The monitor
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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, 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 Editors.
George wells Parker, Contributing Editor and Business Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.90 PER YEAR
Advertising Rates. 50 cents an Inch per issue.
Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha.
Telephone Webster 4243.
PATRIOTISM WHICH ENDURES
W’e are very glad to be able to pub
lish as our front page leader the
thoughtful and thought-compelling
article by Dean Pickens of Morgan
College, Baltimore. Md., recently con
tributed to the Southwestern Chris
tian Advocate. Our readers will be
mentally stimulated by Dean Pickens'
clear presentation of the race’s atti
tude and place in the present crisis.
He is absolutely right in his thesis
that the American Negro is loyal, but
that it is not the stupid kick-me
again, if-you-please, thank-you-sir
kind that many seem to consider it.
It is the sane, thoughtful, loyal pa
triotism, which, though sensible of un
just treatment, looks above and be
yond it to the true genius of the na
tion, which must eventually become
triumphant, and impels men to do
their duty. The American Negro is
doing plenty of hard thinking these
days, but his patriotism, while not
demonstratively loud or enthusiastic,
is the kind of patriotism which en
dures. He can be depended upon to
do his full duty wherever and when
ever opportunity offers, confident
that his vindication as a man among
men tarries but a little while and
must surely come.
America, prejudice - blinded and
color-blighted America, will yet thank
God for that portion of her citizen
ship which, in spite of proscription,
maintains an optimism which inspires
to noble endeavor and achievement
and a patriotism which endures and
serves the nation in its hour of peril.
A PUZZLING MATTER
We have been somewhat puzzled
over President Wilson’s silence con- 1
ceming the East St. Louis massacre. !
So far as we have been able to learn
ro expression of condemnation or hor
ror over that terrible affair has come
from the lips of the Chief Executive
of the nation. Surely no sane person
can believe him indifferent to such a
horrible blot upon the nation. He
must surely care. A message from
him would be enheartening to a peo
ple who constitute nearly one-eighth
of the American nation, and yet he
has remained strangely silent. "Can
such things be and overcome us like
a summer cloud, without our special
wonder?”
MOTOR TO TRAINING
CAMP AT DES MOINES
Omaha, July 24.
Rev. John Albert Williams, Editor
The Monitor:
I have just returned from the train
ing camp at Fort Des Moines, where
I motored last Tuesday with my hus
band, Mr. Joseph D. Lewis, and chil
dren, also Mr. lewis’ mother and
sister.
The object of our visit was to see
the boys in training. We left Omaha
at 7:30 a. m. and arrived in Des
Moines at 2:15 p. m. After resting
we drove out to the camp about 6:30
p. m. On entering the fort every
thing was quiet. As we drove along
the company streets a lovely group of
intelligent Negro men met our eyes,
studying, some on the porch of their
homes, others in the Y. M. C. A. tent.
We drove back to the city and
motored around and found Des Moines
to be a pretty city. We went out to
the fort Wednesday morning and
found some of the boys Bitting along
the road shooting, others taking long
hikes. It was a fine sight to see them
practicing how to overtake their
enemy. We went out to the fort on
Wednesday afternoon, in time to see
them drill and hear over 300 voices
sing. It was fine to see 1,200 men on
the field, 300 in half circle singing,
the other 900 on each side, with three
men holding three United States flags
just a short distance to the front from
the other boys, which made a beauti
ful group of men.
The boys from home were glad to
see us and to hear about the dear ones
at home. Their daily work is very
strenuous, yet you find them ail mak
ing good. We met Colonel Young and
Dr. G. W. Cabaniss, who are lovely
men to meet. After enjoying our
selves at the fort and in the city Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday, we
left Des Moines Friday morning at
6:45 and arrived in Omaha at 11:50
a. m. MRS. JOSEPH D. LEWIS.
2604 North Twenty-fifth Street.
The Monitor is growing. Help us
grow.
Obvious Observations
When it ocmes to sticking we don’t
see much difference between Kaiser
Bill and a postage stamp.
Colonel Young is back on the job
and the one 'thing the Dixie adminis
tration has learned is that the Negro
is sitting tight with both eyes open.
He isn’t as sleepy as he used to be.
Ten thousand Colored people march
ing in silent parade in New York as a
piatest against the East St. Louis
massacre means that there are ten
thousand thinking men and women in
one place ready to join hands with
three million more thinking men and
women.
It is reported that the Russians are
retreating so fast that the German’s
can’t even see their heels. Well, what
else would you expect of ignorant peo
ple when they get scared ?
Yes, Genevieve, the only cool spot,
we know of is inside the refrigerator.
We thought the food control bill
meant something, but when it made
the minimum price of wheat two bones
per bushel, hope shivered and died
W’e imagined it was going to fix max
imum prices, not minimum. What
the mischief does a minimum price
amount to?
