The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928, May 06, 1920, Page 2, Image 2

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    THE MONITOR
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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.
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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*. Poultry
Suppliea
PlMii cut flower* alwaya on hand
Stewart’s Seed Store
1H N. 18th St. Opp. Poat Office
Phone Douglaa 977
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Petersen A Michelsen
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GOOD HARDWARE
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We Deliver Anywhere.
Webater 386. Omaha. Neb. j
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C. J. CARLSON
Dealer in
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1114 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb.
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PURE DRUGS AND TOILET
ARTIC1.ES
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Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St.
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Standard Laundry
24lh, Near Lake Street
Phone Webster 130
C. H. MARQUARDT
CASH MARKET
Retail Dealer in Freeh and Salt
Meats, Poultry, Oyatere, etc
2008 Canting St. Dong. 8884
Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke
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Webster 2380
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I MEN OF OMAHA
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wife one day'* rest during the ■
week with no dinner to get and no I
worrisome dishes to wash?
If so, take advantage of jv
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delirious GO-cent Hunday dinner. A
Regular Weekly Dinner, tSc.
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JONES & REED
FUNERAL PARLOR
2314 North 24th St. Web. 1100
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Real Estate, Loans and Rental*.
Office 220 South 13th St.
Tyler 2724
Res. 2726 Burdette St.
Webster 4150
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