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DEATH RATE TOO HIGH
DR. A. G. EDWARDS, one of Oma
ha’s oldest and most skillful physici
ans, gave an instructive health talk
last Sunday afternoon at the North
Side Y. W. C. A. which should have
had a larger audience. He empha
siped important facts that we all need
to know. The Monitor hopes that Dr.
Edwards may* be induced to prepare
for publication in our columns a se
ries of articles along the line of his
helpful address. Such talks as Dr.
Edwards gave should be frequently
given in churches and lodges and
other public gatherings among our
people by our well-trained and com
petent physicians.
The fact that the death rate in Om
aha among our group is twelve per
cent higher than among the white peo
ple is something that should give usI
all concern. As Dr. Edwards pointed
out, our people live in good homes and
generally in as sanitory surroundings
as other citizens, and there is really
no excuse for this high death rate.
It is due to removable causes. Too
many neglect what are considered
minor complaints and refuse to call in
a physician until it is too late, if al
all, and a large number, especially
among new comers, are too much giv
en to the use of patent medicines
without knowledge of what their
trouble is.
Health is priceless. It is a boon
within the prasp of all . We owe it to
ourselves to conserve and protect our
health. With excellent physicians
within call, with visiting nurses ready
to be of service whenever need shall;
require, with sanitary homes and sur
roundings there is no reason why the
death rate among our race in Omaha
should be any higher than that among
the white citizens. This is an im
portant matter which The Monitor
urges upon the ministers and heads
of lodges and fraternities who have
the ears of thousands of our people
to bring to their attention. The Gos
pel of Health is as important as the
Gospel of Salvation and is a part of
the Gospel of Salvation which should
be widely proclaimed.
PROBLEMS
PEOPLE talk glibly of problems
when the real truth of the matter is
they are simply trying to evade an
imperative and plain social duty of
treating the other fellow as they
would like the other fellow to treat
them. When men and women, hon
estly and sincerely, decide to apply
Christian principles to their dealings
with their fellow men many condi
tions considered and classed as prob
lems will rapidly disappear. When,
for example, the employer of labor,
the capitalist, if you please, will look
upon his employees not as machines
but as human beings and treat them
accordingly, and the laborer, in his
turn, will regard his employer, not as
a soulless entity or corporation, tout
as a human being, the so-called “la
bor problem” will be solved. When
men of various races and religions
regard men of other races and relig
ions as human beings with the same
human longings and aspirations as
themselves, the so-called “race prob
lem” will be seen to be non-existent.
What is needed is absolute honesty in
the application of the Golden Rule in
our dealings with one another. The
problem lies in getting people who
profess such high principles with their
lips to practice them in their lives.
KEEP AT IT
IT IS GRATIFYING to notice the
ventures that are being made by our
people in new business fields. This
spirit of progress is to be commended.
Ordinary business prudence should be
used and honesty and integrity of pur
pose should be the controlling mo
tives. Then there should be strict at
tention given to one’s business, what
ever it may be, with the determina
tion to give the best service possible.
Such things make for success. If,
however, after an honest trial to ac
complish something laudable, one
should fail, he ought not become dis
couraged. He should try again. Per
severance and pluck are the price we
pay for success. Keep at it.
SPEND your money with those who
show that they appreciate your pa
tronage. Your money should be used
wherever possible in supporting wor
thy enterprises among our people.
ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH
Twenty-fifth and R Sts.—Tel. MArket 3475
O. ]. Burckhardt, Pastor
Rev. Ruseel Taylor preacher! a splendid
sermon at 11 A. M. and in the evening
the pastor preached from Prov. 16:16, Bet
ter to get wisdom than gold.” There was
a good attendance all day and $100 was
raised to meet the sum needed. Most all
of the members were interested in making
the day a financial success, and worked
hard to that end, but the pastor’s boosters
under the leadership of their president,
Mrs. Ida Riddles, took the lead in mak
ing this rally a success. Mrs. Riddles had
the co-operation of all of her members and
Mrs. H. J. Kinney, her sub-chairman, did
good work among her northside friends.
