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THE MONITOR A National Weekly Newpaper Devoted Primarily to the Interests of Colored Americans. _ 1 Published Kyery Friday at Omaha, Nebraska, by the Monitor Publishing Company. f Entered as S*2ond-Class Mail Matter July 2. 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor, j W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. I SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Applicaton. Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 — ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. 1. AD persons born or naturalized in the United States, Y and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the } United States and of the State wherein they reside. No | state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ] privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States: nor ; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- < erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person , ! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. I i i X-X-X-v FAIR WORDS AND FOUL DEEDS JT is oniy a few weeks ago that Pres ident A. Lawrence Lowell of Har vard University delivered an address at Hampton in which he said that America owed it to herself to treat the Negro with absolute fairness and give him every opportunity for ’iis fullest development. Wide publicity was given in the newspapers of our own group and in the great dailies of the land to the wise and statesmanlike utterance of the President of Harvard. What a striking contrast to his plea “for the fullest opportunity of devel opment” is his letter of last week to Roscoe Conklin Bruce, a distinguished alumnus of Harvard, who desires to have his son enter his own alma mater, stating that it is considered impracticable to admit colored stud ents into the Freshmen dormitories and refectories of the university, and that while there is no objection to such students in the dormitories of the higher classes they cannot longer be admitted into those of the Freshmen. And yet, if you please, it is compul sory for Freshmen to occupy those dormitories. Note this perfect syllo gism of exclusion: “All Freshmen must occupy the Freshmen dormitor ies at Harvard; no colored Freshmen can occupy the Freshman dormitories at Harvard, therefore, no colored Freshman can enter Harvard.” If this rule be permitted to stand, it is as plain as the nose on one’s face that “the fullest opportunities for the Ne gro” for which President Lowell so eloquently pleaded at another educa tional institution only a few weeks ago are to be denied him at the very uni versity of which Mr. Lowell is the head and in distinct repudiation of the principles of that institution which has hitherto stood for fair treatment and admission of applicants of all races of the tarth who could qualify for admission. Moreover among some of the most successful and distinguish ed alumni of Harvard are members of our race who were cheerfully admitted to all the privileges of that great uni versity years ago. Why then at this late day when colored Americans have made great advancement in culture should Harvard’s policy be revers ed? But what we started out to say is this: It is this wide dioscrepanc> between fair speech and unfair deeds upon the part of many representative white Americans who should be the exponents of fairness, truth and candor that is so disappointing to thoughful colored Americans. They give good words with their lips but with their deeds they deny them. Where words and actions are so far apart as in the case here cited there is some justifi cation for the charge of hypocrisy and many of our group make the unjusti fiable and sweeping accusation that “nearly all white people are hypo crites.’” Of course, this is not true, but in the dealing of many of the dom inant group, from whom better things are to be expected, with our people, there are so many examples of dis crepancy between words and deeds, so many manifestations of littleness and narrowness, where one would expect bigness and magnanimity, that there is some ground for this uncomplimen tary opinion. President Lowell’s’ speech at Hampton and his letter on the new policy of Harvard inaugurat ed during his incumbency and only during his incumbency is illustrative of what we mean. And in all such manifestations of inconsistency upon the part of the people of superior ad vantages and claims it may be wed to remember “There’s a chiel amang ye taldn notes.” KEEPING ONE'S SOUL 'T’HAT was a noble utterance made by Rabbi Stephen Wise before the an nual meeting of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People, when he said: ‘My chief bus iness in life is to move my people to stand erect, to lift their voices to the sides and to know that no matter what the world without may do to them, they must keep their souls undefiled.” These words should furnish a motto for our people. Every one of us should stand erect, hold up our heads as free men, walk uprightly, lift our voices in praise to God and keep our souls undefiled. The people that will do this are invincible and will come into their own. Our great danger is that we may not keep our souls inviolate. It may be well to frequently remind our readers of the question asked hundreds of years ago by Incarnate Wisdom and Love, “W'hat will it profit a man (race or nation) though