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The Monitor I A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS ■ OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA. NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered as SeTond-Clasrt* Mall Matter July 2. 1915. at the Postofflce at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. filE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS...Edltttr W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Nab....Associate Editor LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS,__Bualnesa Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR; *1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 >*■ i . ..... ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE f ;; UNITED STATES | Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged | 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to thei jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the X J ; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No y • • state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the •{• ! I privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor X ;; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- t | • erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person •{• ! I within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. X DAVIS’ SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE those who are blinded by par tisanship will refuse to admit that the speech of acceptance by Davis, the democratic candidate for the presid ency, is a remarkably able document, clearly, frankly and courageously de fining his position upon public ques tions and policies with which the gov ernment must of necessity be con cerned. It contains a beauty in tone and language which arrests ad holds attention; but that which grips one most is its apparent candor and sin cerity. One instinctively feels, even though he may differ from the speak er, that here is an honest man speak ing the honest convictions of his mind and heart. He states frankly where he stands upon each issue. His po sition on the league of nations and world court is candidly given. He recognizes labor’s right to organize for adequate wages and improved con ditions. He stands for tax reduc tion and economy in governmental ex penditures. His stand for religious liberty and the full constitutional rights of all American citizens is un compromising and his manly and out spoken opposition to the forces mak ing for disruption of the nation by fostering racial and religious hatred bespeaks the true patriot. John W. Davis’ speech of acceptance enunciates the ideals for which America should stand and inasmuch as his speech re veals the man it shows him to be far in advance of his party. Could he have strength and influence enough to bring the rank and file of his party up to the standard set in his admir able speech there would be no hesit ancy upon the part of the mass oi our people in entrusting themselves tc such statesmanlike leadership. The country at large cannot but be benefitted by such sentiments as Johr W. Davis has expressed in his speed of acceptance. COOLIDGE IS AMAZED pRESIDENT Coolidge is amazezd. The cause of this amazement is the suggestion that he should use his influence to prevent an American cit izen of dark pigmentation—which thing the Nordics hate—filing for a seat in Congress from the great “Em pire state”, commonly called New York. Accustomed as President Cool idge must be to foolish requests of all sorts and conditions the assinity of this from an astute New Yorker struck him with such amazement that he lost no time in inditing an illumin ating epistle to the said gentleman containing the following good sound American doctrine: “Our constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without dis crimination on account of race or col or. I have taken my oath to support that constitution. It is the source of your rights and my rights. I propose to regard it and administer it, as the source of the rights of all people, whatever their belief or race. A col ored man is precisely as much en titled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the con stitutents to whom he offers himself and by nobody else. “You have suggested that in some fashion I should bring influence to bear to prevent the possibility of a colored man being nominated for con gress. In reply, I quote my great predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt: “ . I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope—the door of opportunity—is to be shut up on any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race and color.'1 ” TIME TO SPEAK r>OTH Davis and La Follette have ® made it plain where they stand in reference to that lawless band; of * ’ _ « A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM RACE ;; PREJUDICE ; ;; By Morney Williams (For the Associated Negro Press) ; 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 ; > 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- . J; and of a Roman soldier, and suffered His cross to be . ■ - carried by a man of