There are Koreans, Indians, Japs,
and whites in the Sixth Nebraska reg
iment. There is no place at all for
Sam, but Sain isn’t worrying a dumed
bit.
Please pass the lemonade.
Thanking you for your kind atten
tion, we will now hunt the old swim
ming hole and come home with a
red back.
SKITS OF SOLOMON
The Bath.
The bath is a form of hot weather
salvation loved by Christians as well
as pagans. When the mercury runs
up to 115, a tub full of ice water to
lie in, a cigar, or box of bon bons if
you happen to be a female of the
species, and a newspaper, are solid
comfort. The bath has always held
sway among dark skinned people, but
fair skinned folks never took to the
bath much. During the Middle Ages
in Europe a person wouldn’t any more
think of putting water on their skin
than to try and eat hash with their
toes. If a baby didn't happen to be
washed when it wras born, its skin was
in bad luck for the rest of its days
as far as lavation was concerned.
Brides didn’t even bathe the day they
got married. In the Orient, however,
everybody bathed every day and often
the men and women all bathed in the
same place just like home. Sometimes
they bathed six times a day.
Some doctors say that one should
bathe every morning and others say
that you should never bathe at all.
Some have written volumes on the
value of warm and hot baths and
some say that anything but a cold
bath is an abomination. Doctors are
likely to say anything, however. The
bath tub is necessary with any kind
of water, except for folk who keep one
in the house for an ornament along
side the piano. The best bath in sum
mertime is a swim in the old swim
ming pool. One gets so much enjoy
ment out of it and such a rosy red
blistered back after the performance.
It is the real sport.
A CORRECTION
Dr. Britt Is Mistaken.
The president and members of the
Washington Benevolent society desire
to correct the statement made by Dr.
L. C. Britt on the evening of Tues
day, July 10, at St. John’s A. M. E.
church, at which time a meeting of
the Civic league was in session. Dr.
Britt said that the Washington club
didn’t amount to anything because it
allowed one of its members to die at
the county hospital. We wish to say
that never at any time has the club
neglected any of its members. While
it is true that Mr. Payton Brooks died
at the county hospital, he wasn’t a
member of the club at the time of his
death. He became a member of the
club March 5, 1913, and was suspend -
ed for non-payment of dues October
11, 1916. The club carried Mr. Brooks
for more than a year before his mem
bership was dropped. He was given
a fair chance. We wish to say that
Dr. Britt was mistaken in his state
ment.
MR. C. E. DUNCAN, President.
MRS. AGNES BUTLER, Sec.
—Paid Notice.
Our Women
and, Children
Conducted by
Lucille Skaggs Edwards
STARTING THE BRIDE
AND BRIDEGROOM RIGHT
By Marion Lawrance in Purity Maga
zine.
Nothing can be more beautiful than
the founding of a new home by two
young hearts plighted to each other.
Very much depends, however, upon
making the right kind of a start. No
home is a true home, and no home
can enjoy its fullest happiness with
out Christ, the unseen Friend, ever
present, enthroned in the heart. The
only center around which the true
home can be built is the family altar.
Here alone can we learn the lesson of
love’s sweet sacrifice. Only as we
tarry at the feet of Him who pleased
not Himself, who came not to be ad
ministered unto, but to minister, can
we learn the joy of service and the
blight of selfishness.
If the joy and happiness of the
wedding day were to last in every
home as long as that home lasts, this
world would be far happier than it is.
In many homes this is true, because
the fires of love’s altar continue to
burn brighter and brighter until the
sunset of life.
True pleasure never comes to the
pleasure-seeker, but always to those
who seek the happiness of others.
This is not an easy lesson to learn,
but the failure to learn it is always
followed by disappointment and re
gret.
Jesus hallowed the wedding feast by
His presence, and no young couple
whose chief concern is that He should
be the principal guest of honor at
their wedding and the Guide of their
lives during all the days that follow,
need ever fear but what their home
will always be a home of sweetness
and joy because they will be lovers
until their dying day.
“Conscience,” said Uncle Eben, “is
only a still, small voice, an’ half de
time it tries to speak up it finds dat
,de line is busy.”—Washington Star.
MOTHER O’ MINE
If I were hanged on the highest hill,
I know whose love would follow me
still—
Mother o’ mine.
If I were drowned in the deepest sea,
I know whose love would come down
to me— *
Mother o’ mine.
If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers can make me
whole—
Mother o’ mine.
—Kipling.
Resolved, In spirit as well as in
words, I will be as truthful to my
child as I would have him truthful to
me, and I will always try to realize
that his imaginings are truth to him.
—Mother’s Magazine.
