The MOi ttor
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r A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight . * .sand 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, July 1, 1916 Vol. II. No. 1 (Whole No. 53)
From Fair Nebraska
to Sunny Tennessee
Incidents of the Trip and Impressions
Received by Editor on First Visit
to Southland.
SAVING MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS
How the Solvent Savings Hank
Started Many People on the Road
Leading Toward Prosperity.
We were taken to task again this
week for omitting our article on Mem
phis, and that in face of the fact that
only two weeks ago we over-ran our
allotted space and really thought we
were trespassing upon the patience
of our readers.
Anxiously Looked For.
One lady said to us: “My father
anxiously looks for those articles
every week and when they do not ap
pear in the paper he and all the rest
of us are disappointed. And then, be
sides, they are always too short. Why
don’t you make them longer?”
It’s perfectly delightful to have
people say such things and especial
ly when you have good reason to be
lieve that they mean what they say
and are not saying so simply for the
sake of saying something.
Of course, we are glad these articles
are being read and enjoyed, as they
are, by so many.
A very courteous and charming lit
tle lady who holds a responsible posi
tion in one of the large firms in the
city which advertise with us said:
“Those articles of yours on Mem
phis are just dandy. I look for them
every week.”
Change of Diet Necessary.
Here then, is testimony from an
other source. And we hear so much
of this that we really believe our
readers in general do like the impres
sions of our southern trip. But at the
same time, you know “Variety is the
spice of life,” and a change of diet
aids digestion. The interruption of
the series permits variety and change
of diet.
Now About the Christmas Fund.
We promised to tell you something
about the Solvent Savings Bank
Christmas fund, didn’t we? And we
promised, honor bright, to do so be
fore Christmas. How many weeks to
Christmas? Just TWENTY-SIX!
Think of it. The year’s half gone.
So, if you’re going to do your Christ
mas shopping early, or save for your
Christmas shopping, you had better
get about it. Right here comes in
a very pertienent question: HAVE
YOU BEGAN TO SAVE A LITTLE
MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS PRES
ENTS?
Christmas Presents.
Everybody and his brother likes
to give some present at Christmas.
Whether you stop to analyze the rea
son for this or not, as a matter of
fact it is an unconscious out-growth
of the world-consciousness of God’s
great gift of His only Begot
(Contlnued on eighth page)
“Honor the Black Regiment”
Some Press Comments on Their Devotion to the Flag.
Nation-Wide Enlistment of Colored Americans.
COLORED MEN OF COLORADO
READY TO RESPOND
(Special to The Monitor.)
Denver, Col., July 1.—Should the
call for volunteers be made the race
in Colorado will be ready to respond.
Denver and other points expect to fur
nish a Colored battalion.
KANSAS CITYIANS
RAISING MILITIA
(Special to The Monitor.)
Kansas City, July 1.—The Colored
people of this city are recruiting sev
eral companies of militia. They will
be ready to respond to the call for
volunteers whenever President Wilson
may issue the call.
RACE MEN DESIRE TO
ORGANIZE REGIMENT
Paducah, Ky., July 1. — Ollie
Rodgers and Luke Merriwether, Col
>red citizens, who were in the Span
ish-American war, are making an ef
fort to organize a Colored regiment in
Taducah. The regiment would con
ist of about 1,000 soldiers. There are
about 6,000 or more Colored male
residents in Paducah. The promoters
lesire to organize and offer the regi
aent for service in Mexico.
AMERICANS.
Every American will take pride in
the gallant fight made by the men of
the Tenth Cavalry against overwhelmi
ng odds in the ambush in Mexico.
Captain Morey’s account of their fac
ing death singing bears out the his
tory of Negro troops whenever they
have been called on to fight for their
country. They have always done
their duty cheerfully and ungrudg
ingly. By accident of birth their skin
varries an excess pigment. In spirit
they are real Americans. — Kansas
City Star.
ALABAMIANS EAGER TO ENLIST
Victor H. Tulane and other Mont
gomery, Ala., Negroes have opened
an enlistment place for Negro volun
teers. Upon receiving news that mem
bers of the Tenth United States Cav
alry (Negro) had ben killed Mont
gomery Negroes were eager for an
opportunity to enlist and a full regi
ment will be offered for service the
day the United States calls for volun
teers.
Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Tus
kegee Institute, says that former
Tuskegee graduates will make up a
regiment and that if the government
will acecpt them he believes one hun
dred thousand sturdy Negroes will en
list.—Birmingham Age-Herald.
