THE MONITOR A WMLT NIWWAm DBVOTOD nUMAIULT TO THI INTKBJWT8 OB POLO ROD AMPUCAM8 _ txtblmmwwd wrmtr nucir at omaha. nbbiasju. by thb M OH IT OR rUBLJBHXNO COMPANY__ -- ,, flininl -~T~— n.n m.w» July *. »»1*. »* rcctcmcc *t OMtt, h*im>i uto Ik* Act at March t, 1171. __ TKff-RlvriOHN ALiiRT-WU-UAMB W. W. HMILY, Llnccln, Neb.--*u - Lual!u^rof-w,t~UA,,i- -disaaa •WMCRIPTION HATBS. «e.M A YIAR; r j» • * honths _AAvcrtlctw lUUc FmhUWcA Upca AppHccUcn_ ajjt Hi* Monitor, Poetoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbnter 4243 h ■ —^ ARTICLE mr, OONSTITUTION OP TOE UNITED STATES dthnaakip Elphta Net UN AhrMpod L AB florae bora or aataiaMaed ia the United States, 1 Mi enhject to the jmrledietiea thereof, an dtimaa of the United States aai ef the State wherda they radio. Ne date dnfl make or enforce aay law which ehaO abridge the prtvflopsn er laemaaitfea ef dtfxeaa of the United States; aer dml aay state deprive aay mm sf life, Shorty, er prop erty without iee are eras ef law, anr deay to aay perera wNkla Its JvlaicttM the eqaal pretectiea ef the lews. niittTTTTt—eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeee ROBERT COWELL E who knew Robert Cowell, the kindly, warm-hearted, broad minded, Justice-loving Christian gen tleman who last week was called to rest, can well believe that having served God in his generation he was gathered unto his fathers, “having the testimony of a good conscience; in the communion of the Catholic Church; in the confidence of a cer tain faith; in the comfort of a reason able, religious and holy hope; in, favour with God and in perfect charity with the world,” to quote the expres sive and beautiful language of the Book of Common Prayer. The city which he loved and to which he gave such willing, unstinted and cheerful service is richer for the life and example of Robert Cowell. A business man of the highest ideqls, honor and integrity, he did not make business bis slave but regarded it rather as a servant of the public, his chosen field in which he could serve humanity. Nor did his engrossment therein pre vent his giving generously, most generously, of his time and means for the public weal. Every worthy cause found in him a ready helper. His sympathy was broad. He knew' no class or race distinctions. With him manhood, character and worth were what counted. A notable example of ' this was his appointment some years ! ago of a competent colored girl to a responsible position in the firm of which he was then vice-president and who remained an employee of the firm until she voluntarily resigned to take a position in another city. Labor, suspicious of capital and employers, trusted him absolutely because of his honesty and high sense of Justice. He had the courage to say and do what he believed to be right, a very rare trap, in these days. In him our peo ple found a courageous, warm-heart ed and sympathetic friend, because his love for humanity was catholic enough to embrace us and he was interested in helping all inen attain the highest stature of manhood. Nor did he un derestimate our struggle. In our last conversation shortly before his illness he said, “Your people have a hard battle before them and at times it must seem quite discouraging, because of the very apparent unwillingness upon the part of so many to lend co operation. There seems to be so many things that are wrong and so much selfishness and self-seeking that I sometimes question whether after all our country has made much real pro gress. It seems that there’s a decided lowering of our standards and ideals. This Is general. Its bearing upon your peculiar position is obvious. Your fight is a hard one. But, don’t give up. With your sunny optimism it’s hardly necessary for me to tell you this. Right must eventually prevail,! although at times conditions make us j doubt.” We did not dream that that was the last time we would see Rob ert Cowell alive. This then was his parting message to us and to our peo ple. It is one that we should cherish and act upon. Personally, we thank God for th« life, example and friend ship of Robert Cowell, of whom the world has all too few. May others of his kind l>e raised up to lift the life of our community to a higher plane of brotherhood. PLABiJHSG AHEAD 0NE of our racial weaknesses is that of failing to plan ahead or to look far into the future. Carpe diem, enjoy or live in the present day, seems . to be our motto. We think in terms A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM RACE :: prejudice : ; | By