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CENTER CAFE
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922 Center Street
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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
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3371, Omaha.
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South Omaha.
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523 North 15th St.
Omaha, Neb.
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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.”
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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.
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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. *
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★ By Jeanne Judson. ★
A The Red Cross man • was here A
A today, A
. He seems to know some magic ★
A way A
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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
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A He gives us something hot to A
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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. ★
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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. ★
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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
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