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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1921)
THE MONITOR _ A National Wirtly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Public',ed Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. Entered as Beeond-Claaa Mail Matter July 1. 1915, at tbe Postoffloe at Omaha Nab., under the Act of March S, U7*. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. George H. W Bullock, Business Manager and Associate Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR: *1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. * iUrwi, Tbe Monitor, 204 Kaffir Block, Omaha. Heb. Telephone Douglas 3224. \ ^ Monitor Starts Relief Fund for Tulsa Riot Victims ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The Monitor Publishing Company____ $10.00 Mrs. Alonzo Jackson---- 1.00 Waiters, Blackstone Hotel ...... 12.50 Ed. F. Morearty- 2.00 W. P. Ray, Duluth, Minn. ....... 1.00 Elmer Morris, St. Paul, Minn.....—. 1.00 Mrs. J. E. Miller, Beatrice, Neb. ---- .. 1.00 John Talifas - 1.00 Total __ $29.50 TAFT CHIEF JUSTICE XW7ILLJAM Howard Taft has real , TV ized his life-long ambition. He has been appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. This is an honor which he has long coveted. His confirmation was opposed by a small group of northern senators, but, warmly championed by several south ern senators. This fact is rather sig nificant. It shows how Taft’s position i on the race question has, as one south- i ern senator tersely put it, made him •‘beloved by the South.’’ During Taft’s ; administration our group received no favorable consideration and his avow- , ed policy was a decided hindrance. He has since his retirement from the presidency continued to give our peo ple a vast deal of gratuitous, no doubt well-meant, but unwisely-phrased ad vice along decidedly pronounced pro- | southern lines. His piouB preach ments have grated harshly on our nerves. As Chief Justice we hope that Judge Taft will impartially interpret the law without bias and without pre judice to any class of American citi zens. We hope that the Impartial ver- | diet of history may accord him an hon- j ored place for the wisdom and fairness of his decisions. KMJHT IT OUT HEBE “I’m disgusted with the United States. Juat as soon as I can arrange a, 1 am going to Mexico or South America, where manhood and not col or counts. 1 have spent some time in Mexico and know conditions there. I can see no hope for our race in the United States. As our people advance in education, refinement and wealth here conditions become worse instead of better.” The speaker was a young man of good education and character, Just the kind of men America needs and our race needs to remain here in the Unit ed States and fight it out. Were his case an ^isolated one, it were hardly necessary to speak of it, but this young man is but one of many who are becoming diBgusted or perhaps It were better to say disheartened over the at titude of this country towards our peo ple and are looking towards the Latin countries as a haven. The Monitor admits that race preju dice is increasing and that it's mighty galling to young men of spirit and to older men of cooler blood to be con stantly encountering it, but that is no excuse for running away from it. * There is the greater reason for stand ing one’s ground, screwing up one’s courage and by strength of character, virile manhood and proven sterling worth fight and conquer it God had a purpose in bringing our ancestors to this land and in giving them and us such a large share in its development. It is therefore here that we are to work out our destiny. We urge our young men not to become discouraged and seek other lands but to fight it out here and help save the United States. ___ GET BEHIND IT TIE Cooperative Store, a |100,000 corporation located on North 24th street, owned and operated by Colored people should command the attention of all of us who have pride in the ad vancement of our people in big busi ness lines. Born under a charter which permits engagement in any kind of enterprise, as a subsidiary and ar ranged to include in its membership at least six hundred and twenty fam ilies, it showed far sightedness od the part of its founders and is logically in a ™*ttmand % largo trade f\ v r&H t nd consequently in •%?;4 *'• i.wi Company In their m A&9& • v.; mistakes and blun ; r.'v proved costly. That ‘ one, not even they ths.^4?