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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1926)
8^0^0^0^^^0^0^00000+00000000 BB+B+Biji !*+♦♦<■ ■><><►$ ♦♦♦♦♦❖❖X*1 THE MONIT OR I ! A WTIBKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS 4 « OF COLORED AMBWCANS V ' 1 PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE 4 < MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Y ' Entarcd aa 8»cond-Cla»* Mail Mat tar Jtriy 2, 1915. at the Poatoffice at 4 Omaha. Nebraska. under the Act of March 3. 1179 X < ' TP( REV JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS---Editor •}• < ' W. W MOBELY, Lincoln, Neb--Associate Editor V I \ bfiOlWOA W. WILLIAM#-Baalnaea Manapar j 1 » SUBSCRIPTION RATES. *2.00 A YEAR; *1.26 6 MONTHS, 75c 3 MONTHS % \ Advertising Rates F irnlshed Upon Application X ! ’ Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. f !! Telephone WEbster 4243 | ! l***t***^t*»****»************tw^ww*^^wwwv Hundreds of people of both races are out of employment right here in our city in the dead of winter. It is a serious sit uation. While there is this problem of unemployment the pub lic is being fed up with information that there is unprecedented building activity and general prosperity. This is all bunk. While the non-employment situation may be worse in other cities it is bad enough here. People, industrious people, who really want to work are begging for employment and cannot get it. What is wrong? There is something radically wrong somewhere. In a country as wealthy as the United States, which is by no means overpopulated, there ought to be gain ful employment for all. There is not. Is it due to over-pro duction, manipulation or what? In Omaha the employment agencies are swamped with demands for work, but cannot find work for the imploring workers. In times of labor stringency, its is more difficult to j get employment for colored workers than for white and very i naturally so. The Free Employment Bureau operated under | the Colored Commercial Club, with an alert energetic man at its head who strives to find and make openings for our group wherever he can, has many more applicants than places. Miss Edna M. Stratton, secretary of the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A., which also is interested in securing work for women, although limited to people calling in for workers, has had within the past few days nearly 50 applicants for work and counted herself most fortunate in being able to secure work, most of it temporary, for twenty-four. Such other agencies as the City Employment Bureau at the City Hall and the Associated Charities, which tries to find | work for all classes, are having the same experience: more workers than work; more jobless than there are jobs. What is to be the outcome of all this, socialism, communism, or what? To those of our people who have work our advice is to do your best to hold on to your job and give every satisfac tion. To those who are out of work we counsel courage and perseverance. Keep a brave heart. Wherever there is a will there is a way and sooner or later you must and will find work. A REAL CHRISTIAN I INSTITUTION We commend to our readers the work of Father Flanagan’s Home for boys. This is a gen uine Christian institution. Un like some reputed “Christian” (?) institutions and organiza tions, it draws no color, creed al or racial lines. It simply considers boys and their needs. It takes under its sheltering care to the measure of its cap acity boys who need the pro tection and nurture of such a home. It is not in the Com munity Chest and is dependent upon the contributions of char itable people. Those who have a dollar or two which they want to contribute to a worthy and deserving institu tion at this Christmas season or at any other time will make no mistake in helping Father Flanagan’s Home for Boys. COMMERCIALIZING CHRISTMAS It is to be regretted that Christmas has become s o largely commercialized. For tunately, however, even ramp ant commercialism has not been able to rob it of its al truistic spirit. The spirit of the Founder of the Feast still _ prevails and to a larger degree than we sometimes realize modifies the temptation to sordidness w-hich is almost in evitable from a commercial- j ized Christmas. — MAKE YOUR WILL Some of our people seem to think that if they make