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.
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A Word
To Advertisers !
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I)o you realize that The Monitor occupies an exclusive and
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unique field and is therefore one of the
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Best Advertising
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reach a class of people who are proverbially GOOD CUS
TOMERS and relatively HEAVIER BUYERS THAN ANY
OTHER SEPARATE GROUP in the community?
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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
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To reach the Colored People of Nebraska
Use The Monitor
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AND A REPRESENTATIVE WILL CALL.
