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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1921)
THE MONITOR A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted u> the Interest* ol Colored American* _ _ _ Published Every Thursday at Omaha Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. ___ Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2. 1915. at the Poatofflce at Omaha. Neb., under the Act of March I. 1879. __ 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 I Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Address, The Monitor, huiflr Block, Omaha. Meh, Telephone Douglas 3224. A REASONABLE BEQUEST VVJE have a reasonable request wE “ would respectfully make to AmeA ican dailies in general and to those of Omaha in particular. It is this: tha they abandon a custom which is doi .g untold damage to the self-respectmg, industrious, law-abiding and progres sive colored citizens, by branding them and stigmatizing them with the crimes or alleged crimes charged against in dividuals of their race. The custom o headlining and making prominent the race of the offender, if he be a Negro rather than the crime, does this very thing; and unless the daily press wil fully and wantonly desires to damage us, which The Monitor does not for one moment believe, we see no reason why this rule, which is used almost ex clusively in the case of colored people should not be abandoned. This should be done primarily upon the ground o justice and fair play. It should be done in the interests of amity an .rood-will Which the press should bo foremost in promoting. Some dailies, like the Cleveland Plaindealer, never mention the nationality or race of the accused. This, in our judgment, is the better plan; but if this is too much to hope for at once, and it is deemed ab solutely essential to call attention race why could not this be casually mentioned in the body of the article, rather than headlined and made prom inent as the present custom ib . A moment’s sober reflection will make it perfectly plain to any one that there is a psychological impression made by frequently seeing reference made to a race, nationality or religion. If, for example, one frequently saw it men tinned that a Catholic, or a Jew or a German, or a Swede or a red-headed man, were charged with this or that crime in newspaper article.s beanng headlines of this character, Catho he Bandit Holds Up Train”; “Cathohe Snatches Woman’s Purse”; “Catholic Shoots Policeman”; “Catholic Assaults Protestant Woman"; “Catholic Lynch ed”; etc., what would be the conclusion of the average reader? W’hy, a most natural one, that the whole group is « bad lot, and therefore fit subjects of suspicion, distrust, ostracism and dis crimination. This would be the natur al conclusion. Of course such gener alization would be wrong and a wicked lie, but this would be the result. The effect would be damaging, painful anrl embarrassing to this whole group of people. And so it is in the case of the Negro. He is today the victim of dis crimination and humiliation, due large ly, if not exclusively, to the popular, but manifestly unfair custom of the daily press to lay emphasis upon th* race of the accused, if he be a Negro, rather than upon the crime. A whole group is stigmatized. Is this fair? We believe, therefore, that our request is reasonable that this damaging custom be abandoned. We believe that Harvey Newbranche, of the World-Herald, Victor Smith of the Omaha Bee and Joseph Polcar of the Omaha Daily News, who a e fair-mind ed men, will readily ' % 'dze the force of our reasona* ospectful request and speedily make th reform in the policy of our local dailies. The example once set by the Omaha dailies will have a salutary effect upon other dailies. * DISARMAMENT 'T’HE proposal that Christian people 1 pray that the approaching confer ence for disarmament may issue in such results as will insure world peace will meet with hearty approval from all our people. “SIN IS INDIVIDUAL” rpHIS was the statement made by the 4 World-Herald in a recent forceful editorial commenting on Billy Sunday s position on the Arbuckle case. Sunday laid the responsibility on booze. He was wreng, dead wrong, as he is on other issues. Individual responsibility for sin; personal accountability to x merciful, but just God, Who has made man a free, moral agent needs to be emphasized in these days. The trying to shift responsibility for our actions upon other shoulders or upon this or that thing will get us nowhere, either here or before the Eternal Tribunal. Speaking of the Arbuckle case, what a warning it should he to all people, who go in for carousing and having what they call a good time. These “good time paities” may not issue tra gedies, which come to light and shock the world, but, nevertheless the trage dy is there. And every transgression brings its penalty. We wonder how will take warning. light Nww ia a Geod Time to Pay T«tr gahacripthm : HOW DO YOU SAY IT? By C. N. LURIE - ! Common Errors in English and | > , ■ How to Avoid Them . J "TRANSPIRE” AND “OCCUR.'’ TO OCCUR means to lake place, to happen, to come to pass; to transpire means to I) e c o m e known, to escape from secrecy, to he made public. It is quite common, es pecially In ordinary speech and In writings in newspapers and maga zines. to hear ami see the verb "trans pire” used Instead of "happen" or “occur." Such usage is. however, quite Incorrect, and is condemned by critics in Englatul und America. "It transpired yesterday, at the meeting of the common council, that [terrols slon wus withheld," etc., wrote a re porter. hut he should have written. “It happened yesterday," etc.—or. bet ter still, be should have omitted the phrase and begun his senlenee with "at" and omitted “that." Following Is a ease of the proper use of the verb "transpire”: "At the meeting of the common council yes terday ll transpired that Inst week's action on the street-railway franchise was not final”—that Is, It became known. (Copyright) Hdw ttfStiiried THE FINGER PRINT SYSTEM THE British authorities in India, desiring to Impress the natives with their omniscience, hit upon • the idea of taking the Unger prints ot everybody. Eater the scheme was brought to Scotiund Y'ard, the police headquarters In London. From there It spread till It is now In universal use. (Copyright.) -<> -- A Long Wait. Father (as he starts to carve)—“By the way, my dear, I've got to attend a bankers' dinner tomorrow. They ex pect over a hundred. Tommy—“Gee! I’d hate to he die youngest where there’s that many to Is* helped.”—Bos ton Transcript. -O I ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE Old Mr. Multirox—And so, you are willing to make me happy by becom ing my wife? Young Miss Goldilox—Yes, I sup pose I'll have to be your wife in or der, eventually, to become your widow. Something to Think About By F. A. tVALKER WORD “GENTLEMAN." A FRENCH critic, discussing the recent famous battle for the boxing championship of the world, expressed surprise that ao many Americans should have favored the challenger from abroad. Perhaps If he had stopped to think for a moment he would have realized that, after all, this is in the true sporting spirit That spirit la at times hard to cul tivate. It la natural for a dty to want Its home team to win In baseball, and for a college to wish to see Its young giants sweep all before them on the diamond, the links and the gridiron. “To have and to hold” is the motto of national or International sport from yachting to polo. • • • It Is reasonable for a nation not to wish to lose any championship once It has obtained It. Various explanations have been given of the popularity of Carpentler, the best small man who stood up to the best big man Id tfc-ir business In the world today. A ray of light is thrown on the matter by a word tli«t was used by several experts In describing the af fair. They said that the Frenchman fought like a gentleman and lost like one. The Finest Language. The finest language la chlafly made op *f —faapaalng word*.—Georg. --- Scene in Settled Portion of Guatemala. i (Pr*rwre<t by the National nongraphic So clcty. Washington. D. C.t The creation of a "United States of i Central America,” and troubles be j tween Panama and Costa Rica which , almost led to war. have drawn atteo i tlon to the countries south of the Caribbean sea recently more strongly ; than at any time since the completion : of the Panama canal. Nowhere else I In the world has Nature been more ■ bountiful In her blessings of natural 1 resources than In the (Caribbean re j gion. Everything that her treasure \ house holds has been bestowed with ■ lavish, and also with Impanlal, hand. : Someone has observed that If you 1 tickle the ground with a hoe It smiles j back with a yam and certain it Is that ; in any one of these countries the ! ground of natural resources may he tickled with the hoe of foreign capital and It smiles back with yams of wealth. These countries are nearly all fa vored alike In natural wealth, but there Is a vast difference In the de ; velopment of that wealth—a differ ; ence that may tie attributed almost wholly to the character of the govern ments in the respective countries. In some of these lands the milk and honey of plenty flows In a bountiful stream. others are In wretched poverty, where the masses never have enough to keep the gaunt wolf of hunger from gnawing at their vitals 1 day and night and year In and year ! out. In traveling through these coun j tries, one Is Impressed with the fact , that prosperity abides with good