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MONITOR.1 ' I _—- * ’ A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS ' ’ JJ OF COLORED AMERICANS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA. NEBRASKA. BY THE ‘ ’ J I MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY _ ' \ ' * Entered ■■ Second-Clue Mail Matter. July 2, I#15 at the Poetoffice at Omaha, " * ( t Nebrm«k*. under the Act of March S, 1879. , , ! ! THE REV JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS Editor , W. W. MOSLEY. Uacoln. Neh. Associate Editor ,, LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS .. Business Mensfer SUBSCRIPTION RATES. $2.00 PER YEAR; $1.15 S MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS t > Advertising Rate* Furnished Upon Application. II Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. <> I! Telephone WEbster 4243 | ! 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 Jin advance. A reasonable time, thirty days, is allowed for renewals. At the expiration of this period, where t subscriptions are not renewed, the paper must be stop II ped. If this is not done, postal privileges are denied the f* publication. Those, therefore, who desire to continue receiving The Monitor must see to it that their subscrip f tions are paid, as the law requires, in advance. State <1 ments are being sent to all those who owe, or our col li 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. II We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or J pay the penalty. ♦ ▼ WVWWTr’rv’»"r'«"r-r '• v • • « • • • ^ • » 1 SYMPATHY FOR MISS RUTH COLLINS The Monitor feels that it voices ese sentiment of all of our people who became ac quainted with Miss Ruth O. Collins during her faithful work here at the North Side Branch of the Young Women’s Christian Association, in ex tending to her our heartfelt sympathy in the bereavement that has come to her on the eve of her depature from our city in the tragic death of her brother by drowning at Iowa City,- Iowa, July 4th. Miss Collins, who came to the North Side Branch as Girl Reserve secretary three years ago, and who, in addition to this work, has been acting executive sec retary for more than a year, was planning to leave for home Friday for a brief vacation be fore undertaking educational work. She was advised Wed nesday night of the drowning of her brother, a medical stu dent in the University of Iowa, and left for home Thursday. The Monitor desires in this con nection to pay tribute to the good work Miss Collins has ac complished, especially among the girls of this city, during her residence here. Her going is keenly regretted by those who were closely associated with her in her work at the Y. W. C. A., and while regretting the great sorrow which has has tened her departure they wish her Godspeed and well deserv ed success in the new field of opportunity to which she is go ing. THE STREET CAR FRANCHISE Our citizens will be called upon to vote on the proposed Street Railway Franchise. It is a matter in which we are all deeply interested. Transpor tation is vital to the progress and success of every city. Paralysis of the street car sys tem would be a great calamity. The street car is the average wage earner’s chief means ol “X-X"X-*x-*-X“X~x*<K~X“:*-x~x~:~i transportation to and from his job. We, as a class, are almost overwhelmingly wage earners and dependent upon street cars. We should inform our selves so as to vote intelligent ly. We believe the Omaha Street Railway company strives to be fair and give satisfactory service to its patrons. John Shannahan, the new president, has shown a broad-minded dis position, to make improve ments of the service which must be quite obvious to all. A fair franchise is necessary for the protection of the street car company as w?ell as for the citizens. Is the proposed fran chise fair? This is the ques tion upon which its passage or defeat must hinge. “CHRISTIAN BURIAL” Our people are great people for wanting a “Christian bur ial.” It is a laudable and praiseworthy desire. But why should people who have appar ently no regard for religion, at tend no Christian services, and make no Christian or religious profession, be given “Christian burial”? People who persist in living as pagans should be buried as pagans. Their friends and relatives should not feel aggrieved if a minister of religion of or the Gospel should decline to officiate in such cases. Think this over. HOOVER OR SMITH? During the next few months the people of the country will decide which of these two w'ill receive their vote. The col ored citizen is among those who will also be confronted with the question, “How shall I vote?” Partisanship does not bind the colored brother as it once did. The coming presi dential campaign promises to present something new under the sun even in political premu tations. Hoover or Smith? Personalities rather than plat forms will play a large part in the coming national election. Ju A- A. A- Jl A- A- A. A. A- A. A- A J BISHOP RUMMEL Omaha has given cordial welcome this week to the Rt. Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, the new' Roman Catholic Bishop of this important mid-wTestern see. Those who know of his work as a priest in New York speak of him in highest terms. He has made a favorable impres sion upon all who have met him. As the head of a great Christian communion in this city he will wield an important influence for righteousness. There are, we are advised, over 200 Negro Roman Catholics in this city who have a deep inter est in his coming. We, there fore, join with these and other citizens in bidding Bishop Rummel cordial w’elcome and a happy life here. Ad multos annos. MINORITY GROUPS PROTECT AMERICA, DECLARES RABBI Prominent Jewish Religious Leader Delivers Instructive Address at Advancement Association Conference Los Angeles, Cal.