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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1928)
. -finf »tftttt^tt-iHhHW************^-x~x~x~x~x-fr THE MONITOR | • • A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS Y ' ' OF COLORED AMERICANS _X ' ’ PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA. NEBRASKA. BY THE X ; • MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY __£ ' ' Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. July 2. 1915 at the Poatoffice at Omaha. 1 Nebraska, trader the Act of March 3, 1879. X ' ; THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS Editor Y W. W. MOSLEY, Lincoln, Neb. Associate Editor X ) , LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS _Business Manager !! SUBSCRIPTION RATES *2.00 PER YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Y J \ Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. _ A L Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 IQIDItlOttff .•-•-•-•~aAA.W-V-,»-„VVVVA.We,wtaAAX j I’ AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS $ ;; The postal regulations require that for newspapers 2 < > to be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid £ ! • in advance. A reasonable time, thirty days, is allowed .£ I! for renewals. At the expiration of this period, •where % ;; subscriptions are not renewed, the paper must be stop- y • • ped. If this is not done, postal privileges are denied the ❖ !! publication. Those, therefore, who desire to continue 2 ; I 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- * o lector will call—and unless your subscription is paid 2 ;; we will be compelled to cut off your paper which, of $; 1» course, we do not want to do. •{♦ !! We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or £ ;; pay the penalty. 2 ;; 2 ■ 1V4~VX~X-X*<-X-X-X~X"X“X~X“X"X"X“X“X“X-* .• x-x-x-x-x-x-:-!* Our Choice for President in 1928 is WALTER W. HEAD of Nebraska An Astute, Able, Clear headed Business Man A GRATUITOUS INSULT The national republican committee has insulted the Ne groes of the United States by yielding to the prejudice of that provincial little burg on the Kaw which invited the na tional republican convention to be its guest and promised courteous treatment to all del egates. The local committee bowed to the refusal of Kansas City hotels to admit Negroes who migh be members of state delegations as guests. Protests poured in to the national com mittee not only from self respecting Negro delegates but from broad-minded white peo ple, of whom, thank God, some few still remain. Our race newspapers from coast to coast have oposed this un-republican innovation and discrimination. The national republican com mittee recently met in Kansas City with the local committee and agreed to the Jim Crow arrangements. National Chair man Butler of Massachusetts, God save the mark! with his whole committee, except the Negro members, has surrender ed to southern prejudice and placed his seal upon racial dis crimination at a national re publican convention. The national republican party by this act has insulted the whole Negro race in the United States. We wonder if our race will graciously accept this gratuitous insult? If we ; are things, we will. If we are men, we will not. Mark Hanna gave St. Louis twenty-four hours to decide whether they would accept all delegates witn courtesy and j hospitality when this question was raised there or he would take the convention to Chicago. St. Louis surrendered and Kan sas City would have done the same if the chairman had been Mark Hanna of Ohio, with a backbone, rather than Butler of Massachusetts with a wish bone. FOR A MORE BEAUTIFUL CITY Spring is here and we are quite sure that all of our citi zens, and especially those who are home owners, of whom we have a relatively large number, will take pride in painting up, cleaning up and beautifying their premises. Unfortunately, there are some of our people who, as tenants, are living in unsightly shacks for which the owners should be prosecuted for renting, who have little in centive for trying to improve their surroundings and yet, even in these cases, we hope that the tenants will do what' they can to make these places more sightly, by cleaning up the premises and by planting flowers. In the meanwhile, just as soon as they can, we hope they will move into bet ter places and the city will compel owners to raze or re pair some of these hovels rent ed for human habitations. Whether owner or tenant, let us do all we can to beautify our homes and help Omaha to become a more beautiful city. WE WANT TEACHERS Let us not forget that the time is drawing near for the election of teachers. There are several of our young women who are eligible both by train ing and experience to have a place in our public schools. They will not be appointed, however, if we continue to be idle and do nothing about