^' ':•* W tU'ny- Mistakes and E '«rv >l snusual In worth while or*v of this character But Is It the : - table thing to do, to j | .1 ,v * 1 stand aloof and rain eternal criticism upon them for these mistakes? Sup pose we saw a child by mistake, drowning, would it be the proper thing for us to stand on the shore and shout criticism on him because it was his blunders that placed him in the pre carious condition? Would it not rath er be our duty to either plunge in or throw out the life line and save him? The same is true in this and all other honest race enterprises. Let us throw out the life line now and save it. Re cently in order that the Company | might remedy some of those mistakes, I it. made a complete change in manage ment by appointing Dr. J. R. Lemma as general manager. They already | show signs of a great revival of inter est and advancement. Under the ver satile management of Dr. J. R. Lem ma, it has finally got down to a real merchandising business with a gro cery department well stocked and sell ing at as low a prices as any other store In the city. Their front windows as well as their ice boxes and shelves are well stocked with the very best in their line. The store is attractively decorated, not with flowers and orna ments, but with eatables, which would grace any table. Their left wing is now open with women’s ready-to-wear garments, under Mrs. Vordie Massey. Let’s, get behind it and push. HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON Henry Lincoln Johnson has been named as Recorder of Deeds foi the District of Columbia. In our Judg ment this is too small a position for a man of the caliber of Colonel Johnson. It looks to us like an adroit move to j remove him from his present impor jtant position of national cmmitteeman from Georgia. If, however, he is to be given something commensurate I with his services and ability he merits something bigger than Recorder of Deeds. PRESS COMMENTS OKLAHOMA’S CIVIL WAR The American Negro is no longer ■‘docile and easily lynched,” as Mr. [Dooley once described him. He is as serting his right to I've under the I white man’s law and have the privil eges and immunities and guarantees j J of that law. So long as he is denied that right in whole or in part the j j way is open to the repetition of such j tragedies as that which cost so many lives and destroyed $1,500,000 in \ [ propert y at Tulsa, Okla. The civil war that took place in [that city between whites and blacks j had its origin in lynch law. A Negro jhad attacked a white girl in the ele ivator of a department store and was I arrested. Immediately the rumor , [spread that he was to be lynched. Negroes with arms went to the jail to protect him. White men with arms followed them. The police did nothing. Then a white man tried to seize a gun from a Negro and what then took place is described for the World’s readers by Richard Lloyd Jones, publisher of the Tulsa Trib une: “The blacks were reinforced by, other blacks. The whites hurried for ; arms. The city was in darkness. ; Stores having firearms in stock were ■ smashed into. The blacks and the \ whites in growling groups began to \ parade the street. Two hours before « midnight the battle began.” Government ceased for the time being to exist and the streets of Tul- '• sa ran With blood. But in vast sec« ] tions of the country government has ‘ a habit of ceasing to exist where the <i legal rights of the Negro are con- J cemed. Had the offense in question i been committed by a white man the ] law would presumably taken its / course. Although white men are j sometimes lynched when accused of \ crime, the general presumption is t that they will not be Although 5 black men are often not lynched j when acused of crime, the general £ presumption in many parts of the United States is that they are likely to be. Out of that presumption came Tulsa’s race war. A great change has come over the American Negro’s attitude toward the white man’s government during i the last four years—a change for which the war was largely responsi ble. The Negro was conscripted like any other citizen. He was put into a ! uniform, given a rifle and sent to France to fight for his country. He was good enough to die for the flag, and naturally he refuses longer to believe that he is not entitled to pri vileges and immunities for which the flag stands. He is no longer sub missive but aggressive, and while this change has its grave dangers to the Negro himself, it is an inevitable consequence of the failure of local and state governments to administer evenhanded justice. It is the fashion to attribute most of the recent race riots to economic rivalry beween whites and blacks, but economic rivalry is no new thing. For more than fifty years there has been an irrepressible conflict be tween the blacks and the so-called “poor whites”, and this conflict is bound to go on as long as the two races compete for their daily bread. Rivalry, however, is not riot, and bark of all these minature civil wars which disgrace the nation from year to year is the breakdown of govern ment and the denial of due process of law to the Negro. Lincoln said that this government, could not endure half slave and half free. It cannot endure with one law i for the white man and another law for the black man. There must be one law for both, and until there is one law for both every' community of mixed population is living under the I shadow of threatened anarchy.