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THE MONITOR $1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy German Agitators Among Negroes Alleged Activity of Kaiser's Agents Given Credence by Metropolitan Newspapers. THE SAN DIEGO SCHEME Preposterous Plan Reported Hatched Between German Agents, Negroes and Mexicans. Last week an Associated Press dispatch announced that German agents were active in the south and that southerners were considering the reformation of the old Ku Klux Klan for self protection. Most Colored readers suspected that it was a sinister plan to cover up the intimidation of Negro migrators, but since that time it seems fairly well established that there is some ground for the story. Mr. Cunlifee-Owens verifies the report in an article in the New York Sun, and it is further corroborated by the New York Times. The New York Tribune published a dispatch Wednesday from Greensboro, N. C., saying that German agents have been working in New York among Colored people, and publishes interviews with several well known Colored people there. Thursday's article reads: "In a dispatch from Greensboro, N. C., yesterday, a staff correspondent of The Tribune gave the first information that had been published about the activities of German agents among the Negroes of the South. He told, among other things, of what the Negroes who knew of it call the "Plan of San Diego," a preposterous scheme hatched at San Diego between German agents on one side and "professional" Negroes and Mexican revolutionists on the other. "It seemed almost weird for belief. But corroboration has been obtained in this city from George W. Harris, editor of the New York News. Mr. Harris admitted yesterday that news of the San Diego plot had come to him through subterranean channels. The Negro leaders concerned in it, he said, were not of the better class, but were malcontents and agitators who had succumbed easily to the wiles of Mexican and Japanese agents. The meeting was held in San Diego about two years ago. Mr. Harris said. Detailed plans were drawn up for the seizure of Texas and the erection there of a republic, in case the revolt against the United States proved successful. Mr. Harris was willing to discuss the situation frankly. "Agitators," he said, "have for some time been traveling through the South stirring up the Negroes against the white people. There is little doubt that a good many of them are in the pay of the Germans. Serious trouble has been narrowly averted at various places in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. There is also general discontent and unrest among the Negroes in the Southwest, particularly in Oklahoma and Texas." REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor Omaha, Nebraska, April 21, 1917 ARE YOU ONE OF THE THERE are Four Hundred descriptions to The M. means that there is due the payment of this sum will entions. In other words, it debts. To publish a paper of money. At the present are not making any money expenses. You will, there sary it is for subscribers to promptly. 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Please pay your subscription, because we need the money to keep The Monitor going, and help us double our subscription and make a little money for yourself by getting your neighbors or out-of-town friends to subscribe. Colored Americans, Noblesse Oblige We republish here our editorial leader of last week, because we believe it drives home truths which should be well considered: We hold it to be the bounden patriotic duty of the Negro press to let the American people and government know that colored Americans are by no means satisfied with the proscription and civic and industrial disabilities under which they rest. We are tremendously dissatisfied with segregation, disfranchisement, lynching and Jim Crowism, tolerated abuses, which are a disgrace to this enlightened republic. If we were satisfied to suffer these injustices without protest, we would be recreant to every instinct of our God-given manhood. 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AND WE, OURSELVES, MUST PROVE OURSELVES WORTHY OF THE RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR WHICH WE MUST EARNESTLY CONTEND AND VALIANTLY DEFEND. Our opportunity for proving ourselves worthy of American citizenship is again before us. A crisis confronts our nation. A crisis confronts the world. Crisis means not only a decisive point or moment. It means more than that. It means judgment, a separating, discernment, readjustment. All of these ideas are involved in the present world conflict into which as a nation we have now entered. In the womb of war democracy and brotherhood are travailing. The United States, which is OUR COUNTRY, is at war. Our duty, as American citizens, is plain. That duty is to volunteer our services for the country's protection and defense. While other groups of Americans seem to be hesitating to enlist, let us freely, willingly and cheerfully offer our services. The volunteering of thousands of our race—now that there is a willingness to accept us—will be a spectacle that will compel the admiration and respect of the most prejudiced. It will have a moral force (Continued on Page 7) South Opposes Negro Soldiers Opposed to Universal Military Training Bill Because it Would Mean Training Colored Soldiers. FAVOR THEIR EXCLUSION Bourbons Urge President to Exclude Colored Men From the Universal Service Plan. Washington, April 12.