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GROWING. THANK YOU! $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy National Conference to Suppress Lynching The Persistent Agitation by the Race Press and the Insistent and Unceasing Work of the N. A. A. C. P. Arouses Conscience of Country. IMPERATIVE NEED FOR ACTION Leaders of Thought From All Sections of Country Unite in Issuing Call for Convention to Arouse Sentiment Against Barbarism Which Disgraces Country. NEW YORK, April 23.—From the headquarters of the committee in charge, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, announcement is made of the call for a national conference on lynching "to take concerted action against lynching and lawlessness wherever found." to be held in New York City, May 5 and 6, by a group of 120 leading men and women of the country. The call for the conference, which is being sent out extensively, is widely representative of the country, twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia being represented by signers. Twenty signers are from eight southern states. Among the signers are Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, former Attorney Generals Charles J. Bonaparte and Judson Harmon; five governors: Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia, D. W. Davis of Idaho, James P. Goodrich of Indiana, Henry J. Allen of Kansas, Emerson C. Harrington of Maryland; four ex-governors, Emmet O'Neal of Alabama, Simeon E. Baldwin of Connecticut, Edward F. Dunne of Illinois; L. F. C. Garvin of Rhode Island, Elijah Root, Charles Evans Hughes, Cardinal Gibbons, Senators Arthur Capper of Kansas and J. Medill McCormick of Illinois; Representatives L. C. Dyer of Missouri and Martin B. Madden of Illinois; former minister to the Netherlands, Henry Van Dyke; prominent judges of the higher courts, including Chief Justice John Bradley Winslow of the Wisconsin state supreme court; Justice Orrin N. Carter of the supreme court of Illinois; Judge Julian W. Mack; nine university presidents, George T. Page, president of the Association of the Bar of the city of New York, and Anna Howard Shaw. The southern signers are ex-Governor Emmet O'Neal of Alabama, Governor Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia, ex-Congressman William H. Fleming, Rev. John D. Hammond, Mrs. John D. Hammond, Rt. Rev. Frederick F. Reeze, Episcopal bishop of Georgia; Desha Breckinridge of the Lexington Herald, Lexington, Ky.; Quincy Ewing of Louisiana; A. T. Stovall, J. R. Bingham, J. B. Hutton, Jack C. Wilson of Mississippi; W. D. Weatherford of North Carolina; Bishop Thomas F. Gaylor, James H. Kirkland, Fayette A. McKenzie, Bolton Smith of Tennessee; James H. Dillard, William H. Huntley, Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia. In announcing the call, the committee representing the signers, of which Moorfield Storey of Boston is chairman and John R. Shillady of New York, secretary, says that 3,216 lynchings, exclusive of the East St. Louis and other mob riots, have occurred in the United States in the last thirty years, 702 of which have been lynchings of white people and 2,514 lynchings of Negroes; that 63 Negroes and 4 white persons were lynched in 1918; that some of the recent lynchings have been particularly atrocious, involving burning at the stake and torture of the victims. The opening session of the conference will be held at Carnegie hall on the evening of May 5. Morning and afternoon sessions will be held May 6 at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the closing session at the meeting house of the Society for Ethical Culture on the evening of May 6. The call is as follows: The prevalence in many states of the spirit which tolerates lynching, accompanied too often with inhuman cruelty, and the inability or unwillingness of the public authorities to punish the persons who are guilty of this crime, threaten very seriously the future peace of the nation. Not only is lynching a denial of the right secured by law to every man of a fair trial before an established court in case he is charged with crime, not only does it brutalize the communities which suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in the young people who see barbarities unpunished and uncondemned, not only does it terrorize important bodies of (Continued on Page 2) THE MONITOR THE HIGH SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Liberia---The Land of Promise American Negroes. TAKE down your geography and turn to the map of Africa. Along the western coast and about four degrees north of the equator, you will find a country by the name of Liberia. Of course you all have heard of it before, but to all of us it is but a dim recollection. We have a hazy remembrance that the United States had something to do with it, that years ago many of our people went there and that time and time again we have read that Liberia was a failure. There is a saying as old as man that every question has two sides and that there is a modicum of truth upon each. It is easy for the world to say that Liberia is a failure, but the world does not always know. To one who has studied Liberia there comes the conviction that she has been far from a failure. Few men, indeed, are acquainted with the factors that have worked against that little black republic from the day of its founding, but when these factors are known we are apt to wonder if, after all, Liberia has not been a success, and that this very success is evident in her continued existence and triumph over difficulties that have swept away nations far stronger. Let us with brief words explain the cause of all Liberia's trouble. To the north of Liberia is Sierra Leone, a British possession, while almost surrounding her is a part of the French African Empire, an empire larger than Europe itself. The British and French are there because Africa is rich beyond the world's imagination. Liberia is rich, too, wonderfully rich, and Britain and France know it. They want Liberia and have wanted it for a long time, and had they only the weak Liberians to contend with they would have had it. But the United States has been Liberia's protector and because of American protection these greedy nations have hesitated from exploiting the country and taking it for themselves. OMAHA'S BEAUTIFUL SCHOOLS But even in the face of the nominal protection of the United States, Liberia has suffered many aggressions. By a treaty of 1892 she lost to France sixty miles of coast line and extensive territories in the interior, and by the treaty of 1907, 2,000 square miles of territory. In 1885, by a treaty with Britain, she lost considerable coast line to the north. Two loans of very small amount by British capital almost led to Liberia's undoing and there have been other and various schemes attempted whereby this little country would fall to Britain and France. Is there any wonder, then, that Liberians dislike the English and French? The story of England's African empire and the story of France's African empire are as bloody a tale as German's ever was and Liberia knows it. That is why little Liberia is holding out her arms to the United States and to the American Negro for help, and these are the reasons why the United States and the American Negro should give help. Liberia is America's child. In 1847 Liberia was founded by the United States to the end of making a home for such of her black citizens who wished to return to the land of their birth. The plan was originally advocated by Thomas Jefferson and although the plan grew into disfavor, the really thinking Negro of today knows that some sort of colonization must some day become the means of solving the so-called Negro problem in the United States. Of course there are millions of Negroes who would not go and, too, there are millions of Negroes who should never be asked to go. Liberia needs farmers, laborers, and business men, and those farmers, laborers and business men who will go to Liberia, shall find fortunes awaiting them there. This is no idle dream, no fantastic reverie. The day will come when race men of vision shall arise and turn the eyes of the American Negro to Liberia. We are asleep now. But others are not. France has offered to build a railroad into interior Liberia to tap its OMAHA, NEBRASKA, APRIL 26, 1919 irexhaustible wealth, but Liberia says no. Why? First, because she knows it will mean her ruin; secondly, because she is longing, hoping and praying that the American Negro will awaken to the opportunity and come back to the land of his fathers and partake of the wealth that she has been fighting to hold for him these many years. And so some day when the call shall come; some day when Liberia is ready to welcome and handle the immigrants; some day when ships become burdened with black folks going back to the land of their fathers; do not laugh and sneer. They will be going back to real freedom, real hope, real opportunity. You may stay here if you will; it is your privilege. But over there those who went will be singing amid the cotton blossoms, the rubber forests and among the palms. They will be singing as they bring their wealth to the market place, singing as they pile it aboard the winged vessels, and singing as the world drops its gold into their palms. They will have dreamed a dream and shall live to see their dream come true. Liberia is only waiting for us to awake. CLEVELAND ORGANIZES ADVANCEMENT LEAGUE Advocates Enforcement of Law, Home Ownership, Business Co-operation and Efficient and Progressive Citizenship. By the Associated Negro Press.) Cleveland, Tenn., April 23.—The Colored people of Cleveland have organized a league of the advancement of the Negro race, and it is hoped much benefit will result. C. V. Hardwick, is president; Dr. E. T. Stevens, secretary. The object of the league is: The enforcement of law, the juvenile law included; better schools and churches, the buying and owning of property, more business in the race, better streets in the Negro section; better light, water and sewerage conditions, and to discourage loafing. “Certainly,” said one of the officers, “this kind of an organization could work with equal force in any community in America where our people reside, for in all cities in these respects we have many needs and requirements.” Vol. IV. No. 43 (Whole No. 198) MEMBERS en Take For Read, treatment of All Industry --- WASHINGTON Y. M. C. A. ADDS 1,055 MEMBERS A Great Campaign—Women Take Active Part. WASHINGTON, D. C.—In a drive which had as its goal 500 members in five days, the Washington Y. M. C. A. added 1,055 members to the roll. The enthusiasm throughout the campaign and especially the last night was the greatest ever known in the history of the Twelfth Street branch. On the last day of the drive men from all ranks left off their daily work and went from house to house securing members for the Y. M. C. A. The organization of the campaign was largely in the hands of R. P. Hamlin, international secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Dr. J. Hayden Johnson was general chairman with D. O. W. Holmes and Dr. R. T. Nelson as division leaders. There were 18 teams. The work of the teams cannot be too high commended. Several features of the campaign deserve special mention. The most striking of all is that more members, 676 were secured the last day than during the first four days. Another fact of interest is that women for the first time in the history of the branch took conspicuous part in the drive. Mrs. R. O. Robinson was captain of the team that secured 276 members, the largest number reported by any team. Mrs. Robinson reported in the midst of deafening applause 211 members on the last night of the drive. Too much credit cannot be given to the enterprising young men who did some of the best work of the drive. The team of which Mr. Edgar Westmoreland was captain distinguished itself by its work in the high schools and by its great spirit. The Soldiers and Sailors team under P. A. Tolson as captain secured 115 members. Splendid addresses during the campaign were made by Dr. Jackson of Wilberforce university; John W. Lewis, president Industrial Savings bank; Dr. J. E. Moreland, Clifford Johnson, associate general secretary of the Washington association; Prof. John R. Hawkins, financial secretary of the A. M. E. church; Dr. C. G. Woodson, editor Journal of Negro history. Dr. John W. Davis, secretary of the Twelfth Street Branch Y. M. C. A., was called upon to make the closing address of the campaign. In a most virile address Secretary Davis reviewed the progress of the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A., showing the various ways that the association has served the community, the large number it has reached and the much more extensive fields which the association must invade and conquer. BUNDY JUROR INSANE Suffering From Malady of Long Standing—Is Sent to Asylum—Attorneys for Defense Ask for New Trial on Ground That He Was Insane at Time of Verdict. St. Louis, Mo.—Daniel Davis, a farmer living in Prairie de Long, Illinois, one of the jurors who convicted and sentenced Dr. Leroy N. Bundy to life imprisonment at Waterloo, March 28, was declared insane, April 7 and ordered committed to the asylum at Anna, Ill. Attorneys for the defense in their motion for a new trial, filed Wednesday, among other grounds set up the insanity of Juror Davis as reason for a new trial; basing their contention upon the fact that he was insane at the time he was a member of the jury that convicted Dr. Bundy. Their contention seems to be borne out by the facts developed by the commission at the time Davis was examined, in that it was found he was suffering with an insanity of a progressive character, and that diseases of this kind developed slowly and extend over a long period of time and are not the result of excitement or shock. The motion for a new trial is being argued in Waterloo today (Friday.) After the same is passed on the attorneys for Dr. Bundy will ask that bail be fixed, but in the meantime Dr. Bundy remains in jail. SOUTH CAROLINA ERECTS TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUM Columbia, S. C., April 23.—The state of South Carolina has appropriated $10,000 for the purpose of erecting a tuberculosis sanitarium on state grounds, for Negroes of the state. To this amount the Negroes are expected to add $6,000. LIFTING. LIFT, TOO! President Wilson to Issue Call, Upon His Return From Europe, for Representative Industrial Conference. NEGRO LABOR LARGE FACTOR Personnel of Conference to Be Complete Must of Necessity Include Representatives of Race Now Recognized as Important Asset in Industrial World. (By the Associated Negro Press.) CHICAGO, April 23.