The Monitor

THE MONITOR A Weekly Newspaper Devoted In Omaha and to the Good of the Community South in Saddle Now Rides the Whole Nation Nearly All the Important Committees in Both Senate and House are Controlled By the Members From the South. Washington, Sept. 16.—"The irony of fate was never so apparent as in the workings of the democratic party. Had any one been found so bold as to have ventured a prophecy that the time would come when the union soldier would see the entire government which he saved under full control of the states which attempted to destroy it, he would have been regarded a candidate for the asylum," declared Representative Simeon D. Floss of Ohio, chairman of the publicity committee of the national republican congressional committee, in a statement here today. "That time is now reached. The south rides at the head of the procession. The president and his family are southern in birth and sympathies. Control by South Absolute. "His cabinet is also southern, the five controlling heads are from states that have less than one-fifth of the population and bear less than one-half of the taxation. "The senate, in leadership and working committees, is southern. The house, from speaker to doorkeeper, is southern. Seventeen out of eighteen great committees are headed by southern men, as follows: "Ways and Means—Kitchin, North Carolina. "Appropriations—Fitzgerald, New York. "Banking and Currency—Glass, Virginia. "Interstate and Foreign Commerce—Adamson, Georgia. "Rivers and Harbors—Sparkman, Florida. "Merchant and Marine—Alexander, Missouri. "Agriculture—Layer, South Carolina. "Foreign Affairs—Flood, Virginia. "Military Affairs—Hay, Virginia. Naval Affairs—Padgett, Tennessee. "Postoffice—Moon, Tennessee. "Indians—Stephens, Texas. "Insular Affairs—Jones, Virginia. "Railways and Canals—Dies, Texas. "Public Buildings—Clark, Florida. "Roads—Shackelford, Missouri. "Rules—Henry, Texas. Fix Public Policy. "Here are eighteen committees whose heads represent nine states one northern and eight southern. Of these the ways and means, judiciary, banking and currency, interstate and foreign commerce, foreign affairs, merchant marine, insular affairs and rules all have to do with governmental attitude on questions of policy THI. EV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor LE Now Whole Nation Committees in Both Senate rolled By the Members the South. determining. The heads of these come from southern states—North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Missouri and Texas. These states determine the government's attitude in policy. SOUTHERN WOMEN AT NEW New York, Sept. both a Southernner, the opening rally of Committee of the N the college room on Monday afternoon much for Mrs. When she entered in the welcome to had joined the all three Colored women organization of 30. She promptly left the hall told whoe that her mother great granddaughter When Guard is Called. "When the country needs defense who responds? "August 1, 1916, militia on border, From New York ..... 16,000 From Massachusetts ..... 7,000 From Pennsylvania ..... 9,000 From Illinois ..... 11,000 From South Carolina ..... 3,000 From North Carolina, the home of house leader and head of Navy department none From Georgia, the home of the the senate leader none From Florida, the home of the chairman of rivers and harbors, and public buildings committees none From Kentucky none From Tennessee none From Arkansas none From Mississippi, the home of chairman of flood control none From Alabama, the home of the Underwood bill none From Louisiana 500 House Cuts Out Loyalty. "It will be galling to the union soldiers to know that on March 1, of this year, this democratic house by a vote of 74 to 58 rejected the element of loyalty as essential to collect southern claims against the government arising out of the war. A motion was then made to recommit the bill with instructions to include loyalty as essential to a claim. "This was carried by a vote of 183 to 170. Every republican save one from Tennessee, and one from Virginia, voted for it. Every southern man voted against it and a few northern democrats, including McGillicuddy, of the Second district of Maine. Vote is recorded August record page 3,877 of the present session. "The committee which has charge of these claims is under control of a member from Texas. "The south governs, appropriates and spends. "The north obeys, pays, and defends. "This is the irony of fate fifty years after. It is the meaning of democratic control." We wish to thank our subscribers who have promptly renewed their subscriptions. Glad you are pleased with The Monitor. SOUTHERN WOMAN FOILED AT NEW YORK MEETING New York, September 13.—To be both a Southerner and a delegate to the opening rally of the Women's City Committee of the Hughes Alliance in the college room of the Hotel Astor Monday afternoon proved to be too much for Mrs. Leon M. Polachek. When she entered the hall to assist in the welcome to 2,000 women who had joined the alliance she observed three Colored women, representing an organization of 300 members. She promptly left the room and in the hall told whoever cared to listen that her mother was Julia Lee, a great granddaughter of Robert E. Lee, so she couldn't possibly stay with Negro delegates. Some one persuaded her to try it for a minute, anyhow, and she went back in the meeting room, but presently she hurried out again, exclaiming: "No, I can't stand it. I'm not going to sit with Negroes. It's all right for them to do political work, and they can have their own organization and meet in their own clubrooms. I like them and they respect me. I have an old nurse I think the world of, but I'm not going to sit with them. "The Lord made the black man and He made the white man," remarked Mrs. E. S. Merry. "The war is over and settled now I'm from Maine and I'm proud of it I'm a Jim Blaine girl and I don't mind Negro delegates." But Mrs. Polachek insisted that she did until Miss Alice Carpenter, who presided at the meeting, hurried into the hall, exclaiming: "Not a word of this must be reported. Not a word. Why I don't even know that this woman is a member." "Yes, I am a member," insisted the descendant of General Lee, "but I'm not going to sit with niggers." Mrs. Polachek didn't, but the meeting went on. AK-SAR-BEN'S PARADE WILL BE HISTORICAL The Historical parade, to be given by Ak-Sar-Ben this year, will surpass any previous effort of its kind. This parade will show every step in the development of Nebraska from its territorial days to its present days of prosperity and influence. There will be more than forty gorups, and sub groups of about fifteen each, dealing with various phases of Nebraska life. These floats will be horse and oxen drawn. The oxen are being brought from all parts of the United States where such means of transportation is still in vogue. President Buckingham has just received his first consignment of oxen which came from Canada. Nebraska's fiftieth anniversary of statehood is to be fittingly celebrated and Ak-Sar-Ben is to be congratulated on the elevating and educational exhibition it is preparing for the pleasure and eduction of the millions of subjects of King Samson. Colored Democrats Criticize Wilson Meet at Buffalo and Condemn Segregation and Failure to Appoint Negroes to Office. Buffalo, N. Y.