South Side Notes
Mr. and Mrs. Gleaves of 2507 P
street spent a few days visiting
friends and relatives in St. Joseph last
week.
Miss A. Barnes had her hand cut
off while working at the Cudahy
Packing company plant this week.
The Children’s day program at the
Allen chapel will be on June 16 at 8
p. m.
Mrs. Smith, mother of Mrs. John
son of Thirtieeth and V streets, died
Sunday.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. War
ren Alston are indisposed with whoop
ing cough.
Philip Mitchell is slowly improving
from his illness.
The Senior Stewardess board of
Allen chapel is serving dinner to the
men working on the church this week.
THE RIVETERS
(To the Crew of Charles Knight,
Champion Riveter.)
I^ORTH from Europe’s war-rent sky
Above the din and battle cry,
Came a million shouts from a million
lips
For ships and food and men and still
more ships!
The babes of Belgium must not die—
The submarine we must defy—
We must oppose the Hun’s advance
And stanch the bleeding veins of b’g
souled France!
Black men responded to the cry,
Black men who dare and do and die;
They built the ships to aid the fight
A sable crew led by a sable Knight!
America’s most loyal son
Behind “the man behind the gun.”
With skillful hand and cheerful face,
Built ships to save the men of another
race.
They drove the rivets in the ships
With aye a prayer upon their lips:
“Help us, 0 God of war and fate.
Anew to rivet our own ship of state!”
WILLIAM PICKENS.
Morgan College, Baltimore, Md.
May. 1918.
Lodge rooms at 24th and Charles
streets. Vacant two nights each
week. Persons wanting to rent same,
call Allen Jones, rental agent, W’eb
ster 1100.
BANK AWARDED FIRST
PLACE IN LIBERTY BOND DRIVE
Portsmouth, Va.—-The Mutual Sav
ings bank has been awarded first
place among the banks of the entire
! country in the recent Liberty loan
(.rive by the treasury department.
Rased upon the institution’s resources
the loan officials gave $5,700 as the
amount to be raised in the oampai'"i
Under the clever leadership of
Cashier J. S. Jones and through the
organized effort of a determined citi
zenry, Portsmouth proudly reports
that $102,000, nearly twenty times the
stipulated quota, was subscribed.
The official report follows: Cash
bonds—Twenty-two $50 bonds, $1,100;
nine $100 bonds, $900; total cash,
$2,000. Installment — Eighteen hun
dred and six $50 bonds, $90,30°;
eighty-eight $100 bonds, $8,800; tuo
$500 bonis, $1,000; total installment,
$J 00,000.
Grand total: In subscribers, 1.925;
in bonds, $102,000.
NURSES TO HOLD
BIG MASS MEETING
New York.—Now that the New
York public has been thoroughly ac
quainted with the fact that our nurses
are not permitted to join the Red
Cross society and go to France a
nurses in the military hospitals, 1he«e
ycung ladies have determined to wage
a campaign for admission until the
bars are let down, and they are ac
cepted.
The meeting held recently at the
Lafayette theater served as a starter
of the campaign. Many of the big
white dailies of New York commented
on the incongruity of barring our
nurses, trained and graduated and
competent in every sense, yet sending
out pleas for more Red Cross nurses.
A mass meeting is now being plan
ned, to be held shortly, at which some
prominent members of the women’s
suffrage party and others well known
will speak.
PEORIA HAS WOMAN
ELEVATOR OPERATOR
Peoria, 111.—Mrs. Fannie Banks is
now employed as an elevator operator
at Hagen, Ready & Co., one of the
city’s old establishments. She is the
first woman in the city to be hired in
this capacity.
Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Big
gest and Best.—Adv.
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Baths 25c
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TAILOR AND CLEANER
South 3366 5132 So. 24th St.
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PROMPT
Taxi Service
AT ALL HOURS
Pool Hall and Billiard Parlor in
Connection.
Phone South 2962 2603 N St.
South Omaha.
