The monitor
^A Natlo—I Weakly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest* of Colored
Published every Friday at Omaha, Nebraska,
by the Monitor Publishing Company.
Entered am Second-Class Mall Matter July J, 1916, at th* '•ostofflee at
Omaha. Neb., onder the Act of March I, 1879._
I 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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Address, The Monitor, 20-1 kaffir Block, Omaha, Heb.
Telephone Douglas 3224.
HOUSE PASSES DYER BILL
By a vote of almost two to one the
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was passed
by the House last week after a long
and spirited debate, in which the
democrats opposed and the republicans
favored the measure. The vote was
almost unanimously partisan, 221 re- i
publicans voting in the affirmative
and 102 democrats in the negative.
Eight democrats and one socialist vot
ed with the republicans, making the
total affirmative vote 230, while 1"
republicans voted with the democrats,
swelling the negative to 119. The
democrats’ opposition by no means re
flected credit upon them. Their meth
ods were unbecoming and undignified,
being largely confined to filibustering.
In debate they substituted puerilities,
innuendoes and fallacies for argument
and dragged in the race question,
which seems to be the chief political
asset—a veritable Aladdin's lamp—of
the southern representatives. With
notably few exceptions there was no
serious attempt upon the part of the
opposition to meet argument with ar
gument, but upon the contrary to sway
by demagogic appeal to passion and
prejudice. This is always unfortunate
and regrettable, as it beclouds the is
sue and obscures the principle at
stake. The principle involved in this
measure is very clear. It is this:
Shall Lynching or Mob Murder, which
is a national menace and a disgrace
and reproach to the whole nation, and
which the individual states seem pow
erless to suppress, be made a federal
offense and as such punishable by the
federal authorities? It is a question
simply as to the best practical way of
reaching by remedial legislation a na
tional menace which all thoughtful
Americans recognize and deplore. The
House has given its answer. It re
mains now for the Senate to speak.
The Monitor believes that the measure
will pass the Senate. We regret that
it became a partisan measure in the
House. We believe it should have
peen passed not as a partisan meas
ure, but as a patriotic one. We hope
it will be so considered by the Senate
and treated and passed upon its mer
its as a sincere effort to expiate the
nation from the crime of mob-murder,
in the guilt of which we all share
when we condone or silently acquiesce.
We hope, as we have said before, that
the South, in which we believe there
is a growing desire to suppress this
evil from which it more largely suf
fers than any other section of the
country', will be brought to see that
a federal law will help them to bring
to pass just what the best minds and
hearts among the people of the South
I desire: the suppression of mob vio
lence and the maintenance' of the su
premacy of law, the only safeguard of
civilization. We believe the day will
come when all sections of the nation
will recognize the fact that Congress
man Dyer and all who have so zeal
ously worked with him to frame and
enact this measure have rendered
America a great, patriotic service.
We must not overlook the fact that
the Dyer Bill has yet to pass the Sen
ate and that, therefore, friends of the
measure must not relax their efforts
to impress upon the senators from
their respective districts that they de
sire them to support it, not as a ra
cial, sectional or partisan question,
which it is not, but as a patriotic duty
to save not some hapless victim, black
or white, but Columbia herself from
the lyncher’s and the assassin’s rope.
CREDIT DUE.
Great credit is due the National As
sociation for the Advancement of the
Colored People for the passage of the
Dyer Bill by the House of Represen
tatives. The always courteous, sane,
gentlemanly, well-informed James
Weldon Johnson, the general secre
tary, was on the ground constantly
during the debate and was in close
touch with the leaders on the floor,
wh frequently consulted him as to sta
tistics and data, which were used in
the arguments against the opposition.
It was no doubt the carefully tabu
lated facts and statistics which had
been so carefully compiled by the na
tional office, as much as anything else,
which created favorable sentiment for
the bill, even among democratic mem
bers who, while admitting their co
gency, voted against it because of
their traditions and party fealty.1
Credit also is due William Monroe j
Trotter and other representatives of
the Equal Rights League, and other
upstanding men of the race like Kelly
Miller, Archibald Grimke, Robert
Church and Emmett J. Scott, who used
their influence wisely and unostenta
tiously, Our people were and are
unitedly for this' measure because our
people have been so largely the vic
tims of mobs and believe this will
bring relief. The intelligent, sane and
tlignified manner in which representa
tives of our group rendered assistance,
should be a matter of pride and con
gratulation. It shows the value of in
telligent and united action.
PACKER’S STRIKE ENDS
'T’HE ending of the strike of the
packing house employees this
week brings a sense of relief to many.
