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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1921)
THE MONITOR A National Weakly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests or Colored Amerlesms. ____ PuMle'.ed Every Thu reday at Omaha. Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July *, 1*16, at tbs Postofllce at Omaha. Mob., under the Act of March »■ UTS._ THE R^y. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. George H W. Bullock, Buelnees Manager and Aasoclate Editor. W. W. MOSELY. Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR: $1.25 6 MONTHS: 75c 1 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Address, The Monitor. 2tM Kaffir Block. Omaha. Meh. Telephone Oouglae 3224. IN HEARTY AGREEMENT rJpHE Monitor is in most hearty agree ment with the sound position tak <a by The Kansas City (Mo.) Cali, so ably edited by Chester A. Franklin, in a recent editorial captioned, “We Must Win the World’s Good Will.’’ The Call's editorials are always sane, Frankly honest, thought-compelling and constructive, and deserve wide reading. The Monitor quotes the edi tonal in full and commends It to the consideration of our readers, urging them to read, mark, learn and Inward ly digest It. Here it is: Comemnting upon prohibition, it is well said that no law can be enforced which does not find its first and great est enforcing power in public senti ment. The Volstead law is a good one. The alliance of the distillers, the brewers and the rotten politicians waij bad. Ijguor deserved curtailment if only for the company It kept. There is a thought in the liquor sit uation which Negroes should consider The laws giving us equality and a cit. men's opportunity are equally a dead letter until public sentiment backs them up. Therefore onr problem is: how to win the world over to our side. Partly by argument, partly by good living, always with patience and kind liness, we must keep at It. We must forget the injuries of our enemies and hold up the arms of our friends. We have no time to turn back to seek revenge. We must be always mindful 1ha.t right and only right, lives. 1-et us also see the handicap our weaklings are to the whole race. No man has a greater right to reach down a helping hand to them, than those of us who see their plight. The “biggety" Negro and the “uppity" Negro are two of the bur dens which the sober, industrious, common-sense race man must bear. May Providence give us strength to see cur task and meaure up to it. t THE ELAINE REPRIEVE ./ rPHRICE now has a rcprieva'"'been granted the six men who were sentenced to death for alleged parti cipation in the Elaine riots two years ago. It is quite apparent that there are good grounds for doubting that the penalty imposed upon these men . , ,ia jufit.,,A review of the evijlence as tijila /ilaieH before *the ooeriA hak knoved iustice-loving white men and women of prominence and sanity to plead fo clemency for those unfortunate vie tims of peonage, for such they un questionably were, who acted only in self defense. It is hardly fair that the white men who conspired agains these Americans of color and really instigated and staged the riots in which scores of Negroes as well as white people were killed should g Scot free, as they liave. and thes black men, convicted by a jury in 11 minutes, an average of less than a minute apiece, should be sent to the rfaetric chair. Attorneys for these men have not been quibbling over technicalities to defeat the ends of justice but have been fighting not only for justice for their clients but for the good name and honor of Ar kansas. We hope that the Supreme Court to whom the case now goes will reverse the finding of the lowe courts and the lives of these men b saved. A GOOD AUGIJRY /'INK cannot read the declaration o ^ principles or platform adopter! by the colored people of Virginia, who ii protest to the lilywhite movement in that state have nominated a full tick et of their own, without admiration for the dignity, sanity, poise and good sense therein manifested. Our group to awakening to a consciousness of their strength and is manifesting a most commendable spirit of indepen dence everywhere. This bodes goo< for the future of the race and country The independent movement in thing political is a good augury. NIGHT SCHOOLS MIGHT schools.open in Omaha next week and The Monitor would again urge our people who wish to im prove their education to enroll anil at tend regularly. “Never too old to learn” should be a popular slogan. _ LECTURES ON PURE MILK The necessity of pure tullk for good health is being told in a series of lec tures et (he Alamito Dairy. A cordial tBTttatfon is given the public to attend Bt any time but in addition to this with the hope of getting more to attend and societies are requested to RETURNS FROM BUSINESS TRIP TO KANSAS CITY, MO Mrs. Grace Hutten. commissioner of the Omaha Commercial Club, re turned Tuesday from Kansas City Mo., where she had been for several uays on business for the Club. While away she visited many of the welfare organizations of Kansas City and made an address before the Coloi-ed Commercial Club of that city. Shi also visited the Y. M. C. A. and Com munity Service 01 ganizations of the city. Mrs. Hutten reports much pro gress in the welfare bodies of that city, particularly the Colored Com mercial Club. That body received her in the name of the Colored Com meicial Club of Omaha. LEAVES FOR PARIS Next week Mrs. Florentine F. Pink ston will leave for New York, from which port she will sail, October 15th for Paris, where she goes for ad vanced study in music. She expects to he absent for two years. LINCOLN, NEB. T. I. McWilliams, P. G. Secretary of A. F. & A. M. of Nebraska, and C T. Denton, master of Lebanon Lodge No. 3, were also among the visitoi at Omaha in company with R. H Young, M. W. G. M., the past week All state they were royally eutcr tained by the good brothers of tha city. ■ >. Maggie VMIIianis is in the city from. Kansas City, Ivans., looking after the removing of some household goods to Kansas City this week. A committee of the O. K. S. from several cities of the state met here Sunday to arrange for setting up a grand body in the state. A. P. Curtis and Mrs. YgJe M. A. M. of Allianch Mr. and Mrs. Nate Hunter, Mrs. P H. Jenkins, Mrs. Metcalf, and Mrs Kate Wilson ofOmaha, all met in con sultation, Sunday afternoon in th* Masonic Hall. Mr. and Mrs. 15. K. Mosbey wh were recently married, returned hom the past week, after a visit in Kan.sa. City and Chicago on their honeymoon Mrs. Mosbey was formerly Miss Vast: Knight of this city. Rev. H. H. Jones and family left fo their home in Kansas last Wednesday I&ev. Mr. Jones is yet ill ami for tha 'reason, was transferred neait-r hi home. j Mrs. W. M. Clark of Wichita, Kans. .is visiting her son, Mr. W. R. Clark and wife. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Brown of Omaha are in the city this week. They wor. shipped at Mt. Zion Baptist Church on last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are traveling artists, and will render a performance here this week. I A jolly crowd of young folks, includ ing Miae Carmel Botts, Mable Scott, Minnie Ford, Francis Hill, Messrs Lawrence Ashford, and Ed. Craft, motored to Beatrice Sunday. They re port a most pleasant trip. Rev. B. F. Simmons of Nashville, Tenn., is in the city this week. He preached for Rev. H. W. Botts Sunday night. The Morning Star Baptist Church held an all-day.rally last Sunday j preaching all day. Rev. H. W. Botts of Mt. Zion Baptist Church spoke in the afternoon. Sunday school and Society were held as usual Sunday at the A. M. E. Church Rev. I. B. Smith occupied his place in the pulpit. He will take his departure soon, having been transferred to the Southwest Missouri Conference. Praise and covenant meeting were caripd on at Mt. Zion Sunday morning. Rev. B. F. Simmions of Nashville, Tenn., preached at the night service.' Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. were held as usual. Next Sunday will be the 1st Anniversary of Rev. H. W. Botts' pastorate at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. There wll be three services during the day, following a week’s festivities. Rev. H. W. Botts will preach in the afternoon, and Rev. J. R. McMiPoa of ML Moriah Baptist Church of Omaha, will deliver the anniversary sermon at the night service. After the night sermon the financial reports, collections, etc., will be made. Come and help u« in this effort. The wiiter wishes to state to sub scribers that he will see you as soon as possible. If for any reason you be. come anxious, just call and yon will be obliged. ""fW P. L. Moore is yet confined a lid will perhaps be some time before he can walk again. Mrs. Lola Howard will entertain the Utopian Art. Club at her home, 2153 U 8t„ Oct. 13. The N. A. A. C. P. met at the New some M. E. Church, Monday night and e/ommonwreuitn Harliam ent House Melbourne. Prepared by th» National (lr..graphic So- I cli-ty, Wishing tun. D. C.) The summer conference of the pre miers of British dominions, including ihe premier of Australia, and the gen eral understanding that Australia Is In close sympathy with the United Slates In the matter of oriental Im migration. makes