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    THE MONITOR
A WIULT NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS
OF COLORED AMERICANS_
rnunOD EVERT FRIDAY AT OMAHA. NEBRASKA. BY THE
MONITOR PUBLISHINQ COMPANY
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fUm RlVrJOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS----—-Sdjtor
W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Nab,--Aaaoclatc Editor
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ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES
Cfttaenship Eights Nst to Be Abridged
1. AH psroono born or nstarattsed in the United States, I
and snhjsct te the jwisdietion thereof, are dtinsns of the ;
United States and of the State wherein they reside. Ne <
stale dnB make er enforce any law which shall abridge the !
pstiBsgm er immunities of dtissne of the United States; nr ;
dnl any state deprive any person of Ufe, Hberty, or prop ;
erty with set dno pro cone of taw, nor deny to any person !
wtthla its jurisdiction the equal protection of the taws.
k THOUGHT FOB THE WEEK
I would be TRUE for there are
those who trust me,
I would be PURE for there are
those who care.
I would be STRONG for there is
much to suffer,
I would be BRAVE for there is
much to dare,
1 would be FTtlEND to all the
many friendless,
I would be GIVING and forget
the gift,
I would be HUMBLE for I know
my weakness,
I would LOOK UP, and laugh
and love and lift
—Howard Walter.
EASTER
RASTER, the queen of Christian fes
tivals, has come again. It brings
joy and gladness to the hearts of men,
for it proclaims a truth which answers
the questionings of the human heart.
For ages men sought answer to the
question, “If a man die shall he live
again?” There was that within them
which made them cherish the hope,
if not the belief, that death was not
the end of all. There were high as
pirations for which life’s brief span
seemed wholly inadequate and emo
tions of the heart, too sweet and sa
cred, to be satisfied with less than
immortality. There were forshadow
ings in the souls of men of life be
yond the tomb. Then there entered
One within the realm of men, whose
life proclaimed Him to be divine. He
lived a perfect sinless human life. He
died for the love He bore for men,
the death of a malefactor upon a
cross, the symbol of shame and ig
nominy, upon a hill called Calvary.
Before His death He confidently af
firmed that upon the third day He
would rise again. A guard of Roman
soldiers was set to guard His tomb
lest his disciples should steal His body
and proclaim that He had risen. The
Roman guard was all in vain. True
to His promise on the third day He
rose triumphant from the grave, hav
ing burst the bonds of death, and
brought the answer for which t’e
ages had been waiting. This fact of
the Resurrection is the chief creden
tial of the deity of Christ, Who
brought life and immortality to light.
And so Easter brings a holy joy to
all mankind. May the fullest joy of
Eastertide, with all its sacred mean
ing, be theirs who read this message.
OMAHA BEAUTIFUL
WE ARE quite sure that all our
people will enter fully into the
plan to make Omaha a clean, health
ful and beautiful city. As a rule our
many home owners take special pride
in keeping their houses and premises
clean and attractive. Many of these
homes are genuine show places. For
home owners there is the incentive
for beautifying their homes that is
lacking in the average tenant. Much
of the rental property occupied by our
citizens is poorly kept up by the own
ers, who in many cases charge exor
bitant rent for unsightly shacks. Oc
cupants of such places have little en
couragement to try to beautify the
premises. Landlords should be com
pelled to repair and paint houses of
this character. The city authorities
should see that this is done. This
is an important thing to be consid
ered in making Omaha a more beau
tiful city. All tenants should see to
it that the premises are kept clean and
made as attractive with flowers ana
well-kept gardens as possible. Let us
all work together to make Omaha a
more beautiful city.
JAPANESE EXCLUSION
^MERICAN lawmakers are again
showing their stupidity by the
Japanese exclusion act, which is most
drastic in its provisions. The Japan
ese are a cultured and thrifty people,
and as such can become a valuable
asset to this country. Their cultiva
tion of the land in California shows
what they can do as agriculturists.
They have quietly attended to theii
own business. They are lawabidmg
and self-respecting and lots of Amer
icans could profit by following theii
example. The drastic Japanese ex
clusion act is a foolhardy piece oi
legislation for which the United
States may some day be sorry.
HAS GOOD POINT
WE publish elsewhere in this issue
a clever bit of sarcastic writing
under the caption, “The White Race
Is Not Inferior.” The writer has
parodied a recent magazine article
dealing with the Negro race after the
same style. It has a good point.
A DISTINCT LOSS
rJ1HE South and those interested in
inter-racial good will have suf
fered a distinct loss in the death oi
John J. Eagan of Atlanta, March 30.
