THE MONITOR || A r*it*—r1 WMklr Itenpapar Datotod to tka lntaraau of Colored lntoaaa.___ Published every Friday at Omaha, Nebraska, by the Monitor Publishing Company.___ entered u BMond-Claes Mall Matter July 1. 1*15. at th« °ostofllce at OuMhu. Neb., under the Aet of March 3. 1*7*.____ [ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. George H. W. Bullock, Buulnoss Manager and Associate Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Nob. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR; *1.» e (SONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Fumlahed Upon Application. Addrvaa, The Monitor, «M Kaffir Block, Omaha. Heh. Tolaphono Oouglaa 3224. _ 1 ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE f UNITED STATES. | Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, | and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No 4 ;: state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ... |; privileges or immunities of citizens of the Lnited States; nor y <1 shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or pi op- y < ’ erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person |; within its Jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. THE CURTAIN DROPS rpHE curtain has been rung down. “Bert” Williams, one of the great est comedians who ever entertained an audience, has made his last appear ance on the stage. The curtain of the other life has been rung up for him and he has gone to join his compan ions of so many years here upon the American stage, George Walker and his talented and cultured wife, Aida Overton Walker, who before him en tered into rest. Thousands mourn the death of “Bert” Williams. Those who came into close contact with him, professionally or socially, were im pressed with the fact that he was a gentleman of the first rank. His ca reer upon the American stage has done a vast deal to raise the race in the estimation of the American pub lic. Our own acquaintance with him • began many years ago, in the hey day of that brilliant company which he then headed. Noticisg that they were billed to appear in Omaha, we wrote him stating that among his company there might be some Episcopalians who would enjoy the privilege of at tending service; and if so, they would be given cordial welcome at St. Phil ip’s Church. We received a courteous letter from him, regretting that our letter did not reach him until he was dressing for the matinee Sunday af ternoon, or he and his wife would have arranged to come. He wrote in part: “I am deeply touched by your cour teous letter, for I have been in the ‘show business’ now for eight years and you are the first minister of any kind who has ever invited me to go to church or seemed to think that show people had souls worth saving. You will doubtless be pleased to know that both my wife and I are Episcopalians and that I have a half-brother who is in the priesthood, the Rev. Richard Bright, rector of St. Stephen's, Sa vannah, Ga., whom you may know.” Our friendship has lasted through the years and we with others mourn his sudden taking off. He played his part well and has left an honored name among those who have adorned the American stage. WHAT DO NAMES MEAN? 'J'H AT depends upon the personages which they represent. If those who bear them are persons of char acter, ability and influence, names mean a vast deal. In this connection attention is called to the influential names of men and women, not only of national, but international renown who have signed the memorial peti tioning the United States Senate to ia.a.x a a a a x x a * gKSg a a a a a a a a a a a pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. The Monitor departs from it usual custom in publishing this rather long list of names, which contains only part of a long list of America’s fore most citizens who have signed it, be cause we believe it will be advantag eous to let our readers know- the type of American oitizens who believe that the anti-lynching measure, recently passed by the Hause of Representa tives and now before the United States Senate, will prove remedial in freeing America from mob murder, a crime which all law-abiding citizens deplore. Any cause that can enlist the influence of such a number of prominent citizens of the republic re presenting such a wide sweep of in terests and activities must be a worthy and vitally important one. It augurs well for the success of the measure, in which our people are vitally interested because we are so largely the unfortunate victims of mobs; but our interest is overshad owed by the responsibility which rests upon all the citizens of the United States to see that the orderly pro cesses of the law are maintained, for only so can this nation endure. The fact that citizens of this type are willing to lend the weight of their names and influence to this measure shows that they realize this grave re sponsibility. AGREES WITH STARK. JgVIDENTLY that reporter on “La Tribuna,” Rome, Italy, agreeg with Professor Starr of the Chicago University that colored women are the most beautiful in the world, if one is to judge by his description of Mrs. Leila Walker Wilson, whose presence he noted among the hundreds of thou sands In the throng before the Vat ican. He waxes eloquent in describ ing her. Greek lyricists would stylo her “An Ethiopian Artemis.” It is conceded by all who know her that Mrs. Wilson is a charming woman her gracious manner not being the I least of her charms, but that Roman reporter seems to have been most | wonderfully impressed. He doubles | himself backwards in his efforts to ' describe the charms of this American laughter of the sun. CARD OF THANKS We p?ish to thank our many friends for their kindenss and for the ex pressions of their sympathy with us in the death of our beloved husband and father. Mrs. Fannie Looney and Family. :: X'X&eiXSX St :t<, have made a mistake about your bill—and mistakes in ■! book-keeping do occur—then will you not send us what you | think you owe us? We will leave it up to your honesty. ” We have taken you into our confidence. The Monitor needs money badly to pay its debts. We will have it if every one ij of our subscribers who owe us will send in promptly what « they owe us. Will you not do so? Please? JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. REFUGEES HUNT FOUU IN VAIN _L_ American Relief Workers Are Finding Constantinople City of Distress. IS DAILY GROWING WORSE City Teems With Refugees in Such Great Numbers That All Cannot Possibly Be Looked After Children Cared For. New York.—As warfare and petty tribal couillcts in tbe Near East con tinue, American relief workers are finding Constantinople a city of dis tress, where conditions dally grow worse as new refugees wander hope lessly in on the endless—and usually vain-—quest for food. Returning members of the overseas personnel of the Near East relief all bring back the same story of misery. These are supplemented by the letters and periodical reports of relief agents on the field. Situation Is Desperate. When the evacuation of the French from Cilicia and tbe consequent (light of the Armenians and other portions of the native Christian population, the situation threatens to become one that the Imagination recoils at pic turing. “Constantinople already teems with refugees In such great numbers that 1 all cannot possibly be looked after,” writes Mrs. Jeanette W. Emrlch, a ' member of the relief unit In the Otto man capital, who previously had wide experience as a missionary. ••Now the people of Cilicia are com ing to us. Wo simply will not be able to care for them. How terrible the | need is in spite of all that America has sent us would be hard to make any one understand who has not been here. The weather is bitterly cold I and each day brings its fresh stream of misery. “Yet there are also encouraging things—the gratitude of a group of Armenian mothers, last week, when ! old clothes from America were dls i tributed among them. One mother ; said, as she held out the few gar ments given her: ‘I could never have | bought these, as they would have cost some liras. Just the same, I want to give something. I can only give a | mejldi’—or about 10 cents—*but all T can give. I want to give.’ And each woman present did the same. Out of their dire poverty they gave some 12 liras—about $8—and, since this is a country with free education, we need the money to put additional children into school. Clothes for Children. “At present we are distributing these old American clothes among 5,000 children. They have no fathers, these having been killed In the war or deportations; hut they %nve moth ers or grandmothers. The mother | scrubs, sews, works In a restaurant— anything to keep a home together, which home consists of one mean room renting for a dollar or so month ly. These wretched families are scat i tered through 42 sections of this great I city, and embrace six nationalities— j Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Syrians. \ Chaldeans and Turk*. The Near East I relief cannot support them—It must j look after Its orphanages—but It does ! help them with orth can of condensed ! milk and two loaves of bread weekly per child. Also during five winter months we sell them charcoal at half ! the market price. “The sister of the lad who works In 1 my home was recently put Into one of | the- Near East relief orphanages here. | She Is thirteen years old. was taken hy the Turks when she was only eight, was held by them for five years, and of course can speak only Turkish now. One of her eye* Is gone, and she has the oldest, unhapplest face Imaginable for a child of that age.” HOLDS WALKING POOR SPORT _ Youth Who I* Famous Pedestrian Has Enrolled at Kansas College. Emporia, Kas. — Hiking across j country for fun is poor sport, accord ing to Milo Gibson, boy hiker, who j walked to Washington last summer and was received by President Har ding “If you travel and write or do some thing for the benefit of humanity, these long hikes are all right," Gib son said, “hut there’s too much danger of becoming a professional hobo." Gibson has enrolled as a freshman in tfie College of Emporia. He had In-, tended to enroll at the school last fall, but was taken sick with pneu monia at the Grand Canyon of Ari zona last August while on a hike from his home in Ohanute to the Pacific coast. Gibson traveled 500 miles last sum mer. On his long tramps he caught many rides, hut he did a great deal of leg work, especially in the West. Drove Out Gamblers Quickly. Bloomshurgh, Pa.—In 24 hours after he took the oath of office Police Chief Vervin Mericle drove the gambling out of Bloomshurgh. His first edict was against punchboards and they disap peared quickly. He next visited sev eral establishments where poker was played and notified them to close up and “beat it” or land in jail. The proprietors closed up and hurriedly left. DAY NURSERY Will take care of children, under school age, by day or week at my home,—8121 Franklin street. Terms reasonable. Mrs. Mary Hayes, Web ster 0267.—Adv. BETTER ACQUAINTANCE IS NEEDED (Associated Negro Press.) New York City, March 10.