The strikers lost their fight. This
was clearly foreseen by many owing
to its untimeliness and the general
unemployment- Many of our own peo
ple were affected both as strikers and
“strike breakers.” It is to be hoped
[ that the packing industries will on the
! grounds of simple justice retain in
their employ the workers who same
to their relief when the strike was
called. Many of our people who had
been out of employment for months
| and were facing a serious situation
t availed themselves of the opportunity
| of working. It would be manifestly
• unfair to replace these men by strik
! ers. With an increased output it is
j to be hoped that places will be found
| for marfy of the former packing hous
j wages. The Monitor hopes that im
wages.. The Monitor hopes that Im
| proving industrial and trade condi
| tions will make it possible for every
i man and woman who desires w-ork to
I secure it. ^
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“STOLEN BY THE BEE”
Quoth Gilbert M. to Nelson B.:
“Fie upon thee; for I see
Thou art guilty of piracy.
For thou hast clearly filched from me
Financial news for thy Daily Bee;
For which news I am charged a fee."
“I pray thee peace,” quoth Nelson B.
“The public icareth naught for our con
troversy.
Twas a knavish trick thou pulled on
me,
To quote those bonds marked ‘S. B.
T. B.’
| So gloat not on thy victory,
I Nor charge thou me with piracy."
The World-Herald, Oilbert M. Hitch
cock, owner, charges the Omaha Daily
Bee, Nelson B. Updike, owner, with steal
ing ItH financial news and submits In
“evidence of news piracy" a photographic
facsimllie of a portion of the Bee’s mar
ket page, in which appears a fictitious
l»on 1 quotation. "40 H. IS. T. B. 5’s, *51,
etc.,’* which the World-Herald alleges
was inserted in these quotations to catch
the Bee. the initials meaning, "Stolen By
The Bee."
AD-GRAMS
For bargains in shoes and merchan
dise go to C. J. Carlson’s. See ad on
last page of this issue
Carlson’s gigantic sale now on.
Buy shoes for the whole family now
at Carlson's for the same price you
would have to pay elsewhere for a
single pair.
“Butter Nut Coffee!” Gee, but it’s
good!
“Say, but that fellow’s got pep.”
“Sure! He drinks Butter Nut Coffee.”
Live merchants advertise in live
newspapers; that’s why their business
is not dead.
The Monitor is a live newspaper;
that’s clear from the ads we carry.
Sol I/ewis sells songs and other
music.
The Rev. Thomas A. Taggart has
returned from Coffeyville, Kans.,
where he conducted a successful re
vival for the Rev. P. D. Skinner.
Mrs. Hope Wiggins died this week
at a local hospital.
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5 “Beyond the Trail”
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£ Starting “White Eagle” :■
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Circus Is Coming
OMAHA AUDITORIUM
stamonday FEBRUARY 6th
Entire Week—Matinees at 3:15, Nights at 8:15
TANGIER SHRINE TEMPLE
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■ Acts from the big Summer Shows. ^Elephants,
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Bucking Mules, Funny Clowns, Aerial Artists,
Educated Horses and Prancing Ponies.
Prices: Children 50 cents, Adult s$1.00, plus tax.
No Extra Charge for Reserved Seats
| DISTRIBUTORS OF
? Genuine Bernice Anthracite
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I Canon City Lump
I ILLINOIS SPECIAL
I Liberty Lump $9.50
I Standard Lump $8.75
IKING.KOAL KOMPANY
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RINGLING BROS'. CIRCUS LONG
FOR BUTTER NUT COFFEE
I’axton-Gallagher Company is de
servedly proud not only of the Butter
Nut Coffee, but of a leiter from Ring
ling Bros’. Circus about this brand of
coffee. It reads in part as follows:
“Some time ago we were in Omaha
and drank Butter Nut Coffee. We
are loking forward to returning to
Omaha so that we may again have a
cup of real good coffee.”
FOR RENT—Furnished apartments
of two aad three rooms.—2130 North
Twenty-eighth Street. Webster 4983.
FOR RENT-r-A nice 5-room apart
ment. Good neighborhood, strictly
modern. Steam heat. Reasonable
for desirable tenant. Call Web. 0419.
Jenkln's Barber Shop—All work
strictly first-class 2122 Bio. 24th St.
Webster 2095.
Stories of B\a™
Great Scouts I ''alion
Western Newspaper Union.
