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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1917)
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 1. 1916. 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 Edltora George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor and Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 81.80 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 60 cents an Inch per Issue. Address. The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street. Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243. DOUBTS ACCURACY OF DIAGNOSIS The Mon’tor publishes a letter from Sergt. Bailey in which he dissents from the suggestion made by The Monitor in our issue of July 7, to the effect that there is a scheme on foot to retire Lieut. Col. Young. Several weeks ago, before the item was given to the newspapers, we learned from private advices that Col. Young was in the hospital for ob servation. Our informant had con versed with Col. Young, whom he said was apparently in the best of health. He further said that the impression was prevalent on the coast that this was but an adroit plan for Col. Young’s retirement. The Monitor, in clined to be conservative rather than radical, deemed it best to await de velopments. Subsequently all our ex changes published the, to them, “sur prising news” of Col. Young’s sudden illness and many of them a letter from a well known California attor ney urging a united protest against Col. Young’s threatened retirement. It w-as then that The Monitor joined its contemporaries in opposing what we believe to be a mere scheme to get rid of a gallant officer, who is ir. line for promotion, at no far distant day, to the rank of a general. We say this, deliberately and advisedly, be cause of the well-known disposition of this country to deny commissions in the army to Colored Americans. Nor are W'e unmindful of the fact that the South’s in the saddle at Washing ton and that even in the perilous time of war such men allow themselves to be swayed by prejudice to carry out a policy which their unbiased sense of justice would not approve. The Negro press of the country is unanimous in its belief, and bold in proclaiming it, that the report that Lieut.-Col. Young’s “blood pressure is too high” to permit him to remain m active service is acceptable only with grave doubts as to the accuracy of the diagnosis. “THE SPOILERS” This editorial isn’t going to be a literary critique upon Rex Beach’s great novel, but a hot shot against a certain class of male and female roughnecks who assume that liberty means license. We have out north a municipal bathing beach and it is open to all of ihc* citizens of Omaha, white and black together. There is, however, a bunch of leisure loving males and red-light remnant females who seem determined to spoil this opportunity of our people enjoying a dip. Modes ty is a word unknown to these spoilers and decency is as foreign to them as the province of Urkaine. Of course abbreviated bathing suits are in order for women who do not care and the type of women spoilers whom we write about is the type that rev els in coarseness and vulgarity. They and their men use all sorts of in decent language and the ouly laugh ter called forth is when one of them puts across a particularly rough piece of suggestive English. It should be stopped. It doesn't hurt them because they are of a class that can’t be hurt, but it does harm the better class of Colored people and the numberless whites who enjoy the beach. It must be stopped or else these roughnecks will be stopped by the better element of our people call ing upon the city commission and police to stop it. EUROPEAN BATTLEFIEDS AS HAVENS OF SAFETY The Appeal to Reason, of Girard, Kans., is one of the ablest and most fearless of Socialist newspapers pub lished in this country. It# editorials and special articles are always thought compelling. It is generally too much in earnest to be humorous; but its last issue contained the fol lowing clever bit of sarcasm, the hum or of which will not be lost upon our readers: “The Baltimore Afro-American re joices that Negro surgeons have at last been commissioned in the United States Army, and deplores the fact that the artillery and the aviation corps are still closed to Colored appli cants. After his experience in East St. Louis and elsewhere, we do not wonder that the American Negro looks to the European battlefields as a haven of comparative , peace and AN APPRECIATED COMPLIMENT The Searchlight of Sedalia, Mo., the official publication of that large and influential order, The United Brothers of Friendship, generally known as the U. B. F.’s and S. M. T.’s, and one of our most highly appreciated ex changes, in its issue of July 13, has this to say of The Monitor’s change of form: “The Searchlight wishes to compli ment the Rev. John A. Williams, ed itor of The Monitor, on the attractive makeup and form of last week’s issue. The change was so different that i we could hardly recognize it as being the same exchange, saving the deep thoughts of the editor and fresh news always found in its columns. The Monitor is a weekly news paper printed in Omaha, Neb., and like other race papers, is loud in its acclaim for justice and fair dealings to the race. Again we congratulate you, Brother Williams, on your splendid evidence of progress, and fearless manner of letting the world know your stand, relative to the good of mankind. For as the newspaper has made great men, so will their proper agitation make a great race, a great people.” We sincerely thank The Search light for '.ts appreciated compliment and congratulations. TILL THE GROUND We believe that it is a serious mis- j take for members of our race to be come congested in cities where their opportunities for real independence : are necessarily restricted. More should take advantage of the splen did opportunities offered throughout the west for taking up farm lands. We would like to see hundreds of thrifty families who are leaving the south to better their condition take up homesteads and lands which, with in a few years, will place them in a position of independence. Of course there is a growing de mand for dependable labor for the great industries of the country and there will be work enough for all, black and white alike, who should work togther as brethren who have common cause and common inter ests; but more of our race should take up the tillage of the soil and become farm owners in the rapidly growing and thrift-inviting west. Independence j lies in this direction. SKITS OF SOLOMON Daily Newspapers The daily newspaper is the cream j de luxe of modernity and the great est handicap for speed. The ancient hamfats never had a daily because 't j would have required seven brick yards j and a stone quarry to print a single | copy and a whole freight train to de