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DRUG STORES
ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO.,
24th and Lake; 24th and Fort,
Omaha, Neb.
FOR SALE — Four-room cottage,
partly modem, located at 2212 North
Twenty-seventh street, for $750 cash
Call Tyler 897. N. W. Ware.
For Sale—Part interest In restau
rant. Good location for right party.
2709 Q street. South Side. S. D. Marsh
2t
FOR RENT—Strictly modern room
in private family. Young lady pre
ferred. Webster 5434.
Furnished room for rent, modern.
Gentleman only. Call at 2640 Cald
well. Webster 6303.
FOR SALE—Five room cottage,
modern except fjrnace. Near school,
church and car line. 1818 No. 27th
Sts. $300.00 cash. Inquire Douglas
2842 or Webster 5519.
Modern furnished rooms for gentle
men. 2013 Grace street. Webster
4983.
FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms;
steam heat and modern conveniences
Call Webster 2885. W. E. Newby, 2529
North 18th St.
Furnished rooms for rent in private
family. Call Webster 3200.
FOR RENT — Comfortable, nicely
furnished rooms. Call Webster 1256.
Large, comfortable rooms for gen
tlemen, 933 No. 27th St. Call Harney
5737.
First class rooming house, steam
heat, bath, electric lights on Dodge
and 24th street car line. Mrs. Anna
Banks, 924 North 20th. Douglas 4379.
First-class modern furnished room*
Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, i7tr»
North Twenty-sixth street. Phoaa
Webster 4769.
Furnished and unfurnished rooms
for rent. Call Webster 4532.
Nicely furnished room, strictly mod
ern. in private family, one block from
Dodge and Twenty-fourth car lines
2524 North 25th street. Webster 5652
2t-l-8-20.
Agents Wanted—Our agents are
making good money and are budding
a permanent income selling our liberal
policies. See us at once. Nebraska
State Health and Accident Insurance
Co., 527-622 Paxton Block. Phone
Douglas 5575.
First class furnished rooms, 2204
North 19th street. Gentlemen pre
ferred. Webster 3308. Mrs. W. A.
Scott. 4t-l-22-20
Good barber wanted. 1710 North
24th street. J. W. Holmes.
Furnished rooms in private home,
one block from 24th stret car line.
Webster 1888. 2t-l-8-20.
LODGE DIRECTORY
G. U O. of O. F., South Omaha Lodge
No. 9374. Meetings flrat and third Fri
days; CoMeje Dept , second and fourth
Fridays, and N 8ts., South Side.
Past Grand Masters Council No. 442,
first and third Tuesdays, 24th and Charles
Streets.
WM. R. SHAFROTH, N. G.
E. E. BRYANT, G. M and P. S.
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' Office Phone, Webster 5784
Residence, Webster 1219
JOHN A. GARDNER
Auto Express and Baggage
i Stand at Killingsworth & Price
t 2416 No. 24th St
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We Buy and Sell f.
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS V
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2114-16 North 24th St.
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A chance for the kiddies to earn a
prize. Read Monitor Mother Goose
offer on page six.
IT'S ME, o lord:
(Continued From Page 1.)
breakfast. As we passed through the
waiting room we saw the Jubilees
asleep on the benches. We knew that
their schedule had been a hard one
for several days They seemed ex
hausted. The ticket agent said they
had been there since arrival of their
train at midnight: that the hotel pro
prietor bad agreed to receive them,
but had changed his mind before they
came.
As we looked at them we wondered
if we had had something to do with it.
The masks that all men wear by
I day were gone: there was a gentle
j goodness and sweetness in their un
| conscious faces. Suddenly they ceased
j to represent the Negro race, or any
i thing else: they were just people, like
ns And we wanted them to be com
| fortable and happy.
We ate little and got away as
! quickly and quietly as possible, and
; drove to our next town Through the
wild-rose odors of the cool and silent
summer day that unfolded around us,
! the spacious freshness and peace of
1 outdoors, the sense of our own well
1 being, the question of a great Amer
I iean ooet teased at our hearts:
“Who has given to me this sweet.
And given my brother dust to eat.
And when will his wage come in?”
I As it happened, we went into the
I hotel together.
“Are the Jubilee Singers coming
here?"
“Not if anyone objects.” said the
proprietor promptly.
"We don't.” said the Passenger un
expectedly.
The Lecturer looked at her specu
latively. “No.” he said deliberately.
“I asked because the hotel man down
the road promised to take them and
broke his word, and they need a good
night's rest."
In our room he said: "Now you’ve
gone and done it!”
