THE MONITOR
A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests
of the Colored People of Nebraska and the West, with the desire to con
tribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and
of the race.
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 and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Editors.
George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor and Business Manager.
Joseph LaCour, Jr., Lincoln Representative, 821 S. St., Lincoln.
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Advertising Rates, 50 cents an Inch per issue.
Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha.
Telephone Webster 4243.
BOOKS AND BEAUX
They don’t go well together. The
student who is anxious to make a
good record in school must apply him
self to his books.
We have observed a good many
youth of both sexes in our time whose
fond parents have made sacrifices to
g.ve them an opportunity to get an
education. These pupils would make
commendable progress in their studies
particularly through the lower or
grammar grades, and would enter
High school with fair prospects of
making a good record. But here
there has soon come a failure in this
study or that. Why? What is the
reason for it? Beaux.
Girls and boys of high school age
become beau-struck. It seems to af
fect the girls most. Perhaps it is be
cause they are more sentimental than
the boys. Be that as it may, neither
boys nor girls can do good school work
when they try to mix books |and
beaux. This is a combination that
does not work successfully.
So boys and girls, do not try the
impossible. Stick to your books dur
ing school days which will pass all
too soon. Make full use of the ad
vantages your parents are giving
you to get an education to prepare
you for careers of usefulness. Re
member that in the great majority of
cases they are making great sacri
fices for you Is it too much to ask
that you take advantage of your op
portunities and do your level best dur
ins school days? Beau days are all
right, too; but let those days come
after school days. Books first, then
beaux. Books and beaux somehow
don’t go well together. Do they ?
This is written for our boys and girls
who are ambitious to make the most
of their educational opportunities.
Think about it Which is it to be:
Books first, then beaux? Or beaux
first and then exit books. Books or
beaux. It can't be both.
SHERIFF CLARK MAKES. AP
POINTMENT.
We are glad to note that Sheriff
Clark has at last fulfilled his promise
to appoint a Colored man to a posi
tion among his corps of employees.
Sergeant Bailey has been appointed
as elevator conductor. We had hoped
that it would have been an appoint
ment to a deputyship, as this is none
too good for our people; but we are
advised that Sergeant Bailey did not
want a deputyship, but preferred
something else. We are glad that at
least one position has been conceded
to us by Sheriff Clark. Sergeant
Bailey will make good wherever he
may be appointed to serve.
We wonder when Robert Smith,
clerk of the District Court, and Harry
Pearce, register of deeds, will follow
Sheriff Clark’s example? We are en
titled to representatives in both of
these offices. Mr. Pearce has been
promising to fill the vacancy made in
his office since the resignation of Mr.
Guy Singleton several months ago.
If he keeps up his present record of
promising, he will be able to qualify
as an expert promiser.
Come across Mr. Pearce, come
across.
Robert Smith, so smooth and smil
ing, when do you intend to follow
Clark’s example?
CIVILIZATION.
Last week in the city of New York
thousands of men and women and
children stormed the Waldorf Astoria
hotel crying, “Give Us Bread! Give
Us Bread!”
Last week the Nation’s Congress
began preparations to adjourn after
voting millions of dollars of the public
money to projects both foolish and
useless
Last week the wolves of Wall street
boasted of the thousands and millions
they had earned cornering foodstuffs.
Last week shiploads of supplies
left our shores for Europe to feed
armies of men who fight each other
and know not for what they fight.
Last week our magazines were fill
ed with ads asking American people
to contribute to help the hungry in
lands where food is cheaper than here.
Last week the docks of the East
were over loaded with food to be
shipped out of this country.
Last week a great trust promised
to behave and cut the cost if the gov
ernment left it alone.
Last week in the city of New York
thousands of men and women and
children stormed the Waldorf Astoria
hotel crying, “Give Us Bread! Give
Us Bread!”
And this is civilization!
A REQUEST TO SUBSCRIBERS
Many have been prompt in renew
ing their subscriptions. Many others
are still in arrears. We are in urgent
need of money to meet the cost of
publication. We must have $300 with
in the next ten days. A much larger
sum than this is overdue from delin
quent subscribers. Will those who
owe see to it that they have their
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Or will you not mail the amount due
by check or post office money order.
