News of the Churches
and Religious Topics
Directory.
Baptist—
Bethel—Twenty-ninth and T streets
South Omaha. The Kev. J. C. Brown,
pastor, residence 467 South Thirty
first street. Services, Morning, 11;
evening, 7:30; Sunday School 1 p. m.;
B. Y. P. B., 6:30 p. m.; praise service,
7:30 p. m.
Mt. Moriah—Twenty-sixth and Sew
ard streets. The Rev. W. B. M. Scott,
pastor. Services: Sunday School, 9:30
a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.;
B. Y. P. U. at 6 p. m.
Zion — Twenty-sixth and Franklin
(temporary location). The Rev. W. F.
Botts, pastor; residence, 2522 Grant
street. Telephone Webster 5838. Ser
vices: Devotional hour, 10:30 a. m.;
preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School,
1 to 2 p. m.; pastor’s Bible class, 2 to
3 p. m.; I). Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m.; choir
devotion, 7:30 p. m.; preaching 8 p. m.
Episcopal—
Church of St. Philip the Deacon—
Twenty-first near Paul street. The
Rev. John Albert Williams, rector. |
Residence, 1119 North Twenty-first
street. Telephone Webster 4243. Ser
RACIAL PREJUDICE.
(The Omaha Nebraskan.)
Tom Dixon’s "The Birth of a Na
tion,” described by a Negro publica
tion as "Dixon’s infamous ‘Clansman’
in disguise,” has been suppressed and
prohibited from being shown in Atlan
tic City. This play pictures in very
vivid portrayal the life during the
civil war and during the reconstruc
tion days following the war with the
South.
The mayor of Atlantic City did ex
actly right in refusing to allow these
pictures to be presented. There is al
together too much racial prejudice
among the American people today and
such plays as this only seek to dis
turb conditions and awaken the brute
force in man. The civil war was so
fraught with distress and terrible
conditions that it is the simplest thing
in the world for an author with a lit
tle imaginative power to present to
his audience one side of the question
in so realistic form as to completely
prejudice for some time the easily
swayed mind. There are several sides
to that war and each has been brought
out with equally striking force by in
numerable writers and actors. Each
has been defended and each has been
portrayed in its worst light.
Racial prejudice is not the out
growth of thought. It is rather the
emotional awakening of the brute
which seems to lie dormant in most
of us and which is brought forth
through like actions on the part of
another. It is the actions of the fight
er in the ring which arouses us to cry
for a more strenuous fight and to
laugh and cheer at the suffering in
flicted upon the weaker combatant. It
is the brute force put in play at the
bull fight that causes us to clamor for
blood. It is the brute like actions of
our fellowman which causes us to
follow like sheep in the trail of some
leaders in the formation of a mob.
When we see the plays which portray
the bad side of the Negro the brute
rises in the form of racial prejudice.
Not prejudice against a man or a char
acter but prejudice against an entire
race. The innocent suffer with the
viceB daily at 7 a. m. and 9 a. m. Fri
days at 8 p. m. Sundays at 7:30 a.
m., 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
School at 12:45 p. m.
Methodist—
Allen Chapel, A. M. E., 181 South
Twenty-fifth street, South Omaha.—
The Rev. Harry Shepherd, pastor.
Residence, 181 South Twenty-fifth
street. Services: Preaching, 11 a.
m.; Sunday School, 1:30 p. m.
Grove M. E.—Twenty-second and
Seward streets. The Rev. G. G. Logan,
pastor. Residence, 1628 North Twen
ty-second street. Services: Sunday
School at 10 a. m.; preaching at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m.; Epworth League,
6:30 p. m.
St. John's A. M. E.—Eighteenth and
Webster streets. The Rev. W. T. Os
borne, pastor. Residence, 613 North
Eighteenth street. Telephone Doug
las 5914. Services: Sunday, 11 a. m.
and 8 p. m., preaching: 12 noon, class,
1:15 p. m„ Sunday School; 7 p. m.,
Endeavor; Wednesday, 8 p. m., pray
er and class meetings. Everybody
made welcome at all of these meet
ings.
guilty as is the case in all mob rule.
Such cases which tend to create race
prejudice and to awaken the brute
force in mob violence should be sup
pressed and the better nature of man
be allowed to come to the front.
SOUTH RUNS CONGRESS.
The decision of Representative Fitz
gerald of New York to retire from
congress and seek a place on the New
York state bench will remove the last
northern congressman from the chair
manship of an important committee
in the house of representatives, and
place all important committee chair
manships in the control of men from
the southern states. Fitzgerald is now
chairman of the committee on appro
priations, and in that capacity has
rendered efficient service for the pro
tection of the interests of the govern
ment. Upon his retirement, Congress
man Sherley of Kentucky will become
chairman, and then the twenty-seven
leading committees of the house will
be headed by men who live east of
the Missouri river and south of the
Mason and Dixon line. Four of the
committees will be headed by men
from Virginia, three from Missouri,
three from Kentucky, three from Ten
nessee, three from North Carolina,
two each from Georgia, Florida and
Texas, and one each from South Caro
lina, Alabama, Oklahoma, Maryland
and Arkansas.
A very similar condition will exist
in the senate. Every important com
mittee will be headed by a southern
man, except that Senator Newlands
of Nevada will be chairman of the
committee on interstate commerce;
Senator O’Gorman of New York will
be chairman of the committe on inter
ocean canals, and Senator Chamber
lain of Oregon will be chairman of the
committee on military affairs. It Is
a rather remarkable coincidence that
both Newlands and Chamberlain are !
natives of Mississippi. This absolute I
domination of the South in both
houses of congress is made possible ;
by the votes of northern states, which
placed and continue the democratic
party In power. The South dominates
the democratic party ,and so long as
that party has control of the govern
ment, the South will direct the legis
lative, administrative and economic
policies of the United States.
The above facts clearly show that
all who are opposed to the South’s 1
narrow-visioned supremacy should
seek to elect republicans to congress.
Northern democrats are as a rule
broad-minded and progressive men,
but they cannot successfully with
stand the influence of the reactionary
South.
VIRGINIA SCHOOLS.
Virginia has twelve colored public
high schools of which two have four
year courses. Twenty-six private
schools enroll the following students:
Firty-six in professional courses; 52
in college; 323 normal, 1,606 high
school pupils and 3,141 grammar
school pupils, a total of 5,442 students
under 292 teachers. The colored
school population of the state is 217,
760; the enrollment, 151,373; the seat
ing capacity of the schoolhouses, 106,
191.
Willis N. Hugffins, a Columbia uni
versity graduate, who has been serv
ing in the public school system of
New York City as a teacher in the
night schools, has accepted a position
as professor of historical and social
science and director of the training
school, at the A. & M. State Normal
school, Normal, Ala.
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Something About
Government Ownership
No. 8
Advocates of govern
ment ownership of tele
phones have claimed that
the American people are
paying dividends on ‘ ‘ wa
tered” stock.
Here is what Represen
tative Lewis, Chief
Congressional Ad
vocate of Govern
ment ownership
says about ' “wa
ter” in Bell Tele
pnone stocK:
“Be it said for the Bell
System that it is the one
great corporation in our
country that has not is
sued tons of counterfeit
capital.
‘ ‘ Its bonds today repre
sent the actual contribu
tions of its stockholders
in money to a great com
mon enterprise."
The telephone business
has produced no
millionaires.
Last year the net
earnings of the
Bell System were
less than 6 per
cent, on the actual invest
ment.
Five per cent, of the
gross revenue, or $11,
300,000, were paid in
taxes in 1913.
Bell Telephone Service Has Set thf
Standard for the Rest of the World.
NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY