^wmmmmmmmmmmaammmmam^amammamaamaammmmama^m^mmamrnrnrnaa^^mmmammamaamaa^amm. | THE MONITOR I A W1KLT NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS A ” OF COLORED AMERICANS_ PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA. BY THE r MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered aa Second-Class Mail Matter July 2. 1915, at the Postoflice at Omaha. Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THfe AEV—jOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS-.....-Editor W W MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb-Associate Editor LBCINPA W. WILLIAM8.. — —-- .Buelnese Ma—jf SUBSCRIPTION RATES. *2.001 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 V " ... --- -- ■■ —. . :; ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE \; UNITED STATES j; J J i > Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged ; ; 1. AH persons bom or naturalized in the United States, ; • ! I and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the 11 ;; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No \; !! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ;; ;; privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor £ ;; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- 'X - erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person S; within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. | sbmhhhbhhbhhhhhhbhmhhmhbhshbkhhhh OBSERVANCE OF LENT JDEGINNING next Wednesday mil lions of people throughout the world will be observing, with more or less earnestness and consistency, the penitential season of Lent. This is a period of forty days duration, or to be quite exact forty-six days, includ ing the six Sundays, which are not observed as days of fasting or ab stinence. During these forty days which are supposed to conform with the Forty Days Fasting and Tempta tion of Christ in the wilderness, mil lions of Christian folk througohut the world are by the terms of their church membership and faith required to use "such a measure of abstinence as is more especially suited to extra ordinary acts and exercises of devo tion.” In other words this is a period of intensive spiritual training. It is a time for religious stock taking. That this season has such a long history and is so universally observed shows that it must be beneficial. If such a period lias proven beneficial in days less strenuous than these it will be frankly conceded by all who are thoughtful that in this feverish rushing age of amusement and, money chasing when even the cultural life, is given such scant attention, that such a period as this is most imper atively needed by the American peo ple, of all people, to recall us to moral poise. Lent calls for abstinence. Such a measure of it as is especially suited to extraordinary acts and exercises of devotion. Abstinence means a vol untary refraining from some indulg ence of the appetite or the gratifica tion of the ordinary propensities of nature for the attainment of some specific, and, generally, higher aim, object or purpose. It means self de nial for the gaining of the mastery. This may be the mastery of self or of one’s conditions. To illustrate: One may want to become a home-owner. For a term of years he must deny himself certain things which he would very much enjoy in order that he may pay for his home. Or, again, one de sires to acquire an education, a trade, business or profession and become proficient in his line. For a time he must practice self-denial. The objective of Lent is growth in the spiritual life. The principle un derlying it, is that for a definite per iod of time such abstinence be prac ticed as will give more opportunity for prayer, meditation, serious thought, devotional reading, self-ex amination and like “acts and exercises of devotion”, as will help develop strong, consistent Christian character. We believe that an earnest observ ance of such a season as this by all religious people, in the way in which it is intended to be used, would have a tremendous influence in raising the moral and spiritual tone of the nation. THE DUTY OF BEING PLEASANT TV7E HOLD that it is a social duty " for people to practice the art of .j—m-ag being pleasant. There is nothing to be gained by going around with a frown and courting grouchiness. You feel better and everybody with whom you come in contact feels much bet ter if you are pleasant rather than grouchy. The fellow was right who told a frowning Omahan a few days ago, “Smile, Man, smile. A smile don’t cost a damn cent and it’s worth a million dollars.” ANOTHER KICK 'J’HE attention of the Commissioners is called to the fact that many of the sidewalks in certain sections of our city are impassible when it is muddy. Take, for example, Paul street from Twentieth to Twenty third. It is impossible for the scores of children who use this thoroughfare in going to Kellom school to avoid becoming mired in the mud. And we are intimately acquainted with a min ister of the Gospel who is compelled to use the same street frequently who would shock the pious members of his flock if he did not school himself in self-restraint as. he slips and founders in the mud. Gentlemen, please get busy, and give us decent sidewalks and pavements on Paul street and in other parts of our city. Mud is good in its place. Its place is not where sidewalks ought to be. Yes, this is another kick. FEBRUARY MONTH OF GREAT MEN JfEBRUARY is noted as the birth month of several prominent Amer icans. Among the outstanding names are those of George Washington, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and Henry W. Longfellow. Among this galaxy and of course it is incom plete we as a people venerate the name and memory of Lincoln, the Emancipator; and Frederick Doug lass, of our own blood and race, the friend and confidant of Lincoln. Each rose from lowly conditions to emin ence. BACK ON THE JOB WfE ARE GLAD to welcome to our ” desk again The Louisville News, which has been in a state of suspended animation for some months. William Worley is the editor. Glad to see this virile paper back on the job. WE WONDER