■ . ■■ - ... - -- ' ..— THE MONITOR A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered an Second-Class Mall Matter July 2, 1915. at the Postoffice at Omaha. Nebraska, under tile Act of March 3, 1879. _ THE MV,' JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS.....Editor W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln. Nab. .. Associate Editor LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS.—...— Business Manager B. 8. SUTTON____Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR; *1.25 8 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application_ Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 V .— j ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE ♦ ! I UNITED STATES | Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged 2 ; I 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, I ; ; and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ? ! ’ United States and of the State wherein they reside. No I ! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the X J; 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. £ ..'■■! ' ' ■ ... ... I EPHRAIM’S IDOLS "T'PHRAIM is joined to his idols, let him alone; but if Israel trans gress he shall be punished.” These words are particularly appli- i cable to certain conditions which are | confronting many northern communi ties where hitherto, with certain lim- j itations, the civil rights and privi- j leges of colored citizens, in common i with those of other citizens, have been respected. But it cannot be de-1 nied that in recent years sentiments I which have been idols of the South j have become prevalent in the North. ! One of the South’s most popular idols, its fetish to which it bows down with all the blindness of a benighted j African savage, is that of race preiu-! dice. This manifests itself in a fanat- '■ ical determination to humiliate the ( American of color in every wav possi- 1 ble and make him feel that he is a pariah. This is the prime purpose un derlying segregation, jimcrowism and the denial or curtailment of civil rights and privileges. These are the South’s idols. “Ephraim is joined to his idols.” Too blinded by his idolatry and ignorance to know the extent and folly of this transgression and sin. So all we can do, and should do, is to pray for his conversion that his eyes may be opened and that he mav be brought to see the light. The North, however, has not, AS YET, fallen completely under the spell of this idolatry. There is, however, unmis takable evidence of its growing apos tacy. If it bow to this idolatry, it ■will undoubtedly be punished. Almost dai ly in our own community we are con fronted with this same fanatical de sire to humiliate the colored Ameri can. A flagrant case of this charac ter, and it is but typical of many, oc curred last week when Dan Desdunes, one of our most useful and highly re spected citizens, who had.been invited to confer with a prominent business man of Minneapolis, Minn., at the Fontenelle hotel was not permitted to enter the passenger elevator. “I thought this was the North,” said the indignant guest when informed of the affront put upon Mr. Desdunes. De nial of full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, fa cilities and privileges of inns, restau rants, public conveyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the condi tions and limitations established hy law and applicable alike to every per son,” which is becoming all too com mon in this and other hitherto com paratively fair-dealing and liberal minded communities is indicative of I the fact that the North is bowing! down to the South’s idols. Can it af ford to do this without sustaining1 great spiritual and moral loss? What will American civilization gain by fanatical worship of Ephraim’s idols ? THE RIGHT STAND rJ'HE MONITOR desires to personal ly thank Washington and Jeffer son University for its manly and righteous stand last Saturday in re fusing to withdraw Charles West, its gentlemanly and stellar halfback, from its football team at the demand of Washington and Lee University simply upon the ground of his color. Washington and I^ee demanded that West be removed from the opposing team or they would not play. The Pennsylvania team stood pat which was the only’ right, manly' and sports manlike thing to do and the Virgin ians forfeited the game. Universities should stand for liberal culture which recognizes men upon their merits and makes for broadmindedness and not narrowness and higotry. This should make impossible the unsportsmanlike spirit shown by many American col- ; leges in the field of athletics. Mav ! other universities have the courage to stand with Washington and Jeffer- j son. SUPPORTING OUR INSTITUTIONS OUR Citizens should take special pride in supporting all our wel fare institutions. All who have visited the Old Folks Home will realize that this is a worthy charity in which we should be deeply interested. The same is true of the North Side Branch of ! the Y. W. C. A. Not only should we do our full share in the maintenance of these institutions but as Omaha 1 citizens we should stand ready to con | tribute our share towards the support of all welfare organizations function j ing here — HOLD UP IDEALS JT is a serious mistake which some parents make in telling their chil dren who may have displeased them, that they never will amount