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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1919)
THE MONITOR A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans. _ Published Every Saturday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. . Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postofllce at Omaha, Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes. Associate Editors. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor and Business Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR: *1.00 6 MONTHS: 60c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates. 60 cents an Inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 304 Crounse Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Webster 4243. V__■_ A WORLD-WIDE RACE THE MONITOR announces with pleasure that we are to have a correspondent in Demerara, British Guiana, in the person of Mr. G. McL. Ogle, who will from time to time send us interesting articles from that dis tant section of the British Empire. Thus gradually this publication is securing a staff of competent corre spondents in all parts of the civilized world inhabitated by the Negro race, which is practically ubiquitous. It is not generally known how widely dis tributed are the people of African blood and descent, nor what a tremen dous influence they have exercised upon cixilization, are still exerting and will more extensively apply in the future. Our vision is largely lim ited to the members of our race in ! the United States and we know noth ing of the thoughts, aspirations and ; activities of the hundreds of millions who are outside our borders and in other sections of the world. W e need to be brought into mental, if not physical, contact with these. This The Monitor with its growing staff of correspondents plans to do. The advantages of this are readily apparent. It wall broaden our out look, and we all need broadening; in crease our knowledge and catholiocize or internationalize our sympathies. It will enable us to appreciate the fact that throughout the world there are thousands of men and women of i keen minds and well trained intel- ' lects and high moral ideals facing, fighting and working out the same perpelxing human problems that we are facing here; all working together, though sundered far by physical bounds and unknown to each other, . for the ultimate triumph of right eousness, justice and truth. The Negro race in America num- j bers, so far as known, approximately 12,000,000; throughout the world it numbers nearly 400,000,000, or one fourth of the entire population of the world. We in this country' are there fore a mere handful as compared with the world population of our race, i Throughout the world this virile race is thinking, stirring, moving playing | the part that God has planned for it | to fulfill in the great world move ments which are making for the ulti mate goal of civilization through which He is w-orking out His pur poses for the weel of all mankind. For He plays no favorites with either individuals, races or nations. We should recognize the fact that ethically we belong to a world-wide race. A WORLD PROBLEM T3 our office last week came a new journal, The African Telegraph,; one of the finest examples of race journalism we have seen either in this country or any other. We scanned its 44 pages carefully and more than once we saw blue and felt like going out into the open air and cooling off. It is the first paper to come to our hands that gives us some of the real inside information as to how the Af rican soldier was treated in England and how the native Africans are treated at home. From what we read and from the pictures we saw, Ger many didn’t have the exclusive cor ner on cruelty to colonials. England, too, is permitting some things to pass that makes one’s blood boil and to wish that some power would come to chasten her for her short comings. The more we read the more we become convinced that the race prob lem is a world problem and that any attempt to narrow it to national lim lits is unwise and foolish. The white man is the same the world over and the black man is the same the world over and the wrongs we suffer in this ■ country do not differ in degree, but only in kind. There must come forth a welding together of the dark races for their own protection and for their own future. The time is coming when these races must arise in self de fense and the question now is wheth er they shall rise singly and be an nihilated, or rise en masse and bring their oppressors to time. It is a problem worth thinking about. It is a problem which cannot be ignored. ROOSEVELT ON THE SCREEN . TTARDLY had the breath passed XXout of the body of the late la mented Roosevelt, than the movies brought out of the life of Roosevelt upon the screen. It is a stirring picture and worthy the memory of the man, but even here the authors of the production have seen fit to abuse the truth in cider that their own pre judices may support the false. In the scene where the Rough Riders assault and finally capture San Juan hill, the Negro soldier is conspicuous by his absence. We say "conspic uous” because it is now a national memory of how the Negro soldiers came to the rescue of Roosevelt and his Rough Riders and saved them, but not even a hint of this on the screen. ROCKEFELLER’S 10 PRINCIPLES W7E want to call the atention of our W readers to the article appearing elsewhere on Rockefeller’s Labor Creed. It is a most enlightening bit of literature and very impressive from the fact that it comes from the son of one of the world’s richest men. It is especiallv of interest to the race, since so many million race people go to make up the sum total of labor. We sincerely