures it is curious that any intelli-
gent person should seriously entertain
them. Does any one suppose that the
colored population Of the United
States could be sent to Africa, or that
II they were sent they would go? So
long as they are here, and have al
ready been mixing for more than a
century, and have the rights of citi-
zenship, including the right to die with
white men for their country, is it any
reckonable menace to responsibility
and intrinsic leadership to open a few
more industrial doors to their proved
abilities and usefulness? While we
write, a moving-van is unloaded BY
two white men and one colored man.
The colored man is the boss, ths
white men take his orders. There iA
not the least trouble about it, There,
would never be trouble If it were mol
made by people of the temper of the
anonymous objector
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09

surgeon Zelder, can be depended on to
operate successfully on the knife-torn
heart
Dr.. Zelder has little hospital at
Obuchow. Thirty-one persons brought
to the hospital with hearts pierced and
slashed by knife wounds have sue
cessfully had their organs repaired
and have recovered entirely, to all ap-
pearances, from their remarkable ex-
periences. One patient has lived
seven years and shows no signs of
having been affected by the heart
wound and subsequent sewing up.
The foregoing statement is going
the rounds of the press as something
new and remarkable, yet human hearts
were repaired more than 20 years age
and it was a colored man, Dr. Daniel
H. Williams, the famous surgeon OF
Chicago, who first successfully op
Grated on the human heart.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
WOULD BAR FROM ARMY.

Colored men would be barred from
the army and navy under a bill in
troduced by Representative Carraway
(dem.) Arkansas. The bill also pro-
vides for the discharge within sixty
days of all colored men now in the
service and prohibits appointment of
colored men to the naval and mill
tary academies
Representative Carraway knows
that this bill can not be passed, but
he wishes to stir up race friction and
make hit with the rough necks of
Arkansas.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
DEMAND QUIZ By CONGRESS INTO
MOB RULE, 1,@----.. -.

-
New York-Demand forzse-ssinvesti-
cation my congress o. mob violence
and lynching in the United States is
made in an address to- the nation
signed by $50 citizens throughout the
country, including ex-President Taft,
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer,
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the governors
OF seven states, including Gov. A. H.
Roberts of Tennessee, every living
ex-attorney general of the United
States, the heads of California, Eli
nois, Princeton, Western Reserve,
Fisk and Vanderbilt universities :;
Charles w. Eliot, Elihu Root, Charles
Evans Hughes, J. R, Bingham of Mis-
slssippi, and Senator Arthur Capper
of Kansas
The address is, an outcome of the
national conference on lynching,
which was held in New York city
May 5 and last.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09

places you can see in large letters
signs reading FOR WHITE TROOPS
ONLY. At the white young Mems
Christian Association" in camp a COL
ored soldier cannot buy anything and
when you attend movie show you
are roped off. And why? Just to
satisfy the Southern white man. The
colored soldier has caused less trou-
bic than any other soldier in this
country. Something ought to be done.
We have done our bit toward world
democracy and we must enjoy a little
of it. We are going to demand it
when we return. No doubt you have
heard of the faults of the Y. M. C. A.
and they are true in the respects that
I state. I hope you will take this
matter up with some men who have
political influence and make an in
vestigation of the things which exist
over here before it is too late.
There is another thing we should
like to know. Why are colored troops
being held in France and then not al
lowed to enlist in the Army of Occu-
patton? You see, these are the
things which confront us daily. Al
ways something to hold us down.
Our only friend in need is the Red
Cross. 1t is the best organization
in France and is everywhere the SOL
dlers are. The service is good and
the prices for their canteen are cheap,
and every man who wears the o. D.
uniform is the same to them. This
is also true of the Salvation Army and
the knights of Columbus, and when
these organizations appeal for money
they need it and I hope that every
one who is able to subscribe will
DO so. Yours very truly,
1t is outrageous that the conditions
described should exist and appeals
should be made to the powers that
be to right these wrongs. So far as
the Y. M. c. A. is concerned, THE
APPEAL has never had any faith in
1t. 1t is one of the greatest fakes
the world has ever known and has
probably done more to cultivate race
hatred than any organization with the
word "Christian" as part of it's title.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-08-09
any COUNTRY is THE WORLD"

It was In 1888, on July 18th, that
William Lloyd Garrison, speaking at
Exeter Hall, London, England, uttered
the momentous words: my country is
the world; my countrymen are all
mankind"
Garrison's words are the ones which
will be treasured by the ages. They
are sparks from the fire within him.
They illuminate his breadth OF mind.
his Catholic spirit and his indomitable
courage. In the summer of 1888. ever
active and resourceful for the freedom
Of the American slave, he visited Eng
land. BY this time he had become a
national character.
The Liberator, the anti-slavery or
gan, which had as it's motto, "Our
Country is the world, Our Country
men Mankind" was two years old.
He had been imprisoned in Baltimore.