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THE MONITOR A WBMLY KIWPAm DITOT1D PRIMARILY TO TH* 1NTKUST8 or COLOR*) AMERICANS_ ■nHimn MfIT FRIDAY AT OMAHA. NEBRASKA. BY T1IB MONITOR publibhinq company __ -,| it --M.n Matter JulT 1. 1111. at the Pofffl— at I ~--- Wchrachc Oder the Ast at March I. HT*._ THl RBV. JOHN ALBBRT WILLIAMh-A^oC.i. W. W. MMILY, Lineal*. Neb-----i'JSEE,? M.MaSr “>£' SSttqn!!!^*14 =zzzzr:rrci*Mut7: ftllltCRIPTION RATES. 92.R A YEAR; $1R • MONTHS; 7k S MONTHS SUESCRIPTION^WATEjll^^ FMm>Btt#d Upot> _ iddrsTB Hit Moaitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephoae WEbeter 4243 Vm - 11 11 l j I | I I j I J I j i i j i i : > i < M PREPAREDNESS PREPAREDNESS is a word that ■ was much used a few years ago. ; The main idea which was then em phasized was preparedness for war. j It was realized that when the United j States was drawn into the World War j the country was not prepared for it. j There was, therefore, much haste and j waste in making provision for the! conflict. We are not now concerned | with the wisdom or unwisdom of our participation in the war. The point ; that we would make is that when war j was declared the United States was | not prepared for it, and so the necessi-j ty and wisdom of preparedness was | stressed. We desire to stress pre- : paredness now for our people and j especially our young people. They should prepare themselves according: to their inclination and ability to take ; their part in the world’s work, so that when the call for service comes or the opportunity offers they will be prepared. The signs of the times indicate that the prepared man or woman will find his or her place. So be prepared. Preparedness for any field of human endeavor, and thor ough preparedness, should be our aim. | What others have done we can do. I Be prepared for your opportunity when it comes. WHAT DOES IT PORTEND? Jj^LMOST unbelievable things are coming to pass in political af fairs. Who would have dared dream even a few short years ago that a Negro would be a delegate to a na tional Democratic Convention ? And yet this has come to pass in this memorable year. Its significance cannot be fully grasped. Who would have imagined that a Negro would be nominated for Congress on the Democratic ticket? But that is just what has happened in Chicago. Earl Dickerson, a clean, capable, upstand ing young attorney, is the choice of Chicago’s democracy to make the race against Congressman Madden in the First District. This is another tremenodusly significant fact. Call it all politics, if you please, and so it is, but it shows that the party that not so long ago did not regard the Negro with favor politically is now beginning to recognize him as a po tential factor and i^ bidding for his support in the North at least. This, as incredible as it may seem, must eventually have its effect upon the South, the stronghold of the Demo cratic party. Who can foretell what the outcome will be? Strange things happen in political affairs. The un expected frequently comes to pass. SOUND DOCTRINE gANE, sensible and sound is the message that Payson Smith, state commissioner of education of Massa chusetts, delivered to delegates to the National Education Association last Sunday afternoon from the capi tol steps at Washington. He said that the youth of the land must be trained to avoid prejudice, racial, class or religious. The message of I,eon W. Goldrich, of New York, an other prominent educator, was along the same line, when he stated that “The public schools cannot teach dif ferent denominational ritual or creeds and never should emphasize differ ences of race, color or religion.” These prominent educators have the right idea concerning the public school system. If democracy is ever to be come anything more than a beautiful A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM RACE j! : prejudice :: | By Morney Williams ! I (For the Associated Negro Press) ;; OGOD, who hast made man in Thine own likeness and • . who dost love all whom Thou hast made, suffer us not, !