Momey Williams { (For the Associated Negro Press) ; OGOD, who hast made man in Thine own likeness and 1 who dost love all whom Thou hast made, suffer us not, | because of difference in race ,color or condition, to ; - separate ourselves from others, and thereby from Thee; but < I 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* • ! mb 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 '< : Kiwub family; and forbid that, from pride of birth and ! hardnims of heart, we should despise any for whom Christ ; i died, or injure any in whom He lives. Amen. ... of the present. When we act we act impulsively or without due prepara tion. This is not the way of the dominant group. They look to the future: they plan far ahead. We must learn to do the same. We must have an objective and work patiently to wards that objective. It isn’t, for example what the little business ven ture we may embark upon now will be six months or a year from today, but what it will be ten years hence. This is also true of any organized ef fort, political or otherwise. It should be planned far ahead. We need far sightedness. When we look far ahead and plan far ahead we will get some where. ENDS NINTH YEAR 'J’HIS ISSUE ends the ninth year of the publication of The Monitor. For nine years without missing an issue The Monitor has gone into the homes of hundreds of our people in all sections of the country carrying its message. It has been warmly wel comed and we feel that we have been able to accomplish some little good at least. With proper support and co-operation the publication will be continued and we hope strenghtened and improved as the years go by. There are a great many subscriptions due. Those who desire to see The Monitor survive will promptly send in their subscriptions. Thanking sub scribers and advertisers for their sup port in the past and soliciting its con tinuance in the future we end Volume IX and look forward to entering upon our tenth year. THE WAY TO WIN citizens and taxpayers we art entitled to certain considerations that are denied us, or, at least, with held from us. We will not get then by sifting supinely by and expecting them to be given us. We will gel them by going after them whole heartedly and unitedly and by making it clearly understood that we are ir earnest in our just demands. This is the only way to win. SOMETHING AT LEAST T ILYWHITISM was swatted by the National Republican convention, That’s one good thing to its credit Then, too, it did come out flatly and without the customary straddle for a federal anti-lynching bill. This is at least something. It was, however, afraid or unwilling to oppose the sheet and slit pillow-slip brigade. Wherefore? IF JF the Democrats have the courage to come out squarely against the Kluxies and nominate an anti-Klan candidate, their chances for again oc cupying the White House will be mighty good. “Koons, Keiks and Katholicks” poll a heavy vote. REGISTRATION FOR BONUS AT COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB The Roosevelt Post of the American Legion calls the attention of all ex service men to the fact that arrange ments have been made for them tc register for the bonus and receive in formation relative to the same all next week at the Colored Commercial Club, 151414 North Twenty-fourth street, This is an important matter which nc ex-service man should overlook 01 neglect. PICTURES OF WINNERS IN RECENT POPITEAR BABY CONTEST OF N. A. A. C. P. Inasmuch as Nos. 2 and 3 were transposed last week, the pictures of these prize-winning babies are re published in the correct order. MARY HEDDY WIGGINS First Prise CHARLES RICHARD STANTON / Second Prize CHARLOTTE A. HICKS Third Prize Cost of World War Is Fixed at $80,680,000,000 New York—A book, “Tbe Inter-Ally Debts,” published by the Banker*’ Trust company, estimates the total : cost of the World war at $80,680,000, 000 gold. That sum would reproduce all the railway mileage of the world, with more than $20,000,000,000 to spara for other uses. During nearly two hundred and ! twenty-six years there were eight ms j Jor wars, each at what was considered an enormous cost at the time. The 1 wars of William HI cost $150,000,000, j the War of Austrian Succession $200, 000,000, and the Seven Years’ war *350, : 000,000. The American war cost $500, 000,000 and the French wars, from ! 