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Houston Makes Good Impression Monitor Representative Finds Racce Progressive and Business Conditions Favorable in Texas Metropolis; Interviews Editor of Chronicle. Houston, Tex., Jan. 12. To the Readers of The Monitor: I salute you! Having been in Houston for a week and at Camp Logan quite often I have become rather military, you see. Houston, the pride of southern Texas, a city of 125,000, 40,000 of which is claimed by the race, is situated fifty miles north of Galveston on Buffalo bayou, at the head of deep water navigation. Ships from all over the world, landing at her docks, make her a very important commercial and shipping point, also a large railway center. Many Home Owners. The race is doing wonders here. Sixty per cent own or are buying their homes; they are well employed, earning a good wage, some few holding good positions, and a large number in business of all kinds. They are located in all parts of the city. San Felipe street, the main thoroughfare of the Fourth ward, where most of the race live, I would liken unto our North Twenty-fourth street. Dowling and McKinney streets, where you will find more in business in the select residential district, reminds me of west Farnam and Dewey avenue. The Fifth ward, where they are also very thickly settled, reminds one of our own South Side. Home of American Mutual. Home of American Mutual. Houston is also the home of the American Mutual Benefit association, which is an institution that the race is proud of, proving it by their support. A visit to their offices will make any race man feel proud to meet the large number of departmental heads, with their numerous assistants, busily engaged in checking accounts and operating typewriters, makes one wonder if this is real. Yes, it is, and all of this is happening 'way down south in Texas. But it proves the race's ability to adapt itself to any condition and take advantage of the least opportunity offered. Meets J. Vance Lewis. Here I met J. Vance Lewis, lawyer, lecturer and traveler, and I guess most of you readers are acquainted with him. He was glad to meet The Monitor and its representative, and with true Southern hospitality welcomed us to both his office and his home. Herbert's Hospitality. Mr. Phil Herbert, proprietor of the Herbert Pharmacy, made every provision for our pleasure and convenience during my stay, I being his guest, with rooms provided at the Oriental hotel. I made my headquarters in his store, where I met most of the business and professional men, also many prominent citizens, for every one when downtown pays Phil a visit, even the soldiers from Camp Logan, especially the line officers, who can be found around the stove in Phil's back room every evening, because it is cold here. Houston having been visited by a snowstorm, the first in twenty-three years. Did I visit the cantonment? Why, certainly, and I am going to tell you all about it. Camp Logan. Camp Logan, as it is called, is located about five miles northwest of the city and is easily accessible for vehicles over several well paved boulevards and a single line of street railway. The Eighth Illinois, as it was formerly known, has grown in importance, being now known as the 370th Infantry, U. S. A., in command of Colonel Franklin A. Denison, Lieutenant Colonel Johnson, Major White of the medical corps, Major Stokes of the First battalion, Major Hunt of the Second battalion, Major Duncan of the Third battalion, Captain Gywn of the machine gun corps, assisted by First Lieutenant Lylburn Jackson, a former member of the Chicago police department and well known in Omaha; also Second Lieutenants Phillips and Browning. By the way, Phillips is a graduate civil engineer and expects to be commissioned in the engineer corps when organized. "The Old Eighth," as we will still call them, came here on October 23, excepting G company, which came August 1 and did guard and police duty during that most unfortunate incident of August 23. The Eighth Illinois has an enviable reputation, being known as the best disciplined and drilled regiment at the THE MONITOR camp, attached to the Thirty-third on, under command of Major G George Bell, jr. They are house large tents, furnished with wood doors and half walls, small campes and cots for six men. The base hospital, commissaries and mess halls are located in large, well built wooden structures. Interviews Editor Chronicle. After visiting the camp, where I conversed with any number of the officers, I decided to call on Mr. Kepple, managing editor of the Chronicle, one of Houston's big dailies; secured an introduction and an appointment through the Rev. William H. Green, a prominent worker of the race. I came away from Mr. Kepple's office with a better impression of Houston, Tex., and the South. Among other things said he called my attention to the fact that had not Houston possessed some good-thinking, clean, law-abiding citizens of both races the incident of August 23 might not have been confined to the angered and mutinous members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, U. S. A., and the local police, a fact which we will all recognize. Next week I promise you some more interesting facts concerning the race in Houston and at Camp Logan. Until then I am correspondingly yours, FRED C. WILLIAMS, Traveling Representative of The Monitor. U. S. Food Administration Kansas Farmers' Association Urges Co-operation in Food Conservation. Topeka, Kan.—The Sunflower State Agricultural association, composed of the Colored farmers of Kansas, held a meeting recently in the Topeka Industrial and Educational Institute here and by unanimous vote declared support to the United States food administration, urging full co-operation of the Kansas farmers and other members of the race to the government in its gigantic task of fighting for worldwide freedom. President William R. Carter of the association told the farmers that it was their task to help win the war. "We are a part of this great country," said President Carter, "and if it is up to us to respond to every call made by our President through any department of the government. All the world insists that food must play an important and essential part. "Since it is food, then food we are going to have and the farmers of Kansas intend to see that it is furnished. These young men are going into the fields—those who do not go into the trenches—and become producers as well as consumers. They will produce more than they consume, for they realize that there are our sons and brothers in the trenches and on the battlefields who must be fed." Poultry, farm and industrial displays attracted the attention of many who attended the conference. Women showed by demonstrations how they could help win the war and how easy it is to observe the meatless and wheatless days and still remain happy. "Poultry raising must be given special attention this spring," declared J. G. Grove, the 'Negro Potato King,' from Edwardsville, Kan., "because poultry and eggs must to a considerable degree take the place of meat on meatless days. There is a great demand for poultry at present, and it will be still greater in the future." MOB BURNS MAN FOR MURDER OF GIRI Hazelhurst, Miss., Jan. 16.—A mob took Sam Edwards, a Negro, accused of killing 17-year-old Vera Willis, from jail here early today and burned him to death. Oil was poured on the Negro's clothing by the mob, said to include the father of the girl. A battering ram was used to break in the jail door and Edwards is said to have confessed. The mutilated body of Vera Willis was found in the woods near here. COLORED MECHANICS QUIT WHEN SIGN GOES L Pittsburgh, Pa.—Twenty-five Colored mechanics, who have been employed here in the plant of the Pittsburgh Model Engine company, walked out after giving thirty-six hours' notice when an objectionable "Jim Crow" sign, recently placed in the plant, was not removed. