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.
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Telephone Douglas 3224.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.’ ”
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