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Black Star Line Steamship Reported Sinking GROWING, THANK YOU! $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy BLACK STAR LINE SHIP COMPLETES FIRST TRIP Steamship Yarm Owned and Officered by Colore Makes Successful Maiden Trip Panama and Returns—Captain Co. Officers and Crew Are Given Real Reception at Panama City. DOCKED AT NORTH RIVER PIER TUESDAY Brings Back Assorted Cargo and Thirty-nine Passengers—Returns in Good Seaworthy Condition—Another Vessel to Be Added to the Line Soon—An Important Venture in Commercial World. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—The steamship Yarmouth, to be renamed the Frederick Douglass, first of a fleet to be known as the Black Star Line Steamship Corporation, owned exclusively by men and women of African descent in the United States, Africa, the British West Indies and the canal zone, completed her maiden trip last Wednesday when she was moored to her dock in the North river. She brought back 38 passengers in addition to a valuable miscellaneous cargo and returned in a good seaworthy condition. The Yarmouth arrived Tues/ y night, but Captain Cockburn was forced to remain outside the harbor entrance on account of the ice flows. The Yarmouth, which is a British built steamship, with a length of 220 feet and 1,200 tonnage, was purchased by the Black Star Line, sailed from New York Sunday afternoon, November 23, bound for the British West Indies. This event was one of profound historical significance for it marked the entrance of the Negro race into the maritime field. For the first time in history a steamship owned and officered, from captain down, by Negroes steamed out of New York harbor. She landed at Sagua le Grande, Cuba, December 3, where she discharged a cargo of cement. Leaving that port December 7 she proceeded on her voyage and arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, where she was given a gala reception December 10. Thousands of cheering people lined the waterfront as the ship headed to her berth alongside the pier of Leonard de Cordova. During the Yarmouths' stay in port she was visited by thousands of proud and enthusiastic Jamaicans. Leaving Kingston she proceeded to Colon, where she docked at pier No. 10 at Cristobal, Canal Zone, Wednesday, December 17, discharging passengers and cargo. On her return voyage she stopped at Kingston and other ports and arrived in New York last Wednesday. In the Canal Zone the colored citizens took a holiday in honor of the ship's arrival. Captain Cockburn, his officers and crew were feted and lionized. At a reception tendered him at Panama City, Captain Cockburn, who is a native of Nassau, made an address in which he said that it was an honor to bring the Yarmouth to Colon, not because it was the first ship which he had commanded, but because it was the first of the Black Star Steamship corporation which marks an era in the history of the Negro race and means that Negroes have entered the commercial field and are out to win. The Black Star Line Steamship Corporation owes its origin to Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities' League of the World, which has as its object the consolidation of the sentiment and aspirations of the Negro race throughout the world, for racial progress industrially, commercially, educationally and politically. Its first work commercially on a large scale is to be the establishment of a steamship line plying between New York, Cuba and the West Indies. The Yarmouth or the Frederick Douglass is the first of the line and it is proposed to put on the Phyllis Wheatley soon. The steamship line has opened. A big undertaking has been successfully launched. FOUND GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY TO MURDER A. Novak was found guilty of conspiracy to murder in district court last Thursday in connection with the lunching of Will Brown. This is the first conviction on this charge. THE MONITOR POPULATION ONE-EIGHTH OF A MILLION NOW Chicago Has Jumped From Fifth Place to Second Within the Last Decade With Upwards of 125,000 Colored Residents. URBAN LEAGUE REPORT GIVES IMPORTANT FACTS CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—Chicago is the second largest city in the United States in Negro population. The district known as "the black belt" contains a larger number of colored people than any similar area in the country. These are the findings of the Urban League as stated in its annual report by the secretary, T. Arnold Hill. A noticeable increase in employment of colored girls and women is pointed to. "Since 1915 Chicago has added approximately 75,000 people to its colored population," the report says. "This is true of no other city. Detroit and Newark have increased their Negro population between 300 and 400 per cent during the last four years. But neither of these cities has a Negro population half as large as large as Chicago's, now a total of 125,000. Ranked Fifth in 1910. "In 1910 Chicago ranked fifth among the cities of the north having large colored populations. Today she is second only to New York, and this, by the way, only because New York includes the population of Manhattan Island, Brooklyn, the Bronx and certain other Long Island towns. The greater part of Chicago's increased Negro population had arribed at the close of 1918. While we have had a steady increase of population since January 1, 1919, the new arrivals have come in smaller numbers and with less confusion, thus permitting us to give more personal supervision, to spend more time with individuals. Employ Many Colored Girls. Since November 1 of last year, 20,315 separate individuals used our office for a total of approximately 37,350 different times. Most of them were people looking for work, and most of them who were in earnest received it. Many needed vocational guidance, a friendly hand, a constructive suggestion." Mention is made of the employment by Sears-Roebuck & Company of 1,400 colored girls at 310 West Washington street. At the same place there were employed last year 600 colored girls, and the company said it was willing to again employ during this holiday period 575 of the same girls. It was found, however, that less than half of these were available, although wages were $2.00 a week higher than last year. "This was due to the fact that the others were employed," the report states, "the labor field for colored girls having expanded beyond all calculations." TEN-CENT STORES IN LIBERIA. Native African Student in Yale Theological School to Start Business. Three native Africans, in Des Moines to attend the student volunteer convention, were speakers at an African conference in St. Paul's African Methodist church. The Rev. Isaac Steady, jr., student in the theological school of Yale university, declared that Africa needed Negro business enterprises as well as churches and that he already had plans under way for the opening of a 5 and 10-cent store when he returns to his home at Sierra Leone Liberia, which he says is a town of 150,000 people, 145,000 Negroes and 5,000 whites. Africa needs expert farmers, William Masumma of Capetown, South Africa, told the conference. Masumma is taking a course in agriculture at the University of Minnesota, from which he will graduate in 1920. The third speaker was a young African girl, Amanda Mason, who is a student in Wilberforce university, the leading school of the African Methodist church at Wilberforce, O. She made a strong appeal for American Negroes of character and education to come to Africa to teach their brethren anything and everything that tends toward civilization.—Des Moines Register. OMAHA. NEBRASKA. JANUARY 22. 1920 JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, POET- PATRIOT, ON POSSIBILITIES OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO "No Man Ever Came Into the World With so Great an Opportunity as the American Negro. He is Like New Metal Dug Out of the Mine. He Stands on the Threshold of History, With Everything to Learn and Less to Unlearn Than Any Civilized Man in the World." THIRTY-FOUR years ago, in 1886, John Boyle O'Reilly, the famous Irish poet and patriot, delivered a notable address to the colored citizens of Boston, in which he paid high tribute to the intellectual and spiritual endowments of the colored race and pointed out the wonderful possibilities, because of these endowments and other characteristics, lying before our people. The truths he then stressed will bear repetition now. In this materialistic age it cannot be too frequently repeated that true greatness is greatness of soul, and that individual, race or nation who possesses this will unquestionably find and hold his place in the sun. Before and since O'Reilly gave his address the Negro "has given the world proof of the truth and beauty and heroism and power that are in his soul." This, it cannot be doubted, he will continue to do. He has given not only the "one poet (who) will be worth one hundred bankers and brokers," but several, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Stanley C. Braithwaite and James Weldon Johnson, to mention no others. He has given great musicians to the world like Harry T. Burleigh in America, and S. Coleridge Taylor in England, and great painters like Henry M. Tanner, and sculptresses like Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller. With enlarging opportunities the Negro will continue to develop great men and women. This is what John Boyle OT and his words are applicable to. I know nothing and care nothing about your politics or party preferences, but I know that if I were a colored man I should use political parties, as I would a club or a hatchet, to smash the prejudice that dared to exclude my children from a public school, or myself from a public hall, theater, or hotel. The interest you have to protect and defend is not that of a party, but of your own manhood. Use party as they use you—for your own best interests. Politics No Panacea. But the thing that most deeply afflicts the colored American is not going to be cured by politics. You have received from politics already about all it can give you. You may change the law by politics; but it is not the law that is going to insult and outrage and excommunicate every colored American for generations to come. You can't cure the conceit of the white people that they are better than you by politics, nor their ignorance, nor their prejudice, nor their bigotry, nor any of the insolences which they cherish against their colored fellow-citizens. Basis of Social Equity. Basis of Social Equity. Politics is the snare and delusion of white men as well as black. Politics tickles the skin of the social order; but the disease lies deep in the internal organs. Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white—you must steal them out by teaching, illustration and example. Like New Metal. No man ever came into the world with so grand an opportunity as the American Negro. He is like new metal dug out of the mine. He stands on the threshold of history, with everything to learn and less to unlearn than any civilized man in the world. In his heart still ring the free sounds of the desert. In his mind he carries the traditions of Africa. The songs with which he charms Americans ears are refrains from the tropical deserts, from the inland seas and rivers of the dark continent. Music and Color-Loving. Music and Color-Loving. At worst, the colored American has only a century of degrading civilized tradition, habit and inferiority to forget and unlearn. His nature has only been injured on the outside by these late circumstances. Inside he is a new man, fresh from nature—a color-lover, an enthusiast, a believer by the heart, a philosopher, a cheerful, natural, good-natured man. He has all the qualities that fit him to be a good Christian citizen of any country; he does not worry his soul today with the fear of next week or next year. He has feelings and convictions, and he loves to show them. He sees no reason why he should hide them. tellly said over three decades ago the present day and generation: The Negro is the only graceful, musical, color-loving American. He is the only American who has written new songs and composed new music. He is the most spiritual of Americans, for he worships with his soul and not with his narrow mind. For him religion is to be believed, accepted, like the very voice of God, and not invented, contrived, reasoned about. shaded, altered and made fashionily lucrative and marketable, as it is made by too many white Americans. As Mr. Downing, who preceded me, has referred to the Catholic religion, I may be pardoned for saying that there is one religion that knows neither race, nor class, nor color; that offers God unstintedly the riches and glories of this world in architecture, in painting, in marble and in music and in grand ceremony. There is no way to worship God with the whole soul; though there are many other ways of worshipping Him with the intellect at so many dollars an hour, in an economical church, a hand-organ in the gallery, and a careful committee to keep down the expenses. The Negro is a new man, a free man, a spiritual man, a hearty man; and he can be a great man if he will avoid modeling himself on the whites. No race or nation is great or illustrious except by one test—the breeding of great men. Not great merchants or traders, not rich men, bankers, insurance mongers, or directors of gas companies. But great thinkers, great seers of the world through their own eyes, great tellers of the truth and beauties and colors and equities as they alone see them. Great poets—ah! Great poets above all—and their brothers, great painters and musicians and fashioners of God's beautiful shapes in clay and marble and bronze. The Negro will never take his stand beside or above the white man till he has given the world proof of the truth and beauty and heroism and power that are in his soul. And only by the organs of the soul are these delivered; by the self-respect and self-reflection, by philosophy, religion, poetry, art, sacrifice, and love. One poet will be worth a hundred bankers and brokers, worth ten presidents of the United States to the Negro race. One great musician will speak to the world for the black man as no thousand editors or politicians can. NOT OUR WAY. AN advertisement for waiters and bus boys was inserted in last week's Monitor. We now understand, or have reason to believe, that its purpose is to find men to take the place of waiters who refuse to have their wages cut. The Monitor will not knowingly lend itself to any scheme to undercut the wages of any class of working men. We therefore withdraw the advertisement from our columns. The Monitor is not in that kind of business. ORGANIZE TO MAINTAIN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Chicagoans Form Aggressive Organization to Combat by Legal and Educational Methods Efforts to Restrict Them to Certain Districts. CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—The Protective Circle of Chicago is the name of an aggressive organization that has been established for the purpose of combating by legal and educational methods the efforts to prevent colored people from living in the Kenwood and Hyde Park district. Particular attention will also be given to the mysterious series of bombing of property on the south side and which, up to the present time, has been unsolved by the Chicago police. The preamble of the very brief but comprehensive constitution of the Protective Circle states: "This organization is committed solely to the policy of offsetting and suppressing in every legitimate and legal way lawlessness that has recently been evidenced in intimidation, bombing, threatening and coercion of colored and white citizens of Chicago. "We propose to rest upon our constitutional rights enunciated in the recent decision of the supreme court of the United States, which in substance affirms the right of any person to buy or sell wherever one is willing to buy and the other to sell." A Militant Slogan. The Protective Circle has a militant slogan: "No backward step. Anywhere, providing it be forward!" The work of the organization is vested in an executive committee and four standing committees. The president of the organization is Rev. Dr. J. W. Robinson; secretary, Charles S. Duke; treasurer, Anthony Overton. The chairmen of the committees are: Investigation, A. Clement McNeal; publicity, Nahum Daniel Brascher; legal procedure, Oscar De Priest; propaganda, Jesse Binga. STEAMSHIP YARMOUTH REPORTED SINKING Wireless Messages Brought Relief to the Black Star Line Freighter Carrying Valuable Cargo of Liquor. New York, Jan. 18.