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r HE MONITOR ^ Weakly Nmpeper Devoted to the Intereete of Colored i Published every Friday at Omaha, Nebraska, by the Monitor Publishing Company. _ Bntered u Second Ciaae Moll Matter July *. 1*15. at th« Voetofflce at Owaha, Neb., under the Act of March I. 1*7$.__ _ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR; *1.4* «. d"*iTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Uoon Apolleatlon. Address The Monitor, 204 Kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322; Webster 4243 . —- ■ ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE % ]! UNITED STATES. | 1! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. j. J; 1. AH persons born or naturalized in the United States, Y < > and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the y !l United States and of the State wherein they reside. No £ !! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the X privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor | < • 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. THE AMERICAN LEGION 'T’HE Monitor has been friendly and desires to be friendly towards the American Legion and we have urged eligible young men of our race to be come actively identified with this or ganization. They have been somewhat reluctant to do so. Perhaps it is be cause they have reason to believe that the white legionairres are not sincere ly friendly or fraternal. We are ad vised that the American Legion is directly responsible for the present boxing rule, forbidding “mixed bouts” in Nebraska. If this be true we can understand why colored ex-service men are unwilling to ally themselves with the American Legion, whose at titude in this respect is scarcely in keeping with any exalted standard of Americanism. The American Legion, in our opinion, should vindicate its ideals by taking decisive action in having this ruling repealed. Is the American Legion in Nebraska big enough and courageous enough to do this ? We hope so. And furthermore we hope the American Legion will prove the one great national organ ization strong enough and catholic enough to weld American manhood, irrespective of racial descent or credal agreement, into a truly democratic brotherhood which will preserve all that is highest and best in American institutions from all destructive forces, internal and external, which threaten their perpetuity. Believing that it can be made this, despite narrowness which may obtrude here and there, we urge our eligible young men to identify themselves with and feel themselves a part of this organization. In the meantime we urge the Nebraska posts, composed of high-minded men, to come clean and stand four square against all unnecessary and irritating discrimination. THE BOXING RULING rJpHE Monitor desires to congratulate the committee who waited upon Governor McKelvie last Thursday to respectfully protest against Nebraska’s Jim-Crow boxing ruling, upon their able presentation of the case, so ad mirably and fairly reported by the Lincoln Star of that date. We re print the Star’s report verbatim in tiiis issue. That the commitee maue a favorable impression cannot be doubted. The petition presented by the committee contains the names 01 Omaha’s formost citizens of all shades of political belief and representing commercial, judicial and professional classes, showing that the ruling does not express the sentiment of this com munity. The ruling is unquestionably unfair, un-American and unconstitu tional and should be expunged. Jim Crow laws and rules, which certain influences are moving heaven ana earth to put across, altho tolerated, per force, in some sections, are di rectly violative of the constitution of the United States and are certainly out of place in such a progressive and fair-minded sate as Nebraska. The Monitor believes that Governor McKel vie will see to it that this ruling is changed. DEGENERACY J^ striking story of moral turpitude and low marital ideals comes from California, where with unblushing ef frontery a wealthy female of the species offers an invalid wife $100 a month for life, if she will secure a divorce and permit the aforesaid fe male of wealth to have her divorced husband. The wealthy vamp confesses that she loves the invalid’s husband and is willing to pay for him. Poor * silly thing! She does not know what love means. She has a passion for thig male, which she will as easily trans fer to another who rtiay catch hei fancy later. And the particular male of the species which this female covets says he does not love his wife and of course is willing that the bargain should be made. If he had any man hood about him he would scorn the idea of deserting his invalid wife. moral rottenness because so many of our young people are inclined to look with leniency upon what the rich do, and in a lesser way would emulate their example. But the very thing proposed here discloses moral rotten ness which every self-respecting man and woman should shun and abhoi. It shows degeneracy of the lowest type. t WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY It Bit HERRIN By WPliiim Pickens. So far nothing has been done about the lynching of a score or more of white men by white in Herrin, 111. This ought to convince anybody that: nothing will be done by local author ities and “states’ rights” to protect black men against lynching In Geor gia. And as long as lynching is: tolerated by the nation in Georgia, it | can be expected by the nation in all of its other parts. “Lynch him!” is the cry raised now in many a northern city, as soon as something happens to arouse the ire of the crowd. And yet, the southern | senators pretend to think that lynch ing is only their business Nothing but a federal law, vigor ously enforced by a court and a Jury not in local sympathy with the crim inals, can save this country from this fascinating decline into anarchy. BASEBALL! This may be a new note in American ' racial life but the Chicago Enterprise believes in the new. We are considered the strongest physical people of earth and yet the white race that boasts itself too weak for physical labor but giants in men tal labor, bars us from physical prowess competition. Today and henceforth the Chicago Enterprise challenges the white race in that field of athletics known as baseball. We believe that many of our teams can defeat the strongest white base ball teams on earth if the series are staged during the proper season and under the proper circumstances. If we cannot play on your teams, Anglo-Faxons (and that is a loss to yourself nine times out of ten), then be brave and fair enough to stand up against us in a world’s basebal cham pionship series. If not call your world’s pennant team the ‘‘White World’s Championship Team.”