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The monitor f > a WISKU NEWSRAMm D*6VOT*D PRIMARILY TO TOT INTBRKBTR I or COLOR*) AMBOCAM •)• • • puiumm kvsrt Friday at omaha Nebraska by the 4 < j MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Y ; ' Rat«r*4 u S<rHl-aiH Mali Matter July I. 1111, at tha PaatafTiee at 4 , t Omab*. Mabraaka. under the Act of March S. lt*i. X 41 Tile R*V JOHN ALBERT WILLIAM®_B**tdr y 44 W W. MOSELY, Lincoln No®_Associate EdKar ? I J LUCINDA W. WILLIABIB_ -HWnt W®T T I' SUBSCRIPTION RATES, WO® A YEAR; $1.2® • MONTH®; 7»c 3 MONTH® X 4 t Advertising Rates F’Jrnlsbod Upen Application X \ddress. The Monitor, Postuffice Box 1204, Omaha, Net. t Tdephoae WKhster 4243 | x-*-xkkk~x~x**<^k~x^<~x**i*<"Xx^x~x^X"X~X“X*<-x**<“X~x ♦♦♦<*<*<-m^X“X*<“X*<-x-<~:-x><-<-X“X-x*<":"X-X”:-X":"X-:->x**X“X“C-<x <» ? i; AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS. I « ► 4. ;; The postal regulations require that for newspapers to g '< > be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid in 4 advance. A reasonable time, thirty days( is allowed for Y ;; renewals. At the expiration of this period, where sub- g <• scriptions are not renewed, the paper must be stopped. £ i* If this is not done, postal privileges are denied the publi- Y cation. Those, therefore, who desire to continue receiving J The Monitor must see to it that their subscriptions are 4 paid, as the law requires, in advance. Statements are be- | I! ing sent to all those who owe, or our collector will call— ;; ;; and unless your subscription is paid we will be compelled < ’> ! > to cut off your paper which, of course, we do not want 11 ! I to do. ;; ;; We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or <« <« pay the penalty. !I ;; ;; A NEW DEPOT , Omaha, the gateway to the West, has many things of which to be proud. There are also many faults. Few cities are perfect. If they were, there would be no need for schools, colleges and universi ties where thousands of young students filled with ambitions and ideas are impatient to practice their ideas in their cities. How many times has a sales man lost a sale, a student miss ed an education because he missed a train? How many minutes of your life have you wasted in going from one sta tion to another to make a train cpnnection. How many hours of labor would it save the bag gage man if he did not have to risk all the time to get the bag gage to another station? This is one of Omaha’s faults. Oma ha needs a new Union station and needs it badly. Loyal citi zens of Omaha will recognize this need and use their influ ence to secure it. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Legislature Editor Monitor: Not long ago there was a bill before the Nebraska Leg islature proposing that representa tives be elected from the districts which they represent. This caused quite a discussion in the legislature because the outstate representatives were for it and the Douglas county ones were against it. Their argu ment was that sometimes there would be a Negro in the legislature. Well, it happened this time, only doubly, and the Negroes of Douglas county are at last represented as they should have been long ago. Now there is a bill before the legislature proposing that the county commis sioners be elected in the same man ner as legislators. I hope this bill passes for if it does there is a chance of a Negro holding the position now held by Mr. Kubat. I expect the same old fight against it as was made against the other bill by the Douglas county men. However, I hope they lose as before, they deserve to. They claim to be the Negro’s friend until something like this comes up and then they show their hand. I hope Representatives Barnett and Singleton work for the measure for if they do there is a chance of later on getting a bill through on the senators and other officers. G. R. LINCOLN-DOUGLASS NATIONAL OBSERVANCE Prize Literary Contest Announced for National Lincoln Douglass Observances and Race Conference at Washington, Feb. j 12-14—Congress and President to Be Petitioned. — Boston, Mass., Jan. 28—As one of the first steps in the Post-Sesqui Centennial Race Crusade, for rights with which the colored Americans are urged to signalize the beginning of the nation’s fourth half century, the National Equal Rights league an nounces a race patriotic literary prize contest in honor of Abraham Lincoln, the emancipator, and Fred erick Douglass, the fugitive slave abolitioniBt, whose birthdays, Feb ruary 12 and 14 are tov be