“And you are glad.” said she
We found that, instead of a theory.
we were facing a condition. Negroes
should not be received in hotels fre
quented by white people, but neither
should the Jubilee Singers be made to
sleep in railroad stations. It was at
least clear which was the lesser of
the two evils in the case at hand. For
the present we were content to let it
go at that. We had lost our taste for
generalizations. We saw that it was
not the individual matter we had cno
sidered it. Our little stone, cast into
the lake, stirred we knew not what
far margins with its ripples. And we
saw, too, that the thing we did not
do could have all the force of an inim
ical deed.
We registered thereafter without
comment. The Passenger and the
the Jubilee women smiled at each
other the next time they met. and we
went as soon as we had the chance to
hear the lecture of the young Negro
teacher.
U was a simple account of the
school he haB built up in the Black
Beit, where there were none before he
came. The school began under the
trees on a log, the teacher on one end
and his only pupil on the other. Some
one gave him the cabin that sheltered
bis first class, and he and his assist-'
ants and pupils made it weather-proof
and put up the other buildings with
their own nanas.
It is a boarding school. The bob's
and girls who can afford it are
charged eight dollars a month; the
others pay their way with hard man
ual work. They have no meat, no
: sweets, only the plainest clothes.
They study no Latin or Greek or
higher mathematics, only farming,
cooking, housework, horseshoeing,
and things like that. They have notb
, ing, and they learn nothing that they
ican do without.
Born in the Middle West, educated
: in a Middle Western university, he de
clined the princlpalahip of a large
i high school in a great city—a very
| unusual honor for a Negro—for the
i chance to help the poorest and most
1 hopeless of his race.
He spoke with sincerity, modesty,
! abundant humor, and touches of bit
I terness which we acknowledged as
mild when we compared them with
the mordant fury the experiences he
recounted would have bred in us. We
acknowledged the truth of most of his
indictment of conditions in the South,
and approved the spirit of his plea for
that education of his people which he
declared to be the only way out.
Then the Chautauqua superintend
ent brought him up and introduced
him, giving him that “Mr.," which, in
the South. Is exclusively the property
of the white man, and behind him
stood the Jubilees.
It was entirely the Lecturer’s
crisis; the Passenger had allowed her
self blindly and Intuitively to take the
right road a day or two before, when
she smiled at the Jubilee women in
just the way she did. Now they were
smiling at her in the same way.
The lecturer was prepared to he
false to his traditions to the extent of
withholding the slight but unequiv
ocal and quickly understood indica
tion, demanded by the situation, of
our superiority to any and all Ne
groes, of whatsoever attainments, of
training or bearing, and It would,
1 therefore, have been easy for him to
acknowledge the introductions per
functorily and for us both to slip oul
at once and thereafter continue the
'•other side” policy in comfort, con
fining the relationship to a polite
speaking acquaintance. It probably
wouldn't be necessary for the Lec
turer to raise his hat to the Jubilee
women, or to appear to decline to do
so; to say ‘‘Mr.” or “Mrs." or to make
a point of withholding them. It
would have been easy to beg the whole
vexed question for at least another
summer, if it hadn't been for the Pas
senger's smile ard the fact that the
I/ecturer felt suddenly ashamed of
himself.
There seemed nothing else for it:
he took a long breath, swallowed, and
said the ‘‘Mr.’' when he came to It
without hesitation Then off came his
hat. and a line was crossed. In the
South it used to be a dead line, but
if we ever meet the Jubilees there, or
anywhere else, look for us on their
side of it. please—and this with full
knowledge of the profound influences
which have drawn the line.
That same afternoon in the prrlor
of the little hotel we had a long talk
with one of them, a woman. We shall
be grateful to he. always.
I'ntii we talked with her, we were
uneasy at what we had done, but we
had scarcely shaken hands before we
knew that it war all right. She had
long ago thought her way through onr
phase of the problem, and had been
watching our progress with a toler
ant and sympathetic interest, ii we
had arrived at a conclusion opposite
from hers, she was sufficiently ac
quainted with the deep bitterness and
misunderstanding with which the
question was permeated, to know why,
to make allowance and forgive. We
could never know or deplore the
shortcomings of her race as she did.
It was with these that she was mainly
concerned: that was where her work
could count; that was something that
she knew would help. Education,
moral and mental, was the only way.
Why concern herself with the injus
tice. the cruelty, the intolerance of the
whites? That was a job for white
people. Her own lay near at hand
and needed all her strength. She, and
the others with her. saw all the time
the adjustment of a race, for which
they were, in a certain sense, am
bassadors. No hardships which they
had to undergo on acrount of their
color could ever be wholly personal.
