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The Monitor A Notional Weakly Newpaper Devoted Primarily to the Interests of Colored Americans. ___ Published Every Friday at Omaha. Nebraska by the Monitor Publishing Company. Entered as S< sond-Claas Mall Matter July 2. 1918, at the Postofhce at Omaha. Nebraska, under the Act of March 2. 1S79. __ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor. W. W. MOSELV. Associate Editor. Lincoln, Neb. LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS, Business Manager._ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 76c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Appllcaton. Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 lm . . —^ ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE | ! ! UNITED STATES J I ! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged •{• it J ; ; 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, *«. < > and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the v I ! United States and of the State wherein they reside. No £ I ! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the | ; ; privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor X < ’ shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- ❖ I erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person A ‘; within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Ijl Mttfttt I ittttff*^*A**AA*AAAAA*******A**M,*M*a*A6**A COMMENDABLE ACTION WfE HEARTILY commend Hark Commissioner Hummel and Ira Jones, superintendent of recreation, for the just and honorable stand taken by them last week in the case of Mrs. Ada Hill Smith, whose appointment as playground supervisor was published in last week’s issue. It is alleged that another woman, white, assigned to the same park, and who was on duty a part of the time with Mrs. Smith, having learned that Mrs. Smith is a colored woman, although, tor that matter she is as fair as the objector, and easily her superior in education, refused to work with her. Not con tent with that it is said that she at tempted to incite a riot against Mrs. Smith. Knowledge of this came to Park Commissioner Hummel and Mr. Jones. Plain clothes men were dis patched to the park to see to it that anybody who started any trouble or offered any violence to Mrs. Smith was promptly taken into custody. Fortunately nothing untoward hap pened. The woman who raised the objection and is alleged to have tried to cause trouble was promptly dis charged. All right-minded people commend well Joseph Hummel for the stand for justice which he took in this matter. It is just this kind of a manly stand taken by the authorities which will bring narrow-minded peo ple, of whom this woman is a type, to their senses. Colored people of this city are relatively heavy tax payers. They contribute their share to the maintenance of the city. It is only Just and fair that when and where qualified they should be given public employment just like other citizens and those who would deprive them of this privilege are by no means representative of the fair-minded and progressive citizenship of Omaha. READ. THINK AND ACT (i^OME of the merchants on North Twenty-fourrth street and other sections of our city, who are doing a tremendous business and growing rich off of our people’s patronage have the temerity to say there is no Nebraska Civil Rights Bill 'Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights. Enacted in 1893. Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall | 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 ths 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 i 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, ’ 26 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 reaspn 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. 868; N. W. 718.” ♦ .. 1 » - i need for them to advertise in a race newspaper “for we’ll get the trade anyway.’’ Some of the merchants use large space in white weekly publica tions, as well as the dailies, and not an inch in our legitimate weekly pub lications of which there are two hav ing the required endorsement of the Retailers’ Association. Now our peo ple have it within their power to change this situaton. We belfeve that a large number of them are willing to do their part in this matter. The Monitor therefore calls upon the col ored patrons of these merchants to in sist that they give a reasonable por tion of their advertising to our legit imate weekly newspapers or they will withdraw their trade and give it to those who do. These merchants may decide which publication they prerfer to use; but our people who look to our race papers to fight their battles and serve them should have enough race pride and self-respect to refuse to permit it to be said with truth: WE DON'T HAVE TO ADVERTISE IN A COLORED NEWSPAPER, FOk WE WILL GET YOUR TRADE ANY | WAY. CONDUCT | CANNOT emphasize too fre quently the necessity for our people everywhere conducting tuem j selves with decorum and propriety, Good behavior everywhere and at all times counts. We as a group are be ing carefully watched and constantly criticized. Let our conduct always be ; above reproach. • BOOTLEGGING JOINTS rJ'HERE are too many bootlegging joints permitted to run in sections of the city largely tenanted by oui : people. That they can be operated without the knowledge of the author ities seems almost incredulous. When for example you see men and women of all sorts and conditions going in ! large numbers to certain houses and coming out hilariously drunk, it is a reasonable presumption that such places are dispensing intoxicating 1 liquors. Tragedies committed by drunk-crazed victims are all too fre quent Bootlegging joints are a grave menace to the community and should be closed. j| FOOTNOTES TO | AFRICAN HISTORY § (By the Hamitic League) Memnon, the Son of the Sun Suppose that someone should tell you that the ancient Greeks believed that Aurora, the goddess of the dawn and driver of the chariot of the sun, was an aggravating brown! What | would you say? Yet that is exactly what those cold storage birds once taught and they claimed that every evening after her drive, Aurora went home to her hub by Tithonus in Ethiopia. One day Aurora gave birth to a lit tle boy and they called him Memnon. He became one of the greatest heroes of the ancient world. In his youth he left home and built the city' of Thebes in Egypt that wonder city of a hun dred gates and a thousand temples. When he grew tired of that he blew over to Persia and helped his dad build the Persian city of Susa. Just about this time the Trojan war started. Priam king of Troy, was Memnon"s uncle and when things be gan to get too hot, Priam sent out the S. O. S. for Memnon to come and help him maul the Greeks. Memnon came with an army of Ethiopians and Per sians. In single combat he fought Achilles, the Grecian heavyweight, and. after a terrrible contest, copped a knockout. The whole city of Troy went into mourning for this black champion and as his body rested up on the pyre, Aurora swept down in her sun chariot and snatched him away. And the Greeks believed that the dew found on the flowers and grass in the morning were the tears Aurora still weeps for her baby boy. (Next meek-—Osiris, the Great God of Old Egypt,) 1 HOWARD HAS THIRTY-FIVE STUDENT-CANDIDATES AT ( AMP MEADE R. O. T. C. Camp Meade, Md., June 29.—How ard University n- represented at the ; Reserve Officers Training Camp at I Camp Meade, Md., by thirty-five stu j dent-candidates. The camp was opened June 15tb and will continue j for si\ weekB until July 25tb at which I tinie commissions will be awarded to : .hose students who have alreadv com pleted the full course of training in j the R. O. T. C. unit at Howard Uni ! versity. There are twenty-eight universities ! represented at the training camp at Camp Meade with an enrollment of 888 college men. DOCTOR GREGG SPEAKS AT PRINCESS ANNE ACADEMY Princess Anne, Md., June 29.—“No j amount of power, skill, cleverness, know ledge or culture will carry a man successfully through life if he is un trustworthy,” declared Dr. James E. I Gregg, principal of Hampton Institute, 1 who delivered the recent commence ment address at Princess Anne Acad emy, of which J. O. Spencer is the president. “If a man is 'out for himself,' " said Doctor Gregg, “unscrupulous, funda mentally selfish, his neighbors soon find it out. Abraham Uncoln and Theodore Roosevelt were trusted by the people. The object of education is to make men and women of power and trustworthiness. Such men and wo men are the truest assests of a com munity.” LINCOLN NEWS ,The Rose banquet given by the N. A. A. C. P. ceelbrating the birthday ot Weldon Johnson. Monday night. June 18th, was a great success. The hall was decorated to represent a flower garden. The tables were set in a rose latticed pergola. At the end of the first table, back of the official's chair, was a *splendid likeness of Mr. Johnson, the work of our talented art ist, Aaron Douglas. The president, Mrs. Charles P Haynes, with her co workers, Mesdames Cooley, O. John son, Burckhanlt, Young, Messrs. C. Haynes, Tom Coleman, achieved most .