The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928, March 20, 1925, Page TWO, Image 2

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    j 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 Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the PoetoKlce at
Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 2, 1879._
THfe 'rev.'’John albert williams--- Editor
W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln. Neb--Associate Editor
LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS..—--- -Business Manager
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Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application
Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone WEbster 4243
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ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE |
;; UNITED STATES X
' ’ Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged y
X 1. All persons bom or naturalized in the LTnited States, y
II and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the 4
;; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No X
■ • state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the £
! I privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor A
;; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- X
erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person y
!", within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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THE LEPROSY OF LEWDNESS
THIS is an appalling disease which
is claiming hundreds of thousands
of victims yearly. Last year alone in
the United States 363,000 new cases
of this dreadful scourge were re
ported. These statistics, startling as
they are, do not tell the whole story,
for all cases are not reported, nor
can they be until brought to the at
tention of the medical authorities.
But one-third of a million of new
cases of venereal diseases reported is
cause for alarm. No wonder that the
National Bureau of Public Health is
waging a campaign against this
scourge and striving to arouse the
nation to a sense of its danger. In
its educational campaign of combat
ing what we have called the leprosy!
of lewdness, for that is unquestionably
what venereal diseases is, the govern
ment is calling upon the press of the
country for assistance in disseminat
ing information. The Monitor is glad
to respond and take part in this vi
tally important work.
Venereal diseases come in the first
place from lewdness. From ignorant,
unrestrained, promiscuous and sinful
use or abuse of the sex organs. Those
wonderful and delicate organs of the
body which God has given for a high
and holy purpose, to be vehicles and
instruments of life, become by pros
titution and debasement channels and
instruments of death. Sins of impur
ity invite a heavy and far-reaching
penalty and that penalty is the lep
rosy of lewdness or loathsome venereal
diseases which, bring blindness, in
sanity, paralysis, painracked wives,
stillborn children, and inconceivable
misery, anguish and suffering in their
train. And a great deal of sexual sin
is due to ignorance. Young people
are not taught, and especially among
'our group, the beauty and sacredness
of the sex-organs and sex-relation, at
the time when the sex-impulse is be
ginning to manifest itself. A prudish
silence seals the lips f those who
should teach their children in purity
the secrets of life which they are left
too often to learn in impurity from
others. There is large room for
amendment in this important me.cter
of which we hope to speak at some
subsequent time.
While venereal diseases are in the
first place the penalty of lewdness
there are thousands of people, men,
women and children, who lead pure
and moral lives who become innocent
victims of these dreaded diseases
through infection, because they are
deadly infectious maladies. One whol
ly unconscious of being infected may
kiss your innocent baby girl or boy;
and impart to your child the virus
that may blight its life by blindness;
or insanity, if the infection in thatj
child is not discovered in time. You,!
yourself, may be exposed and suffer
dire results.
All then should welcome the infor
mation the United States government
is giving concerning this scourge and
co-operate in every way possible to
combat its spread. The importance
of clean living needs to be emphasized
again and again and the penalty of
the sins of impurity and prostitution
in terms of physical suffering, im
paired mental powers and spiritual
anguish unhesitatingly proclaimed, if
we would save humanity from the
leprousy of lewdness.
FACING THE MUSIC
OBSERVERS of racial relation- in
this country who are keenly alive to
the signs of the times must realize
that we as *a people simply have to
face the music and do our full duty.
In communities where we have en
joyed certain civic privileges there
seems a determined effort upon the
part of many to curtail and restrict
our privileges and rights. This ten
dency is nation-wide. It should not
discourage us, but only make us more
determined, first, to DESERVE, and
then to contend for those rights and
privileges, while at the same time
being very careful to fulfill all our
responsibilities.
WHY NOT?
WHY should not North Twenty
fourth street be as beautiful and at
tractively lighted as the corresponding
section of South Twentyfourth street ?
Whose fault is it, that it isn’t? Tne
Northside merchants should wake up.
There are outlying residence sections,
better lighter than this busy section
of Northy Twenty-fourth street.
WE received a letter last week
thainking us for our editorials on call
ing attention to the necessity of co
operative work in helping make Om
aha a more beautiful city.
VENEREAL DISEASES
AS DESTROYERS OF
HEALTH AND WEALTH
By the United States Public Health
Service.
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History and Distribution
Three hundred and sixtey-three
thousand new eases of venereal dis
ease were reporter! in the United
State- in the year ending June 30,
1024. To many folks this may seem
to be a trifling announcement of no
more importance than a statement
that 363,000 persons had caught cold;
but to one who knows the true facts
about venereal disease, it bring- a
vision of misery, of lost time anri mo
ney, of an economic burden to work
ers of the nation, of the suffering of
innocent women and children—all of
which have been the accompaniments
of syphilic and gonorrhea from time
immemorial, and which in the present
day can be escaped only by the ap
plication of the knowledge of the
cause, prevention and cure of venereal
diseases.
