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. HE MONITOR^
A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and relfihous interests
of the Colored People of Nebraska and the West, with th« desire to con
ia f tribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and
-i 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 itabllsher.
Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, As^c^late Editors.
George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor. John D. Crawford, Business
Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.50 PER YEAR
Advertising Rates, 50 cents an Inch per Issue.
Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha.
Telephone Webster 4243.
A Prayer for the Flag
By The Rt. Rev. Arthur L. Williams, S. T. D., Bishop of Nebraska.
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“Oh, Lord God Almighty, Who alone art the Giver of victory,
bless, we pray Thee this Flag, which is the outward and visible
symbol of the liberties of our beloved country. We ask that this,
our Nation’s Flag, wherever it is carried, may never be associated
with oppression or tyranny, or unfurled in a base or ignoble cause.
May the principles of a free people and a free government, repre
sented by it, be victorious in the world-wide war now raging, and
may the day come when Peace shall be forever established and
the Righteousness which exalteth a nation prevail upon the earth.
These and all other things, for us and the whole world, we ask in
the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.”
HAS HE CAUGHT THE VISION?
Has President Wilson in the heavi
ness which has weighed upon his mind
and heart in this great world war
caught the vision which will exalt him
above the blighting miasma of his
birth, training and sympathy. Let
us hope so, for many of us believed
that he was too large a man to be
dwarfed by race prejudice and that
explains why so many thousands of
Colored Americans voted for him when
he first became a candidate for the
presidency.
His sponsoring and encouraging of
segregation in the government serv
ices and like disabilities to which our
people were subjected were a sore
and grievous disappointment to those
who looked for better things.
Then came our country’s entrance
into the war and still we were treated
as a thing apart from our national
life. And yet we remained loyal and
hopeful.
Our loyalty and hopefulness have
been rewarded by brightening skies.
Now comes the President in his Buf
falo speech of November 12 and terse
ly tells what he believes to be the
final test of American democracy.
Note these significant words:
“We are all of the same clay and
spirit, and we can get together if
we desire to get together. Therefore,
my counsel to you is this: Let us
show ourselves Americans by showing
• ^that we do not want to go off in sep
arate camps or groups by ourselves,
but that we want to co-operate with
all other classes and all other groups
in a common enterprise, which is to
release the spirit of the world from
bondage. I would be willing to set
that up as the final test of an Amer
ican. That is the meaning of dem
ocracy.”
These are significant words. We do
not believe that they are merely high
bounding phrases void of meaning. We
believe that in the travail of soul
which has come to Woodrow Wilson
in these days, he has caught the
vision of what true democracy is and
in that vision must be included not
white men, or black men, or yellow
men, but simply MEN, measured not
by accident of birth or race or color,
but by the fidelity with which they
each fulfil their God-appointed task
in their appointed sphere or station.
Has President Wilson caught this
vision ?
“A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER”
The recent great patriotic demon
stration at Richmond, Va., in which
white and Colored citizens heartily
joined, has inspired the following opti
mistic editorial in the Richmond
Planet:
“Some people seem never to tire in
saying that the Southern white people
are the best friends of the Colored
people. This war against the Teutonic
allies has brought to these same peo
ple the full realization of the fact that
the Colored people are the best friends
of the Southern white people.
“The semblance of trouble has
brought into the limelight the all-per
vading devotion of this much maligned
race of people and the well-spring of
human sympathy flowed uninterrupt
edly along the streets of this city on
Friday and Saturday of last week.
"We thank God that it is so. Thou
sands of the flower of our race are of
fering their services to the national
government in general and to the
Southerners in particular. Men, wo
men and children are inquiring as to
what they can do to avert disaster and
to aid the people of this country in the
great struggle.
“Colored people are loyal. They do
not need emblems or flags to indicate
their position upon great questions. A
Colored man’s face is his flag. We
have been deeply touched by the evi
dences of general esteem and solicita
tion on the part of the best white peo
ple in Virginia.
"We shall never forget it. The peo
ple who have had an antipathy to
wards us are being side-tracked and
silenced. We feel like calling to our
people who have gone north to seek
better wages and more congenial sur
roundings: “Come back home. Condi
tions have changed. The feeling of
antipathy towards us has given way to
expressions of general sympathy. Col
ored folks, come back home!”
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS
MEMBERSHIP
We want the Colored people of
Omaha and Douglas county to roll up
a membership of 1,000 in the Amer
ican Red Cross by Christmas eve. The
Red Cross is asking for a Christmas
membership of 15,000,000. Douglas
county’s quota is 40,000. The mem
bership costs $1.00. The campaign
will be pushed from December 17 to
DECEMBER 25. Every church, lodge,
society, organization and family is to
be canvassed for membership. The
Rev. John Albert Williams has been
appointed organizing chairman to di
rect the campaign among the Colored
people. By Monday of next week it
is planned to have everything in or
der to push the campaign in co-oper
ation with the general committee,
compoesd of the following well-known
business men: Henry Doorley, J. E.