he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” W AS IT FAIR? WE have a question to ask of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce. It is this: Was it fair to dismiss all the colored employees in one depart ment because two or three failed to give satisfaction? It was frankly stated that some of the employes had given and were giving entire satisfac tion and there was “keen regret in having to dismiss them.” Of course this procedure was not fair and the idea that colored and white could not work satisfactorily together is not true. It has been disproven in that very institution and in scores of other places. We- hope the change is but temporary and that the grievous wrong done the satisfactory employes by this action may speedily be repaired. Prepare to fight the sheet and slit pillow slip sneaks and strife stirrers to a fare you well. HASTINGS, NEBR* HAPPENINGS The Home Mission Society of the M. E .Church, white, is taking up the study of Negro life, what he is doing and has done for his country since his freedom. Taking up from the Civil War to the World War each topic was discussed and the Negro was given much credit. Mrs. Floyd Summers of Wilberforce University sang “The Heavenly Song” by H. Gray, and “Se nora,” by Feist. Mrs. John Huff was also a specially invited guest. A light luncheon was served. Tuskegee Institute and Fiske were also given much credit as to their educational and industrial work for the Negro. MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. E. H. McDonald, raster A rally for the Missionary Society is being conducted under the direction of Mrs. Burton and Miss Forestine Maxey newly elected president of the B. Y. P. U. It is an automobile race in which several well-known cars are en tered. The trip is from Omaha to Salt Lake. Fare one cent a mile. The young people are invited to takp part. The distance is 1008 miles and you may select your car. SHERIDAN, WTO, NEWS Messrs. J. A. Nathouee and A1 Saute paid their forfeit as loosers of the whist tournament by entertaining the j winners and friends at a dinner party 1 at tlhie home of the former, Monday, i January 8th. Twenty-two guests en j Joyed the hospitality of the Joint hosts Mrs. J. A- Washington arrived in j Sheridan Monday, January 8th, and is tho house guest of her siftter, Mrs. A. L. Bell. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. N'athouse, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Chenault and Mr. Watson Chenault were among the many Sher idan visitors to the Billy Creek oil gusher at Buffalo Sunday. Mrs. J. A. N’athouse arranged a very pleasant surprise party Monday, Janu ary 15th, the affair being in honor of Mr. N'athouse's birthday. THE ST. PAUL v PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Twenty-sixth and Seward Streets Russell Taylor, Pastor Services Sunday were well attended. The new lighting system added much to the pleasure of the evening ser vices. The pastor attended the winter se^ Fishermen at Kealakekua Bay. (Prepared by the National Geographic So ciety. Washington, D. C.) Hawaii, territory of the United ! States, and most important strate 1 glcally of the lands of the Pacific, Is not alone interesting because of its military and naval value to Uncle Sam, emphasized some months ago by the deliberations at Washington in regard to the world’s greatest ocean. It is in many ways literally an Island pa radise. Scarcely anywhere else in the world may one roum througli tropical jungles j with never a thought of poisonous In sects or snakes. Such creatures do not exist in these fair islands. Kven poison ivy and similar noxious plants are unknown. And though in the ! edge of the tropics, Hawaii has a cooler temperature by ten degrees than Hny other land in the same lati tudes. Moreover, one may change his climate at will by a journey of a few miies; for the northern half of each Island, swept by the trade winds, la rainy and heavily wooded, while just over the mountain ridge is a drier, , warmer region. In a way, the United States may | well thank Boston and Its daring I truders and missionaries of the eurly days for the fact that Hawaii now flies the Stars and Stripes rather than the tri-color or the British union jack. A Spanish navigator first discovered the islands in 1555, but his country laid no claim to them, and they were practically forgotten. The British Captain Cook visited the Hawaiian group in 1778, and named them the Sandwich islands. Still the islands ; wpre practically unknown. Then, fol ; lowing the close of the American ftev ! olution, American ships began to aall the seven seas In growing numbers, and in 1781* the first ship flying the Stars and Stripes—from Boston—vis ited the Hawaiians. It was the first of many from the same pert, carrying traders, whalers and adventurers; and soon the natives had learned of the republic on the continent to the east, and came to consider the “United States” and “Boston" synonymous. The Boston traders found each of the Islands tinder a separate king, with two rival rulers on Hawaii, the largest of the islands. One of the latter ob tained firearms and ammunition from the traders and got ttieir assistance in building a “navy." With this Ameri can help he became the “Napoleon of the Pacific," conquering the other Is lands. and, as Kamehatneha I, r^led over the consolidated