—The anti-Negro policy of President Wilson and the Democratic Administration at Washington was strongly denounced at a meeting of Colored Democrats held here last week. Resolutions were passed condemning the segregation of Negroes in Governmental departments and the failure of President Wilson to appoint competent Colored men to prominent positions. Although the meeting was well attended, representatives being present from the various sections of the State, there was no enthusiasm. Everybody admitted that President Wilson's unfriendly attitude toward the Negro had not made him supporters among the Colored voters of the country. Despite the discouraging prospects ahead, however, the Colored Democrats of New York State plan to conduct a vigorous campaign this fall. At last week's meeting an organization was formed, to be known as the Colored Democratic League of New York State, and the following officers were chosen to serve for two years: James A. Ross, Buffalo, chairman; the Rev. J. R. White, New York, vice-chairman; John Morris, New York, treasurer; E. W. Duke, Buffalo, secretary; John McNeil, New York, assistant secretary; F. C. Morton, New York, chairman Advisory Committee; Rufus L. Perry, Brooklyn, chairman Executive Committee; W. Derror, Buffalo, chairman of Committee on Organization; W. F. White, Rochester, chairman of Field Agents; S. Lark, Brooklyn, chairman Speakers' Bureau; Charles W. Lett, New York, sergeant-at-arms. The speakers openly confessed that porspects for a Democratic victory were not as bright as four years ago, and that hundreds of Colored voters who were enthusiastic Wilson men in 1912 are today opposed to his election. VOTERS IN ARKANSAS FORM HUGHES LEAGUE Little Rock, Ark.—Colored voters are called to form a Hughes and Fairbanks League by Dr. R. A. Williams, J. R. Booker and Scipio A. Jones, who have issued a circular announcing a meeting to be held here Tuesday, September 26, in the Masonic Temple, at noon. The call is the result of an effort to fight that element of the party which fosters lily-whiteism at the Negro Republicans' expense. Paterson, N. J., Sept. 14. At its annual session here last week, the New Jersey Federation of Colored Women's Clubs condemned the labor unions for the exclusion of colored artisans. General Race News 2 DREXEL HEIRESS DEVOTES LIFE TO WORK AMONG RACE Philadelphia, Pa.—Another of the wealthy and famous Drexel girls has entered a Roman Catholic sisterhood and is devoting her services and money to the education of Negro children. Miss Lucy Drexel Dahlgren took the white veil in August and is now known as Sister Mary Lucia at the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament at Cornwells, of which Miss Katherine Drexel, her relative who took the vows in 1899, is mother superior and founder. Her work is with the Negro orphanage connected with the convent, and she has become one of its most ardent workers. She is 22 years old, the oldest of the six daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Eric B. Dahlgren. Her mother inherited $20,000,000 on the death of the late Joseph Drexel, the novice's grandfather, a few years ago. FORM LABOR UNION. Dallas, Tex., Sept. 15.—Colored hod carriers and building and construction laborers are being organized to form a union, according to the statement of a Dallas labor organizer Tuesday morning. "Don't use my name. It might get me in bad," he told a reporter who asked him about it. The labor man said that the Negro hod carriers and laborers in the building trades had a right to organize for their own protection and the protection of building crafts generally. He said that he expected over 1,000 would join the organization. There are no Negro labor unions in Dallas and there is a doubt if the Building Trades' Council or the Central Labor Council would seat Negro delegates. It was suggested that the Negro union might pick white delegates to the ecntral bodies. NEW ST. LOUIS FIRM. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 15.—The Commonwealth Mercantile and Investment Company, a co-operative society composed of more than two hundred shareholders and representing as many families, opened its first store for business on Thursday, September 14, corner of North Market and Goode Ave., with a complete stock of groceries, fresh meats and produce. Officers: John Hollman, president; H. M. Cloyd, vice-president; Arthur Turner, secretary; L. F. Ford, assistant secretary; Wyatt W. Brown, treasurer. NOTED CITIZEN DIES. Wheeling, W. Va., Sep. 22.—Baswell Stillyard, who was born a slave and had the distinction of rising to the important post of Alderman of his ward, died here recently. He was born in Maryland and came to this city in 1882. He was a 33rd degree Mason, a Pythian and a True Reformer. While member of the City Council, he served with credit. "BILLY" JOHNSON DEAD. Chicago, Sept. 14.—"Billy" Johnson of the original vaudeville team of Cole and Johnson, was killed by a fall from a second-story window of the Pioneer Club Monday night, Sept. 11. THE MONITOR. ace News Louisville, Ky.—A prize coveted by poultrymen of all nations was won by Frank R. Willis, a Negro of this city, engaged in business as a contracting painter, who showed at the Kentucky State Fair a chicken of the Dark Cornish breed weighing fourteen pounds. The heaviest Cornish chicken prior to the showing of Mr. Willis' bird weighed twelve pounds, and weight contests had been held at Boston, New York, Hagerstown and at the Dairy Show, London, England. At the Kentucky State Fair 2,800 fowls were on exhibition, the best breeders in the country having pens of chickens on exhibition. "Mohawk," the Cornish entered by Willis, was two and one-half pounds heavier than any bird in the contest. COLORED CANADIANS ENLIST. St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, Sept. 1.—The first batch of colored men who have enlisted for the No. 2 Construction Corps (or Engineers Corps) for overseas duty left on the Halifax expres August 11, and were given a grand send-off. There were 15 from St. John and 6 from Fredericton. The St. John Brass Band escorted these soldiers to the train. The colored population were out in force. Members of the Colored St. John's Brass Band said that three of their members has enlisted and the whole band had offered to go with the corps and might be accepted. SIXTEEN OHIO MEN INDICTED FOR TRYING TO LYNCH NEGRO Lima, O., September 15.—Sixteen alleged members of the mob which stormed the Allen County Jail here last week, in an attempt to lynch Charles Daniels, a Negro, and tortured Sheriff Eley until he told where the prisoner was held, were indicted September 7th. The list includes several business men. Thirteen of the sixteen have been arrested and are in jail under guard of 100 policemen and deputy sheriffs. CHICAGO BOYS GO TO SOUTH AMERICA Chicago, Ill.—Arthur Scurlock, 6633 St. Lawrence avenue, and McKinley Emanuel, 6350 Rhodes avenue, have gone to South America to enter business. Scurlock will open an electrical supply house and Emanuel will have charge of a branch of the Emanuel Scientific Chiropody Co. Scurlock was wireless operator on a British steamer returning from Liverpool, and which has a thrilling experience with a submarine. Hamburg, Pa., September 15. At a meeting near here of the Pennsylvania Association last Saturday, it was brought out that the scarcity of labor due to the European war had caused a number of mills in Philadelphia and New Jersey to give employment to Colored girls from the South. It is said that knitting mill owners have found this class of help satisfactory and others may try the experiment. --- NEGRO POULTRYMAN GIRLS TO WORK IN MILLS. Subscribe for The Monitor. Recent Segregation Order Rescinded Recent Segregation Order Rescinded Obnoxious Rule Withdrawn in Army and Navy Building. Washington, D. C.