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Johnson Guilty, Jury's Verdict, District Court GROWING. THANK YOU! $2.00 a Year. 5c Copy JURY FINDS JOHNSON GUILTY OF ASSAULT Trial of Man Accused of Criminal Attack Upon Bessie Kroupa in Broad Daylight Last July Finished Saturday in District Court. ACCUSED WELL DEFENDED Omaha Branch. National Association for Advancement of Colored People, Believing in Man's Innocence, Employed Counsel for His Defense—May Appeal Case. IRA Johnson was found guilty by a jury in Judge Redick's court of criminal assault on Bessie Kroupa, an 18-year-old girl, after a trial which occupied practically a whole week. The jury to whom the case was given at 4:30 Saturday afternoon was out over three hours before reaching a decision. Bessie Kroupa, it is alleged, was attacked near her home at 4113 South Ninth street during the noon hour July 7. The story told by the girl was that as she was one her way to work shortly after 12:30 she met a Negro dressed in a blue suit and wearing a round black hat who, as passed her, suddenly threw his arm around her neck, stuffed a handkerchief in her mouth, carried her into a nearby ravine, tied her hands and assaulted her. After accomplishing his vile purpose he went away some distance, but shortly returned and tied her feet so that she could not get away and "squeal" on him. He sat down on a log near her, asked her some questions, wiped his face with his handkerchief, then wiped hers and finally went away. After her assailant had gone, she succeeded in attracting the attention of George Kreil, a neighbor who was passing the place. He took her home and her parents notified the police. Ira Johnson, employed at the Burlington ice house at Gibson, a mile and a half from the scene of the alleged crime, was arrested the following morning and taken by the detectives to the home of Miss Kroupa, who glanced at him through the vine-covered porch and cried. "Yes, that's the man; take him out of my sight." Johnson had his preliminary hearing in the county court July 18 and was bound over to the district court. He was one of the seventeen prisoners, four colored and thirteen white, held for assault or attempted assault in the Douglas county jail, at the time Will Brown was lynched. The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People interviewed Johnson after his arrest and after verification of his story decided to employ counsel for his defense. F. H. Howell of the legal firm of Smith, Schall & Howell, who had been employed in other work for the association, was asked if he would take the case. Mr. Howell's reply was, "It all depends upon the nature of the case. If that fellow is guilty, I feel so strongly against crimes of this character, that I would not defend him for any sum that could be offered me. If, however, after investigation, I believe that he is innocent, I'll be willing to defend him; but I'll tell you frankly, I must be convinced of his innocence." Investigation convinced Mr. Howell of Johnson's innocence and so he took the case. And his fee was not $1,000 or anything like it, as The Bee has falsely stated, to embarrass the case and to make political capital against the senior member of the firm The case was called for trial last Tuesday. It was devoted to empaneling the jury which, with the instruction of the jury, was completed Wednesday and the examination of witnesses was begun. The chief witnesses for the state were: Miss Kroupa, who contradicted several of her former statements, chiefly touching the identification of the defendant, but said that now she was positive that Johnson was the man; George Krell, who found Miss Kroupa after the assault, and who also contradicted several of his former statements, and Charles Wentz, a 9-year-old boy who identified Johnson as "a man with bumps on his face, bad teeth, and wearing a funny shaped high, black cap," whom he had seen in Riverview park on the morning of July 4; in the same place Sunday morning, July 6, but wearing a brown cap; and again Monday morning about 11 o'clock near Tenth and Canton streets, wearing a THE MONITOR ound black hat. Detectives who ar- sted Johnson testified to his actions . the time of his arrest. Questioned by Mr. Howell as to whether they had found any hat of any kind in the bunk car when Johnson was arrested, the detectives said no. The witnesses for the defense were: John Smalls, Eugene Bell, colored, fellow workmen of Johnson's; George Fahrenbrook, white foreman of the ice house, and Johnson himself. Three young white boys and a Mexican who worked there at the time of Johnson's arrest could not be located. Smalls testified that he bunked with Johnson and that they ate their dinner about half past 12 o'clock and that after that they went over by the ice house and lay down in the shade, until about 1:30 when the Mexican, Joe Garcia, came and asked Johnson if he wanted that razor. Johnson said yes, and went over to the Mexican's car, where he borrowed a razor and shoved himself. Bell testified that he reached Gibson around noon on July 7 with a note from an employment agency on Harney street; and that Johnson, whom he did not know, hailed him and after talking with him for a few minutes took him over to the foreman's shanty and introduced him to the foreman who employed him. George Fahrenbrook testified that shortly after 12 o'clock Johnson brought Bell to him with a note from an employment agency and that he, Fahrenbrook, told Bell to report for work with Johnson on the night shift at 6 o'clock. He testified that he saw Johnson at the ice house again about 2 o'clock. All these witnesses testified that Johnson at that time was dressed in blue overalls and a khaki shirt and wore an advertising cap, one stated that it was a Charles Denby cigar advertising cap. Johnson denied that he was in the vicinity of the crime on the day mentioned. He testified that he worked as usual on the night shift and went to sleep, as was his custom in the morning, getting up about 11 o'clock, soon after which he went to the grocery store near by and bought some provisions for his dinner; and that he was in conversation with his foreman sometime after 12 o'clock when he took a man who was looking for work over to him. He testified that he was around the ice house all the afternoon until time to go work at night. He was arrested Tuesday morning while sleeping in his bunk. "When they got me a little ways from the bunk house one of them put his hand in my pocket and pulled out a piece of string. I said that wasn't my string but they said it was. I never seen the piece of cord before. "I asked them to take me to Mr. Fahrenbrook, that he could testify I hadn't been away from the ice house that day, but they said they didn't have no time. Then they took me to the house where this girl lived. They took me inside the gate and when we was about 50 feet from the house some woman's voice hollered 'Take that man away.'" Mr. Howell, attorney for the defense, made a masterly analysis of the evidence and showed how impossible it was for the defendant to have been in two places at the same time or to have been the man who was dressed one way at 11 o'clock, a mile and a half away and another way at 12:15, and then back to the scene of the attack thirty minutes later in the same suit he wore at 11 and then back again in his overalls and cap at the foreman's shanty about 2 o'clock. He showed how the testimony of witnesses, with no special objects to serve, agreed as to Johnson's whereabouts at the time of the assault. He claimed that Johnson's identification by Miss Kroupa was by no means beyond question. He closed by saying, "Gentlemen, the evidence shows that this defendant is guilty of no crime, except it be the crime of being born black. It is for you to say whether or not he shall be made a sacrifice. Have you the courage and the manhood to render a verdict according to the evidence. That is all there is to it. I leave that question to be answered by you." Judge Slabaugh of the county attorney's office in closing for the state claimed that the identification of the defendant was complete and urged the jury to find him guilty. Men are never so ridiculous from the qualities which really belong to them as from those they pretend to possess. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 13, 1919 SENTENCES COMMUTED BY PRESIDENT Soldiers Convicted on Charge of Mutiny Given Dishonorable Discharge and Ten Years Hard Labor Instead of Death. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4.—The president has spared the lives of three soldiers of the army who had been sentenced by court-martial "to be shot to death with muskety" They are Privates Headley Braveboy, Pomeroy Jackson and Tom Nelson, 444th Labor Battalion, Quartermaster corps, who were convicted on charges of attempting to create a mutiny in their battalion at Pisgah, N. C., July 17, 1918, by disobedience of orders and threatening the lives of Captain Cyrus G. Wood and Second Lieutenant Aaron B. Cronkite, their superior officers. The death sentence was approved by Big. Gen. W. E. Cole, commanding, but was commuted by the president to dishonorable discharge and imprisonment at hard labor for 10 years in each case. MAN GIVES LIFE TO SAVE CHILD Exploit Worthy Carnegie Medal for Heroism. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 3.—In saving the life of a 6-year-old boy, Philip McGilley, a colored man 21 years old, of Federal street, sacrificed his own October 25th at Franklin and Popular streets. When he jammed on the brakes of the motor truck he was driving and swerved toward the curb to escape striking the boy, a Route 43 trolley car, closely following, crashed into the rear of the machine and hurled it into a telegraph pole. The trolley car jumped the track and crashed the truck like an eggshell. McGilley's lifeless body was removed from between the truck and the pole, while the boy was picked up only slightly hurt. The boy, Frederick Brown, started across North Franklin street near Popular just as the truck of Markovitz Brothers, driven by McGilley, came along at a rapid rate. Young Brown was taken to the Children's Homeopathic hospital suffering from shock and bruises, while the police of the Eighth district arrested Harry Williams, motorman of the car, who was given a hearing Monday morning. J. Harry Moore Accused of Conspiracy to Commit Arson—Charged With Taking Active Part in Riot. "FRAME-UP" BY CITY HALL, DECLARES REPORTER J. Harry Moore, reporter for The Bee, was indicted Thursday morning by the grand jury for conspiracy to commit arson. The indictment was returned in connection with the investigation *pursuant to the riot of September 28, when a mob fired the court house, lynched the Negro, Will Brown, and attempted to murder Mayor Smith. Mr. Moore has been accused by friends of the city administration of incurring their disfavor because of news stories he has written for The Bee, which did not meet with the approval of city hall officials. **Release Two Witnesses.** The indictment against the reporter is said to have been returned mainly on evidence furnished by a discredited liquor agent, formerly employed by the state, and two other alleged rioters, Ernest Morris and Harold Thorpe, who got off with 90-day sentences. "It is a frame-up," declared the reporter, "and can be traced directly to the city hall. My information is that a former state agent, who has been fired and is now bootlegging, is the man who is responsible for the information upon which the indictment was returned. The affair will be traced directly to the influence of city hall officials both in and outside of the grand jury." Out of City. "I was out of the city the afternoon and early part of the night of the riot. It was after 10 o'clock when I first learned that there had been any trouble on account of the mob. I can prove this by a dozen witnesses. I shall not stop here, however, because it can be shown that my indictment is the result of a conspiracy, and the names of the parties to the deal will be given to the public." NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, today made public a statement showing that 63 persons were murdered by mobs in the United States in the first ten months of 1919. Of the victims 61 were American citizens and 2 were Mexicans. Fifty-nine of the Americans done to death were Negroes, of whom 11 were burned at stake. "Among the causes for lynching were 'circulating incendiary literature' and 'talking of Chicago riot,'" says the statement of the Advancement association. "Four Negroes were lynched for 'intimacy' with white women, one for not turning out of the road for a white boy in an automobile, one for an altercation with a white man and one for being a leader of his race. Georgia led the states with 17 lynchings. Mississippi followed with 10. Alabama and Louisiana dividing the 'honors' of third place with 8 lynchings. The tabulations follow: Lynchings in the United States in the By States. Alabama ..... (1 white) 8 Arkansas ..... 