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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1919)
----—' The Monitor 4 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 Postoflice 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, Nek. Telephone Douglas 3224. THE ROOSEVELT CREED 1 BELIEVE in honesty, sincerity and the square deal; in making up one's mind what to do—and doing it. I believe in fearing God and taking one’s own part. I believe in hitting the line hard when you are right. I believe in speaking softly and carrying a big stick. I believe in hard work and honest sport. 1 believe in a sane mind in a sane body. 1 believe we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people. N THE >EGKO 1'KESS. IN these perilous times of change when the old order of tyranny is fighting against the advance of demo cratic ideas the Negro press can be of immeasurable service to the people. Policies and principle should take definite shape, and we should resolve somewhat after this fashion. We are on the side of law and order where law and order is administered fearlessly without fear and without discrimination. We shall not stifle the truth, nor suppress it nor distort It, believing that pitiless publicity is the greatest foe to hidden wrongdoing, and that discontent with things that are wrong and unjust and unfair and cruel is di vine, indicating progress and advance ment. We shall remain unbought by money or fair words or fear, and shall throw the full light of truth upon the things that are undemocratic and un American, knowing that by so doing we serve best the nation of which we are a part. We shall print the news—all the news—from every angle, and with cjI the breadth and fairmindedness we possess and shall interpret it, using all the wisdom and knowledge at our command. U We shall not besmirch our honor with the sin of silence, becoming either coward, opportunist or knave. We shall not sell out and we shall not betray, but shall hew to the line of right as God gives us to see the right. And we shall be fearless—the times demand it, the people need it, and conscience will accept naught else. THE ASSOCIATED I'KESS. TVTO unbiased observer can fail to 1 1 observe that most of the news items sent to the Associated Press by its correspondents in regard to indi viduals and happening of our race are, for the most part, biased, highly col ored or utterly false. The policy of the past seems to have been that when a news item did not betray criminal tendencies and make use of such terms aB ‘burly black brute," “black fiend,” etc., possible, the item was of little worth, or if there was a possibility of poking fun or holding up to ridicule with the threadbare watermelon, chicken or razor episodes plenty space in the paper was given. Constructive forces, worthy achievements epoch making situations either got no space or little space and that usually in an out-of-the-way part of the paper. In situations whe a both races are involved the reports are often without truth or foundation. The happening at Elaine, Arkansas, is a case in point. All over the world the Associated Press sent a story of ‘Negro Up rising," "Negroes Plan to Murder Whites," and there is no truth in the whole affair. In Elaine. Arkansas, the situation was an unusual brutal at tempt at Intimidation and robbery of the black tenant by the white farmer. Elaine, like some other places in the south, has practiced peonage for years and is loath to give it up. So with Bourbon barbarism that out-Huns Hunism she massacred and robbed and kept “the Negro in his place.” But the most distressing thing about the whole affair was that so great an organization as the Associated Press lent itself to this lie, as it has to others, prostituting and misusing its power trying to maintain intrenched wrong. We do not wish to believe that this lending of self was a deliberate and intentional act. But power is a great thing and entails great responsibility. And the power of the public press should not be used to debauch the public. To it rather is given the op portunity to mould public sentiment to the end that it shall love truth and fair play and Justice and realize to what an extent these principles are in volved in the destiny of the nation for which the public is supposed to pro fess patriotism. The Associated Press needs a new policy. THE OPPOKTl -\m OF AN l .MTEII PRESS A LIEN hatreds, anarchy, class 1m. clashes, mob rule, lynch law, rad ical labor and radical capital, segre gation, disfranchisement, prejudice are playing havoc with the peace and pros perity of our nation. The mob spirit and lawlessness are rampant. Truth restrained or withheld abets the mob. One does not have to lead a mob in person to be a leader. Half truths, whole lies will do It as quick as any thing we know. If the press