Farmer & McCray
CAFE
GOOD HOME COOKING
MEALS AT ANY HOUR
2605 N St. Tel. South 2962
GLASPER’S I
Shining Parlor
AND SOFT DRINKS
4830 South 26th St.
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The Negro Problem
North and South
Southern People Group All Members
of Race Under One Class and Re
gard Them All In the Light of
Servants; Frederick Lynch in “The
Christian Work” Presents the Two
Variant Viewpoints.
DURING the recent visit to Ala
bama and our attendance at the
Southern Sociological Conference we
took occasion to talk with the South
ern people whom we met, on the prob
lem of the relationship of the white
and black races in our country. The
wide variance between the attitude of
the Southern white man and of the
Northern white man toward the Ne
gro was apparent the moment the con
versation began. With the Southern
er it is a race question; with th<
Northerner it is a question of individ
uals. It is this difference that make
it a problem in the South, while in
the North it is no more of a problem
t.ian that of relationship with Japa
nese, Jews and a dozen other races
that come into the Northern cities in
largo numbers.
It was very apparent in our talk
with these Southern people whom we
met that with the exception of a few
of the intellectuals everybody invari
ably thought of all the Negroes to
gether—university professors, minis
ters, editors, authors, men of large
business and large farms were lumped
together with the millions of Colored
servants, laborers and housew'ves th.it
form a black belt across the Southern
states. Thirty years ago, when thi
cducated, cultured and successful
c lass did not exist, there was no prob
lem comparable with that which exists
now. Now there are thousands of
these Negroes, many of them as sen
sitive and refined as the white people
among whom they dwell. One can
easily see how galling it is to these
educated men and women to be in- j
variably treated as “darkies” and
“ruggers,” and to be rated with tf e
thousands of uneducated servants and
laborers because they happen to be 1
black.
But this is the state of affairs and
this is the attitude of the average
Southerner The most highly educated
and refined Negro in the South if she
be a woman must never be called
“Mrs." We asked our friends what
they did in the case of a Colored wo
man, say the head of a great school,
perhaps with degrees of B. A., M. A.
(several Colored women have been
through our finest Northern colleges
as well as through the excellent col
leges for Colored girls in the South)
who might be asked to address a com
munity gathering where a white wo
man and she were to speak. He was
puzzled for an answer, but finally re
plied by saying: “The presiding offi
cer would probably give her full
rame; would say, “Eugenia F. Brown
will now speak.” He would not say
“Mrs. Brown.” When we told our
friend that the presiding officer at
the Sociological Congress had intro
duced Mrs. Booker T. Washington by
that name, he said: “It is unpreee- I
dented. I suppose it will have to I
come, but it will come hard.”
Another friend revealed the whole
attitude when, talking on this ques
tion, he said: “Nobody in the South
would think of taking off his hat to a
Colored woman any more than you
would think of taking off your hat to
your cook." “But,” we replied, “we
would take off our hat to our cook in
the North. We would do it instinctive
ly to any woman we knew, whether
rur cook or whatever her color. We
would take off our hat to Mrs. Booker
T. Washington as instinctively as we
would to Miss Jane Addams.” We
said also that we did not believe there
was a man among the cultured men of
the North who would not take off his
hat to any woman he knew, regard
less of any question but her being a
woman. Our Southern friend could
hardly believe us. “They are to us
Southerners the servant race, and we
cannot think of anybody among them
otherwise.” There is just the problem
—they are all classed together. The
educated, cultured Negro must remain
socially with the whole race. More
than that, he must submit to the same
indignities—separate waiting rooms
(generally quite filthy), separate sec
tions of trains, not allowed in Pull
man cars or dining cars, not allowed
to attend fine concerts, operas and re
citals of classical music, which he very
likely loves; treated superciliously by
white men often far inferior to him
intellectually and otherwise — these
and a hundred other things he has to
submit to because he belongs to a cer
tain race or is of a certain color. He
is not rated for his work as an individ
ual, he does not rank as a person, he
is not recognized as are all other men
for his character or his contribution
to his time and place.
The attitude of the liberal and cul
tured Northerner is quite different.
It is not a race problem with him at
all. Of course certain phases of the
race issue appears under occasional
circumstances. Probably the expen
sive New York hotels would hesitate
to receive Negroes; yet Booker T.