—Despite the fact that Uncle Sam will need the services of the Colored men, as well as white, should the universal training bill pass and the war in Europe be prolonged, certain Southern Congressmen say they will bitterly oppose any bill that includes the Negro. These men come from States which have disfranchised and otherwise proscribed against the Negro, and who fear that their heel of oppression would be removed once Colored men were taught the use of arms. Some of these men have already gone to President Wilson and Secretary of War Baker and urged that Negro troops be not included in any universal service plan. Representative /Kahn, of California, ranking Republican member of the House Military Committee, will fight for the inclusion of Negro troops in the military training plan, and Southern Representatives are prepared to fight. "The Universal Service bill, which I have prepared, includes Negroes," said Mr. Kahn. "I have provided that they be trained in separate units, but they would be called to arms exactly the same as would white citizens. There is no reason why they should not be called to service. Nobody questions that they make good soldiers. Negro troops of the regular army have never faced an enemy without giving a good account of themselves. They served with particular bravery at San Juan Hill and Parral." The view of the Southern members, as expressed by Representative Whiley, of South Carolina, is as follows: "We of the South cannot stand for inclusion of Negroes in the universal service plan. It would bring down upon the districts where Negroes far exceed the whites in number a danger far greater than any foreign foe. "The universal service plan so far prepared proposes that, following one year active training, the men would return to their homes, carrying guns and equipped with them, to remain members of the service, subject to a call to arms. This would accomplish the very thing which the South has always fought against, the placing of arms in the hands of a large number of Negroes and the training of them to work together in organized units." Southern members of Congress have always opposed the training of any considerable number of Negro soldiers and it is due to their opposition that the recruiting of Negro troops is now (Continued on sixth page.) j General Race News 2 SOCIALIST ASSAILS RACE PREJUDICES Philadelphia, Pa—Charles Edward Russell, author and Socialist, praises France, because “the narrow, blind hatred of race prejudice is unknown there.” Mr. Russell spoke on “Race Prejudices” in the Broad Street Theatre under the auspices of the Socialist Literary Society. The speaker declared race preju- dices were rampant in this country and decried the tendency of the white race to consider itself superior to other races of the world. This country, he said, was con- stantly bungling the Negro problem. He denounced the lynchings in the southern States, and added: “Unless race prejudices are elim- inated in this country the crust of the voleano on which we are sitting will give way very soon.” “France,” con- tinued Mr. Russell, “has given the Negro true citizenship. In France liberty, equality and fraternity are not hollow mockeries and empty dreams. In the Chamber of Depu- ties black men sit side by side with whites. France has never deigned to draw a color line. “The Negroes rallied to France’s colors when she was threatened. But what if we had a war here and needed our Negro citizens? What if, when we called for them, they answered truthfully enough: ‘You have op- pressed us; you have killed our men and women and children; you have shown us no justice in your courts; you have trampled us down. We will not fight for you!’ Would not the Negro be justified? But we know the Negro in his loyalty will fight for us despite our great injustice to him, There is no national safety for this country except in strict adherence to ‘liberty, equality and fraternity.’ SEGREGATION FAILS. Jamestown, N. Y.—An attempt was made recently to have the Common Council pass a segregation law. A number of Colored people recently came here to take positions with the Gurney Ball Bearing company, and took up quarters on Briggs street. Thomas Mahoney and others did not like their presence, and went be- fore the Council to tell that body that Jamestown ought to prohibit Colored people from coming here to live. Corporation Counsel Price in- formed the segregationists that he doubted both the wisdom and legality of such action. According to Arthur Kettle, a di- rector in the Gurney Ball Bearing company, the Colored men _ were recommended by Tuskegee Institute. NO DISLOYALTY THERE. Washington, April -2—In a call on Secretary of War Baker Wednesday, Governor Stuart, of Virginita, told of the offer of Benjamin Braxton, of Norfolk, to raise a complete regiment of Colored troops for the war with Germany. The Colored people said Mr. Brax- ton, “never have and never will be traitors to ‘Old Glory.” Governor Stuart mentioned the proposal of Mr. Braxton as the an- swer of the Colored people of Vir- ginia to the efforts of the Germans to incite the Colored people to traitor- out conduct against the United States. THE MONITOR. GMAHA DAILY WRITES ON NEGRO LOYALTY