—1 I New York World. N1SS0CK1 DISTRICT CONFER ENCE OF C. M E. CHCKCH Harmony and progress 4at>»«re the j dominant notes of the interesting Dis- ! ! trict Conference of the Missouri Dis- | trict of the C. M. E Church which was j held in Grove M. E. Church last week. 1 Many prominent delegates and visitors 1 both clerical and lay, were in attend- j ance. The session opened Tuesday | 'morning. Rev. R. 1‘. Tyler of Sedalia, S Mo., Presiding Elder of the district I was in charge. Dr J. A. Hammett of j I Jackson. Tenn., editor of the Christian^ index, delivered an interesting sermon j Thursday. Bishop N. C. Cleaves, of St. Louis, arrived Thursday and pr^- j 1 sided throughout the remaining ses sion, preaching at the IT o’clock serv- J ice Sunday morning to a large congre- | j gation.—Rev. A. Sims is the able pas- i tor of the local congregation. Boxing! Don’t forget the time and date. Tuesday, July 12, 8:30 p. m. Admission $3, plus war tax. * Our Annual July Clearance Sale % •{• Now Open X Has peculiar and unusual Value Features this year. Not only is much Summer Merchandise offered •{" from our own stock, but Many lots cleared from Manufacturers at reduced prices are now selling | jr £ Sale Lots in .£ Ready to Wear Silk and Wash Goods Women’s Underwear | Corsets £ Men’s Shirts and | Underwear | Children’s | % Dresses t i i The TOWNSEND GUN CO. $ Sporting, Outing and Athletic 4 Good? 1514 Famam St. Douglaa 0870 1 t EVANS MODF* LAl'NDRY 1 Forty-five jeara the buaineas 11th & Douglas Douglas 024? t I t t * *-t *- T- ~ * ■ » » « * « * Diamond j ! Theatre | 9 v 1 ¥ % f t i i v ! I I I i FURNITURE, STOVES, FITXURES Second hand or New Repairing Hauling Everything; Needed in Home WEST END FURNITURE CO. R. B. RHODES, Prop. - 2 )22 Lake St. I W. J. CATTIN CO. | % PLUMBING, GAS AND | £ STEAM FITTING f | 910 N. 24th St. Dough* 1625 | -X“X“>,X"XX,<"/,XX"X"X.<X -;-X"X ! I A A ■>. A AAAAAA A A A . . . . « For Painting, Repairing ? S and Window Washing Call STEPHENS j | 2720 Corby Webster 6977 i OSKHSKWMaW’j: :<0Cxa asji*afceix,aS 1° ’•*•*•• '* - • ■ *-»—■•■■.. EMERSON’S LAUNDRY I’he Laundry That Suits All t 1301 No. 21th St. Web. 0820 k'*"*"*'* * * O O »0~0 .AV.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V ’ £ The Western Funeral Home 5 ; ■£ Pleases £ '] ja And will aeri e you mahi and day ^ i f ■»!* Lake Si. Phone Web. #24* £ £ SILAS JOHNSON, Prop. 5 I; FUNERAL DIRECTORS % .■.■.•.'.■.■.■.V.V.'.V/.V.V.V.V.V.' A. F. PEOPLES I PAINTING PAPERHANGING AND DECORATING Estimate* Furnished Free. || All Work Guaranteed. I Pull Line of Wall Paper and I Sherwin-Williams Paints and !j Varnishes 2119 Lake St. Webster 6366 | H. SCHNALBER § CHOICE MEATS OF ALL § KINDS. ft Pork Sausage a Specialty ^ 1906 North 24th St. I: I Webster 6564. r • ifSagSOw'.'-’C. DtCOOsaXBtBSBiaR' Phone Ty. as? Notary Public In Office N. W. WARF ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR at LAW Practice In Both State and Federal Court* Office: Booker T. Waahlngton Hotel, 1Sth and California St*., Omaha. Neb. ^ r r r-r rvv-rvT’-r'r'r'rwW'trir I i RIALTO MUSIC SHOP f £ <> j 1416 DOUGLAS ST. PHONE TYLER 4090 J| c . i! r Mail Orders a Specialty ; f_ ; ^—■* The Co-operative Workers of America Department Store 1516 and 18 North Twenty-fourth Street Dry Goods and Ready-to-Wear Department for Women, Misses and Children, with a modest amount of Dry Goods has been opened in the building, under the efficient manag ment of Mesdames John Williams, Spencer and McGovern. These ladies will be glad to serve you with anything that you might need in their line Millinery Department Madam H. L. Massy, Milliner, Ne Plus Ultra, who for the past five years has been connect ed with some of the largest millinery establish ments of Chicago, 111., has allied herself with us and is opening for your approval a modern millinery and toilet department for our ladies’ dressing table. Personal attention will be our motto to our patrons * trench, English and American Designs a Specialty Fair dealing and moderate prices will be given to every one. We stand for quality, and to please the hard-to-please is our great est pleasure Grocery and Meat Department Our Grocery and Meat Department is equipped to please the most fastidious appetite, and invites your most critical inspection. Our motto is SERVICE FIRST. Meat of the native variety always on hand Sirloin, “T” Bone, Porterhouse, Round Steak, Weaners, Franklerts, Boiled Ham, Smoked Ham and Bacon Butter, Eggs, Cheese, both Domestic and Foreign Poultry of all kinds in season. Our milk fed Spring chickens are delicious Green and Fresh Vegetables Every Day All Kinds of Fresh Fruit in Season This is YOUR Store and Solicits Your Patronage WATCH US GROW Free Delivery Phone Web. 4823 Under New Managment-Come in and See J. R. LEMMA, Gen. Manager Watch Our Window for Specials