Africa, teach us, also, while loving and ;; I 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 any in whom He lives. Amen. | I11 1 Do You Take a Race Paper? | | Subscribe Now for j I The Monitor [ I $2.00 a Year 1 hooded hoodlums who wage cowardly war against more than half of Amer ica’s most loyal citizenry. As yet Calvin Coolidge has not spoken. There is a time to speak and a time to keep silent.. We believe that Coolidge should let the country know where he stands on this important issue of this campaign. So far as we are concerned there can be no compromise with the damnably cowardly band who mas querade in sheets and pillow slips and spread their spawn of racial and re ligious hatred. “HAVE YOU GIVEN UP?” “Have you given up the effort to have colored teachers again ap pointed in the public schools of Om aha?” This question was asked us the other day. Our reply is rather slangy, “Not on your life.” It never pays to give up when you are con tending for the right. It pays to fight. We urge our young people to continue to qualify and file their ap plications. We will win. New York, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles and scores of other cities where they have mixed schools have competent teachers of color in those schools. Omaha was once in this class of progressive cities and will be again. GETTING CARELESS TT looks like our city commissioners are getting careless about giving proper attention to those sections of our city in which large numbers of our people live. The streets need cleaning quite badly, Mr. Noyes, and the sidewalks need attention, Mr. Koutsky, and the lighting facilities can be improved. Please get busy, gentlemen. WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAT Learning a Trade To the young man who looks for ward to mastering a trade it can be suggested that the heads of industrial enterprises are nearly all men who started at the bottom of the ladder and know the details of the business from its foundations. Every success ful contractor has probably worked at the bench as a carpenter or with the trowel as a bricklayer. In this democratic country the man working at a trade is! eligible to the highest positions of trust and honor. The so-called “white collar jobs” often keep a man tied to a minor I desk all his life while the young fel ! low who has mastered a trade rises above him into a position of independ ence. The workers who use their hands are also allowed to use their heads, in America, and the combina tion brings success and often fame to ! the ambitious and enterprising.—Bal timore Afro-American. BISHOP PARKS SENIOR BISHOP A. M. E. CHURCH With the death of Bishop L. J. Cop pin, Bishop W. H. Parks becomes auto matically the senior bishop of the A. M. E. church—that is senior in active service. Bishop B. F. Lee is the bis hop longest in office, having been 1 elected in 1892. As senior bishop Bis hop T’arks thus becomes the ranking hishop rf 7,000 ministers, who are pa.- ors of 7,500 churches with a mem bership and follow'ing of nearly 800, 000 people, and will preside over all the meetings of the Bishops’ Council. Bit hop Henry Eianton Parks was born in Georgia end educated in Atlanta University. He was missionary sec retary from 1896 to 1908, and elected bishop in 1908. He was delegate to the Ecumenical Conference in 1911; and served as president of the Financial Board of the A. M. E. church. Was bishop over Alabama and Tennessee, served four quadrenniums over the Fifth district, and is now serving his first quadrennium over the 18th dis trict comprising California, Washing ton, Oregon and Oklahoma. Bishop Parks served as pastor of St. John’s A. M. E. church, Omaha, some years ago. THE WHATNOT COLUMN (By R. P. Edwards for The Asso ciated Negro Press) What remarkable progress was made by the colored Y. W. C. A. with in ten years? That the Colored Young Women’s Christian Association has made a more rapid advancement than any other or ganization of similar nature is a re markable fact; when it is considered that in 1912 it had but one city and one student secretary on the national board and ten years later (1922) it had eleven national secretaries, 108 workers in seven centers with fifty seven branches, and 7,000 young col ored girls registered as members. Ninety thousand women and girls have been reached in various ways during a period of ten years. What was the Jerry McHenry inci dent? In the summer of 1851, a colored man, by name Jerry McHenry, was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law on complaint of a Missouri slave hold er. McHenry made an attempt to es cape but failed. On the evening of October 1, a descent was made upon the jail by a party led by Gerrit Smith and Rev. Samuel I. May, both well known abolitionists, w hich rescued Mc Henry, concealed him, and finally sent him into Canada, where he died in Kingston, Ontario, in 1853. Whe was Richard Allen? Richard Allen who was the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church, began his ministrial career1 when at the age of seventeen years, i and so impressed his master with his eloquence that he