—The order of August 9, issued by Col. William w. Hart, superintendent of the State, War and Navy Departments Building, setting aside certain lavatories for the use of Colored men, was recalled September 9 No reasons for said action are given. The hundreds of employes affected by the segregation are, by virtue of the revocation, now classed as citizens of the United States, so far as public convenience is concerned. The Colored employes are asking one another why a disciplinarian reformer of the Hart calibre should inaugurate an unprecedented "racial setback" and rescind same exactly one month later. The destruction of the order was not caused by rank Southerners of the Hart type, because it has been openly boasted of by several of them that they were instrumental in effecting the "Jim Crowism." It is authoritatively stated that certain high officials, Senators and Representatives have registered protests which reached the Executive Office, and when one is mindful of the present hour as compared with the political situation, it is apparent that "some one" who is in a position to advise the superintendent has intimated that this is not the psychological time to incite race prejudice. However, segregation orders issued for the Treasury and Post Office Departments have not been revoked, nor is there any indication that they will be, and in this light it appears that the foolish fellows who proposed a mass meeting to be held at the 19th Street Baptist Church, for the purpose of making speeches and drafting resolutions of thanks to members of Congress supposed to be instrumental in bringing about the rescinding of this order would better turn their efforts toward arousing congressional indignation against the Treasury and Post Office heads. JOHNSON ENTERS Mr. Silas Johnson, who for more than twenty years was head waiter at the Merchants Hotel, and is one of the most favorably known of our citizens, has purchased and taken complete charge of the G. Wade Obee undertaking business on Lake street. It is to be known as the Western Undertaking Company. Mr. Johnson has employed competent assistants and is ready to serve with personal attention and marked courtesy any and all who may need his services. As a man of standing, character and ability in the community Mr. Johnson merits and will doubtless achieve success. BANQUET BY PRIDE OF A banquet will be given by the Pride of Omaha Council No. 15, Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, Friday evening, Sept. 29, 1916, at the residence of Mrs. W. L. Sellers, 2320 No. 28th avenue. A very nice luncheon will be served at 25c a plate. A program will be rendered. Miss Henrietta Stewart, pianist. A. E. Is like building a house. It must be planned carefully and the foundation well laid. 100 per cent material, 100 per cent tailoring, 100 per cent fit. I guarantee all this. No man can do more. Give us your order for your fall and winter suit and overcoat. We make ladies' clothes also. JOE LEWIS--TAXI New Easy Riding Seven-Passenger Car 3 P. M. to 11:55 People's Drug Store. Doug. 1446 12:05 A. M. to 5 A. M. Midway, Doug. 1491 or 3459 5 A. M. to 3 P. M. Residence, Web. 7661 I TAKE PLEASURE in thanking you for your patronage. I want your trade solely upon the merits of my goods. You will profit by trading here. H. E. YOUNG Webster 515 2114-16 N. 24th St. LAWN MOWERS SHARPENED Called for and Delivered ARTHUR DORN Locksmith and Gun Repairer Electric Bells, Bicycle and General Repairing We Will Open the Most Complicated Locks Phone Webster 4509 2420 Lake St. A TRIUMPH IN PURITY Storz BEER PROMPT DELIVERY TO PRIVATE FAMILY TRADE MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED IMMEDIATELY CHAS. STORZ CONSUMERS DISTRIBUTOR 1827-29 SHERMAN AVE. 'OMAHA, NEB. PHONE WEB. 1260 Letters From Our Readers POOL HALL AND BILLIARD HALL DESTRUCTION SRUSY POUPES OL OUP ae Culipiain Vs not having places to go to for enjoy- ment. We have no place of this kind. By this I mean a place where no one would be ashamed to go and have a nice quiet time and be respected and not be molested in any way. How can we when some of our most pop- ular leaders who have the money and means to erect and support a place | of this kind for moral purposes will | not do so? Those who do have the means only think of erecting a place to make more money in questionable ways. These places most usually are pool-halls, billiard halls or saloons. They are of no advantage to our men and boys. Boys as young as thirteen years are permitted to enter these places and spend their money. Boys without the protection of a father receive little attention. These boys should be watched more carefully than other boys. Men running these places are not apt to allow boys who have a father’s protection to frequent their places as much as a boy who hasn’t. True, boys need places to enjoy themselves, but pool halls are no places for them to go. Playing pool is, in most cases, the first, step in gambling. What mother would like to see her son lose his week’s or month's salary playing pool? None, I am sure. Some poor helpless mothers have strong opinions of their boys going to these places, but for the sake of modesty refrain from going in them to see for themselves. But if the mother goes to these proprietors some of them will try to shoo her off with some soft story that her boy does not come to his place and that he does not allow minors in his place. Every place of this kind in this city is strictly forbidden to allow boys in their places. If the older generation does not try to portect the younger one how do they expect them to progress? Dice playing is another step to des- truction. Men and boys have been seen playing dice in broad daylight at the corner of Twenty-fourth and Patrick avenue, by a large tree. To think of our men and boys playing dice right on a street as popular as Twenty-fourth street, where passersby both white and colored, are at liberty to see our folks indulge in such dis- graceful sport. Right there that man or boy may have spoiled a good position not only for himself, but for some other boy or man who may need a position worse than himself. The white business man passing by thought right away: “Well, if I hire one of those I can’t trust him.” If he hired one of those boys who play cards and dice and he should lose his money that would mean either a jail sentence, a lost job, a good job spoiled and possibly a term in prison. There most certainly should be a stop put to this embarassing and disgrace- ful business. I think of the people who run these places and allow min- ors in them are properly punished it won’t be long before a stop will be put to it. Long trousers are all these boys need for these keepers to prove an alibi. It matters not if they be ten years old. I certainly did catch one of my boys in a pool hall at eleven THE MONITOR. Pool halls are a menace to wives as well as mothers. Some of these ‘ places have regular games played for | Reli money. | Patient wives and mothers, naa preeneneneonnens your eyes and look at these things ind see for yourselves. STANEI Respectfully yours, Hen Mrs. Lucy Gumm, 1809 North 23d st.|} | PRESC Omaha, Neb., Sept. 7, 1916. Rev. John Albert Williams, Editor Monitor, Dear Sir:—It gives me great pleas- ure to send you herewith my check for $2.00 for the renewal of my sub- seription to your well-edited and in- structive paper, which I read with interest and profit each week. Wishing you well-deserved success, believe me, Very sincerely yours, Ed. F. Morearty. (Mr. Morearty evidently believes that our subscription price ought to be $2.00 instead of $1.50. Thanks. —Kditor.) The dedication of the new Bap- tismal Pool for Bethel Baptist Church was postponed from Sunday, Sept. 24, to Sunday, Oct. 1, at 3 p.m. Rev. T. A. Taggart, pastor, and officers did this in order that they might assist Rev. J. H. Nichols Sunday, Sept. 24, at 3 p.m, in his last effort before he leaves for conference. Rey.Mr. Nichols and his congregation thankand ap- preciate this very much. We respect- fully invite and urge all our friends to come over and help us. Mr. Ralph Agee, of 4801 Parker St., who last week underwent an oper- ation for appendicitis at South Oma- ha hospital, was taken home Wednes- day very much improved. Mrs. Alston, of 2628 Jefferson St., died Thursday, Sept. 21. Mrs. Al- ston, who is but recently from Texas, has been in poor health since her ar- rival in Omaha. She leaves four sons and two daughters here in Omaha and other children and relatives in Texas. No arrangements for the funeral have yet been made, Little