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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1920)
The Monitor A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans _ Published Every Thursday at Omaha. Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub 11 shins Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2. 1915. at the Postoffice at Omaha Neb . under the Act of March 3. I*79. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. George H w. Bullock, Circulation Manager and Associate Editor. M Wngth. Advertising Manager. TRAGO T. MCWILLIAMS, Associate Editor. Lincoln. Neb. SUBSCRIPTION PATES. *3 00 A YEAR; *1.50 6 MONTHS; *1.00 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates 75 cents an inch per Issue. Address The Monitor, 201 Kaffir Block, Omaha. 5eb. Telephone Douglas 3224. I . NOT RECIPROCATION BUT .AMERICANISM IN Newport News, Vs.., the colored citizens refused to have any part1 in lawlessness and mob violence al though one of their race had been out-1 la red and brutally treated by a white man, and although the press admitted that no mob violence on the part of our citizens was easily possible, cer- i tainly according to the established precedents of the southerners’ mob law, lunching of the white man would have been justifiable. The colored citizens of Newport News resolved upon the law, which must be the occupation of every real American and the hope of all who aspire to be Americans. Now the World-Herald calls this conduct of these Colored citizens “re ciprocation.” It seems that that jour nal considers the conduct of colored c'tizens as a mere return considera tion on their part because only a short time prior the white citizens refused to permit lawlessness on the part of members of their race. The fact is that law is not-relative nor comparative—but supreme. Law is void of the spirit and flimsy weak in t>-e letter when any class of citi zens uphold it for the sheer force of example or to exact reciprocity. We should uphold the law because it is the law, the mandate and the ruler of the American people. It is unpatriotic to think of law in any other light. It is dangerously near treason to the ideals of our democracy to express the significance of mainte nance of law in other terms. Tv e conduct of the colored citizens of Newport News or any white citizen v-vn acts likewise, is misnamed by “Reciprocation.” Call such conduct by > its rroner name, vitalizing and re generating—one hundred per cent Americanism. COMMISSION FORM A FAILURE. THE more we see of the working of J the commission form of govern-1 ment in Omaha the more convincea we j become that it is far less satisfactory; and less efficient than the former mayor and ward councilmen system. T here each ward has its own council man he feels a direct personal re snons'bfl’tv for improvement and up keep of his ward. It centers respon sibility and makes it possible to get things done. Under the commission form this is not so. It is too easy to pass the buck or shift responsibility. Impassable streets, flooded sidewalks „r>s;rrVti.r rubbish heaps which are a shame and a disgrace to our city are! to be found within a mile of the city ball md it seems impossible to have anything done about it. If, for exam ple. t^e Third ward had a councilman, the almost intolerable conditions which , exist say on Twenty-first street from Izard to Clark would have been im proved long ago. The same would be true of other sections of the city. The Monitor believes Omaha should return to the old councilmanic system. The present commission form makes it en tire'- too easv to pass the buck while a patient and long suffering citizenry awaits needed improvements. As a refT-eps>b:l:t---shifting aggregation oui present commission form is a colossal s--ccpss: as an efficient organization for petflng thmgs done it is a gigan tic failure. L "1 TTEMEMBER now thy Creator in 1A t'-e davs of thy youth, while the evil da-s come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them: While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars he not darkened nor the clouds ■e‘u-n after the rain. Ecc. 12, 1-2. A immad might be a poet, but he cannot he an arcHtect. A herdsman might have written the book of Job, but the great builders of which it creaks are d'-e'lerg in cities. Ever*- noh'e activity makes room <7>r itself.—Emerson. f SNYCOPATED SPASMS FRIENDSHIP / iUITE recently an eastern news Y paper held a contest for the best definition of a friend. A boy won the ] prii - with this: A friend is a guy what qnows all about you and likes j you just the same. Now when it comes to hitting the buliseye, young strip ling was right. That is just what a friend is. We human sqi^gshes are loaded down with hefty infirmities, some loaded heavier than others; but real, sure enough friendship is the! stuff that sticks by you in spite of all. Often the public thinks that the proof of friendship is the lending of a few bucks when you are up against it. You are all wrong, chicken; all wrong. He might be a friend when he lends you the few bucks, but he knows as well as a canary knows the bird scale that he is going to be your enemy after he starts trying to collect. You are generally the first one to do the falling out and friend lender has to fall out because you won’t let him stick. No, the true test is as the kid says. If a man knows all about you fore and aft and in the middle and still calls you his friend, the chances are he means it. He is just your friend from general principles. He doesn’t gain anything by being your friend. The chances are that some time he loses a whole lot, but he sticks just the same That is the reason why many thinkosophers claim that you need to have some nifty col lection of adversity in order to find out who your friends are. And he is right. As long as you bounce and bubble upon the wave of prosperity, everybody is your friend according to his dope. But when your canoe springs a leak and your slabs and plates of character begin slipping loose, the real friend shows up. And many a time! he is the guy that you never did think was your friend. CI RRENT AND OTHERWISE (By W. H. A. Moore) T TNDER the caption of “Gutter A-J Politics” the New York Call pre sents an interesting