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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1922)
THE MONITOR A MaUomI WMkg r»H|l| DmM to Um IbUtmU of Colors Published oTery Friday at Omaha. Nebraska, by the Monitor Publishing Company.___ A|a|i B> |im| rim Tff«" '"‘r * 1,11 -* ,h* Foatoffloe at (ItM Wh. —»r lAe At tt Her* A UW. __ THE RBV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Aaaoeiata Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, SS-SS A YEAR; S1.8S • 75c 3 MONTHS Advertlelns Ratee Furnlehed Upon Application. Address The Monitor, 204 Kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322; Webster 4243 - —^ ; .. ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE J; ; UNITED STATES. ;; \ I Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. ! I i > * > 11 1. 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 ., !! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the J, !| privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor •; ;; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- <; i I erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person ., ! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ! ! _ TRUE SPORTSMANSHIP A PROPOS of the principle at issue in the question of mixed bouts, i The Monitor would respectfully call j attention to the spirit of true sports manship which was shown at the Elks’; recent picnic for boys in the athletic j contests. There were certain quail-; flcations laid down for all entrants in j the respective events. Any boy who could meet those qualiflcatons was permitted to enter. In every event boys of all nationalities entered. it happened that several colored boys captured prizes. They proved them selves to be the best athletes in certain events. Many white boys won prizes too as was to be expected in certain events outclassing their colored com petitors. It was simply a case of the best runner or jumper as the case might be. There w’as no feeling but that of emulation. The spectators en joyed it as much as the boys. Had white boys only been permitted to compete with white boys and colored boys with colored boys it would not have been a fair test of the athletic ability of the boys of Omaha. It would simply have been a contest be tween those respective groups, that's all. But as it was it was a fair field, open to all competitors, and the best athlete won, whether he was of Irish, German, Italian, Hebrew, African or any other abstraction entering into tbe composition of a representative American community, such as Omaha is. That wag thue MIXED BOUTS IN NEBRASKA 'J’HE boxing commissioner of Ne braska is absolutely wrong and is exceeding his authority in his ruling on mixed bouts in Nebraska. Thera is nothing in the law which author izes him to rule that mixed bouts shall pot be permitted in this state. They have been hitherto and no evil has re sulted therefrom. True sportsman shp bars no competitor. Some states of the North have lately been follow ing the ruling of the South forbidding colored athletes to compete with white, and the boxing commission of Nebraska is falling for this same small busi ness. The inconsistency of this posi tion ig readily apparent to any indi vidual with even the brains of a gnat, when one considers that, for example, Jack Taylor, Omaha boxer, has Just gone to Michigan City, Ind., to box with and train Jack Dempsey, but should Taylor or “Bearcat” Wright, another local boxer, desire to pull off a boxing bout IN Nebraska, with some white boxer, by the ruling of our sap ient boxing commission, the event would be forbidden and declared un lawful. A boxing bout in this state between boxers of different racial groups IS NOT UNLAWFUL. If box ing bouts between whites and whites, red and red, yellow and wellow, black and black are lawful and permissible, then mixed bouts are equally lawful and permissible. The Monitor would like to see a test case made of the ab surd ruling of Nebraskas boxing com mission. THE MONITOR APOLOGIZES 'J’HE Editor of The Nation, a fair minded and Influential national weekly which we cannot too highly commend, as we have hitherto done, to our readers, courteosuly calls our attention to the fact that in our issue of July 28th, we failed to credit The Nation with the scholarly address of Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, captioned "The Faith of the American Negro,” which we republished from that publi cation. It was an oversight, which we regret, hereby acknowledge and apologize for. It has always been a point of honor with us, in conformity with the ethics of Journalism, to give credit to our contemporaries for any special articles or editorials appearing therein which we have given place in our columns. This is the rule of all reputable publications. Errors and oversight in the matter of giving credit to contemporaries occur in all publi catons, but editorial courtesy de mands prompt correction of such er rors when discovered or called to one’s attention. Incidentally it may be stated that it is a matter of pride to The Monitor to know that our columns are regularly scanned by such publica tions as The Nation, The Literary Di gest, The Republic, and similar Jour nals. BE CONSISTENT, JUDGE J ^ST week, Judge Charles Leslie, sentenced three colored boys six teen years of age to from three to five years in the penitentiary for highway robbery. One of the boys, Clarence Watts, was within a few days of being sixteen. According to newspaper re ports, Judge Leslie, in sentencing these young highwaymen, stated