kingdom. Hawaiian Trade Wai Valuable. The Americans found the Hawaiian trade a good thing. They sold the king and his nobles everything from clothes and jewelry to billiard tables and steam yachts, and In return cart ed away shiploads of valuable sandal wood. Strong liquor was not forgot ten among the Imports, and in Hono lulu among the naturally light-hearted natives the American sailors contrib uted to the creation of a gay Pacific resort, a sort of forerunner of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast of later dec ades. Deserters from America^ ships. In the delightful haven of a barharous paradise, helped to heighten the fame or the Infamy of the Honolulu of those days. The situation became such that In 1820 President Monroe sent an agent to reside in Honolulu and look after American Interests In regard to commerce and seamen. A shipload of missionaries, also from Boston, arrived In the Islands In 1820, much to the disgust of the traders as well as those who had deserted the sea to tread Hawaii’s primrose path. The complaint of the traders was that the missionaries taught the natives “the value of things,” and so made trading unprofitable. American ways and teachings at their best made a great impression on the more thought ful Hawaiians, and when they re shaped their government they made the Ten Commandments the basis of their laws. More and more Americans visited and settled In the Islands and the Hawaiians looked upon America as their best friend among the nations. When pioneers from the United States were pushing west toward California Just before the Mexican war. which added that state to the Union, a Brit | isli naval commander In the Pacific, ! realizing the strategic Importance ol the Hawaiian group, seized the Is lands, But his country promptly dis avowed Ids act. After some difficul ties with 1-'ranee over the Islands in the forties, the United States declared a sort of Monro- Isictrine toward them. As early os 18ol the Island government, fearing trouble with other nations, provisionally ceded the Islands to the United States. Hut the cession was not accepted, and numer ous efforts to become a part of the United States were made in the fol lowing half century. Annexed by Uncle Sam. In 1887 the United States ohtnined a concession for the use of Pearl har bor for a coaling station. When Queen Lllluokalad! attempted to abol ish the constitution in 1893, the con stitutional party, led by American settlers, brought about a revolution and dethroned her One of the first acts of the provisional government wus to apply for annexation to the United States. Germany was seizing Islands right and left In the Pacific and the Hawailans wished to get under a sheltering wing. Politics In the United States delayed action, and In the meantime the Republic of Hawaii was organized. Then In 1898, during the Spanish-Amertcan war, congress suddenly voted to make Ha waii American territory. Though the Hawaiian Islands are known as “the half-way house of the Pacific,” In reality the distance from San Francisco to Honolulu Is only about half that from Honolulu to Aus tralia, the Philippines or Japan. All the Islands are of volcanic origin, out coral has grown on the shores of many of them. The disintegrated lava has formed a rich soil which re sponds liberally to Irrigation. Only Cuba and Java produce greater total crops of sugar, and the per acre yield of Hawaii Is the greatest In the world —four tons without Irrigation and six tons with. The sugar crop for the year ended June 20, 1920, was worth $78,500,000. The pineapple crop, sec ond in Importance, was valued at $18, 500.000. Mauna Loa Volcano. Perhaps the Hawaiian group Is best known to most people because of the huge volcano Mauna Loa on the Island of Hawaii. In September, 1919, this great safety-valve "blew off steam,” giving a most unusual demonstration of nature’s forces. From a huge vent In the mountain's side, a flood of molt en lava was belched forth. Spread ing out Into a groat shallow stream, It came roaring down the mountain slope, burning forests, carrying huge trees and Immense boulders on Its sur face—sweeping everything before It. With a speed varying from 1 to 20 miles an hour, according to the coun try It was passing over, It broadened out until It was nearly a mile In width. After wiping out the government belt road, razing telephone poles and de stroying a vast amount of property, the red-hot lava tumbled over a high precipice and plunged hissing Into the sea nearly 20 miles from Its source. In approaching the flow from the sea In the early evening, the glow from the lava was visible for many miles. As one drifted within 200 yards of the point where the liquid rook was rushing Into the sea, the scene was awe-inspiring. Slowly the smoky haze from the burning forests, which hung over the source 20 miles away, lifted and the river of fire stood out lii Its full glory. Leaping from pall to val ley, rushing uphill and roaring down, the fiery flood thundered down the mountain slope, carrying on Its bosom rocks as big as houses. As the stream of blazing lava neared the coastline, It appeared to gather more speed, ticking the final plunge over a 100-foot rllff at a terrific rate, and looking for all the world like a fiery Niagara. As the red-hot lava came In contact with the w*ater, great columns of steam and gas, like