It was their big task. They would not
for the world jeopardize the outcome
by pettiness or evidence of their own
distress. It was, if you will believe
us. a very gentiine case of noblesse
oblige.
The summer proved it. The incl-’
dent of that night in the waiting room
was one of a long chain. We came to
know them very well, and we never
heard them speak a word in malice,
hatred, or unkindness. We drove into
towns and fuond them sitting on the
station platform drawing the sting
from the curiosity of an idle throng
by the quiet dignity and urban self
possession of their demeanor, while
the superintendent vainly sought for
a dwelling sufficiently humble to re
ceive them.
As our tribute to them, let us re
cord that on each of these occasions
we turned the car s nose toward the
hotel that had declined to take them
in, made our confession to the pro
prietor, and called upon him to change
■ as we had changed. And it is a pleas
ure to remember that every now and
then he did. The conversion of an
Alabamian — hall-marked genuine tiy
the pronunciation of every word he
uttered—backed by the testimony of
his wife, was a cogent argument.
We know no more, perhaps, about
i the "Negro problem” than we did be
fore, but this we do know: the lodg
ment of a human soul in a black body
or a white one is an accident—an ac
cident sometimes of terrible signifi
cance, but an accident! The accidental
part of life must be adjusted with
meticulous care There is a Negro
problem certainly The fjouth groans
under it and bears and forbears, and
labors, and longs to work out an
, honest answer. Distrust that South
erner who, freed from Its octopus ten
tacles, denies it. But above and be
yond all other things whatsoever,
there are men and women, striving al
ways upward and onward, and always
they break through the generaliza
tions with which we encompass them
and must be dealt with as human
souls.
We do not know the Jubilees as Ne
' groes, but as thoughtful, educated
men and women, possessed of a sweet
ness of disposition and a practical
I Christiainty that were good to see,
and we shall never have pleasure
again in any effort to rob members of
their race of that self-respect which
must be the very foundation of their
| progress.
They stood in an Immaculate row
across the stage, their dignity saved
from seriousness and a certain friend
liness established with the audience
by little pleasant touches of African
foolishness that one of them under
stood so well how to supply.
Usually we got folding chairs from
the big pile by the gate and sat a little
way back from the tent, under the
moon and the stars, where we could
hear a cricket or two and sometimes
see off over a park or a valley or a
hillside.
They sang the quaint, deep old
spirituals simply, earnestly and well.
Strange music, that, from the hearts
of a race bowed down; shot through,
too, in some of its minors, with eerie,
barbaric glints of who knows what
echoes of Jungles and voodooism.
There is a strain in it that is surely
far older than America. Its weary
patience, its ch<ld-Hke freedom front
malice in the face of crushing injus
tice, its sweet, unaffected humility—
these are home-grown and jab into
your heart, if you are Southern and
feel your share of the blame lying
; heavy upon you.
We sat there sometimes and wanted
to hear the white race line up with
them and stng with the same plan
gent. haunting, inescapable sincerity:
“It’s me, it's me, it's me. O Lord.
Standing in the need of prayer!
Not niv sister, not my brother.
But it's me. O I,ord.
Standing in the need of prayer!
Not my father, not my mother.
But it's me, O Ia>rd;
It's me. it's me, it's me. O Lord.
Standing in the need of prayer!"
How the spirit of the old humble,
heavy-laden day*- lives in these ca
dences and hurts you as you listen!
Heaven is a place where the black
man may
"sing and shout.
Nobody there to turn me out!"
very different from the Big House on
the plantation in the old days, where
the white folks lived. Only parts of
that were open to him and his bare
footed fellows. So he sings of the
time when he can say:
"I got shoes, you got shoes,
All God’s chillun got shoes.
When I git to Heaven: go’n put on
my shoes
And walk all over God's Heaven!”
And in the meantime he says ex
plicitly in one song and implicitly in
many, "live a-humble,” and means it.
and accepts it with a marvelous sweet
ness that must have come, we Chris
tians say, from Christ.
The places to which they might not
go! The things they should not do!
The pleasantnesses of the world that
were not for them! They suffered
long and silently, and left this little
barb forever in their music, to prick
us on moonlit nights as we sit out
side Chautauqua tents and listen to
their humble millions speaking
through their representatives of to
day, who, like the rest of us. are try
ing somehow to scramble up and on
to something I letter, if that may be.
