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The Monitor is read in practically every Colored family in Omaha, Council Bluffs and Lincoln. It has also a wide circulation in Nebraska and other states. Do You Want This Trade? GROWING, THANK YOU! $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy PROUD THAT HE IS A NEGRO Colonel Young, U. S.A., Tells Graduates His Reasons—The Educator Calls Attention to Early Civilization of Black Kingdoms and Urged a Study of Their History. The sphinx of Egypt is fashioned with the flat nose and the mouth of the black man. No one knows when it was carved from the rock, or what early nation or artists fashioned it. I am proud that I am a black man, and every black man should be proud of his race. . . . We need more knowledge of our history.—Col. Chas. Young, U. S. A., to the graduates of the Western university at Quindaro. KANSAS CITY, KAS., June 11. Speaking to four thousand Negroes, who attended the annual commencement exercises of the Western university here Thursday, June 5, Col. Chas, Young, U. S. A., who has attained the highest position in the American Army ever held by a Negro, appealed to his race to be proud of their color. Colonel Young, who also is one of the leading Negro educators of the country, was graduated from West Point in 1889. He served as an officer in the American army in Cuba in the Spanish-American war, in Mexico, in Haytian, and as a military attacke in Liberia. He retired as commanding officer of the Tenth cavalry and later took up active service at Camp Grant, Ill., where he is now stationed. Should Quit Hating White Race. In urging his people to be proud of their race, Colonel Young appealed to them to quit hating the white race. "If you want the freedom that President Wilson has asked for the world, and I take it that he means freedom for both white and black, you have got to get back to God, and realize that there is a divine consciousness in the world." Colonel Young said. "The black people have gone to hating, and that gets you nowhere. Love, Christianity, gentleness, kindness and courtliness get us everywhere. How many here can give several good reasons why they are proud of the black race? A sprinkling of hands went up in the audience. "I am proud God made me black," said Colonel Young. "I am proud that I belong to a race that has solved problems in Africa that we are struggling with in America today. In Africa, among the black nations, there is no poverty; no prostitution; no ill harmony among the peoples. The missionaries who went there to save the black people found the black people were saving themselves and that many others did not need saving. I am proud that I am of a race that has a higher sympathy for its fellow man, and which has a more beautiful disposition and a more appreciative view of art, literature and culture, in spite of its poverty. Civilized Long Before 1861. "Contrary to the stated belief, the black man was not freed fifty years ago in America, a savage. We were a civilized people under the highest laws of men when we came over here, and we were a civilized people when we were freed. Had we not been, we could not have taken the white man's language, religion, customs and habits THE MONITOR —good and bad—and progressed as we have. I am proud of that achievement. "Beginning back in ancient history, the black people had kingdoms and civilization. The sphinx of Egypt is fashioned with a flat nose and the mouth of a black man. No one knows when it was carved from the rock or what early nation of artists fashioned it. I am proud that I am a black man. When it comes to statesmanship and ability, you will find plenty of it among the black men. "You had better get out your good black clothes that the good God made you in and stay with the genius of the black man he has given us. We need more knowledge of the history and accomplishments of our race." Twenty-five members of the graduation class were given diplomas. An entertainment of music and speaking was given, in which three students delivered orations of their own composition. A parade of the Lincoln High School band and cadets preceded the ceremonies. Tanning Plant Executive Gives Great Credit to Colored Employees for Services in War and Peace. Washington, D. C., June 11.—A striking tribute to the patriotism of Negroes and to their usefulness in industry is paid them by an executive officer of a large North Carolina tannery where 50 per cent or more of the help is composed of Colored employees. The views of the tannery official are thus expressed in a communication sent to Dr. George E. Haynes, director of Negro economics, department of labor: "To say that the work of the Colored men is satisfactory would be putting it mildly. We have always considered their work equal to that of the others and have paid them accordingly. "Of the 52 employees from this plant who entered the service 22 were Colored. Of these a number have returned and the pleasing part of their return was that they immediately came to us and went to work. We have tried not only to make room for those who were in our employ, but also for a great number who were not in our employ before entering the service. "There cannot be too much said of the Colored men who stayed with us during the war. We purchased at the tannery $66,000 in bonds, notes and stamps, and when it is considered that the employees are 50 per cent Colored it is evident that the Colored men stood right back of their Colored brothers in the service. As we were 90 per cent government producers, the Colored man's work was the foundation of victory and equal credit is due him for his services in the industrial field. His contribution to the Red Cross and other war drives was very creditable; in the United War Work drive every man in the tannery donated a day's work, and in the Fourth Liberty loan every man bought a bond." The Colored employees of the plant have recently formed a band which made its first appearance during the Victory loan drive. The following high school boys enjoyed camp life at the annual encampment of the high school cadets held last week at Valley: Sergeant James Lewis, Floyd Maxey, Ledrue Galloway, William Chambers, Martin Chambers, George Goff, Albion Simonds and John Horton. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, JUNE 12, 1919 Taft Says Negro Migration to North Proves Effective Defense Against Injustice. Declares Racial Prejudice Cannot Be Removed by Argument—Despite Many Discriminations He Points to Great Progress Since Days of Slavery—Expects Next Quarter Century Will Bring Better Conditions. BY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT WICHITA, KAS., June 12.—Racial prejudice is a fact which cannot be gotten out of the way by merely pointing out its injustice. It must be worn away by the logic of events, by education, by stimulation of the moral sense, and by the operation of economic causes and enlightened selfishness. Frontal attacks on it by argument rarely, if ever, succeed. On the other hand, its dying embers may be easily blown into a flame again by evil-minded agitators or blind extremists. by the education of their people and a stimulation of them to greater industry and economic success, so that it shall be the enlightened selfish policy of the controllers of public opinion in the south to welcome the industrial development of the race for the benefit of the whole south, white and black. Learns Economic Interests. The education of the Negro, defective as it is, is teaching him from day to day to know his rights, to understand his economic interests and to These social truths are relevant to some of the present phases of the Negro question in this country. The historian who correctly judges progress by centuries and half centuries must conclude that the Negro race is the last half century since it emerged from slavery, has made great progress. Its illiteracy has been reduced from 90 per cent to less than 50 per cent. Negro farmers have become owners of cotton plantations and farms throughout the south, so that a very considerable part of the agricultural products of the south is the result of their investment and industry. Benefits Through Education. The vocational education of the Negroes, begun with General Armstrong's experiment at Hampton, is extending its beneficial influences among the Colored boys and girls of that section, with a most encouraging stimulus to better Negro community conditions. Leaders of organized labor are wisely admitting Negro artisans to their ranks and the advantages of equality of dealing with employers. But progress of this sort only more clearly discloses the unjust obstructions to the pursuit of happiness by the Colored race that still remain. Education has fitted a number of Negroes for leadership of their race. They are divided into two classes. The first class resents so deeply the unfairness which racial prejudice leads to that they seek to end it by direct protest and frontal attacks upon it and its consequences. They yield to the temptation of stirring up the indignation of their own people and emphasizing the discriminations against their race, which even to a not oversensitive nature are cruel, undemocratic and unchristian. They have only too many true stories of harsh and ungrateful affront and the poignant heartburnings they cause, with which to appeal to their fellow Negroes. Held as Inferiors in War. Held as Interiors in War. The war, which the Negroes eagerly accepted as an opportunity with which to demonstrate their patriotic citizenship and their right to equality of treatment, has not proved to be as useful in this regard as they hoped. Circumstantial accounts of the ill-advised efforts of American white officers, with greater or less authority, to create among our allies a sense of the inferiority of the Negro soldier and officer that must be maintained in American military circles, have made the Negro soldiers feel that they were not permitted even to die on equal terms with white soldiers. Their feeling is intensified by the complete lack of race prejudice they found among the French against the Negro, whether French or American. Realize Fern or Violence. The second class of Negro leaders are far wiser than the first. They are conscious that the return to civil life of 300,000 or 400,000 Negro soldiers, even though aflafe with indignation and sense of injustice and ingratitude, can, if it results in ebullitions of violence only lead ultimately to worse things for the Colored race and involve in an outburst among the whites of racial prejudice and fear, forcible measures of resistance, causing injury to many innocent and unoffending members of the Colored race. They are wise enough and noble enough and self-restrained enough clearly to see that the way to ameliorate conditions is not by direct frontal attacks of resentment or revenge, but by the education of their people and a stimulation of them to greater industry and economic success, so that it shall be the enlightened selfish policy of the controllers of public opinion in the south to welcome the industrial development of the race for the benefit of the whole south, white and black. **Learns Economic Interests.