The monitor
A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest* of Colored
Americana.
Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub
lishing Company.
Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2. 1915, at the Postoffice at
Omaha. Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor.
George H. W. Bullock, Circulation Manager and Associate Editor.
TRAGO T, MCWILLIAMS, Associate Editor. Lincoln, Neb.
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Address, The Monitor, 201 knffir Block, Omaha. Web.
Telephone Douglas 3224.
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THIEF NOT A NEGRO
IN last week’s issue we commented
• on the sensational headline “Ne
gro Terrorizes Shoppers,” which was
the front page headliner of the Sun
day edition of the Omaha Daily News,
January 23. We stated that the item
which elicited this front page prom
inence in box car letters was one to
the effect “that a thief, who happened
to be a colored man, had snatched sev
eral petticoats from a counter in the
Burgess-Nash store, and, dashing
through the aisles, escaped with his
loot.” We took it for granted from
the news item that the thief was a
colored man. We find, however, that
even this was contrary to fact. For
we learn that “Leonard C. Smith was
sentenced to the penitentiary for one
to seven years by District Judge
Troup yesterday (Saturday) for steal
ing an armful of petticoats from the
Burgess-Nash store.” No, dear reader,
Leonard C. Smith is not a Negro, or
the item would have been featured
after this fashion, “Negro Who
Terrorized Shoppers Sent to Pen.”
Not only must we bear the handicap
of being regarded as a criminally ih
clined race because of the regretable
policy of the daily press, speaking
broadly, to lay emphasis upon race
rather than upon crime, but the added
handicap of the crimes of the other
fellow generously saddled upon us.
Never mind, we will keep our heads
and win out yet in spite of all.
THE SPRING CAMPAIGN
THERE is going to be a hot time
in the spring campaign in Oma
ha. A determinant factor, if not THE
determinant factor, will be the vote of
the colored brother and sister. Com
missionerships, coveted franchises,
etc., etc., will enter into the campaign.
When the time comes it will be dis
covered that those “wonderful days”
of gullibility have passed and that
pussy cannot be used to pull chest
nuts out of the fire.
LENT
THE great penitential season of
Lent, which is more or less gen
erally observed among a la'rge num
ber of Christian folk, begins next
Wednesday. The first day of Lent is
called Ash Wednesday. Even outside
of the great historic communions
whose followers are enjoined by eccle
siastical law to observe this season,
there is a growing appreciation of the
real spiritual value a.ul helpfulness,
which comes from the observance of
such a period, eitbei*long or short, of
spiritual stock-taking. Its helpful
ness has been attested by hundreds
of thousands of people in every age
and clime who have conscientiously
observed the season. But we take it
that the real value of Lent, like every
thing else in material or spiritual
matters, depends upon the spirit and
sincerity one puts into it.
THE MONITOR AS AN ADVER
TISING MEDIUM
/COMMENT has been made upon
the large number of advertisers
The Monitor carries. No Omaha or
Nebraska weekly carries a largpr per
centage of advertisers than The Moni
tor. There is a reason for this. The
Monitor reaches the • best class of
spenders in the community. The
Monitor brings results. Our adver
%
rising patrons frankly tell us that
they find The Monitor “the medium”
for reaching our trade. The Monitor
as an advertising medium takes sec
ond place to none in Omaha. We
cover our field thoroughly. For this
we are thankful and it gives us pleas
ure to serve. Last year The Monitor
carried 25,000 inches of display ad
vertising, which represented sewral
of the leading firms of Omaha and
Lincoln.
NO FAILURE
r I '•HERE is no failure. God’s im
mortal plan
Accounts no less a lesson learned for
man.
Defeat is oft the discipline we need
To save us from the wrong, or teach
ing heed
To eiTors which would else more
dearly cost—
A lesson learned is ne’er a battle lost.
Whene’er the cause is right, be not
afraid;
•Defeat is then but victory delayed
And even the greatest victories of the
world
Are often won when the battle-flags
are furled.
—Thomas Speed Mosby.
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BOOKS
T.\ wandering around this yere beau
*- tifu) burg of ours and visiting the
homes of sundry chocolate-colored
chums, we note that the scarcest ar
ticle of furniture is a book or two. In
the iar dim distant days when home
wasn't complete without a stand ful1
of “bricky brack" in one comer,
“Home, Sweet Home," over the door,
and a rag rug grandma made for the
parlor, it was always customary to
see a forty-pound Bible on the center
table, an Ayres Almanac and a red
covered volume of “Mr. Buyan’s Prog
ress of the Pilgrims.” or some such
name. But today you don’t even see
those. Tn fact, books are, scarcer than
hens that have the pyorrhea. You
will find a five hundred buck player
pinany, a two hundred simoleon
phonvgraph, a hundred lamb tongue
Wilton, along with a thousand dollar
j set of wood and wool stuff, but if you
expect to find a book or two lying
around, the chances are you will go
blind before you glim one. Now there
is no law against anybody owning a
book. There are a lot of tomfool laws
about almost everything under the
azuye. but no dummy has ever
screwed up enough nerve to ask a
new amendment prohibiting a front
room table from holding up a few
volumes of literature. Maybe you
will never read them and never expect
any other human squash to read
them, but they add a grand effect.
