Nebraska Newspapers

    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, 1215, at the Postoffice at
Omaha, Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879. _
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher.
Madree Penn, Associate Editor.
Fred C. Williams, Business Manager.
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Address, The Monitor, 2(M Kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone Douglas 3224.
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ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION Of THE \
UNITED STATES. >
Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. I;
All persons born or naturalized in the United States. ;!
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ■;
ted States and of the State wherein they reside. No I;
e shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
ileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor £
1 any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop
without due process of law, nor deny to any person
iin its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. •;
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FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS
COMMANDMENTS.
AMERICA is seething with discon
content. Not only America, but
the world. Many reasons are as
signed for it. Some are pertinent,
some far-fetched. Attempt to disguise
it or ignore it as we may, the sad and
deplorable fact remains that despite
our talk of brotherhood and democ
racy, each man’s hand is at the
throat of his brother. It ought not to
be so, but it is. The strained relations
between capital and labor, more ser
ious than surface conditions indicate is
a case in point. So also is the thinly
.veiled antagonistic temper of various
racial groups, composing the nations
displayed from time to time against
one another. The country seethes
with discontent which genders hatred
and ill-will. Many trace this unhappy
condition to the world war. Nor are
they far wrong. War is evoked by a
spirit of hate and reprisal, and this
spirit once conjured is not easily exor
cised or allayed. “This kind goeth
not forth but by prayer and fasting.”
The only panacea for the spirit of
discontent which seriously threatens
the peace and perpetuity of the world
is the invocation of the Spirit of
Christ, Who by precept and example
teaches that all men are brethren.
And the manifestation of this spirit
is an individual matter. Each indivi
dual must go back to the first prin
ciples of reverence for God, the
Father of all mankind, and obedience
to His commandments. The individual
must fear God and keep His com
mandments; for individual righteous
ness, right thinking, right living, must
precede civic, communal, national and
international righteousness. No mat
ter what others may be doing it is
up to the individual who believes in
Christian principles to actively con
tribute his share to the prosperity
and peace of the nation by a consis
tent and courageous life. Impending
disaster can only be averted by indiv
idual acknowledgment of the necessity
for each one of us to “fear God and
keep His commandments; for this is
the whole duty of man.”
A NEW EXCH ANGE FROM WHICH
WE QUOTE.
E Michigan State News is the
>ame of a neatly printed, well
edited new exchange which has just
come to our desk from Grand Rapids,
Michigan. Its editor is Geoge M.
Smith, who many years ago was in
our Sunday school class in St. Mat
thew’s church, Detroit. This fact nat
urally adds a note of personal inter
est to this publication, -which we wish
abundant success and prosperity. The
following editorial from last week’s
issue of The News is so timely and so
applicable to almost every communi
ty that we gladly quote it in full
here as expressing our own senti
ments:
“In nearly all of the smaller cities
of the state as well as in the larger
ones the necessity of a definite and
practical method of providing suit
able homes is claiming the attention
of all forward-looking citizens.
In most of our cities and towns
committees and organizations are
now working on this grave situation.
Where there is no such committee or
organized effort there should be one.
No phase of our progress is more
vital than the securing of proper
dwellings for our citizens.
Good homes owned and occupied
by us are not only concrete and
tangible evidence of our ambitions
and well-being, but they are also ab
solutely to our fuller and finer de
velopment.
Good wages and better working
conditions and better churches can
not take the place of suitable and
adequate homes. In fact it is in the
home that the desire for and the de
velopment to appreciate better civic
conditions is formed.
Today homes are scarce and good
homes are greatly in demand. For
this very reason it is the all-impor
tant duty of every community to see
that our people do not suffer unduly
or unjustly in the matter of secur
ing decent and desirable homes.
Our education, our progress and
our standing demands this. Our
self-respect, the respect we expect
from our neighbors and our determi
nation to keep abreast with all other
Americans cannot possibly grow as it
should in surroundings less desirable
than those occupied by others.