** The education of the Negro, defective as it is, is teaching him from day to day to know his rights, to understand his economic interests and to respond to them by action. He is learning that the is not as well paid in the south as he would be in the north. He is learning that the injustice which he suffers in the magistrates' courts and even in the other tribunals, and the danger of maltreatment and lynching by mobs, he can avoid in great measure by moving to a northern state. The investigation of the labor department shows that the recent migration of Negroes to the north that gave southerners so much concern, was in large part due to the causes mentioned. If it continues, as it is likely to, not in such swarms, but in a constant flow, the employers of labor in the south will have forced upon them the necessity for bettering the conditions which have caused this movement. This is a flank attack on the injustices of racial discrimination which is far more effective for real progress and reform than inflaming propaganda spread by Negro newspapers and speakers. The leaders who caution their people to prudence and self-restraint, to education and industry and to a better moral life, like Booker Washington and Major Moton, are the real benefactors of their race and real leaders. They feel as deeply the injustices by which this racial prejudice manifests itself as any member of their race, but they are wise in their generation. They have vision and they count upon the passion of their race for education as a means of preparing them to win their way to the recognition of their economic value and thus of their economic and legal rights from those whom only economic and selfish reasons can effect. The enemies of the Colored man at the south are, not the descendants of the former slave owners who were once the leaders of that section, and many of whom continue to be. The chief factor in dislike of the Negro is his old competitor, the poor white man of the south. Neither ever loved the other. Illiteracy in the south is not confined to the Negro. It is unduly large among the whites'. South Needs More Schools. The south is only just awakening to the necessity for great expenditure of great effort to afford not only the blacks, but to the whites, opportunities for education long denied them. Statistics reveal a discrimination against the Negro in educational opportunities offered as between him and the white man, but these are growing less, and they are not due wholly to racial prejudice, but to circumstances which it is difficult to overcome. The educated wealthier classes of the south are friends of the Negro, and, while many are supersensitive over fear of social equality, they recognize how valuable properly trained Negro labor is to the south, and they are anxious in every way to improve the condition of the race which makes up so large a part of their population. It is this kind of men and women in the south to whom the Negroes must look for the most effective assistance in their upward and onward course. Lynchings Most Depreciable. The horror of lynching sends a chill of despair through the well-wishers of the Negro in the south and the patriotic student of the social race question. It is difficult to measure the amount of this due to race feeling and that which should be attributed to mere brutal lawlessness in country communities where ignorance and vio- (Continued on Page Eight.) Vol. IV. No. 5u Colored Student Does Not Cheat Ninety-Eight White Dental Students Implicated in Most Disgraceful Examination Scandal; Purchase Stolen Question Papers. SINGLETON AND FLEMING ARE EXONERATED Only Two Who Are Permitted to Take the Examination; Pass With High Averages; Attorney General Excoriates Guilty Students; Threatens Prosecution; Singleton Omaha Boy, Graduate of High School and Howard University. LINCOLN, Neb., June 11.—Attorney General Clarence Davis and members of the State Dental Examining board sprung a sensation here last Friday, June 6, when they announced that examination papers, the basis of the test of 100 applications for dentists' licenses, had been stolen from the state house and sold to the applicants, most of whom are graduates of the University of Nebraska or Creighton university. At a dramatic meeting at the state house the attorney general threatened criminal prosecution against the guilty and demanded that the students divulge the names of the guilty. If a "clean breast" is not made he an- John Andrew Singleton, D. D. S. nounced that none of the applicants involved will be permitted to take another examination before the Nebraska board or that of any other state. Smiles Disappear. Many of the students entered the meeting with smiling faces. At the end they were plainly much disturbed. "I want every man who had nothing to do with this and who did not see the questions in advance of the examination to stand," said the attorney general. Only one man, the only Colored student present among the one hundred, John A. Singleton of Omaha, stood up and looked Attorney General Davis frankly and fearlessly in the face. "I understand," said the attorney general that there were two who were not parties to this disgraceful affair. "Stand up Fleming," shouted half a dozen and Paul Fleming of Wilsonville arose to his feet and addressed Mr. Davis. "I saw the questions," said he, "but I refused to buy them as soon as I saw what they were." "That's right," said a young man in the back part of the room. "I know he refused to take them. He is not to blame." The dental board permitted Singleton and Fleming to take the examination which they passed with high averages and were most highly complimented by the attorney general and examiners. All other students were proscribed. "Shameful Act." "This is one of the most shameful things that has ever occurred in any examination for professional privileges," said Attorney General Davis, speaking as the law-enforcing officer of the state and as a representative of the dental board. "Men unknown to us broke open a desk in the state house and stole the examination papers. It appears also that another set was stolen in Omaha two days previously. These papers were taken to a fraternity house in Lincoln and sold for from $2.50 to $5 to applicants for licenses. "The men who stole these papers were guilty of a criminal act and should go to the penitentiary. It is my intention to prosecute them and "Shameful Act." there is no nuisance of leniency if their identity is made known." The attorney general censured severely such acts by men as old as the applicants, graduates of reputable schools and applicants for the right to practice a profession vitally affecting the public health. The tests, he said, were designed to protect the public from incompetence and men who would seek to pass the examination by fraud could hardly ask to be considered fit to minister to the public. Members of the examining board are: Drs. F. A. Allen of Loup City, M. O. Fraser of Lincoln, J. H. Wallace of Omaha and F. Grieff of Sutton. After consultation with authorities it has been decided to permit the students to take their examination late in July. Dr. John Andrew Singleton, who is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Singleton of Omaha was born and reared in Nebraska's metropolis. He was educated in the schools of this city, graduating from the High school, where he received his commission as lieutenant of cadets. He was graduated from Howard university, college of dentistry, class of 1918, and enlisted in the medical reserve corps, but was not called to service. He passed successfully the Maryland state board last June and was licensed to practice. He was offered opportunities for practicing elsewhere, but the call of Nebraska was strong and he returned to Omaha a few months ago. He is now associated with his brother, Dr. Clarence H. Singleton, one of Omaha's most successful dentists in a well-appointed, up-to-date office on South Fourteenth street over the People's Drug store. EMINENT SPEAKERS AT CLEVELAND CONFERENCE Men of International Reputation to Participate in Tenth Anniversary Session of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY MAYOR DAVIS Moorfield Story, National President, Will Preside at Great Opening Mass Meeting—Emmett J. Scott, James Weldon Johnson and William Pickens Announced as Speakers. NEW YORK, June 12.—Mayor Harry L. Davis of Cleveland and Paul L. Feiss, president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, are to deliver addresses of welcome at the tenth anniver- sary conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people which opens in Cleveland on June 21 and will last through June 28. At this conference it is expected that announcement of a membership exceeding 100,000 throughout the United States will be made. "The Battlefield of America" is announced as the subject of the opening mass meeting on Sunday, June 22, which is to be addressed by Hon. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the secretary of war. Moorfield Storey, of Boston, is to preside at this meet- ing, and among the speakers are Jas. Weldon Johnson and Dean William Pickens of Morgan college, Baltimore. During May 22, five churches in Cleveland are to be thrown open to the conference and addresses are to be delivered by five members of the conference, four of them Colored. The speakers in the churches of Cleveland are to be Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of the Crisis; John R. Shillady, secretary of the association; James Weldon Johnson, Dean William Pickens and Dr. J. Max Barber of Philadelphia. Negro migration from south to north during the war, and the Negro in labor and industry are among the subjects on which speakers will deliver addresses. Among the prominent men and women who will speak are George E. Haynes, director of the bureau of Negro economics of the department of labor; Julia Lathrop, director of the federal children's bureau; Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Nation; Dr. E. T. Bosworth, acting president of Oberlin college; W. H. Phillips, mayor of Oberlin; Charles F. Thwing, president of Western Reserve university; E. H. Baker, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Professor George A. Towns of Atlanta university. A feature of the conference will be the presence of wounded Negro soldiers and Negro soldiers who have received medals and decorations. 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John Albert Williams, President Mrs. Jessie Hale Moss, Secretary --- --- --- THE MONITOR THE MONITOR THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and Madree Penn, Associate Editors. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor. Fred C. Williams, Business Manager. 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. THEN welcome each rebuff that turns earth's smoothness rough. Each sting that bids nor sit; nor stand; but go. Be our joys three parts pain; Learn, nor account the pang; Dare, never grudge the throe. —Browning. RADICAL AND CONSERVATIVE ONE AMONG A HUNDRED WE publish in this issue, from the Washington Post, a thoughtful and illuminating article on America's race problem written by William Howard Taft. The article is sympathetic and eminently fair. It states accurately and does not minimize the causes of just complaint upon the part of Colored Americans. Due recognition is given to the educational and economic phases of the question, and the writer is quite right in stating that migration, due to unjust conditions, will prove a strong factor in correcting certain abuses which have been most malignant in the South. Mr. Taft recognizes the fact, which all students of the race question must, that education and training have developed two classes of leaders, the radical and the conservative. "The first class resents so deeply the unfairness which racial prejudice leads to that they seek to end it by direct frontal attacks upon it and its consequences." The second class "are wise enough and noble enough and self-restrained enough clearly to see that they way to ameliorate conditions is not by direct frontal attacks of resentment or revenge, but by the education of their people and a stimulation of them to greater industry and economic success, so that it shall be the enlightened selfish policy of the controllers of public opinion in the South to welcome the industrial development of the race for the benefit of the whole South, white and black." It is very evident that the sympathies of the distinguished jurist and writer are with the conservatives rather than with the radicals. This is the typical attitude of many who give any thought to this subject. The judicial mind is characteristically conservative, and therefore one would natural- expect Mr. Taft to favor this school. It should be remembered that no reforms have ever come through conservatism. Radicalism forces reforms which conservatism may then conserve. It was radicalism and not conservatism that forced Magna Charta from the hands of King John for the CONSERVATION, if you please, of English liberty. It was radicalism and not conservatism that threw off the galling yoke of Great Britain and gave the coveted boon of independence to the American colonies. It was radicalism and not conservatism which overthrew slavery and preserved the union. And it will be radicalism and not conservatism that will overthrow the glaring and admitted injustice of American race prejudice. There must be "direct frontal attacks upon it." And these direct frontal attacks are being made by the so-called radicals. Nor must it be forgotten that many who are classed as conservatives, because they may not be so clamorous for rights denied as really belong to the radicals. The radicals are counselling "direct frontal attacks of resentment" and pitiless publicity, believing that the great majority of white Americans are sound at heart and believe in justice and only need to have injustice brought to their attention to make it right. Radicals are not, however, counselling "direct frontal attacks of revenge." Thoughts of revenge, thank God, never enter the heart of the Colored American. He is willing to present his case insistently and persistently at the bar of the American conscience, and this the radicals are determined to do. While making this demand the radicals, too, are urging their people to develop themselves in education, industry, thrift and character that they may show themselves worthy of the rights and privileges for which they are contending. Yes, the race has two classes of leaders, radicals and conservatives, and needs both; the former to secure rights and the latter to conserve them. Each has the same aim. They differ as to methods. Judge (to witness)—Why didn't you go to the help of the defendant in this fight? Witness—I didn't know which was going to be the defendant.