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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1920)
The monitor A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans. Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub t lishln* Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha. Neb., under the Act of March 3. 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. George H. W. Bullock, Circulation Manager and Associate Editor. M. Wrlgth, Advertising Manager. TRAGO T. MCWILLIAMS, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. 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, 20f Kaffir Block, Omaha, »b. Telephone Douglas 3224. I J 1 ■ M.M' ■ ■ ■■ »■ -------■—-— - SMACKS OF HYPOCRISY LAST week a young woman of care less life was shot by her para mour in a downtown cabaret alleged to be frequented largely by the sport ing element of both races. We say1 largely by the sporting class because1 it is this element who regularly fre quent cabarets. These habitues may ; belong to the wealthy classes who1 spend their money freely for what thev consider a good time or by the! <■ imitators who have less money at their command. The jilted youth, com mitted suicide. This tragedy at the Monarch Gardens, which has been operated for several months under li cense from the Board of Public Wei fare, brought the place into the public eye and immediately there arose a clamor for the closing of this ‘no torious resort.” The real motive back of this clamor seems to be the fact that it is conducted by colored men and frequented by both whites and blacks who belong to the social strata which take delight in frequenting places of this character. Under the laws of Nebraska public places are conducted for the public. The publi includes all citizens whatever their creed or color may be. This Is a fact which by practice mUny are striving ; to ignore. If, therefore, white people and black people voluntarily patronize any public places which admit them they are within their rights. They do not go there under duress, but by their own free will. Now, if the Monarch ■ Gardens are or have been improperly , conducted or run in violation of the law, they and all like places which1 violate the law should be closed. But the fact that a tragedy occurred there is no more reason for arbitrarily clos ing it than there was for closing the Madison Square Gardens when Harry , Thaw shot Stanford White over Eve lyn Nesbit. The moral spasm Into which certain would-be reformers ; have been thrown by the tragedy which happened in a place which has1 > been conducted for several months under their sanction and license smacks of hypocrisy. The Monitoi I thinks that every city would be better j off without cabarets and similar places 1 which eater only to the frivolous and : unrestrained side of life, but all peo- 1 pie are not cast in the same groove Each, therefore, to his own. 1) THE COMMISSION FORM AGAIN THE commission form of govern- < ment as operated in Omaha is ] : more expensive than the old alder- ' manic system and less efficient. It is 1 human nature to shift responsibility ' wherever and whenever it can be done. ' To this the commission form lends it- ‘ self most admirably, while the public 1 awaits results. Not only is the evasion [ of responsibility a defect of the sya tern, but there is another unsound principle of government involved. Th commissioners are not elected to dis-! charge any specific duties, but after election they themselves choose what duties they shall discharge. It 1b not a sound policy in the administration either of business or government that employes or servants shall determine! what they will or will not do. The : theory of the commission form of gov ernment is the division and distribu tion of responsibility, but in practice I It virtually destroys responsibility. Then, again, it weakens the executive! function of the city government, de priving the mayor of control of the police power. It is a fundamental prin ciple of government that the executive thereof should have control of the po lice power to enforce the law and pre serve order. The Monitor urges a re turn to the councilmanic system. Back to normalcy. Back to efficiency. PRESIDENT’S SWAN SONG PRESIDENT Wilson has delivered1 his last message to congress. It may well be called his swan song. It is cast in a minor chord and breathes a lofty faith in the final triumph of the principles for which he has unfal teringly stood. His interpretation of ; speak so glowingly has never been conceived in his one track mind to in | elude our group. This we believe to be in his case an unfortunate and re ‘ grettable mental and temperamental i limitation. His practice as touching 1 our group has been so at variance with the lofty sentiments which he so eloquently expressed that many of our people have considered him purely hypocritical. The Monitor has nevei held this view. We regretted his atti tude but attributed it to mental bias THE WILEY JAP JAPAN, alert and shrewd, has again forced the "race equalltv’’ question to the attention of the powers in con ference She has said she will not i pre-s it at this time.but will watt a more opportune moment