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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.
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Helps to a
Religious Life
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“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.
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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.”
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