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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1920)
THE MONITOR A 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, 1916, at the Postofflce at Omaha, Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Madree Penn, Associate Editor. • Fred C. Williams, Business Manager. _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 60c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates, 75 cents an inch per Issue. Address, The Monitor, 304 Crounse Block, Omaha, Neb. | Telephone Douglas 3224. ^ J riCLE XIV. CONSTITUTION Of THE ^ UNITED STATES. £ Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. >| rsons born or naturalized in the United States, ;I ; to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ■; tes and of the State wherein they reside. No / make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ;• r immunities of citizens of the United States; nor ■; tate deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- ^ it due process of law, nor deny to any person urisdiction the equal protection of the laws. % WWVWWVWWAY.YiT.Y.Y' l’OLITNESS. POLITNESS always pays. It Is a a mark of good breeding. Rude ness and boorishness provoke con tempt, and there is entirely too much rudeness manifested by young and old and especially by the young. We are exceedingly anxious that our peo ple become honored and respected for their gentility, politness and good manners, not feigned politeness, but genuine because it comes from the heart. ELECT WOOD DELEGATION. NOT only is it important that Ne braska’s preferential vote should be cast for Leonard Wood at the primary April 20, but it is equally im portant that a delegation pledged to stand uncompromisingly for Wood’s nomination be elected to go to the national republican convention which meets in Chicago in June. Sixteen delegates are to be elected; four be- j ing delegates at large, and two from each of the six congressional dis tricts. Be sure to register and vote for Leonard Wood and a Wood dele gation at the primaries April 20. ELECT TOWLE DELEGATE.AT LARGE. THE Monitor’s choice for delegate at-large from this district is John W. Towle. He was formen of the grand Jury which brought in sev eral true bills in connection with the September riots. In that position, a most trying one, he demonstrated most conscientious anxiety to probe matters to the bottom and ascertain the truth that Justice be done. He Is a high-class Christian gentleman, an upright business man, broad- ; minded and fair and a warm personal friend and loyal supporter of Gen eral Leonard B. Wood. We urge our people to cast their vote unitedly for John W. Towle for dele-gate-at-large from this district. He is a man in every way worthy of our enthusias tic support. OCR DISTRICT DELEGATES. r I t\V0 district delegates to the na A tional republican convention are to be chosen. Seven have filed. Three are avowed Pershing delegates, four are Wood delegates. One of these four is John Albert Williams, editor of The Monitor, which was one of the first newspapers in the country to launch the Wood-for-president boom. Because of this fact and be cause of his wide acquaintance with members of southern delegations and the salutary effect it would have upon the race at large, his candi dacy has been urged and is being vigorously advocated. His support ers contend that it is up to the re publican leaders of this district, who have hitherto received the loyal sup port of colored voters, to prove their willingness to give as well as take, by helping to nominate John Albert Williams by a handsome majority, as one of the two delegates from this district. ENTERING BrSINESS. A commendable spirit, which should be encouraged by all who have the best Interests of our people at heart, is manifesting itself among us for launching out into the business and commercial world. Year after year we have been sacrificing to give onr boys and girls advantages of ed ucation, only to find that no matter how well-equipped they might be, no opportunities were open to them In the business and commercial world, such as were offered to their class mates of other groups. For example, proung men have graduated In phar macy and no place could be found for them and so they would have to be come railroad porters or Janitors or something of this kind, all honorable work but not that which these young people had qualified themselves for. The imperative need, therefore, of opening drug stores of our ’own and other lines of business has been forced upon us. We are venturing into business and learining to do busi ness. Of course mistakes will be made, but the only way to learn to do this is by doing them. It is up to us to support our business enter prises