—That there is a determination to really "Get Somewhere" in the new conditions arising out of the results of the "world war," is strongly evident from the discussion relative to the big industrial parley to be held in Chicago or New York, on return of President Wilson. It is stated by leaders of thought here that there must be no "parley" of the magnitude suggested without representatives of the Negro group being present and taking an active part in the deliberations. The information was sent out from Washington during the week that President Wilson upon his return to this country, will issue a call for an industrial conference, the purpose of which will be to enable, capital, labor and the government to join hands in an amicable program for readjusting industry. It is to be held late in May, or early in June if possible. The president has already received the suggestion in a report from Washington and is understood to favor it. The report suggests a clarification of the industrial situation by the two following moves on the part of the chief executive: 1. A calling for an industrial conference, or parliament, to devise a constructive program to meet the peace needs of the country's business life. 2. The reaffirmation of the authority of the war labor board as a cooperative tribunal of justice, during the transitory period, or until the industrial conference conclusions are put into effect. It is pointed out that the personnel of no such conference would be complete without the presence of representative Negroes. During the last three years the Negroes of the country have been a most important asset to the industrial world. While there is a temporary scarcity of work in some quarters in the north, where more than 500,000 Negroes have migrated, there is a demand for labor in the south. While southerners are making all sorts of inducements to start a flow of migration back south, not two per cent of those who have come north have returned, or have the inclination to do so. The American Federation of Labor is seeking to organize the Negro in all avenues of employment both north and south, and while some look on the motives with suspicion, others are accepting the plan as the greatest opportunity for industrial justice. That the American Negro will never again be reduced to the limited lines of employment in which he was held prior to the was, is being attested by both whites and race leaders everywhere. One leading business man remarked with reference to the proposed conference: "If we are not officially invited, hundreds of us will be there anyhow to find out the reason why." BAP TISTS FORM $10,000 CORPORATION TO OPERATE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER (By Associated Negro Press.) Columbia, S. C., April 23.—The executive board of the Baptist state convention of South Carolian, representing a membership of 260,000, in a recent meeting formed a $10,000 corporation to operate a weekly newspaper in the interest of the church work. The state Baptists will, also, raise $50,000 for education. COLORED PEOPLE OWN MUCH PROPERTY IN PHOENIX Phoenix, Ariz., April 23.—There are 1,700 Colored people in Phoenix, who own property valued at $700,000; they are represented in all the professions except law, and in all the trades. Ninety per cent of the Colored people own their own homes. There are four churches and the Tribune is the local race, newspaper. --- RECEPTION AND Welcome Home For Our Soldiers BY CRISPUS ATTUCKS RED CROSS AUXILIARY AT DREAMLAND HALL 18th and HARNEY May 2nd ADDRESSES BY:—The Hon. Ed. P. Smith Mayor; The Rev. John Albert Williams; Ailey W. Lewis; Lieut. H. J. Pinkett; Lieut. Amos P. Madison All Soldiers in Uniform Admitted Free. For Others Admission 50c DESDUNES ORCHESTRA TILL 1 A. M. LOUISIANA PROVIDES BETTER SCHOOL FACILITIES New School Buildings to Be Erected for Colored Children and 1,000 More Teachers to Be Employed. (By the Associated Negro Press.) New Orleans, La., April 23.—There will be more Colored school buildings in the state and a larger staff of more efficient teachers when the September term opens, according to reports from T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education, Prof. Leo M. Favrot and Prof. John R. Coniff, all white. To meet the demands new buildings are to be erected and an additional teaching force of 1,000 teachers is to be supplied. The state department of education with the co-operation of the general education board and the parish schools will operate 35 training schools for Negro teachers, beginning the early part of June and running twelve weeks. An urgent appeal is being made to young people of eighteen years of age and over who are adapted to the profession of teaching to enter these schools and train. The teachers already in the profession and the leaders of the race are encouraging prospective teachers to qualify for this program. These schools will be located in each strategic point of the state. The slogan of Negro education for the coming session is 1,000 additional teachers; longer terms, increased salaries and more adequate school buildings. ANOTHER VIRGINIA BANK (By Associated Negro Press.) Suffolk, Va., April 23.—The Phoenix Bank, Va. of Nasemond, a new race bank, has thrown open its doors for business. The officers are: Dr. W. T. Fuller, president; J. W. Richardson, vice president; Rev. J. A. Harrell, vice president; J. W. Holland, secretary. DISTINGUISHED LIBERIAN WILL BE HERE SOON The Rev. N. H. B. Cassell, Ph.D., president of Liberia college, will be in Omaha May 4 to 9. Every opportunity possible will be given the citizens generally to hear and meet this distinguished Liberian. He will speak at Trinity cathedral Sunday morning, May 4; at the N. A. A. C. P. forum Sunday afternoon, and at St. Philip's church Sunday night. He will also speak in other of our churches, both in Omaha and on the South Side, during the week, besides filling other engagements which are being arranged for him. ONE THOUSAND MEMBERS WANTED FOR THE N. A. A. C. P. Now is the time for us to GET TOGETHER Let your DOLLAR do its duty towards getting for you and your children the things that God intended you to have. This is the only organization working persistently and consistently to Abolish Lynching, Discrimination and Jim Crowism in Political and Civil Life. A CAMPAIGN IS ON JOIN NOW. Isn't $1.00 a year little enough to see Justice Done? NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT OF COL-ORED PEOPLE. Omaha, Neb. Branch. Among the Churches ST. PHILIP'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Rev. John Albert Williams, Pastor. Good Friday and Easter services were well attended. The church was simply but beautifully decorated for Easter day. Large congregations were present at 6:30 and 11 a.m. The music at 11, simple and devotional, was rendered by the choir, augmented by the organ and three violins played by Dan Desdunes, Worthington Williams and Albin Simmons. At 5 o'clock vespers were said, followed by a program given by the children under the direction of Mrs. Edward Howard in the guild rooms. With few exceptions the entire membership was present at one of the services, and nearly every communicant received the Holy Communion. The Easter offering was a little under $200. Additional offerings from absentees will doubtless bring it above this figure. Monday afternoon the Woman's auxiliary gave a musical tea at the residence of Mrs. James G. Jewell. A delightful and artistic program was enjoyed by a good attendance. ALLEN CHAPEL, SOUTH SIDE Rev. J. A. Broadnax, Pastor. Sunday was a very high day in Allen Chapel, A. M. E. church, with a delightful service at 11 a. m. Sunday school was very good. Easter program at 8 p. m. was a great treat to all. The church was crowded. Collection for the day was $40.20. The superintendent and Mrs. J. Thornton and teachers are doing real work for all who will attend. Sunday, Communion at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. At 3 o'clock the pastor and members will be in Council Bluffs to attend quarterly meeting. Everybody is cordially invited to all of the next week's services at Allen Chapel, 5233 South Twenty-fifth street, beginning Monday night and ending Sunday night, May 4. This will be the $1,000 rally. The Aid society of Allen chapel was delightfully entertained by Mrs. Chas Blue. Those that joined were Mrs Archie Jones and Mrs. Pauline Allen The next meeting will be Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with Mrs. Daniels, 2014 Paul street. Mrs. E. Clark president; Mrs. F. Redd, secretary. MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH Rey, M. H. Wilkinson, Pastor. The Mount Moriah Baptist church has severed connection with the Pilgrim Rest Baptist church, and the $500 has been returned from the Calvary Baptist church to Mount Moriah. We intend to march on, and you shall hear from us later. Come to our revival. We are having good times. Our Sunday school had its Easter rally Sunday. They planned to raise $100 and made it $182. All auxiliaries are called on for the next two weeks to help battle against sin. The sick are as follows: Miss Rosie Smith, at University hospital; Mrs. Annie A. Mitchell, St. Joseph's; former Deacon Wells, 2660 Cuming street; Mr. G. Smith, 927 North Twenty-sixth street; Mrs. C. Bailey, 2304 North Twenty-ninth street. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Services in keeping with the day held sway at Zion last Sunday. At 6 a. m., after the sermon on the Resurrection, several candidates put (ATTENTION) THE MONITOR on Christ by baptism. At 11 o'clock Dr. Lewis of Kansas City, Mo., delivered a most soul-stirring sermon. In the afternoon the beautiful story of Easter was brought out in song and verse by the Sunday school children, and in the evening by the B. Y. P. U. At 7:30, after a song service by the choir, came the pastor's ninth anniversary celebration. The sermon was preached by Dr. Lewis and sketches of the pastor's work, spiritual, financial and numerical, were given, each one depicting the high esteem in which he is held by those among whom he labors. Capacity houses were in attendance at all services. Every one is getting in line for the big rally. Don't forget the date, May 18th. The Mission Circle will give a musical April 29, presenting some of Omaha's best talent. The public is invited. Watch for further announcements concerning other auxiliaries. Regular services next Lord's day. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. W. C. Williams, Pastor. On Easter Sunday morning an overwhelming audience filled the beautiful floral decorated auditorium. Previous to preaching in the morning Mr. Perkins played a trombone solo, accompanied by Mr. Lawrence Parker, followed by a well delivered sermon by the pastor. The 8 o'clock service was devoted to a much appreciated sacred concert. On Sunday afternoon the Sunday school rendered their annual Easter program. The cantata, "Cross and the Crown," presented on Good Friday evening by the choir, was a musical treat. The choir was accompanied by a fourteen-piece orchestra, under the direction of Prof. Desdune. Following this year an Easter cantata on Good Friday night at St. John's will be an annual event. The death of Mrs. Pearl McDaniels was very sad news to all who knew her. She was a very conscientious and willing worker in the church and Sunday school. She was also a member of the Ladies' Aid society and the Helpers' club. The members of the church and Sunday school extend their most heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved husband, mother and other relatives. There were thirty-four persons taken into the church Sunday. The collection for the week was $350.07; for the day, $143.10; Sunday school, $70. The sick members of the church are Messrs. Charles Garrett, George Watson and Miss Ray L. Middleton. PLEASANT GREEN BAPTIST Rev. John Costello. Thirty persons were admitted to baptism last Sunday. The services took place at Carter lake and more than three hundred persons witnessed the ceremony. The minister preached to crowded congregations both morning and evening, and the day's collection totalled $74. Dorothy Virginia, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Gregory, was baptized Saturday afternoon, Easter even, at St. Philip's Episcopal church. The sponsors were Mr. Gregory and Mesdames Jasper E. Brown and F. J. Smith. It being Dorothy's birthday a pleasant party for several small children was given at the Gregory residence. (Continued From Page One.) NATIONAL CONFERENCE our citizens, but it inevitably leads the people whose rights are thus trampled upon to leave the regions where their lives, their families and their property are in danger, and move to others where they can find peace and protection, thus disturbing the labor situation all over the country. It also blots our fair name as a nation, for we cannot claim to be civilized until our laws are respected and enforced and our citizens secured against the hideous cruelties of which we are constantly furnishing fresh examples. It is time that we should wake to the need of action, and that public opinion, irresistible when aroused, opinion, irresistible when aroused, should be enlisted against this barbarism in our midst. To this end we invite our fellow-citizens to attend or send delegates to a convention which will be held in New York City, on fifth and sixth of May, nineteen hundred and nineteen, in order to take concerted action against lynching and lawlessness wherever found, and to consider whatever measures should be adopted to abate them. It is hoped that the whole country will be represented and that the action taken may be backed by a powerful public opinion of law-abiding men and women. THE OPPRESSED RACE AT HOME The petition of the International Uplift league, an organization whose members are Negroes, addressed to President Wilson, says: "The United States government cannot command abroad the full respect it deserves if it continues to stand aloof silently, under pretence of state rights, and allows its citizens to be saturated with kerosene oil and burnt to death, butchered, tortured and lynched by brutal mobs without reproving and calling the state to account for violating the fifteenth constitutional amendment, which says: 'No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.'" While this petition was on its way to the president a company of black soldiers was returning to the Union League club of New York the colors which the men of the 367th infantry ten days less than a year before pledged themselves to "bear bravely and ultimately to restore" to the club. The deeds of this regiment in fulfillmen of its pledge are now a part of the nation's war history. Recapitulating these deeds, Judge Charles E. Hughes, in accepting the returned colors for the club, said: "These colors come to us as a memorial of the loyalty, bravery, sacrifice and splendid patriotism of the men of the Colored race. They have come forward in this battle side by side with their white brethren, and that devotion to our country can never be forgotten. This is not only a memorial, as I have said, but it is a pledge—a pledge which we make to you as our Colored brethren, and we shall not forget the service which you have performed." While Judge Hughes was paying this tribute to the Negro soldiers a Florida mob was burning a member of the race at the stake. It is only the enduring optimism and hope of the Negro race that permits it to keep warm its faith in the fulfillmen of such pledges as that to which the returned men of the 365th listened.