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A National Weakly 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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Address, The Monitor, 304 Crounse Block, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone Douglas >224.
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( ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE :■
UNITED STATES. j
Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged.
/ i. \1I persons born or naturalized in the United Slates, \
I‘* and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the I;
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No
state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ;!
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States: nor
shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- I;
erty without due process of law. nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. \
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OUR DUTY AND DESTINY HERE.
I AST week’s issue contained a news
J item stating that a French news
paper had suggested editorially that
France invite 2,000,000 colored Amer
icans to help rebuild that war-stricken
land. The Monitor has received sev
eral inquiries for further information
from men whp are anxious to go. We
can give no further information.
The item and the inquiries have
caused us serious thought. The pain
ful reflection is forced upon us that
while the United States seems so in
different to one of her most valuable
assets, other countries recognize it.
That while she treats the colored
American largely as an alien and an
unwelcome guest other countries—for
France is not alone in this, the South
American republics being equally out
spoken—are bidding him welcome and
inviting him to come. The desire of
many of our most thoughtful, up
standing and ambitious young men to
accept such invitations and forsake
America is equally significant.
The Monitor's- opinion is that de
spite the tempting lure of other lands
the United States is where we are
most needed and where we will best
work out our destiny. The advance
ment we have made, despite proscrip
tion and limitations, foretell the
greater achievements that will be
ours right here in this land upon
which none has greater claims than
we, if we remain true to God, true to
our country and true to ourselves.
AMERICANIZATION.
4 MERICANIZATION is the term
used for the process of making
loyal American citizens out of the
various race groups and varieties
which go to make up the population
of the United States. A large per
centage of the population is of for
eign birth. Millions owe allegiance
to other flags than the starry em
blem which waves over our own land.
Millions speak a foreign language.
This does not make for national unity.
It perpetuates racial groups whose
interests are first racial and after
that national. Race consciousness
and class consciousness, instead of a
national consciousness predominates.
The danger of this must be apparent
to all. A few national leaders have
seen this danger, called atten
tion to it and have urged that a cam
paign of Americanization be vigorously
prosecuted. To this end a program
providing for education in the English
language and instruction in American
principles and ideals has been put into
operation in several of our larger
cities among these foreign groups.
By this process it is planned to make
them loyal, patriotic and enthusiastic
American citizens, submerging their
racial or class consciousness in that
of the nation, so that they will pride
themselves upon being Americans
first. Not, however, that they should
forget the land of their nativity to
which they must be bound with ties
of tenderest affection because of birth
and kinsmanship; but that their alle
giance shall be sincere and whole
hearted to America, the land of their
adoption. In self-defense and for the
perpetuity of her institutions the
United States can ask no less than
this. Polygenous, that is to say com
posed of many races and nations, she
must become unigenous, one nation.
She cannot endure without national
unity. She must have a national
consciousness and a national life and
a national policy embracing all ele
ments of her population and her
population must be made and must
become thoroughly, truly and ideally
American. Americanization is there
fore an imperative duty imposed upon
this nation and people.
It may be well, however, to remind
the statemen of the nation and the
moulders of public sentiment, such a
the press and the pulpit, throughout
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the nation, that while properly stress
ing the Americanization of foreign
groups and races, there is grave dan
ger of de-Americanizing that loyal
and dependable people, one hundred
per cent American, who constitute at
least one-ninth, possibly one-eighth of
the total population of the United
| States. The constant pushing aside
and practical counting out of the col
ored American will, we fear, if per
sisted in, result in his estrangement
from and the weakening of his af
fection for the United States. We do
not speak as an alar-mist, but as an
interpreter of the sentiment which we
know to exist among our group. Seg
regation movements and the like,
proclaiming our people ‘undesir
ables;” various forms of proscription,
and the popular emphasizing of the
fact in the public mind that we are
Negroes and not men, is creating that
very class and racial consciousness
among us which Americanization
seeks to minimize and lessen among
the foreign racial groups composing
the population of the United States.
Is this a wuse policy to pursue? Ought
not every group be encouraged to feel
itself American first, willing to con
tribute its all for the upbuilding and
defense of the republic? Can any
process of Americanization be com
plete which fails to accord to the col
ored American his full constitutional
rights and privileges? While Amer
icanizing those of alien blood, is it
part of wisdom or far-seeing states
manship to foster, favor or encourage
any policy that inevitably has a tend
ency to de-Americanize the colored
American ?
AN INDEFENSIBLE PR ACTICE.
