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GROWING, THANK YOU! $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy Dr. Robert Moton Goes To France Head of Tuskegee Is Sent by President Wilson and Secretary Baker to "Do Morale Work Among the Colored Troops Over There." OBJECT OPEN TO QUESTION Prominent Newspaper Men Members of Party; Dubois Goes as Representative of the Crisis Magazine on Same Transport. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2. Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee institute, has gone to France at the request of President Wilson and Secretary of War Baker to do morale work among the Colored troops "ever there." With the tensity of combat relieved, it is the usual disposition of all armies to fall into excesses of various kinds. Dr. Moton will visit all of the centers where numbers of supply troops, stevedore regiments, depot brigades, labor battalions and combat troops are located, speaking to them and urging in every way that they observe the good name they have won on the battlefields and in the service in France, that they may not furnish the slightest cause for unfavorable comment or adverse criticism before they return to America. Dr. Moton carried with him letters of introduction to the highest officers of the American expeditionary forces and to the American ambassador at Paris. He was accompanied by Mr. Nathan Hunt, traveling secretary, and Mr. Lester A. Walton, managing editor of the New York Age. The party sailed on the United States transport Orizaba Sunday, December 1, at 2 o'clock. On the same transport Dr. W, E. B. Dubois, editor of the Crisis Magazine, also took passage. He will represent the Crisis Magazine. Dr. Moton and party will be away for four to six weeks and will have full opportunity to render splendid service to the Colored troops and the government by the good work he will do among these soldiers of the republic. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the secretary of war, accompanied the party to New York City and supervised all of the arrangements incidental to their passage. WYOMING MOB MURDERS NEGRO Victim, Who Had Killed Switchman and Wounded Another Man Taken From Jail and Hanged by Mob Numebring 500. Green River, Wyo.—A mob of 500 persons lynched "Joe" Woodson, a Negro, hanging him from a telephone pole in front of the court house here after he had shot Albert Miller, a switchman for the Union Pacific railway, killing him instantly, and wounded another railroad man. The shooting followed his ejection from the dining room at the Union Pacific station. I was said that Woodson, who was employed there as a porter, had made an offensive remark to a white waitress. He later returned to the dining room with a revolver and began firing. Miller fell at the first shot. Another bullet struck his companion, entering one arm. Woodson was arrested shortly afterward and taken to jail. In the meantime the mob began forming. It marched to the jail and, after overpowering the guards, seized the prisoner. STREET CAR STRIKE ENDS Car Men on Order From Washington Decide to Return to Work—Traction Service Resumed Thursday Afternoon. TAFT AND MANLY ARE COMING Representatives of National War Board Will Come to Omaha January 2 to Hear Grievances. As The Monitor goes to press Omaha's street car strike has ended and service has been resumed on all lines. The union officials decided Wednesday night to end the strike on receipt of telegrams from President Mahon of the national organization and from the war labor board. President Mahon advised the men to go back to work until a further hearing on the Omaha situation could be had. The war labor board held that the men had no right to strike. A conference was held in the labor THE MONITOR "ALL YOU NEED IS A HEART AND A DOLLAR" CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL. By courtesy of H. C. Temple, Cleveland Plain Dealer. temple Thursday morning the outcome of which was the calling off of the strike and the decision to refer grievances to William Howard Taft and Basil M. Manly, chairmen of the war labor board who will come to Omaha, January 2, to hear all grievances. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Washington, D. C., Dec. 7.—The executive committee of the National Race Congress of the United States announced Wednesday that it had named five delegates to the International Conference of the Darker Races of the World, to be held in France during the peace conference. The delegates, it was said, also were sent as a visiting delegation to the peace conference. Rev. E. C. Morris has been selected by the Arkansas State Baptist convention to represent them at the peace conference. Colonel Roscoe Conkling Simmons will go as a representative of the Chicago Defender. AMERICAN COLONIES IN AFRICA Manchester Guardian Suggests That United States Acquire Colonies in the Dark Continent. The future of the former German colonies is now much under discussion in Europe, and many think that America should bear her share of "the white man's burden." The Manchester Guardian says: "Some of those who are interested in colonial questions are asking whether the time is not coming when America will reconsider her attitude with regard to undertaking territorial obligations in the backward regions of the earth. "If the administration of the German colonies is to be added to the already enormous burden resting upon the British Empire, this burden—if it is to be carried alone by us or even shared in some manner between Great Britain, and France—may become altogether too unwieldy. There is the greatest need in colonial administration of the efficient and liberal-minded help which America could supply." ON HONOR ROLL Among the pupils of the Central high school who are on the honor roll for this semester is Dorothy Williams, who received three and half A's. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 14, 1918 "OO! GRAN'PA, WE FORGOT SOMPIN'!" EPISCOPALIANS CONSECRATE ANOTHER BISHOP The Rev. Henry Beard Delaney, Vice-President of St. Augustine's School, Raleigh, North Carolina, Elevated to the Episcopate. Raleigh, N. C.—The Venerable Henry Beard Delaney, D. D., archdeacon for Colored work in the diocese of North Carolina, was consecrated suffragan bishop of that diocese for Negro work on Thursday, November 21, in the chapel of St. Augustine's school, Raleigh, with which he had been connected for many years. FIGHTING WHEN THE ARMISTICE IS SIGNED Lieutenant Udell Turpin of St. Louis, an Officer of the Ninety-Second Division, Tells of Fight Until Order to Cease Firing. Somewhere in France, November 12. At the eleventh hour, eleventh day of the eleventh month, the armistice was signed; peace is certain; Germany is whipped; the kaiser is gone and the world war is ended. All France is again lighted up, after four years of darkness, and every French The Rt.-Rev. Joseph B. Cheshire, D. D., bishop of the diocese, officiated as consecrator, assisted by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Beverly D. Tucker, D. D., of southern Virginia, and the Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, D. D., of east Carolina. Bishop Lloyd, president of the General Board of Missions, preached the sermon. Bishop Weed of Florida and Bishop Horner of Asheville presented the dean for consecration. The Rev. Morrison Bethea, secretary of the diocese, read the certificate of election. The Rev. M. A. Barber read the consent of the bishops, and Dr. R. H. Lewis read the consent of the standing committees. Bishop Demby, who was recently consecrated suffragan bishop of Arkansas for Colored work, read the Litany. The Venerable Erasmus L. Baskerville and the Rev. James K. Satterwhite were the attending presbyters. The Rev. Dr. Bragg was master of ceremonies. PLEASANT CONDITIONS AT CAMP LEE, VIRGINIA Washington, D. C.—Conditions at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., are quite satisfactory to the 10,000 Colored soldiers now stationed there, according to a statement made by Rev. Arthur G. C. Randall, a representative of the Y. M. C. A. work at that point. The Thirteenth infantry replacement battalion at Camp Lee has four Colored captains and there is also the 155th Depot Brigade, both of which are rendering excellent service. Officers and men are treated with uniform courtesy and respect by their commanders. There are two Colored chaplains, Max Yergan and J. H. Brown; spiritual leaders of broad sympathies, and they exert a most wholesome influence upon the morale of the men. A commodious hostess house is in process of erection and will fill a long-felt want. FIGHTING WHEN THE ARMISTICE IS SIGNED Lieutenant Udell Turpin of St. Louis, an Officer of the Ninety-Second Division, Tells of Fight Until Order to Cease Firing. Somewhere in France, November 12. AT the eleventh hour, eleventh day of the eleventh month, the armistice was signed; peace is certain; Germany is whipped; the kaiser is gone and the world war is ended. All France is again lighted up, after four years of darkness, and every Frenchman is happy. Negroes Given Strong Position. It was so arranged that our division, which had a fighting reputation, like all Negro divisions have, was placed opposite a very strong part of the German line; in fact, if we accomplished the objective given us, we were sure to turn the tables. On Sunday morning, November 10, at 5 o'clock, we went "over the top." Such fighting I have never seen during my five months here. Reach First Objective. We reached our first objective on Sunday morning and started on our second Monday morning at 5 o'clock. Shells were bursting all around us, but they did not stop our boys. They intended to gain this important objective or die in the attempt. Many Fall On the Battlefield. Men were falling all about me (I was sent ahead to gain important "intelligence" information); many were knocked out by gas, but the boche was getting twice as much "hell" as he gave us, and prisoners were coming through in great numbers. All of a sudden the call "Cease firing" was sounded by a bugler in the distance and, as if by magic, all firing ceased and the deafening thunder of guns was silenced. The Germans stopped also and at once we learned that the kaiser had abdicated and an armistice had been signed. Words will never explain these last days of the war. No human tongue will ever describe the sensations experienced. You cannot imagine what a grand and glorious feeling it is to know that we have "met the enemy and he is ours," and we can once more sleep in peace without worrying about the boche shells knocking us off of our bunks or being attacked by gas at night. We are now waiting for a safe return back to those we love most dearly. Vol. IV. 124 (Whole No. 179) But the duke apparently forgot to add these words which we do now with due respect to his exalted rank and position . . . seize him by the throat and make his wives your concubines . . . Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg Schwerin was the last German governor of Togoland. He was on leave in Germany when the war broke out. Herr Hans Georg von Doering was acting governor at the time and he was captured as a prisoner of war in 1914. During the administration of his highness Duke Adolf Friedrich the hatredness and dislike of German rule in Togoland was intensified. The people expected a German duke would be inspired with a high motive in the administration of the colony, but they were disappointed in Adolf Friedrich. The duke governor thought in Africa one could live as he wished, but he underestimated the intelligence of the people who watched and criticized his acts. The Roman Catholic missionaries who shielded his scandals by changing the names of the black-white children did little service for him as the little Mecklenburger Princeling is living and will be known by the name of Prinz Adolf Friedrich His father's name is neither Kuajo nor Kofi. Mrs. E. Lewis has received word from her son, Sergeant A. C. Dent of Camp Pike, that he expects to be home for Christmas. GERMAN RULE IN AFRICA The following was clipped from the Gold Coast Leader, a progressive African journal, and we reprint it as published so that our Monitor readers may have some idea of what German rule has meant to Africa. LOME July 1. "West Africa" of the 4th of May, 1918, has the following under "A "A Coaster's London Log:" A Pleasant Fellow. A new and cheap edition of a book entitled "From the Congo to the Niger and Nile," written by Duke Adolphus Frederick of Mecklenburg, has been issued at Leipsic. In one chapter the writer genially says: "Whoever desires to colonize in Africa must not be afraid of deeds of violence. Friendly persuasion will never induce any Negro to work; the African Negro must be made to understand that if he does not work, soldiers will come, burn his hut, and seize him by the throat." 92nd Division Makes Record In France Gallant Colored Fighting Machine Wins Plaudits for Successful Raids Against Germans in "No Man's Land"—Led by Capable Commanders. BY RALPH W. TYLER Accredited Representative of the Committee on Public Information Somewhere in France. The Colored people back in America can well feel proud of the record made by the 92d division over here, which has about 600 Colored line officers, and whose rank and file is composed exclusively of Colored soldiers. Here is the record of the 92d as a combatant regiment up to November 8, 1918: When the Marbache sector was taken over the 92d division of "Black Devils," as the Germans call them, "No Man's Land" was owned by the Germans, and here they were aggressively on the offensive. They, the Germans, held Belie Farm, Bois De Tete D'Or, Bois De Frehaut, Voivotte Farm, Voivotte Woods, Bois De Cheminot and Moulton Brook. The constantly aggressive action of patrols, day and night, from the 92d has resulted in many casualties to the Germans, and the capture of many prisoners. Each of the places named above has been raided, as has also Epley, and patrols from the division has penetrated north nearly to the east and west line through Pagny. The Germans have been driven north beyond Frehaut and Voivrotte to Cheminot bridge and in his desperation the Hun is attempting to destroy the Seilie Bridge, after having flooded the Seilie, proving conclusively that he regards the black troops that compose the 92d division as one he cannot successfully withstand. West of the Seilie river excellent results have followed the energetic offensive action of this doughty wing of the allied army, the Germans losing heavily in killed and wounded and prisoners. In nearly every instance, these raids made by troopers of this division have been made under the command of Colored line officers. This record made by these Colored soldiers, must, of necessity, arouse the greatest enthusiasm back in "The States" and merits the plaudits of the race for the gallant fighting machine. So wonderful have been the achievements of the 92d that the division commander was impelled to send out a bulletin of congratulation, to be read before each unit of the division. This proud record must forever set at rest the question of Colored soldiers following and fighting under their own officers, and it must forever establish the efficiency of Colored officers, who have done splendidly under the most trying circumstances. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Dr. Thos. Jesse Jones, who recently went to France, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., has just been sent Mr. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant, war department, the following account of the burial of a Colored soldier at sea: A Colored soldier was buried at sea today. The flags on all the ships of the fleet have been at half-mast all day. It matters not that the soldier came from a lowly cabin. It matters not that his skin is black. He is a soldier in the army of the United States and was on his way to fight for democracy and civilization. The announcement of his death was signalled to every commander and every ship prepared to do honor to the Colored soldier. As the sun was setting in the west, the guard of honor including all the officers from the commander to the private came to attention. The body of the Negro trooper wrapped in the American flag, was tenderly carried to the stern of the ship. The chaplain read the solemn burial service. The engines of the fleet were checked. The ship was stopped for the only time in the long trip from America to Europe. The bugle sounded taps and the body of the American soldier was committed to the great ocean and to God. The comradeship of the solemn occasion was the comradeship of real democracy. There was neither black nor white, north nor south, rich nor poor. All united in rendering honor to the Negro soldier who died in the service of humanity. AVOID EPIDEMICS INSURE YOUR WAGES AGAINST SICKNESS AND ACCIDENT WITH THE CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY A. PLUMMER, AGENT, 300 BEE BLDG. E. A. LAWRENSON, MANAGER, 300 BEE BLDG. CLAIMS PAID IMMEDIATELY The Monitor Office OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE ```markdown ``` We have moved our office Down Town Right Into Heart of Business District Advertising Manager Goes On Vacation Advertising Manager Goes On Vacation But Cannot Refrain From Hustling Up New Business for The Monitor Everywhere He Finds Himself. DES MOINES IS PROGRESSIVE Bert Patrick of Monitor's Staff Gives Some Interesting Facts About Iowa's Attarive Capital. BERT PATRICK, plodding patient and persistent advertising solicitor of The Monitor, requested a two weeks' vacation to visit relatives and friends in Des Moines and Chicago. Whether or not he anticipated the Omaha street car strike is problematical. He said, "Parker can handle my end of it while I'm gone." So he went leaving Parker, who is a live wire anyway you take him on the job. So is the strike, which makes "ad" getting for even such a good medium as The Monitor a pretty tough proposition. So Patrick struck an opportune time for his vacation. But while he is supposed to be on his vacation, he is so imbued with The Monitor spirit that he cannot refrain from hustling up new business for this "in-a-classby-itself" publication. He has sent in a list of subscribers from Des Moines and the following interesting letter written from Chicago under date of December 9: Dear Father Williams: I remained in Des Moines nearly all of alst week looking about the city and visiting with friends. The people there are very hospitable and my visit there was made pleasant. Des Moines is a very pretty city, the metropolis of Iowa, located on the east and west of the Des Moines river, forming East and West Des Moines. The capitol building is located on the highest spot on the east side having sloping green gradually melting to the beautiful surrounding pavements below, which all stretch onto the three or four very pretty bridges that lead you to the busy streets of the city. Here you find unusually fine business places, stores, etc. This metropolis boasts of 120,000 inhabitants, excluding the cantonments (Camp Dodge). Fort Des Moines is also very interesting. There is located the U. S. general hospital No. 26. To this fort are returned the brave lads, both black and white, from overseas who went to fight "to make the world safe for democracy." The Des Moines slogan is "We do things," which well describes the spirit of the people here and justly the whole state, since the record shows that Iowa was the first in the union to go over the top in the fourth liberty loan, also Iowa gave more men during the great world war than any other state in the union. Des Moines is proud to be the capitol of this great state. I visited the Army Club here, where the soldiers are made welcome to the reading rooms, baths, large dancing hall, cafe, soft drinks, etc., everything for their pleasure and entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. Wright, who have charge of the Army club took special pains to entertain me during my visit to one of the club's weekly social affairs. I feel very grateful to them for my having spent such a pleasant time. I was indeed proud to see my people doing well in various lines of business. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cousins have a very modern, up-to-date grocery store and enjoy a good trade, and the class of this store merits all that is good. Mr. C. Bruce Santee, one of the leading photographers of the city, who was formerly of Kansas City, is doing greta work as usual and is getting the business in his line. Dr. Lowery, Des Moines' leading dentist, has a good practice. He will report the city news for The Monitor. Des Moines are requested to give their news to him each week. Give your subscription to him for The Monitor and read the Des Moines news each week. Others who are doing well are R. E. Handy, the new undertaker. Mrs. B. F. Crank, one of the leading hairdressers, located at 720 Center street. Mrs. Louise Cooper, proprietress of the Center cafe, is doing a nice business. She is also one of our advertisers. W. M. Smith, the soft drink man is the popular place to quench your thirst. It was my great pleasure to call at the Bystander office while here and talk with Mr. John L. Thompson, the editor. I was impressed with the good business being accomplished through their office. I arrived in Chicago yesterday. I like it here so far. Kindly remember me to your family and The Monitor staff. Fine Monitor last week. Yours for more business. Colored Y. M. C. A. B. PATRICK. SEWING LESSONS I will teach you how to sew in the shortest time and by methods with which you can do your own or others' sewing in the best possible manner. Call or write for catalogue and full information. Mrs. C. Ridley, 1922 North Twenty-fifth street.—Adv. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION HOLDS GOOD MEETING Interesting Programme Given Before Well Pleased Audience—Membership Passes One Hundred Mark—Will Meet as Forum Each Sunday Afternoon at Four O'Clock. ADVICE CON SPAIN A The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held an interesting meeting last Sunday afternoon in the New St. John's church which is centrally located on Grant street. The meeting was called to order by the Rev. John Albert Williams, pastor of St. John's. America was sung by the audience with Mrs. McCoy at the piano. The president then turned the meeting over to Mrs. Jessie Hale Moss, chairman of the program committee, who had well planned this feature, and who in turn announced the numbers to be given. Mrs. James G. Jewell gave an admirable paper on "The Objects, Aims and Achievements of the N. A. A. C. P." Her paper will be published in full in the next issue of The Monitor Miss Ray Middleton sang most acceptably a beautiful "Lullaby," composed by Professor Work of Tuskegee. Amos P. Scruggs gave a thoughtful address on "Knowing Your Own Community," in which he stressed the importance of knowing the people, needs and problems of your own community and the necessity of so living in a community that one would compel respect. Others who spoke on the same topic were W. T. Ransom, the Rev. W. C. Williams and the Rev. John Albert Williams. Mr. Ransom stressed the idea of unity, which also was the keynote of Dr. Williams' address, who plead for co-operation in business and professional enterprises. At the conclusion of the program, the president resumed the chair and twenty-one new members were enrolled. Next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock another interesting program will be given. The public is cordially invited. These Sunday afternoon forums can be made an important factor in the life of the community. MISS EUDORA WARE IS SELLING PIANOS Miss Eudora Ware, the well known music teacher, is selling pianos for the A. Hospice company, working exclusively among Colored people. Her knowledge of music and pianos will be of great help to those who purchase through her. Any one needing a piano or player piano will do well by having Miss Ware help them select an instrument. Residence address, 3415 North Twenty-eighth street. Phone Webster 3573.—Adv. ADVICE TO "FLU" CONVALESCENTS SPAIN AND ENGLAND REPORT INCREASE IN TUBERCULOSIS AFTER INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. U. S. Public Health Service Warns Public Against Tuberculosis. One Million Cases Tuberculosis in United States—Each a Source of Danger. Influenza Convalescents Should Have Lungs Examined—Colds Which Hang On Often Beginning of Tuberculosis. No Cause for Alarm if Tuberculosis Is Recognized Early—Patent Medicines Not to Be Trusted. ★ Beware tuberculosis after influenza. No need to worry if you take precautions in time. ★ Don't diagnose your own condition. Have your doctor examine your lungs several times at monthly intervals. Build up your strength with right living, good food and plenty of fresh air. ★ Don't waste money on patent medicines advertised to cure tuberculosis. ★ Become a fresh-air crank and enjoy life. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Washington, D. C. (Specialist). According to a report made to the United States Public Health Service, the epidemic of influenza in Spain has already caused an increase in the prevalence and deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis. A similar association between influenza and tuberculosis was recently made by Sir Arthur Newsholme, the chief medical officer of the English public health service, in his analysis of the tuberculosis death rate in England. In order that the people of the Untied States may profit by the experience of other countries Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the United States Public Health Service has just issued a warning emphasizing the need of special precautions at the present time. "Experience seems to indicate," says the Surgeon General, "that persons whose resistance has been weakened by an attack of influenza are peculiarly susceptible to tuberculosis. With millions of its people recently affected with influenza this country now offers conditions favoring the spread of tuberculosis." One Million Consumptives In the United States. "Then you consider this a serious menace?" was asked. "In my opinion it is, though I hasten to add it is distinctly one against which the people can guard. So far as one can estimate there are at present about one million cases of tuberculosis in the United States. There is unfortunately no complete census available to show exactly the number of tuberculous persons in each state despite the fact that most of the states have made the disease reportable. In New York city, where reporting has been in force for many years, over 35,000 cases of tuberculosis are registered with the Department of Health. Those familiar with the situation believe that the addition of unrecognized and unreported cases would make the number nearer 50,000. The very careful health survey conducted during the past two years in Framingham, Mass., revealed 200 cases of tuberculosis in a population of approximately 15,000. If these proportions hold true for the United States as a whole they would indicate that about one in every hundred persons is tuberculous. Each of these constitutes a source of danger to be guarded against." In his statement to the public Surgeon General Blue points out how those who have had influenza should protect themselves against tuberculosis. "All who have recovered from influenza," says the Surgeon General, "should have their lungs carefully examined by a competent physician. In fact, it is desirable to have several examinations made a month apart. Such examinations cannot be made through the clothing nor can they be carried out in two or three minutes. If the lungs are found to be free from tuberculosis every effort should be made to keep them so. This can be done by right living, good food and plenty of fresh air." Danger Signs. The Surgeon General warned especially against certain danger signs, such as "decline" and "colds which hang on." These, he explained, were often the beginning of tuberculosis. "If you do not get well promptly, if your cold seems to hang on or your health and strength decline, remember that these are often the early signs of tuberculosis. Place yourself at once under the care of a competent physician. Tuberculosis is curable in the early stages. Patent Medicines Dangerous in Tuberculosis. 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Supply depot for everything for foot comfort. 211 So. 14th St. Omaha Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. The Business World Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. 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 Automobile and Open Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night JONES & CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Web. 1100 and Web. 204 Licensed Embalmer. C. S. JOHNSON 18th and Izard Tel. Douglas 1702 ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE at POPULAR PRICES. Best for the Money Res. Colfax 3831. Douglas 7150 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 13th and Farnam --- Among the Churches ST JOHN A. M. E. CHURCH NEWS The Rev. W. C. Williams, Pastor The Sunday services were very beautiful. Mrs. Foster, the "singing evangelist," employed every fiber of her very soul into her singing, both morning and evening. Her sermons, as usual were very intelligent and pointed to the highest of spiritual truths. There were five persons added to the church Sunday. The collection for the day was $400 and some odd cents. The sick of the church are: Mesdames McClure, Mitchell, Miss Ione Lewis and Mr. J. H. Smith. Mesdames Sherwood and Glover are convalescing nicely. Mrs. Fannie Crowe was a most delightful hostess at the Ladies' Aid society Thursday afternoon. The W. W. club met Friday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Emma King, who was a most pleasing hostess. The S. S. has already taken on new life. The smallest tots are just as eager to bring in new scholars as the older ones. Reds the Blues are ahead! "You had better watch your step." Mr. J. C. Parker, who has been a most devout and conscientious superintendent, resigned last Friday evening at the teachers' meeting, and Mrs. Jessie Moss was chosen as superintendent for the ensuing year. The new teachers will be announced later. Mr. Maceo Williams, son of the Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Williams, returned home Thursday of last week from Kansas City. He is expecting his brother Robert home during the holidays. DES MOINES, IOWA Dr. W. H. Lowry, Correspondent Hayes Miller met death by accident while working in the mine at Carney, Ia., Friday. Mrs. George Young and Miss Peggy Sears were called to Buxton by the death of the latter's father. Rev. T. S. Griffith passed through Des Moines Wednesday en route to France. On December 13 and 14 class No. 2 of Corinthian Baptist Sunday school will hold a bazaar at the Park street army Y. M. C. A.. There are four boots to be conducted by the following: No. 1, Mrs. A. DeWitt; No. 2, Mrs. M. E. Cassell; No. 3, Mrs. E. Ross; No. 4, Mrs. Roxanna White. The Monitor is on sale at Dr. W. H. McCree's drug store. Des Moines notes will be published weekly. The city correspondent will be pleased to have the readers submit locals for publication not later than Monday noon. Address all communications to The Monitor, care of McCree's drug store, corner 11th and Center streets. Special attention will be given to club and church notes. Virgil Williams has organized a new orchestra to assist the choir at the St. Paul A. M. E. church. Attorney H. R. Wright, secretary of Army Club No. 2, has consented to furnish aroom at the club for a club of civilian boys, known as the Syndicate club. These boys have been granted all the rights of the Army Club. Harrison Gould, grand chancellor of K. of P., made a trip to Davenport in the interest of the order. He returned Sunday with a good report. OGDEN, UTAH, NEWS Link Wheat, a member of the Colored Elks' lodge of Ogden, died in Salt Lake City, December 1. Mrs. Golden and Mrs. H. Marque are quite improved from the "flu." Wm. Slocum and family have returned from Ely, Nevada, for the winter and are all the picture of health. If you don't see Bill Xmas, he has gone to see Big Bill. You know where. If you want to find Mr. Sanaford in Ogden, ask Bill Smith. James Brown thought he was giving everybody the slip when he left the court house with the license, but somebody saw him. There's a party who has been bit in the back and we are all afraid of blood poisoning. Be careful. Ask W. W. Sal Coleman has moved his boarding place, Bill said, but where? The quarantine is expected to be lifted New Year's. If it is, look out for the Elks and Daughters. They will bring the flu. WM. SMITH. BILL'S AGENT. PALESTINE, TEXAS. A. G. Howard, Agent. We are having some good weather now and all the churches report large attendance. Rev. S. M. Bolden was returned to St. Paul M. E. church, and Rev. H. McKimah to Grant's Chapel, while Rev. A. W. Williams goes to Houston. THE MONITOR Mr. and Mrs. Grant will leave Saturday for Chicago, where they will remain indefinitely. Mrs. Hattie Hall of 2824 Douglas street, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia, is much improved. The new trustees elected on last Thursday night are as follows: Messrs. J. C. Parker, Chas. Washington, Carter, P. Walker, Geo. Ashby, B. Watson, Rafferty, A. Rayford and Woods. The new stewards are: Messrs. Sherwood, Morris, Randall, E. Scott, Mapin. Mrs. Foster is expecting Mr. Foster from New York sometime this week. BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS Rev. T. A. Taggart, Pastor Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m.; B. Y. P. U., 5:30 p. m.; preaching Sunday night, 8 o'clock sharp. The Missionary circle met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Lulu Whidby, 2917 R street. Mrs. Octavia Harris and infant son, are seriously ill at their residence, 2415 Seward street. Mrs. Mollie Moline of 33d and U streets is ill; also Miss Rosalee Young of 19th and Center is ill. Mrs. Frank Harris of 2730 R street is on the sick list. Mr. J. H. Wakefield of 4430 South 13th street has returned from Bonner Springs, Kas., where he was called by the death of his brother, who was instantly killed in a runaway accident. Mrs. Irvan of 2720 Q street received news of the death of her husband in France. Deep sympathy is extended to the bereaved widow. The town was full of teachers last week attending the teachers' association. Mary Jones died last Thursday night, and Mrs. Brown on Saturday, both funerals occurring Sunday. The sick include Miss Mary Ryan, Miss Silverlen McKinzie and Harry McKinzie. Miss Ada Rose of Waco is visiting her brother. Mr. I. H. Bland, the well known undertaker, has just purchased a fine auto funeral car and is now fully equipped to handle all work in his line. The soldier boys are expected home for Xmas. The writer spent Friday in Jacksonville and Saturday in Jewett on business. