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We positively grow hair or money refunded. Electric massage for scalp and face. System taught. Sterilized equipment. Steam heated booths. All work private. MRS. ANNA EVANS JONES 1516 Nort'i 24th St. Webster 5450 Harney 5100 MRS. H. STEELE Graduate Mms. South & John son's Magic Hair Growing System For Ileautiful Hair. For appointments phone Web s'ter 7034 before 8 a. m. or after f :30 p. m. Residence 2202 Clark MADAME HENDERSON^] HAIRDRESSER and MANICURIST Agent or the Celebrated M i t i m Walker Preparation ». The Wnlker Method Tail i Diplomas Granted. Phone Webster 1489 2800 Maple Street, Omaha, Neb. Women Wanted Omaha Paper Stock Co. 18th and Marcy Telephone Doug. 159 TEXAS WHEN IN TEMPLE, TEXAS STOP WITH Mrs. 1. S. Dawson 218 South 4th Street Who gains pleasure in making you comfortable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Rates reasonable. Write or wire for accommoda tion. l-w. .... . . ,4 A Very Interesting Letter From France Furnished to The Monitor by the Fa mous Colored Journalist Bruce Grit —Shows Up the Pernicious Acticity of White Americans Over There. IN a letter from the front bearing date Aug. 18th, I take the following paragraphs: “Well, in reference to news, I hardly know where to begin, as it is quite difficult to write in or der that the censor will let it pass. Any way, I’ll try and say a few min or things which might be of interest. Since last you heard from me I have moved to another vicinity. We are now in one of the most picturesque spots in Europe, an altitude of 10,000 feet above sea level, which is a some what level plane surrounded by mir ror-like lakes and in the back ground we have a continuous chain of moun tains much higher than where we are located. From the top of the highest peak one is able to see a distance of 50 or 60 miles into surrounding coun tries. The forests are loaded with all kinds of fruits, grapes, English walnuts, pecans, buckeyes, walnuts, chestnuts and an abundance of black berries. I have really seen several places wheer the old Crusaders once slept. A month ago I say and slept in Napoleon’s old barrack. We were aroused from our slumber by one of those centimeter guns at 5 a. m., which shoots three times in succes sion and at a distance of 18 to 20 miles and noise that follows the pro jectiles sounds like an express train rumbling through the air. This is what one has to contentd with on the firing line. Not only the shells of the enemy btu the shelsl of our heavy artillery in back of us shooting over our heads. Southern of our southern crackers have tried all maner of ways to in troduce the American brand of race prejudice over here but their efforts have not been countenanced. It is forbidden among soldiers, and the word “Nigger” is a court martial of fense if reported to proper authori I ties, but few have been reported, for as soon as the epithet is applied to a Negro soldier by a white soldier, a face is smashed and a couple of teeth swallowed. Conditions in America are going to change in reference to the Negro af ter this war. They may be better or they may be worse. All depends on the Negro over here tnd those over in America, for after suffering as we have over here, and fearing not death when we know we are liable to go at any time, we will not fear death in America, since we can die but once. You see just as many Negro soldiers here as white, and they are doing everything that white soldiers are do ing. You will soon read of the valor of black soldiers in Europe, and what one American daily.(The Her ald) refuses to publish to his credit, j will ultimately be printed for the ! whole world to read, as we have plent ty of educated and observant men of our own color in action who are tak ing notes and can give full details of everything. I have a great quan tity of actual facts concerning the American Negro soldiers in France packed away in my ivory, and if God spares me, I hope to picture both sides of the burden of the black man. I wish I could write with more free dom and tell you the war news, but the censorship will not permit it. Some of our white southern captains who are our leaders and whom we are fighting for, and for whom many h black soldier has given his life, have told the French people that we, the blacks are degenerates, low bred, | illiterate slaves who. have been brought over here by force to fight for our freedom, that the white people of America do not associate with us and that French women should not notice us. I have elamed enough French since coming here, by having a knowledge of Latin and Spanish, io learn this from the b-'st class of the French, and have been in the com pany of several French officers, one a major, a druggist in the French army, who have commented on this slander. The blacks over here are constant ly refuting by their comportment in public and private, by their efficiency in every branch of the service, this monstrous and malicious libel. In every little village the French mar vel at the knowledge which these “black slaves of America" are dis playing and cannot understand how slaves can have intelligence enough to be radio bodies, wireless operators, doctors, druggists, typists, machinists, electrical engineers, auto mechanics, captains, lieutenants, colonels, etc. A French countess sffbVto- me “that tho slaves could do anything the blanche (white) Americans could