THE Omaha police have an inde
fensible practice which ought to
be stopped. It is the habit of arrest
ing forty or fifty colored men indis
criminately in an effort to apprehend
one or two men who have been ac
cused of crime. Almost every time it
is reported that a Negro has com
mitted a crime, the police throw out
what they call a dragnet, visit pool
halls and similar places run by col
ored men, and make arrests by the
wholesale. Many of these men are
respectable and industrious men, em
ployed at hotels and packing houses,
who have dropped in to play a game
of pool or billiards, which they have
a perfect right to do, who are taken
in these general round-ups. They are
held over night or for a day or two
and are then discharged. Some of
these men have lost their jobs by be
ing unjustly detained. There are more
white men loafers and habitues of
pool halls than there are colored men,
and at that we have too many col
ored loafers who ought to be made to
go to work or be sent to jail, but if
it is reported that some ■white man
has committed a crime, the police do
not round up the white pool halls and
make indiscriminate arrests by the
wholesale, running in hard-working
men who may have dropped into such
places for a little recreation.
Why, then, is this difference made?
I There is nothing fair about it, and the
I practice should be stopped.
Recently a man was held up and
robbed of $20.00 by a Negro. Forty
eight Negroes were arrested and held
in custody in an effort to apprehend
the criminal. Among these were sev
eral waiters and men who were able
to give good account of themselves.
About the same time Hayden’s store
was robbed of $65,000; holdups and
burglaries by white men were report
ed to the police, and yet there was no
wholesale rounding up of white men,
although the police know there are
several here of shady reputation, in
an effort to apprehend the guilty ones.
If the police are going to make
wholesale arrests of colored men,
every time some colored man commits
a crime, is it not fair to request that
they follow the same policy whenever
a white man Is accused of crime?
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1 VIA DOLOROSA |
— (By Ethel Merrill Beale in “The Congregationalist and Advance.”) E
n Times were, and they scorned the toiler E
= Because he worked with his hands; =
E And then the Christ as a Toiler came, =
= Bearing the burden, bearing the shame, E
= And died in their scorning lands. E
E Since then they have blest the toiler,
^ Have woven a glamour around =
s Till each at his chosen task Is king; E
E The scythes are whetted, the anvils ring, ^
E And they call It goodly sound. =
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E Times are, and they scorn the Negro =
E Because of his dusky hue. —
= Though his soul were pure as the drifted snow —
— ’Twould anger them more to have it so; E
E For a trifle they'd stab him through. =
= If Christ should come as a Negro E
= With his burning love for men, E
E Would they cry out: ''Lynch!" as he tried to save? =
Would they stand and mock as his life he gave? =
= Would Calvary live anew? —
E And then, too late, would they see the right? =
E Would they learn that the black man's soul is white? s
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“WHATA HELLA DA MATTAH?"
r|AHE Monitor has a somewhat iras
1 cible Italian friend. We met him
the other day. He was somewhat ex
cited, indeed, very excited. No, he
hadn’t been drinking. He met us with
the inquiry, “Whata de holla de mat
tah wida Nebraska, wida Omaha, wida
de whoia de states? Every bod de
crazy. No lika de Italian, no lika de
Jew, no lika de collada man, lyncha
him, killa him; no lika de Pola, no lika
de Jap; whata de halla de mattah?
Canta you tella me? Whata de holla
de mattah ?"
Tony’s not the only one asking this
question. We wonder who can answer
him.
i THE PEOPLE MUST BE HEARD.
DON’T you know the time has
passed when any group of men
or women can get together and do all
the thinking and planning for others
and expect them to accept their con
clusions unquestioningly ? It is be
coming more apparent daily that this
is the age of the masses not of the
classes. The people have rights, know
their rights and will be heard. Autoc
racy, individual or bureaucratic, is de
throned; democracy has begun to
reign.
CONGRATULATION'S, JUDGE
AND MARSHAL
THE Monitor extends sinvere con
gratulations to Judge George A.
Daj' upon his elevation to the Su
preme bench of Nebraska, a well
merited promotion to an eminent Jur
ist and a splendid gentleman. Our
felicitations in equal measure and
sincerity, we extend to another appre
ciated friend of many years’ standing
—Thomas J. Flynn, upon his reap
pointment as United States marshal
in merited recognition of duties well
performed.
Judge Day is an ardent reputdican,
politically, and Mr. Flynn an equally
enthusiastic democrat. Religiously,
they belong to different communions,
perhaps as widely separated as in
their political affiliations; but what
counts most is that they are men
from the ground up. Therefore, con
gratulations, Judge and marshal, with
the heartfelt hope that higher honors
still lie before you.
Men are never so ridiculous from
! the qualities which really belong to
them as from those they pretend to
possess.
PERISCOPE.
“Anywhere—Providing it be Forward"
Just now, at the beginning of 1920.
it is Interesting to recall the famous
remark of James Gordon Bennett,
when he sent Henry M. Stanley into
the jungles of darkest Africa to "Find
Livingston.” “Where shall we go?”
someone inquired. Quick as a flash
came the eternal words: “Anywhere
I -—providing it be forward.”