We have harder times securing
good homes, therefore we must ex
ert more effort and give this serious
condition the attention that it merits.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
The next president of the United
States is to be elected in November.
The nominations for the office are
to be made in June. Politics satur
ates the air at this time from one
end of the country to the other. The
office of “chief executive” is the
greatest in the gift of the nation, and
has international aspects of the most
far reaching kind.
The people of our group, from one
end of the country to the other are :
much concerned about the personality
of the individual who is to be elected
by convention for the office. The
republican party having enjoyed the '
advantage of our support for so
many years is naturally being care
fully watched, and the leaders and
candidates are being scrutinized as
never before. It is no far fetched
statement to declare that at this
time, as important as may be party
loyalty, political principle means
more than anything else. It is highly
essential that all political maneuver
ing and strategy, leading to the "con
summation devoutly to be wished”
must bear this fact in mind.
The action of “lily white” democrats
posing as “dyed in the wool” repub
licans in the south in states where
contests have been brought about,
has stirred the thoughtful people
everywhere. The sentiment of the en
tire race is expressed by Robert R.
Church when he declares that the
republican party is put to the acid
test, and will rise or fall by its Chi
cago decisions and declarations.
The new thought and the new atti- !
tude of the new Negro must be recog
nized. It is neither a theory nor a i
dream, but a practical reality. The '
new Negro everywhere is resolved to
live or die now and forever on the ]
principles of eternal justice. He is
not unreasonable in his demands, does .
not expect miracles to be performed,
but he does expect a “showdown” and
though he “walks through the valley
of the shadow of death,” fears no
evil. He figures, and rightly, that
“decision day” has come.
For example, these are notable in- i
cidents in the trend of events: Vir
ginia, Texas, North and South Caro
line, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee,
Arkansas, Louisana, and a few other
states are playing the “lily white”
game with pernicious activity. Gov
ernor Lowden of Illinois defiantly op
posed in the state convention the pro
posed platform of Mayor William
Hale Thompson of Chicago, which in
cluded the cutting down of represen
tation in congress and the electoral
college where franchise is denied;
only two men mentioned for president
have openly declared in favor of the
kind of justice the Negro demands,
namely, Nicholas Murray Butler of
New York, and General Leonard
Wood. New parties are being proposed
by those tired of both democratic and
republican inefficiency and indiffer
ence. These facts are notable.
PERISCOPE.
THE HOPE OF FRANCE.
The French Blacks.
By William Pickens, New York, N. Y.
Africa has been the refuge for good
men and good principles ever since
the angel told the father and the
mother to take the child and "flee
into Egypt.” O men of France! the
sole security of your future is in a
close and closer alliance with your
blacks in Africa. It is your best hope
for military prestige, and perhaps for
economic existence, and possibly for
lifeblood itself.
It is more than an accident of his
tory that black men saved you in
the dangerous day from Teutonic ar
rogance and barbarism. It was a
dispensation of the Providence who
shapes our ends. The white world
is going to desert you, to be sure,
you are shade of its color and flesh
of its flesh, but you are not of its
genius and spirit. You are the last
liberal spirit left in the white world
today. More than English, German
or American. You still feel that you
are men among men in the world.
The dominant feeling among most
other whites is that they are men
among brutes and half brutes.
Your liberalism is your providential
strong point and it is more than an
accident that a great black people
have been closely allied with your re
cent interests and your destiny.
You alone among white nations
seem to be near to the realization
that God made the world for all men
of all colors, or that he would not
have made all colors of men for the
world. It is true that the colored
ince originated civilization; that is,
that they happened to be the first
people civilized. But that does not
give them any better title to civiliza
tion than it gives you and the Ger
man—although your ancestors and tne
ancestors of Kaiser Wilhelm were ex
traordinarily late in adopting civiliza
tion. Civilization is the joint product
of all the races of Africa, Asia and
Europe, who contributed to it. When
the German was a wild thing, civiliz
ation was being nursed in Africa.