celebrated by the race everywhere, separately or jointly. There are to be three contests to consist of race petitions to Congress, also to the President, in the spirit and memory of Lincoln and of Doug lass, for redress of the race’s just vital grievances, and one for the best equality quotations from Lincoln and Douglass contestants to select two quotations from Lincoln and two from Douglass. Papers in Before February 11 All members of the race are invit ed to contest. Manuscripts must be in the hands of the recording secre tary of the league, James L. Neill, Esq., 906 T street, Northwest, Wash ington, D. C., on or before February 11, 1927, for examination by a board of judges from several national race bodies, the board to meet at Wash ington on February 12 in connection with a national Lincoln-Douglass three-days observance and race con ference February 12 to 14. The race is asked to arrange to send delegates from every place to this race assembly from Lincoln Douglass sub-committees of existing race bodies or from Lincoln-Douglass or Equal Rights leagues or citizens' committees formed for the purpose, which also arrange local observances and remain permanent. On February 14 delegations from the race conference will present peti tions to both branches of congress and to President Coolidge in memory of Lincoln and Douglass, based on , the prize winning petitions. Prizes I will be awarded at the night meeting. : 1927 UNITED RIGHTS CRUSADE ——— Urge 1927 Get-Together — Racial Uniting for Common Cauie Post-Sesqui Crusade by Renewed Organization and Concert of Or ganization* R e c o m mended for Start of America’* Fourth Half Century Lincoln-Dougla** Day for Launching Movement / Boston, Mass., Jan 28—(Special) —From its national headquarters here the National Equal Rights league has issued a 1927 appeal for united racial action against color discrimination. The league calls at tention to this country’s passing its j 150th year in 1926 and urges the 1 race to a special renewal of conten tion for the rights upon which the new nation was based as its fourth | half century begins, a post Sesqui I Centennial crusade for rights based upon a plan. The Plan In this plan the specified rights which the entire membership of the race is asked to agree to are: 1. Full and identical judicial rights, to stop lynching and court in justice. 2. Identical political rights, to stop denial or intimidation in free dom to vote in primaries and elec tions. 3. Identical civil rights, to pre vent exclusion from or segregation in public conveyances, educational in stitutions, public places of amuse ment, of lodgings, of refreshment and eating, recreation and others of public accommodation and resort, or in residence, and in governmental buildings or in connection with gov ernmental work. Method* and Means The methods of the crusade as put forth are: 1. Daily prayer to Almighty God for deliverance from race hatred and the persecutions and proscriptions, with special public prayer annually 1 in connection with Thanksgiving Day services. 2. Publication in every race pa per, posting in every meeting room and assembly hall or edifice, social, MONITOR—Five civic, fraternal, or religious, of the preamble of the Declaration of In dependence. 3. Emancipation from slavery to political parties and voting as free persons for men and for measures to ensure the crusade’s objects, also full registration. 4. Renewed racial organization for rights and to further the crusade as by branches of the National Equal Rights league, etc., and membership of everybody with some civil rights organization. 5. Racial union, by co-operation and united action of all civil rights organizations and by bringing togeth er all political, fraternal, civic, social and business bodies for combined political and civic force and finance against injustice and for equailty. For this earnest effort to mobilize the total power of the proscribed, the race press is asked to publish this explanation of the crusade. The league urges immediate appeal to congress to press the anti-lynching bill and repeal the Segregation Beach statute and to the president to abol ish departmental segregation. Launch Movement February 12-14 Public inauguration of the crusade on a nation-wide scale is suggested at Douglass or Lincoln-Douglass Day observances at which the arrange ment committees w'ill initiate perma nent organization for the crusade by Lincoln-Douglass or Equal Rights leagues, citizens’ committees, or sub committees of some