That is a fitting and timely slogan
for us, this 1920 wonderful year. No
backward step this year; it must be
a year of Forward March! We must
go forward in every field of activity,
and at every stage of the game. We
must concentrate our forces, and con
serve our resources. We must rub
elbows of friends and loyalty to each
; other, and “be on the Job.”
We must generate and regenerate
avalanches of “pep" and enthusiasm.
Life’s battles of peace need those in
gredients, as well as the battles of
war. Almost a year ago Lieut. “Jim”
Europe, “the noblest Roman of them
all." lost his life, because of his de
sire to go “over the top” in musical
inspiration, he urged his drummer to
“Put a little more pep in your sticks.”
But in those very words Jim Europe,
aside from his musical achievements,
left us an undving legacy in a real
slogan for success in life. We must
all put a little more pep In our sticks.
It matters not the kind of drum we
are beating in the parade or concert
of life, if we fail to have the kick in
our sticks, we will not get very far.
And we must go forward!
There’s a big Job on hand. The
chief strategists of injustice and de
struction are working out campaigns
of disaster. They are using their
best brains—as little as that may be
—and they are putting up their filthy
dollars to pay the fiddler. We must
use our best brains and our best dol
lars in the very best and most right
eous way to turn back the ungodly
atempts to advance further into the
land of “Thy Kingdom Come." We
have the brains, and we have the dol
lars, and by the eternal gods, we must
be stingy with neither!
We must find the Livingstone of
Justice.
“Where shall we go?”
"Anywhere—providing it is for
ward.”
It is not doing the thing we like
to do, but liking the thing we have
to do, that makes life blessed.—
Goethe.
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We Have a Complete Line of
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AND GARDEN OGCCl 5
Baiba, Hardy Perennials, Poultry
Supplies
Fresh cut Dowers always on hand
Stewart’s Seed Store
119 N. Ifith St. Opp. Post Office
Phone Douglas 977
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Petersen A Michelsen
Hardware Co.
GOOD HARDWARE
1408 N St. Tel. South 182
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Dealer in I
Shoes and Gents’ Furnishings j
1514 Na. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. i
PATTON" HOTEL AND CAFEt
N. A. Pattan, Proprietor
1014-1018-1018 South 11th SL
TshftwM Douglas 4445
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F. WILBERG
BAKERY
Across from Alhambra Theatre
Tha Bast is Nona Too Good for
Our Customers.
Telephone Webster 673
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C. H. MARyUARDT
CASH MARKET
Retail Dealer in Frenh and Sail |
Meats, Poultry, Oyatera, ete ;
2803 Cuming St. Doug 383 l
Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke
I and Cure our own Hams and Baron,
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I. A. Edholm E. W. Sherman
Standard Laundry
24th. c*ear Lake Street
Phone Webster 130
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| Douglas 3889 |
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X 707 South 16th St. X
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A CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF
OMAHA'S COLORED BUSINESS
AND PROFESSIONAL FIRMS
; A. F. PEOPLES |
PAINTING
PAPERHANGING AND I
DECORATING
Estimates Furnished Free. ^
All Work Guaranteed.
4827 ERSKINE STREET. |
PHONE WALNUT 2111.
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Phone W'ebster 248.
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CHAS. BOYD *
Webster 208
(After Midnight) Tyler 4119 j
Service With Class—Car Warm
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Repairing and Storing
Orders Promptly Filled
NORTH SIDE
SECOND-HAND STORE
R. B. RHODES
Dealer in
New and Second-Hand Furniture
and Stoves.
Household Goods Bought and
Sold. Rental and Real Estate.
2522 Lake St. Webster 908
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I ATTENTION! LISTEN!
MEN OF OMAHA
I A re you Interested In giving your
wife one day's rest during the
week with no dinner to get and no
worrisome dishes to wash?
If so. take advantage of
SOUTH Sl THOMPSON'S
dt llcioua 60-cent Sunday dinner.
Regular Weekly Dinner. 35c.
Phone Web 4566 2418 No. 24th 8t. j
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: Andrew T. Reed, Res. Phone
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JONES & REED
FUNERAL PARLOR
2314 North 24th St. Web. 1100
Lady Attendant
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Phone Douglas 6335
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ECONOMY TAILOR
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1313 Dodge St.
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Quality Service
DR. P. W. SAWYER
DENTIST
1161416 No. 24th St.
Webster 3694
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Artistic Hairdresser
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■;! Parlor 1886 North 2.3d Street 2
Phone Webster 26*7.
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
HOTEL
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k Rooms, With or Without Board,
gj 523 North 15th St. Omaha, Neb. i
Phone Tyler 897.
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I Eureka Furniture Store
Complete Line of New and Sec
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PRICKS REASONABLE
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^ 1417 N. 24th St. Web. 4206
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DR. W. W. PEEBLES
DENTIST
220 So. 13th St.
(Over Pope’* Druj? Store)
Telephone: Douglaa 7812 1
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