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Two Detectives Held to Court for Manslaughter GROWING. THANK YOU! $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy The Coroner's Inquest at Scott Murder Recommends Holding Holman for Shooting—County Attorney Shotwell Files Information Against Brigham and Armstrong Also. JUDGE FITZGERALD HOLDS THREE FOR SHOOTING Several Witnesses at Preliminary Hearing in Police Court Testify That Officers Pursued Scott Shooting and Shouting, "Stop Him, Kill Him, Shoot the —"—Holman Said He Fired Because He Thought He Was Helping to Apprehend Some Desperate Criminal. WHEN we went to press last week the inquest was being held in district court room over the shooting and killing of Eugene Scott, bellboy at the Plaza hotel. The coroner's jury, which was composed of three colored and three white men, brought in a verdict of manslaughter against Edgar Holman, special agent for the Union Pacific. The evidence disclosed the fact that Scott had been guilty of no misdemeanor, but was attending to his duties, when he was chased out of the hotel by Officers Brigham, Herdzina and Armstrong, Sergeant Threstrap nearly tearing off the boy's shirt as he dashed past him; and that Brigham, Herdzina and Armstrong pursued Scott who fled up the alley, the officers shooting and shouting, "Stop him; shoot him; kill the black son of a $—;" and that Edgar Holman hearing the shooting and cries and seeing the fugitive fired to stop him. The bullet taken from Scott's body, it was claimed was one from Holman's pistol, there being a slight difference in the weight of the bullets fired by Holman and Brigham. This was the slender fact upon which the holding of Holman and not the officers was urged by the jury. Public sentiment was by no means satisfied with this verdict. The general opinion was that voiced by The Monitor, to the effect that the officers, too, should be held. This it soon developed was also the view of County Attorney Shotwell, who filed a complaint against all three. The preliminary hearing was held in the police court Wednesday morning, September 10, Judge Fitzgerald presiding. Mr. Shotwell appeared for the state and was most thorough in his conduct of the case. Attorney Curran appeared for Officers Brigham and Armstrong. The witnesses examined were Dr. McClanahan, Detectives Sutton, Threstrup, who claimed that he was in charge of the morals squad: Herdzina, James A. Shannon, Ed Boyle and Thomas McMahon, reporters for the Bee, Daily News and World-Herald, respectively; Roy Stewart, guest at St. James hotel; Bill Ballard, chauffeur; George Ward, St. James hotel, and Edgar Holman. This was the first time Holman gave his testimony. He gave the impression of an honest man telling the truth. The same facts were brought out by all the witnesses. The three newspaper men testified that one of the officers pursuing Scott shouted, "Shoot, kill, etc." Some were positive that it was Armstrong; others that it was Brigham; others said they did not know which. All the evidence agreed that Brigham was in the lead and shot at least twice. Holman testified that seeing Scott running with his shirt in ribbons, and hearing the shots and the command from one of the three pursuers whom he assumed were officers, thought that Scott must be a man who had done some desperate crime and that he ought to help apprehend him. He drew his gun and shot, "As I thought over the man's head." He didn't know Scott, had never seen him and therefore had no malice against him. His first impulse was "not to mix in," but hearing the shouting and shooting, he believed if the man were some desperate criminal he ought to help apprehend him. The attorneys for Armstrong and Brigham argued that their clients should be dismissed, as the state had not proven their connection with the shooting. Judge Fitzgerald held that the evidence introduced clearly showed that the language used by these officers, their pursuit and shooting at Scott, were unlawful acts which undoubtedly had direct connection with the killing as the inciting cause. He therefore bound them over to the district court on the charge of manslaughter. THE MONITOR President-Elect of Liberia Visits States Will Spend Several Months Touring Country and Studying American Conditions, Accompanied by Wife, Who Was Student at Howard with Omaha Girl. (Special to The Monitor by Walter J. Singleton.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 6.—The Hon. C. D. B. King, president-elect of the Republic of Liberia, accompanied by Mrs. King, arrived in Washington September 1. President-elect King landed in New York City late in Augest, having proceeded there directly from the peace conference at Versailles. The presidential couple were met in New York by a representative of the state department, who escorted them to this city, where elaborate preparations for their entertainment awaited them. They were greeted at the Union station by a party of prominent citizens, headed by Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard university, and Dr. Ernest Lyon of the Liberian consulate general at Baltimore, Md. A sumptuous breakfast was tendered by the state department on the roof garden of the capital's leading hotel—the New Washington—this morning at 10 o'clock, which was a brilliant morning function, and thoroughly enjoyed by the presidential party. Among those present were: Dr. and Mrs. Emmett J. Scott, Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Lyon, Judge and Mrs. Robert H. Terrell, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Houston, Prof. Kelly Miller, Mr. James A. Cobb and the Hon. William H. Lewis, who acted as major domo. President-elect and Mrs. King will spend several days viewing the sights of Washington before setting out on an extended tour of the country, which will consume several weeks. A reception committee is at work on a series of entertainments, including a public meeting, which will afford the capital's citizens an opportunity to meet the distinguished visitors. the president-elect, who is now secretary of state of the African republic, will return to Monrovia, the capital, after a three months' stay in this country, studying American conditions. When he returns he will take with him the proceeds of a credit of $5,000,000 extended to Liberia by the United States. Mrs. King, who was Miss Addie S. Cooper of Liberia, was a student at Howard university, with Miss Madrece Penn of Omaha, now on The Monitor staff. Miss Penn tells this story of the attractive and pleasant wife of the president-elect of Liberia; "Miss Cooper saw her first snow-storm after she came to Howard. I have to laugh every time I think about it. She was like a delighted child. 'Isn't it beautiful!' Isn't it beautiful!' she exclaimed, as she clapped her hands in glee. She got a pasteboard box and hurried out to the campus, where she packed the box full of 'the beautiful.' 'I shall send this home so raw parents may see how beautiful it is.' But, alas! the snow melted and Addie burst into tears because she couldn't send some of our beautiful snow back to her African home. The girls teased her almost to death about it." Miss Penn is hoping that these distinguished visitors from Liberia may find it convenient to take in Omaha while touring this country. LOUISIANA LYNCHES ANOTHER NEGRO Monroe, La., Sept. 10.—A Negro charged with an attack on the wife of a farmer near Mer Rouge, La., was taken from the sheriff of Morehouse parish today by a mob of forty mer and shot to death. The sheriff was taking his prisoner to jail when intercepted by the crowd. EDITOR HEADS STATE COMMITTEE New York, N. Y., Sept. 10.—The Roosevelt Memorial Association has selected George W. Harris, Negro editor and republican nominee for alderman in Harlem, to head the state committee of Colored citizens to raise funds in a drive for $10,000,000 for a monument to the former president. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 11, 1919 M. E. H. President-elect C. D. B. King of Liberia and Mrs. King, who recently arrived in New York from England, where he was a delegate to the peace conference. This is his first stay in the United States. Charles Draughn, expert mechanic with transcontinental motor convoy, which has reached Pacific coast—Photographed for Monitor by Shackleford. DISCRIMINATES AGAINST NEGRO WORKERS (By Associated Negro Press.) New York, N. Y., Sept. 10.—New York discriminates against Negro workers say authorities endeavoring to place those who are out of employment. Although the American Federation of Labor has withdrawn opposition to their becoming members of labor organizations, it is difficult to find positions for them. FIGHTING FALSIFICATION Northwest Uplift League Cirulates News Sheet With Digest of Recent Articles on Race Lawlessness. Washington, D. C., Sept. 10.—The Northwest Uplift League, of this city, at its regular meeting Sunday afternoon voted an appropriation of $75. Charles Draughn, expert mechanic, convoy, which has reached for Monitor b CONVY REACHES COAST, DRAUGHN WIRES MONITOR San Francisco, Sept. 6.—"Arrived today, Charles." This was the telegram sent to The Monitor, according to his promise to wire us upon the arrival of the transcontinental motor convoy on the coast, by Charles Draughn, who is the only colored man with the convoy. Because of his skill as an expert auto mechanic, Mr. Draughn was selected by the Dixie Crucible company of Jersey City, N. J., who are furnishing and testing to pay for the circulation of a two-page news sheet, which contains a digest of the recent articles of the Washington Post in reference to supposed acts of lawlessness committed by Colored men. In addition to the Post articles, most of which are played up stories of a more or less inflammatory nature, the news sheet contains a review of current comment by several of the country's leading papers. Several thousand copies of the news sheet have been printed and are being circulated in the United States and foreign countries. MANY MINERS IN UNION Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 10.—Among the best working members of the district organization of the United Mine Workers are those of the Negro race. Of these more than 3,000 carry union cards and are considered true and untiring workers for the cause. nic with transcontinental motor Pacific coast—Photographed by Shackleford. a lubricating oil, to pilot the car of Mr. Ernest, the lubricant expert, on this transcontinental trip. Chas. Draughn, lately a resident of Washington, D. C., was born in Charlotte, N. C., and is a graduate of Shaw university. When the convoy passed through Omaha a few weeks ago The Monitor had a pleasant interview with Mr. Draughn and Mr. W. H. Shackleford, the expert Monitor staff photographer, made this excellent picture of Mr. Draughn especially for this publication. The Way Many Dailies Feature and Magnify Reports of Alleged Crimes by Negroes and Minimize Corrections THE FOLLOWING "PLAYED STORY" was run top of column, in the POST, August 15: ATTACKED BY NEGROES Mrs. Minnie Franklin Injured at League Park Carnival. TWO ASSAILANTS GET AWAY Covered by Revolver on Outskirts of Crowd as Companion Drives Away —Taken to Casualty Hospital and Later to Home—Reserves Hunt Men. Two squads of headquarters detectives, aided by reserves from the Ninth precinct, early today were searching houses and scouring fields in the neighborhood of Fifteenth and H streets northeast in an effort to apprehend two young Negroes who shortly before 10 o'clock last night attacked Mrs. Minnie Franklin near the carnival tents on the old Union League ball grounds. While hundreds of merrymakers thronged the carnival tents Mrs. Franklin was subjected to treatment that left her hysterical and able to make but vague statements as to the affair. A partial description of the Colored men was obtained from persons who saw them fleeing from the scene of the crime. Mrs. Franklin, who is 37 years old and the wife of Edward S. Franklin, of 1361 K street southeast, is understood to have been with a companion at the carnival. They had walked away from the main tent, but were still in the radius of light when two Negroes appeared. One of them cowed Mrs. Franklin with a revolver. Several minutes later she staggered to Remove Sheriffs Who Permit Lynchings Some Southern Newspapers Advocating Law Automatically Removing Official Who Fails to Protect Prisoner Drastic Measure but Effective. TULSA, OKLA, Sept. 10.