5 Colorado ..... (Mexicans) 2 Florida ..... 4 Georgia ..... 4 Louisiana ..... 8 Mississippi ..... 10 Missouri ..... (white) 1 Nebraska ..... 1 North Carolina ..... 2 South Carolina ..... 1 Tennessee ..... 1 Texas ..... 3 Total ..... 63 The manner of lynching was as follows: Burned ..... 11 Hanged ..... 19 Shot to death ..... 20 Beaten to death ..... 2 Cut to pieces ..... 1 Drowned ..... 1 Manner unknown ..... 9 Total ..... 63 The alleged causes are as follows: Insulting white woman ..... 5 Altercation with white man ..... 1 Attempting to pull white woman from horse ..... Trouble between white and colored cotton mill workers ..... Assault on white woman ..... Murder ..... Insulting white man ..... Shooting white man ..... Attempted assault on white woman Result of race riot ..... Talking of Chicago riot ..... Not turning out of road for white boy in auto ..... Lender among Negroes ..... Circulating incendiary literature ..... Misleading mob ..... Boastful remarks re killing of CO-OPERATE TO PRESERVE RACIAL GOOD-WILL (By Associated Negro Press.) Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 12.—Resolutions pledging support and prayer for the co-operative committees formed by both races were submitted here to 167 churches, white and colored, as part of the campaign for a better understanding between the races. "Continuous rumors of 'race riots,'" also are denounced in the resolutions, which contain a pledge that there shall be no such riots and that those responsible for the rumors shall be hunted out and silenced. METHODISTS TO OPEN GIRLS' SEMINARY (By Associated Negro Press.) Richmond, Va., Nov. 12.—Announcement has been made that the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist church decided at a meeting in Detroit to open a seminary in Lynchburg for the education of Negro girls of the south. The seminary will be built on the site of the Morgan college, which was destroyed by fire several years ago. Vol. V. No. 19 (Whole No. 228) --- SCHOOLS ARE BLAMED FOR OMAHA RIOTING Michigan Professor Says Lynching Reveals Mental Inadequacy in Mob—Says Neither Whites Nor Negroes Can Hope to Kill Each Other. "Education and the public school system have failed when race riots can happen," Professor Charles McKenny of Ypsilanti, Mich., told 400 Nebraska teachers last Thursday in the First Methodist church. His talk was a plea for the social sciences. "The killing of even one Negro reveals mental inadequacy in the mob that kills," he said. "We white persons cannot logically hope to kill every Negro in the country. There are 10,000,000 of them. Then what avails the death of one? Likewise, the Negroes cannot hope to kill every white person. Therefore, if neither can eradicate the other stock, then each must learn to live with the other. "Living together does not mean intermarriage or domestic friendships between whites and blacks. It merely means that we must arrive at an intelligent and sympathetic understanding of the problems that basically cause race riots. We must appreciate the fact that the Negroes will not consent forever to be in economic and social bondage. We must not hinder them in their social struggle. We must educate ourselves and allow them to be educated. We must give the Negro the right to prove that the black race has the mental power to emerge from its present status. "I remember well your Omaha riot. A young man of this city, who has a college education, wrote to me. His letter said: 'I wish I could get a crack at that nigger.' The remark proved to me that. Insofar as his education was concerned, our schools had failed. "A dispatch from Omaha to a New York paper stated that Omaha women approved of the riot and the killing of the suspected Negro. I do not know whether that article reflected the truth. I may, however, hope that Omaha's women did not approve." MAN CHARGED WITH RIOT ASSAULT George Davis Indicted on Testimony of Mayor Smith for Attempt on His Life. George Davis, arrested in Lincoln Saturday, was brought to Omaha and lodged in the county jail to await trial on three charges upon which the grand jury indicted him in connection with the court house riots and the assault upon Mayor Smith. Davis is charged in one indictment with assault to murder Mayor Smith and assault to do great bodily injury to Mayor Smith. In another indictment he is charged with conspiracy to commit the murder of Will Brown, who was lynched the night of the riot. BAPTISTS SEEK TO ESTABLISH BETTER RELATIONS Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 12.—In a declaration of principles and policies the Colored Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of Tennessee in its concluding session here, took an advanced step to bring about better relations between the races in America. ORGANIZE INSURANCE COMPANY (By Associated Negro Press.) Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 12.—Following a series of important conferences here between some of the race's most successful and representative business men, a charter has been issued for the incorporation and license of the Supreme Life and Casualty company. New York, N. Y., Nov. 12.—The British steamship Yarmouth, owned by the North American Navigating Company, Ltd., has been chartered through Harris, McGaill & Co., of 50 Broad street, by the Black Star Steamship line, with offices at 36 West 135th, of which Marcus Garvey, a Negro editor, is president. Washington, D. C., Nov. 13.—Investigation of the entire colored public school system of Washington is asked in a petition, signed by officers of the Parents' League, which will be presented to the house and senate district committees some time this week LIFTING. LIFT, TOO! EMMET J. SCOTT RECEIVES LETTER Head of English Department of Virginia Military Institute Writes Emmett J. Scott. Interesting Letter, by a Southern Professor, in Regard to Injustices Practiced on Race. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 7.—Professor Robert T. Kerlin, head of the English department of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., after reviewing Dr. Emmet J. Scott's book, "The American Negro in the World War," wrote him a letter of appreciation of the contents of the book, and also gave voice to certain expressions with regard to the injustices visited upon Negro people in America, in the following statement: "Let me say that I have been dipping into your history of "The American Negro in the World War" and reading it with satisfaction. I must, also, in writing to a man who is doing so much for his race. express my abhorrence and shame at the violence now directed against the Negro. Every man who has any soul in him and pride of humanity must do what he can to remove the blot. * * * "The more I read your race papers, the greater is my sense of your wrongs and your forbearance, the greater my estimate of your virtues and my realization of our sins. What indignation and pain it begets within me to see one part of the wretched human family thus inflicting injury and insult upon another part! My parents were slave-holders of Kentucky, but could slavery have been more detestable, more infamous than these multiplied lynchings and mobmurders? Far from it, I think. My parents, I am sure, loved their Negro servants in the old days. God knows that I desire, above all things, at the present time, to see the descendants of that faithful, kindly, lovable race treated justly and humanly, according to the principles of our national constitution and the teachings of our religion. "Yours cordially, (Signed) ROBERT T. KERLIN." The leaven is at work. A better south is evidently striving for an articulate voice. Prof. Kerlin is evidently one of this growing number of enlightened southerners who appreciates the fact that present conditions cannot continue without hurt to both races. Enterprising Contractor Helps Out Housing Situation and Encourages Home Ownership. Washington, D. C., Nov. 12.—Sixteen new houses, built especially for colored purchasers by Harry Kite, have been put on the market by the Ernest Hall Coolidge Company, Evans building. All of the houses are in the 700 block of Kenyon street. They are of colonial design and modern in every way, containing six rooms and bath. The builder of these homes has felt for some time that the colored populations of Washington should be afforded a chance to acquire on easy terms a house in a better neighborhood than heretofore offered. Extensive building operations are contemplated in the near future by this builder. PROVIDES MORTGAGE DePriest Working on Plan to Help Chicago Home Owners Maintain Property. Chicago. Nov. 12.—A fund to help Chicago Negroes' lift mortgages threatening their homes is being established by Oscar DePriest, former alderman of the Second ward, according to an announcement he made in addressing a meeting of the People's Movement. 3140 Indiana avenue. Further uses of the fund are to obtain fire insurance for homes of people of his race not already protected. Resolutions "deploring the plans and procedure of the Hyde Park association" were drawn. No rights or privileges granted to colored citizens under the laws of the nation will be sacrificed, and power of segregation will be given no one, according to further clauses of the resolution. 2X (Copyright, 1919, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) "Ho, sheriff, this is Barton. You're needed down Falvy way. They been trying to get you on the 'phone, but the dummed line's busted or something. Come down and I'll tell you about it." "All right; be there in a minute." And the head of Deputy Sheriff Cal Nestor disappeared from the moonlit upstairs window. Three minutes later he opened the side door. "Come in, Bart," said the sheriff. "What's broke loose at Falvy?" "Oh, that half-baked Dubreece boy, the second oldest of the tribe, you know—works in the pulp board mill, when he works at all—" "I know him." cut in Nestor. "I know him," he says, suffering from a mixture of hard elder and Wild Bill nickel novels, and he's got an ingrown notion that it's up to him to be a bad man like he's been reading about. He had some sort of a jangle with an inoffensive little cuss from Peterboro—something about taking his job away from him—and this afternoon he brought the Peterboro fellow a swipe with a light crowbar that almighty near done his business for him. Then he run home and got together a regular darned arsenal he owns—a thirty-thirty rifle and a repeater shotgun and a revolver and a joblot of shells and set out for the woods. Stopped some kids and told 'em to go serve notice on the world for him that he was right dangerous and not to be took alive. "Then he slid into the thickets up back of where he lives—and the whole town has been out after him ever since six o'clock. There ain't any head to the chase, though, and the two constables over to Fairy, if you ask me, is scared of the cuss. I was driving through from West Liberty and stopped to see the doings. The con- D. H. "Don't You Dast to Step a Foot Nearer, or I Send You to Hell Akitin!" stables asked me to roust you out when I got back and tell you they want you to go down to Falvy and take charge. My mare got a stone in her shoe, and it took me more than two hours to get here." "Anybody caught sight of Dubreece since he took to the woods?" inquired the sheriff. "Three or four. But nobody with backbone enough to get him. That shooting gallery outfit of his seems to be a great antidote for Falvy valor. Far as that goes, I gave a peek at him as I came up through the edge of the woods this side of Falvy, and somehow I didn't seem to take any very keen interest in getting into an argument with him. I came right along without stopping. Well, I got to be moseying along. Going down there?" "Of course. I'll get there by one o'clock. They're all up for the night, I suppose?" "Sure thing. Falvy hasn't had so much excitement since the minister's little boy swallowed his mother's wedding ring. Well, so-long." "Good-night, Bart." Sheriff Nestor's thoughts were not on young Dubreece and his melodramatic foolishness as he drove his little car over the moonlit roads to Falvy. Nothing but the line of duty could have dragged him to Falvy at this particular time—and yet in no other direction did his inclination so powerfully draw him. For Mary Nestor was in Falvy, in her capacity of trained nurse, taking care of old man Falvy, the mill owner. She had left her husband, the sheriff, a week ago. It was a case of the conflict of strong personalities, together with a mistaken viewpoint on the part of the man for the rights and liberties of the woman. It had been