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i THE MONITOR • 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 Mail Matter July 2. 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. 18T9. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS —. Editor W W MOSELY. Lincoln. Neb...— - Associate Editor LUCINDA W, WILLIAMS -.. ..Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 C MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 V ■■ ■ J 0 * l ;; ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE ;; UNITED STATES ;; 1 > >> *. Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged ■ • 1. AH 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 shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the • ! I privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor J; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- ; 1 > erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person 1 1 !I within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ! • • INDICATIVE OF A NEW SPIRIT THERE has just come to our desk,1 Volume 1., Number 1 of “The Greater Fisk Herald”, the revived student publication of Fisk University. It is a handsome, well-edited publication and seems to exude the new spirit which has come to Fisk under me new administration. It will be recall ed by readers of The Monitor that we most heartily supported the position taken by the “striking students” at Fisk, which resulted in a change of administration there. One of the many just complaints of repression was the suppression of the publication of the Fisk Herald. We are therefore pleas ed to see the publication revived, re named and enlarged. We congratulate the staff upon its initial number which sets a high standard as a literary production and in its typographical and mechanical make-up. The loity Spirit animating the publicatoin should insure its success and perpetu ity. IS IT DAWN? k - MEMBERS of the student body and of the faculty at the University of Michigan have taken a decidedly ad vanced step towards promoting the democracy of which America boasts so loudly but so lamentably fails to practice. They have organized a “Ne gro-Caicasian Club”, the object of which is “to work conscientiously, actively and persistently for the eli mination of all forms of discrimin ation. injustice and prejudice against Negroes as distinguished from Cau casians.” The organization pledges itself “to exert every effort to give in all possible ways substantial and ef fective help to individuals of this oppressed group, to aid and protect them not only in maintaining those rights to which they are entitled un der the law either as citizens or aliens, but also to work actively against any existing or proposed law, and against any custom or individual practice involving pernicious race dis crimination.” This movement is in line with the “Inter-Racial Club” recently organiz ed at the University of Chicago for a similiar purpose and in keeing with the recent student conference held at Northwestern University where action was taken to counteract racial and religious discrimination and intoler ance and where organized Christian ity, or “the Churches” were severely blamed for side-stepping the race question. Action of this character taken by the future makers and molders of public opinion such as university stu dents in the natural course of events must be, should be hailed as> the dawn of a better day. Intelligence and culture are great emancipators. When America really becomes intel ligent and cultureed the country will be ashamed of many unsocial customs and traditions which are now regard ed with indifference and among these will be her attitude towards her loy al citizens of color. Intelligence and culture must be the product of the higher institutions of learning, where spiritual values are not ignored. These significant movements among univer sity students, though rare and isolat ed, would indicate that dawn is break ing. AN OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK PERHAPS it was entirely subjec tive, but as we came in contact with the business people last Saturday there seemed to lx* a spirit of optim 1 ism in the air. Everywhere we went there seemed to be the attitude of old things having changed for new, an onerous, and ominous something left behind, an omnipresent atmos phere of hopefulness. We hope we have not misread the times. We do believe that the present year is to see a revival in the business and in dustrial world that will rapidly re move the blight of non-emloyment and financial depression which has weighed so heavily upon the masses. We hope to see decided advances made in better understanding and resul tant mutual helpfulness not only among all races and classes in Amer ica but throughout the world. We hope to see racial and religious big ; otry and intolerance supplanted by magnanimity and tolerance, or at ; lea.st by a decided forward movement jin that direction. Let us all according ! to our abilities and opportunities do our part to bring such things to pass. The optimistic outlook begets the spirit which accomplishes the thing desired. Hopefulness dares and does, where doubt and pessimism falters | and fails. Have faith in God, your neighbor and yourself and go ahead. OUR PART We must never forget that it is our bounden duty to be industrious, i self-respecting and law-abiding. We I will help our cause by proving our ! selves upstanding, dependable men j and women under all circumstances I and conditions. • l •? | THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE | | A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded | £ persons that the contribution of the Negro to American .j! nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from :! negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and Ij! ! I yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking .j. !! 