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. There was gloom in the ministerial meeting last Monday as it seemed the lid would be put on again on account of the flu. Ninety new cases were reported last Sunday, mostly white. The churches are both doing well. Thanksgiving service was a union service at the tabernacle church. Rev. M. Rhoanwee, pastor of the A. M. E. church, preached the sermon. A good offering was taken and turned over to the two pastors. The rally at the Tabernacle church was a great success in round numbers $616.59. This church made its annual report last Friday night through the secretary, Mrs. G. Manue]. The report showed that the church had raised and paid out on church building and running expenses $3,259 Rev. Mr. Rhoannee reported $72 made on his Thanksgiving dinner at Bethel A. M. E. church. Rev. J. P. Jackson had with him last Sunday afternoon Rev. George W. Dudley, D. D., the noted evangelist of Texarkana, Tex., who preached an impressive sermon. The pastor of the A. M. E. church and some of his congregation were present and took part in this service. Rev. J. P. Jackson preached Sunday evening to well filled house on "Final Perseverance." Revival meeting started at the Tabernacle Baptist church Thursday, December 5, by Rev. Samuel R. Skelton. NEBRASKA CITY NEWS Mrs. Charles Rollins, Mrs. Sarah Gonzalas and Mrs. Mamie Shaw have returned from a visit at St. Joe. Both report a fine time. Mrs. Hodge Ellis went home with her mother, Mrs. Anna Jones, to spent Xmas. Mrs. Sarah Capps, ill for four years, died early Friday morning. She had been failing very fast the past three weeks, so death was not unexpected. Mrs. Capps was born in Memphis, Tenn., about 75 years ago and came to this city a young woman and made hundreds of friends who are pained to hear of her demise. She was a devout member of A. M. E. church. The funeral was held at the home Saturday, afternoon, interment at Wyuka cemetery. A wedding of interest took place some time the last part of last month when Mr. Charles Mack and Mrs. Lulu Clay were married. The bride is one of our most highly esteemed matrons, very active in church circles and has a number of friends who wish her much happiness. Mr. Mack is a trusted employee of Morton Gregron. He has a quiet manner that wins friends and keeps them. The Monitor readers extend best wishes. ATTENDS CONFERENCE COUNCIL OF WOMEN (Special To The Monitor.) Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 5.—Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, president of the National Association of Colored Women and a member of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has been invited to a conference with the executive branch of the National Council of Women, which is to meet in St. Louis December 12 and 13 at the home of the president, Mrs. Philip North Moore. Plans relative to the great reconstruction are to be made. Madame de Ste. Croix of the French Council of Women will also be present. Mrs. Talbert is the only Negro woman that has been invited to this conference. No one need fear that the race will not be taken care of with Mrs. Talbert present. PROTEST "JIM CROW" CARS; WANT REPRESENTATIVE AT PEACE CONFERENCE Washington, D. C.—The National Equal Rights League recently adopted in Chicago resolutions asking legislation to abolish "Jim Crow" cars, to stop suffrage restrictions on account of race, and to make lynching a federal crime, which were presented at the White House November 29 by a delegation from the Washington branch of the league. In a letter the delegation also suggests that a Negro be appointed on the American commission to the peace conference. "ABRAHAM LINCOLN CLUB" ORGANIZED IN CUBA Havana, Cuba.-The Colored people of Havana, Cuba, have organized an "Abraham Lincoln club" for war work. Sergeant H. Thomas is president; Clifford C. Hancock, director, and Henry H. Sellers, treasurer. Ex-Sergeant John R. Thomas, formerly of the Tenth United States cavalry, now confidential messenger to President Mario G. Menocal of the Republic of Cuba, is the founder of the organization. ALABAMIANS SUBSCRIBE MOST LIBERALLY Selma, Ala., Dec. 5.—During the reent campaign for the fourth Liberty loan in Dallas and Marengo counties of Alabama, Dr. A. F. Owens, dean of the theological department of Selma university, delivered some effective speeches. Both counties went "over the top" and $500 and $1,000 subscribers among the Colored people were numerous. Several Alabama dailies are carrying the war news relating to Negroes and both white and Colored readers find it most interesting. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. CRAZY SOCIAL BY THE HELPERS' CLUB The Helpers' club will give a crazy social at the residence of Mrs. Chas. Solomon, 2615 Maple street, December 18. The Helpers' club provides Christmas baskets for poor families. Patronize their social. F. and A. A., York Rite, St. Luke's Lodge, No. 14, will meet the first and third Monday nights in the Knights of the Crown, and will meet the second streets. All members take notice. William Bridges, W. M.; J. E. Johnson, secretary; H. C. Watts, treasurer. Gate City Lodge, No. 6674, G. U. O. of O. F., meet the first and third Monday of each month at Petersen's hall, Twelfourth and Burdette streets. W. H. Payne, N. G.; R. L. Woodard, P. S. 4821 South twenty-sixth street. South 4459. Keystone Lodge, No. 4, K. of P., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Thursdays of each month. H. G. Hazzard, C. C.; J. H. Glover, K. of R. and S. Weeping Willow Lodge, No. 9596, G. U. O. meet the first and fourth Thursdays of each month at U. B. F. hall, Twenty-fourth and Charles streets. R. S. Gaskins, N. G.; T. H. Gaskins, P. S. International Order, No. 631, Colored Engineers and Portable Holsting Enginemen meets at 2225½ Lake street first and third Wednesdays in each month. W. H. Glover, N. G.; T. H. Glover, correspondent; J. H. Moss, recording secretary; S. L. Bush, treasurer. Faithful Lodge, No. 250, U. B. F., meets second and fourth Fridays in each month at Rescue hall. Visiting brethren welcome. Earl Jones, W. M.; James Tubbs, W. S. Lodge rooms at Twenty-fourth and Charles streets vacant two nights each week. Persons wanting to rent same call Allen Jones, rental agent, Webster 1100. Established 1890 C. J. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. ```markdown ``` LODGE DIRECTORY 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 Hotel Cuming 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable Rates D. G. Russell, Proprietor Douglas 2466 A. F. PEOPLES Painting, Paperhanging and Decorating. Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. 4827 Erskine Street. Phone Walnut 2111. Pope Candies, Tobacco, PRESCRI Pope Drug Co. Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. 13th and Farnam Streets. Omaha, N Thompson, Belden & The Fashion Center for Women GEORGE MILLER, Embalmer Day Phone, Red 3203. Night, Call Douglas 3718 WARDEN HOTEL Telephone Douglas 2672. Dr. Britt Upstairs Douglas 7812 and 7150 g Co. s and Sundries. MALTY. en & Co. Established 1886 3 Omaha, Nebraska A, Weekly, Newspaper, devoted to the civic, social and religous tnlorests of the Colored People of Nebraska and the Nation, with the desire to con= Ersbute something to the-ekteral wood and upbuilding of the community and or the race, g PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Entered am Second-Clags Higll Metter July #, 1615, at the Postotice at Omaha. ‘Neb. under the Act of Mateh 5, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and william Garnett Haynes, Associate Editors. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor. Bert Patrick, Business ‘Manager. Fred ©: Williams, Traveling Representative. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.00 6 MONTHS; 60c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates, 60 cents an inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 111s North Twenty; first Street, Omaha, Neb. ‘Telephone Webster A243. a WHAT IS MOTON’S MISSION? BONG the news items released last week for the Negro) press was one which, to us, should merit a little more than passing notice. The one in question refers to Dr. Rob- ert R. Moton's departure for France to do “morale work over there.” It is specifically stated that Dr. Moton is to visit all of the centers where num- bers of supply troops, stevedore regi- ments, depot brigades, labar, battal- ions and combat troops are located, speaking to them and urging in every way that they preserve the good name they have won on the battlefields and in the service in France, that they may not furnish the slightest cause for unfavorable comment or ad- verse criticism before they return to America.” By the way, have any white com- missions been sent over to France to bolster up the morale of the white troops and request them. to preserve their good name? Knowing the Col- ored ‘troops as we do, we can safely say that the Negro never abuses hos- pitality and especially such hospitality as the French have shown; We know for a fact that every Colored officer has continually preached to his men from the time they left these shores till now, to preserve their good ndme, their honor and the honor of their race. We know, too, that the men have done so and are doing so now. We see absolutely no necessity .for Dr, Moton or any other Negro to go to France for such a purpose. If the administration deems. it an honor to send such a commission, we would like to know wherein the honor lies when the purposes of such a mission are those set out above.» To us it appears an insult to the character of our boys over there and needs some explaining. We have a suspicion that the real purpose is to prepare the boys for the change they will en- counter when they return from the glorious and hospitable France to the shores of unjust and prejudiced Amer- ica. We do not say this is true, but we do have some suspicions about the mission. The morale of our boys is as high as the morale of the whites and doesn’t need the kind of boosting which the news item says they are in Mee ite “AMERICANS OR NOTHING” i. the above caption the Pittsburg Courier, one of the ablest of our many excellent ex- changes, publishes a sensible editorial concerning the ill-advised suggestion of sending a Colored American rep- resentative to the peace conference. We agree fully with our contempor- ary in the position which it takes and states so clearly in the following words: We are hearing a great deal about sending delegates to the peace con- ference to present some claims for the American Negro. At one time, it was thought that we should have a spokesman at the conference. That thought died its natural death long ago. ‘And why should we send delegates to the world’s peace conference? We are citizens of the United States. We are American citizens, or nothing. We have been so by constitutional amendments. Our position was made all the more secure by the recent se- lective draft law which included us among all other Americans made sub- ject to its provisions. We are sim- ply Americans. ‘When our country entered the war, we entered it. When our country be- came a member of the allies, we be- came a member of the allied forces. We simply follow our government. What else can we do? Peace for our country means peace for us. As a member of the allies; our gov- ernment vill sit at the peaee confer- ence. When our governmént takes its seat at the peace table, it will do s0 for every American. Our country’s representation is our representation at the conference, We can have no other; and we should ask, no other. To ask any other representation’ is to denoynce our citizenship. _Who- ever speaks for America, speaks for us. Whatever is granted America is granted us. It is impossible to be considered as a separate people as Jong as we are citizens of these United States. We are either a part of the country, we are either ’ citizens— American citizens, or we are nothing. ‘Those who desire to send a dele- gation to the peace conference have not stopped to consider in what ca- /pacity delegates would go. What ‘could they represent? Our country ‘is already represented. What are we ‘going for? Save the money for home ‘consumption; we shall have need for it here, PREPARE YOURSELF. Ww take this occasion to call upon all our readers and friends to prepare themselves for the industrial crisis which seems about to overtake this country. A year ago we were told that the various war industries were so built that when the war was over, their vast number of employees would be kept busy in the manufac- ture of other commercial lines. Now we are brought suddenly fact to face with the problem that this is imprac- ticable and that something like 8,000,- 000 men will be thrown out of em- ployment. Couple with this the Tact that we have 3,000,000 soldiers who will return to civil life, and you will readily understand that America is facing the greatest labor problem in its entire history. Already the por- tents looming above the industrial horizon are not favorable. An over- Supply of labor means cheap labor and the attitude of labor in the Unit- ed States is that it will not stand for cheaper labor unless the cost of liv- ing is materially decreased. Hence we must understantl that we face a real menace, In most industrial readjustments of ‘this kind the Negro always suffers and we cannot be too insistent when we warn our men to make the best of present éonditions so that any ‘change will not find them helpless and penniless. Save your money and pre- ee for whatever is to come. We trust that coming conditions will not work us harm, but there is nothing like being prepared for them. That is why we bring this matter to your | notice. THE STREET CAR STRIKE Ou is experiencing the un- pleasantness and inconvenience of a street car strike, The people so far as taking it patiently and good- naturedly. It is the wise thing to do; but patience, we take it, will soon cease to be a virtue. The strike should be settled and the public relieved from the hardships it is enduring. These hardships press hardest upon the working classes, While our sympathy generally goes out to the workers rather than to the corporations, in the present case it seems to us that the street car com- pany has more of right on its side than have the striking car men, whose chief grievance, according to their ac- credited spokesmen, seems to be the refusal of the company to recognize the union. It is claimed by the com- pany that this demand is a violation of the agreement entered into a few months ago on the award of the war eae This agreement was to con- tinue until the end of the war. The ‘war is not yet over and will not be over ‘atil the peace treaty is signed. Whatever grievance the car men /may have against the company could be and should be settled by arbitra- So We think the strikers are at ‘¢his time in the wrone. