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THE MONITOR
A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored
Americans. __
Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub
; llahlng Company. ___
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1916. 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 Madree Penn, Associate Editors.
Fred C. Williams, Business Manager.
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Address, The Monitor, 304 Crounse Block, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone Douglas 3224.
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THE SIN OF SILENCE
t|X) sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards
out of men. The human race has climbed on protest.
Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and
lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines
decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler
Wilcox.
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THE RACE AWAKENING
NO one could attend the sessions
of the tenth anniversary confer
ence of the N. A. A. C. P. and listen
to the sane, able and intelligent dis
cussions without being uplifted, in
spired and convinced of the ability,
integrity and awakening sense of pow
er of the Negro race in these United
States. Uplifted by the demonstra
tion of the race’s ability and capacity
and its noble traits of character, in
spired by this demonstration to do
all within one’s power to live worthy
of the best traditions of the race and
to help foster, develop and train, so
far as in one lies these wonderful
traits and capacities. Convinced that
the racp is thinking its problems
through, knows its power, its rights,
its privileges, its obligations and its
determination by well directed organ
ization to obtain by moral appeal all
to which it is justly entitled.
There is a unanimity of purpose
upon the part of the Negro race in 1
America today which means a new
era of better things.
There was no counselling to deeds |
of violence in the great meeting at
Cleveland, but a frank and outspoken
determination to fight race proscrip
tion and prejudice by an intelligent,
well organized propaganda, appealing
to the sense of justice and fair play
from fellow Americans of the white
race and to invoke the courts only as
a last resort. The weapons are to
be agitation, education, publicity and
the courts. The fight is on and will
not cease until the victory is won. It
is not a sectional fight, but a na
tional fight, indeed an international
one. The Negro is awakening. He
is organizing and co-operating in or
der that he may secure simple justice
in this country, to whose best inter
ests he has always been loyal and
true. In this fight he is not alone.
Thousands of liberal-minded, noble
hearted white men and women, are
with him, but above all Almighty God,
the God of righteousness, justice and
truth is on his side and if the race
will only remain true to Him it will
triumph gloriously. "Not by MIGHT,
but by RIGHT, and My Spirit Saith
the Lord.”
AGAINST SEGREGATION IN
LABOR
Thomas p. Reynolds, head of
the local labor unions, is author
ity for the statement that organized
labor is opposed to the principle of
segregation in the employment of la
bor. He says that he sees no reason
why Colored and white workmen could
not and should not work side by side
in the same office, mill or factory.
White labor has no right to ask for
itself special rights and privileges
which it would withhold from black
labor. The rights of one must be the
rights of all, and all must be equally
safeguarded. There must be a recog
nition of true democracy within the
ranks of organized labor.
The Monitor hopes that Mr. Rey
nolds voices the sentiment not only of
labor leaders, but also of the rank
and file. We are frank to say that we
do not believe he does. His position is
fundamentally sound, and to this posi
tion union labor must ultimately come
if it be true to basic principles and
would survive. However, union labor
has been joined to its idols so long in
excluding black labor from its ranks
and privileges that it will take more
than the fiat of the most influential
labor leader to move it to do that
which is just.
Mr. Reynolds is standing upon high
ground and we sincerely hope that
labor will ascend to the same plane.
Segregation in labor is undoubtedly
wrong. All labor should be justly and
fairly treated. We are glad to see
that organized labor is at last moving
in the right direction. It must not be
disappointed, however, if the thought
ful Negro workman—and the Negro
everywhere is thinking hard, fast and
seriously these days—prove somewhat
cautious in accepting the well-meant
overtures from labor unions.
USING OPPORTUNITIES
OPPORTUNITY is knocking at the
door of the Colored American as
never before. Positions in the busi
ness and industrial world hitherto
closed to us are opening everywhere.
It is up to us to prove our worthi
ness for these opportunities of em
ployment by making good. To do!
this means that we must be exceeding
ly careful to be prompt, courteous, de
pendable, honest and efficient. There
must be no shiftlessness, carelessness
or loafing on the job. It makes no
difference what the other fellow does
and gets by with it; that’s not our
concern. It is our duty to render hon
est, full and efficient service, the very
best that is in us. We are in the
limelight. We are being carefully
watched, all our actions conned and
noted to be cast into our teeth, if we
fail, and as justification for withheld
or denied ’opportunities. Therefore,
whatever your position may be do
realize that by the way you do your
work and conduct yourself you are
either helping to batter down the wall
of race prejudice or rearing the wall
a little higher. If you are given a
job that no Colored man has held be
fore, do remember the responsibility
which is yours by reason of this op
portunity. So use your opportunity
that what has come to you by suf
ferance, tolerance or industrial and
economic necessity, may become guar
anteed to you and yours by merit.
