I THE MONITOR I a WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS j OF COLORED AMERICANS i PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY : Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915. at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. _ ___ Tldl^EvTJOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS---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 -- - - >4^"> ■» xl ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE * * UNITED STATES £ ;; | '! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged $ !! 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States. £ 11 and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the Ij! United States and of the State wherein they reside. No X 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 * !! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ;; $ BOOSTING AND KNOCKING THERE are some people so constituted that they are not happy unless they are knocking or finding fault. The town in which they live is the worst in the coun try, if they are to be believed, and yet they continue to reside there, make their livelihood there and enjoy whatever ad vantages it has to offer. If they are mem bers of a church or a lodge they assume the same altitude, that of fault-finding and knocking. Knockers, as a rule are para sites. They live on others and contribute practically nothing to the upbuilding of their town, church or lodge. The chronic knocker is never a builder. Furtunately there are others who. while recognizing that their -community, like everything human has its faults and has not yet attained to perfection, have learned [ the happiness and efficacy of boosting. . They boost their community. They boost their neighbors. They boost their church. They boost their lodge. They know that a boost helps a community, just like it helps a fellow, to try to measure up to the standard set by the booster. The people who are helping themselves and others make progress are the boosters and not the knockers. There are times, of course, when it is necessary to knock, hut such times are rare where the spirit of the booster prevails. Humanity in general and our race in particular, in this and every other com munity, will make more rapid progress in all that connts for true greatness in the proportion that knockers decrease and boosters increase. PROGRESS IN A DECIDE AS HISTORIOGRAPHER of the Dio cese of Nebraska we were asked the other day to furnish some data on the growth of the Episcopal church in Omaha during the last ten years. Our reply was “All right, hut I don’t think there is very much to report.” That was our off-hand impres sion. However, upon looking over the data on hand we were astonished to know what substantial progress has been made. This set us to thinking. None of us knows how much progress or advance ment has been made until he makes a review of a period of ten or twenty years. The World-Herald has just published such a review of Omaha’s growth and advance ment and it is a revelation that should quiet the fears of all who are inclined to look upon our condition as static, or our growth as painfully slow. In this growth our group has done its part and has had its share. We hope soon to present a similar review of the progress made by our race in Omaha dur ing the same, or perhaps, a longer period. We have increased in population, in home ownership. in business enterprises, in churches, in education and along other lines. Whatever growth or advancement made in the decade should be the basis and ground of encouragement for greater progress and success in the next decade. THE BEST FLOWER GARDEN THE GARDEN CLUB of the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A. is offering a first and second prize for the best kept flower garden among our people. This is an excellent thing to do and it ought to provoke a healthy rivalry. Naturally, our people are lovers of flowers and of beauty. It is not so much the value of the prizes offered as the spirit of civic pride and betterment which inspires it. Who will have the prettiest flower garden? THIS WEEK By Ernest Rce McKinnev — (Preston News Service) The Pennsylvania General Assem bly, recently adjourned, has seen fit j to let a Jim-Crow bill die without passing. This was Senate Bill No. "69 and known as the Cheyney Bill. The purpose of the bill was to make Cheyney Institute into a state normal school. This, of course, would have been only an entering wedge to get separate schools all over the state wherever the Ku Klux Klan or others desired them. I have been interested in this mat ter of Jim-Crow schools for some time. I have tried to find one single argument in their favor. I have heard all the Bunkum about Negro chil dren needing the most desirable inspiration that comes from having j colored teachers; I have heard the ve nal argument about having something ! for our girls to do; I have heard the | bombast about separate schools ele | vating the intellectual tone of the Ne gro citizens, and I have heard the as sinine statement that Negro children get very valuable social intercourse in colored schools. Bot up to now I have heard no single argument in favor of Jim-Crow schools that any free, ra I tional, intelligent black American could make and retain his selfrespect. There is no good argument in favor of separate schools even in places where they already exist, not even in the South. It might be good policy to have them in the South, in its pres ent state of savagery, but I feel that the maintenance of this separation only