—The British freighter Yarmouth, which left New York for Havana yesterday with a cargo of liquor, reported in radio messages today that she was isking. She gave her position as latitude 39 north, longitude 74 west, and said she was "twenty-four miles northeast of Light Vessel, No. 3." The message said: "Forward ballast tank leaking into engine room." A heavy mist prevailed. The Yarmouth registers 725 tons. Loaded Too Swiftly. New York, Jan. 18.—The cargo of liquor carried by the freight steamship Yarmouth, consisted of whisky, gin and champagne, is valued at $2,000,000. She left this port yesterday for Havana, with a heavy list to starboard, owing to the haste with which longshoremen loaded her in an effort to get her away before prohibition became effective at midnight Friday. The Yarmouth flies the colors of the Black Star Line Steamship corporation, the first company of its kind to be owned entirely by Negroes. The officers and crew are of that race. On the Way Back. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 18.—A wireless report received late tonight at the navy yard said that the coast guard cutter, Itasca, had taken the Yarmouth in tow and was proceeding with her to New York. APPOINT EASTERN MANAGER OF GEN. WOOD CAMPAIGN New York, Jan. 20.—Representative Norman J. Gould of Seneca Falls, N.Y., has accepted appointment as eastern manager of the Leonard Wood national campaign committee, it was announced here by Colonel William C. Proctor, national chairman. The national committee now includes, it was stated, Colonel Proctor, chairman; J. I. McGraw of Oklahoma, vice chairman; Governors Allen of Kansas, Bunguig of Minnesota, Shoup of Colorado and Norbeck of South Dakota and former Governor Stokes and Senator Runyon of New Jersey. LIFTING. LIFT, TOO! Vol. V. No. 29 (Whole No. 238) REDS STIR UP RACE RIOTS IS ALLEGATION Department of Justice Report Shows Radical Agitators in Various States. FINANCED FROM MEXICO CITY Article Designed to Rouse Negroes Paid for by Linn A. E. Gale, Senate Committee is Told—Colored Organization Asks Federal Anti-Lynching Law. (Special to The Monitor, by Walter J. Singleton, Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—Enactment of federal legislation to prevent lynchings and race rioting was urged at the initial hearing yesterday of a senate judiciary subcommittee conducted under the resolution providing for investigation into recent riots and submission of a report to the senate suggesting means of preventing recurrence of the disorders. Yesterday's session was devoted entirely to the question of federal jurisdiction. Senator Curtis of Kansas, author of the resolution, presented to the subcommittee a copy of a report of the department of justice showing the activity of radical agitators among the Negroes in various cities where rioting has occurred in the last six years and describing the manner in which these agitators have conducted a propaganda among Negroes for the purpose of arousing unrest. Blames Radical Agitators. The report outlined an article by Frederick A. Blossom, secretary of the I. W. W. local of Paterson, N. J., textile workers, designed to arouse Negroes. This article, the report said, was printed in the offices of the Gary (Ind.) Post at the expense of Linn A. E. Gale, of Mexico City, who, the report said, was believed to be a German agent. "It seems to me," said Senator Curtis in presenting the report, "that there is a very strong reason why the general government should take hold of this question and make a thorough investigation of it and into the activity of the radical element in this country in working up race riots." U. S. Bratton, a white attorney of Little Rock, Ark., who said his son narrowly escaped lynching during the recent race riots in that state, argued in favor of federal legislation, declaring the federal constitution guarantees all citizens an impartial trial, which mob rule denies. He declared, however, that the recent trouble in Arkansas was not due to racial agitators, but to the system of peonage which he alleged prevailed in Arkansas. Tells of 36 Lynchings. James Weldon Johnson, former United States consul in Nicaragua, but now field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the committee that there recently had been suggestions that the United States intervene in Mexico because about six Americans had been killed, while during the same period 36 Negroes had been lynched in this country. Legislation to prevent race riots and lynchings clearly comes within the constitutional powers of congress, said Mr. Johnson, who added that it has taken no radical action to make the Negroes feel they were being oppressed. The Rev. J. G. Robinson of Philadelphia, national organizer for the Equal Rights League of America, told the subcommittee that he had been driven from his home because of his work on behalf of the Negro. Other witnesses were John R. Shillady, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, and Archibald H. Grimke, president of the Washington branch of the organization. PRIVATE SECRETARY TO LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 21.—W. Justin Carter of Harrisburg, Pa., bar, has just been appointed as private secretary to Lieutenant Governor Biedelman of Pennsylvania, in recognition of his splendid services in the political successes which have marked the career of Mr. Biedelman, who was formerly a state senator and who is a man with a political future. Mr. Carter succeeds Harry F. Oves. a WORLD'S BIGGEST NITRATE PLANT Mammoth Expldaives Factory in Alabama Built in Eight Months. ALL SPEED RECORDS BROKEN Could Supply 13 Per Cent of Alles’ Needs Had War Continued. aS Rant Lifting the ban of war secrecy has Just now brought to light for the first time one of the most stupendous feats of construction in history—the plan- ning and building In less than one year of the largest ammonium nitrate plant in the world and of a city around It for the housing of ts 25,000 workmen and their families, At the same time fg revealed one of the chief reasons why Germany suddenly surrendered a year ago. The German high command knew that the United States was ready at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to manufacture 18 per cent of all the high explosives needed by all the Al. Ved armies on all fronts in the expect- ed drive of the following spring. ‘The first person on construction work reached Muscle Shoals on No- vember 26, 1917, On February 16, 1918, ground was first broken for a permanent plant building. On Octo- ber 26, 1918, eight months and eight days later, the manufacturing plant had begun the production of ammo- nium nitrate. When America entered the world war in April, 1917, she had no means of producing the enormous quantities of high explosives necessary to pro- vide the huge army she planned to raise, The very fact that our indus- tries were already worked to capacity providing ammunition to the allies seemed to make further production for our own use Impossible, Fertilizer Process Turned to War Use. At this juncture the Ordnance De- partment turned to cyanamid, a com mercial fertilizer, which had for some years been produced successfully at Niagara Falls, by a process the Amert- can rights of which were obtained tn 1907 from Germany by Frank Sher- man Washburn, head of the American Cyanamid Company. By this process cyanamid was pro: duced by extracting nitrogen from the air and combining it with calcium ob- tained from limestone rock and carbon from coke. By putting cyanamid through three more processes both am- monia and nitric acid can be extracted from it and combined into the explo- sive, ammonium nitrate. Mr. Wash- burn was invited to present plans and estimates for the construction in the shortest possible time of an ammonium nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala. bama, and a contract between his com. pany and the United States was enter ed Into under date of November 16, 1917. ‘To have general supervision of plan. ning and carrying out the work an or- ranization known ay the Air Nitrates Corporation was formed to act as agent of the Ordnance Department. This corporation provided the genera! desicns, supervised all the work and operated the camp, the town and the plant. Tt also Installed all equipment In the chemleal plant. The various other sections of the work were sub- let to organizations that were special. ists In the directions in which they were asked to help. New City Built From the Ground, It was necessary to build a new town to house the laborers, For this Job Westinghouse Church Kerr Com- pany was called in as contractor. This company also built the buildings of the chemical plant, Within four months 12,000 workmen had been assembled and a city capable of accommodating 25,000 inhabitants had been completed, with lodging, restaurants, stores, of- fices, police headquarters, schools, fire departments, hospita's, motion picture theaters, electric light and sewerage systems, ‘The construction of the plant proper was begun on February 16, 1918. Just ‘etght months and elght days later the big plant began a steady output of am- monium nitrate. The plant contains 118 permanent buildings, with » roof aren of over 26 acres, To provide the electric current it was necessary to build steam power electric plant, for it would have taken three years or more to complete the am and hydro-electric station now un- der way, This plant, built by the J, G. White Corporation, is one of the Inrg: est steam plants for developing elec: trical energy in the world. ‘The output of the plant ts 900 tons of ammonium nitrate a day, and this can be produced at Muscle Shoals at a cost Jess than one-half the standard fixe price pald by the Government for am. monium nitrate produced by other methods and one-fourth to one-fifth the cout of other high explosives of equa strength, Compared with the older process of making ammonium nitrate the savings made by this plant woulc have piid the $60,000,000 cost of the entire plant in about one and one-halt years of operation. ‘Ana military weapon It {8 one of th wisest and most economical expendi tures that the Ordnance Department ‘has undertaken, As an agent tn stop BIRD'S SONG IDENTIFIES IT Once Heard, One Is Not Apt to Forget the Trill of the Beautiful Dickcissel. As far as we are informed, there Is but one American bird whose song can be heard above the roar and rattle of a swiftly moving train, when the re- celving end Is on the said train, You may be “Jazzing” along at sixty cr seventy miles an hour In your com- fortable Pullman seat, and over the tremendous hum and racket of the steel caravan will come to you from the little feathered fellow on the tele- graph wire outside the incessant song of hot-weather Joy. “Dick! Dick! Diekeissel !” Or, if you prefer another analysis: “Chip! Chip! Chee-chee-chee!” So the Dickelssel has a distinet stunt of his own—something that no other bird can imitate or rival. Some- times we think Dick isa bit proud of ft, too, for he lines the railway right of way clear across the middle west- ern and plains states in such numbers his song is ever in our ears while you are traveling. The Dickcissel was formerly called the black-throated bunting and Is a very beautiful creature as well as very useful. He is mostly of a rich yellow hue, with a black throat—but nobody need identify him by his dress, for his song is inimitable. In our experience we never heard any of the mocking birds attempt to imitate the “Chip! Chip! Chee-chee-chee!" of the hot- weather friend. He Is really a salamander of the air, too, for he is late In arriving and early in departing, and does his best vocal stunts when you and I are gasp- ing beneath an electric fan, He eats lots of bugs and weed seeds and Is ‘a mighty good citizen.—Omaha World- Herald. POETS BRAVE FIGHTING MEN Writers of Deathless Lines Also Won Immortality on the Bloody Fields ; ‘of Battle. What power have the sacred Nine over their loved ones to make poets take to war? Sidney, writer of deathless lines, died a gallant soldier. Dante defended his tenets in arms. Byron contracted a mortal fever help- ing to free Greece from her tyranny, and Burns was a member of Seotch dragoons, with no opportunity arising for heroics that marked him a soldier. He was, however, valiant, and left what Is probably the greatest war poem in all poetry, “Scots Wha Hae ‘Wi’ Wallace Bled!” And now out of the great defenders of humanity in the war just being straightened out comes D’Annunzio, Italy's bard, fighting the fight of a cap- tain who will hold out “if it lasts all summer!” Joyce Kilmer sleeps in France. Allan Seeger is proud “a few brave drops were ours.” And Robert Service was at the front bringing in the mangled, and has given us a poem in his “Rhymes of a Red Cross Man,” entitled “Grand Pere,” that will make the bravest shudder. , ye, who called the land to arms ye hypocrites that gave an outburst of ‘fine fire with your pens, redden with shame and bow an humble head te these who, as Edwin Markham says “fought the poetry they sang.”