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Lincoln News
Mr. L. Gibson is slowly recovering
from a severe attack of la grippe.
Mrs. J. A. Duncan, who has been
the house guest of her niece, Mrs. L.
Gibson, has returned to her home.
Mrs. Wyatt Williams of 311 South
Twenty-first street, recently returned
from Sedalia, Mo., where she was
called by the illness of her aunt, Mrs.
Jene Fields.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McWilliams
have recently removal from Lincoln
to Biair, Kan., where they have taken
up a farm.
Miss Corinne Letcher of 2245 South
Seventeenth street is recovering from
an attack of la grippe.
By the way, has your neighbor sub
scribed for The Monitor? Ask him.
Mr. and Mrs. Trego McWilliams are
justly proud of the fine boy who has
come to gladden their home, and Mr.
and Mrs. Jefferson McWilliams are
equally proud of the beautiful daugh
ter born to them.
Mr. Thomas Coleman, better known
as “Tommy,” is conducting one of the
leading university party houses called
the “Rosewild.” Mr. Coleman camo
into popular favor by conducting one
of the finest ice cream parlors in the
Capital City.
Lincoln is quite proud of the good
record one of her favorite daughters.
Miss Freado Cooley, who graduated
from the University of Nebraska, class
of ’16, is making as a teacher in the
public schools of St. Joseph, Mo.
Mrs. Craig, Mrs. Nettie Fredericks;
Mrs. Mary Terrine, Mrs. Virgie Grif-*
fin, Mr. Peter Turner and Mr. Bud
Johnson of Omaha were in the city to
atend the funeral of Mrs. Annie Shar
penstein last Sunday.
The closing rally for Rev. Mr. Tal
bot, pastor of Newman M. E. church,
was held last Monday night, at which
t;me Rev. J. S. Payne preached. Rev.
Mr. Talbot left Tuesday for Tulsa,
Okla., to attend the annual conference.
Mr. Cedell Norris of the University
School of Music has arranged a splen
did Easter program for the Baptist
Sunday school at 2 p. m. on Eastei
day. The junior and primary scholars
will have a short program at 1:30 p.
m. All are invited to come out to
these two exercises.
A grand Easter egg rolling and mu
sical will be given Monday night, April
1. Come find the hidden nest of eggs.
Mr. Benjamin Washington of Alton,
111., is a welcome guest in our city. He
is filling a position at the Harley Drug
company.
St. Anice tabernacle has enjoyed one
of the most prosperous years of ac
tivity for a long time, having taken in
twenty-five new members. A beauti
ful imported Japanese painted teapol'
was presented to Mrs. Lulu B. Moore
for bringing in the largest number of
candidates over five. Mrs. Mary L.
Williams, the preceptress, purchased
the gift.
Mrs. Genevieve Weaver is confined
to her bed with a severe attack of
fever.
Rev. R. R. Powers of El Reno, Okla..
will be in the city March 27 and preach
at the Mount Zion Baptist church on
Easter day, both morning and evening.
Come and hear this great messenger
of God.
We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to the many friends who so
faithfully assisted us during the ill
ness and death of our sister and moth
er, Mrs. Anna Sharpenstein. Especial
ly do we thank the Eastern Star chap)
ter, the Daughters of the Tabernacle
and the Gideon Band and Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Griffin, for the beautiful floral
designs contributed and all flowers re
ceived.—Major Moore and wife, llr^
Julius Miller, Mrs. Lillian Miller, Mr.
Earl Gross and wife.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jenquenz of
1420 South Eleventh street were very
agreeably surprised this week by the
visit of old friends whom they had
not seen for over twenty years, Mr.
and Mrs. Glover Schull of Minneapolis,
who with their daughters, the Misses
Mildred and Edna Schull, have been
touring California and visiting other
western points for the past si:|
months.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Jenquenz
received informally for the pleasure of
Mrs. Schull and her daughters.
Mr. Schull and his family left Fri
day for Omaha, where they will spend
a few days at the Fontenelle and visit
with Mrs. H. R. Roberts and her
daughter, Miss Madeline Roberts.
Mrs. William Patrick of Aurora,
Neb., accompanied by her sister, Miss
Emma Blanton, who has been her
guest for some weeks, enroute to Kan
sas City, Mo., where Miss Blanton is
employed as stenographer for the
Afro-American Realty company, were
the guests Friday night of her sister
in-law, Miss Flossie Patrick of 2410
Holdrege street, who entertained in
formally for them and her brothel*
Bert Patrick of Omaha.
