N. W. C. A. Campaign
FOR
Membership and Small
Monthly Pledges
April 29-39; May 1
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
For the last 10 years
We have been making good, stylish clothes for your people
and have lots of friends among the Colored folks. We show
an immense variety of woollens to select from at the right
price. We want your trade.
G. OLSEN & CO.
MERCHANT TAILORS
1505 Harney Street. Orpheum Theater Bldg.
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Hotel LUming Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable Rates
' D. G. Russell, Proprietor
SPECIAL
Table D’Hote
Dinner Sunday
50 Cents
Regular Dinners 35c
Classy Entertainers
If you cannot come, telephone your
orders and we will deliver them.
f The Top Notch Cafe
1322 N. 24th Street
Phone Webster 2421
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South Side Notes
Lucius Milton Pool of 2515 M street
has recently been called back to New
York to enter the army.
Jesse Williams of 5509 P street is
slowly improving after a five weeks’
illness. He was scalded at Swift's
packing house.
Mrs. Alice Young of 3016 V street,
who was recently injured by falling
downstairs, is able to be out again.
John Owens of 3026 R street, who
has been ill for six weeks, is improv
ing and hopes to be able to go to work
again soon.
S. S. Stamps of Kansas City, Mo.,
has recently opened a first-class res
taurant and rooming house at 2522 Q
street and solicits the patronage of
the public.
The Methodist Episcopal church at
Thirty-second and U streets, of which
the Rev. G. W. Walton is pastor, is
putting in new windows and there will
be a cornerstone laying the first Sun
day in May by the Knights of Tabor.
The Ladies’ Taborean band, under the
leadership of Mrs. J. Alice Stewart,
will furnish the music at the impres
s:ve ceremonies.
I know you are going to "The Minis
ter’s Wife” at St. John’s, May 30, un
der the auspices of the Canadian Pa
cific division.—Adv.
Raymond Hudson, 3116 R street, is
confined to his bed with the grippe.
Miss Gertrude Pullen and Mr. Bal
lard Hawkins of Brownwood, Tex., ar
rived last Thursday and are stopping
at the home of their aunt, Mrs. Cor
delia Keaton, 2514 K street. Miss
Pullen will visit for a few weeks, but
Mr. Hawkins expects to make his
home here.
BISHOP OF ZANZIBAR ON
GERMAN COLONIES LN AFRICA
‘•npHE Black Slaves of Prussia” is
A the arresting title of a very im
portant open letter addressed, by con
sent, to Lieutenant General the Right
Hon. J. C. Smuts by the Bishop of
Zanzibar, the Right Rev. Frank Wes
ton, D. D., on the future of conquered
German East Africa, and which is
now obtainable, perhaps, at every
bookstand in the country. The main
portion of the bishop’s pamphlet is
devoted to a scathing indictment of
how the Germans have treated the
natives in East Africa under their
colonial system. They are not fit, his
lordship confidently declares (and
there can be but few if any better
judges), to rule a subject people. In
the first place, their government is
founded on cruelty; indeed, we are
told, “cruelty is a mild term in which
to describe it.” They rule by fear and
by fear alone.
Flogging is carried to extreme
lengths, and the details the bishop
gives are shocking beyond words. But
their fiendish inhumanity is further
evidenced by their practice of torture.
Two cases are related, the victims be
ing friends of the bishop. Forced
labor, though nominally forbidden, is
common enough. Examples are given
from the bishop’s personal observa
tion. Worse still, “slavery is a recog
nized condition under the German
flag.” As to the future state of the
natives these alternatives seem pos
sible to the bishop’s statesmanlike
mind:
“Either the colony (what has been
German East Africa) may pass under
the British flag and rank with British
East Africa, Nyasaland, or Uganda,
I of it may be placed under our flag.
I with an international board of inspec
tion in the background.”