allowed the youth to preach to him and finally became one of his first converts, giving Allen, his freedom in recognition of that fact. Young Allen was ordained a deacon in the Methodist church in 1779 by Rev. Francis Asbury, but on account of prejudice and discrimina tion, withdrew from that organization,; and founded his own church, of which t he later became first bishop . He was also influential in organizing the first j convention of colored people of the United States, held in Philadelphia in 1830, and a general leader of his peo ple regardless of creed. ST. JOHN’S BAPTIST CHURCH St. John's Baptist church is holding j service® regularly in the Knights of Tabor hall, Twenty-fourth and Patrick! avenue. The Rev. E. H. McDonald, D. D., is pastor. The public is cor- j dlally invited to attend all services. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH -- Twenty-fifth and R Streets, South Side—0. J. Burckhardt, Pastor. Sunday services were well attend-d throughout the day. Dr. J. W. Hearty of New York preached in the morning and at 8 p. m., the pastor preached on "Social Relations and Conduct in Public Places.” It was a practical, plain and much-needed sermon. Next Sunday the uBual services to whicu ! the public is cordially Invited. CRIPPLED AT FIVE, HE WINS SUCCESS Victim of Infantile Paralysis Becomes Noted Attorney. Valparaiso, Ind.—Twenty-five win ters ago he crawled in the snow acroaa the campus of Valparaiso university and up the stairs to his class rooms Today he still crawls, but to the courtroom to represent clients who piece all their confidence In him. He has won repute as an attorney. Last week J. Willard Moffett visit ed Ms old school again and crawled up the steps of the administration banding to write his check toward tbs campaign which Valparaiso alumni are conducting to revitalize their alma mater. Crippled for life by infantile pa ralysis at the eg# of five years, Mk. Moffett has done without the use of hla lower limbs, what few men do with bodies lntsct It was difficult to crawl from place to place—sometimes nearly Imposslbla—but not ones was ha late to class. He was graduated from the School of Law with LL. B. degree In 1800. Since then he has figured In some of the most important cases tried la the Supreme and Appellate courts of the stats and has come to be the leading attorney of Huntington, lad. He has repeatedly refused the honor of bolding political offices because ho prefers hit practice. There is only one school where I could have received an education with out embarrassment, without discour agement, and that one is Valparaiso University,” Mr. Moffett pays. "I want to help In making if possible ter others to get this assistance.” --- - JirSiL .A. i.. V § i SEEDS i| :: or known quality :: 41 it ;; Flower, Grass and Garden 1 Seeds !! Bulbs, Hardy Perennials § Poultry Supplies I! -See Us for Your- !! ! J Fresh Cut Ftowers J; 11 Always on Hand JJ ij Stewart’s Seed Store ij ;; 119 No. 16th St.—Opposite ;; IJ Postoffice — JA ckson 0977 ] | MB. WATCHMAKER: You are reading this ad. If your ad were here someone else would be reading it. I. LEVY ] DRUGGIST DRUGS. DRUG SUNDRIES. CIGARS. 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Side Watch This Space Next Week For Something of Great Interest To Everyone i! CHICKEN I ;; DINNER ;; EVERY SUNDAY ? 1* At 2210 O Street ? MEALS 40 CENTS? BEVERAGES OF ALL KINDS X Sacred Music All Day Sunday Blzer & Blzer, Props. •f CORN HUSKER CAFE X LINCOLN, NEBRASKA y [LET US PAY YOU §cfc ON SAVIN G ST -We Treat You Right- ^ STATE SAVINGS * LOAN ASSOCIATION § N. W. Comer, 19th and Douglas Streets Keeline Building § P^OsFDRUGTroREn !; * Let r.s serve you. Prompt, free delivery !| j; WE 2770 and 2771 2306 No. 24th St j; | Western University ;f State Industrial Department •{• “A School Noted for Christian Home Life” •' * COLLEGE, NORMAL, ACADEMIC, INDUSTRIAL, MUSIC, 11 ff THEOLOGY, FINE ARTS J f A FULL COLLEGE COURSE leading to the degree of A. B. 4 or B. S. ;; (INDUSTRIES: Agriculture, Domestic Art, Carpentry, Auto 11 Mechanics, Blacksmithing, Commercial Course with ;; Practical Banking, Domestic Science, Printing, En- V gineering, Laundering, Millinery, Tailoring, Stock, Poul- I", l try Raising and Plumbing. ; ‘ ATHLETICS: Football, Basketball, Track, Tennis and Physical Training. Young men are trained in military tactics by an ex- !! perienced army officer. 4 z i ► X Industrial Students over 14 May Specialize Regardless ! | 11 of Literary Grade ;; _____ « * \: SCHOOL OPENS SEPTEMBER 1, 1924 \ \ _ < > < > <. !1 For Information Write to: J J 11 F. J. PECK, President ; J Western University Kansas City, Kansas j: :: 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 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 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; ^ barber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs. State, 26 Nebr., Page 677. N. W. 688." "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 ! civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in a more private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich. 858; N. W. 718." j