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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1926)
: the monitor i A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS , OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA. BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915. at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. 1879 i THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS.Editor W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln. Neb_____ Asseciate Editor | LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS --—Bualhasa Maiugw ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES. *,..00 A YEAR: *1.25 6 MONTHS: 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates F irnlahed Upon Application I Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 ’• . .-.-i | ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE | UNITED STATES | ! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged £ 1. .All persons born or naturalized in the United States. ? X and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the 2 United States and of the State wherein they reside. No X state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ♦ privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor 2 shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- X ertj without due process of law, nor deny to any person ? X within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. j, •b^*>X"X"Xxs"X-+<"XH"X"X“i“X-.'-+<sX"X:"X,<^<-xX”:"X“XX"i-5,/Ws Our Choice for President ' in 1928 is WALTER W. HEAD of Nebraska An Astute, Able, Clear headed Business • Man SEIZE OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKE OTHERS .AMONG the very many ex cellent things that Clarence Dar row said in his recent address before the students of Fisk Uni versity was this, “The Negro must develop whatever field he finds open and make new fields.” Here is advice to seize present opportunities and make others. This is the key to all progress and success. He who declines to do what he can do because he can not find opportunity to do all he wants to do or that which he prefers to do is foredoomed to failure. It is true that many doors of opportunity are closed to members of our race, nut while this is true, it is equally true that there are many fields of honorable endeavor and achievement open to us. These may not be the fields in which we prefer to work, but they of fer the opportunity for service and sustenance, for labor and livelihood; and they should be eagerly entered and diligently tilled. In doing this we are de veloping ourselves and making other opportunities. W’hatever field of opportunity offers should be developed to the full est extent of our capacity. The ore must be taken from the mine ! efore it is refined. The w’ork of him who digs and hid who re fines is equally important. Seize present opportunities; develop them to the fullest capacity and make others. This is the law of all success and progress and we cannot evade it. “THE FRIENDS THOU HAST’ “The friends thou hast and their affection tried, grapple them to thy soul writh hoops of steel.” This is the wise advise one of Shakespeare’s characters gives to his son as a motto that may guide him throughout his life. There are those among our people who foolishly and ab suredly contend that no mem bers of the white group are friends of our people. How any one with an ounce of sense can seriously make such a statement passes our understanding. It is the child of ignorance and prej udice as baneful and soul-blight ing as that which our people complain of as being shown by white people. There is no dif ference in kind or degree. The lot of our people in this country would be most intolerable if it were not for the fact that there are thousands of white people who are the sincere friends of our people, because they are lovers of humanity. Such friends are to be found in every section of this land. Their affection has been tried and proven true. Wherever and whenever they are found, our affection for them and our character and conduct should be such as to grapple them to our soul with hoops of steel. Polonius’s advice to La eretes is good advice for us all to lay to heart and follow in reference to proven friends. Think upon these words: “The friends thou hast, and their af fection tried, grapple to thy soul with hoops of steel.” UNITING IT gives promise of obtaining results when our people present such a united front as did the representative committee which appeared before the Board of Education last Monday night to petition that body to give em ployment to colored teachers in the public schools of Omaha. The committee embraced practically all our people in this city. A committee of this kind, or per haps the same committee, should be made permanent and enlarg ed to present, wisely and intel ligently, our demands for recog nition in the public utilities and other activities, municipal and industrial, of our city. United action will count. It looks very much like w-e are learning this much-needed lesson. “REASONABLE AND JUST” A prominent business man and an influential woman said in al most identically the same words, in commenting on our request for teachers, “Your demand is reasonable and just and should by every rule of justice and right be granted.” We believe that this expresses the senti ment of a large majority of the citizenry of Omaha. Mr. H. O. Thomas, son of the late David Thomas, and stepson of John Norman, arrived in the city last week from I,os Angeles, Cal., and is the guest of Mrs. Louise Strawther, 2220 Willis avenue. Harry Brown, Express and Trans fer. Trunks and Baggage checked. Try us for your moving and hauling. Also, coal and ice for sale at all times. Hhone Webster 2973. 2013 Grace St. The Turkish government has for bidwden all dance halls to admit girls and boys under 18. % 1 | AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS. The postal regulations require that for newspapers to | i be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid in ^ X advance. A reasonable time, thirty days, is allowed for 5 | renewals. At the expiration of this period, where sub- j f* scriptions are not renewed, the paper must be stopped. 