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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1919)
LEVIATHAN BRINGS 8,500 YANKS BACK HOME The Leviathan being towed to her dock by tugs, after her tirst voyage since the sign! ig of the armistice. The Leviathan brought back 8,500 soldiers, sailors and civilians, most prominent among them being Lord Decles and MaJ. Gen. George A. Barnett, chief of the United States marines, and wife, —------- - NORTH SIDE BOOSTERS Six Chairsi E. W. Killingsworth R. C. Price The Alamo Barber Shop and Pocket Billiard Parlor The best equipped shop in the state. Leading shop of the city. Baths, plain and shower. Cultured barbers. KILLINGSWORTH & PRICE, Props. t Phone Webster 5784. 2416 North 24th Street. x y f Protect Your- Ypu a ”epend- l X able Sick and Acci- J* f self, Your dent ,nsurance- | •• Unm onrt The ,,eKt F‘‘ature of n«m "''U Our Policy Is That X • Ynnr Family 11 ,s AhHolutt‘,5' x .;. IUU( rdlllliy DEPENDABLE jj. GEORGE WELLS PARKER i 933 North 27th St. 304 Crounse Block. Phone Harney 5737. X «—..--- ..... GOOD GROCERIES ALWAYS C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO. Alao Frok Fruit, and Vegetable*. 2004 Coating St. Telepbon. Dougina IMS ( ...... . . i THE CRUSADER _ The Greater Negro Magazine. Winning a welcome everywhere. You must have it. A Monthly. One Dollar a Year. t THE CRUSADER 2299 Seventh Avenue, .... New York City y a | Puminn 1 9 i « CUMING street nulcl burning Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable Rate* Douglas 2466 D. G. Russell, Proprietor , • | | I I I T T I I I I t l I I I I ■ ■ I • !♦• • • • • • • • • » ' * • * * ■••••*■•••< Telephone Dr. Britt Upstairs Douglas 2672. Douglas 7812 and 7150 Pope Drug' Co. Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. 13th and Farnam Streets. Omaha, Nebraska ■ a... • • • •--- » « * a > ■ > I HALL OF MIRRORS, VERSAILLES TIm* magnificence of the palace of Versailles, where the peace treaty will he signed, may be judged from this view of the Hall of Mirrors. GEORGES CLjEMENCEAU Georges ('lemencenu, premier of the French republic. Is the president of the pence congress, having been cho sen for that place not only in compli ment to France but also in recognition of Ills, great ability. Long known as tlie "Tiger,” Mr. Ciemenceau lias al ways be» n a sturdy tighter for democ racy. JULES CAMBON ■lules C'umbou lx consider* d mi espe cially valuable member of the French peace delegation, as he has been French ambassador to both America and Germany. His appointment was especially pleasing to the American delegation. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR .Ml Arthur .1. Balfour, British mtnlstei of foreign affairs, is one of the lending members of the yeuce delegation oi bis country. PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON President Woodrow Wilson Is head of the American delegation to the peace conference. DAVID Li nvn GFORGE At the hernl of (treat Britain's peace delegates is David Lloyd George, the British premier. HENRY WHITE Of the American delegation to thr peace congress, Henry White Is th< most familiar with diplomacy, havlny been long connected with the Ameri can embassy In London and afterward ambassador to Italy and France. America's ^ food Saving saves starving people | BRUCE GRIT’S COLUMN A great many followers of the “meek and lowly Jesus” have adopted his teachings, but hesitate to adopt them in their daily practice. If this were done generally by professing Christians, the wide world over, I would have a larger faith in the idea now sizzling in the atmosphere called Democracy. Centuries ago certain old masters who knew something of the art of painting were employed by certain dignitaries of the church to paint po, traits of the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus, and these artists, among them Michael Angelo, Raphael, San zio and some others, produced paint ings in oil purporting to represent the mother of Christ, Christ, and some of the old prophets, such as Moses and David, which have been admired by lovers of art the world over. The con ceptions of these old masters as to what their subjects looked like were, of course, as everyone knows, purely imaginative, for no human being liv ing at the time these great painters flourished ever- saw’ the Virgin Mary or the Christ or any of the old proph ets. The Italian, Dutch, Flemish