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, i J Diamond 24th and Lake Sts. SUNDAY— A Five Reel Special “WOLVES OF KULTUR” Every Tuesday “HANDS UP” alhambka 24th and Parker. THE HOUSE OF COURTESY 24th and Parker Sts:__ FRANKLIN 24th and Franklin Streets SATURDAY— A Big Five Reel Release SUNDAY— | A Feature That Is a W’hirl wind. : The CHAPMAN Drug store | 934 P St, Lincoln (Opposite Main Door Post Of flea Cameras and Films, Magazines^ ! Cigars, Candies and a full Una of Druggist Sn Mine* WE HAVE COAL TO BURN Neb. Fuel Lump, . S8.90 For Heater* or Furnace NEBRASKA FUEL CU. Tel. Dour. 430. 409 S. 16th St. North Yard at 33d and Evan* Streets. Colfax 2289. MADAME HENDERSON HAIRDRESSER and MANICURIST ^Ateoi or th*» Celebrated Madam Walker Preparations. The W liter A • i >i f 11 it. D it > n > i *r i V i I Phene Webster 14M 2866 Maple Street, Omaha, Neb. I The Lincoln Lunch Room Quick Service for Working Men C. C. GALLOWAY, Prop 103 South 11th St Tel. Douglas 3651. __ i Painless Extraction ' Have those old teeth removed and protect your health. Any number of teeth can be replaced by a plate or bridge, made to look natural. Consultation Free. Dr. P. W. Sawyer DENTIST Phone Doug. 7150. 220 S. 13th St. 13th and Farnam Sts. | Liberty Drug Co. f * EVERYBODY’S DRUG STORE * ? We Deliver Anywherfc. 4 Webster 386. Omaha, N'cb. Classified Ij Advertising ... — — KATES—\Vt cente a word for single in sertions; 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 15 cents. Cash should accom pany advertisement. DRUG STORES • THE PEOPLE’S DRUG STORE Douglas 1446. 109 South 14th St. ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24th and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neh. COLORED NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES FRANK DOUGLASS Shining Parlor. Webster 1388. 2414 North 24th St. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. Neatly furnished rooms for light housekeeping. 722 N. 16th st. Tel. Doug. 9027. J. L. Webster.—Adv. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board. 1516 North 16th St. Tel. Web. 4983. Furnished room for man and wife or women. Tel. Web. 1654. 2115 Clark ftreet. Furnished room, strictly modem, 911 Capitol avenue. Mrs. J. H. Broomfield. Douglas 2378. Neatly furnished room in private home. Strictly modem. 2524 North Twenty-fifth street. 10-27 FURNISHED rooms; strictly mod em; men preferred. 2204 N. 19th st. Tel. Web. 3308. FOR RENT—Right at 24th st. car line; two nice, large furnished rooms for couple; also a smaller room. 2317 Charles. Webster 4745. A furnished room for rent. Mrs. E. M. Wright, 2620 Burdette st. Webster 5543. FURNISHED rooms for rent. 2622 Grant st. FOR RENT OR FOR SALE—Six room house, furnished. Call Webster 5639. 1809 North 23d st. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern furnished rooms for man and wife or i for men. 2417 Caldwell. Mrs. G. j Holmes. Furnished rooms. Strictly modem. ; 2706 Douglas street. Harney 6829. Mrs. I. Falls. A neat furnished room in modem home for man and wife, 3702 North Twenty-third street. Webster 3727 9-21 ---T" - Neatly furnished rooms in private family. Strictly modern. Webster 1196. 9-21-4t First class rooming house, steam ; heat, bath, electric light. On Dodge and 24th st. car line. Mrs. Ann- Hanks. 924 North 20th st. Doug. 4375. Furnished Rooms—Neatly furnish ed rooma in a strictly modem home; one-half block off car line. Tel. Web. 4983. 1616 North 16th. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modem furnished room for man and wife. Mrs. Hueston. 2805 Ohio. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. Call Webster 5639. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modem. W. Harvell. Webster 4760. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, all j modem. 2706 Parker st. Web. 1260. First-class modem furnished rooms. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, ilOi; North Twenty-sixth street, fhona Webster 4769. Neatly furnished rooms in a pri i rate home. Modem except heat. Men 'only . Webster 1760. Neatly furnished rooms, 1842 North 27th St. Call Webster 2812. Two furnished rooms, 2415 Indiana avenue. Tyler 3399-W. For Rent—Modem furnished rooms. 2320 North 28th Ave. Phone WeW t ster 2058. i ---BUY 4 HOME--- 1 2811 OHIO STREET Six-room house, modern but heat;close to school and church; one block to car line. Price, $2,100. Very easy terms. 2417 Maple St.