Not only has the interracial move
ment lost a warm friend but labor'
also, for industrial reform found in
him a champion and advocate. His
sympathies were broad and his in
terest in humanity keen. He recog
nized the need of bringing both races
together in conference that there
might be mutual understanding and
cooperation in working out social and
economic problems in which all are
concerned. He has rendered a distinct
service to humanity and his place
will be difficult to fill. One of the
encouraging signs of the times is the
fact that men like John J. Eagan have
Lbeen raised up to promote interracial
amity and goodwill. May his mantle
fall upon a worthy successor.
WHITE RACE IS NOT INFERIOR;
HAS MANY GOOD POINTS
By George 8. Schuyler
In February Messenger Magazine.
"Many of the leading thinkers of the
nation view with alarm ‘the growing’
prejudice against Caucasians. No in
telligent Negro should fall victim to
this dastardly form of race prejudice,
based wholly on a certain group’*
lack of pigmentation.
Contrary to all the pernicious pro
paganda circulated by black suprem
acy advocates, the Negro is in no way
superior to the Caucasian. In any con
sideration of these uncolored people
it should be kept in mind that they
are in this country through no fault
of their own . . . With only about
3,000 years’ contact with any kind of
civilization, they have done fairly
well.
“Because the great civilizations of
our ancestors flourished in Africa
while the white people were living lit
tle better than the animals whose pelts
they sought for covering is no reason
for our looking down on them. Many
of our African tribes are almost as
savage as the inhabitans of England
whom Julius Caesar took back to
1 Rome as curios.
“While the Caucasians have origin
ated nothing, they have shown great
ability to adopt, adapt and so become
adept. They took over bodily our
Egyptian pantheism and made a pretty
fair religion out of it. The system
of notation and the fundamentals of
mechanics which our ancestors worked
out 10,000 years ago have enabled the
Caucasians to construct the marvels
of engineering we see all about us.
"They have almost equalled the
pyramids, obelisks and magnificent
tombs erected by Jewish labor under
our supervision long centuries ago.
History shows that the Greeks very
skillfully copied and improved upon
the civilization of the darker peoples
whom they displaced. We must be
big enough to give credit where it is
due . . .
“Many critical Negroes point to the
Caucasian’s excessive gullibility and
superstition as a further evidence of
his inferiority. While no one can
successfully deny the white people’s
widespread belief in witches, ghosts,
democracy, banshees, devils and an
gels, not to mention the quackery of
Mary Baker Eddy, Coue, Bryan, Billy
Sunday, John S. Summer, Emperor
Simmons, Gregory Zinoveiff and the
Mormons—we Negroes are not entire
ly guiltless. Many of our weaker
minded brethren voraciously devour
the twaddle of Marcus Garvey, Black
Herman, Ben Davis, ‘Dr.’ Harrison and
other mountebanks, with equal avid
ity.
“Other Caucasophobes make much
of our ability to live and thrive in
any climate, while the white people
can barely struggle along in the tem
perate zone. In summer, it is said,
they are worried* by sunburn and in
winter by frostbite. However, sweep
ing generalizations are seldom true.
Occasionally one can find a white man
in the tropics who can stand the heat
as well as a Negro. And in Alaska,
Canada and the Dakotas the Negro in
habitant often complains almost as
much as his ‘Nordic’ brother about
the severe winters. I would call these
prejudiced people’s attention to the
fact that Mat Henson had a Caucasian
—Peary—with him when he discover
ed the North Pole!”
BOOK CHAT
ByMary White Ovington
Chairman, Board of Directors of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
"THERE IS CONFUSION”—By Jessie
Redmon Fauset. Published by
Messrs. Boni & Liveright, 61 West
48th Street, New York City. Price
$2.00. Postage 10c.
In this story of colored people and
their cultural life, Peter Bye, the hero,
charming, able, but sometimes irres
ponsible, learns at the last that he
has white blood in his veins. His
great-grandfather was a mulatto.
Turning to his wife he says: “See,
dear, this is the result of all I used
to be. My ingratitude, my inability to
adopt responsibility, my very irreso
luteness come from that strain of
white Bye blood.” When one remem
bers the number of white men in fic
tion who, on learning that they have
a strain of colored blood in their veins,
turn brutes and rapists, one can see
the pleasure that Miss Fauset had In
penning those lines.
