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Growing Thank You! Visits Des Moines Training Camp "Bob" Robinson Writes Interesting Letter For Monitor Readers on Recent Trip. MEETS MANY FORMER OMAHANS Men Are Contented; Studying and Working Hard to Win Commissions. Are Making Good. Rev. John Albert Williams, Editor The Monitor: I am writing to inform you that Messrs. Broomfield, Bird and I have just returned from the provisional training camp at Fort Des Moines, Ia., where we motored last Friday. The object of our trip was to see the boys there in training. We arrived at the fort about 10 o'clock Saturday and were informed that the boys were at the target range, some four miles away. We went to the range and found them busy getting it in order for practice. A more jolly and good-natured bunch of men it would be difficult to select. The boys as a whole seemed to be well contented and striving hard for one goal—a commission in the United States army. You can find men at Des Moines who can measure arms with the best and most learned men of every known profession. The enlisted men and candidates from civil life all have one aim. Visitors to Des Moines will find the men busy from morning till night studying and drilling. The citizens of Des Moines, both white and colored, speak of the boys in training in the highest terms. Saturday we had dinner at the range and ate supper with Company No. 5. The boys are getting wholesome food. The dinner menu consisted of cabbage and weinies, bread, jam and coffee. Supper: Calves liver, brown gravy, rice, French peas, prunes, bread, coffee and tea, hot or iced. After dinner we visited the army and navy branch of the Y. M. C. A. and listened to members of Companies 3 and 4 in recitations and monologue. A paper by one of the candidates was full of wit. Prizes were awarded the successful competitors in the Fourth of July games by Messrs. W. H. J. Beckett, physical director of Howard university, and Mr. DeFranz, former secretary of the Paceo Y. M. C. A. branch, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. G. W. Cabaniss of Washington, D. C., who is known as "the father of the camp," is connected with the Y. M. C. A. work and is deeply interested in the men and their work. The men wear the regulation uniform—tan shoes, company hat, with red, white and blue cord; canvas or leather puttees, and when downtown they wear their swaggers (short cane), which is becoming quite popular with the ladies in the capital city. The boys are being given a hard course of study to determine their fitness to command men. They speak in the highest terms of Colonel Ballou, senior instructor in command, and those under him. The "non-coms" and privates selected from the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantry and the Tenth cavalry are men chosen by their company commanders, and are well versed in military tactics and capable of demanding the respect of men. For some reason the Ninth cavalry detachment is late in arriving. The Nebraska boys seem to be making good. So many of the men at the camp have lived in Omaha that one would think that we have a larger representation than five. The men were complaining of their arms being sore from their vaccination with typhus serum. Some of the boys have been dismissed on account of being too light—physically, of course—or heavy, or for poor eyesight; but so far none has been dismissed for any breach of discipline. We again went to the fort Sunday afternoon, in time for retreat, and, after saying "Hello" and "Goodbye" to many of the boys, we left the camp for the city at 8 p. m., where we spent the night. Leaving Des Moines at 10 o'clock Monday morning we arrived in Omaha at 4 p. m. We came over the White Pole route and found it a real speedway. I hope that I may be able to visit the fort again before the boys will have finished their three months' course of training and gone to some cantonment camp. Visitors are cordially received. The cadets are interested in meeting visi- THE MONITOR tors and will give you any information you may seek. Ladies are seen on the company streets and n the Y. M. C. A. tent. The boys are always anxious to see friends from home. Yours respectfully, W. H. ROBINSON, Late Corporal Co. L, 25th Infantry, U. S. A. BROOMFIELD BUBBLES WITH ENTHUSIASM J. H. Broomfield, who has just returned from a visit to the officers' reserve training camp at Fort Des Moines, is bubbling over with enthusiasm and race pride as a result of his visit. Mr. Broomfield said to The Monitor: "That camp is the greatest thing that could happen for our people. It made me feel proud of our race. Just think of it, over 1,200 men, the very pick and flower of Negro manhood—every man a gentleman and a scholar! You couldn't find a finer looking body of men anywhere. And, say, you never saw men work so hard in all your born days. Every man seems animated with the firm determination to win and deserve a commission. "I heard quite a number of downtown white business men express themselves as looking upon the men in that camp as the very cream of the manhood of the Colored race. They paid them all kinds of compliments, and they deserve it, for they are gentlemen of the highest type. "Colonel Ballou, who commands the camp is a fine officer and the men just love him to death." "Every one of the Omaha boys is doing fine. I had a good laugh at 'little' Dr. Peebles. That wiry little chap is working himself to death, but says he never felt better in his life. And that is true of the other four Omaha men. They were digging trenches. Just imagine that Omaha bunch digging trenches! "I told Ed Turner to see that every man in camp read The Monitor. I'm going to take another trip over there and I'd like you to go along, for it will be an inspiration to you. "No one should feel sore because those boys don't write their friends. They don't have time. They are busy from 5 a. m. until 9:45 p. m., when the lights go out." BURGESS-NASH CO. EMPLOY COLORED ELEVATOR MEN The Burgess-Nash company have given employment to four young Colored men as elevator conductors. They are: Charles C. Dudley, who is in charge; Cecil Riggs, Clarence Gordon and Ted Owens. They are all fine, gentlemanly young fellows and fully capable of giving good satisfaction. If given only half a chance we are confident they will make good. We are glad to know that enterprising firm has opened this industrial opportunity. YOUNG MAN GETS GOOD POSITION IN CUBA Washington, D. C.-Harold, son of Daniel Murray, of this city, who graduated from the engineering course, Sibley College, Cornell University, in June, 1916, and with his bride, located in Havana, Cuba, has entered the service of the Havana Marine Company at $175 per month. Armed with a certificate of qualifications from the dean of Sibley, Murray left for Cuba Oct. 31, 1916, and began work on arrival in the service of furnishing gas and electricity to Havana. ELKS TO MEET IN CLEVELAND - Cleveland, O.—The Grand Lodge, Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World, and the Grand Temple, Daughter Elks, will hold their eighteenth annual convention here August 26 to 30. Great preparations are being made by the local lodges. RED CROSS TAGGERS AT NEW ROCHELLE New Rochelle, N. Y.-M. Pattillo Harper was chaperon for six Colored girls she called out Saturday, Red Cross "Tag Day." This is the first time in the history of the city that Colored girls were invited to sell tags and it was done through the efforts of Mrs. Harper, who is a member of the American Red Cross Society. The gorls made an excellent showing and their costumes and manners were highly complimented by the leading ladies. They made good, reporting $20.07. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, JULY 14, 1917 Eyewitness Tells of Fiendish Deeds of East St. Louis Massacre White Savages Exult in Crimes of Cruelty, Brutality and Bloodshed Which Put to Shame the Armenian Atrocities. By Carlos F. Hurd. For an hour and a half I saw the massacre of helpless Negroes at Broadway and Fourth street, in downtown East St. Louis where a black skin was a death warrant. I have read of St. Bartholomew's night. I have heard stories of the latter-day crimes of the Turks in Armenia, and I have learned to loathe the German army for its barbarity in Belgium. But I do not believe that Moslem fanaticism or Prussian frightfulness could perpetrate murders of more deliberate brutality than those which I saw committed, in daylight by citizens of the State of Abraham Lincoln. I saw man after man, with hands raised, pleading for his life, surrounded by groups of men—men who had never seen him before and knew nothing about him except that he was black—and saw them administer the historic sentence of intolerance, death by stoning. I saw one of these men, almost dead from a savage shower of stones, hanged with a clothesline, and when it broke, hanged with a rope which held. Within a few paces of the pole from which he was suspended, four other Negroes lay dead or dying, another having been removed, dead, a short time before. I saw the pockets of two of these Negroes searched, without the finding of any weapon. I saw one of these men, covered with blood and half conscious, raise himself on his elbow and look feebly about, when a young man, standing directly behind him, lifted a flat stone in both hands and hurled it upon his neck. The young man was much better dressed than most of the others. He walked away unmolested. I saw Negro women, begging for mercy and pleading that they had harmed no one, set upon by white women of the baser sort, who laughed and answered the coarse sallies of men as they beat the Negresses' faces and breasts with fists, stones and sticks. I saw one of these furies fling herself at a militiaman who was trying to protect a Negress, and wrestle with him for his bayonetted gun, while other women attacked the refugee. Conducted on Sporting Basis. What I saw, in the ninety minutes between 6:30 p. m. and the lurid coming of darkness, was but one local scene of the drama of death. I am satisfied that in spirit and method, it typified the whole. And I cannot somehow speak of what I saw as mob violence. It was not my idea of a mob. A mob is passionate, a mob follows one man or a few men blindly; a mob sometimes takes chances. The East St. Louis affair, as I saw it, was a man hunt, conducted on a sporting basis, though with anything but the fair play which is the principle of sport. The East St. Louis men took no chances, except the chance from stray shots, which every spectator of their acts took. They went in small groups, there was little leadership, and there was a horribly cool deliberateness and a spirit of fun about it. I cannot allow even the doubtful excuse of drink. No man whom I saw showed the effect of liquor. It was no crowd of hot-headed youths. Young men were in the greater number, but they were the middle-aged, no less active in the task of destroying the life of every discoverable black man. Shirt Sleeve Gathering. It was a shirt-sleeve gathering, and the men were mostly workingmen, except for some who had the aspect of mere loafers. I have mentioned the peculiarly brutal crime committed by the only man there who had the appearance of being a business or professional man of any standing. I would be more pessimistic about my fellow-Americans than I am today, if I could not say that there were other workingmen who protested against the senseless slaughter. I would be ashamed of myself if I could not say that I forgot my place as a professional observer and joined in such protests. But I do not think any verbal objection had the slightest ef- fect. Only a volley of lead would have stopped those murderers. "Get a nigger!" was the slogan, and it was varied by the recurrent cry, "Get another!" It was like nothing so much as the holiday crowd, with thumbs turned down, in the Roman Coliseum, except that here the shouters were their own gladiators and their own wild beasts. Slayers Waiting for Them. When I got off a State street car on Broadway at 6:30, a fire apparatus was on its way to the blaze in the rear of Fourth street, south from Broadway. A moment's survey showed why this fire had been set, and what it was meant to accomplish. The sheds in the rear of Negroes' houses, which were themselves in the rear of the main buildings on Fourth street, had been ignited to drive out the Negro occupants of the houses. And the slayers were waiting for them to come out. It was stay in and be roasted or come out and be slaughtered. A moment before I arrived one Negro had taken the desperate chance of coming out, and the rattle of revolver shots, which I heard as I approached the corner, was followed by the cry, "They've got him!" And they had. He lay on the pavement, a bullet wound in his head and his skull bare in two places. At every movement of pain which showed that life remained there came a terrific kick in the jaw or the nose, or a crashing stone from some of the men who stood over him. At the corner, a few steps away, were a sergeant and several guardsmen. The sergeant approached the ring of men around the prostrate Negro. 'Done for.' Says Policeman. "This man is done for," he said. "You'd better get him away from here." No one made a move to lift the blood-covered form, and the sergeant walked away, remarking, when I questioned him about an ambulance, that the ambulances had quit coming. However, an undertaker's ambulance did come fifteen minutes later, and took away the lifeless Negro, who had in the meantime been further kicked and stoned. By that time the fire in the rear of the Negro houses had grown hotter, and men were standing in all the narrow spaces through which the Negroes might come to the street. There was talk of a Negro in one of the houses who had a Winchester and the opinion was expressed that he had no ammunition left, but no one went too near, and the fire was depended on to drive him out. The firemen were at work on Broadway, some distance east, but the flames immediately in the rear of the Negro houses burned without hindrance. Struck Blow on Jaw. A half block to the south, there was a hue and cry at a railroad crossing, and a fusillade of shots was heard. More militiamen than I had seen elsewhere, up to that time, were standing on a platform and near a string of freight cars, and trying to keep back men who had started to pursue Negroes along the tracks. As I turned back toward Broadway, there was a shout at the alley, and a Negro ran out, apparently hoping to find protection. He paid no attention to missiles thrown from behind, none of which had hurt him much, but he was stopped in the middle of the street by a smashing blow to the jaw, struck by a man he had not seen. "Don't do that," he appealed, "I haven't hurt nobody." The answer was a blow from one side, a piece of curbstone from the other side, and a push which sent him on the brick pavement. He did not rise again, and the battering and kicking of his skull continued until he lay still, his blood flowing half way across the street. Bullets Saved for Long Range. Before he had been booted to the opposite curb, another Negro appeared, and the same deeds were repeated. I did not see any revolver shots fired at these men. Bullets and ammunition were saved for use at long range. It was the last Negro I have men- (Continued on Fourth Page.) UNIVERSITY OF PENN- SYLVANIA GRADUATES Philadelphia, Pa.—At the one hundred and sixty-first commencement of the University of Pennsylvania held on Tuesday, June 12, there were sixteen race graduates in Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Master of Arts Veterinary Surgeon. SUFFRAGE LEAGUE MEETS Boston, Mass.—The New England Suffrage League re-elected Editor Monroe Trotter, president. There were two executive sessions with 100 delegates present. Delegates will attend the Liberty meeting at Washington, D. C., this fall. MORSE WINS AGAIN New York, June 29.—Roy Morse won the 100-yard special race at the monthly club games of the Alpha Physical club Sunday at Macomb's Dam park. The former national champion won by a yard in 10 and 1-5 seconds. The 880-yard special race went to Walter Prowe of the Alphas, with S. Cummings of the same club third. A white lad ran second. Peter White finished second to Morse and Andy Pennon third. WINS BRONZE MEDAL IN SHORT HAND CONTEST Newark, N. J.—Joshua Smith a graduate of the Plainfield High School, was awarded a bronze medal in the annual New Jersey State shorthand contest, held here June 9. He was the only representative of the race present. BELOVED GRADUATE AT RADCLIFF Among the graduates of Radeliff College, in Cambridge, was Miss Frances Grant, a young Colored girl, a communicant of the Church of the Advent, Boston. She received her A. B. magna cum laude, the Phi Beta Kappa key, and last season was awarded the largest money scholarship of the college.—The Living Church. BANK BUYS BRICK BUILDING Washington, D. C.—The Industrial Savings Bank has purchased a two-story brick building at the northwest corner of Eleventh and U streets. Ground and building, when completed, will represent an outlay of $30,000. CAPTAIN'S COMMISSION FOR POLICE OFFICER Philadelphia, Pa.