-—Mil wankoe Sentinal. Land Question in Chile. The land question, particularly as tt relates to the Indians, has of late been receiving attention from those inter- ested in the future of Chile, The tendency has been to take every ad- vantage of these natives, who, despite the muny handicaps that official and unofficial greed have placed in ther way, are admitted to be making sub: stantial progress. They have, as might have been expected, shown themselves particularly proficient in agriculture and cattle breeding. Crying evils in the administration of the lands have been pointed out in the public press, but as yet the authorities do not seem to be sufficiently interested in remedy- Ing a state of affairs that does much to allenate the sympathies of an im- portant, if subordinate, part of the population. Gikeiidas Anbesiein Gasmert: While the members of the Associ- ated Mountaineering Clubs of North America are not all devoted to moun- taineering, they have a common bond of interest in the preservation of American scenery and in the protec: tion of plant and bird life in thelr natural environment. ‘The association 1s co-operating with the national park service for the creation and develop- ment of national parks and “monu- ments.” A fine collection of ltera- ture on mountaineering has been form ed by the association at the New York public Mbrary and bibliographies are being compiled and published. When this organization was founded in 1916, it embraced nine clubs and societies. Now there were 29 and the aggregate membership 1s over 45,000 Bombarding Sky With Names, By means of new wireless invention it will be possible to project sounds into the air which will enable an avi. ator to know exactly where he is. For example, suppose he were passing ‘over Calgary, from the moment he approached the region he would re celve the message “Thiv Is Calgary” until he had left It behind him. And 0 on with all places over which he may pass. In this way his chances of losing his way will be considerably Aminished. THE MONITOR THIS CITY BUILT WHILE YOU WAIT Fourth Laceaerien in Alabama Full Grown in One Year. HAD A MODEL GOVERNMENT Permanent ‘Settlement Around U. S. Nitrate Plant Presented Unusual Problems, | The fourth largest elty in Alabama, peopled with 25,000 souls of diverse races and religions, uprooted from far scattered communities in every part of the United States and Canada sprang into being almost overnight around the great new government am monium nitrate plant down on the open cotton and corm flelds at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River during the last year of the World War. Here was a problem in city bullding, munic {pal government and commulty wel fare that has seldom heen equalled and the success of its solution has never been excelled. __ The Job was in the hands of the Air Nitrates Corporation which had been organized under the direction of the “Ordnance Department to bulld plant and city at Muscle Shoals. Early in January, 1918, this new town fad a few temporary buildings and a popu lation of 300, ‘This had Jumped by the “middle of August to more than 21,000. A population multiplied by 70 in 7 months. In the management of the new ‘towns and army cantonmenty that sprang up during the war the old time evils that attended the growth of “mushroom cities have been avolded by the application of modern welfare systems, But uowhere were condi tions more difficult than at Muscie “Shoals, Here was a malarial region ‘threatened at the same time with “other deadly disease epidemics, ‘Trans: portation was lacking. No nearby labor was available and the genera! “labor shortage was at {ts most acute |stage. Costs of Iabor and supplies _were leaping over night. Furthermore, “Muscle Shoals differed from all the other new war towns inasmuch as it _was to be permanent. New Government Devised., | ‘The managers, besides city govern. “ment, had to handle the entire retail business of the town, A camp super |vieor’s department was put In charge of the maintenance of all buildings, ‘fire protection, and sanitation, ‘The [camp supervisor looked after, evers thing from the mending of a lock to the remodeling of groups of buildings or laying sewers or steam mains. For | the bachelor contingent @ commissary department was necessary ‘The business department managed the stores, canteens, motion picture | theaters, pool parlors, tallor shops, dry cleaning establishments, barber shops, newsstands, a hotel, a vegetable | farm and a hog farm where 1,000 hogs [were raised on the wastes from eat ing places. It maintained a slaughter house where these hogs were put ‘through the regular packing house course. It operated a laundry which | cleaned 7,498 pleces a day. Then there was a real estate department | that rented and managed the family quarters and a housing department | which assigned to quarters everybody ‘excepting the families, | “Under separate jurisdiction from its | community director were the police. | The health department, in charge of a physician from New York city, | started with a small office in one of |the temporary buildings, and was |woon full grown and splendidly equipped. Conditions were favorable to disease. The winter was the severest on record in northern Als- bama. The men were compelled to work either in deep snow or mud above thelr knees, As a result a pneumonia epidemic developed among the, Negroes that spring. Later in the year a typhoid epidemic was threatened. Moreover, the site of the plant was in the heart of the malaria district. But the pneumonia epidemic was checked, the typhoid threat nipped in the bud, and malaria stamped out. A Health Record Established ‘The little first-aid hospital present: ly grew to a complete modern institu: tion with a nurses’ home and a sep: arate dispensary for dental, eye, ear nose, throat, genito-urinary clinics and & surgical dispensary for first-aid work. During the eight months when the death rate was not affected by the in fluenza and pneumonia epidemics tix general health rate was 12.4 per thou sand per year, which is lower than In most cities in the same latitude an¢ climate, and the pneumonia death rate during the epidemic was lower thar in most army cantonments, Much of the success of the healtt administration is due to the establish ment of the Muscle Shoals sanitary district by the United States Public Health Service, ; ‘The education and welfare depart ment also had a vital work to perforns ‘Phere was a school population of over 1,000, ‘The Secretary of War create the community organization branci of the Ordnance Department which with advice and ald of som of the By GARRET SMITH. ANOTHER DAVIS JURY HAS BEEN DISCHARGED Unable to Reach an Agreement After Forty-Seyen Hours’ Deliberation —Vote Was Eight to Four. _ After forty-seven hours’ delibera- ‘tion the jury which heard the second ‘trial of George Davis, 1612 North Twenty-eighth street, charged with assault with intent to murder Mayor Smith during the court house riot, re- ported that it was unable to reach an agreement and was discharged at 4:45 Monday by Judge Redick. The vote stood eight to four throughout the entire time the jurors deliberated, they reported, but no in- dication was given as to whether the majority was for conviction or ac- quittal, Judge Redick called the jury in at 2 o'clock and inquired if there was any possibility of an agreement. “J don’t believe there is the slight- est chance of a verdict, your honor,” replied the foreman. “Your honor, I am convinced that we could stay in there for a year without coming any nearer to an agreement,” said one of the other jurors. Judge Redick then inquired if there was any disposition on the part of any juror to refuse to discuss the case. The foreman said there was not, but that there had been no change in the vote since the first ballot was taken. Judge Redick then sent the men back to the jury room with a request that they try again to reach a verdict. At 4:45 they were again called in and discharged. County Attorney Shotwell said Dav- is will probably be placed on trial a third time, but that he could not say definitely. Charges of conspiracy to murder William Brown, the Negro who was lynched by the mob, and unlawful as- semblage and rioting are also pend- ing against Davis. Davis’ first trial resulted in a dis- agreement of the jury December 30. MAGAZINE COMPLIMENTS NEGRO NAVIGATORS “That Negroes Can Be Good Navi- gators and Seamen Has Been Known From the Days of Egypt's Maritime Glory”—“Negro Masters Have Commanded Trading Ships in the British, French, Portuguese, Brazilian and Long Distance Trades —Most of the West Indian Pilots Are Colored.” Half a century ago ocean-going vessels were navigated by white men exclusively and persons of a darker hue could only find employment in a subordinate capacity on the ships which sailed the seven seas. Nowa- days steamers manned by Japanese officers and sailors predominate in the Pacific and are to be found in all quarters of the globe. With the ad- vent of the Black Stars Line, which is to be owned, controlled and manned by black men exclusively, the erst- while monopoly of the white race in the shipping field is threatened from another quarter, 109 South 14th Street—Upstairs (HOME OF POPULAR PRICED DANCES) The University Boys Will Give a Dancing Party Every Friday Evening MUSIC BY PERKINS’ JAZZ ORCHESTRA We pride ourselves with having the best dance floor in the city. Our motto: Courteous treatment to all; no rowdyism tolerated. We Solicit Your Patronage. ADMISSION 35 CENTS Call Webster 5743 for Rates. CLARK & JONES, Proprietors. When on the South Side Eat at McGill & Davis Restaurant 2516 Q ST. “The Home of the Big 25c Meal” No better coffee made than ours. Home made pies like mother’s. Meal tickets $3.75, good for $4.00. Tobacco, Cigars and Soft Drinks in Connection Don’t stay out of a job. See us. We are employment agents for the packing plants. U R Welcome at our new, up-to-date location—2516 Q Street. . | That Negroes can be good navi- gators and seamen has been known from the days of Egypt's maritime glory. The Krumen, famous through- ‘out the West coast of Africa as mar- ‘iners, habe furnished many recruits for British war and merchant ships. In more recent days Negro masters have commanded trading ships in the British, French, Portuguese and Bra- zilian coasting and long-distance trades. Most of the West Indian pilots are colored and Caribbean crews are almost universally black. There is nothing in the record of the black race, therefore, to justify doubts as to their being capable navi- gators. But success of the Black Star Line as a trading venture and as an instrumentality of disposing of goods made by Americans to African Negroes will depend on the business acumen displayed by its backers. In these days of intense Negro race- consciousness the furtherance by the black people of America of trade re- lations between themselves and their kin in other countries should result in some interesting developments.— ‘The Nautical Gazette. MANY FOREIGN STUDENTS IN AMERICAN COLLEGES The University of Wisconsin Alone Hag Representatives From Fifteen Countries—China Leads List. Madison, Wis. Jan. 19.—Exactly eighty-six foreign students, repre- senting fifteen countries, are attend- ing the University of Wisconsin this year, making 1 per cent of the total enrollment, according to figures just compiled. China leads the list with twenty-four students; Norway is sec- ‘ond with seventeen, and the Philip- pine Islands rank next with fourteen; Canada sends nine; France, five; Japan, five; India, two; Peru, two; Porto Rico, two, and Armenia, Bra- zil, England, Guatemala, Colombia and Teeland, one each. Iceland has never sent a student to Wisconsin before. ‘The largest number of foreign stu- dents heretofore enrolled at the uni- versity was sixty-nine in 1916-17, In the year 1917-18, fifty-three foreign students attended the university. ‘The secret of having thoughtful care for the amnsement of employees is pot a new discovery, It has been In use for more than a generation by one of the most successful department store proprietors now in this country. The “Bon Marche” also introduced the {dea in Paris years ago. New York tmerchants arrange plcnies and dances ‘or their woman and man clerks, ‘January Sales at | - Thompson-Belden & Co. : SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS On the Best Grades of Merchandise. : LAAAAPAPAAAL EP APPEAR EP PPPPEPPDAAE PLEAS DP EROS DIET Amusements for Employees. Be kind. FOR COLORED. I have a number of bargains in ‘houses, 4,5 and 7 rooms; well located, and able to sell for $150.00 and up, ‘cash; balance monthly payments.— Davis, Webster 2420 —2 | Words That Mean Much, The sonorous opening of Lincotn's Gettysburg speech, “Four score and seven years ago,” is not equivalent to Felghty-oven years ago! Prose hath her hariaonies, no less than poetry. It is such subtleties that make up the ‘full effect of literary expression. “'Victunls” Is not equivalent to “food,” “deathlessness” is not the same as “immortality”— as Lowell showed "when he suggested that we try con- verting Wordsworth’s title, “Intima- tions of Immortality” into “Hints of ‘Deathiessness.”—North American Re- view. Puzzle for the Jury. Here js a summing up which fs hard to beat for succinctness: “Gentle- men of the jury: In this case the counsel on both sides are unintelll- gible, the witnesses incredible, and the plaintiffs and defendants are both such bad characters that to me it is a matter of indifference how you give your ver diet.” ‘Two Things Seemed Evident. | An Irishman was brought up for Stealing ducks. ‘The evidence against him was overwhelming, yet witnesses followed on each other's heels to tes- tify to his white and blametess life and his stainless character, “Gentle men of the Jury:” the judge summed up, “I think you will agree with me that the prisoner stole the ducks, and that he is the most popular man in ‘the county.” mnie He MAKE apres THIS fet mC ny gis) BANK (mesial youn |Somee ne BANK SAVE YOUR MONEY and then get INTEREST On it in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT New Entrance S. W. Corner 16th and Farnam Sts. First National Bank 16th and Farnam Chinese Look With Suspicious Eyes on Activities of the Subjects of the Milkado. It was in the quaint, terraced city of Foochow, China. The bearers of my sedan chair pointed out to me a fine gray building against the hillside and exhausted their collective store of English trying to tell me what it was. "Japanese hospital," said one, with a knowing air, as if he could say more if he would. "To cure sick Japanese?" I asked, wondering whether there was a sufficiently large colony to support an institution of such size. It took some time for this question to percolate through their heads. When at last it did so, there was more excitement in their answers than mere statements of facts would warrant. "Japanese make Chinese well, Japanese say 'Chinese man—him very sick; must make well,'" There was inarticulate sarcasm in their manner. At last one of them found the English he was after, and came out with it: "Japanese no love Chinese man," he said. "Then why make Chinese man well?" It seems that Japanese were beginning to realize that American philanthropy, represented by the missions and by the Rockefeller foundation, was creating good-will for the United States. So they, too, decided to become philanthropists, and some fine Japanese hospitals for the Chinese were the result. The Chinese, however, still distrust the move. They cannot be sure that it has the genuine unselfishness of Christian propaganda. They tell tales about machine guns concealed in the hospitals and soldiers who reconnoiter by night. I never heard these rumors substantiated, but I did meet a seemingly benevolent young surgeon and a Japanese nurse with the sweetest face in the world.