Second Official Call of National
Association of Colored Women
To Be Held in Denver, Colo., July 8 to
13, 1918; “On to Denver, the City
Beautiful!" at the Gateway of the
Rockies.
The object of our association is to
secure harmony of action and co-oper
ation among all women in raising tc
the highest plane home, moral and
civil life. This object has been con
sistently lived up to both by the na
tional and by state and local organiza
tions during all of our years.
The list of honorable, speakers ap
pearing on the platform at these con
ventions throughout the years includes
the names of almost all of our prom
inent women along every line. The
convention this year will witness th I
greatest gathering of Colored women
from all sections ever assembled. The
period through which we are passing
will demand the presence of all of our
leaders, even those who in years past
were more active than at the present
time.
Key Word, “Consolidation."
Mrs. Blanche Perkins will hold a
unique demonstration. Miss Nannie H.
Burroughs will give a rousing report
on the lynchings and other investiga
tions. Other prominent women to be
heard include Mrs. John Hope of
Georgia, Mrs. Marion Wilkins of South
Carolina.Mrs. Bishop Clinton and Mrs.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown of North
Carolina, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethunc
and Mrs. Emma J. Colzier of Florida
Dr. Mary Waring and Mrs. Elizabeth
Lindsay Davis of Chicago, Mrs. Lizzie
B. Fouse of Kentucky, Mrs. E. D.
Lampton Bachus of Mississippi, Mrs.
Addie W. Hunton of New York, Kev.
Florence Randolph of New Jersey.
Mrs. M. E. Goins of Missouri, Mrs.
Lelia A. Pendleton of Washington
Miss Meta Pelham of Michigan, Miss
Mary Jackson of Rhode Island, Mrs.
Bertha Turner of California, Mrs.
Gertrude Lancaster of Utah, Mrs.
Bonnie Bogle of Oregon, Mrs. J. E
Mapps of Spokane, Mrs. Mary H.
Baker of Wyoming, Mrs. Susan C.
Evans of Wisconsin and many others.
Our thirty-three affiliated members
will be with us and a program is be
ing arranged by them for one evening.
Be there to see the burning of the
Douglass mortgage and to elect the
nine women trustees of the Douglass
Home.
For information concerning program
write Mrs. Myrtle F. Cook. 24116 Mont
gale avenue, Kansas City, Mo.
Musical contest open to any Colored
woman. Write Mrs. W. T. B. Wil
liams, Hampton Institute, Virginia.
Literary contest open to any Color
ed woman. Write Miss Anna Jones
2414 Montgale avenue, Kansas City
Mo.
Woman suffrage, the greatest prob
lem before the American Negro to cor
rect past wrongs, will come before us.
The most prominent woman suffragist
in this country is expected to be pres
ent and speak for us.
Mrs. Dishman, general chairman, it
making all arrangements for the
greatest convention ever held in our
history.
Meet credential committee Monday
July 8, 11 a. m.; executive board, July
8, 5 p. m.; acquaintance reception wel
come, 8 p. m.
Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, president;
Miss Ida R. Cummings, vice president
at-large; Miss Hallie Q. Brown, chair
man executive board; Miss Georgia A.
Nugent, corresponding secretary; Mrs
Ida Joyce Jackson, treasurer; Mrs. W.
T. Francis, chairman press committee.
Honorary Presidents — Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, Mrs. Lucy Thurman,
Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Miss
Elizabeth Carter.
NEBRASKA FARMERS
ORGANIZE WAR COUNCIL
First State in Nation Where Farmers
Line Up Solid Behind the
Government.
Following a series of conferences in
Omaha the farmers of Nebraska
through the heads of their various
farm organizations, have inaugurated
the Nebraska Farmers’ War Council,
the first movement of its kind in the
United States to back up the govern
ment in the coming third Liberty loan
campaign and all other government
activities. The organization has the
hearty support of the agricultural
press.
The officers of the council are:
Chairman—C. H. Gustafson, presi
dent Nebraska Farmers’ Union.
Directors—0. G. Smith, president
Nebraska Farmers’ Congress; E. K.
Danielson, secretary State Board of>
Agriculture.
Secretary—Frank G. Odell, vice
president International Farm Con
gress.
Headquarters have been opened in
the Federal Reserve bank of Omaha.
The presidents of the various affili
ated organizations will this week send
a letter to their members enclosing a
service card for the farmer’s signa
ture. Every farmer in the state will
be given an opportunity to pledge his
support to the government, and a
practically 100 per cent response is
predicted.
The Nebraska Farmers’ War Coun
cil has been organized by the farmers
themselves and will be controlled en
tirely by them. The farmers of each
county in the state will co-operate
| with the county chairman of the Lib
erty loan and other war activity com
mittees.