—Alonzo Myers, a policeman of the Moyamensing avenue and Dickinson street station, has been notified by the War Department that he has been commissioned a captain for the Negro officers' training camp at Des Moines, Ia. Myers has a fine record for bravery both in the Army and police force. He served in Cuba during the Spanish-American war and also in the Philippines during the insurrection. Congress awarded him a McKinley medal for bravery. GET VERDICT AGAINST THEATRE Miss Dorothy Hampton and Miss Katherine Mars of Brooklyn, recovered settlements last week in the trial of their cases brought against Keeney's Theatre, Brooklyn, through their attorney, Robert P. Lattimore, of 26 Cortlandt street, because the management refused to allow them to occupy orchestra seats after tickets had been purchased. The cases came up before Justice Strahl in the 6th District Municipal Court, Brooklyn.—New York Age. COLORED GIRLS IN Colored girls have supplanted white boys in the glass works in Springs City, Pa., receiving as high as $2 a day. HANDED PASSPORTS Amsterdam, Holland, June 29.—The Haitien charge de'affairs at Berlin has been handed his passports, according to a dispatch from Berlin. The Haitien diplomat had previously handed to Foreign Secretary Zimmerman a note protesting against unrestricted submarine warfare and demanding compensation for losses to Haitien commerce and taking of Haitien lives. ifting; Too! Vol. III. No. 2 (Whole No. 106) Aftermath of the East St. Louis Riot George Wells Parker, of Monitor Staff Tells What He saw and Heard at Scene of Carnage. INTERVIEWED EYE WITNESSES Victims of Violence Stunned and Bewildered. Kind-Hearted People Seek to Make Atonement. I read of the terrible East St. Louis riot Tuesday morning and Wednesday I took the first train for St. Louis. When I reached there I engaged a room at the Newport Hotel, made a hasty toilet and repaired to the Municipal Lodging House where the refugees were pouring in. Never before did I see such a scene and may I never again. There were men and women and children there by the thousands and every ten minutes the St. Louis patrols rolled up crowded with more. The whole thing was most pathetic. From the faces of those thousands the happy smile so characteristic of our race was gone. Instead was a grim sad look, betokening trouble, sorrow and distraction. Men were hunting for their wives, wives for their husbands, parents for their children, and most touching of all little children peering into the faces of everyone that they might recognize father or mother. It was hell brought to earth, hell brought to a country that has plunged into war with the slogan of liberty upon its lips. The hospitals were filled with the seriously wounded, but those less seriously hurt were wandering about distraught, their heads and arms and limbs bandaged and stained with blood. I heard a hundred versions about how the trouble started, but there was a unanimous agreement that more than a hundred Colored were killed and almost half as many whites. I heard stories of how children were shot and thrown back into the flames; how women were killed as they tried to run from their flaming homes; how unarmed men were shot or hit on the head and their brains scattered about the streets. I heard, too, that the mob was made up of foreigners and that the business whites of the town pleaded with the police and militia to stop the bloodshed and were laughed at for their trouble. I talked with men who peered through their windows and saw men lynched as the guardians of the law stood by. One white woman told me a Colored man was shot at her door step and whispered a doctor, the latter replied, "Let the nigger die." The M. and O. trains stopped every few feet to take on distracted women with babies in their arms, going where they did not know. I talked with one old lady who told me that she and her husband started back to help their children out of the flames and she finally got to St. Louis—alone. It was hell. They were never given a chance. The police knew that the mob was timed to start and the preliminary was for them to unarm the Colored before the savages were turned loose upon them. The cur who is mayor, knew all and even now declares that he will not guarantee protection if the Colored return. But they won't return. The mill and factory bosses are all in St. Louis begging the men to return, but the men only look at them blankly and turn away. Some few have gone south, but the majority are so dazed that they don't know what to do. Some are waiting for their wages, some to know if their relatives are living some wondering if their homes are completely burned, and some just waiting because their energy is gone and their brains a blank. St. Louis is doing a wonderful work. The city has been opened to all the refugees and the white and black are toiling side by side in rendering aid and comfort. The St. Louis Bar Association has taken the names of all who have suffered loss and will recover for the unfortunate free of charge. The Red Cross is housing and feeding them and bringing them all across the river. The street cars refuse to let them pay fares to ride. These breaths of charity are the only things to make one feel that he is not in a demon land. This is no place for comment. It is impossible to comprehend the meaning of it all. Even those of the south, used as they are to injustice, are appalled at what they have read and cannot believe it to be true. Neither can the rest of us. It takes time to realize that it was all really so. The Monitor is growing. Help us grow. THE MONITOR A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests of the Colored People of Nebraska and the West, with the desire to contribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and of the race. Published Every Saturday. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Post Office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Editors. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor and Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.50 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 50 cents an inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. Telephone Webster 4284. 2 WE DON'T ACCEPT DONATIONS, THANK YOU! We were soliciting advertisements. The head of a certain firm, who is a most affable gentleman, greeted us most kindly, but said: "We are confining our advertising to the dailies and two or three weeklies. Anything we might give you would be in the way of a donation. We would be willing to do that." "We don't accept donations, thank you!" was our reply. "We sell advertising space on a strictly business basis, because we believe we are able to give value received. Here's our mailing list, which we happen to have with us. That will show you our circulation. If you think that it is a good business proposition to advertise with us, we'll be glad to sell you advertising space, for we are out after business, just like you are; but The Monitor is not asking for or accepting donations, thank you." He seemed not a little amused and surprised, but he looked over the mailing list and said: "You do have quite a circulation, don't you? It looks like you reach nearly all the Colored people in Omaha. And you have a good many out of town subscribers, too. Yes, sir, YOU SEEM TO BE REACHING YOUR PEOPLE ALL RIGHT. I'll take ten inches as a starter. Then come in again next week. Here's the copy for ten inches." "Thank you!" we replied. There are at least 8,000 Colored people in Omaha, the great majority of whom read The Monitor. And yet there are business men, like this gentleman, who patronizingly would give "a donation." WE DON'T ACCEPT DONATIONS, THANK YOU. BUT SELL ADVERTISING SPACE. That The Monitor is one of the best advertising mediums in the city is attested by our well pleased advertising patronage. AN EXPLANATION We try as far as possible to publish each week all local items which are sent to us in time. Now and then demand for advertising space compels us either to condense or leave out local and general items, even after they are set up. It sometimes happens that we have several galleys or columns of what is known as "overset." This is matter which is set up or in type and has to be held over. As linotype composition costs lots of money, we have to work in these "oversets" as soon as possible before they become too old or stale. If news items become too stale to use they have to be thrown down and not published, which is, of course, a loss. Last week, by an oversight, two or three important local items were left out, much to our regret—and loss. THE SHAME OF ILLINOIS St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The events in East St. Louis Monday night were a disgrace to that city, a disgrace to Ilinois, a disgrace to America, a disgrace to humanity. We can recall no event