There is un doubtedy method in Japan’s practice of patience She will ultimately get all she rightfully demands. The brain weight of the Japanese is larger than that of European or American dipio mats. SNYCOPATED SPASMS ' Home Owning THE more and more we hoof it up and down these here streets and highways of Omaha trying to find a vacant shack, the more we are con vinced that the guy who doesn't own his own home is worse off than a shriveled prune. The situation Is simply terrible! It has our angora tied, staked and circumscribed. We remember those days in ancient times when a landlord wore a smile and slipped you the glad grab when he saw you looking at one of his chunks of real estate, but never no more Now he scowls at you as if he thinks you are a grave digger. YTou have to get down on your tender knees and implore him with tears of anguish in order to get a hearing. If he deigns to rent vou a shaky habitation, he lets yon ease in on a price that is about five times as much as the domicile is worth. Then, Just as you get settled and finish making contracts with the furniture man, the grocery man, the butcher man and the coal man, in he blows and raises you 50 per cent. You holler like a stuck hog and he simply laughs. But your hollering does no good. He has you gagged, bound and otherwise rendered harmless. Yoti can’t tear up the property, because It isn’t worth tearing up, anyway. You either have to come across or stage the tragedy all over again. We mur mur aealn ,!t Is simply terrible' We’ve been cussing a blue streak until we are sick, but it doesn’t help us any. It only reinforces our opinion that a man should own his own wickiup. We hear that over In England the soldlei boys are giving the landlords a hoi time and we begin to think we will try out the scheme. The English land lords lay down the law that you must buy. A soldier blows along, lays down a few pounds and says be will buy He gets into the house and then tells ye landlord that he has changed his mind and thinks he will rent. Then it is the landlord’s chance to belly ache and he bellyaches some. And the law laughs at him, as It were. WHAT THE EDITORS SAY 01H SENTIMENTS, TOO We are In hearty sympathy with the [appeal of the National Equal Rights | league to Oswald Garrison Vtllard of New York and Miss Jane Addams of [Chicago, members of the committee 1 of one hundred, which is at Washing I ton, D. C„ hearing evidence on the 'troubles in Ireland. The appeal asks that the committee shall continue on ! after it has completed its investiga tions on Ireland and then hear evi dence on the proscription, persecu tions and killings of Afro-Americans, which are claimed to constitute a reign of terror in the South of like sort with that in Ireland. If English men were more like Americans, they would tell this country, in tones that would reach arouna the wrorld. to first clean their own doorsllls before med dling in the affairs of other countries. ■—Cleveland Gazette. IMMIGRATION ANT) NEGRO LABOR Tile great tide of immigration now setting in from Europe, and the south ern influx along the Mexican border, with their bearing upon Negro labor in both sections, are receiving careful attention from Negro leaders. The re sult of their cogitations, a- expressed in the colored presses full of encour agement to .all who wish the Negro well. There is a marked absence of com plaint of self-pity In considering this new competition. Negro labor Is mere ly warned that Increased efficiency in production, and greater thrift are nec essary if advantages gained are to be held, North or South There is no way. the leader? urge, for any worker to permanently profit by temporary circumstances except by raising his own standards of faithfulness and ef ficiency. “Employment,” the workers are told, “is economic, not sentimental However sympathetic emplo'ers may be. efficiency is the watchword. If employes do not measure up. there is j but one thing to do—make a change.” If colored laborers—or any others— will follow this advice, prosperity is ahead of them and for their employ- j ers alike.—Tampa Bulletin. A LESSON Robert Lowe, a Negro youth charged with criminal assault and twice res cued from an angry mob, has been acquitted by the Texas jury which sat on his ease. This shows better than words the inherent vicJousness of j lynching. It is the most elemental principle of Justice that every man is! entitled to a fair trial. And a fair trial 1 at the hands of an infuriated mob is impossible. Young Lowe has made a | fortunate escape. But more important than the saving from violent death of an innocent person is the hope that the lesson which this incident con-1 tains will nof he lost, that it may be the means of preventing many lynch- : ings In the future.—New York Sun. i ------ j Proverbs and Paragraphic; □ that being often reproved hard ened) his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy —Bible. ”EUFAULA (Pronounced TT-FALL-EKi BEAUTY PREPARATIONS The World’s Fountain of Beauty Secrets FOR SALE AT E. Morris Pharmacy. Central and Dale, St. Paul, Minn. Mme. G. W. Halle (Poro System). 