I THE MONITOR 1
I A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS
OF COLORED AMERICANS
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE
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Entered a« Second-Class Mail Matter July 2. 1915, at the Postoffice at
Omaha. Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THE N. A. A. C. P. CONFERENCE |
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WE HAVE devoted considerable
space in this issue to a report of the
Sixteenth Annual Conference of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People which closed
last week in Denver. We have given
this space, because of the far-reach
ing importance of such a gathering
and because we believe that most of
our readers are interested, or should
be interested, in what was done at
the conference. The addresses were of
such a high character and the proceed
ings considered of such news value
that the press of Denver generously
devoted column after column to the
work of the conference and published
several editorials upon utterances of
certain speakers. The value of such
favorable publicity as this in the for
mation of public opinion cannot be
overestimated. It shows the silver
lining to what too many of us are
inclined to think is a very dark cloud
of our racial problems and perplexi
ties. No one could follow the deliber
ations of the Sixteenth Annual Con
ference of the N. A. A. C. P., and
mark the sanity, earnestness and spir
it in which racial handicaps are being
attacked without thanking God and
taking courage. The N. A. A. C. P.
is doing a great work not only for our
racial group, but for all America,
which some day will be appreciated
at its full value.
The admirable manner in which the
big job of entertaining this conference
was handled by the people of Denver,
our group there, numbering only
about 6,000, is subject to congratula
tion. It shows what intelligent lead
ership, team-work and co-operation
can do. Our people showed initiative
and earnestness and the white people
of that city, officials and private citi
zens, backed them up whole-hearted
ly, believing that it was worthwhile
to do so.
PREPARING FOR THE LEGION
OMAHA is preparing to entertain
the American Legion Convention in
October. The Roosevelt Post, acting
in conjunction with the Omaha Post,
is doing its part to contribute to the;
success of the convention. It goes
without saying that civic pride will
move all our citizens to co-operate in
whatever way they can to extend most
cordial hospitality to the thousands of
guests who will enter our gates.
MONKEY BUSINESS
FRENCH SCIENTISTS are urging
the production of monkeys in large
number to supply rejuvenating mon
key glands for the indigent and feeble
specimens of the genus homo who
would renew their youth. This would
seem to prove that there is some close
kinship between monkeys and men
after all. Please call William Jen
nings Bryan’s attention to this. After
ail there may be something to this
monkey business.
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;: THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE |
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A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded S,
\! persons that the contribution of the Negro to American
\ \ 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 |
> 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
• economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply ;
> on the striving white men in Europe and America but also ;
> on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for ;
> two centuries. Hie military defense of. this land has do- ;
> 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 litera
’ tore but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep ;
' signifies nrr mid Negro folk lore and music are among the • >
I! choicest heritages of this land. FinaHy the Negro has played
apiritual role in America as a sort of living,
test of our ideals and an example of the faith, < •
iterance of our rdigio*.—Du Hois, "The Gift of
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WHAT IS THE HITCH?
We UNDERSTAND that there is a
hitch, a legal tangle somewhere in the
acquiring and equipping of the muni
cipal playground at Twenty-first and
Paul street. What is the hitch? Can
not the tangle be straightened out?
Here is the logical place for a well
equipped, well-appointed, model muni
cipal play ground or field which is
badly needed. It should take in all
the land from Paul to Seward streets
between Twenty-first and Twenty-sec
ond streets. We thought this was to
have been done. If somebody has been
jockeying let the municipal authorities
unhorse him. Give this congested dis
trict the playground. Again we ask:
What is the hitch?
ENTER OUR ELEVENTH YEAR
WITH THIS ISSUE we begin the
eleventh year of the publication of
The Monitor, which many assure us
has been and is a welcome visitor in
their homes. We hope that all who
believe this will justify their faith
and words by sending in promptly
their subscriptions and by getting
their friends to do the same. We can
only survive and continue our regular
visits by payment of money due us,
so we can in turn pay our obligations.
Strange as it may seem the publica
tion of a paper like The Monitor
means hard work and takes lots of
money.
GROVE M. E. CHURCH
WILL ENTERTAIN THE COV
INGTON AREA COUNCIL
The Covington Area Council of the
Methodist Episcopal church is to con
vene in our city and at Grove church
July 14 and 15. This meeting will
bring to our city fifty or more out
standing churchmen from four con
ferences, namely, the Central Mis
souri, Lexington, Little Rock and Lin
coln. District superintendents, out
standing pastors and laymen make
up this group of persons coming to
our city.
