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“SMALL TOWN STUFF”
“Oh, gee! such small town
stuff! Can you imagine it?”
This was the disgusted excla
mation of a very excellent, cul
tured and well-bred girl in her
early twenties who upon reach
ing a recent outdoor entertain
ment about 11 o’clock at night
found the crowd thinning out
and going home. From the tone
of her voice there was no ques
tion about her disgust at the
primitive rustication displayed
by these unsophisticated urban
ites in going home at an hour
when “big town” folks would
just be coming for the even
ing’s entertainment.
This girl had been born and
reared in this “small town” of
more than 200,000 souls; but
she had visited “big towns”
like New York and Chicago,
where the custom is to go to
social affairs such as balls and
parties from say 11 p. m. to 3
a. m. This, you know, is big
town stuff. And, sad to relate,
such “big town stuff” is becom
ing quite the vogue, even in
such a “small town” as Omaha.
Midnight, once considered
quite a respectable hour for the
conclusion of social functions '■
among well bred people, is now '
“too early to think about going
home.” In fact, you know, it is
“small town stuff.”
But somehow we are “old
fashioned” enough, and
“fogey” enough, and so “far
behind the times” as to believe
that the nervous tension, fraz
zled nerves, and unbalanced
poise, so largely prevalent in
American life today, would be
most beneficially modified
were our people, old as well as
young, to observe better hours
than are now customary even
in relatively “small towns.”
We are in favor of recreation
for old and young. We believe
that recreation, such as dancing
for those who enjoy it, or other
forms of recreation, amuse
ment and entertainment, is
necessary for every well-bal
anced normal human life. We
are not of those w'ho believe
that our young people of the
present generation are worse
than those of other generations
and are rushing headlong to
perdition. We believe that
they are genuinely sound at
heart and have a high concep
tion of honor and right despite
much of current flippancy and
apparent disregard of the con
ventional, much of which con
ventionality is thinly-masked
hypocrisy. But at the same
time we cannot help but be
lieving that this “big town
stuff” of late hours saps their
vitality and correspondingly
weakens their mentality, and
that all would be much better
physically and mentally if they
could bring themselves to ap
preciate the fact that “small
town stuff” so far as relatively
early hours are concerned is,
after all, a pretty good thing
and not to be despised.
A GOOD APPOINTMENT
The Monitor is gratified at
the appointment by President
Coolidge of William T. Francis
of St. Paul, Minn., as minister
to Liberia. It is not only an ex- j
cellent choice, Mr. Francis be
ing well qualified for this im
portant position, but it is also
a well-merited recognition of
the West. The majority of ap
pointments of this character
have hitherto gone to the South
or East. President Coolidge’s j
rather tardy recognition of the |
race by this, we believe, up to 1
this time the only appointment
of a Negro made by him, will
do something toward reliev
! ing the disappointment of the
I race at what has been consider
' ed his apathetic, if not wholly
indifferent, attitude towards
us. We hope that the appoint
ment of Mr. Francis is the earn
est of others.
We are gratified that Pres
ident Coolidge did not give
ear to those who have advised
sending a white American to
Liberia. The advent there of
the Firestones and the invest
ment of American capital
made it seem desirable upon
the part of some that only a
white man would be able to
cope with the situation. This
same attitude of mind has in
fleunced certain American ec
clestical bodies in choosing ad
ministrative representatives for
that field. We are therefore
1 glad that among our group
i there were those close enough
to President Coolidge to influ
. ence him in this wise decision.
Mr. Francis is a high-class, well
educated, cultured American
citizen, for whom no one will
have any occasion to apologize.
As minister of Liberia he willd
reflect credit upon the adminis
tration, his country and his
race. There should be no hesi
tation upon the part of the Sen
ate when it convenes in con
firming the appointment of
William T. Francis. The Moni
tor extends sincere congratula
tions to Mr. Francis and also to
President Coolidge.
Mrs. Marie Lecoq, matron at the
North Side Branch Y. W. C. A., re
turned Monday morning from a
month’s vacation spent visiting rela
tives and friends at her former home ,
in New Orleans, La.
H. J. PINKETT, Attorney
PROBATE NOTICE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF WALTER BELL, DECEASED.
Notice ia Hereby Given: That the
creditors of said deceased will meet
administratrix of said estate, before
me, county judge of Douglas County,
Nebraska, at the county court room,
j in said county, on the 16th day of
| September, 1927, and on the 16th
day of November, 1927, at 9 o’clock,
; a. m., each day, for the purpose of
'■ presenting their claims for examina
! tion, adjustment and allowance.
Three months are allowed for the
creditors to present their claims,
from the 13th day of August, 1927.
BRYCE CRAWFORD,
4t-7-16-27 County Judge.
D. H. OLIVER, Attorney
LEGAL NOTICE
To Charles W. Brutton, Henry R.
Scruggs, and Brutton and Scruggs,
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
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.
JOHN ADAMS, Attorney
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT
DEFENDANT
To NATHANIEL FRIEND, whose
place of residence is not known and
upon whom personal service of sum
mons cannot be had:
You are hereby notified that MA
TILDA FRIEND, your wife, the
plaintiff, filed her petition in the
district court of Douglas County, Ne
braska, on the 27th day of August,
1926, to obtain an absolute divorce
from you on the grounds of desertion
and non-support. You are required
! to answer said petitiori on or before
the 29th day of August, 1927.
MATILDA FRIEND.
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