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5c a Copy Drawing Towards Half-Hundred Mark Moorfield Storey Drive Increases Membership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People From Less Than 10,000 to 36,000. MANY BRANCHES MAKE GAINS Drive Manifests Growing Appreciation of the Value and Necessity of Organized Efforts — Membership Widely Distributed. NEW YORK, July 25.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, through its national office in New York, makes public the results of its Moorfield Storey drive to increase the membership of the association as a tribute to its national president for his services to the Colored people in winning the famous segregation decision in the supreme court of the United States. At the close of the drive on June 15 the association's total membership had increased from 9,869 before the drive to approximately 36,000, and is still going up. This total number of 36,000 members does not include any branches which are regarded by the association as inactive, but includes only active branches and paid-up memberships. The eighty-five active branches of the association which were in existence when the drive began report a total membership of 32,300. Thirty-two new branches have been organized during the drive with a total membership of 2,600. These totals, together with something over 1,000 members at large not affiliated with any particular branch, makes the 36,000 given as the total for the drive. The association now has 117 active branches. Some of the branches, the association reports, did remarkable work in increasing their membership. The branch at Washington, D. C., for example, has gone from a membership of less than 700 to nearly 7,000; the branch at Boston has gone from a membership of about 750 to more than 2,500. Seventeen of the association's branches have memberships of more than 500 members each; 29 branches have more than 300 members each. "The Colored people of the nation," says Mr. Shillady, in announcing the results of the drive, "and their white friends appreciate as they never did before the value and necessity of organized effort. The association's branches are widely distributed, which is a second cause for gratification," said Mr. Shillady. "In only thirteen states is the association not represented. In the New England states there are six branches with a total of about 4,400 members; the North Atlantic states have 16 branches with more than 4,000 members; the east north-central states, composed of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, have 26 branches with nearly 7,000 members; the west north-central states, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas, have 11 branches with 3,150 members; the Southern states, exclusive of the District of Columbia, have 43 branches with 7,500 members; in the mountain and Pacific states the association has twelve branches with over 2,000 members. Two states, Ohio and Illinois, have as many as 10 branches; Virginia, the Old Dominion state, the state of the aristocracy of the South, has 8 branches. "Another striking feature of the drive," said Mr. Shillady, "is the spontaneous growth of new branches. The thirty-two branches organized were organized without direct assistance of the association's officers or field secretary. In some cases nearby branches assisted in the organization, but as a whole these branches were the outgrowth of the spontaneous desire of the people themselves to affiliate with a national organization which they regard as one that stands for their TO OUR ADVERTISERS We appreciate your patronage and are pleased to know that The Monitor is bringing you good results. It could hardly be otherwise, since our circulation reaches the best class of buyers in the world. THE MONITOR rights and for their advancement. One of these new branches, San Antonio, Tex., has more than 500 members and another at Greene county, Ohio, begins with 450 members. "Mr. James W. Johnson, field secretary of the national association, who has been on three extended tours, one of them through the South, reports that Colored people everywhere are alive to the responsibilities of the times; that they are supporting the government loyally in Liberty loan and war savings drives; that they are watching with interest the valorous deeds of Colored soldiers abroad, and that they are looking forward to greater participation in civil and political rights at home." Colored Nurses to Be Used In Army Camps Orders Issued by War Department Makes Opening for Hundreds at Six Base Hospitals in This Country—Many May Go Overseas. Special to The Monitor: Washington, D. C., July 22.—The war department authorizes the following statement from Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the secretary of war: Orders were issued today by the war department to the office of the surgeon general, which will enable Colored nurses who have been registered by the American Red Cross society, to render service for their own race in the army. Colored nurses will be assigned to the base hospitals now established at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas; Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois; Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa; Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky.; Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, and Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. At these camps a total of 36,000 Colored troops are stationed. General Pershing has been asked by cable whether the services of Colored nurses can be utilized to advantage among the American Expeditionary forces. WANTS TO ORGANIZE A BATTALION New Orleans, La.—George Doyle, former president of the Colored Pastor's Union and connected with the Red Cross, has gone to Washington to obtain authority to organize a battalion of French speaking race men above the draft age for service at the front. Doyle first took up this project last September and received a letter from the French ambassador at Washington stating France would be glad to have the services of such a battalion. Government authorities then suggested Doyle help in the organization of a regiment of stevedores and he did. Now that this regiment is in service at the front, Doyle is anxious to take up his original project of organizing a battalion of active service men. WOMEN'S CONVENTION OUTSPOKEN IN DEMANDS Requests the War Department to Appoint Colored Nurses—Demands the Abolishment of Jim Crow Cars. Denver, Colo.—The National Association of Colored Women which met here in annual session was a great success, and women were in attendance from all states in the union. They have made an impression that will be lasting in Denver. Among the noteworthy things that were done, the convention adopted a resolution asking the war department to assign 2,000 Colored nurses for hospital duty in the war zone to care for wounded Negro soldiers. Another strong resolution was drawn, adopted and forwarded to Secretary McAdoo demanding that the "Jim Crow" car be abolished, and denounced it as "filthy, unsanitary and undemocratic." Urbana, O—Miss Ella Dunn (white), of West Virginia, bequeathed $7,500 to the Curry Institute, and friends have contributed a like amount, making a total of $15,000. St. Louis, Mo.—Department and other stores of this city are employing Colored women and girls as saleswomen and are meeting with success. OMAHA. NEBRASKA. JULY 27. 1918 Colored Troops In Allied Offensive American Soldiers of Color Are Demonstrating Their Heroism, Intrepidity and Bravery in Picardy and in the Vicinity of the Marne—Have Made Wonderful Impression Upon French Population—Beg to Go Into the Thickest of the Fray—Rendering Conspicuous Service. With the American Army on the Marne, July 18.—American Colored troops helped to hold the allied line against the fifth German offensive. They requested the favor of being permitted to take over a part of the line of attack, though they have been holding part of a French sector for the last three months without relief. They are now rendering conspicuous service in the allied offensive launched against the Teutonic forces and their valorous conduct has evoked high praise from the commanding officers. The American soldiers of color, particularly, have made a wonderful impression upon the French population, both civil and military, and they have received the unstinted praise and commendation from high French officers. Their remarkable courage, cool-headedness and bravery under fire, as well as their desire to engage in the fiercest engagements--all these things and many more have demonstrated conclusively that the colored American soldiers are fighters unsurpassed and unprecedented and they are acquitting themselves creditably and nobly whenever called upon or given an opportunity to defend the Stars and Stripes on the western front. The ancient Huns had little or no respect for the Colored Americans' fighting ability until they encountered these American blacks in several fights and now they have the utmost respect for the fighting qualities of Uncle Sam's black warriors, who are playing no small part over here to bring victory to the allied side. ATLANTIC CITY PREPARES FOR THE BUSINESS LEAGUE Atlantic City.—Elaborate preparations are being made by the various committees of the Local Negro Business League of this city to welcome the National Negro Business League which will meet here August 21, 22, 23. His Excellency, Governor Walter E. Edge, has consented to deliver one of the addresses of welcome, and His Honor, Mayor H. Bacharach, has also consented to speak on the opening day. Other features of the day will be yachting trips and a reception at the city hall to the delegates by the mayor and his staff. Mr. J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn., president of the National League; Dr. R. R. Moton, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, chairman of the executive committee, and Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee institute, secretary, together with the other officials, are working out the details of the program and the first session promises to be one of vital interest to the race. PORTO RICO TO DRAFT 15,000 MORE MEN San Juan, Porto Rico.—Orders received from Provost Marshal General Crowder direct the local draft boards in Porto Rico to proceed with the selection and preparation for mobilization of 15,000 men, in addition to th 13,000 now reported at Las Casas. The first men of the new draft are to report in September and a fixed number monthly thereafter. The final figures on the registration of men who have reached the age of 21 years since July, 1917, will show 11,000 registrants, according to Adjutant General Wilson. The Spirit of '18. The World Cry- food! Cultivate the Soil. WEST AFRICAN CHIEF OF FRENCH COMMISSION Receives Complimentary Address From the Residents of Gambia Expressive of Their Pleasure at M. Blaize Diagne's Appointment. M. Blaize Diagne, a full-blooded Negro who represents the Senegal in the French chamber, has visited West Africa as chief of French commission. His suite consisted of several white officials of the French government and a black French military officer. On his departure from Gambia an address was delivered to him in part as follows: Sir: We representing the natives and residents of the colony of the Gambia of Negro blood, take this opportunity of your visit to our shores of publicly tending to you our heart-felt congratulations on the high honor conferred on you by the French republic, as deputy of the colony of Senegal and chief of a commissio to French West Africa, an honor which, we fully believe, you have very well earned. One of the blessings which we believe will come to the world through this great war will be a just estimate and due recognition of the worth and merit of all, irrespective of race or color. That you, a Negro of the Wolof tribe, should lead the van in this respect, is to us a matter of great thankfulness to God, and affords us much impetus in our efforts to do our best in whatever sphere we may be, fully believing that as the day has come for such recognition from the French republic, it will also come from the British empire, to which we are glad and proud to belong.—The Crisis. THE HEALTH AND MORALS OF COLORED TROOPS Captain A. B. Spingarn says in the August Crisis: Few matters are of greater concern to the war department than the proper safeguarding of the health and morals of its soldiers. It is significant that it has detailed to the consideration of the problem of safeguarding Colored troops and colored civilians an officer, who, as a director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the chairman of its legal committee, has definitely put himself on record as opposed to discrimination against the Negro in any form for any cause. The war department can control conditions in the cantonments, but the formulators of this program realize that no permanent improvement can be expected if all the effort is to be from without; no lasting help is possible for twelve million people unless the major effort comes from within. The health and morals of Colored people for generations to come will depend largely on how much help and co-operation the Colored leaders of today give to this program. Government Takes Righteous Stance That There Shall Be No Discrimination in Punishment for Heinous Crime Against Wmen. Waco, Tex.-Nat Hoffman, a white soldier, was hanged July 11 at Camp McArthur. He was convicted of attacking a Colored school girl last April. The government has one treatment for all who commit crime. Just a few days ago at Des Moines, Ia., Colored soldiers were given the same treatment for the same crime against a white girl. CUBA PASSES BILL FOR COMPULSORY SERVICE Havana, July. 19.