There will be a Liberty loan meet
ing in every country school house and
an active canvass of members of each
organization by its own committee.
The slogan of the movement is, “Ne
braska farmers back thegovemment"'
SUBSTITUTES MUST BE
SOLD WITH FLOUR AT
TIME OF THE PURCHASE
Strict enforcement of the pound-for
pound substitute rule with sales of
wheat flour is ordered by Food Ad
ministrator Wattles. If merchants do
not have the required amount of sub
stitutes, then wheat flour is not to be
j sold, only as substitutes can be fur
nished.
All exceptions permitted have been
nullified. Potatoes are no longer a
substitute for flour and cannot be sold
as such. The substitutes, and NONE
OTHER, are:
Hominy, com grits, commeal, corn
flour, edible cornstarch, barley Dour,
rolled oats, oatmeal, rice, rice flour
buckwheat Dour, potato flour, sweet
potato flour, soya bean Dour and fete
rita flours and meals.
Consumers are required to purchase
| at the time the flour is bought an
) equal amount of any or all of the
■ above products and use them with
1 every pound of wheat flour purchased.
j SPECIAL j
Table D’Hote
Dinner Sunday
50 Cents
Regular Dinners 35c
Classy Entertainers
|| If you cannot come, telephone your
| orders and we will deliver them. ||
The Top Notch Cafe
1322 N. 24th Street
Phone Webster 2421
Whole wheat or graham flours ma;<
be bought with three-fifths as much
substitutes.
“This ruling will be enforced to the
letter,” says Administrator Wattles
"and any merchant violating it wjll
have his supplies cut off.”
NEBRASKANS GETTING
LOWEST FOOD PRICES
Nebraskans are getting cheapei
foods than the average price main
taining throughout the United States
Figures compiled by Gurdon W. Wat
tles, food administrator, show that orl J
eleven fundamental foods Nebraska if
lower than the United States average.
Omaha is also lower, as the following
table shows:
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Wheat flour, 24-lb.$1.59 $1.51 $1.50
Bread, 1 -lb. 1.02 .099 .09 (
Commeal, 1-lb.067 .057 .06
Oatmeal, 1-Ib.087 .086 .06*4
Rice. 1-lb.115 .11 H
Potatoea, 1-pk.445 .384 .35
Navy beans, 1-lb.181 .167 .15
Sugar, 1-lb.097 .094 .09
Bacon, 1-lb.492 .472 .47
Butter. 1-lb.556 .523 .50
Oleomargarine. 1-lb... .357 .351 .35
PRAYER OF THE
NEGRO SOLDIER
> By Roscoe C. Jamison. ,
In future years, when men shall tell
Of valient deeds 'mid stress and
fire;
How they swept on, when comrades
fell,
That Freedom’s name might still
inspire.
When Homeward they shall march
again from hard-fought field,
and frcm the sea,
And Music swells a grander strain—
0, God, grant Thou this boon to nie.
That 1 may join in that high speech,
Telling the wonders of the fight;
How that I too did help to teach
That Truth must triumph over
Might.
On that great day point me a place
Among the heroes of the line,
That I may bring my waiting race
Bright jewels on each brow to shine.
Unfettered, and a man at last,
Grant me to walk amid the throng,
Unburdened by a shame-filled past,
To sing the new-writ freedom song.
Let those who hear my story told,
And see the scars—the dented blade,
Know that the hated things of old
Will rise no more to make afraid.
Let Prejudice and Greed, and all
The blight of hope, I’ve known be
fore,
Be banished with a Despot’s fall—
Let Valor find an Open Door.
TRrd give me power to do my part,
Help me perform the deathless deed,
Gird me with strength, set firm my
heart
In this dread hour the call to heed.
And if I be not there to tread
The Victor’s way with glory drest,
Somewhere among the silent dead
Where raged the battle, let me rest!
WAR IS—OPPORTUNITY
War is another name for oppor
tunity. These days offer tremendous
opportunities to the man furthest
down, openings which will last until
the war is over. After the war these
oportunities offered the laborer will
decrease until the condition apporxi
mates what it was before the war.
More than six houndred of our
young men have entered offices in
the army paying from $1,800 per year
upward. Many times six hundred un
skilled laborers are drawing envelopes
of $18 per week, while skilled me
chanics and workers are paid the fab
ulous sums of $5, $6 and $7 per day.
In the Departments in Washington
women clerks are being put on in
groups of ten or more, some of them
without examination, and all of them
at salaries fur beyond peace salary
scales. As clerk, as messenger book
keeper, stenographer, janitor, chauf
feur, warehouseman, carpenter, tin
ner, tailor, hundreds of positions are
open under the government at sal
aries as high as $1,200 per year.
