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; THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS
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ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE
'' UNITED STATES ;;
! I Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged ; ;
! ’ 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, j
I; and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the !
; • United States and of the State wherein they reside. No ;
!! state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ; ;
;; 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 ; ;
X within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. .
Our Choice for President
in 1928 is
WALTER W. HEAD
of Nebraska
An Astute, Able, Clear
headed Business
Man
WHY THE MAXIMUM?
THE Monitor would like to ask why
it is that it so frequently happens in
the Police Court of this city that when
Negroes are accused of crime the
maximum bond is required for re
lease from custody whereas in the
case of white persons charged with
like crimes the minimum bond is
deemed sufficient? There has been
considerable complaint upon this
point, and in some cases there is no
doubt, in our mind, that there is just
ground for this criticism. The most
recent case of this character to be
brought to our attention occurred
Tuesday of this week when Municipal
Judge Holmes fixed the bond of a
man charged with entering the Row
land Apartments, terrorizing a wo
man ana ’■obbing the family of ap
proximately $50, at the maximum
$10,000, when the prosecuting attor
ney had recommended a bond o:
$5,000. Why the maximum?
Probably the accused would hav<
found it as difficult to furnish a bone
of $5,000, as he would one of $10,000
but it is the principle of the thing t<
which we object. An excessive bond
as is well known, carries with it th<
presumption of guilt There is i
peculiar psychology which dominates
perhaps unconsciously, the mind o:
the average white person in the cas<
of a colored person accused of crime,
and that is the presumption that he
is guilty until proven innocent; where
as the theory' of the law is that one
is innocent until proven guilty. It is
the catering, consciously or un
consciously', designedly or unde
signedly, to this presumption of guilt
preceding the trial which this discrim
nation in the matter of ball implies
I which to us is highly objectionable.
It smacks more of the spirit of the
short-visioned South, than of the wid
er-visioned North. It is certainly not
in keeping with Nebraska’s motto,
“Equality before the law.”
OLD TACTICS
The Omaha Daily News is at its
old tactics again. It is evidently try
ing to play up alleged crimes by
Negroes as it did in September 1010
with such tragic results to Omaha’s
reputation.
In its issue of Friday, April 2, in
reporting the case of a prowder who
entered the Rowland Apartments,
Wednesday night, it plays up the
' story to give the impression that the
primary purpose of the intruder was
rape and not robbery. But not quite
satisfied with this it volunteers the
information that
I “The attempted attack on Mrs.
, Christie is said to be the most recent
of a half dozen such attempts in a
large district of the north part of the
city, only one of which has been prev
iously reported to the police.”
This was the line of propaganda in
which the Omaha Daily News special
ized about seven years ago. What’s
up, now ? What has our esteemed
• contemporary up its sleeve?
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j! THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE |
;; A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded |
persons that the contribution of the Negro to American jt
; | nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from X
! I negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and |
11 yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking |
! | and acting as the American Negro. He came with the firat £
!! explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from $
o the first the foundation of the American prosperity and £
!! the eause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and ^
!! economic importance. Modem democracy rests not simply < •
! J on the striving white men in Europe and America but also < >
!! on 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 ;;
I! wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does ;;
< ’ the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera- ;;'
<' ture but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep ;;
;: significance ant| Negro folk lore and music are among the <.
■> choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played „
! • a 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.” j
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THE STREET CAR FRANCHISE
THE citizens of Omaha are to be
called upon soon to vote upon the
question of a franchise for the Omaha
and Council Bluffs Street railway
company. The street car is the poor
man’s best method of transportation.
It is a necessity in a city like
I Omaha. Nothing should be done
to cripple it or throttle it. In order
for the street car company to market
its bonds its franchise must run for
a sufficient term of years to invite
investment. The company has dealt
fairly with the citizens of Omaha, now
let the citizens of Omaha deal fairly
with the Street Railway company.
Register and vote for the franchise.
SOME SLEEPER
The seven sleepers of Thebes have
n’t a thing on the Omaha husband
who slept soundly while his brave
wife at his side parleyed with a burg
lar for twenty minutes, g*cked *er
sleeping spouse several times and
nudged him with her elbow, seeking
to arouse him. Some sleeper he.
ATTORNEY PINKETT’S FATHER
DIES AT DAl’GHTER’S
HOME IN BEATRICE
Mr. H. J. Pinkett was called to
Beatrice Saturday on account of the
death of his father, Mr. C. T. Pin
kett.
Mr. Pinkett was eighty-two years
of age, and he and his wife who sur
vives him had been married fifty-nine
years. In addition to his wife, seven
children survive him.
He had spent the last three years
of his life with his daughter, Mrs.
L. J. Gordon.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the friends and
neighbors for their kindness during
the illness and death of our dear
! daughter and sister, Johnnie Eliza
; beth Norris, who departed this life
March 29. We are also grateful for
the beautiful floral offerings.
| Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Norris, parents,
Thelma Norris, sister.
LINCOLN NEWS
Rev. H. W. Botts, Mesdames Rosa
Adair, Ida Todd, M. L. Todd and E. J.
Griffin were in attendance at the ses
sion of the executive board of New
Era Baptist Convention at Omaha,
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Copeland enter
tained the Utopian Art Club at thetr
home last Thursday night. A goo<r
| crowd was present and a profitable
; meeting had.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Young were
j called from Omaha last week on ac
count of their mother’s illness. Mrs.
! Young is reported improving at this
time.
Mr. Wm. Scott was able to attend
i church Sunday morning.
Comhusker Lodge No. 579 held a
■ rousing meeting and feed in the Hall
| last Friday night; some two hun
; dred members and visitors were pres
| ent.
Maunday Thursday ami Easter Sun
day sendees were celebrated by the
Chapter of Rose Croix at 8 p. m.,
Thursday night, and 9 a. m , Sunday
morning; quite a few Scottish Rite
Masons attended, receiving much in
struction. ,
Rev. H. M. Botts was called to
Beatrice Monday to preach the fun
j eral of Mr. Pinkett, father of Mrs. L.
I Gordon.
Mrs. Mary Kink visited relatives at
Kansas City, Mo., Sunday.
Little Cordelia Kinney is home
from the hospital.
Easter Sunday proved to be an ideal
day; people were astir early in the
morning, attending services at the
churches, and others spending the
time in other ways.
There wi& early services in Mt.
Zion Baptist church; "preaching iat
6:30, and baptizing at 7 a. m.; Sun
day school and program at 9:30;
Covenant and preaching at 11:30.
The B. Y. C. U. 6:30—Sacred song
services by the choir at 8. Communion
was partaken of by a crowd of mem
bers. Attendance and financial ob
ligation for the day was good.
The following relatives of the de
ceased, Mrs. Margaret R. Smith, re
turned to their homes after the fun
eral: Mrs. Eva Simmons, to Mus
kogee, Okla., accompanied by her
father, Mr. and Mrs. Amos W’alker,
St. Joe, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. D. E.
Walker; Mr. and Mrs. D. Woodson,
Horton, Kans.’ Mrs. Walker, Kansas
City, Kans.; Mr. and Mrs. B. Sinvely,
Mr. Geo. Riley, Overton, Nebr.
COUNCIL BLUFFS
Mesdames Mary Morten, Mary Hill
George, Francis Lee, Mrs. McCullen,
Grace Meekins are on the sick list
this week.
The Tabernacle Baptist Sunday
School held their Easter program
Sunday afternoon. Quite a number
were at the exercises. The exercises
were well rendered by all.
Mrs. Susie Robinson was called to
Kansas City by the illness of her sis
ter.
Mrs. Liza Baker spent a few days
last week in Kansas City to visit
friends.