—“It’s too \ bad the white people of America can- j not know us as we realy are,” said 1 William Pickens of the Associated Negro Frees, recently. Fifteen hun dred people paid one dollar each to enter the Star Casino in New York City, last week and to entertain them selves with games and music, for the benefit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and to forward its great fight against lynching and other evils. There was a colored group, for sheer physical beauty the most wonderful thing in the round world. There was present every color of man and woman known to the creative powers of Na ture. They were clean and bright and attractive in their manners. If only the LYNCHER could have seen this social gathering, which he indirectly helped to call into being! Would he despair or would he grow mad?—He could not lynch all of these people, even, these gathered at the Casino. Some of them won’t be lynched. And yet the gathering was only one-ten-thousandth of the colored population of the United States. EPISCOPAL CHl'RCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON A large congregation was present last Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock service. The vicar preached the first i of a series of Lenten sermons on I "The Church and Her Apostolic Min istry.” His specific topic was, "Cath olic, Not Roman.” He showed how the Church, which is Christ’s Mystical Body, of which He is the Head, was founded in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost and given by Her Founder, a definite Faith to teach, Sacraments to administer, a commissioned Priest-1 hood and a Liturgy. Apostolic con gregations Were founded in Antioch,: Ephesus, Corinth. Colossae, Rome, etc.,. and these were all Catholic churches, because they taught the faith once for all delivered to the saints, which is the Catholic Faith. When, therefore, these tn communion w’ith the Vener able See of Rome they betray Inex cusable ignorance of both Scripture ; and Church history. Belief in the Holy Catholic Church Is fundamental and necessary to salvation. Men de-! lude themselves when they think they ! can be saved outside of the Church. This subject will be continued in the next Sunday morning’s sermon. Confirmation instruction is given Fri day and Sunday nights. A large class is being prepared for Confirmation on Palm Sunday, April 9, just one month distant. The Woman’s Auxiliary met Thurs day with Mrs. Isaac Bailey, 2816 Pratt street. The Girls’ Friendly Socety meets at the rectory every Monday afternoon. MY COUNTRY, ’TIS TO THEE (Tune, America.) My country, ’tis to thee, Sweet land of liberty, To thee we cry: Land where our fathers came, Land of our mothers’ shame, I^and of our toil and pain, Must thou too die? Shame on thy starry crown, No black hand tore it down In days of strife, But blood of bond and free These black sons gave for thee And saved by loyalty A nation’s life. “These black sons have no right For which they need to fight," Thou now dost say: We hurl thy sentence back By million throats of black, Pray God to clear the track For freedom’s way. Shall Justice longer call In legislative hall To thee in vain? Where is thy boasted power? Thine is the waiting hour, Rise and no longer cower, Remove tby stain. Then shall we sing to thee, I,and of the noble free, Thy name we’ll love; Ours be this land so bright, Ours freedom’s holy light. Protect us by Thy might, Great God above. These are the words of the song I ! sung by the Crlspus Attucks’ Chapter : of the Red Cross at Pilgrim Baptist | church last Sunday afternoon at the ' I Attucks’ Day memorial exercises. ----- fit:::: as a a:; a_a :: a; a a a a a a a a a rfSBffi&fflfflgffiBfflQQfflt« a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Announcement i g a Dr. S. B. Northcross wishes to announce that his residence ” a telephone has been changed to Webster 3222. His North c a Side office is located at 1516 North 24th St., over the Co- !' Operative Store. Telephone Webster 6194. i I He desires to further announce that he will retain his « South Side office also, 2731-3 Q Street. For information » :!• call Market 2151. 9 a msm* wsomtsmut.«.«a £ the new ;I ^DiamonDi i; 24th & LAKE STREETS i ========= , ;I FRIDAY £ Ij; “WINNERS OF THE WEST” and “TESTIMONY” B® ■" i SATURDAY i 5 HOOT GIBSON in “FIRE EATERS” £ £ Also a Good Comedy £ J SUNDA Y J £ VAUDEVILLE > • Holmes and Holmes With Orchestra £ Also ALICE LAKE in “BODY AND SOUL” J And Western Feature and Comedy / MONDAY—Good Show. Come and See ;! TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY—“PASSION FRUIT” ij I -_ ................i ....imiliuii.im. - THE FRANKLIN THEATRE j 24th and FRANKLIN STREETS s 2 i — THURSDAY— ® GEORGE WALSH in “WITH STANLEY IN AFRICA" No. 5 HELEN HOLES in “GHOST CITY" Also SNUB POLLARD in “ON LOCATION” FRIDAY— JUSTINE JOHNSON in “BLACK BIRDS” Also WALLACE COBURN in “DESERT MYSTERY” (A Ripsnortin’ Western) BILLY WEST in “HANDS UP" SATURDAY— LESTER CUNIO in “BLUE BLAZES” One of the Fastest Western Thrills ever Produced) Also BROWNIE DAY in “BR0WNV1LLE VENUS” SUNDAY— SNOOKY the HUMANZEE in “SNOOKYS WILD OATS" TEXAS GUINAN in “SPIT FIRE” Also BESSIE BARRISCALE in “THE BREAKING POINT” MONDAY MORRIS TOURNIER in “THE WHITE CIRCLE” Also Two-reel Western and Comedy TUESDAY— “WHITE EAGLE”—No. 6 MISS DU PONT in “GOLDEN GALLOWS” WEDNESDAY— ROBERT WARNICK in “THE THIRTEENTH MAN” Also Two-reel Western and Comedy NOTE—Coming “ROUND ONE”—By SAM McVEIGH— Watch for Date j ..iiimiu P ^~x^<~X”X*X“X~x~xk~x**