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1 HE MONITOR A lMhMl WwW IBoimiic Dwofd to Um IstarMU of OotocoA Published every Friday at Omaha. Nebraska, by the Monitor Publishing Company. If- 7 a. y |, r -1-Mail Matter July 1. l»ll. at the ooetoffloe at OMMfcM. Wh. —4er IMMtef March $, 1W1._ THI REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Nob. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $*.00 A YEAR: $1.2$ • (SOUTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Address The Monitor, 204 Kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322; Webster 4243 IP...*. •1 ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE f 11 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 y I: United States and of the State wherein they reside. No \ I! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the !j. 11 privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor y < • shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- v < > erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person 11 within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. | STREET <AR MANNERS Tl/TANNERS make the man, the want of it the fellow,” was a maxim we were taught at a mother’s knee, who many years ago, this very month, was called to a well-earned rest. Her teaching abides with us. Much of it is considered old-fashioned now. But would to God there were more of the old-fashioned customs in manners and morals In vogue today. How much better off we all would be. The polite “Yes, sir” and "No, sir,” in response to questions from older folk, has yielded place to the curt ( ♦ “Yes” and “No”, the former being considered a mark of subserviency and j servility. With this has gone that | mark of gentle breeding which brot a man to his feet when a woman or aged person entered the room. Such cus toms and conventionalities are consid ered obselete today in American so ciety. Those who have the temerity to tenaciously cling to them are con sidered peculiar. Our free and easy way has largely dulled the conven tional acts of politeness which are marks not only of refinement but also of that kindliness and coaisiderateness which indicate nobility of character. Bad manners are the index of selfish ness and thoughtlessness. Perhaps there is no place where this selfish ness and tboughtlesness is more In evidence than in our street cars. Sev eral glaring examples of this have come under our personal observation within the last fw days. We shall cite but two: A white-haired woman, tottering from very age boarded a Dodge street car. The car was well-filled, many persons standing On the longitudinal seats on either side at the entry, four persons were seated. On one side were two colored men and two color-1 ed women, one colored man having politely surrendered his seat to a col ored woman before the aged white woman had entered the car. Jfe was standing. On the other seat there were three white men, young fellows, and one white woman. Be it said to the shame of those five men, that not one proffered his seat to that aged woman. The younger woman who sat beside the three men gave up her seat | and gently helped the old lady into it. We hoped then that one of our men would give up his seat to the woman j who had given hers to the aged wom an. But they let her stand. We con sidered the conduct of all those men as an indication of bad manners, cer tainly of selfishness and inconsiderate ness. We regretted keenly to see this Indication of bad manners upon the part of men of our race. The other fellows didn’t do it. True, but their bad manners did not justify our being 111 mannered. Let us show' ourselves ladies and gentlemen, no matter whether the other fellow does or not Remember, “manners make the man the want of It the fellow.” The other case was that of a cripple We know the man well. He is asplen did gentleman. He generally boards his car every evening, at Fifteen'! and Harney streets. Some men of out race happened to be passengers on this car and were seated near the dooi when our crippled friend got on There were some white tnen seater there too. Did anyone offer thi: cripple a seat? No, indeed they dir not. A woman offered him her seat What a fine thing it would have been if one of our men had shown his gen tility of character and considerate ness by tendering his seat to thi cripple. It was the thing that shoulr have been done. “The white mei didn’t do it.” No, but what different’, does that make? Two wrongs don’ make a right. A white skin doesn’ make a gentleman, nor does it indi cate good breeding. Show yourself t, be a MAN by your GOOD MANNERS Good manners on the street car will do a vast deal to mould a bette public sentiment towards our people A little thoughtfulness and politeness or good old-fashioned manners will gi a long way towards helping out mat ters. The vast majority of our peopl have good manners and conduct them selves properly, but we all suffer fron the bad manners of the few. THK HKRR1.N M VSS U’RE HAD there not been so much almos unbelievable brutality vented up on colored Americans by white mobs one would be disinclined to credit tic rpports of hellish fiendishness whicl comes from Herrin, Illinois, where i mob massacred in cold blood near!; two score non-union miners who were guilty of the offense of earning thei daily bread. It is true they took the Flshc? Raising 1.1 :c i cimily-Ma s imagination is greater than — 1 j wMfvr t>o HOU tWikjk I |m(>.CWS »X»T1h tIDfcOW I places of union miners, who exercised their right to refuse to work for a certain wage; but the murdered men were clearly acting within their rights, too, and there was not the slightest excuse for their murder. The | men had surrendered in good faith and were entitled to protection. Instead of this they