Do your level best. Strive to excel.
Promptness, thoroughness, honesty,
reliability are demanded from all who
would make good. Opportunities are
here now and looming larger .every
day. May we use them wisely and
realize our racial responsibility in
doing so.
AT ITS USUAL TRICKS
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THE Omaha Daily News is at its
usual reprehensible tricks of try
;ng to stir up trouble by sensational
neadlines of alleged assaults by Ne
groes upon women. Of course, no one
has any sympathy for a degenerate,
white or black, who will attack a
woman for purposes of defilement.
But why is it necessary for the News
to play’ up the merest rumor of an
alleged assault, where the assailant is
supposed to be a Negro, with scream
ing headlines? There is only one
course for self-respecting people In
this community who do not approve
of such methods to follow and that is
to refuse to buy the Omaha Daily
News.
CAREFUL READING
Reading is a popular pastime in
the United States. No country on
earth has as many publications of
various kinds as has ours. Nowhere
are so many books printed, sold and
read; but with the increasing quan
tity of reading material and the
growing habit of keeping up with the
latest fiction there has come a grave
danger to the art of reading for in
struction rather than for amusement.
It is useful.for us to stop once in
a while in our reading and consider
whether we are getting intellectual
and moral value from the great mass
of fiction it is our habit to wade
through in the course of a few months.
If we will sternly demand of our
selves a count of the worth-while
ideas we have acquired through read
ing in, say, a month, we may surprise
ourselves with the discovery that to
name even a handful of points learned
is an almost impossible task. We
have read thousands of words, hun
dreds of pages and it is quite pos
sible that the things we have really
learned may be put in fifty words—
or less.
Our broader democracy, our better
living conditions and our broader in
terest in life as compared with most
other nations, are undoubtedly due in
large degree not only to our free
public education, but to our reading
habits as well; but while wegread much
we need to become more active stu
dents of our reading. Not students
just to show our superior learning;
that is pedantry; but students to be
more useful citizens.
One of the greatest moralists of all
ages, Thomas A. Kempis, wrote this
five hundred years ago:
“If thou desire to profit read with
humility, simplicity and faithfulness;
nor ever desire the repute of learn
ing."
We do not need to read studiously
for the sake of becoming learned, but
if we are going to make our influ
ence a little more effective for good
we should read carefully, at least onre
in a while; and it is careful reading
that brings profit.—The Detroit Jour
nal.
THE N. A. A. C. P.
Cleveland is hostess this week to
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, gath
ered here for its tenth anniversary
conference. It is an organization that
has demonstrated its usefulness to the
country, and the city is pleased to
extend its hospitality to delegates and
visitors.
The association had its birth in the
Lincoln centennial year, as it gets
much of its inspiration from the life
and labors and achievements of the
great emancipator. In response to a
call sent out to the people of Ameri
ca to give thought to the condition of
the Negro, a conference was held in
May, 1909. Attention was called to
the wrongs and suffering endured by
Colored people and plans were laid to
combat them in every reasonable and
proper way. President Charles F.
Thwing of Western Reserve univer
sity was one of the signers of the
original call. A committee was or
ganized and two years later the pres
ent association was incorporated.
That the organization had a duty
to perform and a place among the
many at work to advance the inter
ests of the race is indicated by its
rapid growth in membership. From
1.000 in 1912, to 50,000 last year and
65.000 now its members have multi
plied as the practical utility of the a.
sociation became manifest. It is hoped
that by the end of the present con
ference its membership may have in
creased to 100,000.
Organized to fight wrongs against
the Negro race, to keep the public
informed of injustices perpetrated
against Colored people and to cor
rect such conditions whenever pos
sible, the association has been a per
sistent investigator and a conscien
tious enemy of wrongdoers. It has
promoted anti-lynching conferences
and campaigned against the sentiment
that tacitly justifies this form of mur
der. It has secured a supreme court
decision against the grandfather
clause, and got the segregation ordin
ance of Louisville, Ky., declared un
constitutional.
