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Also Freak Fruit* and Vegetable*. , 20M Cuming St. Telephone Dougiaa 1»M j ' BUY BOOKS Ml Within the pant ten yeara YOUR race haa made (treater stridea j toward literary achievement than in the CENTURIES that went before, t Become familiar with the work of RACE AUTHORS. 1 The Boy You Love The ooy you love In the ti 'lining camp will make a better soldle - end a be or man If he knows the rh. ging Up ( "Fl'ty Years” and the haunt Jios of "Black and Unknown You will find these in James ! * a Johnson's "Fifty Years and Other Poems," a book the critics of the world have called the greatest poetical achievement of the Colored ; Race. Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University has written a re markably fine Introduction. From the Fields of Alabama A boy came fresh from the fields of Alabama to work his way through a session of the turner school at Har vard. A few roughly scrawled poems - caught the eye of his professor. The result was a book of these verses. To day the author Is In France, a cor poral in a Machine Gun Company, j Meanwhile the great literary newspa pers of the east are saying that Wav erly Turner Carmichael gives promise | of rivaling Dunbar. What do you know of this soldier author or his book, "From the Heart of a Folk." in Spite of Bitter Handicaps In Louisville, Kentucky, a Colored man, an educator and a poet, rose to a position where the best men of the community were proud to call him their friend. Now his son. scarcely more than a boy, overcoming the bit ter handicap of falling health, has published his first book, and again the critics on the great metropolitan newspapers have acclaimed Joseph 8. Cotter’s "The Band of Oldeon,” not only a book worthy of the best lit erary traditions of the day but also a I further proof of the rapid literary progress of his race. t You Have Seen With Your Own Eyes You have seen with your own eyes the struggle of the Negro for educa j tlon. You know the vital human side. That Is why you will appreciate and I want to read "Twenty-Five Years In the Black Belt." by William J. Ed j wards, the able founder and present ! head of Snow Hill Normal and In dustrial Institute. Professor Paul J. Marius of Harvard University has i written the Introduction. Tender Haunting Lyrlca Isn't there some one you’d like to | send a book provided you could find Just the right book that would be a message as well as a book. Georgia Douglas Johnson has written Just such a book of tender, haunting lyrics In "The Heart of a Woman." why not make at least one girl happy by send ing her a copy? Do You Love Trees? Do you love trees and the great out of doors? Maude Cuney Hare, daugh ter of the late Norris Wright Cuney, has collected the finest things written or said about trees In a beautiful gift book. William Stanley Bralthwalte has written the Introduction. Another Race Bard Many a scrap book contains treas ured clippings of the poems of Charles Bertram Johnson as they occasionally appeared In the newspapers of the day. Now In "Songs of my People, a new book Just from the press, the best of Mr. Johnson's poetry is brought together In permanent form and will give pleasure to the hundreds of admirers of his work. * There are other books, of course, and good books. It is impossible to mention all, and these are representative of the best. They are beauti fully bound and are as far above the ordinary book in book making as i they are in literary value. " That it may be easy for you to secure them ■ we will take orders for them at the publishers lowest NET prices, which are: Fifty Years and Other Poems. $1.25. From the Heart of a Folk, $1.00. The Message of the Trees, $2.00. The Heart of a Woman, $1.25. Twenty-five Years in the Black Belt, $1.50. The Band of Gideon, $1.00. Songs of My People, $1.00 Where the book is sent to a soldier or a sailor in a training camp ♦here will be no charge for mailing. Otherwise, enclose ten cents for postage with every order to be sent by mail. DO YOUR BIT!!!-GIVE A BOOK TODAY!!!! SEND ORDERS TO THE MONITOR. ..1.. ... . ‘S Letters from Boys Overseas “CLAMORING BEFORE THE VERY GATES OF METZ” Elmer I'nderwood of the 365th In fantry Writes Nat Hunter a Most Interesting Letter of the Closing Battle of the War. American Expeditionary Forces, France, November, 13, 1918. Dear Nat: Now that the big squabble is nearly at an end and life is likely to last until I finish writing, I feel pleased to let you know that 1 am still in the land of the living, full of pep, and continu ally on the job. Being on the job over here really means something. I Since leaving old Omaha I have had many an adventure and this excluding none is the biggest of them all. Oft times when shrapnel filled the air and the crack of machine guns made life miserable, I thought that without a doubt one of these little graves marked “Mort Pour France” would be I my final resting place. The end came like a clamp of thun : der. On the evening of the 10th the i orders came for our outfit to move | up fully equipped for business. Our objective was a small town some 17 kilometers away. Not a man but I knew what the end would be in at tempting this drive. We had been in the forests of Argonne and this would | be no less difficult. Not since 1914 had the allies gained ground in this sector. The fighting Algerians had only lasted one half hour in the face of German machine gun and artillery fire. Zero hour was to be at 5 o’clock. At 5 o’clock on the dot our artillery started a creeping barrage and the ! 