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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1922)
The Monitor A National Weakly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans. Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub lishing Company, Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2, 181b, at th« ^ostofflce at Omaha, Neb., under the Act of March 8, 1878. 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 * «,,'kTHS: 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Address, The Monitor, 20-1 kaffir Block, Omaha. Xeb. Telephone Douglas 3224. - STARTING RIGHT BRIGHT start in all things is of the first importance. We have one or two practical suggestions to make- to our readers at the outset of this year. Many of them, we are glad to say, will not need these suggestions. Others will. Probably the majority will. Our first suggestion is this: that, we start right away with a systematic plan of saving at least a small amount of our earnings every week. It may be only a dime a week, but that will be a start and the habit will grow. Savings banks will furnish little bank in Vhich you can ave your pern and dimes and then deposit them in the bank. The United States Postal I Savings Banks will accept deposits as low as a dime. Start this year with a savings account. Save something, systematically. Building and Loan Associations, banks, the UnitecP'gSatg Treasury Department and other agen cies offer .excellent opportunities f.r you to save money and receive \jr-er st on your savings. If you have not already done so, start a savings ac count now-. We are all extravagant spenders, let us become judicious sav ers. Let us strive to improve our financial condition by saving our money. This is the first suggestion. Our other suggestion is that we take advantage of the many opportunities which offer themselves to improve ourselves intellectually, by a syste matic course of reading good books or taking some course of study. Save and study is a good slogan for the year. But whatever else you may or may not do, start saving now. GROWING BUSINESS ABILITY. JN the review of racial condition.^ prepared by the Associated Negro Press, one of the outstanding features is the progress shown by our people along industrial and commercial lines. This is a significant and encouraging fact. Hitherto our people have been very timid about entering the business world. We have been afraid to ven ture, and if some business enterprise inadequately financed, and therefore for this reason, as much as any other, unable to meet competition, failed, we have lost heart, and become too easily discouraged, instead of trying again. The last few years however, have shown that we are become more and more determined to succeed in the businss world. Failures of course there will be from various causes, but the successes will be more in num ber than the failures and by degrees we will take our rightful place in the business and commercial world. We are headed in the right direction and slowly making progress. We must - — help make places for our young men j and women by encouraging and sup-1 porting our own business enterprises, j We can only learn by trying and do-! ing. That our group in every large center is venturing more and more j into the business and commercial world is a most hopeful sign. It means growth and development in business acumen and ability. SUPPORT THE DYER BILL. rpiIE MONITOR respectfully urges the Nebraska congressional dele gation to vote for the Dyer Anti Lynching Bill. It is a measure aimed at the suppression of lynching which all right-thinking Americans must de plore. It is iust as essential in the light of past experience that: we have* a federal law to ppm bat this evil as it is to have a federal law to enforce prohibition or to protect women in the exercise of the franchise. This is no more an invasion of states right, than other national laws now upon the statute book . The Dyer Bill should be passed and we expect to see j the entire Nebraska delegation sup j porting it. THE PACKING HOUSE STRIKE. ( kUR sympathy is wholly with the packing house employes who are J resisting a reduction in wages. The I poverty talk by the packers is all bunk. The workers are entitled to I living wages and this they are not • getting. We hope the strikers will ! win. And because we want to see them win we want to see them refrain from ifets of violence which will alien ate public sympathy. Working men are in sad traits at this time. Many without employment for many months and facing starvation have eagerly seized the chance to work, even though it may work a hardship for the strikers. They become strike breakers not from choice but from ne cessity. The general non-employment makes