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 19, 1918 An Instructive, Outspoken and Strikingly Significant and Suggestive Editorial, Recently Published in the Evening News of San Jose, California. ALL San Jose citizens are fully aware of the significance of New Year's day, but many of them probably failed to realize that the day marks an anniverasry of one of the greatest events in the history of the country—the freeing of the Negroes by the going into effect of Abraham Lincoln's famous emancipation proclamation fifty-years ago. We are prone to get in the habit either of ignoring such anniversaries, or, if we do remember them, of simply smugly remembering that a great event occurred so many years ago, and of feeling that the event was sufficient to itself, and achieved in entirety the task that was to be performed. But in truth, there was never a great deed or event yet which did not leave an aftermath of more deeds and duties to be done. The Declaration of Independence left us the task of establishing a genuine democracy, and of really making all men "free and equal." The adoption of woman suffrage leaves upon us the great task of emancipating woman economically and mentally, as well as politically. And just so, the emancipation proclamation left with us the great task of freeing the Negro socially and economically, as well as politically. The white race has not by any means fully discharged itself of its duty to the Negro race. The issuance of the emancipation proclamation merely started the great task of making up to the Negro race for all the wrongs that the white race has committed. We went over to Africa and ran down the Negroes as if they were wild animals. We put them in chains and crammed them into the noisome holds of slave ships, where they died by the hundreds. We brought them over to this country and put them to work in the blazing sun of the Southern states. When it was our whim to do so, we beat them. Our rapacious young men treated the girls of their race as the legitimate prey of desire. When the Negroes attempted to run away we dragged them back and treated them with barbarous cruelty. Then came the civil war, and we made them free politically—theoretically free. As a matter of fact, technical tricks of law exclude the vast majority of the Negroes in the Southern states from voting. We have never yet made a strong enough effort to educate and civilize the Negro, and when he acts like a brute and attacks our women, we too act like brutes and burn him at the stake. We forget the countless Negro women who have been attacked by white men. We forget that the only possible chance of elevating the Negro race is to take the path of education and systematically to train the Negroes in the ways of civilization and modern democratic culture. It is of these crimes committed by us in the past against the Negro, and it is of these duties which we now owe to the Negro, that we should think when we are considering the fifty-fifth anniversary of the going into effect of the emancipation proclamation. We should not congratulate ourselves on having permitted one of our great men to do a great thing more than half a century ago, but should rather highly resolve that we ourselves will do great things in the present and future to carry on the work started by the issuance of that now world-famous proclamation. COLORED LABORERS ASK FOR RAISE Beaumont, Tex., Jan. 10.—The Colored Shipyard Laborers' union, at a meeting Friday night, voted to ask employers for an increase in wages. A minimum of 40 cents an hour for an eight-hour day, time and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays will be sought. Similar action was taken by the white laborers' union Thursday night. There are approximately 1,200 common laborers employed in the six local shipbuilding plants. COLUMBUS, OHIO, TO HAVE COLORED Y. M. C. A. Columbus, O., Jan. 7.—The contract for the Spring street branch Y. M. C. A. new building, which is to be erected at the corner of Fifth and Spring streets, this city, for the Colored youths of the city, was let Saturday, January 5, to Charles W. Schneider & Son of Columbus. The building is to be completed September 1, and while the contractor is a white man the entire work is to be done by Colored artisans. This building will cost, including equipment and site, when completed, $115,000. NO DARKNESS HERE Private Ray Barbee and Miss Savannah Day were married at the residence of Rev. F. L. Lights Tuesday night.—News Item, Houston Observer. It was most fitting that Ray and Miss Day should be united by the Rev. Mr. Lights. No room for darkness here. Father Williams: Allow the operator to suggest that the coming ray-beam should be named Daylight.—Bob Allen. Ed Waters, the other linotype man, suggests that if it be a son it should be named Sunlight. OFFICERS' WIVES ORGANIZE Spouses of Negro Officers at Camp Form Association; Will Co-operate in Benefit Affairs for the Soldiers. Des Moines, Ia. — Fifteen wives of the Negro officers who are stationed at Camp Dodge met recently at the residence of Mrs. S. L. Birt and organized themselves into a club to be known as the Officers' Wives' Association of the 366th Infantry, National Army. The following were elected officers: Mrs. G. S. Norman of Atlanta, Ga. president; Mrs. M. E. Everett of Dallas, Tex., vice president; Mrs. F. S. Blocker of Atlanta, Ga., secretary; Mrs. C. W. Allen of Iowa Falls, Ia., assistant secretary; Mrs. W. H. Clarks of Huntsville, Ala., treasurer, and Mrs. J. W. Bundrat of Minneapolis, Minn., musical director. The purpose of the organization is to bring together all the wives of Negro officers now stationed at Camp Dodge, or who in the future may go there, for active co-operation in matters of benefit to the officers and soldiers at the camp and for helpful influence in the community. LOUISVILLE ASKING Louisville, Ky.—Leading Colored citizens are making a hard fight to get the new republican administration to appoint Colored men on the police force. This city has never had a Colored policeman and politicians of both parties have dodged the issue for years. RECOMMENDED FOR COMMISSIONS Houston, Tex.—Forty-seven non- commissioned officers of the 370th Infantry have been recommended for commissioners and have had their physical examinations. Vol. III. No.29 (Whole No.132) SCARCITY OF LABOR BECOMES ALARMING Head of Steel Corporation Would Have Government Import Orientals. Chicago, Jan. 5.—A plea to solve the labor problem of the United States by the importation of Orientals was made here tonight in an address by Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation, at a dinner given by the Commercial club. "To the extent needed, the United States should immediately, under proper conditions and reasonable restrictions, draw from the islands of the sea and from Oriental countries enough men, including soldiers and sailors, to meet every emergency," he said. "There would be no difficulty in obtaining in a short period large numbers of strong, healthy, intelligent, loyal men for civil or even military duty, and the number could be increased from time to time as required. "All who are acquainted with the facts know that we need more men and that we can get them if we are so disposed. If legislation is required congress should act without delay." Garner Balks at "Social Equality" Protests Reaching Washington of Efforts to Compel Intermingling of Whites and Blacks. NEGROES AND WHITES SAID TO BE MIXED AT HOSPITALS Texas Congressman Promises to Raise Rumpus Unless Conditions Are Changed. By W. S. Gard, Correspondent, Houston Post Bureau, 401 Kellogg Building. Washington, Jan. 11, 1918. Protest against seeming efforts to establish social equality between white and black soldiers in the National Army are reaching Washington. Strong appeal from camps in Texas have reached Congressman Garner and he is arranging to take the matter up with the war department. Notice that Negro soldiers are to enter the officers' training camps at San Antonio has brought further protest against the fever to properly segregate the race in southern army camps. Congressman Garner said Friday though it has been reported to him from reliable sources that Negroes and white soldiers are mixed indiscriminately in the same hospital wards in Texas camps and that convalescent soldiers eat at the hospital tables with Negro soldiers. Garner said: "I have been in complete sympathy with all that has been done toward raising an army and with the administration's management of difficult problems, but I can see no reason for attempting to set up and force social equality between the white and black races in the army training camps. I am going to take the matter up with the war department, and unless something is done speedily to relieve this situation I am going to raise a rumpus and I think the people in Texas know what that word means." DAN DESDUNES KNOWS A GOOD THING Dan Desdunes, the popular leader of the First Regimental