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GROWING, THANK YOU! $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy Character Not Color Counts in Porto Rico The Majority of the Inhabitants Are of Dark Complexion and Texture of Haif Is Distinguishing Feature. ISABELA MOST HEALTHFUL CITY Island Scenery Beautiful—People Kindly and Hospitable—Spanish Language and Customs Prevail—Mrs. Grace M. Hutten, Governemnt Teacher, Writes Interestingly of Observations and Experiences. ISABELA, PORTO RICO, December 1.—Porto Rico is indeed a beautiful fairy land. The island is rioutously brilliant in its native coloring, engaging and attractive in the delicate tinting of its architecture. Its resplendent atmosphere is so clear, translucent and at times almost crystalline. Even the clouds are beautiful. You see the snow white billows that seem to be so close you could reach them. At sunset you can see beautiful soft pink, amber, lavender, yellow and bright red soft clouds. During the moonlight nights it would be impossible to express in words the beautiful scene. It is so light that it is possible to read the finest print. You can clearly see the mountains and also the trees on the mountain side. These mountains are five miles from Isabela. Isabela Prosperous Town. We are located on the northwestern coast on one of the busiest and most prosperous towns. Isabela is the largest cotton and tobacco producing district on the island. It is regarded as the healthiest city on the island, and is located on a high hill overlooking the ocean. We have spent many happy hours on the shores gathering sea shells and bathing. This is the first day of December and it is warm enough for swimming. Although the days are very hot, the evenings are always cool. Towns All Similar. All of the towns are similar. There is a plaza in every town, this is similar to a city square. This is always decorated with flowers. Here the people congregate every evening and especially Saturday and Sunday evenings and enjoy promenading and listening to the band play. On one side is the Roman, Catholic church. The one here is as large as the First Christian Science building in Omaha, and it is a very beautiful structure. All streets lead from the plaza, these are all typical Spanish streets, very narrow. The houses are adjacent to the streets. That is every house opens directly upon the streets. They do not have yards in front of their houses as we do. The better class of people live over stores. These homes always have balconies in the front and rear. They are trimmed with fancy patterns of wood, and are always highly painted. The Spanish people love bright colors. The favorite house paints are vivid greens, orange, yellow, pink, sky blue, and violet. Every house is trimmed in white. Oxen Draw Carts; Autos Common The oxen are used as beasts of burden instead of the horse. They are yoked to a two wheeled cart, and are guided by a peon who walks by the side and prods them with his long stick. They are very patient and seem to be more able to stand this tropical climate than the horse. The horses are used for horseback or for pulling very light buggies. The majority of the people have automobiles. They have excellent roads on the island. I do not believe there is a dirt road here. So you do not mind the rain, as we never see mud. All roads are macadamized. It rains quite often on the northern coast, but it is seldom cloudy. It generally rains with the sun shining. Then it rains very hard for a half hour, seldom longer. Gardens and Products. The gardens were planted in September and at present the farmers are bringing in green beans, turnips, and green corn, together with their native vegetables. They have more different kinds of vegetables than we do in the states. Rice and beans are very plentiful here and most of the poor people live entirely on this dish. They are usually cooked together. Coffe is served three times a day. This is roasted at home and then made into a strong extract. The cup is filled with hot milk, then a tablespoonful of the coffee extract is poured into the cup. Most Americans they say enjoy the Porto THE MONITOR Ricans coffee more than the American made coffee, but I long for a cup of American coffee. The trees are loaded with all kinds of delicious fruits. Oranges are two for one cent. Bananas are thirty cents a stock. Dark Complexions Predominate Dark Complexions Predominate The majority of the inhabitants are dark complexioned. Few are very fair. It is hard to distinguish between the white and colored. The way they tell here is by the hair, if it is very short and close they regard the person as Colored. Here it does not matter whether you are white or Colored, there isn't any racial differences. They are regarded as one race, the Spaniard. They are very proud, courteous and very hospitable. They would gladly give you anything they possess. As soon as you enter the Porto Rican's home, you are made to feel at home and welcome. They invariably tell you before you leave, that anything they have is at your disposal, and nothing pleases them more than for you to accept some token from them. There are very few Colored people on the western part of the island, the greatest majority live around Ponce and San Juan. Families Would Please Roosevelt. The families are very large. Ten children in a family are usually the average number. Many have as many as eighteen. They seem to get along easier with ten or fifteen children than the average American family of three or four. There are many very poor people here, also very many orphans. As a rule every family has from two to five servants. They do not pay these more than two dollars apiece a month, and are glad to have some place where they can be sure of getting enough to eat. The island is entirely too crowded for its size. As a consequence labor is too cheap. Men cannot make more than fifty cents a day. Women receive from fifteen to thirty cents a day, working hard from sunrise until sunset. It is very sad to see the sufferings of the poor. Women Secluded. It is a custom for the better class of women to be as secluded in their homes as possible. They are seldom seen upon the streets. They seldom weigh more than one hundred and fifteen. They all have very small feet. The average woman wears a number one shoe. They do not receive the proper exercise and as a result they are rather delicate. I have been here four months and many of these women have never been outside of their doors during that time. Parents Make Engagements. Although the girls and boys attend school together, they are never permitted to play together. The young ladies are not permitted to keep company before they are openly engaged. If a young man believes he cares enough for a young lady to marry her, he just informs her parents. If they are willing the engagement is publicly announced, then the wedding follows shortly. The home life seems to be very happy. The children are always obedient to their parents and seniors. American Teachers and Schools. One American teacher is sent to every town and several to the largest towns. At present there are about seventy American teachers and over two thousand Porto Rican teachers. Every town has a large consolidated school near the center of the town. This school consists of two buildings one for the smaller and one for the gramar grades. The largest school in Isabela has an enrollment of seven hundred and fifty. They have excellent playgrounds and all kinds of playground apparatus. They have a tennis court, volley ball, basket ball, jumping and vaulting. The children here enjoy coming to school, and they are never sad except when they cannot come. The bilingual plan of instruction is followed. The children in the first grade are taught in Spanish, from the second grade up, English and Spanish are taught. The children are exceptionally bright in school. Americans Supervise Classes. The American teachers supervise all English classes in the higher grades. The principal supervises all Spanish classes. Every school has a mammoth training shop and domestic science room. At present the girls in domestic science are making garments for the Belgian children. The children in Porto Rico make wonderful laces and after school is over every girl is busy with her hand work. (Continued on Fifth Page.) THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor Omaha Scene in Riverview Park AHA, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 28, Omaha One of Omaha's Country Clubs Scene in Riverview Park Rose Art Gallery Park Omaha Park View Omaha One of Omahas Country Clubs Parks Scene in Riverview Park View in Miller Park LONDON EDITOR REBUKES U. S. By Continental Press. By Continental Press. New York, N. Y., Dec. 24.—The untold dignities the south has forced the nation to face was forcibly brought out in the answer the London Saturday Review, published in London, England, offered the American newspapers when the editor of the Ladies' Home Journal declared that London was an unfit place morally to entertain our soldiers in the hours of leave. The row was started by Mr. Bok (white), who went to England with other American editors as the guest of the British nation to inspect at close hand the conduct of the war, and he is reported to have said some harsh things about the dangers confronting the American soldier when off duty in London. The London periodical declares that the charges might come with better grace if America herself, and particularly Mr. Boks' home town, Philadelphia, were above suspicion on the score of public morals. The London Saturday Review says: "We can not stay to explain the paradox of materialism and idealism, side by side in the forty-eight sociopolitical laboratories which make up the United States. There is scant respect for law, as the lynching records show and as President Wilson has lately bewailed with characteristic forthrightness." Philadelphia was recently the scene of a bloody race riot in which several people were killed. MINNESOTA TO HAVE COLORED GUARDSMEN St. Paul, Dec. 24.—Minnesota will be one of three states in the union to boast of a battalion of Negro guardsmen upon completion of plans for four companies of Negroes in St. Paul and Minneapolis as a part of the new National Guard of Minnesota, authorized yesterday by Gov. Burnquist and Adjutant General W. F. Rhinow. Addition of this force to the new National guard will be effected by transfers of four companies of Negro members of the state home guard. The home guard battalion is commanded by Major J. H. Sherwood, St. Paul, who will head the national guard unit. Two companies will be maintained in each city. New York and Illinois are the only states having national guard companies of Negroes in the past. --- A, DECEMBER 28, 1918 Rose Arbor, Jackson Hwy. Abilene Park View of Omaha's Country Clubs "MEMORIES" WHEN AFRICA AWAKES! WHEN Africa awakes! and from The crushing centuries of stud- died wrong, Base defilement, lust and thong, Lifts up her voice and cries aloud Her right to rule herself! Methinks the crowd Of gold-greedy men will laugh and say: "Not now, thou backward race! This is our day! Yours yet to bow and meekly pay The price of weakness. But Africa will ponder well these words. Her sons shall seek the shadows of the hills And vow, as they recount the rosary of ills, That their fair land of summer sun and mien Must not forever be the Midas dream Of self-made masters, who even loathe to give The one, last human right, to live. Africa bides her time! But from the ocean strand, O'er jungle, mountain, vale and mead, That sweet word, "Unity-" will speed On wings of winds, and woo her fret- ful folk Into one dream! one voice! one heart! one hope! And yet again she'll claim her sacred right To rule herself, apart from alien might; But if, once more, the pale-faced men shall say: "Not yet, thou backward race! Still thine to pay!" I quake to think how swarthy arms shall hurl Thundering terrors at a gasping world! When Africa awakes! GEORGE WELLS PARKER. VIRGIN ISLANDERS ENJOY NEGRO WAR FILMS (Special to The Monitor.) Last night's attendance at the Cine Hotalia at 40 cents per head, broke all Sunday records at this popular playhouse. From the enthusiasm shown at the showing of "The Fighting Fifteenth being presented with the colors by Gov. Whitman," the atmosphere was that of dear old Harlem rather than St. Thomas, V. I., so many miles away. Vol. IV. No. 26 (Whole No. 181) DELEGATES WILL AT- TEND PARIS MEETING Washington, D. C., Dec. 24.—Delegates were chosen by the National Colored Equal Rights Assembly for Democracy, in session here, to attend the conference of the darker races of the world which will be held in Paris at the same time as the peace conference. They are: Rev. M. A. Shaw, Boston; N. S. Taylor, Greenville, Miss.; Rev. R. H. Singleton, Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. W. T. Johnson, Lynchburg, Va.; Bishop L. W. Kyle, St. Louis; Rev. J. R. Ransom, Wichita, Kas. Monroe Trotter, Boston; Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, Chicago; Mrs. C. J. Walker, New York City, and Rev. William T. Carter, Seattle, Wash. COLORED OFFICERS FALL IN BATTLE Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 24.—Among the casualties of the American expeditionary forces in France reported last week were two prominent Atlanta officers, Lieutenants Mallalieu W. Rush and Guy Canyon. They were officers in the same company and fell in the same battle, the former being mortally wounded and the latter killed. The two prominent Atlanta officers had gone to Des Moines, Iowa, together in the spring of 1917 and in the following October they were commissioned lieutenants in the army. They were assigned to the same company and went overseas together, eight months ago. WAR HISTORY BY EMMETT J. SCOTT To Be Only Authoritative Account of "The Negro In the War." Washington, Dec. 20.—In order that the public may not be misled, announcement is made that the only authoritative history of the Negro's participation in the great war will be prepared yb Emmett J. Scott, now serving as special assistant in the war department, and a group of nationally known authorities on all phases of Negro life and activity. This work is not to be a hastily put together hodge-podge of newspaper clippings, but an authoritative record of Negro courage and valor. The publishers will be one of the standard firms of the land, whose imprint is in itself a guarantee of literary quality and typographical excellence. Africa Gives Her Answer to England Interesting Reply to the British African Colonies to England's Query: "What Does Africa Want?" SIR HARRY JOHNSON, CHAMPION A West African Dominion, Freer Imperial Representation, and a West African University, Are the Things Africa Requests in Return for Her Faithfulness to the Crown. LONDON, ENG.—"What Does Africa Want?" is the title of Sir Harry Johnson's contribution to The African World, of August 17, 1918, and his article was one that caught the eye and mind of England's greatest statesmen from Lloyd George, down. Sir Harry Johnson is England's greatest authority upon African matters and is known and honored among all intelligent West Africans, and indeed among intelligent blacks throughout the world. Suggestive and important is Sir Harry' own description of the present state of the African mind. He writes: "There is a stirring, a mighty stirring, a ferment going on in West Africa, from St. Louis de Senegal to Mossamedes in the Negro and Negroid populations of forty to forty-five millions, like the humming of hives about to swarm. But it is a movement by no means 'anti-white' in tenour; rather, on the other hand, it is penetrated by a wistful hope that white, black and yellow may work cordially and fraternally together in the better development of the immeasurable wealth of West Africa; waiting to be made available for the whole world of purchasers; waiting to be turned to the enrichment, comfort, and well-being of West Africans." This statement sums up the situation beautifully and the great coming West African conference has already made out its program of demands and told the British government what it wants and will expect. They are as follows: (1) Unification.