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.
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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.
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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.
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GROCERIES
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MEATS
f; 24th K. Lake Sts.
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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.
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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#
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