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    THE MONITOR I
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Published every Friday at Omaha. Nebraska.
; by the Monitor Publishing Company.___
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THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor.
George H. W. Bullock, Business Manager and Associate Editor.
W. W. MOSELY, Aecoclate Editor, Lincoln, Neb.
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Address, The NomJUr, M4 Kaffir Bloek, Omsk*, Neb.
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ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE f
11 UNITED STATES. j |
!! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. 1
| \ 1. AH persons born or naturalized in the United States, ;j| j
' • and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the f
JI United States and of the State wherein they reside. No j ■
!", state shaH make or enforce any law which shall abridge the Ij.
; | privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor J
«• shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- |
< • erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person .j.
I! within its Jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. X
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CRISPUS ATTUCKS DAY
'T'HE ever-vigilant, militant National
Equal Rights League, whose head
quarters are located at 34 Comhill
street, Boston, Massachusettts, di
rectly opposite the spot where Crispus
Attucks fell, has sponsored a move
ment for a country-wide observance
of March 5 of each year, the anniver
sary of Attucks’ death, as a “National
Colored American Day," when atten
tion will be riveted upon the fact that
the first blood shed for American in
dependence was that of a member of
our race. It is urged, and most
rightfully, that by virtue of that
.blood-shedding we are entitled to the
full rights of American citizenship.
As the official call for this national
observance states it,
“By that first blood we attained
fundation title to all the liberty and
rights. We need to tell our rising
generation of this ground title to cit
izenship to assure the middle-aged.
We need universally to celebrate this
date that we may cause our white
fellow-Americans to realize our real
original Americanism and our claim
to every right.”
This movement was started two
years ago and the observance of the
day is growing. It is a most com
mendable idea, chiefly because of its
educational value and as a source of
inspiration to our youth. There is
a vast deal of ignorance among all
classes of Americans as to the part
played by Colored Americans, or Ne
groes, if you please, in American his
tory. It is safe to assert that not
one-half of one per cent of reasonably
well-read Americans, either white or
black, ever heard of Crispus Attucks.
And yet historians who cannot con
scientiously justify “the Boston Mob”
or consider those who fell from the
bullets of the British soldiers, March
5, 1775, as "martyrs to the sacred
cause of American liberty,” admit that
this was the event which precipitated
the conflict which ultimately issued in
the birth of a new nation. Nor can
it be without significance, when con- j
sidered in the light of a Supreme
Power which controls the destinies of
men and nations, that the first blood
to be shed at the birth of this nation,
was that of one in whose veins com
mingled the ruddy streams of African
and Indian ancestry and again when
Rebellion would have throttled the
nation’s life that the first blood to be
then outpoured should be that of a
Negro. Men may call such happen
ings chance. We do not so consider
them. We believe that some plan and
purpose underlies these significant
and historic incidents. Whether the
sobering effect of time will remove
some of the glamour and halo from
the incidents and heroes of Revolu
tionary days remains to be seen. Be
that as It may, the fact remains that
in the estimation of their contempo
raries, and subsequent generations
confirmed the verdict, Attucks and
Carr and Maverick, who fell in the
streets of Boston, March 6, 1775, were
patriots and martyrs for American
liberty. If this be true, and Ameri
can historians so affirm, then we do
well to proudly proclaim the fact of
Attucks’ part and our place in the
American republic by virtue of his
martyrdom. ,
OURSELVES IN OMAHA
-It gives us pleasure to publish in
this issue an interesting sketch of
some of the activities of our people
in this city by H. J. Pinkett. It
does us good now and then to see our
selves in our group activities which
really amount to a good deal. Such
a sketch will also furnish much
needed information to many of our
white friends in Omaha who are
readers of The Monitor. It will be
interesting for them to learn that our
people own, for example, upwards of
MAOO.OOO in property. Individual1
holdings may be comparatively small
bat in the aggregate amount to a
b large sum. Other pertinent facts
brocght to tile attention of the public
in this article are equally noteworthy
and stress the worthiness rather than
the unworthiness of our group, the
latter of which is given too large a
place in the public mind.
FOR GOVERNOR
The Monitor notes with great
pleasure that our good friend, Adam
McMullen of Beatrice has filed for
the nomination for governor on the
republican ticket. It is early in the
game, but here is wishing him suc
cess. We do not know and do hot
care how the politicians may line up
and combine, but The Monitor is for
McMullen for governor, beAu.se we
believe he will make a good one.
