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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1926)
I Jav \f. SeottoH OP \tZlAcht>*c Shop ,S eZ)ijpJaif ffloom ‘%ol 'tolakmf Section. J Views of the Paul E. Johnson Therapeutic Light Factory, the remarkable manufacturing establishment built up in Chicago by Paul E. Johnson, where he gives employment to many persons of both groups and makes physiotherapy lighting units which are being used by the leading physicians and hospitals ol the country. BUILDS GREAT FACTORY IN CHICAGO Chicago.—Starting at the age oi 15, a little more than 19 years ago, Paul E. Johnson has become one of tin largest manufacturers of therapeutic lamps in the world. His line includes incandescent, carbon, and a special heat or infra-red lamps, made in dif ferent types and styles. The year 1925 showed cash receipts of $139,564. This indomitable Georgia boy ha succeeded in the face of the stiffest opposition, the prejudiced competition of big white interests in a field wrich has been thought to be the special perogative of the white race. A few months ago the Anier. jon Medical Association went on record as endorsing light therapy. Physicians all over the world have acclaimed the value of light in relieving pain, for the treatment of tuberculosis, ulcers, amenia and nervousness. Johnson’s lamps are also used in the industrial field. Sears-Roebuck & Co. has in stalled them in its women’s rest rooms, finding that the use of them adds thousands of unit hours to the time of the female employes. The lamps are used for innumerable pur poses. Of course, it might have been ex pected that when this young colored man began to exploit this market, he should have met the studied, obstirxte resistance of the General Electric Co., the only manufacturers in America of quartz burners Johnson needed in »i products. He fought this comvany for years until he finally <|utwitted tl cm by inventing a better substitute. He now makes lamps that give the en ergy desired from quartz burners and in superior form. His products find wide sale in Amer ica, especially among physicians lo cated in the south (strangely enough), and are in use in the health depart ment of the city of Chicago, at th? University of Chicago, Northwestern university, Cook County hospital, the North Chicago hospital, Baylor uni versity, Dallas, Tex.; Washington uni versity, St. Louis, Mo.; Western Re serve university, Cleveland, O.; the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance ' company and at institutions and hos pitals of smaller rank throughout the country, Johnsons plant runs from Albert street in Chicago back to an alley, on the edge of the West Side manufact uring district of the city. It furnishes adequate space for perhaps 200 per cent more business than he is now do ing, although he has increased his business more than 600 per cent in the last five years. The personnel of the plant is selected according to merit and consists of workmen of Polish, Jewish, Negro, Swedish, Ger man, and Irish extraction. His fac ory equipment consists of punch presses, drill-presses, screw machines, die casting department, copper and nickel-plating department, japanning and tool making department in the south half of the building. In the north half are the offiecs, show room, stock, assembly and shipping rooms. In July, 1907, Johnson started in with Charles H. Killough as an office hoy and porter at $4 a week. Kil lough’s business was the sale of new ami second-hand furniture and instil ments for physicians' use. When he left Killough five years later he had charge of the shipping room, repair work, installation of new equipment and sold goods whenever the manager was out to lunch, out of town, on va cation, or when he was busy with an other customer. That’s the way John son learned the game. He did not go to school, but pinched his knowledge during an unsuspecting apprentice ship. Even in those days his color, or race worked against him and bred within him the desire to make good for him self in the line, or professon he wa learning. The factory which bears his name today is the fruit of that earlv desire. Leaders have been telling Negroes that they must get out of the consuming class into the class which produces. Joohnson has done that. COMMUNITY CHEST MAKING PLANS FOR FALL CAMPAIGN Organization of the Community Chest for the fall campaign and the work of the coming year will be com pleted soon with the election of the board of governors. This group, repre senting various races, creeds, nation alities and business and social inter ests, will be able to speak for the whole city in the administration of the thirty charity and social welfare agencies that co-operate in the Chest. A. H. Richardson, president of the Chest, already has the budget commit tee and the executive committee at work, and the chairman for the fall drive, J. E. Davidson is working upon the preliminary organization of the campaign when $430,000 will be asiied for the 1927 work of the chest. The success with which the chest ayencies have operated on a greatly reduced budget during the present year is pointed to as proving thp general