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GIVES $2,000,000 FOR NEGRO EDUCATION LIFTING _____ _____ LIFT GIVES MILLIONS BEING SPENT BY CHURCH IN RACE EDUCATION Nineteen Schools Have Enrollment of Princely Sum for Important Educational Work, Chiefly in Southern Schools. INCREASE TEACHERS WAGES Nineteen School Have Enrollment of 6,383 Students and Corps of 406 Teachers—Salary Budget Is Raised to $200,000. Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 1—The great advance movement in the Methodist Episcopal Church, by which fifty million dollars have been expended in benevolent uplift of the races of the world, has reached the Negro in America and is greatly benefiting him-thru the Board of Education for Negroes of that church. The annual meeting of the board has just been held, and Dr. I. Garland Penn, Cincinnati, O., one of the corresponding secretaries of the board, has issued "Seventeen Points of Progress," showing what has been accomplished in the past three years, involving an expenditure of $2,000,000, as follows: 1. Additional teachers have been chosen, and salaries increased. The total annual salary budget amounts to 200,000. 2. Every building of the nineteen institutions has been repaired and improved. 3. Heating plants have been installed at all of the institutions. 4. Additions are being made to laboratories and libraries, and two to four teachers are being provided for science departments. 5. Property valued at $606,000 at Meridian, Miss., has been purchased for the Haven Institute and Conservatory of Music. 6. Property valued at $155,000 has been purchased at Nashville, Tenn., for Walden College. The buildings are being remodeled at a cost of $200,000. 7. There was transferred to Meharry Medical College all of the old Walden University property valued at $100,000. 8. The sum of $200,000 has been contributed to the endowment of Meharry Medical College. The General Education Board and the Carnegie Corporation have given an additional $300,000, a total of $500,000 for Meharry's endowment. 9. Administration and School building and a refectory have been erected at Wiley College, Marshall, Texas, the old buildings being renovated; cost $125,000. 10. An administration and school building erected at Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, with chapel and gymnasium, each equipped with modern furnishings, cost $230,000. 11. A girl's dormitory and a refectory erected at Bennet College, Greensboro, N. C., cost $100,000. 12. The sum of $150,000 has been expended upon the erection of the Carnegie Hall and other buildings at Morgan College, Baltimore, and in the purchasing of a tract of land covering 85 acres, for the new site. 13. At Rust College, Holly Springs, Miss., a model elementary school building has been erected costing $20,000. 14. Three new buildings, two dormitories and a refectory, are being erected at the Morristown Normal and Industrial College, Morristown, Tenn., costing $150,000. 15. A new site for Philander Smith College of 42 acres, within the city limits of Little Rock, Ark., has been purchased, costing $42,000. 16. At Claflin College, Orangeburg, S. C., the endowment has been advanced to $130,000, and invested. 17. A book, "Methodist Adventures in Negro Education," gives the entire history and progress of the fifty years of education of the Negro by the Methodist Episcopal Church. During the scholastic year 1921-22 there were 6283 students in the nineteen institutions, with 406 teachers, an increase of 49 teachers and 600 students over the previous year. The current expenditures of the nineteen institutions amounted to $1,041,000 for the year 1921-22. 75 K. K. K. IN CONGRESS Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.—(Preston News Service.)—According to information available it is estimated that seventy-five members of the new congress are also members of the Ku Klux Klan. THE MONITOR ANTI-LYNCHING CRUSADERS ORGANIZED IN 40 STATES Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 1.—A million women united to suppress lynching and a million dollars to spend in publicity, is the motto of the Anti-Lynching Crusaders, an organization of women only, which is organized in forty states of the union. Mary B. Talbert, of this city, is national director. The program of the organization includes placing pages of advertisement in the daily press, informing all sections of the country how persons are being lynched; pressure upon congress; pressure upon state legislatures investigation of each lynching and mob violence which occurs; legal steps to find out and punish members of mobs. FIRST JUSTICE OF THE PEACE IN STATE BEGINS HIS DUTIES Crittenden Clark, Recently Elected Takes His Seat Amid Flowers and Receives Congratulations of His Friends CONSTABLES ENTER OFFICE St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 1.—The fact that members of our group have only recently begun to run for office accounts for the interest here taken in the formal entry upon the duties of his office of Crittenden E. Clark, who has the proud distinction of being the first member of his race to be elected a justice of the peace in this state. He formally took office in the Pontiac building here last Friday, succeeding Harry McChesney. The Court was formally opened by Constable Chas. H. Turpin, who was the first Negro Constable to be elected in the State. Turpin succeeds himself in office. The new Judge was almost hidden behind many large bouquets of flowers. After Court was over, Mr. Fred Dabney of Kansas City, a life long friend of the Judge, made a few brief remarks congratulating the people of the district for their choice. Attorneys present made a few remarks, among them were: Wm. B. Flynn, firm of Lomen Field and Flynn; A. Lowell Morris, Harry R. Stocker and Joseph Lindsey. Other remarks were made by Robt. James, Rev. J. K. Parker, Theodore J. Wolfley, Thos. Wattse, Alderman from 17th Ward; Mrs. Carrie Tillman, Committeewoman from the 16th Ward, and J. E. Mitchell, Editor of the St. Louis Argus. Accompanied by a note a set of white diamond cuff links was presented from Mrs. Pearl Dabney of Kansas City, Grand Pearl of the Court of H. of J. and Deputy, Alma A. Clark. Langton Harrison, Chas. Turpin and Ira Dorsey, Constables, took their seats. Langton Harrison appointed Thos. Harris (white) 17th Ward, and Clarence Fleming, of the 6th Ward, as Deputies. Crittenden Clark appointed W. E. Van Camp, white, his Clerk. It is reported that Ira Dorsey appointed one white and one colored as deputies in his office. ASKS COHEN'S REMOVAL Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.—Governor John M. Parker asked members of the Louisiana delegation here to secure aid of the Ku Klux Klan and also asked President Harding to remove from office Walter L. Cohen, recently given a recess appointment as surveyor of customs at New Orleans. Cohen succeeded a white democrat. LEAVES $75,000 ESTATE Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.—The will of the late Dr. Phil Brooks disposes of an estate estimated at $75,000 including $18,000 in life insurance policies. The major portion goes to his five-year-old granddaughter, Grace Brooks, who is left $10,000 together with all diamonds and household furniture. BEVERIDGE TO WRITE A BOOK ON LINCOLN Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 1.—Former United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge, who was defeated in the recent election for United States Senator by Governor Samuel M. Ralston, announced Monday night that he would immediately start upon the preparation of the "Life of Abraham Lincoln." A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 1922. LIBERIAN LOAN IS DEFEATED IN UNITED STATES SENATE Thirteen Republicans, Including Norris of Nebraska, and Capper of Kansas, Vote With Democrats to recommit Resolution. CONSIDER VOTE DEATH KNELL An Appropriation for Reclamation Work in West Involving Outlay of $20,000,000 Rides in Same Machine. Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.—Administration forces in the senate lost the first major legislative contest of the extra session Monday when democrats and progressive republicans united to recommit the resolution authorizing a loan of $5,000,000 to Liberia. The motion to recommit the resolution to the finance committee without instructions, which was offered by Senator Simmons, democrat, North Carolina, was adopted 42 to 33. Republicans who voted with the democrats to send the measure back to committee were: Cameron, Arizona; Capper, Kansas; Gernald, Maine; Harceld, Oklahoma; Jones, Washington; Ladd, North Dakota; LaFollette, Wisconsin; McNary, Oregon; Nicholson, Colorado; Norris, Nebraska; Poindexter, Washington; Sutherland, Wes Virginia; and Watson, Indiana. The vote was generally interpreted as killing the resolution, which was advocated by the state department and was passed by the house last May. Attached to the resolution as an amendment was a provision authorizing an appropriation of $20,000,000 for reclamation work in the west and another for employment by the interstate commerce commission of thirty-five additional locomotive boiler inspectors. Prior to the vote on the motion to recommit the senate rejected, 38 to 34, an amendment offered by Senator McNary to send the resolution back to committee with instructions to eliminate the Liberian loan feature and report back the reclamation and locomotive boiler inspector provisions. The recommitment vote brought to an end debate on the resolution which had been intermittent since the beginning of the extra session. Administration leaders urged adoption of the resolution on the ground that the United States was morally obliged to extend a credit of $5,000,000 to Liberia as a result of Liberia's participation on the side of the allies in the world war. Opponents contended no moral obligation existed. HEAD OF TUSKEGEE RETURNS FROM HIS EUROPEAN TRIP Doctor Moton Is Welcome Home After Successful Pilgrimage to Old World Where He Speaks for Darker Races. GIVEN WARM HOME COMING New York, N. Y., Dec. 1.