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Gps MONTIOD easences mits pleasure that the talented news- paper writer, a former Omahan, Wal- ter J. Singleton, has consented to be our Washington correspondent, Read- ers of The Monitor will enjoy Mr. Singleton’s weekly letters from the national capital. Look for the first one next week. FOR JUSTICE TO AFRICA Fc a small quarterly leaflet issued by the Church Prayer League of the American Episcopal church, we note parts of two prayers which are encouraging and very suggestive of the broad spirit of Christian fellow- ship pervading the great American church, They are as follows: “Let us pray earnestly that the German colonies of Africa may not be used merely as pawns in the set- tlement of peace. Let us pray that the true welfare of Africa and the Africans may be considered.” “Let us pray that we may strive to know in practice as well as in ‘theory the meaning of true democ- Faey! ; Pig leafiet: in teunad: toy: hiae sworn THE MONITOR an’s auxiliary and it goes to prove that not only we, but others are thor- oughly alive to the probable destiny of Africa and that it is desired that its exploitation cease and the na- tives be given a chance in the world. GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LIFE Sees has said that a happy home is the most that one can get out of life. Isn’t that enough? Could one wish for more? Hardly. A happy home cannot be anything but a reflection of the success one is having outside the home. It is the most that one can get out of life and it should be. Strive to make home happy and the rest will be easy. No man or woman or child ever loved an unhappy home. It is not human to do so. Home should be where the heart is and ever let your heart be there. If your home is not as happy as you would like it, make it so. You will always, find wife and chil- dren anxoius and willing to help in the readjustment of home so as to make it a pleasant place to live in. You ened only prove that your sin- cerity is real and all will help. A smile, kind words, gentle _remon- strance for the things that might be done better, praise for the things well done, helpful advice for greater things to be done, and the way is cleared. Make your home happy, because it is true that most any of us can get out of this life is a happy home. WYOMING'S IGNOMINY Wo has had another lynch- ing. This time the victim was a Negro, who had killed a switch- man and wounded another railroad man. For this crime a mob of 500 took the prisoner and hanged him. In other words, instead of there be- ing one murderer in Green River, Wyoming, who should have and would have been punished for his crime, now there are 500; for every one who participated in the lynching is as red-handed a murderer as was Woodson. It is to be resretted. that the south's favorite sport is finding favor in Wyoming, HEAD OF THE RED CROSS of Pas local chapter of the Red Cross is to be congratulated upon hav- ing as its head Robert Cowell, who has the confidence, esteem and affec- ‘tion of all who know him. In civic spirit, catholic sympathies. marked ability and broad-mindedness, Robert Cowell is easily Omaha’s first citizen. Whatever his hand finds to do he does |it with all his might. Gee | THE CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL A [i chettones soll alliis try Onx people covered themselves with glory in Red Cross membership last Christmas. Let every one renew his membership. . SKITS OF SOLOMON The Street Car Strike TT citizens of Omaha, U. S. A., woke up Wednesday about work time to find that they had to go back to their old reliable dogs for transportation to their places of coin grabbing. The street car nestled in the barns and refused to budge. The taxi drivers grabbed opportunity by the nose and began shaking the shekal tree, There's nothing dramat- ie about a street car strike, except the crying of your dogs and then that isn't drama. It’s tragedy. Nobody cares two whoops in the hereafter whose fault it is that the juice won't carry the cars: what they want to do is to see them running. The shrimps that brought on the transpor- tation quietude ought to be tarred and feathered, because shoes cost more than car fare, This labor agi- tation is getting on our nerves and if it keeps up it is only greasing the chute the chutes for old muny owner- ship, the friend of the peepul and nightmare of the corporations. Con- sidering that walking develops the muscles and frightens the flu, we ought to be sort of prayerful that the strike is dn, but too much per- ambulating on the city streets is sort of monotonous. We don’t want this strike to become a high tension per- formance and as dangerous as cyan- ide solutions, but we do wish that labor would suffer a fatty degenera- tion of ideals. Mr. Publie Peepul is the guy that gets it in the neck and our neck is getting tender, Hurry up with the S, 0. S. LAST CALL! ° Uncle Sam says: CONSERVE: PAPER and quit sending papers to people who won’t pay. We agree with Uncle Sam and since we have a few deadheads who think The Monitor is as free as air, we are giving them the LAST CALL. Come across with your subscrip- tions and if you don’t, don’t worry the telephone by asking why the faithful old postman didn’t bring your ae Es morning. Uncle Sam means business and so do we Obvious Observations Oo" Oh! these dogs of mine. ‘They certainly do worry me all the time! Don't you wish you owned seven taxis? That League of Nations proposi- tion is getting some terribul jolts, ain't it, Mabul? Why doesn’t somebody suggest a peace conference at the city hall? Mighty fine weather for old Decem. Just hope winter will dis- appoint us and keep it up. Are you looking over The Monitor advertisers for Xmas buying? It’s an ill wind that blows nobody ‘xood. The car strike has got the shoemaker smiling. ‘The papers are saying that Eng- and doesn’t love us so much after all ‘We told you so. Never thought there were so many buzz wagons in Omyhaw, did yuh? Have you paid for your paper, Genevieve? We don’t like to ask you for the money, but we need it muchly. What is egg-nog without the kick? Darn a dry town! Thanking you kindly for your close attention to this nothing in partic- ular, we will now proceed to blow our the gas and climb into the hay. IF YOU RUN RISKS, TAKE THEM A Bit of African Folklore A sheep and a dog were in the con- stant habit of stealing into a man’s yard and feasting themselves on what they could find there. Occosionally the nan saw them, and then he fell upon them with a stick. On these occasions the sheep would only grunt quietly and move slowly off, but the dog would run off yelping vigorously. So the sheep said to the dog, “If you can't stand a blow or two why do you come into the yard at all? What is the good of shouting bow-wow-wow! just because you are receiving the penalty which you knew was to be expected? If you cannot accept the punishment why do you run the risk of it?"—Bruce Grit, NOTICE FROM THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. The Union Pacifie railroad has re- quested The Monitor to inform all families who have relatives in the war, that should they need any assistance during the winter to bring the mat- ter immediately to the notice of Mr. H. A. Hanson, superintendent of the commissary department. The Union Pacific has opened this relief depart- ment especially for families of its former employees who are now serv- ing in behalf of the nation, and does not want these families to feel that assistance is mere charity. It is an obligation which the company wishes to assume in view of the faithful serv- ice rendered them by men who are now over there, LLOYD GEORGE ON GER- MANY’S AFRICAN COLONIES “When you come to settle who shall be the future trustees of these un- civilized lands (the German colonies) you must take into account the senti- ments of the peoples themselves. What confidence has been inspired in their untutored minds by the German rule of which they have had an ex- perience, whether they are anxious to secure the return of their former masters, or whether they would rather trust their destinies to other and juster, and, may I confidently say, gentler, hands than those who have had the geverning of them up to the present time, The wishes, the desires, and the interests of the people of these’ countries themselves must be the dominant factor in settling their future government. That is the prin- ciple upon which we are proceeding.” f DON’T FORGET! | In his proclamation announ- cing the signing of the armistice President Wilson said: “My Fellow Countrymen: ‘The armistice was signed this morn- ing. Everything for which Amer- iea fought has been accomplish ed. 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WESIN GROCERY CO. | Also Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. 2005 Cuming St. Telephone Douglas 1008 | Simmons Thrills Immense Audience Delivers Eloquent Masterpiece Defin- ing Hopes of the Race. Continued From Last Week In less than a century and a half, as a country, and in less than a century as a nation, the United States assumes the leadership of the world, Washington is now capital not alone of the Western Hemisphere, but of the continents of men. The robes of justice have been placed by the ‘unerring hand of fate in ‘our keeping. From embittered empires across the ‘sea peace fled to these shores like a ‘wounded and weary dove seeking rest ‘in the shade of a great rock in a strange land. But a decade ago we bore the scorn of titled paupers, who lacked both the gold that springs from honest toil, the ‘imagination that creates a civilization and the character that sustains the purpose of the human mind. Unmortgaged to a ‘Throne. Two thousand years from Nazareth, and countless seasons from the courts of human wisdom, and yet humanity, feasting on the delights of my native land, gaze for the first time on a home ‘of liberty unmortgaged to a throne, “Step by step since time began We see the steady gain of man.” And so it is with us, for step by step we have advanced from an anxious re- public resting on the foundations of human bondage to a nation of almost universal brotherhood. And not one of our valleys is hiding place for a slave, “When Freedom on her natal day, Within her war-rocked cradle lay, An iron race around her stood; Red her infant brow in blood, And through the storm which round her swept, ‘Their constant ward and watching kept.” Fought for the Land of Freedom. | The American white man may boast that he returns victor from the field ‘upon which he fought for the land of ‘freedom. I will listen to his story, and, if needs be, I will tell it for him in my feeble way. | And yet I must answer for the bet- ‘ter part. Mine are returning from the same field, no less victors, and with a brighter story to tell, for while the chief of Americans fought for the land of freedom, mine were alone in the fight for the land that gave them free- lish, to the latest, in which the gallant dom. I will not speak of others, but of mine only at this moment. I will speak words of patience, for patience has not yet murmured that her work is done. I will not be bitter. Iwill not play the braggart with a record of gold. I will counsel the sons of all my hopes returning to the bosom of worn fathers and the tears of weary moth- ers to use soft and not grievous words, Knock, I will say to them, not on his great falling-down, but on the golden “heart of the chieftain. Case for the Negro. - Lappear for the reckoning. Let me | state my case, while the courts of men ‘are open, I will wait on the verdict. ‘Is not my title clear? Are not my hands clean? Whatever I have been told to do, I ‘have done. Whenever I have been ‘called, ask the timekeeper if I have answered or sulked. While in chains Washington called to me. I came to him on the run, with bloodhounds at my heels. Search the records, Washington took the sword and opened the fur- rows. With trembling hand I dropped ‘the seed of liberty, My tears watered ‘the land; time worked the crop; Lin- ‘coln laid it by. Let me inquire, under God, what of the harvest? Are the exhibits demanded? I will speak on, Exhibits in the Case, / | We can read and write, and cipher, ‘too. We can sing both native and ‘songs of Zion, and when we sing there is no other music, | Note cur wealth. It mounts to the ‘mark of the billion. I urge all to con- jsider that it grew not by eagles, but by pennies that were moulded to suit the need of poverty. See the spires on my church, humble ‘temples of faith, and note that re- ligion always feels at home in the presence of the American Negro, | Examine the tax books. The names ‘of a million Negroes will be found ‘there. Do I understand that the ver- dict may be that the fathers-may bear ‘the burden of government, but the children may not share in the honors ‘of government? | Then search the records of all the ‘wars, from the first in which the American white man refused the sword as he had the letter of the Eng- (Continued on Page 8) Letters from Boys Overseas WAR SAVINGS STAMPS DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME Tear Out—Fill In—Hand Letter-Carrier—or Mail to Post Office TO THE LOCAL POSTMASTER:—Kindly have letter-carrier deliver to me on_____for which I will pay on delivery: (Date) $5. U.S. WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS at $_____each (State number wanted) (See prices below) 25c. U.S. THRIFT STAMPS at 25c. each. (State number wanted) Name Address W.S.S. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS IS SUPPLIED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT W. S. S. COST DURING 1918 April $4.15 July $4.18 Oct $4.21 May 4.16 Aug. 4.49 Nov. 4.22 June 4.17 Sept. 4.20 Dec. 4.23 W. S. S. WORTH $5.00 JANUARY 1, 1923 BUY BOOKS BY RACE AUTHORS Within the past ten years YOUR race has made greater strides toward literary achievement than in the CENTURIES that went before. Become familiar with the work of RACE AUTHORS. There are other books, of course, and good books. It is impossible to mention all, and these are representative of the best. They are beautifully bound and are as far above the ordinary book in book making as they are in literary value. That it may be easy for you to secure them we will take orders for them at the publisher's lowest NET prices, which are: Where the book is sent to a soldier or a sailor in a training camp there will be no charge for mailing. Otherwise, enclose ten cents for postage with every order to be sent by mail. REGIMENT LOCATED NEAR THIRTEENTH CENTURY TOWN George Gamble Writes His Sister, Mrs. John Albert Williams, From France—Strawberries in Blossom— Is Near Queen Anne's Palace— Where Is That? France, That's All, Nov. 7, 1918. My Dear Sister: Well, I know you have no doubt wondered why you have never heard from me, but I have been busy and also have neglected to write to you and I have also been waiting to see something to write about. I haven't seen much, but will just say that I am still in the land of the living and feeling fine and truly hope these few lines will find you all the same. We are across the pond from you in some or rather, near some city that I am not allowed to mention, but the place is very old and antique with its old buildings and some of which were actually built in the 13th century. There is a cathedral here, much larger than Trinity Cathedral, Omaha, that was built in the 13th century and also the palace of Queen Anne. The roads here have high stone walls around, or rather along side of them, and they tell me they were built during the old feudalistic days. The climate here is very mild and I saw strawberries in blossom today. The people here all dress different and some of them wear wooden shoes and some of them wear aprons like "Mother Hubbards." I witnessed a French soldier's funeral Sunday that was very much like our own only the mourners walk instead of ride and two altar boys carry crosses in front of the procession. As for war news I guess you know more about it than I do as the news I get is very scarce and second handed at that, but from what I hear I think we will be coming home soon. I was talking to a boy Sunday from the 366th and from what he says the Colored boys have done SOME fighting if only a few did come back from "over the top," also the old 8th Illinois. This money over here looks like to- WAR SAVING DELIVERED TO Tear Out—Fill In—Hand Letter TO THE LOCAL POSTMASTER: to me on (Date) $5. U. S. WAR-SAVING (State number wanted) 25c. U. S. THRIFT S (State number wanted) Name Address W.S.S. WAR SAVING STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT April $4 May 4 June 4 W. S. S. BUY BOOK Within the past ten years YOU toward literary achievement than in Become familiar with the work The Boy You Love He was one in the training camp will make a better soldier and a better man if he knows the ringing nines of "Fifty Years" and the haunting stories of "Jack and Bards." You will find these in James Weldon Johnson's "Fifty Years and the World," and in the world have called the greatest poetical achievement of the Colored Race. Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University has written a re- From the Fields of Alabama From the Fields of Alabama A boy came fresh from the fields of Alabama and through a session of the summer school at Harvard. A few roughly scrawled poems caught the eye of his professor. The result was a book of these verses. To the author, he wrote a corollary in a Machine Gun Company. Meanwhile the great literary newspapers of the east are saying that Waverly "turner Carmichael gives promise to the reader, and know of this soldier author or his book, "From the Heart of a Folk." In Spite of Bitter Handicaps In Louisville, Kentucky, a Colored man, an educator and a poet, rose to a position where the best men of the community were his friend. Now his son, scarcely more than a boy, overcoming the bitter handicap of falling health, he became one of the critics on the great metropolitan newspapers have acclaimed Joseph S. Cotter's 'The Band of Gideon,' not only because of his extraordinary traditions of the day but also a There are other books, of course to mention all, and these are repressed fully bound and are as far above the they are in literary value. That it may be easy for you for them at the publisher's lowest N. Fifty Years and Other Poems Folk, $1.00. The Message of a Woman, $1.25. Twenty-five The Band of Gideon, $1.00. Where the book is sent to a so there will be no charge for mailing postage with every order to be sent DO YOUR BIT!!!