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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1918)
The monitor A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interest* •f 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. 1916, at the Post Office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March 3, 1179 THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Edltora. George Wells Parker. Contributing Editor. Bert Patrick, Business Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative SUBSCRIPTION RATES, 11.90 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 90 cents an Inch per issue. Address, Th* Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243. i _ LIBERTY 0“ N the Fourth of July, 1776, £ handful of men signed then names to a brief document known eu the Declaration of Independence. T( them it was a matter of much con sequence, but little did they dreair that it gave birth to a flame thal would eventually fenwrap a world. Across the Atlantic it sped and in the hearts of Europe it began to blaze France arose and murdered monarchy Spain seethed and wrecked its throne Italy blazed and battled. In Ger many the lovers of freedom took up the cry and almost founded a democ racy. It was because of this near success that Teuton autocracy made a league with crowns to crush out human liberty and drive it from the earth. Headed by Bismarck, the iron chancellor, Prussia took the lead and through every devilish and hellish mechanism drove liberty out of Spain and Italy, and tried to drive it out of France. But France loved it too well. She remained a government of the people. And with the years her constancy to human freedom re mained firm and hope once more be gan to blossom in the hearts of Ger many, Russia, Italy and Spain. Crowns again grew fearful lest their leases on thrones should terminate and under William the Damned, the cohorts of autocracy were turned loose again and first of all upon France. That was more than four years ago and still the battle rages. There is no doubt as to how the war will end. Liberty again will, win, but her task is greater than it has ever been be fore. It is organized autocracy against organized liberty, no mor> and no less. That is why we fight and that is why the government i calling upon you, every one of us, to aid in the titanic struggle. Do your part. You have tasted liberty and have not found the fruit bitter. Strive so that your children’s children all down the years may taste it also and have with them the blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness. That is really what the war means. TWO EXECUTION’S THE execution of three Negro sol diers at Fort Des Moines a short time ago for a heinous crime, of which they were proven guilty by a court-martial, has been viewed in the right light by our people throughout the entire country. There has not been that tremendous revulsion of feeling, mutinous and bitter, and verging upon a revolution, which swept over the Vace when the thirteen members of the gallant Twenty-fifth were hung with indecent haste at Houston. May God protect our coun try and people from another such tre mendous strain upon their loyalty as that act entailed. There, by unbearable acts of bru tality, for which the aggressors were not punished, the men of the Twenty fifth were goaded into desperation, and without the slightest opportunity for an appeal or the reviewing of the evidence the thirteen were hurried to their doom. It was this that caused such a tremendous revulsion of feel ing upon the part of our people from the highest to the lowest. The case at Des Moines was entire ly different. Without provocation and without excuse the three con demned men attacked and ravished a woman. That crime by whomsoever committed merits death and should be punished by death. Those lustful men got just what they deserved. And while we all most keenly regret—be cause of the fact that in America’s narrow way of attributing the crime of an individual to the entire Colored race we are all made to bear the blame—that these men belonged to our race, we have no apology to make for their heinous crime, no sympathy for these criminals who have dis graced American manhood. Men of this character are enemies to our race. • Let all violators of women, be they black or white, receive the punish ment by the duly constituted authori ties which their crime deserves. THE CASE OF COLONEL YOUNG THE MONITOR’S position on the, case of Lieutenant Colonel Young is well known. We believe he can render the United States splendid service and ought to be given an op portunity to do so. The circumstances surrounding his retirement did not please us one bit and we did not hesi tate to say so. We were the first newspaper to publish the fact that he was in a California hospital for “ob servation,” when it was generally sup posed that he was still doing splen did service in Mexico. A mutual friend who had seen him and con versed with him in the military hos pital brought us the information. There is no need of repeating the story here. The whole transaction in our judgment did not impress us as at all creditable when the date of re tirement and other incidents were i taken into account. Careful scrutiny of these facts and incidents seemed to reflect upon the sincerity, if not the veracity, of certain high officials; and we frankly said so. However, be that it may. Colonel Young’s recent ride from Xenia to Washington, as an endurance test, ought to be pa pretty good indica tion of his physical ability to be of much more active service than living in easy retirement at Wilberforce. Many believe that the place for an officer of his record, experience and ability at such a time as this is on th» firing line with our boys in France. The Monitor hopes to see him called before long to active service. WORK OR FIGHT THE work or fight mandate which has been issued by