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Classified Advertising :_ RATES—2 cents a word for single in sertions; 1V4 cent a word for two or mort insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 25 cents. Cash should accom pany advertisement. DRUG STORES ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24th and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neb. ' FOR SALE Eight rooms, hot water heat, large corner lot, two paved streets, 2201 Burdette street. $1,000 cash. Five rooms, hot water heat, large lot, paved street, garage. 2628 Maple street, $1,000 cash. 7 rooms, 2718 Ohio St.; $200 cash. 9 rooms, modern; 940 No. 27th Ave.; $200 cash. 5 rooms, 2614 Grant St.; $100 cash. ROBBINS Douglas 2842. FOR SALE — Four-room cottage, partly modern, located at 2212 North Twenty-seventh street, for $750 cash. Call Tyler 897. N. W. Ware. For Sale—Part interest in restau rant. Good location for right party. 2709 Q street, South Side. S. D. Marsh. 2t Modern furnished rooms for gentle men. 2013 Grace street. Webster 4983. FOR RENT Two furnished rooms; steam heat and modern conveniences. Call Webster 2885. W. E. Newby, 2529 North 18th St. Furnished rooms for rent in private family. Cali Webster 3200. FOR RENT — Comfortable, nicely furnished rooms. Call Webster 1256. Large, comfortable rooms for gen tlemen, 933 No. 27th St. Call Harney 5737. First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric lights on Dodge and 24th street car line. Mrs. Anna Banks, 924 North 20th. Douglas 4379. First-class modern furnished room. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, i70i North Twenty-sixth street. Phone Webster 4769. Furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent. Call Webster 4532. Nicely furnished room, strictly mod ern. in private family, one block from Dodge and Twenty-fourth car lines 2524 North 25th street. Webster 5652. 2t-l-8-20. Agents Wanted—Our agents are making good money and are building a permanent income selling our liberal policies. See us at once. Nebraska State Health and Accident Insurance Co., 527-622 Paxton Block. Phone Douglas 5575. First class furnished rooms, 2204 North 19th street. Gentlemen pre ferred. Webster 3308. Mrs. W. A. Scott. 4t-l-22-20 Good barber wanted. 1710 North 24th street. J. W. Holmes. Furnished rooms in private home, one block from 24th stret car line. Webster 1888. 2t-1-S-20. LODGE DIRECTORY G. u O. of O. F., South Omaha Lodge No. 9374. Meetings first and third Fri days; College Dept , second and fourth Fridays, 25*h and N Sts., South Side. Past Grand Masters Council No 442, first and third Tuesdays, 24th and Charles Streets. WM. R. SHAFROTH. N. G. E. E. BRYANT, G. M and P. S. (Office Phone, Webster 5784 j Residence, Webster 1219 JOHN A. GARDNER . Auto Express and BaRRage • i Stand at Killingsworth & Price I T 2416 No. 24th St. } .. I Friedman's Place | A Fine Watch Repairing. Red 7914 .J. A We Buy and Sell ••• y Jewelry, Clothing, Shoes, Trunks y y Suit Cases, Etc. y g MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Y ‘yAAAAA’s''s‘’*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA | MINKIN’S X GROCERY CO. V V V We solicit your patronage. £ X 2114-16 North 2tth St. aaaaaaaaaaaaaa^aaaaaaaaaaa A chance for the kiddies to earn a prize. Read Monitor Mother Goose offer on page six. THE NEGRO EXODUS FROM THE SOUTH (Continued From Page 1.) than the ignorant emigrants who flock to the big cities of the United States from the king-ruled countries of Eu rope. Illiterate Blacks and Whites. In Alabama, for example, which has one of the largest Negro populations of any of the states of the Old South, there are more illiterates than in any state in the union, with the possible exception of Mississippi. There seems to be some rivalry between tnese two states as to which has the least nutn- j her of citizens who can neither read nor write their names. But it must not be assumed that this illiteracy is entirely among the Negro population Such is not the case. There is little or no difference in the number of white and black illiterates in Alabama. The total, however, has grown to such proportions that during the last two years Alabama has been awakened to the deplorable condition of her educa tional system, and is now engaged in the task of teaching thousands upon thousands of her people between the ages of twenty and eighty to read and write. In some sections of the state it is not at all unusual to see men and women who have grand children. going to school. However, the ptlful part of the whole situation is that the majority of the people of Alabama, as well as those of other states, it seems, have not yet awakened to the truth of the basic cause of such conditions. They have yet to learn that it is the big land owner, who has for fifty years kept the Negro in industrial slavery who also is to blame for the conditions among the poorer