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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1923)
V ... Thl monitor A National Weakly Newpaper Devoted Primarily to the Interests of Colored Americans. Published Every Friday at Omaha, Nebraska, by the Vionltor Publishing, Company. _ Entered as S-=ond-Class Mall Matter July 2. 1915, at the PoatofBce at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Aaaoclate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rate* Furnlahed Upon Applicaton. Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 Vi . 11 ► < t ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE ;; UNITED STATES. ;; ' ! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. i > * ► ! 1. AH persons born or naturalized in the United States, ;; ; and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the < > ■ United States and of the State wherein they rende. No . ! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the \, 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 ! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. | l$$$$M$»»$$$»$$$$$$«$$$$$*$*09**»*m$»»*»*m««»5» THE PROPER STAND OVERNOR Sweet, of Colorado, is the kind of man this country needs in positions of authority and respons ibility. Unfortunately, there are in dividuals in every community who are anxious to restrict the constitutional privileges of American citizens of col or. Generally such individuals are from the South. are not the Southern folk of gentle breeding, but rather of the baser sort, who, coming into northern and western communi ties, strive to put into practice cus toms which obtain in the section from which they come. Not only do they attempt to do this but they strive, with some degree of success, to innoc ulate others with the virus of their narrow sentiments. Denver is one of our western cities in which this class has largely settled. For some months, if not indeed years, this element has striven to restrict the privileges of our people as to civil rights and dom icile. Only lately they have been mov ing for separate schools. Recently,as a news item in our columns shows, a delegation headed by a man named Hines, an arch-agitator of segrega tion, waited upon Governor Sweet, who, by the way is a democrat, and a gentleman of the first rank, to so licit his support in putting over a separate school measure. The Missis sipian’s tirade against our race was cut short by Governor Sweet’s rebuke. He told tic gentleman that his place was south of Mason and Dixon’s line, where he could run schools to suit his views, but that Colorado reserved the right to conduct her schools, according to the constitution of the state upon -which he the governor stood, and that if any such resolution as the delega tion suggested happened to pass that he wou.d not sign it. He paid a high tribute to the colored citizens of Den ver and said that their constitutional rights would be respected. Governor Sweet undoubtedly took the right stand. Colored Americans are asking no special favors anywhere, but simp ly to be treated as American citizens. We need more officials like Governor Sweet to rebuke narrow minded and prejudiced people who would restrict the privileges of any group of our het erogenous population upon the ground of either race or religion. A WORD TO PARENTS rJTHE Monitor cannot emphasize too strongly the necessity of parents visiting the schools attended by their children, becoming acquainted with their children’s teachers and co-oper ating with them in every way possible. There is a crying need for this. More over, we desire to sound a note of warning to parents, and that is this: Don’t be so quick to take your child’s word about being imposed upon by his or her teacher. Get the facts first. Consult the teacher. Doubtless, since ceachers are human, there wilt be cases where partiality may be shown and even injustice, but these will be the exception rather than the rule. Children who are studious and be have themselves generally get along well wherever they are. If your chil dren are to receive the best results from the excellent educational ad vantages offered by this city and state, then there must be co-operation of the home with the school. Unruly children in school are unruly at home. School training cannot take the place of proper home training. One must supplement the other. A solemn duty and responsibility resti< upon parents who are too ready to shift this re sponsibility upon the school. _THEOLOGY AND LIFE W” would it not be well for the professing Christians of America to strive to live the theology taught by Christ, rather than to spend so much time in discussing their theories about it? "If any man will do My will, he shall know the doctrine.” Them is serious doubt as to whether MB who profees to acknowledge the Hester's claim upon their lives have to my great extent honestly striven to 4e Hi wilL