. >♦»«>»»»»♦»»»♦»»»♦»♦♦♦♦»♦»»»♦»»»♦»♦»»»»♦»»»»»»»»»»»»❖ The Monitor I ' ” A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS j? | ; OF COLORED AMERICANS Y PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE Y J | MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY ! ’ Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. July 2. 1915 at the Postoffice at Omaha. Y t , Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. , , ! I THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS Editor Y . , W. W. MOSLEY. Lincoln, Neb. Associate Editor X , , LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS Business Manager X SUBSCRIPTION RATES. *2.00 PER YEAR; *1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS X , , Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. , , <> Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. <» !! Telephone WEbster 4245 !! £<~x-4-x>-x~xkkk-«~xk-xk~x*<~xk-x-c~x~X“X-x~x~x~x~X"X~x~x-* | AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS * I 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 X for renewals. At the expiration of this period, where subscriptions are not renewed, the paper must be stop- | ped. If this is not done, postal privileges are denied the X publication. Those, therefore, who desire to continue $ receiving The Monitor must see to it that their subscrip tions are paid, as the law requires, in advance. State ments are being sent to all those who owe, or our col- £ lector will call—and unless your subscription is paid we will be compelled to cut off your paper which, of *£ course, we do not want to do. ’& We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or ;!* pay the penalty. £ fr>X~X~X-X"X"X~X“X“X“X“X"X~X“X-X"X“X"X“X**X“X“X*<~X“X-X“f* “NO” SAYS TELEPHONE COMPANY The committee from the Ministerial Alliance which re cently waited upon the North western Bell Telephone com pany, respectfully requesting them to give employment to some of our young people as operatives or in some like ca pacity were given their answer Thursday morning. The an swer is a positive refusal to do anything of the kind, so we have been informed. This cat egorical negative was not what the committee expected. It had hoped that the officials of the company would have found some middle ground, at least, upon which this reasonable re quest for employment could have been granted. The bru tally blunt refusal and appar ent disposition to give our peo ple no consideration in the premises was not anticipated. There is no fairness or jus tice in the attitude of the Tele phone company into whose cof fers our group in the city pays many thousands of dollars yearly. We deserve better things at the hands of this com pany. As little as they think about it, and as incredible as may now appear, the day may come when even the powerful Telephone company will need our services which they now seem to scorn. An appeal to their sense of economic fairness and right seems futile. Would an appeal to their pocketbook prove more effectual? Possibly so. Despite the tremendous in convenience it would entail, we wonder if there could be found among the several thou sand telephone subscribers in our city 500 or 1,000 of our people who would be willing to make the sacrifice the exi gency of the case seems to de mand? We simply ask the question. Think about it. There is one man whom we know, amply able to pay for a ♦% ♦%♦%♦****♦ ♦******** 4% «*• A«*4«** telephone, who had his remov ed some three years ago and took the stand that he would never have a telephone put in until some colored people were employed by that corporation. “Crank.” Perhaps. “A damn fool.” Mebbe. But if there were only 500 more “damn fools,” as consistent and determined as this man, we might get some tangible results and favorable consideration even at the hands of a powerful and hard boiled corporation. BEST WISHES, “MET.” We have noted with pleas ure that our warm personal friend of nearly forty years of ever- deepening friendship, Richard L. Metcalfe, “Met”, as he is familiarly called, has been drafted, yes, that’s the proper word to use, by hun dreds of friends and admirers who signed his petition — to seek the nomination on the democratic ticket for United States senator from Nebraska at the April primary. We venture the prophecy that he will not only seek but find the nomination when the returns from the primary are in. And in our humble judg ment, in the event of his nom ination and election, which is by no means an impossibility even in republican Nebraska, Richard Metcalfe will honor the senatorial toga, by serving conscientiously the highest and best interests of all the people. “Met” is built that way. He is a man of decided intel lectual ability and culture; idealistic, some call him, yet practical; a trained journalist, he has a grasp and understand ing of public affairs which such a career gives, and then, too, he has rendered valuable pub lic service to his country. How ever, what we prize most high ly in him is his warm-hearted ness, his keen sense of justice, and his broad sympathy for all mankind. These are the traits A*. * which would be valuable even in a United States senator. We have known him for nearly forty years and he has rung true and that is why we sin cerely wish Richard