366th started over. Great Scott, Nat, it was awful. Some men were torn beyond recognition by the enemy’s ar tillery. Gas, shrapnel, machine guns and small arms were used against them. Still the boys held on longer than any troops ever had beforet. Then the 365th tried it. Believe me, we went through the Boche like a dose of salts. Reached our objective before the allotted time. The eleventh hour found us so to speak clamoring at the very gates of Metz, and deter mined to force an admission if it were refused us. Ed Turner was there, so I hear. While we were out there in No ! Man’s Land scuffling for a new lease on life reserves in the rear were watching with undescribable anxiety the hands of the clock as they crept near eleven. At 10:45 there was no sign of the battle abating. Faith in the armistice began to wane. To make things worse the German aeroplanes dropped propaganda asking, “Why j fight when peace is so near?” The big guns in Metz were in the mean time dropping gigantic shells among us with terrible effect. Then sudden ly as if the hand of death had fallen over everything a silence comparable to that of a village church yard, in contrast to the noise of a few minutes before, came over the battleground of four long tortuous years. And then, Nat, to think of being snatched so to speak from the very maw of death. Some shouted, some prayed and others maintained an un natural calm as if it were only a pleasant dream. Never before in the world’s history have I heard of any thing like it. Truly it is the irony of fate that could cause a many to play the game till the last hour and .then lose. After that came the grewsome task of gathering up the dead. I will not with my limited vocabulary attempt to describe the scene. Enough to say that those brave fellows who only a few months ago, teeming with the joy of life, promised to help France win this war unflinchingly paid their debt in full. But that is pnough of the war stuff. I’ve had so much of it since arriving here last June that I hate to talk fight. I’ve been all over France and living, in the course of my travels, next to nature. Every once in a long while I run across some one from the Gate City. Now and then I see Law yer Pinkett. However, I know very little concerning men in other regi ments. Now Nat, I hope to be able to look the Goddess of Liberty in the face once more in the near future. Take care of yourself. Give my regards to Mrs. Hunter and any inquiring friends. Tell Seals that Boykins from Chicago is my closest comrade in arms. Good bye and good luck. (Deiu benir vous.) PVT. ELMER C. UNDERWOOD, Co. 1 365th Infantry, Amer. Expd. Forces, via N. Y., A. P. O. No. 766. FIRST AND SECOND IMPRESSIONS OF FRANCE Moses Jordan’s First View of Rugged Coast Line Did Not Favorably Im press Him. My Dear Father Williams: The morning I came on deck and spied land in the far distance, a sol dier boy exclaimed: “La Belle France.” I could hardly believe it was true, because I could not see any “belle” about that rugged, barren land which reminded me of sand dunes in the Sahara desert. While many were “rubber-necking” to get a glimpse and others were yelling, “La Belle France!” I thought of France as an old plantation philosopher thought of a twinkling star. Once when shown a star of the fourth magnitude and being told that it was larger than the earth, the old fellow could not believe it. So after some serious head shaking and head scratching and some interrogating he said, rather doubt fully, “If dat am true about dat star, it’s sho got a poor way of showin’ it.” From my first sight of France I thought that if Les Francais wanted to personify the proper title would have been, “I’homme France” with “Villain” added. But since I have had a chance to see, I can readily exclaim with others, “La Belle France!” and add, “La Belle Charmons France!” Let me say here, Father, what Les Francais have done to beautify their country is wonderful to behold. The saying, “ a thing of beauty is a joy forever,” is demonstrated in the scen ery of the country. Her large mead ows, high hills, lofty mountains, adorned with dense forests, are very attractive, especially in the evening at sunset, when the west seems aflame with burning fire. The nights are starry and glorious. I am told that Cupid does most of his work at night and I think so with the silver moon swinging low and Ursa Major and Minor in then respective places under the eye of the Dragon. It is enough to make a lover’s heart give up its secrets. Her streamlets flow through hand made arteries and her little lakes are well kept. Father, I do not think that it is so much the natural resources that make France one of the beauty spots of the world, but the adornment made by man. I have seen places in west ern and southern Florida and Louisi ana just as beautiful and rich from a natural standpoint, but France is tailor-made. Her forests and pasture lands are in selected places. Her pub lic highways are lineal with the trees. The age of the road can be judged from the size of the trees. Some of these roads are over a thousand years ond and many are historical from the fact that they Vere built for war pur poses and under the eyes of such great generals as Caesar and Napol eon. There are so many strategic battle grounds in Franee that during the war the people know just where the great battles will be fought. Father, I repeat, La Belle France is a beautiful country. My next let ter will be on “a la route de guerra.” Aur revoir. PVT. MOSES JORDAN. Say, Father, I just received The Monitor. Such a noise we made! DIPLOMATS WOULDN’T LET US LOAN IN AFRICA Liberia Suffered in War by Dog-in thc-Manger Attitude of Europe. Negro Republic, to Protect From Ger man Use of Territory, Ruined Com merce. Special Cable to the Omaha World Herald and Chicago Daily News. Paris, France, Dec. 21.