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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1918)
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 X. 191*. at the Post Office at Omaha. Neb., under the act of March 3, 1X79 • THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Hayr%ea. Associate Ed it o-a George Wells Parker. Contributing Editor. John D. Crawford. Business Manager. Fred C. Williams. Traveling Representat ve SUBSCRIPTION RATES. fl.St PER YEAR Advertising Rates. SO cents an Inch per Issue. Address. The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first atreet. Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243 THE PRESIDENTS PEACE TERMS Every red-blooded American must feel a special pride in that great state paper of President Wilson in which he proposes peace terms. It is a wonder ful document, breathing a high and lofty spirit worthy of emulation by ail the nations who have the weal of hu manity at heart. It proposes to safe guard the interests of the weak from oppression and wrong and remove just cause for future conflicts. If Germany will accept the terms in the same spirit in which they are offered, an honor able peace can be speedily concluded, which will be largely to her advantage, as it will assure her an opportunity to restore her commercial advantages, which the incurring of widespread and widely spreading enmity has sadly im paired. It is to be doubted that Germany will accept these terms. It is quite likely that they will be spumed and Germany will conclude to fight to the point of exhaustion. Americans can be proud of the broad-mindedness of the peace terms proposed by President Wilson. IN BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS We have heard many favorable com ments on the special advertising fea ture in last week’s issue, in which sev eral of our business and professional people extended New Year’s greetings to the public. There were many ex pressions of surprise that this number of our people were engaged in business and in the professions. But these thirty-two cards represent less than half of the members of our race so en gaged in Omaha. At some other time we hop’ to be able by a similar plan to bring before our readers the full busi ness and professional strength of our race in this city, visualizing it in this way. It does us all good to realize what our people are doing in business in any community. It should fill us with pride and a determination to do all in ouv power to support and build up these enterprises and professions by our lib eral patronage and by the growth of this spirit among us to encourage others to go into other lines of busi ness as yet unrepresented. We are making progress in business and in the professions as well as along other lines. GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND JIM CROW CARS It is devoutly hoped that the govern ment control of the railroads will im mediately result in the improvement of accommodations for Colored passen gers in those sections of the South where the Jim Crow cars impose no toriously unjust and hard conditions upon our people, and ultimately result in the entire abolishment of the sys tem. We realize that all we would wish cannot be accomplished at once, but a start in the right direction can and she lid be made. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS Our people should invest liberally in war savings and thrift stamps. Not only will this help the government in raising war revenue, but it will teach thrift and the saving habit, which we need to cultivate. You can save money n.. I .. in no better way than by buying war savings stamps. Read carefully the advertisement about war savings stamps in this issue, and next week .when the drive begins subscribe for whatever amount you can safely carry. For example, if you are in the habit of saving $4 or So a week then take i war savings stamp each week. If you have been saving $1 a week then buy four thrift stamps a week and at the end of a month exchange it for a So savings stamp. Bur war savings stamp*! SKITS OF SOLOMON The Railroads Unk Samuel hath done it. For many, many moons, so many that the mind of modem man wots not the contrary, those cunning corporations known as railroads have been running the coun try and the trains, and making the dear public empty its jeans of all filthy lucre for the benefit of the bumper bean bosses, otherwise labeled Sir Stockholders. Often hath the pub lic groaned, and each groan brought forth more holes in the jean pockets. But the downy day is over. Old U. S. Gov. has thrown up the semaphore and sidetracked the Limited. Of course, the railroads didn’t hanker for the gaff, but they got wobbly. They couldn’t deliver anything but divi dends. Uuk Sam couldn’t get ammuni tion and fodder; some folks couldn't get coal, and other folks couldn’t get anything. Whenever an investigation committee started, the rail and engine combine always tried to elucidate the wberefor of the why not until Unk Slim got sore. While sore he recol lected the axiom of Mr. Thales of Miletus that when you want something | dene do it yourself. Whereupon Unk did it without any introduction or visiting card. Of course, there are ! some great grey matter gimps who are saying that Sammy can’t handle the throttle, but up to date said Sammy hasn’t been sending any questionaire. around seeking advice. He intends to ; run them—or else. Meanwhile other i bean gatherers are pussyfooting ( around the briars. They all have the j i hallucination of handwriting on the ; movie screen and are begging the j soothsayers to say it isn’t so. Unk Sam doesn’t say much, but he has his peep ers slanted on all the big mamma col- j : lectors, and the goblins will get them j if they don’t watch out. HE DIDN’T HAVE IT - i Miss Merrill, a teacher in a grade . school, had trouble with Johnnie last week. Johnnie had trouble doing his work, and the authorities finally dis covered that his sight was defective.' Miss Merrill told Johnnie and sent him , home with a note to his mother. He gazed at the note in horror, then at the teacher, and burst into tears. The note read: “Johnnie has astigmatism; do not let him return to school until he has ' been attended to.” Miss Merrill understood his grief better when she received a note from his mother. She read: “1 don’t know what he done, but I licked him for it. 1 can’t find it on him, and he says he ain’t got it; now you better lick him ' and see if you can find it.”—Chicago | Record-Herald. .- - "•-^.