Sunday the pastor will preach in the
evening on the things that hinder our
spiritual progress.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
WEEK—MAY 3rd TO 8th
The annual Mother and Daughter week
promises to be one of the gala events of
the season. The Girl Reserves desire the
co-operation of every mother and daughter
in making this an outstanding feature
long to be remembered. To put over a
big program of interest requires hard work
on the part of the Girl Reserve depart
ment. Yet the work is of such an uplift
ing nature that it should be taken out of
the common class and placed among the
fine arts.
One is never in any position or in any
condition in which he is not required to
:: THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE |
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A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded ..
!! persons that the contribution of the NegTo to American > ’
!! nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from « >
\ negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and - j
’ yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking y
! and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first £
> 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 y
• on the striving white men in Europe and America but also
1 on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for ;
j 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 Ktera
> taro but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep ;
» significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the • >
choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played !
a psrsHsr spiritual role in America as a sort of living,
breathing test of oar ideals and an example of the faith, <
; hope sad teleraace of oar religion.—Du Bois, “The Gift of !
■ask lUk."
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(to something. Any one who wants to
succeed must learn that no matter what
may be his station in life there is work
for him to do; he must put his heart into
his work. There are great things to do
in life, in the making of a good girl
which seems to be a little matter, but it
is in the little things that we train our
selves and others to do great things.
One thing that will be of interest to
those interested in girlhood and young
womanhood will be the get-together mother
and daughter week. This will give the
mother a chance to become better ac
quainted with her daughter and her pres
ent day ideas. Won’t that be great work
for the mother? It will teach both mother
and daughter how to pull together, how
to put their hearts into the work they are
doing.
It is not merely a fancy, a theory or a
philosophy. It is a thing that is neces
sary to raise the standard of womanhood.
It is an education for which all women
should seek.
The aim of education in this instance is
no! to gather facts; it is to develop spir
itual character. The work is a blessing to
all women and girls. Such work will
bring joy and happiness in addition to
affording a blessing.
Regular monthly vesper services will be
held Sunday, April 26 at 4 p. m. Social
hour from 5 to 6 p. m. Everybody wel
come.
—Cunea Watson, Chairman Pub. Com.
THE NEGRO'S LOVE FOR BEAUTY
By Robert A. Green
One of the greatest variations from
truth is a statement which in any way |
denies that the Negro is keenly a lover 1
of beauty. Yo deny that is also to deny
that he is endowed with an aesthetic !
sense. Is the Negro lacking in this en
dowment? Has he a lack of appreciation
for music, drama, poetry and the other
finer arts? Has nature no lure for him
in the beauty of its spring clothes? Is :
he still contented to live in the old log
cabin of “ante-bellum days” rather than
a modem home made beautiful with all
that nature and man have devised for !
comfort?
In “A Handbook of Literary Criticism'’
by William Sheran, the aesthetic sense is
defined as "Our faculty, or power, of ap
preciating the beautiful, whether in the ;
physical, moral or intellectual order.
Lessing describes it as our faculty of ap- \
preciating these ideals which art exter
nalizes and renders concrete.” In the
same treatise the author states: “The
aesthetic sense is as innate to man as his
physical sense of taste or touch, and it
is quite as universal.” The love of beauty
is peculiar to no individual or group of
individuals, but to all alike.
We love the work of Chaucer because
we see in it the beauty of nature. Through
out all his works we see the beauty of
human nature. There is beauty in his
rustic characters. All his scenes are laid
on country roads, in country inns, amid
what we term today, ‘the clod-hoppers”.
