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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1919)
* ' 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 Mall 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. 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 Douglas 3224 --— " THE SIN OF SILENCE sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. _/ HOME OWNERSHIP ONE of the most encouraging evi dences of the progress of our peo ple is the growing desire and deter mination to become home owners. This praiseworthy ambition is becoming stronger and stronger in every com munity. Home ownership makes for stability of character and better citi zenship. Our people seem to realize this and it is most gratifying to know that so many are buying homes. We doubt if any other group has be come more active along this line in the past few years than our own. Every encouragement should be giv en to our people to buy homes. Hus bands and wives should be willing to make sacrifices to save enough money for the required first payment upon some neat and cosy home, within their means, and to continue those sacri fices to make the payments as they fall due. This in most cases means, and we now have in mind the ma jority of our people, that the latest style, expensive hat, dress, suit or coat will have to yield place to less expensive articles. That money spent for amusements and pleasure trips will have to be reduced to a reasonable minimum; that there must be no straining at “keeping up with the Joneses.” The opportunity of home ownership is increasing because of the fact that through enlarged industrial advan tages our people are receiving good wages. The cost of living is outrage ously high, but at the same time, ow ing to increased wages, by carefully watching one’s expenditures, some money can and should be saved. When one has made the first payment on his home, there comes the desire and determination to pay for it as rapidly as one can. The most difficult part, perhaps, is making the start, t Because of this laudable ambition upon the part of our people to be come home owners, there is great dan ger for their exploitation and swind ling by dishonest and unscrupulous agents. There will be the disposition upon the part of some to drive sharp bargains, or to boost prices. For this reason we should sound a warning to both the buyer and the seller. To the buyer we suggest that he use due caution to see that the price, terms and everything else is right before he closes the deal. To the seller, we desire to say that if The Monitor learns of any undue advantage being taken by him of a purchaser we shall not hesitate to expose it. Our advice to our people everywhere is to become homeowners. For as has been well said, “The root of the com monwealth is the homes of the peo ple. In proportion as our people own their homes, the country gains in stability.” Home ownership is an index to the character of a people. AN AMBITIOUS VENTURE AN ambitious commercial venture has been launcehd by the Great Southern Importing and Exporting company, which has just been incor porated under the laws of the state of Delaware. The object of this com pany is to market the products of those countries where members of the African race are in the majority. From Africa come such staples as rubber, mahogany, cocoa, dye woods, palm oil and the like; from the south and South American countries cotton, coffee, rice and similar products. It is believed that these products can be handled by a company composed of Colored men. This company has among its officials and representatives such men as Geo. Wells Parker of Omaha; John E. Bruce of New York; Duse Mahamed of London, England; H. J. R. Cooper of Cape Palmas, Liberia; William A. Moore, Nigeria, West Coast Africa, and J. H. Council of Rio de Janerio. These and their associates in other parte of the world have the reputation of being alert and capable business men. The Monitor is pleased to see this large commercial venture and wishes it every success. This is the era of big things and an international com pany of this character ought to rapid ly develop into a gigantic well-paying business corporation. PERILOUS TIMES \MERICA, with the rest of the - world, is passing through perilous times. It is doubtless the legacy of the world war. War has always up set things and created abnormal con ditions from which it has taken years to recover. It would be strange, in deed, were this day and generation to be spared the penalty of war, in rest lessness and unsettled conditions. Our country is facing grave domestic prob lems. We believe that these are birth pangs of a higher and better national life. But these are times in which we need to keep our heads; to practice self-restraint and self-denial. We feel quite sure that our group will main tain its mental poise and balance and prove their worth, as in previous times, to the republic. THANK YOU THE Monitor desires to thank its many