T|7E WONDER when our political W friends whom our votes helped to elect to office are going to find it convenient to give our folks some re sponsible and worthwhile appoint ments. No hurry, of course, we are just wondering. PLEASE PAY If your paper is cut off you will un derstand the reason why. We have sent requests for payment of delin quent subscriptions. When there if no reply the paper stops. ;; THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE ;: A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded < ;: persons that the contribution of the Negro to American - > nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from < II negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and < < ’ yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking < ImiJ acting as the American Negro. He came with the first < !! explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from ; 11 the first the foundation of the American prosperity and ; ! < the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and I importance. Modern democracy rests not simply ; > on the striving white men in Europe and America but also • on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for ; ' two centuries. Hie military defense of this land has de 1 pended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial ’ wan down to the straggle of the World War. Not only does ; • the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera- ; ' taro hat a Negro American literature has arisen of deep ; 11 > significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the ; theireot heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has < * pacoHar apiritual role ia America as a sort of Uvrng, , hMtthr test of oar ideals and an example of the faith, ; £us d «Tnligiea^Du Bo*, The Gift ef I 1..•.. SI v THE COWER Looking On and Listening In by the Tower Man The next Pan-African Conference, according to authentic information given Tower Man, will be held in prin cipal cities of a number of the West Indies islands during December, 1925. This will afford an unprecendented opportunity for the darker people of the western hemisphere to unite on a change of viewpoint. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois is the founder and president of the conference. Thursday, March 12th, will be the birthday anniversary of the late Col. Charles Young. The Omega Psi Phi Greek letter fraternity and the Asso ciated Negro Press have diligently sought to keep the memory of this great soldier and gentleman fresh in the minds of Americans. It can be stated with unquestioned authority that an effort is now being made to memorialize the name of Colonel j Young in a manner that will meet the hearty approval of every red blooded American. The matter has been offi cially placed before President Cool idge, who is giving it serious consider ation. Mme. A’Lelia Walker, of New York, Chicago and Indianapolis, it has been announced, has contributed $25,000 to the campaign on the Tuskegee-Hamp ton endowment fund. There can be j nothing less than real hope for a peo pie who develop philanthropic spirits thus visioned and generously minded, j — Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Allen of Chi cago, celebrated their silver wedding by a mammoth gathering of their j friends in beautiful Warwick Hall, i Tuesday evening, February 3rd. Mr. | Allen is a postman, property owner, Aopomattox club member, but both he and Mrs. Allen are famous in Chicago for their congeniality and hospitality. In these days of many divorces and ! hard-boiled friendships, it is inspir ing to note Borne of the good old fashioned ways. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois is a recent ex tended interview with Tower Man closed by saying that he has great ( hope for the future of the American Negro. Dr. DuBois is of the opinion that there will be ‘‘contending forces'’ for an indefinite period, but that the white people of today are awakened to the fact that they have “real men to deal with”, and are basing their ; program of activity on this slant. As a good father Dr. DuBois has pardon able pride in the art development of a charming daughter, Miss Yolandi Du- 1 Bois, a graduate of Fisk and a present student in Columbia university. William Randolph Hearst, who says he is a “newspaper man" and not a “journalist” stirred up a veritable hor net's nest when he telegraphed Henry Ford, of Detroit, Mich., to ascertain that unique gentleman’s attitude on Muscle Shoals, where the government has spent $140,000,000, and much of the work has been done by colored labor. Mr. Ford now favors govern ment control, and his old friends are now wondering “What’s it all about?” Muscle shoals is again, or still upon j the shoals, and it’s all up to Captain Cal. J There is no use talking, a white man who only occasionally comes in contact with the world of “Sun-Kiseed America" cannot get our angle of the “eternal fitness of things”. Over in Cleveland, Ohio, for example, the dis tinguished City Manager W. R. Hop kins, a fine spirit personally, has “got in bad" with the populace when, in augurating the PhilliB Wheatley cam paign for $600,000 he referred to the 40,000 newcomers to Cleveland in the last ten years as a “menace”. He has been explaining and on the defensive ever since. Take in the matter of ad vertisements in our newspapers, white artists, even though kindly in spirit, having been reared under the carica-! ture environment, cannot put the soul j into drawings of us that our artists see, being with us day by day in every i way. The Tattler, illustrated weekly of: New York, is about to have another birthday. The Messenger, monthly, j same city, with its eighty pages in the January issue, has been given an Im petus that helps magazine reading everywhere. Chicago, foremost in ra cial news gathering, service, and news papers, is about to launch a new magazine backed by white and colored capital. Memory goes back to the “Voice of the Negro", but this is a new day, and, though, they moved the Voice to Chicago after the Atlanta riot and it could not make it, Chicago