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■ liste The Monitor —— A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Utter / 12.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 9th, 1922 Vol. VII—No. 49 Whole Number 360 COLORED CITIZEHS IN APPRECIATION OF NEWS’ POLICY L Branch Station Opened on North Twenty-fourth Street Giving Em ployment to Members of Race W ins Commendation. That the new policy of the Omaha Daily News in establishing a branch ^ office manned by colored employees in the northern part of the city is K* meeting with general approbation and winning friends for the publication is evidenced by the following letters, which are highly appreciated by the News which is anxious to serve the In st interest- of all groups of Omaha citizens: Omaha, Neb., June 2, 1922. Editor Omaha Daily News: The N. A. A. C. P. at its regular weekly meeting, May 28th, 1922, took cognizance of your establishment of a Branch Station of your paper at 24th and Burdette streets, with Mr. C. C. McDonald in charge, and instructed; me to communicate with you ana thunk you for this show of interest and opportunity. We were pleased to note, also, that you have in this way provided oppor tunities for colored boys which have heretofore lieen closed to them. We wish to assure you we will put! forth every effort to help make this Itation the banner station of Omaha, .■) service and regularity by those in | ;harge. Your, in a spirit of co-operation, Omaha Branch N. A. A. C. P., Per HENRY W. BLACK, President, \ Jmaha Daily News, )muha, Nebraska. Gentlemen:—The Omaha Civic Com nittee hereby thanks the Omaha Dai v News for its establishment of a ranch station at 24th and Burdette Greets. ... This is a just recognition of the }, ' colored people and shows a desire <>n the part of the News to co-operate with them. Mr. C. C. McDonald, a well known colored man you have placed in charge at the station, is, as you know, quite ati-factory to us. Already we have observed.,Mr. McDonald has chosen colored boys to work out of the , branch of which he is in charge. It i our earnest hope that this is but the beginning of a better under loading and greater co-operation be tween us, to the end that the wfloie community will be helped. We are sure that the colored peo ple will respond to this attitude of growing helpfulness by their support. We are equally sure that The News will contribute to the growth of this pint by its fair treatment of our group. In this spirit we shall be glad to do all we can for your paper in this helpful and co-operative way. We will be glad to have the col ored people know our attitude in this regard. Y’ours in a spirit of co-operation, The Omaha Civic Committee, Per W. F. BOTTS, Chairman. HIGH SCHOOL CADETS IN ENCAMPMENT Nearly four hundred Central High -chool cadets left Tuesday for their annual encampment at Valley, Nehr. The camp has been named for the deservedly popular principal of Cen ( mp»1 Camp Masters. Eight of our * boys are at the camp. They are Ser geant Worthington L. Williams; Pri vates Charles Ennis and Eddis Saun ders with the band, and Privates Weldon Solomon, Gerald Adams, Floyd Marey, Malcolm Chambers, Henry and Edward Gordon. Next Thursday is visitors’ day. «.4I£N.’£ CLUB MEETS MONDAY The Men’s Club of the Church of St Philip the Deacon will hold its regular monthly meeting at St Phi lip’s Rectory, Monday night, June 12th, at half past 8 o’clock. Church and Rectory of the Church of St. Philip the Deacon, built during the pastorate of the Rev. John Albert Williams. Property valued at $25,000 and free from all incumbrance. The Kcv. John Albert Williams. N. A. A. C. I*. The National Association met at St. Philip the Deacon church last Sun day afternoon. Communications were red from the national office urging the branch to start the spring drive in earnest. Excerpts were read from period icals throughout the country showing the drive being made by the Ku KIux Rian which showed that those who think it dead may have occasion to think again. I .ate last Saturday night over 35,000 witnessed the initiation of about 3,000 in Chicago alone. A letter was read from Congress man Jefferies asking tiie privilege to address the local branch before the primaries. The matter was referred to the president. All present pledged their support and stated that they would hold the fort, as best they could, until recruits were forthcoming. Mr. John C. Barret, who is interest ed in the passage of an old age pen sion law, will address the branch next Sunday afternoon at the Interdenom inational church, 26th between Frank lin and Decatur. The executive board met Monday evening and are now arranging to try to awaken an interest of the peo ple who stand so badly in need of the association. Don't forget the meeting next Sun day. Bring someone along with you. MISS LAWSON STILL LEADS IN POPULARITY CONTEST Interest is picking up in the pop ularity contest which will end soon. Miss Bertha Lawson who entered lust week and jumped at once into first place still leads. She and her friends are evidently in earnest. Friends of contestants should send in coupons promptly, signing their names in proper space. Here is how the con testants stand: Bertha I,awson, 2624 North Twenty fifth street, 95 votes. Dorothy Williams, 1119 No. 21st street, 56 votes. Isivetta Busch, 5219 South 29th street, 50 votes. Audrey