subscribers at home and abroad for the prompt renewal of their subscriptions and the many kind words of approval which accompany these renewals. It is gratifying to us to know' that we are publishing a paper which so generally meets the approbation and approval of an ever increasing class of discriminating readers. We desire also to thank our advertisers who assure us by their patronage that they find The Mon itor an excellent advertising medium. We desire to say that we hope soon to add other unique and interesting features to this popular publication. ASHAMED OF BLOOD E"'VERY man and woman who has J African blood in their veins, and knows it, should be proud of that fact, because it is the blood of one of the noblest races that God has made. What should concern him most is that he live true to the best traditions of his race. The history of the Afri can race is nothing to be ashamed of. Ti-ue, much of its history is unknown to the average reader, but the more truth comes to light the greater be comes the reason for pride in one’s African ancestry. Only a shallow brain or an apostate will be ashamed of his blood. GOOD BEHAVIOR THERE is a grave responsibility resting upon every one of us to make conditions better for our people. Wherever we may be on street cars, on the streets and in public places, let us see to it that our conduct is always above reproach. Let us avoid loud and boisterous talking and in all times and places show ourselves to be peo ple of good taste and breeding. Never mind what the other fellow' does, see to it that you do the thing that is right. Afro-Americans must strive more and more to limit their wants to the size of their purse and their relations between men and women by the high est and best and not the basest and meanest standards.—The Amsterdam News. The best that can be said about liquor is that it is the root of all evil. Its passing has marked a long forward stride in civilization. One of the peculiarities of life is, how easily we mortals fall into habits that have a tendency to drag us down and how reluctantly we accept directions as to how to keep in the straight and narrow path.—Chicago Defender. “CLOSE RANKS AND LET THE HILLS LOOK TO US” The statement has been made that the darker native races of British Africa, British India and the British West Indies enjoy fewer civil and economic privileges and advantages in their home countries than they en joy as denizens of the United States; ' it has been stated also that Afro American citizens "f the LTnitcd States enjoy more civil privileges and eco nomic advantages than Africans enjoy in Africa or in any other country". Are these statements tine or false? We believe them to be true. We have our ups and downs in this country, it is true, and the going is rough, but we are making substan tial progress all of the time in the things worth having in life, in man hood and womanhood, in citizenship. The main thing with us is to strive to make the most and not the least of the superior advantages we have. It is easy enough to complain that we do not get all that belongs to us in any phase of our citizenship, but do we stop to ask if we go about get ting what is denied us in any direc tion as we should and as others go about it ? Are we organized to the minute in politics, in business, in the professions, in the ministry and in charitable and social uplift works? Certainly not; and, yet, we need com pact organization and competent lead ership in all of these departments of thought and effort as others have them, and without which they w’ould be as helpless and wronged, as poor and dependent, as we complain that i we are. We can’t get anything worth having simply by asking for it and by com plaining loud and long that it is with 1 held from us; we must go about get ting it by effective organization and co-operation as others go about it, whether it be in starting a shoe-pol ishing parlor or a bank or a depart ment store, or as a doorkeeper in the police station or a member of the leg islature. We can’t get anything we are entitled to by confiscation and force; we must get it by competition and diplomacy by the individual and by effective organization of persons as the race mass. In all this striving for advantage we shall gain nothing by talking about it; we shall gain what we w'ant by hustling for it. Other race groups have to do it, and we must do it. If we do not hang together in all out strivings in every direction we shall hang separately. So, close the ranks and let the hills look to us, with apology to Dr. Du Bois a long way after, with determin ation to conquer the hills and all of the ills in them. They are rich in all that makes life worth living when the good is separated from the bad, the hills are. In the language of the late Dr. Washington, let us cast down our buckets where we are, for the waters of opportunity are fresh, and not sa line, and teeming with wealth.