—(Associated Negro Press.)—Dr. Robert R. Moton and his party arrived Tuesday, November 14, on the steamer Majestic, returning from his tour of England, Scotland and France, where he went to deliver addresses before Scottish Churches Missionary Congress which met in Glasgow. Dr. Moton was met at the pier by a large group of friends who welcomed him home after his successful pilgrimage to Europe to present the cause of the darker races. Wednesday night, the citizens of New York tendered him a welcome home reception at the Y. M. C. A., where the large auditorium was taxed to capacity by the throngs eager to hear his message. Among the speakers at the reception were Bishop W. T. Vernon who has just returned from South Africa; Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, who likewise has recently completed a trip through Africa on which he made a survey on the educational needs there, a report of which has just been published; Dr. Will W. Alexander of the Inter-racial movement; Miss Eva Bowles of the Y. W. C. A., and Mrs. Moton who with Major Allen A. Washington and Nathan Hunt accompanied Doctor Moton on his trip. The occasion was a noble and brilliant one and New Yorkers in the light of the important messages brought first hand are thinking in new terms of the racial problems of the world. UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT TO SPEAK HERE SUNDAY The Rev. Jesse Peck, D. D., Head of Western University, Will Presach at St. John's A. M. E. Church. The Rev. Jesse Peck, D. D., founder and president of Western University, Kansas City, Kansas, will preach at St. John's A. M. E. church, the Rev. W. C. Williams, pastor, Sunday morning and evening. Dr. Peck is one of the ablest and best known ministers in the African Methodist connection and ranks high in the denomination as an educator. A large number of Western alumni reside in this city. They will tender Dr. Peck a reception on Saturday night. The corner stone of the new St. John's Church, now in course of erection at Twenty-second and Willis Avenue, will be laid Sunday afternoon at 3:30, with appropriate exercises. WM. PICKENS PLEASES LARGE A AUDIENCE Field Secretary N. A. A. C. P. Delivers Thoughtful Address Last Sunday Afternoon in Council Chamber. MAYOR INTRODUCES SPEAKER An audience numbering about 500 men. William Pickens of New York, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, deliver a scholarly and thoughtful address in the Council Chamber, Sunday afternoon. The Penalty of ignorance was his subject. With irresistible logic, clothed in elegant diction of which the speaker is a master, emphasized with an array of stubborn facts and illuminated with apt illustrations, the speaker showed how that ignorance is the basis of all class, racial, national and international prejudices and misunderstandings. Ignorance is the root of racial prejudice which looms so large in American life. The white American is prejudiced against the black American because he does not know him. Newspapers, unfortunately, foster this ignorance and prejudice by over-emphasizing and playing up alleged crimes of Negroes. Reports of crime are given front page prominence, while honorable and worth-while achievements are minimized or ignored. It's easier for a Negro criminal to get space in the average American newspaper, than for a Negro banker, inventor, artist or professor. And yet court records show that if prizes were given for crime, the colored man would not even get an authorization. The colored American knows the white American better than the white American does the colored, for the reason that as servants they enter their homes, they read their newspapers and magazines, they hear their speakers, whereas few white Americans ever enter a colored home, nor do they read our literature, nor hear our speakers or artists in other lines. He plead for the widest education for all races; a fuller knowledge and better understanding between all people. He maintained that as a rule men's hearts are right and they believe in a square deal and fair treatment, but judgment is warped and justice and fair-dealing between man and man is thwarted by ignorance and lack of mutual acquaintance. He urged colored Americans to stand for the highest ideals of character and to eschew any tendency towards bitterness. Mayor Dahlman introduced the speaker. Henry W. Black, president of the local branch, presided. Musical numbers were furnished by Miss Darlene Duval, Otis Watson and the Taylor quartet. Rev. W. F. Botts gave the invocation and the Rev. J. A. Harris made an appeal for members. OVER 800 MOB VICTIMS IN U. S. IN THE LAST 22 MONTHS New York, Dec. 1.—More than 800 persons were victims of mob violence in this country in the period from September 1, 1910, to June 1, 1922, the American Civil Liberties Union reported last week. The union's figures included eighty-five lynchings, fifty-one tar and feather cases, 122 floggings and the remainder forcible mob deportations. Five of the victims were women and less than a third of the whole were Negroes. The report explaining that the figures were incomplete, said that most of the cases occurred in the south and southwest. SUPREME COURT BARS JAPENESE FROM CITIZENSHIP Highest United States Tribunal Rules That Appellents Are Not of the Caucasian Race and Hence Are Ineligible. OZAWA OF WHITE DESCENT Associate Justice Sutherland Gives Decision Which Eliminates Yellow Islander from Ranks of White. Washington, Dec. 1.—Japanese are not eligible for American citizenship because they are not of the "white" race, according to a decision announced recently by the United States Supreme Court in two test cases. Section 2169 of the revised statutes restricts naturalization to "free white persons" and those of African descent. The Supreme Court held that these restrictions still apply. The subject has been in controversy for several years on the Pacific coast. Associate Justice Sutherland, who delivered the decision, ruled that as the Japanese are not of the Caucasian race they are specifically barred by the statute, which has never been repealed or modified. His Children Are Citizens. His Children Are Citizens. The court's verdict on the "color" of the Japanese was sought on appeal of both cases from lower courts. In one, Takao Ozawa of Honolulu based his claim for citizenship on the ground that he belonged to the white race, had lived according to American ideals and customs, and received his education in American schools. His children attend American schools and are citizens. His case first came to the Federal Courts in Hawaii several years ago. His plea was denied, and he appealed to the Federal Court of Appeals in California, which sent the case up to the Supreme Court. The other case was that of Takuji Yamaschita and Chares Hio Koko, both of the state of Washington, who appealed from a ruling of the secretary of state there, denying them the right to incorporate as a real estate firm. Called Citizenship Illegal. The refusal was based on the state of Washington's position that although both Japanese had received naturalization papers they were illegal in made citizens. On appeal to the lower federal courts that position was sustained and the case was appealed. The Federal Circuit Court applied to the Supreme Court for instructions on the eligibility of the Japanese. The Supreme Court's decision settled the controversy, which is understood to involve several similar cases. EK-CONGRESSMAN JOHN R. LYNCH CELEBRATES 75th BIRTHDAY Chicago, Ill., Dec. 1. (Associated Negro Press)—Ex-Congressman John R. Lynch celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday by being the guest of honor at a banquet held in his honor by the Men's Club of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church on the night of Thursday, November 9th. About 100 members of the club and about 50 guests were in attendance. President Tidrington presided and the principal addresses were delivered by Eugene H. Marshall and W. H. A. Moore, and Father Simon, the rector of St. Thomas church. In Major Lynch's response to the addresses he made a touching appeal to the young men of the race to keep close to high ideals and laid strong emphasis on the part they would be called upon to play in the making of a place in the future for the race throughout the world. The veteran statesman's new book will be off the press in time for the holiday trade, it was announced at the banquet. ITALY BARS SIKI Rome, Dec. 1. -Tentative efforts to arrange a match between the new European light heavyweight champion, Battling Ski, and Gulseuse Spalla of Milan, have resulted in the closing of the doors of every boxing club in Italy against the Senegalese from Paris. GIVEN SENTENCE OF 111 YEARS FOR THEFT Houston, Tex., Dec. 1—James Davis, 21-year-old youth, was given a sentence of 111 years in the penitentiary on thirty-five charges of burglary and felony theft, when tried here in criminal court. EDUCA DEAN McGINLEY TO SPEAK AT ST. PHILIP'S Special Services During Advent