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Growing Thank You! The 92nd Division Is Getting Good Nature is One Reason the Negroes Make Good Soldiers. Troops at Funston Are Only Part of the Big Division—Ballou's Command a Happy, Singing Lot. (By Staff Correspondent.) Camp Funston, Kas., Jan. 20. Over the headquarters building of the 92d Division at Camp Funston—the only Negro division in the United States—floats a large American flag. Under it Negroes are being gathered from many states. The commanding officers of the division are white men, selected on the strength of long and successful records in handling Negro troops in the regular army. Maj. Gen. Charles C. Ballou commands the division. He also commands Camp Funston as a whole, being the ranking general since Maj. Gen. Leonard Woods' departure for France. Lieutenant Col. A. J. Greer of Tennessee is chief of staff for the Negro division. Maj. S. Whipple of New York is division adjutant. The Division is Scattered. Not all the division is being mobilized at Camp Funston, only the headquarters and its attached units and trains, approximately 2,700 men. The units here have been made up from a regiment composed largely of Kansas and Missouri men, but also containing hundreds from adjoining states, originally gathered here under a plan of attaching one regiment of Negro troops to the 89th Division. From this regiment men were assigned to 317th Trains and placed under the command of Col. I. C. Jenks. Capt. E. J. Turgeon was placed in command of headquarters troop and Maj. Robert Stirrett made commander of the machine gun battalion of the headquarters detachment. The remaining units of the division are stationed in six other camps, as follows: Camp Meade, Md.—The 368th Regiment of Infantry and the 351st Regiment of Artillery. Camp Dix, N. J.—The 107th Field Artillery Brigade headquarters, the 349th and 350th regiments of infantry. Camp Sherman, O.—The Field Signal Battalion and Engineers' Regiment. Camp Upton, N. Y.—The 184th Infantry Brigade headquarters and attached machine gun battalion and the 367th Regiment of Infantry. Camp Dodge, Ia.—The 366th Regiment of Infantry. Camp Grant, Ill.—The 183d Infantry Brigade headquarters and attached machine gun battalion and the 365th Regiment of Infantry. Whether the division will be assembled before embarkation is entirely problematical, as no intimation of the War Department's policy has been given at any time. However, it is not expected to be done, as training is hampered little by the separation of the units. Funston Units Are Complete. The units at Camp Funston virtually are complete, as they are at the other camps also, with the exception of the Field Signal Battalion and Regiment of Engineers at Camp Sherman. Those two units are short technically trained men to fill expert positions. One difficulty encountered at Camp Funston was a surplus of cooks. When a mustering officer would ask that all who had had experience in cooking to step out of line the whole line would advance. The cooks were found to be adept in other lines, also, however. A dining car chef, for instance, also had been chaffeur for millionaires. Another chef who used to reign supreme in the kitchen of the Albany hotel at Denver was also an excellent barber and followed that trade when the smell of chicken a la king and breaded pork chops grew less enticing than the scent of bayrum and highly perfumed pomade. He has a second hand barber chair in the corner of his barracks which helps his income greatly. If his record card in the divisional statistical office reads rightly, Dewey Summersmith Robinson of St. Joseph, Mo., besides being a cook, at one time attended to the business of polishing the boots of Theodore Roosevelt. He made special mention of the fact when he came to the word "remarks" on the card he was given to fill out. Dewey is a trumpeter and enjoys waking his comrades in the morning. Were Late in Mobilizing. In training, the 92d Division is far behind the other divisions, as mobilization was deferred until later. Even THE MONITOR after being assembled the units were not established with the dispatch that characterized the organization of the other troops, because an uncertainty existed for some time as to how the men should be handled. Divisional schools have not been established, as the first few weeks of training are devoted to study of squad movements, but when the division does enter the more advanced training the Negroes will have a great advantage over the white soldiers in one way. Being separated into seven camps, their schools will be smaller and the men thus should receive more benefit from the schooling. One of Sambo's hardest tasks has been mastered—dropping "boss" and adopting "sir." Squad movements offer no problem to the Negro, for the basis is keeping time, and that is his natural instinct, whether swinging a pick, stropping a razor or whipping a polish on a patent leather toe. Negroes Always Good Natured. To a visitor the camp of Negroes, when they are not on duty, is one big minstrel show, a laugh in every barrack, every street. This good nature, officers say, is one of the things that makes the Negro a good soldier. In equipment the Ninety-second is behind the white divisions. Most of the Negroes at Camp Funston are still wearing the blue denim blouses and pants issued when they reached here. Some have leggings, nearly all have overcoats, and all have service hats. Just a hat makes a lot of difference in the bearing of a Negro soldier. He throws back his shoulders and is a different man from the stoop shouldered laborer with dragging feet in civilian life. The theory that a Negro cannot stand cold is overturned every day. A strapping big multato, too big for the "baby size" overcoats issued, was walking post around headquarters building a recent blustering day. The division adjutant sent an orderly to Nebraska's Great Feeding Ability Food Administrator Wattles Tells What State Can Do to Help Feed World. Omaha. — Nebraska's wonderful ability to feed itself and other people was shown by Gurdon W. Wattles, federal food administrator for Nebraska, in an address on "Crumbs Which Fall From the Rich Man's Table." "For every man, woman and child in Nebraska the state produced last year 700 pounds of meats, 647 pounds of flour and 112 pounds of sugar," said Mr. Wattles. "Without wasteful habits, the average consumption of flour per capita is 246 pounds annually; of meats, 150 pounds annually, and of sugar, 88.8 pounds annually. If we did not economize, but continued these habits, we will have enough left to feed flour to 2,000,000 others, meats to 4,500,000 others and sugar to 257,500 others." "But if we follow the suggestions of the food administration and eat four pounds of flour each week, two and a half pounds of meat each week and three pounds of sugar each month we can furnish in addition the equivalent of 791,666 bushels of wheat, 25,000,000 pounds of meats and 66,000,000 pounds of sugar. "What a wonderful army we can take care of and feed, and what a wonderful tribute to the great state of Nebraska!" COMMUNITY HOUSE FOR FUNSTON A campaign for a community house at Camp Funston has been opened. The building is to cost $50,000. Omaha is asked to give $2,500 and, of course, Omaha, which goes "over the top" for everything good, will do it. More about it next week. Colonel Roscoe C. Simmons, the famous orator, is expected to speak at the Auditorium February 11 in behalf of this fund. GROOM M'CRACKEN FOR LEGISLATURE St. Paul, Minn.—Fred D. McCracken is being urged by many friends to enter the race for representative in the Eighth ward of St. Paul against Representative George Nordlin. He has many political friends among the white citizens, made duiring the campaign of ex-Congressman Fred C. Stevens, for whom he was secretary in Washington for sixteen years. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 2, 1918 JURY RECOMMENDS LIFE IMPRISONMENT Charles Smith Adjudged Guilty of Nethaway Murder at Second Trial; Public Sentiment Strongly in His Favor; Belated Story Responsible for Verdict; Prisoner Collapses When Verdict Is Announced; Attorneys Move for New Trial; May Appeal Case to Supreme Court. Charles Smith, who was accused of the murder of Mrs. C. L. Nethaway of Florence on August 26, was found guilty of murder in the first degree by the jury last Saturday morning, January 26, exactly six months after the crime was committed. The jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment instead of electrocution, a significant fact, which shows that there was an element of doubt even in the jury's mind as to the guilt of the accused. The opinion has been freely expressed everywhere by lawyers and others that Smith is not guilty. It is believed that his insistence upon going on the stand at the last hour, after months of silence, testifying that he saw two men deposit the body of Mrs. Nethaway on the ledge where it was found and a third scattering evidence of the crime, and that when he came down and saw it to be the body of a murdered woman he became frightened and ran away, prejudiced his case. Indeed, he told The Monitor that he knew his lawyers had acquitted him, but that he insisted on going on the stand over their protest to tell what he knew to free his mind. He said: "I am responsible for my conviction, but I told the truth and my mind is now free. I wanted to testify