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THE MONJIOR $ 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, lllla. at ihe Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under (he Act of March 3, 1879 I THE REV-JOHN-ALBERT WILLIAMS Editor iw W MOSELY, Lincoln. Neb .... Aaeectate Editor LUCINDA W. WILLIAM*----Buelnase Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES. $*.« A YEAR; $1.25 « MONTHS: 7bc 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Pjrnlshed Upon Application j Address, The Monitor. Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. ' Telephone WEbster 4243 V_ i ■ ■ I I.. —d «» ; ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THK | ;; UNITED STATES * > Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged i ’ 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States. ? iand subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the X ;; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No | ■« state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ; !' ’ privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor 1 shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- ; | erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person ; within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. I t 1 --1 Our Choice for President in 1928 is WALTER W. HEAD of Nebraska An Astute, Able, Clear headed Business Man LUTHER BlTtB ANK A GREAT scientist has been called to rest in the person of Luther Bur bank who wrought wonders with flowers, fruits and vegetables. Like other great scientists in other fields Luther Burbank sought to think God’s thoughts after him. He lived a simple, industrious life land his labors have contributed beneficial re sults to humanity. In the closing months of his life he dubbed himself an agnostic, in religion. Not an atheist, but an agnostic, and there is a vast difference between the two. For this he was roundly scored and upon his death certain have presumed to pass upon his status in the life be yond. Some have dared to place him with the damned. This is pre suming upon the prerogatives of ths Almighty. "He that leadeth an un corrupt life and doeth the thing that is right and speaketh the truth from kis heart,” need have no fear of meet ing his Maker and his Judge. From all we have heard of him, Luther Burbank measured up to this stand ard, and with his love for Nature and his delving into Nature seeking to think God’s thoughts after Him, it was impossible for him not to believe in an All-Wise, just, merciful and lov ing God, in Whose hand* we can safe ly leave his souL CARDS AND DANCING “Cards and dancing,” delightful re creations both, when not carried to excess; but we greatly fear that our people are carrying them to an ex cess. There was a time when young people, yes, and their elders, too, could spend a delightful evening in music, conversation, literary num Iters and games. Not so, now. The things which make for culture are counted too tame. Nothing seems to please and delight but “cards and dancing.” Is it not possible to vary our recrea tional pabulum, at least occasionally with something besides “cards and dancing” ? BLACK “GUILTY”; WHITE “INSANE.” RAPE is a crime punishable with death by the laws of Kentucky—pr<> vided the victim of the lustful degen erate be white, and the degenerate rapist black. A short time ago, a man by the name of Harris, a degen erate black man, was accused of this crime against a white woman. To prevent his lynching by a mob, h was tried by a court, surrounded by militia to keep at bay a mob of pre sumably civilized white American-; clamoring for his blood, found guilty in fifteen minutes and sentenced to be executed. A white degenerate, son of a wealthy contractor, Mer chant by name, a few days there after, brutally ravished an eleven year-old colored child. No mob of black Americans clamored for his death. They were willing to leave his punishment up to the courts of Ken tucky. What happened? The court has held that the white ravisher of an eleven-year-old colored child is IN I' AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS. ;! < > 2 ;; The postal regulations require that for newspapers to •: ■ > be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid in Ij !! advance. A reasonable time, thirty days, is allowed for ;i ;; renewals. At the expiration of this period, where sub- j iscriptions are not renewed, the paper must be stopped. If this is not done, postal privileges are denied the publi cation. Those, therefore, who desire to continue receiving j The Monitor must see to it that their subscriptions are 'j paid, as the law requires, in advance. Statements are he- j ing sent to all those who owe, or our collector will call— j and unless your subscription is paid we will be compelled j to cut off your paper which, of course, we do not want 2 to do. 2 We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or j pay the penalty. j » 4 4 O 4 X-X-X-<~X"X"X"X"X"X"XX"X"X-X"X"X--X-'X~X"X-<Xf' >C #44 » >4 f #44444444 4444»44>4>«M»»4»X"8“X»«X"X»4"X"X"X-44“X44“44 ;; THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE | i > .4 .. 