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The monitor A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY AT OMAHA. NEBRASKA. BY THE MONITOR PUBLJSHINQ COMPANY___ ^n, ,1 u Sooond-ClAM Mull Matter July 2, 1915. at the Poatoffloe et OmM Nebraska, under the ArtjX March 1. 1879. fW'i'RivTJdHN ALBERT WILLIAM* W. W. MO**LY, Lincoln, Neb ^ ^ SUTTON___.___Circulation Manager i SUBHCRIPTION RAT**, *2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 • MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS _Advertleln* Rat— FumWied Upon Application_ Address, The Mow tor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 V. -j ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Cltiaanship Rights Nst to Be Abridged 1. AH persona bora or naturalised ia the United States, and anhject te the jurisdiction thereof, are citiaens ef the United States sad ef the State wherein they reside. No state nhall make sr enforce any law which shall abridge the pih Bag in or immuidties of ritixess of the United States; ner ahnB any stats deprive any person ef Hfs, liberty, er prop erty withent dee pro etna ef law, nor deny te any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law*. 1 THOUGHT FOB THE WEBE I would be TRUE for there are tboae 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, I would be FRIEND to all the many friendless, I would be GIVING and forget j the gift, I would be HUMBLE for I know my weakness, I would LOOK UP, and laugh and love and lift —Howard Walter. CONCERNING TEACHERS "y^E HAVE received several tele phone messages and several let ters, some of which are published in this issue, concerning our last weeks’ editorial on representation on the teaching staff of the city schools. All these are commentory and urge any united action and co-operation' upon the part of our citizens that may be necessary to secure the recognition to which as taxpayers, citizens and patrons of the public schools we are Justly entitled. Nor are these ex pressions confined to our own people. Several broad minded white friends, who are readers of The Monitor, have expressed themselves as being whole heartedly in accord with this just re quest. As we said last week, with Superintendent Beveridge friendly and with the high-clai* personel of the Boardl of Education to whom we be lieve we can confidently look for a square deal and not a cowardly and unethical subterfuge and with appli cants meeting the standardized qual ifications we see nothing to prevent appointments being made. All the Teachers’ Committee, headed by Dr. J. H. Wallace has to do is to con sider the applicants upon their mer its as to character and qualifications and recommend accordingly. It will then be up to Superintendent Bever idge to make the assignment to such schools as he may deem best. As we see it, this) iB all there is to it. It is up to our young women to fully qual ify, as several of them have done, and meet all' requirements and then it is up to the Superintendent and Board of Education to do the just, honest and honorable thing, and we believe that they can be depended upon to do it. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION gPEAKING against Japanese exclu sion before the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in session at Springfield, Mass., the Rev. Dr. Stephens of California said, “As Christians we cannot countenance ra cial discrimination. It is not good policy to enact legislation which will stimulate ill-feeling and a sense tnat they are held to be inferior to the white race.” The learned doctor is right. The broad principle which he here lays down, does not apply to the Japanese alone but to all races whose, status, in the mind of the dominant race in the United States and their Anglo Saxon compeers elsewhere, is deter mined upon the accident of pigmen tation rather than upon mental ability and moral worth. Racial discrimina tion will cease when all those who profees and call themselves Christians will boldly take the only position ten able with the doctrine ot brotherhood taught by Christ, that "AS CHRIS TIANS WE CANNOT COUNTENANCE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.” This is the principle for which white Chris tians in America must stand, too, in dealing with our group. It is be cause they do not act upon this prin ciple, but countenance, defend and apologize for the most cowardly, un just and humiliating racial discrim ination that so many of our promising younger men and women are, in in creasing numbers, discrediting the "white man’s Christianity.” That "it is not good policy to enact ' legislation,” or deny the enjoyment of civil rights "which will stimulate i’l-feeling and a sense) that they* are, held to be inferior to the white race” | applies with equal force to us, for all jim-crow legislation is enacted and enforced against our people for this purpose. It creates ill-feeling. All 6elf-respecting people among us re sent it. We are by no means satis fied and America will not be safe as long as such things not only exist but | become more irksome and malignant.; Both Christian ethics and a safe pol icy are against racial discrimination. May Christian Americans realize this and have the moral courage to act accordingly. _ MAKING GOOD ^ENTRAL High School of Omaha | won