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| THE MONITOR I I A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY_ Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879._ THE REV.JOHNALBERT WILLIAMS---•— Editor W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln. Neb.. Associate Editor LUCINDA, W, WILLIAMS-—Business Manager ; SUBSCRIpVlON RATES, $2.0(3 A YEAR: $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 / 7- - 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 R ;; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No i 1 • state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the o privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor jj ;; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- . <« erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person ®j !! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. £ THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN people have spoken and em phatically declared their will concerning those who are to be en trusted with the solemn duty of gov ernment. They have chosen to en trust the administration of national affairs to the hands of the republican party under the leadership of Cal vin Coolidge. We believe this decis ion to be a wise one. In these times of unrest and hysteria a man of de liberation and sanity is needed at the head of affairs. The times de mand a man who cannot be stam peded and such a man undoubtedly is Calvin Coolidge. He has shown himself to be a man with an opinion and a will. The party which he leads is fundamentally sound. Its prin ciples are true, its ideals high, al though it cannot be denied that it has not always striven to live up to its principles, nor to realize its ideals. Nevertheless, whenever there is soundness at heart there is always found the motive and urge to be true to the right. And this is true of the republican party which is fundament ally sound. Believing this the Amer ican electorate, where they have been free to express their choice, have de clared their confidence in the repub lican party. We do not believe that this confidence will be abused. The people having spoken and declared their will, it is their duty to uphold the hands ot those whom they have chosen to rule and to pray for those in authority that they may be guided aright that “all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeav ors, upon the best and surest founda tions, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety may be established among us for all genera tions. WILL WE LEARN OUR LESSON? gOME inportant lessons should be learned by our people from the results of the election locally. There was a sincere desire upon the part of many, indeed, there was practical un animity among us to secure repre sentation in the State Legislature and on the Board of Education. There was confidence expressed that a can didate could and W’ould be chosen for both of these places. It was realized that an election to the Board of Edu cation would .be more difficult to se cure than one to the Legislature from a given district overwhelmingly re publican. For this reason it was thought the part of wisdom to con centrate upon a candidate for the former position whose wide acquaint ance and long residence in the city would be a political asset. It was hoped that this could be done. It was not, however. Another candi date was entered, making two. The combined vote of the two would not have elected either candidate, but the entering of one would have shown the intention to concentrate upon one whom it was believed could muster the most strength. This is something we must learn. Then, too, we must learn how to organize our forces and teach the people how to use the bal lot. We must keep the present organ izations functioning all the time for this needed instruction. We must study the returns from the various precincts and plan our campaigns ac cordingly. While with the many strong slates in the field for the School Board there is some reason for the defeat of the candidates for that position, but there is really no excuse for Barnett’s defeat, had the republicans of the Tenth district played fair. That district is 2 to 1 republican. Barnett was the regular republican nominee. He was de feated. Why? “THE SERPENT UNDER IT” rJ'HE news item below appeared in a conspicuous place on the front page of the Omaha Sunday Bee: “Two Colored Pastors Are School Board Candidates “Colored men and women are work ing for their candidates for members of the school board. They are two well-known colored pastors, Rev. John Albert Williams of the Episcopal Church of St. Philip the Deacon and Rev. Russel Taylor of St. Paul’s Pres byterian Church.” We would like to believe that it was placed there from the best of motives, but we regret to say we can not. This great metropolitan news paper is not in the habit of giving such prominence to such minor news items as this and particularly when they apply to our group. It used to front page and feature with box car headlines alleged crimes by members of our race, emphasizing the race or the alleged criminal rather than his crime, but happily that custom has ceased, be it said to its credit, but this was not necessarily nor ordinarilly a front page item. It was published for the express purpose of calling the attention of those who might be ad versely influenced thereby to the fact that colored men were running for the school board and therefore to govern themselves accordingly. Per sonally we desired no votes under false pretense. We wanted the peo ple to know just who we were ami to vote for us or decline to vote for us as they might elect on our merits. We are not ashamed of our race. We want the Bee to know that we are advised of the opinion held ,by some of its editorial staff and know the ulterior motive back of this appar ently complimentary item. It’s the echo of Lady Macbeth: “Look like the innocent flower, but be the ser pent under it.” REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS — As. a component part of the Amer ican people the Negro in the northern states enjoys the right and privilege of voting. Too large a pro portion of those who have this priv ilege and are