I THE MONITOR
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MOTHER’S DAY
THERE are still those who look askance
at the the church calendar which recogn
izes certains fasts and festivals, days com
memorative of events in the earthly life of
Christ and of is saints and martyrs.
But Americans, with wonderfully incon
sistency, are making a calendar of their
own. They are calling upon the ministers
to observe “Tuberculosis Sunday”, and
‘.Civic Betterment Sunday”, and “Hospital
Sunday”, and “Health Sunday”, and “XYZ
Sunday” ad infinitum.
There is one addition to the American
hagiography with which all of us can find
no fault. And that is the observance of
.‘MOTHER’S DAY”. Fundamentalist and
modernist, orthodox and unorthodox, can
all worship at the shrine of Mother. The,
national riveting ot attention on one day j
devoted to Mother cannot but have a bene-1
ficial effect upon those who are inclined i
to be forgetful of Mother through the
stress of business, pleasure or shall we say
indifference, throughout the other days of
the year. While honoring Mother on
“Mother’s Day” let us seriously ask our
selves how we are honoring our mothers. |
if living by our making their load lighter
now and if they have passed into the
larger life of the land that is far away
and yet so near, by living the lives they
would have us live. God bless the mothers I
of the land and may their children repay j
their sacrifice, their love and care by rev
erencing and loving them every day in
the year.
THE SENTIMENT BACK OF IT
AN UNFORTUNATE case of neglect
by the police of Lexington, Kv.. of a prom
inent and respectable woman who. becom
ing stricken with illness on the street, was
arrested as a drunk, thrown into a cell,
where she died unattended and without
medical attention, will no doubt have the
salutary effect, so far as that city is con
cerned. of making the police more care
ful in seeing that medical care is given to
unconscious people. In many cities, and
they are not confined to the South, there
is the disposition to take it for granted,
particularly where colored people are con
cerned, that a person who falls on the
street or who acts in a dazed condition, is
under the influence of liquor or dope.
We do not want to charge the police of
Lexington with being wontonly inhumane,
but we cannot but feel that had it not
been for the aptitude of the people of that
section to regard Negroes with indifference,
if not contempt, they would not have
treated this genteel neatly dressed woman
as inhumanly as they did. The neglect of
giving this unconscious woman medical
attention is undoubtedly inexcusable. It
is directly traceable to that regrettable
sentiment so strong in various places in
the United States expressed in the con
temptuous phrase. “Oh, he’s only a damn
nigger; what difference does it make?”
And this unworthy, unchristian sentiment
so rampant in this country will cause re
petitions of such occurrences as this which
the mayor and city commissioners of Lex
ington, Ky.. publicly and officially de
plore, in almost any city in America. Such
a sentiment as this spreads its miasmic
influence over a large proportion of the
population and dulls the finer sentiment
of their nature, before they are aware,
and makes them indifferent to the suf
fering of their fellow men.
PULL TOGETHER
THERE is no reason why the sections of
the city in which our people most largely
reside should not be as beautiful and at
tractive as any other sections. The street
should be paved and well-lighted. In some
cases they are. In others they are not.
All should be and will be if the residents
and particularly the taxpayers of those
districts go after needed public improve
ments as they should. Beautify your
home and grounds with flowers and shrub
bery. Don’t be afraid to use a little paint
on your home if it is needed. Keep your
premises up and then if public improve
ments are needed go after the City Com
missioners until you get them. Do your
part and then see to it that others do
theirs. Let’s all pull together for a more
beautiful city.
LEST WE FORGET
AT A RECENT and notable inter-racial
convention the decline in lynching was at
tributed to the crusade avainst this bar
barism by the Southern women. The chief
credit for the reduction of mob-murder be
longs to the sane, persistent, unremitting
efforts of the National Association for the
Advancement of the Colored People. This
militant organization has aroused the con
science of the nation, and impelled the
women of the Southland, who really are
good at heart, to add their strength to the
throttling of this monster evil. Credit
where credit is due. Let us not forget
that the dynamo which is generating the
current which means the ultimate electro
cution of this hideous monster is the N.
A. A. C. P. Support it loyally until its
task is done.