—The bill to establish compulsory military service in Cuba, following four days of bitterest debate, was approved by the house by a vote of 45 to 26. By previous agreement a committee consisting of three conservatives and an equal number of liberals was then appointed to revise the provisions of the bill and is expected to report Monday, when the debate will be taken up on the amendments. ESTABLISH COMMUNITY CENTER HOUSE Youngstown, O.—The citizens of Youngstown, with the assistance of white friends, have purchased a home for girls, the property is said to be worth $10,000. "Chesterfield" Of The Southland Baton Rouge Given This Title by Monitor Representative, Who Is Delighted With Southern Hospital —Visits Sociological Congress at Gulfport, Miss.—Turns Northward. ALEXANDRIA AND SHREVEPORT Former Omaha Minister Now the Pastor of a Large and Flourishing Congregation in Louisiana Town. BY FRED C. WILLIAMS Baton Rouge, La., July 14, 1918. Monday of this week found me still plugging the old city of New Orleans. There are so many interesting things about this old town that one cannot visit them all in a day. Summer in New Orleans is exceptionally attractive. The city is clothed in all the verdant grandeur of the tropic; palms, palmetto and drooping cypress line its streets and avenues, and its numerous front yards and neutral grounds of its many miles of double lined boulevards are one mass of bright and beautifully colored flowers, including the sweet scented magnolia, cape jasmine, tube rose and Japanese wisteria, which fill the atmosphere with the perfume that reminds one of the "Nectar of the Gods." Sociological Congress. Wednesday I ran to Gulfport, Miss., where the Mississippi State Sociological congress was in session. The features were the address by Bishop Theodore D. Bratton of the Episcopal church and president of the congress, on "The Mission of the Southern Sociological Congress," in which he said: "Our mission is plain. We have but one duty to perform; service to our fellow man, through which all men rise to one level, that of equality." The other was the address of Mr. Geo E. Haynes of the National Labor Council, who spoke on "Improvement of Living Conditions of Labor as a Necessity for Efficiency." He scored many points, demonstrating the necessity of the acquisition "of more faith in one another and in each other's projects by both of the races." And also that the black man wished to be the brother of the white man, only as brother in industry, brother in agriculture, brother in democracy brother in war, without being his brother-in-law. Home of Billy Kersands. Left Gulfport and picked up my itinerary north. My first stop being Donaldsonville, La., the former home of the one time famous minstrel, Billy Kersands. I was now in the heart of "sugar land," the cane fields lining the tracks on either side, and extending back along the bayous for many miles. Plaquemines the place of my next visit is situated at the head of a number of connecting bayous which give an outlet to the overflow of the waters of the Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico. Baton Rouge Prosperous. Baton Rouge Prosperous. Baton Rouge, the capital of this famous state from which point I am writing, bears an air of refinement and culture. Strange to say its population of thirty thousand is composed of 50 per cent Negroes, who in a large number are wealthy, residing in every part of the city, in beautiful, well appointed homes. The courtesy extended to The Monitor and its representative was so cordial and hospitable, that Baton Rouge will always be cherished as one of the most chivalrous of the Chesterfields of the southland. Leaving Baton Rouge behind I took a fast train on the L. R. N.. By the way, this road is causing the federal authorities to do some serious thinking. Mr. Eatonboum, the sole owner and operator of this line is "in dutch" with the federal authorities, being charged with making seditious remarks. As to whether they will discontinue the operation of the road or confiscate it is the question. I was soon in Alexandria, a thriving little city in the rich cotton and lumber section of Louisiana. Here is located Camp Beauregard, which at present has only 200 of the race draftees, but the call of August 5 is to bring 2,000 of our boys to this camp. The many business and professional men, as well as prominent citizens of the race, are making big preparations for the reception for these boys. Alexandria is proud of her new high school, a new brick building with all conveniences, erected at a cost of $30,000. My next stop was Mansfield, in the western part of the state, in the rich oil fields. Here we find our race controlling the mercantile business, and also engaged in the oil and real estate business. At Holly I spent half a day investigating a community farming proposition of which I will tell in a special article. Friday afternoon found me at Shreveport, the second city of Louisiana, and here in the hurry and bustle of this busy railroad and commercial center I plugged up and down Texas avenue meeting old friends and making new ones, and always pushing The Monitor, which always makes a good impression whenever given a fair hearing. I spent Sunday here visiting the churches among them the Antioch Baptist church, pastored by the Rev. Dr. James Bingaman, formerly of Omaha, who warmly welcomed me and after a brief eulogy presented me to his large congregation to whom I in turn presented The Monitor which was warmly received. Title by Bob Is Depotality Press at Thward. EPORT The Passing Con. 1918.—And me of New inter-wn that day. Excep-ity is grandeur to and sets and Nurses Convention to Meet In Louisville This Strong and Efficient Organization Expects to Hold Epoch-Marking Meeting—Will Discuss Professional Matters and Take Action Demanding Employment in Army. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25. Colored nurses in Washington are preparing to go to Louisville in numbers to attend the convention of the National Association of Colored Nurses August 21-24. While they are going there to discuss matters relating to the ordinary everyday work of their profession, they are also going to see what combined action may accomplish in breaking down what they believe is a color line in keeping 2,000 professional nurses from rendering service to the army. The association's membership is strong in New York and Washington. Miss Jane A. Delano, who is organizing the members of the association into a Red Cross section, is the Washington representative of the association. Miss Lena Machale, superintendent of nurses at the Freedmen's hospital, and her assistant, Miss Emma May Erwin are prominent workers for the recognition of the association by the government. "Miss Machale and I were among the nurses who called on Surgeon General Gorgas on May 27 and asked him for his real reason for denying our nurses' service," Miss Erwin says. "He stated it was lack of housing facilities. From this I gathered that some one had expressed objections to our being housed with white nurses. Neither he nor any one else can make the claim successfully that we are not as competent as any other nurses, no matter what their color. The general told us he was personally desirous of utilizing our services. We shall not be ignored much longer. Anyway, Miss Delano is registering nurses for army service, and at the convention we shall not only voice our sentiments, but we shall do our best to bring pressure to bear that will make further excuses out of place." Muskogee, Okla.—The Rev. E. C. W. Cox, pastor of Spencer Chapel church (Negro Methodist), has been recommended by Bishop W. M. McDowell of Chicago, as chaplain in the army. He is the first local Colored minister to be suggested for a position as chaplain of the army. $ ^{*} $ ERECTING APARTMENT HOUSE Washington.—A company headed by John W. Lewis, president of the Industrial Savings bank, is erecting a $100,000 apartment house here. TO OUR READERS We are glad The Monitor pleases you. It will also please your friends and neighbors. Show them your copy and get them to subscribe. Help us double our circulation this year by getting one of your friends or neighbors to subscribe. 2 CLOSE RANKS Dr. Du Bois says in the July Crisis: This is the crisis of the world. For all the long years to come men will point to the year 1918 as the great day of decision, the day when the world decided whether it would submit to military despotism and an endless armed peace—if peace it could be called—or whether they would put down the menace of German militarism and inaugurate the United States of the World. We of the Colored race have no ordinary interest in the outcome. That which the German power represents today spells death to the aspirations of Negroes and all darker races for equality, freedom and democracy. Let us not hesitate. Let us, while this war lasts, forget our special grievances and close our ranks shoulder to shoulder with our own white fellow citizens and the allied nations that are fighting for democracy. We make no ordinary sacrifice, but we make it gladly and willingly with our eyes lifted to the hills. Many are giving their lives; you are asked only to loan your money. Alhambra 24th and Parker. Saturday Virginia Pearson in "THE FIREBRAND" Hearst Pathe News Fox Comedy Sunday Alma Reubin in "MADAM SPHINX" Hearst-Pathe News Billy West Comedy Monday and Tuesday J. Warren Kerrigan "THE TURN OF A CARD" Wednesday Pearl White in No. 17 the "HOUSE OF HATE" And Edwin Ardenin in "THE DRONE HEARTS" Thursday Jack Richardson in "HIS ENEMY IS THE LAW" English War News Friday Irene Castle in "MYSTERIOUS CLIENT" Diamond 24th and Lake Sts. See Wm. S. Hart in a Big Five-Reel Feature "THE ARYAN" Sunday Sunday "HOUSE OF HATE" Every Tuesday "FIGHT FOR MILLIONS" Every Friday AT THE Franklin 24th and Franklin Streets Saturday Monroe Salisbury in "HUNGRY EYES" A Wild Western Feature Also aGood Comedy Sunday Robert Warwick in "FALSE FRIEND" Charles Chaplinin "JAZZ WAITER" FOR Good Shoe Repairing TRY H. LAZARUS, 2019 Cuming St BAKERY Across from Alhambra Theatre The Best is None Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 TREAT CAPTIVE GERMANS KINDLY French Generous to Prisoners Despite Brutal Course of Enemy. ARE GLAD TO BE OUT OF IT Sight of Long American Columns Destroys Hun Hopes of Victory—Live Like Happy Family in Prison Camp. With the American Forces in France, —France knows that her prisoners in Germany are treated badly, but German prisoners are treated humanely and even generously in French prisons just the same, writes Don Martin in the New York Herald. I asked an officer in charge of a French prison camp why this is, and he shrugged his shoulders and said merely: “Ah!!” Unless one could see the gesture accompanying the monosyllable he would hardly know what meaning to attach to it. It really meant: "Oh, what's the use of being brutal to individuals just because some one else is? We wish we could, but we can't." I have inspected several prisons, some large and some small, and in every one I have found the Germans treated quite as well as civil prisoners in normal times and in many instances better. Officers are not humiliated in any way. In fact they receive better treatment, a stranger would think, than they are really entitled to. Prisoners Live Happily. On a low hill about 1,000 feet from a main road of France stands a prison — five low wooden buildings surrounded by two barbed wire fences, with armed pickets always patrolling outside. Here are 200 Germans, many of them prisoners taken in the early battle of the Somme, but some taken more recently. They are all privates and constitute as happy a family as one could find where personal liberty is the one thing desired and denied. The Germans stood at their barbed fences hours at a time and watched the endless line of soldiers. When it was the blue of France that was moving past the Germans were not particularly interested. They had seen that for years. They know France always has had an endless line of everything needed for war. But when they saw the khaki of America filing or rolling by for a whole day and then for another, and heard the muddy shuffle of feet through the night, there was a change in the dull expression of those German eyes. It was at this time that I went to the prison to learn what they thought of what they had seen. First it should be stated that these prisoners see little of recent developments in the war. They must form their opinions from such fragments of conversation as they hear from their keepers and from what they see, as, for instance, from the long, long line of Americans, the first they had seen. In this particular prison the newcomers had brought the news situation up to early spring, but as for the big offensive the prisoners knew only that there probably would be one. Americans Surprise Germans. When I asked if there was a German among the two hundred who could speak English, a good looking young man, with a typical Teutonic mustache, red checks, a glow of health, was called out. He stepped into my presence like an automaton, clicked his heels together and saluted the French captain. He told me he was a private; that he has a home in Lucerne, Switzerland; that he fought eight months, but was never wounded; that he is in the wholesale dry goods business in Berlin, and that he does business with John Wanamaker, Marshall Field and Stern Brothers. "What do you think of all the Americans you have seen passing here recently?" I asked him. "I have seen many Americans," he said. "I was surprised that you have so many in France." Another prisoner, less prepossessing in appearance than the first, was asked about things in general. He spoke English poorly. "I live in Berlin and work in a bank, but was in the war for two years. When the war is over I am going to Switzerland to live. I would go to America, but they don't like Germans over there any more." "Why are you going to leave Germany?" For an answer there was a shrug of shoulders and a half scowl, half smile. "Are you satisfied here?" "It's a lot better than being in a grave where a lot of them are." KEEPSAKE GOES FOR BONDS Oklahoma Man Gives Up Gold Piece He Has Carried for Thirty- Seven Years. Tulsa, Okla.