in the first trial. I told just what I saw. I have no kick on my lawyers. I didn't kill that woman and the truth will come out some day." On the first trial the jury stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction. The prosecution offered no new evidence on the second trial, while the defense added some damaging testimony. A. Anderson, postmaster of Florence, who was present with Nethaway when he undressed the Sunday night of the murder, testified that Nethaway had blood on his collar, necktie and shirt. Nethaway's explanation was that he got this blood on him when he was kissing his wife after he found her body some hours after her death. No blood was found on Smith. M. O. Cunningham, a prominent Omaha attorney, and William Sievers, a merchant of Calhoun, testified to seeing a path leading DOWN from the bluff to the body. The state's claim was that Smith attacked Mrs. Nethaway on the railroad right-of-way and carried her body up to the bluff along the single diagonal path, leading up from the railroad, on which her hat and other articles were found. The defense was about to rest its case Friday morning when Smith went on the stand and testified that he saw two men carry the body of Mrs. Nethaway to the spot where it was found and soon after he saw a third man come to the spot and scatter the hat and other articles which were discovered in the vicinity of the body. Saw Men "With Big Bundle." Smith's testimony was interrupted frequently by objections and colloquies of counsel. Detailing the incidents directly connected with the sight of the two men he said carried the body to the cut, he said: "I had walked up the track till I came to the bridge at Briggs' station. I climbed up on the bridge and sort o' looked around, and I saw the two men come down from the top of the cut, down to the little bench where the body was found. "They had something—a big bundle, like, they were carrying between them, and it looked like it was heavy." Asked if he had a suspicion what it might be, he said: "I did, I thought it looked like maybe it might be a body of some kind." Counsel for the state asked him if it were not true that he knew that the body was there at the time he went to see what the men had put down. "Got Down and Prayed." "I did not," Smith answered. "I kind o' thought it looked like a body they was carrying, but I surely never knew nothing about it until I climbed the bank and saw it." "What did you see?" "It was a woman with her throat cut. A twisted rag was laid across the cut and it was soaked with blood. I looked at it a minute and her hands were tied. And then I was scared of the dead body and left. After I got away up the track I knelt down and prayed, because I was scared, and then I got some apples out of an orchard and sat on some ties until the train came along. I swung on and at a grove of trees, a little beyond, three other men got on the car next behind the one I was in. They got off at the junction near Calhoun." Smith said one of the men was taller than the other, and that from a distance they appeared to be roughly dressed. Claude R. Nethaway, husband of the murdered woman, was not in the courtroom at the time Smith gave his sensational testimony. His story of his arrest by the sheriff of Washington county at Blair did not vary from the statements made by himself and officers several times since the arrest. Sticks to First Story. Smith was on the stand practically all forenoon and part of the afternoon. A rigid cross-examination did not shake his story. He stated that his real name is Larkin McCloud and his home in Ottawa, Kan. He said he became known as "Smith" while he was wrestling as a semi-professional in the South and was advertised as "Cannonball" Smith, and later as Charley Smith. The defense rested shortly after 3 o'clock and the jury was sent for a last inspection of the scene of the crime. The court allotted two hours to each side for argument and recessed until 7 o'clock. When the night session opened the courtroom was packed to its limit of capacity, many people even encroaching upon the space back of the judge's bench. Major Ray Abbott and L. J. Piatti of the county attorney's office demanded the death penalty for Smith, charging that the case had clearly established his guilt. Major Abbott made much of the opportunity afforded him by Smith's story and he used it in his eloquent way to great advantage. Mr. Piatti was melodramatic but not convincing in his argument. "A dream; a bloody tale more lurid in its fantastic coloring than one of 'The Arabian Nights,'" was Assistant County Attorney Abbott's characterization of the version of the crime offered in Smith's testimony in his own defense. Attorneys Scruggs and Timlin, for the defense, appeared to good advantage in their calm, incisive analysis of the evidence. They insisted that the state had not established Smith's guilt and warned the jury against the danger of circumstantial evidence. "We have been criticised," Attorney Timblin declared, "for casting aspersions on the husband of the dead woman, by innuendo insinuating that he might have been guilty. There is a mystery in this case that will not be cleared up by conviction of Charles Smith. If the evidence adduced in this case has seemed to point to any person, no matter who, it is not our fault, but the trend of the evidence." Smith's counsel declared that death alone should be the penalty for the murder of Mrs. Nethaway, but urged that Smith had not been found "beyond reasonable doubt" to have committed the crime. Saturday morning the jury brought in a verdict of guilty and recommended life imprisonment. When the verdict was delivered Smith collapsed in a fit of hysterical screaming and it took the efforts of four deputies to remove him from the courtroom. The prisoner threw himself on the floor, cried out, beat the floor with his feet and finally lapsed into semi-consciousness, in which condition he was returned to his cell. This was in striking contrast to his absolute composure maintained throughout this and the former trial. Smith's counsel Monday filed a petition for a new trial, which is to be argued today. If refused by Judge Sears, which is quite likely, the case will probably be carried to the supreme court. Despite the jury's verdict the Omaha public is by no means satisfied of Smith's guilt. The sentiment sets the other way. Washington, D. C.—A police census reported November 1 gives the population of Washington as 355,000, and places the Colored population at 102,000. Colored females exceed the males by 9,224. Vol. III. No. 31 (Whole No. 134) MARY CHURCH TERRELL GETS RESOLUTION PASSED Washington, D. C.—At a general meeting in the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. Monday, January 14, the National Council of Women, composed of prominent female leaders from all parts of the United States, voted unanimously in favor of opening trades and pursuits to women which are now closed against them. Resolutions to this effect were put through by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, seconded by Rev. Anna Garland Spencer. Mrs. John Hays Hammond (white) put the matter to a vote and it was carried without debate. Mrs. Terrell was elated at the result, as she has endeavored for more than twenty years to secure the passage of such resolution. ECHOES FROM EAST ST. LOUIS St. Louis.—To judge from the many arrests and convictions of Colored men one would think that they were solely responsible for the race riot at East St. Louis. The latest victim is Charles Collins, who fled from the city during the riot. He is charged with being a member of the mob that killed two detectives. His bond is fixed at $2,000. YOUNG COLORED WOMAN RANKS HIGHEST Cleveland, O.—Miss Minna Beh Wallace is receiving congratulations from her many New York friends for standing highest in a class of accident nursery and minor surgery, and has secured a position with Dr. A. W Binckley, accident surgeon for the Industrial Commission of Ohio. Miss Wallace won over thirty white competitors. Government Urges Saving of Food The American People Are Not Asked to Go Hungry, But to Use Discretion. Washington, D. C.—The American people are depending upon the United States food administration to see that our soldiers, allies and ourselves have plenty of food at as reasonable a price as the war conditions will allow. This is one thing to remember, that we are living in war times, hence we must govern ourselves accordingly. The number of food administration window cards in the windows of loyal homes is one of the best signs that they who pass may see that the people of those houses have pledged themselves to do what their government asks them to do in the saving of wheat, meat, fats and sugar, by using less of these foods and substituting other foods in their stead. So don't be a slacker. Let other people know that you are with them in doing your "bit." If you have no card in your window, get one from the federal food administrator of your state. If you want to have that "great, grand and glorious feeling" do all the things your government asks you to do. The food administration does not want you to go hungry. The food administration wants you to have plenty to eat, but you are asked not to eat all you want of those foods which we must ship to our soldiers and the allies. Eat a little less wheat, meat, fats and sugar, and all you need of the other foods. Patriotic people are cheerfully making personal sacrifices in their eating. This is not the time for the "big eats." HOSPITAL REFUSED AID TO DYING MAN Savannah, Ga., Jan. 8.