—A West African Dominion. It matters little that its portions are scattered, far separated, unequal in size and population. There still remains a considerable homogeneity, a common pool of interests and ambitions, and two great trading languages in common, English and Hausa. There should be created one Viceroyalty for all British West Africa, including under its sway Bornu, Hausaland, Sokoto, the Benue provinces, Nupe, Yoruba, Southern Nigeria, British Cameroons, the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the Northern Territories, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia, with governorships and lieutenant governorships and secretaries for each distinct province. Besides the Viceregal Council, on which each separate territorial division should be represented, there would, of course, be Provincial Councils, and all these councils the native population would be well represented by delegates. (II) Freer Imperial Representation.—The whole Viceroyalty would, of course, depend for direction, policy and control of finance and credit on the Imperial Office in Whitehall—as the Colonial Office (which is now in Downing Street) should be renamed. But the West African Viceroyalty, like the Nilenad, like British Central Africa, the West Indian Confederation, Mayalsia and Ceyoln, should have its own agency in London, and considerable freedom of action in looking after its own commerce, education, and industrial development. The outwarm institution of the Crown Agents for the Colonies must disappear amid the many other changes and reforms that will become imperative as soon as peace restores us to liberty of thought, speech and action. Indeed, as regards imperial readjustments there is no reason whatever except the dislike to change of a few elderly officials and of cabinet ministers, who know nothing about the Empire by personal experience or by education, why we should timidly and respectfully wait until the war is over. (III) A West African University.—West Africa must have its own university, established (say) on the upper slopes of the gloriously beautiful and healthy Cameroons Mountains. At first there will have to be a certain proportion of European professors and in the choice of an educational center for all British West Africa a site must be chosen which would be least detrimental to the health of such white men as may participate in the great task of educating the twenty- (Continued on Fifth Page. ‘ $$ $$ $$ $F HE SF SF: | | . : : The Gall of Economy | : : ; - Saturday, December 28 | | | Get your dollars ready. Change your twos, fives and tens into ones. It will greatly , facilitate matters and save you time. We have tried to provide quantities of articles for all, but cannot promise these big bargains for more than one day. New merchandise spe , cially priced for this big bargain day will be remembered for many months tocome. We , . always sell dependable merchandise at lowest prices. : : We wish all of our customers a Happy and Prosperous New Year. ‘ } : ; ) 4 | F ‘ hese WE NEED 4935-37-39 South 24th, South Side. EEN 7 ’ MORE The Fastest Growing Store in Omaha. apestinigesys ‘ ROOM. SAYS DO ; “WATCH US GROW.” NOT BUILD 4 [Norunn| > . Ihe Monitor e Office 304 Crounse Block Sixteenth Street OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE j We have moved our office Down Town Right’Into Heart of Business District 2 Mammoth Race Production Finally Released Much Heralded “Birth of a Race” Photoplay Makes Debut Sunday, December ist at Chicago's Most Fashionable Theater, the Black- ome (Special to The Monitor.) Ce. ILL.—After more than one year of troublesome times, “The Birth of a Race” made its in- itial bow for public favor Sunday eve- ning, December 1, at the famous Blackstone theater, the home of Chi- cago’s elite. In this most fashionable theater in the most cosmopolitan city of the na- tion, was released what is destined to be either one of those epoch-mak- ing photodramatic productions of the “Griffith class;” or one of the most colossal tragedies in the history of the screen. More than a year ago the idea was conceived by a group of some of the best known white and Colored friends of the race to promote a mammoth photoplay entitled “The Birth of a Race” as an answer to D. W. Girf- fith’s great picture of Thomas Dixon’s story of Reconstruction Days. With this idea in mind a corporation was organized under the laws of Delaware with a capital stock of $1,000,000 di- vided into 100,000 shares, par value $10. Headquarters were established in Chicago and Edwin L, Barker, for- merly of the Barker-Swan Film Serv- ice, was elected president. The fi- nancing of the proposition was en- trusted to the stock brokerage firm of Giles P. Corey & Co., of Chicago, as fiscal agents. Very elaborate literature was cir- culated including @ prospectus which gave as its argument “Organized for the production and exhibition of the master photoplay ‘The Birth of a Race’—an entertaining motion picture of racial understanding. The true story of the Negro—his life in Africa, his transportation to America, his en- slavement, his freedom, his achieve- ments, together with his past, pres- ent and future relations to his white neighbor and to the world in which both live and labor.” Among its list of officers and prominent persons “interested and assisting” appear the names of some of the most noted men in the nation, viz: Julius Rosenwald, J.C. Napier, Bishop I. B. Scott, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Wm. H. Taft, Wm. D. Jelks, ete. The Selig Poly- scope Co. of Chicago was named as the producers. ‘A national stock selling campaign was inaugurated with alluring in- vestment ads in leading white Sunday daily papers worded in part as fol- lows? “If the ‘Birth of a Race’ returns as much as ‘The Birth of a Nation’ every $100 you invest will return $1,000. If as much as “Traffic in Souls’ every $100 will give you $3,000. Every $1,000, $30,000. Write for full details, etc.” Stock salesmen also scoured the country, selling indiscrim- inately to both whites and blacks; with the result that prior to March 16, 1918, 7,000 stockholders had invested approximately $140,000, the entire amount of which was spent in pro- duction work in Tampa, Fla., alone, with only one-halfpf the production THE MONITOR completed, It was’ then estimated that it would take $450,000 more. Seemingly the indorsements of Ex- President Taft, Julius Rosenwald and other prominent men was secured as to the theme of the picture, but not in commendation of the stock project. January 1, 1918, the blue sky law of ‘the state of Illinois went into effect and under this law Giles P. Corey ‘was arrested and fined $1,000 for vio- lation of the law, plead guilty and paid the fine. About this time “The Billboard” came out with an expose of the methods of the promotion of ‘the corporation, which resulted in a repudiation of the use of the names of Mz Taft and Mr. Tioseowald in the stock selling campaign. About this time the Selig Co. dropped out, and arrangements were made with the Frohman Amusement Co. of New York to complete the production, This firm started work in Tampa, Florida, and filmed the wonderful pro- log of biblical events in episodical form including scenes of the Christ period; the Néah period and Creation. This part alone cost $140,000 and is considered by critics to be excellent pictorial work, considerable credit for which is to be given Geo. Frederick Wheeler, formerly of Triangle Film Co., who in association with John W. Noble, did the direction and research work. For reasons not given to the public the Frohman Amusement Co. quit pro- duction work in the middle of its con- tract. An attempt was made to con- tinue the production work through in- dependent filming by various parties. Owing to war conditions a change in the plans was made and certain phases concerning the advancement of the Nexre were dropped out, The second part was converted into a modern war drama, very different in treatment and effect and according to critics “melodramatic in the ex- treme and full of inconsistiencies.” Here after months of trouble, the production was finally made ready at the Rothdaker Film plant in Chicage and released to the public at $1.50 per admission in Chicago's finest theater, which was leased for one month at $6,000. Its change in treatment has so converted it into a war propaganda film that the original idea of moulding public sentiment into contra-distine- tion to that of the Griffith produe- tions has been entirely lost. Critics differ as to the merits of the’ production. Genevieve Harris in the Chicago Evening Post writes: “The result is a truly great photo play.” . . . . “The Birth of 2 Race” is a picture worth secing. It is a long picture, but there is little of it that you want to sacrifice. It is a fine piece of photodramatie pro- duction, a clean, sincere and beauti- ful picture drama.” The New York “Variety” Chicago correspondent has a different idea and writes: “The most grotesque cinema chimera in the history of the picture business had its debut and in all probability its de- mise.” . . . . “As long as the stockholders patronize the film busi- ness will be done. After the stock- holders have seen the picture its day will be done. That is, unless by some amazing freak of public taste and press manipulation, it should get over.” The Chicago “Billboard” writes, “The picture is perhaps the worst conglomeration of mixed purposes and attempts ever thrown together.” It is to be regretted that such a fine conceived idea should have reach- ed such a ignoble end. Financied by public subscriptions and philanthropi- cal bequests and produced without thought of financial profits would have enabled the undertaking to have exerted its beneficial influence through successful promotion of bet- ter understanding, sympathetic and helpful relationiship between’ the north and south, white and black as to deserve the highest commendation of the entire world. RED CROSS ROLL CALL Colored Citizens Respond Generously, Although Difficult to Separate Their Subscriptions From the Gen- eral Total. Omaha has again gone “over the top” in the Christmas drive for mem- berships in the Red Cross. The num- ber enrolled is 85,000. A great show- ing. The purpose of the drive this year was not so much the raising of money, as the securing of members emphasizing the united strength of the people back of the movement. The Colored citizens again, as always, did their share. A conservative esti- mate would place the number of our memberships at about 2,000. It is, however, difficult to separate our sub- scriptions from the general total, be- cause the great majority gave to the general solicitors instead of through the special committee as was done last year. The whole city was dis- tricted and combed by energetic can- vassers, so that none was permitted to escape. Then, too, many gave where they are employed. The district in which Mrs. Dan Desdunes and her lieutenants, Mesdames A. G. Edwards, H. J. Pinkett, S. B. Canty, Roy Robin- son and T, Wheeler worked reported over 1,100 members secured by the women workers alone, Of this num- ber Mrs, Desdunes committee reported 180 or about one-ninth of the total. This illustrates how the people worked. The Colored employees of the Cudahy Packing company through Mrs. Mary Cage reported over 300 members. FREMONT, NEBRASKA, NEWS By C. Herndon ‘A Tindsley has recovered from a recent attack of influenza and has returned to his duties at the station. Mr. and Mrs, John Berry are the parents of a fine baby girl. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Brannon have been having quite a serious time with an infection of the throat, James Thomas, who has been sta- tioned at Fort Logan H. Root doing clerical work, has been promoted to the 17th receiving battalion 67th Com- pany*at Camp Pike. Mr. and Mrs. Al Williams welcomed a bouncing baby boy. ‘The graded department of St. John’s A. M. E. Sunday school is preparing to give an Xmas program Xmas night to which everyone is welcome. Mr, W. M. Durgin is suffering from an attack of influenza. At last rep-rts Lieutenant C. R. Brannon, who is a member of the 92d division, 268th infantry, was expecting to be returned home soon, but later reports give the information that the order has been cancelled. which we suppose means longer service abroad. Subscribers are asked to please bring in their subscriptions to The Monitor office, 04 Crounse block, | Smoke John Ruskin te Cigar. 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E. church, on the evening of December 11, in the presence of a very large and enthusiastic audience. The general topic deemed appropri- ate for discussion in connection both with the times and the special oc- casion was, “What Is the Negro to Get Out of the War?” The speak- ers were Roscoe C. Bruce, assistant superintendent of schools; James Weldon Johnson, organizer for the N. A. A. C. P., and J. S, Shillady, secretary of the N, A. A.C. P. Mr. Archibald H. Grimke presided at the meeting, and following his usual prac- tice, made quite extended remarks. At the conclusion of Mr, Grimke’s remarks a statement of principles was read to the meeting, which at the close of the speeches, on motion of Mr. L. M. Hershaw, was adopted by the assemblage. This statement expressed gratitude for the life and labors of William Lloyd Garrison; called attention to the war just closed and to the de- clared purpose for which the United States entered it, namely, “to make the world safe for democracy;” it called attention to the principles enunciated at the birth of the na- tion in the Declaration of Independ- ence, and to the subsequent incor- poration of those principles in the constitution of the United States; it enumerated lynching, _ inadequate school advantages, denial of the bal- lot, and segregation in travel and in working conditions as evils re- quiring redress and correction. ‘Mr. Bruce's speech was prepared with great care and delivered with the clearness of enunciation and ex- cellence of elocution which make him always a pleasing speaker. He dealt very largely with the educational phases of reconstruction after the war, and in addition insisted that a reconstruction on democratic _ prin- ciples should embrace the repeal of all laws recognizing distinction of race, even to laws forbidding inter- marriage of the races; not that Col- ored men advocate or desire to marry women of the race designated as white, for most emphatically they do not. ‘But such laws are an insult to any self-respecting human being. No man worthy of any sort of respect wants to be catalogued in the statute books as not eligible to marry any human being, even though in his own thought he might not desire to do so. Mr, Johnson set forth most ef- fectively the work of the N, A. A. C. P. It was his first appearance in Washington as a public speaker, and he created a most favorable impres- sion. Mr. Shillady was received with tumultuous applause, and made a plea for the replenishing of the lynching fund, by means of which the N. A. A. C. P. conducts investigations of lynchings. He said the only appre- ciably effect that President Wilson's pronouncement against lynching had had, was to suppress publication of their occurrence. THE N. A. A. C. P. HOLDS INTERESTING MEETING Earnest Discussion Anent Delegate to Peace Conference—Bishop Scott Expected as Speaker Next Sunday. ‘The local branch of the N, A. A. C. P. held another interesting meeting last Sunday afternoon at St, John’s A. M. E. church. Owing to a mis- understanding as to dates Bishop Scott did not arrive in the city for Sunday, but is expected next Sunday. A lively discussion on the subject, “Resolved, ‘That an American Negro Should Be Present at the Peace Con- ference,” occupied the session. Those participating in the discussion were: Messrs. Thomas Reese, M. F. Single- ton, W. H. Ransom, George Scott, A. Rayford, the Rev. W. C. Williams, Mrs, Moss, Mrs. Peebles and Mrs. Rayford. The position taken by the affirmative was that our people be- cause of their unique position should have representation. ‘The negative maintained that as American citizens we are represented by the American representatives and that international questions not domestic differences are to be settled at the peace table. Our problem is to demand our rights from the government to which we belong. The forum will meet next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock and it is ex- pected that Bishop Scott who is sched- uled to be in the city will deliver an address, The public is invited. ‘The Omaha branch of the N, A. A. C. P. has a membership now of 110. It ought to be 500. Come out and join. The People's Drug Store 111 South 14th Street. DRUGS, CIGARS AND SODA Toilet and Rubber Goods Special Attention to Prescriptions We Carry a Full Line of Face and Hair Preparations. 