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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1921)
The Monitor ▲ National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. Sintered as Second-Claas Mail Matter July 2, 1915. at the Postofflce at Omaha. Neb., under the Act of March 3. 12T9. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor, j; Georgs H. W. Bullock. Circulation Manager and Associate Editor. M. Wrigth. Advertising Manager. TRAGO T. McWILLIAMS, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. $3 00 A YEAR; $1.50 6 MONTHS; $1 00 3 MONTHS | Advertising Rates, 75 cents an Inch per Iseue. Addre*s, The Monitor, 204 kaffir Block, Omaha. If eh. Telephone Douglas 3224. I -J GOV. McKELVIE’S MESSAGE THOSE who, largely for personal reasons, are opposed to Governor McKelvie and would belittle him for lack of constructive statesmanship can find nothing to support their po sition in his able, clear-cut and broad visioned message to the legislature. He presents a well-considered and comprehensive program which, if car ried out, will advance the best inter ests of the state. His Utterances on law enforcement legislation are wise. He is perfectly right in maintaining that there are already too many obso lete and unenforceable laws upon the statute books. Fewer laws, with rigid and fearless enforcement of the same, are needed. The message gives light upon the parole system and recom mends reform. The agricultural pro gram advocated by Governor McKel vie will commend itself to the farm ing interests. The recommended sol d'er relief is admirable. His plan for child welfare and his views upon the direct primary are to be commended. Taken as a whole Governor McKelvie’s message is a statesmanlike document which will win the commendation of the people of Nebraska. FOR OUR GIRLS TE opening of the Colored Branch of the Y. W. C. A. is a subject of congratulation to all the citizens of Omaha. The Monitor rejoices that this helpful agency, long-needed, is in active operation. We would that our Christianity were real enough and oui democracy broad enough to make such special institutions for social uplift unnecessary, or, in other words, we would that all institutions would ad mit all who need their ministrations to full privileges regardless of race, creed or color. Since, however, that is not so, we are grateful that pro visions are made for advantages for our „ .Is and women in an institution of this character which would t>e otherwise denied them. The center has opened auspiciously. We predict for it great success. We know it will be fully appreciated. We bespeak for it hearty support. Whatever The Monitor can do to help in the work so well begun that we shall gladly and willingly do. SUSPEND JUDGMENT AN unfortunate controversy has arisen between the pastor of St. John’s A. M. E. church, the Rev. W. C. Williams, and Attorney H. J. Pin kett, which has been carried into the courts. The Monitor as a newspaper carries as a news item the facts as alleged in the suit filed by the attor ney against the minister. An official signed statement from the board of St. John’s church is also published in our columns. Naturally, there will be a disposition to take sides in this con troversy. Feeling pro and con will doubtless run high. The Monitor ad vises that the'public suspend judg ment until the case is tried in the courts and the evidence on both sides is in. The place to decide charges of th’s character is not in the press, nor in the pulpit, nor on the streets, but in the courts. Until the evidence is in. it is wise to suspend judgment. THE MONITOR GRATEFUL S is our first issue of the year. We therefore take this oppor tunity to thank our patrons, subscrib ers and advertisers, for thair hearty co-operation and support during the past year and to bespeak their con tinued patronage for the year upon which we have just entered. The Monitor, while conscious of many faults and imperfections, is proud of the place it has won and held among the weekly newspapers of the country which are wielding such a tremendous influence for good among our race. Our newspapers are being read as never before, not only by our own people, but by thoughtful people of the other group who, as students of social and economic conditions, real ise that the thoughts and activities ! of such a large ethnic group as oui own is worthy of attention and study. Journalism among us has become a recognized power. The need for strong, well-edited, fearless journals to cham pion the rights of our people is ap parent to all. Critics and contempo raries recognize The Monitor as hold ing high rank among such a group of newspapers. We are proud of the place we hold and shall do all in out power to deserve and maintain it. We are gratified at the