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GROWING, THANK YOU! $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy Laurels for 325th Field Signal Battalion Only Colored Signal Unit in American Army Shows Rare Courage and Skill Under Fire—Maintaining Connection by Telegraph and Telephone as Dangerous as Work of Combatant Regiments. CROIX DE GUERRE FOR EIGHTH ILLINOIS Heroic Work Done by First Platoon—Battalion Composed of Well-Educated Young Men, Whose Knowledge of Radio and Telegraphy Will Equip Them for Civil Life. (By Ralph W. Tyler, accredited representative of the Committee on Public Information.) WITH the Army in France, La Mans, Dec. 20.—One of the units of the American army to arrive here on route for embarkation to America that has made good, without having the glamour and spectacular settings of combat, is the the 25th, Field Signal Battalion of the 92nd, Army Division, the only Colored signal unit in the American army. While this battalion has not had to occupy front line trenches; make raids for prisoners, or march, in battle formation, into big engagements, it must not be supposed that it did not have a dangerous, and a very dangerous, duty to perform. The boys of this Battalion had to string the wires for telegraphic and telephonic connections at times when the enemy guns were trained upon them; so, in many respects, their duty took them into situations fully as dangerous as combatant units. This Battalion is composed of all young Colored men, save the Lieutenant Colonel, Major and two or three white line officers. They are all, with few exceptions, college or high school boys —not a few of them experts in radio and electric engineering, and those who were not experts in the work when the Battalion was formed, are now most proficient men. Major Spencer, now Lieutenant Colonel, who was responsible for the formation of this unit, was firm in the belief that Colored boys could make good, and he has remained with it long enough to experience his belief becoming a realization. After arriving at Brest June 19th, the Battalion proceeded to Vitrey, and from that town began a four-day hike to Bourbonne-les Bains, a distance of more than twenty miles. From this point it proceeded, after a few days, to Voisey, and at Voisey the boys got their first taste of what was to be, later, their daily duties. Here the radio company received its quota of the latest type of French instruments, a battery plant was established, and a full supply of telephones and wire was issued to Companies B and C. Here, too, the Infantry Signal Platoons of the Battalion joined the outfit and shared in the training. First Test of Courage. The first test of real courage given the men, and their first introduction into real fighting, in addition to stringing wires, and sending and receiving messages, came on the afternoon of September 27th, when a party of liaison men, including the Colonel and Lieutenant Herbert, latter being Colored, advanced beyond the Battalion P. C. and at the suggestion of a French soldier, turned to the left. They soon found themselves beyond their lines, and directly in front of a German machine gun nest. The Colonel divided his men into small groups and advanced on the enemy's position. This sortie resulted in the Signal boys capturing eight German prisoners and two machine guns, but the attack caused the loss of Corporal Charles E. Boykin, who did not return. Two days later, during general advance, Sergeant Henry E. Moody of the Battalion was mortally wounded while at his post. Boykin was killed outright, while Sergeant Moody died in the hospital from wounds received—these being the first two of the Signal Battalion to make the supreme sacrifice. Take Over Marbache Sector. On the 10th of October the 92nd Division took over the Marbache sector, relieving the 167th French Division, and here also the 325th Field Signal Battalion took over all existing lines of communications, and in the days following installed new lines, and maintained connections between the various units of the 92nd Division. This was no small duty, when it is remembered that an army "sector" extends over a wide area of many square miles, including in it from 50 to 100 THE MONITOR A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS. cities and towns. The Marbache sector was an active front, and time and time again did these boys go ahead repairing lines, establishing new communications under shell fire, with no thought of personal danger—inspired only by that ideal of the Signal Corps man—get communication through at any cost, but get it through. On Hindenburg Line. On the morning of November 10th, when the Second Army launched its attack on the famous Hindenburg line before Metz, the 92nd Division, with which I was during this big attack, was holding the line of Vandieres-St. Michel-Xon-Norry. During the entire engagement, which lasted from 7 o'clock in the morning of the 10th to 11 a. m. of the 11th, the entire Signal Corps functioned splendidly, and as one man, keeping up communications, installing new lines, repairing those shelled out. (Continued on Page 8) PLANS FOR ANNUAL TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE Bishop Gailor, the Hon. Bradford Knapp, Dr. Haynes Emmett J. Scott and Other Prominent Speakers on Programme. Tuskogee, Ala., Jan. 24.—Announcement that Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Memphis, Tenn., whose liberal expressions on race relations have been so heartening to the Colored people, will be one of the principal speakers at the Tuskegee Negro Conference, insures an interesting and helpful discussion of the various problems growing out of the demobilization of the Negro soldiers and their reabsorption into the arteries of industry and farming. Other speakers include Hon. Bradford Knapp of the United States Department of Agriculture; Dr. George E. Haynes of the Department of Labor and Mr. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the Secretary of War. HAYS AIMS TO BREAK THE SOLID SOUTH Washington, Jan. 24.—Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican National committee, is about to tackle the solid South in a serious effort to upheave the Democratic foundation. He will establish southern headquarters at Asheville, N. C.; Knoxville, Tenn., or Atlanta, Ga., and campaign for electoral votes for 1920. He has stated to friends here that he would like to gather in some of the southern states, and in furtherance of that desire will foster Republican organizations in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and Louisiana with the expectation of winning congressmen and presidential votes. Republican leaders say that before the Roosevelt-Taft controversy split the Republican party, protective tariff sentiment was growing in the manufacturing centers of the South. Chairman Hays will find plenty of Republican sentiment in the South in spite of protective tariff sentiment there. Let him support and back up leaders like R. R. Church and his Republican league. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Death tiptoed in and gently kissed his brow, Straightway a noble spirit took its flight; Back to the great Omnipotent, where It stands transformed by heaven's wond'rous light. Grief walks the earth—'twould seem from end to end, Yea, mankind mourns the passing of a friend; A man who never faltered in the fight, A soldier for humanity and right. —Andrea Razafkeriefo. DR. MOTON TO RETURN NEXT MONTH Washington, D. C., Jan. 24.—Unless plans are changed, it is expected that Dr. Robert R. Moton, on a special mission among the colored soldiers at the front in France, will return to "the States" early in February. Dr. Moton has just concluded a thousand-mile motor trip through the sectors in which the Colored troops are located, including a tour of Alsace-Lorraine, and he has reported to the American authorities that the condition of these soldiers is quite satisfactory. This corroborates many private letters coming from our men in the camps visited by Dr. Moton. For moving, expressing and hauling call Douglas 7952. Penn and Sibley.—Adv. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 25, 1919 HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. Virgin Islanders Resent Lawlessness United States Soldiers and Marines Run Riot in City Streets of Danish West Indies, Imperiling Lives of Peaceful Citizens and Destroying Property. PROMINENT CITIZENS ADDRESS PROTEST TO GOVERNOR Send Dignified Letter and Warn That Continuance of Acts of Violence Which May Be Practiced and Tolerated in Certain Sections of the Mainland Will Produce Regrettable Results on the Island. (Special to The Monitor.) Port-of-Spain, St. Thomas, J grettable carousel on the part o on Christmas night has highly i Peaceful and law-abiding citizens treated. Homes were stoned, pr of the city treated with contem made by the officers in command citizens here begin to appreciate which their brethren in certain endure. They feel that this outrace hatred which is so rampant not and will not be tolerated here table results. A committee of c ing open letter to the American which voices the unanimous sent Port-of-Spain, St. Thomas, Jan. 24.—An unfortunate and regrettable carousel on the part of American sailors and marines on Christmas night has highly incensed the people of the island. Peaceful and law-abiding citizens were insulted, beaten and mistreated. Homes were stoned, property destroyed and the Mayor of the city treated with contempt. Apparently no effort was made by the officers in command to restrain the marauders. The citizens here begin to appreciate something of the indignities which their brethren in certain sections of the mainland have to endure. They feel that this outrage was instigated purely out of race hatred which is so rampant on the mainland, but which cannot and will not be tolerated here without leading to most regrettable results. A committee of citizens has addressed the following open letter to the American Governor of the Virgin Islands, which voices the unanimous sentiment of the islanders: Sir: Your attention is herein called to an outrage on our defenseless people hitherto unknown in this island and which was done by men in the United States Navy (Sailors and Marines) on Christmas night last—an outrage that cries aloud for redress and punishment. therefore in our as well as in the estimation of all just men, you are responsible for the maintenance of order in our Island. Why were these men not ordered off the streets? Would the civic rights of the people on the mainland have been so dis Batches of these men paraded our streets armed with automatic revolvers, bottles, knives, sticks and stones, yelling like Indians, and when not doing so, using language the most vulgar—their actions resembled those of savages—to speak the truth, the people whom we hold as being despicable (the Germans) would not have done as much. Civilians were chased off the streets, some beaten, some searched, while others were fired at when they refused to obey the requests of these mauraders to stand still—the bulbs of public lights in several streets were broken—our homes stoned, our furniture and jalousies therein destroyed or damaged and other intrusions too numerous to mention. The municipal policemen—our only guardians and protectors—were rendered powerless, being armed only with clubs; they were attacked by these sailors and marines and thus situated they were utterly unable to defend themselves or to tender any assistance to the defenseless inhabitants according to police regulation, the existence whereof we hold you to have knowledge thereof—the Mayor of the town was also treated with contempt on several occasions when in the lawful exercise of his official duty. What are we to understand? Is there no protection for the taxes that we pay? Are you not held responsible to some department in Washington for the safeguarding of our lives and property? Is this the way the "Organic Act" (our Magna Charta) is being observed? Sir, you are the possessor of unlimited civil, military and judicial powers in these Islands and an. 24.—An unfortunate and reef American sailors and marines excused the people of the island. Its were insulted, beaten and misproperty destroyed and the Mayor opt. Apparently no effort was to restrain the marauders. The something of the indignities sections of the mainland have to age was instigated purely out of on the mainland, but which cane without leading to most regretitizens has addressed the follow-Governor of the Virgin Islands,iment of the islanders: therefore in our as well as in the estimation of all just men, you are responsible for the maintenance of order in our Island. Why were these men not ordered off the streets? Would the civic rights of the people on the mainland have been so disrespected? Is this Democracy? This outrage is race hatred pure and simple, and however it may be practiced and tolerated in certain sections of the mainland, we are convinced that a continuation of such will surely produce regrettable results. Name another peaceful, law-abiding people who, when their homes were assailed by a band of marauders, would sit still and permit it. You cannot, sir. You cannot. Be you not deceived, sir; this is not an evidence of our cowardice, but to the very contrary, because we are conscious of the result that resistance may produce, and because we are more civilized than the men who perpetrated this uncalled for outrage; hence we pursue this nobler attitude in the matter. We demand that all available measures be adopted and assurances given that such an outrage will never be made real again. We are of the opinion if such be the case the results will be far above the conception of those who may perpetrate such an outrage. This remark is not used as any threat against the peaceable men of the Navy, but in defense of our rights as men and all that we hold dear and sacred. Believing that you will exercise the power vested in you to compensate all those who suffered material losses through this outrage and prevent a similar occurrence. In solemn protest against this unjustifiable outrage we affix our names and beg to remain yours respectfully, ROTHSCHILD FRANCISS, OCTAVIUS C. GRANADY, CHAS. A. EMANUEL, RANDOLPH A. INNIN. Vol. IV. No. 30 (v. COLORED OFFICERS MAKE NEW RECORD Camp Pike, Ark., Jan. 23.