Will Be Held at the Church of St. Philip the Deacon Every Sunday Afternoon. Beginning next Sunday, December 3, which is the first Sunday in Advent, special services will be held at the Church of St. Philip the Deacon at five o'clock in the afternoon with sermon by a visiting clergyman. The speaker Sunday will be the Very Rev. Stephen T. McGinley, dean of Trinity Cathedral. There will also be special music. At the close of these services a social hour and get-together meeting will be held in the Guild Rooms. At the 11 o'clock Eucharist Father Williams is preaching a series of Advent sermons under the genera ititle, "The King Comes." The services on Sunday will be as follows: Holy Communion, 7:30 a.m.; matins, 8:30; Church school, 10; Sung Eucharist with sermon at 11; shortened evensong with sermon by Dean McGinley at 5 p. m. REPUBLICANS ABLE AND INFLUENIAL CAUSE PERPLEXITY The Impotency of Powerful Political Leaders in Senate to Pass the Dyer Bill Arouses Some Scepticism. POLITICAL TRICKERY HINTED Yet, with all this powerful political array of influence, the Dyer Bill failed to pass in the senate. It was simply favored to death. It was as unanimously favored as it was unanimously shelved. Multi-millionare Senator T. Coleman du Pont said he favored it too. These big and these powerful republicans perform in those things that they want done. They did not perform with reference to the Dyer Bill. It slept in senate committee until it was dug up and dug out to make votes. It did not even get a serious discussion in the senate, and politics was played with it only on the day before adjournment. EXPECT ANSORGE TO WIN OFFICIAL COUNT New York, N. Y., Dec. 1.—Congressman Martin C. Ansorge, who, by the unofficial returns was defeated by his democratic rival in the twenty-first congressional district, is expected to win in the official count. All colored Harlem is interested, and a major portion of its inhabitants are praying for his return to congress, because of his magnificent and courageous record in the Holley and manifold other instances. MONITOR Ads bring RES awake merchants who use our carry more advertisements than class published in Nebraska. T comparison. MONITOR BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM MONITOR Ads bring RESULTS. That's what wideawake merchants who use our columns soon learn. We carry more advertisements than any weekly of any kind or class published in Nebraska. There is a reason. We invite comparison. OUR PHONE—ATLANTIC 1322 GROWING THANK YOU 86 Vol. VIII—No. 22 ATION COLORED VETERAN WOULD QUESTION SEN. HITCHCOCK Impassioned Reply of Nebraska Solon to Clemenceau's Charge of Falsification Is Interrupted by Spectator. HOT HEADED HEFLIN RILED Alabama Senator Demands Removal of Impudent Spectator From Senate Gallery—Jones Ejected, but Returns. Washington, D. C., Dec. 1—A senate debate Monday on the recent utterances of former Premier Clemenceau of France, took a sensational turn when a Negro wearing the uniform of the United States Army interrupted from the gallery a speech by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking democrat of the foreign relations committee, regarding alleged atrocities by black French troops in Germany. The soldier, who said he was Lucius Jones, a patient at the Mount Alto, Maryland, government hospital, finally was removed from the gallery by the police after his attempt to join in the debate had resulted in a sharp passage of words on the senate floor. Senator Heflin, democrat, Alabama, led in demanding the soldier's removal, but Senator Hitchcock said he hoped the police would not interfere. Previously Senator Hitchcock had renewed his challenge to M. Clemenceau to disclose the real facts about the use of black French colonials in the occupied area, and had read a letter in which the writer had declared the former premier had "deliberately lied" in saying that no black troops were being maintained in Germany. "I don't believe that Clemenceau deliberately lied," continued Mr. Hitchcock, "I believe in his public life he has made reckless statements as in this case, when he says that black troops were not there and when he said Germany was making hundreds of cannon to prepare for war. "These black troops are brutes and are stationed among white people, and that's all there is to it. The evidence shows it beyond contradiction. There is not any use to quibble as M. Clemenceau does." It was soon after the senator had made this statement that Jones shouted a question from the gallery. "Mr. President," he said, "may I ask the senator a question right there?" Vice President Coolidge banged his gavel and the Jones sat down, white gallery attendants rushed to his side and ordered him to be silent. When Senator Hitchcock concluded, Senator Heflin arose, and his face aflame, demanded that the man be removed. Senator Hitchcock interrupted to say he thought the matter should be dropped, but Senator Heflin retorted: "It wasn't ignorance. It was impudence." While both Senators Hitchcock and Heflin were on their feet and the chamber was in an uproar, with both endeavoring to make themselves heard, a capitol policeman wormed his way through the crowded men's gallery and led the offender away. No charge was lodged against the man, and some time after being taken from the gallery he returned and taking a seat on an aisle row, in view from Senator Heflin's place, remained through the senate proceedings on the Liberian loan bill. NAMED ON SCHOOL BOARD Providence, R. I., Dec. 1—Dr. W. H. Higgins was recently appointed a member of the city school board. He is the first colored man to hold such position. St. Mark, Haiti, Dec. 1.—The coffee crop now being picked and shipped will be the largest exported in the history of the island. ITOR RISING MEDIUM RESULTS. That's what wide- our columns soon learn. We man any weekly of any kind or There is a reason. We invite —ATLANTIC 1322 THE M A N A N I O L WEEKLY NEWSPAPER I N O F COLORED THE MONITOR A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted Primarily to the Interests of Colored Americans. Published Every Friday at Omaha, Nebraska, by the Monitor Publishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor. W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS. Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, N. Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor, W. W. MOSELY, Associate Editor, Lincoln, Neb. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. Address The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone Atlantic 1322, Webster 4243 ARTICLE XIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens United States and of the State wherein they resid state shall make or enforce any law which shall abri privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, orerty without due process of law, nor deny to any within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law 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. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED MICRO PRESS FIRST IN SERVICE CLEAR YOURSELVES, GENTLEMEN THE political campaign is now over. Charles Ennis. W star quarter bae The political campaign is now over. No one, therefore, can charge us with making our present demand upon certain well-known gentlemen of this vicinity for purely political reasons. We refrained from making this demand during the recent political campaign because we did not want to do anyone an injustice when people are quick to take a political advantage. We were strongly inclined to call upon certain political candidates to free themselves from suspicion of membership in an anti-American society with which they were supposed to be identified. One candidate for state senator gave us his word of honor that he was not now and never had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Two of his friends vouched for the accuracy of his statement. We told him and his friends whom we know and esteem that we would give him the benefit of the doubt and not oppose him. We told him that we saw his name on a list, bearing apparently some marks of authenticity, purporting to be a roster of the membership of the Omaha klavavern, and that he owed it to himself to prove its falsity. These gentlemen admitted that there was such a list, but that it was spurious. If this be so, the gentlemen on that list owe it to themselves and to this community to clear themselves. They know, and we know, who furnished that list. It is alleged that he was one of the official organizers of the Klan in Nebraska. If the list is spurious then the man who sold it and by selling it as genuine libelled these men, it seems to us that there is some statute under which he should be prosecuted. Now is the time, gentlemen, to clear yourselves. You have told us that the list is spurious. It's up to you to prove it and to prosecute for libel the man who furnished it. If he stole a list of some organization with which he had no business, and represented it as being what it was not and was paid for it, then he is a thief, a liar and a grafter, he has received money under false pretenses, and three of these at least are inditable offenses. This matter should be cleared up now and The Monitor respectfully requests these gentlemen to clear themselves of suspicion. ATHLETES THIS year, as in former years, in collegiate and scholastic sports, colored students have won distinction as athletes. In all schools and colleges where students of our group have placed, they have made good and been outstanding figures on the athletic