The Monitor
K 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 Postofflee 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.
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Advertising Rates, 60 cents an Inch per issue.
Address. The Monitor, 304 Crounse Block, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone Webster 4243.
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A NEW INTEREST IN LIBERIA
DR. ’N. H. B. CASSELL, president
of the University of Liberia, is in
the United States for the purpose of
securing financial aid for Liberia’s
education work. Hampton Institute
has taken the lead is not only calling
upon the race to give aid, but encour
aging the emigration of our people
to Liberia. It is our hope and desire
that American Negroes give liberally
to this cause and help this little nation
so far across the seas. She needs
help. In the war Liberia cast her
lot with the allies and thereby lost
much of her trade. She is in desper
ate straits, but the prospects are that
the United States will lend her suffi
cient money to tide her over this pe
riod of stringency. Her country is a
rich one and its very richness has
made it an object of desire to many
of the European nations.
Some have said that Liberia is not
a success as a government, but those
only say it who are ignorant of her
history'. When one considers the many
difficulties which Liberia has been
forced to overcome, the aggressions
of England, France and Germany, and
the inadequate facilities for develop
ing her latent wealth, Liberia can be
but considered nothing but a success.
It is now the turn of the Ameri
can Negroes to show their interest in
Liberia and we hope that they' respond
cheerfully in aiding Dr. Cassell in his
work. It is a deserving one and one
that should awaken the pride of every'
race loving man and woman.
LEARN TO THINK BLACK
IN a recent article submitted to The
Monitor by a man of many years
experience as a teacher, we quote
these words: “If under present condi
tions the Negro has more regard for
the white race than his own, is it not
because he has been taught to think
white? In my' school experience I
have taught from dozens of readers
from the primer to the eighth grade,
and in all these, not a line have I
found from a Negro author or a word
relating a commendable Negro deed.
Are we to sit supinely by' and permit
this teaching to go on without raising
our voices in dissent? If so, then let
us not complain because our youth
prefer peroxide soaps and cosmetics.”
There is much in these words to
cause us to stop and consider. In
the school room the mind of youth
is moulded and there is no doubting
the truth that the mould today is
the white man’s mould. We must get
away from it if we are to become a
real factor in the world. We must
learn to think black. We must change
the factors of our mental life and
make the final equation black instead
of white. If it cannot be effected in
the school room, then it must be per
fected in the home. Our children
MUST KNOW and it is incumbent
upon the parents that they SHALL
KNOW. In the columns of The Mon
itor is a small list of racial books,
cheap in price, that will give the facts
and we insist that race men and wom
en who care should have them, should
read them and should disseminate the
truths they contain. We must learn
to think black and until we do, we
are but sounding brass and tinkling
cymbals.
THE BOLSHEVIKI.
TIE terror of bolshevism is start
ling Europe. Russia has long
since fallen to its sway, it is rife in
Germany, Hungary has fallen into its
clutches, and reports are that it has
crept into the French army. Egypt
has rebelled and Arabia is growing
restless. The press claims that the
doctrines are being preached in Eng
land, North America and South Amer
ica. What does it mean ?
To our mind it means that the
masses are determined that liberty
shall become a real thing and not a
dream. It is not to be gainsaid that
the craze for wealth brought about
the war and justified it. Wealth de
clared that the war was for human lib
erty. Then when wealth saw that the
masses of mankind were taking the
word too literally, it called a halt and
ended the war. But already the war
that real liberty may reign. This is the
had gone too long. The masses were
not satisfied and so today they are
warring against capitalism to the end
real liberty may reign. This is the
real truth of the bolsheviki movement.
The press of this country may howl,
condemn, misrepresent, and falsely re
port, but it is only the money power
speaking through the press. If bol
shevism has become a Frankenstein,
it is the money power that has created
it and it is now reaping the reward of
its baseness. So far it little concerns
us as a people. The fight is among
the whites themselves and we are con
tent to let it remain there.
CO-OPERATION IN PITTING
OVER WORTHY ENTERPRISES
THERE are several noteworthy big
enterprises calling for co-opera
tion upon the part of our people to
put them “over the top." Among
these may be mentioned the campaign
to raise $20,000 to complete Zion Bap
tist church, which will be a credit to
oui citizens; and a campaign soon to
| be launched for $25,000 for a much
needed Y. M. C. A. Allen Chapel A.
