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The monitor A National WeeKJy Newpaper Devoted Primarily to the Interests ^ of Colored Americans. Published Kvery Friday at Omaha, Nebraska, by the Monitor Publishing Company. j Bntered as S'sond-Class Alail Alatter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor. Lincoln, Neb. LUGINDA W. WILLIAMS, Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Appllcaton. Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 - « « V :; ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE X ;; UNITED STATES ;!; !! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged ; I 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, X I" and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the**j; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No S state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the X privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States: nor X 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. £ <X~X~X“X"X"X“X“X“X~X":-X“:"X~:~X~X~:-X“:"X“X-X-X":"X--X~X--X-:' A SIGNIFICANT REQUEST Tt is always a pleasure for us to call attention to evidences of af fection, esteem and good will between the races of mankind, in general, and especially between members of our own group and those of the dominant group in this country between whom there seems to be the very opposite tendency. Optimistic tho we are we cannot close our eyes to the fact that racial nusunderstandings and ill-will seem to be growing more acute, in creasing rather than decreasing. We i have faith to believe that all will work out in the end because God is in Heaven, and tho all is not well with the world, He is slowly working His purposes out, and ultimately His , will be done upon earth. Thru what travail and pain our own nation and the world must pass before amity ami brotherhood will prevail we do not know. History has revealed strange surprises in the evolution of civiliza tion and doubtless has many more in store. The estrangement between our own people and the w'hite people of America seems to be growing. In the face of this it is enheartening to point to evidence of affection, esteem and understanding which show that there is after all a tie that binds. Recent ly there was a singular manifestation of this spirit which shows what con tact and association will do for awak ening mutual understanding, apprecia tion and esteem. It was at the com mencement held at St. Paul’s Normal and Industrial School for Negro youth, at Lawrenceville, Va., that splendid institution which was or ganized and built up by the Rev. James S. Russell, a scholarly and Christian gentleman of the first rank, who has given his life as a Christian priest and educator to the uplifting of our race in his native state, and in which he was bom a slave shortly before Lincoln’e emanci pation proclamation. “Virginia Day” was a high day a s a part of the commencement program. Governor Trinkle graced the occasion with his presence and made a felicitous and statesmanlike address before an aud ience of more than 2000 people of both races. In his address he paid a high | 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 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 rs State, i 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 reason than that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve tiim by setting a table in amore private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich ! 868; N. W. 718." __ and vvelLdeserved tribute to Archdeac on Rus£ll, whom he characterized as a Christian gentlefan, who for years had given out beneficient and far reaching influences and inspirational leadership. The Governor also paid a graceful and grateful tribute to his own nurse, a Negro woman, who had inculcated in him sterling principles which had profoundly influenced his whole life. Archdeacon Russell, mod estly passng over the tribute paid him by the Governor of Virginia comment ing upon the Governor's tribute to his nurse, said he too wished to pay tribute to one to whom he was great ly indebted for that which, under God he had become, his old teacher, spirit ual father and life-long friend, a sold ier of the Confederacy, the Reverend (Major) Giles B. Cook, whom he de sired to present for a word. Totter ing with age, Giles B. Cook, to whom scores of Virginia Churchmen of color are deeply indebted for education and spiritual training, rose to his feet. He modestly told of his deep interest in the colored people, of his warm af fection and high regard for his former pupil Archdeacon Russell, and of his hitherto expressed wish, now publicly repeated that his former pupil should officiate at his funeral. Profound silence momentarily ensued this sig nificant statement followed by pro longed cheers. The significance of this may' be gauged by the fact that th espeaker is the last survivor of that group of twelve Confederate of ficers who laid down their arms with General Robert E. Lee. at Appomat tox. April 9. 