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;; ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE |
;; UNITED STATES |
■ Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged ♦
■« 1. All persons bom or naturalized in the United States, £
! I and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the A
;; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No |
■ • state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the |
! I privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor i
;; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- |
■ ■ erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person $
!! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
LOOKING AHEAD
IS IT not one of our racial weak
nesses! to live too largely in the
present, to want immediate results?
Have we learned to look ahead and
plan largely and wisely for the fu
ture ? Have we learned to set a defi
nite ‘objective and work untiringly
for its attainment? These are the
questions which we do well to con
sider. We are under the impression
that if we give them careful thought
we shall find that each one has to
be answered in the negative. And yet
if we study the success of peoples
who have achieved most we shall
find that they have looked ahead and
planned ahead and worked diligently,
doggedly and patiently for the ob
jective set.
PREPAREDNESS
PREPAREDNESS is a w'ord which
was much in vogue a few years ago.
It was brought to the fore by the
World War into which America was
thrust or forced by conditions which
sober judgment finds extreme diffi
culty in justifying. The United
States not looking for war was un
prepared for it when the real or sup
posed exigency forced us into it. This
unpreparedness cost us dearly. The
country is still staggering under the
burden which the war and our un
preparedness laid upon us. It stress
ed p truth that needs emphasizing
at all times, the necessity of careful
preparation and training for oppor
tunities that may come or for exi
gencies which may arise in one’s
life. No group of people needs this
lesson more than our own. We may
decry, and with some justification,
yes, much justification, the limita
tions under which we are placed by
racial prejudice in the matter of
employment, avocations and careers.
This has a tendency to make some
relax their efforts for intellectual
training and betterment, to be easily
satisfied with a meager or primary
education. This is a great mistake.
We should be ambitious to be well
trained and well-prepared to seize
opportunities when they come. The
time to get ready is before opportu
nity comes. And preparedness, readi
ness comes not by any magical or
quick plan, but by diligent, patient,
thorough work. The best equipped
man or woman, the best prepared
man or woman, will find his or her
place of usefulness and service when
the exigency arises or the opportu
nity comes. Whatever you may warn
to do, or become, see to it that you
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use every effort and facility to be
fully prepared for it. Preparedness,
thorough-going preparedness, is one
of our greatest needs and will prove
a most valuable asset.
PENNY RELIGION
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“Sammie,"’ said a doting daddy, one
Sunday morning to his little son
from behind his newspaper, “here’s
a penny for Sunday school and a
dime for the ice cream soda I prom
sed you. Run on to Sunday school
and be a good boy.”
Sammie ran on to Sunday school,
where he put his penny in the col-;
lection, and Sunday school over, he ■
crossed the street to the comer drug,
store and spent his dime for his ice!
cream soda.
Sammie’s dad was a good man, the
type of many fathers, who did not
for a moment think that he was
teaching his son a very bad lesson.
He was teaching him that God’s claim
upon his life was a very insignificant
' thing. He was teaching him to give
pennies for religion and dimes and
dollars for the gratification of his
personal wants, not necessarily' needs.
It is this wrong proportion between
the recognition of God’s claim upon
us and that which he has given us
and our own personal pleasures and
wants which accounts for so much
penny religion in the world today.
ADVERTISING
OUR people need to be educated
I as to the value of advertising. No
business has ever developed except
by advertising. Advertising pays or
else great business institutions would
not spend millions of dollars yearly
in newspaper and other advertising.
While our business people learn how
to advertise, merchants of the other
group who want our people’s patron
age must indicate that they want it
by advertising in our race newspap
ers. This is becoming to be a recog
nized fact by wide-awake merchants.
THE WORLD COURT
AMERICA has at last voted to
enter the World Court. This long
delayed action is a step in the right
direction in assuming our place in
i relationship with other nations of
the world. Selfish isolation, indivi
dual or national, is a suicidal poli
cy. The World Court ought to be
come a tribunal that will contribute
towards a warless world.
THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE |
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A moment's thought will easily convince open-minded |
;; persons that the contribution of the Negro to American
I! nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from £
! I negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and .j.
