Another Election
For Next Month
As You Are to Have a Chance to Vote
Again in December You Want
to Know How to Mark Your
Ballot Intelligently.
The presidential election was close.
As a matter of fact in several states
the official count may yet be neces
sary to determine whether Woodrow
Wilson or Charles E. Hughes is elect
ed.
The national election, if it has de
termined anything, it is the value of
every man’s vote. It shows the im
portance of every man voting and
voting intelligently.
Perhaps you have overlooked the
fact that there is to be another elec
tion held December 5. You are going
to have a chance to vote again. And
as a citizen of Omaha you owe it to
yourself to vote and vote intelligent
ly. The election, December 5, is to
decide a matter which vitally affects
you as a citizen and taxpayer.
Whether you do or do not own real
estate, you are affected by higher or
lower taxes. You are a taxpayer di
rectly or indirectly, and therefore it is
very important that you vote Decem
ber 5.
The issue to be decided at that elec
tion is this:
Will the citizens of Omaha accept
and ratify the definite clear-cut street
lighting contract proposed by the
Omaha Electric Light and Power
Company? Or will they reject this
for the promise of a vague, indefinite
municipal owned plan and system to
be inaugurated in the remote future?
When reduced to sober facts these
are the two propositions.
It ought not be difficult for the
hundreds of intelligent readers of The
Monitor to decide as to how they
ought to vote.
Here are some of the many advan
tages to be obtained under the pro
posed contract of the Electric Light
and Power Company:
First—A total number of 2,488
lamps as against 1,417 now in use,
without an increase in cost to the city.
The increase in number of lamps pro
vided is 1,071.
Second—A complete, efficient and
decorative ornamental street lighting
system for the business section of
our city without any investment on
the part of the city or merchants.
The whole cost of additional installa
tion of lamps is borne by the com
pany.
Third—Reduces the cost of lighting
a street intersection about $24.00,
which means that almost two inter
sections can be lighted for the pres
ent cost of one intersection.
Fourth—About 75 per cent of dark
street intersections can be lighted
without additional cost to city, there
by, giving better police protection
throughout the entire city.
Fifth—The lamps proposed in the
contract are claimed to be most sat
isfactory, giving more light without
flicker, glare or shadows.
Sixth—The demands for more light
constantly made by the people can
be met without immediate increase in
our lighting fund.
Seventh—The proposed contract
does away with the present old-style
arc lamps which are obsolete, and se
cures for the city the most improved
lamp known to the electrical industry
for street lighting purposes.
Eighth—The proposed cost, as in
dicated by, the data on hand covering
thirty-five cities of over 100,000 pop
ulation, is lower than any other city
in the United States using incandes
cent lamps.
These, it would seem are advan
tages worth considering. Don’t you
think so, too?
Our city is at present very poorly
lighted. All must admit that. Now
the proposed installment of Type “C”
Mazda lamps for street lighting,
which is designed to supersede the
present obsolete and common arc and
flame arc lamps, with the end in view
of providing for Omaha, without ad
ditional expense, a complete and mod
ern ornamental system of lighting for
the business section of the city to
gether with a greater number of more
desirable lighting units for the out
lying districts should meet the ap
proval of all who want a better lighted
city.
The important question is: Do you
want a better lighted city than we I
now have at less expense?
Of course you do. This is what
the proposed lighting contract upon
which you are to vote December 5
offers. Don’t you think you ought to
vote for it and get your neighbor to
do the same?
OBJECTED TO NEGRO DIALECT
The Literary Digest for November
11, gave a rather lengthy review of
opinion expressed by the High School
Music Teachers of New York, disap
proving of the “Negro dialect in songs
published in public-school text-books.
The South was especially aroused over
the teachers’ objections, and came back
with strong words of criticism and
opposition.
The conclusion of the article con
. tains quotations from an article writ
j ten by Mr. David Mannes in the New
York Evening Post. Mr. Mannes
among other activities, teaches in the
Music School Settlement for Colored
People in Harlem. A most interesting
j part of his conclusions is quoted as
follows:
“As the Negro lends his own inflec
tion to any tongue he learns, so his
touch on the piano differs from the
white man’s. Here, too, his natural
potentialities must expand. Negroes
either pick on instruments or play on
instruments of percussion; to my
knowledge they have never turned to
bowed instruments. So it is that the
difficulty for the Negro in playing
on the violin lies in the bow. In their
management of it they may approach
the fine and natural legato of their
own voices.
“Their musical inspiration as a rule
has as its initial force an intense spir
itual feeling so common in the black
race, literate and illiterate. True pre
paredness means the stimulating of
the poetical, musical, and dramatic
qualities of the child of today so that
the man and the woman of tomorrow
shall resist the onslaughts of material
aggression.
“As Theodore Thomas once said, fa
miliar music is popular music. My
whole idea, therefore, is to ’make
Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and Cesar
Franck familiar and popular with the
Colored people and raise (them,
through these masters, to the plane
of intelligent appreciation of, and par
ticipation in, the best traditions which
we have.”
The Don’t Worry Girls’ Club met
at the home of Estelle Jefferson, 512
No. 25th St., Nov. 9th. There was a
good attendance and all were more
than delighted to welcome a new mem
ber, Miss Brown. The next meeting
will be held at the home of Miss
Hazel Jordan, 2411 No. 29th St.
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