that they were too bad to be sent to the State Reformatory, and for that reason he would sentence them to the peniten tiary. The law allows the sentence, ino doubt. That there are entirely too many holdups in Omaha and coddling of criminals there can be no question. That many of these holdups are staged by mere boys in their teens is a re grettable fact. Drastic measures to suppress crime are imperative. And yet we are wondering if like punish ment will be meted out to white high waymen of the same age as has been measured to these misguided and fool ish colored youth. There is no excuse for their crime and we do not consider their punishment excesive. Judge Leslie is a broad-minded and fair mnded Judge. The Montor simply ex pects him to be and believes he will be consistent in meting out deserved punishment to all youthful offenders, irrespective of tbieir racial affinity who like these three boys start out on a desperado’s career and believe they are doing something smart. - COMPETITION. ^OMPETITION in any line stimu lates one to do his best. One need never fear competition, So long as he is doing his level best, and plays the game fair. He will be sure to win out in the long run. One gains nothing, but in the end loses, by misrepresenta ! tion of competitors either by inuendo or by direct falsification. Any one who believes he can build up himselt PERMANENTLY by pulling someone else down makes a serious mistake. ! COLORED RACE’S EDUCA TIONAL PROGRESS IN AMERICA IS MARKED By John L. Hill Education is always me true meas ure of progress. From this viewpoint advancement of the Negroes has been even greater than from the standpoint of economics. In 1866 90 per cent of the colored population was illiterate; in 1919 only 20 per cent was Illiterate, a gain of 70 per cent in literacy in fifty years. At this rate of improvement it is but a question of little time when there will be practically no illiteracy among Negroes in America. Negro education is by no means lim ited to grammar school courses, but proportionately measures up to the higher standards of academic, voca tional and professional learning. When they were liberated the Ne groes had only 15 colleges and nor mal schools; now they have 50. Then they had 100,000 students in public schools; now they have 1,800,000. In all schools 50 years ago, there were about 600 Negro teachers; now then are 38,000. The value of property for higher education was than about $60,000; now such property owned by Negroes is worth $22,000,000. The an nual expenditure then for Negro edu cation was about $700,000; now it is about $15,000,000. Of these expendi tures the Negroes raised, then, about $80,000; they raise annually now about $1,700,000. The ‘separate school” system in the South which forbids blacks and whites attending the same schools, colleges, universities, etc., while a hardsnlp up on the Negroes, has not been without its distinct advantage to the colored race, in the long run. Were the Ne groes in the South to be educated at all, they were forced to the necessity of providing the means of their own education; at least, it tvas necessary for them to have separate schools. While the per capita part of the public school funds was available for the Negro schools, and while distin guished individuals of the white race were personally Interested in Negro education, it was up to the colored peo ple to demonstrate their ability to “educate” and to become “educated" or else their aspiration to maintain and enlarge the means of their edu cation in the South was doomed to disappointment. How well they have succeeded, the facts and figures, the distinguished at tainment of scholarship by many Ne- ! gro individual and the general sw age of information and ntelligence S among Negroes in the South, give em phatic testimony. The high standing of Negro schools, colleges and uni versities in the South is unquestioned In the educational circles of the Na tion. Of course, the Negroec oith grati tude acknowledge the help they have received from their white friends. The name of the late General Clinton D. Fiske, together with that of Mr. Juli us Rosenwald, the one who founded the great Fiske University at Nash ville, Tenn., and the other who has done and is doing so much to aid Ne gro education in the South, have be come household words throughout the land. The names of many others, did space permit, might be mentioned for conspicuous aid to Negro education. This iiify years of progress has dem onstrated that Negro education is not an experiment. There is no longer any question of the Negro, as a class, being able to master and successfully apply the arts and sciences; creative and imaginative, gifted in expression and fervent n spirit, he excels in mu sic, poetry and oratory. Estimating future possibilities by past achievements in Negro education, within another fifty years, in Intellect ual attainment and educational cul ture, this strain of blood in Amerca will be second to no other. Save a little regularly out of what ever you earn. | PHONE MARKET 4980 '£ £ i Stock Yards Co., Ltd., of Omaha | The Live Dependable Market of the U. S. A. X >0 >♦♦♦♦♦♦ I Higgins | Packing | | Company ji | Authorized Capital | $5,000,000 jj; & W. V. Hoagland, President 11 •{• Florian Fuchs, Vice.-Pres. | •}• E. E. Howell, Sec.-Treas. X J. W. Pepperdine, Gen. Mgr. 3! x : I 1 I ! 36th and L Streets i ¥ i y South Side Station y y y y y j DOWN TOWN ADDRESS J 1211 Howard Street ^ | OMAHA 1 x J J. H. 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