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" HE MONITOR i A National Weekly Newpaper Devoted Primarily to the Interests of Colored Americans. j I*uWished Every Friday at Omaha, Nebraska, by the ? Monitor Publishing Company. | Hntered as S* cond-Class Mall Matter July 2. 1915. at the Postoffice 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 Applicator!. Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 - ; ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE f ; UNITED STATES. | Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. | I ! 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United Staten, Y and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United Staten and of the State wherein they reside. No !, state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the I privileges or immunities of citizens of the United Staten; 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. ; EASIER ASTER is the sttanding witness of a great historical FACT. That fact is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and the Resur rection of Jesus Christ is the very corner-stone of the Christian religion, the key-stone of the arch of Christian truth. It is the one great essential miracle which proves the truth of the Christian religion. It is the Master Miracle which verifies every other mracle in the Gospel narrative. Ac ceptance of the supreme Miracle of the Resurrection logically compels ac ceptance of all other miracles, either of incidental or essential value, in the Gospel narrative. The incidental mir acles are those which Christ did, as the inevitable and appropriate ex pressions of the Divine Love and Energy of which He is the embodi ment. Once Christ is conceived of as or conceded to be the extra-ordinary Person He is generall believed to be. certainly by untold millions of ador ing dlsiples and adherents, miracles become for Him both natural and necessary. They are but the physical witnesses of His character, complet ing the picture of Divine goodness of which He is the manifestation and showing that its action in the physical is in essential harmony and accord with its action in the moral sphere. Christ’s Personality explains His mir acles. “Our supernatural was His natural; what we call His miracles were but the normal expressions of His energy, as nature is but the mani fested activity of the immanent God.” The miracles of Christ have there fore incidental value. But the mira cles of essential value are those con stituted and centered in His Person or realized in it. Of these there are three—the Incarnation, the Birth and the Resurrection. These all stand to gether. These are all miracles. They are mysteries. They deal ®witb the supernatural. Of these that which is most capable of distinct historical proof or disproof is the Resurrection. And there is no better proven fact in histtory than that Jesus Christ, j Who suffered death upon the cross, the instrument of shame as well as of cruel torture, under Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of J udea, on the third day rose again from the dead. tmeuit hi )rT»TT-EMeai«aJ^B—BH.4..i*mm=aaf; ..viiii-is; —rri—ryTin.7. j| The Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is a well-proven fact of history of which Easter Day is the great yearly memorial and witness and every Lord’s Day or Sunday the weekly witness and reminder. From the beginning Christian testimony has placed this fact in the very forefront and upon its truth has staked the life of the Christian religion. "If Christ be not risen our faith is vain.” If it be proven that no living Christ issued from the tomb of Joseph of Armithea then that tomb is the grave of a reli gion with all its solaces, hopes, as pirations and inspirations. But Chris tian civilization today, despite its many imperfections and inconsisten cies, is positive proof that He rose from the dead. The Resurrection proves the unique Personality of Jesus Christ as the Son of God full of grace and truth and bears testimony to the truth of His Incarnation and entrance among the sons of men through the gateway of human birth. If the miracle of the: Resurrection is a proven fact, and it I is, then the other two great essential ! miracles of the Gospel, "Conceived of j the Holy Ghost; Bom of the Virgin Mary” are also true. The Incarna-; tion, the Birth and,the Resurrection: stand indissolubly together. "God's J Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, Who was 1 made of the seed of David according to the flesh, was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to; the Spirit of holiness, by His Resur rection from the dead." Easter then proclaims the Fact of Christ’s Resurrection, and in His Res-1 urrection, the question which so long perplexed mankind, "If a man die*, | shall he live again?-’ receives Its an swer, and the answer is "Yes”. “I know that my Redeemer liveth! and in the latter day He shall stand ; upon the earth and though my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my I flesh shall I see God, whom I shall j see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and not another.” Millions throughout the world today ! in every tongue and language will affirm their belief, illuminating and comforting, in “the Resurrection of : the BODY and the life everlasting”, because “Christ has risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept”. The Christian doctrine of the Res urrection does not merely proclaim the immortality of the soul, but the Resurrection of the body. Heathen ism, corrupt as it was, had preserved the tradition of the immortality of the soul; her pure etheral substance car ried within itself an argument for its indestructibility; amid the islands of the blessed, fanned by ocean breezes, she was to pass a tearless eternity; but it was reserved for Christianity to proclaim the resur rection of the body; that these dry bones should live; that in our flesh we should see God. He, who in the beginning made us out of the dust of the earth, is not unable, when in obedience to His command we are again resolved and