in the history of this country so utterly and unrelievably shameful. There have been mobs, many of them, there have been riots not a few, to stain our civilization, but never a one that carried to such an extent the unreasoning brutality of mobocracy, never a one that so tortured and killed and burned without discrimination of innocence or guilt, that spared neither sex nor age in its violence. The often condemned mobs of the South have always had as their purpose the quick and effective punishment of crime. They have been, almost without exception, composed of determined men who felt that the law was too slow and too uncertain, and who, having found the ones they believed to be guilty, executed them and dispersed. Such acts are in violation of the fundamental principles of orderly government and as such should not be tolerated, but in comparison with the unspeakable outrages in East St. Louis they are righteousness itself. No attempt was there made to punish crime by striking at the criminal Scores were tortured or killed against whom no charge of wrong was made, whose only offense was their color. Men, women, children went down before the insatiate blood lust of this worst and most cruel of mobs. And this in the state of Abraham Lincoln! This in the great state whose sons poured out their blood on many battlefields that all men within this Union should be free! At the heart of the country which prides itself upon its liberty and humanity, within a hundred miles of the home and tomb of the great liberator, men of the race he saved from slavery are massacred by a lawless mob unrestrained by any authority. At a time when we are entering a tremendous war to make, as we say, the world safe for democracy, our own people have given democracy a blow that well may stagger it. For if democracy is not the right of every individual to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then in heaven's name what is it? How can we decently and honestly proclaim the superiority of American government and American principles when such a crime against liberty as that of Monday night in East St. Louis is permitted! Yes, permitted! It was a preventable crime. There had been ample warning. There was a large and competent force on hand to maintain order. Yet the rioters were permitted to gather and go on their way of destruction. Eight companies of the state militia were there, but apparently no serious effort was made either to prevent the formation of the mob or to stop its work after it was formed. Reports of eye-witnesses agree as to the inaction of the militia. Some feeble attempts were made to protect the objects of the mob's fury, but there seems to have been no attempt whatever to maintain order. We do not know who is responsible for this most disgraceful and lamentable failure of authority and power. But we do know that some one is, or some ones are, responsible, and the state of Illinois cannot rest until that responsibility is fixed. Punishment of rioters alone will not wipe away the shame. The blunder that permitted the riot must be accounted for. And, finally, the federal government should refuse to take into its service any officer or private who is found to have been derelict in his duty in this crisis. The people of Illinois must insist, and the people of America will insist, that this thing be probed to the bottom, for it is not only state honor but national honor hat is involved. GOVERNMENT CONTROL The most pressing need of America today is the government control of all markets and food supplies so that prices and distribution may be taken entirely out of the hands of selfish speculators who would enrich themselves at the expense of the people's woes, and so that all the people may have a fair chance to supply their needs. Unless this is done the movement to cause greater production of foodstuffs on farms and city lots will only enslave and impoverish the people more than ever. The next vital necessity is for the government to take over the railroads and all other means of transporting so that food, clothing, war materials and all other needful things may reach the people and the soldiers promptly and without graft. The big agitation should be concerning public ownership and control of markets, mines, factories and railroads. The war is on. We Socialists could not, we can not help it. We must each do all he or she can to arouse the people NOW to the extreme necessity of nationalizing all resources and making the most rapid strides possible toward industrial and political democracy. Now is the time to cry aloud everywhere for public ownership.-The Christian Socialist. RIGHT CANNOT DIE By Rev. G. D. Brooks Wrong cannot live, Right cannot die— O man, Think not to foil the gerat Jehovah's plan: Thy business here is business of a day One moment here, and then the next, away. Look around thee, see, the earth is strewn with dead, Whose bodies slumber in a cheerless bed. Thou, too, with all thy prowess, power and skill, Shalt soon be numbered with them, cold and still; And o'er thy grave the winds will softly sigh, And airy tongues repeat along the sky— Wrong cannot live—Right cannot die. John Ruskin Cigar, 5 cents. Biggest and Best. THE MONITOR Obvious Observations The editor of these nifty observs made a flying trip down to old St. Louis to look over the field and the effects of the riot knocked his sense of humor into a thousand pieces. The papers say that Russia has Germany saying her prayers. The paper also said that only 37 black and 3 white people were killed in the East St. Louis riot. Our advice is, don't believe everything you read in the paper. We thought that government food control was a big bluff. Prices haven't become a bit nervous and coal, the most essential of products, is not to be bothered at all. Can the south stop migration? Say, Irene, can the old reb states stop the sun from shining? The four men from Birmingham have been trying to tell us all about the Grum trial. Monitor printed matter was greatly in evidence and the prosecuting lawyer roared like a lion until he reached the part where we said we will try to have every Colored man out of the south in five years. It was then that he grew faint and fell up against the rail. When it comes to writing editorials we have to hand Mr. Newbranch, of the World-Herald, the palm. He is a wang as long a she isn't expounding administrative policies. Where is the little country girl who used to wear gingham and pigtails? I went through forty-eleven country burgs last w.e.k and could not find one with a periscope. An Omaha man met a southern man last week on the streets. The southern man just came and was broke, but when he left the other he had money. Neither had ever seen the other before. Two little gold emblems of cross and crescent was what brought them together. SKITS OF SOLOMON Nappy, the little sawed-off, hammered-down emperor of France, better known as Napoleon, once mourned, "Scratch the skin and you get the savage." Nappy was right. He knew what he was talking about. He had the English in mind most particularly when he said it. The white race never has gotten very far away from savagery. As late as the tenth century A. D. they snoozed in caves and wore animal hides. It is just lately that they have varnished over the hard places. Very true is this of the U. S. A. If a wild man of the stone age should have dropped in on East St. Louis last Monday he would have fallen on the necks of the riots and cried, "Hello, brother! Glad I'm home." It's in the breed. The present war in Europe is just the latent brute being tired of civilized effort and going back to the smell of blood and the touch of iron. As far as they are concerned, civilization means something to fill their hungry stomachs. In the frenzy of fight the only thing that will cool them is a collection of Winchesters. The man who is civilized or tries to be has no better protection against a veneered brute than the possession of a shooter that shoots. Buy one, because, as the scout of the plains once said, maybe you might never need one, but if you do need one you will need it mighty much. Mighty much is right. Self-protection crowds every other consideration off the bench of life, and it is not an end seat hog, either. Invest, brother; invest. Mr. Parker is in St. Louis assisting as many victims of the riot as possible to find employment. Many of them are being shipped to different points because East St. Louis will be no longer safe for them. Now that the southern roads have refused to honor prepaid transportation the only step left is to persuade companies to advance cash. One company has already decided to do this and everything will be