—GIVE SEND ORDERS T baco ocupons, and is very confusing to me, but I hope I don't have to stay long enough to get used to it. Well, sister, I must close for this time and hope to see you soon. Awaiting an early answer, I am, your loving brother, George. SERGENAT GEO. W. GAMBLE, Hdqs. Co. 809th Pioneer Inf., A. E. F. Via New York. SENSATIONS OF ONE'S FIRST SEA VOYAGE Moses Jordan Writes of His First Trip Across the Atlantic With Expeditionary Forces, November 7, 1918. Dear Father Williams: This is my first opportunity to write you since I left the states. I was hurriedly sent with the 806th Pioneer Infantry, in the medical detachment. I suppose you would like to know the nature of my work. I am being trained with a few more boys to care for the sick and wounded. Our work covers a broader field than that of a nurse, besides taking care of the sick and wounded, the sanitary condition of the infantry depends on us. We are to follow closely behind the infantry as it drives over the top or across "No Man's Land" and give first aid to the wounded. So you see, Father, I belong to a very important branch of the service. Besides my bit in the war I will return with a good knowledge of caring for the health of the community. I have met many medical boys who have seen active service in the trenches and who are skilled in medical service. Sometimes what I have to undergo in doing my bit makes me long for the post office, but when I see what our country has undergone and the task that now confronts it, I take courage and become as gay as I was the day I joined the army. My trip across the ocean was pleasant, unpleasant, sensational, frightful, dreadful, educational, and all other moo.fying words one can think of in describing it. I have read the sayings of many poets and novelists about the sea; I have looked on the sea from the pen of artistic painters; I have heard about it from the lips GS STAMPS YOUR HOME Carrier—or Mail to Post Office Kindly have letter-carrier deliver for which I will pay on delivery: NGS STAMPS at $_____ each (Take prices below) STAMPS at 25c. each. S. S. S. COST DURING 1918 15 July $4.18 Oct. $4.21 16 Aug. 4.19 Nov. 4.22 17 Sept. 4.20 Dec. 4.23 WORTH $5.00 JANUARY 1, 1923 OKS BY RACE AUTHORS UR race has made greater strides the CENTURIES that went before. of RACE AUTHORS. further proof of the rapid literary progress of his race. You Have Seen With Your Own Eyes You have seen with your own eyes the struggle of the Negro for education. You know the vital human side. That is why you will appreciate and what to remember five Years in the Black Belt," by William J. Edwards, the able founder and present head of Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute. Professor Paul J. Douglas of University has written the introduction. Tender Haunting Lyrics Isn't there some one you like to send a book provided you could find just the right book that would be a Georgia Douglas Johnson has written just a book of tender, haunting lyrics in "The Heart of a Woman." Why not make at least one girl happy by sending her a copy? Do You Love Trees? Do you love trees and the great out of doors? Maude Cuney Hare, daughter of the late Norris Wright Cuney, has collected the finest things written or said about trees in a beautiful gift book. William Stanley Braithwaite has written a production. Another Race Bard Many a scrap book contains treasured clippings of the poems of Charles Bertram Johnson as they occasionally appear in the journals of the Times. Now in "Songs of People," a new book just from the press, the best of Mr. Johnson's poetry is brought together in permanent form in a large book, the hundreds of admirers of his work. e, and good books. It is impossible native of the best. They are beauti- cary ordinary book in book making as to secure them we will take orders at prices, which are: $1.25. From the Heart of a The Trees, $2.00. The Heart of Years in the Black Belt, $1.50. Songs of My People, $1.00 Sailor or a sailor in a training camp . Otherwise, enclose ten cents for it by mail. WE A BOOK TODAY!!! TO THE MONITOR. of eloquent orators and I have dreamed of voyages across it; but from whatever source my information came I am convinced that the half has never been told. After bidding my friends farewell, I boarded a transport and it steamed away. After all noise of land had ceased and the landscapes had vanished in the distance, and after the blue skies (in bowl shape) had encircled the sea, rolling of the waves and their surging and splashing against the sides of the vessel, sometimes pushing it out of its course, brought a peculiar feeling over me that is indescribable. My days at sea were not wearisome, for there was much to see that sometimes I longed for a thousand eyes to serve my greedy mind and insatiate wonderment. Through association with other boys (and let me say, Father, that the sea will make the grouchiest friendly) I learned some interesting things about the social life of our boys throughout the states. I said throughout the states because we have boys from the southern coast of Florida to the Great Lakes and from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. Among us are boys of all classes, reaching from desperadoes to saints and from the most illiterate to the best the country has ever produced. There are hundreds of boys who cannot read or write; there are many who never left the regions of the plantations until the draft got them. The saddest case I found was an American, born in the state of Louisiana, who could not speak French or Creole or anything except a community dialect. He was the only one taken out of that community. The stories that some of the boys tell about the backwardness of their communities sound like fairy tales. I am glad to say and can truthfully say that the subs have met their masters. The inventive genius of Uncle Sammy has made them almost powerless and it is now almost as safe to travel by sea as y land. While on sea I went to the movies every day, attended boxing matches, hung around the library, and attended many religious meetings.' After many days smiling France was spied one morning and I felt as happy as Columbus when he sighted San Salvador. I shall next write you from La Belle France. Love to all. Au revoir. M. JORDAN, 806 Pioneer Inf., Hospital Corps, A. E. F. Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson announce the coming marriage of their daughter, Miss Mabel N. Jefferson to Mr. George Atkison, on December 23d, at Allen Chapel. PRE-CHRISTMAS BAZAAR TO BE CONTINUED Owing to the fact that the street car strike interfered with the attendance, the bazaar which was held Tuesday and Wednesday nights by the Women's Auxiliary and Altar Guild of St. Philip's Episcopal church, will be continued in the guild rooms next Thursday afternoon and night. This sale presents a good opportunity to buy beautiful articles suitable for Christmas gifts at reasonable prices. For Rent—Modern furnished room, 1514 North Nineteenth street. Webster 5262. Mrs. G. Hickman. 8-room thoroughly modern house, Paved street. Two blocks to 24th street car line. Soluh of Lake street. Price $2,100. Cash $250. Balance like rent. 6-room, 131 North 37th street. Modern except heat. Chicken house and chickens go with house. Price $2,500. Cash $250. Balance like rent. For rent—7-room flat, 1551 North 17th street, $20.00. 10-room flat; all modern, 1527 North 17th street, $25.00. BOYD 5 Days, Starting Matinee Sunday December 15 Epecial Matinees Tuesday and Thursday The Largest and Highest Class Minstrel Show En Route. Guaranteed Attraction. 40-Minstrel Kings and Queens-4 40-Minstrel Kings & Queens-40 Including Famous Ballad Singers. Entrancing Dancers, Novelty Entertainers, Expert Comedians, Instrumental and Vocal Soloists. A Twenty-Piece Band. Every Man a Soloist. A CREOLE BEAUTY CHORUS A Popular Minstrel at Popular Prices. Night Prices .....25c to $1.00 Matinees .....25c to 50c FOR SALE RED CROSS ROLL CALL FOR CHRISTMAS WEEK American Public Asked to Respond With Universal Membership. Is your name written there? Where? On the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call, of course. Beginning with Red Cross Sunday, December 15, the entire American nation will be given the opportunity during the week of December 16 to 23 to line up for all those errands of mercy that the bright Red Cross against the white background has come to symbolize. Cross workrooms, Employees day (when special tribute will be paid to the contribution made by the laboring man), the week ending with a general "Clean-up" day, when every person in the community not yet enrolled will again be personally solicited for membership. It is believed that some time during the week at least one performance of the masque, "The Roll Call," especially written by Mr. Percy Mackaye with This is in no sense a call for funds. It is the annual call for service. Every member of every household, from the grandfather to the nursery, should be represented on the Red Cross Service Flag. Only dollar memberships are being asked for, and these are for the calendar year of 1919. Everywhere throughout the fourteen Red Cross divisions the week will be celebrated as a rededication to personal service and self sacrifice. No matter what may be the immediate task ahead, there are bound to be increasing demands made on the Red Cross during the coming year, and every American, whether here or in foreign parts, has his part to play. Through the Divisions every Chapter, and through the Chapter every Branch and Auxiliary will spread the Red Cross Message and endeavor to enroll every person in every community. Already the membership in this national organization has grown from some few hundred thousand in 1916 to more than twenty millions since our own country entered the world war. There are no limits set for the 1918 Christmas enrollment. Every American everywhere is the hoped for goal. Programs subject to local conditions will be arranged for the week, based on suggestions worked out by national campaign managers at Headquarters. On Roll Call Sunday the Red Cross message will be preached from every pulpit, and all church meetings will arrange special programs of Red Cross activities. With the co-operation of local artists, every community will be decorated with Red Cross posters. Pasters will be used on all packages sent out from the stores during Roll Call week, and the movies will show films picturing the various Red Cross agencies at home and abroad. "For All Humanity" shows scenes taken on the actual battlefield. There will also be Women's day, club programs on Red Cross, special exercises in the Red NO FIXED QUOTAS FOR 1919. So great is the faith of the American Red Cross in the American people that no quotas have been assigned to Red Cross Chapters for the enrollment of members in the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. Universal membership is the goal. Chapters are limited only by the number of people in their jurisdictions. The Roll Call will be finished only when every available person, without regard to age or sex, has been enrolled. Children may join only through the Junior Red Cross Auxiliaries, and their membership dues are twenty-five cents a year. The chief aim in enrolling is not to raise money but to increase the membership. Special emphasis is laid upon the regular membership at $1.00 per year, but privilege will be given to enroll as a Contributing Member at $5.00, Sustaining Member at $10.00, Life Member at $50.00 or Patron at $100.00. TH. CLIMAX TO VICTORY. During the week before Christmas the entire American people will have the privilege of answering the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. The response should roar through the land with a unanimity that will stimulate to the uttermost the hopes of men in all parts of the earth. It will therefore be the climax of American idealism and will usher in Christmas with a Red Cross membership approximating the census figures. What the Red Cross wants is the approval of the American people of the Red Cross policy, and such approval will have the highest significance in the eyes of suffering people everywhere. President Wilson leads the response and passes along the message, "I summon you to the comradeship." RED CROSS SCHOOL FOR BOYS. The American Red Cross has established a manual training school for Belgian boys at Vaulruz, Switzerland. * Peace will not end the need * of Red Cross relief work. On * the contrary, the proclaiming of * peace opens new fields of service * for the Red Cross, and now, * more than ever, the American * people will be called upon to * obey their generous impulses to * bind up the world’s wounds. * Membership in the Red Cross * affords the noblest outlet for * such impulses. Every American * should answer “Here” to the * Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. Cross workrooms, Employees day (when special tribute will be paid to the contribution made by the laboring man), the week ending with a general "Clean-up" day, when every person in the community not yet enrolled will again be personally solicited for membership. It is believed that some time during the week at least one performance of the masque, "The Roll Call," especially written by Mr. Percy Mackaye, with stage settings designed by Robert Edmond Jones, will be given in every community. This has but twelve speaking parts and is arranged especially for community presentation, with men, women and children in the pantomime parts. It can be given either elaborately or very simply, as conditions warrant. In its dramatic theme it expresses the emancipation of the human spirit from tyranny through the humanizing agency of the American Red Cross. Copies of the masque, as well as directions for costuming and incidental music, can be secured at Red Cross Headquarters in every town and city. One of the most novel and interesting features of the campaign promises to be the One-day and One-Hour plan of enrollment. This consists of dividing the community into units of one hundred houses, the idea being to have sufficient workers to canvass these homes practically simultaneously, a sort of "home stretch," distributing the work among many with a minimum of time consumed by each. The official uniform worn by Roll Call workers will be a cap and arm brassard. These are to be made of red flannel and a small paper circle in white will carry the Red Cross emblem. This uniform will serve both as protection against the unscrupulous and as an aid to the workers themselves. Corporations, business firms and industries will be supplied with a 100% Service flag. There will be no Christmas sale of tuberculosis seals this year. Instead, the Red Cross has made a direct appropriation of $2,500,000 for this work, and ten seals will be awarded each person who Joins the Roll Call as a reminder of the very important work being done by the National Tuberculosis Association. Wars may come and wars may go, but the Red Cross goes on, forever. Will you not be among the first to place your name on the 1919 membership roll? WHAT BOYS SAY ABOUT RED CROSS Since the soldiers overseas have been informed by their officers that the American Red Cross will play Santa Claus this Christmas for all the boys in khaki who have no relatives in the United States, Red Cross Headquarters at Washington has been receiving hundreds of appeals. Incidentally the men at the front have taken this time to express their appreciation for the work done by the Red Cross "Over There." Following are a few excerpts taken at random from letters inclosing Christmas Package Coupons: "Dear Mr., Miss or Mrs. Red Cross. I would appreciate it tremendously if you would send me a Xmas package. I have no relatives and a little something from good old U.S. A. would be appreciated beyond words. The Red Cross has done so much for us over here, and you don't know just how we appreciate it beyond everything else." An Italian thus addresses his Christmas appeal: "To Whom It May Concern—I am in service in France and, having no people in the United States, would like to receive a little package from the Red Cross on Xmas. I am in No Man's Land in a big wood, and it is raining." "I have been informed the Red Cross will send Xmas packages to any soldier who is in need of a Xmas package. I have received so much tobacco and other things from the Red Cross in my fourteen months in France I scarcely like to write again. I am in the hospital recovering from wounds, and the Red Cross furnishes us with daily papers, material, tobacco, fruits and recreation." "I have no one else to send my Xmas coupon to, so am sending it to you, as per notice on our bulletin board. If you send a package I would appreciate it if you would inclose a bill for some, for I will pay it. I don't want to impose on you." No Red Cross is the best friend we have. One Red Cross nurse writes: "Am inclosing the coupon, but please be sure all the boys at the front get their packages first, then if one is left I will appreciate it, as I suspect all the others will have something from home which will make me a little lonesome. Words cannot express our appreciation for the Red Cross." "The Red Cross is a great help and blessing to the soldiers any and everywhere." "We of the A. E. F. are constantly being shown evidences of the wonderful work the Red Cross is doing and are extremely thankful." "Dear Red Cross Workers.