A surprise party was g^ven on
Mrs. Daisy Fox by the members of
Bethel A. M. E. church. She is a new
ly wed. She received a forty-two piece
breakfast set and many other useful
presents.
Mrs. Emma Turner entertained the
Hollis Art Club at her home, April 5.
The club will give a luncheon April
12, from one-thirty till four at the
home of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson. Thir
ty-five ceffts a plate. The hostess
served a delicious luncheon.
The Calvary Baptist Sunday School
held their Easter exercises at six
thirty. A wonderful program was
given by the children .
Rev. J. P. Jackson who has been
ill is improving nicely and is able to
be around again.
The Union Mission Executive Board
i met at the Bethel A. M. E. church
Monday night.
Booster Club will give a chicken
dinner and a play entitled "Ruth,”
April 15. Everyone invited.
Rev. L. A. Lawrence Kans was in
the city, called by the illness of his
sister, Mrs. Allie McMullen.
Mrs. Gladys McCurrey of 1610 So.
6th St. is still on the sick list.
NATIONAL ORGANIZER
OF PULLMAN PORTERS
HOLD MEETINGS HERE
A. Philip Randolph And Ashley L.
Totten Spending Three Days Here
In Interest of Organization.
A. Philip Randolph, editor of The
Messenger, and national organizer of
the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters;
| and A. L. Totten, field organizer, a»
| rived in the city early this week to
further the work of the organization.
Mr. Randolph delivered an address be
fore a large meeting of women, com
posed chiefly of the wives and rela
tives of the Pullman porters at the
North Side Branch of the Y. W. C.
A. Wednesday afternoon. Meetings
were held in the Jewell Building,
Thursday night and another is sched
uled for tonight. It is claimed by Mr.
Randolph that the goal of 61% en
rollment of the Pullman porters,
which w'ill enable them to roring their
grievances before the United States
Labor Board, has been nearly reached.
Great enthusiasm for the movement,
it is claimed by the organizers, is
shown by the younger men, while the
older employees, as a rule, are more
conservative and slower to join.
NOTED NEGRO EDITER
PUBLISHES HISTORY
Cincinnati, Ohio.— (By The As
sociated Negro Press)—The city is
agog over the recently published his
tory of the Negro in Cincinnati, en
titled, “Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens,"
a five-hundred page exhaustive treat
ment of the part which Negroes have
played in the development of the Hill
city from the earliest times. The
book is published by the Dabney Pub
lishing Company, 412 McAllister
street, this city.
The author is Wendell Phillips Dab
ney, the well-known and versatile
editor of the Cincinnati Union. Mr.
Dabney has lived in Cincinnati for
more than a third of a century and
has been one of its distinguished cit
izens during all of that time.
“JIM CROW CARS SHOULD
GO,” SAYS SENATOR BRUCE,
DEMOCRAT, MARYLAND
Washington, D. C. — (By The
Associated Negro Press)—Senator
Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland, in an
interview with a representative of The
Associated Negro Press, declared, in
his opinion, the time has come for
dispensing with Jim Crow cars. Sen
ator Bruce spoke particularly of
Maryland, his home state.
“It seems to me that there has
been sufficient advancement of Col
ored people to do away with separate
railway coaches. It is a matter of
regret to me that we have them in our
state.
“Had I been appointed a merrfoer of
the inter-racial committee that would
have been one of my first reeommen
«»—- i -s’"1 —
dations,” said the venerable senator,
who has gained a reputation in the
senate and his state for an attitude of
justice and fairness to all!
Continuing he said: “It would
seem to me that the railroads them
selves would be interested from an
economical viewpoint. The system
now is one of double expense. Col
ored people are American citizens,
and have proved to be good citizens.’’
Senator Bruce is not a candidate,
which, naturally, makes his statement
carry all the more emphasis.
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CALLED HOME BY
DEATH OF DAUGHTER
Theada, the little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Teddy Morton, 2711 Frank
lin street, died Tuesday morning,
April 6, having been ill for a week
with pneumonia.
