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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1919)
THE FRUIT OF DEMOCRACY By Dr. W. H. Lowry A few days hence will mark the convocation of the greatest peace council in the history of the world. Nations, labor organizations and re ligious organizations are preparing to send representative bodies of men to look after their interest in the summing up of the world’s peace, and as usual the Negro race comes in as a separate unit to get some recognition. We desire our share of the fruit of de mocracy. The peace congress is to decide questions pertaining to inter national affairs. Whether the body of men we sent can bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the members of the peace conference to look into the internal affairs of this govern ment is an open question and sub ject to much debate. But nothing beats a trial, but a trial. Should our representatives succeed in snatching a few trophies from the hands of de mocracy we should have a place pre pared to store them when they are brought back in triumph. It is an evident fact that the major portion of our cause for complaint can be traced right back to our mu nicipal government. Since this is true, let us begin to clean house at home while our brothers are visiting abroad. Let us make a study of the men who are in office. Mark the men whose eyes are poor and whose hearing is impaired and prepare to retire them. Ye Gods! If we could be taught to mass our votes in a little old primary , just ONCE, it would require a public receiving line upon general election day to introduce the new candidates to the voters. The state must not be overlooked. County officials and state officials have their part to play. These units should be taken care of by commit tees, who are constantly on the look out. A small subscription from each citizen would establish a bureau of in formation and place a man at the head of it with a salary that would teach him to appreciate his job. With each state well organized and the voters taught to exercise an educated bal lot, God’s kingdom will come, God’s will will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Farmer*, Urged by Food Admlnlstra tion, Provide Seven Extra Loave* of Bread for Every American. By adopting cleaner threshing meth ods and by literally combing harvef* fields to gather grain formerly wnst) ed, threshermen and fnrmers of th< United States this yenr saved fully 16,000,000 bushels of wheat, estimated as equivalent to about seven one-pounf loaves of bread for every person It the country. This result, ccompnnlet by corresponding savings of barley oats, rye and other grains, Is shown b) reports from 33 grain states to the U S. Food Administration. Other states although not prepared to furnish deft nlte figures of conservation In th« grain fields, report greatly reducef harvest losses. This niral food saving achievement accomplished In scarcely six months time, was In direct response to re quests by the Food Administration which asked farmers and threshermen to reduce harvest losses from about 3V* per cent.—the estimated averag* In normal times—to the lowest possi ble minimum. Country grain thresh Ing committees carried Into every grain growing community the official recommendations for accomplishing the results desired. In numerous Instances drivers of racks with leaky bottoms were" sen! from the fields to repair their equip ment and frequently bad order thresh, lng machines were stopped until the cause of waste was removed. But In proportion to the number of persons engaged In gathering the nation's grain crop, cases of compulsion were com paratively rare. The Food Adminis tration freely attributes the success of the grain threshing campaign to pa triotic service by farmers, thresher men and their crews. Incidentally grain growers of the United States are many millions of dollnrs "In pocke^ as a result of the grain saved. NO ONE SUFFERED HERE. The marvel of our voluntary food saving, now that we are “gettinf; re sults," Is that no one ever actually suffered any hardship from It; that we all are better in healtn and spirit and better satisfied with ourselves be cause of our friendly self-denial. Food control In America held the price of bi dstuffs steady, prevented i vicious speculation and extortion and I preserved tranquillity at home. In no other nation Is there so willing a sense of voluntary self-sacrifice as In America—that was shown In the I abstinence from vel/cat. T FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE X ! Omaha Loan & Building Association | X DECEMBER 31, 1918 % v ASSETS 4 *s* Loans on First Mortgages . $ 9,842,989.71 X X Loans on Association Shares of Stock. 119,499.75 X X Interest Due from Members . 5,851.60 v X Real Estate Acq. through Foreclosure. 20,638.04 X Foreclosures Pending . 9,271.66 X y Sundry Persons and Accounts. 12,659.82 y | Furniture and Fixtures . 2,822.23 X X Association Building . 185,000.00 y *s* Warrants and Municipal Bonds.