brewing for months. The final clash had come over a slight, immaterial thing—and Mary had gone out, white-faced but courageous and all-apparent calmness, to earn her own living. After a week Cal Nestor would have given his right hand to have her back again. In his stiff-necked pride he would have given the left one rather than let her know it. But tonight he wondered whether, in Falvy, he might not see her. Nestor found the mill hamlet of Falvy wide-awake and all its able-bodied males afield, man-hunting. The sheriff, taking command, deployed his forces for a drive, fan-wise, through the half-mile of thicket in which Dubreece presumably was hiding—leaving unguarded all rear approach to his home. "By this time he'll be hungry and losing some of his spunk and want some of that stone-fence elder; we'll let him sneak home, and then get him," Nestor told Phillips, the constable. Even so. At 5:30 in the morning came running one of the youths set to watch the Dubreece house. "He just snook in over the pasture fence, sheriff," reported the excited lad. "All right; I'll go have a talk with him." "By hoookey, sheriff, you'd better be careful. He's a darned bad egg," advised Phillips. But Nestor laughed. In the broad light of the summer morning, Sheriff Nestor unlatched the rickety Dubreece gate in a most casual way and started up the dirt path to the side door. He had taken not more than four steps when the door flew open and young Dubreece, white, shaking, wild-eyed, victim of a very panic of desperation, stood on the sill with a shotgun at the "ready." "By goshamighty, Cal Nestor, don't you dast to step a foot nearer or I'll send you to hell a-kitin," he squeaked, his voice quavering with excitement. "Oh. I guess you wouldn't do anything as foolish as that, Dubreece." Nestor's reply was so easy as to be scarcely argumentative. Without show of arms, without the faintest sign of fear, he continued his approach. It should have worked; with any normal man it would have worked. But Dubreece was not a normal man. The gun roared—both barrels. And big, rugged Cal Nestor, without a sound, crumpled into a heap on the ground. "Anyone else! Come on, the hull gol-dummed world 'n git yours!" yelled the lunatic, ramming home two more shells. "Come inside that gate and go to hell a-flying!" Of ten men of the posse in the roadway not one moved—toward the gate. But from across the way, where, sheltered by some alder growth, she had been watching in fear and trembling, a woman rushed, brushing away restraining hands. As she tore open the gate the madman threw the gun to his shoulder, but needless of him as of the others, she sped up the path and threw herself on her knees beside the fallen man. Then she gathered him in her arms, and with the strength of two men, carried him away to safety. At the end of a feverish half-hour, May Nestor had beaten fate. When Doctor Holt, back from a country call, arrived at last, he said no one but a thoroughly trained and resourceful nurse could have saved the sheriff's life. What happened then? Goodness me! What a question! What could happen? Did you ever—ever in this world—know of a woman saving her husband's life at the imminent hazard of her own—and then going away and leaving him, or having occasion to? Indeed, no. MADE IT PERCENTAGE JOB Old Mose Was Working Along New Lines Which Were Entirely Satisfactory to Him. The old-time negro who used to take off his hat and say "massa," is learning modern methods. In the old days, Mose used to do chores and if he received a dollar or a sack of potatoes, he was tickled to death. Nowadays it's different. Mose works on schedule. The other day Mrs. Brown hired him to clean off a few pieces of furniture. It was a job that would have taken a white man an hour or so, but Mose spent three days at it, coming and going as he pleased. Finally he declared the job done, and presented a bill for $.50. "Why Mose," cried Mrs. Brown. "Isn't this a little high? The job really wasn't worth even a dollar." "No, ma'am," said Mose. "It ain't high. Ise working on percentage now, like a white man." "Percentage? What do you mean?" "Well, ma'am, I figures this way: Yoah library's worth about $350. Ise charged only one percentage for handling it. 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MAHA ory's Kitchen and Leonette Gregory's Kandy Kitchen and Luncheonette 1508 North 24th Street Webster 267 arch Cafe The Monarch Ca The Monarch Cafe IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLICITED See us and arrange your special parties of an Well cooked, wholesome food. We make a special made pies. SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNERS Chicken Dinner, 50c. Roast Pork and Sweet Potato Roast Beef Dinner, 40c. Baby Catfish, With the above dinners you get— Chicken Soup. Creamed Potatoes, June Peas Combination. Salad and Co Can you beat it? I should say not! CARNER & TRIMBLE, Pro 107 South 14th Street. Phone MAGIC HAIR GRO AND STRAIGHTENING special parties of any number. We make a specialty of home- DAY DINNERS Pork and Sweet Potatoes, 50c. Baby Catfish, 40c. at— Creamed Potatoes. Salad and Coffee. I should say not! IMBLE, Props. Phone Tyler 4119 R GROWER HTENING OIL See us and arrange your special parties of any number. Well cooked, wholesome food. We make a specialty of homemade pies. SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNERS Chicken Dinner, 50c. Roast Pork and Sweet Potatoes, 50c. Roast Beef Dinner, 40c. Baby Catfish, 40c. With the above dinners you get— Chicken Soup. Creamed Potatoes. June Peas Combination. Salad and Coffee. Can you beat it? I should say not! MAGIC HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENING OIL S AND J The most wonderful hair preparation on the market. When we say Magic hair do not exaggerate, as you can see great results in the first few treatments. We guarantee Magic Hair Can be at the touch of a finger for flinging out and breaking off making harsh, stubborn hair soft and silky, Magic Hair Grower grows hair on bald places of the head. If you use these preparations once you will never be without them, Magic Hair Grower and Straightening Oil are manufactured by Mesdames South and Johnson. We also do scalp treating. Magic Hair Grower, 50c. Straightening Oil, 35c. All orders promptly filled; send 10c for postage. Money must accor The most wonderful hair preparation on the market. When we say Magic we do not exaggerate, as you can see great results in the first few treatments. We guarantee Magic Hair Grower to stop the hair atonce from falling out and breaking off making harsh, stubborn hair soft and silky, Magic Hair Grower grows hair on bald places of the head. If you use these preparations once you will never be without them, Magic Hair Grower and Straightening Oil are manufactured by Mesdames South and Johnson. We also do scalp treating. Agents wanted—Write for particulars. Wecarry everything in the latest fashionable hair goods at the lowest prices. We make switches, puffs, transformation curls, cornet braids, and combions made to order, matching all shades a specialty. Send samples of hair with all orders. 2416 Blondo St., Omaha, Neb. Telephone Webster 880 tiser: or is read in prac- Colored family council Bluffs and Mr. Advertiser: The Monitor is read in Mr. Advertiser: 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? HOT CHILI! Yum, Yum Home Made Candies. MME. JOHNSON AND SOUTH ```markdown ``` Nebraska's Largest Women's Apparel Store HOT COFFEE Delicious Ice Cream Sodas ```markdown ``` FOR STOUT FIGURE Accordion Pleating Treatment of Silk and Wool Effective. Important Feature To Be Avoided Is a Waistline Too Pronounced or Extremely Fitted. Accordion pleating is used more this season than at any time in recent years. This treatment is given to silk and wool materials of all kinds, and unquestionably it is very effective. Unfortunately, accordion pleating is not especially serviceable for an entire skirt, but when front and sides only are pleated, or when, as in the dress shown in the sketch, a long tunic protects the pleating at the back of the skirt, it is very satisfactory. The dress sketched is a model that may be used for a stout figure. It is of dark brown satin trimmed in gold embroidery and with tunic and sleeves faced with tan-colored satin. The tunic is long at sides and back and the waistline is merely indicated by the loosely draped girdle of self fabric. In developing garments for the stout figure the important thing to be considered is avoidance of a too-pronounced waistline. Extremely fitted effects are never good, and success in designing clothes for the stout figure has been arrived at by a recognition of this fact. The frock sketched requires merely a fur neckpiece and a smart hat to complete a modish street outfit for the autumn days. The style range in furs is quite as elastic as in other items of apparel. While large animal and shaped scarfs A and clever little coatees and dolmans are good, the small neckpieces brought out in the spring have not lost caste. Sable, mink and marten collars of one, two or three skins are decidedly chic and for fall and early winter will be much worn. WHITE WINTER IS FORECAST Palm Beach Likely to See Preponderance of Snowy Attire; May Be Summer Fashion. White has been continually emphasized from the French summer resorts. The vogue for white frocks commenced with the models shown at the races, and has been so much reiterated from the fashionable villes d'aux, at Deauville, at Vichy, and Aix les Bains, that the question is asked if this does not augur a white season for Palm Beach this winter and also perhaps a white season for us next summer. The French fashion magazines speak of the "Uniforme Blanc," commenting that many of the young girls in their white taffetas or white mousselines seemed to be so similarly attired, many of them with the scalloped flounces, that it had almost the effect of a uniform. White satin combined with the many laces which have returned to fashion is also emphasized. The tremendous opportunities for dainty treatment in the sheer white fabrics combined with lace gives opportunity for the designer which it is quite certain will not be neglected here in America. Famous Parasol. It was not until the 18th century that the parasol became distinctly an article of feminine costume. Large and elaborate parasols have from time immemorial been a mark of honor and official dignity in the Orient. In India, in 1877, when the then Prince of Wales made his famous tour, he was compelled, that he might properly impress the natives, to ride upon an elephant and have over his head a parasol with a frame of gold, and with a covering stitched with precious jewels. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RECOMMEND PLAYGROUNDS AND FEDERAL PROBE Two resolutions touching on the "color line" were adopted Tuesday, November 4, by the executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce. One was favoring the municipal affairs committee scheme of three new playgrounds in the congested districts north of Cuming street, one in the Negro district, one south of it and one west of it. The other was at request of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored. People to support the bill of Senator Curtis of Kansas, to appoint a commission to investigate the race riots in Washington and lynchings and riots in other cities, including Omaha. A chance for the kiddies to earn a prize. 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The Monitor's Phone Number Is Douglas 3224 PHI DEPARTME 24TH AND O STS PHILIPS DEPARTMENT STORE The Fastest Growing Store in Omaha "WATCH US GROW" MEET ME THEN Friday AT PHILIP'S TO SAVE MONEY Satu AWAY FROM HIGH RENT DISTRICT Do Your Shopping Early—So We Can Give "T Attention Do Your Shopping Early—So We Can Give "Individual" Attention LADIES' DRESS AND APRON VALUE Friday and Saturday The famous "Mina Taylor" make in allmost every size, including extra large sizes. 