Washington spent several months ev
ery winter at one of the best known
of them and we heard no comment on
his presence there. We have seen him
in the New York clubs and no one
seemed to object to his presence. We
understand that once or twice re
fined Colored people have had dis
agreeable experiences in the opera
house and at the theater; but we
have often seen them there and at
other public gatherings, and apparent
ly no one thought anything of it.
One finds them in every church in
New York on any Sunday and it is
doubtful if any one thinks anything
about it one way or the other. Of
course w’hite and black attend the
same schools and the same colleges all
over the North, and it was noticeable,
when we were in college, that the
students were rather proud of a Col
ored boy, son of a carpenter who
worked on the college buildings. Ht
stood very high in his class, and part
ly worked his way through college. In
one of our greatest universities, when
a Colored boy took high oratorical
honors, winning one of the exhibitions,
he was most enthusiastically applaud
ed by his classmates.
The Northerner thinks of men ac
cording to their character and attain
ments, rather than associating them
with a race. There was a time when
the Northerner classed ail Jews to
gether. He now accords to his Jew
ish neighbor the recognition that his
character and attainments deserve and
such a man as. Jacob Schiff, for in
stance, is as greatly beloved by Chris
tians as by Jews because of his
gentle soul and his devoted service of
mankind. The same change has taken
place in regard to the Negro. The
Negro of character, culture and de
votion to sendee receives recognition
as a man. We have met such Negroes
at the most exclusive social functions.
The Republican Club of New York
once had a Negro as its guest of honor
at the annual Lincoln dinner; and his
address on Lincoln was memorable
among many remarkable orations giv- j
en at these dinners.
The Negro is allowed his share in j
the government as he manifests fit- j
ness for it. When he excels in somr !
art as was the case with Mr. Dunbar. |
Mr. Coleridge-Taylor and Mr. Tanner, I
he was encouraged on every side and
invited to gatherings of artists, poet.
and musicians. We are not saying
that racial prejudice does not exist in
the North, but we think that the ten
dency among the best white people
is to think of the Negro as a man^
rather than a member of a race.
This is what we have all got to
come to. There is no other W'ay in
a democracy. We claim to have on
t< red the great war to give democ
racy to all peoples; we have got to
accept it for ourselves. We were in
terested in noting while we were in
the South that some Southern people
were thinking of this very thing.
Thousands of Negroes have volun
teered, many thousands more are on
their way. What are we going to do
with these men when they come back ?
Does anyone think they are going to
be content to be deprived of political,
educational and social recognition ?
The encouraging thing is that the
best people of both North and South
are thinking of these things.
COOPER’S HAWK
(Accipter cooped)
Length, about fifteen inches. Me
diurn sized, with long tail and short
wings, and without the white patch
on rump which is characteristic of
the marsh hawk.
Range: lireeds throughout most of
the United States and southern Can
ada; winters from the United States
to Costa Rica.
Habits and economic status: The
Cooper’s hawk, or "blue darter,” as
It is familiarly known throughout the
South, is preeminently a poultry and
bird-eating species, and its destructive
ness in this direction is surpassed
only by that of its larger congener,
the goshawk, which occasionally in
autumn and winter enters the United
States from the North in great num
bers The almost universal prejudice
against birds of prey is largely due to
; the activities of these two birds, as
sisted by a third, the sharp-shinned
■ hawk, which in habits and appearance
might well pass for a small Cooper’s
hawk. These birds usually approach
under cover and drop upon unsuspect
ing victims, making great inroads
, upon poultry yards and game coverts
! favorably situated for this style of
; hunting. Out of 123 stomachs exam
ined, 38 contained the remains of
mammals. Twenty-eight species of
wild birds were Identified in the above
mentioned material. This destructive
hawk, together with its two near rela
tlves, should be destroyed by every
possible means.
TRUNKS
THE BETTER KIND
Made from good clear lumber,
covered with fibre; well bound
on edges. Durable comers and
braces where necessary. Sturdy
locks and hinges, 2 trays nicely
cloth lined.
Priced at $10.00, $12.00, $13.50
and $15.00.