| because of difference in race .color or condition, to ;; ’ separate ourselves from others, and thereby from Thee; but ■ > ' teach as the unity of Thy family and the universality of ! ; ; Thy love. As Thy Son, our Savior, was born of an Hebrew ; ' mother and ministered first to His brethren of the House ; : of Israel, but rejoiced in the faith of a Syro-Phoenician wo- ! ; man and of a Roman soldier, and suffered His cross to be ] ; carried by a man of Africa, teach us, also, while loving and ; ’ serving our own, to enter into the communion of the whole \ < human family; and forbid that, from pride of birth and ! £jmn of heart, we should despise any for whom Christ died, or injure any in whom He lives. Amen. liSSv’ VV'-i/ r • . theory in these United States it must be taught by precept and example in the public school where children from all classes, creeds and colors meet on terms of equality and are in structed by teachers drawn from the cosmopolitan citizenry of the country’. Schools have no right to “emphasize differences of race, color or religion.” How can the youth of the land be trained to avoid prejudice when they are not permitted to pursue their studies in the same schools? SPINGARN MEDALIST 'ACTION will no doubt be quite general over the selection of Roland Hayes as the Spingarn medalist. This medal is awarded year ly to the person of African descent who in the judgment of the commit tee of award has done the most meri torious and outstanding work for ra cial advancement during the year. There are so many of our group who are doing outstanding things of merit that it is exceedingly difficult to award this coveted badge of distinc tion. Roland Hayes who has scored a great victory in musical circles, both in the United States and in Europe, where he is at present win ning laurels before critical musical audiences, is undoubtedly the premier artist in his line and is justly entitled to the award. Roland Hayes’ triumph over difficulties, which seemed almost insurmountable, should prove an in spiration to our youth who are in clined to hesitate to aspire because of outward limitations. It is a high honor to receive the Spingarn medal, for it is a badge of distinction won by merit, the result of diligent, pains taking hard work. THE IRONY OF FATE rpHE IRONY of fate is revealed by the heated fight in the national democratic convention over a Ku Klux Klan plank. The Klan is the child of the South, the stronghold of the democrats. It was planned to “main tain white supremacy”, which is the South’s slogan. It was organized, primarily to “keep ‘the Nigger’ in his place”. Had its organizer been con tent with that, there would have been nothing or little done about it. It would have been permitted to carry on its damnable, cowardly work, prac tically without let or hindrance. Ne I groes who protested against its vil lanies would have been classed as “agitators”, “radicals”, or charged with being “too sensitive” about this “patriotic” society, because it excluded Negroes who want “social equality”, etc. But, alas alack, it extended its original boundaries to include “Keiks” ! and “Katholicks” as well as “Koons”. It took in too much territory. And so it is considered worthy of atten tion. Ths offspring of Southern big otry, given hospitality by like-minded persons in the North, is “a monster of such frightful mien, that to be hated needs but to be seen.” The fight against it in the New York con vention carries its own lesson. It is proving a Frankenstein. Cleveland, Ohio, July 3.—(By the Associated Negro Prefcs.) — (MrA Grace Taylor, wife of Dr. J. H. Tay lor, local physician, has just been awarded a judgment against Hoff man’s Ice Cream Parlor, an exclusive Euclid avenue establishment. Dis crimination was the charge. Mrs. Taylor is a sister of Mrs. F. B. Ransom of Indianapolis, Ind., wife of the operating head of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Co. "NEGRO HAS MADE GOOD IN THE NORTH,” SAYS JUDGE Addressing last Thursday night’s mass meeting of the National Associ ation for the Advancement of Colored People, in Fifteenth Annual Confer ence in Philadhelphia assembled, Hon. Ira W. Jayne, judge of the Circuit Court of Detroit, declared that he could “prove by established facts from the industrial centers of the North” that the Negro migrating from the South had made good in his new en vironment. Judge Jayne said in part: “Mr. Forrester B. Washington, re cently of Detroit, now of the Arm strong Association of Philadelphia, surveyed the situation. His findings have been accepted as accurate by all elements of the community. These have been supplemented by similar re ports in other cities. All these fig ures show the Negro the equal in productive value to any group, the superior of many. In the rivetting and moulding industries he has broken production records so often, that it is no longer a novelty. “496 firms in Detroit employ 40,000 Negroes, in numbers ranging from 7,600 and 4,000 down to 10, at equal pay with whites and under equal working conditions. One-fifth of the postoffice force in Detroit are Ne groes. Postmaster John B. Smith says they saved the day for uninter rupted service during the recent wage demoralization. 