-wonderful results by their concentrat ed efforts, and the lovely effect Was most pleasing to the eye. The pro gram and banquet began with the singing of the national hymn. “'Lift up Your Voices and Sing." The Cole ridge Taylor Sextette sang two selec tions. words bx Weldon Johnson. The Rev. (1. W. Carter and Rev. W. C. Knight, Messrs. It. H. Young, P. 1,. Moore and several other speakers were dated to appear on the program. Several new members were enrolled, and an interest aroused to an enthus- ! iastic degree. This event, the first of its kind, will long be remembered j by friends as one of the most interest ing as well as uccessful N. A. A. C. P. gatherings. Miss Hattie Craves entertained | friends last week in honor of honor ot j the Misses Mary and Martha Burden, who left for L<e- Angeles. California. j Tiesd&y after an extended visit with j their brothers and friends here. The following named women went as delegates to the State Federation ot I Colored omen’s Clubs at Omaha this ! week: Mesdames F. Young, Grace; Stanley. Ixda Howard, J. C. Collins,! Oerlrude Haynes, J. W. Cooley, Ada' Holmes. , The state superintendent of the ' Baptist Sunday school convention, H. L. Anderson, will visit Lincoln Sun-! day, July 1st. Miss Opal Ashford is able to be at work again. , Mrs. Alice Bush is reported quite sick, her daughter, Mrs. Mabel Bailey, has arrived and is at her bedside. Kev. H. W. Botts and his congrega tion, having completed the basement of their home church, returned home and held early services last Sunday morning, with prayer and covenant, followed by a fine sermon by Rev. M. C. Knight, of the A. M. E. church. The regular Sunday school was well attended. Dr. W. F. Botts, accompan ied by his wife and other friends from Omaha, drove over in an auto. I)r. Botts delivered a most excellent ser mon, and showered his brother and church with many congratulations for the efficient work they are doing In Lincoln for the Master. After re freshments and re*t the party return ed home. Regular services were con tinued at night, the pastor giving a fine discourse. Collection for the day was $146.45. Remember the annual Fourth of July picnic in F Street park, by Mt. Zion Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. I). H. Oliver will en tertain the Ctopian Art Club July 12. Sunday was the Annual Woman’s day at the A. M. E. church, and a most excellent program, was rendered dur ing the day, especially by the Aid so ciety. The annual Thanksgiving ser mon of the Masons was held at 8:00 p. m. and was delivered in an excel lent manner by the Rev. M. C. Knight. The sermon, ar viewed from a Mason ic standpoint, had been given much thought in preparation. We congrat ulate Mr. Knight for his words of en couragement. About fifty master Masons turned out. The services at night were an innovation. WWWW/rtWWWWMNW Eat at I) E LUXE CAFE Burke A Wiley, Proprietors. Short Orders at All Hours Quality and Service. Phone L-4434 246 No. 9th St Lincoln, Nebraska N. W. C. A. NOTES Tile board Meeting will be held on Monday evening. July 2. at the* home of Mrs. Elese Turner. 2526 Corby St. All members are urged to be present to attend to business of importance. The regular monthly meeting will be held Thursday morning, July 5, instead of Wednesday morning at the home, 3029 Pic kney. Every persor who gives five dollars or more towards the building fund will be given credit through the two colored papers. Members of ihe borne wish to thank the uniformed ranks Knights of py tfiias and Court of Calanthe for their donation. Don”t forget the concert on July llth given for the Old Folks Home by the Desdunes band. ELIZABETH M. REED, Corresponding Secy., 2635 Franklin St. NEBRASKA STATE • FEDERATION HAS ANNUAL SESSION (Continued from Page One) on “War Mothers’ Benefits:" a paper by Mrs Belle Taylor; an instrumental solo bv Mrs. Belle Collins of Lincoln; a violin solo by Clarence Desdunes; a demonstration by Mrs. Lenora Gray, chairman of household economics, and the election and installation of offi cers. , The evening session was - devoted very largely to the completion of bus iness. Time, however, ^'as