prolongs the South’s lapse into barbarism. This separate school agitation is being fostered by three classes of per sons: FOOLsj INNOCENTS and SCOUNDRELS. The fools are those among us who have daughters for whom they want jobs and social posi tion; the scoundrels are they who see a chance to serve on the board of | education, get mixed up into school I politics and, perhaps, get a little graft; the innocents abroad are Ne groes from the South who have been used to the separate school and who don’t feel right without “schools of our own,” coaches of our own and everything else of our own. Added to this is another innocent one who really believes that his son—any black son—may become a Dumas, Booker T. Washington or Toussaint L’Overture, if he could only be sent to school to a Negro teacher. Aside from the rascals, the major ity of Negroes who want to be Jim Crowed in the public schools, are sim ply persons filled with an overdose of cowardice. They haven’t the moral courage to fight for Negro teachers and the right of Negro youth to at tend any school. Therefore, they seek what to them seems the next best thing—the separate school. It seems that it has never occurred to the average Negro that we are the only race that accepts Jim-Crow dis crimination and insult passively. And we go farther than this. If the whites don’t Jim-Crow us fast enough, we go out of the way to hurry it up. For example: WHEN WE CONTEND FOR SEPARATE SCHOOLS. All Negroes should remember this: No state in the United States has de veloped to a point where a dual sys tem of schools can be maintained on equality unless both systems are esually rotten. There is a tendency to shunt all Negroes to the Negro school, no matter where they live at whatever distance from the school or no matter what may be the aspira tions or capacity of the particular child. The section in which the Negro school is located always has the poor est police protection, the worst fire protection, tne worst streets, the most dives, the least sanitation and the worst housing situation. In a word, there is a tendency for “Slabtown” to grow up afound a Negro school. Of course, there are other consider ations more theoretical. As an ex ample: One’s constitutional rights, one’s pride and self respect, to say nothing of the ordinary human re luctance to being made the scape-goat, a pariah, a thing inferior and so un clean that it must be separated from all the rest of mankind. HUGE FIERY CROSSES IN COLLEGE HILL DISTRICT (Preston News Service.) Cincinnati, 0., May 1.—The police investigated recently the burning of two fiery crosses near a new Negro subdivision in College Hill. The prop erty fronts on Cornelia street. Resi dents said that they saw a number of automobiles near the scene shortly before the flames were noticed. WASHINGTON TEACHER WINS SORBONNE DOCTORATE (Columbian FVess Bureau.) Washington, D. C., May 1.—Mrs. Anna J. Cooper, former principal of the old M Street, now Dunhar, high ; school, arrived here recently after re ceiving her doctorate at the Sorbonnc in Paris, March 23. Mrs. Cooper pre sented a thesis, “L’Attitude de la France a L’Egard de L’esclavage”. In her defense of the thesis she worked out the themes “Legislative Measures Concerning Slavery, 1787 1850”, and “The Ideas of Equality and the Democratic Movement”. More business was transacted in Omaha during the last week in No vember than In Des Moines, la., St. Paul, Minn., Sioux City, la., and St. Joseph, Mo., combined, according to, a survey of bank clearings made by the bureau of publicity of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce from Brad street’s report. Omaha’s bank clearings for that week were *34,653,000, an increase of 13.3 per cent over those for the same week last year. This is nearly equal to the total bank clearings of Colum bus, O., Sioux City, St. Paul and Des Moines, la., which combined were $35,934,000. Omaha’s bank clearings for the week also were $4,100,000 greater than that reported for Den ver, Colo. David Starr Jordan favors “Bur | banking the human race”. Well, darned if we will mate with a spine less cactus or be grafted on to any peach that’s seedless. _ U. S. WOODCRAFTSMEN TO HOLD MASS MEETING The United States Woodcraftsmen will hold a mass meeting next Thurs day night, May 7, at Bethel A. M. E. Church, 25th and Franklin streets. All members are urged to be present and all other persons interested are cordially invited to attend. SECRETARY OF CHURCH EXTENSION COMING SOON The Rev. J. A. Stout, assistant sec retary of church extension of the C. M. E. church, is expected in Omaha, Sunday, May 17, to put on a financial j campaign for his denomination at Cleve Temple. — AN EARLY MAY-DAY FESTIVAL _ (By Selma Gordon) All nature is quite glad today It is the first of May, The merry month of out-door joy For every girl and boy. From far and near out on the green The children can be seen, They dance, they run, they skip and roll Around the huge May pole. In garlands neat upon each bough The flowers formed are now, And clothed in brightness all around The happy folks are found. The music floats upon the breeze And through the new leaved trees, The children clad in bright array Never were seen more gay. This May-Day feast will long be kept It’s joys we’ll e’er accept And we will wait quite patiently For April next to flee. EVANGELISTIC SERVICES CLOSE AT CLEVE TEMPLE The Rev. Willard Leak, evangelist of Prescott, Ark., ended a two-week’s J evangelistic ckmpaign at Cleve Temple C. M. E. church, 25th and Decatur streets, Rev. James S. Blaine, pastor. Sunday