field. Sentiment in America being what it is along racial lines, a colored student to win a place on any mixed team must, beyond all reasonable doubt, measure up to the standard. He must be exceptionally good. This being the fact accounts for the high record made by our youth and because they realize this they are ambitious to excel. Every colored student who plays on a mixed football squad, base ball team, basket ball team or track team, is not only anxious to make good for his school, but is also inspired with the laudable ambition to make a record for his race, which he realizes is, in a very real sense, on trial in him. Thus our athletes are under the spur of a dual or two-fold incentive. It is good that this should be so. It places them on their mettle and fills them with determination to measure up to any standard set. This is one reason why there is a great advantage in attending schools where competition in class room and in other activities are open to all classes of students irrespective of creed, color or nationality. Such association and competition contributes most advantageously to mutual respect, sympathy and understanding between the various elements which enter into American citizenship. Confining ourselves to the high schools of Nebraska, five teams have counted of their best players colored students. Central High, Omaha, is proud of its outstanding star, Ledrue Galloway, and also of Martin Thomas and Page Two Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at March 3, 1879. HERT WILLIAMS, Editor. President Editor, Lincoln, Neb. EAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS finished Upon Applicaton. Office Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. 1322, Webster 4243 CONSTITUTION OF THE 9 STATES. naturalized in the United States, on thereof, are citizens of the state wherein they reside. No any law which shall abridge the citizens of the United States; nor person of life, liberty, or prop- law, nor deny to any person final protection of the laws. Charles Ennis, Worthington Williams, star quarter back on Central's Reserves, and recently promoted to substitute quarter on the first, and George McKee, speedy half on Central's Reserves, have made outstanding records. Central makes an unusual showing. Players on Lincoln, Beatrice and Kearney have made good. This speaks well for Central's willingness to recognize ability and also for these students. Success on the football team calls not only for physical fitness, but also for mental alertness. Mere "beef" without brains never yet won a football game. On the gridiron, success depends less upon physical strength, than ability to think and act quickly. The athletic field trains for the serious work of life. It takes endurance, phleac and brains to make a successful athlete. These are the factors, too, which count for success on life's gridiron. That so many of our youth all over this country are demonstrating their prowess as athletes augurs well for the future of our race. Strong bodies, clear brains and clean living count. Athletes must fulfill these conditions. FRIENDSHIP ONE of the most helpful things in the world is genuine friendship. We like the little boy's definition of a friend. It is this, "My friend is one who knows all my faults and yet loves me." A pretty good definition of friendship, isn't it? How many of us can measure up to this standard? WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY WORDS VERSUS ACTION President. Lowell of Harvard, grandson of James Russell Lowell, now says that he believes that the black man in this country should have a square deal. We do not doubt that Mr. Lowell feels that way; many intelligent white men in their sane and sober moments are given to the same way of thinking. Mr. Lowell's family tradition should compel him to feel that way. His people were abolitionists. Yet we are afraid that Mr. Lowell is not going out of his way to give the black man a square deal. He uttered a statement a few years ago that was convincing on that point. Mr. Lowell said that Harvard could no longer stretch a point in giving the black students access to Memorial Hall, which is the University Dining Hall. Black men at Harvard don't have such easy sailing as we would like to believe from the president's recent utterances—The Chicago Whip. GIVE THEM NO HEED There are two sets of talkers to whom the young person ought resolutely turn his deaf ear. One is the man who loudly insists that this is a day of opportunity and never grasps one for himself; the other is the cynic, who though enjoying an opportunity up to his capacity to handle, points to one or two millionaires and sourly insists that they have gobbled up all the chances. These two classes have always existed. We find them even in the days when a million in dollars was inconceivable outside the government finances. They had neither of them done anything to increase or diminish opportunity, which is as ample and various today as ever it was—and more so. Their principal service in life is to discourage the young person who is looking at life with new and inquiring eyes, and who naturally takes any such expression as that of experience and therefore approximating truth. Opportunity exists amply everywhere. Not opportunity to become president, or head of the oil supply of the world, but opportunity equal to the seeker's capacity. There is in the world an opportunity for each man and woman who observes the laws of right to come to the height of his Main Entrance to Christophe's Citadel (Prepared by the National Geographic Society. Twenty miles to the southwest of the town of Cape Haitien, in the north of the island of Haiti, there stands, on the top of a precipitous mountain—Bonnet a l'Eveque—one of the wonders of the western hemisphere, yet one whose existence is as present scarcely known and one whose full history will never be written. A personal visit to Christophe's citadel is necessary in order fully to appreciate its massiveness, its intricate and elaborate construction, and its remote situation. Few are so fortunate as to be able to visit this spot, or, even when given the opportunity, possess the physique necessary to make the arduous trip. Prior to the first general uprising of the slaves against their French masters, Christophe worked as a waiter in Cap Francaise (now Cape Haitien), and it was in this humble capacity that he is supposed to have picked up his smattering of English and formed the acquaintance of English naval officers. Tull and of a splendid physique, with exceptionally bright and piercing eyes, and with a reckless bravery and a terrible ferocity, combined with no little duplicity and cunning, he speedily achieved a conspicuous place as one of the trusted lieutenants of Toussaint L'Ouverture, that remarkable negro strategist who rose from slavery to a position of commanding importance in Haiti and who successfully led the slaves in their revolt against the French prior to the independence of the island republic. Through treeschery L'Ouverture was captured and carried away to Fort de Joux, in France, where he died in prison in 1803. His immediate successor was the both famous and notorious Dessalines who created himself emperor. When Dessalines was assassinated, in 1805, Christophe was elected president and soon proclaimed himself king. When he was only a general under Dessalines, Christophe had begun work on his marvelous mountain-top citadel. It is not known just what length of time was required to build the citadel, but it is evident it was finished some little time prior to Christophe's death, in 1820. Its construction is variously estimated to have taken a toll ranging from ten to twenty thousand human lives. Murdered Its French Designers. It is believed that the plan for the structure were drawn and the work of construction supervised by two captive French officers, who possessed the highest order of technical training. When their work was completed, Christophe, in company with these officers, is said to have made a thorough inspection of all parts of the structure, and then, upon arriving at one of the highest points of the edifice, ordered both men seized and hurried to their death on the rocks-below, thus forever safeguarding the secrets of the place. There is a legend that the tyrant once had an entire company of mutinous soldiers driven off this same spot; it was his favorite method of dispatching those who incurred the royal ill will. The mere location of this citadel is such that one wonders how nature provided such a site, and a thorough inspection causes unbounded admiration for the master mind that recognized the possibilities, aside from conceived and constructing the edifice now standing there; for Bonnet a L'Eveque could not have been more ideally located for its purpose if it had been made to order. Occupying the entire top of the mountain, the citadel commands every neighboring peak and approach, while a spring beneath and inside of the building furnishes an abundant supply of water, that prime necessity in withstanding a long siege. The building has the prow formation pointing toward the magnetic north, the entire eastern face being in this line. On the eastward side, which is the longest, is located the main battery of heavy guns; and strategically this should be so, for this gives absolute command of the most dangerous approach, that from the service and growth. The most of us being common men, our opportunities are at our level, but they are as elastic as our growth demands. The world is a great machine in which no human working part is cast away, except willfully, and such self-incapacitation in no way affects the easy running of the machine. This is only saying, in another way, that it is "up to" the person concerned. Opportunities are everywhere—which one are you competent to swing?