It is true that this the land that held him in bondage, but it is also | the land that gave him his freedom— this Afro-American whom Germany has been plotting to incite to rebel- lion against the government of the United States. The American Negro, on account of the prejudice due to his former servile state and to his race still lacks the full protection of the laws and is cireumseribed in privileges in some parts of the country. But he has himself suggested that his full deliverance will not come and cannot come from influences outside of America, and he has no reason to be- come disloyal to a government de- voted to the ideals and instructed by the example of Abraham Lincoln to serve the interest of a government which William of Hohenzollern claims to hold as a fief from the Almighty. In spite of the many stupid things that German diplomacy and cunning have conceived and attempted since the beginning of the war, one must stand in new amazement that any circle or group of men anywhere on earth, rated intelligent, should have considered it among the possible things to cause by extraneous insti- gation an insurrection of the Negroes of the United States. It only shows once again what fantastic deductions German statesmen draw from frag- mentary and ill-digested data. The Germans knew about African slavery in America, they knew about lynchings, they had heard about spo- radic race wars in localities, they had been informed of social discrimina- tion against the black man. They put all these things together, had no understanding whatever of many other things connected with the re- lations of the white and black races in this country, and concluded the black was politically inflammable. Why, they might with moré chance of success tried to array an equal number of native American white people against the government. It is doubtful if any element of the American population would more warmly resent the implications jin this undertaking. The Negro is of old American stock, He loves the land, notwithstanding all he has borne and all he bears, as some white men do not. It is his country and his government, and often have the Negroes, individually and in masses, touchingly exhibited _ theiz luyalty—Omaha Sunday World-Her- ald “CAPTURED” GERMAN SHIPS When the Customhouse officials, employes, United States Marshal Stockham and the police seized the three interned German steamships at Locust Point early Friday of last week, a few of the Colored employes of the customs service accompanied them. It was a novel experience for the men, but each did his duty in a manner that was praiseworthy, The Colored men _ in the seizing party included: Wilbert James Henry, William Adams, William O. Wilson, Walter Green, James B. Briscoe, Thos. Tinsley, Albert Ross, Thomas Wheat- ley and Cornelius Burton. Will N. Johnson, Lawyer, 109 So. 14th Street. Douglas 5841, (Baltimore, Md.) AMUSING THE COLORED BROTHER It is not at all a perverted impulse, indeed it is one that is quite human, to desire to do that particular thing which the law may have forbidden when the conscience tells one that the act itself is not wrong. The mere fact that the law assumes to apply coercion and punishment in a matter where the person feels him- self clearly within his rights, natur- ally stimulates him to increased ac- tivity in defying it. Had the right never been assailed or called in question, the probability is that in many cases it would never have been exercised. _ The attempt to enforce a question- able statute in South Carolina is producing exactly the results above suggested, in the case of the exodus of numbers of Negroes to the North. This movement in several of the Southern States has been previously ‘noted and commented upon in these columns, and it takes on a new in- terest by reason of the attempt now being made to invoke the law’s aid to limit it, so far as the state named is not in itself forbidden or inter- fered with, but there is a provision under which those who solicit them to leave the state are punishable. Two Negroes have recently been arrested for the “offense” of persuading about 60 of their race to move out of the state; and the result is, as any one might have anticipated, that the emi- gration has at once assumed larger proportions than ever. Besides the feeling that there is something thrill- ing in defeating the intent of a re- strictive law and getting away with it, there is the perfectly natural re- belliousness against being restrained in freedom of proper action. The more determined the officials to com- pel the would-be travelers to stay at home, the more keenly resolved they are to go when they please. It is improbable that such a law can ever be sustained if brought in a test case before the country’s high courts. The Constitution guaran- tees certain individual rights among which may be considered the right of the citizen to contract wherever he pleases for his own labor, and to the citizen of each state all the priv- ileges and immunities of the several states. The sooner the South Caro- lina officials take cognizance of the fact, and either repeal or forget the existence of their remarkable statute, the less trouble they will make for their commonwealth and the fewe1 the halos of heroism with which the escaping “undergrounders” will glee- fully adorn themselves withal. TWO