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•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?
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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