—Am sterdam News. RACIAL FRIENDSHIP. It was pood, sensible advice which Colonel Chales Younp of Camp Grant. 111.—a nepro officer—pave to people of his own race at the Academy of Music several evenings ago. First he asked how many of his auditors believed that on the whole the white people wanted and meant to do the ripht thing by the black man. For all the provocation to believe the contrary, most of those present in stantly raised their hands. Then he said: “Love and hate are boomerangs, and if you would have the white man love you and be courteous toward you, it is time that the Colored people de sist in their hatred, which seems to be growing more prevalent.” That is the way for friends of either race to talk. Any one who seeks to engender strife instead of to smooth away the causes of friction is a foe to l society. The earth belongs to all men, and industrial opportunity should be open to those who can qualify for em ployment, without regard to the color line. The race in half a century of political freedom and through several centuries of social and industrial dis crimination has hopefully persevered, and except when aroused by artificial incitements it has been gentle and pa tient, kindly and humorous and long suffering. There are bad and violent black men, and there are white men of the same kind. Neither race has the monopoly of viciousness or of vir tue. But no matter what their color, men were set on ear :h to help and not to hinder one anotheh. He who preaches that any man has the right to take by force what is another’s is 1 an anarchist, whether his doctrine be i overt or covert. It is time to single I out and to punish those who seek to inflame one portion of humanity against another; and apainst these in cendiary doctrines there are to be set such wise and temperate counsels as those of Colonel Poung.—Philadelphia Ledger. When you don’t receive your Mon itor please drop us a card. I y.... j Flashes of Most Anything SENATOR BORAH and the rest of his ilk are beginning to bore us with their idiotic philosophy. Patriotic American citizens must know that either al citizens must have the right to vote or America is doomed to fall as surely as Rome fell. WILSON has attacked the Polish j muddle, the Czecho-Slovak mud dle, the Alsace-Lorraine muddle, the Mexican muddle—indeed, he has at tacked every sort of old muddle except that muddle to which the old South gave birth and which it has nourished ever since. When will the president of these United States speak out for jus tice and fair play for the 14,000,000 loyal black American citizens? Breathlessly, w-e await. Meanwhile lynching goes on apace. “Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, lest we for get—lest we forget!” Sodom and Go morrah and Rome and Germany! BRITAIN won the war,” says Haig for England. "America won the war,” says Wilson for America. Now, don’t you two Anglos get to scrap ping, because a family quarrel is dead ly business. Angry relatives make terrible enemies and we would like to have peace just a little while. IN Berlin they talk about rallying around the kaiser. In Mississippi the mob is still rallying around the stake. THE Germans claim Shakespeare for Germany and Reuter claims Kelly Miller and Dean Pickens and Lucy Laney et al. as great, because of the predominance of white blood in their veins. “Who steals my purse steals trash; but he who robs me of my race inspirers doth make me poor indeed.” THE Irish-American delegation in Paris sent Clemenceau a note on June 30 in which it was charged that the British bombarded Irish towns from airplanes, “wantonly murdering women and children.” The delegation asked for the appointment of a special commission to investigate the charge. Oh, commission! we invite you over here to take a look at the condition of the Afro-American who happens to be born in Dixie. Athens, Ga., calls you. Dyersburg, Tenn., wants you, and Longview, Tex., needs you. TVTOODY is still monkeying with W the universe. He vetoed the bill to let us poor folks tell time accord ing to the sun. But what’s an hour's extra sleep? INTEREST AWAKENING IN FUTURE OF RACE Better Element in All Sections of Country Apparently Willing to Grant Favorable Consideration to Just Demands. (By Associated Negro Press.) Chicago, 111., July 17.