turned into earth to raise us again from it. These bo dies are to rise again. Man, not merely the soul, is immortal. At Eastertide mankind rejoices because it can say with confidence, RESUR GAM, 1 Shall Rise Again! “THE HA MIS OF ESAl', BUT—** ORGANIZATION known as the “American Fascist!” has asked for a charter under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The organizer and “Lictor’’, this is the name of the chief officer, is Edgar Irving Fuller,] former district kleagle of the Invis-j ible Empire, Knights of the Ku Kltix Klan. The organization wears no | mask or sheet and slit pillow-slip headgear, but a simple black shirt. | Eligibility to membership includes: “All WHITE Americans”. It stand* , for “100 per cent Americanism”. This] expression looks and sounds fam- j iliar. doesn't it? “A rose by any other name W'ould smell as sweet” or the disturbed malodorous skunk, as of fensive, though called a furry quad ruped. As a matter of fact as we think of this new “patriotic” (?) or ganization, founded by a former dis trict kleagle, we are reminded of a deceitful act recorded in Holy Writ. "The hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob”. SIOUX CITY, IOWA, NEWS Rev. R. M. Williams, who has been pastor of Haddock M. E. Mission for the past two years, has resigned the pastorate and has been transferred to; the Washington conference. The cit izens of Sioux City feel deeply the j loss of Rev. Mr. Williams to the com- j munity for he was at once a leader. and a co-worker. His influence has j been felt in all sections of the city, j among all classes and conditions of ] people. A great race man, he has presented the cause of his people to large representative audiences com posed of the leading business and pro fessional people ol the city, and has commanded their confidence and co operation in a marked way. A man unselfish in purpose, untiring in his efforts, a chivalrous Christian gentle man, he has earnestly endeavored to uplift his fellow man. As promoter and president of the Sioux City branch ' of the N. A. A. C. P. he proved a very efficient organizer and leader. The I organization has thrived as has ni> j other such effort in our city, ami much of its success has been due to j his efficient leadership. His talented wife has worked faithfully by his side in the mission on the east side bot toms. It is true that we can ill af ford to lose people of such caliber. We wish them Godspeed and unbound ed success in their new field of en- j deavor. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wm. Kenff and j little daughter, Roy Mae, of Lexing- i ton, Mo., arrived in our city to make j their home. They are stopping with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. i H. M. Brashere, 808 Market St. Mr. Raymond Boyd arrived in the ; city on Tuesday, March 20, and is j now employed at a local studio. Mr. George Hicks is reported home again after being in the hospital the past four weeks. Courtyard Moroccan Inn. (Prepared by the Na ' nal Geographic So ciety, Waahtnif on. I>. C.) Morocco, one of the latest of terri tories to be added to the vust French colonial system, and the region out side Europe to which France is now perhaps devoting greatest attention, constitutes one of the world's queer est mixtures of the ancient and the modern, the East and the West. Ilut as yet the things of the modem world are chiefly physical und superficial. In distance Morocco is as close to Western Europe as any Mohammedan country, and Is alone among Important Moslem communities In touching the Atlantic, the great ocean highway which has spreud the ideas of the West. But In customs and institutions Morocco is more Eastern than Turkey or Egypt, und as Moslem us the lled Jaz. l'p to ten years ago when France assumed her protect urate Morocco was less affected by modem Ideas and In fluences than any other civilized coun try In the world; it was to the West In 1012 what Japan was In 1850; a hermit land living according to Its own traditions and rigidly excluding both the people and the Ideas of the rest of the world. The ten years of French control have brought marked external changes, chief of which are the exten sion of means of transportation and communication. Before the French came there were no roads. Not a wheeled vehicle existed In the country outside a few coast cities. Now there Is a network of wonderful highways rhallng those In trance Itself, and over them automobiles rush bearing men and mall and freight. Railroads, too, have been built But the rail sys tem is still In Its Infancy and is not marked for Its efficiency. Wireless towers have been erected and air planes now carry French officials be tween the cities of the country. To much of Morocco's extensive territory—It Is close to Texas In Blze— the French have brought order and a better government than It has ever had before. But to a great extent It has been necessary to leave local and regional authority In the hands of na tive administrators. Affairs are not conducted, of course, according to European or American standards. Elfe is cheap to the Moroccan. Turbulence has always been the rule. As In medieval Europe It Is still necessary to lock the gates of the cities at night und the Westerner who ventures abroad after nightfall does so at his peril. In some of tlie more remote towns foreign visitors are even looked In block-houses nt night "for safe keeping." I ne I rouDiesome nil. The region close to the Spanish zone in the north has given tin* French great trouble. The Spanish have never really controlled an appreciable part of this theoretical sphere of their Influence—the Itlf. It has been In fested by bandits, and to It have re paired the tribesmen unfriendly to France. It has been Impossible to maintain railroads in French Morocco near this boundary. Hands of mal contents have made night sorties from the Klf, tearing up the rails and de stroying bridges. Until the French took control Christians had been rigidly excluded from Morocco since the Fifteenth cen tury. Jews hud been admitted all along, but they were compelled