for the eighth time the inter ] state track meet in which 51 high schools competed at Lincoln last Sat urday, seventeen schools entering each one ot the three groups. Cen tral scored 29 points as against Hast ngs, its nearest competitor’s 23. Of the 29 scored by the purple and white, Martin Tohmas piled up 10 by cap turing two firsts, and Weldon Solo mon 5, by winning one first. The two colored athletes on Central’s team scored for their team more than one half of the total number of points. Not a bad showing. Congratulations, Cen tral; congratulations, Coach Schmidt; congratulations, Thomas and Solomon. But—suppose a narrow policy was the rule in school athletics here and these boys had been segregated or barred on account of color! In every con test in which our youth have com peted on equal terms, as it should be, with their fellow students, they have brought honor to the school whose colors they were wearing. This points its own moral and teaches a very plain lesson. IS IT PUNISHMENT OR RETRENCHMENT? rJ*HE dismissal of twenty-one police officers, many of them being of senior rank, immediately after the election, will be construed by many as punishment for political activity or non-activity rather than an hon est and sincere effort at retrench ment. Many will argue that if re trenchment be the object this could be accomplished by the retirement of Junior officers rather than those of senior rank. This is not an unreas onable view to take of the situation, is it? POOL HALLS f'AMAHA’S colored population has far too many pool halls. In saying this we recognize the fact that pool and billiard halls, PROPERLY CON DUCTED, are just as legitimate and respectable business as any other kind of business, since it Is the sell A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM RACE K PREJUDICE % \ By Morney Williams 3 (For the Associated Negro Press) j OGOD, who hast made man in Thine own likeness and < who dost love all whom Thou hast made, suffer us not, | because of difference in race ,color or condition, to 5 ; separate ourselves from others, and thereby from Thee; but j ' teach as the unity of Thy family and the universality of | ; Thy love. As Thy Son, our Savior, was born of an Hebrew ; ; mother and ministered first to His brethren of the House ; of Israel, but rejoiced in the faith of a Syro-Phoenician wo- < : man and of a Roman soldier, and suffered His cross to be ! ; carried by a man of Africa, teach us, also, while loving and ; ' serving our own, to enter into the communion of the whole < ! human family; and forbid that, from pride of birth and ! ; hardness of heart, we should despise any for whom Christ ; ; died, or injure an/ in whom He lives. Amen. ing of certain kind of recreation and amusement which many enjoy. The selling of this recreation or entertain ment, under proper conditions, is just as legltmate and respectable as the selling of recreation in the form of movies, theatrical performances, con certs or baseball. But, as a matter of I fact, very few pool halls are conduct ed under proper conditions and whol ly free from objectionable features. Granting, however, for the sake of ar gument, that all pool halls are prop erly conducted, we still maintain that as a rac^ in this city we have a dis proportionate number. We believe that some of the capital so( invested could be used to a better advantage in some other ilne of business, and we would like to see this done. METHODISTS HOED GREAT MEETING IN EOUISVILEE (Continued from Page 1) i a period of twelve years or more, his widow would be pensioned commensu rate with the standard of the office he held at the time of his death. Increase in our Budget System “That we are progressing cannot be denied. We have advanced year by year, but we must take still higher ground. We have made a big pro gram. To carry this out the whole financial scheme needs revision. “We should standardize our regu lar Theological Seminaries and man them with the best and strongest pro fessors obtainable. “Our schools and colleges should tie classified and equipped for the work they advertise to do and be provided with the best qualified instructors for doing the work. “This we cannot hope to do with poor material and cheap instructors. “The Deans of our regular Seminar ies and Presidents of our college® should be paid at least $3,000 a year with commensurate provision for pro fessors and instructors in harmony with the schedule of salaries paid in the best regulated school system thru out the country. “The vocation of the ministry should be made more attractive from a fi nancial standpoint by fixing a higher rate as the standard for the allow ance of the presiding Elders and Pas I tors. "There should be a reserve fund out of which we could make better. provision for preachers serving on | mission points. Increased Pension Fund “To provide a pension for 500 Su 1 peranuated Ministers even at the mod est allowance of $50.00 a quarter or $200.00 a year would require $100,-j ' 000 a year. “For 1,200 widow® at $25.00 a quar ter or $100.00 a year will take $120,-! 000 a year. “For 500 orphans at $25.00 a year will take $12,500 a year. “We should pay our Bishops at leastl $4,000 a year and our General Of ficers at least $3,000. “In naming our budget to carry out a program of this magnitude we need j to set the mark for our general fund for Dollar money alone at.