21,000 Negroes are employed in the steel industry in the Pittsburgh district. Negro workers perform the major work in the stock yards of Chicago. These same statis tics show his employment to be as regular, his health in the North as good, his dependency no more fre quent than that of any other racial group. His cheerfulness, once mis taken for laziness, has been recogniz ed as willing loyalty, and what is more important and encouraging still, he is acquiring capital and the knack of management to enter the ranks of employers.” Declaring that the Negro preferred “seven dollars a day in the North to seven dollars a week in the South” and “ten months equal schooling in the North to two months’ slighted schooling in the South,” Judge Jayne expressed the hope that the Negro who had come North would stay. “The Negro is a man. He is here. He is a working man, respected and respectable. I hope the Negro stays until he has learned all there is to know of this industrial system which is at once our salvation and our des pair. I hope the Negro leavens its sordid dullness with that inextin guishable joy and rythm which have | brought him unscarred through the crucible of slavery and degradation. I hope the Negro leavens its selfish | greed with his innate loyalty and faithfulness which have always been his even in his reputation among his | enemies.” VIRGIN ISLANDERS PROTEST APPOINTMENT New York, July 3.—(By the Asso ciated Negro Press.)—President Cool idge has been asked to intervene to prevent “the civic scandal and judicial disgrace” of having Governor Philip i Williams of the Virgin Islands ap point George Washington Williams, j the present U. S. government attor ney in the islands, to the post of ; district judge. The request was made by a mass meeting of over 1,500 per i sons held under the auspices of the Associated Virgin Islands Societies at I St. Mark’s Hall, West 138th street last Sunday. A protest against the ! proposed appointment was also cabled Governor Philip Williams. The letter to President Coolidge, ! signed by Casper Holstein, chairman, declares that Washington William has “achieved an unsavory reputation i as official propagandist for that very ! naval regime which inhabitants of the j islands are now doing their best to I get changed.” Williams, according to . the letter, has practised and defended j the "gross abuses” involved in an | identification of judicial and admin ! istrative functions in the same person. — METHODIST “WORLD SERVICE” MEETS Chicago, 111., July 3.—(By the As sociated Negro Press.)—The Method ist Episcopal Church has been holding a big meeting in Chicago during the last week known as the World Service Commission. This is the body created at their General Conference in Spring field, Mass., to have charge of the world-wide operations of that church during the next four years. All race.1 were represented. The Negro group was represented by Secretary I. Garland Penn, Cincin nati, 0., of the Board of Education; Editor L. H. King, New Orleans, La. of the Southwestern Christian Ad vocate; Dr, J. B. Redmond, Chicago Pastor St. Mark’s Methodist Episcopal church; Dr. E. M. Jones, New Or leans, La., aiea secretary; Dr. H. L. Ashe, Grenboro, N. C., district super intendent, Greenboro district; R. M. intendent, Greensboro district; R. M. manager, Southwestern Christian Ad vocate; C. H. Caldwell, Orangeburg, S. C., railway mail clerk, and Dr. J. C. Sherril, Chattanooga, Tenn., area secretary. These men hold important position on all committees. The changing of charters, incident to the merger of boards of the church ordered by the General Conference re ceived careful attention and was or dred consummated at the earliest date. Advertise in The Monitor! PETS IRE CROWDED IN TOWN DT EMRIRGO Foot-and-Mouth Disease Quarantin* on California Haa Humor ous 8ide. Sacramento.