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THE MONITOR ^ Af Nado—I WMktj Mmwepeper Devoted to tbo Inttrtrti of Colored Published every Friday at Omaha. Nebraska, by the Monitor Publishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 1. 1*15. at tb« “ostofflee at Oaaka Nab., under the Act of March >. 117*. _ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor. ' , Georgs H. W. Bullock, Business Manager and Associate Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 v C"HTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Address, The Monitor, Ml Kaffir Block. Omaha. Neb. Telephone Douglas 3224. : .....*.»••••••#—♦ ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE f " UNITED STATES. j < > j 11 Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. X < > Y ;; l. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, % ' • and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the -j United States and of the State wherein they reside. No j I state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the Ij. 11 privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor $ j j shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or ptop- j* ! '< erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person .j. JI within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. X i > v A REMARKABLE PETITION A remarkable petition was presented to the Senate last week by Senat or Lodge of Massachusetts. It was the petition prepared by the N. A. A. C. P., bearing the signatures of 300 prominent Americans, asking the Sen ate to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. The petition bears the signatures of 24 State Governors, 38 mayors of large cities, 3 Roman Catholic arch bishops, 85 of the most prominent ecclesiastics of the leading commun ions in the United States, several presidents of leading colleges and uni versities, foremost editors, lawyers and business men. It is gratifying to note that among those asking for the enactment of the Dyer Bill in the Sen ate are Governor McKelvie of Ne braska, Mayor James C. Dahlman of Omaha, and the Rev. Dr. Edwin Hart Jenks. The fact that men and women of the character, influence, sanity and poise of the signers of this petition have thrown their weight on the side of this measure augurs favorably for its passage. Moreover Senator Borah, whom many believed would be unfav orable, has announced that his com mittee will recommend its passage. While the bill has foes in the Senate, chiefly from the South, which in our judgment will be vitally helped by its passage, its friends are many and powerful, and The Monitor believes that the Senate will follow in the footsteps of the House. ATHLETICS rT’HE Monitor notes with pride the splendid showing athletes of our group are making throughout the country, not only *when competing with one another, but with those of the dominant group, which is the gen eral custom in every section of the nation, except the South. True sports manship is that which bars no com petitor on the ground of race, color or nationality. Athletic sports make not only for strong bodies, but also clean bodies, physically and morally. Athletics are therefore to be encour aged and our boys and girls should be advised to enter into them with spirit and zest. Athletics holds an import ant place in Nebraska’s educational system. Inter-class and inter-scho lastic competition in athletic events is keen. In these events all pupils have the privilege of sharing. The requirements for all are alike, namely, physical fitness. This makes for tru» democracy. In Omaha school athletics colored youths have always made good. In the recent high school field meet in which state records were low ered honors were won for their re spective schools by colored athletes. Technical High is proud of Price, as Central is of Thomas and Galloway. Athletics trains to strive for the mas tery and he who strives for the mas tery on the athletic field is thereby being trained to strive for it in his chosen avocation. KEEPING UP THE NEIGHBOR HOOD ALL our citizens should take special pride, whether they are tenants or owners, in keeping up the appear ance of the neighborhood in which they live. The premises should be kept clean. Refuse should be remov ed. Flowers should be planted and lawns well-kept. Do your share in keeping up your neighborhood. WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY THE TIDE OF COLOR Nilo Pecamba, eon of Ethiopia, is president of the United States of Bra sil. The white world stands aghast and impotent, while Ethiopia, with quickly-pulsing heart, humbly gives thanks. The "rising of color” is being felt with peculiar force and nearness these days. The Anglo-Saxon frets himself and wonders: "What Next?” ?Who knows? The tide of color moves irresistibly yon—swelled by the flow from Africa, Asia, the New World and the myriad islands of the seas. And the now dominant Anglo : that leads to utter extermination, j The doctrine of in-beeding—born of a desire to keep the blood untainted and to perpetuate white supremacy—will be his undoing. Thus sayeth his bio logical experts. Yet the proud man scoffs at the policy that he too, shall pass from power as did ancient Rome! Hail, Nilo Pecamba, son of Ethio pia, president of Brazil!