Trueheart, 1443 So. 11th street, 23 votes. Cerelda Tucker, 2508 M street, So. Side, 15 votes. Ireta Walker, 1926 So. 14th street, 9 votes. Otis Watson, 2925 Grant street, 9 votes. FOSTER FILES FROM NINTH [)r. Harry A. Foster, who is a veteran member of the legislature, has filed from the Nintn Legislative District and desires to announce this fact to his friends. He has always been popular with colored voters for his fair-mindedness and square deal ing both in his legislative capacity and in his business relations. Mrs. Levirt is very ill at her home on Seward street. THIRTY-ONE YEARS IN THE MINISTRY Sunday, June 11, which is the Feast of St. Barnabas, will be the thirty first anniversary of the Rev. John Albert Williams’ entrance into tne Christian ministry. Graduating from the Seabury Divinity School, Fari bault, Minn., June 8, 1891, he came to Omaha and passed his canonical examinations before the examining chaplains of the diocese, the Rev. Dr. Robert Doherty, Rev. A. B. Spaight and Dean Gardner, all since deceased, and on St. Barnabas Day of that year Mr. Williams was ordained to the sacred order of deacons in St. Barna bas Church by the Rt. Rev. George Worthington, S. T. D., in the presence of a large congregation of clergy and laity. Dean Gardner presented him for ordination and the Rev. John Wil liams, rector of St. Barnabas’, preached the sermon. Four months later he was advanced to the priest hood by the same bishop in St. Mat thias' Church, his fellow ordinands being Rev. Irving P. Johnson, now bishop of Colorado, and Rev.Paul Mat thews, now bishop 0/ New Jersey. Father Williams has declined calls to several of the leading eastern churches and has been unquestionably loyal to Omaha. He has been active in civic and diocesan affairs, serving as assistant secretary of the diocese ) for twenty-three years and as Secre tary-Kegistar for two. For ten years | he was the editor of The Crozier, the j diocesan publication, and for several ! years has been historiographer and! one of the examining chaplains of the | diocese. For seven years he has been j editor of The Monitor which is recog nized as one of influential weeklies of the country. It grew out of his j little parish paper which he published 1 for several years because of the de-j mand for a local weekly publication 1 devoted to the interests of colored Americans. HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES Among the graduates of Central High school who will receive their diplomas next Friday night at the! City Auditorium are the Misses Ame lia Collins, Bertha Lewis, Audrey j Truehart, Alma Webster and Mr. Oti. Sheldon. 1 FILES FOR CONGRESS Nathan Bernstein has filed for nomination for Congress on the republican ticket and solicits the vote of his friends at the primaries July 18. Mr. Bernstein who was reared and educated in Omaha taught for seventeen years in Central High school and was in business here for eight years. He has a large acquaint ance among Omaha citizens by whom he is held in high esteem. FormeT pupils whom he taught in Central, now grown to manhood and woman-' hood, are among his most enthusiastic j supporters. 11 RETURNS FROM A LEGAL BUSINESS TRIP j Attorney Noah W. Ware has re- j turned from a business trip to Kan- j sas and Oklahoma where he was called on legal business. He visited Kansas City and Coffeyville, Kans., | and Nowata, Okla. He reports aj pleasant trip and general prosperity among our people in those sections, j He also visited Kansas City, Mo., on ] his return trip. ~~~ Wor-.__ _. — .- — _----■ ,■ --- ,-„7,r--r;T;...,v^.<lrH»:TT.H7;rnpiiTi»iirftimmm;mnnniTmTnininiauaxu^|^i | Nebraska Civil Rights Bill Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights. Cnacted in 1893. Ir Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state sdiall i be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advan tages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every person. Sec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall for each offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs of the prosecution. "The original act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs State, 25 Nebr. page 677. N. W. 638.” “A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with re freshments in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other rea^rn than that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in amore private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich. 358; N. W. 718.” f Principles Which ‘Kluxies’ Would Put Into Practice in Nebraska Would De stroy the Commonwealth It seem* that “our friends,” the Kluxies, are out after some free ad vertising, which it may be necessary for us to give them, for from their New York office they are writing sev eral of our race newspapers, as they did the Monitor two weeks ago. In most of these letters there are thinly veiled threats, adroitly implied, rather than frankly stated, which, of course, would be in violation of postal regula tions. Some of our contemporaries are not so self-restrained as the Mon itor has been in expressing their opin ion of “the poison pen” letters of the sllt-pillow-slfp and sheet-shrouded, strife-stirring skulkers who prostitute the name American. Americans, as a class, are brave men, not sneaking, skulking cowards, who are afraid to let their identity be known. Americans, who are