to live In separate quarters, and though not the objects of hatred and contempt to such an extent as were Christians, they were looked down upon by fol lowers of the l'rophet. In Fez, the Inland capital, Is a mosque looked up on by Moroccans us more sacred than any shrine outside Mecca. Even after the French protectorate was set up Christians were riot supposed to go within two blocks of this sacred edi fice. In late years this rigorous rule has been changed and Christians may now pass In the street beside the mosque, but they are still supposed not to look at It. The western traveler to this coun try, which only yesterday was "for bidden land" to the Christian, runs across amazing Incongruities. IJrass bedsteads and grandfather clocks are set up against walls of exquisite mo saic and Intricate arabesque patterns. Arabs pitch their tents at the foot of great wireless stations. Veiled women of the harem ride through new-made streets in automobiles. The streets themselves ure indicative of rapid change; for a fe* years ago no roads ran Into Fez, and even yet some of the thoroughfares are so narrow that ST. IMI I. I'Kr.Mi VTEKIA > ( HUM II Kussel Taylor, Pastor. Next Sunday being Easter services appropriate to the occasion will be had. There will be special music 3y the choir. The Sacrament of the [word’s supper will be administered. Liet every communicant be present.. The theme of the discourse Sunday norning will be, "Some Climaxes of Caster Morning”. There will be a special program endered Sunday evening in which 1 each department of the Church win be represented. Easter eggs will be distributed. GAS BOMBS FOB MOBS Salvannah, Gd,; March BOj—On|e thousand and three hundred dollars has been expended by the local gov ernment for a special made gas mask to be used by the police in conjunc tion with "tear gas" in the event of street riots. Recent threats of race riots have pushed the authorities to take this step. not even nn animal, much less a vehi cle, cruld squeeze through them. If one looks down upon Fez from an airplane, us flyers now do, it would seem to be a streetless city. Many of tiie narrow aisle-like streets are latticed over to protect tiie hooded, | ghostlike pedestrians from the sun. Others burrow under great estates by tunnels, as does the famous Cliff Walk at Newport under several of the gurdens of summer homes there. Funerals Are Gay Sight. Perhaps the gayest sight of a Mo rn-can city is a funeral. The wife w iio bus been cloistered in life is paid every honor In death. She Is borne aloft in a great carved box of many colors, and behind her sing choral societies organized to follow funerals. A mere man is swathed In cloth and bound to a board. 11c has no box. The more pretentious homes of Fez ure built around a courtyard, with tiny rooms opening out upon the court, resembling tiie setting of a room in some little theater. The guest in a Moroccan home passes through the court with its Inevitable fountain, lays off his shoes before tiie dining room compartment, us he would upon entering a Chinese temple, and sits down upon a cushion opposite his host. The host would commit a se rious breach of etiquette if lie touched any food before tiie guest had finished his meal. After tiie guest has con cluded the host partakes of a leisurely repast, and not until he is through is the food he leaves sent to the wives, concealed, hut audible, on the upper floor. The Moroccan wife hns somewhat less freedom of movement than an Anierieun domestic. Friday afternoon is the "wives’ day out" hut they may only go to the cemetery then, from which men are excluded for the after noon The cemetery is not at all gruesome, to the Moroccan way of thinking. Markets are held there, and In various ways the cities of the dead do duty for public parks. Water wheels are us numerous In j Fez ns windmills In Holland. The city is netted with tiny streams so that It is almost literally true that every house has a waterway beneath It. Is lam contributes to tills abundant j water supply for the Mohammedan must wash before he enters a mosque I to pray. And he prays, though not j always in u mosque, five times a day. i Fez touches the average American ' —In a very literal sense—by virtue of hLs pocketbook. In Fez Moroccan leather is cured. One of the most in teresting industrial sights of tiie city is the hollowed out rocks, resembling the cross section of u honeycomb, in which leather Is dipped in a solution of lime by natives who, strangely enough, stand In the mixture up to their waists without Injury to their skins. j rHveiers in r rencn Morocco pay special tribute to tbe efficiency of French administration there. In south- j ern Morocco lived tilucul who. next to Halsuli, was ttie most daring of Mo roccan bandits. lie was made ad ministrator of the region lie formerly j hud plundered; and. visitors say, there j Is not u kindlier, more courteous, and more agreeable gentleman In those parts. Nor has there been any trouble , with banditry since he became an official. Country Has Four Capitals. Theoretically Morocco has four cnpl- \ tals—Fez, Tafilelt, Marakesh and Ila- | bat. But the chief French officials re side at Rabat on the Atlantic coast, and like MacGregor's seat at the table, j that Is the real head. The sultan still j maintains his palace In the three other i cities and visits them from time to 1 time. Perhaps the most Interesting city In j Morocco next to Fez, is Marrakesh, the old southern capital. There the country Is drier and hotter and camels are the characteristic beasts of bur den and draft as tiny donkeys are In the north. Both the buildings and walls of Marrakesh are of red mud, which gives the city an aspect In striking contrast to the brilliant white city of Fez. These mud walls are 800 years old, hut due to the dryness of the climate are well preserved. Marrakesh Is a contrast to Fez also In that It Is a roomy city. Its walls were built to enclose a city of a mil lion Inhabitants, but have never shel tered more than a quarter of that number. 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