Davidson, S. S. Caldwell, W. A. Schall
and W. A. Pixley.
James Clark, head waiter of
the University Club, has been ap
pointed chairman of committee
on hotel and railway men; Natej
Hunter is chairman of the committee
on fraternal organizations; Dr. L. E. !
Britt, chairman of committee on busi
ness and professional men; Joseph B.
LaCour, chairman of committee on
churches. Each chairman will ap
point such men and women as he
deems necessary to reach every one
within the group assigned. The drive
will be made for one thousand Colored
members of the Red Cross.
There will be a meeting in connec
tion with the Red Cross campaign to
morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at the
U. B. F. Hall, Twenty-fourth and
Charles streets, to which the public
if- invited.
MEN WHO WERE AND
THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN
(Special to The Monitor, by Fred C.
Williams.)
Someone once said “Over night
makes a change." I agree with them.
Finding myself in Kansas City, wan
dering idly along popular East 18th
street, I stopped at a comer, why, I
don’t know. Just out of curiosity, I
guess. After standing a while I at
tempted to move on yet my progress
is arrested by some strange force and
I return to my old position against
the wall ^nd find that I now have a
company, another idler like myself.
He is talking, yes, this is 18th and
-street, in answer to my question,
I where the Old A-L-Club once
was. Instantly everything around me
seems to be alive. I find myself look
ing up at the windows waiting for
the once innumerable bright lights to
flash out, the well trained orchestra
to strike up, to hear the voices of one
^fthe singeris in the«S
^nomobile load after automoW^^SSTT
^f pleasure seekers get out and en
ter the wide open doorway along the
brightly illuminated hall up the stirs
to the floors above where only so
called pleasure, is dispensed and vice
reigns supreme. Out of that dense
crowd my eyes followed the form of
a man, tall, well built, of a strong
and attractive personality, one who
could be singled out of a crowd any
where. As he moved along among the
crowd, giving a smile here and a nod
over there, a hand shake to another,
his quick and intelligent eye seeming
ly taking notice of everything that
came in the range of his vision as he
passed along.
I studied his face and remembered
j him as the man who had once made a
great intelligent, impressive, and
forceful plea for the rights of his
people in the city where he was an
! acknowledged factor in things po
litical. Some one said, ‘‘Mr. Blank,
the proprietor, would you care to meet
him ?”
A car rumbled heavily along 18th
street and the noise of its passing
created a ghostly and hollow sound
against the rattling window's of the
empty building, and as I turned my
ear to catch the echo as it sounded
against the doorway, my companion
was saying “yes, he is gone.”
Gone.—It brought me back to earth
and I remembered that I was listen
ing to a story, the answer to a ques
tion I had asked, the whereabouts of
the proprietor of this once famous re
sort. Gone: It seemed to tell so
much. Gone, the glimmer and glory
of this once brilliant palace of pleas
ure. Gone—this once paying and lu
crative business. Gone—all of his
w'ealth, power, prestige, both politi
cal and business. Gone, all of his
friends and associates. Gone—also
this once strong, forceful and ag
gressive leader and politician to a
quiet and benevolent institution pro
vided by the state for men who, in
the crisis of their career suddenly
straighten! bend! snap! relax and fail
to straighten again, then sit idly day
by day, counting their fingers or
drumming with their finger tips upon
their front teenth and gazing idly
through the barred windows or door
ways into space beyond, seemingly
not seeing or noting anything or any
one immediately surrounding them.
Yes, gone—and all because a little
minister began a crusade and reared
his banner upon which was written the
motto: “Right only shall prevail.”
The multitude, or rather the citizens
of the immediate vicinity who are de
cent, respectable and church-going
people, arose en mass and demanded
that the law take cognizance, and it
did. The exise board by a negative
vote to an application for the renewal
of a license to this famous resort and
its strong aggressive and one time re
sourceful leader, politician and pro
prietor, to the career of both spell
finis.
For dressmaking, call Miss Alexan
der. 2413 N. 29th st. Web. 3927.
I AND SAVING
The United States is now at war. A
large part of our country’s human en
ergy is taken away from the farms,
factories and industries of peace, and
until the war ends all their energies
will be devoted to fighting.
A great portion of our productive
energy is being turned into the cre
ation of implements of destruction.
Many of our products are now being
devoted to purposes of war. Destruc
tion instead of construction is the ob
ject of a great portion of the country’s
energy.
As much of the human energy and
productive capacity of the Nation are
now being devoted to the purposes of
war, so should the proper amount
of the money of the United States be
so devoted. He who offers his life
for his country is offering the great
est possible sacrifice, but the Amer
ican men and women who support the
Government with their money are do
ing their part.
