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Growing Thank You! $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy 200,000 Colored Soldiers in Army Recent Call for Forty Thousand Has Increased Number to This Figure—Ratio Relatively Large—Men Average Well Physically and Mentally. RECEIVE SPECIAL TRAINING Four Thousand to Be Sent to Schools and Colleges for Training in Electrical, Radio and General Engineering and Other Branches. WASHINGTON.—The calling of 40,000 more Colored registrants into the army, and the organization of schools at the leading colleges of the race, where 4,000 selective service Negroes will be trained in electrical, radio and general engineering, automobile mechanics and the operation of motor vehicles, draws attention to the importance in this war of that element which in 1910 numbered 9,827,763 out of a total population of 91,972,266. There are now about 157,000 Negro soldiers in the National Army, and the 40,000 just called will bring the total to nearly 200,000. This does not include, of course, the four regiments of Colored troops in the regular army—two of infantry and two of cavalry. Of the 9,586,508 men between 21 and 31 who registered under the selective service law on June 5, 1917, the Negroes numbered 737,626. Of these the boards summoned under the first call 208,953, or 28.33 per cent, as against 32.48 per cent of the white registrants. There were certified for service 75,697, or a little over 36 per cent, as against 24.75 per cent of the whites. Good Proportion Shown. "Thus it appears," said Provost Marshal General Crowder, in his report, "that 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. The explanation of this difference cannot be yet definitely ascertained until a more thorough study of the records becomes possible. The difference is probably not due to either a difference in physical qualifications, nor to a difference in the applicability of the several legal grounds for exemption and discharge. So far as the several regions of the country are concerned, the lesser ratio for Colored to white certified appears mainly, but not exclusively, in the southern states." As stated above, the successive calls to the service has brought the total Colored up to nearly 200,000. The Provost Marshal General estimated that before the Colored registrants fit for service were exhausted they would furnish the army 191,539, or a grand total of 267,336. To these will be added, of course, their proportion of the registrants of June 5, 1918, that is, of the men who came of age during the year ending on that day. Prior to the recent call, the Colored soldiers in the national army constituted two divisions. There are about 1,000 line officers, captains, first and second lieutenants, and in the medical and dental reserve corps there are about 250 more Colored officers. Most of the line officers are trained at officers' training camps established by the government. There are also Colored officers in the four Colored regular army regiments, the highest in rank being a lieutenant colonel, who is the only Colored graduate of West Point in the army. The services of the Colored soldiers in the Civil War scarcely need recital. There were 138 regiments of infantry, 6 of cavalry and 15 of artillery, and they participated in 449 battles and skirmishes, a few of the regiments having the largest number of men killed in any one single engagement—their first fighting was at St. Helena Island, Ga., November, 1862, and the last when Doubleday's and Birney's brigades made the last charge at Appomotox in April, 1865—the total losses being 285 officers and 33,380 enlisted men. Seventeen Colored soldiers were awarded the congressional medal of honor, which ranks with the Victoria Cross, the Cross of the French Legion of Honor and the German Iron Cross. In the war with Spain, the record of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry at El Cayey and San Juan Hill—where they came gallantly to the aid of the "Rough Riders"—and of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantry in THE MONITOR the Philippines are highly creditable to these Colored organizations. In an article on the Negro soldier in all periods of the world's history, which has been given a place in the Congressional record, John E. Bruce presents some interesting facts in relation to this phase of his people's record. Passing over the exploits of Negro soldiers under Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Pompey and Belisarius, Toussaint L'Overture, and Dessalines, and in later times under Menelik in Abyssinia, Cetewayo in South Africa and Maceo in Cuba, there are now 500,000 Colored men fighting on the side of the Allies, and that exclusive of those enrolled in the American army. The French Negro troops from Algeria have fought in France almost from the beginning, and have been as valiant at Chemin des Dames as at the Marne and Verdun. No less than six privates of one Senegalese battalion were named in the "citations a Pordre" for April 17, 1917, alone. That is equal to a decoration, and is inscribed on the regimental roll of honor. The British Negro South African forces fought with distinguished courage through all the arduous campaigns which overthrew the German power in East and West Africa. American Negroes are now fighting on the west front in France, making a record equally honorable. Army Officer Put Out of Service Georgian Who Disobeyed BrigadeCommander and Refused to Participate in Troop Formation Because Colored Soldiers Were in Alignment Is Dismissed From the Army. Little Rock Ark.—By virtue of a telegraphic communication from the war department received at headquarters at Camp Pike, Captain Eugene C. Rowan, late of the 162d depot brigade, was dismissed from the service and Lieutenant Robert Hall was dismissed and given a sentence of 25 years at hard labor at the military prison at Leavenworth, Kas. Lieutenant Hall was mess officer of the 348th infantry and deserted his organization late in February. Several days after his desertion a check up of the mess food revealed shortages amounting to about $7,000. He was arrested in San Francisco and brought back to camp. A part of the fund, placed to his credit in a Little Rock bank later was secured through civil court proceedings. Hall was stripped of his insignia and placed in the camp stockade. He is a graduate of the first training camp at Fort Logan H. Root. Captain Rowan's case attracted considerable attention while it was before general court martial several months ago because it was the first time the color line has figured in a national army court. Captain Rowan was charged with having refused to obey an order issued by the brigade commander calling for a troop formation because it was asserted both Negroes and white soldiers were included in the formation. The officer is a native of Georgia, but has recently lived in Mississippi. Captain Rowan left Camp Pike this afternoon and said he hoped to go to Russia to assist in the reorganization of the Russian army. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American war and a graduate of the first series of officers' training camps. ROBERTS WOUNDED AGAIN IN FRANCE New York. — Needham Roberts, whose heroic fight, with Henry Johnson, against twenty-four Hun barbarians, won him the French war cross and stirred the heart of the Colored race throughout the world, is again wounded following his return to the trenches and another heroic action against the Germans. He was reported in the June 21 casualty list to be severely wounded. Roberts is a native of this city and lived here at 157 West Fifty-third street. CUBA'S EXECUTIVE INSISTS ON FORCED MILITARY SERVICE Havana.—President Menocal sent a message to congress today urging the prompt passage of the obligatory military service bill. It is said in well informed circles that if congress fails to pass the measure before adjournment the president will put it into effect by decree. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, JULY 13, 1918 Colonel Young Finishes Long Trip on Horse Colonel Young Finishes Long Trip on Horse XX Colonel Charles Young, of Wilberforce, highest ranking Colored officer in the service of the United States, arrived home Wednesday from Washington, after making the trip to the capitol on horseback to convince the war department that he is physically fit to take an active part in this war. Colonel Young, who was retired, excepting for a position on active duty in the state of Ohio, last summer, after his attempt to organize a Colored regiment in Ohio failed, is optimistic following a personal conference with Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, and in his own words, he is "smiling a broad smile." "I simply wanted to convince the war department that I am still physically fit for active service and I LIEUTENANT-COLONEL Whom it is earnestly hoped will soon army. He recently took a 400-m physical fitness. His appointee be pleasing to 12,000,0 have every reason to believe that my case will be considered favorably," said the colonel. Although he was not promised anything definite by the secretary of war who was personally acquainted with his case before the colonel's visit he has reason to believe that his trip will be fraught with satisfactory results and that his services will be called upon in the present crisis. Although it is understood that Colonel Young is in line for a brigadier generalship, the officer has no personal ambition prompting his activities to get back into service. According to Colonel Young himself, he is not prompted, by any personal hope of promotion or gain and if the war was not going on at present, he would be well satisfied with his allotment. However, he is chafing under the inactivity of retirement at a time when every one should be doing his best for his country, and when it appears that a man so well versed in military training and discipline would CALIFORNIA WOMAN BECOMES DENTIST First Woman Dentist in Southern California Wins High Honors in Class of 85—Will Enter Practice With Her Husband in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Cal.—When Dr. Vada Jetmore Somerville received her diploma at the thirty-fifth annual commencement of the University of Southern California in Shrine Auditorium Thursday afternoon, June 5, the event marked an epoch in the history of our women in California; for Mrs. Somerville is the first woman of the Colored race to complete the course and receive the honor in this state. Dr. Somerville has been for a number of years one of the leaders among the younger social set and when she abandoned social activities be indispensable to the government. Merely a desire to do his part in the present crisis as his patriotic duty, is explained by the local officer as his reason for taking so definite an action as calling on the war department. Colonel Young has never been ill, and is in perfect health now. He was examined by army physicians a year ago last May and it was said that he had high blood pressure at that time, but if such is the case, it has never bothered the officer and would not prevent him from considerable more active duty than he is now assigned to. Colonel Young was retired except for "active service in Ohio," last summer following an attempt to organize a Colored regiment from this state, which he hoped to command. L. CHARLES YOUNG can be recalled to active service in the le horseback ride as a test of his tment to a command would 100 Colored Americans. The horseback ride to Washington is an example of the army test for physical fitness and was the method employed by Theodore Roosevelt when he was president. A ride of 20 to 30 miles a day is considered a good army rate, yet the local officer kept up an average of $31\frac{1}{2}$ miles a day for sixteen days. He walked 15 minutes out of every hour while on the road in order to be able to tell the secretary of war that he had walked a quarter of the way to Washington. Colonel Young left Wilberforce on June 6 and arrived at his destination last Saturday, June 22. He traveled only in the day time, stopping at night at different places along the route. His accomplishment of the feat is considered an excellent proof of his physical ability. The secretary of war was surprised to see him, said Colonel Young today. Colonel Young besides being the highest ranking Colored officer in the service, is also the only Colored graduate of West Point.-Xenia, Ohio, Morning Republican, June 28. to enter upon the study of dentistry, the young people of the city suffered a severe loss. She attended the Los Angeles high school for three years, thus preparing herself for the future. She won the Times scholarship to the University of Southern California and attended that institution for one year. While attending the university she was able to make a sufficient number of credits to meet matriculation requirements to enter the college of dentistry connected with that institution. It was in October, 1915, that Dr. Somerville entered the dental school and on the sixth of June was graduated in a class of 85 with as high standing as any of the other students. She was the only woman in the class and throughout her course was treated with every consideration and with greatest courtesy by faculty and student body. —Citizens Advocate, Los Angeles. BERT WILLIAMS QUITS FOLLIES Colored Comedian Will Enter Vaude- ville. New York.—Bert Williams, for years leading comedian of the Zieg- field Follies, has left that show and will enter vaudeville. It is said the reason given for his withdrawal is lack of material with which to enter tain audiences. Williams is to appear in a one act version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in which he will play the parts of Uncle Tom and Simon Legree. Arrang- ments for booking the play are now being made. Calls Conference on Negro Labor Confers With Representative Negroes at Raleigh and the Director of Negro Economics of the United States Department of Labor—All Highly Pleased at Results. Washington.—The Governor of North Carolina recently called to meet him at the state house for conference on Negro labor problems a number of most representative Negro citizens from all parts of that state. He also invited Dr. George E. Haynes, Director of Negro Economics of the United States Department of Labor, to meet with them to discuss plans for bringing to the attention of the rank and file of Negro workers the problems of industry and agriculture in connection with the war and the desire of the white citizens to add their co-operation in increasing the production to win the war. Governor Bickett himself presided throughout the conference and took an active part in its discussion. Dr Haynes outlined the general plans of the Department of Labor and for more than an hour the citizens present discussed these plans, offering their advice as to such modifications as are needed to adjust them to the welfare of the Negroes of North Carolina. At the close of the conference the governor appointed a temporary committee which has drafted a constitution which authorizes a state committee and the organization of local and county district committees. During the conference a number of the citizens present expressed themselves as highly pleased, both at the result of the conference and at the liberal attitude of the governor in calling such a conference. The governor expressed himself as highly pleased with the results and accepted a place as honorary chairman of the permanent state committee. Those present and taking part in the conference were as follows: Dr. A. M. Moore, Berry O'Kelly, Rev. P. R. Berry, Dr. S. G. Atkins, Bishop-elect H. B. Delany, Mrs. Annie W. Holland, Colonel J. H. Yong, Prof J. D. Wray, Prof. L. E. Hall, Mrs. F. C. Williams, Dr. J. B. Dudley, Bishop G. W. Clinton, Prof. C. L. M. Smith, C. C. Spaulding, J. E. Taylor, Captain L. E. Hamlin, Dr. Geo. J. Ramsey, Ralph Iard, N. C. Newbold A temporary committee was formed to direct the work until the permanent committee is appointed by the Department of Labor. Of this committee Dr. S. G. Atkins, President of the State Normal School at Winston-Salem, N. C., is chairman. PHILADELPHIA APPPOINTS A POLICEWOMAN Philadelphia, Pa.