—The New American, Denver, Colo. THE MONITOR phe's 1, Haiti rection of Grande Rivière. An army with the necessary guns and equipage successfully to attack this stronghold, would have to come from that direction. Guns in the prow commanded the nearer and steeper approaches, both from the direction of Grande Rivière and of Milot. Other guns along the southern and western sides commanded adequately all other points of approach. Numerous loopholes were especially prepared for the use of sharpshooters. The elevation at the base of the clatelau has been variously given as from 3,000 to 5,000 feet, but a careful reading of a compensated aneroid barometer records 2,600 feet. To this must be added the height of the different walls, in order to ascertain the correct elevation to the top of the building. Approach Is Difficult. The difficulty in reaching the citadel is due not so much to its elevation as to the fact that to reach it one is compelled to cross at least eight miles of mountainous country, and the approaches are all very steep. The highest place on the walls (measured to the ground) is 140 feet. The highest wall, measured perpendicularly, is the prow, which has a drop of 130 feet. Other walls range from 80 to 110 feet. Although large granite blocks are to be found in many places throughout the building, most of it is built of red fire bricks of different sizes, the average brick being 15 inches long, 6 inches wide, and 2 inches thick. These bricks apparently were manufactured on the site of the building. The mountains for long distances in all directions from the citadel show traces of Titanic labor in getting out building material. The average number of floors is four, the longest being on the east face, where the main battery is located. It has a length of 270 feet in one stretch. The main battery gallery has an inside width of 30 feet. Each gun compartment has wonderful vaulted cellings 20 feet high, each compartment being separated from those adjoining by thick masonry walls, connected by a low passageway. This is to minimize the effect of local explosions and possible hits. Behind each gun there are still to be found neat piles of cannon balls ready for use, while in convenient chambers just to the rear of some of the guns are heaps of decomposed black powder mingled with the remains of the original wooden powder cases. A vast pile of similar debris is also to be found in the large powder magazine. The largest guns are 11 feet 6 inches long, caliber 6 inches (firing a 6-inch cannon ball), 1 foot 10 inches thick at the breech and 1 foot 3½ inches at the muzzle, dated 1786. They are made of bronze and have enormous hardwood mounts of the primitive gravity return type, moving in train over a large metal arc set in the floor, and on small wheels of a strong make. These guns came mostly from the English, some from the captured French forts, and others, judging from the very apparent results of the corrosive action of salt water on them, from war vessels wrecked along the treacherous coast. There are only two entrances to the citadel. One was used to bring in the reserve cannon balls from the long piles stored by sizes on the sloping terrace to the south; the other admits to the prow. Both entrances were closed by massive, bolted and looped wooden doors. The entire structure is in an excellent state of preservation, except that the floors in the prow were all shaken down in the earthquake of 1842, which laid the town of Cape Haitien in ruins. Christophe's downfall and death were as sudden and melodramatic as the rest of his career. While attending mass on April 15, 1820, he suffered a stroke of apoplexy and fell heavily to the floor alongside the altar in the chapel, paralyzed below the waist. Rebellion soon broke out, and the king, deserted by his army, committed suicide. LAWYER ELECTED TO CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT BENCH San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 1.—Colorado voters of California are hailing Edward Matson, attorney, as the Colored Moses following his election to the California Supreme Court, the highest court in the state, to fill the short term expiring January 2, 1923. No official election was held, but a "write in" campaign gave Matson enough to be-elected. N. W. WARE Attorney at Law 111 South 14th Street Omaha, Neb NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT PROBATE NOTICE In the matter of the estate of Silas Johnson, deceased. Notice is hereby given: That the creditors of said deceased will meet the executor of said estate, before me, County Judge, for the purposes of presenting the County Court Room, in said County on the 26th day of January, 1923, and on the 26th day of March, 1924, to check A. Mo., each day, for the purpose of presenting their claims for examination, adjustment and allowance. 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Corner 15th and Harney Streets ROOMING HOUSE FOR SALE— 2417 Caldwell street. A. Holmes. C. H. Spriggs who is solicitor for the Nebraska Clothing company, re- ports excellent success. / USE DENTLO—The premier pyor- thea preventive tooth paste. . 25 cents for two ounce tube. Joseph Carr who has been ill for several weeks is able to be out again and is gradually regaining his strength. FOR RENT Three rooms, furnished or unfurnished, 2610 Franklin street. Webster 3952. W. H. Britton who recently under- ‘went an operation for appendicitis at St. Joseph’s hospital is much im- proved. Patronize Monitor advertisers and be sure to tell them that you saw their ad in the Monitor. ‘The report that the flapper type Is no longer popular ignores how im- mensely popular the flapper is with herself. FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms for man and wife or two gentlemen. 2622 Corby street, Webster 5488. Mrs. J. M. Goff.who has been ill for several days at her home, 911 Forest avenue, is reported much bet- ter. Wanted—Wide awake boys to sell The Monitor every Saturday. Live boys can make money by selling Monitors. Phone Webster 4243. Mrs. J. F. Smith of $027 Manaer- son street, who has been ill for the past fortnight, has been removed to the University hospital. Will take care of children at my home, 1823 North Twenty-third St., by day or week, Webster 5560. William Murphy, who enjoys an en- viable reputation as a chef, has gone into business for himself, having open- ed Murphy's Chicken Hut at 518 South Eighteenth street. FURNISHED or unfurnished room to rent in private family. 2811 North 28th street. Webster 5880. Elmer Derrick of Portland, Oregon, a nephew of C. H. Spriggs, spent the week end as the guest of his uncle. First-Class Modern Furnished Rooms —1702 No. 26th St. Web. 4769. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Erwin. The Rey. M. H. Wilkinson, Baptist state missionary, has just returned from Norfolk, Neb., where he had fine services Sunday and a funeral Sat- urday, burying the daughter of one of the local members. He left Wed- nesday for Fairbury, Beatrice and Nebraska City. FOR RENT—Iwo well furnished rooms with use of kitchen. One room for gentlemen preferred.—Web. 5372. 1823 North 28rd Street—Mrs. Drake. Mrs, Emma Britton is able to be out again after a two weeks’ illness. Mrs. Samantha J. Dodson of 2705 Corby street is spending the week at ‘Thurman, Nebr. , B, F, Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Peters ‘Trast Bldg, Jackson 8641 or Harney 2156. Dave Russ who has been confined to his home by a fortnight’s illness is able to be out again much to the delight of his many friends, FOR SALE at Massey & Coopers— All the leading colored artists’ records at fifty-five cents each. Webster 6668, —Adv. Mrs, Christine Martin of Ganz, Okia., has been called to the city by the iHness of her daughter, Miss Bryant, head nurse of Mery hospi- tal, who is improving at the residence of Mrs, Anna Banks where she makes her home, under the care of Dr. R. C. Riddle. : FOR RENT—Furnished rooms; also furnished rooms for light housekeep- ing. Call Web. 3222. Mrs, Wade, 2634 Hamilton Street. Mrs, C. C. Trent entertained at a four-course luncheon Monday at her beautiful home, 2928 Erskine street, complimentary to Mrs. C. F. Jones of Cincinnati, 0. After luncheon music and games were the diversion. Twen- ty-five guests were present and a delightful time was spent. eee ah a lees ee ir... dD. | Mrs. Curtis Kirtley entertained with a Kensington Thursday after- | noon in honor of her grandmother, Mrs. C. F. Jones. Thirty-five guests | were present. AJl expressed them- selves as having an ejoyable time. Neatly Furnished Rooms for light housekeeping. Call Webster 4432 af- ter 5:30 P. M. ‘The Elite Whist Club met Monday afternoon with Mrs. Augustus Hicks, 2716 Miami street. Mrs. T. P, Ma- hammitt was elected president for the ensuing year, The next meeting will be with Mrs. Nate Hunter. FOR RENT—Furnished room for ‘gentleman in strictly modern home. 2310 North 22nd street. Webster 1105. Mrs. William H. Mortimer, presi- dent of the N. W. C. A., who has been ill at her residence, 2716 Ohio street, is reported to be much better. A. P. Scruggs, Lawyer, 220 So. 13th St. “Office At. 7812; Res. Web, 1105. Mrs. Sarah E, Vinegar, the aged mother of Thomas Vinegar, continues to be quite ill at the Swedish Mission hospital. Mrs. Vinegar is ninety- seven years old. FOR RENT — Neatly furnished rooms. Strictly modern. One block from Twenty-fourth and Dodge street car lines. Webster 5652. A delightful girls’ party was given at the “Y" Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. Fred Divers, acting secretary. FURNISHED or unfurnished room to rent in private family. 