SACAGAWEA, “THE BIRD
WOMAN” SCOUT
In (he Portland (Ore.) city pari
stands the statue of un Indian woman
A little baby is strapped on her bach
and her hand is outstretched to the
west, toward the Pacific ocean. The
statue is that of Sacugawea, “The Bird
Woman," the sixteen-year-old girl
scout and guide who led Lewis and
Clark over the “Shining Mountains" to
the "Everywhere--Salt- Water" toward
which tier bond'points.
When Lewis and Clark visited the
I Htdaisu Indians in North Dakota on
their great exploring trip west, they
found a Shoshone girl living with that
tribe. At itie age of flve she had been
captured from her people by a Hidatsa
war party. When she was fourteen
5 years old. Toussnint Charbanneau, a
French-Canadlan trapper, won her
from her captor in a game of "hlde
the-bone" and married her the next
year.
The Bird Woman wished to return
to her people and Lewis and Clark
engaged Gharbonneau and his wife as
Interpreters to the Indians they would
meet. During the winter of 1808 Suea
gawea gave birth to a son, whom she
called Baptiste, and this tiny papoosa
went with his dauntless mother
through all the hardships which the
explorers afterward endured. He was
strapped on Saeugawea’s buck one day
when the clumsy Charbanneau upset
one of the boats containing the
precious instrument* and records of
the party. The Bird Woman at once
sprang overboard Into the muddy
stream and rescued them.
More than once Sncaguwea proved
her value to the explorers. Far up the
river when the forest and snow baf
fled her companions and they were
Inst, the homing Instinct of the In
dian girl led her on and she guided
them safely to her people. The chief
who welcomed them proved to he Saea
gawea's brother, who was overjoyed
to see his lost sister again. He sold
the white men much-needed horses—
arid would have stolen them back, had
aot the Bird Woman betrayed the plot
to Captain Lew is.
Sacugawea remained with Lewis
and Clark until they reached the Pa
cific. On their return journey she
stopped with her people, the Sho
shones, and there she spent the re
mainder of her days. She died on tha
Wind River reservation in Wyoming
April 9, 1894, almoat a hundred years
of age.
Would Maintain His Principle.
“Look here, toy friends,” said the
snap box orator “1 am standing here
to maintain the . real principle of free
speech, arid If ai.y mart Interrupts me
I'll give him ore on the nose.”—Bos
ton Transcript.
Somewhat H.rd on Humanity.
Every man's experience of today Is
that he was a f. ol yesterday and the
flay before yest rday. Tomorrow he
will most likely l,e of exactly the same
opinion.—Macks,i
FOR RFNT—Furnished rooms fo
light housekeeping. Reference re
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DEFRAUDED MASONS.
Asheville, N. C., Feb. 3.—Brack L. .
Johnson is in jail here charged with J
using the mails to defraud the Ma- '
some insurance department. He col- •
lected large sums of money by sign- 3
ing certificates of death of policy J
holders who were enjoying ttie best of •{
health. 3
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CARD OF THANKS 3
We wish to thank our many friend.-- ••
and neighbors, especially Rescue -j
Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. M., for their 3
kindness, sympathy and beautiful )
floral offerings at the time of the •{
death of our beloved husband, brother 3
and uncle, Fred J. McCullough, who J
departed this life Jan. 9, 1922. j
Signed: 3
Mrs. F. J. McCullough, Wife. 3
Mrs- Ed King, Sister-in-Law. |
W. H. Thomas, Brother-in-Law. -j
Mrs. L. J. McKinney, Niece. Ij]
SULTOX FOR COLDS
AND PNEUMONIA *
There is a great deal of pneumonia $
and many deaths from pneumonia. A | •{•
very simple remedy that gives speedy 3
relief is Sultox, manufactured by the 1
Kaffir Chemical Laboratories. Hot 4
pack treatment with Sultox and In
temal doses of Sultox is a speedy and ,
effective remedy for colds, congestion
of the lungs and similar maladies so
prevalent at this time. Ask your |
druggist for Sultox, and if he cannot j
supply, phone Douglas 7074 or call
at or write Kaffir Chemical Labora- j I
tories, 817 North Sixteenth street, I
Omaha, Neb. Large bottle, $1.00. No
household should be without it.—Adv.
STOCK HOLDERS’ M FETING
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Kaffir Chemical Laboratories will
be held in the Kaffir building Mon
day night.
DAY NURSERY
Will take care of children, under!
school age, by day or week at my
home, 3121 Franklin street. Terms
reasonable. Mrs. Mary Hayes, Web
ster 0267.—Adv.
For insurance, call Western Indefti
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For Rent.—Three nice large rooms
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A P. Scruggs, Lawyer, 220 S. 18th
St. Douglas 7812, Colfax 8881.—Adv.
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