-Mrs. Mary E. Smith of 1426 Lombard street, is the first woman to be appointed as a policewoman in this city. She assumed her new duties last week. URBAN LEAGUE IN WAR WORK New York.-The National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, with headquarters at 200 Fifth avenue, New York City, is now in a campaign to help the government in the production of those goods that are essential to the prosecution of the war. Incidentally, it is the hope of the league that out of the effort larger industrial opportunities for the Negro will follow. Adjustment of Negro labor in industrial centers so as to increase the output of factories, improve the efficiency of Negro labor and reduce friction between the races—this is the contribution of the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes in the war emergency. The league is aiding the sale of War Savings Stamps and encouraging Negroes to join in thrift societies. Lifting Lift, Vol. IV. No. 2 (Whole No. 158) Committee of One Hundred Expansion of List of Speakers to Present the War Aims of the Government to the Colored People of the United States From 60 to 100. MONITOR EDITOR IS NAMED Representatives of Every Notable Group of the Negro Race to Take Active Part in Approaching Campaign of Education. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The war department and the committee on public information announce through the office of Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the secretary of war, the expansion of the list of speakers to present the war aims of the government to the Colored people of the United States from sixty (60) to one hundred (100.) Hereafter this group of speakers will be known as "The Committee of One Hundred," and will be found active in the approaching campaign of education, planned to cover every community in the country, where Colored people abide in appreciable numbers. They represent every notable element of the race and will doubtless exert a potent influence in enlightening the Colored people as to their duty toward the government and pointing out to them in a definite and practical way how they may be of the greatest service to the nation in the winning of the present struggle for liberty and democracy. The following well-known public men constitute the additions to the list already announced. Additions to List of Speakers. Bishop Benjamin F. Lee, senior bishop of the A. M. E. church, Wilberforce, O. Bishop Charles Henry Phillips, bishop of the Colored M. E. church, Nashville, Tenn. Bishop John Hurst, bishop of the A. M. E. church, Baltimore, Md. Dr. Henry L. Phillips, archdeacon of the Protestant Episcopal church, Philadelphia, Pa. Prof. W. S. Scarborough, president of Wilberforce university, Wilberforce, O. William H. Steward, editor the American Baptist, Louisville, Ky. Rev. John Albert Williams, editor The Monitor, Omaha, Neb. Mr. John C. Dancy, secretary church extension board, A. M. E. Zion church, Washington, D. C. Dr. James S. Russell, president St. Paul Normal and Industrial Institute, Lawrenceville, Va. Mr. I. Garland Penn, corresponding secretary Freedmen's Aid Society, M. E. church, Cincinnati, O. Mr. Samuel W. Green, grand chancellor, Knights of Pythias, New Orleans, La. Dr. M. W. Dogan, president Wiley university, Marshall, Tex. Prof. William Pickens, vice president of Morgan college, Baltimore, Md. Mr. John H. Murphy, editor of the Afro-American, Baltimore, Md. Mr. George L. Knox, publisher of The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. A. E. Manning, editor The World, Indianapolis, Ind. Dr. Sumner A. Furniss, member city council, Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Armond W. Scott, grand exalted ruler, Order of Elks, Washington, D. C. Mr. E. M. Hewlett, attorney at law, Washington, D. C. Mr. Henry Lassiter, 1215 17th street, Washington, D. C. Mr. R. L. Smith, president Farmers' Improvement society, Waco, Tex. Mr. Walter J. Singleton, president Mu-So-Lit club, Washington, D. C. Mr. W. B. Kemp, Editor The Leader, Detroit, Mich. Mr. W. E. Mollison, attorney at law, Chicago, Ill. Mr. J. Gray Lucas, attorney at law, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Charles H. Anderson, president Anderson & Co., bankers, Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. George A. Myers, Cleveland, O. Mr. William Warley, editor The Louisville News, Louisville, Ky. Mr. William T. Francis, attorney at law, St. Paul, Minn. Mr. A. E. Meyzeek, principal Colored Normal school, Louisville, Ky. Mr. Henry Lincoln Johnson, attorney at law, Atlanta, Ga. Rev. J. Francis Robinson, field secretary of National Baptist Convention (Incorporated), Chicago, Ill. Mr. James J. Manuel, office of auditor of state, Denver, Colo. (Continued on Third Page.) oa Lincoln News ee ee eee ee ee a brief talk before a small body of ‘women at the home ‘of Mrs. Chas Haynes Saturday afternoon, June 6 at 3:30 p.m. She spoke to them on lines concerning the social work of the association. Miss Ovington left LineoIn Satur- day evening, July 6, for Denver, Colo. where she will attend the National Association of Colored — Women’: Clubs. Mrs. Fannie Young departed for Denver, Colo., Saturday evening, July 6, where she will go as representative of the State Federation of Colore/ ‘Women’s Clubs. ‘The National Association of Colore'l ‘Women’s Clubs is holding its bien- nial convention in Denver, Colo,, from July 8 to July 15. Mrs. Ada Holmes departed Sunday evening, July 7, for Denver Colo., where she will attend the National Association of Colored — Women’s Clubs, which convenes there this week and also visit at the home of her sister. Mr. James Walker departed Mon- day evening, July 8, for Denver, Colo., where he will visit Mr. Cecil Norris, who attended school here last year. Miss Bernice Hawkins will be ab- sent from the city for a few weeks, having gone to Minneapolis, Minn , where she will visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. Josephine Murray. I am now one of Lincoln's corre- spondents for The Monitor. It is my aim to help make The Monitor a pa- per worth while, so if you want The Monitor give me your subscription end I will see it is forwarded you im- mediately. I urge you to subscribe as soon as possible, for subscriptions to The Monitor advance from one dol- jar and a half to two dollars per year after July Ist. If you want to sub- scribe for the paper, please call 84957. Mrs. Sarah Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Holmes have purchased a very handsome bungalow at 28d and Orchard streets, where they expect to reside in the near fu- ture. Mr. Bert Patrick and Mr. Josep! Lacour of Omaha, who arrived in Lin- coln Sunday, spent several days visit- ing friends and relatives. : ‘Mrs. Louis Holmes entertained in- formally Sunday afternoon at 3:20 p. m, in honor of her brother, Mr. Cecil Jeffers of Knoxville, Ia, and Miss Bernice Hawkins, who left that evening for Minneapolis. Mr. Jeffers will leave about July 18, when he will go to camp Dodge. About twelve guests were present and a very enjoy- able time was reported by all present. ‘The Kensington club was enter- tained in a delightful manner last Monday at Antelope park by Mrs. Nichols. Mrs. Mary Taibert was the invited guest. The club members greatly appreciated the lecture given to them by Mrs. Talbert, which touched upon lines concerning club work. » MrvJim Dean is quite ill this week, having been stricken with an attack of tonsilitis. - Mr. O’Donald is much better this week. Mrs. O’Donald is also con- valeseing rapidly. Mr. John Jeltz was granted a decree of divorce Tuesday, July 9, from Mra Elizabeth Jeltz on the grounds of de- sertion. She having left him two years ago, going from Omaha to Chi- eago, where she now resides. IMPORTANT NOTICE! Notice is here given that Mrs. Sarali Walker, 907 S street, is appointed the exclusive agent and representative of The Monitor to solicit subscriptions and advertisements and make collec- tions in Lincoln. She is also the offi cial correspondent and staff represen. tative of The Monitor for Lincoln. It will be greatly appreciated if all per- sons who have news for this depart- ‘ment will communicate with her. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. SHOWING APPROVAL Our Lincoln advertisers appreciate ‘the patronage of our people, and our people in the Capitol City are showing their appreciation of the fact that The Monitor is being used as an advertis- ing medium by liberally patronizine those firms which advertise, Pur- chasers - are asked to mention The ‘Monitor when making purchases. _ LINCOLN FEELING CHESTY Lincoln may be pardoned for fee! ing-just a little chesty these days by reason of the way Lincolnites have boon Anine thines of note. But then. you know, Lincoln, has alwavs been doing things worth while. The only diftionlty hee heen that we have not ‘had a medium through which we cout make our wants known. "The Monitor is meeting that long-felt want. THE NEGRO SOLDIER AT THE FRONT Once moe the attention of the pub- tie has been called to the signal serv- ice which the Negro troops of France have rendered to the cause of the allies. Recently that service was made the subject of a complimentary ‘resolution in the French Chamber of ‘Deputies, and it is now announced ‘that a Negro deputy from Senegal is ‘traveling through French West Africa with a view to intensifying voluntary enlisfizent amongst the different tribes that people those vast terri- tories. The announcement could not come at a more favorable time than the present, when the American news- papers are enthusiastically praising the Negro troops of the United States army at the front for their bravery, seli-abnegation, and exempiary bear- ing. Numerous battalions have been raised unong the Negro race tor ser- vice abroad, and the men who com- pose their ranks have manitested much tee same erthiscasm and com- prehension of the loity task beiore them as their white comrades-n- arms, ‘The war, it is said, has revealed to the Negro a new world. As far as the French Negro forces, which num- bered at least 120,000 men, are con- cerned, their conception of service has assumed a form of patriotism al- most religious in its sincerity. The pont to remember with regard to the employment of French black trodps 1s that they are in a literal sense de- fenders of their territories against conquest by a ruthless foe. One of the distinct objects of Germany in attacking France was the capture of the French African colonies. This circumstance was brought out in the conversations between the German Chancetlor and the British Ambassu- dor in Berlin, on Juiy 29, 1914, when Herr yon Bethmann-Hollweg declared that he was quite ready, in return for England's neutrality, to promise that Germany would not annex any teri- tory in France, but would not make like promise with regard to the French possessions outside of Europe, France thus had no difficulty in achieving a magnificent response to. her appeal to the natives of Africa | and of Far Eastern colonies to rally | to the defense of their land. If one | may include the Arabs of Northern | Africa under the same heading, then it may be literaliy said that hundreds of thousands of fighting men from Africa fell into line in the Frencit| ranks and fought on the wester| front. That rally was a magnificent | tribute to the benevolent and fraternal | policy of France in Africa which has | secured for her such stout defenders among the people whom she has tak- en under her protection, and was the best possible answer to the hypocriti- cal protest, which was heard in Ger- many’s note to neutrals, against a employment of native troops in the Entente armies. This protest came with poor grace from a nation which had secretly worked to create a Holy War in Asia and Africa, and a “black peril” in Africa by fomenting a revolt against the white race in the French and English coloines. Bared from using its own native troops in Europe, Germany of the conscientious sernnles | did not hesitate to use them against | the colonial troops detailed to wrest the German colonies from their un- scrupulous owners, On the occasion of Germany's most recent protest on the subject of the employment of black troops, the note. it is fair to assume, was intended te | make a particular appeal to the | “sense of humanity” of the American people whose population includes 10,000,000 and more Negroes. But once again Germany fniled to guaxe the sentiment of other nations or the mettle of the Negro population of the United States. Speaking generally, if the prestige of the white race ha ‘suffered in this war, then it is nol ‘Decause, as was pointed out in the ‘French Chamber of deputies, of the employment of Negro troops in the sia; but because of Germans’s A SPECIAL ARTICLE We expect soon to publish a spe article on Lincoln, with justration of some of our homes and citizens gst onal ) JOHN BAKER’S | POOL and BILLIARD | PARLOR | Rooms and Taxi Line. 117 E. Front St. Tel. 321 | GRAND ISLAND, NEB. THE MONITOR f° PR FARES ° Cc. D. ENNIS : First-Class Rooming House 5 Billlard Parlor. Cigars ; Soft Drinks. 3 —Barber Shop in Connection— é 422% West Fourth. Tel, 2083 > “GRAND ISLAND, NEB. 3 RT ELI DDI 2 MIRE TRI IRD eeaenapeeeeer erase Taso 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 Suxdries —— Quality Service D. E. Nichols Tailoring Co. 