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 Becond-Class Mall Matter July 3. 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. John D. Crawford, Business
Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, 81.60 PER YEAR
Advertising Rates, 60 cents an Inch per Issue.
Address. The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha.
Telephone Webster 4243.
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AN AWAKENING CONSCIENCE
TY/’E give in this issue what many
W may consider disproportionate
space to comments on the recent exhi
bition of savagery in Tennessee. From
the wealth of material sent us by
friends in that section of the country,
which shows an aroused and awaken
ing conscience to the evil of mob vio
lence too long tolerated against Color
ed Americans and growing in inten
sity and barbarity yearly, we have
found it difficult to make a selection.
We finally chose those which are here
given. They are representative of the
sentiments that are being publicly' ex
pressed by press, pulpit, forum, bar
and university in Tennessee. We be
lieve that they are indicative of an
awakening conscience that must re
sult in a united and determined action
that will make such fiendish deeds
practically impossible anywhere in
this country.
The conscience of this country, and
especially of the South, needs awaken
ing. It has been allowed to slumber
too long. Indeed, evidence has not
been wanting to lead one to the con
clusion that the South has no con
science and no moral sense when it
comes to dealing with the black man.
It has regarded him as “only a nig
ger,” w'hich means, according to the
white South’s mental concept, that he
is a little lower than a dog; for despite
the South’s protestation of affection
for the black man, the lightness with
which his life is regarded in that sec
tion and the impunity with which it
may be taken by the “superior” race—
God save the mark!—plainly proves
that he is accounted less than a dog.
Only from such a viewpoint can one
explain the attitude of normally hu
mane people, such as are supposed to
inhabit the Southland, towards him.
This mental viewpoint explains why
the frequent outbursts of savagery
against him, by which the whites have
periodically deemed it necessary to
demonstrate their superiority, have
aroused no qualms of conscience
among the kindly-disposed and Chris
tian people of the South which com
pelled them to cry out against these
fiendish atrocities.
It is, therefore, a most encouraging
sign of an awakening conscience to
have religious leaders like Bishop
Gailor, who looms large in the influ
ence w'hich he wields; educators like
Prof. Mims of Vanderbilt university,
and newspapers like the Nashville
Banner, raising their voices in protest
against the savagery which is making
Tennessee a stench in the nostrils of
the nation.
When the conscience, not only of
the South, but this entire nation, is
amused against the iniquity of mob
murder, mob-murder will cease. To
accomplish this it is only necessary
for the religious and educational lead
ers of this country, who have been
guilty of moral cowardice in remain
ing silent as to these wrongs, to speak
out in no uncertain tones. Then, too,
the South and large sections of the
North, w'hich has been inoculated with
the same virus, must change its view
point concerning the black man. They
must regard him and treat him not as
something less than a dog, but as a
human being, made in the image of
God and destined to grow into His
likeness.
SACRIFICE
As the gold and grey days roll on
we are coming to realize more and
more that this great world war means
SACRIFICE. Apparently not much
sacrifice for the rich and powerful.
Oh, no! No matter how the game goes,
they are the winners. As many use
their wealth it would seem that they
have welcomed war, as they angle for
huge contracts that would strike dumb
a Midas. It is the poor who must sac
rifice. It is the poor who must make
lean their tables, not only because
their government commands, but be
cause inflated prices demand. It is
the poor who must take from their
meager pitt ces a portion and pay as
taxes to carry on world murder.
And what are the poor to reap?
God grant that it may be peace, a
peace that shall go down the sunlit
years and bless them. A peace that,
shall beckon birth with a smile and I
welcome death with a sigh. A peace 1
that young mothers may rear their
boy babies and be sure that they are
not bom to die by guns, bombs and
poisoned gas. A peace that poor men
may cherish and know that their hopes
for manhood success may not be blast- ;
ed by a call to war—a call which they !
must answer, whether or no. Only for
the dream of such a peace can the j
poor sacrifice and sacrifice with a
smile. If the dream be false, they
should rise in their might and sweep
from the earth all spawn of mi''*ar
ism, whether the spawn be Teuton or
Ally. The world is old and surely the |
time should come when the poor '
should make no sacrifice save in the
t perpetuation of peace.
INFERIOR IN VICE,
SUPERIOR IN VIRTUE
It is" most gratifying to be able to
say, with some degree of pride, that
the Negro race in America not only
has not yet produced an anarchist or
traitor, but despite the handicap of
ignorance has never been guilty of
such savagery as that of torturing huJ
man beings and burning them at th:
stake. Warm-hearted and affection
ate c.s a people, we shrink from even
torturing a dumb brute.
May God preserve these kindly
traits of character among us as a peo
ple, and may we by our good deeds !
help raise America to a higher stand
ard of life. Let us strive to be infe
r'or in vice, superior in virtue.
