I THE MONITOR
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Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. _ ___
Tldl^EvTJOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS---Editor
W W MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb.__Associate Editor
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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
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(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.
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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.
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AN EARLY MAY-DAY FESTIVAL
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(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.
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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.
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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. The League had
a good program, including an inspir
ing address by Mrs. Frederick Divers, j
Luda Gray is again on the sick list. ;
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THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE
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persons that the contribution of the Negro to American >
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negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and i
yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking j
he American Negro. He came with the first <
helped in exploration. His labor was from
Foundation of the American prosperity and <
e rapid growth of the new world in social and ;
rtance. Modern democracy rests not simply ;
white men in Europe and America but alno ;
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