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.... 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 Postoffice 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. THE BUNDY TRIAL CR. LEROY' BUNDY has been con victed and given life imprison ment for what is said to have been his part in the East St. Louis riot. Those who have followed the case closely know that he has not received a fair trial and that the evidence presented by the prosecution was merely police evidence. We regret deeply this conviction and hope that the matter will not be dropped un til the highest court in the land passes upon the evidence and frees Dr. Bundy. The Bundy case, however, has af forded a lesson which must not be overlooked. When weighed and care fully considered it is no more nor less than notice to the Negro that any effort upon his part to resent pre judice or prepare to defend his life when endangered, is considered wrong. In other words, the verdict practic ally says: “This is a white man’s country and what the white man does is law, whether it be right or wrong. W'hen you resent the white man’s treatment and dare to raise your hand against him in defense of your life and property, you are a criminal and shall be punished with imprisonment and death.” This is apparently the lesson the verdict in the Bundy trial would teach, but it is one that the race will refuse to learn. Self-defense is an instinct of human nature that cannot be ig nored. Dr. Bundy did no wrong in urging his people to arm themselves for their protection when the authorities failed to grant them protection. COLORED WOMEN IN INDUSTRY IN a recent editorial the New York Post discusses at length labor de partment’s study, “A New Day for the Colored Woman Worker," and de plores the fact that thg Colored wom an has left domestic work for other fields. It compares the ten and twelve dollar a week domestic job, includ ing board and room, with the much harder employment bringing from ten to fifteen per week, and considers the former much to be preferred. There is no doubting the fact that the Post presents an able argument and a profound study. The entrance of the Colored woman into the in dustrial field is new and many have taken advantage of it. When we consider the true fact, as the Post de clares, that she has accepted the very lowest type of industrial employment, we are more than ready to agree that she is better off as a domestic than as an industrial worker. On the other hand we are aware of the fact that our Colored women look upon “menial positions” much in the same light as white women. We might counter and ask the Post this question: “Why do not the hundreds and thousands of white women who work in department stores and fac tories for from eight to fifteen dol lars a week, forsake this work for the domestic field, which certainly does afford, all considered, better wages, cleaner work and better treatment? We imagine that the Post would find here a problem as great as that which it has found among Colored women, and find it as hard to answer. HOWARD’S NEW COURSE ONLY a few days ago did the trus tees of Howard university decide to institute a course of finance and banking. It has not created much stir among the race; in fact, we have not found one Negro paper that has men tioned the fact. Yet it is of more than passing notice. For more than fifty years there have been schools and col leges of all kinds and sorts springing up over the country' for the benefit of the Negro youth, but not one of them has ever attempted to take up the study of commerce and banking. It goes without saying that such a course is needed. The wealth of the Negro in America demanded trained men to handle its finance years ago, but few of our boys and girls ever took the opportunity to prepare them selves. The fault, however, does not lie with them. The fault lies with the men and women who are supposed to be the leaders of the race. They have been short-sighted and thought only of the present and nothing of the fu ture. They have seemed to feel and believe that time is stationary and that the thing of greatest moment is agitation and arraignment of present conditions. This is their gravest short coming. Opportunities always come and will come to the Negro as well as to others, and it is little less than a crime to so order the teaching of the youth that when such opportunity comes they cannot take advantage of it. Howard is to be congratulated upon this step, and every young man and woman going there should consider long and well the advisability of tak ing this course as a necessary adjunct to their complete education. SKITS OF SOLOMON The Bolsheviki. /MINERAL HOFFMAN, tier famous ' f Hunnish chief, ha- sagt that the guy what put the kibosh on der vater land was not Herr Foch und Allies, but Mistersky Lenine, the bolsheviki dude of Russia, and we are beginning to believe der Gineral vas right. From all accounts that shimmer through the sheets which used to be called news papers, it appears that the bolsheviki intend to put the kibosh on others be sides Deutchland. Some hand the bolshies flowers, but most folks hand them the hot and heavy in over doses. But as Mr. Diog said the day the hoops on his tub slipped off, “There are two hoops on eevry tub and one won’t do the work.” When it comes down to the hard pan and the bed rock, the almighty dollar started the war, but the dollar didn’t expect that it was going to start something it couldn’t finish. It has always been the custom for the big uns to start wars and stop them whenever they got ready, but this time they missed their guess. Folks generally made up their minds to have something