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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1918)
THE MONITOR A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests of the Colored People of Nebraska and the West, with the desire to con tiihute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and of the race ! Published Every Saturday. Entered aa Second-Class Mail Matter July 6. 1916. at the Post Office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March S. 1679. THE REV JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Edltora George Wells Parker. Contributing Editor. Bert Patrick, Business Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative SUBSCRIPTION RATES, 92.00 A YEAR; 91.00 6 MONTHS; 60c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates, 60 cents an Inch per Issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243. MOTION PICTURE PROPAGANDA The government has appropriated $70,000,000 for motion picture pro duction for giving information to the people concerning war needs, activi ties, purposes, necessities.„ .The mo tion picture is to be used as a power ful ally not only in giving public in formation, but in inspiring patriot ism. This immense fund, as we un derstand it, is to be administered by a war service advisory* hoard, con sisting of five well known film direc tors of Los Angeles, Cal., chosen by the National Motion Picture Direc tors Association and ratified by the government. This board has been chosen and ratified. The plan proposed is this. The board at Washington will select a story or theme which it desires to give to the public through the camera; a synopsis will be turned over to the association which will in turn put it in scenario form and assign a direc tor to produce it. . We believe thoroughly in this mo tion picture propaganda and we hope that adequate treatment will be given to subjects and themes which will par ticularly appeal to Colored Ameri cans, by showing the highest and best types of our life and activities in busi ness, home, school, military and other phases. To insure this being done, it seems to us that as the government has with great wisdom, called in spe cial assistants to look after war, la'oor, public information, food conservation and other matters among this large group, so in this cinema production, a special department should be es tablished, to act in co-operation with this advisory board in looking after this phase of Negro American activi ties. One tenth of this $70,000,000 should be set aside for this work. Competent men who have proven successful in motion picture produc tion can be found, who would be of great assistance to the government in this important work. For example the Lincoln Motion Picture Company of Los Angeles with limited oppor tunities shows what Colored Ameri cans can do in this line. The government has been wonder fully successful in surrounding itself with efficient men for all lines of spe cial work and in this special work men of our race like Emmett Scott and Dr. Hayes have fully measured up to their responsibilities. We know that men of like ability can be found by the government who will render efficient service in the interpretation and portrayal of Negro American life for this cinema propagation work. Such men should be called into ser vice. They will respond and prove of great assistance in this splendid work of patriotic propanganda by the motion picture. PERMANENT PEACE -• The momentary success of the allies is causing a flood of literature upon what should be done and what will be done after the war. It seems that this success raises the hope that peace is within sight and there is hardly a man or woman or child living who does not devoutly hope that peace is not far away. But what of a per manent peace ? President Wilson has proposed an international alliance, but already Lord Grey of England has found fault with the proposal and France has found fault with Lord Grey. From the point of diplomatic his tory, perhaps no international alliance would secure to us the blessings of a permanent peace. There will al ways be one or more countries whose very policy will enable them to se cure more power than other members of the alliance and it is not hard to find unfaithful diplomats always ready to take advantage of such power. We believe that no two coun tries in the world would stand more quickly for permanent peace than our own country and France, and this is bcause the people speak. The fact, then, is that permanent peace can come only through the people. Peo ple, en masse, have never desired war, unless to avenge some real and griev ous wrong to themselves. It seems, then, that the matter of peace and war may safely be left to the people, but how are the people to obtain the power of deciding this momentous question? That is the real problem that should be settled after the war, and will it be settled? Perhaps not now. We hope that this world in carnadine may never suffer such an other war, but somehow we believe the hope is dependent upon the de gree of power granted the people in making future decisions. We are fighting to make the world safe for democracy and if we have but half a chance, democracy may be depend ed upon to make the world safe for mankind. TRANSPORTING (M R TROOPS The world has been astonished at the great number of American sol diers transported to Europe in the last half year. The number now ap proximates 1,500,000, and the loss of life in transporting them has been almost infinitesimal. The success with which we have moved our troops from the scattered camps in this country and across 3,000 miles of ocean to the battle front is great evidence of American efficiency. We have not only sur prised our enemies; we have sur prised our friends and ourselves . The British controller of shipping. Sir Joseph Maclay, speaks of this movement across the sea as “A trans port miracle.” We have been inclined to attribute this achievement solely to our navy and our shipping, but the British controller speaks in high piraise of the share the American railroads had