huge waterspouts, were forced hundreds of feet into the air. Huge boulders, hurled into space, exploded with thun derous reports Into auras of red and green lights, while flashes of whst looked like lightning added to tbi chaos. sion of the Presbytery of Omaha at First Church, Tuesday, It wag a live ly and profitable session. The Men’s Club is being mobilized with the object of redecorating the auditorium in the near future. We are now entering the last quar ter of the church year. It behooves every one to bend every energy to make a creditable showing for the year Services Sunday will be as follows: 11 A. M., “In the Beginning, God.” 7:30 P. M., "A Vision of Man's Need." Mhs. Taylor was St. Paul’s repre •entative at the Presbyterial Mission ary Society which convened in the North Presbyterian Church Tues day. She reports a very interesting and pleasant meeting. The women of the church are doing a most excellent work in missions both at home and abroad. nsai mory o« lit*. To be a strong hand In the dark to another In the time of need, o be a cup of strength to a human soul In a crisis of weakness, Is to know the glory of life.—Hugh Hlack. ( SWHAT OTHER | EDITORS SAY | THE BEGINNING OF THE END Ever since the redevivus of the Ku Klux Klan with its blatant announce ment of war against Negroes, Cath olics and Jews, and for 100 per cent Americanism, the more influential press of the country and a number of the leading churchmen and others have pronounced its early doom; but it is hardly possible that the most sanguine in this expectation among any of those who deplored its re-birth were prepar ed for the sudden blow that has over taken this un-American institution. The Klan, says Wizard Clarke, has now decided to abandon its propagan da against the Catholic Church and will admit members of this faith into the fold. The program now, says the chief “sheeter,” will be based strictly on white supremacy; not only in Amer- j ica, but to all Caucasian races thru-1 out the earth, and in order to carry ] out this plan he is quoted as saying: "We can’t afford to antagonize Cath olics when we are about to launch our world-wide organization and spretkd it to all white races, of which so many are Catholics.” In other W'ords, the! Klan has discovered that in tacklin I the Catholic Church in its campaign i of race hate and religious bigotry, it “bit off more than it could chew.” It has been the concensus of opin ion all along that sheets were morel plentiful in the Klan’s councils than brains, but could anything more I strongly emphasize its hopeless men-1 tal paucity than this right-about-face ? What do they take the Catholic Church for? Do they suppose that after trying to hold this denomina tion up to shame before the world, its members will now make a mad rush for the sheet pile and fight for a place in the glow of the fiery cross? It is to laugh. This is not the only amendment that must now be made to the original klonstitution, (Wizard Clarke says he is going abroad and will spend many months in foreign lands organizing branches. So we are not going to .have a 100 per cent American organ-j ization after all. And thus the cam-1 paign of war on aliens must also be! abandoned. In its decision to confine its activ ities now strictly to white supremacy,! the screws will be limited to the yel-; low and black races, says the Klizzard.] But can we depend on it ? In view of its recent turnabout on policy is it not I possible that this latest declaration j is only tentative? For instance, when the chief gath- j ers his role of sheets and in the ca pacity of the Klan’s w'alking delegate I alights in Japan for the purpose of organizing the few whites living in | the Flow'ery Kingdom, and finds that j the population is overwhelmingly yel low, wdll he not also turn “yellow”] and amend the klonstitution so as to include the Japs? And when he crosses over to China, to organize the whites in that un happy land, will not the canary hue again become ascendant and provision be made for the laundrymen ? And of course he must needs go to Africa to organize the Boers and expatriated Englishmen, and finding himself in a land where the black men outnumber the few whites hundreds to one, wdll he not perforce let down the bars for the Kaffirs, Bushmen and other in numerable gentry of the Dark Conti nent ? And what of the Jew? In his lat est manifesto, the Chief seems to have forgotten that this race was on the original program of proscription. But of course when he visits Palestine on his mission of “Klandestiny” he will find himself surrounded by a conglom eration of Jews, Turks and whatnot of so many colors that we expect to hear that he has gathered up his sheets and fled to the desert a raving maniac.