—An Ameri can in political life told me the fol lowing story: “The old diplomacy of Europe has brought the republic of' Liberia to an unfortunate pass. Liberia was in duced by the allies to declare war be cause Germany was using Liberian territory to set up wireless stations. The result of Liberia’s declaration of war was that the German mer chants and bankers who had an ac tive commerce from Liberia along the African coast were interned. Busi ness stopped and the customs receipts fell to almost nothing. Consequently the Liberian government applied to the United States for a small loan to carry on its affairs. “The United States was about to make this loan when the statesmen of Europe interfered. They said that for the United States to make a loan to Liberia was not a friendly act be cause by so doing the United States would establish a sphere of influence in Africa. "This suggests the malignant in fluence of the old diplomatic doc trine in its spheres of influence. Each nation in its sphere holds to unfor tunate protected nations in its gipp and extracts for itself the greatest possible profit at the expense of the helpless victims. “In this case it is a dog in the manger attitude taken by the diplo mats for one with spheres of influ ence in Africa has any money to loan to unfortunate Liberia. Surely the league of nations ought to take care of just such situations.” Fred C. Williams, field manager of The Monitor, underwent a slight op eration last week and is feeling much better. CHARACTER NOT COLOR ' COUNTS IN PORTO RICO (Continued from Page 1) Every class is closely supervised, j Every district has several supervis ors, who devote all of their time to the schools. At present there is a terrible epi demic of influenza. There are over five thousand cases in Isabela. They are trying to have the schools closed for awhile, and if they are closed, all teachers will engage in Red Cross j work. The Recent Earthquake. We had a terrible earthquake here j on the eleventh of October. It hap pened at 10:15 a. m. Suddenly the I school building began to rock violent- j ly back and forth. I thought the build ing was collapsing. We all ran out and as we reached the street, we heard ! some one shouting “earthquake.” ; ! Again the earth seemed to be lifted, then rock back and forth. It was i terrible. People were screaming and running in every direction. All ce- j ment and brick buildings fell with 1 the first earthquake. During the first twelve hours there ! were eighty-six very hard shocks, j these continued every day, being very ! close together the first week. The second week they began to diminish. During the third w'eek we had very few. Last month at the same time we had another very' hard shock. Just the past Monday we had t'hrdS shocks. Studying the Cause. There have been many conjectures as to the cause of these earthquakes. Two seismologers have been sent by the U. S. government from John Hop kins university to study them. They spent considerable time this week in Isabela. We are hoping to leam the real cause shortly. Since the hardest ones seem to happen every month when the moon is full, many think that per haps the moon or some planet is caus ing them. Generally before an earth quake the ocean makes a terrible noise, and a tidal wave comes. For this reason many believe there is a submarine volcano near. During the first earthquake three towns, one of which was the largest on the western coast were completely destroyed. Hundreds were killed by the earthquake in these towns. Sixty-Foot Tidal Wave. A tidal wave almost sixty feet high came immediately after the earth quake. This extended over the entire western coast and carried buildings, houses and human being back to. the sea. More were drowned than were killed by the earthquake. We were quite frightened at first, but now we are becoming used to the shocks and do not mind them, un less they are very hard. Red Cross on Job. The Red Cross immediately took charge of the devastated districts, and temporary homes and hospitals were quickly constructed from army tents for use. Although every town on the island suffered property losses, and almost every one, some lives were lost, yet each town immediately subscribed a great amount of money for relief work. Oversubscribe Liberty Loan. The earthquake happened on the day set for the subscription of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Even in the town of Aquadillis, which was almost entirely destroyed, their amount was oversubscribed. Even though they had suffered great losses of property and hundreds of lives, yet they never forgot their duty to their government and did their share to help make the Fourth Liberty Loan a success. Too Busy to Be Homesick. I am always very busy and conse quently do not have time to be home sick or lonesome. School opens at 8:30 and closes at 4. I have several special classes during the week in the evenings. At first I had free night schools for English students. I was compelled to give these up for lack of time, so at present I only have a few special night classes. I try to devote as much time as I possibly can to welfare work Saturday and j Sunday and hope later to do a great amount of missionary work. At first the fact that I did not understand Spanish was quite a draw back to me, but I am able now to understand a great deal of Spanish and to make myself understood so I am progressing more rapidly. Our friends in Omaha and else where have been very thoughtful of us. Can assure them that we have enjoyed the long interesting letters and newspapers they have sent and hope to have more time to devote to my correspondence. We wish all of our friends a very Merry mas and a Happy New Year. Perhaps during the coming year I can write more for The Monitor. AFRICA GIVES HER ANSWER TO ENGLAND (Continued from Papre 1) seven millions of British West Af rican Negroes and Negroids. Or there might be two Universities: one in Hausaland for Mohammedans and one on the Cameroons peak for Christians and nondescripts. In each of the sep arate territorial divisions of B. W. A. there would of course be colleges and well formed native schools.” These will be the demands of the West African conference and they cover the aims of enlightened pro gressive men throughout West Africa. I DO YOU WANT A PIG? £ Then Attend the i LUNCHEON | f By X DIAMOND SQUARE TEMPLE X .\. No. 511 A X Residence of X A Mrs. C. H. 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