organization, with a national observance race con ference and petitions. Historic leaflets on Douglass will be sent for the postage (4 cents) by the league, 9 Cornhill, with the Post Sesqui-Centennial declaration and plan of crusade. DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH IN NEGRO HISTORY WONDERFUL ETHIOPIANS OF FAMOUS CUSHITE EMPIRE II. Foreword—The Origin of Civiliza tion, from the Black Race of Antiquity By Druiilla Dunjee Houiton In this series of “Wonderful Ethi-j opians” in three volumes, we study the races of Western Europe and we learn to understand the hatreds of Europe that underlaid the World War. We learn that when Celt and Teuton call the Ethiopians of the New World “Uncle” and “Auntie,” that they are using titles that are scientifically true. Our story passes on to another remnant of the ancient Cushite empire, that baffling race, the Iberians, now represented by the unique Basques of Europe, then on to the Berbers of North Africa, an other heroic branch of the Cushite race. Some scientists have called them the descendants of the people of “Atlantis.” Next succeed the singular facts about the life of the mysterious Etruscans of old Italy, who were the civilizers of the Romans; then we follow the life and tragedy of the fleeting Pelasgians, who were the fountain out of which the later Greek culture welled. They were the peo ple of the flashing pictures of the legends of Greek mythology. It is almost impossible to find anything but scanty fragments in the world's literature about any of these people •of pre-historic days; but our text has compiled these fragments, so many of them, as to form fascinat ing chapters. Today all these sub jects remain unexplained mysteries in the average book. We linger a while to gaze upon the marvels revealed of the lost civiliza tion of the Agean and stop to study the enchanting Greece of Homer and the subtle meaning of the Greek leg ends. All having direct relation to the ancient Cushites. Historic Greece in all her glory, but viewed from new angles, passes before us with the older and superior civilization of Asia Minor, which has been almost entirely overlooked in modern liter ature. Next we come to the fact that the Phoenicians called them selves Ethiopians and that the He brew writers gave them the same name; then we reflect upon the strange relationship of the family of Cushite tongues to the so-called Indo-European group of languages. Our trail of the Cushites leads us high up where we get a breathless view of the astounding Ethiopian of today. Next follows the chapter on the ‘.‘Wonderful Ethiopians,” who produced fadeless colors that have held their hues for thousands of years, who drilled through solid rock and were masters of many other lost arts; and who many scientists believe must have understood elec tricity, who made metal figures that could move and speak and may have invented flying machines; for the “flying horse, Pegasus” and the "Ram of the golden fleece” of the legends may not have been mere fairy tales; but may have pictured fact. Next out of the forgotten wastes of the dark continent rise before us in volume three, lost ancient African empires, representing other missing civilizations of the time of the Cre tan age. Then across the screen comes flashing the "Ancient Cush ite Commerce,” who before the dawn of history had blazed out the ocean trails that the Phoenicians later fol lowed. The ancient Cushite ships ap pear on the sculptures of all ancient ruins, they were larger than the later Phoenician ships. We find irrefut able evidence of their presence as daring conquerors in the religion, legends, customs of primitive Ameri ca. (To be Continued. By Permission of the Universal Press. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.) BROADCASTS IDEALS OF COLORED WOMEN President Beckley of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Speaks Over Station WBFE FANS HEAR GREAT PROGRAM Cincinnati, Ohio—Among the out standing features of the recent eighth annual grand chapter conclave of Delta Sigma Theta sorority which met in Cincinnatti, Ohio, December 27-30, 1926, was the splendi dradio program given on December 28th at 8:15 p. m. from Garfield hotel, over station WBFE. Dorothy Pelham Beckley, Wash ington, D./C., national president, spoke on the ideals of Delta as em ; bodied in high scholarship, noble womanhood and worthwhile achieve ment. Listeners-in praised her pleas ing voice and the effectiveness with which the message was gotten over, j and complimented as well the high artistry of the following musical pro gram rendered: 1. Piano—“Rigoletto” Transcript, i Verdi, Liset—Miss Eloise Lowe, su pervisor of music, public schools of ! Nashville, Tenn. . 