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General Race News DOCTORS DRAW COLORED LINE Tuberculosis Sanatorium Physicians Would Bar Dr. Giles. Chicago, Feb. 2.—Members of the medical staff of the mnicipal tuber culosis sanitarium have refused to al low Dr. Roscoe C. Giles to sleep in the dormitory or eat at the table with them. Recently Dr. Giles passed the examination for junior physician at the sanitarium, standing first on the list. The board of trustees have met twice and tried to settle the difficulty but failed to arrive at a decision. Dr. Giles made a protest to Alderman De Priest, who in turn protested to the Health Commissioner, Robertson. The position pays $100 a month, board and lodging. BIG MONEY FOR BARTENDER’S NEGLECT New York, Feb. 2.—Because the bartenders in the cafe of John Rheim, 21 Courtland street, were apparently too busy to notice two Colored men standing before the bar waiting to be served, the proprietor will have to pay $1000 damages for alleged violation of the civil rights law, according to a de cision of the Appellate division of the Supreme Court. The Municipal Court had previously turned down the com plaint of the two men. The complaint ants were Eugene L. Moore, business manager of the New York Age, and David E. Tobias, lawyer. MAJ. JACKSON GETS BIG BERTH Springfield, 111., Feb. 2.—Maj. Rob ert R. Jackson has been honored in the legislature by being appointed on the committees on appropriations, military affairs, local option and ap portionment of which he will have charge or redistricting the state for election purposes. He has introduced a bill prohibiting the exhibition of pictures showing lynchings and the burning of human beings. WEST INDIAN NATURALIZED Trenton, N. J., Feb. 2.—Renouncing his allegiance to George V. King of Great Britain and Ireland, James Na thaniel Hoyte, chef at the New Acad emy, procured his first citizenship papers from County Clerk Hopkins on Thursday afternoon. He was the first Colored man to apply for naturaliza tion papers in the courts of Sussex county. He was bom in the Barba dos Island and came to the United States in 1903. WAR MAKES JAPAN A CREDITOR NATION The existence of the European war is making Japan a power among the nations of the world financially. She has bought over $257,500,000 English securities exclusive of her loans to the British government and over $195,500,000 in other securities. Be sides she has paid several thousand millions on her war debt and if the war continues much longer this debt will be wiped out entirely. Such fi nance places Japan on a secure finan cial basis and means that she will do much in dictating future Asiatic policies. WHITE JOURNAL WRITES SCATHINGLY ON LYNCHING The Rip-Saw, a monthly published in St. Louis, and of which Eugene V. Debs is editor, writes at length upon ; the lynching record recently published by Tuskegee. The editorial closes with the following scathing arraign ment of American civilization. “If, as scripture teaches, they who take up the sword should perish by the sword, then they who stain their hands with innocent blood by commit ting the cowardly crime of lynching should themselves fall victims to the same ignominious fate. The community that tolerates lynch ing, especially of an innocent victim, is still in the brute stage of its de velopment. It is even lower than that for there are no brutes in the animal kingdom that wantonly kill their own kind for the mere sake of gratifying the brute lust of killing. When one reads of these unspeak able crimes in the high noon of what is called Christian civiliation in the supposedly most advanced nation on earth, one is painfully impressed with our white degeneracy instead of our vaunted white supremacy and a man who is really white almost feels as if he should take off his hat when he meets a Colored man and apologize to him for the crimes of his race. From the time the first Negroes were stolen from their native land by heartless white pirates and traders in human flesh until now, the Colored people have been the victims of in finite cruelties and crimes at the hands of their white superiors, (!) and now that they are no longer in chains, no longer owned as chattels, the only way to impress them with the ‘supremacy’ of white civilization is to turn blood-thirsty mobs loose upon them, innocent though they be, and hang them and even their wives and children to trees and let them dangle there for the glory of their cold-blooded murderers. Oh, yes, we are a Christian nation and we are highly civilized; we have our pious faces set like flint against violence and anarchy, for we believe we who have established “white su premacy,” we believe in LAW AND ORDER ” PLAN BETTER HOMES FOR THE COLORED POPULATION Philadelphia, Feb. 2.—Need of bet ter housing for the Colored population of the city was emphasized at the annual meeting of the Octavia Hill Association in the Custis Building last Monday. The board of directors de cided to raise funds for building a number of houses in the district now occupied by Colored people. NEGROES RESCUE WHITE MAN Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 2.—Louis Papas (white) barber by trade, jumped into the St. John’s river here last week at the foot of Liberty street with the evident purpose of suicide, and but for the heroic intervention of two Colored men who jumped into the river and rescued him he would have succeeded. He will recover. For Chills use our $5.00 coal or your kind at Harmon & Weeth. Web. 848. I Colored People __ I Intending to 1 Come North or r ARMERS, farm laborers, i|i . * skilled and unskilled ■ WCSt"-" workmen, who intend leav 1 Tftlrp Nnfipp ing the south should pro' ^ I uAC IVUIIbG tect themselves against swindlers and chance con ditions. The Monitor has taken up this problem and is able to be of service to you. Write at once for information and en close stamp for reply. Address, George Wells Parker, Business Manager of The Monitor, I % | Omaha, Nebraska. .. I Omaha's Most Successful Barber. Our Growing Popularity Has been built up through efficiency. Efficiency is demanded in barbering as in everything else. We KNOW our business and we want YOU to KNOW that we can deliver the goods. Why go to just an ordinary barber when you can get the best service and attention at our shop? Yes, sir. BARBERING—That’s My Business Up-to-date methods, courteous attention, clean sanitary surround ings, five barbers who know their business. That is what my shop offers you. P. H. JENKINS 1313 Dodge Street Omaha, Neb. 1 _ . 1 Particular Dentistry Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen Gas for Painless Extractions Best 22K gold crowns. $4.00 and $5.00 Gold fillings .$2.00 and up Casted gold inlays.$5.00 and up Heavy 22K bridgework..$5.00 and $6.00 per tooth Porcelain crowns .. $5.00 Full upper or lower plates, best material... $10.00 Silver fillings . $1.00 Temporary fillings.-.—.$ .50 Extractions .$ .50 and up Clarence H. Singleton, D. D. S. 109 South 14th Street (Over Peoples’ Drug Store) Office Hours, 9 A. M. to 12 M. 1 P. M. to 7 P. M. Phone Douglas 7812 - -..........-—. ..... .... ... i