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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
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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THE SIN OF SILENCE
T) 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 SLUGGING OF SHILLADY
IT is exceedingly difficult to write
temperately of the brutal attack
made upon John R. Shillady by the
cowardly ruffians and bullies at Aus
tin, Tex., last Friday. That Mr. Shil
lady escaped with his life is most for
tunate. Brave and muscular as he is,
he showed excellent judgment in not
attempting to defend himself, for if he
had he would have undoubtedly been
killed. By the admission of those who
attacked him, he was outnumbered
three to one; while according to his
own statement some eight or ten were
in the crowd that mobbed him. To
have attempted to have fought that
mob would have been suicidal. So big,
brave John Shillady—may God bless
him!—submitted to a beating at the
hands of cowardly Texas toughs be
cause he believes that all Americans,
black as well as white, should be given
and enjoy the full rights of American
citizenship.
With half a show and his back to the
wall he could have whipped the three
yellow-streaked, white-livered wolves
who attacked him. We scorn to call
them men, for they did not show any
qualities of manhood. Their methods
were those of the wolf, the most cow
ardly of animals, which will not at
tack a man unless the pack is there.
And that is the method of the south
ern mobocrat. He is a coward and a
bully. When he has his gang with him
and he is sure that his victim is un
armed, out-numbered and helpless,
how courageously he will attack! But
if the odds are anything like even he
will slink away.
The attack on Mr. Shillady shows
the resentment of the south against
any white man who has the manhood
and courage to ask that the Negro be
given a square deal. This resentment
is especially strong against the white
northerner. It is almost as strong
against the white southerner. It is al
most as much as a white’s man life is
worth to champion the cause of the
Negro in the south. Rankin, a broad
minded white southerner, was killed
almost on the very’ spot where Shil
lady was beaten, because he dared to
do it.
If the life of white men who plead
for justice for the Negro in Texas is
not safe, is it any wonder that the
black man dare not demand his
rights ?
Does any one in his senses believe
that things of this kind can continue
and America hold her place among the
nations of the earth ? Are not men
like Shillady, who are pleading for a
square deal for all classes of American
citizens, the country’s truest benefact
ors and best friends?
The law-abiding, broad-minded citi
zens of Texas owe it to themselves to
see that Mr. Shillady’s assailants are
adequately punished. We are very re
luctant to believe that the people of
Austin generally approve of this out
rage. It remains to be seen what ac
tion will be taken by the authorities.
The National Association is too pow
erful and influential an organization
to let this serious matter pass. The
principles involved are too fundamen
tal. The slugging of Shillady strikes
a blow at the cornerstone of American
liberty. Red-blooded Americans will
not suffer this with impunity.
TRICKERY OR INSINCERITY?
AS certain features of the peace
treaty come into the limelight
many of the American people are seri
ously and honestly asking, "Was Wil
son the victim of trickery at Versailles
or is he chargeable with insincerity?”
The Shantung affair, to say nothing
of two or three other shady and un
ethical transactions, do not place
President Wilson if a very favorable
light. Perhaps—perhaps—history may
vindicate his actions as a far-sighted,
diplomatic statesman, but we have our
serious doubts as to this future vindi
cation.
LABOR DAY
MONDAY is Labor Day. It is right
ly proclaimed a holiday. It is the
one day in the year on which organized
labor demonstrates its strength and
its fraternity. We are exceedingly glad
that this year will demonstrate a truer
appreciation of the real brotherhood of
labor by the increased number of men
of our own race who have been ad
mitted to the ranks of union labor. W'e
hope that year by year better oppor
tunities will be given to all who
honestly earn their daily bread to
grow in efficiency and intelligence and
to fully enjoy the just fruits of their
labor.
OVERDOING IT
IT looks like overdoing it just a little
when it is reported that a Negro
jumped on the running board of a
rapidly driven touring car at Twenty
fourth and Poppleton, and attempted
to throw his arm around the waist of
the fair driver, who immediately
speeded up the car to thirty miles an
hour, when the Negro became fright
ened and jumped off—jumped off on a
paved street, mind you, with a car run
ning thirty miles an hour and yet
escaped uninjured! Of course, it could
be done. It was true, of course, be
cause it was in the papers. But, never
mind. Keep cool, and the truth of all
this hysterical propaganda will come
out some day.
JOHN MERRICK—A LESSON
(Raleigh, N. C., News-Observer.)
LAST week a death occurred in Dur
ham that is worth a little study’
by the Colored people of North Caro
lina. He w’as John Merrick, a Negro,
sixty years old, and a man who had
won success, not only as it is meas
ured by figures on a bank ledger, but
in that large sense of being useful to
the world in which he lived and to
his fellowmen.