that far-away com monwealth of more than ordinary In- | terest to Americans Just now. Australia Is the most Isolated of all j inhabited continents and is remote from the center of all of the world’s j activities. Northward the sailing ills-I 1 tance to Japan Is approximately 3,<S)0 j nautical miles; to India, 2.500 miles. South America is 7,000 miles to the east; and Africa an equal distance west. From London to the capital of Aus tralia ships by the Suez route traverse approximately 11.000 miles of water and by the Pantitna canal, 12,734 miles. From California ports the routes via ' Samoa, or Fiji, or Tahiti cover a quar ter of the circumference of the earth. Australia's only large civilized neigh bor within a radius of 1,000 miles Is Java. Tew Americans Go Thera. The continent, lying thus far out side the ordinary routes of travel. Is rarely visited by Americans. For most i of us knowledge of tills fascinating land Is obtained by a study of a few pages in the tmek of school geog raphies—pages descriptive of “Aus tralla and New Zealand" and accom panied hy a map of "Australia and the Islands of the Pacific" on s scale Its- small for the recognition of signif icant features. One of the first surprises awaiting j the tourist from the northern heinl {sphere Is to find that Australia and ■ New Zealand may not be grouped as two Island* of like apiteiirance, differ ing mainly in size; near neighbors which may la* treated as a unit. New Zealand is nearly twice as far from Australia as Bermuda Is from New kirk. and Is not only east hut also south. The *ouihern -oust of the Aus tralian mainland has the latitude of central New Jersey, while the south ernmost of ,tlpe three islands which .comprise the immlnlon of New Zea | land occupies the position of southern i Newfoundland. I'nique vegetation of remarkable ' variety and beauty, animal life of by I gone geological periods, and an ab original population, the lowest In the , scale of beings having human form, I stand out as features distinctly Aus tralian—a never-ending source of In terest to the geographer. Australia Is a large country. It Is about fourteen times the size of France or Germany, twenty-five tiroes the size of Italy, or Ecuador, and two and one-half times the size of Ar j {entlna. its chief eonqietltor In the touthern hemisphere. Its area la equal o three-fourths of Europe, one-third if all North America, or one-fourth »f the British Empire. The continent a almost exactly the size and la near ,y the shape of the United States. Laval in Surfaca, Low in Elavatlon. Australia la the most level In sur : ‘ace and regular In outline of all the i torn Incuts, and even of moat large la lands. It la also the lowest continent, s-ltb an average elevation about that I of Ohio. It* surface lacks variety. The change from one type of topog raphy Is so gradual, and significant aatnral features are so few and se . widely spaced that, with the excep tion of the Murray river, they are not ' utilized In marking the boundaries of dates. The traveler in search of duplicate* of the Canadian Rockies, the Toeem Ite and the Grand canyon, of Nor* weglan fjords and Alpine scenery, need not visit Australia. Its mountain icenery is that of the southern Ap palachians, the White mountains, and he low ranges of Arizona. Its plains ind plateaus are comparable with , hose of the Rooky Mountain foothills ind the arid expanses of Utah. Idaho 'ind < i r eg. in. Although the mouialus are low com pared with those of other continents, heir Influence Is great, for nowhere s their control of rainfall and con sequent distribution of vegetation and people lietter exemplified. A blrd’a tye view of Australia shows a belt at tegetation extending along Ita noctifc ~ Jud Tunklna Jnd Tunklna says many a man kinks he Is giving advice when he Is merely being encouraged to loosen up 'Is conversation and get Ids measure a k en Ear Protectors. Rubber ear protector* for swimmer and persons who have their hah shampooed have been Invented by 4Ih tic*. 