charged with this duty fail to realize its importance. Thous ands fail to vote. This is a serious mistake. Still hundreds of thousands do vote and largely determine the re sults. It has been so in this election. The value of our vote has been rec ognized and bidden for by all three parties. In many state elections this vote has been most woefully di vided. On national candidates, de spite some notable defections, the race has remained loyal to the Re publican party. Had this not been so many Republican candidates for Con gress would have been defeated. This would have tied the president’s hands. The race has remained true to the Republican party, will the party prove equally true to our race? This is a crucial question. Upon its ans wer will depend our attitude in 1926 and 19928. As part of the American people we share generally in what ever prosperity or adversity may come to the nation under any admin istration. However, aside from this, there are certain specific disabilities which affect us as a special group particularly. This ought not to be. There should be no special groups of Americans, considered as things apart from other Americans, but unfortun ately there are, and inimical forces are at work to multiply and widen these racial and religious divisions. It is to be hoped that some of the civil disabilities and limitations which are laid upon us contrary to the Con stitution will be removed under the present administration which is Re publican and has been placed in power largely through the votes of our peo ple. We have faith in Coolidge. We have reasonable expectations. “FLAG EDUCATION DAY” TO BE OBSERVED HERE Major C. W. Mason of the United States Seventh Corps Area, with headquarters in Omaha, has an nounced that Sunday, November 9th, has been designated as “Flag Educa tion Day” for Omaha. “The purpose of ‘Flag Education Day’ is to teach the American people the proper manner in which to dis play our flag,” said Major Mason, “and every effort will be made be tween now and ‘Flag Education Day' to bring before the people of Omaha the solemnity and homage due to our | flag in its various manners of dis- j play.” According to Major Mason, every luncheon club in Omaha will bring be fore its members the importance and necessity of the proper display of; the flag. Major Mason will person- ! ally appear before several of these luncheon clubs and give short talks. The schools of Omaha will devote a few minutes each day to the proper display of the flag. Every congrega tion in Omaha will hear from its pul pit the reverence that should be shown to the flag by its proper dis play. Local business houses will in clude in their advertising a small space urging its readers in the proper display of the flag. “The reason that we have chosen Sunday, November 9th, as ‘Flag Ed ucation Day’ is that on Armistice Day, Tuesday, November 11th, every home and business house in Omaha should display a flag and display it properly,” said Major Mason. J. A. Drain, National Commander of the American Legion, will be in Omaha on Armistice Day to attend the ex ercises, and we want to show him that the people of Omah are patriotic and do know how to properly display our flag.” Major Mason is in charge of “Flag Education Day” in Omaha. Litera ture is being mailed out to thousands of homes, business houses, clubs, civic organizations, churches, schools and other institutions in the form of the flag code. This flag code shows the different manners in which the flag is to be displayed. This code also tells on what occasions to display the flag, and just how to display it for these particular occasions. “We display the flag on Armistice Day to pay true honor to those boys who gave their lives for our country,” said Major Mason, “and if we im properly display our flag, it does not show much thought. I especially urge every home to display a flag on Arm istice Day and display it properly.” THE NEGRO PRESS AND CHURCH ARE SPLENDID FORCES — What Our Pioneer Journalists Ac complished in Spite of Very Great Obstacles By R. R. Wright, Jr. Editor of The Christian Recorder The two most potent factors in forming modem public opinion are the pulpit and the press, the church and the newspaper. In days gone by the pulpit had much of a monopoly of the opinion forming among our own people, for it was the greatest social institution in our midst. And today it still wields a great influ ence. There are about 50,000 churches among our people. They have almost as many ministers, and many times as many officers. Each week at least five million people enter the 50,000 churches we have all over the land. These are great opinion forming sta tions. Their emphasis is necesarily put upon the spiritual things. While they to an extent give out informa tion on business, politics, etc., relig ion is their object, and more and more they see the necessity of con centrating on religion. For If the people, no matter what their educa tion and material progress, lost faith in the great God who made them and the principles of living His Son Jesus taught, we shall go backward and not forward. So with our increasing ma terial progress we need an increasing ly strong spiritual force in a strong, consecrated, well trained pulpit. It is more needed today than ever be fore. As the church puts its emphasis more strongly upon its chief object, religion, the press is coming forward to help, aid, voice and make opinion along secular lines, politics, business, social life, etc. The church should welcome this aid. The church should help the newspaper everywhere. In stead of being rivals they should be brothers, in a partnership for the best life among the people. At pres ent the press is not as strong as it should be. It is only in its beginning. Indeed only within the present gener ation has the newspaper come to the place where any large number of well-trained men could make a living out of it. When the history of the self-expression and self-help move ment among the Negroes of America is written, next to the church, the press will take its place as the finest effort the race has made to know its elf, and rely upon itself. Through fifty years of the most severe hard ship and the