NEW NEGRO REGIMENTS Word reached the war department at Omaha last week that two new Negro regiments will be formed, one cavalry and one infantry, and that recruiting for said new regiments begins at once. Best for the ie White Borax Will Not Lavan Le NY Injure ss The Cudahy Soap Ca.0mahamed Manteo Kitchen. — Clothes. KPUunE LAUNDRY SOAP (Desert News.) NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK | Next Sunday is Negro Health Sun- day and with it Negro Health Week Sein, The National Negro Business league and the Tuskegee Negro Con- ference for 1917 are jointly respon- ‘sible for Negro Health Week. The 1917 Negro Conference specialized in discussion of Negro health and got squarely behind the proposal for ‘Negro Health Week previously made by the business league. The Colored people all over the na» tion are asked to unite in observing National Health Week in the belief that in carrying out the suggestions outlined in a booklet issued by the committee which is managing the week they wil be doing the best pos- sible service to themselves and to the race. The program is as follows: 1. Move’ out and burn up all un- necessary rubbish, unused old cloth- ing, and waste. Take all the furnish- ings out of the house and sun them for a day. 2. Brush down the walls and ceil- ings. Serub the floors and unpainted woodwork with strong lye and hot water. 3. Paint or whitewash. Sun well. 4, Clean up the yards. Whitewash the fences. Add one quart of salt to five gallons of whitewash. 5. Repair the stable, barn and hen- house. Whitewash. Clean out all filth. 6. Look after the ceilings and wells and make sanitary the toilets at the school houses and churches. TO BEGIN ON $150,000 BUILDING St. Louis, Mo.—Work will soon be- gin on a $150,000 building for the Colored Y. M. C. A. It will be four stories high, contain one hundred bedrooms, gymnasium, baths, read- ing rooms, cafeteria and recreation quarters. One of the largest Col- ored contributors to the project are Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Malone, who have paid in a 5,000 contribution. This is believed to be the largest single subscription ever contributed by a member of the race for a Col- ored institution. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD PROVIDES COMFORTABLY FOR NEGRO LABOR Houses Over Some 200 Colored La- borers From the South, Jersey City, N. J.—The old Penn- sylvania railroad station in Jersey City has been turned into a dormitory te house some 200 laborers of that company. Comfortable beds have been supplied, together with shower baths and other facilities for the com- fort and health of the workers. The men are said to be contented with their surroundings and are pro- nounced by the railroad officials to be of unusually good character and to be giving satisfactory results. They are paid from $12 to $15 per week. 6 The African Origin of Grecian Civilization Speech of George Wells Parker, Delivered Before the Omaha Philosophical Society, April 1, 1917. (Continued.) If I should conclude at this point my thesis would be complete and conclusive, but there are other subjects which demand some attention. I cannot pass in silence the supposed testimony to the presence of the fair type in Greece, and to its superiority over the darker population, furnished by the Homeric poems. This supposed testimony has precipitated wordy wars as terrible, tho perhaps less sanguinary, as those which were engaged in by the gods and heroes themselves. The fault, however, lies with the translators rather than with the epics. From the work of these inductrious authors we get the idea that golden hair and blue eyes were so common that there was little chance of any other sort of people lingering around. The truth of the matter is that these translators, like historians, have permitted their prejudices to warp their accuracy. There is not in the entire writings of Homer an adjective or description applying to any of the principals that even suggests a single one of them having blue eyes and golden hair. Indeed, it is quite the reverse. Athena is glaukopis; glaukos means blue like the sea and the unclouded sky; the olive is glaukos also, and Athena is guardian of the olive. Glaukopis means that her eyes are brilliant and terrible. Apollo in Homer is chrysoros, that is to say, bearing a golden sword; while Xanthos, which has been mistranslated to mean fair, means reddish brown and brown. Artemis is chyse, golden, that is to say, brilliant, but never fair. Neptune is kyanochaites, that is to say bluish, blackish, like the dark and deep waves of the ocean. Eos, the dawn, is chrysothronos, rhodokatylos, krokopeplos, because the color of the dawn is golden, rosy and red. Neither Hera nor Kalypsos are fair from their descriptive adjectives. Achilles is xanthos which, as was said before, means reddish brown and brown. Agamemnon is also xanthos and remember, if you please, that he is in direct descent from Epaphos, the swarthy ancestor of the Pelasgic houses. So you see that even our translators are not to be trusted. Professor Sergi made an extensive investigation of the supposed testimony to the presence of the fair type in Greece and his conclusions are as follows: "In Homer none of the individuals are fair in the ethnographic sense of the word. I could bring forth a wealth of facts to show that what