10% 10 per cent discount on all of ladies' dresses and aprons in our big store. MEN'S UNION SUITS Week-End Special The well known heavy ribbed Union Suits, sold everywhere for $3.50—all sizes—for a special inducement Friday and Saturday—guaranteed to fit you— P. Q. A., $2.49 LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S COAT$ More Late Arrivals This year's selling in our Ladies' Coat Dept. has so overwhelmed any other year in sales, we have had to rush all our Winter Coat orders for your inspection. Third Re-order Just Received It will not last until our next order can reach us. All New Clothes in Our Large Coat Department PHILIP'S PRICE is the Key to our large coat sales. In Philip's Economy Basement—Home of Values Finest of all Heavy Aluminum made. Guaranteed double strength. This sale for 2 days- Friday and Saturday- Large Kettles, Stev Pans, Percolators. You will ever such as this. ALUMINUM SEE OUR BASEMENT Toys Chinaware Graniteware Utensils Philip's Stores SERVI Large Kettles, Stev Pans, Berlin Kettles, Guaranteed Percolators. You will ever see another Aluminum sale such as this. SIOEX CITY NOTES. In spite of the heavy rain P. E. Rev. T. B. Stovall preached to two large and appreciative audiences Sunday, when he held his first Quarterly Meeting of the Conference year. One of the pleasing features of the meeting was the solo rendered by Mrs. Mahalla Wright. Miss Nettie Adams, formerly of Clearwater, Florida, has accepted the position as organist for the morning choir at Malone A. M. E. church. The Daughters of Bethel gave a concert and oyster supper at Malone A. M. E. Monday, November 10. Rev. Stovall held quarterly conference on Tuesday evening, November 11. All departments of the church are in a healthy condition. The Literary Research club, under the leadership of Prof. Leland Green, meets every Tuesday evening at Mt. Zion Baptist church. Dame Rumor has circulated the report that our pastor, Rev. P. M. Lewis, will take unto himself a wife on the 18th of this month. His many friends wish him success. PALESTINE, TEXAS. All the churches held appropriate services Sunday. Each pulpit was OUR ENLARGED SAVINGS DEPT. The enlarged Savings Department of the First is now open, and while the permanent fixtures are not yet in place, owing to inability to secure material, the space occupied by the Savings Department is doubled. The new Sixteenth Street Entrance makes the Savings Department even more convenient than before, and you are cordially invited to make the fullest use of it. You will never regret having opened a savings account. Your only regret will be that you did not start systematic savings sooner. You intend to open a savings account; now is a splendid time to start. First National Bank of Omaha Try new entrance from Six- teenth Street. Monitor subscription contest closes Saturday, November 15. Get busy if your church is going to earn that $100. LIPS ENT STORE SOUTH OMAHA E THERE! CLIP'S MONEY E H RENT DISTRICT So We Can Give "Individual" ation MEN'S UNION SUITS Week-End Special The well known heavy ribbed Union Suits, sold everywhere for $3.50—all sizes—for a speci cial inducement Friday and Sat- sarial DISCOUNT SALE BOYS' SUITS Friday and Saturday Only Buy your boy his new suit during this sale. All sizes—big and small—boys, 3 to 12 years— BOYS' CLOTHING SALE You will have to come to see the many specials we offer— every department gives you something unusual like C. M. C. Crocket Thread, 5c 25 "Lifetime" is just what the trade-mark claims for it. It is an aluminium made to last you a life time. Berlin Kettles, Guaranteed see another Aluminum sale in Basement, Friday and Saturday FOR VALUES DAILY IN Electric Goods. House of All Kinds. FOR LOWEST PRICES BEST QUALITY THE MONITOR Buy your groceries from Wade & Benson 2530 Lake St. appropriate pulpit was Masonic and Lodge Rituals KIESER'S BOOK STORE 221 No. 16th St. Loyal Hotel Bldg. ONE THOUSAND MEMBERS WANTED FOR THE N. A. A. C. P. A CAMPAIGN IS ON JOIN NOW. Isn't $1.00 a year little enough to see Justice Done? NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT OF COL- ORED PEOPLE. Omaha, Neb., Branch. Have You Tried It Yet? 10% Have You Tried It Yet? KAFFIR-KREAM TRADE MARK The face cream that is positively guaranteed to remove all grease, shine and perspiration. COOLING, HEALING, SATISFYING. Sold by Pope Drug Co., 13th and Farnam Sts.; Williamson's Drug Co., 2306 North 24th St.; Melchor Drug Co., 4826 South 24th St.; The People's Drug Store, 111 South 14th St.; Holtz Drug Store, 2702 Cuming St.; Toben Drug Co., 2402 N St.; Jones Cultural College, 1516 North 24th St.; Unitt-Docekal Drug Co., 1625 Farnam. Mrs. B. A. Bostic, 2124 Clarke St.; Mmes. South & Johnson, 2416 Blondo; Mme. C. C. Trent, 30th and Erskine; Mme. A. T. Austin, 4911 North 42d; Mrs. Clara Chiles, 2420 Lake St. filled. Mrs. Lula Johnson and Mrs. Hall who have been ill, are slowly recovering at their respective homes. Mrs. Mariah Gray, who has been ill for some time, died last Friday. Her funeral was held Sunday, November 9. The Methodist churches of the city are preparing for their annual conference which convenes soon. The Lincoln high school held a rally to raise money to buy an organ. One hundred dollars was raised. Mrs. Dora Williams of Kilgore, who was here attending the state convention, was taken suddenly ill. She was taken to the home of her sister at 714 Cook street, where she died. The remains were sent to her home at Kilgore. The bereaved family have the sympathy of her Palestine friends. Mr. Will Brown and Mrs. Laura Simmons were married last Sunday. 2530 Lake St. ALL GOODS DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME. Call Webster 397 Office Phone Web. 2095. Residence Web. 1219. JOHN A. GARDNER AUTO EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE Stand at P. H. Jenkins' Barber Shop, 2122 North 24th St. OMAR WONDER FLOUR Now is the time for us to GET TOGETHER Let your DOLLAR do its duty towards getting for you and your children the things that God intended you to have. This is the only organization working persistently and consistently to Abolish Lynching, Discrimination and Jim Crowism in Political and Civil Life. SCIENTIFIC DENOVA TREATMENT Grows and Beautifies the Hair Correspondence course offered. Diplomas Granted. Agents wanted everywhere. Address— MME. A. J. AUSTIN, 4911 North 42d Street, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Colfax 642. Orders should be accompanied with 85 cents. 50c A JAR 8 CENTS POSTAGE I Grow Hair by the LaKeene Process MRS. CLARA WHITE 1424 No. 26th Street Webster 1236 Patronize the State Furniture Co. 14th and Dodge Streets The Monitor recommends its advertisers. Reliable and accommodating service can be found here. GOOD GROCERIES ALWAYS C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO. Also Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. 2005 Cuming St. Telephone Douglas 1098 [Name] OLGOFF HARDWARE STOVES, RUGS, LINOLEUM less Money. Credit if You Wish. EN EVENINGS phones—Webster 1607; Webster 4825 ARLING"Hold-Tight ROUGE H. DOLL FURNITURE AND HARDWARE STO Better Goods for Less Money OPEN EVEN 1839-47 N. 24th St. Phones—W 35¢ "DARLING NATURAL ROUGE 35¢ POSSESSING TIES YET AB DEFIES DETECT APPEARANCE? 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Many Subscriptions Are Expiring at This Time Look at the Yellow Label on your paper. If it reads 9-1-19," or "Sept. 19" your subscription is due. Please drop in Monitor office and pay or phone and our collector will call. Kaffir Chemical Laboratories 1 Farnam Sts.; Williamson's Drug Co., 2 Us Drug Store, 111 South 14th St.; Holo Cultural College, 1516 North 24th St.; Uni St.; Mmes. South & Johnson, 2416 Justin, 4911 North 42d; Mrs. Clara DR. P. W. SAWYER 922 Douglas Street, Omaha. Telephone Douglas 4390 Office Phone Webster 3694 Residence Phone Web. 3636 Dr. P. W. SAWYER DENTIST Moved from 220 S. 13th St. To 1614 $ \frac{1}{2} $ North 24th St. Painless Extractions. Quality Service. 0 | 8 50c A JAR 8 CENTS POSTAGE THE MONITOR 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 Madre 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. THE ROOSEVELT CREED I BELIEVE in honesty, sincerity and the square deal; in making up one's mind what to do—and doing it. I believe in fearing God and taking one's own part. I believe in hitting the line hard when you are right. I believe in speaking softly and carrying a big stick. I believe in hard work and honest sport. I believe in a sane mind in a sane body. I believe we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people. THE JOHNSON VERDICT. IRA Johnson is not guilty of criminal assault upon Bessie Kroupa. We know a jury says he is, but that does not make him so. How a jury could bring in such a verdict after hearing the evidence would be unexplainable, were it not for the present popular state of mind in this community. In normal times we believe that any fair-minded and intelligent jury would have had the moral courage to have returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence, even though the defendant were black. But these are abnormal times. The jury was influenced, unconsciously perhaps, by the hysteria and acute race prejudice which has been engendered, evoked and inflamed by unscrupulous yellow journalism. The jury, influenced by this sentiment, rendered its verdict not against Ira Johnson, merely, but against his race. This is the unbiased truth. The Monitor did not believe that Johnson was the guilty man, after our first interview with him, and verification of his statement by credible witnesses, his foreman, George Fahrenbrook, being one of them. This conviction was strengthened at the preliminary hearing by the testimony of Miss Kroupa, herself, and of George Krell, who testified that he was "pretty sure" that Johnson was the Negro wearing a "brown coat" whom he had seen in the vicinity of the assault about 11 o'clock. Testimony for the state and the defense at the trial just ended has but more firmly fixed our belief in Johnson's innocence. Therefore, knowing the full import of what we say and assuming responsibility for the statement The Monitor fearlessly asserts that Ira Johnson is not guilty of assaulting Miss Kroupa, the verdict of the jury to the contrary notwithstanding. This conclusion rests not upon sentiment, but upon careful weighing of the evidence. As Mr. Howell, attorney for the defense said in his able argument to the jury: "The evidence shows that this defendant is guilty of no crime, except it be the crime of being born black. You have had the evidence placed before you. It is for you to say whether or not he shall be made a sacrifice. The question for you, gentlemen, is this, have you the courage and the manhood to render a verdict according to the evidence?" When asked to take the case Mr. Howell stated that his feelings were so strong against crimes of the character alleged that if he believed the accused guilty he would not defend him at any price. It was, therefore, not until he had verified Johnson's story and was convinced of his innocence that he consented to take the case. He believed and still believes thoroughly in Johnson's innocence. What was the evidence in the case? Miss Kroupa said Johnson was the man who assaulted her and that at the time of the assault he wore a blue suit of clothes and a round black hat. Kreil said, and we eliminate the contradictory statements of both witnesses, that Johnson was the man whom he saw in the neighborhood of the assault about 11 o'clock, and that he was dressed in a blue or brown coat and wore a round black hat. Nine-year-old Charles Wentz, whose testimony showed careful coaching, testified that Johnson was the man he saw in the vicinity on several occasions, and on this morning in particular, "walking behind Kreil" and "brushing shoulders with him," and that he had on a blue suit and a round black hat. All three witnesses testified that Miss Kroupa's assailant was a man dressed in a blue suit and wearing a round black hat. Miss Kroupa testified that the man had on a blue coat. The scene of the assault was about a mile and a half from the Burlington ice house at Gibson where Johnson was employed, at about 12:40 in the afternoon of July 7. George Fahrenbrook, white, foreman of the ice house, testified that he was talk- ing with Johnson at the ice house shortly after 12 o'clock noon of that day, when Johnson brought another colored man by the name of Bell to him for work, and that at that time Johnson wore a khaki shirt, blue overalls and an advertising cap, and that he saw him again at the ice house a little before 2 o'clock and he was dressed in the same way. Bell, whom Fahrenbrook employed on Johnson's solicitation, verified this, as did two other witnesses. These witnesses testified that Johnson was around the ice house all the afternoon or from about 12 o'clock until 6 o'clock at night when he went to his customary night work in the ice house. George Fahrenbrook was subpoenaed, by the state, but when they learned how he would testify they declined to call him. The defense called him and his testimony verified that of Johnson, Bell and Smalls and showed conclusively that at 12:15 or thereabouts Johnson was at the ice house dressed in overalls and wearing an advertising cap. No hat answering the description of the one worn by Miss Kroupa's assailant was found among Johnson's possessions or in the bunk car where he stayed. It is upon this evidence that The Monitor contends that Ira Johnson is innocent and further maintains that were the times normal, the jury would have acquitted him. We desire to stafe that Judge Redick before whom Johnson was tried was absolutely fair