in the work. He says: “If the American railroads had not been operated with success the whole transport movement might have failed, because it was essential to quick transportation that the troops should be ready for the ships.” Director General McAdoo seems justified in his statement that while the development of the policy of the railroad administration requires time, | progress has been made toward the goal. — GERMAN VIEW OF CHRISTIANITY Frederick Wilhelm Nietzche was I one of the most noted of modem Ger ; man philosophers. How much has his | philosophy affected the views and character of the Germans of today ? Is not the answer written in the blood of the women and children, the old 'men of occupied France and Belgium? j Are not the Lusitania victims wit | nesses to German adoption of j Nietzche’s faith ? Here is his indictment of Chris jtianity: “With this I conclude, and por nounce my sentence: I condemn Christianity. To me it is the great est of all imaginable corruptions. The church is the gt<-at parasite: with its anemic idea of holiness it drains life of all its strength, its love and its hope. The other world is the motive for the denial of every reality. I call Christianity the one great cuise, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one j great instinct of revenge, for which no j expedient is sufficiently poisonous, i secret, underhand, to gain its ends, j I call it the one immortal shame and blemish upon the human race.” — SKITS OF SOLOMON Coal I Brother, what about your coal bin ? Is it filled to overflowing with the stuff that bums, or is it yawning like the stomach of an urchin who has been out fishing from sun dawn to darkness? If the latter’s pre scription catches you in the solar plexus, get busy and make love to the coal man. Unk Sam has been urging you to grab opportunity by the top knot for some moons and Unk never advises unless he feels that advice is good. Next Juvember when part of the railroads are hung up in blizzards and the other part is puff ing like Billy Boston to get food over to the boys, you’ll be sorry if you don’t pari that coal bin with shiny blackness. Old Boreas will hunt you up and if you don’t have your reg istration card with you, its shivers and shakes. When Unk Sam finds you without the pasteboard, he’ll give you a chance to prove an alibi, but Old Boreas doesn’t know anymore about alibis than a spring chicken knows about Mr. Xenophon’s Anabasis. When he gets you going he keeps whiping you until you find shelter. Last winter he caught so many folk dodging the coal man that when they wanted Sir Firebringer, they found that everybody else wanted him, too. The result was that in a few hours a si;;n went up in the coal office win dow, “Nothing Doing.” So take a tumble and get a hump on. Shake loose a few filthy dollars and sur prise the coal bin with a lort of real noise. You can do it if you half try. ] And then next January when the ! snow lays four feet thick and the ] winds start up their jazz band around the comers of your shack, you can just sit back, fill the old briar and hum, “I got mine, bo; I got mine.” | Obvious Observations It took Marshal Foch some time to get started, but after he got started he is trying to see to it that the Dutchmen don’ get a chance to stop. It used to be a motto that a wom an’s mind changed faster than the wind, but if anybody can tell us any thing that changes it mind faster than the war department, please speak up. When our two cullud boys with the Croix de Guerre hit Broadway and start down the pike telling us all about it, we bet there won’t be standing room. This week the papers say- that eighty grocers went out of business because high prices forced them to do so. Who was it said that the grocer was the man who was making John D. look like a minnow ? Japan is having a small sized rev olution. Now people will say that the Japanese are really becoming civil ized. Its kind of rough to whip a man and think you’ve got him about quiet, and then have said gentleman wake you up and make ready to slough you with a shillalah, isn’t it? Well, that looks like Germany’s peace with Rus sia. There are lots of things in this world we never value very highly, but its a cinch that seven-eights of us never thought much of sugar until a few days ago. The funny thing about politics is that it is about as certain as trying to make seven with a pair of dice, constantly. Those females who said that they could get along woifderfully well with out men will have plenty of chance to try it out soon. Thanking you courteously for your kind attention, we will now pause to figure how many pork chops we can buy with a thin dime. OVER HERE Over here—over here— We will serve, we will serve—over here. While our boys are fighting, are bleeding, dying, We’ll be striving—over here. So prepare—say a prayer, Do our BEST—do our Best and h» ware, We’ll be faithful and we’ll be hopeful, j And we won’t give up ’till there’s FREEDOM EVERYWHERE! —Words by Frank Bristol. -. RACE PRESS COMMENT Continue the Good Work The president has denounced lynch ing and mob rule. The Red Cross has at last begun to enroll Colored nurses. Now let Colonel Young be restored to active service in the army. ■ The Colored citizens of this country then can hardly complain that they are not receiving what their loyalty entitles them to.—The Southern In- j dicator, Columbia, S. C. Wilson Versus Vardaman Vardaman, the fire-eating senator from the wilds of Mississippi, is per sona non grata, so the president says. We second the motion. May the peo ple of Mississippi vote in our favor and retire such senators, whose acts are disgraceful to civilization.—The Richmond (Ind.) Blade. Making History as Usual. The Colored soldier is making his tory as usual; he is neither slacker nor coward. He hunts the dangerous place in the battle line and makes the most perilous charge with a smile on his face and a song on his. lips.