The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928, February 08, 1919, Page 4, Image 4

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    THE MONITOR
A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored
Americans. _
Published Every Saturday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub
lishing Company. _
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at
Omaha. Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher.
Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes. Associate Editors.
George Wells Parker. Contributing Editor and Business Manager.
Fred C. Williams. Traveling Representative.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR; *1.00 6 MONTHS; 60c 3 MONTHS
Advertising Rates. 60 cents an Inch per Issue.
Address. The Monitor, 304 Crounse Block, Omaha. Neb.
Telephone Webster 4243.
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OL’R GREATEST WEAKNESS
TWTITHIN a short time there is to
W be a meeting of the Negro
Press Association and at Nashville
there will be a gathering together of
newspaper men from all over the
country. We do not know as yet
what the program is to be, but we
hope for one thing that the associa
tion takes up and discusses the sub
ject of the utter selfishness of the
Negro press. It is the one thing most
patent to anyone who reads and stu
dies our journalism. There are a few
Negro newspapers that will not come
in for a scoring under this discus
sion, but the most of them are so
selfish that it is a wonder that they
can exist and appeal to the race for
support.
If a person pick up the average
Negro newspaper, it is a fact that he
will never know that another Negro
paper exists anywhere in the United
States. Whether the editors are
afraid to mention other papers for
fear that it will add to the other’s
subscription list and decrease their
own, may or may not be the reason,
but if it be the reason it is a foolish
one. If the Negro newspapers of the
country were to co-operate and be
come mutually helpful to one another,
there would come forth financial re
sults that would be surprising and
beneficial to every one. Several race
men have attempted from time to
time to establish a Negro press bu
reau, but their efforts invariably fail
because the average Negro editor
doesn’t intend to pay one red cent for
news. He is satisfied to clip and bor
row art', appropriate from other pa
pers news that is stale and worn out,
and then wonders why it is that peo
ple don’t want to read his paper.,
Let him stop a moment and consider
the cause for such effect and when
he discovers that it is pure selfish
ness, let him carry his conclusions to
the press conference and get busy.
THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN
HISTORY
THE MONITOR appreciates the
courtesy extended it in receiving
a copy of Prof. John W. Cromwell’s
new book, “The Negro in American
History.” The very first thing that
impressed us with it was its appear
ance. Many race publications have a
cheap look and cheaper typographical
makeup, but this book is exception
ally pleasing as respects these two
factors which go far toward the ulti
mate success of any literary publica- '
tion.
Some one has said that history is the
biography of great men and undoubt- [
edly the author had this mind when
writing this most valuable contribu- :
tion to race literature. It is largely
a biography of great Negroes and in
tensely interesting from the fact that
it offers the most complete biogra
phies written upon them. The schol
arly attainments of the author are
vividly expressed in the method of
treating his subjects, for they are not
burdened with useless surplusage and
mediocrity. All the facts necessary
are there and they are presented in
simple and elegant language.
We are pleased to have had the hon
or of receiving a copy and urge all
our readers to secure one as early as
possible. It should be in every home,
a source of knowledge and pride to
every man and woman and an un
ending source of inspiration and
pleasure to every boy and girl.
THE NEW VENTURE
IN JOURNALISM
THERE has come to The Monitor
office the first copy of the new
weekly, “Our Boys and Girls," and
it is a most welcome little journal.
It is something absolutely new in the
field of race effort and should re
ceive the good will and support of
every Negro newspaper in the United
States. It is clean, uplifting and
wholesome reading for our young
people and should have a most prom
ising future. We congratulate the
editor upon his accomplishment and
hope to be of material assistance to
him in building up the subscription
list of “Our Boys and Girls.”
We do not doubt but that a number
-of race journals will make the pub
lic acquainted with the fact that our
youth is to have a paper all its own
and we hope that the rest may over
come their selfishness long enough to
give this paper a word or two of merit
which it well deserves.
CHAOS IN EUROPE
THERE is chaos in Europe today
and it seems that those of us who
dreamed a dream of peace may
awaken some beautiful morning to
find that the war drums are unmuf
fled and hell loosened again.
The following bit of news has come
across the seas and it is a bit dis
quieting. “It can be stated that a
situation exists in Europe under which
the war may break out again at any
moment, 'fhe allied war council has
arrived at a decision which means
that the British people have mistaken
the appearance of peace for the real
ity. This decision means that the
new British ministry must revise the
whole scheme of army demobiliza
tion.”
Isn’t it provoking? But then it is
something that the careful students of
events have all along suspected. The
savagism of the Caucasian has been
awakened; his blood lust has been
aroused. For years he has satiated
this craving upon feebler peoples, but
now he is satiating it upon his own.
We should worry. If they haven’t
the brains and forethought to realize
the ultimate effect, it is not our duty
to supply their ignorance. We be
lieve that the American people will
favor the “hands off" policy if bed
lam breaks loose again, because there
can be no reason why we should wreck
ourselves in order to save a country
that apparently does not wish to be
saved. We have done our part and
our security lies in our attending to
our own affairs and leaving Europe
alone.
