The Monitor A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans. Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postofflce at Omaha. Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and Madree Penn, Associate Editors. Fred C. Williams, Business Manager. 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 Douglas 3224. »a__——s^————/ THEN welcome each rebuff that turns earth’s smoothness rough. Each sting that bids nor sit; nor stand; but go. Be our joys three parts pain; Learn, nor account the pang; Dare, never grudge the throe. —Browning. i ' 18——♦81 8 , » « « — “ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS” THE eloquent tribute paid by the Hon. J. O. Thompson to Theodore Roosevelt is such a wonderful piece of eloquence that we have reproduced it in full for the enjoyment of all our readers. This red-blooded American all love and honor and revere. Theodore Roosevelt could always be found “on the side of the angels.” And this is is that places him among the few im mortals. WATCH DOG OF THE SENATE THIS for years has been the title conferred upon one who gave ev ery bit of himself to the service of his race—Archibald H. Grimke, to whom has been awarded the fifth Spingam medal. Never did an ad verse piece of legislation appear in congress hut what this man knew7 of, it and organized the fight against it. He watched always to see that no law aimed to abridge the rights and priv ileges of Colored Americans should pass, unless it passed after every force had been brought to bear to crash it. That the District of Colum bia does not have “jim crow” car laws is due in a large measure to the un ceasing efforts of this man. In honoring him wre honor ourselves. The committee does well when it re wards seventy years of service to his race and his country by conferring upon Archibald H. Grimke, author, scholar and worker the Spingam med al and all the honor that goes with it. WHO SHALL PAY FOR THE HOUSTON RIOT TSE question has arisen as to who shall pay the financial cost of the Houston riot. Shall the $80,000 prop erty loss be congress’ or the indi viduals. Our minds go back, but it is not of dollars we are thinking. We are thinking of those thirteen Negroes who paid the price, and as we think wre tell ourselves that the ultimate goal of the universe is the kingdom of God which means a better social order than now, a time when the life and practices of men shall be based upon the laws of God. Nothing worth while comes in this wrorld unless some one pays the price. We bow7 the head, O God, we bow7 the head, Tear-dimmed with grief and pain and sort distress While in our ears rings out the hymn of those thirteen Who paid the |>rice! Their mutiny was the rash act of those Whose red-blood cried out against op pression. East St. Louis and her horrors filled their souls with dread And made impossible calm delibera tion; They paid the price! We raise our heads again, O Lord, again Above thy throne, undimmed, the morning star doth rise, Heralding from out the gloomy travail of the night a rosy dawn. Faith sends our grieving souls this! consolation: Through alltho ages past, in thy econ omy O God of love— Never in vain, has martyred soul Paid the price. A SCIENTIFIC VOLUME WE welcome to our desk a volume on Negro Migration in 1916-17. This book is gotten out by the U. S. department of labor—division of Ne gro economics, George E. Haynes, Ph. D., director. This book is an invaluable contri bution to the subject of Negro mi gration which is at present such a mighty factor in war readjustments. Villa and Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm cer tainly have managed to keep monot ony aw'ay from the world during these latter years. Some say that re-incar nation is a reality and Beelzebub has come back as twins. * ... •'• • • » »1 j Flashings of i | Most Anything ; If the twin gods of COLOR and COIN are dethroned REAL DEM OCRACY in America might get a look in. Here’s a jaw-breaker for you:— Isadore Valentineswearskinsky—that is the name he gave to the Chicago United States employment service bureau. Omaha has twenty-one parks, cov ering approximately 1,000 acres. The city has done its best to give us cool places these hot days, and now, if we can negotiate with the mosquitoes so that they will stay away, maybe we’ll find some comfort also. Congress by a vote of 233 to 122 agrees to let us tell time by the sun again. So, you folk who think that extra morning hour sleep the sweet est, can have the same after the last Sunday in October. The hens in Naples, Italy, are all 1 puffed up: eggs selling at $3.00 a pair, a pair. Say, Senator Phelan, that elimina tion business of yours strikes us as being a discordant note in the har mony of this League of Nation song they are singing around here. Looks like Mississippi may learn what a boomerang is. Bolsheviki seems a pretty good name to call all foreign cussedness. We will give a prize to the fellow who will help us name these pesky “Lily