—New York Tribune. The Rev. Mr. Deas and family, the new pastor of Grove Methodist Episcopal church, are now residing at Twenty-fifth and Patrick avenue. Walter Daniels, who died from pneumonia following his recovery from smallpox, was buried at Mount Hope cemetery, April 14. The Rev. John Albert Williams officiated. Mr. Daniels was a brother-in-law of W. M. Ransom and is survived by a widow and other relatives. The N. A. A. C. P. forum will meet Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Grove M E. church. Everybody come out. Are you a member of the N. A. A. C. P.? If not, why not? Mrs. Anna Bragg, collector for The Monitor, is on the sick list. Miss Madree Penn is taking her place temporarily. Don't make Miss Penn ill, too. Pay up. George A. Love is serving on the jury. Bennie Hay, who died April 10 at the county hospital, was buried April 18 from the Silas Johnson Western Funeral Home. Interment was at Mount Hope. The Monitor is always pleased to publish local news, if it is sent in on time. 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ADOLPH KLAR 221-4TH AVENUE NEW YORK HOLD-TIGHT"VEIL WITH ELASTIC 104 EACH COLLARS CRUSADER for Negro Magazine. everywhere. You must have it. One Dollar a Year. CRUSADER New York City Creighton Block. SOFT Subscribe with every dollar you can spare and all you can save in the months to come, that you may play your part in that divine drama of so many thousand homes-mother and son-wrapped in each other's arms. The Following Omaha Negro Business and Professional Men: THE AFRO-AMERICAN REALTY CO. S. T. ASHLEY, The West Cafe. WILLIAMSON DRUG COMPANY. JONES & REED, Undertakers. SILAS JOHNSON, Western Funeral Home. J. H. HOLMES, Tailor. WARE CANDY KITCHEN. THE MONITOR ```markdown ``` Your until Y in His From coast to coast of this great country, patient, anxious, eager women now sit beside their windows watching, waiting dollar you can you may play mother and Liberty you can spare and al may play your part in ther and son—wrapped berty Loan Com Victory Liberty Loan Committee This space contributed by ha Negro ha Negro Business a BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HOTEL. EUGENE THOMAS, Shining Parlor. FRANK DOUGLAS, Shine Parlor and News Stand. LEROY BROOMFIELD, Monarch Pool and Billiard Parlor. BERNARD THOMAS, Barber Shop, Pool and Soft Drinks. LEVI BROOMFIELD, Pool and Billiards. J. H. RUSSELL & CO., Undertakers. --- You know your obligation to the men who rest under the bloodstained soil, and you know your duty to those who now stand guard on the Rhine. Can you think of the one, or dare to look the other in the face, if you falter in your full duty in the Victory Liberty Loan. 3 DR. L. E. BRITT, Physician and Surgeon. DR. P. W. SAWYER, Dentist. DAVIS & M'CLURE, Real Estate. C. M. SIMMONS, Economy Tailor. D. G. RUSSELL, Proprietor of the Dee Gee Apts. A. CHISLEY & CO., Barber. DAN DESDUNES, Band Leader. THE MONITOR THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Editors. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor and 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, 304 Crouse Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Webster 4243. FOR anything worth having, one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.John Burrows. 4 WE are very confident that our people will do their full share in subscribing to the Victory loan. Were there need for it, our people who are one hundred per cent loyal Americans, would readily give their money to our government to pay the expenses of the war. The government is not, however, asking us to give our money, but to LEND it. For every dollar we loan to the government we will receive interest. The money is needed, badly needed, to pay debts incurred by the war, to bring the boys back home and to reeducate and fit the men who were maimed, wounded or blinded to earn their own living. This is what the government is asking you to loan your money for. Who will refuse the request? AMALGAMATION THE Colored press of the country announces that Braithwaite, the eminent Colored poet and critic, has come out in favor of amalgamation as a solution for the race problem. We haven't seen his argument yet, but we have been acquainted with this so-called solution for many years. The greatest thing it has against it is that it won't work and the next greatest factor is that intelligent men and women of the race don't want it to work. As a primary principle we concede that it is every man and woman's right to marry whomever he or she pleases. It is the individual's happiness that is at stake and if the individual finds that he or she really loves a man or woman of another race and that this love is reciprocated, it is the right of no man or nation to deny them the privilege of marriage. But when it comes to advocating amalgamation for twelve millions of people, the idea is foolish and the solution neither pleasing nor desirable. The African race is the greatest race that God has ever made and its future depends, not upon it obliteration, but upon its continuation. The man who suggests that his race be absorbed by another cannot surely love his race. He must be ashamed of it. We venture the statement that the greatest fault of the race today is that the majority are ashamed of their color and their hair, and until this majority ceases to be ashamed, the race has little chance. Let us remain the children of Africa and in the days to come we will be glad that we have so remained. LYNCHING DOOMED FOR many years the Negro press practically alone, with only here and there an ally from the powerful white press of the country, has made a persistent fight against lynching, a grusome, but apparently favorite sport largely localized in one section of the United States. The victims were almost exclusively confined to members of the Negro race. The country at large was strangely silent and indifferent. It seemed almost impossible to arouse the conscience of the American people. But at last the agitation bore fruit. An association of the foremost minds of the country was formed. This association took up the fight. Not only did the northern press take cognizance of the evil, but the leading southern newspapers have joined in the crusade. A convention has been called to meet in New York next month to take steps to roll away this reproach. The call has been signed by the foremost men and women of the country, of both races, from all sections. When men and women of the character and influence of the signers of this call determine to accomplish anything it can be done. We confidently expect practical and far-reaching results from the proposed conference on the suppression of lynching. When the American people realize the enormity of the crime of mob-murder or lynching and determine that it shall cease, it will cease. We believe that day is not far distant and that lynching is doomed. NOT only in Washington, but the race throughout the country is shocked to know that so many girls and women of the charmed social circle have laid aside feminine modesty and posed nude before a fake scientist for no other purpose than to advertise themselves as possessors of perfect figures. It was terrible enough for them to have been the victims of the degenerate Moens, but for race women to have acted as procureesses, is little short of total depravity. In the train of the scandal, however, there is one bitter conclusion that forces itself upon our minds and becomes all the more bitter because it is true. Immorality largely honeycombs our race and many of our women, taking the country as a whole, are too susceptible to the advances of immoral white men. It is not an easy thing to admit and it is still less easy for our women to accept the truth, yet it is so. Not only in the south, but in the north as well, this class of white men have their way with many of our women and these women seem to glory in it. What is still more to be regretted, the so-called society element in every city is the most dqmoralized. The middle and lower classes possess less wealth and less advantages, but at the same time they have a stronger hold upon the basic principles of morality than the gilded butterflies who flit by day and sneak by night. Washington is exceptional only because she has been fond out. Other places are just as bad, but their secrets are still dark. One thing we really need everywhere is a campaign for morality and the sooner it is started, the better LINCOLN'S NEW PAPER THERE has just come to The Monitor office a copy the Colored People's Advocate, a new paper started by our people in Lincoln. It is a small paper, but worthy and we are happy to extend the hand of fellowship to our new contemporary. We have said that it is a small paper and in comparing it to the first copy of The Monitor, we find that both are of the same size. The ocean of journalism is not a summer sea, but with energy and determination, both of which we feel the Lincoln editors possess, we feel that the Colored People's Advocate has a bright future. It has started right and anything started right and kept right is bound to succeed. THE HOMESTEADER The Homesteader has been to Omaha and we are glad of it. Of the several race pictures which have come to Omaha, none of them can compare with the film play produced by Mr. Micheaux. We do not say this merely as a matter of praise, but because it is deserved. The film told a real story and told it with vivid and intense interest. The people who took part in the play were really actors and not mere amateurs. The Homesteader is the first release made by the Micheaux Film company and judging from this first effort we may predict safely that they will always stand, as they stand now, the foremost producers of picture plays in the race. In speaking of The Homesteader, one should not forget that the film upon the screen represents the energy and determination of one man. None knows the difficulties which hamper race men from entering the motion picture world except those who would enter and have entered, yet Mr. Micheaux not only has entered and is carrying it through to success, but he himself wrote the book, formed the businesses company, filmed the picture, and is now busy presenting it to the public. We congratulate him upon his work and say that it is a most creditable thing throughout. Omaha is glad to have been able to see The Homesteader and it expressed its appreciation of the opportunity by crowding the house throughout the entire engagement. THE MONITOR UNDERWRITE VICTORY LOAN ADVERTISEMENT IT gives us great pleasure to call attention to the full page Victory loan advertisement which has been paid for by some of our public-spirited business and professional men. It shows a most commendable spirit, and a willingness upon the part of our people to do their full share towards meeting every reasonable request. The Monitor publicly thanks you, gentlemen, for underwriting this advertisement. There is a bad habit upon the part of many of our people that should be corrected and that is boisterous and loud talking on the streets and in public places. Of course refined people do not do this; and we want all of our people to become refined. Some seem to take delight in letting the general public know all their business, by telling it loudly on the streets and in other places. This shows very bad taste and much unwisdom. THE world has had a few lady kultur spreaders, but those few went big and left their initials on the pocket handkerchief of history. One of the first was Semi of Assyria, wife of Menones, who held down a job as general for Ninus, boss of Assyria. Friend later sent hubby to capture a strategic burg and just as he was about to fluke, Semi pots the pie. Ninus heard of it and, pinning an iron cross to a formal invitation, asked Semi to a lobster layout. She came all dolled up a la Gertrude Hoffman style and Ninus fell head first in love. He sent Nenones a divorce by wireless and the boob murdered himself. Ninus now married Semi and when she chugged him under the chin, he forgot himself and sugared, "Anything in the world for you, bright eyes!" "Let me be the big boss for a day?" cooled Semi. "You're on," quoth Ninus and the first thing she did was to have him planted with his dead and dumb ancestors. Semis now the whole show and when the idea blossomed in her bean that she was some shallah, she began spreading all sorts of culture on the surrounding countries with telling effect. Finally she decided to conquer India and this was the decision that wrecked her happiness and complexion. In those days the Indians fought with elephants and these animals were as troublesome as submarines. The species didn't grow in Assyria, so Semi bought a lot of black cambric and sateen and made elephants of her own. The hosts met in deadly conflict, as Kid Carter says, and just as Semi was going strong, the real elephants discovered the insult to their family honor. They flew into a rage and after everything was over they had the field of honor looking like a remnant counter on bargain day. Semi hotfooted it back to Assyria, but before she got inside the gates her son, Ninias, met her and had her embalmed for safe keeping. Here ended the tale of Semi, the Obvious Observations HOORAY for Japan! The champion of the dark races... It is said that the gag is off the peace conference, but at that price we don't seem to know a thing about what is going on over there. The period for the semi-annual bath is now here. Proceed. If folks would patronize Monitor advertisers and tell these advertisers that they saw their ads in The Monitor, it would mean a bigger paper than eight pages. Friend Ringer was a long time getting on the job, but from the way it looks he is trying to make up for lost time. When will all the boys get back from over there? Ask us something easy. Uncle Sam started enlisting a new army and he hung up the sign, "Only White Wanted;" but the white are coming up so darned slowly, that he has taken down the sign and is asking Sam what he thinks about it. Whenever the sun starts to shine, North 24th street looks like a Colored convention is in town. Us folks sure like the mighty orb. Is your subscription all paid up, friend? If not, pay us a call at 304 Crounse block. We won't hurt you. The League of Nations sounds all right, but what we want to know is if the machinery will work after the engine gets started? How long before a boat can come up the Missouri without getting stuck in the mud? All Europe has been talking about stopping the bolsheviki, but it doesn't appear that 'anybody has had any luck at it yet. Thanking you for your kind and generous yawns, we will now put on the soft pedal and go out and see if our lettuce and beans are sprouting. LOUD TALKING SKITS OF SOLOMON Semi of Assyria QUESTIONNAIRE ANSWERS WHICH WILL SOLVE PERPLEXING PROBLEMS OF THIS RECONSTRUCTION ERA. Query.