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Speier = Sim peter <* Store on LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Prominent Woman Visits Lincoln Mary White Ovington of New York, Organizer of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Col- ored People, Addressed Large Au- dience at Temple Theater, MAYOR MILLER ALSO SPEAKS A LARGE audience of about 700 Colored people greeted Miss Mary White Ovington, when she spoke on the Negro problem Friday “night at Temple theater. Miss Ov- ington came from New York, where she has for the past five years de voted her time and interests to the advancement of this society. The meeting was opened by sing- ing of the national anthem, “Ameri- a,” an instrumental solo by Mrs. Isetta Malone, followed by invocation by the Rev. R, R. Powers. Mayor Miller was introduced by Clyde Ma lone, who is president of the local branch of the N. A. A.C. P. Mayor Miller in turn tharked the audience heartily for the greeting re- ecived. He assured the Colored peo- ple that he would always be a friend to them. He spoke of Colored trooyi= in France and how they have rallied to the cause. He also said he was a firm be- liever of political liberty. That d~ moeracy meant political equality. In speaking of the nation as a whole,, he said that if he had the power he , Would allow no man, whether black or white, the right of franchise un less he was able to read and write. Miss Ovington in her address told of the beginning of the association and how she had lived in a Colored settlement in Brooklyn in order to make a better study of their prob- lems and difficulties. She had to visit the homes before she really un- derstood the conditions that existed there, She also stated that the associa- tion was founded after the Spring- field race riots in 1908, which were directed against the Colored people of that city. William English Wall- ing, who was in Springfield at the ‘time, wrote an article, “Race War in the North,” which stirred up enthus- iasm rapidly and the result was to form a society that would take such matters under consideration. The society was organized on Lin- coln’s birthday in 1909. When the or- ganization started out, the members pledged themselves to protect the rights of Colored citizens. The or- ganization now has 119 zranches with a membership of 35,200. Their aini is to make it reach the 50,000 mark before the beginning of next year. Lincoln has a membership. of 200. She said that the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Col- ored People dealt with affairs con- cerning lynching, segregation, Jim Crow cars, education and disfrancn isement. One of the biggest ques- tions was the disfranchisement of the Negro of the south. In considering the photo play, “The Birth of a Nation,” she said the na- tional officers of which Moorfield Storey is president, and she one of the vice presidents, tried to get it censored at the very beginning, while in Boston. Mr. Storey meeting Mr. Griffith, the producer, refused to shake hands with him on account of the great humiliation his play was causing « ong both Colored and white people. She asserted — lynching marked disgrace upon people of botl races, Miss Ovington said that the branches of the N. A. A. C. P. were expected to fight any battles that presented themselves and to induces their members to subscribe for the “Crisis,” a. magazine which is pub lished every month and which tells of the work done by the branches THE MONITOR in various cities. The “Crisis” has a circulation of 76,000, She urged her listeners to work diligently in order to get best results. She also assured them that every means will be taken to see that the Negro be allowed to share equally in the American heritage of citizenship. MRS. SARAH WALKER. ‘COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED’ Se ee, ee Mr. H. B. Hudson, secretary Na- tional Baptist Convention (Incorpor- ated), Selma, Ala. Mr. Clarence W. Allen, president Press Publishing company, Mobile, Ala, Dr. A. F. Owens, dean theological department, Selma university, Selma, Ala, Dr. E. T. Belsaw, secretary execu- tive board, National Medical Associa- tion, Mobile, Ala, Dr. Byrd Prillerman, _ president West Virginia Collegiate Institute, In- stitute, W. Va. Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, assist- ant superintendent public schools, Washington, D. C. Dr. Richard Carroll, Columbia, S. C. Mr. T, Thomas Fortune, secretary State Migrant Welfare commission, ‘Trenton, N. J. Mr. Robert L. Vann, editor the Courier and assistant city solicitor, Pittsburg, Pa, Mr. Chris J. Perry, president Na- tional Negro Press association, Phila- delphia, Pa, Dr. R. S. Wilkinson, president Nor- mal Industrial and Mechanical col- lege, Orangeburg, S. OC; Mr. James A, Ross, publisher, Buf- falo, N.Y. Dr. W. W. Lucas, general officer M, E. church, Meridian, Miss. A Renewed Impetus to Negro Patriot- ism Zones of activity have been worked out and it is expected that speakers will accept assignments as near their homes as possible to avoid the ex- pense incident to long journeys. Ex- cept in special cases, expenses con- nected with speaking appointments Should be borne by the local auspices under which the speakers appear. The loyalty of the 12,000,000 Ne- groes of America is not doubted, but it is believed that their natural pa- triotism will be stirred anew and their helpful activities will be given a live- lier impetus through the eloquent re- minders voiced by leaders of thought and opinion who enjoy in the fullest measure their confidence and esteem. BRITISH SUBJECTS ENROLL IN LARGE NUMBERS Philadelphia, June 28.—Negro Brit- ish subjects to the number of twenty per week are being enrolled for serv- ice at the British reeriting office, Sixteenth and Chestnut streets, ac- cording to information received at the office today. An average of ten per day, principally those from the Ber: muda and Bahama islands, have ap- plied for enlistment during the past several weeks, and these have been cxamined and data regarding — thers recorded. None of these, however, were enlisted until the order to that effect calling for Negroes to be en rolled was received, RALPH TYLER GIVES THREE SONE TO UNCLE SAM .Columbus, 0.—All three of the son: of Ralph W. Tyler, ex-auditor of the navy and head of the Colored Soldiers’ Comfort Committee, have been called to the service. ‘Two are in France and the third is waiting orders to go. 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Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Editors. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor. Bert Patrick, Business Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.50 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 50 cents an iron per issue. Address, The Monitor, 119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243. WE recently wrote Emmett J. Scott, special assistant, to the secretary of war, the Hon. Newton D. Baker, recommending the appointment of Mr. George Wells Parker and Mr. Fred C. Williams to present the war aims of the government in the proposed educational campaign among our people. Both of these gentlemen have splendid qualifications for the work proposed. But instead of being advised of the appointment of either one or both of these gentlemen, we were advised that prior to the receipt of our letter our name had been proposed, approved and adopted for this work. We have been officially notified of our appointment and have signified our acceptance of the same. The subjoined letters carry their own message: Washington, July 2, 1918. Rev. John Albert Williams, Editor The Monitor, Omaha, Neb. My Dear Sir: I have your letter of recent date, recommending the appointment of Mr. George Wells Parker and Mr. Fred C. Williams as speakers to present the war aims of the government to the Colored people In reply, I beg to inform you that prior to the receipt of your letter, your own name was suggested to the war department committee on public information and your designation as a speaker to represent the State of Nebraska was authorized by them. A letter of notification will be forwarded you at an early date. The official list of speakers, with your name thereon, has been placed in the hands of the printers and it will now be impossible to consider the names of others in this connection, as the representation for Nebraska is necessarily limited. Your valuable paper, The Monitor, comes this way each week, and I wish to thank you most sincerely for the constant and loyal support you have been giving me in the work I am try- ing to do for the race here in the war department. Wishing you continued success in your church and journalistic labors, I am, Sincerely yours, EMMETT SCOTT, Special Assistant. War Department, Washington, July 6, 1918. Rev. John Albert Williams, Editor The Monitor, Omaha, Neb. I beg to inform you that you have been selected as one of the speakers to present the war aims of the government to the Colored people of the country, with a view of stimulating their patriotism where needed, and pointing out to them in a definite and practical way how they may be of the greatest service to the nation in the winning of the present struggle for liberty and democracy. Your designation has been approved by the war department and the committee on public information. I hope you may be able to serve as a member of this special "Committee of One Hundred," and lend your valuable assistance in the work of mobilizing Negro public opinion in enthusiastic support of the war aims of the nation, such service to be rendered by delivering addresses, writing articles and otherwise enlightening the Colored people as to their duty toward the government in this crisis and encouraging them to take part in all helpful activities. Literature will be sent you from time to time, advising you of facts likely to aid speakers in presenting the situation clearly and effectively. Zones of activity have been worked out and it is expected that speakers will accept assignments as near their homes as possible, to avoid the expense incident to long journeys. Except in special cases, expenses connected with speaking appointments should be paid by the local auspices under which the speakers appear. Thanking you in advance for your loyal co-operation, I am, very truly yours, EMMETT SCOTT, The Hon. Emmett J. Scott, Special Assistant War Department, Washington, B. C. Dear Sir: Your appreciated letter of July 2, in response to mine of re- cent date recommending the appoint 4 ment of Messrs. Parker and Williams as special war speakers has been received; and also your official letter of July 6 advising me of my appointment to the committee of one hundred. Frankly speaking, I should have preferred Mr. Parker's appointment to my own and I wish my letter had reached you in time to have accomplished it. However, believing that everyone should cheerfully and enthusiastically take up any duty the government lays upon him at this time, I shall gladly accept my appointment and serve to the best of my limited ability in any way I possibly can. Your kind personal wishes for my ministerial and journalistic success I highly appreciate and it is hardly necessary for me to reiterate here what I have said before how I am gratified over your appointment to responsible, delicate and difficult position to which you are fully measuring up as we all knew you would. Believe me as always, cordially and faithfully yours, JNO. ALBERT WILLIAMS. CONGRATULATIONS TO LINCOLN THE people of Lincoln are to be congratulated upon their successful fight against the showing of "The Birth of a Nation." They succeeded in doing what we failed to accomplish in Omaha through the truculency of our public officials. We succeeded in having an ordinance passed, the same ordinance drawn by the able attorneys of the N. A. A. P. C., under which it was excluded from other cities, but the officials here juggled and failed to enforce it. Action was brought under it, but the then police judge sapiently ruled that this photoplay did not violate the ordinance and discharged the defendants. We publicly stated at that time that Judge Foster's decision was rotten, inasmuch as the photoplay not only suggested but depicted a lynching, the exhibition of which the ordinance expressly forbids, and that it also contained other objectionable features included in the language of the ordinance. Legal authorities in other cities had so ruled and have so ruled since, thus sustaining our own contention, which we knew to be right. Judge Flansburgh of Lincoln and Attorney General Reed by their recent decision have concurred in this opinion. It was most fortunate that in their opposition to this photoplay the people of Lincoln had the able assistance of Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, the president of the National Association of Colored Women, who happened, providentially, we believe, to be in the city at that time and who by her dignified and intelligent presentation of the case before the officials aroused their interest, which resulted in their subsequent action. We hope that the presentation of this objectionable photoplay will be inhibited throughout Nebraska. And in this view and contention we are glad to have the assistance of such an influential journal as the Omaha Nebraskan, published by Richard Lee Metcalfe, who has on several occasions taken the opportunity to speak against this photoplay. Under the caption of "A Courageous Official" last week's issue of the Nebraskan said: "Attorney General Reed is entitled to congratulations for protesting against the exhibition of the moving picture play, 'The Birth of a Nation,' on the ground that it is offensive to men and women of Negro blood. There is no justification for the display of such a picture at any time. In this day, when the representatives of the Colored people are fighting and dying 'over there,' the least we can do is to protect them from insult at home. Good for the attorney general! He should see to it that 'The Birth of a Nation' is not shown anywhere in Nebraska." We congratulate Lincoln and Attorney General Reed and desire to thank Attorney Rhode and Judge Flansburg for their good work and the Nebraskan for its timely words. ONE STEP FURTHER,MR.M'ADOO DIRECTOR GENERAL M'ADOO has done well in ruling that all employees of the railroads shall receive equal pay for equal work, and that there shall be no race discrimination in the matter of wages. This is absolutely just and fair. Hitherto this has not been the rule even on northern THE MONITOR railroads. For example, Colored chefs on the Union Pacific railroad were paid $80 a month and white chefs $100 per month for the same work and on the same runs. On Southern roads white brakemen and trainmen received a higher wage than Colored employees doing the same work. All this inequality has now been eliminated by Mr. McAdoo's righteous decree. Equal pay for equal work is the slogan. We sincerely thank you for this, Mr. McAdoo. Now, one step further, please, Mr McAdoo. Enforce equal accommodations for equal fares on ALL railroads in the United States. When we pay for first-class accommodations on public carriers we are entitled to receive just what we pay for. The law says equal accommodations. This law is flagrantly violated and openly and wantonly defied. You have corrected the injustice of unequal wages; now please correct that of unequal accommodations. (Editorial in the World-Herald.) GOOD LUCK to the "Black Devils," for that is what a certain American Colored regiment, name deleted by the censor, now training in France aspires to be called, desiring a distinction something like that of the "Blue Devils" of France. The Colored people of America volunteered readily. They have accepted the draft willingly. They have crowded the officers' training camp opened to them. They are waiving some exemptions to the degree of freedom that they have been granted since the war for their freedom was waged, and they are fighting for democracy, for the freedom of other peoples and incidentally, they hope, for a larger measure of civil rights for themselves. The officers of this regiment in The Children of the Sun By George Wells Parker "And Ishmael, the