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    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.
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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.
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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.
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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. The Negro mofc
had surrounded the driver and was
proceeding to lay violent hands on
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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.
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