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' THE MONIT OR A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESIS OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE i MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY _ Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. 1878._ THE revTjohn"albert”williams!- - ——- Suitor w W MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb--- Associate Editor LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS- —Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $-00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application_ Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone YVEbster 4243 . ... Sd f ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE j. ! UNITED STATES X 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 shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the i; privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor £ shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- s erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person v within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. { : < Our Choice for President in 1928 is WALTER W. HEAD of Nebraska An Astute, Able, Clear headed Business Man CONGRATULATIONS, HOWARD KENNEDY! THE Monitor extends congratula tions to Howard Kennedy school for winning the Omaha Grade School bas ket ball championship. It is rather noteworthy that for several years now the city championship in various atn letic contests have been won by the schools with a large colored enroll ment and consequently with a large representation on the various teams. West Side, which contended with How ard Kennedy in the finals, was com posed, as was Howard Kennedy’s, of five colored and one white player. In these interscholastic contests the best of good feeling prevails ^nd every team goes out to win for its respective school. This is competi tion and sportsmanship of the right kind. “FOUL AND FAIR” WHEN we look at certain sections of our city within a two-mile radius of the Postoffice, we are tempted to paraphrase a sentence from Macbeth: “So foul and fair a (city) I have never seen.” Some sections are beautiful and a credit to our city. Others are unsightly and a disgrace to any city that lays claim to any civic pride. Tumbled-down shacks, guiltless of paint; rubbish-heaped lots; unpaved streets and almost impassable side walks, exist in the heart of the city, almost. A little beyond these unsight ly districts, found here and there, are beautiful reisdence and business dis tricts, but in reaching these the visit or has to pass through these “foul” sections, before reaching the “fair.” This is a bad advertisement for Oma ha. Let our city commissioners get busy and see to it that these “foul” sections are improved and made “fair”. NO MAKESHIFT PLAY GROUND. W'E heard the other day, but have not been able to verifv the rumor, I that it is proposed to partially equip the Municipal Playground at Twenty- i first and Paul streets, with some ap paratus that “will do for the present.” We have not conferred with Park Commissioner Hummel and so cannot speak with any certainty until we have. But assuming that there is some truth in the rumor, The Monitor desires to go on record as being ab solutely opposed to any makeshift methods. This playground should be thoroughly equipped and beautified for the children of this section or ab andoned. We believe further that the | houses on Paul street owned by Whal en should roe acquired and moved off Pleasant Green Baptist church and the entire plot used for the play ground. This is one of the neg lected sections of the city, con cerning which the sentiment seems to be "any old thing wiA^do.” Here is a chance for the city to improve, beauti fy and utilize. Make this playground what it should be or abandon it. DOING ONE’S BEST. WHATEVER one has to do he should always determine to do his best. No one should be satisfied in simply trying to get by. Thorough ness is the thing that counts. Many fail to do worthwhile things or to make any progress in life because Jhey are too easily satisfied. Medioc rity is permitted to push out profi ciency. We wonder if this is not one of the weaknesses from which our group, taken as a whole, suffers. What do you think about it? COLORED ARTIST SHOWS WORK New York, N. Y.— (By the Associ ated Negro Press) Prominent among the displays in exhibition of the Socie ty of Independent Artists which open ed Thursday in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel were two portraits by O. Richard Reid, a colored meirfoer of the society. The portraits are of Fannie Hurst, Jewish short story writer and novel ist, and of Lester Walton, contributor of the New York World. Mr. Reid worked his way through the Pennsyl vania School of Fine Arts as a hotel waiter and porter. He is twenty-eight years old, and was bom in Jackson ville, Florida. DENY NEGROES USE OF PUBLIC LIBRARY Wilmington, N. C.—(By the Asso ciated Negro Press) A request by the colored chamber of commerce in the interest of the colored citizens for the use of the public library has been 1THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE $ - I X A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded .j. \ persons that the contribution of the Negro to American !j! (nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from Ij! negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and X 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 •{• economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply < | on the striving white men in Europe and America but also •}• < > on 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 •> ;; wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does f ;; 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 ? 