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JUST KIDS —History Repeals—Sometimes! tit A4 Cart*» _J I w WUH WEWDA (SHOVEL. UKE MISTED WtlCOLN l HAD TO TI&E.ER or(- MAT86 UP BE pRES’DEliT TOO © NOT AGGRESSORS, BUT DEFENDERS (Continued From Page One.) maintaining law and order here at the ■» national capital. Blames White Service Men. “We believe that we express the opinion of the leading men and women of the community when we say that the Colored people of the District of Columbia aie not responsible for the deplorable conditions which have ex isted during the past week. We do not hesitate to say that the responsi bility for this unfoitunate riot lies primarily at the door of the mob com posed of white men—soldiers, sailors and marines—which ran amuck through the streets of the national capital, maiming, injuring and killing innocent Colored citizens a week ago. The retaliation which followed on the part of the Colored people, although to be deplored, was, under the circum stances, but natural; but it is not our 'sh now to place blame or responsi bility. We seek only to po'nt out the 1 fact that normal conditions have been restored and that these normal condi tions have been brought about by white and Colored citizens freely counseling together in the interest of law and order. Urge <*> -Operation. “It is our hope that throughout the country rc.picsentc.tive citizens of both races may get together in an effort to arrest any spread of suspicion as between the races in their communi t es, and that other race clashes may be averted. “Vv'e rail upon the law-abiding mem bors of the Negro race everywhere to co-operate with their white fellow citizens in all efforts to repress mob violence, to the end that men who shared the sacrifice and hardships of the late war, as well as all other mem bers of our race, may mutually share n the finer rewards which should come out of a fair settlement of the econstiuction and readjustment prob lems which face us on every side. “Men of both races should set their faces against further clashes of this character in every part of our coun try-” i The OMA HA { l National j Bank y • * x ' ► y v " I ARNAM AT SEVENTEENTH STREET { * * V ;; Established 186fi ' ’ 'i I . * y y V I ? Total Resource', June 30, 1919 \ $33,600,000 | v V i : —— I . i j Interest Paid on Savings I y « Y ,i, ? Accounts l — ? :!• *1* X Dollar Starts an Account |: 0 Y • Y 1 I | OFFICERS ! y J. H. Millard, President $ $ Ward M. Burgess, Vice President X S Walter W. Head, Vice President B. A. Wilcox, Vice President X > t Frank Boyd, Vice President X y Ezra Millard, Cashier y 0. T. Alvison, Assistant Cashier X | J. A. Changstrom, Assistant Cashier X « W. Dale Clark, Assistant Cashier ? r» Y Y Edw. Neale, Assistant Cashier X « THROUGH CALIFORNIA Omahan Gives Monitor Readers Glimpses of Fruits and Flowers and Sources of Beauty. To The Monitor: We have just left Los Angeles on our way to Frisco and oh how beau tiful the scenery is. We are going up the coast line. The only road to enter Frisco from Los Angeles and really it would take a poet to describe what we are passing. For a while we are running through large orange groves doted along the edges with stately palms; now we are going through beautiful apricot groves and the sweet perfume is enough to drive one wild with delight; now through massive fields of lima beans. From the looks of these fields they are raising beans for the whole world. Nowr through cres and acres of peach groves. From the looks of these groves there are peaches enough here for every one and to spare and one would not think that there was any high cost of peaches. Now through ripe and green olive groves. Now through fig groves. Oh, if the leaves of these fig trees were used for garments there would be no high cost of clothes. Now we are standing in beautiful Santa Barbara, one of the garden spots of California, a resort for the rich. It seems like nature tried herself to see how lovely she could make this city. Now we; are alongside of the peaceful but ma jestic Pacific ocean, with its contin uous rolling waves chasing each other toward the shore. The smooth sand dotted with happy bathers. Now with dangerous rugged cliffs. Now with grove after grove of English walnuts ‘and really when one thinks of a price of a pound of them in Omaha it makes one feel like he would like to take one of these groves back there with him. Now fields af cantaloupes, now casaba, now pears, now honey dew.: The beautiful sea gulls seem like the ocean was only made for their en- j joyment. But look there is a peli can who seems to say stop, sir, I too, am a native of this region. Now as I pause a moment my mind goes back to dear old Los Angeles, and when I think of the hospitality I received there at the hands of those generous people why I can only say I leave them with regret. You talk about beautiful homes. Why words fail me to describe to you those homes j Automobiles, did you say. Why some ■ own two and three; most all the homes1 on the West Side have garages in the rear. Well, when one sees how; wo are getting along here it makes \ one forget about East St. Louis, Wash ington and Chicago. The beaches! Well, my descriptive | imagination again fails me when I turn it away from the productive to the pleasure side of dear old Los An peles. Why just to go through Venice alone to say nothing of Long Beach, Ocean park, Santa Monica and other beaches just Venice is enough. When you leave Los Angeles you go through beautiful Hollywood. The suburb of, Los Angeles where the rich and grand have their magnificent homes. Then you pass the ruins of the place where Griffith made his wonderful production “Intolerance,” then by the city of the silent dead, if lovely flow ers and everything that goes to make a cemetery beautiful has anything at all to do with the happiness of the departed, they certainly must rest in peace. Then we pass the aviation j fields. Can you take a flight? Sure! The machine is there waiting for you at $10 per. Did I go up? Sure! But in a little one at Venice for 10 cents. Then there is no one that can tell you how you feel when you get that first glimpse of that ocean. Then when you see Venice you will imagine that all the amusements of California have been gathered and all have decided to combine to make one grand and glor ious place where all the people in California can come andthave a good time together. Then when you leave one and go to the other one you get the very same impression. Yours, A. C. OGLESBY. CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT HANDS DOWN FAR-REACHING DECISION (Ily Associated Negro Press.) Los Angeles, Cal., July 30.