—Chi cago Enterprise. CLEAN DOORSTEPS (From the Pittsburgh Press.) In a local police court she stood a tawdry example of a wasted life Apparently unmindful, she told of having left her husband for anothei man, who was subsequently the fathe of her child, and later of marrying a third without the formality of a divorce. She had sinned against decency, had outraged the conventions. Biy was she entirely without precedent? Do our standards of morality, of mar riage, of home life make this case stand out as a horrible example, or do they lend a mitigating tinge to the complexion of the matter? The solution to such problems is not to be found in books or pink-tea lectures. It must be found in the hearts of men. There Is a great element we need that we do not have—It is personal goodness. Virtue for virtue’s sake. Ooodness for the happiness it brings. Knowledge that loose living and its lures are false friends, hearing rich prfltnlse and barren realization. Is there anything fcn our lives that would furnish an extenuating circum stance for the unfortunate girl men tioned above? Onr skeletons bared, could she point a finger at us and say, "They were as bad as I, but were not found out. I have not sinned alone.” vy ^ Ql/*cfar>vT>od * »soocf Farm Lands of Liechtenstein. Prepared by the National Geographic So ciety, Washington, D. C ) It Is a contented people indeed, who, when tlieir monarch would abdicate and make them free, Insist that he still remain their ruler. Such an at tempted abdication and the refusal to accept it occurred recently In Liecht enstein, one of Europe’s tiniest Inde pendent states. Liechtenstein Is tucked away In the eastern Alps south of Lake Con stance along the upper Rhine, where that stream runs in a deep valley be tween Switzerland and Austria. Be fore the World war, Austria was something more than a neighbor. The little domain had a customs and pos tal agreement with the larger state and in a very limited sense therefore functioned as a part of It. But It had its own hereditary ruler, Prince Johan II, its own little duly elected parliament of 15 members, and its own high courts and lesser govern mental machinery. There was another tie with Austria, though in a way It was only acci dental. Prince Johan owned extensive estates in Austria and by virtue of their ownership sat in the Austrian upper house. But Johan also owned large estates in Germany. In fact the aggregate acreage of his estates in various countries amounted to fifty times the area of land of which he was monarch with its 42 square miles, its greatest length of 15 miles and its greatest width of 6. Cynics or even mere economists may find In Johan’a extensive land holdings a reason for his high place in the affections of his people. With out seriously feeling the drain on bla large Income he has virtually “run" Liechtenstein from his private purse so that only the most nominal taxa tion Is known In the little land. Three-quarters of a century ago the Inhabitants petitioned for an enter tainment fund and the prince granted a subsidy, perhaps with a smile. It i was used thereafter to decorate and Illuminate Vaduz, the Paris of Liecht enstein. when he visited there. Overlooked by Biemarck. In the Anstro-PrusRian war back In the eighteen-sixties IJechteiisteln cast her lot with her ally, Austria. Her entire population bravely said good-by to her soldier boys, and the entire standing army of four score men marched off to battle. But they ar rived after the war was over. When It came to making peace terms BiRtnarck nodded, for once, and little Liechtenstein was completely forgotten. It was Just as well, or she might not have retained her freedom. But, apparently, she Is determined not to be ignored again. Her army marched home again, stacked their muskets and hung their leather helmets, t.ie bugler’s trumpet and the captain’s sword in the ancient castle of Vaduz, where they remain today. The citizenry Informed tlie prince they wanted no more of war. He abolished military service, and since then “disarmament" has been complete In Liechtenstein, though, technically, the country has been at war with Prussia since I860. Not only are there virtually no taxes in Liechtenstein, but the conn try has no public debt. A small levy Is made for keeping up the dikes lest the Rhine overflows her fields In springtime. Customs and the rendy generosity of her monarch keep her treasury filled. This quaint, but electric-lighted na tlon, with Its roadside shrines and modern typewriters, Is somewhat smaller than the District of Columbia. It Is elongated, as if by pressure of Its neighbor nations, Austria and Switzerland, suggesting Mark Twain's complaint about another land where, he said, “people had to sleep with their knees pulled up because they couldn't stretch out without a pass port.” Travelers Pass It By. Two fiefs of the Roman empire, Schellenberg and Vaduz, make up the latter day Liechtenstein. Both came Into possession of the Liechtenstein family while their previous over lords were financially embarrassed. Many travelers passed through the little state, within a sight of the Vaduz castle