—Marjorie Barstow in World Outlook. WORE OLD DUTCH HEADGEAR Rochester Woman Excited Comment by Appearing in Court With Picturesque Adornment. The costume of Mrs. Julia Vos in a Rochester court excited much attention. Mrs. Vos is the grandmother of two children over whom there was litigation after the parting of their parents. The aged woman is a native of Frieseland, Holland. She appeared in court with an old Dutch headgear that would have delighted the heart of the painter Van Dyk. On the sides of her colfeuse were two thin gold plates bound tightly to her head which kept her hair pressed close above her ears. The plates are slightly concave, of the finest old burnished gold and fitted the contour of her head. Over her gold plates was an old Frieseland lace bonnet, ivory colored from age, a treasure of her maiden days. The little frilled lace visor in front of the bonnet was a marvel of the lace maker's art, and a 6-inch frill made of some stiffened material like malines net fanned out behind her neck and over her shoulders like a ruffle of Sir Walter Raleigh. In a quantal observance of the customs of the land of her adoption Mrs. Vos had surmounted her artistic headgear with a flagrantly high-cocked bonnet. The old world touched the new on Mrs. Vos' head, with the artistic odds greatly against the new. Search for Einer Wool. The possibility of developing new sources of fine wool has been suggested. Referring in Nature to a new search for the golden fleece, Prof. J. C. Ewart of the University of Edinburgh states that the first domesticated sheep in Europe were undoubtedly introduced about 7000 B. C., and that nearly pure descendants of this ancient Neolithic breed—a urial, Ovis vivegne—still survive on the small uninhabited island of Soay (Sheep island), near St. Kilda. Crosses between Soay and Southdown sheep yield excellent mutton, with wool of remarkable strength and quality; and the late discoveries indicate that crosses of the urial with other wild types may yield still finer and more beautiful wool. These discoveries include that of wool forming the inner coat of several of the wild sheep of Asia. This wool is longer than that of the Soay sheep, and decidedly finer than and quite as white as superfine Australian merino, regarded as the finest and whitest wool in the world. Causes of Thunderstorm. Two kinds of thunderstorms are generally recognized—one due to heat and usually local, and the other accompanying the squallis forming in the southern sectors of low pressure areas. A third type "storms of cold," has been lately added by a French meteorologist. It occurs as cold air travels southward into a region of high temperature and southerly upper winds. The clouds forming the southern limit of the cold wave develop thunderstorms, which are carried northward by the upper south wind, this traveling backward through the zone of cold air. Pope Donates to S. P. C. A. Pope Benedict has given a donation of 1,000 francs to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which has been doing magnificent work in Italy for years past under English direction, and mainly supported by English and American subscriptions, although recently receiving also considerable Italian support, Catholic Colonian. DOES WELL WITH ONE ARM Englishman Apparently Little Inconvenienced by the Loss of His Right "Wing." Apropos our recent photograph on feats performed by armless men, a contributor, who lost his right arm when he was a youth, sends an interesting account of the ingenious manner in which he carries on in spite of his handicap. "I get up at seven o'clock," he says, "wash, shave, scrub my finger-nails by holding a small nail-brush between my teeth, and dress myself without any help. To fill a pipe and strike a match is an easy matter, while years ago I learned to write with my left hand. "I often play whist, and can place my cards together as quickly as anyone. But I find my chief delight and enjoyment in playing the plano or organ. I love both. I do not play with my left hand only, but play the lower notes with a stick in my mouth. "I can open a boiled egg and eat it as quickly as anyone with their two hands, while in regard to wrapping up a parcel and securing the same with string, I challenge any grocer to do the job more neatly. "Feeling an apple is quite simple. I can open a pennake in an instant. "No one need despair who has lost one of their arms. It is awkward at first, but after a few weeks it is surprising what one can do for themselves. So to all who have lost an arm I say: 'Cheerl! It might have been worse!"—London TitBits. WENT TO HEAVEN IN AUTO Novelty in Burning of Effigy of Machine at the Grave of Wealthy Chinaman. It is the custom of the Chinese to burn various kinds of effigies at the funeral ceremonies of the rich, and the more wealthy the departed the more elaborate the figures burned over his grave. These effigies represent every manner of thing, such as human figures, horses, sedan chairs, tables loaded with money, etc. At the funeral of a Mr. Ll, who died a short time ago in Tientsin, and who was a very wealthy man, the bereaved family outdid themselves, and made an imitation of the deceased gentleman's automobile, to be burned at his grave. The effigy was made entirely of strong Chinese paper stretched on bamboo frames. The car was complete in every detail, the pedals accurately placed, and all made of paper and bamboo. The interior of the car was also accurate in detail, being carefully upholstered in paper. The car was carried about three miles through crowded streets to the graveside, where a match was applied, and it was consumed in a few minutes. Ancient Mesopotamia. Survey research work in Mesopotamia has revealed the fact that in former times the country was covered with a network of canals, showing that a very celebrated system of irrigation must then have been in vogue. Some of these canals were 20 feet deep with steep embankments. This interesting information was stated by Lieut. Col. G. A. Beenzey, royal engineers, in a lecture given by him at the British Royal Geographical society recently. He also brought to light the fact that the city of Samarrah, which is now a comparatively unimportant town, at a period before the Christian era must have been one of the most populous trading centers of the East. The ancient city was 20 miles in length and $2\%$ in width, and it is estimated that it contained about 4,000,000 inhabitants. There were miles of walls and warehouses, and it formed a converging point for caravans from a vast area. Another city in Mesopotamia, the lecturer said, showed traces of having been laid out on the lines of a modern American city. Government Newspaper It is not generally known that in case the recent railwaymen's dispute in Great Britain had developed into a general strike, and the public had been unable to obtain its customary newspapers, arrangements had been made for the production of a government daily. It was to contain no editorial views whatever, but simply a record of what was happening at home and abroad. Five million copies would have been circulated by a squadron of 150 aeroplanes. The government's idea was that the dangers of a general strike would be enormously enhanced if the general public did not know what was going on. Community Singing. "I see community singing is becoming a fad in many towns." "What is it?" "The merry villagers' idea boosted a notch, I take it." "How?" "Instead of dancing on the green, we assemble in community centers and mingle our voices in jazz madrigals and syncopated glees."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Air Travel de Luxe. The airship "R 33" has been making a tour of the French battlefields, says the London Sphere, and it carried a chef and gave its passengers French cooking, and real beds, with sheets. "On September 15." says the same paper. "during a flight from Amsterdam to England, this lunch was served on a passenger airplane: Salmon mayonnaise, cold chicken, fruit salad and wine."—From the Outlook. THE MONITOR KOME TAKES BACK ITS OWN Demolition of Pretentious German Embassy in Eternal City Has a Deep Significance. Today on the Capitoline, the smallest geographically, but historically the most important of the famous seven hills of Rome, there is the sound of hammering, the fall of masonry. Here, for many centuries, was centered the religious and political activity of the Roman empire, and here in the last half century Germany had established herself imperially, residential. In the Palazzo Caffarelli, built near the site of the great temple of Jupiter, consecrated in B. C. 506, was the German embassy, with the throne of the emperor of Germany. Near at hand was the German Archaeological institute, within its garden the famous Tarpelian rock, to be visited of recent years only by obtaining the key of the gate from the German authorities. On the plaza, Romulus is said to have founded his asylum and here in the centuries before the Christian era, as in the middle ages, Rome had the seat of her government. It was here that from house to house, from terrace to terrace, Germany up to the year 1914 was steadily spreading her domains. The statue of Marcus Aurellus by Michael Angelo was in the plaza of the Capitoline, so also were those of Constantine and his son, but there was room for others. Today, however, the Palazzo Caffarelli with its sixteenth-century architectural beauties, and its Teutonic decorations, is being removed from the capital in carts. The authorities have decided that this seventh hill of Rome belongs to the past of Italy and they seek beneath the floors of the German embassy further foundations of the great temple of Jupiter built by Tarquin the superb, that other last of the kings. LANGUAGE ENRICHED BY WAR English Newspaper Comments on Addition of American Slang to the Ordinary Vocabulary. An enterprising publishing firm has issued a post-war English dictionary which professes to contain words that came into use during the war. It might have saved some perplexity on the part of the Willesden magistrate who was told by a witness last week end that a man in the case was "all poshed up," and that a certain turn of events "put the kybosh on him," "Poshed up" recalls dreadful things to the demobilized man, for how many weary hours has he not spent in "poshing up" for parades and inspections? To "posh up" means, of course, to make oneself look smart. In civilian life it means specklessly polished boots, starched collar, neatly pressed trousers, carefully brushed hair, and a shining morning face. In the army it meant buckles, buttons and cap badge polished to distraction, leather equipment with a supergloss, and well "blancored" haversack and vallse (khaki color, of course). And for the man "warned for guard" behind the lines or in camp at home there was always the hope that by "poshing up" to the nth degree he might escape duty, the prize awarded by the inspecting officer to the smartest man paraded. As for "kybosh," the word is familiar enough to the music-hall public. The extinguisher puts the "kybosh" on the candle, and the allies, in the words of a war-time song, "put the kybosh on the kaiser." — Manchester Guardian. The art of ambidexterity, or the usage of both hands, is an extremely practical accomplishment, and one involving not only mechanical skill, but a certain amount of will and brain power. A society for the cultivation of the left hand was started some time ago in London, but the scheme never had sufficient backing to flourish. Now the French Academy of Medicine is advocating that school children be taught to write with the left hand as well as the right. One curious point concerns the cult of the left hand, an eminent physician having stated that it tends eventually to increase luncy. The notion has, however, been contested by other medical men, and the head master of Eton suggests that the further usage of the left hand develops certain organs of the brain which otherwise lie dormant. Find Color Photo Process. A secret emulsion, invented by a Russian professor, which, it is asserted, will make color photography possible for everybody, is about to be introduced into this country, says the London Times. The problem of making the process capable of snapshot as well as time work is claimed to have been overcome, and the exposure can be as rapid as with the ordinary emulsion, thus fitting the invention for moving-picture work also. Special cameras and plates will be on the market shortly, and the cost of a colored film is expected to be only 15 to 20 per cent higher than the ordinary black and white type. While at a dance one evening I made the acquaintance of a young man who asked to take me home. While talking about different things we came upon the subject of religion. He told me he was quite a church member and had attended church regularly. My \*olks being rather religious themselves, I said, without thinking: "You are just the kind of a son-in-law my people are looking for." Then I woke up and tried to square myself.—Exchange. The Ambidextrous Just the Man! Sale of Knit Underwear Union Suits, Vests, Infants Some Wool Shirt Brande Union Suits, Vests, Infants' Shirts, Vests and Pants and Some Wool Shirts at Savings of from Merrie Feb Colum Merritt Feb. 3d Columbia Hall NEW YORK SIOUX CITY Orkie OMAHA'S LA WOMEN CONANT HOTEL B The Beautiful Col at Redu The place for dances, parties The very best SODA FOUNTAIN TOBACCO, CIG Box Office Open Fr 2420 La For Information Call W. W. G. MAC GOOD GROC C. P. WESIN Also Fresh Fru 2005 Cuming St. L. A. Richardson James Armstrong THE OWL TRANSFER CO. OMAHA'S LARGEST STORE FOR WOMEN'S WEAR CONANT HOTEL BLDG., SIXTEENTH ST. The Beautiful Columbia Hall for Rent at Reduced Rates The place for dances, parties, recitals and general assemblies The very best order maintained. SODA FOUNTAIN IN CONNECTION TOBACCO, CIGARS AND CANDIES Box Office Open From 10 A.M. to 8 P.M. 2005 Cuming St. Telephone Douglas 1098 Prompt Service All Parts of the City. Bus. Phone Web. 2095. Res. Har. 6073 2122 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. Have You Tried It Yet? 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. SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY For Women and Children s, Vests, Infants' Shirts, Vests and Some Wool Shirts at Savings of from andeis Sto Brandeis Stores—Basement—East erritt Feb. 3d Columbia H GO TO OrkinBrook HA'S LARGEST ST FOR WOMEN'S WEAR NANT HOTEL BLDG., SIXTEENTH Beautiful Columbia Hall for at Reduced Rates for dances, parties, recitals and genera The very best order maintained. ODA FOUNTAIN IN CONNECTION TOBACCO, CIGARS AND CANDI Office Open From 10 A. M. to 8 P. 420 Lake Street Information Call Webster 765 or Webster W. G. MACON, Manager. GOOD GROCERIES ALWAYS P. WESIN GROCERY CO Also Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. St. Telephone OrkinBros. For Information Call Webster 765 or Webster 2442. W. G. MACON, Manager. KAFF 50c A JAR 8 CENTS POSTAGE shirts, Vests and Pants and Savings of from Stores 3d ia Hall A Bros. BIGST STORE WEAR G., SIXTEENTH ST. Columbia Hall for Rent and Rates Hairals and general assemblies per maintained. CONNECTION AND CANDIES 10 A. M. to 8 P. M. e Street Per 765 or Webster 2442. Manager. ES ALWAYS ROCERY CO. and Vegetables. Telephone Douglas 1098 Res. Colfax 3831. Office Doug. 7812 AMOS P. SCRUGGS LAWYER Real Estate, Insurance, Loans, Notary Public 220 South 13th Street. (Over Pope's Drug Store) Kaffir Chemical Laboratories OMAHA LINCOLN A chance for the kiddies to earn a prize. Read Monitor Mother Goose offer on page six. 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. We Sell Kashmir Goods STARK'S PHARMACY 30th and Pinkney Streets Phone Webster 4225. NORTH END COAL & EXPRESS CO. Hauls Everything. 2010 No. 24th St. A. C. ALLEN, Prop. Phone Webster 5036 FRESH EGGS Quality First Our Motto We are just as particular regarding the quality of foods we buy as we are about the way we serve them. Only the best products on the market are good enough for our patrons And the most rigid rules of cleanliness are followed in preparing these products for the table. The Monarch Cafe CARNER & TRIMBLE, Props. 107 South 14th St. Phone Tyler 4119 OMAR WONDER FLOUR CREAM 50c A JAR 8 CENTS POSTAGE THE MONITOR A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored Americans. Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Publishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Neb. under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and Madre Penn, Associate Editors. Fred C. Williams, Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.00 6 MONTHS; $6.0 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates, 60 cents an inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 304 Crouse Block, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Douglas 3224. Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. LAST week alarge circle of friends were saddened by the death of one of their number. She was a woman who was never in the public eye. She did not pose as a woman of brilliant attainments. But there were two particular spheres in which her influence was felt—her home and her church. In these a dominant trait of her character was pre-eminently displayed and that was faithfulness. No woman was ever more faithful and devoted to her domestic life than she and in her church life she was equally so. For nearly twenty-three years she was treasurer of the Ladies' Aid society of her church; for twenty years a member of the choir and for eight years a teacher in the Sunday school, and it is recorded that weather was never too inclement to keep her from her duties. What a splendid record this is, especially in these days when people are so quick to become weary in well-doing and turn over duties which they can so well perform to others. Mary Elizabeth Parker has left a record of faithfulness which others may well strive to emulate. Brilliance of mind, great intellectual attainments count for little compared with faithfulness in the discharge of the ordinary duties of the ordinary everyday life. It has its reward here and hereafter, for the admonition and promise of Holy Writ is true: "Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life." CHANGING THE JURY SYSTEM BECAUSE of failure of conviction in several of the riot cases, which in the face of evidence many believe to be a flagrant miscarriage of justice, there are those who are advocating a change in the jury system. It is being urged by some that a five-sixths, others that three-fourths vote determine a verdict, rather than a unanimous vote. In other words there are those who would have the vote of ten men or nine men out of the twelve jurors determine the verdict, which now requires the unanimous vote of the whole twelve jurors. One man or two men can "hang a jury" and prevent a verdict. Even with the abuse of the jury system, and when jurors say, as some have said in empannelling juries for the recent riot cases that they would be reluctant to bring in a verdict of conviction no matter what the law and evidence might show, one realizes how the system may be abused and made to defeat justice and thereby encourage lawlessness, The Monitor believes it is better to adhere to the present plan of a unanimous verdict. There is of course nothing magical about the number twelve, but whatever may be or might be the number of jurors determined upon we believe that justice in the long run will be best conserved by adhering to a unanimous verdict. Efforts should be made to secure intelligent and uncorruptible men to serve as jurors, men who regard this as a sacred duty, and will regard their oaths as jurors in the same light as they would wish to have others regard theirs were they themselves to be on trial and this, despite apparent evidence to the contrary, we believe is the attitude of the average juror, drawn as they must be from all classes of our citizenship. Of course there will be now and then found men who will be swayed by their prejudices, or influenced by mercenary motives, but we believe that the average juror really wants to conscientiously discharge his duty in the interests of justice. Change in the jury system will cause no change in the character or personnel of jurors. THE PASSING OF THE BEE INTO OTHER HANDS NEWSPAPERS have a personality. Those who found them, direct their policy and speak through them give them that personality. When you think of a newspaper, you think of its editor. A change in the editorship impresses one as the passing of some more or less striking personality. When one thinks of the Omaha Bee which for so many years was unquestionably one of the great newspapers not only of this section, but of the entire country, he invariably thinks of Edward Rosewater, its founder and for thirty-six years its brilliant and versatile editor. And after his lamented death, the quill which fell from his hand was lifted by his son Victor, whom he had liberally educated and trained as his successor. It was a case of "The king is dead; long live the king." Rosewater succeeded Rosewater and that honored name impressed itself upon the Omaha Bee. The son for some years maintained the standard set by his illustrious sire. Then, for or from some unaccountable reason, the Bee began to decline and lost its hold upon the people. Sensationalism in its news columns, surplanted its sanity, reliability and poise. As a climax to all this comes the announcement of the sale of the Bee to Nelson B. Updike, the millionaire grainman, and the passing of the Bee into other hands. After nearly half a century the Bee passes from the Rosewater family. Whatever may have been its mistakes, and newspapers like all personalities are liable to error, the Bee under the older Rosewater and in a lesser degree under the younger, can look back upon an honorable record of achievement in the upbuilding not only of Omaha, Nebraska and the west but also in shaping national policies. As it passes into other hands, The Monitor desires to pay a tribute to the Bee and its splendid work under the Rosewaters and to wish for it under its new management unbounded success and restoral to its former prestige. The era of reconstruction calls for strong and fearless newspapers. This the Bee has been and may again become. BIG BUSINESS MEMBERS of our race in many cities are launching out into big business enterprises. They are organizing and incorporating stock companies with large capitalization for developing not "get-rich-quick" schemes, but legitimate commercial and industrial enterprises which in time will give good returns upon the capital invested. We are learning to do just what others have long been doing, pooling our money, taking one share of stock at $10, or ten shares for $100, or as many as we can afford—and investing it in some commercial or industrial enterprise. The Standard Life Insurance company, the Black Star Steamship line, and other corporations might be cited as examples of these legitimate business ventures on a large scale which are making good. This is the thing to do. We can only learn to do things by doing them. The Monitor ventures the prophecy that within the next ten years the United States will see many big corporations financed and successfully managed by Negroes capitalized at millions of dollars, giving employment to thousands of people. Think what this will mean. We are beginning to learn the necessity of putting our little savings or earnings together in such a way that they will count for much. We have begun to see that one man with $100 cannot do very much in a business way, but that ten men, for example, each putting $100 in a common fund, makes a working capital of $1,000, which will go quite a distance in establishing some little business or towards the purchase of a business lot, or something of the kind; and that 100 men with $100 each means a working capital of $10,000 and that $10,000 cash can swing a pretty good sized and well-paying business deal in real estate or almost anything else. THE MONITOR We have begun to learn that 10 times 10 are 100, or in other words that your $10 and my $10 added to Jones' and Brown's and Smith's, etc. gives US, a working capital of $1,000, $10,000, $100,000 with which to do business. This means as you can readily see, that in time we are going to be able to finance and develop splendid business, industrial and commercial enterprises of all kinds; to own well-paying business blocks in the heart of the leading cities of the country. No, this is not a dream, but a vision of things which must shortly come to pass, and is already coming to pass in many cities of the land. Our people have begun to realize, as never before, that we must make places in the commercial and industrial world for our children whom we are educating and that it is up to us to make these places and that we can do it and must do it. Small business ventures are being made by our people in every community. Foster and encourage them. Big business ventures are being made. Support and develop them by investing what you can in them and boosting them. Big business will then be in a position to aid and help develop the smaller business ventures. The era of big business is here. It is an open door into which we as a race must not fear to enter. "Be bold, be bold; but not too bold." DEFENSE FUND FOR ARKANSAS FARMERS READERS of The Monitor have been made acquainted with the exact conditions existing in Phillips county, Arkansas, where Negro farmers who had been robbed for years by unscrupulous whites, organized and employed attorneys to legally protect their interests. It has been made known that some of these same unscrupulous whites precipitated a "race riot" or "insurrection" by firing upon some Negro farmers peaceably assembled in a church and justified their actions by publishing the lie that Negroes were unlawfully assembling to attack the whites. Monitor readers will recall the articles by Mr. Kennerly, a southern white man, which exposed and excoriated the conditions complained of in the southern states. The Monitor therefore gladly publishes the following appeal from the Citizens' Defense Fund Commission of Litle Rock, Ark., and will gladly receive, acknowledge and forward contributions, large or small for this fund: Several days ago leading Negroes from all parts of the state of Arkansas assembled in the city of Little Rock and organized the Citizens' Defense Fund Commission. The personnel of the commission is as follows: Dr. J. G. Thornton, chairman; J. H. McConico, secretary; Dr. H. W. Suggs, treasurer; Rev. J. P. Robinson and Rev. R. M. Caver. The object for which this commission was created is to raise funds to conduct the defense of the 87 Negroes convicted in connection with the recent race trouble in Phillips county, Arkansas. The men composing this commission are well established citizens of wide acquaintance and represent the very highest type of spiritual professional and business activity. Twelve of the Negroes convicted in connection with the Phillips county trouble have been sentenced to die in the electric chair and 75 to serve sentences in the Arkansas penitentiary, ranging from five to twenty-one years. Negroes throughout the state and nation feel that these Negroes should Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR Ford service for owners of Ford cars, is one of the important elements of the great Ford organization. Ford owners can get real Ford service only by coming to the authorized Ford dealers, where there are at all times Ford work- men, genuine Ford ma- terials and the standard low Ford prices. If you want to get all there is, and the best there is, in your Ford car come to us with it for the genuine Ford service. Prompt attention every time. SAMPLE-HART MOTOR CO. 100% Ford Service 18th and Burt Streets OMAHA be given full opportunity to prove their guilt or innocence and in view of that fact counsel have been employed to fight the cases to the end. A few days ago a motion was filed in the Phillips county circuit court for a new trial. The motion was overruled. On January 9th an appeal was taken to the Arkansas supreme court for a new trial. Every effort will be made to defend the rights of these Negroes both in the state and federal courts. To fight these cases through the courts will require a large sum of money, and the Citizen's Defense Fund Commission is now calling upon Negroes throughout the country to contribute to this fund. The Negroes in every community are requested to make contributions through some well established organization like the church, club, benevolent, civic association, etc., or send contributions direct to the secretary. In this matter the race must act and act at once. Contributions should be made and remitted promptly in order that the progress of the defense be not handicapped for lack of funds. HOME BUYING WE have noted with pleasure the growing determination upon the part of many of our people to become home owners. Within the last few years the number who have begun to buy homes has increased rapidly, so that it has been asserted with those who are in a position to know that among no group of citizens in Omaha today are there proportionately more home owners, people who have paid for their homes, and home buyers, people who are making payments upon homes, than among the colored people. This si most gratifying. It speaks volumes for the character of our people. The man who owns his own home or has the ambition to own his own home is a valuable asset to any community. It makes for better citizenship. There is another gratifying thing to be noted in this connection and that is the pride our people take in keeping up their homes. They love to keep them looking nice. Home buying should be encouraged. The record made up to the present has been quite comendable; but there is still room for improvement. Many of our young men who are making good money should invest some of it in real estate; they should begin buying a home. Plans are being worked out in many communities by which any one who so desires may begin buying a home. Already there are numerous agencies through which this can be done. COLORED AMERICAN The Colored American Council, of which Henry Lassiter is president, had a conference with Congressman Martin B. Madden and other members of the house of representatives yesterday evening relative to reporting out of the interstate commerce committee the "Jim Crow car bill," which has been slumbering since twelve republicans voted for it some months ago. The plan now is to present it as a separate bill upon the suggestion of several congressmen and put it squarely up to the republican congress to pigeonhole, pass or defeat the bill. Then the colored American will know where he stands with the republican party. 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 Dealer in Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department of the United States Nat'l Bank 16th and Fernam Streets F. WILBERG BAKERY Across from Alhambra Theatre The Best is None Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 C. H. MARQUARDT CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. 2002 Cuming St. Dong. 3834 Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke and Cure our own Hams and Bacon. J. A. Edholm E. W. Sherman Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE Just Call Douglas 3889 Autos Everywhere Empire Cleaners and Dyers 707 South 16th St. OMAR WONDER FLOUR For Accurate and Dependable Service See WILLIAMSON DRUGS, TOILET ARTICLES, PRESCRIPTIONS 2306 North 24th St. Phone Webster 4443 and we will send it out. 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. 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 Subscribe for The Monitor 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 Phone Douglas 6335 Goods Called for and Delivered. ECONOMY TAILOR CHAS, M. SIMMONS, Prop. 25 Years in Tailoring Business 1313 Dodge St. Quality Service DR. P. W. SAWYER DENTIST 1614½ No. 24th St. Webster 3694 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 Sec- ond Hand Furniture PRICES REASONABLE Call Us When You Have Any Furniture to Sell 1417 N. 24th St. Web. 4206 --- Events and Persons Mrs. H. J. Crawford of the Drake apartments has been confined to her bed for several days by sickness. The names of Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Wheatley and Mrs. Julia Hudlin were inadvertently omitted from the list of guests present at the dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. Jones last week complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. Mahammitt. A chance for the kiddies to earn a prize. Read Monitor Mother Goose offer on page six. Fresh chitterlings, fresh dressed chickens and the juicy, tender meat that all the readers of this paper talk about, at the meat department, Finkenstein, 26th and Blondo. Plans are being made for the opening of a community house for the Catholic children of our society. All are looking forward to the coming of a sister for the center. Have you joined the N. A. A. C. P. yet? Why not? All aboard for the annual dance of the Society of St. Benedict the Moor, Thursday evening, February 5, at U. B. F. hall. Dan Desdunes orchestra will furnish the music. "Nuff said." For special bargains in stocks, bonds and real estate see Fred Williams, Monitor office. Douglas 3224. For big bargains and safe investments see Fred C. Williams, Douglas 3224. Merritt. February 3. Columbia Hall. Adv. Mrs. Charles Seymour, who has been quite ill with the grip at her residence, 2626 Maple street, is much better. Sayman's Soap, 2 bars for 25c, at Finkenstein, 26th and Blondo. Wait for February 5th. "St. Benedict, the Moor" Colored Catholic society will give their annual dancing party at U. B. F. hall, 24th and Parker streets. Everyone invited, and an evening of enjoyment assured to everyone in attendance. Mrs. Florence Henry, mother of Mrs. Paul Murray and grandmother of Mrs. Price Terrell is ill at St. Joseph's hospital. 