1T92 to 1815, about $6,000,000,000. Later, the Crimean war cost $350,000, ; 000, and finally, the Boer war eo*t about $1,500,000,000. In spite of all that, the total cost of government for Great Britain In that period amounted I to but *53,000,000,000. As for our own government, the total cost from 1791 until 1914, Including ! the costs of the War of 1812, of the | Mexican war, of the Civil war, of the 1 Indian campaigns and of the Spanish ■ war, together with pensions, purchase | of Louisiana, Alaska and payment for ; the Philippines, as well as the cost of j building the Panama canal, all com i blned, amounted to $24,500,000,000— J less than one-third the cost of the ' World war. — ! “Wonder Child” Puzzle to Russian Physicians Moscow.—Soviet Russia has pro I duced a "wonder child," a boy four I years and ten months old, named Vlc ! tor, son of a Vladivostok physician, j who already wears a full beard of whiskers and la able to throw a full grown man In a wrestling match. The learned professor, Leontlef, and Hi* colleague. Doctor Bosik, who exam ined Victor, speak about hypertrophlcal development, the thyroid, pancreatic and other glands and a “mysterious malady" from which the child la suf fering. But Victor continues to grow despite them and their treatment. Th* precocious Infant, who walks stiffly and stumbllngly, plays like a child and has a child’s mentality, yet be can choke hts small playmates black faced. He puzzles professors as the great country where he was born puzzles Western theorists. Tree* Six Cougars Montesano, Wash.—For the pelt Of a cougar recently killed by himself. Jack Eckstrand of Aberdeen has re ceived from Auditor W. D. Campbell a bounty of $20. Eckstrand killed the cougar near the headwaters of the gatsop river. He told Mr. Campbell that at the time bis dogs had treed ■lx of th* animals, but owing to the lateness of the hour the other* got [ away in the growing darkness. FORGIVE WRECKER OF MANY FORTUNES Frietads Give Him an Ova* j tion on His Return. , ( Tunica, Mias.—After an absence of 11 years, during which time he played the role of chauffeur, clerk and mer- ' chant In various cities in the United ' States and Canada, Leo Lesser, for I mer planter, cotton factor, banker, i manufacturer and philanthropist, re- | turned home, was forgiven by his le gion of friends and the courts and an nounced his determination to repay 1 his many and varied creditors, dollar 1 for dollar, the almost countless sums, 1 large and small, thiy lost when h« < went away and left a score of wrecked 1 business firms and a trail of worthless , paper. j Hundreds of Tunica county citizens, . apprised in advance of Leaser’s home coming, met him at the train and with one voice bade him welcome. What- 1 ever odium followed In the wake of 1 his departure lu 11*13 was forgotten I In the rejoicing over his return. t Although he was charged In eight Indictments with embezzlement, forg- > ery and fraudulent breach of trust, dozens of men and women recall that Leo Lesser bad befriended them In the days when his meteoric career was cast across the sky of the financial 1 and business world. Hundreds of ■ notes bearing the signatures of his 1 friends and Indorsed and paid by him < were found by the receivers who tried < vainly to salvage the business enter prises he was accused of wrecking. , Lesser went before Judge W. A. At corn to face a charge of embezzle ment In connection with the failure of 1 the Bank of Tunica, of which he was the president. A petition signed by GOO < citizens of Tunica county, and asking . that the charge he dismissed, was pre- ] Rented to the court. The embezzle- . ment charge was not pressed, and Les- | ser left immediately for Senutobla, Miss., In an effort to effect a reconcili ation with Ms wife, who has been teaching school since her husband’* -disappearance. Balboa Set Precedent for Illiterate Alien New York.—Vasco Nunez de Balboa, • the discoverer of the Pacific ocean,! seems to have laid the foundation 4O0 • years ago for the admission of an Il literate Immigrant woman into the - United States. i Manuel Gomez, in a little town In Pennsylvania, decided to marry the! girl of his choice hack in Portugal.! For lovers, separated by thousands of1 miles, the law of Portugal provides | that a relative of the bridegroom may 1 stand beside the bride while a priest, or civil official, conducts the ceremony.1 The marriage was solemnized In a lit-! tie Portuguese village and Mrs. Go mez set proudly forth to meet her hue- j band. Immigrant officials at Providence ile- i nled admission to her on the ground that she was Illiterate. They pointed out the marriage by proiy was Invalid under the law of the United States. Judge J. A. Lowell in the Massachu- j setts District court said In part In or dering admission : “Gomez was following an Illustrious : precedent set In 1516 by Vasco Nunez’ de Balboa, the discoverer of the Pa cific ocean, who was wedded by proxy i while In Darien to the daughter (who was In Spain) of the royal governor, | Pedrarias." The Judge then established In his opinion that the marriage Is governed by the law of the country In which it takes place and directs: “Let the writ of habeas corpus Issue.” Discover New Method of Making Crystals Tokyo.