—The government has launched an educational campaign to encourage building in order to put more men to work. Would not a similar movement to show how the old structures can be best and most economically repaired and made good as new also help? Answer.—It is learned that such a plan is in effect and is linked directly with the Washington propaganda. Industry must be turned back from works of war to the ways of peace. Employment must be found, in the meanwhile, for those whose occupation has been interrupted. There is no real surplus of labor in the United States. Rather there is a shortage, which would be acute if normal conditions were already restored, and one step towards restoring them will come with resumption of repair work. Government restrictions, imposed by the necessities of the war program, have for many months past retarded or altogether prevented construction, improvement and repairs. These restrictions are now off, and there is scarcely a town, a city, a factory, a dwelling or a farm that does not reveal a crying need for prompt attention. Nothing delays such instant action except the feeling that prices are high for the time being and may be lower. That is not logical. No matter what it costs to repair, the cost is less than the cost of neglect. No matter what the cost of paint, the wind and the weather will collect a higher bill in deterioration and decay. Query.—What do you think of paint as an investment, aside from the appearance it lends? Does it really PAY to paint a house regularly, say, every three or four years? Answer.—Good paint properly applied when needed is the main thing in making a house 'last long and well. A house worth $2,500 can be painted at a cost of about $125. In 60 years that house will need about 15 paintings, the total cost of which will be $1,895. Left without paint, such a house would fall into complete ruin in 30 years. So taking 60 years as a basis for our figures we find that with paint a home will last that time in good condition and will cost, plus paint, $4,375. Without paint the house would have to be rebuilt at the end of 30 years and would be ready for another complete renovation when the sixtieth year arrived. Cost, without paint, $5,000 for a home ready to fall to pieces. Does regular painting pay? As the old Dutch adage says: "PAINT PAYS FOR ITSELF." Query.—I have a quantity of old paint on hand. Can I use it for the first coat in repainting my barn? Answer.—On no account should old paint which has become fat be used for priming either old or new work. Old paint in that condition is best used on a fence, brickwork or tinwork. If you value your barn sufficiently to paint it, do it the justice of a good job. U. S. Invents Anti-Rust "Dope." Incident to the war, the government has faced the problem that has so long proved baffling to commercial concerns of protecting iron and steel from rust. In an attempt to solve this federal specialists have perfected various forms of protective coatings. In this connection it may be pertinent to ask whether commercial uses will not be found also for the so-called "dopes" which the government has invented to be applied to airplane wings and which are possessed of valuable weather-resisting and fireproof qualities. EFFECT OF COLOR UPON THE DURABILITY OF PAINT Property owners who may have under consideration the painting of dwellings and other structures should remember that more durable results are obtained when tinted paints are used. Permanent coloring materials which have been ground by machine into a high grade white paint base have the effect of preventing "chalking" and "checking," two defects which are often observed when white paints are used. PRETTY COLOR COMBINATIONS. Ground Coat Stipple Coat Stencil Color White Light Rose Medium, Light Gray Dull Blue, Gray-Green White Light Gray Gray-Green White Light Warm Yellow Light Cobalt Light Gray Same Gray, a little darker Light Cobalt Blue, Neutral Light Gray Light Blue Gray, Gray-Green or Light Cobalt Light Gray Green Gray, Blue or Light Orange Yellow Ivory Olive Green Neutral Drab Light Colonial Yellow Light Blue Ivory or Grayish Gold Bronze Dark Green Neutral Gray, Ivory Aluminum Bronze Blue Light Warm Drab, Medium Olive, Warm Gray, Cream. Ivory Tan Delft Blue, Light Ivory, Light Neutral Gray Ivory Dark Brown Brown, Burnt Umber, Cream Ivory Light Tan, Cream, Light Gray Drab The Beautiful Thing About the FORD CAR is its 100% simplicity of operation, 100% per cent economy, and 100% service. That's why we've adopted the slogan 100% Ford Service. We strive to maintain the Ford standard all the time, in all ways, in all departments. We sell Ford Motor Cars and Fordsom Farm Tractors. A Classified Directory of Omaha's Colored Professional and Business firms Expert Licensed Embalmers and Funeral Directors. Auto and Horse Drawn Vehicles. Lady. Attendant. Open Day and Night. NOTE 2—These are days of efficiency. Every dollar must do its utmost. It is no time to trifle with uncertainties. Jones-Reed service is certain and efficient at the lowest cost. DIXON'S SHOE SHINING PARLOR, 1821 North 24th St. All kinds of shoes cleaned and repaired. Carpets renovated. Candies and soft drinks. A Classified Dive Colored Pro Business ALLEN JONES Res. Phone Web. 204. JONES Funeral Parlors 2314 North 24th Street. Expert Licensed Embalmers and Drawn Vehicles. Lady Attendance. NOTE 2—These are days of the utmost. It is no time to trifle w is certain and efficient at the low DR. P. W. SAWYER Tel. Doug, 7150; Web, 3636 Doug, 20 South 13th St. Mmes. South & Johnson Scientific Scalp Specialists Sole Manufacturers of MAGIC HAIR GROWER AND MAGIC STRAIGHTENING OIL We teach the Art of Hair Dressing, Shampooing, Facial Massage, Manicuring, Scalp Treatment and the Making of Hair goods. Hair Grower, per box 50c. Straightening Oil, per box 35c For Appointment Call Web. 880. 2416 Blond St., Omaha, Neb. E. A. Williamson DRUGGIST Competent and Reliable 2306 North 24th St. Webster 4443. Mrs. A. HICKS Scalp Specialist SLAUGHTER SYSTEM Guaranteed to Grow Hair in Six Treatments or Money Refunded. Diplomas Granted. 2716 Miami Street. Webster 6426. Telephone Webster 248 Open Day and Night Silas Johnson Western Funeral Home 2518 Lake St. The Place for Quality and Service PRICES REASONABLE. Licensed Embalmer in Attendance Lady Attendant if Desired. MUSIC FURNISHED FREE. R. H. Robbins & Co. GROCERIES AND MEATS An Up-to-Date Store. 1411 North 24th Street. Prompt Delivery. W. 241. Maceo T. WILLIAMS MRS. CLARA CHILES Poro Parlor New and old customers invited. Fully equipped with electric appliances. 2420 Lake. Web. 2208 Factory of Omaha's Professional and Firms ANDREW T. REED Res. Phone Red 5210. & REED Parlor Phone Webster 1100. Funeral Directors. Auto and Horse Open Day and Night. Society. Every dollar must do its uncertainties. Jones-Reed service cost. EAGLE CONFECTIONERY Delicatessen and Soda Fountain EVERYBODY WELCOME Open 8 A. M. to 12 P. M. 1409 N. 24th St. Web. 580 ENROLL NOW FOR SPRING CLASS Snow's College of Dressmaking For Further Information Call or Write for Catalogue. MRS. C. RIDLEY, Phone Webster 2846. 1922 North 25th St. J. H. HOLMES All work Guaranteed. Ladies' and Gents' Suits Remodeled, Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. New Hoffman Press. 2022 N. 24th St. Web. 3320 A. F. PEOPLES Painting Paperhanging and Decorating Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. 4827 Erskine Street. Phone Walnut 2111. South & Thompson's Cafe 2418 North 24th St. Webster 4566 SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER Stewed chicken with dumplings...40c Roast Prime Beef au jus .....40c Roast Pork, Apple Sauce .....40c Roast Domestic Goose, dressing 50c Early June Peas Mashed Potatoes Salad Coffee Dessert We Serve Mexican Chile THE WASHINGTON - DOUGLAS INVESTMENT CO. BONDS, INVESTMENTS RENTALS AND FARM LANDS Phone Webster 4206. 1413 North 24th St. EUREKA Complete Line of New and Second Hand Furniture PRICES REASONABLE Call Us When You Have Any Furniture to Sell 1413 N. 24th St. Web. 4206. PLEATING BUTTONS HEMSTITCHING EMBROIDERING BRAIDING and BEADING BUTTONHOLES Ideal Button & Pleating Co. 300-310 Brown Bld., 16th and Douglas Streets. Opposite Brandeis Stores. OMAHA, NEB. Open for Business the BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HOTEL Nicely Furnished Steam Heated Rooms, With or Without Board. 523 North 15th St. Omaha, Neb. Phone Tyler 897. Petersen & Michelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N St. Tel. South 162 Liberty Drug Co. EVERYBODY'S DRUG STORE We Deliver Anywhere. Webster 386. Omaha, Neb. E. A. NIELSEN UPHOLSTERING Cabinet Making, Furniture Repairing, Mattress Renovating Douglas 864. H1917 Cuming St. C. J. CARLSON Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department We Have a Complete Line of FLOWER, GRASS AND GARDEN Seeds Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry Supplies Fresh cut flowers always on hand Stewart's Seed Store 119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 F. WILBERG BAKERY Across from Albambra Theatre The Best is None Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 C. H. MARQUARDT CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. 2003 Cuming St. Doug. 3834 Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke and Cure our own Hams and Bacon. J. A. Edholm E. W. Sherman Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 Tuchman Bros. "Where Everybody Trades" Groceries and Meats. Phone Web. 402. 24th and Lake OMAHA THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE PRINTING COMPANY Events and Persons Smoke John Ruskin cigar. Mr. Lynch, well known tailor, was taken suddenly ill Tuesday night. W. V. Contee is out in the state campaigning for the Victory loan as a one man band. Nicely furnished rooms, strictly modern, 1923 North 27th street. Webster 2941. Mrs. John Macree, Twenty-ninth and Burdette streets, is quite ill. Houses for sale in all parts of the city. Tel. Douglas 2842 or Webster 5519. Guy B. Robbins. Jose H. Sherwood of St. Paul, grand commander of the Knights Templars, paid an official visit to the local lodge Monday night. Wanted—A maid and cook. Call Mrs. J. H. Broomfield. Douglas 2378. Mrs. Lizzie Connors left Thursday for Minneapolis to spend a week with friends. All Omahans who saw "The Homesteader," are loud in their praise of the great picture. Mr. Harold Bentley, who is attending W. U., came home to spend Easter and now he has returned to school. H. S. Price of 2021 North Twenty-sixth street is serving on the jury. Don't fail to see "Under Two Flags" at Boyd's May 9. It will be a hummer.—Adv. Miss Althea Turner has taken up a course of stenography and business at Boyle's college. For Sale—Busy Bee Cafe, 4913 South 26th street. Call for Mrs. Maud Downs, South 2625. Mrs. Willa English of Chicago is visiting her mother, Mrs. Louisa Bass, and her sister, Mrs. John H. Russell, 2914 Erskine street. Attend the Spring Festival Ball given by the Phi Delta Auxiliary April 30, U. B. F. hall. Desdunes' Orchestra. Admission, 35c.—Adv. Ask the grocer, merchant, etc., with whom you trade: "Do you advertise in our paper, The Monitor?" Sergeant Earle T. Blevins of Chicago arrived in Omaha Monday morning to become a member of the Krug Park orchestra. Dubois Dramatic club in "Under Two Flags" at Boyd's, May 9. 'Nuff sed.—Adv. Charles Felix, formerly of 2522 Patrick avenue, is now located in his new home, 2806 North Twenty-fifth street, a modern six-room cottage, costing $2,800. Wanted—Elderly woman as one of the family, with some salary, only to care for an eleven months' old baby. Call Webster 2451. 2210 North Twenty-eighth avenue. First Class Private Joseph Palmer, Headquarters Troop, Tenth cavalry of Fort Huachuca, Ariz., on one month's furlough, is spending his furlough in Omaha. The Dubois Dramatic club presents "Under Two Flags" at Boyd's theater, May 9.—Adv. Mrs. W, L. Dent, 1811 Cuming street, entertained at dinner April 13 in honor of Mrs. Charles L. Bush of Minneapolis. Covers were laid for six. Mrs. Bush left for her home Monday. Wanted—A. good, strong, reliable Colored boy, 16 or 18 years old, willing to work and learn the tire trade. Apply to National Tire Shop, Seventeenth and Capitol avenue. Two platoons of our returned soldiers marched in the great Victory loan parade Monday. They were in command of Lieutenants Turner, Madison, Reed and Parker. The men made a fine appearance and were heartily applauded all along the line. Try 666—A reliable remedy for rheumatism and all disorders. For sale by the People's Drug store. Elmer W. Dixon, daughter of Albert Dixon, 2812 Harney street, died April 14 and was buried last Sunday from the Silas Johnson, Western Funeral Home. Interment was at Forest Lawn. The Rev. Mr. Deas, pastor of Grove M. E. church, officiated. The Dubois Dramatic club hasn't appeared for some time, but it will be a sensation—"Under Two Flags."