do; how is it possible for slaves to do these things?” I wish I could tell you some things. But we fight faithfully to the end and as long as the black slaves can grasp the old standard— the Stars and Stripes—it shall never trail in ihe dust, and if left to them they will carry it into German terri tory and defend it with their lives. Yours sincerely, K. On active service with the A. E. F., Somewhere in France. I have given over my space for this letter because it contains items of interest which should be generally known. The microbe of race preju dice is not only biting hard in Amer ica just now, but in Europe, where black and white Americans are fight ing for democracy. The latter’s in terpretation of democracy does not mean what black mean understand it to mean. White men seem to want the Negro to help them win the vic tory, but do not want them to share in its benefits equally. Is this de mocracy ? I am very suspicious about this thing called democracy of which we are hearing so much fine oratory these days from gentlemen gifted with eloquence and endowed with perfer vied imaginations. It sounds good but I am one of those ob’use mortals who refuse to believe thu it will have practical application in this land of the free and the home of the ’wave until the human nature of the domi nant race in this country has under gone a thorough metamorphosis, and this won’t happen in this century or the next. BOB SCANLON MET SOLDIER’S DEATH New York, Nov. 16.—J. E. Sandford in an admirable article for the maga zine section of the Sunday newspapers entitled, “Daredevil Americans of the Foreign Legion,” after depicting the (heroic parts played by Americans from all walks of life in that branch of the allied armies, has this to say of a Colored man who enlisted in the For eign Legion: "Bob Scanlon, a Philadelphia Negro pugilist, was among the first of the Legionnaires to gain the trenches. Scanlon had been one of the most un disciplined soldiers that ever donned a uniform. Stories are still told of his appearance on review dressed only in cuffs and hat, and of his snatching a big beam instead of a musket when (his company was suddenly called to arms in the night. His very irrespon sibility seemed to make him more popular with his commanding officers. “Scanlon’s scheme came when the Legionnaires rushed up the slope and into the first trench. A big German with a bayonet-tipped rifle was direct ly in front of him, trying to stay the attack. Jumping over two dead Ger mans Scanlon made for him and knocked the rifle from his hands. The Marquis of Queensbury would liked to have seen <'|he next minute’s happen ings, as the Teuton measured his length on the floor of the trench be low. Scanlon was too conspicuous to survive long. An automatic revolver laid him low; but he had had his wish for a fist-to-fist fight.” Scanlon, besides being a topno'lther among the pugilists, was an aviator of no mean ability, having created a sen sation in London by flying quite a dis tance in a machine of his own con struction and landing in an embank ment safe and sound, though his ma chine was demolished. He also astounded the nurses and physicians in a London hospital, where he had gone to have one of his fingers amputated so that he might be ac cepted by the Foreign Legion, by re fusing to take an ansesthetiic and calmly looking on, joking the while with the surgeons during tlhe opera tion. ST. PAUL SCHOOL GETS $10,000 I.awrenceville, Vu., Nov. 15.—In the will of the late Miss Mary Benson (white), 214 Columbia Heights, Brook lyn, N. Y., who died October 10, there was left to the St. Paul Normal and Industrial school of tfhis city, founded by Archdeacon James S. Russell, the sum of $10,000. LODGE DIRECTORY F. and A. A., York Rite. St. Luke's Bodge. No. 14, will meet the first and third Monday nights in the Knights of Pythias hall, Twenty-fourth and Charles streets. All members take notice. Wll liarh Bridges, W. M.; J. E. Johnson, sec retary; H. C/ Watts, treasurer. Gate City Bodge. No. 6674, G. U. O. of C). F., meets the first and third Monday of each month at Petersen’s hall, Twen fourth and Burdette streets. W. H. Payne, N. G.; R. B. Woodard, P. S., 4912 South Twenty-sixth street. South 4459. Omaha Bodge, No. 146, A. F. and A. M.. Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Thursdays of every month. Bodge room, 2201 Cuming street. P. H. Jenkins, W. M.; W. H. Robinson, secretary. Keystone Bodge, No. 4. K. of P., Omaha, Neh. Meetings first and third Thursdays of each month. TT. A. ITazzard, C. C.; J. H. Glover, K. of R. and S. Weeping Willow Todgeg, No. 9596, G. TT. O. of O. F., meets second and fourth Thursdays of each month at TT. B. F. hall, Twenty-fourth and Charles streets. R. S. Gaskins, N. G.; T. H. Gaskins, P. S. International Order, No. 691, Colored Engineers and Portable Hoisting Engine men meets at 2225% Bake street first and third Wednesdays in each month. W. H. T. Ransom, president; J. H. Headly, cor responding secretary; J. IB Moss, record ing secretary; S. B. Bush, treasurer. Faithful Bodge. No. 250, TT. B. F., meets second and fourth Fridays In each month at Rescue hali. Visiting brethren wel come. Earl Jones, W. M.; James Tubbs, W. S. Bodge rooms at Twenty-fourth and Fhnrles streets vacant two riights each week. Persons wanting to rent same call Allen Jones rental agent, Webster 1100. 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