their will it will hasten their death. Of course this is a mistake. People who have any proper tv should make their wills, so that in the e v e n t o f thpir j death, their earthly affairs will be in order. Where peo ple who have no heirs and no will is made their property goes to the state. If one has no heirs he should make some institution, like his church, or lodge, or old folks’ home, or educational institution, or if he prefers, some individuals, his beneficiary. WHAT SOME OF OUR RACE EDITORS SAY Unity Needed The sooner we realize that as Ne groes, whether white or black or in termediate in color, we must devel op a greater unity, the sooner will we all find -ourselves on a better plane of both understanding and in come.—St. Paul, Minn., Echo. Negro Labor Docile and Loyal Washington, D. C.—Commenting on some of the good points of the various races in America, an article which appeared in a recent issue of a Richmond, Va., publication (white) said: “Next to the Anglo-Saxon race, the most numerous in this country is the Negro race. Few people re alize what that race has meant to this country. They made the South a great agricultural country, and largely because of their labor it is becoming greater each year. The agricultural south has fur nished much of the cotton and other products that have made the New England States a great manufactur ing section. Thus the Negro has added wealth and prosperity to both the North and the South. There has never ben in all the world a race of laborers, who, as a whole, have ben more docile and more loyal and faithful to their employers. As a race they are law-abiding and peaceful.” Time Will Adjust Sixty years is a long time in an | individual’s life, but just a day in the making of a race. In another period, as long as has passed since our emancipation, we will have been contributors to the general good on an equality, so long that this thing called race prejudice will be in the forgotten past.—Kansas City Call. Lack Grit Our weakness as a race lies in our lack of grit—in the lack of sus tained effort, for when we try at first and fail, then we abandon all further efforts. This is where the white man beats us and has the mastery over us, for when he tries at first and fails, or even fails at the seventh time, he does not slack en his efforts once he has convinced j himself that the object is a worthy one.—Gold Coast Times. Sentinel* on Guard All peoples, races and nations, ex cept the Negro, are sentinels, per petually on guard, to stop the loss of property rights and persons. No people can afford to sit quietly by while any other group is lynching, disfranchising, jim crowing, or mis representing them in any way. We need to be sentinels on guard. We should be eternally vigilant. We must develop backbone by standing erect; we hardly have time to get on our knees long enough to pray. —Kansas City Record Searchlight. Cut Sluceways So we have awakened to the re alization that things are not what they ought to be and we have set tled down to the acceptance of the fact that, in spite of law, constitu- - tional or otherwise, the cards are stacked against us, and therefore as we do not control the deal, we must organize our forces in a new way in our effort to beat the play. This means that the tide of seg gregation is rapidly bearing down upon us. As our efforts to build dams have failed utterly, we must begin to cut sluceways to control the flood tide.—Pacific (Los Angeles, Calif.) Defender. SIDELIGHTS ON AFRICAN HISTORY (The Hamitic League) Homer’* Iliad The great Iliad of Homer is the epic of peoples of African descent. Nev^r was this dreamed of, not even by scholars, until Sir Arthur Evans made his astonishing discoveries in Crete and Mysennae. Anyone who | has studied Grecian mythology deep ! ly had much reason to believe that 1 most of the principals of the Iliad were of African descent, but few people study the myths in such a manner. In the myths Menelaus, Agamem non and Helen, were all the descend ants of Epaphos, the black touch born son of Zeus and Io. Priam, king of Troy, and father of the great * CHRISTMAS GREETINGS « I And a Reminder that We Have Our Usual ■' Select Stock of Candies, Perfumes, Toilet Articles, and Sundries At Price* Which Ple«»e ROSS DRUG STORE S 2306 North 24th Street Two Phone*: WE. 2770 end 2771 8, I WANTED § ONE MILLION MEN AND WOMEN TO JOIN THE HAMITIC LEAGUE OF THE WORLD It costs nothing. Enclose stamp for application blank. js If you wish, you may also enclose one dime (coin) for a 3 copy of our new magazine, THE HAMITE, which begins publication in January. It will awaken you as you have never been awakened before. THE HAMATIC LEAGUE Suite H, 4707 Calumet Avenue CHICAGO IThriTtmIT jewelry 20%\“o° j -. 