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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1917)
The Monitor A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests of the Colored People of Nebraska and the West, with the desire to con tribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and of the race. Published Every Saturday. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2. 1915, at the Post Office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March 3, 1879 THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Editors. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor and Business Manager. Joseph LaCour, Jr., Lincoln Representative, 821 S. St., Lincoln. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, »1.50 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 50 cents an Inch per Issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omahs. Telephone Webster 4243. THE,LOOMING CLOUD We believe we are safe in saying that our race regards with mingled emotions the break with Germany and the probabilities that may arise. At heart we are a loyal and patriotic people and our country has always found us ready and willing to serve her in all crises and will today. We cannot help feeling, however, that we are the people who do not count. For several years there has been all man ner of talk about preparedness, but it meant nothing for us. Only re cently a Texas congressman exploded a bomb at the naval hearing when he suggested that Colored men be ac cepted in the navy, a bomb that sent Josephus to his hole in a hurry. The same reception awaited the race when it was proposed that the Colored regi ments in the regular army be in creased. Even the pseudo-military camps at Plattsburg, N. Y., which re ceived volunteers from all over the United States, balked the moment a black face presented itself. Yes, it seems that we have always been the people who do not count. But let the United States be plunged into war, which we hope may never happen, as always the Colored volun teers will be among the first to re spond. We will prove loyal, never fear, because somehow we cannot prove otherwise. Someday a reckon ing must come, for reckonings always come, and disloyalty will never be a stain across the escutcheon of the Af rican race. BUSINESS ETHICS In every profession and business pursuit there is an unwritten code of honor known as ethics. It is a code that presupposes that every person who elects to follow any trade or pro fession will deal justly towards his patrons and towards his fellow' com petitors. We have regretted to learn that some of our business men have not been as careful to observe the business gentility as is to be expected of honorable men. Competition, it is true, is the life of trade, but it means competition by gentlemen, clean, hon est and above board. Omaha is a growing city and there is work for all of us to do. Let us not forget the ethics of our respective professions. For those who do forget there is a penalty. Success may seem to come for a while, but it is success that is builded upon the sand. The only man who can really succeed is he who deals fairly with his public and fairly with those who tread the winepress with him. COMRADES IN ARMS “Comrades in Arms” is the title of an illustration just released by the International News Company. It pic tures a pretty French girl and a black soldier together carrying boxes of am munition. Over the picture occurs the following words, “These ‘two sol diers of France,’ one a woman muni tion worker, the other a French Sene galese private, are carrying boxes of ammunition from the machines to the point of transportation to the army base.” Both are smiling and the smile upon the face of the girl appears to | be contented and happy. No doubt i thousands of prejudiced Americans will get all “het up” over the “at tempt to encourage social equality.” _ Obvious Observations When the German submarine note reached the United States the other day stocks and food stuffs tumbled like Humpty Dumpty. Wish three or four such notes would come this way so as to knock the daylights out of H. C. L. It is said that Germany counted on a war with this country when she de termined upon her naval course. It is probable that our entering the war would be more of a help than a hind rance. We couldn’t lend so much as sistance to the allies. We venture to remark that the over zealous sheriff who has to pay $45,000 bucks for hurting an innocent Colored man, will sure watch his step here after. We suspected something crooked in the way Uncle Sam went after little Haiti and now we find we were right. Did you buy any stock in the company that advertises itself as controlling everything in Haiti worth two bits? What has become of Mexico? We searched the paper with a microscope last week and couldn’t find a word about it. The Rockefeller Foundation has de livered a clean knock-out to the study of the classics. , Well, we guess it is up to the persons of African descent to pass them along as they have al ways done. Thanking you for your kind atten tion, we will now shut the door and blow out the gas. SONG OF SOLOMON — Doctors. 1. Open thine ears, 0 my son, whilst I tap to thee a tra-la-la on my trusty tambourine. 2. I sing to thee of doctors, the purveyors of pills, sweet medicines and health. 3. They are a good bunch, O my son, but the public often handeth them the hot and heavy. 4. If thou grabest off a chunk of pneumonia, thou art due to be tucked up in the white blankets five weeks, but if the medicine man getteth thee not up and out in five days thou sayest he is punk and a quack. 6. If perchance thou gettest a grip on the grippe and herr doctor doth not chase it away pronto with a dose of dope, thou ringeth up another M. D. and handeth the first the hammer. 6. Of course, 0 my son, I know that betimes the doc doth tell thee thou hast appendicitis when thou hast but belly ache; heart trouble because thou eatest rarebit at twelve bells; and rheumatism when thou art tired out; but doc doeth his best. 7. Disease doth not always haul around a brass band and banners tell ing its name. 8. It is a secret demon that hug geth the dark and devious ways and liketh not to come out in the open. 9. Just give old doc a chance and by and by he will locate the pathy even as Sherlock locateth the pussy foot. 10. Yes, give old doc a chance, O my son, and forget not to slip him a bean or two so that he mayest keep out his shingle. EVOLUTION PROVING IMMORTALITY The above is the title of a new edi tion of a book written by John 0. Yei ser, a well known local attorney, and a copy of the same has been presented to The Monitor for review. The question of immortality is one that has been paramount with man ever since he has learned to reason. That there is some other sort of ex istence beyond the portals of the shrouding grave is the hope, if not entirely the belief, of every rational creature. Thousands of men have written to sustain this hope and thou sands more will write in the future. Mr. Yeiser has called evolution to his aid and with deft treatment of the facts of tnis branch of scientific study, he has built stone upon stone for a foundation for belief. The book is emi nently worth buying and reading many times over. It abounds in beau tiful thoughts and consoling phrases. We choose the following as one es pecially beautiful. “In the same manner that food is necessary for the stimulation of the cell development of the body, so is the accumulation of mental nutrition con tained in truth, and knowledge, and good deeds, necessary to cultivate a greater life, or soul. The things we think—the thoughts we receive and throw off or remember and forget— are to the soul what food is to the body. They carry, as a conveyance, a soul element, which, when retained be comes a part of the soul life-part of man’s mental nature and character. .It is certain one cannot carry into the great beyond any part of his vast wealth accumulations, but there is a marvelous hope and a grand possibility that the accumulated knowledge of good things, or ever lasting principles, in harmony with that which lives, may be taken as a part of the intellect, because it must become a part of the enduring soul.” The work is published by the Na tional Magazine Association, Bee Building, Omaha, and sells for $1.50. Piano lessons systematically taught. Technique, velocity, expression, and phrasing are esesntial for good piano playing. Mrs. Silas Johnson, 2518 Lake. Phone Webster 248.—Adv. - tfapiers 2nd ANNUAL CLEARANCE ALL THIS SEASON’S NEW BOOTS These Three Lots Speci cally Priced for Satur day’s Selling LOT NO. 1— High and Low Heel Boots, in pat ent and black kid; turn or welt sole; button or lace. Q/\ duced from $5 and $6 to LOT NO. 2— Large assortment of Napier's Ex clusive Novelty Boots, in black and combinations of colored kid. All with- 9 and 10-inch tops; extreme French heels. Reduced (j> £ QA from $8 and $10 to LOT no. 3 Gold and Silver Slippers $3.90 Over 500 pairs new style Party Slippers. Cloth of gold or silver black or white satin; patent or kid. Choice of <£<’‘1 Q/i (n»^ beaded or plain effects. Reduced from $5, $6, $7 t<«JP^. VU (Sizes Broken) Come Early Saturday for Best Selections of Styles and Sizes AND BETTER SERVICE. Jfapier’s ffiooterte Women’s Fine Footwear On Sixteenth at Farnam Ground Floor Rose Building 4