THE MONITOR
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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.
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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.
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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.
Miss Hagan opened the program
with a sympathetic and at times bril
liant performance of the Scherzo in
R Flat Minor, by Chopin, showing
good technique and pleasing tone. In
her second group, consisting of the
I.iebi <traum, by Liszt, with its beau
tiful tore work, “Gardens in the Rain”
of Debussy and the G Minor Prelude
of Rachmaninoff, she held the audi
ence by the magnetism of her inter
pretations. “I Am Troubled in Mind”,
by S. Coleridge-Taylor, and “Bam
boula”, the African Dance, trahscrip
tion of Negro melodies, proved fas
cinating on account of their effective
rhythms, while the Second Hungarian
Rhapsodie, by Liszt, gave Miss Hagan
an opportunity to display the different
sides of her art,, for which she was
most warmly applauded.
Miss Hagan responded with two or
three encores. She was especially ef
fective in her fleet finger work and
resonant chords.
Miss Florentine Pinkston was the
accompanist of the evening.
—August M. Borglum.
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OPEN LETTEB TO WM. (J. McADOO
Editor of the Monitor: Please pub
lish the following:
Omaha, Nebr., Nov. 10, 1923.
Editor of the Monitor
Wm. Gibbs MeAdoo,
San Francisco,
Calif.
Dear Sir:
As you have already launched your
candidacy for President, you: seem
to think that you are the only living
man that can enforce even the most
difficult law, the Volstead Act. It
would appear as though you were tak
ing all the credit to yourself, and in
doing so, you are just like most of
the drys, who fiiink that all they have
to do is to lainba-st and criticize all
law enforcers in order to make a big
noise.
We believe you are posing in try
ing this false Issue in making such
preposterous claims. Why don’t you
offer some tangible solution and con
structive methods with which this
could be accomplished?
As you have been spending much
of your time recently in Texas with
your friend Mayfield, who we under
stand you have aligned yourself with,
in an effort o obtain his support with
the backing of the Klu Klux Klan.
The people are now interested In
knowing what your connection really
is with the Klan.
What would you do If you were
president? How’ would you enforce
the Volstead Act?
The better class of American citi
zens, as members of the National Lib
erty League, wil' insist that these
quetions be fully and frankly an
swered.
Respectfully yours,
DON E. DeBOW,
National Secretary
BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH
Her. Frederick Divers, Paslor
The RALLY FOR SOULS Is on.
"ONE A DAY FOR THE GOOD OLD
WAY” Is the meaning underlying the
new interest in all the departments
of the church. The Sunday School
thrives, increasing from Sunday to
Sunday.
Last Sunday was another splendid
day for Church services. The pastor
preached morning and evening. There
were good congregations at each ser
; vice. There were three accessions,
among them one conversion.
Mrs. Lizzie L. Howard is with us
! this week and the meeting started
| with life. There was one conversion
Monday night and there was good
congregation last night. She may
not be with us longer than Sunday
but we are anxious for everybody
to hear this Ev?.ogelist.
ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHCRCH
25th and R St.—Phone Market S47S
0. J. Bnrrkhardt. Pastor
Sunday night marked the closing
scene of one of the greatest revival
meetings that has been conducted in
Allen Chapel in recent years. Dr.
Samuel R. Skeleton wan the evan
gelist in charge of the meeting.
Many were united with our church
and a few to other denominations.
Mrs. Mattie Hall has been appointed
Deaconess, Wesley Carter, District
8toward, and Mrs. Cora Norman was
elected president of the young peoples
prayer band; Mrs. Comenza Watkins,
secretary and Mrs. Irene Brown,
treasurer. This club will meet Fri
day night with the regular clans meet
ing. Mrs. Hodges is quite sick. Mes
sers J. B. Showers and Jones are
getting on nicely at the hospital. The
Church will give a Thanksgiving Din
ner for the Trustee Department.
PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH
The pastor, the Rev. Wm. Frank
lin, being absent from the city, hav
ing gone to Bruton, Ala., the services
will be in charge of the Rev. J. H.
Bruce, pastor of Spring Hill Baptist
Church, until his return. B. S. Sut
ton acted as superintendent of the
Sunday School because of the illness
of the superintendent.
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