Band, knows good things besides music. He is buying a Thrift Stamp every day and says he is going to keep it up. This means that Dan is saving 25 cents a day. He exchanges every sixteen Thrift Stamps with the additional 12 cents necessary for a War Savings Stamp which pays $ \frac{4}{2} $ per cent interest. Everybody who follows Dan Desdunes' example will not only help lick the Kaiser, but will save a neat little sum of money. ...Buy War Savings Stamps. Pay your debts. BUY ANOTHER WAR SAVINGS STAMP Lifting Lift, Too! Charged With Clever Swindle Federal Officers Arrest J. A. Fields, Who Is Alleged to Have Duped Working Women Out of Several Hundred Dollars. In the arrest Wednesday or J. A. Fields, a Colored man, who lives at 4428 South Twenty-fourth street, this city, the federal officers allege that they have unearthed one of the cleverest swindling games ever reported to the postoffice authorities in these parts. It is estimated that Fields cleaned up about $2,000 in the last thirty days by his scheme. "Fields & Dooley" was the name under which Fields chose to operate. William Dooley is the stepfather of Fields and lives with him. Offered Women Light Work. Fields inserted advertisements in many newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News and Detroit Free Press. The advertisements asked for women to work two hours an evening and promised salaries of from $15 to $18 per week. Answers came by the hundreds. Mail carriers were amazed at the number of letters which went to the little shack on the South Side and Postoffice Inspector Coble got to working on the case. Fields' first letter to those answering his advertisement advised the prospective victims that all that was required at first was that they should secure a "certificate of compensation," for which a fee of $1 was necessary, besides 37 cents postage. Believe 5.000 Bit. It went on to say that "it is one of Nebraska's most rigid laws that you must have this certificate before we can take you into our employ. It may seem insignificant, but if it is disregarded the government might make it rather nasty for us." So the women sent the $1.37. It is the opinion of postal authorities that at least 5,000 of them answered the advertisement. One of the further baits said to have been held out by Fields was the promise of sick benefits without cost. "If you are taken sick while in our employ," he wrote, "we will pay you $7 per week until you are well, and will hold your job for you in the meantime." To Sell Basketball Game. The "job," by the way, was stated to be the selling of the "'Varsity Basketball Game." No one but Fields knew what this game was, for when he was arrested he didn't have even a model or sample or it. But he said he could construct one in a few minutes from cardboard. He wrote his victims that they should sell these games at $1 each, collecting 25 cents in advance, and that when the games were delivered and paid for he would send them 25 cents more, making their commission 50 per cent on the sales. Fake References. He offered as references what he stated were "two Omaha business firms." One of these was Alexander & Payne, 1834 North Twenty-fifth street; the other was Powell & Charles, 5635 South Thirty-third street. Neither of these firms exists. There is no such number as 1834 North Twenty-fifth street. The house at 5635 South Thirty-third street is occupied by a lone Negro named Wiggins, who had been instructed by Fields to turn over to the latter any mail he might receive in the Fields & Dooley printed envelopes. Fields went further than this to protect his "references," say the postal authorities. He called at the post-office here, presented himself as connected with Alexander & Payne, and directed that any mail received for that firm at the North Twenty-fifth street address be forwarded to his home. MAYOR VAN LEAR STOPS "THE BIRTH OF A NATION" Minneapolis, Minn.—Thomas Van Lear, mayor of this city, has ordered the manager of a Lake street theater not to show the film, "The Birth of a Nation," because it may create a feeling against the Negro citizen or incite a riot. The mayor is taking a step in the right direction. The supreme court of Minnesota has decided it "a vicious film" and if it is shown we expect Mr. Van Lear to revoke the license. His power to do so has been sustained by the supreme court of this state.—The Twin City Star. 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 Mattter 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. John D. Crawford, Business Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.00 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 50 cents an inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 1159 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243. WAVING FLAG ALSACE-LORRAINE AND AFRICA When Bismarck took away Alsace-Lorraine he told the French, in decision, to seek compensation in Africa. This was voicing not only contempt for the French, but also contempt for Africa and the Africans. However, France followed Bismarck's advice, sought compensation in Africa and found it. Out of Africa today are pouring hundreds of thousands of black fighters, loyal defenders of France, who are striking terror to the heart of the Hun. Out of Africa are pouring supplies to succor the people of France in their fierce contest with Germany. The first troops to pierce the supposedly impregnable German line were African. Among the most valiant and dependable of the valiant French troops are those from Africa. The restoration of Alsace-Lorraine will be accomplished through the valor of African troops and the supplies that Africa affords. Bismarck's advice to France, though given in contempt, has proven advantageous to her, for Africa is not only compensating France for the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, but is destined to play an important part in this great world war. This is a world war, not merely a European war. In it Africa has her place and that an honorable and important one. "Seek your compensation for Alsace-Lorraine in Africa." This was Bismarck's polite way of telling France to go to—the hot place. But Bismarck's geographical knowledge was not accurate. Tradition has it that it was in that direction where the Garden of Eden lay. Be that as it may, Africa has proven a paradise for France, and the world may yet learn that Africa is the most favored of the continents. THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION The Monitor most heartily endorse the commendation given the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People by the Amsterdam News in the following editorial: "The Colored people of the United States are everlastingly in the debt of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This organization of white friends and progressive Colored people has done much to endear it to the race. It has fought segregation to a standstill and tackled lynching and other injustices wherever they have cropped up. It has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in fighting in the cause of the race and has greatly advanced that cause. All it asks in return is that every Colored person genuinely desirous of helping the race should become a member of the Advancement Association. "In unity is strength, in organization power. And no other body has done so much to advance the interests of Colored Americans as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. We earnestly advise our readers to join the association and so back up the greatest war that ever was waged upon injustice in this or any other country. Stand behind the Advancement Association! Not only is it able to fight more effectively than the individual or than any other organization of Afro-Americans, but with men like Dr. Du Bois and James Thompson, Belden & Co. The Fashion Center for Women Established 1886 2 Weldon Johnson it is fully capable of wise and aggressive leadership." AMERICAN PREJUDICE In the American Magazine for January two men of international fame write articles concerning themselves and their success. One is Bert Williams, the greatest comedian in the world; the other, Montague Glass, one of the world's greatest humorists. The one is a Colored man; the other a Jew. Both have come greatly into contact with their fellow men and both have found prejudice. Both feel it and wonder why it is. They can't explain it. They only know that it exists and that it exists everywhere. Both