—Friday of last week a Colored man fell upon the sidewalk of Huntingdon street, in the rear of the home of Mrs. W. W. Gordon, a wealthy white woman. The servants called Mrs. Gordon, who saw the man was ill. She called the Savannah hospital, just across the street. They sent over, but finding the man was Colored, refused to take him to the hospital. Mrs. Gordon frantically plead for help, but the hospital people permitted the man to die on the sidewalk. BUY ANOTHER WAR SAVINGS STAMP Lifting Lift, Too! Galveston Sentinel Guarding the Sea Monitor Correspondent Recounts Matters of Interest Gleaned on Visit to Southern City. San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 21, '18. To the Readers of The Monitor: Monday morning found me riding along a low level country full of vegetation that shows the effect of the recent extreme cold weather, everything dying and decaying. You must remember that this is the land where the markets are supplied with the green stuffs the year round. Twenty miles south of Houston I stopped at Ellington aviation field and witnessed the capers of a hundred planes in the air at one time. I lingered here just a few moments, then continued my journey south to Galveston, the island city, sometimes called the wall call city because of the great sea wall that was built to prevent the flooding of this city during the storms that often frequent this coast. Entering the city from Point Texas on the main land over the great concrete causeway, passing over the bay for the distance of two miles on to the island, one gets the best view of this great, and at one time the most important southern port and city. Rising abruptly out of the ocean, with hills of granite walls surrounding it on every side, we proceeded by large and imposing government, city office buildings and beautiful residences, well paved streets, lined with palms. You have but to forget the present century and recall the stories of ancient history, and you will think you are entering portals of some strong, ancient island kingdom. Upon entering the central portion of the business district you will be much impressed by the air of militarism that exists here. The streets are patrolled everywhere by the soldiers in full uniform and gun and bayonet; also by the special military police, who are provided to help the civil authorities properly police the city. It is guarded at both east and west ends by Forts San Jacinto and Crockett. The entrance to the bay, where the shipping of the world enters for this port and the city of Houston, fifty miles up Buffalo bayou, is at the eastern end of the island. I only stayed here for a day, as the inquisitive stranger is viewed with suspicion. The race population, which formerly numbered many thousands, is now almost depleted, for the lack of sufficient employment. They have been forced to seek new homes further north. Occupation of this important and strategical gulf port by the United States government has imposed an air of secrecy and silence which is felt by every one. Standing at Market and Twenty-fifth streets, I gazed across the dome of the government building and custom house. I saw a flag being rapidly hoisted. As it reached the top and a strong breeze caught its foils it displayed to our gaze a white flag with a black center. My companion said it was a storm signal, the one thing that puts fear in the heart of every Galvestonian, for he instantly remembers September, 1900, and August, 1916. I, too, thought of those two destructive events and inquired the schedule of the next north interurban, which I boarded and, crossing the bay over the causeway to the mainland, I felt the effects of a strong breeze, which was whipping the waters of the bay into a choppy, white-capped sea, the kind usually taken as an indication of rough weather. My last view of Galveston, as I passed rapidly north, was like that of a stern white sentinel keeping guard over the safety of that great Gulf of Mexico. Into Houston that night and out over the main line of the Southern Pacific, due west to San Antonio, where I arrived late Saturday evening, after stopping at Richmond, Rosenburg, Eagle Lake, Columbus, Schulenburg, Tulling and Sequin, at each point introducing The Monitor and meeting with success, which I hope to continue in this city, of which I will write you next week. Until then I am correspondingly yours, FRED C. WILLIAMS, Traveling Representative of The Monitor. SOUTHERN COLLEGES TO GET HALF A MILLION DOLLARS Cincinnati, Jan. 18.—In the general distribution of educational funds the Freedman's Aid society has appropriated $500,000, to be expended between twenty-one Southern schools and colleges. --- NEW LOCATION Foster-Barker Company, Inc. 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. John D. Crawford, Business Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative 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 4243. The justice-loving people of Omaha, and they are legion, wanted to see the real murderer of Mrs. Nethaway apprehended, convicted and punished for his dastardly crime. Despite the jury's verdict, there is a widely prevailing belief that the real murderer is still at large. It may be needless to add that The Monitor shares in this opinion. Had it not been for Smith's belated story—which may be true—to the effect that he saw the body of the murdered woman brought to the place where it was found by two men, and that he, after seeing the body, became frightened and ran away, it is highly probable that today he would be free and the real murderer under arrest. Some believe that Smith is suffering from what physicians call paranoia; others that he told the truth as to what he really saw. The mistake he made was remaining silent so long. This fact prejudiced his case with the jury, although it did not convince them of his guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt" or they would have sent him to the electric chair. Messrs. Timlin and Scruggs put up a splendid defense for their client. It could not have been improved upon. There was nothing melodramatic, showy or spectacular about their work, but it was thorough. They did all in their power to keep Smith off of the stand, but he appealed to his constitutional right to speak in his own behalf. They could not forsake him at that juncture. The people who contributed to a fund for Smith's defense have nothing to regret. They did their duty. They simply wanted to see justice triumph. The Monitor believes that Mrs. Nethaway's murderer will yet be brought to justice. HOUSTON'S LUCKY LAWYERS Mr. M. H. Broyles, a Colored lawyer of Houston, Texas, and author of a letter to The Monitor last week, is a lucky man. Mr. Broyles doesn't know just where his luck comes in, but after we finish this dissertation and hook the Q. E. D. onto the end, he will understand the whyfor of the whereas and after shaking hands with himself, will tell us that we sure have got some meat on our heads. Mr. Broyles tells us of two "intelligent" Colored gents of Houston who inherited some real jack from a dead one and in celebration thereof gave a grand ball. The Colored lawyers of the community were invited to the foot-shuffle, while a white lawyer was hired to probate the will and shake the mazuma tree. The Colored lawyers didn't like this way a little bit, but it is lucky that it didn't happen 2 THE SMITH VERDICT Letter July 2, 1915, at the Post Office at 3, 1879. WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. In Garnett Haynes, Associate Editora. Editor. John D. Crawford, Business Uses. Traveling Representative TUES. $1.50 PER YEAR Cents an Inch per issue. North Twenty-first street, Omaha. Webster 4243. any other way. If the "intelligent" pair had come to one of Houston's Colored lawyers to have him harvest the shekels, he would have dropped dead of heart disease. It would have been too much of a surprise. Houston's Colored lawyers should know, if they know anything, that our race has just about as much confidence in itself as the Allies have in a German peace offer. In the above case the two "intelligent" gents would have been in mortal danger of getting all that was coming to them. They, like the entire race, aren't used to getting a square deal and when they see a Colored man in business, they get cold feet from thinking that he might try to treat them right. The race doesn't want a square deal and doesn't expect it, and that is the only reason why the white race has any respect for dark dyes. The Colored gambler, booze peddler and dive keeper, has a chance with the race because they flim flam it and that's what it's looking for. That is why the two "intelligent" heirs toddled to the pale-faced buccaneer. He'll trim them and leave them enough to give another ball and then they will go back to the mop and broom. It is the natural way. If it had happened the other way, our Houston lawyers would be holding a memorial meeting over a departed brother. The Monitor is getting not only a wide circulation, but a great deal of publicity owing to the fact that our editors and special articles are being widely quoted with due credit to this publication. We have been wondering for some time what Japan has on her mind with reference to the great war. Can any one tell us? Since old man Chris. Columbo stumbled upon America there have been all kinds of inventions slipped over on the unsuspecting public. The range has run from rabbit traps to salted peanuts and back again from suspenders to wireless phizz producers, but the country is still yearning for some huge grey matter genius who will invent something to stop blizzards. A blizzard is an unmitigated nuisance, whatever that means. It has absolutely no claim upon respectability. Where it comes from nobody seems to know, but there is no mistaking the fact that it comes. And the bad habit that it has is that it comes so suddenly. The only warning one has is to get a telegram from a burg five hundred versts off that it has been struck broadsides by wind and snow and zero and to watch out because it is traveling at the rate of sixty per. The day NEW SKITS OF SOLOMON Blizzards. Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards you get the wire words might be like a June day and the weather has the trees so fooled that they start hauling up sap, when all of a sudden the air gets sort of agitated like and the barometer gets nervous. You skid down the cellar and train your periscopes on the coal bin and then make it up the steps four at a time and telephone the coal man. Four hundred and forty-one folks have just beat you to it and the coal man's dulceet voice whispers that you must wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow finds you on your knees praying to the furnace to give heed to the precepts of Mr. Hoover until the coal man comes. At last when you have given up all hope and see your beloved brood stretched out stiff with the cold, your ears catch the strains of sweet music as the coal goes rattling down the chute. But, brother, you haven't learned a humswoggling thing. The next blizzard catches you as sound asleep as ever. The only thing that will save you is an invention that will put a halter on a blizzard and keep it in the stable where it belongs. The Hague announces that the Dove of Peace has been running after peace rumors so much lately that it has developed a pair of sore dogs and is laid up indefinitely for repairs. g after peace Hoecake. at it has de- Muffins. ands is laid Biscuits. s. Griddle cakes. the more we Waffles. fe and free- Desserts. The more we see of it the more we are convinced that the life and freedom of man is not always safe in the hands of a injury. Monitor's joke of posies last and excuse it. It open Sec- car last week eetening the american cit- het up over Dumplings. Gingerbread. Fruit gems. Hearty Dishes. Corn-meal croquettes. Corn-meal fish balls. Meat and corn-meal dumplings. Italian polenta. Tamales. Ye editor handed The Monitor's joke junk merchant a bunch of posies last week. Thanks awfully and excuse blushes. We're so modest. Senator Chamberlain slit open Secretary Baker's bag of sugar last week and told him to quit sweetening the dope he was handing to American citizens. Mr. Baker is all het up over the situation and promises to put some red pepper in the Senator's coffee soon. All aboard for the eatless and breathless day, now! The American people do not hesitate to do anything they can to win the war, but they are beginning to get anxious now for some real winning. Omaha laundries have raised prices so high that it is now cheaper for a man to buy a new outfit every time he takes a bath. Since the English captured Jerusalem there are several Rabbis talking about the Jews going back home. It sounds good, but there is as much chance of the Jews going back to Jerusalem as there is of the Africans going back to Africa. Before blowing out the gas, we thank the audience for its generous forbearance. The barrooms are treatless, My coffee is sweetless, Each day I grow poorer and wiser. My stockings are feetless, My trousers are seatless, Great Guns, how I do hate the kaiser! —Exchange. My eggs I must beat less, My friends I must greet less, Lest they drop in to dine; But I gladly go meatless, To make our Sammies defeatless And dump Kaiser Bill into the Rhine! —The Monitor. Hair growing and hair preservation, scalp treatment, manicuring and massage. Smith, Chiles & Wheeler, 2414 North 24th, Webster 3024—Adv. rker OCAT OBVIOUS OBSERVATIONS “____LESS” My Tuesdays are meatless, My Wednesdays are wheatless, I grow more eatless each day. My house it is heatless, My bed it is sheetless. They've gone to the Y. M. C. A. CORN HELPS US FEED THE WORLD Ours is the splendid burden of feeding the world. There is no magic way of making food win the war. It can be done in but one way; the way of voluntary and eager resolution and action of the whole people in every shop and every kitchen and at every table in the land. The more corn we use the more food can be sent abroad. There are at least 50 ways to use corn meal to make good dishes for dinner, supper, and breakfast. Your family is missing delicious, nourishing, economical food if you are not serving corn-meal dishes in your home. Here are some more suggestions: Hot Breads. Boston brown bread. Griddle cakes. Waffles. Desserts. Corn-meal molasses cake. Apple corn bread. Fruit gems. The recipes are in Farmers' Bulletin 565, "Corn Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It," free from the Department of Agriculture. Corn Meal and Milk. Do you use corn-meal mush for a breakfast food? It is both cheap and good. Cooked in skim milk instead of water it is extra fine and the food value of the dish is nearly doubled. Here is a delicious corn-meal and milk dessert. Indian Pudding. Four cups milk (whole or skim); one-fourth cup corn-meal; three-fourths teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon ginger; one-third cup molasses. Cook milk and meal in a double boiler 20 minutes; add molasses, salt, and ginger. Pour into buttered pudding dish and bake two hours in a slow oven, or use your fireless cooker. Serve with milk. This makes a good and nourishing dessert. Serves six. Corn Meal and Meat. Corn meal is good combined with meats. Such a dish is a meal in itself. Try this one. Tamale Pie. Two cups corn meal; six cups water, one tablespoon fat, one onion, two cups tomatoes, one pound hamburger steak. Make a mush by stirring the corn meal and $1 \frac{1}{2}$ saltseps into boiling water. Cook 45 minutes. Brown onion in fat, add hamburger and stir until red color disappears. Add salt, pepper, and tomato. A sweet pepper is an addition. Grease baking dish, put in layer of corn-meal mush, add seasoned meat, and cover with mush. Bake one-half hour. Serves six. WIDOW OF SOLDIER AIDED Washington.—On receipt of advice that Mrs. Gertrude Young, widow of Risely Young, one of the thirteen Colored soldiers recently hanged at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, was ill and in need of funds for food and clothes, the National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee immediately sent her a check to supply her immediate needs. Ed Gavin and His Tango Girls in "GLORY BE TO PETER" All New Songs and Dances Every Afternoon and Evening 1316 Douglas Street Miss Eudora Ware TEACHES PIANO AND VOICE Special Attention to Beginners Terms Reasonable. Webster 2921 2622 No. 25th St. Eagle Baggage & Express Co. A. W. ANDERSON Auto or Horse Service Quick Delivery Webster 4777 1831 N. 22nd St. Phones: Office, Douglas 3841; Residence, Harney 2156 Reference—Any Judge of the District Court of Douglas County. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 640 Bee Bldg. Omaha, Neb. aha, Neb. MADAME HENDERSON HAIRDRESSER and MANICURIST Agent for the Celebrated Madame Walker Preparations. The other Mod. Knight. Diplomas Granted. Phone Webster 1489 2304 N. 25th St. Omaha, Neb. MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable THE CHAPMAN Drug Store 934 P St., Lincoln Opposite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazines, Cigars, Candies and a full line of Druggist Swadries EVERYBODY'S DRUG STORE B. Robinson, Manager 1904 No. 24th St. Webster 386 Omaha, Neb. on, Belde Fashion Cent Women Thompson, Belden & Co. The Fashion Center for Women Established 1886 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 Valentine WHY NOT A DOZEN PHOTOGRAPHS? 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 Amelia Turobo Malone ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, ITCHING SCALP; GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY, COLOR AND ABUNDANT GROWTH THIS STYLE OF BOY ADOPTED JUNE 21, 1935 PRICE 50 CENTS 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. MRS. ANNA EVANS JONES 1516 North 24th St. Webster 5450 Harney 5100 Phones: Office, Douglas 7812; Residence, Web. 6231. Office Hours: 10 to 12 a.m. 3 to 5 p.m.; 7 to 8 p.m. Dr. L. E. Britt PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office, 109 South 14th St. (Over People's Drug Store.) Res., 2519 Maple St., Omaha. elden & Co. One for the really important party—the rest a surprise for your family and friends. Events and Persons Mrs. M. F. Singleton leaves today for Chicago, where she will visit her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Madden. The Douglas Republican league held a successful meeting Tuesday night at the office of Dr. J. H. Hutton and decided to enter vigorously into the spring campaign. M. F. Singleton presided. 