—"I have carried this gold piece with me for thirty-seven years, and I have resisted hunger and temptation to spend it, and have always kept it as a treasure. However, Uncle Sam needs it now, and I willingly let it go so it will help to bring victory to the American arms." This was the statement of W. H. Martin of this city as he deposited a $10 gold piece at the post office window and asked for some baby bonds. THE MONITOR South Side Notes Mrs. M. F. Starnes, who has been very sick for about two weeks, is improving slowly. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Robinson of Kansas City, who have been visiting relatives and friends in Omaha, left Wednesday night for home. Mr. William Gray last week for Kansas City to spend a few weeks. Mrs. Sara Jones, who has been giving a series of entertainments each Saturday evening at her home, 4912 South Twenty-fifth street, for the Allen chapel building fund, will continue Saturday, July 27. On the following Saturday evening, August 3, she will give as her last entertainment a barbecue at the home of Mrs. Ida Riddles, Twenty-fifth and S streets. PHILIP'S DEPARTMENT STORE WILL PAY FOR YOUR SUB- SCRIPTION TO THE MONITOR Philip's Department store, on the South Side, "the fastest growing store in Omaha," is so well pleased with The Monitor that it wants everybody to read it. To every customer who buys $20 worth of goods at this store Philip's Department store will pay one year's subscription to The Monitor, one of the greatest Negro weeklies in the country. Trade at this store and save all your coupons. See our big ad in this week's issue. A MILITARY ANTI- LYNCHING MEASURE The July Crisis says: Representatives of the military intelligence bureau proposed the following measure as a substitute for the Dyer bill mentioned in the June issue of the Crisis at a special hearing before the judiciary committee of the house on June 6. A BILL. To punish the crime of lynching in so far as such crimes tend to prevent the success of the United States in war. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled: That, whenever the United States is at war, whoever shall participate in any mob or riotous assemblage whereby death or mortal injury is intentionally caused to any man or woman employed in the service of the United States, or to any man liable to service in the military forces of the United States under the act approved May 18, 1918, entitled "An Act to Authorize the President to Increase Temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," or under any present or future statute of the United States or to any person held under arrest by or as a prisoner of or in interment by the United States, or to the wife, husband, brother, sister, father, mother, son, daughter, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece or first cousin, whether of the whole blood or half-blood, of a person in the military or naval forces of the United States or liable to service therein, as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a capital offense against the United States, and shall, upon conviction, be punished in accordance with the punishment prescribed for the crime of murder under the United States criminal code. The July Crisis says: Negro universities and schools of higher training have got to be supported by Negroes or, for the most part, they will not be supported at all. If we black folk want college training for our children, we have got to furnish it out of our pockets. This is a harsh conclusion and in many respects an unfair burden. If men were wise and if sociology were a science, it would be easy for Negroes to show the people of the United States that the safest and greatest investment that this country could make of a thousand millions of dollars during the next decade would be the establishment of a series of Negro universities and higher technical schools throughout the United States. But the nation does not see it and will not see it for one hundred years. Human being today have been educated to the point where they recognize the need of philanthropy for the hungry, the weak and the half-trained. Beyond this, however, it is difficult to get philanthropy to go. Thorough education and higher training still seem to most people a luxury and an indulgence and we must recognize these facts. We ourselves, however, know that if the Negro is to survive in the world as a man of thought and power, a co-worker with the leading races in civilization, a free, independent citizen of a modern democracy, then the foundations for this future must be laid in the Negro uni- A BILL SELF-HELP Phillip 4935-37 The Faster We are just the we expected to have square feet we occu tracted last year for We need more We have gathered merchandise that w son's wear. We can have so many that i ernment tells us to We say, VISIT • EXCEPTIONAL B versity. This much we know, but hitherto we have not realized that we have got to pay the bill for this education. 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Athletic Training, Football, Baseball, Tennis, etc. Full Course in Military Training For Catalogue and Further Information address— REV. JAS. S. RUSSELL, D. D., Principal, Lawrenceville, Va. Smell Sweet Anything in the line of Toilet Articles, Perfumes, Soaps, Face Powder; also Household Articles, Olive Oil, Extracts, etc. Mrs. E. Britton AGENT 2414 Erskine St. Webster 2927 The Kashmir Beauty Shop FOR LADIES We Also Make a Specialty of TREATING MENS SCALPS 220 S. 13th St., Upstairs 13th and Farnam. JESSE HALE, MOSS, Manager Douglas 7150. Invest In Michigan Orchards Fortunes in It. Easy Terms. $10 Down; $7.50 a Month SEE JESSE HALE MOSS, 13th and Farnam. Douglas 7150 Stop! Look! Tuesday Evening, July 16 Automobile Ride OF SEASON 35 CENTS ROUND TRIP Will be led by Perkins' band. One hour spent at park. Refreshments served; COME ONE! COME ALL! For Benefit of Grove M. E. Church. Committee in Charge—Mesdames O. C. Banks, M. Martin, H. Watts and B. Canada. ONE YEAR OF FOOD CONSERVATION The American people were asked to provide—as a patriotic duty—wheat, meat, fats and sugar for our associates in the war and their dependents. The following results will show that Americans did their duty. The Negro who has a large part in the handling of food can feel a pride in what was done in the matter of saving wheat, meats, fats and sugar. Wheat—The amount of wheat above our normal needs for 1917-1918 was 20,000,000 bushels—in other words, that is all we could have shipped unless our home consumption could have been reduced. If we continue to save at the present rate we shall be able to send to our soldiers and our associates in the war before the harvest of 1918 is entirely in, almost 170,000,000 bushels—or, in terms of our savings, we have done without 130,000,000 bushels of wheat to help win the war. The wholesale price of flour at Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 18, 1917, was $16.75 per barrel. The wholesale price is now $10.18. Pork—Meat—The number of hogs in the United States before the war was about 6,000,000 below what it ought to be. The United States then sold to foreign countries about 55,000,000 pounds of pork per month. In March, 1918, we were able to ship to our soldiers and our associates in the war over 300,000,000 pounds of pork in addition because our people answered the government's call to grow more pork and eat less of it, and we have saved and placed in storage 1,000,000,000 pounds of pork, lard, etc. Beef—Before the war this country was shipping less than 2,000,000 pounds of beef each month. We sent 96,982,000 pounds of beef in May, and with the people saving in the future as they are now, our boys will have plenty of beef. Sugar—The United States food administration is now asking that the people of the United States reduce their consumption of sugar to three pounds per month per person for the balance of the year. This is asked in order that the people of England may have two pounds per month per person, and the people of Italy one pound per month per person. If the people of the United States live up to this requirement there is absolutely no danger of a sugar shortage. The average price throughout the world in the past year has been about 20 cents per pound, while in the United States, because of regulation, it has been 10 cents a pound or less. Every one cent advance in the price of sugar means about $84,000,000 to the people of this country. Reserves—The present crops are above normal and as the war continues with the withdrawal of men from the farms to war work we do not expect to have such large crops again. Following the lesson of Joseph in Egypt, the United States food administration is collecting large stores of food at home and in Europe; thus we shall have reserves of food to overcome any future crop shortage here and enough food in Europe to tide over our soldiers and associates in war for a time, in case the steady stream of food ships to them is at any time interrupted. OUR TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS Some of our national transportation problems and difficulties can be better understood when it is remembered that in the northeastern section of the United States, including New York, Pennsylvania, adjoining states and New England, the population is 693 persons to every mile of railroad; in the south the figures are 407 persons per mile; and in the west, 252. There are 15 square miles of land to every mile of railroad in the west, while in the east there is 1 mile of railroad to every 5 square miles of land. There are innumerable factories in this eastern theater, and the bringing in of coal and raw material and the carrying out of manufactured products make up a tremendous freight tonnage. The railroad administration is solving gradually many problems. by the elimination of many unnecessary passenger trains several thousand engines are diverted from passenger to freight traffic, which relieves the situation materially. Also by loading the freight cars to full capacity a great saving is being accomplished. Routing freight by the most direct route and other methods adopted by the administration, are doing much to ease the strain on our transportation facilities. HOLDS COTTON CROP RECORD Shreveport, La.—Newton Smith, a Colored planter, holds the cotton crop record of the Red River valley for the past season. His '286 bales are worth $10,000. He owns 1,000 acres of cotton land and leases another 1,000 acres and employs seventy-five Colored families on his plantation. He is rated at $200,000 by the bankers of the city. THE MONITOR AMERICAN NEGRO IS TRUE PATRIOT, DECLARES MILLER Spokane, Wash.—An interested audience of approximately 1,000 people listened intently to Professor Kelly Miller of Howard university last week at Lewis and Clark high school discuss "The Patriotism of the Negro." Professor Miller came to Spokane under the auspices of the national council of defense and the bureau of public information. "As a result of this world conflict the American Negro will have accorded him the highest powers of citizenship, must be the conscientious belief of every citizen of this country," said the speaker. "The opportunity is here and the Negro will meet it squarely. "This is the Negro's land. It is the home of freedom and opportunity. None other can give him what he can receive here and in turn the American Negro is showing that he is not a slacker. Some of the best companies and regiments of soldiers in General Pershings' army are composed of Negroes." COLORED NURSES QUESTION STATUS Young Race Women, Graduates From New Orleans Training School, Demand to Know Where They Stand. New Orleans, La.—“Are we nurses or are we not?” That is the question that is agitating the minds of a number of young Negro women who recently completed a first aid course of fifty lessons under the instruction of Dr. R. J. Vining, Louise Ross and Ethel Smith, and they have asked the Times-Picayune in a communication to “find out what they are.” Miss L. Agnes Daspit, head of the nurses section of the gulf division of the Red Cross, says they are nurses' aids. They were not given diplomas as was said in the communication, but certificates as evidence they had completed the course in elementary hygiene and home care, which is authorized by the national organization of the Red Cross, and for which they were given credit. Work in dietetics and first aid was given to make them more efficient that they may relieve registered nurses of as much as possible for war service. To be a registered, trained nurse requires the completion of a three-year course in a recognized hospital or sanitarium. The same course given the race girls is being given a class at Tulane university. DISASTROUS FIRE DESTROYS RESIDENCES Longview, Tex.—A fire broke out in the northern part of the city recently, which under the pressure of heavy wind threatened to consume the entire northwest end of the city. Five Colored houses were destroyed at the point of origin and others saved only by heroic effort. A dwelling house three blocks away caught fire and was consumed while another two blocks further caught and was burned, with numerous others threatened by shingle roofs catching fire. LOOK! There she goes, scarce twenty years, And yet the bloom of youth has flown; Her pallid face is gaunt with fears, The plague's claimed her for its own. A man draws near, she lifts her head And makes essay to smile—to speak; Comes to her lips a darker red Than that which dyes her sunken cheek. Attempts to lure him with a wink; She must not lose this chance for gain, For all too nears starvation's brink. Her body sways, yet brave the smile; He hesitates, and then draws near, His gaze upon her face the while; But now her eyes ope wide with fear. He firmly grasps her by the arm; "I've caught you right, my foxy miss! I'll place you where you'll do no harm; You've oft been warned 'gains such as this." Ill, tired and weak, about to fall, A haunted look comes in her eyes. "Aw! come along and 'can' that stall! That sob stuff gets them other guys." 