Mrs. Cleveland Walker of 907 S
street is improving after six weeks’
illness with heart trouble.
Mrs. Ada Holmes has recently re
turned from a months’ delightful visit
at Army City, Kan., where her hus
bank is employed as cook.
Mr. Worth Jeffers of Des Moines,
la., is visiting his sister, Mrs. Louis
Holmes.
Mrs. R. Corhan gave a delightful
party for her daughter Oval last week
JOINT FUNERAL OF
TWO OLD RESIDENTS
Mrs. Julius Miller and Mrs. George
Miller and two children arrived in the
city from Phoenix, Ariz., Saturday in
response to a telegram announcing the
death of their mother, Mrs. Annie
Sharpenstein, who died March 10 at
the age of 70 years.
The body of Mr. George E. Miller
who died in Phoenix, Ariz., January
28, was shipped here at the same time.
The funeral of both was held Sun
day, March 17, at Matthews’ under
taking chapel at 3 p. m., Rev. O. J.
Burckhardt officiating, assisted by the
Rev. J. S. Payne and the Rev. Mr.
Smith. The music was rendered by
the Baptist choir, assisted by Miss
Opal Ashford, who sang “Face to
Face,” and Rev. Mr. Payne, who sang.
“Nothing Between.” The sermon was
inspiring, being from “If a man die
shall he live again?” The floral of
ferings were many and beautiful.
A large concourse of friends were
present to pay their last tribute to
these two faithful Christian charac
ters. Interment was in Wyuka ceme
tery.
Too much praise canot be given to
the firm of Castle, Roper & Matthews
for the way in which this funeral was
directed. No pains were spared to
make it agreeable for both relatives
and friends. We extend thanks foi
their gentlemanly courtesy during
this sad bereavement.
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MONITOR PLEASES
AND BRINGS TRADE
The Chapman Drug company spoke
to the representative of The Monitor
in most complimentary terms concern
ing the publication. This courteoul
firm said that they read The Monitor
each week with pleasure and interest,
and had secured trade through their
advertisement which they have been
carrying and are glad to continue.
Thank you, gentleman.
STUDENTS WHO ARE
MAKING GOOD AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Nebraska is proud of her state uni
versity, which is most advantageously
located in the city of Lincoln. All stu
dents are given welcome here and it is
a pleasure to notice that each year an
increasing number of Colored studenti
are taking advantage of the splendid
opportunities offered by this great in
stitution.
Among those who are enrolled this
year and are doing good work are the
following: Miss Gladys Brown, Miss
Dorothy Flippin, Miss Belva Spicer
Mr. Cedell Norris, Mr. Sanford Fall
ings, Mr. J. Ferguson, Mr. F. Douglas
and Mr. H. Robinson.
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PLEASANT THOUGHTS
My Business Trip to Lincoln.
When I arrived at Lincoln, my home
town, I was greeted with such con
genial hospitality and success that in
stead of remaining there two days, as
I had planned, I made it five for good
measure. I appreciate the fact great
ly that my friends read The Monitor
and therefore were expecting me.
They gave me a hearty welcome. 1
was assured that Lincoln is always on
the way in measuring her highest
gratitude for a cause to uplift the in
telligence of Colored Americans.
While my success bespeaks itself in
the University City it is the initial
visit, I trust, of many future success
ful business trips.
■ We appreciate the many new sub
scribers as well as the old ones and
advertisers. We shall continue to cher
ish your goodwill.
BERT PATRICK,
Advertising and Business Manager
of The Monitor.
Why don’t you join the Community
Chorus? Meets every Sunday after
noon at 4 o'clock at St. Philip’s
church. Join NOW before member
ship closes. No charges. Come out
and learn to sing.
24,000 COLORED DRAFTEES
CALLED TO THE COLORS
Movement to Begin on March 29 and
Continue for Five-Day
Period.
Washington, March 22.—A move
ment of 95,000 drafted men to begin
on March 29 and continue for five days
was ordered March 2 by Provost Mar
shal General Crowder. The order calls
for troops from every state in the
Union with the exception of Iowa and
Minnesota. It includes men remaining
from the first draft and those liable t<*
call in the second.
Just how many men of the second
draft are affected by the order was
not announced at General Crowder’s
office. It is understood that the move
ment will virtually complete the first
draft and that it is part of the an
nounced plan to call registrants in
small groups as fast as they can be
accommodated.