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. The members of Ivy Leaf Court No. 438 presented their W. C., Mrs. J. Frank Perry, with a beautiful set of engraved salad forks at their installation last Thursday, after which Mrs. Perry served a three-course luncheon complimentary to the members. Attend the Shriners' Sixth Annual Ball at the Mecca, February 22.—Adv. Mrs. Charles Garrett returned Sunday from several weeks' visit in Kansas City and St. Louis. She reports a pleasant trip. $50.00 cash and $18.00 monthly buys a five-room cottage. Tel. Webster 5519 or Douglas 2842. The Bethel Baptist church, South Side, the Rev. T. A. Taggart pastor, closed a successful revival Sunday night with thirty-eight additions. Weather permitting there will be baptizing Sunday afternoon at 2:30, otherwise it will be deferred until following Sunday. The Mission Circle met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. John Webb, 2926 V street. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. Miss Mildred Clark has returned from a delightful visit to Beinna, Sedalia and Kansas City, Mo. While in Beinna she was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. G. L. Martin. Be sure to patronize Monitor advertisers and tell them why.—Mention the Monitor. Fred Hall, who was killed at 1310 Howard street, January 22, was buried Saturday, January 26, from Banks & Wilks undertaking rooms. Interment was at Mount Hope. Ladies tailoring and dressmaking. Mrs. E. M. January, 2310 N. 25th St. Webster 1483.—Adv. The Silver Leaf Club of Mount Moriah Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Ella Smith is president, has closed a successful year, the receipts being $88.99. The club met Tuesday night at the residence of Mrs. E. Jones, 2519 Parker street. After a business session a luncheon was served, covers being laid for fourteen. The next meeting will be with Mrs. J. L. Betts, 2526 Lake street. For dressmaking, call Miss Alexander. 2413 N. 29th st. Web. 3927. Leonard, the little son of Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Britt, has been ill with measles. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.-Adv. The Obee-Hunter-Wakefield Undertaking company has moved to Twenty-first and Cuming streets. $50.00 cash and $18.00 monthly buys a five-room cottage. Tel. Webster 5519 or Douglas 2842. “Are you going to the Shriners’ Ball?” What a foolish question. Of course I am! It’s at the Mecca. I have reserved the date. February 22.—Adv. Members of Peaceful Temple No. 358 and friends gave a surprise shower on Mrs. H. Bidicks Wednesday evening, January 23. A delightful evening was spent in sewing and writing contests. The prize winners were Mrs. J. A. Griffin and Miss Hattie Gibson. A two-course luncheon was served. 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. Walter Craig, 2320 North Twenty-seventh street, was called to Kansas City, Kan., last week by the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Birdie Tellus. Mr. A. J. Davis, 2612 Corby, is ill with pneumonia. Don't forget the "Lit" reception and dance at Wolk's hall next Tuesday night, February 5.—Adv. The body of Mrs. Mary Jones of 2102 Seward street, who died January 22 as the result of being burned, was shipped to Paris, Tex., January 24 by Banks & Wilks. She Shriners expect you. When? February 22. Where? At the Mecca. Why? Because you enjoy dancing and the Shriners' Ball is THE Ball of the season.—Adv. SPECIAL HOME OWNERS' EDITION The Monitor of March 2 is to be a special illustrated Home Owners' Edition, showing some of the many beautiful homes owned and occupied by our people in this city. Home owners who are willing to pay for half-tone cuts of their homes for this special edition are requested to send us photographs of their homes not later than February 15. BRANDEIS STORES EMPLOY ELEVATOR CONDUCTORS The Brandeis Stores have followed the example of the Burgess-Nash company in the employment of Colored men as elevator conductors. Monday Jesse E. Glover, Jesse Bass, Emery Hickman and Richard Ward were put to work in this capacity by this enterprises and progressive firm. Next week others are to be put on the elevators in other parts of the store. Moreover it is the intention of the management, as soon as it is practicable to do so, to give reliable and dependable Colored employees an opportunity to show their ability to make good in other departments of this great establishment hitherto closed to them. Mr. George L. Brandeis, head of the firm, and Mr. Thomas believe that such enlarged opportunities of employment will be appreciated by our people and prove an incentive to them to qualify themselves for and to render efficient service. The Brandeis interests have been a tremendous factor in the commercial development of Omaha. They have virtually reconstructed this rapidly developing city. When powerful interests of this character express a desire and willingness to give enlarged industrial opportunities to our people it is a fact of tremendous significance and means a reconstruction and development of economic privileges for our worthy and enterprising young people as wonderful and marvelous as the transformation of our city wrought by the same interests. From elevator conductors to managers of departments may seem a fancy. And yet given the opportunity of the one, there is the possibility of the other, where the policy of an employer is to promote according to proven ability and merit. The holder of the job, whatever it may be, must prove himself worthy of promotion. MECHANICAL CHAUFEUR AT CAMP FUNSTON Robert N. Perry, son of Mrs. Robinette, enlisted January 22 and was sent to Camp Funston, where he passed a good examination. He has been assigned as mechanical chauffeur and plays first cornet in the band. He is attached to Field Hospital Corps No. 357, Ninety-second Division, and is well pleased with army life. N. W. C. A. NEWS The N. W. C. A. will hold its annual election of officers next Wednesday, February 6. All members are requested to be present. The association has had a most successful year, both spiritually and financially, and desires to express its appreciation to the public for generous support. The advisory and directory boards held a joint meeting Monday night at the home of Mrs. H. R. Roberts and mapped out plans for the coming year. Mrs. Florence Johnson is chairman of a committee of women who are going to give a George Washington luncheon at 35 cents per plate Wednesday afternoon, February 20, at the Old Folks' Home to raise funds to purchase linens for the home. Call Colfax 1270 and make your reservations. APPOINTED ON MORALS SQUAD Harry Buford, who has been police chauffeur for several years, has been appointed as a plain clothes man on the morals squad. Harry has made a fine record on the police force and is popular with his superiors and fellow officers. His promotion carries with it an increase of salary. SURPRISES FRIENDS The genial W. H. (Bob) Robinson surprised his many friends by marrying January 16 a charming little lady from Kansas City, Kan., by the name of Mrs. Eddie L. Washington. Their friends wish them a long, happy and prosperous life, in which wish The Monitor sincerely joins. GIVEN AN OVATION Mrs. J. Alice Stewart returned Saturday from Lincoln, where she went to attend the Robert Burns anniversary celebration and to render by special invitation her transcription of "Annie Laurie." She reports a delightful time. She received an ovation and was compelled to respond to three encores to "Annie Laurie." She gave as a cornet solo, "Auld Lang Syne," and by special request "Old Black Joe." The association adopted her transcription and requested that it be published in sheet form. She gave a five-minute talk on "Robert Burns." Mrs. Stewart was the only member of her race present in the large audience participating in the celebration. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Regardless of the weather, there were those who felt the need of spiritual advice last Sunday, and those who came were benefited by the messages given by Rev. W. F. Botts both morn- THE MONITOR ing and evening. The subject Sunday night, "Watch Your Habits," was an especial warning to the young, but ere he was through he had reached every one present. The Mission Circle held no meeting this week, but attended the meeting of the South Side Mission Circle, which was entertained by Mrs. Webb, 2926 B street. The following is a correction of the list of officers of the Mission Circle sent in last week: Mrs. Margaret Moore, assistant secretary; Mrs. R. L. Turner, treasurer; Mrs. Flanigan, chairman of the sick committee, and Mrs. Martha Turner, chaplain. The Progressive Club met this week with Mrs. Brushwood, 2710 Erskine street. The Lord's Supper will be administered Sunday afternoon from 3 to 4. Good services every Sunday morning and night. Visitors are invited to worship with us. Plain sewing done. Children's clothes a speciality. Mrs. L. Johnson, Webster 1621.—Adv. A young people's society, the Busy Bee, has been organized, comprising members not over 30 years old. Mrs. N. Anderson, president; Mrs. G. Watts, vice president; Miss V. Hibbler, secretary; Miss N. Wright, assistant secretary, and Mrs. C. Betts, treasurer. It meets every Friday evening. Business, literary, social and amusements form the main features. Many members have been added to the church, while one was dismissed by letter. Money taken in for the month, $105.15. Sunday morning will be covenant. Sunday school at 1 o'clock. Sunshine Mission Circle, 6:30; Mrs. L. Lewis, president; Mrs. M. H. Wilkinson, secretary. Sermon at 8, fellowship and communion. The public is invited to worship with us. Twenty-sixth and Seward streets. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH Although the weather was bad Sunday all services were well attended. The pastor delivered two instructive sermons. The morning subject was "If Any Man Sin, He Has an Advocate With the Father"; in the evening, "The Ten Virgins." There was one addition to the church. Mother Ewing is still on the sick list, but improving. The Ladies' Aid again wishes to thank those who so nobly donated their services for their New Year's entertainment and announce their report of $60.50 cleared. A large and appreciative audience was in attendance Monday evening to arrange for the great railroad rally and listen to the splendid literary and musical program given by the Usher Board. The solos by the Misses Ray Johnson and Thomas and Mrs. Turner were sweetly sung and each received rounds of applause. The piano solo by Miss Minnie Welsh was a real treat and very much enjoyed. The recitations by Mesdames Banks, Gaines and Miss Hills were exceptionally good and demanded encores. The club realized the neat sum of $10.25, and wish to thank those who took part in the 'program and helped to make the entertainment a success. The Bible class met this week with Mrs. Houston, Twenty-eighth and Ohio streets. Remember the date—Monday, February 18. Popular contest and infant exhibition. Enter your baby now. Don't wait. First prize, $5 in gold; second prize, gold baby ring; third prize, gold baby breastpin. For further information call Webster 3626.—Adv. For all helpful knowledge along Biblical lines attend our Epworth League, Sunday evening from 6 to 7. Visitors and strangers are always given a hearty welcome at St. John's. MR. AND MRS. R. T. WALKER ENTERTAIN AT MECCA GARDEN One of the most delightful social functions of the season was the party given Thursday night at the Mecca Garden. About seventy-five guests were present. Progressive whist, music and dancing furnished the evening's recreation. Mrs. Walker was assisted in receiving by Mesdames J. E. Brown, A. D. James, Jas. G. Jewell and Miss Lena Paul. There were four prizes for the ladies and four for the gentlemen. Mrs. E. West won the first prize, a beautiful library scarf; Mrs. L. J. Kenner, the second, a handsome boudor cap; Mrs. M. F. Singleton, the third, a pretty doily; and Mrs. I. Bailey, the fourth, a dainty handkerchief. The men's prizes were awarded as follows: Joseph Evans, a book, "The Testing Fire"; second, W. G. Haynes, a beautiful white silk tie; W. Murphy, third, a neat cigar holder; and Charles Solomon, fourth, a toy lion. Remember the gospel of the clear plate, the serving of small portions, the purchase of less supplies. Under the above caption one of our exchanges publishes the following: "Ben Ranaker made the first clock in America. It ran twenty years. Also the first almanac in America; also selected the site of the White House. Black men studied astronomy many centuries before Christ. Rested about 600 years. Rest now going on. Getting restless. Black men had first schools. Taught Moses, the world's greatest lawmaker. Black men were the world's first embalmers. Black men were the world's first builders, also the world's first rulers." Our associates in this war ask today for 25 per cent more wheat and fats than we consider our monthly production permits us to send them without trenching on our own supplies, or, on the other hand, unless we consume less. Omaha Lodge No. 146, A. F. and A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Fridays of every month. Lodge room 24th and Charles. P. H. Jenkins, W. M.; W. H. Robinson, Secretary. Keystone Lodge No. 4, K. of P., Omaha, Nebr. Meetings first and third Thursdays of each month. H. A. Hazzard, C. C., J. H. Glover, K. of R. and 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. R. S. Gaskins, N. G.; T. H. Gaskins, P. S. International Order No. 631 Colored Engineers and Portable Loistion Enginemen meets at 2225½ Lake street first and third Wednesday in each month. W. H. T. Ransom, president; J. H. Headly, Cor. Sec.; J. H. Moss, Rec. Sec.; S. L. Bush, Treas. NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL. In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. In the Matter of the Estate of Elizabeth All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said Court, praying for the probate of a certain instrument now on file in said Court, purporting to be the last will and testament of said deceased, and that a hearing will be had on said petition be held on February 1918, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on the said 18th day of February, 1918, at 9 o'clock a. m. to contest the probate of said will, the Court may allow and probate said will and grant administration of said estate to Susan E Rice, or some other suitable person, enter a decree of bestiplip, and proceed to a settlement thereof. BRYCE CHAWFORD, County Judge. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. In the matter of the Estate of Samuel E Harden, deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said Court alleging that said deceased died leaving no last will and praying for administration upon his estate, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the 18th day of February, 1918, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on the 18th day of February, 1918, at 9 o'clock a. m. to protest the said petition, he may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to Susan E. Rice, or some other suitable person and proceed to $ settlement thereof. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 31 County Judge. From Your Own Groceryman J. L. BETTS 2526 Lake St. Web. 5262 HOLSUM AND KLEEN MAID Why Buy Inferior When The Best COSTS NO MORE? JAY BURNS BAKING CO. OMAHA TRANSFER CO. "The Only Way" BAGGAGE Checked to Destination TEXAS WHEN IN TEMPLE, TEXAS STOP WITH Mrs. J. S. Dawson 218 South 4th Street Who gains pleasure in making you comfortable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Rates reasonable. Write or wire for accommodation. "BLACK MEN" LODGE DIRECTORY Buy Good Groceries TEXAS SMILE When you make tax statement It means a tea Thomas Kilpa When you make your income tax statement. It means a tear for the kaiser. Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. This Space Reserved for The Top Notch C 1322 N. 24th Street Top Notch C 1322 N. 24th Street Notch Cafe N. 24th Street er 2421 & Dunham S OF THE BEST 15.00 ERCOATS IN THE WORLD LEANING AND PRESSING Telephone Webster 2421 Dunham & MAKERS OF T $15. SUITS AND OVERCOAT REPAIRING, CLEANING ham & Dunk MAKERS OF THE BEST $15.00 PATTS AND OVERCOATS IN THE WO PAIRING, CLEANING AND PRESS Dunham & Dunham SUITS AND OVERCOATS IN THE WORLD REPAIRING, CLEANING AND PRESSING 118 South 15th Street. Omaha Hotel Cuming Douglas 2466 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable D. G. Russell, Pr 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable Rates D. G. Russell, Proprietor GROVE METHODIST CHURCH 22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. Obee-Hunter Wakefield Undertaking Co. LICENSED EMBALMERS Funeral Home, S. W. Corner 21st and Cuming Sts. NBEE Under- maha. PHONE DOUGLAS 8103 Res. 22 Phon OWN WORK and Guarantee It to be the Best Had and at the Most Reasonable Prices. For Cash or Secured Insurance. asket, Auto Hearse, 7-Passenger Car, Rob and a Cloth Casket, Dead Wagon, Carriage, Embalm. WAKEFIELD, MGR. SOUTH OMAHA BRAD WAKEFIELD, 16th St. Phone South 2614 cannot Get Mr. Wakefield, Call Main Office, W Calls Answered Promptly. Why Not Give Us Auto Service. Please Do Not Door in fineest chapel and parlors in the city. Free factory for family. If you need advice or a frie Ring, and ring again, until you get us WeBs not get the parlors, call Hunter's residence, W Credit Cheerfully Extended to All Worthy. long to the Masons, K. of P.'s, U. B.'s and F. WE DO OUR OWN WORK AND Guarantee Had and at the Most F For Cash or Secure Crepe Cloth Casket, Auto Hearse, 7-Pass- Crepe Cloth Casket, Dead Wagon J. H. WAKEFIELD, MGR, SO 4430 South 16th St. P If You Cannot Get Mr. Wakefield, G Council Bluffs Calls Answered Promptly. Our Fast Auto Service Will Bring U Largest and finest chapel and parlor and casket factory for family. If you n Always open. Ring, and ring again, until If you cannot get the parlor, call H Credit Cheerfully Extend We belong to the Masons, K. of H and Guarantee It to be the Best That Can be the Most Reasonable Prices. or Secured Insurance. e, 7-Passenger Car, Rob and Embalming $75 and Wagon, Carriage, Embalming, $50 MGR, SOUTH OMAHA BRANCH 5th St. Phone South 2614 kakefield, Call Main Office, Webster 816. Promptly, Why Not Give Us Your Business. I Bring to Our Door 6 Minutes. and邮局 in the city. Free auto to patrons. If you need advice or a friend, call on us, again, until you get us Webster 816. s, call Hunter's residence, Webster 4740. Lily Extended to All Worthy. as, K. of P.'s, U. B. F.'s and Tabors. 