jeer at it and make fun of it, yet beneath their humor and sarcasm the reader can see that there is really a wound. They are both Americans, both men who are struggling to bring some sunbeams of happiness into the lives of their fellows. Yet these very fellows have placed a stigma upon them because they happen to be of different race. In the articles there is more need for thought than for comment, and in thinking upon these two articles one is brought inevitably to the thought that the very country to which they belong is waging war to make the world safe for democracy. And it brings in its train another master thought—the United States has still a greater war to wage than the war with Germany. That war is a war within her own borders and it is to make democracy safe for the world. Democracy can never be safe until every man has a man's chance, no matter what his color, creed or previous condition. There are doctors and doctors, and then there are dentists. A dentist is sometimes called a doctor, but he isn't a doctor. He is an executioner. He can cause an individual more pain and get by with it than any gazook extant. He has one pet phrase that he repeats more times than a Mohammedan repeats verses from the Koran, and that is, "That didn't hurt, did it?" Somehow he believes, or pretends to believe, that the Christian Scientist slogan of no such thing as pain is the real dope. If he breaks your jaw in two getting out a six-foot molar, he smiles sweetly and murmurs, "Didn't hurt, did it now?" If he starts his grinding machine and develops the jim-jams from your toes to the ends of your hair, and then suddenly hits a nerve and makes you yell like a Comanche and jump out of the chair, a look of disgust pervades his professional map and he wants to know. "Did it hurt?" When he is putting on a crown he gets out a lead mallet and pounds away like an excavator breaking concrete, and when your head flops back and you knock your brains silly, he pauses a moment to remark. "Did that really hurt?" You long for a six-shooter, but he's got you at his mercy and there's no use to squeal. You've got to grin and bear it. And then when you ask him for your bill, and he murmurs softly, "Fiftyplunks," you let out a six-cylinder sigh, and again he smiles and says, "Doesn't hurt, does it?" Buy war savings stamps! SKITS OF SOLOMON The Dentist. THE MONITOR THE COLORED AMERICAN AND THE GREAT WAR By George Gilbert Walker. The United States is at war with a most ruthless enemy, probably the most ruthless enemy ever faced by any nation. And we are at war not for conquest of territory, nor for military aggrandizement, but for the high principles of justice and freedom. We entered the war for these things alone. The fact is recognized by the military critics of the Allies and the United States that the war will be won when we get our armies in the field. It is generally recognized now that our coming into the conflict means sure victory for democracy and progress over militarism, autocracy, mediaevalism. This is our war, the war of every citizen of the United States, be he or she of whatever race or environment. It not only requires but demands the active, willing, zealous and painstaking co-operation of every person who believes that autocratic despotism should be once for all shorn of its power, and that "the world shall be made safe for democracy," for the unhindered and unopposed development of freedom, progress and the higher ideals of political and social and economic justice. From this war great things will surely come to pass. The world has beheld a new vision, a vision of universal peace, amity and progress, a vision of the realities of the higher ethical and religious principles. The winning of the war will bring nearer the full realization of brotherhood and righteousness. The great war is a crisis in the world's history, a final struggle between the outworn and the new. Yet we are not to think of the new as things suddenly injected into the world process, but rather as the maturing of those principles, policies and ideals which are of supreme value, and which have for decades and centuries been struggling for mastery. In these things the Colored American is most intensely interested. The world's leaders are enunciating the ideals which are nearest and dearest to his endeavor and his dreams. The results of the war will mean much to him, much more, probably, than many of his wise men now think. The great sacrifice of life, which will be the cost of victory, will not be permitted to have been made in vain. The winning of the war depends upon the active, positive co-operation of every individual. Out duties have been and are being set before us continually and plainly, so that for failure in them there is no excuse to be had. From the battlefields of this great conflict shall arise a new era, an era of practical justice, actual brotherhood, unhindered opportunity; an era of increased faith in God and His righteousness. The Colored American will be among those who through sacrifice of labor, necessities and life, have made it come to pass. LYNCHING RECORD OF 1917 I send you the following relative to lynching for the year. I find from the records kept by the division of records and research of Tuskegee Institute, Monroe N. Work in charge, that there were 38 persons lynched in 1917, of whom 36 were Negroes and two were whites. Thirty-seven were males and one female. Twelve, or a little less than one-third of those put to death, were charged with rape or attempted rape. The offenses charged against the whites lynched were: Rape and murder, 1: fomenting strikes, 1. The offenses charged against the Negroes were: Attempted rape, 5; rape, 6; murder, 3; killing officer of the law, 2; for not getting out of road and being insolent, 2; attacking women, 2; disputing white men's word, 2; entering woman's room, 2; wounding officer of the law, 1; molesting women, 1; stealing coat, 1; intimacy with woman, 1; killing man in altercation, 1; accidentally killing child by running automobile over it, 1; vagrancy, 1; wounding and robbing man, 1; attacking an officer of the law, 1; opposition to war draft, 1; insulting girls, 1; writing insolent letter, 1. The states in which lynchings occurred and number in each state were as follows: Alabama, 4; Arkansas, 4; Arizona, 1; Florida, 1; Georgia, 6; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, 1; Montana, 1; Oklahoma, 1; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 3; Texas, 6; Virginia, 1; Wyoming, 1. New York, 1. Very truly yours, R. R. MOTON, Principal. The second trial of Charles Smith, accused of the murder of Mrs. C. L. Nethaway last August, will begin Monday morning in Criminal Court Room No. 1, Judge Sears presiding. He will be defended by Attorney Scruggs and Timlin. The jury in the first trial stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction. Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards Uncle Sam is today the quartermaster of a hungry world. He is playing the game squarely and counts on you to do the same. The American people cannot expect more than their share of the food supply, which for 1918 does not measure up to expectations. It is now time for every American to get these facts by heart. In order that you may know the facts the United States food administration from time to time issues statements and announcements which are printed in the newspapers for the information of the American people. The food administration and Herbert Hoover in giving you the facts of the food situation believe that you have the courage to face the truth and adjust your household to new war sacrifices. As the war goes on and the need becomes greater we Americans must be ready for greater sacrifices. More than 10,000,000 families have pledged themselves to help make the food go around. This pledge, unless we interpret patriotism as mere lin loyalty and insincere affectation, is a pledge to service as real as that of the soldier. The pledge card is not a mere scrap of paper, but the pledge of the American women to stand by the declaration of war. Men, help the women! Every particle of diminished consumption by the American people is one particle more for the soldiers men, women and children of our associates in this war and for the starving people in other countries. This is a personal obligation upon every one of us toward some individual abroad who will suffer privation to the extent of our own individual negligence. Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults of those about me, Let me praise a little more; Let me be when I am weary Just a little bit more cheery— Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver, When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker With the brother who is weaker, Let me think more of my neighbor And a little less of me. Let me be a little sweeter— Make my life a bit completer, By doing what I should do Every minute of the day. Let me toil without complaining, Not a humble task disdaining; Let me face the summons calmly When death beckons me away. For dressmaking, call Miss Alexan der. 2413 N. 29th st. Web. 3927. What War Savings Stamps Are A War Savings Stamp is a "baby bond" of the United States Government. It is made in the form of a small sticker or stamp. You can buy a War Savings Stamp this month for $4.12. If you want to keep it until January 1, 1923, the Government will buy it back of you and pay you $5.00 for it. The 88 cents profit to you on the transaction represents the interest the Government pays for the use of your $4.12—at the rate of 4% compounded every three months. This means that your money actually earns nearly $41/2% each year. If you do not want to keep the stamp until January 1, 1923, you can get the cash for it, plus whatever interest it has earned, by simply giving written notice to the postmaster at any money-order postoffice that you desire the money. There is no red tape, no difficulty about it. The money derived by the Government from the sale of War Savings Stamps is spent in this country for manufacturing the millions of things required by the army and navy to win the war. It helps buy rifles and clothing and food, ammunition and airplanes for the boys in France. The Government can raise all the money it needs by selling bonds to rich men. But it wants YOU to have a part in this war. Therefore, it goes to the great trouble and detail of issuing "baby bonds" like these War Savings Stamps so that every one, no matter how situated, can feel that he or she is actually helping to win the war. Then, too, the Government wants you to save your money and sooner or later thus learn the way to prosperity. War Savings Stamps will teach you to save. You can buy one a month or four or ten a month—whatever you wish. But, beyond all that, buy War Savings Stamps and you not only learn to save and get paid for doing so, but you show the boys in France that you are standing behind them here at home—doing all you can to help them in their terrible duty. You can order your first War Savings Stamps TODAY. Just tell your employer how many you want and he'll get them for you. Or call up the DOUGLAS COUNTY WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE, 1612 Farnam Street, Douglas 1917, and we'll deliver it A PRAYER SUITS AND OVERCOATS IN THE WORLD REPAIRING, CLEANING AND PRESSING Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Claims That Colored Women Are More Intellectual and Progressive Than Colored Men. Washington, D. C.—Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Woman Suffrage association, paid a tribute to Colored women when she cited the reason given for the opposition to the federal enfranchisement of women. She said that the Colored women are more intelligent, more ambitious and more dependable than the Colored men. The South, the only section of the country arrayed against suffrage, conceives that the vote of Colored women would far exceed that of Colored men, Colored women, they say, would be more willing and ready to pay the $2 poll tax and would double the Colored vote in the South. SOME SUGGESTIVE STATISTICS CALL FOR CONSIDERATION F. L. Hoffman, in the Insurance Spectator, gives the statistics for homicides in thirty-one cities. An increase over the previous five years' average is shown and is attributed to the war, while the tendency is toward a decrease from the high-water mark in 1896. The homicide rate for our race is seven times as high as that of the whites, though the rate for the foreign-born whites is considerably higher than that for native whites. The five cities with the lowest rate have a large foreign population and show a decrease, while the five cities which have the highest rate have a large Colored population and are in dry territory. They are Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville and Charleston. Memphis has a rate 100 times greater than that of Rochester and Milwaukee, an increase of 25 per cent. The rate for the Colored people of Memphis was 133.7 per 100,000. Strange to say, New York has fewer homicides than Chicago, and its rate shows a decrease. With the largest Colored population of any Northern city, this showing is most gratifying. BIRTH STATISTICS Birth statistics issued by the.Bureau of United States Census record for 1915 12,405 births for the registration area containing 600,821 Colored people, which is a rate of 20.6 a thousand, as compared with a rate of 25 for the whites. One hundred and eighty-one deaths of infants under 1 year of age and one thousand births were recorded for Colored people, as compared with ninety-nine for whites. The report says: "It is possible, however, that the registration of births is not as complete among Colored as among white persons, and that therefore the rates shown for the former class are too low." ALAMO DeLUXE ICE CREAM GARDEN Open Every Evening Cabaret Entertainment Special Dance Every Monday and Thursday Evening. De Luxe Matinee Every Sunday Afternoon KILLINGSWORTH BROS. Webster 2861 Proprietors You Are at Liberty to buy your PHOTOGRAPHS where you please, but—— TO GET THE MOST VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY GO TO Butters' Studio Phone Web. 6701. 1306 N. 24th The Jones Poro Culture College Positively Grows the Hair FORMULATED 1900 "PORO" HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs Amberly Tumulo Malone ST LOUIS, MISSOURI FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, ITCHING SCALP, GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY, COLOR AND ABUNDANT GROWTH THIS STYLE OF BON ADOPTED JANUARY 1995 NET WT. 2 OZ. Try our scientific method of treating the scalp. We positively grow hair or money refunded. Electric massage for scalp and face. System taught. Sterilized equipment. Steam heated booths. All work private. JONES PORO CULTURE COLLEGE Anna Evans Jones 1516 North 24th St. Webster 5450 Harney 5100 & Dunham THE BEST 5.00 ATS IN THE WORLD ING AND PRESSING Omaha, Neb. amps Are States Government. .12. If you want to Events and Persons Mr. Fred Goodrich of Douglas, Wyo., who is calling upon his many friends in Omaha in the interest of the Capital Petroleum company of Denver, was the guest at a matinee party at the Brandeis theater Tuesday afternoon, given by Mrs. Gertrude Irvin. After the theater the party, consisting of Mrs. Thomas Payne, Mrs. M. Kennedy, Mrs. Gertrude Irvin, Mr. Fred Goodrich and Mr. Thomas Foster, motored out to the Thompson & South cafe, where they were served with an elegant six-course dinner. After dinner the party motored out to the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Payne, where the rest of the evening was very pleasantly spent in dancing and whist playing. To reach our rapidly growing outside circulation it is necessary to go to press Thursday, instead of Friday. To insure insertion in current week's issue items must be in our office by Wednesday afternoon. Hair growing and hair preservation, scalp treatment, manicuring and massage. Smith, Chiles & Wheeler, 2414 North 24th. Webster 3024.—Adv. Diamond Square Temple, No. 311, wishes to thank their many friends who helped to make our luncheon a success. We cleared quite a sum.—Mrs. C. H. Heuston, worthy princess; Miss E. Hughes, secretary. There will be a hot time in the old town the night of the Camouflage Ball given by the O. N. E. Club boys at Peterson Hall, February 22. Something new and novel. Be there!—Adv. Mrs. M. C. Stephenson returned Saturday from a pleasant trip to Jackson, Mich., where she spent the holidays with relatives. She also spent two days in Chicago. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. Mrs. Lucinda Smith Davis, of 2010 Eskine street, who was injured by being thrown off a Dodge street car on Lake street by its too sudden starting, is improving. Mrs. E. A. Hayes, 1811 North 23c street, served a four course dinner Monday evening complimentary to the Rev. J. K. Parker, of St. Louis. Covers were laid for six. Plain sewing done. Children's clothes a speciality. Mrs. L. Johnson, Webster 1621.