$ 500,000 ! For education . 1,000,000 For Missions . 500,000 | Total for these 3 items.... $2,000,000 . This should be supplemented J by a special endowment relief fun of . 1,000,000 __ A total of .$3,000,000 j which would mean but an average of , $5.00 a year per member on the basis . 600,000.” , Prof. Hawkins reported the amount of money handled by each financial secretary from 1872 to the present, as follows: J. H. Burley, $95,554.11; J. C. Embry, $99,925.68; B. W. Arnett, 1 $368,903.85; James Anderson Handy, j $313,341.44; J. H. Armstrong, $351, 1 942.09; M. M. Moore, $406,074.26; P. ! A. Hubbard, $229,417.38; Edward W. Eamoton, $1,199,488.48; John Hurst, $790,088.50; John R. Hawkins, $3, 274,991.30, making a total of $6,900, 301.63. He made it clear that this amount was in dollar money alone and did not include the money raised by local churches, for church work, , pastors and presiding elders’ salaries and other things. The report received the approval of the General Confer ence. Of course, he will be re-elected. He iq the first layman to hold such a position, and it will he observed that with but two exceptions, all the other secretaries stepped into the epis copal office from the secretaryship. All the reports made to the Gen eral Conference showed an increase in business. Progress along all lines reported, and the report of Ira T. Bry ant, secretary of the A. M. E. Sunday School Union was an eye opener. Many had thought that because of a fight, Bryant would tie up the property due to what is considered a flaw in the charter but he had it all straightened out, and presented the African Meth odist Episcopal Church deeds to all the property of the Sunday School Union in fee simple absolute. He won many friends by this act, many de clared that he would sccceed himself. Prof. Bryant is the first layman to be secretary of the Sunday School Union, and in bis method in what to him was defending the church and guarding its interests, he has not had the approval of many. He declared that he could sleep well each night because he felt that he discharged his duty to his God, his church and hi® fellows. “The Feast of the Lord's Supper," an oratorla, was presented Friday night of last week by Hiram Simmons of Portsmouth, Ga. It was listened to by fully 5,000 people. ! All of the Methodist Churches of I»uisville were supplied with a preacher from the Conference last Sunday, and. some of them had bish ops, while a few of the Baptist Chur ches had ministers. A great impress ion has been made here during this session. The report of the Episcopal Com mittee was maiie Monday morning. They recommended the election of three bishops also reported on epis copal districts. They also recom mended that Bishop Conner be tem porary retired. They fixed the time for election to Tuesday morning, 11 o’clock and continue until all bishops and general officers were elected. WESTERN FUNERAL \DDS HEARSE TO ITS EQUIPMENT The Myer’s Western Funeral Home has taken an advanced step by the purchase of a handsome $6,000 Dodge Bros, hearse of the most modem make. It is beautifully finished in gray, with mahogany interior. Mr. Myers is the first of our race under takers and one of the few undertak ers in Omaha to own his own hearse. Tickets are out for the second an niversary of Prof. P. J. Waddles boys’ band concert and orchestra, assisted by local talent, Wednesday, May 21st at Columbia hall, Twenty-fourth and Lake streets. A fine program will be rendered, come early. Young people will have charge of the hall after the concert. Admission, 25c; children, 15c. —Adv. Miss Edna M. Stratton, secretary of the North end branch Y. W. C. A. re turned Monday from New York where she attended the “Y" convention. She also visited her parents In Pittsburg, Pa. _| COLORED PUPILS AMONG GOLD MEDALISTS Among the 18 students who won gold medals in the Second Annual Music Contest held at the Auditorium last Friday morning in which 210 pu pils competed, two of the winners were Leeta Lewis and Margaret Dal las. Another colored pupil, Ollie Mat tison of Kellom school scored it it Mi per cent, losing 'i per cent by fail ing to put a period after an abbre viation, which shows how close the marking was. Those receiving med als scored 100. LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT Mother’s Day was appropriately ob served at Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday morning. The Sunday School was nicely attended. The pastor preached a special sermon to Mothers and of mothers, and paid all tribute to what good Mothers had accom plished in the making of the good in this world and we sing praises to her. i The annual sermon of Regal Lodge G. U. O. O. F. and Household of Ruth was held at 3:00 p. m. Rew H. W. I Botts preached The lodges turned : out in full regalia and seemingly en i Joyed the services. Rev. H. W. Botts preached a special sermon to the Buds of Promise during their candlelight service at night. All present responded to having a lighted, candle. — Mrs. Lew Holmes is yet troubled | with her ankle which was broken some days ago by a fall. The Utopian Art Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Mary King, 1447 Northside avenue