in his ruling and explicit in his charge to the jury. Attorney Howell made a splendid fight for his client, inspired by absolute belief in the man's innocence The verdict, The Monitor admits, is disappointing and depressing. It awakens questionings in the minds of many as to the willingness of the dominant race to render justice to all men, irrespective of race, color or creed. It shows the necessity of our group being vigilant and willing to render aid, not to every member of our race accused of crime—for that would be wrong, and an encouragement to criminals—but to men who, like Ira Johnson, after investigation of their case, we believe to be innocent of the crime alleged. The Monitor believes that every effort should be exhausted to establish Johnson's innocence and if possible, fix the blame where it belongs. The Johnson verdict should teach us all a lesson in these abnormal days when the times are out of joint. CONCERNING SEGREGATION. SOME weeks ago The Monitor sounded a note of warning against what we believe to be a well-laid plan to enforce a scheme of segregation in Omaha. We said that we believed that the rumors of crime by Negroes and the apparent desire to make it appear that Omaha has an abnormal number of undesirables and criminals among its Negro population is part of the scheme to justify the enactment of such ordinances when deemed practicable. This movement, we then believed, and still believe to be but part and parcel of a nation-wide movement, inspired by the bourbon south, certainly animated by its spirit, to enforce colonization upon our group everywhere and to place certain restrictions upon us in the enjoyment of the rights of domicile, educational, recreational and municipal privileges. This is southern sentiment and the southern method. It is permeating the north. Some believe that this sentiment is being spread by a well-organized and heavily financed agency. As to this, we cannot say; but we do know that this sentiment is being spread. No doubt about it. Whether Omaha will fall for it or not remains to be seen. It will not, of course, if our people are vigilant and not lulled to sleep by the siren voice of some of our group who seem to be playing, consciously or unconsciously, into the hands of those who are trying to put this across. Some do not seem to understand the THE MONITOR difference between voluntary association, or voluntary segregation, if you please, and involuntary or enforced segregation. There is a vast difference. The first is a matter of individual choice, the exercise of personal liberty; the second is an unwarranted invasion of personal liberty, the denial of one's rights to choose for himself. An important principle is here at stake. Segregation, in the sense of voluntary association, is natural. For what does segregation mean? To collect into a flock or herd. It is natural for each to seek its kind or group. Left to themselves, people will naturally form themselves into such associations as may be most congenial or best serve their interests or inclinations. This accounts for various groups, our own among them, having their congregations, lodges, associations, institutions and communities or neighborhoods. There can be no objection to this, where it is voluntary. It is an entirely different matter to set off a certain section or sections of a city and say, for example, only Jews, or Italians or Germans or Negroes, or Methodists or Roman Catholics shall be permitted to live in those sections and nowhere else. So far as our race in this city is concerned this is the issue that we have got to face. This enforced, involuntary segregation, The Monitor intends to fight. We intend to fight, also, any effort to limit our municipal privileges for which we are taxed. We would like to have our readers freely express their views on this subject, for or against it, in our columns, limiting such expressions for two hundred words. "CLEAN UP THE CROOKS." UNDER the above caption The St. Louis Argus gives some sound advice to the police authorities of that city which is applicable to many other cities in this fair land. The Monitor is of the opinion that even the police authorities of Omaha might profit by the suggestions made in the Argus editorial which we respectfully commend to their attention. Here it is: "Following the wounding of Chief of Police O'Brien, by a highwayman a few days ago, orders have been issued to clean up the crooks of this city. "To a close observer, it furnishes an amusement to see these blue coats and detectives leave their stations looking for Negroes. It seems that they forget that there are white crooks and gun toters until they run into them robbing or shooting up somebody. In which event they devote a little time to catching the offenders and then resume their vigilance looking for Negroes. "Of course when the orders are issued, they must bring in somebody, and we suppose that Negroes are less trouble to bring in and, as a rule more defenseless, and the police have less trouble in 'making a case.' "We have no defense for the Negro idler, thier or gun toter, but the seeming one-sided affair does not help the efficiency of the police department." "The trouble may be in the orders isued. They may not be specific enough. These officers should be instructed to go into the 'Big Timber' and get a few of the big criminals and fetch them in. They should also be told in plain words that there are some white crooks as well as colored in the city. And not to assume every time a robbery is reported that the crime has been committed by some Negro, thus wasting so many useless hours looking for, questioning and arresting every Negro they see, while the real criminal makes good his getaway. "We believe that many real criminals have followed the police around, laughing up their sleeves while the police were running around color-blind. "It is hoped that when the order is issued to 'clean up' that it will be applicable to white as well as colored. The big as well as the little." There will be an old fashioned tacky party at the War Camp Community girls' room in Columbia hall Tuesday evening, November 18. Prizes for the most unique costume for man or woman. No admission. Silver offering. Mrs. J. LaCour, chairman. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is to be obtained without it.—Sir Joshua Reynolds. LEADING EDITORIALS OF THE DAY —FROM RACE JOURNALS If there is any one agency of force that retards our racial progress and renders teamwork and group action impossible, it is the spirit of envy. As soon as the colored man begins to accomplish anything immediately there springs up a spirit of envy and malice and oftimes this evil and mean spirit is manifested among those closely associated with the individual or individuals thus envied. It seems to be a racial characteristic to hate to see another member of the race succeed or rise higher than the others. The great races of the world have One Besetting Sin learned that in proportion as they can create and develop great men and women in that proportion will they hold their places in the sun, figuratively speaking. Every race has learned to work together but the colored race and with all our envy, malice, bickerings and internal dissensions we sit around and whine about our status, when the very program and method that we are pursuing will forever keep the race vassals to all the distasteful and disagreeable practices now heaped upon us. No race needs to sit supinely and expect other races to bring to it its rights and privileges upon a golden tray, silver platter or even place them in the garbage can. Eternal vigilance is the price of success and labor conquers all things. But when we permit envy to become the predominant spirit and hate and hold a grudge against our brother or sister for no reason save that of his or her success; when we seek every occasion to belittle their greatness; when we maliciously lie on them and endeavor to slander their good name; when we misrepresent them to others both of our race and the other races; when we rejoice at every little misfortune or setback that they suffer; when we hate to see them get in possession of anything of a tangible nature; when we, crab-like, put forth our every effort to keep them in the basket with us; when we delight in parading all kinds of dope derogatory to their character, when we fail to heed the code of racial ethics, the little green-eyed monster, Envy, is the cause of it all. There can be no eternal vigilance where the forces are divided and pulling apart, and if success will ever crown our race as a whole it will only come to us when we have submitted and subscribed to the same principles and practices as a race individually and collectively, in the same manner as the other great races of the earth have done. The adage that labor conquers all things is true both theoretically and practically; but without teamwork, coordination of forces, respect for leadership, which in themselves preclude the retention of such evil attributes as envy, malice, hatred and all kindred devilish and hellish spirits, there can be no labor in the true sense of the word. There is a vast difference between simply putting in time and giving efficient service as a laborer, despite the capacity in which the individual might serve. A race that simply hopes to occupy a space on the program and then render no number in keeping with the calibre of the program will ere long find itself a back number, and it will have no one to blame for its condition and position but itself. The colored race had better read the signs of the times and get busy before the hour will be too late. If we permit Envy and all her kinfolks to enter into all our efforts, religious and civil, instead of our cause having been advanced by our contributions in the great world conflict, it will receivewill receive a setback; for our actions will prove that we do not merit or deserve any more than we are receiving, nor as much. Envy came from the devil and every time you fall a victim thereto you are cementing yourself to the master evil one with adamantine chains, as it were. For the good of the race and the cause of humanity Envy is entirely too prevalent among us and every care and precaution must be exercised to refuse her abode in our hearts. The problems of reconstruction call for a united race and a new leadership, but this will be impossible of accomplishment if we pursue our old policy and continue to operate our forces in opposing directions. Send Envy back home, as well as all her kith and kin, and then a brighter day will dawn for our race. Its retention and operation mean failure, defeat, disaster. — Houston (Tex.) Informer. Flashes of Most Anything FLASHES OF MOST ANYTHING. Of course some folks think we Negroes are calamity howlers, but we are not. We are not talking the high faluting language of Aristotle or Plato or Kant or any other of those great philosophy fellows, but a man is a mighty big fool if he can't see a thing that is as plain as the nose on his face. Any old time a guy can be bought for one thing it's a cinch he can be bought for another. The following incident has a slightly familiar sound; it ain't us either, but somehow we think it shows the proficiency they got practicing on us for fifty-odd years or so. Take a shot at it and let's see what you think: (N. B.: Editor of The Mediator, please take notice): Steel Strikers Charge Papers Falsify News. Wheeling, W. Va.-The secretary of the national committee of the striking GREAT COAT SALE SATURDAY SILVERTONE, BROADCLOTHS, BOLIVIA AND VELOUR DE LAINE In a wide range of colors. Exceptional values at Successor to the Douglas Washington Investment Co. OFFICE, 15TH AND CALIFORNIA STREETS. Phones: Tyler 897; Webster, 5966; Red, 3203. The Fashion Cabaret Up Stairs, and Bar and Billiard Parlor Down Stairs, at with four-year lease on account of out of town business. Clean, paying business in good location. If you mean business call Webster 2736 or Tyler 822. FLOR DE MELBA The Cigar Supreme At the price FLOR DE MELBA, is better, bigger and more pleasing than any mild Havana cigar If your dealer cant supply you, write us I. LEWIS CIGAR MFG. CO. Newark, N. J. Largest Independent Cigar Factory in the World Flor de THE CIGAR CORONA OR SELECTOS SIZE 10¢ Straight OTHER SIZES DIFFERENT PRICES Ask your dealer for your favorite size steel workers, in commenting upon the strike situation here, said the steel strike, in so far as it affected Wheeling and vicinity, should not be blamed upon the union or local company heads. The workers' demands, he declared, would have been granted had it been u pto the local mill heads. "If every district in the United States," he said, "were as well organized as the Wheeling district there would be no labor troubles in the country. The industrial unions here are so powerful that no employer would think of fighting them if they were on strike." Reports have been circulated in the Wheeling Intelligencer and by the Associated Press to the effect that the striking steel workers here are meeting daily and taking votes to return to work. The capitalist press representatives have so falsely reported the existing strike conditions that steel strike leaders here now refuse to make any statements at all to them. Several times GREAT COAT SATU SILVERTONE, BROA AND VELOUR DE L In a wide range of colo 47. Brandei Cut Pri Men's Heavy Union Suits.....