I have just stated regarding the anthropological characters of the Homeric gods and heroes may also be said, and with more reason, of the types of Greek and Roman statuary which, tho in the case of the divinities they may be conventionalized, do not in the slightest degree recall the features of a northern race." Hence the blue-eyed and golden-haired gods and goddesses who grace the canvasses of our art galleries and theatre curtains are but pigmentary creations from the minds of artists who visualize the peculiarities of their own race just as the Jewish Madonna is depicted as a Spanish, Dutch, German, English, Italian, Russian, Scandinavian, and even as an African mother by the different nationalities in turn. Another idea which seems to be rapidly taking hold upon the scholastic THE MONITOR. mind is that the Illiad and Odyssey are in reality Minoan epics made over, if you please, to fit the later Grecian epochs. While the Homer, we know professedly commemorates the deeds of Achaean heroes, everything about them is non-Hellenic. The whole picture of the civilization, including home line, dress, religious worship, and architecture, is Minoan and Mycenean. Warriors' weapons are of bronze when the age to which we attribute Homer was an iron age. The combatants use huge body shields when, as a matter of fact, such shields had been obsolete long previous to 1200 B. C. The form of worship, hymns and invocations to deities, and the use of certain sacrificial forms were all adaptations from the Mycenean ritual. The arrangement of the palaces and courts as narrated in the epics were counterparts of the Minoan and Mycenean palaces and had long since passed out of existence. Among the discoveries in Crete have been found pictorial scenes exactly as described in Homer, and the artistic representations upon the shield of Achilles and upon the shield of Hercules, as described by Hesiod, have been duplicated among the ruins of Crete. Upon intaglios recovered we find combatants striking at each other's throats and you will recollect that Achilles does just this thing in his fight with Hector. I might continue these coincidences indefinitely, but I believe that the point I desire to make is sufficiently clear to merit your attention. The great Grecian epics are epics of an African people and Helen, the cause of the Trojan war, must henceforth be conceived as a beautiful brown skin girl. In the press and periodicals of our country we read that the classics are doomed and about to pass out of our lives, but the classics can never die. I sometimes dream of a magical time when the sun and moon will be larger than now and the sky more blue and nearer to the world. The days will be longer than these days and when labor is over and there falls the great hush of light before moonrise, minds now dulled with harsh labor and commercialism will listen to those who love them as they tell stories of ages past, stories that will make them tingle with pleasure and joy. Nor will these story tellers forget the classics. They will hear the surge of the ocean in Homer and march with his heroes to the plains of Troy; they will wander with Ulysses and help him slay the suitors who betrayed the hospitality of the faithful Penelope; they will escape from Priam's burning city with Aeneas, weep over Dido's love, and help him to found a nation beside the Tiber. And the translators who shall again bring into life the dead tongues will not let prejudice cloud their brains or truth make bitter their tongues. The heroes of Homer shall, like the Prince of Morocco, wear the livery of the burnished sun and be knit by binding ties to the blood of Afric's clime from whence civilization took its primal rise. SOUTH OPPOSES NEGRO SOLDIERS conducted in such a limited manner They are already four Colored regiments in the army, and it seems that more may be recruited. The Negro has had hardly any show in the Navy however, being now confined to mess service. That the recruiting of Colored troops may present a different aspect from the Civil War, when only white officers were placed over them, is in- (To be Continued) dicated by the following observation made by Bradley Gilman in the Boston Globe. "The query at once arises: "If regiments of Colored men were enlisted, would they demand or need Colored officers?" In the Civil War, Colored men fought well, but they had such officers as Shaw and Higginson. It was felt that only under white leadership would they stand against white foes. But all this has changed. No needle on a dial more clearly marks unseen changes within than does the fact today that Negro regiments would not need white commanders, for the Negro race has acquired such confidence in itself that Negro troops will follow such Negro leaders as Col. Charles Young, of the Regular Army, as confidently as they would follow any white officer. "This fact, which was indicated very clearly in the Spanish-American War and was clearly demonstrated on the Mexican border recently, is most significant as an evidence of the steady moral, and mental evolution of the race." Quite a number are also considering what will be the future attitude about Colored cadets attending West Point and Annapolis, as well as enlisting for higher grade service in the Navy. HELPERS CLUB SOCIAL The Helpers club, which has as its object the helping