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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1920)
The Monitor A National Weakly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest* of Colored Americans. _ _ Pubila’ied Eva-y Thursday at Omaha Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2, 1216, at the Postofflce at Omaha. Neb., under the Act cf March 2, 1379. ___ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. Georoe H. W. Bullock, Circulation Manaoer and Associate Editor. M. WrlQth, Advertising Manager. TRAGO T. MCWILLIAMS, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb.. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $3 00 A YEAR; 91.50 6 MONTHS; 91.00 3 MONTHS Advertising Rate*. 7S cents an Inch per Issue. Address, Tbe Monitor, 204 Ksfflr Block. Omaha, Neb. Telephone Douglas 3284. ____ CHRISTMAS HRISTMAS is the festival of good will. The very atmosphere seems surcharged with a spirit of kindliness and goodfellowship as this joyous and sacred season rolls around each year. The season manifests a subtle and po tent alchemy which has a softening and enriching influence upon even human heart. Harshness and gripping avarice and selfishness, like jangling: bells all out of tune, strike stridently discordant notes with the spirit of Christmastide. It is indeed the sea- j son of goodwill. And the spirit of goodwill, regnant even in the hearts j of those who may not be willing to ac cept the theological truth or doctrine which the festival attests, is evidence of the truth of that very’ Christian tenet, “Emmanuel,” God with us. Christmas tide proclaims the truth that “for us men and for our salva tion” Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, came down from Heaven and was Incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and became man. A tremendous, awe-inspiring, love compelling my'stery. Efforts to ex plain it fail. The Fact remains un disputed. “Jesus Christ, our SaviouJ was born on Christmas Day.” God gave His great Gift of Love to the world; showing thereby His goodwill to the world. Therefore the angels sang the song which reechoes in the hearts of men today’ “Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace to men of goodwill.” It matters little that the world has not yet fully ac cepted the Gift. It has been given and slowly as the ages run towards the silent river of Eternity the in fluence of that Wondrous Gift is sweetening the lives of the human race and the spirit of goodwill which manifests itself each Christmastide is the earnest of that coming time when the whole world will give back the song which now the angels sing. May Christmas bring its richest blessings to all mankind. May the spirit of the Christ Child enter into the hearts of men everywhere that they may prove themselves worthy of the love that brought the Son of God from heaven to dwell among men on earth that earth might become a be fitting dwelling place for the sons of men. JTTST PEOPI.E f | 'HE other day we were >n one of -I- the large department store? and happened upon the manager whom we have known for many years. Always cordial and pleasant he engaged us in conversation in the course of which he said, "We have a good many of your people employed here and they aver age up with the rest of our em ployees.” “We replied, “Of course, they do; the more you learn about, ns, the more you will realize that we are just people.” “Just people,” he reechoed. “You are right. After all, we are all made out of the same kind of rlr.y, aren’t we? Just people.” This is worth remembering w’hen we are wont to think of the foible and weaknesses of mankind. WHITEWASHED, AS EXPECTED NO one has been disappointed in the report of Secretary Daniels’ committee which investigated the charges against the marines in Haiti. It w'as a foregone conclusion that such a committee would administer a most liberal cost of whitewash . The ap plication of the coat is thicker than was anticipated. The charges should not be permitted to drop. There should be a thorough and rigid in vestigation by