—5-room cot tage, modern except heat, large rooms, floored attic; large lot on paved street; Vi block, to 24th street car line; fine neighbor hood; now vacant. Can move right in. See it today. Price $2,500. Very easy terms. C. B. ROBBINS HEAL ESTATE, RENTALS. FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE ji Telephone*: PougUa 2842; Wcbater 5519. Y , ‘I HUNGER DRAWS THE MAP | j | A food map of Europe today shows jot a single country In which the fu ture does not hold threat of serious difficulties and only a small part which Is not rapidly approaching the famine point. With the exception of (he Ukraine only those countries which have maintained marine commerce have sufficient food supplies to meet actual needs until next harvest, and even in the Ukraine, with stores accu mulated on the farms, there Is famine in the large centers of population. Belgium and northern France, as well as Serbia, appear on the hunger map distinct from the rest of Europe because they stand In a different rela tion from the otiier nations to the l>eo ple of the United States. America has for four years maintained the small war rations of Belgium and northern France and is already making special efforts to care for their Increased after-the-wnr needs, which, with those of Serbia, must be Included in this plan, are urgent in tbe extreme and must have Immediate relief. The gratitude of the Belgian nation for the help America has extended to her during the war constitutes the strongest ap|teal for us to continue our work there. The moment the German armies withdrew from her soil and she was established once more in her own seat of government the little tuition's first thought was to express her grati tude to the Commission for Relief In Belgium for preserving the lives of millions of her citizens. Germany, on tile other hand, neeil not figure In such a mop for Ameri cans because there is no present indi cation that we shall be called on at all to take thought for the food needs of Germany. Germany probably can care for her own food problem If she Is* given access to shipping and Is enabled to distribute food to the cities with dense populations, which are the trou ble centers. England, France, the Netherlands and Portugal, all of which have been maintained from American supplies, have sufficient fisid to meet Immediate needs, but their fututre pre#ents seri ous difficulties. The same is true of Spain and the northern neutral coun tries— Norway, Sweden and Denmark —whose ports have been open and wljo have been able to draw to some degree upon foreign supplies. Most of Russia Is already In the throes of famine, and 40.000,000 people there are beyond the possibility of help. Before anotiier spring thou sands of them inevitably must die. This applies as well to Poland and practically throughout the Baltic re glons, with conditions most serious In Finland. Bohemia, Serbia, Roumanla and Montenegro have already reached ' the famine point and are suffering a heavy loll of dealh. The Armenian popula tion Is falling each week ns hunger takes Its toll, and In Greece, Albania and Roumanla so serious ure the food shortages that famine Is near. Al though starvation Is not yet Imminent, Italy, Swli/.errand, Bulgaria and Tur key are in the throes of serious strin gencies. In order to ftillill America's pledge In world relief we will have to export every ton of food which can he han dled through our ports. This means at the very least n minimum of 20,000,000 tona compared with 6,000.000 tons pre war exports and 11,820,000 tons ex ported Iasi year, when we were hound by the ties of war to the European allies. If we full to lighten the black spots on the hunger map or If we allow any portions lo become darker the very peace for which we fought and hied will he threatened. Revolt and anarchy inevitably follow famine. Should Mils happen we will see in other parts of Europe a repetition of the Russian de bacle and our light for world peace will have been In vain. Aims and Achieve ments of N. A. A. C. P. An Address Delivered by Mrs. James <i. Jewell Before the Forum Held in St. John’s A. M. E. Church Sunday Afternoon, December 1. SINCE the end of the civil war, from time to time, there have been numerous organizations started in this country, some by sincere race men and women, who have been earnestly desirous of doing something worth while to better the condition of the American Negro. Some of these or ganizations have .been national in their scope—others purely local. All have helped in some respects, the condition of the Negro—but it was not until 1909, when Miss Mary White Ovington and one or two other inter I osted white people, incensed and out raged as a result of the Springfield I riots, met a number of our most rep | resentative Negroes in New York and | formed this Association on the one | hundredth anniversary of