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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1926)
f The Monitor I A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTEREST'S OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA. BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered ae Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1916, et the Poetofflce at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. 1879 THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS___Editor W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln Neb_Aesoclate Editor LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS__— ...Eualnese Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 A YEAR; S1.2S 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Ratee Furnished Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE ? ;; UNITED STATES & Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged I ’ 1. Ail 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 ;; < > state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the • • 1! privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor !! ;; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- ;; ■ • erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person ;; I! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the lawK. ! Our Choice for President in 1928 is WALTER W. HEAD of Nebraska An Astute, Able, Clear headed Business Man CONVENTIONS THIS is the time of the year when our people spend, and much of it needlessly, millions of dollars in attending annual conventions, grand lodges and conclaves. There can be no ques tion that such gatherings have a beneficial effect; but we have often wondered, if it were not wiser, for some of thes grand bodies and conventions, instead of meeting annually to meet, say bi-ennially, or once in every two years, and devote the money, or a portion of it, that could thus be saved, to some educational or in dustrial program. UNFORTUNATE FOR OMAHA TEACHERS NO one who has the educa tional interests of Omaha chil dren at heart can view with any feeling but that of regret that retrenchment, made necessary by extravagance in other depart ments, has made it necessary to reduce the teaching force by lay ing off 150 teachers. This is re grettable because of the hard ship it is entailing upon the teachers who have been dis charged at this late date when it is almost impossible for them to secure employment elsewhere, for we take it that the increasing of the classes in the grade schools by two pupils will not place a very onerous burden upon the teachers employed or seri ously affect the instruction given the pupils. In the light of this reduction it no doubt happened for the best that the colored applicants for the teach ing corps were not appointed, because they would have been on the assigned or elected list and of course would have been slated for slaughter with the other “innocents”, those not on the permanent list. Who knows, but perhaps, if the Board of Ed ucation, had been disposed to have dealt more fairly with our people, this regrettable emerg ency might not have arisen. Who knows? 'Be that as it may we sincerely hope that matters educational may speedily resume normalcy and that Superintend ent Beveridge will have the cour age to do the right and just thing in giving our people repre sentation. MEXICO VVE do not know what the real trouble is there. It seems to us, however, at this distance, that the Mexican government has gone pretty far in depriving Roman Catholics of the privil eges of their religion. As we see it, however, it is a matter with which the United States has no right to interfere. Chris tian folk in America can however pray that the affairs between the Mexican government and the Roman Catholic hierarchy may be speedily adjusted so that truth and justice, religion and piety may reign throughout the land. SCHOOL DAYS SCHOOL days are rapidly ap proaching. Let parents encour age their children to take evei-y advantage for securing as good an education as possible and in the meantime let us do what we can to help make places for them after they have prepared themselves for useful careers. CHERRY PIE FOR CAL CAL Coolidge still loves cher ry pie, although he’s president; and so the folks of Michigan a huge one to him sent; full thir ty inches wide it spread across the pan, and they sent it to him by auto and by man; a copper held his warning hand as swift the auto sped; “Don’t stop us, cherry pie for Cal” was all the speeders said. That was enough, the bobby bid them hasten, the bobby bade them hie, and hurry to Cal Coolidge with his huge cherry pie. SPEAKING of retrenchment, how would it do to make a ten percent cut in the salaries ol some of the higher salaried school officials? DO you think Omaha needs a race newspaper? Do you really think so? How much do you think? Two Dollars a year’s worth ? Pay your subscription then. SCENE OF CUSTER’S LAST FIGHT LOCALE FOR REX FILM Lodge Grass. Montana, scene of Custer’s last fight, was the scene of another Indian battle in "The Devil Horse,” the spectacular I’athe feature showing Sunday at the Lake theatre and starring Rex, Hal Roach’s wild horse star. The entire popclation of the Crow Indian reservation worked for four months in “The Devil Horse,” which depicts a romance of the early west, written from historical legend by Hal Roach and directed by Fred Jackman, who directed other Rex pro ductions. ;: AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS. /• ; ; The postal regulations require that for newspapers to | . . be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid in X I ! advance. A reasonable time, thirty days is allowed for ? | ; renewals. At the expiration of this period, where sub- ■ > ; scriptions are not renewed, the paper must be stopped. I! If this is not done, postal privileges are denied the publi- ;; ; J cation. Those, therefore, who desire to continue receiving ’ < > ; ; The Monitor must see to it that their subscriptions are <! paid, as the law requires, in advance. Statements are be- ' \ ; ; ing sent to all those who owe, or our collector will call— and unless your subscription is paid we will be compelled '! to eat off your paper which, of course, we do not want 11 to do. We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or < pay the penalty. i ...... ^g 1 - -i LINCOLN NEWS Dr. A. Porter Davie and party of Kan sas City. enroute to San Francisco, Calif., stopped last Thursday for a few hours with Mr, and Mrs. Will;am Woods. The cave party which was to have bent given Monday night, Aug. 16lh. was post poned on account of rain, till Monday, August 23rd, at 8:30 from Mt. Zion church. Mrs. Gladys Hill of Kansas City is vis iting her father and family here. Mr. Borr Officer is confined at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. Brown Mrs. W. L. Johnson spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives at Kansas City, Mo. Prof. W addles of Omaha was a visitor at Lincoln Sunday night. Mr. Ale* Morris underwent a surgical operation for appendicitis the past week. Mr. Wm. Harris spim last week with relatixes and fritnds at Atchison. Kansas Word comes to us that Mr Gaston Mc Daniel and wife arrived ai SanAntoma, Texas, having had a splendid auto trip. There were special services at the New man M. E. church Sunday; Prof. B. H. Booker of Kansas City, superintendent of Rocky Mountain district, was present, and preached at morning and evening worship. Rev. H. W. Bolts of Ml Zion Baptist church delivered the afternoon sermon Remit for your papers. The program given by a committte of Lebanon lodge at their hall last Thurs day night was good, and was well at tended. Quite a few of the Masons lett for Grand Lodge at Grand Island Tuesday night. The Nebraska and Iowa Conference con venes witji Quinn Chapel here the second week in September. * VSITED SIX STATES TO FIND SUITABLE SCENERY Six western states were covered by red Wood Jackman, director of Hal i Roach’s feature productions, starring I Rex, "the king of wild horses,” in an attempt to find the perfect location j for the new Rex vehicle, “The Devi! ! Horse,” coming to the Lake theatre. Jackman drove through Idaho, Wy oming, Montana, Utah, Nevada and South Dakota, visiting all Indian res ervations in those states. Scenic pos sibilities and Indian reservation atmo ' sphere were the particular objects of his search. Meanwhile, at the Roach studios preparations were going on for the making of the production, and when Jackman found his locations in Mon tana and Wyoming a company was all ready to leave for several months to make the picture. Jackman took his time at the -tart of production because Lady, leading woman for Rex on the screen and his mate in private life, was awaiting the approach of the stork. The heir of Rex appears in the picture, written into the final construction of the scen ario for the fadeout scenes. ORSATTI AND “HAP" HOLLOHAN BACK IN LINEUP SATURDAY When the Omaha baseball team re turns to Omaha Saturday for a 12 game stay, the management will be able once more to present the full team to fans. This is something that has been impossible the greater part tif the season. Orsatti and Hollohan, who have been out of the lineup for better than two weeks, will join the club here Saturday, and will add a lot of needed hitting and fielding strength. During the past road trip, when these players were absent from the !club, the Burch entry has lost consist ently. It is only to be hoped better things are again in store for the fans. Wichita is the opening team on Omaha’s lot and under their new man agement may make it exceedingly tough for the Rods, The present .home stay will decide to a great ex tent whether the Rods are to be consigned to first or second division, so the loyal support of the fans will help. Several new faces will appear on the team when they arrive here Sat urday. “Slim” Davenport and Har graves are two new pitchers, while Kaufman, the Jewish amateur pitch ing sensation, is another addition. Davenport is well known here, having played before for Omaha and St Joseph. Let’s give ’em a boost by attending the games, for Burch is trying to give Omaha a good, winning team and truly deserves the support of the fans. One game Saturday, with a double dish for Sunday. The Bureau of Printing and Engraving at Washington turns out approximately 3,000,000 notea daily, having a value of at least 110,000,000. LADIES’ FORUM MEETS The Ladies’ Forum of Pilgrim Bap tist church held their regular monthly meeting the first Monday in August with a good attendance and an inter esting program. Mrs. R. T. Jowers read a paper on "Woman” and Mrs. H„ J. Ford one on "Punctuality.” WADDLES’ BAND PLEASES Waddles’ ladies band, which gave a concert last week at Tabernacle Bap tist church, Council, Bluffs, scored quite a musical triumph. They were requested to give a return concert at an early date. The band has been engaged to give a concert in Lin coln next week. DR. PHILLIPS, OPTICIAN Dr. Phillips, the old-time optician, hav ing returned to Omaha, will be glad to fit your glassrs at your home at his usual reasonable prices. Phone Harney 3083 for an appointment.—Adv. :: The Star Market f A T X FRESH MEATS. GROCERIES 2 | AND VEGETABLES ]’ ? Sell for Cash at Very !x>w Prices ij. 1550 North 20th Street X ---- • « « I. 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