The Monitor
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight Thousand Colored People
in Omaha and Vicinity, and to the Good of the Community
The Rev. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
$1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy. Omaha, Nebraska, June 3, 1916 Volume I. Number 49
Claim Has Solved
Gasoline Problem
Colored Grocer of Churchville, Tenn.,
Expects to Smash Rockefeller’s
Vast Monopoly.
HIS SECRET REVOLUTIONARY
Substitute Cheaper and has Greater
Propelling Power than Gasoline
Inventor British Subject.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 3.—In
Churchville lives a Colored man who
hopes to rival Henry Ford in cheap
ening transportation and by his own
invention divert much of the flow of
gasoline profits from Rockefeller's
hoard of gold. Mythical as it may
sound, he would replace gasoline with
green-tinted water. And in the green
tint is a powerful propelling force—
unpatented and unknown, ’tis said,
save to the one Churchville man.
A British Subject.
W. B. Tarando, 309 Sharp avenue,
Churchville, is a British subject; says
he came to Chattanooga seven years
ago from Kingston, Jamaica, and op
erates a small grocery store. The only
history of what he claims as his in
vention is his asertion that he worked
up the promised substitute for gaso
line in his little crude laboratory.
Three cents’ worth of his strange
mixture is put into each gallon of
water, the basic ingredient of the pro
pelling liquid.
G. W. Nixon, president of the Nixon
Mining Drill company, found the
Churchville inventor, and has started
to help him develop what may be
great possibilities in the trade.
Recently Mr. Nixon told the story
to a newspaper man. He admitted
that it sounded incredible, so offered
a demonstration.
iveeps invention oecrei.
Tarando was called and mixed a
small quantity of the green-tinted
liquid in a gallon of water. The mix
ture was poured into the gasoline
tank of a six-cylinder Grant automo
bile—all traces of gasoline having
been removed. Hugh Nixon took the
wheel and a flying trip was made to
Orchard Knob and back to the city.
Fifteen and six-tenths miles were
covered, and still the gauge showed
that the gallon of propelling liquid
was not exhausted.
The automobile apparently speeded
forward as though the best grade of
gasoline was flowing into its multiple
cylinders, but produced a different
odor from its exhaust pipe. The
strange, peculiar odor was entirely
different from that of gasoline.
ATTORNEY HAWKINS ELECTED
Washington, D. C., June 3.—Attor
ney William L. Hawkins, formerly of
Milwaukee, Wis., has been elected the
general counsel for the International
Hod Carriers’ Association, Local No.
46. This association has a large mem
bership and is affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
Robert R. Church, Jr., Elected Delega tc-at-Large to National Convention.
Something To Make You Think
SHOW IN PUBLIC SQUARE.
The Pittsburgh Courier.
We have the report that after a Colored man was convicted of murder
in the proper courts, the southern by-standers, evidently impatient with the
slow process of their own law, took the defendant from the custody of the
Courts and burned him in the public square.
This kind of lynching has become common in this country. It has grown
strong on just such sentiment as gave expression to this dastardly burning
in the south; but as common as it has become, and as frequently as these
horrible crimes may occur, we have no hesitancy in registering our protest
against the burning of a human being in the public square of any civilized
town of these United States of America. It may be said that protest is use
less. We say it is never useless to raise an honest protest against any un
lawful act. It was protest that won the independence of this country and it
will be protest that will help largely in effecting a change of the conditions
now so prevalent in this country.
We need not spend so much energy in describing the crimes. They are
sufficiently horrible without detailed description. What we need to do is
i -vote our energies to the creation of a healthy sentiment against such
crimes, and we need not select the site of the crime as a place of beginning.
A protest in Maine is as good as one in Florida. The entire country must
rise up against lynching before it will be stopped. Leo Frank gave his life
to the lynchers, but his life is one less to be sacrificed before the end conies.
This country must stop lynching or become corrupt and falL This country
must stop lynching in the rural districts or it will spread to the cities where
mobs are more easily assembled. This cquntry must set abroad the sentiment
needed to stop this uncivilized practice or be branded as uncivilized, and!
carry the accusation that the United States is not capable of self government.
From Fair Ne^ska
to S»’;^scC ^essee
Ii p ..e Trip and Impressions
.,ed by Editor on First Visit
to Southland.
THE SOLVENT SAVINGS BANK
A Race Institution Which Has Stead
ily Grown in the Confidence and
Esteem of the People.
We promised to tell you something
about the banks which our people
successfully operate in Memphis. In
this issue we attempt to redeem that
promise. Our limited space, however,
will permit us to tell you something
about only one of these banks. From
what we have planned to tell you,
and we are very sure that it will all
interest you, it looks as though we
shall have to write at least two arti
cles on the Solvent Savings Bank and
Trust Company alone. And then
there’s the Fraternal Savings aim
Trust Company, equally interesting
aind worthy of commendation as a sig
nificant and potent factor in Race evo
ution.
Banks Proclaim Progress
For it must be apparent to all that
in our modem commercial life banks
•c significant signs of progress. The
1 inand for churches and schools ap
pears early in the evolutionary pro
cess and progress of a people. Man's
religious needs and his educational
needs must be supplied. In these two
particulars the Colored American has
abundantly demonstrated his common
aspirations with a progressive human
ity. His entrance into the business
and commercial world has, of neces
sity, been longer delayed. But even
here he is rapidly developing. Busi
ness demands banks. And the race ■■
conducting, and that successfully,
banks.
The Full Significance of This
We want you to fully weigh the sig
nificance of this fact. It has been
said that the Race has no confidence
in itself or in one another. There is
1 good deal of truth in this indictment.
And yet is there not a cause for this
mistrust and distrust, which, thank
God, is rapidly disappearing?
It took four hundred years to erad
icate the debasing influence of Egyp
tian bondage from one of the most
virile and brilliant races the world has
ever seen. A race, too, that was one in
ligion, one in language, one in blood.
Jnlike the Jewish people, our race is
of mixed blood. We are not respon
sible for the mixture, but it is there.
We are only about fifty years re
moved from slavery, more debasing
\an that of Egyptian bondage. Amer
ican slavery taught espionage. The
house slave was taught to spy upon
the field hand and the field hand upon
the house servant. The spy system
nywhere breeds distrust. This has
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