1865, Major Cook sub sequently studied for the ministry, be ing ordained deacon in 1871 and priest in 1874. retiring from the active min istry six years ago. An ex-confeder ate soldier enters the ministry', bap tizes and teaches a little ex-slavc Negro boy who in turn also enters the priesthood and becomes the re spected head of a great school and a genuine helper of mankind, honored and respected by all who know him. This ex-confederate soldier publicly requests that the ex-slave hoy shall lay his mortal remains to rest with the liturgy of the Church w'hich they both love so well and which has made them, both alike, what they are. He is wilfully blind who refuses to | see in this rare and isolated request the augury for a better day that must i sooner or later dawn for America in I which character and worth alone will I count, unbiased and uninfluenced by | race or creed. These shafts of light i presage that dawn. THE CONVICTION OF GARVEY. \f aivus Garvey attempted the im- j possible and failed. His con- j i viction was legal and technical, anil j loes not ^-each*the roots of his prop j Uganda. I have never attempted an I analysis of the teachings of the Af rican reformer. In my view it is 1 needless to do so until we can disen-1 j tangle the grotesque features from j its deeper meaning, and the ephemeral from its permanent meaning. I prom- i : ise my readers at some early date to | undertake an analytical treatment of | the gospel as it is in Garvey. In the ! meantime, I take no delight in the death of the wicked.—Kelly Miller in ! Pittsburg Courier. : _ FOOTNOTES TO ii AFRICAN HISTORY I :i * (By the Hamitic league) B g raasaaaatKKffimiHBgga «m m »xxk » «x* THE SPHINX. (The Hamitic League) Have you ever seen the Sphinx of Egypt, that old stone baby of the thick lips and flat nose that has stood in Egypt’s sands for steen thousand years? It not, save the blue ones and | the thin ones and give it the once over one of these days. Men still wonder why the hello Bill the Sphinx was ever carved, but all they know is that it is there and that it is a stone cut-up of a cullur gentle man who was mighty proud and didn’t : care who knows it. The Egyptian tradition says it was carved on the order of one Mr. Horus, a chocolate colored bird who chased a read headed, blue eyed waffle out of t Egypt and dared him to come back. The waffle’s name was Set and he eased into the royal cushions by turn ing the dad of Horus over to the un 1 dertakers and making love to Isis, • the wife of Mr. Osiris. He didn’t' have any luck with Isis | ljecau.se he couldn’t catch her. When Horus grew up he collected an army of cullud scrappers and i sailed into Reddy so fast that friend ; latter lost his sandals in heel dust. Just Whither he went none ever knew. : hut according to the dope he went due east without a change of trains. As you know the Egyptians were 1 strong believers in hoodoo and after I Reddy tore out, Horus decided to carve his own face in stone and place j it in the desert so that if Reddy ever j started to stage a come-back, he would see the face and accumulate a , mess of cold feet. So the Sphinx was carved and there it stands today as it has stood for those steen thousand years. But Reddy never came back. The scan' which Horus gave him was so strong that there was never the necessity for i a second dose. Many a bird who has read in his history book that the old Egyptians were pale faces, takes a tumble when he gazes into the old stone face of i Horus. He kncws pronto that some one has tried to slip something over on him and gets wise. Back yonder the cullud race was some historic fruit. (Next Week, Mr. Perseus of Arguf) Mr. ami Mrs. Virgil Collier of Den ver, Colo., are Omaha visitors. They are stopping with Mr. and Mrs. 1 Christopher Fox, 2866 Maple street. _ - y»£errra//o/70/ The General Poet Office, Johannesou (Prepared by th# National Geographic 80 clety, Waal ngton. D. C.) With the continued discussion of the effect on the United Slates of the huge gold supply that world economic con ditions have driven to our shores, the region that produces more of the pre cious metal Ilian any other urea takes on an added interest. This is the fa mous "Hand” (officially Wttwaters iand) of the Transvaal, South Africa, that in the relatively brief period since its discovery has swelled the annual stream of new gold to nearly twice its volume. In keeping with traditions, this great reservoir of the metal, "bright and yellow, hard and cold,” has given a stormy us well as a glltled history to the corner of the Transvaal In which it was uncovered. It built up In a few years a city of 284,000 -mils drawn from all parts of thp world; it caused raids, labor troubles, and a bloody major war; and it vitally changed the map and political com plexity of Africa The Boers trekked over the Hand re gion and raised their live stock on Its -emi-b'trren slopes for years without realising that belew their feet lay the greute t volume of rich gold ore known tu exist. The discovery of the ore was made In 188T>, but the region did not realize