Mr. Morton was called home from
Gary, Ind., where he was filling an
engagement with 'he Shuffle Along
Minstrels, on account of his daugh
ter’s death. (
Mrs. D. W. McQueen who has been
absent for several weeks at the home
of her mother in Oklahoma, where
she was called by her illness, has re
| turned to the city.
ONCE PROUD MONITOR, LAST
OF TYPE, JOINS JUNK PILE
U. S S. Chtyenns, Still In Qood
Order, Qeet to Kttp Her Ron
dezvous With Davy Jonet.
Baltimore, Md.—Trailing lgnomlnl
ously at the end of a towline, a once
proud monitor and last of her type
recently moved toward her grave—a
Junk pile at Hampton roads.
One of four sister ships laid down
In 1904, the Cheyenne, originally the
Wyoming, started her death march
} alone with the U. S. S. Owl, a navy
I yard tug. stealing ahead like a con
science-stricken executioner. The Tal
lahassee. the last of her sisters, felt
i the acetylene torch 20 years ago.
Sixty-six years bark In American
history the monitor type, embodied In
j John Ericsson’s Monitor, nemesis of
j the Merrlmae, revolutionized naval
j practice. Monitors maintained Presi
dent Lincoln's blockade of southern
ports during the Civil war.
The present and last monitor, living
{ to see her once all-powerful type be
littled by modern development, eplt
' omlzed naval progress when she
served as a mother ship for subma
j rlnes on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts during the World war. The
Cheyenne, then the Wyoming, also
was the first nsval vessel to feel the
thrust of modern oil-burning engines.
Experiments conducted aboard the
Wyoming have since led the Navy de
partment to take steps for the conver
: slon of all remaining coal burners.
For more than five years the Chey
enne has served as the training ship
j of the Fifth Naval Reserve district
! and with her passing the Baltimore
i water front loses a bit of romance.
The original Monitor Indirectly was
protecting this port when It destroyed
the Merrlmae In Hampton roads.
Under her own power, around the
Virginia capes from Philadelphia, the
j Cheyenne came to Baltimore In Oc
- tober, 1920. It is through no fault of
, her own that she Is dragged away on
the end of a chain, like a criminal to
the gibbet. Her engines are sturdy
and fit, her propeller trim—-but she la
obsolete and her crew Is gone. Part
of her crew has been transferred to
Eagle boat Sfi, her soeceaaor, and the
remainder has gone on the Inaetlve
list.
Ro, with her flreroom cold and her
decks deserted, the last of the moni
tors keeps her rendezvous with Davy
Jones.
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Educate Chinese With
1,000-Letter Alphabet
Pactlngfu, Uhlhll. — Public-spirited
Chinese with sufficient learning to
qualify as teachers have undertaken
a movement for the education of the
masses of China.
“Jimmie" Yen, product of Yale and
Princeton, leads the undertaking. He
and his associates have selected from
the formidable muss of Chinese char
acters, a thousand common ones with
which they Hssert books and papers
on almost any subject can be written.
A million of the “thousand charac
I ter" text-hooks have been put In clr
I culatlon. each costing the equivalent
of a dime. Vacant temples or resl
| dences have been borrowed for school
rooms and the practice of writing In
the air with the finger Is resorted to
where blackboards or slates are not
available.
Gas Danger Force*
Defiant Tenant* Out
London.—The courts have upheld
the government in Its efforts to dis
possess the tenants of 16 houses ad
joining a factory at St. Helen's, Lan
cashire, In which the war office Is con
I ducting experiments with poison gas.
j The government owns both factory
and houses and wanted the tenants to
move because of danger to which It
was believed they were exposed by
proximity of the gas factory.
The tenants, however, were willing
to assume the risk because of antici
pated difficulty In finding other ac
commodations. The courts held that
the government was not bound by the
rent restriction act, under which prl
vate owners would have been unable
to dispossess the tenants.