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Douglas 7150 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 13th and Farnam --- Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR Spent is another year! Hath it been sad, my friend, or full of cheer? If full of cheer, rejoice; for it will be Forever more a precious memory. If full of sadness, then rejoice the more That it is o'er. If gainful it hath been, in gratitude Place it among your treasures that are good: are good; If wasted, yet to worry call a truce A new year is at hand and waits your use. This little verse embodies the soundest of sound philosophy. Wise is the man, woman or child who puts it in faithful practice. If the old year has laid burdens upon us, now is the time to drop them; it does not pay to start with a handicap. If there is any trouble we can remedy do this; if we cannot the thing to do is to put it resolutely out of the mind, keeping our faith in the all-good and our hearts filled with gratitude for what blessings are ours. That is the way to begin the year. Only so can we give our best and win the best from life. L. S. E. OUR SOLDIERS ARE COMING BACK CLEAN By Ella Wheeler Wilcox This is the song for a soldier To sing as he rides from home To the fields afar where the battles are Or over the ocean's foam. "Whatever the dangers waiting In the lands I have not seen, If I do not fall—if I come back at all— Then I will come back clean. I may lie in the mud of the trenches, I may reek with blood and mire, But I will control, by the God in my soul Programme The Second Quarterly Business Meeting of Negro Baptist Association will be held Pleasant Green Baptist C December 31 Rev. John Costello, Pastor; Rev. M. H. Wilkinson, Co and Quarterly Business Session of the Meeting of the Baptist Association of N will be held with the St Green Baptist Church, 22nd December 31st, 1918 Costello, Pastor; Rev. W. F. Botts M. H. Wilkinson, Corresponding Sec The Second Quarterly Business Session of the Board Meeting of the Rev. John Costello, Pastor; Rev. W. F. Botts, Moderator Rev. M. H. Wilkinson, Corresponding Secretary TUESDAY MORNING SESSSION 9:30-10.00—Devotional by Dee Moriah and C. C. G. 10:00-11:00—Discussion, "What crease a greater sti tist Christians?" p son of Zion. 11:00-12:00—Sermon by Licentia Green. Alternate Bethel. Offering 1:30-2:00—Devotional by Deac and A. M. Herralo 2:00-3:00—Discussion, "How to prove the condi churches and prepa usefulness for the they are called?" 3:00-4:30—Consecrational meet en's Educational, Society. Mrs. G. A. O. Saffold of Mt. retary. The presi arrange other busi adjournment. 7:30-8:00—Devotional by Mrs. President of B. Y. of Bethel. 8:00-9:00—Sermon by Licentia nate, Rev. D. M. O adjournment. NOTICE The Board will complete its b at 10 o'clock sharp, in the study. Pastors, please bring your chur erator, Rev. W. F. Botts, presi Omaha Baptists awake and pu Devotional by Deacons P. S. Stor Moriah and C. C. Carricks of Beth Discussion, "What steps are nee crease a greater study of the Bible tist Christians?" Opened by Rev. son of Zion. Sermon by Licentiate C. P. Staves Green. Alternate, Licentiate J. A. Bethel. Offering and adjournment. Devotional by Deacons W. J. Andreu and A. M. Herrald of Zion. Discussion, "How many licensed M prove the condition of their churches and prepare themselves usefulness for the work, to which they are called? By Rev. D. M. M. Consecrational meeting, conducted Ben's Educational, Home and Fore Society. Mrs. G. Allen of Zion, Pre O. Saffold of Mt. Moriah, Corresp retary. The president will appoint arrange other business matters. O adjournment. Devotional by Mrs. Odessa Harri President of B. Y. P. U. and Deac of Bethel. Sermon by Licentiate Wm. Hall of Z nate, Rev. D. M. Crum of Zion. O adjournment. NOTICE d will complete its business Wednesday k sharp, in the study of the Zion Bapt lease bring your church's assessments W. F. Botts, presides at these meet optists awake and put on their strene 9:30-10.00—Devotional by Deacons P. S. Stovall of Mt. Moriah and C. C. Carricks of Bethel. 10:00-11:00—Discussion, "What steps are necessary to increase a greater study of the Bible among Baptist Christians?" Opened by Rev. M. D. Johnson of Zion. 11:00-12:00—Sermon by Licentiate C. P. Staves of Pleasant Green. Alternate, Licentiate J. A. Harris of Bethel. Offering and adjournment. 1:30-2:00—Devotional by Deacons W. J. Andrews of Bethel and A. M. Herrald of Zion. 2:00-3:00—Discussion, "How many licensed Ministers improve the condition of their respective churches and prepare themselves for greater usefulness for the work, to which they claim they are called? By Rev. D. M. McQueen. 3:00-4:30—Consecutional meeting, conducted by the Women's Educational, Home and Foreign Mission Society. Mrs. G. Allen of Zion, President. Mrs. O. Saffold of Mt. Moriah, Corresponding Secretary. The president will appoint leaders and arrange other business matters. Offering and adjournment. 7:30-8:00—Devotional by Mrs. Odessa Harris of Zion, President of B. Y. P. U. and Deacon Robinson of Bethel. 8:00-9:00—Sermon by Licentiate Wm. Hall of Zion. Alternate, Rev. D. M. Crum of Zion. Offering and adjournment. The Board will complete its business Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock sharp, in the study of the Zion Baptist church. Pastors, please bring your church's assessments. The Moderator, Rev. W. F. Botts, presides at these meetings. "Let Omaha Baptists awake and put on their strength." GROVE METHODIST CHURCH 22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. --- --- Spent is another year! The might of my man's desire I will fight my foe in the open But my sword shall be sharp and keen For the foe within who would lure me to sin, And I will come back clean. I may not leave for my children Brave medals that I have worn, But the blood in my veins shall leave no stains On bride or on babes unborn And the scars that my body may carry Shall not be from deeds obscene, For my will shall say to the beast, OBEY! And I will come back clean. Oh, not on the fields of slaughter, And not in the prison cell, Or in hunger and cold is the story told By war of its darkest hell. But the old old sin of the senses And I will come back clean. LA GRANGE, TEXAS H. L. Vincent, Agent Cards are out announcing the marriage of Mr. Jonathan Zachary to Miss Pauline Phearse, December 26. Both are citizens of La Grange. Rev. G. L. Mills spent a few days here last week packing up his household goods to be shipped to his present field of labor. He will leave here for a trip to Florida. Rev. S. E. Jones, M. E. district superintendent, held his last quarterly conference at St. James M. E. church here last Monday night. Messdames G. T. Ware, Flatonia and Lena Howard, Muldoon, were in town last Saturday. Robert (alias Monk) Sanders, who was sentenced to 75 years imprisonment in the state penitentiary last spring for the murder of Tom Taylor and Pinkie Dory, arrived here last Sunday morning, but was locked up Monday pending investigation of his release. Several young men left here last Sunday to work in Texas City. Mr. John (alias "Cub") Dobbin, lost his little daughter by death last Monday. Announcements were made last Sunday of a Bible institute to be conducted here by Rev. D. A. Scott, D. D. Business Session of the Board of the Association of Nebraska and with the Church, 22nd and Paul 31st, 1918 Rev. W. F. Botts, Moderator Corresponding Secretary Deacons P. S. Stovall of Mt. M. Carricks of Bethel. What steps are necessary to instudy of the Bible among Bap. Opened by Rev. M. D. John- Antiate C. P. Staves of Pleasant State, Licentiate J. A. Harris of Eng and adjournment. Deacons W. J. Andrews of Bethel Hall of Zion. By many licensed Ministers imbedition of their respective prepare themselves for greater work, to which they claim By Rev. D. M. McQueen. Meeting, conducted by the Wom- Home and Foreign Mission Allen of Zion, President. Mrs. St. Moriah, Corresponding Secident will appoint leaders and business matters. Offering and Mrs. Odessa Harris of Zion, Y. P. U. and Deacon Robinson Antiate Wm. Hall of Zion. Alter-Crum of Zion. Offering and VICE In business Wednesday morning day of the Zion Baptist church. Church's assessments. The Mod-ides at these meetings. "Let out on their strength." A Church Where All Are Welcome Services Sunday School, 10 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m., 8 p. m. League, 6:30 p. m. Florence P. Leavitt Club, Mon- day afternoon. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday Evening. W. H. M. S. Thursday Afternoon Ladies' Aid, Friday Afternoon. GRIFFIN G. LOGAN, Res. 1628 N. 22nd. Web. 5003 NOTICE THE MONITOR state, superintendent of Sunday schools at Ebenezer Baptist church, January 8-12, 1919. Prof. T. P. Poole is in the city, shipping his household goods to East Bernard, where he and his family expects to spend new year on the farm. Sick—Mesdames Geneva Hatch, Mollie Vaughn, Cornelia Dobbin, Julia King. Mrs. Almetra Wilson, Houston, after visiting parents and other relatives here for a few days left last week for Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Rebecca (Brown) Price of Dallas is visiting relatives here. Mrs. Ella Phearse was summoned by telephone to be at the sick bedside of her neice, Mrs. Mamie Lue Lacy of Port Arthur, and left last Sunday morning. Rev. William White preached his farewell sermon at St. James M. E. church here Sunday. Rev. I. D. Coffey was at Bethlehem Sunday. PALESTINE, TEXAS. A. G. Howard, Agent The influenza has hit the town again and in full sway. It has claimed for its victims Mrs. Lula Strawther, Mrs. Phillis Tilliss, Miss Rena Thomas, Miss Allice Lang, Mr. James Beason, Mr. Ben Johnson, Mrs. Martha Herrod and Mrs. J. M. Porter. It is worse this time than it was before. Those on the sick list are Mrs. Easther Denmen, Lafayette Denmen, Mrs. Maggie Jones, Mrs. Ola Mae Wilson, Mrs. Zenoba Hall Williams, Mrs. Miles Dean, Mrs. Mattie McCoy, Miss Ophellia Gunnels, Mrs. Annie King, Mrs. Mary Roberts Carr, Miss Mamie Waters, Mr. Henry Tucker and Mr. Will Gray. The Rev. William A. Keith is the new pastor for the Mt. Vernon A. M. E. church and comes well recommended from the West Waco conference. Saturday about 6 o'clock a fire started in the office of Dr. Heard and did considerable damage to it and put the new Cary drug store out of commission for a while. Things began to look gloomy all around here, but the fire company came to our relief and finally stopped the fire. This whole block is a pure Negro block and the blacks were getting around looking for their best interests. All are looking for a Merry Christmas this year. The New Year is near and we must all make new resolutions and that resolution should be to serve the Lord better this year than we have ever done because we have more to thank him for than we have ever had because h has spard th livs of so many of our boys from th great war So we should praise his name. PALESTINE, TEXAS BOY MADE CORPORAL "Army of the United States of America." To all who shall see these presents, greetings: Know ye that reposing special trust and confidence in the fidelity and abilities of John H. Powers I do hereby appoint him Corporal Quartermasters Corps of the National Army of the United States to rank as such from the first day of August, 1918. He is therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of corporal by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge and require all noncommissioned officers and soldiers under his command to be obedient to his orders as corporal. And he is to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as he shall receive from his superior officers and noncommissioned officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of war. Given under my hand at Comp Hill, Newport News, Va., this 1st day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. Signed PHILLIP J. STEERS, Captain O. M. C. N. A. Conidg.. 322d Labor Bureau. Subscribe for The Monitor. F. and A. A., York Rite, St. Luke's Lodge, No. 14, will meet the first and third Monday nights in the Knights of St. Mary hall, wenth-fourth and Charles street walls, will make a noise, will William Bridges, W. M.; J. E. Johnson, secretary; H. C. Watts, treasurer. Gate City Lodge, No. 6674, G. U. of O. F., meets the first and third Monday of each month at Peterson's hall, Twen- fourth and Burdette streets. W. H. Payne, N. G.; R. L. Woodard, P. S., 4912 South Twenty-sixth street. South 4459. Keystone Lodge, No. 4, K. of P., Omaha. Neb. Meetings first and third Thursdays of each month. H. A. Hazzard, C. C.; J. H. Glover, K. of R. and S. Weeping Willow Lodge, No. 9596, G. U. of O. F., meets second and fourth Thursdays of each month. H. A. Hazzard, 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 Hoisting Engine- men meets at 2225% Lake street first and third Wednesdays in each month. W. H. R. Tanson, president; J. H. Headly, cor- responding secretary; J. H. Moore, record- ing secretary. Bust, Tanson, 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 Cincinnati meets at Twenty-fourth week. Person wanting to rent same call Allen Jones, rental agent. Webster 1100. LODGE DIRECTORY Clothing and Shoes H. DOLGOFF 1839-47 N. 24th St. Phones—Webster 1607; Webster 4825 A. F. 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BUY THRIFT STAMPS Telephone Douglas 2672. 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable Rates D. G. Russell, Proprietor PEOPLES Rhanging and Decorating. ee. All Work Guaranteed. Phone Walnut 2111. Dr. Britt Upstairs Douglas 7812 and 7150 Drug Co. drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. IONS OUR SPECIALTY. Omaha, Nebraska , Belden & Co. Established 1886 Omaha, Nebraska THE MONITOR A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests of the Colored People of Nebraska and the Nation, with the desire to contribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and of the race. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Editors. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor. Bert Patrick, Business Manager. Fred C. 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, 1119 North Twenty-first Street, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Web 4243. ANOTHER year is speeding on to the dusty tomb of the ages and at the portals of the present another stands waiting and smiling. Man, the mummer and the ghost and the highly sensitized wraith of ancestral tendencies, welcomes it with outstretched arms as he always welcomes things new and filled with promise. Seldom does he realize that all the years were filled with promise and that if their promise was not realized, it was because he did not help them come true. This New Year is a year of peace, after four years of bloody, cruel war, and its greatest promise is that nations will lay aside war and try to make peace perpetual. It is a dream that laps the horizons of infinity and brings a vision of heaven down to clumsy man, but it will ever remain a dream unless man means it and does it. It was a man alone who blotted out the stars of peace and man alone who must find them again. God gave him Eden, but he chose the earth and all his history has been a blind struggle to make his choice a replica of his pristine home. The time is propitious and the world ready, but peace must be done for all, not for the few. It must mean that the black man in the jungle will be as safe in his home, as secure on Britain's soil or Americas plains. If the proposed peace which this New Yeas brings, and for which our country stands sponsor, means all that has gone before, it shall indeed be a Hapy New Year, a year that shall stand out shining above all the constellated years. It shall become a year that will be as green in the memory of men as the morning of creation or as that night when the star shone down on Bethlehem and the world rejoiced in a dream that men forgot till now. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS IT appears that President Wilson's proposal of a League of Nations is to become the paramount issue at the great peace conference at Versailles. No less a notable than Gilbert K. Chesterton says that the great difficulty will be found in trying to convince the Latin peoples that the proposed league is not to be for the purpose of perpetuating the power of the white races. There is undoubtedly some truth in this, but the real truth will not become patent until it becomes known how far the factor of the "self-determination" of peoples enters into the final adjustment of world relations. Already the English papers have hinted that "self-determination" will not apply south of the Suez, and if this be true, then it lends color to the conclusion that the league will, in subtle purpose, provide for the continued supremacy of the white races. Whether the Latin races and Japan will enter objections, is problematical, Japan has already stated, through Premier Okuma, that she will not meddle with colonial questions in Africa, but the other Mediterranean powers have made no statements along these lines. The final program, however, will probably show that Africa is still to be the playground for European exploiters and that its untold wealth will continue to flow into the coffers of the great nations so that they may continue their power and rule. But time sets all things to rights. Africa is waking up and stretching out her hands to her kin throughout the world and ultimately those of her blood will unite and demand justice. Unity is the slogan and watchword, for without unity there will be no realization. In every day life there is nothing one needs more than politness. It is surprising to know how far this personal attribute will carry one and how it will smooth out paths which otherwise might be a bit rugged. Our people need it and need it badly. As a rule, the majority of us carry a proverbial chip on our shoulders and at the slightest pretext we swell up and want to fight. We somehow want to look upon every white man and woman whom we do not know as our potential enemy and approach them with a reserve that is somewhat frigid. As peculiar as it may sound, the average man and woman whom we meet on the streets and in business, never thinks of prejudice un THE NEW YEAR POLITNESS less some offender brings it up by unpleasant action or word. A smile and politeness carries one anywhere. Out in the north end of the city, where many of our people live, there are generally crowds of young people who appear to want to make things unpleasant for white pedestrians who frequent that neighborhood. Improper remarks, boisterous actions and the frequent jostling of persons, are among the greatest faults and they should be stopped. These young people should have learned politeness in their homes, but since many of them have not, the duty of teaching it must fall to the Sunday schools, churches, social gatherings and, if necessary, the law. We hope that those of our ministers and others who come into frequent contact with this young element, will impress the value of politeness and courtesy. It is essential that we possess these qualities more than others, because we suffer some handicaps from the start. Do not teach servility, but politeness. It is always worth while. THE TILLMAN MEMORIAL ON Sunday, December 15 the United senate and house of representatives convened to deliver eulogies upon the late Senator Benjamin F. Tillman. Several members took part in the exercises and each, while admitting that Tillman had striking limitations, also had striking abilities and among them ability as a debater, logician and keen student of sectional and national conditions. All paid tribute to his sincerity and to the depth of his convictions, however much they sometimes grated upon the sensitivity of the north. It is true that Tillman was a great logician, that he was sincere and that he was a deep student of national affairs. He knew the Negro and knew him perhaps as no other southerner ever knew him, and knowing him, he never feared to tell what he knew of him and why he was a menace to the white man's supremacy. Unlike other southerners, Tillman never hesitated to admit that it was the fear of the Negro's potentialities that made him try to embitter the north against him. At Harvard he told the vast assemblage which gathered to hear him, that nature had made the Negro the only competitor of the white man, and that unless the south withheld from him education and the chances for mental advancement, the Negro would eventually rise superior to the whites of the south. This is true and Tillman knew that it was true and the south knows it is true, only Tillman was naturally blunt and wanted the north to know the real truth, rather than create a blind prejudice upon a foundation of ignorance. Tillman is dead and we will let his name rest in peace, but some day the world will realize that the fear which Tillman so willingly expressed is the same fear which grips the south today and makes it so unjust to a large part of its population. READ, MARK—AND THINK The Gold Coast Leader, one of our African exchanges, publishes the following article from the pen of G. C. M., on The White Man's Burden, which furnishes much food for thought and is significant of the trend of modern African opinion. "It is somewhat remarkable how words and phrases come to stay. From being leisurely employed in a few fiction magazines less than a decade ago, 'The White Man's Burden' has crept into more serious months and now bids fair to become a staple phrase in certain well-known West African newspapers published in London and to gain popularity among a certain class of would-be apostles of European philanthropy. But what does it mean? It means the self-assumed governance and tutelage of African and other peoples whom the European has undertaken to teach his ways, including his worship of the almighty dollar, his whisky and soda drinking, his forgeries and other crimes previously unknown to Africans, his ambition to cultivate the society of so-called cultured men and to ingrate himself with men of rank, and his love of artificial life; in a word, it means Europeanization. In practical politics, this is transformed by the immutable law of cause and effect, into the burden which Europeans have superimposed upon THE MONITOR African races willy-nilly. Nor does the grateful but unfortunate people apear to resent it much, recognizing as they do the futility and helplessness of the situation, being convinced it would be expecting too much to have an ounce of European "goods" without an overdose of his "evils." Experience has clearly demonstrated the fact that the Eurepean is "an austere master, gathering where he has not sown"—whether in driving "profitable trade in human chattels," or in directing punitive expeditions against weaponless "bushmen," or in bargaining for cocoa or palm oil deals in the market; that his religion and civilization are only aids to social limbs of commercial Europeanization; that his true mission to these parts is to possess himself of the African's goods—his lands, mark! just glance at the map of Africa) yea, his very soul, and deal with it as it may please him; in short, that he seeks the denationalization of the African. This is no imaginary or idle complaint and a little reflection will convince the most cynical that the African is no fool. Happily, there is ample reason to believe that the European has been reckoning without his host, who stoutly refuses to be bamboozled any longer, and makes bold in divers ways to challenge him to declare the faith that is in him. In the face of his oft-vaunted assertions of "protection" the African reads "exploitation," and is inclined to regard his talk about "salvation full and free" as all humbug and much of a piece with the whole process of Europeanization and denationalization. And who shall him? "But there really exists a "Whiteman's Burden," namely, the faithful discharge of the responsibility that attaches to every cultured individual or race whose consciousness has been awakened to a sense of the obligation which he or it is under to the other races of the world: a heavenly-born desire to help others to realize themselves rather than to discourage their efforts, to nourish rather than starve out the natural and healthy aspirations of a promising race. That is the 'Whiteman's Burden'—his noblesse oblige." A NEW NEGRO NATION A scheme will be presented to the peace congress, and it is said that among its backers are many eminent men both in this country and in Europe, which it is claimed, if adopted, will go far toward settling the race question. It is proposed to turn over the German African colonies, in which there are 12,000,000 people, to the "African race," not simply to Colored people of those colonies. Educated Colored people residing in all other nations are to be asked to go there and build up a nation of Negroes, that shall at first be under the tutelage of the entente powers until a stable government is established, and then become an independent nation on an equality with all other nations. There is no doubt that there are enough educated Negroes in the world to set up a stable government in Africa, but there is great doubt whether any number of them will want to go there. The republic of Liberia was established with the same end in view, but it has never made any advancement which has attracted the attention of the world. Africa naturally belongs to the Negro, but if that race will not develop its great natural resources some other race will—Omaha World-Herald. CONCERNING LETTERS FROM OUR READERS THE MONITOR has an interesting department entitled "Letters From Our Readers," under which we are pleased to publish short letters from our readers expressing their views on public questions. We-wish our readers would make more use of this department than they do. Letters should be reasonably short and plainly written on one side of the paper and signed by the writer. This week we have received an interesting letter captioned "Why?" which was gladly given space. The writer comments on an editorial from the Pittsburg Coruier taking the position, which The Monitor indorsed, that the talk of sending Negro delegates from America to the peace conference is foolish and impracticable. A little thought will show that no matter how desirable such a commission might be it is impracticable. Only the United States government has authority to send duly accredited representatives or delegates to the peace conference. With what authority would Negro delegates be clothed. We know that organizations have selected delegates to attend the peace conference and that the public is being requested in some cases to contribute funds to send them, which to us is an undignified and questionable proceeding. While not impugning their motives, we do question the wisdom of those who are urging the sending of special American Negro delegates to Versailles. We think the Courier's position is sound. We are, however, pleased to have our readers express their views on these and other questions and we hope that "Letters From Our Readers" department will be more generally used. Oh, Chosen of all chosen words, Thou slogan of the great and free; Today the Allied nations breathe The sacred word, Democracy. And rising god-like from the dust, To thee the world new altars raise To thee the weaker peoples cry; And like the never-ending fall Of waters from a bubbling fount, Thou marchest with sweet conquering tread Like the great Sermon on the Mount. And thrones are crumbling into dust; And sceptres slowly pass away; Upon the world falls newer light; It is the breaking of the day. Thy cloven tongues of flame shall sit. Then shall my race to vict'ry move, That wondrous things the world may see, How black men bear the flag of faith, Democracy! Democracy! America, the Negro race Is waiting for thy promised word. The tempest passing o'er the earth, The dead and dying leaves have stirred. Thou canst not be a nation' great, With half as bondsmen and half- free; Give Freedom unto whom thou wilt, But give us Democracy! Obvious Observations THIS rain in December business might be all right down among the cotton and the cane, but up here we would like to see something that reminds us of the North Pole. The Allies had better throw out the switch on their faculty of observation and nail it there, or the wily Teuton might slip in a wedge and wreck everything at the peace table. One column of news matter never made a newspaper, just as one bed bug never made a commercial hotel. Since Unk Sam slammed a tax on cigars, we never realized how much we loved a pipe. Many a friend female feels like slapping herself because she made a present to another friend female who didn't give one to her. If the new congress does all it claims it is going to do, we're afraid it will have President Wilson in a psychopathic ward cutting out paper dolls. Scientists will discover an immediate cure for the flu after the flue has flued. It's always that way. A match isn't worth three whoops unless it is altogether. Neither is a race. Bruce Grit says: "The Monitor is the best printed, best edited and best published Negro newsaper in the country." Thanks, Mr. Grit, you ought to know. Thanking you kindly for your kind and earnest attention, we will now cogitate and try to remember to whom we lent our last and only umbrella. NEW Year's day is the uno annual time when we arise from our mental desutude and decide to put a crimp in numerous and various falts that decorate our coporeal frames and psychological compositions. It is nothing more or less than annual hypnotic hocus pocus, because we have absolutely no intention whatever of trying to walk the tight rope of virtue and drag down the halo of holiness to crown our beans. For a whole year we have followed out the year previous and next year will find us hunting the same opportunities to hand friend neighbor a lemon. New Year's is just the annual festival for us to flim flam ourselves and make ourselves believe that we have got some good traits in us which we haven't. For instance, we resolute to treat friend neighbor and competitor to a plateful of sympathy, love and charity, but its all fake solicitude. On January second, if friend neighbor disturbs our New Year's equilibrium, we are just as ready to hand him a collection of tabasco English as we were on December thirty-first. This whole outcrop of New Year flirting with good resolutions is simply to remind us mulgasabs that virtue is a word found chiefly in the dictionary and seldom away from home. The main trouble with being good is that the other fellow won't try to be good along with you. He is always ready to hand you a mitt full of trouble and remind you that life is a game of give and take. If you want to do the take-stunt and not pass any of the give-junk, your name is Mud. ```markdown ``` DEMOCRACY By Ben E. Burrell SKITS OF SOLOMON The New Year THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN H·L·W· $100.00 What is the meaning of this beautiful insignia and why has it been adopted by the Hamitic League of the World? June 1, 1919, we will pay $100.00 to man, woman or child, who sends in the correct story. You will find a hint in the League's GREAT WORK: The Children of the Sun .... The Children of the Sun .... The book that is waking up America and establishing the Negro as the greatest race of all human history. Send 25 cents (no stamps) for a copy of this wonderful study in historical research and become a member of the greatest educational organization ever founded for the uplift of the African races throughout the world. Then study the insignia and send in your story. THE HAMITIC LEAGUE OF THE WORLD 933 North 27th Street. Omaha, Neb. THE final big sellings of the year afford emphatic savings to all. The values in this clearance will fall nothing short of being remarkable. Drastic Price Reductions een made on seasonable goods of all kind department of the store—and we might with that in magnitude and value-giving to far exceed the same events of the past. e who have attended our previous Ye face Sales need no urging to be first in attte e. The idea of giving have been made on seasonable goods of all kinds—in every department of the store—and we might say in good faith that in magnitude and value-giving this sale will by far exceed the same events of the past. Those who have attended our previous Year End Clearance Sales need no urging to be first in attendance at these. The idea of giving This Advance Notice our customers may in every way prepare advantage of this occasion. is that our customers may in every way prepare to take large advantage of this occasion. Sale Begins Thursday Morning, December 26, at 9 O'clock. THE CRUSADER The Greater Negro Magazine. Winning a welcome everywhere. You must have it. A Monthly. One Dollar a Year. THE CRUSADER 2299 Seventh Avenue, New York City NORTH SIDE BOOSTERS Six Chairs The best equipped shop in the state. Leading shop of the city. Baths, plain and shower. Cultured barbers. FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY PORO NEW CHEMICALS PORO SYSTEM ST. LOUIS, MO. PORO SYSTEM COMPANY SAINT LOUIS, MO. Dept. U A Nettleton Shoe! M. S. ATKISSON 503 South 16th Street. Iler Grand Building. GOOD GROCERIES ALWAYS C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO. Also Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. 