confidence placed in us by the people who look to us for guidance and leadership and we will never willingly or knowingly do any thing to betray that confidence. What we believe to be right that we shall fearlessly maintain. What we believe to be wrong we shall with equal fear lessness condemn. Our desire is to serve better in the future than in the past With increased support we sha'l he able to add many features to our publication. V WORD ABOIT COST W of our readers realize the anxiety and strain placed upon newspapers during the past year. It has meant for nearly all papers, even those who were heavily capitalized, a struggle for existence. The cost of publication increased enormously. For example, the cost of print paper in creased 400 per cent. Everything else entering into the publishing business advanced at a corresponding ratio. Is it any wonder that many newspapers were compelled to suspend? For tunately, The Monitor was able to sur vive, although we are frank to con fess that we had to struggle hard for an existence. We take our readers into our confidence now because we believe that they will realize the ne cessity of paying their subscriptions promptly, cheerfully and gladly. We want you to know that it costs money to publish The Monitor and that we mint rely upon our patrons to supply it by paying their subscriptions promptly and by helping to increase the demand for our publication as an advertising medium. _ . NEED NEVER GREATER AT no time in our history has there been more imperative need fo: i frank, fearless and sane newspapers to champion the rights of our people than now. A subtle and sinistei | propaganda, heavily subsidized, to dis- j credit us and limit our constitutional lights Is now and has been at work. Working by a secret organization, under another name in the north and ; west for some months, seeking, and in some cases successfully, to foment strife between the races, this monster of iniquity has at last with brazen1 ' EUFAULA /(A^ ^IKe 8>cOV (Pronounced U-FALL-ER) 123*$* *5. <*•{&*•■» ^*<vr7 b*autt pbepa ha-hows i "Ur*ratlZnP'0e, / T,,e World’* F««"“*ln of y*i¥K:*>*7 “'■"ti "•»«• for sale at for sale at E. MorrU Pharmacy. Central and MME. R- FRANKLIN (Poro By. MSfoS,W%.MX, Byetem). MME. " P m2»^LL (WalK.r ' M™ t ^v:vSe&, M^rr rMioJ <k-d« Mme. vrr.HS;' By chi tv 7»h Bt Sioux City, la tem), 1612 N. 24th St._ Mme. 1. Turner (Magic Syatetn), MMES. SOUTH AND JOHNSON, 1104 Ave C Council Bluffs, leu Magic Syatem), 2416 Blondo 8t Mme^lT BaiSett (Walker Syium). MME. O VAWTER (Walker Sy. 1010 Center Bt., Dee Molnee, la By, Mme. Olbbe (Poro System), 1114 B. MME. B A B08TIC (Poro Bye 28th fit South Omaha. tem), 2124 Clark Bt. South Side Parlor (Magic Syatem). MME. TRENT (Poro 8y*" 4627 8. 26th Bt.. South Omaha. tem), »tg» *raWn ,_ i ' \ ■ euromery come out into tne open under the name of the Ku KJiix Klan. with the avowed purpose of maintain ing not Americanism, nor democracy but “White Supremacy.” The evil de | signs of this organization, wholly foreign to the genius and spirit of America, must be fought with persist ert and pitiless publicity. This is one of the tasks before our own journals. Nor will we be unaided in the fight. Perresentative dailies and magazines will he with us in this fight. Then too. because of an effort upon the part of disciples of discontent to win our people over to their way of think ing, which means subversion of gov ernment, it is enjoined upon our race journals to give wise counsel and ad vice lest many be led to follow these vain delusions. The creation of a right and righteous public sentiment touching our full constitutional rights as citizens, which means the exercise of the franchise, the abolishment of Jim Crow cars, justice in the courts liberal educational opportunities foi our children, the suppression of lynch ing; the fighting of damaging and ma licious propaganda; the exposure and condemnation of evil customs, prac tices and weaknesses among ourselves inimical to our best interests, and wise counsel and advice are the tasks placed upon our newspapers. The re sponsibility and opportunity for large and construetive service was nevei greater. SIYCOPATE0 SPASMS _ THE WEATHER rpHE coal man is certainly cussing the weather, but he cusses alone. J All summer long we have been squeez ing out the nickles for the coal bin and the fact that the coal bin isn’t going to take all the nickles that we saved is causing a gladsome shimmy clear down to our shell pink toes. There used to be a time when we thought that a Thanksgiving without snow and a Christmas without a bliz zard were all to the dumps, but we have changed our minds. Ever sine' the coal barons have been boosting the price of coal and laughing at us up their sleeves, we have been pray ing for a time