—Newspapers in some southern states are advocating a law to stop lynchings and it doubtless would be very effective. The law is one demanding the removal of all sheriffs in counties where lynchings take place. This might work a hardship on a sheriff, but it would make all of them alert to precent lynchings. Under present conditions the sheriffs nearly always make a show of resisting a mob, but it is merely pretense and nothing more. The sheriffs usually deliver the victim to the mob without much trouble and not once in a hundred times is any member of a mob hurt by an officer while engaged in taking victims from jail to be lynched. The sheriff knows that the men in the mob are the voters who elected him to office. He may know them personally and recognize them, but he does not consider it his duty to endanger himself or the lives of the men in the mob in an effort to protect the prisoner. An automatic removal law, however would put a different face upon the matter. If the sheriff would lose his office through permitting prisoners to be lynched the chances are that he would protect them and that there would be no lynchings. Congress cannot enact such a law, but the states can and the white race will be the chief beneficiary under it. The whites are disgraced more by lynchings than are the blacks who are their victims. Such a law would of course call for the right kind of men being elected to the office of sheriff. The man elected to that office would go in with his eyes open and a full knowledge of the law. Those who elected him would also understand it and the mobs would know what to expect when they went to the jail and demanded of the sheriff that he turn over the keys. The sheriff who tamely submitted, as sheriffs do now, would find himself out of office the next day. LIFTING. LIFT, TOO! Vol. V. I 10 (Whole No. 219) slaughter Dailies Feature and ts of Alleged Crimes by nd Minimize Corrections the entrance of the grounds and related what had occurred. The police were communicated with at once, as was Casualty hospital. Mrs. Franklin was removed to the institution where she was treated and later questioned by detectives. Later she was taken to her home, where her husband and children were apprised of the attack. Lawless Element in Crowd. A special detail from the Ninth precinct has been stationed at the carnival since its inauguration, but until last night no disorder had been reported from the grounds. It is known, however, that a lawless element, both white and colored, has been attracted to the "free-for-all" scene of jolity. The description of the Negroes flashed from headquarters reads as follows: "Look out for two colored men, 5 feet 3 or 4 inches in height; brown skin, 23 to 25 years old; wearing white shirts, no coats, tan or yellow caps." The FOLLOWING AS A CORRECTION was "HID AWAY INSIDE" August 16: CALLS ASSAULT A "STORY" Mrs. Franklin's Charges Against Two Negroes Dropped by Police. In a statement to headquarters detectives last night, Mrs. Minnie Franklin, of 1361 K street southeast, declared, according to her questioners, including Detectives Vermillion, Embrey, O'Brien and Bradley, that her story of having been attacked Thursday night near Fifteenth and H streets northeast by two Negroes was a fabrication. Mrs. Franklin first was interrogated by Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, head of the woman's bureau. The case has been dropped. RACE CLASHES PUZZLE LEADER AT TUSKEGEE Head of Institute Says It Is Hard to Understand Present Apparent Suspicion and Bitterness. Tuskegee, Ala., Sept. 10.—R. R. Moton, Booker T. Washington's successor as head of Tuskegee institute, declared in a statement regarding recent race riots in north and south that it is difficult to understand why there should be so much apparent suspicion and bitterness on the part of both the white and Negro races. Reports Intense Feeling. "I have never known the Colored people to have more intense feeling toward the white people than at present," Moton' said, "and I have never known a time when there was less reason. I never knew a time when the white people of the south, not only the leading white people, but the average white man, were more anxious than at present to be absolutely fair and just to the Negro. This is also true of the north. "There was never a time when the south, and the north, too, saw more clearly the value of the Negro as an economic factor in industrial operations. I never knew a time when southern white people felt more chagrined and humiliated at the awful crime of lynching than they do today, and I never knew a time when they were more determined to put down mob rule, wether aimed at black or white, then now. "We, north and south, should make up our minds that there is room enough, there is opportunity enough for colored and white to work peacefully and harmoniously here in America, each living his life unhampered by any act or any untoward attitude of the other, and I hope that our leaders in every community, white and black will get together and smooth out matters that are misunderstood so that America can teach the world that black people and white people can live peacefully and harmoniously in our great country." He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city. f office What are you, a knocker or a booster? 2 THE LATE RACE RIOTS (From The Nation, New York.) To the Editor of The Nation: Sir: On Tuesday night, when so many in Ledroit Park feared a mob and a general massacre, and when most white men believed that a white woman who ventured into that section would be literally devoured, I took it into my head to go there and go I did. I went for several reasons. One was to prove that a white woman could do it; another because I knew what had been done by the authorities and thought that a little reassurance from a lone and harmless woman might go a good way, for I guessed the probable psychological state in that section. Besides I wanted to know at first hand that the Colored people were doing and thinking. I found out. If I talked to one Colored man, I talked to a hundred and fifty. Occasionally I would stop to speak to one I knew; oftener I would accost a group of unknown men and ask them for their views. Always and everywhere I met with courtesy and attention. As we talked, men would appear from the shadows—seemingly from the night itself—until there were perhaps twenty of us. Only once did I see a policeman, who glanced at us curiously, but said nothing and passed slowly on. And when we had finished our talk, the group would melt into nothingness and I would proceed on my quest. I saw no women at all. And the men—why, those men were not out to "start something." They were armed, most of them, and were quite frank about it, but they did not want a fight. They said they were out to see if a mob was coming, and, if there were, they were going home to barricade themselves; then if the mob tried to get in, there was trouble ahead. As one put it: "A man would be less than a man if he did not fight for his family and his home." Their state of mind was not primarily fight. It was fear, a perfect hysteria of dread best, as more than one expressed it, "a new East St. Louis" was at hand. And, as with all hysteria, a small occurrence would have set them off in a frenzy. Dynamite! They were TNT. Again and again I was asked: "Is a mob gathering on Pennsylvania avenue? Will they come up and burn us out? Is the Park cordoned. For they did not dare go down town far enough to see if the troops were really there. Over and over, I heard the pathetic question: "Do the white folks care? Does anyone care? Are they really doing anything?" I told them that the best of the whites did care, but that they were helpless. I told them also that measures had really been taken that afternoon and what they were—that there really was military, as well as police protection. One queer old man remarked: "Well, I reckon somebody do care, or a white lady wouldn't come out to tell us about it." A one-handed soldier said: "I enlisted; I gave the country my hand, and I was ready to give more. When I was in France, I was a man and a soldier, but when I got back here I'm not a citizen; I'm not a man, even—just a big, black brute." It was not said bitterly; it went deeper than bitterness. He spoke like a man with a broken heart. Another said: "They said this is to protect the white women. My father was in charge of a whole plantation and a family of white women during the civil war. They weren't afraid to leave the white women with us then, and Colored men are no different now." Many of them expressed a liking for, and confidence in, the captain of the precinct, and, when a man of one race speaks well of a man of another, during a race riot, that means something. But they spoke of the lack of Colored police, and the fact that Colored men were being dropped from the force and that none had been appointed since 1010. "You know," they said, "that we could talk better to Colored police. They would reason with the people and not just knock them 'round. They know who the people are and what is going on, and they could stop a lot of trouble without arrests. But they don't want to give us a chance." I saw but one noisy Negro, a half- The Monitor's Phone Number Is Douglas 3224 witted and dishevelled-looking fellow, talking loudly and belligerently. Two Colored men seized and thoroughly shook him, telling him that if he did not "shut up and get home," he would certainly find things happening to him. Once an excited Colored boy came flying on a bicycle with the news that a white mob had formed inside the cordon and was on its way. "Let's go meet them," said one young hothead. This was at once negatived. "We'll watch and see if they are coming, and if they are, we will go home and lock the doors. That's what Captain Doyle said, and he knows what's what." So, for a few tense moments, we stood peering into the drizzly gloom, not knowing what might after all he about to come. But all was quiet, and we silently drifted our ways. And thus it went for two hours. I met them—not savages, not red-handed murderers, but citizens, hunted and terrified, looking more or less hopelessly to their government for aid; human beings craving the hand of brotherhood and cut to the very heart. I thought of Belgium. I remembered that my country stands abroad for liberty, justice, and the rights of men, though she has them not at home. How blind we are, we Anglo-Saxons who talk of freedom and have not yet freed our souls. But still I hope and dimly see a dawn—red, it is true, but still a far-off dawn. A white man once said to me: "You talk like a Negro. You seem at times to identify yourself with them. Have you lost your race consciousness?" I replied: "I hope I think enough like them to show you how they feel. I hope I always lose race consciousness when it stands in the way of my consciousness of common humanity." Then he said a queer thing: "I do not know whether you are mad or inspired." I had been thinking of going to Serbia, but I believe my duty is here. I believe that our country needs all of us who are standing along the color line. I am ready to do anything possible, to whatever limit. If you, to whom I look as a leader in this situation, should ever need my services, you have to speak. My soul is aflame, not with the glare of the destroying torch, but with the steady, incandescent glow which cannot be extinguished. Washington, July 20. E. G. M. "THE TORTURED NEGRO OR THE CRY FOR JUSTICE" THIS is the title of a unique epic dealing with racial friction in the United States, by an eminent Jewish poet of California, Mr. Louis Muchel. The Colored people throughout the land will be interested in the brochure just published by the California Eagle Press. The telling blows struck for truth by the author can readily be appreciated from the following ringing words which comprise the first chapter: Strike out, oh Lincoln land, cry loud Once more for freedom, truth and right; Strike out for justice clean and proud— Justice at home with love and light; No world can be peaceful and free— Nor can we guide the nations all— When this republic fails to see The Negro doomed, pathetic thrall! Strike out, oh land, thy shame, thy sore— Oh, strike thy Negro child no more!— America, thy glory balks. A man in cross, the brigade yeah' Of whites supreme, of black folks crushed, Of state rights' yarns and other crimes— America, thy pulse is hushed America, thy pulse is hushed And freedom dies in madmen's slimes; Oh, break the tortured Negro's chains And save thyself from shame and pains! We give the Negro flag and sword, The front line in huge battles' roar We give him sometimes praise cf word But all times insults and back door; We close the shops, the chance for him him And ridicule his race, his face, His soul we wreck, his light we dim— Oh God, is this a land of grace? The black horse thrives, the black coal burns, The black man suffers( weeps and yearns! What right have we to lynch the clan That toll in peace and fight in war? Why scorn with Jim Crow car Ham's man And steal his ballot, book, bread, bar? How can we be a nation true If tend'drest hearts we martyr wild?— No black man our presidents slew— Kind soul has he just like a child And brains and brawn and traits that He bore his burden, honest, suave! THE MONITOR Black blood destroys oppressors' claws! Home, school, church, court, farm, mine, wold, mill. mine, wold, mil; The public grill and sleeping place— Thyself, dear land, thy heart, mind, will Belong to both, white and black race! The earth must be safe hearth for all, White cannot stand, if black must fall! Don't go around with a chip on your shoulder, because it offers a strong temptation to some other fellow to knock it off. RACE BOOKS AND PERIODICALS Our Boys and Girls A weekly newspaper for our youth, $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. 54 West 140th St., New York City. The Negro in American History By Prof. John W. Cromwell, $1.40 and worth more. 1439 Swann St., N. W., Washington, D. C. The Negro Soldier By John E. Bruce "Grit". 