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The Monitor A National Weekly Newpaper Devoted Primarily to the Interests of Colored Americans. Published Every’ Friday at Omaha, Nebraska, by the Monitor Publishing Company. Entered as S-cond-Clase Mall Matter July 2. 1913, at the Postofflce at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb._ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Appllcaton. Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 11 ] [ ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE ;; UNITED STATES. (i < > Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. I! ; I | 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ; | j ; and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ;11 United States and of the State wherein they reside. No . j state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the J ] I privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor $ ; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- £ erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person a ! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. I ENCOURAGING PROGRESS JN the exhaustive review of racial activity for the year 1922 by the Associated Negro Press there is bound to be found abundant grounds for en couragement. It notes encouraging progress along all lines. Despite cer tain handicaps, which only provoke to I more determined effort, Colored Am erica has moved steadily forward. This progress shows self-reliance, self respect, and the constantly growing determination to be worthy of and se cure our right place in American cit izenship. Our growing political ana industrial independence augur well for the future. With our faces toward the sunrise there is no reason for dis couragement. With faith in God, faith in humanity and faith in ourselves we will continue to work out our destiny right here in this land of opportunity and responsibility, for opportunity al ways includes responsibility. A REMARKABLE ARTICLE 'J'HE Monitor desires to call the at tention of our readers to a remark-> able article in this week’s issue of The Nation, one of America's most inde pendent, fair-minded and forceful pub lications. It is captioned, “Alabama: A Study in Ultra Violet.” It is the twentieth of that journal’s interesting series on “These United States,” which series we hope will eventually be pub lished in book form. The writer is Clement Wood, a native Alabamian, who served the bar of his state with distinction. He is now a resident of New York and an author of note. Thoroughly conversant with the con ditions existing between the races in Alabama and throughout the South, Mr. Wood handles his subject of phy sical intermingling of the races with a frankness, delicacy and courage which is exceedingly rare among men of any group and especially of the dominant race. It takes courage of no mean order to present unwelcome truth as Mr. Woou presents it. He shows how, unfoi .unate] y, the white man of the Sout> from pre-war days until the present time has esteemed it his special privilege to sustain illicit relations with the females of the suo ject race and that even today the Ne gro girl has virtually no legal protec tion against her seducer in the dom inant race. Upon this point Mr. Wood says: “Worst of all, from the standpoint of the white man’s welfare, there is, in the South, apparently no acceptance of responsibility in such a relationship, on the part of the man. The Negro girl, it is said, has no legal recourse. The law in certain states recognizes no such thing as bastardy proceedings of a Negress against a white man. The very intimacy is out lawed; no rights may spring from it. It is no wonder that the Negro girl is easy game; there is no closed season against hunting her. It is easy for the white man to accept the relation ship; he assumes no risk. Illegitimacy is always an anomalous relationship; but elsewhere there is a recognized stigma on the father. This abnormal freedom from responsibility is true only of the South. As long at it con tinues, we may expect the furtive last ing of the flesh-pots of Ethiopia." This illicit relationship, and "that postulate of Southern white thinking, that a Negro woman has no virtue” is due to the fact that "the Southern white man today knows only the low es type of Negress, that type largely in the majority,” and as the writer aptly says, “the low class Negro wo man attaches less value to her chas tity" than "the growing class of cul tured Negro women, sheltered from the Southern white” and “in accepting a white lover, she (the lower type) obeys the deep biological law that wo man chooses a mate superior to her self." The writer observes that “this slackness is not confined to the South ern Negro girl; there is much of it among white mill girls, the largest low white class in Alabama.” While the cultured Negro woman, of which the writer says there is an increasing class, is sheltered from all 'I*''. -V r-.xi**Y ' Southern