: I yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking
! I and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first i
:: explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from -j
I! the first the foundation of the American prosperity and -j
11 the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and |
! I economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply ;j;
! I on the striving white men in Europe and America but also -j
1: 0n the persistent struggle of the black men in America for *
I: two centuries. The military defense of this land has de- |
;! pended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial j
' > wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does |
- > the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American liters- *
I: ture but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep v
I: significance, and Negro folk \ore and music are among the i
' * choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played j.
!! » peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, |
!! breathing test of our ideals and an example of the faith, *
;; hope and tolerance of our religion.—Du Bois, “The Gift of |
;; Black Folk.” f
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COUNCIL BLUFFS
The Bishop Gaines club concert and
dinner given at the Bethel A. M. E.
church was a success.
Mr. George Tuley is in the hospi
tal with a broken arm.
Mrs. Stella Cowell left last week
for Muskegon, Mich, to make her
home.
The Phyliss Wheatly Reading Cir
cle met at the home of Mrs. Alice
Carter. The circle was well attended
and some interesting current events
were discussed. A paper “Keeping
Oneself Abreast of the Times” was
read by Mrs. Baker. Many thoughts
of a helpful nature were given, each
one resolved to do more for self im
provement. Quotations from Dunbar
were given by Mrs. Althouse. The
circle was served with a delightful
luncheon. The next meeting will be
held February’ 4th at the home of
Mrs. Althouse, 2621 2nd Ave.
Dr. A. A. Foster of Omaha has
opened offices at 1021% West Broad
way. Office hours are from 12 n. to
3 p. m. and from 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
Let us help him all we can.
Mrs. Eva Bess was in Lincoln Jan.
20 to attend Mrs. Maude Gates' fun
eral.
Mr. Robert Hogan passed away
Jan. 24 and was buried this week.
Mrs. Compton leaves for California
this week.
Mr. and Mr?. Charles Russell arc
the proud parents of a new-born baby, j
The dance given by the Junior Sil
ver Leaf club was well attended.
MME, C. J. WALKER BEAUTY
COLLEGE AND PARLOR
AT LAKE STREET OPENS
—
Mrs. I’earl M. Alexander, manag
er of the Mme. C. J. Walker College
of Beauty Culture and Beauty Parlor]
at 2426 Lake street has returned
I from a 3 months stay in Los Angeles,
j Cal., where she specialized in every
phase of beauty culture and is now
ready to serve her many customers.
A class in the Mme. Walker Hail
Course will begin at once. Enroll now
at 2426 Lake St.—Ad.
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guaranteed.
HEAR TOWN CRIER
SEVEN MILES AWA"\
Voice Carrie* to Skipper* Ou
in Channel.
Burnham-on-Sea. — It Is a far cry
from this little old-world village t.
Point Buoy, or the Bristol channel
hut It means something to James Cox
the town crier.
For many years his voice has been
heard resounding along the Marine
Parade to Point Buoy, seven miles
away. For this reason, when Mr Cox
competed In the national contest fm
town criers, the great metropolitan
dallies described him as the man wltl
‘the seven-mile voice."
Burnham-on-Sea. where the portly
and dignified Mr Cox. with his flow
Ing coot and quaint appurtenances of
office, has become on Institution,
thrilled with pride. At last the worth
of Its hero had been recognized
But from America came the report
that Mr. Cox’s accomplishment was
doubted. This surprised and disturbed
many of the citizens, but Mr. Cox
maintained dignified silence.
F. S Pnte.v, proprietor of the Oa
zette, was named spokesman In behalf
of Mr. Cox and the village.
"There Is no disputing the fact, lo
cally. that James Cox can be heard
for a distance of seven miles," he sayk
"This has been proven on more than
one occasion. When Mr. Cox Is crying
on the Marine Parade his voice can he
distinctly heard ut the Point Buoy,
which Is seven miles down the Bristol
channel from Burnham-on-Sea. Cap
tains of vessels more than once have
heard Mr. Cox making his announce
ment of lost, stolen or strays and have
testified to this fact."
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