—Adv. Mrs. I. Bailey is a captain in the Victory loan drive. Her lieutenants are Mesdames Bridges, J. A. Williams, E. R. West, R. T. Walker, F. J. Smith and Miss Madeline Roberts. They marched in the woman's parade, led by Desdunes' band, Saturday. Mrs. Emma Fourie is ill at her home, 4410 North Twenty-eighth street. Mrs. M. A. Walker, who has been quite ill recently, is able to be out again. SPLENDID CHANCE Splendid opportunity for family or couple who wish to go to housekeeping. Furniture of six-room house for sale and house for rent. Call Webster 5556. THE MONITOR Business and professional men are invited to attend a meeting Friday night at the Booker T. Washington hotel, Fifteenth and California streets, to complete organization of Colored Men's Commercial club. COLORE FOR May Enli Tenth AFRO-AMERICAN REALTY CO. Opens its office with a big list of homes in all parts of the city. Sold on terms to suit all. NIMROD JOHNSON, Mgr. CELEBRATE 25TH ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Preyer celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding on April 19, 1919. Two sons, Henry and Isaiah, arrived from Pensacola, Fla., on the 17th to join their parents in the celebration. Mr. Preyer has been in Omaha since August, 1917, coming from Pensacola, through the advice and direction of George Wells Parker, whom he had never seen. Mr. Parker gave financial assistance and helped Mr. Preyer in many ways and for this reason feels that it is not out of place to mention the facts. Since coming to Omaha Mr. Preyer has purchased a home through the Western Real Estate company. He is 57 years of age, likes Omaha and will remain here permanently. His message to his brothers in the south is to come north and grow up with the country. AFRO-AMERICAN REALTY CO. 5-room mod, cottage, large lot, close to car, $2,350; small cash payment down, balance like rent. 8-room house, furnace heat, east of North 24th street car line, at a bargain on payments; $250 cash, balance easy; large lot. Beautiful 5-room bungalow, the very latest style, furnace heat; full basement; cheap for quick sale. NIMROD JOHNSON, Mgr. After business hours call Web. 1302. DESDUNES' BAND SCORES ANOTHER VICTORY Desdunes' band has just scored another great victory in recognition of its merited popularity. It has been selected to accompany the trade excursion of the Chamber of Commerce, which will cover the week of May 18-25, and embrace a trade tour as far west as Montana. Other bands were competitors for this coveted honor, but the plum fell to Dan's boys. Twenty-five men will go. They have a special car and there'll be music that is music all along the line. Have a refreshing drink at our new and up-to-date soda fountain. We serve the best. The People's Drug store. CAMPFIRE GIRLS Last Friday the Campfire Girls met with Audra Truehart. The girls have chosen as their group name, "Ocowasin." Rev. John Albert Williams has offered the guild rooms of his church as a regular place of meeting for the Campfire Girls. A campaign is being carried on to secure funds for the establishment of a summer camp, to be used by all Campfire groups of Omaha. We hope that many will be interested. S. W. MILLS FURNITURE CO. We sell new and second hand furniture, 1421 North 24th street. Webster 148. (24th and Charles.) OPENS GROCERY STORE J. E. Wade and G. D. Benson have opened a small but well-stocked grocery store at 2530 Lake street. This firm has been in business since April 1 and is well pleased with the patronage received. BUSINESS IS GOOD. Eighteen successful years real estate dealer, six years in Omaha. Nimrod Johnson, Webster 1302. NEW REAL ESTATE FIRM Omaha has a new real estate firm called the Afro-American Realty company. The members of the firm are Rev. W. C. Williams, president; Nimrod Johnson, secretary and manager, and Mrs. J. G. Jewell, treasurer. The firm has opened attractive offices at 2709 Lake street. Miss Ruth Washington is employed as stenographer. AFRO-AMERICAN REALTY CO. We collect rents. We pay your taxes. We advance money on your first payment. We are a friend to those who need a friend. We make a specialty in sales and up-keep of property. NIMROD JOHNSON, Mgr. May Enlist for the Famous Ninth and Tenth Cavalry or for the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry—Mnitor Ventures Guess That Ultimately Others Arms of the Service Will Be Opened to Our Young Men. Uncle Samuel is calling for 50,000 men physically qualified, between the ages of 18 and 41 to enlist for the army. The two arms of the service at present open to Colored men are the cavalry and infantry. The Monitor hazards the guess, because this country of ours must eventually get away from the policy of restricting equal opportunities for service, military or other to any class of her citizens, that before long other branches of the service will also be open to our young men. But, for the present orders have gone forth to enlist Colored men for the two above named branches. Men who have had previous service in the army, navy or marine corps, may enlist for one or three years. All others enlist for three years. Men enlisting for three years will have the opportunity of going at once to Panama, Hawaiian Islands, Philippines or China. Here is a good opportunity for young Colored men. The opportunity for enlistment will not last long. All who are interested may secure full information at the recruiting station at the U. S. Army Building, Fifteenth and Dodge. Major Frith is the recruiting officer. Sergt. Tramel is in charge of the Colored enlistments and will be pleased to give any information desired. For anything in the drg uline call us up. The People's Drug store. Douglas 1446. I wish to thank the friends for their sympathy and kindness during the illness and death of my husband, J. H Pope. Also for the beautiful flora offerings. MRS. EMMA POPE. GRAND Entertainment Given by HIAWATHA CHAPTER O. E. S. No. 57 —at— WOLK'S HALL 2201 Cuming St. THURSDAY, —MAY— 8 Admission 35c COME ALHAMBRA The House of Courtesy. 24th and Parker Sts. THURSDAY— Pearl White in Last Episode "THE LIGHTNING RAIDER" Wallace Reed in "THE HOUSE OF SILENCE" FRIDAY— Hazel Daly in "THE LITTLE ROWDY" Comedy SATURDAY— Chas. Ray in "PLAYING THE GAME" Pathe News. Comedy. SUNDAY— J. Warren Kerrigan in "THE DRIFTER" Keystone Comedy. Pathe News COMING—Ruth Roland in "THE TIGERS TRAIL" Watch for Date. 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EY FINISHED THE HUN they had not, two million more would be on the way now. men saved us lives and money. Two million men were sent abroad. It cost us a lot to get them over but it's worth much more to have them back. THEY FINISHED THE HUN If they had not, two million more men would be on the way now. These men saved us lives and money. BUY W.S.S. War Savings Stamps AND BRING THEM HOME! CROSS given. You can defeat old age for many years by taking this treatment. Lady attendant. DR. J. L. GREEN, Mechano-Therapist, Clinic Graduate American University, Chicago, Ill. Office phone—Webster 3694. Residence phone—Webster 5875. V. F. KUNCL MEAT MARKET The Oldest Market in the City. Tel. Douglas 1198 1244 So. 13th St. Omaha 6 Amy made a pretty picture as she swung along the path to the boathouse. Her green skirt and green and white smock defied the warm day and her dark braids were colled smoothly round her head. The latest magazine and a box of candy were tucked under her arm. Amy consulted the little watch on her brown wrist. "I'll have time to row up to the cove and then have a good long time to read," she mused as she put the key into the lock. To her astonishment, instead of the trim green and white bout an expanse of water met her gaze. "Those boys again!" exclaimed Amy in dismiss. "Now I can't have my row." She looked longingly at the boat in the other half of the boathouse, but shook her head. "Now that's Mr. Bowen's and I hardly know him to speak to. Well, I'll just sit here till those horrid boys bring the boat in. They're fairly caught this time." Leaving the door ajar, she seated herself just outside on the grass and opened her magazine and box of candy. But she read very little, so busy was she planning how she would deal with the boys who had unceremoniously "borrowed" the boat several times that summer. At last she heard the swish of the oars as the boat rounded the point. She crept cautiously into the boathouse and waited. She wanted them to be fairly in before she spoke. Amy had barely time to notice that the boat had but one occupant as it swung into the channel leading to the door. His back looked large. Well, she would show him. It was all the worse if he were older. "Aren't you ashamed of yourself? A great big boy like you stealing right in broad daylight!" The boat paused and a very good-looking young man turned astonished eyes on the girl standing there in evident wrath. He didn't look a bit like a thief, with his jolly brown eyes and mop of curly hair. Amy stared at her gentleman burglar in surprise. "Why, what—who—how do you happen to be out in my boat?" she finally brought out. The young man was not disturbed. "Why, there must be some mistake." he said, as he pulled in his oars and slid into the boathouse. "This is my uncle's boat, and he lent it to me for the afternoon." A skeptical light came into the girl's eyes. Probably this was one of those smart college chaps from the camp two miles away, and he was out for a lark. She scorched him with a look. "That's a likely story. The boat is mine. I have no uncle, and I certainly never saw you before." The young man leaned reflectively upon his oars. He had nice smiling wrinkles around his eyes for a thief, Amy noticed. "I don't understand this at all," he was saying. "Now, my uncle, Mr. Bowen, said the third boathouse from the raft. Isn't this the third?" Light rushed into Amy's mind, and color into her cheeks. "Oh, it's this boat you ought to be in," she indicated the one on her other side. "You see," went on the girl, eager to clear things up, "I am Amy Burt, and this is my boat. This other is Mr. Bowen's, and you must be Mr. Bowen's New York nephew. Oh, I am so sorry!" "Too bad, but I can't help it," said the young man as he sprang to the wharf beside her and extended his hand. "I am Bruce Fiske. It was just an accident my being Mr. Bowen's nephew, so—" "Oh, I didn't mean that!" laughed Amy. "But I was horrid about it, accusing you of being a thief." "Well, I certainly was caught with the goods. Now, Miss Burt, it's only fair that you should let me give you that ride you wanted." During the month that followed it made little difference to the two whether it was the Burt or Bowen boat. Sometimes they hardly realized which they were in. On the night before he returned to New York Amy promised that she would sail down the sea of life with him. "And so you'll forgive me for stealing the boat that day," he teased her as they glided along shore in the moonlight. "I suppose I'll have to," she whispered, "because it gave me the chance to steal your heart." it, 1919, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Recognized a Man. When one of the transports went over last spring the chaplain, finding a group of men sitting together on the deck with nothing to do, began to tell them stories. He did not say they were Bible stories. He just told them for their brilliant value as tales. And he told the story of Paul's shipwreck and those 14 days in a typhoon when he was making his famous voyage to Rome. When he had finished a man called out to him: "Who was that guy?" Who was the guy? "The story teller replied that it was a man named Paul. The soldier went below and aroused his bunkie. "The chaplain was telling us a story up on deck about a fellow named Paul, and he was some man." Proud Mother—I'm not sure, but I think he's one of the drawbacks. HOW'S THIS FOR AFRICA? American Negro Has Same Disease "BECAUSE." BECAUSE ye do elect to sit with folded hands. Or endeavor made to uplift and make noble The heritage bequeathed On you—but sit dreaming all day long— So shall your indolence, grown heavy With the years past, Fall with o'erwhelming force, As an Alpine avalanche upon you and yours— And crush you into oblivion Because ye have failed to do your part. Black? Your race has in the ancient days Climbed to the highest rung of fame; Have done, dared, that which ye shirk— Deeds noble, unselfish—and true-hearted done. What have ye done? O'er the Seven Seas they've sailed And climbed the highest hills That tower unto the skies— Day dreams, your only work. Up!—awake!—awake!— 'Tis in your hands to make or mar, Embellish in the scroll of fame or be-smirch The annals of your race. The Pyramids of Egypt all attest; Toussaint, Attucks, Bureh— Yea, a thousand others of Africa's sons, Have faced the odds and won the crown. You sit and dream? All races of the earth, stirred to their soul's being, Are chafing at the iron bands that bind them. Oh, that the windows of my soul And I could weep, tears hot and burning for you! Shall nothing stir you up? Unite! Unite! Strike whilst the molten mass of opportunity is hot, And weld it into something strong and lasting. Behold, upon the bloody fields of Europe, Asia and your glorious Africa— Your brethren all—have shed Their lifeblood For you—for you! Ye hope! What do you hope? Is it to sit and cow the live-long day, Like idle rooks, Or will you bend your shoulders to the wheel And push out from the clogging mire The car loaded with the burden cast on you? Like men—like the heroes of old— Be up and doing! Not for the dross that, aye, has God displaced Equal and free before the world. How long shall ye the yoke of idleness, prejudice and hatred carry, That bind you in bands of steel! Bestir yourselves, oh sons of Africa; Heed not the suasive tongues of those Who, with sophistries and glibe, Try to draw you from your right and high endeavor. He who is above, who slumbers, neither sleeps, But ever watches o'er His own. Looks down on you. Awake—awake! whilst 'tis yet day, And the sun in the high heavens shines in splendor, Sweet breezes blow. On, on to the goal; Unto the victor is the palm. Your fathers, heroic and brave, Look on you. Be men! Either the laurel bays, Or the pitying boughs of the willow grey, When back unto mother earth ye are In oblivion buried, Because ye failed to do your part. Which shall it be? THOMAS LUCAS. From the Sierra Leone (Africa) Weekly News, February 15, 1919. MONARCH CAFE The New Monarch Cafe will open April 20 at 107 South Fourteenth street. Everything first class and up-to-date. Come in and look us over. We will appreciate your patronage. C. R. Trimble, Proprietor. Adv 3t A monthly Review of Africa and the Orient, $1.50 per year. Monitor office or 158 Fleet street, London, E. C. 4, England. Philip's Department Store is pleased with the business The Monitor draws. $ee ad in this issue. ```markdown ``` THE MONITOR Peace of Europe and Asia May Hang on Decision of the Supreme Councils of the Mahometan Races. London, April 23.