Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1927)
The monitor • » --— -— -——-A < > 4 WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS A • > OF COLORED AMERICANS £ ' * PUBLISHED EVERY' FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE ❖ ' ' MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY V < ►--- Y ' ’ Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postofflce st V , , Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. 1879^ _,1. • ‘ THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS_Editor y ' ’ W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln. Neb_Associate Editor V J J LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS_Buslnese Manafer ¥ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Si.OO A YEAR: $1,25 6 MONTHS: 75c 3 MONTHS £ , , Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application .j. >« Address, The Monitor. Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. j < * Telephone WEbster 4243 ;j; x-x-x-x-x-w-x-x-x-x-x-r-M-i-x-x-x-x-x-M-x-x-w-r-x-x-x-:-:* 11 AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS. '£ .. ... ;; The postal regulations require that for newspapers to 4 I be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid in | 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. '£ If this is not done, postal privileges are denied the publi- X cation. Those, therefore, wrho desire to continue receiving | The Monitor must see to it that their subscriptions are 4 paid, as the law requires, in advance. Statements are be- X ing sent to all those who owe, or our collector will call— f and unless your subscription is paid w>e will be compelled 4 to cut off your paper w'hich, of course, we do not want X to do. X We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or 4 pay the penalty. X THE PRIMARY ELECTION A relatively heavy vote was cast at the primaries, but large as it was, a larger proportion of the registered voters should have cast their ballots. There is evidence, however, in the in creasing primary vote of grow ing appreciation of the duty and privilege of voting. This is as it should be. People should express their prefer ence for candidates at the bal lot box. Those who voted Tuesday, and the number has been placed around 40,000, expressed their preference most decidely. The administration slate, called the “Square Six,” was the choice two to one, its average vote being above 22,000 against 11,000, over the “Civic Alliance” slate, its strongest competitors, backed by various organizations. The vote was a strong endorsement of the present city administra tion, headed by Mayor Dahl man, and a rebuke to that sin ister and cowardly organiza tion which is seeking political power and control. The independent and un slated candidates were really not in the running. Karl Kehm, who, for example, had a strong backing and an ener getic organization, polled only 5,513 votes, and Robert P. Samardick, who was on a slate, and with Kehm, regard ed as a probable winner, poll ed only 5,747 votes. Veteran campaigners like Charles Unitt polled under 2,000. In the light of these facts the vote received by our race candi date, Charles J. Solomon, of 1,024, was a most creditable one. He stood thirtieth among the forty-three aspirants andj no one who voted for him threw his vote away. Despite the fact that the present commissioners receiv ed such an endorsement at the primaries the real fight now begins. “Security is mortals’ chiefest enemy,” says Shakes peare, and the Bible voices the same warning when it says, "Let him that thinketh he! standeth, take heed lest he fall.” No political battle is won until it is won. So from now until the polls close on; election day in May there must be no abatement of interest and let no one delude himself that he can at this time pick the winners with certainty. LINCOLN NEWS Magnolia Court No. 10 will cele-1 brate Palm Sunday in Masonic hall, 1022 P street next Sunday, April ; 10th, at 3 p. m. All members and i friends are urged to be present. The dinner given by Co-operation ! club at Mount Zion Baptist church | last Friday night was a fine success. The dinner given by the trustees of Quinn Chapel last Thursday night is reported as having been a success. Mrs. Margaret Lyons has returned home from the hospital and is much improved. Last Sunday was Women’s Day at Quinn Chapel, and services were held all day. The program was carried out entirely by women. All of which is said to have been a credit and a neat sum was realized from collec tions. Sunday was Covenant and Com munion at Mount Zion. Praise arid Covenant at the morning hour. A fine sermon by the pastor at night was followed by ordinance of the Lord’s Supper. A series of revival meetings are in progress for the next ten days or until Easter day. The carnival given by the Blue Ribbon club in Masonic hall last Wed nesday and Thursday was fairly at tended. I TF- I I Taylors Dairy I WM 2116 North 24th Street I ■ WE. 6014 WE. 6014 I HB Completely remodeled and now ready to serve you in a R still more efficient manner than ever before. 