—The last group of Colored officers to graduate from the Camp Pike Training School have made the highest record on psychological examinations known to national military history. The highest mark is A and a recent examination of 2,000 white officers of the Quartermaster's Department produced only three A's. Out of the Colored graduating class of 29, eight made the mark A, thus showing a higher percentage than any made heretofore. Among the eight making the A grade were two Omaha boys, Lt. Lawrence A. Parker and Lt. Cunningham Wilson. Lt. L. A. Parker was the youngest officer receiving a commission, having recently passed his twenty-first birthday. NEXT YEAR'S SMARTER SET SHOW Omaha, Neb., Jan. 24.—Messrs. Sallem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt, well known proprietors of the Smarter Set Company, have announced through The Freeman that the name of their next year's show will be "The Children of the Sun." While playing in Omaha, these gentlemen met several of the members of The Hamitic League of the World, and were presented with a copy of "The Children of the Sun," the official publication of the League. After reading the book, the Smarter Set brothers declared that they had found nothing that better meets the growing demand of the race for historical fact, and requested that they be permitted to use the title for their forthcoming show. The request was readily granted and the author of the book has promised Messrs. Whitney and Tutt to furnish all data and archeological matter to make the new Smarter Set show one of the greatest performances yet offered to the race in America. HEAVY LIFE INSURANCE New York, Jan. 22.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt carried $85,000 life insurance, according to a statement in the Weekly Underwriter, a New York insurance publication, in its issue today. The amount was divided among four companies, which waived proof of death and sent their checks at once in payment. STRUCK NEGRO SOLDIERS AND IS DISCHARGED Washington, D. C., Jan. 24.—First Lieut. Ulus C. Miller, 60th Pioneer Infantry, has been dismissed from the army by order of the president. Lieutenant Miller was convicted by a court martial at Camp Wadsworth, S. C., of the charges of striking two Colored soldiers on their hands with a club, and with striking another Colored soldier on the head with his fist. Washington, D. C., Jan. 25.—Resolutions protesting against the annexation of Korea by Japan and asking President Wilson and the American peace delegates to apply the principle of self-determination to that country have been sent by the New Korea association to the president and members of the foreign relations committee of Congress. ROOSEVELT CARRIED PROTEST JAPANESE LIFTING. LIFT, TOO! The League of Darker People Villa Lewaro-on-the-Hudson, the Birthplace of a New League of Deep Significance. MADAME WALKER STARTS IDEA A New World Movement Emerging Out of the Great International Debacle, Impressive Because of Its Practicality and Interesting Because of Its Personnel. New York, Jan. 26.—At Villa Lewaro-on-the-Hudson, the palatial home of Mme. C. J. Walker, a conference composed of persons of distinction, position and prestige from all parts of the country was held recently. At the invitation of the above well known race woman and race champion, more than a score of people gathered for the purpose of organizing a movement of aims and purposes and visions which would leap across the bounds of narrow nationalism and embrace all darker peoples into a league that would command the respect and consideration of the world. A permanent program of large proportions was suggested, in broad outlines, by Madam J. C. Walker, and is now in process of definite formulation, by the executive board—a program which will continue to engage world opinion even after the peace conference shall have ended. An immediate program was mapped out for the purpose of cementing the influence of the darker peoples and delegates to the Peace Conference, while the larger and more permanent program proposed is as follows: 1. The League proposes to maintain a permanent international council of darker peoples, which shall confer with similar international bodies upon the negotiation of loans, economic spheres of influence, political suzerainty, extra-territoriality, treaties, agreements, concessions, compacts, with a view to preventing the expropriation of the darker peoples of their natural resources and labor. The council shall seek to review, publish and discuss for the enlightenment of world opinion all documents relating to the interests of the darker peoples. It shall be composed of Africans, Japanese, Chinese, Haitians, American and West Indian Negroes. 2. The League shall also maintain a publicity bureau which shall collect, collate and publish all data presenting the aims, achievements and the international and national, social, economic and political disabilities of darker peoples, in their struggles for freedom, for justice, under all flags and in all lands. 3. It shall establish international leagues wherever darker peoples are found. These leagues shall function as subsidiary bodies to the larger, super-national organization—The International League of Darker Peoples. 4. The League has entered upon a campaign to raise one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars to be used for the purpose of promoting the aforementioned aims. 5. It shall retain sociologists, linguists, economists, experts in engineering, etc., to travel in Africa, India, Persia, China, Japan, the South Americas, the Pacific Islands, who shall study the tribal organizations and higher social forms, customs, languages, natural wealth and commercial opportunities of the darker peoples, in order that a true and scientific history of the various peoples of Color may be compiled. This will serve to enlighten the posterity of all peoples of the social potentialities of the peoples of color. It will also tend to stimulate the ambition of the youth of the darker peoples to succeed in all fields of human endeavor. 6. The League shall also hold race congresses. The congresses shall be designed to create and crystalize a spirit of harmony and good-will; to exchange ideas, opinions and views for the purpose of preventing misunderstandings, which, too frequently, occasion race conflicts. The representatives of all races shall present papers on ethnological and anthropological question. MERE BOY HAS THREE WIVES Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 24.—A trio of "better halves" is too much of a monopoly for 17-year-old youths. Judge T. A. R. Nelson, in criminal court here, thought so anyway, so he gave Edward Freeman, hauled into criminal court on a charge of bigamy, four years in the State Agricultural and Industrial School at Nashville. Freeman confessed. "Coming and Overthrow of the Negro in Congress" THE REJECTION OF THE CULTURED MENARD BY A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS AND REVELL'S ADMISSION TO THE SENATE IN LAST week's article attention was centered upon the story of reconstruction following the surrender of the confederate army and the enfranchisement of the Negro. Negro suffrage was first established in the District of Columbia. Subsequently all the residents of the District, white and black, were disfranchised to eliminate the vote of the illiterate Negro. That is why residents of the District are voteless today. This act also furnished an excuse for the present unjust disfranchisement laws in the Southern states. Today's article tells the story of Menard's attempt to enter Congress and his rejection and of Revell's admission to the Senate. This is the way Colonel McClure puts it: 2 IT WAS not until the 7th of December, 1868, that the first Negro applied for admission into Congress. There was a vacancy in the Second district of Louisiana, and at the general election of November 3, 1868, J. Willis Menard, a resident of New Orleans, was certified by Governor Warmouth as elected to fill the vacancy. The House was largely Republican, but the idea of admitting a Negro into Congress threw many of the Republican members into a hysterical condition. They could not frankly oppose him because he was a Negro, and they made a miscroscopical examination of the regularity of his credentials. He was allowed to be heard in defense of his own case, as is common in such cases, and thus became the first of his race whose voice was heard on the floor of the House of Representatives; but his certificate was rejected by an overwhelming majority, and the Republican leaders breathed more freely because they had for at least a season escaped the fellowship of a black man in the councils of the nation. Menard was one of the most accomplished of his race, a college graduate and had rendered very creditable service to the government, but three years after the close of the war that had been fought for the freedom and finally for the enfranchisement of the black man a Republican Congress was unwilling to accept even one of the most creditable of his race to membership. In less than two years the Negro again knocked for admission into Congress, and this time he stood at the door of the Senate. In January, 1870, Hiram R. Revells, a full-bl. 'ed Negro and a man of much more than common ability, was elected to the Senate to fill an unexpired term by the Mississippi legislature. It was accepted as the irony of fate that this Negro leader should be chosen to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate that had been created by the resignation of Jefferson Davis at the beginning of the war. Mr. Revells was a Methodist minister, and highly respected as one of the most prominent and useful of the Colored leaders of the South. On the 25th of January, five days after his election, he appeared in Washington and the Republican leaders of the first legislative tribunal of the nation were in consternation at the threatened advent of the Negro in the Senate. The Senate was overwhelmingly Republican, but many of the party leaders made exhaustive study to find some reasonable excuse for refusing the seat to Revells. It was not until a month after he had given his credentials to Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, that Wilson felt safe in presenting them to the body and moving that Revells be sworn as a Senator. An animated debate followed, occupying three days, in which Republican Senators invented many excuses for rejecting the credentials with the Negro behind them; but on the 25th day of February Charles Sumner delivered one of the ablest speeches of his life in defense of the rights of the Negro, resulting in the admission of Revells by a decided majority. Thus on the 25th of February, 1870, the first Negro entered our national legislature when Hiram R. Revells was qualified as United States Senator, and during the term of little more than a year he enjoyed the solitude that was broken by very few of his fellow Senators in social intercourse, even on the floor of the Senate. I met Senator Revells when he was a member of the Senate, and was very much interested in him as the first representative of his race in our National Congress. He was a man of rather imposing presence, severely unassuming, and unusually intelligent. He was sincerely devoted to the elevation and improvement of his race on the highest lines of advancement, and he probably did more than any one of his race in his day in smoothing the thorny pathway for his people in the South. A notable illustration of the general public sentiment in the North on the subject of the Negro as a national legislator was given in Philadelphia soon after Revells' admission to the Senate. He suddenly rose to national fame as the first black man to become a national lawmaker, and he delivered lectures in many sections of the country, which were largely attended. Among other invitations he received and accepted was one to lecture in Philadelphia in the Academy of Music, but when application was made for the use of the Academy the managers of that institution were thrown into hysteries at the suggestion of bringing a Negro on its platform, and Revells was refused the right to speak there. Of course, it was not announced that the Academy was refused because Revells was a Negro, but it was none the less the truth. The Black Swan was allowed to warble her sweet notes on the same platform and her coming did not mean political fellowship, but the advent of the Negro Senator was a living object lesson of equal rights for the black man, which could not at that day be accepted even in loyal Philadelphia. Ten years after Revells' retirement from the Senate I visited the capital of Mississippi and there met the late Senator George, who was then Senator-elect, with the governor of the State and a number of other prominent officials. I was equally surprised and gratified to hear from them that ex-Senator Revells was doing a great work in Mississippi as president of a college for Colored students, and that he was very highly respected. His work was so well appreciated that the State of Jefferson Davis, who was then living, contributed annually and liberally to maintain the institution. Revells continued that work until his death, and he lived to