—Cleveland Call. ONLY WAY TO WIN RIGHTS It is a long hard trail that Emilie ' Treville Holley is hitting. Holley is the Harlem Negro whom Representa tive Martin C. Ansorge has nominated to be a midshipman at Annapolis. His fellows will ostracize him—that the young snobs who will be his fellow cadets have already made abundantly plain. His superiors will snub him. There is talk of “unwritten laws and . customs of the naval service which make life therein unbearable to any one who for any reason may be V’e garded as personally objectionable,’’ and recollection of the hell which was created for the Negro cadets who braved Anapolis in the 70’s, to whom no other cadet ever spoke except when official duty required it. There are many who urge Holley, “in his own interests,” to stand down If he has the courage and the conviction to pas the ordeal we hope that in the interest of his race he will see it through. Annapolis, after all, belongs not to the cadets but to the nation of which ten million men and women of dark skins are citizens, and those men and ( women will never win the rights which are theirs until pioneers face just such trials as confront Holley.—The Nation. HISTORY DAY BY DAY Friday, May 5—Liberia is secured for the colonization scheme of the Am erican Colonization Society, and a new town is commenced by the name of Monrovia, 1821. Saturday, May 6—Elizabeth T. Grenfield, the Black Swan, first came into prominence in 1861. She attract ed attention both in America and Eng land, and was frequently compared with Jenny Lind. Sunday, May 7—William Monroe Trotter attends Peace Conference in defiance of the government and sub mits protests in behalf of the colored races, 1919. Monday, May 8—Henry M. Turner, eminent bishop of the A. M. E. church, first Negro chaplain in the United States Army. Died 1915. Tuesday, May 9—Benjamin Ban neker, noted astronomer and philos-1 opher, born in 1731. He was invited and accompanied the engineers that laid out the District of Columbia. Wednesday, May 10—Negroes first armed as soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, 1862. James Reese Europe, noted Negro band leader, died 1919. Thursday, May 11—Constitution of Louisiana amended, abolishing slavery 1864. Slaveholders’ Convention in Mississippi, which favored the reopen ing of slave trade, 1869. —Baltimore Afro-American. DINING CAR WAITER ACCUMULATES $100,000 (Associated Negro Press) Chicago, 111., May 11—When the diners on the Pioneer Limited of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail road push their dime and quarter tips to the affable and accommodating! waiter, they do not know that they are giving their money to a man worth $100,000. The waiter is William Taylor John- j son. For more than 20 years he has has had charge of the cafe club car i on the train between Chicago and the j Twin Cities. It was the two days '• that he is forced to spend every week in Minneapolis that gave Johnston his j first idea for high finance. He bought a 36-acre farm at Anoka, ! Minn., 20 miles north of Minneapolis, i Har« he raises hogs, turkeys, chick ens, corn, potatoes, and never has known a crop failure. He has studied scientific farming with thoroughness and has installed the latest methods on his farm. 1 r I/'- . .... i OMAHA’S COLORED CITIZENS ACTIVE IN FIELD OF LABOR (Continued from Page 1.) Pa., and the shipyards at Newport News, Va., many skilled and unskilled colored men have been employed. They are largely employed in the mines, railroad shops and on railroads in grades as high as firemen and hostlers in railroad yards. Birming ham, Ala., has many skilled men in the steel and iron industry. Post office employees are very numerous all over the south, and in some places in the north. In Omaha, in this field, the colored people average well up with other communities similarly situated. The total number of our graup engaged in gainful occupations in normal times, the present is below normal), is 5,46!J, distributed as follows: Sten ographers, 10; hairdressers, 75; seam stresses, 6; dressmakers, 6; milliners, 2; stationery engineers, 15; electric ians, 3; trained nurses, 2; clerks and carriers, 18; carpenters, 12; painters, 8; paper hangers, 7; brick and stone masons, 8; automobile mechanics, 7; paving bricklayers, 6; asphalt finish ers, 5; butchers, 20; trimmers, 12; barbers, 35; masseurs, 4; sign paint ers, 1; iron moulders, 2; chauffeurs, 50; manicurists, 15; porters, waiters and cooks in hotels, clubs and on railroads, 380; paving workers, 100; railroad shop workers, 150; smelter, 200; factory employees, 100; railroad grading laborers, 200; packing house workers, 2500; miscellaneous, about 1500; truck gardeners, 5; dairymen, 1; grading and railrorad contracting, 1; and plumbers, 3. These workers, in normal times, receive an annual wage or return from their labor, of about $7,000,000, all of which is spent here in Omaha. Nearly six millions of this sum are spent for bare necessiies of life for the maintenance of the colored peo ple; some of it is saved through the purchase of homes and furniture and some of it is saved in other ways and through business investments. Of the six millions which are spent for necessities of life—food, clothing and recreation—our group gets back in w'ages or otherwise from its ex penditure not to exceed two per cent, whereas our group should be spending sixty per cent of this sum with itself. That figure is