the birth ; of Abraham Lincoln, that as a race j we have had a really effective organ ization, working for the black man of i America. A great deal of literature i has been sent out by the N. A. A. C. ! P. concerning its aims and achieve I ments. “It conceives its mission to be the completion of the work which the ■ great emancipator began. It proposes : to make 12,000.000 Americans physi cally free from peonage, mentally free J from ignorance, politically free from disfranchisement, socially free from j insult.” It is a most democratic organiza tion—anyone white, black, red or yel low, who is interested in equal rights for the Negro, is eligible to member ! ship. The N. A. A. C. P. believes American citizens white and black must organize and fight together for the full rights of all native bom Americans. It has been most fortun ate in having the co-operation of white men and women of wealth, posi tion and prestige, governors of sev eral states, eminent jurists, prominent professional, literary and business men. Let us review briefly what this Association aims to do, and then what has been accomplished in the nine years of its existence. 1 Negroes in many states are dis franchised, discriminated against, Jim j Crowed, lynched, denied equal protec tion of the laws, equal educational advantages for their children and equal econopiic opportunities. The N. A. A. C. P. proposes: 1. To abolish legal injustice against Negroes. 2. To stamp out race discrimina tion. 3. To prevent lynchings, burnings and torturing of black people. 4. To secure to every citizen of color, the common rights of American citizenship. 5. To compel equal accommodations in railroad travel, irrespective of color. 6. To secure for Colored children an equal opportunity to public school education, through a fair apportion ment of educational funds. Let us now see what measure of success has been achieved by the N. A. A. C. P. during the past nine years. 1. It assisted in the fight in state and U. S. courts against the grand father clause of various state laws, and certain state constitutions by which it was sought to disfranchise Colored men by indirection, until in 1915 the U. S. supreme court, declared the grandfather clause of the state of Oklahoma unconstitutional. The briefs in this case were filed by Mr. Moorfield Story, president of the N, A. A. C. P, and an eminent lawyer of national reputation, who could have commanded a fee of not less than $100,000 for his work in a like case, but who gave his services gratis to help the American Negro. 2. It fought in several cities segre gation ordinances, by which it was attempted to create a Negro ghetto, invariably in the least sanitary and most undesirable sections of the city, until in 1917 in the Louisville case, there was obtained upon an appeal, an unanimous decision of the supreme court of the U. S. declaring all such ordinances unconstitutional. Mr. Story also acted as counsel for this case. 3. It fought Jim Crow laws in the state courts, where enacted and carried on campaigns in various cities and states of the country. 4. It successfully prosecuted many suits to secure the civil rights of Col ored people against unjust and illegal 1 discriminations, and promoted civil tights laws in state legislatures. 5. It organized opposition to seg regation of Colored employees in gov ernment departments, and upheld the rights of Colored civil service em ployees against discrimination, be cause of color, and the right to fair consideration of Colored persons, elig ible to civil service appointments. 6. It worked agarn t discrimination in employment because of color, and defended the rights of the Negro to equal pay* for equal work. 7. It carried on a successful cam paign for an officers’ training camp for Colored soldiers (678 Negro offi cers were commissioned) and for equal treatment of Negro soldiers in the national service. 8! It raised an anti-lynching fund of $10,000 to investigate lynchings and mob violence, to give publicity to the facts regarding them, and to edu cate public opinion favorable to law and order. 9. It made special investigations, and published the facts, of lynchings and mob violence in various cities and states and published “Notes on lynch ing in the U. S.” (1912), and will shortly publish an account of 100 cases of recent lynchings in the U. S. 10. It also organized mass meet ings against lynching, and for edu cational purposes in New York and other cities, also engaged counsel to defend Colored men unjustly accused of "meeting to riot” in the East St. Louis outrage when Negroes were driven from their homes, killed and their property destroyed. 