the govern ment is one of the very best things that could have happened to the eoun try. It will prove beneficial to all classes of citizens and to none more fully than to our own. Every larg ■ community has been afflicted with a gang of lusty loafers, who depended upon their witsor what is almost too low for characterization, the ill-got ten gains of unfortunate females. These fellows, idlers and loafers, are now compelled to go to work at gainful occupations or to enter the army or navy or other arms of th ? ; service. It is quit" remarkable how I rapidly we are being thrown back ; upon the teaching of the Bible these | days. That good book says, “If a man will not work, neither shall he eat.” Modern civilization has been per mitting too many human parasites to fatten and batten upon the com- i munity. The work or fight mandate is all right. It will transform human para sites into men. NEW YORK WO El) COM M ENTS EDITORIA EL Y — On Attitude Towards Colored Nurses for Foreign and Domestic Service for Which They Are Singularly Fitted. There certainly seems to be some thing wrong in the attitude of the ' American Red Cross and the Colored nurses. The following is an editorial from the New York World on the i subject: The Colored Woman Nurse. When officers of the Medical De- j partment of the Army and of the Red Cross agree upon the statement that I "there now' exists an extreme neces sity for at least 25,000 women nurses” for service at home and abroad, what reason have they for rejecting the one hundred Colored women nurses, trained and registered in New York, who for months past have awaited a summons ? Many regiments of Colored troops are already in the field, but it is said that no quarters have as yet been pro vided for Negro nurses. It is said that the hospitals in the United States have been left short handed by the dis patch of so large a proportion of their nursing staff to France, but no call is made upon the Negro women who might fill the gaps. It is said that there is no prejudice in these mat ters on account of color, but Mrs. Thomas, president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, says plainly that the Ameri can Red Cross has never given Col ored women the standing to whicn their training entitles them. This is a state of affairs which should have the instant attention of the higher authorities in Washington. If there is such an “extreme neces- I sity” as is represented it is not Negro troops alone that need the kindly min istrations of Colored nurses. Many a white soldier in distress would be the better for such attention. Colored women are as naturally fitted for nursing as Colored men are for fight ing, and narrow discrimination against either of them should be re buked and overruled at once. I SKITS OF SOLOMON Rumor. RUMOR is a tow headed, blear-eyed, sheep eared, watermelon-mouthed, pug nosed, wry necked, chicken wing ed, pigeon breasted, pot bellied, spindle legged piece of imagination that truth treats like a stepchild and falsehood like a black sheep. Where it comes from nobody ever knows and nobody has ever discovered that it pays to try to find out. At present there are more rumors running around loose than bottles of water and pepper to be found in a dry town. According to rumor Kaiser Bill has more lives than a black cat and the central em pires more revolutions than a South American republic. Two weeks ago we expected the war to end by the Austrians kidnapping Emperor Charlie and choking Mister Burian, but suddenly the papers switched off j and began talking about the Fourth : of July and the immortal Declaration i of Independence. A few days ago rumor yelled that Von Hindy, the super-dutch bully, had croaked him self after a tabasco dust with Kaiser Bill and the next day you couldn’t find anything about it in the paper with with the Hamilton observatory spy glass. Russia ha^ had more ru mors turned out in the cold since the war began than flies mobilizing around a kettle of ham and cabbage. 1 Yet rumor does some good. It helps newsboys get rid of armfuls of ex tras. If newsboys don’t shake hands with W’all street magnates after the war, there is a screw loose some where. Sometime ago rumors of peace got loose every now and then and caused tension to break several de grees, but peace rumors now are as quiet as the mummy of Moses. The best thing to do with a rumor is to can it and leave it stand on a cellar shelf. Some day it might ferment into truth, although it hasn’t much chance to do so. Don’t look for truth because there isn’t any such lady walking about nowadays. Just sit tight and work to win the war. Give rumor the cold mitt and the icy shoulder. OBVIOUS OBSERVATIONS If any human being in Omaha knows of anything beneficial the new city commission has done for Omaha since coming into office, kindly com municate with this office. We put our entire detective fore on the job but it has fallen down like a ton of lead. It seems that Kaiser Bill gets the best of every row he has with hir manikins. If only he could meet Everett True just once. The crops are spoiled! Now they ain’t! Now they are agin! Now they ain't again! When that new tax law comes inti effect we’re going barefooted and wear overalls, believe muh! Just half a teaspoon of sugar, you son of a gun! Wife reads the newspapers for the sales and we read them for the head lines. There's not much else to read. Unk Sam has over a million men in Fi ance. Unk is some hustler when they make him sore, eh? The Italians are still bayoneting the Austrians, but they aren't working on their fares. They’re working on the heavy parts in the back and just be low the belt. When congress slaps on the ten cents per gallon on gas, we think we’ll see more horses around town. Dig up for your subscription, broth er. and keep a good thing going. Thanking you kindly for your in dividual attention, we will not take an hour off and figure how