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. Large Cans Okra, 15 cents. Fresh buttermilk, gallon 15 cents. Finkenstein. Do you want to learn about the Episcopal church? Then, be sure to attend the vesper services given at St. Philip's church every Sunday afternoon at 5:30 and listen to the series of addresses on "What the Episcopal Church Stands for, Believes and Teaches." Services one hour long. Come out—Ady. North Side taxi, J. D. Lewis, proprietor. Two limousines with heat. Stand phone, Web. 1490; residence phone, Web. 949. The Misses Irene and Ethel Jones were the hostesses at the dinner given Sunday night complimentary to, Mrs. James W. Madden of Chicago and Miss Irene Newman. Mr. J. W. Smith will leave Omaha Monday for southern Texas to visit relatives and have a vacation. Drs. Singleton & Singleton, dentists, 111 South 14th street. Quality and efficiency our motto. The Owl club elected the following officers: James Peoples, president; Fred Daniels, vice president; LeRoy Richardson, secretary; Henry S. Webster, assistant secretary; Simon Harrold, re-elected treasurer; Charles Harrold, sergeant at arms; Edward Buford, chairman of executive committee. Members of executive committee. James Peoples, Fred Daniels. LeRoy Richardson, Simon Harrold. Larry Peoples and Andrew Harrold; reporter, R. E. Pettiford. Bob White Soap, per bar, 6 cents. Sayman Soap, two bars for 25 cents, at Finkenstein's, 26th and Blondo. Are you a member of the N. A. A. C. P. ? If not, why not? Wait for February 5th. "St. Benedict, the Moor" Colored Catholic society will give their annual dancing party at U. B. F. Hall, 24th and Parker streets. Everyone invited, and an evening of enjoyment assured to everyone in attendance. The Japanese social given by the Woman's Auxiliary, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Canty, was a decided success, socially and financially. Mrs. Canty was more than grateful for the proceeds were over fifty dollars, her desired amount to be applied on the light fund. Mrs. Wm. Murphy won the prize, being the most beautifully costumed Japanese lady. Misses Ernestine Singleton, Margarite Bell, Syble Merrifield and Della Howard were given prizes for selling tickets. Tender mustard greens, spinach, green peppers and everything else in vegetables at Finkenstein. Webster 1902. ```markdown ``` One Rioter Convicted Will Receive Extreme Penalty Mr.Too High Prices Found Guilty of Profiteering MILLER'SCLEARINGHOUSE For Rugs and Furniture Chief Witness Against Accused Miller, who is located out of the High Rent District, at Saves you half on anything you need in Come and See Us Let's Get Acquainted Our Phone is Douglas 7802 Watch for Our Weekly Ad in The Monitor Among the visitors expected in Omaha are Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Woolbridge of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Woolbridge is a brother of Mrs. Augustus Hicks, 2716 Miami street. Before their marriage last June Mrs. Woolbridge was Miss Jamie Hover of Little Rock, Ark. Following her graduation at Smith college, she took dressmaking and designing and is a competent young dressmaker at Kansas City. Mrs. Georgia Scott and Mrs. Mollie Carr entertained at 12 o'clock breakfast Tuesday for Mrs. Mabel Harris of St. Paul, Minn., at the residence of Mrs. Scott. Covers were laid for Mrs. Cartwright, Murphy, Reeves, Howard Bailey, Warden, Smith Carr and Harris. Mrs. Harris spent the week with Mrs. Scott en route home from Alliance, Neb. E. W. Killingsworth of the firm of Killingsworth & Price and his brother B. A. Killingsworth, left Friday for a thirty-day vacation. They will visit Chicago, New York, San Francisco and New Orleans, from whence they go to Paris, Tex., to visit the old folks at home. Mrs. Ella Anderson, 1516 North 24th street, returned home after visiting friends and relatives for the past three weeks at Kansas City, Mo. Columbus and Dayton, Ohio. Born to Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Bogus, a son. Mother and son are doing nicely. Mrs. Boggus was formerly Miss Anna McLendon. The N. A. A. C. P. will meet at Zion Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. Special program will be rendered. BRINGS SOME PORK TO OMAHA MARKET E. M. Buckner, who owns 800 acres of good Nebraska land near Broadwater, Neb., and is also the proud father of seven broad-shouldered sons an four winsome daughters, brought a car load of hogs to South Omaha last Wednesday. The car contained seventy-three hogs, the average weight of each being 270 pounds. Multiply this by 73 and you will see that Mr. Buckner's hogs totaled 19-710 pounds or nearly ten tons of pork. Some pork. Mr. Buckner has lived in western Nebraska for the last eight years and is well pleased with his home and neighbors. He comes to the South Omaha market two or three times a year. Mr. Buckner was a welcome caller at The Monitor office. For Monitor office call Doug, 3224. FUNERAL OF MRS. J. C. PARKER The funeral of Mrs. John C. Parker was held from her late residence last Thursday afternoon, the house being wholly inadequate to admit the friends who came to pay their last respects. The Rev. W. C. Williams officiated. The choir, of which seh had been a most faithful member for twenty years, sang favorite hymns. Condolences and testimonials were read from the choir, the Ladies' Aid, of which she had been treasurer for nearly twenty-five years, the Sunday school in which she had been a teacher for eight years, and by her class. Interment was in Forest Lawn. MISS MERRITT, FEBRUARY 3 The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Philip's Episcopal Church desire to announce that the dramatic recital which was to have been given in December by Miss Helen Ricks Merritt of Iowa City, and was postponed because of the fuel ban, will be given Tuesday evening, February 3 at Columbia Hall. Adv. ARE YOU A PRESBYTERIAN? The Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city, is anxious to learn how many colored Presbyterians are in Omaha. It will be appreciated if all such will send their names and address to The Monitor office. The Pollyanna Dancing School which has been conducted so successfully under the direction of Mrs. Lizzie Buford, will give a dancing recital Monday evening, February 16 at Columbia Hall. Admission 50 cents.—Adv. The Colored Commercial club held an interesting and well attended general meeting at the Comumnity center last Thursday night. The Ocowasin group met at the Comumnity room Friday. The girls practiced Camp Fire songs, under the direction of Miss Guy, who has charge of the Camp Fire Girls of Omaha. You owe it to yourself to be somebody. POLLYANNA DANCING COLORED COMMERCIAL S. W. MILLS FURNITURE CO. We sell new and second hand furniture, 1421 North 24th St Webster 148. 24th and Charles. SUITS AT $45 and up CAN YOU BEAT IT? Victory Tailors 1612 Capitol Ave. RACE BOOKS AND PERIODICALS Our Boys and Girls A weekly newspaper for our youth, $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. 54 West 140th St., New York City. The Negro in American History By Prof. John W. 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Dinner was late in the fox's home, so Blacky was still alive but terribly frightened when his brave master went straight into fox's den and rescued his pet. Instead of the Fox family having a mullon dinner Master's Sonny had beautiful fox furs for protection from such Frost. 6 DADDY'S EVENING FAIRY TALE BY MARY GRAHAM BONNER © by the AUTHOR. THE HOLSTEIN COW "I have just made a record," said Miss Holstein Cow. "A very fine record. Yes, I have made a record as to the amount of milk I have given, or given in return for the board I have received. "There have only been about six cows who have done the fine sort of work that I have done. "There has been many a fine calf who has been sold for a lot of money and many a fine cow too, but I am a record maker, a new record maker." "Why did you do it?" asked another cow. "Well," said Miss Holstein Cow, "I will tell you, Moo, Moo, yes, I will tell you." "Moo, moo, I will be glad to hear what you have to say," said the other cow as she turned her great eyes on Miss Holstein and chewed at the same time. "You see, it was this way," said Miss Holstein. "What way?" asked the other cow, turning her head around. "Oh gracious," said Miss Holstein. "I may be stupid but I do know that much." "What do you know?" asked the other cow. "You know the direction you are speaking of?" "No," said Miss Holstein. "You don't know it?" asked the other cow. "How strange, Moo, Moo, how very, very strange." "Wait until I finish what I have to say," remarked Miss Holstein swinging her tail in a superior fashion. "Perfectly Easy." "That is an old joke among the animals and most of them see through it now and don't pay any attention to it." "I don't believe I know the joke," said the other cow. "I'm quite sure you don't." said Miss 1 Holstein. "Well, it's nice to be sure," said the other cow. "It is," agreed Miss Holstein. "You had better explain the joke to me," said the other cow, "before you go on to tell me what you were going to tell me about making your record." "The joke," said Miss Holstein, "is as I said before, an old joke. When in animal wants to explain something the animal will say. "You see it's this way. He won't mean, or she won't mean that there is a certain way or direction or place or spot to be looked at but that it is this way in the direction of the explanation. "When I start to explain something I say that it is this way, meaning I'm starting to tell you in such a way as you will be able to understand. "Now that is the best I can describe it for I am only a cow and not very clever even if I did make a record." "Tell me about the record," said the other cow. "You see," said Miss Holstein. "it was perfectly easy for me to give all the milk I did. I didn't think about it. I just kept on giving it and giving it without thinking. I didn't care about making a record. Neither did I think of such a thing. I hadn't any ambition, gracious no. "It just so happened that I made a record, that is all. But of course I will not let on about it for I am receiving so much praise for making this record." "Why, it was as much of a surprise to me as it was to anyone," said Miss Holstein. "But even though I didn't know I was making a record I hope that they'll reward me for it by giving me even better food than ever." "But should they give you a reward for something you didn't think about doing for them—something that was just luck?" asked the other cow. "To be sure," said Miss Holstein; "lots of folks and lots of animals have luck, so why shouldn't a cow, too? Surely, I say a cow should have luck. I'm for good cow luck, I am." "Well be course. I can understand how you would be," said the other cow. "Luck! luck; good luck to cows as well as to other creatures, that is what I say," ended Miss Holstein. "Moo, moo. I agree," said the other cow. Not Worth the Fuss Little Elizabeth, after reading the story of Adam and Eve in her Sunday school book, said, "Well, I can't understand why they should have had such an awful time just because they ate one little apple." "Huh," said her little brother Asbury, speaking from experience, "I'll bet it was a green one." Love knows nothing about philosophy and cares less. After all, the easiest way to do a thing is to do it right. THE MONITOR THE KITCHEN CABINET Live simply the first hour of this new day, with all its richness and glory, with all its sublime and eternity - determining possibilities, and each succeeding hour as it comes, but not before it comes this is the secret of character. FOR THE CHOCOLATE LOVER. Chocolate is so well liked by nearly everybody that a few recipes using French Chocolate. Melt two ounces of bitter chocolate; add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and a half-cupful of boiling water; cook three minutes. Scald three cupfuls of milk with one-fourth of finely ground coffee; strain and add to the chocolate with an eighth of a teaspoonful of salt. Beat with a Dover egg beater and serve with whipped cream flavored with vanilla. Cocoa Ice Cream.—Take two cupfuls of milk, one cupful of sugar, a tablespoonful of arrowroot or cornstarch, a half-cupful of cocoa and cook in a double boiler for twenty minutes. Add four egg yolks well beaten, two cupfuls of cream or rich milk, and a teaspoonful of vanilla with a little salt. Freeze as usual. Chocolate Mousse. — Melt three squares of chocolate; add one and one-half cupfuls of sugar and one cupful of thin cream; boll one minute; cool, add a teaspoonful of vanilla, a pinch of salt and the whip from three cupfuls of heavy cream. A tablespoonful of gelatin mixed with one-fourth of a cupful of cold water, is, when softened, added to the hot mixture. Pour into a mold and let stand packed in ice and salt four hours. Chocolate Sauce.—This is a good sauce to serve on various puddings. Cook two squares of chocolate, a cupful of sugar and one-half cupful of water together with two tablespoonfuls of butter and one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt. Cook twelve minutes; add one teaspoonful of vanilla and serve hot. This is nice served on vanilla ice cream, and is good with a gelatin dessert or with cooked rice. Orange Chocolate Sauce—Melt three tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate in a double boiler; add three tablespoonfuls of butter; stir until well mixed; add three yolks, one at a time, four tablespoonfuls of sugar and one fourth of a cupful of rich milk. Cook until thickened. Add the rind and juice of an orange and serve at once. I like to lend my money out To people now and then Because it's just like finding some To get it back again. A man is holding a child in a plaid blanket. "On the way Master inquired of a little girl whether she had seen the fox carrying Blacky away to his den. She nodded but her teeth chattered so from the cold that she could not speak to tell which way he had gone. 'Take this warm coat,' said Master, 'and each winter you shall have a brand new one just like it if you tell me which way the fox went.' Presently her teeth stopped chattering, and she told. NO.II. NO.I. "Master, himself poor, worried as to how he could keep his promise when the time came to give the little maid a warm coat. Because of gratitude to Master and the girl, who together saved his life, does Blacky give Master the first bag of his wool. It is used to make the promised coat. Thursday's story will be about the second bag of wool." C ALHAMBRA The House of Courtesy. 24th and Parker Sts. THUSDAY and FRIDAY— Pearl White in "THE BLACK SECRET" Emily Whalen in "FAVOR TO A FRIEND" Arbuckle Comedy SATURDAY— Mae Marsh in "THE GLORIOUS ADVEN- TURE" Pathe News. Comedy SUNDAY— H. H. Warner in "THE GRAY WOLF'S GHOST" Pathe News. Billy West Comedy MONDAY and TUESDAY— William Russell in "LINCOLN HIGHWAYMAN" Comedy Diamond Theatre THURSDAY— Elmo Lincoln in "TARZAN OF THE APES" And Comedy FRIDAY— James Corbett in "MIDNIGHT.MAN" Also a Good Extra Performance And Good Comedy SATURDAY— Ruth Roland in "ADVENTURES OF RUTH" Marie Walcamp in "TEMPEST CODY" And Comedy SUNDAY— Dorothy Phillips in "PAID IN ADVANCE" And Comedy E. A. NIELSEN UPHOLSTERING Cabinet Making, Furniture Repairing, Mattress Renovating Douglas 864. 1917 Cuming St. C. S. JOHNSON 18th and Izard Tel. Douglas 1702 ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE at POPULAR PRICES. Best for the Money Office Phone Res. Phone Webster 682 Webster 2047 Residence 3318 Emmett St. S. L. MOATTES TRANSFER CO. We Do All Kinds of Hauling Trunks Delivered to Any Part of the City. Stand, 2218 No. 24th St. OMAHA Eleanor Schorer C. S. JOHNSON GEE! - THERE GOES MY STOCKIN! BRAN NEW ONES TOO! INK'S MOST AS USEFUL AS WATER! 81 INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CO. Patronize the State Furniture Co. The Monitor recommends its advertisers. Reliable and accommodating service can be found here. Look Kiddies, This Is for You! 