John Merrick went to Durham a
stranger from Sampson county when
a young man, but died there one of
the best known men in the city. He
! was industrious and frugal, two
things worth emulating by any man,
black or white. He worked and saved
his money, and when he had a little
accumulation he put it into productive
property, also an example worth fol
lowing. He joined with others in
founding a hospital and a library and
a bank and a fraternal association
and in various ways he worked for his
own prosperity' and for the advance
i ment of his people.
But he did still more. Instead of
occupying his time bewailing any ac
tual, or supposed handicap that he
encountered he devoted his energy to
making the best of the wide oppor
tunities that this country gives all
men, black or white, and he won out.
And that is the point that would be
made from his example. Perhaps he
fought in a narrower field than is the
I luck of some men. But he showed
that his field was broad enough for
honest, industrious effort, and that a
Negro can make substantial friends
among his white acquaintances who
will stand by him and help him along
if he cares to show himself entitled
j to that kind of help. John Merrick
, had no monopoly of opportunity. The
j same world is open for any other Ne
gro that was open for John Merrick,
but he must avail himself of it as
Merrick did. It is the same world
that is open to any other man. In
Durham as in every other place in
North Carolina, now as in the older
I lays and always, the gods help them
that help themselves. John Merrick
had a host of solid friends among
his white acquaintances, and so will
! every other man, no matter what his
j color, who shows himself to be deserv
i ing. This is a lesson all should learn
thoroughly.
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Smile, work, think.
Flashes of
Most Anything
AND still the wonder grows that
Texas can carry all the lawless
ness she knows.
LET us set ourselves as a nation to
instruct ourselves in man’s past
self, viewing history with the eye of
avoiding the shoals of intrenched priv
ilege upon w’hich nations have wrecked
j themselves.
TyyHO then dares hold another shall
W not breathe the same free air he
holds necessary for his own life’s ex
pansion.
WTITH their fingers on the public's
W pulse and one eye on the clock,
congress passed the bill giving us sun
time after the president had vetoed
it twice. We common folk are mighty
glad that the high cost of rest will
come down sixty minutes in October.
A MAN down in Sallisaw, Okla.,
who hadn’t spoken for forty years
dreamed that a woman was being at
tacked; his impulse was to yell for
help to come to her rescue. In his
dream a silence of forty years was
broken and he woke himself up with
his own cry and has been able to use
his voice ever since. He is a firm con
; vert to the doctrine that he who would
help another helps himself the most.
I’R AYER OF THE R ACE
WHOM GOD M ADE BLACK
By Lucian B. Watkins.
AV E would be peaceful, Father—
W but, when me must,
I Help us to thunder hard the blow
that’s just!
We would be prayerful: Lord, when
we have prayed
Let us arise courageous—unafraid!
We would be manly—proving well our
worth,
Then would not cringe to any god on
earth!
We would be loving and forgiving,
thus
To love our neighbor as Thou lovest
us!
We would be faithful, loyal to the
right,
Ne’er doubting that the day will fol
low night!
We would be all that Thou hast meant
for man,
Up through the ages, since the world
began!
God! save us in Thy Heaven, where
all is well!
We come slow struggling up the hills
of hell!
Amen! Amen!
W AR CAMP COMMUNITY
WORK FOR GIRLS
A very interesting meeting was held
at Kellom school Wednesday after
noon, August 20, in regard to estab
1 lishing War Camp Community work
for women and girls in Omaha. A
group of women interested in girls’
work and representing the various in
terests in the city were present. Miss
Madre Penn presented Mrs. Rene E.
H. Stevens, director of girls’ work,
and M iss Helen Purcell, national su
| pervisor of girls’ work.
Miss Stevens gave an interesting
talk along lines of girls’ work and
I the special need of it in Omaha, en
! forcing the fact that community work
1 among women and girls will be con
! tinued after all the soldiers are de
mobilized. Miss Purcell also gave an
instructive and enlightened talk about
I work in various cities, especially Chi
cago and Kansas City, emphasizing
the good and effective work done by
our women and girls. At this point
Mrs. Frazier, assistant principal of
the Dallas high school, was intro
duced. She spoke of community work
done under the auspices of the war
I camps in Dallas, Tex.
After several ladies had discussed
the work from different points of
view and given a number of sugges
tions along lines of girls’ work a
committee of three was named by
Mrs. Rene E. H. Stevens and approved
by the ladies present, as follows: Miss
Madree Penn, chairman, Mrs. J. Alice
Stewart and Mrs. Larry N. Peoples,
i The committee above named, having
j had experience along various lines of
girls work, is to act in an advisory
capacity, co-operating with the trained
worker sent here from New York City
by the war camp community.
The worker, Miss Frankie Watkins,
who is to be in charge, arrived Sat
urday morning with her mother and
is stopping at the home of Mrs. Mary
E. Overall, 2010 Lake street. Mrs,
Jessie Hale Moss has been appointed
I assistant to Miss Watkins.
