The monitor AN««3o—I Waakty Mawapapar Darotad to tha IntaraaU of Colored }j Published every Friday at Omaha, Nebraska, j by the Monitor Publishing Company. Entered aa Second Clea» Mall Matter July t, l»ll. at th« »<»it office at Oiaihl Nab., aadar tha Act of Maroh I. 187S. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. George H. W Bullock, Bualneso Manager and Associate Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Aesoclate Editor, Lincoln. Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, »2.00 A YEAR: S1.SS «, erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person $ !! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. $ CLEAN LIVING tJXJO much stress cannot be laid upon the matter of clean living. We are beginning to learn how important it is to live in sanitary and clean sur roundings. This is great advance. We need, however, to lay emphasis upon the necessity of men and women and of boys and girls keeping their bodies pure and clean. The sin of moral im purity and lax exual relations is a serious menace of the day. Parents should wisely teach their children of the law of life and so protect them against pitfalls which they may avoid. |j©t us have clean living, not only as to our habitations and homes, but also as to our habits and morals. Clean living prolongs life and promotes hap piness. THE WISER COURSE i^OLORED AMERICANS are not sat isfied with their status. They would be wholly unworthy of Amer ican citizenship if they were. There are certain disabilities under which we suffer, in every portion of this land, although in some sections the burden of these diabilities is more grievous than in others. We have in mind civil disabilities affecting our rights as citizens. As examples of these grievances may be cited dis franchisement, Jimcrow cars, exclu sion from public parks, which are, of course, confined to the Southland, and total or partial denial of civil rights in public places, such as hotels, res taurants, and theatres, which is all too common In the North. All such civil disabilities are In direct viola tion both of the sprit and letter of the Constitution of the United States, and therefore Colored Americans who are at all worthy of the name of citi zens will never be satisfied until all the rights guaranteed them under the Constitution are by them enjoyed. Political and philanthropical optim ists may cray “Peace”; but there will be no peace, either in the hearts of our group, or in the United States until these rights are freely and cheerfully granted. Because our peo ple have chosen the better way, of quiet, organized, persistent protest and appeal to the better conscience of America, rather than that of revolu tion, should mislead no one as to the depth of our feeling of dissatisfaction over rights denied or as to the final outcome. The issue is certain. Either the people of the United States will ultimately grant full civil rights to all groups of American citizens or “Ichabod” will be written above Co lumbia’s prostrate form. Our people have always assumed the right at titude. They have favored obedience to the government, wisely recognizing the fact that there can be no lasting progress where disorder and disrup tion prevail. They have been loyal anA true and striven to do their full duty. This is spite of tremendous temptation to do otherwise. This Is the attitude we must still maintain; but never ceasing to grow in worthi ness of character, nor ceasing to pro test against the denial of civil rights to which our worthiness of character as self-respecting, industrious, law abiding American citizens entitle us. We cannot be, we must not be satis fied with anything less than the en joyment of our full constitutional rights. We shall gain these not by revolu tion but by the wiser course which we have always pursued of a direct ap peal to the minds, the conscience and the sense of justice which lies latent lathe hearts of the American people.: AN EXPLANATION 'J’HERE has been much indignation among some subscribers, most of whom were delinquent, and from a few who were not to whom statements were sent by mistake, because they received notices from a collection agency that they were indebted to The Monitor Publishing Company for sub scriptions. Many jumped to the con clusion that the Editor had placed these accounts in “the hands of a lawyer for collection.'' Neither the Editor nor the the Business Manager did this, although the Monitor might have been better off if it had done so some months ago. The receiver for The Monitor, as ordered and author ized by the court, is trying to collect in ALL. outstanding obligations to The Monitor Publishing Company. Our hooks and accounts are in his posses sion. He is obeying court instructions TO COLLECT, and he is the man who is doing this. His name is Earl A. Edwards. He is a fine fellow, try ing to do his duty, and CONFIDENT that debtors to The Monitor will be so prompt and honest i,n paying what they owe that The Monitor will come through all right. In some few cases notices have been sent by mistake to persons whose subscriptions have not yet expired. This is regretted. Where this has been done, correction will be gladly made. It is rather strange that the people who do not owe, but re ceived these notices, by mistake DID NOT GET ANGRY; but the folks who DO OWE and ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY OWE, are the ones who have called up the Editor and raised or tried to raise injured protest. Now, if these good people will use the same energy in paying their Indebtedness, and that is all that is being asked, that they have displayed in "calling