The Monitor
A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious
interests of the Colored People of Omaha and vicinity, with the desire
to contribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the
community.
Published Every Saturday.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Post
office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March 3, 1879.
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher.
Lucille Skaggs Edwards, William Garnett Haynes and Ellsworth W.
Pryor, Associate Editors.
Joseph LaCour, Jr., Advertising and Circulation Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.00 per year.
Advertising rates, 50 cents an inch per issue.
Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha.
“MAY STUB HIS TOE”
One of our local subscribers, who
holds a political position of import
ance, evidently reads The Monitor
with much interest and edification.
He does us the appreciated honor of
saying that “The Monitor is all right
and is a mighty good little paper,
but I am afraid that if he is not care
ful the editor may stub his toe oe
cause he doesn’t understand politics.”
Our friend’s anxiety lest we may
stub our editorial toe arises from the
fact that he does not like our criu
cism of the city officials’ inactivity
in the matter of a photoplay which
is being allowed to ruu ‘'indefinitely”
at a local theater. His words would
seem to imply that certain favors
might be granted or withheld, ac
cording as our editorial utterances
might please or displease the powers
that be.
We are not of those who hang
on princes’ favors.
Fortunately, we hold no political
job, we have no axe to grind and
we are not dependent upon our po
litical friends for support, although
if they like the paper we will be
pleased to receive their subscriptions
at the current rate, and when they
desire to do political advertising if
they believe this to be a good medium
we will take their advertising at the
established rate. Our editorial
policy is not for sale. As we an
nounced in our first issue our “edi
torial policy will be independent,
frank and fearless, courteous and
kind, sane and conservative.” We
have adhered to this rule.
When we believe any action or in
action, if you please, is not conserv
ing the best interests of the special
group which we represent we expect
to say so, and we shall always en
deavor to be sure of the facts in
the case before we speak. We may
not “understand politics,” but in this
instance it looks to us as though
there has been an ill-disguised at
tempt to play both ends against the
middle.
In football days we used to stub
our toe frequently against the pig
skin and it went hurtling over the
goal. That scored. We may stub
our editorial toe, but each time we
do we hope to kick goal. We believe
that even our friends, the city com
missioners will admit, if they are
good sports, that in the present game
we have at least scored.
ACT UPON THIS HINT
Here is something we ran across
the other day in one of our ex
changes which we most heartily com
mend to our readers. Not only should
we think seriously about what is
here said, but we should immediately
act upon this hint:
Do you know that if 100 addition
al Negroes would patronize any one
of our Negro enterprises, and spend
only 25 cents apiece a week with
him, in a year he would make $1,300?
Suppose 500 Negroes would patronize
him, in a short time his or her busi
ness would increase so rapidly that
they would have to take on more help.
Maybe then your son or daughter
might be taken out of the field or
kitchen to fill the position.—Royal
Messenger.
We call attention to a good sug
gestion made by Mr. Pegg in a let
ter, published elsewhere in this is
sue, to the effect that some of u«e
more fortunate of our people should
interest themselves in giving Christ
mas cheer to some family. There are
many families among us who could
and should provide a dinner for su...e
deserving family of our race. Mrs.
Doane, secretary of the Associated
Charities, will gladly furnish the
names of cases they have investigat
ed. There are people who have no
children of their own who should see
to it that Santa Claus visits some
child not already abundantly provid
ed for, but who might be forgotten
even by the supposedly omniscient St.
Nicholas. Indeed, we need not ana
ought not confine our dispensation of
goodfellowship to members of our
own race, but if wre chance to know of
any to whom we can give happiness
it ought to be given.
We have received a few more sub
scribers this w'eek, but we are still
a long distance from securing the
additional 200 asked for by January 1.
Send in your subscription. Our list
has grown rapidly since we began
publication of The Monitor. Our aim
s to have it read in the home of
2very colored man and woman in Ne
braska and in as many homes of the
white race as it is possible to reach.
Just a few of the places around us
where the city authorities forbade or
stopped the production of the photo
ply: Des Moines, St. Paul, Minneap
olis and Denver. The authorityless
authorities of Omaha were power
less (?) to even compel the elimina
tion of the admittedly most objection
able parts. Evidently their eliminator
is out of order.
Use common sense in gift buying
and gift making. Don’t mortgage the
future for vanity’s sake or in an ef
fort “to keep up with the Jonses.”
You know that playing politix
Differs from playing on a fiddle;
When you think you're in a fix
Play both ends against the middle.
Help the poor, not only at Christ
mastide, but throughout the year.
Use Red Cross seals.
BOOST.
Roost your city, boost your friend,
Boost the lodge that you attend,
Boost the street on which you’re
dwelling
Boost the goods that you are selling,
They can get along without you
But success will quicker find them
If they know that you’re behind them.
Boost for every forward movement,
Boost for every new improvement,
Boost the man for whom you labor,
Boost the stranger and the neighbor.
Cease to be a chronic knocker,
Cease to be a progress blocker,
If you’d make your city better,
Boost it to the final letter.
—Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free
Press.
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To which boosting we would add—
Roost your mother, boost your daa;
Boost your school and boost your
teacher,
Boost your race and boost your
preacher;
Boost your home and boost your
church,
Do not leave it in the lurch;
Boost your butcher, boost your baker,
Even boost the undertaker;
Boost the printer and physician,
Dont’ leave out the politician;
Boost the mender of old soles,
And the sewerup of holes;
Boost all along the line,
If you would make this old world
shine;
And while boosting up and for,
Boost and boost The Monitor.
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