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Thk Mom ok f 4 > ▲ WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS V J J OF COLORED AMERICANS £ ? k PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA. NEBRASKA. BY THE Y ] J MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Y 2 2 Entered aa Second-Class Mail Matter, July 2, 1915 at the Poatoffice at Omaha, V 0_Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. 1879. *1* 4 ► THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS Editor •{• * * W. W. MOSLEY, Lincoln, Neb. Aaaociate Editor V 2 2 LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS Business Manager }* 2 2 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 PER YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS *j‘ Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application <> Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. | < > Telephone^ WEbster 4243 ^ | »♦♦♦ ♦♦•»♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ <• *<•** : AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS. ;; The postal regulations require that for newspapers to !! 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. ! I If this is no done, postal privileges are denied the publi- Y 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- J; mg 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 J | to do. We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or !! pay the penalty. * * .............. . __ < ► LEISURE TIME It has been said that one’s character is largely determin ed by how he spends his leisure time. This is but another ver sion of the old adage, “Satan finds some evil still for idle hands to do.” People must be employed and play and recrea tion belong to the plan of em ployment. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” And not only a “dull boy,” but in most cases an abnormal, if not a vicious boy. And so we are beginning to learn that play has its legitimate place in every normal, well-rounded life. There must be time for rec reation. There must be time for play. And we are learning that work and study can be made play. That is why vaca tion schools, which wisely pro vide for the leisure time of school children, are coming in to favor. Time, vacation time, really hangs heavy upon the shoulders of many city chil dren. Active and full of life, they must have something to do. The streets in many cases have a lure and there is a dis position to get into mischief. Fortunately in cities like Omaha, parks and play grounds throw helpful influ ences around growing boys and girls. But even in summer time this play can be overdone. It is here where the vacation school lends its valuable aid. Children are given an oppor tunity to have instruction in important things outside of the regular school routine, which takes up the slack in too much leisure time, keeps them inter ested and occupied and gives zest to their periods of play. Old and young need to make good use of their leisure time for recreation and culture. A CALAMITY AVERTED In the enforced program of economy in the public school system of Omaha, we are glad to notice that art and music have not been eliminated and classified as fads and frills. What Omaha needs is a broad er culture than the so-called three R’s, “readin’, ’ritin’ and ’rithmetic’’ can give. Music and art have their place in any well-rounded education. To eliminate these would have been a serious setback to ’our educational system. A more careful supervision of expendi tures in buildings and supplies, such as we believe Mr. East man will give, will doubtless stop some leaks which will pro vide ample funds for increas ing rather than diminishing the instructional school program. To cripple the instructional side will prove very poor econ omy. The elimination of man ual training in the grades is a backward step, but to have dis continued art and music would have been a calamity. “AS A MAN THINKETH" “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he" said a wise man of the olden times. This is true. We should always strive to cultivate good thoughts. Thoughts mould character. MOVE WITH TRAFFIC We believe that Omaha pe destrians ought to be educated to move with the traffic. When the signal is flashed for traffic to move or stop pedestrians should be taught to remain on the sidewalks. This is the rule in many cities and it would be a good thing for Omaha. BEVERIDGE RE-ELECTED Superintendent Beveridge has been re-elected for a term of three years, although some members of the board of edu cation were in favor of elect ing him for a one-year term. The Monitor sincerely hopes, but we frankly admit that in our judgment it is a case of spes contra spem, that he will assume a broader-minded at titude towards the re-employ ment of our people in the pub lic schools. We know that the board of education is supreme in such matters, but we are not unmindful of the fact that the attitude of the superintendent has considerable weight with some members of the board. One who is friendly can help, one who is unfriendly can re tard any movement, however just and wise it may be. !■■■ ■ ■ ■'»"« » « » »-f Helps to a Religious Life i “That we may live a godly, right eous and sober life.” Fourth Sunday After Trinity July 10, 1927 A Prayer 0 God, the Protector of all that trust in Thee, without Whom nothing is strong, nothing holy; increase and multiply upon us Thy mercy, that Thou being our Ruler and Guide, we may so pass through things temporal that we finally lose not the things eternal. Grant this, O Heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake our Lord. Amen. Think on these things: 1 reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.—Rom. viii, 18, 19. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not and ye shall not be judged; condemn not and ye shall not be condemned; forgive and ye shall be forgiven; give and it shall be given unto you; good measure pressed down, and shaken together shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withall it shall be meas ured unto you again.”