and develop them to the high est power. YOUR INTEREST YOUR DUTY. This is the year. Strange things will happen that will influence the course of events for the next four years. Glad-to-see-you smiles will soon be cheap and plentiful and the howdy-vou-do hand-shake will carry a fervent squeeze that will remind you it. might be a good investment to carry an accident policy against in jury from the many good and kind office-seekers. Every citizen has two phases of po litical activity to keep constantly be fore him in selecting men for office. It is your duty as a citizen to vote. There can be no excuse for failure on the part of any man or woman who neglects to qualify for perform ance of these acts. Your right to enjoy the fruits of your efforts and promote your security as an Ameri can citizen, can only be maintained by vour taking absoldte interest in the affairs of the community and nation, and securing the same by voting for men who will uphold such right. Rights can never remain secure un less duties are properly performed. To grant one the enjoyment of cer tain privileges does not necessarily give one the rights of those privil eges; for the occasion is only a tol erated circumstance which does not necessarily qualify with any special duty on your part, other than exer cising a reasonable degree of de corum. It is your interest to see that every right is guaranteed by law, and it is your duty to see that law protects you in the enjoyment of the same. So often we hear arguments— that rights and privileges are denied us. That may be true. If true, it Is be cause we are lacking in some power i sufficient to maintain them. This force may be physical, mental, moral, political, spiritual, financial or me chanical—the truhle is with us. When the matter is thoroughly studied, yon must conclude: there was failure to perform your duty, which caused your interests to become subordin ated. In a community where ma jority rule is based on superior force —interest, individual or collective— decides the plan of action necessary to maintain that status. Rights qualify only as duties performed maintain them, and it is wasted en ergy to argue; it is the act of coward ice to enumerate and dwell on them. It requires determination on your part to know your interests; and duty performed—only—can secure and maintain every right. You have an interest in every elec tion and every man or woman elect ed to office—more serious than any people In the country. You should become thoroughly posted so that you can follow the course of events in telligently, for the exercise of the ballot should be an Intelligent— serious duty. If there is one person of voting age who has not registered, you should not delay longer. See that you are properly qualified. Guard your interest by performing your duty, for your interests can only be secured through men whom you select and place In power.—Portland Times. Alley W. Lewis, attorney, has open ed his law office in The Monitor of fice, 304 Crounse block, and will look after Monitor collections In connec tion with his legal business. LEADERSHIP. (Article 1 To Be Continued.) To the Editor of the Monitor: The most serious problem which the American Negro has to do with today is competent leadership. False and ignorant leaders are a menace to ; any people; truly great leaders are I those who work up from rank and file of the common people, who will exe cute the will of the people regardless of their personal views, and who are i willing to serve and sacrifice, to give all of themselves to the cacse. Ignor 1 ance and superstition, which have so long played a part in the social and j spiritual life of the colored people, must give way to intelligence and | righteousness. • As a race we have very few effi cient leaders; there are shoals of self appointed men and women who call themselves representatives of the peo ple, but they are false lights along a treacherous shore, they do more harm in their ignorant blundering than : good. Thev would sell out the prin ciples of right, equality and justice on which the Negro must stand unmov able as the eternal rock, if they would attain their constitutional rights in the Cnited States; they would sell everything which they have contend ed for more than a half century for a little cheap notoriety, to shine for one intoxicating moment in the lime light , of publicity. The stupidity of the so called Negro leaders is, in a great measure, responsible for the increas ing dissension and strife spreading over this western country between the races. Most of us know that the con dition of the Negro in some parts of this country is deplorable and should not exist under a democratic govern ment, hut the man or woman who would exaggerate these