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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1920)
THE MONITOR A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored American* _ Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. _ Entered as Second-C ass Mail Matter July 2. 1915, at the Postofflce at Omaha. Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1279. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. George H. W. Bullock, Advertising Manager and Associate Editor. M. Wrigth, Circulation Manager. _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *3.00 A YEAR; *1.50 6 MONTHS; *1.00 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates. 75 cents an Inch per Issue. Address. The Monitor, 204 kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Douglas 3224. THE MONITOR NEWS STANDS: Dopglas Shining Parlor----—2414 North 24th Street Williamson Drug Company----2306 North 24th Street Price-Kilingsworth Barber Shop.....2416 North 24th Street Jones’ Shining Parlor and News Stand....1825 North 24tri Street W. G. Macon, Columbia Hall—....i"4”®, §*lee5 Chisley’s Barber Shop---1320 North -4th Street Blenrose’s News and Cigar Stand--.1303 North 24th Street Liberty Drug Company__1904 North -4th Street Shanahan’s News and Cigar Stand...912 North 24th Street Simmons’ Barber Shop— -----1313 Dodge Street United States News Company..-10th and Farnam StieeU American News Stand. .-.-..15t*l“rl4 So!eet^ - Lincoln Shining Parlor..---t*®3 S°uth .14^: Russell’s Barber Shop-----Cuming Street Farnsworth Drug Company....Cunung Streets Harris Barber Shop.—___——..48—o South —6th Street Woodard Barber Shop--49*2 South 26th Street DUBOIS’ DUBIOUS ADVICE DUBOIS gives poor advice to our people in a recent issue of The Crisis. He says in substance it is immaterial as to which presidential candidate we vote for, so long as we see to it that on the congressional ticket we vote only for our friends. This is buncombe, pure, simple and unadulterated and wholly unworthy a man of Dubois’ mentality. Dubois knows, or should know, that nothing can be gained in putting over any policy by any party only partially in power. A democratic, republican or socialist president, if you please, would have his hands tied by giving him a congress of an opposing party. * In the present crisis the contest lies, as Dubois himself admits, between the two old parties. Neither the So cialist nor the Labor party, both of which he regards with favor, has any %ope of coming into power. This he admits. If this be true, our duty is plain. We must elect either a republican administration or a demo cratic administration. And what self respecting colored American, what ever may be his views on the issues before the country today, with the at titude and record of the democratic administration towards our group be fore him, can vote for the perpetua tion of that policy? None. Granted that there is small choice in rotten apples) yet there is a choice. The Monitor belongs to that group of race journals that is not by any means wholly satisfied with the attitude of the republican party towards our loy al group during the last twenty years during which it seems to have fallen into the hands of weak and spineless men who were willing to T»w to lily whiteism. But this we do know, that our only hope for securing the legis lation and relief that we demand lies in the return of the republicans to power. This is the duty of the hour. To this we should bend every energy. To this task the Monitor consecrates itself. If then having by our votes returned the republicans to power, and they cannot be elected without our vote, and they again fail us, our duty will be as plain four years hence as it is now to "turn the rascals out.” Four years hence our group may follow DuBois into the Socialist Par ty, the Labor Party or some other party which may give promise to be the party of the masses rather than of the classes, but in this year of grace there is only one thing to do and that is to leave nothing undone to elect Harding and Coolidge and a republican congress to back them up, / and upon whifm may be placed the responsibility, unlet and unhindered, of carrying out a legislative program that will insure justice and prosperi ty to all American citizens in gener al and grant to our group that free dom from those specific grievances against which we justly complain and against which we will not cease to protest until they are removed and we are treated in every respect as Am erican citizens enjoying every con stitutional right to which we are en titled be it in Georgia or Nebraska. In the present campaign, our duty is clear. As self-respecting men and women, there is only one thing for us to do and that is to vote for a repub lican administration to be placed in power at Washington. This is the duty of the hour. None will be mis led by the false advice of DuBois. — % ~ — « “BE LEAGUERED PEACE" THE history' of our government dur ing the last six or seven years manifests generally a vast divergence between, or an absolutely incompati bility of, the president’s purposes and the people’s practicability. As a result the nation is lacking in governmental stability and in fixed and definite policy at home and abroad because of the president’s uncompro I raising stand relative to his league of nations. It might be said, of its own initia-' tice, the democratic party won the na tional election of 1916. President Wilson, playing his game, made peace the issue of the democratic party contrary to the nonpartisan na ture of peace or war. However, the president’s party was returned to power upon