L. Met calfe success in his political ca reer. LEST WE FORGET Lest we forget that black man who graduated from West Point and rose to the rank of colonel in the regular army who did not become a general only because of the prejudice of the Americans whose government he serv ed to the bitter end. Lest we forget that man who overcame prejudice be cause he would not let prejudice over come him, whose soul was invincible; that brave man, who to show his sol diers that a horse would not trample them if fallen, threw himself on the ground in front of his troop and per mitted half a hundred charging horses to pass over his prostrate form. That man who in the Philippine insurrec tion led his men during a terrific tropical storm, wading a river, clothes tied in a bundle on his head, revolver held high, through a hail of bullets from both banks to the rescue of oth er troops with food supply and am munition. Lest we forget that man, who during the world war, when or 1 dered into retirement for alleged phy | sical disability flung himself into his saddle and rode from Xenia, Ohio, to Washington — a sick man — while thirty-seven officers junior to him on the active list were promoted to the rank of general officers. Young was then placed back on active duty. Lest we forget that the authentic military map of Haiti is the work of his hands. Lest we forget the strains of sweetest music which he could extract from so many varied instruments. Lest we forget his shining example of per severance under persecution while at West Point and throughout his bitter career. Lest we forget his spirit of uplift as shown by his aiding needy students while stationed at Wilber force. Lest we forget his scholar ship which enabled him to converse so freely with foreign visitors in the Texas camp to the chagrin of many there present. Lest we forget his manhood — which never faltered. Lest we forget Colonel Charles Young, all chapters are requested to hold memorial services on the Sun day preceding or following March 12, the anniversary of his birth—Reprint ed from February Omega Bulletin. THE REAL “NEW NEGRO” According to Prof. Melville J. Herskovits (white), professor of an thropology at Northwestern univer sity, the real “new Negro” is a phy sical reality rather than a being mere ly possessing new mental aspects and ambitions; for, says Prof. Herskovits, “80 per cent of the American Ne groes are mixtures of white, Ameri can Indian and original Negro stock. My studies have shown that between one-third and one-fourth of the Ne groes measured have American Indi an ancestry in addition to the well established fact that many of them have white heritage,” said the anthro pologist; “and,” he continues, in his new book, The American Negro, from this mixture, white, negroid, and mongoloid, three widely diver gent bloods, there is being welded and is already discernible a different physical type which may be called the American Negro. The American Ne gro has found himself a black man in a white culture, and has consequently sought to adjust himself as best he can,” concluded Prof. Herskovits. L J>. a. AAA A A. A A A A ❖ 4 f I ❖ 4 ❖ EPISCOPAL j | Church of St. Philip the Deacon f A 21st near Paul *f v y ♦♦♦ Rev. John Albert Williams, Rector Y t * X SUNDAY SERVICES * f ❖ 7:30 a. m. Holy Communion ♦> J* 10 a. m. Sunday School £ 11 a. m. Sung Eucharist With Sermon $ 8 p. m. Service and Sermon ♦> ? v |: The Church With a Welcome | X and a Message, Come X ? ❖ V * ❖ t : The vesper service program held j Sunday, February 26, at North Side j Branch, Y. W. C. A., in charge of Mrs. Ricks and the retiring member j ship committee, with Mrs. Randall ! presiding, was a rich treat and was , highly enjoyed by the 63 persons in | attendance. The next vesper service, March 11 th, at 4 p. m., is looked for ward to with great interest. The re- j ligious and general education com- j mittee, with Mrs. Hiram Greenfield, ! chairman, will have charge of an other one of their soul inspiring pro grams. The subject, “What Kind of Service Should I offer God,” will be discussed as a topic, by the audience, together with a wide awake sacred i program of musical and literary mer it. Program in full in next issue of The Monitor. Plan now to be on time and talk about our “Y”. You will be uplifted. The religious and general educa tion committee is planning an excur sion to California starting the last of March. Liberal stopovers allowed. A wonderful educational feature. Watch for the details. Mrs. Minnie Dixon, who was for merly chairman of the fellowship committee, is now secretary of the committee of management. Seven members of the Girl Re serves of North Side Branch, and two of the sponsors, with the branch sec retary, Miss R. O. Collins, attended the Girl Reserve conference held at Central building last week-end. The girls rendered two Negro spirituals, and received very high compliments for their performance. Many inter esting features discussed by the girls from visiting towns were accepted and are to be put into practice. The Elite Whist club met at the | residence of Mrs. H. J. Pinkett, Mon day afternoon, at which a program and discussion on the history of the Negro was held. 'MWfMWWJWWJWJWff j: J. L. 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