see Blanche K. Bruce, of his own race, represent his State in the Senate, with half a dozen more Negro Representatives in the House. Bruce entered the Senate in 1875, served a full term, and afterward made Register of the Treasury. He had a more rosy pathway than his predecessor in the Senate, as the Negro was no longer shunned as a pest in the concils of the nation. Since Bruce's retirement in 1881 the Colored race has been without representation in the Senate. With the appearance of Revells in the Senate came two Negro Representatives—Joseph R. Rainey, of South Carolina, who was admitted without question, and Jefferson F. Long, of Georgia, who filled an unexpired term of little more than a month, and who was the only Negro ever chosen to either branch of Congress in that State. From the time of the appearance of Rainey in the Forty-first Congress the Negro has served in one or both branches until the close of the last Congress, with the single exception of the Fiftieth Congress, when it happened that the Colored race was without representation. (Next week: "South Carolina's Brilliant Galaxy." Watch for it.) "AUNT DINAH" "Aunt Dinah" is going away. This news will sadden the day for many an Omaha epicure. But she's going news will sadden the day for many an Omaha epicure. But she's going. Two years ago "Aunt Dinah" came from Atlanta, Gawga, to delight the palates of Omaha folk with fried chicken such as only a Georgia mammy knows how to cook. The Fontenelle hotel opened a special kitchen for her, and fame which had preceded her was enhanced again. To those who really understood what fried chicken should be like, her name became a thing to be spoken with tender regard. To those who did not know how chicken should be fried there were opened vistas of Elysium theretofore undreamed of. "Aunt Dinah" came, and coined, and conquered. She stayed a year at the Fontenelle. Then the Blackstone got her as pastry cook—for her skill was proven in a various way. And there she spent another year. Now she's going. Going back east somewhere she won't tell just yet. But Omaha's remembrance of her is expressed in one brief sentence: "She sure could cook!"—World-Herald. OVERSEAS COLORED TROOPS COMING HOME Sections of the 367th, 369th, 370th and 372nd Regiments Assigned by War Department for Early Convoy to America. Washington, D. C., Jan. 20.—Announcement is made through the office of Emmett J. Scott, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War, that the War Department has assigned for early convoy from France to America the following units of Colored troops, or sections thereof, as herein described: Three Hundred and Sixty-seventh Infantry ("The Buffaloes," part of 92nd Division), headquarters and first battalion. 40 officers and 1,296 men, headquarters company, supply company and Third Battalion, 49 officers and 1,315 men. Three Hundred and Sixty-ninth Infantry (formerly 16th New York Regiment), headquarters supply company, 2nd Battalion and Sanitary Detachment, 56 officers and 1,202 men. Three Hundred and Seventieth Infantry (including the former 8th Illinois Regiment), headquarters, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, Medical Detachment, 68 officers and 1,555 men. Three Hundred and Seventy-second Infantry (including the District of Columbia National Guard, etc.), 65 officers and 1,855 men. Three Hundred and Seventy-second Infantry, Medical Detachment and Second Battalion complete, 22 officers and 683 men. This will be welcome intelligence to the relatives and friends of these gallant warriors for freedom and democracy throughout the land. In many of the larger centers of Colored population elaborate arrangements are already underway to give them a warm reception upon their arrival home. These Colored soldiers have given an admirable account of themselves on some of the most notable battle-fields in France, and richly merit the plaudits they are to receive at the hands of a grateful and well served republic. OMAHA COLORED BUSINESS FIRMS Our classified directory of Omaha Colored Business Firms, which is begun in this issue, will not only be a splendid advertising feature for the firms themselves, but will be a revelation to people at home and abroad of the number and variety of business ventures in which our people are engaged. We hope to have in time every business and professional firm in Omaha in this directory. It will make you open your eyes. The only way these firms can grow will be through your patronage. These firms must also, on their part, do all that in them lies to give its patrons efficient service. The N. W. C. A. will hereafter hold their middle meeting at the members' homes and the monthly meeting at the Old Folks' Home. The first middle meeting was held with Mrs. J. H. Smith with a good attendance. Eighteen blocks for a quilt was made. Mrs. John Perry was made president of the middle meeting and Mrs.' H. R. Roberts secretary. All members are requested to be present at meeting to be held January 29. Anyone wishing to buy an equity in a beautiful home, now is your chance; 8 rooms, strictly modern, terms reasonable. Call W. 2941. Save that we may share Save food The extent to which the United States Food Administrator has relied on the voluntary support of the American people is shown by a statement made by the United States Food Administrator speaking before the Senate Agricultural Committee less than three months after this country entered the war. That he was justified in his implicit confidence in the strength of democracy has been clearly reflected by the measure of support we have lent the Allies. "If democracy is worth anything," Mr. Hoover declared, "we can do these things by co-operation, by stimulation, by self-sacrifice, by the patriotic mobilization of the brains of this country. If it cannot be done in this manner it is better that we accept German domination and confess to failure of our political ideals, acquiesce in the superiority of the German conception and send for the Germans to instruct us in its use." Special to The Monitor: N. W. C. A. HOME Patrioteering By BOOTH TARKINGTON Of The Vigilantes phen. The hyphen is gone forever. . . In our country there are only American citizens." I quote the above from a recent article issued by the "Vigilantes," and I believe the facts to be virtually as stated. But if they were not, and if the hyphen did actually here and there remain alive, would not the most sensible policy treat it as dead, and at least assume it to be dead, wherever it showed no virulent signs of life? In other words, men cannot be goaded into loyalty; they only accumulate a sense of injury under the goad. And it was never more important than at this present time that we should avoid injustice to any citizen. Suspicion, rumor and coincidence of circumstance should influence neither our judgments nor our actions; much less should we vent our passion against Germany upon the person of him whom we called the German-American. I speak from the standpoint of one who bitterly opposed the German-American position on the war prior to the American entrance, April, 1917. But the sympathy of the German-American with the German cause prior to that date, if rightly comprehended, does not imply a sympathy continuing beyond that date, though to many minds this is either an impossible paradox or a symptom of credulity imposed upon by almost barefaced hypocrisy. It is neither The German-American, beholding a war between Germany and the allies sided with Germany. He had not been alienated from Germany, as the rest of us had been alienated (by the Revolutionary War) from England. He saw merely a contest between foreign powers and sided with that from which he sprang. But when his own country came to actual war with Germany the German-American found himself to be an American. Nevertheless, it is hard for him to show his patriotism when we say to him: "Now you dirty German-American, drop your tricks and speak up! Repeat these words in a loud shout, 'I am an American and I love the flag,' and if you don't shout loud enough web kick you, and maybe we'll kick yet anyhow!" Such instruction does not seem quite statesmanlike, or over Christianlike, either. Margaret Deland, lately returned from France, says that over there, not long ago, a company of German prisoners, just captured, were being sent back from the front, when they countered an American regiment largely from Wisconsin, moving up to the trenches. Many of the Wisconsin troops were of German origin; some among them, indeed, could hardly speak English, and the prisoners were astonished to be greeted noisily and carrulously in their own tongue. They were even more astonished at the nature of the comments which these strange Germans from America made upon them. In fact, the episode was unamble. Oaths in the German tongue were frequent and intensive. The German-speaking men of the Wisconsin regiment cursed the captured German soldiers with an inhospitable frankness very shocking to the prisoners, who had been passed in silence by other American regiments, and had received cigarettes from a bat tail of English. Words like "dummkopf" and "schwelnhund" were employed, with prophetic expletives and the general sense of what the Wisconsin men said to their German cousins was as follows: "You dash blanked jackasses and dots, we and our father left your old fatherland and went four thousand miles to live in a better place. Now we have to come all the way back, four thousand miles again yet, to slaughter you, because you haven't got any more sense than to believe and obey that old pigdog of a kaiser! We'll send your kaiser and princes to sheol, where they can't do any more harm; and as for you, dunderheads, you ought to be hanged for making us all this trouble of coming over here to teach you some sense with our bayonets!" May Work Out Own Salvation. The citizens once called German Americans will work out their own salvation if we do not make it too hard for them. What man can show enthusiasm for anything, when he is threatened with punishment if he is not enthusiastic? Loyalty is a feeling; it is not a spoken word. You cannot possibly produce a beautiful feeling in any man by threatening him or prosecuting him. Let us not threaten at all, and let us prosecute only when we have evidence. Is it certain evidence that a man is loyal if he have a son in the American army? No. There were rebels in '63 who had sons in the Northern armies. Is it certain evidence that a man is disloyal if he have a son in the German army? No. There were loyal Union men in '64 who had sons fighting for the South. So it may be now. There are American citizens who have relatives in the German army and other relatives in the German army. 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She has made 14 credits in three semesters, making an average of over 90 per cent in each subject carried, and has been exempted from final examinations. Neatly furnished rooms at the North Side Rooming House in one block of three car lines. 2429 Lake street. Webster 1529. Mrs. J. A. Jones. 4t-1-25-19 Everybody is going to the Phi Delta Auxiliary hop, January 28, 1919, at U. B. F. and S. M. T. hall.—Adv. Mrs. Ibby Falls of 2705 Douglas street was called to Goodman, Miss., Sunday by a telegram announcing the illness of her sister. Mrs. H. W. Smith of 1518 North Twenty-fifth street had as her dinner guests Monday her nephew, Clarence Cameron White, of Boston, Mass., and T. Theodore Taylor of Chicago. Mr. N. Jenkins, who was injured last Monday by falling through an elevator shaft at the Reed Printing Company on Farnam street last Monday, is improving quite nicely at the Lord Lister hospital. The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Philip's Church met Thursday, January 23, at the Rectory. The next meeting will be with Mrs. George Watson, 2716 North Twenty-eights avenue. Mrs. Edgehill is quite ill at the Lord Lister hospital. Clarence Cameron White and T. Theo. Taylor, during their engagement in the city, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lewis, 2414 Binney street. Frank Liverpool is ill at his home on North Twentieth street. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH Two interesting sermons were preached Sunday, one by the pastor in themorning on the topic, "It Is Finished," and one in the evening by the Rev. Marshall Page on "God's Ideal Home." There were five additions to the church. The day's collections were $190 The Sunday school membership is still on the increase. The Rev. W. S. Metcalfe is superintendent. The sick of the church are Mesdames W. J. Costen, 2817 North 28th street; George W. Mack, 2708 Corby street; Mr. and Mrs. Grant Jones, 2812 Curing street, and the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Jones Neal, 2005 Paul street. CORINNE THOMAS. THE WHITE-TAYLOR VIOLIN AND PIANO RECITAL Distinguished Artists of the Race Greeted by an Immense Audience Which Is Well Pleased With Excellent Program. An audience which packed St. John's A. M. E. Church to the doors greeted Clarence Cameron White of Boston, one of America's leading violinists, and T. Theo. Taylor of Chicago, the eminent pianist, who gave a violin and piano recital, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of that church, Monday night. The program was one of rare excellence. This was Mr. White's second appearance in Omaha, he having given a recital here two years ago; but this was Mr. Taylor's first appearance in our city. It is due Mr. Taylor to say that he is an artist at the piano as Mr. White is on the violin. Mr. White's first number was Sonate, Opus 21, by Gade, and his interpretation of this difficult classic proclaimed him a master, "Chaccone," by Vitali, captivated the audience and provoked tremendous applause, Mr. White giving as an encore "Traumeric." Mr. White's other numbers were a group of four of his own compositions entitled "Bandana Sketches," being interpretations of Negro life, and included a "Chant," a "Lament," a "Slave Song" and a "Negro Dance"; his closing numbers were "Romance," by Dvorak; "Orientale," by Cui; "Gypsy Song" and "African Dance," by S. Coleidge Taylor. Mr. Taylor's numbers included a THE MONITOR group of five: "A Lonely Wanderer," by Greig; "Romance," by Grunfeld; "Valse," "Berceuse" and "Scherzo," by Chopin; Rhapsodie (No. 12), by Liszt; "Improvisation" and "Kashmira," oriental sketch, by Clarence Cameron White; "Deep River," by Burleigh, and "Take Nabandanji," by S. Coleridge Taylor. Mr. Taylor appeared to the best advantage in his rendition of Liszt's Rhapsodie. This fine well rendered classical program was interspersed with three selections by the Young Ladies' Choral Club under the direction of Miss Ray Middleton, which were enjoyed by the audience. Two numbers were well done; one was faulty, but these young women should be encouraged to keep up their good work. A most commendable feature of the evening's excellent entertainment was that the program started nearly on time. SERGEANT WATKINS TO PUBLISH POEMS 649 Stirling St., Baltimore, Md. Jan. 14, 1919. The Rev. John Albert Williams, I am inclosing herewith President Bissell's reply to my letter of last Christmas day. "Regardless of nationality" seems to imply that "our soldiers" are not all Americans. I feel sure that "this ban" of which Mr. Bissell speaks will not "be removed some time in the future" as long as he and such as he continue to feed this fire of race prejudice with the fuel it demands. I shall ever remember that pleasant day I spent with you and your family when I was in Omaha last February. The autographed Prayer Book you presented me is one of my most valued possessions. My book of poems will be published soon, and I am planning to give readings of my work. I shall surely remember Omaha and my friends there. I heartily thank you for the copies of The Monitor sent me. My regards to Mrs. Williams and the rest of the family. Wishing you continued success for the New Year, I remain sincerely yours, LUCIAN B. WATKINS. THE N. A. A. C. P. FORUM The N. A. A. C. P. forum held a well attended and interesting session last Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at its regular place of meeting, St. John's A. M. E. Church, Twenty-fifth and Grant streets. The president, Rev. John Albert Williams, presided. The report of the association's annual meeting held in New York was read and discussed. Among those speakers were the Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor of St. John's; the Rev. Dr. G. G. Logan, pastor of Grove M. E., and Messrs. Rayford, Scruggs, Singleton and Reese. Twelve new members were enrolled. The association's attention was called to the alleged attempted assault of a respectable young Colored girl by a white man of this city as a case in which the association must take an active interest. The forum will meet at the same place next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, when an interesting program will be presented. Dr. P. W. Sawyer will be the principal speaker, the subject of his address being "Roosevelt the Friend of the Negro." The public is invited to attend these meetings and will be benefitted by so doing. The meeting place is centrally located. THE DOUGLAS-WASHINGTON INVESTMENT COMPANY An enterprising group of our Colored citizens have organized the Douglas-Washington Investment company, which has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. The company has its charter from the secretary of state and has already begun business, having completed one sale and having several under negotiation. W. M. Franklin is president; Dr. D. W. Gooden, secretary, and S. W. Mills, treasurer; board of directors, A. Hamler, A. Jones, R. B. Robbins and J. Maxwell. The Monitor wishes this new business enterprise success. CRISPUS ATTUCK'S AUXILIARY DOES GOD WORK? The Crispus Attuck's Auxiliary Red Cross was organized seventeen months ago. A few faithful women have met each Tuesday afternoon for work, sewing and knitting. During the month of August work was suspended and the meeting during the holidays. Several meetings had to be omitted during the influenza epidemic. The Auxiliary has made during this time the following articles: Bed socks, 5 dozen; hot water bottle covers, 7 doz and 5; double bed socks, 3 dozen and 9; operating socks, 1 dozen and 8; Christmas boxes (1917), 100; operating caps, 1 dozen and 8; sweaters, 1 dozen; socks (knitted), 1 dozen and 8 pairs; children's bootees, 1 dozen Editor The Monitor, Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Father Williams: and 8; braziers, 1 dozen; towels (hemmed), 11 dozen and 7; sewed but on 200 shirts; chemises, 10; cenvales- cent robes, 10; night shirts, 2 dozen and 1; flowers for boys, $7; furnished sandwiches, doughnuts and coffee for some drafted boys. YOU MUST PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR BE CUT OFF Special Notice to All Readers and Subs- scribers — A Government Order Which All Newspapers Must Obey. The War Industry Board of the United States Government has issued a new order affecting the weekly papers and we wish to direct the attention of our subscribers to the following section of that order which says: "No publications may continue subscriptions after date of expiration, paid for." It will be seen from the above that unless subscriptions are renewed and it is now mandatory to discontinue all subscriptions and to drop all names from the mailing galleys whenever the time is out, unless the money for the year in advance is in the office. 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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 Webster 4243. IT WAS a little past midnight. Like some great gray ghost against the starlit dark, a huge transport was slowly plowing its way through the deep black waters. It had passed Fire Island and was now passing Sandy Hook and entering the lower bay. The deck was crowded with soldiers, black soldiers, who were coming home from the blood drenched fields of France. From the moment that land had been sighted far out in ocean, roar after roar had risen from their dusky throats, for they were glad to be coming home again. They had gone far from their native strand to fight an enemy who had threatened the world; an enemy that would have destroyed freedom and democracy and liberty. They had fought like brave men, and like brave men hundreds of them had remained in France to sleep the eternal sleep beneath her poppy strewn fields. Those who were coming back had paid their debt to their country, and as the great transport trembled into its final harbor, it was no wonder that they were glad. All of a sudden they beheld the Statue of Liberty full against the sky, and high above their heads blazed her torch which was lightening the world. Again a roar burst from their lips and then stopped—suddenly. Why? No one knew. Blankly for a moment they looked into each others' faces and then each saw an unmurmured question come into the eyes of everyone. Not a word was said; not a sound was uttered. It seemed that for the moment they remembered that they were black soldiers and that they were black soldiers explained everything. The silence was tense, so that one voice suddenly began singing "Home, Sweet Home," and at once a thousand voices caught up the strain. DO WE NEED A CHANGE IN TACTICS? IN THE report of the annual meeting of the N. A. A. C. P., we read that during the year the association sent out 74 telegrams to governors and Chambers of Commerce and received only 21 replies. Couple this fact with the coarse and vulgar rejoinder of Governor Bilbo to a press correspondent that he would, in effect, tell the above mentioned association "to go to hell," it is probable that the majority of the 53 who did not reply, felt pretty much the same way and not a few of the 21 who did reply felt the same way also, only they were polite enough not to be as brutally honest as Bilbo. Anyway, the report tends to bring the question to our minds, "Do we not need a change of tactics?" This constant agitation does not seem to be accomplishing much toward the amelioration of the race's condition in America. In his report to Congress, Secretary Wilson says: "Among the circumstances disclosed by Dr. Dillard's investigation, was the fact that the exodus of Negro workers has been the largest where lynching and other forms of race friction had been greatest. Later reports from the field indicate that such evils are retarding the efforts of the department of labor to allay labor unrest." Does not this suggest that a more effective way of attacking lynching would be in encouraging emigration? Aside from this, there should be some new effort that will cause the white man to stop and think so that he will exert himself to put a stop to these outrages which, as a matter of fact, his better self deplores. Our present methods of agitation are not doing this, and until we do make him think, we will accomplish little. Let us search for new methods. LAST week a well known local lawyer received a letter from an English Viscount relative to a book which the lawyer recently published. The latter is well known to several of The Monitor staff and as one of them passed his office he was called in and shown the letter. The first few lines of it ran as follows: "The white man's civilization is on its last legs and we have got to try and save it, although I don't think there is much chance. Europe is doomed, because the menace of bolshevism is spreading too rapidly for safety. I really believe that the safest thing a white man can do is to 4 ? MAYBE SO go to Africa, marry a native woman and become as near an African as is possible." Perhaps the Viscount has overdrawn conditions, yet on the other hand, it is possible that he is in a position to know the existence of many conditions of which we on this side are ignorant. In building his civilization the white man sowed the wind and someday he will, according to the inevitable laws of nature, reap the whirlwind, but is that time yet? Maybe the Viscount had indigestion when he wrote that letter, or maybe Lloyd-George is again framing up on English nobility. At any rate, the Viscount has given us something to think about. THE DUAL TASK OF THE COLORED MINISTRY OUR ministry has a twofold task: First, there is the insistence upon righteousness; the building up of the people spiritually; the fearless proclamation of "Thus saith the Lord." This is the primary duty before our ministry, as before the ministry of the dominant race. Insistence upon obedience to God's commandments which teach plainly man's duty towards God and towards his neighbor is an imperative charge laid upon all religious ministers and teachers. There is need everywhere for fearless, but loving and insistent and persistent teaching of true religion which means purity, chastity, honesty, truthfulness, charity, kindness, brotherly love, temperance and sobriety. This then is the first duty of our ministry. But since our ministers are in positions of recognized leadership and the need of our people along commercial, economic, business and industrial lines is so great, they have laid upon them the added duty of teaching the people to improve their material condition by saving their money, buying homes, engaging in business enterprises and supporting business and professional enterprises that our children may have better advantages and that we may make a place in the commercial and industrial world. This is the dual task laid upon the Colored ministry. We wonder if they recognize it and are rising to meet the emergency. NATIONAL PROHIBITION A SUFFICIENT number of states have ratified the prohibition amendment to make it a national enactment. The law becomes operative within a few months. There can be no doubt but that now prohibition may be made to indeed prohibit. The elimination of much that was hypocritical and farcial in state prohibition is now possible. With an honest administration and enforcement of the law the liquor traffic with its attendant evils will now be abolished. THE MATTER OF THE LIBERIAN LOAN SEVERAL weeks ago The Monitor published an Associated Press dispatch to the effect that the Liberian loan had been denied, because England had notified our state department that such a loan would be considered as an unfriendly act and would establish a sphere in influence in Africa for the United States. The Monitor at once addressed a letter to Mr. Emmett J. Scott, relative to the matter, and the answer to the same is published below. It is apparent that Mr. Bass, the Associated Press correspondent, had some grounds for his statement that Liberia had not yet been allowed her loan. We are glad that the loan has not been denied and we hope, with Mr. Scott, that the $5,000,000 will soon be placed at the disposal of the imperiled black republic and enable it to get upon its feet: War Department, Washington, Jan. 13, 1919. Mt. George Wells Parker, The Monitor, 1119 N. 21st St., I regret that your letter of December 21 has remained unanswered so long. I was in the South during the Holidays with my family. I returned to Washington for a day or two and then went to Oyster Bay for Col. Roosevelt's funeral. I have made inquiry at the State Department regarding Mr. Bass' statement that Liberia had been denied the loan, etc., etc. THE MONITOR This is not true; the loan has not been denied, but has been established as a credit for the Liberian Republic. It so happens that the parties to the loan of 1910 were Americans, French and Germans. There is one or two diplomatic snags which are to be surmounted before the present credit can be