—After we left dear old America we thought we were traveling away from your kindness, but we did not. We cannot praise you too highly for your work. I have no folks at home to send me a Christmas package." "Words cannot express the obligation we are under for the work you are doing to help us along." I know I would greatly appreciate any little remembrance. I wish to most sincerely thank the Red Cross for all the kindnesses and benefits they have bestowed upon our boys." WILL ENTERTAIN FOR STAR PERFORMERS Messrs. Wade, Thomas and Black, who are stellar attractions in the Wonder Show at the Gayety theater for the next ten days will be entertained at a 6 o'clock dinner at the Top Notch cafe, Twenty-fourth and Hamilton streets, Friday night by the United Ladies' clubs of Grove Methodist church. PORO HAIR CULTURE We treat the scalp and grow the hair. Manicuring and massage. HATTIE B. HILL, Proprietor 2320 North 26th St. Phone Webster 3390. Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Farnam Streets We Have a Complete Line of FLOWER, GRASS AND GARDEN Seeds Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry Supplies Fresh cut flowers always on hand Stewart's Seed Store 119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 F. WILBERG BAKERY Across from Alhambra Theatre The Best is None Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 E. A. Williamson DRUGGIST Competent and Reliable 2306 North 24th St. Webster 4443 C. H. MARQUARDT CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. 2003 Cuming St. Doug. 3834 Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke and Cure our own Hams and Bacon. Phone Web. 875. J. Hall Work Called for and Delivered Progressive Tailors Ladies and Gents Tailoring SUITS MADE TO ORDER Pressing, Cleaning, Dyeing and Alteration a Specialty 1614 N. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. J. A. Edholm E. W. 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Graves DENTISTRY 242 North 10th Street Telephone L 5263 LINCOLN, NEB The CHAPMAN Drug Store 934 P St., Lincoln Opposite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazines, Cigars, Candies and a full line of Druggist Sundries MADAME HENDERSON HAIRDRESSER and MANICURIST Agent or the Celebrated Madam Walker Preparations. The Walker Method Taunt. Diplomas Granted Phone Webster 1489 2866 Mapie Street, Omaha, Neb. 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. The Lincoln Lunch Room Quick Service for Working Men C. C. GALLOWAY, Prop. 103 South 14th St. Tel. Douglas 3651. --- Lincoln News MRS. SARAH WALKER. Miss Martha Burden entertained at a beautifully appointed dinner party in honor of her sister, Miss Mary Mrs. birthday last Tuesday night, at the home of Miss Flossie Patrick. Covers were laid for eight. Clyde Malone returned home Saturday from Camp Pike, where he had been in the officers training camp. present were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Friday entertained two dancing in h Saturday tained at o Felix Payne Cyrus Corneal died Monday morning at the home of his brother, Abe Corneal, of a complication of diseases. Mr. Corneal had been ailing for some time, but not until last Saturday did he become seriously, ill, growing weaker and weaker until Monday morning when he passed away. He leaves a father, two brothers and four sisters to mourn his loss. The body was taken to Hiawatha, Kas., for burial, accompanied by Mr. Evans Corneal, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Corneal, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Corneal and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Young. Mr. P. J. Stephney is very ill this week. Mr. Charles Haynes is much improved this week. The L. L. S. Kensington club met at the home of Mrs. Ruby Brassfield Monday afternoon. The next meeting will be held in two weeks at the home of Mrs. James. Mrs. Felix Payne of Kansas City, who is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. Gates, has been the recipient of many social affairs during the past week. Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. James gave a very delightful party in honor of Mrs. F. Payne. The evening was spent in dancing and cards. Those Alive in Reality expand for Space, 20,000 Sq. Ft. Now Information of our stock needs R. & G. Dry Goods stock. The walls between the two to operate. The addition merchandise and relieve. Styleplus Clothes Shoes in Our Stock—R. Men's Suits One-Half Price Expansion Sale 1912—Floor Space, 20,000 Sq. Ft. 1915—Floor Space, 50,000 Sq. Ft. 1919—Floor Space, 80,000 Sq. Ft. Now In Progress The transformation of our stock necessitates rapid stock reduction. Our lease on the adjoining 50-foot building now occupied by the R. & G. Dry Goods store starts this Jan. 1, 1919. Hence this sale now—before Xmas to enable us to accomplish our aim. The walls between the two buildings must be cut down, elevators moved, etc. But first of all stocks must be cut to enable us to operate. The addition of 30,000 square feet of floor space will give the much needed room to allow better display of our merchandise and relieve congestion in our growing departments. © Styleplus Clothes Any Pair of Shoes in Our Stock—Rubbers Are Excepted 16% Discount. Severe Price Reductions on Women's Wear. Women's Suits One-Half Price. Women's Coats One-Fourth Off. Women's Dresses One-Third Off. LINCOLN, NEB. n News present were: Mr. and Mrs. L. Gates, Mr. and Mrs. J. Galbraith, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dean. Friday evening Mrs. L. Gates entertained twenty ladies at cards and dancing in honor of Mrs. Felix Payne. Saturday Mrs. Ed Shipman entertained at dinner in honor of Mrs. Felix Payne. Eight ladies were present and a very enjoyable time was reported by all present. Monday evening Mrs. Dee and Mr. James gave a delightful surprise party complimentary to Mrs. James whose birthday occurred on that date. An evening of much merriment was enjoyed by all present. Mrs. Dean and Mrs. Nichols gave an afternoon card party complimentary to Mrs. Felix Payne. In response to the compliments tendered her, Mrs. Payline, who possesses a rich contralto voice, rendered several beautiful solos, assisted by Mrs. Isetta Malone and Mrs. Hazel Dean. The Optimistic Set gave a farewell party Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Williams in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Earl McWilliams, who will depart for Washington, D. C. Saturday, where they expect to make their future home. The members of the O. S. club presented Mrs. McWilliams with a beautiful pie knife. "THE MONITOR IN THE HOME OF EVERY COLORED FAMILY IN OMAHA BY JANUARY FIRST." Help put it there. Is your neighbor a subscriber? DEEDS NO in Reality—Not Fancy—Comme Oans 1000 Sq. Ft. 1915—Floor Spac Now In Store Ex our stock necessitates rapid stock Goods store starts this Jan. 1, 1 between the two buildings must be c The addition of 30,000 square f and relieve congestion in our grow MEN'S $ $ $1.25 values nov $1.50 values nov $2.00 values nov $2.50 values nov $3.00 values nov Neckwe r Stock—Rubbers Are Excepted 1 One-Half Price. Women's Coats --- THE MONITOR MRS. SARAH WALKER. Store Expansion MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS Up to $20.00, now Every Garment Guaranteed as Though You Paid Full Price. Alterations Free! MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS Up to $28.50, now Plain and Fancy Weaves—Quarter, Half and Full Lined. MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS Up to $25.00, now Outing Robes and Pajamas Neckwear and Mufflers The favorite gift item for men. Our entire stock comprising the most select patterns in Nebraska in the sale at- LA GRANGE, TEXAS Rev. G. L. Mills, P. C. of A. M. E. church here, and at Bethlehem Community, left last Tuesday for Somerville, Tex., to attend the A. M. E. annual conference. Rev. Geo. A. Drisdale, Weimar, passed through the city last Friday en route to Smithville, where his church, New Flower Hill, entertained the Foreign Mission Board, December 4. Rev. Thomas Franklin, Muldoon, was in town last Friday and left his subscription for the Monitor for six months. The Monitor contains information that no man whether he reads for self information or whose work is to teach and edify the people can justly afford to be without. See the agent and let him talk to you about it. Miss Delphine Oakes, Elliott May Dobbin and Mary L. Price are young teachers who read The Monitor each week. Saturday was pay day for the Fayette county Colored teachers, and though it was cold many were in town. Mr. Ike Blacker and wife as visiting relatives here. Mrs. Rev. D. F. Vance of Oakland, passed through the city Thanksgiving day en route home from Austin. Mrs. Maggie Smith arrived in the city Monday morning. Boys from the camps are arriving slowly. Mr. Teddy Williams, who visited his people here for a few days last week, returned last week to the camp at Prairie View college, where he is receiving special training for the service of the government. Mr. Ishmael Anderson lost his only daughter last week by death. NOT WORDS or cially Speaking, the Response t ion S e, 50,000 Sq. Ft. 1919—Floo Progres xpansion reduction. Our lease on the ad 1919. Hence this sale now—before at down, elevators moved, etc. B set of floor space will give the mu ding departments. SUITS AND including the Famous Society $14^{75} $1975 $24^{75} W 98c v $1.19 v $1.59 v $1.98 v $2.39 15 % OFF 6% Discount. Severe Price Redu- One-Fourth Off. Women's Dres Bros. --- response to Our Sale 9—Floor Space, 80,000 Sq. Ft. in the adjoining 50-foot building now before Xmas to enable us to accom- , etc. But first of all stocks must be the much needed room to allow better ND OVERCOATS Society Brand Clothes All the New Styles, all the New Patterns, all the Good Fabrics; Sizes from 35 to 52, in Regulars, Stouts, Slims and Shorts. Men's Fur Lined and Trimmed Coats This includes our entire stock of the season's popular fur collar coats. Many are exclusive models from the Society Brand Shops—Comprising the newest coating fabrics—with collars of Seal, Muskrat, Otter, Beaver, etc. Be your own Santa Claus and step into one today. Men's Fine Pants Our entire regular stock of plain and fancy patterns. A fine assortment of materials and a full range of sizes— One-Fifth Off. Men's Mackinaws You will act wisely to buy now. It will mean a good rine profit on your investment. Many patterns—all sizes— 15 Per Cent Off. re Price Reductions on Women's Wear. Women's Dresses One-Third Off. s. Co. ELI SHIRE, President. Rev. S. A. Tillman preached at Eagle Lake Sunday. Not a bell was run at any of the Negro churches for Thanksgiving services last Thursday. It is sad reflection on us who claim to have a monopoly on religion. The white people held union-services. The following places went over the top on the war work campaign: Winchester, Muldoon, Plum, West Point, Rabbs Prairie, Round Top, Fayetteville, La Grange, Holman, Ammansville. Rev. J. W. Stapleton preached two splendid sermons here Sunday, December 1. Mrs. Grant Whitehall, Misses Dorothy and Velma Whitehall of Schuyler, and Messrs. Bruce and Theodore Lowry of Columbus, were pleasant visitors in the city last week. Mrs. Earl Handley left last Monday for Kansas City, Mo., to join her husband and to make their future home there. Mrs. Thomas Watts, Mrs. Ada Thomas, and Mrs. U. S. Watts pleasantly entertained for Mrs. Earl Handley previous to her departure for Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Wardell Cash spent Thanksgiving in Omaha. Mrs. A. V. Thomas entertained a few friends at dinner Sunday evening. Plates were placed for Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watts, Mrs. U. S. Watts and daughters, Misses Bernice and Marjory; Mr. Sidney Thomas and Mrs. Burdette Thomas. A splendid quarterly meeting was held the first quarter of our new conference year. Revs. Terrell and Stapleton being in charge. A soul inspiring sermon was preached which was enjoyed by all present. MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS Up to $40.00, now $2975 MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS Up to $47.50, now $3475 MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS Up to $55, now $3975 Suits and Overcoats for Men of all ages. Society Brand Clothes at Sale Prices. FREMONT, NEB. C. HERNDON. Dependable That is what all our customers think of us. Let us furnish you with your overcoats, suits, shoes and other furnishings. Prices always reasonable. PALACE CLOTHING CO. 14th and Douglas Liberty Drug Co. EVERYBODY'S DRUG STORE We Deliver Anywhere. Webster 386. Omaha, Neb. Classified Advertising RATES—1½ cents a word for single insertions; 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement taken for more than 15 cents. Cash should accompany advertisement. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. Neatly furnished rooms for light housekeeping. 722 N. 16th st. Tel. Doug. 9027. J. L. Webster—Adv. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board. 1516 North 16th St. Tel. Web. 4983. Furnished room for man and wife or women. Tel. Web. 1654. 2115 Clark street. Furnished room, strictly modern, 911 Capitol avenue. Mrs. J. H. Broomfield. Douglas 2378. Neatly furnished room in private home. Strictly modern. 2524 North Twenty-fifth street. 10-27 FURNISHED rooms; strictly modern; men preferred. 2204 N. 19th st. Tel. Web. 3308. FOR RENT—Right at 24th st. car line; two nice, large furnished rooms for couple; also a smaller room. 2317 Charles. Webster 4745. A furnished room for rent. Mrs. E. M. Wright, 2620 Burdette st. Webster 5543. FURNISHED rooms for rent. 2622 Grant st. FOR RENT OR FOR SALE—Six-room house, furnished. Call Webster 5639. 1809 North 23d st. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern furnished rooms for man and wife or for men. 2417 Caldwell. Mrs. G. Holmes. Furnished rooms. Strictly modern. 2705 Douglas street. Harney 6829. Mrs. I. Falls. A neat furnished room in modern home for man and wife, 3702 North Twenty-third street. Webster 3727 9-21 Neatly furnished rooms in private family. Strictly modern. Webster 1196. 9-21-4t First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric light. On Dodge and 24th st. car line. Mrs. Ann Banks, 924 North 20th st. Doug. 4375. Furnished Rooms—Neatly furnished rooms in a strictly modern home; one-half block off car line. Tel. Web. 4983. 1516 North 16th. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern furnished room for man and wife. Mrs. Hueston, 2805 Ohio. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. Call Webster 5639. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. W. Harvell. Webster 4760. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, all modern. 2706 Parker st. Web. 1250. First-class modern furnished rooms. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, 1702 North Twenty-sixth street. Phone Webster 4769. Neatly furnished rooms in a private home. Modern except heat. Men only. Webster 1760. Neatly furnished rooms, 1842 North 27th St. Call Webster 2812. Two furnished rooms, 2415 Indiana avenue. Tyler 3299-W. For Rent-Modern furnished rooms. 2320 North 28th Ave. Phone Webster 2058. American Red Cross Presents Twelve-Star Service Pin to Colored Minister. + The Rev. R. H. Windsor of Rayville, La, and the Twelve-Star Service Pin Presented to Him by the American Red Cross. Having the right to and needing a twelve-star service pin, the Rev. R. H. Windsor of Rayville, La., a zealous Red Cross worker, has been presented with a unique decoration by the American Red Cross. The father of nineteen sons, twelve of whom are with the colors, this genial colored minister of the Baptist church probably holds the record for sons in the military service of the United States. If there are any others with similar or better status, they are yet to be heard from. In the accompanying illustration of the twelve-star pin, topped with the Red Cross insignia, it will be noted that the first bar bears five stars. These represent five individual sons, Bennie, Robbin, Jeff, Johnnie and Archie. The next bar bears two stars representing twins, George and Lafayette; the next bar is similarly decorated, representing William and James, also twins; and the bottom bar, with its three stars, represents the triplets, Matthew Mark and Luke. Eight of the boys are volunteers, and the other four were called in the draft. Upon hearing of the remarkable record of the Windsor family, President Wilson, who is also president of the American Red Cross, wrote to the Rev. Mr. Windsor as follows: "I am writing to say with what interest and admiration I have learned of the fact that twelve of your sons are in the service of our country, and the thirteenth impatiently waiting to follow them in. This is a splendid record, and I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. The colored troops have proved themselves fine soldiers." NOTICE, COLORED ROMAN CATHOLICS All Colored Roman Catholics are requested to meet at 10 o'clock every Sunday morning at Sacred Heart Church, Twenty-second and Binney streets, for instruction. All other persons who desire instruction in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church are invited.