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THE RIALTO—OMAHA’S NEW EST AND FINEST MOVIE HOUSE CONGRESSMAN WHITE DIES IN PHILADELPHIA Was the Last Member of Race to Hold -—-- Seat in Congress—Retiring Speech a Classic—Made Prophecy That Some Day the Negro Would Return to Congress to Stay. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 10.—Hon. George H. White, a member of the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth congress from North Carolina, died here Sat urady December 28. He was sixty dx years old and had been practicing iaw in Philadelphia for twelve years. Prior to his service in congress, Mr. Wrhite had served several terms in the North Carolina legislature and had been solicitor in his judicial district, embracing five counties in eastern North Carolina. At the ex piration of his teim in congress, he declined to go south because of the disfranchisement laws of his state. He was born in Columbus county, North Carolina, and removed to * Craven, which wa. then in the Sec - ond district, now '•vpresented by Claude Kitrtiin, who succeeded him. Upon retiring as a number of the Fifty-sixth congress, Congressman White delivered one of the most elo quent and remarkable addresses ever delivered before that body in the course of which he said: “I go as the last representative of my race in this body; but mark me, sir, the day will come when the Negro will return to these legislative halls and when he returns he will return to stay.” He was assistant city solicitor of the city of Philadelphia, grand mas ter of the Negro grand lodge of Ma sons of North Carolina and president of the White Lumber company, at the time of his death. He is survived by two children, George H. White of Pittsburg and one daughter. ^ ZION BAPTIST W. F. Bolts, Pastor Last week the Xmas festivities held sway. On Tuesday night the exer ciscs of the Sunday school were held and the long honored “tree” was dis pensed with and an Xmas ladder took its place. The diversion was enjoyed by old as well as young. On Wednesday night the last pray er service of the old year was held and all who were not there have cause to regret it. On Thursday night a mask enteit linment was given hy the Mission Circle, unique in the fact that the entire program was composed of j the elderly ladies of the church. Sis- j ter Dotson, in her linen duster as the preacher, was the hit of the evening. This brings us to Sunday in the morning the pastor talked on “De- ! cision,” and in the evening on the j theme, “Too Late.” The holy spirit I was truly with us and several were i brought back into the fold by the power of these sermons. Next Sunday there will be covenant i services at 11 a. m., followed by the! Lord’s supper. If you have been nog- 1 ligent in the past, start the New Year right. Come out and renew' your covenant with God and man. Auxiliaries are working nicely. | Come out and find your place. The sick of the church are improv ing. -— PLEASANT GREEN BAPTIST CIII RCH The last Sunday of the old year found thq church well filled at both services and two splendid seimons. Seven were added to the church and five were baptized. The sick of the church are doing nicely. Brother and Sister Freeman have returned from Missouri and Mrs. J. Shelton from Atchison. The Xmas tree entertainment was a splendid success in everyway and the program enjoyable. The pastor was given a raise in salary last week. Rev. J. Costello and wife w'ere the recipients of many beautiful pres ents and each of them received a diamond ring. MRS. JENNIE SELLERS. I LA GRANGE, TEXAS H. L. Vincent A goodly number of teachers spent 1 eir vacation in La Grange this Xmas. Ti e committee chosen by the Fay ette Countv Teachers' Institute, to se lect a suitable faeult” for a summer normal to be located at La Grange next summer, met last week. Profs. ’■ T*. Meson, Goldings, D. G. Duval, William Miller, Sehulenburg, George T. Ware and wife, Flatonia, Mr. and Mrs. James Matthews, San Antonio, Miss Nettie Phearse, Hillsboro, and j Miss Hattie Tillman, of Port Arthur, were among the visitors. The funerals of Mrs. Mary Ran dolph and Mrs. Jane Blank were held last Thursday afternoon. Rev. S. A. T:liman officiated. Mr. Jonathan Zachary and Miss Pauline Phearse were married Thurs day evening. December 26, at St. James M. E. church. Rev. G. I). Mills performed the ceremony. Mrs. Edith Johnson accidently ran into a nail last week and painfully ‘n'ured her eye. P \J ESTINE NEWS II. L. Vincent The weather is very cold in this j part of the wor’d’s vineyard. The i ground is as hard as a brickbat and you know that is some cold. The flu is still on the job, hut not as actively as it has been. Mrs. Amanda Stanlan and Mrs. Annie King are still on the sick list All the