—Adv. Mr. H. L. Anderson has been elected the ninth time as superintendent of the Mount Moriah Baptist Sunday School. An anniversary program will be rendered after Sunday morning services in honor of the occasion. Mrs. L. Lewis is assistant superintendent, Miss N. Wright secretary, Mrs. C. McNary treasurer and Miss V. Hibbler pianist. The public is invited. The Lit, the Young People's Literary Society of St. Philip's Church, will meet Monday night with Miss Ruth Washington, 2911 Lake street. Fred Green, with the Tabor and Green musicians playing at the Empress this week, was the guest of Mrs. H. R. Roberts and daughter. Be sure to patronize Monitor advertisers and tell them why.—Mention the Monitor. Mrs. J. A. Smith of 2414 Binney street has gone to Portland, Ore., to spend the winter. The Smith defense entertainment by the Big Twelve Whist club was quite a success. Report will be published next week. The Crispus Attucks Chapter of the Red Cross held its regular weekly meeting Tuesday at the N. W. C. A. Home. There is plenty of work for any women who will attend these meetings. Ladies tailoring and dressmaking. Mrs. E. M. January, 2310 N. 25th St. Webster 1483.—Adv. The Elite Whist Club met with Mrs. T. S. Phillips, 2504 Burdette street, Wednesday, January 8. Mrs. D. Murphy scored highest and won the prize. See special offer in Obee-Hunter See special offer in Obee-Hunter Undertaking Co.'s ad. Sarah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Brown of 1517 Burdette street has been quite ill with tonsilitis. Mrs. Luther Dillard's car skidded on the icy pavement last Thursday and running into a tree, badly damaged the car and gave Miss Dillard quite a shock. Fortunately she was not seriously injured. Josiah Brown was called to Topeka Thursday by the illness of his sister. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. Mrs. Anna Jones, of 2218 Seward St., was painfully burned about the body last Saturday by burning gasoline. SAYS GERMANY SEEKS TERRITORY IN AFRICA Amsterdam, Jan. 1.—The German government is apparently more determined than ever to annex African territory at the expense of Belgium, Portugal and England, said the Leipziger Volks Zeitung today in commenting upon a recent speech of the German minister of colonies. DEATH CALLS MRS. JENNIE WIGINGTON Mrs. Jennie Wigington, aged 63 years, widow of the late Wesley Wigington, and a resident of this city for more than thirty years, died in Sheridan, Wyo., Sunday evening, January 13th, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Albert Bell, with whom she had made her home for the past few years. Mrs. Wigington was a quiet, lovable woman of sterling qualities, a faithful wife a devoted mother and a consistent Christian. She is survived by four daughters: Mrs. Albert Bell, Mrs. Alfred Shute and Miss Hazel, of Sheridan, Wyo.; Mrs. James Washington, of Chicago; five sons: Dudley, of Chicago, Frank, of Winnipeg, Canada; Clarence W. and Paul, of St. Paul, and Fred, of this city, a sister, Mrs. Agnes Butler, several grandchildren and a host of friends. All of her children, with the exception of Mrs. Shute and Dudley Wigington, have arrived in the city for the funeral, which will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 from St. John's A. M. E. Church, of which she was a member. Rev. C. W. Williams will officiate. Burial will be in the family lot at Forest Lawn cemetery. The Western Funeral Co. is in charge of the funeral. COLORED REGISTRANTS SHOW SUPERIORITY Official Report of Provost Marshal General Discloses Fact That Race Has Higher Average Than Whites. Washington, Jan. 10—Provost Marshal General Crowder today announced that statistics compiled in his office show that Colored registrants have a larger proportionate acceptance for military service than the white selected men and a lower proportionate exempted list. The Colored registrants aggregated 737,628, or nearly 8 per cent of the total registration of 9,586,508 men. "Of these Colored registrants," General Crowder's report says, "208,953, or 28 per cent of the total, have been called by the draft boards, and of the number called 75,697, or 36 per cent, have been certified for service. "In other words, out of every 100 Colored citizens called 36 were certified for service and 64 were rejected, exempted or discharged; whereas, out of every 100 whites called 25 were certified for service and 75 were rejected, exempted or discharged." HOUSTON OBSERVER ENCOUNTERS "LIVE WIRE" Fred C. Williams, Monitor Representative, Carries High Voltage of Optimism and Push. The Houston Observer, in its issue of January 12, has the following complimentary notice of The Monitor's efficient traveling representative: "Hon. Fred C. Williams, Omaha, Neb., traveling representative of The Monitor of that city, is in the city in the interests of his publication and is a live wire from all angles. Despite the loss of his eyesight, Mr. Williams is full of optimism and good cheer and takes things quite philosophically." The Observer has taken Mr. Williams' measure. He is a live wire and carries a high voltage of ability, optimism and push. COLORED MINSTRELS The modern minstrelsy evolved from the Colored race. The Negro if he can be restrained from becoming self-conscious makes the best minstrel man. Any person is sure of a good laugh if they can be around a group of Negroes thirty minutes without the latter knowing they are near, because the Colored man is then perfectly natural. There have been many Colored minstrel organizations which were unsatisfactory in their entertainment because the Colored performers were self-conscious and did not act natural. Mr. R. M. Harvey, a well known circus man, undertook the task of assembling a company of clever Colored people who are not posers, who were capable of always remaining natural—even on the stage. Lowery's Greater Minstrels, billed for this city next Sunday matinee, January 20, at Boyd's theater, continuing for four days, is headed by Prof. P. G. Lowery, who is acknowledged to be the most clever Colored cornetist in the world, a graduate from the Conservatory of Music at Washington, D. C. He maintains the dignity of this attraction, while Mr. Ed Tolliver and Mrs. Clarence Powell, both natural comedians, do their best to upset said dignity, as they create a furore of amusement and laughter at every performance. Traveling in their own eighty-foot car, this company of thirty-five Colored artists are playing in the principal cities and towns of the state, and judging from press comments and verbal criticisms heard, Lowery's Greater Minstrels is more than making good. They are about the only minstrel show on the road that insists on giving a daily matinee, which fact is a testimonial as to the high quality of their attraction. THE MONITOR Camp Upton, Long Island. The training school for officers opened here on Saturday, January 5, with 935 students — thirty-one Colored men among them—in attendance. The students are divided into three companies—a detachment of infantry and a battery of light artillery. Appointments from the Colored units included twenty-nine men from the 367th Infantry and two from the 351st Machine Gun Battalion. There were also announced the names of twenty-seven additional men selected from the units of this division. HEAVIEST MAN, DEAD Philadelphia.—"Baby Jim" Simons. Colored, said to be the heaviest man in the world, died here December 28. He weighed 800 pounds and for years had been one of the sights of circus side shows. He was 37 years old. A widow and two small children survive. The body was taken to the former home of Simons in Texas. For its transportation it was necessary to charter an entire freight car. DEMONSTRATION Mrs. Florentine F. Pinkston respectfully invites the public to attend a demonstration to be given by her pupils in music at Wolk's Hall, 1517 North Twenty-fourth street, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Pinkston, who is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, is a most successful teacher and the recitals or demonstrations given by her pupils are a real musical treat to music lovers. QUITE CONSIDERATE Kansas City, Mo.