in a practical way the less fortunate, gave a very pleasant and successful social Monday night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lewis on North Twentyfifth street. There was a large attendance. The evening was spent in music and various games, such as an old fashioned spelling match, guessing contests, carrying peanuts on a knife and pinning the tail on a rabbit. The prize winners were as follows: Spelling match, Mrs. John Albert Williams; guessing contest, Miss Beatrice Black; peanut carrying, Henry W. Black; rabbit game, Mrs. Charles Solomon. Refreshments were served and a delightful evening was spent. Shelltex Shur-on THE NEW ROUND SHELLTEX EYEGLASSES Strong, Stylish, Light and Comfortable Satisfaction guaranteed. PRICES REASONABLE Columbian Optical Co. 209-11 So.16th Street. J. A. Edholm E. W. Sherman Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 WHO DOES YOUR SHOE REPAIRING? Try H. 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We scored a big sensation at the Empress Theatre in Englewood and everyone wanted to know where we came from. We will be with this company all this season and about June 15 will play in Cleveland, Ohio, at a summer resort. Send us The Monitor weekly. Tunefully, Maceo Pinkard's Jazz Band. CLUB THANKS PUBLIC Omaha, Neb., April 17, 1917. Editor Monitor: We, the members of the Silver Leaf club of Mount Moriah Baptist church, wish to thank the public for their patronage at our entertainment given Saturday night, April 14, at the residence of Sister E. Butler and which was such a grand success. ELLA WATSON, President; SADIE CATTOM, Secretary. COLORED AMERICANS! Noblesse Oblige; Our County Calls; Defend Your Record. that will be absolutely irresistible. Above all, there will be the consciousness of having done one's full duty as a man, to God, to home and fatherland. Before self-effacing patriotism, which does its full duty in spite of disabilities and glaring injustices which chill true patriots to the very marrow, no barrier can stand. Colored Americans, noblesse oblige. We have a record to defend, no treason to atone. Let us show that our patriotism, like our Americanism, is without alloy. Volunteer—enlist. Show that no conscription is necessary for the race which has never produced an anarchist or traitor to defend our country, as we have always done when the country had need of us, despite the fact that our country has not dealt with us as native sons, but has treated us as aliens. Colored Americans, noblesse oblige. Our country needs us. Defend your record. LODGE DIRECTORY Omaha Lodge No. 146, A. F. and A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Fridays of every month. Lodge room 1018 Douglas street. Will N. Johnson, W. M.; Wynn McCulloch, Secretary. Keystone Lodge No. 4, K. of P. Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Thursday of each month. M. H. Hazard, C. C.; J. H. Glover, K. of R. S. Weeping Willow Lodge No. 9596, G. U. O. of O. F., meets second and fourth Thursdays of each month at U. B. F. Hall, 24th and Charles. M. H. Hazzard, N. G.; T. H. Gaskins, P. S. Colored Engineers and Firemen's Protective Association meets first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1810 Douglas. W. H. T. Ransom, pres.; J. H. Moss, sec. THE MONITOR. NEWS OF MOUNT MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH We are very sorry to report that many of our members are on the sick list, including Mrs. J. W. Walker, Mrs. G. G. Hill and Miss A. B. Anderson. The Dorcas Kensington met with Mrs. G. W. Hibbler at the Rowland apartments and after a delightful business session lunch was served last Thursday afternoon. The Silver Leaf club met Friday night and Mrs. L. Crowder joined. A splendid time was spent and a social side observed. Sunday was gloomy throughout, nevertheless the day was well put in along all lines. There was an addition of two. At 4 o'clock the pastor, Rev. M. H. Wilkinson, joined in marriage Mr. B. Phenix and Mrs. F. Early. Mrs. W. Jackson and Mrs. L. Everett were present. We wish them all the good things that they can reasonably wish themselves. Mrs. G. Richie, formerly of the Methodist church, was immersed after the morning service on Sunday. Next Sunday morning theme, "A Living Witness For the Living God." Sunday night, "Sold Out." GENERAL HARRIES RESIDES IN OMAHA An item concerning General Harries, formerly of Washington, D. C., but now president of the Omaha Electric Light and Power company, was published by mistake in last week's Monitor. The proofreader marked it "kill," but it was allowed to live. The item stated that General Harries now headed the First Separate Battalion of Colored troops, guarding the White House. General Harries, it appears from the Washington Eagle, organized and drilled that battalion several years ago and is still idolized by the men of that command. General Harries resides in Omaha now. Mr. Robert Sanford of Carroll, Ia., passed through Omaha, enroute to St. Louis and Little Rock, Ark., where he will make an extended visit. STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT Statement of the ownership, management, circulation, etc., required by the act of August 24, 1912, of The Monitor, published weekly at Omaha, Neb., for April 1st, 1917: Name of editor, Rev. John Albert Williams, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha, Neb.; managing editor, Rev. John Albert Williams; business manager, George Wells Parker; publisher, Rev. John Albert Williams. Known stockholders, mortgagees and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: None. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of April, 1917. (Seal) GUY ROBBINS, Notary Public. (My commission expires July 18, 1922.) 435 Keeline Bldg. Douglas 5435 W. Scott King Water, Sewage and Drainage Systems Platting and Planning. Civil Engineering. Street Grades Paving Classified Advertising RATES—1½ 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. Monitor advertisers can satisfy all your wants. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. Two rooms for light housekeeping, 2205 North 27th ave. Nice, large front room for rent. Mrs. R. Gaskin, 2606 Seward. Webster 4490. Modern furnished rooms for rent, 2121 Seward street. Also a four room house furnished at 2901 Seward street. Webster 3401. First-class modern furnished rooms. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, 1702 North Twenty-sixth street. Phone Webster 4769. Modern furnished rooms; hot and cold water. Mrs. A. L. Johnson, 1810 North Twentyt-hird street. Webster 2058. Fourteen neatly furnished rooms. Mrs. Ella Dunivan, 4716 South 27th street, South Side. Phone South 3067. Furnished room. Strictly modern. Harney 4360. Mrs. Jackson, 2669 Douglas street. For Rent—Furnished rooms in modern home for nice quiet young man. 3702 North Twenty-third St. Webster 3727. Clean, modern furnished rooms on Dodge and Twenty-fourth street car lines. Mrs. Annie Banks., Douglas 4379. Wanted — A desirable woman as housekeeper; will pay what is right. Ben Dixon, 3505 North 29th st. Phone Web. 1637. For a first-class hairdresser call Webster 4769. Mrs. L. Webster, 1702 North Twenty-sixth street. HOUSES FOR RENT 2722 Miami, 2d floor, 5 rms.....$15.50 1809 N. 23d, 6 rms..... 16.00 2702 N. 27th ave., 6 rms..... 20.00 2614 Patrick ave., 9 rms..... 20.00 Houses for sale in all parts of city on small cash payments. Easy terms. EUGENE THOMAS 413-414 Karbach Blk. Douglas 3607 15th and Douglas Wanted—A music teacher for piano. Gentleman preferred. 717 So. 17th street. Mrs. Ora Hooks. China painting. Classes Tuesdays and Thursdays. Mrs. D. W. Gooden, 2211 Cuming street. Douglas 5436. --- Candy Makers FOR SALE WANTED. HOUSES FOR RENT 7 For dressmaking, call Miss Alexander, 1403 North 18th St. Web. 4745. For rent—Two-room house with porch, on two ful llots in East Omaha. $3.50 a month. Webster 5361. For Rent—Two furnished rooms in private home. H. L. Anderson, 2914 Lake. Webster 3171. We will try to make a general cleanup on subscriptions within the next two weeks. Please have a smile and some change when our genial collector presses the electric button. John Ruskin Cigar, 5 cents. Biggest and Best. MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. IMPERIAL DYE & CLEANING WORKS Dry Cleaners, Garment and Fancy Dyers Phone Tyler 1022 1516 Vinton St. GEO. F. KRAUSE, Prop. C. S. JOHNSON 18th and Izard Tel. Douglas 1702 ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE at POPULAR PRICES. Best for the Money Established 1890 C. J. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. 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 OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE --- Lincoln Department Anita M. Taylor, Call L9810 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Miss Oletha Russell and her small cousin, Martha Russell of Omaha, were guests of Mrs. Wyatt Williams over Sunday. Funeral services for Mr. George AMUSEMENTS The Alhambra THE HOUSE OF COURTESY 24th and Parker SUNDAY Douglas Fairbanks in THE AMERICANO Keystone Comedy. Feature Play MONDAY Frank Keenan in THE CRAB CUPID AT COHEN'S TUESDAY. William Russell in THE LONE STAR THE GINK LANDS AGAIN WEDNESDAY THE DOUBLE CROSS THE ROAD AGENT THURSDAY UNCLE SAM'S FED. No. 2 ALMOST RIGHT CRIMSON STAIN THE MALE GOVERNESS FRIDAY JERRY AND THE OUTLAWS Fortune Photo Play REEL LIFE SATURDAY SHORTY UNEARTHS A TARTAR THE FALSE CLUE DISGUISERS REMEMBER OUR BARTOLA: The Finest of Musical Entertainment EXR Attention to Patrons—V 'IZZY'—L Returns REX TIE Commencing Su Direct from the Burlesque Show ju The You all know him, you will laugh ever and he is bringing with him FIVE HARGIS S All New Song A Riot of Fun—Don't Miss It. CHARITY SU REX TREATRE Direct from the Burlesque Show just closing in New York at Columbia Theatre. You all know him, you will laugh every second, he has made millions laugh and he is bringing with him a NEW COMPANY with the FIVE HARGIS SISTERS CHORUS A Riot of Fun—Don't Miss It! Saturday, April 12, 1994 CHARITY SURPRISE BALL Given by the O. N. E. CLUB The Club with the Many Big Hearts Lincoln. Help the "Little Beautiful Remou Tuesday Even Music by a Somewha Refreshments Tickets N The Club with the Many Big Hearts. Benefit Colored Orphanage Home at Lincoln. Help the "Little Folks." "Race First." at the Beautiful Remodeled Alamo Hall 8 Sellars, who died last Wednesday, were held at the A. M. E. church Friday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. Burial was in Wyuka cemetery. Mrs. Mary Curly is visiting friends in Omaha, where she will remain until after the annual sermon of the Household of Ruth, of which she is a member. The Civic League for the Protection of Colored People held a very ALAMO DeLUXE ICE CREAM GARDEN SPECIAL ATTRACTION! Cabaret entertainment every evening from 7:30 to 11:30. Don't forget the De Luxe Matinee every Thursday and Sunday afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30. No dancing on Sunday. ICE CREAM DELIVERED FREE Herrington & Killingsworth. Phone W. 2861. Rex Theatre REX MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY Now Featuring the Hargis Sisters Every Afternoon and Evening 1316 DOUGLAS STREET Clean Fun and Real Joy Change of Program Sundays and Thursdays. 