conditions, ! wlio would stoop to lies and deception to keep up strife and unrest in the hearts of the people for the sake of self-aggrandizement, is as great a menace as the white man’s prejudice? Authority is a inulti-edged instrument, which it is unwise to place in the hand of the simple. He who speaks i of these atrocities in moderation with out the spirit of revenge is the true benefactor of the race. I have often ' heard the remark that the Negro dis criminates against himself. The truth of this statement was forced upon me last November when our city was to celebrate Armistice day by giving th< soldiers and friends a banquet and re ception. Imagine my chagrin when some of our leading citizens went to the Commercial club and asked that colored soldiers and their friends be put off to themselves because of the ; riot which previously occurred in Omaha. Now these men wiio asked the segregation of our colored sol diers were not one of them, had never been to war and many of them wrere either too young or too old for any j draft age, but they were self-appoint ed race leaders. As one soldier so j wisely put it. "To think that we boys went over there to fight for a world democracy and come home to find our own people asking the white folks to segregate us." This 1b another in stance of misplaced leadership. In one of our western cities where there are located several state instt I tutlons for the unfortunate there lived a woman who made her livelihood by soliciting the colored orphans from the institution and caring for them in her own home. Her argument was that colored people could care better for their own because they un derstood them and that the children j would have the advantage of attend ing Sunday school and church con ducted by their own people. Of course the attendants were only too glad for an excuse to be rid of these children, so if the colored citizens had noo bjection to their being out of the home it was glory for them. The state paid this woman a good sum per month for the care of each child so you see it was a big thing for her from a business standpoint. She drew more than $100 per month from the public treasury besides the help she got from the older children; they not only did the housework, helped with the laundry after school hours, whidh she "took in" but had practi cally all the care of the smaller or phans. She posed before the com munity as a good Samaritan, was looked upon as a great race leader and uplifter of fallen humanity. There weren’t a dozen colored peo ple in that town but thought she was doing this charitable work for her groat love for the cause. To fortify herself against suspicion and criti cism she became a chronic agitator for permanent segregation of the colored orphans from these institu tions. She told of inhuman treat ment these poor little children had suffered at the hands of the attend ants: how they were being forcibly put out of these places because they weren't wanted: how she had been compelled to turn her home into a refuge for them, but not a word did she say about the money she was re ceiving each month for their care. On one occasion she had us all in tears when she told of a poor, thin, little girl whose hair had been shaved off because the white attendants didn’t understand combing it. Of course most •'■olored folks know what a tragedy it is to cut off the little top knot which is all nature permitted to grow on most colored children’s heads so why shouldn’t we weep? She finally got the colored women so stirred up until they decided to or ganize a club for the purpose of buy ing a house to he used as an Old Folks' Home and Orphanage. Here is my deduction and conclusion. The colored people of that town are paying taxes for the maintenance of these institutions. The state pays this woman to take these colored children in her home and care for them at her own solicitation: She, finding her home too small to care ior so many, yet not willing to let a dollar get by, she asked the Negroes to buy a home for these children. That will, of course, relieve here of the burden of having them in her own home so they are paying double taxes, one to the state to keep up these large, modern, well equipped, team-heated buildings for white children, and one to the Woman's club to maintain this little hut down in the bottoms for Negro children. We may regard these facts as in significant, as immaterial, but there is more to them than our likes or dislikes; our petty ambitions and lust of power. Equal rights for every American citizen is the princi ple on which our future in the United States rests. It is the solid rock on which this government must build or go down to oblivion. Whatever smacks of segregation should meet with no