2811 North 28th Street. Webster 5880. MODERN HOME—Close to two ear lines, Partly furnished. New fur- nace. Rent cheap. Webster 7004. The Misses Thelma and Madeline Shipman left Wednesday for Pilger, Nebr., to spend Thanksgiving with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ship- ‘man. THE MONITOR continues to hold its rank as one pf the leading race newspapers of the country, It has helped put Omaha on the map amont our group. For reliable local and general news we invite coinpartson. WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY GOVERNOR, PARKER AND THE KU KLUX KLAN We have a very little faith, in so far as results for good are concernea, in the recent visit of Governor Joha M. Parker of Louisiana to President Harding, ostensibly to seek advice and aid from the national government in his fight against the Ku Klu Klan, In the first place we have not heard of any sincere effort on the part ot the governor of Louisiana to put a check to the activities of the Klux- ters in that state, until now, and such a move on the part of the governor after these many years of operations ef the Klan in the state, we must con- fess that is looks suspicious to us. Upon hearing of the “holy” mission to the Whi'> Houe by the Louisiana governor the public will naturally want to know what has he done at home to ckeck mob violence and to stamp out Ku Kluxism? Has he had the courage to use the power of his office or raised his voice or little fin- ger against mob violence or lynch- ings? If he has not done these things, we repeat that his deciara- tions against the Ku Klux Klan is not to be taken seriously” In fact, it looks like a game of cheap polities seeking national notoriety? Our opinion of Governor Parker is that he is of the Ku Klux stripe, dif- fering only in noise and methods. This opinion is strengthened by the fact that while he was presenting with one hand a petition asking aid of Presi- dent Harding and Attorney General Daugherty, he carried in’ his other hand a petition condemning the pres- ident and Mr. Daughterty for the ap- pointment of Walter L. Cohen, a Ne- gro as Surveyor of Customs at New Orleuns. This is the typical spirit of Ku Klux. The petition against Cohen is nothing less than a rebellion ‘against the government or the reg {ular constituted authority who mad the appojntment. ‘The charges against Cohen, as w understand them, are: That first, h is m Negro; secbnd, he lives in’ th south; third, because he is a Negfo he has no right to be appointed to é government position by the presiden ‘of the United States. These are al the charges we find agaipst Cohen Ws do root chen aux, diese Fa ee what Governor Parker and his cohorts are trying to do to Cohen, and_ what the Ku Klux Klan is trying to do for the state of Louisiana—The Argus, St. Louis, Mo. | VALIENT BUSINESS | The overcoming of hostile circum- stahces is valiant business, but it is musele, and mind, and soul develop- ing work. It is always weak to yield to circumstances which need to be anet with a challenge. It is foolish to stand with woebegone countenance and complain of circumstances like a dog baying at the moon sailing majes- tically so far above his head. Cireum- | ‘stances have a god deal of momen- | tum, but when a man of might clashes | with them he is not the only one to| feel the jar of the | change. THE DECAY OF CIVILIZATION | “The outstanding feature of social life in Central Europe since the war is almost utter submergence of the cultured and professional class. As this class in any country is ‘almost the sole repository of the higher civilization of literature, the arts, the pure sciences, education and even the instinct for disinterested public serv- ice, the danger of a decay of civiliza- tion itself—a turning back of the clock to an earlier, more uncoutlt age —is very real among this enormous and important section of the white raen!=Landdn Daily ‘Chronicle | Letters From Our Readers Sort timely kor rw feted We Seva ores ee Byte name and urddress ot the author | NO ROOM FOR KNOCKERS: Editor Monitor:—Kindly publish the following notice to Mosiae ‘Tem- plars of America and to the public at large. While reading the Monitor I have seen that some one has said some- thing concerning the Royal Circle. Ac- cording to that statement in the paper some of the fraternity leaders of members of some Negro organization is trying to sow seeds of discord, 1 want to serve notice on every member who is a true Mpsiae Templar, if it’s proven that they have said anything disrespectful or untrue about the order I will not recognize them as true Mosiac Templars. I stand for every Negro organization and will not tolerate any fight between the Royal Cirele and the Mosiac Templars of America, for fifty per cent of the Mosiac Templars belong to the Royal Circle. I am making this statement ‘as I have always said never to fight any organization that stands for the benefit and uplift of the race. We fare here together in peace and in anion and as long as I am leader of the Mosiac Templars of America we will stay in union. I want the public to know that I do not uphold any rember who is a Mosiac Templar to knock and say things that do not concern them and if it can be proven that any member of the Mosiac Tem- plars has spread propaganda against ‘any organization I, D. McQueen, state grand master, am willing and will suspend any such member. We have no need for kickers and knockers. ‘That is not the aim gf the Mosine ‘Templars of America and I will in- dulge no man or woman to spread propaganda against any organization. ‘The Mosiacs stand for the principle of unity and unity we must have. We are on our membership drive, but that does not mean to fight any or ganization—but unity, unity. D. McQUEEN, S. G. M. EL. DUDLEY. G. Sec. SIOUX CITY NEWS ‘The quarterly meeting of the A. M. E. Church was held last Sunday, No- vember 27th. Presiding Elder T. B. Stovall was present and conducted the services of the day. The offerings exceeded $70. ‘The Girls’ Reserve met at the home of Mrs. R. ‘A. Dobson Tuesday November’ 28th, where resolutions were passed to distribute baskets to some of the unfortunate ones on ‘Thanksgiving day. ‘The executive board of the N. A. A C. P. will meet on Tuesday evening, December 5, at their regular meeting place. All members are asked to be present, Mrs. Murphy who died oh Satur day, November 23d, at the home o her daughter, was well past in the nineties and loved by all who knew her. Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at 2:30 at the Malon A. M. E. Church, ‘There will be a program given o December 12th, known as Students Night, under the auspices of the N A. A.C. P. All students in the cit are asked to take a part on that nigh Mr. Ed Askew who went to Chicag a few months ago for his health j | zetting along very nicely, as reporte Iby his brother, Mr. Mansfield Askew THE MONITOR THE ROYAL CIRCLE Supervisor Richmond Returns for Joint Meeting. —Dr. R.A. Wil- liams, Supreme Presi- dent, to Be Here. Supreme Supervisor Richmond re turned to the city last week to com- plete arrangements for the big class to be made in The Royal Circle at st John’s Church on next Wednesday December 6th, whieh is expected to bring the membership of The Royal Circle in Omaha to 2000 members, so that Omaha will have a Royal Cir. cle Hospital as well as Chicago, Hot Springs, Memphjs and Little Rock. The joining fee for this night will be $3.50. The membership to date in Omaha is 1,500 mebers and a class of 50 is expected to be made. All members must be present whether they have a candidate or not. The Royal Circle is fifteen years old, oper- ating in all states and the District of Columbia with a membership of over 100,000 members and assets of over $500,000.00, Members pay into the Order $1.25 per month and NO TAXES throughout the entire year and receive $7.00 for sickness or ac- cidefit, $300.00 Policy, a Monument, Free Hospital treament, Medical anc ‘Surgical attention, Room, Nurse and Board, Old Folks’ Home, School for ‘Orphans of Members, a Loan and Charity department. $1.25 pays all and NO Grand or Supreme Taxes. ) ‘The report and propaganda put out in this city by two physicians, who do ‘not want to have a Hospital come here, is all false and can be found out to be so upon investigation. One physi- cian who is a board member and depu- ty of one lodge, secretary of a depart- ment in another, and who tries and gets in all of them for what he can szet out of them for himself, knows that if a hospital comes here it will almost wreck what little membership he has under nim and take his graft away, and, of course, he fights. ‘The other one is not to be considered as his influence amounts to nothing, as the statements he put out about The Cirele office were the other way round, and will be explained to all at the Joint meeting. Affidavits have been obtained from members to whom the two physicians talked and they will be exposed, their names given out, and the truth told about them at the Joint meeting. ‘The first physi- cian as stated above holds Grand Lodge Offices in several lodges, and Local Offices in others should tell the people also that the one lodge he boasts of to fight the Circle has Death Claims that have not been paid since August 1921, and in their of- ficial organ are notifying all who have claims since August 1921 to send them in. The Royal Circle has plenty of money and pays its death claims within ten days. ‘The Circle has paid four deaths in Omaha since starting here and al) claims were paid within ten days, and this statement can be verified by Undertakes Jones who has handled the funerals or by the beneficiaries of the deceased friends. ‘The whole trouble seems w be that the Cirele added in six months 1,500 members and the other lodges combined have not added that many in six years. This shows that there is something wrong in their camp. They have no money to pay claims and let them run for a year, because a few get the benefits, and in the Cirele the masses and not the so called big ones get the benefits, A. L. RICHMOND, Supreme Supervisor.