2006 Cuming St. Telephone Douglas 1098 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. E. W. Killingsworth The Alamo Barber Shop The best equipped shop the city. Baths, plain and sh KILLINGSWORT Phone Webster 5784. UNCLE SAM NEEDS PORO S TAKE CARE FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY PORO SYSTEM SAINT L Dep A Nettle THE GENTLE A good quality souvenir or of shoes. Also a fine line of Boys' Sh M. S. AT 503 South 16th Street. GOOD GROCER C. P. WESIN Also Fresh Frui 2006 Cuming St. BUY BOOK Within the past ten years Y toward literary achievement than i Become familiar with the wor The Boy You Love The boy you love in the training camp or better soldier and a be man if he knows the riting life ("Fifty Years" and the hauntos of "Black and Unknown You will find these in James Johnson's "Fifty Years and Other Poems," a book the critics of the world have called the master of the Colored Race. Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University has written a remarkably fine introduction. From the Fields of Alabama From the Fields of Alabama A boy came fresh from the fields of Alabama to his school through a session of the sumer school at Harvard. A few roughly scrawled poems caught the eye of his professor. The result was a book of these verses, a corporal in a Machine Gun Company. Meanwhile the great literary newspapers of the east are saying that Waverly Turner Carmichael gives promise to the young, a kind of know of this soldier author or his book. "From the Heart of a Folk." In Spite of Bitter Handicaps In Spite of Bitter Handicaps In Louisville, Kentucky, a, Colored man, an educator and a poet, rose to fame when one of the community were proud to call him their friend. Now his son, scarcely more than a boy, overcoming the bitter handicap of failing health, has published his first book, and again the critics on the great metropolitan newspapers have accustomed Joseph S. Sullivan to glorify the only a book worthy of the best literary 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 as they are in literary value. That it may be easy for you for them at the publisher's lowest N Fifty Years and Other Poem Folk, $1.00. The Message of a Woman, $1.25. Twenty-five The Band of Gidon, $1.00. Where the book is sent to a s there will be no charge for mailin postage with every order to be se DO YOUR BIT!!!—G SEND ORDERS T 2416 North 24th Street. OUR MEN. LET THE SYSTEM OF YOU PORO SYSTEM ST. LOUIS, MO. M COMPANY LOUIS, MO. St. U ton Shoe! MAN'S CHOICE lothes brush with every pair es. TKISSON Iler Grand Building. IES ALWAYS GROCERY CO. and Vegetables. Telephone Douglas 1098 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. What to say you appreciate and what to rewrite twenty-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, the author 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 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 Braithwite has written the production. Another Race, Bard Many a scrap book contains treasured clippings of the poems of Charles Bertram Johnson as they occasionally appeared in the newspapers of the time. Now the Songs of my People, a new book just from the press, the best of Mr. Johnson's poetry is brought together in permanent form and will give pleasure to the hundreds of admirers of his work. It, and good books. It is impossible toative of the best. They are beauti-ordinary book in book making as to secure them we will take orders at prices, which are: $1.25. From the Heart of a Tree Trees, $2.00. The Heart of Years in the Black Belt, $1.50. Songs of My People, $1.00 dier or a sailor in a training camp. Otherwise, enclose ten cents for by mail. WE A BOOK TODAY!!! TO THE MONITOR. THE MONITOR Letters from Boys Overseas "CLAMORING BEFORE THE VERY GATES OF METZ" Elmer Underwood of the 365th Infantry Writes Nat Hunter a Most Interesting Letter of the Closing Battle of the War. American Expeditionary Forces, France, November, 13, 1918. Dear Nat: Now that the big squabble is nearly at an end and life is likely to last until I finish writing, I feel pleased to let you know that I am still in the land of the living, full of pep, and continually on the job. Being on the job over here really means something. Since leaving old Omaha I have had many an adventure and this excluding none is the biggest of them all. Offtimes when shrapnel filled the air and the crack of machine guns made life miserable, I thought that without a doubt one of these little graves marked "Mort Pour France" would be my final resting place. The end came like a clamp of thunder. On the evening of the 10th the orders came for our outfit to move up fully equipped for business. Our objective was a small town some 17 kilometers away. Not a man but knew what the end would be in attempting this drive. We had been in the forests of Argonne and this would be no less difficult. Not since 1914 had the allies gained ground in this sector. The fighting Algerians had only lasted one half hour in the face of German machine gun and artillery fire. Zero hour was to be at 5 o'clock. At 5 o'clock, on the dot our artillery started a creeping barrage and the 366th started over. Great Scott, Nat, it was awful. Some men were torn beyond recognition by the enemy's artillery. Gas, shrapnel, machine guns and small arms were used against them. Still the boys held on longer than any troops ever had before. Then the 365th tried it. Believe me, we went through the Boche like a dose of salts. Reached our objective before the allotted time. The eleventh hour found us so to speak clamoring at the very gates of Metz, and determined to force an admission if it were refused us. Ed Turner was there, so I hear. While we were out there in No Man's Land scuffling for a new lease on life reserves in the rear were watching with undescribable anxiety the hands of the clock as they crept near eleven. At 10:45 there was no sign of the battle abating. Faith in the armistice began to wane. To make things worse the German aeroplanes dropped propaganda asking, "Why fight when peace is so near?" The big guns in Metz were in the meantime dropping gigantic shells among us with terrible effect. Then suddenly as if the hand of death had fallen over everything a silence comparable to that of a village church yard, in contrast to the noise of a few minutes before, came over the battleground of four long tortuous years. And then, Nat, to think of being snatched so to speak from the very maw of death. Some shouted, some prayed and others maintained an unnatural calm as if it were only a pleasant dream. Never before in the world's history have I heard of anything like it. Truly it is the irony of fate that could cause a many to play the game till the last hour and then lose. After that came the grewsome task of gathering up the dead. I will not with my limited vocabulary attempt to describe the scene. Enough to say that those brave fellows who only a few months ago, teeming with the joy of life, promised to help France win this war unflinchingly paid their debt in full. But that is enough of the war stuff. I've had so much of it since arriving here last June that I hate to talk fight. I've been all over France and living, in the course of my travels, next to nature. Every once in a long DIPLOMATS WOULDNT LET US LOAN IN AFRICA Liberia Suffered in War by Dog-in-the-Manger Attitude of Europe. Negro Republic, to Protect From German Use of Territory, Ruined Commerce. Special Cable to the Omaha World-Herald and Chicago Daily News. Paris, France, Dec. 21.—An American in political life told me the following story: "The old diplomacy of Europe has brought the republic of Liberia to an unfortunate pass. Liberia was induced by the allies to declare war because Germany was using Liberian territory to set up wireless stations. The result of Liberia's declaration of war was that the German merchants and bankers who had an active commerce from Liberia along the African coast were interned. Business stopped and the customs receipts fell to almost nothing. Consequently the Liberian government applied to while I run across some one from the Gate City. Now and then I see Lawyer Pinkett. However, I know very little concerning men in other regiments. Now Nat, I hope to be able to look the Goddess of Liberty in the face once more in the near future. Take care of yourself. Give my regards to Mrs. Hunter and any inquiring friends. Tell Scales that Boykins from Chicago is my closest comrade in arms. Good bye and good luck. (Deiu benir vous.) PVT. ELMER C. UNDERWOOD, Co. 1 365th Infantry, Amer. Expd. Forces, via N. Y., A. P. O. No. 766. FIRST AND SECOND IMPRESSIONS OF FRANCE Moses Jordan's First View of Rugged Coast Line Did Not Favorably Impress Him. My Dear Father Williams: The morning I came on deck and spied land in the far distance, a soldier boy exclaimed: "La Belle France." dier boy exclaimed: "La Belle France." I could hardly believe it was true, because I could not see any "belle" about that rugged, barren land which reminded me of sand dunes in the Sahara desert. While many were "rubber-necking" to get a glimpse and others were yelling, "La Belle France!" I thought of France as an old plantation philosopher thought of a twinkling star. Once when shown a star of the fourth magnitude and being told that it was larger than the earth, the old fellow could not believe it. So after some serious head shaking and head scratching and some interrogating he said, rather doubtfully, "If dat am true about dat star, it's she got a poor way of shown' it." From my first sight of France I thought that if Les Français wanted to personify the proper title would have been, "Thomme France" with "Villain" added. But since I have had a chance to see, I can readily exclaim with others, "La Belle France!" and add, "La Belle Charms France!" Let me say here, Father, what Les Francais have done to beautify their country is wonderful to behold. The saying, "a thing of beauty is a joy forever," is demonstrated in the scenery of the country. Her large meadows, high hills, lofty mountains, adorned with dense forests, are very attractive, especially in the evening at sunset, when the west seems aflame with burning fire. The nights are starry and glorious. I am told that Cupid does most of his work at night and I think so with the silver moon swinging low and Ursa Major and Minor in their respective places under the eye of the Dragon. It is enough to make a lover's heart give up its secrets. Her streamlets flow through hand made arteries and her little lakes are well kept. Father, I do not think that it is so much the natural resources that make France one of the beauty spots of the world, but the adornment made by man. I have seen places in western and southern Florida and Louisiana just as beautiful and rich from a natural standpoint, but France is tailor-made. Her forests and pasture lands are in selected places. Her public highways are lineal with the trees. The age of the road can be judged from the size of the trees. Some of these roads are over a thousand years and many are historical from the fact that they were built for war purposes and under the eyes of such great generals as Caesar and Napoleon. There are so many strategic battle grounds in France that during the war the people know just where the great battles will be fought. Father, I repeat, La Belle France is a beautiful country. My next letter will be on "a la route de guerra." Aur revoir. PVT. MOSES JORDAN. Say, Father, I just received The Monitor. Such a noise we made! the United States for a small loan to carry on its affairs. "The United States was about to make this loan when the statesmen of Europe interfered. They said that for the United States to make a loan to Liberia was not a friendly act because by so doing the United States would establish a sphere of influence in Africa. "This suggests the malignant influence of the old diplomatic doctrine in its spheres of influence. Each nation in its sphere holds to unfortunate protected nations in its grip and extracts for itself the greatest possible profit at the expense of the helpless victims. "In this case it is a dog in the manger attitude taken by the diplomats for one with spheres of influence in Africa has any money to loan to unfortunate Liberia. Surely the league of nations ought to take care of just such situations." Fred C. Williams, field manager of The Monitor, underwent a slight operation last week and is feeling much better. Every class is closely supervised. Every district has several supervisors, who devote all of their time to the schools. At present there is a terrible epidemic of influenza. There are over five thousand cases in Isabela. They are trying to have the schools closed for awhile, and if they are closed, all teachers will engage in Red Cross work. The Recent Earthquake. We had a terrible earthquake here on the eleventh of October. It happened at 10:15 a.m. Suddenly the school building began to rock violently back and forth. I thought the building was collapsing. We all ran out and as we reached the street, we heard some one shouting "earthquake." Again the earth seemed to be lifted, then rock back and forth. It was terrible. People were screaming and running in every direction. All cement and brick buildings fell with the first earthquake. During the first twelve hours there were eighty-six very hard shocks, these continued every day, being very close together the first week. The second week they began to diminish. During the third week we had very few. Last month at the same time we had another very hard shock. Just the past Monday we had three shocks. Studying the Cause. There have been many conjectures as to the cause of these earthquakes. Two seismologists have been sent by the U. S. government from John Hopkins university to study them. They spent considerable time this week in Isabela. We are hoping to learn the real cause shortly. Since the hardest ones seem to happen every month when the moon is full, many think that perhaps the moon or some planet is causing them. Generally before an earthquake the ocean makes a terrible noise, and a tidal wave comes. For this reason many believe there is a submarine volcano near. During the first earthquake three towns, one of which was the largest on the western coast were completely destroyed. Hundreds were killed by the earthquake in these towns. A tidal wave almost sixty feet high came immediately after the earthquake. This extended over the entire western coast and carried buildings, houses and human being back to the sea. More were drowned than