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. Crep3: Cloth Casket, Auto Hearse, 7-Passenger Car, Robe and Embalming, $75 Crepe Cloth Casket, Dead Wagon, Carriage, Embalming, $50 J. H. WANEFIELD, MGR, SOUTH OMAHA BRANCH 4343 1064 G. WADE OBEE Oldest Colored Under taker in Omaha. A Church Where All Are Welcome Services 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. GRIFFIN G. LOGAN, 4638 N. 881 W. 1000 Omaha, Neb. NAT. HUNTER Sage, Texas Res. 2212 N. 28th Ave. Phone Web. 4740 Lincoln Department BY EUGENE NICHOLS. The Colored students in Lincoln High made a very good showing in last semester's work. Two students to graduate from the grade schools were Lucy Hammond and Richard Williams. These two have enrolled in the High school, making a total of twenty-five Colored students in Lincoln High school. Mrs. Lester Washington gave an evening party Thursday in honor of her brother-in-law, Eddie Stephens. The evening was spent in dancing and games. Miss Lola Gaither of Sedalia, Mo., was a visitor at the home of Miss Goldie Kelly. She left Saturday for home. Miss I. Lee Parker will be unable to attend school next semester. She has been called to her home in Chillicothe, Mo., by sickness in her family. James Cowden and D. E. Nichols bagged four 'possums in their hunt Thursday night. The D. M. S. Club held its regular meeting Friday at the home of Miss Goldie Kelly. Regular business was transacted. A movement is on foot to give a charity ball. There will be a called meeting to complete arrangements. Mrs. Henry Gordon has been very ill, but is slowly improving. Mr. George Miller of Lincoln is expected to die. He went to Wyoming several weeks ago for his health. Rev. B. Hillman has returned from Terre Haute, Ind., where he went to attend to some business. There will be a joint meeting of all the Federation Clubs Tuesday afternoon at Mount Zion Church. Mrs. Ed Shipman has been ill for the last week. Mr. Herman Hale is leaving for a trip to Denver, where he will visit friends. Mr. Guy Jackson left Friday night for Wamego, Kan., where he will visit his mother. Stop! Look! Wait! Listen! for the charity ball, benefit of the Old Folks' Home, to be given by D. M. S. Club. Harry Holmes is in the city, visiting his brother, Louis Holmes. ATCHISON, KANSAS Miss Ethel Carson, Mrs. Charles Donovan, Mrs. James Crosswright, Mrs. Belle Ewing and Junius Wilson, jr., are on the sick list. Mr. Crest Gamble of St. Joseph spent Sunday with his relatives. Mrs. Belle Marshall of Hitchcock, Okla., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Nick Holmes. Chesteen Claggett, 39 years old, whose illness was mentioned in our last issue, died Friday morning, January 25, at his home on North Sixth street, from leakage of the heart. He had been complaining for several months. Funeral was held Monday at 2 p. m. at Mount Zion Baptist church, of which he was a member. Rev. Mr. Guyton officiated, assisted by Rev. H. Hill. A song by the choir, "He Was My Friend," was beautifully rendered and was very appropriate, as all who knew him were his friends. He leaves to mourn his loss two sisters, Mrs. Molly Martin of Leavenworth and Mrs. Rosy Cagle of Rockford, Ill.; three brothers, Charles and James Claggett of Oklahoma and Alec of Atchison and many friends. Interment at Oak Hill. Cards have been received in Atchison announcing the marriage of Gosnold Hudson to Miss Mary Garrett Cook of Chicago. Mr. Hudson formerly lived in Atchison. Garfield Winfrey, private at Camp Funston, made his first visit Sunday to see his mother, Mrs. Willie Winfrey, 111 South Third street. U. B. F. and S. M. T. had a public installation at their hall, corner Fourth street and Kansas avenue, January 25. Officers elected: Mrs. James Brown, worthy princess; Mrs. William Smothers, vice worthy princess; Mrs. Mary Holmes, chaplain. Royal House—Maggie Whitney, most exalted queen; John Brown, most noble king; Anna Freeman, high priestess; Mary Holmes, first maid of honor; Mrs. Willie Winfrey, second maid of honor. Refreshments of all kinds were served. There was a good crowd and it was a financial success. Many thanks to the public for their liberal patronage. Mrs. W. W. Cagle of Rockford, Ill., who came here to attend the funeral of her brother, Chesteen Claggett, was formerly Miss Rosy Claggett and was born and reared in Atchison. She went west several years ago for her health, stopping in Cheyenne, Wyo., where she met Lieutenant Walter W. Cagle. They were married. The lieutenant was en route to the Philippine islands with his company and Mrs. Cagle accompanied him. They lived in the Philippines two years, returning to the United States last February. Mrs. Cagle resides at Rockford and the lieutenant is with his company, 350th Machine Gun Battalion at Camp Grant. The many friends of Mrs. Cagle were glad to see her, but sorry on such a sad occasion. Corn saved our pioneers. Omaha, Nebr.—Two wheatless days in every week, and wheatless meal each day; a meatless day each week and a meatless meal each day; and two porkless days each week are the new regulations asked by the United States Food Administration and effective immediately. Consumers are urged to buy a pound of some substitute flour for every pound of wheat flour they buy. Bakers must make mixed flour breads on a 70 per cent wheat and 30 per cent other cereals. "These drastic suggestions are to provide enough wheat for export which the Allies must have," says Food Administrator Wattles. The new rules and regulations, according to Mr. Wattles, are: Wheatless Days.—Have two wheatless days (Monday and Wednesday) in each week and one wheatless meal each day. On wheatless days and in wheatless meals of other days use no crackers, pastry or other foods containing wheat, and do not use wheat in any form except the small amount that may be needed for thickening soups or gravies. As to bread, if you bake it at home, use other cereals than wheat and if you buy it, buy only mixed flour breads. We must consume one-third less wheat products than we did last year. Meatless Days.—Have one meatless day (Tuesday) each week and one meatless meal every day. Have two porkless days (Tuesday and Saturday). Meatless means without any cattle, hog or sheep products. On other days use mutton and lamb in preference to beef and pork. Porkless means without pork, bacon, ham, lard or pork products, fresh or preserved. Use fish, poultry and eggs. Sugar.—Make every day a sugar saving day. Use less sugar, less sweet drinks. Less candy should be used. Substitutes.—Use fruits, vegetables and potatoes abundantly. Raise all you can for home use. Milk.—Use milk wisely. Use all of the milk and waste no part of it. Children must have whole milk. Use sour and skim milk in cooking and for cottage cheese. THE CHURCH HAS ITS WAR-TIME PROBLEMS The clergy and laity of the Congregational churches in Nebraska and western Iowa will meet in Omaha, February 6 and 7 for a conference on reconstruction and war democracy. The war-time problems of the church will be discussed and plans laid for the church's part in the reconstruction period. This conference is part of a national movement which will be followed by conferences in other denominations, and will ultimately result in interdenominational conferences. TO DISCUSS LABOR PROBLEMS New York.-The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes held a conference here on labor conditions January 29 to 31, inclusive. The recent attitude of the American Federation of Labor, promising a more just deal to the Negro, as well as the large migration north and west was the prompting reason for the conference. Among the speakers were Prof. John Hope, president of Morehouse college, Atlanta; Dr. James H. Dillard, Prof. Kelly Miller, Dr. George Edward Haynes. ARRESTED FOR CURSING THE PRESIDENT Altoona, Pa., Jan. 8.—Lem Bacon, Colored, of Belwood, charged with cursing the President and uttering threatening and seditious words against the United States, has waived a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Stoner here and has been held for the Pittsburgh district court. He is a railroad track hand. WAR DEPARTMENT Washington, D. C., Jan. 16.—Secretary of War Baker has advised the senate military committee that the War Department favors discharging from draft liability all men who have passed the age of 31 since registering on June 5, 1917, who have not been called to the colors. Cornmeal—our ally! THE 92D IS GETTING FIT (Continued From First Page) find out why he was without an overcoat. The soldier grinned, pleased that somebody should worry about him, but laughed at the idea of cold affecting him. An overcoat was the least of his worry, so long as three good meals were served every day, he said. At first glance one would think the Negroes at Funston were drilling with .22-calibre squirrel rifles, so small they seem compared to the regulation rifles they should be carrying. They are the old 30-30 carbines the dashing cavalrymen used to carry in their saddle holsters. The machine gun battalion has no automatic rifles or machine guns, but the men are mastering the movements of the squad manuel and have lost little time because of the lack of equipment. For Rent strictly moo Webster 31 Two furn for gentlemen Grant street For Rent- 2320 North ster 2058. Keep Quarters Policed Well. The Camp Funston Negroes are quartered in steam heated barracks formerly occupied by the Depot Brigade of the 89th Division. Their quarters are immaculately clean and the grounds are "policed" to perfection. Not a scrap of paper or a cigarette "snipe" can be seen anywhere. Beside the barracks are dirt terraces with small white stones spelling out in large letters the designation of the companies