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THE MONITOR ▲ Nktlaaal Weekly Newpeper Derated Primarily te the Ipteresta ef Celered Americans Published kjyary Friday et Oomhe. Nebraska, by the Mealier PaMMklac Cempaey. Ikitered ae B‘ sond-Claes Mall Matter July I. Ills, at the PoeteMce at Ti -*■ Nebraska, under the Aot ef March t. lit*. THE REv7JOHN ALBERT WILLIAM*, EOlter. W. W. MOSELY, Aeeeelste Editor, Lincoln. Neh. LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS, Buelneee Manager._ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2 0* A YEAR; *1.25 • MONTHS; 7*c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rate* Furnlehed Upon Appliceten, Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 V- -—j JI f ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE ? !1 UNITED STATES f 1I Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged f ! | 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, X ;; and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ? <« United States and of the State wherein they reside. No j ! | 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 J , J | within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. || INSANE OR JUST PLAIN FOOL? JS THE MAYOR of Johnstown, Pa., insane or just an ordinary fool "cracker” from some benighted Southern section obsessed with the idea that Negroes have no rights which white men are bound to re spect? Surely no man in his right mind or with a modicum of common sense would promulgate such an or der as that issued by Joseph Cauffle, mayor tof Johnstown. Because of a melee between a few Negroes, one of whom is said to have been crazed with moonshine whiskey, and police officers, in which two police officers were killed, this sapient mayor issues a drastic order ordering all Negroes who have resided in Johnstawn less than SEVEN YEARS to leave the city immediately; furthermore, ne says that no more Negroes will be permitted to take up residence there; and he forbids any Negro residents, to have any parties, socials or public gatherings, divine service alone ex cepted; moreover any Negroes VIS ITING Johnstown in the future must register and report to him or the chief of police, telling their where abouts and activities during their so journ within the limits of the city. Doesn’t it seem increditabl e that a man with brains enough to be mayor, even of a dog pound, would be foolish enough to issue such an order as this? He ought to know that he has no right to order any law-abiding cit izen to leave Johnstown whether he has resided there FIVE MINUTES or FIFTY YEARS. If one be a law breaker it is his duty to see that he is arrested and prosecuted and made to pay the penalty of his crime. He has no right in law or morals to issue a wholesale deportation order against a race or group because of the crimi nal acts of individuals of that group. The action of this obscure Pennsyl vania official, aside from its assinity, is interesting only as illustrative of the attitude of some shallow-pated individuals towards the constitutional rights of colored Americans. POLITENESS PAYS E WANT to urge upon our people the necessity of politeness, good manners and consideration on all oc casions. There is one place in particu lar where many of our men can show much more politeness and consider ateness than they do and that is on the street cars. We know what some will say. It is this: “White men don’t get up and give their seats to colored women on street cars and why should we not follow their example?” Be cause others are inconsiderate and wanting in politeness, does not justify our being the same. Gentlemen should set examples. We would like to see our men politely profer their seats to women, any women on cars, and par ticularly to elderly women. The cus tom of doing this is passing we know; but we believe that such acts of po liteness on the part of our men would be wise and profitable. Suppose we all try it. NEVER NAPS ON ITS JOB jQID YOU NOTICE how quickly the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People got on the job in the Johnstown affair? Did you notice how intelligently they went at it? Did you notice that the Governor of Pennsylvania promptly responded to their telegram, giving assurance that the whole power of the State would be invoked, if necessary, to protect the rights of all citizens ? Do we not need such an efficient or ganization ? The N. A. A. C. P. never sleeps on its job, but works 365 days in the year intelligently safeguarding our rights as citizens which may be imperilled in the North as well as in the South. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Time Well Spent. Tlrr* Is money, and sometimes very much more than money. To spend our lives dollar-ehaslng may get us wealth, but not refinement. Time devoted to Improving the mind and heart results In far greater satisfaction.—Orit. TYPES OF HOMES OWNED isV COLORED CITIZENS RESIDENCE OF DR. AND MRS. L. E. BRITT, 2519 MAPLE STREET 1r~ ■■ .— —7—_— Letters From Our Readers Short, timely letters are Invited. We E refer that writers sign their names, ut in all cases letters signed with a nom de plume or as "Reader," "Sub scriber," etc., must be accompanied i by the name and address of the author I for the editor’s information. _ i An Unnecessary Question “Upright men shall be astonled at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.” A few days ago, the writer of this article was In the District Court rep resenting a white client. A certain official supprisingly asked the said client: “Why are you represented in court by a colored attorney, are you a Catholic?” (Sounds like the Ku Klux Klan). Can you understand why an official should ask a question like thiB? Do you suppose that same official has ever asked a colored client why he is represented by a white attorney? And whether said colored client so repre sented by a white attorney, is a Cath olic? What difference does it make so long as the business is legitimate, whether one comes into court with a colored attorney or with a white at torney. 