Bishop M. W. Clair, the leader of
this conference, will be here and
speak Monday night on the subject
of his heart, the ‘Redemption of Afri
ca”. You cannot afford to miss this
great treat.
Doctor W. A. C. Hughes of Phila
delphia, the representative of the
Board of Home Missions and Church
Extension, will be the speaker for
Tuesday night. He is known to many
of our people in Omaha, to hear him
is a treat.
Dr. L. H. King, editor of the South
western Christian Advocate, is to be
the speaker for Wednesday night, an
orator of the first waters, a writer
for a great religious paper.
The public is invited, pastors and
their congregations, to any and all of
the sessions, day and night—“Wel
come” is the word.
J. H. Ellis, Pastor.
Be sure to attend the carnival at
the North Sity Y. W. C. A. Saturday
evening, July 18.—Adv.
DENVER A PLEASAN AND
MOST GRACIOUS HOST
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"This association is fighting for these
principles of democracy upon which this
country is founded. If those principles
prevail for every man then America is
safe and will endure; if they fail then
America is lost. The black American is
saying to you today,
"How will you have us. as we are
Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?
Our eyes fixed upward on a star.
Or gazing blankly at despair?
"Rising, or falling, men or things?
With dragging pace or footsteps fleet?
Strong willing sinews in your wings.
Or tightening chains about your feet?
Monday morning’s session was devoted to
“The Crisis” and Monday afternoon to a
most profitable consideration of young
peoples’ work, in which the young people
were invited to freely express themselves.
Mrs. Elliston of Denver presided. This
was considered one of the most helpful
sessions of the conference.
Monday night's mass meeting was pre
sided over by Dr. Waller of Springfield,
Mass. The speakers were the Rev. Father
William F. O’Ryan, pastor of St. Leo's
Roman Catholic Church, Denver; Judge
Ben B. Lindsay of the Denver Juvenile
Court and William Pickens of Nek York.
Father O'Ryan in his address on "The
Dangers of Intolerance” traced the his
tory of racial and religious intolerance and
made a plea for active co-operation in
helping the colored people to advance. “I
am a firm believer”, he declared, “that
justice is always wrought by God and that
justice will always be wrought here. The
unendurable day of the Negro is over;
his night of darkness is over and his sun
of hope is risen. Soon he will enjoy the
fullness of his power and glory in the
noonday of his existence.”
Judge Lindsay speaking on the Ku Klux
Klan, cited instances which had been
brought to his attention where seeds of
dislike against their playmates and school
mates had been sown in the hearts of
children. Deploring this evil he said, “One
of the lessons we are to learn from the
Ku Klux Klan is that the white man is
becoming a common sufferer with the col
ored man because of intolerance and in
justice to the Negro. If the Negro can,
as he has been, denied his constitutional
rights, why may not the same thing be
done to the white man? As in the past
the colored man had little right with any
hope of success, no matter how competent,
to aspire to public office or to freedom and
respect socially, so now we find this re
striclion being imposed upon members of
the white race. But this intolerant, un
American organization cannot survive.”
Williams Pickens, with his usual elo
quence, captured the meeting and at the
conclusion of his address was given an
ovation.
Attacking the idea of segregation, which
he said had resulted, and always results,
in mutual suspicion of the white and black
races, Mr. Pftkens urged his hearers to
keep up the fight against discrimination
in the schools and in social privileges and
institutions and incipient ghettos. He de
clared that ‘‘of all the contributions which
the struggle of the Negro has so far made
to his country, he is now in a hard fight
to make one of the greatest, namely, to
keep the public school a common school,
open to all people, regardless of race or
class. It is the mission of the Negro in
America to prove that we cannot have
jimcrowism, segregation, disfranchisement,
inequalities of citizenship, and at the same
time have justice, civilization and peace."
Tuesday morning’s session was devoted
to reports from branches; the afternoon to
the receiving of reports and the adoption
of the address to the country, which among
other things called for the withdrawal of
armed American forces from Haiti; and
the selection of the next place of meeting,
Chicago being chosen.