were killed by the earthquake. We were quite frightened at first, but now we are becoming used to the shocks and do not mind them, unless they are very hard. Red Cross on Job. The Red Cross immediately took charge of the devastated districts, and temporary homes and hospitals were quickly constructed from army tents for use. Although every town on the island suffered property losses, and almost every one, some lives were lost, yet each town immediately subscribed a great amount of money for relief work. Oversubscribe Liberty Loan. The earthquake happened on the day set for the subscription of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Even in the town of Aquadillis, which was almost entirely destroyed, their amount was oversubscribed. Even though they had suffered great losses of property and hundreds of lives, yet they never forgot their duty to their government and did their share to help make the Fourth Liberty Loan a success. Too Busy to Be Homesick I am always very busy and consequently do not have time to be home-sick or lonesome. School opens at 8:30 and closes at 4. I have several special classes during the week in the evenings. At first I had free night schools for English students. I was compelled to give these up for lack of time, so at present I only have a few special night classes. I try to devote as much time as I possibly can to welfare work Saturday and Sunday and hope later to do a great amount of missionary work. At first the fact that I did not understand Spanish was quite a draw-back to me, but I am able now to understand a great deal of Spanish and to make myself understood so I am progressing more rapidly. Our friends in Omaha and elsewhere have been very thoughtful of us. Can assure them that we have enjoyed the long interesting letters and newspapers they have sent and hope to have more time to devote to my correspondence. We wish all of our friends a very Merry mas and a Happy New Year. Perhaps during the coming year I can write more for The Monitor. seven millions of British West African Negroes and Negroids. Or there might be two Universities: one in Hausaland for Mohammedans and one on the Cameroons peak for Christians and nondescripts. In each of the sep- arate territorial divisions of B. W. A. there would of course be colleges and well formed native schools." These will be the demands of the West African conference and they cover the aims of enlightened progressive men throughout West Africa. DO YOU WANT A PIG? Then Attend the LUNCHEON By DIAMOND SQUARE TEMPLE No. 511 Residence of Mrs. C. H. Heuston, 2805 Ohio Street From 2:30 to 7:30 New Year's Day Tickets 35 Cents DR. J. W. SCOTT CHIROPODIST Corns Removed Without Pain Phone H. 4255, 1202 Farnam St. Omaha, Neb. PORO HAIR CULTURE We treat the scalp and grow the hair. Manicuring and massage. HATTIE B. HILL, Proprietor Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department of the United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Farnam Streets We Have a Complete Line of FLOWER, GRASS AND GARDEN 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. J. A. Edholm E. W. Sherman Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 The HamiltOn SOFT DRING PARLOR Cor. 24th and Hamilton HOT LUNCHES Get Acquainted With Joe OMAHA THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE PRINTING COMPANY The Silas Johnson Western Funeral Home Webster 248 2518 Lake St. The Place for Quality and Service Licensed Embalmer in Attendance Lady Attendant if Desired. Music Furnished Free. ----BUY A HOME---- REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE Telephones: Douglas 2842; Webster 5519. 6 Diamond 24th and Lake Sts. SUNDAY— A Five Reel Special "WOLVES OF KULTUR" Every Tuesday "HANDS UP" ALHAMBRA 24th and Parker. THE HOUSE OF COURTESY 24th and Parker Sts. FRANKLIN 24th and Franklin Streets SATURDAY— A Big Five Reel Release SUNDAY— A Feature That Is a Whirlwind. The CHAPMAN Drug Store 934 P St., Lincoln Opposite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazines, Cigars, Candies and a full lime of Druggist Sundries WE HAVE COAL TO BURN Neb. Fuel Lump, . $8.90 For Heaters or Furnace NEBRASKA FUEL CO. Tel. Doug. 430. 409 S. 16th St. North Yard at 33d and Evans Streets. Colfax 2289. MADAME HENDERSON HAIRDRESSER and MANICURIST Agent or the Celebrated Madam Walker Preparations. The Attorneys at Law. Dolores Gravel Phone Webster 1409 2866 Maple Street, Omaha, Neb. The Lincoln Lunch Room Quick Service for Working Men C. C. GALLOWAY, Prop 102 South 14th St Tel. Douglas 3651. 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. --- BUY A 2811 OHIO STREET Six-room house, modern but heat; close to school and church; one block to car line. Price, $2,100. Very easy terms. G. B. R REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, F Telephones: Douglas 2842; Wa Liberty Drug Co. EVERYBODY'S DRUG STORE We Deliver Anywhere. Webster 386. Omaha, Neb. Classified Advertising RATES—11/2 cents a word for single insertions; 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 15 cents. Cash should accompany advertisement. THE PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE Douglas 1446. 109 South 14th St. ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24th and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neb. COLORED NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES FRANK DOUGLASS Shining Parlor. Webster 1388. 2414 North 24th St. 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, 2702 North Twenty-third street. Webster 3727 9-21 Neatly furnished rooms in private family. Strictly modern. Webster 1196. 9-21-44 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—Nearly 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 3399-W. For Rent—Modern furnished rooms. 2320 North 28th Ave. Phone Wet- ster 2058. 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 Master 5519. THE MONITOR HUNGER Famine Conditions Food Shortage approaching Serious Food Shortage Sufficient Present Food Survival But Future Serious Peoples already receiving American aid Unclassified DECEMBER 1. 1918 America's food pledge 20 million tons HUNGER DRAWS THE MAP Famine Conditions Food Shortage approaching Famine Point Serious Food Shortage Sufficient Present Food Supply But Future Serious Peoples already receiving American aid Unclassified DECEMBER 1. 1918 RUSSIA GERMANY POLAND UKRAINE FRANCE URO-SUW/ONIA BLACK SEA TURKEY MEDITERRANEAN SEA AFRICA America's food pledge 20 million tons A food map of Europe today shows not a single country in which the future does not hold threat of serious difficulties and only a small part which is not rapidly approaching the famine point. With the exception of the Ukraine only those countries which have maintained marine commerce have sufficient food supplies to meet actual needs until next harvest, and even in the Ukraine, with stores accumulated on the farms, there is famine in the large centers of population. Belgium and northern France, as well as Serbia, appear on the hunger map distinct from the rest of Europe because they stand in a different relation from the other nations to the people of the United States. America has for four years maintained the small war rations of Belgium and northern France and is already making special efforts to care for their increased after-the-war needs, which, with those of Serbia, must be included in this plan, are urgent in the extreme and must have immediate relief. The gratitude of the Belgian nation for the help America has extended to her during the war constitutes the strongest appeal for us to continue our work there. The moment the German armies withdrew from her soil and she was established once more in her own Aims and Achievements of N.A.A.C.P. An Address Delivered by Mrs. James G. Jewell Before the Forum Held in St. John's A. M. E. Church Sunday Afternoon, December 1. SINCE the end of the civil war, from time to time, there have been numerous organizations started in this country, some by sincere race men and women, who have been earnestly desirous of doing something worth while to better the condition of the American Negro. Some of these organizations have been national in their scope—others purely local. All have helped in some respects, the condition of the Negro—but it was not until 1909, when Miss Mary White Ovington and one or two other interested white people, incensed and outraged as a result of the Springfield riots, met a number of our most representative Negroes in New York and formed this Association on the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, that as a race we have had a really effective organization, working for the black man of America. A great deal of literature has been sent out by the N. A. A. C. P. concerning its aims and achievements. "It conceives its mission to be the completion of the work which the great emancipator began. It proposes to make 12,000,000 Americans physically free from peonage, mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disfranchisement, socially free from insult." It is a most democratic organization—anyone white, black, red or yellow, who is interested in equal rights for the Negro, is eligible to membership. The N. A. A. C. P. believes American citizens white and black must organize and fight together for the full rights of all native born Americans. It has been most fortunate in having the co-operation of white men and women of wealth, position and prestige, governors of several states, eminent jurists, prominent professional, literary and business men. Let us review briefly what this Association aims to do, and then what has been accomplished in the nine years of its existence. Negroes in many states are dis- R DRAWS T amine Point supply rious ing d NORWAY SWEDEN FINLAND BALTA SEA GERMANY POLAND UKRAINE FLOOD- SLAVONIA AUSTRIA- MIDDLE JUDO- SLAVONIA BLACK TERRAINEAN SEA AFRICA seat of government the little nation's first thought was to express her gratitude to the Commission for Relief in Belgium for preserving the lives of millions of her citizens. Germany, on the other hand, need not figure in such a map for Americans because there is no present indication that we shall be called on at all to take thought for the food needs of Germany. Germany probably can care for her own food problem if she is given access to shipping and is enabled to distribute food to the cities with dense populations, which are the trouble centers. England, France, the Netherlands and Portugal, all of which have been maintained from American supplies, have sufficient food to meet immediate needs, but their future presents serious difficulties. The same is true of Spain and the northern neutral countries—Norway, Sweden and Denmark—whose ports have been open and who have been able to draw to some degree upon foreign supplies. Most of Russia is already in the throes of famine, and 40,000,000 people there are beyond the possibility of help. Before another spring thousands of them inevitably must die. This applies as well to Poland and practically throughout the Baltic re- franchised, discriminated against, Jim Crowed, lynched, denied equal protection of the laws, equal educational advantages for their children and equal economic opportunities. The N. A. A. C. P. proposes: 1. To abolish legal injustice against Negroes. 2. To stamp out race discrimination. 3. To prevent lynchings, burnings and torturing of black people. 4. To secure to every citizen of color, the common rights of American citizenship. 5. To compel equal accommodations in railroad travel, irrespective of color. 6. To secure for Colored children an equal opportunity to public school education, through a fair apportionment of educational funds. Let us now see what measure of success has been achieved by the N. A. A. C. P. during the past nine years. 1. It assisted in the fight in state and U. S. courts against the grandfather clause of various state laws, and certain state constitutions by which it was sought to disfranchise Colored men by indirection, until in 1915 the U. S. supreme court, declared the grandfather clause of the state of Oklahoma unconstitutional. The briefs in this case were filed by Mr. Moorfield Story, president of the N. A. A. C. P, and an eminent lawyer of national reputation, who could have commanded a fee of not less than $100,000 for his work in a like case, but who gave his services gratis to help the American Negro. 2. It fought in several cities segregation ordinances, by which it was attempted to create a Negro ghetto, invariably in the least sanitary and most undesirable sections of the city, until in 1917 in the Louisville case, there was obtained upon an appeal, an unanimous decision of the supreme court of the U. S. declaring all such ordinances unconstitutional. Mr. Story also acted as counsel for this case. 3. It fought Jim Crow laws in the state courts, where enacted and carried on campaigns in various cities and states of the country. 4. It successfully prosecuted many suits to secure the civil rights of Colored people against unjust and illegal discriminations, and promoted civil laws in state legislatures. ```markdown ``` glions, with conditions most serious in Finland. Bohemia, Serbia, Roumania and Montenegro have already reached the famine point and are suffering a heavy toll of death. The Armenian population is falling each week as hunger takes its toll, and in Greece, Albania and Roumania so serious are the food shortages that famine is near. Although starvation is not yet imminent, Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Turkey are in the throes of serious stringencies. In order to fulfill America's pledge in world relief we will have to export every ton of food which can be handled through our ports. This means at the very least a minimum of 20,000,000 tons compared with 6,000,000 tons prewar exports and 11,820,000 tons exported last year, when we were bound by the ties of war to the European allies. If we fail to lighten the black spots on the hunger map or if we allow any portions to become darker the very peace for which we fought and bled will be threatened. Revolt and anarchy inevitably follow famine. Should this happen we will see in other parts of Europe a repetition of the Russian debacle and our fight for world peace will have been in vain. 5. It organized opposition to segregation of Colored employees in government departments, and upheld the rights of Colored civil service employees against discrimination, because of color, and the right to fair consideration of Colored persons, eligible to civil service appointments. 6. It worked against discrimination in employment because of color, and defended the rights of the Negro to equal pay for equal work. 7. It carried on a successful campaign for an officers' training camp for Colored soldiers (678 Negro officers were commissioned) and for equal treatment of Negro soldiers in the national service. 8. It raised an anti-lynching fund of $10,000 to investigate lynchings and mob violence, to give publicity to the facts regarding them, and to educate public opinion favorable to law and order. 9. It made special investigations, and published the facts, of lynchings and mob violence in various cities and states and published "Notes on lynching in the U. S." (1912), and will shortly publish an account of 100 cases of recent lynchings in the U. S. 10. It also organized mass meetings against lynching, and for educational purposes in New York and other cities, also engaged counsel to defend Colored men unjustly accused of "meeting to riot" in the East St. Louis outrage, when Negroes were driven from their homes, killed and their property destroyed. 11. It defeated many bills in congress, which if passed, would have been unjust and humiliating to Negroes. 12. It fought against moving picture plays, which like the "Birth of Nation," engender race hatred and tend to imperial national unity. 13. It published monthly the Crisis a record of the darker races, and has consistently encouraged talent among Colored people in every field of endeavor. It has also published and circulated many pamphlets on the status of the American Negro, and on the problems with which he is confronted. 