encouragement from us and whosoever tries to force it upon us should be considered a traitor to the race: it is southern propaganda. Its only object is to keep the Negro down, to discredit his manhood, to rob him of his personal liberty. MRS. ROBERT GRANGER. " » Of course IVrk in’s orchestra Is playing for St. Benedict’s (’olored Catholie society’s danee Tuesday eve ning, April in, at ('o)nmhla hall. Adv. THE UNIVERSAL CAR { It’s no longer necessary to go into the | details describing the practical merits j i; of the Ford car—everybody knows all j about “The Universal Car.” How it goes and comes day after day and year |i;; after year at an operating expense so small that it’s wonderful. This adver tisement is to urge prospective buyers to place orders without delay. Buy a I h Ford car when you can get one. We’ll |'j, take good care of your order—get your Ford to you as soon as possible—and give the best in “after-service” when J required. SAMPLE-HART MOTOR CO. | 100% Ford Service 18th and Burt Streets OMAHA J ; ; H. LAZARUS :: SHOE REPAIRING A '• 2420 Vi Cuming Street ;1; »♦♦*♦♦♦♦»«♦♦»»»»♦♦♦♦»♦♦»»» r—«■ • —.—•.. Petersen A MBchelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 1408 N St. TeL South 162 6—» ♦ ».*..» ... Q » « - « O . ». - ■«. « | Liberty Drug Co.:: | EVERYBODY’S DRUG STORE ’’ 6 o '{ We Deliver Anywhere. < t £ Webster 386. Omaha, Neb. «> »»»»»»♦»» * c »»«■ ♦»»♦»■;-»»»<• Ertab’i ih'ed 18#(T~ C. I. CARLSON Dealer in Shoe# and Gents’ Furnishing* 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neh. iliTtii»»»ttt r-r - ■■ — — nlMNXWd »■ • .. —^- -1 MELCHOR-Druggist I The Old Reliable TeL Soath 807 4826 So. 24th St. i >....... ... . . ... ' ...... Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICI.ES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. *.. .. ...........^.-.-.— -...^-.4 ......-.a Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in tb« I Savings Ocpartmt nt i of iha United States Nat’l Bank letta and Farnam Streets 1.mm mm —- *-*■» « , < F. WILBERG BAKERY Across from Alhambra Theatre Ths Best Is None Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 ;j; Watch this space for | Tuchman Bros. Specials £ 24th and I^ike Sts. X Webster 402 *S. Large assortment at the a lowest prices in groceries, 'S{ X meats and vegetables. y 1. A. Edhotm E. W. Sherman Standard Laundry 24th. Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 i . ’ ' " A CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF OMAHA’S COLORED BUSINESS \ AND PROFESSIONAL FIRMS I A. F. PEOPLES! PAINTING PAPERHANGING AND | A DECORATING | * Estimates Furnished Free. j All Work Guaranteed. 4827 ERSKINE STREET. PHONE WALNUT 2111. ""u "miiimiiiiiimimimiii!Mii"i"Mii<i""i"""i " tin.. S SILAS JOHNSON | Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director 2518 Lake Street 'i The place known for its qua!- f I ity service, and reasonable prices 0 © We spare no pains for our B E complete chapel service. Open g §j day and night. Phone Webster 248. gtitHiiiititttummiitHitliimiiitHiiiiiiuiiiiiiMMiHiiHntMlmMiMiHHmtiiiin H g For Pierce-Arrow I.imonsine jl Service, Call CHAS. BOYD g Webster 208 (After Midnight) Tyler 4119 M Service With Class—Car Warm I and Cozy. K a giniMiiitutttmmtiituiiiiMituintitiiumHiiiiiHiiiMMtiiiiiHMiitiitiiiMiiiiiiH S g Repairing and Storing Orders Promptly Filled a NORTH SIDE I SECOND-HAND STORE | R. B. RHODES | Dealer in U New and Second-Hand Furniture 1 and Stoves. j | Household Goods Bought and i i‘« Sold. Rental and Real Estate. | £ 2522 Lake St. Webster 908 | S? H I I I 9 1 Subscribe for | I The Monitor I j ATTENTION! LISTEN! MEN OF OMAHA I Are you Interested in giving your | wife one day's rest during the | \ week with no dinner *o get and no f worrisome dishes to wash? I If so, take advantage of SOUTH & THOMPSON'S II delicious 60-cent Sunday dinner, | Regular Weekly Dinner, 35c I Phone Web. 4500 2418 No, 24lh Bt. ! |ll!tlllllllimt4IIIIHIIIHIUHII>4llllllimilimiHIIIIIIH«IIIIHIUIIIIIIllllMIUHIIII j Allen Jonee, Keg. Phone W. 204 Andrew T. Reed, Res. Phone Red 5210 JONES & REED FUNERAL PARLOR 2314 North 24th St. Web. 1100 Lady Attendant [ Tnimi, , .1 , ,,. . . mi.i ummr mi .1 '-mm Quality Service I DR. P. YV. SAWYER DENTIST y 1614% No. 24th St. f Webster 3694 H NORTH END COAL AND | ONE MINUTE EXPRESS | A. F. ALLEN, Manager ^ Hauling of any kind— P Call Webster 5036 | Early morning until late at night. B Open for Business ths J? BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HOTEL | Nicely Furnished Steam Heated B Rooms, With or Without Beard. H U3 North 16th St. Omaha, Neb. B Phone Tyler 807. Eureka Furniture Store Complete Line of New and Sec ond Hand Furniture PRICES REASONABLE Call IJa When You Hava Any Furniture to Sell i 1417 N. 24th St. Web. 42M I