—Adv. Attention Christmas Shoppers... Our Small Goods, Player Roll and Columbia Record Departments offer many Christmas suggestions such as Violins, Ukeleles, Banjos, Guitars, Saxaphones, Clarinettes, Drums, Band Instruments, latest song player rolls and Columbia Records. Player Rolls, 25c to $1.00. Music Rolls and Bags, $1.50 to $15. Violins, all sizes, at special Christmas prices—these instruments are of the best known makes and are backed by our own personal guarantee. Call at once and make your selection for Christmas delivery. Schmoller & Mueller 1311-13 Farnam St. Doug. 1623 Events and Persons Events and Persons Mr. and Mrs. Randall, 2411 Burdette street, entertained at a six-course dinner Thursday, November 28, in honor of their sister, Mrs. Lillian C. Vincent, and Miss Craddock, of Marshall, Mo. Covers laid for ten. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board. 1516 North 16th. Tel. Webster 4983. Mrs. E. E. Vincent, 1438 North 20th, is rapidly recovering from a severe attack of illness. Mrs. L. A. Harrison, one of the best known farmers of Oklahoma, is visiting her son, Y. C. Harrison, and his wife at 2023 North 27th street. For moving, expressing and hauling call Douglas 7952. Penn and Sibley.—Adv. Mr. Ivory and wife, of Portland, Ore., were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Williams, 2609 Grant street. A reception was given in their honor. Mrs. L. O. Gregory, 2622 North 25th street, has been confined to her home because of illness. Mrs. Mary King died of the influenza Sunday, December 1. Mrs. King was a native of Buxton, Ia., and mother of Mrs. Philip Baldwin of Omaha. Why not take a course in conversational French with R. L. Desdunes, 2215 North Twenty-fifth street? Phone Webster 3300.—Adv. The two Peoples brothers and Shirley Kennedy are reported returned from camp. Mrs. Silas Johnson, who has recently been quite ill. is recovering. Attend the Helpers' "crazy" social. Tons of fun.—Adv. Mrs. Green, of 937 North 27th, received word from the war department that her husband is dead in France N. W. C. A. RETURNS THANKS The management of the Negro Women's Christian association wish to thank the public, which made it possible for us to realize $54.05 from our dinner November 20, and especially do we feel grateful to Mr. John Walls for services rendered on that day and for the use of his establishment. The prizes, which were managed by Mmes. Roberts and Riggs, were received by the following persons: Mrs. Nannie Kenner, chocolate set; Mr. Randolph Stephens, handbag; Mrs. William Lewis, basket. We also gratefully acknowledge the thanksgiving offerings from the various churches, namely: THE BOYS ARE COMING HOME Quite a number of the boys who have been at Camps Funston and Lewis have been discharged and have returned home. Among those who have returned from Camp Funston are Henry Wilson, Carl Frampton and Clifford Walls, and from Camp Lewis are James and Larry N. Peoples, Harry Mason and several others whose names The Monitor has not learned. CALLED HOME BY HENRY R. Roberts, who has been absent from Omaha for several months, has been called home by the serious illness of his daughter Madeline, who is now convalescent. CARD OF THANKS We, the relatives of the deceased, Mrs. Belle Richardson, wish to thank our friends for their kind remembrance and sincere sympathy expressed for us in our recent bereavement. William Richardson. Mrs. Richardson. Harvey King, Sr. William King. Frank King. John King. Louis King. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey King, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Gater. K. & M. Grocery Co. Successor to H. E. YOUNG We solicit your patronage. 2114-16 North 24th St. THE MONITOR U. S. HEALTH SERVICE ISSUES WARNING U. S. HEALTH SERVICE ISSUES WARNING Increase in All Respiratory Diseases After the Influenza Epidemic Probable. Influenza Expected to Lurk for Months. How to Guard Against Pneumonia. Common Colds Highly Catching—Importance of Suitable Clothing—Could Save 100,000 Lives. Washington, D. C.—With the subsidence of the epidemic of influenza the attention of health officers is directed to pneumonia, bronchitis and other diseases of the respiratory system which regularly cause a large number of deaths, especially during the winter season. According to Rupert Blue, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, these diseases will be especially prevalent this winter unless the people are particularly careful to obey health instructions. "The present epidemic," said Surgeon General Blue, "has taught by bitter experience how readily a condition beginning apparently as a slight cold may go on to pneumonia and death. Although the worst of the epidemic is over, there will continue to be a large number of scattered cases, many of them mild and unrecognized, which will be danger spots to be guarded against." The Surgeon General likened the present situation to that after a great fire, saying, "No fire chief who understands his business stops playing the hose on the charred debris as soon as the flames and visible fire have disappeared. On the contrary, he continues the water for hours and even days, for he knows that there is danger of the fire rekindling from smoldering embers." "Then you fear another outbreak of influenza?" he was asked. "Not necessarily another large epidemic," said the Surgeon General, "but unless the people learn to realize the seriousness of the danger they will be compelled to pay a heavy death toll from pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. Common Colds Highly Catching. "It is encouraging to observe that people are beginning to learn that ordinary coughs and colds are highly catching and are spread from person to person by means of droplets of germ laden mucus. Such droplets are sprayed into the air when careless or ignorant people cough or sneeze without covering their mouth and nose. It is also good to know that people have learned something about the value of fresh air. In summer, when people are largely out of doors, the respiratory diseases (coughs, colds, pneumonia, etc.) are infrequent; in the fall, as people begin to remain indoors, the respiratory diseases increase; in the winter, when people are prone to stay in badly ventilated, overheated rooms, the respiratory diseases become very prevalent. Suitable Clothing Important "Still another factor in the production of colds, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases is carelessness or ignorance of the people regarding suitable clothing during the seasons when the weather suddenly changes, sitting in warm rooms too heavily dressed or what is even more common, especially among women, dressing so lightly that windows are kept closed in order to be comfortably warm. This is a very injurious practice. Could Save 100,000 Lives. "I believe we could easily save one hundred thousand lives annually in the United States if all the people would adopt the system of fresh air living followed, for example, in tuberculosis sanatoria. There is nothing mysterious about it—no specific medicine, no vaccine. The important thing is right living, good food and plenty of fresh air. Droplet Infection Explained in Pictures "The Bureau of Public Health, Treasury Department, has just issued a striking poster drawn by Berryman, the well-known Washington cartoonist. The poster 'exemplifies the modern method of health education. A few years ago, under similar circumstances, the health authorities would have issued an official dry but scientifically accurate bulletin teaching the role of droplet infection in the spread of respiratory diseases. The only ones who would have understood the bulletin would have been those who already knew all about the subject. The man in the street, the plain citizen and the many millions who toll for their living would have had no time and no desire to wade through the technical phraseology." USE THE HANDKERCHIEF AND DO YOUR BIT TO PROTECT ME! PRESIDENT DEPARTMENT UNITED STATES MASSACHUSETTS MASS. BLUES SERVICE COLDS, INFLUENZA, PNEUMONIA, AND TUBERCULOSIS ARE SPREAD THIS WAY Copies of this poster can be obta- tained free of charge by writing to the Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. M. Marcel Baudouin, who has been examining some human remains, dating from the neolithic epoch (the latest period of the stone age), has presented the Academy of Science with a curious report. The shape of the incisor teeth of two young children of this distant epoch leads him to the conclusion that the present single root teeth of human beings are in reality a development from three germs, and that man is descended from the herbivorous animal with an ancestor possessing 132 dental germs. England's First Typewriter. So long ago as 1714 a patent for a typewriter was taken out in England by Henry Mill; it was called a "machine for impressing letters singly and progressively as in writing, whereby all writings may be engrossed in paper so exact as not to be distinguished from print." His machine was very clumsy, and it was not until more than a century later (1820) that anything further was attempted. Then the first American typewriter, "called a typographer," was patented by W. A. Burt. Geologists owe much of their knowledge of the Alps to the tunnels which have been bored through these mountains to make railway routes between the northern and southern parts of Europe. There has been no more important discovery made in this way than during the construction of the Loetschberg tunnel. This was the unexpected piercing of a great coal seam in the center of a mass of much younger Triassic stone. Accidents at Different Ages One of the large casuity companies has prepared a compilation showing the percentage of deaths due to accident at different ages. Out of a total of 713,801 deaths embraced in the compilation. 21.1 per cent were persons from fifteen to twenty-nine years old; 16.1 per cent, thirty to thirty-nine; 12.3 per cent, forty to forty-nine; 8 per cent, fifty to fifty-nine, and 4.7 per cent, sixty to sixty-nine. Has Two Independence Days. There is one country on the American continent, Ecuador, which actually boasts of two national days. These independence days of the little republic are the 9th of August and the 9th of October, and mark two determined revolutions, the first of which failed, only to spur the patriots, revolting against Spanish domination, to shake it off, a few months later, forever. Little Ethel, whose big brother, George, was her teacher's beau, walked proudly to the desk with her examples worked neatly. The teacher, after looking them over, said "Ethel, I don't like your methods." "Well, then," sald Ethel, "I'll tell my brother, George. He wrote them for me." "I want to get some information," said the tired man with three suitcases. "Why don't you apply to the bureau of information?" "I'm working up to that. First I've got to get information as to how I can find the bureau of information."—Washington Star. Do not work so hard that you have no time to look up and around you, no time to exchange ideas with another, no time for quiet thought. To work without growth means exhaustion. The spring itself must be fed if its waters are not to fail. There are ten or twelve fox farms in Alaska. One of them, situated in the Tanana valley, a mile and a half from Fairbanks, consists of ten acres of cleared land, the greater part of which is covered with pens in which the animals live. "A hard woman to please." "How so?" "When her husband telephones that he will be detained at the office she wants to know whose office and the nature of the detention."—Birmingham Age-Herald. One billion silver dollars, laid in a row, says Gas Logic, each coin just touching the one before it and the one following, would form a line that would reach practically around the entire world. Tea Blending Practical Monopoly The business of tea blending is peculiarly British. For 100 years Mincing lane has blended tea for the whole world and brought the work into the region of an exact science. Bees as Weather Guides Bees are good weather guides, being sluggish and inactive in the morning if the day is going to be wet, and active and lively if it is going to turn out bright and fine. "Our lowest ambition should be a life of ninety years." says a noted physician. Well, it is sort of a low ambition just merely to hang on.—Boston Transcript. When Man Ate Grass. Tunnels and Geology. Got George in Wrong. His Great Task. Guard Your Work. Fox Farms. Suspicious Creature. A Billion Silver Dollars What Our Heirs Think WHITE BORAX NAPTHA AN ODORLESS ALL-PURPOSE SOAP White Borax NAPTHA SOAP Country Soap Works, U.S.A. An Exceptionally Fine COLD WATER SOAP Wash your skin with HARD-SOFT HOT OR COLD WATER. White Borax NAPTHA SOAP Country Soap Works, U.S.A. An Exceptionally Fine COLD WATER SOAP Wash your skin with HARD-SOFT HOT OR COLD WATER. White Borax NAPTHA SOAP Country Soap Works, U.S.A. An Exceptionally Fine COLD WATER SOAP Wash your skin with HARD-SOFT HOT OR COLD WATER. Ask Your Grocer for "WHITE BORAX NAPTHA" And You Will Have the Cleanest and Whitest Clothes in the Neighborhood. SBORNE 2506 NORTH WEBSTER Dark Grey, High Cloth Top Shoes, $8.00 value, for. Very Solid School Shoes, regular $4.50 values, for. High Top Dark Brown Shoes, regular $5.50 values, for. Dark Brown Shoes, regular $9.00 values, for. Mass Pants, $3.50 values, for. Ivory, pair. Waists, at. Shuits, ages 2 to 6, at. Bow Brand Shirts. March Shirts. Y, Bungalow Aprons, Children's Dresses, Hosiery, 25 PER CENT UNDER DOWNTOWN PRICES McCree Lunch Ro 2506 NORTH 24TH ST. WEBSTER 1412 Women's Dark Grey, High Cloth Top Shoes, $8.00 value, for.....$5.98 Boys' Heavy Solid School Shoes, regular $4.50 values, for.....$3.50 Girls' High Top Dark Brown Shoes, regular $5.50 values, for.....$3.98 Men's Dark Brown Shoes, regular $9.00 values, for.....$6.75 Men's Dress Pants, $3.50 values, for.....$2.75 Men's Hosiery, pair.....25c Women's Waists, at.....$1.25 Boys' Wash Suits, ages 2 to 6, at.....$1.45 Men's Arrow Brand Shirts.....$1.98 Men's Monarch Shirts.....99c Millinery, Bungalow Aprons, Children's Dresses, Hosiery, Notions. 