$1.98 Men's Flannel Shirts.....$1.98 Men's Wool Hose.....$39 Men's Wool Hose.....$39 Boys' Overcoats.....$7.50 J. Helphand 314 North The W. H. & R. Successor to the Douglas OFFICE, 15TH AND C Phones: Tyler 897; W OFFICERS D. G. Russell, President. Anderson Hamler, Treasurer. N. W. Ware, Sec. and Gen. Mgr. The Fashion Up Stairs, and Bar and Bill after promised to write the reports which the strike leaders had given without alterations, the Associated Press representatives deliberately reversed the statements, unionists charge. "You see," the secretary explained, "we have given Associated Press representatives figures and facts on the strike situation and they deliberately falsified them. One night one of them called me up and wanted to know whether the strikers were meeting to return to work. "I told him no; that mass meetings are being held which show that the strikers are determined to fight it to a finish; yet the out-of-town papers which carry their dispatches contained the 'news' that the strikers were meeting to take votes to return to work. Little wonder that I am angry. I believe that the Associated Press and its representatives have been bought to misreport strike conditions."—The Butcher Workman Advocate. EAT SALE SATDAY ADCLOTHS, BOLIVIA MINE s. Exceptional values at 1.95 s Stores Price Sale Heavy Sweaters ... $1.98 Jersey Wool Sweaters... $2.95 Heavy Wool Sweaters. + $6.50 Trousers ... $3.50 Gloves and Mittens... $98c Clothing Co. 16th Street. Investment Co. Washington Investment Co. CALIFORNIA STREETS. bster, 5966; Red, 3203. BOARD OF DIRECTORS H. Hamler, Chairman. D. G. Russell. N. W. Ware. 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 & Michelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N St. Tel. South 162 Liberty Drug Co. EVERYBODY'S DRUG STORE We Deliver Anywhere. Webster 386. Omaha, Neb. Established 1890 C. J. CARLSON Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Farnam Streets F. WILBERG BAKERY Across from Alhambra Theatre The Best Place Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 C. H. MARQUARDT CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. 2003 Cuming St. Doug. 3834 Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke and Cure our own Hams and Bacon. Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE Just Call Douglas 3889 Autos Everywhere Empire Cleaners and Dyers 707 South 16th St. OMAR WONDER FLOUR For Accurate and Dependable Service See DRUGS, TOILET ARTICLES, PRESCRIPTIONS 2306 North 24th St. Phone Webster 4443 and we will send it out. Events and Persons Mrs. Maria Jackson, an old resident of Omaha, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mae Stewart, 3015 Manderson streets, Sunday, November 2. The funeral services were held from Zion Baptist church Friday afternoon, November 7. Interment at Forest Lawn, Dr. W. F. Botts officiating. A chance for the kiddies to earn a prize. Read Monitor Mother Goose offer on page six. Mrs. William Lawson left Saturday for St. Joseph, Mo., where she will join her daughter, Ruth Elizabeth, who has been visiting relatives there. Before returning home they will visit relatives in Kansas City. Have you joined the N. A. A. C. P. yet? Why not? Miss Edna Bosier, 2504 Lake street, has returned from a delightful two weeks' visit among friends in St. Joseph, Excelsior Springs and Kansas City, Mo. First class rooming house, neatly furnished rooms. Mrs. Georgia Tapps, 207 South 13th street. Tyler 4782. Mrs. L. B. Bolten of Bedford, Ia., arrived in the city last Friday to visit relatives and friends. She is en route to Denver, where she will join her husband and spend the winter. Poro hair culturist, scientific scalp treatment. Mrs. Georgia Tapps, 207 South 13th street. Tyler 4782. Mrs. Isaac Bailev has returned to the city greatly improved after a two months' visit in the southland. Seargent was a little peeved at the extra expense Mrs. Bailey incurred in buying a new trunk in which to ship walnuts, pecans and sweet potatoes from her old home. For special bargains in stocks, bonds and real estate see Fred Williams, Monitor office. Douglas 3224. The LaKeene straightening process is a perfect camouflage. So true an imitation of nature's work. Once tried means a life-long patron. E. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 640 Bee Building, Douglas 3841—Adv. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Smith entertained about forty young people Friday, November 7, in honor of the 19th birthday anniversary of their son, Henry C. Smith, and nephew, James F. Lewis. The house was beautifully decorated and the evening was spent in dancing. A delicious luncheon was served at 11 o'clock, the main feature of which was the cutting of the large birthday cake. The guests departed at midnight after having spent a delightful evening. Are you a member of the N. A. A. C. P.? If not, why not? LaKeene system of straightening kinky hair is the culmination of 30 years of scientific research. The most wonderful process known. For big bargains and safe investments see Fred C. Williams, Douglas 3224. The N. W. C. A. Sewing Bee met on November 5 at the home of Mrs. Nat Hunter. Quite a few ladies were present. Mrs. Henry Robert received first prize, and Mrs. Anna Bowler second, for the most sewed done. At 5 p. m. Mrs. Hunter served a delicious lunch. The next meeting will be held November 19 at the home of Mrs. James Jewell, 2911 Lake street. Monitor subscription contest closes Saturday, November 15. Get busy if your church is going to earn that $100. The Leona Burton Royal House No. 59 gave a surprise party last month on Mr. Bird, of South Thirteenth street, who has been confined to his home for some time on account of illness. Don't fail to try the LaKeene Toilet Artist. Phone Webster 1926 Mr. Osie Lux left Friday evening for Hazelhurst, Miss., to spend some time with his mother. 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. Mrs. Proctor was the dinner guest recently of Mrs. Carrie Dixon, 5402 South Twenty-fourth street. Smoke John Ruskin cigar. Are you going to help your church earn that $100 offered by The Monitor." Mrs. J. D. Lewis or Twenty-fourth and Binney streets, suffered a very severe attack of acute indigestion 1 st week, but is much improved at this time. North Side taxi, J. D. Lewis, proprietor. Two limousines with heat. Stand phone, Web. 1490; residence phone, Web. 949. Be sure and help the Charity Ball. On Monday eve, November 24, the Old Folks Home expects you at Columbia hall. Drs. Singleton & Singleton, dentists, 111 South 14th street. Quality and efficiency our motto. Attorney James A. Spears of Buxton, Ia., passed through the city Tuesday, and was the guest of his sister. Mrs. Ora King. He was en route to Wichita, Kan., where he goes to become the junior member of a law firm. THE MONITOR On last Sunday afternoon at Grove M. E. church at 4:30 p. m. the branch met for the election of officers. Although five hundred members were present the vote cast for president was very small, being only 192. The balance of the officers will be elected next Sunday. The meeting is called for Grove M. E. church at the regular hour. The Rev. John Albert Williams, who has been president for the past year during whose administration the association has grown from a handful of members to a membership of a thousand, Mrs. Jessie Hale Moss, who has served the association very efficiently as secretary during the past year, our popular band master, Mr. Dan Desdunes, who declined to run, and Mr. Elder Scott, who has been very active in association affairs, were the nominees for president. Mrs. Jessie Hale Moss was elected president for the ensuing year. Mr. Dan Desdunes and Mr. William Rayford acted as tellers. Mr. Henry Black and the Rev. W. C. Williams checked the count. OMAHA MAN REPRESENTS NEBRASKA IN AMERICAN LEGION CONVENTION AT MINNEAPOLIS One of the delegates representing Nebraska at the national convention of the American Legion which convenes in Minneapolis this week, is Rufus Long, member of the Roosevelt Post No. 30. Mr. Long, who was also a delegate to the state convention which met in Omaha recently, left for Minneapolis last Sunday. Roosevelt Post No. 30, which is sending Mr. Long, announces that after January they will take over the War Camp Community work and will have their location at Columbia hall, Twenty-fourth and Lake streets. A PROGRESSIVE STORE. A New Club to be Formed Next Monday. All employees of Philip's department store will meet next Monday, November 17, to formulate and start first action on a club for employees of this, "Omaha's Fast Growing Store." The club will be for members of store only, for advancement of selling ideas, social programs, outside entertainment, also for sick benefits for members. The club as planned will not only have all the features of existing organizations of this kind, but will have many new novel features that will be original with Philip's Progress Club. We wish to thank our many friends for their kindness and sympathy shown at the death of our mother and sister, Mrs. Maria Ja 'sion. Also for the beautiful floral offerings given. Please accept our sincere thanks. MRS. MAE STEWART. MRS. LAURA EVANS. All of Omaha's citizens will support its one charitable possession. Let the Charity Ball be the affair of the season. RACE STENOGRAPHER IN PENN- SYLVANIA COURT OF APPEALS Pittsburg, Va.—The appointment of John W. Rosemond to the position of official court stenographer in common pleas court of Allegheny county by the judges recently is certainly most gratifying. The appointment is a tribute to Mr. Rosemond's ability. It is said the salary is $160 per month. As far as we know at present Mr. Rosemond is the only Negro in the United States holding a similar position. It is not how much you earn, but how much you save which counts. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, Of The Monitor, published weekly at Omaha, Nebraska, for October 1st, 1919. State of Nebraska, ) Before me, a notary public in and for the state and county aforesaid, personally appeared John Albert Williams, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor and publisher of The Monitor and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a fact of the management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business manager are: 304 Crouse block, Omaha, Neb. Editor, John Albert Williams, 304 Crouse block, Omaha, Neb. Managing editor, John Albert Williams, 304 Crouse block, Omaha, Neb. Business manager, Fred Williams. 2. That the owners are: John Albert Williams, 304 Crouse block, Omaha. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and other assets of the owner, in owning or having an account or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of October, 1919. (Seal) GUY B. ROBBINS. My commission expires July 18, 1922. CARD OF THANKS. Ocowasin group and their friends took a hike Thursday afternoon. They went to the beach within a few miles of Florence. The girls built a camp fire, roasted potatoes and wienies and kept their hands and feet warm. Announci Christmas Preparator in the Dow MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY A clearance of merchandise make room for Christmas goods BURGESS-NA "EVERYBODY" We Are No A Full Union i Fancy Weav We Also Have Drop S WASHINGT J.KATLEMA HAT AND HEADQUARTERS FOR Start Picking Our Christmas Sale Preparatory in the Downstairs Store MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY A clearance of merchandise at greatly reduced prices to make room for Christmas goods. BURGESS-NASH COMPANY "EVERYBODY'S STORE" We Are Now Showing A Full Line of Union Suits WASHINGTON J.KATLEMAN & SONS HAT AND SHIRT CO. Securities Building. Look Kiddies, Two beautiful prizes offer younger. Cut out this and pictures and hand in complete PRIZES AWARDED FO The Truck That Trucks --- Announcing a Great Christmas Separatory Sale the Downstairs Store MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY rearance of merchandise at greatly reduced m for Christmas goods. GESS-NASH COMPANY "EVERYBODY'S STORE" We Are Now Showing A Full Line of Union Suits in Fancy Weaves and Colo- We Also Have Drop Seat If You Like Them WASHINGTON J.KATLEMAN & SONS HAT AND SHIRT CO. QUARTERS FOR JOHN B. STETSON Start Picking Out Xmas Gifts Now s Building. 