2 11 If this is not done, postal privileges are denied the publi- j ;; cation. Those, therefore, who desire to continue receiving j < - The Monitor must see to it that their subscriptions are 2 !! paid, as the law requires, in advance. Statements are be- X I; ing sent to all those who owe, or our collector will call— | ; • and unless your subscription is paid we will be compelled < ! \ to cut off your paper which, of course, we do not want ! ! I to do. We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or j < > pay the penalty. 4 ► 4 4 » 4 EMILIE GOURD IS MOST EMINENT OF SWISS WOMEN Leader of Feminist Movement in Little Republic and Head of Most Activities of Women. Geneva.—If women Toted In Switz erland and were asked to east their ballot for the most eminent in their confederation, there doubtless would be a Hood of votes for Kntilie Gourd, who personifies dynamic activity In all movements for the public welfare. Miss Gourd of Geneva is editor of tlie Feminist Movement, the official organ of the national alliance of Swiss feminist societies. Women of Switzer land are permitted to vote only In cer tain municipalities on questions touch ing religion and education. Hence they are waging a persistent cam paign to obtain tlie general franchise right. The leader in this movement does not expect the new Swiss parliament to play an Important role in suffra gist history, but the struggle will go on. "< itir tactics arp to win over to tlie cause of woman's suffrage first one canton ami then another canton," Miss Gourd said. “Which canton will come to us first I know not. The tdg test will come when tlie voters as a whole as a federal body will he asked to do I ride whet tier women are to vote tn Switzerland." Miss Gourd was horn In Geneva In 1879. tlie daughter of .1 .1. Gourd.'well known philosopher and professor at the University of Geneva. At an early age she herself became a professor in the private high schools and later was made secretary and then vice presi dent of tlie Union of Women of Ge neva In 1914 she founded and peir sonally directed a sewing circle for women whom the World war rendered homeless and workless—a circle which | continues Its usefulness to this day ■ by providing employment for needy women. Miss Gourd has directed several in vestlgatlons into social problems af fecting the welfare of women, pre sided over the GenevH exposition, which was devoted to showing what I Geneva womeit are achieving In prac tlcal production, arid was foremost In Insisting that two women should bo appointed as assistant police officials ! at Geneva. In 1908 she became secretary of the National Alliance of Swiss Women So cieties and later, as president of the : Geneva Association for Woman Suf frage. launched a popular movement In favor of extending the franchise to women. Then followed election as secretary of the International Alli ance for Woman Suffrage, and for It organized at Geneva the eighth Inter national woman suffrage congress. She is now the representative of this or ganizatlon to the League of Nations and the international labor office on all subjects of interest to women. Despite this activity. Miss Gourd has written several worth-while vol umes in addition to her daily Journal istic output. Pierre Loti’* Servant Mourns for Hi* Master I’aris. When one rings the hell at ! the door of the little house at Roche fort where 1’lerre Loti was born In | 1850, he is greeted by probably the most melancholy man In the world. Auguste, I'lerre Loti’s valet for ISO | years, acts as If still under the spell i of his master’s demise and as if the funeral had taken place only yesier j day. With tears welling, he refused the visitor’s request to "ttike a peep at the masters workroom." "They are sacred things and must not he dis turbed,” he says, without any apolo gies, hut withal respectfully. Sadly, hut firmly, he declines to entertain any insistent request and even the at Mr. William Stork lias been associated with the Hartman Furniture Company for many years. In that time he has made a host of friends through his willingness to serve his customers and help them in the selection of their home furnishings. Ml his friends know him as “Bill”. Bill asks us to say that he would like the op portunity of helping you pick the right furnishings for your home—and his years of experience make him capable of giving you the best service. Remember the place — Hartman’s—on 16th Street near Harney. —Adv. - - ■■ ■ traction of a well-rounded tip falls to shake his determination. Loti, a taciturn, moody man. never eared to receive guests unless they found favor in Ids eyes and had been specially invited on account of their good listening dualities. “Sly master did not want to he dis turbed when he was alive, and I am sure that he would resent now the in | (rusion of strangers Into his home," , the valet said without asperity, hut ' with finality. High Living Kills Deer After Month’* Fancy Diet Hancock, V Y. High living and 1 lack of exercise resulted in the uutliue ' ly death of a buck deer on the Huxtet • farm at Horton, N Y., a few miles * from here. « Four weeks ago, during a snowfall. J .1 deer stalled in a snow hank on the • Baxter larin and when rescued was J exhausted. Taken to the ham, In « seemed too weak to eat until Mrs, J Baxter tried some hot huckwhen' < cakes with butter and sugar on them * nid for these he "fell." and soon be < came himself again. , llis presence ami odd diet attracted v isitors, who tried all sorts of dainties on Hiin. improving his spirits and en urging Iiis girth. After four weeks of high living in the Baxter horn lie wn thout the handsomest buck ever seen n these parts. After a four-course linner. with fudge and bonbons fot dessert, he spent a restless night, and died at daybreak. Cripple Writes Opera New York.—('liable to move from her couch for two years because of paralysis. Miss .1: net IV Williams singing teacher, has produced an op eretta. 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