7 p. m. to 11:55 Peoples Drug Store Douglas 1148 Midway, Douglas 1491 or 3459 5 a. m. to 7 p. m. Res. Web. 7661 FOR SAFETY AND SERVICE CALL AUTO SERVICE—DAY AND NIGH Enclosed Winter Car. SMOKE Te Be Ce THE BEST 5c CIGAR JORDAN'S RENTING PARLOR Full Dress, Tuxedo and Black Suits supplied for all occasions. Waiters' second hand uniforms bought and sold. Douglas 8368 940 North 24th ATA! Your Favorite Comedian NEW ROSE to the REATRE Sunday, April 22nd at closing in New York at Columbia theatre. Every second, he has made millions laugh a NEW COMPANY with the MYSTERS CHORUS s and Dances Sunday, April 22, 1917. ERPRISE BALL Benefit Colored Orphanage Home at Folks." "Race First." at the Heled Alamo Hall e, May 1, 1917 at Different Orchestra New Selling Admission 25c THE MONITOR. beneficial meeting Monday evening at Mount Zion Baptist church. Miss Florence Jones is seriously ill, suffering with spinal meningitis. The regular meeting of the Davis Women's club was postponed from Tuesday afternoon until next Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Nettles died Sunday morning at 1:30. Burial services were held Tuesday at 2:30 from Mount Zion Baptist church, Rev. B. Hillman officiating. The Optimistic Set met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Wyatt Williams, 501 North Twenty-second street. The following officers were elected for the ensuing six months: Mrs. Vernon Young, president; Mrs. Monroe Williams, vice president; Mrs. Lester Holmes, secretary; Mrs. Earl McWilliams, assistant secretary; Mrs. Al Taylor, treasurer; Mrs. Wyatt Williams, chaplain; Mrs. Louis Holmes, chairman of the social arrangements committee; Mrs. Clifton Green, art committee; Mrs. Lester Washington, literary committee; Mrs. Clyde Malone, domestic science committee. Gideon Band held a delightful meeting Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Maggie Williams. Several new members were accepted. Mrs. Alma Hinton, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. J. W. Burdwhistle, left for Fairmopolis, Wyo., where they will make their future home. Mrs. Mattie Wade of Omaha was the house guest during the past week of Mrs. S. L. Jackson. Mr. Olin Hemphill is on the sick list. The stewardess' board of the A. M. E. church met Monday afternoon with Mrs. Sam Holcomb, 501 North Twenty-second street. The hostess served a lovely luncheon, which was very much enjoyed by all present. Miss Josephine Smith recently returned from Junction City, Kan., where she has been visiting her parents. Mrs. Lester V. Holmes entertained at dinner Sunday in honor of Miss Oletha Russell and little Miss Martha Russell. A large number of Miss Russell's Lincoln friends called informally during the evening. Heffley's Tailors For Nifty Up-to-Date CLOTHING Oliver Theatre Bldg. 149 N. 13th The CHAPMAN Drug Store 934 P. St., Lincoln Opposite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazines, Cigars, Candies and a full line of Druggist Sundries THE GET ONE CLUB. Who will be the next member of The Get One Club? We want our subscribers to "Get One New Subscriber for The Monitor." Who will be the first? All news must be in before Wednesday noon, in order to appear the following Saturday. Western Funeral Home 2518 Lake Street Open Day Our Conveniences: Free Spacious Morgue and Reposing Rooms com Derma-Surgery work; lady attend auto or horse drawn vehicles. Service. Our Conveniences: Free Spacious Chapel and Organ. Sanitary Morgue and Reposing Rooms complete. Air tight preservation case; Derma-Surgery work; lady attendant, if desired; private ambulance, auto or horse drawn vehicles. Lowest prices. Polite and Expert Service. --- ANITA M. TAYLOR. SILAS JOHNSON, Funeral Director A. T. REED, Licensed Embalmer 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 Automobile and Open Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night JONES & CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Web. 1100 and Web. 204 Licensed Embalmer. 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. DR. M. PRYOR RHEUMATIC SPECIALIST Famous Hot Springs Treatment Room 14, Patterson Block S. E. Corner 17th and Farnam Douglas 5824 Pryor's Athletic Liniment for sale at all drug stores. DR. CRAIG MORRIS DENTIST 2407 Lake St. Phone Web. 4024 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 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 Rental and Real Estate 2524 Lake St. Webster 7179 PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS Res. Colfax 3831 Office Doug 7150 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 220 South 13th Street (Over Pope's Drug Store) OMAHA neralHome and Night s Chapel and Organ. Sanitary delete. Air tight preservation case; ant, if desired; private ambulance, lowest prices. Polite and Expert --- Phone Webster 248.