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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Kitty'* Regular Attitude
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ten wro. playing op the sidewalk A
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lireIIW Idle rhe kitten proceeded to
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