Tuesday night's mass meeting was a
fitting climax to this great conference.
Isadore Martin, president of the Philadel
phia branch, and member of the board of
directors, presided. Robert W. Bagnall,
substituted for Mr. Spingarn. who was de
tained. deliverer) an eloquent address on
“The Negro's Cultural Gifts to America”.
Dr. DuBois presented the Spingarn medal
to James Weldon Johnson, who. visibly
moved and touched, responded modestly
anil in well-chosen words pledged himself
to continued devoted service to the cause
which means so much to our race and
country.
With the singing of “God be with you
till we meet again" and the pronouncing
of the benediction by the Rev. Father
Rahtning of the Church of the Redeemer,
the Sixteenth Annual Gmference of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, declared to lie its
best, passed into history-.
The usual services next Sunday at
the Church of St. Philip the Deacon:
Holy communion 7:30 a. m.; matins
8:30; Church school 10; sung euchar
ist with sermon at 11; evensong at 8.
If you think it is too hot to come in
the middle of the day, then come at
7:30 when it is cool.
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= A Statement of
I The Omaha National Bank j
E June 30, 1925 E
= RESOURCES =
~ I. Cash . 317 382.57 E
E Gold, Silver and Currency in our Vaults and on E
- deposit in the Federal Reserve and other banks, S
r subject to our call. (39 per cent of all deposits.) r
3 11. Government and Land Bank Bonds. 1,555,000.00 E
- Securities of the United States Government and of ~
E the Federal Land Banks. E
E 111. Municipal and Corporation Bonds . 1,025,848.22 E
E IV. Banking House . 1.000,000.00 =
E The bank building at Seventeenth and Farnam, less E
S than its assessed value for taxation. E
E V. Dues from U. S. Treasury. 50,000.00 E
- V,‘ if*"* and 17,065,878.59 S
E Money loaned to our customers, due on demand or E
= within an average of 50 days. E
= VIL Miscellaneous ... ... 184,484.40 —
E Customers’ Liability under Letters of Credit, $115, S
E 504.88; Interest earned, $59,221.51; Overdrafts. E
E $9,678.01. =
1 $32,198,603.78 E
I LIABILITIES I
E D*posits . $28,929,725.91 f
E II. Circulation ... yyj 000.00 E
~ Funds deposited with us for safekeeping. E
S nl- Letters of Credit. 118,094.88 1
E $30,041,820.79 E
E Invested Capital 2,156,782.99 E
E This is the investment of our stockholders, a guar- E
= anty fund which protects our depositors. E
[ The Omaha National Bank j
E Farnam at 17th Street E
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I CLEARANCE I
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QUIT PAYING RENT!
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' in homes, 5, 6 and 7 rooms, well
located; am able to sell at $260 •
; and up; balance monthly like \
rent.
Here Are .Some Bargains:
' 6 rooms, modern, paved street, \
near car line, $2,850; $260 •
cash; balance $27.60 per mo.
I 6 rooms, modern, garage for .
two ears, south front, paved j
street, $3,760; $300 cash, bal
ance $30 per month.
E.M. DAVIS
REAL ESTATE
: We. 6178 1702 North 26th St. 1
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July Clearance Sales '
Now in Progress
Below we have listed some
Special Attractions
DOLLAR SPECIALS
Bath Mats Luncheon Sets
Rag Rugs Appenzell Towels
Linen Huck Towels Fancy Dresser Scarfs
Fancy Bath Towels Real Madeira Towels
Card Table Covers Fancy Doilies
Porto Rico Embroidered Madeira Centers
Towels Hot Roll Covers
Choice $1.00
July Sale of
White
Goods
Hope Nainsook
36 inches wide; per yard,
221/.C
Corded Madras
32 inches wide; per yard,
49c
Imported Dimities
32 inches wide; per yard,
49c
Imported Madras
32 inches wide; per yard,
59c
(Floor Below)
July Sale of
Wash .
Fabrics
Imported St. Gall
Swisses,
Yard 89c
Full shrunk Irish Linen,
50 shades.
Yard 85c
Fine Printed Voiles, all
new styles. t
Yard 49c
32-inch Imported Ging
ham, 65c grade.
Yard 39c
36-inch best Percales,
light and dark.
Yard 25c
Lingerie Crepe, plain and
figured.
Yard 25c
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