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BENEFACTIONS TO RACE FROM COMMUNITY CHEST
To what extent does our race receive benefactions from the
Omaha Community Chest? Very generously, as these figures
will show:
Colored Old Folks Home_$2,192
Cultural Center, South Side, Social
Settlement___ 5,200
Urban League_ 5,984
North Side Branch Y. W. C. A_ 5,610
Here is approximately $19,000 which comes directly to
our agencies, but add to this the assistance given our people
through the Associated Charities, upon the staff of which we
have one paid worker; the American Red Cross; the Visiting
Nurses; the Orthopedic Association and the Hattie B. Mon
roe Home for Crippled Children; the Christ Child Society, and
other organizations, and this amount will have to be increased
by at least $20,000, making members of our race beneficiaries
of the Community Chest to the sum of approximately $40,000,
or about 12% of the total budget asked.
Ought we not, then, do our full charge in contributing
to the Community Chest? If you will do your part in Omaha’s
Big Job, the job will be done.
REMEMBER HOME
In the intense interest mani
fested in the presidential cam
paign there is great danger
that we will neglect important
duties at home. Several meas
ures of grave moment are like
ly to go by the board. Who is
giving much attention to the
street railway franchise which
is coming up for decision No
vember 6; or the bond issue for
a new and badly needed county
hospital; or the school board;
or the judiciary, including the
district and supreme bench?
Let us not have our gaze so in
tently fixed on the White
House that we forget home.
THE SCHOOL BOARD
Several members of the
Board of Education are to be
elected this fall. Some twelve
or more candidates have filed.
We ought to see to it that any
candidate whom we decide to
support will pledge himself or
herself to do the honest and
just thing by our people. That
is granting to us, who help sup
port the schools, some repre
sentation among school em
ployees both on the corps of
teachers and in some other jobs
and positions. Over 2,000 per
sons employed by the Board of
Education and not a single
member of our race among
them! We want some of our
well-qualified young women
employed as teachers first; and
then we want some other jobs.
But the fight for teachers must
be won first. Let us support a
slate for the Board of Educa
tion which we believe has some
slight sense of fairness and jus
tice.
THE COMMUNIST
The only political party that
has come out fairly, squarely,
and courageously for the rights
of the Negro in America is the
Communist Party. Its platform
does not dodge any issue which
affects us, nor does its nomi
nee. At present and for some
time to come its influence and
power will be negligible, but it
is to be commended for its
courageous statement of its
principles.
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
The Negro Cannot Support the Demo
cratic Ticket
Editor Monitor: There may be
some reasons occasionally why mem
bers of the race could be constrain
ed, on account of personal relations
with some prominent democrat, to
vote for a democratic candidate, but
there can be no reason why they
should vote for such a candidate be
cause of any racial consideration.
There are many good democrats
who are personally interested in seme
colored man, or who encourage and
aid some racial enterprise or institu
tion, and this sympathy and support
is always appreciated by the recipi
ents, but the democratic party at
•uch never favors or encourages our
race by enacting any laws or making
any provisions for our benefit politi
cally. To the contrary, it always puts
itself on record as denying any re
cognition of the civil or political
rights of our race. Every disfran
chising law which has been enacted
to make it impossible or difficult for
members of the race to exercise their
franchise; every law denying or
abridging the civil rights of the race,
every jim crow car law which has
been passed to prevent the race from
having equal accommodations on pub
lic carriers, and every segregation
law intended to prevent our people
from providing better homes and im
proving our living conditions, has
been enacted by democratic legisla
tures and city councils.
Now, is it reasonable to expect our
people under these conditions to sup
port such a party and elect its candi
dates?
This party has done nothing to
benefit and aid our race in its ef
forts to become better citizens and
to exercise our civil and political
rights, and no colored citizen should
vote either to place it in power or to
keep it in power.
Besides this, colored men are not
welcomed into the party, and we
ought not seek recognition politically
where we are not wanted. Every
reason demands that every citizen
should vote for Hoover and Curtis,
who, when elected, can be depended
upon to accord to every citizen his
rights and privileges under the law,
and keep the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendment to the con
stitution intact, as well as the Eigh
teenth. Z. E. McGEE,
Pastor of Pleasant Green Baptist
Church.
WILLIS G. SEARS
Conservative and Progressive
All candidates running for office
in this campaign are classified as con
servative, progressive and radical.
The first so-called because those who
compose that group adhere strictly to
party regularity and do things in
the long-tried and proven ways. The
second, because they do things by the
more advanced method. The third
strives to do away with the old order
of things and set up a new and ex
perimental order. We should make
our choice from the first two groups
when we vote to elect candidates.
Judge Willis G. Sears is a combina
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tion of the first two, and would thor
oughly satisfy elements of both those
groups.
He is conservative enough to suit
any conservative and progressive
enough to satisfy any progressive. In
addition to these he is a fair, faithful
and indefatigable fighter for things
his state needs.
Give to the Community Cheat.
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Give not ai to 1 but 31.
H. J. PINKETT, Attorney
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Douglas
County, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of Mil
ford Hall, deceased.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tion has been filed in said Court al
leging that said deceased died leav
ing no last will and testament and
praying for administration upon his
estate, and that a hearing will be had
on said petition before said court on
the 3rd day of November, 1928, and
that if they fail to appear at said
court on the said 3rd day of Novem
ber, 1928, at 9 o’clock a. m. to con
test said petition, the court may grant
the same and grant administration of
said estate to O. J. Burckhart or some
other suitable person and proceed to
a settlement thereof.
BRYCE CRAWFORD,
3t County Judge.
3t-10-12-28
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Y a thousand Pure Wool Overcoats that would ordinarily
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chase is now passed on to our men patrons and we know
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4J4 gains. These Coats are beautifully lined, well tailored
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