mounted on its white cliff pedestal, for Hip route to Davos lies that way. But hardly any of the travelers stopped. When Robert Shackleton visited there not many The power of pergonal example can not he estimated. Who knows but that this wayward girl was swayed by what she knew of the secret amours of the supposedly substantial, out wardly moral folk of her acquaint ance? Are we all keeping our door steps clean? ' - HAS RETURNED FROM SUMMER NORMAL SCHOOL Joseph J. Jervis, who has been at tending the summer session of the Normal School, Union College, College View, Nebraska, lor the past two month, has returned to Omaha and is making plans for the re-opening of the Seventh Day Adventist’s parochial school at Twenty-fifth and Indiana early in September. Last year this I school had an enrollment of twenty-six pupils, and the outlook for this year is a much larger attendance. Mr. Jer vis, who was the only teacher last year, will have an assistant this year. years ago he was welcomed as the first American to set foot tn the country. Yet Liechtenstein, small as It Is, Is larger than the oft visited Monaco or the much written about Marino. Its peasants are simple, sturdy, shrewd folk. Intensely proud of their "bright stone of the Alps." There are gi oa schools, even to kindergartens, and the abundant water power makes electricity available to the humblest residents of Vaduz or the smaller towns. Cattle raising and agriculture are two Industries. The stalwart men are not to be misjudged h.v the fact that nearly all of them wear earrings, a custom which probably found Its way up from Italy. The people of Liechtenstein speak German, but It Is a German bereft of much of Its harshness and containing many romance words. Only a very few of the ten thousand Inhabitants are more than moderately well-to-do. There are scarcely any servants. Most of the members of parliament saw their own wood and do their own “chores.” Hardly ever ts an Indigent person seen, and crime Is reduced to a minimum. Farms In the Rhine Valley. Most of the villages of Liechten stein, well built and scrupulously clean, are to he found In the Ithlne valley. On the valley floor are farms and gardens and meadows, while up the fiillsldes extend vineyards and orchards and pasture lands. Farther back rise the Liechtenstein Alps from whose slopes and peaks one may sur vey nearly the whole of the little principality and look far off Into Switzerland »o the west. In the matter of governmental ma chinery little Liechtenstein Is com pletely fitted out with a nearly up-to the-niiuute model. Of the fifteen members of parliament the prince names three and the remainder are elected. In the election every man over twenty-four years of age votes and proportional representation Is practiced. A governor sits as the prince's representative and about him Is grouped his little cabinet whose members bear such high sounding names as secretary of state, chancel lor of the exchequer, chief Justice, state engineer, and—eminently fitting In mountainous L'echtensteln—di rector of forests. And as a last word In modem government, their council chamber Is fkted up with a long-dis tance telephone so that their monarch can sit tn Vienna, or Munich, or Rer un. or Paris, and still have a prince ly finger In the political pie. — Have Odd King Somewhere. Some queer citizens of London have been brought to light by a London periodical. After living for 00 years lr: one room in Upper Berkeley street, Edward Mott has had to move out. He had Dever been In a train, tram or motor vehicle. But there Is another man even stranger. He has spent the Inst seven years In bed In a hotel. He rises to have a w ash now and then.; Nobody Knows who he Is. He pays his hills regularly and takes his food In his room. And there Is not a thing wrong with him. There Is another recluse who lives at the Savoy. He does not stay In bed. but he hns not left his room for two years, and spends his time reading and painting. No one knows why. And over In Brlx ton there 1b a house In which an old man lives whom *e neighbors have never seen. He orders his food by telephone and even the postman must leave his letters on the step. Venerable Scottish Relic. The sculptured relic known as the Hilton Cadboll stone has been placed In the Scottish National Museum of Antiquities. About a thousand years old, the stone's sculpture Is a remark able testimony to the artistic taste and craftsmanship of the early na tives of Scotland. The stone stood for many years near the ruins of a chapel close to the village of Hilton of Cadboll. on the north side of the Moray firth; anil it was more recently re moved to Invergordon ctislle. One of the reasons for the proprietor of In vergordon placing It In the care of the authorities was the faet that the sculp ture wus weathering rupidly in Its exposed position. IT. ST. M. E. CHURCH HALLY On Friday evening, August 25, at 8 o’clock and on Sunday afternoon, August 27, at 3 o'clock special serv ices will He held in connection with the annual August rally. The Rev. F. Troupe will preach on Friday even ing. Everyone ought to avail himself of the opportunity to hear this splen did man preach. On Sunday afternoon the Rev. T. S. Saunders will deliver one of his most excellent sermons. Rev. Mr. Saun ders is well known to be a man of great strength in the pulpit and In his church work. The pastor and members of U. St. cordially Invite the pastorB and mem bers of the respective churches of the city. The public is also invited. G. W. CARTER, Pastor. PATTON HOTEL GUESTS Among the guests registered at popular hostelry, the Patton Hotel, j this week are the following: Arthui , Russell, Evanston, 111.; C. 0. Trafic,1 New Orleans, La.; Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Chambers, Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs. A. T. Robinson, Chicago, 111.; Miss Belle Wilson, Jackson, Miss.; L. 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