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Desires Your Patronage
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Phone Douglas 2972 and Wayon Will Call.
J. G. I .OH LEIN.
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT
DEFENDANT
i In the Municipal Court of the City of
Omaha. Douglas County. Nebraska.
1 *ouis ('. J^arsen, Plaintiff vs. Anis
tasi Economy, Defendant.
' To Anistasi Economy, Non-Resident De
fendant.
N ot ice in hereby given that pursuant to
! an older of attachment issued by George
j Holmes, Judge of the municipal court of
| the City of Omaha. Douglas County, Ne
j l-i.iska, rn an action |>endiMg before said
court wherein Louis C. l^arsen was plain -
| tifT and Anistasi Economy defendant to
receiver the sm of $179.50, a writ of at
»ac|irr»ent was issued and levied uj/on
the following described property: One
diamond ring, and said case was on the
return day of the summons issued there
in continued for trial to the 23d day of
January, 1920, at 9 a m.
LOUIS C. LARSEN,
j l-l-20-3t-1-15-20 Plaintiff.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF COLORED COMMERCIAL
CLUB OF OMAHA
The name of this Corporation is and
j shall be "Colored Commercial Club of
; <imaha.”
Tiie principal place for the transaction
of its business is and shall be In the City
of Omaha. Douglas County, Nebraska.
The objects and purposes for which
| this corporation is organized and the
| business in w'hlch it shall be engaged
shall he the promotion of the commer
i dal, industrial and public interests and
j welfare of the City of Omaha, Nebraska.
Further to bring about a better under
standing with the business and commer
j dal Interests of Omaha. It shall have
power through its president and secretary
with the approval of Its executive com
mittee hereinafter created to sign notes,
bonds, evidences of indebtedness, and to
secure the same upon any of its prop
erty, and said corporation shall have the
power to own, lease, buy and sell real
and personal property and transact any
business within the general object and
purposes of its organization or incident
thereto, ami not for profit.
The authorized capital stock of this
corporation shall consist of Five Thou
sand Dollars ($5,000* divided into Five
Hundred (500* shares of the par value of
Ten I>o!Iars ($10) |>er share, with the
lower reserved to and lodged in the
board of directors of said corporation to
change the par value thereof by a ma
jority vote at any regular meeting of
said board of directors, which shares
shall is* non-assessable. Each member
of said corporation shall Ice entitled to
one (1) share of stock and no more, said
share of stock to be transferable on the
j hooks of this corporation at the option
of the holder when properly assigned to
one acceptable to the executive com
mittee. Bald corporation shall proceed 1
' to transact business when Fifty (50) 1
shares of Its capital stock shall have
! been issued.
The charter of this corporation shall
expire on the 28th day of November, 1944.
and the term of this corporation shall
| extend to that time.
The highest amount of Indebtedness or
liability to which this corporation may
i at any time subject Itself shall not ex
ceed two-thirds of Its paid up capital
stock.
i No officer or member of this corpora
tion shall Is* authorized to incur or ere
| ate any indebtedness for which this cor
j poration or Its members may be liable
| without the consent and authority of the
! executive committee.
Tlie annual meeting of this associa
j tion shall be held on the fourth Friday
in November of each year, and monthly
j and special meetings shall be held as pro- j
* vided for in the By-Daws.
The government of this corporation J
shall be vested in a board of directors of
; not less than twenty (20) members, who
! shall l>e selected from among its mem
j hers, and shall be elected by the mem
j bers present at the annual meeting of the
; Association, at which thirty (30) mem
j hers shall constitute a quorum.
I The hoard of directors of this corpora
• tion at Its first meeting, which shall l>e
held on the Monday following their elec
tion. shall elect by ballot a president, a
vice president, a secretary, and a treas
urer and an Executive Committee of not
less than twelve (12) members. The said
officers shall be ex-officio members of the
Executive Committee, with right to vote
The Executive Committee may, at its dis
cretion, appoint not exceeding five (5)
additional members of the Executive
Commttee from the membership of the
club. The Executive Committee shall
have power to adopt, modify and amend
the By-Laws for the organization at any
regular meeting thereof after the pro
posed By-laws or amendments shall have
first been submitted to said committee
at the regular meeting thereof next prior
to their adoption. The Executive Com
mittee shall have the management of
the affairs of the corporation, except
as the same may be referred to the Board
of Directors by the Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee of this cor
poration shal be empowered to fix dues
or assessments, for which each member
shall be liable and shall also have power
to forfeit the stock of each member for
non-payment of dues and assessments.