churches had fine services on watch nigl t and everything looks promising for a new start. Many have made strong resolutions to do better and if some of them really do anything, it will be well, for they haven't done much yet. Many boys are returning from the army and the camps. B. F. White is back on the job after a hard attack of flu. He says it al most got him, hut he finally won. Mrs. Jessie McKinzie says she is a real lover of The Monitor, and Mrs. Ella IBooks doesn’t want to see me unless 1 have The Monitor. RESENTS EXCLUSION OK SERGEANT WATKINS City, Jan. 3, 1919. Rev. John Albert Williams, Editor of The Monitor. My Dear Friend: T ' eve lust finished reading the let ter of Sergeant Lucian B. Watkins t i President L. H. Bissell, Illinois erl'ee-o of Photography and I join with my Colored brother and comrade and say mosl emphatically, 1 toot resent' it with all the might of my rebellious spirit. I resent it in the name of that mighty tidal wave of social and economic justice that is now envelop ing the whole world in its mantle of human brotherhood. B’cther Watkins’ letter is a classic and should be preserved for the fu ture and I say to our friend, Watkins, “Go to it!” We are with you until lie'l freezes over and with Bissell under the ice. Justice, truth and fraternity, is marching on and the Bissells must get out of the way. With fraternal greetings to you and yours and The Monitor for the New Year, I am, JESSE T. BRTLLHART. THE CHEERFUL CHEW flar'd work 't-nd. simple, iovs. tkev sw. .simple, life. — J «iiwnK» A i + ■■■■ _I DEMOCRACY'S PROBLEM IS IN ITS SCHOOLS By DR. CLAUDE H. VAN TYNE, of the University of Michigan. [EDITOR’S NOTE.—The defects In our educational system pointed out liy Dr. Vnn Tyne nre the principal targets at which the National Security League's great nation-wide campaign of “Patriotism Through Education" Is aimed.] Certain fundamental American Ide als must be impressed upon the Amer ican youth. The crisis through which this nation recently passed before it could lie brought to a whole-hearted support of a war begun for the pur- j pose of preserving the most vital prin ciples upon which it was founded has aroused educators everywhere like a fire-hell in the night, to understand that we must employ our educational machinery more than we hate in the past to imbue every American citizen with a comprehension of democratic principles. If we can find some definite means of securing an understanding of demo cratic ideals, we may expect as a result a patriotic zenl In defending them. If Americanism is a belief in and a habit of supporting such ideals, then we may hope that such a process will produce It. Opposing Theories. The American’s theory of the state is that It exists to protect him in the enjoyment of life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness; thnt the Individual Is the Important thing, not the slate. An opposing theory, and It happens to he tiu> German theory, Is that (lie state Is tho Important thing, thnt to It tho Individual owes everything, life and liberty and even blind obedience of orders to do cruel ami brutal acts. Why not teach that difference to boys and girls instead of mere dry facts about till' organs of government and their functions. Let us not be so shy and modest about the virtues of our political system. The Germans are not. Let us say frankly thnt democ racy implies a nation in peace, that autocracy implies a nntion in arms. We ran tench frankly, too, that our great principle of local self-govern ment is wholly at conflict with the German ambitions for world-empire, and with her whole tendency of gov ernment in provinces like Poland and Alsace-Lorraine. "Teach Too Little.” It is tlie spirit of our Institutions which wc have foiled to impart to the rising generations. We have been afraid to state that our democratic philosophy upholds the Christian spirit of brotherhood, asserts the wisdom of united action for the good of all, and seeks to save the weak from the aggression of the strong. We have refrained from saying tlint the auto cratic philosophy operated to deaden the sentiment of humanity; that in affairs of state It sneered at mercy and gentleness, at love and kind ness; that the foundation of that philosophy was the stern law of the survival of the fittest; that, to he concrete, Belgium, a weak state, had no rights wl/m she stood in the way of Germany, a big state. We have taught the Anferlcnn youth all too little about the foundations of their liberty. The story of the blood and suffering of the builders, of the tempest that raged them while they buij, of the martyrs who were the , architects of those foundations. This history lots been too little told. 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