effective. This is really all there is to it. Personally, I have very great hope that the $5,000,000 which is to be placed at the disposal of the Liberian Republic will enable it to get on its feet. Sincerely yours, EMMETT J. SCOTT. Obvious Observations THE gag put over the peace conference is certainly going to put a crimp in the Colored delegates who were going to come back and tell us folks all about it—for 50 cents per. The calendar says it is January, but The calendar says it is January, but confidently we think it is April. It is becoming more evident every day that a German is about as trustworthy as a rattlesnake. Looks sort of like President Wilson's cabinet is trying to duck the republican congress by getting loose, doesn't it? Soldiers are yelling because women won't let go of their jobs. Well, one can't blame women for holding on. H. C. L. would make a guy hold onto a hot poker these days. If you think there aren't any bolsheviki in the U. S. A., just listen and read the papers about Chicago's labor convention. Unk Sam is going to keep an army of 500,000 men. Thought there was going to be world peace? Europe's quietude reminds us of a cat fight on the back fence somewhere near midnight. Better pay up that subscription! The cutter is going over the mail list and he ain't sparin' nobody no time no how. The war ended so quickly that Unk Sam is having a—— of a time putting on reverse. Thanking you kindly for your wrap attention, we will now go in and get acquainted with friend bath tub. THE peace conference being held at Vursoy, France, has been gagged. In other words, a Maxim silencer has been placed over the vocal cannon of the members. Naturally, the world is hot under the collar and wants to know the whyfor of the whereas, but after all it may be better. The chances are a silencer will be needed, because there are going to be daily explosions great enough to rock the government siesmograph. The chances are that there will also be some rough and ready matches with free for all rules governing the scrap. The peace conference sure would make good reading and have Nick Carter's legends beaten seven ways from Sunday, but the gentlemen of said conference had decided to spare friend public from any rising in temperature. The gag rule will go sort of hard with the self-appointed culd delegates who expected to gather in mouthful of chatter to bring back homewards and deliver at so much per. It will also be tough on the newspaper boys who expected to keep typewriters full of rheumatism from overwork. President Woody wants them wide open, but maybe after he gets in a session or two, he will thank goodness that the halter was slipped over the publicity end of the conference. It is dimes to doughnut holes that they won't spare Woody or anybody else when they get down to hair-pulling and fist-jabbing. The peace conference will be everything else but a peaceful gathering and it might need a few six shooters and rapid fire guns before it over As Caesar said the night before Brute handed him the Ides of March, "You never can tell." SOUND THE WARNING NOTE BLACK BOLSHEVIKI IN THE MAKING The menace to the peace of the world now is not international but intra-national. The forces of unrest and of anarchy which have ravaged Russia, that are seizing Central Europe and are now menacing France and England, are seeking a foothold upon these shores. Ex-President Taft has recently declared that the only way for America to deal with them is to shoot them. So far as twelve million of the most loyal citizens in this country are concerned, we wish to issue a warning to all the white patriots of America. Socialism and Bolshevism will some day get a hold upon tens of thousands of black people in America unless the forces of race despotism and oppression now driving them into those camps are stopped, and at once. There is a widespread and growing feeling among Colored citizens that the wave of barbarous mob law which recently lynched two black sisters and two brothers defending the girls' honor, and the week before strung up in cold blood a Black soldier in uniform—can only and must SKITS OF SOLOMON The Gag be eventually stopped by violence. The maddenning injustice which the Civil Service heads in Washington have used, even during the war, to deny competent Colored girls employment, has caused many of the best Colored families to grow sick at heart and desperate. Discrimination in all walks of life against Colored people is running amuck since the armistice was signed, carrying bitterness and revenge into the very souls of Black men and women. The number of them is growing who believe that neither the next Republican Congress nor any other force within or without the Government is going to rise up to stop the wholesale inhuman crimes against Colored citizens. We submit that these are Black Bolshevik in the making. The conservative Colored citizens of America call upon America again and again to give their people their inalienable rights.—New York News. SOME OF OUR HEROES WHO HAVE THE CROIX DE GUERRE New York City.—George C. Lacy, formerly of the Fifteenth New York Regiment, but now of the old Eighth Illinois, was decorated by General Vincendon of the Fifty-ninth French army, with the Croix de Guerre on December 6, 1918. Shelbyville, Ind.—Corporal Albert Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor, of this city, has been decorated with the French Croix de Guerre for bravery in action. Princeton, Ind.—Second Lieutenant Aaron R. Fisher, 366th Infantry, cited for bravery by the War Department, is the son of Benjamin Fisher of Lyles, four miles west of Princeton. He has been a member of the regular army six years. His citation reads as follows: "For extraordinary heroism in action near Lesseux, France, September 3, 1918. The citation under which Corporal Isaac Valley, Girard, Kas., received his D. S. C., stated that "a hand grenade was dropped among a group of soldiers in a trench, and when he might have saved himself by flight, he attempted to cover it with his foot and thereby protect his comrades. In the performance of this brave act he was severely wounded." Corporal Valley served three years in the Philippines. Hampton, Va.—One of our heroes recently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross is Thomas Henry Davis, 368th Infantry, a former Hampton Institute student. The citation for heroism follows: "For extraordinary heroism in action at Binarville, September 5, 1918." SUCH SENTIMENT MUST DIE We are determined to know nothing down here but the Damnigger and Him Terrified.-Daily State Journal, Raleigh, N. C. While this may represent the sentiment of the Daily State Journal, we believe that such sentiment as this must and will speedily die, even in North Carolina. The Monitor Office OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE ```markdown ``` We have moved our office Down Town Right Into Heart of Business District THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN H·L·W· What is the meaning of this beautiful insignia and why has it been adopted by the Hamitic League of the World? 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The Best Feature of Our Policy Is That It Is Absolutely DEPENDABLE Omaha, Nebraska THE MONITOR The Pl PIDJA NOTICE THE EGG ON HIS SHIRT FROM MUST BE SOME MILLIONAIRE EH KETNER HOW 28 NATIONS WILL LINE UP AT THE VOTE Generally Speaking 3 Groups May Be Perceived—Italy and Japan Alone— Composition of French Group Uncertain—Czechs May Join United States. By Paul Scott Mowrer. (Special Cable to the World-Herald and the Chicago Daily News—Copyright, 1919, by Chicago Daily News.) The World-Herald and Chicago Daily News Peace Conference Bureau, Paris, France, Jan. 18.—How will the twenty-eight nations represented at the allied conference line up when it comes to vote? Naturally, no one can foresee with certainty and much may depend upon the particular issue involved. Generally speaking, three groups may be perceived under the influence of the United States, Britain and France, respectively, while Italy and Japan stand alone. In the group with the United States are Brazil, China, Cuba, Gautemala, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia, Nicaragua and Panama. With Britain are Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Belgium, Portugal and Siam. The composition of the French group is less certain. France throughout the war has been endeavoring to acquire diplomatic influence over the Balkans and also men in the nations of central Europe. France will therefor probably support the maximum claims of Poland, Greece, Rumania, Jugo-Slavia and Czecho-Slavia. However, there is a possibility that the Czecho-Slovaks may join the American group and that Greece may join Britain. As France has been the strongest supporter of the Jugo-Slavs they may reciprocate by supporting France. With regard to Poland, the whole dispute as to whether the Pilsudski government or the Polish national committee will be recognized as the real government seems to be based on a struggle on the part of France to retain her influence over Poland through the Polish national committee. If the Pilsudski government should finally be recognized by the allies, Poland may be expected to join the British or American group rather than the French. Italy and France have some points in common, but they differ fundamentally on the bitter issue of the Jugo-Slavs. Japan may support France's European program if France will support Japan in Asia against the probable program of China supported by the United States. Britain has an alliance with Japan, but Austrian and Japanese ambitions regarding Germany's old colonies in the Pacific clash, Britain's Asiatic policy, therefore, seems somewhat obscure at present. Of the three groups enumerated, the strongest is that of the United States, thanks to the recognition of the Central and South American republics and Liberia. Ten states may be ex- Back NOTICE THE IMPROVE- MENTS JACK? I SEE, NEW DECK AN' RIGGIN' ON THE OY BOAT COUPLE O' NEW PORT HOLES ON TH'LARBOAR ANY CHANGES IN THE SIFN YOU MEAN GALLEY IS EVER ON THIS NOTICE THE IMPROVEMENTS JAM? I SEE, NEW DECK AM' RIGGIN' ON THE O' BOAT NEW WINDOWS UP THERE COUPLE O' NEW PORT HOLES ON THE LARBOARD BUILT A LOOK OUT ON THE STARBOARD ANY CHANGES IN THE STERN OF THE O' BOAT? YOU MEAN THE REAR, DON'T YOU? GALLEY IS OVER ON THIS SIDE, EH HERE'S THE KITCHEN EIGHT BELLS TIME FOR CHOW DINNER IS READY! pected to vote with the American group and nine with the British. If the French aims are realized, six states will vote with the French group, but several of these are uncertain and may vote with the British or Americans. Thus it is apparent that two groups, by far the strongest, with France occupying a somewhat weak third position, and Italy and Japan isolated. It is doubtful if the conference can persist in the design to consider Serbia and Montenegro as separate states in recognizing the unity of the Jugo-Slavs, which seems to be firmly established in fact. Recognition of Jugo-Slav unity would reduce the total number of states represented to twenty-seven. CROIX DE GUERRE FOR GALLANT MEN OF EIGHTH ILLINOIS Colonel Roberts has requested that the following officers and enlisted men of the old 8th Illinois Regiment, which has been brigaded with the French since being in France, be decorated with the Croix de Guerre for distinguished service. The request was made to the Commanding General of the 59th Division, French Army. Lieutenant Colonel Otis B. Duncan, Major James R. White, Captains John H. Patton, John T. Prout, Samuel R. Gwynne, Devere J. Warner, George M. Allen, James H. Hall, Stuart Alexander, Mathew Jackson, First Lieutenants Park Tancil, Osceola A. Browning, George Lacey, Frank Robinson, Claudis Ballard, Charles C. Jackson, William Warfield, Samuel S. Gordon, Robert L. Hurd, Harry W. Shelton, Second Lieutenants Harry P. Cheatham, Stanley B. Norvell, Roy Tisdell, Thomas A. Painter, Lawson Price, Lincoln D. Reid, Elmer J. Meyers, Sergeants Norman Henry and Clarence B. Gibson, Corporals James R. Brown, Lewis Warner, Joseph Henderson, Macco A. Tervalon, William Stevenson and Elmer Laurent, Privates Nathaniel White, Robert Pride, George B. White, Howard Sheffield, Ulysis Sayles, Cornelius Robinson, William Cuff, Hugh Givens, Arthur Johnson, Charles T. Monroe, Ruffus Pitts, Deery Brown, Albert Dorsey, William Hurdle, Bee McKissie, Jonas Paxton, Harry Pearson, Paul Turlington, Reed J. Brown, Paul Johnson, Reedy Jones, Alonza Keller, Leroy Lindsay, Lavern Massey, Josiah Nevees, Ira Taylor and Jesse Ferguson. MINISTER TO LIBERIA WILL SAIL FOR POST Washington, D. C., Jan. 24.—Dr. J. L. Johnson, the new minister to Liberia, will sail for his post some time in February, according to present plans. The Liberian financial matter is being worked upon by those most deeply at interest, and it is stated that the situation is rounding out in good shape. Dr. Johnson looks "fit," and has no fears as to the outcome of his proposed residence at Monrovia. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. "RAY'S FRIEND" By ELSIE EATON. One, two, three, chimed the clock on the mantel. "You'd better hustle along there, Lou," called her mother, "or you'll miss that swell movie you've been talking about." "Yes, mother, I'm most ready," answered Lou, putting the last pin in her hair. "Now see that you come home right after the show. I don't want to have to entertain that friend brother Ray is bringing home for the week-end tonight. Besides, I think he would like your company best. Young folks generally like young folks," warned her mother as Lou was leaving. "Movies aren't as interesting as they might be," thought Lou, as she walked leisurely down the street. For the past six months not much of anything had really been interesting to her. She found more pleasure in knitting socks for soldiers than she did in doing anything else. But today she thought she would venture out to the pictures. She met several boys and girls as she walked along, all radiant and happy. She finally reached the theater. An observer might have thought her eager to see the play, for there was a longing look in her eyes, but Lou's longing look was not for the play that was supposed to be so interesting. Her thoughts were far away. She was thinking of her sister Mae's home cottage, where she had spent the spring and summer days doing the work for Mae until she got better. How pleasant it had all been. But how lonely she was now. Doctor B—,"Bill," as Mae's husband used to call him, occupied her thoughts; he had seemed young the first time she met him. He certainly had made her stay at Mae's a pleasant one. How kind and gente he had been to her sister, she thought. Try as hard as possible, she couldn't get interested in the play. Her thoughts would always drift back to by-gone days; the pleasant rides she had had with Doctor B. the scenery and the tunes they would take. How he had seemed to enjoy the dainties she would prepare and give her more than due praise, she thought. Lou would think of all these things with a sense of happiness. But how sad it seemed to make her when she would recall the day when he had called at Mae's and told them he was leaving for camp in the morning. He, too, seemed sad as he told them of his departure. But he had just bid her good-by in a friendly way. Just as he had bid the others good-by. "Why have I been so lonesome since my return home?" Lou would ask herself. Was her lonesomeness due to him? At first she would think it was due to the change. There was just her mother at home now, and it wasn't as though things were lively, she thought; but as she walked home this day she finally came to the conclusion that there was just one answer to her question. She had fallen in love with Doctor B. "It's all right to feel lonesome when I'm at home and everything is dull. But when it comes to this (and she thought of how she had spent the afternoon thinking of him, instead of enjoying the pictures) there is only one reason for it, and there's no use avoiding it. But it makes me feel blue. It's just to be my secret, not his and mine, as I wish it could be." She suddenly thought of her mother's warning to come right home. She looked at her watch. It was past their regular dining hour. "Goodness!" she exclaimed, "I must be walking terribly slow. Guess I'd better move along. I've got to change my dress, I suppose. Ray's friend might be a bore for all I know. Oh! I do wish he wasn't bringing him home this time, but I must be there and help make things pleasant or he will never forgive me." She finally reached home. Her mother met her at the door. "Now be quick and change your dress, dearie. Ray has come and supper is waiting." "What a familiar voice," thought Lou, as she changed her dress and listened to the boys talking and laughing. She looked thoughtful for a second—but no, it couldn't be—the laughter again reached her ears. She hurried downstairs, determined to be in doubt no longer. "Why, Ray!" she explained, going into the parlor. "This is Doctor B—. I met him at Mae's, and—" "I know, Sis," interrupted Ray. We thought we'd plan a little surprise for you." "This certainly is a pleasant surprise," said Lou, with joy, as she shook hands with Dr. B—. During the meal they talked of old times and of what had happened since they had last seen each other. "Now," said Lou's mother, "I'm going to do the work and. Lou, you can entertain Dr. B— while Ray goes cailing on Anne." "Why didn't you let me know you were coming, Dr. B—?" asked Lou when they were alone. "Bill' to you, Lou," said Dr. B—, avoiding her question. "Yes, Bill to me always," said Lou, almost to herself, while that longing look disappeared, and now she knew her secret was also shared with Dr. B— (Copyright, 1918, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Advice to Law Students. When preparing for an examination the best way to avoid being hauled over the coals is to stick to Coke. 5 Butter-Nut Coffee Delicious 40 cts for ONE POUND. A 3 POUND CAN FOR $1.15 Butter-Nut coffee Delicious PLATINO COFFEE CO. A COFFEE DELICIOUS AS A NUT 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. W. T. SHACKELFORD COAL COMPANY Our Motto: "Service First" Webster 202 13th and Grace DR. J. W. 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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 PRINTING COMPANY THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE Open All Times. Reasonable Prices 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. FIRST PICTURE OF REVOLT IN BERLIN International Film Service 6 The Kiddies' Korner My muvver's ist the nivest one 'At ever lived wid folks; She lets you have ze mostes' fun, An' laffs at all your jokes. I got an ol' maid auntie, too, The worst you ever saw; Her eyes ist bore you through and through— She ain't a bit like ma. She's ist as slim as slim can be, An' when you want to slide Down on ze balusters, w'y, she Says 'at she's horrified. She ain't as nice as Uncle Ben What says 'at little boys Won't never grow to be big men Unless they're fond of noise. But muvver's nicer zan 'em all; She calls you "precious lamb, An' lets you roll your ten-pin ball, An' spread your bread wiz jam. An' when you're bad, she jst looks sad, You fink she's going to cry; An' when she don't, you're awful glad, An' den you're good, oh, my! At night she takes ze softest hand, An' lays it on your head, An' lays it on your head, An' says, "Be off to Sleepy-Land By way o' trundle-bed." So when you fink what muvver knows An' aunts an' uncles tan't. It skeers a feller; ist suppose His muvver 'd been a aunt. PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR. Today's Game. Did you ever play Cat and Rat? Well, this is the way it's done: One player is chosen for cat and one for rat. The others all form a circle with clasped hands. The cat stands outside of the circle and the rat in- side. The game opens with a con- versation between the cat and rat. The cat says: "I am the cat." The rat says: "I am the rat." The cat says: "I will catch you." The rat says: "You can't." This last defiance is a signal for a chase. The cat tries to get into the circle, and the rat tries to evade him. Both may run in and out the circle, but the other players will assist the rat by raising their hands to let him run under, and they will try to foil the efforts of the cat by preventing his breaking through the circle either inward or outward. When the rat is caught he joins the circle and the cat becomes the rat; a new cat is chosen from the circle of players. The game is played with 10 to 30 or more players. Praised by French General. Chicago, Jan. 14.—The 370th Regiment, U. S. A., was formerly Chicago's crack Colored regiment, the 8th Infantry, Illinois National Guard, and its men are practically all from Illinois. Their blood has dyed the soil of France, and now their regimental colors float over that hallowed battleground. Details of the presentation reached Chicago yesterday in a letter from Maj. W. H. Roberts, brother of Col. Thomas A. Roberts, of the Regiment. The colors were presented at Verneuil sur Rerre Thanksgriving day to Gen. Joseph Marie Vincendon, commanding the Fifty-ninth Division, French army, by Lieut. Col. Otis B. Duncan. FIRST PICTURE OF Maj. Roberts' letter tells also of a large number of citations and decorations for the men. In presenting the colors Col. Duncan said: "We are proud of the opportunity to have fought with France for a world-wide democracy and independence. We have given you the best there is in us, and we have given it with the fullness of our hearts. "As an evidence of our love for France, as an evidence of the love we give to you, to your division and to your army, of which we have the honor to be a part, we present to you our colors. May they wave in benediction over France as they float in America." "I shall religiously preserve this national emblem of America, in remembrance of the time when I had under my orders the valiant 370th U. S. A., when we fought together on the soil of France for the triumph of right and liberty. "The noble cause of which we were and remain the champions, the blood shed by your men, mixed with that of their comrades on the devastated banks of the Ailette and Serre, constitute between us an unbreakable bond." Three times representatives of the Regiment were honored for valor. BOY SCOUT NEWS Troop 23. Stop! Look! Listen Boys! War has ceased, the armistice has been signed, peace will soon be declared, and democracy will be made safe for the world. Scouting is again going to assume its place and mission to develop the boyhood of America. A scout republic and all of its fixings at Childs Point is about to be opened. If interested, meet the boys at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Sunday, January 26, at 2:30 p. m. H. L. ANDERSON. CHIPPING SPARROW Spizella passarina Length, about five and one-fourth inches. Distinguished by the chestnut crown, black line through eye, and black bill. Range: Breeds throughout the United States, south to Nicaragua, and north to southern Canada; winters in the southern United States and southward. Habits and economic status: The chipping sparrow is very friendly and domestic, and often builds its nest in gardens and orchards or in the shrubbery close to dwellings. Its gentle and confiding ways endear it to all bird lovers. It is one of the most insectivorous of all the sparrows. Its diet consists of about 42 per cent of insects and spiders and 58 per cent of vegetable matter. The animal food consists largely of caterpillars, of which it feeds a great many to its young. Besides these, it cats beetles, including many weevils, of which one stem contained 30. It also eats ants, wasps, and bugs. Among the latter are plant lice and black olive scales. The vegetable food is practically all weed seed. A nest with four young of this species was watched at different hours on four days. In the seven hours of observation 119 feedings were noted, or an average of 17 feedings per hour, or four and one-fourth feedings per hour to each nesting. This would give for a day of 14 hours at least 228 insects eaten by the brood. THE MONITOR MT. MORIAH BAPTIST Twenty-Sixth and Seward Streets M. H. Wilkinson, Pastor Delightful services all day at our church. Rev. I. M. Page preached in the morning. One addition for baptism and pastor at night; another addition for baptism. After morning service on Sunday the Baptismal service will follow. Junior Progressives will have a concert Friday night, the 31st; hear some of the best talents. ALLEN CHAPEL METHODIST CHURCH 5233 South Twenty-fifth Street Rev. J. A. Broadnax, Pastor. Sunday services were very good. One member joined. Quite a few strangers worshiped with us. Proceeds for the day, $42.40. Thirteen subscribed $10 each toward t.t.e $1,000 rally the first Sunday in May. Fifteen subscribed $5 each, making a total of $205. C. J. Goode paid his $10. Sunday we hope to see every member present. Second quarterly conference will be held February 9. The choir is coming to the front as never before. Allen chapel stands for the uplift of humanity and better conditions of our people regardless of creed, sect or denomination. All are welcome to worship with us. BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. T. A. Taggart, Pastor. Preaching by Rev. J. A. Harris Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Public installation of B. Y. P. U. officers, and a splendid program rendered by members of the different churches. Preaching by the pastor Sunday night service at 8 o'clock. A two weeks' old-fashioned revival service was closed Sunday night with a large number of new members. Baptizing the first Sunday in February. Good crowds took advantage of the fine weather Sunday. In the morning Rev. M. D. Johnson preached, and in the evening the pastor occupied the pulpit, and gave his hearers quite a treat. His subject was "The Unanswered Question." The entertainment of last week was the recital of Madam Demery under the auspices of the "Wide Awake." She was quite worthy of the patronage given her. Monday at 12:30 p. m. the Baptist Ministers' Union of this city tendered a farewell reception to Dr. O. W. Anderson of Calvary Baptist Church at the Zion Cafeteria. Dr. J. L. Barton of Immanuel Church and president of the union, introduced Dr. A. A. Larme of the First Baptist Church, and Dr. C. H. Bancroft, the speaker of the hour. They were served to a four course luncheon. The following ministers enjoyed the repast: Drs. W. O. Anderson, A. A. De Larme, J. L. Barton, C. F. Holler, C. H. Bancroft, M. H. Wilkinson, P. G. Wilson, E. B. Taft and W. F. Botts. A pair of gold link cuff buttons were presented as a memento from the union. The fifth annual banquet of the "Men Laymen" will be held at Zion Baptist Church Tuesday evening, January 28. Miss A. B. Covington left Sunday night for an extended visit with her brother in St. Louis. Mother Howard entertained at the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Howard, 2518 Ohio street, last Wednesday at a 10:30 breakfast in honor of Mrs. Lewis of Galveston, Tex. Those present were Mrs. Walter Brown of Sioux City, Ia.; Mrs. Jackson of Kansas City, Kas.; Mrs. Walter Belle and Mrs. Clara Rogers and Mrs. E. Howard of Omaha. Mr. Veland and daughter of Denver, Colo., were pleasant visitors at our services Sunday morning. The "Wide Awake" will meet with Mrs. G. Ashley Friday, January 31. Regular services next Lord's day. A COMING NEWSPAPER WOMAN Little Elaine Smith, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Smith, is a coming