—Nonh and his ark had aothlng on the little mountain town j of Cottonwood, Cal., when It cornea to ; numbers and varieties of animals on band. The foot-and-mouth disease, which has raged In California for several months, but which now has been prac tically wiped out, has been a serious matter, hut there has been some hu mor In the situation, at that—wltneaa the present state of affairs at Cotton- ; wood. State and federal guards are eta- ! tinned at Cottonwood, near the Ore gon border, to enforce quarantine reg ulations. which, among other things, forbid the transporting of animals and birds of any description Into the state to the north. Tourists are halted by the score everj day and those who are found to have their pet animals or birds with them are forced to leave them behind when crossing the stats boundary. Dogs, cats, canaries, parrots, chick ens. goats, guinea pigs, monkeys, gold fish, horses, cows—even ostriches and a pet snake—all these have come un der the quarantine ban. The result is Cottonwood's facilities for caring for animals and hlrds have become over- | taxed. Many of the tourists passing through = are wealthy and many of the pets are valuable. Result: The youngsters of Cottonwood are reaping a rich harvest t from the pocketliooks of travelers who hire them to care for their pets until : they can return for them or have them shipped. Every yard In town, practically, la stocked with stranded birds and anl ' mats. Two Eastern women tourists, cross ing Nevada state by automobile, were halted at the California line. In ac cordance with the rules, and were sent Into one of several tents erected for occupancy of tourists while their clothing Is disinfected. While the guards at the disinfecting station were busy with the women's garments, the wind sweeping In off the desert lifted the tent from over the j waiting tourists and left them, screaming and marooned, until the guards could obtain blankets for them — Additional Equipment for the American “Doughboy” This cylinder of liquid smoke shown strapped to the back of Sergt. Edward Larkin may form a part of the equip ment of the "doughboy" of the future. By means of smoke from this cylinder an effective smoke screen can be “sprayed." Foreigners Ship Into America as Students Philadelphia.—Foreign medical stu dents have hit upon a new plan to evade the Immigration quota set by the United States, by a circuitous route which leads them through the back door of the schoolroom. Only by checking up the students' credentials with the closest scrutiny la the possibility of fraud In the quota being reduced to a minimum. This Is the opinion of Dr. YVJUIam Pepper, dean of the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania. "Bona fide students of recognized colleges and universities are not In cluded In the quotas set on foreign countries by the United States, and for this reason we have an Increased number of students coming from the war-ravaged territories. So universal ly Is the status of a student held In high esteem that again and again we meat with someone trying to enter the eoontry In that guise. Digs Up 1835 Penny Troy, Kans.—While digging in lata garden, a mile east of Troy, Lester O. Hathaway uncovered a penny hearing the date of 1888. The penny was bad ly corroded, but upon cleaning It, the date could eaally be read. The coin Is larger than the penny of today, Just •bout the size of a half dollar. LEARN BEAUTY CULTURE AT HOME through KATHRYN WILSON’S won derful new book. Fifteen chapters de voted to marcel waving, facial mas sage and other branches of beauty culture. Send no money, pay your post man. Special price, $3.00. 621 Nortti 33rd Street. Phone HArney 4163.—Adv. LOUISVILLE, K Y., N. A. A. C. P. FIGHTS SEGREGA TION IN MUNCIPAL PARKS New York, July 3.—Attempt to segregate colored from white people in the ppublic parks of Louisville, Ky., has met with determined resist ance from the local branch of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. Recently two colored teachers, Misses Margaret Taylor and Naomi ! Anthony, took twenty colored chil dren to the city Park for a day’s out ing. They picnicked on the white playground for a time until three I white park guards, Tyler, Zwigard , and Boss, ordered them out and upon ] their refusal to go, choked one of the colored teachers, and took them both to the police station in a patrol wa gon. The two teachers swore out a war rant charging assault and battery against one of the guards and the next morning, 100 members of the N. A. A. C. P. were in court, employed an attorney and had the case put over until June 24th. Lee L. Brown, of the Louisville branch, N. A. A. C. P., reports: “We visited the mayor’s office and laid our complaint