But this should not be quoted as
typical of the book. Its satire Is very
occasional, perhaps unconscious. It
is a story written by a colored woman
of distinction detailing the life of a
group of young people, the most of
them born into the most cultured cir
cle of the colored world. It takes
them from their childhood into their
married life, and details the many ad
ventures and vicissitudes that befall
them on their way. This attempt,
however, to tell of so many people is
the most serious criticism of the book.
There are three good stories in it,;
that of Joanna and Peter, the hero i
and heroine, told with some detail; j
that of Maggie Ellersley, the best
drawn of the characters, a climber
who want to be well established so
cially more than anything else In life;
and that of Vera, the white colored girl ;
and her dark lover. We only get
glimpses of them, and the great mo
ments of their lives are hurried over
to get on with the story. But we do
glimpse them, and for the first time
since Chesnutt’s stories, move freely
through the colored world.
I cannot imagine any colored per
son who knows the world Miss Fauset
depicts who can fail to get and read
this book. Peter, Phillip, Henderson,
Joanna, Maggie. Vera, here are dif
ferent types but all virile young peo
ple. Race prejudice touches them all.
Not in dramatic ways, in lynchngs or
RUicides, but in finer, more sub*lle
fashion. With Peter Bye it acts first
as a soporific, but later as a spur.
He is asked patronizingly to meet one
of the “white Byes” whose people
once held his family as slaves; and
stirred at the insult he goes back to
his difficult task as medical student.
Joanna, consumate prig, it softens a
little. It hb.s an unlovely way of fos
tering selfconsciousness.
For a white reader, the social strati
fications described in the colored
world will be of great interest. Here
is as much snobbery as one finds
among the “first families of Virginia”
as depicted by Thomas Nelson Page.
“I can’t endure this utter separation
from people who mean something,”
Maggie Ellersley cries, telling her
reluctant lover that his name would
give her entrance into the best fam
ilies in Philadelphia. And do the best
families hanker in their turn for as
sociation with the whites? They wan
so to succeed that the white race will
HAVE to recognize them. The world
must know their talent and genius.
Is this colored world that Miss
Fauset draws quite true? I know too
little to criticise and yet 1 miss a Dig
spiritual force that I have myself seen
throbbing there. What do you think
who read tile book? I want my read
ders to tell how true they think this
picture of the young men and women
in the colored world. Write and give
me your opinion.
ARKANSAS LILY-WHITES
USE ARMED GUARDS
—
Little Rock, Aark., April 18.—Armed
guards were used by lily-white Re
publicans here to keep 100 colored
citizens from attending the Pulaski
County Republican Convention last
week.
Race visitors -went to a new hall and
elected Judge Scipio A. Jones tem
porary chairman.
LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT
May 12th is the date of Minnehaha
Camp Fire Girls entertainment in the
new Masonic Hall on P street. Do
not forget! Monday evening, May 12th.
Come and see the kiddies and older
children in song, pantomine and drill.
Tickets are on sale by Minnehaha:
Camp.
The Easter festivities of Quinn
Chapel are: Sunday school Easter pro
gram 9:30 by children; Easter sermon
by Rev. M. C. Knight at 11:00 a. m.,
and Senior Choir Easter Cantata,
“Calvary” at 7:30 p. m.
The Norah Taylor society of Quinn
Chapel will sponsor an evening with
Dunbar Friday, April 25th, at 8:30.
Extracts from the beloved poet should
create a response to fill the audi
torium.
Quinn Chapel choir, under the di
rection of Mme. Colley Malone pres
ented Eastertide in commemoration of
Palm Sunday. The tableaux were Per
fectly carried out and were particular
ly enjoyed by the large audience.
The L. L. Kensington met at the
residence of Mrs. Jack Oalbreath.
Current events and topics of the day
were discussed in round table led
by Mrs. C. C. Chrisman. Each one of
the members participating in the pro
gram for the afternoon, after which
the hostess served a delictable spring
menu. Next meeting will be with
Secretary Mrs. V. Lewis.
The DaviB’ Women's Club met with
Mrs. Georgia Flippin. A social hour
followed the routine of business. The
hostess served a delightful lunch. The
| members started the Davis’ Women’s
| Drive April 18th to the 11th of May
| for the benefit of the Old Folks’ Home.
| Mrs. Tesia Cooley, president.
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A supper given for the benefit of
i the liberation of the soldiers serving
I terms in federal prison at Leaven
1 worth by the local N. A. A. C. P. a;
j A. M. E. Church was fairly attended.