rule snd poverty dwells with misrule. Differences in Development. Starting out with the easily demon j strated fact that there Is very little difference between these countries In ! their natural resources. It is lnterest i ing to look around and notice what a vast difference there Is In the use that Is being made of this natural wealth. One need not go out of the confines of Central America to see this. It would require six Salvadors to make mu- Honduras, and yet Salvador has twice the population of Honduras and a larger foreign (wtramerce. Costa Rica Is less than half as big as Nicaragua, and yet Its foreign cora i merce is greater than that country's. Arid .vet. when Salvador and Costa Ri«n are compared with Porto Rico, they in turn seem to he slow In vhelr development. Porto Rico Is so small j that seven Islands like It would Ire re quired to cover an area equal to that of Costa Rica, .vet It has a fofelgn trade more than fifteen times as great as that of the Banana Umpire. Porto Rico Is less than half as large as Salvador, yet It hRS a foreign trade , over thirteen times as great. Little Porto Rico Is so small that It j could be hurled in a single Central American lake; It would take 57 Is lands of its size to equal Central America In area and yet Porto Rico enjoys about three times as much foreign trade as all Central America together from Tehuantepec to Colombia. The reason? Because compared to these Ontral American republics Porto Iilco has an Ideal gov ernment. The trade of the Island ha* Increased sevenfold since Uncle Sam took possession there. The number of children enrolled In the schools has | increased sixfold. The wages of the j laboring class has multiplied three I fold even before the war. Honduras Is a Laggard. Honduras in some ways lags behind I Its neighbors. And yet it is rich In natural resources almost beyond Im agination. With vast deposits of minerals of all kinds, with untold thousands of acres of the finest tropical fruit and vegetable lands In the world and with vast areas of magnificent grazing and coffee lands, Honduras Is at our very doors. It Is 700 miles nearer to Chi cago than that city Is to San Fran cisco ; It is closer to Washington than Denver Is; it Is farther from New Or leans to Chicago than It Is from Puer to Barrios and Livingston to New Or leans. With a stable government, Honduras must become a kingdom of plenty Instead of a principality of poverty. Across i he border Is prosperous lit tle Salvador. It Is as different from Honduras as nlglit Is from day. It has a population so dense that if ours Hoapltanty^^*5^55*^* Hospitality must he for service and qot for show, or It pulls down the lost. Tite hntve soul rates Itself too ligh to value Itself by the splendor of 'ts table and draperies It gives what ,t hath, and all It hath, hut Its own najesty can lend a better grace to oat takes and fRtr water than belong to flty feast Roleh 'Vaido Emerson. ••fora and After. Before he gets her he says: “How womanly!” when she doe* anything. But after be gets her he says: “That's Just like a woman!” when she does a thing.—Cincinnati Enquirer. I sr were of equal density we would have a population of 700,000,000 In the con tinental United States; iind, although nearly half of the country Is moult tuitions, the people are normally able to get their living out of what they ptoduce and still have a comfortable balance of trade In their favor. The Salvadorean peojde are differ ent from those of any other Central American state. They have a middle class. There are thousands of little farms not much larger than a good sized city block, and yet It Is here that the real prosjierlty of Salvador Is created. In no other way could a mil lion and a quarter souls find sub sistence on 8,000 square miles of ter ritory. nearly half of It mountains. Nicaragua and Revolutions. Nicaragua is In much the condition of Honduras. There have been revolu tions there since the memory of the Inhabitants runneth not to the con tiary. Here one sees a thousand op portunities for the development of great wealth. Virgin forests of nil the precious woods In tlie category extend ing for miles on end; coffee lands where millions of pounds of splendid coffee might be grown; sugar lands which might yield hundreds of thou sands of sucks of sugar; and yet all stand Idle. Why? Ask the American coffee growers of the Matagalpa district; ask the cotton growers of Uarnpo Santo. The revolutions come along and leave their coffee to spoil ungathered and their cot i on to go to waste unpicked. Ask the financier from New Orleans who spent 20 years of hardships ther try ing to gather together a compe Je, and who finally found his business wrecked and In the bunds of the re ceivers. Given good governments, then, no countries on the