M. E. church, South Side, wants $5,000
for needed improvements on its
and can be speedily accomplished by
hearty co-operation upon the part of
all citizens.
and Paul. These perhaps are the
most immediate enterprises calling for
financial drives. They are all worthy
church building. The Rev. John Cos
tello of Pleasant Green Baptist church
wants $1,200 to wipe out the indebted
ness on his church at Twenty-second
'rhis, however, should be done, by
all orgnizations appealing to the pub
lie for subscriptions. A careful and
[omplete accounting for all monies
received and expended should be pub
lished, so that the public may know
that their contributions either large
or small have been expended for the
objects designated. Accounts should
be audited and reported. This will
inspire confidence and make the pub
lic more willing to respond.
Let all our citizens co-operate
cheerfully and willingly in putting
over praiseworhy enterprises of all
kinds in the community, and in jus
tice to all concerned, let there be, too.
an honest and complete accounting for
all monies so contributed.
SKITS OF SOLOMON
The Peace Conference
The peace conference of Paris is an
international consolidation of agitated
opinion. When the German nation
\ riled “Kamerad!” and decided to dec
orate the terms of the armistice with
its John Henry, fourteen points were
jabbing her in the ribs. Now there
are fourteen thousand. Every nation
from Hingland to the two-by-fours
unknown to history and geography,
are demanding everything that Ger
many ever had or will have in the
next million years. If the double
headed eagle of the Rhine has any
.‘eathers, flesh or bones, left when the
allies and neutrals get through, it
will be because they don’t like gizzards
and livers. The thing which makes
the world hot under the necktie is
that nobody knows what is going on
at the peace conference except the
delegates and the furniture. When the
allies scored the knockout, it was un
derstood that there would be no
stacked cards or diplomatic sleight of
hand, but now it is different. If a
delegate breathes a word concerning
the collective tabasco tempest, he is
presented with a pair of steel ear
muffs and opaque glasses and shown
to a seat in the gallery. The leaders
continue to clamor for action, but
from all accounts the lower maxil
lanes of the delegates are the only
things getting any of it. Meanwhile
Germany and her immediate friends
are getting nervous and making the
allies nervous too. The League of
Nations is sliding down a greased
trail and the conference wants to hur
ry through a treaty so that they can
hand the Bolsheviki a hot one. All in
all the peace conference is becoming
i a huge joke.
j Obvious Observations 1
VV'T’E are glad to be able to say that
W spring has at last arrived with
both little tootsies on the ground.
We all want to go to Liberia, but
we want Liberia to be ready for us
when we get there.
Simonds says that the peace con
ference will become the greatest fizzle
of modern times. England got what
she wanted and is letting the rest
hustle for themselves.
Have you planted your lettuce and
radishes yet ?
Housecleaning is now in order. Also
the semi-annual bath.
We thank the many friends who
are paying up their subscriptions and
want the others to hurry up and find
our office. Our collector can’t get
! to everyone at once.
The Bolsheviki are busy in Europe
and are keeping the big nations jump
: inp sidewise.
The boys in the aviation corps
j raised the red flag down in Texas and
said if they weren’t discharged, there
wcuId be something doing. Yester
day they were discharged.
A job for every returned soldier
hasn’t panned out and the soldiers
are growing nervous.
When wlil the H. C. L. take another
tumble?
Thanking you kindly for your earn
est and undivided attention, we will
now tie a ribbon over our dome and
start helping the wife get rid of the
winter’s dust.
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Just a part of the crowds that visited our store at the last big DOLLAR SALE
Another Startling
SHOE SALE
FOR THURSDAY
and FRIDAY ONLY
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Women’s and Children’s white slippers Men’s Dress Shoes in vici, gunmetal and
and shoes in canvas, Nubuck and kid, ,, , .
nearly all sizes and styles. A splendid calfskin this lot includes all styles,
chance to get your Easter $100 among them the dressy Eng- $198
footwear at bargain prices, I lish last. This lot Monday I
Monday and Tuesday, at and Tuesday, at
Children’s Shoes and Slippers in patent
gunmetal and vici, all sizes; $198 Ladi^’ StraP Slippers, with $149
Monday and Tuesday, I high or low heel, Monday 1
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children’s shoes in our store will be
sold during this two- ^ f
day sale at a discount £ ^
KINNEY’S BIG
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i 205-207-209 North 16th Street. Hotel Loyal Building
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PARLOR, 1821 North 21th St.
All kinds of shoes cleaned and
repaired. Carpets renovated,
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24TH ST. SHINING PARLOR
1823 N. 24th. Opposite Alhambra
Private chairs for ladies. We
clean and dye all colors of ladies
shoes. J. J. Jones, Prop.
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Webster 3028.
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Open 8 A. M. to 12 P. M.
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