OBVIOUS OBSERVATIONS
Our soldiers are still fighting up
around Archangel way and the allies
are considering sending more up that
way. What is up in that God for
saken land of ice and snow that the
allies want, anyway?
The Colored folks of Martinique are
kicking because France is thinking of
handing them over to the U. S. A.
We don’t blame them a bit. If they
know what we know, they will keep
on kicking.
The reason why folks like The Mon
itor is because it has got a lot of
real race news that no other Negro
paper gets. How do we do it? Easy,
brother; easy.
If your boy or girl getting their
own paper, "Our Boys and Girls?”
If not, subscribe for it and surprise
them.
Ex-King Manuel of Portugal is hav
ing a hot time trying to climb into the
kingly cushions again, what?
Chief Moshesh of Basutoland has
adopted prohibition. That sure will
hurt the white traders who get rich
peddling rotten red eye. Wish we
eould shake hands with Moshesh.
Shake loose those two shekals for
the paper, friend. The free doing
days have gone bye bye.
The Phi Delta girls say that when
it comes to advertising The Monitor
has surely got ’em. Ditto ladies.
Thanking you kindly for your sin
cere appreciation of these prose epics,
we will now rubber out the window
and see if a robin is making that
noise.
SKITS OF SOLOMON
Advertising
Advertising is the gentle art of har
nessing the attention of folks and
lassoing an order for something. Some
folks think that advertising doesn’t
pay and these generally measure up
to the mummies who decorate the
scenery of museums. If you have got
something you want to get rid of, you
have to make a noise like advertising.
Again, advertising is what brings the
nifty little paper to your door week
ly. If you think that the two bones
per annum you lay down for the paper
pays for its up keep, you have one
more guess coming. Advertising is
what keeps the thing going and there
is never any advertising unless re
sults show up. That is why every
editor is always using the megaphone
and telling his readers to patronize
his advertisers. If you will oggle The
Monitor columns you will find places
to buy everything you need from two
hours after you’re born to a million
years after you’re dead, and when you
come down to real pork and beans
philosophy, that’s going some. Mon
itor advertisers don't charge you any
more than anyone else and in most
cases, they are more reasonable. That
is why we want you to toddle around
once in a while and look them over
and tell them that The Monitor told
you to. It will help you and help
your paper. We are sweating when
it is 40 below' trying to dish up a
newsy mental menu for you and the
best way for you to show your ap
preciation of our efforts is to make
a noise like satisfaction. Help along
the advertiser and the advertiser will
help us and we will help you. That’s
reciprocity and the kind where no
body loses anything anytime.
COMMON DISCOURTESY
□OLLECTORS who go among Col
ored people usually have a full
supply of discourtesy on hand which
they dispose of among their patrons.
Some of them have little or no re
spect for those with whom they come
in contact. They go into Colored
homes with their hats on and call the
women by their first names, regard
less as to who they are.
A case in point is one that occurred
about a year ago in Savannah, Ga.
A Colored mail carrier’s w’ife com
plained to her husband that a certain
white collector, who worked for a
leading furniture house, insisted on
doming in their house with his hat
on, in spite of her objections to his
conduct. When the Colored man saw
the collector he told him not to en
ter his house again in that manner.
It happened that a few days after
wards w'hen the Colored man was go
ing home to lunch, he saw this col
lector enter his house in the same
manner with his hat on and a cigar in
his mouth. Well, you can guess what
happened. The Colored man threw
the collector out and gave him a
thrashing. He then went to the police
court and paid his fine of $25, and
told the judge he was ready to pay
it again if this collector repeated his
performance.
When the management heard of the
trouble, they sent for the Colored man
a»d rrologized to him for the conduct
of this white collector, reimbursing
him <or the $25 fine he had to pay
out, and then fired the collector.
•‘'till there are Colored women who
pe 'nit agents and collectors to walk
right in with their hats on, call them
“Molly Cottontail,” "Sal Scroggins,”
or any other old name and all they
do is grin and stand around like
prancing jackasses.—Tampa Bulletin.
NEGRO HEROES OF THE WAR
War has sinister markings of its
own, in all sufficiency. There is no
room for the color line across its hor
rid front. Such is the thought that
suggests itself afresh, for there have
been other events calling to mind the
gallantry of our Colored troops, to
one who reads the news from Paris,
of 124 American Negro soldiers be
ing decorated by French authorities.
“For extraordinary heroism under
fire”—that is, as translated, the line
of commendation that goes with the
medals and war crosses conferred in
this highly satisfactory instance. The
words sweep aside every considera
tion other than that of soldiery merit.
The man who dares and does, he is the
man for all this and all that.
It is a matter of curious interest to
note the wide geographical sources of
the regiments represented by the boys
honored at Paris. These bodies of
Colored fighters came from Massa
chusetts and Ohio in the north, from
Washington, D. C., from South Caro
lina, Maryland and Tennessee. The
courage and capacity of Negroes mili
tant from New York have won rec
ognition also on the fields of France.
—World.