—Boston Transcript. ONE AMONG A HUNDRED! ONE HUNDRED dental students were in Lincoln last week taking their examinations before the state examining board. Ninety-nine were white students and one Colored. They were graduates chiefly of leading educational institutions of the state where ethical standards are supposed to be high. The one Colored student is an alumnus of Howard university, one of the leading educational institutions of the race, whose standards for efficiency and morality are unsurpassed by any in the country. The students were supposed to be gentlemen. They were being examined as to their fitness to be admitted to practice an honorable profession vitally affecting the public health. The examinations were halted by a dramatic incident. Attorney General Davis and members of the examining board announced that it had been discovered that the examination questions had been stolen some days before and sold to the students then taking the examination for sums ranging from $2.50 to $5. He said, "I want every man who had nothing to do with this and who did not see the questions in advance of the examination to stand." Only one man arose and with head erect looked the attorney general of Nebraska frankly and fearlessly in the eye, and he was John Andrew Singleton of Omaha. With a redeeming sense of honor other students called for Paul Fleming of Wilsonville, Neb., to stand up. He did so. He said he had not stood up with Singleton because he had seen the papers but refused to have anything to do with them. These two men alone were permitted to take the examination. This incident speaks most eloquently. Singleton had not been taken into the plot for obvious reasons. But, knowing him as we do intimately and from infancy as a young man who hates falsehood and sham, we are confident that had he been shown the papers he would have done precisely what young Fleming did, who deserves unstinted credit for his courage, honestly and manliness. Both men passed excellent examinations and were complimented by the board. We are proud of both these young men. We are profoundly glad that John Andrew Singleton was the one man out of one hundred, and he a member of our race, who could honestly, fearlessly and truthfully say that he had no part nor lot in the dishonorable proceedings of his confreres of the vaunted inherent superior race, who thought to show their superiority by cheating. We hope that our people before whose attention this incident may come will realize the wisdom of always doing that which is honorable and right, and in whatever they may be engaged they will always stand upon their merit and never be guilty of falsehood, sham or wrong to attain any object, however solicitous they may be to attain it. Dr. John Andrew Singleton, we congratulate you and wish you heartiest Godspeed and success as you enter upon your chosen profession, in which, by study, diligence, application and persistent work, we hope you will rise to eminence. WOMAN SUFFRAGE WINS AFTERa persistent fight of nearly forty-five years' duration congress has adopted the suffrage resolution, submitting the nineteenth amendment to the states for ratification. It was approved by the house by a vote of 304 to 89 and in the senate by a vote of 56 to 25. Its passage was delayed in the senate by the opposition of anti-suffrage senators from the South. Their chief ground of opposition was their insane desire, which so dwarfs the vision of that fair section of our land, to restrict, if not wholly to eliminate, the franchise of Colored citizens. They could not see how they could grant the vote to white women and deny it to Colored women. However, the resolution has been passed and will be submitted to the states for their ratification. The THE MONITOR states will undoubtedly ratify the amendment. That women should have the right to vote is so eminently just that one marvels at the fierce opposition the effort to secure it has encountered. That the victory has at last been won shows that right will ultimately triumph. It was the patient, persistent, intelligent work of those who were labelled radicals which ultimately won the fight for woman's suffrage. ONE of the greatest powers in the world is kindness. The most hardened and obdurate have eventually been won by kindness. Then, too, kindness richly blesses him who shows it infinitely as much as it does him who receives it. It is not particularly easy to do it, but we can all do it if we really want to, and that is to meet and subdue harshness by kindness. Suppose we all honestly and sincerely try to overcome harshness and prejudice and unkindness by kindness. CONGRATULATIONS, GRADUATES THE MONITOR extends sincere congratulations to our boys and girls who are being graduated from high schools, academies and universities and are being promoted from the various grades. We hope that wherever your lot may be cast you will do whatever your hand finds to do with thoroughness, and that wherever you may be, in school or hospital or office or trade or busy mart, you will realize that true greatness lies in service. THE MONITOR congratulates Howard university upon securing for its official family the services of Emmett J. Scott and it congratulates Dr. Scott upon his call to an educational work which in its splendid opportunities for training for wise and efficient leadership he will find most congenial. COMMISSIONERS of Omaha, please wake up and give us that much-needed playground between Nicholas and Clark streets. The blue print PLANS are a real work of art, but give us the playgrounds, not the plans. What do you say, Mr. Falconer? What do you say, Mr. Towl? (By the Associated Negro Press.) Call of the Soul. THE call of the soul is expressed in a manner that is seldom seen in a short poem, written by Professor Pearson, vice president of the Georgia State Industrial college, and reproduced in a recent issue of the Southwestern Christian Advocate. The expression is worthy of the full page devoted to displaying it by the Southwestern, and cannot be too generally read and remembered. Here it is with the title: VOICE OF THE NEGRO SOLDIER When I return from foreign shade and shore, My native land with joy behold once more, If I have been a soldier true and brave Risked limb and life my country dear to save. Yea, nations all from autocratic greed That they be wholly free in state and creed— While Father, Mother made and conserved food And war bonds bought in loyal, cheerful mood— I will not ask for houses, favors, praise, As we resume the toil and peace of former days. But that you lift the cursed racial ban, Grant me the rights of any other man. Bombing the Bombers. There is nothing to gloat about in the amazing national, and international unrest, and the rioting, bombing and lynching going on in our fair land. It is a pity and a shame. However, the leaps and bounds with which the state of affairs is flaming up, may serve to stir the nation in such a way that our own troubles and misfortunes will be looked after. We have pleaded, and denounced, implored and warned, but our voices have seemingly passed into the vapor of oblivion. We are all against anarchy and lawlessness of any kind, and have always been. We are noted for being the least demonstrative under the greatest provocation. The virtue of our patience is one of the amazing chapters of American history. But every time one of us is lynched or mobbed, they who do it are only grinding the nation a little more closely to that uncivilized and disgraceful state called anarchy. The whole business of destruction must be stopped. BY KINDNESS COMMISSIONERS GIVE THE PERISCOPE Bombing the Bombers. A Negro Woman's Success. The life story of "Mme." Sarah J. Walker, the former St. Louis Negro washerwoman, who died Sunday after having built up a fortune of $1,000,000 as a business woman, is a striking lesson in opportunity as it exists in America. The woman was a child of a slave. She had no advantages in life. But she recognized the value of the opportunity of freedom and she used it. She began in a small way with an attic for a workshop, and she built a great business. The most striking fact in her life is that she won success through hard work and faith. She did not trust to luck. The story of this Negro woman's success should prove beyond all dispute that opportunity in America is unlimited. The world is filled with grumblers whose sole complaint and excuse for failure is that the "breaks" are always against them. Most people born of slave parents and washing at a tub for a meagre livelihood would be likely to consider the breaks of fortune against them. But success does not enter where it is not invited. Yet it is approachable to all and holds up no bars of color or class.—St. Louis Republic. THE VALUE OF ORGANIZATION We scarcely need further proof to convince us that the unorganized class gets the worst of everything. We see it on every hand. The rich form combines, the poor consumer pays the toll; the carpenters and plasterers get their wages raised, the public school teachers do not, and so on all along the line the organized groups get all the favors; the unorganized, unrepresented masses not only get no favors, but have to stand the cost of the favors shown the organized groups. When the government took over the railroads it promptly raised the wages of organized employees, but who paid for it? Why, the unorganized traveling public and the shippers. Every successful wage strike is paid for by the gentle public. The men at the wheel see to it that they always come out the right end of the horn. All of this increases the cost of living to be paid by millions who had not shared in any increase of income. We are no different than any other racial group, and if this line of procedure has proven to be the most successful it behooves us to adopt it instanter and get in the band wagon of success so that we may keep up with the parade. It has been our policy in the past to attempt to rise individually. Some of us have succeeded, but real success is not measured by selfish rules and unless as we rise we take our neighbor with us no matter to what heights we attain we are as low as the least among us. Of all groups we are in need of organization the most. Twelve million strong we could demand what we now plead for. We could resist many of the indignities now heaped upon us. First, let every wage earner join, if possible, a union. But their duty does not end there. They must with the other members of their group join such national organizations as the Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban league or one or two other similar bodies which have for their sole object the uplift of our group. This is a duty that we not only owe ourselves but owe all others who suffer with us. The idea that fair treatment is obtainable without class organization is fully recognized among the thinking men and women of the day. We have been lacking in that clannishness so dominant in such racial groups as the Jews and Japanese. A unity of purpose, a one for all and all for one policy has brought them to the high ground upon which they stand today. Ignorance has kept us where it has kept all other classes subjugated. It is not the white man's business nor his purpose to pull us out of the mire. This task is strictly up to us. We are the carvers of our own destiny. Our duty is plain. To row up stream means work. Let those who are content to drift, drift on into obscurity. The drones in every swarm sooner or later fall by the wayside, but those who stick together and work for the common good of all find that the end justifies the means.—The Chicago Defender. MEDICAL FIRM HAS WELL: Drs. J. Boston Hill and Amos P. Madison have gone to considerable expense in remodelling, refitting and decorating their handsome suite of offices at Twenty-fourth and Hamilton streets. Last Wednesday night they were inspected by the doctors, dentists and other professional men, who were entertained at a smaker by these two devoted disciples of Aesculapius. All were loud in their praises not only of the hospitality of their genial and generous hosts, but also of their handsome, convenient and well-appointed offices. The suite consists of a large common waiting or reception room and private offices and consultation rooms. PRESS GLEANINGS 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. For ninety days only will ship to all new agents $10.00 worth of DUDLEY'S FAMOUS POLISH for $5.00. Save time. Just inclose five dollars and your address in full and a shipment will be made the same day we get your order to Live Wire Agents. Hit the iron while it is hot. Write for an order. 