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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1920)
THE MONITOR \ __________i--- S A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans. _ __ Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. _____ altered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915. at tbe Postofflce at Omaha, Neb., under the Act of March 2, 1879.___ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Madree Penn, Associate Editor. Fred C. Williams, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR; *1.28 6 MONTHS; 60c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates, 75 cents an Inch per Issue. Address, The Monitor, 2M kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Douglas 3224. ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION 0* THE ^ ;I UNITED STATES. J ;! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. £ !; 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States. % !■ 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 ■„ j! shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop •I erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person I; within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. THE WOMEN WIN. HATS off to the women of Omaha, to all the women of Omaha in general and to our own women, in particular! Recently enfranchised, they have entered with intelligence and efifciency into the political arena, j They have organized and effectively | made their influence felt in the pri maries and will count heavily in the November elections. No better worK has been done than by the Douglas County Colored Women’s Republican club, under the capable leadership of Mrs. J. Alice Stewart and her splen did corps of officers. They succeed ed in electing as county committee men and delegates to the county con vention no less than seven of their number, all women of good education, character and ability. Hitherto, for several years, the colored people have j been practically without any repre-1 sentation in party affairs in this county. This, therefore, is a. decid ed gain. And not only have the wom en put their candidates across, every one of them, but several men have been elected as committeemen. Despite the fact that those who filed for the more important offices were not elected, our people have made tremendous and unparalled gains in political affairs in this county and state by the success of the women at the primaries. Hats off to the women, men! While you have been talking organization and have effected strong organiza tions—on paper and in your mind— they have organized and put their candidates across—seven of them. Not one was defeated. And what the women of our group have done has been duplicated in corresponding ratio by women of the other group. HOME BUYING. OUR people are to be congratulated! upon the way in which they are, buying homes. Home ownership makes for good and stable citizen ship and this we are realizing more fully every day. While we are grati fied at the eagerness and determina tion of our people to become home owners, and we contend that it is cheaper to buy a home than to pay rent, may we caution our people to exercise due care before closing bar- j gains for homes. First, they should! see to it, that the home they buy is reasonably within their means. The average man or woman among us is not in a position to pay or contract to pay $4,000 or $5,000 for a home. About half this amount will suit the average man or woman. Consult your own pocket as to your first pay ment and your income and buy ac cordingly. Don’t try to compete with the man who has more money or a larger income than yourself. Buy the home that suits your own pocket. Next, select that firm or individual who will not exploit you. There are tfjose who will charge an exorbitant afire for property, just because they brieve they can get it. Use due care i i buying. See that the abstract of t i ;le is clear and that there are no I fns against the property. Buy homes. Buy within your i feans. Use due caution in buying, i at buy homes. THE COUNTRY FOR WOOD. I_ _ "taOTHO says that Wood is not in it? ' IV Wood managers were not count i g on New Jersey, the home of so 1 any radicals, but New Jersey goes if the general, showing that sound, sine Americanism, has the upper hand even in New Jersey. Nor were they counting strongly on Maryland and yet Maryland shows commend able good judgment and gives Wood a tremendous majority. Every day discloses the fact that the country is for Leonard Wood, the favorite son of the nation. A WORD OF WARNING. VTTE desire to warn our people that ▼V despite the apparent unwonted prosperity of our country, the United States is facing not only the possi- j bility, but the probability of a panic. For this reason it behooves us all to be exceedingly careful of our expendi tures and practice frugality. There is plenty of money in the country and there is no need of a panic, but | those who control the money can so manipulate it that a panic may be forced upon the country. Those who are wise will realize the necessity of practicing, so far as they can, rigid , economy, so that should hard times and lack of employment come, they i will be prepared for the emergency. The Monitor is sounding no note of alarm, but rather giving warning and, advice. WAKING I P POLITICALLY. POLITICALLY, as well as indue- j trially, our people all over the country’ are waking up. Instead of being suppliants for the political crumbs which fall from the tables of dispensers of patronage, they have j decided to become candidates for such ; offices as they know they have the; ability to fill. In several localities j these aspirants have been successful. In others they have been unsuccess ful, but they have had plenty of com pany. The significant fact which counts for so much is our decision to enter the lists. This spells reliance, confidence and self-respect. It means that hereafter, we are to be consid ered politically. We have slumbered too long. The awakening has come. BEING pleasant is much easier than being grouchy. Try it and see. It makes you feel better, your self, and it makes everybody around you; feel better. Ditch your grouch. Be j pleasant. KEEP A GOIN’! (From the Portland Times.) If you strike a thorn or rose Keep a goin’! