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The Monitor K National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans. Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2. 1915, at the Postofflce at Omaha. Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and Madree Penn, Associate Editors. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor. Fred C. Williams, Business Manager. 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. THEN welcome each rebuff that turns earth’s smoothness j rough. { Each sting that bids nor sit; nor stand ; but go. Be our joys three parts pain; J Learn, nor account the pang; j Dare, never grudge the throe. —Browning. EXPERIMENT IN HOUSING OUR ne.ws columns, carries the in teresting story of the formal opening and dedication last Sunday of Truxton, Va., acclaimed as the first model, modem town constructed by the government, through its housing corporation of the department of la bor, exclusively for Colored Ameri cans. This town is one of twenty four war-housing projects undertaken with marked success by the United States government. The exigencies of war demanding proper housing fa cilities for workers, skilled and un skilled. in the rapidly multiplied com munities where their services were re quired, the government undertook to supply this need. It was no small problem. • Truxton is one of these war-housing projects. The only unique feature about it is the fact that it has been built exclusively for Colored Ameri cans. As such it will be watched with interest. That the experiment will be successful is assured. There are sev eral exclusive Colored towns in this country, under the sole management of the race, which have demonstrated our ability to conduct such communi ties. The housing problem is one of the serious jobs that America has yet to tackle. We can learn a vast deal in this line from certain sections of Eu rope and particularly from Germany. This problem is particularly acute in the case of our people in almost ev ery community. We hope that the department of labor will continue its housing cor poration and that methods may be devised by which this federal corpora tion or commission may be able to co operate with the local authorities, where housing problems are accute— and this we believe is the case in all large centers of population—in secur ing sanitary and attractive homes for the laboring classes at a fair rental and with liberal opportunities for the tenants to become owners. Indus trial corporations may learn from this experiment an important lesson which will prove .profitable to them and to their employees. PROTESTING SLAUGHTER Of' JEWS THE Monitor is in heartiest accord with the organized protest which i is going up from all parts of the country against the slaughter of the Jews in Poland, Galicia, Roumania and other eastern countries. Such barbarities ought not to be tolerated anywhere. We believe that the hu mane instincts of mankind are power ful enough to prevent such atrocities everywhere and that all selfish inter ests which make the nations indiffer ent and voiceless in the face of these terrible tragedies should be subordin ated to righteousness and justice. The Jews are a great race. One of the greatest the world has even seen. They are peaceable, intellectual, in dustrious, thrifty and kind-hearted. The prejudice against them is out rageous and indefensible. While here in the United States this virile people have not been the victims of slaugh ter, they have been and are the vic tims of a cruel, senseless, blighting and unreasoning prejudice, which is, at heart, the same spirit which has manifested itself in murders and mas sacres abroad. While Americans are protesting, and justly, against Jewish massacres abroad, let them see to it that they eliminate their anti-Semitic and other racial prejudices at home. IRISH PRESSING CLAIMS A DELEGATION of Americans of Irish descent are in Paris seeking an opportunity to present Ireland’s claim for autonomy before the peace conference. Frank P. Walsh on be half of the Irish-American delegation, has sent a letter to President Wilson transmitting a number of cablegrams from various parts of the United States insisting that the delegation be given an opportunity to present Ireland’s case and protesting against Article X of the league of nations. It will be interesting to watch the out 9 come of this demand. The position hitherto taken by the dominant pow ers at the peace conference is that purely domestic problems shall be left to the decision of the respective coun tries or government concerned. The Irish question is considered a domes tic problem for Great Britain to set tle. Similarly other countries, the United States among them, have do mestic problems, chiefly, if not ex clusively, racial, which they too must be left free to determine in their own way. This, so far as can be learned, | is the position taken by the peace : conference. The Monitor, however, I does not believe that this position is | tenable, but that if world peace is to I be maintained, there must be some covenant or agreement by which the signatories will be bound to settle their domestic troubles arising from1 the demand for rights by special ra cial or national groups, upon grounds of equity and justice. Ireland’s right to self-determination, in which Ulster too must have her say, is not a purely ' domestic problem; nor is the treat ment of the Jews in Poland or Russia a purely domestic problem. Nor the Negro’s status in the United States a purely domestic problem. Such j questions as these are world questions, and the world is interested in theii : just settlement. The Irish are right in pressing their