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THE MONITOR A WIKLT NYWSPAPIR nEVOTID PRIMARILY TO THB INTERESTS A OF COLORED AMERICANS _ PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA NEBRASKA. BY THE MONITOR PI-BLI8HING COMPANY Bator« MeoM^lu. lfall MAtt.r July 2 t^7,P°‘,t0,,iC* “ Omaha., Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. 18T»._ =FHBTt¥vTJOHN ALBERT WILLIAM*-“!“r W. W. M08ELY, Lincoln No*-- a^JKls. Ilinnr LUCINDA W. WILLIAM* ——— —- -—Buolnoso M*no*#r •UOBCRIPTION RATES, *20* A YEAR; *1.25 5 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTH* Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 ■ , $*»> * m i n i a i ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE !» UNITED STATES I « » « Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged I 1. AH persons born or naturalized in the United States, ; ! and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the . ’ United States and of the State wherein they reside. No ; I state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ; I privileges or immunities of citizens of ihe United States; nor . 1 ■ shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- 1 ! erty without due process of law. nor deny to any person ; ; within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 1 1 . - - - - - - THE NEW YEAR A NEW YEAR has come. Like all things new or young it is welcomed with glad acclaim. What it holds for us of joy or sorrow, success or fail ure, is mercifully hidden from our eyes. Could we forsee all that it holds might it not deter us or hold us back from doing our best? Do %ve not need the spur of which the possible, but yeti, (by us, unattained holds out? Surely, we do. We know that the pre sent year will be in the main, like alL its predecessors, replete with op portunities of doing good to and for ourselves and for others. Bringing too, its many opportunities for rising to a higher plane of life, to be kind er, more brotherly, more charitable, more useful, more industrious, more frugal, more helpful in every way. Let us look upon the New Year in this light, voicing the prayer: “Build thee more stately, mansions, Oh, my soul; As the swift seasons roll; Leave thy low-vaulted past; Let each new season nobler than the last Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free Leaving thine out worn shell By Life's unresting sea.” Happiness and prosperity will in deed be theirs who regard the New Year as another opportunity of taking courage and moving onward and up ward. SHOULD SUE CITY Behold a strange social phenomen on. In Detroit, Michigan, eleven citi zens are on trial for their lives for protecting their property from an at tack by a mob. Instead of being tried for his life Dr. Sweet ought to be ■suing the city of Detroit for its fail ure to guarantee him protection from the mob which was destroying his property and threatening him and his friends with personal violence. We wonder if this aspect of the Sweet case has overcome to others. W ebelieve that any city that per mits a mob to damage or destroy a citizen's property should be and can be held liable for damages. Why not? _ SCHOOL TEACHERS _ I The colored taxpayers and citizens of Omaha must not cease their agita- j tioii for the appointment of some competent teachers of our race in the public schools until we get them. There are several college and normal graduates who are compelled to go away from home to teach when some of them at least ought to be teach ing here in this city. The time to go after the Board of Education for this just recognition is now. Let us not wait until June. Combine forces and get busy now. Think of it! Negroes of this city, paying taxes, direct and indirect* upon millions of rea and personal property, and ont a single representative drawing one cent of salary, even as a janitor, to say noth ing of teachers, from, the Board of Education! We are too easy-going and sleep upon our rights. SAY IT WITH DOLLARS The National Association for the Ad vancement of Co'ored People is raising a fund of $50,000 for the defense of Dr. Sweet, whose trial just closed in Detroit. It is raising it for more than Dr. Sweet. It will soon have to meet residential segre gation fights in Washington, D. C., Cleve land. New Orleans, New York, Chicago, Baltimore—everywhere. Evil is rapidly gaining ground. The - Negro is being set I back at a prairie-fire rate. The more recent fights of the last few : vears have been confined primarily to the separate school and the segregated living district. In other words Negroes must not earn decently and they- must not live in good surroundings. The Caucasian Satanic soul knows that if you keep a child illy housed and ignorant you are not going to have a Negro with either knowledge