white men, as far as may be, yet her problems come, too. “Such a woman, in the main, is sheltered; yet she is never safe. Advances come to her; there is little law to which she can appeal, if a white man invades her home. It is at the risk or his own blood that her husband dare even lay hands on a white man to protect her. Grandfathers have eeen lynched for protesting against mistreatment of1 their young colored granddaughters. I The situation of the Negro husband, father or brother, under these not in frequent occurrences, is a hideous di lemma; dishonor or death are the pre ferred choices. And there is always the threat of the black hour of a race riot, started by some isolated breath of white lust.” The writer show's how the»e condi tions are most disadvantageous to the 1 progress and stability of the common- | wealth, “which is the offspring of two I races, united so furtively and blunder- j ir.gly that she is immeasurably the loser by her joint parentage." Men tal and spiritual sterility are among its baneful progeny. Of course, Mr. Wood’s article will be severely criticized, but in laying bare certain hideous sociological facts which the enlightened world should know', fearless writers of this type, are doing the South and the whole country a priceless service. That courageous, broad-visioned white men of the South are baring the truth con cerning inter-racial relationships in the South which are wrong and im moral, is gratifying evidence of a desire to correct conditions. We are glad that The Nation has published this article. We hope our readers will secure The Nation and read this re markable article. I - % WHAT OTHER + + EDITORS SAY | i HE LONG NIGHT OF 1‘DON’T CARE” ENDED We are selling more and more pa pers to elderly people, men and women who were here during the war. We are selling more papers to men and women who labor with their hands. It is no stretching of the truth to say that readers of the Negro press are of all occupations, all ages, all aspira tions. No more hopeful sign for the future could be given than this. No matter if it is weak, the Negro press strives to represent the better side of tne Negro race, and the men and women who want to read aoout tins are inspired by their own self-respect. There used to be a time when it was common to have a speaker tell “Uncle Tom" jokes before an audience, but not now. If it is not good news, news of worth and progress, it is better left untold before the average Negro aud ience these days. Men whose ancestry includes gov ernors, captains of business, Revolu tionary heroes and other celebrities, feel called upon to do and aspire. Common folk, who spring from no such distinguished line, can be no body, without comparison with their kin, that makes them feel ashamed. There is some real foundation in truth to the claim that it takes eight gen erations to make a gentleman. So when we see the Negro, in all ages and classes, taking on pride, we know that at last the thrust upward has begun. The long night of “don’t care” is ended. At last the Negro wants everything anybody else wants, and wills to be everything that any body else is. For a generation they have told the story of the slave sleeping on the cot ton bale whose likeness would have adorned the Confederate postage, ex cept for the fear of a southern states man that he might wake up some day. That fear is now a realized fact The elderly man who leaves his subscrip tion with a Negro newspaper tells of ambitions unfettered at last. The Ne- 1 Kro woman with her clubs, the coun- 1 PALESTINE I ■ . = .. Where the Children of Israel Crossed <.he Jordan. (Prepared by the National Geographic Boclety, Washington, D. C.) Palestine, home of Christianity, the British mandate for which has Just been formally approved by the council of the league of Nations, has prob ably never been better described than by the late Viscount Bryce, former British ambassador to the United States. In a communication to the National Geographic society, he wrote of the Holy Land as follows: Palestine is a tiny little country. Though the traveler's handbooks pre pare hitn to find it small, It surprises him by being smaller than he expected. Taking It as the region between the Mediterranean on the west and the Jordan and Dead sea on the east, from the spurs of Lebanon and Hermon on the north to the desert at Beersheba on the south, It Is only 110 miles long and from 50 to 00 broad—that Is to say, It Is smaller than New Jersey, whose area is 7.500 square miles. Of this region large parts did not really belong to ancient Israel. Their hold on the southern and northern districts was hut slight, while In the southwest a wide, rich plain along the Mediterranean was occupied by the warlike Philistines, who were some times more than a match for the He brew armies. Israel hail. In fact, little more than the hill country, which lay between the Jordan on the east and the maritime plain on the west. King David. In the days of his