arranged as quickly as possible. Other companies will follow as soon as they are persuaded that the risk is not great. Peter McCann, L. T. Jones and John Robinson were sent cash fares to Mobile where they had come from Pensacola and all three arrived in Omaha Saturday. Four men reached here Friday from Birmingham. A. Grum, who was arrested in Birmingham for "recruiting," has been released. He will be in Omaha in about thirty days. More than 100 tickets sent by the Monitor before July 1, in order to escape the new order were cancelled on all the roads before the date set for the order to become effective. The M. and O. was the only road delivering transportation up to midnight, June 30. One firm in Omaha has announced that it will need about 200 Colored laborers in about 60 days for a large contract job lasting a year or more. The packing houses in and around Omaha have become filled and now refuse the promised raise to 30 cents Savages LABOR NOTES per hour made the men a short time ago. All men wishing to apply for work at any firms listed in The Monitor should address Mr. Parker, in care of The Monitor, and not write firms directly because their letters are simply handed over to us. Mr. Parker assisted Mr. James Taylor and Mr. James Woods to get chafeur jobs last week. Mr. Taylor is with a wealthy private family, while Mr. Woods is working in a large garage. Both have given fine service. Mr. Fred Williams, partner to Mr. Parker, went to Mobile to meet the party of forty men to come from that point. The order from the M. and O. however, forced a cancellation of the tickets and Mr. Williams was forced to return. Mobile, however, is under consideration as the probable future base for bringing all Monitor applicants from the south. Erie, Pa., May 28, 1917. Mr. George Wells Parker, Business Manager The Monitor, Omaha, Nebr. Dear Mr. Parker: We are in receipt of your of May 26th regarding Colored labor and desire to say that the attached has been forwarded to each member of our association and undoubtedly you will hear direct from such members as desire labor. Very truly yours, MANUFACTURERS ASSN. OF ERIE, David E. Jones, Secretary. Manufacturers Association of Erie Office of the Secretary. The following letter from George Wells Parker, 1119 North 21st St., Omaha, Nebraska, will be of interest to members seeking Negro labor. Mr. Parker, who is business manager of "The Monitor, a paper for Negroes, says: "For the past nine months, The Monitor has been making a thorough and systematic campaign in the South to get into touch with the very best labor and we believe that we can supply more first class labor than any other management in the United States. Of our companies that have advanced transportation, and that is the most important matter with these poor people, NOT A SINGLE ONE HAS HAD A DESERTER. Our enclosed literature will give you some idea of the way we are handling the matter. We are at your service and trust that we may be of service to you. The fact that we are a distance from Erie does not matter in the matter of our furnishing good labor." Respectfully, (Signed) George Wells Parker. For further information, please communicate direct with Mr. Parker. Manufacturers Association of Erie. Buffalo, N. Y., May 29, 1917. Mr. George Wells Parker, 1119 North 21st St., Omaha, Nebr. Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of May 26th, relating to opportunities for Negroes in Buffalo, I will answer your inquiries in their order, as follows: (1) Does you locality offer any opportunities for industrious Negro labor? Yes. (2) Is your locality overcrowded with such labor? No. (3) Firms that may want, or probably will consider, Negro labor include: Gould Coupler Company, Depew, N. Y.; American Malleables Company, Lancaster, N. Y.; Atlas Crucible Steel Company, Strong Steel Foundry Company, Buffalo Forge Company, Jewell Steel and Malleable Company of Buffalo; Buffalo General Electric Company, Wickwire Steel Company and the Semet Solvay Company of Tonawanda, New York. Wages are as good here as anywhere and range from $27 \frac{1}{2}$ to 35 cents per hour for common labor. Skilled men can, of course, earn much higher wages. Very truly yours, HENRY B. SAUNDERS, Industrial Commissioner. Buffalo Chamber of Commerce. A letter received from the Minnesota Steel Mills this week says the 200 industrious Colored men are wanted. Wages 27½ cents per hour, full time at ten hours, and all year work. A letter this week from the Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo, gives the names of many firms wanting Colored labor at wages from 27½ to 35 cents per hour for unskilled workmen, higher wages for skilled. The Monitor has sent letters to all the firms. A bulletin has been made of The Monitor circular and mailed to all members of the Manufacturers Association of Erie, Pa. The Montana Mining Companies want Colored labor. Negotiations are now under way to supply the same. Albion, Mich., June 27, 1917. Mr. George Wells Parker, Omaha, Neb. My Dear Sir: By some means, the registered letter did not reach me. I LABOR LETTERS May 25, 1917. BULLETIN received notice of same yesterday, and went to the office here for same. I am, indeed, sorry for this misfortune, as I am not pleased with work, hours, money or situation. But, however, I am going to get straight, save a few dollars and come to Omaha. In the first place too many of my people have come here for accommodations needed, and sentiment is not the best. I get this from refusal of vacant houses offered for rent, and where there is property for sale the terms are too dear for any of my race to buy. The Half Price Sale Choice of Any Spring and Summer Suit in House 1/2 Former Price BIG REDUCTIONS IN MEN'S FURNISHINGS PANTS AND SHOES 150 Dozen Men's Straw Hats 50 Cents Apiece. Palace Clothing Co. 14th and Douglas Sts. AMUSEMENTS The Alhambra SUNDAY Bessie Love in CHEERFUL GIVERS HAM AND BUD COMEDY Jimmie Dale in THE GRAY SEAL Vaudeville THE MITCHELL TRIO MONDAY Chas. Ray in THE PINCH HITTER This is one of the best baseball stories of the season. Don't miss this. TUESDAY Vitagraph Night Lucille Stewart in HIS WIFE'S GOOD NAME Comedy, JONES' FINISH WEDNESDAY Molly King in THE DOUBLE CROSS Hearst-Pathe News True Boardman in The further series of "STINGAREE" Triangle Comedy "DOG'S OWN TAIL" THURSDAY Maurice Costello in THE CRIMSON STAIN MYSTERY Black Cat Feature Triangle Comedy SKIRT TRAGEDY FRIDAY Metro Night SATURDAY Clara Kimball Young Hearst-Pathe News Jerry Comedy --- 烬 I am sorry for the delay of this letter and note that it should be returned within sixty days. Hope that the delay will cause no trouble in having money refunded. I have some good friends here that do not want me to leave. I was elected president of the Colored Business Men's League last Thursday evening, but I am thinking solely of Omaha. I shall write you more fully later. Hoping to rivet a stronger friendship with you, I am Yours respectfully, ROBT. M. EVANS. HOLSUM AND KLEEN MAID Why Buy Inferior When The Best COSTS NO MORE? JAY BURNS BAKING CO. 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. 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. WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO OMAHA WHO DOES YOUR SHOE RE- PAIRING? Try H. LAZARUS Work done while you wait, or will call for and deliver without charge. Red 2395 2019 Cuming St. If I don't get your work, we both lose. ARE YOU SATISFIED with your Dry Cleaner? If not, try the ROYAL DRY CLEANERS BEST WORK AND SERVICE NONE BETTER Call Us First PHONE DOUGLAS 1811 24th St., 1 block north of Cuming Street John Ruskin Cigar, 5 cents. Biggest and Best. 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 "IZZY" LEW ROSE—Your Favorite Comedian With the Five Hargis Sisters ALL NEW SONGS AND DANCES Every Afternoon and Evening 1.3.1.6 DOUGLAS STREET A Riot of Fun—Don't Miss It 3 P. M. to 12 M. Monarch Pool Hall Douglas 3724, 1148 12 M. to 4 A. M., Douglas 1491, 2491 4 A. M. to 23 M. Residence, Webster 7661 JOE LEWIS--TAXI AUTO EXPRESS Service Day and Night Please Phone All Express Orders to Webster 7661. A Place to Eat The Vendome Lee Vaughn, Proprietor 1210 Dodge Street. | Phone Tyler 1200 foo Res. Phone Webster 2747 W. C. FERRIN VAN & STORAGE CO. PIANO MOVING A SPECIALTY Baggage Delivered, Household Goods Packed and Shipped yah: 15th and Capital Ave. 2624 Burdette St. Drink TE-TO : ‘The Great Teetotalers’ Beverage An Invigorating, Healthful Drink, ABSOLUTELY PURE, Being Made From selected Cereals. There is no beverage better than Te-To, which de- mass iiant tans a dieses merits and because it's You Can Buy TE-TO Everywhere On Tap or in Bottles | ORDER A CASE | For your home or to take along on the camping trip. It is an ree drink for young and old, being very refreshing and health- PHONE Willow Springs Beverage Co. | Douglas 1306 or 2108 For TE-TO | Events and Persons W. B. Wallace is another one of our young men who has purchased a Liberty bond. He has just returned from Kansas City, Mo. where he was the guest of J. Silas Harris. Mr. and Mrs. 