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Satisfaction guaranteed. Get your order in early and secure quick service and a choice of a full line. Men's Suits from $25 to $30, and from $35 to $65. Ladies' Suits and Skirts from $40 to $50, and from $60 to $100. 1807 N. 24th St. Web. 2088 Mr. Advertiser: Mr. Advertiser: The Monitor is read in tically every Colored fa in Omaha, Council Bluffs Lincoln. It has also a wide circul in Nebraska and other s is read in practice Colored family council Bluffs and wide circulation and other states 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? D. G. Russell, President. Anderson Hamler, Treasurer. N. W. Ware, Sec. and Gen. Mgr. N. A. A. C. P. MEETING AT ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH St. John's A. M. E. church was crowded to the doors Sunday afternoon when the Omaha branch held its usual weekly meeting with the Rev. John Albert Williams presiding. The secretary, Mrs. Moss, read a letter from John R. Shillady to the branch expressing his keen appreciation for the interest the branch had shown in his welfare, personally, and in condemning the outrageous attack on constitutional rights which the affair at Austin, Tex., demonstrates. Mr. Shillady's complete statement of the affair was then read to the association. The greatest interest of the branch was centered around the report made by the grievance committee, through its chairman, Mr. C. C. Galloway, in regards to the inexcusable shooting of Eugene Scott by the morals squad invading the Plaza hotel of which Scott was bellboy. The recommendation that the association defer further action until after the preliminary hearing on Wednesday was passed by the body. A letter from the legal firm engaged by the branch to conduct the preliminary hearing of Albert Jackson and Ira Johnson was read. The firm wished to be informed by the association if they should proceed with the gathering of evidence and the preparation of their briefs, stating that the cases would cost $500 each of which the branch had paid $100. The chairman of the grievance committee suggested that the DuBois Dramatic club give a play, each member of the branch to buy two tickets and the money cleared to go toward the defense of these men. At this point Miss Madree Penn said that the branch had taken these two cases because it thought the men innocent of the charges preferred against them and this was so, if the association meant business, in a serious matter of this kind the only dignified way to proceed was to simply go down in our pockets and pay up. This met the approval of the entire branch and in a very few moments over $150 was laid on the table in cash and the majority of those present rose to their feet thereby pledging the remainder of the sum. The most eloquent speech to which the branch has ever listened was made by Rev. Emory B. Smith, traveling representative of Howard university. He explained a plan by which we can come into our own in regards to government maintained educational institutions. As a result of his message the Omaha branch wen on record in indorsing the motion offered by Mr. M. F. Singleton in reference to taking up this matter with our congressmen from Nebraska. The branch also pledged $200 in scholarships to insure representation from Nebraska at Howard each year, and to act as an incentive to the ambitious boys and girls of Omaha. Mr. Armstrong, W. C. C. C., made an announcement to service men and their friends, calling attention to the sing at U. B. F. hall on Saturday. Other speakers were Mr. McNally, Rev. J. Harris and Mr. W. W. Jones of Fort Smith, Ark. The meeting adjourned to meet next Sunday afternoon at Zion Baptist church. THANKS PUBLIC Editor The Monitor: I beg that you will grant me the privilege through your columns to express my sincere appreciation to my Omaha friends for the kindness and encouragement shown me in the past few weeks that I have again stopped in your city. Although a son of the far west, I must admit that the people of this middle western city have treated me as a home boy and have succeeded in making me feel entirely at home with them. I must again admit that there are many of my friends in Omaha to whom I am sincerely attached. I also wish to thank the different individuals who assisted us in making our exhibition in this city at the Boyd theater on Wednesday, September 3, a success, such as Dr. Andrew Singleton, Perkins' orchestra and many others. I also wish to thank those advertisers of your columns, who are live, wide-awake business men, that so readily assisted some of The Monitor staff and myself to create a double-page display advertisement in your paper. Their co-operation in this manner has made The Monitor of Omaha the first Negro race journal that has created an attractive double-page display advertisement. On my return trip through your city it will be my great pleasure to see my good friends again and grant another privilege to those who were not able to be at our exhibition to see our picture. With kindest thoughts toward the people of Omaha, I beg to remain yours for racial progress and success, CLARENCE A. BROOKS. Are you going to help your church earn that $100 offered by The Monitor? "A MAN'S DUTY" PLEASES GREAT AUDIENCE Lincoln Motion Picture Company's Latest Release Draws Crowds to Boyd's Theater; Pictorial Features Also Please. Audiences totaling more than one thousand were delighted with the Lincoln Motion Picture company's latest release, "A Man's Duty," which was shown at the Boyd theater Wednesday afternoon and night, September 3. Clarence A. Brooks, who is the star in the cast, appeared in person on the stage, thanked the audience for its patronage and briefly told of the aims and ideals of the Lincoln company, which is the featuring of race plays. The scene of "A Man's Duty" is laid in Los Angeles, Cal., in the midst of most beautiful surroundings, which give a splendid opportunity for artistic scenic effects of which the photographer has taken good advantage. There is the usual plot of the average pleasing love story, in which the rival of the favorit e suitor, who is an honorable and upright man, is jobbed by a well-dressed rounder, who, as is too frequently the case, is admitted into good society. There is a period of banishment from home, where Richard Beverly, the hero, is befriended by a young woman, whom he afterwards wed. Little Dorothy, a child character, is among the best in the cast. Taken as a whole the play is good and most pleasing. Naturally there are one or two places in it where improvements could be suggested and doubtless will be. For example in one scene, the home of a woman of the town, Hubert's mistress, a large picture of the nude is too prominent. Then the cat scene, which is very pretty and shows the hero's kindness of heart, is drawn out a little too long. These are minor matters, which do not seriously mar a movie which entertains, pleases and delights the audience. The types, too, are not blondine or bleached, so that there is doubt as to their racial identity. Lincoln pictorials, showing activities of our own race and of Colored American soldiers in action in France, a French film, were instructive and pleasing features preceding the main picture. Dr. John Andrew Singleton sang in his usual good voice between performances. RACE ADJUSTMENT NOT DIFFICULT "Give the Negro the Unreserved Rights of an American Citizen as Guaranteed Under the Constitution of the United States," Says Prominent White Citizen. TERSE STATEMENT STRIKES BULLS-EYE. Chicago, Ill.—A prominent white citizen, writing the Chicago Daily News, made the following remarkable statement regarding "race adjustments:" "D. Davidson's argument on the Negro problem is different from others only in that it is a more clearly defined summary of the average white man's attitude toward the Negro. None of the 'three solutions' submitted by him will solve the problem. There is only one solution. Give the Negro the unreserved rights of an American citizen as guaranteed under the constitution of the United States. Grant him the privilege of making himself fit. Stop trying to make a place for him. Let him find his own individual place, and he will neither crowd, antagonize nor humiliate others. It would be little short of calamity to legalize any form of injustice against the Negro. America has enemies within and without and is in no position to make an enemy of the black man. The wise words of Ex-President Taft 'are as apples of gold.' Yet it is not possible to stop the cries of an oppressed people. The Negro's papers and magazines are his only means of expression." There are white men and women in Chicago and elsewhere possessed of such integrity, such fineness and goodness of heart that they champion the Negro's cause from a keen sense of justice and honor. To such men and women the Negro people owe and acknowledge a great debt. OBEY LAW AND PROTECT YOUR HOME, SAYS BISHOP Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 10.—Bishop George C. Clement of this city addressing a class at Morris Brown university said, "I would urge all members of my race to obey the law and keep clear of bolshevism and all incendiary suggestions. We must demand protection of life and property by the government, which is guaranteed as the surest antidote for bolshevism. I believe my people should defend their homes and families. Certainly this crisis calls for great moderation and self-control. We still have faith in true democracy and expect a righteous race adjustment. THE MONITOR Stayed Away When Republicans Gave Colored Race Hearing—Triumph for Colored Americans. Washington, D. C., Sept. 10.—The hostility of the southern democracy to Colored citizens has been shown not only by refusal of passports to Paris to Colored delegates last February, but by the absence of every democratic member when the republican majority of the foreign relations committee of the U. S. senate, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman, gave Colored citizens a hearing at the capital Thursday, August 28. A delegation of the National Equal Rights League, Secretary Wm. Monroe Trotter as chairman; A. W. Whaley, Jos. H. Stewart, J. L. Neill, M. W. Spencer, accomplished finally the great desire of the race to be heard on the peace treaty officially. The amendments to the League of Nations and to the peace treaty read as follows: Amendment to Treaty. The members of the league (or the allied and associated nations) undertake to assure full and complete protection of life and liberty to all their own inhabitants without distinction of age, race, color, or religion, and agree that all their citizens respectively shall enjoy the same civil and political rights and all who belong to racial or religious minorities shall enjoy the same treatment and security in law and in fact as persons of the majority race or religion." This league has issued a call for a national convention to "Make America Safe for Americans," where Delegate Trotter will l relate his passage to Paris, at Washington, D. C., on September 23 to 25. After two such signal services to the race, our men and women are "getting busy" organizing local leagues and arranging meetings to send delegates. Any group can form a local, as the convention is open thus to the entire race. Any race body can send affiliated delegates, who will have a vote. A plan and a program for race defense and protection, and for the 14th and 15th amendments, are the objects. Composition of Local Posts May Be Mixed or Separate as Members Prefer and Decide. New York, Sept. 10.—Negro veterans of the world war are eligible to membership in the American Legion but the composition of local posts and state organizations will be left to the members themselves, according to instructions made public here September 2 by Henry D. Lindsley, chairman of the national executive committee. Pending a determination of the question at the national convention next November, Mr. Lindsley said, "It was desirable that the various state organizations fix upon the method which will reflect the wishes of the membership in their state." Thus, he said, "a local post may be composed exclusively of white men, or exclusively of Negroes, or part white men and Negroes." Separate white and Negro state organizations each with representation in the national convention, the chairman said, was also feasible if it should be deemed necessary. WILL ESTABLISH DEPT. STORE Suggestion by Colonel Young That Race Operate Own Business Institutions Acted Upon Promptly. Baltimore, Md., Sept. 10.—Subscriptions are being taken here to establish a department store, which is to be operated exclusively by and for members of the race. At a meeting held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Epsicopal church it was announced that more than $15,000 had been subscribed. The movement is partly due to a speech recently made here by Col. Charles Young of the United States army, in which he urged Negroes to own and operate their own business institutions of all kinds. Such a plan previously had been discussed among leaders here, but Col. Young's speech caused it to bear fruit. Rev. B. G. Shaw, pastor of the Metropolitan church, is in charge of the taking of subscriptions. Twenty thousand dollars will be required to start the store which will be operated on the co-operative plan, so that the customers will not only deal with members of their race, but also will get lower prices. No person will be allowed to hold more than $100 worth of stock. A BAD BUY PROVES FORTUNATE IN END Negro Makes Profit of $123 When Train Hits His Team of Mules. New London, Mo., Sept. 10.