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bearing your name which appears on
your copy of The Monitor agrees
with the Whole Number 87, of this
issue, or is under that number, say
70, 65, 54, etc., it means that your
subscription is due.
We will also appreciate it, if you
will try to secure one new subscriber
for us. Suppose you try. This will
help us double our subscription. The
Monitor is growing. Help us grow.
A good many of our young people
are getting married these days. A
most excellent thing to do, provided
that they bear in mind that marriage
is for the development of the best
that is in man and woman, by mutual
sympathy, patience and forbearance
and for the begetting and rearing of
families in the fear of God, and for
the establishment of homes.
Plant potatoes.
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
The killing of a Negro seaman on a
British ship by a German submarine
was for a few days looked upon as a
possible cause of war by the United
States upon Germany. Then it turned
out that the Negro was not an Ameri
can but a British subject. But sup
pose he had been an American citizen.
What sort of figure would the United
States have presented in going to war
over the illegal killing of a citizen
whom a mob in many parts of this
country could have lynched with im
punity?—The Public, New York.
SONG OF SOLOMON—SPRING.
1. Give ear, O my Son, to my solo
on spring and hearken to the strains
of my high C voice.
2. Old winter is about to have a
tin can tied to his post mortem and
verily the world is happy
3. For six months we have wrestl
ed with cold, coal, clothes and culi
nary canto and we are weaker than
a convalescent after six weeks of grip.
4. We blame not the long haired
rhymster for glorifying spring for we
have been wanting to glorify it for
some moons past.
5. We long to meet the Indian who
said we would have a mild winter, for
to scalp him with his own tomahawk
should be a fiesta.
6. Betimes, in winters past, we
have had a week or two of warm, but
the past six months, 0 my Son, have
been winter unalloyed.
7. Now, cometh the season of vio
lets, Easter bonnets, and ice. Verily
the latter crop hath been immense,
but let us hope that it vaunteth not
to one bone per cwt.
8. Let us also hope, O my Son,
that a rise in temperature wilt also
bring a rise in wages, for a dollar
hath little stretching power these
days.
9. But back to spring, glorious
spring.
10. May she remain a thousand
years, O my Son, a thousand years.
Villa has disappeared and is on hia
way to Japan. He told his followers
that when he came back he would
have plenty of food and coin to clean
out Carranza and, incidentally, Uncle
Sam also.
Congress is ready to adjourn and
what has it done about the H. C. L.?
Nothing. And in New York thous
ands are rioting for bread. What will
happen between now and next De
cember ?
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We have captured the first spring
fever germ and chained him to the
desk in The Monitor office. No
chance of his getting loose and hold
ing us back from trying to gather in
all the subscriptions.
Ten minutes after the grand jury
ended, Omaha’s lids flew off and pok
er chips flew out. What is a grand
jury for anyway?
The South is getting busy patting
the Colored people on the back and
telling them they never meant all
they have done to them, but IT’S TOO
LATE NOW!
Five hundred thousand troops are
landed in Greece to start the great
spring drive and then we keep hearing
papers holler, “Peace is waking up
and about to slip the olive branch.”
There are thousands of regrets
about the big fire and the greatest
is that there isn’t enough left to cast
a shadow of a fire sale.
The paper trust says it will behave
and cut down the price of paper. Let
us hope they do it soon, because The
Monitor has contemplated using gold
leaf or rolled platinum in the near
future if things keep up this way.
Thanking you for your kind atten
tion we will now try and shave the
grocery bill.
THE GET ONE CLUB.
Who will be the first member of
The Get One Club? We want our
subscribers to “Get One New Sub
scriber for The Monitor.” Who will
be the first?
Can You Pick a
Flaw?
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it to you on monthly payments coupled with crop payments, is said
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No one as yet has been able to pick a flaw with our plan. The
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The Hungerford Potato
Growers Association
15th and Howard Sts. Douglas 9371