-' 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. __— . — -e..... 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. - — - SUGGESTIVE STATISTICS STATISTICS are generally dry reading. They may indicate much or little. They are quite valuable, however, when they are authentic and reliable as a measurement and indi cation of accomplishment. This is the light in which the statistics which Congressman Emerson presented in his Lincoln anniversary speech in the House of Representatives should be regarded. There are times when even the most optimistic among us are inclined to doubt, if, after all, much real prog ress has been made by our people in this country. There is so much yet to be done that there is often the dis position to underrate the marvelous progress that has been made. Au thentic statistics, such as these, com piled by government experts, show the ever onward and upward march of a virile people and preseht a record of achievement that needs not to make ashamed. Past accomplishments fur nish inspiration for greater endeavors. Show men and women that they have really done something worth while and it encourages them to try to sur pass their former record. The record of the race during the past fifty years as told by authentic and available sta tistics we believe will prove an in spiration to all to infinitely surpass that record, not in the next fifty years, but in the next decade. CO-OPERATION CO-OPERATION means working to gether. It means team work. We, as a people, must learn how to do team work; to co-operate if we are going to take our rightful place and secure our rights, commercial, civil, industrial and political in this coun try or any other country, where we are in the minority. Our status does not differ from that of the prole tariat or poorer classes anywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, our status is superior to that of the cor responding groups in other countries. Students of history know that there has been a constant struggle between the classes and the masses for the securing of justice for the masses or the under class. Our position there fore is not unique. The securing of rights denied has been through the united action of the people seeking them. We need to leam to co-operate, to work together, in business and . everything else and then the effective force of 12,000,000 people will be felt. STORY TELLING LAST week Mrs. Lucile Skaggs Ed wards who conducts our Women and Children column in The Monitor, wrote quite a delightful article on the subject of telling stories to chil dren. We wonder how many of our readers perused it and how many have grasped the significance of the pos sibilities that lay in story telling as a means of developing the mentality of the child ? “I have always found children the finest listeners,” says Mrs. Edwards, and it is time. Children always look upon their parents as superior beings and what ever father or mother says—goes. So now comes the question, “Fathers and mothers, what are you telling your children?” Turn this question over and over in your mind and then turn it to account. We would carry the subject a bit further. Are you telling your child that he or she belongs to a great race, or do you tell him or her that their race is a weakling race? Do you ever tell them about Douglass, Dunbar, Phyllis Wheatly, Paul Cuffe, Booker Washington, Benjamin Banne ker, or any other of our great men? Do you ever tell them any of the • charming African myths or about the great cities and temples and tombs which the African nations have built? If not, bimsh up on these things and talk to your children about them. Once you begin you will find that the mother’s or father’s knee will be the sanctuary at which the child will kneel oftenest. IS IT WORTH WHILE? THE recent agitation among pacic ing house employees for higher wages has finally resulted in an in-1 crease of two and one-half cents per hour. The increase is hailed as a victory for the unions, but is it really worth while? As a result of the raise the employees are limited to eight hoars; heads of departments have been notified to cut down the force to a working minimum; thousands of men have lost their jobs; and produc tion has been lessened. We believe that the present scale of wages is inadequate to meet the pres ent cost of living, but are the unions really accomplishing much by continu ally forcing the raising of the wage scale ? Does not each raise react against those who force it ? Is there not some other way to adjust these economic conditions other than using the force of organized labor? It ap pears that the employer is ready and willing to join hands with labor and bring about a readjustment of condi tions that will be for the betterment of all, and somehow we feel that in the end it will be better for labor to accetp the employers offer and see if permanent and lasting results can not be effected. DO UNTO OTHERS AS— IN the Chicago Deefnder of last week there appears a large advertisement for The Homesteader, a movie that has been made from the book of that name by Oscar Micheaux. The writer of the ad has done well in bringing it prominently before the readers of The Defender, but we take exception to one word and take ex ception to it strongly. The ad reads. “After years por traying in a hundred ways the life and problems of the white man, the Indian, the Jap, the Chink—” and we stop right here. Why has the word "Chink” been used instead of the word “Chinese?” If a Chinese had w’ritten this ad and used the word “nigger” there would have been a! howl from the