NO REASON TO APOLOGIZE.
And again, according to reports
from Mexico, the Colored troops
fought nobly. Our Afro-American
citizens have no reason to apologize
for their hyphen.—The Omaha Bee.
“NO COLOR LINE IN BRAVERY.”
The history of America's “Tenth
legion” may not be so replete with
the glamor of historic splendor as
was that of Caesar, but it has written
some illustrious pages in the volume
of American heroism and has
proved that there is no color line in
bravery. The black men in the ranks
will have their names written in the
records of the army side by side with
the heroic officers of the Tenth cav
alry who took part in the Carrizal
ambush. The demand which is made
'or the release of the prisoners taken
at Carrizal is for the release of men
whose skins are black but whose
valor is as “white” as that of any
man who ever wore the uniform.—
Kansas City Journal.
TO RAISE $110,000 FROM
MEHARRY ALUMNI
Nashville, Tenn., July 11.—The
faculty of Meharry Medical college
has given $2,400, the local graduates
$680 and other Nashville friends $480
towards an endowment fund which
has been launched by President Geo.
W. Hubbard of the Meharry college.
Through an anonuncement made
by President Hubbard this week it
develops that campaigns are to be
put on in Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia
and Texas, where hundreds of Mehar
ry graduates are located and each of
the living Meharry graduates will be
asked to contribute. The effort is
being made to raise $10,000 among
the alumni.
RESCUES TWO BOYS
FROM DROWNING
Dover, Del., July 1.—Rev. J. Albert
Sterrett, pastor of Calvary Baptist
church, rescued two white boys from
drowning in the Silver Lake, near
Dover, Del., a few days ago. He was
working in his garden near the place
when he heard the cries of the boys
and went to their rescue.
LABORERS COME FROM SOUTH
Norristown, Pa., July 1.—One hun
dred Colored men from Virginia and
South Carolina have recently arrived
here to work for the Pennsylvania
railroad. They will be employed as
laborers, doing the work which was
formerly done by foreigners.
Nebraska Is Raising
a Colored Battalion
Three Companies Are Being Re
cruited in Omaha and Another In
Lincoln Has Band Ready.
OVER HUNDRED MEN ENLISTED
Recruiting Office Is Established—
All the Oficers Are Selected—
Men Anxious to Go.
Permission has been received from
Governor Moorehead to raise a bat
talion of Colored troops. Edward
Turner and G. Wade Obee interviewed
him early this wek and he was quite
enthusiastic over the movement.
Sergeant Isaac Bailey and others
called a meeting of those whom they
thought would be interested and the
work of recruiting has began. It is
proposed to raise three companies in
Omaha and one in Lincoln. Recruit
ing offices have been opened at 2518
Lake street, in charge of G. Wade
Obee; at Dr. J. H. Hutten’s office, 107
South Fourteenth street, in charge of
Bob Robinson, and one on the South
Side in charge of E. C. Underwood.
The Lincoln office is in charge of
Clinton Ross, the famous football
star.
All the principal officers for the
respective companies have been se
lected and include men who have
either been in actual service or who
have had military training. Ser
geant Bailey and G. Wade Obee
served together in the campaign in
Cuba and in the Phillipines and were
members of the famous Tenth Cav
alry. Bob Robinson, William Ran
som, R. C. Price and Charley Bird
have also seen actual service,
y The battalion has a band under the
leadership of Dan Desdunes, with
Will Lewis as principal musician.
Ofifcers of the organization arc
Major Isaac Bailey, Adjutant Edward
Turner, Ellsworth Pryor, commis
sary; James Flemister, quartermas
ter; Captains, G. W. Obee, Bob Robin
son and R. C. Price; First Lieuten
ants Griffith, George Gray and W. A.
Watts; Second Lieutenants Charles
Bird, E. C. Underwood and William
Ransom. Captain Clinton Ross has
charge of the company in Lincoln.
TO BE ORDAINED
TO THE MINISTRY
Thomas A. Taggart will be or
dained to the ministry of the Baptist
church Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock
in Mount Moriah Baptist church,
Twenty-sixth and Seward streets.
Rev. J. A. Maxwell will be moderator.
The sermon will be preached by the
Rev. W. F. Botts. The charge to the
andidate will be given by the Rev.
Dr. Holler and that to the congrega
tion by the Rev. M. H. Wilkinson. The
ordination prayer will be offered by
'he Rev. Mr. McQueen, and the bene
diction will be pronounced by the or
dained, the Rev. Thomas A. Tag
gart.