this strike untimely. It seems to have been adroitly forced which complicates the situation. FOR OR AGAINST THE KUAN rpHAT notorious movie, “The Birth of a Nation," one of the most in sidious and dangerous agencies of anti-Negro propaganda issuing from the Ku Klux Klan is scheduled to show in Omaha at a. local theatre. Its production has been barred from sev eral states and cities. There is an ordinance under which its appearance in this city can be forbidden by the authorities. We respectfully call upon Mayor Dahlman and the city adminis tration to forbid the showing of this preudice-breedlng movie in Omaha. They have the authority to do it. The question is, will they use that author ity? The picture glorifies the hooded, night-riding murdering Ku Klux Klan which was suppressed by congression al authority in the reconstruction days for its deeds of violence and blood shed. It has a sinister motive back of it, which in these feverish days may lead to serious consequences. The Monitor places this matter fairly and squarely before the tity administra tion and leaves it up to ii with this question: Are you for the Ku Klux Klan or Against It? This picture is Kluxie propaganda, pure and simple. The Monitor awaits an answer. BOOK CHAT By MARY WHITE OVINGTON Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopte. “Peace in Friendship Village.” By Zona Gale, Publishers: The Mac Millan Company, New York City. Price, $2.25, including postage. Recently I wrote of “The Brimming Cup” and of Dorothy Canfield's deep sympathy with the N*>gro. Since thei I have run across a volume of short stories and find that Zona Gale, an other of our most popular novelists, has struck almost the same note. Zona Gale is one of America's best known story writers. “Miss Lula Iiett,” her latest novel, had a phenomenal sncces* both as novel and play. Perhaps she is best known, however, by her -erics of stories centering about “Friendship Village.” “Friendship Village” is no “Main Street,” but describes a kindly pleas ant community with Caliope (what a name for an elderly .-pinster'), the most friendly of its inhabitants, oeru pving a central" place. And it is in the volume entitled “Peace in FriendsM; Village,” where -we learn of what tin village folk did after the war for their foreign population—for the Greek, the Pole, the Slav,—that, tucked in th middle of the book, we have a story entitled "Dream” that sounds a start ling note on the Negro question. It begins with Caliope' visiting her friend, Mis’ Sykes, anil both of then 1 noticing that the Old M ox fin Hriuse has been rented. They must be prott, I fine people, they argue, to be able to ! pay the rent of twenty dollars. They w atrh and see the goods arrive in a van—a piano, comfortabl-looking fur niture, It is then that Mis' Sykes de clares “Whoever it is will be a distinct addition to Friendship Village oci ety.” They learn that their new neigh bor’s name is Burton Femandis, a most aristocratic appellation, and Mis’ Sykes decides that as the newcomers are moving in on Friday they will get up a surprise party for Saturday night. When Caliope suggests that Mis’ Sykes is perhaps too sure re garding the newcomers, Mis’ Sykes de clares, “Folkses’ individualism i- ex pressed in folkses’ furniture. You can’t tell me that, with those belong | ings, we can go wrong in our judg ment.” “Well,” Caliope says, "I can't go wrong because I cant think of any thing that would make me give them i the cold shoulder. That's another comfort about being friends to every body—you don’t have to decide which one you want to know.” “You’re so queer,” says Mis' Sykes, tolerant. “You miss all the satisfaction of be ing exclusive; and you can’t afford not to be.” “Mebbe not,” Caliop.j says; “mebbe not, but I am willing to try it; hang the expense!” On the day the newcomers arrive Caliope finds that her hyacinth bulbs need repotting, and she carries a pot to the new neighbor. She is ushered into a beautiful room filled with books ami pictures and meets her hostess, a lovely lady. This is Caliope’s de scription of her: “I gave her the flower and I dont’ believe 1 looked surprised any more than when 1 first saw the picture of the disciples, that the artists had painted their skins dark, like it must have boon. # Mrs. Femadis was dark, too, but her peo ple had not come from Asia, but from j Africa.” Caliope sits down to chat ami learns of the daughter, who i- at Chicago University, and of the on, who is returning from France where ho has received the Cross of War. With this story she faci Mi 1 Sykes and wants to know her decision re-, yarding the supiise party. But I won’t tell more of tin story. Yon j must read it yourself to learn hov it turns out. I wondered, as I read it, what the reaction has been on the part of Miss Gale’- many admirers who have read j this exquisite “Dream.'’ Blind, Reads With Tongue. Braille characters are. of course rend with the fingers, htit one armless blind man has been taught to read with his tongue. « Somewhat Hard on Humanity. Every man’s experience of today Is that he u.ts a fool yesterday and the day before yesterday. Tomorrow he will most likely lie of exactly the same opinion.— Muokay. « • • , I Ornery Animal Is Offered for Sale Grenada, Miss.—Tlie tax su pervisors of Grenada county have reduced, the assessment on \V. \V. Whitaker's mule from $fiO to $20, the value originally placed on the animal by Its owner, afler having raised the assessment to the larger figure. In a letter to the supervisors Mr. Whitaker states: “In valuing this mule to the assessor at $20 I was extremely liberal with ttie county. It i would hnve seemed too ridicu lous to have placed him at Ids , real value, which, at the time of falling values, could not have exceeded $10. “I hereby make this proposi tion to any member of the board, to any other citizen of the county or state: Give me $20 and take the mule, and may the good Lord be with you un til we meet beyond the river. “For inherent wickedness of j heart and meanness of disposi tion this mule, in comparison, makes the devil a smiling cherub; for a disinclination to dissipate useful energy this beast make* the grasshopper a model of Industry." “ j Mushroom Grows Under Snow. Mountain mushrooms are said by the French Academy of Sciences to be ; “the world's crowning gastronomic : delight.' Professor Constantine, hot- I atiist. told the savants he hud dlscov- ! ered a small mushroom which grows j under the snow, while hunting edel weiss in the Alps til 7,000 feet alti tude. Several .high class restaurants are starting Alpine expeditions. ""IIU'E-L.-_IHLL ■”™IL . _J- . . 1,1 "' L. L ■■■■-■■■■■■■■ ■ j j I . ™~=| UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF ®f)e iHerrbants National Sank i OF OMAHA, NKB. At the Close of Business December 31, 1921. _ n I RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. .... $ 9>713,600.69 U. S. Bonds for Circulation. . 50,000.00 Banking House . ... .. 106,000.00 U. S. Bonds and Certificates. . 500,154.11 jj Other Bonds . 117,250.00 Cash and Due from Banks.. .. 3,715,771.80 $14,202,771.80 jjj LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid in. . $ 1,000,000.00 Surplus . 500,000.00 Undivided Promts . x 479,250.12 National Bank Notes. 49,400.00 I Deposits .-.'.. 12,046,164.56 Rediscount with Federal Reserve Bank. 127,957.13 j - I $14,202,771.80 j I - -- Fred P. Hamilton, B. H. Meile, O. T. Eastman President. Vice President Vice President S. S. Kent, H. D. "Bentley, Cashier Assistant Cashier B. B. Wood, J. P. Lpe. C. M. Fixa, Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier Auditor DIRECTORS Fred P. Hamilton George N. Peck G. S. Rogers N. P. Updike Frank W. Judson F. B. Johnson j LC. W. Hamilton B. H. Meile } WATERS ( BARNHART PRINTING CO. ^~a. a a y f OMAHA S Boys’ All-Leather School Shoes All Sizes $1.45 and $2.45 BOYSEN SHOE CO. 412 N. 16th St. Opposite Jefferson Square W.V.V.V.1VaViV.WiV.*aV.VeV.V.WeVeV.V.‘ TME NEW Diamond £ 24th & LAKE STREETS :*• =-—■■•.:: ;j FRIDAY— J Episodes 1 and 2 of W INNERS of THE WEST *1 J ALICE BRADY £ ■: v- in :■ t f s LITTLE ITALY ■ ■ ■ ■ SA T1 RDAY— 5 •j WILLIAM FAIRBANKS j; j: HEARTS Of"tHE WEST ji |j Also a good Two-Reel Comedy. |! ■: SUNDAY— :■ * ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN > f PLEASURE SEEKERS =i ■ ■ ■: HOAT GIBSON I; J ' in I* ■: THE WILD WILD WEST J> Harem and Hookem 2 Reel Comedy •* x~x~x~x-*-X“X~x^~x~x~x~xk~x-*<“Xk*<~x~x~x~x~x~X"X~x~X“X I ’ j | Best Groceries and Meats f I ■ || at •> j£ ❖ XI Lowest Prices f i t f i i m $ i ♦ . 2 t X A A i ? I ! We HI HI TP O’C Th* Hi*h*‘t Gr,de M*c"ron‘ X Sell IN IlrfUNj* E« N°»dle.. 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Bottles are individually 3 ''ashed and -terilized, and filled and capped automatically. * The milk is kept cold until delivered to you by the means M of an ice machine. • SERVICE— I Our delivery men are men of long experience—the ■ pick of the best men that ran he found. They will give H you prompt, careful, courteous service daily. ■ PRODUCTS— I We deliver milk, cream, whipping cream, buttermilk flj butter and cottage cheese. [ Wt We solicit your business, and if we receive it. we can ■ I truthfully Say it will lie appreciated. I.et us start being your milk men. ' H OMAHA MILK CO. fl 1513-1515 North 21th Street Wehster 0127 >jl We 5§ive you. the[B BEST DUALITY for the I LOWEST PRICE. I FRESH GROCERIES: LOWEST PRICES. jf The Peoples Bargain Store N. E. Cor. 26th & Q. Sts. 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