'ii oitein The Booesris Plane**. From an English Story—in her lux uriant black tresses nestled a large, red nose east and southeast edges, with a pate* on the extreme southwest ixiraer and another covering moat of the island of Tasmania. In these regions the people live. The trade winds abundantly supply the norirfeast eons!, hut carry little water beyond; the westerlies, the “roaring forties’* of the sailor, deposit their moisture on the lands along Bass strait and on the southwest ;fp of the continent >ut have little or none to carry Inland. The north const Is al ternately drenched anil dried with the coming and going of monsoons. Tlie center of the mntUient Is therefore arid, large parts are desert, and the numerous large lakes shown on the map are expanses of salt mud covered with water by Infrequent rains. Aus tralia's streams are fewer and carry li v water than those of any other continent. It* Forest* Are Surpcalng. The Jlora of Australia Is not only tienutlful. If Is unique, having no counterpart In other lands. Of the 10.000 siss ies of plants most of them are purely Australian, and are un known even In New Zealand. The gen eral Impression one gets of Australian forests is their total unllkeness to any thing seen elsewhere. Korins which may be recognized as tulip. Illy, honey suckle and fern take on a surprising aspect. They are not garden flowers, hut trees, and the landscape of which they form a part reminds one of the hypothetical representations In books of a land-o-Miie of Mesozoic time, a pe riod antedating our own by millions of years. Tlie Impression that one Is looking ut a lunilscaiie which has forever dls npis-ared from oilier pans of the world Is so vivid that the elms and maples and oaks In some of the city street* strike a Jarring note. The transition from Jurassic to modern times Is painfully abrupt. The Hidinals of Australia, too. are so distinct from the rest of the world that some have proposed two great zoological realms: Australian and non Australian. The peculiarity lie* not only in the fact that Australian types are not found elsewhere, hut also that families like the cats and the pigs which are found native on all other continents and on many Islands, are absent from Australia. The kangaroo Is Australia's national animal, and the group to which it belongs, the mar supials, Is typically Australian. A belt of country 100 tulles wide along the east, south and southwest edges of Australia would Include prob ably 80 per cent of the commonwealth's population. There are no Inland cltle* of over 10,000 i>optilat!on, except six mining camps, and the most remote of these Is about as far from the sea as Is Pittsburgh. A striking feature of the Australian census Is the concentration of popula tlon In cities—a phenomenal situation for an agricultural and pastoral na tion with less than 1 per cent of Its area under cultivation and 47 per cent unoccupied The six Australian *t*( capitals include 384*0 per cent of the commonwealth's population, and live of them are growing at the expense of the back country. No other nation, and few states, can match these fig ure* A “white Australia” Is the settled policy of the commonwealth govern ment, the Immigration laws being so administered as effectually to exclude colored races. Legislation la directed particularly to the exclusion of Chinese, Japanese and Polynesian la bor, not only from tlie land, hut from employment In pearl Ashing, coastwise shipping, and on overseas steamers holding mall contracts. Appreciative. “What Is your Idea of relativity!” “Very favorable,” replied Senator Sorghurn. “We have so many per plextng questions to handle Just now that I am grateful to the gentleman who discovered It for not leftlng It get Into politics." Entertaining. “Done any entertaining in your new nelghborhod as yet?” “Well, our Junk seemed to enter tain the neighbors as we moved in.”— LMlarUle Courier-Journal. England Welcomes Virginia Flower. To many people the Virginia creep er seems like rather a lowly and mod est plant, and yet It has received a warm welcome In Kngland. where It Is grown freely rambling over build ings. rocks and walls. Inst as much at borne In English -oil a* in American. Psarl Fishers in Sea All Year. The women pearl Ashers of Japan commence their work at the age of fourteen and are In the water almost all the year round, except In the coldest season from the end of lie cember to tin ima'nn'ng of KWiruary Ml'llti. or 1'UOifTit BlLu lu me county Court ol nouglas Couilly, Nebraska. in tne mutter oi tbe estate ul iiiu ! -Bay Johnson, Deceased. All persons inlersted in said estate are hereby nutitied mat a petition lias 1 • been tiled in said Court, praying for ; 11lie probate of a ceitain instrument, i now on file in said Court, purporting ui tie the last will and testament of i said deceased, and that a hearing will ! be had on said petition betore said I ] eourt on tlie lith day of October, 1921 jaud if they fail to appear in said Court j ion tbe said titli duy of October, 1921 at In 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 ether suitable person, enter a de cree of heirship, and proceed to a ; settlement thereof. Bryce Crawford County Judge i ' 31-9-1*- ,22,29-21 i.n triK DibTtflCT CUUKi ul‘ tiucuiAa count*, NkhkAbinA. HOC. I'M ill. mi A O i l IT, in the mallei ol lue estule of Kinest 'c. n. Wicke, deceased. .Notice is hereby given lliat, in pur. suance of an order of the Honorable 1L. B. Day, Judge of the district court of Douglas County, Nebraska, made on the 2nd day of September, 1921, for the sale of the real estate hereinafter de scribed, there will lie sold at public to lie secured by note and mortgage on [vendue to the highest bidder anu upon the following terms, one-third cash, [and the balance on three years' time,; with Interest at six per cent per annum tlie 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: laits One (1), Two <2).