—“America’s real strength consists in the blending of healthy differences,” asserted Rabbi Rudolph I. Coffee of San Francisco, addressing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, in its 19th annual conference here, last Thursday night. “A minority thought saved this country at its birth,” continued Rabbi Coffee. “The result is every man’s religion is respected. A minority of one in the United States has rights, and surely the American Negroes, totaling ten million American souls, one-tenth of the population of our country, have absolute rights which must not be insulted. “Financially, America is today the richest country in the world and the most powerful nation the world has ever known. But all this heaped up wealth and strength becomes a Frank enstein unless America emphasizes her spiritual wealth, which means a utilization of the rights of her minor ities. “America is infinitely richer be cause of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Roland Hayes and Florence Mills. How much poorer would America be if we never had your magnificent contribution to music? The white man simply cannot combine your un dying optimism despite terrible op pression, with confidence ir. God as expressed in the Negro melodies. Therefore, I say, America .'eeds the Negro and bids you stand fn n. If you surrender, America is poorer, but you cannot surrender. “The Negro’s pride in his past, his hopes for ^he future, his self-respect, will not allow him to merge his iden tity with the majority. A Negro who will not be faithful to his own can never win the respect of upstanding white men. Israel Zangwill was hopelessly wrong in “The Melting Pot.” America will not allow us to melt even if we wished. “Every majority group in time be comes despotic. Only when there is 'a strong, aggressive and assertive mi nority does the majority do its best. Because America needs strong minor | ities, it is a national disgrace that Ne gro children receive less public school training than do white children. The : citizens of every state, Alabama and California, Mississippi and New York, if they are true to their highest ideals will give the Negro child the verj same educational advantages the> offer the white. States that make L. A Jk_♦- A A A A A .♦_•- A the education of the black child one whit inferior to that of the white are hurting the Negro not half as much as they are wounding their country’s future.” Rabbi Coffee credited the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with having brought about a reversal by the United States supreme court of its own position ; taken in the Leo Frank case. “In 1915 that august body denied a retrial to Leo Frank saying that justice had complied with the forms of law.” said Rahhi Coffee. “In the Arkansas case, it insisted that the mere forms of law were not enough. You proved that in Arkansas wit nesses had been tortured to secure I evidence and on that fact and because mere form of trial does not consti tute true justice, the supreme court granted a new trial to the victims of ithe peonage riots of 1919. Thanks to | the vigorous fight of the National Association for the Advancement of : Colored People, the supreme court reversed itself nine years after the Leo Frank case.” LIBERIA IS FORGING TO THE FRONT Negro Republic in Africa is Making Rapid Progress—Rich Interior Will Soon Be Tapped By Roads Monrovia, Liberia—President King | has just entered upon his third term as chief executive of this little re public which had its beginning a cen tury ago when the primitive sailing ship Elizabeth cast anchor off this rocky palm-covered coast. The sturdy Negro pioneers who came to Africa on this tiny craft in ’search of liberty sailed under a single star. They sought liberty and called their new home Liberia. For forty years, until the Civil War in the United States, settlers of courage and intelligence continued to join the original colonists and took up unsweveringly the battle against the jungle, against suspicious natives and unscrupulous slave traders. And it was the work done by these i intrepid settlers and their immediate descendants which made it possible for President King and his cabinet, | made up largely of Negroes educated in the United States, to bring about such marked economic changes in Li ; beria of recent years. Tapping Interior Road building now is progressing ion a large scale and transportation I soon will be available to districts al ! legedly rich in petroleum, all corts of precious and semi-precious minerals, and even diamonds. More than 200 miles of modern highways have been completed. Of Liberia’s 45,000 square miles of territory virtually every acre is til lable. President King has brought the capital to Liberia necessary to give agriculture and industry a start. Long staple cotton seed from the United States, planted on the govern ment farm established by President King, has produced cotton which ex perts pronounce equal to jf not su perior to the American product. Sugar cane, coffee, rice, and vir tually all grains and fruits flourish in Liberia. Pineapples attain a weight of eight pounds. Forest* Valuable Forests of mahogany, ebony, rose wood, teakwood and other commer cial woods await the ax in the in terior of the country. But railways ;and roads are lacking to tap the re sources. Para rubber is now being produced. The efforts of President King and his associates in the government have been more successful than previous government in attracting capital to the undeveloped land. But only a start has been made in development. Narrow gauge railways are needed to tap the bush country. Liberia has no railways at present. There is lack of capital everywhere to develop ag riculture through the adoption of modern methods which the govern ment is disclosing through its scien tific work. Liberia has an estimated popula tion of more than 2,000,000. Of these, American Liberians are said to number 20,000. LINCOLN NEWS NOTES Mrs. Johnson, of 907 S street, Lin coln, Neb., entertained the Hnnters’ Serenaders at a dinner party, Satur day, June 30. The Serenaders have t just completed a month’s engage ment at the Riviera Palace, Have lock, Neb. Messrs. Falls and L. Young of Omaha were Lincoln visitors Sunday, and worshipped at Mt. Zion Baptist church. Mrs. Kathryne Moore, president of Mary Talbot club, accompanied by Mrs. E. J. Griffin, president of Davis Woman’s club, and secretaries; and several members and friends motored over to Beatrice Monday night, where Mrs. L. J. Gordon entertained them most gorgeously at their home at 11110 High street. Mr. E. G. Craft is now in ttw mail service and is serving as a mail car rier, hence Lincoln has three of our group on U. S. payroll. Covenant and praise services were greatly enjoyed by members of Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday morning, and preaching and communion at night—and all churches held regular services, although the weather was very warm. 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