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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 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. 1816, 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. $1.50 PER YEAR Advertising Rates. 50 cents an Inch per Issue. Address. The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243. AGITATION WINS The demand that opoprtunity be given Colored Americans to receive military training as officers has been granted. It has been accomplished by agitation and persistent protest against our exclusion not only from West Point, but also from the offi cers’ training camps which the gov ernment has established throughout the country. When Dr. Spingarn. that firm and unselfish champion of our rights sought admission of Colored Ameri cans to riattsburgh Training Camp it was refused. He and others per sisted that opportunity should be af forded our race for this training. Ma jor General Leonard Wood finally said that if a certain number of men could be secured a separate training camp would be established. Dr. Spingarr immediately set to work to secure the requisite number. Still there was hedging. The final outcome of the whole matter has been that by per sistent agitation opportunity for offi cer training has been secured. No' only are separate training camps to be established, but twenty-five members of the Fifteenth New York regimenl have been admitted to Plattsburgh, tc which admission was formerly denied Seeing that we were determined to se cure the necessary training to pro vide officers for Negro regiments which must be called into service be fore this was is over provision for this has been made. Agitation and persistent demand foi our just rights as American citizens will eventually secure every right tc which as American citizens we are en titled. While persistent for our rights let us be zealous, conscientious and faithful in the discharge of every duty WHERE HELP IS NEEDED In the past three years the country has been deluged with appeals to help the Belgians, the Poles, the Jews, the Christians in Turkey, the Syrians and dozens of other nationalities, but far more pressing than any of these is helping the Colored people of the South. There are thousands who need help. War has paralyzed industry and want is stalking abroad. It is not a one man job, but a job for the w'hole race. Every Colored paper in the United States, every Woman’s club, every church and Christian organiza tion, every Colored lodge, all of the national organizations, and every in dividual citizen should try and lend a little aid to our people in the South. There are laborers there who want to get North to work; mothers with lit tle children whose husbands havr come North and deserted them; wo men who yearn to get aw'ay from bondage and earn a living with their hands. If the white and yellow races rr.n help their people, the black should be able to help theirs. There are per sons in the South to whom a dollar would look like a fortune. What shall we do about it? Let us hear from the race in the North. SHALL THE NEGRO MIGRATE? Last week we received a clipping from the D’Lo Herald, a white paper, and noted the caption of the editorial, “A Great Good Negro.” We read it. The following we read twice, “Let the Negro beware; heed the advice and teachings of such leaders of their race as Prof. Jones. Do not become a nomadic race. Discard the glittering promises of labor agents. Stay at home.” The Monitor has brought a good many men from the south this spring. We have noted such sayings as these that have fallen from their lips. “I have been here almost a month and I haven’t heard a white man say ‘nigger’ yet.” “It is cheaper to iive in the north now than in the south. I’ve got a little bank account started and that is something I never dreamed of down there.” “There are no slave drivers up here. These firms want you to work, but don’t want you to kill your self. Down there they want you to work until you do kill yourself.” “I’m going to bring my wife and children up next week. They are safer up here. “Do Colored children really at tend the same schools and get the same education as the white chil dren?” “White people up here are so friendly like.” We might give many more, but what’s the use? The only question we would like to have answered is: “Shall the Negro Migrate?” SOUTHERN SAVAGES This week’s press dispatches bring another revolting story of Southern savagery. A Negro accused of th( crime of assault and murder was burned at the stake, with all the at tendant brutality conceivable, by e mob of more than two thousand, while stores and business houses were closed to permit attendance upon this mani festation of Southern savagery. Granted that the bestial crime was committed by the accused man, wha' can be said of that of the murderers who taking the law in their own hands displayed multiplied brutality? Lynch law must go. America car not fight for humanity successfully until she rises in her might to sup press such outbursts of savagery a1 this within her own borders Suppress Southern savages. THE SPINGARN MEDAL The award of the Spingarn medal to the distinguished composer and musi cian, Harry T. Burleigh, will win gen era] approbation. Mr. Burleigh ha? won recognition in the musical world which has brought honor not only to the highly gifted race of which he is a splendid representative, but to the American nation. Colored Americans have just reason to be proud of th" j rogress we are making along all line' and of the recognition of that meritor ious progress we are compelling from prejudiced opponents. Tanner in art Burleigh in music, and Young in mil itary affairs are notable examples of those who are winning recognition. SKITS OF SOLOMON Straw Lids. Where is your straw lid, brother? The sun hath now begun to smile warmly and the sweat of the brow, ordained of old, beginneth to trickle down the side beams. The old felt is heavy and the derby is an abomina tion. The straws of the season are so pretty. The bands are decorated with wrecked rainbows and guaran teed to attract notice of any seismo graph on the face of the globe. They deflect the rays of the sun for the simple reason that the rays of the sun are afraid of anything really loud. Be sure, also, when buying a straw to buy a string with it to fas ten it on, so that you won’t have to marathon it down Broadway with your straw four feet in front of your toes. Hatpins aren’t fashionable for men—yet. There is generally nothing for a hatpin to fasten itself to on a man’s head. On some men’s heads not even a fly can get a good hold. That isn’t the fly’s fault, however. A lightweight straw hat is general ly the best kind to buy. Some straw hats are heavier than one of the war department's armored motors, and the only reason why they are made is because there is a class of people who will buy anything once, from pre ferred ozone stock to reserved curb stone seats along the golden streets. A Panama is the best bargain, but a good one requires a month’s harvest of beans. Howevah, visit our haber dashers and they will razzle dazzle ; >ou into something real cute and nifty. Always be careful to keep out of the rain with a straw. A straw hat has just as much use for a heavy rain as the Allied ships have for U-boats. If President Wilson goes after the high cost of living one-half as hard as he went after war appropriations and draft army, there should appear a cloud of hope on the horizon. Russia has decided to keep in the war and therefore the Allies will quit shivering for the present. Even Haiti is going to fight Ger many. If Kaiser Bill has never been scared he surely ought to be scared now. The spring fever germs are now mobilizing for general attacks. Stop hollering it’s hot. You were praying for hot weather a month ago with both knees on the carpelL Dry town does go along pretty nice, doesn’t it? The worst of it all are the things that never happened. Roscoe Simmons, the famous speech juggler, orated the other day that when Teddy started fighting with his ebony soldiers the Germans will hot foot for the tall timbers. We don’t mind platitudes, but we do mind non sense. The Germans haven’t run from any one yeit and we don’t think Teddy can do any more than the fighting blacks from Africa. Tone down, Ros coe, tone down. Where is your Red Cross button, eh? No, friend subscriber, you won’t hurt our feelings a bit by paying up that subscription. Thanking you for your devoted at tentions, we will now sprinkle the garden. You will miss it if you fail to see Andrew Reed in the drama, “Satan,” May 28 at the Auditorium. 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