$119,471.55 x X Liberty Bonds . 362,400.00 X X Cash on Hand and in Banks . . 445,636.01 927,507.56 y X LIABILITIES $11,126,240.37 X X Running Stock and Dividends. $10,018,580.52 X X Paid-up Stock and Dividends . 688,794.77 X y Due on Account of Building Loans. 48,462.78 4 X Liberty Bond Payments . 52,016.46 X X Reserve Fund .$310,000.00 •{• y Undivided Earnings .. 8,385.84 318,385.84 7 X $11,126,240.37 j X Increase in Assets during past six months . 609,845.15 X Dividends earned for members during 1918 .. 473,659.86 y X Dividends earned for members since organization 3,667,841.86 X X During 1918 we have made loans aggregating 997,940.78 ^ X If you plan to build or buy a home, or want a loan on improved X X real estate for any other purpose, it will pay you to investigate our X monthly payment plan. I I|. NO COMMISSION—NO PREMIUMS—NO DELAY 4* X Savings accounts may be opened at any time with any sum trom X X one dollar up. y £ W. R. ADAIR, SECRETARY AND TREASURER. | '** Office: Association Building, Northwest Corner, Dodge and 15th Sts. £ Ij! South Side Office: 4733 South 24th St. J. H. Kopietz, Agent. *&<x<k^kk^kkk~x~x~x~x~x^x~x*xo~m~X“X~x~x~X“X"X“X~x~X“>X *mI,VV%*44**»**.*V*?VV*»m«m*m«*V*^>m*m**‘»***m»***m* •**•**•**• **M*M‘********* *•*•••**** • t 6% Dividends Payable Quarterly 6% f t x | ij! j The Reserves Saved j the Allies X Troops not actively engaged in holding the front line trenches are .j. ¥ called on when a great emergency arises. You should build up a £ X reserve of dollars that you can call into service when emergencies X ••• arise such as sickness and death. We make it easy for you to acquire y this reserve by giving you good service and by paying Six Per Cent jJ % Dividends Quarterly on your accounts. .j. % Assets ...-.-.- $7,167,806.80 | •{• Reserve Fund.-.-. 285,000.00 X Dividends earned for members during 1918. $ 401,364.05 A X t X OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS X ¥ John F. Flack, President. X X R. A. McEachron, Vice President. A X George C. Flack, Treasurer. i ¥ E. N. Bovell, Secretary. y ¥ John T. Brownlee, Assistant, Secretary. X £ Robert Dempster. •{• | Occidental Building & | I Loan Association 1 X 322 SOllTH EIGHTENNTH STREET. X ? | 6% Dividends Payable Quarterly 6% :j: Ai A A A A aA aA A A A A A A «*« 4^4 A a4 t - T Here is the new long **♦ waisled frock which Paris *** is featuring, charmingly combined with the new %♦ double flying panels. WW I ♦ This displays the combi I ♦ nation of refinement, sim I ♦ pi icily, and. chic, which have X made 1 Pictorial X Review I; Patterns justly famous. ♦ X the spring Fashion Book | and X February Patterns i * | NOW ON SALE Y r Dreaa 8153 26 cent* The Year-End Clearing * Sale Is On * WOMEN’S WARM WINTER COATS ♦♦♦ Hundreds of coats to select ♦% from. Every one a new, this * season's style. Values are re- %* markable. Choice on two lots: LOT NO. 1 Fine Silk Plush Coats, plain A and with large fur collars, worth up to $49.00, your choice at ♦ ^clearinK $29.99 v LOT NO. 2 & Women’s and Misses’ Imperial ♦ Plush and Fine All Wool Cloth ♦ Coats, values up to $30.00, your choice at this clear- figl C OO v*. ingsale.. V ❖ WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ «,♦* SERGE DRESSES i f(|T All the better Dresses we car- 4«4 ry in stock we have grouped ♦ and placed them in one lot; ev- A ery dress is new, right up to the ^ minute style. They are Street ♦ Dresses, Party Dresses and Wedding Dresses. Prices up to A $35.00. The year-end clearing ♦ sale price $15.99 V 1 . I PHILIP’S DEPARTMENT STORE | ' . _ V % 4935-37-39 South 24th, South Side. THE GOV- % A ™ . _ „ ■ „ • , ERNMENT A Y The Fastest Growing Store in Omaha. SAYS DO $ ^ “WATCH US GROW.” NOT BUILD * Col6red Attorneys Fight Unique Case Warren and Watkins Employed by Grand Lodge of Orangemen in Im portant Legal Battle Involving Far Reaching Issues. — CASE ATTRACTS ATTENTION Order Composed Chiefly of Irishmen, Scotchmen and Englishmen—Mem bership in United States Confined to White People—Canada Has a Few Colored Members. DETROIT, MICH.—Francis H. Warren and S. A. T. Watkins of Chicago have been fighting a three weeks legal battle in the Wayne cir cuit court against James S. Parker of Flint. Mich., and Frank H. Watson of Detroit, former U. S. district at torney, in the case of the Loyal Orange Institution vs. the Loyal Orange Institution. The Loyal Orange Institution is a Protestant Secret Order that followed the success at arms of King William III, a Prince of Orange, at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland, in the year of 1690. The order was instituted in the United States in 1869, and the present j supreme grand lodge is claimed by the plaintiffs, who are represented by Francis H. Warren as attorney and S. A. T. Watkins as counsel, to have been organized in its present form in 1880 at Jersey City, N. J. From 1912 to 1914, a split arose in the Order in the State of Pennsylva nia caused by the enforcement of the law forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquor at parks or places where pub lic demonstrations of the Order were held. The division resulted in the organization of. an independent Su preme Grand Lodge at Niagara Falls in 1914, and since then there have I been some fifteen or twenty law suits instituted in the various parts of the country from Maine to California, as a result of these two Supreme Grand ! Lodges, each claiming to be the right | representatives of the Loyal Orange ' Institution in the United States, but | none of them determining all of the I issues that have arisen between the respective Supreme Grand Lodges. On last July 4th, Francis H. War ren received a retainer to draft a bill of peace that would settle the difficul ties between these two rival Supreme | Grand Lodges of the Loyal Orange In | stitution of the United States, and ; this is the action now' being tried in the Wayne Circuit Court which has been in progress for the past two weeks. | The case is said to be the most im portant law suit ever entrusted to Colored attorneys anywhere in the v'orld, as it involves all the interests of the respective parties throughout the United States. S. A. T. Watkins is assistant district attorney at Chi cago, Supreme Attorney for the Knights of Pythias and has a wide experience in fraternal law. The Loyal Orange Institution is composed chiefly of Irishmen, Scotch men and Englishmen. In Canada there are a few Colored men and a large number of Indian adherents to the Order; in the United States all mem bers of this order are white, as are the attorneys opposing Messrs. War ren and Watkins. NO SEALS SOLD THIS YEAR. The customary sale of Ked Cross Christmas sea.s will not be held this I year. It seemed best to both the ! American Ked t’ross and the National Tuberculosis Association to unite In the Ked Cross Christmas Iloll Call to reduce the number of appeals to the public for contributions. There will be no lessening of activities by the National Tuberculosis Association through this arrangement, as the Ked Cross War Council has appropriated $2,500,<X)0 for anti-tuberculosis work la 1919 in lieu of the money that ordi narily would he raised hy a Chris!mas Seal Campaign. However, every per son Joining the Ked Cross during tbs { Ked Cross Christmas Itoll Call will be awarded ten seals to be used as here tofore. THE RED CROSS GORDON. An American Ked Cross worker who was among those volunteering to help in the hospitals and at the station where the hospital trains arrived, over heard some of the wounded talking about the American Ked Cross. "Gee! We'd a starved If It hadn’t been for the Ked Cross!” said one boy, and then, laughing at bis own exagger ation, he went on to explain the dr | cumstances under which the Ked Ooaa representative with his division had done some timely service. The Ger mans, of course, were to blame, for they retreated so rapidly that it was practically Impossible for the supplies to keep up with the pursuing Ameri cans. “We cleaned up seven kilometers In less than two hours," another reclining figure explained, “and they were still going when I was knocked out. Kor three days I had had nothing to eat but hard tack, and for some days be fore the food had been monotonous— to put It mildly. So you can Imagine what It meant to us hoys to have the Ited Cross Gordon come up with a sup ply of chocolate, cunr.ed-peaches and other good thfnga. It was a life saver." CARD OF THANKS We, the husband and relatives of Mrs. Birdie Scott, wish to tender our sincere thanks to the many friends and to the No. 12 and Western Jewel Council of the Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, for their sympathy and kindness during the illness and death of our wife, daughter and sister. WILLIAM SCOTT. DENNIS TODD. MRS. SALLY TODD. MRS. GUSSIE THOMAS. RICHARD THOMAS. EARL TODD. r I Call and inspect our January ' White Sale - Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. Thompson, Belden & Co. — 77ie Fashion Center for Women i Established 1886 CLEARING SALE Boys’ Box Calf Shoes, Sizes 1 to 6 for.$2.75 Youths’ Box Calf Shoes, Sizes 8 to 1 for.$2.25 Boys’ School Shoes, Broken Sizes.$2.15 MILLINERY CLEARING SALE $6.00 Hats, for $3.00 $5.00 Hats for $2.00 $3.00 Hats for $1.00 * Hosiery—Children's Winter Hose, black, per pair 25c s Men’s Hosiery—Black, linen, double heel and toe, pair 20c E3 |LI CT 2506 NORTH 24TH ST. |\ | 1 Kjaa WEBSTER 1412 | A. F. PEOPLES | Painting, Paperhanging and Decorating. v | Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. ;j; f 4827 Erskine Street. Phone Walnut 2111. | t . . . .... . ... ... Telephone Dr. Britt Upstairs Douglas 2672. Douglas 7812 and 7150 i i i Pope Drug Co. ' Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. I I3th and Famam Streets. Omaha, Nebraska - ...- ■» « - «.».»♦ «■---■-« . 4 WHITE BORAX NAPTHA AN ODORLESS ALL-PURPOSE SOAP S Ask Your Grocer for S I “WHITE BORAX NAPTHA” I 1 And You Will Have the Cleanest and Whitest 1 1 Clothes in the Neighborhood. 9 t