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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1921)
The Monitor A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americana Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2, 1916, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Neb., under the Act of March 2. 1279. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor. George H. W. Bullock, Circulation Manager and Associate Editor. TRAGO T. MCWILLIAMS. Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, 83-00 A YEAR: 81.50 6 MONTHS: 81 00 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates, 75 cents an Inch per leeue. Address, The Monitor, 204 Kaffir Block, Omaha, Heb. Telephone Douglas 3224. hi / THINKING THAT the press of the country is | beginning to realize that the col j ored American is thinking hard these days along constructive lines is a rather encouraging sign. At last, it would seem, that the people of the dominant group are coming to the realization that the brother in black can really think and is thinking for himself. There has been great reluc tance to make this concession. It has been taken^too much for granted that we were incapable of thinking for our selves, and that they who occupy the dominant place in American life should do our thinking for us. But recent articles in the leading maga zines and newspapers of the country are calling attention to the fact that the colored American is capable of thinking and is thinking hard. Not only so, it is dawning upon them that tt>e black or Negroid races throughout the world are thinking. This is trup. We are thinking. Many are. What is needed is more and more thinking. When a people or class begins to think, their emancipation draweth nigh. It is important that we think right, not in terms of narrowness but of broadmindedness. A heavy respon sibility is laid upon those who guide and direct a people’s thinking. _ j THE CHILDREN’S CODE BILL rERE is a bill before the Ne braska state legislature which should be passed. It is the children’s code bill and contains provisions for the protection, education and better ment of children. With all the par ticulars of the bill one may not fully j agree, but the bill is sound in all essentials and should be passed. LOBBYING IT may impress one as rather re markable that the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col ored People deems it advisable to in terest itself in watching legislation at Lincoln. It is a wise precautionary measure. Certain legislation is pro posed and may be enacted that may not be to our best interests and there fore it is expedient that we have on the ground people who will keep their eyes and ears open. YELLOW JOl’RNALISM UNDAY’S edition of The Omaha Daily News which was sold on the streets Saturday night carried the great scare-crow headline, “Negro Terrorizes Shoppers.” Searching through the columns for the story which would justify such a headline, it was discovered that a thief who happened to be a colored man had snatched several petticoats from a counter in t^e Burgess-Nash stores and, dashing through the aisle^, escaped with his loot. Why the box car headline of terrorization, if not to create adverse sentiment against the colored race? That is the effect of all such headlines and The Omaha Daily News should know it. This will impress the average reader as being yellow journalism for which Omaha has dearly paid. BE COMIMMOT\BLE WITH TOUK CHILD BE V We wonder how many mothers try to be companions to their daughters and how many fathers seek to be chummy with their boys? This com panionship will be beneficial to all concerned. It will help to keep mother and dad young and will make the boys and girls understand that father and mother are interested in all that con cerns them—play, study, work. It is a good thing to learn to be compan ionable with one’s children. Have you tried it? | “-AS FOR BEAUTIFUL | | HAIR AND A LOVELY i g complexion:’ | "It is astonishing to know the beneficial re- BBS suits one may obtain from the constant use of 9H SB Madam C. J. Walker’s Superfine Toilet Prepara- 25| SR tions.” IS #5 “Why, they are an assortment of Toilettes K5 ^2 suited to the needs of every complexion and bene- Safi BB ficial to the most languid scalp.” 59 H “TRY THEM” 1 §1 MADAM C. J. 