power, looked down from the hill cities of Benjamin. Just north of Jerusalem, upon Phil istine enemies only 25 miles off, on the one side, and looked across the Jordan to Moabite enemies about as far ofT, on the other Nearly all the events In the history of Israel that are recorded In the Old Testament happened within a terri tory no bigger than the state of Con necticut, whose area Is 4.800 square miles; and Into hardly any other coun try has there been crowded from the days of Abraham till our own so much history—that Is to say. so many events that have been recorded and deserve to he recorded In the annals of man kind. It* Smallness Is Visible. Nor Is It only that Palestine Is really a small country. The traveler constantly feels as he moves about that It Is a small country. From the heights a few miles north of Jeru salem he sees, looking northward, a far-off summit carrying snow for eight months In the year. It Is Hermon, nearly 10,000 feet high -— Hermon, whose fountains feed the rivers of Damascus. But Hermon Is outside the territory of Israel altogether, standing In the land of the Syrians; so, too, It Is of Lebanon. We are apt to think of that mountain mass as within the country, becausp Is also Is frequently mentioned In the Psalms and the Prophets, but the two ranges of Leb anon also rise beyond the frontiers of Israel, lying between the Syrians of Damascus and the Phoenicians of the West. Palestine Is a country poor In any natural resources. There are practical ly no minerals, no coal, no Iron, no copper, no sliver, though recently aome oil has been discovered In the Jordan valley. Neither are there any large forests, and though the land may have been better wooded In the days of Joshua than It Is now. there Is little reason to think that the woods were of trees sufficiently large to constitute a source of wealth. A comparatively small area Is fit for tillage. To an Arab tribe that had wandered through a barren wilderness for 40 weary years, Canaan may well havp seemed a delightful possession; but many a county In Iowa, many a de partment In France could raise more grain or wine than all the Holy Land. There Is one stretch of fertile, level land 20 miles long and from 3 to 8 miles wide—the Plain of Esdraelon. But with this exception It Is only In the bottoms and on the lower slopes of a few valleys, chiefly In the terri tory of Ephraim from Bethel north ward and along the shores of the Bay of Acre, that one sees cornfields and olive yards and orchards. Little wine Is now grown. Such wealth as the country has consists in Its pastures and the ex pression "* land flowing with milk and honey” appropriately describes the best It has to offer, for sheep and goats can thrive on the thin herbage that covers the hills, and the numer ous aromatlg plants furnish plenty of excellent food for the bees; but It Is nearly all thin pasture, for the land Is dry and the soil mostly shallow. The sheep and goats vastly outnumber the oxen. Woody llushan, on the east side of Jordan, Is still the region where one must look for the strong bulls. Palestine Is not a beautiful country. The classical scholar finds charms everywhere In Greece, a laud conse crated to him by the genius of poets and philosophers, although a great part of Greece is painfully dry and bare. So, too. the traveler who brings a mind suffused hy reverence and piety to spots hallowed by religious associ ations sees the landscapes of the Holy Land through a golden haze that makes them lovely. But the scenery of the Holy Land, taken as a whole. Is Inferior, both In form and In color, to that of northern and mid dle Italy, to that of Norway and Scot land, to that of the coasts of Asia Minor, to that of many parts of Cali fornia and Washington. The hills are flat-topped ridges, with a monotonous sky line, very few of them showing any distinctive shape. Not a peak anywhere, and Tabor the only summit recognizable by Its form. They are all composed of gray or red dlsh-gray limestone, bane of wood, and often too stony for tillage. Be tween the stones or piles or rook there are low shrubs, and In the few weeks of spring masses of brilliant flowers give rich hues to the landscape; but for the rest of the year all Is gray or brown. The grass Is withered away or Is scorched brown, and scarcely any foliage Is seen on the tops or up per slopes of the rolling hills. It Is only In some of the valleys that one finds villages nestling among olive groves and orchards where plums and peach and almond blossoms make spring lovely. Few Wells and Springs. Arid indeed is the land. The travel er says w-lth the psalmist: “My soul longs in a dry, parched land, wherein no water Is.” Wells are few, springs still fewer, and of brooks there are practically none, for the stony chan nels at the bottom of the gleug have no water except after a winter rain storm. There may probably have been a more copious rainfall 20 or 80 cen turies ago, when more woods clothed the hillsides, and