its prosperity immediately. The gold is finely divided In a con gliuiieri^e rock and its profitable re covery calls for the highest degree In scientific treatmetit. The ore must be crushed hy heavy stamps sud then pieated hy the cyanide process, The ■ ■re beds extend for more than (HI miles along the, low hills known as “tlie Band” and mines were opened at various points. By isftl much of the surface vein of ore HhiI been exhausted and It was eared that the field would he short lived. Then It was discovered that the main gold rpef below Is for all practi cal purposes without bottom and that the extent of rich ore from which gold may be taken is only limited by the practicability of man's working at great depths. The uverage gold con tent of the ore is worth nearly $10 a 11in, and engineers have estimated that there remain In the Hand ores worth many hillinn* of dollars. Boom Brought the Boer War. By 1K!if> the Rand was In the midst of a tremendous boom. Investors, prospectors laborers and soldiers of fortune flocked in. The necessary heavy machinery was hauled for hun dreds of miles and brought In over mountain passes by wagons and ox ti urns. The output of yellow metal mounted rapidly, and with it grew tlie troubles that brought on the Boer war. The city of Johannesburg was horn of the gold discovery and rose to the stature of a city in the space of a lew years practically “on the dig gin's." It is almost on the crest of ite Rand. By 1901! the Rand's annual produc tion passed that of all North Amer ica. Before the World war the a_n nuul recovery reached $175.IKK),000, and by 1920 the output had again climbed to $188,000,000, an amount which rep resented roughly half the entire world production In 'hat year In 1921 a new peak was reached when gold valued at about I200.tsst.000 wa” taken from the Rand. Johannesburg ia situated about mid way along the Rund. There are a num ber of true suburbs strung out on the siojies of the r.dge devoted largely to tie residence* ,,f the well-to-do; and In olditlon. farther away along the Rand, ire smaller ^tellire towns. Nine miles to the eust lies HennlatoD and >lx miles farther, Boksburg. Twenty one miles to the west ia Krttgersdorp. Knr about 25 i ^les in each direction from the city iftie is never out of sight of tub chimneys, ugly crushing houses, and labor compounds which tfell the eve that this is a scene of unceasing activity. And the same message is conveyed to ear ahd nostrils. The great crushing machinery keeps up a deafening din and at times when the wind assists (Tie air is tilled with the tine white dust w-hich Is a troublesome ind unescapable by-product of I lie ■ ■rushing operations. The Rantl gold held is fortunate In having a supply of coal 25 miles to the east which has kept down operating costs and so has Ma^y are showing their apprecia tion for the Monitor by sending in their subscriptions. Are you a sub briber? If not, why not? is your subscription due? If so, please pay it jfrmptly. * \ First-Class Modern Furnished Rooms —1702 No. 26th 8t. Web. 47**. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Erwin. FOR RENT—Three nicely furnished rooms for man and wife, or men.— Webster 4482. FRANK KELLOGG Painting, Decorating and Wall Paper General Repair Work Brick laying Carpenter Work Office 2202 N. 24th WE hater 6668 Rea. WE hater 2456 i ^I | EMERSON’S LAUNDRY J X The Laundry That Salta AH f *' 1801 No. 24th St. W*h. 0820 been a big factor in keeping the gold stream moving. Johannesburg a Fine City. Much of the tremendous wealth that has come out of the reef lias flowed abroad, a fact, incidentally, which is responsible for much of the bitterness that has existed among the white miners and the Boer farmers. But some of the millionaires and sub-mil lionaires have spent lavishly in the country, and these expenditures, ns well as the millions spent in opera tion, have enriched Johannesburg. Ex ceptlng two cities near the Mediter ranean, which may tie considered a* belonging to a separate civilization, Johannesburg is the metropolis of Af rica. It has a population of more than 284,000, of which more than 150, 000 are white. It is a city of numerous substantial buildings, some of them of many stories, resembling more nearly Amer ican structures than those of Europe. Wide asphalt streets, theaters, luxuri ous clubs, Hnd tlie finest hotel south of the equator are other features that go to make “Johrurg" an up-to-date, comfortable cltv. In thp suburbs are many fine residences: and the country club will compare favorably with sim ilar Institutions on any of the six continents. The altitude of more than a mile above sea level makes tlie city healthful nnd comfortable despite its nearness to the tropic*. But despite Its opulence Johannes burg still has some of the earmarks of a mining camp. In the sumptuous dubs booted prospectors are to be seen side by side with carefully manicured financiers. The iron-roofed shack of the early days has not entirely disap peared : gambling hells and grog shops can he found with ease by