This war is going to be financed
largely out of the savings of the
American people during the war. It
| is not too great a sacrifice to make
! for one’s country in time of war to
deny one’s self luxuries, to cut down
! unnecessary expenses, to lead quieter
| and busier lives. Not only will the
money thus saved and used to buy
Liberty Loan Bonds help the United
States but the diminished consump
tion of food and other articles will do
much to relieve the country from the
I strain of war.
The less the people use the less
; strain there is upon the productive ca
pacity of the Nation and the more
can be devoted to winning the war;
the more the people save the more
liberal financial support can they give
the Government. This is the people’s
war, and it is to be financed by the
American people, not by the rich and
not by the poor, but by the rich and
the poor, the capitalist and the wage
earner, the miner and the farmer and
the manufnevurer.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the
Church of St. Philip the Deacon will
hold a sale of useful and fancy arti
cles in the Guild Rooms Thursday.
December 13th, afternoon and even
ing. The articles offered for sale
will be of good value and at reason
able priceB, and will be very suitable
for Christmas presents. The ladies
in charge will be please! to wait on
all patrons who come, but there will
be no importuning, urging or nagging
people to buy. The liberal patronage
of the public is respectfully invited.
—Adv.
| A Victrola 1
g For the whole Family jj|
1 This Christmas 1
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I The one gift that will increase the happiness of ^
every member of the family the year ’round. M
The Victrola and Victor Records bring into your
home the whole world of music, exactly as rendered
by the greatest artists and entertainers. They are ai
the unfailing means of holding the young folks home xjx
and of making every evening a period of enjoyment Sjfl
and recreation for the grown-ups.
Make this true for YOUR family! Stop in today w
for a demonstration. Victors and Victrolas, $10 to SB
$400. Easy terms.
| Orchard & Wilhelm Co. |
$ 414-416-418 South 16th St. 30
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VISIT OUR STORE AND SEE OUR DISPLAY OF
I New Fall Suits and Overcoats I
= at the following prices:
$10.00, $12.00, $15.00, $18.00, $20.00, $22.50, $25.00
£ We are agents for Marcus Ruben’s Waiters and Cooks’
£ Outfits.
[ PALACE CLOTHING CO. I
£ S. E. Corner 14th and Douglas Streets.
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Why We Prohibit
Telephone Attachments
This company Is responsible for giving efficient tele- j
phone service and hence forbids the attachment of un
necessary and troublesome appliances to its Instruments
or lines.
For this reason our telephone contracts provide that no
devices, except those furnished by the company, shall be
attached to our telephone Instruments or wires.
Obee-Hunter
Undertaking
Company
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Funeral Home N. W. Corner
G. WADE OBEE 27th and Parker Sts. NAT. HUNTER
Oldest Colored Under- Secy.-Treas.
taker In Omaha. PHONE WEBTER 816 Res. 2212 N. 28th Ave.
Phone Web. 4740
WE DO OUR OWN WORK and Guarantee It to be the Best That Can be
i Had and at the Most Reasonable Prices.
For Cash or Secured Insurance.
Crop; Cloth Casket. Auto Hearse, 7-Passenger Car, Robe and Embalming ,$75
« Crepe Cloth Casket, Dead Wagon, Carriaae, Embalming, $50
J. H. WAKEFIELD, MGR. SOUTH OMAHA BRANCH
4430 South 16th St. Phone South 2614
If You Cannot Get Mr. Wakefield, Call Main Office, Webster 816.
Council Bluffs Calls Answered Promptly. Why Not Give Us Your Business.
Our Fast Auto Service Will Bring Us to Your Door In 30 Minutes. j >
Largest and finest chapel and parlors In the city. Free auto to parlors
• nd casket factory for family. If you need advice or .*» friend, call on us. I [
Always open. Ring, and ring again, untIT*T<fti get us.Webster 816. j
If you cannot get the parlors, call Hunter's residence. Webster 4740.
Credit Cheerfully Extended to All Worthy. j
We belong to the Masons, K. of P.'s, U. B. F.’s and Tabors.
A Church Where
All Are Welcome
Services
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Preaching, 11 a. m., 8 p. m.
League, 6:30 p. m.
Florence P. Leavitt Club, Mon
day afternoon.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday
Evening.
W. H. M. S. Thursday Afternoon
GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Ladies’ Aid, Friday Afternoon.
22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. _ G.IXJGAN,
Res. 1628 N. 22nd. Web. 5003
Stop, Look and Listen
A Tackey Ball
GIVEN BY' THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB
Wednesday Evening
December 12th
The Tackiest One Wins First PrisM^
COME ONE, COME ALL, AND HAVE A GOOD TIME
Eat Chitterlings, 15 Cents an Order.
Dancing Until 1 A. M.
Perkins’ Saxaphone Jazz Band Will Entertain.
ALAMO HALL
Admission 30c.