The orders sent to the states call for
approximately 70,000 white troops and
24,000 Colored. The Colored troops arc
to be scattered among the following
camps:
Devens, Massachusetts; Meade,
Maryland; Gordon, Georgia; Zachary
Taylor, Kentucky; Grant, Illinois;
Pike, Arkansas; Dodge, Iowa; FunV
ton, Kansas, and Travis, Texas.
PROBLEMS IN TRAINING
NEGRO SOLDIERS
(From the New York Times.)
About 83,600 Negroes have been
drafted for service in the national
army to be sent overseas. The secre
tary of war, Newton D. Baker, in
working out his plans for the training
of these men, has met with many dif
ficulties. First, he has had to contend
with those friends of the Negro who
have felt that it was the secretary's
special duty at this time to attempt to
solve or settle the so-called race ques- ]
tion in America. Second, Negro lead
ers have importuned the war depart
ment in various and sundry directions,
while the peculiar Southern situation,
where the masses of the Negroes live, j
has had to be taken into account.
The secretary of war called to his |
i aid on October 1, as special assistant
[in the war department, a representa
I tive Negro, Emmet J. Scott, who for j
eighteen years was secretary to the !
late Booker T. Washington and of th“ [
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insti
tute. He has sought to relieve the sec
retary of war, as much as possible, of
the details growing out of controver
j sies involving racial relationships,
1 caused or occasioned by the preserac*
of white and Colored draftees together
in many of the cantonments.
For the purpose of allaying sus
picions and correcting certain false im
pressions the secretary of war has ad-!
dressed an open letter to his Colored I
aide, stating his attitude and the !
policy of the edpartment with refer-1
ence to Negro soldiers. In the letter j
he says in part:
“Referring to various telegrams and i
letters of protest received at the de-,
partment, to which you have called my j
attention, concerning certain alleged j
discriminations against Colored draft
ees, I wish to say that a full investi
gation of the matters complained of
has been ordered.
“As you know, it has been my policy
to discourage discrimination against
any persons by reason of their race.
This policy has ben adopted not mere- j
ly as an act of justice to all races that j
go to make up the American people,
but also to safeguard the very institu
tions which we are now, at the great
est sacrifice, engaged in defending and
which any racial disorders must en
danger.
“At the same time, there is no inten
tion on the part of the war department
to undertake at this time to settle the
so-called race question. In this hour
of national emergency and need white
and Colored men alike are being called
to defend our country’s honor. In the
very nature of the case some must
fight in the trenches, while others
must serve in other capacities behind
the firing line.
“I very much regret what seems to
be a certain amount of overworked
hysteria on the part of some of the
complainants, who seem to think that
only Colored draftees are being as
signed to duty in service battalions,
where as thousands of white draftees
already have been, and more of them
necessarily will be, assigned to duty in
such service battalions.
“Some of the complaints or charges
of discrimination seem all the more
unwarranted in view of the fact that
there is far less hazard to the life of
the soldier connected with the service
battalion than is true in the case of
the soldier who faces shot and shell on
the firing line. Furthermore, the atti
tude of the war department toward
Colored soldiers is clearly shown by
the following facts: More than 626 of
the 1,250 Colored men who completed
the course at the reserve officers’
training camp at Fort Des Moines,
Iowa, have*been commissioned as offi
cers in the United States army; nearly
100 Colored physicians and surgeons
have received commissions as officers
in the Medical Reserve Corps, and c
full fighting force of 30,000 Colored
soldiers, including representatives in
practically every branch of military
service, will constitute the Ninety-sec
ond division, to be detailed for duty in
France under General Pershing.”
APOLOGY
_
By William Carlos Williams.
Why do I write today ?
The beauty of
the terrible faces
of our nonentities
stirs me to it:
Colored women
day workers—
old and experienced—
returning home at dusk
in cast-off clothing,
faces like
old Florentine oak.
Also
the set pieces
of your faces stir me—
leading citizens—
but not
in the same way.
—From “A1 Que Quiere!” (The Four
Seas Company.)
MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHl’RCH
Services were good all day in the
Mount Moriah Baptist church, Twen
ty-sixth and Seward streets. One was
baptized and two were taken in other
wise.
Mr. L. N. Inman, once a member ol
Calvary Baptist church of Salt Lake
City, Utah, where Rev. M. H. Wilkin
son presided two years, was one of the
visitors. Next Sunday morning ser
mon, "The Boy That Helped Jesus”;
at night, “Persuasion.”
Try not to use any more sugar than
possible. One sweet dish is enough at
a meal.
Don’t miss the Easter ball at the
Mecca.
Methodist Conference Approves Food
Conservation.
