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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 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 aa Second-Class Mall Matter July 2. 1916, 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, *1.60 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 50 cents an Inch per Issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243. WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS? Charles J. Francke, manager of our city-owned and operated auditorium was solicited by our business man ager for an ad for the New York Symphony Orchestra Concert. Mr. Francke’s reply was: “We are doing no advertising in weekly papers.” And yet The Examiner, The Excel sior, The Jewish Bulletin, The Media tor, La Stampa, the Italian weekly, and several other weeklies, which are among The Monitor’s valued local ex changes, all carried liberal advertise ments for this concert. Oh, well, we’ll be charitable about it and simply remark that very evi dently someone has—made a mistake. ADVERTISING A firm advertises in a class paper because it wants the trade of that class to which the paper goes. It stands to reason that such firms will welcome this class and do its best to please them. We want our patrons to become patrons of our advertisers and the latter will show their appre ciation by supporting the paper which our patrons delight to read. It is a case of patronage and appreciation all the way lound. No one loses and every one gains. SKITS OF SOLOMON Public Opinion. Whenever a word juggler mounts the rostrum to sputter rhetoric into the waiting ears of a weary audience i e starts out by talking about public opinion. There ain’t no sich animul. It is called “public opinion,” but it isn’t. The public never had an opin ion of its own since Adam and Eve started housekeeping. Public opinion is private opinon shoved on the pub lic. The public doesn’t know' an idea from a mess of ham and cabbage. Whenever the interests want to cre ate a corner in dear public stuff they hold a secret plush curtain congress, map out a game of talk and then quietly slip it to the press. Then the newspaper digs out the four foot type and throws a scare into the public that makes its knees beat a terrible tattoo. The next day the gent, nick ered the editor, comes out and ex plains the whyfor of the whereas ana public opinion is made. Ere long a mouth machine steps to the platform and soft soaps the gathered dumb csses, telling them what “public opinion” wants. He sits down on the cane bottom and the listeners give him the happy noise. They think they are the public and that the talk-geyser has been placing posies on their swelled-out chests. They shake hands v ith themselves and start talking about public opinion. The interest* chuckle and get another hundred-year contract for selling yellow clay to the city. It’s a great game, public opinion. Push it along. Obvious Observations Lawst week a Southe’n crackuh wrote an ahticle in the Bee about keeping the Cullud man out of the ehmy. We were too busy to ansuh, but (had we been so disposed we should have said thalt no country eveh feahed putting a gun into tha hands of citizens whom they had treated justly. Ouch! Who slung that last brick fust ? The newspapers say that the kai ser is considering abdication. That is a mistake. What the kaiser is doing is figuring where to run when the storm breaks. The Appeal to Reason is publish ing some hot stuff on the government al ownership of railways. Read it, because you will have to vote on the question bye and bye. Let’s see: where did you put that Panama hat and those B. V. D’s? Omaha is becoming so good that last week a gentleman tipped his hat to a lady and the moral squad ar rested him for lifting the lid. Five men of the Ninth Cavalry Fent in subs to The Monitor last week. We are now on the border. A gentleman of a big corporation asked us last week what the South is go ng to do if we take away all the Colored people. We replied that we didn’t give a - what became of it If you want to know whether it is spring or not, walk along Fourteenth street and notice the Colored gentry taking sun baths. When we hesitated last week whether or not to give friend wife twenty-five beans for a new Easter bonnet, she told us to fork over and thank our lucky stars that we weren’t Solomon with 400 bonnets to buy. Thanking you for your kind at tention, we will now ask the grocer if he will trust us until our subscrib ers come across with their subscrip tions. THE GET ONE CLUB. Who will be the next member of The Get One Club? We want our subscribers to “Get One New Sub scriber for The Monitor.” Who will be the first? All news must be in before Wednes day noon, in order to appear the fol lowing Saturday. SMILES Lawyer—“How large were the hoofs? Were they as large as my feet or my hands?" Negro witness—“No, sah! They was jus’ ordinary sized hoofs, sah!”— Widow. Small Nebraska farms on easy pay ments, five acres up. “We farm the farm we sell you.” The Hungerford Potato Growers’ Assn., 15th and How ard Sts., Omaha. Douglas 9371. Basement Sales of Easter Apparel Moderate in price but excellent in style and in very wide variety. 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