Think it ever. NOT A FIREBRAND 'J’HE city editor of the Los Angeles Express pays a well deserved trib ute to Dr. DuBois in these words. “The race question is always TNT, and it had been given out by people unfa miliar with the aims of Dr. DuBois that he is firebrand. This is a mis take. . . . His address was a calm, logical, eloquent plea for justice to all men, and neither in his public address nor in his conversation with me after it was there aught of bitterness, re sentment or untruth; though there was much to cause us of the white race to reflect on the status of our souls and the future of a world run profit mad.” DuBois, as all well informed people know, is neither a firebrand nor a dangerous radical. He is not an apol ogist for un-American and un-demo cratic practices which are a blot upon this country. He has convictions ana expresses them frankly and fearlessly. He fights with all the vigor of his manhood against these traditions and customs, as do those who believe as he does and among our group, altho’ they may not be conspicuous, their name is legion. A better acquaint ance with these so-called “fire-brands" and “radicals” will reveal the fact that, all things taken into considera tion, they are among the most con servative of men and much more ser viceable to the well-being of the country than they who by their silence or acquiescence compromise with falsehood and wrong. A FOOLISH SUGGESTION ''J’HE Washington Eagle makes a serious mistake in suggesting that the proposed "Mammy” Monument can be destroyed by a bomb. Of course it can; but fortunately, our people do not belong to the bomb throwing crowd and we hope they never will. True, the monument that “Mammy" wants is justice for her children and for this we must continue to fight, but not with bombs. / SIOUX CITY NEWS Rev. H. Boyd who has been in Washington attending the Negro Na tional Educational Convention, is ex pected to return home this week. Rev. J. W. Tutt, Pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church, 6th and Bluff Sts., left Monday evening for Des Moines, Iowa where he will attend the National Bap tist Association, and at which time he will hear Dr. Williams, of Chicago, who will preside. Mr. John Tolson of this city and Mrs. Gladys Young of Leavenworth, Kansas, were united in marriage on Saturday, March 10, at six-thirty, in the home of the groom, 212% 6th St. Mrs. John Tolson and Mrs. Geo. Tolson left Tuesday morning enroute for Leavenworth, Kansas, where they will spend about two weeks in pack ing the household furnishings of the newly wed. They will then return to this city to make their home. Mrs. F. Thompson, manufacturer of the Cubinola Hair Goods, who is spending the winter in Havana, Cuba, write»4hat she is having a wonder ful stay in that city, and that it is a wonderful place to live. Rev. J. W. Tutt, wrho was a candi date for a director on the school board at the election held on Monday, March 12, was defeated. Rev. Mr. Tutt is the first Negro to file papers for sue ha position in this city. Only a very small number of votes were cast, about 8,000, to be cast four ways, and if every colored man and woman had voted no doubt Mr. Tutt would have been elected. It is high time the Negroes of this city start thinking. Mrs. Gertrude Jones and her daugh ter, of Eldora, Iowa, arrived in the city on Monday, March 5 and is visit ing in the home of her sister, Mrs. Carrie Roberts. Mrs. Jones expects to make this city her home. Rev. R. M. Williams, pastor of the Haddock church, 5th and Steuben Sts., will leave on March 1 for Roanoake, Virginia, where he will attend the Na tional Conference of the M. E. church. Miss Gertrude Pimberton won the Girls Reserve medal for getting the largest number of new members in a recent membership drive of the Girls Reserve of this city. Miss Pimberton is only twelve years old. The entertainment by Mr. Ander son and his company of young min strels given at the Lovit Inn on Mon day evening, March 12, was more than a success, and it deserved a greater support than it received. Mr. An derson has demonstrated just what can be accomplished by the young folks of this city, if they only had an opportunity of developing their tal ents. It is hoped that Mr. Anderson will continue his good work and that the people will co-operate with him. Price Reduced Our High Grade Colorado Lump Coal Rescreened at (Q CA Per Ton the Yard ipvawU Delivered Consumers Coal & Supply Co. AT. 1141 “DEALERS II GOOD COAL" at. iui The Store of Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. Or Douglas Street for Fifty Years Have an Age Long Habit of Selling Women** Garment* of Good Taste Good Materials ; Good Workmanship ! -o Spring Styles now Showing for Women Grown and Growing SUITS SWEATERS DRESSES SKIRTS BLOUSES WRAPS Underwear and Hosiery Headquarters 1 THE BEE GROCERY ! 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