TRUE POLITENESS
Politeness is refinement of manners.
It is derived from a word which
means to polish, and signifies a de
sire to bring to others the greatest
pleasure and the least pain. It is
benevolence in little things and con
sists in treating our fellow beings as
we wish to be treated ourselves. In
social life there are mutual rights
that must be preserved. This is done
by united action, and as a duty it is
called co-operation. When general af-<
fairs are considered, the guiding prin
ciple of this duty ;s public spirit; but
the virtue takes the form of polite
ness when the duty is toward indi
viduals whom we meet in the many
relations of life.
Politeness is modest, choosing to
conceal a courtesy when done; it is
benevolent, avoiding what is disagree
able to others and seeking to do what
is gratifying to their feelings; it is of
personal value, costing little and
yielding much; it is of social advan
tage, for politeness is always neces
sary to complete the happiness of so
ciety; it is natural being a quality of
all who have the feelings of man.
Politeness is often thought to be
mere attention to external forms—a
matter of bowing and shaking hands,
use of compliments, and observance of
what is fashionable, but this is a mis
taken notion; true politeness is far
more dignified than the outer gar
ments of good will. “It has to do not
merely with manners, but with the
mind and heart. It refines and soft
ens our feelings* opinions and words.’’
Its source is in the moral nature of
man, and every external force of po
liteness has a moral ground on which
it rests.
True politeness aims at the real
good of mankind, and endeavors to
make every one easy and happy by
contributing not only little attentions
but also services of a more substantial
kind. This virtue is a coin, tending
to enrich him who expends it even
more than the one who receives It. It
is a refining and softening quality,
which polishes rudeness, temper, and
arrogance, and helps to make us
blameless and harmless, and without
rebuke.
—The True Voice.
“Hearts, like doors, can open with
ease
to very, very little keys;
And don’t forget that two are these—
‘Thank you, sir,’ and ‘If you please.’ "
Owl* i» Old University City.
Owls, as Is proper In the case of
birds of such renowned solemnity
and secluded habit, have always ex
hibited a particular liking for Oxford
university. Recently they have estab
lished a new colony In the ivy-cov
ered walls of the Bodleian library and
the Tower of rhe Five Orders. In the
Old Schools quadrangle. Members of
the libra ry_ staff now occasionally find
relaxation from their duties by res
cuing the young birds which find their
way down to the pavement of the
quadrangle and are unable to Hy up
to their nests.
For Guestroom Door.
A thoughtful touch In the furnish
ing snd decorating of the guestroom
Is the addition of a knocker on the
door. There are many quaint flow
ered ones designed, which are as dain
ty aa they are practical.
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ACTORS ARE HIT HARD
More Are Now Looking for Jobs
Than Ever Before.
Managers Say 7,500 Are Idle—Com
plaints Are Heard From Broad
way to “Main Street” of
Poor Bueineae.
New' York.—There are today more
■nemployed actors uud other stage
people walking along Broadway and
■ hundred other cities looking for
Jobs than ever liefore. Everybody in
Times square who knows anything
■bout tlie theater, from the cut-rate
ticket hawker to the producer of a
dozen hits. Is complaining.
The tailors, landladies and hoarding
house owners seem to feel the hard
times as acutely as the actors. They
have sought a great many judgments
recently against stage folk who over
looked the rather prosaic duty of
paying their bills.
In , larger cities of the country
where the lights flicker only a little
less brightly thun iu Broadway, con
ditions are just as had, according to j
the heads of producing concerns and
organizations of actors.
Chicago, once a lively theatrical
center, whence producers sent forth
many road shows, is “dead” now in
that activity, local managers report.
Very few shows, they say, are trained ’
and distributed from the Illinois
metropolis to the Midwest and South,
because overhead expenses have
grown beyond the capacity of the box
offices.
Several well-known managers esti
mated that half of the 15,000 actors
in tlie United States, exclusive of
vaudeville performers, were out of
work. The Actors' Equity association
aaid the number was not so large as
that, but was 20 per cent worse than
usually.