The Board of Directors and officers and
the Executive Committee who are to
serve until the first annual meeting on
the fourth Friday in November, 1< 20,
shall be Ellsworth W. Pryor, President;
Jesse H. Hutten, Vice President: Daniel
Desdunes, Treasurer; Amos P. Scruggs,
Secretary; Thomas P. Mahammltt. Wil
liam C. Williams, John Albert Williams,
William F. Botts, Leonard E. Britt, Al
fred Jones, Amos B. Madison, Sagnollus
H. Dorsey, James A. Clark, Joseph Carr
and Harrison J. Plnkett.
These articles may be added to. re
pealed or modified nt any regular meet
ing of the Board of Directors, by a three
fifths affirmative vote of all those direc
tors present at said meeting or at a
called meeting for that purpose.
in testimony whereof we have here
unto set our hands as incorporators this
22d day of December, A. D. 1919.
(Signed) ELLSWORTH W. PRYOR.
JESSE H. HUTTEN.
DANIEL DESDUNES.
AMOS P. SCRUOQS,
ALFRED JONES,
in presence of H. J. Plnkett.
1-1-20-51-1-29-20
WAYNE E. SAWTELL, A tty.
Omaha National Bank Bldg.
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLES OF IN
CORPORATION OF KAFFIR CHEM
ICAL LABORATORIES
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES
ENTS;-that at a special called meeting
of all of the stockholders of the Kaffir
Chemical Laboratories held on the 1st
day of December, 1919, at the office of
the principal place of business In Oma
ha, Nebraska, all of the stock being pres
ent, and notice as required by the Ar
ticles of Incorporation by By-Laws hav
ing been given, Article 3, Article 4 and
Article 10 of the Articles of Incorpora
tion of said Kaffir Chemical labora
tories were amended so that hereafter
the same shall read as follows, to-wit:
ARTICLE III
The general nature of the business to
be transacted by thi? corporation, shall
be the manufacturing and dealing in
pharmaceuticals, chemicals, drug prepa
rations. medicines and all other things
incidental to or connected therewith. The
corporation may also purchase, own and
sell trade marks, trade names, copyrights,
patents and formulas arid protect the
same under the laws of the several states
and of the United States and ail for
eign countries.
The corporation may also purchase,
own and encumber and sell all kinds of
real and personal property necessary or
convenient In the execution of the main
business of the corporation, and may do
all other things incidental to or connected
with the business of a wholesale or re
tail manufacturing druggist as well as the
other rights herein enumerated
ARTICLE IV
The authorized capital stock of this
corporation shall be the sum of Five Hun
dred Thousand Dollars $500,000 00) and
shall be divided into shares of Ten Dol
lars ($10.00) each and. when issued, shall
Ik? fully paid and non-assessable.
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,
000.00) of said capital stock shall be com
mon stock with full voting rights. The
common stock may be paid for In cash,
bankable notes or such property as the
company may need or be able to use In
the conduct of Its business or In such
service as the company may require In
the conduct of its business.
Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
($300,000.00) of said capital stock shall
be of seven per cent (7%) cumulative,
preferred and voting, which shall take
priority over all other stock as to assets
and dividends, and on Increased mortgage
shall hereafter be placed on any of the
property of the company without the
written consent of the owners of not less
than tw'O-thirds of the outstanding capi
tal stock of this class and issue. This
stock shall receive seven per cent (7%)
annual dividends payable annually, to
wit; June 1st of each year, and In the
event of the liquidation of the company,
this stock shall be paid at par plus any
accumulated dividends, before any other
payment Is made upon any other class
of stock. This stock may be paid for In
cash, bankable notes, or such property
as the company may need or be able to
use In the conduct of Its business, or In
such services as the company may re
quire in the conduct of its business. And
said stock shall be redeemable at ten per
cent (10%) above par per share, plus anv
unpaid guaranteed dividends to which It
may be entitled, on thirty days written
notice given by the company oh or after
five years from date said stock is Issued.
ARTICLE X
The shares of stock of said corporation
shall be transferable on the books of said
corporation, In accordance with such
rules and regulations as may be adopted
by the board of directors, but any stock
holder who is about to sell, dispose of or
transfer his share or shares of stock, or
any of them, in said corporation, must
offc?r the same to the board of directors
at the same price for which he is about
to dispose of or sell said share or shares,
and said board of directors may purchase
such share or shares at such figures or
price; said purchase to be for the benefit
of the remaining stockholders.
MADREE PENN, President.
Attested by
ELEANOR C. HAYNES, Secretary.
11-11-19-1-1-20