it. Let us get busy now and go in dead earnest, intelligently, but insistently, for this just recog nition of our citizenship. NEGRO TRADE WEEK Through untiring efforts by a com mittee composed of colored ministers working under the direction of the Colored Ministerial Alliance of Oma ha, colored men and women owning and operating divers businesses have gotten together and made final plans for the observance of Negro Trade Week, which is the practice of mem bers of the Negro Business league. | From Monday, April 30th to Tuesday, | May 8th, inclusive, has been set j apart for the Negro Trade Week. Every Negro is asked to patronize in stitutions operated by Negroes. Shanghai—The Shanghai defense force, composed of American ma rines and troops of Britain, France,' Japan and Italy, is steadily growing smaller. From a total of 35,000 at the height of the disturbances of a years ago, which brought them here, the force is reduced to approximately 10,000 men. LETTERS FROM OU RREADERS J _ ■ Down But Not Out ■ ■ - • Editor of The Monitor:—Will you J kindly accept my grateful thanks for J the whole hearted support accorded • me in my fight for nomination for J the office of public defender, and, J too, will you convey to those friends • and well-wishers who not only voted ■ for me, but who also worked in- J cessantly that I might win, my fur- ■ ther thanks. Tell them I am not dis- ■ couraged, but that the fight for just [ representation in the administrative ‘ life of the country shall be carried i on with a greater vigor and determin- , ation, and that I, Amos P. Scruggs. [ shall ever contribute my effort and < money that such recognition shall be j, consummated. \ To those of my friends who failed ; in their sacred duty of registering ■ and voting, thereby contributing, by \ their neglect, to the continued dom- J inance of those who have all and con- ■ cede to our group so very little, I . humbly urge to “Awake, arise, or ii be forever fallen. AMOS P. SCRUGGS, j THANKS HIS SUPPORTERS _ I take this method of expressing my sincere thanks and gratitude to all who worked so earnestly and faith fully for me or voted for me in the recent campaign. I can never repay the numerous volunteer workers who gave their time and in many in stances their cars in their endeavors to re-elect me to the state legisla ture. While defeated by a narrow margin of votes, I am gratified that the members of my race showed their approval of my legislative career by the vote given me. I highly prize this mark of confidence and approval. My campaign was conducted upon a high and honorable plane so that j neither I nor my friends have any thing to regret. I congratulate my opponent, Dr. McMillan, upon his victory, and as it is highly important that our race should, if possible, maintain our representation in the legislature, I pledge him my support. Sincerely and gratefully yours, JOHN A. SINGLETON. HOWARD TO GET AN APPROPRIATION — Washington, D. C.—The restora-1 tion of an item of $390,000 for How ard university in the Interior Depart ment appropriation bill seems certain, i The House recently approved the res toration of the item which was stricken from the bill on a point of order by Representative Lowrey, : democrat, of Mississippi. When the bill reached the Senate j ' the Howard appropriation was re i stored in the measure. Later, when j the bill went to conference, the House conferees agreed to let the Howard item remain. The House ratified their action. Some controversial items in the bill have delayed its being sent to the president for his signature. INTER-RACIAL MARRIAGES ON INCREASE IN HAWAII Honolulu—With gradual downfall of the language barrier, inter-racial marriages between Japanese and other races in Hawaii are increasing. Of 810 Nipponese women married in 1927, 41 took non-Japanese hus bands, and of 798 Japanese men who married, 29 took non-Japanese wives. The largest percentage of inter racial marriages, however, is made up of those contracted by white men. ENGLAND WILL CONTINUE CLAMPED LID ON LIQUOR London, Eng.—The drys and the wets are still at loggerheads over the government’s decision not to intro duce legislation during the present session of Parliament to make it eas ier for persons to get intoxicating liquor from public houses, as the sa loons in England are called. - i INDEPENDENCE ISSUE SPLITS SOUTH AFRICAN ASSEMBLY Capetown, South Africa—Assert ing the 1926 Imperial Conference res olutions gave South Africa the status of independence, General Hertzog, the South African premier, moved approval of the conference report in the Assembly. This view was com bated by General Smutts, who soft pedaled independence talk by declar ing this question was not raised at the conference itself. STUDENT GETS HONOR AT RUTGERS COLLEGE New York—A Bergen county stu dent, John H. 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