16th and Fa k Kiddies, This Is for Fancy Weaves and Colors We Also Have Drop Seat If You Like Them Look Kiddies, This Is for You! MOTHER GOOSE FAIRY BOOK beautiful prizes offered boy or girl 10 er. Cut out this and bind together. Col ers and hand in completed book at Monitor o ZES AWARDED FOR BEST COLORED BOOK Two beautiful prizes offered boy or girl 10 years or younger. Cut out this and bind together. Color your pictures and hand in completed book at Monitor office. PRIZES AWARDED FOR BEST COLORED BOOK Ford There's the same economy in using the one-ton Ford truck that there is in using the Ford car-only the larger carrying power of the truck commends The Truck That Trucks it particularly to farmers, and other business men. The famous Model T motor assures reliable power, and lots of it; the manganese bronze worm drive makes certain the use of all that power; the three-point suspension gives flexibility, and vanadium steel strength. Price, without body, $550 f. o. b. Detroit. SAMPLE-HART MOTOR CO. 100% Ford Service 18th and Burt Streets OMAHA --- The girls of the Phi Delta sorority are taking a course in domestic science at the central Y. W. C. A. A chance for the kiddies to earn a prize. Read Monitor Mother Goose offer on page six. ing a Great Sale instairs Store DAY DAY TESDAY se at greatly reduced prices to s. FISH COMPANY Y'S STORE" Now Showing Line of Suits es and Colors Great If You Like Them ON N & SONS SHIRT CO. JOHN B. STETSON HATS Xmas Gifts Now 16th and Farnam Sts. This Is for You! red boy or girl 10 years or bind together. Color your book at Monitor office. R BEST COLORED BOOK t particularly to farmers, and other business men. The famous Model T motor assures reliable power, and lots --- A CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF OMAHA'S COLORED BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL FIRMS A. F. PEOPLES PAINTING PAPERHANGING AND DECORATING Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. 4827 ERSKINE STREET. PHONE WALNUT 2111. SILAS JOHNSON Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director 2518 Lake Street 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. For Pierce-Arrow Limousine Service, Call CHAS. BOYD Webster 208 (After Midnight) Tyler 4119 Service With Class—Car Warm and Cozy. GREEN & GREEN We Operate the One Minute Shining Parlor Chairs for Ladies. Auto Truck and Transfer 1919 Cuming St. Phone Doug. 3157; Web. 2340. 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 ATTENTION! LISTEN! MEN OF OMAHA Are you interested in giving your wife one day's rest during the week with no dinner to get and no worrisome dishes to wash? If so, take advantage of SOUTH & THOMPSON'S delicious 50-cent Sunday dinner. Regular Weekly Dinner, 35c. Phone Web. 4566 2418 No. 24th St. 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 WEST CAFE Good Cooking, Reasonable Prices 1712 North 24th St. T. J. ASHLEY, Prop. MISS ALICE MARSHALL Artistic Hairdresser Student of Madame J. C. Walker Parlor 1835 North 23d Street Phone Webster 2687. Satisfaction Guaranteed 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. 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 DR. W. W. PEEBLES DENTIST 220 So. 13th St. (Over Pope's Drug Store) Telephone: Douglas 7812 Kiddies' Korner By MADREE PENN "Well, all I can say then," she concluded, as she turned away, "is that it must have had a relapse"—London Tit-Bits. Origin of the Loving Cup. The origin of the loving cup is hazy. Some investigators have asserted that its beginning was the wassail bowl, belonging to festivities antedating the Christian era, and that on the advent of Christianity the custom of wassailing assumed a religious aspect. The monks called the wassail bowl the "pocalum caritatis" (loving cup). The ceremony of drinking from one cup and passing it around was observed at the Jewish pascal supper and on other notable occasions. Work the mine of your own home. Dig deep into the affection of the wife and little ones. Spend more time in their company. Talk with them more. Read to them and listen while they read. Discuss the world's big questions with them. Precious metal here. And don't be too busy to get better acquainted with the neighbor young folks. The man who lives near to the heart of others, lives long, well and happily. Smallest Component of Matter An electron is the smallest known component of matter. Scientists have weighed and measured electrons, and can even estimate their number. But they haven't seen them. They are too tiny to appear upon the microscopic field, although the microscope reveals objects so minute that 125,000,000,000 of them could be crowded into a cubic centimeter. Between 1844 and 146 there were many reports of sea serpents having been seen off the coast of Canada. It chanced, however, that a creature described in wonderful terms came ashore in the Orkneys, and some of the bones of the vertebral column were sent to a London scientist. He was able to declare positively that the animal in question was nothing more nor less than a huge shark. "Did you see anything marked down at the new department store?" "Yes, the red elevator globes." U. S. Feature Service, Inc. N. Y. C. Mother Goose wrote this rhyme about her favorite goose: "Goosey, goosey gander, whither do you wander? Down stairs, up stairs, in milady's chamber. There she met a bold man who wouldn't say his prayers, took him by the left heel and tossed him down the stairs!" I thought it strange for Mother Goose to be pleased at Goosey treating any one so rudely until I heard the whole story. I will tell it to you: 6 Hereafter be careful to avoid all goosies, for if this one should so much as touch the heel of your boot she will become a maid again and you shall be a gander for evermore," said the witch to the bandit before sending him along the north road and making unhappy goosey take the south road. On the south road Goosey met Mother Goose and to her told her troubles. 6 Scrap Book Shopper Advises Patient Clerk She Wanted Only Enough Linoleum to Cover Canary's Cage. The day was hot, the hour rapidly approaching closing time, and the sales man thoroughly worn out and tired. A Still, he was a good salesman, and the customer before him—a lady faultlessly attired in next year's fashions—had all the appearance of being born. a really liberal purchaser. Cheerfully, therefore, he unrolled and re-rolled piece after piece of linoleum for her inspection. But all to no purpose. Nothing it seemed, could satisfy her hypercritical taste. "I'm extremely sorry, madam," said the salesman, "but I'm afraid I've shown you all the linoleums I have in stock. Of course, I can get some more up from our factory; and if you care to call again tomorrow—" "Yes," broke in the customer, "perhaps I'd better leave it at that. You see, I want quite a small design—something suitable for the floor of a canary's cage." PURITY OF NATURAL ICE Common Notion That Manufactured Article Is Best Shown to Be Fallacy. The common remark that natural ice is not so pure as the manufactured kind is somewhat of a fallacy. Practically 99 per cent of all the impurities are cast off by nature in the process of freezing. The remainder of the impurities that are included in the ice die in transportation. Sometimes, of course, even in a healthy flowing stream, nature slips up and a germ does get locked up in an ice crystal, but this is usually the finish of the troublesome germ, for though the cold does not often kill him the fact he can not roam about and search for food brings on starvation. Some germs die quickly, others live a week, while laboratory tests show that the typhoid germ lives longest—its maximum limit of life while frozen in ice being placed at three months. Since natural ice is usually stored at least ninety days before it is shipped to market, the matter of its purity need not be doubted. Many tests of natural ice have shown that it is far more pure than the city water of most communities—Floyd W. Parsons in the Saturday Evening Post. 1920 BACON HAD A RELAPSE The customer eyed the rashers keenly. "I tell you, madam," pursued the shopman, "that bacon is as right as you are." "I say it's bad." persisted the customer. "How can that be?" he reasoned. "Why, it was only cured last week!" Origin of the Loving Cup. Live Near to Others. Sea-Serpent Myth Exploded. Too Smart. THE MONITOR JOHN H [Name] 18th and Izard Tel. Douglas 1702 ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE at POPULAR PRICES. Best for the Money y Eleanor Schorer THE FIGHT About three hundred years ago a bandit captain besieged a towering castle and commanded the beautiful princess who lived there to marry him. The proud girl refused. Very angry, he then carried her off to a sorceress's cave and bade the witch turn her into an awkward goose. The wicked witch did so and the bad man paid her handsomely. Elsaor Schober Determined to help Goosey, she hung out a card, saying: "Witchcraft Practised Here." As they had hoped, the same bandit, seeing the sign, came in. Goosey picked at his heel, and when he landed at the foot of the stairs he was an ugly gander! And Goosey was a lovely maid again. Bye and bye she married a Prince. Mother Goose blessed them both and they lived happily ever after. THE KITCHEN CABINET The wisest and most interesting men talk little, think much, complain never, but travel on. How far have you come today, brother? The appetite flags during the hot weather, making it necessary to give ags during the hot it necessary to give attention to foods that are cooling as well as nourishing. This is a good time to cut down meats, serving an omelet or croquettes with a good sauce. A attention to foods that are cooling as well as nourishing. This is a good time to cut down meats, serving an omelet or croquettes with a good sauce. A small amount of meat may be used in preparing the croquettes or they may be made entirely of vegetables. Cold fruit soups, fruit salads and fruit cocktails are especially satisfying on a hot day. Iced drinks of various kinds are always welcome. For a luncheon or supper, sandwiches with any desired filling, sliced cold roast beef, olives and radishes or small onions well chilled, a dish of ice cream or a sherbet and a cake will make a satisfying meal for anyone. Vegetable soup, crackers, omelet creamed potatoes with peas, tomato salad, sponge cake with a custard and a small cup of coffee is a good menu for dinner. The breakfast of an orange or half a grapefruit or a dish of berries with a saucer of oatmeal and cream, a slice or two of toast and a cup of coffee will be sufficiently sustaining to last until the noon meal. Rhubarb Pudding—Spread bread with butter and cover with a layer of cut rhubarb; sprinkle with sugar and repeat until there is enough for each to be served. Add a little water and bake until the rhubarb is well cooked. Cherries or other acid fruit may be used in place of the rhubarb. Sponge cake with sweet berries may be treated in the same way, making a most wholesome dessert that you need not fear to give to the children. Rich desserts and sauces, fat and highly seasoned meats, should be left out of the menus during hot weather. A supper dish that is economical and wholesome can be prepared from a cupful of cooked rice with three or four eggs. Put the rice with a little milk into a saucepan, add the eggs, stirring them into the mixture. Cook slowly, add a bit of butter, salt and pepper and serve hot in place of scrambled eggs. This will save three or four eggs, which, without the rice, would be needed to make the dish "go round" in a family of five. Nellie Maxwell Monitor subscription contest closes Saturday, November 15. Get busy if your church is going to earn that $100. A chance for the kiddies to earn a prize. Read Monitor Mother Goose offer on page six. 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If your druggist does not have it, write send 8c extra for postage, or write for agenc For Sale By: L CO. CHICAGO, ILL. first class Beauty have it, write us, write for agency. in the City Dr. L. E. Britt Upstairs Douglas 7812 g Co. dds and Sundries. SOCIALTY. Omaha, Nebraska Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. GO TO OMAHA LINCOLN Among the Churches THERE'S A MESSAGE a FOR YOU AT au Bethel Baptist Ss Ky Z Church yA ~ 29th and T Sts., South Side a ae SERVICES é = Sunday school, 9:30 a, m. Song service, 10:45 a. m. - N | Preaching services, 1i a, fe it m.; 8 p. m. ‘ Rey, Thomas A. Taggart, ena ATS ees 2120 North 27th St. ALLEN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH 5233 South 25th Street 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. Phene South 3475. ! ‘Twenty-second and Paul Streets REY. JOHN COSTELLO, PASTOR. SERVICES 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 8:20. PO eee ordnned alone ooo ee ; 26th and Franklin Streets } REY. WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Pastor > 2629 Caldwell Street, Webster 6035. : SERVICES, ‘ > Sunday School, 10 a. m.; morning service and preaching, 11 a.m. > B. Y. P. U,, 6 p. m; evening service and preaching, 8 p. m. - Prayer meeting Wednesday night; Women's Missionary Society, | ; Ist and 3d Sunday, 4 p. m. ; POPS SVS SVG USOC VCC V OV OC VV OVO COMO V OOOO EVV USO OY : | A Church Where : a /\ : ie >), | All Are Welcome A G 9st Services 3 Le rN | | Sunday School, 10 a. m. fel a Hea 5) 3 Phe A Preaching, 11 ‘a. m., 8 p. m. Pepe gel gl) League, 6:30 p.m. k fF ry - a ited bis | Florence, Pe Leavitt Club, Mon- Wahoe ATES) day afternoon. MB) om ees cene ME A | Prayer Meeting, Wednesday saan ee | Evening. 