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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1920)
KNOW THE CONSTITHTIOH' THI \Wt:\IIMKSTS TO THE U. 8. COX8TITDTIOS ■■ .. . .. i Article 1 CM1GRESS shall make no law re specting an establishment of re ligion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances. Article II A well regulated militia being neces sary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear ar«s shall not be infringed Article HI No soldier shall In time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner. Nor in war but in a manner to be prescribed by law. Article IV The right of the people to be secure io their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and bo warrants shall issue but upon cause supported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched, and th eperson or thing to be seized. Article V No person shall be held to answer for a capital or other Infamous crime uulfws on a presentment or Indictment n! a grand jury, except cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shnll any person for the same offence be twice put ip jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall he be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or prop erty without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without Just compensation. Article VI In al Icrimiiial prosecutions the ac cused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial Jury of the state and district wherein the crime was committed, which districts shall have been previously ascertained by law. and be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation to be con fronted with the witnesses against him ; to have the assistance of counsel for bis defense. Article VII la suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by Jury shall be pre served, and no fact tried by a Jury shall otherwise be re-examined in any other court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law. Article VIII Excessive hall shall not he required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and nnusual punishment Inflicted. Article IX The enumeration In the constitu tion of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Article X Thu powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by It to the state, are re served to the states respectively, or to the people. The foregoing amendments arc known as the original ten amendments and were proposed during the first session of the first congress, held in New York City, March 4, 1789. They wore declared in force December 15. 1791. Article XI The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, com menced or prosecuted against one of the United States, by citizens of an other state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state Article XU The electors shall meet In their re spective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom at least shall not he an inhabi tant of the same state with them selves; they shall name In their ballots the person voted for as President, and fn distinct ballots the person voted for us Vice President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the num ber of votes for each, which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of government of the United States, directed in the Pres ient of the Senate; the President of the Senate shall in the presence of the Senate and House of Representa tives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then he counted; the per son having the greatest number of rotes for President Hhall be the Presi dent, If such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appoint ed; end if no person have such ma jority, then from the person having the highest numbers, not exceeding threo, on the list of those voted for as Presi dent, the House^.of Representatives ■hall choose Immediately, by ballot. the President. But in choosing the "resident, the votes shall be taken by states, lbe representation from each | state having one vote; a quorum for ! this purpose shall consist of a member members from two-thirds of the states, anti the majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President, when ! ever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in i the case of the death or other consti tutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest mint* j her of votes as Vice President shall be the Vice President, if such number be ' a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall ehoose the Vice President; a quorum for this purpose shall consist I of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally Inelig ible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States. Article XIII 1 Neither slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United fitateR, or any place subject to their Jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to en force this article by appropriate legis lation. Article XIV 1. AH persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or <>nforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citi zens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due pror ess of law, nor deny to any person within its Jurisdiction the equal pro tection of the laws. 2. Representatives shall be appor ; tinned among the several states ac cording to their respective numbers : counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not j taxed. Rut when the right to vote at an election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to ; any of the male members of such state being of 21 years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be re ducedln the proportion which the num ber of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress or elector of President and Vice President, or holding any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oatb, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to suport the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insnreetlon or rebellion against the same, or giyen aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, hy a vote of two-thirds of each House remove such disability. 