Worth While Poems
A PRAYER
Let me be a little kinder,
Let me be a little blinder
To the faults of those about me,
Let me praise a little more;
Let me be when I am weary
Just a little bit more cheery,
Let me serve a little better
Those that 1 am striving for.
Let me be a little braver
When temptation bids me waver,
let me strive a little harder
To be all that I should be;
I Let me be a little meeker
With the brother that is weaker,
Let me think more of my neighbor
And a little less of me.
Let me be a little sweeter,
Make my life a bit completer
By doing what I should do
Every minute of the week;
Let me toil without complaining,
Not a humble task disdaining.
|I«t me face the summons calmly
I When death beckons me away.
—Selected.
OMAHA LOCALS
Mrs. Otis Shipman and daughters,
Thelma and Madeline, who came to
Omaha to spend Holy Week and Eas
ter, left for Sioux Falls, So. Dak.,
Tuesday morning.
Mr. J. Frank Smith, 3027 Mander
son street, was detained at home the
first part of the week by illness.
,Mr. J. H. Broomfield, 2122 Lake
street, was kept indoors several days
last week by a.) attack of the grippe.
Four children of Mrs. Gertruue
Harris, 1117 North Twenty-first, were
quite sick last week with the flu.
Three have recovered, but the baby,
four months old, is still quite ill.
John and Harold Adams, sons of
the Rev. and Mrs. John Adams, stu
dents at the State University, spent
their Easter vacation here with their
parents.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many friends
for their beautiful floral offerings,
upon the death of our husband and
father. We especially thank, Amelia
Tabernacle No. 19, Benson Temple,
S. M. T., and Pilgrim Baptist Sis
terhood.
Mrs. M. E. Hayes, wife,
Mrs. Aretta McDade, daughter,
W. Roy Haynes, son.
John Adams, Attorney
2722 North 28th Ave.
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT
DEFENDANT
To SARAH ROGERS, whose place of
residence is unknown and upoci
whom personal service cannot be
had, defendant:
You are herAy notified that oo the
11th day of Sep‘ember, 1925, Gerald
D. Rogers, as plaintiff, filed a peti
tion in the District Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska, Docket 223, No.
108, the object and prayer of which is
to obtain an absolute divorce from
you on the ground of desertion and
abandonment.
You are hereby notified that you
are required to answer said petition
on or before September 7th, 1926, or
the allegations in said petition will
bo taken as true.
GERALD 1). ROGERS,
4T. 4-9-26Plaintiff.
STATEMENT OF THE OWNER
SHIP, MANAGEMENT. CIRCU
LATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY
THE ACT OF CONGRESS OP
AUGUST 24, 1912,
Of the Monitor, published weekly at
Omaha, Nebr., for April 1, 1926.
State of Nebraska,
County of Douglas, ss.
Before me, a notary public in and
for the state and county aforesaid,
personally appeared John Albert Wil
liams who, having been duly sworn
according to law, deposes and saya
that he is the editor of the Monitor,
and that the following is, to the best
of his knowledge and belief, a true
statement of the ownership, manage
ment, etc., of the aforesaid publica
tion for the date shown in the above
ust 24, 1912, embodied in section 443,
Postal Laws and Regulations, to-wits
1. That the names and addresses
caption, required by the Act of Aug
of the publisher, editor, managing ed
itor, and business managers are:
Publisher—The Monitor Publishing
Co., Omaha, Nebr.
Editor—John Albert Williams, Om
aha, Nebr.
Managing Editor—John Albert Wil
liams, Omaha, Nebr.
Business Manager-—Lucinda W. Wil
liams, Omaha, Nebr.
2. That the owner is: John Al
bert Williams, Omaha, Nebr.
’. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 per cent or
more of the total amount of bonds,
mortgages, or other securities are:
None.
(Signed) John Albert Williams
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 9th day of April, 1926.
(SEAL) H. J. Pinkett.
My commision expires Oct 17, 1927.