very source from which j came this word “Chink.” Can we af ford to forget ourselves and use de risive terms concerning others when we bitterly resent such terms being used about ourselves? “Do unto oth ers as you would have others do unto you,” is a good maxim, even when writing advertisements. — SOCIAL LEPERS A MONG Omaha’s younger set there I are two “society” belles who, for j some time, have created much admira- 1 tion among their associates because: of their costly and beautiful raiment. ! Many of the girls of this set have ! wondered how these young women could dress expensively upon the sal- ! ary of $10 a ’week, but they have never | thought for a moment that they were anything except what they pretended to be, namely respectable young worn- 1 en. In the regular routine of business, a member of The Monitor staff acci- j dentally came upon the explanation of why it is possible for these young butterflies to lord it over the other ! girls of their clique. Quite recently j these two young women went into a well-known and fashionable woman’s j shop and purchased two new dresses. ! Instead of paying for them, they had , them charged to two young men who : were neither relatives nor husbands. If there is one thing more than any other which our race must combat, it is the immorality among our young people. It is not a savory' subject to write about, yet The Monitor feels that it fails in its duty to its readers were it to remain silent in the face of such moral leprosy. We hope that these cases are rare and we advise our young women to dress in rags rather than sell their bodies for a price that renders their debt to hon est womanhood forever unpayable. SENATOR HITCHCOCK CORRECTS MONITOR IN writing a short editorial recently 1 The Monitor mentioned that Sen ator Hitchcock voted for the national prohibitory amendment. A letter from the senator’s secretary calls our at tention to the fact that the senator has voted against national prohibition every time it has been submitted. The Monitor takes this opportunity to apologize to the senator for the mis-statement of fact and thanks him for the correction. DID HE REALLY MEAN IT? ON February 11, Representative Eugene Black of Texas, deliv ered a speech in the house of repre sentatives against the three-year nav al construction program. In closing his address, Mr. Black said: “Then may the vision of Dumas be realized, j when great armies shall vie for su premacy in acts of true charity ami benevolence, their war cry being, ‘The , Fatherhood of God and the brother- ! ! hood of man!” Here the representative has chosen | to mention the vision of a black man, but we wonder if he meant to include the black race in his dream of univer- i sal brotherhood? i _ I [ Obvious Observations I CCHICAGO and New York have set A the examples of what should be ! done when the soldier boys come j ; home. What are we going to do? | Speak up! The Herald screamed across its headlines about a Negro attacking a white woman and then shut up all of a sudden. What was the matter? Was it a fake? The readjustment congress has said some mighty fine things here in the last few days and now we want to see some practice. We are glad that Clemenceau es caped death and we venture to say that when he sits at the peace table again he will be more of a tiger than ever. Our winter wasn’t so bad after all and a few days ago we got a chance to shovel a little snow anyway. At last we hear that Chicago has decided to stall a real Negro Press association. Hats off to Chicago! It is something we most surely and sorely need. Traffic stopped in Chicago six hours when the Colored boys came home! •Sounds like Chi thinks something of her boys, doesn’t it? Maybe there won’t be some fire works around congress way after March 4th! Germany is having fitful fevers again. Thanking you for your most ardu- , ous attention, we will now proceed to swing the ax on a few more broth ers and sisters who think a Colored weekly can exist on air sauce and ! wind pudding. SKITS OF SOLOMON Boils □ BOIL is a circumscribed intensi fication of excessive pain that j decides to inhabit some portion or I part of the human anatomy for a long I or short period, and has about as much comfort in it as a hot stove on an ! August day. We never had a boil j in our life until just now and we | don’t care if we never have another, j Some of our friends have noticed en passant that our head is geared ! at an acute angle and doesn’t mob ! ilize readily, and when asking the ! whyfor of the whereas, we explain our acquaintance with friend boil. Thereupon we are told how once upon a time they had from four to two \ dozen on certain necessary parts of their anatomical architecture and that ! there was no human way to escape j j constant notice of their being on the job. We can certainly sympathize with them for this one lone member | of our coporeal construction is misery' 1 enough. We don’t want or need any more. Just now we are thinking of j Mr. Job, the famous boilist, who had. so many all over him that no mathe- i matician could count them Some- j how we don’t blame him for feeling j blue and thinking that the world and everything else was handing him the hot end of the poker. W'e agree, however, that he had SOME patience. Any man who can have several thou- j sand boils and stay constant to the idea that nobody is to blame for them, deserves to get his name on the front page of history and stay there. Solo mon will write something more inter esting next week, but for the present all he can think about are BOILS. TO ENCOURAGE THE SAVING