4. Tile validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized hy law including debts Incurred for payment of persons and bounties for services In suppressing insurrection and rehelilon shall not be questioned. But nether the UnitPd States or any statp shall asunie or pay any debt or obligation Incurred In aid of Insurrection or re bellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipa tion of any slave: but all such debts obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. 5. Congress shall have power to en force hy appropriate legislation the provisions of this article. Article XV 1 The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be de nied or abridged hy the United States or by any state on account of race color or previoim condition of servi tude. 2. The Congress hall have power to enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate legislation. Article XVI The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever sources derived, without ap portionment among the several state and without regard to any census or enumeration. Article XVII 1 The Senate of the United States ] shall be composed of two Senators from etch state, elected by the people thereof, for siv years; and each Sena tor shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifica tions requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legisla tures. 2. When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Sen ate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of eleetlon to fill such vacancies; provided, that the Legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make tempo rary appointment until the people fill the vacancies by election as the Legis lature may direct. 3. This amendment shall not be con strued as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before It be comes valid as part of the Constitu tion. Article XVIII 1. After one year from the ratifica tion of this article the manufacture sale or transportation of Intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory' subject to the Jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby pro hibited. 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 3. This article shall be inoperative i unless it shall have been ratified as an | amendment to the Constitution by the | Legislatures of the several states, as prqvided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the sub mission thereof to the states by the Congress. (The liquor prohibition amendment is in litigation in the courts. Official announcement of Its adoption by 36 states was made hv Secretary of State Lansing on January 29, 1919.1 Article XIX 1. The right of citizens of the Unit ed States to vote shall not be denied or abridged hy the United States or by any state on acount of sex. 2. Congress shall have power hy ap propriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article. _ HARDING’S DECLARATION AGAINST SEGREGATION Press Report of Audience with the National Equal Rights League read , by Senator Harding and Approved As Corrected by Him. MARION, Ohio, Sept. 30.—The National Equal Rights League rep resented by. the President, N. S. Taylor of Chicago, First Vice Presi dent Rev. N. A. M. Shaw of Boston, and National Executive Secretary William Monroe Trotter of Boston with Mr. Trotter as speaker, laid be fore Senator Harding the Grievance Report and Justice Demands of the National Colored Conference called by the League in Chicago last April, for federal action against lynching, against denial of the ballot for col ored, and segregation in travel and the abolition of color segregation by the Federal Government in the ex ecutive departments. He asked Mr. Harding to recom mend action on the first three by Con gress and as President to accomplish the abolition of the federal segrega tion. Harding’s Reply. Senator Harding promised a care ful study of the Congressional Mea sures to the end of correction of the abuses. He declared emphatically against Federal Segregation and said "If the United States cannot pre vent segregation in its own service we are not in any sense a Democ-! cracy." Delegation Plensed The League officers expressed sat isfaction with the candidates ac- [ ceptance speech statement and told Mr. Harding that the League officers would vigorously support him. _ THE TIDE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR NEGRO BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN (By George W. Blount.) “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”—Shakespeare. The tide of opportunity is now at the flood for Negro business men and women. There never was a time in the history of our country when the demand for trained Negro business men and women was so great as it is today. Te demand is far in ex cess of the supply. There are two methods of securing the training necessary to enable you to qualify for the positions “higher up”—they are experience and study. Thousands of Negroes have secured them through experience which means painful years of practice, hardships and disappointments. Today we have the opportunity of profiting by the experience of others, and starting where they leave off. The character and quantity of knowl edge necessary to achieve or merit any success in the business world are contained in the commercial courses now being offered in the various com mercial schools.