1 —ruren is f .teweli*^ Year#’Ex- 8 704^ We/LV .Omaha. PerienCe 8 f Man# MN«|>r«/ks B NORTH OP POSTOPFICE | hero Hector, was a blood brother of Tithonus, king of Ethiopia. Nearly all of the lesser principals were va riously related to African ancestors. When Sir Arthur Evans discovered the palace ruins of pre-historic Greece, for the first time in thou sands of years the mural pictures of the peoples of Homer’s time stood before the eyes of Europeans. They were not white, but brown-skinned and possessed of the African fea tures of full lips and curling black hair. Then our modern scholars went back to Homer’s epic and studied the translations. It was found that descriptions had been mistranslated and words supposed to mean white, fair, rosy, etc., actually meant brown, chestnut, brunette, etc. So OtU »«««««« *««««»* « & after untold centuries Africa comes again into her own. The Iliad is i an epic that belongs to her. Miss Cora Alexander was the guest of honor at dinner Sunday, given by Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Green field. Covers were laid for five. After dinner tea was served by the hostess to callers in the parlors. Miss Alexander sang and played most charmingly during the afternoon. WONDER HOW THAT WOULD PAN OUT HERE7 A paper in a nearby town recently published the following: "The bus iness man of this town who is in the habit of hugging his stenographer had better quit or we will publish his name.” The next day 37 busi ness men called at the office and paid their subscriptions and left be hind them 37 columns of advertising and told the editor not to pay any attention to foolish stories. | STUART’S ART SHOP | | Dealer in Art, Music and Literature | ij PICTURE FRAMING $ {? 1803 North Twenty-ourth Street ft ! * #*»JS*»*»*»**»*»WK*WW**W*****»«W»»IW »*«**«**#«*««*a**a««#**************J jj The Brandeis Store j jToyland I OFFERS THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT | In the Middle West I | * _ I I I « K K 8 B Every top that boys could want, j| | * every toy that girls could want— B toys from all over the world, are X jj gathered here in this huge collec- ^ tion. Trains, dolls, sleds, mcchan- ft ical toys, animals—just come in _ t and meet Santa’s Twin Brother! il! K I TEN REAL LIVE PONIES | WILL BE GIVEN AWAY | w They are in TOYLAND now—Duke, Prince, Pal, B Dick, King—and the rest, just waiting to see you. »: | THE BRANDEIS STORE—Eighth Floor | I Season’s Greetings R WOLF BROS. | “Fixings for Men” * 1421 Douglas St. and f; 201 South 15th St. I While BACON is 50c a Pound, R Why Not t, EAT RABBIT J Till Bacon Comes Down? Massey’s J Little Grocery *; 27th and Ohio Streets R X kw*»»wbww»*wkkkk!! emtfzatmai mats* at at«« * J Gifts That Last *• I JEWELRY | I Ye l I Diamond Shoppe | J 1508 Douglas ’ i AT. 7468 £ V«eM9£l£9filS9!£fflMVfS£iei£9£V£K Give Something Electrical Each year this phrase means more and more to women, for they really do appreciate electrical gifts. They are so useful, practical and economical as well as eliminate much hard work. If you give "Her” electrical appliances, you will be showing thoughtfulness. All Appliances Sold on Very Easy Terms This year we have made purchasing electri cal appliances for gifts very, very convenient. You will he delighter at our easy terms. Here are just a few Flortrm gift suggestions that JjlCvlIIt bring happiness all wj O J the year through. Heating 1 aCiS si 50 Down : I Vibrators A small gift, yet one that it great ly used. $10.00 $22.50 j Come In and nee 1 [ i | the many novelty 1 lamp* that are ar- Lg. riving every day. mV They are giftn of 1 l beauty and utility. W \ Electric , j \ I JWjl 'l ICCtllC Guaranteed //»■'» hfL\LJ ‘ hl* aPP|l*nc« la used in tha horn* a I. WA VH/ IT/l/ irU^Ky/J ."°*t every day> 14 <• one ‘hat laata 1 | | JUL^\ 'or y**r* an^ !• Qreatly appreciated. $3.95 to $8.50 ^ “Electric Shop," 17th and Harney Sts. 2314 M St Nebraska Power Courteay—Service—Low Rotea