conservative. Much of the difficulty, however, will be overcome as we organize these elements and eliminate the handicaps of individual leadership. Our group will have to learn what all other groups learned long ago, that we will have to pool our strength and act through organization. Just now we are trying to find out what we have to organize; when this is done, and it is being done in some measure, pro gress will be certain. This last task is difficult, but it will be done. It has been suggested here what has been accomplished in the field of labor in certain respects. Omaha, as the record shows, is doing well; when all her strength is mustered and or ganizezd, she will do better. All honest work and labor are hon orable. I^and and labor are the two primary sources of all wealth. With out work there can neither be wealth, nor comfort, nor happiness in the world. It is good alike for the body and the soul. All men and women cannot, in the very’ nature of things, do the same kind of work, but each person can do his best at his task. That is all anyone can righfully ask of him. In the present state of the world all of us must work to restore what was wasted by war. Out of this will come the great victory of peace. It can only come now, and in the coming years, IN THE FIELD OF LABOR. Mcl.KMlOV LETS PLUM New York, N. Y., May 11.—"Jimmy” Mclgjndon, counsel for Marcus Gar vey here, has been named assistant district attorney for the county of New York and sworn into office. Mc Lendon halls from Jacksonville, Fla., and was educated at Harvard and Howard. The Bell Apartment Hotel K06!/2 So. 13th Atlantic 3940 NEWLY OPENED Rooms Attractively Decorated and Richly Furnished. Suites: Large Combination Living and Bedroom (with Vanishing Bed) and Kitchenette Hot and Cold Water. Separate Gas Meter. Terms Reasonable. Call and Inspect. J. S. BELL ... Proprietor ^lUK TO XAN” Shown at the Jfew Diamond Theatre, Lake St., below 24th.' WEST POINT HAS HAD ONLY THREE COLORED GRADUATES TO DATE Young Was Last to Leave Military School More Than Two Score Years Ago. Others, Alex ander and Flipper. New Y'ork City, April 6—“Why not a Colored Cadet at West Point?” I Since the naming of a candidate for I cadetship at the naval academy at Annapolis, the question of a Colored ! cadet at West Point has come again j to the front. There have been three colored grad uates from West Point, Alexander, Flipper and Young, the latter being the last more than two score years ago. Colored Americans are expected to do, and always have done, their duty in wars in which the United States has : been engaged, and it is regarded as a matter of great importance that the time has come when some member of Congress should have the courage to i name a Colored boy as cadet to West 1 Point. j “COLORED MAN NAMED POSTM ASTER-GENERAL” This is , the Way One Newspaper Chronicled Appointment of Dr. Hubert Work Washington, April 27—Dr. Hubert Work, white, who succeeded Will H. Hays, white, as Postmaster-General, received generous newspaper notice at the time of his appointment. One newspaper editor wrote under his cut, “Colorado Man Appointed Postmaster-General.” W'hen it ap peared, it read: "Colored Man Ap pointed Postmaster-General.” Dr. Work is keeping this as a sou venir, but is not expressing an opinion as to what would happen if a colored man were named for the highest po sition in the postal service. ODD FELLOWS AND RUTHITES TO HOLD ANNUAL SERVICES Owing to an established custom since 1843 the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and Ruthites in Omaha will hold their annual thanksgiving services in Pilgrim Baptis church, 25th and Hamilton streets, Sunday, May 14th, at 2::15 o’clock. More than 400 men and women are members of the order in Omaha. The committee on program and ar rangements have made every effort - to make this anniversary day a gala one. The master of ceremonies will be : R. C. Gaskin; speaker on the principles of the order, E. E. Bryant; Rev. J. j D. Crum, Chaplain. Rev. M. H. Wil- ! kinson will preach the annual sermon. The Oddfellow’ Band will furnish the 1 music. SENATORIAL CANDIDATE IN N. J. (Associated Negro Press.) Newark, N. J., May 11.—For the first time in history of local politics a Negro will seek the office of United States senator an the republican ticket in November. The Independent Voters' league arrived at that decision in the closing hours of Its annual meeting. SPENDS MONEY FOR COOK 1-ieesburg, Va., May 11.—John Y. Hassell, white, who has had a hard time keeping cooks at his country home in Loudon county, has solved the difficulty. In his brick garage he has fixed up a boudoir for his new cook with tile bath, lace cut rains, electriic lights, telephone, oriental rug, brass bed and several mirrors. The Monitor is a live newspaper; that’s clear from the ads we carry. JENSENS FAMILY WET WASH FLAT WORK and ROUGH DRY LAUNDRY 2316 No. 24th St. Weh. 1029 LOCAL NOTES i| Mrs. William E. Osborne of Kansas City, Mo., whose husband wag the j successful pastor of St. John’s A. M. E. church of this city a few years ago,.1 arrived in the city Satuday to fill an engagement as Shakespearian reader. Mrs. Osborne is spending the week; as the guest of Mrs. McKntght on Par-, ker street. < j The local union of the .Madame C. J. Walker company agents met at the j home of its vice-president, Mrs. Cora L. Ovens, 2M9 Erskine street, Thurs- ! day night. After a brief business ses-! sion the meeting adjourned to meet at the tesk'.ence of the assistant sec retary, Mrs. Charles L. Morris, 2230; Jones street, on the fourth Wednesday j in the month at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Janies W. Madden and son Jimmie artived in the city Monday] motning from their home in Chicago , for a visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Singleton of 1428 North ! Twentyt-second street. Mrs. Leroy Smith and daughter of i i Portland, Ore., are.