found for a solo by Mrs. Rachel Harrold; a paper by Mrs. Marie Johnson; a reci tation by Mrs. Adverta Randall; a piano solo by Miss Robbie Turner; a baritone solo by Mr. 11. L. Preston, and a trio by Mrs. Maude Ray, Mrs. Pearl Reece and Miss Darline Duvall, the last two numbers receiving an en core. Rev. L H. Scott of Dallas, Texas, and Rev. John Albert Williams were called upon and responded with brief remarks. Opportunity was giv en Mrs. M. H. Wilkinson to present the subject of the Women Anti-Lynch tng Crusaders. , Report of the Orphans' home which the Federation plans to open in Lin coln showed $596.70 in fund. The following officers, most of them re-elections, were chosen for the en suing year: Mrs. Lulu Rountree, president; Mrs. Robert Scott. Beat rice, first vice-president; Mrs. Ada Holmes, Lincoln, second vice-presi dent; Mrs. Rhieva Harrold, Omaha, secretary; Mrs. Maggie Smith, Om aha, assistant secretary; Mrs. May Jackson .Omaha, corresponding sec retary; Mrs. Tina Cooley, Lincoln, state treasurer; Mrs. Daisy Goruon, Beatrice, Home treasurer; Mrs. Fan nie Young. Lincoln, State organizer; Mrs. Fannie Russell, Omaha, chair man executive committee; Mrs. Jen nie McGovern, Omaha, chairman ot ways and means; Mrs. Sarah Severe, chaplin; Mrs. Rachel Harrold. Om aha, chairman of Home Economics; Mrs. Grace Stanley, Lincoln, chairman of arts and music committee; and Mrs. E. H. McDonald, chairman Child ren's Welfare. Lincoln was chosen as the next place of meeting. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. Frederick Divers, Pastor Sunday was another great day for Bethel. The Sunday school seemed to reflect the interest that wag shown In our District meeting held in South Omaha last week. They are to have a report from the delegates next Sun day. At the 11:00 o’clock service the pas tor occupied the pulpit for the first time in this service month, and re sumed his studies in Daniel, dealing at length with Belshazzar's Feast, oi the Passing of Babylon. St. John’s Day was celebrated by the Masonic lodges of the city by an excellent sermon to a crowded house at three o’clock. Rev. E. L. Hollis of the C. M. E. Church preached the ser mon. The brethren were lavish In their praise of the message brought by this strong young man. In the evening, our one hour ser vice, Rev. G. W. Hendricks of the A. M. E. Zion Church occupied the pul pit and spoke on TRUE RELIGION. Mr. Hendricks Is here in the Interest of his church. The Vacation Bible School will open July 9th at 9 a. m. See us early for we can accommodate only a limited number. The school is free. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. William Franklin, Pastor The Sunday morning service was largely attended. The pastor’s topic was “True Christianity.” He empha sized the fact that failure to manifest ihe spirit of true Christianity is re sponsible for the world-wide tumult of the day. Mrs. H. J. Bain and Miss Hargraves, white, teachers in our vacation school, were among the visitors to our Sun day services and spoke highly of the attendance and work of the summer school which is open to all the child ren of the neighborhood. A special course of domestic science is being taught to the young women, hours 9:00 to 11:30 a. m. The Fifty-fifth anniversary of the Kansas jurisdiction F. A. & A. Y. M., was observed at Pilgrim Sunday af ternoon at 3:00 o’clock. Appropriate exercises were held and the sermon was preached by the Rev. E. H. Mc Donald, pastor of Mt. Moriah. The Trip Around the World, given by the Florida Club Tuesday night, was a most enjoyable affair. The Sunday School is steadily grow lng. Many new scholars ■ have been recently enrolled. A. R. Goodlet is superintendent. Mr. J. R. Smith, of 1210 North 24th street, part owner of Jones and Smith Barber shop, died last Tuesday at the University hospital. The funeral waB held Thursday from the church, Rev. William Franklin officiating. Mrs. Smith expresses her gratitude to the church for its kindness and sympathy. —B. S. Sutton, Church Reporter. Many are showing their apprecia tion for the Monitor ‘by sending in their subscriptions. Are you a sub scriber? if not, why not? is your subscription due? If so, please pay it prmptly. F!i»*-Oaaa Modern Furnished Rooms —470* No. 24th St Web. 478*. lira L. M. Bentley Erwin. FOR RENT—Three nicely furnished rooms for man and wife, of men.— Webster 4432. 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