Everybody recognizes that these sal
aries can only be paid during the war
time, and that the coming of pepce
means the cpm ing of lower wages.
War is the laborer’s opportunity. Un
less he takes advantage of it and gives
himself a good start toward econo
mic independence, peace will push
him back into the same old rut where
he was before. Good sense will tell
every laborer to get ready for the
period of hard times to follow the
war. Every man and woman who
can find employment during the war
should make use of it and this is the
most important, not only make money
but save money.—The Baltimore Afro
American.
Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Big
gest and Best.—Adv.
MONITOR’S HIGH TONE
PLEASES HIM
1917 Eleventh Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C., March 16.
Rev. John Albert Williams:
Dear Sir—Inclosed find check for a
year's renewal subscription to The
Monitor, the high tone of which I am
glad to see you are maintaining.
The paper is one of which our peo
ple may well be proud.
Respectfully,
WILLIAM H. HAYNES.
COMMENDS EDITORIAL
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 23, 1918.
Editor The Monitor:
Your editorial in this week’s Mon
itor capped “American Atrocities,” is
timely and to the point.
America must awaken to the fact
that moral offensives make no im-i
pression unless the one making the
move acts out the high standard set
for others. I
Those hothead Southern fanatical j
damphool murderous Huns who take j
the law into their own hands and in
95 per cent of the cases murder inno
cent men and women must be
squelched and that at once, or the
first thing this country knows it will)
have a civil war or revolution on its
hands.
Men and women of America who
love justice must at once get busy
and have this damnable hellish prac
tice stopped.
As a Southern born, I most emphat
ically and most vigorously enter my
protest against these barbarities and
hideous murders and I for one will be
only too glad to help organize a vast
meeting of protest to President Wil
son if it is desirable. My voice, pen
and energy is at every Colored
brother’s service when he commands.
Respectfully,
JESSE T. BRILLHART.
1332 South 21st St.
“WE DON’T SERVE
COLORED TRADE”
Manhattan, Kan., Feb. 26.
An Open Letter to the Editor of the
Manhattan Mercury:
This morning, about 2 o’clock, I en
tered the restaurant just across from
the Manhattan railroad station. I had
just returned from Omaha. The man
on duty there refused to serve me.
“We don’t serve Colcred trade,” he
said. “That’s news to me,” I replied.
Then I said to him: “You refuse to
serve me at your lunch counter be
cause I am a Colored man, and I am a
soldier of seventeen years’ service for
your country and mine. I am one of
the protectors of your business. Be
sides, I have a legal right to be served
here. Conditions are pretty rotten
when such a thing as has happened to
me is possible.” He answered not a
word. Then I walked out into the cool
of the night and looked at the stars of
high heaven.
Let me repeat it: “Conditions are
pretty rotten when such a thing as
this is possible.” Why should a man
talk democracy and not practice it?
Had this man been truly American he
could not have refused to serve a Coi
oted American in his restaurant. Had
he been purely patriotic he would have
considered himself and his business
honored by serving a soldier, even
though that soldier be an American
Negro. Legally, as we know, a res
taurant is a public and not a private
institution. Then it is unlawful when
such a place refuses to serves therein
any part of the public. The human
side of it is that hunger should make
the whole world kin. A hungry dog
d< selves a bone; a hungry man de
serves more. A hungry soldier—what
Joes he deserve? He deserves to be
made welcome while he eats. The
Christian side of it is: I came hungry
(requesting bread to sustain the
body), but was refused food. I came
thirsty (asking for a glass of butter
milk), but was given no drink.
Liberty, where art thou? (Echo
answers, “For the Negro in America
I am a lie and the truth is not in me.”)
How long will these things be?
(Echo asks, "How long?”)
LUCIAN B. WATKINS,
Sergeant First Class, Medical De
partment, U. S. A.; First Ser
geant Field Hospital 366, Camp
Funston, Kansas.
DETROIT OPENS HOSPITAL.
Detroit, Mich., March 15.—Under the
management of I)r. D. C. Northcross,
formerly of Chicago, the Mercy Hos
pital and Nurses’ Training School,
incorporated, a new hospital for col
ored people, fully equipped with
wards and private rooms and labora
tory with a competent staff of phy
sicians and nurses, has been opened
here. The race has sorely felt the
need of such an institution here, par
ticularly since the large influx of our
people from the South. The handling
of maternity cases will be a specialty
in this institution.
Remember the little folks and the
old folks, and give them plenty of
milk.
r' "
WAR Savings Stamps will not
only help win the war but
help cultivate thrift and the saving
habit. Buy war saving stamps.
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Thomas Kilpatrick & Co.
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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
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