The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928, August 25, 1922, Image 2

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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.
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Address The Monitor, 204 Kaffir Block, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone Atlantic 1322; Webster 4243
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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having this ruling repealed.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.”
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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? '
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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.
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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. Coleman,
Kansas City, Mo.; Harry Cage, Port
land, Ore.; G. Woods, Oakland, Calif.;
R. Zenard, Little Rock, Ark,; J. M.
Williams and L. A. Clovd of Ixts An
geles, Calif.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
WILL HOLD PICNIC
The Colored Commercial Club will
hold its annual picnic at Elmwood park
next Wednesday afternoon, August CO.
There will be plenty of eatables and
such drinkables as the law allows,
with athletic games, races and base
ball.
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