4 4 !; A moment's thought will easily convince open-minded j ! I 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 .J and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first | <• explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from j '< > the first the foundation of the American prosperity and j ’< 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 bat also • - on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for ; <; two centuries. The military defense of this land has de- ; 1 ; pended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial ; wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does ; ; tfie Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera- j • tare but. a Negro American literature has arisen of deep ^ significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the i ! choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played 2 a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, i ' breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, j I hope and tolerance of oar religion.—Du Bois, “The Gift of 2 :: Hack Folk.” 2 .iiiiiiiiinl SANE, and orders his commitment to an asylum, which means that after a few months, perhaps weeks, he will be free. And yet some people wonder wily colored Americans are so fooliso 1 as to imagine that there is a differ ence made in this “land of the free I and the home of the brave,” between white people and black people accused of like crimes. NO ROOM FOR BOASTING. OF course you have been reading of the $100,000 breach of promise damage suit against a prominent and wealthy white physician of this city ! which has been given liberal front | page space in the local dailies. Ac- I cording to the evidence it is a shameful story of sin and adultery upon the part of people whose education, train ing and advantages should make them above such licentious conduct. They are not to be envied or emulated. \ While cases of this character are the exception and not the rule today, they leave little room for those who preen | themselves upon their racial super periority to prate, as some are prone to do, about the gross immorality of | the Negro. ONLY 10 PER ( ENT. Suppose only 10 per cent of the money our race spends in this city j for the necessities of life were spent with legitimate enterprises conducted by our race can you not see that it would be only a comparatively short time before we would have large busi ness establishments giving employ ment to scores of our people? Ten cents a day from 15,000 people amounts to $1,500 a day or more than half a million dollars a year. Do you spend a dime a day with your own people who are in business ? PI RPOSK MISI’NDERSTOOI). Some people misunderstand the j work of the N. A. A. C. P. It is not I to rush to the defense of every Negro j accused of crime. It is only to act in cases where there is reason to be lieve that the accused has not been given or will not be given a fair and ! impartial trial. CLEAN l'P. This is clean up week in our city. ! Help make Omaha a beautiful city by ; cleaning up your premises. Trucks will haul away your rubbish, not ashes, free of charge. Clean up. - ». What Other Editors Say DOWN IN DAYTONA BEACH. "Not as a favor, but as our right as American citizens,” is a phrase used ; | in the petition of the colored people ! of Daytona Beach, Fla., in asking the repeal of an ordinance which forbids i colored people from being found on I the streets, after dark, without a i pass, under the penalty of arrest, fine i and imprisonment. One could hardly believe that such i a condition exists anywhere in ihe | i United States, in this supposed en- j ( lightened age. We don’t see how the j colored people could possibly live un- I i der such ordinance or regulations. | W'e hold, that an educated, intelligent people cannot lie made slaves. Hence, : we are, when we think of the reported j condition at Daytona, lost in wonder J ment trying to understand the colored people them According to the complaint filed j with city officials, the ordinance has been in force for a number of years. Just what the colored people have l>een doing all this time, we do not know. But the one thing we do know is, they do not have to stay in that city. They can move. If not by night, they can move by day. These people have asked the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People to help them get the law repealed. What they really need is a little self help, a vis ; ion of this broad land, and the cour \ age to arise and leave that class of white people down in Florida, to do their own work. Let them, and them alone, walk the streets of Daytona Beach, by day and bj night. Let them do their own cooking and wash ing until they themseves see the folly of their ways and repent.—St. Isiuis Argus. Blood Reveals Race History, Tests Show Berlin.—Blood testa to Identify de scendants of thoee who crossed the Atlantic In the Mayflower or to ex pose take survivors of the light brigade soon will be possible. If ex periments of Dr. B. O. Manolloff, Rus sian blood specialist, are extended, this scientist claims. The old adage "blood will taU," is literally true. Doctor Manolloff says. Though his experiments have been limited to Europeans, he asserts that by blood analyses he can tell a Chi nese from a Japanese, a German from a Pole. Out of 1,862 Russians and Jews whose ancestry has been traced. Doctor Manloloff said that his testa anabled him to distinguish between the two raoes with 88 per cent ae esracy. RUBBER GROWING IN UJESTED Government Warns That Success of Venture Is Not Yet Assured. Washington.