— Advertisement. THE ST. PAUL PRES- BYTERIAN CHURCH ‘Twenty-sixth and Seward Streets.— | Russel Taylor, Pastor. Services Sunday were well attend- ed. The thoughts on Thanksgiving were spoken of by many as being very helpful. It is pleasing to note the continued increase in numbefs and interest in the evening services, The choir was in its place again after a long absence and added much zest to the services. ‘The singing by the congregation in ‘an half hour of special song service led by the pastor was also entered into with much zeal and spirit and created a warm atmosphere for the rest of the service. The pastors! teple for the Sunda morning service will be, “What Is Man?” At 7:30 p. m. the Christian En- eeavorers will be led in their month- ly consecration meeting by the pastor in the consideration of the topic “Better Speaking”. Proverbs 10:10- 21, 81, 82. Let each Endeavorer re- member that portion of his pledge which makes special reference to the consecration meeting. During the week beginning Decem ber 20th the church will observe it second, anniversary, closing on. th night of the 26th, Further notice wil be given of this important under eine. ¥ 3 PUPILS’ RECITAL Mrs. Florentine F, Pinkston will present her pupils in pianoforte reci- tal Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the North end “¥”, : | Caliph of East Wamport : : By H. IRVING KING Ptebcer ure a tag frig he af aha hag in ey mural districts they age called political bosses. Such a one was John J. Phettyplace, caliph of East Wamport I whl take back, partially, that about there being no conuection between J. J—as they called him—and Harouw- the-Just; there were one or two points of resemblance, In the first place J. J, like the other caliph, was the commander of the faithtul—that is, the “workers” and strict party men, secondly, lke Haroun and. all cat Spbs who are on thelr jobs, he kept his ear to the ground and knew what was golng on among his peopie. But enough of the caliph for a few minutes. Allow me to intro duce you to the caliph's daughter, the Princess Annie. Bagdad’s roofs wat fretted gold never sheltered a more delightful vision. Henry For- sythe was In love with Annie, and had it from her own dear tips that his affections were reciprocated. Henry Was a most eligible young man, held fan important position In East Wam- Port's principal manufactory, was slated for promotion and bound to go to the top. He was a sturdy, athletic youth and good looking. He was just the man for Annle, though there was one subject in which they had noth- {ng in common, Henry hated politics while Annie took a deep interest in them, She had inherited a good share of her father’s native shrewdness and loved to sit and hear him discourse on political matters, making now and then 4 pertinent suggestion out of her own wise Ilttle head. But what has politics to do with love or love to do with polities? We shall see, One evening, Henry took his courage in both fists, as the saying is, and went In to ask J. J. for his daugh- ter's hand. Now the fact is that J. J. had dreamed dreams about Annie and built air castles for her. Fle saw that she had brains; why should not her married life be on the heights? He loved to picture her as a congress- man’s lady, the governor's lady, oF even a senator's lady, He never thought of her as mar ried to a great author, a great scten- tist, or even a millionaire. You see J. J's worl! was a world of politics, and its heights of fancy were peopled only by successful politicians. It therefore came to him with a shock when a rising young brsiness man stood before him and boldiy proposed to make Annie hfs wife. He had seen the youth about, of course, but other youths had been about Annie also, and for the only time in his life the Caliph of East Wamport had al- lowed his fancies to blind him to realities. When J. J. had recovered from his surprise he turned the young sultor down—turned him down hard and brutally, so that Henry came out of the house in a state of rage and despair. Annie was waiting for him on the piazza—the moon-flooded plaxe za, the vine-draped plazza, where the alr was heavy with the scent of the honeysuckle. He begged her to fly with him; he ponred out protesta- tions of undying love, mingled with abuse of the caliph, At first Annie turned a little pale and, just for an instant, threatened to become tearful. ‘Then she got a firm grip upon herself, calmly assured Henry of the constancy of her affec- tlons, advised him to walt hopefully for better times, and dismissed him in a manner which he thought, under the circumstances, cold and unfeeling. Some ttle time after this J. J. ee ceases ae movement” was showing signs of life 4 his domains, Now the caliph had no fear of the recognized opposition party—he had that hog-tled. But these “eltizens’ movements” annoyed him, Because you never can tell—aceidents fare lable to happen, However ably you may conduct your brace game, however perfect may be the hidden machinery which controls ‘the rou- lette wheel, however, skillfully you may stack your wards, some little cog In the machinery Is liable to slip, some trifling “fumble” in the han- dling of the “pasteboards” may be made and the whirling ball falls into ‘& numbered slot where it was never intended to go; a hand is dealt to a player which was never Intended for him, So these “cltizens’ movements," though they seldom amounted to any- thing and thelr life was ephemeral, had always the latent potentiality of disarranging the political machinery and disordering the political deal. When, later, he heard that Henry For. rythe was to run for assembly on the citizens’ ticket he said “Humph !” and quietly continued his business of oll ing his machine and marking his cards. It had come about this way: Henry had left the caliph’s palace heartbroken at the calmness of Annie and furious against her father. Some of his friends, taking advantage of this continuing mood, had induced, him to consent to head the eltizens’ tleket and he was too deeply compromised to draw back when he came fully to realize that the man against whom he was making war was the father of the girl he still loved. He had written several times to Annle, letters full of protestations of love and repentance but had received im return only cool advice to walt. SMARTER SET SOCIETY ELECTS NEW OFFICERS ‘The Smarter Set Society held its an- nual meeting Saturday night as the guests of Miss Dorothy Williams at St Philip's rectory and elected officers for the ensuing year. Those chosen were James Pegg, president; Miss Ruth Jones, vice-president; Miss Teress: Jones, secretary; Ledrue Galloway treasurer; and James Lewis, sergeant ‘at-arms, < | Reid--Duffy Pharmacy 24th and Lake Sis. 8 Free Delivery Webster 6609 Lambert, Shotwell & Shotwell ATTORNEYS Omaha National Bank Bldg. Burdette Grocery 2116 North 24th St. PHONE WEBSTER 0515 Full Line of Staple and Fancy GROCERIES Fresh and Canned Meats We S. SKINNERS the highest grade Macaroni Spaghetti and Egg Noodles. Alaska Fish Co. 1114 North 24th St. ‘Telephone Webster 6512 LIVE FISH DAILY GROCERIES and FRUITS Free Delivery We x SKINNERS the highest grade Macaroni, Spaghetti and Egg Noodles. We Have a Complete Line of FLOWER,GRASS AND camper SeeCAS Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry ‘Supplies Fresh cut flowers always on hand Stewart’s Seed Store 119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 ? Peoples’ Gro. Store P. E. 