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THE COMMUNITY CHEST
The Community Chest campaign is making most promising
headway. In three days more than one-third of the quota set
has been subscribed. o%rer $160,000 of the required $435,000.
To reach the goal, however, there must be no slackening of
effort. If you have not given to the Chest be sure to do so be
fore the campaign ends. As a citizen of Omaha it is your job
and mine to help fill the Chest. Never mind criticisms—the
fellow, as a rule, who criticizes most, is just looking for an ex
cuse not to do his part. It’s a big job in which Omaha, like
many other cities, is now engaged. The Community Chest has
been found to be the best method of doing the organized work
of charity and welfare work in the community. Over 300 cities
in the United States and Canada have adopted it. It is a good
thing. It is a worthy cause. Do your part. We hope that in
the home of every one of our people a card stating that wTe have
helped the Community Chest will be found.
GARY’S FIGHT
Here’s wishing success and prophesying success for our
people in Gary who are fighting the iniquitous attempt to foist
inferior educational opportunities in the schools of that city
upon our people who bear their proportion of taxes for the
support of the schools. We, as a people, no matter where we
may be, are interested in Gary’s school fight. They winning,
we win; they losing, we lose also.
AVOID MISUNDERSTAND.
ING
Do you know that most of
the trouble in the world comes
from misunderstanding? Trou
ble, too, mean unhappiness,
and so most of unhappiness is
the result of misunderstand
ings. If we will only have pa
tience and forbearance enough
with one another to try to un
derstand one another a great
deal of trouble can be avoided
and much unhappiness ban
ished.
We have great faith in hu
manity. We believe that, at
heart, most men and women,
really want to do the right
thing, really want to be just
and fair-minded. We all have
our peculiarities and there is
much of selfishness in all of
us, but, nevertheless, under
neath all that belies our high
er and better nature, there is,
we believe, a desire to do right
and be fair.
If we would only take trou
ble to iron out our differences
and misunderstandings we will
all be happier and better. This
applies equally to individuals,
communities, races and na
tions.
The art of living together is
one of the fine arts which must
be acquired if the human race
is to fulfill its destiny. Let’s
all try to understand one an
other and when some misun
derstanding does arise, as arise
they will, let us get busy on the
job of straightening it out.
A GOOD MOVE
The merchants in the vicin
ity of Twenty-fourth and Cum
ing streets have started a good
movement. They are seeking
to have a better lighted street
and the development of the
section as a live business sec
tion. This does not only ap
ply to the immediate vicinity of
Twenty-fourth and Cuming,
but it should embrace the dis
trict extending from Sixteenth
and Cuming west to Thirtieth,
and north and south on Twen
ty-fourth from Cuming. The
Monitor has contended that
the merchants and business
men on North Twenty-fourth
street from Cuming to Lake
should unite and demand a bet
ter lighted street. We are glad
to see that those around Twen
ty-fourth and Cuming are get
ting busy and we hope that the
movement will include a wider
territory. There should be a
branch bank somewhere on
Twenty-fourth street, too, near
Cuming, or Lake. There is
much that can and ought to be
done to develop a strong retail
section in this portion of our
city.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY
The Chinese and Mississippi
The supreme court of the great
and inglorious state of Mississippi has
ruled that Chinese are not white, and
must be denied the equal privilege
of educating their children in the
white schools of that state. Hence
forth they must be sent to colored
schools.
As stunning as this blow must be
to Chinese pride with a historical
background overshadowing that of
their Caucasian detractors, they
should in reality congratulate them
tact and education of the brand to
be had in Mississippi schools, domi
nated by the whites.
For the descendants of old China
and disciples of Confucius, one of
the greatest of world teachers, have
much at stake, considering the awak
selves that *hey have escaped con
ening of New China and its great fu
ture destiny to contaminate the pure
] minds of their young by sending
them to schools controlled by lynch
1 ers, murderers, Klansmen and the
i bigots of professed Christian leader
, ship, both clerical and lay.
Negroes have already been exclud
ed from the white schools of Mis
| sissippi. Yet white Nothern Christian
philanthropists have built and main
; tained schools and colleges there in
most instances superior to the state
schools for Negroes.
