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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1925)
| THE MONITOR I I • wVjtki Y NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTEREST’S ■ A n OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE ru MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered ne Second-Class Mall Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska^ under the Act of March 3, 1879._ \ I eVTjOHN ALBERT WILLIAM*_ _Editor W W. MOSELY, Lincoln. Neb....Associate Editor LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS-—-—-- Business 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 ^ .- .. ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE ? :: UNITED STATES ? !! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged $ ! • 1. All persons bom or naturalized in the United States, | \! and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the X ;; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No £ ' ’ 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- $ ■ • erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person -|’ !! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. X ;; i WHAT WILL YOU DO? AT this time you ought to have some "definite thing you wish to and will do your level best to accom plish this year.’ Let us make one or two suggestions. If you have been spending every penny you have earn ed why not plan to pinch off some de finite sum each wreek, if it is only $1 or even less and put it in a savings account in some bank. Be sure to put it in a bank. If you keep it in the house you will be more likely to spend it and besides that it will be earning no interest. If you put it in a savings account it will be earning interest. Suppose you do this. The important thing to do is make a start. Why not begin buying a home if you have enough money laid by to make the initial payment ? Get something with in reason and in keeping with your income. Don’t aim at a $5,000 house when your circumstances will only allow you to handle a $3,000 proper ty. Aim at becoming a home owner. Make a modest beginning and im prove as means allow. Then, too, plan to improve your mind by some simple definite course of reading or study. Plan to be more consistent in your religious life. In a word do your level best to improve your condition morally, mentally, religiously and materially during this year. What will you do? Think it over. giving heed a FTER reading our editorial about spending some of our money with coal dealers of our race a woman called and asked us the name of such a dealer because she said she did not know that any colored people were selling coal. We gave her the name of a dependable coal firm. We think that dealer got an order. This shows that people read The Monitor and are guided by its suggestions. It also shows that race firms should use de pendable race publications in adver tising their business. It pays to ad vertise. The great firms of Madam C. J. Walker and that of Poro were built up by advertising in Negro newspapers. When Madam V alker began selling her products in Denver one of her first investments was $1.25 spent for advertising. The Walkers and the Malones are outstanding examples of the value of advertising in race publications.—Local business people will gain by giving heed to these suggestions. CO-OPERATION rpHE Colored Commercial Club and the Roosevelt Post of the Amer ican Legion did valuable work in spreading Christmas cheer among the poor and needy. These organizations working jointly distributed forty-six well filled baskets to families who ap preciated them. In this connection, it may be of interest to leam that the various agencies working through the Christmas Bureau of the Community Chest sent baskets to 1,908 families It is gratifying to know that among these agencies were several of oui own group. The Colored Elks die their part also. This spirit of co operation in all civic and welfare ac tivities is most valuable. By doing our part we will win the recognition of our manhood and citizenship to which we are entitled. DECLINE IN LYNCHINGS I 'J’HOSE who love America will be pleased to be advised of the de cline in lynchings during the past year. The number has fallen to 16. This is a tremendous decline from former years. It demonstrates what the Negro press and the agencies op posing this barbarity have steadfast ly maintained that when the Amer ican people really wanted to lessen, if not eradicate this crime, it would be done. To the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple belongs unstinted commendation for its sane, persistent and well or ganized fight, since 1911, against this evil. Some day the United States will appreciate the splendid service which has been rendered to our country by the Negro press, pioneers in efforts to arounse the national conscience against this menace and the great organization, the N. A. A. C. P., which organized and carried on the cam paign against lynching and whose work is not yet done. Sixteen are just sixteen too many mob murders for Christian America; but when one recalls that the number has fallen from 225 in 1892 to 16 in 1924 it will be seen that decided progress has been made in the blotting out of this menace. , COURAGEOUS COLLEGE MEN (Continued from Page One) ness their energies to some noble so cial cause. The Negro Sanhedrin en gages to show them the more excel lent way. In my mind two college men stand out most conspicuously for vicarious I devotion to the welfare of the race. One represents the older generation from the Northern college, and the other the younger breed of the Negro . college. William Monroe Trotter is the pio neer Negro collegian who threw him self and all there was in him into the scale of race service and devotion. He has lost all and gained nothing : by way of personal recompense. Oth- j ,ers have become thrifty on comfort able incomes by reason of racial ad vocacy and zeal. Frederick Douglass was made all that he was or could : have hoped to be by espousing the ' cause of the freedom of his race. Trotter, alone among Negro collegians of his day, had a choice of ways, but like Moses, the Hebrew collegian in ' the days of Pharoah, preferred to cast I in his lot with his afflicted race rather then enjoy the ways of pros | perity for a season. I cannot espouse j many of Mr. Trotter’s policies and j methods. I find myself at vital vari I ance with him in most of his modes ! of procedure. But I know that it was none other than he who held aloft THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE £ t — I !! A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded j. ! persons that the contribution of the Negro to American .