1 am an attorney engaged in the general practice of law, and my office is opened to the general public; I do not t^ink that 1 am too good to rep resent a white client in court If one happens to need my assistance and is willing to employ me as some are. This court official had no business to so question my client to whom my services were satisfactory. Very respectfully yours, NOAH W. WARE. Move* Rapidly. A department store wag recently told of one Bostonian dir uaslng mer chandising with a breesy traveling salesman In a Pullman car. saying that the vocabulary of the average woman waa only 800 words To which the salesman replied: "That may be true: hut think of the turn-over."— Boston Globe. Overcrowded. Billy’s nose was ont of Joint, all on account of the arrival of little sister. He took his overcoat and hat to the nurse and asked her to put them on him, as he was going away. She asked him If he hadn’t better wait and see his father. He replied: “I’m going to my father; Uncle Frank Is going to be my father now. This house Is get ting too crowded." Handicaps of Age. Men of age object too much, con sult too long, ad -enture too little, re pent too soon, and seldom drive busi ness home to the full period, but con tent themselves with a mediocrity of success.—Bacon. Nebraska Civil Rights Bill Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights. Enacted in 1898. Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advan tages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, I barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every person. | Sec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities^ or privileges enumerated in the foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall for each offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs of the prosecution. “The original act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can not , discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs State, 26 Nehr. page 677. N. W. 688.“ , “A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with re freshments in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other reason than that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by getting a table in amors private part ef the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich. . 868; N. W. Tit,* a | ^Sw——* 21,763,275 IN SCHOOLS OF U. $. Census Bureau Gives Out Statis tics for 1920. (ARY IN DIFFERENT STATES The school attendance In the United States In 1920. according to statistics Just made public by the bureau of een aus, was 21,763,275 of both sexes be tween the ages of five and twenty years. Of these 10.886,703 were male and 10,876,572 female. The percentages are based on the population live to twenty years, inclusive, for the reason that the number of persons attending School at ages above and below these limits are Insloiiicant. "The statistics of school attendance compiled from itie returns of the cen sus of 1920 are based upon the an swers to a question on the population schedule as to whether the person enumerated hnd attended school be tween September 1, 1919, and the cen sus date January 1, 1920,” the bu reau’s report continues. “If the person had attended any school, college or other educational In stitution for any length of time with in the period In question an affirma tive answer whs to he made. Figure Exceeds Daily Total. “The total number of persons re turned as attending school is, there fore, larger than the number who were simultaneously In attendance at any one time between September 1, 1919. and January 1, 1920. Although this period represents considerably less than half the entire school year 1919 20 the number of persons who attend ed school In that year subsequently, but not prior to January 1, would form an insignificant proportion of the total enrollment. The figures are, therefore, fairly comparable with those for pre ceding censuses, at which enumera tlons were made later In the year. "The statistics on school attendance presented are limited to continental United States ns a whole, the states and cities having 25,000 Inhabitants or more. Less detailed statistics for states, counties and for Incorporated places having 2,500 Inhabitants or more, and complete statistics for the outlying possessions enumerated at the fourteenth census are presented In Volume III of the fourteenth census report. vary in Different States. “Ages of compulsory school attend wT^e vary In the different states, be ginning at seven years In 21 states and at eight years In 27 states and the District of Columbia. "The differences among the propor tions attending school for the several classes of the population are due in part to differences In distribution as between urhan and rural communities. The native whites of foreign-horn or mixed parentage and the foreign-born whites are found mainly In urban com munities, In which school attendance begins and In general ends at some what earlier ages than In rural com munities. It is probable, however, that the decidedly higher proportions for the native stock, fourteen years of nge and over, are due in part to the better economic and social position of this class of population. Attendance at school, college or any other education al Institution at the older school age is more clearly Indicative of a higher economic level than school attendance at the younger ages, when local school facilities and legal requirements are dominant factors. PAYS 44-YEAR JUDGMENT *75 Debt That Grew to $450 "Both ered" Farmer’s Conscience. J. N Wiggins of I’almyra, Neb., has achieved a little fleeting fame In the newspaper*. He appeared at* the court house at Wlnterset, la., the other day and said that he came to pay a Judgment rendered arsinst him forty four years ago. Wiggins was a farmer In Iowa and a friend went surety on a note for 175. When It came due the surety had to pay. Wiggins having to leave, ft was entered for $87.50, February 22. 