—Easter finds acute unrest over a wide area in Europe and Asia. Lloyd George's worries are not limited to the future of Russia, where the allied troops face powerful bolshevik forces, or to Central Europe, where communist governments spring up like mushrooms. The British premier has perplexing problems to consider in Egypt, where the political discontent has taken the form of serious riots; in Turkey where armed bandits are threatening the Christians with massacre; in Syria, where the people are disturbed over the report that France is not to act as mandatory for them, and in India, where the Moslems' and Hindus have united in rebellion against the British crown. Danger of Religious War. To date the disorders in the near and far east have been sobering, but not alarming. The real danger is that they may grow into a religious war. Although so far they are only perplexing problems for Great Britain to handle, they may develop into international questions. In a few days the ulemas, or supreme religious councils of the Mahometan world, will meet to determine the course they will take. It is difficult to measure how a great factor is the religious element in these uprisings. Undoubtedly they originate in national aspirations, but once under way they are fanned by religious feeling, and the peace of the world becomes seriously endangered. The fact that Mahometan copts (native Egyptians) co-operated in the Egyptian riots is cited to show that the attacks on Armenians were not on religious grounds, but rather because the latter frequently act as government spies. Text of Article Thrown Into Lines by Germans. Hello, boys, what are you doing over here? Fighting the Germans? Why? Have they ever done you any harm? Of course some white folks and the lying English-American papers told you that the Germans ought to be wiped out for the sake of humanity and democracy. What is democracy? Personal freedom, all citizens enjoying the same rights socially and before the law. Do you enjoy the same rights as the white people do in America, the land of freedom and democracy, or are you not rather treated over there as second-class citizens? Can you go into a restaurant where white people dine? Can you get a seat in the theater where white people sit? Can you get a seat or a berth in the railroad car, or can you even ride in the south in the same street car with white people? And how about the law? Is lynching and the most horrible crimes connected there with a lawful proceeding in a democratic country? Now, all this is entirely different in Germany, where they do like Colored people, where they treat them as gentlemen and as white men and quite a number of Colored people have fine positions in business in Berlin and other German cities. Why, then, fight the Germans only for the benefit of the Wall street robbers and to protect the millions they have loaned to the English, French and Italians? You have been made the tool of the egotistic and rapacious rich in England and America and there is nothing in the whole game for you but broken bones, horrible wounds, spoiled health or death. No satisfaction whatever will you get out of this unjust war. You have never seen Germany. So you are fools if you allow people to make you hate us. Come over and see for yourself. Let those do the fighting who make the profit out of this war. Don't allow them to use you as cannon-fodder. To carry a gun in this service is not an honor, but a shame. Throw it away and come over to the German lines. You will find friends who will help you along. We wish to thank the friends who assisted us during the illness and death of our father, Richard Thirkles, and also for the floral offerings. MRS. STELLA SAUNDERS. MRS. CHARLES THIRKLES, AND FAMILY. RACE BOOKS AND PERIODICALS A weekly newspaper for our youth, $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. 54 West 140th St., New York City. The Negro in American History By Prof. John W. Cromwell, $1.40 and worth more. 1439 Swann St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Eat at West's Cafe, 1612 No. 24th. CARD OF THANKS Our Boys and Girls EVERYBODY IS NOW FIGURING INCOME TAX In Order to Be Helpful to Public Internal Revenue Bureau Has Every Available Officer in Field. SEVERE PENALTIES IF YOU DELAY BEYOND MARCH 15 With the due date for Income Taxes only a few weeks away, the collection of this far-reaching tax on 1918 incomes has started off with a bang. Everybody is figuring income tax. Payments and sworn statements of income must reach Internal Revenue offices on or before March 15, and there are severe penalties for delinquency. Residents of Nebraska are required to make their returns and pay their taxes to Geo. L. Loomis, Collector of Internal Revenue, Omaha, Neb., or to any of his deputy collectors who are now doing free advisory work on Income Tax. "Pay your Income Tax by March 15," is the slogan of the Internal Revenue Bureau, which has sent every available officer into the field to help the public to understand the requirements and to prepare the returns. Who Must Make Return. It is estimated that many thousands of single and married persons in this section of the United States who have never before made annual returns are required to do so this year. Income tax returns must be made between now and March 15 by persons who come under the following classifications: any unmarried person whose 1918 net income was $1,000 or over. Widows and widowers, divorces and married persons who are living apart from their husbands or wives, are for the purposes of the Income Tax classed as unmarried. Any married person living with wife or husband whose 1918 net income was $2,000 or over. The income of both husband and wife must be considered, together with the earnings of minor children, if any. Revenue Bureau Offers Aid. Each person in the United States who is in either of these classifications must get busy at once if penalties are to be avoided. He should secure a blank Form 1040 A for reporting net income up to $5,000, or Form 1040 if his net income exceeded that amount. Forms are being distributed by Collectors and their Deputies, also by banks. By following the instructions on the forms a correct return can be prepared at home. If a person needs advice or aid, the Deputy Collectors in the field will furnish this without charge. The new Revenue law places the Income Tax duty on citizens and residents. The Internal Revenue Bureau is sending its men to work right with the public to get the tax and the returns in. With active co-operation, every tax due March 15 will be paid and every return required by law will be in the Revenue offices on time. A single person is allowed a personal exemption of $1,000. If he is supporting in his household relatives who are dependent upon him, he may claim the status of the head of a family who has the same exemption as if married. A married person, who lives with wife or husband, is allowed a personal exemption of $2,000. The head of a family is entitled to claim a similar personal exemption. An additional exemption of $200 is allowed for each person under eighteen or incapable of self support, who was dependent upon and received his chief support from the taxpayer. A husband and wife living together are entitled to but one personal exemption of $2,000. If they make separate returns, the exemption may be claimed by either or divided. Absolute accuracy is necessary in making up income figures. Any person who is working for wages should find out exactly how much he received during the whole year 1918. Fees, bank interest, bond interest, dividends, rents received, and all other items must be reported correctly. Mere guesses are not accepted, for they are unjust alike to the taxpayer and the Government, and defeat the proper administration of the law. INCOME TAX IS TRULY POPULAR. "The payment of Income taxes takes on a new significance which should be understood by every citizen. 'The taxation system of this country is truly popular, of the people, by the people and for the people. Every citizen is liable to tax, and the amount of the tax is graduated according to the success and fortune attained by each individual in availing himself of the opportunities created and preserved by our free institutions. The method and degree of the tax is determined by no favored class, but by the representatives of the people. The proceeds of the tax should be regarded as a national investment."—Daniel C. Roper, Commissioner o. Internal Revenue. Exemptions Allowed. Accuracy Required. LA GRANGE, TEXAS Rev. J. N. Hoey, Georgetown, was here Wednesday night with Rev. J. H. Naper's people of St. James' M. E. church, in connection with the department of Sunday school work. Dr. Jesse Livington, Hillsboro, spent several days in the city this week, visiting the sick and afflicted. Miss Thelma Leah Sanford is back at home from a short stay at Smithville for her health. The agent has been informed that Mr. Sam Mill living about two miles east of town died yesterday morning. Sam is one of the agent's friends and schoolmates who are answering the Master's call every year. To much credit and encouragement can not be given Miss aMe Ella Williams, who came to the agent's relief and helped him distribute his papers. You Are Proud of That Boy in Uniform! SO ARE WE ALL! Why Not an Enlarged Portrait of Him? The utmost care in all our work and guarantee to please you. The Butters Studio 1306 North 24th St. Phone Webster 6701. SHO GOOD SOLID LEATHER SHOES Opposite Jefferson Hotel Pope D. Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, H. PRESCRIPTIONS 13th and Farnam Streets. H. DOL FURNITURE AND HARDW Better Goods for Less Mo OPEN EY 1839-47 N. 24th St. Phones— GOOD GROCER C. P. WESIN C Also Fresh Fruits 2005 Cuming St. Pleasant Green Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. H. DOLGOFF H. DOLGOFF 1839-47 N. 24th St. Phones—Webster 1607; Webster 4825 GOOD GROCERIES ALWAYS C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO. Also Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. 2006 Cuming St. Telephone Douglas 1098 Pleasant Green Baptist Church Twenty-second and Paul Streets REV. JOHN COSTELLO, PASTOR. SERVI Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; morning B. Y. P. U., 5:30 p. m.; evening Prayer meeting, Wednesday night Women's Missionary Society, Tues. Church of St. P. (EPISON Twenty-first Between REV. JOHN ALBERT Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; morning service and preaching, 11 a. m.; B. Y. P. U., 5:30 p. m.; evening service and preaching, 8 o'clock. Prayer meeting, Wednesday night; class meeting Friday, night. Women's Missionary Society, Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. Church of St. Philip the Deacon Telephone Douglas 2672. The Woman's Home Missionary Sisters of St. James' M. E. church, here, has raised $125 which they are applying to repairing their personage and grounds. The The Missionary Centenary group meeting was held here in St. James' M. E. church, under direction of Dr. S. E. Jones, D. S., and a goodly number of pastors attended. Thursday night, Rev. James Wallace, D. D., New Orleans, delivered a great message to a good audience. The citizens will be glad to know that the family of Mr. Will Allen is home again from their extended trip to Oklahoma, this winter. Get a new subscriber for TThe Monitor. It is only $2.00 a year. It is up to you to help push your own paper. The Monitor must go into every Colored home in Omaha. Help us put it there. Thank you. 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ERT WILLIAMS, PRIEST SERVICES Dr. Britt Upstairs Douglas 7812 and 7150 Omaha, Nebraska The Balancer of The Universe A Drama of the Race Conflict in Four Acts by B. Harrison Peyton CHARACTERS Mauricio Crispin, a dancer from the Argentine, age 25 years. La Corusca, Senora Crispin, his Argentine mother, age 42. Agnes, their American guest and dancing pupil, age 22. Mrs. Vincent Widener, a woman journalist, age 35. Period: Present. Place: Providencia, a city on the Pacific coast. SCENE II. The Dancing Lovers of Malaga. Enter La Corusca, presently from the dancing room. Corusea: (To Agnes) Buena, senorita! Daintily—ever so daintily—that's the way. Yes—yet—no, querida mia. Learn to be disdainful and inviting by turns—yet always charming. Never forget you're a pious beauty; el tooread, gallant, devoted, entreating, is constantly pursuing you, endeavoring to mel your heart little by little in the warmth of his passion. Yes, yes, be more gracious, senorita, more gracious. Now, now! bewitch him not alone with artful glances, but with your hands—your fan—your neck—your shoulders—your whole body. No, querida senorita, no! Oh! you don't put into your actions enough of piquancy, fire, languor, the native spirit of Spain! I'll show you senorita—I will show you again! Don Manuel! Don Manuel, kindly wait an instant. Crispin: Madre querida, why not allow me the privilege of correcting the senorita? Corusca: Because, Mauricio, your criticisms of whatever relates to Senorita Agnes are never entirely unbiased. Now, maestro, be so good as to begin la Malaguena over again. (To Agnes): Nina mia, Mauricio and I will yet again endeavor to convey to you somewhat of the proper spirit of the dance. Agnes: And I'll still endeavor to acquire that spirit, senora. Agnes: Senora, oh-h-h! that is so exquisite! If I could only hope to ever attain such perfect facility! Dancing's so hard, and it seems I progress so slowly. Corusca: You do very well, duendecilla mia, for only a few weeks' training in that particular dance. Bear in mind practice—incessant and arduous practice—comprises the life of every highly accomplished dancer. Enverdad, dancing's nothing but constant training illuminated by an unflagging spirit—senorita, an indomitable spirit. Agnes: Oh, that, Senora Crispin, is at least one thing I've learned most thoroughly. Corusca: Por consiguiente, por consignuiente, nina querida. But I must leave you to Mauricio's instructions and go to look after my own practice, or, I fear, I shall discover myself betraying to my audiences how painfully hard 'tis to accomplish what art demands should be done with an appearance of absolute, effortless ease. Remember, Mauricio, to indulge bad habits is ruinous; you must not be too gallant—too tolerant of Senorita Agnes' faults. Insist on the nearest possible approach to perfection—and nothing less, Mauricio—nothing less. Crispin: My goodness, madre! how's a poor servitor like me to detect the darkling fault in any act of the senorita? She possesses such a brilliant galaxy of personal superiorities one perforce is dazzled and one's own paltry pretensions cast completely into the shade. Corusca: Really, Mauricio, you're a conscienceeless scamp! Agnes: Your pardon, senora; but only one moment, please. Will you kindly tell me whether there's a letter come for me this afternoon? Corusca: You haven't yet received the daily letter from your father, hija querida; and you're very anxious to learn whether there has been change for better or worse in the condition of your little brother? How extremely sorry I am! but the day's last post arrived some while ago—and there was no letter for you. Agnes: Thank you, senora; but I shall most surely get one by special delivery. You will please sign for it for me—won't you, dear senora? Corusca: Si, ciertamente, ciertamente. Pobre querida! And when the letter comes, I'll bring it to you without an instant's delay. Agnes: I am greatly obliged to you, senora. Corusca: But heed my warning, Mauricio; don't permit Senorita Agnes to prevail upon your heart to do most of the dancing. Crispin: Madre! Now, what do you make of that, senorita? Madre expects us to practice la Malaguena, yet she's plainly determined to take a selfish and exclusive advantage of Don Manuel's music. Agnes: Oh, I can very well let the extra lesson wait, senor. Crispin: : That's most handsome of you, I must say. But isn't it after all your turn to be considerately patient? Yesterday brought you the usual letter from home, but you've kept me waiting this long while all in vain for the latest intelligence concerning poor, dear, little Godfrey. Agnes: According to father's most recent letter, written approximately four days ago, senor, Godfrey was about the same. Ah! he suffers such killing internal agonies, and yet the special physicians attending him, despite all my fears and presentments, continue to believe he will ultimately recover. Even kind Mrs. Widener, who who certainly should possess a woman's intuition, has not hesitated to practice on me every artifice likely to inspire faith senor, precisely as though faith on my part be an absolute essential to successful treatment of Godfrey's case. Crispin: Mrs. Widener? 