miners In the city to spend their earnings In the traditional way of the mining camp. Nor is the city, for all its public im provements and architecture, entirely a Twentieth century white man's com munity More than 100.000 African natives live within its limits. Motor cars predominate in the traffic, but the heavy Boer wagon tins not been thrust entirely out of the picture. And one cun ride o> er the asphalt or could a few years ago—lit a “rlklsha” drawn hv a festher-Iiedecked Zulu. ou^ne ot 1'iuvn iuiuuinm«, Turbulence line been llie lot of Jo hannesburg aince Its lilrth in 1 K85, arid many of its problem* have piv oted around the mine owners and la borers. The Boer war really grew out of tiie discovery of gold on the Hand and the resulting Influx of thousands of Englishmen and other “ultlanders." The lll-stnrred ruld of Jameson was directed against Johannesburg, and at the same time the city was seized from within by the British mine operatives. Just before the outbreak of the World war there was an uprising Of tiie white miners around Johannesburg, but the difficulties were patched up be cause of tiie great conflict. The obtaining of labor for the Hand mines has always lioen a problem 'of considerable proportions. With tiie mines working at capacity something over 250,000 workers arc needed. The local negroes preferred work on the farms and among the live stock of the Boers. White men in sufficient num bers could not be obtained, nor could tiie owners afford to pay exrlusivel.t white men's wages. At one time 50, 000 Chinese coolies were Imported, lint their presence caused much trouble, and in 1810 tli| last of them were re 1 (Striated. In recent years tens of thousands of negroes from Portuguese' East Africa have been brought in to supplement tin* local negroes that could he induced to work, and the 25,000 more or less skilled white workers. Cbrious Taxes. Early Engiisli statesmen imposed a tax on beards. When it was levied It was a real hardship,’ and, in fact, was meant to be suclx It was imposed by tiie Normans,- and was directed against tiie Saxons, most of whom were, to use a topical expression, ‘•heavers." In the reign of William III births, marriages and burials were taxed At that time. too. there was a tax on bachelors, and on widower too. Horses were once taxed and. by way of protest, one ft-1 or ' market on bis co” ■——— 1 .. i _ I Letters From Our Readers ft Bhort, timely letters are invited. e \ preier that writers sign their names, but in all rases letters signed with a . noin de plume or as “Reader," “Bub- ' Scriber,” etc., must be accompanied | by Uie name and address of the author for the editor’s information. PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN MAKES COMMENT ON MONITOR EDITORIALS. 1 — COAL HILL COAL COMPANY Omaha, Neb., July 16, 1923. | Rev. John Albert Williams, Editor Monitor: Permit me to congratulate you on three fine constructive editorials in j The Monitor issue of July 13th. • I was particularly glad to see the article on patronizing the worthy col- i ored business man, and discouraging bv lack of patronage the colored mer chant who is unwilling to give his customers * cor.ipetetive prices ami keep his store in equal or better con ditions than the white merchant who is a bidder for the valuable colored trade. The colored citizen should under stand that every dollar he gives to ti.e colored business man not only should buy equal goods at equal prices, but also this patronage enables the col ored man to increase his business and in this way opeu the road of oppor tunity for other industrious colored | men and women. The note of appreciation for clean , lawns was a good piece of work. A neat house or a well-kept lawn is an outward and visible sign of self respect and prosperity. I was very glad to see your article for better lighting on Lake street. The lighting is a very important com munity question. Twenty-fourth street needs more and better lighting and a big play ground for that con gested quaver. The colored citizens must lead that movement l>ecause they are the ma jority of the population in that cento and should point the way. 1 am confident that if the represen tative colored men and women take a start for a progressive improvement club like the Leavenworth Improve ment Club, the representative white citizens who live in the vicinity of North 24th street will be sold to the idea of civic improvement and togeth er you can make your center one of the beauty spots of the city. SSC:LE Yours very truly, S. S. CALDWELL. New Bank to Open Washington, I>. C„ July 20.—The! Prudential Bank, with an authorized; capital of $2,000, will open its doors1 July 23rd at Plighth and Florida ave. i Officers include John R. Hawkins, pres ident; Dr. A. M. Curtis, Thomas Walk er, Dr. P. W. Price and C. W. Han ton. f ■ — Please have your subscription ready > when the Monitor collector calls. SPECIAL PRICE Friday and Saturday King Tut Sandals $3.50 FI LL LINE OF HOSIERY Friedman Bros. 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