son of Abraham by his handmaiden Hagar, went into Yemen, a country inhabited by Ethiopians, and there took unto himself a wife and from them descended the pure Arabian race." This is the ancestry claimed by the southern Afrians for their race and whether it be true or only a legend, they have contended for this ancestry throughout the centuries and to this day. From the north there came another people calling themselves Arabians. They were lighter in complexion than those of the south and they claimed themselves to be the real Arabians. Those of the south were decidedly black and those of the north mulattoes, and between the two there broke out a racial hatred that was carried to the farthest ends of the world. Even after the conquest of Spain precautions had to be taken against civil war by providing that the southern Arabs settle in different districts from the northern. Early in their national history two great dynasties were representative of the House of Rabia and the House of Mudar. They were the Umayyads or northern Arabians, and the Abbasids or southern Arabians. The Abbasids were the black Arabs and their symbol throughout their national existence was a black banner. In early Arabian history the seat of the Umayyad dynasty was at Damascus and for a long period they ruled the whole of northern Arabia unmolested, while the Abbasid ruled the south. But suddenly the blacks arose, overthrew the Umayyad dynasty, the great Persian empire of the Sasanians, and defeated the Roman legions of the Lower Empire. One burst of enthusiasm—it was but a flash—and these black-skinned warriors went forth to conquer the world. hors went forth to conquer the world. The result of this human civilisation was the total destruction of northern empire and the establishment of the Abbasid caliphate. The vast empire extended from the Indus to the Atlantic and from the Caspian to the cataracts of the Nile. The capital was removed from Damascus to Bagdad, from which center radiated all that was greatest in Arabian history. For five centuries the caliphs of Bagdad reigned and their rule marked the beginning of a Moslem as opposed to an Arabian Empire. An English authority in speaking of this period says: "It seems us if the whole world from caliph down to the humblest citizen suddenly became students, or at least patrons of literature. In quest of knowledge, men traveled over three continents and returned home, like bees laden with honey, to impart the precious stores which they had accumulated to crowds of eager disciples, and to compile with incredible industry those works of encyclopedic rangs and erudition from which modern science, in the widest sense of the word, has derived more than is generally supposed." It was under the rule of these dusky rulers that the Arabian Nights were compiled and rewritten; the Rubalayat was composed; that Hafiz flourished; THE "BLACK DEVILS" France are Colored. They talk just the same way as do those in the training camps here. It is their purpose to secure by gallant Negro service in the American armies more consideration for the Negro race in the United States. It is a good price they are willing to pay—all the price involved in military service—and the price ought to bring the goods. As one officer put it: "I told them that new is our opportunity to prove what we can do. If we can do things on the front; if we can make ourselves felt; if we can fight and die in this war just as bravely as white men; if we can make America really proud of us, then I am sure it will be the biggest possible step toward our equalization as citizens." These troops are freely accorded a recognition in France that they would not receive here. A correspondent reports that in the village square of a small hamlet serving as headquarters he saw them mingling on the easiest terms with the most cultivated French officers, and among no American white officers has he seen more highly polished shoes and leathers and better pressed uniforms. Some lamentable incidents have occurred at camps in this country where there were Negro troops, but perhaps fewer than might have been expected, considering the prejudice against the black man in a land where he was for over two hundred years a slave and where he became the cause of a bitter traticidal strife, but how well the enlisted and drafted Colored men are bearing the burden and the dignity of military service is indicated in the reports of observers. The Negro is being told by his most intelligent leaders that he must raise himself in the eyes of his white neighbor by proving his worth and dignity. There can be no doubt that a good record of Negro troops in the present war will go far in this demonstration. and that the Romance of Antar was created. Let me speak a moment of the Romance of Antar. I have searched in vain to see it quoted in any American book, although it is the greatest lyric poem of Arabia. Can it be because the hero describes himself as being "black and swarthy as an elephant?" Stranger still, Antar was not an Arabian born, but a Negro slave, yet is chosen among the Arabs as the fullest expression of their own ideals of a hero. Even in the cities of the Orient today the loungers in their cups never weary of following the exploits of this black son of the desert, who in his person unites the great virtues of his people, magnanimity and bravery, with the gift of poetic speech. It is the Arabic romance of chivalry and to it is due the spread of romance and chivalry throughout Medieval Europe. Note this fact, too, that Mohammed was of these black Arabs. When he appealed to the Arabians he called himself an "Arab of Arabs, of the purest blood of your land, of the family of Hashim and of the tribe of Qurysh." It was the family of Hashim that founded the House of the Abbasids, and thus we are brought face to face with the astonishing fact that the third of the world's great religions was founded by a man in whose veins flowed the blood of Africa. This is one reason why Mohammedanism is so strong and will ever remain so among the races of Africa. The religion preaches equality and one of the precepts of the Koran reads, "If a Negro is called to rule over you, hear him and obey him though his head be like the dried grapes." From what has been written of the Jews and Hindus it will readily be seen that the world's great religions are in reality the product of African blood. The spread of Mohammedanism included the whole of North Africa and, in time, the followers of this cult descended into Spain. They found her a wilderness and a desert and made her a garden of beauty. Never before nor since has Spain seen such glory as was hers when the Moors reared Toledo, Cordova, Seville and Grenada—the most beautiful cities of Europe. It is said that Toledo has a spacious avenue ten miles long, paved and lighted and centered with flowers; that Cordova's university was the educational metropolis of civilization; that Seville was the literary and scientific center of the world; and Granada—well read Irving. Spain was never anything until these African Negroes, if you will, made her a land of flowers, of wine, of music, of art, and of beauty. It's history is all of them, the record of their glory and their fall. She became lovely in the warm sun of Islam and withered away when the northern Europeans conquered her. Read Draper's Intellectual Development of Europe and then you will get some conception of the vast influence these people exerted upon the civilization of Europe. They, the swarthy skinned sons of Africa, were those who gave birth to the Renaissance. 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It is operated by the Mellkenny Bros., manufacturers of the famous tabasco sauce. Franklin was the place of my next visit. Similar to the other places I passed. Not much business here. The same can be said of Patterson my last stop before crossing the Mississippi into New Orleans. A word here about the people in the section through which I just passed. The members of the race are usually called Creoles because of the language they speak, more than anything else. The Patois of the Creoles. The soft patois and admixture of French, Spanish and Cajon, the last language of a race of people who came from Eastern Canada. They were known as Acadians and were descendants of the early French settlers of that section. They followed the Mississippi river and finally settled in the parish of Acadia. They brought their language and their customs with them and readily assimilated with the race in this section. The result is that you find many beautiful women in our race who lay claim to French heritage of the Cajon blood. Founder of New Orleans. Now about New Orleans. Much has been written about this old city, which celebrated the second century of its existence this 1918, having been founded in 1618 by Bienville, brother of the then governor of Louisiana, whose name was Iberville, and was located at Mobile, Ala. Many Historic Buildings. It boasts of many old buildings which still remain intact, and is always worth a visit from the tourist or sightseer, the most prominent being the St. Louis cathedral, and the Cabillo, the latter being the building where the transfer of Louisiana to the United States was affected in 1803. New Orleans is sometimes called the Paris of America. Well, that it might be known as the same, for New Orleans is always gay, seemingly happy and contented. It has grown naturally, seemingly through no effort of its own—that has been the condition of the past. But there has been brought about a new condition. It has awakened the people of the city to the knowledge that it occupies a more advantageous position from a commercial stand point. So they have decided to improve the conditions by building a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain, on which the southeastern wing of the city rests, which the father of the waters the Mississippi, wash the western shores of the city and sweeps past on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. This will make New Orleans, the port of natural distribution for the rich middle section of the United States and that basin, formed by Lake Pontchartrain with its naturally protected entrance to the gulf, gives New Orleans a harbor that could house the shipping of the world. Now on the other side of the picture, you will naturally say, what about the people of my race? A Word About the Siege. A WORLD ABOUT THE LEGEND Well, in 1815, during the siege of New Orleans by the British, two troops of black men under General Jackson led the charge at Chalmetts, headed by a 14-year-old drummer boy by the name of Jourdan. He was a freeman, and with the rest of his comrades on that day covered him- A man is falling from a truck. A man is handing a ticket to a woman. self with glory. Jourdan made this city his home. He was born in 1801 and died in 1870 and for many years was the familiar figure in the street of this old town. The Creole population was greatly added to at one time by the migration of French Negroes from Hayti and they greatly added to the wealth of the state and when the wealth statistics were taken and published according to Color in 1850, it showed that the Negro, both French and native, possessed wealth to the value of $20,000,000. They have ever been progressive in the state and as early as 1828 established benevolent and protective societies. The Artisan, the first of its kind being in existence today, as well as the Orders of Hope, Perseverance and Economy, which were established later and are still in existence. The Economy, the last of these has grown in wealth and membership until it controls the majority of people in the city. New Orleans is the home of both the People's and Unity Industrial Insurance, which are doing great good among its people and raising the standard of the race in financial circles. The race has no cafes like Antoine's to boast of, which was made made by its cuisine and culinary, for the people of this Creole city are a home-loving people and the stranger is always welcome and never leaves the portals without being invited to sit at the table and he goes away with the memory of many inviting and savory dishes, which is washed down by the best coffee in the world; no meal is complete in the Creole household without the famous dripped coffee. An Interesting Character. Among the most interesting characters that I met and talked with was one Mark Bobe, who cited many interesting facts about the reconstruction days, in which he was a participant. He told the mob attacking and slaying the members of the first provisional legislature, composed of men of both races, which was holding session under adverse conditions in a building which stood on the site now marked by that modern skyscraper, the Grunewald hotel. He also told of the establishment of the Southern university that would guarantee the Colored people a form of education higher than the fifth grade; also of the incident that forever closed the doors of the state university to the race student when the class of 1875 was divided by the white students refusing to finish with the Negroes; of the impeachment of Governor Warmoth, automatically raising to the position of chief executive his lieutenant governor, Oscar J. Dunn, a race man, and by his sudden death brought to the chair for one week P. B. S. Pinchback, who was senior senator and president of the senate, who by law became the governor and his short term of office is marked by recording upon the statute books of this state eleven laws, which bear his signature as the governor of Louisiana. Outlook Bright. But the stormy days are over and New Orleans has taken on a new air, and in my race the question of color is fast loosing cast, and men are plunging into the commercial world. The race in this city is supporting fifty positions of dentists, thirty drug stores, numerous other business enterprises; there are over 100 benevolent societies, two industrial insurance companies, ten fraternal organizations, chief among which is the Knights of Pythias, who own a large pressed brick and concrete building, costing over $200,000, which is paid for. It is complete in every detail, providing lodge rooms, meeting rooms, banquet halls and offices, with elevator service, surrounded by a pleasant and commodious roof garden, providing motion pictures and music from a well trained orchestra and light refreshments served by polite attendants. It has a seating capacity of 2,000, with a dancing space for 500 couples; a pleasant place to spend the hot evenings. I tell you, the Southland is doing things. They are beginning to wake up. The dream of the immortal Booker Washington is about to be realized. Long live the Southland! Watch for and read my next letter It will interest you. FRED C. WILLIAMS. Watch for the date for the third degree.