—Ed King, a Negro of this city, got a touch of high finance the other day that left him richer in purpose and also higher Special to The Monitor. in spirits and is anxiously waiting for good fortune to strike him again and also a train to hit something that he owns, for therein lies this tale. King bought a pair of mules a short time ago for $27 and they were what you would call typical Negro Missouri mules, thin, lean and spavined. King's friends kidded him about his judgment in buying and they wanted to know why he didn't go back to the fellow who sold them to him and ask him for the change that was due him. King got to believing himself that he made a bad bargain and he began to worry, wondering if they would live long enough for him to get his money out of them or whether he would ever be able to sell them again. Then along came a train and killed the mules. Not long after that the railroad sent him a check for $150 to cover his loss. UNITED STATES ATTITUDE TOWARD NEGRO DENOUNCED (Special to The Monitor.) Iowa City, Ia., Sept. 3.—The Delta Carranza's reference to the race riots in the United States was echoed in Brazil today. Writing in the Correie Damanha, Antonio Torres declared: "The Negro in the United States lives under a regime worse than during the times of Lincoln, when his life was saved as valuable property. Today the Negro is like the Pole and the Jew of Russia during the reign of the czar, without political guarantees on a social horizon. His only reward for loyalty to his country is lynching on a trivial pretext. "A Negro born in the United States speaks the same language as President Wilson, but the savage whites do not hear his cries of agony. People who act in that manner have no right to speak to the world in the name of civilization." H. LAZARUS SHOE REPAIRING 2420½ Cuming Street REPAIRS FOR STOVES FURNACES AND BOILERS OMAHA STOVE REPAIR WORKS. 1206-8 DOUGLAS STR. PHONE TYLER 20. 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MONROE [Name] 3 SOFT THE MONITOR A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans. Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Publishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and Madree Penn, Associate Editors. 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 Douglas 3224. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle the swift flush of right or wrong; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet humanity's vast frame Through its ocean-sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame; In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. James Russell Lowell. 4 SHOTWELL DOES HIS DUTY COUNTY ATTORNEY SHOT-WELL has done the right thing in filing complaints against Detectives Brigham and Armstrong as well as Edgar Holman for the murder of Eugene Scott, the Plaza hotel bellboy. The jury recommended the holding of Holman; but in the opinion of many and The Monitor is one of the many, it should also have recommended holding at least Brigham and Armstrong, who according to several witnesses pursued the fleeing frightened boy, shooting and shouting, "Stop him, shoot him, kill him; kill the _____!" Indeed, there are those who maintain that all the raiding squad, who had invaded the Plaza hotel without warrant, should be held accountable. Then others hold that Paul Sutton, whom Mrs. Anderson testified, shouted, "Stop him, shoot him, knock his head off," when Scott, going about his duties was intercepted by Sutton on the third floor, is primarily responsible and should be held. Something was said or done to Scott, who was a green boy from the south, on that third floor to frighten him and make him run. Scott is dead and cannot speak. Sutton testified that he did not say or do anything to frighten the boy. Mrs. Anderson the only witness to the start of the affair, says that Sutton did. So there you are. This fact, however, is indisputable, Brigham and Armstrong pursued Scott, and one of them at least fired two or three shots, and either one or both of them shouted, "Shoot, kill him;" and Holman, a special officer, passing on Thirteenth street, hearing the shots and shouts drew his gun and fired. If, therefore, Holman is to be held, and that was the jury's verdict, Brigham and Armstrong should also be held. And this Mr. Shotwell has done and public opinion sustains him in this action. Mr. Shotwell is to be commended for the thoroughness and lack of bias or prejudice with which he conducted the investigation at the inquest. Everyone was impressed with the fact that he was simply seeking to elicit the truth and fix responsibility. In our judgment Police Commissioner Ringer should have suspended Armstrong and Brigham when they were ordered under arrest. But instead of that they were released on bond and permitted to continue their work. It was stated that should they be bound over to the district court at the preliminary hearing they will be suspended. They have been bound over. Will they now be suspended? The Monitor, as our files will show, has not joined in the criticism made by the press of this city upon the police administration under Mr. Ringer and Chief Eberstein. But we desire to go on record as being opposed to any effort that may be made by the police authorities to shield the men guilty of Scott's murder. His murderers and we use the term murderers advisedly must be put on trial and punished for their crime. We are not asking for vengeance, but we do insist upon justice and will be satisfied with nothing less. IS THIS CROOKEDNESS? AFEW weeks ago the crying need for some community work for the girls and young women of Omaha became insistent. A representative conference of women, including, as it should, every responsible group was held at the Kellom school and plans were agreed upon, to be put into operation as soon as the trained community worker who had been assigned arrived. A most competent committee of three women was appointed to act for the larger committee in looking up suitable quarters and such other preliminary work as might be necessary. An officious and "influential" individual intruded himself The committee was politely ignored. An assistant, a very excellent young woman, but however, unasked for by the young woman assigned here by the War Camp Community Service, was appointed. Search for suitable quarters was instituted. None suggested suited. Then a marvelously philanthropic offer was made. Rather than see the community house homeless, the Afro-American Realty company at Twenty-seventh and Lake streets, would vacate their office and rent it, including two office desks and some other office equipment for the nominal sum of $30 per month. A most generous act! But wholly un-appreciated. First, the room was unsuited for the community work which it was desired to do. This was the chief objection to this place. Then it was found that this room rents from the firm of Hastings & Heyden for $16 per month. The philanthropy and disinterestedness of those putting across the deal is quite apparent to the most obtuse when it is discovered this $16 a month room was being sublet to the War Camp Community Service for $25 a month. This is a sample of some of the shady schemes being put across by some public-spirited, race-loving individuals in Omaha. It may be shrewd business, but it looks like crookedness. There comes a time when silence is criminal and patience ceases to be a virtue. PLAYING WITH FIRE THE MONITOR believes unquestionably in the white American's sense of fairplay. We do not think that at heart he is mean or believes in injustice. We are convinced that he hates from the bottom of his soul that species of deprivancy which manifests itself in wilful and deliberate lying to get somebody into trouble. It is difficult for him to get the viewpoint of the Colored American, and because he does not have this viewpoint, he frequently misunderstands us and thinks that we make a vast deal of unnecessary fuss about alleged discriminations, which he honestly conceives to be more imaginary than real, because never has "the iron entered into his soul." The unfortunate aspect of the situation is the difficulty of getting the unvarnished facts before the average white American. The dailies play up, big as a rule, reports of alleged crimes and misdemeanors, the seamy side of life, but minimize the higher achievements of the race and the constructive side of our racial life. And knowing this, and that we are misjudged by this one-sided presentation of the case, some of us are wont to become impatient and charge our fellows of the other racial group with desiring to misjudge us. But this is not true and we should take the view of the situation that much of the injustice and indifference to this injustice upon the part of people of the other race is due to their ignorance of the facts. Of course they will not feel flattered to be told that they are ignorant of the real facts concerning us, but it is nevertheless the truth. We have published in these columns recently no less than three authentic accounts of accusations of heinous crimes made against Negroes, which were afterwards confessed to be wilful and deliberate lies. Now, does anyone believe that the average American, white or black, approves of anything of this character? Not only does their sense of justice and fair play oppose it, but they realize that such a practice is playing with fire, that must inevitably result in a wide-sweeping conflagration. One of the great tasks before us is to get the facts before the American people. There should be a fund available in every city to buy space in the leading THE MONITOR dailies to run as advertisements the truth about our race. There should be a fund available to pay for placing extra copies of our own reliable publications in the hands of at least the thoughtful sentiment molding white people of every community. For playing up alleged crimes as big features, and the denial in an obscure, out of the way news item, as is shown in the articles republished elsewhere in this issue from the Washington Post, a paper largely responsible for the race riots in the national capital, is unjust and hazardous and playing with fire. SCHEMES AND SCHEMERS EVERY community of any size is afflicted with individuals who spend a vast deal of time in concocting and endeavoring to put across questionable schemes, with an eye single to the main chance. Professing to be interested in their race, Esaulike they would sell it and its dearest interests for a mess of pottage. If these individuals would only be honest, manly and straightforward they could be of great service to their community. But in using whatever ability they may have as they do they are a menace and a hindrance. Unfortunately, Omaha is afflicted with some of this class of bipeds to whom crookedness seems native. They pose as reformers and I-am-holier-thou paragons of righteousness while in reality they are lying knaves and hypocrites. They hide behind the petticoats of some well-meaning and unsuspecting woman or take advantage of the confidence and unsuspecting nature of some friends to carry out their well laid schemes. Sooner or later their knavery and trickery will be exposed, for as Lincoln well said, "You may fool all of the people some of the time, you may fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." THE MORALS SQUAD THE language used by Armstrong and Brigham while chasing Scott, charged with no crime, to his death, shows eminent qualifications for a morals squad. FITZGERALD RULES RIGHT JUDGE FITZGERALD, in view of the evidence submitted by the state at the preliminary hearing Wednesday, would have stultified himself if he had not held the two accused detectives to the district court. Their responsibility for the deplorable affair is beyond question and Judge Fitzgerald did his duty in so ruling. PRESIDENT WILSON stated in his "keynote speech" that the peace treaty is perfectly plain to those who have read it and understand it. Granted. But who in heck has read it? See any such freak around your burg? With the great racial excitement now existing all over the country, it is well for Colored people to keep cool. No good can come from incendiary talk. It is rank folly to talk about actual, physical fighting to win the contest for justice in the U. S. A. It would be futile as the Colored people have neither wealth nor guns and are outnumbered five to one. Never be the aggressor, but defend yourself if wantonly attacked. The Colored people must fight but it must be with the spirit, money and the ballot. Use every legitimate means to create a healthy public opinion and vote for the individual or party guaranteeing protection of life and liberty.—The Appeal. NO OCCASION FOR UNEASINESS Clayton of Texas State Agricultural Department, Gives Assuring Statement to Perturbed People of State. (By Associated Negro Press.