Miss Ruth Adams, of 4421 South 26th St., has been unable to attend school this week on account of sickness, Mrs. Marie Gray, of 4222 South 24th St., underwent an operation at the South Side hospital Monday, Sept. 18. We are glad to say she is get- ting along nicely. G. WADE OBEE LEAVES FOR LOS ANGELES Saturday morning G. Wade Obee, his older son and mechanician, left Omaha with two automobiles on a drive to Los Angeles where he and his family will make their future home. M. Obee came to Omaha about nine years ago and established his under- taking business, meeting at the very outset the determined hostility of the local white undertakers. But he showed fight, pluck and determination and fought opposition until the Col- ored undertaker was acecpted as a permanent addition to growing Oma- ha, and now there are three success- ful firms here. Mr. Obee was an ag- gressive and progressive citizen of Omaha anxious to see business enter- prises developed among the race. His friends will be pleased to hear of his making a suecess wherever he may go. Mrs. Obee and younger son left by rail. Weeds can’t grow any faster than a paper whose subscribers remember its advertisers. SOUTH SIDE ° ° Reliable South Side Merchants {Oona denon tron tn enero tnetnenOndnOny | SriBrbreBr—rGuidntndnsntnbs oudntndnonGnionGertnie STANEK’S PHARMACY | {HORSE SHOEING Henry Stanek, Prop. $ Wagon Repeiog, cover Blacl ) PRESCRIPTION EXPERT } J. W. STAPLETON Cor. 24th and L Sts. _ Tel. So. srat 5825 So. 23d St. Tel. 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BELOHLAVEK Jeweler and Watchmaker 2412 N Street THE MONITOR A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests of the Colored People of Omaha and vicinity, with the desire to contribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community. Published Every Saturday. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.50 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 50 cents an inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. 4 Our Southern friends have a mighty queer way of manifesting their affection for the Colored race. Mrs. Leon M. Polachek, grandniece of Robert E. Lee, showed anything but gentle breeding when she indignantly left a meeting of the Women's City Committee of the Hughes Alliance at the Hotel Astor in New York because of the presence in that meeting of intelligent, self-respecting, well-behaved Colored women. But aside from her disregard of the canon of gentility demanded by noblesse oblige this Southern lady's actions do not accord with the statement accredited to her in connection with this incident. It is reported that she said: ...."I like them (Negroes—she probably said 'Niggahs') and they respect me. I have an old nurse that I think the world of. I think they ought to have the vote, but I won't sit next to them in a meeting." And yet this cultured daughter of the South, in all probability was suckled at the breast of her "black mammy" or "old nurse that (she) thinks the world of;" and would invite and submit to embraces and kisses from this "old nurse, etc;" doubtless a most estimable woman and worthy to bestow marks of affection upon even General Lee's grandniece; but alack and alas! this high-born Southern lady could not permit herself to sit in the same room with refined and cultured women of this old nurse's race. Queerly inconsistent, isn't it? Well, let us be charitable and hope that the day is not far distant when the grandniece of General Lee, who is doubtless a good and well-meaning woman at heart, and all, who like her, are enslaved and dwarfed by racial prejudice, shall be delivered from this galling bondage into that liberty of thought and action which are alone worthy of men and women of superior training and advantages, professing to hold and to be governed by Christian principles and the highest ideals of democracy. Undismayed by taunts and insults, let us as a race, everywhere and upon every occasion, so conduct ourselves with self respect, dignity and forebearance, that we shall compel respect from all whose resepct is worth having, remembering that such incidents as this one of which we have taken note though frequent, reflects not upon us but upon the one who is responsible for it. THE SHAME OF THE AGES Dear reader, have you read the recent World-Herald articles about President Woodrow Wilson? There, there, now, don't cry We know just how they affected you. We, too, have shed tears enough to float a battleship. We couldn't help it. In all the mighty range of human history we know of no figure more pathetic than our per- THE MONITOR. MONITOR the civic, social and religious interests vicinity, with the desire to contribute building of the community. Every Saturday. October July 2, 1915, at the Post Office at 3, 1879. WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Bett Haynes and Ellsworth W. Pryor, Editors. Eng and Circulation Manager. Webster 4243. RES, $1.50 PER YEAR Events an inch per issue. Twenty-first street, Omaha. secured president. Job and his boils, Socrates drinking the hemlock and mad Lear raving against the storm, are all comedy against the World-Herald sob stuff. The republicans should be ashamed of themselves. Up until a few weeks ago we firmly believed that Woody was the past master of shell-game artistry, a smooth four-flusher, a deft and agile sidestepper, a vicious platform wrecker, and everything else on the political blacklist from alpha to omega, but we were wrong, woefully and heart-renderingly wrong. We know it because we have been reading the World Herald's editorials. Now we want to atone. Woodrow is the saint of all the centuries and meekly awaits his halo. His term has been four years of martyrdom. Of course, he would rather have four more years than a halo, but our hearts bleed to think what another quartet of years may bring into his life. He must be saved from himself! Human hearts should be too tender, the wells of human pity too deep, the waves of human compassion, too vast to permit Woody to immolate himself upon the national altar. Come forth, ye heroes, and help us save the president. Buttonhole every man you see and implore him on bended knees, if necessary, to vote for Hughes. If you think we are wrong, read the World Herald editorials. Help us, brothers, help us. Our tear sacs are dry and our eyes are sore from weeping. We can stand no more. If you allow four more years of World Herald editorials on Woody our welling hearts will break. G. W. P. The Monitor is pleased to receive and publish letters from our readers. But it is necessary that such letters be brief. Ordinarily they should not exceed 300 words, which means about half a column. We are publishing a letter in this issue in which our correspondent takes pool halls to task for admitting minors. It exceeds the limit, but we publish it because it may lead to the correction of an evil, for if what she says be true, the evil should be corrected. Business men looking for alert dependable boys or men do not seek them in habitual hangers around pool halls. Pool and billiard halls, rightly conducted, have their legitimate place and furnish needful recreation for men; but those who permit gambling and harbor minors ought to be suppressed. As a matter of fact, the public pool hall is the only place of its kind to which our men who like this form of recreation have access. This being true, proprietors of such places should see to it that all objectionable features are eliminated and that their places are so well conducted that a self-respecting gentleman can patronize them without apology. The phone will put you in touch with all our advertisers. Use it. POOL HALLS. We know you like The Monitor. On Saturday morning when the postman comes you run eagerly to the door. He hands you The Monitor and you graciously thank him. Then you sit down and begin to read. Perhaps you were eating a late breakfast or dusting