Whites” who keep on tlying to pilot the ship of state against the current. Folks are beginning to awake to the fact that 138,000,000 Africans might get tired pretty soon of having the other fellow do all their thinking for them. With England as the determined champion of self rule for the wan dering tribes of scattered Arabs we are not surprised that India and Egypt are asking a few pertinent questions. If “Mike” can get into the Peace Conference and carry' his troubles in old Ireland with him, “Sam” may take the stopper out of that U. S. cologne, and Paris may' get a whiff of burning flesh. PRESS GLEANINGS We must never forget that the wild, bruitish frenzy that causes a white mob to take the life of a Negro ac cused of crime is in the end a greater injury to the white people than to the black. For so long as a white man’s government doesn’t protect the life of prisoners within its custody, the white man’s civilization is not a civ ilization invested with many elements of perpetuity. And the white man’s government will be far from a kind of government that the world will re spect.—Houston (Tex.) Post. The first thing is to give the Negro justice in our courts of justice. Let his punishment be meted on the same measure as that given the white man. As we have remarked in the past, the white man, with his opportunities really deserves the greater degree of punishment. Yet he often escapes on account of nothing but the color of his skin. The day has come when the south must see that the Negro is treated in court as a being deserving consideration.—Columbia (S. C.) Rec ord. ________ 0 What the Negro wants in this coun try is what Ireland in a larger sense wants of England. Ireland wants to be free to live as she pleases. The Negro wants the opportunity to live as other Americans live under the laws of the land for which the Negro labored and died. The Irish want a chance to live and develop; the Negro is asking for the same thing in the last analysis.—Pittsburg Courier. Health of Colored Troops The Negro is constitutionally a bet ter physiological machine than the white man. This is the conclusion drawn by experts from the military examination asnd experiences of the past few years as reported by the edi tor of “Current Comment,” page in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Chicago, May 17). Stu dents of eugenics, he says, point out that certain races have unconsciously varied in their choices of partners in such a way as to bring about differing conditions, with respect to resistance to disease, to mental capacity, and to moral quality. Of these, the resist ance to disease is susceptible of more accurate estimation because it can be considered on the basis of statistical information. He goes on: “A peculiarly valuable instance is afforded by the comparison of white men and Negroes of the United States army. The numbers are sufficiently large to give some semblance of valid ity to the deductions which they per mit. The white and Colored troops live under equally good sanitary con ditions and are examined with equal diagonistic skill. A study of the sort indicated has recently been reported by Lieut. Col. Love and Maj. Daven port, who have undertaken an analysis of more than half a million admissions to sick report of our army, including more than 15,000 of the Colored troops. For many maladies the mor bidity rate is the same in the two races. The army officers have, how ever, ascertained from the statistics that the Colored troops are relatively less resistant to diseases of the lungs and pleura as well as to certain gen eral diseases, like tuberculosis and smallpox; they are also much more frequently infected with venereal dis eases and suffer widespread compli cations from these diseases. Love and Davenport point out, on the other hand, that in general the skin not only on the surface of the body, but also that which is infolded to form the lining of the mouth and nasopharknx, is much more resistant to microorgan isms in Negroes than in white men. The skin seems to be relatively a de generate skin in this respect. Fur thermore, the nervous system of the uninfected Negroes show fewer cases of ‘instability’ than those of white men. Thus there is far less neuras thenia, there are fewer instances of psychopathic states, and there is only half as much alchosism in Colored as in white troops. Nutritional disorders . . . . are also less common among the Negroes. As Love and Davenport describe the unifected Ne gro, he seems to have more stable nerves, has better eyes and metaboliz es better. Thus, in many respects, the uninfected Colored troops show themselves to be constitutionally bet ter physiological machines than the white men.”