WASHINGTONIANS
HOLD ANNUAL PICNIC
; The always eagerly awaited annual
picnic of the Washingtonian Benevo
i lent association, of which Carter Dun
can has been president for ten years
was held last Thursday afternoon al
Hanscom park. The attendance was
because of illness among members and
absence of others from the city, not as
large as usual. But all present had
the customary delightful afternoon.
Mr. Duncan in welcoming the guests
briefly referred to some of the sub
stantial things the association has ac
complished in its thirty-three years’
existence. Among these was the dis
pensing of charity and the acquiring
of real estate.
$10 IN PRIZES OFFERED
Lincoln Motion Picture Co. Manage
ment Offers Prizes to Winners of
Ticket Selling Contest.
As a novel method of arousing in
terest in their forth-coming showing
of “A Man’s Duty” at the Boyd the
ater, Wednesday, September 3, the
management of the Lincoln Motion
Picture Co. (Inc.) offers the follow
ing prizes to the five contestants who
sell the greatest number of tickets
over the amount of $10:
Prize No. 1—$5 cash and twro box
seats.
Prize No. 2—$3 cash and two box
box seats.
Prize No. 3—$2 cash and two box
seats.
Prize No. 4—Two box seats.
Prize No. 5—One box seat.
Contest open to all. Those desiring
to enter must make application at
Monitor office.
This is the last opportunity to en
joy the Boyd theater, which will soon
be demolished.
Clarence A. Brooks, the star of “A
Man’s Duty” will occupy a seat in
the box containing the winners.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
HOLDS MEETING
Organization Includes Graduates of
Various Schools and Colleges.
A regular meeting of the Alumni
Association of the City of Omaha was
held Wednesday evening, August 20,
at the residence of Mrs. C. C. King,
2219 Seward street. After the trans
action of the regular routine of busi
ness the hostess served the association
a very pleasing repast.
There were present Mr. John T. Mc
Donald, sr., Mrs. Griffin Logan, Misses
Jamie and W. Eugenie Chandler, Mrs.
L. L. Russell, Mrs. E. M. Hayden, Miss
Pearl R. Nelson, Miss Fostoria Logan,
Mr. J. E. Hamby, Miss L. E. Usher,
Mrs. C. C. King, Mr. Walter L. Seals
and Mrs. E. L. Gaines.
The meeting adjourned to meet
again Wednesday evening, September
3, at the residence of Miss W. Eugenie
Chandler, 2804 North Twenty-fifth
street.
NEW GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR
J. G. Walls of Chicago has been as
signed as government meat inspector
at Swift’s parking house. H>- arrive,
in the city Tuesday to assume his du
ties and is stopping with W. T. Stew
art at 2515 Parker street. This makes
four government inspectors to be em
ployed at Swift’s. They are W. T
Stewart, Walter Seals, J. Davis and
J. G. Walls.
MISS MADREE PENN
TAKES VACATION
Miss Madree Penn, the efficient of
fice manager and associate editor of
The Monitor, left Monday for St. Jo
seph, Mo., on her vacation. She will
visit Atchison, Kas., her birthplace,
and other points before her return.
Her cheery good-bye words were,
i “Watch me boost The Monitor while
I am resting.”
PULLMAN NOTES
Mr. J. Buckner, who has been laying
off about two months, has returned to
■the city with a handsome wife. He is
tunning on the C., N. & W. (3 and 6)
to Casper and Landis, Wyo.
Mr. J. Grass is lunning to Chadron,
Neb., over the C., N. & W. (3 and 6).
Mr. G. Hughes is running to Dead
wood, S. D., on the C., N. & W. (3 and
6).
Mr. W. Janer is running to Chadron,
Neb., over the C., N. & W. (3 and 6).
Mr. Nat Perry is running on the
Union Pacific (7 and 8) as chief cook
to Ogden, Utah.
Mr. William McCullough is running
to Rock Island on 5 and 6.
Mr. A. G. Marshall is running from
Casper to Landis, Wyo., in charge on
C., N. & W. (3 and 6).
Mr. E. B. Cole is running to Salt
Lake on the Union Pacific (7 and 8).
Mr. C. O. B. Alfred is lunning to
Dead wood on the C., N. & W. (3 and
6).
Mr. S. L. Whitley is running to Den
ver on the Union Pacific (16 and 16).
Mr. Bud Ray is running to Chicago
on Northwestern (3 and 6).
Mr. D. W. Grant is running to Den
ver on the Union Pacific (16 and 16).
Mr. John Hardy is running to Bil
lings, Mont., on the C., B. & Q. (41
and 42).
Mr. Bob Dawson is running from
Casper to Landis, Wyo., in charge of
3 and 6, C., N. & W. This is a new run
for our boys.
Mr. J. S. Carey is also on the same
run.
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