his peace promise, with the president playing the game that he controlled and his party adopted. As we remember the actual hap penings relative to the peace promise, we got peaceless war abroad and peaceless peace at home. The suspense of national stability has no doubt taught the American people that politics must cease to be a mere game based upon chances of deceiving our citizenry, but must bf purpose for common good based upon principles of truth logically bene ficial. Now we have the democratic party’s paradoxical situation that savors of effrontery. Before election, we must not part with peace upon any condition; after election, we may only have peace upon condition. It is singular how the parting with peace before the war could be so bit terly protested and its rightful re turn after the war so succesfullv pro hibited. ’JT’he nation has paid for peace ini blood and service and ought to have it, and such status forthwith declared consistent with the peace resolution of the senate. The president has said the nation entered the war against Germany to make the world safe for democracy. It is contended that such as the na tion’s object for entering war was a misstatement of the fact The nation, not without precedent, entered the war to maintain the freedom of the seas. Once before, in 1812, our na tion entered war against. England for freedom of the seas. Now this nation has not the consti tutional right to engage in war to maintain the freedom of the seas for1 any other nation, much less for the' world. To make the big world safe for! democracy is an expedition upon which this nation may not engage, being prohibited by its own organic law, and making of other nations safe for any purpose being prohibited by their organic laws. It has been almost two years since the hostilities of war ceased and the war is not legally ended by the I declaration of peace because the president disapproves of peace unless ! it is encased in the cumbersome and I dangerous league of nations. The nation has long since prepared our peace for any presentation cere mony, “bound up” in the suffering of its soldiers and the sacrifice of its citizens and sealed with the blood of its patriots; therefore, our property of peace is princely and priceless enough without the decorations of in ternational ribbons and partisan seals. The league to which our govem I ment should attain is national, not international. It should aspire not so much for a league of nations abroad, but—first—for a league of states at home, bent upon the righteous co ordination of their governments and making the national constitution their supreme law in spirit and in fact. >OT fO.MINb AS STKIKEIlKEAkEKS ONE of the local dailies carried a statement last week credited to E. W. Pryor, president of the Colored Commercial Club, to the effect that 2,500 Negroes had come to Omaha within the past month and that 2,500 more were on their way to this city. Naturally, in the face of threatening labor conditions, this statement could have nothing less than a disquieting effect. The Monitor knew the state ment was not true, for nothing like this number of our people have come to Omaha within a year, to say noth ing of a month. We felt that Mr. Pryor, who Is generally guarded as to his statements, had been misquoted; but to make sure we interviewed him. He states that he told the reporter that since the Des Moines training camp closed, or our entrance Into the war between 2,000 and 3,000 Negroes had come to Omaha and others were on the way. This estimate is conservative. As a matter of fact, there is a steadj stream of migration into northern and western states, and Nebraska will un doubtedly get her proportion. Those who have come are In the main Indus trious. law-abiding, hard-working peo ple. They are buying homes and will become a substantial addition to our citizenship. These people are not coming as strikebreakers or labor cheapeners, but as free American citi zens seeking better inudstrial, educa tional and civil opportunities. It Is safe to say that within the next few years Omaha’s colored population will have radically increased; but there Is no reason why they cannot become an asset in citizenship of which we need not be ashamed. The Monitor will be quick to oppose any concerted move ment, that may come to its knowledge, to Import members of our race here as stirkebreakers or to use our group in any manner that may lead to exploita tion or to the inciting of hatred and ill-will between the races. Which shall be equally fearless and insistent in de manding a square deal for our people both from capital and organized labor, j Honesty and square dealing never give cause for fear. CHARLEY THOMAS •‘/^HARLEY Thomas is dead.” How V-4 this message saddened our heart. We had seen him but a few days ago apparently in the best of health and never dreamed that the angel of death was hovering hard by with a menage for him. Of strong physique and athletic build and not yet fifty years old, those who knew him, and to know' him was to love him, little thought that he would be so suddenly called. ——=—. ■ " ■" — — Our selling and operating expenses and our rent is the low est in Omaha. We can and do sell good, dependable mer chandise for less. Here is Proof: STAR STORE CHARLES LEVINSON 1831-1833-1835 North 24th St. STAR STORE 124th and Parker Sts. PPPP Clip thla ad. Bring It to ua and ^£ Receive a Urge Matoh-Box Holder “And who was Charley Thomas," do you ask? One of our wannest friends. For twenty years or more he was reporter and subsequently city editor on the Omaha Bee. Our friendship began over thirty