Freling & Steinle
"Omaha's Best Baggage Build
ers"
1803 FARNAM STREET
The People's
Drug Store
109 South 14th Street
DRUGS, CIGARS AND SODA
Toilet and Rubber Goods
Special Attention to Prescriptions
We Carry a Full Line of Face and
Hair Preparations.
Nielson’s Hair Dressing.25c
Elite Hair Pomade .25c
Aida Hair Pomade .30c
eXelento Hair Pomade .25c
Plough’s Hair Dressing .25c
Hygienic Hair Grower .60c
Ford’s Hair Grower .25c
Palmer’s Skin Whitener .25c
Palmer’s Skin Success .25c
Black and White Skin Oint....25c
Rozal Bleach .25c
We appreciate your patronage.
Phone Douglas i446.
WATERS
BARNHART
PRINTING CO
THE DOWN SOUTH
HAIR PREPARATION
A New Creation in Hair Pomade
Known by its quality and reputa
tion. Keeps hair soft and scalp in
line condition; for straightening
apply freely. Keep the hair in line
shape; wash and straightening
once every two weeks.
Price 30c, 50c and $1 Per Box
MADAM J. F. MCDONALD
General Delivery
Excelsior Springs, Missouri.
Hill-Williams Drug Co.
PURE DRUGS AND TOILET
ARTICLES
Free Delivery
Tyler ISO 2402 Cuming St.
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Start Saving Now
One Dollar will op*n an account In th«
Savings Department
of the
United Stales Nat’l Bank
I8th Md Farnam Street*
C. S. JOHNSON
18th and Dard Tel. Dougla* 1702
ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE
at POPULAR PRICES.
Beat for the Money
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Established 1890
C. I. CARLSON
Dealer in
Shoes and Gents’ Furnishings
1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb.
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We Have a Complete Line of
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FLOWER,GRASS
AND GARDEN
Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry
Supplies
Fresh cut flowers always on hand
Stewart’s Seed Store
119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office
Phone Douglas 977
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The Gulf City Pressing Club
Prpss while you wait.
Ladies’ work a specialty.
Men’s and Children’s suits.
All guaranteed full satisfac
tion.
Call in and sec us. We will fix
the price all right.
Clothes called for and prompt
ly delivered.
1119'2 N. 24th St. Web. 391:5
E. H. HAYNES, Prop.
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? CAPITOL SHOE REPAIRING f
‘X, I5y Goodyear System. Sewed y
.j. Soles. Neolin Soles. Jt*
£ Web. 4592 1408 No. 24th St.
Neatly Furnished Rooms
Modern Conveniences With or
Without Board
Telephones. Doug. 8727, Doug. 8703
The Booker T.
Washington Hotel
Mrs. Laura Cuerlnoton, Propr.
In Connection with
THE WASHINGTON CAFE
1719-21 Cuming Street Omaha
1. A. Edholm E. W. Sherman
Standard Laundry
24th, Near Lake Street
Phone Webster 130
C. H. MARQUARDT
CASH MARKET
Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt
Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc.
2003 Cuming St. Doug. 3831
Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke
and Cure our own Hams and Bacon.
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j Open All Times. Reasonable Prices
The Silas Johnson
Western Funeral Home
Webster 248 2518 Le ke St.
The Place for Quality and Service
Licensed Lmbalmer in Attendance
l-ldy Attendant if Desired.
Miiiic Famished Free.
I TAKE PLEASURE
in thanking you for your patronage
I want your trade solely upon the
merits of my goods.
You will profit by trading here.
H. E. YOUNG
Webster 515 2114-16 N. 24th St.
..GOOD GROCERIES ALWAYS* ' ’ ’ ' ' ’ ' '
C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO.
Also Freak Fruit, and Vegetables.
MM Caning St, Telephone Donglas 1098
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NORTH SIDE BjOOSTERS
Four
Chairs
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Sergt.-Major E. W. Killingsworth R. C. Price
At O. T. Camp, O.a Moln.a. At Home on the Job.
The Alamo Barber Shop and Pocket Billiard Parlor
The best equipped shop in the state. Leading shop of the city.
Baths, plain and shower. Cultured barbers.
KILLINGSWORTH & PRICE, Propa.,
C. B. MAYO, Foreman.
Phone Webster 6764. 2416 North 24th Street
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