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. We are as near to you as your telephone with every convenience at hand. Calls promptly attended at all hours. ALLEN JONES Res. Phone Web. 204. JONES Funeral Parlors 2314 North 24th Street Expert Licensed Embalmers and Drawn Vehicles. Lady Attenda We are as near to you as you hand. Calls promptly attended at J. D. HINES 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. 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. An Up-to-Date Store. 1411 North 24th Street. Prompt Delivery. W. 241. Maceo T. WILLIAMS Concert Violinist and Teacher STUDIO, 2416 BINNEY ST. Webster 3028. Eureka Furniture Store Complete Line of New and Second Hand Furniture PRICES REASONABLE Call Us When You Have Any Furniture to Sell 1417 N. 24th St. Web. 4206 THE WASHINGTON - DOUGLAS INVESTMENT CO. BONDS, INVESTMENTS, RENTALS AND FARM LANDS Phone Webster 4206. 1417 North 24th St. Dealer in New and Second-Hand Furniture and Stoves. Household Goods Bought and Sold. Rental and Real Estate. 2522 Lake St. Webster 908 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 Little King Hotel 2615 N Street Steam Heated. Open All Night. Room by Day or Week. Meals at All Hours. MRS. ELIZABETH HILL, Prop. Phone South 3195. S. W. MILLS FURNITURE CO. We sell new and second hand furniture, 1421 North 24th St. Webster 148. 24th and Charles. DR. P. W. SAWYER DENTIST Tel. Doug, 7150; Web. 3636 220 South 13th St. JOHN HALL PROGRESSIVE TAILOR 1614 N. 24th St. Web. 875. 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. Watchmaking, Engraving, Jewelry Repairing. 501 Security Bldg., Omaha Phone Tyler 3299-W V. F. KUNCL MEAT MARKET The Oldest Market in the City. Tel. Douglas 1198 1244 So. 13th St. Omaha Petersen & Michelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N St. Tel. South 162 EVERYBODY'S DRUG STORE We Deliver Anywhere. Webster 386. Omaha, Neb. Established 1890 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 United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Fernam Streets We Have a Complete Line of FLOWER,GRASS AND GARDEN Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry Supplies 119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 F. WILBERG BAKERY Across from Alhambra Theatre The Best Is None Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 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 OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE For a Neat Home or Shop Use E-SEN-O FURNITURE POLISH It satisfies; try it and be convinced. The Specialties Brokerage Mfg. Co. 2537 Patrick Ave. Web. 2132. BENJAMIN & LEE Shoe Repairers 1415 North 24th St. First class work; reasonable prices. Note—Coleman Dangerfield no longer connected with this firm. Events and Persons NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE The Negro Business League meets every Friday night at the office of Jones & Reed. All business men and women are invited to attend. Mary Liverpool, Hazel Roulette, Elsie Hills and Vivian Douglass returned last Thursday from Western University, Quindaro, where they are students, to spend their vacation with their parents. They are quite enthusiastic over their school life. Dillard Crawford won a medal at the Commercial High school for excellence in drill. Smoke John Ruskin cigar. Worthington Williams enters Central High school from Kellom school. Mr. J. J. Wells is reported ill. Mrs. Melvina Gaines is at Lord Lister hospital. Miss Marjeta White of 2425 Erskine street left Wednesday for a visit with relatives in her former home, New York City. Mrs. Joseph Abercrombie, late of Price & Killingsworth's barber shop, left Tuesday for an extensive trip with friends in California. Miss Pearl Ray and Miss Ozelia Dunning graduate from Central High and will be given their diplomas at the City Auditorium Friday night. E. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 640 Bee Building. Douglas 3841.—Adv. Mrs. Eunice Hill is at University hospital. Mrs. C. Bailey is ill at her home, 2304 North 29th street. Sam Reeves of the reserve labor battalion, Camp Grant, has been discharged and has returned to the city. He is happy over his discharge and glad to be back home. He speaks in the highest terms of Colonel Young, whom he says, "was a real father to the Colored boys." Wanted a barber. Good proposition for the right man. 1918 Cuming street. Have you joined the N. A. A. C. P. yet? Why not? Membership drive is still on. Merrs. Foster, Woods, Hardy, Dawson and Harris actcompanied the Shriners' special to the convention at Indianapolis. Harry W. Bowen, medical detachment 317 ammunition train, returned last Thursday from overseas. He was with the Ninety-second division and saw service in the Argonne, Vosges and Metz sector. Sergt. M. G. Shishuba left Monday for Chicago where he will attend an African students' convention, of which association he was the organizer. He expects to be gone for a week or ten days. Houses for sale in all parts of the city. Tel. Douglas 2842 or Webster 5519. Guy B. Robbins. James G. Jewell is the proud owner of a fine Cadillac touring car which he purchased this week. Mrs. Ruth Wallace will entertain the Misses Pearl Ray and Ozelia Dunning, of the class of 1919 Central high school, at her residence June 21. Mrs. Nellie Gordan has gone to her old home at Jacksonville, Ill., for a brief visit. Mrs. H. J. Crawford of the Drake apartments is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John W. Pinkston in Chicago. Mrs. Cora D. Williams of Kansas City, Mo., is the guest of Mrs. Maggie Brown, 2875 Wirt street. She is agent of the Poro college and would like for all Poro agents to meet her Monday night at Mrs. Brown's residence. Get a new Subscriber for The 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. Be sure and see the beautiful living pictures at the close of the musicale given by the pupils of Mrs. J. Alice Stewart at Zion Baptist church, Tuesday, June 17. Be sure to attend the social of the Helpers' club at the residence of Mrs. Dan Desdunes, 2516 Burdette street, June 23. Adv 2t The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Philip's church will give a social Thursday evening, June 19, at the residence of Mrs. R. T. Walker, 2423 Maple street. DEMONSTRATION FOR N. W. C. A. In the beautifully equipped cafeteria of Zion Baptist church a grand demonstration will be given June 20 by the leading cateresses of the city for the benefit of the N. W. C. A. home. Every woman should attend and be interested enough to bring two with her. Bring a tablet and pencil for recipes will be worth keeping. THE MONITOR THE N. A. A. C. P. ELECTS DELEGATES TO CLEVELAND COND The Rev. Dr. E. H. McDonald, a prominent Baptist minister of Pittsburg, Pa.. was presented to the association and made a brief and most happy acknowledgement of his introduction. POLLYANNA DANCING SCHOOL OPENS AUSPICIOUSLY The Pollyanna dancing school which Mesdames Brown, Buford and Miss Lena Paul are conducting at the Socialist hall, Twenty-first and Cuming street opened last Saturday afternoon with twenty-five pupils. Many of the parents were present and promoters, pupils and parents were all pleased with the auspicious opening. The school will be held every Saturday afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock and pupils from the ages of five to sixteen are admitted. PITTSBURG WEDDING INTERESTS OMAHANS The marriage of Miss Eleanor Pulpress, daughter of Mrs. Belle Pulpress of Pittsburg, Pa., to Mr. William Garnett Haynes, formerly of Washington, D. C., but now of Omaha, was solemnized in the Episcopal church of the Holy Cross, Pittsburg, Monday, June 2, by the Rev. Shelton Bishop, rector, in the presence of about thirty guests. The attachment which has resulted in this happy union began when Mr. Haynes was a student of the University of Pittsburg, where he specialized in chemistry and of which institution he is an honor graduate. The bride is a member of one of Pittsburg's first families and is a young woman of culture and refinement. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes will be at home after September 1, at 1119 North Twenty-first street. The Monitor extends congratulations. Mrs. Stewart's Pupils in Recital. A recital will be given by the pupils of Mrs. J. Alice Stewart at Zion Baptist church, Tuesday evening, June 17. CONDOLENCE COMMITTEE REPORTS Lewaro, Irvington on the Hudson, New York. My Dear Mrs. Robinson: The Omaha branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, do hereby tender their heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family of Madame Sarah J. Walker, who passed away on the 25th day of May, 1919, at Lewaro, Irvington on the Hudson, New York. Madame Walker conceived and achieved a success that is remarkable and distinctive. She was ambitious and proved herself to be a woman who was a financier of the first rank. Her financial success, which was pronounced, and her fortune, which was colossal, are not the things which made her great. It was rather, the rare, sweet, simple spirit of the woman—the spirit of sympathy and helpfulness, and race loyalty. This is the thing that endeared her to all and has made of her life an incentive and an inspiration. "It has pleased Almighty God to remove from our midst, and call from a wondrous labor to a just reward, your mother and our friend. It is easy to offer words of sympathy to those in sorrow; it is harder to fully suffer with them, but all of America mourns the passing of Madame Walker. Her portrait will ever be a vision before them. Your loss is great; your grief greater; but greatest of all is the solace which comes from the abiding faith that what is the soul of Madame Walker shall never die. Comforting indeed are those words of Tennyson. We send them to you believing that their message will cheer you: Strong Son of God, immortal love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Though wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him; thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee. And thou, O Lord, art more than they. Very sincerely yours, committee: MADREE PENN, Secretary. MRS. J. ALICE STEWART. MRS. HAZEL TERRY LEWIS. MR. NATE HUNTER. MR. M. F. SINGLETON. FOR SALE—A nice home for Colored family; easy terms. Call at 1809 North 24th st. Diamond Theatre THURSDAY Mrs. Charley Chaplin (Mildred Harris) "FOR HUSBANDS ONLY" A drama for the whole family. And Comedy. FRIDAY— Olive Fell in "SECRET STRINGS" Marie Wolcamp in "THE RED GLOVE" SATURDAY— Harry Carey in "BARE FISTS" Harry's Latest Hit. And Comedy. SUNDAY— Catharine Barrymore in "THE HOUSE OF MIRTH" Billy West in "THE STRANGER" And Comedy. ALHAMBRA THURSDAY and FRIDAY— EXTRA SPECIAL Wm. Farnum in "FOR FREEDOM" Arbuckle Comedy SATURDAY— Virginia Pearson in "THE LOVE THAT DARES" Pathe News. Comedy. SUNDAY— Frank Keenan in "TODD OF THE TIMES" Pathe News. Sunshine Comedy. MONDAY and TUESDAY— Gladys Brockwell in "PITFALLS OF A BIG CITY" COMING— Thursday and Friday, June 26-27 "MICKEY" Electric In every home in Omaha, and w in view we will Allow You On For your old gas, electric or s purchase price of our best Electr Irons come equipped with six-f to use. GET ONE Nebraska Power "YOUR ELECTRIC SERVICE Electric Iron Allow You One Dollar GET ONE NOW Nebraska Power Co. PHONES Tyler Three One Hundred. South Three. Trade with a fine appreciates Patronage Good Merchandise Reasonable Price Courteous T Trade with a firm that appreciates your Patronage Good Merchandise Reasonable Prices Courteous Treatment HEAD QUARTERS STETSON HATS P. S.—We advertise in The Monitor because because we have to. The Monarch Billiard LEROY C. BROOMFIELD, P. Latest improved tables. A pleasant place tion. Full line of cigars and tobacco. Free Employment Bureau Ma 109 South 14th Street. P. S.—We advertise in The Monitor because we find it pays and not because we have to. BILLIARD Latest improved tables. A pleasant place for an evening's recreation. Full line of cigars and tobacco. Free Employment Bureau Maintained. 109 South 14th Street. Douglas 3578. EVERY MONDAY EVEN At the ORPHEUM GARDEN, 15 Music by Adams Jazz Band and Sa Don't miss this feature as well as the ping the light fantastic toe in the ball room in the ci 8 p. m. to 1 a. m. ADM W. B. Wallace, President W. H. (B) Music by Adams Jazz Band and Saxophone Quartet Don't miss this feature as well as the opportunity of tripping the light fantastic toe in the best appointed ball room in the city. 8 p. m. to 1 a. m. ADMISSION 50 CENTS W. B. Wallace, President W. H. (Bob) Robinson, Sec'y. The House of Courtesy. 