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CLOSE RANKS Dr. Du Bois says in the July Crisis: This is the crisis of the world. For all the long years to come men will point to the year 1918 as the great day of decision, the day when the world decided whether it would sub mit to military despotism and an end less armed peace—if peace it could be called—or whether they would put down the menace of German militarism and inaugurate the United States of the World. We of the Colored race have no ordinary interest in the outcome. That which the German power represents today spells death to the aspirations of Negroes and all darker races for equality, freedom and democracy. Let us not hesitate. Let us, while this war lasts, forget our special griev ances and close our ranks shoulder to shoulder with our own white fel low citizens and the allied nations that are fighting for democracy. We make no ordinary sacrifice, but we make it gladly and willingly with our eyes lifted to the hills. Many are giving their lives; you rre asked only to loan your money. Alhambra 24th and Parker. Saturday Virginia Pearson in ‘THE FIREBRAND” Hearst Pathe News Fox Comedy Sunday Alma Reubin in ‘MADAM SPHINX” Hearst.Pathe News Billy West Comedy Monday and Tuesday J. Warren Kerrigan “THE TURN OF A CARD” Wednesday Pearl White in No. 17 the “HOUSE OF HATE” And Edwin Ardenin in “THE DRONE HEARTS” Thursday Jack Richardson in "HIS ENEMY IS THE LAW” English War News Friday Irene Castle in “MYSTERIOUS CLIENT” IFOR ❖ Good Shoe Repairing I TRY i H. LAZARUS, 2019 Cuming St \ TREAT CAPTIVE GERMANS KINDLY French Generous to Prisoners De spite Brutal Course of Enemy. ARE GLAD TO BE OUT. OF IT Sight of Long American Columns Oe. stroys Hun Hopes of Victory—Live Like Happy Family in Prison Camp. With the American Forces in France. —France knows that her prisoners in Germany are treated badly, but Ger man prisoners are treated humanely ami even generously in French pris ons just the same, writes Don Martin in the New York Herald. I asked an officer in charge of a French prison camp why this is, and he shrugged his shoulders and said merely: “Ah !" Unless one could see the gesture accompanying the monosyllable ho would hardly know what meaning to attach to it. It really meant: “Oh, what's the use of being bru tal to individuals just because some one else is? We wish we could, but we can’t.” I have inspected several prisons, some large and some small, and in every one I have found the Germans treated quite as well ns civil prisoners In normal times and in mSny instances better. Officers are not humiliated in any way. In fact they receive better treatment, u stranger would think, than they are really entitled to. Prisoners Live Happily. On a low bill about 1.000 feet from a main road of France stands a prison —five low wooden buildings surround ed by two barbed wire fences, with armed pickets always patrolling out side. Here are 200 Germans, many of them prisoners taken in the early bat tle of the Somme, but some taken more recently. They are all privates and constitute as happy a family as one could find where personal liberty Is the one thing desired nnd denied. The Germans stood at their barbed fences hours at a time and watched the endless line of soldiers. When It was the blue of France that was mov ing past the Germans were not particu larly interested. They had seen that for years. They know France always has had an endless line of everything needed for war. But when they saw the khaki of America filing or rolling by for a whole day and then for an ! othpr. and heard the muddy shuffle of feet through the night, there was a change in the dull expression of those German eyes. It was at this time that I went to the prison to learn whnt they thought of what they had seen. First it should be stated that these prisoners see little of recent developments In the war. They must form their opin ions from ruch fragments of conversa ! tion as they hear from their keepers and from what they see, as, for ln ; stance, from the long, long line of Americans, the first they had seen. In this particular prison the new* I comers had brought the news situation up to early spring, hut as for the big offensive the prisoners knew only that | there probably would he one. Americans Surprise Germans. When I asked If there was a German 1 among the two hundred who could j speak English, a good looking young j man, with a typical Teutonic mustache, red cheeks, a glow of health, was call ed out. He stepped Into my presence like an automaton, clicked his heels to gether and saluted the French cnptaln. He told me he was a private; that he has a home in Lucerne, Switzerland; that he fought eight months, but was never wounded ; that he 1h in the whole sale dry goods business in Berlin, and that he docs business with John Wana maker, Marshall Field and Stern Brothers. “What do you think of all tlie Ameri cans you have seen pa sc ng here recent ly?” I asked him. “I have seen many Americans,” he said. “I was surprised that you have so many in France,” Another prisoner, less prepossessing in appearance than the first, was asked about things in general. He spoke English poorly. "I live in Berlin nnd work in a hank, hut was in the war for two years. When the war is over I am going to Switzerland to live. I would go to America, but they don't like Germans over there any more." “Why are you going to leave Ger many?" For an answer there was a shrug of shoulders and a half scowl, half smile. “Are you satisfied here?” “It’s a lot better than being In a grave where a lot of them are.” KEEPSAKE GOES FOR BONDS Oklahoma Man Gives Up Gold Piece He Has Carried for Thirty Seven Years. Tulsa, Okla.