FEMININE CARMS
HAVE you noticed how many “Beauty
Parlors” are advertised in the business di
1 rectory published on the back page of
this issue It shows that our women,
beautiful as they are, and ours you know
are the handsomest women in the world,
are always striving to make themselves
more beautiful. These beauty artists are
all experts in their line. Feminine charms
are made more charming by beauty cul
turists.
RISING OR SUBSIDING TIDE.
“White man, don't let the sun set on
you” was the unique sign hung across the
main street of Boley. Oklahoma, an ex
elusive “black man's town.” The Boleyites
were, of course, following the example set
them not only in certain towns of the
South, but also in some benighted towns
in the North, considered exclusive “white
men’s towns”, in which Negroes are not
permitted to remain over night. The Fed
eral authorities compelled the removal of
this sign and did right in doing so. The
Boleyites were wrong.
It is just as wrong for black people to
forbid respectable and law-abiding white
people residing in what some desire to
class as “a black man's town” as it is for
white people to deny this right to black
people of good character to reside in what
some call “a white man’s town”.
We hope that Federal authorities will be
consistent and see that signs of this char
acter referring to colored American cit
izens are also removed and that all cit
izens, black and white, are protected every
where.
As a symptom of a growing spirit of re
taliation the Boley incident is instructive.
“What's sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander.” Will the tide) rise or sub
side?
GREETINGS!
To the Mothers at the Colored Old
Peoples' Home
Thinking of Mothers’ Day I want
ed to send greetings of cheer to the |
mothers in the Colored Old Peoples’j
Home through the papers for some I
know there have not a son or daugh
ter to comfort them on that day. 1
Dear mothers, we are thinking of you
though you be old and some feeble.
Yet we are praying for you and
knowing that you are cared for
through the providence of God and
believe you are thankful for such
a splendid home to live in and we
hope that you will live on for many
years to enjoy it. We send greetings
to both mothers and fathers. I could
not speak of the Home without think
ing of the wonderful spirited woman,
Mrs. Martha Smith, the mother of
the Home, the founder also. Too
much could not be said about her if
I had space to write it, but I must
say God will add many stars in her
crown for such a spirit for making it
possible to care for the aged mother.
May you live long and continue to
help and care for the mothers for a
star will be added for every mother
you place there.
—A Well Wisher.
ROOSEVELT POST
AMERICAN LEGION
TO HOLD CARNIVAL
Roosevelt Post No. 30. American Legion,
will hold a carnival from May 20 to May
31st at Twenty-fourth and Grant streets,
for raising funds to help entertain the
great national American Legion Conven
tion to be held in Omaha in October.
This convention will bring hundreds of
thousands of legionaires and visitors to
Omaha. Among them will be several hun
dred colored members and visitors. It will
devolve upon the Theodore Roosevelt Post
to do its share in helping to provide enter
tainment and hospitality for these visitors.
They need money to do it. This carnival,
offering many attractions, is to raise money
for this purpose. It should be generously
patronized. The committee on arrange
ments is Dr. J. A. Singleton, R. L. Wil
liams and Frank Blackwell.
BRIEFS
(Columbian Press Bureau)
Business is business and a wise
man reorganizes whenever it is neces
sary.
Spinach raised on twenty acres
brought a New Jersey ^colored truck
farmer $12,500 during the season.
In North Carolina 64.2 per cent of
the colored children 7 to 20 years of
age attend school.
Probably the nine colored residents
of Florida who were bom in Alaska
prefer flea bites to frost bites.
Two colored women in New York
City own a laundry that is equipped
with washing machines, mangles and
other facilities.
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
worth of fraternal benefit certificates
in the last three months in the city of
Omaha alone. This organization, a
race institution, gives greater protec
tion to its members than any other
organization of its kind. It gives pro
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 35 cents is charged each mem
ber for sick dues for which he re
ceived $3.00 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
highest and best education possible.
It is also the purpose of the United
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
be 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 Webster 4650. —Adv. ;
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!! persons that the contribution of the Negro to American
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'< yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking y
1 ’ and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first y
•I explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from y
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< - 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 |
«> on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for y
« 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 ;;
• the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera- ;;
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! significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the < •
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a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living,
breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, y
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