night. The services began on Easter Day and have been well at- ; tended. Mr. Leak’s closing theme was “Christian Witness” in which he stressed the importance of consistent Christian living. There were fourteen additions. He left Wednesday for Oklahoma City. The Rev. Mr. Leak has consented to return for another series of meeting at Cleve Temple October 18th. A request for his return bespeaks the favorable impression made by him during his recent visit. “An apple a day drives the doctor away,” is an old saying, but with ap ples at three for a quarter it is about as cheap to have the doctor. LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT Mrs. I’risrilla Russ has returned to her work after some illness. Mrs. Vernal Barnett left Monday for her home in Denver. Colo., after visiting and burying her sister. Mrs. M. Loving, here. - I Remember the rhicken “upper at Mrs. Paul Moore’s Friday night. May 8th. The proceeds are for the benefit of the Old Folks’ Home. The Utopian Art club will meet at the home of Mrs. E. J. Griffth Thursday night. May 7th. Several Lineolnites were Omaha visi tors last Sunday. M iss Zurreta Doty was able to return to work recently after illness. We observe that the Rlue Goose Cafe has removed their place of business into the comer room at Ninth and Q streets and are ready to serve their patrons most satisfactorily. Sunday services were observed well at Ml. Zion Baptist church last Sunday. Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. were well attended. Rev. H. W. Botts preached eycellent “ermons. The weekly services were also well attended. Covenant and communion next Sunday. Services were carried out at all churches as usual, attendances were good. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wiley, 1911 K street, was the scene of a very pleasant and happy surprise party Mon day evening. A pm’ 20tll. when about fortv members of the Mt. Zion Baptist church entered their home during their absence and secreted themselves in a bark room, awaiting the arrival of the newly weds. Upon their arrival, as they entered the living room, a number of voices were j I beard to ring out in singing “We are all ' here do thyself no harm”. The bride and groom soon realized they were the victims of a well planned surprise party and their beautiful home was freely turned over to the unexpected intruders. Mrs. Nettie McDonald presiding at the piano: Mrs. E. J. Griffin as toa»tmistress; congratulations and welcome on behalf of the church were given by the Hon. J. T. Wright, on behalf of the deacon board by Deacon N. Ashford and on behalf of the church auxiliaries by Mrs. E. J. Griffin The presentation of a beautiful telephone table and chair was made by Rev. H. W. Botts. Response bv Mr. and Mrs. Wiley. Ire cream and rake was served to all present. The bride received a beautiful boquet of flowers. — Mr. and Mrs. R. Adair were host and hostess to about thirty-five guests last Tuesday evenin. Mr. and Mrs. Guv Wi ley being the guest of honor. The unique borne was artistically decorated, the color scheme was pink and white. The evening was spent in a most enjoyable manner. 1 HERE IS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY The United States Woodcraftmen, a fraternal beneficiary association, or ' ganized and incorporated under the laws of the State of Nebraska in 1924, | has written more than $200,000.00 i worth of fraternal benefit certificates | in the last three months in the city of Omaha alone. This organization, a 1 race institution, gives greater protec tion to its members than any other | organization of its kind. It gives pro. I tection by granting a high cash en dowment immediately paid to the ben. eficiary of any deceased member in good standing. It gives assistance by way of education and business. A per son twenty years old can carry’ a $500.00 certificate for the small sum of 55 cents per month, forty-five years old can carry a certificate for the sum of 95 cents per month. An additional sum of 25 cents is charged each mem her for sick dues for which he re ceived $2.00 per week when disabled. The institution encourages and assists its members in obtaining an educa tion. Each member promises to give to his or her children, or the children under their care and keeping, the i highest and best education possible. ' It is also the purpose of the United j States Woodcraftmen to encourage! and assist its members in establish- ' ing business enterprises where the members of our group can be given employment. We feel that an institu tion that stands for so much ought to He loyally supported by the race. The institution does not own or purchase speculative stocks of any kind. Its assets are carefully guarded until such a time as the order directs a refund to its members or investment in iron clad race securities. Joining fee $2.50 without a doctor's certificate. Representatives wanted in every state in the Union. Salary’ and commission. For further information write the United States Woodcraftmen, 1515 North 24th St., Omaha Neb. Rev. W. M. Franklin, Supreme Pres. C. W. Pierce, Supreme Secretary. Phone Weibster 4650. —Adv. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHITRCH 25th and R Streets 0. J. Rurckhardt, Pastor. The Rev. J. H. Streeter, who is leaving the city to take up his work at Clay Center, Kans., preached his farewell sermon for this congrega tion at 11 o’clock Sunday morning, which was exceedingly helpful. The services, Sunday School and League were well attended. 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