THE MONITOR • • __ A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS j OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA. NEBRASKA. BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY_ Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2. 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 8, 1879.___. THE REV, JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS---...-- f shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- £ !! erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person X ; ; within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. £ THANKSGIVING JT is meet, right and our bounden duty daily to return thanks to Al- j mighty God for the blessings of His bounty, and it is especially fitting that as a nation a day should be set apart to remind us of this duty and privilege. Our Thanksgiving Day will be more richly blessed if we share our good things with others. Remem ber, too, that the first motive of the day is worship, after that feasting and recreation. The Gates of Thanksgiving It is through the gates of thanks giving That we enter the courts of praise; - Our thanks for the little bounties That compass us all our days Shall bring us to greater blessings And lead us to larger ways. a O, Lord of the manifold mercies, As we number them one Iby one, From the least of Thy loving kind ness To the uttermost gift of Thy Son, Lead us on from our selfish gladness To the marvelous things Thou hast done. —Frank Herbert Sweet. __ I BUSINESS AMONG US JT is gratifying to notice the growth of business enterprises among our people. This is a much needed move ment in the right direction. O couree,! we have much to learn; but we only | learn by doing and often by failing. I Some of the most successful business ] enterprises in the country have been j built up by men and women who in their first one or two ventures failed. But thev didn’t give up. Profiting by their mistakes they tried again. And so it must be with us. We must not be discouraged because this or that venture by ourselves or others turned out unsuccessfully. There were doubtless reasons for these failures for which we may or may not have been responsible. Perhaps we deserved to fail because we dkl not render serv ice for value received. Trade and bus iness are largely impersonal. People buy where they can get the most for their money and to succeed in busi ness our people must be prepared to meet competition. North Twenty fourth street offers a splendid oppor tunity for merchants of our group. Merchants of other nationalities, some of them selling “seconds” and “thirds” in merchandise for first class prices are growing rich off our people’s patronage. We ought to have mer chants of our own securing at least part of this patronage. They can get it, too, if the*y go after it in the right way. They must know how to buy and how to sell. Where the compet ing merchant is selling “seconds” for, first class prices, let our merchants sell “firsts” for the same price and teach the purchaser the difference be tween the two. It is time more of our people of ability were intelligently and persistently going into diversified bus iness enterprises on North Twenty fourth street. A good start has been made. Let the good work go on. Let us help all deserving business ven tures among our people grow by giv ing our loyal patronage to such. SELF-HELP an impartial observer of the signs of the times it is very evi dent that our race must depend very largely, if not wholly, upon itself for its support, progress and development. The disposition to help carry us, which was once quite prevalent upon the part of the (better class of the domi nant race, if not entirely past, is rap idlv passing. We are being thrown more and more upon our own re sources. It is well that we are. It forces self-help and self-help dev elops self-respect. An individual or a people who is willing to be alw'ays carried is not worth carrying. The in dividual or race who simply will ac cept help until he can stand upon his own feet and w'alk and then thank his helper and benefactor and do it alone is the one that will command success ; and respect. Our race has, without question, reached the stage where it can and must stand upon its own feet. It must cease to be mendicants and prove its manhood. It must cease to regard itself as an object of charity. It must recognize, utilize and develop its own resources. In saying this we are not unmindful of the fact that there are limitations in the commer cial and industrial world which we must meet and overcome, but our op portunities far surpass and overtop our limitations. We think too much about our limitations and not enough about our opportunities. For exam ple, in scores of industries we find employment at comparatively good wages. Here is an opportunity which offsets the limitations of our exclu sion from other gainful pursuits. Let us make the most of the occupations by which we make our livelihood. I^et ! us excel in them. Let us save what j money we can, invest it in homes, and in the support of worthy business en terprises of our own and in this way make larger opportunities for our youth. We should show aur ability to support ourselves in all our institu tions. The time for