Not in ail America is there a race which
has been so successful on the farms as
the Negro. The wealth of the South was
made possible by the labors of the Negro,
both as freedman and a slave. He loves
the open, the breezes which cool him in
the midst of the beautiful green. His love
for beauty has made him the successful
agriculturist that he is.
landscape gardeners are among us by
the score. As I sit at my desk I have a
most vivid picture of Kelly Miller, dean
of Junior College Department, Howard
university, amidst the beautiful flowers in
his yard cultivate! by his own labors. I
even look out my window and see at
work in his yard Father John Albert Wil
liams. Neither of these men, one the
dean of the junior college department in
one of the greatest universities in Amer
ica, and an eminent sociologist, the other
a priest in the Protestant Episcopal church,
has had training as a landscape gardener.
It is natural for them to love the beautiful,
to create it, as it were. Among us are
those whose work as landscape gardeners
keep them in demand the whole season
of spring.
Interior decorators and architects are
not strange within our group. A canvass
of the larger universities the world over
| will disclose the fact that hundreds of
our group have gone out from their schools
of fine arts. Countless others are still
in training. Howard university, Washing
ton, D. C., our own, has a wonderful
school of fine arts liberally attended by
our group.
Paul Laurence Dunbar and James
Ephriam McGirt have done for the Negro
in verse an invaluable deed. They have
made a literature, distinctively American,
yet peculiar to the Negro alone. His feel
ings. his optimistic nature have been bared
to the world in the verses of these two
great poets. Phyllis Wheatly, as far back
as the time of General Washington, was
writing poetry which conformed to no
special race or group, but was good poetry
with all the beauty that is to be looked
for in verse. Her best may be seen in
her work “To His Excellency, General
Washington”.
On the stage we may glory in the fame
of a Bert Williams, who pleased discrim
inating theatre goers on two continents.
His smile and good nature made the world
forget that he was a Neg/o and remembeT
that he was a man. Nor could it be said
that he was different from any one of his
race. Charles Gilpin came later to show
that same discriminating group that Bert
was not the only possible colored actor
to please the public on the stage.
Shuffle Along and Runnin’ Wild, both
musical comedies, had tremendous suc
cesses all over the each in some of Amer
ica’s best theatres. Entire companies pro
duce and act plays for the cinema.
In the field of music, the most noble and
sublime of all arts, of which the Bible
speaks more than once, the Negro has
made rapid stride*. So successful has be
lieen in this much appreciated art that his
has been conceded the only original music
of which America can boast. ..Nor is the
range limited. Negro music touches emo
tions wherever present in human life. In
the language of the immortal Puritan
poet, Milton, the spirituals for 11 Penso
roso; jazz for L’Allegro. Characters like
Burleigh, Clarence Cameron White, Bessie
and Mamie Smith, and a score of others
have brought this out from our population
right here in America.
As a race, we are endowed with a keen
sense of the beautiful. As men our love
for beauty carries us to no more extreme*
than does the love of any other race. For
Lessing has said that the aesthetic sense
is a universal one. The primary colon
red, blue, green, yellow, violet, etc., at
tract all men alike. The Negro love* art,
literature and music. He has reached fame
in all these endeavors. He has done so
well in one of them that the whole Amer
ican continent has conceded him the mas
ter.
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at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church
Twenty-fourth and Ohio Sts.
WHEN?
Begins Monday, April 20th
Who Is Going to Preach?
The Rev. George W. Day, Pastor
O Lord, I have heard Thy speech
and was afraid; O Lord, revive Thy
work in the midst of the years, in the
midst of the years make known; in
wrath remember mercy.”
The revival spirit is in the air. All
the members of Mt. Moriah are at it.
This is as it should be. The Church
must reach the lost for Christ The
second coming of Christ will be the
one theme of the meetings.
The following themes will be dis
cussed from this plorious and much
neglected book:
1. The seven churches of Asia.
2. The seven trumpets.
3. The seven seals.
4. The end of time.
5. The two witnesses.
6. Satan, the great red dragon.
7. The beast.
8. The seven bowls of wrath.
9. The fall of Babylon.
10. The marriage of the lamb.
11. The pale horse.
12. The seven new things.
The meeting will close on May the
3rd. Come one, come all, and help to
save a soul for Chriat.
The Rev. George W. Day, Pastor
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