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a goin’! ’Hain’t no use to sit and whine When the fish ain’t on your line, Bait your hook and keep on trvin’ Keep a goin’! If the weather kills your crop. Keep a goin’! W’hen you tumble from the top .. Keep a goin’! S’pose you’re out of every dime, Gettin’ broke ain’t any crime; Tell the world you’re feelin’ prime, Keep a goin’! When it looks like all is up, Keep a goin’! Drain the sweetness from the cup, Keep a goin’! See the wild birds on the wing, Hear the bells that sweetly ring, When you feel like sighin’—sing; Keep a goin’! —Anonymous. Women Will Make Influence Felt in Party Machinery Tha eficient organization and work of the Colored women of Colored women of Douglas county is shown by the fact that all of their seven candidates who filed for republican dounty committeemen and delegates to the republican county convention were elected. In several of the districts the competi tion between the candidates was quite spirited. The following women were elected: Mesdames J. Alice Stewart, Eva M. Pinkett, Elizabeth Wright, Mattie Gooden, Hazel T. Lewis, Susan Trent and Lucinda W. Williams. , Three men were also elected for thd same positions, namely, Rufus C. Long, William G. Haynes and J. D. Crum. SQUIBS AND SQUIBLETS. By Bruce Grit. "Now is the summer of their discon tents The soap-box orators are looking for their cents.” —Apologies to Shakespeare. Two Irishmen were admiring the monkeys in the Bronx Zoo. Said Mike: "Sure, Dinny, thim bastes do be lookin’ like humans an oi believe they arr.” “G’wan,'’ said Dinny; “thim bastes arr no more human than you or oi ” A southern politician looking for votes called at the residence of a farmer in a certain southern village, whose wife was very fond of black children, and always had two or three of these youngsters around her. When the politician called it was near candle light, and as he stepped upon the broad veranda of this southern home he was greeted by the happy voice of these blc^k kiddies, who weir were romping and playing. He took a seat in a hig rocker and sent one of the children into the house to an nounce his arrival. Picking up an other he sat it on his knee and gave it a ride (the kind that kids so en • i. The farmer's wife was the first to gieet him, and after the usual ex change of commonplaces about the weather, the crops and the new min ister, he remarked, “Madam, what a lovely group of children you have, and how much this one resembles you,” patting on the head the little black boy he still held on his knee. " > nu reallv think so? You flatter me,” she said. Presently the head of the household arrived, and after shaking hands with the visitor, invited him to step into the parlor, and the whole household went in. When the farmer lighted the big lamp on the center table he saw the madam seated and and sur rounded by three very black kids. And then he wilted and said to him self, sotto voice, “What artistic liars we politicians are!” WHITE PROFESSOR PLEADS FOR NEGRO POETS Chicago, May 6.—In a specially prepared statement for the Associat ed Negro Press, Prof. Robert T. Ker lin, of the department of English in the Virginia Military Institute, Lex ington, Va., makes a very pertinent comment with reference to the high appreciation of the poets in our group. "I have never assumed the role of adviser or preacher to the col ored people of America,” says Prof. Kerlin, "but I am impelled to make an exception for once—in a worthy cause. Are you as a race supporting your poets? You are getting to gether manfully in business, in poli tics, in labor, in education, in charit able and religious works. Racial con.-ciousness is strongly asserting it self throughout the whole domain of your life with this one one excep tion, Yon do not—like many other races—value your poets at their worth. Yon are willing to let them furnish you the very bread of life while you permit them to suffer for the mere bread of existence. Is this right Is it wise? “Your poets are your prophets. To day they have a flaming message. They are embodying your ideals, your aspirations, your sufferings, your prayers, your protests, in song. The I lyrical cry is theirs—your cry; theirs I the articulation of it. Now no cause is greatly effective until the poets champion it. The poets have winged words; they pierce the hearts and consciences of men. They bum their way into our inmost thoughts. Poets are more to be dreaded by the forces of evil and injustice and oppression than politicians yea, even than preachers; for the true poet is, I re peat, a prophet.” PILGRIM REST BAPTIST CHliRCH RAISES $5,000 The congregation of Pilgrim Rest Baptist church, the Rev. William Franklin, pastor, which is purchas ing the beautiful Calvary Baptist church at Twenty-fifth and Hamilton streets, raised over $5,000 cash at their rally last Sunday to apply on the purchase price of this edifice. The contract of sale calls for a pay ment of $15,000 before taking po session of the building. The $5,000 raised Sunday makes a total of $9,000 which this energetic congregation has secured within less than eight een months and paid on this desir able property. They have begun a drive for the remaining $6,000 which they desire to raise by September 1. The purchase price of Calvary Baptist church, which includes a splendid pipe organ, is $30,000. The building could not be duplicated to day for $60,000. Pilgrim Rest Bap tist church in securing this prop erty will own the finest church edi fice in the city belonging to our people. Our citizens should take pride in helping this congregation raise speedily the required amount to pay in full for this property. MAN FAINTS WHEN SENTENCED BY JI DGE Found Guilty of Opening Another Man’s Mail, Jesse Nash Given Twenty-five seconds in Peniten tiary. (By Associated Press.) Chicago, 111., May 6.—Federal Judge Landis sitting in the United States district court sentenced Jesse Nash, a colored man, to the peniten tiary for twenty-five seconds, for re ceiving and opening another man’s mail. Nash fainted when the sen tence was announced and there was a general commotion in the court room. The prisoner amd the on-look ers had understood the judge to say twenty-five years instead of seconds Nash, according to the testimony, had suspected his wife of writing love letters to another roan. He went to the postofifce general deliv ery and asked for the man’s mail. He was given a letter in his wife’s handwriting. The other man, E. A. Ahern, had Nash arrested for steal ing his mail. .CARD OF THANktt. We wish to express our apprecia tion for the many kindnesses shown us during the short illness and death of our beloved son and brother, who departed this life. April 22. We algo thank our friends for the many flow ers; also Ak-Sar-Ben Temple No. 254 and Amelia Lenel’s Tabernacle No. 19. Mrs Alice Acree, mother; Miss Lula Jenkins, sister; Mrs. Bessie Kir by, cousin; Walter Wynn, cousin. — TO THE PUBLIC. I wish to correct the statement I made concerning the property Mrs. Busch and Mrs. Blackwell induced me to buy. 1 found it to be legitimate. WILLIAM JENKINS, 2513 M St., So. Omaha. Mrs. Ignore B. Williams was called to Denver last week by the illness of her father. W# Have a Complete Line of FLOWER,GRASS Jj _ AND GARDEN Bdka, Hard; Perennial*. 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