—Adv. A policy with the Home Casualty Company is the one you want. Take no other The protection is for working women as well as for working men. DON'T DELAY. THE MONITOR Two Delightful Social Functions Two Delightful Social Functions Beautiful Home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jones the Scene of Two of Most Brilliant Social Events of the Season. The beautiful name of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jones, Twenty-eighth and Caldwell streets, was the scene of two of the most brilliant social events Omaha has ever witnessed, when on Wednesday night of last week the genial host and gracious hostess entertained at a garden party in honor of their older children, Alfred, Jr., and the Misses Ethei and Irene, and in the early evening of Thursday, July 4, complimentary to their two younger children. Donald and Florence. Wednesday night the younger set, with their parents and friends, to the number of nearly 150, responded to Mr. and Mrs. Jones' invitation, and on the afternoon of the Glorious Fourth thirty children, accompanied by their mothers, or, in some cases, older sisters, were present. The Jones residence, with its spacious and beautiful grounds, is preeminently the finest and largest owned by our people in this city of beautiful homes. The grounds were brilliantly illuminated with red, white and blue electric lights, with settees and garden swings placed in convenient nooks and corners. These were largely pre-empted by the older folk, for the younger set gravitated toward the wide and spacious lower veranda, where they danced to their hearts' content to the bewitching sole—yes, this is the right spelling—soletickling strains of Willis' jazz band. The music was entrancing, and just between us, if you will promise not to tell, the scribe saw some of the older set, "staid brothers and sisters in Israel," suspiciously shuffling their feet. From the wide porticoes were suspended four beautiful American flags, while flowers, not in profusion, but just enough not to be in poor taste or, what is worse, extravagance, added their beauty and fragrance. The pretty summer gowns, in elegant taste, worn by the beautiful young dancers made a charming scene. Promptly at 11 o'clock luncheon was served. Suffice it to say that "Al" Jones, the well known caterer, who was the host of the evening, provided this luncheon for his guests, and you can imagine the rest, even though he did not transgress the code of Hoover. Among the guests present Wednesday evening were the following: The Misses Aline Bentley, Edna Boyd, Merriam Gordon, Green, Dolores Johnson, Irene Jones, Ethel Jones, Gladys Jordań, Cordella Johnson, Auline Jefferson, Beatrice Majors, Ray Middleton of Dallas, Tex., McDaniels, Birdie McRoy, Teressa Jones, Ruth Jones, Florence Jones, Teresa Mitchell, Blanche Nance, Irene Newman, Mary Pegg, Althea Turner, Olethea Russell, Corrine Thomas, Camille Simpson, Ruby Thomas, Otis Watson, Cuma Watson, Willie Watson, Hazel Washington and Ruth Washington; Messrs Richard Allen, William Bell, Harold Bentley, Frank Blackwell, Clarence Brooks, William G. Haynes, W. Hamilton, Hubert Glover, Randolph Hughes, Alfred Jones, Joseph Lacour Percy McCaw, Roscoe Miller, Craig Morris, Clarence Palmer, Ray Parker L. Perry, T. Robertson, Guy B. Robbins, Leroy Richardson, Thomas Roulette, Russell Reese, Henry Smith Sherman Jefferson, Fred Daniels Maceo Williams and Robert Williams Mesdames U. G. Bell, Blanche Blair, Henry Buford, J. A. Cropp, M. J. Dodd, William Gordon, Nate Hunter, James G. Jewell, Adolphus Lewis, Joseph D. Lewis, William Lawson, William Newman, Lawrence Parker, H. J. Pinkett, Robert Sandford of Carroll, Ia., Charles Solomon, Martho Turner, H. Washington and Burrell Watson. Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Britt, Mr. and Mrs. H. Crouch, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Jefferson, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Gene McCoy, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Peoples, Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Turner, the Rev. and Mrs. John Albert Williams, and Messrs. A. Clark, Dan Desdunes, and S. H. Dorsey and Miss E. M. L. Webb of Beloix Miss. On the afternoon and early evening of Thursday the children had their innings. The national colors predominated. Games dear to children's hearts evoked merry peals of laughter, and when dark came on there was a fine display of fireworks. Nor must it be forgotten that those boys and girls had all the ice cream, cake and pop that they could eat and drink. The children present were: Beatrice, Carmelite and Pauline Black, Dorina and Marie Bush, Marjorie Edwards, Adelle Jackson, Florence and Ruth Jones, Charlene and Laurene Lewis, Estelle Pegg, Ruth Pegg, Bernice Phannix, Celestine Smith, Robbie Turner, Catherine Williams, Dorothy Williams, Martha Williams, Leonard Britt, James Jewell, Warren Jackson, Donald Jones, Alonzo Jackson, Streeter Turner and Worthington Williams. The adults were: Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Britt, Mrs. H. H. Black, Mrs. S. S. Bush, Mrs. H. M. Dodd, Mrs. A. G. Ed. wards, Mrs. Joseph Lewis, Mrs. Alonzo Jackson, Mrs. James Turner, Mrs. Martha Turner, Mrs. M. E. Overall, Mrs. S. T. Phannix, Mrs. John Albert Williams and Mrs. Vanie S. Wheatley. Mr. A. Clark had charge of the fireworks. The children had charge of the fun and the vote was unanimous that they had had a glorious time. WOULD LIKE TO TAKE HER BROTHER'S PLACE Private Frank Braswell of the Ninety-second division supply train and formerly stationed at Camp Funston, has been honorably discharged because of physical disability. He is now at home at 2222 Paul street. He regrets that he was unable to go overseas. His sister, Mrs. Emma Simmons, said to The Monitor: "Frank's my oldest brother and I am proud to see him in uniform. I'm sorry he could" stay and see it through, and I only wish I could go and take my brother's place. I would if they'd take me." STEREOPTICON LECTURE BY MADAME C. J. WALKER America's richest Negro woman will exhibit stereoptic views of her quarter million dollar mansion, "Irvington-on-the-Hudson," her factories at Indianapolis and New York City and other business and residence properties at St. John's A. M. E. church, under auspices of the L. E. W. club, Monday, July 15, at 8:30 sharp. Proceeds donated to Frederick Douglass Memorial fund. Admission 25 cents. —Adv. 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First Class Colored Laundry. CLOTHES CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. MARSHALL & LEE Experts in the arts of repairing and remaking. Our dyeing and cleaning is unexcelled. Our assistant manager, Mr. Harold Bentley, who recently returned from Western University, is rendering his most efficient service in our shop. Call Red 7306 103 So, 14th St. Omaha, Neh GROVE METHODIST CHURCH 22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. WESTERN INDEMNED Incorporated PROTECTION FOR THE D This Company issues policy contract to sixty-five y PROTECTION THAT INSURANCE THAT INSUR 314 Baird Building, C For further information call D ETERN INDEMNITY COMM Incorporated PROTECTION FOR THE ENTIRE FAM pany issues policy contracts from age to sixty-five years. PROTECTION THAT PROTECTS INSURANCE THAT INSURES THE INS 314 Baird Building, Omaha, Neb. further information call Douglas 1733. 1412 2506 NORT OSBORNE West Side, 24th and Lake Sts. 1. Trimmed Hats 2. Black Brown Colonial Pumps, $5 value for... 3. White Canvas, high top, Goodyear web shoes, $8 value 4. Childrens Shoes, size $2.15 for $2.65, size 12-24 5. Brown Blucher Shoes, Goodyear welt, $8.50 values 6. Shirts, Arrow Brand, regular $6.50 value for... 7. Shirts, $3.50 value for $1.98. Monarch Shirts... 8. Zinks and styles, just arrived. Special Sale. WESTERN INDEMNITY COMPANY Incorporated PROTECTION FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY This Company issues policy contracts from age six months to sixty-five years. PROTECTION THAT PROTECTS INSURANCE THAT INSURES THE INSURED 314 Baird Building, Omaha, Neb. For further information call Douglas 1733. OSBOR West Side, 24th and Millinery Sale, Trimmed Hats Women's Dark Brown Colonial Pumps, $5 va- lance Women's White Cayas, Bath ton, Goodear Bunter Brown Children's Shoes, size 8-2-12 for Men's Dark Brown Blucher Shoes, Goodyear Men's Silk Shirts, Arrow Brand, regular $6.5. Arrow Brand Shirts, $3.50 value for $1.98. M Corsets, all sizes and styles, just arrived. S Millinery Sale, Trimmed Hats ..... $1.75 Women's Dark Brown Colonial Pumps, $5 value for ..... $2.85 Women's White Canvas, high top, Goodyear welt shoes, $8 value for ..... $4.85 Bunter Brown Children's shoes, size 8.2-12 for $2.65, size 12-24 for ..... $2.95 Men's Dark Brown Blucher Shoes, Goodyear welt, $8.50 values for ..... $5.95 Men's Silk Shirts, Arrow Brand, regular $6.50 value for ..... $4.75 Arrow Brand Shirts, $3.50 value for $1.98. Monarch Shirts ..... 98c Corsets, all sizes and styles, just arrived. Special Sale. 25 PER CENT UNDER DOWNTOWN PRICES --- WEBSTER 1412 PINE TREE SHOE STORE OF OMAHA. Average Co., Inc. 412 North 16th St. Washington Market Date Market in the Middle the McCrory 5c and 10c assement. n Market Singleton 109 S. Fourteenth St., Omaha, Nebraska OW'S LAUNDRY First Class Colored Laundry. AND DELIVERED. 25th and Grant Streets. BIL & LEE DETAILORS FOR $18.00 AND UP and remaking. Our dyeing and manager, Mr. Harold Bentley, in University, is rendering his 103 So. 14th St., Omaha, Neb. 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, Res. 1628 N. 22nd. Web. 5003 UNITY COMPANY Licensed THE ENTIRE FAMILY extracts from age six months years. LIT PROTECTS MERES THE INSURED Omaha, Neb. Douglas 1733. 2506 NORTH 24TH ST. RNE And Lake Sts. value for.....$1.75 war welt shoes, $8 value for.....$4.85 for $2.65, wine $2.2 for.....$9.85 war welt, $8.50 values for.....$9.95 $6.50 value for.....$1.75 Monarch Shirts.....98c Special Sale. --- 5 South Side Hair Dressing Parlor 6 Obvious Observations Yes, son, the Allies are still in the lead. Who said porterhouse steak? Mister, you must be dreaming. There ain't no sich animals. Pass that kidney stew and fried mush. Also, farewell dear pie and cake and pudding; may you be with us again soon. When Unk Sam gets through gathering in public service corporations it is almost a certainty that he won't let them wander around loose anymore. Why not rechristen our city hall the House of Hate? Wonder what the Kaiser dreams about at night? Have you got that job yet? Hustle, brother, hustle. Big visitors have had such nice things to say about The Monitor, that the tape measure says our bust has developed five inches in the last month. A German prisoner says the Kaiser told them that half the American army were Sons of Ham. He couldn't have thrown a scare into them any easier. What's hapened to J. P. and John D., anyway? They haven't broken into print for some moons. Have you renewed your subscription to the hottest little weekly that ever came down the journalistic pike? Then get busy and save a half a bean. Thanking you kindly for these two minutes, we will now proceed to mend our last and onliest shirt. Dance with the Western Beauty Girls.—Adv. SKITS OF SOLOMON Senator John J. Ingalls of Kansas, now a member of the choir celestial, once wrote a great poem as to how opportunity had a Sherlock habit of Busy Bee Cafe GOOD HOME COOKING Meals at All Hours. Baths 25c EAT AND BE CLEAN Elizabeth Clark, Prop. Telephone So. 2793 4917 So. 26th St. So. Side. MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. J. D. HINES TAILOR AND CLEANER South 3366 5132 So. 24th St. BUY ANOTHER WAR SAVINGS STAMP 4704 South 24th St. M. SWA FLO SOUTH SIDE South Side Hair MRS. POLK JOE HAIR AND SCAL Uses Mmes. South and John Growing GIVE US 1927 South 25th St., South Si snooping past each man's door and giving it the gentle tap, tap. If you were asleep and didn't hear it, then bye and bye the big change, automobiles, palaces and so forth; but if you did hear it and grabbed old man opportunity by the coat tails, Henry Ford wouldn't have anything on you. That was some days ago. Things aren't as they used to was. Opportunity is yelling at you from every street corner and every housetop. If you can't hear it there is something the matter with the tin pan in your ear and you should consult an aurist or a blacksmith. Never since the old U. S. was knee high to a duckling have so many opportunities been turned loose on the dear public. If you can't rake in some of the Floating mazuma these days, it must be because your rake has lost all its eye teeth. There's an infant fortune in handling anything from rags and old iron to cultivating squashes and turnips. Some guys stand around a la Oliver Twist waiting for something to turn up and things are turning up so fast that they have stopped making noise. They merely hum. It isn't the question before the house to grab an opportunity, but the question of trying to grab a whole armful at once. Nothing like it has ever hapened since Old Man Noah let out bids for building the ark. If you don't have a fat wobbly bank account in the next few years its because you are too slow to catch cold. Tip your bonnet on the side of your bean, sand the track so you won't slip, and then grab, Grab with both hands and hold on like sixty. It's your chance and everybody else's chance and there is so many chances that nobody need be left in the chair holding a pair of deuces. You will be far better pleased with your cleaning and pressing, dyeing and repairing by Young's Tailoring company. Phone L-7664.—Adv. * Don't wait to be urged to join the W. S. s. army. What if our men in the trenches waited to be urged? Harry Norman PROMPT Taxi Service AT ALL HOURS Pool Hall and Billiard Perlor in Connection. Phone South 2962 2603 N St. South Omaha. The Moon CAFE GOOD HOME COOKING MEALS AT ANY HOUR 2605 N St. Tel. South 2962 GLASPER'S Shining Parlor AND SOFT DRINKS Any Color of Shoe Dyed Black 4830 South 26th St. A. Glasper, Prop. Petersen & Michelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N St. Tel. South 162 Phone South 701 ANSON RIST OMAHA, NEB. Dressing Parlor LINES, Proprietor. HLP SPECIALIST. Jennson's Wonderful Magic Hair System. A TRIAL. de. Telephone So. 1126. THE MONITOR Leadership in Africa Offered by the War Leadership in Africa Offered by the War War Service Is the Key Which Is Opening the Door of Opportunity to the Race in the Dark Continent.