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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1918)
The Monitor A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interest* 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 Mail Matter July 2. 1916, at the Poet 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 Editor*. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor. Bert Patrick, Business Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 81.90 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 50 cents an Inch per Issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omihi. Telephone Webster 4243. THE QUESTION STILL UNANSWERED COLORED Americans are deserved ly dissatisfied with the temporiz ing and vacillating policy of the gov ernment towards their employment in certain war activities. This is most noticeable, perhaps, in the case of physicians and nurses; certainly of the latter. Up to the present time, de spite the fact that 157,000 Colored troops have been called to the colors, and the country is being combed for nurses and an appeal sent out for 25,000 nurses, no Colored nurses have been accepted. Their qualifications for nursing are unquestioned. In fluential outhem newspapers, like the Louisville Courier-Journal, has called attention to the fact that Col ored nurses are most skillful and are regarded with especial favor because of their skill throughout the South, and express amazement that there is such an apparent indisposition to call them into war service. In obedience to a request, The Mon itor gladly publishes elsewhere in this issue an official communication from Washington in which it is stated that the Red Cross does not discriminate in its treatment of soldiers, but minis ters to all alike. This fact has never been disputed, so far as we know. But it still leaves the main question unan swered: WHY ARE NOT COL ORED RED CROSS NURSES EM PLOYED ? If white Red Cross nurses minister to all soldiers alike irrespective of their color, race or nationality, and that is the only proper thing to do. why should not Colored Red Cross nurses be called to the same gracious service and ministry and be given like opportunity of serving all sol diers in need ? The letter to Emmett J. Scott does not answer this vital question. It is stated that “the War Depart ment has under consideration the em ployment of Colored Red Cross nurses.” We have been told the same thing for several months now. White nurses have been employed and appea. after appeal has gone forth for “more nurses,” “more nurses” and yet “more nurses,” and yet with hundreds of well-trained, well-educated Colored nurses volunteering their services, they are becoming very weary with the oft-repeated refrain, “We are not using Colored Red Cross nurses YET.'” WHY NOT? Simply because of our narrow-browed provincialism, un known in any other country of re spectability on the globe, on the color question. This explains the vacillat ing and temporizing policy on this and other questions where Colored Americans are concerned, and with which they are not satisfied. If it be true that the Red Cross does not discriminate in its ministrations to soldiers and we believe that it is true, then stop temporizing and dis criminating in the employment of nurses. This question looms large and still remains unanswered: WHY ARE NOT COLORED NURSES AC CEPTED FOR RED CROSS SER VICE? A SUGGESTION, MR. M’ADOO. The Pulman Company has recently made an appeal to the colleges of the country to help.them supply a short age of conductors by inducing stu dents to apply for these positions dur ing the vacation period. It was stated that Columbia university had been asked to supply four hundred stu dents, white, of course, for these posi tions. Now, here is our suggestion, Mr. McAdoo: Why would it not be a good idea for you as Director General of the federalized roads to order the Pullman company to make each porter his own conductor and place him in i full charge of his own car ? On some i roads, like the Canadian Pacific, por ters have been and we believe are still so employed with entire satisfaction, to the company and the traveling pub lic. Many years ago, in the days of our youth, we had a brother-in-law who served in this way on the Michi gan Central running out of Detroit. So the thing is thoroughly practicable. These conductor-porters could make out their reports in triplicate, turning one over to the train conductor or auditor, one to the district and the other to the home superintendent. Such a plan would conserve man power and raise the standard and sal ary of the porter, giving him living wages. As it is now, the Pullman com pany pays its conductors and makes the traveling public, through the ne farious and degrading tipping system, pay the porter. The proposed plan would be economical and efficient. Many of the men serving now as por ters are men of good education. Why, then, use college students, temporar ily, when trusted, experienced and capable employees are available for this very work. This is merely a suggestion, Mr. McAdoo. What do you think about it ? WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME Much has been written of the pos sible benefits that will accrue to the race because of this war and much more along the same line is yet to be written. All will agree that our race has been benefitted and that the bene fits have not yet ceased. There is one phase, however, that has not been touched upon and perhaps the most important phase of all. It is the phase that will have to deal with the morale of our boys who have gone to the front. The most of them come from the far south and were inured tc the injustice, prejudice and crime of the white man of the south. Today they are taking part in the Great Adventure and fighting alongside of the men who have despised them. They are eating the