11. It defeated many bills in con gress, which if passed, would have been unjust and humiliating to Ne groes. 12. It fought against moving pic ture plays, which like the “Birth of Nation,” engender race hatred and tend to imperil national unity. 13. It published monthly the Crisis a record of the darker races, andjias consistently encouraged talent among Colored people in every field of en deavor. It has also published and circulated many pamphlets on the status of the American Negro, and on the problems with which he is con f ronted. 14. Since January, 1917, it has maintained a field secretary for or ganization and educational work, among both races, also furnished a free news service on the work of the Association, and the proyess of Col I l . ored people, to the general and Col ored press of the nation. It has also promoted lecture tours for members of its board of directors, in impor tant cities of the country, and has organized more than 100 branches throughout the country, which have done remarkable work for our people in their localities. 15. The N. A. A. C. P. has awarded annually since 1915, through a gift of the chairman of the board of di rectors, the Spingam medal for the highest or noblest achievement by an American Negro, during the preced ing year. Finally the N. A. A. C. P. has ap pealed to the conscience of the Amer ican people for justice for the Negro. It has not asked for immunity from the common burdens of citizeaship; it has on the contrary urged only that he be allowed equally to partici pate in the American heritage. When he has sinned it has not been asked for pardon; when he offends it cares for him but justice. It has spoken for a race that they might have life and have it more abundantly, and the only means that can be employed are education, organization, agitation, publicity—the force of an enlightened public opinion. You have heard what this wonder ful organization hopes to do—you have seen what it has already done, and what it is doing day by day— will you—here in Omaha help the N. A. A. C. P. to grow? HASTINGS, NEBRASKA NEWS IJ.v Mrs. Frankie Goode. Mrs. Clara V. Spencer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Swain, was ,i ried last Saturday morning Decem bei' 13, to Mr. Homer Washington of Evansville, Ind. The bride wore a very pretty wedding dress of grey satin and Georgette crepe with grey boots to match. Mrs. Frankie Goode and Mr. John Daugherty were the at tendants. Mr. and Mrs. William Swain enter tained Saturday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Homer Washington. A very en joyable evening was spent, the bride receiving many wedding presents. Light refreshments were served. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Homer Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Wyth Walker, Mr. and Mrs. William Swain. Mrs. Frankie Goode, Mrs. Josephine Lee, Mrs. Switzer, Mrs. Harvey Bridges, Miss Mildred Lee, Miss Ora Dabney, Mr. Floyd Smumers, Mr. John Daugherty, Mr. Louis Taylor, Mr. William Jones, V Mr. Orin Switzer, Mr. Charles Brown. \ Mrs. Washington was very popular with the younger set and was loved by everyone who knew her. She was of a lovable disposition and had a kind word for everybody. She was a mem ber of the Y. W. C. A. and of the Junior High School. Mrs. Washing ton is a granddaughter of Mr. Amos Johnson of Palestine, Texas, and her mother, Mrs. Swain, was formerly Miss Birdie Johnson. So their friends in both communities wish Mr. and Mrs. Washington much happiness. The many friends of Mr. James Goode will be glad to know he is able to be up and around on crutches. Mr. Goode and wife were both sick with the flu. Mrs. Goode was formerly Miss Frankie Davis of Atchison, Kas. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Briscoe left last Tuesday morning for points in Kansas and Missouri and Iowa on a two weeks’ visit. Mrs. Clarence Daugherty returned home Monday from Scotts Bluff on account of the illness of her husband, Mr. Clarence Daugherty. Mr. Floyd Summers and aunt, Miss Nellie McKay, left Tuesday morning lor Kansas City to spend the Christ mas holidays with relatives. Miss Judy Walker is going to Kan sas to visit her great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. THE CAPITOL % \% SHOE REPAIRING { •£ We do the Be*t Repairing at Rea- £ y sonable Prices. / y All Work Guaranteed. •!» I. BROOK, Prop. ❖ Phone Web. 4592. 1408 N. 24th St. J* | 5* Dependable That is what all our cus tomers think of us. Let us furnish you with your overcoats, suits, shoes and other furnishings. Prices always reasonable. PALACE CLOTHING CO. 14Ui and Douglas