to come when we could give them the happy ba, ha, and the bye-bye noise. The time has came. Now the sun rises just as pleasant like in January as it does in July. Of course there are gloom hunters who ; walk around and tell us that a warm j winter makes a fat graveyard, but we should worry. We have never discov ered a graveyard that doesnt’ keep fat, so we should worry. The little old thermometer just outside the door ran stick around to sixty above as long as its little heart desires. Its disposition doesn’t make us feel a bit bad The cusses of the coal man are music to our ears He may have found out that he can get a hammerlock hold on ccal prices, but he has certainly been taught that he can't get a grimv grip on the weather Even the almanac makers have been disappointed. They predicted a winter that would freeze your liver and so solidify your vascu lar system that the blood corpuscles would be having skating parties every minute, b nothing doing. Half the time your liver is wondering when August is going to be over and the blood corpuscles are asking what in the yell you are wearing heavy-weight underwear for. We say again, it is I tickling us. We are satisfied. This weather can stick around just as long as it wants to and it won’t find us petitioning it to make a getaway. HARLEM STOCK EXCHANGE During the past few days every newspaper of any consequence In New j York announced the birth of the Har letn Stock Exchange as one of the j I Coal Coal ■ Illinois, Semi-Anthracite, Spadra ■ Cherokee Iandreasen coal co. I Colfax 0425 3315 Evans St. Douglas 0840 V -PROMPT DELIVERY greatest events in the history of col ored people. The need of such a stabilizer for colored business has been recognized ever since colored men and women de termined to run businesses of their own. The two drawbacks that have pre vented our people from freely invest ing in stocks of colored corporations were the inability to secure definite information from a reliable source relative to the financial condition of any colored company, and the lack of trading facilities. Heretofore, once you purchased stock In a colored cor poration. you could never dispose of same—there was no place to sell the stock. The advent of the Harlem Stock Ex change alters this situation entirely. A market is alwrays provided for any stock listed on the exchange and ar rangements are made that prices of the stocks of the corporation are al ways kept up and not run down or thrown on the market at any old price. The public is being given an oppor tunity to share in the profits made by the exchange and the running ex penses being almost nil, the chances for large dividends in adldtlon to the 8 per cent guarantee on the preferred stock are assured. Shares sell at $5 each. Many of the most influential colored men in the country are behind the movement, which is nation wide, and it behooves every colored person to get behind the movement to the best of his or her ability. Address: Harlem Stock Exchange, 2169 Seventh avenue. New York, N. Y. • 1 DR. S. H. (LARK OPPOSES OBJECTIONABLE EPITHETS Chicago Professor Disapproves of (be Common fnstom of Calling People Contemptuous Names. (Bv the Associated Negro Press DETROIT, Mich.. Jan. 6—"It ia high time for Americans to cease their practice of calling people of other na tlonalities ‘Micks.’ ‘Chinks,’ 'Niggers,' ‘Wops’ and ‘Hunkies,’” said Dr. S. H. Clark of the University of Chicago, ad dressing the open forum, and putting down the habit as "impertinent Anglo Saxon arrogance and supercilious- J ness." "It was just rare good luck,’’ he said, "our forefathers got a ship ahead of the other fellows. "I do not know how the California problem is to be solved, but I do know that without Japanese the desert would not be blossoming as a rose. I know that, class for class, the Japan ese is our equal, and I believe the president of the National University of Japan is probably the intellectual equal of President Eliot of Harvard. “Some of ns here who wrap our selves in the ‘Red, White and Blue' don’t know the words of America, but call a sturdy Italian newcomer a Wop.’ ” Subscribe for The Monitor._ / \ CONSUMERS COAL m SUPPLY CO. | I Dealers in GOOD COAL fj I Colorado—Clean, Large Lump, $12.50 | I Illinois (Springfield; $12.00 jj | FIRST IN QUALITY DOUGLAS 0530 FIRST IN SERVICE | — —--- ~ For that Neat. Wall Dressed < > Appearance, Baa : J. H. HOLMES ;j TAILOR ;; I GENTS SUITS TO O&DEB ► * i , Ladles' and Gant's Suita Remod- . > , tied. Repaired, Cleaned and Preeeed < • ► ALL WORK GUARANTIED JJ | We Bur and Bell Becond Hand .! , , Clothes. Work called for and de- , , , tlvered. i , 2022 North 24th Street j j X Phene Webster 2220 < > M>ee44»444444444444<"XX". Established 1890 J C. I. 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