to say on the question themselves and when the dol lar said “Stop, we’ve gone far enough!” the folks replied, “Not so as you can notice it! You said the war was for real freedom and there is going to be plenty of real freedom, or else!” That is the inner and outer coat of bolsheviki and there are no two ways around it. American papers can hand old bolshi all the cayenne it wants to, but that won’t stop it. There has got to be some real adjustment of international families, or bolshi will bust them all up. That is the inside of the bolshi program from left to right. Spring is here. The soda season is now on. Have a refreshing drink at our up-to-date soda fountain. We serve the best. The People’s Drug | Obvious Observations | ELL, there’s one thing that can make us feel a little better. We won’t have to grease the coal man’s mitt much longer. European nations claim that col onies under their control don't know how to govern themselves, but it looks as though a good many are going to show said nations that if they don't know how to govern themselves they sure can make things uncomfortable for others. It now transpires that more nations than Japan are interested in the racial | question before the peace conference. Look at the number of the month j and year on your wrapper and see if 1 your subscription is up. If it is, shell i out. Why is it that Omaha dailies are always ready to hand the Negro a j bunch and then shut up as tight as a New Jersey claim when they find they ! printed lies? Funny how one moment the white man says the Negro officers and sol diers are the daringest men in the world and the next moment they say they are incompetent. Some screws i must be loose somewhere. Don’t forget to read the editorial on thinking black. Brazil says she wants Negroes. Mexica says she wants Negroes. Li beria says she wants Negroes—every | body seems to want them except the ! U. S. A. Thanking you for your most effi cient and delectable interest, we will now pause, cover up the type factory and lay aside the paper, and start hunting the old fishing lines and tackle. We have a strange sort of fever. I AM A NEiiRO! T AM a Negro and the proudest of A the proud. Out of the web and woof of the world’s fatal fiction, faith has stolen the threads of truth and woven a garment for my race that shall out shine the stars. They were my own brothers of blood who welcomed the first sun and their swarthy hands laid the foundations for this human etern ity. I love them for the memories they have left me, for the passions they have hidden in my heart and for the pride they wound about my soul. Our race is a race that can never fail. I might have overlooked the past had I not been puzzled by the present. Today we are strangers in a strange land, yet aside the glare of hat£ the torch which they passed onward to me refuses to dim. We are lost in the jungle of the tooth and claw, but in the face of tooth and claw we have wrought wonders that make puerile the dreams of Alladin’s lamp. I am so lost in wonder that my dumb lips refuse to raise the song. But others shall and to their thunderous chorus I will add my feeble strain: ‘‘I am proud, proud to be a Negro!” } Thr'Kid die?} Korner * MADRE PENN *“X~X“X^~XK~X“X~XK~X~X~X"X* THE LAUGHING DUMPLING Part III. SHE first took the magic paddle j and slipped it under her girdle, and then she went down to the river. No one saw her, and the boat was there. She got into it and pushed off, and, as she could row very well, she was soon far away from the shore. But the river was very' wide and she had not rowed more than one fourth of the way across when the one, all of them, came back to the house. They found that their cook was gone, and the magic paddle, too. They ran down to the river at once, and saw the old woman rowing away very fast. Perhaps they could not swim; at all events, they had no boat, and they thought the only way to catch the funny old woman would be to drink up all the water of the river before she got to the other bank. So they knelt down and began to drink so fast that before the old woman had got half way over the water had become quite low. But the old woman kept rowing un til the water had got so shallow that the oni stopped drinking and began to wade across. Then she dropped her oar and took the magic paddle j from the girdle and shook it at the oni. and made such funny faces that the*oni all burst out laughing. But the moment they laughed all the water came up that they' had drunk, and so the river became full again. The oni could not cross, and the funny old woman got safely over to the other side, anti ran up the road as fast as she could. She ran breath lessly by the three Jizo laughing a greeting as she ran. Finally she came to the hole, and clambering up the sides she at last left the strange country' behind and came to the light of day. Still she ran and she never stopped running until she found her self at home again. “Te-he-he,” she laughed for joy, and all out of breath subsided on the floor and rested. Oh how happy she was ever after for she could make dumplings when ever she pleased. Rice was plentiful now for she had the magic paddle that made rice for her. She sold her dumplings to her neighbors and passengers in in quite a short time became rich. Sanja’s one wish was answered. At last she could make the finest dump lings in the city, and she guarded the magic paddle and made her dumplings ■ and laughed. (THE END.) .■■Vvv! . . - H Classified Directory of Omaha’s Colored professional and Business firms •!* ALLEN JONES ANDREW T. REED X Res. Phone Web. 204. Res. Phone Red 5210. 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