'Tis my impression, senorita, I once made in Shadow City the acquaintance of a lady of that name; but the circumstances of our meeting and—her personality—are at present elusive—playing a game of hide-and-seek with my memory. Agnes: But I'm positive, senor, you can't have forgotten Mrs. Widener. She's the jouranlist who writes Sunday features for The Verity, the leading daily newspaper of Shadow City. Dr. Vincent Widener is her husband, and head of the group of doctors who are striving to restore my darling, stricken brother. She has told me she once interviewed you and the senora in Shadow City, when the pair of you were appearing nightly with your troupe of dancers at the Liberty theater. Crispin: Oh, yes! Oh! I remember! 'Twas one foronow at the Hotel Goldsborough—wasn't it? And Senorita Cynthia Lilburn from Providencia was present; for her stay at the Goldsborough with her grandfather was coincident with our own—Senorita Gorland, it always thrilled to see Cynthia Lilburn dance, with er effervescent grace—enravishing abandon of form and movement! Oh, she was a favored descendant of terpischore—and at the moment Mrs. Widener entered, relaxing with us from strenuous exercise in the sprightly seguidilla. Agnes: Was Mr. Rogerio Nobrega there, too, senor, with his violin? or singing to a tinkling mandolin? The senora has described to me his impressive barytone voice that always seemed to envelop the listener in the tropical voluptuousness of his native Brazil. Crispin: No, senorita; and you may imagine Cynthia Lilburn's regret. Undoubtedly, Nobrega's presence would have inspired her to yet great wonders in the art that juggled John the Baptist's head from his shoulders. However, while we were giving Mrs. Widener an account of our devoted Anthony Bell—why, into the room Anthony came, singing and jubilant, because to the most wonderful of his paintings he had put the finishing touches that morning just at sunrise. Ah! how it surges back upon me—but painfully, senorita, the memory of my fruitless endeavor to interest Mrs. Widener in him and his unsurpassable picture—and of the occurrence of the panic at the Liberty theater on the evening of that same day! Agnes: My goodness! Why should our every conversation, senor, invariably lead to that frightful subject—the panic? Crispin: But, senorita, do we ever concern ourselves with aught really foreign to the panic? In the beginning, we were deploring bay Godfrey's serious condition. Well, if my friend Anthony only had ben even as fortunate as was your little brother, senorita, he'd now be able at least to protest against the malicious reports that it was he who wantonly began the mortal affray which preceded the panic. Agnes: That fatal encounter was to me, senor, the most horrible incident of the enormous disaster. I sincerely condole with you. I know that Anthony eBll was colored, a young poet and painter of rising repute among members of his race; and your mother has told me there subsisted a very intimate and devoted friendship among the three of you. However, won't you pardon, senor, my natural curiosity—to know—how that friendship came about? Crispin: Certainly. You've probably heard, Senorita Gorland of an organization comprised of several thousand public-spirited white and Colored citizens and known as the American Association for the Abolition of Race Oppression? Agnes: Oh, yes, senor; I've read of the A. A. A. R. O. a number of times. Crispin: Then, perhaps, you also THE MONITOR know that, besides its headquarters in New York, the Association has active branches in nearly all the leading cities and a steadily enlarging membership fired by all that fearless zeal which freedom's cause inspires. Agnes: Are you a member, senor? Crispin: I became a member, senorita, the very day I first met Anthony. A famous novelist acquainted with us both introduced him to me in Shadow City, at an annual conference of the local branch of the Association; and discovering that he was a poet and painter of remarkable talent. I in turn later presented him to madre, whose interest in his hitherto unappreciated artistic efforts was immediate and enthusiastic. Agnes: Ah! that was the happy beginning! So he painted the large portrait of the senora that hangs in her study—didn't he, Senor Crispin? Crispin: Yes. Buena madre mia, as a sort of patroness of genius, you see, rescued him from poverty and obscurity—enlisted him as the saying goes, under her banner, and was the making of him. I suppose you've never read any of his poems? Anyhow, the A. A. A. R. O. publishes a detailed account of its operations in its official organ, a little monthly magazine called The Advance; and to this dear Anthony was one of the best known contributors. Agnes: But after all, I've heard, senor, it was as an agent of the Association Anthony Bell figured most prominently. Crispin: Beyond question, senorita. You no doubt recall the civil rights suits not long since prosecuted with so much resolution against the Liberty theater in Shadow City, by the legal department of the Association, were based on evidence procured under my friend's direction. Agnes: I've been informed also, senor, that you provided your friend with the ticket which obtained him a seat in the parquet at the Liberty on the evening of the panic. Crispin: That's true, senorita; and only that blustering Representative Whiteside should discover Anthony there and raise high and mighty objection to his presence. Agnes: Senor Cirspin, I heard any number of others make direct complaint to the house-manager of the Liberty that evening. Agnes: But despite the general intolerance—the persistent protest against your Colored friend, senor, the theatrical staff merely declared its polite regrets—and wouldn't venture to molest him. Crispin: Ah! let me remind you, senorita, how surprisingly contrary that was to the theater's former policy of rigorously restricting Negro partons to the gallery. Agnes: They wouldn't eject your friend Bell, as you well know, senor, simply because he was your friend and guest. Crispin: You put too great an estimate on my influence, senorita. It's not it quite possible good Anthony had taught the proprietors of the Liberty to appreciate the danger of violating the civil rights law—and becoming involved in costly legal actions? Agnes: Did you know beforehand, Senor Crispin, Congressman Whiteside had engaged the orchestra stall immediately in front of the one Anthony Bell occupied that evening? Crispin: Why, certainly not, senorita. Even then I was not at all ignorant as to how notoriously overhasty and violent in quarrel the representative was. Had I only apprehended that behind the curtain of the future, chance was so imminently preparing—right at my heels—to bring Anthony and Terry Whiteside that evening so close together, I'd—but I suspect, senorita, you've again succumbed to a mood-of repining? Agnes: God have mercy on my suffering father, senor, and miserable me! God alone knows how much father and I would've preferred to have perished at the theater that evening rather than our baby Godfrey should have been swept astray—and ruthlessly beaten down—in that terrific hurricane of panic and havoc! Crispin: Ah; one can only regard it as verily a miracle, senorita, your six-year-old brother came out of it at all, although I know his fragile, small body when found was crushed and shattered, and but the faintest show of the breath of life lingered within him. Yes, it's certainly sad enough, on my soul, Senorita Gorland; and you take it so hard! Oh! indeed one would think you bear Godfrey—heaven save him!—even more than a sister's love. Why, give me leave to say, in sober truth, your love appears to have all the strength of a mother's. Agnes: I—I am sixteen years the elder, senor. Our mother resigned this life shortly after baby Godfrey's birth, and ever since, I've taken upon myself the maternal care of him. Very naturally, I've come to regard him much as though he be a son to me in fact. Never shall I forget with what earnest persistence, day after day, he entreated father and me to take him to see you and La Corusca in your repertoire of famous Spanish dances. Crispin: And even so, senorita, whenever I dance la Malaguena with Crispin: Yes, senorita. madre, there comes to me the disquieting remembrance that she and I. gnes: That incessantly haunts me, too, senor—the glowing blithesome picture with you and La Corusca formed together there on the stage that instant before the outbreak of the panic. And that panic, senor—oh! the eruption that broke forth then—was so swift—so violent—so unutterably terrible! Crispin: "Tis indeed an occasion, senorita, for constant thanks to our all-glorious Preserver that you and your father escaped alive. Agnes: My father! Yes, by some unexplainable freak of fortune, we—he my father and I—except for a few scratches and bruises, and—but the memory! senor, how it encumbers the mind, weighs like lead within the heart, oppresses the prostrate spirit, crushes down upon the whole being like some overwhelming affliction! Shall we not change the subject to one less distressing, senor? Crispin: By all means, senorita; but before we do so, I beg you'll graciously allow me a question I've long had in mind to ask you. Agnes: What is it, senor? Crispin: Didn't you, senorita, on the evening of the panic, witness the entire affair between my friend eBll and Terry Whiteside? Agnes: But, but consider, senor! Senor Crispin! I've just protested I can hardly any longer, believe me, hardly bear to discuss the awful—oh! why would you, senor force be back along the ways of remembrance into that purgatory of writhing, agonized souls—to face the mighty catastrophe over again through all its cataclysmal progress—from its frightful beginning to its ruinous end! After the havoc, what is there left to rake up but the wreckage? Remember, I beseech you, my poor, dear brother Godfrey's misfortune—and don't ask me to recount the full one hundred thick-coming, indescribable horrors that my eyes have looked upon! Crispin: Senorita Gorland, if you'd only reflect a moment! Think how much your statement may mean not only to me, but to madre, who held Anthony in unbound esteem! Who can tell but your affirmation may vindicate my loved friend in the eyes of the world wherefrom he's departed, and bring rightful condemnation upon that bloody-minded demon in human shape who is now endeavoring by recrimination to acquit himself before humanity at large of the crime of wilful and promiscuous murder? Agnes: But don't you forget that a number of witnesses, senor . . .? Crispin: Witnesses! Yes, Terry Whiteside's perjuries are supported by witnesses; but they're witnesses whose teeth, were they false, couldn't be as much so as are their tongues, and whose hearts are as prejudiced as is darkness against the light! Don't tell me, of all persons in creation, you, too, Senorita Gorland, are going to defend the guilty? Among the few survivors of the panic who might truthfully have averred it, only one—a Colored witness who was an occupant of the gallery at the Liberty at the time of the affray—has been willing to testify to my friend's innocence—to maintain Anthony didn't attack the congressman with a dangerous weapon—that the whole guilt of the atrocity belongs to Whiteside himself! But won't you, also, have the courage to assert the truth—senorita, now, won't you—for God's sake? Agnes: But—but—on my honor, senor, your friend Bell positively wouldn't be persuaded to retire to the rear of the orchestra or to the gallery! Assuredly, I would not now dispute he had a perfect right, guaranteed him by the law, to retain his place in utter defiance of all the prejudiced clamor against him; but still, senor, if you only realized, only comprehended how much you're demanding of me, you—you wouldn't ask me to—to—oh! don't you realize—you don't comprehend my situation! Crispin: If I but realized how much I'm demanding of you? What can it signify to you as compared with madre and me? Why, Senorita Gorland, I merely ask if Terry Whiteside wasn't the aggressor; my friend his blameless victim? Isn't it true Whiteside, the madeap, the southern firebrand, bursting with rage, bounded from his chair—while madre and I were on the stage preoccupied with the dance la Malaguena—and seizing Anthony by the collar, struggled madly to drag bodily bedily of his seat into the nearby aisle? Isn't it true, thus set upon, barbarously outraged, my friend was forced to strike the madman in self-defense a blow with the fist, which sent him reeling backward and smote him to the ranking quick? And then—the pistol, which the representative himself has confessed he nearly always carried about with him for the purpose to compel submission from any Negroes who might venture to contest his assumption a superiority of race gave him a right to rule them—isn't it true, senorita, Whiteside, his desperate hate aggrevolved by the shot Anthony dead on the spot, while a score of rabid men—roaring: "The nigger! the nigger!" leaped from their orchestra chairs and scrambled over each other in a furious effort to get at my friend—lone, martyrd Anthony, who was still the object of their hatred though toppling over in his own blood? That's how it happened, senorita—according to the testimony of the Colored witness from the gallery. I simply ask, isn't it true? Agnes: Oh, pity! for pity's sake, senor! It's all true—true—too true! I can't deny it—daren't deny it! If I attempt to, how my science overmelms me! how poor Godfrey's heart-melting sufferings cast doubfounding reproaches at me—forbid me the falsehood! Crispin! Ah! so you were a witness of that harrowing tragedy in its every hideous detail? Agnes: Yes, senor; and while I stood appalled, stunned, my little brother was carried away before I was aware of it in the turmoil of destruction that ensued! Oh! the mad, resistless terror! certainly there was no need, senor, for anyone to describe that to you! Crispin: No; for at the first scream of a woman, madre and I cut short our performance of la Malaguena. We stood there on the stage for a moment, aghast, breathless, awe-struck, as the rest of that audience sprang to its fet at one and the same time, and panic-stricken, went plunging and pressing helter-skelter to the exits. How God must've screened it from the eyes of blessed spirits on high—the compact pandemonium of those twenty-five hundred human bodies as they struggled to fly the visible, palpable terror that had descended upon them—like some devasting thunderbolt from sene heavens—and whirled more than two hundred to death in an avalanche stampede! Lord God of hosts! how the insensible and the squirming wounded were heaped with the inert and mangled dead in accumulative mounds of gruesome mortality! Agnes: Senor, I do but think of it!