14. Since January, 1917, it has maintained a field secretary for organization and educational work, among both races, also furnished a free news service on the work of the Association, and the progress of Col- ored people, to the general and Colored press of the nation. It has also promoted lecture tours for members of its board of directors, in important cities of the country, and has organized more than 100 branches throughout the country, which have done remarkable work for our people in their localities. 15. The N. A. A. C. P. has awarded annually since 1915, through a gift of the chairman of the board of directors, the Spingarn medal for the highest or noblest achievement by an American Negro, during the preceding year. Finally the N. A. A. C. P. has appealed to the conscience of the American people for justice for the Negro. It has not asked for immunity from the common burdens of citizenship; it has on the contrary urged only that he be allowed equally to participate in the American heritage. When he has sinned it it has not been asked for pardon; when he offends it cares for him but justice. It has spoken for a race that they might have life and have it more abundantly, and the only means that can be employed are education, organization, agitation, publicity—the force of an enlightened public opinion. You have heard what this wonderful organization hopes to do—you have seen what it has already done, and what it is doing day by day—will you—here in Omaha help the N. A. A. C. P. to grow? HASTINGS, NEBRASKA NEWS By Mrs. Frankie Goode. Mrs. Clara V. Spencer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Swain, was married last Saturday morning December 13, to Mr. Homer Washington of Evansville, Ind. The bride wore a very pretty wedding dress of grey satin and Georgette crepe with grey boots to match. Mrs. Frankie Goode and Mr. John Daugherty were the attendants. Mr. and Mrs. William Swain entertained Saturday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Homer Washington. A very enjoyable evening was spent, the bride receiving many wedding presents. Light refreshments were served. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Homer Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Wyth Walker, Mr. and Mrs. William Swain. Mrs. Frankie Goode, Mrs. Josephine Lee, Mrs. Switzer, Mrs. Harvey Bridges, Miss Mildred Lee, Miss Ora Dabney, Mr. Floyd Smumers, Mr. John Daugherty, Mr. Louis Taylor, Mr. William Jones, Mr. Orin Switzer, Mr. Charles Brown. Mrs. Washington was very popular with the younger set and was loved by everyone who knew her. She was of a lovable disposition and had a kind word for everybody. She was a member of the Y. W. C. A. and of the Junior High School. Mrs. Washington is a granddaughter of Mr. Amos Johnson of Palestine, Texas, and her mother, Mrs. Swain, was formerly Miss Birdie Johnson. So their friends in both communities wish Mr. and Mrs. Washington much happiness. The many friends of Mr. James Goode will be glad to know he is able to be up and around on crutches. Mr. Goode and wife were both sick with the flu. Mrs. Goode was formerly Miss Frankie Davis of Atchison, Kas. 'Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Briscoe left last Tuesday morning for points in Kansas and Missouri and Iowa on a two weeks' visit. Mrs. Clarence Daugherty returned home Monday from Scotts Bluff on account of the illness of her husband, Mr. Clarence Daugherty. Mr. Floyd Summers and aunt, Miss Nellie McKay, left Tuesday morning for Kansas City to spend the Christmas holidays with relatives. Miss Judy Walker is going to Kansas to visit her great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. THE CAPITOL SHOE REPAIRING We do the Best Repairing at Reasonable Prices. All Work Guaranteed. I. BROOK, Prop. Phone Web. 4592. 1408 N. 24th St. 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 1421 Douglas Street. HATS AND FURNISHINGS. W. T. SHACKELFORD COAL COMPANY Our Motto: "Service First" Webster 202 13th and Grace Modern Furnished Rooms 811 W. 14th Street CENTER CAFE Phone Red 1457 922 Center Street Mrs. Louise Cooper, Prop. Des Moines, Iowa The Moon CAFE GOOD HOME COOKING MEALS AT ANY HOUR 2605 N St. Tel. South 2962 Arbor Garage Fire proof block with steam heat. Repairing and storing. Will accommodate 50 cars day and night. Connection taxi service. Business at 2506-08 South 32d Avenue. Tel. Harney 3371, Omaha. Colored Prop. Petersen & Michelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N St. Tel. South 162 Harry Norman PROMPT Taxi Service AT ALL HOURS Pool Hall and Billiard Parlor in Connection. Phone South 2962 2603 N St. South Omaha, 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 K. & M. Grocery Co. Successor to H. E. YOUNG We solicit your patronage. 2114-16 North 24th St. NOTICE If you have a house to sell or rent list it with us. We will get results for you. Also call us for insurance. W. M. Franklin Dealer in Real Estate and Insurance. Notary Public. 2413 North 24th. Web. 4206. Established 1890 C. J. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. Events and Persons The new Top Notch cafe at 24th and Paul streets opens under new management of the Ladies' Club of Grove M. E. church. Breakfast from 6:30 to 8:30 a. m.; dinner from 11:30 to 2 p. m.; supper from 5:30 to 8 p. m. Short orders at all hours. Special chicken dinner every Sunday. Special turkey and chicken dinner Xmas day. Visit our classy cafe, "The Top Notch" Xmas day. Alfred Peoples, who has been seriously ill with the flu, is out again and on the job. Wanted—Middle aged woman for general housework. No washing or ironing. Mrs. John Latenser, 3217 Poppleton avenue. Harney 1631. Let us make the world safe and opportunities better for our posterity by patronizing our own business enterprises. Business with us means a better opportunity for some boy or some girl of our race. Williamson for prescriptions; Williamson for drugs. That's a good combination. 2306 N. 24th. Tel. Webster 4443.—Adv. Tailor Lee, formerly in business here, is now in charge of the tailoring department at the new Athletic club. Harry Saunders, one of the army boys, reached home Saturday morning. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board. 1516 North 16th. Tel. Webster 4983. Seventy-four of the California boys from Camp Grant passed through Omaha last Wednesday night, en route home. They remained in Omaha several hours, but the Omaha people were unable to give them the welcome they deserved because no notice had been given of their arrival. Mrs. Alonzo Pointer and mother, Mrs. Jackson, from North Platte, are visiting Mrs. Pearlie Pointer at 1611 North 26th. They are en route to Leavenworth, Kas., to spend the holidays. For moving, expressing and hauling call Douglas 7952. Penn and Sibley. —Adv. Mrs. Mamie Smith returned from Mississippi, where she was called because of the death of her brother-in-law. Mrs. Nettie Lewis, famous entertainer, spent a few hours in Omaha Friday, en route home to Chicago to spend the holidays with her mother. You will help the ladies of the Art club to publish their cook book by coming to a candy pulling and spelling bee at Mt. Moriah Baptist church, January 14, 1919. Admission 10 cents. Why not take a course in conversational French with R. L. Desdunes, 2215 North Twenty-fifth street? Phone Webster 3300.—Adv. Sick of church include: Mrs. Nellie Robinson, W. L. Sellers, Mrs. M. Washington, P. Patterson. Mrs. Jamie Shelton was called to Atchison by the serious illness of her aunt. Mother Kelly has returned home from the east looking fine. Mrs. Mamie Seals was out Sunday after a few weeks' illness. For Rent—Unfurnished room for light housekeeping, Hutten Flats, 1107 North 19th street. Webster 2177. Mrs. T. L. Hawthorne. Mrs. La Bor, mother of Mrs. Costello, left last week to visit during the holidays. Mrs. George Scott of Oklahoma City, is a holiday guest of Mrs. Wilmoth Cropp. "THE MONITOR IN THE HOME OF EVERY COLORED FAMILY IN OMAHA BY JANUARY FIRST." Help put it there. Is your neighbor a subscriber? NOTICE To Patrons of the Alamo Barber Shop and Billiard Parlor. As I have returned from the military service of which I spent about fourteen months, leaving my business interest up to my partner, Mr. Price, which he handled with unequalled ability, carrying out our plans successfully, maintaining the same discipline and good order that we established when we took the place more than a year and a half ago. I take this opportunity to thank the people of Omaha and the friends and patrons of the place for their loyal support of which I know your future success depends. I am now back on the job, will join Mr. Price in conducting the place in the future as we have in the past. Thanking you for your patronage and wishing you a Merry Xmas and Prosperous New Year. Respectfully, PEDDY W. J. HILTON SNORELL. EDW. W. KILLINGSWORTH. Dr. Earnest E. Graves DENTISTRY 242]North 10th Stree Telephone L 5263 LINCOLN, NEB THE MONITOR Doctor DuBois and Major Moton Head Delegation Already Overseas—Present Memorial. DEMAND BLACK DEMOCRACY Would Then Leave Negroes in Other Lands Free to Choose Which They Would Accept. BREST, France, Dec. 24.—Pleading the privilege of self-government and self-determination, leading Negroes of the United States will ask the peace conference to turn back to native control the German colonies in Africa for national organization by those now there and by other Negroes who may wish to live under a government by and of their race in the old African land. The transport Orizaba, bringing an advance guard to the Paris peace conference, arrived here on Monday, after an uneventful voyage of eight days. In addition to fifty representatives of American newspapers, the ship had as passengers a delegation of Negroes, commissioned to urge the claims of the race on the conference. The delegation includes W. E. B. DuBois, editor of the Crisis, and Dr. R. R. Moton, head of the Tuskegee Institute. House Has the Memorial. A memorial has already been submitted to Col. House. It urges the peace conference to extend the principle of democracy to the Negro race by recognizing the right of the race to self-government under the "self-determination" clause of President Wilson's peace terms. The memorial points out that the transfer of the German colonies in Africa to the control of other nations would retard the progress of the Negro race, whereas the application of the self-determination principle would result in the advancement of the race. There is a general plan, which contemplates an agreement among the belligerents, to set aside not only the African colonies under previous German rule, but also those now governed by the French and Portugeuse, and also the independent African states, and to make of these lands an African union, for the organization of a government by native Negroes and by Negroes who may elect to emigrate and attach themselves to the proposed democracy. One point the memorial emphasizes is that if German Africa were taken from one imperial master, even though a bad one, in order to pass it over to another, 'though a better one, that act would inevitably rouse suspicion of selfish aims on the part of the Allies, and would leave open grave questions concerning the future of colonial possessions and government. The conference will be urged to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Negro in America, in August, 1919, by encouraging the present movement to hand Africa over to the Africans. Aims of the British Labor Party for the extension of the right of self-government and for protection under organized conditions are indorsed in the memorial. Not a Colonization Scheme. Mr. Dubois declares that the plan is not a colonization scheme, but it is basically a movement to give 12,000,000 Negroes in the German colonies and in other African states opportunity to prove their capacity for self-government. "In the western hemisphere," he said, "25,000,000 Negroes indicated intense interest in the plan. They will give every financial, moral, religious, social and educational encouragement to it. Whether Negroes from other countries would emigrate is a problem less important than is the recognition of the right of Negroes already in Africa to determine how and by whom they shall be governed. "The movement is backed by the leading American churches, by 750,000 African Methodists and 2,000,000 Baptists. Domestic problems, while of dominant local interest, are actually subordinate to the fundamental justice of the right of the elements of the African race to govern themselves under the democratic conditions enunciated by President Wilson and by one or two of the Allied Governments. Treatment of the Negroes by the peace conference will test the sincerity of the various declarations on this point." The initial public step in the promotion of the movement will be taken in a Pan-African convention which will sit during the deliberations of the peace conference. The thing that saves us in this life is an occasional opportunity to smile at its follies.—Baltimore Sun. Mr. Henry Williams of 2415 Erskine street, will leave Sunday for Texakana, Texas, to visit his brother. He will spend the winter at Hot Springs. Mrs. F. Pierson of Lincoln, Neb., is visiting friends here this week. By Louis Seibold. What Saves Us. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS WHY? Editor of The Monitor: I have just read the article in December 14th issue of The Monitor, headed "Americans or Nothing," from the Pittsburg Courier, opposing the idea of sending Negro representatives to the peace conference. Why not? There will be Jewish representatives and representatives from other races, occupying the same peculiar position as the Negro race, that of the unconsidered unit of a great nation. We are Americans it is true and as Americans, one of the allies, and with American representation at this greatest of world conventions we are represented (or should be) broadly speaking, but are we? We have no wish to be considered as a separate people, but what are we considered by the other fellows? We have been made American citizens by constitutional amendment, but what are we made by practice? President Wilson's proclamation announcing the signing of the armistice says in part: "Everything for which America fought has been accomplished. It will now be our duty to assist by example, etc., of just democracy throughout the world," yet here in "democratic America" we still have denial of rights of suffrage and lynchings and "Jim Growing" of black Americans prevail. We ask why? Being American citizens, citizens of the leading country of democracy, the country ever ready to take up arms in behalf of oppression and as citizens having taken up arms to the extent of some 00,000 to aid in removing oppression from others. Why might not Negro delegates go to Versailles to ask why such oppression should be placed on one part of the citizens of America, while so many pertinent questions are being asked of this great body where the president of our country is a member? 2513 North 26th. Dec. 19- 1918. Omaha, Neb. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. WHAT COUNTRY MUST DO FOR ITS DISABLED SOLDIERS Problems of Reconstruction Confront American Red Cross With New Tasks and New Responsibilities. During these Christmases, when men in the trenches and on mined seas sing carols; when our country glows to its uttermost boundaries with the symbol of the Red Cross; when the most earthbound look for awhile at the crosses and the stars—new understandings, new simplifications, new willingness for service come to very many men and women. And as our soldiers and sailors who went out young and strong and singing the "Long, Long Trail" and "Over There" now come back crippled and disabled, Americans are seeing more and more their own part and responsibility in reconstruction. This work means teaching the blind to see, giving movement to the paralyzed, power to the remnants of arms and legs to do full duty, the chance of health to the tubercular, light to minds be-fogged by shell shock. Our government, the Medical Department of the Army and the American Red Cross, from the time of our entrance in the war, have been working out the tasks preparatory to this reconstruction, which is the key-word to their usefulness and happiness. The work itself is already begun in the hospitals where our returned men have been brought. This has meant the equipment of hospitals, the recruiting of the doctors and nurses and the formulation of plans for training for vocations, which means independence, replacing activity for inactivity. For this physical reconstruction in our military hospitals at home, our government, through the office of the Surgeon-General, is asking for reconstruction aids. This hospital service is open to hundreds, indeed thousands, of women who as wives of men in the service have been technically barred from other military hospital service. They are needed at once and may learn full particulars regarding training, qualifications, pay and so forth by writing for information to the office of the Surgeon-General, Division of Reconstruction, Washington, D. C. They are civilian employees of the Medical Department of the Army, and their work comes under one of two classes—either the distinctly physical reconstruction which has to do with massage, electrotherapy, dydotherapy and mechanotherapy, or the occupational work which will prepare the men to take up the regular vocational training for which we often hear the word "re-education." The Federal government has charge of this work. Other agencies working under government control will help. The American Red Cross, especially, will supplement it, and through its Home Service hits assumed the obligation to assist every soldier or sailor and his family whenever they need aid or counsel from it. WHITE BORAX NAPTHA AN ODORLESS ALL-PURPOSE SOAP White Borax NAPTHA SOAP Coldly Soap Works, U.S.A. An Exceptionally Fine COLD WATER SOAP WITH HARD, SOFT, HOT OR COLD WATER. White Borax NAPTHA SOAP Coldly Soap Works, U.S.A. An Exceptionally Fine COLD WATER SOAP WITH HARD, SOFT, HOT OR COLD WATER. White Borax NAPTHA SOAP Coldly Soap Works, U.S.A. An Exceptionally Fine COLD WATER SOAP 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. When American soldiers, blinded in battle, recover from their immediate wounds at the base hospitals in France special work for them is commenced. Later they are brought to the United States Military General Hospital No. 7, at Baltimore, for further medical and surgical treatment and special teaching. The ideal of the government will be to place every blinded man in a condition to take care of himself and those dependent on him. In many cases, it is hoped, the men will be able to command a larger salary after taking their training after before they lost their sight. American Red Cross has supplemented the Army's plan by creating the Red Cross Institute for the Blind. One of its functions will be to provide certain financial aid to equip the blind man after his re-education is completed, as, for instance, furnishing type-writers to those who enter commercial life. It will be unearthy new occupations, helping to establish homes and arrange home work for those who cannot go into offices or factories. But it will do something else that is. THE RED CROSS MAN. By Jeanne Judson. The Red Cross man was here today, He seems to know some magic way Of being everywhere; In Paris when a chap is broke, He passes out a Yankee smoke, And at the front, he's there. He gives us something hot to drink, He seems to want to make us think We're happy and at ease; He keeps as busy as can be, Just working for my mates and me, His method sure does please. And though he doesn't tote a gun, We know he's with us everyone, Till duty sets us free; ★ His wheeled canteen is far more ★ ★ fair ★ ★ Than any lobster palace rare, ★ ★ We drink his health in tea. ★ ★ Hospital searchers are being sent by the American Red Cross into all the hospitals along the front. Their task is to supplement the necessarily meager reports sent by the Army to the families of the killed and wounded with more detailed letters. It is the human touch that makes the whole world kin. again, a Christmas story. This Red Cross Institute will, in so far as is humanly possible, have the relative who will be responsible for the care of the blind man when he returns home, take the government training, side by side with him, as is now done by the British and French. With this full understanding at home of his difficulties and possibilities, many an ambition at first undrenamed of may be fulfilled. Through the gift of Jeremiah Milbank of New York the Red Cross was enabled to establish in New York its experimental Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men. One of its principal objects is to assist in the general campaign of public education regarding the results which can be accomplished by systematically re-training disabled men for occupations in which they can successfully compete with able-bodied men. "Thus equipped," writes W. Frank Persons, Director General of Civilian Relief of the American Red Cross, "they may confidently look forward to a future of normal human work and play." Because of her continued absence from school and the fact that she lived in rather an undesirable neighborhood and was on the streets all day a school teacher recently brought to the attention of the Home Service department of the Red Cross the story of a girl of ten years whose mother was ill and whose only other relatives were two brothers, one in camp and the other a youth, of seventeen whose earnings seemed to be the only means of support for the family. The Home Service worker called, found the mother very ill and needing hospital care at once. Arrangements were made for the mother's care and also for a home for the girl in the country where she would receive real home training and love. The mother grew worse and died soon afterwards. The seventeen-year-old boy enlisted. The boy in camp had not known that his mother needed his help, but was glad to contribute from his pay when the true circumstances were made known. The girl is now in the country, going to school, and is receiving allotments from both of her brothers and is well cared for. She is under the watchful care of the Home Service workers and comes to them often for counsel. A portable kitchen, installed by the Americen Red Cross on the exact spot where, loan of Arc was captured, provided iron, coffee and other refreshments to 10,000 soldiers and civilians daily. When Our Soldier Boys 'Come Marching Home' Kashmir Skin Preparation marvelous—it does the work. Kashmir Hair Beautifier. The best pomade and hair grower on the market. Try it just once. None of that harsh, stringy after-effect. 50C EACH 8C POSTAGE 4 AFRICAN NOTES Henry Carr, a full-blooded African and noted mathematical scholar, has been appointed to a Nigerian Provincial Commissionership by the British government. It is the first appointment of the kind. There has been a very serious uprising in Southern Nigeria, the tribes concerned being the Egbas, the Jebus and the Egbados. Forced labor and unjust taxation are the direct causes of the trouble. The proposed enactment of a criminal code is creating much discussion and dissatisfaction in Sierra Leone and the West African natives are becoming a unit in opposition to it. It is conceded that the government has taken some cognizance of the widespread alarm and is ready to make concessions in the plans proposed. Throughout the entire Gold Coast, West Africans are feverishly preparing for the coming great British West African conference. At this conference it is the intention of the natives to bring to the notice of the British government the pressing reforms demanded by the natives for the well being of West Africa as a province of the British crown. The three demands are to include: (1) The establishment of an African Dominion; (2) A regulation of taxes, representation and commercial relations. (3) The founding of one or two West African Universities for the education of the natives. Native chiefs and shippers of West Africa have joined in a movement to request of the Comptroller of Customs an open market for their planters and native stockholders. Heretofore they have been forced to deal through intermediate European trading firms, whose systematic robbing of the natives has had a most depressing effect upon native industry, especially the cocoa traffic. In the famous Rhodesian Land Case, which recently came up before the crown courts and wherein the Chartered Company claimed title to its lands, judgment has been entered for the Crown. The effect of this judgment means that the Crown holds the dominion of the land, subject to certain rights of the Chartered Company. While this judgment brings little to the native, yet it is essentially a victory in which the native shares, for it protects these lands from passing into the possession of the Chartered Company. Should the Crown, at any time, desire to restore to the native his right of title in the lands, there will be no legal restraints to the carrying out of the wish. It appears that many disinterested persons in England took up the fight and interested themselves in securing judgment that would favor the natives. Chicago, with a population of over 125,000 Negroes, with its beautiful When O How Must the Girls Greet Them? "The Kashmir Way." With smooth, clear skin and soft, pretty hair. Our guarantee: Your money back if you're not pleased. Kashmir Skin Preparation man work. Kashmir Hair Beautifier. The grower on the market. Try it that harsh, stringy after-effect. churches, schools, boulevards, hospitals, stores, a beautiful Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., is one of the greatest business cities for the Negro in the east. We find him in every line of business, banking, as stenographers, bookkeepers, clerical positions, doctors, lawyers, merchants, etc. He is doing everything. He is living in good homes, modern flats, everything tends to prove rapid race advancement. It was very interesting to visit the Kashmir Chemical company, one of the largest and most prosperous business organizations that holds an enviable world-wide reputation for their splendid line of toilet articles, etc. See their ad in this issue. FORMER OMAHAN OPERATES MODERN CHICAGO DRUG STORE Harvey Saunders, one of our former Omaha boys, who has made good, owns and operates perhaps the leading Negro drug store of Chicago. This store, aside from enjoying a good local trade, is doing a big mail order business throughout the United States and Canada. Saunders is a live business man, a hustler, a very pleasant man to meet, has a congenial wife and with his mother, they enjoy real life in their cozy flat in one of the beautiful resident districts of Chicago. Mr. Saunders is now one of The Monitor's leading advertisers. We appreciate the reputation made by our own Harvey Saunders. MISS EUDORA WARE IS SELLING PIANOS Miss Eudora Ware, the well known music teacher is selling pianos for the A. Hospe 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 Wiss Ware help them select an instrument. Residence address, 2106 Grace street. Phone Webster 6994.-Adv. PREMIER'S WIFE REBUKED Sidney, Australia, Oct. 21.—At a recent public gathering, Mrs. Hughes, wife of the Australian premier, made an ill-manered reference to some of the British soldiers as "niggers." Not only did the Australian press roundly rebuke the reference, but many of the leading white men of Australia took occasion to personally regret the mistake and censure Mrs. Hughes for her unkindly remark. Jeckey Hair Grower learn Mme. Newell's system. She is an original Hair power and guarantees results after first treatment. A will convince you that Jeckey is the best. Six skins treatment by mail $2.00, parcel post 25c. One box Jeckey by mail 60 cents. Bleach-a-lene 25 cents. cel post 10 cents. time. Newell's Time Saving Comb will do a suit of or in 25 minutes. For particulars send stamped en- ope. ECKEY COLLEGE 4743 State Street. Chicago, Ill. Soldier Boys Learn Mme. Newell's system. She is an original Hair Glower and guarantees results after first treatment. She is a licensed hair stylist. Six weeks treatment by mail $2.00, parcel post 25c. One box of Jockey by mail 60 cents. Bleach-a-tene 25 cents. *Mme. Newell's Time Saving Comb will do a suit of hair in 25 minutes. For particulars send stamped en- POCHIE --- A. THE MONITOR BERT BRINGS HOME THE BACON Bert Patrick, the hustling ad man of The Monitor, is home from Chicago and has brought a big slice of "old Chi" home with him. We don't know what they thought in the Windy City when our breezy western boy hit town, but they must have liked him, because he came home loaded down with advertising. Meanwhile, The Monitor is delighted to inform its readers that Mr. Patrick has accepted a position with a large eastern firm and is going on the road. That he will make good is more than prophecy. We are glad to know that he will remain on The Monitor staff and wherever he goes, there goes The Monitor. Good luck, Bert. In a certain provincial art gallery there is a picture entitled "Saved," representing a large Newfoundland dog standing over a child whom it had rescued from the river. On market days many people from the country find their way to the picture gallery, and nearly all admire this lifelike painting. The other day an old countrywoman stood gazing at it for quite a long time, and, as she turned to go, exclaimed: "No wonder the child fainted, after dragging that big dog out of the water!"—Tit-Bits. When in Chicago, buy The Monitor at Geo. W. Boyd's, 320 South State street; Hayes' Book Store, 3640 South State street; Mrs. G. H. Dickerson, 16 West 47th street. In the Matter of the Estate of Bell R. Buffed. Revised. Buford, Deceased. Notice is hereby given: That the creditors deceased will meet the administrator of the estate, before me. County Judge of Douglas County, Nebraska, at the County Court Room, in said county, on the 19th day of February, 1919, and on the 19th day of April, 1919 at 9 o'clock A. M., each day, for the purpose of presenting their claims for ex-tenancy. Three months are allowed for creditors to present their claims, from the 18th day of January, 1919. 26-12-4t-16-19 BRYCE CRAWFORD, County Judge. THE SINCLAIR LUNCH ROOM The Criterion for Quick Service, First Quality, Fair Quantity and Sanitation. 4660 So. State St. Chicago. wer original Hair treatment. A the best. Six 55c. One box one 25 cents. State Street. icago, Ill. Boys 'Co Kashmir Preparations For Hair and Skin HER VERSION PROBATE NOTICE E. A. NIELSEN UPHOLSTERING Cabinet Making, Furniture Repairing, Mattress Renovating Douglas 864. H1917 Cuming St. PHONES OAKLAND 2051. MARVEY B. CUT RATE PH. G. THIS STORE HAS BROKEN EVERY LINK IN EFFICIENCY ACCURACY SERVICE 4750 50.5 Special Outfits Black and White 2 Black and White Ointment. 2 Black and White Soap 1 Black and White Powder. To your door by mail for $1.00. High Brown Outfits 2 High Brown Powder. 2 Royal Bleach. 1 High Brown Soap. To your door by mail for $1.00. Palmer's Skin Success 3 Palmer's Skin Success Ointment. 2 Palmer's Skin Success Soap. To your door by mail for $1.00. BY MAIL GENTS 23c BLACK AND WHITE FINISH 23c PALMERS SKIN SUCCESS 23c FRED PALMERS SKIN SUCCESS 23c ROZOL 23c WHITES SPECIFIC 23c PALMERS SKIN SUCCESS SOAP 23c BLACK AND WHITE SOAP 23c WHITE SPECIFIC SOAP 23c WHITE BROWN SOAP 23c PHONES OAKLAND 2051 H SAU 4750 CHIC PHONES OAKLAND 2051. MARVEY B. PHONES OAKLAND 3126. SAVNDERS CUT RATE PH. GI. DRUGGIST R. PH. THIS STORE HAS BROKEN EVERY LINK IN THE CHAIN THAT BINDS THE PEOPLE TO HIGH PRICES EFFICIENCY ACCURACY SERVICE EFFICIENCY ACCURACY SERVICE 4750 So. State St. CHICAGO Harry B. Harry B. Saunders 4750 South State Street 'Come Mar Dept. D, 812 Kashmir Chemical Co. Dept. D, 312 South Clark St. CHICAGO, ILL. Fred Palmer's Outfit 2 Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener. 2 Fred Palmer's Soap. 1 Fred Palmer's Powder. To your door by mail for $1.00. Morgan's Outfit Morgan's Refiner. Morgan's Station Oil. Morgan's Soap. Morgan's Black Hair Dye. To your door by mail for $1.00. aunders CHICAGO, ILL. ng' Home' These civilian chaps must take a back seat—likewise the woman who neglects her appearance. The modern, up-to-the-minute woman can't get along without Kashmir. It's "better than the best." AGENTS WANTED