I THE MONITOR
A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interest*
oi 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.
m ETitered aa 8econd-Claa» Mail Matter July 2. 1915, at the Post Office at
Omaha. Neb., under the act of March 3, 1879.
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THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher.
Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Editors.
George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor. Bert Patrick, Business
Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative
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Address. The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street. Omaha.
Telephone Webster 4243.
APPRECIATES THE COMPLIMENT
hpHE MONITOR desires to publicly
A express its appreciation of the
complimentary words concerning this
publication spoken by the president of
the National Association of Colored
Women in beginning her instructive
and inspiring address Wednesday
night. It was wholly unexpected and
coming from such a source is most
highly prized.
Roscoe Conkling Simmons, himself
a trained newspaper man and a regu
lar reader of The Monitor, said some
thing of the same tenor to the Rev.
Dr. Logan in Kansas City and repent
ed the same before a company of gen
tlemen on his recent visit to our city
Chester A. Franklin and others have
been kind enough to say much the ;
same. Expressions of this kind com
mg from the most thoughtful and con
servative of our people from all sec
tions of the country are moti gratify
ing, and would indicate that The 1
Monitor is in some measure at least
fulfilling the mission it desires to ful
fill. Its constantly growing popular
ity with readers of all classes is. in- i
deed, gratifying and we are con
scientiously striving to make it what
Mrs. Talbert has been kind enough to
• say it is, a “wonderfully helpful
agency and influence in social uplift.-’
We appreciate the privilege, oppor
tunity and responsibility which is ours
in being able each week to reach vrth
our message thousands of reader*.
Our desire is to help our readers in
every way we can to a higher anpre- ,
ciation of that which is good and
edifying. The function of a newspaper
is to chronicle the news and to help
mould public sentiment. Our own we
journals, for which there is a recog
nized need, have laid upon them the
task of calling attention to matters in
which we as a people need to make
improvement and at the same time to
contend sanely, but fearlessly and per
sistently, for civic, industrial and po
litical rights to which we in common
with all other citizens are entitled.
And our newspapers are making then
influence strongly felt in this regard.
That they are influential among this
large group, of which they are the
special organs, is being recognized h;
governmental officials, who release
regularly specially prepared articles
of public information for the Negro
press.
The Monitor is being recognize 1
more and more with its able contem
poraries, among which it has taken
high rank, as being a most service
able publication. We shall earnestly
try to maintain the high standard
which the publication has attained,
and as opportunity permits improve it.
This closes the third volume. We
are grateful for the patronage re
ceived from subscribers and adver
tisers. We are grateful for the many
kind and appreciative words received
from many and unexpected sources
and shall strive to serve more faith
fully in the future than in the past the
interests of the special group for
which it is published particularly, and
for the common weal generally.
We are grateful for compliments
and appreciative of well intended criti
cism, because we are not only anxious
to serve to the best of our ability, but
to improve in efficiency and service.
LET’S MOVE FOR A Y. M. C. A.
MAHA needs and should have
Y. M. C. A. for its increasing Col
ored population. Many other cities
have such a helpful agency. Mr.
Rosenwald has given $25,000 to sev
eral cities for Colored Y. M. C. A.
buildings on condition that the partic
ular city to which the grant was given
would raise $75,000. Mr. Rosenwald’s
offer is still in force for any city will
ing to accept it. There are philanthrop- ;
ic citizens in Omaha of wealth whom
we believe would contribute generous
ly toward the establishment of such an
institution. We believe that now, while
people are in the giving habit, is the
time to move for a Y. M. C. A.. Let’s
get busy and make a move for a Y. M.
C. A.
AMERICANS ALL!
IT is becoming plainer and plainer
as every day rolls by that this world
war is a war that means something to
every man and woman and child who
lives and to the untold millions yet un
born. It is war for freedom and for
liberty and to make the world safe for
democracy. It affects the Chinese be
side the Yangtse-Kiang, the blear
«yed Indian beside the Amazon, the
native beside the Congo, no less than ,
it affects those who are battling i
against the insidiousness of the Hun.
It affects us, too. Our liberty in ’63 j
was a glorious thing for us and to per- i
petuate it and to be worthy of it it is i
ours to fight and support this nation
in the \\ar. We must drop the cloak
of race, forget for the nonce our i
wrongs and remember only that we I
are Americans one and all. We must
strike to rid the world of autocracy,
to wipe out the Hun from the work'
he has accursed and to make the j
kaiser a hateful memory.
There was a time when the allies j
thought there might be arranged a ;
peace, but that time has gone. The I
only thing we think of now is the an
nihilation of the Hun, total and com
plete. It must be so for the peace and
happiness of the world. The price we
must pay is great, but even so is the |
reward great.
Let us pull together. Let us ad be
Americans!
WHY IS THIS?