claim to at least having a hearing at the peace confer ence. We are interested in seeing how effective their demand will prove. LITTLE BIG WORDS THERE are many little words in the English language which are very significant. They mean so much. To this class belong such words as “If,” “No.” “Up.” Words of two let ters only, but with what a wealth of meaning they are fraught. Upon these little big words may hinge the issues of life. Their utterance have been known to spell success or fail ure in many a life. What issues sometimes hang upon an “IF.” What moral tragedies have been caused or averted by a decided "NO.” What victories, military, moral, material,! and spiritual have been won by “UP.” j “Up, guards, and at them,” was the command that turned defeat into vic tory in an historic military campaign. “Up, my boy, the morning calls,” has sounded the keynote of every success ful life. “Up with the sun,” has been the motto of many who would achieve! great things. “If” suggests deliberation. Use it, J before entering upon any course of1 action. “No” calls for decision and conviction. Learn when to use this; little big word wisely. “Up” suggests aspiration, inspiration, progress. These should be dominant notes in every' normal human being. Think about these little big words and do not use them lightly or thoughtlessly. Preach a little sermon to yourself on the two-lettered words. “If,” “No,” and “Up,” and w’e are quite sure that you will find in this exercise or diversion much to help you. At any rate, try your skill in extracting lessons from these little big words. THE N, A. A. C. P. 7-HAT is the “N. A. A. C. P.?”j It is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo-1 pie. This is an organization now numbering nearly 60,000 and rapidly growing, of thoughtful, patriotic American citizens of both races, hav ing as its sole aim and purpose the j securing of simple justice for Col ored Americans in common with all American citizens. Its specific tasks; are these: The abolition of legal in justices against Negroes; the stamp ing out of race discrimination; the prevention of lynchings, burning and j torturing of human beings because they are black; the securing to every, citizen of color the common rights of American citizenship; compelling; equal accommodations in railroad j travel and the securing of equal edu-: rational opportunities for Colored children in public schools through a fair apportionment of public educa tion funds. This is the definite, clear j program which the N. A. A. C. P. has before it. Is there one of these de mands that is not just? Is there a single demand here made that any fair-minded American will say ought not be granted? Are they not all in exact accord with the ideals for which our country claims to stand? The means which this association employs to secure these rights are EDUCA TION, ORGANIZATION. AGITA TION, PUBLICITY, THE FORCE OF AN ENLIGHTENED PUBLIC OPIN ION. The Omaha branch has a member ship of 700. A campaign is on to. se cure a membership of 5,000. It costs only $1 a year to become a member. We believe that everybody is in favoi of the principles for which this or ganization stands and will require no urging to become a member, and in this way do his bit towards securing a square deal for all loyal, law-abiding Americans. PI SH THAT PLAYGROUND rriHE city commissioners are rc I sportfully requested to speedily secure the much-needed public play ground for children in the vicinity of the Kellom school. The proposed site between Nicholas and Clark and Twenty-first and Twenty-second is ideal from several points of view. It will meet the needs of a large number of children within a large area. The district has the largest juvenile pop ulation of any district in the city, and they arc without playground facili ties. The proposed plans are good. Now let Falconer or Towl, or who ever’s business it is to push this mat ter. get busy on the job. KENNEDY BECOMES BANK OFFICIAL THE MONITOR congratulates the United States National hank upon electing the Hon. John L. Kennedy vice president. Mr. Kennedy is one of Omaha’s oldest and foremost citizens. He is public-spirited, alert, progres sive, liberal-minded and true as steel. The United States National bank has many of our race among its deposi tors and it will lose none by adding to its officers such a stalwart friend of our people as John L. Kennedy. PRESS GLEANINGS Radicalism We used to think that certain of our leading men who continually harped upon and protested against discrimination and injustice were en tirely “too radical;” that they ought] to go quickly and modestly about their own personal affairs and by the acquisition of property and edu cation make themselves worthy of better treatment; that if thev were lenied the right to occupy property jwned by them in a desirable neigh borhood, they purchase property else where and by their own acts improve :hat neighborhood. And there are lots >f Colored people who think that now. But we have long since changed our •dews upon the subject. We think dif ferently now. We really doubt if it is possible to be too radical in one’s opposition to race hatred, discrimina :ion and injustice. Certainly no op position that has failed to accomplish reforms in this respect can be too ■adical. And after all, what is opposition ;o existing order of things, but radi- ! ■alism ? Can he who opposes present ■onditions be other than radical 7 i Conservatism is the disposition to preserve what is established—satis-[ ’action with existing customs, things,j ■onditions. Conservatism is the exe ■utioner of progress. It obstructs re forms and retards the spread of civ liation. Radicalism is the herald of prog- j ress, the handmaiden of reform, a guide to civilization. It forced from the reluctant hands of King John at j Runnymede Magna Charta; it broke j the yoke of England and gave inde pendence to the thirteen colonies and to the world a great republic. It struck from the limbs of four million human beings the galling chains of slavery and made them the possessors of their own persons, the directors of their own destiny. Radicalism does things. Be sure your cause is just and be as radical as you can. You cannot be too radical in a righteous cajjse.