8 ^■j We most cordially invite you to inspect our new, clean. I sanitary store and ice cream making establishment. Readers of 8 ]g§8 The Monitor are especially invited to pay us a personal call p and convince themselves of the cordial welcome awaiting them 9 at all times. I Churches and I ■ Lodges I |§§§ Home gatherings and all public meetings catered to with I ^B guarantee of lowest prices and prompt service. I ^B OPEN EARLY OPEN EVENINGS I (After April 15 Until Midnight) I Telephone us your order and note the immediate response. S ^B Telephone WE. 6014 I ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD Centenary Celebration of Negro Newspapers of America Announced New York, N. Y.— (Special)—One hundred years have passed since the first publication edited by Negroes in the United States appeared from the press. It was March 16, 1827 when John B. Russwurm brought out the first edition, The Freedom Jour nal. Such is the subject and text of an especially prepared article ap pearing in The Amsterdam News, of New York, written by William N. Kelley, its editor, on the one hun dredth anniversary of the Negro newspaper. He was discussing the National Negro Press association, matter with the secretary of the Henry Allen Boyd, who was in New York recently, the 12th, just four days before the one hundredth an niversary of the Negro newspaper. The facts, as related by Mr. Kel ley, and as are well known from re search in the archives of Negro his tory, will be treasured by members of the fourth estate, editors and quill-pushers of America. The data in substance and in a concrete form, as put out by Mr. Kelley, shows that The Freedom Journal was the first Negro news paper established in America. It was horn in New York City on March 16, 1827; it was brought into existence or being, it was fashioned and shaped, it was conceived by John B. Russ wurm, its first editor, manager and guiding hand. This editor, this man of many parts, was born in Jamaica, B. W. I., in the year of 1799. He had associated with him as publisher, Samuel Cornish. The two worked, as has often been said, hand in hand, side by side. It developed that Mr. Russwurm also was the first Negro graduate from any American college, he finishing in the year 1828, just one year after he ventured upon his journalistic career. After spend ing some time in America, and same hard work on the Journal, Mr. Russ wurm went to Liberia, W. C. A., as he was interested in a colonization movement, and in the establishment of a government or a republic for Liberia. After Mr. Russwurm left America, Mr. Cornish continued as publisher, but saw fit to change the name of the paper from that of The Freedom Journal to that of The Rights of All. Mr. Russwurm then became editor of The Liberia Herald, published at Monrovia, Liberia. He continued to be active, and at the time of his death, he was governor of the Province of Monrovia in Li beria. The National Negro Press associa tion has been much interested in the history and data thus presnted. Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name by kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgot ten. No, your name, your deeds will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. They shall shine as bright ly on earth as stars of heaven. Thirty-three insurance companies have home offices in Omaha. LINCOLN MARKET Come in and see the new Refrigid ized meat case, just installed. 1406 No. 24th We. 1411 <K~X~X~XKK-XK~X~X"XKK“XK“X~X~X~X“X~X“X**X"X**X"X“X"X~X'V j NEW LAKE ES j | Friday, April 15th f | Showing a Special Picture | | “BREAKING CHAINS” j Great Filin of the Russian Revolution! ? SENSATION OF TWO CONTINENTS! 4 £ | £ War—Hate—Romance—Revolution X * X :j: “THE STORY OF A PEOPLE” •j’ The first time in America—on this tour. X All the big cities in the East report big sales !j! at $1.10. New York sold 10,000 in advance for X •}• the first show. Cleveland sold 4,000 for five k | shows in advance. •{• | ADMISSION ONLY 25c f *X.<“X~X“X“X“X~X“X“X”X“X"X*<~X“X"X-X~X~X**X~X~X~X~X~X“X*£ I HEAR I | Walter White | I Of NEW YORK 1 | Wednesday Nite | 1 April 13 JZ I I jots A. M.E. Church [ Twenty-Second Street and Willis Avenue Auspices | OMAHA BRANCH N. A. A. C. P. 1 | No Admission Come Early 1 g MR. WHITE is Assistant Secretary of The National M g • 1 I Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I He is "the White Negro,” who has frequently risked his = L life to secure evidence against lynchers. § ( lllllllilllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^