and German painters, who have copied from these old masters, have invar iably made their subject Italian, Dutch, Flemish and German. So it is that the pictures of the Madonna and the Christ are largely a matter of geography. What they really looked like cannot be determined by any por trait made of them w’ith w’hich we are familiar. Tacitus is perhaps the only writer who has given a description of the Christ and it is so brief that no artist living, or who if dead were now alive, could paint a satisfactory pic ture of him. He said: “The pestilent disturber of order in Judea is a red headed Jew- who calls himself Christ.” So we know' now that this pestilent disturber was an agitator, contemned and despised by the high-brow's of that period just as our agitators and cranks are by the high-brows of the present day. There have been many Negroes can onized by the Catholic church which is the only real Christian democracy that we know of, except the Mohammedan religion. The Negro in both these bodies stands on an equality with his fellow worshipers, no matter what their race or color or condition. Many years ago, the first Negro woman in America was canonized by the Catholic church for her piety and good works. She is known to all good Catholics as St. Rose of Lima, Peru. In Uganda Africa twenty-two Afri can^ were not long ago canonized by this church. One of the early Popes of Rome is known to have been an African, of whom more anon. The mind of Africa, whether it gives voice to its thinking in the hot and burning sands where stands the Sphinx, the riddle of all ages in mute silence evoking the admiration and wonder of mankind, or in Europe or in America, is at one with the central thought expressed in the following ex cerpt from an editorial in the Weekly News of Sierra Leone, West Coast, viz.: “So those places which have contributed aeroplanes and other war munitions, while they may be said to do much, cannot be compared to places which may take upon them selves to link the British Nation to The Power that bestoweth light; the power that not only bestoweth light, but gives men the ability to see the light. This power is God Almighty, and ALL POWERFUL. The enemy appears to have monopolized it in this war and to have profited largely from it. Aeroplanes, men and munitions, gold and all the wealth of the Allied Nations, are NOTHING without God, The Supreme Ruler of the Universe and the destinies of Nations.” The future, there is no doubt about it, the future belongs to the educated Nations, and those among us who fos ter and encourage the further spread of higher education are rendering our race a service, the consequences of which will lie almost beyond human calculation, and may I also say that the kind of education that is needed to fit white men for the performance of important civic, commercial, polit ical and scientific duties, is exactly and precisely the kind of education that is required by every Negro youth in this land—the undiscovered ge niuses—poets, inventors, scientists literateurs of “Ethiopia’s blameless race.” The educated Catholic priests and educated Catholics generally know a great deal more about the achieve ments of the Negro in scholarship and service than the snobs of other re ligious faiths, who now look down on the Negro with a sort of pitying con tempt, and dismiss his claim to prim acy as a leader with a supercilious sneer. The archives of the Vatican at Rome contains many proofs which establish the Negro’s right to be. When Dunbar wrote— "B proud, my race, in mind and soul, Thy name is writ on Glory’s scroll In characters of fire. High ’mid the clouds of Fame’s bright sky Thy banner blazoned folds now fly, And truth shall lift them higher,” he had a vision, as certainly as did John on the Island of Patmos, when he saw the number that no man could number. “We are living, we are dwelling In a grand and awful time, In an age, on ages telling, To be living is sublime.” Dr. Earnest E. Graves DENTISTRY 242.North 10th Street Telephone L 5263 LINCOLN, NEB •.... 1 Modern Furnished Rooms I 811 W. 14th Street CENTER CAFE I Phone Red 1457 922 Center Street I Mrs. Louise Cooper, Prop. } Des Moines, Iowa 'X-SX-X-X-X-SX-X-X-X-X-X-X* I THE CAPITOL SHOE REPAIRING J We do the Best Repairing at Rea- X sonable Prices. A y All Work Guaranteed. •> V I- BROOK, Prop. 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