A close alliance with your African
blacks, mighty in their fecundity and
endurance, is your one best bet for
future life and power.
Washington, D. C., May 20.—Sab
batical leave has been granted by
the trustees of Howard University to
four of its teachers during the school
term of 1020-21, Prof. Charles H.
j Wesley of the department of history
| has been awarded an Austin teach
er’s scholorship in Harvard Univers
I ity, and will study for the Ph. D de
I gree next year. Professor Martha
MacLear of the School of Education
i is planning to study at Columbia uni
versity, being registered for the de
gree of Ph. r>. Miss MacLear’s study
will be the “History of Education.”
She will also do some work in so
ciology.
Professor Thomas W. Turner, act
ing dean of the School of Education,
and professor of applied biology, will
continue research in vegetable physi
ology at Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York. This particular line of
research has large agricultural sig
nificance, and for this reason the
United States Department of Agri
culture has given hint ample facili
ties in the last few years for carry
ing on investigation in its laborator
ies. Also because of the important
hearing which these investigations
have in the field of agriculture, the
department sent him to Northern
Maine Experimental laboratory,
where better facilities were offered
for carrying on his investigations in
connection with the sterility of the
white potato. Professor Turner will
give attention while at Cornell next
year, also to "Education," particular
ly “Agricultural Education.” Pro
fessor (Jeorge W. Hines, assistant
professor in the School of Commerce
and Finance, will attend the Uni
versity of Washington at Seattle. His
major work wii] be in corporation
finance, while he will also take cer
tain studies in accounting and busi
ness organisation.
The university trustees have gen
erously voted a substantial portion
of the yearly salaries received by
these professors along with the
year’s absence.
Annual Appearance j
OF
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In the Thrilling Drama
I “TESTING FIRE”)
With An All-Star Selected Cast, Including
1 CECILIA W. JEWELL JOHN WOODS
I PEARL ALEXANDER ANDREW T. REED
| FANNIE RUSSELL JOHN R LENRINE
« pv* ppopt t*'cs CECIL ALEXANDER
5 EVA PEOPLES EDWARD TURNER
jg CORINNE THOMAS JESSE L. PEOPLES
| RUTH WASHINGTON GERALD EDWARDS
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MACEO WILLIAMS, VIOLINIST
LENA MAYS, CURRY & ROSCOE MILLER, SPECIALTIES
HARMONY FOUR
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Curtain 8:30 P. M.
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FLOWER,GRASS
AND GARDEN ^““US
Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry
Supplies
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Stewart’s Seed Store
US N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office
Phone Douglas 977
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GOOD HARDWARE
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Established 1890
C. I. CARLSON
Dealer in
Shaea and Gents’ Furnishings
1114 No. 24th St, Omaha, Neb.
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The Old Reliable
TeL South 807 4826 So. 24th St.
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Hill-Williams Drug Co.
PURE DRUGS AND TOILET
ARTICLES
Free Delivery
Tyler 1(0 2402 Cuming St.
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Standard Laundry
24tli, Near Lake Street
Phone Webster 130
C. H. MARQUARDT
CASH MARKET
Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt
Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc.
2MI earning St. Doug. 3834
Heme Rendered Lard. We Smoke
and Care ear ewn Hams and Bacon.
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Residence 3118 Emmett St.
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TRANSFER CO.
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For Reasonable Terms
Webster 2380
24th and Blondo Sts.
A CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF
OMAHA’S COLORED BUSINESS
AND PROFESSIONAL FIRMS
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PAINTING
PAPERHANGING AND
DECORATING
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4827 ERSKINE STREET.
IPHONE WALNUT 2111.
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Western Funeral Home |
2518 Lake Street |4
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wife one day's rest during the B
week with no dinner to get and no |j
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Res. 2726 Burdette St.
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Eureka Furniture Store
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PRICES REASONABLE
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