—An undertaker received this note and a bank book with $190 made to him: "Come and take Peter Johnson for your business, please," and, investigating, found Peter Johnson hanging by the neck from a rope, dead, in a room in the rear of his cobbler's shop. Great Three Day Basement Sale Thursday Friday Saturday January 17-18-19 Wonderful Values In Warm Apparel and All Winter Wants Brandeis Stores TEXAS WHEN IN TEMPLE, TEXAS STOP WITH TEXAS Mrs. J. S. Dawson 218 South 4th Street Who gains pleasure in making you comfortable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Rates reasonable. Write or wire for accommodation. BOYD FOUR NIGHTS BEGIN. SUNDAY, JAN. 20 R. M. Harvey (of Circus Fame) Presents Lowery's Greater Minstrels With Clarence Powell, the Bert Williams of Minstrelsy, and Ed Tolliver, the Black Dockstader of America, supported by an all-star cast, with the famous Creole Chorus. See Frank Kirk and his original tramp musical act and Jazz band. Prices—Night, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c Sunday Mat., 25c, 50c. Daily Mats., 25c. --- ENTER OFFICERS' "BABY JIM," WORLD'S WILL GIVE PUPILS' COLORED SUICIDE IS TEXAS WHEN IN 40—PEOPLE—40 Phones: Office, Douglas 7812; Residence, Web. 6231. Office Hours: 10 to 12 a. m.; 3 to 5 p. m.; 7 to 8 p. m. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office, 109 South 14th St. (Over People's Drug Store.) Rcs., 2519 Maple St., Omaha. If you are interested in new or second hand at ROCK BOTTOM PRICES let me fill your order. I'll treat you right. MIDWEST MOTOR & SALES CORP. ROBERT PERRY, Colored Salesman. For any information call DOUGLAS 8685 Neatly Furnished Rooms Modern Conveniences With or Without Board Telephones, Doug. 9438, Doug. 8703 The Booker T. Washington Hotel Mrs. Laura Cuerington, Propr. In Connection with THE WASHINGTON CAFE 1719-21 Cuming Street Omaha 1623 Farnam St. Web. 5519 Rex Theatre Ed Gavin and His Tango Girls in All New Songs and Dances Every Afternoon and Evening 1316 Douglas Street A Riot of Fun—Don't Miss It TEACHES PIANO AND VOICE Specific Terms Nammers Terms Reasonable. OMAHA TRANSFER CO. "The Only Way" BAGGAGE Checked to Destination NEW YORK TELEPHONE & TELEMOBILE CO. 904-577-7744 WITH ASSOCIATED GUARDIANS More Than From t In spite increased num so many of c of labor and In spite public for tel MUSICHA TELEPHONE COMPANY BROADWAY LONG POSTAGE TELEPHONE WELL SYSTEM MUSICHA TELEPHONE & LISTERING CO. WEST MOTOR & SALES CORP. OBERT PERRY, colored Salesman. information call DOUGLAS 8685 REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE Farnam St. Web. 5519 ex Theatre MORNING POLICE & TENNIS COURT DETROIT, ILLINOIS One man out of every six from the maintenance and construction forces of this company is now in the army. A large proportion of the volunteers from the Bell System are technically trained men. Such employees are hard to replace. In spite of the war and what increased number of telephone so many of our trained men, the of labor and the high cost of te In spite of all these obstacle public for telephone service In a In spite of the war and what it has meant to this company in the increased number of telephone messages to handle, the enlistment of so many of our trained men, the shortage of equipment, the scarcity of labor and the high cost of telephone materials— In spite of all these obstacles, we are meeting the needs of the public for telephone service in a remarkably successful way. Uncle Sam pays over 4 Mr. Married Man: Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. GROVE METHODIST CHURCH 22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. G. WADE OBEE Oldest Colored Under- taker In Omaha. WE DO OUR OWN WORK and Guarantee it to Had and at the Most Reasona For Cash or Secured Insure Crepe Cloth Casket, Auto Hearse, 7-Passenger C Crepe Cloth Casket, Dead Wagon, Carri J. H. WAKEFIELD MGR. SOUTH 6 430 South 16th St. Phone If You Cannot Get Mr. Wakefield, Call Ma Council Bluffs Calls Answered Promptly. Why Our Fast Auto Service Will Bring Us to Y Largest and finest chapel and parlors in the and casket factory for family. If you need ad Always open. Ring, and ring again, until you If you cannot get the parlors, call Hunter's Credit Cheerfully Extended to We belong to the Masons, K. of P.'s, U. More Than 6,800 Men From the Bell Sy Are Now in When war government telephone me corps service In response out of the down from the of the cable n the repair be sands of Bell services to the Fourteen b Bell men w are now in a ice. Many of In France. camps ready The Bell these telepho army signal o between the merly receiv they now get ment. WE DO OUR OWN WORK and Guarantee it to be the Best That Can be Had and at the Most Reasonable Prices. For Cash or Secured Insurance. Crep> Cloth Casket, Auto Hearse, 7-Passenger Car, Rose and Embalming $75 Crep Cloth Casket, Sea Wagon, Embalming, $50 J. H. Waker, D. MGR, South OMAHA BRANCH 4430 South, 16th St, Phone South 2614 One Man Out of Six With the Colors state of the war and what it has meant to this company. The number of telephone messages to handle, the enlistment of our trained men, the shortage of equipment, the size and the high cost of telephone materials—state of all these obstacles, we are meeting the needs of telephone service in a remarkably successful way. NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY Uncle Sam pays over 4% on War Savings Stamps. B Uncle Sam pays over 4% on War Savings Stamps. Buy one Today. If your 1917 salary or income was over $166.66 monthly you must make your Income Tax return: 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable Rates D. G. Russell, Proprietor Obee-Hunter Undertaking Company Funeral Home, S. W. Corner 21st and Cuming Sts. PHONE DOUGLAS 8103 WORK and Guarantee It to be the Best That Can be d and at the Most Reasonable Prices. For Cash or Secured Insurance. Auto Hearse, 7-Passenger Car, Robe and Embalming, $75 Casket, Dead Wagon, Carriage, Embalming, $50 KEFIELD, MGR, SOUTH OMAHA BRANCH 130 South 16th St. Phone South 2614 Get Mr. Wakefield, Call Main Office, Webster 816. Answered Promptly. Why Not Give Us Your Business. Service Will Bring Us to Your Door in 30 Minutes. Best chapel and parlor in the city. Free auto to parlors for family. If you need advice or a friend, call on us. and ring again, until you get us. Webster 816. Get the parlors, call Hunter's residence, Webster 4740. Edit Cheerfully Extended to All Worthy. to the Masons, K. of P.'s, U. B. F.'s and Tabors. Than 6,800 Men from the Bell Systems Are Now in the Army More Than 6,800 Men From the Bell Systems Are Now in the Army When war was declared the government asked for skilled telephone men for the signal corps service of the army. In response to this call, from out of the telephone offices, down from the poles, from out of the cable manholes and from the repair benches, came thousands of Bell men to offer their services to the nation. Fourteen battalions of these Bell men were accepted and are now in active military service. Many of them are already in France. Others are in camps ready to embark. The Bell System is paying these telephone men in the army signal corps the difference between the wages they formerly received and the amount they now get from the government. Since the war began, one of our great problems has been to readjust our organization to handle the work left by the heavy enlistment of our working forces, and at the same time to take care of the tremendous increase in telephone traffic caused by war activities. has meant to this company in the stages to handle, the enlistment of shortage of equipment, the scarcity of materials— we are meeting the needs of the markedly successful way. War Savings Stamps. Buy one Today. 3 蜜 A Church Where All Are Welcome Sunday School, 10 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m., 8 p. m. League, 6:30 p. m. Florence P. Leavitt Club, Monday afternoon. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday Evening. W. H. M. S. Thursday Afternoon Ladies' Aid, Friday Afternoon. CRIEFIN C. LOGAN GRIFFIN G. LOGAN, Res, 1628 N. 22nd. Web, 5003 NAT. HUNTER 609. Y.Town Res. 2212 N. 28th Ave. Phone Web. 4740 4 : South Side Notes Mr. P. Wright of 2514 J street is quite sick with heart trouble and has been unable to be at his work for a week. Allen Chapel Aid had a delightful meeting with Mrs. William Watkin: last Friday. J. H. Wakefield, Manager So. Side Branch of Obee-Hunter Undertaking Co.