—A startling Invention by a Japanese Is given prominence in local newspapers. Two professors of th« Tokyo Imperial university have per fected a method of manufacturing per-; feet artificial crystals. Instead of $1,500 the new Invention brings down the cost of a 5-lnch d> atneter crystal ball to $1. The artificial crystal Is made by melting white stones by electricity at a temperature of 2,000 degrees. The special kind of stone Is found In abun dance In northwestern provinces of Japan. The lnvehtor declared: “If we use selected raw material, wa can easily manufacture lenses for spec tacles, as there Is no need of grinding them. It Is Just as easy for us to ] make artificial-veined quartz and ame-; I thysts by this method as to produce \ large-sized artificial crystals.” _____________ 11,941 Eggs From 100 Hens Anderson, Ind.—Mrs. Fernando Woods Is one farmer who apparently has no complaint to make about a poor year In 11)23, She said she gath- 1 ered 11,341 eggs produced by 100 bens, and churned 1,517 pounds of butter from the milk of five cows. Mrs. Woods lives on a farm Just west of Anderson. < ~ ■ ■ l> I a 1 • • • I 1 » • • I * • | * m 1 • I < a 1 * * ; * * 1 * • 1 * • * P ■ * f t » 4 p 4 • 1 $ ■ p *! > < . .j LEARN BEAUTY CULTURE AT HOME through KATHRYN WILSON’S won derful new book. Fifteen chapters de voted to marcel waving, facial mas sage and other branches of beauty culture. Send no money, pay your post man. Special price, $3.00. 621 North 83rd Street. Phone HArney 4163.—Adv. WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAT Washington Segregation Decision Every Negro living on American soil should join the fight against the new menace of segregation looming in the recent decision of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. When the Supreme Court of the United States outlawed segregation it was hoped that the American spirit of fair play would have ended forever any attempt to restrict housing based purely on racial considerations. Negroes have no quarrel with any man or group of men who wish to restrict their neighbors to their own kind or standard of living, by actual ownership, but to lay down a legal barrier against any American citizen which would prevent him from buy ing any property he has money to buy and whose owner wishes to sell to him, is an abridgement of human rights of Negroes, but for the funda mental principles upon which this government was founded.—The Balti more Afro-American. The Washington Segregation Decision The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia has handed down a deci sion legalizing the Washington segre gation contracts. The court holds that any owners of real estate or group of owners who enter into agreements or covenants not to sell the property set forth in such agreements, are legally bound by such agreements and covenants. wnat is more amazing, uie leameu court held that such agreements are not “segregation”, because Negroes can combine and exclude sale of prop erties to whites under similar agree ments. Segregation has been held by the United States Supreme Court to be illegal, hence, to avoid that rock, the District Court, per force, had to hold that contractual exclusion la not segregation. A w'onderful decision, one worthy as a successor of Justice Taney’s Dred Scott decision. In order that there can be no fur ther play upon words by the courts it will be necessary to secure from the United States Supreme Court a full and complete definition of "segrega tion” as falling within the inhibition of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the federal statutes thereunder. There is Jjust about as much sense, and no more, in a court declaring that segregation is not segregation when whites segregate Negroes because Ne groes can also segregate whites, as there would be in solemnly declaring that murder is not murder when a white man or a mob murders a Negro because Negroes can also murder white