map would afford greater opportunities for profitable In vestments than those of Central Amer ica. With such governments as some of them have had heretofore all their natural wealth cannot offset the dis advantages of those governments, and an investment at 4 per cent In the United States has often been preferred to one yielding 100 per cent in some of these countries. When we come to Costa IUca, tilings are beginning to lie different, and Costs IUca does not like to be reck oned In tlie same class with Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. Until re cently she has hud scarcely a revolution in a generation. Panama which Is geographically a part of Central America, though It has not been politically so since Independ ence was gained from Spain, la blest with some very fine farming and fruit lands In tlie region next to Costa Hlca ; but nearly all of the Pannmans have gone down to the canal zone re gion for the time being. Some of the most beautiful tlerra templuda lands In America are to be found in the Chiquirt country, and when the people of the United States get acquainted with the possiblHUes there, some of them are going to settle In that re gion and make It a splendid example, of the possibilities of tropical Amer ica. It Is not Improbable that one of the results of the completion of the Pana ma canal will be the realization by the people of the United States that Its safety depends In no small degree upon the good conduct of the govern ments of Central America. That will mean a demand for a new order of things In these countries, which In turn will mean safe Investments for American capital. Then will dawn an era of develop ment In Central America comparable to that which has taken place In Porto Rico and In Cuba. Around the World for a Nickel. On the wall of a shop not far from Fifth avenue. New York, then* Is hang ing In a frame a large envelope which has been forwarded from one point to another around the world. It reached as far south as New Zealand and north as far as Russia, where It touched some years before the dis turbed conditions of war prevailed. Tlie original Inscription was hardly discernible at the end of the Journey and a flve-«s*nt stamp earrled It all the way. Diplomatic Youngster. Harold was often allowed to visit Js grandmother, but was always told he hour he should return home. On rrlvlng at his grandmother's one /turning be was asked how long he wild stay “Well, grandmother. I lon't remember whether mother said •en o’clock or three o’clock, hut I'll jo home after dinner and nsk her " To Oraam of Maekersl. Mackerel, especially If eaten, sign lies that you will make the ncqtialn tance of out of the opposite sex v. i wilt become verv useful to you NOTlLfc OF I'UOuATfc WILL lu the County Court of Douglas Coun'y, Nebraska. iu the mailer of the estate of Ida May Johnson, Deceased. All persons inteisted in said estate are hereby notilled Inal a petition nas been filed in said Court, praying for ilie probate of a ceiiain instrument now on file in said Court, purporting m be the last will and testament of said deceased, and that a hearing will ] be had on said petition before said Court on the 6th day of October, 1921 and if they fail to appear in said Court on the said 6th day of October, 1921 at 9 o’clock A. M., to contest the probate of said will, the Court may allow and probate sad will and grant administra tion of said estate to Silas Johnson or some other suitable person, enter a dc-: erne of heirship, and proceed to a settlement thoreof. Bryce Crawford Countv Judge fit-9-1r,22,29-21 IN THE DISTRICT COURT Or nui/iiEVB cuuiVi't, Nr-nliABKA. Hoc. I'ii .No. it NOTICE la the mallei oi toe estate ot Ernest C. D. W itke, deceased. Notice is hereby given that, in pur. i Bounce of an order of the Honorable E. tl. Day, judge of the district court of Douglas County, Nebraska, made on the 2nd day of September, 1921, for the ! sale ot the real estate hereinafter de scribed, there will be sold at public to be secured by note and mortgage on vendue to the highest bidder and upon the following terms, one-third cash, and the balance on three years’ time, with Interest at six per cent per annum the premises sold, at the east door of the court house in the city of Omaha, In said county, on the first day of October, 1921, at the hour of ten o’clock A. M. the following described real estate: Lots One (1), Two (21. Three (3) and Four (41, In Block Two (2), in Hyde Park, an addition to the city of Omah, Nebraska, as surveyed platted and recorded. Said sale wIP Dated this 12th day of September, 1921. remain open one hour. Frederick .1. Wlcko Administrator of the FRtnte of P IT TVWr* • i Tuchman Bros. GROCERIES AND MEATS I 24th & Lake St*. 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