The bicycle riders and dancing
teams which flit from city to city un
der vaudeville contracts have not suf
fered greatly. Vaudeville tickets gen- |
erally are less expensive than those
for drama or girl-and-muslc shows, i
and the public seems willing to buy I
them even if money isn’t so easy to |
get as It used to be, the booking
houses report. i
Nor have any howls of complaint
been heard from the many bird dogs
and terriers who go about the coun
try in tent shows posing as blood
bounds In “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” For
some reason, the roaming tent shows
and boat shows that play the small,
smaller and smallest villages are said
not to have felt a drop In attendance,
and there are now 700 of them scat
tered over the land.
Aside _Jf <nn the general letup in
luxury buying, many reasons are
given for the extremely hard times In
the theater. The managers complain
of unbearable overhead expenses—in
creased railroad fare and union regu
lations, which, they assert, require the
employment at high wages of a lot
of men who only want to sit around
and boss somebody else.
Union leaders gay this isn’t so, and
ex plain that the main difficulties are
railroad rates and competition by the
movies. Both agree that, while a com
pan.v on tour formerly was a paying
proposition if the box office took In
$7,000 or $8,000 a week. It requires
almost double that Income nowadays
to keep the show going.
NEW PLANET VISIBLE IN 1923
Astronomer at Bueno* Alrea Reports
Globe Has Diameter of
15'/j Mile*.
Buenos Aires.—Doctor Hartmann,
director of the l.a Plata observatory,
says that the orbit of the little planet
he discovered on November 4 lies be
tween the orbits of the planets Jupiter
and Mars. The orbit is elliptical and
Is corvered In five years and seven
months.
As the plane of the orbit la very In
clined In regard to the earth’s equator,
the new planet can approach the poles
closer than most of the other planets
and may be observed late this year un
til the fall of 1928 in a very northern
position.
Tlie diameter of the globe la es
timated at about 15H miles, as Its
brilliancy, taken at the last observa
tion, appeared to be of the fifteenth
magnitude.
-Rabbit At* Rosary.
St. Louis.—A rosary entwined In
the stomach of a rabbit was discov
ered by a butcBer here the other day
after a small boy had traded the rab
bit to the butcher for a supply of ap
ples. The rabbit, the boy’s pet, used
to train bunting dogs, broke a leg one
day in escaping from a dog and had
to be killed.
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DEER SMASHES WINDOWS
IN PENNSYLVANIA CITY
Scranton, Pa.—A full grown
antlered deer bolted through
some miles of Scranton's streets
leaving a trail of shattered win
dows and scattered provisions.
Where the animal came from no
one knows, and has apparently
returned to the sapie place.
In its flight through the city
the deer jumped through a large
plate glass window in a grocery,
scattering provisions right and
left and making Its exit through
a door in the rear.
When last seen It was heading
! toward rlo* mountains.
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KEEPS TABS ON
THOSE WHO MOVE
People of Birmingham Cannot
Escape Bills and Rent by
Old Expedient.
MUST REPORT All TRUNSFERS
Ordinance Requires Owners of Vara
or Other Vehicles to Report All
Moving to Police—Helpful
to Authorities.
Birmingham, Ala.—Those who find
it cheaper to move than to pay rent
or meet other bills, are pretty well re
formed in this city, or are in process
Of being weeded out in either case by
means of an ordinance so riveted that
offenders cannot escape. The ordi
nance requires the owner of every
transfer or other vehicle to report ;
promptly all moving to the chief of po
lice, and entiles ef the same are at
once made in a book duly alphabeted
and dated, and the hook is always
open for the inspection of any and
everyone who may ask to see it.
Of course one who plans to turn
delinquent will try to conceal his Iden
tity while in the act of moving, but
the ordinance makers foresaw that
Impulse and attached penalties for
false names or misleading reports,
which fairly shut out that form of
trickery. Altogether the ordinance bps
worked so well that Birmingham has
been solicited by other cities for copies
of the act and for the experiences un
der it which have made it a magic
cure for bill-evasion. It is a fixture
In Birmingham, for it has been In
force since March of 1913.
Generally Helpful.
Its enactment came about in that
year through the Itetall Furnltuae
Dealers’ association. At the ensuing
election it had an able enforcer In
; Commissioner of Public Safety Arlie
Barber, who thoroughly believed In it
and kept everybody concerned up to
1 the scratch. He found that some of
the colored laundresses had a fashion
■ of suddenly changing their addresses
when well stocked with the linen oi
their clients; that In some districts
overdue gas bills gave sufficient cause
for families to vacate quartern, and
delinquents for rent and for trades
men's accounts were common In all
districts. The telephone company had
occasion to compliment the commis
sioner on the accuracy and complete
ness of the records In the book of the
chief of police, for In one case the
company escaped damages for non
delivery of a message, In a suit In
which the person addressed had
moved, but claimed to be living In his
old home at the time of the message.
