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 aa Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Poet 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, 81.50 PER YEAR
Advertising Rates. 50 cents an Inch per Issue.
Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. *
Telephone Webster 4243.
OUR ANSWER
From Audrey Bowser's Poem, “The Brown and The Blue"
Old Glory’s stripes are shining red
With our good soldiers’ gore,
Since Attucks fell and Salem bled,
Black fighters ’neath its folds have
led
The fight in every war.
At Pillow and Wagner’s hellish fray
On San Juan’s blazing hill;
And the blood that flowed at El Caney
Has drenched it deeper still.
I What though an envious hate and
pride
Upon us fix their bans?
What though our birthright be de
nied?
One glory they can never hide—
We are Americans!
And when the dangers darkly reach
Across the nation’s sky,
We hurl our lives into the breach
To suffer, bleed and die.
SEGREGATION ORDINANCES
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
That the supreme 'court of the
United States has given its verdict
against the constitutionality of the
segregation ordinances which have
been introduced in several southern
cities will be hailed with delight by all
fair-minded Americans.
Credit for this victory must be given
to the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, which
went to the front on this issue. Moor
field Storey, who prepared the brief
and argued the case, has done a no
table service not only for Colored
Americans, but for all Americans.
Jim Crow car laws and other ordi
nances of like character fall in the
same category with these segregation
ordinances, and the fight must not
stop until they are declared unconsti
tutional *nd stricken from the statute
books of the several states.
While never ceasing to contend for
our legal rights, let us continue to do
our full duty as American citizens, en
deavoring always so to conduct our
selves that by the very force of our
character and the worthiness of our
citizenship all our civil rights and
privileges will bq granted us npt
grudgingly or of necessity, but cheer
fully and gladly.
AVOID REDUPLICATION
At present several organizations of
our women are taking steps to send
gifts at Thanksgiving and Christmas
to our boys at Camp Funston. The
Monitor endorses the spirit which ani
mates these good women, but we de
sire to sound a note of warning. It is
this: Unless there is intelligent un
derstanding and cooperation between
the various groups there will be dupli
cation and reduplication, which will be
shamefully wasteful. Some men will
receive an abundance, while others
will be neglected.
Moreover, there should be wise dis
cretion used in our giving at this time,
for unless there is, later on, .>’hen the
need for our gifts may be greater, our
resources will be largely depleted.
Each group or organization should
get together through their accredited
representatives and come to a decision
just how many and which men each
organization or group will undertake
to provide for. For example, one or
ganization might agree to furnish ten
sweaters for ten given men, whose
names they have; another organiza
tion could agree to provide something
else for the same ten. Another group
would make similar provision for an
other list of ten or twenty.
Let there be intelligent cooperation
and understanding in this laudable
work that there may be no reduplica
tion in some cases and overlooking in
others.
MONITOR AS MODEL
They say that imitation is the sh
eerest flattery. If this be true, The
Monitor should feel quite “sot up,” for
the Jewish Bulletin, published by our
good friend, Isaac Konicky, who is
proud of the fact that T. Thomas For
tune, at one time editor of the New j
York Age, gave him a start in life, has
adopted the form and style of The
Monitor. It has taken our descriptive
caption, “A National Weekly News
paper Devoted to the Interests of Col
ored Americans,” as its own, substi
tuting the word "Jewish” for "Color
ed” Americans. Moreover, it has
changed its place of publication to the
Waters-Bamhart Printing company,
which knows how to get out high-class
publications. And, by the way, we
rote that the Mediator, the Omaha
Nebraskan and the Jewish Bulletin, all
wide-awake publications, have follow
ed The Monitor to the Waters-Bam
hart Printing company, showing
therein good taste and fine judgment.
But we started to speak of the Jew
ish Bulletin. Its initial number in its
new' form is most attractive and well
edited. Such a paper fills a distinc
tive place in the community and we
wish it abundant and well-deserved
success. The Monitor is pleased to be
taken as a model and pace-setter.
THE GOVERNMENT MI ST ACT
The United States government is
face tc face with an act of treason in
Natchez, Miss., which it cannot ignore.