white people in both the rural sections and cities of the south. The large land owner who has kept the poor white man and Negro in ignorance and poverty has grown rich in the process, but, aside from the production of cotton, he has made the average farm of the Old South a sad spectacle. He has made a poor farmer of the Negro, in many in stances the poorest in the world. Rut he still prefers the Negro to the poor white man. because it seems to be the unwritten law among his class that it is no sin to rob a Negro. He figures on getting all the Negro makes and then having the black man still in debt to him. However, in these calculations, he does not take into consideration the years and years of oppression of the Negro has reduced his efficiency as a laborer or tenant 50 per cent, and that the 50 or 100 acre farm the black man is cultivating is. and has been during all these years producing only about half what it would In the hands of an expert fairn er, white or black. Aside from reducing the efficiency of the Negro as a farmer, the same system has driven and is still driv ing thousands upon thousands of Ne groes from the country districts into the cities in the vain hope of better ing their condition. They rebel at working for a mere living on the farm, a very poor living at that, and sel dom miss an opportunity to go to the city and find employment in the homes of the "white folks." This is espe cially true of the Negro women, and where the women go the younger Ne gro naturally follow This immigra tion of the Negroes from the farms to the cities of the South during the past ten years, has been so great that today the most ordinary white family —that is, family in the most ordinary circumstances—can have from two to three servants in their home. The pay is anywhere from $1.50 to $2.50 per week. In addition to this, they get their board and in many instances servant quarters on the premises which makes city life, despite the small pay, a paradise to the young Negress compared to the uninviting and miserable living conditions in the rural districts. And practically every Negro woman cook in a Southern family is feeding from one to two Negro men from the kitchen of her "white folks.” Some of them are relatives. Others are not. Hut. all are young, Ignorant duck Ne groes who have left the country and the farm—not because it is born in the Negro man to love the city better than the country, but because his life on the farm for the last fifty years has been made that of a slave. These Ne gro men, of course, work to some ex tent, but few have any education, and fewer still any trade or regular oc cupation. In a very recent statement Secre tary I.ane declared there were 700,000 acres of land on our projects for which reservoirs were built, ditches dug, and water ready, that had not been tilled. He added: “Do you real ize that this area, if put into crops, would produce $15,000,000 worth of food in a single year?’’ Secretary Dane was talking of unim proved, almost desert lands of the 1'nited States where it would practic ally be necessary to create a new civ ilization, so to speak. Hut I am only using his statement to draw a com parison. In Alabama alone, it is esti mated, there are not only 700,000 acres of uncultivated land, but ten million I acres of land capable of high culti vation, now lying idle. Add the idle lands of the other Southern States to that of Alabama and you will have a total of around fifty million of acres. If 700,000 acres of land will produce $15,000,000 in foodstuffs in a single year, as Secretary Lane has estimated the grand total of billions of dollars which the old South has lost through years of selfish and foolish economy and educational system would be stu pendous. It must not, of course, be assumed that the treatment of the Negro prob lem by many of the leaders of the South has been the sole cause of the non-productiveness of this wonderful agricultural country. But there are men today, not a few but thousands of them, who are beginning to admit to themselves that fifty years of op pression of the black man in the South and a quiet aequiescense to the lord ly rule of the big landow'ner has cost that country and its people not only untold wealth, but a prestige it will take years to redeem. The masses are beginning to realize now that what the Negro has wanted and should have been given was not social equal ity, but education and a square deal— that his oppression by the few has cost the masses of white people as much or more than it has the Negro The fact ttiat the Negro is a very poor farmer is not the Negro's fault. It is the fault of the white man who has made him the industrial slave that he is. The fact that the jails and penitentiaries of the South, and the convict-worked mines of Alabama in particular, are filled with ignorant whites and blacks is not wholly the fault of these unfortunates. It