advantage of the economical organization of the charities under one supervision. With the general tend ency toward restricting all expendi tures, even those for charity during the last year the public has been saved from the repeated drives and tag days and lengthened personal solicitation which would have been forced upon the member agencies under the old, unorganized system. The chest mem bers have strictly adhered to tneir pledge to make no request for money, except that asked for in the genera! campaign of the chest. The tentative budget for next year —$430,00(4—will demand a continu ance of the policy of rigid economy. This sum is but $28,000 more than was asked in the first chest drive four years ago, and yet it will be made to provide for the needs of all the original agencies except those eli minated for one reason ‘or another, and in addition will provide for the finances of two great charity groups added last year, the Diocesan Catholic charities and the Jewish welfare services. I The chest, in other words, has dem onstrated that it can save money over the former unbusinesslike methods. This is made possible because funds that were formerly spent in repeated drives, in the time of paid workers and for follow-up campaigns, can now be devoted entirely to the purposes of charity for which the donors intended them. C. M. Wilhelm, chairman of the budget committee of the chest this year, is preparing to give hearings to all the individual agencies, so that hi committee may finally compile the amount that will be absolutely neees sary for charity and welfare work in 1927. The tital will be the sum to b? asked for in the fall campaign—hut it will be very close to the $430 000 which has been mentioned as the goal | of that drive. H. J. Pinkett, Attorney NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. • IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROSIE McMILLAN, Deceased: All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said court, praying for the pro bate of a certain instrument now on file in said court, purporting to he the las' will and testament of said deceased and that a hearing will Is- had on said peli tion itefore said Court on the 5th day of September, 1926. and that if they fail to ep|war at said Court on the said 5th dav of September, 1926, at 9 o’clock to contest the probate of said will, the court may allow and probate said will and grant administration rtf said estate to Dr. f). W Gooden or s«m** other suitable person, en ter a decree of heirship, and proceed to a settlement thereof. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 3t-R-1.1-26 County Judge. The Virgin islands, which were bought from Denmark were discovered by Colum bus on his serond voyage in the year of 1494. Belgian Cogno, Africa, which is owned by Belgium, is 909.654 square miles in area and 77 times as large as Belgium itself. I ~ ' ~~ N. A. A. C. P. FORI'M MEETS SI-'NDAY AFTERNOON The N. A. A. C. P. foium will be held at Bethel A. M. hi. church, Twen ty-fourth and Franklin streets, Sun day afternoon at 4. Musical number, will be furnished by the Boosters’ (|uartet of St. John’s A. M. hi. church Attorney A. P. Scruggs will give an address. Mis. Carter will contribute i reading and a report on the recent conference will be given by the Rev. Russel Taylor. The program is in j charge of Miss Gertrude l.ucas. ■ Fr”*' v • •'••••* • • • • * • r • ^ EMERSON’S LAUNDRY % £ 'I he Laundry That Suit* All | ? 1301 No. 24th St. Web. 0820 X H. u. i inkett, Attorney. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the Matter of the Estate of George H. Berkley, Deceased. To all persons interested in the es tate of George H. Berkley, de ceased: On the 21st day of July, 1926, Lula Berkley Williams, widow of George H. Berkley, deceased, filed her peti tion in the County Court of Dougla. County, Nebraska, praying for an or der dispensing with general adminis tration. That said deceased, George ’. Berkley, died in the city of Oma ha on the 20th day of January, 1923, at which time he was a resident of Douglas County, Nebraska; that at the time of his death he had an in terest through purchase on land con tract in anil to Lot 16, Block 1, Clar '■ndon’s Addition to the City of Oma ha, Douglas County, Nebraska. That the said Lula Berkley Wil liams in said petition set forth the following prayer: Wherefore, thi petitioner prays that general admin istration may be dispensed with; that a decree may be entered herein fix ing the time of death of George rl. Berkley; naming the heirs-at-law of the said George H. Berkley and their degree of kinship to the deceased and the right of descent of the real prop erty belonging to said deceased; that due and legal notice be given of* the time and place of hearing on said petition, and that, thereupon, at the time fixed in said notice a hearing may be had and a decree of heirship entered, and that the petitioner may have such other and further relief as to the court may seem right and just. That a hearing will be had on said petition before Honorable Bryce Craw ford, County Judge of Douglas County, Nebraska, in the County Court House, Omaha, Nebraska, at the hour of 9 o’clock A. M., August 26th, 1926, unless continued by order of the court to determine whether or not the prayer of the petition shall be granted. BRYCE CRAWFORD County Judge. 