Obvious Observations
President Wilson has held up the
sentence against the soldiers of the j
Twenty-fifth until he examines the
evidence of the court-martial. We
imagine that if he had had the chance
to examine the first one, there would
have been a different story.
They are still scrapping and throw
ing verbal bombs at each other in the
United States senate.
If winter doesn’t let up pretty soon i
we will have to alter the calendar and
give it a six months’ job.
It isn’t much use telling us to have
meatless days. Most of our days are
meatless, anyway.
The password on the western front ;
is, “Let ’em come!”
It takes 10,000 shots to bring down
an aeroplane and after it gets down
the junk man offers two bits a pound
for what’s left. War sure is a costly I
invention.
Reports say that Mr. Garfield’s |
heatless days saved 3,456,000 tons of
coal and lost over ?1,000,000,000. Who
got the poker chips ?
Have you started studying the seed
| catalogue yet? When coming down to
it always remember that it has Anu
rias beaten six ways from Sunday.
-JKeep on the heavy underwear,
Dumus, or else Mr. Pneumonia will get
acquainted with your breath tanks.
Are the indictments against Johnny,
| Billy and Tommy all camouflage?
Thanking you for your august at
| tention, we will now begin nursing our
j toothache.
SKITS OF SOLOMON
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Rumor
A rumor is report that starts out I
navigating among the public, the par- j
entage of which is always beyond find- ;
ing out. Rumors nowadays are as thick j
as coffee grounds coming through a
leaky strainer. One day we get a mess
of cold feet after hearing that this
time next year we will be living on
sawdust and shoe leather, but the next
day we learn that we have so much
eats on hand that we can feed the
earth and all the rest of the planets in
our system. At noon we hear that the
Russians are kicking up so much heel
dust that the Germans are choking to
death and at 4 o’clock the situation
has changed and the Russians are
j really scrapping. In the morning Mr.
; Garfield, national coal man, says you
better invest in black diamonds this
spring for next winter, and in the
evening the papers say that next win
ter everything in the coal line will be
all hunkadory. At breakfast you read
that peace is shaking Kaiser Bill by
the neck and telling him to get busy,
and at dinner you scan that Bill says
he wouldn’t know peace if she danced
the tango on his chest. One minute
you learn that 100,000,000 bushels of
wheat are rotting in the cribs and the
next minute your eyes are greeted
with the news that the national food
sleuths can’t find the wheat to save
their lives. Yesterday the eat dicta
tors tob] you to stop eating meat be
cause it isn’t good for your liver or for
the country, and tomorrow they tell
you to clean up on the mutton and
chicken so as to keep friend farmer
from going broke. The young fellow’s |
between 21 and 31 hear so many ru- j
mors about being called that nearly j
all are getting St. Vitus dance. Th° [
only way to keep from developing ner- }
vous prostration is to plug your ears
and put on blinders so that rumors |
have no effect.
COMMENDATION FOR
MR. BRAITHWAITE
"Literary tasters are coming to bo
public functionaries we can hardly do
without. For those who have not the j
time to search the periodical press for
the best poetry and fiction, like Mr.
Braithwaite and Mr. O’Brien, who pick
out ‘the best’ of the year’s verse and
short stories, and ought to have our j
applause for their self-imposed task.’’
—Literary Digest.
Mr. Braithwaite is one of the race.
Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Big- j
gest and Best.—Adv.
Our Women
and, Children
Condacttd by
Lucille Skaggs Edwards
HE GOES BY. SINGING
He goes by,singing through the storm,
An early worker on his way;
(I’m lying. Ivr secure and warm,
’Tis scarcely yet the break of day.)
He goes by, singing in the rain;
(An open window brings the tune)
For all the joy in his refrain,
It might be radiant morn of June!
He goes by singing, cold and wet;
Can nothing daunt his spirit, then ?
No hopeless thought, no vain regret,
No envy of his fellow men?
Thanks, unknown singer, for the song;
My heartfelt thanks for that brave
lay
Which blotted out the pain and wrong,
And ushered in the working day!
—Anon, i
Fried mush and syrup made from
the juices of preserves make a mighty
fine breakfast. Hominy is good also
served with prunes. The taste will be
satisfactory and there will be little
need of the doctor.
It is said that the unpolished rice is ]
setter for the health than the polished
rice.
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I THE WASHINGTON MARKET |
Omaha’s Premier Grocery and Meat Market.
High Quality. Honest Weight. Ix»w Prices.
Have you paid a visit to our new establishment at
McCrory’s 5 and 10 Cent Store
“The Big Store at the Same Place.”
Tyler 170 1407 Douglas
The Warden Hotel |
On Sixteenth Street at Cuming.