These schools have prepared their
' pupils to become good citizens with
a fine spirit of tolerance without
I their minds being poisoned with the
i prejudices of their oppressors, or
their hands being stained with blood
of the innocents. The Chinese should
congratulate themselves that they
have escaped such contacts.
It remains to be seen as yet wheth
er the colored brother will welcome
the Chinese' into his schools or not.
For of late years it must be remem
bered that the Afro-American is de
veloping some airs of his own, the
least of which is the tendency to
I ward exclusiveness socially as well as
educationally. It is to be hoped,
however, that the bars will be let
down against these yellow people
who find .themselves in the dilemna
in Mississippi to which we have toe
long been accustomed, but to the
overturning of which by our own in
itiative, lies our salvation. We con
gratulate the Chinese of Mississippi
as well as sympathize with them.—
The Chicago Bee.
DID YOU KNOW WE
OWNED SO MANY BANKS?
There are 80 banks in this country
owned and operated by Negroes and
have upwards of twenty-two million
dollars in deposits. There are at
present two banks operated by Ne
groes, chartered as national banks,
according to Major Wright, president
of the Citizens and Southern Bank
and Trust Company. One of them is
the Douglas National Bank of Chi
cago. and the other is the Boley Na
tional Bank of Boley, Okla.
DR. MOTON’S DAUGHTER
STUDENT AT OBERLIN
Tuskegee Institute.—Miss Cather
ine R. Moton, daughter of Principal
and Mrs. Moton of Tuskegee Insti
tute, has matriculated at the Oberlin
Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, O.
She will major in piano, with harp
as her minor.
OMEGA PSI PHI TO GIVE
CASH PRIZES FOR WORK
Washington, D. C.—Cash prizes
are to be offered by the Omega Psi
Phi fraternity during the organiza
tion’s observance of Negro Achieve
ment week from November 14 to 20,
inclusive, according to Attorney W.
H. Mazyck of the fraternity’s admin
istrative offices. The awards will be
made to the members of the Race
who are adjudged to have performed
the most noteworthy achievement
during the year.
WINS WANNAMAKER PRIZE
Los Angeles, Cal.—News has been
received by Miss Ethyle Gray that
her brother, Mr. John A. Gray, now
studying in France, is the winner of
the second prize given by Rodman
Wannan.aker through the Curtis Og
den Association of Philadelphia for
musical composition. Te was award
ed second in the Class of “Melodies
and Synchronous Effects” at the
Convention of National Association
of Negro Musicians, held in St. Louis
August 25.
Good Heart Can Rout
Hawks of Adversity
What an unimportant trifle may
often change the course of a man’s
life!
Once I was going thoughtfully
along the highway.
My soul was weighted down by
heavy forebodings. I was overcome
with despondency.
I raised my head . . . straight
before me run the road between two
stiff rows of poplars. And across the
road, about ten puces In front of me,
were hopping In single file a family
of sparrows, full of life, merriment and
courage.
One, In particular, distinguished him
self by his bold, sideways hoppings;
he stuck out his little breast, and
twittered as bravely ns If he did not
fear the devil himself. A true con
queror !
Meanwhile a hawk circled overhead,
whose destiny It was, perhaps, to de
vour this very hero,
I looked, was forced to lough, and
regained my self-possession. My
gloomy thoughts had vanished; I felt
again courage, etc gy and Iifev
A hawk may be circling over me;
hut the devil take:—let's keep a good
heart!—From Turgener’s Poems In
Prose.”
Natives Confirmed in
Their Belief in Ju-Ju
There Is a Utile final touch to a
story In the British Medical Journal
which should give supporters to the
"thirteen superstition” and similar de
lusions something to think about.
It occurs at the end of an account,
by a medical officer In West Africa, of
how thirteen native women were all
struck and killed by lightning while
cowering under the same galvanized
Iron sheltu. All the natives, in
cluding tlie driver of the motor lorry
which hud been sent to remove the
bodies to a mortuary, firmly refused
to enter the shelter, as there was a
prevalent' belief that anyone remov
ing the bodies before the “Ju-Ju” bail
been appeased by a ceremony of purl
ticatlon by the "thunder women” would
die within h week.