Hia claim was thrown out of court by
the evidence of the chiefs records.
Furniture dealers who had bean be
hind the original eimctraent soon found
their troubles eased by It, and finally
they were almost without had bills.
Pol lea Are Benefited.
In time the detective department oi
the city benefited by the ordinance,
for It enabled them to locate unde
sirables, bootleggers, bond-skippers
Rnd the kind of women who scattered
themse^'es over the city after the
abolishment of the old red-light dis
trict.
Once there was a concerted nttempt
by the transfer warehousemen to undo
the ordinance. They obtained a re
straining Injunction 'against Its en
forcement. and went Into court on the
issue of constitutionality. The Su
preme court ruled that It wag both
constitutional and reasonable. Minor
changes were made In It, not Inter
fering tit all with Its efficiency, and
It Is here to stay, with the approval
of every reputable Interest.
! AMERICAN FOXES WILL
t BE RAISED IN GERMANY
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I* Berlin.—American silver foxes
and skunks will be cultivated on
a large scale by a German stock
company on a farm In the Aus
trian Tyrol, under the direction
of Professor de Mill of the nat
ural history department of the
Munich university. In Germany,
t where the prices of the higher
♦ grade of furs have risen
j enormously in the last few
♦ months, a perfect specimen of
J silver fox costs 100.000 marks.
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Announcement
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« Dr. S. B. Northcross wishes to announce that his residence £
« telephone has been changed to Webster 3222. His North g
g Side office is located at 1516 North 24th St., over the Co- J
£ Operative Store. Telephone Webster 6194.
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He desires to further announce that he will retain his T:
g- South Side office also, 2731-3 Q Street. For information g
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VAUDEVILLE BY HOLMES’ STOCK COMPANY \\
Entire Company and Orchestra I;
Also “Shadow of Lightening Ridge’’ !|
SUNDAY jj
Entile change of program
HOLMES AND HOLMES TRIO—Completely New Show jj
Also Elaine Hammerstein in “Miracle of Manhattan’’ ;!]
and a Western Feature and Comedy ;I
No increase in prices j;
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
FORDS, FORDS jj
HI Every used Ford we have on hand has been gone over
;j:|! thoroughly and put in first class*running condition.
Our stock, the largest in th^West, gives you the oppor
; tunity to select just the car you need.
HI Save money, buy now before the spring rush. ;
SAMPLE-HART MOTOR COMPANY
Used Ford Department
Authorized Ford and Lincoln Dealers
“WE TELL THE TRUTH '
AT. 5468 1810 Cuming ST.
FORDS ' FORDS
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FRANKLIN THEATRE
24th and PR ANKLIN STREETS
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FRIDAY— Wm. Desmonds Taylor’s Big Special
“THE FURNACE OF MATRIMONY’’
Also Fritzi Ridgeway in "The Bandit of Hell’s Gap
and a two reel Comedy, “Nobody’s Wife”
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SATURDAY— HOOT GIBSON
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in “Headin’ West”
(A Rip-Snortin’ Western)
Also Monty Binks in "His Dizzy Day”
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SUNDAY— HAROLD LI A) YD
in “Get Out and Get Under”
Also Mahlin Hamilton in "The Truant Husband”
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and Lee Perrin in “The Phantom Terror”
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(A Western Thriller)
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C. P> WESIIN GROCERY CO.
44m truth Fruit, and Vegetables
2006 Casing St. Telephone Dougla. 1008
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The Peoples Bargain Store
N. E. Cor. 26th & Q. St*. SOUTH SIDE Market 1018
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Sell <OKIN W J£f*jKD Egg Noodl... Sp.fh.tti tmd
T V other Macaroni Produces
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SPECIALTY LUMP SPECIALTY NUT
Nice Large Lumps Thoroughly Screened
Delivered, $9.50 Ped Ton Delivered, $8.50 Per Ton
I *?«.' Colorado Lump Coal **' ;
RE-SCREENED AT THE YARDS
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Genuine Radiant Coal Petroleum
Pennsylvania ’The Beat From Coke
Hard Coal Franklin Co.. III. All Heat, No Ash ”
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