Lieutenant Saunders was mobbed
and hit life endangered because he
wore the uniform of a United States
army officer, his assailants boldly
stating that “no nigger shall wear a
uniform here Which white folks have
‘.o salute.”
This man, an officer and a gentle
man was visiting his parents after an
absence of fourteen years, and was
conducting himself as a gentleman.
Those Mississippi traitors — for
that’s what they are—have not insult
ed an insignificant “wuthless niggah,”
but have been guilty of an act of trea
son against the United States.
Here is a clear case in which the
government of the United States must
act.
Let us net look upon acts of violence
against our people in certain localities
and by certain individuals as typical
of the feeling and attitude of the great
majority of Americans against our
people. Let us not become embittered
against all for the unjust acts and
deeds of the few.
The supreme court has in its recent
decision sounded the death-knell of all
undemocratic, anti-racial ordinances
on the statute books of the nation.
A PATRIOTIC MESSAGE WHICH
ALL AMERICANS SHOULD READ
(Continued From Flret Page)
ordination of local efforts and Church organizations with the War
Commission.
W’ithin a few weeks the commission will ask of the Church
$500,000. The Bishops are confident that every loyal churchman
and woman will respond generously to this war call of the Church.
6. Finally, brethren, let us be earnest and constant in prayei
at home and in church, for God’s blessing on w'hat we are confi
dent is a righteous cause, for the President and his advisers, for
our army and navy, and for our sons, brothers and husbands—
first that they may in camp and battle, on leave and in hospital,
be faithful and unafraid; then, if God wills, that they may have a
safe return.
Let our churches be open for private prayer as well as for the
regular services and for others of a less formal character, with
opportunities afforded for the mention of particular persons and
needs.
Let the opportunity of these days of stress and anxiety be
seized for the preaching of the deep truths of the living God, our
Judge and our loving Father, and of His Son, who in becoming
man assures us of His sympathy with the struggles and sorrows
of His people.
After the war will come peace; let us prepare for it by sus
taining a worthy spirit. Christian people will throughout the war
hold high the standard of chivalry and of character. Reparation
and not revenge must be the object kept before us. We will con
trol our feelings of resentment and try to believe the best pos-,
sible interpretation of the motives and ideals of the people who
are fighting us and over whom w-e shall be victorious.
We will steadily press the education of the young and pre
pare them for a better citizenship than ours of today.
We will support and advance the cause of Christian missions
with greater and not diminished loyalty and generosity, knowing
that it is the power of Christ alone that will inspire and enable
the nations of the world to work together for peace and right
eousness, for human brotherhood, and the fulfilment of human
life in the Kingdom of God.
SKITS OF SOLOMON
Indian Summer
Palm Beach and Coronado sands
haven’t anything on this weather. Just
why it is called Indian summer and
why Indians should have a summer
different from anybody else has never
been judicially explained. The only
thing about Indian summer is that .t
is always a bit unsteady on its pins. It
starts out with a whoop in the morn
ing, but it’s no telling what it intends
doing before night comes. Indian sum
mer carries more atmospherical sam
ples than a traveling man for a mail
order house and shows the whole line
so as to keep something doing. One
day you will bet that you are inhaling
the fragrance of June roses and the
next day you will wonder why nature
didn’t make you a polar bear and be
through with it. Some mornings you
start out in your linen doodads and
canvas pumps, and before whistle
blowing time you telephone to the wife
and ask her to send Johnny down with
the extra-padded, fur-lined, shoe
length raglan.
The evenings, too, are as deceptive
as a Thedt. Bara vampire. Along about
midnight you may be dreaming about
the orange groves of California or the
rose gardens of Persia, but before six
bells the butler and maid are hammer
ing at the door and shouting that the
water pipes are frozen and bursted.
One of the greatest blessings of In
dian summe ris a head or chest cold
that begins at this time and sticks
around until the violets bloom. Why
such colds should have such tenacity
is not explained by medical science,
nevertheless the same is as true as the
charges of a fair judge to a jury of
twelve dumbs on dress parade in front
cf the witness stand.
These are the fine points of Indian
j summer—also points of the opposite
kind.
