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Practical Xmas Gifts AT Sensible Prices WOLF’S 1421 Douglas Street. j HATS AND FURNISHINGS. W. T. SHACKELFORD COAL COMPANY Our Motto: “Service First” ( Webster 202 13th and Grace I,,,,..--■« . « . . Modern Furnished Rooms 811 W. 14th Street CENTER CAFE Phone Red 1457 922 Center Street Mrs. Louise Cooper, Prop. Des Moines, Iowa .. The Moon CAFE GOOD HOME COOKING MUALS AT ANY HOUR 2605 N St. Tel. South 2962 Arbor Garage Fire proof block with steam heat. Repairing and storing. Will accommodate 50 cars day and night# Connection taxi service. Business at 2506-08 l South 32d Avenue. Tel. Harney 3371, Omaha. C. R. Boyd Colored Prop. ------- r Petersen & Michelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N SI. Tel. South 162 4-»-. » • • . ♦ - .A Harry Norman PROMPT Taxi Service AT ALL HOURS 1 Pool Hall and Billiard Parlor in Connection. : Phone South 2962 2603 N St. South Omaha. OPEN FOR BUSINESS -THE Booker T. Washington HOTEL Nicely Furnished Steam Heated Rooms, With or , Without Board. 523 North 15th St. Omaha, Neb. Phone Tyler 897 XKKKKK~XK~X**X“X“X~X~X~X~X K. & M. 1 Grocery Co. \ X * Successor to X x . tf H. E. YOUNG | % f f We solicit your patronage. * X 2114-16 North 24th St. •X~X.<~X-X~X~X~X~X"X"X~X>*X»* x~x-x*x*x<x«x-x-x~x~x~x~x' | NOTICE | y If you have a house to sell or y X rent list it with us. We will get * X results for you. Also call us for X Y insurance. X | W. M. Franklin '£ i Dealer in Real Estate and In- $ X surance. Notary Public. X & 2413 North 24th. Web. 4206. X -- .... -J I i : I i The new Top Notch cafe at 24th and Paul streets opens under new management of the Ladies’ Club of Grove M. E. church. Breakfast from 6:30 to 8:30 a. m.; dinner from 11:30 to 2 p. m.; supper from 6:30 to 8 p. m. Short orders at all hours. Spe cial chicken dinner every Sunday. Special turkey and chicken dinner Xmas day. Visit our classy cafe, “The Top Notch” Xmas day. Alfred Peoples, who has been se riously ill with the flu, is out again and on the job. Wanted—Middle aged woman for general housework. No washing or ironing. Mrs. John Latenser, 3217 Poppleton avenue. Harney 1631. Let us make the world safe and op portunities better for our posterity by patronizing our own business en terprises. Business with us means a better oportunity for some boy or some girl of our race. Williamson for prescriptions; Williamson for drugs. That’s a good combination. 2306 N. 24th. Tel. Webster 4443.—Adv. Tailor Lee, formerly in business here, is now in charge of the tailor ing department at the new Athletic club. Harry Saunders, one of the army boys, reached home Saturday morn ing. Furnished Booms—Strictly mod ern. With or without board. 1616 North Kith. Tel. Webster 4983. Seventy-four of the California boys from Camp Grant passed through Omaha last Wednesday night, en route home. They remained in Omaha sev eral hours, hut the Omaha people were unable to give them the welcome they deserved because no notice had been given of their arrival. Mrs. Alonzo Pointer and mother, Mrs. Jackson, from North Platte, are visiting Mrs. Pearlie Pointer at 1611 North 26th. They are en route to Leavenworth, Kas., to spend the holi days. For moving, expressing and hauling call Douglas 7952. Penn and Sibley. —Adv. Mrs. Mamie Smith returned from i Mississippi, where she was called be | cause of the death of her brother-in law. Mrs. Nettie Lewis, famous enter tainer, spent a few hours in Omaha Friday, en route home to Chicago to spend the holidays with her mother. You will help the ladies of the Art club to publish their cook book by coming to a candy pulling and spelling bee at Mt. Moriah Baptist church, January 14, 1919. Admission 10 cents. Why not take a course in conversa tional French with R. L. Desduncs, 2215 North Twenty-fifth street? Phone Webster 3300.—Adv. Sick of church include: Mrs. Nellie Robinson, W. L. Sellers, Mrs. M. Washington, P. Patterson. Mrs. Jamie Shelton was called to Atchison by the serious illness of her aunt. Mother Kelly has returned home from the east looking fine. Mrs. Mamie Seals was out Sunday after a few weeks’ illness. For Rent—Unfurnished room for light housekeeping. Hutten Flats, 1107 North 19th street. Webster 2177. Mrs. T. L. Hawthorne. Mrs. La Bor, mother of Mrs. Cos tello, left last week to visit during the holidays. Mrs. George Scott of Oklahoma City, is a holiday guest of Mrs. Wil moth Cropp. “THE MONITOR IN THE HOME OF EVERY COLORED FAMILY IN OMAHA BY JANUARY FIRST.” Help put it there. Is your neighbor a subscriber ? NOTICE To Patrons of the Alamo Barber Shop and Billiard Parlor. As I have returned from the mili tary service of which I spent about fourteen months, leaving my business interest up to my partner, Mr. Price, which he handled with unequalled ability, carrying out our plans suc cessfully, maintaining the same dis cipline and good order that we estab lished when we took the place more than a year and a half ago. I take this opportunity to thank the people of Omaha and the friends and patrons of the place for their loyal support of which I know your future success depends. I am now back on the job, will join Mr. Price in conducting the place in the future as we have in the past. Thanking you for your patronage and wishing you a Merry Xmas and Prosperous New Year. Respectfully, EDW. W. KJLLINGSWORTH. Race United for Free Africa Doctor DuBoi* and Major Moton Head Delegation Already Overseas—Pre sent Memorial. DEMAND BLACK DEMOCRACY Would Then Leave Negroes in Other Lands Free to Choose Which They Would Accept. By Louis Seibold. BREST, France, Dec. 24.