a disinterested con gressional committee who are inter ested in nothing but the truth. The American people will not stand for banditry upon the part of their repre sentatives even in Haiti. General Barnett and independent inv»stigator® like Seligman of The Nation, James Weldon Johnson and others are not given to making charges in so grave a matter as this which are “ill-con sidered, regrettable and thoroughly unwarranted reflections” on the work of the marine corps in Haiti. AMERICANS OR ALIENS? THE question that the United States has got to face and an swer honestly and squarely’ is this: “Are ‘Negroes’ Americans or aliens?” This is not an academic, but a vital, practical question. It lies at the very foundation of the well-being and sta bility of this republic. Until this question is answered, honestly, un equivocally and fairly, there will b< friction between two large groups of the population of this nation. If this government be, as it is loudly pro claimed to be. a democracy, then there cannot be two grades of citizens; one entitled to full rights and the other to limited or partial citizenship rights. As matters exist today, there are nearly fifteen million who are re stricted in the e.ijoyment of their rights as American citizens. They are regarded as a thing apart, to be separated from other American citi zens, to be discriminated against in public places, conveyances and public carriers, and. as to the rights of domi cile. This group growing in wealth in culture, in self-respect, cannot and will not be satisfied with anything less than the full rights of American citizenship. So the United States has got to face the question as to whether people of color who reside within he: territory, obey her law’s and meet every requirement demanded of them [ are Americans or aliens. — THE MONITOR AND THE NEW ERA ERE seems to be a determined — effort upon the part of some peo ple or group of people to stir up t fight between The Monitor and The New Era. When The New' Era was started it was an impression among some people that it was started to run The Monitor out of business. Whethe* this impression was or was not justi fied. the present editor of The New Era does not know; but he wishes to state now* and emphatically that no fight shall be inaugurated as long a it is his privilege to edit these columns. There is already too much division among the colored people of Omaha to invite more. From the inception of this paper until today the one slo gan has been “UnityV and for it to start a campaign against the only other colored paper of this community would be a contradiction of the very philosophy to which it holds. Our race cannot afford to be divided. rEUFAULA (Pronounced U-FAXA,-ER| BEAUTY PHEPAKATIO.WS The World’s fountain of Brautj Krcrets J I_ E. Morrle^har^cy. Central and "««■, "a^O^BL ‘P°r° Sy“ Dale, St. Paul, Minn. a* Marshall (Walker Mme. Q. W. Halle (Poro Syetem), mfN 1M St ,WaU<*r 2743 8. llth Ave, Minneapolis. 8>etem), 1W N 3MHI. Mme. L. UaRue (Walker Cetera), M«E, *: ?t07 1 ake 8t Mme W 1H VeV^ro Sye£mT mSS*Td'naToH^SON (Poro Bye MSJ w'i(k b( HI—Twa.» r• ' tern), 1612 N 24th 8t. ^c' 7TSi™«;S(V«e1nUtJ(^,« MMES. SOUTH AND JOHNSON, U04 Ar^cTcJ^mSull: mm^o'vAWTM^S Bye Mme. M. Barrett (Walker Syetem), Hmi 71S NMth !»L Mm^Oihbe'tPOTO 8>-^tem<),nHi4IS MME. B. A. BOSTIC (Poro Bye Ms?h ■8714 8- t«m>.2124 aark st tmthLSr MME. c C- TRENT (Poro Bye ' i,d2«haSt°r tM'oSubT0’ »' ^OMAMA," NEB % ■ - Weetern rriatribator e. A. WILLI A MHO If not north itth 8L, Omaha Main Laboratory EUFAULA CHEMICAL CO. 1«1 Wot 53d Street New York City 7 _ There is work in Omaha for two col j ored papers and room for each to work along harmoniously and without j friction. If The Monitor has faults, it is only because the men publishing j it are human. The New Era, too, has 1 its faults and these rest upon the j same human foundation. The editor i who can please everybody is only the | editor who reposes in a handsome , casket and is unable to make any fur j then use of his pen. What Omaha colored people need is unity and there can be and shall be no quarrel upon the part of The New | Era with any paper or organization which has unity for an ideal. The various methods and opinions of what should be the proper course for affect ing unity may differ, but even differ ent paths may reach the same end. Today, as never before, the race in Omaha needs to be cemented rathe! than disorganized and it shall be the purpose of this paper to aid in this work rather than to hinder.