'T. P. Mahammitt left Saturday moming for Hollywood, Cal., for an indefinite stay. When you need a good clean shave, see P. H. Jenkins, 1318 Dodge street. Adv. Mrs. James Ross and infant son are visiting Mrs, Ross’ mother at Olathe, Kan. George Wells Parker of The Moni- tor staff, has just returned from St. Louis, where he spent several days on business and in investigation of the East St. Louis massacre. Ladies tailoring and dressmaking. Mrs. E. M. January, 2310 N. 25th St Webster 1483,—Adv. The funeral of George Jenkins was held from St. John’s Methodist church Wednesday, July 4, Rey. W. T. Os- borne officiating. ‘The deceased was a member of Excelsior lodge, which had charge of the funeral, Mr. Jen- kins was widely known and respected, having been a resident of Omaha for thirty-four years. He is survived by his widow, a daughter and grand- daughter, two sons, nieces and nephews and a host of friends, Hair growing and hair preservation, scalp treatment, manicuring and mas- sage. Smith, Chiles & Wheeler, 2414 North 24th. Webster 3024—Adv. Mrs, Susie Henderson nas returned from Casper, Wyo., where she at- tended the marriage of her daughter Olga to Mr. Clarence Watkins of that city. Mr. Watkins and Miss Hender- son were married at the home of Mrs. Josie Henderson Watkins. Both of the couples are brothers and sisters. Horace Henderson will spend the summer with them, Mr. Days Washington, of Oakland, Cal., and Mrs. Lizzie Everett, of Oma- ha, were married at Council Bluffs, Wednesday. Mrs. 8. J. McDonald, enroute from Denver, Col., to Des Moines, Ia., was the guest Monday of Mrs. W. B. Wat- son. For real estate, loans, insurance and investments, see Eugene Thoma: first. Rooms 419-14 Karbach Block, 15th and Douglas. Phone Douglas 3607.—Adv. ‘The Star Garden Party given at the residence of Mrs. J. S. Turner Mon- day evening by the Hiawatha Chapter ©. E. S. was both a social and financial success. The O. N. EF. Club will meet at the residence of Miss Blanche Nance, 2715 Miami street, July 19 at 8:20. All members are requested to be present. For dressmaking, call Miss Alexan- der. 2413 N. 29th st. Web. 3927. Mrs. Nellie Reed, of Leavenworth, Kans., arrived in the city last Wednes- day to attend the funeral of her uncle George W. Jenkins, and will remain ubout two months. Mrs. Minnie R. Garrett, wife of Charles G. Garrett, 2724 Harney St. went to the Nicholas Senn Hospital last Wednesday for an operation. We specialize in cleaning ladies fancy shoes. Called for and deliy. ered. Gene’s place, 103 So. 14th St. Douglas 7306. Mrs. Jessie Williams, of Detroit Mich., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ear Davis, at 2628 Burdette St. Mr. and Mrs. A, J. Lewis, of Kansas City, Mo., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Riggs. Mr. Lewis was a resident of Omaha twenty-five years ago and is surprised at the marvellous growth of the city. Plain sewing done. Children’s clothes a specialty. Mrs. L. Johnson, Webster 1621.—Adv. Have you investigated the invest- ment offered by the Farmers’ Oil and Gas Company? Dr. Chas. Flippin, of Stromsburg, Neb. has made an investment in the Farmers’ Oil and Gas Company. Furnished rooms, 1817 Izard. Tyler 1609. Mr, Hayward, of the Willow Springs Company, manufacturers of Te-To, ‘said that few Colored people ordered this beverage. We told him that ‘the proper thing to do then was to advertise in The Monitor. He gave ‘us an “ad.” Now prove to him that ‘it pays to advertise in The Monitor. - Smoke John Ruskin Se Cigar. Big: ‘gest and Best.—Adv. James Mack, aged 27, died at a local hospital Tuesday and was buried ‘Thana aiternoon from the chapel of the Western Undertaking Company. ‘the Rev. M. H. Wilkinson officiated. He is survived by a sister, Carrie Car- ter, and an aunt, Mrs. Frank Fryson. Sergt. Frank T. Msson, of the Tenth Cavalry, who is on detached service, and has been in Omaha for several days, left yesterday for Jef- ferson Barracks, Mo., from which point he will go to Fort Sheridan, Il. jand then to Plattsburg, N. Y. We positively grow the hair. Best care taken in saving each strand, Electrical massage, scalp and face. Manicuring a specialty. Poro Culture College, 1516 North 25th street. Anna E. Jones and Clara C. Keys. Maranello preparations.. Webster 5450.—Adv. D. Lloyd, of Pensacola, Fla. ar- rived in Omaha Thursday morning. Mrs, Polly Pegg, mother of Bayliss A., and the late John Grant Pegg, died July 3 at her home in Chickasha, Okla. THE NEW MECCA HALL Have you been to the new Mecca Hall? If not, go some evening and see how really enjoyable an evening can be. The proprietors are to be congratualted upon the remodeling of the Mecca Hall and the installation of a cabaret, The hall proper has been redecorated, the floor refinished and the stage made over, while much new scenery has been painted for the use of plays. The cabaret is really a dream of a place. It bears a sort cl grotto effect, stony appearing, low vaulted and cool. One enters either from the outside or from the inside. Refreshments are there and also song and musical entertainment. The New Mecca is SOME place and if you haven't been there you have really missed a treat. CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our sincere thanks to the many friends for their kindness shown us in the illness and death of our beloved husband and father; also for the beautiful floral etfesiane. MRS. ELLEN JENKINS, MRS. FANNIE. WILSON, , DAVID JENKINS, WILLIAM ROBINSON, GEORGIA WILSON. | A tree sends its roots far under the ground just as it sends its branches high above the ground; which is a eseful thing for the ambitious to re- Srember aiouth'e Gekapanlon, THE MONITOR Our Women and Children Lectee leds Lien THE SOUP POT A eee Since many of the protein-rich foods are among the most expensive of those in common use, it is espe- cially important to make the fullest possible use of what is bought. Not all of the meat which we buy is suitable for use as such. The mass- es of fat which are trimmed off be- fore cooking or are left on the plat- ters may be saved, rendered, and used in cooking, while the bones, gris- tle, and other refuse parts find their best use in the soup pot, where the long slow cooking in water draws out the gelatin, fat and other nutritive material they contain. This stock, as the resulting liquid is called, may serve as the basis not only of a great variety of soups, but also of gravies and sauces, and may be used for cook- ing vegetables, rice, and similar foods. When it is used for soup, its flavor may be varied by adding various veg- etables, such as carrots, onions, to- matoes, turnips, and celery. It may be thickened with flour, bread crumbs or okra, Boiled rice, barley, macaroni and other pastes and croutons (small pieces of stale bread fried a delicate brown in deep fat) may be put in to inerease the food value of soup and vary its appearance and taste. FACT AND COMMENT Patience without push is not virtue, but a vice. He finds not any Good in any sort Of Wind who does not steer for Any Port. If, like the clouds, you save for a rainy day, you also will have a silver lining. SINGLETON RECITAL Friday night, July 6, a large audi- ence in St. John’s A. M. E. Church was most delightfully entertained by a group of young musicians of decided talent. ‘The occasion was the recital of Mr. J. Andrew Singleton, tenor so- loist. ‘The program rendered by Mr. Singleton was a difficult one and well executed. It left no doubt in the minds of his hearers that he gained considerable experience by his train- ing at Howard University. ‘The group containing “Mammy,” “O He’ Carita” and “The Sunshine of Your Smile” was particularly good. ‘The success of Mr. Singleton’s ex- cellent program was due also to the assistance of his accompanist, Mrs. © H. Singleton. Her playing at all times was of such a nature as to give confidence to the singers. Miss Duvall, who assisted Mr. Sin- gleton, as soprano soloist, and who is well known as one of the most promising singers among the local tal- ent, was heard to good advantage in “Sing On,” by Denza; and “Jean,” by ‘Burleigh. ‘The work of Mr. Clyde Leroy Glass, concert pianist, of Des Moines, was brilliant and proclaimed him as a coming artist of high rank. The num- bers which seemed to be the most ap- preciated were the group containing “Deep River” by