Nebraska Newspapers

    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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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. That which
was German Africa will not be con
tent under mandatory of any other
nation .Leading French and English
military and civil authorities have oft
en said, by word and in writing, that
with any considerable evidence of dis
order their African possessions can
not be held by the number of men
and the amount of money they can
afford to spend on them.”
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