1870. The surety, 3. 8. McGinnis, took an assignment, hut died years ago. Wig gins paid McGinnis's heirs 1450. which was the amount with 10 per cent In terest compounded. Wiggins said that the statute of limitations had run against the claim, but it hail ’’bothered'' him and he wanted to get rid of the uneasy feeling before he died. WARNS OF STEAM BOILERS Engineers Issue Safety Rules to Pre vent Explosions. Steam power is taking the place of strong right arms and "elbow grease” on West and Middle Weat farms, according to the boiler code committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The use of steam for scalding milk pails, cream separators, churning machinery and other dairying apparatus is fast be coming general. Steam power la being used to pump water apd saw wood. With the announcement of the In creased use of steam on farms, the committee has sounded a warning that the application of safety laws to guard against explosion of high-pres aure hollers la needed. The high-prea aure holler Is as potentially dangerous M TNT, the committee declares. At Lsast One of the Causes. Every year aecs one-time luxuries added to our llai of necessities That la the main cause of the high coat of living, directly as well aa indirectly.— Exchange. ASK YOUR MERCHANT OR THOSE FROM WHOM YOU BUY WHY HE DOES NOT ADVER TISE IN YOUR NEWSPAPER. c? jsgar «T**Mra' doctor says city folks IRE BECOMING GERM PROOF Constant Contact Produces Im munity, Is Conclusion After Research Work. City dwellers are becoming Imronn* to many diseases because of constant contact with the germs which produce them, said Dr. William H. Park, di rector of the research laboratories of the department of health In New York, In making the observation that sub ways are an aid to health rather thnn a detriment. Subway travelers breathe In so many germs their systems be come used to them. Scientific determination of the truth of thla statement. Doctor Park ex plained. resulted from examination of public school children for diphtheria gernis. The examination disclosed that many children had diphtheria germs. Dur ing the period they carried the germs, deaths from diphtheria declined rapid ly, partly due to the anti-toxin and partly to natural immunization. Tendency of city dwellers to become Immune was iflTSt noticed during the I war. It was found at camps that men from larger cities did not succumb to epidemics as paslly as men from rural districts. The country dweller Is not stricken by disease so often, but when he la the disease Is more serious in form. Another reason for the city dweller's resistance to disease Is that country houses are not so well venti lated In the winter as city homes. Immunity, Doctor Park added, la not found only In the subways, for every congested portion of a city breeds tha same resistance to disease. But In the subways, he said, the air la full of millions of germs which would produce terrible epidemics If the hu : man body had not learned to assimi late them. Strengthening of resistance tends to reduce the germ vitality, and the fact that there la leas tuberculosis now than fifty years ago la partly be cause the tuberculosis germs have de creased In virulence, Doctor Park said. Fig-Tree Emblem of Home. The fig tree, from earliest times bsa been s garden tree cultivated for Its shade and general usefulness. “Be neath the vine and flg tree" Is ussd more than once In the Old Testament to designate "homsi" For centuries the fruit, fresh or dried, has made up a large part of the food of the na tives of Western Asia and Southern Europe. Its Juice Is used to make a drink, and also to dye cloth. Its leaves polish Ivory, and the bark makes cord. The sap of one species Is polsonons. The flg tree, In climates congenial to Its growth, produces two and some times three crops of fruit the same year, on distinct shoots. The trees grow rapidly from cuttings, and are propagated by budding, grafting and seeds. The large, beautiful leaves are deciduous, palmately veined, three-to five lobed, wavy-margtned, and some what rough and leathery. Village Bars Domino Gameg on Sundayg Dunbar, W. Va.—Blue laws of ultra marine hue are being enforced In this municipality. The policy of the ad ministration is keep the lid down tight. Somebody slipped over the line of demarcation the other Sunday and played dominoes. News of the crime reached the ears of Mayor R. H. Gar rett, and he forthwith caused the fol lowing notice to be published In the Dunbar Advance: “Must close Sunday! “Notice Is hereby given that the playing of dominoes In any public place in Dunbar on Sunday will not be permitted after this. date. B. H. Garrett, mayor.” ' / We Are As Near to You As Your Telephone MEN’S SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED $1.25 LADIES’ SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED.$1.50 OTHER ARTICLES IN PROPORTION RUGS (9x12) CLEANED.. $2.50 We own and operate our own cleaning plant. It is one of the best equipped in the city. WE CLEAN EVERYTHING BUT YOUR REPUTATION i Only Colored Business of this nature in the city. \ \ 1 $6,000 worth of equipment. We invite everybody. t CLARKE STEAM DYE WORKS 1 CLEANERS, DYERS AND HATTERS : Phone ATlantic 3803 1721 Cuming Street I Ww® MRS. JACK PINKSTON’S*! I ^ r SCHOOL OF MUSIC | £ < a Pupil of Isidor Philipp (Paris, France) 1 jj J Graduate of New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. T | j 2415 North 22nd Street Tel. WE bster 6204 J j~4 i