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 j - • economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply •: <> on the striving white men in Europe and America but also •: < > »n the persistent struggle of the black men in America for •! < > two centuries. The military defense of this land has de- < < > pended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial j ■ • wars down to the struggle of the World W'ar. Not only does j •1 the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera- j < • ture but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep !! significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the 'j ! I choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played I; ;; a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, j < • breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, •! 11 hope and tolerance of our religion.—Du Bois, “The Gift of Mack Folk.” :: i HOW NOT TO DO IT THAT our people should learn team work is conceded by all who think. How to learn it is the ques tion. We seem to be expert in doing the things which prevent the very thing we admit ought to be done. For example, there will be some laud able movement, in which all would be willing to cooperate if they went at it the right way. But we bungle. Some individual, or representative of an organization desires to do something in which the community is, or ought to be, interested. After the plans are all made, the promoters, will cal up on other individuals or organizations to help make this “civic affair” in which it is glibly stated “all our citizens ought to be interested” a suc cess. This is just how not to do it. The proper way would be to invite those whom they desire to cooperate in such affairs at the initial meeting and not wait until all plans are com pleted and then expect cooperation. Until we learn this method of pro cedure we will continue to handicap efforts and movements, laudable and praiseworthy though they be, which call for whole-hearted and enthusias tic cooperation. We can qualify as experts in “How Not To Do It,” let us see if we cannot become at least novices in learning “How To Do It.” j THE RED RECORD AMERICA still stands supreme a mong caunted civilized nations in mob violence. Last year sixteen human beings were lynched. This is holding the record down, but it is still too high by sixteen. Fortunately the con science of the nation is being arous ed against this evil and it is to be hoped that the day is not far dis tant when the United States will be come a lynehless land. It can be made so. Peppermint Now Worth Its Weight in Silver South Bend. Inrt.—A pound of pep perinint oil Is worth Its weight In j silver. An acute shortage, resulting from i unseasonable frost and beat In May In southern Michigan and northwest In dlana, where 00 per cent of the world's supply "f peppermint ts produced, re duced the crop 70 per cent, or to ap proximate!}’ 250,000 pounds. Throughout the late summer and early fall peppermint oil has steadily Increased in price until it exceeded $17 a pound. The maximum price last year was $4 and four years ago It w as $1.25. * The normal yearly consumption of tlie oil is 400,000 pounds. Peppermint plants, the oil of which Is distilled from the leaves and stalks, thrive best In heavy, mucky soil found In the lowlands along the In dlana .Michigan border. The farms usually are small—50 or 00 acres. Un der normal conditions, two crops may be harvested each summer. Peppermint first was Introduced Into Indiana and Michigan about 1840 from , Ohio. A quarter of p. century before It had been Imported from England. Thousands of Game Birds Victims of Cruel Malady Klamath Kails, Ore.—Thousands of ducks ami geese lie dead in Tuie lake as a result of a strange malady, be j lleved Induced either hy alkali water or by runk, stagnant ponds. To cope i j with the situation the United States ' i biological survey has been notified, and j j will conduct an examination to de- | I tannine what is the cause of the whole sale deaths In the ranks of thousands ] I of game birds. Game Warden Barnes will send sev » eral dead birds to the biological sur I vey research office in Portland, where i vital organs of the birds will be an alyzed to determine the cause of death A similar problem with deer faced game authorities last year. Scores of mule-tail deer died In Modoc county from consuming wet mud in a dried-up spring. Sorry Now Gowanda, N. Y.—Some sixteen In dian maids are sorry they had their hair bobbed. Because of their short tresses a movie company would not take them to Florida with 125 others. % Nearly Half Prewar *3 ' Jews in Russia Gone 5 j X Washington.