—St. Luke, vi 36-39. “Staying our mortality upon Him, the all-strong and all-holy, we pray that we may so pass through time that we lose not eternity.” St. Paul here presents us a vision of the slow process of time through which we are passing, the whole creation and each individual as a part of that creation laboring toward a higher estate,—“the manifestation of the sons of God,” which is also the manifestation of the brotherhood of man. One includes the other. There fore the life of charity, the life of love. “Judge not (harshly) and ye shall not be judged.” Am I uncharitable, unkind, unfor giving? Or charitable, gentle, for giving, doing unto others as I would have them do unto me? THE PIONEER On land, in air and on sea we once had the unmarked trail and unchart ed course throughout most of the earth. Today, land and water have been conquered; only the air remains of these to be made the servant of man. Into the task now done and being done, many of the bravest of the children of men of every race and clime have gone with their daring and courage and to their deaths, forgot ten. Myriad hosts have followed them over the courses which they charted, and ^hey have won wealth and re nown. The pioneer knew only hardship and suffering and sorrow. The com forts and luxuries of living which we have they never knew. But we do not know who they are or what they have meant and mean. Sometimes, in various fields, they live among us and we do not realize what their con tribution has been to the present and to the future. This is all too true of all pioneers, ind is doubly true of the American of color, who, in the light of all the facts of life, has fought the most courageous battle ef them all. May not the younger generation, surrounded by the happy circum stances of modern life, learn some thing of the pioneer and accord him, at least, a worthy place in their mem ory. They should honor him. He is the most potent force in society and human destiny. We stand with uncovered head in his presence and bow in reverence be side his bier. He has won true fame and glory forever. H. J. P. LINCOLN NEWS Henry Botts, jr. returned home Sunday from Nashville, Tenn., where he attended the B. Y. P. U. and Sun day School Congresses, and reports that seemingly the attendance wasn’t quite so large as usual, but successful in its sphere, and felt that he had gained quite a bit of knowledge from the many things brought out by the many learned men and women in at tendance and his experience of things going and returning would be last ing. Utopian Art Club will give a lawn social in the church lot Thursday night, July 14th. Rev. H. W. Botts spent the Fourth with folks at Omaha. Remit for The Monitor. Messrs. Nat. Hunter, T. P. Ma hammitt and Attorney H. J. Pinkett motored over from Omaha July 4th to attend the National A. A. U. Quite a number of persons cele brated the Fourth in a picnic and fishing party at “Shady Rest.’’ Members of Mount Zion Baptist church dispensed with their annual Fourth of July picnic this year for the first time in a number of years. The National A. A. U. meet here July 1-2-4 attracted quite a large crowd of folks to the city, and the Fourth was seemingly celebrated in many ways. Miss Rebecca Price is sojourning with her husband at Denver, Colo. Mrs. H. J. Crawford and sons, J. Dillard and Lovejoy, of Omaha, and Mrs. William Russ of Denver, Colo., spent the week end with Mrs. O. W. Ferguson and family. Messrs. Philip Edwards and Charles Major of New York City, and Wil liam Butler of Beaver City, Pa., were dinner guests of Mrs. O. W. Ferguson and family while they were in the city to participate in the A. A. U. meet. PIANO FOR SALE. $76.00. WE. 6789. 2t. » * WATERS BARNHART PRIlfTDiGCa CAMPAIGN FOR MEMBERS OF THE N. A. A. C. P. The midsummer campaign for new members, which will be held under teh auspices of the executive com mittee of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., will begin Sunday, July 17th, 1927. The executive committee is striv ing earnestly to put the proposition | of memberships squarely up to our leading and most loyal citizens of all i races and classes, as all citizens are responsible for injustices which are directly or indirectly fastened upon the shoulders of a people. Ministers, laymen, professional and business men are requested to give the executive committee their whole hearted support. As the N. A. A. (f. P. is the only organization extant which is fighting legally for the constitutional rights of American Negroes in America, | Omaha Negroes are expected to lay I aside in this membership campaign all petty jealousies and enmity, and all join in one harmonious effort for the N. A. A. C. P. The executive committee must re ceive the whole-hearted support from the Colored women in Omaha. They must rally their forces to help carry this membership campaign over the top. It is you and your children for which we suffer, for which we gave our blood, sacrificed our all in the great world war, and now we ask your support. Will you give your sup port? M. L. HUNTER, President. D. H. OLIVER, Attorn*; LEGAL NOTICE To Charles W. Brutton, Henry R. Scruggs, and Brutton and Scruggs, t Minstrels, a Partnership: ) You and each of you will take no tice that on the 2nd day of June, 1927, an order of attachment for the sum of $787.60 was duly issued out of the Municipal Court of the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebras ka, under the seal thereof, in an ac tion wherein Jim Bell was plaintiff, and Charles W. Brutton, Henry R. Scruggs, and Brutton and Scruggs Minstrels, a partnership, were de fendants, appearing in Civil Docket Number 21, at page 18 of the records of said court, and property of said defendants, consisting of three trunks and stage curtains, was duly attach ed and taken in the hands of John Schmidt, constable, and on the 9th day of June, 1927, said property was duly ordered held until further order of the court. You are further notified that the object and prayer of said petition are to obtain judgment against you and each of you for the sum of $787.60 with interest and costs, and to take and appropriate by the provisional remedies of attachment and garnish j ment the said property attached, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy said judgment and costs. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 27th day of July, 1927. 7-l-27-4t JIM BELL, Plaintiff. “No man and no woman possesses perfect beauty, but most people pos sess some beauties; no man and no woman possesses a perfect character, but most men and women possess sol id virtues, however their virtues may be mixed with vices.” Now’s the Time to Save! | | THE JULY SALES are in progress at this time l —every department in the store is partici pating in this annual event. Seasonable mer chandise of the regular Kilpatrick’s qualities— at such reduced prices as come only once a year. Remarkable Reductions on I Women’s and Children’s Apparel Men’s and Boys’ Furnishings Silks, Woolens, Wash Fabrics Housefurnishings, China, Glass Millinery, Shoes, Hosiery Lingerie, Corsets, Etc. MISS MART MARTIN—Our Personal Shopper will care for your order by phone or mail. She will shop with you or for you. 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