years ago when he was leaving for tlrte University of Michigan. We were then a student in the Seabury Divini ty School, spending our first vacation n Omaha. He was a tall, well-built, pleasant-faced youth of eighteen. We gave him a letter of introduction to George P. Codd, a sophomore at Ann Arbor, and now Judge Codd of De trait, Mich., who with ourself was the more or less famous battery of the Detroit High school base ball club of 1886-7. Codd has recently won out in the Michigan primaries as a candidate for Congress. George and Charley became fast friends f"Al,” now Congressman Jefferies, was also at Ann Arbor then and played on the same team with Cobb and Charley. And so Charley Thomas' friendship and ours dated from the time of our giving him a letter of introduction to Codd. We have been friends through all these years. As a newspaper man, and newspaper men ^ire in position to show and do show many kindnesses to their fellow men, if there was any favor Charley could show us it was a pleasure for him to do so. His summons home to us has been indeed a shock. Our sympathy goes out to his loved ones who remain. For him we have no fear. When we are called may we hear the voice of Charley Tfiomap greet us cheerily as of old, “Hello, Father John Albert, how are you? I’m glad to see you” and may our reply be as it was the last time we met in the Bee office a few days ago, “Alright, Charley, how are you?” And may it indeed be well with us both in His sight who judgeth right eously and rewardeth every man ac cording to his work. POLITENESS AND GOOD MANNERS (CULTIVATE politeness and good ■A manners. Never fail to conduct yourself as a lady or gentleman. Com pel respect by jour own respecLihil ity and courteousness. Show your superiority to those who would treat you with contempt by your superior conduct and intelligence. Proverbs and Paragraphs He that giveth to the poor len deth to the Lord, and look, whatso ever he doeth it shall prosper.—Bible. He that maketh the stars his target will hit higher than the tree tops. He that sitteth down on a red hot stove shall rise again, and behold, the second act shall be more rapid than the first.—Shakespeare. Every man has within himself a continent of unexplored character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. Life itself is. likened to a game. 1 To win, to earn and enjoy the fruits I of victory, you must play the game ! fair. Make sure the prize you chase Is j worth the price. If you cultivate your i talents you will always find an op i portunity to use them. The enemy within the gates is the j fellow to be watched. White conceit is the same as black conceit. Tolerate neither. •Make the republic safe for liberty and it will be made surely safe for j Democracy. Your home ig your castle, your I family is the altar upon which to ; sacrifice your life. Let no man d*s ; cerate the altar. I Better to strive and climb And never to reach the goal, Than to drift along with the time An aimless, worthless soul. Aye, better to climb and fail Or sow though the yield be small; Than to throw away day after day And never to strive at all. —Selected. HOSPITAL IS OPENED ' (By Associated Negro Press.) GREENVILLE, S. C., Sept. 23— St. Luke’s hospital was formally opened here a few days ago. Sev eral prominent speakers were on the program for addresses. Richard Car roll of Columbia was the principal speaker The Hospital is in charge of Mrs. Mary If. Bright, who was formerly superintendent of the Good Samaritan hospital in Columbia. ? $ s Friedman Bros, i X X •j* The Family Shoe’Store v I High Quality Shoes at the very y lowest prices. Give us a trial j' and convince yourself. y We Also Bo Shoe lte|uiiring tf 1054 North 24th Street X ? i x*o-x*<~x--x--xx~x-x-<~x--x--x--x-< •X“:~X“X“X-X"X“X"X-X"X“X~X-; f JOHNSON’S PONO PARLOR I ( ? ? POBO HAIR CCLTUR1HTS y 1612 North 24th Street ? Webster 6.101 ? X ELECTRICAL SCALP TREAT- | X ME NT, FACIAL MASSAGE, •? | MANICURING ••• Come, give us one trial, and X ^ yon will surely return. •:«X”X~X"<~X~XX“X--X~X~X“>->«X--:. r »»»** •— • *'i Established 1890 ♦ C. 1. 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II X If it benefits you, send me JJ Y one dollar. If not benefited, n £ you owe me nothing. This 3! £ offer good to September 1st GO is a great remedy. ? - try it and see what 5 it will do for you. L. M. ? Gross, Box 17, Little Rock, t Ark. -X-*X»XK“X~X"X~X--X-X In :: • • • • it ii-* d ' WATERS f $ BARNHART :: PRINTING CO. n j fl”t ii I M i I j omaha S ;; Y n ? :: ii y 1 * y «i % :: .. *-» We Have a Complete Line of I FLOWER.GR \SS AND GARDEN Bulba, Hard; Perennials, Poultry Supplies Freah cut flowers always on hand Stewart’s Seed Store 119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 . -.».»»»-■* C. H. MARQUARDT CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt { Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. I 36*13 Cuming St. Doug. 3831 I Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke! and Cure our own Hams and Bacon.) i ...... . . .. » ...... KKMOT4DfflS([)C<r!©OC.)tTiC;r'.rsr;r«'KiaKKDOB | A. F. PEOPLES I PAINTING PAPERHANGING AND DECORATING Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. \ 4827 ERSKINE STREET. j PHONE WALNUT 2111. I Service and Reliability Is the Record of The Western Funeral Home No. 2518 I.ake Street Phone Webster 248 | SILAS JOHNSON, Prop. | B Allen Junes, Rea. Phone W. 204 | i Andrew T. Reed, Rea. Phone I Red 5210 JONES & REED FUNERAL PARLOR 2314 North 24th St. Web. 1100 1 Lady Attendant NIMROD JOHNSON NOTARY PUBLIC % R*®* Estate, Loan* and Rentals. K I * Office 2726 Burdette St. Webster 4150