HABIT TJ HELP every individual develop j habits of w'ise saving which will • lead to his own prosperity and neces sarily to the prosperity of the nation, there has been established a newly organized Savings Division in the ! United States Treasury. The immediate object of the work of the Savings Division will be to preserve the nation’s war-taught hab its of economy and to encourage each individual to accumulate funds which may be profitably loaned to the gov ernment. Through the small securi ties offered by the government, such as Thrift Stamps and War Savings Stamps, the privilege is not being re stricted to a wealthy few, but to prac tically every man, womanand child in the country, can have a share in helping the government meet its many war obligations, and carry out the plans of peace. If War Savings Stamps cannot be bought outright, extra pennies can be put into twenty-five cent Thrift Stamps. When sixteen of these are collected they can be exchanged for a War Savings Stamp. Both Thrift Stamps and War Savings Stamps are obtainable in any postoffice, or bank, and at many factories and stores, etc. The ultimate object of the Treas ury’s intensive thrift campaign will be to bring home to every American the great personal value of intelligent saving. Stress will be laid on wise buying and investment in absolutely safe securities, such as the govern ment offers, and an avoidance of all waste. It is hoped to make these principles permanent habits of every day life and thus assure steady pros perity to the nation and to the indi vidual. It is pointed out that saving does not mean hoarding. Saving means a balancing of present needs against fu ture needs, and putting the money which would be allowed to slip away on unnecessaries into interest-bearing investment. Saving means taking rare of present needs, and increasing other wise carelessly spent money, for fu ture needs and even luxuries. It Is the road to Easy Street. In order to reach every place and every person in the country with their message, the Savings Division of the Treasury has divided up the work ac cording to Federal Reserve Districts. Each Federal Reserve Governor is in charge of the campaign in his dis trict. He appoints a Savings Director for the District, and the District Sav ings Director, in turn, appoints a State Savings Director for each state in the district, who looks out for the organ izing of County and Community Sav ings Committees. At headquarters in Washington the Savings Division is composed of a group of educators, economists, business men and writers. It is planned to promote the savings idea chiefly through the medium of War Savings Societies. There are al ready 165,000 of these societies throughout the country, ranging in membership from a handful to a thou sand each. The purpose of the soci eties is to help the members find new and agreeable ways of saving and to make the purchase of Thrift Stamps j and War Savings Stamps exceedingly i convenient. Many new societies are constantly being formed. It is hoped that through the interest and co-operation of every American 1919 will indeed become a year of thankful thrift, and the happy habit of saving will become a permanent American characteristic.—Savings Di vision U. S. Treasury. CHICAGO NOW LEADS IN NEGRO POPULATION Southern Immigration Has Increased Population to 150,000—Large Sec tions of City Now Occupied by Ne gro Residents. BIG INFLUX STILL IMPENDING By the Associated Negro Press. Chicago, Feb. 27.—Chicago, the sec ond largest city in the nation, leads all others in Negro population, ac cording to the latest and best infor mation obtainable. Statistics gath ered since the beginning of the mi gration more than two years ago, place the Negro population of the “Windy City” at 150,000. The sec tion on the South Side formerly known as the “Black Belt” has spread in so many directions that the belt has increased in size until it is now j a coat. Section after section of the big city where white families formerly lived have been turned over to Negro resi dents because of the great demand for homes. Many of these places run up in values to thousands of dollars, but members of the race are living in them and keeping them, in many in stances, in much beter condition than their former white occupants. How ever, there has in too many instances been a disproportionate increase of rentals, and this matter is receiving the attention of civic workers. Demand for labor, high wages and the awakening of the Negro through travels induced by the war, together with southern discrimination and lynchings, are among the causes of the tremendous influx. While the labor conditions now are greatly af fected by the war adjustment prob lems, there is every reason to believe that 1919 will see another big mi gration as soon as industrial ques tions are easier. T. Arnold Hill, secretary of the Chi- I cago Urban League, said recently: “There have been few labor troubles, because the majority of the men cm- , ployed are unionized. This probably has prevented troubles which other- I wise might have risen. “There have been some conflicts j when Negro families established themselves, but no real racial trou ble.” PART IN LABOR PROBLEMS Boston, Mass.—Frank P. Chisholm, of Tuskegee, in an address before the Twentieth Century club, white, here, stated that in view of the large mi gration of the Negroes from the south and the likelihood of restrictions on imigration, the American Negro is to play a very important part in the solution of labor problems. 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