However, the Knropean manager of
the local transport company took the j
bodies to the mortuary In spite of the j
warnings he also received. Three j
days later he was admitted to the Hu- |
ropeun hospital at Accra and died of |
yellow fever after three days' Illness.
Thirteen at Table
The origin of the superstition about
the unluckiness of the thirteenth |»-r
son at a table Is so old as to be tin
known. Thirteen, from earliest times,
has been a number with mystic asso
ciations—like three and seven.
Rev. B. Cobban Brewer's "I Action
ary of Phrase <nd Fable” records
that: “It is said that the origin of sit
ting down thirteen at dinner being
deemed unlucky Is because, at a ban
quet in Valhalla, la nl once Intruded
making thirteen guests, and Balder
was slain.
"In Christian countries the super
stltlon was continued by the Bast
Supper of Christ and the twelve
apostles, but the superstition Itself
Is much anterior to Christianity.”
“Let No Dog Bark"
Once, in Amy Bowell's summer
house in New Hampshire, we stole
from our bedroom next to hers to
breakfast In a distant corner where
no rattle of trays would disturb the
sleeping poet after a night of work.
The window framed Monadnock in
morning magnificence, and nature also
seemed asleep. A curious scraping
sound broke the early stillness, and Into
our ken, over the shingles of the
sloping piazza roof, painfully crawled
the white-haired housemaid, with
something white held between her
teeth. A napkin had been forgotten.
She would not risk disturbing Miss
Lowell by the opening of a door.—
Fliznbeth Ward Perkins In Scribner’s
Magazine.
Princess the Mother
of Wonderful Artie!
Flanders fittingly celebrated the
three hundred and fiftieth anniver
sary of the birth of Pierre Paul Itu
bens, the most glorious of her sons.
Few inen are so universally known
os Rubens. This chiefly through the
grent number of his paintings, scat
tered all through the world, and ulso
his voluminous correspondence exist
ing in Spanish, Belgian, French, Eng
lish and Dutch libraries. Recent re
searches have brought out very curi
ous revelations on the origin of
Rubens.
It appears that his father, Jan Ru
bens, bad a liason with Anna of Sax
ony, wife of the great William the
Silent, prince of Orange. Pierre Paul
was the son born of this Illicit union.
The cltllil was not recognized by Or
ange, who subsequently divorced his
wife.
The legitimate wife of Jan Rubens
adopted the boy. But the puissant
family of the Oranges never forgave
the young painter for being allied
with them by blood. They persecuted
him all his life, according to new rev
elations.—Chicago Journal.
GERMAN SOCIETY INVITES
PICKENS TO DELIVER ADDRESS
New York.—The anti-imperialist
Society of Germany has sent a radio
gram to Wm. Pickens inviting him to
cunt and deliver lectures in all the
principal cities of Germany, and in
Brussels, Paris and Geneva. It is ex
ceptional for lecture fees to be paid
in Europe, but this offer brings a
fee of over one thousand gold marks
and expenses.
NEGRO BANDIT TURNS WHITE
Memphis, Tenn.—Jack Adams, a
white insurance agent, rushed into
the police station and reported that
a burly black Negro had held him
up and robbed him of a diamond
stud and *60 in cash. The police got
on the job immediately and appre
hended the bandit, but when he ar
rived at the station and was made
to “wash up” it was discovered that
the “black bandit” had turned white.
THE MILLENIUM NEAR
Clarksdale, Miss.—H. E. Schmitz,
a white man, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for three years for
stealing an automobile from Ben
Washington, Negro.
ACTS WITH BEBE DANIELS
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Hollywood, Calif.—Oscar Smith,
one time valet of the late Wallace
Reed, famous cinema star, has been
selected to play the role of a faith
ful native in Bebe Daniel’s latest pic
ture entitled “She’s a Shiek.” It is
just one of the many important roles
! he has played in pictures.
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DO YOU WANT TO GO
TO LOS ANGELES?
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I am going to tour to Los Angeles
soon and will take other passengers
in my car. For date and terms,
phone Webster 0608.—Adv.
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