Thursday night, May 22. The annual sermon of the Daugh ters of Isis will be preached by Rev. H. W. Botts at Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday night, May 18th. Member sof ML Zion Baptist churci has resumed work on Church Auditor ium and will push work as fast as possible. f CHICKEN | | DINNER |? EVERY SUNDAY 2 1 At 2210 O Street X y MEALS 40 CENTS X ? BEVERAGES OF ALL KINDS ❖ y Sacred Music All Day Sunday y y Blzer & Blzer, Props. £ CORN HUSKER CAFE f 2 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 2 The L*. L. Kensington Club met with Mrs. Allie Harding. The topic of dis cussion was in commemoration of Mother’s Day. Tender, amusing and lovable traits of Mother were recalled and special streee on reminiscence of early house training, which left an un deniable mark on our lives. The members were served luncheon by the hostess, who also gave a treat on old time customs. The club and friends will be notified through The Moni tor of our next meeting and annual picnic in June. Mothers’s Day was observed by the Junor Bible class, Mrs. M. C. Knight teacher, and by a splendid program at Sunday School hour. Rev. M. C. Knight preached an appropriate ser mon at the morning services. The choir rendered fine music, all applic able to the day. The A. C. E. league had a special program at 6:30. The Minnehaha Campfire Girls gave their entertainment In Masonic hall Monday night and realized a neat eum of money. To the Masonic fraternity, we pay homage, they did everything in their power to assist us. To par ticipants on program, we thank' you. To our merchants who donated prizes, we will boost for you; and lastly to our parents and friends who have bo nobly stood by us, we have not words to express our happiness for your patience, kindness and patronage of Minnehaha Camp. Mrs. Griffith of Kansas City, Kans.; Mrs. Wright, .Mrs. Hathaway of White Cloud, Kans.; sisters and friends of' the family of W. T. Lewis left for' home Tuesday. Mr. Lewis is not much improved at this time. The Ilavis Women’s drive for the benefit of the home, 1946 Vine street, closed Sunday night with a program by the members and friends. Several members who rendered selections at the reception held in Quinn Chapel recently for the benefit of 'irlous clubs were repeated Sunday ‘^.nt by request. The drive was a fine effort, and the women are well pleased with results. Woman Solve* National Convention Difficulties Miss Jewel R. Stein, secretary to George F. Mara, who Ir In charge of the thousand and one detnlls connect ed with the Democratic national con vention, which Is to be liehi In Madi son Square Garden, New York city. She is experienced in her task, which \ calls for great patience, for she served In a similar capacity In H*20 at San j Francisco. _ 4-Footer Stops Traffic; 6-Foot-6 Cop Nails Him New York.—Jacob Starr, nineteen years old and exactly 4 feet from sole to cranium, Is big enough to obstruct traffic, hut hardly of sufficient physical prowess to resist Patrolman Andrew Geyer, who led him Into traffic court. Geyer towers 78 Inches and his girth j is commensurate with his altitude. He used his 0-foot-8 to lesd Starr’s 48 inches before Magistrate Norman J. Marsh. A spirit of levity which Imme- I dlately spread throughout the court- ; room, affecting everyone but Jacob, | threatened for awhile to break up the morning’s dispensation of Justice. When quiet was attained Jacob was given one day in Jail and Geyer was congratulated by the magistrate for making this, his first, arrest for traffic violation. X-W-X-X-l-X-X-W-l-X-X-M-X-X' 2 SIX ROOMS and DOUBLE 'j J GARAGE | ❖ Strictly modern six-room home. jZ ❖ all on one floor. Well located. Just h Y ofT busy Twenty-fourth street cor- A Y ner. Besides a good home this A f property has fine speculative value ❖ f for business property. Price $4,500, v { on easy terms. Kvenings call TBD Y ! f PITKIN, FLArriey 7540 £ | METCALFE CO. y ATIantlc 5415 203 South 19th St. A Beauty Expert Passe* Up Models to Wed Cook I New York—This Is a romance for nice girls to read—girls who have passed the age of twenty-five and are capable and Independent and a bit wistful about life; nice, plain girls i who sometimes wonder if It wouldn't be more exciting to be beautiful and 1 dumb. It Is the romance of J. K. Bolton, fashion expert of the Retail Millinery association, and Miss Ethel Helen Uough, housekeeper. To start at the beginning, for years J. R. Bolton had done fashion shows. He has been a connoisseur of feminine lines, lovely, alluring lines, from the days when the thirty-six was "perfect" I to the present ascendancy of the thir ty-four. But J. R. Bolton remained a bachelor. Two years ago Miss Ethel Helen ! Gough, Just over from London, became | housekeepeer of J. R. Bolton's little apartment. Miss Gough reaches the third button on Mr. Boltons vest, wears a No. 2A shoe. Is bobbed-haired and soft-eyed, but would never get a Job as a model. But what perfectly wonderful eight course dinners she concocted in the kitchenette and served to the Jolly members of J. R. Bolton's own private informal "Napkin Ring club." This went on for two years. The other day Miss Gough and Mr. Bolton were married. — I. LEVY DRUGGIST DRUGS. DRUG SUNDRIES. CIGARS. 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