liver it. The Middle Ages had no more use for a newspaper than a Scandihoovian has for a letter “j,” because their only occupation was fricasseeing Turks and that kept them so busy that they didn’t have time for much else. It was not until 1709 that the first daily paper was bom into the cold cold world. It was about the size of a man’s hand and was nicknamed “The Daily Courant." The editor developed chronic parietal itis and frontalitis trying to fill the columns. The D. N. remained a puny off spring until the telegraph took the job as wet nurse, whereupon it waxed ! mightily. On the front page you | will find the latest divorce and graft scandals from every point of the solar system, together with columns of war news which “ain’t" so; while the in I sides deals with everything from a ! bargain sale of ladies’ negligee to rules for taking grease spots out of your character. The editorial page is a collection of personal opinion dope determined upon making folks forget how to use their cerebral ca pacities. This isn’t a hard job since kinoops don’t even know they have any such .capacities. Daily newspapers are now cen sored, that is, doctored. The gink who has the title of newspaper doctor is one Creel, of Wash, D. C. Doc Creel is a peach. He knows about more things that never happened than the guy at the sanitarium in padded cell 41144. Fourth of July Doc Creel tickled the country by tell ing about seven U-boats that felt the fatal fire of U. S. fighters and got by with it until the admiral said they didn’t see anything that looked like a sub. Doc is now looking for the joke. Obvious Observations Things are getting so warm for Kaiser Bill in Deutschland that he has ordered his engineers to start digging a hole through the earth so he can drop through at the critical moment. He can’t go north, south, east, or west, because of enemies and can’t go up because of airships and hence old mother earth is the only resort. Labor conditions in the U. S. have an omnious ring. The western front isn’t the only place we will need soldiers by any means. The war d' partment might draft the I. W. W.’s and let them lead the charge against the German sixty cen timeter guns. “O, what is so rare as a day ir. June?’ sang a poet. Say, Bo, a June day hasn’t anything on a July day when watermelons are ripe. How’s your garden ? We have just begun to think that when it comes to lying Ananias hasn’t anything on a seed catalogue. If Uncle Sam exempts everyone from the army who wants to be ex empted, a child’s toy boat will be plenty big enough to carry them to "somewhere in France.” We would like to know what mul gasab left a note saying that if we didn’t burn our German grammar he would have us pinched for being an alien enemy! Didn’t he know we were “Cullud?” Mr. Real Liquor has been knocked out at last. They have counted ten thousand times ten over his sense less form and he hasn’t even rolled his eyes. Uncle Sam may not be a prizefighter, but he has an awful punch. W’e don’t know what the investigat ing committees are going to do is East St. Louis, but we do know that they have a lot to do if they are to persuade the Negro that he has any reason to love this country. Thanking you for your eager at tention, we will now suck some lemon ade through a straw in the shade of ; the old oak tree. ... 1 BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS IS COMING I Greatest Show On Earth Will Soon Exhibit in This Vicinity. Baraum & Bailey’s circus, the greatest show on earth, will exhibit in Omaha on July 30. It is promised that nothing to compare with the present Bamum & Bailey perform ance has ever before been seen under canvas. New and novel features have been imported from abroad and a program of events, thrilling, edu cational and screamingly funny, will occupy every instant in three rings, four stages, the riggings above and the hippodrome surrounding for more than three hours. There is a new and gorgeous pa | geant entitled, “Aladdin and His Won ! derful Lamp,” in which nearly 1,400 persons and one thousand animals appear in magnificent costumes ri valing the dress of the people of the famous “Arabian Nights” story. This will be followed by a host of acts in all parts of the great enclosure. There will be sixty clowns, a greatly increased menagerie of wild and un tamed animals, four great herds of elephants, several caravans of camels and many recently bom baby animals. The free street parade, which will start from the circus lot at 10 o’clock cn the morning of circus day, will be three miles in length. ! NEWS OF GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Attendance at the morning and evening services is steadily increasing. The Sunday school, under its effi cient superintendent, C. B. Wilks, is making a most gratifying growth. The funeral of Mrs. Pinnie Harris, an aged member of this congregation, who has been most lovingly cared for during the past year by the Woman’s Home Missionary Society, under the presidency of Mrs. R. D. Allen, was held from the church last Sunday af ternoon. All the inmates of the N. W. C. A. Home, where Mrs. Harris had made her home and was quite a favorite, as well as several officers of the Home, attended the funeral. | Interment was in Forest Lawn ceme tery. The Rev. G. G. Logan offi- j (dated and Banks and Wilks had - charge of the funeral. CARD OF THANKS Mrs. Minnie R. Garrett, wife of Charles C. Garrett, 2764 Harney St., who recently underwent an operation at the Nicholas Senn Hospital, takes this means of thanking her many friends for their kindness and flowers during her illness. She is gratified to state that she is improving. “Where are you going the first of August?” To the Trolley Party, of course.—Adv. John Ruikin Cigar, 5 cents. Biggest and Beat . July Famous month of Julius Caesar and of American Independence. We, too, are making his tory. rapidly. 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Jimmy Dale in the “Gray Seal” Cub Comedy. MONDAY Triangle Feature. Bessie Bariscale in “A Snarl” One Comedy. TUESDAY Blue Ribbon Feature. Nell Shipman in "Through the Wall” One Comedy, “Speed and Spunk.” WEDNESDAY Last Installment of “The Double Cross." Hearst Pathe News. True Boardman in “Stingaree.” Triangle Comedy, "Criminal’s Career.” THURSDAY “Railroad Raiders.” Black Cat Feature. Comedy. FRIDAY Metro Night. SATURDAY Continuous Matinee and Night The New Lincoln Feature, “The Law of Nature,” with Famous Colored Movie Star, Noble M. Johnson in the I>eading Role. Hearst Pathe News. One Comedy. || Aiifl DeLUXE ICE ALAMU CREAM GARDEN SPECIAL ATTRACTION! Cabaret entertainment every evening from 7:30 to 11:30. Don't forget the De Luxe Matimttevery Thursday and Sunday afteKmon from 3:30 to 6:30. No dancing Off *r Sunday. ICE CREAM DELIVERED FREE Herrington ft Klllingsworth. Phone W. 2861. ... 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