—The Nev Era, Dec. 18. 1920. The Monitor fully reciprocates the sentiments expressed by our local con temporary. The New Era. in the above editorial. . “AMERICAN BANDITRY IN HAITI" rytHIS is the title of a scathing edi , torial in the December issue of “Jim Jam Jems,” a snappy monthly published at Bismarck, So. Dak. Those seeking light on the Haitian -ituation should secure the magazine and rea l this article. They will find it fearles • and illuminating. SNYCOPATED SPASMS PROHIBITION BOOZE TV7K fought prohibition, in<l the tt more we see of it the happic: we are in the fact that we did fight it. We knew as surely as we know ; that the furnace hogs coal that pro-; hibition would introduce prohibition i booze and it has. It is here tnd here | strong. Folks who never thought of, drinking booze in the world are drink ing it now. Only the other day a j woman was jugged in Baltimore and she told the judge that it was honor j able to get drunk these days. But don’t believe it. Prohibition booze is i pizen. When you slip eight or ten! | bones to some pussyfooting guy who hands you a pint of prohibition booz« . the good Lord be w ith you. You can ; never tell what you are getting. L« t j week one of the district judges fell! into a swoon when some booze pe>! i diets told him that their booze con-! tained sulphuric acid, ammonia an i gasoline. We weren’t in the court room at the time, but if we had been we guess we would have swooned, too. It was time to swoon. What we did do, howsomer, was to shake hands with ourselves over the fact that we never have bought or tasted inv pro hibition booze. And what ve mean to say is that from now on we aren’t going to. We have heard of rotten apple booze, wood alcohol booze, mule, and several other kinds of booze, but never in our natural lives did we ever hear of sulphuric acid booze. Leave it alone, friend; leave it alone. You can’t afford to take a chance unless j you feel like flirting with the under taker and having friend wife or next 1 of kin toddling down to the office to collect your life insurance. Another thing about prohibition booze is that it tangles the noodle It makes you dippy. You start seeing things a? they are not and very soon after you : stait doing thing.- as they houldn’t he done. This leads to the smashing ! of the laws and before long you have got more trouble on your hands than i the police department. So duck pro I hibition booze. And if you just must have something with a kick in it, just get on your knees and pray that very IG< >al Goal Illinois, Semi-Anthracite, Spadra Cherokee ANDREASEN COAL CO. Colfax 0425 3315 Evans St. Douglas 0840 -PROMPT DELIVERY soon Unk Sam will let you vote on the light wines and beer situation. Pro hibition booze is the cuss of cusses. FOR I'NITED POLITICAL ACTION Saturday night in response to an invitation sent by the editor to about fifty men and women, representing all classes of our people, fifteen persons met at The Monitor office and held an interesting conference on securing proper political recognition in the dis tibution of patronage—county, state and federal—from the republican party. Rev. John Albert Williams was chosen chairman and W. F,. Alex ander. secretary. The sentiment was unanimous that there ought to be united action in supporting competent persons seeking appointments to which we are justly entitled. An organiza tion to be known as the United Col ored Voters of Douglas County was the outgrowth of the conference. The Heart of Christmas Christmas is not a day, it is a mood. It is independent of days. We cele brate It on Friday, Saturday, Sunday i —any day of