Mr8. Fanny Young and Mrs. Jennie
Johnson were attendants at the Sun
, day School Superintendents and
| Teachers Association convention at j
Omaha last Sunday, Misses Mildred
Brown, Elizabeth Peeples and Cozy
May Smith were also Omaha visitors
Sunday.
Lebanon Lodge No. 3, A. 5'. & A. M.,
will move into their new quarters at
1030 P street, about May 1st.
The M. M. Mission will meet with
Mr*. Rosa Adair, 730 North 13th street,
j Tuesday night, April 22nd.
Remit for your paper now!
Mrs. Harry Mackay and son of Oma
ha visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. W. Coleman, and friends here.
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Palm Sunday was appropriately cel
ebrated by the Lady’s Court in New
man M. E. Church last Sunday after
j noon. The program consisted of
music and an address on Biblical
characters, etc. A fair crowd was
present.
Ella Naomi Bottg is able to be out
after gome days’ confinement on ac
count of operation for tonsilitis.
The Buds of Promise, consisting of
little girls, will give their country fair
Monday night, April 28th, at Mt. Zion
Baptist church. .
A committee of three, consting of
I Attorney John A. Adams, Dr. F. W.
Botts and Rev. O. J. Burckhardt came
over from Omaha to call on Governor
C. W. Bryan and to try to secure the
appointment of Attorney M. W. Ware,
one of our group, to fill a vacancy in
municipal court at Omaha, caused by
the death of Judge Wappich. Mr. 1
Bryan Informed the committee that he
was obliged to go by the vote of the
people, and as George B. Colling re
ceived more votes than Ware, and had
been an associate democratic friend of
his in last legislature, he no doubbt
deserves to be given the appointment.
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Services at Mt. Zion Baptist church <
were conducted as usual, athe pastor J
delivered very good sermons. The
Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. had
usual services. “The Feast in the
Wilderness” by Mr. Nimrod Ross’ club
last Thursday night proved success
ful. Other clubs are doing likewise.
This series of festivals will terminate
May 4th, when the Big Rally will take
place, and each club will make final
report.
Next Sunday will be Easter, when
sunrise services will be held at the
churches. The 8unday schools will
distribute Easter eggs to the faithful
kiddies, who have been looking for
ward to the occasion. Easter exercises i
will be carried out By the schools. I
The choir of Mt. Zion Baptist church
I will render a beautiful song and can
I tata at night. Hear them! ]
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Services at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. ]
Church were as follows: Sunday ]
school at 9:30, J. R. Thomas, superin- j
tendent; preaching by the pastor at (
11 a. m. on the subject, "Jesus at
Jerusalem”, a Palm Sunday sermon;
A. C. E. S'vciety at 6:30, John A. |
Adams, president; at 7:30 illustrated
tableaux, “Easter Tide”, by the choir
and others, directed by Mrs. Izetta
Malone. 1
Remit for your paper! Thank you!
Rev. I. B. Smith conducted services !
at the Newman M. E. Church last (
Sunday in the absence of Rev. G. W.
Carter, who is attending the annual
conference.
Rev. J. Burt is still conducting his i
services at the morning and is doing !
fairly well. <
Readers: I trust as you read this
news that you will think of what you ,
owe The Monitor. I am trying to do
some collecting at times. You win
oblige The Monitor and also your Lin
coln representative by giving him the *
glad hand. Here is hoping all readers ,
may have a happy Easter.
Yours respectfully, 1
WILLIS W. MOSLEY.
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Nebraska Civil Rights Bill
J Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights. |
teacted in 18M.
Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All peenons within this state shall |
be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the aecommndattona. adven- |
tagea, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyance, |
barber shops, theatres and other places of amonsmunt; subject only to the |
conditions and limitations setablished by law and applicable alike to every |
See. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who
shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any parson, except for §
reasons of law applicable to all persona, the full enjoyment of any of the |
acconunodatinns, advantages, facilities^ or privileges enumerated in the §
foregoing section, or by siding or inciting such denials, AaD for each
effease bo guilty of a misdemeanor, and bo fined in any sum not Isas than |
twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the eosts
Of the prosecution.
"The original act was held valid as to dtiaone; barber rimps can net |
discriminate against persons on account of color. Mseewiger vs State, .*
K Nebr. page 877. N. W. 8t8.” r
“A restaurant keeper who rafusss to serve a eoiorsd parson with rs- 1
frsshmmts Is a certain part of his restaurant, for no otter nsgc than
(hat ha Is colored, is civilly liable, though he often to serve him by settle I
a table ia same private port of the bouse. Ferguson vs Qlea, SC Mkh. I
M; N. W. Til* |
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