—All the schemes to take a belated stitch in the American rubber dilemma which resulted when Brest Britain pulled in Its supply are beRet by difficulties. One of the least known of these schemes, although not necessarily Ihe most unpromising. Is that for growing rubber right here at i home, under the semi-tropical sun of Florida und f'tillfornla The Department of Agriculture has been trying out seeds and plants of various rubber-producing species In experimental gardens, hut as It takes a long time for the plants to mature and produce, officials have as yet no ; Information to give out and they ars advising enthusiastic Investors not to put any money as yet into Florida or California rubber. Botanists name a long list of plant* which will produce the milky sap con taining rubber. The most Important of theae today 1* the para rubber tree Heyen guianensls. It grew originally In the Amazon valley hut was boot legged out more than half a century ago by British planters who tried It out In Kew gardens, London, and In Ceylon, to see If It would grow ouU’.de of Brazil Then It was used to start the vast plantations In the Fast Indies that are now supplying the world with most of its rubber Tree* Grown at Miami. “Healthy seedlings of the para rub ber tree have been grown at the Hnlt ed States plant introduction gardens near Miami and arc being transplant ed to different conditions of soil and exposure.’’ Dr. W. A. Taylor, chief of the bureau of plant Industry, stated , In Ills annual report to congress. "The collection of rubber plants now grow Ing at Miami includes altogether about twenty different types. “Rubber plants that are natives of dry regions are being tested In Call fomla, In the roast regions as well as In the Interior valleys," he contin ued. “Several dry country rubber plants are known In Mexico, while others are reported In South America Africa and Madagascar. The prodne tlon of rubber from the Mexican guay tile plant has been Investigated by * private corporation and the stage of agricultural practicability Is believed to have been reached In California “Desert types of mbber plants are being grown tn the lower valley of the Colorado river, and the poaaiblll ties of one of the common milkweeds are being atudled because It grows well ! or waste lands arid produce* a large j quantity of rubber bearing material j readily and cheaply. Cultivation might i extend over large area* If ways of utl- j Using the substance were perfected. “This plant Is widely scattered tu j southern Arizona and the desert re gions of Sonora and southern Callfor | nla, and It also grows In small ravine* : and gullies of barren hillsides a few miles from the coast of lower Callfor- j nla Some of the plants grow so large j that they form dense masses more j than stx feet high and ten feet across.” Problem Is Complicated. ff any of the rubber bearing specie* does show a willingness to produce ; rubber In the I nlted States In worth ’ while ijiiaritltlo*. many economic prob lems would still have to be solved be for* rubber growing could be done on a commercial scale Para rubber, If that should be cho sen would not have the even rainfall It baa Iri the Fast Indies because Flor Ida has distinct wet and dry seasons With even rainfall rubber tree* may be tapped th* year around, but with an uneven one. tapping would have to be seasonal. This would Involve labor complications, because at certain time* a great number of laborers would be needed and at others only a few Bven If that problem could be satis factorily solved by secondary crop* there would attll be a labor problem , Fast Indian rubber planters can get cheaper labor than Florida or Califor nia planter* can ever hop* to get. Therefore some other means would have to be found to reduce the cost of producing rubber In order to com pete with Rngland’s Fast Indian prod uct In price. The research chemist would have to work out new means at getting the rubber out of the sap—certainly a cheaper and better way. In case on# or more of the lesser known planta were to be used, for which no method of extraction Is nqw known, a brand now method would nave to be devel- , oped. On top of It all the cbemlsta j might come along any day with a cheap synthetic rubber that would stretch as far as the best of nature’s product. Vanderbilt Bills Newport on Dead Hens, Gets $30 Newport, Ft. I.—Under an old Ithode i Island law that dates back to the Rev- ' olutlonary days, William H Vander bilt has collected $30 from the city of Newport In payment for IS of Ills liens, which were killed by a dog at Oakland farm, Portsmouth. The law. which Newport members of the general asaembly have sought to re peal In vain, provides that the city of Newport shall pay practically all the .-oat In recompensing owners of hens Killed anywhere In the county. Acting under this law. Mr Vnnder fillt put In a hill which was approved ><y the board of aldermen and paid. HYTfN’S Hayden’s Policy Is to Sell at Prices Which Are Lowest In the City Hayden’s policy of selling day by day for at least six per cent less than the marked prices of our competitors is made possible because—-We are selling for cash only. We are not infallible. Others may on occasion cut our prices—may on occasion sell merchandise for one reason or another at prices lower than we, until we find it out. We employ a large and competent staff of shoppers. It is their job to keep our prices right. We thank our customers who report any items on which | we are being undersold. ! That our policy is believed in and appreciated is clearly proved by our steady gains. We give no credit. We give no discounts to a favored few. We do not sell on easy pay ment plans. We are the store of the thrifty—of those who pay as they go. View of Parlor of JONES & CO., Undertakers Modern, scientifically arranged, specially built, fully equipped FUNERAL HOME. Over Tw elve Years of Courteous, Considerate and Satisfactory Service in Omaha Has Established Our Reputation. Twenty-Fourth and Grant Streets. WE. 1100. lardy Attendant. “SATISFACTORY SERVICE ALWAYS.”