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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
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Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb.
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ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE ♦
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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. £
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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