The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928, December 28, 1918, Page 6, Image 6

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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.
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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
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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.
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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 %
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•£ 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*
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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