quartered there. In the evening, after "retreat," you can hear nearly any melody, played on almost any instrument, with vocal trimmings in everything from tenor to bass. There is the ping-pang-pang of the banjo; the lighter pinkety-ping of the mandolin; the ripple and thump of the piano; a mouth organ soloist dealing out "Good-by Broadway, Hello France," with variations and foot movements, ukelele's weird tones intermingling with the raggy twang of a guitar and the rattle melody of a violin playing "Old Black Joe" and the sleep-wrecking blasts of a cornet. Too Many Band Volunteers. Because there have been so many insistent volunteers, the division band has not been organized and an elimination contest is on. When the call for bandmen was issued exactly 337 musicians responded. So it is going to be some job for the bandmaster to make his selections for a forty-piece band. A score of more aspirants were eliminated at the start when they were told that no banjo or harmonica players would be used. And it was deeply disappointing to one huge man when he was informed that although the music he made on a tissue paper covered comb was pleasing to the ear there was no music written for such an instrument. The division has its amusement centers, including a Knights of Columbus building conducted on the same plan as their other buildings; the government theater will furnish shows and a Y. M. C. A. is operated by Colored members of that organization. A night at the Negro Y. M. C. A. is quiet until some one starts tinkling a mandolin. Writers unconsciously keep time with their feet. The ragging music gets too enticing for a lively young fellow and he slides out to the middle of the floor and begins a shuffle. Another joins him, another and another, and in a few minutes the place is filled with laughter and the thump of feet—everybody's having a sure enough time. A Negro, he has his football games, his boxing classes, basket ball and other athletics. Certain nights each week he has classes in various subjects, including French. Taking it all in all, Sambo is getting a well rounded physical, mental and moral training at Camp Funston, as well as military training, and is rising to the occasion in a manner that satisfies his commanding officers.—Kansas City Star. Subscribe for The Monitor. $1.50 a year and worth it. Classified Advertising RATES—1½ cents a word for single insertions, 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement for less than 15c. Cash should accompany advertisement. $50.00 cash and $18.00 monthly buys a five-room cottage. Tel. Weoster 5519 or Douglas 2842. HOUSES FOR RENT First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric light. On Dodge and 24th st. car line. Mrs. Anna Banks, 924 North 20th st. Doug. 4379. NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS 1217½ and 1219½ So. 16th St. Phone Douglas 8730 J. LOGAN. For Rent—Right at Twenty-fourth street car line, nice large front room, also medium sized back room. Webster 4745. For Rent—Modern furnished rooms, 2320 North 28th ave. Webster 2058. Neatly furnished rooms, all modern conveniences, 2421 Erskine street. Phone Webster 2531. Call after 5 o'clock. For Rent—Furnished room in modern home to on lady. Webster 3466, 1414 North Twenty-sixth street. For Rent—Neatly furnished rooms to man and wife, 2430 Erskine St. HOUSES FOR SALE For Rent—Two furnished rooms, strictly modern, 1923 North 27th St. Webster 3150. Two furnished rooms with board for gentlemen, Mrs. E. J. Toddy, 2117 Grant street. Webster 5344. For Rent—Modern furnished rooms. 2320 North 28th Ave. Phone Web- ster 2058. Neatly furnished rooms in a private home. Modern except heat. Men only. Webster 1760. For Rent—Neatly furnished room in modern home for man and wife. 3702 North 23rd St. Webster 3727. For Rent.—Nice front room, 2521 Miami in private family. Neatly furnished rooms, 1842 North 27th St. Call Webster 2812. For Rent. Unfurnished rooms with electric light and water, 2603 Cuming street. Harney 5412. Furnished rooms, strictly modern, 2620 Burdette street. Webster 5543. Mrs. E. M. Wright. Neatly furnished rooms, 2915 Erskine street. Mrs. F. Johnson. Webster 3143. Two furnished rooms for three or four working men. 2202 Clark St. Phone Webster 7034. First-class modern furnished rooms. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, 1702 North Twenty-sixth street. Phone Webster 4769. Fourteen neatly furnished rooms. Mrs. Ella Dunivan, 4716 South 27th street, Side. Phone South 3067. Furnished rooms to rent in a modern house, 2619 Hamilton street, Phone Webster 1250.—Adv. A middle-aged man with no bad habits except tobacco, wants a good, respectable woman for a wife. Has a home and chickens. For information write Joseph Sykes, 212 North Ninth street. The Business World The Business World Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. Annie Banks BANKS-WILKES Funeral Directors and Embalmers Lady Assistant Satisfaction Guaranteed 1914 Cuming Street Res. Doug. 4379, Office Doug. 3718 PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS Res. Colfax 3831 Douglas 3181 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 3807 Camden Avenue. Repairing and Storing Orders Promptly Filled NOETH SIDE SECOND-HAND STORE Auction Every Saturday R. B. Rhodes New and Second Hand Furniture and Stoves. Household Goods Bought and Sold Rental and Real Estate 2522 Lake St. Webster 7971 DR. P. W. SAWYER Dentist 220 So. 13th St. Phone Doug. 7150 Automobile and Open Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night JONES @ CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Web. 1100 and Web. 204 Licensed Embalmer. 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. 4024 The People's Drug Store 109 South 14th Street Drugs, Cigars and Soda Toilet and Rubber Goods Special Attention to Prescriptions We appreciate your patronage. Phone Douglas 1446 TERRELL'S DRUG STORE Graduate Pharmacist Prompt Delivery Excellent Service Webster 4443 24th and Grant WIFE WANTED TRUNKS Made from good clear lumber, covered with fibre; well bound on edges. Durable corners and braces where necessary. Sturdy locks and hinges, 2 trays nicely cloth lined. Priced at $10.00, $12.00, $13.50 and $15.00. "Omaha's Best Baggage Builders" 1803 FARNAM STREET The Bell Hotel 514 South 13th St. NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS Steam Heated Strictly Modern Douglas 3707 WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO ОМАНА WANTED! 500 Colored Customers Who Understand the Value of Good Shoe Repairing, H LAZARUS, 2019 Cuming St Hill-Williams Drug Co. Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department C. S. JOHNSON 18th and Izard Tel. Douglas 1702 ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE at POPULAR PRICES. Best for the Money C. J. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. GOOD GROCER C. P. WESIN Also Fresh Fruit 2005 Cuming St. REPAIRS AND STOVES, HEATERS, FU PROMPT SERVICE— Water Fronts and Wat OMAHA STOVE REPAIR WORKS, NORTH SIDI C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO. ```markdown ``` STOVES, HEATERS, FURNACES AND BOILERS OMAHA STOVE REPAIR WORKS, 1206-8 Douglas St. Phone Tyler 20 NORTH SIDE BOOSTERS E. W. Killingsworth The Alamo Barber Shop The best equipped shop in the state The only Colored shop in the state b sanitary. Shop department open from to 12 p.m. We carry a full line of C Chewing Gum. The Alamo Barber Shop and Pocket Billiard Parlor The best equipped shop in the state. Most capable and courteous barbers. The only Colored shop in the state built on the latest pattern. Everything a m. to 1 p. m. Saturday 8 a. m. to 12 p. m. Shop department open from 8 a. m. to 1 p. m. Saturdays 8 a. m. to 12 p. m. Carry a full line of Choice Cigars and Tobaccos, Candies and Chewing Gum. KILLINGSWORTH & PRICE, Props., Phone Webster 5784. We Have a Complete Line of FLOWER, GRASS AND GARDEN Seeds 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 STANEK'S PHARMACY Henry Stanek, Prop. PRESCRIPTION EXPERT Cor. 24th and L Sts. Tel. So. 878 Petersen & Michelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N St. Tel. South 162 Neatly Furnished Rooms Modern Conveniences With or Without Board Telephones, Doug. 9458, Doug. 8703 The Booker T. Washington Hotel Mrs. Laura Cuerington, Propr. In Connection with THE WASHINGTON CAFE 1719-21 Cuming Street Omaha Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 C. H. MARQUARDT CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. 2003 Cuming St. Doug. 3831 Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke and Cure our own Hams and Bacon. OMAHA THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE PRINTING COMPANY Open All Times. Reasonable Prices The Silas Johnson Western Funeral Home The Place for Quality and Service Licensed Embalmer in Attendance Webster 248 2518 Lake St. I TAKE PLEASURE in thank you for your patronage. I want your trade solely upon the married or widowed. You will profit by trading here. H. E. YOUNG Webster 515 2114-16 N. 24th St. BIES ALWAYS GROCERY CO. and Vegetables. Telephone Douglas 1098 SUPPLIES FOR FURNACES AND BOILERS MODERATE PRICES for Heating Attachments 206-8 Douglas St. Phone Tyler 20 BOOSTERS R. C. Price and Pocket Billiard Parlor Most capable and courteous barbers. Lits on the latest pattern. Everything 8 a. m. to 11 p. m. Saturdays 8 a. m. Vice Cigars and Tobacco, Candles and 2416 North 24th Street Four Chairs