—Pleading the privilege of self-government and self-determination, leading Ne groes of the United States will ask the peace conference to turn back to native control the German colonies in Africa for national organization by those now there and by other Ne- 1 groes who may wish to live under a government by and of their race in the old African land. The transport Orizaba, bringing an advance guard to the Paris peace con ference, arrived here on Monday, after ! an uneventful voyage of eight days. ' In addition to fifty representatives of ! American newspapers, the ship had as passengers a delegation of Negroes, commissioned to urge the claims of the race on the conference. The dele-1 gation includes W. E. B. DuBois, edi tor of the Crisis, and Dr. R. R. Moton, head of the Tuskegee Institute. House Has the Memorial. A memorial has already been sub mitted to Col. House. It urges the peace conference to extend the prin ciple of democracy to the Negro race by recognizing the right of the race to self-government under the “self-de termination” clause of President Wil son’s peace terms. The memorial po;nts out that the transfer of the German colonies in Africa to the control of other nations would retard the progress of the Ne gro race, whereas the application of the self-determination principle would result in the advancement of the race. There is a general plan, which con templates an agreement among the belligerents, to set aside not only the African colonies under previous Ger man rule, but also those now gov erned by the French and Portugeuse, and also the independent African states, and to make of these lands an African union, for the organization of a government by native Negroes and by Negroes who may elect to emigrate anil attach themselves to the proposed democracy. One point the memorial empha sizes is that if German Africa were taken from one imperial master, even though a bad one, in order to pass it over to another, 'though a better one, that act would inevitably rouse sus picion of selfish aims on the part of the Allies, and would leave open grave questions concerning the future of colonial possessions and government. The conference will be urged to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Ne gro in America, in August, 1919, by encouarigng the present movement to hand Africa over to the Africans. Aims of the British Labor Party for the extension of the right of self government and for protection under organized conditions are indorsed in the memorial. Not a Colonization Scheme. Mr. Dubois declares that the plan is not a colonization scheme, but it is basically a movement to give 12,000, 000 Negroes in the German colonies and in other African states opportun ity to prove their capaicty for self government. “In the western hemisphere,” he said, “25,000,000 Negroes indicated intense interest in the plan. They will give every financial, moral, re ligious, social and educational encour agement to it. Whether Negroes from other countries would emigrate is a problem less important than is the recognition of the right of Negroes al ready in Africa to determine how and by whom they shall be governed. “The movement is backed by the leading American churches, by 750,000 African Methodists and 2,000,000 Bap tists. Domestic problems, while of dominant local interest, are actually subordinate to the fundamental justice of the right of the elements of the African race to govern themselves under the democratic conditions enun ciated by President Wilson and by one or two of the Allied Governments. Treatment of the Negroes by the peace conference will test the sincer ity of the various declarations on this point.” The intial public step in the pro motion of the movement will be taken in a Pan-African convention which will sit during the deliberations of the peace conference. What Saves Ua The thing that stives us In this life Is an occasional opportunity to smile tit Its follies.