— A CHILD wandered into a "Y" hut in East Africa. He was big and broad shouldered and black as the ace of spades. Six feet in his stockings he stood, straight as an arrow and muscled like a prize fighter. He wore the uniform of the King and also a long scar on his face won in hand-to-hand melee with German troops. None the less he was a child. Just now he longed desperately to be at home with his tribe in Somaliland. He wanted to strut around in his khaki before the dusky maidens, and his heart ached for the feast of the hunters home from the kill. A Colored young man in the uniform of a "Y" worker came forward and welcomed the trooper in Swabdi. His friendliness went to the child heart as straight as rain to the thirsty roots of flowers. Then a miracle took place—and curiosity banished homesickness. From out of a little box came the voice of a man talking. The grown-up child examined the box eagerly to see where the man was hidden. But there was no room for even a dwarf in that box, so of course it was magic. Presently the secretary, a graduate of Shaw university, Raleigh, N. C., led the shy native into a dark room, where there was more magic. A little man with funny feet and a cane was walking about on a white screen. The six-foot child began to grin. The last of his homesickness vanished, for Charlie Chaplin was doing antics for him. War service is the key which is opening the door of opportunity to the Negro race. The latest evidence of it comes from darkest Africa. Into the jungles of which the ideals of democracy are slowly pushing their way. The Colored troops of Nigeria, Somaliailand, Zanzibar, Mysaland and the Gold Coast are looking eagerly for light, and their eyes are turned to the Negro of the United States. A chance for leadership—one full of immense potentialities—has come to the Colored race of this country. It has been given him to lead the native of Africa into the light of the new day that is dawning for him. Max Yergan was the first Colored Y. M. C. A. secretary sent to serve with the British troops in South Africa. Before he had been in the field long General Van de Venter, commander of the British forces, wired to ask for more of Yergan's race to help in the work. Already some of these have gone to the front and others are to follow. When the war began the Germans were very strongly situated in East Africa, the only one of their colonies that has not yet been captured by the allies. For three years they have offered a most stubborn resistance to the British, Belgian, Portuguese and Colonial armies. They had a very thorough military system and had organized the tribes in their territory to remarkable efficiency. The country exceeds the area of Germany itself. Its chief products are ivory, cocoanut fiber, rubber, wax and sisal for the manufacture of rope. Parts of it are wonderfully fertile, but there are also large stretches of dense jungle and low lying swamp lands. Two railroads run east and west across it. The British recruited and drilled natives from their colonies. At first one-third of the troops used by the allies were blacks, now 90 per cent of them are of that race. African Negroes make very smart, teachable soldiers. In addition to the fighting units several hundred thousand porters and carriers are used to build railroads and transport supplies through a terrain inaccessible to motors and pack animals. The mobilization of these natives is affecting the whole life of Central and Eastern Africa. Each one believed that his tribe was the most powerful one in the world, and he now learns of the existence of many races previously unknown to him. For the first time he sees motors, ships, airplanes. His horizon is wider, life becomes bigger, and his plastic nature yields rapidly to the impressions of civilization. No Climate for Whites. During 1915 the British found out that white men could not stand the hardships of such a climate. Excepting the South African fighting units, some regiments of Indian Sepoys and the white personnel of departmental services, the forces engaged are drawn from the Negro tribes. Thirty battalions of the Kings? African Rifles have been raised in East Africa. Regiments from Nizeria. Zanzibar, the Gold Coast, Somaliland and other parts are bearing the brunt of the fighting. The Germans driven from the railroads and out of the important towns by General Smuts, have led their pur- More Magic. suers into a jungle country where more deaths result from malaria, dysentery, black water fever and other such diseases than from casualties in action. Since they are of the same race, these Colored Y. M. C. A. secretaries, all of them graduates of American colleges for Negroes are able to get into closer touch with the simple African troopers than are white workers. Naturally their sympathy is closer and their understanding of them greater. Yergan learned Swaheli within six months and so was able to talk to the men in their own tongue. Others among the workers have developed a remarkable aptitude for service in that field. Boss boys Learn to Write. The huts are provided with portable cinemas, lantern slides, grammaphones and games. The educational feature of them is perhaps even more important. To see the patience with which a native porter after a hard day's work will try to study English with a slate and pencil is almost pathetic. Talks with lantern slides on sanitation, hygiene, and the prevention of disease are given to the head men of the villages. "Boss boys" are shown how to keep accounts and write letters to officers. One of the Colored secretaries conducted a class for native noncommissioned officers to make clear to them the ideals for which the war is being fought. Everywhere there is an impulse toward larger life for the natives. They are coming into touch with the world thought. They turn eagerly to men of their own color to lead them into the light. With the simple faith of children they come to these "Y" secretaries for all sorts of service, for instruction in a hundred phases of our complex life. They are given religious instruction. They are taught the fundamentals of civilization. When they are ill they are comforted, when wounded they are cheered.—Indianapolis Ledger. Our Women and Children HERE'S to the red of it! There's not a thread of it, No, nor a shred of it In all the spread of it, From foot to head. But heroes bled for it, Faced steel and lead for it. Precious blood shed for it, Bathing it red. Heres' to the white of it; Thrilled by the sight of it. Who knows the right of it But has felt the might of it Through day and night! Womanhood's care for it Made manhood dare for it; Purity's prayer for it Kept it so white. Here's to the blue of it, Heavenly view of it, Star-Spangled hue of it, Honesty's due of it, Constant and true! Here's to the whole of it. Stars, stripes and pole of it; Here's to the soul of it, Red, White and Blue! —John Daly PRAYER FOR OUR LAND O Almighty Lord, who fashionest the hearts of men, and considerest all their works; grant, we beseech Thee, to us and to all the people of this land the spirit of obedience to Thy commandments; that walking humbly in Thy fear we may, under Thy mighty protection, possess our liberties in righteousness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THE DEAD TO THE LIVING O YOU that still have rain and sun, Kisses of children and of wife, And the good earth to tread upon, And the mere sweetness that is life, Forget not us, who gave all these For something dearer and for you! Think in what cause we crossed the seas! Remember, he who fails the challenge Fails us, too. Now is the hour that shows the strong— The soul no evil powers affray— Drive straight against embattled wrong; Faith knows but one, the hardest, way. Endure, the end is worth the throe; Give, give, and dare and again dare! On, to that wrong's great overthrow! We are with you, of you; we the pain and Victory share. —Lawrence Binyon, in London Times. Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO. NORTH SIDE BOOSTERS The Alamo Barber Shop and Pocket Billiard Parlor The best equipped shop in the state. Leading shop of the city. Baths, plain and shower. Cultured barbers. 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 People's Drug Store DRUGS, CIGARS AND SODA Toilet and Rubber Goods Special Attention to Prescriptions We Carry a Full Line of Face and Hair Preparations. Nelson's Hair Dressing ..... 25c Elite Hair Pomade ..... 25c Alda Hair Pomade ..... 30c eXelento Hair Pomade ..... 20c Plough's Hair Dressing ..... 25c Groomer's Hair Dower ..... 26c Ford's Hair Grower ..... 25c Palmer's Skin Whitener ..... 25c Palmer's Skin Success ..... 25c Black and White Skin Oint. ..... 25c Rozaal Bleach ..... 25c WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO OMAHA PACIFIC Pool Parlor C. BRANCH, Proprietor BOB JOHNSON, Mgr. Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks LAUNDRY OFFICE 1014 SOUTH TENT STREET (Opposite Pullman Hotel) OMAHA, NEB. 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 of the United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Farnam Streets C. S. JOHNSON 18th and Izard Tel. Douglas 1702 ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE at POPULAR PRICES. Best for the Money Established 1830 Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. GOOD GROC C. P. WESIN Also Fresh Fru 2005 Cuming St. Sergt.-Major E. W. Killingsworth At O. T. Camp Pike, Ark. The Alamo Barber Shop The best equipped shop in the Baths, plain and shower. Culture KILLINGSWORTH C. B. MAY 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 The Gulf City Pressing Club Press while you wait. Ladies' work a specialty. Men's and Children's suits. All guaranteed full satisfaction. Call in and see us. We will fix the price all right. Clothes called for and promptly delivered. 14191/2 N. 24th St. Web. 3943 E. H. HAYNES, Prop. I. BROOK & CO. I. BROOK & CO. CAPITOL SHOE REPAIRING By Goodyear System. Sewed Soles. N.-olin Soles. Web. 4592 1408 No. 24th St. Neatly Furnished Rooms * Modern Conveniences With or Without Board Telephones. Doug. 8727, Doug. 8703 The Booker T. Washington Hotel Mrs. Laura Cuerington, Propr. In Connection with THE WASHINGTON CAFE 1719-21 Cuming Street Omaha J. A. Edholm 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 The Silas Johnson Western Funeral Home Webster 248 2518 Lake St. The Place for Quality and Service Licensed Embalmer in Attendance Lady Attendant if Desired. Music Furnished Free. I TAKE PLEASURE in thanking you for your patronage. I want your trade solely upon the merits of my goods. You will profit by trading here. H. E. YOUNG Webster 515 2114-16 N. 24th St. MIES ALWAYS GROCERY CO. and Vegetables. Telephone Douglas 1098 BOOSTERS R. C. Price At Home on the Job. and Pocket Billiard Parlor state. Leading shop of the city. barbers. & PRICE, Props.. Foreman. 2416 North 24th Street Have those old teeth removed and protect your health. Any number of teeth can be replaced by a plate or bridge, made to look natural. Consultation Free. Dr. P. W. Sawyer DENTIST DENTIST Phone Doug. 7150. 220 S. 13th St. 13th and Farnam Sts. 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. Omaha, Neb. MADAME HENDERSON HAIRDRESSER and MANICURIST Agent for the Celebrated Madame Walker Preparations. The other Moth of Night. Diplomas Granted. Phone Webster 1489 2304 N. 25th St. Omaha, Neb. Fannie Partee DRESSMAKING First-Class Work Guaranteed. 1531 N. 21st St. Webster 3519 J. ELKIN BUILDING AND REPAIRS 1138 North 23d Street. Estimates Free. Phones: Web. 3927; Res. Web. 757 VISIT THE LITTLE HOMESTEAD CAFE Good Home Cooking. Baths. 1912 Cuming St. Washington & Givens, Props. TUCHMAN BROS. 24th and Lake Street Branch. GROCERIES, MEATS BAKERY The Jones Poro Culture College Positively Grows the Hair FORMULATED 1900 "IPORO" HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Miss Candice Torno Malone ST LOUIS MISSOURI FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, ITCHING SCALP, GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY COLOR AND ABUNDANT GROWTH THIS STATE OF ROUGH ADDITION IS UNDER THE SUPREME LAW PRICE $6 CENTS 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 6450 Harney 5100 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. --- THE PATRIOT By ZIM BUY YOUR THRIFT STAMPS AT THE WINDOW. POST OFFICE GENT DELIVERY CHNDY SHOP CONNECTION Contributed by Eugene Zimmerman to the National Security League's Campaign of Patriotism Through Education. Contributed by Eugene Zimmerman to the National Security League's Campaign of Patriotism Through Education. EDITORIAL THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE. Good Americans will indorse outright the program of the National Security League to prevent the election or re-election of any members of Congress this year who are not known to be vigorous proponents of the war or who can be hired to support any special efforts at an inconclusive peace. The country needed such a nonpolitical organization as the league to lead the fight against the milk fed officeholders and office seekers who, in many parts of the country are catering to the hopes of the people that the war may be ended, even though it is not ended right. The league can come to Colorado, for instance, and build fires under two or three politicians who probably will seek re-elections here and, without its motives being questioned, can expose the rank pacifism which has featured their political careers. Just how the war will terminate will depend mostly upon the United States. Just what the United States will do depends in a great measure upon Congress. If there is a strong sentiment for premature peace in its membership the task of putting through our war program until our institutions are absolutely safe will be complicated. We are pledged now to go through with the war by force, "without stint or limit," and we must support that pledge by electing men to Congress who will "stay put" or the issue until victory is won. For that matter, Americans should be careful about electing anybody to any office now who is not clear-cut on the war. Men of no particular force in private life have much weight added to their opinions when they are clothed with the authority of office. We cannot afford to have any such backing the pacifists in the dark days of the war that are to come. We must make this a poor season for "yellow dog" office seekers of whatever grade or party or politics—Colorado Springs Gazette. PUBLICITY AND CRITICISM "Congress shall make no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech or of the press," so reads a clause in our Constitution. This is a wise provision. The citizens of a democracy should at all times know of and be able to criticise the management of their affairs. Investigation and criticism in the present war have been of great benefit in hastening our preparation by pointing out errors that have been made. There is no doubt whatever that the great safeguards in the conduct of the war are almost unlimited publicity and the right of criticism. We are told that constructive criticism is always welcome, but who is to decide what is constructive? Why not criticism without the adjective? Most citizens believe that Universal Military Training as a corrective of our unpreparedness would have been constructive and yet it was not adopted. Who can tell, if it had been accepted when first proposed, what the result would have been on this war! If we had had more publicity upon the production of aeroplanes, shipping and ordnance, the suggestions of thinking men would unquestionably have stimulated the rapidity with which these articles were being produced, and the delays that have occurred might have been avoided. There are things the Government cannot make public, and these the people do not ask to know. But in the main full information concerning the progress of preparation can safely be given to the people. It is the people's war; it is a war supported by the people, financially and physically, and suggestions by them should be sought and considered. THE MONITOR WHAT IT IS WHAT IT IS By DR. TALCOTT WILLIAMS, Director of the Columbia University School of Journalism. Based on the principle, immoral in ethics, tyrannical in operation, and perilous to all liberty, that certain men are born to rule, the "Imperial German Government" has for a generation been the face of liberty and the enemy of freedom. Its whole influence has been thrown to suppress freedom in the four Baltic states. It has