—The white people of the United States, both north and south, have begun to take an un usual interest in the future of the Negro of this country. In every sec tion of the country, conferences, con ventions and various other gatherings in which Colored people are assem bled, are being watched with the keen- j est of interest. It is noticeable that many white people express a willing-: ness to grant the Colored people al most every consideration except two: social equality and the ballot. They are willing to grant better oppor tunities for education, better com forts on transportation lines, complete protection of rights under the law, bttter housing conditions, make lynch ing an impossibility and many other - things which any sane person must admit as being fair. The better ele- j ment of the whites, both north and south, seem willing to grant the fore • going, excepting social equality and the ballot. "Social equality,” said one of our j leaders, "is a subject that should cease j to be dis cussed. It never has been j and never will be anything more or less than a political scare-crow. Con cerning the ballot, that is far dif ferent. The denial of the right to vote is i lainly unjust and most as suredly against the spirit and letter of the constitution of the United f'tates.” The peace treaty is a great, won derful and most invaluable asset to the world's progressiveness. Get us contribute in as large a measure as we can and share in the profits that will result from human interest in com mon.—The Colorado Statesman. Do you know where Patrick avenue is? Blondo is one block south. Finkenstein’s first class groceries and meat market is lo caetd at 26th and Blondo. Tele phone number is Webster 1902, and don’t forget. I The Beautiful Thing | l X About the FORD CAR is its 100% simplicity of operation, 100% per X ,< £ cent economy, and 100% service. That’s why we’ve adopted the Jk X slogan 100% Ford Service. We strive to maintain the Ford standard X K X all the time, in all ways, in all departments. > ■ We sell Ford Motor Cars and Fordsom Farm Tractors. ? :; ! Sample-Hart Motor Co. i; •{• Tyler 513. 18th and Burt Streets. < JK 200,000 | Can Take Up DUDLEY'S NINETY DAY OFFER | X For ninety davs only will ship to all new agents $10.00 worth of X £ DUDLEY’S'FAMOUS POLISH for $5.00. Save time. Just inclose X five dollars and your address in full and a shipment will be made the .»* X same day we get your order to Live Wire Agents. Hit the iron while .j. |t* it is hot. Write for an order. X Dudley's Leather and Chemical Works | £ 116 South Main Street. Muskogee, Okla. A H Classified Directory of Omaha’s Colored professional and Business firms S ALLEN JONES ANDREW T. REED j Res. Phone Web. 204. Res- Rhone Red 5210. f _ . JONES & REED f Funeral Parlor \ Parlors 2314 North 24th Street. Phone Webster 1108. X £ Expert Licensed Embalmers and Funeral Directors. Auto and Horse •£ Drawn Vehicles. Lady Attendant. Open Day and Night. £ We are as near to you as your telephone with every convenience at j- hand. Calls promptly attended at all hours. ^ BHMMMMMRIKIXn !miKSCK0fr>«<K3^ 1 WANTED! S 5 1 k | r ' | Lively partner for paying ice B 1 j; 5! 2 |f cream and confectionery store, g a I Will sell half interest. Call 1508 « \ ;j North 24th street. Phone Web- g j jj ster 267. 1 I a as®SHKS:«MK_wt;:K » «.» « »,» aamm #;« rf x ; * g s Telephone Webster 248 Open Day and Night Silas Johnson i Western Funeral Home I 2518 Lake St. g St 15 H The Place for Quality and Service & 9 S * PRICES REASONABLE. & • w Licensed Embalmer In Attendance ;; Lady Attendant If Desired. MUSIC FURNISHED FREE. g 9 ] |iaa8BBsaHKB«>iK saswias Kscagpcx «| / | R. H. Robbins | 1 & Co. 1 1 g ■ I GROCERIES AND MEATS £ An Up-to-Date Store. I; <; H 1411 North 24th Street, g II II g Prompt Delivery. W. 241. p ■X x Maceo T. j Concert Violinist j and Teacher g STUDIO, 2416 BINNEY ST. *■ Webster 3028. I Eureka Furniture Store | Complete Line of New and Sec- < ond Hand Furniture PRICES REASONABLE Call Us When You Have Any Q Furniture to Sell 1417 N. 24th St. Web. 4206 ;{; GREEN S GREEN 1 We Operate the One Minute Shining Parlor Chairs for Ladies. Auto Truck and Transfer 1919 Cuming St. Phone Doug. 3167; Web. 2340. i Repairing and Storing Orders Promptly Filled g NORTH SIDE SECOND-HAND STORE | R. B. RHODES Dealer in New and Second-Hand Furniture and Stoves. b «, Household Goods Bought and a ; Sold. Rental and Real Estate. |f, 2522 Lake St. Webster 908 § l 8Sfl>USO<i a a a a a.«.a a a »:« a ;! a.aOtiaM a' I A. F. PEOPLES I : Painting Paperhanging and Decorating •• I I ; Estimates Furnished Free, g s ih ( All Work Guaranteed. § ; a I 4H27 Frskine Street. Phone Walnut 2111. jf t _ w e&flWKtK/fegM&OCDi abDfa-a’ir;; a a a'a'aJWa ;> I ; South & Thompson's Cafe f | 2418 North 24th St. Webster 4566 £ i SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER §j x Stewed cnlcken with dumplings..40c Roast Prime Beef au Jus 40c « % Roaat Pork, Apple Sauce _40c j* | Roast Domestic Goose, dressing 50c y ? Early June Peas 5 Mashed Potatoes H l Salad x Coffee Dessert it i } We Serve Mexican Chile 1 l a/a a BHRan a:a/a a a a a a a a ;r a a a ;; ;• " [ s EAT AT WEST CAPE j Good Cooking, Reasonable Prices « 1712 North 24th St. T. J. ASHLEY, Prop. I & 6 _____________________ 5t i ^ 5 S. W. MILLS FURNITURE CO. S if ! We sell new and second hand 5 ; furniture, 1421 North 24th St. .« : Webster 148. 24th and CharleB. a \ KKK!gMMSKDC«D<3(ia'aX!aPflai)fiXMM^ * If Ur. p. w. sawyers DENTIST Tel. Doug. 7150; Web. 3636 I i 220 South 13th St. JOHN HALL PROGRESSIVE TAILOR 1614 N. 24th St. Web. 875. KBfflOKiaiKiaiawioaJi/'afarKDCWiKiaBtKRigB Open for Buelneee the BOOKER T. 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