red-blooded men, and not lily livered cowards, who may have been drawn into the Kluxies, as soon as they learn of their priciples and tac tics withdraw from the organization. Nebraskans to the number of 1100 were drawn into this organization be fore the. expose of the New York World a few months ago. Omaha had a Klavern numbering 300; Lin coln one numbering 400. How many Kluxies are In Omaha now, we do not know. That there are some goes with out saying. Some of them read the Monitor. But The Monitor has too high an opinion of the intelligence, morality and patriotism of the white citizenry of this state to believe that any appreci able number of them will subscribe to the tenets of any organization that would set citizen against citizen, and neighbor against neighbor, on the grounds of race, nationality, creed or color. This is precisely what the Kluxie creed does. For let no one be deluded by the belief that, in advocat ing “white supremacy, one hundred per cent Americanism and Christian ity”—God save the mark—the hooded hoodlums are striking at black Amer icans only and seeking to array black against white and white against black, which of course of itself would be pernicious enough and can only make for strife and discord. Their pro gramme is far more comprehensive than this. It aim* to set Protestant against. Roman Catholic; gentile against Jew; American of foreign born parentage against native-born. How1 long could American civiliza tion endure, if the principles of the Kluxies were to obtain? America’s stability rests upon concord, goodwill and cooperation between all classes of people who are to be welded into a homogeneous nation under the Stars and Stripes and those who would fo ment strife and racial and religious hatred and discord are traitors. That our readers may know how vicious are the principles advocated by the Klux ies for Nebraska, perhaps not to be brought about by force, but by strat egy and propoganda, we submit the fourteen resolutions, adopted by every Klavern in Nebraska in the spring of 1921, and known among Klansmen as “the 14 points.” Their authenticity and accuracy1 are vouched for by an ex-member of the Klan. ■me rouneen romu 1. Favoring the Reed - Norviile Language Bill. 2. Favoring the Smith-Towner Ed ucational Bill. 3. Favoring adoption of open Bible In Public Schools in Nebraska. 4. Jim Crow laws -governing public conveyances In Nebraska. 5. Abolition of Secret Societiee * amongst Negroes in Nebraska. 6. Investigation by the Government into the alleged Oath of the Knights of Columbus. 7. Control of the ballot insofar as possible for the prevention of election to office of Catholics, Jews and For eign Horn Citizens. 8. Not to buy goods of Jews, Cath olics and Foreign Born. 9. The immediate withdrawal of all charge accounts of Klansmen from the business places of Jews, Catholics and P'oreign Born. 10. Employment by Klansmen of Catholics and Jews only as business policy warranted it. 11. Forbidding the employment of Negroes under any circumstances. 12. The banishment of undesirable citizens from all communities in Ne braska. lj. Favoring suspension of Emigra tion to American shores. 14. To make the Klan an obstruc tion in the way of Catholic power and permanence in Nebraska. While there may be room for an honest difference of opinion as to the wisdom, justice and expediency of some of these "points,” we seriously doubt that anyone but an imbecile can fail to see that, taken as a whole, they spell DESTRUCTION to American ideals and institutions; they would make former friends, acquaintances and neighbors IshmaeliteB. So ab horrent to true Americanism is this hooded cobra that it. will die from the virus of its own bite. "White Suprem acy,” which we are advised is the slogan of this organization, can only be maintained by being morally and intellectually supreme; it cannot be maintained by breeding hatred and distrust between children of a com mon Father, as the application of these fourteen points would do. ‘‘White Su premacy” can only be maintained by obeying the injunction of an ancient Hebrew prophet, an honored represen tative of one of the races which the Klansmen now seek to injure, which runs: “What doth the.., LORD. RE QUIRF’ of THEE, but to love mercy and to do Justice and to walk humbly with thy God.” If the white man in America and elsewhere will do this, lie need have no fear of losing his supremacy. If he does not do this his supremacy will pass from him and no organization can prevent it, certainly none formed upon the Uses of the ‘‘In visible Empire.” DAN BUTLER WANTS TO BE GOVERNOR Dan B. Butler who has been for several years one of the best City Commissioners Omaha has ever had and consequently was high man on each election day has filed for governor on the democratic ticket. Mr. Butler will undoubtedly be a strong candidate. He is unquestion ably the strongest man the democrats could select. REDECORATE THEIR SUITE OF OFFICES Dr. W. W. Peebles, the well-known dentist, and Dr. L. E. Britt, the well known physician and surgeon, have recently redecorated their suite of of fices at Thirteenth and Farnam Sts., over the Pope drug store. The work was done by A. F. Peoples, painter and decorator. The reception room is done in buff and green; the private offices and hall in buff and mahogany red. The suite presents an attractive and artistic appearance.