—Literary Digest. THE PERISCOPE Africa Africa, “the land of darkness,” is slowly, but surely, becoming the con tinent of light. Africa, endowed by nature with richer gifts than any oth er continent of the world, is swaying I the politics of the nations of earth, I for one reason and another. Civilization has reached its highest pinacle in Africa, and in some sec tions of it, one may be lead to believe that civilization has reached its low est ebb. Nevertheless, Africa is grand and glorious in promise, and no less a person than Dr. Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago has recent ly said so publicly. There are a great many people of our group who sneer at the thought that their forebears came from the continent of Africa. Others inquire: “What have I to do with Africa? I live in America.” There should be a cessation of that kind of talk about the African continent. That kind of talk is a true sign of ignorance—ig norance of history, conditions and hu man duty. Africa is worthy of our respect, j honor ami pride. Africa may yet rise up in its might and redeem us from whatever oppressions now suffered by this American group. Labor Keen to observe the “handwriting on the wall,” the American Federation of Labor has turned a sommersauit of attitude on the race conditions of America that may be regarded as one of the most significant exhibitions witnessed in many years. Labor has voted practically unanimously, to ad mit Colored laborers on “terms of' equality.” Labor has seen that the Colored people of the country are fast falling into economic power, and without sup port from this side much progress will be lacking. Of course it will remain for the individual organization “back home” to put the decree of the con vention into effect. Scores and scores of delegates publicly told of their lo cals already admitting members of the race. There is a growing senti ment in favor of giving fair play to the Colored man, as little as it may seem at times, and the move by labor will have unquestioned effect on many other avenues of progress. TO A ROSEBUD By Eva Alberta Jessie O DAINTY bud, I hold thee in my hand, A castaway, a dead and lifeless thing; A few days since I saw thee wet with dew, A bud of promise to thy parent cling. Now thou art dead, but lovely as be fore— The adverse winds but waft thy frag range piore. How frail art thou! I tramp thee un derfoot And leave thee helpless on the reek ing ground; Perchance some one, in pity for thy state, Doth pick thee up in reverence pro found, Lo! thou are pure with sweetness more intense, Thy perfume grows from earthly det- J riments. Why do we grieve? Let each afflic tion bare A greater purpose neath the surface sod. And hope arise as incense from the j urn, And mounting up, enshroud the throne of God. Envoy of faith, this lesson I dis close— “Be ever sweet,” thou humble, frag rant rose! O TELL ME OTELL me where the flowers hide when the wintry breezes blow, O tell me where the stars abide when noontide sun doth glow, 0 tell me little bird what message have you heard of sweetest melody? 0 tell me streamlet gay, what guides you on your way, On your journey, your journey to the sea? 0 can it be the little stream is guided by God’s hand, By us unseen, the bright stars gleam to light up heaven’s land? The birdling brings his song, sent by ; the angel throng. To tel' his Master’s love. The little summer flower has lived its little hour, Vow finds its wav. its wav above. “AFRICA MAY COST WHAT IS LEFT OF EUROPE” Self-Determination Only Solution—Li beria Greatest Marvel of the 19th Century. (By Associated Negro Press.) Chicago, June 25.—“Africa and Af rica only, will be important in the world’s politics for the next ten years," says Dr. Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago, anthropol ogist, traveler and lecturer. • “Africa may cost what is left of Europe, for Europe has neither the men nor the money to maintain dom inion over Africa. “Africa has 138,000,000 discontented people. “Europe is sending back to Africa tens of thousands of black men who have been trained to face white men under arms. These black men, who have been denied arms in the past, can manufacture their own weapons in the future. “Liberia is the only hope of Africa. Liberia may save the world from chaos. It is the greatest marvel of the nineteenth century, and I mean j to make my exhibit of Liberia and Congo Free State so vivid and so real that it will impress these facts on all who come to the Methodist cen tenaiy celebration in Columbus, June,' 20 to July 13. Dr. Starr has postponed what will be his ninth trip to Japan in order to be present and supervise the dis play of his curios at the centenary celebration. “Liberia,” says Dr. Starr, repre sents the largest thing the black man has ever accomplished. It is at pres ent represented before the peace com mission of Europe, with plans that territory unjustly taken from it by France and England may be restored. “Liberia represents the only ex pression of self-government in Africa and I am not speaking as a radical when I say that this is the only hope of the continent. “Egypt is in a foment. Morocco is held by force of arms. 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