off that statue of Venus de Milo, but they are forgotten. The ham and eggs and coffee grow cold and the charming Venus strives to look beautiful despite her dust. You just must read The Monitor before anything else is done. Now that is real nice of you and we thank you for it and we will keep making the paper better and better so that your eagerness will be more and more. But honestly, now, have you thought how much work it takes to give you this weekly delight? And have you any idea how much money it takes? Perhaps not. You have never given much thought to it, but it takes lots of work and lots of money. To keep our beloved little paper going we are hustling for advertising all the time. It is the advertising that makes it possible for you to take The Monitor from the postman's hands. Now, advertisers haven't any use for a dead paper. They want one that brings results. We are pleased to say that all our advertisers like The Monitor and keep their ads going, because they are getting the worth of them. Now, this week we are starting a classified advertising column. Look in it and see if your neighborhood store is there. If you find it, tell our advertiser that you saw it there. If it isn't there, ask your dealer why it isn't there? Your dealer helps us, and you help your dealer and we help you by sending you the best Colored weekly published. Take note of all our other ads 1512 Farnam Street JOHN B. STETSON HATS HIGH GRADE FURNISHINGS "The House that Jack Built" and when you go to buy, don't forget to mention The Monitor. A mighty fine paper is in store for you if you patronize our advertisers. Do your share and we will do ours. After that all you need to do is to watch us grow and keep looking forward to Saturday morning. A LITTLE INCIDENT On Wednesday a mother with her baby got on a Twenty-fourth street car. A young white woman arose and offered her seat, but before the mother could take it, a Colored woman slipped by and sat down. "Pardon me, madame," said the young white woman, "but I meant my seat for this lady." "I don't care," answered the Colored woman, tartly. "I've got it and I am going to keep it." By a coincidence a young Colored woman occupying the next seat, arose and gave her seat to the mother. We hope the offending woman reads this and our only comment is that at no time, place or season can any woman afford to be less than a lady. "Well, Dinah, I hear you are married." "Yassum," said the former cook, "I'se done got me a man now." "Is he a good provider?" "Yassum," said the former cook, "but I'se powerful skeered he's gwine ter git kotched at it."—Birmingham Age Herald. No, we are not for prohibition. We are in favor of local option, high license and strict enforcement of our present sumptuary laws. They are wholly adequate to restrict, restrain and control the liquor traffic. Our adevrtisers are courteous and want your trade. Give it to them. s Depository THE CONDITION National Bank Events and Persons Mr. Arthur Rice gave a four-course dinner party at S. R. Jackson's Lunch Room in honor of Miss C. Caldwell's birthday. Those in the party were: Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. George Cambert. The decorations were blue in honor of the guest. Mr. Albert E. Hurt left Wednesday night for Chicago for an indefinite stay. En route he visited friends at Salisbury, Mo. Complimentary to him on the eve of his departure, Mrs. Tex. Haynes, of 107 North Twenty-eighth avenue entertained at dinner, Tuesday noon, and Mrs. S. D. Johnson entertained at dinner Tuesday night. Hear Adams' Saxaphone and Singing Orchestra if you want good music. Webster 1528. Holland Harrold. Adv. Mrs. Chester Williams left for Detroit Friday night where she will join her husband. Mr. L. W. Williams, Grand Chancellor of the K. of P.'s, of Clarinda, Iowa, was a visitor in Omaha this week. We understand that Brandeis is employing more Colored help now than any business firm in Omaha. When you need a good clean shave, see P. H. Jenkins, 1313 Dodge street. —Adv. Mrs. L. C. Sayles and infant daughter returned Friday night from a six weeks' visit with relatives in St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Volney Carter has been removed from Lord Lister hospital to her home, 2819 Miami street, where she is slowly improving. Men or women wanting work by the day or week, please call Webster 3025 and list your names with the Negro Women's Christian Association for whatever kind of work wanted. Mrs. W. P. Wade has returned from Charlestown, Ind., where she went to bury her father, H. S. Smith. On her way back she spent a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Blanche Black, and her aunt, Mrs. Anna McNary, in Chicago. Mrs. James G. Jewell, who underwent an operation at Lord Lister hospital some two weeks ago, is now at her home, 2911 Lake street, where she continues to improve. Bible class No. 2 of St. John's A. M. E. Church met with Class No. 1 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Glover, 2117 North 27th street, Friday night, with J. C. Parker as teacher. Visiting cards, 25c per hundred. Russell's Printery, Webster 1797. Ethel Combs, daughter of Mrs. Georgia Robinson, died at the residence of her mother, 2311 South Twenty-ninth street Sunday night. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon from Jones and Chiles undertaking rooms. Mrs. W. H. Moore, of 2120 North Thirtieth street, gave a tea Saturday afternoon complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. T. Stevens, of Boulder, Colo. Covers were laid for ten. Nearly new 8-room modern house, corner 25th and Lake Sts., large lot on paved street, $350 cash, balance like rent. Tel. Webster 5519.—Adv. Mr. Arthur Campbell is now employed as special officer by the Brandeis Stores. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Stevens left Saturday for their home in Boulder, Colo. after a pleasant visit with their sister, Mrs. J. D. Winfield, 3001 Burdette street. For Sale—Large base burner almost new. Cheap. H. L. Anderson, 2914 Lake street. THE MONITOR. Miss Louise Beeks, who has been in the city for the past year with Mrs. Anna Lee, left for her home in Los Angeles ,Cal., last Thursday night, where she will visit her parents and other relatives for three months, after which she expects to return to Omaha. Mrs. Louise Holiday, grandmother of Mrs. Makin, 2617 Erskine street, fell off the porch of the home of the latter last Saturday injuring herself. She is improving under the care of Dr. Britt. William Cheetman, 3114 Maple St., is ill. A. S. Tompkins, 4711 Hamilton St., is on the sick list. Phone your news to The Monitor, Webster 4243. The First Regimental Band has been engaged to play in all the Ak-Sar-Ben parades and, as usual, it will "clean up." Keep your ear open for music that is music and keep your eyes open for a genuine surprise. FIRED: 2,000 one-pounders for $5. FIRED: 2,000 one-pounders for $8. Ask Harmon and Weeth first about your coal. Web. 848.—Adv. The Elite Whist Club and a few friends very pleasantly surprised Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Smith Thursday evening of last week. Cards and music were indulged in until a late hour and a luncheon was served. Mrs. Mamie Jasper, of 2813 Cuming street, gave a pleasant birthday parthy Thursday evening, September 14, for her daughter, Claribel. Many guests were present and the honoree was the recipient of many beautiful gifts. For trunks, suitcases,etc., see Freling and Steinle. "Omaha's Best Baggage Builders," 1803 Farnam St. Clarence Cameron White, the famous violinist and composer, of Boston, Mass., is expected to give a recital under the auspices of St. Philip's Church Monday, October 30. Mrs. Arthur Ranfrow, of Mt. Vernon, Mo., was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Allen Jones. Mrs. Ranfrow left Tuesday for home. Read our ads and remember our advertisers. Mr. Andrew Mitchell was buried Tuesday, Sept. 15, from the undertaking chapel of Jones and Chiles. The First Regimental Band had charge of the funeral. The Rev. W. T. Osborne officiated. The interment took place at Forest Lawn. Will build you a bungalow on a large lot close to school and car line for $100 cash and $15.00 monthly. Tel Webster 5519.