is the fault of the class of white men wno are today crying aloud against the Negro exodus—the men who can see only financial ruin if the Negro is removed from under their power; men W'ho have for fifty years made the scientific and systematic study of ex ploiting Negroes paramount to that of scientific farming. These are the men who always have been and still are opposed to educating the Negro and abolishing the leasing of thousands of convicts for work in the coal mines at less than $1 a day to the state. They approve heartily the appropria tion of money to build tuberculosis camps where these poor wretches may he brought to die after a few years in the mines and at the same time feed the public statements through the press “that the prisoner much pre fers the mines to remaining inside the prison walls or working on the state fa-ms." Statistics show that practically all Negro convicts of Alabama are sent to the mines andthat 50 per cent of the deaths in these mines are due to tit-, herculosis or mine accidents. But | still these Negroes, who have been driven from the farms to the cities and into crime are "simply crazy about going to work in the mines" af-; ter conviction because, it is declared,' they can make a little money by work ing overtime. What Alabama and other states of the Old South need -today is not laws to prevent labor agents from "en ticing their Negroes” away to other states, but laws to make it worth while for the Negro to remain in the south, and there would be no bet ter farmer on earth than the black man provided he was given the oppor tunity and encouragement to w-ork. Illiteracy and poverty in large cities can, in a way, be explained, but when they have been forced upon a great agricultural country, in order that a fev- may profit through the oppres sion of the many, it is a condition that needs no defense from a southern man who has the true interest of his coun try at heart. When one travels through the wonderful farming sec tions of the Old South and views the thousands upon thousands of acres of idle ifnd half-cultivated lands, as he reads in the morning paper that his country, now at war, fears a food fa in nc at home as much or more than the foe abroad, he cannot help but wonder if a man necessarily has to give the enemy valuable military in formation to be a traitor perhaps un consciously, but a traitor in a sense nevertheless. RACE BOOKS AND PERIODICALS Our Boys and Girls A weekly newspaper for our youth, $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. 54 West 140th St., New York City. The Negro in American History By Prof. John W. Cromwell, $1.40 and worth moie. 1439 Swann St., N. W., Washington, D. C. The Negro Soldier By John E. Bruce "Grit”. The glor ious record of America’s black heroes, 25 cents (no stamps.) 2709 Madison Ave., New York City. The Crusader Magazine The Greatest Negro Magazine of America. $1.00 per year and cheap at that. 2299 Seventh Ave., New York City. A monthly Review of Africa and ‘.he Orient, $1.50 per year. Monitor .ffice or 158 Fleet street, London, E. C. 4, England. — A chance for the kiddies to earn a prize. Read Monitor Mother Goose offer on page six. BEGIN YOUR YEARLY Savings Early WHAT ABOUT j Yes, I will open a I SAVINGS ACCOUNT at once at the First National Bank of Omaha Southwest Coiner Sixteenth and Farnam Sts. it« KSKjsof«j Mrs. J. H. Russell PORO SYSTEM Hairdressing and Manicuring j Distinctive Service sc Appointments Made by Phone «,i ~ 2911 Erskine St. Web. 2311 Ij, :: :: :: :::: :: :: :: " ::.■ " ■■ ” Monitor office, Douglas 3224. I ten- - S. W. MILLS FURNITURE CO. •; We sell new and second hand »: :: furniture, 1421 North 24th St fg Webster 148. 2<th and Charles. « _9 I I H. LAZARUS | : SHOE REPAIRING * ■ 2420'/j Cuming Street X | We Sell Kashmir Goods X | STARK’S PHARMACY! 30th and Pinkney Streets X X Phone Webster 4225. A Y X Re* Colfax 3831. Office Doug. 7812 X :!: amos p. scruggs $ A LAWYER A [♦ Real Estate, Insurance, Loans, Y Notary Public > 220 South 13th Street. •> Y (Over Pope’s Drug Store) Y ihliMTimlMlMMiAliffi*: W ----W *S | Mr. Advertiser: i 1 The Monitor is read in prac- | J tically every Colored family i 1 in Omaha, Council Bluffs and Lincoln. It has also a wide circulation in Nebraska and other states. :! . n l Do You Want This Trade9 1 CHICAGO LAUNDRY UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Desires Your Patronage 1509 CAPITOL AVENUE Phone Douglas 2972 and Wagon Will Cal!. J. G. LOHLEIN. | —^ ■lllll ■■ ■!