to any thing. The law of suggestion is strong. Hold up to them ideals and encourage them to strive after those ideals. They will try to do so. The same is true of classes, groups and races. The estimated value of the proper ty owned by Negroes in the United I States is $1,500,000,000. BOOK CHAT By Mary White Ovington Chairman Board of Directors of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. “The Widening Light”—By Carrie Williams Clifford. Can be secured through The Crisis, 69 Fifth Avenue, New York. Price $1.50. Postage 10c. “The Widening Light” is a collec tion of verse covering a considerable period of composition. Mrs. Clifford is an “occasional” writer, and sings of various happenings in the Negro world. The Negro Players of Broad way, The Silent Protest Parade, The East St. Isjuis Riots, The Tercenten ary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown. The Lynching of Mary Turner. She tells of the Negro’s lack of opportunity, and she praises the great men of the race, Douglass, Dun bar, Rraithwaite. Her poems show a deep horror of injustice and cruelty. There is a gentler note. A lover of nature she speaks of “the tiny cloud that o’er the hilltop clung” at Grass mere; of "the ocean, gripped by the tide, of “the betling night fading to ward the dawn.” Her pictures of out of-doors are warm and fragrant, but the book stands primarily as an in ditement of the white man. “Whose, whose the condemnation then, if I Shame the false lips that lured them with a lie”” Thus the mother cries who has giv en two sons, her first bom and her last, to war that promised freedom and democracy and that ended in a lie. She inveighs against prejudice, the filthy sore “Polluting all the currents of pure air. Dispersing its vile atoms every where.” And she hopes, wistfully for a future that shall be free of the rank weed, injustice. What a wasteful thing is race pre judice! Man has taken over this no ble planet and is moulding it with his very human hands. Certainly he need's all the love and kindliness and abilit of every race to keep his world from becoming a mud ball, grimy, ugly, gnawed a wav by parasites. And yet he spends the fast speeding years in preventing his neighbor from help:ng him! It is ludricrous as well as pathe tic. Mrs. Clifford sees this and thus voices her hopes of the future. And ye, who view life daily thro’ a veil, At length shall read its riddle face to face! The hidden springs of beauty and the grace Of fuller living wait beyond this trail Blood-stained and steep; there stands the Holy Grail Whose healing waters shall the woe= efface, Of plodding pilgrims, who still seek the place Where men of every race shall say, “All Hail!” To this broad shrine, we too shall bring our gift Of joyous laughter, song and loyal love; And rank on rank still surging up, we’ll lift Hosannahs to the God-of-worlds above! His listening ear will catch our minor, sweet, Making the concord of the sphere complete. Going! Going! Where? ? To beautiful Dreamland Hall in the new Jewell building, Tuesday eve., Oct. 16. Adv. Mrs. Jean Lattimore, who has been seriously ill for several months, is re ported a little better. 1*^™" 11 \wm\mmtwn. 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, 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 Nebr. 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 ho is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in amrare private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich. 868; N. W. 718." ■fe -* fX* Wa | . — 11 ■■ m ■ ... ■' ■< ' WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY Shifting the Color Line Hatred breeds nothing good. In the South, where so much of industry and agriculture is dependent upon Negro labor, the spread of race hatred is in juring the best interests of that sec tion of the country. The northward migration of Negroes in recent years has been so great that fears are ex pressed about the future of the sup ply of laborers. The cotton planters will be hard put to secure an ade quate number of workers, even at an increased rate of wages. This situation, sensed by leading southerners, has led to much discus sion, and recently President Coolidge was lequested to create a commission to study the problem. The only reme dy which has proved effective in many districts is tetter treatment of I the laborers. For the Negro comes north, not so much to compete with white wage earners in northern cities, but because he feels, rightly or wrongly, that he is not treated fairly in many parts of the South. A keen er analysis of more important social problems and a more tolerant atti tude on the part of the employing group would alleviate much of the difficulties which face them. — The Omaha Bee. TEACHERS’ EXAMINATION An examination for Teachers’ Cer tificates will be held at the County Superintendent’s office at the Court House in Omaha on Saturday, Octo ber 29, 1923. Subjects for County and State Cer tificates will be given. HENRY M. EATON, County Superintendent. ;!; Expert Repairing ;|; Best Quality Strings !j! ! Cuming Music Shop I ,f Dealers in All Kinds of £ Y. Musical Instruments, £ £ Sheet Music and Musical £ Instruction Books x £ Office of $ Richards School of Music !«! 2111 CuminK St., Omaha 'I £ ~XK~X'*X‘ Merchandise ;j; | — Stop at — j|j | Colton Bros. 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