THERE are fourteen Colored female
prisoners confined in the county
jail for “social diseases.” An institu
tion supported by the city has been
provided for the care of unfortunate
victims of men’s lusts suffering from
these social diseases in order that |
they may receive proper medical at- 1
tention, care and treatment. White
women of this class are sent to this
hospital. Colored women of the «n.n’e
class are being confined in the county
jail. Why is this? Are the people if
Omaha going to stand for this dis
crimination ?
HIGH SCHOOL BOY WINS PRIZE
Philadelphia, Pa., June 27—William '
Griffin, son of Rev. Mr. Griffin, won
the bronze medal which was given by
the Philadelphia Chamber of Com
merce for third prize for the best
patriotic essay to high school stu
dents.
JIM CROW CARS Ml ST GO
THE government is now in control |
of the railroads. It is downright
robbery to charge a man first-class
fare and give him fourth or fifth class
accommodations. This is precisely
what the jim crow car laws of the
Southern states do. The government
cannot be a party to such injustice,
therefore jim crow cars MUST go.
SONGS OF SOLOMON
The Eyetalians.
An Eyetalian is a gent who com*: 1
from Italy and traces his descent back
to Julie Caesar and Emp. Augustus.
These ancestors used to be great
scrappers and scrapped until they ac- \
quired several acres of ground known |
under the Wg title of the Roman Em
pire. After many years the empire i
was broken up into small farms and i
suburban lots for which you pay five
bucks down and a dollar a week.
Everyth ng departed except the fight
ing spirit and some folks thought that
bad departed. Last fall a general by
the name of Cordona started out to
whip the Aus-Huns, but got scar.-d
and hot footed it back to the Tiber.
Then Italy sent up Diaz and Diaz
hung around waiting for the Aus
Huns to tackle him. The Aus-Huns
crossed the Piave (a river and net
the name of a new breakfast food)
and began telling each other what a
fine time they would have making
love to the big eyed Italian girls and
drinking wine. When they go* far
enough away from the river so they
couldn’t make it back in 2:12, Mr.
Diaz began dropping firecrackers
around the bridges until he had them
reduced to toothpicks. Then he rushed
the Aus-Huns. He rushed them so
hard that they became a bit skittish
and wanted to get on the other side
of the Piave where the general atmos
phere was some quieter. But when
they got to the Piave they didn’t find
anything there but wet water and
oozy mud. They became tangled up
in both and while they were trying
to get their brogans loose, the Eye
talians gave them a warm receptiorf
that stimulated a cross between a hail
storm and a volcanic eruption. All
the Aus-Huns could do was to observe
the scenery and figure on what kind
of speech they were going to hand
1 St. Peter at the gate. The last re
ports were that the Aus-Huns are
making tracks for Vienna and that
every Eyetalian from king down to
street sweeper has ordered enoug.t
macaroni and red wine to celebrate
for two solid weeks.
The Children of the Sun
• By George Wells Parker
TT is one of the paradoxes of his
* lory that the most mixed race in the
world should claim that it is a pate
lace and that it should refrain from
the miscegenation so universally prac
ticed by its ancestors. I refer to the
Jewish race. Of them Cheyne says:
“It is as little a nation of pure blood
as any on earth, for it admitted per
sons of Aramaen and Egyptian descent
as well as the Canaanitic, Hebrew and
Arabaic elements.”
To begin with the Hebrew race
and language were not paternally
of a Semetic origin. Their orig
inal home appears to have been
around about Arabia, likewise
ihe stronghold of almost purely Afri
can tribes. Could we accept the tra
dition of the Jewish captivity ;n
Egypt, we would be welcome to the
indisputable conclusion that no race
could be enslaved for five hundred
years without becoming mightily
mixed. But strange to say there has
not been a single word in all the rec
ords of Egypt, which in any way tends
to confirm the story of the captivity.
Since the opening up of Egyptian his
tory only one commemorative slab has
the name of Israel occurred. This,
designated the Stone of Meneptah,
records the triumph of the monarch
over the Israelites in Palestine.
But because they may not have
been in Egypt five hundred years
they seem to have had plenty of
chance to promote mixed blood. They
were under bondage to an African
people in Arabia and it is possible
that the home of these people known
as Mizrim had been confounded with
Mizriam, one of the many names for
Egypt. From their own records it
apears that all the leading charac
ters had black wives and the popula
tion must have followed in their fret
steps because upon more than one
occasion their God had to reprimand
them for associating too intimately
with Colored folks of the neighbor
hood. Solomon, who was in all prob
ability black, goes so far as to fore
sake the gods of Israel for the gods
of Cannaan and even built temples for ,
them. Profane history has recorded |
that the great temple was built, not to
tv>e God of Israel, but to the goddess j
A tarte of the Phonecians.