> I I >1 |||.i.I NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DEFENDANT in i he Municipal < Joui i of * the < ?it of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. Louis C. Larsen, Plaintiff vs. Axils tasi Economy, Defendant. To Anistasi Economy, Non-Jtesident De fendant: Notice is hereby given that pursuant to an order of attachment issued by George Holmes, judge of the municipal court of the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Ne braska, in an action pending before said court wherein Louis C. I^arsen was plain tiff and Anistasi Economy defendant to recover tic* sm of $179.00, a writ of at tachment was issued and levied upon ti»e following described property One diamond ring, and said case was on the return day of the summons issued there in continued for trial to the 23d day of January, 1920, at 9 a. nv LOIT8 C. LARSEN. l-l-2O-3t-l-li»-20 Plaintiff. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB OF OMAHA The name of this Corporation i# and shall be "Colored Commercial Club of Omaha." The principal place for the transaction of its business is and shall be in the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. The objects and purposes for which this corporation is organized and the business in which it shall be engaged shall be the promotion of the cominer eial, industrial and public interests and welfare of the City of Omaha. Nebraska. Further to bring ubout a better under standing with the business and commer cial interests of Omaha. It shall have power through Its president and secretary with the approval of its executive com mittee hereinafter created to sign notes, bonds, evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the same upon any of its prop erty. and said corporation shall have tin power to own, lease, buy and sell real and personal property and transact any business within the general object and purposes of its organization or incident thereto, and not for profit. The authoriz**<l capital stock of this corporation shall consist of Five Thou sand Dollars ($5,000* divided into Five Hundred (500* shares of the par value of Ten Dollars ($10) per share, with the [»ower reserved to and lodged in the board of directors of said corporation to change the par value thereof by a ma jority vote at any regular meeting of said board of directors, which shares shall be non-assessable. Each member of said corporation shall lie entitled to one (1) share of stock and no more, said share of stock to he transferable on the Imoks of tills corporation at the option of the holder when properly assigned to one acceptable to the executive com mittee. Said corporation shall proceed to transact business when Fifty (50) shares of its capital stock shall have been Issued. The charter of this corporation shall expire on the 28th day of November, 1044. and the term of this corporation shall extend to that time. The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this corporation may at any time subject itself shall not ex ceed two-thirds of its paid up capital stock. No officer or member of this corpora tion shall he authorized to Incur or cre I ste any indebtedness for which this cor i poration or its members may lie liable | without tin- consent and authority of the I executive committee. The annual meeting of this associa tion shall be held on the fourth Friday in November of each year, and monthly and special meetings shall be held as pro i vided for in the By-Laws. I Tin* government of this corporation I shall be vested in a board of directors of 1 not less than twenty (20) members, who .shall lie selected from among its mem bers, and shall lie elected by the mem bers present at the annual meeting of the Association, at which thirty (30) mem* tiers shall constitute a quorum The board of directors of this corpora tion at its first meeting, which shall be held on the Monday following their elec | tion, shall elect by ballot a president, a vice president, a secretary, and a treas urer and an Executive Committee of not less than twelve (12) members. The said I officers shall l>e ex-officio members of the ! Executive Committee, with right to vote. | The Executive Committee may, at its dis I cretlon, appoint not exceeding five (5) additional members of the Executive ! Oommitee from the membership of the | club. The Executive Committee shall have power to adopt, modify and amend I the By-Laws for the organization at any regular meeting thereof after the pro mised By-laws or amendments shall have first been submitted to said committee at the regular meeting thereof next prior to their adoption. The Executive Com mittee shall have the management of the affairs of the corporation, except as the same may be referred to the Board of Directors by the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee of this' cor poration shal be empowered to fix dues or assessments, for which each member shall be liable and shall also have power to forfeit the stock of each member for non-payment of dues and assessments. The Board of Directors and officers and the Executive Committee who are to serve until the first annual meeting on the fourth Friday in November, 1920, shall be Ellsworth W. Pryor, President; Jesse H. Hutten, Vice President; Daniel Desdunes, Treasurer; Amos P. Scruggs, Secretary; Thomas P. Mahammltt, W1I I Ham C. Williams, John Albert Williams, William F. Botts, Leonard E. Britt. Al fred Jones, Amos B. Madison. Sagnolius 1L Dorsey. James A. Clark. Joseph Carr and Harrison J. Pinkett. These articles may be added to, re pealed or modified at any regular meet ing of the Board of Directors, by a three fifths affirmative vote of all those dlree | tors present at said meeting or at a called meeting for that purpose. In testimony whereof we have here unto set our hands as incorporators this 22d day of December, A. D. 1919. j (Signed) ELLSWORTH W. PRYOR. JESSE H. HUTTEN. 