prevented their peaceful development, refused to enforce the Treaty of Berlin, which Talcott Williams. Talcott Williams, ty of Berlin, which would have brought peace, and is responsible for four Balkan wars. A score of years ago it supported the bloodthirsty Sultan of Turkey in Armenian massacres, and the officers of the "Loyal German Government" have aided and abetted these massacres now because the Armenians worked and planned for liberty when other races in Turkey were quiescent. It is the "Imperial German Government" which is responsible for 800,000 Armenians, starved to death as Germans themselves testify. In 1908, when the revolutionary Turkish government was for freedom, Germany opposed it; when it became tyrannical Germany made this government its ally. The German government harassed France not merely because it was its ancient enemy, but because its success as a republic made the French people perilous to princes. The German government plotted to restore the Manche Emperor and the Russian Czar to their thrones. Because the American people by its prosperity and power made liberty desired by all the world the German government has been its secret enemy. Thirty years ago it plotted against our treaty rights in Samoa; it sent its诣 to worry and threaten Dewey at Manila in 1898; it offered to England, which refused, to overturn the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico. It has taken fifteen years threatened Venezuela, Mexico, Hayti and other American states. When we were maintaining peace under great provocation, it proposed to Mexico and Japan to attack us, both refusing. It betrayed international faith [in the dispatches sent through the Swedish Minister. It filled our land with spies, sought unavailably to embroach us with those of German birth resident in this country, slaughtered our citizens on the high seas, countery to all law, national and international, human and divine. We waited long, we bore much, and we are now sending our sons to the war declared against the "Imperial German Government" because the record of thirty years shows that neither liberty nor democratic institutions are safe the world over while that government is powerful. We wisely prefer, after what religion suffered, to fight Germany "somewhere in France" rather than in New York harbor; on the Somme, rather than on the Hudson. In one or the other we should have had to fight. In 1775 we sent our sons to fight for American liberty, and we won it. In 1812 we fought for the freedom of the sea, and we won that. In 1861 we sent our sons to fight for the liberty of the slave, and we won that. Today we send our sons out to fight for the liberty of humanity, and we shall win that. --- PETER H. "Secret Enemy." "Bore Much." EVENTS AND PERSONS Mrs. Martha Newby of 2506 Burdette street has gone to Des Moines, Ia., for a two weeks' visit. Mr. W. H. (Bob) Robinson has gone to Kansas City. Mo., for a brief visit. to Kansas City, Mo., for a brief visit. Everybody is going to the high brown girls ball. Are you? Where? At U. B. F. Hall, 24th and Parker. When? July 18. There will be a live pig given to the person holding the lucky number.—Adv. The sermon and services for the Ancient Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, which were held at Grove M. E. church last Sunday afternoon were largely attended and quite impressive. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Thomas Taggart. Be sure and meet the high brown girls July 18, at U. B. F. Hall, 24th and Parker.—Adv. Joseph B. Lacour and Bert Patrick left for a brief visit to Lincoln and Aurora, Neb., Saturday. Mr. Lecour may decide to try farm work for a month or so. Mrs. Irving Grey is quite ill at her esidence, 210 Seward street. The Cirpus Attucks auxiliary to the Red Cross has completed 20 pairs of booties, 10 brassiers and 6 sweaters during the month of June. ORKIN BROS. NEW STORE Orkin Bros. new and handsome store, dealing exclusively in goods for women, is employing Miss Idelle Davis as elevator conductor and the Misses Merrigan Gordon, Ruby Thompson, Coresa Broomfield and Booker as stock girls. William Page is employed as porter by the same firm. SONG SPARROW Melospiza melodia ```markdown ``` Length, about six and one-fourth inches. The heavily spotted breast with heavy central blotch is characteristic. Range: Breeds in the United States (except the South Atlantic and gulf states), southern Canada, southern Alaska, and Mexico; winters in Alaska and most of the United States southward. Habits and economic status: Like the familiar little "chippy," the song sparrow is one of our most domestic species, and builds its nest in hedges or in garden shrubbery close to houses, whenever it is reasonably safe from the house cat, which, however, takes heavy toll of the nestings. It is a true harbinger of spring, and its delightful little song is trilled forth from the top of some green shrub in early March and April, before most of our other songsters have thought of leaving the sunny South. Song sparrows vary much in habits, as well as in size and coloration. Some forms live along streams bordered by deserts, others in timbered regions, others on rocky barren hillsides, and still others in rich, fertile valleys. With such a variety of habitat, the food of the species naturally varies considerably. About three-fourths of its diet consists of the seeds of noxious weeds and one-fourth of insects. Of these, beetles, especially weevils, constitute the major portion. Ants, wasps, bugs (including the black olive scale), and caterpillars are also eaten. Grasshoppers are taken by the eastern birds, but not by the western ones. First War Stamp Bank Built. The first building in the United States to be erected as a war savings stamp bank has been built at Oklahoma City, Okla. Every piece of lumber and article of furniture going into the bank have been donated by business firms of the city, and the workmen erecting the building were paid in baby bonds. The building stands on one of the downtown streets and is devoted exclusively to the sale of war savings and thrift stamps. Artificial Landscape Targets. Most young men are city or town bred. Hence few of the soldiers of our national army have a clear idea of distances in nature. As many of the cantonments have not been placed amid scenery like that which marksmans are likely to see "somewhere in France" or "on the way to Berlin" artificial landscapes are provided on which they can practice.—Popular Science Monthly. Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. TERRELL'S DRUG STORE Graduate Pharmacist Prompt Delivery Excellent Service Webster 4443 24th and Grant DR. CRAIG MORRIS DENTIST 2407 Lake St. Phone Web. 4024 PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor DR. CRAIG MORRIS DENTIST 407 Lake St. Phone Web. 4024 BATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS Repairing and Sto- Orders NOETH SECOND-HA Auction Event R. B. H Deals New and Second and St. Household Goods Rental and I 2522 Lake St. 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. The Star Lunch Room It's taste that tells! GOOD HOME COOKING 2224 PAUL ST. WEB. 1338 Hotel Cuming 19 Co Subscribe for THE M The Wide-A THE MONITOR The Wide-Awake Week THE MONITOR The Wide-Awake Weekly $2.00 a Year in Advance ADDRESS THE MONITO 1119 No. 21st St. Oma ADDRESS THE MONITOR No. 21st St. Omaha ADDRESS THE MONITOR 1119 No.21st St. Omaha, Neb. Oxfordian Monthly Successful Omaha's Most Successful Barber. 131 Ware Can 1415 Nort HOME MADE CANDIES, FRESH SOFT Ice Cream re Candy Kitc Ware Candy Kitchen 1415 North 24th Street CANDIES, FRESH EVERY DAY. ICE SOFT DRINKS Ice Cream, 40c a Quart. HOME MADE CANDIES, FRESH EVERY DAY. ICE CREAM AND SOFT DRINKS ARTHUR A. WARE, Prop. Obee-Hunter-Wake inter-Wakefield Funeral Obee-Hunter-Wakefield Funeral Home (People's Undertaking Co.) North Side 2101 Cuming St. Phone Douglas 8103 South Side 24th and Q Sts. Nights and Sundays Call South 2614 All other times call Douglas 8103, main office and calls will be answered at once. We belong to most all Fraternal orders. Can secure county burial for those who have not means for burial. Ring and ring again until you get you, Douglas 8103. G. W. OBEE, Mgr. J. H. Wa Embalmer Phone FRANK GO E, Mgr. J. H. Wakefield, Secy. NAT. HU er Phone South 2614 Res. Te FRANK GOLDEN, Auditor. G. W. OBEE, Mgr. J. H. Wakefield, Secey.NAT. HUNTER, Treas. Embalmer Phone South 2614 Res. Tel. Web. 4740 FRANK GOLDEN. Auditor. Douglas 2466 M. B. B. GROCERIES AND FRUITS Good Goods—Fair Prices Webster 2274 24th and Clark 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 Dealer in New and Second Hand Furniture and Stoves. Household Goods Bought and Sold Rental and Real Estate 2522 Lake St. Webster 908 Annie Banks Cecil B. Wilkes BANKS-WILKES Funeral Directors and Embalmers Lady Assistant Satisfaction Guaranteed 1914 Cuming Street Res. Doug. 4379, Office Doug. 3718 Graduate of N. E. Conservator of Music, Boston, Mass. Florentine F. Pinkstor Teacher of Pianoforte, Harmony, Solfeggio Webster 2814 Boston Studio 2214 No. 28th Ave. Omaha. 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms--Reasonable Rates D. G. Russell, Proprietor MONITOR Awake Weekly ADDRESS MONITOR St. Omaha, Neb. P. H. JENKINS This is what my shop offers you Five barbers who know their business. First class hair cutter. Everything strictly sanitary with latest improvements. Telephone Red 3357 1313 Dodge Street Omaha, Neb. RESH EVERY DAY. ICE CREAM AND SOFT DRINKS ream, 40c a Quart. R. A. WARE, Prop. Wakefield, Secy. NAT. HUNTER, Treas. one South 2614 Res. Tel. Web. 4740 GOLDEN, Auditor. 7 PETER H. HARRIS Among the Churches ST. JOHN'S CHURCH NEWS St. John's is all smiles. Why? Because that awful mortgage has been paid. The members feel very much encouraged to do more in the future under their efficient pastor and leader, Rev. W. C. Williams. He has been a great help to the community. Too much cannot be said of him. The class dues for last week were $38.85; for this week, $55. Sunday's collection was $118.99. Mrs. Gaskin is ill at her residence. Mrs. W. C. Williams left Saturday for Denver, where she will visit relatives and friends. See Elsie B. Hill and Roscoe Miller, St. John's, July 26.—Adv. BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. F. A. Taggart, Pastor. Next Lord's day morning service 10:45. B. Y. P. U. 6 p. m. Preaching 8 p. m. Many visitors were present and several additions were made to the church. The Mission Circle met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Luiu Whidby, 5019 South 29th street. Entertained by Mrs. Lela Williams. Mrs. Gracen of 30th and V streets, is somewhat ill. Mrs. Mable Johnson and Mr. John Vaughns are yet on the sick list. Baptizing Sunday, July 14. The pastor will preach a baptismal sermon at 2:30 p. m. Public welcome. Mrs. Velma Hill Scott of 5008 South 27th, will serve hot fish and chicken dinner Sunday, July 14. Public invited.—Ady. NEWS OF ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Good crowds greeted the pastor at all services last Sunday. Baptizing at 7:30 a.m., m., covenant at 11 and administration of the Lord's supper from 3 to 4 in the afternoon, made a day full of blessings for all who attended the services. This Sunday will be a gala day in the history of this church. There will be a special effort put forth on the systematic giving for the erection of the main auditorium. To assist the pastor in this effort we will have Dr. L. K. Williams of Chicago, pastor of Olivet Baptist church, the largest Negro church in the world, with more than 7,000 members. Dr. Williams will speak three times on Sunday, July 14. At 3 p.m. he will preach the dedication sermon for the first story of the new Zion church 2215 Grant streets. Monday night Dr. Williams will give one of his famous patriotic lec- Events and Persons Events and Persons The Western Beauty Girls will give a ball next Friday night at Frenzer's hall.—Adv. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Williams, who have been living in Los Angeles, Cal., the past year, have retruned to Omaha for an indefinite stay. They speak in glowing terms of the west, but say there is no place like home. St. Philip's Episcopal church, Twenty-first, near Paul. Sunday services: 8:30, 10 and 11 a. m., and 8 p. m.; daily, 8:30 a. m.—Adv. Mr. Bud Reed has returned from a pleasant stay in St. Paul and the east. See Ginger Crab Tree and Majestic Mogul for membership in the third degree.—Adv. Mrs. James Eastlin, who has been visiting friends in California, is now in Denver, owing to the illness of her sister. Mrs. George W. Johnson entertained thirty guests on her lawn at 2312 North Twenty-eighth avenue, in honor of her daughter Lyla and her son A Business A Splendid opportunity for secure one-third interest in a we Omaha. Partner drafted. BANKS 1914 CUMI ---BUY A Four-room cottage at 22d and Grace Sts., $1,500; easy terms. Six-room modern cottage at 31st and Corby Sts., large lot, paved street, $2,600; easy terms. A Business Opportunity A Splendid opportunity for a competent licensed embalmer to secure one-third interest in a well established undertaking firm in Omaha. Partner drafted. 1914 CUMING STREET Ten-room modern house on 22d and Charles Sts., $3,500; easy terms. G. B. R REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, FIRE Phone Douglas 28 7 tures at the church. Don't fail to hear this logician, philosopher and scholar All churches of the city, pastors and congregations are asked to be there at least by representative delegates. Admission 25 cents. On Monday morning at 10:30 Dr. Williams will lecture to the Colored Ministers' alliance at Zion Baptist church, 2215 Grant t街. All ministers of the city are urged to be present. The Wide-Awake Twenty-Four will meet with Mrs. May at the residence of Mrs. Walter Craig, 2320 North Twenty - seventh street, Friday, August 19. All members are asked to be present, to complete arrangements for the annual picnic to be held August 2. Work is progressing encouragingly along all lines. Strangers are invited to make this their home church while in the city. Mrs. Lulu Thompson left Monday afternoon for Colorado Springs for an indefinite stay. NEWS OF MOUNT MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. M. H. Wilkinson, Pastor Sunday services were good all day, with four additions to the church and one candidate for baptism. The pastor will represent the state of Nebraska at the convention at Monmouth, Ill. He will leave Monday morning. The reception and burning of the mortgage will take place Friday night, July 26, at the church. The Swastika Art club met at Miller park Wednesday afternoon. An enjoyable time was had by those present, after which a dainty box lunch was served. Mrs. J. H. Wilson and Mrs. C. Field were visitors. The club will meet at Riverview park July 17. You are cordially invited. Mrs. F. Cameron left her home, 2914 Lake street. Sunday for Lord Lister hospital for an operation. We hope for her a speedy recovery. Preaching Sunday morning. Subject, "Gaining a Part"; night subject, "Feeling the Weight of Responsibility." Sunday school at 1:30; Sunshine Mission Circle at 6:30 every Sunday evening. B. Y. P. U. every Friday night at the church. Come out and make these organizations a success. Rev. M. H. Wilkinson and wife spent Tuesday afternoon with friends in Council Bluffs. Those on the sick list: George Williams, 1404 North Twentieth; Mr. Goodlett and Miss Newby. Strangers are welcome. Silas, last Wednesday. Nine and three candles showed that the children had reached their ninth and third birthdays. Red, white and blue were used as yard decorations. Send your petition in to Hoodlum-Doodlum for membership to the third degree.