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M, TURNER 1702 North 24th St. PHONE WEBSTER 2092 ie Wake FISH—GROCERIES VEGETABLES—FRUITS DELICATESSEN We 3° SKINNERS the highest grade Macaroni, Spaghetti and Egg Noodles. MELCHOR-- Druggist ‘The O14 Reliable Tel, South 807 4826 Bo. 24th Bt. SARAH One of the brilliant vocal flashes popular Gayety twice Mary SARAH HYATT One of the brilliant vocal flashes with "Flashlights of 1923" at the popular Gayetty twice daily all next week. FUN IN STORE FOR GAYETYITES Another Great Musical Show at Pre-War Prices. And there are dances in profusion scattered throughout the piece. These have been mostly staged by Solly Fields, well known for his creditable Jacobs and Jemmon will present their "Flashlights of 1923" company at the popular Gayetty theatre next week in a timely revue entitled "Americans Abroad". The piece in two acts and eleven scenes is said to be one of the funniest, speediest and most tuneful shows playing the Columbia circuit this season. Abe Leavitt, its author, has filled it with comedy lines and situations, while the special music composed for it, is credited with being of a varied and extremely appealing type. William K. Wells and Jack Strauss are the lyricists and Melville Morris and Ruby Cowan the composers. There is every type of song from the syncopated dance tune to the haunting sentimental number, making the score one of the delights of the show. MOSA MOSAIC TEMPLARS OF AMERICA A Business Organized May 22, 1883, by Negroes and for Negroes—Has Been Officered and Controlled by Negroes from the date of its birth—Managed on Sound Business Principles. Assets More Than $750,000.00 Membership 100,000 OPERATING IN 26 STATES, SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND WEST INDIES Solvency 85% According to Last Valuation Report INSURANCE IN FORCE DECEMBER 31, 1921 $39,944,500.00 MORE THAN $100,000.00 ON TIME DEPOSITS IN VARIOUS BANKS WE HAVE ERECTED, OR IN PROCESS OF ERECTION, TEMPLE BUILDINGS IN EIGHT STATES WITH A TOTAL VALUATION OF $280,000.00 WE HAVE MADE NO EXTRA ASSESSMENTS IN OUR ENDOWMENT DEPARTMENT SINCE OUR ORGANIZATION, MAY 22, 1883 Issues a $300.00 Three Year Graded Policy—Furnishes a $50.00 Burial and a $50.00 Monument for a Rate of Less Thau $15.00 Per Year ISSUES ALSO AN ADEQUATE RATE POLICY OF FROM $300.00 TO $1,000.00 TO PERSONS OF 16 TO 50 YEARS OF AGE—PAYMENT OF RATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH AGE OF APPLICANT AND AMOUNT OF INSURANCE WANTED The above sets forth cold and stubborn facts concerning this wonderful organization a little less than 40 years old. An achievement much to be praised and honored by race-loving colored people. Those, colored people who are not identified with this organization have now a wonderful opportunity to do so. Our GREAT MEMBERSHIP DRIVE is NOW ON, admitting applicants from 16 to 60 years of age and upon the submission of a Certificate of Medical Examination until December 24, 1922, for a JOINING FEE of $1.00. JOIN TODAY Tomorrow Might Be Too Late S. J. ELLIOTT, N. G. M. Write A. E. BUSH, Acting N. G. S. and T., SCIPIO A. JONES, Gen. Chairman Campaign Committee Write A. T. BUSH, Acting N. G. S. and T., Box No. 921, Little Rock, Ark., for full particulars if interested Page Four And there are dances in protusion scattered throughout the piece. These have been mostly staged by Solly Fields, well known for his creditable work along these lines. He has trained the chorus to perfection in these dances while the principals have created some extremely unique and pleasing steps of their own. Jack Callahan is a notable example of this with his acrobatic dancing specialty which is said to be nothing short of marvelous. Eugenie LaBlanc, the soubrette of the show, is another dancing favorite, her wooden shoe clogging being the best in its line on the American stage. But dancing is not the only strong feature of the service performed by the excellent cast. Eddie Shubert, the featured comedian, is unique and droll, his method recalling Ed Wynn in his quaintness of manner. Sarah Hyatt, the prima donna, possesses a lyric soprano voice that is rich in melody and highly cultivated. Miss Hyatt is also a very beautiful woman and she is considered one of the best dressed in her profession. Ann Myers who andles the ingeneue role is another good looking young lady who can also sing, her specialty being syncopied music. I. B. Hamp and Ray Paine offer a pleasing variation to the program in their comedy singing and talking act. An active chorus of twenty young and pretty girls completes the well rounded cast. There will be a matinee daily. Sunday's matinee starts at 3:00. GROVE M. E. CHURCH 22nd and Seward Sts. Rev. John W. Robinson, D. D., the noted pastor-evangelist of Chicago, will begin a revival meeting at the Grove church Sunday night, Dec. 3d, which is the closing date of our nine weeks' rally. This rally, thus far, has proved the greatest success for this church in many years. There has been wonderful progress made along all lines of church activities within the last few months and we shall try to express our thanks to God by closing the financial and putting on a spiritual drive. We solicit the cooperation of the ministers, christians and public in these efforts to better our community, save the lost and spread the kingdom of God. Dr. Robinson is the famous pastor of our great St. Mark's Church of Chicago, who has wrought wonders there within the last ten years and is one of the most eminent lecturers, preachers and "Sweet Singers" of the entire connection. Let everybody come out Sunday, Dec. 3; and see the contest close, "The Church vs The Devil." At three o'clock that day the Rev. J. P. Jackson, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Council Bluffs will preach, and his noted choir will furnish the music. Don't miss this unusual treat.—T. S. Saunders, Minister. BISHOP VERNON IS BACK FROM AFRICA New York City, Dec. 1.—Among the passengers who returned to the United States on the palatial S. S. Majestic last week was Bishop W. T. Vernon of the A. M. E. church, who returned from his diocese in Africa. What this country needs is more genuine liberty. Man is never down and out until he is dead. THE MONITOR HISTORY DAY BY DAY Friday, November 24: A slave of Jefferson, Davis invented a prophet for vessels that was used in the confederate navy in 1862. Saturday, November 25: Charles V. of Spain, who was also emperor of Germany and the Netherlands, granted a monopoly to Flemish noblemen to import Africans to Cuba, Jamaica and Porto Rico, 1517. Sunday, November 26: Sojourner Truth died at Battle Creek, Mich., 1863. Monday, November 27: Sixty-two and two-tenths per cent of all Negroes in the United States, ten years of age and over, are engaged in gainful occupations. Forty-eight per cent of white are thus employed. Tuesday, November 28: The United States government placed the Republic of San Domingo in a state of military occupation and subject to the military government, 1916. Wednesday, November 29: Organization of the first and only complete colored combat division of Negroes in the Northern States, the 92nd Division, 1917. Thursday, November 30: Thanksgiving Day. Attempted slave insurrection in the Northern Neck of Virginia. Negro population was about equal to that of the white, 1667. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH Twenty-fifth and R Streets O. J. Burchekhardt, Pastor Sunday was a busy and interesting day with this congregation. Many of the members went to Lincoln, but their places were taken by visitors who are always welcome. At three o'clock members of the congregation attended the quarterly meeting at St. John's Church. At 7 p. m. the Rev. P. M. Harris preached a helpful sermon. Thanksgiving Day was marked by services at eleven, followed by dinner served until late at night, well attended and much e joyed. Members of Allen who are on the sick list are Mrs. Frankie Redd, 6613 Railroad Avenue, who had quite a serious fall into her cellar; Mother Hannah Helm; Mrs. Tollie Stearns and Mrs. Pinkie Snell, who was bitten by a dog. NEGRO WOMEN CHRISTIAN HOME ASSOCIATION The Negro Women's Christian Home Association will hold its regular monthly meeting, Dec. 6th, at the Old Folks Home. All members are urged to be present as business of importance is to be transacted. A life size portrait of the late Silas Johnson, one of the Home's staunchest friends, will be presented at that time. The portrait is the gift of Mr. Johnson's niece, Miss Mary Lue Brookings, William Coston, the family of the Rev Russell Taylor, and Mrs. Theodocia Scroggins. Recent donations to the Home include rug rugs and two hens fro Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Johnson, and two hens from Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Fredericks. Announcement is made that John H. Broomfield and William Coston have been added to the advisory board. THE ROMANCE OF WORDS "QUARANTINE" THE origin of a term of 40 days—a "quarantine"—as a sanitary precaution against the spread of various diseases is lost in the dim mazes of early oriental history. Forty days was the period devoted in ancient times to the burial of the dead. The apes of the Israelites spent 40 days in Canaan before they submitted the report. Jonah gave the residents of Nineveh 40 days in which to consider his prophecy and repent. Christ, Moses and Elijah each fasted for 40 days—the Christian observance of Lent being a commemoration of the most notable of these. Under William the Conqueror no man was permitted to remain in England more than 40 days without paying a tax of some kind, while under the Magna Charma it is provided that a widow shall remain 40 days in the house of her deceased husband before being allotted her dowry. The modern sanitary adaptation of the quarantine was established by the French along the Mediterranean in order to prevent the introduction of plague from the eastern countries, but apparently the only reason for the arbitrary setting of such a "time is that it forms one of the periods resulting from a division of the lunar year by the mystic number nine. (Copyright.) Good Qualities of Wood. Trees grow, therefore wood is cheaper than metals. It is easily worked with tools into desired shapes and sizes. It is held securely by nails and by glue. It is practically permanent when protected by paint; under water or in the ground it outlasts metal. Its strength and lightness make it easy to handle. It is a non-conductor of heat and electricity. Many woods are marked by patterns of infinite variety and beauty, whose very irregularities constitute an abiding charm. 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