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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1916)
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, $1.50 PER YEAR Advertising rates, 59 cents an inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243. WHY SHOULD YOU TAKE COLLIERS? We have on file on our office the letter written March 25, 1916, from the New York office of P. F. Collier & Son, to Mr. George W. Parker, of 925 North Twenty-seventh street, Omaha, and the card of instructions to agents which was inclosed. In this letter appears the following paragraph: “The attached card gives you a list of occupations we do not care to do business with; while hundreds of the people engaged in said occupations are honest, however, our records show do ing business with people engaged in said occupations is at a loss, etc.” The list of occupations enumerated as undesirable from Collier’s view point of patrons is a long one and in cludes printers, cigarmakers, tailors and barbers, not proprietors of place or living at home; waiters, hotel or restaurant; dishwashers, laundry help, bell boys, porters, elevator boys, hack and cab drivers, bartenders, telegraph operators, brakemen, laborers, etc. Indeed, the list is so long that one marvels how, if the instructions to agents are rigidly carried out, this magazine can reasonably expect to extend its circulation. We pass on down the list until we come to class 11. Here we quote: “11. Transients: Contracts will not be accepted from people stopping at boarding houses or hotels unless we are satisfied that they are perma nently located and entirely responsi ble. This refers particularly to soldiers, sailors, Negroes, etc.” Opposite this last section is a cross mark, made presumably by F. H. Royce, whose signature appears on the letter to Mr. Parker. Why was attention particualrly called to this last paragraph? Why should Negroes be classed among transients with soldiers and sailors ? We have been asked by several readers of The Monitor, who sub scribed for Collier’s through Mr. Par ker what we knew about the facts in the case. Local collectors for Col lier’s have stated that Mr. Parker misrepresented the facts. A letter from Collier’s states that “Mr. Par ker is evidently seeking notoriety.” We have given the facts. Has Mr. Parker misrepresented them ? Do you take Collier’s Weekly? Why should you ? CONGRATULATIONS, WORLD-HERALD The World-Herald has moved into one of the handsomest and best equipped newspaper buildings in the country. The new home of this lib eral-minded newspaper is a building of which growing Omaha may justly feel proud. In the former building which was its home for more than twenty-five years, one always felt welcome. We believe that the cor diality and courtesy extended to even the humblest who entered its doors by all the employes of this great news paper from the head down has count ed as much in the success of the World-Herald as the marked ability and high literary standard with which it has been edited. We congratulate the World-Herald upon the acquisi tion of its beautiful new home and wish it the continued success which it so richly deserves. Dr. Charles Woodward, of the Il linois State Eclectic Medical society, has made the discovery that white men are too salty for canibals to eat. We are quite sure that this will be gratifying news to this virile group of humanity. If the learned doctor had said that they were too tough for cannibals to eat, he doubtless would have come nearer the truth. It remains now for some other scientist to discover that they are too green to bum and then they who stray from the narrow path may face the future without fear. Salt makes them can nibal proof; asbestos, it is said, is fireproof. A gentleman has taken great pains in making an estimate of what our people spend yearly in Omaha with the public service corporations, for rents and taxes and living expenses. We believe his estimate is conserva tive. In order to verify his figures we are going to ask our women who do most of the shopping to save their sale slips which they receive from the various dry goods stores for one month and send them to us. It will ; help us in approximating what we spend in this line. We saw five Colored customers in the boys’ clothing department of the Brandeis Stores one Saturday after between 5:30 and 6 o’clock. Be sides ourselves there were Mrs. Al fred Jones, Mrs. William Jackson and two whose names we did not know'. The purchases of two of these cus tomers totaled something over $22.00. Do not Omaha merchants owe it to themselves and to us to advertise in our race newspapers? It is wonderful what a little paint will do towards brightening up your home. Paint your places, not your faces. Contributions From Nebraska for The Booker T. Washington Memorial Fund: The Monitor.$1.00 SUBSCRIBE FOR THE MONITOR. MATRIMONIAL CONSIDERATION. “Why do you object to my marrying your daughter?” “Because you can’t support her in the style to which she has been ac customed all her life.” “How do you know I can’t? I can start her on bread and milk, same as . you did.”—Chicago News. DON’T MISS IT i i i i DRAMA “Above the Clouds” ' Next Thursday, May 11 n T Zion Baptist Church, 23rd and Grant ' 1512 Farnam Street McQUILLIN leart of Omaha | JOHN B. STETSON HATS Neckwear 50c to $3.00. Lewis Underwear, Imperial Underwear and Vassar Underwear. Interwoven Hose. The House That Jack Built. Good Plumbing Necessary To Good Health YOU WANT BOTH—THEN SEE | E. C. BRADY PLUMBING ANI) HEATING CONTRACTOR Phones: ..Shop—Webster 2520. Residence—Florence 527. 1 1910 North 24th Street j We Carry a Full Line of Plumbing Repairs. Prompt Attention. | Pleased to Serve You. J t i t g r 9 t >- » -9 t T -t-r-T--T— Courtesy—Good Merchandise Moderate Prices i i i * i i 11 Thompson-Belden’s HOWARD AND SIXTEENTH STREETS i ■ ■ • • • • A Word To Advertisers ! i I)o you realize that The Monitor occupies an exclusive and ' ' unique field and is therefore one of the 1 1 Best Advertising Mediums i you can find to i reach a class of people who are proverbially GOOD CUS TOMERS and relatively HEAVIER BUYERS THAN ANY OTHER SEPARATE GROUP in the community? i i ' j Well, It’s a Fact The Monitor is the Only Newspaper in Nebraska Published in the Interests of the Colored People. They are pleased with it and proud of it. Its circulation is already lartfe and rapidly growing. Ultimately it will be read in the f home of every Colored American in Nebraska. 1 n ii To reach the Colored People of Nebraska Use The Monitor i i 11 PHONE Webster 4243 AND A REPRESENTATIVE WILL CALL.