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.
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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.
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Famous month of Julius
Caesar and of American
Independence.
We, too, are making his
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SUNDAY
Wilfred Lucas in “Hands Up"
Ham and Bud Comedy.
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
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Hearst Pathe News.
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