Even in the third century, towards
the vear 225. Dio Cassius, a senator,
'n alluding to the Palestine wars, . ays
that besides the original Jews of
ludeau “there are other men who.
although of different race, hav -
adopted the laws of the people.” Fur
ther, he says that a great proportion
of the ancient Jews were the descend
ants of converted pagans. So it is
(■’ear that the mixing proclimitios
were continued down to a very late
period of their history. The trible
of black Jews, which are found In
Persia, Australia, Afghanistan. Abys
sinia and Arabia, also present natural
ouestions.
Anyway it is due to the African
Wood in their veins that the achieve
ments of the Jews are due. The paths
of genius have been worn smooth by
the footsteps of her children. Like
the oyster when wounded heals the
wound and heals it with a pearl, . o
these people have survived all perse
cutions and rewarded persecution with'
those gifts which make life sweeter
end holier. Jewish literature has de
lighted and instructed all classes of
mankind and the world has listened
with rapture and with tears to Jewisn
melody and song. For never since
its spirit was evoked under the shadow
of the vines on the hills of Palestine
to soothe the melancholy of her king,
has Judah’s harp, whether in freedom
or captivity, in sorrow or joy, ceased
to wake the witchery of its tuneful
strings.
It is fortunate for civilization that
the Jews failed to rid the coast of
Syria of the Canaanites, because this
latter race became the most daunt
less colonists and mariners of the
I whole ancient world. They were tin
first who trusted their frail ships to
the mercy of unknown seas, and un
der the Greek name of Phonecians,
explored the known world. *‘It was
they,’’ says Bosworth Smith, "who,,
at a period antecedent to all con
temporary historical records, intro
duced written characters, the founda
tion of all high intellectual develop
ment, into that country which was
destined to carry intellectual culture
to the highest point which humanity
has yet reached. It was they wno
learned to steer their ships by the !
sure help of the Polar Star, wh'le !
the Greeks still depended upon the
Great Bear; it was they who rounded ^
the Cape of Storms and earned the
best right to call it the Cape of Good ;
Hope, 2,000 years before Vasca De J
Gama. Their ships returned to their !
native shores bringing with them san- !
dalwood from Malabar, spices from
Arabia, fine linen from Egypt, ostrich j
plumes from Sahara. Cyprus gave
them its copper, Elba its iron, th
eoast of the Black sea its manufac
tured steel. Silver they brought from
Spain, gold from the Niger, tin from
Sicilly Isles and amber from the Bal
tic.”
They were altogether African. His
torians have tried to claim them Sem
itic, but it won’t work. An official
description of Ezmunazarll, King of
Sidon, and a great historical ruler,
says “the features are Egyptian, with
large full almond shaped eyes, the
noses flattened and the lips remark
ably thick and somewhat after the i
Negro mold. The w hole countenance !
's smiling, agreeable and expressive
beyond anything I have ever seen !n
the disinterred monuments of Egypt
or Ninevah.” No Aryan or Semite !
ever looked like that.
Professor Sergi, of the Univer
sity of Rome, says that the
Phonecians belonged to the great
Mediterranean family of African races
which created the civilization of that
basin and archeology certainly lends
itself to prove that he is right.
The Jews are really mulattoes and
the Phonecians were almost pure Af
rican.
Obvious Observations I
If anybody thought Italy was asleep
at the 8witch they have one rore
guess coming. Italy was awake and
threw the switch so that the whole
army of Austrians went kerplunk into
the Piave river. Good work, Italy oid
hoss, keep it up.
Herr Kuhlemann is babbling some
soothing chatter about President
Woody’s peace proposals weren’t ro
bad after all, but that doesn’t go
now. It is to be hell for the kaiser
from here on in.
A guy named Smith, who is new
holding down the mayor’s seat in the
city hall, says that he hasn’t any use
for -‘cullud folks.” That’s what v.e
tried to tell some of the seasonable
politicians when they galavantecl
around yelling for that tinplate dude.
Wonder how they feel now?
Please don’t tell us it is hot. Wo
feel just the same as you do about it,
only we have pledged ourselves not .o
cuss.
Some of the Colored lads who ha\
had to shake hands with real work art
feeling finer than they have felt for
several years. Who would have
thought that work wag a tonic ?
We’ll bet a dollar to a doughrut
hole that that savage preachling won’t
jump into the Public Puls» about
cigarettes again.
What will the girls do without
candy, now that Unk Sam is saying
nix on the sugar? We males should
v orry!
Rumor says that the new city com
mission meetings sound like a zoo of
wildcats. All right, bo>s, whoop it
up! You won’t have more than three
years to train.
Don’t forget to pay up your suo
scription for The Monitor. Money is
as essential for a newspaper as grease
and gas are for a run-around.
Thanking you kindly for reading
this dope in this hot weather, we will
promise to have things cooler next
December.
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