- Austin, Tex., Sept. 3.—Speaking at the meeting of the State Farmers' Institute, J. E. Clayton, of Manor, Travis county, who is a member of the field force of the Texas department of agriculture, gave assurance that there is no occasion for uneasiness among the white people of Texas of trouble by the Negro race. "There seems to be unrest over the state that the Colored people are going to give the white people trouble," said Clayton. "There is no foundation for this. I stand here and say for the 865,000 Negroes in Texas that they have no intention whatever of pulling away from the white people. They want your help and they want to help you." Please remember that your subscription is due, and be kind enough to drop into the office and pay it promptly. PERFECTLY PLAIN PRESS CLIPPINGS Keep Cool! Flashes of Most Anything In the medieval ages, when men were only partially civilized, to enter a church was to enter a sanctuary. A man's enemies stopped at its sacred portals and no harm befell their victim as long as he remained within its hallowed walls. Not so in Crisp county, Georgia, situated in the democracy of the United States. A mob of white lynchoerats chased a Negro accused of making an inflammatory statement into a church and shot him to death there, and then burned to the ground the temple that had been dedicated to God and every other constructive place they could find belonging to Negroes. Enlightened public opinion, put on the brakes, put on the brakes. Sliding down a precipice is jolly but dangerous and that smash up at the bottom isn't good to contemplate. "Just for thirty pieces of silver he left us. Just for a riband to stick in his coat." So Browning speaks of the lost leader, so must we speak of some of our modern Judases. Truly the open enmity of our enemies is to be preferred to the trickery of our so-called friends. DID you ever stop to think that after all the straight open path is the best road in which to walk? The winding way full of obstructions and pits and snares makes it harder to reach any kind of goal; one trips and slips and falls so often. Prone in the road he lay. Wounded and sore bestead: Priests, Levites past that way, And turned aside the head. They were not hardened men In human service slack: His need was great: but then His face, you see, was black. —New York Independent. DOCTOR PEEBLES TO WRITE FOR MONITOR THE MONITOR, which is always looking for attractive features for its readers, announces with pleasure that Dr. William W. Peebles, who, after having served several months overseas, with the rank of captain, as dental surgeon in charge of different units, has just recently reopened his thoroughly equipped office at Thirteenth and Farnam streets, will conduct a department on "Dental Hygiene and the Care of the Teeth" each week in The Monitor. This will be most useful and instructive. The dental surgeons who served with the Ninety-second division were especially recommended by Colonel Oliver, chief dental officer of the United States army in France, for unusual proficiency, and Captain Peebles was especially complimented for several delicate and successful dental operations. The Monitor is gratified to be able to secure Dr. Peebles' services in conducting this department. Monitor office. Douglas 3224. SAVE AND PROSPER SAVE AND PROSPER No man ever retired on the money he spent. Form the habit of regularly saving a part of your income every week or month, and lay the basis for future prosperity. You are cordially invited to open a Savings Account in the Savings Department of the First National Bank. The Savings Department is located on the street floor, either Sixteenth Street or Farnam Street entrance. First National Bank of Omaha 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. FALKENDER REAL ESTATE CO. We have houses in any location you want—north. From 4 to 7 rooms, at reasonable prices. Glad to show at any time. ROOM 23 ARLINGTON BLOCK Douglas 6420 YOUNG WOMEN AS DEMONS We have an attractive pro- bitious women. A line of g perience unnecessary. Four Apply Dr. Halliday, Hotel L A Classified Di- Colored Pro- Business BIG WOMEN WANT DEMONSTRATOR an attractive proposition to make en. A line of goods that sell them necessary. Four dollars a day and Balliday, Hotel Loyal, Sixteenth and Sified Directory of Co- lored Professional a Business firms We have an attractive proposition to make to a few ambitious women. A line of goods that sell themselves. Experience unnecessary. Four dollars a day and commission. Apply Dr. Halliday, Hotel Loyal, Sixteenth and Capitol Ave. A Classified Directory of Omaha's Colored Professional and Business firms SILAS JOHNSON Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director The place known for its quality service, and reasonable prices We spare no pains for our complete chapel service. Open day and night. Phone Webster 248. R. H. Robbins & Co. GROCERIES AND MEATS An Up-to-Date Store. 1411 North 24th Street. Prompt Delivery. W.241. Do It Now WHAT Subscribe for The Monitor South & Thorn 2418 North 24th S SPECIAL SUN Stewed chicken lings ..... Roast Prime Bee Roast Pork, Ap lor. Early June Peas Sat Coffee We Serve M 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 GREEN & GREEN We Operate the One Minute Shining Parlor Chairs for Ladies. Auto Truck and Transfer 1919 Cuming St. Phone Doug. 3157; Web. 2840. ```markdown ``` REAL ESTATE CO. ion you want—north. From prices. Glad to show at any EN WANTED STRATORS position to make to a few am- s that sell themselves. Ex- lars a day and commission. Sixteenth and Capitol Ave. History of Omaha's Professional and Firms Mrs. J. H. Russell PORO SYSTEM Hairdressing and Manicuring Distinctive Service Appointments Made by Phone 2914 Erskine St. Web. 2311 Allen Jones, Res. Phone W. 204 Andrew T. Reed, Res. Phone Red 5210 JONES & REED FUNERAL PARLOR 2314 North 24th St. Web. 1100 Lady Attendant Repairing and Storing Orders Promptly Filled NORTH SIDE SECOND-HAND STORE R. B. RHODES Dealer in New and Second-Hand Furniture and Stoves. Household Goods Bought and Sold. Rental and Real Estate. 2522 Lake St. Webster 908 South & Thompson's Cafe 2418 North 24th St. Webster 4566 SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER Stewed chicken with dumplings.....50c Roast Prime Beef au jus.....50c Roast Pork, Apyle Sauce.....50c lor. Early June Peas Mashed Potatoes Salad Coffee Dessert We Serve Mexican Chile EAT AT WEST CAFE Good Cooking, Reasonable Prices 1712 North 24th St. T. J. ASHLEY, Prop. 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. 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. 18th and Burt Streets. Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry Supplies 119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 Call Webster 1358 After 6 P. M. C. W. ANDERSON Upholstering of Chairs 3325 Emmet Street. Omaha Petersen & Micheisen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N St. Tel. South 162 Liberty Drug Co. 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. 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 of the United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Farnam Streets F. WILBERG Across from Alhambra Theatre The Best is None Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 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 Douglas 3889 Autos Everywhere Empire Cleaners and Dyers 707 South 16th St. BENJAMIN & LEE Shoe Repairers 1415 North 24th St. First class work; reasonable prices. Note—Coleman Dangerfield no longer connected with this firm. Thos. A. Douglas Watchmaking Jewelry Repairing 1436 So. 13th --- Events and Persons Miss Pearline Dawson of St. Louis, Mo., is visiting her brother, Bob Dawson and family, 2854 Corby street. North Side Taxi. J. D. Lewis, proprietor. Limousine and touring car. Stand phone, Web. 1490; residence phone, Web. 949.—Adv. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ward of Battles, Tex., are in the city on a brief visit. He is reputed to be one of Texas' wealthy citizens and may decide to invest in Omaha. First class rooming house, neatly furnished rooms. Mrs. Georgia Tapps, 207 South 13th street. Tyler 4782. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Gaskins of Oakland, Cal., are in the city visiting relatives. Mrs. Gaskins will be remembered by Omahans as Sadie Kennedy. She was born and reared here and is a niece of Alphonso and Maynard L. Wilson. Poro hair culturist, scientific scalp treatment. Mrs. Georgia Tapps, 207 South 13th street. Tyler 4782. Immediate attention to your teeth saves your health and expense. See Drs. Singleton & Singleton. Mrs. M. Kennedy of the Dee Gee apartments, 2024 Burt street, was among the Omaha visitors to the state fair at Lincoln last week. For special bargains in stocks, bonds and real estate see Fred Williams, Monitor office. Douglas 3224. Miss Madree Penn of The Monitor staff returned Thursday night from a pleasant ten days' vacation spent at St. Joseph, Mo., and Atchison, Kas. Efficient dental work which will stand for years is guaranteed by DRS. SINGLETON AND SINGLETON. Mrs. John Albert Williams entertained informally Thursday night at the rectory complimentary to Mrs. William G. Haynes, recently of Pittsburg, Pa. For 22-karat Gold Crowns placed in with expert workmanship see Drs. Singleton & Singleton. The Dubois Players met Wednesday evening with Mr. Sphar Dickey. A very enjoyable evening was spent by all. Mrs. Emma J. Smith was called to Chicago Friday evening by the sudden death of her brother, Sam Bass of that city. For Sale—A number of 5 and 6-room cottages, not entirely modern. Prices ranging from $2,000 to $3,100. Terms easy, upward from $200. Balance in monthly payments as rent. See McClure & Shipman, 220 South 13th street. Telephone Douglas 7150. Mrs. Craig Morris returned Sunday from Lincoln, where she attended the state fair. E. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 640 Bee Building. Douglas 3841.—Adv. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Stevenson, after a very pleasant visit with their parents, returned Friday evening to their home in St. Louis. Are you a member of the N. A. A. C. P.? If not, why not? Mrs. Walter Bell left last week for Detroit, where she will be the guest of her sister. She will visit many other eastern points before returning to Omaha. Have you joined the N. A. A. C. P. yet? Why not? Painless extractions a specialty at DRS. SINGLETON AND SINGLETON. Little Miss Celestine Smith, one of Omaha's coming young ladies, started to school Monday morning. She is very much clated over her new field. Dr. J. L. Green, mechano-therapist, chronic diseases a specialty. Phone Webster 3694. Mrs. Julia Fletcher of 2724 Miami street gave a birthday party Monday evening, September 1, in honor of Mr. Sherman Cain, one of our returned soldiers. The house was beautifully decorated with the national colors and beautiful flowers were in evidence everywhere. Even Kewpie wore the colors and carried a flag. Mr. Cain was the recipient of many useful and beautiful presents, among which was a framed Honor Roll from Mrs. Fletcher. A birthday cake, with all the candles lighted, was, indeed, a pleasing sight. Refreshments that both delighted the eye and tickled the palate were served. Silk flags were the souvenirs. The evening was spent in music and games. Every one voted Mrs. Fletcher a delightful hostess. A welcome awaits you at St. Philip's Episcopal church, Twenty-first street, near Paul. Mrs. Haywood Vawter, of Mme. C. J. Walker's Hair Culture college, begs to announce the reception to agents and customers Monday evening, September 15, at her residence, 1716 North Twenty-eighth street. Hours, 2 p. m. to 12 p. m. Houses for sale in all parts of the city. Tel. Douglas 2842 or Webster 5519. Guy B. Robbins. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Irving, 3219 Pinkney street, was buried September 9 from the Silas Johnson Western Funeral Home, Rev. A. L. Rountree officiating. Interment was in Forest Lawn. For big bargains and safe investments see Fred C. Williams, Douglas 3224. For Sale—A number of 5 and 6-room houses, strictly modern on paved street. Prices running from $3,500 to $4,200. On terms $500 or more down, balance as rent. See McClure & Shipman, 220 South 13th St. Telephone Douglas 7150. Mr. Isaac Barnett and wife of Hoisington, Kan., visited last week with their aunt, Mrs. George Rollen. They left Sunday, September 7, for Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Elmer Derrick of Atlantic City. N. J., has arrived in the city to make an indefinite stay with his uncle, Mr. C. H. Spriggs, 2516 Erskine street. GRAND MASON A meet King Solo and Accept B. F. hall streets, or casion bination of Kansas delegates Kansas as W. S. Jen J. F. W. grand sec of Omaha Smith of f Miss Helen Conway left Sunday evening for Jefferson City, Mo., to enter Lincoln institute. Willie Bruce, the popular and highly efficient North End barber, will in the future be found at Killingworth & Price's finely equipped tonsorial parlor, where he will be pleased to welcome any of his old friends and acquaintances. Phone Finkenstein's for spring chickens and the best meat in town. Webster 1902. The Rev. Emory R. Smith of Washington, D. C., was an Omaha visitor Sunday. He was the guest of Dr. John Andrew Singleton while here. R. S. Dixon, household goods for sale, from kitchen to parlor, at reasonable terms, prices same. Call R. S. Dixon, Walnut 4130 or Douglas 81. DRS. SINGLETON AND SINGLE- DRS. SINGLETON AND SINGLETON, dentists, 11 South 14th street. The Mothers' club gave their last outing for 30 children Friday, September 5, at Hanscom park. The guests included Mrs. Huddlin, Moss, Wright, Harbin and Mrs. Keyes and her eight children. All report having had a good time. The next business meeting will be held Friday, September 9. Mrs. Geo. Macklin, president, 2909 North 26th street. $200 cash, $15 monthly, will buy good 5-room cottage on Franklin street; price, $1,800; has gas, water and lights. DOLLEN REALTY CO., Doug, 1733. 