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Some claim that 1 you must go to the lockup if you take ' a draw on the old corn cob; one gro- j cer was handed a fifty roller fine be cause he sold some crackers, and in | another instance a poke was landed on the .jail lounge because he was shoveling the winter feathers off his j front walk. What do you think about it? The only reason why we don’t ex press ourselves effectively is because ladies have to read this here paper. Hot isn’t any adjective for us to use.1 We aren’t a degree short of absolute j high temperature. We only hope that if the blue law hrothers and sisters ever get the fatal swing, that they will jug everybody that even peeps on Sunday. Jug the preacher who preaches for his beans and bacon change on Sunday; jug the choir sing ers and the pipe organ plunker; jug the jay who tries to get out a Sunday paper; jug the telephony girl who tries to connect you up with your best girl on Sunday; jug the gas company and the electric light company for let ting you have light on Sunday; jug the wife for cooking your meals on j Sunday; jug the furnace for delivering j heat on Sunday; jug the water faucet 1 for spouting water on Sunday; in fact, jug everybody and everything. That’s j the onlv kind of a blue Sunday to j have. If you are going to make it blue, make it a dark deep nawv blue I in a color that won’t rcn. Them’s our sentiments. We don’t believe in do ing anything half way. If you are j going to do it, do it right. Maybe you might think this blue haze to things is a joke, hut if you do you have an in a color that won’t run. Them’s our wild pumpkins in this country crazy enough to do anything and the only way to handle ’em is to dose ’em heavy on their own dope. Make ’em so blue that the ocean will become ashamed of itself and blush pink. WHAT THE EDITORS SAY' WHITE TERROR IN THE SOUTH DEMOCRACY is festering in the southeastern comer of the | United States. In no other part of j this country is the right of a fref bom citizen to c*st his ballot so bra zenly and so brutally denied. In no other section is there so little, faith j that the will of the majority, ex pressed at the polls, will work itself out, somehow, into wisdom of action, j Elsewhere, in other states, the -pirit of violence flares forth fitfully in deeds of violent disrespect for the law and the rights of human beings under that law. But nowhere is it so gen eral, so determined, and so maddened as in the southern states where the Negro came in slavery and is now denied the rights of citizenship that were granted him in the Fifteenth amendment. The Ku Klux Klan has been revived in the south. The only real reason for the revival of that infamous organiza tion is fear and hatred of the Negro and determination to keep him “in his place.” Leaders of the organization deny this, but the actions of its mem bers are proof enough that the klan. organized to frighten the Negro in his newly freed childhood, is now active to terrorize him in his young man hood. In the New Republic's issue of January 12 is the frank recital of “Election by Terror in Florida,” by Walter F. White—a graduate of At lanta university, who has investigated thirty-six lynchings and five race riots i n the last three years. The south fears the Negro voter. It fears the Negro woman voters even more than the Negro men. The Ku Klux Klan exists to frighten these citizens into submissive voting or to keep them altogether away from the polls. On the night of October-80th. the Saturday before the national elec tion, parades of the klans were adver tised in many southern cities and towns—with intent to wain the Ne groes. The parades did not frighten. Instead they acted as an incentive to bring to the polls many Negroes who ! might otherwise have been indifferent. The Jacksonville Metropolis of Sep-; tember 16 carried the scare head: j "Democracy in Duval County is En-' I dangered by Very Large Registration of Negro Women.” On election day at one polling place 4,000 Negroes | were cheated of the right to vote; in' Orange county Mose Norman was driven from the polls because it was generally considered he was too pros perous for a "nigger” and the result was a riot in which twenty houses, j two churches, a schoolhouse and a j lodge hall were burned, and from fiftv to sixty Negroes killed; in Quincy a Negro physician was spat upon and threatened with death if he wined the snntnm from his facn—because he had advised others of bis race to register and vote. These are mere indications of the f situation in the south, a state of af ' fairs that exists not because of no- g tual crimes of the Negro, but because 18 if white determination to pre’ ent Mm ill from exercising his legs' freedom. IH fhis south, whose matef's! prosperity 5 depends so greatly on the Negrj^ is 9 Irifting into spiritual bankruptcy, and -H unless tbe nation awakes to action its ’’"5 future will be even met' terrible thAn S its past.—Ran Francisco Call and Post. 9 January 17, 1921. LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 27.—The Ne ifaska branches of the National Asso iation for the Advancement of Coi ned People held a joint meeting here Sunday. A legislative committee was ippointed to use its influence against he passage of any legislation detri- j nental to Negroes. The Omaha, Lin i •din and Beatrice branches have a otal membership of 1,630 white and olored folk. --j r—•-»■»■♦■»• .... .——» MELCHOR -- Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 1826 So. 24th St. . • —* I. A. Edhotm E. W. Shertnar ( Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 | A. F. PEOPLES PAINTING PAPERHA.NGING AND DECORATING Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. 1 4827 ERSKIN’E STREET. 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