—TlaMlinore Sun. Mr. Henry Williams of 2415 Erskine street, will leave Sunday for Texa- | kana, Texas, to visit his brother. He will spend the winter at Hot Springs. Mrs. P. Pierson of Lincoln, Neb., is j visiting friends here this week. | LETTERS FROM OUR READERS WHY? Editor of The Monitor: I have just read the article in De cember 14th issue of The Monitor, headed “Americans or Nothing,” from the Pittsburg Courier, opposing the idea of sending Negro representatives to the peace conference. Why not? There will be Jewish representa tives and representatives from other races, occupying the same peculiar position as the Negro race, that of the unconsidered unit of a great nation. We are Americans it is true and as Americans, one of the allies, and with American representation at this greatest of world conventions we are represented (or should be) broadly speaking, but are we? We have no wish to be considered as a separate people, but what are we considered by the other fellows? We have been made American citizens by constitu tional amendment, but what are we made by practice? President Wilson’s proclamation an nouncing the signing of the armis tice says in part: "Everything for which America fought has been ac complished. It will now be our duty to assist by example, etc., of just de mocracy throughout the’ world,” yet here in “democratic America” we still have denial of rights of suffrage and lynchings and “Jim Crowing” of black Americans prevail. We ask why? Be ing American citizens, citizens of the leading country of democracy, the country ever ready to take up arms in behalf of oppression and as citi zens having taken up arms to the ex tent of some 00,000 to aid in remov ing oppression from others. Why might not Negro delegates go to Ver sailles to ask why such oppression should be placed on one part of the citizens of America, while so many pertinent questions are being asked of this great body where the presi dent of our country is a member? MRS. COLEMAN, 2513 North 26th. Dec. 19- 1918. Omaha, Neb. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Big gest and Best.—Adv. WHITE BORAX NAPTHA | AN ODORLESS ALL-PURPOSE SOAP Ask Your Grocer for “WHITE BORAX NAPTHA” And You Will Have the Cleanest and Whitest j Clothes in the Neighborhood. 13 Kl ET 2506 NORTH 24TH ST. ^3 13 I\ FI Lh WEBSTER 1412 Women’s Dark Grey, High Cloth Top Shoes, $8.00 value, for.$5.98 Boys’ Heavy Solid School Shoes, regular $4.50 values, for..$3.50 • Girls’ High Top Dark Brown Shoes, regular $5.50 values, for.$3.98 ; Men’s Dark Brown Shoes, regular $9.00 values, for..$6.75 , Men’s Dress Pants, $3.50 values, for.— .— .$2.75 Men’s Hosiery, pair.j..-.......25c 1 Women’s Waists, at....-..$1.25 Boys’ Wash Suits, ages 2 to 6, at...$1.45 _ Men’s Arrow Brand Shirts.....$1.98 < Men’s Monarch Shirts.1— .r.99c Millinery, Bungalow Aprons, Children’s Dresses, Hosiery, Notions. 25 PER CENT UNDER DOWNTOWN PRICES WHAT COUNTRY MUST DO FOR ITS DISABLED SOLDIERS Problems of Reconstruction Confront American Red Cross With New Tasks and New Responsibilities. During these Chrtstmnses, when men In the trenches and on mined seaj sing carols; when our country glows to Its uttermost boundaries with the sym bol of the Ited Cross; when the most earthbound look for awhile at the (Tosses and the stars—new under standings, new simplicities, new will ingness for service come to very many men and women. And as our soldiers and sailors who went out young and strong and singing the “Loug, Long Trail” and "Over There” now come back crippled and disabled, Americans are seeing more and more their own part and responsi bility In reconstruction. This work means teaching the blind to see, giv ing movement to the paralyzed, power to the remnants of arms and legs to do full duty, the chance of health to the tubercular, light to minds be fogged by shell shock. • Our government, the Medical De partment of Ihe Army and the Ameri can Red Cross, from the time of our entrance In the war, have been work ing out the tasks preparatory to this reconstruction, which Is the key-word 10 their usefulness and happiness. The work Itself Is already begun In the hospitals where our returned men have been brought. This hns meant the equipment of hospitals, the recruiting of the doe tors and nurses and the formulation of plans for training for vocations, which means Independence, replacing activi ty for inactivity. For this physical reconstruction in our military hospitals at home, our government, through the office of the Surgeon-General, Is asking for recon struction aids. This hospital service Is open lo hundreds. Indeed thousands, of women who as wives of men in the service have been technically barred from other military hospital service They are needed at once and may learn full particulars regarding train Ing, qualifications, pay and so forth by writing for Information to the office of the Surgeon-General. Division of Reconstruction, Washington, 1). C. They are civilian employees of the Medical Department of the Army, and their work comes under one of two classes—either the distinctly physical reconstruct Ion which has to do with massage, electrotherapy, dydotherapy and mechanotherapy, or the occupa tional work which will prepare the men to take up the regular vocational training for which