314 Baird Bldg. Doug. 1733. 314 Baird Bldg. Photos painted in oil colors by our method, beautiful and look alive. Send $1 with photo for sample. Describes color fully. We copy and enlarge all kinds of pictures. Satisfaction guaranteed. Representatives wanted. The Photo Color Studio, 2866 Saratoga street, Omaha, Neb. It is not how much you earn, but how much you save which counts. At administrator sale for cash, Thursday, September 18, at 10 o'clock at the east front door of the court house, the lot and five-room house at 2517 Hamilton street. This property must be sold to settle an estate, and there is a chance for a bargain. See A. L. Timblin, with Lion Bonding & Surety Co., 19th and Douglas streets. NEGRO RAPS 'SOCIAL EQUALITY' Blacks Who Keen Places Are Happy, Texas Preacher Says. Austin, Tex., Sept. 10.—Work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Texas was scored today by the Rev. L. I. Campbell, president of St. John's Negro Encampment, in calling a meeting to discuss the race question Sunday night. "I'm sick of this scarecrow of social equality and Negro domination—terms coined by cheap politicians," Campbell said, referring to alleged statements of John R. Shillady, secretary of the Advancement Association, who recently was beaten in Austin. Negroes who keep their places without attempting social equality with whites are prosperous and happy, Campbell said. BOUGHT BEAUTIFUL HOMES OF NIMROD JOHNSON C. Fox, 2866 Maple street. Mrs. Callie Banks, 2521 Miami St. C. E. Bell, 3230 Emmet St. Arthur Hardison, 2216 Grant St. Randolph Underwood, 3031 Pinkney St. Mrs. Sophy McClare, 2856 Corby St. Josephine Viven, S. W. corner 26th and Seward Sts. Mrs. Frances Jones, 3327 Emmet St. John W. Knapp, 3450 Pinkney St. W. A. Williams, 2711 Ohio St. Brice Grogan, 2713 Ohio St. Damon Maxwell, 2860 Miami St. Milton L. Hunter, 2201 Grant St. H. R. Wallace, 2922 Grant St. Henry Leeder, 3909 North 18th St. John W. Smith, 2728 Burdette St. N. J. Winston, 3508 Burdette St. John Drewey, 2217 North 27th Ave. G. L. Kellogg, 2720 Blondo St. Northern Jenkins, 25th and Maple Sts. David Stevens, 2316 North 27th St. These are just a few of the many who bought homes of us by the month. NIMROD JOHNSON, Notary Public, Real Estate and Rentals. 2726 Burdette St. Web. 4150. FOR SALE A meeting of the Most Worshipful King Solomon's Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted York Masons at the U. B. F. hall, Twenty-fourth and Parker streets, opened last Tuesday, the occasion being the fifty-second communication. Grand Master W. H. Ford of Kansas City presided and about 350 delegates were present from points in Kansas and Nebraska, including Dr. W. S. Jenkins, past grand master; Dr. J. F. Wilson of Kansas City, past grand secretary; Rev. J. A. Broadnax of Omaha and Past Grand Master Smith of Missouri. Smoke John Ruskin oc Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY May Allison in "CASTLES IN THE AIR" Chas, Chaplin Comedy Peggy Hyland in "CHEATING HERSELF" Strand Comedy. Pathe News SUNDAY Bessie Barriscale in "TANGLED THREADS" Pathe News. Comedy. MONDAY and TUESDAY Theda Bara in "A WOMAN THERE WAS" Mutt and Jeff Comedy "SOUND YOUR A" Diamond Theatre New Prices Effective Sept. 14 CHILDREN 10c, Including War Tax. ADULTS 15c, Including War Tax THURSDAY— Rita Johvette in "ONE LAW FOR BOTH" And Comedy. FRIDAY— Carlisle Blackwell in "THE BURGLAR" Also "ELMO THE MIGHTY" No. 9 And Good Comedy. SATURDAY— Neal Hart in "WHEN THE DESERT SMILED" Also "Masked Riders" No. 4 SUNDAY— Alice Brady in "THE WHIRLPOOL" Charley Chaplin in "DOG'S LIFE" A Million Dollar Comedy --- The same every other The panies have vance in The pends on companion wages are Price me must this new --- The House of Courtesy. 24th and Parker Sts. ```markdown ``` Higher Telephone Rates Throughout the Country The telephone induces the same conditions which every other business. The increased expensepanies have had to meetvance in telephone rates. The cost of furnishpends on the cost of procompanies everywhere andwages and paying more f Prices are on a perme must of necessity adthis new condition. The telephone industry has been affected by the same conditions which caused higher prices in every other business. The increased expenses the telephone companies have had to meet has necessitated an advance in telephone rates throughout the country. The cost of furnishing telephone service depends on the cost of producing it. The telephone companies everywhere are paying employees higher wages and paying more for materials than formerly Prices are on a permanently higher level and me must of necessity adjust our business to meet this new condition. NEWBURKE TELEPHONE COMPANY LONG WYNDHAM TELEPHONE MALL SYSTEM NEWBURKE TELEPHONE & TELEPHONE --- We take this opportunity to inform the public that the convention being held in Omaha this week is not the grand lodge of the A. F. & A. Masons of Nebraska, neither is it the grand lodge of the A. F. & A Masons of Kansas. The M. W. grand lodge A. F. & A. M. of Kansas is recognized by all of the 38 grand lodges in the United States. The said grand lodge convening in Omaha this week is not recognized by it, neither is it recog- GOOD GROCER C. P. WESIN C Also Fresh Fruit 2005 Cuming St. MEN'S FA In the latest styles for Agents for Dr. Reed's Cus Agents for Strong & Ser Regent S MEN'S FALL SHOES In the latest styles for you to choose from. Agents for Dr. Reed's Cushion Soled Shoes. Agents for Strong & Serfield's shoes for gentlemen. Thomas Kilp Can Aid You in M the High Co First by telling the truth a insisting upon and selling only giving you the benefit of buy ANN SALE OF THIS Blankets, Sheets, Spreads, C market was lower. These pri ber. We advise your buying m down and hold any purchase Thomas Kilp First by telling the truth about their goods. Second by insisting upon and selling only goods of quality. Thirdly by giving you the benefit of buying largely on a lower market. Blankets, Sheets, Spreads, Comforters—bought when the market was lower. These prices will only apply to September. We advise your buying now. We will accept a payment down and hold any purchase for you. telephone industry has been afflicted conditions which caused higher other business. increased expenses the telephone have had to meet has necessitate telephone rates throughout the cost of furnishing telephone set the cost of producing it. The t FOOD GROCERIES ALWAYS WESIN GROCERIES to Fresh Fruits and Vegetable Tel. COMPLETE LINE OF US FALL SH best styles for you to ch er. Reed's Cushion Soled strong & Serfield's shoes ent Shoes 205 South 15th Street Kilpatrick nied by any of the 38 grand lodges of the A. F. & A. Masons in the United States, but they are known as clandestine Masons, unauthorized and unrecognized by all. (Signed) NAT HUNTER, G. M. M. W. Grand Lodge of Nebraska and Jurisdiction. North Side Taxi. J. D. Lewis, proprietor. Limousine and touring car. Stand phone, Web. 1490; residence phone, Web. 949.—Adv. Smoke John Ruskin cigar. RIES ALWAYS GROCERY CO. Fruits and Vegetables. Telephone Douglas 1098 ALL SHOES or you to choose from. fashion Soled Shoes. field's shoes for gentlemen. Shoe Co. 15th Street 5 Among the Churches MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. M. H. Wilkinson, Pastor Sunday was a day long to be remembered at Mt. Moriah. After a glorious covenant meeting, the pastor was presented a beautiful suit by the laymen and a smoking jacket by the Art club. Two of the other church auxiliaries presented him with $10 each. Several other packages were presented him which he did not open. Mr. H. L. Anderson was also remembered with a token as he will accompany the pastor on his trip to Newark, N. J. They both left Sunday night to attend the national Baptist convention which will convene September 10. We wish them a pleasant and enjoyable trip. Too much credit cannot be given our pastor, Rev. Wilkinson, and our church clerk, Brother Anderson. Mrs. Ida Harwood and Mr. C. O. Porter were united in marriage last Sunday morning at 10 o'clock by Rev. M. H. Wilkinson. 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 ALLEN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH 5233 South 25th Street ICES Sunday school, 1 p. m.; preaching, 8 p. m. 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 Church Twenty-second and Paul Streets REV. JOHN COSTELLO, PASTOR. VICES ing service and preaching, 11 a. m.; service and preaching, 8 o'clock. nt; class meeting Friday, night. day afternoon at 3:30. Baptist Church Franklin Streets FRANKLIN, Pastor 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 Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church VICES g service and preaching, 11 a. m. vice and preaching, 8 p. m. ht; Women's Missionary Society, 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 A Church Where All Are Welcome Services Sunday School, 10 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m., 8 p. m. League, 6:30 p. m. Florence P. Leavitt Club, Mon- day afternoon. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday Evening. W. H. M. S. Thursday Afternoon Ladies' Aid, Friday afternoon. REV. F. L. DEAS, Pastor Residence 2202 Clark St. Philip the Deacon (COPAL) Church of St. Philip the Deacon 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. BENEDICT THE MOOR (holle) every month. BENEDICTION—$ p. m., places to be held temporarily in Sacred nancy Streets. Everybody welcome. SILLY, S. J., Pastor. OF DIVINITY Real People's Mission Franklin Streets m.; Sunday school, 1:15 p. m. taking every Thursday 8 p. m. P 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 5233 South Twenty-fifth Street. Services were fair Sunday, two joining our Zion. Mrs. O. J. Blue, Rev. Mrs. Harris, Mr. Hatchey and wife, from Milwaukee, worshipped with us Sunday. Rev. O. B. Harris will preach next Sunday at 11 a. m., also conducting class meeting. The pastor will preach in the evening. The pastor especially desires all his members to pay their dollar money. Mrs. Sarah Gray is on the sick list. See Mrs. Melisa Carter for The Monitor. I hope every member and friend will subscribe for The Monitor, our only mouthpiece in the city and the only means we have of making our wants known. Rev. J. W. Wilson will preach at 3 p. m. Sunday the 21st. You are cordially invited to all the services. J. A. BROADNAX. Pastor. [Portrait of a man] SERVICES 2629 Caldwell Street. SERVICES GROVE METHODIST CHURCH 22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. (EPISCOPAL) (Catholic) Webster 6035. THE MONITOR Miss Ariona Moore and Mr. Jas. Battle were married Thursday evening by the pastor. Both of these young people live in Omaha. Rev. J. D. Davis will fill the pulpit during the absence of the pastor. All members are requested to come out and hear him. A number of visitors worshiped with us last Sunday. We had several additions to the church. ST. JOHN'S M. E. CHURCH NEWS Rev. W. C. Williams, Pastor A large audience listened to the very well delivered sermon on "The Gift of Tongue" by the pastor Sunday morning; also a very good audience was present at the evening services. There were several persons added to the church. The collection for the week was $204.52. Fifty dollars was taken up Sunday morning for charity. The sick of the church are: Mesdames Rayford, president of the junior stewardess board; Mattie Thorne, 2425 Lake street, and Mary Dupee, University hospital. A very interesting talk was made in Sunday school Sunday afternoon by Mrs. J. D. Lewis. The Penny Endeavor club had a very interesting meeting Monday evening in the lecture room. The visitors that worshiped in our pews on Sunday were: Mesdames Lucy Watkins, Ala.; Maddock, Okla.; Jones, Tex.; and Messrs. Walter Smoake, Washington, D. C.; C. J. Jones, Tex.; Gaskin, Okla., and Prof. W. W. Jones of Wilberforce. Visitors or strangers are always welcome to our services. Ushers or usherettes will gladly welcome you at the entrance and give you a convenient seat. PULLMAN PORTER NOTES Mr. Thomas Van has accepted a position with the Pullman company and is running to Portland, Ore., on U. P., Nos. 1 and 2. Mr. Smith is running to Rochester, Minn., over the C. & N. W. Nos. 603 and 606. Mr. B. Hunter, who has been out eight weeks with a special party, returned Saturday looking fine. Mr. F. Thornton is running to Deadwood, S. D., on C. & N. W. Nos. 606 and 603. Council Bluffs Thursday afternoon Rev. J. P. Jackson and wife, Rev. M. R. Rhonenee, wife