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ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE J;
; UNITED STATES. ;;
\ I Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. ! I
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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 .,
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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.
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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.
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