25 PER CENT UNDER DOWNTOWN PRICES The McCree Lunch Room 1210 Dodge Street GOOD HOME COOKING Hot Bread; Home-Made Pies a Specialty. TABLES FOR LADIES. HE CRUSAD The Greater Negro Magazine. THE CRUSADER The Greater Negro Magazine. Winning a welcome everywhere. You must have it. A Monthly. One Dollar a Year. 2299 Seventh Avenue, - - - - New York City THE CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT DOES DOUBLE DUTY Here's your chance to make your CHRISTMAS GIFTS do double duty please the one to whom they're given and give the boys in service the best of everything. Give WAR SAVINGS STAMPS for Christmas presents instead of cash both in your home and office. LET UNCLE SAM BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS THIS YEAR He's giving you life, love and liberty. Lend him assistance. Buy War Savings Stamps. It is such a little thing to do for your boy and mine---give twice at one price. NEBRASKA WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE Telephones: Douglas 2842; Webster 5519. The Christmas Store for Men In which one finds the things men care for. It has ceased to be difficult shopping for men's gifts. No doubt need arise if it comes from "Easy to say, but not often accomplished," you may say. Very true, in the average store, but here you'll find a different situation. See for yourself: SILK SHIRTS are "regulation" now. They are a definite part of the haberdashery every well-dressed man demands. We offer such patterns as are individual, dependable in quality and precise in fit—Manhattan, Eagle, Arrow, Earl & Wilson. MUFFLERS — Silk ones, woollen ones, also knit styles — all with silk fringed ends. Plain shades, stripes, plaids, figured patterns, bordered effects. For evening wear, reefers of heavy silk in black, white and gray. GOOD NECKWEAR—A bit better than he might ordinarily select for himself, that will make a real gift. Hand-framed silk knit scarfs. Ideas can scarcely be more diversified than our Christmas Stocks. Hence Their Demand for Gifts. The attractive Bath Robe is as pleasant to wear and as convenient as it is good looking. Sufficient to say that in no former season has our showing been so large and varied. Make selections now, before the best are gone. $5.95, $6.50, $7.50 to $10 Philip's Dept. Store 8 Chateau Thierry. While you may find much of courage and daring, I announce that nothing can be found of treason. Will Not Talk Politics. Upon all sides I hear the bitter cry of politics. I am told that if that grand organization known as the republican party had been in control of the government much of the shame visited upon the Negro and the Negro soldier would not now be a part of the history of the day. Upon that point I will not speak, except to say that all republicans are not Theodore Roosevelt and that few democrats entertain hope of heavenly reward of earthly labors to improve the American Negro. When war came, and even before—a month before Bernstorff returned to the pleasant paths around his castle on the Rhine—I announced that I was a Wilson republican for the duration of the war. I spoke for the race to which I was proud to belong. In the days of fear and hope that followed I and mine kept the faith. When the President read my party out of government it was only then that I left his standard for my own. An Unwise Speech. When I declared that partisans would surrender their politics but not their party I spoke for a unified nation. Speaking for a one-party nation Mr. Wilson spoke unwisely and to the sorrow of all. I live in a one-party section of this country. That course is fresh with me. Let one party, whatever its name, control the affairs and the destiny of this nation, and then: "Goodbye, Columbia; farewell, sweetheart, farewell." I will not speak of politics, but I will say that I know what party stood me on my feet and what party seeks to take me off my feet. I know what party gave me the ballot and what party took the ballot from me. I know what party wrote the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution and what party is always talking about rubbing it out. Why No Negro General. I am told that politics cut down our warriors. The fault is not altogether in either politics or the American white man. We put our own forward to speak for us, and what happened? Instead of speaking for the people they spoke A Nettle THE GENTLE A good quality souvenir o of shoes. Also a fine line of Boys' Sho M. S. AT 503 South 16th Street. 3856 Leavenworth St. 7 rooms, newly papered and painted, new electric light fixtures, bath room and toilet, large loz on paved street and car line; one-half block from school. House is vacant; can move right in. See it today. G. B. R REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, FI Telephones: Douglas 2842; Web The Chri for themselves. Intrigue found a home among them. This has always been the story: Self above the common hopes; looking out for number one. God help the numberless ones! The American Negro set his heart on the promise of a general of the breed riding at the head of his troops under the Stars and Stripes. But history still offers an unfinished page. We went into the war without a general, and we came out without one. Still, mark the heroism of the black phalanx fighting under leaders who could not have believed them soldiers because they held them less than men. Young and Denison. The hottest partisan against the American Negro, even the banished kaiser of Mississippi politics, will not deny that their race, and their race alone, stood between the shoulder straps of a brigadier general and the worthy claims of those genuine soldiers, Colonel Young for the regulars and Colonel Denison for the volunteers. Yet twelve millions of their own were first to answer each time McAdoo called for soldiers for the Liberty loans. Sublime America. An ancient teacher is quoted as having asked if aught could ever be sublime. America is sublime, surpassing in behavior anything that romance speaks of. "Bread, bread! We are starving!" Two days after the vanquished Huns had begun to recross the Rhine that was the cry from Germany. What happened? With American bread and American money Hoover set sail to relieve the stalwart enemies of modern civilization, who but the day before were armed to the teeth against all humanity. The American Negro has never armed himself against civilization. He has never burned mighty structures to the ground. He has never cut the throats of babies, nor has he abused the women of a desolate country—ask Southerners who had fathers in the civil war about that—nor did he destroy the precious accumulations of art. For two centuries he has cried for the bread of life and kindness. What has been the answer? The rope too often, and too often the torch. And pulpits are parade ground for parlor phrases, while preachers talk social service language, forgetting an in- ton Shoe! MAN'S CHOICE clothes brush with every pair oes. TKISSON Iler Grand Building. HOME--- 2417 Maple St.—5-room cottage, modern except heat, large rooms, floored attic; large lot on paved street; ½ block to 24th street car line; fine neighborhood; now vacant. Can move right in. See it today. Price $2,500. Very easy terms. OBBINS FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE Oster 5519. THE MONITOR junction that moved multitudes in earlier days: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these!" Old Glory Told the Story. Our hope is in Old Glory. Old Glory went along with the boys. Always present, she saw all and remembered all. Questions were put to her over there and she answered. Strangers inquired of her and she told the story. Old Glory told them that she was no stranger to the task of liberty. That was the day when black hands held her highest in the heavens, refusing to kneel under command, lest for the first time her folds should touch the ground. The French tell that with pride. While children wept for joy and women wept for God, Old Glory told them that many years ago she was a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night to Grant when, like Pershing, he fought battles for liberty. Old Glory told them that before she ever thought of tasks in distant lands she had broken shackles over here, handed the spelling book to children of slaves; erected altars where an auction block had stood, and years and years before she had protected orphans and widows in France she took women from the hands of despoilers and gave boys and girls a father as well as a mother, and mothers a husband as well as children. And if further inquiry was made, Old Glory told them how she stood Douglass on the platform, made Washington, the slave, the teacher of Washington, the freemen, and that music might know her grandest strains, how she waved in answer to the harp in the witching hand of Dunbar. Having told strangers of the rise of liberty in the new world, Old Glory will tell us and all of the valor of our sons while on an errand in the old world. Much to Be Told. What the Negro soldiers did on foreign fields has not been told to the full. The story in the whole will never be told. But the records are written. They are in Washington, and they are also in France. It is said that unless the scheme was wholly impossible, no Negro was allowed to win laurels without dividing them with others. I will not advance this as all of truth, for despite injustices against the Negro, deep down in his heart the American white man does love justice, and, uninfluenced by the cry of the demagogue, he will do justice. "Fair play" is his motto. Deeds of Valor. But there were Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, above whom no hero of the struggle is to be placed. By their side I would, however, put Quentin Roosevelt. And there stands that black regiment, every member of which had won a decoration. And Mike Sheehan, brave Irishman at the front, wrote a letter to Mike M.Donough, brave Irishman keeping the home fires burning in a Pennsylvania city, in which he celebrated "those brawny black men," as he called them. That was the regiment that handled the big artillery, the male guns in the Verdun sector. At each thunder of the big gun a stalwart son of Booker T. Washington would step back, shake his fist in the direction of the enemy, and cry: "Now, Cap'n Kaiser, count yo' men." Then who will not celebrate that warrior from Mississippi who, against the inexcusable bitterness of his senators in the congress, still loved the place of his birth? Much to Be Told. Deeds of Valor. "Where are you going, Sam?" his captain asked him, as Sam pulled out of camp early one morning without permission. "Jes' cross here," Sam replied. "For what?" asked the captain. "Well," replied Sam, "it looks lak this thing is coming to a close, and since I ain't goin' ter carve my name on de Hall of Fame, I promise yo' ef old Betsy hol's her edge I'm gwine ter carve de map of old Mississip' all over one of dese little kaisers." Who can ever forget that son of Georgia who met the thrust of bayonet with the universal weapon of African defense? He reached the neck of the Hun with a perfect stroke. "You didn't get me," boasted the enemy. "I didn't," replied the shadowy Georgian. "I didn't, eh? I jes' dare you ter twis' yo' head. Jes' twis' it!" Recollecting the deeds of daring of sons of former slaves fighting against despicable thrones, I would inform Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Wilson that we are content to concede them each their fourteen disputed points, together with all of Europe, if they will agree to concede the American Negro the benefit of the fourteenth amendment to the American Constitution, Lincoln was murdered about that amendment. Twelve million Americans command me to inform civilization for what they fought in the mighty struggle, since the great have overlooked their claim. I am bidden to be firm but calm in word. I am entrusted with the task I understand, because I have never offended God-fearing Americans. I am to be as bold as truth, with an eye single to the answer that expediency always makes to justice. I will go on. The French fought for Alsace-Lorraine, and got it. The English fought for democracy and got that. The Italians fought to rid their golden borders of the tread of barbarism, and back to the mountains the Austrians were driven. The Belgians fought for the grave of Leopold, and having got it they are welcome to it. The American white man fought for glory, and glory is his beyond every figure I have named. And the Negro—for what did he fight? Standing alone like a man in No Man's Land, under orders from the American white man, the Negro fought to make a man's name and a place to stand in every man's land—the United States of America. Protecting the women of France from the invading foe, by command of the government of his native land, the Negro fought for protection for his own women in Dixie. Holding his gun without a tremor and aiming it without a fault, the Negro fought to hold the American ballot without a sigh and mark it without a single fear. Any hand good enough to pull a trigger in defense of the American ballot is good enough to put a cross mark on that ballot and have it counted. Riding the angry waves of the ocean in search of the tyrant of the modern world, the Negro rode against the inhumanity and indecency of the "Jim Crow" car, the shame of America. He fought to give milk to babies in bleeding Belgium so that he might ask his country to show mercy to his babies "where the cotton and sweet potatoes grow." He fought for a chance for his children in that land whose boast is that Alfred E. Smith can rise from the slums of the East Side to the governor's chair at Albany without the aid even of a grammar school education. He fought to give liberty to Germans so that he might have liberty in Alabama and show himself worthy of it. The American Negro fought for a kind word from the American white man, whom he has never failed and to whom he is the only friend not bought with gold. The Negro fought to have his name called by the foreman of the factory before that of a single stranger who sought these shores as a rock in a weary land long after the genius of the American white man and the Negro's hold on the mercy of God had made this the land of freedom, if not of the free, and the home of fighters if not of the brave. The great triumph of the American nation will be the end of lynching. I tremble to think of his humiliation if some member of the Peace Conference at Versailles should ask President Wilson for a schoolmaster's dissertation on the psychology of lynching. Whom does the white man lynch, or allow to be lynched? The Negro, you say, the least among men in power and wealth; that man who cannot answer in kind, and would not, thank God, if he could. No; that is not true. Who, then, is the victim, you ask. I will tell you. The American white man lynches the memory of George Washington. He lynches Thomas Jefferson and the immortal Declaration. He lynches the august body that drew the Constitution, Time's most remarkable document. He lynches Sherman and Grant and the glory of the name of Lincoln. Map of Mississippi. Lynches Bunker Hill. He lynches the Emancipation; and maybe many would like to lynch that instrument from the story of human progress. He lynches the honor of the name that stepped from the Mayflower. He steals from Bunker Hill its title, robs Valley Forge of its grandeur, and takes from Appommattox all that gave it place in the annals of liberty. He does more than that. He lynches innocence from the eyes of children, virtue from the brow of women and honor from the hearts of men. He lynches his nobler, his better self, and robs the human mind of the gold of conscience, and with the rope of murder he strangles that religion that stepped in glory from the thorns and nails of Golgotha. Do I complain? No, not at all. Time is still the voice of God. But I will inquire, how is it that my government, the greatest the world ever saw, can cross the ocean, and with the bayonet teach law and order, while law nor order can claim a home in Winston-Salem, East St. Louis and Sheffield, U. S. A.? I might inquire again, how is it that my sons can be commanded to cross the ocean and cut down the oppressor and end his oppression while their kin suffer the heel of the oppressor and feel his oppression at home? Is congress able to levy taxes to carry forward war for liberty while unable to levy order to carry forward liberty? I would appeal—I would appeal to North and South alike to end, as a crown to the great victory, the curse of the mightiest and the noblest land of time. Lest I am misunderstood I appeal, not to men, but from Fort Sunter to Gettsburg. The caesars of the world being dead or dying, I stand on the unmatched record of the Negro soldiers and appeal from the President, silent in the White House, to God, who speaks from the heavens. The war is over. No longer the bugle and the drum. The flag is furled on fields of blood. Back to the hearts that sent them, white boy and black are returning. Arm in arm they left on the crusade of freedom. Arm in arm they will return. By dictates of wisdom higher than man our sons took themselves to distant fields. Hands for the whole; hearts for the maimed; love for all. Kings Gone Down. Kings are gone down. Thrones are overturned. Liberty got her promised hearing. The temple of peace rises on the ashes of deserted fields. Mercy wipes away the tear of sorrow, and the great of earth are gathering to pencil a new map and define again the rights of men. The crownless kingship of Lincoln takes the sky, and the Stars and Stripes is above land and sea. See my country first among all nations! I have none to speak for me. I obeyed the command, "Go and make the world safe for democracy." Through tears of women and sighs of men I would ask if my country is now safe for me. Through me no offense must come. Hope offers the balm in words that are sweet. Therefore, I will ask God to open the door of the titled and the great at Versailles and inquire if the American Negro is free at last, or is he to be alone, the lonely slave of the world? ALHAMBRA 24th and Parker. THE HOUSE OF COURTESY 24th and Parker Sts. FRANKLIN 24th and Franklin Streets SATURDAY— Gale Cain in "THE RED WOMAN" A Good Western SUNDAY— Norma Talmadge in "DE LUXE ANNIE" Also Bunco Billy in a Western Feature Diamond 24th and Lake Sts. Every Wednesday "WOLVES OF KULTUR" Every Friday A GREAT SURPRISE FEATURE Every day a good picture. A goose and two chickens will be given away Christmas. Come and win a prize. DR. JAMES W. SCOTT Expert Masseur & Chiropodist N. E. Cor. 12th & Farnam Sts. MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. OPEN FOR BUSINESS THE Booker T. Washington HOTEL Nicely Furnished Steam Heated Rooms, With or Without Board. 523 North 15th St. Omaha, Neb. Phone Tyler 897 E. A. 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