Coleridge-Taylor; “Gigue Bretonne,” by Bachmann, an¢ “Barearolle” by Goddard. ‘The program was a well-selected one throughout, Mr. Singleton’s num- ‘bers included in addition to the grouy “mentioned, three of Burleigh’s: “The Young Warrior,” “Almona” and “Her Eyes ‘Twin Pools;” “Celeste Aida” by Verdi, and “Ah, Love But a Day,” by Mrs. Beach. Mr. Glass’s other num: bers were “Scherzo in B Flat Minor’ by Chopin; “Consolation” and “Ext. king” by Lisat, ‘MCLELLAN LECTURE RECITAL | An appreciative audience assembled ‘in the parlors of Jacobs’ Memorial ‘Hall Wednesday night, when George ‘Marion McClellan, of Louisville, Ky., gave readings from his prose and poetical works, “The Old Green Bot- tom Inn” and “The Pathway of Dreams.” ‘The interplay of humor and pathos in the two short stories, “John Henry,” or “For Anison’s Sake” and “The Death of Hannibal,” a famous race horse, delighted his audience as did also his poetical selections from the “Pathway of Dreams.” ‘The pro- gram was varied by musical numbers consisting of a duet by the Misses Bentley and Bradley; solos by Mrs. Silas Johnson, Miss McCleary and Mrs. Dewey Allen and two numbers by the Western University quartette, composed of Messrs. Richard Allen, Harold Bentley, Hubert Glover and Thomas Roulette. The accompanists were Miss Logan, Miss Mattie Childs and Mrs. Irene Gardner. This very pleasant entertainment was given un- der the auspices of the Woman's Aux- iliary of St, Philip's Episcopal Church. ' | July | Famous month of Julius } Caesar and of American - Independence. | We, too, are making his- tory, rapidly. : July Sales Now : On Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. J.A.Edhoim —_E. W. Sherman 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 pro-enononononontnt “onent-o-tnonentrent-ouontnoron 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 Build- ers” { 1803 FARNAM STREET "OUR SEMI-ANNUAL STARTS SATURDAY, JUNE 30 THREE FOR $2.75 every shirt guaranteed fast color patterns und colors to please every taste: values up.to $2.30—all (0 Bo se yeur choles, 886, toc Neckwear at 28c; Three for $1 $6.50 Genuine Tub Silk Shirts, $3.85 P. S-- Don't fall to get your share ot these wonderful shirt values. WOLF’S 1421 DOUGLAS STREET dust a Few Steps From 16th St. Kansas and Oklahoma Oil Fields Amaze the World The nation depends upon Oklahoma and Kansas for its high grade oil from which gasoline and other light oils are refined. Oklahoma is producing over one-third (1-3) of the crude oil from which gasoline is made in the United States. If the Kansas and Oklahoma oil fields were to suddenly shut down, one-half of the automobiles in the United States would have to stop running. The great automo- bile industry is, in a way, dependent upon Oklahoma oil fields. OKLAHOMA is producing almost twice ‘as much oil as all of the states east of the Mississippa River—more than Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana combined. Considering the above facts, is it strange that OKLAHOMA & KANSAS OIL MEANS MILLIONS, or that hundreds: of Oklahoma oil companies are making fortunes for their shareholders? The wonder of it never ceases. Almost every day you read of men, or groups of men, or companies selling their holdings for millions of dollars. Recently the report was published of the MeMann Oil Company, which sold out part of its production to the Magnolia Oil Company for the vast sum of $35,000,000. Just a few days ago the press and oil journals reported the sale of the B. B, Jones property in the Oklahoma field for $7,000,000. A fortnight ago the Hill Oil and Gas Company sold their holdings in ‘Oklahoma oil fields to the Cosden Oil and Gas Company for $12,000,000. ‘The Farmers Oil and Gas Company has holdings in these wonderful producing oil fields. It is now selling 400 square feet lots, giving a title in fee simple, guaranteeing the title forever, to the purchaser ® ‘of the said deed. These lots are selling now at ten dollars and will soon be doubled in price, due to the newly discovered oil wells around this property. You better get down to the ground floor and invest AT ONCE! There is no telling what a hundred dollars invested in the Farmers Oil and Gas Company will do for you. The Farmers Uli & aS UO. 612-613 Paxton Block, Omaha, Neb. ORDER FOR LOTS IN THE FARMERS OIL & GAS CO. 613 Paxton Building, Omaha, Neb. Gentlemen:—Enclosed please find §..... e sesseccansesencstantene as Payment fn fall £07. --.ereeerseorennerseernseneeerernnen Ot at $10.00 each. 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Omaha, Neb. 3 We Have a Complete Line of FLOWER,GRASS AND caren” Deeds Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry ‘Supplies Fresh cut flowers always on hand ), Stewart’s Seed Store 119 N, 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 4 Lincoln Department Anita M. Taylor, Call L9810 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. The mission circle of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church held an interesting session Friday evening. The president, Miss Parthenia Grattin, was elected delegate to the Mission Convention of the Western States, convening at Des Moines, Ia. Miss Ednamae Davis left Monday for Kansas City, to spend her summer vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mitchell have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Gates for the past week. Miss Alma Hinton, of Fairmopolis, Wyoming, spent a few days in Lincoln, the guest of Mrs. Major Moore. Miss Hinton is en route to Topeka to visit her grandmother. Mrs. Van Nell and her grandson, Norman Beard, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rebecca Price and Mrs. Major Moore are in Omaha attending the meetings of the Grand Tabernacle. The L. L. S. Kensington Club received a large number of guests Monday evening at the home of its president, Mrs. James Dean, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Fleming. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Mattie Shreves. Gideon Band donated a new brussels carpet to the Baptist Church. Mrs. Sallie Van left for Wichita, Kansas, Saturday after three months' visit with her daughter, Mrs. Clara Bowdry. The 4th of July picnic given by the Baptist Church, Major Moore, chairman, at the city park, was a great success. $61 was the receipts for the day. L. L. S. Kensington will hold its regular meeting Monday evening with Mrs. Rebecca Pearson. The Optimistic Set held its regular meeting at the home of the secretary, Mrs. Ada Holmes, Thursday afternoon. It was decided to hold the remaining meetings of the summer at the various parks. The next one Thursday, July 17, at Epworth Lake Park. Miss Margaret La Cour of Omaha spent the 4th of July in Lincoln, the guest of Mrs. Georgia Flippin. Miss Mattie Shreves of St. Joseph, Mo., who has been visiting Mrs. Arthur Williams, left Tuesday morning for Omaha to be the guest of Mrs. Alfonzo Wilson. EYEWITNESS TELLS HOW MOB DRAGGED NEGROES TO DEATH (Continued From First Page) tioned who was apparently finished by the stone hurled upon his neck by the noticeably well-dressed young man. The butchering of the fire-trapped Negroes went on so rapidly that, when I walked back to the alley a few minutes later, one was lying dead in the alley on the west side of Fourth street and another on the east side. And now women began to appear. One frightened black girl, probably 20 years old, got as far as Broadway with no worse treatment than jeers and thrusts. At Broadway, in view of militiamen, the white women, several of whom had been watching the massacre of the Negro men, pounced on the Negress. Faces Show What They Are. I do not wish to be understood as saying that these women were representative of the woman hood of East St. Louis. Their faces showed, all too plainly, exactly who and what they were. But they were the heroes of the moment with that gathering of men, and when one man, sick of the brutality he had seen, seized one of the women by the arm, to stop an impending blow, he was hustled away, with fists under his nose, and with more show of actual anger than had been bestowed on any of the Negroes. He was a stocky, nervy chap, and he stood his ground until a diversion elsewhere drew the menacing ring of men away. "Let the girls have her," was the shout as the women attacked the young Negress. The victim's cry, "Please, please, I ain't done nothing," was stopped by a blow in the mouth with a broomstick, which one of the women swung like a baseball bat. Another woman seized the Negress' hands, and the blow was repeated as she struggled helplessly. Finger nails clawed her hair, and the sleeves were torn from her waist, when some of the men called, "Now let