or ' the spirit which makes for highest man j hood and womanhood. The N. A. A. G P. is fighting several evils but these just now are the order of the day on their militant calendar. They seek large contributions and small contri butions. They appeal to you on the basis of the income tax—you should give ac cording to your ability to pay. Not only that; the more you have, the more you neet the protection which they are offering you. It is not often that the Negro at tacked in the South and run out is a ne'er do-well. He is usua'ly a successful physi cian, prosperous farmer or enterprising business man. The more he possesses, the more he is hated. It is progress which arous es envy. The Negro loafer and ne’er-do well is welcome. The residential clash comes when one of these successful phy sicians or prosperous men can afford to buy his home in a so-called white com munity, which is more desirable to live in. The masses liave an interest in his moving into such localities, too, because New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Washing ton, Detroit, it paves the way for the great masses getting into better residentia’ sec tions. This has been the history of the progress of Negroes in home buying all over tlie country. In fact it is a rare thing for a colored person to build a new home anvwher& He buys a fine home already built by and for the white person. It is: well that this is so since the homes bult for whites are generally better than those built for colored people. Besides, they get i these houses cheaper. The N. A. A. G P. is fighting for a ' better head and better home for Negro | manhood and Negro womanhood. This is ! the meaning of their battering down of segregation in schools and residences. There is no family which cannot afford to give $1.00. There is no grown working man or woman who cannor"make this sacrifice by giving up merely the amount he spends on vices which had better be dispensed with one day, one week or one month. Send your contribution today to James Weldon Johnson, secretary, N. A. A. C. P., 69 Fifth Avenue, New York.—Chica go Bee. ^ r , * O I ‘ THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE V < » 4 * M > < F ' j> A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded .1 ; persons that the contribution of the Negro to American X nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from <> ; Mgiigible. No element of American life has so subtly and | : yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking | I uh) acting as the American Negro. He came with the first ■> '■ explorers and helped in exploration. His laEor was from * I : Uie first the foundation of the American prosperity and j I the ftw— of the rapid growth of the new world in social and | !; economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply | I en the striving white men in Europe and America but also | ! en the persistent struggle of the black men in America for f • two maturim The military defense of this land has de pended open Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial [ dawn tc the struggle of the World War. Not only does . ' the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American Mtera hn but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep ^dAceace and Negro folk lore and music are among the ZZs«Wtages J this land. Finally the Negro has played a aasnMar rairttwd role in America as a sort of bring, r r test of oar ideals and an exampte ofthe 1 hp ad triiranee af onr religion.—Du Bom, "The Gift of ' ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^_ WASHINGTON WOMEN INAUGURATE IJSGAL DEFENSE FUND DRIVE With a meeting of 1,000 people, address ed by Arthur Garfield Hays, associated with Clarence Darrow in the Sweet De fense. and by Robert W. Bagnall, direct or of branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, women of Washington, D. C., inaugurated i a drive in aid of the Legal Defense Fund I being raised by the National Office. The mass meeting on Sunday, December 20. 1 was followed on Monday by a card tour nament, on Tuesday by a turkey dinner, on Wednesday by a second card tourna ment and on Christmas Eve by a large dance. The committee in charge of the drive and of the entertainments is headed by Mrs. Nellie McGuire. Other members of the committee arc: Mrs. Laura B. Glenn, I Mrs. Ju'.ia West Hamilton, Mrs. Ruth Sav i oy, Mrs. Pauline Marshall, Mrs. l.ettie G I Calloway, Mrs. Carol Carson and Mrs. Louise Adams Hayes. NEWS FROM LINCOLN Members of the Ml. Zion Baptist Church i were guests to their pastor, Rev. H. W. I Botts Christmas night at the church. i - Mrs. Ella Black is reported quite ill at j ; her home, 708 No. 13th street. j Mrs. £. Davis of St. Paul, Minn., is j risiting her mother, Mrs. Emma