newspaper woman. Recently she attended a paryt with her mother and while the elders were having a good time Elaine went into a corner by herself and wrote this report: "We went to Mr. and Mrs. Walker's. We had a very good time. The ladies and the men played cards. There was two big girls; their names were Gladys and Leaoda. We played a war game and a number of games, then we played mogens, then we ate. (We haven't eat yet, so I won't no what we are to have, so I will geast.) We had ice cream and cack and coffy. Then the prizes were given, and then we went home and that was the end of a good day. The end." --- Sunday school, 9 a. m. Morning service, 11 a. m. ZION BAPTIST W. F. Botts, Pastor Vinton Street Merchant Charged with Attempted Rape of Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Remanded to Higher Court by Police Magistrate Fitzgerald. Alfred J. Ramsey, white, who conducts a notion store at 1618 Vinton street, was bound over to District Court Tuesday morning by Police Magistrate Fitzgerald after a preliminary hearing in police court for attempt to commit a statutory crime in his home Monday morning, January 13, against Gladys McRoy of 2217 S. 16th street, a respectable sixteen-year-old Colored girl employed as a domestic. According to Gladys' story, told modestly and with evidence of truth, she was in the kitchen, which is in the rear of the store building, Monday morning doing the family washing, when about 10 o'clock Mrs. Ramsey having gone to town, Ramsey approached her with an indecent proposal, offering her at first $2 and then $5 to submit to his wishes. Repulsing him, he seized her, dragged her to the bed room and attempted to carry out his purposes. She resisted him, left the house and went directly home where, crying and excited, she reported the case to her mother. Several witnesses were introduced by the defense who testified that they were in the store sometime after 10 o'clock and saw Ramsey in his store. Mrs. Ramsey's testimony was that she left for town a few minutes before 10, which testimony was corroborated by Miss Anna F. Christensen, who accompanied her. She stated that she was surprised to find Gladys gone when she returned at 11:30 and the washing left standing, as the girl had never done anything like that before. Her husband said he didn't know that the girl had gone. Mrs. McRoy's testimony was corroborative of that of Gladys as to her coming home soon after 10 o'clock. International Film Service OUR NEW HOME PORO COLLEGE PENDLETON AVE. ST. FERDINAND AVE. PEACE DELEGATES OF THE ALLIES IN CONFERENCE PEACE DELEGATES OF THE ALLIES IN CONFERENCE Miss Josephine Davis of 2914 S street, who has been very sick with a severe attack of influenza, is able to be out again. Mr. Willis Morrow has been on the sick list, but is some better now. Mr. Wm. Wiggins was called to Oklahoma on account of the death of his sister-in-law. He left Sunday night. Miss Coreasia Broomfield is able to be out again after a week's illness. Mrs. Anna Alston of 23rd and Madison was given a baby shower last Saturday by her sister-in-laws and baby friends. The family has been quarantined about three weeks on account of influenza and pneumonia with three children down. We are glad to say all are better now. Mr. and Mrs. George Adkins returned Monday from Minneapolis, Minn., where they have been spending their honeymoon. They were married December 23 at Allen chapel, with an elaborate church wedding, being the recipients of many beautiful and useful presents. Among them a dining and bed room suite of furniture. They will make their home in Omaha. The Bethel Baptist Church closed their revival Sunday night. They will baptize Sunday, February 2, at the Church. Little Miss Alma Upchurch, who has been at St. Joseph Hospital for some time, improves very slowly. The attending physician wants her to undergo another operation. LINCOLN NEWS Mr. Milton Cohron, who has been very ill with pneumonia, was taken to the hospital last Friday. Although he has been dangerously ill, his many friends hope that he will recover. Mrs. West, mother of Messrs. John and Jasper Wright, was quite ill last week, but is much improved now. Mr. Richardson has been quite ill during the past week. The Aua Young Red Cross unit met last Thursday at the home of Mrs. Maude Gates. Mt. Zion Jubilee Chorus gave an entertainment at the Baptist Church at 21th and Holdrege streets last Friday evening. A large number of people were present at the A. M. E. Church last Thursday evening, attending a meeting of the "Roosevelt Literary Society," which meets the first and third Thursday of each month. The officers are the following: President, Monroe Williams. Vice President, Mrs. Pearl Christman. Secretary, Mrs. Isetta Malone. Assistant Secretary, Miss Mattie Smith. Treasurer, Zachariah Johnson. Organist, Mrs. Mabel Williams. Critic, T. T. McWilliams. Sergeant-at-Arms, Clyde Malone. Chaplain, J. E. Jeltz. Committee on Debates and Programmes, Mrs. Sarah Walker, Messrs. T. T. McWilliams and Andrew Murphy. The debate of the evening was Government Ownership against Private Ownership of the railroads. Those on the affirmative were Mrs. Odessa Patrick, Roland Young, Andrew Moseley; those on the negative, Mrs. Helen Randall, Mrs. Ferguson, Mr. D. E. Nichols. Mr. Clinton Ross, who has been in officers' training at Camp Pike, Arkansas, arrived in the city Saturday tor a brief visit. He gave a very interesting talk at the A. M. E. Church Sunday evening. Mr. Ross is on his way to Los Angeles, Cal. PROBATE NOTICE In the Matter of the Estate of Bell R. Buford. Deceased. Bufford. Deceased. Notice is hereby given: That the creditors will meet the administrator of said 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 allowance. Three months are allowed for creditors to present their claims, from the 18th day of January, 1919. BRYCE CRAWFORD. 26-12-4t-16-19 County Judge The Monitor Publishing Company Authorized Capital Stock $50,000.00 Shares $10 Each Buy as Many as You Can Afford A Good Investment. Buy Shares Now. Become a Stockholder in a Growing Business. If Interested Address 304 Crounse Block COLONEL YOUNG COMPLIMENTS MONITOR Headquarters Development Unit, Camp Grant, Illinois. Jan. 17, 1919. Rev. J. Albert Williams, Editor of The Monitor, Omaha, Nebraska. My Dear Father Williams: I enclose herewith my personal check of $4 to pay for two years' subscription of The Monitor, one year of which has expired, you having, out of your goodness of heart, sent it to me for nothing. I would have done this before for from the very first I have wanted to tell you that The Monitor, all considered, is the very best weekly paper we have in the race. Your editorials are sane and of the highest order. You have a clear vision, a high patriotism, and with your culture and love of the race, I wish for The Monitor a far wider range than it now has. You may be gratified when I tell you that for the past year I have been its most ardent booster, not because it plead my cause, but because of its general excellence and freedom from sensationalism and untruthfulness. I would like to see you edit the same kind of a paper for a large syndicate of Colored men. You have faith and ideals, and you are not meddling with political flesh pots. With the highest esteem for yourself, and wishing The Monitor every success, sincerely your and its friend, CHAS, YOUNG, Colonel U. S. Army, Commanding. PRESIDENT BISSEL'S REPLY Illinois College of Photography, Ef fingham, Illinois. Baltimore, Md. Dear Mr. Watkins: Your valued favor of recent date received, and we were pleased to hear from you, though we regret the necessity to our refusing your enrollment. We sincerely appreciate all that any of our soldiers have done for our country, regardless of nationality. The only reason that we make this distinction is because we have had trouble in the past with our students enrolled from the South, who have made strenuous objections to such conditions. Trusting that this ban may be removed sometime in the future, we remain cordially yours, (Signed) L. H. BISSELL, President. MULDOON IS ON THE MAP Muldoon, Tex., Jan. 15, 1919. To The Monitor and Readers: As I never see anything in the paper regarding this part of Texas, I thought I would write a few lines. It is raining today and has been for some time, and farmers here are late with plowing. Stock of all kinds looks fine, however, and everything is bringing good prices. As I see it, the man with the plow has the best chance, as the whole world is depending upon him, and we farmers should make farming a business and not a side line. Let us not raise cotton alone, for cotton alone is a slam to the credit trade, but let us raise a variety. As to live --- To be Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Nebraska The Monitor Publishing Co. stock, let us raise more hogs, chickens, a few turkeys and milch cows. Then start a bank account and stay home Saturday nights and help the wife. Another thing every Colored man, woman and child should do is to read race papers. I take two state papers, but they don't bring me the goods like The Monitor and Dallas Express. They need our support and we need the news in order to be well informed. Well, this is my first time to write The Monitor, and if I get by the wastebasket, I will come again. Best wishes to The Monitor and its many readers and tell them I am busy on the farm. GEORGE W. BRATCHER, Rt. 1. COLORED PITCHER SAVES AMERICAN NINE FROM DEFEAT Lewis A. Mitchell Holds Down Canadians in Emergency Call to Box in Crucial Diamond Contest in England—Matinee Idol Shows Rare Form as an Extra Added Attraction in a New Role. Belfast, England, Dec. 23.—The great American game, baseball, has at last been introduced here, in a match game between American and Canadian soldiers. An interesting thing about the game which drew an immense crowd was that a Colored American, Lewis A. Mitchell, the celebrated tap drummer and "noise artist," saved the American nine from defeat. The Belfast Evening Telegraph's sparring editor, describing the game by innings, in recording the seventh inning, in which the American pitcher, Stanley, got injured, at which time the score stood 4 to 3 in favor of the Canadians, wrote as follows: "Seventh Inning—Canada was not long in before Stanley got a lightning return, and the ball split one of his fingers. Dr. J. W. Ritchie (Crumlin Road), who was one of the spectators, kindly came down at the call of the megaphone man, and Stanley went with him to the pavilion for treatment. Mr. Mitchell (appearing at the Hippodrome in "The Seven Spades'), took the injured pitcher's place in the diamond, and he was introduced to the crowd as a former member of the New York Giants' team. When the inning closed, the score was still: Canada, 4; America, 3. "In the eighth inning Mitchell early showed ability as a batsman, his first ball—a 'skier'—nearly braining one of the unoffending pressmen." Despite the fact that Mitchell had had no practice, being called in as an emergency pitcher, and still wearing his street clothes, he held the Canadians down to one run for the three innings he pitched, while the Americans in the meantime adding two to their score, caused the game to end in a tie —5 to 5. Thus it was that a Colored man, Lewis Mitchell, widely known in theatrical circles, who happened to be a spectator, and was called in when the Americans' regular pitcher was injured, saved America (United States) from defeat by the Canadians' baseball team. PLEASANT GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday school, 9 a. m.; morning service, 11 a. m.; B. Y. P. U., 5:30 p. m. The pastor preached to two full houses last Sunday. The sick of the congregation are improving. Des Moines N By W. H. Lowry PROMINENT PYTHIAN VISITS DES MOINES Des Moines News By W. H. Lowry Des Moines, Ia., Jan. 24.