THE NEGRO TROOPS
Certainly, if Negroes were good
enough to serve us in the fighting
line, they are good enough to vote
with us at the polls. Certainly if
their bodies could be made a barrier
between the hun and our homes, they
should have a guaranteed freedom
from the petty inequalities which have
hampered them since the end of the
civil war in advancing to a higher
state of civilization. Certainly they
have won exemption from the "Jim
Crow cars,” from “nigger heaven,”
and from the crude restrictions of
some states upon holding property,
and from all those other marks of
race prejudice which have scarred the
history of their treatment.
There are natural barriers erected
between the white and black races—
social differences and temperamental
divergencies; but in politics, in gov
ernment, and in ordinary affairs, such
artificial division should not be toler
ated. The constitution of the United
States is against it. We cannot allow
American Negroes to fight and die
for our country and then deprive them
of any of the liberties of our country.
—Globe.
NEW HOOK UPHOLDS LYNCHING
New York, Feb. 7.—The Neale
Publishing company has just issued a
book by Winfield H. Collins, entitled
the “Truth About Lynching and the
Negro in the South.” It is, in effect,
an effort to justify lynching and a
plea that “the south be made safe for
the white race.”
| The Kiddies j
Korner
X MADRE PENN ^
THE STORY OF THE FISHERMAN
PART II
“I rebelled against the king of the
Genu. To punish me he shut me up
in this vase of copper, and he put
on the leaden cover his seal, which is
enchantment enough to prevent my
coming out. Then he had the vase
thrown into the sea. During the first
period of my captivity I vowed that
if anyone should free me before a
I hundred years were passed, I would
! make him rich even after his death.
| Hut that century passed, and no one
| freed me. In the second century' I
vowed that I would give all the treas
i ure in the world to my deliverer; but
I he never came.
In the third, I promised to make
I him a king, to be. always near him,
I and to grant him three wishes a day;
I but that century passed away as the
other two had, and I remained in
I the same plight. At last I grew
I angry at being a captive so long, and
' I vowed that if anyone would release
I me I would kill him at once, and
would only allow him to ’choose in
I what manner he should die. So you
see, as yrou have freed me today,
choose in what way you will die.
The fisherman was very unhappy.
| ‘What an unlucky man I am to have
freed you! I implore you to spare
I my life.”
“I have told you,” said the genius,
j “that it is impossible, choose quick
ly; you are wasting time.”
The fisherman began to devise a
plot. “Since I must die,” he said, j
| “before I choose the manner of my j
I death, I conjure you on your honor
| to tell me if you really were in that
vase?”
“Yes, I was,” answered the genius.
“I really cannot believe it,” said
j the fisherman. “That vase could not
j contain one of your feet even, and
how could your whole body go in? I
| cannot believe it unless I see you do
I the thing.”
Then the genius began to change
himself into smoke, which, as before,
spread over the sea and the shore,
and which, then collecting itself to
gether, began to go back into the vase
slowly sfnd evenly till there was noth
ing left outside. Then a voice came
from the vase, which said to the fish
erman, “Well, unbelieving fisherman,
here I am in the vase; do you believe ■
me now?”
The fisherman instead of answering
took the lid of lead and shut it down
quickly on the vase.
“Now, O genius,” he cried, “ask par
don of me, and choose by what deatn
you will die! But no, it will be better j
if 1 throw you back into the sea
whence I drew you out, and I will
build a house on the shore to warn j
fishermen who come to cast their nets
here, against fishing up such wicked
genius as you are, who vows to kill
the man who frees you.”
At these words the genius did all
he could to get out, but he could not
because of the enchantment on the lid.
—From the Persian.
THE END.
DR. MOTON RETURNS
FROM FRAN C E
(Special to The Monitor.)
Dr. R. R. Moton landed from Franee
Tuesday on steamer Canada, accom
panied by Lester A. Walton and Na
than Hunt. In frequent consultation
with Colonel House and other high
officials relative to disposition of Ger
many’s African colonies, other mat
i ters affecting darker races reported.
He has been officially asked to return
in connection with peace conference as
soon as possible. Compelled to de
cline invitation to remain at this time
on account of Tuskegees farmers’
conference January 22 and 23. Mili
tary officials and civilians vie with
one another in making stay memor
able. Never before has American
Negro been so signally honored in
France. On fifteen hundred mile trip
visiting Colored troops traveled in au
tomobile from general headquarters
American Expeditionary Forces, usu
ally with military escort. Soldiers told
warm welcome awaits them; empha
sized importance Colored and white
soldiers returning in manly yet mod
est manner; said friendly relations
between races, particularly in south,
depends largely on conduct of Col
ored .soldiers. Received letter from
Wilson thanking him for wholesome
advice given men. Moton went to
France at special request of President
Wilson and Secretary Baker.
— ■■■
PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA LANDS
IN SPAIN ON WAY TO PARIS
Cadiz, Spain.—Daniel P. Howard,
president of Liberia, arrived here to
day on his way to the peace confer
ence. He left immediately for Paris
by way of Barcelona.
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low and wrinkled, her hair to be
come lusterless and hard her nails
to become long and shapeless, she
is placed at a disadvantage beside
the woman who is outwardly at
tractive.
A visit_ once a week to the I*oro X
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