The Kansas African Methodist
Episcopal Conference in session in
Coffeyville, Kansas, September 28,
adopted the following resolutions:
"We place on record our full con
fidence in Herbert Hoover and his
associates and fully indorse the gen
eral program of food administration.
"We pledge ourselves to co-oper
ate to the fullest possible extent with
the food administration by the read
ing of any and all bulletins or any
other printed matter sent to us and to
our people from our pulpits for the
instruction of our people.
“We pledge ourselves to preach
special sermons from time to time on
the conservation of food and to keep
our people posted as far as possible on
the war conditions.
“We give our approval and hearty
indorsement to the appointment of
Charles Stewart at the head of a
publicity bureau in the Fuod Admin
istration, and believe that he will at
the head of the department for week
ly papers give to our people full in
formation and instructions, and will
do his duty in keeping us informed.”
The conference was presided over
by Bishop H. Blanton Parks, D. D.,
of Chicago.
NAMES AND LOCATION OF
NATIONAL ARMY CANTONMENTS
Camp Custer—Battle Creek, Mich.
Camp Devens—Ayer, Mass.
Camp Dix—Wrightstown, N. J.
Camp Dodge—Des Moines, la.
Camp Funston—Fort Riley, Kan.
Camp Grant—Rockford, 111.
Camp Gordon—Atlanta, Ga.
Camp Jackson—Columbia, S. C.
Camp Lee—Petersburg, Va.
Camp Lewis—American Lake, Wash.
Camp Meade—Annapolis Junction,
Md. (Admiral, Md.)
Camp Pike—Little Rock, Ark.
Camp Sherman—Chillicothe, O.
Camp Travis—Fort Sam Houston,
Tex.
Camp Taylor—Louisville, Ky.
Camp Upton—Yaphank.Long Island,
N. Y.
NAMES AND LOCATION OF
NATIONAL GUARD CAMPS
Camp Beauregard—Alexandria, La.
Camp Rowie—Fort Worth, Tex.
Camp Cody—Deming, N. M.
Camp Doniphan—Fort Sill, Okla.
Camp Fremont—Palo Alto, Cal.
Camp Greene—Charlotte, N. C.
Camp Hancock—Augusta, Ga.
Camp Kearny—Linda Vista, Cal.
Camp Logan—Houston, Tex.
Camp McArthur—Waco, Tex.
Camp McClellan—Anniston, Ala.
Camp Sevier—Greenville, S. C.
Camp Shelby—Hattiesburg, Miss.
Camp Sheridan—Montgomery, Ala.
Camp Wadsworth — Spartansburg,
S. C.
Camp Wheeler—Macon, Ga.
We must not overlook the fact that
Russia collapsed, not because of the
Germans on her borders, but largely
because of the failure to organize and
feed her own citizens, and, if we ara
to emerge victorious from this war,
we cannot risk the collapse of anoth
er of our co-fighters from this same
cause. There is no waste of food
among any of our associates in this
war—there is the most drastic reduc
tion in their consumption; there is
actual privation among their women
and children; there is starvation in
Belgium.
The Underlying Cause.
The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle.
Let not the nation try to console
itself with the reflection that the East
St. Louis riot was due to labor trou
bles. The fear that the Negro would
take away the white man’s job, was,
indeed, cleverly worked upon by agi
tators, but that was not the main and
inciting cause of the riots. Wages in
East St. Louis had not been reduced
by the Negro influx, nor had white
men been forced out of work. There
was work for all, both whites and
blacks, and at good wages.
The sinister and disappointing
truth is that racial antagonism was at
the bottom of what happened at East
St. Louis. An influx of white men,
working for small wages, would not
have brought about a like result. The
plain truth is that a very large part
of the American people, while they
prate of freedom and equality, still,
have in mind a freedom and equality
only for white men. Among ignorant
whites, and, therefore especially
among recent immigrants, such as
formed a large proportion of the East
St. Louis mobs, this feeling is espe
cially strong.
The position of the Negro has been
improved since the Civil War. A long,
long way is still to go, however, be
fore he secures anything like equal
justice. It was only a few miles up
the Mississippi from East St. Louis,
at Alton, that Elijah Lovejoy was
slain for preaching abolition. The
East St. Louis riot proves what dis
appointingly slow progress has been
made since Lovejoy’s murder. In no
other way does America fall so far
short of making good her boast of be
ing a Christian nation as in her treat
ment of the Negro. And East St.
Louis proves that this is not a sec
tional sin: the North is as guilty as
the South.
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