[ Three <31 and Four (4), in Block Two; 121, In Hyde Park, an addition to tbe; city of Omah, Nebraska, as surveyed platted and recorded. Said sale will Dated this 12th day of September,; 1921. remain onn hotir. FrodoHrk ?. VVtr»Up \ of nf j j iv-ft.t p If Vr. «Pfr* Tuchman Bros. GROCERIES AND MEATS f; 24th K. Lake Sts. - ' f It's our pleasure to serve you we seii skinner's the highest grade Macaroni, Spaghetti, Egg Noodles and other Macaroni Product*. "Light Blue Hair" The pollre, no doubt, will have llrtle dlfljculfy !n finding a man Hated In n recent police bulletin In New York a* ’wins wanted on n state charge. ! “Light blue hair” should make him cottspleneh* In almost any crowd. Mexico's Coast Lina. Mexico mis » •oiisi line fl.OtN miles long aiihough the greater > length of the country la 2,000 and the greatest width 7hO miles. Wadding Days In Holland. In orderly IlnllHiid. where every- ^ thing hapiwu* by rule, the different classes of society choose different days j of the week on which to lie married. I-V>t some unknown reason Monday is society s day and marriage lees for Hint day amount in a sum approx I ; mate to S24 iin Saturdays ihe - Iinrge I* *2. or nothing m utl If the j -oilple ilti not - left n s,-|uir:ile cere mony and are v lllinii in |«>n a group >f 20 eoilples, \< tlo-se grono mar rlages ilie clerk leads ihe «ervln* m,>r. ! all the couple* making the responses : , n eliorus Diplomatic Youngater I Harold »»« often allowed to rlslt Js grandmother, hni was always told he hout he should return home. Ou j rrlvlng at hi* grtindmother's one 1 pornlng he was asked how long he .•ould stay “Well, grandmother. I 1 lon't remember whether mother said •en o'clock or three o'clock* but ('ll jo home a net dinner and ask her ” Speed of a Projectile A projectile, weighing 1.441ft pound* which |* fired In 14-Inch kuna, leave# the gun at a speed of almost half a mile a second. At three mile# th» speed ha* hnt slirhflv slackened. I Butters Studio I! l.'ilKi No ‘Ad Wel-ter B701 II . t _I & Serve a. Slice ot t | OUR GOOD HAM Today. I Breakfast | Bacon* | i " 1 o 2 <. 2 2 I I Y I | GROCERIES MEATS X Sugar, 15 lbs. for $1.00 Boston Butts, per lb... !#• , [ Blue Jav Flour, 481b. $1.75 Flesh Spare Ribs, per lb 10* < £ Sunkist Hour, 481b. $2.00 Fresh Cut Hamburger, lb 1214* <J I Hock Candy Maple Syrup Smoked Shoulders, per lb. 1214* , , •j- Per can 20c Hams, V4 or whole, lb. 15c no <■ 5* Peaches and Pineapples Bacon, i-2 or whole, lb. 15c a# ' [ .j. Per gallon can 65c Is>af laird, per lb 1214* The Peoples Bargain Store ❖ N. E. Cor. 26th & Q. Sts. Market 1010 " :«: south side :: | We seii Skinners } ;!* the highest grade Macaroni, Spaghetti. Egg Noodles and t other Macaroni Products. BUY A HOME! I can sell good homes in any section of Omaha at your «»» j terms. J have a large variety of houses which I can sell at greet bargains for payments down from $100.00 up, with balance less thaw rent. They've got to he sold NOW. » E. /VI. DAVIS REAL ESTATE AND RENTALS .■ 2530 Grant Street Phone Webster 242# Specialty Lump Specialty Egg HIm Utfe Lmp IlMr—|lly towil ;> D«i’d- $9.00 ^ ^ ***• $8.50 ^ *" I ALL BISKS I lADIANT COAL m raM I , TU BMt Frn Fniklli Ck, W. CLEAN, HOT, LONG LASTING f _-- $12.00 --_ Genuine ConSUITlGrS Petroleum Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Hard Coal Cimnlxi Tft in hmi, it m . $22.00 S $20.00 t i*r Ton 1)0 ntflAK M8* m*r Ton CONSUMERS COAL & SUPPLY CO. 122S NICHOLAS STREET APERTS MAKE BIG MOREY V J> WANTED:- 50 gift* to handle fast soiling product In Omaha ant ! 1 ij South Omaha. Act quickly and make money. Oood territory. Aa '! j, Omaha product for Omahan*. Apply Monday, Sept. 1'Jth hetecwn 9 aad !> ,• 10 a. m., Room No. 2. Kuftlr Block. Ask for Mr. Brown. adr. <| ~ I? Sunburned Nose Use plenty of cooling T/lentholalum % Heals gently, quickly anti antiseptically *■ AWVWWWWA'WWWJV ADLER & FORBES j! 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