same food, wearing the same uniform and trained to use the same kinds of weapons. What more, they are fighting w’hite men face to face, and to fight, to be brave, to win and to become heroes is as much a part of their mind as to the minds of all other Americans. Will they ; shed this combatant spirit when they come marching home? Will they ever again become the cowards to cringe and bow’ to those who have so long abused them ? Imbibing the spirit of real liberty from the limpid fountains of France, will they ever again submit to the idea of the white man’s south? Never. Our race has appealed again and again to the nation to right its wrongs, but the nation seeing forever deaf. Yet out of this very war for I nman liberty is coming forth a spec tit'tifat' shall frighten it to its very soul. It would be the part of wisdom to take time by the forelock and put’s ono’s house in order. The old order changes. If it be that liberty shall write a new name for itself upon the starry scroll of ages, the hand of the black man must help guide the pen. If that guidance is not granted will ingly, it shall be demanded miiitant ly. The Colored race will not shed j its blood without recompense and the recompense that shall be demanded is a new south. KOSCOE CONKLING SIMMONS. The large audience which greeted Koscoe Conkling Simmons at the Au ditorium Monday night was well re i paid for its attendance. He is a most entertaining speaker with a message for the American people. He has a most effective way of driving home much needed truths, which lose none of their effectiveness because of the humorous garb in which he frequent ly clothes them. Wit, humor and pathos are skillfully employed in send ing home his message. His message for the race is pa tience and persistence in well-doing and for the white American the im perative duty of setting a high ex ample in justice and righteousness. As a man of faith and vision naturally he is optimistic and believes that right will finally triumph. W’e are glad that Colonel Simmons has come to our city and we hope that he may be blessed with length of days and strength to carry his message throughout the land. GEORGIA’S MOBOCRATS Georgia again comes to the fore with more cases of lynching. Yet no doubt those same elements that are behind the disgraceful anarchy that takes the law in its own hands prate about democracy ar.d civilization. Such atrocious barbarism at such a time as this is doubly atrocious. It plays right into the hands of the Hun. It enables him to point with scorn at one of our states and say, ‘You call me barbarian; look at what your own en lightened democrats do!” If these Georgian moboe rats want to do some lynching there are plenty of Boches “over thei;e” who will give them work to do. The sad part of it is that an entire state must bear the blame for the doings of a few. The matter is a simple one; either Georgia is part of the United-States and as such gives all its citizens the right of trial, or else it is not a part of this country and has mentally, if not otherwise, seceded. We have here a mote in our own eye which should be removed at once.—The New Appeal. THE UNIFYING INFLU ENCE OF THE WAR “In my own mind I am convinced that not a hundred years of peace 1 could have knitted this nation to gether as this single year of war ha« knitted it together, and better even | than that if possible, it is knitting the world together. Look at the pic ture: In the center of the scene four nations engaged against the world, and at every point of vantage showing that they are seeking selfish aggran dizement; and against them twenty three governments representing the greater part of the population of the world, drawn together into a new sense of community of purpose, a new sense of unity of life.” (F'rom the President’s Red Cross Speech.) SKITS OF SOLOMON Conspiracy Conspiracy is a secret agreement between two or more dudes to raise something beside peace and quietude. At the present time there are more 1 conspiracies to the square inch than ever before known to the history of s human bipeds. The greatest con ! .-piracy that was ever hatched was ! that of Kaiser Bill who, it seems, de cided to wallop the world and make t it call him daddy. When the fight fest started, Bill shed tears as big as Heinz pickles, claiming that other 1 nations hopped onto him because he was hard at work attending to his own business. Bill appeared to be hurt so bodly that he had lots of folks believ ing it. He got across fairly well with j his briny alibi until one Count de 1 Loudsky, Dutch diplomat, dropped his diary. Said diary said so much I that Bill's nearest and dearest friends ■ struck his name from their visiting lists. Bill called de Loudsky every thing but a son of heaven and was progressing along fairly well as a de j claimer, when the ex-boss of Krupp’s gun factory spilled all the beans and the bacon too. He said that nobody wanted war in Germany excepting Bill and that Bill has been dissatisfied ! with peace ever since he drank two gallons of beer and ate three paprika schnitzels, thereby dreaming that he was Alex the Great, Raineses, Timour, Genghis Khan, Caesar, Attila and Na polean, rolled into one. Immediately Bill began preparations to hang crepe on the door of human liberty and was so sure that he w'as going to hang it, that he ordered the crepe first. But he hasn’t hung it yet and isn’t likely to do so. For a while he gave the Allies fits and nightmares, but now the Allies are giving him cramps and colic. He wants to leggo, but he das sent. He has begun to find out that dreams go by opposites and that beer and schnitzels are hard on the gastric .mucosa as well as on the grey matter. Its dollars to doughnut holes that Bill will let conspiracy remain in the dic tionary hereafter. That is the only safe place for it. PRESS CONVENTION The newspaper men of Iowa, Ne