A USEFUL PUBLICATION
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usual willingness to helpfully serve
the public, has issued for free dis
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under the title “Prepare,” which gives
practical information on canning and
preserving. In addition to helpful
recipes the booklet contains a series
of gummed labels for marking jars
and glasses. Housewives will find it
much to their advantage to call at the
gas office on Howard street and get
a copy of “Prepare.”
For dressmaking, call Miss Alexan
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Get Ready
We Are Coming
! The 36th Annual Session of the District Grand Lodge No. 8
of Missouri and Jurisdiction
Grand United Order of Oddfellows
and the 20th Annual Session of the
District Grand Household of Ruth
Will Convene in Omaha August 7-8-9-10
Also Encampment of 14th Patriarchie Regiment G.U.0. of O.F.
District Grand Lodge Sessions will be held in the Grove M. E Church,
22nd and Seward Streets
District Grand Household of Ruth Sessions will be held in the Mt. Moriah
Baptist Church, 26th and Seward Streets
Tuesday’s Events
Sessions Will Open at 10 O’clock Tuesday Morning
Joint Session of Grand Lodge and Grand Household—2 O’clock Tues
day Afternoon, August 7, at Grove M. E. Church.
Open Session Both Houses With Addresses of Welcome and Responses
—Tuesday Night, August 7, at Grove M. E. Church.
Address of Welcome—The Hon. James C. Dahlman, Mayor of Omaha.
Address—Victor Rosewater, Editor Omaha Bee.
Response to Addresses—T. B. W'atkins, District Grand Master, Kansas
City, Mo. **'
Wednesday’s Events
Business Sessions of Grand l^odge and Grand Household—Wednesday
Morning and Afternoon at Appointed Hours, 10 a. m. and 2 p. m.
COMPETITIVE DRILL AND BAND CONCERT AT HOLMES’
PARK, 31st and Ames Avenue.
Wednesday Night, August 8, The Grand Patriarchie 14th Regiment,
G. U. O. of O. F., Will Give a Competitive Drill at Holmes’ Park,
and the First Regimental Band, K. P., Dan Desdunes, Director, \
\ Will Give a Band Concert.
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Thursday’s Events
Thursday Morning at 10 O’clock Memorial Services Will Be Held at
Grove M. E. Church, Followed by the Usual Business Sessions
of the Two Grand Bodies at Their Respective Places of Meeting.
Business Sessions in Afternoon.
DRILL, CONCERT AND BANQUET at Keep’s Dancing Academy
(Formerly Chambers’), 25th and Farnarn Streets, Thursday j
Evening, August 9. Admission 50 Cents. Public Invited. Come j
and Bring Your Friends and Enjoy Yourself. Perkins’ Saxo
phone Jazz Band Will Furnish Music.
Friday’s Events
GRAND STREET PARADE, PICNIC, COMPETITIVE DRILL AND
BAND CONCERT—The Parade Will Start at 10 O’clock, Friday j
Morning, August 10, from Twenty-first and Paul Streets. A t
Platoon of Mounted Police, the First Regimental Band, K. P., ;
the Uniformed Ranks of the Patriarchie, and Officers, Visiting
Delegates and Members of the Ix>eal Lodges in Automobiles.
The Line of March Will be East on Paul to 18th, South to
Cuming, East to 16th, South to Douglas, East on Douglas to
14th, South to Farnarn, West on Farnarn to 19th and Disband.
We Will Then Go to the Park Where There Will Be a Grand Old
Fashioned Picnic; Old Fashioned Picnic Dinner Will Be Served
and All Kinds of Cold Drinks and Ice Cream.
THERE WILL BE A BALL GAME BETWEEN TWO LOCAL
TEAMS WHICH WILL GIVE A GOOD AND INTERESTING
GAME.
We Will Have Speaking, After W'hich the Competitive Drill W'ill
Take Place and Band Concert. There W'ill Be Prizes Awarded
to the Best Company in the Drill. j
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
MRS. BELLE PAYNE, Chairman MRS. G. A. JOHNSON
M. LANDRUM G. H. BROWN WM. DAZE
COMMITTEE ON PROGRAM
j MRS. BELLE PAYNE, Chairman
COMMITTEE ON REFRESHMENTS
MRS. S. JOHNSON, Chairman j
COMMITTEE ON THE DINNER
MRS. G. A. JOHNSON, Chairman
COMMITTEE ON BANQUET
MRS. S. PERVINE, Chairman /
COMMITTEE ON MEETING THE TRAINS
MR. G. H. BROWN, Chairman
COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS |
J. C. BELCHER, Chairman W. H. PAYNE, Vice-Chairman
MRS. BENTLY WEBSTER, Recording Sec.
R. L. WOODARD, Cor. Sec, T. W. WHITNEY, Treas.
COMMITTEE ON HOUSE AND HOMES
MRS. HATTIE HON, Chairman MRS. SOLOMON BROWN
ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE
MRS. S. PERVINE MRS. SATLER