It is an association militant for
justice. It seeks political and civil
equality, equal justice in the courts,
an equitable expenditure of public
funds for education, sanitation, health
and police protection. These are aims
which any fair minded American
should be ready to grant. There is no
| color line in an honest democracy.—
The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
PAULINE'S TRAVELS THROUGH
THE CULINARY ART
This is the title of a book written,
edited and published by one of Oma
ha’s residents, Mrs. C. Pauline Lynch.
Gotten up in an attractive cover it
contains 122 pages of information,
household hints and recipes, every
single one of which has been tried
and proved the author herself. All
the pictures in the book were taken
in her home. Written in a clear, sim
ple style it pleases as well as edu
cates the reader in all the tricks of
the trade that belong to the expert in
the art and science of household af
fairs.
At the end of the book we find these
lines:
“He may live without books—what is
knowledge but grieving?
1 He may live without hope, what is
hope but deceiving?
He may live without love, what is pas
sion but pining?
But where is the man that can live
without dining?”
Mrs. Lynch is meeting with phe
nomenal success in the sale and dis
tribution of her book, the high char
acter of which makes sale easy. Mr.
Hagelman of the Alamito declared
that he never saw so many good things
so simply and pointedly put. His
wife should study it next to the good
book, said he.
The glory of a good man is the tes
timony of a good conscience.—Thomas
a-Kempis.
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“QO much talk about principle makes
kJ me sick. It is policy and dollars
which count." When a certain parson
recently made that statement to us it
seemed as if we could hear the Naza
rene grown aloud over the false pro
phet who had come to Israel.
DRY America is paying for the
champagne her peace envoys are
drinking. One of the reasons of the
high cost of living over here is the
high living of our representatives
over there.
rIE fume over Fiume continues.
Italy threatens withdrawal unless
there should be a free port in Fiume
with annexation to Italy. This is the
most beligerent looking peace that
ever presented itself to a peace-loving
man.
THE electroeutioner of New York
has increased his death fee from
$50 to $100. It costs to put Sing Sing
victims out of their misery.
HOW long will a so-called demo
cratic Christian people cease to
bum each other? How long will pub
lic opinion allow a Mississippi govern
or to stand supinely by while moh j
rule reigns, weakly saying, “I’m ut
terly powerless?” How long before j
the right to fight and die will go hand
in hand with the right to vote and j
live? How long, oh Lord, how long!
FIT TO WIN! It took medical sci- j
ence thousands of years to learn
what ‘‘the sins of the fathers shall
be visited upon the children even unto
the third and fourth generation of!
them that hate me.’ It took the war 1
of the rebellion to prove to a doubting
world that a nation could not exist I
half slave and half free. It took the
bloodiest and ghastliest war in his
tory to prove might does not make
right. When will America, our Amer
ica, fit herself to be called ‘t'he glor
ious democracy of the •west” by giv
ing to all her citizens, regardless of
race or creed or color, equality be
fore the law and participation in the
government of the commonwealth ?
THE ROAD
By Eva A. Jessye
COLD is the night—the road ex
tending far to shadow realms—
The stones beneath my feet, one soli
tary star,
The wood where phantoms meet.
The ghostly trees, stripped of their
summer green—
Wrapped in their winding sheets, and
scarcely seen
Great bushes crouch.
Gone are the flow'rs, snapped by win
ter’s breath,
Yet the oak that towers is nourished
by their death.
Dark is the night—the road extend
ing far to shadow realms—
The stones beneath my feet, one soli
tary star;
The world where mortals meet—
The giant trees become the men of
earth,
j The living heroes, theirs the souls of
worth,
| Staunch and stalwart, e’en against
the gale
I When weakly vines and clinging flow
ers fail.
; When spring is here, the grass and
foliage green,
Deep undergrowth and mildest skies
serene—
One scarce can tell the noble from
the scum—
Till afterwhile the searching winter’s
come;
The tree but towers above to clearer
skies—
Untouched by all the ruin which round
it lies.
Bright is the night—the road extend
ing far, to pleasant realms—
The grass beneath my feet, the Heav’n
lit with stars—
The world where mortals meet.
Behold, at once I glance around to
find
A surging crowd in front of me—be
hind,
And some are stopping hy the way
to rest,
And some are stepping quickly into
place
Among the trees, a place of useful
ness.
And some are dead, yet live—a life of
ease,
E’en basking in the shadow of the
trees.
And some are hopeless having lost
their way
Or passed the path wherein their tal
ents lay.
Methinks the time has come when I
shall leave
This winding road and step out by the
way,
O may I all this brief, sad life per
ceive
The path that leads unto the Perfect
Day.
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