and son, Charles, and Mr. R. V. Robinson were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Wright, at 2744 8th avenue. They enjoyed very much the family feast. Mr. R. V. Robinson, 2425 5th avenue, who has been quite sick, had another paralytic stroke Saturday morning, and is now in a very serious condition. Both churches report good services Sunday. Bethel A. M. E. church reported all departments well attended. Rev. J. P. Jackson preached Monday at Bethel A. M. E. Sunday some of the leading citizens of the city met at the Masonic hall at 12 a.m. to organize a lodge known as a standing organization of Odd Fellows. D. G. M. Askew arrived Sunday morning and assisted by W. H. Herndon and W. C. Lyons they were able to call together a number of the good citizens, who became members of this organization. The N. A. A. C. P. met Sunday afternoon, September 7, at the Masonic hall with about fifty present. We had a wonderful meeting. We wish to say to the Omaha branch of the N. A. A. C. P. that we are praying God will aid you in leading to a good end the great work you have undertaken in the Scott case. We also wish to state that if there is anything we can do in helping you out in this matter, do not fail to call on us. Rev. and Mrs. Rhonenee were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Madden Sunday. Mayor L. Zurmeuhlen and C. C. Galloway, organizer of the N. A. A. C. P., will speak at the Masonic hall September 17. Refreshments will be served. Music by Perkins' band. D. G. M. Askew is a resident of Sioux City, Ia. His great effort at organizing in which he so well succeeded, is highly appreciated by the Council Bluffs citizens. We Buy for Cash Stamps and Liberty Bonds Highest Prices. Iowa Realty Co. Pearl and Broadway. Phone 3239. Council Bluffs Strangers are welcome. SIOUX CITY NOTES The services at Malone A. M. E. church, Sunday, September 7, were well attended, it being a big day both spiritually and financially. One member was added to the church during general class in the morning and $29 was laid on the table to be applied on the salary of our beloved pastor, Rev. P. M. Lewis. Mrs. J. W. Norris has been ill for the past week, suffering from a complication of diseases. Mrs. Anna May Askew of Riverside Drive has been slightly indisposed from a nervous attack. The Daughters of Bethel will meet Monday, September 8, at Malone A. M. E. church. Friday night, September 12, Court of Colanthe will perfect their organization at Malone church. D. G. M. M nsfield Askew was in week. W THINGS A So are we going to on the 15th of Sept from our present location 4917 South north of our present location, where we and we will have better facilities for our shaved, neat and nobby massages, both latest style. In our tonsorial department P. M. Harris, whose motto is excelsior. cleaned, pressed and mended, and suits able, quality satisfactory, guaranteed work is imarbile visu. Clothes called f THINGS ARE MOVING So are we going to on the 15th of September or October 1. When we move you move with us from our present location 4917 South 26th street to 4825 South 26th street, just one block north of our present location, where we will have more room and everything will be modernized, and we will have better facilities for our fast increasing trade. We want to keep you clean shaved, neat and nobby massages, both hand and electrical hair cutting and dressed in the latest style. In our tonsorial department there will be three artists under the direction of P. M. Harris, whose motto is excelsior. We will also be better prepared to keep your clothes cleaned, pressed and mended, and suits made to your individual measurements. Prices suitable, quality satisfactory, guaranteed to all by J. H. Andrews, the successful tailor, whose work is imarbile visu. Clothes called for and delivered. Just call South 3887. Philips Dept. 4935-7 The Faster "W" Promises to reduce the H. C. of L. Let those who have the power to re the public part of the time! And carry living expenses, instead of playing che many. Bring down prices within reach for "That rainy day" or for sickness. These things can all be accomplish good system is needed to do anything. Philip, through years of study ha price on merchandise as low as possibl ing our system you can save. Watch you get more values here for less mon Philips Department Store Promises to reduce the H. C. of L. if carried out? Let those who have the power to reduce the high cost of living remember that you can fool the public part of the time! And carry out their promises to the people by greatly reducing living expenses, instead of playing cheap politics. Let them work for the interest of the great many. Bring down prices within reach of a workingman's wages so he can save a few dollars for "That rainy day" or for sickness. Because you can't fool the public all the time! These things can all be accomplished by united effort working in systematic order. A good system is needed to do anything. Philip, through years of study has mastered a system to save your money. He kept the price on merchandise as low as possible—always a little less. Our ad will show you, how by using our system you can save. Watch for our ad. See our windows daily. Let us help you—you get more values here for less money. PHILIP'S THE HOME OF VALUES. On sale at a wonderful reduction in prices. All dresses go in two lots regardless of price. A complete clean up of all dresses. Sizes 4 to 16. Good for either school or best wear. Blankets and Comforters A big new showing of blankets and comforters at astonishing low prices. Do not wait for the other fellow to pick out what he needs before you buy. But take advantage of our new stocks. Take the first choice yourself. New, large stocks in both lines. Blankets and comforters in either cotton or pure lamb's wool. Lot 1 Children's dresses that sold previously as high as $2.50, go on sale in lot 1. Sale price, all sizes, $1.00 Lot 2 Children's dresses of fine quality, sold regularly up to $4.50. Sale price lot 2. All sizes, $2.00. Big Cut in Middies and Smocks All the finest of materials and the very best in blending colors. Wonderful selection to choose from. All are "Van Lapik" made. On sale at unheard of low prices. A big new showing of blankets and comforters at astonishing low prices. Do not wait for the other fellow to pick out what he needs before you buy. But take advantage of our new stocks. Take the first choice yourself. New, large stocks in both lines. Blankets and comforters in either cotton or pure lamb's wool. Lot 1 Children's dresses that sold previously as high as $2.50, go on sale in lot 1. Sale price, all sizes, $1.00 Lot 2 Children's dresses of fine quality, sold regularly up to $4.50. Sale price lot 2. All sizes, $2.00. Big Cut in Middies and Smocks All the finest of materials and the very best in blending colors. Wonderful selection to choose from. All are "Van Lapik" made. On sale at unheard of low prices. Saturday Only in ONE CENT Large size meat platter and large v porcelain, 49c. Ic additional gives you only 50c. 42 Large Piece China Set For three days only—Saturday, Monday and day. Finest blue Pincel pattern, Smith make; first quality set; 42 large pieces, 3 day $6.95. Saturday Only in Our Money-Saving Basement ONE CENT ADDITIONAL SALE Large size meat platter and large vegetable dish, 49c; the finest quality Smith Philip semiporcelain, 49c. Ic additional gives you a plate of same quality, 50c. Entire set for one day only 50c. For three days only—Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Finest blue Pinciel pattern, Smith Philips make; first quality set; 42 large pieces, 3 days only, $6.95. We carry nearly all the ing electrical devices to Percolators, Irons, Grill brary lamps of the late 10c—A few pieces left from big enamel and tinware sale; all—10c. Council Bluffs Sunday, September 7 setting up a lodge of G. U. O. of O. F. He reports a pleasant trip and says the Bluffs is almost as good as Sioux City. Mr. Ed Askew spent Sunday in Council Bluffs, assisting D. G. M. Askew in setting up a lodge of G. U. O. of O. F. GS ARE MORE 5th of September or October 1. When 1917 South 26th street to 4825 South 11, where we will have more room and ev- lations for our fast increasing trade. Messages, both hand and electrical hair- al department there will be three and excelsior. We will also be better pr d, and suits made to your individual guaranteed to all by J. H. Andrews, names called for and delivered. Just call S, Tailor P. M. A. B. J. H. ANDREWS, Tailor 4935-7-39 South 24th Street The Fastest Growing Store in Omaha "WATCH US GROW" H. C. of L. if carried out? A power to reduce the high cost of living. And carry out their promises to the playing cheap politics. Let them work within reach of a workingman's wages, or sickness. Because you can't fool them accomplished by united effort working on anything. Of study has mastered a system to save as possible—always a little less. Our use. Watch for our ad. See our window or less money. PHILIP'S THE HOME For Dresses Action in prices. All costs of price. A com- sizes 4 to 16. Good For Footers Sets and comforters not wait for the other before you buy. But kicks. Take the first stocks in both lines. Other cotton or pure Previously as high as price, all sizes, $1.00 New Dress Complete new dress or suit. Put all colors—Black, white, 54 inches wide. Two styles men's gowns Two colors children's gowns Four colors men's gowns Men's Beau Bru Pictorial Review Bo We will continue and furnishing shirts boys' wear—Suits, either school wear. Children's Mina Taylor Dresses bility, soul regularly all sizes, $2.00. Shoes and Smocks and the very best in action to choose from. sale at unheard of ISS, HURRY! Still more styles large lines of Infant shoe department. but leather shoes, m PHILIPS' R Buy in Our Money-Save CENT ADDITIONAL and large vegetable dish, 49c; the fine gives you a plate of same quality, 5 IF YOU WANT YOURS, HURRY! Blankets and Comforters Lot 1 Lot 2 WELFARE WORKER MAKES SURVEY sign that our One very encouraging sign that our people are here to stay is the fact that they are buying property. Mr. Jesse Boyd has bought on Main street, Mr. H. J. Parker in Riverside and Mr. Dudley has just closed a deal for a nice home in Greenville. The Monitor is a good thing. Push it along. Mr. and Mrs. Rasburn Curtis entertained at dinner Sunday in honor of Mr. Jackson of St. Paul. The burning of the mortgage at Malone A. M. E. will take place next week. Watch The Monitor for details. OCTOBER 1. When we move you move with us to 4825 South 26th street, just one block more room and everything will be modernized, easing trade. We want to keep you clean electrical hair cutting and dressed in the will be three artists under the direction of to be better prepared to keep your clothes your individual measurements. Prices suit-H. Andrews, the successful tailor, whose ered. Just call South 3887. [Name] tment Store but? high cost of living remember that you can fool promises to the people by greatly reducing Let them work for the interest of the great bigman's wages so he can save a few dollars you can't fool the public all the time! effort working in systematic order. A a system to save your money. He kept the little less. Our ad will show you, how by us-See our windows daily. Let us help you— 'S THE HOME OF VALUES. Complete new lines of all new materials for your dress or suit. Pure wool serges and tricotines, in all colors—black, brown, Wisteria, etc., 36 and 4 inches wide. two styles men's good pants.....$1.98 two colors children's fine hose.....10c our colors men's fine hose.....15c Men's Beau Brummel Shirts, all prices. Pictorial Review Patterns. Complete new lines of all new materials for your dress or suit. Pure wool serges and tricotines, in all colors—Black, blue, brown, Wisteria, etc., 36 and 54 inches wide. Two styles men's good pants.....$1.98 Two colors children's fine hose.....10c Four colors men's fine hose.....15c We will continue for a short time our boys' suit and furnishing showing of every item needed for boys' wear—Suits, Pants, Shirts, Waists, Shoes—for other school wear or for best wear. We will continue for a short time our boys' suit and furnishing showing of every item needed for boys' wear—Suits, Pants, Shirts, Waists, Shoes—for either school wear or for best wear. FREE—A Harmonica with every suit. Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Still more styles have been added to our already large lines of Infants', Men's Ladies', and Children's shoe department. We guarantee to sell you nothing but leather shoes, made for both style and service. PHILIPS' POPULAR SHOE PRICES Money-Saving Basement NATIONAL SALE th, 49c; the finest quality Smith Philip semi- ume quality, 50c. Entire set for one day Electrical Showing We carry nearly all the many different time sa- ving electrical devices to save time and lessen labor— mercolators, Irons, Grilling Outfits. Beautiful li- rary lamps of the latest design. We carry nearly all the many different time saving electrical devices to save time and lessen labor- Percolators, Irons, Grilling Outfits. Beautiful library lamps of the latest design. All subscriptions and news will be thankfully received and promptly attended to by seeing Mr. Curtis, 513½ Main street, or phone A.