—(Portsmouth, Va.) IN NEW FASHIONS Wider Skirt Is Feature of Chi cago Style Review. Coats to Be Short, Suits Have No Pockets or Cuffs and Muff* Are Barred. According to the association nearly everything In suits an<| coats and dresses will he brown or moose, neavi lj embroidered and headed. Gold and sih T thread embroideries especially will he shown. Beads will lie used on everything except the most strictly tailored garments. As for the suits, the coats will be fairly short, and the skirts perfectly pluln. The jackets will have big fur collars and fur about the bottom of beaver, seal, dark squirrel, or tanpe nutria. Nothing will keep warm the hands of the fashionably gowned. There are no cuffs or pockets on the suit, and muffs are quite out. The bodices of these jackets will he quite close fitting, as milady has signified that she has had enough of loosely fitting things, but | skirts will have a decided flare. Tas sels will be found every place a tassel ; can be. Quantities of elaborate buttons of rich shades will be used. Silk bo llvia, chiffon velvet, duvetyn, duvette, Skirts shown in the recent style re view of the Chioago Manufacturers' association are wider than have been worn for some time. They were not much shorter, however, twelve inches from the ground being de clared to be the correct length. and duvet de laine are the materials from which the winter suits will be fashioned. Cloth coats will be forty-eight Inches In length, embroidered In gold or sli ver thread, with huge capular collars of fur and with fur cuffs and pockets. But the fur coats will he shorter. They will be thirty-six Inches and have large collars and cuffs, and fur but tons and belt. No fur combinations at all will be used this season. The evening wraps will be fairly plain, with big fur collars, wide at the bottom, and lapping over 20 inches where they fasten. Shoestring belts antj.hnckles of self material, silver and gold embroidery, 1 and either high choker collars, or a neck line cut only three Inches from the base of the throat, one pocket next to the seam, and tight three-quarter sleeves, with white cuffs to the wrist are the new features of the tailleur and afternoon frocks. Many of them will have deep hems, buttons all the way down the back, and white lace yokes. Duvetyn and velvet in moose and brown, with an occasional Copen hagen blue will he the material most In vogue. For the tluffy young person, eve ning dresses of black lace over char meuse, with French flowers will be shown, and for the woman given to ae verer lines; gowns headed from top to bottom In all sorts of gorgeous colors. Both straps will be used. Gowns will be somewhat higher cut this year, both In front and In back, and some of them will even have little sleeves. FASHIONS IN BRIEF Ladder-stitching Is effective on white lingerie blouses. Palm beach suits of silk are featur ing silhouette embroidery. Huge flowers plastered flat against the brims are much seen In hat mod els. Mauve rose Is the leading color and much buttercup yellow Is being used for frocks. Brilliant scarlet wool coats hold their own from season to season as practical wraps. Printed plaited chiffon blouses are extremely good with plaited satin or taffeta skirts, and Hie combinations of colors are too numerous to mention. Light colored dresses in silk crepe or In organdie are shown with wide sash of black tufl'»ta ribbon bowed at the side or the front. Jade and blue, mikado red and . taupe mahogany and bronze are fa vored "olor combinations. GAY LITTLE HAT nF BANGKOK This bewitching little hat of Bang kok is the very latest to captivate Par is. It is trimmed with a broad rose taf feta ribbon set off with large daisies. FABRICS FOR COOL CLOTHES Handkerchief Linen One of Favorite Summer Wear Materials—Organ dies and Swisses Delightful. Thu question of material Is quite as Important as that of color In an effort to look refreshingly cool. Handker chief linen has been voted one of the coolest fabrics and, of course, crisp organdies and Swisses are delightfully dainty. Voile and batiste are also fa vored In warm weather and net and lace frocks are sheer as well as ex tremely modish this season. Heavy linen, though a summer fubric, Is oft en uncomfortably warm and makes Ita biggest successes at those fortu nate resorts where really hot weather never penetrates. Summer silks are usually warmer than summer cottons, and the prob lem of the woman who spends her summer in town is indeed a hard one. Many conservative* women do not ap prove of white or pastel shades In the business or shopping sections of the dtj. Sheer fabrics are not taboo, how ever, and brgandies, voiles and Swiss es In subdued tones make frocks that are cool both In appearance and in reality. Of course, navy Is an old fa vorite in these materials and It Is oft en dotted with white In organdie, and Swiss. Other attractive colors, such as Copenhagen blue, are similarly doi ted, and they are easier to get than the navy and white combination, which is so popular that it Is very scarce In the shops. GAY VARIETY OF SUNSHADES English Paper Comment* on Styles Out Since the Days of the World War. Not even In the almost-forgotten (lays before the war was there ever such a variety of sunshades as this season, soys an English paper. Shapes have altered somewhat, and so have sizes. Sunshades of the normal size are still to be bought, but shapes are apparently reverting to the days of the crinoline. The little pat tern with outstanding wires and sun shades of the small do««p shape are again seen this season. The handles are long; some are without ferrules, and are of the cluh stlck pattern. The covers are bright, especially In rhe self colors and stripes. This season stripes run to greater width than last, and the checks, too, nre large. Some styles are done In silk of beautiful quality, and some In printed shantung. The latter come In exquisite subdued shades. Fringe is used a good deal as a trimming. For one new example, the cover Is white silk overlaid with white laee, and trimmed with black plaited tulle. FALL AND WINTER FASHIONS Styles rhus Far Only Guesswork and May Be Obliterated by Modes at French Openings. So fat fall and winter styles are j really guesswork, and the models that I have beet brought out already may lose caste when the French openings have spread their