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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1927)
!; The monit or \ 1 ► A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS ❖ X OF COLORED AMERICANS X X PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Y ! * Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter, July 2. 1915 at the Postoffice at Omaha, ( ( Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879._ X x THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS Editor y X w. W. MOSLEY, Lincoln. Neb. Associate Editor V J l LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS _ Business Manager ? " ’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES, *2.00 PER YEAR; *1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS £ Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application • > Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. .j. ! \ Telephone WEbster 4243 •!• •^X~X-X-X-XK~X~X“X~X-X“X~X~X“X*<~X~X~X~X~X~X~X*<~X“X"X~> ;: AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS. ;; The postal regulations require that for newspapers to ! ’ be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid in 11 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 ;; cation. Those, therefore, who desire to continue receiving < • The Monitor must see to it that their subscriptions are ! I paid, as the law requires, in advance. Statements are be ;; 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 X I to do. ;; We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or ? <« pay the penalty. X BOOTLEG JOINTS OR SALOONS We do not know' how it has worked elsewhere, but we are confident that prohibition has not decreased drunkenness nor raised the moral tone of Oma ha. Instead of the public sa loon which everybody could see and know where it was we now have almost innumerable boot legging joints and speak easys in all parts of the city. Such places exist in poorer neighbor hoods, among both black and white, in comparatively large numbers, and even fashionable Dundee, Minne Lusa and other such districts are not exempt, as arrests from time to time have shown. The saloon had many evils, but frankly we seri ously question whether those evils were any greater than those surrounding bootlegging with its poisonous concoctions which poor deluded human be-j ings purchase at exorbitant | prices, and seem to have no difficulty in buying in almost any section of this “dry” city. Neither the federal authorities nor the city authorities seem to be able to cope with the secre tive bootlegging joints which have taken the place of the public saloon. Ostrich-like peo ple may hide their heads in the sand and proclaim that prohi bition has promoted the cause of temperance, but so far as Omaha is concerned, and we don't believe that as a city we are sinners above all others in this regard, our candid opinion is that we have only swapped the devil for a witch. Of this fact we are convinced that among the Negroes of Omaha, just like among the foreigners and whites, there is a large number of bootleggers who ought to be put out of this ne farious business. Saloons were bad enough, but these bootleg ging dens and joints are in finitely worse in our opinion. CONVENTIONS This is the season of the year when our people are spending millions of dollars in attending conventions of various kinds. A vast amount of good can re sult and does result from such gatherings, but we have often wondered why it is necessary to have so many annual con ventions. Could not as much good be accomplished by hav ing such conventions, say, every tw’o or three years? Would it not be wise to do this and devote the saving that would be made to the develop ment of some commercial or industrial enterprise? UNEMPLOYMENT We are puzzled to know w’hy there should be so many men and women out of work here in the very height of the ordinary busy season. It is a matter to cause serious con icern. With winter not so far ! away and work scarce now the I outlook is not very encourag i ing. Something is wrong some where with industrial condi tions. ROCK ISLAND CHOSEN AS OFFICIAL ROUTE TO BAPTIST CONVENTION The Rock Island railway has been designated as the official route from the Nebraska-Iowa territory to the national Baptist convention which convenes in Detroit, Mich., Septem ber 7 to 12. If there is a sufficient ly large number to go from this im mediate territory there will be a spe cial coach provided from Omaha to Chicago. The round trip from Lin coln to Detroit is $44.58; from Oma ha, $41.61; from Council Bluffs $41.16 and from Des Moines $34.05. Rev. W. F. Botts, 2526 Grant street, is chairman of the transpor tation committee for Nebraska, and will be glad to furnish information. Trains leave for the convention September 5th, the return limit be ing September 17. i. _ "-JJ -1 - HI ■ ' ■ Hi ' Helps to a Reliqious Life Tenth Sunday after Trinity, August 21, 1927 A Prayer Let thy merciful ears, 0 Lord, be open to the prayers of thy humble servants; and that they may obtain their petitions, make them to ask such things as shall please thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Think on these words: Concerning spiritual gifts, breth ren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, car ried aw'ay unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God call eth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of opera tions, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the mani festation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. Study carefully the words of -this prayer and then make them really voice your ardent petition. It is im plied that God is merciful and that His ears are attentive to prayers. But of whom? The proud, the haughty, the self-satisfied? Hardly, because such feel that they have no need of prayer. They belong to that class of which the Holy Virgin Mary sings in the Magnificat: “The rich He hath sent empty