men. This decision by the, highest local court in the capital of the nation shows the drift of sentiment among the white people and the intense effort that is going to be made to hedge in and restrict the Negro in his rights and privileges in this country. It is an index finger that points to an at tempt to unite and concentrate the white people of this country upon the principle of law laid down in the Dred Scott decision of seventy years ago, that "the Negro has no rights which the white man is bound to respect.” It means that, instead of justice plain, simple and unadorned, there is going to be an effort to subvert Justice and substitute therefor tHe white man’s will in all matters in which the Negro is involved as a party contestant., There is nothing left for the Negro hut to fight the damnable outrage to the last ditch in every way known to the art of warfare.—The Baltimore Herald. OFFICIAL NOTICE U. B. F.’s and S. M. T.’s, please take notice: Public installation at Y. W. C. A., 2306 North 2^nd street, Monday even ing, June 30th, at 8 p. m. Public invited. M. C. SANDS, D. D. Adv.— Nebraska Civil Rights Bill Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights—Enacted in 1893: Sec. 1. CIVIL RIGHTS OF PERSONS. All persons within this state shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, 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 PRECED- j ING SECTION. Any person who shall violate the fore going section by denying to any person, except for rea sons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or j 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; j barber shops can not discriminate against persons on | account of color. Messenger vs. State, 25 Nebr., Page 677. N. W. 638.” j “A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with refreshments in a certain part of his res taurant, for no other reason than that he is colored, is J civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in a more private part of the house. Ferguson vs. « i Gies, 82 Mich. 358; N. W. 718.” \ , ' < THE WHATNOT COLUMN By Robert P. Edwards for The Asso ciated Negro Press. WHAT WAS MEROE? Meroe, the ancient capital of Ethio pia, was a dty larger than the fa mous Memphis. The temple of Am mon, where kings were crowned, was one of the largest in the Valley of the Nile. The great walls of cut stones were fifteen feet thick.' and thirty feet high. Heaps of iron-slag and furnaces for smelting iron were dis covered and there were magnifieant quays and landing places on the river side for the export of iron. WHO WAS ANDRE CAILLOUS? Captain Andre Caillous, hero of the assault on Port Hudson, 1863, was the commander of the color company of : the First Louisiana. He was a leader by birth and education, and moved In eager zeal among his men, cheering them on by words and his own noble example, with left arm already shat- j tered, he proudly refused to leave the field. In a lhsi effort of heroism, he ] sprang to the front of his company, ! commanded bis men to follow him and In the face of a murderous fire, gal lantly led them forward until a shell smote him to death but fifty yards from the works. Born free, he raised ! his own company, and died with them In order that his enslaved brethren might taste of the freedom he had en joyed. WHO IS THE CHAMPION CORN PRODUCER? A fiften-year-old colored boy, Wal ter Fowler, who tennants on a Faulk ner county, Ark, farm, with the con sent of the landlord planted one acre of corn on the plantation, paying his own expenses. He harvested ninety one bushels, making a net profit of 863. This event occurred in 1923. PUBLIC PLAY GROUND AT ST. BENEDICT’S COMMUNITY CENTER St. Benedict’s Community Center, located on Grant street between Twen ty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, has a well-equipped playground with its privileges free and open to all children within the neighborhood. It it easily accessible to a large number] of colored children whose parents ] should be pleased to have them take advantage of this supervised play ground, as it will keep them off the street. Many are under the impres- j sion that the Center and playground is exclusively a Roman Catholic insti tution; but this is a mistake. It is a ] social agency for helping the entire, community in which it is located with ] its privileges open to all who will use; them. Patronize Our Advertisers! j~XK~XK~XKK~x~x~x~x~x~x-x~: Telephone Atlantic 4672 X i I Omaha Fireworks Co. 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