—Adv. Mr. Charles Austin, living at 3033 Emmett street, died Friday, Sept. 15. He was buried Sunday from the home of his brother-in-law, Mr. Geo. Gill. Jones and Chiles had charge of the funeral. Dan Desdunes' Orchestra, Webster 710, 2516 Burdette St.-Adv. Miss Ella Solari, of Oakland, Cal., en route home from Chicago, will be the guest of Miss Alice M. Smith, 2409 Blondo street, for a few days. Mrs. M. Pryor returned Sunday from Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit, there she has been spending the summer. Choice lots close to school and carline. $5.00 cash and $5.00 monthly. Webster 5519.—Adv. Mrs. Eugene Russell served an elaborate luncheon Saturday afternoon for Mrs. Dyer, of Oakland, Cal., Mrs. Lottie Beard, of New Mexico, and Mrs. Margaret Lee, of Minneapolis. Covers were laid for eight. Prof. Cross' orchestra furnished the music and Mrs. Lee rendered several vocal selections. Mrs. J. H. Daniels, 2520 Grant St., has removed to 2622 Franklin St. Ask your tradesman if he advertises in The Monitor. Friday and Saturday WILL BE GREAT DAYS IN THIS Big Basement All Fall Apparel and Fabrics at Remarkably Low Prices Brandeis Stores TRUNKS THE BETTER KIND Made from good clear lumber, covered with fibre; well bound on edges. Durable corners and braces where necessary. Sturdy locks and hinges, 2 trays nicely cloth lined. Priced at $10.00, $12.00, $13.50 and $15.00. "Omaha's Best Baggage Builders" 1803 Farnam Street Hats New Fall Styles Now Ready $2 WOLF'S 1421 Douglas St. C. H. MARQUARDT CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. 2003 Cuming St. Doug. 3834 Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke and Cure our own Hams and Bacon. A GOOD PLACE TO EAT Your Sunday Dinner Dinner served from 12 m. to 6 p. m. At 25c and 35c. HOME COOKING S. R. Jackson's Lunch Room 2122 No. 24th St. Webster 7971 SHIPP'S Optical and Watch Shop Highest Quality Lowest Prices 518 S. 16th St., Opp. Rome Hotel 5 RUG CLEANING 2221 North 20th St. Telephone Webster 1659 N. A. Christianson & Son Auto Delivery. ECONOMY TAILOR 114 South 13th Street. C. M. Simmons, Prop. Suits Made to Order $25.00 up. Call and see our new Fall goods. Cleaning and repairing for ladies and gents. All work guaranteed. PORO For Good and Quick Results TRY PORO SYSTEM For Scalp Treatment and Hair Culture Mrs. Anna E. Jones, Har. 5100 Miss Susie Smith, Douglas 7689 CORECT MANICURING MRS. LILLIAN TAYLOR JENKINS' SHOP 1313 Dodge St. Phone Red 3357 Will answer out of the shop calls for women customers. Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. EMERSON LAUNDRY F. S. MOREY, Proprietor 1303-05 North 24th Street Phone Webster 820 BUY A HOME WITHOUT ANY CASH Do You Know How? Ask About it at 724 BRANDEIS BUILDING Fred Krug Brewing Co. Luxus REG STD. U.S. PAT. OFF THE BEER YOU LIKE NO BETTER BEER MADE NO BEER BETTER MADE Luxus MERCANTILE COMPANY DISTRIBUTORS PHONE DOUGLAS 1889 SAVE COUPONS AND GET PREMIUMS Send for Free Catalog Our Women and Children 6 THE YOUTH-KEEPING WOMAN Not so many years ago, a woman at the age of fifty renounced all general activities, donned her cap, adjusted her spectacles, and set herself down in a cushioned chair beside the chimney, there to knit out her remaining days. She thought she was old. She thought her work was done. In the chimney corner she was out of the way. Fifty—old! This generation smiles at such a thought. The American woman of today is younger at seventy than her grandmother was at fifty. She has lengthened out her youth—at fifty she has not thought of old age at all. The spirit of youth has stayed with her. She knows that her hair, brown or gray, is more becoming than a lace cap. She finds that in holding to the uses and interests of life she is in possession of something more magnetizing than the knitting needle. She has no thought of being pushed into the background. Indeed, through lack of use, the chimney corner is disappearing. "Those are my next-door neighbors Mrs. Blank and her daughter," said a woman to her friend. "Which is the mother?" asked her friend. "They look more like sisters." It was true. The mother appeared almost as youthful as her daughter. Could the elderly woman of a half century ago catch a glimpse of the youthful, sprightly, interesting grandmother of today, she would rub her eyes and perhaps shake her head. The white-capped old lady in the chimney corner was sweet, and dear, and beautifully helpless. We love her! All honor to her memory! She filled her place, and it was no small place. We are not disposed to be critical of her. But the woman of today, strong, educated, enthusiastic, self-reliant, ah, we take off our hats to her! When did woman lay aside the cap and leave her warm corner? No one knows. We awoke one morning—she was gone from the easy chair! We found her at work everywhere. From all branches of industry she beamed at us. We discovered her out in the world fighting the battles of the weak. With hand and heart and brain she was helping to solve some of the world's great questions. Today when she speaks—the world listens. Her pen glides over the page before the ink dries, the world has read and gives its endorsement. Her opinions are asked upon public questions. She can do with the world almost as she wills. The modern improvements in the home have much to do with the widened sphere of women. Today there is no drudgery in housework. There is more time for reading and study, for travel and recreation, for social service and civic problems. A variety of interests conserves youth. Bright eyes, flushed cheeks, leaping pulses, springing feet, depend much upon the amount of enthusiasm we bestow upon our tasks. As a rule, it is not the wide-awake, broad-minded, public-spirited woman who breaks down early. It is the woman who has no social life, no diversion, no interesting work, no wholesome outside interests who grows old at fifty. The cap and the chimney corner linger as a beautiful, lavender-scented memory; always in our thoughts a and Children le Skaggs Edwards. soft, hazy halo encircles them. But we hail the youth-keeping woman of today, with her strength, ambition, enthusiasm and culture. In the larger, better life, and in the uplift and progress of this wonderful age, she has her opportunity. In the buoyancy and optimism which she brings to her work, she renews the glad days of her girlhood, she "keeps her youth."—People's Home Journal. WHOEVER LOVES IS NEVER OLD. Ralph Waldo Emerson. When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare—muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, was young in four-score years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise. I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that, whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, having knowledge having skill—at the end of life just ready to be born—affirms the inspiration of affection and of the moral sentiment. THE WAY OF LIFE. Written for The Monitor. One early morn I walked with you Down by the river side; The grass was wet with sparkling dew— The meadows far and wide Were thickly starred with flowers that blow, To greet the glad spring weather. You took my hand and whispered low "We'll walk life's path together." I walked with you one noonday bright, Through fields of waving grain, Still full of hope—with hearts still light, We walked our ways again. With steady aim you calmly traced, Our trail of joy and sorrow— And hand in hand we bravely faced The coming of the morrow. I walked with you one twilight dim— We paused—our steps were slow— (You hummed a dear, familiar hymn) "Dear heart, we've walked