11 choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has piayeo % ;; a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, y ■ ’ breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, $ ! I hope and tolerance of our religion.—Du Bois, “The Gift of % ;; Black Folk.” 5: . ° $ denied by the city council. The re quest came like a bolt from the blue, taking the members of the council completely by surprise since there had been no intimation that colored persons had ever considered use of the library. The mayor tried to explain that he didn’t know whether the city owned the library or a society which had founded it, saying that the rec ords would have to be searched. He suggested that Negroes start soon to "roll their own.” EXAGGERATION OF INDIAN ATTACKS IN WEST IS TOLD _ i Prof. Hulbert, Director of Commission on Western History, Reaches Con clusion After Much Research. Colorado Springs. Colo.—Historical j firtion of the Wild West appears to have exaggerated the number of sanguinary attacks hv Indlsns upon Immigrant trains along the old Oregon I trail. Nature, and not the aborigines, j furnlshprl most of the dangers en countered by the pioneers. These conclusions have been reached by Prof. Archer H. Hulbert, director of the commission on western history, who has just completed the task of mapping six of the most famous old trails from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast. In a space of forty miles along the Carson river on the trail broken by the forty-niner*. 4,000 dead cattle anil 8,000 abandoned wagons were left to record the history of the hardships they suffered In the trek for gold. Miners built houses of these wagon wrecks In the days of the Comstoek lode discovery In Nevada a decade later. Great rivers were not difficult to , cross when "flats" or rafts were se cured, hut the thousands of little “cut I hank" creeks not more than ten feet | wide were the dally terror of the teamsters and delayed the caravans more than did the few rivers of width. Trappers and gold hunters suffered from Indian attacks more than did | the great Immigrant trains In the era of mass migration to Oregon. Between ] 1842 and 1850 the number of trains that were seriously molested by the red men were few, the Investigators found. Information used In the survey and map making was obtained from state and county surveyors' offices, from the original surveys In the general land office at Washington and by stndvlng the diaries of 150 old time travelers and pioneers. In addition to the Oregon trail the map reproduces the routes of the Mor mon trail fork from Omaha to Fort Lararnle; the Nebraska City Fort Kearney branch; the California trail from Yale post office. Idaho, to the eoa»t; the Salt I.ake branch of the California trail ; the Forty-niner*' trail on Raft river In northwestern Utah; the Salt Lake-Placervllle route, and the Overland Stage branch of the main trail from Juleshurg. Colo., to Salt I.ake City. Telephone Co. Builds Sky Scraper in St. Louis *4Ht- * tHMMHMt-** •**■»•#**#**** *** This $6,000,000 building of the Southwest Ball Telephone company. 81 stories high, Is now the tallest building In St. I.ouls, Mo. It stands on the block bounded by Tenth, Eleventh, Chestnut and I’lne streets. New Universe Pictured by Savant and Measured Chicago.—Another universe, similar to our own, hut Inconceivably distant in space, has been photographed und measured by Dr. Edwin Hubble, he relates In the Astro-Physical Journal of the University of Chicago. It Is 0O,flf»9,872 billion miles from the earth to the galaxy of stars which compose the other universe. From observations made at Mount Wilson observatory, In California, the scientist has reduced to measuremenl the universe which was first seen In 1884. Expressing Its distance from the earth as 700,000 light years, he estimates the galaxy measures 4,000 I light years across. Photographs taken with light which left the uni verse thousands of years ago show it I to be a system of stars similar In ap pearance to the familiar milky way. NEGRO CHOIR MAKES RECORD Toronto, Can.—(By the Associated Negro Press) So many requests have been received by the Dominion Bat teries Radio Station CKCL to again broadcast the now famous First Bap tist church choir and quartet of tms city that precedent has been set at naught and when these colored sing ers broadcast March 14th, they will have been the only choir or chorus to give concerts within two months from a Canadian station. •{• THESE HOMES ARE FOR SALE .j. V 2615 Blnney street. 5 rooms strictly X modern, full cement basement, oak ^ X finish. 5 large rooms. Built-In fca tures Now vacant. X V 2bl 1 North 27th street, f* rooms X y modern, full cement basement, oak y V finish Now vacant. y X 28C.8 Corby street, 5 rooms strictly *t* X (era, full cement buanent hot* X •j* water plant, oak floors, dandy lo- X X cation. 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Notice is hereby given that the under signed persons have associated themselves together for the purpose of forming and becoming a corporation under the laws of •he State of Nebraska. That the name of the corporation is the NEBRASKA INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERA -1A I COMPANY, and tin- principal place for the transartion of its business is Omaha. Douglas County, Nebraska. That the general nature of the business for which this company is organized is to buy and sell groceries, meats and cloth ing, both wholesale and retail, and to deal generally in the mercantile business, both wholesale and retail, and to do all things pertaining to such business, and to issue and sell stock. That the amount of authorized capital stock is 110,000.00, to be paid rash when issued. Provided, the board of Directors may sell stock upon payment of 10 per cent cash and 10 per cent weekly pay ments. Provided, further, that no certifi cate shall issue until paid in full. 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