greatest sacrifice the Negro editor has fought his way to the front and won his place in the hearts of his people. It is a thrilling story and should be fully written. It will do much to stir the youth to nobler things. With all their faults, men like Chris J. Perry, T. Thomas Fortune, John H. Murphy, E. E. Cooper, Benj. Tucker Tanner, George L. Knox, W. J. White, W. A. Pledger, W. A. Sweeney, and a host of others now gone to their reward, laid a foundation for helping Negroes pre serve their own souls which they never realized, and their sons of this generation are carrying on their work well. The press today vies with the school house and the college In get ting men of training, and many of our best have followed the press be cause there they find better avenues for self-expression, and true race loy alty. Two Howard University Ph.D.’s are magazine editors, one Pennsylva nia Ph.D. is a weekly newspaper ed itor, and on the staffs of our leading weeklies and monthlies are graduates from Howard, Yale, Columbia, Dart mouth, Chicago, Northwestern, Wis consin, Michigan and nearly every i college in the land. These strong young men are making good. Near ly four hundred race newspapers tes tify to this. Whatever may be their differences in politics, in religion, in social position, in financial condition, in business policy, in educational equipment, in circulation, or geo graphical situation, there is one thing on which all these papers are a unit; they believe in their race. The creed of the Negro newspaper which every editor would sign might read: “I believe that God created all men with inherent human equality; that He is no respecter of racial differences. I believe in that part of humanity com monly called the American Negro, that he is entitled to the same rights in this country as any other citizen; that this is as much his country as anybody else’s and that he should not, nor anybody else, be judged merely by the color of his skin, but by his character and accomplishments. I belive in manhood at its noblest, in religion in its purest, education to its fullest, industry in every form is honorable, politics that is democratic, govemtnent that rests upon the con sent of the governed, and a square deal for all men.” The church should support this creed. It is truly Christian in the larger sense. It is the working out in practical life what we preach. As the race grows in intelligence, the press grows stronger. Soon there will be great daily papers in the centers of population such as New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chi cago, Atlanta, Washington, Nash ville, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Louis ville and other large cities. The day is coming. The church must help it to come by encouraging the news paper men, by urging its officers and members to read. For the newspaper man is the spiritual brother to the preacner, anti upon pulpit and press depends a great deal of the future of our people. I I THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE | !! A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded % '< \ persons that the contribution of the Negro to American £ < ’ nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from £ < > negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and £ • yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking •{• < ■ and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first £ • explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from £ | the first the foundation of the American prosperity and £ ■ the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and £ ; economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply ; on the striving white men in Europe and America but also j> ; on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for j; ; two centuries. The military defense of this land has de- j; ; pended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial £ ; wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does £ ; the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera- £ ; ture but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep ;; ' significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played ! ! a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, ;; breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, ; hope and tolerance of our religion.—Du Bois, “The Gift of ! Black Folk.” : >>>»»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»»»»♦»»»»»»»»»»»»»♦»»»» fcvvi I A SPECIAL MEETING FOR WOMEN ONLY Every Negro Woman in Omaha Urged to Attend—No Men Wanted The members of the Board of Man agement of the. North Side Branch of the Young Women’s Christian Asso ciation are the sponsors of a very im portant meeting to be held for women only. Sunday, November 16, 1924, at 4 p. m. at the “Y", Twenty-second and Grant streets. The purpose of such a meeting is to awaken and to establish a real sense of citizenship among the Negro women of this community. Interest ing subjects will be discussed by able speakers; valuable facts that concern the betterment of particular racial conditions in this city will be given; fine music also. The woman who is interested in her home, the woman who is interested in her church, the woman who is Inter ested in her business, the woman who is interested in her civic club, or her social club—EVERY WOMAN is urged to attend. “Do you know where I can get a good dinner?” “Yes, go to the “Y“ every Thursday and you will get a good meal for only 39 cents.” ASK FOR II mayonnaise; I If Dressing ! t'*' • • » • ' »■■• • | Why Not Let Us Do Your SHOE REPAIR WORK Boat material, reasonable prices. ALL WORK GUARANTEED BENJAMIN & THOMAS Phone Web. 5084—1415 No. 24th ♦4*4 < 4 44>4“>4-m*4~:“:-:~:-;»4*4*4~:~X“:-; ! EMERSON’S LAUNDRY J The Laundry That Suits All A 1301 No. 24th St. Web. 0820 $ ♦444«44«««««44W«4««444<: HILL-WILLIAMS DRUG | 11 COMPANY { \ \ FOUNTAIN PENS—STATIONERY $ \ I CIGARS and. CANDY : ! I Eastman Kodaks and Supplies V ! I 2402 Cuming Street $ Advertise in The Monitor! ♦♦♦ 4+4 !H. A. CHILES & CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMSRS ;; Chapel Phone, Weh. TIM ;; Rea. 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