STEAM HEATED ROOMS—HOT AND COLD RUNNING WATER—BATHS
By Day for One. .50c, 75c, $1.00
By Day for Two .$1.00. $1.25. $1.50
By Week..$2.00 to $4.50
BILLIARD PARLOR IN CONNECTION FOR GENTLEMEN WHO CARE
EASY WALKING DISTANCE TO HEART OF CITY
Douglas 6332. Charles H. Warden, Proprietor.
-BUY THRIFT STAMPS
Saturday
will be a wonderful
Economy
Day
for every one who comes here to shop.
Extraordinary Sales of things you need right now, all at the
very lowest prices.
Home Furnishing
Week
Begins On Monday Next
Complete Stocks of Draperies, Art Wares and Rugs
at very modest prices.
h deis Stores
I Obee-Hunter-Wakefield Funeral Home
j (People's Undertaking Co.)
I North Side 2101 Cuming Si.
| Phone Douglas 8103 |
I South Side 21th and (J Sts. ?
j§ Nights and Sundays Call
& South 2614 ■
* All other times call Doug
i: las 8103, main office and cails (J
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B you get us, Douglas 8103. B
I G. W. OBEE, Mgr. J. H. Wakefield, Secy.NAT. HUNTER, Treas. I
Embalmer Phone South 2614 Res. Tel. Web. 4740 ®
The Monitor Advertisers Deserve Your Patronage
What Prominent Citizens Say of
The Alamo Barber Shop
Before Killingsworth & Price took possession at 2116 North Twenty-fourth street, we advertised through the columns
of The Monitor that “we are going to run a clean-cut business, such as has never before been given.”
Having run approximately nine months, this is what prominent men have to say:
The people of the North End are, indeed, proud of the
Alamo Barber Shop, conducted by Killingsworth & Price.
The shop is sanitary and up-to-date in every detail; the ser
vice is excellent; the morale of the place is far above the
average combination pool hall where gangs of uncouth fel
lows congregate. A. G. EDWARDS, M. D.
I have had my barber work done at the Alamo Barber
Shop ever since it opened. I find it. to be up-to-date and
sanitary in every respect. Never saw a better bunch of well
behaved men than you see there. You wouldn’t know the
pool tables were there if you didn’t hear the clatter of the
balls. SERGEANT ISAAC BAILEY.
i If any one should have told me that a barber shop could be
run in a pool hall as the Alamo has, I would not have believed
. it. I see the reason. There is no betting allowed on the pool
games, therefore no fights. The fence makes the shop a dif
ferent department altogether. Mr. Price is a wonderful
man. JAMES C. DONLEY.
We of the No th Side can boast of the finest shop in the
city, something that has long been needed, and with a com
petent man at the wheel. You can’t bet, if Mr. Price knows it.
Betting on pool games.has been proven to be the source of
99 per cent of all trouble in pool halls, which has been the j
ruination of all barber shops combined. I welcome a man
like him, with the makeup of General Grant—doesn’t talk,
but does things. W. A. SCOTT, 2430 Lake Street.
The Alamo Barber Shop at 2416 North Twenty-fourth
street, owmed and conducted by Killingsworth & Price, is an
improvement over all the other establishments of its kind,
for the following reasons: They keep it neat; it has at all
times a business air. They deseiwe special credit for having
been able to eliminate roughness. T. P. MAIIAMMITT. j
It is with great pleasure that I recommend to the public
the Alamo Barber Shop. I have had my work done ther;*
ever since it opened. I can truly say it is one of the neatest
of its kind in the West. I have seen nothing wrong in the I
conduct of that place. Mr. Price is a potent factor in this
city. JOHN W. LONG.
The Alamo Barber Shop feels grateful to the men who have expressed themselves for publication concerning things they
have seen for themselves.
The management assures all that we will continue in the future sls we have in the past. It is the aim of the management
to give to the public the best shop, best workmen, best regulated and best managed, not only in this town, but in any other
town.
There will be additional improvements in the near future. Some that are unknown to the Colored barber shops in this
section of the country. It will not be long before everything that is required to make a barber shop first-class in every re
spect can be had at the Alamo. The management is not holding back for anything. Our hearts are in the business and we
are forcing our way to the front. We have nothing to regret at our investment. We feel thankful to the people who have
patronized us and welcomed us. The mere saying that a barber shop cannot be run first-class connected with a pool hall is
quibbling. The wives who accompany their husbands to our place, the ladies who get their faces ^massaged, mothers who
bring their dear ones and make themselves at home, speak in loud tones in our behalf. j
The shop is already known from Coast to Coast, through the fame of the proprietors and The Monitor.
Will say for Mr. Killingsworth, he is one of the best barbers and business men I ever met. He answered the call of his
country without even a word of protest. If this country was scoured from the rugged coast of Maine to the Bolden Bates of
California, even into the everglades of Florida, his superior could not be found. I^t us hope that Mr. Killingsworth will soon |
return; that he and his partner once more may join hands in the business which they have founded.
R. C. PRICE