—According to a 5 i 2 report prepared by the council £ j 5 of nationalities of the Soviet v 2 union received by the Russian £ 5 information bureau iiere, the 2 2 Jewish population of the Soviet £ j 2 anion has decreased to 2,800,000, 5 | £ as compared with 5,000,000 In £ ; 5 the territory of the former czar- 2 X 1st empire. 6 5 The decrease of 2,200,000, or 2 ■ 5 wore than two-ilftfis, is ex- 2 2 plained by the loss of heavily £ 5 populated Jewish centers to Po- g 2 land, Llthnania and oilier states £ S at ttie close of the war and also 2 1 by tlie numerous pogroms of (he £ 2 white guard and the Petlura and 2 X Polish armies In the Ukraine £ 2 and in White Russia during the 2 [ X periods of civil war and inva g 2 sion. EXAMINATION FOR CLERKS AND CARRIERS February 10 there will Iks held at the Omaha Post Office an examina tion for clerks, male and female, and for carriers, male. Some of our young men and women ought to take this examination. Apply for applica tion blanks at the Porst Office. HONOR WIFE OF BUILDER OF WALL Chinese Erect Temple to Wom an’s Memory. Ohlnwangtao.—Where the I’oktng Mukden railway pierces the great wall of China at Slmnlmikwun Is a temple erected to the memory of a pious wife whose husband perished In tlie build ing of the structure. Chlh lluang-tl, the emperor who j united all China, came to the throne In 240 15. C. It was Chlh who built tbe j great wall to keep the country to- j gether. A woman from the south, so the legend runs, brought cotton-wadded clothes for her man, who had been Impressed by the emperor to help build tbe wall. She was told thnt her husband bad died, and that she could not have his body because It had been thrown between the brick facings of the wall and crushed there under tons of rubble and earth. The woman persuaded a comrade of her husband to show her the stretch of wall where the body of her husband lay. Three days and three nights thereafter she walked up and down thnt length, until the oortipasslon of the divine power was exrlted by her laments, and that part of the wall col lapsed. The scandal camp to the ears of the emperor, who recognized, beneath his tyranny, that the conduct of the wom an had been most orthodox. To regu- j larize the matter, he directed that she be ndmltted to his household. First, 1 however, he granted her prayer that she he permitted to select the bones of her husband for more deliberate burial. The woman gathered up her hua band's bones and walked to the end of the wall, abutting on the sea, from which, before the guards could stop her, she cast the bones Into the sea and herself after them. The Image of the pious wife, In Im j perial robes, stands In the temple near the spot, while the breach In the wall Is now perpetual. ___ Gas Stations in Place of Old-Time Tollgate Nashville, Tenn.—The gnsollne All- i lng station has replaced the familiar old sapling that formerly was swung down to block the public highways In the form of a tollgate. Motorists are paying part of the highway construction expense at three cents a gallon at the filling station pump, where formerly every vehicle passing the designated spots had to plank down a quarter. Tollgates were satisfying to traffic 100 years ago, when the pioneers blazed through forested areas and es tablished accommodation for travel, ! but today the state is building Its own | improved and modern highways. Motor- j Ists will drive miles out of the way over another route to escape the perl odical gates. On June 14, 1790, one turnpike com i pany organized a toll road with rates - ranging from one cent for every ten sheep or hogs to three cents for each four-horse carriage. The rHtes ad ! vanced with the progress In roads and modes of travel and similar toll sys tems were adopted In other states. 1 The old tollgates In Tennessee be^ j came unpopular. Now through the red, j blue, yellow and white gas filling pump I the state Is netting nearly $9,900,000 In 1925 toward Its public highway con struction fund. ♦% *** ♦% «*♦ i Reid-Duffy | PHARMACY FREE DELIVERY | Phone Web. 0609 •£ 24th and I-ake Streets £ OMAHA, NEB. | ji To Buy a Home Call £ I Metcalfe I Y r~, ! Company | Ground Floor ” y | 203 So. 19th St., At. 5415 ;; Valet ” he Safety Razor that 1 * . q. Sharpens Its Own Blades r\UtV/k/lI VJJ COMPLETE OUTFITS $1.00 1^ AND $5.00 Kazor ■ i For Sale at All Store* Selling Razors —Sharpens Itself *nd Blade* mb— mil—— mil —■mw———w—• ■ HAYD N’S Our January CLEARANCE SALE Now in Progress All of our winter stocks have been reduced for clear ance. They must go to make room for new Spring mer chandise now on order. Therefore the prices are low and you will find EXCEPTIONAL SAVINGS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS j “The Fire in The Flint” y X I 1 :i; The Great Race Novel of the Day S By I WALTER F. WHITE A thrilling story depicting race conditions in ths South. Critical book reviewers pronounce it a master piece. Should be read by EVERY AMERICAN, Black or White. $2.50 A COPY i For Sale by The Monitor and the Omaha Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. * * *:* , I t EPISCOPAL f % Church of St. Philip the Deacon % v 21st near Paul Y V ♦% Rev. John Albert Williams, Rector V ❖ SUNDAY SERVICES * 7:30 a. m. Holy Communion ♦> 10 a. m. Sunday School ♦♦♦ 11 a. m. 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