24th and Parker Sts. WE WANT TO PLACE AN Electric Iron in every home in Omaha, and with that objec in view we will Now You One Do For your old gas, electric or sad iron on the purchase price of our best Electric iron. The irons come equipped with six-foot cord rea to use. GET ONE NO Nebraska Power YOUR ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY In every home in Omaha, and with that object in view we will For your old gas, electric or sad iron on the purchase price of our best Electric iron. These Irons come equipped with six-foot cord ready to use. "YOUR ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY" ade with a firm th appreciates your Patronage Good Merchandise Reasonable Prices Courteous Treatn WASHINGTON J.KATLEMAN & SONS HAT AND SHIRT CO. We advertise in The Monitor because we find it pard we have to. The Monarch Billiard Park LEROY C. BROOMFIELD, Proprietor improved tables. A pleasant place for an evening line of cigars and tobacco. Free Employment Bureau Maintained. 14th Street. DANCING The Monarch Billiard Parlor DANCING TELL-A-FELLOW-BALL-GRAM CLUB EVERY MONDAY EVENING at the ORPHEUM GARDEN, 15th and Harriet by Adams Jazz Band and Saxophone Quintet pass this feature as well as the opportunity to the light fantastic toe in the best appoin- ball room in the city. 1 a. m. ADMISSION 50 Wallace, President W. H. (Bob) Robinson EVERY MONDAY EVENING At the ORPHEUM GARDEN, 15th and Harney j Now Showing New Silk Shirts and Fancy Hosiery 6 A 1930 Kiddies' Korner DADDY'S EVENING FAIRY TALE By Mary Graham Bonner © BY THE AUTHOR of whispering going on, when from quite high up, on some hanging ferns, the pitcher plants began to talk." "What in the world are the pitcher plants?" asked the children. "They are plants that are shaped just like pitchers and they really can do the work of pitchers. That is, they can hold water, and I suppose they could hold milk too, though they are not given that to drink." THE PITCHER PLANTS. Both the children laughed, and Daddy continued. "It was a rainy day," said Daddy, "and inside the botanical houses it 'We are so interesting,' they said. And all the other shrubs and bushes nodded their heads and agreed. "Oh, Daddy," said the children, laughing, "please tell us what botanical means." And what hard work it was for them to say "botanical." Rain "When any strangers come in here,' continued the pitcher plants, 'they always ask what we are. They think we are quite the most unusual things they have ever seen. And it is true, for we are.'" "But what is the point of being so proud because you can hold water?" asked the others. "Botany," said Daddy, "is the study of plants and flowers, and botanical houses are where the plants and flowers are kept that belong to the city park. All winter long there were flowers and A a little crossly. "Point indeed," said the pitcher plants proudly. You might as well go and ask a pitcher what is the point of being able to hold anything. We can hold water. All the rest of you have to let the water run right off. We can hold it, and have our own little supply. We are a private, special dining room for fresh water drinking. See? We are still full of water and you are all only We Can Hold the city park. All Water. winter long there were flowers and ferns and bushes in these houses. And it was always warm in there. "When spring came a great many of the plants were put out into the park, but still a number of the big green shrubs and plants stayed inside. "This day was very rainy, and as of course the rain couldn't get in on the plants the keeper had given the flowers and shrubs an extra watering so they wouldn't feel bad, seeing the rain dropping outside. Paid More Attention to the Goldfish. Paid More Attention to the Goldfish. "They were feeling very fresh and happy and they were looking very handsome. damp because you were watered a little while ago. And we're strong. We are not hard to look after. We just are so happy and proud that we can hold water that we grow stronger all the time. And the greatest honor of all is our name—the pitcher plants, because we are like pitchers—far finer than cups and saucers or plates." "There were great, tall bushes, and some of them were strange looking. You see, in these botanical houses they had many flowers and plants of other countries which they treated and looked after in just such a way. But many of them were plants that could not have grown out in this climate and so they were always inside. Many people used to come and admire them. "And none of the shrubs could think of a thing to say!" "Of course on this rainy day the plants and flowers were pretty much alone. A few people had wandered in to see them, and one little boy and little girl had walked all around. HASTINGS, NEB. Mrs. Kinkaid of Grand Island spent Sunday visiting Mrs. George Gates Jr. "But they had paid a great deal more attention to the goldfishes swimming in a make-believe brook than they did to the plants. Mr. Hudson left, for St. Joseph, Mo., last week on a visit. Miss Florence Bridges returned to Omaha after spending a few days with her brother's family. "I am so handsome," said the fern tree. "You are indeed," said the maiden hair ferns. They were so beautiful themselves that they could well afford to admire the others. Mr. Harry Bridges returned home Monday evening from Camp Funston where he received his discharge from the service. "It really is quite remarkable the way ferns grow all over me, and yet I am a tree." Mr. George Gates Sr., who was taken ill at his home, south of town, was removed to the home of his son, George Gates Jr., in town. He is resting somewhat better at this writing. "Yes," said the maiden hair ferns, 'it is really quite astonishing. 'You look so very peculiar and so very fine with the ferns coming out all over you. And yet, at the same time, as you say, you are a tree. If ferns grow out of the earth or in the tiny places in rocks it is not so surprising, but on a big tree such as you are, it is very magnificent.' Mrs. Noble Simmons and daughter Dorothy of North Platte, Neb., are spending the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Huff. Mr. Arthur Gates, who was struck by an automobile one day last week is reported to be resting somewhat better at this writing. "All the other shrubs and plants be gan to talk and there was a great deal Mrs. Arthur Horton has returned from Wichita, Kas., where she has been on a visit to her daughter. Do Your Trading at the PALACE Clothing Co. S. E. Cor. 14th and Douglas Sts. 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. WE HAUL ANYTHING Gordon Auto Express 2732 Charles Street. Phones Web. 4206, 3110 Mr. C. E. Briscoe, Charlie Harris and James McKenzie spent the latter part of last week visiting in Grand Island. PALESTINE, TEXAS. Sunday was a high day at all the churches, and good services were held at all the churches. The Rev. E. M. Jones, field secretary of the Sunday schools of the Methodist Episcopal church, was at St. Paul M. E. church and made things hum while here. Rev. S. M. Bolden preached the graduating sermon Sunday at St. Paul M. E. church to a crowded house. The health of the people is getting alright now that we are having some fine weather. Dr. W. R. Roberts is preparing to go to Dallas for the grand lodge of the K. of P.'s. Rev. A. W. Keith was a visitor at the office recently. The High school had its commencement at the city hall and had a good house. One of the graded schools had its commencement on Monday night at the city hall and another of the graded schools had its commencement at the Antioch Baptist church Tuesday night. We're all great on sayin' "The devil's to pay," an' never payin' him. A feller wouldn't have to walk across the street to settle with him, as he's always close enough to give us a dig in the ribs, or pat us on the back, an' tell us we're the finest he ever made! -Atlanta Constitution. The kids will be loose on the town for awhile. Everybody is preparing to go to Cuney on the 19th of June for a big time. Remember that Cuney is a Negro town about two years old, and is coming to the front. Nothing but Negroes at this place where there is a nice hotel, two grocery stores, one drug store, a real estate man and one doctor. Mrs. H. L. Price was in town today and returned to her home. South Ore Have quite aranged In The Center big job. T in the home Work are expect carefully the meeting Lincoln Department A very interesting meeting was held last Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Margaret Williams. Fourteen members being present. Being purely a business meeting, plans were discussed for the holding of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in Lincoln this year. The date for the conference will be June 24, 25, 26. At the close of the meeting a delicious luncheon was served by the hostess. A play entitled, "The Sunbonnets," was given by the Camp Fire Girls at McKinley Center last Thursday evening. Just preceding the play itself a dance of the camp fire was given by the junior Camp Fire Girls. A solo was rendered while they danced by Miss Mattie Smith. The play was of two acts and was introduced by Miss Mary Nelson. Miss Gertrude Jones took the leading part as Mrs. Butterfield and played her part with as much ease as though she was really accustomed to the stage. Too much praise cannot be given her. Miss Alberta Saunders as Mrs. Dubois was exceptionally good, while Miss Edna Wilford as Emily displayed all the true characteristics of a mischevious child. Miss Eltra Saunders as Miss Sanford, handled her part very well. Miss Edna Carter as Miss Melvina Spinney was very interesting in her refined and yet pleasing manner. The other members of the cast were: Miss Edna Hubbard, Miss Viola Lyone; Miss Erma Easley, Miss Frances Hill; Miss Bernice Lyons, Isetta Easley. The proceeds of this play were given to the Old Folks home. Mrs. S. Wilford of 902 S street, had as her guest last week, Mrs. R. G. Wells, of Quincy, Ill. Mr. J. D. Bowen had a very pleasant surprise for his many friends when he returned home last week with his bride, formerly Miss Virgil Gaskin. They were married in Cheyenne, Wyo., June 2, at the home of the bride's parents. Immediately following the ceremony, they left for a short tour about Denver, Colo., and Kansas City, where they were met by Mr. Bowen's sister, Mrs. Lulu Abner, who returned home with them. The bride is a very charming young lady and an accomplished musician. She is no stranger to the people here as she visited here two years ago, making many friends. The groom is one of Lincoln's most industrious young men. They both have the heartiest congratulations of the community. Mr. and Mrs. Bowen are now at home to their many friends at 1600 North 22d avenue. Children's Day was observed at the A. M. church Sunday with a large attendance both morning and evening. The men's rally day which was not closed last Sunday because of the bad weather, was closed Children's Day with a favorable report. All of the cards being turned in totaling a collection of something over $400. Mr. Arthur Bell, formerly of Lincoln, but now of Plainfield, O., is visiting old friends here. Just before Mr. Bell made his departure from here a few years ago, he was in the employ of the Burlington, but he now favors us with the report that he is a member of the board of directors of the Union Savings and Loan Association of Plainfield. Mrs. Lorene Dorsey entertained at her home 714 South 11th street last Friday complimentary to Mrs. R. G. Wells of Quincy, Ill. The out of town guests were Mrs. J. D. Bowen, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Mrs. Leon Prewitt of Arizona. TOPEKA DISTRICT—LINCOLN CONFERENCE M. E. CHURCH Mound City, Kas., June 12. Ft. Scott, Kas., June 15-16. Grand Island, Neb., June 19, 1-2 combined. Hastings, Neb., June 20, 1-2 combined. Lincoln, Neb., June 21-22 combined. Bonner Springs, Kas., June 28-29. Rosedale, Kas., June 29-30. Salina, Kas., June 6-7. Alma, Kas., July 8-10. Topeka, Kas., Mt. Olive, July 12-13. S. S. and E. P. L. Convention Bonner Springs, Kas., July 16-18. Topeka, Kas., Asbury, M. E. Wichita, Kas., July 23-25. Manhattan, Kas., July 26-27. Clay Center, Kas., July 26-28. District Conference—Dunlap, Kas., July 31-August 3. Pueblo, Colo., August 9-10. Colorado Springs, Colo., August 16- 17. Denver, Colo., August 23-24. Omaha, Neb., August 29-31. 1919—Second Round South Omaha, Neb., August 30-31. Have quarterly conference business arranged for before the date above. The Centenary payments are now the big job. The Southwestern must be in the home of every member. Work and success and not excuses are expected. Let all the reports be carefully written and prepared before the meeting of your quarterly conference. GRIFFIN G. LOGAN. Res. 1628 N. 22d St., Omaha, Neb. Phone Webster 5003. When you don't receive your Monitor please drop us a card. A soft answer turneth away wrath. For First Class Service Call SAFETY FIRST TAXI C. R. Bovd, Prop. 12 a. m. to 12 p. m. Web. 208. 