Although the absolute knowledge of
syphilis as a distinct disease dates
back to only 1494—when the sailors of
Columbus brought the disease to Spain
from Haiti, and when the armies of
Charles VIII of France and Ferdinand
of Spain spread the disease through
Italy—there is evidence tending to
show that syphilis has existed ever
since cities were first built and peo
pled. In the poems and writings of
the ancients, mention is made of com
municating a loathsome disease by |
kissing, as well as by other relations 1
between sexes. Emperor Ho-Ang-Ti,
who ruled China more than 4,500
years ago, caused the medical knowl
edge of that day to be collected into
a single work, and in that work can
be found a description of gonorrhea,
as well as of a disease similar to
syphilis.
Down through the ages venereal dis
eases have come. They have been
nursed by immorality, by ignorance,
and by a false idea that they were
punishments visited upon sinners—an
idea that ignored the fact of innocent
infection. In secret, ami therefore
unchecked by medical science, these
plagues ran their full courses, leaving
d j. th, insanity, lothsome sores, para
lysis, pain-racked wives, stillborn chil
dren, and untold misery and suffering
in their wake. Then, as now, venereal
diseases took their toll from all classes
of people. Rich and poor, idler and
worker, moral and immoral, all who
became exposed were infected. But
there is one difference. In ages past
there was no remedy, no medical care,
no hope for victims of syphilis and
gonorrhea. Modern science, however,
has evolved a method of cure. Though
it is not always possible to undo all
the harm which has been done, today
an infected person has the comfort
of knowing that early treatment by a
reliable physician or in an officiial
public clinic may prevent the worst
consequences of venereal disease.
It has been said that in Russia to
day there are communities in which
90 per cent of the people are infected
with venereal disease. From Canada
comes the report that 81,931 citizens
of that country—men, women and
children, many of them innocent
have been reported as new cases in
the last three years; and these are
said to be only a fraction of the actual
existing cases. In the United States
the figures for the last fiscal year
show an increase of 24,382 cases of
venereal disease over the numher re
ported in the previous year; but the
' increase in this country may be laid
to better reporting of cases rather
than to spreading infection. As late
as the year 1873 there were 286 more
deaths than births in the Hawaiian
Islands. The Hawaiian national gov
ernment and its board of health ac
! counted for this situation in these
I words: “Syphilis may be considered
; as the most important cause of de
population.” Such a statement needs
j no comment.
In discussing the distribution of ve
nereal diseases in the United States
! it is necessary to remember that al
I though 363,000 cases were reported to
1 the various state boards of health last
year, there undoubtedly were many
other cases which escaped discovery
or which were not listed with the state
authorities. As far back as 1915,
Osier estimated that syphilis (includ
ing stillbirths, deaths of infants under
one month, and other syphilitic con
ditions) took 60,000 lives in one year.
This was a number sufficient to place
it at the top of the infections—a lead
ership which it may still hold. Out
j of 4,807 cases of infectious diseases
jin New York City in September of
last year, 1,639 were cases of venereal
disease, while tuberculosis claimed but
820. Syphilis and gonorrhea, there
fore, were responsible for 34 per cent
of the total number of infectious cases.
Among the Negroes the rate of ve
nereal disease infection is double that
of the whites. It is said that syphilis
is probably the greatest cause of death
and disability in the colored race.
With these facts in mind, when
faced with the necessity of providing
able bodied men for the army and
navy, Congress in 1918 created the
Division of Venereal Diseases in the
United States Public Health Service.
Since its formation, this division has
co-operated with the state boards <)t
health in checking the ravages of
syphilis ami gonorrhea and has been
active in spreading the true facts of
life, of sex, and of disease. Among
other things, this government bureau
has published a set of pamphlets
pointing the way to prevention and
cure. These books may be obtained
from the various state boards of
health. Set A is for young men; set
B, for officials and the general pub
lic; set C, for boys; set D, for parents; |
set E, for girls and young women, and 1
set F is for educators.
This article has shown something of I
the history and distribution of vene
real diseases. A second number of
the series will point out and illustrate
the economic burden to the worker and
the nation caused by these plagues
through the loss of time and wages,
and increased number of accidents,
and the upkeep of asylums and other
institutions. A third account will lift
the curtain on some of the human
misery resulting from syphilis and
gonorrhea; while a fourth will de
scribe community, industrial and in
dividual measures which must be
taken if these twin scourges are to
be effectively combated and controlled.
SUPPORTING RACE ENTER
PRISES
One of the things that is most need-!
ed in the business world today is co- j
operation. It is not only needed in the
business world, but in other walks of
life as well. Business is so compli
cated, so complex, that co-operation
is needed there more than in any other
walk of life. The Negro business is
a phase of social life with its peculiar
problems. Here that very thing which
is most needed is lacking. There
is no co-operation. This is very true
of many cities. It is especially true
of Omaha. Here we have quite a few
businesses which should be supported
to overflowing capacity by the color
ed people. Instead these businesses
are very poorly supported. When any
one does go to one of these places for
necessities it is apparently more out
of sympathy than out of the fact that
the party actually needs the goods
which he buys. There should be no
such thing as sympathy in business.