Clemens, j who is sick, and her sister, Mrs. Nettie j McDonald. - I Miss Eredonia Qroley is spending the j holidays with friends at home here. I - | Mr. P. J. Ahouer was called to Ney J lersey on account of the death of his sis | ,er‘ m'j) 1 — 1 Rev. G W. Wilson is here from Kansas ! ; spending the holidays with his wife and ! daughters. Dr. . F. Bolts of Omaha spent Satur day with his brother, Rev. H. W. Bolts, here. John Polettte met with violent death on ! Christmas night, while in a fight at the home of Jim Gill. Polette was the aggres sor. Hence the coroner’s jury exonerated Gill for protecting his life and home The funeral of John Polette was held in Mt. Zion Baptist Church Tuesday after noon. Rev. H. W. Botts preached. Corn husker Lodge No. 579 had charge of the body. Mr. and Mrs. A. G Stanley left Saturday j j morning for Chicago and eastern points, i They expect to be gone about six weeks. . Mr. and Mrs. Thoe. Watts and Joseph i ine , relatives of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Ed wards from Fremont, Nebr., spent Christ | mas in Lincoln. Mrs. Stanley of St. Joseph, Mo., and M iss Pauline Hightower are spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. W. M. High tower. The “Prince of Peace” Qiistmas Cantak The “Prince of Peace” Christmas Cantata ! 5 o'clock candle light service Christmas j morning under the direction of Mme. I Odessa Gohuson. Mme. W ilson at the piano and Miss Florence Reed at the organ. The Sunday School program and Christ tree was held Thursday evening. An in ! teresting time was spent with the children. Miss Cleopatra Ross, pianist, was chairman of the program. The Women's Davis Club, M. A. Club, j and L. L. Kensington, together with num erous individuals were distributing Christ mas cheer last week in different parts of the city. Mrs. Gary, mother of Mrs. L. Haskel, passed away Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock. Funeral services were held at Alta Brown's Mortuary, and the body taken to Manhattan, Kans., Thursday morning. Mre. Gary was 75 years of age and past matron of Manhattan Chapt., O. E. S. and was a member of Quinn Chapel. Mrs. Lulu Jones of Chicago is visiting friends and relatives in this city. The M. A. Club gave their Christmas party and first tree celebration at the home of the secretary, Mrs. Edna Stokes, a pleasant time was had by all and every 1 member was present. Mr. Courtnay Cooley leaves for Boston during the latter part of the week to res ume his studies. NEWS FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS By Mrs. Emma Jones (Correspondent and Agent) 1117 Avenue D. -3 Mrs. Arthur Ashby has returned from Des Moines. Mr. Walter Sherndon was railed to Chi cago last week by the death of his sister. He returned Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sherndon held a 1 family reunion Sunday at their home. Mrs. Ida Giles had as dinner guest Mr. I and Mrs. H. Preston of Omaha on Christ- ! ■ mas day. v Mrs. E. H. Madison entertained Mr. I Arthur Ashby at dinner Qiristmas day. Mr. Lester Blackburn arrived Monday to spend a couple of days with his wife and mother. . Mr. and Mrs. Lester Blac leave this week for Sioux OV their home. Mr. and Mrs. Georfi^AW!!^ celebrated their tenth anniversal^ Saturday, Decem ber 26. A delightful luncheon was served. M* ! ■m © A.N.r. Mrs. Nell Hunter I To You Is Our Sincere Wish <, We Are Not Omnipote?it J * T P we have ever failed to fulfill our duties as store- 1 J. keepers to you in the past, won’t you even now i come in and tell us and give us a chance to correct it? , ^ < 1 If you have found an indifferent sales person—if a delivery has been unnecessarily tardy—if a piece of i merchandise has failed to give its expected satisfac- J i tion—if there is an error floating about upon the sur face of this business—PLEASE TELL US. i YOU want satisfactory service and WE want to serve < * YOU as you would like to be served. We want to please and satisfy you. - j , Those who conduct this business—the men and women who buy its goods and operate its human side—are not ( i omnipotent—they cannot be present everywhere. C ’ Your help is needed; your criticisms are welcome. | They will aid us in building a bigger and better home- I furnishing institution for YOU. Remember, satisfac- h tion assured or money refunded—always. 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The Negro Business and Professional Men’s League Presents Judge Albert PI George OF CHICAGO At St. John’s A. M. E. Church 22nd and Willis Avenue Friday Evening Jan. 8 -at 8 o’clock Admission 25 Cents 4 mmmmmmrnrnmmmmmmmmmm Night and Morning to keep them Clean, Clear apd Healthy Write for Free “Eye CartP or “Eye Beauty” Book 1 Murio® Co^ D*pt- II. S.,9 fi. Ohio St., Chicago } . ’ \ f