the week. Christmas Is Indifferent to days. It has nothing to do with the almanac. It has nothing to do with place. It is as independent of geography as It Is of chronology. Iv has no relation to human government, or even to race or blood. It is an Institution which can he set up on any soli and under the folda of tiny (lag. Christmas is a spiritual creation, and belongs to the kingdom of the heart. It Is constructed by angels of the heart of a child. If it then be a mood. It can he extended over a week, a month, a year, a lifetime. It can be built upon time, upon eternity. If you confine it ts a day, you tniss the meaning of It. If you try to cram it Into twenty-four hours, you crush it and lose the es sence of It. * t J See What Santa Brought ; * 9 Kerosene is now heralded as a rem edy for snake bite. It is not applied in the same place, anatomically, as the old remedy, and probably never will be as popular. DANGER SIGNAL A blue pencil mark on your paper means your subscription is due and must be paid at once or your paper will be stopped. {Palace Clothing; Company | 14th and Douglas Sts. >;! | MEN’S CLOTHIERS j i Appreciates Colored Trade, i Courteous Attention. Prices Right. I COAL! COAL! :: I ! { | Order your Coal from <. S. M. BASS ill ‘ 1721 Cuming St Doug. 2398 \ '*•»*»•*••*•<*••*•♦*•«**»*•«"••*••*•.*•«*>**•«*»«**•*• »*»•'»«*••*•«* :|: W. I. CATTIN CO. | ¥ PLUMBING. GAS AND X STEAM FITTING i* 910 N. 24th St. Douglas 1625 X v A ^/*XMX‘VV,X*vvv,X,>XM>v,/v,.,,iM; X*4XmXXmXXmXXmXmXh!mXm!XmX»»X I O. C. BANKS I Carpenter and Contraetor X, 1 All kinds of job work. •{• ; 2214 >o. 27th \ ve. . W ebster 4532 XI . A j v»0fr»»»00OO»»0O»0»O»»O»»C.» NORTH END COAL C° ? V \ We move Furniture and y ; P’tnos. Heavy hauling a y ; specialty. ¥ Dodd & Allen 2011 No. 24th St. ► y : Webster 5036—5406 ? * T nnr USEFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS While Prices Are Low. H. J. ROTHKOP 4720 So. 24th St. j MELCMOR - Druggist j The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4820 So. 24th St. j Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 100 2402 Cuming St. f t T--- - - -----* | v ■> ... Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an {Account In the I Saving* Depart nitiil ff the J United Stiles hat’l Bank I Bill and rarnam Streets I. A. f tlhotm E. W. Sherman Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 I USE Dentlo DO YOU USE Dentlo! 4 » ' , , For that Neat, Well Dreeeed < > , i Appear an oe. See i: J. H. HOLMES || :: TAILOR j; !: GENT’S SUITS TO ORDER < - ' ) Ladle*' and Gent'* Suit* Remod- < > , , tied. Repaired, Cleaned and Preaeed < > , . ALL WORK GUARANTIED || ' ' We Buy and Sell Second Hand < , ' ’ Clothea. Work called tor and de- ,, J | llvered. i > 2022 North 24th Street j ’ Phone W*b*t*r S320 < > Established 189o" C. J. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. | Cuming Hotel £ For a Nice Room call ‘ £ Douglas 2466. J % CENTRAL BILLIARD j; PARLOR BARBERSHOP V, £ Soft Drinks, Candies, < '< Cigars and Tobacco ! 1 ( 1916-18 CUMING STREET V, Douglas 5235 " Wm««’<^~xx~x*X"XK--x~x--x-*-. X"X-:-X"X"X"X-x-xX“X.“X"X-x> & MME. GEORGIA TAPPS V, Hairdressing, Manicuring, ‘J £ Massages < > £ All kinds of Hair Goods. <» £ Poro System Tyler 4782 ) [ W-:~X~X-:~X“X”XX“X~X*-X~x~:~*i' ......... We Have a Complete Line of 1 FLOWER, GRASS AND GARDEN Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry Supplies Fresh cut flowers alwaya on hand Stewart’s Seed Store 119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 > . ... , v'X"X"X"X"X“X”X"X"X"X“:"X“>4 X MRS. ALMA J. HILL II DRESSMAKER Plain and Fancy Sewing '1 £ Evening Gowns and Alteration J' £ Work a specialty. < ■ X 2515 Parker St. Webster 2303 !! W/W-w<~X"X-'X'X~X“:-. • -X“ 1 ®®DBCKM>aKD(IKl^;Km;)®<3(n(!KMKBa8aBl A. F. PEOPLES I PAINTING PAPERHANGING AND DECORATING EatimateH Furniahed Free. H All Work Guaranteed. 4827 ERSKINE STREET. | PHONE WALNUT 2111. " Allen Jonea, Rea. Phone W. 204 g Andrew T. Reed, Rea. I*hona Red 5210 f JONES & REED FUNERAL PARLOR 1 23 u N°r‘h 24th St. Wab. 1100 Lady Attendant 4