12 p. m. to 4 a. m. Tyler 4591-J. Residence phone Colfax 4247. Prices Right to All. T. Hutchison First Class Tonsorial Parlors Best Workmanship Guaranteed Billiard Parlor in Connect. 1304 North 24th. Web. 3990 Phone Douglas 3181 J. H. Phillips, O. D. EYE SPECIALIST 2422 Burt St. Omaha, Neb. HEINS RESTAURANT 1011 Capitol Ave. Home Cooked Meals Our Specialty. SMITH HEINS, Proprietor. We Operate the One Minute Shining Parlor Chairs for Ladies. Auto Truck and Transfer 1919 Cuming St. Phone Doug. 3157; Web. 2340. 24201/2 Cuming Street Give Us Your Business Great Western Cleaning Co. Two-Piece Suits Cleaned and Pressed $1.00. 2707 Lake St. Phone Web. 634. SCIENTIFIC DENOVA TREATMENT Grows and Beautifies the Hair Correspondence course offered. Diplomas Granted. Agents wanted everywhere. Address— MME. A. J. AUSTIN, 4911 North 42d Street, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Colfax 642. Ideal Button & Pleating Co. 300-310 Brown Bldg., 16th and Douglas Streets. Opposite Brandeis Stores. OMAHA, NEB. 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 Blondo St., Omaha, Neb. Douglas 3889 Autos Everywhere Empire Cleaners and Dyers 1726 St. Mary's Avenue. CABINET MAKING, Furniture Repairing, Mattress Renovating Douglas 864. H1917 Stump C. GREEN & GREEN ```markdown ``` PLEATING BUTTONS HEMSTITCHING EMBROIDERING BRAIDING and BEADING BUTTONHOLES DUNBUR Thompson, npson, Belden & The Fashion Center for Women CHICAGO Established 1886 CAGO LAUNI UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Desires You 1509 CAPIT Phone Douglas 2972 J. G. L. KAS For Hair "It Can" esires Your Patronage 1509 CAPITOL AVENUE phone Douglas 2972 and Wagon Will Ca J. G. LOHLEIN. KASHMIR r Hair and S "It Can't Be Beat" Desires Your Patronage 1509 CAPITOL AVENUE Phone Douglas 2972 and Wagon Will Call. J. G. LOHLEIN. Clear, smooth skin and pretty soft hair are so easy if you learn "The Kashmir Kashmir means be sale at all Drug Beauty Shops, or AGENTS W Kashmir Whitener Famous Skin P Kashmir Hair Be The wonder Hair Kashmir Cream H A new liquid C "Swell Kashmir Cream H FREE Illustrated De Luxe Beauty Book. Tells all about the 9 Kashmir Preparations and "The Kashmir Way" FREE KASHMIR CHEMICAL CO., De FOR S People's Drug Store, 111 Sou Williamson Pharmacy, 2306 N Vella Curtis, Box 7, Audacious Mrs. Chas. Harper, 304 Penn LOOK FOR OUR AGEN CHEMICAL CO., Dept. 32, 312 S. Clark St. FOR SALE BY Big Store, 111 South 14th St., Omaha, Pharmacy, 2306 North 24th St., Omaha Box 7, Audacious, Neb. Harper, 304 Penna St., Riverton, Neb. BOOK FOR OUR AGENT IN YOUR TOWN Dr. Britt Douglas 73 People's Drug Store, 111 South 14th St., Omaha, Neb. Williamson Pharmacy, 2306 North 24th St., Omaha, Neb. Vella Curtis, Box 7, Audacious, Neb. Mrs. Chas. Harper, 304 Penna St., Riverton, Neb. LOOK FOR OUR AGENT IN YOUR TOWN. Pope D Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, PRESCRIPTIONS Pope Drug Co. Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. 13th and Farnam Streets. Omaha, Neh H. DO FURNITURE AND HARDWARE Better Goods for Less Mo OPEN H 1839-47 N. 24th St. Phones- H. DOLGOFF FURNITURE AND HARDWARE STOVES, RUGS, LINOLEUM Better Goods for Less Money. Credit if You Wish. OPEN EVENINGS 1839-47 N. 24th St. Phones—Webster 1607; Webster 4825 Telephone Douglas 2672. FRANK SVOBODA Monuments. Headstones, etc 1215 South 13th St., Omaha. , Belden & Co. O LAUNDRY Your Patronage CAPITOL AVENUE 2972 and Wagon Will Call. G. LOHLEIN. SHMIR ir and Skin can't Be Beat" "The Kashmir Way" Kashmir means beauty. For sale at all Drug Stores and Beauty Shops, or write us. AGENTS WANTED Kashmir Whitener Famous Skin Preparation. Kashmir Hair Beautifier The wonder Hair Pomade. Kashmir Cream Balm A new liquid Cold Cream, "Swell" Kashmir Cream Powder 5 shades. at the REE 50c each; 8c postage D., Dept. 32, 312 S. Clark St., CHICAGO R SALE BY South 14th St., Omaha, Neb. 96 North 24th St., Omaha, Neb. Jucious, Neb. Penna St., Riverton, Neb. AGENT IN YOUR TOWN. Dr. Britt Upstairs Douglas 7812 and 7150 Drug Co. Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. ONS OUR SPECIALTY. OLGOFF FURNITURE STOVES, RUGS, LINOLEUM s Money. Credit if You Wish. IN EVENINGS ones—Webster 1607; Webster 4825 Omaha, Nebraska Among the Churches CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP THE DEACON Rev. John Albert Williams, Pastor. Wednesday of this week, St. Barnabas' day was the twenty-eighth anniversary of the pastor's ordination to the diaconate and Sunday will be the twenty-eighth anniversary of his first service here after his ordination. Father Williams' entire ministry has been spent in this city, where he is the ranking clergyman in length of St. James A. M. E. Church FREMONT, NEB. SERVICES SERVICES Sunday School every Sunday, 10 a. m.; Preaching, second and fourth Sundays, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. REV. J. W. STAPLETON, Pastor Residence 2315 Madison Street. Phone South 2571. Residence 2315 Madison Street. Phone South 2571. Omaha THERE'S A M FOR YOU Bethel B Chur 29th and T Sts. SERVIC Sunday school, Song service, 1 Preaching serv m.; 8 p. Rev. Thomas A Pastor 2120 North ALLEN CHAPEL A. N CHAPEL A. M. E. CHU ALLEN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH ALLEN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH 5233 South 25th Street SERVICES Preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday sch Allen Endeavor, 7 p. m.; preaching, t Class meetings Friday nights. SERVICES reaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday school, 1 p. n Endeavor, 7 p. m.; preaching, 8 p. m. ass meetings Friday nights. SERVICES Preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday school, 1 p. m.; Allen Endeavor, 7 p. m.; preaching, 8 p. m. Class meetings Friday nights. J. A. BROADNAX, P. C. Phone South 3475. Pleasant Green Baptist Chur sant Green Baptist Ch Pleasant Green Baptist Church Twenty-second and Paul Streets REV. JOHN COSTELLO, PASTOR. SERVICES Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; morning service and pre- B. Y. P. U., 5:30 p. m.; evening service and pre- Prayer meeting, Wednesday night; class meeting Women's Missionary Society, Tuesday afternoon at 3 Pilgrim Rest Baptist SERVICES school, 9:30 a. m.; morning service and preaching U., 5:30 p. m.; evening service and preaching meeting, Wednesday night; class meeting Fri Missionary Society, Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. 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. Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church 26th and Franklin Streets REV. WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Pastor well Street. We SERVICES School, 10 a. m.; morning service and preaching, U., 6 p. m.; evening service and preaching, 8 p. meeting Wednesday night; Women's Missionary Sunday, 4 p. m. 2629 Caldwell Street. SERVICES Sunday School, 10 a. m.; morning service B. Y. P. U., 6 p. m.; evening service a Prayer meeting Wednesday night; 1st and 3d Sunday, 4 p. m. SERVICES Sunday School, 10 a. m.; morning service and preaching, 11 a. m. B. Y. P. U., 6 p. m.; evening service and preaching, 8 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night; Women's Missionary Society, 1st and 3d Sunday, 4 p. m. A Church Where All Are Welcome Services Sunday School, 10 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m., 8 p. m. League, 6:30 p. m. Florence P. Leavitt Club, Monday afternoon. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday Evening. Church of St. Phil (EPISCOPA ch of St. Philip the De Church of St. Philip the Deacon (EPISCOPAL) Twenty-first Between Nicholas and Paul Sts. REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, PRIEST Sunday services, 7:30, 10 and 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. COME. YOU ARE WELCOME. CHURCH OF ST. BENE (Catholic) MASS—$ a. m., First Sunday in every m. Third Sunday in every month. Services to Heart Chapel, Twenty-second and Binney y. REV. FRANCIS CASSILLE CHURCH OF DIV. Inter-Denominational 26th and Franklin Preaching, 11 a. m., 7:30 p. m.; $ Prayer and conference meeting g. REV. A. WAGNER, Pastor CHURCH OF ST. BENEDICT THE M. (Catholic) 28 a. m., First Sunday in every month. BENEDICTIC day in every month. Services to be held temporaril eal, Twenty-second and Binney Streets. Everybody REV. FRANCIS CASSILLY, S. J., Pastor. CHURCH OF DIVINITY Denominational People's M. 26th and Franklin Streets Teaching, 11 a. m., 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school, 1:15 player and conference meeting every Thursday 8 p. REV. A. WAGNER, Pastor and G. O. P. CHURCH OF ST. BENEDICT THE MOOR MASS-$ a. m., First Sunday in every month. BENEDICTION-$ p. m., Third Sunday in every month. Services to be held temporarily in Sacred Heart Chapel, Twenty-second and Binney Streets. Everybody welcome. REV. FRANCIS CASSILLY, S. J. Pastor. CHURCH OF DIVINITY Inter-Denominational People's Mission 26th and Franklin Streets (Catholic) service of any minister of any denomination. The Woman's Auxiliary met Thursday at the residence of Mrs. Isaac Bailey, 2816 Pratt street. MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. M. H. Wilkinson, Pastor The Silver Leaf club met with Mrs. E. Jones at 1151 North 18th street, with a large attendance. After a short business session a dainty lunch A. M. E. Church NEBRASEA CITY, NER SERVICES Sunday School every Sunday, 10 a. m.; preaching, first and second Sundays, 1 a. m. and 8 p. m. THERE'S A MESSAGE FOR YOU AT Bethel Baptist Church 29th and T Sts., South Side SERVICES Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Song service, 10:45 a. m. Preaching services, 11 a. m.; 8 p. m. Rev. Thomas A. Taggart. Pastor. 2120 North 27th St. A. M. E. CHURCH ICES Sunday school, 1 p. m.; preaching, 8 p. m. nights. Baptist Church ing service and preaching, 11 a. m.; service and preaching, 8 o'clock. at; class meeting Friday, night. day afternoon at 3:30. service and preaching, 11 a. m. service and preaching, 8 p. m. ht; Women's Missionary Society, A Church Where All Are Welcome Sunday School, 10 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m., 8 p. m. League, 6:30 p. m. Florence P. Leavitt Club, Mon- day afternoon. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday Evening. W. H. M. S. Thursday Afternoon Ladies' Aid, Friday afternoon. REV. F. L. DEAS, Pastor b. Residence 2202 Clark St. BENEDICT THE MOOR (local) Every month. BENEDICTION—8 p. m. Access to be held temporarily in Sacred Money Streets. Everybody welcome. BILLY, S. J., Pastor. OF DIVINITY Real People's Mission Franklin Streets m.; Sunday school, 1:15 p. m. Singing every Thursday 8 p. m. Pastor and G. O. P. Omaha. Nebraska. Webster 6035. THE MONITOR was served. The club also had an entertainment at the home of Mrs. J. E. N. Smith, 2434 Hamilton street, on June 7, which was a financial success. We thank the public. Don't forget the bazaar to be given by the Art club, June 18, 19, 20. The "Mission Circle" will give a social Saturday evening, June 14, at the residence of Mrs. Smith, 2434 Hamilton. Public is invited. The Men's club which was organized a few weeks ago, is doing nicely and has a large attendance. The club meets every Monday night at the church. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. W. C. Williams, Pastor Notwithstanding the inclement weather of last Sunday morning, Bishop H. B. Parks preached to a large and appreciative audience, the evening service being the climax. There were ten persons taken into the church. Sunday will close the rally by which time every member is expected to have paid in full his assessment. A very beautiful feature in last Sunday's services was the ordination of six deaconeses by the bishop. The funeral services of Mrs. Olga Henderson Watkins was held at the church. The service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Williams. The forum of the N. A. A. C. P. meets each Sunday afternoon at St. John's. Come out and be a member of this most worthy association for the advancement of our people. The total amount cleared from the DuBois lecture, which took place at the City Auditorium, was $1,018, for which we thank the public. Sunday will be observed as Children's Day. There will be special services by the children and for the children. Come out and hear them. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. W. F. Botts. Pastor Despite the inclement weather last Sunday a goodly number were present to receive the pleasant surprise in store for them in the presence of Dr. J. H. McDonald of Pittsburg, Pa., who preached two soul-tiring sermons during the day. Aside from a pleasure to the members it was a rest to the pastor who had worked so hard in the recent financial drive. After the sermon in the morning several candidates put on Christ by baptism. We urge each and every member to attend his respective auxiliary this week as delegates will be chosen to represent each branch of work at the Nebraska Negro Baptist association and auxiliaries, which meets with Bethel Baptist church, June 23 to 29th. Regular services next Lord's day. A church where everyone is welcome. PLEASANT GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. John Costello, Pastor Sunday at 3 p. m. Rev. John Costello preached at Pilgrim Rest Baptist church for the benefit of Club No. 6. The chairman being Mr. Mills. The total collection, including that raised by the public and the club amounted to $61.10. Rev. William Franklin, the pastor, appreciated and thanked Rev. John Costello for his aid in raising the amount mentioned. Mother Vaughn, the mother of Pleasant Green Baptist church of St. Louis, Mo., is the house guest of the pastor and church. She is now returning to her home the later part of this week. The sick are convalescing rapidly. All are out of the hospital. Watch for the fair under united pastorship of this city and Council Bluffs, which will begin July 21, 1919. Watch for further information. Come to our B. Y. P. U. Sunday evenings, those who have interest in the uplifting of young people. PILGRIM REST BAPTIST CHURCH . Rev, Wm. Franklin, Pastor The weather was very bad Sunday but everything turned out lovely Sunday afternoon. At 11 o'clock was expression meeting and everyone seemed to have been full of the Holy Ghost. Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock a strong and able sermon was preached by Rev. John Costello in behalf of Club No. 6, Mr. S. W. Mills. chairman, a sum of $62.10 was raised for that particular club. Sunday night the pastor spoke on a very interesting subject "The Christian Life or Race." Strangers welcome to all services. Group Oiowasini met last Friday in the guild room. The girls accepted the invitation of Mrs. Ruth Wallace to assist her in entertaining the graduates. After symbols were chosen the guardian, Mrs. Peoples, gave instruction for making the headbands. Later the girls practiced for the Camp Fire entertainment. CAMP FIRE NOTES ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. Rev. J. A. Broadnax, Pastor. Sunday, June 15, will be Children's Day. An especially interesting program has been prepared. All children are invited, and the parents and friends of children are especially urged to attend and enjoy themselves while boosting the young folks. Program at 8 o'clock. Sergeant M. J. Sishuba, British soldier, and native of South Africa, will lecture at Allen Chapel A. M. E. church, South 25th street, on Thursday, June 19, at 8:30 p. m. Admission 25 cents. Sergeant Sishuba will be in full British uniform. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA, Bethel A, M, E, Church. Rev. Sgt. M. G. Shisuba, who is now the guest of Rev. M. R. Rhonenee, pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. church, is a native of Queenstown, South Africa. Rev. Mr. Rhonenee is a native of Abyssinia, Africa. Rev. M. G. Sishuba preached Sunday night for Rev. Mr. Parker of the Beulah Baptist church. A reception was given Friday at 2:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Payne, 2533 Fourth avenue, by Mrs. Payne and Mrs. Inez Smith, president and vice president of the Ladies' Aid. There were about thirty ladies present and all reported a fine time and thanking their hostesses for the same. A fair attendance Sunday morning, Pastor M. R. Rhonenee preached from the ninth chapter of the prophet Jeremiah, a portion of the sixth verse, "Through deceit they refuse to know me," said God. Sunday school and Christian Endeavor were well attended. A soul-stirring sermon was preached Sunday night to a well-filled house, text "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Richard Holliday, 2503 Second avenue, was converted at his home and came to the parsonage Monday and joined the church. Brother R. V. Robinson, 2725 Fifth avenue, is very much improved at this writing. Mrs. Corbin was taken to the hospital Monday morning where she will undergo an operation. Mr. Cave of Missouri is in our city visiting his aunt, Mrs. Grace Cave and his cousin, Mrs. Chauncy Herndon. The Bethel A. M. E. church will entertain the district conference and S. S. convention July 22-25. The building fund of the Bethel A. M. E. church is progressing nicely. We are still raising money for that purpose. The Pastor's Aid are making preparations for a Japanese tea to be given Tuesday night, June the seventeenth at the Bethel A. M. E. church. Every one invited to come out and have a merry time. Mrs. Coryne White has been on the sick list for the past week, but is out again. Little Rossie Farmer was taken ill very suddenly in church Sunday night, but is better at this writing. GOES TO MOLER HAIR DRESSING COLLEGE Miss Henrietta Lewis, who has been a resident of this city for the past two years and studied under Mesdames South and Johnson, left for Chicago last Sunday evening over the Burlington for Chicago, Ill., to complete her work in hair culture at Moler college. During Miss Lewis' stay in Omaha she not only built up a good business, but won many friends which was shown on the eve of her departure by tokens of friendship from the following persons: Mrs. Bonner, Mrs. Anie Wright. Mrs. M. A. Walker, Mrs. Keating, Mrs. Carthrum, Mrs. Mary Barrett, Mrs. O. M. Davis, Mrs. Austin, Mrs. M. A. Curry, Mrs. Warner and Mrs. Virgin. Mr. A. Stewart, formerly supervisor of troop train, with headquarters at Newport News, Va., and a former resident of this city, is home again. Dr. J. T. Lewis, 933 North 27th avenue, a graduate of the National School of Chiropractic, Chic go, has gone to Kansas City, and Excelsior Springs, Mo., for a trip. GUILTY, BUT CLEMENCY IS RECOMMENDED (By Associated Negro Press.) New Orleans, June 11.—Verdict of guilty, with recommendation of clemency, was returned by a jury in the United States district court against Joseph Dennis, who incited a strike against employees of the Transmississippi Terminal company last September. Judge Foster deferred sentence in order to permit a motion for a new trial. This is believed to be the first judicial interpretation of the act of congress by which railroads were taken out of private hands. The two main ingredients in the manufacture of linoleum are cork and linseed oil, to which are added smaller quantities of kauri gum, rosin and pigments of various kinds. Linoleum Ingredients lars, divided into 5,000 shares of the par value of $10.00 each, all of which shall be common stock and fully paid up when issued, and said stock may be paid for either in cash or in real estate or personal property or services, and any one stockholder may hold as many shares of stock as he or she shall deem proper. It is further provided that all questions concerning the decision shall be decided by the majority of stock present and voting, either in person or by proxy. J. J. FRIEDMAN, Attorney 656 Omaha Natt Bank Bldg. ARTICLE NO. 05 THE COLUMBIA INVESTMENT CO. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have associated themselves for the purpose of conducting business as a corporation under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The name of the corporation shall be the Columbia Investment Company. The principal place of transacting business shall be in the City of Omaha, County of Douglas, and State of Nebraska. The general nature of this business shall be to equip and maintain a hall or halls to be used for public meetings, dances, etc., to contract, and erect buildings and buildings and to lease or rent such buildings, dwellings, or such terms as may be deemed proper by the officer or officers of the corporation entrusted with such affairs, and to purchase and hold in its corporate name, real estate and personal property, chattel and real mortgages, leases of real and personal property, and to mortgage, sell or exchange any and all property, both real and personal of which it may be possessed at any time, and to execute all necessary legal instruments required in the operation of such enterprise or enterprises and to look after the heating, lighting, janitor, and other services required in the buildings or dwellings owned or leased by this corporation, and to pay all wages or salaries for such services upon behalf of the company. The business of this company shall also be to deal generally in real estate and real estate securities and to borrow money, make and sell real estate securities, and to lend bonds, debentures, obligations and other evidences of indebtedness without security, or to secure same by mortgage, pledge, or otherwise, and generally to make and perform agreements and contracts of every kind and description. The amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be Fifty Thousand Dol- Windows With Pretty Voiles RED WE WOULD URGE EVERY IN A SUPPLY OF DRAPERIES. with lace insertion and edges, 12½c One table of fancy drapery voiles, short lengths, special in this sale, yard. 19c green and Scotch blue, size special, at, each. 37½c delete with handles, worth lasts, at, each. $1.59 sement. & Steinle Farnam St. NK?—Buy it from the factory ink well built with good corners, red, $17.00. 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Freling & Co. 1803 Farm DO YOU NEED A TRUNK?—B and save money. This trunk well b locks and hinges; fiber covered, $17. window shades, brown, green and Scotch blue, six inches wide, 6 feet long; special, at, each..... carpet sweepers, complete with handles, worth special while this small lot lasts, at, each..... Basement. Freling & Steinle 1803 Farnam S YOU NEED A TRUNK?—Buy it from the e money. This trunk well built with good hinges; fiber covered, $17.00. 125 dozen window shades, brown, green and Scotch blue, size $37_{2}^{1}c 29 to 36 inches wide, 6 feet long; special, at, each..... 250 metal carpet sweepers, complete with handles, worth $1.59 $2.50; special while this small lot lasts, at, each.... Freling & Steinle 1803 Farnam St. DO YOU NEED A TRUNK?Buy it from the factory and save money. This trunk well built with good corners, locks and hinges; fiber covered, $17.00. Jenkins' Barber Shop In our new location everything is first class. All barbers are expert hair cutters. Give us a trial. We guarantee service. Electric massage, manicuring. Ice cream parlor and soda fountain in connection under management of Miss Ethel Caldwell. 2122 North 24th St. Webster 2095. OMAHA. NEB. CKSON, Agent SAL HISTORY OF THE D in the Great War OLE W. JACKSON FOR SCOTT'S OFFICIAL HISTORIAN American Negro in th OLE W. JACKSON, Agent FOR SCOTT'S OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE American Negro in the Great ```markdown ``` FOR SCOTT'S OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE Every Home in Omaha Should Own One. Call Webster 2465. --- --- Basement The corporation shall be authorized to commence business as soon as these articles shall have been filed with the County Clerk of Douglas County, Nebraska, and to continue for a period of fifty years thereafter. The highest amount of indebtedness this corporation shall incur at any one time shall not exceed two-thirds of its capital stock. There shall be not less than two nor more than one-third of its capital stock among the stockholders voting according to their ownership of stock, the first set of directors to be elected at the first meeting of one incorporators to be held at an early date after the filing of these articles, and the annual meeting thereafter to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January of each year. The board of directors shall have the power to adopt by-laws for the proper conduct of the business. The officers shall consist of a president, secretary, treasurer, and general manager, and it shall be proper for the officers to be held by office. The term of office and duties of the officers shall be prescribed in the by-laws of the corporation. These articles or by-laws adopted may be amended at any annual stockholders meeting or any special meeting called for that purpose by the president and treasurer, and upon approval of the majority of stock held in the corporation and present and voting at the meeting either in person or by proxy. Until the first meeting of the stockholders, the board of directors shall consist of the president and officers of this corporation shall be as follows: President, secretary, treasurer. State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ) ss. Be it remembered, That on the 9th day of June, 1919, before我 a notary public within and for the said county and state, personally appeared Dora Handle, and then I was known to be the persons named in and who executed the foregoing articles of incorporation and who acknowledged the execution thereof to be their free and voluntary act. 