— The Baltimore Afro-American. THE BECOMING OF NEGRO HOTELS By William Pickens, The Negro who travels in the United States knows what a benefactor of his race is another Negro who estab lishes a clean and honest hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Ira L. Stuart, who fed white people in the heart of Toledo, Ohio, for years, have now established a hotel in the colored district, The New Hotel Pleasant. It is clean and well provided. Negro travelers cannot get decent treatment in "white” hotels—at least not in many places. Springfield, Mass., and a few other New Kngland points, and a few places in the “uncivilized” west, are all that occur to our minds at this minute where a black man can get, a first-class hotel service without a fight- There are a few hotels In New York that may admit a black man if he is known, tried, proven and well vouched for—about as “free” Negroes had to carry identifying papers in 1850. We welcome the development of Negro hotels, and want to give tberr this “tip”: Admit, any human being of any race, wherever the law allows it. Run a hotel for humans who behave themselves. This is the black man's privilege In America and he should make the most of it. Poor, handi capped white people are not yet per mitted to rise above the, sub-human civilization which respects only “our clan” and “our tribe”. PROMINENT FARM EXPERT FLOGGED BY KLIJXIES IContinued from Page One) tory, so another lushing was ordered, whihch was more severe than the first. He was then told to go home and be a “good Nigger”. While Hall is a giant in stature and a strong man in appearance, but he says he did not see his way clear to lick forty cowards armed with all kinds of weapons. Illghest Type of Colored Man. L. E. Hall’s name is amongst those “Who’s Who in Agriculture" publish ed at Cornell University and he has long been an associate worker with such men as Booker T Washington, Frissell ami Dr. Moton. As one of those who has done great work in developing the southern agrteutlural resources, Mr. Hall has been consider ed as being typical of what the South most wants in Negroes. The recently renewed exodus of Ne gro farmers from North Carolina is thought to have been the result of an awakened consciousness of their posi tion In the minds of Negro farm hands. Coupled with the mass movement or Negro farm hands there has been no ticeable a rapid increase of Negro land owners. Thought for the Day. If we would greet the members of our family In Ihc evening ns pleas antly as »ve have gre tod other people during the day, our homes would he happier. We’d Call Them Alleys. Many of the streets of Canton. '’hlntt ore nnlv eight feet wide. Ilonds Furnished to Reliable Persons NOTARY PUBLIC IN OFFICE PHONES: Res., Web. 6613; Office, At. 5101 Res. 2863 Binney St. NOAH W. WARE ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR AT LAW HOURS: 0 A. M. to 12:00 Noon; 1:30 P. M. to 5:30 P. M. Ill So. 14th Street Omaha, Nebr. 8 S 8 Prepare for Hereafter | 8 By Keeping Warm Now § COAL ALL KINDS Reasonable Prices Charles Solomon 8 2530 Lake St. Web. 2019 | 5 Residence Web. 4238 S Central Cuming Mkt. HIGHEST QUALITY GROCERIES and MEATS i All Kinds of Fruit and Vegetables in Season Open Until 9 P. M. Every Evening. All Day Sunday. I 2820 Cuming Street ! PHONE HARNEY 4515 W,S*B Skinner® tlw hifhwt grad* Maeanat V««Letti, Egg Naodlaa mmd BALSAM OF UILKAD? Editor Monitor: A news item dated January 10th states than an unsual tribute was paid by the House to Representative Stedman, democrat, North Carolina, the only confederate veteran serving In that body, when he rose to plead for federal consideration of a bill tc permit the erection in Washington of a monument to the southern Negro Mammy. The entire membership, republicans and democrats, cheered Mr. Stedman for several minutes. Mr. Stedman painted the Negro Mammy’s fidelity as without parallel in history. The bill would authorize the Daugh ters of Confederacy to erect the monu ment on government owned ground. I believe that I speak for our entire group when 1 say that, we are astound ed and bewildered not necessarily at the proposal, for the germ evidently sprouted In the mind of a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy and women folk are naturally emo tional, also such organizations are for ever seeking to achieve something to give it greater prominence, better ad vertising as it were. But why the sedate old house of representatives, republicans and democrats alike, should cast aisde their masks and openly cheer .such a proposition and its sponsor is the point of amazement. While '' is undlsputably true that both the southern white man and the northern white man, by adoption, owe MUCH to the Negro Mammy, their debt Is suoh as should bow their heads with shame. Individually or severally why erect a tablet of cold bronze or a mass of colder stone in a vain attempt to right such a groes wrong or to mislead gen erations yet unborn? To manifest a true and pure appre ciation of t he Negro Mammy’s fidel ity why not reward both her and hers by erecting a monument to the Negro Mammy and the Negro Pappy together with their children by passing unanim ously the Dyer bill or like legislation, a true and lasting monument that will both benefit coming generations and those in whose memory it is to be erected B. B. COWAN. Please have your subscription ready when our collector calls. i SUIT and EXTRA PANTS to order d*yf/\ x Reduced from $55 y | |j Other Grades at $45, $50 and Up. A Similar Reduction on Overcoats. S § This is less than the original price of suit alone. An extra pair of X pants doubles the life of a suit. A few sample garments made in our X j| own work shop for sale at attractive prices. They are better and X g cheaper than ready-mades. • » Grand Special Offer: Fine Blue Serge Suit, $40; Worth $t!0 I MacCARTHY-WILSON TAILORING CO. x ft Big Daylight Tailor Store. S. E. Corner 15th and Harney Sta. 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