—Attorney W. Ashbie Hawkins, president of the Baltimore Branch, N. A. A. C. P., and Supreme Chancellor, Knights of Pythias, Eastern and Western Hemisphere, delivered an address before the Des Moines Branch, N. A. A. C. P., Wednesday evening at Carmthian Baptist Church. A large audience was in attendance and listened to an interesting review of the Baltimore segregation ordinance, which was defeated by the Baltimore Branch, N. A. A. C. P. The Park Street Branch of the Army Y. M. C. A. will conduct a public meeting Sunday afternoon, January 26, at 4 o'clock. Mr. H. C. Evans, who has been doing Y. M. C. A. work overseas, will be the principal speaker. Music will be furnished by the St. Paul A. M. E. Church Orchestra. Monday evening the Army "Y" was addressed by John R. Mott, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. is doing a great work for the young men of the city. An effort is being made to convert the Army "Y" into a general Y. M. C. A. for the city. The citizens of Des Moines will do well to grasp this opportunity of making this work permanent. A Y. M. C. A. building is assured if the proper steps are taken and the men in charge given undivided support. Mrs. F. H. Gresham, Cedar Rapids, has been appointed assistant postmistress in the general postoffice at the state capitol building. The public indoor playground was opened in the basement of St. Paul A. M. E. Church Monday morning, with Miss Ada Hyde in charge. This playground is conducted under the auspices of the Public Welfare Board. Provisions are being made to establish a nursery at the church in the near future. The uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A. E., A. A. and A., installed six new members Tuesday evening and elected officers for the ensuing year. The old members who were reinstated the same evening increased to full strength. Friday evening has been designated as regular drill time. The Intellectual Improvement Club installed officers Monday evening; January 20, at the residence of Attorney and Mrs. John L. Thompson. The following are the new officers: President, Mrs. R. E. Patter; Vice President, Mrs. R. F. Burnaugh; Secretary, Mrs. E. R. Hall; Assistant Secretary, Mrs. John L. Thompson; Treasurer, Mrs. R. E. Dobson; Critic, Mrs. S. Joe Brown; Journalist, Mrs. H. W. Hughes; Chairman of Executive Committee, Mrs. W. H. Lowry. The S. L. Birt Club entertained at the residence of Mrs. J. A. J. Jefferson, 1322 Day street, for benefit of the St. Paul A. M. E. Church. This club was organized by Mrs. Azora Mackey. During the first six months of the club's work $631 was raised for the church and a special sum raised to furnish the pastor's study. The club will celebrate its first anniversary in February. or Pub orated Under the The Syndicate Club gave their first ball of the season Tuesday evening at the Army Club. This group is composed of twenty young men who have been given quarters at the Army club. Their club room and adjoining dance hall were beautifully decorated. The Sunday services were well attended at the Corinthian Baptist Church. In remembrance of the old folk songs, which are pleasing to the pastor, a quintet sang "Roll On" as a special selection Sunday evening. A revival meeting will be conducted at the Corinthian Baptist church beginning next week. The service of Rev. W. H. Harris, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, St. Louis, Mo., has been secured to assist in conducting the meeting. The Deacon and Trustee Boards will visit the hordes of friends and members of the church Sunday and encourage all to attend these series of meetings. The Ushers' Club of, Corinthian Baptist Church realized a neat sum from a social they gave at Dr. McCree's Tea Room. The club extends many thanks to Dr. McCree for the donation of his Tea Room to the club for the purpose. The Sunshine Service Club, composed of High School girls, served a six course dinner at the Army Club Tuesday evening, January 21. This club is one of the most patriotic and enterprising clubs of the city. Mrs. F. G. Goggens, 222 Arthur avenue, is their club leader. Royal House, U. B. F., gave its first annual banquet Tuesday evening, January 21, at Masonic temple, corner Eleventh and Center streets. A family reunion was held at the home of Mrs. C. B. Brown, 206 Arthur avenue, January 19. Breakfast was served at 9 o'clock. Covers were laid for 30. All reported a good time. Fire broke out at the homeof Rev. G. W. Robinson, pastor of Corinthian Baptist Church, and did considerable damage to the roof. The fire was discovered about 11 o'clock Monday morning. The alarm was turned in and the fire department responded immediately and soon extinguished the flames. Damage is covered by insurance. This house was recently purchased by Rev. Robinson. Mrs. E. R. Hall was recently appointed stenographer in the Attorney General's office at the state house. Mrs. Hall's appointment came through competitive examination which she passed in both houses of the legislature. The Mite Missionary Society will render a special program Sunday evening, January 26, at St. Paul A. M. E. Church. At the conclusion of the program a sermon will be preached by Rev. Mrs. Schooler. The Young Married Folks' Club will give an entertainment Monday evening, January 27, for the benefit of the new St. Paul A. M. E. Church. The Pleasant Hour Club met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Buckner Thursday afternoon. Does your neighbor take The Monitor? Ask him. You like it. So will he. Help put The Monitor in EVERY COLORED home in your community. Des Dunes orchestra will be at the Phi Delta hop January 28. Will you? WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS Here's Laundry Hint Gleaned From the Marines WASHINGTON.—Information always comes in handy, especially when you hook it while fishing for something else. As the American and French flags were raised at the celebration of Bastille day every man on the Ellipse took off his hat except the marines on guard. and learned that no marine may take off his hat when he is wearing his belt. Being a sociable chap, glad of the chance to talk to so obviously a nice woman, he told of soldier life generally, until he came at last to the inside information that: "Every marine is his own chink." This explains for you why it is that some uniforms look so much niftier than others, from a laundry point of view. Also, it may account for a wise government's changing army blue for a color that won't show dirt. You have to know the reason of a thing to have proper respect for its value. A marine has to wash a uniform every day—and he has four, unless it may be more or less, for a listener gets the wires crossed now and then—and he uses a brush instead of a washboard, which saves wear and tear on the garments, to say nothing of his knuckles and immortal soul. So now you know what to do when tubbing time comes to help you win the war, and also—which is really more important—the lady of the glassy pink nails will find from this important document just why the marines kept on their hats. Peace Brings Us New Mouths to Feed AMERICA ENGLAND ITALY BELGUM H. D. Quirk OMAHA, NEBRASKA A patriotic young lady, who is going to heaven when she dies, provided she takes as good care of her soul as of her glassy pink finger nails, objected to the omission, but as no one paid the least attention to her, that was all there was to that—except: A woman who happened to be standing next a uniformed youngster on camp leave inquired into the matter ```markdown ``` 7 ON CITY RIGHTS raned From the Marines comes in handy, especially when you g else. 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A. entertainer, Miss McMein had unusual opportunities to observe the attitude of our soldiers toward the dear unfair sex of more or less sunny France. And she reports “nothing doing.” Naturally Miss McMein had many tragic as well as scores of amusing experiences. A young American girl at the front for months could not fail to meet with adventures. The funniest sight she encountered was during the September offensive on the St. Mihiel salient, Coming along the road was a Negro doughboy laden down with captured helmets, leading a bicycle with one hand and corying a trombone with the other. “Where he got the bicycle and what he intended to do with it I don't know,” said Miss McMein, “but the presence of a trombone was easily ex- plained, He was one of a group of Negro doughboys who had captured anentire German military band. After making the band play for them, each doughboy confiscated the instrument that most appealed to him. It doesn't sound funny, I know, but the sight of that soldier with his assortment of helmets, bicycle and trombone will always linger in my mind as the fun- niest thing I ever saw.” LA GRANGE, TEXAS H, L. Vincent, Agent. ‘The “New Year” began with some very disagreeable weather, yet the people in and about this little town have been busy with their several lines of work, Rev. D. A. Scott, Aus- tin, the State Superintendent of S. S. Missions, has just closed out here Sun- day night a four days’ instructive and beneficial Bible institute at the Ebe- nezar Baptist Church, Rev. S. A. Till- man, pastor, Total collected and giv- en for the work, $40. Rev. C. N. Crewell, Houston, spent two days at the institute. Rev. I. D. Coffee held regular services at St, John A. M. E. Church Sunday and Sunday night. Rev. William White is at his new post, at Hondo, Texas, and has shipped his household goods, etc., to that place. His wife and little son follow soon. The household effects of the newly appointed pastor, Rev. Napier, for St. James M. E. Church here, have arrived. His work includes La Grange, Rabb’s Prairie and Sandy Point, The sad =e Jeckey Hair Grower ==) JECKEY COLLEGE 7 vipat alas news came here last Friday of the death of Deacon Cicero C. Howard of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Eagle Lake, Rev. Mr. Tillman, pastor, left Saturday last to conduct the funeral Sunday. The Monitor extends sym- pathy to his aged wife, Eleven schol- ars from Ebenezar Baptist Sunday School were invited to the church last Sunday morning during the session of the Sunday School. Dr. L. D. Cook is heading a movement to organize the N. A. A. C. P. for Fayette county. Mrs. Nellie Brown Brooks, who has been here helping to settle claims and other things against the estate of Mr, Sydney Brown, left for her home in Ft. Worth last Saturday, Mrs. Hattie E, Hatten is visiting out of town this week, Sick: Mesdames Edith John- son, Julia King. Henry Washington died here Sunday, Interment Monday evening. PALESTINE, TEXAS A. 6 Mawetd The weather has cleared off and things are looking good. ‘The farmers are getting down to work and the people have started their gardens, Mrs. Cora Watkin, of Waco, has returned home after visiting her sis- ter, Mrs. Lizzie, Tipitt. ‘The Mt. Vernon A. M. E. Church he'd its first quarterly conference and reported good scucess. Rev. F. F. Washington was presiding elder. St. Paul M, E. held its first quar- terly conference with Rev. G. W. Car- ter as district superintendent. The influenza is still busy and the deaths this week include: Mrs, Laura Johnson, Nora Martain, Edna Mae Reaves, L. C, Wallace, Dave Barnett. ‘The sick are: Mrs, Amanda Stan- lan, Mrs. Mary Forney, Mrs. Vina Na- dax, Mrs. Lulu Carson and Mrs, R. P. Jimerson. ‘Mrs. Lulu Anderson was a visitor at the office today; also Mrs. H. L. Price, ATCHISON, KANSAS W. A. Covington Mrs, Donie Gilbert, a highly re- spected and well known citizen, died Tuesday from a paralytic stroke. She was buried from Mt. Zion Baptist Church under the auspices of the Daughters of Tabernacle, Rey. J. W. Lee officiated, Mrs, Janie Cook of Omaha attended Mrs. Gilbert's funeral. Mrs. Lulu Evans, Mrs. Bessie John- son, Mrs. Mattie Pain, Miss Cyrene Miller, Mrs. Anna Covington, Mrs. Lil- TnE MONITOK lian Waters, Henry Paine and George McAllister, all of Omaha, are visiting Atchison. Rev. Mr. Cartwaite of Parsons, Kas., has accepted a call as pastor of the Ebenezar Baptist Church, . Mrs. Anna Belle Murphy of Chicago is visiting her mother, Mrs, Mary Gruehart. Mrs. Emma Johnson died last Mon- day after a long illness. She was a member of many lodges and at her re- quest Rev. W. H. Hill, formerly pastor of Ebenezar Church, came 600 miles to preach her funeral sermon, Mrs. Winnie Moore was found dead in bed last Wednesday, ‘She was a member of the S. M. T. Lodge, which took charge of her funeral. Charles Ferguson, of Port William, is doin iifeely after an operation, James Jackson returned from To- peka Sunday where he had been vis- iting his daughter, who is ill. She is improving. Mrs. J. D. Colbert went to K. C. Sunday to visit friends. The former Atchison girls, Misses Evander Hoy, Armeta Brown, Irene Johnson und Hattie Jones spent X- mas with relatives. A LITTLE TOWN IN SENEGAL By Will Thompson I hear the music throbbing down the lanes of Afric rain: ‘The Afric spring is ‘breaking, down in Senegal again. © little town in Senegal, amid the clustered gums, Where are your sturdy village lads, who one time danced to drums? At Soissons, by a fountain wall, they sang their melodies; ‘And some now lie in Flemish fields, beside the northern seas; And some tonight are camped and still along the Marne and Aisne; And some are dreaming of the palms that bend in Afric rain, The music of the barracks half awakes them from their dream; They smile and sink back sleepily along the Flemish stream, They dream the baobab's white buds have opened overnight; They dream they see the solemn cranes that bask in morning light. T hear the great drums beating in the square across the plain. Where are the tillers of the soil, the gallants’ loyal train? © little town in Senegal, amid the white bud trees, At Soissons, in Picardy, went north the last of these! LAURELS FOR 325TH FIELD SIGNAL BATTALION (Continued from Pase 1) Heroic Work of First Platoon. “In writing the “finis” to this brief mention of this important army unit made up of young Colored men, it is fitting that I tell of the particular work done by the boys of the First Platoon on the first day of the Hetz battle, Shortly after the barrage was lifted the big guns of the enemy be- gan shelling Pont-a-Mousson, ‘The first shells, as I vividly recall, hit on the edge of the city, and then grad- ually they began peppering the Signal Battalion’s station. Sergeant Rufus B. Atwood of the First Platoon was seated in the cellar near the switch- board; Private Edgar White was op- erating the switchboard, and Private Clark the buzzerphone, Sevaral offi- cers and men were standing in the “dugout” cellar. Suddenly a German shell struck the top, passed through the ceiling and wall, and exploded, making havoe of the cellar. 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He found, on tying it, the buzzerphone out, Private White then received orders to stay on the switchboard, and Corporal Adol- phus Johnson on the buzzerphone. The 12 drop monocord board was nailed up by White, and-then began the con- necting up of the lines from the out- side to the monocord board. All this time the shelling around this point by the Germans was fierce and deadly— shells hitting all around the boys; struck a nearby ammunition dump, causing the explosion of thousands of rounds of ammunition, which caused a terrific shock and all lights to be ex- tinguished. But still these men worked on, and would not leave this danger- ‘ous post, a veritable target for the enemy's big guns, until the Lieuten- ant of the Military Police arrived and ordered them out. 5 What these boys of the 825th Signal Battalion have not learned respecting radio, telephonic and telegraphic work is of little advantage to any one. 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