1J A NI EL DES DU N ES. AMOS P. SCRUGGS. ALFRED JONES. In presence of H. J. pinkett. 1-1-20-51-1-29-20 WAYNE E. HAWTELL, Atty. Omaha National Bank Bldg. AMENDMENT TO ARTICLES OF IN CORPORATION OF KAFFIR CHEM ICAL LABORATORIES KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES ENTS; that at a .special called meeting <»f all of the stockholders of the Kaffir Chemical laboratories held on the 1st day of December, 1919, at the office of the principal place of business In Oma ha, Nebraska, all of the stock being pres ent, and notice as required by the Ar ! tides of Incorporation by By-Laws hav ing been given, Article 3, Article 4 and Article 10 of the Articles of Incorpora ; tion of said Kaffir Chemical Lubora | lories were amended so that hereafter ihe same shall read as follows, to-wit: ARTICLE III The general nature o/ the business to I be transacted by this corporation, shall I he the manufacturing and dealing In I pharmaceuticals, chemicals, drug prepa j ration , medicines and all other things ; incidental to or connected therewith. The | corporation may also purchase, own and j sell trade marks, trade names, copyrights, ; patents and formulas and protect the same under the laws of the several states and of the United States and all for eign countries. The corporation may also purchase, own and encumber and .sell all kinds of real and personal property necessary or convenient In the execution of the main I business of the corporation, and rnay do all other things incidental to or connected I with the business of a wholesale or re tail manufacturing druggist as well as the other rights herein enumerated. ARTICLE IV The authorized capital stock of this corporation shall be the sum of Five Hun dred Thousand Dollars $500,000.00) and shall be divided Into shares of Ten Dol lars ($10.00) each and. when Issued, shall be fully paid and non-assessable. Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200, 000.00) of said capital stock shall be com mon stock with full voting rights, 'ihe common stock may be paid for in cash, bankable notes or such property as the company may need or be able to use in the conduct of Its business or In such , service as the company may require In i the conduct of Its business. Three Hundred Thousand Dollars | <$300,000.00) of said capital stock shall | be of seven per cent (7%) cumulative, ' preferred and voting, which shall take ! priority over all other stock as to assets and dividends, and on increased mortgage ! shall hereafter be placed on any of the | property of the company without the i written consent of the owners of not less than two-thirds of the outstanding capl | tal stock of this class and issue. This I stock shall receive seven per cent (7%) annual dividends payable annually, to | wit; June 1st of each year, and In the ! event of the liquidation of the company, ; this stock shall be paid at par plus any accumulated dividends, before any other I payment is made upon any other class | of stock. This stock may be paid for in rash, bankable notes, or such property ! as the company may need or be able to ! use In the conduct of Its business, or In ; such services as the company may re quire in the conduct of Its business. And said stock shall be redeemable at ten per | eent (10%) above par per share, phis anv unpaid guaranteed dividends to which 't ! may be entitled, on thirty days written ■ notice given by the company on or after i five years from date said stock la issued. ARTICLE X The shares of stock of said corporation I shall be transferable on the books of said corporation, In accordance with such rules and regulations as may be adopted | by the board of directors, but any stock holder who Is about to sell, dispose of or transfer his share or shares of stock, or any of them, In said corporation, must i offer the same to the board of directors 1 at the same price for which he is about to dispose of or sell said share or shares, and said board of directors rnay purchase such share or shares at such figures or price; said purchase to l>e for the benefit of the remaining stockholders. MADREE PENN, President. | Attested by ELEANOR O. HAYNES. Secretary. I 11-11-19-1-1-20 wmmmmmmmmmmmBKMmmmmmmmmmmammmmBmaamEBMBtmmm *THE TALK OF THE TOWN”! j mSSSSm WUmMm 15? & HARNEY HUTHHIU CVtMffi ■