2. Voice (basso)—“Thy Sentinel Am I,” Watson; “Cato’s Advice”— . N. W. Ryder. 3. Quartette Delta Sigma Theta i Sorority—“Oh Lovely Night,” (a capella), Kremser—First soprano, Miss Marguerite Isby; second sopra no, Miss Ruth Alston; first alto, Mrs. Lillian Drayton, and second alto, Mrs. Mable L. Smith. Mrs. Anna How ard Matthews, Cosmopolitan School of Music, accompanist. 4. Three-minute talk—Miss Dor othy Beckley, Washington, D. C., national president. Delta Sigma sor ority. 5. Voice — “Exhortation,” Will Marion Cooke, “Deep River; arrang ed by Burleigh—N. W. Ryder. 6. Piano—“Ballade in G Minor”, Chopin—Miss Eloise Lowe. 7. Quartette—Delta Sigma Theta Sorority — “Bridal Chorus” from “Rose Maiden”, Cowen—Mrs. Anna Howard Matthews, accompanist. Mayor Seasongood Welcome* The public, program and recep tion given at Mount Zion M. E. Church Monday, December 27th was well attended. Mayor Seasongood gave a splendid speech of welcome complimenting the sorority on its constructive program and urging that it stress the full participation in civic affairs by all women. "In this way only,” said Mayor Seasongood, “can civic affairs be properly administer ed to the end that we all may reach a higher place of living and enjoy to the full our inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” An appropriation was made by the grand chapter in response to the acll sent out by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History whose purpose itis to inculcate a higher appreciation of the Negro’s contribution to civilization and to secure him the recognition belonging to all men: 1. By collecting, publishing, and popularizing the materials of Negro life and history. 2. By producing a series of his torical stories, as textbooks, and pic tures depicting the civilization of the Negro in Africa and America. 2. By inducing boards of educa tion to adopt these works as optional texts and supplementary works in public schools, and 4. By having libraries provide an adequate number of reference books j presnting the various aspects of Ne gro life and history. ^ In order to co-operate with the Circle for Peace and Foreign Rela tions a resolution was passed where by the sorority voted to appoint two representatives to serve on the Amer ican committee, to make an appropri ation and to endorse their program for holding the Fourth Pan-African ] Conference in New York next Aug : ust. A resolution was passed endorsing I the recent book published by an hon ! orary member of the sorority, Hallie Q. Brown, and the book was placed on the study calendar for the year. The book bears the title “Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Dis tinction.” Officer* for 1927 One hundred delegates and visit ing members were present at the eighth annual convention of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Cincinnatti was most hospitable, the local com mittee’s arrangements perfect and the social affairs brilliant. This convention represents the end of the Grand Chapter’s most construct ive year. Dorothy Pelham Beckley, Washington, D. C., grand chapter president for three years refused re election. The following grand chap ter officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Ethel Cali mese, Cincinnatti, Ohio; first vice president, Anna J. Thompson, Wash ington, D. C.; second vice-president, Vivian O. Marsh, Berkley, California; secretary, L. Beatrice Morton, Cin cinnatti, Ohio; treasurer, Annie M. Dingle, New York City; journalist, Madree Penn White, St. Louis, Mo. Washington, D. C., was unanimously chosen as the next place of meeting. BANKERS’ FIRE DECLARES DIVIDENDS Durham, N. C.—The board of di rectors of the Bankers’ Fire Insur ance company, the only Negro fire insurance company in the country, in their annual report of the affairs of the organization, closing the year as of December 31, 1926, made pub lic here recently, showed that the company has a most successful year. The board declared a divident of $5 per share on its outstanding stock. Mrs. S. Wilford is reported quite sick at this time. Robert Henry Hucless Consistory No. 32 elected officers for the en suing year Sunday. PRE LENTEN BALL FEB. 28th ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦• t Subscribe for || THE MONITOR 8 If Omaha's Reliable 9 i: Race Weekly j| I $2.00 a Year j