were shot down like dogs. In their dying agony they were defied | water and taunted even by women with babes in their arms. And this was by people of the "superior race”, w hose supremacy must be maintained. How horrible it all is! Then, too, the conscience of the community seems dead. Herrin, if press reports are to be believed, glories in this crime. The fast growing belief in America that a mob is justified in taking the law in its own hands, when individuals incur disfavor, is fast ripening the seeds of j national decay, leniency with mobs which have murdered black victims with demoniacal flndishness, is di rectly responsible for massacres like that at Herrin where the victims were I white. What a sad commentary upon ] civilization are outbreaks of this char acter! — REGISTER. rJ'HE primaries are fast approaching, ' when the citizens are to nominate candidates for important offices. Ev ery voter, male and female, who is not registered, should do so at. once in order that he and she may vote at the primaries. See that you are register | ed and ask your neighbor if he is registered. I SPINGARN MEDALIST The Monitor congratulates Mrs. Mary B. Talbert upon receiving the Spingarm medal. She is the first wo man to receive this distinction. It Is | worthily bestowed. Our womon every ! where have done and are doing worthy i deeds which deserve some tangible recognition. PAVING We note with satisfaction that many | districts in which are folk are resi j dents, home-owners and tax-payers ' I are being paved. These improvements | have bpfjti long needed. Better street lighting of these districts and espec | ially on North Twenty-fourth street are also needed. Keep up the good i work. THE VILLAGE I.VM H-SMITII j lWith apologies to lxmgfellow) Andrea Razafkt-riefo Under a spreading chestnut tree A red-eyed cracker stands, (A champion of democracy) A rope is in his hands, And a veteran warior is he Of Southern Ku Klux Klans. 1 His head is hammer-shaped and long ’ and brainless as a pan, His brow is wet with moonshine sweat 1 He loves to ‘‘rush the can;” And boast that common decency ‘He owes no colored man. Week in, week out, from morn til night You can hear him madly blow Against social equality; Yet he will slyly go And hound some helpless colored girl When the evening sun is low. He goes on Sunday to the church And makes a lot of noise Proclaiming Christianity— Yea, you can hear his voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his wife rejoice. It sounds to her like her father’s voice Coaxing a pair of dice; She needs must think of him once more How in the Jail he lies, And with her powder puff she wipes The eyeballs from her eyes. i Raping, hanging and burning, Onward through »llfe be goes, Each morning sees some crime begun Each evening sees its close; Hatred attempted, hatred done, Has earned a night’s repose. \ Thanks, thanks to thee, my cracker friend, For the lesson thou hast taught And it is this: your southern pride Means absolutely naught— Unless it means illiteracy And the evils you have wrought. CONTEST CLOSES JULY 23, 1922 The contest for the most popular young lady will close Monday, July 31. The young lady having the most votes on that date will receive a handsome manicure set. Until that date a cou pon accompanied by a paid subscrip tion to The Monitor for six months at Fifty Cents will entitle the contestant to one (100) hundred votes. This will give every contestant an oppor tunity to make a high average. THE POET’S INGLE NOOK The Things That Count Not what we have, but what we use; Not what we seem, but what we are; These ar^ the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness. % The things near by, not things afar; Not what we sei ra, but what we are; These are the things that make or break, That give the heart its joy or ache. Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what we dream, but good we do; These are the things that shine like gems, Like stars in Fortune’s diadems. Not as we take, but as we give; Not ag we pray, but as we live; These are the things that make for peace, Both now and after Time shall cease. —Clarence Urmy. AN ASPIRATION To be ever conscious of my unity with God. To listen for His voice and bear no other call. To separate all error from my thought of man. To see him only- as my Father’s image. To show him rev erence and share with him my holiest treasure. To keep my mental home a sacred place—golden with gratitude, redolent with Love, white with purity, cleansed of self-will. To send no thought into the world that will not cheer and heal and bless. To have no other aim than to make earth a fairer, holier, happier place; and to rise each day into a higher sense of Life and Love. I - ROCHESTER CITIZEN VISITS HIS SISTER John G. Lee, a prominent Sunday School worker and superintendent of the A. M. E. Zion Sunday School of Rochester, N. Y., delegate to the Six teenth International Sunday School Convention, which has just closed It# session at Kansas City, Mo., arrived in the city Wednesday morning to visit his sister, Mrs. Robert T. Walker of 2421 .Maple street. Mr. Lee is trav eling with the Timothy Stand By Party of New York, headed by Dr. Joseph Clark, New York State Super intendent of Sunday Schoyls. This is Mr. Ivec’s first visit to the west ami he is highly pleased with both Kansas City and Omaha. He leaves Friday afternoon for Rochester. His mother, Mrs. Lee, who has been the guest of her daughter for several months, a4id has made many warm friends during her stay here, return# home with him. MISS LAWSON STILL LEADS IN POPULARITY CONTEST * Forty-two votes were sent in this week for .Mis# l^awson and 22 for Miss William*. Other contestants are evidently keeping hack their votes. Miss Lawson maintains her lead. Per sons sending tn