'Tis useless now to cry or plead; No kindly word the sick girl greets No friend to succor her in need; Open their eyes that they may see When others all have turned away; ON THE STREET FOOD CONSERVATION NOTES What Is a Calorie? Since food conservation has become a vital factor in carrying on our war against Germany, the layman has encountered in his reading the new word calorie. The word, which formerly appeared only in scientific journals, now jumps at once from the daily papers, from the magazines, agricultural and trade press. In a way, the food administration is partly responsible for the increased use of the word, and, as a result, has received letters from all parts of the country asking "What is a calorie?" Some people have gone so far as to suggest that it is the name of a new breakfast food, while in one instance, inquirer stated he had heard that it was a new type of explosive discovered by the war department and wanted to know what the food administration had to do with it. When fuel is thrown on a fire under a boiler, heat is produced. This heat is required in order that the engine may perform its work. To do work of any kind requires energy. Food use or burned in the human machine produces energy to maintain the normal heat of the body and to do its work. Work done by the body comprises not only that which requires muscular or mental exertion, but also involuntary exertion such as the beating of the heart, the expansion of the lungs, etc. The chemical process within the body which transforms our food into energy is similar in nature to the process which takes place when fuel is burned. over fire—though, in the body, the burning takes place very slowly and in every tissue, instead of in one central place. The value of the food is determined by the amount of energy it yields to the body; and it also has a building and regulating function. It was necessary that a unit be established for measuring the amount of heat produced when food was completely burned. The unit chosen or universally adopted as the unit for measuring fuel value or energy value for any kind of food is called the calorie. It represents the same principle in measuring as the inch or foot. the unit of measuring length; the pint or gallon, the unit of volume; and the ounce or pound, that of weight. The calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water $ 1^{\circ} \mathrm{C}. $ or 1 pound of water approximately $ 4^{\circ} \mathrm{F}. $ Our requirements of food, so far as the amount is concerned, can therefore be expressed in the number of calories needed for each person per day. It must not be forgotten that the calories must be derived from the proper kinds of food. SOLDIER AND SAILOR ENSUR- ANCE. Secretary McAdoo has received the following cablegram from Gen. Pershing: "All ranks of the American Expeditionary Forces appreciate deeply the generous measure the government has taken to provide insurance for their families, in proof of which more than 90 per cent of men have taken out insurance. To wisely provision for their loved ones heartens our men and strengthens the bonds that unite the army and the people in our strong determination to triumph in our most righteous cause." The Bureau of War-Risk Insurance up to June 28 has written $21,566,000,000 insurance, representing 2,570,455 applications. The average amount of insurance applied for is $8,387, and in some battalions and regiments, some in France and some here, every man has taken out insurance. In some units every man is insured for the maximum, $10,000 One of the American generals says that this government insurance is an element of victory. All Liberty bond holders and all purchasers of War Savings Stamps may feel that they had a part in this insurance—the most just and humane provision ever made by any nation for its fighting men. IMPORTANT NOTICE! Notice is here given that Mrs. Sarah Walker, 907 S street, is appointed the exclusive agent and representative of The Monitor to solicit subscriptions and advertisements and make collections in Lincoln. She is also the official correspondent and staff representative of The Monitor for Lincoln. It will be greatly appreciated if all persons who have news for this department will communicate with her. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. A SPECIAL ARTICLE We expect soon to publish a special article on Lincoln, with illustrations of some of our homes and citizens. You will hear about it later. Mrs. Lorene Dorsey, who went to Rock Island, Ill., several days ago, returned home Tuesday, July 23, bringing her mother, Mrs. Wilford, who is much improved in health, back with her. G. C. Walker was called home Saturday evening on account of the death of his father at Greenville, Miss. Lincoln News AGAIN VISITS LINCOLN Miss Mary G. Evans, the inspiring evangelist, who left such a favorable impression upon the people of Lincoln during the month of May, will be with us again to give a lecture on a "Trip to the Holy Land," at the Temple theater, Friday evening, August 2, 1918, 8:30, Admission 25 cents. We remember Miss Evans as being one of our ablest bible students. We can never forget her energetic and enthusiastic prayers, her impressive singing or how she labored so the High Brown Girls Ball last Thurswords of the blessed master to those who knew him not. So friends, let us portray our most sincere appreciation of the noblework that this conscientious woman has done for us by presenting a crowded house when she makes her appearance, Friday evening, August 2. Don't forget the date. BERGE CANDIDATE FOR STATE TREASURER Upon my second visit at the state house Tuesday afternoon I had the pleasure of securing for The Monitor two subscriptions, that of Judge Rose and Mr. Henry C. Berge. Mr. Berge, who is now democratic candidate for state treasurer, has been a resident of Nebraska for ten years. He was for two years on the state banking board under Gov. Morehead and has been deputy state treasurer since January, 1915. Mr. Berge is a lawyer by profession and a business man of wide experience. He is a brother of George W. Berge, the well-known Lincoln lawyer, who made such a brilliant campaign for governor in 1904, the year that Roosevelt carried the state by such a sweeping majority and received a wonderful vote. Mr. Berge is of a strong force of character, clean and high minded in his aims and purposes and is indeed a high class citizen. He is thoroughly conversant with the duties of state treasurer and if the voters select him to that high and responsible position in the present campaign they will place that office in capable and careful hands, with no concern for the proper conduct of the state's finances, so far as they come under the supervision of the state treasurer. MRS. SARAH WALKER. Mr. and Mrs. Frank and Joseph Pisar wealthy residents of Dorchester, Neb., and dear friends to the Burdon family, motored to Lincoln Sunday and spent the day as guests of the Misses Mary and Martha Burdon. The Pisar and Burdon families lived on adjoining farms for a number of years, the younger set having attended the same school. Mrs. Fannie Young, who attended the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, returned home from Denver, Thursday, July 18. Mary E. Dickson Tent No. 3 met with the Queen Mother, Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 1942 U street, Saturday afternoon, July 20. About ten members were present, and a very successful meeting was reported. The executive board of the N. A. A. C. P. met at the home of the president, Mrs. Clyde Malone Monday evening, July 22. The meeting was held for the purpose of making arrangements for giving a send off to the boys recently called to the colors, just before they leave for Camp Funston, which will be about the first week in August. The number to be sent from Lincoln will be forty-seven. Mrs. Grace Cisco of Beatrice is here attending summer school at the University of Nebraska. Mrs. Arthur Manlove of Olathe, Kas, accompanied by her daughter, Barbara, is visiting her mother, Mrs. E. R. Spicer, and sister, Mrs. Sylvia Thomas. The L. L. S. Kensington club entertained last Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. Eva Smith of Santiago, Cal., at the home of Mrs. Mabel Galbraith. About fifty guests were present and a very delightful time was reported. The picnic that was postponed on HOW TO LOOK YOUR BEST THE FRANCO-AMERICAN WAY Isthe Only Way Miss Flossie M. Patrick and Mae Burdon Resident Retailers and Demonstrators. Phone B 1199 account of rain by the Daughters of Bethel last Wednesday was given Monday evening July 22, at F street park. Mr. George N. Kelles of Keokuk, Ia., was in the city last week visiting his brother, Mr. G. L. Maston, after spending a few days attending the Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M. Council Bluffs, Ia. Mr. G. L. Maston gave a motor party in honor of Mr. George Kelles during his short stay here. Those participating were: Mr. and Mrs. T. T. McWilliams, Mrs. L. Allen and Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Smith. After their return a very pleasant hour was spent at the Dunbar. A reception will be given at the A. M. E. church by its members on Monday evening, July 29, in honor of the boys recently called in the draft. The public is cordially invited. The committee appointed to organize a Red Cross society was held Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Maude Gates. The committee elected the officers of the organization and decided to call their organization "The Ada Young Unit," having named it after Colonel Charles Young's wife, a very distinguished race woman. It was also decided to meet at the Masonic hall every Thursday until further arrangements are made for the purpose of doing Red Cross work. Every woman is urged to attend these meetings and do their bit toward helping win the war. Word was received by the family that the ship Mr. Frank Burdon was on arrived safely over sea. Frank is now somewhere in France. The Dunbar CAFE Good Home Cooking Ice Cream, Cigars and Soft Drinks 10th and Q Streets Galbreath & Colley, Props. C. D. ENNIS First-Class Rooming House Billard Parlor. Cigars Soft Drinks. —Barber Shop in Connection— 4221½ West Fourth. Tel. 2083 GRAND ISLAND, NEB. D. E. Nichols Tailoring Co. Dealers In LATEST FABRICS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER SUITS First-class Barber Shop In Connection LINCOLN, NEB.. 219 North Ninth St. Tel. L-8431 JOHN BAKER'S POOL and BILLIARD PARLOR Rooms and Taxi Line. 117 E. Front St. Tel. 321 GRAND ISLAND, NEB. The CHAPMAN Drug Store 934 P St., Lincoln Opposite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazine, Cigars, Candies and a full line of Druggist Sundries Mrs. M. McCOWAN All Kinds of Hair Goods, Straightening Combs, Brushes, Toilet Preparations, etc. LINCOLN, NEB. rick and Mae Burdon instrators. Phone B 1199 3 A Werkly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests of the Colored People of Nebraska and the West, with the desire to con- tribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and of the race. Published Every Saturday. ee Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1916, at the Post Office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March 3, 1879, THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Luctiie Skaggs Edwards and Willlam Garnett Haynes, Associate Editore 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 Inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. ‘Telephone Webster 4243. qa HAS DUBOIS SURRENDERED? Dp DUBOIS, editor of the Crisis, has been generally conceded to be facile princeps, easily chief of our radical leaders, as the late Booker T. Washington was conceded the same rank among the conservatives. Our own opinfon has been and is that William Munroe Trotter of the Bos- ton Guardian is the representative radical leader, dividing honors in this with Harry Smith of the Cleveland Gazette. Dr. Dubois’ unquestioned literary ability, which he has used to good advantage as editor of the Crisis and director of publications and re- search of that splendid organization, the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, has given him a recognized position of leadership. However, the country at large has learned to think of Dubois and Washington ,or since Washing- ton’s death, of Dr. Moton, as the rep- resentatives of the radical and con- servative schools of thought among Negroes. Dr. Dubois has been commissioned as a captain in the intelligence de- partment of the United States army. It is being suggested that in his re- cent editorial, “Close Ranks,” and his ‘acceptance of a commission he has surrendered to the spirit of compro- mise which characterizes the school of which he has always been the out- spoken and consistent opponent. We do not believe Dr. Dubois has surrendered his convictions. We be- lieve that he feels that he can serve his country and his race more effi- ciently at this time in the War de- partment than in the editorial chair. Of course this is a debatable question —one of those, shall we say, crises in many public men’s careers, where they are compelled to decide where they can be of most service. In facing such issues, where conscience and con- viction must guide, they differ from and sometimes part company with their dearest friends. That which seems to them clearly to be the path of duty may be other than that they would choose for themselves or most to their liking. They accept the duty as God-appointed, determined by His help to do their best. In making such decisions men are