away.” Those who feel they have no need and are entirely sufficient unto themselves. There are such. But those who have the grace of humility, the first Chris tian virtue, as someone has called it. "Thy humble servants.” Those who recognize their true relationship to their Heavenly Father. Note then their petition; "Make us to ask such things as shall please Thee.” Teach us our needs in accordance with Thy will, that we may ask aright. That we obtain our petitions. Wisdom in asking those things which are needful and best. We ask. do we not, that the Lord’s Spirit may teach us how to desire, that is, to pray, that we may obtain a blessing. Differing gifts to each but to lg used. The gift of another is not to be envied or despised. Each one is to use his own spiritual gift profit ably. NEGRO BOY’S QUICK ACTION SAVES CHILD Leon Gaskill, 2*4 years old, owes his life to instant action by Donald McRaven, 15, a Negro Boy Scout, who plunged into a small lake at Kountze park and rescued the child when he fell into five feet of water, according to Leon’s mother, Mrs. Barney E. Gaskill, 1607 Burdette street. Mrs. Gaskill and a neighbor had taken their children to the park for an outing on July 23, and while his mother was busy setting out the lunch, little Leon wandered too near the edge of the pool and fell in. . Donald, stopping in the park for a' drink, heard him scream and plunged in after him, bringing the boy safely back to his mother. Leon might easily have been drowned if the scout had not acted promptly, Mrs. Gaskill declares. McRaven is a member of Troop 73, and lives at 3456 Patrick avenue. I JraS... '-rrifc&ii'■■ • NEW SEGREGATION IN WASHINGTON; N. A. A. C. P. COMPLAINS TO COOLIDGE New York—The N. A. A. C. P., 67 Fifth avenue, has made public a copy of a letter sent by Neval Thom as, President of the Washington, D. C. Branch, to President Coolidge, pro testing against “the extension of se gregation in the government depart ments, particularly in the Pension of fice. The letter sent by Mr. Thomas to President Coolidge reads as fol lows: "My Dear Mr. President: The col ored people of the nation, through their press, are deeply agitated over the further extension of the undemo cratic system of segregation in the government service, and I deem it the duty of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, along with other national agencies like the National Equal Rights League whose telegram you have received, to let you know the feeling of the col ored people, and to acquaint you with this unnecessary offense against the public service. ‘Since your departure for the West, the colored clerks in the Pension of fice have been taken from their desks where they have worked for years without friction or discourtesy and congregated in a Negro division call ed the File room, where some of them are doing laboring work, and all of j them in danger of remaining in the lower salary grades by reason of such placement. One cultivated colored lady was brought from seven years’ I efficient service in the Medical divi sion where she was respected by all of her co-workers and her chief, and ; sent to' this inferior status. There were other transfers of colored clerks in the Interior department to this se gregated File room, in all cases work ing humiliation and sense of wrong upon your efficient colored employes. It far transcends the personal for tunes of these faithful clerks; it is the over-shadowing issue of govern ment that is involved, for any group stigmatized by the nation as inferiors and pariahs is subject to further in roads upon its liberties. “You will remember that when the above named organizations appealed to you in the White House on Lin coln’s last birthday, you gave us a most courteous and untrammeled hearing. You had evidently been in correctly informed that the great mass of your colored employes and the colored people were not objecting j to segregation. We made it plain that the colored clerks and the color ed people DO object, and that the rea son you do not hear more of their complaints is because they feel that since your subordinate officials have been unjust enough to segregate them, they will be unjust enough to seek reprisals if these humiliated em ployes give expression to their feel ings. “In that conference you generous ly promised an investigation of our complaints, and a settlement of the issue that would ‘be satisfactory to all concerned.’ We now renew our complaint, and report the ne™ griev ance, feeling that, as head of the i party that counts the vast majority of Negroes in its folds, and, far more, as head of the great nation that boasts itself a democracy, you will order the abolition of all forms of | discrimination in the public service.” MINNESOTA N. A. A. C. P. STOPS RESTAURANT SEGRE GATION OF WORKMEN New York—The Twin City Herald, published in MinneapolivSt. Paul, re ports effective action by the local N. A. A. C. P. to stop attempted segre gation in a restaurant. The proprie tor of the restaurant in deference to the wishes of an excavating crew, whose members hailed from the South barred colored men from his place, and even placed a sign in his window announcing that he would not serve colored people. Dr. M. W. Judy of the executive board of the local N. A. A. C. P., no ticed the sign and, failing to con vince the restaurant keeper that he ought to remove it, called upon the mayor. The mayor, after consulting with the chief of police, ordered the segregation sign removed on pain of having his restaurant license revok ed. LINCOLN MARKET is still drawing crowds. There is a reason. Groceries and meats which please. 1406 No. 24th. Web. 1411 Thull Pharmacy 24th and Seward Streets \ Call WEbsler 2000 1 Easy to Remember jjj Free Delivery Webster 2000 | t j; Petersen Bakeries ? ; j :j: 24th and Lake—24th and Ames—1806 Famam ; •?» * ► y Saturday everyone should come to our Bakeries! 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