-85769. Be not dismayed. Whate'er betides God will take care of you. Warren, O., Sept. 10.—Miss F. L. Cameron, a well known welfare worker among the Colored people is now in Warren and is working under the auspices of the Negro Welfare Association, and is organizing an auxiliary of the association in Warren and Trumbull county. She has made a complete canvass of all of the Colored families here and finds that the census of the race in Warren is 1,100 and is rapidly increasing. For Monitor office call Doug. 3224. P. M. HARRIS, Artist New Dress Goods Showing Boys' Outing Sale Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! 8 Classified Advertising RATES-2 cents a word for single insertions; 1½ cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement taken for company advertisement. Cash should accompany advertisement. DRUG STORES ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24th and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neb. First-class modern furnished rooms. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, 170 North Twenty-sixth street. phone Webster 4769. Property for sale. Telephone Web- ster 1352. DESIRABLE ROOMS FOR RENT Furnished rooms, strictly modern, one block from 24th street car line. Men only. Call Webster 4012. 4t First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric lights on Dodge and 24th street car line. Mrs. Anna Banks, 924 North 20th. Douglas 4379. FOR SALE. A nice home for Colored FOR SALE—A nice home for Colored family; easy terms. Call at 1809 North 24th st. Neatly furnished room for man in strictly modern home. Mrs. Barker, 2706 Parker street. Webster 1250. 4t LODGE DIRECTORY Keystone Lodge, No. 4, K. of P. Omaha. Neb. Meetings first and third Thursday of each month. M. H. Hazzard. C. C.; J. H. Glover, K. of R. and S. Ask the grocer, merchant, etc., with whom you trade: "Do you advertise in our paper, The Monitor?" Snow's College of Dressmaking— Fall term will open September 2. Enroll now. Mrs. C. Ridley, 1922 North 25th St. Res. Colfax 3831. Douglas 7150 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 13th and Farnam OMAR WONDER FLOUR FRIEDMAN'S PLACE Fine Watch Repairing. Red 7914 We Buy and Sell Jewelry, Clothing, Shoes, Trunks Suit Cases, Etc. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Full line of Tuxedo, Full Dress and Prince Albert Suits for sale or rent. See us first. 1211 Douglas St. Omaha, Neb. JOHN A. GARDNER AUTO EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE Stand at P. H. Jenkins' Barber Shop, 2122 North 24th St. K. & M. GROCERY CO. We solicit your patronage. 2114-16 North 24th St. We Sell Kashmir Goods STARK'S PHARMACY 30th and Pinkney Streets Phone Webster 4225. DANGERFIELD & VICKERS EXPERT SHOE REPAIR 814 North 24th St. Telephone Douglas 7147. WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO. OMAHA --- Physical Development and Sports By John (Jack) Tholmer U.S. SPLITTING THE PLATE By John A. Tholmer, The Prophet Texas' illustrious governor in a recent address to citizens of the outlaw state declared that Texas was for Texans. Which we presume was intended to mean for white ones, in-as-much as it is well known that Colored persons there cannot own themselves unless by grace of the tyrants. 2 Therefore, it has come to pass that the pale face has proved to be such a mighty man that his darker brother found it, not only advisable; but profitable to follow his lead. Texas for Texans (white ones). America for Americans. (We fear that had such been true the old standard would never be endangered.) As it stands for white ones and foreigners who (fortunately or unfortunately) are not of yellow, brown or black blood, first and after. Japan, the little island empire, strong arm of the far east, a crafty imitator, seems to be laboring under the same advanced idea, if advanced it can be called, and is without doubt heading for the same straight. "Asia for Asiatics." That, it appears, is a reasonably fair game. You keep me out of your home, I'll keep you away from my household. If it's sauce for the gander why should it be otherwise for the goose? That it will not be otherwise is an assured fact. Now, vipers may wiggle and snakes may hiss and twist, but the show down is in the making, the day of the reckoning is surely at hand. From afar in the darkness I hear a voice saying: "Give an account of thy stewardship." What will the answer be? A news item from Pine Bluffs, Ark., September 3, says. Flinton Briggs, aged 26, a discharged Negro soldier was lynched near Star City, Ark., Monday afternoon. He was charged with having insulted a young white woman. (No account as to reason.) Such reports are not surprising to the public, but that Texas Negroes representing St. John's Missionary Baptist society in session at Austin could go on record having passed a resolution condemning the people of the north for trying to keep the lash off their backs is galling in the extreme. I have long held that what the Negro needs is more real manhood and much less religious hypocrisy to gain a foothold among men and win respect. What does white Texas care for all the would-be sanctified "niggers" in the world? Yet one Wright Cuney's shadow could make the cowards slink away to cover. Can it be possible that some be- BASE Double Header, Omaha VER Union Rourke's Ba 16TH AND VIN BASE BALL! Double Header, Sunday, Sept. 14 Omaha Cubs VERSUS Union Giants Rourke's Baseball Park Game Called 1:30 P. M.; Admission 25c The Omaha Cubs have the fastest colored team west. The lineup Sunday will be: Knight, p; T Williams, c; Smith, ss; Boots, 1st b; Clutch, 2d b; 3d b; Patch Wright, 2d b; Claybourne, r. f.; Jo Holmes, l. f. W. F. TOWNSEND, Manager and Captain The Omaha Cubs have the fastest colored team in the west. The lineup Sunday will be: Knight, p; Talbert, p; Williams, c; Smith, ss; Boots, 1st b; Clutch, 2d b; Webster, 3d b; Patch Wright, 2d b; Claybourne, r. f.; Jones, c. f.; Holmes, l. f. W. F. TOWNSEND, Manager and Captain. ings masquerading under the cloak of agents of God will so prostitute themselves that they are willing to see their brothers destroyed and their sisters despoiled simply to be called "good niggers?" 4 Is there not one Negro preacher in the Lone Star state with one drop of blood in his makeup like Bishop Turner's? True indeed, Texas long ago ruled: She knows what to do with her "niggers." Despite the oft repeated boasts of the south that if all of its Negroes went north she would be benefited and furthermore would gladly furnish the necessarf traveling equipment as not only would it be an act of ridding the southland of so much rubbish, but the ever threatening cloud of black rapists, a continual menace to the white womanhood also now. For several years the Colored man to escape oppression has been drifting away from the southern task master to climes where he can at least rest in the safety of his household after his honest toil. And now comes the wail from Dixie: "Come back Henry, come back to the old millstone; I and the missus and the children as well as the dogs and the cattle miss you sore. "Nay, nay, says Henry; not me. You can't fool me no more." "I'tse goin' to say right here." The south may raise as much corn, cane and cotton as ever, but she'll pay for it if white men have to work in the fields instead of blacks. No more sixty cents a day extending from "kin-see to kant see." Then again why should Dixie want Henry at their daughter's side again? Eugene Scott, a Colored bellboy, was killed here early Monday morning by police officers who went to raid the Plaza hotel. County Attorney Abe Shotwell conducted a fair and rigid investigation. Three Colored men and three whites were members of the coroner's jury. E. Holman, a railroad detective, was indicted for the crime. Omaha in general voiced its disapproval of the killing which was cowardly, unprovoked and unwarranted. Yet people wonder why Negroes are leaving the south, where Negroes have no rights that whites are inclined to respect and much less forced to regard. I'll say Omaha is very unlike Dixie land towns that buy medals for white law officers who murder inoffensive Colored men to add glory to their records of misdeeds and to gain promotions. It must also be remembered that the county attorney, elected by the people to a position of honor and trust, did not plead too busy because the victim happened to be a Colored man. Show me the southern burg that shows such fairness and I'll take you to the zoo of flying elephants. Let there be peace, but always with righteousness the main aim. Texas is mighty? The chief executive said that all outsiders who came into its confines to tell them how they should dispose of their property (the Colored people) should be sent out of the state with broken jaws. He mentioned no names, but we have a sneaking opinion that he had in mind John Shillady who was beaten by toughs in Austin recently. Well to tell a long tale quickly he may yet get his chance to make his say good. He is so strong in the Lone Star state that it's a cinch he might mingle with the hoi poi in Washington society sooner or later. Big Athletic John lives in lil old Noo Yawk and happens to drop into the burg where the white house sets, at times. BALL! Sunday, Sept. 14 a Cubs RSUS Giants baseball Park NTON STREETS e fastest colored team in the will be: Knight, p; Talbert, p; , 1st b; Clutch, 2d b; Webster, Claybourne, r. f.; Jones, c. f.; Manager and Captain. THE MONITOR 5 Peradventure, Shillady should bump into Hobby along the avenoo some fine afternoon: Oh, boy! All I know is that I'd like to be close enough to fall into a ringside seat to enjoy the festivities. Who'd score the winning hit? You know, so don't be foolish and ask silly questions. Bet I could make a boodle big enough to strangle the whale that swallowed Jonah telling the fellows who'd be unfortunate enough not to be in on the show, the details of hostilities. It she' would make good readin.' 7 Most men think their fathers fools, And call their own wisdom just right: Yet still they live by grace of rules, Their sires proved by sheer light. 8 Wonder if the fellow who wrote the golden rule: "Honesty is the best policy," was caught in the act or convicted on circumstantial evidence? 9 Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest men born since Jesus' time, made up in true statesmanship for what he lacked in ability to use flowery language. On the other hand, Woodrow Wilson's every expression is so filled with eloquence that if they were of sound reasoning we would be inclined to the belief that he is the long looked for Messiah. Play ball: Tomorrow. PHYSICAL CULTURE Let every youngster who would like to cause Noah and Methuselah a bit of worry lest they see their records for longevity over topped begin right and now. Sure we're going to have a hard job dodging automobiles and falling airplanes for five or six hundred years and still live to cast our ballots on election day a few centuries later. But nothing beats a try, and we had better make up our minds and be quick about it. The good book tells us of how the boys of Adam's time of two and three hundred years of age used to get to roost about the same hour the egg layers did: That is, we can read between the lines how Cain and his brother, Abel, stuck close to the domicile long before papa Adam blew the horn for retirement, as soon as the sun had tucked itself away. There the two babies of several score years slumbered in peace till the morrow. Now it must not be overlooked that it has never been definitely revealed why brother Cain used brother Abel's bean for a ball which he no doubt endeavored to knock for a homer. We have always had a sneaking sentiment that we have the key to the mystery of the quarrel: But as no trial was ever called we thought it best to say no more on the matter. Yes, those kids of a few hundred years old used to pull off stunts like "THE TALK OF THE TOWN" SUIT With Extra Trousers FREE MADE TO YOUR MEASURE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED UNION $35 MADE Dundee WOOLEN MILLS 15TH & HARNEY NORTHWEST CORNER A Million Eyes Turned Upon it Daily MADAM C.J.WALKERS WONDERFUL HAIR GROWER AGENTS EVERYWHERE 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 the boys of ten and twelve of the present day and live to grow whiskers two yards long. The only reason we die soon is because we age too rapidly. 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THE TOWN" And the result was that they got their names in the papers for being great fellows and the fellows who made the books copied it from the papers and put it in the book and it's been handed down to us to read. That's how we come to know what the old timers did. Sure they lived a long time, because they lived right. Follow these articles and learn how they grew strong and healthy and lived long. NATIONAL MEDICAL (By Associated Negro Press.) Newark, N. J., Sept. 10.—The National Medical Association has just closed its twenty-first annual session in this city. Representatives from all sections of the country were in attendance. The special feature was the clinic at Mudgett hospital and training school for nurses. There's nothing beats a genial smile.