—a shaking horror takes hold of me and chills me through like a wintry blast! It's nearly seven weeks since it happened, ah! yet I imagine I still bear the rush and the rumble, the shrieks of distress, the savage shouts and frenzied commotion, the wallings half stifled—and—Crispin: And the awful, heart-rending gasps and groans that came at the last! Oh! not one from good friend Anthony, who evidently had died instantly! Six hours later, senorita, I found him at the morgue with three bullet wounds in his breast and his body trampled almost beyond the possibility of recognition! Agnes: Senor Crispin, father came upon our sweet lambkin in a hospital ward among a dozen other children, of whom some were dying. Ah me, senor! in fancy I can see my dear brother as he lies in his small brass bed in the darkened, flower-scented room at home—unspeakable misery!—looking but the ghost of himself, a haggard figure, his beamless eyes wanly haunted by a thousand pains! How piteously he cries out, as he is tormented by hallucinations of the-tremendous human maelstrom in which he was so nearly killed! Now he imagines he is called by his former playmates, who caper in gleesome thoughtlessness about the yard next door! Oh! how futile are his exertions to rise! It's positively insupportable—the burden, senor! Crispin: Does not my heart sink beneath it, too, senorita? Our noble Anthony was as blameless as little Godfrey. But let us not forget Whiteside's small son, also, was nigh fatally injured in the panic, notwithstanding the perpetrator of the enormity, the representative himself, somehow escaped unscathed—along with his little daughter. Agnes: Senor, his—little—daughter! Are you sure that—that he—that his daughter—? Crispin: Why, yes, senorita, White-side has another child besides the little boy pet—named Baby Sunbeam—hasn't he? I've only the most lazy recollection, but, I think I once read in some of the newspapers the congressman has a daughter. She's herself a mere small child, I believe, but takes a whole-souled interest in her younger brother. I only wish I could recall her name—hang it!—for then, perhaps, you— Corusca: Mauricio, el caballero juven, Bland—he's here and requests a word with you. Crispin: With me, madre? Agnes: With Senor Crispin? Corusca: Yes, Mauricio, with you—so the servant announces. Crispin: It must needs be to you, Senorita Gorland, the cavalier Bland desires to pay his addresses. I'll go and invite him here to prove it. Shall I? Agnes: Will you dare? But—no—yes, do haste and bring gay Senor Bland to me—against my will. Since you fling the gauntlet, senor, I'll take it up—and in the meanwhile, go change my dress. Corusca: Ah! then for once, senorita, you and Bland aren't going to dance la Malaguena? 7 Also Improved Dickies DRESSMAKING Plain and Fancy Sewing MRS. C. A. FREEMAN, 2019 North 27th Street. Webster 3002 MUSIC LESSONS PIANO and CORNET MRS. E. J. ROULETTE, 2865 Ohio Street. Phone Webster 3435. If you are seeking a Home See A. J. DAVIS & CO. 220 South 13th St. Over Pope's Drug Store. Douglas 7150. We have property at prices and terms to please you. J. D. HINES THE TAILOR AND CLEANER Suits made to order. Hats cleaned and blocked. Alterations of all kinds. Call and give us a trial. Phone South 3366 5132 South 24th Street. 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We have 15 specials in grocery department—come in as we have them priced very low to bring you into the store even though you are well supplied otherwise, as we want you to get the Philip's habit of buying often and saving just as many times as you buy. Lincoln Department A very pretty wedding was solemnized Easter at the A. M. E. church, 9th and C streets, at 7:30 p. m., when Mr. J. E. Jeltz and Miss Ethel Valusette were united in holy matrimony, Rev. J. S. Payne officiating. The bride looked, very handsome in her wedding gown of white Duchess satin and Georgette. She wore slippers of the same color and carried a beautiful bouquet of sweet peas. The bridesmaid was Mrs. Amenca Marshall, who wore a pretty costume of blue georgette and satin. She also wore a large corsage bouquet of sweet peas. The groom was attired in the conventional black and was attended by Mr. James Bedell, who wore the same. The happy couple will reside in Lincoln. Immediately following the wedding ceremony the members of the choir, under the direction of Mrs. G. L. Flippen ascended from the basement of the church and marched up the aisles to the rostrum, which was beautifully decorated, chanting an anthem. The church was a scene of picturesque beauty. At either end of the rostrum an archway of lilies was formed, with a huge Easter bell suspended from each one. In the center a cross was erected which was also adorned with lilies. Upon the wall back of the cross in huge letters were the words, "He is risen." From among the palms, Easter lilies and green and white decorations, the choir rendered a cantata, which met with the approval of all, with Mrs. G. L. Flippin as director, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Dorothy Flippin at the piano and Mr. James Walker at the organ. A lovely reception was tendered Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jeltz Monday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Moore, 2148 South 8th street. Many beautiful and yet serviceable gifts were received. Revival service are being conducted at the A. M. E. church, 9th and C streets, each evening, by Mrs. M. C. Harris, evangelist. These meetings are nondenominational and every one is cordially invited to attend. Mr. Frank Harrison, who recently spent a winter south, addressed a meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. last Friday at Masonic hall. All efforts are being put forth to make the membership drive of the N. A. A. C. P. a successful one. Lincoln's quota is placed at 400. The committee on the membership drive have chosen the following captains: Mesdames Charles Haynes, L. P. Gates, Lewis Holmes, Henry Crews, Sarah Walker, Margaret Williams, Ellen Corneal and Mary McCurley; Messrs. R. H. Hueston, Luther Allen, J. E. Jeltz, Henry Crews and David Nichols. W. C. CRAIG High Class Pool and Billiard Parlors. Soft Drinks in Connection. 2124 North 24. Web. 280 THE MONITOR A handsome prize will be given the lady and also the gentleman captain, who secures the most members. COUNCIL BLUFFS NEWS Rev. J. P. Jackson, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, reports a grand Easter service. He filled his pulpit at 11 a. m. and preached on "Easter and the Duty of It" to a well filled house. We had our Easter program at night to a full house which was enjoyed by all. We are ready to start plastering our church, so it was reported to the pastor by Mr. Payne. The Baptist people, who are laboring under the leadership of Rev. J. P. Jackson, and all the people of the city are thankful to God for such a church, for it is a credit to the city. Rev. Mr. Jackson will baptize Sunday afternoon at the Sixth Street Baptist church. We are glad to say the Lord is blessing our sick people. They are better. There was a good time all the way for God Sunday. Collection good. The Rev. J. H. Ferribee, D. D., presiding elder of the Des Moines district, will hold his third quarterly conference at Bethel A. M. E. church, Avenue A and Sixteenth street, April 27th. The District Conference and Sunday School convention will convene at Bethel A. M. E. church June 3. Wednesday afternoon the Pastor's Aid met at the parsonage with sixteen ladies' present, and are preparing to have their pleasant Sunday program the last Sunday night in each month. Mrs. Corrine White and Mrs. Gertrude B. Rhonenee pleasantly entertained the Church Aid, with eighteen ladies present. The Aid is prospering. Our president, Mrs. L. Payne, is doing a great work in preparing their bazaar, which will be held the second week in May. We earnestly plead for all ladies to be present at all meetings. Rev. Rhonenee, our pastor, gave a short talk to the Aid, which was appreciated by all. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Martha Herndon, 2032 Eighth avenue. Mrs. A. C. Stewart gave the play of the Old Maids' club at the Masonic ball on Thursday night of last week. Every one reported a good time. This play was given for the building funds of the church. Mrs. A. C. Stewart presented $35.85 to the building committee on Sunday night, and all the money isn't in yet. Our Easter service was grand. The Rev. Mr. Rhonenee preached on "Easter." The church was crowded and seven were bartized. Mrs. Minnie Ferndon, superintendent of the Sunday school, had charge of the program. Our Easter program was beautiful and the morning choir came out for the first time in their new robes. The morning choir is doing fine under the leadership of Miss Ethel Richard- son, president. Mrs. Eva Besse is our pianist for both choirs. Mr. Andrew Fletcher had a painful accident last Friday by something falling upon him at the Union Pacific roundhouse. Miss Esta Myers is very ill at the Edmondson hospital. Mrs. Teal is much better at this writing. Rev. and Mrs. A. Gamble's sister and brother-in-law were present with them at our Easter services at the Bethel church Sunday. The church was so well pleased to see Brother R. V. Robertson of 2425 Fifth avenue out. He has been sick about two years with a paralytic stroke. At the program Sunday night the Sunday school superintendent and teachers had a feast for the children in the basement and served them ice cream. Rev. Mr. Broadnax of Omaha will preach at Bethel A. M. E. church April 27, which is our third quarterly meeting. Rev. W. C. Williams will also be present and congregations will be with them. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. J. P. Jackson, Pastor. The members and pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church are rejoicing over the success of the rallies which closed last Sunday night, with a total collection of $746.99. The Alderman clubs, which consist of three wards, with Mrs. Mary Turner president of the Second ward, Mr. Fields president of the First ward and Mrs. Mary Morton president of the Third ward, raised a total of $549.82. The Palm Leaf club, with Mrs. Mixon president, raised $140.47. The good A Million Eyes Turned Upon it Daily AGENTS EVERYWHERE MADAM C.J.WALKERS WONDERFUL HAIR GROWER SUPREME IN REPUTATION SOLD EVERYWHERE IN U.S.A. A Preparation that will do exactly as recommended ONCE A USER ALWAYS A USER Mme C.J.Walker 640 North West st. Indianapolis, Indiana. Great opportunity for Agents Write for terms OUR NEW HOME PENDLETON AVE. ST. PERDINAND AVE. 25,000 MORE PORO AGENTS WANTED Equipped with the Very Latest Apparatus for Teaching the Poro System of Scalp and Hair Culture and all Branches of Beauty Culture Terms Moderate Diplomas Given Write Today for Further Information Dent. A-22 "PORO" COLLEGE Poro Corner St. Louis, Mo. women of this club have worked early and late to make the club a success and many thanks do we give them. The Window club, Mr. Joseph Reese chairman, which is composed of the leading young men of our city, gave a musical concert last Thursday night, April 10, and raised $56.70. The boys did fine. They played to a crowded house and every one reports an enjoyable evening. We do hope the boys will go over the top again, and some day we hope to see the leading young men members of our church. The plasterers are now ready to begin plastering the interior of the new church. Rev. J. P. Jackson is in favor of the Colored Masonic lodges buying a hall and is a good booster for everything which will help to uplift the race. The young men of Council Bluffs donated a beautiful stained glass window, for which the glass alone cost $80, to the church. Mrs. Ailenir Wade, president of the Sunday school, will have an Easter program Sunday. John Eastman was taken to Clarinda, Ia., last Thursday for treatment. April 27 Rev. J. P. Jackson will baptize thirteen concerts at the First Baptist church, Willow avenue and Sixth street. The Mission Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Bottoms, 2406 South Sixteenth street, next Friday afternoon. The Palm club will hold its weekly meeting at Mrs. Emaline Walker's home, 2504 Third avenue, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. George Manual, clerk. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN n. Reese of the grave a night, boys bowed enjoy boys some young to be new We desire to thank all of those who assisted by contributions toward the burial of Beatrice Bradd. The lists are on file with Silas Johnson, where they can be seen by any one interested. MR. AND MRS. CHAS. BUSH, 2515 M Street, South Side. MRS. E. PHILLIPS, 622 North 14th Street. MRS BOOKER and Others. Furnished room for rent in strictly modern home, convenient to Dodge and 24th street car lines. Call Webster 3024. CARD OF THANKS We desire to thank all those friends who extended to us their kindness and sympathy during the recent illness and death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Rosie Rose. We are especially grateful to the ladies of Zion Baptist church who did so many things towards making her last days comfortable and happy. For the beautiful floral offerings and tokens of sympathy please accept our sincere thanks.—Susie Trent, Willie Ray, Izaiah Jackson, Alonzo Jackson. AFRO-AMERICAN REALTY CO. 2709 Lake St. Will open its office on or before April 17. The public invited. NIMROD JOHNSON, Mgr. Subscribe for The Monitor 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable Rates D. G. Russell, Proprietor Upon it Daily SUPREME IN REPUTATION