The second alternative he urges
with all his driving power. And his
plea is made primarily on the ground
of devotion to liberty. In conclusion
the Bishop of Zanzibar writes in the
following noble strain:
“Since it is evidently quite impos
sible to hold inquiries in Africa or to
refer these questions to the people (by
a referendum), it behooves one who
dares to champion the Africans to
throw down such a stake as will carry
conviction to the British mind. This
letter is my stake. For if the Germans
return to rule here it will cost me all
I hold most dear, my work, my dio
cese, and my numberless relations
with the people of East Africa. All
this 1 am glad to risk that these peo
ple may be set free, and our govern
ment allowed to fulfil its plighted
work and raise liberty to a universal
throne.”
The Living Church is asked to say
that copies of this pamhplet may be
obtained gratis on application to the
secretary, Universities’ Mission to
Central Africa, 0 Dartmouth street,
Westminster, London. — The Living
Church.
WANTED—Ten Colored men and
women to organize clubs of twenty
five members for the Grand Benevo
lent Association of Alabama in the
states of Nebraska, Kansas and Okla
homa. You may arrange to work
spare time among your friends. For
further information write R. W. Reed
Grand Organizer, 1833 North 23d st.
Omaha, Neb.
Mr. Roy and Charles Hilton, 6710
South Thirty-third street, has pur
chased a beautiful seven-passenger
Studebaker.
Mr. Cleo McDonald, private in Com
pany A, 349th M. G. B. N., Camp
F.mston, Kan., is here visiting his sis
ter, Mrs. Lena Hunter, 2505 N street.
Mr. McDonald says he really enjoys
camp life and says the training they
are receiving is remarkable and makes
him feel anxious and sure of winning
should they be sent to France.
Mrs. Mary Wyatt of 2507 N street,
who has been sick for two weeks, is
able to be up. She is a member of the
Church of God, Eighteenth and Cum
ing streets.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McGaugh, 2819
T street, are rejoicing over the ar
rival of a fine baby girl.
Mr. Milton Hunter, who was hurt
some time ago at the Morris packing
company's plant, has improved so that
he was able to return to work one day
this week.
Mrs. William Vaughn, who has had
a severe attack of pneumonia, is able
to be up, but still is unable to be out.
Mr. Rutherford Moss, who left
Omaha last fall as a private, has been
promoted to head corporal of the
Ninety-second Division at Camp Fun
ston. He was here visiting his wife
last week and left for the camp Fri
day.
Miss Virginia Thompson and Mr.
Richard Hooker of Chicago were
quietly married last Monday at Coun
cil Bluffs at 12:15 p. m. by a justice
of the peace. The young couple were
accompanied to the Bluffs by the ,
groom’s sister, Mrs. M. Hilton.
Mr. Samuel Washington of 1522 j
Berry avenue is very sick with an
acute attack of pneumonia.
South Omaha lodge No. 9374, G. U.
O. of Odd Fellows, held its initiation
Friday night, April 26, at its hall,
4917 South Twenty-fifth street. It
was conducted by the grand master,
E. E. Bryant.
Three members of the Omaha
Giants baseball team have been called
to the colors: Mr. Sam Allen, pitcher,
called to Fort Worth, Tex.; A. Mar
tain, pitcher, called to Selma, Ala.,
and Mr. Marion Poole, third baseman,
called to Chicago. These men regis
tered at these cities.
Mrs. T. Edwards had severe trouble
with her throat last week. She is some
better.
Mrs. Sarah Gray had another at
tack of asthma last week.
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House
2424 N Street
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J. D. HINES
TAILOR AND CLEANER
South 3366 5132 So. 24th St.
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Taxi Service
AT ALL HOURS
Pool Hall and Billiard Parlor in
Connection.
Phone South 2962 2603 N St.
South Omaha.
Electric Studio
We Want Your Patronage
FIRST-CLASS WORK
J. W. Gardener, Prop.
I 2417 N St.
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Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. j
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GOOD HOME COOKING
MEALS ALL HOURS
4917 S. 26th. Tel. South 2793
Elizabeth Clark, Prop.
SOUTH SIDE
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