editorial comment in a recent issue, on the attempt to fasten the atrocious crime of possess ing Negro blood on the distinguished preside.'t-elect, Warren G. Harding, by certain elements in the democratic party. The Call concludes that if Sen ator Harding has the constitutional qualifications to hold the office it doesn’t matter a heck whether the “disgrace" flows through his veins or whether it doesn’t. It really doesn’t matter. But it makes one fairlv weep for the future of the country and the spirit of the democracy which is hold ing it together when a group of its most precious patriots, with an ef-1 frontrv dazzling in its particular bril liancy, are driven to the exulting ne cessity to win in an election of fasten ing the outstanding and criminal “dis grace” on a candidate for public of fice who was so debased as to hav Negro blood running through hi. veins. There is nothing of public 01 of private record at hand that car establish the truthfulness of the charge in Senator Harding’s case When one harks back, however, to thi historical fact that Negro slavery wa the keystone to the national structure for more than 250 years and held 11 together until all the questions of in ternal welfare and domestic policy were in a fair situation of stability there comes a lump in the throat when he comes face to face with a tempo! of ingratitude that is as low and mean in spirit as the effort to set up the possession of his blood as a “disgrace' during the progress of the recent cam paign. This is not the time to dis cuss in detail this latest matter cl “disgrace” which has come so point edly into the aspects of our nation:;, life. I will say, though, that it might be well for a loud-mouthed contingent of “whites’ ’to put the soft pedal on the “Negro blood coursing through hi veins,” and turn their very vaiuab! consideration to questions bearim; upon the safety of democracy in the land. “A few fool Negroes cause rac" troubles,” says the Newton (N. C.) News. To this I say, Amen, and inci dentally add, and a great many fool whites. Here are two instances in which color and race play a very com monplace part. A fool is a fool re gardless of either. The future would look dark indeed if the Negro had a monopoly on the production of fool But thanks to the fellow who went to sleep at the switch he hasn’t got it and stands small chance of procur ing it A Negro prophet is busy warning people that the world will come to an end in 1931. This is important if tru . But why should we worry about it’ The world will come to an end in 1920 for a great number of folks, la my own case 1931 wdll do just as well a any other time if that is the fate in store for me. The world had a begin ning and, in all probability, it will have an end. We had nothing to do with the beginning but we will have just as little to do with the end. Let us live while we can and do good. In the meanwhile Woodrow Wilson will retire to private life on the fourth of March, 1921. WHAT THE EDITORS SAY A RECIPROCATION White men have saved Negroes from being lynched by white mobs. They have not done it as often as they should, but they have done it fre quently. Now a Negro has saved a white man from being lynched by a Negro mob. A notable event. The Negro is beginning to reciprocate in this matter. The hero, for such he was, is a Negro preacher. The offense of the white man was the running over of a Negro child with an automobile at Newport News, Va. 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CONSULTATION ABSOLUTELY FREE him, when the prearher intervened with such persuasiveness as to ranee the mob to desist. It at once improved an ugly situation in the city where a dangerous state of feeling had been created by the killing of three Negroes in a conflict with the police. And no doubt the Negro was ready and glad to reciprocate, for he per t formed a service not only to the white man but one in the interests of his own race in this signal discourage ment of lynching altogether and this demonstration that the Negro who pleads for the protection of law is capable of restraining his own provo cation in deference to law.—World Herald. A MOB CONVICTED An interesting court sequel has fol lowed the sparing of a man’s life by a mob at Welland, Ont., several months ago. The prisoner, David Mc Neal, taken from the burning town hall to the place meant for his hang ing, and with the rope around his neck pleaded for “fair play,” protesting his innocence of the charge against him that of attacking a girl. The mob de sisted—something so rare in the con duct of mobs as to atract wide atten tion. McNeal had just had his trial in a court of justice and has been acquitted bringing vindication to him, as to his crime, according to law and furnish ing an argument against lynching that ought to have a particularly powerful effect wherever the fact becomes known. One is justified in supposing that every man who was in the Wel land mob must be permanently and wholesomely inoculated against par ticipation in such lawlessness again and this clear demonstration that the mob was mistaken ought, it would seem, to act as a deterrent to mob activity anywhere.—World-Herald. McKELVIE IN DOEGLAS (GOVERNOR McKelvie carried 7 Douglas county by 1,800. An examination of the vote in the precincts in which the colored people live tells an interesting and sugges tive story. Oh, look! “Trooper of Troop K," the big Lincoln Mexican war photo play, starring Noble M. Johnson, is at the Franklin, Tuesday, Nov. 30.—Adv. Select Your Vocation Pick from the brook the stones that fit your hand, and picking them, sling them and slay the giant. , As no man can cut off one of his fingers without injuring his whole ; hand, so can we not injure one mem ber of the race without affecting ev |ory other member. — Clarence Brooks, the Lincoln mo tion picture star, will appear in per son'at the Franklin Theatre, Tuesday evening, November 30. Regular ad mission.—Adv. | Cuming Hotel | For a Nice Room call X !jl Douglas 2166. X :: CENTRAL BILLIARD % ;; PARLOR 4 BARBER SHOP ;; Soft Drinks, Candies, •{• Cigars and Tobacco Ij! ;; 1916-18 CUMING STREET $ '< ■ Douglas 5235 1»♦ o ♦ » » o o Established 1890 | C. J. 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