4 Z W. HM, §, Thursday Afternoon GROVE METHODIST cHURCH dies, Ald, Friday afternoon. 22nd and Seward Sts. Omaha, Neb. Residence 2202 Clark St. eeDeeontee oc testes saeontoseono see tDenienaese ene dete condor neonaos a nro anodontia Church of St. Philip the Deacon (EPISCOPAL) ‘Twenty-first Between Nicholas and Paul Sts, REY. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, PRIEST Sunday services, 7:30, 10 and 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. COME, YOU ARE WELCOME. 2 ee ee ee ee ere en ee ee : CHURCH OF ST. BENEDICT THE MOOR (Cathotte) MASS—8 a, m,, First Sunday in every month, BENEDICTION—6 p.m, surd Sunday" yr'very month” Services ta’ be, eld temporary in. Sacred Fars GERRY Bwenty second and Binney Streets. Rverybody. welcome. REV, FRANCIS CASBILLY: 8: J, Pastor. CHURCH OF DIVINITY Inter-Denominational People’s Mission 26th and Franklin Streets Preaching, 11 a. m., 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school, 1:15 p, m. Prayer and conference meeting every Thursday 8 p. m. REV. A. WAGNER, Pastor and G. 0. P. BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES Rey. T. A. Taggart, Pastor. In spite of the inclement weather the services at Bethel were well attended last Sunday, Two were added to the membership of the church. Next Sunday morning the pulpit will be filled by Bro, Davis, and in the evening the pastor will preach from the text. “He That Dances Must Pay the Fiddler.” The B. Y, C. U. on November 30 are ‘planning to carry out the program as arranged by the National Board of the Union at Nashville, Tenn. The pro- ceeds will be turned over to the board to defray national expenses. The ladies and friends of Bethel gave a surprise party in honor of Rev. ‘Taggart Monday night, Sovember 10. Each one present brought a pound, which was greatly appreciated by the pastor, ‘The Mission Circle met at the home of Mrs. Lillian Arvin, on South Twen- ty-fourth street last week and was highly entertained. ZION BAPTIST NOTES, W. F. Botts, Pastor. To the few who braved the storm last Sunday morning and attended services, the pastor proved that it does not alwavs take a large audi- ence to inspire the speaker, ‘The ser- mon Sunday night was also a master- piece. On Monday, November 10, Rev. H. B, Young of Fayette, Mo., arrived in the city to assist the pastor in a ten- day revival service. Come out and hear this noted divine. Don't forget the Sunday School and B. Y. C. U. and let each one remem- ber their respective auxiliary. ‘The Mission Circle met last week withf Mrs. Anna Tubbs, 3110 Seward street. The annual electien of offi- cers was held with the following re- sult: President. Mrs, Ada Woodson; vice-president, Mrs. Sewell; secretary, Mrs, R. Harrold; assistant secretary, Mrs, V. Turner; treasurer, Mrs. E. Pipes; cliaplain, Mrs, A. Tubbs; edit- ress, Mrs. M, Moore. Installation of THiE MONITOR officers at the meeting this week at the residence of Mrs. R. Harrold, 1540 Wiliis avenue. ‘The sick of the church are improv- ing at their respective homes. Mrs. J. F. Gratton of Denver, Coto. and Mrs. Eva Palmer of Kansas City Mo... were visitors at service last Sun- day morning. Mrs, Estelle Craig, president of the “Wide Awake 24,” and her sister, Mrs. M. Stone, have returned from a pleas- ant visit with relatives and friends in Kansas City, Kan. Join the crowds and receive the hearty welcome that awaits you at this ‘church at all times, ST. JOHN'S CHURCH NOTES. | Rev, W. ©, Williams, Pastor, Sunday services were well attended, ‘The evening hour was devoted to serv- ices of the American Legion. A very able address was delivered by Dr. Peebles concerning the aim and ob- Ject of this organization and why every returned Negro soldiers or sailor should belong to the Roosevelt Post. The choir rendered several se- lections in keeping with the topic of the evening. The sick of the church are; Mes- dames Youston, Twenty-first and Paul streets; Maggie Tillet, Twenty-sixth and Michigan avenue, and J. H. Mitch- ell, Twenty-second and Grace strevts. The Phyliss Wheatley Missionary society will meet Friday afternoon at 2:30. A very interesting program will be the leading feature at this meeting. ‘The Ladies’ Aid Society will meet ‘Thursday afternon to hold election of officers. The Christian Endeavor which meets each Sunday et 7:30 o'clock has started a membership drive. They would like for all persons who are in- terested in Biblical discussion to come out and join, and all who are not in- terested come out and get interested, and then they will surely join. A ju~ nior choir will be organized Friday to render music at this service. Rey. J. A. Broadnax left Sunday night for Wichita, Kan. On account of the heavy rain Sun- day services were very poorly at- tended. ‘The services held by the Society of Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem were well attended and very inspir- ing. Collection, $15.00, Collection for the church, $20.00. Many of the members of Allen Py of Council Bluffs ==" | 1erce will Save You Money ac Pe Your School Shoes | Me \ HARRY L. PIERCE LA aah The Hired Man i | Two Deliveries Made to Omaha Daily a : Or More for Your Church To any church sending us 100 New Yearly Subscribers The Monitor will give $100.00 and $1 for each additional new yearly subscriber over 100 This Offer Holds Good Only for a Short Time So Get Busy! The Monitor is $2.00 a year. Everybody who sees it wants it! It is not hard to secure subscribers, so here’s a good chance to Earn $100.00 or More for Your Ghurch | For Particulars ’ | ‘h M : 304 Crounse Block | Address e onitor Omaha, Neb. | ALLEN CHAPEL NOTES, Chapel will attend quarterly meeting in Couneil Bluffs Sunday, the 23d. Al- len Chapel quarterly meeting will be held on the 23d. Dr. Williams will preach the afternoon services. MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH. Rey. M. H. Wilkinson, Pastor. In spite of the heavy rain a good sized crowd listened to the pastor last Sunday morning, and in the evening Rev. Roundtree preached. Both ser- mons were enjoyed by all. ‘The ladies of the various auxiliaries met at the church on Sunday after- noon and were organized, and will meet the second Sunday in each month. Name will be given later. ‘The Swastika Art club met at the home of Mrs, Mary Williams last week. Plans were discussed for the ‘Thanksgiving decoration of the church, ST. PHILIP THE DEACON NOTES. ‘The Women’s Auxiliary of St. Philip church will give a kensington tea at the residence of Mrs. L. B. Britt on iewtadae, November 20, from two to atx Prizes will be given for the best sade: ATCHISON, KANSAS, We wish to say the paper is grow- ing more interesting each number. A number of young people surprised Mr, and Mrs, E. Handy at their beau- tiful home last Monday evening. Afte: having an enjoyable time, refresh- ments which the guests brought with them were served. Z Mrs. Beatrice Ewing after a long iMness passed away Thursday even- ing. She leaves many friends to mou n her death, ‘The death of Mrs. America Robix- son was very sudden and unexpected Mrs. Lina Bowen of Kansas City visited Atchison friends last wee's She was en route to St, Joseph. Mrs. Mae Bayliss of Kansas City fs expected in the elty this week to visi at the honie of her husband's parents Mrs. Blanche Kerford of Chicago is visiting her mother, Mrs, Edwards. Mrs. Vergil Leech, who has been in service, has returned home. His old friends are glad to welcome him back. Mrs. Giles of Bedford, S. D., is the guest of Mrs. Robert Peterson. Mr, Willard Wilson accompanied the Underwood family to Netawa for the winter. ‘The wedding of Miss Leona Jane Hamilton and Mr. Floyd B. Kelley which took place at Weston, was verv ‘simple yet beautiful. The church was decorated in blue and white and a profusion of potted plants was seen everywhere, Promptly at 8 o'clock as Miss Chloe Pyles played the wedding march, four young ladies entered the church carrying blue and white streamers, which formed an aisle through which the bridal party passed. ‘The bride was very becomingly at- tired in white crepe de chine trimme: in beads. and carried a bouquet of roses. They received many useful and beautiful presents. Last Sunday being Quarterly meet- ing, Rev. A. C. Teuel was here and seaictet the eerie: Wedding bells will ring during the holidays for two of Atchison’s schoo! oe LA GRANGE, TEXAS, _ Saturday was pay day for the col- red teachers of Fayette county, con- sequently a good many bright faces were seen on the streets. We have had fair weather for about two weeks and farmers are harvesting on a very extensive scale. Cotton, corn. hay, potatoes and foodstuffs gen- erally, receive attention. Rey. S, J. Vick and Rev. G. A. Dris- dale were pleasant guests in our city last week, Rev, §. A. Tillman is back from the called session of La Grange Associa- tional of District Executive Board meeting at Giddings last week, where he refused. the offer of the position of district evangelist at $100 per month, Rey. J. G, Grant, treasurer, also at- tended the board meeting. Mr. Sam McKenzie is having some additions made to his house. ‘Trustees of Ebenezer Baptist church had some repairs made on the parson- age last week, A goodly number of persons repre- senting all churches were present by ‘invitation and participated in cele- ‘brating the 49th birthday of Rev. J. H. Napier, P. E. of St. James M. E. church, last Friday night. Remarks were made by Rev. I. D. Coffee, Prot. G. A, Randolph and ye agent. Mrs, Hallie Johnson has returned from Eagle Lake, where she made a short visit to relatives. | Miss Irene Brown left last Sunday for Austin where she contemplates making her future home. Miss Ettie Smith of Williams Creek district school, having made satisfac- tory examination. is attending high schools here. Rey. Napier preached two splendid sermons last Sunday to good crowds. 7 Amount raised, $35. Rev. 8, A. ‘ill- man preached at Hagle Lake and Rev. 1, D, Coffee at Bethlehem last Sun- day Our sick: Mrs, Polly Smith. Mrs. Clementine Riley and Master Allan Fields are home again from an extended trip to Hempstead, Houston and Galveston. FREMONT. NEB. NOTES. __ Rev. Stapleton was in the city last Sunday and preached two splendid ‘sermons. While here he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Berry. Mrs. Al Williams, who has been ill for some time, has recovered. Born, to Mr. and Mrs, Gorden ‘Thomas, a ten-pound boy, on Novem- ber 9. Quarterly meeting will be observed here Wednesday, November 19. Mrs. Charles Brannon, who recently underwent an operation at one of the hospitals in Omaha, is doing nicely. We wish for her a speedy recovery. Mr. John Bradford has recently pur- chased a new Mitchel automobile. Mr, Charles Brannon has spent the last two Sundays in Omaha, visiting with his wife who fs confined in the eee | ss POUNCTL RLUFFS NOTES. | Mr. Robert McGee and Miss Bessie Giles are confined to the hospital. | Mr, Joe Tanabill of Chicago, IIL, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Besse for a few days. Mr. Henry Simms of Mason City, Ia., was in the city Sunday to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Amelia January, who died in Hutchinson, Kan., and was brought to Council Bluffs, Rey. January accompanied the remains of his wife here. Mrs. Ellen Rodriguez and sister, Mrs. ILizzie Tanahill. left Monday evening for St. Paul, Minn., having been called here by the death of their brother, Mr. Anderson Nealy. R. V. Robinson, who has been ill, is much improved. He lives at 2425 5th avenue, Mr, Afford Berry is confined to his home on accgunt of sickness. The first quarterly meeting will be held at the Bethel A. M. BE. church on Sunday, November 16, conducted by Rey. Stevall. D. D. Rev. J. A. Broad- nax will preach at the afternoon serv- ice, and Rev. W. C. Williams of St.. John’s A. M. B. church, Omaha, will preach Monday evening at 7:20. Thanksgiving dinner, Thursday, No- vember 27, at the Bethel A. M. E. church, and at night at the Masonic hall, 18 Pearl street.