often misunder- stood and misrepresented. And granted that men may and do change their mind as to the best meth- ods of obtaining that which is near and dear their hearts, why should they be berated for that except that it is human nature to do so? We do not believe that Dubois has surrendered in his consistent and per- sistent fight against disfranchisement, Jim Crow cars and other social in- justices and disabilities which he has so ably pointed out are inconsistent with the ideals of any true democ- racy, such as ours claims to be. Of course as an army officer he cannot wage his fight in the same way that he could as the untrammelled editor of The Crisis; but the editorship of ‘The Crisis can be entrusted to other hands as capable as those of Dr. Du- bois. LIKE PUNISHMENT FOR LIKE CRIMES Ree three Colored soldiers were hanged at Des Moines for assaulting a white girl. The punish- ment meted out to them was just. There was, however, the feeling on the part of many of our race that if the case had been reversed and a Col- ored girl had been the vietim of thé lust of white soldiers the same pen- alty would not have been inflicted. It is unfortunate that in our country, particularly in one section of it, crim- inal prosecution has been such as to justify this feeling. Crimes against ‘our women, committed by men of the other race, have been and are treated with too much leniency. All woman- hood should be equally respected and equally protected. While this is not true in certain sections of the coun- try, it is gratifying to note that the national government is taking this view of the case. The entire country must eventually take the same posi- tion. ‘A white soldier by the name of Nat Hoffman was hanged at Camp Arthur a few days ago for assaulting a Col- ored schoolgirl last April near Waco, Texas. That a white soldier should be hanged in Texas for this crime is most significant. It shows that the government is determined to infliet like punishment for like crimes upon all American soldiers, This is as it should be. There should be no dis- tinction made between men proven guilty of crime because of race, color or creed. MRS. TALBERT'S RE-ELECTION pee National Association of Col- ored Women which held such an inspiring convention in Denver re- cently is to be congratulated upon its unanimous re-election of Mrs. Mary B. Talbert as national presi- dent. Her efficient administration during her term of office deserved this recognition and indorsement. With the enlarged work outlined by this splendid organization it would be difficult to find among the many capable women of our race—and with such, thank God, we are richiy en- dowed—one who will address her- self to the great task in hand with greater zeal, consecration, _intelli- gence and efficiency than Mary B. Talbert. The Association has selected a splendid corps of capable and force- ful women as its officers. We wish the \association evgry success, and as we said some months ago in our editorial captioned “Hats Off to the Women,” we repeat that when an or- ganization of 100,000 women make up their minds to do anything you can depend upon their doing it. Two of the chief tasks this asso- ciation has set before it are stamp- ing out lynching by federal author- ity, since the states have shown themselves either incapable or or un- willing to do so; and the cleaning up and cleaning out of the dirty, damn- able robbing Jim Crow car system. And mark this prophecy: Lynching and Jim Crow cars are going and going soon. WIN FIGHT FOR RED CROSS NURSES The committee on public informa- tion has just reelased for publica- tion the pleasing information, pub- lished elsewhere in this issue, that Colored Red Cross nurses are at last to be employed in army camps. It has taken a united and determined fight, incredible as it may seem, to win this victory. When the Colored press of the coun- try called attention to the fact that either the Red Cross authorities or the government were discriminating against the employment of Colored nurses despite . their unquestioned qualifications, the white press of the country, north and south, be it said to their credit, united in the demand that this discrimination, whoever might be responsible for it, cease. When one’s cause is just, he must not grow faint-hearted or weary in pressing it, while at the same time doing his full duty in meeting every demand made upon him. Our people everywhere, as It was their bounden duty, subscribed generously towards ‘the Red Cross, despite its non-em- ployment of our physicians and nurses and at last their fidelity is rewarded. So will it be in other matters. Let us not waver one moment in loyal support of the government; while being respectfully insistent upon opportunities for giving the same ser- vice in every line of activity which is afforded other American citizens. We want to have the privilege of serving in the army and navy, the marine corps, Red Cross units and wherever there is need of loyal and devoted service, and we can meet the pequirententas HEAR MISS OVINGTON We desire to urge upon all our Omaha readers to hear Miss Mary White Ovington at the Grove Metho- dist church, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. We hope all will come pre- pared to become members of the Na- tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People of which she is one of the vice presidents and act- ing chairman of the board of direc- tors during Major Joel B. Spingarn's absence in the army. WHY NOT, MR. PRESIDENT? Dear Mr. President: If Lieutenant Colonel Young can ride from Xenia, Ohio, to Washington, D. C., a dis- tance of 500 miles, why not let him take the pleasure trip a horseback from Soissons to Berlin as leader of our dashing Colored troops, who have already started with their valiant companions in arms towards that im- perial city? THE MONITOR JIM CROW CARS MUST GO Jim Crow cars must go now; not after the war. They are unjust, in- iquitous and wrong. The government controls the railroads. The govern- ment has shown a disposition to be fair in other matters and it must and will be fair in this. Jim Crow cars waias eae August 1, that’s next Thursday, we are advised that more than 200 of our boys will entrain for Camp Funston en route to Berlin. Let us send them off with a hearty godspeed. When are we going to have those officers appointed to the fire de- partment, Mr, Zimman? SKITS OF SOLOMON The finest weather to catch cold is just now. During the day the tem- perature represents a small sample of Satan’s abode and at night one di- vests himself of all raiment, raises all the windows and throws himself across the bed for a real cool snooze. Long about two bells on the dog watch the thermometer takes a tumble and hunts for the bottom of the glass. You don’t notice it, You sleep like a year old babe and enjoy it, but when you awaken your pipes are ail clogged up and you start snuffing like a ante- deluvian auto trying to climb a steep hill, Sometimes it catches you in the eyes, sometimes in the lungs and sometimes in the throat, but where ever it lights you stand around and keep wondering where in the world you added this creme de luxe sample of summer colds to your traveling kit. And talk about tenacity? A summer cold has more tenacity than an English bull dog wrestling with a beef bone. Somehow it seems that the dog understands the food regula- tions and a beef bone comes so sel- dom that when it does come you might as well try to pry the Russians loose from anarchism as to part dog and desire. And that is just how a sum- mer cold sticks by you. If a friend would stick lialf as close a6 & summer The Children of the Sun In my last article 1 tried to definite- ly place the position of Greece among ‘the nations of Afriean ancestry and ‘believe that all future evidence will but confirm and further fortify the ‘position of such scholars as Mr, As- quith and Sir Arthur Evans, who have given the students of Europe to un- ‘derstand that the ancient Grecians ‘were a brown skin race. Can you for a moment realize what this admis- sion means for us? Greece, the great- est nation that ever lived, the people who brought to the very highest pitch every real amenity of civilization, be- longed to the African race! Count every admission that has been forced from the white race during the last 30 years and none can be greater than this, ‘They maintained that every na- tion that had contributed greatly to the civilization of the world was white and least of all did they ever expect any testimony to show against ‘this conception in relation to Greece. One by one the nations have crept into the African column and today it may be asserted with almost abso- lute fact that every great nation of the past was not white, but black, Go now read your Grecian his- tory over again. Read Homer and Aeschylus and Euripides. Picture Helen as a teasing brown, Achilles us a swarthy giant and Agamemnon, 'who was a member of the black line, an imposing picture of royalty. Read the Suppliants and Prometheus Bound and see how the legends of Africa are woven in with the legends of Eu rope. Time and again men have won- dered at the close relations between them, but none dared to speak in the black’s defense. It took strong hearts and sharp spades to unearth remain after remain and fling them at the ‘feet of the world, before it would con- ‘cede that Greece was a sister to | Beyet in blood. ‘The elementary races of Italy were | also African. They, too, belonged to ‘the Mediterranean family. Prof. 'Sergi has proven with a wealth of evidence that if ever the Aryans did ‘invade Italy, they were only tempor- “ary residents and never succeeded ‘in eliminating the African civilization which they found established there Jean Finot, the well known French savant and scientific scholar, si#ys in his work on “Race Prejudice,” “not to speak of the prehistoric and there- fore doubtful peoples, we see Italy at the dawn of the period accessible to science, two great branches of the African peoples, viz., the Libumi and the Sicani.” The Pelasgians were there also und, according to Virgil, one of their tribes occupied the Palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, ‘The seem- ingly greatest of all early Italians were the Etruseans. Who were they? OUR DRAFTEES Summer Colds. cold, people wouldn't say that the only place you can find a friend is in the dictionary. Another thing, a summer cold needs watching. Don’t let it try any fancy didoes with vari- ous portions of your internal anat- omy. Head it off with castor oil, turpentine, New Orleans molasses, or any other kind of junk that will make a sumer cold’s life miserable, De- clare war upon it just as the U. S. de- clared war on the kaiser and don't stop until it is annihilated. THE AUGUST CRISIS The cover of the August Crisis is a portrait of “Ethiopia” in the Tren- ton, N. J., School Pageant. Captain ‘A. B. Spingarn, of the Sanitary Corps of the National Army, writes on “The Health and Morals of Colored Troops” and Dr. Du Bois discusses “A Phil- osophy in Time of War,” “Food,” “The Greater Crisis” and “Tillman.” The National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored people has a further report of its Moorfield Storey Drive and of the travels of its secretaries. There are pictures of more graduates, Colored marchers in Red Cross parades, and the musical festival in Chicago. John L. Hatri- son's stirring story, “A Chance to Make Good” and a poem by Lucian 1. Watkins, “Star of Ethiopia,” com- plete a very interesting number, Under Men of the Month are feat- ured the late Mrs. C. P. Woolley, a white social worker of Chicago; Mrs. A. B, Thomas, superintendent of nurses at Lincoln Hospital, New York; the late Mrs. S. E. Phillips, wife of Archdeacon Phillips, of Philadelphia; Dr. J W. E. Bowen, of the M. E. church; the late Mr. W. H. Bishop, of the Internal Revenue Service in Baltimore; E. C, Brown, of Philadel- phia, a Colored banker and business man; and Dr. J. S. Durkee, the new president of Howard University. CHARTER FOR POST GRADUATE SCHOOL Chicago.—Provident hospital re- cently took out a charter for a post- graduate medical school for Negro doctors, We know that they were a civilized people long before the rise of the Romans, that they developed a great commerce on sea and land, and that in the employment of their resultant riches they showed marked taste und refinement, bringing the influences of art to bear upon the formation of @ society already well versed in the principles of religion, government, and education generally. But again the question, who were they? Brinton says they were Africans, Lefevre calls attention to their art where their Af- rican features are plainly visible, and last but not least, Sergi places them with the African family of races which established theiselves through- out the great basin of the Mediter- ranean. The Etruscans were the forerunners of Rome. No tibute jis necessary to Rome. We all know ‘what she was and what she did for the world. She repre- sented the more material aspects of civilization as secured through mili- tary power. Her legal system was [an institution of wonder and formed ‘the basis of Anglo-Saxon law; her ‘national organization was a creation of political genius. “The two classic civilizations,” says Sergi, “were not pee but Mediterranean. The Ary- ans were savages when they invaded Europe, they destroyed in part the superior civilization of the Neolithic populations and could not have ere- ated the Graeco-Latin civilization.” And so it is all but an unfolding of the story of human striving. Tho rhyme goes backward from Rome to Greece, from Greece to Asia, from Asia to Egypt and from Egypt to Ethiopia, Here it seems lost in the mystic maze of the beginning, but there are those who every day are bringing forth proof after proof that the blackskinned, wooly haired races of Africa were the first to discover the seeds of civilization and the first to nourish them and pass them on to the world. | And it is 4 sad commentary upon the alleged superiority of the Aryan that when they overran Italy and de- stroyed the Roman civilization, the whole of Europe sank into the dark- ness of ignorance and barbarism. If mental superiority had been innate with this race, then why did they not make the Roman civilization theirs and build one greater instead of de- stroying it? They have ever been ‘ race of destroyers instead of a race of creators and the vandals turned loose upon Europe today are the same vandals turned loose upon the Rome of yesterday. In their defense noth- ing can be said. For us we should remember one slogan always: “Hail, ‘Africa, All Hail! Mother and Protee- ‘tor of Civilization!” ne Crown Prince of Germany is being driven back towards Berlin by the valiant fighting of thousands of uncrowned princes from America, who know their country stands unitedly behind them and our brave allies. Buy War Savings Stamps Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. We Are Contractors, Notary Public REAL ESTATE AND RENTALS We Sell, Rent, Build and Repair If you wish to buy a home or investment property, we feel we can save you money on your investment. OUR MOTTO WILL BE: To get better houses, to rent as well as sales. To the worthy class of people. All repairing and painting at low prices. If you wish better home, to buy or rent call us. List your houses, for sale or rent, with us, for quick results. 