One should go to a place to buy what
one actually needs, not from a sym
pathetic point of view. I am sure
that if any one of the Colored bus
inesses knew that the parties who
trailed with them did it from a point
of sympathy, the owner would losr-j
his knowledge of courtesy; he would'
not lie able to wait upon the party as
capably as he would if he were made
to feel that he was rendering a real
service, filling a long-felt need.
There is some improvement for the
proprietors of the business in this
city also. There is a matter of ser
vice and courtesy. Service, to my
mind, is letting the people have what
they want, when they want it, like i
they want it. Courtesy is due regard !
for the customer. Anything which!
goes for the satisfaction of the cus
tomer is to be looked for and cared
for. In fact it is up to the business
man to go out of his way in seeking
for the comfort of his customers. If
a customer wants to buy only a very
small item it should be given the
-ame attention that a bill amounting
to several dollars would be given. The;
wife .of the jaery common laborer
should be given the same considera
tion that the wife of the doctor wouio
be given. Dollars and cents are ad
the sam* whether from the hands of
a bootblack or from the hands of the
president of a college. There is no
special class in business. If a bus
iness man is to succeed he must
“treat ’em all alike.” This is the
secret of that thing called business.
Business must be run by men who
attend to business alone. It is a mis
take to think that the doctor is to be
the man to succeed in the business
world simply because he has been thru
school. The same is true with the
dentist and the preacher. Social or
professional leadership cannot keep j
a business sound. There must be bus- j
iness in the business. Men must study!
business in order to do business. If ■,
efficiency is a quality in any walk of
life, it is doubly a quality in the bus
iness world. Young Colored man,
study business if you would go into
the business world, study business for
your race needs you. Your people are
losing confidence in the ability of your
leaders for the many business failures
which your race has had within the
last few years. Look at the Standard
Life Insurance Company which went
to the walls a few days ago. Is not
this a concrete example of a lack of
real business men among the race ?
Now comes the time for real co- j
operation. Capital is the principal
element in the building of a business l
concern. A large amount of capital
is needed for the development of any
business. This means a pooling of
small sums of money by many indi
viduals. There must be great care in
the pooling of this money both by
the persons themselves and by those
who take the money for the purpose
of organization. There must be men
who are trustworthy, honest. There
must be men who are going to take
the money and expend it as if it were j
their last money, as if the future of:
himself and whole family rested on
the way it were spent. Such a man
should be supported to the last point!
by his fellowmen. The people should
be as willing to put their savings In
to a business sponsored by him as
they would put it in a bank. They
should not, however, go at it blindly,
they should investigate the matter
before they invested a penny.
Again comes the last word. The
matter of supporting these businesses
which are sponsored by the Colored
man. They should be put before the
people, kept before them all the time.
The people should visit them and buy
their goods from them. They should
not buy them out of sympathy alone,
but the businesses should appeal to
them as offering a real service, as
offering as good goods for the money
as could te bought elsewhere. The
Colored man should advertise his bus
iness. The failure to do this is a vital
mistake. The Colored buyer should
buy his goods from the Colored man
when it is possible to do so.—R. A. G.
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f nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from £
negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and ’£
«> yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking |
• I and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first jj*
• > explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from ❖
< > the first the foundation of the American prosperity and |
* < > the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and y
<; economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply $
;; on the striving white men in Europe and America but also •£
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;; two' centuries. The military defense of this land has de- ■>
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; wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does *j;
; the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera
; tare but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep y
' significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the £
\ choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played !
• psmliir spiritual role in America as a sort of living, ;
breathing tost of our ideals and an example of the faith, < >
hops sad teieraaee of sur religion.—Du Bole, “The Gift of o
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BULBS—For Spring and
Fall Planting
When in need of CUT
FLOWERS don’t forget our
Moral Department, as we
have a complet seasonable
assortment.
STEWART’S SEED AND
FLOWER SHOP
109 North 16th Street
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JAckson 3285
I Lustgarten Drug Co. ?
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exchanged. Used parts for ail
makes of cars.
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1011-1013 No. 18th Street
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Friday and Saturday
The Record Breaking Millinery Event of the Season
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For W(mien—Miss, Child and Matron
A pile of Millinery Odds and Ends from otir
wholesale stock. Not the newest styles or
trims, but every hat the host value ever of
fered in Omaha.
Come Early—Extra Saleewomen A Hate That you would
and Cashier*. Every Sale Final. pay up to $5.00 for
No C. O. D.’e. No Chargee. when they were at
their Style Peak
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Street Hat.
^'is'ses^H^s Imported Placques
Misses Hats Peanut Bra ds
P°1 u3t? m . Satins
School Hat. Ribbons Ornaments
Matrons’ Hate
We are what you would call cleaning house anil every hat mil.si
go before we more to our new place of buglru-f at 131113
Karnam St., to the W. O. W. Bldg.
Don’t forget—2,000 Hat* to aelect from—The frame or the trim
mlngg on many of them are worth three timeg what you will pay
| fo the hat and trim. The thrifty woman will buy five or six
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i 12th and F&mam
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| 1311-13 Farnatn
| Farnam Car 8top« at Our
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