of Amer ica would adopt a policy that embraced truth and fair play intolerance of law lessness, absence of cheap sentimen tality ,it would live up to the oppor tunity that is its, and stem the tide of lawlessness that is sweeping the coun try and put down the anarchy that is knawing at the nation’s vitals. HOLY-CROSS DAY MODERNIZED "Whose life laughs through and spit at their creed, Who maintain Thee in word, and defy Thee in deed.” Elsewhere in the columns of The Monitor we have published a more than significant challenge, by a Chinaman named Li Moy, to Chris tianity and democracy as practiced by the American white man. The solici tude of America for all the rest of the world arouses our occidental friend to show a bitterness and sarcasm. And wre are forced to admit that their is irrefutable logic in his demand that we try the practical application of the ten commandments, which trial might make the fourteen points unnecessary. There is a scorn for these followers of the Christ who profess but do not act his precepts and a subtle defense of a Confucianism that, if mistaken in concept, gives a better example of practice. It is interesting to take cognizance at this time of the fact that this criticism of things American as crude and hollow-sounding is not confined to any one nation but seems to be prevalent over the entire con tinent of Europe. And not even the fact that the United States is both baker and banker to most of the na tions restrains them in their criticism of the child nation that would come to the older civilizations and order af fairs within them when at the same time domestic turmoils abound and in ternal disorders cry out for righteous adjustment in America herself. This challenge of the orient to the Occident is of more than passing importance. INTERESTING NOVEL BY COLORED AUTHOR There has come to our desk a very interesting book by 0. M. Shackle ford. It is called Lillian Simmons or The Conflict of Sections. It is very readable and although it is a problem story has in connection with the treatment of the problem and the development of the author's the ory a sweet love story that runs throughout and makes for pleasant reading. Mr. Shackleford gives the following as the reason why he writes his story: “We have traveled north and we have traveled south. We have visited our people in the humble cottage and we have met them in the aristocratic home. We have had heart to heart talks with all classes. We know how they are feeling and what they are thinking and saying. Hence we have been able to portray character true to life, and base our story on facts or conditions as they exist today. We take the same method that the white writer takes to get at the evils In business, political, and in social af fairs in general. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” a social novel, through which she hit O. M. SHACKLEFORD, A. B. Author of Seeking the Best, Bits of History in Verse, and Other Poems and Essays. slavery a blow that no one else had a chance to hit. Through this method we strike at false pride, false notions of life, and false standards of manhood and wom anhood. We touch upon every phase of the Negro problem. Segregation, separate schools, business for colored people, and ‘Jim Crowism’ are not overlooked as we develop our story. “In our travels we learn that there is a difference of opinion between the northern colored man and the south ern colored man, as to what is the best course to pursue in securing rights and privileges and in solving the race problem.” Mr. Shackleford is in the city of fering an attractive club offer for this novel and an autobiography of his called “Seeking the Best,” giving both books for $2.50. Those who have not ordered from the author personally, may get an order in by placing it at Williamson’s, 2308 North 24th street. THE PERISCOPE. (By Associated Negro Press.) • Propaganda. The term “Propaganda” is compara tively new In usage but the thing Itself has been practiced since Cain slew Abel. One of the southern dally news papers, alarmed over the “insiduous propaganda now being carried on in the colored newspapers," very seri ously inquires: “Why should this be? The white newspapers have never or ganized against the colored people?” That is really an amazing statement. Every newspaper editor of our group in the country knows that the Asso ciated Press, the leading news distrib uting service of the country, has car ried on a policy of discrimination in favor of the whites and against the blacks, and is doing it daily now. The Associated Negro Press is in receipt of correspondence from editors of va rious sections of the country decrying the way in which the Associated Press writes its stories of happenings where colored people are affected. It is well known that the facts concerning the 1919 riots In various sections have been peculiarly dealt with. Propaganda against us? Shades of Ben Tillman and Carmack, of the in glorious deeds and words of Vardanian and BleaBe. of Tom Dixon’s "Leopard Spots" and the "Birth of a Nation,” of Williams in the senate and Byrnes in the house, today, what do you call all that infamous output of destructive and prejudiced doctrine? The fact of the matter is. our group has been "asleep at the switch.’’ Peaceloving, patient and. long suffer | ing, we have tolerated more infamy [than any other group of people in the world. But our backs are to the wall now, and we are fighting for existence. There are some who wish to take the whole 15,000,000 of us, boots, capes and hats, and drop us in the middle of the ocean. Is it expected that we should submit without protest? Our propaganda is a propaganda of justice and opportunity, against which there is no law, thank God, and we shall never let up until the day of redemp tion! Government Dependent on Good Citizenship 7E here, we of this great democ racy, we who are engaged in the greatest and most hopeful, and yet the most difficult, governmental experiment that has ever been tried— the experiment of securing self-gov ernment for a people on a continental scale—we cannot afford not to have | the highest quality of individual citi zenship. The stream will not rise higher than its source. If the aver age man is not a decent, straight man, knowing his rights and insisting upon them, and knowing his dutio and performing them, we cannot have good government.—Theodore Roose , velt. — WILLS OF TWO PROMINENT BALTIMORE MEN PROBATED Leaves Estate Totaling $48,898 Baltimore, Md.—The late Columbus Gordon left an estate valued at $21, 393. Dr. Whitfield Winsey left $12, 000. A chance for the kiddies to earn a prize. Read Monitor Mother Goose offer on page six. LEAK I Mi EDITORIAL OF THE DAT The Monster I am a huge monster—the chief disturber and mischief maker among the nations of the earth, 1 hate peace and love turmoil. I have been in every war since the world began and worked on every battlefield, I made i them fierce. Hate is my twin brother and Jealousy is my elder sister. We, with the aid of Greed aud Might, threw the whole world into relentless, heart less war; we made it the bitterest, bloodiest conflict in all history. 1 am particularly proud of that job, it caused so much misery and suffering; besides, it showed my power and my control over the affairs and destinies of men when I can get a little assist ance. Greed, Malice and Might are my chief allies, 1 glory in them. 1 dwell in the hearts of men every where—in palace and hovel, in church and state. Some men try to avoid me, others will not. 1 have sat at every peace table since war began; it is there that I get in some of my best work and fix things my way for years to come. I recently sat at Versailles with the rulers of the earth; I was at every meeting. I influenced the final covenant drawn up there; I »m still at work on that job in all the capitals of the world—in press and on plat form. I am on every side of every question wherein the relation of race to race is involved, save on the sides of Right and Justice—I often taint Justice. I influence Education and Religion, even though they are my most danger ous and deadly foes. I hate them. For centuries they have sought to drive me from the face of the earth, but 1 am firmly entrenched, men pay them little heed, and my onward march is but slightly retarded. 1 know no race or nation—Jew and Gentile. Christian and Pagan, all embrace me. I in tensely hate the Sermon on the Mount, I do all within my power to keep it out of the ears and the hearts of men. I hate the Humble Nazarene, who gave it utterance I was at His trial and fomented and influenced the mob against Him. I assisted in His cruci fixion. 1 do not believe in the Father hood of God and the Brotherhood ot Man; 1 blind the eyes of men*and give them hearts of stone that they may be in accord with me. I defy the Golden Rule—little heed give I the Ten Com mandments. I have persecuted the Jews in Russia since time imme morial, I caused the Turks to mas sacre thousands of Armenians—de fenseless men. women and children. 1 hold ten million Negroes hack in en enlightened U. S. A., I curtail their rights and deny them justice almost everywhere. I incite race riots, gather mobs and encourage lynchings, I give them force and make them cruel and heart less. I coined the words, "sheeney," "dago,” ‘‘chink,’’ and ‘‘nigger." I defy the laws of God and man. I am the instrument of the Devil, I was con ceived in Hell—I am Race Prejudice! —The Dallas Express. r— -...