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Money must accompanyallorders, Sa] A tents wanted—Write for particulars. re % 1] Wecarry everything inthe latest fashion- ke ®, able hair goods at the lowest prices. he hte ak We make switches, puffs, tranaforma- aes pe Gon corls, cornet bralda wad eocabicge be BA. | made to order, matching all shades oe specialty. Send samples of hair with Ling Ee allorders. va 2416 Blondo St., Omaha, Neb. Telephone Webster 880 e ie A Church Where id / i All Are Welcome aay. B oa. Services NWR. Tm Ee ey Sunday School, 10 a, m. Neer TS om Ek Preaching, 11a. m., 8 p. m. Uap re ty ae ‘ League, 6:30 p, m. kK ¥ des Ay iY ee ne s P. Leavitt Club, Mon- 1k Zoe nnn, 8 afternoon oe = Toma | Prayer Meeting, Wednesday oa, ay 8 Evening. . — W. H. M.S. Thursday Afternoon GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Mee an ae 22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. Res, 1628 N. ‘2ond. Web. 5003 Avoid the Perils of Malaria Poison If you have germs of malaria in your system you are in peril. Heed all such warning as chills, sudden fevers, headaches, lassitude, ete. Such symptoms indicate that the germs are getting the upper hand and are destroying your blood’s life principle. Take : Smith’s Anti-Bilious Physic It willeliminate the poisonous germs and speedily restore vitality. Now is a good time to take this remedy. Take it now and avoid the serious results which may come from delay. PRICE 25 CENTS. FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE Anti-Bilious Medicine Go. BOX 1069, HOUSTON, TEXAS H t | C . 1916 CUMING STREET | 0 e uming Comfortable Rooms—-Reasonable Rates Douglas 2466 D. G. Russell, Proprietor | English Women guaranteeing next Year's Food Supply KENT COUNTY WOMEN PLoughing WITH TRESTORS STEP LIVEL And Lead Us to the Joy Girls' Park At Bohemian Park, 2220 South 11 Given by the Beautiful Girls of O Council Blu THAT MEANS Music by Perkins' O F. J. Terry, Director. Prof Get a Sick and Accident Pol That Is On the VELLY BOYS Day Girls' Picnic Emancipation Day 20 South 13th St., Monday, Aug. 5 Girls of Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs. MEANS YOU. Perkins' Orchestra. Prof. Jeffries, Floor Manager Student Policy With a Company On the Square! STEP LIVELY BOYS And Lead Us to the Joy Girls' Picnic Emancipation Day At Bohemian Park, 2220 South 13th St., Monday, Aug. 5 Given by the Beautiful Girls of Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs. Get a Sick and Accident Policy With a Company That Is On the Square! A man is falling off a train. A man is giving a ticket to a woman. DON'T DELAY. to the adjustment of all claims. LLS PARKER, Agent Phone Harney 5737. 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. We will be in our new location abo dette streets, where we will have plenty sanitary and up-to-date with all mod stands on its merits for what is right. A first class place, up-to-date method No pool hall in connection with my bu ladies as well as gentlemen, with due young boys as well. The Colored people and we must meet their demands. The deilver. I have it for you, so come. I I have all guaranteed salary barber all round workmen. We will try to tre ocation about August 5 at 24th and Bur- have plenty of room. Everything strictly with all modern conveniences. My shop at is right, and what the people demand. rate methods, with latest improvements. with my business. My shop is open to n, with due courtesy and respect to all colored people are growing and improving bands. They want the best and we must so come. I solicit your patronage. alary barbers, first class hair cutters and I try to treat our patrons with due cour- We will be in our new location about August 5 at 24th and Burdette streets, where we will have plenty of room. Everything strictly sanitary and up-to-date with all modern conveniences. My shop stands on its merits for what is right, and what the people demand. A first class place, up-to-date methods, with latest improvements. No pool hall in connection with my business. My shop is open to ladies as well as gentlemen, with due courtesy and respect to all young boys as well. The Colored people are growing and improving and we must meet their demands. They want the best and we must deilver. I have it for you, so come. I solicit your patronage. I have all guaranteed salary barbers, first class hair cutters and all round workmen. We will try to treat our patrons with due courtesy. Drop in and look the bunch over in the old stand of Mrs. S. R. Jackson's cafe, 24th and Burdette streets. WOMAN GIVEN DAMAGES AGAINST RAILROAD Washington, D. C.-Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman, one of the best known and most successful of our business women in this city, won a notable victory against the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway Company, recently, obtaining damages against the line for attempting to "Jim Crow" her. TILLMAN Dr. Du Bois says in the August Crisis: It can hardly be expected that any Negro would regret the death of Benjamin L. Tillman, senator from South Carolina. His attacks on our race have been too unbridled and outrageous for that. And yet it is our duty to understand this man in relation to his time. He represented the rebound of the unlettered white proletarist of the south from the oppression of slavery to new industrial and political freedom. The visible sign of their former degradation was the Negro. They kicked him because he was kickable and stood for what they hated; but they must as they grow in knowledge and power come to realize that the Negro far from being the cause of their former suffering was but a 933 North 27th Street. Omaha's Most Successful Barber. co-sufferer with them. Some day a greater than Tillman, Blease and Vardaman will rise in the south to lead the white laborers and small farmer, and he will greet the Negro as a friend and helper and build with him and not on him. This leader is not yet come, but the death of Tillman foretells his coming and the real enfranchisement of the Negro will herald his birth. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED AND STILL A WORKER Alliance, O.—Among the southern Negroes who have recently come here is "Sandy" Thomas, ninety-six years old. He has two sons also working in this city, one aged 49, and the other 52. They came here from North Carolina. MARYLAND COUNCILMAN IS RE-ELECTEE Cambridge, Md.—City Councilman H. M. St. Clair has been re-elected for the ensuing term. He was unopposed. He is one of the best known men in the state, and is grand master of exchequer of the Maryland Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias. Smoke John Ruskin 5e Cigar. Biggest and Best.—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. MAY FILE FOR PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON'S JOB Monitor Editor Unwilling to Break Charm of Political Witchery Which Has Been Cast Upon Editors of Influential Weeklies Printed at the Waters-Barnhart Well Equipped Plant. The Waters-Barnhart Printing company, which by the way has just moved into commodious new quarters at 412-414 South Thirteenth street, has established an enviable reputation for getting out high class publications of all kinds, and especially weekly newspapers. Of these influential weeklies they began with The Monitor. So classy was this publication that the Mediator, the Omaha Nebraskan and the Jewish Bulletin, with commendable judgment and good taste followed The Monitor's example—we lead, you know, others follow, and selected the same up-to-date printers for their publications. Altogether the whole bunch, printers, press gang, office force, etc., and the editors, ahem, are a pretty congenial bunch. But recently political witchery has cast a spell over the editors who print at Waters-Barnhart print shop. Ed Huntley of the "I make-them-sit-up and take-notice" Mediator, has just filed for state representative on the democratic ticket, and here's wishing you success, Ed, and promising you our vote after the primaries. Ike Knoecky of the hustling, well edited, but widely cussed Jewish Bulletin, has filed for state senator on the same ticket. Here's wishing you success, too, Ike, and promising you ditto as in the case of Ed Huntley. Richard L. (Dick) Metcalfe, of der rous mit dem German language press, Omaha Nebraskan, has filed for United States senator on the same ticket. Here's success to you, Dick, and the same pledge for post primary support as we have given Ed and Ike. Being unwilling to be unusciable or to break the charm of this political spell, the editor of The Monitor has about decided to come in with you, boys, and file for the nomination for the president of the United States on the democratic ticket and relieve Woodrow Wilson of his big job. The Business World Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. TERRELL'S DRUG STORE Graduate Pharmacist Prompt Delivery Excellent Services Webster 4443 24th and Grant DR. CRAIG MORRIS DENTIST 2407 Lake St. Phone Web. 4024 PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS JONES @ CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Web. 1100 and Web. 204 Licensed Embalmer. AUGUST ANDERSON GROCERIES AND FRUITS Good Goods—Fair Prices Webster 2274 24th and Clark. 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. Pinksto Teacher of Pianoforte, Harmony, Solfeggio Webster 2814 Boston Studio 2214 No. 28th Ave. Omaha. J. P. PALMER, Republican Candidate for County Attorney. HEADS A SANITARIUM Charleston, W. Va.—Dr. B. A. Crichlow, a well known local physician, has been appointed by Gov. Cornwell to the superintendency of the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Densmar, Pocahontas county this state. YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICA Cape Town, South Africa—The white women of South Africa have responded to an appeal of the Colored women and opened the Y. W. C. A. centers for them in Cape Town. Similar branches are contemplated in four other cities. HOLSUM AND KLEEN MAID Why Buy Inferior When The Best COSTS NO MORE? JAY BURNS BAKING CO. Want to Buy or Rent a House? Then Get in Touch With A. J. DAVIS & CO. Real Estate and Rentals 220 South 13th St. Doug. 7150. Res. Web. 839. PORO HAIR CULTURE We treat the scalp and grow the hair. Manicuring and massage. HATTIE B. HILL, Proprietor 2020 North 26th St. Phone Webster 3390. The E. L. Garage General repairing, storage and accessories. All work guaranteed. Open Day and Night. Tel. Webster 630. Mrs. R. F. Bolden Liberty Drug Co. EVERYBODY'S DRUG STORE B. Robinson, Manager 1904 No. 24th St. Webster 386 Omaha, Neb. Work called for and delivered All Work Guaranteed J. H. HOLMES Gent's Suits to Order Ladies' and Gents' Suits Remodeled, Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. We loan money on clothing, hats and shoes. 2022 N. 24th St. Web. 3320 PORO Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Phone Webster 3003. 2307 North 27th St. The Fashion Center for Women Garden Hotel On Sixteenth Street at Cuming. LITED ROOMS—HOT AND GOLD RUNNING WATER y for One.....50c, 75c. y for Two.....$1.00, $1.25. week.....$2.00 to CHARLOR IN CONNECTION FOR GENTLEMEN EASY WALKING DISTANCE TO HEART OF CITY 6332. Charles H. Warden, Pro BUY THRIFT STAMPS First Class Hand Laundry Warden Hotel STEAM HEATED ROOMS—HOT AND COLD RUNNING WATER—BATHS By Day for One.....50c. 75c. $1.00 By Day for Two.....$1.00, $1.25, $1.50 By Week.....$2.00 to $4.50 BILLIARD PARLOR IN CONNECTION FOR GENTLEMEN WHO CARE EASY WALKING DISTANCE TO HEART OF CITY Douglas 6332. Charles H. Warden, Proprietor. BUY THRIFT STAMPS First Class Hand Laundry 24th St. Tel. Webster 109 at the Washington M Sanitary and Up-to-Date Market in the Visit Our Branch at the McCrory 5c a Store in the Basement. Washington Mark Trade at the Washington Market The Most Sanitary and Up-to-Date Market in the Middle West. Visit Our Branch at the McCrory 5c and 10c Store in the Basement. Douglas 7812. C. H. Singlet DENTIST Hours M. 1 to 6 P. M. 109 S. Fourteenth Omaha, MORROW'S AND LAUNDRY Work Guaranteed. First Class Colored THES CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. 25th and Gr. MARSHALL & B. RELIABLE TAILORS TAILS MADE TO ORDER FOR $18.00 AND the arts of repairing and remaking. Our unexcelled. Our assistant manager, Mr. Hart, returned from Western University, is re- rent service in our shop. 103 So. 14th St., O ETERN INDEMNITY COMPANY Incorporated PROTECTION FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY company issues policy contracts from age s to sixty-five years. PROTECTION THAT PROTECTS INSURANCE THAT INSURES THE INSU 314 Baird Building, Omaha, Neb. Further information call Douglas 1733. 