-the week end ' guests of Mrs. Alphonse Wilson, 5S31 j North Tthirty-third street. Henry W. Williams is serving on j the jury. BRITISH ARISTOCRAT A GIAN1 . Courn of Lord Laseelles Nearly Sever Feet In Height and Strong in Proportion. Had Brian Piers Lascelles lived t« attend the wedding of hla second cou ■In and close friend Lord Lascellei to Princess Mary in Westminster ah hey, he would undoubtedly have dls tracted attention from the bridegroom and the royal bride. | Brian Lascelles was a giant and thi ' coffin In which he was laid to rest • abort time ago In the family mau soleum of the Lascelles measured nine feet in length. [ For Brian Lascelles stood six feel •leven Inches in his stockings and waa generally known as “the Magdalen j Giant,” by reason of the attention which he attracted at Oxford whlli completing his education at Magdaleo college. Indeed. In hi» undergraduati days he used to be Included among sights of the university. Brian Lascelles graduated with hon ors and, with a taste for natural sci ence and research, he eventually be came professor of science at Harrow, and librarian of the college as well as the curator of Its museum. His strength was In keeping with bis size and his Jaws might almost be described as having been of Iron. He gave a curious Illustration of this on one occasion. Much Interested In archaeological re search he had special theories as to how flint arrow head* had been made, and attending an archaeological meet ing one day, he produced from hla pocket a partly shaped arrow bead of glass. He related that on his way to the meeting he had picked up a piece of a broken bottle and that hs had shaped It with his teeth as he came along. He then went on to com plete the work by crunching oft sev eral successive pieces of the glass with his teeth until he had succeeded In elaborating a well-shaped arrow head. He had a keen sense of humor and s great stock of anecdotes about ths difficulties which he encountered, espe dally when traveling abroad, In con sequence of his height. Had he lived until the end of last February he would assuredly have been, as a near relative of the bride groom, one of the most cohsplcuous figures at the wedding In Westminster abbey of Princess Mary. Equipment. “Rastas. Use gwlne get rich. Ts done bought me some stock In a nut factory." “A which kind of factory?" "A nut factory, which sells de meat of pecans, almonds and slch. already cracked an* picked out. This heah company gwltie save money with a new labo’-savln’ device which de pro motah done tole me about. lie nuta am gwlne be cracked by trained squir rels which don’t charge no wages.” “Is dls heah company already li censed, established an’ ready fo’ bl* nessT’ “Yeah, prakltkally—all ’cept train in’ de squlrrela.”—Life. Mother’* Knowledge Limited. Helen whs at her first party. When refreshments were served, she refused a second helping of Ice cream with a polite "No, thank you,” although she looked wistful. "Do have some more, dear,” the hostess urged. “Mother told me I must say ’No, thank you,”’ the little girl explained, - “but I don’t believe she knew how ■mall the dishes were going to be.” Why He Lost Hsr. My first love afTalr happened when , I was only In the second grade. There were two good-looking boys 1n ths same class who liked me and whom I liked Hut, of course, I liked one bet ter. One day one of the boys went home and said to his mother: "I want to keep my ears < lean or I’aul will get my girl.” Of course every one in town heard about It and I decided I liked Paul the best.—Chicago Journal. The Empty Bln and Bowl. The Ukraine, which has been known a* the sugar howl and flour bln of Europe, Is pretty nearly empty and It la a question w hether the country ha» enough to keep Its own people until the next harvest. The wheat crop last year was bard hit by reason of the absence of the snows which allowed the seed to he frozen In the ground for lack of protection granted by the mantle of anow. Propriety. The gay Lothario, having been askeo to alng, approached the careful girl. “Will you accompany me on the piano?” he asked. “Not without a chaperon.” answered the careful girl. Because she was a very, very care ful girl.—American Legion Weekly. To the Woman Wishing to Specialize in •HAIR DRESSING Pi’Ll, COCRSE IN $20.00 Com plete $10.00 for Single Course In MANICI HIXI Classes DAY AND NIGHT This Course Qualifies for Both White and Colored. Mine. C. C. JOHNSON WEBSTER 2627 21th and Seward St*.—Cpstalrs Don’t Buy Ready Mades f Made-to-measure clothes fit better, hold their shape better and wear a great deal longer than “hand-me-downs. It "c make your suit the price is not much more, but the satisfaction of a really good suit is so much greater. 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