« » | Flashes of Most Anything ! * ...........I f? UROPE says the more I see of ■isome folks the better I like—the others. SENATOR WILLIAMS says: "I go as far in the pathways of peace as any man who was ever bom. I am wiling to arbitrate nearly everything in this world, except one thing, and that is the attempt to outrage a white woman by any man, whether white, black, or red. I surrender him at once as being beyond the pale of the law, to the first crowd that can get to him. I believe in law. I be lieve in law and order. I believe that there is no justification for taking the law into one’s own hands. But I believe that there are now and then provocation and excuse enough for it. “Not only is blood thicker than wa ter, but race is greater than law, now and then; and if race be not greater than law, about which there might be a dispute, the protection of a woman transcends all law of every | description, human or divine.” Is the senator even consistent in his folly? I’ll say he is not. The ! senator can talk only about white women. Kind o’ weak, senator; kind o’ weak. A woman is a woman, you know. Course it’s nobody’s business, j I guess. But a lot of those loud voiced white men down their below the Mason and Dixon line have a few mulatto offsprings of their own. Ex cuse me, please, this shoe hurts no body it don’t fit! HAVE a heart, strikers, have a heart. A coal strike and cold weather don’t look good to us. Just when we got hold of enough shekels to buy a bit of the black diamond you fellows come along and start act ing up. Monitor subscription contest close* Saturday, November 15. flet bu*y If yonr church I* going to earn that $100. Dental Hygiene and Care of the Teeth By Dr. W. W. Peebles By I)r. Peebles. Prophylaxis. (Dr. W. W. Peebles.) In spite of all the care one may give to their teeth and mouth, such as the proper and continued use of the tooth-blush and the different mouth washes, an unsanitary condition may develop. The saliva is composed of chemical constituents which, lodging on the surfaces and between the teeth, soon harden and form a calcified sub stance. This is more often found around that part of the tooth which comes in contact with the gum, prin cipally in the rear of the lower front teeth. This substance is what we call calculus; it is impossible for one to completely remove it by the ordinary means at hand. In the mouths of chil dren one often sees a greenish color ing formed particularly on the sur faces of the upper front teeth, and like the deposits of calculus, no amount of brushing can remove it. In such cases a trip to the dentist is the proper precaution and should never be delayed. Germs readily find a favorable lodging place on such deposits and soon we find the result of their work the beginning of decay. Oftentimes, particularly in the mouths of children, painful ulcers may occur on the tongue and cheeks. In those cases where hygienic principles have been obseived, these ulcers may be caused by improper feeding, resulting in an ftr unusual surplus of acid in the stomach. A change in the feeding is advised and the use of Glyco Thermo of carbolic acid added, and used as a line in warm water with a few drops mouth wash. In the case of babies where these ulcers appear, care should be taken that the bottle or anything that enters the mouth should be thoroughly cleansed with boiling water or a good antiseptic. Washing out the mouth with a mild warm solution of boric acid is also a wise precaution, even where there is no evidence of unclean liness. In such cases our aim Is not only to eliminate the possibility of pain to the youngsters, but to place and keep the mouth in such a sani tary condition that the teeth may not only receive the proper materials for their healthy development, but that they also may have a clean and favor able area to enter. No effort is being made to develop these few ideas on dental hygiene in a bookish manner. As was said in the beginning it is the desire of the writer to so instruct you in those pre cautions which can readily and hand ily be taken in the home, and thus mitigate the danger of serious devel opments; and in those cases where in spite of the precaution taken, trouble manifests itself simple remedies are advised. !'"'WE" SAVE YOU 25% f Every article in the store is of first class quality that you can do- £ X pend upon. X •J. Men’s Heavy Union Suits.£ Y Boys’ Heavy Union Suits. S1.2.I y X Misses’ Union Suit ■■ j, 9 Men's Mackenawa .$9.95 5 X I lannel Shirts .$2.98 and SI.98 g i- Suits and Overcoats, Up from. .$25.00 ,j. i I. HeUp&and Cothing Co. | . •> 314 North 16th Street. "I* j The W. H. & R. Investment Co. j * Successor to the Douglas Washington Investment Co. .j. | OFFICE, 15TH AND CALIFORNIA STREETS. $ Phones: Tyler 897; Webster, 5966; Red, 3203. i — i Y OFFICERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS .{. X. Y .«. D. G. Russell, President. H. Harnler, Chairman. X Anderson Harnler, Treasurer. 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