hope that Mr. Rockefeller’s ten principles will be soberly con sidered, because it is the wisest solu tion that has ever been offered for the settlement of the portentous shad ow that looms above America and would throtle her. — ALAS! ALACK! IT IS NOT TRIE THE TRIBUNE of Georgetown,. British Guiana, is laboring under the impression that President Wilson took “a Colored American to the peace conference as adviser on questions af- , fecting the Negro and his offspring.” Alas! Alack! It is not true. It shows j how distance lends enchantment to the I view. Wilson has about as much re- ) spect for the opinion and advice of j a Colored American on anv question as a high caste Brahman has for that of a slave. Major Moton was sent to France to advise the Colored soldiers i how to deport themselves upon their return to the United States, so we in this country' have been advised. The reports that have reached us from Europe are to the effect that Major Moton carried out this program. But “as adviser on questions affecting the Negro and his offspring,’. President Wilson needs no advice—in his own over-weening, omniscient self opinion —for does he not hail from that sec j tion of the country, Virginia, sah! and the oligarchic south, where they know all about “the niggah, sah”? THE LEAGI E OF NATIONS A CROSS the length and breadth 'A of the world has been heralded news that the peace conference has accomplished its first great task and that the league of nations has em erged from tepid idealism and be come material fact. President Wilson has requested congress not to dis cuss the plan until he returns to America and it would likewise be un becoming the press of the country to take issue with any of its provisions until the chief executive explains them : and makes the reasons for their adop s tion clear. At this time The Monitor has lit tle to say, but will treat the subject i thoroughly at the appointed time, j We are glad that the league has been j formed and we sincerely hope that | it becomes effective to the end for which it is formed. But l>eing some what familiar with diplomatic his tory, we feel that only the future will decide how far the league will be able to maintain world peace. RICHMOND PLANET CARTOONS FOR several months the Richmond Planet has been running a series j of very commendable cartoons from i the pen of George H. Johnson. They are generally historical and the ten dency is to awaken the Negro to the part his race has played in the world. Last week the cartoon was entitled, “The Black Builder,” and referred to Cecrops, the lenegndary builder of the citadel of Athens. We congratulate the Planet upon this new feature and regret that these excellent drawings are not more wide ly used. The Negro rare has played a most wonderful part in the building of civilization and built not only Athens, but the civilization of Africa, Asia and Southern Europe. The use of pictures is a most interesting med ium for the presentation of these facts and the artist has shown him self an adept in drawing. It would not be out of place here to remark that if Mr. Johnson would try oil or crayon work along with these con ceptions, he would undoubtedly pro duce canvasses that would eventually find a place in the realm of American 1 art. SOME LOCAL NEEDS OMAHA needs sadly such social service institutions for the uplift- i ing of our special social group as the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. We have no institutions of this kind and they are needed. It is all well enough for our over pious people te condemn public pool halls and sim-1 ilar places of recreation and amuse ment, which, of course, have attend ant evils, but meet a need in the rec reational life for which no other pro vision has been made. Let us get busy and make some provision for the recreational life of our boys and girls by establishing such institutions as will meet this need. A WORD TO THE COMMISSIONERS CT ENTLEMEN, how long are you T going to permit Omaha to be dis graced by tolerating such a rubbish heap a> that to be found on Twenty first street between Nicholas and Paul? A fire last May demonstrated that this place is not only unsightly but a menace to the safety of the city. Clean it up and put a public playground there; but at all events clean it up. Obvious Observations IT used to be that the weather man could tell you 48 hours ahead of time when a blizzard was going to hit you broadside. Now he has it down to two hours. Is this improve ment or not ? Japan brought up the question of racial discrimination to the proposed league, but they squelched her. Nev er mind, she will bring it up again. Just you watch Japan. Race journalism in America thinks it is some pumpkins, but there are some African journals that make us look like a pair of deuces against a royal flush. How long will European peace last? Sh! A local daily said last week that two months ago President Wilson could have been elected president of France, but now that he couldn’t be elected a French justice of the peace. Wow! That’s no way to talk about Woody. Where’s the censor? Where the dickens does the wind stay when it doesn’t blow? Your turn to answer first, Claudette. The subscription editor has got his ax up and I think it’s going to drop. The folks way over in British Guiana want to read The Monitor. Maybe that isn’t going some. Yes, Bertie, The Monitor has now the largest and finest staff of any Negro newspaper in the old U. S. A. Ain’t that going some? So far we haven’t heard of a single black I. W. W. Have you? Have you seen that picture yet, A Colored Gentleman ? We would sooner miss dinner than miss Desdunes’ band concert and we claim that’s going some. Thanking you kindly for your