the country would then have been more pleasing to Northern eyes, to which mountains are dear because rills make music and green boughs wine In the wind. To this general description there are certain exceptions which must not be forgotten. The high ridge of Mount Carmel rises grandly from the sea, anil on Its land side breaks down In bold declivities and ib-ep glens u|>on the valley through which the Klshon, an almost perennial stream, finds Its way to the Bay of Acre. Here, upon the slopes of a long ridge, on the other side of the Klshon, there Is a wilder ing forest of ancient holm oaks, all the more beautiful because It Is the one considerable stretch of natural wood In the whole country west of Jordan. If Palestine Is not a land of natural wealth nor a land of natural beauty, what Is It? What are the Impressions which the traveler who tries to see It exactly as It Is carries away with him? Roughly summed up, they are these: Stones, caves, tombs, ruins, battle fields, sites hallowed by traditions— all bathed In an atmosphere of legend and marvel. Never was there a country, not be ing an absolute desert, so stony. The hillsides seem one mass of loose rocks, Isrger or smaller. The olive yards and vineyards are full of atones. Even the cornfields (except In the alluvial soil of the plain of Esdraelon and along the sandy coast) seem to have more pebbles than earth, so that one wonders how crop* so good as one sometimes sees ri.it spring up. Oaves are everywhere 'or limestone la the prevailing rock, and It Is the rock In which the pr rcr latlon of rain makes clefts and hollows and caverns most frequent. try boys and girls, with their pigs, the churches crying for an educated ministry, the Negro men dying in de fense of their women, are expressions of the same idea. Ethiopia is stretch ing forth her hands.—The Kansas City Call. INFUSION OF BLOOD MIGHT HAVE SAVED HIM New Orleans, Jan. 12—Death hoist ed its flag of victory over a "Negro hater”. Ten blood transfusions fail ed to save the life of Oliver S. Bur dick, white, 67 jean old, patient in Ward 22 at Charity Hospital. He had refused to submit to the transfusion I of the blood of a strong and healthy | Negro who had offered to save him. NOAiH D. WARE, ATT Y. NOTICE OF 1'ROB ATE WILL In the County Court of Douglas Coun ty, Nebraska, in the matter of the estate of John H. Costello, Deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed In eaid Court, praying for the probate of a certain Instrument now on file In said Court, purporting to be the laat will and testament of said deceased, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the 20th day of January, 1923, and that if they fail to appear ai said Court on the said 20th day of January, 1923, at 9 o’clock A. M„ to contest the probate of said will, the Court may allow and probate said will and grant administration of said es tate to Delila Costello or some other suitable person, enter a decree of heirship, and proceed to a settlement threof. BRYCE CRAWFRD, County Judge. 12-29-3t PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. Win. Franklin, Pastor. The services Sunday were of a most inspiring character, those of the morn ing being an experience meeting. The pastor expressed himself as encour aged by the spiritual and material out look of the church. The B. Y. P. U. is prospering as never before. It had a good program Sunday, chief of which was an excellent paper by Mr. C. Ad ams on “Bridling the Tongue,” and an address by Mr. J. C. Thompson of St. Louis, Mo. The pastor left Tuesday for Detroit, Mich., to visit his wife, whom he is expecting to bring back, with him. The Florida Club was giv en a reception Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. P. L. Ander son, 1418 North Twenty-fifth street, at which time the election of officers was held. MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. E. H. McDonald, Pastor Mrs. Anna Owen, Reporter Monday night the Brotherhood meets at the church at 8 p. m. There are subjects of interest to be discussed. Tuesday the Pastor’s Aid will meet with Mrs. Biddix. Wednesday night is the regular mid week prayer service. Thursday afternoon at 2 p. m., the Mission Service. Friday night choir practice. All persons desiring to become members please be present at this meeting. Sunday, Sunday School at 9:30. Preaching at 11. The subject will be “One of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor.” Each Sunday there will be a sermon on one of the churches until the seven have been discussed and then there will be an open discussion at to which church Mt. Moriah re sembles. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30, and preaching at 8. BISHOP VEKNON IN HOSPITAL Kansas City, Jan. 12—Bishop W. T. Vernon has been threatened with ser ious illness for some time, even an operation in prospect. More recently he has been in Wheatley-Provident Hospital and is about at a standstill. 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