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EDITORIAL REFLECTIONS
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Edited by E. Whitney Kyle.
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Prejudice is as old as the ages.
The only way to have a friend is to
be one.
The weaker a man is the stronger
his habits grow on him.
One can preach a better sermon
with his life than with his lips.
Faith never stands around with its
hands in its pockets.
Even in this world God has a way
of honoring those who honor him.
The best government is that which
teaches us to govern ourselves.
Most of the tragedies of life do not
reach the newspapers. They are bound
up in human hearts that are sealed to
all the world.
It’s a sad day when from sheer fear
of loss of popularity, or the fear of an
adverse expression of the public, men
hold their peace.
Right moves on straight lines and
seeks the light. Wrong wobbles, shuns,
evades, twists and often betrays itself
by its own dexterity.
Have a will of your ovfn, but be sure
you will aright. No one has much use
for the wavering, faint-hearted, unde
cided individual who cannot make up
his mind to a thing and then stick
to it.
Plain sewing done. Children’s
clothes a specialty. Mrs. L. Johnson,
Webster 1621.—Adv.
Our Women
and Children
Conducted by
Lucille Skaggs Edwards
THE NEED OF COOKS
The Youth’s Companion in an edito
rial on “The Need of Cooks” comments
on the fact that we as a nation are |
“good feeders” and have always been
accustomed to a generous diet, but
concludes as follows:
“But in spite of the universal abund
ance, probably, indeed, because of it,
we have not become a nation of good
cooki. The statement, of course, re
quires some qualifications, for meats
and plain vegetables are usually well
cooked, and some of our pastry is as
pood as can be had anywhere in the
world; but we have never learned how
to cool: as the French do, who make
such uses of left-overs and cheap cuts
of meat and odds and ends that they
seem to be favors rather than make
shifts. Now that we are at war there
is no art or field of service that Amer
ican women can cultivate in which
they can serve their country to better
advantage than in cookery.
“It is not necessary to invent new
dishes or new names for old ones,
j Corned beef hash may be a poorly
j ‘bonded’ concrete of meat, potato and
1 grease; but the late Mark Hanna used
to invite statesmen and diplomats to
his house for a breakfast of corned
beef hash, and send them away filled ,
as if with the ambrosia of the gods.
Beef smothered in onions can be so
sublimated that it will appear rather
as a tenderloin overwhelmed with soft j
endearments. It all depends on the
cook.
"We need to save, and there is no
better way to save than to utilize what
we have been accustomed to waste, i
The tops and the parings of many j
vegetables, bones and the trimmings
from meat, the inedible parts of celery
and cabbage, are the very foundation
of the finest soup stocks and gravies,
and the head of a large codfish makes
a better chowder than the best cut of
cod steak. Cucumbers too old to serve
raw are as good as eggplant when
cooked in the same way, and a green
cucumber, fried, is a dainty that an
epicure will relish. A basket of claim
will yield, besides the solid portion of
the clams themselves, a dozen cupfuls
of broth for which the hotels charge
25 cents apiece, and the foundation for
a clam bisque that would cost 30 cents
a portion.
“It all depends upon the cook, and
cooking is both a science and an art—
a science to produce the most nu
tritious dishes at the smalest cost; an
art to make them tempting to the ap
petite. The most ambitious woman
need not regard the field as too small,
for the ablest will never exhaust its
possibilities.”
Smoke John Ruskir 5c Cigar. Big
gest and Best.—Adv.
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Easily Reached From All Parts of City By Street Cars.
Within Walking Distance of a Large Number of Colored People.
If You Are a Member of the Episcopal Church this Will Let You
Know Where It Is.
If You Are Not a Member of the Church, You Ought to Be.
Come to the Services Anyway and (let Acquainted.
SUNDAY SERVICES
Holy Communion, 7:30 a. m.
Church School (Sunday School) 10 a. m.
Holy Communion and Sermon, 11 a. m.
Evening Prayer and Sermon, 8 p. m.
Please accept this as a personal invitation to attend services. All
seats are free. Everybody is welcome. It's your
Heavenly Father’s House—Come.
JNO. ALBERT WILLIAMS, Pastor.
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