—The Nashville (Tenn.) Clarion. Equal Rights Now. The Negro desires no exemption from the legitimate burdens of citi zenship, but bearing those burdens and engaged as he is in making the supreme sacrifice for the ideals of that citizenship, he feels that today, if it is ever to be had for the asking, if it is ever to be given as a reward for patriotism and loyal service, the grant of equal rights as an American citizen should be given him.—The Amsterdam News. Supporting the President The duty of today is to support and stand by president Wilson. A few days ago he spoke out with strong courage against the crime of lynch ing and the evil of the mob spirit. We expected that the whole country would be with him in some substan tial effort to put his noble words into worthy deeds. So far a very con spicuous example of the people giving some solid endorsement of his strong utterances against lynch lay and mob rule has been the increased activity along this line of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col- I ored People. This organization has, with daring courage, great expense and unflinching effort carried on in vestigations in mob ruled communi ties and brought to light and pub lic attention horrible facts that were unknown before. These workers are doing their part to make this coun try unsafe for lynchers. This is the kind of support that the president needs and should have from all the people.—The Charleston Messenger. STATE’S SUGAR ALLOTMENT FOR SEPTEMBER ANNOUNCED Nebraska’s allotment for sugar fo) the month of September for all pur poses is 5,158,000 pounds, according to announcement of the federal food ad ministration for Nebraska. One mil lion of this amount is for canning and preseiving purposes, the remainder for general household purposes. The allotment, being the same as for August, means that retailers and all other dealers will receive the same amounts as in July. Householders will be permitted to have two pound. for each person in the family and re tailers will be alloted sugar on this basis. Hotel and public eating places get two pounds for each ninety meals served; less essentials, 50 per cent of their former use; essential manu facturers, their requirements; and bakers, 70 per cent of their use in corresponding periods last year. County food administrators in Ne braska are being advised to issue certificates on the same basis as last month. WILL REMAIN IN BUSINESS Several of my customers have ad vised me not to give up my business September 1, which 1 felt I was com pelled to do for lack of help. I need a good competent tailor. I have de cided to remain in business, but I must find a good tailor. I hope to secure one through this advertisement. THE ECONOMY TAILORS, Chas. Simmons, Prop., 114 South 14th street, Omaha, Neb. —Advertisement. ~EXr CORN __ SAVE | VHEAT f Among the Churches J CHURCH OK ST. PHILIP THE DEACON The usual services will be held oil Sunday, which is the Thirteenth Sun day after Trinity. Holy communion at 7:30 a. m.; Sunday school at 10; holy communion and sermon at 11, and evening prayer and sermon at 8 o’clock. Impressive services were held last Sunday morning when a service flag containing ten stars was dedicated. The flag hangs in the chancel just above the choir seats in which four of the men who are now in military service sang as choir boys. Morning prayer is said daily at 8:30 a. m., at which special prayers are said for those in military service. Any parents or friends of boys serv ing in the army or navy will be wel come at these brief services. BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday morning services, 10:45; Sunday school, 1:30; B. Y. P. U„ 6 p. m.; preaching Sunday night at 8 o’clock. The mission circle met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Anna Gibbs, 5422 , South 27th street. Entertained by Mrs. Estella Andrews. Mr. Scott of 508 South 27th street is confined to his bed with rheuma tism. Mrs. Frank Nelson of 2512 Q street has opened a book store for selling bible literature of all kinds and de sires the patronage of the public.— Adv. Patrons who wish hot chicken din ner Sunday will find it at Mrs. Selma Hill Scott’s, 5008 South 27th street, r Also ice cream and soda pop served. —Adv. The Hamilton j SOFT DRINK PARLOR Cor 24th and Hamilton Get Acquainted With Joe j Krug Liixux on Tap. j - ... ll'l7„ ,,, ~i, - IMmh Dr. Earnest E. Graves DENTISTRY 242 North 10th Street 1 Telephone L MfcJ LINCOLN. NEB. ■ ' — r- 1 /^OOD Bye, Boys, Bring Back the Kaiser. We Are All Backing You Up. Buy War Savings Stamps Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. ^ - - j \ Reasons Why the Alamo Barber Shop Is the Leading Shop of the City Sergt.-Major K. W. Killin^sworth At 0. T. Camp Pike, Ark. Six Chairs K. C. Price At Home on the Job I First, we are giving the people what they want. Second, the man agement has used discretion in getting the best barbers obtainable. The Alamo barber shop hasn’t waited to see what others could do, but has stepped in the lead and given to the public things unheard of in Colored shops in this city. The Alamo barber shop was the first to hail the public attention to a reading-and rest room. The shower bath, which no shop is com Splete without, would never have been given to the Colored population had it not been for the Alamo barber shop. To avoid confusion over who may happen to be next we use the number system. No matter how high or low everyone is dealt with justly when their turn comes. A system adopted by the Alamo barber shop. Experience has taught the manage ment that a fatigued barber is not the best barber; to keep the barbers fresh and in good trim at all times the shop is provided with stools so arranged to the height of the barber, it is convenient to rest at will while at work. Never before known in the history of the city. We lead, others follow. We advertise and don’t knock. We will be glad to have the most fastidious give the place a thorough inspection and see if this is true. The Alamo barber shop has done more to further the barber business and bring to the people their very needs, than all the shops put together have ever done. i Killingsworth & Price, Props. IR. D. JACKSON, Foreman. Phone Webster 5784 2416 North 24th Street