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OMAHA --- 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 Strength of the Eternal Laws." Corusca: Valgame Dios! Mauricio, muchacho mio, really one would take you to be the victim of a loathsome melancholy that had fallen upon you like a vampire and drained the flow of spirits down to the bottom-most dregs of despair! In the name of youth and jocundity, I say, begone with blue devils of despondency! Crispin: Madre! Ah, madre! I don't know whether you'd call her a vampire or some delusive spirit of darkness and the earthly air! Madre! I only know 'twas as though, bearing the guise of an angel, possessing all the ravishments of a siren, she captivated me with enchanting promises of milk and honey love, and the moment I trusted myself to her mercy, night flailed the breath out of me with enfolding pinions, and left me daed and broken by the blows! Corusca: Heaven save us! Mauricio! Mauricio! you speak so like a soul in delirium! Oh! surely it can't be against Senorita Agnes, muchacho querido, you utter such words of bitter anguish! Crispin: Senorita Agnes? Madre, the senorita's gone to her room. Corusca: I've a telegram for her; that's what Andrew wanted me for. Crispin: I suppose from—from her father? Corusca: Yes; it's so dreadful to think what may be its import. But, Mauricio, if not against Senorita Agnes, against whom were you declaring so wild a grievance? Crispin: 'Twas rather of Dame Fortune I was complaining, madre. Corusca: And why do you complain of fortune, Mauricio? Crispin: You know, madre, she hasn't been dealing overkindly with me of late. I've been thinking of Shadow City, the panic and poor Anthony. Corusca: What! are you still brooding over that? Hijo querido, you mustn't! Crispin: Ah! madre, the ways of Providence to its ends are so devious, so hard, so incalcuulable! Why does death so often despoil us of the innocent and leave the guilty? Corusca: Death's a righteous power exercised of heaven, Mauricio; the Most High Master's wisdom and justice are infinite, but we've only a mortal understanding of them. Crispin: Yes, madre; but I remember once reading a poem of which the substance was: Not to the swift nor to the strong The battles of the right belong; For he who strikes for freedom wears The armor of the captive's prayers, And nature proffers to his cause The strength of her eternal laws. While he whose arm essays to bind. And herd with common brutes, his kind kind, Strives evermore at fearful odds With nature and the jealous gods, And dares that dread recoil which late, Or soon, their right shall vindicate! (END SCENE IL) ACT. IV. SCENE III. Corusca: Of course, Mauricio querido, there's truly a retributive justice; but it's the Lord's own, and He makes time itself avenger of the wrongs we suffer. Crispin: But why was Anthony killed? Why should Whiteside have escaped—at the avenging hour—of panic? Corusca: Mauricio, were you in Whiteside's place, would you prefer the peaceful ministry of death, or to live to suffer the terrors of remorse, as 'twere, with your eyes ever turned inward on the condemning blackness of your own soul? With the accusation of stupendous murder continuously resounding in the beat of your guilty heart? Mauricio, to live in the torment of fancying that God alone knows how many fellow-mortals are pointing the finger of reprobation at you, marking you the infamous Negro-hater who made them motherless, or fatherless, or brought untimely death upon a sister or brother, a son or a daughter, a husband or a wife? And more terrible than all, to live with your every footstep seeming to creak out at you wherever you go, that 'twas your bloody hand which all but crushed out the innocent life of THE MONITOR erse n Peyton Mauricio! Pluck from the memory the rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?" Oh! Agnes, daughter! as I write, I have before me the revolver I used to carry with me nearly always for— you know what, Agnes. Well, chum dear, just let our little Godfrey be taken from us, and I promise you, with a shot from that very revolver, I'll "bluck from the memory the rooted sorrow! raze out the written troubles of the brain!" and follow our Baby Sunbeam into eternity! I'll do it Agnes! do it as sure as I am Corusca: Terry Whiteside. Mauricio! Congressman Whiteside—that letter! Crispin: Yes, madre; Whiteside wrote it, but now he— Corusca: And the Sen-Senorita Agnes, she's his daughter. O Virgin Mother! that girl's—his daughter! Crispin: But, madre, Senorita Agnes has told me he, Terry Whiteside recently went insane; moreover, it's almost certain that by this time he has killed himself! Corusca: Killed himself! Crispin: Yes; committed his last murder, simple suicide, blown out his own brains in an insane frenzy of remorse! Corusca: Sowed death and has reaped its harvest? O justice, you are the governing pivot, the poiser, the balancer of the universe! But, no, Mauricio, surely not so soon? Crispin: Taking the telegram in connection with the letter, what other conclusion is possible? They whom the gods make mad rush on destruction! Aht madre, madre! but I know you must pity the senorita now more than ever! Corusca: Pity her? Of course, pity her; but, Mauricio, she—that girl has obtained admission here as our guest and pupil under a false name—and—and— Crispin: Your pardon, madre; but Agnes is part of her real name, and Gorland was her mother's maiden name. Corusca: Nevertheless, Senorita Agnes has grossly deceived us, Mauricio, she, the daughter of that abominable devil incarnate, has wormed her way into our confidence, secured our sympathies, actually so endeared herself to me that—I must concede it—I've quite begun to regard her as being very nearly my own daughter! Oh! saints of heaven protect us! And a Whiteside! Mauricio, a Whiteside! Crispin: But understand, madre'twas all for the sake of the little boy, in order to be able to render El Torero v la Malaguena for the crippled child, that she came here to learn the dance and to procure a partner from among our pupils. Corusca: How long have you known who she was, Mauricio? Crispin: She told me only this evening, but not until I'd driven her to it. Corusca: Mauricoid, isn't it fortunate that she's to leave here so shortly? Crispin: No, madre; that's what pains me! Whiteside and her dear little brother are now gone; assuredly, I shan't let her go away forever. Corusca: What, muchacho querido mio! the senorita's a Whiteside, yet you really don't wish her to leave? Can it be you've no thought of our Anthony, foully murdered and slandered in his grave? Crispin: For my sake, buena madre, if not for hers, won't you continue to be as kind, tender, consoling to her as you've ever been? Corusca: Oh, I've for sometime suspected you love her, Mauricoid! How your own dear child? Oh, Mauricio! to live—to live—with—! Agnes: Gracious heavens! Senora Crispin! Corusca: Oh, senorita, I've been awaiting you. Here's a telegram for you, and if our worst fears have come to pass, I pray you— Agnes: Thank you, senora. I'll endeavor to bear up bravely. Corusca: Just as though she be stricken stoneblind! Look, Mauricio! Crispin: Madre, her little brother Godfrey died this morning, fancying he saw her and me dancing la Malaguena! Go, madre, speak to her! Corusca: Querida nina, oh! but I know what a severe blow this is to you! My heart bleeds in sympathy with yours, but, my sore-smitten innocent, we'll remember the angel of commiseration's ever watching over us wretched humans. Crispin: Try to comfort her, madre, do! Why not take her to your study where she can have for a while the quiet and seclusion which becomes her grief? Corusca: Yes, come with me, O you poor, poor storm-bowed heart! I'll tell you of my two friends who each lost a dearly beloved relative in the great panic. One's a young mother who was bereaved of a young daughter; the other a girl of tender years whose elder brother, the idol of her worship, was brought to her mangled and coffined. Oh! with what wonderful fortitude and faith in God they bore their grief! And when our Anthony was killed, I too— Crispin: "Plucked from the memory the rooted sorrow!" Great Lord who delivered Daniel! it's that—or may I never draw breath again! (END SCENE III.) ACT·IV. SCENE IV. God Within the Shadow: Crispin: Ah, madre! Did she swoon? Can I serve her, madre, in any way? Corusca: No, Mauricio; she's like one stunned just now, and has shed scarcely a single tear. Oh! we feel so utterly powerless before the stroke of death! Does the telegram say anything about the funeral, Mauricio? Crispin: No; but listen, madre. (Reading the telegram aloud): Miss Agnes Gorland, La Corusca Dancing Academy, Providencia, Cal. Dear Agnes: Our Godfrey passed away shortly after eleven this morning. Had vision at the last; fancied he saw you and Mauricio Crispin performing la Malaguenba. When this reaches you, shall have already plucked from memory rooted sorrow. Remember promise made in letter. Don't worry chum. Mrs. Widener will be kind to you. Goodby, goodby! Your Father. Corusca: "Plucked from the memory the rooted sorrow!" What perfectly grand resolution! It isn't likely the poor dear could arrive home in time for the funeral; yet it's so good she may remain a while longer, at least until she has partly recovered her strength. It's such an overwhelming blow! Crispin: Madre, did she prefer to be left alone? Corusca: She threw herself prostrate on the couch; only once did she speak, Mauricio; that was when she begged me to come and tell you that pinned on the inside of your cloak there's a letter for you, and 'twil explain what poor dear little Godfrey's death has meant to her father. Ah! it's the one she received this afternoon from Senor Gorland! She wishes you to read it. Crispin: "Will pluck from the memory the rooted sorrow!" Yes, the letter mentioned in the telegram. It's pre-precisely as I thought! (Tapping letter): But, madre, you wish to hear this? Corusca: Mauricio, I somehow think Senorita Agnes intended I should, and used it as a pretext to keep me from longer obtruding on her grief. Crispin: At any rate, you must inevitably come to know everything sooner or later. I'll read you the letter. My Beloved Daughter: There has occurred a change for the worse. I fear the doctors have begun to despair of saving our Baby Sunbeam for us. Agnes dear, you must come home to him without further delay, by the earliest fast train. 'Twill be very likely simply a race with that swift-winged angel that carries us mortals beyond this life. Come Agnes, come!' What was it that drove me to have a fling at that Nigger, Bell, that evening? Yet the Nigger struck me—Agnes, me! That cursed Nigger—you saw him strike me, Agnes! And now God Almighty! there are lines from Shakespeare for ever blazing and thundering in my wretched head! "Canst thou not minister to a mind deceased. 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. WE BELT THE GLOBE 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 Father. H. L. H. THE MONARCH CAFE A nice, clean up-to-date cafe for ladies and gentlemen. First class service. Private dining rooms. Your patronage solicited and appreciated. 107 South 14th Street. Tyler 4291-J. completely she's bewitched you! Crispin: Only a moment ago, madre, you admitted you've come to feel that she's very much the same to you as a daughter. Now, madre, I do love her, boundlessly; and some day she—ere very long—simply shall become my wife. She has admitted this evening that she loves me in return. Corusca: But, Mauricio, no! Only consider! She, the blood, the daughter of—! Oh, heavens! what's the good of opposing a man in love? Crispin: Just think, she'll then be a Senora Crispin, like you; and, madre, you'll really be at least her mother-in-law. (END SCENE IV.) (To be Continued.) TAFT SAYS NEGRO MIGRATION TO NORTH PROVES EFFECTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST INJUSTICE lence are strong factors in community action. But, deplorable as lynching is, it should not blind us to the improvement in conditions of the Negro population in the south that go steadily on, and that each 10 years' statistics demonstrate. The migration to the north and the general horror aroused over lynchings, expressed in the last anti-lynching conventions, by northerners and southerners alike, are likely to affect public opinion in the south on this subject and make a slow change for the better. It may be conceded that recurring instances are not very encouraging. The north is not without blemish in this regard and needs a stimulus to greater respect for law and orderly procedure than it now has. Migration Proves Defense. Meantime, the savings bank accounts of the Negroes, the acreage of their holdings, the graduates of their vocational schools and the improvement of the Negro country communities, steadily increase. A probable dearth of labor in the north and the increasing economic value of the Negroes to the south will stimulate migration as a defense against injustice and make it more effective. 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