-7, Thompson, Belden & Co. The Fashion Center for Women - Established 1886 Obvious Observations The world keeps on moving around on its pins and no one is smiling but the coal man. * The annual subscription drive is on. Please grease the plate. We've only dated 900 letters so far with 1917. We’re getting sort of used to 1918 now, so we hope to get under the 1,000 mark. The western battle front is about as ! quiet as a holiday at the South Pole, but Mexico seems to have occasional headaches. The Illinois Defense Council wants to call a division of Southern mammies 1 to teach Northern cooks how to make hoe cake. It’s a dollar to a dime that j if the Southern mammies would start i cooking for the Sammies they would have them so fat before they reached the firing line that no bullet on earth | could miss hitting them. Better be i keerful. An eastern professor says that saw dust is a good food. That’s nothing new. Breakfast foods have been sold over the counters for some time. When was it that fall in the price of bread was due to take place ? Thanking you kindly for your en grossing attentiveness, we will now poke our hand out of the window and see if it gets frozen. AMERICAN TELEPHONE MEN BUILD SYSTEM IN FRANCE An American telephone system, built by the American telephone men, vith American wire, American switchboards, American instruments and operated by Americans, has just been completed in France. The lines connect General Pershing’s head quarters with all the encampments and training quarters of the Amer ican forces. Everything used except the poles came from the United States. Two battalions of the army men who built the first American tele phone gygtem on French soil were former employes of the Bell tele phone system. About 2,500 other former Bell employes are already in France with the army signal corps or in mobilization camps aw aiting or ders to embark. "It is a great treat for the officers to be able to talk through an Amer ican instrument instead of the types used on the continent,” says a press repop. Officers using the new army tele phone system in France are not the first of the American forces to find relief in up-to-date lines such as they had at home. In France the govern ment owns and operates the tele phone system, and an army officer must wait his turn like the others even in time of war. In the United States, where the telephone systems are privately owned, military re quests for telephone service have only i to be made to be immediately com plied with. In the United States gov ernment telephone calls have been given precedence over all others since the war began. According to a press dispatch, when the first of the American ex peditionary forces reached a French port, an American general expressed a wish to report to General Pershing, who was in Paris. He was conducted to the port postoffice, where the long distance lines of the government tele phone system converge. “Number 23, if you please, sir,” the telephone operator said to the officer when he gave her his call for General Pershing. “Twenty-three?” returned the gen eral in astonishment. “What does that mean?” “Twenty-three calls before you. Monsieur le General. Your turn will come in about four hours-” "Cancel the call," ordered the gen eral, at the same time calling his chief of staff. “String up four telephone w-ires between here and Paris and start ; work at once. Use the poles of the French system.” The telephone men of the Amer- ! ican army were at work in five min- ) uteB. In ten the general was gur rounded by a veritable hierarchy of French government telephone offi cials, large and small, each excited I ly expostulating. The French officials protested and they argued. “A commission must decide, permission must be obtained, j an authorization was necessary,” j | they said. All was to no avail. While j they talked the American soldiers | kept on stringing wire. The line w'ent through and is now in use. GOVERNM ENT H UGG ESTS ONE DELIVERY EACH DAY One delivery to each home each day Sis what the government wants retail ers of foodstuffs to make. This in formation came form John H. Schae fer, president of the National Retail Grocers’ Association, to Gurdon W. Wattleg, federal food administrator for Nebraska, through H. L. Himes of F remont. “Deliveries may be made over tho same route oftener than once a day, but delivery to each customer should be limited to one,” urges the advices. Our Women and Children Conducted kj Lucille Skaggs Edwards A NEW YEAR’S WISH The wish I would ask for myself is the one I’m sending you: That each day may be a new day, each week a new week, and each month a new month—new in hope, new in courage, new in strength, new in opportunity— and when the year is past and gone you need have no fear but that it shall also have been new in achievement.— Edwin Osgood Grover. SOME PERSONAL RESOLUTIONS I DURING W A R T I M E (From Dr. Charles M. Sheldon’s Church Calendar.) 1. I will try to preserve my own peace of mind. If I am powerless to prevent the war without, I can put an end to the tumult within. 2. I will resolve to do the task tha’ is my own, in my own place, with my usual purpose and regularity, and not become useless and a burden to others on account of my hysteria. 3. If any of those who are dearest to me are called to serve in places of dan ger or even to give their lives, I will j remember the great multitude of fath ers and mothers in the world who are bearing the same burden. 4. I will be cheerful and uncom- j plaining under abnormal and strange conditions which I have never before known. 5. I will be ready to deny myself needless luxuries which have become, perhaps, selfish necessities. 6. I will not forget the needs of others less fortunate than myself. ! Even in war time the sympathies of j days of peace must not be set aside. 7. I will strengthen my human friendships and fortify my soul with j divine companionship. 8. If I am too old to enlist in the army of men I will volunteer in the great army of faith in God. 9. I will not lose sight of the final victory for right and truth and human freedom sure in the long run. 10. I will pray with every morning’s sunrise the prayer, “Give peace in Thy time, O Lord.” And before I go to sleep I will say to myself,“Underneath | are the everlasting arms, and He will sustain thee.” — OUR CALENDAR There are a few curiosities about | our present calendar. Thus, January and October always begin on the same day of the week. This is also true of April and July, September and Decem ber, February, .March and November. This is not so, however, in leap years. A century can never begin on a Wed nesday, Friday or Saturday. Except in leap year the first and last days of the year fall on the same day. — Non-O-Deur, the great cure for of fensive smelling feet and armpits. It will entirely remove all odors. It is healing as well as antiseptic. Abso lutely guaranteed. Non-O-Deur Com pany, 318 South 19th street.—Adv. ! Masquerade Ball ( | BY WESTERN BEAUTY CLUB | AT | Alamo Hall, January 17 1 E Prize jriven to most comically dressed person, also to one E E selling most tickets. 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