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THE MONITOR A WIEKLT NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY AT OMAHA. NEBRASKA. BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Kitarwl m Sacond-Claa* Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at | Omaha, Nebraska, under the Aet of March 3, 1879. _ THS'RlV~iOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS----- —|T,T I W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb.- -----Aiioclite Editor LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS-.-.-.—.—-- Business Manager f B A SUTTON____—.Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Retee FurnNhsd Upon Application__ _ Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 V_ —■ II flies*aeoASAASSOt >t1) Illlilllllllltff FTTTTT1 ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES < Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ! and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No < state Anil 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 1 arty without due process of law, nor deny to any person 1 within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ;; X . < > M *- * * aaa i i > r i 1 > r l f. .P. »*» 1*1 »*■ >*i 1*1 i*i 1*11*1 i*i i*ift A/i A A A A A AA A Ai*irtdi AAA A THINKING A N amusing story is told of the dis ^ comfiture of a rather brilliant lawyer by the reply of a witness whom he was examining. The wit- j ness was a Negro of quite limited. education, but his reply shows the ready wit with which our race is en dowed. The lawyer said, “Now, sir, will you tell the court what you know about this affair?” “Yassah, I think—" “We don’t want you to tell what you think,” interrupted the lawyer, “but what you know about it. Tell us what you know.” “Yassah. As I was about to say, I think that—.” “Don’t tell us what you ‘think,’ I have told you once, and I repeat it, but what you know,” impatiently in terrupted the lawyer, “Now, go on and tell us what you know.” “Yassah. Well, as I tried to splain, I think—.” “There you go again. Do you un derstand plain English? Haven’t I told you that I don’t want you to ‘think’, but to tell us what you know,” again testily interrupted the lawyer. Scratching his head a moment, the witness retorted, “Look heah, boss; I ain’t no lawyah, lak you all is. I can’t talk without thinkin’.” Clearly the joke was on the law yer. We are, however, unwilling to let this amusing incident pass with the laughter which it evokes. Would not we all be better off if we real ized the wisdom of not trying to talk without thinking? As a people we should think more and talk less. A great deal of sorrow and trouble come from thoughtless talking. Think ing is a prime essential of intelli gent talking. Let us cultivate our powers of thinking. LOOKING WITHIN WE hear a great deal of complain- j ing about barriers which others place in our way. While these limi tations and embarrassments are not to be entirely forgotten, yet is it not true that we overestimate their in fluence in impeding our progress ? In stead of spending so much time and energy in looking at hindering causes without, would it not be well to spend more time considering the impedi ments within ourselves, individually and racially, and use most of our energy in trying to remove these? We spend too little time in serious self-examination of our individual and racial weaknesses. The most successful business man, or pro fessional man either, and this is ;i]ually true of any worthwhile work man, is he who studies his business in order that he may see just where it is weak or faulty so that he may correct the defects which give his ;ompetitior the advantage. He looks vithin rather than without. He knows full well that if he can raise the standard of his business or profes iion to the highest point he need not rear his competitor. So it is with as. By correcting our faults,indivi dual or racial, and raising our mor al, intellectual and economic stand ards and status to the highest de gree we need have no anxious con cern about what barriers others may put in our way. We will be able to surmount them and compel the re cognition which we deserve. Let us look within first. Let us know our selves. Self-knowledge leads to sov ereign power and self-knowledge is gained by lookihg within. A GOOD RATIO J^AST WEEK Central High school's mid-year class contained thirty nine graduates. Of this number three were colored students. This is the highest ratio of graduates we have ever had. If in every class our stu dents constituted one-thirteenth of the total what an excellent record this would be and how it would raise oui intellectual standard. We hope to see such a ratio eventually attained am maintained. FOR PUBLIC DEFENDER ROBERT STREHLOW who made such a good record in the Iasi legislature has filed for the nomina tion for Public Defender. Mr. Streh low is a young attorney of good abil ity and excellent character. He ha? and deservedly a large number oi friends among our people. The Mon itor can and does most cheerfully commend Mr. Strehlow to the favor able consideration of our voters who will have the privilege of voting for his nomination in the April primaries. He rang true in the legislature and will do the same as Public Defender, should he be nominated and elected. FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR ppOUR YEARS as deputy county assessor in which he has made good is the chief credential upon which S. E. Klaver has filed for the nomination, to be decided at the April .. primaries, for the office of County Assessor. If experience, ability and integrity count with the electorate as they should do Mr. Klaver should have no difficulty in securing the nomina tion. The primaries are two months off, but it is none too early for Mr. Klaveris friends and supporters, among whom The Monitor accounts itself, to begin boosting for Mr. Klaver. , BOOK CHAT By Mary White Ovington, Chairman, Board of Directors of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. “Negro Poets and Their Poems”.—By Robert T. Kerlin. Published by The Associated Publishers, Inc., Washington, D. C. Price $1.50. Postage 10c extra. “It would seem that there must dawn upon us, shaped by the poems of this collection, a new vision of the Negro, and a new appreciation of his spiritual qualities, his human charac ter. A profounder human sympathy with a greatly hampered, handicap ped and humiliated people must also ensue from such considerations as these poems will induce. One of the poets here represented cries out, as if from a calvary, ‘We come slow strug gling up the hills of Hell.’ Another, in milder but not less appealing tone, cries, ‘We climb the slopes of life with throbbing hearts.' “This appeal, expressed or implicit throughout the entire range of pres ent-day Negro verse, an appeal some times angrily, sometimes plaintively uttered, an appeal to mankind for fun damental justice and for human fel lowship on the broad basis of kinship of spirit, may fittingly be the final note of this anthology: ‘We climb the slopes of life with throbbing hearts.’ ” This ending to Mr. Kerlin’s anthol ogy gives the keynote of the method employed by him in selecting1 poems among an author’s published works. He has not chosen first for poetic ex cellence, though, of course, he has taken only what he felt to be good work, but he has looked primarily at the spirit of the verse, at its human significance. He has thus built up a volume that should stand in the American library by the side of “The Voice of the Negro”, that compilation pf the Negro’s attitude toward life as revealed in his utterances in news papers and magazines. Both books, if the whites will only look into them, will give, as Mr. Kerlin says, a new vision and a new appreciation of the spirit and purpose of the colored race. Seventy-three poets are represented in this volume, from Phyllis Wheatley to Georgia Douglas Johnson, from Jupiter Hammon to Claude McKay. The book is well illustrated with photographs of some of Meta War wick Fuller’s noble sculpture, and with pictures of thirty-eight of the poets— though how some of these men and women could send such unflattering photographs of themselves it is hard to understand. There are eight chap ters starting with the very' early verse I of the spirituals and the folk songs, the latter made accessible to us through the collections of Talley and Blades, next taking up the first form al poets, Phyllis Wheatley, Horton, Frances Harper, and then continuing to the free verse of Rabafkerief, Langston Hughes and Anne Spencer. Each poet is introduced by Mr. Kerlin with some biographical word and an appreciative line regarding the poem or poems chosen by the collector. There is also an index of authors with short biographical notes. The book is painstakingly put together by a careful scholar. It would be foolish to pass judg ment on the poetry in this volume. As the words I have quoted at the begin ning of this review show, the book is a poetic voice of protest, a spiritual cry that a white southerner lovingly and appreciatively gathers together and puts before us. It is a book for the white man to read and gain there by in sympathy. The colored reader will miss some names, that of Coun tee Culien, for instance, but he must remember that this is a collection primarily of spiritual protest, sec ondarily Of excellent verse. 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