Influence through out the fashion world. Just at present simplicity seems to he the style rule, and the low waistline frocks that are being offered for early fall street wear are both simple and smart. One little long waisted frock re cently seen was of navy crepe meteor —a fnhrtc, by the way, that seems to he having a strong vogue for fall— the waist and underneath skirt stitched In white so as to g ve If a checked ap poarance. The skirt proper, laid In ] three-inch tint plaits was attached to j the waist at the hip line and n loosely draped chain girdle was of blue tone bakellte—the materia’ so favored for parasol handles. On New Frock*. In many of the new fal. frocks the lower half of the sleeve .s made of silk If. the dress Is of woo fabric, or of net. chiffon or georgette If of satin or taffeta. Knitted Silk Scarfs. Knitted silk scurfs are popular and come In a wide range of colors and weaves. (©. 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) Greg Morton had been for two yean a clerk In the store of Seth Gray. He had saved several hundred dollars and both his employer and his daughter Ruth, who helped in the store, liked him and admired his thrifty ways. Ruth had been almost unconsciously an important element In forming the character of the young man, but store, Ruth, thrift and humble contentment went all to the winds one day, whee a letter arrived informing Morton that he had fallen heir to a small fortune. He resigned his position In tlfe store by telephone, half wild with the Im mediate possession of several thou sand dollars representing accumula tions on Investments, the principal at which was to become his further on. Then a few days later he appeared at the store, resplendent as to attire and jewelry adornment “I've been so nuay getting used ta being rich,” he declared, “that I couldn't get around before. Mr. Gray, If you need any money. I’ve got a thousand or 'two you can have to ex pand your business.” f “You’re a good-hearted fellow, Greg," spoke the storekeeper, “but slow and sure is my motto, and I never borrow. Ruth is upstairs in the living rooms.” “I think I’ll speak a word or two to her, if you don’t object.” “I won’t, and neither will Ruth. We miss you too much for that.” Morton sought out Ruth. As his eyes fell upon her neatly garbed form and expressive face, a vague sense of abandoning good old friends assailed him, but the emotion was only tem porary. Glare and glitter had already fascinated him. and he was eager to get back to comrades who were indul gently helping him to spend his newly acquired wealth. She greeted him la • friendly, familiar way, as was her custom with him, but there was a cer tain Rhyness, he quickly noticed, which he attributed to a realization on her part if changed. “I went shopping yesterday. Ruth," he said brightly, “to get my cousin a sunburst pin, and I’ve bought yoa one, too,” and he extended a little velvet case exposing a pretty bauble with half a dozen diamonds In it. "I can’t accept such an expensive present from you, Greg,” spoke Ruth In a subdued tone, “but give me that rosebud In your buttonhole.” If Greg followed an impulse, be would have gathered her Into his arms and told her what he thought of her. Already, however, the wiles of a new social influence had enveloped him. The idle and pleasure seeking had claimed him as their own, particularly for his money. There was a group of newly made comrades who hung about him daily. There was a Miss Vera Burgoyne to whom he had been Intro duced, his senior by a few years, but artificially concealing the fact. She had set her cap to capture a young man hardly her equal socially, but with prom I si rig ~ prospects. At heart a coquette, she had dazzled Morton quite, and his male friends hud made him believe that a match with Miss Burgoyne would put him up in the world materially. They feasted on his generous bounty and flattered and ca joled him. He was in for jollity, and when one day he appeared on tbo strecl with a hat controlled by a tiny wire, and shot it up from his head in greeting acquaintances, his chums noted him “so original." When again Morton drew a mock revolver from his pocket, snapped It and landed a cigar between his teeth. It was de- ^ nominated “the classiest hit of the sea- ~ son.” He was courted like a king, but one day— Morton never forgot It. He had dis covered that he had used up his entire cash, even overdrawing gt hank. On top of this came word that the con cern in which his capital was invested had failed and his entire principal was swept away. Late nights, excitement, his loss brought on a natural reaction. Deserted by bis friends, In debt and harassed with new troubles, he fell 111 and lay In fever and delirium for over a week. “Queer,” was hts first word, falntty spoken, as he opened his eyes to nor mal eoherency. “Ah, better? That’s good,” spoke the bluff, hearty tones of Seth Gray. “We thought you would be better cared for here than at the hotel. One good thing, we haven’t been pestered with those new friends of yours. Miss Burgoyne sent a servant to inquire af ter you. once, only.” “That’s more than I expected,” said Morton, “for she dropped me in a flash when she heard of my loss. Not that I am sorry. False, selfish humanity. And you took me In. Well, I’ll be able to get about In a day or two and re lieve you of my charge. I suppose you feel a bit hard at me leaving yon the way I did—’’ “Oh. yes,” observed Mr. Gray sat tlrlrally. “so much so thnt Ruth and I quarreled over which shhuld sit up nights and care for you. So much go, thut 1 am going to offer to take you Into partnership. If you're over your evil dream, and have waked up to the practical Issues of life.” Greg Morton hurled his head In the pillow to hide his tears. Rlg-souled Seth Gray—how he blessed him. Art less, lovtng Ruth—how he realized her true worth at last, und. when he told her so. knew that he had won a treas ure among womankind.