—Adv. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. Taxi. Call J. D. Lewis. Prices $2 to $3.50 an hour. Stand, Web, 3499. Residence, Web. 949.—Adv. Part of Omaha Council, No. 15, met on the first and third Thursdays of each month at Twenty-fourth and Charles streets.—Daughter Gertruce Stewart, M. X. Z.; Daughter Marie Smith, M. E. S. Webster 1168.—Adv. Yes, siree! I'm going to the Western Beauty ball July 19.—Adv. DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR Mr. Oscar Micheau, the author of that popular western novel, "The Homesteader," which is having a large sale, is an Omaha visitor. Mr. Micheau expects to spend several weeks in our city. He is the author of other books, but the one that has brought him into most prominence is "The Homesteader." Opportunity a competent licensed embalmer to all established undertaking firm in & WILKS Six-room bungalow style house, nearly new, on 28th Ave. and Binney St., $4,250; easy terms. Six-room modern house at 2428 Lake St., $3,000; easy terms. Vacant lot at 27th and Miami Sts., $450; easy terms. OBBINS RE AND TORNADO INSURANCE 42 or Webster 5519 THE MONITOR GOES TO PORTO RICO TO TEACH IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL Mrs. Grace Hutten Leaves Saturday For New York, Where She Will Sail For the Island. Mrs. Grace Hutten, who has been appointed by the war department as a government teacher in Porto Rico, leaves Saturday for New York, accompanied by her son Jesse, from which port she will embark on the Caracas July 17 for Porto Rico. She has not been advised where she will teach, but she reports at San Juan. Mrs. Hutten is well qualified for the work to which she has been appointed. She is a graduate of the Omaha High school and the normal course of Bellevue college and took special training at the University of Chicago. She has taught in Iowa and Nebraska. Congressman Lobeck was interested in securing Mrs. Hutten's appointment. Best wishes of her many friends will accompany her to her new field of work. Mrs. Hutten is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Morris of Omaha and is a sister of Dr. Craig Morris and Sergeant Elmer Morris, who is at the central officers' training camp at Camp Pike, Arkansas. The summer normal, which has been running here since June 10, has reached an enrollment of over sixty students. Interest is very high, and besides the regular routine of instruction lectures and instruction are given in food conservation, Red Cross work and other things of a like nature. The following are the faculty: Prof. G. A. Randolph, La Grange, conductor; Mrs. J. A. Greene, Schulenburg; Profs. J. P. Payne of Hallettsville, W. J. Mann of Weinart and W. H. Stafford of Ferris. The following persons were here last week: Prof. M. M. Rodgers of Dallas, on business; Revs. P. R. McGriff of Weimar, S. J. Vick of Wallis and Robert Carroll of Giddings, on route to their preaching places; Mr. G. W. Bratcher of Muldoon and Rev Mr. Harris of Ledbetter, on business; Mrs. Katy Dobbin of San Antonio and Clara Marshall of Bay City, to visit their sick mother, Mrs. Rhoda Collins. Several members of Mount Olive Baptist church, Eagle Lake, motored over here Sunday to see their sick pastor, Rev. S. A. Tillman, who is also pastor of Ebenezer church, La Grange. Mrs. Eva Drisdale of Smithville and Miss Flossie Moore of Giddings, after visiting with friends and relatives several days, returned home. Miss Fannie Lee Taylor, after a few days in Austin, returned home Monday evening last. The cafe of Mr. Will Fields and the barber shop of Mr. S. W. Franklin in invite our people, especially the out-of-town visitor, to come in and rest. They are able, also, to give you first-class service in their respective lines. Regular preaching service was held at St. James M. E. church by Rev. J. W. White Sunday. Rev. G. L. Mills, P. C. of the A. M. E. church here, preached at Halstead Sunday. Rev. S. A. Tillman, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church here, who has been ill for over three weeks, is able to be up and about the house again. Sick: Mrs. Eliza Cook, Mrs. Julia King, Mrs. Anna Moten, Mrs. Martha Alcue, Mrs. Rhoda Collins, Mr. William Breeding. It is dry in this part of the moral vineyard, but all the churches had good services on Sunday. The Rev. S. M. Bolden the pastor of St. Paul M. E. church was at his post Sunday, and was made to feel glad on Sunday night when the stewards announced that they had raised the pastor the sum of $61. The Rev. A. W. Williams preached at St. Paul church Sunday evening, Mrs. Wm. Rose is visiting in San Classified Business Directory Classified Business Directory LA GRANGE, TEXAS. PALESTINE, TEXAS Francisco, Cal., this week and will return next week. The watermelons are coming in and the people are sure doing their part in eating them. The funeral of of Mrs. Luvenna Thomas was held at St. Mark's church on last Thursday by the Rev. P. A. Northeton, the pastor, and the house was full to witness the ceremony. Mr. Willie Williams died last Friday and was buried on Saturday. Mr. I. H. Bland was in charge of the funeral. Mrs. Jessie McKinzie says that she is impressed with the Monitor and the stand that it takes on any issue. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Wade Turner a boy. Boy and mother are doing well. Prof. H. S. Scott of Tegue was a visitor last week. Mr. M. E. Johnson was a visitor in the city last week. Mrs. I. H. Bland is looking for her mother to arrive here tomorrow. The revival at the West Union Baptist church was a success. The baptized on Sunday 29 souls that they beat the devil out of if we can only hold them. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA The Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa has been in session here this week. It has brought distinguished visitors here from many points. Report of meeting will be given next week. The jubilee given by Tabernacle Baptist church was a marked success socially and financially. The handsome sum of $129 was cleared. The A. M. E. church at North Sixteenth street and Avenue A, the Rev. T. H. Stoner, pastor, holds Sunday services at 11 a. m., 1 p. m. (Sunday school) and 8 p. m. The people have named it the Church of a Cordial Welcome to All. The fourth and last quarterly meeting will be held July 21, the Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor of St. John's, Omaha, preaching at 3 o'clock. Memorial services were held at the Methodist church Monday night for Luther Chorn, a member of the stevedore regiment, who was recently drowned in France. Mrs. Frances Lee, 1919 Avenue Cis The Monitor representative. Send her news and subscriptions. AWARDED ORATORICAL PRIZE: BUYS WAR SAVINGS STAMP: Tuskegee Institute, Ala., June 22.—Jacob J. Simmons of Haskell, Okla., was awarded the first prize of $25 during the Tuskegee institute commencement exercises in the Trinity church, Boston, prize oratorical contest. Mr. Simmons' subject was, "The American Negro as a Soldier." In a letter to Dr. Moton, principal, Mr. Simmons writes that he has invested the whole $25 in war savings stamps and certificates. PROTESTS AGAINST BROW BEATING METHODS New York, June 22.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, through its secretary, John R. Shillady of New York, makes public a letter sent to Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, directing the secretary's attention to what the association describes as brow-beating tactics in regard to Negroes adopted by the chairman and other members of the committee in charge of the war savings stamp campaign in Caddo Parish Louisiana, the principal city of which is Shreveport. The association sent the secretary a clipping from the Shreveport Times carrying the heading, "Adopt Force to Get Negro to Buy War Savings Stamps." The association calls attention in its letter to the loyal co-operation of the Negroes of the country in Liberty loan and war savings drives, and remarks that he method taken by the committee is exactly the wrong way to secure the Negro's co-operation. THE PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE Douglas 1446. 109 South 14th St. ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24th and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neb. HARDWARE W. B. NICHOLS Paints, Oils and Glass. Webster 3516. 24th and Lake Sts. COLORED NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES FRANK DOUGLASS Shining Parlor. Webster 1388. 2414 North 24th St. MARKETS DEEP WATER FISH MARKET Webster 3943. 1409½ N. 24th St. DRUG STORES AMOS P. SCRUGGS, Attorney at Law, 3807 Camden Ave. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Document 159, No. 243 In the District Court, Fourth Judicial District in and for Douglas County, Nebraska. In the matter of the application of W. C. Williams, administrator of George C. Holmes deceased, to sell real estate and pay debts. This cause coming on for hearing on the petition of the administrator of the estate of George Bolden, deceased, praying for license to sell real estate, toowit: The north one-half of lot fifteen (15), Redick's Second Addition, an addition to the City of Omaha, in Douglas County, Nebraska, as surveyed, platted and recorded, known as 1031 South 233 street, all in the city of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, or a sufficient amount thereof to bring the sum of $248,00 for the payment of the property alleged said estate, including costs and expenses of administration, there not being sufficient personal property to pay said debts and expenses. It is therefore ordered that all persons interested in said estate appear before me, in the Douglas County court house, in the 'City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, on the 28th day of August, A. D. 1918, at 9 o'clock a. m. to show cause why a license should not be granted as prayed, to sell the north one-half of lot fifteen (15), Redick's Second Addition, an addition to the City of Omaha, in Douglas County, Nebraska, on the 29th day of August, 2018, platted and recorded, said property being situated in Douglas County, Nebraska, to pay the debts, expenses and claims against the estate of George Bolden, deceased, and also to pay expenses and the costs of administration of said estate. And it is further ordered that a copy of this notice be published for four successive weeks prior to the time fixed for said hearing in the Monitor, a legal newspaper published in Douglas County, Nebraska. By the court: 4t-4-2 A. C. TROUP, Judge LODGE DIRECTORY F. & A. M., York Rite, St. Luke's Lodge, No. 14, will meet the first and third Monday Knights in nights of Pythias hall, Twenty-fourth and Charles streets. All members take notice. Wm. Bridges, W. M.; J. E. Johnson, secretary; H. C. Watts, treasurer. Gate City Lodge, No. 6674, G. U. O. of O. F., meets the first and third Monday of each month at Petersen's hall, 24th and Burdette sts. W. H. Payne, N. G.; R. L. Woodard, P. S., 4912 South 26th st. South 4459. Omaha Lodge No. 146, A. F. and A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Thursdays of every month. Lodge room, 2201 Cuming street. 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 Hoisting 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, Sec. Sec.; S. L. Bush, Treas. Faithful lodge, No. 250, U. B. F., meets second and fourth Fridays in each month at Rescue hall. Visiting brethren welcome. Earl Jones, W. M.; James Tubbs, W. S. Lodge rooms at 24th and Charles streets. Vacant two nights each week. Persons wanting to rent same, call Allen Jones, rental agent, Webster 1100. 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. WANTED—Girl or woman to take complete charge of two children in small home. Harney 6355. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. FURNISHED rooms for rent; strictly modern. Res. 2212 Seward. Tel. Web. 3733. Neatly furnished modern room in private family. Near car line. 2517 North Twenty-eighth avenue. FURNISHED rooms with bath, $2.25 to $3.50 per week; also four rooms on the fourth floor partly furnished, $25 per month. Call or phone Webster 2177. House number, 1107 North 19th st. Mrs. T. L. Hawthorne. FOR RENT — Furnished rooms, 1549 N. 17th st. Web. 5230. Floyd Carlton. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, all modern. 2706 Parker st. Web. 1250. Furnished rooms in strictly modern house. Men preferred. 814 North 23r street. Red 8156. Mrs. Ida Cary. Nicely furnished rooms. Phone Webster 2941. For Rent — Furnished rooms, 1425 North 21st. Call after 6 p. m. or inquire next door north. (4t) FOR RENT — Neatly furnished rooms. Phone South 1981. Residence 4814 South 25th st. Mrs. Sadie Moberly. Two furnished rooms, 2415 Indiana avenue. Tyler 3299-W. First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric light. On Dodge and 24th st. car line. Mrs. Ann Banks, 924 North 20th st. Doug. 437... FOR RENT—Right at 24th st. car, one large room for couple, also one small room. Webster 4745. Furnished room for gentleman. Mrs. E. M. Wright, 2620 Burdette St. Web. 5543. Furnished room; strictly modern; gentleman only. Mrs. M. Murray, 2714 North 25th St. Web. 979. For Rent—Two furnished rooms, strictly modern, 1923 North 27th St. Webster 3150. For Rent—Modern furnished rooms, 2320 North 28th Ave. Phone Webster 2058. Neatly furnished rooms in a private home. Modern except heat. Men only. Webster 1760. Neatly furnished rooms, 1842 North 27th St. Call Webster 2812. First-class modern furnished rooms. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, 1702 North Twenty-sixth street. Phone Webster 4769. FOR RENT—Ten rooms. 1403 N. 18th street. $16.50. Phone Douglas 3607.—Adv. HOUSE FOR SALE FOR SALE—Acre of ground and 5-room house; $200 down, balance easy payments. Douglas 3607. HOUSES FOR RENT FOR RENT—10 rooms, 1527 North 17th st.; $25 per month. Doug. 3607. FOR RENT—Three-room house; city water and gas. $2529½ Wirt st. Webster 4395. Alhambra MONDAY AND TUESDAY BESSIE BARRISCALE MADAM WHO" Snakeville Comedy Mutt and Jeff WEDNESDAY PEARL WHITE IN NO. 15 "THE HOUSE OF HATE" GLADYS HULETTE IN "POTS AND PANS PEGGY" Luke Comedy THURSDAY PAULINE STARK IN "THE MAN WHO WOKE UP" Keystone Comedy FRIDAY GLADYS HULETTE IN "MRS. SLACKER" Harold Loyd Comedy SATURDAY JULE CARMEN IN "CONFESSION" Hearst-Pathe News Fox Comedy SUNDAY ROY STEWART IN "RED HAIRED CUPID" Hearst-Pathe News Sunshine Comedy Diamond Diamond 24th and Lake Sts. Visit the Diamond Theater Friday, July 19, and see the first episode of the greatest serial that was ever produced— "A FIGHT FOR MILLIONS" Good pictures every day. Entire change of pictures every day. AT THE Franklin 24th and Franklin Streets Saturday Afternoon and Night Monroe Salisbury in "THE EAGLE" Strong Western Feature Also a Good Comedy. Sunday Matinee and Night Ethel Clayton in "THE WOMAN BE- NEATH" and Charlie Chaplin in "WORK"