now has the vision, and we’ll Just have to wait and see how things are coming out. — There are hundreds of new visioned Americans who are pinning much faith on the future, both in an artistic and commercial way, in the further music al development of colored America. It is a big field, we are in the swing of it, and it looks like we are going to keep right on going “until Shiloh comes”. “Questions and Answers in Negro Histoijr” by George Wells Parker of the Associated Negro Prese staff, is regarded by eminent thinkers as the most constructive department estab lished for racial Journalism in years. Mr. Parker is an acknowledged author ity on the subject of history affecting the darker peoples of the world, and lie newspapers of the nation are dis playing fine judgment in the line pre sentation of Mr. Parker's opinions, roo long has colored America been ‘asleep at the switch”, taking the white viewpoint of darkskinned his :ory of the world. It is a distinct con tribution that we are now furnishing pur own facts, and sensible white his torians are now endeavoring to tell the truth. STUDY OF WARSHIP HULL FOUND HELP Valuable Data Obtained for Designing New Craft. Washington.—With a six or seven year period ahead before the United States may lay down its first replace ment battleship under the Washing ton naval treaty, navy experts will have ample time to make the utmost use of data obtained from experiments on the hull of what was to have been the superdremlnaught Washington and on other scrapped vessels In prepar ing designs for new ships. They are expected to achieve a de cided advance In warship construction as a result of their prolonged studies. The Washington experiments, de tails of which arc regarded as among the most confidential matters In the custody of the Navy department, af forded in opportunity to obtain In formation of an unusual character. The four ships of this class, three of which were completed and are now with the fleet, represent the most powerful defensive and offensive de velopment in buttleshlp building the world sill know until the two new British superdreadnuughts are launched and commissioned. The only vessel approaching the Maryland, West Virginia and Colorado now afloat Is the Japanese 16-lnch gunned, post-Jutland battleship Mitsui. Designs for this class of ships were prepared In the Navy department while the European war was In prog ress. but before the United States en tered the conflict. The submarine menace had almost reached Its climax In threatening al lied defeat before the plans were com pleted, and there are many things In the hull construction of the ships which grew out of war experience of the allies as observed by American experts. These have to do for the most part with better protection against torpe does and mines and the experiments with the Washington hull afforded the only chance naval engineers of any nationality have had to test the meth ods of protection adopted on a scale that would furnish reliable data. Coast Railway Explains Significance of Toots i Los Angeles.—The mysteries of the language of railroad engines, as spo ken through the engineer’s whistle, have been revealed by the Southern 1’aclflc company in an announcement for the benefit of the general public. The significance of Ills whistle Is explained as follows: it our blasts, two of medium length and two short, are a warning that a locomotive Is approaching a grade crossing. A succession of short blasts tells trespassers to get off the track. One long blast, followed by three short ones, sends the rear flagman hack to protect against a following train. Four or five blasts of medium dura tion recall the flagman. Four short whistles Is the engineer’s Way of asking for train order signal. Two short whistles mean ‘‘Thank you" or “I get you.” One whistle of medium duration, followed by two short blasts, cal la at tention to signals displayed for a fol lowing section. One long blast Is given when train Is approaching a station, drawbridge or Junction. Two short blasts given three times are a signal to the trainmen that the air brakes are sticking. Survey Shows Saturday Night Bath Is No Myth New York—About 1.000,000 new bathtubs were made In the year 1924. Since for the average bath in a tub between 40 and 00 gallons of water are used, the tide of soapsuds rises high. And It is at Its flood on Satur day nights. This is proven by accurate measure of the additional amount of gas con sumed in the cities to heat the water to between 140 to 150 degrees. It requires from two to three cubic feet of gas to raise a gallon of water 100 degrees. The per capita consumption of wa ter In American cities Is 200 to 300 per cent greater than In European cities, and on Sa'turday nights this percentage Is doubled. The ordinary householder In this country uses about 7,500 gallons of water a month. Representatives of the largest soap producers in this country assert that every family (averaging 4.4 persons) In the United States consumes at least SO pounds of soaps during the year. Fish Are Shoveled From River During Smelt Run Kelso, Wash.—Smelt started running Into the Cowlitz river from the Colum bia recently. Catching these miniature fish is now the event of the winter, fanners shoveling them up by the scoopful, filling barrels and boxes; women using lace curtain nets at the end of portiere' poles; boys 2nd girls with father’s auto cover for a seine and the professional fisher with his linen thread nets. These fish, about seven to nine Inches long, run In schools, often filling the river from hank to bank. They are en route upstream to spawn after which the smelt return to the ocean and, like the for seal, spend a long period far from human eyea. The food value of tba smeltJm what makaa It to attractive, being canned in glasa Jars, pickled la apices, salted and dried. Ilntgirtei Brig C*. f 2701 Q Street J; Ma. 3435 JJ - II PROMPT, COURTEOUS | SERVICE | FREE DELIVERY | We treat ’em all alike | uiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiimi: I D.H.OIiver,LL.B. 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