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
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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
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Dr. Earnest E. Graves
DENTISTRY
242 North 10th Street 1
Telephone L MfcJ LINCOLN. NEB.
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/^OOD Bye, Boys, Bring Back the
Kaiser. We Are All Backing
You Up.
Buy War Savings Stamps
Thomas Kilpatrick & Co.
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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
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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.
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Killingsworth & Price, Props.
IR. D. JACKSON, Foreman.
Phone Webster 5784 2416 North 24th Street