—The Wisconsin Weekly Blade. CHICAGO’S HOUSING CONDITIONS DISCUSSED (By Associated Negro Press.) Chicago, June 4.—“The • Housing Situation and the Colored People of Chicago,” is the name of a new book let prepared by Charles S. Duke, A. B., C. -E., of the city hall bridge di vision, City Hall Square building, Chi cago. The booklet has “suggested remedies and brief references to hous ing projects generally.” It is a very timely treatise of a very acute sub ject, and the newspapers and public organizations generally, have been praising Mr. Duke for the unusual contribution to this critical economic field. THE PERISCOPE By the Associated Negro Press. “Colored League of Nations.” Senator Reed, democrat, of Mis souri, on the floor of the United States, in an address opposing the ‘League of Nations" declared that his hiof opposition to the league, as sor ry as he was to admit it, comes from the fact that the way the pre liminary organiaztion is constituted, the “white peoples of the world will j have less representation than the Col ored peoples.” The cat is at last i out of the bag. For some time the flawing and mewing of the cat has j been heard, hut he is out now, head, j tail, feet and fur. At the bottom of the whole scheme of “world wide de-; moeracy” has been the underscored word “white.” Upon this basis, the whole plan is, sooner or later, bound to fail. The United States. England. France and Italy, combined against Japan on the “race equality” proposi tion. If the league is to be world wide, and there must be considered the subject of color, there is no plan or scheme, by which the whites can dominate in numbers, for the Colored j peoples of the entire world -black. I brown and yellow, outnumber the white three to one. The fate of the whites lies ultimately in the hands of the Colored peoples, for with numbers they are getting intelligence and wealth, and with this combination, the world must move forward to a j plane of justice. Universal Housing. The subject of “Housing the Peo ple” has become one of the big things of the day. Not only in metropolitan centers, where construction has been eliminated on account of the war, but in the smaller communities as well, there is an unprecedented demand for better bousing conditions. The Unit- i ed States government with unusual dispatch, took a hand in the war time problem, and the situation is now so critical that it is believed the federal government will take an even livilier post-war part, as well as the various ] -tate and municipal governments. Playing the World Old Game. Politics, without a doubt, had its beginning with Cain and Abel. Cain dew Abel, as politicians now seek to day each other, because Abel seemed to be th e more favored. Cain had loubtless used all the subtle means mown to his hypocritical life, to get ! >n the good side of Grandpa Adam, ind when he saw that he had failed, ie resorted to four play, even as pres ;nt day politicians. For the next year and a half, the j greatest “world series” of the game ?ver known or conceived by human nind, will be played. As between the i wo great parties, republican and]! lemocrat, their star players have been For quite some time on the training grounds. That they are all getting into form,! lone can gainsay. There is a dis lurbing element known variously as socialists, anarchists, bolsheviki, I. W. W., labor and dreamers, that gives 1 great concern to the leaders and man- ; igers of the old time regular players j if the game. In the confusion of conditions, the 15,000,000 Colored people of America ire most concerned in progressive re mits, unqualified justice and full ritizenship. There is a peculiar deter nination to ally themselves with the jartv or group that will vouchsafe i nost for the things demanded. The ] inrest within this Colored contingent : s not manifesting itself in violence, I lo any extent, but it is righteously ' [jitter against hypocrisy, and all the vile kindred things that have helped lo dwarf the full privileges and growth of manhood and womanhood. A SONNET In Memory of (he Late Mme. Walker. 0 WOMANKIND, adept in thrifty trade, We mourn the loss of one whose husbandry A race has watched with pride. The buzzing bee Is symbolic of progress that she made: Who started out a toiler and ill-paid, She artfully accrued goods steadily And, rising ’mongst the few, she readily Would gladly, stoop to give her broth er aid. A folk, ’tis often said, may never rise One whit above the women of like mien; If ’tis forsooth—then on! My race, be wise, For well has this our sister set the pace; Who lived a peer of princesses and queens And passed a benediction to her race. G. NORMAN ADAMSON. 2914 Lake Street, Omaha. If you will engrave upon the tablet af your heart this little word UP and ! have it lead you, you will never know how to fail.—George M. Adams. |j >W9V9VVW^WMP*r%^M*M?VVWvv9vV*?%M*M/VVVVVV’... ’ ' The Beautiful "Thing 'I About the FORD CAR is its 100% simplicity of operation, 100% per A !• cent economy, and 100% service. That’s why we’ve adopted the y slogan 100% Ford Service. 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