self-help has come. Let us realize this fact, ac cept it cheerfully and thankfully and prove our title to self-respecting man hood. COMMENTS BY MUSICAL CRITICS OF OMAHA DAILIES ON HAGAN-TALBERT The Omaha Bee A pianist of splendid technique and sympathy, a singer with great beauty and flexibility of voice, and a pro gram crowded full of fine music, were features of the piano-song recital given at the Brandeis theater Mon day evening under the auspices of the Episcopal Church of St. Philip the Deacon. The program was an unusually long one, lasting almost an hour be yond the usual length of concert pro grams, but all the music presented was of a uniformly high class, and the two artists, who gave so gener ously of their time and talent, were in no way fatigued by the tremendous technical demands of the numbers they chose to interpret. Helen E. Hagan opened the pro gram with a splendid performance of the Chopin B flat minor, ‘‘Scherzo,’’ and also contributed two groups and the Lizst ‘‘Hungarian Rhapsodie” No. 2. Miss Hagan has a brilliant and facile technic, a warm, sympa thetic tone and both clarity and power. She interprets with refined taste and intelligence and an interest ing note of individuality, although sometimes she is almost too free with her rythm. She has much emo tional warmth and genuine musical feeling. Her fine tone was amply demon strated in the Liszt “Dream of Love” and much fire and brilliancy was found in the G mihor prelude of Rachmaninoff. The second group was unusually interesting, as it was made up of two transcriptions of Negro melodies by Coleridge Taylor, "I Am Troubled in My Mind” being an ex quisite number of melodic wealth and interesting development, worthy of a frequent place on recital programs. The Hungarian rhapsodie was given with brillance and power. Miss Hagan responded to several encores. Mme. Cole-Talbert astonished wdth the pure beauty of her tone quality. Her voice is fresh, warm and vibrant and there are many fine points to her singing. An excellent pianissimo was found in “Ave Maria”, by Schubert, and her width of range and the full glory of her high tones was found in the “Swiss Echo Song”, by Ecker. Two compositions by Hilbert Stewart of Chicago show a great talent in this young Negro composer and prom ises much for the future. Both songs were interesting; “Are You Ready”, a spiritual, being one of the high spots of the evening, both in itself and in its excellent interpretation. Mme. Cole-Talbert also did some of her most artistic singing in “The False Prophet”, a delightful little encore. Another number in which she was heard at her best was the well known and extremely difficult aria, “Caro Nome”, from Rigoletto. Here she sang the dazzling showers of ibrilliant melody with a flexibility, surety of pitch, technical proficiency and intelligence that did her the greatest credit. Florentine F. Pinkston followed un obtrusively in the accompaniments, some of which were extremely diffi cult. —H. M. R. The Omaha Daily News Helen Hagan, pianist, aiid, Flor ence Cole-Talbert, coloratura so prano, gave a pleasing concert Mon day evening at the Brandeis theatre under auspices of St. Philip’s Episco pal church, and proved that music is not bounded by race or nationality. These artists represent the best in the colored world of music and their program showed musicianship and sympathetic understanding of their art. Heltjn Hagan chose Chopin’s “Scherzo B Flat Minor” for her open ing number in which she displayed marked technique. Her sympathetic touch showed to best advantage in “Gardens in the Rain”, by Debussy. “I Am Troubled in Mind”, by S. Cole ridge Taylor, and “Bamboula”, an African dance, were her most applaud ed numbers and brilliant in rythmic interpretation. Florence Cole-Talbert was most ef fective in the race numbers, “The Wind Is East”, and ’’Are You Ready”, a spiritual, by Hilbert Stewart. The singer paid Mr. Stewart a very pleas ing tribute before singing his num bers. Her rendering of his two songs received marked applause. The third number in this group, “Oh, My Love”, by Harry T. Burleigh, the colored organist and baritone soloist of New York, called forth two encores, “The False Prophet” and “The Big Brown Bear”. The high tones in Miss Talbert’s vofce are very sweet and her delivery has much charm and gra eiousness of manner. Miss Florentine E. Pinkston accompanied Miss Tal bert. —Badollet. The World-Herald Madame Talbert has a voice of pleasing quality, which she uses with taste and intelligence. Clear enuncia tion and careful phrasing added to the numerous good points of her deliv ery. Opening with the difficult classic aria, “Queen of Night”, she gradual ly came into her own and sang with fine effect Schubert’s “Ave Maria”, and esepecially the “Swiss Echo Song”, byEcker. Two new numbers by Hilbert Stewart proved quite ingratiating, as also the beautiful “Oh, My Love”, by Burleight. Specially worthy of men tion for its pathos and grace was “At Parting”, by Rogers, also the “Spirit Flower”, by Tipton, which was very well sung. Madame Talbert ended by the famous “Caro Nome”, and gra ciously added several encores in re sponse to the generous applause which greeted her efforts. 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