braska and South Dakota will meet in Omaha June 20-22. There will be ad dresses by Mayor Smith, Gurdon W. Wattles, state food administrator, and John W. Gamble, chairman of the ex ecutive committee of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Inasmuch as many newspaper men and their wives take their annual vacation at this period, many entertainment features have been provided. THE AMERICAN’S DLTY, The plain duty of noncombatar.t Americans briefly may be statdR as follows: Increase production, economize in consumption, lend your savings to the government, and hold your Liberty bonds. A NEW DAILY FOR OMAHA Edwin L. Huntley, a former Asso ciated Press representative, is presi dent of a company recently incorpor ated to publish a new daily paper in Omaha, and furnish plate matter to country newspapers. Mr. Huntley ex pects to begin publication within the next three months. | _ PICT!'RES WANTED FOR BOYS IN FRANCE The Bureau of Publicity of the Oma ha Chamber of Commerce invited the newspapers and commercial bodies of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota to furnish it with photos showing Lib erty Loan, Red Cross, War Savings demonstrations, and ike patriotic dem onstrations. These pictures will be made into lantern slides and sent to France to be shown in the Y. M. C. A. huts, so that the boys at the front may see what their people at home are doing to back them up. With each photo should be furnished a short descriptive sketch, which may be in corporated in a lecture to accompany the slides. NURSES WOUNDED BELGIANS Mrs. James Hastings Snowden ol New York, who Is dally risking her life in nursing wounded Belgian soldiers at her hospital at Le Panne, only four miles from the artual bottle line. Bom bardments are an everyday occurrence at the hospital. More Sensations. There might he several more ground glass sensations if a few girls should take a notion to consult an expert about the things that sparkle on tlo-ir engagement fingers. — Iudlunapoli* Dm Pease Black Hat Co. Straw Hats 15 th AND FARNAM COOPER’S HAWK (Accipter cooper!) Length, about fifteen inches. Me dium sized, with long tail and short v/ings, and without the white patch on rump which is characteristic of the marsh hawk. Range: Hreeds throughout most of the United States and southern Can ada; winters from the United States ! to Costa Rica. Habits and economic status: The i Cooper's hawk, or "blue darter," as | It is familiarly known throughout the South, is pre-eminently a poultry and bird-eating species, and its destructive ness in this direction is surpassed only by that of its larger congener, the goshawk, which occasionally in autumn and winter enters the United States from the North in great num bers. The almost universal prejudice against birds of prey is largely due to the activities of these two birds, as sisted by a third, the sharp-shlnm.1 hawk, which in habits and appearance might well pass for a small Cooper’s hawk. These birds usually approach under cover and drop upon unsuspect ing victims, making great inroads upon poultry yards and game coverts favorably situated for this style of hunting. Out of 123 stomachs exam ined, 38 contained the remains of mammals Twenty-eight species of wild birds were identified in the above mentioned material. 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Buy War Savings Stamps Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. i__ Join the Colored Liberty j Drive i Under the auspice* of the National Colored Liberty Conference, a Na- I tional Colored Committee formed in Boston, June 13. 1917, a NATIONAL COLORED LIBERTY CONGRESS FOB A SHARE IN THE WORLD DEMOCRACY will be held at W ASHINGTON, D. C„ JUNE 21 -27, 1918 Permanent Organization Will Be June 2Jth. In John Wesiey Zion Church, 14th and Corcoran St., N. W, THE OBJE4 I To present to the U. S. Congress and the National Gwerarcen*. the claim of Colored Americans to -hare n the World Democrat", and to seek guarantee- of abolition of civil and political disabil. DELEGATES Every Colored American in accord with THE OBJECT is eligilde. Colored churches ami fraternal, civic, business, literary and other organizations are invited to send special delegates, ESPECIALLY are citizens, ministers and laymen urged to form a Liberty and Equal Rights Committee, to send delegates through mass meetings or city elections. Delegate fee, one dollar. ACCOMMODATIONS Address Maurice W. Spencer, Chairman Local Committee of Ar rangement*. 1005 Thirteenth St., N. W'., Washington, D. C., or Rev. W. C. Brown, Chairman Entertainment Committee, Pastor John Wesley Church. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Further information can be secured from Rev. A. C, Powell, Pres ident, 227 W. 136th St., New York City, or from the National Ex ecutive Headquarters, 34 Cornhill, Bouton, Mass. Send donations for expense* of convention to Rev. D. S. Kluga, Treasurer. Send officers of Liberty Committees ami names of Dele gate* to Win. Mor.roe Trotter Exec. Secretary; for speaking date.? address Prof. Allen W’. Whaley, National Organizer, 34 Cornhill, Boston. LEST WE FORGET Colored Americans are the only race-group in any country fight ing Germany who are now proscribed. They are th<- only race-grour» which has not made united and formal demand for full right-. “A.-k and it shall be given unto you,” saith the Scriptures, On to Washington, Colored Americans, while our boys are dying in Flanders and our women are being lynched in the l". S. A. ‘ Trade at the Washington Market The Most Sanitary and Up-to-Date Market in the Middle West. Visit Our Branch at the MeCrory 5c and 10c Store in the Basement. Washington Market 1407 DOUGLAS STREET Star Furniture Co. Sacrifice price* on (»a* Stove* and Ice Hoxe*. Furniture at very low price*. Very ea*y term*. C'a*h or Term*. II. .NICHOLS, I’rop. WEBSTER 3061 1504 NORTH 24TH ST. f