' They always make a visitor feel that
they are chatting with a person of
family w-ho has Minerva by the hair.
The effect is good. It is the custom
of the dippy domed to strive after ef
fect anyway, so while you are striv
ing you may as well hit the trail al!
the way. Give the impression that
you have a few brains locked between
the .parietals whether you have or not,
and thpre is nothing in the world that
shimmies forth this effect better than
a few books. Just be careful when
you invest in books that you don’t in
You Are Cordially Invited to Attend the
Onward Omaha Exhibition
Given by the
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vest in German, French or Arabic
books. Such a mistake would mess
you all up and put an untwistable
kink in your fond calculations.
HAT THE EDITORS SAY
COMMON LAW WIVES
\VERV' casual Investigation into
family life in Chicago will re
veal to the investigator an alarming
number of “common law wives.” A
concurrent investigation into crime
and wickedness now seeming to en
thrall this city will disclose a star
tling connecting link between coni-*
inon law at home and no law away
from, home.
No attempt is made to attribute
Chicago’s crime wave to “corrimon
law” marriages, but it is a significant
fact that six of every ten crime
stories published by newspapers fur
nishing news for black people in Chi
•:go during the last four months have
involved “common law” wives.
The living together of a man and
woman involves mankind’s most
sacred institution—the family. There
are two ways to create the family—
with civilized society’s sanction, or
without it, and he who refuses to sub
scribe to society’s decree concerning
mankind’s basic and most sacred in
stitution rarely troubles himself to
heed her other mandates.
Marriage as decreed by society is
the union of persons of opposite sex
as husband and wife, whereby with
appropriate ceremonies, men and
women are joined together in a spe
cial kind of social and legal depend
ence. A bond is created which cannot
be broken at will. Responsibilities
are assumed from which relief can be
secured only through due process of
law. “Common law” marriage on the
other hand is merely the living to
gether of man and woman as husband
and wife. The bond, if there is any,
is the bond of cohabitation, but there
is no legal responsibility or depend
ence. The courts of earlier days rec
ognized this relationship only after
the flight of many years had cement
ed the relationship. The "common
law” marriage has no illicit aspects,
but is open—notorious, and the co
habitating parties are reputed by
those who know them to he man and
wife.
A man who enters the “common
law” relationship does so because it
has no legal dependency. He can
terminate it at will. In other words,
he is playing lightly with the most
profound and serious relationship
known to man. He is therefore a
wanton. The common law husband
scorns marriage because in the com
mon law status, he finds privileges
without fixed responsibilities He is
after something for nothing. He has;
the psychology of the thief.
Except in statutory eases, the off
spring of a “common law” marriage
has no claim to the family name of
the father, hut in 1)8 per cent of the
cases of “common law” marriages
there are no offspring, the parties to
thi soutlawed relationship having wil
fully prostituted the elementary pur
pose of the creation of the family.
Legally, they have committed no of
fense, but by every precept of the
moral law, they are murderers. Every
“common law” husband can easily be
arraigned as an actual lawbreaker Vh
the very act of his living in “common
law." Beyond that, he is a wanton,
a potential thief and a moral mur
derer.
Since black people are coming to
the North and are finding their fel
lows disregarding and condoning by
their inactivity this insidious institu
tion, they must bear in mind that if
they wish to build up compositelv a
red-blooded .virulent race of people,
real strength must be infused by the
family relationship. The black man.
being weak because of oppression
from without and apathy from within,
must build up a race of men and
women—not weaklings and moral
derelicts.—Chicago Whip, January 2f).
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CAMP FIRE
Group Ocowasin held their -ocial
meeting at the Y W. C. A. Fridav
afternoon. A short program was ren
dered, the following persons respond
ing; Miss Polly Turner, piano solo,
“The,Storm:” Lucille Bivens, readin"
“The Acorn;” Irene Brown, piano solo,
and a few short stories h'- the group
in general.
Lucy Allan and Lutille Bivens werp
hostesses for the afternoon. Miss Ruth
Jones was anoointed assistant secre
tary instead of secretary as mentioned
In last week’s paper.
SOUTH SIDE LOCALS
Mr. Simmons of North Platte. Neb.,
is here visiting with relatives and
friends.
Tim Rev. Mr. Rurkhart of Lincoln
has been assigned as pastor at Allen
Chapel Methodist church, Twenty
fifth and R streets.
Mrs. Paralee King, 1441 South
Eighteenth street, is quite ill at the
Cniverslty hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Pegram, 2627 Y
street, entertained at a dinner party
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. William Car
ter and family. Covers were laid for
ten, and the evening wag spent very J
pleasantly.
Mr. Wilks of Muscatine, la., is here;
risiting with his daughter, Mrs. Dixon, i
1402 South Twenty-eighth street.
Dr. and Mrs. Riddles, formerly re- h
tiding on the South Side, are now liv-ij
ng at 964 North Twenty-seventh [I
itreet.
A Valentine party will be given in :
he T. D. C. hall, Twenty-ninth and Tl
streets, February 14.
Drs. Jones and Northcross are spon
oring the organization of a Pastors’
iid club on this side. A compliment
iry number are enrolled in the club.
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