1412 2506 NORT Office Douglas 7812. Dr. C. H. Singleton Office Hours 109 S. Fourteenth St., 9 to 12 A.M. 1 to 6 P.M. Omaha, Nebraska First Class Work Guaranteed. 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, Neb. 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. 1. Trimmed Hats 2. Brown Colonial Pumps, $5 value for 3. Canvas, high top, high back, wool shoes, $8 value 4. Chic Shoes, high top, high back, $2.12 for $2.65, size 12-2 for 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. Zips and styles, just arrived. Special Sale. Millinery Sale, Trimmed Hats.....$1.75 Women's Dark Brown Colonial Pumps, $5 value for.....$2.85 Women's White Canvas, high to low Goodyear well shoes, $5 value for.....$4.95 Buster Brown Children's Shoes, size 8 2-12 for $2.65, size 12-2 for.....$2.85 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 Hotel running. RUNNING WATER—BATHS ...50c, 75c, $1.00 ...$1.00, $1.25, $1.50 ...$2.00 to $4.50 GENTLEMEN WHO CARE CART OF CITY Warden, Proprietor. FINISHED AND ROUGH DRIED All Work Guaranteed Bingham Market Market in the Middle Crory 5c and 10c ent. Market SEET Bingham Fourteenth St., Omaha, Nebraska W'S LANDRY Mass Colored Laundry. DELIVERED. 25th and Grant Streets. & LEE MORS $18.00 AND UP making. Our dyeing and merger, Mr. Harold Bentley, University, is rendering his do. 14th St., Omaha, Neb. MY COMPANY TIRE FAMILY from age six months PROTECTS THE INSURED Omaha, Neb. Anglas 1733. 2506 NORTH 24TH ST. OSBORNE # The Sts. ... $1.75 for ... $2.85 shoes, $8 value for ... $4.85 65, size 12-2 for ... $2.85 ... $5.50 values for ... $5.95 value for ... $4.75 Birch Shirts ... 98c 1 Sale. West Side, 24th and Lake Sts. --- Established 1886 1407 DOUGLAS STREET 5 Painless Extraction 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 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. MADAME HENDERSON HAIRDRESSER and MANICURIST Agent for the Celebrated Madame Walker Preparations. The Walker Method Taught. Diplomas Granted. Phone Webster 1489 2304 N. 25th St. Omaha, Neb. Stop and Read Miss Dollie Crawford The Story of a Girl The Poro Hair Culturist Will positively grow the Hair, regardless of condition of Hair or Scalp. Real Poro Treatment is all you need. Poro System Taught. She also makes all kinds of Crocheting and Tatting. Work for sale. For information PhoneWebster 1332. See Her at 3333 Emmett St. 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 "PORO" HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs Amelia Turrillo Malone ST LOUIS, MISSOURI FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, ITCHING SCALP, GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY, COLOR AND ABUNDANT GROWTH THIS STYLE OF BOY ADOPTED ONLY WITH NET WT. 2 CENTS PRICE 50 CENTS Try our scientific method of treating the scalp. We positively grow half or money by vacuuming. Electric massage for scalp and face. System taught. Sterilized equipment. Steam heated booths. All work private. MRS. ANNA EVANS JONES 1516 North 24th St. Webster 5450 Harney 5100 TEXAS 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. Events and Persons Mrs. Othello Rountree, Mrs. P. A. Bell and Mm. Snell will make a pleasant evening for you at the Joy Girl's picnic, August 5, at Bohemian park, 2220 South 13th. Soft drinks will be served by Miss Radell Green; lady ushers, Miss Beatrice Shelton, Miss Marguarita White, Miss Oval Watkins. If the collector does not get around to you promptly mail in your subscription by check or money order. You must pay your subscription if you want The Monitor, that's the ruling of the postal authorities. You can't beat our creole belles. Watch them at Bohemian park, August 5. Prof. Jeffries has two new dances you can dance them until 1 a. m. while Perkins' orchestra plays the Jogo Blues, at Bohemian park, August 5. The Alamo barber shop was fortunate enough to add to its staff Mr. C. R. Lewis, formerly license inspector for the barbers in Kansas City. The Alamo barber shop can boast of having the best barbers in the city. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board. 1516 North 16th St. Tel. Web. 4983. Mrs. Sarah Kirbey, who arrived from Highmore, S. D., June 30, for a three-week's visit with Omaha friends, has gone to Texarkana, Tex., to visit her father. Mrs. Artie Edwards was called to Des Moines Tuesday by the illness of her grandmother. See Ginger Crab Tree and Majestic Mogul for membership in the third degree.—Adv. There will be services at 2609 Franklin street Sunday at which time a new Baptist church will be organized by Dr. Robinson under the pastorship of the Rev. W. F. Franklin, formerly of Brewtown, Ala. The Junior Rosebud club met with Mrs. Anna Lee Thursday of last week and this week Tuesday with the president, Miss Marjorie Weston, 2528 Burdette street. Come out and hear "The Negro No Slacker" program at St. John's A. M. E. church, August 4, at 4 p. m. Refreshments will be served. Given by the Allen Endeavor League. Mrs. Hines, president; Mrs. McClure, secretary. Mrs. Franklin, wife of the Rev. W. F. Franklin, of Burton, Ala., is a student at the Jones Poro College. Mrs. Ethel Murray won the pig at the High Brow Girls Ball last Thursday night. Mrs. P. H. Jenkins has finished the course at the Poro College and is ready for her patrons at her home. Mr. and Mfs. Earl Williams of Lincoln, arrived in Omaha last week. Mr. Williams is employed by the Oldsmobile people who have recently transferred headquarters there. Mrs. J. S. Craig of Hastings is visiting her neice, Mrs. Mary Austin of 1629 North 22nd St. Send your petition in to Hoodlum-Doodlum for membership to the third degree.—Adv. Word was received from Mr. John L. Davenport, son of Mrs. Corina Mitchell, of 1115 North 21st street, that he had arrived safely overseas. Mr. and Mrs. J. S.Lacour on Maple street, entertained Mr. Wm. Haynes and Mr. Bert Patrick at 6 o'clock dinner last Tuesday evening. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. W. Harvell. Webster 4760. The Woman's Auxiliary of the church of St. Philip the Deacon will meet at the rectory Thursday afternoon, August 1. All members are urged to be present. Mrs. J. M. Goff is quite ill at St. Joseph's hospital. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board. 1516 North 16th. Tel. Webster 4983. George Goff won the honorary flag for the nearest tent at inspection of the Scouts at Camp West, Decatur, Neb, on visitors day, Sunday, July 14. Taxi. Call J. D. Lewis. Prices $2 to $3.00 an hour. Stand Web, 3499. Residence, Web. 949.—Adv. AT HYMEN'S ALTAR Mr. Anderson Knight, recently of Florida, and Miss Josie B. Lee of Yazoo City, Miss., were united in marriage Wednesday, July 24, at 6:30 o'clock at the residence of Rev. G. Logan, 1628 North 22nd St. The young couple left at 8:05 p. m. of the same evening for Minneapolis, where Mr. Knight is employed in a place of trust and honor at a splendid salary. Rev. Griffin G. Logan performed the ceremony. Mr. Frank Hughes and Miss Ottie Edmondson, recently of Guthrie, Okla., were united in marriage Sunday evening, July 21, at 4 o'clock in Florence, Neb., at the home of Mr. Ambrose Allen, an uncle of the bride. Immediate relatives and a few friends witnessed the ceremony. Rev. Griffin G. Logan officiated. THE MONITOR The Rev. Dr. J. Francis Robinson of Chicago, Field Secretary of the National Baptist Convention, Spends Several Days in City. The Rev. Dr. J. Francis Robinson of Chicago, field secretary of the National Baptist Convention, is spending several days here as the guest of the Rev. John Costello, pastor of Pleasant Green Baptist church. Dr. Robinson spoke several times while in the city. Sunday morning and evening he preached at Pleasant Green and Sunday afternoon, by the courtesy of the Rev. Dr. Logan, pastor of Grove M. E. church, who, with his wonted generosity, offered the use of his church to the Baptists for that service in that edifice. Monday night in Grove church Dr. Robinson, who has been chosen as one of the speakers on the war aims of the government, delivered a patriotic lecture. At this meeting the Rev. W. F. Franklin presided. GROVE M. E. CHURCH PICNIC Epworth League will give a picnic at Elmwood Park July 31st. Refreshments and everything good to eat will be served. Everyone who wishes to go meet at the church, 22nd and Seward, 10:30 a. m. and autos will take you to the park for five cents. CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHAPTER RED CROSS HAVE PICNIC A large number attended a delightful picnic given at Elmwood park last Thursday afternoon by the Crispus Attucks chapter of the Red Cross. The chapter meets every Tuesday afternoon at the N. W. C. A. home on Pinkney street and workers are always welcome. We desire to thank our many friends for their kindness to us during the illness and death of our loving mother and sister, and also for the beautiful floral offerings. MRS. WM. ROULETTE. MRS. D. E. MANN. The grand session of the Knights and Doughters of Tabor held their session in Topeka from July 9th to 12th. The delegates who attended from here are: Mrs. Proctor, Queen Mother. Mrs. Eva Brown, Queen Mother. Mrs. J. Sellars, High Preceptress. Mrs. L. Rountree, High Preceptress. Mr. A. M. Harrold, Chief Grand Mentor. Dr. Gordon, Chief Grand Mentor. W. M. Jackson, Past Chief Grand Mentor. Mr. Lewis, Chief Grand Mentor. Mrs. E. O. Golden, Visitor. Mrs. Dr. Gordon, Visitor. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Nuby desire to express their grateful thanks to their many friends for their kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of their beloved daughter, Melsie. MISS MARY WHITE OVINGTON TO SPEAK IN OMAHA Vice President of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People Will Come to City for Organization July 28. Miss Mary White Owington, of New York, one of the vice presidents and organizers of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, will arrive in Omaha July 27, and will speak at a mass meeting in the Grove Methodist Episcopal church, Sunday afternoon, July 28, at 4 o'clock on "The Aims and Work of the N. A. A. C. P." It is also proposed to organize at this meeting a local branch of this splendid organization which is doing such effective work throughout the country. There are several in Omaha who are members of the National organization, but a local branch has never been organized here. In this respect Omaha lags behind Lincoln. Des Moines, St. Paul and several other cities. Miss Ovington's self-sacrificing work for our people should guarantee her a crowded house. Bear the date in mind. Let nothing keep you away. Tell your friends, white and Colored. about this meeting. Talk it up. Get busy on your phone and crowd Grove church, Twenty-second and Seward streets, to overflowing, Sunday afternoon, July 28. 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. CARD OF THANKS CARD OF THANKS ALBERT W. JEFFERIS FOR CONGRESS Be sure to interest your friends in Albert W. Jefferis, who is a candi- [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. date for the republican nomination for congress. Mr. Jefferis is the kind of a man who is needed in congress in times like these. He is a big man in the best sense of the term, able to give his best to big problems. MRS. IRVING GRAY CALLED BY DEATH A Prominent Church and Social Worker Answers Summons—Mourned by Many—Body Taken to Louisville, Ky., for Burial. Sorrow, sincere and deep, filled the hearts of many when it was learned that Louise Hudson, the beloved wife of Irving Gray, of 2610 Seward street, and headwaiter at the Hotel Loyal, had died at the Swedish Mission hospital Sunday night, where she underwent an operation Wednesday afternoon. So serious was her condition when she was taken to the hospital that the outcome was considered doubtful. Hopes for her recovery were, however, entertained until late Sunday afternoon, when the turn for the worse came. Her husband and sister, Mrs. Gully, and her pastor were summoned to her bedside and the commendatory prayers of her church were said for the passing Christian soul. She passed away shortly after 9 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Gray came to Omaha about ten years ago, not long after their marriage. Always considerate and kind-hearted Mrs. Gray won many hearts by her devoted work of relief among all classes following the awful tornado of 1913. She worked night and day, with entire self-forgetfulness to relieve those in distress. Her devotion at that time was but doing on a large scale that which in a small and unostentatious way was characteristic of her during her residence in Omaha. Her good deeds were not of a trumpet blowing kind, but of the nature which are written in the book of remembrance. Her activities in church work are evidenced by the fact that until other duties forbade she taught in the Sunday school, served as president of the Woman's auxiliary, and at the time of her death was a member of the mission committee or vestry of the Church of St. Philip the Deacon, from which church the services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. John Albert Williams officiating. A large congregation of both races was present, and many floral offerings testified the high regard in which the deceased was held. The pallbearers were Messrs. A. Chisley, J. Ennis, C. C. Galloway, J. G. Jewell, S. L. Patton and George Watson. The body, accompanied by Mr. Gray and Mrs. Gully was taken to Louisville, Ky., for burial. Mrs. Gray, who was 37 years old, is survived by her husband, her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hudson of Louisville, Ky.; one sister, Mrs. E. D. Gully of Chicago, and two brothers who are in the army. SOUTH AFRICAN, OMAHA VISITOR CALLED TO COLORS Rev. M. G. Sishuba, missionary and a native of Queenstown South Africa and a student of Roger Williams university, Nashville, Tenn., who has been in this city for three weeks visiting his schoolmate, Mr. Leroy Kelley, addressed a large audience last Sundaynight at Zion Baptist church, of which Rev. W. F. Botts is the pastor. He has recently been called by the British government to report for physical examination. He is a British subject, being born and reared in the southern part of Africa and came to the United States six years ago to be trained and educated in American schools in order that he might teach his people and lead them to Christ, which he found dear to his own soul. He has made rapid improvement while here in America. He left Tuesday for British headquarters in Chicago, Ill., where he will be examined and from there to training camp in Canada. A store that appreciates your patronage Exclusive Ladies Outfitters A. P. PALMER Republican Candidate For County Attorney man, regardless of his standing or condition square deal; and the laws shall be thorough without persecution of anyone. CHARLES UNIT Candidate for Republican Nmination for County Commissioner Fifth Commissioner District Solicits Your Vote Resident of the District for 37 Years. nise if elected an honest, efficient, economical a e affairs of the county. I favor the building of heads and bridges, and keeping them in good repair. A. F. PEOPLES Painting, Paperhanging and Decorating. Les Furnished Free. All Work Gu skine Street. Phone Waln J. P. PALMER Every man, regardless of his standing or condition, must have a square deal; and the laws shall be thoroughly enforced, without persecution of anyone. CHARLES UNITT County Commissioner Fifth Commissioner District Solicits Your Vote Resident of the District for 37 Years. I promise if elected an honest, efficient, economical administration of the affairs of the county. I favor the building of good substantial roads and bridges, and keeping them in good repair. A. F. PEOPLES Painting, Paperhanging and Decorating. Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. 4827 Erskine Street. Phone Walnut 2111. THE MONITOR the Wide-Awake Week THE MONITOR The Wide-Awake Weekly $2.00 a Year in Advance ADDRESS THE MONITOR No. 21st St. Omaha ADDRESS THE MONITOR 1119 No. 21st St. Omaha, Neb. Ware Candy Kitchen HOME MADE CANDIES, FRESH EVERY DAY. ICE CREAM AND SOFT DRINKS Obee-Hunter-Wakefield Funeral Home Every man, real have a square forced, without CHA Canada Cou Fifth C Ret I promise if c tion of the affairs stantial roads and A Paintii Estimates Furn 4827 Erskine S THE The W a TH 1119 No. Ware HOME MADE CA Obee-Hunt G. W. OBEE, M Embalmer Subscribe for HIER for y condition, must thoroughly en- MITT for oner our Vote ers. comical administra- tion of good sub- good repair. S rating. Work Guaranteed. The Walnut 2111. TOR Weekly ce OR Maha, Neb. kitchen SENCE CREAM AND T. HUNTER, Treas. Tel. Web. 4740 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. BANKS & WILKS 1914 CUMING STREET ES ae sees ---BUY A HOME--- Four-room cottage at 22d and easy terms. Grace Sts., $1,500; easy terms ge ei, as Hata paved street, $2,600; easy term terms. Ten-room modern house on Vacant lot at 27th and Miam 22d and Charles Sts.., $3,500 Sts., $450; easy terms. G. B. ROBBINS REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE Phone Douglas 2842 or Webster 5519 Miss Mary White Ovington OF NEW YORK VICE PRESIDENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE AT GROVE M. E. CHURCH 22d and Seward Streets Sunday Afternon, July 28, 1918 AT 4 O'CLOCK SHARP Come Yourself and Invite Your Friends and Neighbors, Colored and White This Is a General Mass Meeting to Which Everybody Is Invited. Come Early to Get a Seat. ern > LA GRANGE, TEX. Prof. M. S. Davage, president of Samuel Huston college, Austin, came here -last Thursday night and deliv- ered for the government an able speech on “War and the Colored Man's Relation to It,” to a packed house. Friday morning he spoke to the Sum- mer Normal by special invitation. On Friday night, July 12, the citi- zens of La Grange gave a banquet at the L. H. S. building to the normal- ttes. On Saturday night following we listened to a splendid literary pro- gram by the normal students. Among our last week's visitors we mention: The Rev. 8. J. Vick, Wallis; J. M. Rayford, Columbus; young men from Giddings and Smithville at the banquet; Mrs, Ben Wilrich, Granger; Miss Lillie Dory, Granger; Prof. Isaacs and friends from Oakland, vis- iting normal; Prof. J. H. Lafond, Schulenburg; Mr. Dan Martin and family, Smithville. Miss Irene Brown and Mrs. Lizzie Mae Jetson left last week for Grang- er to see Mr. William Sutton as he is going to the training cap soon. The Rev, J. W. White and Mrs. Agnes Reed and Ida Bell spent last week at the M. E. district confer- ence at Littig. Pastor Tillman was on hand and conducted regular services at Eben- ezer Baptist church Sunday and Sun- day night. Collection, $25. The Rev. G, L. Mills held regular services at St. Paul A. M. E. church Sunday morning and night. Sick—Mesdames Martha Aillcue, Julia King, Rhoda Collins, Anna Matin, Lula Truesdale and Mr. Eu- gene Phearse. Last Friday we learned by phone that aur old Fayette county citizen, residing in Dallas, died at his home there, Friday We send sympathy. Last Thursday after a long illness Mr. William Breeding, one of our old citizens died here of heart trouble. He was buried here Friday following, the Rev. S. A. Tillman officiating. He leaves a daughter and two sons to mourn him. Mrs. A. E. McPherson, Belton, is back from Belton, where she was at the bedside of a sick sister. Misses H. R. Smith and Virlec White, Belton, are among the normal students, GRAND ISLAND News has been received by Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Johnson, of Grand Island, Nebr., that their son, William Claud, has arrived safely over sea, Sergeant Johnson was in good spirits and said he thought Germany could not last long since we are so well equipped, and I want to be one who fixes her. Don’t worry about me as Uncle Sam THE MONITOR certainly takes good care of us, I hope the time will not be long before I can be returning with the other boys of the U.S. A. with honor. I am your son, Wm. Claud Johnson, 92d Div. ‘Am. Expeditionary Forces. The district conference of the A. M. E, church is in session at this place and all reports are excellent. The Rev, E. G. Young is the P. E. Mrs. C. H. Robinson is the president of the W. H. M. S., and she is making good in the office. The Pilgrim’s Rest Baptist church is making good. They baptized 15 persons Sunday. The Rev. H. B. Williams of Kearn preached at St. Paul's church Sunday night. The Rev. Mr. Gardner preached at St. Paul’s church Sunday morning. Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Quarles a baby girl. Girl and mother are do- ing well. Mrs. Birdie Howard is in the city visiting relatives and friends. W. R. Roberts is visiting in Fort Worth attending the Grand Lodge of the Masons. Mrs. Rhoberta Pott is very much impressed with The Monitor as well as Mrs. Sarah Asberry. Thirty-one Colored boys left on the 17th for Camp Travis. Thirty-six whites will leave on the 25th. Mrs. E. W. Lewis left for her home at Temple. Mrs. H. Quarles went with her for a visit at her home. Mr. A, Gilmore was in the office today, also Mr. J. R. Wren and H. L. Price were in today. A. G. Howard went to Oakwood on Saturday. Mr. G. E. Thomas went to Jack- sonville Saturday on business. Those on the sick list are Mrs. Pearl Turner, Mrs. S. J. Stevens and Mrs. Lillie Furlough. ELKS CONTRIBUTE TO SOLDIERS’ FUND Washington—Many Colored Elk lodges throughout the country are re~ sponding to the appeal of the Na- tional Coloerd Soldiers’ Comfort Com- mittee for money contributions for its relief fund for dependents of Colored soldiers. WOMAN WEIGHED 450 POUNDS Springfield, IL—A special casket, three times the size of an ordinary one, was required for the burial of PALESTINE, TEX. Jesie Hill. She weighed 450 pounds and measured six feet in height and thirty-two inches across her body from arm to arm. The woman was 40 years old and died from dyspepsia. HAITI COUNCIL DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY Port Au Prince, Haiti—The coun- cil of state, acting in accordance with the legislative powers given it under the new Haitien constittuion, has unanimously voted the declaration of “war upon Germany demanded by the president of the republic. White-Breasted Nuthatch 2 <— a Fo i ; J So te ee iar. ee ait , om yn ie Length, six inches, White below, above gray, with a black head. Range: Resident in the United States, southern Canada, and Mexico. Habits and economic status: This bird might readily be mistaken by a careless observer for a small wood- pecker, but its note, an oft-repeated yank, is very unwoodpeckerlike, and, unlike either woodpeckers or creép- ers, it climbs downward as easily as upward and seems to set the laws of gravity at defiance. The name was suggested by the habit of wedging nuts, especially beechnuts, in the crev- ices of bark so as to break’them open by blows from the sharp, strong bill ‘The nuthatch gets its living from ths trunks and branches of trens, over which it creeps from daylight to dark. Insects and spiders constitute a little more than 50 per cent of its food. ‘The largest items of these are beetles, moths, and caterpillars, with ants and wasps. The animal food is all in the bird's favor except a few ladybird beetles. More than nalf of the vege- table food consists of mast, i. ©. acorns and other nuts or large seeds. ‘Onetenth of the food is grain, most- ly waste corn, The nuthatch does fo infury, so far as known, and much a THE CHEERFUL CHERVB Til al ° ak hey Ge, And have « hetlthy constitution. Tt_mey not be much 2 sateen | c aes evolution! = arene ann CLASSIFIED ADS BILLIARD PARLORS “CAPITOL BILLIARD PARLOR Cigars and Tobacco. | Barber shop in connection. All kinds | of choice candies, chewing gum and soft drinks, Service to our guests | our specialty. Athletic and baseball headquarters. | Webster 1773. 2018 North 24th St. Charles W. South, Prop. —. SUACKSMIPHS, | J. W, STAPLETON | South 2671. 5825 South 23d St. CAFES AND RESTAURANTS | THE BUSY BEE CAFE | South 2793 4917 South 26th St. ee DRUG STORES 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 2516. 24th and Lake Sta. COLORED NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES FRANK DOUGLASS Shining Parlor. Webster 1388, 2414 North 24th St. | MARKETS pe eee ED DEEP WATER FISH MARKET Webster 2942. 1409% N. 24th St. Sitta carolinensis ° The Deep Water Fish Market 14094) NORTH TWENTY-FOURTH STREET We handle first-class fish of all kinds. We will quote some of the best varieties: Red Snapper, Fresh Spanish Mackerel, Mullett, Carp and Buffalo. DRIED AND SALT FISH OF ALL KINDS, We ask the friends in Omaha when in need of anything in our line to call in and see us. We deliver within twelve blocks. E. HAYNES, Proprietor. Webster 3943. Sete A MMe a GUT PRIGE SALE Our entire seasonable stock of Men's Clothing and Furnishings Ladies’ Dresses, Skirts, Waists and Furnishings, Men's, Women’s and Child’s Shoes, Slippers and Sandals now on sale at greatly reduced prices. We guarantee you great saving on every purchase 214-316 North 16th St. Not in the High Rent District. ee - FLOWERS FOR ALL ! OCCASIONS 7 ; a , E ’ 4 | Alfred Donaghue ; (Established 1866) ; Phone Douglas 1001. 1622 Harney Street. “SAY IT WITH FLOWERS” 3 POLLO LLL LOL LLL LLL LLL LALLA H. DOLGOFF FURNITURE AND HARDWARE STOVES, RUGS, LINOLEUM Better Goods for Less Money. Credit if You Wish. OPEN EVENINGS 1839-47 N. 24th St. Phones—Webster 1607; Webster 4825 PEOPLES’ CLEANERS and DYERS Work Called for and Delivered. FIRST CLASS WORK GUARANTEED, Give Us a Trial. PATRONIZE US BECAUSE WE PATRONIZE YOU 2416 Erskine Street. Phone Webster 2991. LODGE DIRECTORY F. & A. A., York Rite, St. Luke's Lodge, No. 14, will meet the first and third Monday nights in Knights 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. 0. of 0. 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. 8. 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. 8. International Order No. 631 Col ored Engineers and Portable Hoisting Enginemen meets at 2225% Lake street first and third Wednesday in each month. W. H. T. Ransom, pres- ident; J. H. Headly, Cor. See.; J. H. Moss, Rec. 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, Ear! 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, Web- ster 1100. Advertisi RATES—1% centa a word for single insertions, 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement for lesa than 15¢, Cash should ao company advertisement ‘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. er eae ee FURNISHED rooms with bath, $2.25 to $3.50 per week; also four rooms on the fourth floor partly fur- nished, $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. 5220. Floyd Carlton. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, all modern. 2706 Parker st. Web, 1250. eee ee Furnished rooms in strictly modern, house. Men preferred. 814 Nortif 23r street. Red 8156, Mrs. Ida Cary. Nicely furnished rooms. Phone Webster 2941. “For Rent—Furnished rooms, 1425 North 2ist. Call after 6 p. m. or inquire next door north. «a FOR RENT — Neatly furnished rooms. Phone South 1981. Residence 4814 South 25th st. Mrs. Sadie Mo- berly. Two furnished rooms, 2415 Indiana avenue. Tyler 3309-W. First class rooming house, steam heat, bath. electric light. On Dodge and 24th at. car line. Mrs. Ann~ Sanks, 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. FE. 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. Reece eee ato For Rent—Modern furnished rooms. 2320 North 28th Ave. Phone Wet- ster 2058. Neatly furnished rooms in a pri- vate 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, .tuu North Twenty-sixth street. rhone Webster 4769.