down” the Editor. for putting their "account into the hands of a lawyer” all our hopes will be more than real ized. Now to sum up, that our ex planation maybe fully understood: The court has authorized Earl A. Edwards receiver for The Monitor Publishing Company to collect In ALL ACCOUNTS DUE from SUBSCRIP TIONS or ADVERTISING. In ac cordance with this he has sent notices to ALL DELINQUENT SUBSCRIB ERS, and by mistake to a few who are not delinquent. If you OWE, you MUST PAY, no if’s, an’s or hut’s about it. If you do not owe, then, of course, you do not have to pay. He lg to use his discretion in making these collections, and follow whatever meth od or methods he finds most effective. Is this plain? He is anxious to pull The Monitor through this crisis and put it on a paying basis, believes it can be done and is confident that debtors and friends of The Monitor will co-operate in doing this? Are you going to help | or hinder? The present editor is to continue, without any restraint or limitations of the editorial policy and general literary character of the publication. With fullest and hearty co-operation upon the part of all parties concerned The Monitor will be able to continue ’ its good work which it has striven faithfully to do for the community and race during its seven years’ service. — Ask you grocer or merchant, if he j does not, why he does not advertise in OUR NEWSPAPER. | USE t IDENTLOI «! The Pyorrhea-Preventive Tooth-Paste ;l i «! None Better ;! J ! MANUFACTURED BY THE J > | Kaffir Chemical Laboratories NEBRASKA £ | ' NEGROES A _ By Dr. Frank Crane. The Negroes last summer held a grand demonstration in New York and gave symptoms of standing up for their rights. The Negro has been the most wrong ed figure in history. Compared to him, the Irishman has been, you might say. coddled. For some reason he has always car ried the white man's burden. For the white man is superior. He himself admits It. White men have even circulate^ the story of Ham, son of Noah, that he made fun of his father who had got drunk and kicked off the covers. That may not have been nice of Ham, but it was hardly serious enough to war rant cursing his i>osterity for thous ands of years. Even in white folks’ fiction the Negro gets the worst of it. Every time Robinson Crusoe meets Friday in the wilderness it is the black man who carries the wood and the white man who carries the gun. The Negroes once lived in Africa, a large continent containing a fifth or sixth of the earth’s area. There, ac cording to the 14 points, they ought to have had some say as to how they were to be governed. They never came over to bother the whites; the whites came over to both er them. They came as explorers, profiteers, slave dealers, rum peddlers, government officials an mission aries. In their native land the Negroes lived at |>eaee in the bosom of their families, under their palm trees, and played around in a costume which w'as much more rational for hot weather than any kind of clothes permitted in New Jersey. They had their medicine men who chanted their own lingo, even as ours talk Latin, and gave powdered ele phant ears and grasshoppers’ knees for bowel complaint, even as ours give their more expensive dope, and with about the same success. At least they all died after a while anyhow, even as our forefathers. They had their little dahces by torchlight under the trees, as we have our midnight follies atop the theatre. They beat their tom-toms and wrig led their turn-turns, as also our jazz orchestras perform and our young folks shimmy and fox-trot. They had their sorcerers and others whom they paid to humbug them, even as we have our own blatherskites They made war when they were hun gry and needed food, fun and women. We make war for no reason at all, and do not even eat our foes. It is a wonder Ham has stood for his abuse as long as be has. He now protests against lynching, that is against being hung by ama teurs and not professionals. I am for Africa for the Africans, Ireland for the Irish, and New York for the Jews. The Negroes are a happy, contented and loveable people, and have as much right to their place in the gun, and also in the shade, as white folks. THE QUITTER Fate handed the quitter a bump and he dropped— The road seemed too rough to go so he stopped; He thought of his hurt and there came to his mind, The easier path he wag leaving be hind ; Oh, it’s all much too hard, said the quitter right then, i’ll stop where I am and not try it again. When the bump comes and fate hands you a jar, Don’t baby yourself, boy, whoever you are; Don’t pity yourself and talk over your woes, Don’t think up excuses for dodging the blows, But stick to the battle and see the thing through. —The Buffalo American. ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE PUBLIC: I am now moving my office from 1324 North 1 24th Street, where I have been for eight years, to my new quarters, 1516% North 24th Street (over the Co-operative Store). | 1 shall l>e very glad to continue my services with my patients in these new quarters, and to meet and serve my many friends. I respectfully solicit the kind patronage of the public who may need professional services. Cordially Yours, J. BOSTON HIIJL, M. D. . .