we often hear the word "re-educutlon.” The Federal government has charge of this work. Other agencies working under government control will help. The American Red Cross, especially, will supplement It, and through Its Home Seivlee'luM'assumed the obliga tion to assist ever;, soldier or sullor and tils family u hucut they need aol or counsi I from iL ( When American soldiers, blinded In battle, recover from their immediate wounds nt the base hospitals in France special work for them is commenced. Later they nre brought to the United States Military General Hospital No. 7, at Baltimore, for further medical and surgical treatment and special teaching. The ideal of the government will he to place every blinded man in a condition to take care of himself and those dependent on him. In many cases, It Is hoped, the men will be able to command a larger salary after tak ing their training than before they lost their sight. American Red Cross has supple mented the Army's plan by creating the Red Cross Institute for the Blind. One of Its functions will be to provide certnin financial aid to equip the blind man after Ids re-education Is complet ed, ns, for Instance, furnishing type writers to those wiio enter commer cial life! It will be unearthing new oc cupations, helping to establish homes ami arrange home work for those who cannot go Into offices or factories. Rut It will do something else that Is, ★ ★ * THE RED CROSS MAN. * * - * ★ By Jeanne Judson. ★ A The Red Cross man • was here A A today, A . He seems to know some magic ★ A way A A Of being everywhere; * A In Paris when a chap Is broke, A A He passes out a Yankee smoke, A A And at the front, lie's lliere. A A A A He gives us something hot to A A drink, ★ a He seems to want to mnke us * A think A A We’re happy and at ease; ★ A He keeps as busy us can lie, A A Just working for my mutes and ★ ★ me, ★ A IRs method sure does please. ★ ★ * A And though he doesn't tote a * A gun, * * We know lie’s with us everyone, A A Till duty sets us free; A A His wheeled canteen is fur more A A fair * A Than any lobster palace rare, * A We drink his health In tea. ★ A A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Hospital searchers are being sent by the American Red Cross into all the hospltuls along the front. Their task Is to supplement the necessarily mea ger reportB sent by the Army to the families of the killed and wounded with more detailed letters. It Is the human touch that makes tbs whole world kin. , ngain, a Christmas story. This Red Cross Institute will, in so far as Is hu manly possible, have the relative who will be responsible for the care of the blind man when' lie returns home, take file government training, side by side with him, as-is now done by tlie British and French. With this full under standing at home of his difficulties and possibilities, many an ambition at first undreamed of may lie fulfilled. Through the gift of Jeremiah Mil bank of'New York the Red Cross was enabled to establish in New Y’ork its experimental Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men. One of Its principal objects is to assist in the general campaign of public education regarding the results which can be ac complished by systematically re-train ing disabled men for occupations in which they can successfully compete with able-bodied men. "Thug equipped," writes W\ Frank Persons, Director General of Civilian Relief of tlie American Red Cross, “they may confidently look forward to u future of normul human work and Play." . CARING FOR THOSE WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND Because of her continued absence from school and the fact that she lived in rather an undesirable neighborhood and was on the streets all day a school teacher recently brought to the atten tion of the Home Service department of the Red Cross the story of a girl of ten years whose mother was 111 and whose only other relatives were two brothers, one In camp and the other a youtli, of seventeen whose earnings seemed to he the only means of sup port for the family. The Home Service worker called, found the mother very III and needing hospital care at once. Arrangements were made for the mother's care and also for a home for the girl In the country where she would receive real home training and love. The mother grew worse and died soon afterwards. The seventeen-year-old boy enlisted. The hoy In camp had not known thut Ills mother needed Ills help, but was glad to eon tribute from Ills pay when the true circumstances were mude known. The girl is now in the coun try, going to school, and is receiving allotments from both of her brothers and Is well cared for. She Is under the watchful cure of the Home Service workers and comes to them often for counsel. A portable kitchen, Installed by tbs American Red Clfoss on the exact spot vr&ere.Xoan of Arc was captured, pro i(idf»di /<an. coft'c? and other refresh ments to 10,1)00 soldiers and civilians _