{. !! nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from £ i! negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and £ > > yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking £ > and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first £ < • explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from £ ! I the first the foundation of the American prosperity and £ ' > the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and £ < - economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply jj* < > on the striving white men in Europe and America but also £ < ’ on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for £ < > two centuries. The military defense of. this land has de- j* < > pended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial £ ' • wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does | ; the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera- v ■ ture but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep j; i significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the • > :: choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played 1 ' a yvnlior spiritual role in America as a sort of living, ' breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, ; I hope w"d tolerance of our religion.—Du Bois, "The Gift of < • Black Folk.” Mr and mrs Richard (W. waddy Parents of I.oen H. tVaddy, men tinned in story on front jiatre. the light of racial rights when all j1 besides were wavering. He is shot through with a zeal that will not let ( him go. He will die in the faith he espoused in his youth. It would be a fitting tribute if the ; college men throughout the country' would undertake a race wide testimo nial to William Monroe Trotter for ■ thirty years’ sacrificial devotion to his race without money and without price. But the main purpose of this ar- ' tide is to set forth the altruistic serv- 1 ice and devotion of a younger college I man who is in closer touch with the present college generation. Neval H. Thomas was graduated from Howard University in 1901. His spirit and metal showed themselves. in his college days. He was always; ardently devoted to reform. Immedi- I ately upon graduation he entered upon teaching in the Washington high : school where he has been engaged ever since. But no pent up Utica contracts his powers. He completed a course in law, not so much with the expectation of practicing that lucra tive profession, but in order that he might all the more intelligently serve the cause to which he had consecrated his chief energies. Nor was his light long hid under a bushel. Only a few years after graduation do we find him advocating equal and exact jus tice for the colored race in the or ganic act reorganizing the public schools of the District of Columbia. He was the only colored teacher of [ the enti.re corps that had the temerity to appear before the committees of Congress in this behalf. He insisted j in and out of season that the colored schools should share and share alike with the whites in school appropria- : tions, appliances and facilities. His insistence often proved embarrassing to his more moderate and restrained colored superiors. But he insisted all the more. The reformer must always j take liberties with the established proprieties. Single handed and alone, Neval Thomas compelled the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to remove restrictions against colored 1 citizens in the restaurant under the court’s control. The colored lawyers who were chiefly concerned were in the mean time indifferent or apolo getic of existing discrimination. He fought a great department store with large colored patronage and com pelled it to remove discrimination at its lunch counter against colored pa trons. He also fought segregation in the restaurants of the House and Senate in the United States Capitol. Mr. Thomas has waged ceaseless war i upon the city library for refusing to j give colored girls the same oppor tunity for library training as is ac- j corded to the whites. He has well earned the sobriquet: “The John Browivdf the District of Columbia”. More concrete advantages have come to the colored citizens of the District of Columbia through the temeritous advocacy of this college reformer man mrough all other agencies com bined. Washington is heavy ladened with college men from the North and from the South, as well as from the East and from the West, but Neval Thomas in the field of reform has '■•rouvht more valiantly than they all. The has created the growth on which the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People thrives in this jurisdiction. But for him, it would in all probability have thriven here but feebly like a tender plant out of dry ground. But mainly through his courageous initiative, the local chapter is the largest in the country. Mr. Thomas is a member of the | National Board of Directors of the N. A. A. C. P. and is rapidly extending the radius and range of his potent influence. The test of sincerity and genuineness of character is determin ;d by the response of the common jeople. The common people will al ways hear gladly any one who speaks "rom the heart. As in the water face inswereth to face, so the heart of nan to the heart of man. Mr. Thom is is the idol of the masses. He speaks their language better than hey can speak for themselves. But .hey know a true note when they hear t. They cannot be fooled by a hol ow or artificial voice, however learn ed or appealing it may appear. Audi ences all over the country hang spell iound on his words. Thomas Went worth Higginson used to say: ‘‘If you want to become an orator, join a re ’orm.” Mr. Thomas has the oratory if the reformer. He has no new loctrine to proclaim, but repeats the ihilosophy of Chas. Sumner: “Equal-1 ty of rights with the ‘i’ dotted and :he ‘t’ crossed”. Like William Lloyd iarrison, he will not equivocate nor recede one inch.*“He has the courage if his cause and cares nothing of the effects upon his personal welfare. He ias never received one cent for his racial sendee, but gives freely of his own means. As in the case of Mr. Trotter, I do not follow Mr. Thomas in all of his moods and methods, but he commands an unlimited measure of my respect and admiration. Many men of rri.iry minds. W'e do not desire that all college men should be like Neval H. Thomas in all of the; idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of hi.-, mind. But if all possessed the full measure of his sacrifice and devotion our cause w'ould be well on the way of solution. Fifty well-trained, well poised, consecrated college men turn ed out yearly from our colleges, well distributed among the callings and professions throughout the mass of the race would put a new edge on the problem in the next half generation. But as things are now trending in the direction of narrow efficiency and selfishness the immediate outlook from fho college group fills us with a mixed feeling of hopes and fears. I would place Neval H. Thomas on a pedestal and invite young college men and women to look upon his like, and imitate his courage, his consecra tion and his zeal for his race. 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