—--11 I > ^ ■ I W- W. Moseley is the versatile-cor espondent of the Lincoln news col imn appearing in this paper. Please give him all news items you wish car ried in the Monitor, by Tuesday noon of the week of issue. THE MANAGEMENT. LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT Kev. A. J. McAllister returned from annual conference last week, he hav ing been apointed to serve the New ! man M. E. church here another year. Mr. Henry Robinson came over from Omaha and spent last Friday here shaking hands with friends. Mr. Robinson was formerly of Lincoln but lives in Oakland, Calif., now. Mrs. J. Sherman Jones arrived in the city from Chicago Sunday to visit her mother, Mi-s. Laura Johnson. Rose Croix Chapter celebrated Maundy Thursday at their hall Thurs day night, continuing services on Easter morning, re-lighting the lights and partook of light breakfast. Candlelights services were held at the A. M. E. church at four o’clock on Easter morning. A crowded house was present. Sunday school and pro gram was held at 9:30. The pastor preached at 11. At night the choir tendered their Easter cantata. The day being ideal, a good crowd was out. At the Newman Sunday, Kev. A. J. McAllister preached. Other services were held in commemoration of the Risen Christ. The members are elated to have Rev. McAllister returned for another year. At Mt. /Mon Baptist church Faster devotional services at 5:30 a. m., with preaching, The Need of Baptism, by the pastor, Rev. Botts, at 6 o'clock. Baptizing of six persons at 6:30. Sunday school services at 9:30, and preaching by the pastor at 11:30. At 7 p. m. the several classes of the Sun day school rendered their little can tata, followed by the choir at 8 p. m., who rendered their beautiful musical cantata which the writer considers the best ever. Each member of the choir handled their parts well, espec ially Mrs. Odessa Patrick, Mrs. J. Beard, Mrs. B. Brooks, Miss Carmel Botts, Messrs W. L. Todd, T. L. Rob inson, John Beard and the leader, Mr. J. E. Jeltz, who is hard to beat. The voices of the singers blended together making them sweet and harmonious, showing that hard work had been spent in rehearsing. Mr. Jeltz and the pianist, Mrs. Nettie McDonald, are to be commended. The day was an ideal one, and a large attendance greeted all services. The special of fering was J70. Mrs. O. J. Burckhardt spent Easter Day with her husband in So. Omaha. Rev. W. A. McClendon will be ab sent from the city next Sunday, April 23d. Rev. I. B. Smith will fill the pulpit in his stead. The Social Club of the Masons gave a party in the Lindell Party House Monday night and to our surprise quite a number were in attendance J E NSEN’S FAMILY WET WASH FLAT WORK and ROt’GH DRY LAUNDRY 2316 No. 24ih St. Web. 1029 who expressed themselves as having had a fine time. Out of town guest was Mrs. J. Sherman Jones of Chi cago. The committee announced the a94air as a big success. Mother Margaret Brown is much improved from recent sickness. The Mission Society of Mt. Zion Baptist church will meet at the home > of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wiley, 1122 tri Street, Tuesday, April 25, at 8 p. m. The society will hold a rally at the' church the 30th of April. Rev. Troupe of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will preach for them at 3 p. m. Hear this wonderful young minister. Subscribers of the Monitor are urged to remit for the paper. NEW USE FOR PIGEONS Forest Fire Fighters Find Th«m Efficient Assistants. A» Means of Quick Communication Between Ranger on Firs Lina and Headquarters Carrier Pigeon Hat No Equal. iPryparnt by thy t’nltyd Ststyy [>rpartra*Bt ' of Agriculture.) The farrier pigeon has found a place for Itself in the fire-lighting force* of the forest service. It demonstrated Its worth this year In the Idaho na tional forest, and will be Installed next year at all protective camps In that district. As a means of quick and certain communication between the ranger out on the fire line and head quarters. the carrier pigeon hag no competition, reports from Idaho to tha Department of Agriculture state. One bird, after a preliminary coarse of training, was taken a rough trip by pack horse, kept overnight at Its desti nation, and released the next day. This carrier was back at Its cooj^ at headquarters, 80 minutes after It was released, having covered 18 miles, air line, and flown over a high mountain. Its mate equaled the performance. Another, released at dusk from tbs bottom of a canyon, rose abruptly, crossed two high ranges and was at Its coop before dark. A third, carried In a back pack Into high peaks of the Buckhorn country, flew home within an hour, covering In that time a good i day's Journey for a man on horseback. In the face of fire, this performanc# was equaled. The ranger took two birds to the spot where smoke had been located. The first bird carried Instructions to send help. Not long thereafter (he fire fighters at the front had brought the blase under control. The second bird was released, coun termanding the first order. It reached headquarters Just as the summoned assistance was about to start for the fire, and the message It carried not only gave welcome assurance of vic tory over the rod peril, but saved a number of men from making a long j and tedious trip through the forest. IS MASTER AT ARMS ■ ■ — ■■ ~ ■ — ■ - ' i-, .M.. l i__ Mrs. M. E. 1. liar ron was re ceuo appointed muster at anus of the S. S. America. She can probably lay claim to the distinction of being the first woman aboard ship to hold such a position. But There Are Such. A man must be excessively stupid as well as uncharitable who believes there Is no virtue but on his own side. —Addison. I I Reid—Duffy Pharmacy $ » 24th and Lake Sts. % Free Delivery Webster 0609 •: —mwwiw :: ,tW«®K^^'a»ra;aia,!i'5!,rtWa^rtf:< ;< }® KV.K'.t mH a '* :< >< *©*!S " !: § Ef » jj Announcement | f I Dr. S. B. Northcross wishes to announce that his residence | « telephone has been changed to Webster 3222. 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