to get good meal out of this last dollar. We used to get a good one for two bits but that was a long time ago, Geral dine. Things wuz different noaw. The Children of the Sun By George Wells Parker / kVEK the many weeks that I have V-r written these articles we have re viewed many civilizations and we have found that each and every one owed a great debt to either the pure, or to a strong infusion of, African blood. Today I will deal with the greatest civilization the world has ever known. As great as has been the culture of the many peoples of antiquity, none has ever shown witn the lustre of that which was created beside the beautiful Aegean sea. Greece was wonderful and even to day man scarcely realizes how deep ly wonderful and great she really was. Until fifty years ago it was a sort of common law among historians that the Grecians could have been noth ing else than a white race. This sup position was accepted without que - tion and all went well until Count de Gobineau, whom I have quoted before suddenly dropped this bomb among the scholars of Europe. "The Greeks Assyrians and Etruscans were noth ing but half-breeds, mulattoes, and derived their aptitude for art from their African ancestors.” The world of scholarship sat up with a jolt and began to take notice. In the study of the classics they were aware that the Grecian melting pot had been a com plicated one and that scattered throughout the literature of its peo ples there were scores upon scores of passages which hinted that darkei races had much to do with the forma tion of the Grecian polity and people The fennent was set and began work ing, and after a half-century the con cession is made that the Grecian civili zation is due to Hamitie peoples. The first archaeologist to afford conclusive evidence was Dr. Schlie man. Armed with a spade he went to the classic lands and brought to light a real Troy; at Tiryns and Mycena? he laid to view the palaces and tomb' and treasures of the Homeric king.-. His message back to the scholars, who waited tensely for his verdict, was, “It looks to me like the civilization of an African people." A new world opened out of the old and the /Egean became the Mecca of the world. Traces of this prehistoric civilization began to make their appearance far beyond the limits of Greece itself. From Cyprus and Palestine to Sicily and southern Italy', and even to the coasts of Spain, the colonial and industrial enterprise of the Myceneans left its mark. “Whether they like it or not,” declared Sir Arthur Evans before the London Hellenic society two years ago, “classical students must consider origins. The Grecians whom we dis cern in the new dawn were not the pale-skinned northerners, but essen tially the dark-haired, brown-com plexioned race.” Almost identical were the words of Mr. Asquith, for mer prime minister of England, who declared before the same society a year earlier that, “Whether we like it or not, we are forced to accept the fact that the ancient Grecians were a brown race and not a white one.” From Italy came the ringing words of another champion of truth. Prof. •Sergi of the University of Rome, ami one of the greatest living authorise - upon European races, wrote: ‘‘Until recent years the Greeks and Romans were regarded as Aryans and then as Aryanised peoples; the great discov eries in the Mediterranean have over turned all these views. Today, al though a few belated supporters of Aryanism still remain, it is becoming clear that the most ancient civilization of the Mediterranean is not of Aryan origin. The Aryans were savages when they invaded Europe; they de stroyed in part the superior civiliza tion of the Neolithic populations and could not have created the Greco- i Latin civilization. The primitive pop ulations of Europe originated in Africa and the basin of the Mediter ranean was the chief center of move ment when the African migrations reached the center and north of Eu rope." 1 have not the space today to review the mass of archeological data which archeologists have produced. They consist of cyclopean ruins of cities and strongholds, tombs, vases, stat ues, votive bronzes and exquisitely en graved gems and intaglios. That which is most valuable in establishing the claim of the African origin of the Grecian civilization is the discovery j of the frescoes on the palace walls. 1 These opened up a new epoch in paint ing and are of the utmost interest to i the world. The colors are almost as j brilliant as when laid down more than ! three thousand years ago. Among these frescoes are numerous represen tations of the race whose civilization I they represent. It was a race neither Aryan or Semite, but African. The , portraitures follow the Egyptian precedent and for the. first time the ! mysterious people rise before us. The tint of the flesh is of a deep reddish j brown and the limbs are finely mould- j ed. hTe profile of the face is pure and almost classically Greek. The hair is black and curling and the lips somewhat full, giving the entire physiognomy a distinct African cast. In the women’s quarters the frescoes show them to be much fairer, the dif ference in complexion being due prob- | ably to the seclusion of harem life. But in their countenances, too, remain those distinguishable features which link them with the African race. If you are a student of civilization then you know without any sugges tion from me what it means to have such a people as the Grecians classed as Africans. To Greece the whole modern world looks upon as th" ' patron of arts, literature anti science. 1 No modern nation has ever surpassed i them in sculpture or in architecture, no literature has ever lived beside theirs as to purity and refinement, and even our speculative science is j but a reflection of what the Grecian j philosophers taught in their academi groves three thousand years ago. 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