votes will please sign THEIR OWN NAMES, as well as in serting name of contestant. Watch the finish. A contestant sending in a SIX MONTHS’ TRIAL SUBSCRIP TION for FIFTY CENTS CASH will be credited with 100 votes for each subscription sent in. Subscription blanks may be secured at The Monitor j office, 414 South 13th street, or at 1119 North 21st street. Win a prize1 and earn a liberal commission for NEW SUBSCRIBERS. Bertha Lawson, 2624 North Twenty- j fifth street, 152 votes. Dorothy Williams, 1119 No. 21st I street, 119 votes. Ixjvettd Bosch, 5219 South 29th j street, 70 votes. Audrey Trueheart, 1443 So. 17th street, 23 votes. Cerelda Tucker, 2508 M street, So. Side, 15 votes. Ireta Walker, 1926 So. 14lh street, 9 votes. Otis Watson, 2925 Grant street, 9 votes. VOTED RIGHT ON DYER BILL Congressman J e f f e r i s Voted Right on the Dyer Anti Lynching Bill, Is a Candidate for United States Senator. [ELITE BARBER SHOP j Billiard and Pool Jones & Smith, Proprietors f | 1320 North 24th Street \ B Webster 0827 SOFT DRINKS, CIGARS | AND TOBACCO i THERE’S A REASON. Why does John Walsh, the lino-op, Who runs a machine at the W’-B shop, Look so blithesome, merry and gay, And smile and laugh thruout the day? Why's the printery bunch smoking cigars, While Johnny himself seems treading on stars? The answer’s easy, John’s got a pearl, She was born on Wednesday—a nine pound girl! Congratulations, then, to husband and wife: And for the daughter a happy life. May Heaven’s blessings ever abide Upon you, John, and the whole Walsh tribe. THE MONITOR reaches the Col ored people of Nebraska and cir culates in every state in the Union. YONKERS HAS THE CUCKOO Citizen Complain* That the Bird* Ara Somewhat Too Attentive to Buainesa. A proud but truthful resident of Yonkers admitted that there were a lot of cuckoos there. He wasn’t proud of the cuckoos, particularly. As far as cuckoos are concerned, his pride la strictly civic. If one must have cuckoos, he prefers the Swiss Wild, which are vocal only when wound up and then only at intervals. The Yonkers cuckoo doesn't have to be wound up. The Imported eight-day cuckoo Is a piker beside the Yonkers cuckoo. The Yonkers cuckoo stays awake half the night waiting for the dawn and each has the same pride In being the first to salute the earliest gleam of the sky that a fanner's wife lias in getting tier washing out before a neighbor's line is strung. From the moment that ttie night be comes faintly luminous until about 9:35 a. m. the air is tremulous with cuckoos. From 9:35 to 10:05, the cuckoos knock off for lirtich. Then they’re at it again until dark. They yelp “cuck-oo” at every resident of Yonkers they see and even at strang ers from Peekskill. When the street Is utterly deserted the£ murmur "cuck-oo, cuck-oo" Just for practice. BIRD DOESN’T HAVE TO FLY Washington Specimen Uses the Street Car at His Particular Means of Transportation. Now that spring Is here, It may In terest bird lovers to know that at lea»t one bird has solved the problem of transportation without the use of wings. Birds are famous for their ailgra tlons, hut hitherto yhey always have used i ing pow^-r. Now comes along one local bird who gets himself from place to place with srarcely the Hap of a wing. This bird came riding down Penn sylvania avenue about eleven o'clock one morning last week. He was perched on the roof of a street car coming from Georgetown. When the car stopped at Eleventh street the bird alighted, and walked gravely up arid down the platform. He was a flne, big fellow, with a black body and a blue head, hut did not look like a blackbird. After surveying the post office de partment for a hit, the bird flew over to a car about U' leave for Mount Ver non. and established himself on the roof. When the car pulled out. the bird was with It.—Washington Star. The World’e Greatest Dam. Plans have been made to build a dam on the Colorado river which will hold back a volume of water equal to two years’ flow of the entire 1,800 miles of rushing river. The dam Is to he 700 feet high, approximately the height of the Woolwurth building In Newf York city. The darn will form a reservoir with an area of 200 square miles and an average depth of 350 feet. This body of water will consti tute the largest artificial lake In the world. One western railroad system is already planning to operate a fleet of steamers to carry tourists over this man-made lake to the Grand canyon, the wonder spot of America. The Panama canal Is the only undertak ing ever attempted in America which may he compared in magnitude or boldness of conception to this en gineering project, which will trans form an empire of waste Into a re gion of productivity. -World's Work. Robin Gets the Worm. Itohlns are growing fat on worms in Lafayette square. The grass there must be literally alive with worms, for no robin seems to have any difficulty whatever in pick ing up the heat kind of living. You will see one of the birds hop along, then suddenly reach down. He begins to pull. Up conies his head with a worm dangling to his beak, one end of the worm held tenaciously by the robin, the other dinging fast to mother earth. Bracing himself the bird throws his entire weight In one final heave. He then consumes half the worm, and flies away with the remainder. The performance does not strike one as cruel, f»r both bird und worm are operating under the laws of na ture.—Washington Star. LOTS! LOTS! LOTS! On Easy Payments! $15,00 Down and 5.00 Per Month WESTERN HEAL ESTATE TO. Ja. .1007 Ask lor Mr. Thomas KIRBY EXPRESS HAILING Of ALL KINDS Furniture Moving a Specialty 2203 Grant Street PHONE WEBSTER 0989 JENSEN’S FAMILY WET WASH FLAT WORK and ROUGH PRY LAUNDRY 2316 No. 24th St. Web. 1029 I w. K. 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