before him, further we had the officers arrested. Sunday four minute speakers were sent out to the churches. The churches responded and a considerable sum of money was raised, the clubs and other organiza tions have declared they will help. We are going to carry this case if necessary to the Supreme Court in order to test whether we as tax payers have a right to the use of the city parks without being molested by the police officers.” Mr. Brown further reports that the N. A. A. C. P. opposed the opening of a special park for colored people in Louisville and that since its open ing there has been trouble over col ored people using the other city parks and playgrounds. The national of fice of the N. A. A. C. P. has tele graphed commending the fight and of fering assistance. MRS. STEELE, WHITE FRIEND OF COLORED CHILDREN, SENDS *100 FOB N. A. A. C. P. WORK New York, July 3.—Mrs. Almira S. Steele, who for forty-two years has maintained out of her own pocket, a home in Chattanooga, Tenn., in which white and colored children are cared for on terms of absolute equality, has sent $100 to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, 6!) Fifth Avenue, with the follow ing letter: “It thrills me to learn of what our association has done and of its needs. I feel I must send another hundred. I’ve neglected my fences and side walk, until they are a sight! For I do know that precious lives are far more important. “Oh, how can Christians squander their money as they do, while there are so many really needy little ones in this sad world? "We all have most wonderful health here and get some nourishing food twice a day and decent second-hand I SUNDAY SPECIAL i t | | LET US SUPPLY THE DESSERT FOR YOUR SUNDAY i | DINNER I y f. f Call Webster 6323—ask for the Sunday Special j i FREE DELIVERY /. Peoples Drug Store | 24th and Ersbine Streets WEbster (323 \ 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, advantages, 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 PRECED ING SECTION. Any person who shall violate the fore going section by denying to any person, except for rea sons 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; j barber shops can not discriminate against persons on j account of color. Messenger vs. State, 25 Nebr., Page 677. N. W. 638.” “A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with refreshments in a certain part of his res taurant, for no other reason than that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting j a table in a more private part of the house. Ferguson vs. j Gies, 82 Mich. 358; N. W. 718.” clothes to look respectable in; so we can’t complain. So I send $100 as before. I plan to attend the Phila delphia meeting, as I have some railroad passes; my father was a railway president in Boston ... My enemies are again after me, but I continue the even tenor of my way and keep on loving and feeding and cloth ing and educating needy ones.’” ’ Mrs. Steele at the Kansas City con ference last year of the N. A. A. C. P. told a most moving and impressive story of how she had maintained her home for needy children in the face of threats from white people who resented her taking in and keeping colored and white children together. ENTERTAINS FOR A GUEST FROM CALIFORNIA Mrs. W. H. Robinson entertained at cards Monday afternoon from 2 to 6 at her residence, 2122 Lake street, in honor of her guest, Mrs. L. P. Grant of Los Angeles, Cal. There w'ere eight tables and seven prizes were awarded, two guest prizes and five general. The first guest prize was won by Mrs. L. P. Grant and the sec ond by Mrs. W. Reed of Denver. The first general prize was won by Mrs. W. W. Peebles, the second Mrs. M. Bingham, third Mrs. Clarence Gordon; first booby prize Mrs. Earl Wheeler and the second Mrs. Edgar Lee. A buffet luncheon was served. Resigns at 84, After 62 Years as Teacher Miss Nellie F. Cornell, aged eighty four, has Just resigned after a service of 62 years In the public schools of Rochester, N. Y., the last 47 as a prin cipal. The only break In the con tinuity of her service was two brief periods of Illness in her first years of teaching. Among the pupils In her school at the time she resigned were many grandchildren of former pupils. Miss Cornell was born In Rochester October 10, 1840. Her mother was a pioneer school teacher and her father, Stephen Cornell, was a cousin of Kira i Cornell, founder of Cornell university. 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