her see how fast she can run." The women did not readily leave off beating her, but they stopped short of murder, and the crying, hysterical girl run down the street. Militiaman Is Ignored. An older Negress, a few moments later came along with two or three militiamen, and the same women made for her. When one of the soldiers held his gun as a barrier, the woman with the broomstick seized it with both hands, and struggled to wrest it from him, while the others, striking at the Negress, in spite of the other militiamen, frightened her thoroughly and hurt her somewhat. From Negress beating, the well-pleased procession turned to see a lynching. A Negro, his head laid open by a great stone-cut, had been dragged to the mouth of the alley on Fourth street and a small rope was being put about his neck. There was joking comment on the weakness of the rope, and everyone was prepared for what happened when it was pulled over a projecting cable box, a short distance up the pole. It broke, letting the Negro tumble back to his knees and causing one of the men who was pulling on it to sprawl on the pavement. "Pull for East St. Louis." An old man, with a cap like those worn by street car conductors, but showing no badge of car service, came out of his house to protest. "Don't you hang that man on this street," he shouted. "I dare you to." He was pushed angrily away, and a rope, obviously strong enough for its purpose, was brought. Right here I saw the most sickening incident of the evening. To put the rope around the Negro's neck, one of the lynchers stuck his fingers inside the gaping scalp and lifted the Negro's head by it, literally bathing his hand in the man's blood. "Get hold, and pull for East St. Louis!" called a man with a black coat and a new straw hat, as he seized the other end of the rope. The rope was long, but not too long, for the number of hands that grasped it, and this time the Negro was lifted to a height of about 7 feet from the ground. The body was left hanging there. While this lynching was in preparation I walked to Broadway, found a corporal's guard of militiamen, who had just come from where the firemen were working, and called their attention to what was going on. I do not know that they could have done anything to stop it. I know that they did not try to.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat, July 4. S. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH NOTES The big chorus for the oratorio, "David, the Shepherd Boy," which is to be given at the Brandeis Theatre, the first week in August, is rehearsing every Tuesday night.—Adv. Mr. George Dickinson entertained the Washingtonian Club at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. H. W. Balck, Wednesday night. Miss Corinne Thomas entertained at a private picnic party at Riverview Park Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Addie Hibbs died at her late residence, 503 South Twenty-fourth avenue, last Friday. The funeral was held from St. John's Church Sunday morning, the Rev. W. T. Coborne officiating. Interment was at Forest Lawn. Jones and Chiles had charge of the funeral. CARD OF THANKS We, the committee, wish to thank Mr. Silas Johnson for his kindness in donating the use of his chairs for the Opposite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazines, Cigars, Candies and a full line of Druggist Sundries THE MONITOR Star Garden Party given for the benefit of Hiawatha Chapter No. 57. One furnis ter 4490. WILHELMINA WATSON, Chairman. EILENE JONES, ETHEL JONES, CUMA WATSON, OTIS WATSON. I desire to thank my many friends and the members of Faithful Lodge for their generous kindness to me and mine during the illness and death of my husband, and also for the floral tributes expressive of heartfelt sym- pathy. Gratefully, SUSIE SMITH. 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. P. H. Jenkins, 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. Hazard, 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. 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BUY A VACANT LOT 29th and Burdette, $10 down, $5 monthly. 27th and Burdette, $10 down, $5 monthly. 26th and Erskine, $10 down, $5 monthly. 40th and Ames, $10 down, $5 monthly. HANDLER & ROBBINS Douglas 2842 Webster 5519 FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. Madame Henderson, hairdresser and manicurist, agent for the celebrated Madame C. J. Walker preparations. The Walker method taught. Diplomas granted. 2539 Burdette St., Omaha, Neb. Phone Webster 1489. --- WESTERN ELEPHANT COMPANY PLANT GROCERY ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATION HALL SYSTEM BALL SYSTEM TROPHY ELEPHANT One furnished room for rent. Webster 4490. Mrs. R. Gaskin, 2606 Seward St. Front parlor for rent in modern home. Private family. Gentleman preferred. $2.00 a week. 2414 Erskine St. Webster 4760. Neatly furnished rooms, 2915 Erskine street. Mrs. F. Johnson. Webster 3143. Two neatly furnished rooms. Walking distance. 1219 South Sixteenth street. Phone Douglas 7639 after 6:30 p. m. William Douglass. Two furnished rooms for three or four working men. 2202 Clark St. Phone Webster 7034. Neatly furnished rooms, strictly modern, $2.00 and up. Mrs. Minnie Ricketts, 1119 North Nineteenth St. Webster 3812. Neatly furnished rooms. Hot and cold water. On Dodge and 24th street car lines. Mrs. Anna Banks. 924 North 20th street. Telephone Douglas 4379. Furnished rooms for two gentlemen. Southern men preferred. Mrs. Bessie Johnson, 2720 Drexel street, South Side. 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 rooms to rent in a modern house, 2619 Hamilton street. Phone Webster 1250.—Adv. China painting. Classes Tuesdays and Thursdays. Mrs. D. W. Gooden 2211 Cuming street. Douglas 5436. The Business World Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night JONES & CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Web. 1100 and Web. 204 Licensed Embalmer. Res. Colfax 3831 . Douglas 3181 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 3807 Camden Avenue. 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 2522 Lake St. Webster 7971 PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS Guaranteed to Grow Hair in Six Treatments or Money Refunded Douglas 8536 Miss Nellie Scott Graduate of N. E. Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass. Florentine F. Pinkston Teacher of Pianoforte, Harmony, Solfeggio Webster 2814 Boston Studio 2214 No. 28th Ave. Omaha. DR. CRAIG MORRIS DENTIST 2407 Lake St. Phone Web. 4021 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 TERRELL'S DRUG STORE Graduate Pharmacist Prompt Delivery Excellent Service Webster 4443 24th and Grant Annie Banks Cecil B. Wilkes BANKS-WILKES Funeral Directors and Embalmers Lady Assistant Satisfaction Guaranteed 1914 Cuming-Street Res. Doug. 4379, Office Doug. 3718 WANTED. 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. 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 Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. Hotel Cuming Douglas 2466 GOOD GROCH C. P. WESIN Also Fresh Fruits 2005 Cuming St. TRY— Barma THE LIFE SAVER ALWAYS ON TAP AT THE ALAMO Western Fur 2518 Lake Street Open Day Our Conveniences: Free Spacious Morgue and Reposing Rooms con- Derma-Surgery work; lady atten- auto or horse drawn vehicles. Service. Open Day and Night 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. SILAS JOHNSON, Funeral Director The Cream of Omaha's Tonsorialists The Cream of Omaha's Tonsorialists E. W. Killingsworth The Alamo Barber Shop Two Twentieth Century barb mands. We are up to the latest sanitary. Barber shop department carry a full line of choice Cigars Cnewing Gum. KILLINGSWORTH Phone Webster 5784. The Alamo Barber Shop and Pocket Billiard Parlor Two Twentieth Century barbers such as the general public demands. We are up to the latest methods of barbering. Everything sanitary. Barber shop department open from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. We carry a full line of choice Cigars, Tobaccos, Cigarettes, Candies and Cnewing Gum. KILLINGSWORTH & PRICE. Props. Phone Webster 5784. 2416 North 24th Street "Does The Monitor Do Job Printing?" SURE Best Work---Best Prices 13th and Jackson 1119 No. 21st Doug. 2190 or Web. 4243 Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department of the United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Farnam Streets OMAHA THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE PRINTING COMPANY Will L. Hetherington Violinist Instructor at Bellevue College Asst. of Henry Cox Studio Patterson Blk MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. OMAHA TRANSFER CO. 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