apt atention, ve will now address some harsh and cruel words to this here radiator. _ SKITS OF SOLOMON The Furnace THE furnace is a sheet iron bucket on a huge scale that has an end less capacity for coal and a limited energy for the distribution of heat. A furnace is the most temperamental thing known to humanity. It has more notions in its noodle than the contrariest female who ever danced in a pair of number tens. When it is real cold the furnace ignores the fact, no matter how much you coax it and tamper with its furniture, and when the sun is. shining and showing off how much heat it can give on a January day, the furnace some how feels that it is under an obliga tion to do the same thing, no matter how much you let it alone or how little fuel you feed it. Philosophers have spent their lives throughout the : ages studying with the innumerable ] shacks in man that don’t amount to | three continental whoops, when they could have spent said time studying the furnace and reached some con clusions that would have helped the race throughout that space which has a habit of getting really cold dur ing the period called winter. There are a million furnaces advertised upon the market, and a billion books tell ing how they act and so forth, but after they get into the cellar they all act the same way. With everyone of them you get a nifty set of direc tions what to do, when to do it and how to do it, but it appears that a furnace doesn’t care anything about directions. It does to suit itself and generally it never suits you and itself at the same time. We hope that there is some wild eyed genius in the world who is trying to invent a furnace that will heat up when its cold and cool off when its warm, and if he succeeds, John D, won’t be in it with him when it comes to loading the sectidnal bookcases up with bank books. SEES DANGER IN AFRICAN MILITARY TRAINING DEFERRING to an article published last April in the "Munchener Neueste Nachrichten,” by Friedrich Hupfeld, a director of the German Togoland company, in which the fol lowing appeared: “German possessions should stretch right through from the Indian ocean to the Atlantic, in which there must be a general recruitment of black people in order to establish a military equilibrium.” Leopold Grahame, a South African journalist, makes the following com ment in the New York Tribune: “The implication contained in this suggestion of a ‘military equilibrium’ was evidently designed to convey the impression that the recruiting of black people is practiced in the Afri can colonies of the other powers, which, of course, is the very reverse of the truth. In British South Af rica there is not a single trained or professional native soldier, nor is there ever likely to be when it is re- ; membered that the black population is in the ratio of about 7 to 1 white. Thus, the creation of native soldiery would be a standing menace to the white inhabitants of the country, and during the Boer war both the British j and the Boers studiously avoided bringing natives into the conflict.” ALL CHICAGO SHOULD IK) HONOR TO GALLANT EIGHTH WHEN IT COMES HOME These Colored Soldiers Have Made a Proud Record—Le( Us Make Their ! Homecoming Fitting Tribute. The “Black Devils” are coming ! home. The latter part of this week or the first part of the next these Colored men from Chicago—members of the famous old Eighth Regiment—will carry their colors down Michigan boul vard, covered with the glory of the deeds of heroes. They said when they left that they woul 1 bring the old flag back to stay with it in Franco forever. And they made good. They are also bringing on their proud breasts twenty-two American distinguished service crosses and six- j ty-eight croid de guerre. No American Regiment has done better. They are the First Illinois Regiment that was actually in the fighting to come back to the cite as a body. And, true to the characteristic good nature of the race, they are coming back as they went away—without a whimper or without a complaint. Out in that section of the South Side where most of them live they are preparing for thpm a reception I that will outdo the welcome that our I I fighting men received in France. Some of their relatives have been saving ■ ever since they went away to make the homecoming all that money can provide. But these men went out to fight j for the white race. They went over j to help France and Belgium. And when they come back not only their own people, but all of Chicago should go out to them honor. They have added a bright chapter to the | history of Illinois at arms, and they 1 deserve all the honors that a grateful city and state can gi se them. Furthermore, them people have a proud record while ihpv were away. Not a man of their color went to an internment camp for disloyalty. Not a man or woman of their race gave the government any trouble during the period of the war. They are hard working people, who earn their bread in the sweat of their brow, and out of thei • small earnings did their share in Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and other drives. Their war record as a race is envi able. Their soldiers went out to fight the fight of men; they died the death of heroes; they were Americans to the | core. They proved themselves ,and Chi cago should show its pride and appre ciation as they pass by.—The Chicago American. ENGLISH JURY ASKS CLEMENCY FOR NEGRO London, England.—(Special to The Monitor.)—“Manslaughter, but the majority of us think the blow was given under provocation," was the verdict rendered in the trial of Pri vate John Monroe for the murder of Allen MacDonald, a white private in the Canadian forestry corps. 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