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. MONARCH TURKISH BATH ROOMS A day for ladies with lady attendant will be announced later H. DOLGOFF FURNITURE AND HARDWARE STOVES, RUGS, LINOLEUM Better Goods for Less Money. Credit if You Wish. OPEN EVENINGS 1839-47 N. 24th St. Phones—Webster 1607; Webster 4825 ALHAMBRA GROCERY & MEAT CO. Pope Drug Co. Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. Telephone Douglas 2672 Candi 13th and Far NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS Pearl Buggs, Chief Masseur JAMES BELL, Proprietor 107 South 14th Street will be announced later OFF DRUGS, LINOLEUM credit if You Wish. 1607; Webster 4825 & MEAT CO Mgrs. ra Theater Eat Our Motto Dr. L. E. Britt Upstairs Douglas 7812 g' Co. dns and Sundries. A marvelous tonic for dogs that are all out of sorts run down, unhurtly, with a strong sense of humor. You will be equally taken for distemper and debilitating diseases. You will notice the differ- At drips or by **THE DENT MEDICINE CO. NEWBURGH**. A practical treatise on dogs and their training (60 pages fully illus.), tailored (or like- * Among the Churches rally is on; so let every member in this pull, pull together. Our church flag has never trailed the dust. The choir will render the best of music. CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP The services last Sunday morning were well attended and the Sunday school is steadily growing. Great interest is being shown in the adult bil class taught by Mr. Reese. The Woman's Auxiliary held a most successful meeting last Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. F. J. Smith, 3027 Manderson street. There was a large attendance. The women are quite enthusiastic over the splendid success of the organization last year and are planning larger things for the present year. The meeting this week will be with Mrs. Swain, Twenty-fifth and Erskine streets. The Altar Guild of which Mrs. Dan Desdunes is president, is planning to have new vestments for the choir by Easter. "What the Episcopal Church Stands for, Believes and Teaches," is the subject of ten addresses which Father Williams is delivering at a short popular vesper service at 5:30 Sunday afternoons. The first one was given last Sunday. Anyone desirous of knowing about the Episcopal church is cordially invited to attend. Services are held every Sunday at the following hours: 7:30, 10 and 11 a. m. and 5:30 p. m. The Japanese tea and pre-Lenten sale given by the Woman's Auxiliary, under the chairmanship of Mrs. S. B. Canty, in the guild rooms last Wednesday afternoon and evening was a delightful and successful affair from every point of view. The ladies serving were in Japanese gowns and the prize awarded to the one wearing the handsomest fell to Mrs. Murphy. Church they Worship? 24th St (Upstairs) C. M. E. Church QUESTION—Where do they Worship? ANSWER—1423 North 24th St (Upstairs) LOOK FOR THE SIGN of this church? If so, why is now? We ask all members Church to meet with us each one from God for you. A. SIMS, Pastor. der, 24th and Charles Sts. THERE'S A MESSAGE FOR YOU AT Bethel Baptist Church 29th and T Sts., South Side SERVICES Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Song service, 10:45 a. m. Preaching services, 11 a. m.; 8 p. m. Rev. Thomas A. Taggart, Pastor. 2120 North 27th St. A. M.E. CHURCH Were you ever a member of this church? If so, why not come and worship with us now? We ask all members and friends of the C. M. E. Church to meet with us each Sabbath as we have a message from God for you. 5233 South 25th Street ICES Sunday school, 1 p. m.; preaching, 8 p. m. nights. DNAX, P. C. South 3475. Philip the Deacon (COPAL) SERVICES Preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday school, 1 p. m.; Allen Endeavor, 7 p. m.; preaching, 8 p. m. Class meetings Friday nights. J. A. BROADNAX, P. C. Phone South 3475. Church of St. Philip the Deacon (EPISCOPAL) Twenty-first Between Nicholas and Paul Sts. REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, PRIEST Sunday services, 7:30, 10 and 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. COME. YOU ARE WELCOME. OF DIVINITY Real People's Mission Franklin Streets m.; Sunday school, 1:15 p. m. sing every Thuradav 8 p. m. Pastor and G. O. P. NEDICT THE MOOR (Molic) Every month. BENEDICTION—8 p. m. access to be held temporarily in Sacred Inney Streets. Everybody welcome. SILLY, S. J. Pastor. CHURCH OF DIVINITY Inter-Denominational People's Mission 26th and Franklin Streets CHURCH OF ST. BENEDICT THE MOOR (Catholic) MASS--8 a. m. First Sunday in every month. BENEDICTION--8 p. m. Third Sunday in every month. Services to be held temporarily in Sacred Heart Chapel. Twenty-second and Binney Streets. Everybody welcome. REV. FRANCIS CASSILLY, S. J. Pastor. BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. T. A. Taggart is spending two weeks in Marysville, Mo., doing revival work. Rev. Mr. Davis of Austin, Texas, is in full charge during Rev. Mr. Taggart's absence. Mrs. R. C. Riddles, called to Terre Haute, Ind., by the death of her sister, has returned to Omaha. Mrs. Welch of Washington state entertained the Mission Circle at her home this week. She served the ladies with a chitterling supper. The Starlight Mission Board, under the auspices of Mrs. Whidby, will have a missionary sermon Sunday afternoon, preached by Rev. J. P. Davis. ST. MARY'S BAPTIST CHURCH St. Mary's Baptist church held services last Sunday at 3:30 o'clock. Prayer services were conducted by Rev. F. Oliver and Mrs. Burton, after which Mr. Oliver called the council together. Rev. G. W. Brower was elected chairman with Rev. Mr. Oliver secretary, and C. H. Walls catechiser, G. L. Cunningham, candidate, was turned over to the council. After the council examined the candidate, they recommended that the church ordain him. This was done. The ordination prayer was made by Rev. Mr. Harris. The ordination sermon was preached by Rev. G. W. Brower. Baptism at the river next Sunday at 1 o'clock. Rev. F. Oliver will preach the baptismal sermon at 4 o'clock at the church. Sacrament at 7:30. Everyone is welcome. The church is located at Tintieth and Q streets. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. A. Broadax. Pastor. All members are requested to be present next Sunday. A great time is looked for on Quarterly Meeting day. Arrangements are to be made. The BENNETT H. HARRIS THE MONITOR GAVE "SHOW" UNDER GUARD Peculiar Experience of American Musical Comedy Company in the City of Vladivostok. A belated story of how an American musical comedy company which had volunteered to give an entertainment for the troops at Vladivostok was caught in that city while the "reds" held sway, has been received by the Knights of Columbus from Garry McGarry, who is in charge of the welfare activities of the order in Siberia. The troupe was in charge of W. R. Bandvard and had come from China to the Russian seaport, where they were held up for several weeks awaiting a steamer. During their stay, every one went around with a revolver, and the city took on the appearance of a western "boom" town in pioneer days. During the period the bolshevists killed about 22 persons, and many of the actors had narrow escapes. Several of the women actresses had to be taken to and from the theater guarded by a squad of allied soldiers, and at the hotel where they stayed a guard was constantly posted. However, the American troupe "carried on" for the dugboys amid all the panoply of war and revolution. There were armed soldiers inside the theater, outside, behind the scenes, and in the box office. All the audience brought their rifles with them or carried side arms and hand grenades.—Chicago Post. SCORPION ON BABOON'S MENU Animal Seems to Consider Insect a Delicacy and Consumes It With Much Relish. The chaema baboon of South Africa is very partial to certain kinds of animal food—scorpions, spiders, centipedes, insects, lizards and the eggs of wild birds all being eaten with relish. The scorpion is evidently regarded as a tibbit. If one is released near a captive baboon, the latter will hold its hand extended over the prey until a suitable opportunity for attack offers. Then the hand will descend with a sweeping slap, which is followed by a swift, circular, rubbing motion. This disables the scorpion, which is then picked up and carefully examined until the sting is located. The latter is then picked out between finger and thumb and thrown away as far as possible, after which the scorpion is munched with every appearance of satisfaction.—William C. Scully, in Atlantic Monthly. Everybody is superstitious and generally our superstititions are trivial and do no harm. To carry a coin in the pocket for luck; to comment about seeing the moon over the left shoulder, to refuse to walk under a ladder; to believe that it is bad luck to turn back; to make a wish at the appearance of the first star of the evening; to suppose it is not well to break a mirror, which it isn't well to do. But the point is, everybody is superstitious, regardless of what he says about it. He may not really know that he is superstitious; he may be honest in believing that he is not. But the fact remains that superstition was bred into) the race away back in the jungle, where little was understood, where importance was attached to the shape of the clouds, where trees and stones and mountains and rivers had a personality—and we can't get it out of the system. John Pappas, a Greek, has been arrested on a charge of grand larceny, Habid Heide, a Turk, makes the accusation. Heide had some Russian money, how much he doesn't know. He exchanged it for 100 English sovereigns. An Italian friend introduced him to Pappas, the Greek. A trip through the Botanical gardens was undertaken. During the walk a man who looked like a Swede and who talked like a Swede appeared and assumed the role of hold-up man. Pappas didn't help, said the Turk. Detective Hagerty, an Irishman, arrested the Greek. The preliminary hearing was held next morning before a magistrate who was born in Wales.—New York Times. The Cuban sanitation authorities have undertaken a vigorous campaign against the rat pest to prevent the bubonic plague from entering Cuba. Thousands of traps have been set and every precaution is being taken. Ships coming from ports under suspicion will not be permitted to unload at the wharves, but must discharge their cargoes by means of lighters or launches while anchored in the harbor, thereby lessening the possibility of plague-carrying rats reaching shore. Ashes Make Good Fertilizers. The technical authorities for the restoration of France and Belgium announce that they have discovered that furnace ashes from glass, iron and steel works stimulate vegetable growth enormously through carbonic acid fertilization. All plant life is said to be spurred to unusual growth. These ashes may be applied to restoration of the devastated districts. There is no cleverer locomotive engineer in Spain than the duke of Saragossa, a wealthy member of the nobility, who is closely related to the royal family. Since the unrest in Spain has become so accentuated, each time that King Alfonso journeys by train the locomotive is conducted by the duke. Harmless Superstitions An All-Nations Case Cuba Starts War on Rats. Royal Railroad Engineer M. B. REV. J. A. BROADNAX Energetic Pastor of Allen Chapel The fourteen days' revival which was conducted by the state missionary, Rev. W. H. Botts, closed Sunday night. He preached to a crowded house. Twenty-seven additions. Baptizing at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Mt. Moriah Baptist church. The Mission-Circle will meet Monday at 2:30 with Mrs. Anna Jones. The sick are many, 123456 123456 33 The sick are many, but are doing nicely. The rally is now on. Look for further announcements. BEULAH BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. F. Fants, Pastor. Splendid services were held all day Sunday. A missionary sermon was preached by the Rev. W. F. Botts. Mrs. M. B. Bush, secretary of the church who has been on the sick list, is improving. Miss Roselee Taylor and Master Burnese Holloway, members of this congregation, are also on the sick list. SIOUX CITY, IOWA. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Brown, formerly of Neligh, Neb., have opened a first-class cafe at 711 West Seventh street. They are ably assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson of Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Brown conducts a first class business and caters to high class trade only. The Omaha Monitor will soon be on sale at his place. Automatic phone, 87871. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Parker of Riverside were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. P. M. Lewis Sunday, January 18. Dr. Dobson, formerly of Des Moines, who has opened an office at Seventh and Market streets, reports business as good. Mrs. Phalbia Boyd, chorister of the Malone A. M. E. evening choir, who was severely burned last week, has fully recovered. New Prospect lodge K. of P. No. 17 will hold a public installation and reception at Mt. Zion Baptist church on Tuesday night, January 29. The Ladies' Aid will give an oyster supper at the Malone A. M. E. church Friday evening, January 30. Mrs. Mary Talbert, national president of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, will lecture at Mt. Zion Baptist church on "Our Boys in France," Thursday night, January 22. Rev. P. M. Lewis preached two good sermons Sunday, January 18. There was one addition to the church. Collection $22.00. The Willing Workers met at the parsonage Tuesday, January 20. The Mite Missionary Society met Monday, January 19. Miss Dovie Whiteside of Kansas City is the guest of her father, Mr. W. M. Whiteside. Mrs. Edith Agee is going to lead the Endeavor Sunday evening. You should be there. She always gives an interesting program. Presiding Elder D. C. Crews visited his brother-in-law, Mr. Alex Denney. He preached at Campbell Chapel. The Clover Leaf boys proved themselves successful entertainers when they gave their second party Friday at Tueleven hall. Keep your eyes on Campbell Chapel. She is preparing to don her new spring gown and it's the latest model. Mr. McMillen united with Campbell Chapel. Sunday. The Surprise Party club successfully surprised Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Keiford. They will leave shortly for their home in Chicago. Mr. Emmet Jordon was a visitor in St. Joseph Sunday. Mrs. Kate Handy spent the week in St. Joseph, guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. Keiford. Miss Malinda Williams and Mr. Anderson spent Thursday in St. Joseph. If you want some place to go, attend the revival at Mt. Zion Baptist church. It will do you good. Miss Alice Franklin was called home by the sudden illness of her mother. ATCHISON, KAS "ON TO CALVARY" Slogan of Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Its Great Financial Drive. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH The above is a cut of the Calvary Baptist church (white), 25th and Hamilton streets, erected in 1900. This building has been purchased by contract by the Pilgrim Rest Baptist church (colored) at a cost of $35,000. Fifteen thousand dollars of the purchase price is to be paid before entering the building. Eleven thousand dollars is to be raised by the congregation and friends by May 1st. We are therefore asking every reader of this paper and the public at large to give us your moral and financial support in the raising of this eleven thousand dollars. Below you will find a coupon which you will please fill in, sign and return with the amount you will give for this purpose. Please do not lay this aside, but give it your immediate attention. All contributions will be acknowledged in the columns of this paper. Watch this fund grow. Address all communications to PALESTINE, TEXAS Though the weather was inclement, the churches all had good services Sunday. Rev. Keith at Mt. Vernon church had large and appreciative audiences Sunday. Grant Chapel had its regular services. Rev. Cowen, pastor. South Union Baptist church was at its best Sunday. Pilgrim Rest Baptist church was well attended all through the day Sunday. Rev. J. E. Ellis in the pulpit. Mr. Richard Jones and Mrs. Viola McGruder were married last week. Rev. Bolden is still on the sick list. Mr. C. L. Word died Tuesday and was buried Thursday. Undertaken I. H. Bland had charge of the funeral. The many friends of Mr. Charles Franklin are sorry to learn of his death. Mr. Sam Stringer died last Sunday, interment Monday. The Plaza Cafe is the place to find something good to eat. If you will try it once you will call again. Mrs. E. Powell, proprietress. Mr. Lude Muckelroy of Oakwood was in the city last week. A. G. Howard was in Jacksonville last Saturday on business. Mr. B. F. Blane was a visitor to the city last week. Mr. B. F. White is sitting around with a bad foot. To The Monitor readers: Please have your money ready when The Monitor agent calls. SOLDIERS LIKED THE PRINCE Heir to British Throne Fond of Mingling With the Fighters, When He Was Permitted. In the front lines a Canadian soldier was building a fire one cold night of late autumn. Out of the night behind him came a footstep. He turned, and became doubly alert when he saw that the man was not an officer of his regiment. The visitor approached the blaze, held his hands out over it and said: "This fire certainly looks good to me." The tone was pleasant enough, and suspicion was almost unarmed when the voice went on: "Have you wood enough? If you haven't I'll get you some more." The fire builder felt some regret that any suspicion whatever remained, but there had been a special warning against strangers not of one's own regiment. In response to it he was about to question the newcomer closely, when an officer whom he did know came within the firelit circle and addressed the stranger: "Your royal highness, it is best that you return to the automobile at once." 7 not the first time he had left that place of his own accord and gone forward among the men. The Canadian who tells the story learned afterward that the prince's staff had its hands full to keep him from breaking away from the official circle prescribed for him and mingling with the men on their own ground. MUST HAVE ENVIED COMRADES Pathetic Happening in English Court That Marked the Observance of Armistice Day. The great clocks of London boomed out eleven strokes. The city became as silent as though it were a second Pompeii miraculously swept clean of its ashes. Motor cars and tram cars creaked to sudden stops. Policemen stood like graven blue images at their posts. Pedestrians dotted their hats and stood as though they had not known motion for centuries. It was Armistice day and the city was doing honor to those youths who had experienced the Great Adventure. In a dingy courtroom a murder trial came to a sudden halt. Judge, counsel, witnesses and the prisoner stood, and for two minutes, with bowed head, did silent reverence to those poppy-wreathed graves of France. Before the prisoner flickered visions of that same France only one year before. He again saw the faces of comrades he had loved and whom he had watched in the throes of death. Incidents of that last desperate sprint across No Man's Land, with death on every side, came back to him. Again he heard the shout with which the trenches had greeted the armistice. He had come safely through, and now— The two minutes ended. The city came out of its trance. The somber voice of the judge resumed—"and shall hang by the neck until dead." Bird Preserve Planned. The proposal to establish an extensive wild-bird preserve on the northern shore of Lake Erie is gaining wide favor in Canada. Something must be done at once, it is urged by bird lovers, to preserve the wild fowl and insectivorous birds, or they will be as extinct as the wild pigeon. There are strict game regulations in the province, but the establishment of a large preserve would assist the legislation. There is already a nucleus of the proposed area in Rondeau park, and it is planned to extend this along the lake shore west for 30 miles. London Cats Victims of Plague. The outbreak of a disease, which has many symptoms to influenza, is causing the death of cats by the hundred in London. The disease is not thought to be communicable to human beings, but distinguished surgeons are unable to confirm the exact nature. It spreads with amazing rapidity, and the symptoms are said to resemble closely that of poisoning, except that death usually takes place within two days. 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Contracts can be made at the office, 304 Crouse block, or call Douglas 3224 and our representative will call on you. The Monitor is prepared to give its clientele in 1920 a larger circulation and better service than in 1919. Growing, thank you. ONE-FOURTH WORLD'S WOMEN IN CHINA Seventy Per Cent. Employees in Shanghai Cotton Mills Women and Children Working Twelve Hour Shifts. One-fourth of the women in the world are Chinese—200,000,000 of them. They are going into industry in large numbers to work long hours and for little money. In Shanghai, for instance, seventy per cent. of the employees in the cotton mills are women and children. Working hours for spinners are from six in the morning until six at night and from six at night until six in the morning. Weavers work from 5:30 in the morning until seven at night and the wages are from ten to twenty cents a day. Hundreds of women are employed in silk filature mills, standing hour after hour washing cocoons in basins of boiling water in the excessively hot rooms necessary for apartments where fine silk is spun. In Canton alone, there are 150,000 women in factories at a maximum wage of forty cents a day for women and of fifteen cents a day for girls. As part of its program of world service for women the National Young Women's Christian Association is expecting to put on the staff of secretaries in China an expert on industrial conditions who will develop social work in factories, and work to improve conditions for women employees. This work will include the introduction of recreation and social life among the workers and of health lectures and educational classes. Y. W. C. A. STUDENTS TEACHING IN CHINA Y. W. C. A. STUDENTS TEACHING IN CHINA Physical Training School Maintained in Shanghai. The vast majority of Chinese men remember their mothers as cripples. Many a girl wanders into a mission school who has not had her own feet bound, but has never seen a woman of her own class who could walk, and, therefore, she walks in a most ungainly fashion—scarcely conscious of her natural feet. The Chinese Medical Association—an Association composed only of Chinese physicians mostly graduates from American and English institutions—have asked the entire educated community of the country to co-operate in better health for the children of China. All the Mission Boards operating in China felt that one of the greatest contributions the Young Women's Christian Association could offer to the health of China would be to establish a normal school for the training of physical directors. Accordingly, in Shanghai, which is the greatest port in China, the national committee established such a school in 1914. The school has won favor with all educationists, both missionary and government. There have already been nine graduates from this school. Miss Ying Mel Chun, a graduate of the Wellesley School of Physical Education, has been dean of the school. Graduates of the school are scattered from Canton to Peking, teaching with conspicuous success in twelve mission and government schools. JAPANESE DOCTOR IS Y. W. C. A. OFFICIAL. Dr. Tomo Inouye of Tokyo, Japan, treasurer of the National Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association in Japan. Dr. Inouye has been Dr. Tome Inouye of Tokyo, Japan, a delegate to the six-week International Conference of Women Physicians called by the Y. W. C. A. particularly interested in the public health and recreational plans of her city for some time and is medical inspector for girls in the public schools of Tokyo, as also in several private schools in the city. There are approximately 500 women physicians in Japan now, she says, and 400 women medical students. Dr. Inouye was the only delegate from Japan to the Y. W. C. A. 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The groom wore the conventional black. Rev. W. C. Williams was the officiating minister, and the impressive ring ceremony was observed. The guests present were Mesdames S. Lewis, Mabry, Jenne Sellers and Al Banks; Mr. and Mrs. L. Artison, Messrs. Will Thomas, Wm. Banks, A. F. Banks, John Walls, James Banks and Theodore Stewart. After the ceremony a dainty lunch- leon was served by Mrs. Pemberton. Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton are at home to their many friends at 2124 North 27th avenue. Todd-Davis Wedding Mrs. E. D. Davis, one of the prominent members of the society of St. Benedict The Moor, and Mr. Ross Todd were united in bonds of matrimony last Tuesday evening at St. John's church, 25th and California streets. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Francis Cassilly, S. J. The bride was attired in a gray broadcloth traveling suit. Mrs. Lewis matron of honor was dressed in a princess white serge, trimmed in old rose. Mr. Jno. T. McDonald, Sr., prominent newspaper man and book-keeper, was best man for Mr. Todd. After the ceremony the party returned to the home of the bride, where dinner was served to eighteen. The bride wore yellow crepe de chine over white satin, trimmed with ermine and pearls. Mr. and Mrs. Eudell Brown gave the bride away and were witnesses to the ceremony. The couple will reside at 2927 North 27th street. Envy is blind and knows nothing except how to depreciate the excellencies of others—Livy. People of many races are live stock producers, located in territory served by the Omaha market. During the past few years the roll of live stock shippers has included full blood Indians, men of Japanese, Russian, Bohemian, Mexican, Spanish and Swedish descent. English lords have adjusted their monocles in the lobby of the Exchange and the blocky sons of Nippon have ordered boiled rice in the dining room. And in the old days when "Here's How" was a common expression, it might have been heard frequently with a strong Irish brogue. Lest one section of our population be overlooked in the racial delegates. Alexander Brown of Merriam arrived this morning with a load of mixed cattle and a broad African smile. Mr. Brown is an old gentleman of color whose activities tend to discredit the Osler theory. He is not only a successful farmer and stock raiser, but does not like to be bothered with hired help. Two years ago he raised about 3,000 bushels of potatoes on his farm in addition to more or less grain and live stock and chickens. Mr. Brown and his wife do all of the work, not having found it either necessary or convenient to pay out good money for farm labor of questionable quality. Daily Drovers Journal-Stockman South Omaha, January 13. 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We are that she be discharged from her trust as administratrix and that a hearing will be had on said petition before Court on the 31st day of January, 1920, and that if you fail to appear before said Court on the said 31st day of January, 1920, at 9 o'clock a. m., and contest said petition, the Court may grant the prayer of said petition, make a decree of heirship, and make such other and further orders, allowances and decrees, as to this Court may seem proper, to the end that all matters pertaining to said estate may be finally settled and determined. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 1-15-20-2t-1-22-20 County Judge. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB OF OMAHA The name of this Corporation is and shall be "Colored Commercial Club of Omaha." The principal place for the transaction of its business is and shall be in the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. The objects and purposes for which this corporation is organized and the business in which it shall be engaged shall be the promotion of the commercial, industrial and public interests and welfare of the City of Omaha, Nebraska. In talking about a better understanding with the business and commercial interests of Omaha, we have power through its president and secretary with the approval of its executive committee hereafter created to sign notes, bonds, evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the same upon any of its property, and said corporation shall have the power to own, lease, buy and sell real property, evidences and transact any business within the district object and purposes of its organization or incident thereto, and not for profit. The authorized capital stock of this corporation shall consist of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000' divided into Five Hundred (500' shares of the par value of Ten Dollars ($10) per share, with the power reserved to and lodged in the board of directors of said corporation to change the par value thereof by a majority vote at any regular meeting of the board of directors, which shares shall be non-disposable. Each member of said corporation shall be entitled to one (1) share of stock and no share of stock to be transferable on the books of this corporation at the option of the holder when properly assigned to one acceptable to the executive committee. Said corporation shall proceed to transact business when Fifty (50) shares of its capital stock shall have been issued. The charter of this corporation shall expire on the 28th day of November, 1944, and the term of this corporation shall end at thirty time. The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this corporation at any time subject itself shall not exceed two-thirds of its paid up capital stock. No officer or member of this corporation shall be authorized to incur or create any indebtedness for which this corporation or its members may be liable without the consent and authority of the executive committee. The annual meeting of this association shall be held on the fourth Friday in November of each year, and monthly and special meetings shall be held as provided for in the By-Laws. The government of this corporation shall be treated in a board of directors of not less than (20) members, who shall be selected from among its members, and shall be elected the members present at the annual meeting of the Association, at which thirty (30) members shall constitute a quorum. The Executive Committee of this corporation shall be empowered to fix dues or assessments, for which each member shall be liable and shall also have power to forfeit the stock of each member for non-payment of dues and assessments. The Board of Directors and officers and the committee who are to serve until the final meeting on the fourth Friday in November, 1929 shall be Elsworth W. Pryor, President; Jesse H. Hutten, Vice President; Daniel Desdunes, Treasurer; Amos P. S. Scruggs, Secretary; Thomas P. Mahammitt, William C. Williams, John Albert Williams, William F. Botts, Leonard E. Britt, Alfred Jones, Amos B. Madison, Sagnollus H. Dorsey, James A. Clark, Joseph Carr and Harrison J. Pinkett. The members are added to repealed or modified at any regular meeting of the Board of Directors, by a three-fifths affirmative vote of all those directors present at said meeting or at a called meeting for that purpose. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands as incorporators this 22d day of December, A. D. 1919. ELLSWORTH W. PRYOR JESSE H. HUTTEN. JESSE H. HUTTEN. AMOS P. SCRUGGS. ALFRED JONES.