—See ad. ‘The revival at Bethel Baptist church has been quite a success. Meeting: close Sunday night. Mr. Nathaniel Mitchell of 6617 South Twenty-seventh street is very ill with acute rheumatism. f Lincoln Department Mr. M. J. Patterson and little son Cecil have returned from Great Bend, Kan., where they spent the holidays. The Optimistic Set met at the resi- dence of Mrs. V. B. Young, on L street, In spite of the extreme cold weather nearly all members were present. Mr. and Mrs. L, Washington of D street had as week-end guests Mr. Jean Bowman of Mitchell, S. D. Mr. Richard Williams and Mr. At- bert Burress have returned from Se- dalia, Mo., where they visited rela- tives. Mr. Al Taylor is able to be out after an illness of a week. One of the grandest Masonic ban- quets was held at their hall on South Eleventh street. They had as speciai guests the grand master, W.W. Fields, and wife. About 160 guests were present. A very nice program was rendered, including: Invocation.........Rev. 0, J, Burckhard Introduction of Toastmaster Major Moore Harry Hill Welcome, Address Clyde Malone Address. I. B. Smith Solo... George B. Evans Address. W. A. Johnson Solo, “Il Trovatore”... Charles Haynes Address.............. Trago MeWilliams Introduction of Grand Master. pa . Paul Moore Address, ce-neBy Grand Master Mrs. Mabel Williams is still on the sick list. Walker—White Wedding. The marriage of Miss Sarah Cath- erine White to Mr. Grover Cleveland Walker was solemnized at 5 o'clock Saturday evening, January 5, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson, The wedding was a complete surprise to the friends of the young couple, only immediate relatives be- ing present, Mr. and Mrs. Rober? Johnson, Mrs. Carrie Pullen, Mr. Roy White of Richfield, Neb., a brother of the bride, and Mr, R. H. Johnson of Omaha. Rev. 0. J, Burckhard offi- ciated. At 2 o'clock Sunday, January 6, a sumptuous dinner was served the young couple, the guests being giver the opportunity to partake of the meal of seventeen-pound Tennessee turkey sent to the groom as a Christ mas gift by his relatives. The bridal cake, with two hearts blended as one upon its lofty crest, o¢- cupied a very conspicuous place upor the table. Covers were laid for ter guests. Those present were the Rev and Mrs. 0. J. Burckhard, Mrs. Georgia Flippin, Mrs, Anna Moore Miss Alma Williams, Mr. R. H. John: son, Mr. Roy White, Mr. John E. Jeltz, Mr. Monroe Williams. The bride is a charming young lady well known in Lincoln, having spent some of her school days here. The groom, who has proven himself to be a worthy and genteel gentleman, has a host of friends. The wedding cake was a gift to botl from Mrs. Flippin. Mr. and Mrs. Walker will reside in Lincoln at the home of her adoptec parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson 907 S street. ATCHISON, KANSAS Mr. and Mrs. George Kerfoot, jr. are the proud parents of twin baby boys. Mother and children are doing fine. Mrs. Junius Wilson spent Sunday in St. Joseph with her cousin, Mrs. Gertie Taylor Brown. Mrs. Mary Stone returned to Atchi- son Saturday with her daughter Cecil, who has been in St. Margaret’s hos. pital in Kansas City, Kan. Miss Cecil's health was not much improved and her many friends are much worried about her. Read The Monitor and see wha your Atchison friends are doing. ‘Mrs. Elsie Balance was found dea at her home, 1313 Hickory street, Sat urday afternoon at 6 p.m. She hav been sick for several months and wa alone when she died. Her sister, Mrs John Floyd, was with her Friday afternoon, leaving her feeling ver; good. The funeral was held Tuesda; at Sawen & Douglas’ undertaking par lors, Rey. Mr. White officiating. Mrs, W. H. Hill received a telegram Monday morning from Kansas. “it; announcing the serious illness of he sister, Miss Gladys Miles. She lef “Monday noon for that place. James Blue fell from his wagon Saturday and sustained painful in- juries. He was taken to his home on North Second street. Prof, W. E. Gray was asked to take ‘the initiative in raising funds to buiid a community building at Camp Funs- ‘ton for the Colored people. A meet: ing was held Sunday at the Lincoln ‘school. Dan Williams, North C street, is on the sick list. ———_... CONDITIONS TO BE RECTIFIED ‘The Post is not informed as to what truth there is in the reports reaching Representative Garner at Washing- ton about the mixing of whites and rae in the Texas military camps. Mr. Garner’s promise to “raise rumpus” about this ean not begin too soon, for unless there is a rumpus there are sure to be occurrences which will greatly embarrass the war de- partment. Secretary of War Baker and others do not understand, nor do a certain class of ignorant Negroes understand, that indiscriminate mixture of the ee is bound to produce friction. ‘The intelligent Negroes of the ‘South understand that racial separa- tion in certain ways does prevent friction and is necessary to the well ‘being of both whites and Negroes. | The Negroes who fight for the country are deserving of the highest ‘consideration, and they are entitled to equal treatment in all respects, but they shouid have their officers’ training camp, they should have their separate localities in the soldiers’ training camps, and they should have their hospitals. In this way both the Southern white soldiers and the Southern Negro sol- diers will be able to serve in the army harmoniously and with friendly re- gard for each other. “Mix them, and there will be indi- vidual clashes and in all probability these clashes will spread until there are two factions of the army, each hostile to the other, when their united hostility should be reserved for the kaiser. The Social Equalityites like Secre- tary Baker seem to think the South- ern Negroes object to separation. That is not true. When they object to jim crow laws and other separa- tion measures it is because they are not receiving equal service for ther money. And surely nobody will deny ‘that a Negro is entitled to as much for his money as a white man is. But Secretary Baker is not going to promote harmony in the army by try- jing to ram his theories down the necks ‘of the people in the South and if Mr. Garner can not convey this informa- ‘tion to him without raising a rumpus, ‘then let the rumpus be raised. | The Post thinks that enough ex- ‘perience has been had already to guide the war department over such difficulties as the race problem pre- sents. If there should be further outbreaks, ‘due to such conditions as have been \reported to Representative Garner, no [doubt both white and Negro soldiers jwould be punished in considerable numbers for occurrences the responsi- bility for which would lie clearly at the door of the secretary of war. There are some things about the military administration which are difficult indeed, but this race situation is not difficult. It is easy enough to anybody who has sense enough to learn from experience. And the young secretary of war is not so wise but that experience may teach him if he 1s willing to learn.—Houston (Tex.) Post. NEWS OF MOUNT MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH ‘The revival meetings will begin in February. The exact date will be given later. ‘A society in connection with th church, comprising the young mem bers, which means all under 30 years has just been organized by the pas tor. It is named the Busy Bee so- ciety. It will meet every Friday nigin' at various homes during the winter Sunday morning theme, “God's Strong Defense for His Church”, night, “Lying to Get Out of It, o1 Clear.” The public is cordially in vited to worship with us. TEXAS! Congressman Garner of the impe- rial satrapy of Texas rises upon the dignity of his tip-toes to remark that if the war authorities at Washington insist upon their policy of at least at- tempting to practice democracy in the army in the South by permitting white American soldiers and black American soldiers to intermingle in hospital and camp, that he intends to “raise a rumpus.” With typical South- ern swagger and swashbuckle he adds: “And I think the people in Texas know what that word (rumpus) means.” ‘The Houston Post, in an editoria republished in this issue, heartily en- dorses Garner's suggestion. Is Texas running the United States? Is there any danger of white Texans blood being shed on the battlefield? THE MONITOR RATES—1% cents a word for single insertions, 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement for less than 15¢. Cash should ac company advertisement HOUSES FOR RENT For Rent—Modern 4 room flat over undertaker. $12 a month. 27th and Parker. 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