2743 S. 11th Ave., Minneapolis. Mme. L. Da Flue (Walker System), 108 N. 1st Ave., E. Duluth, Minn. Mme. W. H. Perry (Poro SyBtem), 506 W. 7th St., Sioux City, la. Mme. E. Turner (Mafrtc System), 1104 Ave. C.. Council Bluffs. la. Mme. M. Barrett (Walker Systeml, 1010 Center St.. Des Moines. la. Mme Gibbs (Poro System), 6214 S. 28th St., South Omaha. 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Stumbles on Innocence sometimes. —Butler. _l Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. —Churchill. Swift kindnesses are best; a long dc lav On kindness takes the kindness all away. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. —Cowper. “W li IT’S YOI1I Hl'RItf This ts a slogan that was recently adopted by the Omaha traffic safety committee. The use of this slogan is a part of the campaign of the safetv traffic ommittee in its efforts to reduce reckless driving and to teach the pub lie that reckless driving at any speed is against the law. I'nder the provisions of the Omaha ordinances, auto trucks of three or more tons carrying capacity are limit ed to a speed of not to exceed eight miles an hour. Drivers of automobiles are law vio iators if they cross intersections, or pass school houses at a speed of more Ilian twelve miles an hour. In the congested districts of the city driving at a speed greater than fif teen miles an hour is a violation of law. On boulevards, highways and outly ing streets of the city a speed of twen ty miles may be attained and main tained without a violation of law. It must not be forgotten, however, that reckless driving at any speed is against the law. TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMITTEE. Omaha Chamber of Commerce. EX REPYTY SHERIFF SHOT LEAMXG MOB iny the Associated Negro Press) OOI.DSBORO, N. C.. Dec. 9.—One man, H. Futrell, former deputy sher iff of Wayne county, was shot last week during an attack on a special guard of twelve citizens barricaded in the Wayne county court, house when a mob of citizens fired upon the jail In an attempt to seize and lynch five Negroes held on charge of murdering a white man. The firing lasted only a few min utes. Barricaded behind felt mat tresses, the small force in the court house returned the "fire, and Futrell, said to have been the leader of the mob wag killed. I The mob scattered, but further trou ble was expected and a company of state troops wag sent here from Dur bam. _ - - MAJOR DOUGLASS, SURVIV ING SON OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, PASSES AWAY He Bared His Breast to Shot and Shell in the Civil War and Was the Father of the Famous Violinist. j By JOHN WESLEY CROMWELL, President American Negro Academy WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Major I Charles R. Douglass, the surviving son : of the family of Frederick Douglass, 1 who died here Tuesday night, Novem j ber 24, in the seventy-seventh year of i his age, was buried from the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian church. M I Douglass was born in Lynn, Mass,, in 1 the spring cf 1844, when the ant. - slavery agitation was at its height, tarnl his father, Frederick Douglass, was ea-'ty the most conspicuous fig * tire < at struggle. Under the stress ; of the .rustling life of that period j yroung Douglass grew up. All of th I foremost men and women of that time he knew—William I.loyd Garrison. Wendell Phillips. Martin R. Delaney,! Samuel Ringgold Ward, Charle | Lenox Remond, Alexander Crummell, I James McCune Smith, Henry High- j land Garnet, Gerrit Smith, John Brown, for they were all visitors a* his father's house. It was a thrilling experience, a severe training, a most1 exacting discipline under the master, of the Douglas- home that he received and under which he grew up to man’ estate, to bare his breast to shot and * shell when Abraham Lincoln called fo the colored volunteer in the early six- j ties, when the Fifty-fourth and Fifty fifth were mustered in the service of Uncle Sam on the soil of Massachu setts. When the civil war was over and hr was a battle-worn hero, he settled here in Washington, where he had lived ever since, the father of Joseph H. Douglass, the violinist, and Haley Douglass, the teacher in the Dunbar high school. Mr. Douglass in the early seventies was a member of the school board, later a clerk in the pen sion office until he retired only a few months ago. During all these years he was a citizen highly esteemed. A tall, commanding figure, with profile and hair strongly recalling the distin guishing features of his illustrious father—these characteristics made him a figure, once seen, to be ever afterwards remembered. MELCHOR -- Druggist: The Old Reliable j ; Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. J Hill-Williams Drug Co. Pt'RE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cumin* St. t-. . . . ... . . . . ..i Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account In th.-j j Savings Depart me nt of the * United States Nat’l Bank 1 IStli and Farnarfi Streets ... ...... . .... . w ... | J. A. Edholm E. W. sh«rman Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 I USE Dentlo DO YOU USE Pentlot i > For that Neat. Well Dreaned * » t . Appear an ca, See J. H. 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