4T—7-23-26. Business Directory j art _ ] HIGH-CLASS PICTURES FOR SALE Picture Framing a Specialty. Race Records, Colored Rolls. STUART ART SHOP 18*3 North 24th Street. BAGGAGE AND HAULING 7“v GARDNER'S TRANSFER. Hag ":ure, express, moving, light and 1 vvv hauling. Reliable and com n^t.ent. Six year in Omaha 2622 Maple Street. Phone WEbster 4120. C. H. HALL, stand. 1403 No. 24th. ' Luggage and express hauilng to all parts of the city. Phones, stand, WE. 7100; Res., WE. 1056. Harry Brown, Express and Transfer. Trunks and Baggage checked. Try us for your moving ami hauling. Also, coal and ice for sale at all limes. Phone Webster 2973. 2013 Grace street. BEAUTY PARLORS MRS. J H. RUSSELL, 2914 Erskine street. Uoro hair dresser. For ap pointments phone WF1. 2311. KILLINGSWORTH & PRICE 2416 North 24th Street Barber Shop and Beauty Parlor. We Use All Systems Marcelling and Manicuring. MADAM Z. C. SNOWDF1N. Scientific] scalp treatment. Hair dressing and manufacturing. 1154 No. 20th St. WEbster 6194 DRUG STORES ROSS DRUG STORK, 2306 North 24th Street. Two phones, WFlhster 2770 and 2771. Well equipped to supply your needs. Prompt service. THE PEOPLES’ DRUG STORE, 24th and Flrskine Streets. We carry a full line. Prescriptions promptly filled. WEbster 6323 HOTEI-S PATTON HOTEL, 1014, 1016, 1018, South 11th St Known from coast! to coast. Terms reasonable. N. P. Patton, proprietor. THE HOTEL CUMMINGS. 1916 Cum-, ing St. Under new management. Terms reasonable. T). G. Russell, proprietor. NEW LAMAR HOTEL, 1803 North] 24th street Tel. WEbster 5090. Semi-modem, comfortable rooms,! reasonable. Cafe in connection. ’ Mrs. E. V. Dixon, proprietress. LAWYERS ' Vv. B. BRYANT, Attorney anil Coun selor-al-Law. Practices in all I courts. Suite 19, Patterson Block, 17th anil P’arnam Sts. AT. 9344 or WE. 2502. W. G. MORGAN—Phones ATIantic 9344 and JAckson 0210. ri. J. PINK KIT, Attorney arid Coun se!or-at-I>aw. Twenty years’ ex-, penenee. Practices in all courts. Suite 19, Patterson Block, 17th and Famams Sts. AT. 9344 or WE. 3180. PAINTERS ANI1 PAPER HANGERS A. F. PEOPLES. Painting and decor ating, wall paper and glass. Plaster ing, cement and general work. Sher win-Williams paints. 2419 Lake St, Phone WEbster 6.366. PRINTERS > FORD PRINTING COMPANY, Jew ell building, 24th and Grant Sts. P’or good printing see us. We. 1760. No Advertisement Accepted for This Classified Directory for Less Than Six Months ' •WATERS^ BARNHART PRINTING CO. I PLUMPERS NEBRASKA PLUMBING CO. J. F. Allison, manager. Estimates fur nished. 3026 Evans St. Phone KE. 6848. RESTAURANTS PEATS RESTAURANT, 1405 North , 24th Street. Where those who de sire good home cooking at reason able prices go. WEbster 0530. SHOE REPAIRING BENJAMIN & THOMAS always give satisfaction. Best material, reason able prices. All work guaranteed. 1415 North 24th St. WEbster 5084. UNDERTAKERS JONES & COMPANY, Undertakers. 24th and Grant Sts. WEbster. 1100 Satisfactory service always. H. A. CHILES & CO., funeral direc tors and licensed ernbalmcrs. Cour teous, efficient service in the last sad hour. 1839 North Twenty-fourth street. Phones, office WEbster 7133; residence WEbster 6349. Classified FOR RENT—Two cool and airy rooms for gentlemen; in modern home. Prices reasonable. WE. 2769. FOR RFNT. Nice desirable home for man and wife. Reasonable rent. Call We. 4810. if 6 18 26. FOR RENT—Modern furnished rooms 2204 N. 19th St. WE. 3808. Do you like The Monitor? Do you want it to continue? Then you MUST PAY UP NOW. bor rent. Four room modern apart ments, 1547-1551 North Seventeenth street $15.00 per month. At. 6863. tf. For rent. Neatly furnished room. Heat and kitchen privilege. Web. 2089 FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms In modern home. WEbster 6834. FOR RENT—Modern furnished room*. Steam heat. Close in. On two car lines. Mrs. Anna Banks, 924 North Twentieth -treat Jackson 4370 FOR RENT—Light housekeeping rooms. 1 block from car. All mod ern conveniences. 171« North Twen ty-fifth street. WEbster 5460.—tf. FOR RENT—Apartment, furnished or un furnished, for couple. Web. 6975, 2216 North Twenty-eighth Ave. FURNISHED APARTMENTS FOR RENT—2 and 3 ROOMS WEbster 1166 2JS0 NORTH 28th STREET FOR RENT Nice front room. Modern home. For two gentlemen. WE. 6789. tl FOR RENT—Light house keeping rooms. Modem home. 2614 Caldwell. WE. 2180. FOR RENT—burnished rooms. One block from car line. Web. 4064. 1405 No 25th atreet FOR SALE—All modem five-room house. Good location. WEbster 2478 or WEbster 3030 FOR RENT — Neatly furnished rooms. Heat and kitchen privileges. Prices reasonable. 2433 Franklin. WEbster 2089. bOR RENT—-Four furnished rooms tor light housekeeping. $20 per month. 2814 Hamilton street. Web. 56SX. tf. 2-26-24. FOR RENT—One, two or three rooms for light housekeeping. Furnished. Webster 2769. tf. 7, 30-26. b OR RENT—Furnished rooms. Cot prices. 2024 Burt St. At <120. 4t-7-30 bOR RENT—Three rooms furnished or unfurnished. Web. 2474. 2t-T-S0 PLEASE REMIT FOR YOUR PAPER A {if / '