together, Through lanes of sorrow, joy and pain Through fair and cloudy weather." One starless night I walked with you Down to the river's brink; I held your hand and whispered low— "Your craft will never sink." You closed your eyes, and lo! your bark Mrs. J. Frank Hammond. Omaha, Neb. SHOES MADE LIKE NEW with our rapid shoe repair methods, one-fifth the cost. Sold uncalled-for shoes. We have a selection; all sizes, all prices. FRIEDMAN BROS. 211 South 14th St. Omaha. --- THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY You can always save 20 to 30 per cent by buying from BONOFF'S N. Y. SAMPLE STORE Full Assortment of New Fall Cloaks, Suits, Dresses and Furs. A Small Deposit Will Hold Your Fall Garment Till You are Ready. Watch for Our Special Sales Every Saturday. N. Y. SAMPLE STORE 206 North 16th Street. Farms, Ranches andCity Property for Sale and Exchange. To rent, sell buy or exchange Real Estate see or call Morgan 912 North 20th St., Omaha. Phone Douglas 4379. IMPERIAL DYE & CLEANING WORKS Dry Cleaners, Garment and Fancy Dyers Phone Tyler 1022 1516 Vinton St. GEO. F. KRAUSE, Prop. TAKE YOUR MEALS AT THE VENDOME The Best Place in the City A. Marshall, Prop. 1210 Dodge Street Open 6:30 a. m. to 9 p. m. V. F. KUNCL MEAT MARKET The Oldest Market in the City Tel. Doug. 1198 1244 S. 13th St. ASK FOR AND GET SKINNER'S THE HIGHEST QUALITY SPAGHETTI 36 PAGE RECIPE BOOK FREE SKINNER MFG. CO., OMAHA, U.S.A. LARGEST MACARONI FACTORY IN AMERICA Bonoff's PLEATING BUTTONS HEMSTITCHING EMBROIDERING BRAIDING and BEADING BUTTONHOLES Ideal Button & Pleating Co Douglas 1936 OMAHA, NEB. 107-109-111 S. 16th St. Fall and Winter Woolens Await Your Selection Your Patronage Appreciated TAILOR BECK 1512½ Dodge Street. PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department of the United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Farnam Streets GET ONE OF OUR POCKET SAVINGS BANKS Ten Cents Added to Your First Deposit of $3.00. AMERICAN STATE BANK 18th and Farnam. $1.00 Opens a Saving Account. Harding's THE CREAM OF ALL ICE CREAMS SMOKE Te Be Ce THE BEST 5c CIGAR More Sickness and Accident Insurance for Less Money Old line protection. No assessments. No medical examination. Everything guaranteed. GET ACQUAINTED WITH LUKE A. HUGHES. Continental Casualty Co. 334 Brandeis Theater Bldg. Douglas 3726. MORRIS YOST The Vinton Street Jeweler 1717 VINTON STREET EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING C. S. JOHNSON 18th and Izard Tel. Douglas 1702 ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE at POPULAR PRICES. $5.50 Johnson Special Lump $5.50 Best for the Money FOR QUALITY GROCERIES AND MEATS Try Us BEE HIVE GROCERY 16th and Cuming Douglas 1034 --- The Monitor's Classified Columns Give Our Advertisers Your Trade--They Deserve It BY WILLIAM G. HAYNES. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CARE OF TEETH The dentist is coming into his own, so to speak, for never before has the necessity for having good, clean, sound teeth been so impressed upon the minds of the medical profession and the public at large as it has been reecntly. Oral sepsis is now held to be responsible, both dierctly and indirectly, for many conditions of ill health and disease, and it is at last being recognized on all sides that the state of the teeth and mouth is a fair index of the general health. A remarkable object lesson in this direction has been provided by the war in Europe. The exigencies of a soldier's life and especially the con- The Monitor's Cl Give Our Advertisers You BAKERIES THE LAKE BAKERY Choicest Cake, Bread and Pastry Webster 3387 2504 North 24th St. F. WILBERGS The Best in Bakery Goods Webster 673 24th and Parker Sts. CLEANERS AND DYERS DRESHER BROS. Cleaners, Dyers, Hatters, Furriers Tyler 345 2211-17 Farnam St. OMAHA DRESS CLUB We Take Pride in Giving Satisfaction Douglas 3660 2225 Cuming St. COAL I. ABRAHAMSON Coal, Kindling, Hay and Feed Prompt Delivery Webster 46 1316 North 24th St. J. T. BEATTY All Kinds of Coal Webster 1868 1627 No. 24th St. DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS JOHN A. JENSEN Ladies and Gents' Furnishings, Boots and Shoes 2220 Cuming St. ELECTRIC CONTRACTING HOUCK ELECTRICAL CO. Electric Light and Power Contracting Harney 4600 2629 Cuming St. LOANS DAVID B. GROSS Offers Watches, Diamonds, Clothing and Jewelry at One-third off. Red 6081 410 No. 16th St. NEW AND SECOND HAND FURNITURE S. GUTTMAN New and Second Hand Furniture We Treat You Right Douglas 3971 937-939 North 24th St. Two Stores CITY FURNITURE CO. LOYAL FURNITURE CO. Our Motto: A Square Deal. Doug. 4177 107 So. 14th St. Doug. 5831 223 No. 16th St. JEWELRY—WATCH REPAIRING E. R. SMISOR Anything in the Jewelry Line Webster 4915 2505 North 24th St. THE MONITOR. ditions of such a campaign as is going on at the present time render it incumbent that soldiers should be possessed of teeth that not only will allow them to thoroughly masticate the food that is put before them, but that are kept as free from decay and infection as possible. In fact, a soldier whose teeth are defective has been shown to be, in the majority of intsances, unfit to serve in the army. Thus, as one important lesson of the war, has come in Great Britain and France a somewhat tardy recognition that a skilled dental service is one of the paramount needs in maintaining the efficiency of an army. Experience has shown that the dentist is needed not only to repair the defects of the soldier's teeth so that he may be able to eat well and consequently to fight well, but also in cases of jaw injuries, where proper construction together with satisfactory plastic results are impossible without the aid of skilled dental technique.—American Medicine. GROCERIES AND MEATS THE PEOPLE'S MARKET The Store of the Low Cost of Living Douglas 1530 2311-13 Cuming St. JOE MARGULES Where a Little Money Goes a Long Ways. Webster 4378 24th and Caldwell J. BERKOWITZ Where Trading is Worth While. Webster 850 24th and Charles HARDWARE J. F. McLANE Paints, Window Glass, Oils Webster 3516 24th and Lake Sts. MEAT MARKETS HENRY SCHNAUBER Best of Everything in the Meat Line Webster 6564 1306 No. 24th St. PLUMBERS YOUSEN AND NIBLOCK Best Plumbing and Reasonable Prices Harney 3383 2627 Cuming St. SHOEMAKERS DOMESTIC SHOE REPAIRING First Class Work Guaranteed H. C. Hansen 2307 Cuming St. W. FONAROW Buy and Sell All Kinds of Second Hand Men's, Ladies' and Children's Shoes. 2001 North 24th Street. F. R. OSBORNE SHOE CO. Why Go Down Town and Pay More? Webster 1412 2506 North 24th St. TEA AND COFFEE HOMAN TEA AND COFFEE CO. We Roast Our Coffees Daily Webster 370 2508 No. 24th St. WINES AND LIQUORS WM. HOLM When You Want Fine Wines and Liquors 24th and Burdette Streets. Established 1890 C. J. CARLSON Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. SHOE STORES CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES—1 $ \frac{1}{2} $ cents a word for single insertions, 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement for less than 15c. Cash should accompany advertisement. For Rent.—A six-room cottage, nicely papered, in first class condition. Modern, except heat, to responsible parties only. 2304 North 29th street. For Rent—Two room brick house, strictly modern except heat; with large clothes closet. Two lots. 3224 Maple. Call Colfax 2514. Preston Hieronymous. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. Strictly modern room for two men or man an dwife, 2130 North Twenty-seventh street. Webster 5910. Mrs. Thomas Perry. For Rent—Furnished rooms in modern home. (steam heat). H. L. Anderson, 2914 Lake street. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms. Call Webster 558 evenings. Nicely furnished rooms. Modern. Mrs. R. J. Gaskin, 2606 Seward St. Webster 4490. FOR RENT—Furnished room, all modern, $10 per month. Call Mrs. A. W. Parker. Harney 5737. Nicely furnished front room. Modern except heat. 1630 North Twenty-second street. Webster 1171. Modern furnished rooms for rent, $1.50 and up. Miss Hayes, 1826 No. 23rd St. Webster 5639. Clean, modern furnished rooms on Dodge and Twenty-fourth street car lines. Mrs. Annie Banks,, Douglas 4379. Mrs. L. M. Bentley-Webster, first class modern furnished rooms, 1702 N. 26th St. Phone Webster 4769. Wanted—A good girl for general housework. A good cook. Three in family. No washing. References required. Mrs. W. R. Bowen, 706 South 31st avenue. Harney 2636. Wanted.—Two good, clean, upright laboring men as boarders. Board and room at $4.50 per week. Mrs. John Gipson, 3806 Camden avenue. WANTED—Girls or women for sorting paper. Call at Omaha Paper Stock company, Eighteenth and Marcy streets. National Bakery J. JOHNSON, Prop. Douglas 4122 2405 Cuming St. WANTED. WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO. ОМАНА Phone Doug. 2190 524 S. 13th St. 7 AUTUMN Is Almost Here Off with the old, and on with the new! Months in advance of demand we must provide for your needs. We are all ready with new stocks and receive fresh arrivals daily—whether by the yard or ready-to-wear. A safe place to trade at is Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE J. A. Edholm E. W. Sherman Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 If You Understand the Value of Good Shoe Repairing—Try H. LAZARUS 9 Years in the Same Block. 2019 Cuming St. Red 2395 Work called for and delivered. Orrie S. Hulse C. H. T. Riepen Harney 595 Harney 5564 HULSE & RIEPEN Funeral Directors Doug. 1226 701 So. 16th St. Tel. Red 1424 Will L. Hetherington Violinist Instructor at Bellevue College Asst. of Henry Cox Studio Patterson Blk. OMAHA TRANSFER CO. "The Only Way" BAGGAGE Checked to Destination YES-ICE CREAM any style, for any occasion J. A. DALZELL Quality First 1824 Cuming St. Tel. Doug. 616 THOS. A. DOUGLAS GENERAL WATCH, CLOCK and JEWELRY REPAIRING Cuming Hotel Phone D. 2466 1916 Cuming St. AMUSEMENTS Best Movies ALWAYS AT The Franklin 24th and Franklin Streets Excitement, Thrills, Pathos Intermingle in “Liberty” The Most Wonderful Serial Ever Produced SECOND EPISODE SUNDAY Also Regular Program. Admission 5c to All HIPPODROME THEATRE 25th and Cuming Streets Dancing EVERY MONDAY NITE —AT— ALAMO HALL 24th and Grant Streets Good Music Dancing Until 1:00 A. M. Admission 25c. W. F. Davenport, Prop. TAXI—C. WILSON—TAXI Give Me a Trial, Rates Reasonable. 3:00 P. M. to 12:00 P. M. People’s Drug Store, Douglas 1446 Residence, Harney 4153. EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA Benefit of the Grove M. E. Church —At the— Alhambra Theatre, 24th and Parker TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1916 Afternoon and Evening BERT WILLIAMS AMERICA’S GREATEST COLORED COMEDIAN And His All Star Cast of Biograph Players in a Side-Splitting Two-Reel Comedy Entitled “A Natural Born Gambler” Our Regular Program Will Also be Shown, Making a Two Hour Entertainment MATINEE 2 P. M. Admission: Adults, 10c; Children, 5c. 8 DOUGLAS REPUBLICAN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING The Douglas Republican League held a largely attended and enthusiastic meeting last Thursday night at Peterson's Hall. M. F. Singleton, presided. The league endorsed Hughes and Fairbanks and the Hon. John L. Kennedy for United States Senator. Speeches were made by M. F. Singleton, H. J. Pinkett, the Rev. W. T. Osborne, Will N. Johnson and Clinton Ross, of Lincoln. An invitation from Wm. Monroe Trotter, secretary of the Equal Rights League, to send delegates to the Colored Citizenship Rights Congress at Washington was read. The chair appointed a committee of which H. J. Pinkett was chairman, to draft a reply The. invitation and the reply were as follows: Greeting from the National Equal Rights League: We call your attention to the fact that our National President, Rev. Byron Gunner, has issued to the Colored people of the United States a call to assemble in a great national Colored Citizenship Rights Congress, in order to unify the race in its own interest for freedom and equality of rights. This Congress is to be held in Washington, D. C., the national capital, Oct. 4-5, in John Wesley Church, 14th and Corcoran streets. Every racial class in America with a grievance organizes and assembles nationally and we, the most aggrieved must live up to this American rule. THE MONITOR. Therefore, holding high respect for the strength and importance of your organization, the National Equal Rights League invites and requests the Douglas Republican League to send a delegate or delegates to this race Congress. Yours for united race action for equal rights, To the National Equal Rights League: Greeting from the Douglas Republican League of Nebraska. We thank you for your invitation to join you in a "Great National Collored Citizenship Rights Congress" at Washington, D. C., October 4th and 5th, 1916. We appreciate the need of such a Congress as you suggest, and hope that out of this gathering will come a permanent organization, under strong and courageous leadership, to the end that we may arouse the Nation to deal with the injustices and abuses which threaten its security and permanency. Among the wrongs which we deem paramount are the denial of our political and civil rights; lynching and economic oppression and the ominous growth of class legislation. We hold that the righting of these wrongs must occupy our first consideration, and in this fight we feel that we may successfully call upon all men and women in America who love their country. If circumstances permit, we shall send a representative to the Congress and do our part to push forward this great cause. The Business Business Enterprises Conducted Grow by You The Business World Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. Annie Banks Cecil B. Wilkes BANKS-WILKES Funeral Directors and Embalmers Lady Assistant Satisfaction Guaranteed 1914 Cuming Street Res. Doug. 4379, Office Doug. 3718 TERRELL'S DRUG STORE Graduate Pharmacist Prompt Delivery Excellent Service Webster 4443 24th and Grant Repairing and Storing Orders Promptly Filled NORTH SIDE SECOND-HAND STORE Auction Every Saturday. R. B. RHODES Dealer in New and Second Hand Furniture and Stoves Household Goods Bought and Sold Rentals and Real Estate 2522 Lake St. Omaha, Neb. Automobile and Open Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night JONES & CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Phone Web. 204 2314 N. 24th St. Res. Colfax 3831 Office Doug 7150 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 220 South 13th Street (Over Pope's Drug Store) OMAHA "THE OL WM J. SWO PHONE D A good place to BARBER SHOP, SOFT DRINK IN CON ARTHUR CHERR Tel. Webster 5784 GO WHERE IT IS COOL LEAN COMFORTABLE North Star Cafe 2414 North 24th St. OMAHA'S FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT Sunday Dinner, 35c. Also Meals a la carte Count Wilkinson, Prop. "THE OLD RELIABLE" Metz Beer WM J. SWOBODA RETAIL DEALER PHONE DOUGLAS 222. OMAHA. NEB. HENRI H. CLAIBORNE NOTARY PUBLIC Justice of the Peace Tel. Red 7401 Res. Doug. 6188 512-13 Paxton Blk. We recommend the State Furniture Co. Corner 14th and Dodge Sts. as the most reliable, accommodating and economical furniture store to buy from. The People's Drug Store 109 South 14th Street Drugs, Cigars and Soda Toilet and Rubber Goods Special Attention to Prescriptions We appreciate your patronage. Phone Douglas 1446 THE CASTLE THE BROOMFIELD HOTEL 116-118 South Ninth St. Strictly modern and up-to-date Prices moderate Phone Douglas 2378 RELIABLE" Beer ODA RETAIL DEALER DULGAS 222. OMAHA.NEB. ave a good time S, CIGARS AND CANDIES CTION 'S POOL HALL 2416 North 24th Street HOLSUM AND KLEEN MAID Why Buy Inferior When The Best COSTS NO MORE? JAY BURNS BAKING CO. The Fontenelle Invest. Co. Real Estate, Rentals, Loans and Insurance. 220 So. 13th St. Phone D. 7150 J. E. WAGEN Fresh and Smoked Meats We dress our own Poultry Doug. 1602 2215 Cuming St. ---