—“I have carried this gold piece with me for thirty-seven years, and I have resisted hunger and temptation to spend it, and have al ways kept it as a treasure. However, Uncle Sam needs it now, and I willing ly let it go so it will help to bring vic tory to the American arms.” This was the statement of W. H. Martin of this city as he deposited a flO gold piece at the post office win dow and asked for som4 buhy bonds. South Side Notes Mrs. M. F. Starnes, who has been very sick for about two weeks, is im proving slowly. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Robinson of Kansas City, who have been visiting relatives and friends in Omaha, left | Wednesday night for home. Mr. William Gray left last week for Kansas City to spend a few weeks. Mrs. Sara Jones, who has been giv ing a series of entertainments each Saturday evening at her home, 4912 South Twenty-fifth street, for the Allen chapel building fund, will con tinue Saturday, July 27. On the fol lowing Saturday evening, August 3, she will give as her last entertain ment a barbecue at the home of Mrs. Ida Riddles, Twenty-fifth and S i streets. — PHILIP'S DEPARTMENT STORE WILL PAY FOR YOl R SUB SCRIPTION TO THE MONITOR ——~ Philip’s Department store, on the South Side, ‘‘the fastest growing store in Omaha,” is so well pleased with The Monitor that it wants ev erybody to read it. To every cus tomer who buys $20 worth of goods at this store Philip's Department store will pay one year’s subscription to The Monitor, one of the great est Negro weeklies in the country. Trade at this store and save all your I coupons. Spc our big ad in this week’.' issue. I --- i I A MILITARY ANTI LYNCHING MEASURE The July Crisis says: Representa tives of the military intelligence bureau proposed the following meas ure as a substitute for the Dyer bib mentioned in the June issue of the Crisis at a special hearing before the judiciary committee of the house on June 6. A IiILL To punish the crime of lynching ,n so far as such crimes tend to pre vent the success of the United States in war. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress as sembled : That, whenever the United States is at war, whoever shall participate in any mob or riotous assemblage where by death or mortal injury- is intention ally caused to any man or woman em ployed in the service of the United States, or to any man liable to serv ice in the military forces of the United States under the act approved May 18, 1918, entitled “An Act to Author ize the President to Increase Tem porarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” or under any pres- s ent or future statute of the United States or to any person held under arrest by or as a prisoner of or in interment by the United States, or to the wife, husband, brother, sister, fa ther, mother, son, daughter, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece or first cousin, whether of the whole blood or half blood, of a person in the military or naval forces of the United States or liable to service therein, as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a capital of fense against the United States, and shall, upon conviction, be punished in accordance with the punishment prescribed for the crime of murder un der the United States criminal code. — SELF-HELP The July Crisis says: Negro uni versities and schools of higher train ing have got to be supported by Ne groes or, for the most part, they will not be supported at all. If we black folk want college training for our children, we have got to furnish it out of our pockets. This is a harsli conclusion and in many respects an unfair burden. If men were wise and if sociology were a science, it would be easy for Negroes to show the peo ple of the United States that tha safest and greatest investment that this country could make of a thousand millions of dollars durihg the next decade would be the establishment of a series of Negro universities and higher technical schools throughout the United States. But the nation does not see it and will not sec it for one hundred years. Human being today have been educated to the point where they recognize the need of phil anthropy for the hungry, the crip ple, the grossly ignorant. Many have been educated also to see the just demand of philanthropy for the dis eased, the weak and the half-trained. Beyond this, however, it is difficult to get philanthropy to go. Thorough education and higher training still seem to most people a luxury and an indulgence and we must recognize these facts. We ourselves, however, know that if the Negro is to sur vive in the world as a man of thought and power, a co-worker with the lead ing races in civilization, a free, inde pendent citizen of a modem democ racy, then the foundations for this future must* be laid in the Negro uni *;* ♦> % i | Phillip’s Department f ! Store I.. X % * 4935-37-39 So. 24th St. South Side ❖ V V ❖ * v f | The Fastest Growing Store in Omaha * ❖ *:* ♦> “ Watch Us Grow” ♦♦♦ ❖ f ♦> f ❖ *> *:* ♦% A ♦ These are opportunity da vs. * v ❖ ❖ v We are just through taking inventory. We found more goods than a ♦ ♦ V we expected to have. We are crowded from floor to ceiling on the 10,000 «$* $ square feet we occupy, yet goods are coming in right along. We con-' V V V tracted last year for this year’s delivery. a ♦ V f •> We need more room. 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