—For the first time in the history of the United States the appellate division of a state supreme court has rendered a decision holding that individuals have no right to limit the selling or leasing of real estate against the Negro race. The supreme court of Georgia and South Carolina held that cities could not pass ordinances setting apart a portion of the city for the residence of Colored people. The supreme court of the United States has passed upon that question and has held that cities, be ing parts of the state, could not so segregate, but no supreme court, until the California supreme court, through its appellate division, rendered a de cision in Title Guarantee Company vs. Garrott, on the 10th of July, 1919, had gone the length of saying that private individuals could not limit or restrict alienation against Negroes, Japanese, Chinamen, etc. For this reason the case of the Title Guarantee Company vs. H. L. Garrott, a Negro policeman, is of paramount interest to the Colored people of the United States. The Title Guarantee company, a multi-millionaire corpora tion of Los Angeles, subdivided the Angelus park tract and put a clause in the deed to each buyer restricting the sale or lease to persons of African, Chinese or Japanese descent. A pur chaser, having held one of these lots for six years, sold to H. L. Garrott, a Colored police officer, whereupon the title company immediately claimed a forfeiture and sought to have the property revert to it in an action filed in the superior court in Los Angeles county. Police Officer Garrott re tained Willis O. Tyler, a well known and able race attorney of Los Angeles, formerly of Chicago. h"\RRY E. DAVIS RECEIVES THREATENING LETTER (Special to The Monitor.) Cleveland, O., July 25.—A letter, dated June 29, and postmarked Laurel, Miss., containing a photograph of lynch-murdered John Hartfield, dan gling from a limb of a tree, was re ceived by Harry E. Davis, last week. Pinned to the picture was a news paper dipping detailing the anti lvnching platform of the N. A. A. C. P., evidently clipped from a southern white newspaper, as there was de famatory editorial comment all through the article. On the back of the picture was written: “This is the way we’ll give you your rights. Come down here and get a little of the medicine yourself.” Mississippi, like many other south ern states can’t read the handwriting on the wall. When they have taught their Negro citizens to strike back, meeting violence with violence, it may be too late for a lesson to do any good. The day for intimidation to be successful has passed and gone. A new day is at hand. Either we all go up together or the pit will receive us all. Please patronize those who adver Use in The Monitor. LA GRANGE, TEXAS H. L. Vincent, Agent. The teachers attending the summer j noimal here refused to undergo the examination last week, when the state I department of education sent a white man to conduct the examination. The j Negroes feel that there are enough honest and competent men among them to conduct these examinations for them. Mr. Ned East, an old and respected citizen of our county, died at his home here last week. He was an old and faithful member of the St. John’s A. M. E. church here. Intei-ment was in the cemetery at Bethlehem, Rev. I. D. Coffey officiating. Rev. J. V. B. Gains, P. E., held his quarterly conference here at St. John’s A. M. E. church last Saturday and Sunday. Pastor Tillman was on hand last Sunday and conducted regular relig ious services at Ebenezer Baptist church, day and night. Mrs. Caroline Mootry, Lawton,, Okla., is visiting relatives here. Mr. Alexander Sutton is home again to the great delight of friends and parents. Sergeant Geo. T. Sutton, Privates Leonard Vaughn, Willie Walker and Jno. Henry Brown are among the re cent arrivals from overseas. Sick—Mrs. Pollie Smith and H. L.J Vincent. Robert Stevenson, living near here, shot and killed his wife last week. Ho is in jail here now. The delegates representing La Grange in the grand lodge sessions of I. O. of O. T. last week are back well pleased with their trip. Rev. J. H. Napier, P. C. of M. E. church, held rclgious services here Sunday. GOOD POSITION FOR RIGHT WOMAN An Omaha public institution wants competent Colored woman to teach laundering. Apply to Mrs. Julia Hud lin, welfare board, city hall. Please remember that your subscrip tion is due, and be kind enough to drop into the office and pay it prompt ly. NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County. Nebraska. In the Matter of the Es tate of Mary E. Williams, Deceased. To the Heirs at Daw. Creditors and All Other Persons Interested In Said Es tate: You are hereby notified th.‘» - petition has been filed in this court on the 21st day of July. 1919, alleging that Mary E. Williams died on the 3d day of February, 1917, intestate; that at the time of her death she was a resident of the rlty of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, and that she was possessed of an equity in Lot 3, Block 2, Laurelton Addition to the lity of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. That said petitioner has an interest in said real estate being the heir of said dereased. Said petitioner prays that a hearing be had on said petition, that no tice thereof be given as required by law, and that upon said hearing a decree of heirship be entered and further adminis tration of said estate be dispensed with. You are therefore notifed that a hear ing will be had on said petition at the County Court Room of said County, on the 23d day of August, 1919, at 9 o’clock a. m., and that if you fail to appear at said time and place and contest the said petition, the court may grant the same, enter a decree of heirship, and decree that further administration of said es tate be dispensed with. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 7-24-3t-8-7 County Judge. Electric Service for Cool Ironing Our Electric Service is instantly ready to help lighten the labor of the home. Take ironing for instance. We’ll supply the current if you get the Iron. So equipped you will be able to iron out on the porch 01 wherever it is coolest in half the time of the old way. Think what it means not to be compelled to heat heavy irons over a stove and not have to carry them back and forth when the weather is hot. 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